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Notes from the Alumni Director Tony Storey '71 ALUMNI ON THE MOVE Close to home, the office of Alumni Affairs has moved to Traill College. The main floor offices are in Langton House, on the southeast corner of Reid and London Streets. After many years on Symons campus, the Alumni Association sought improved space in a college and house setting as part of its planning priorities struck in 1997. A proposed reconfiguration of Blackburn Hall space raised the possibility of the current alumni office being re-allocated to Trent security. With this catalyst, alumni leaders examined space options in the town colleges, where some flexibility had arisen due to residence vacancies. Many thanks are extended to Peter Robinson and Catharine Parr Traill heads George Nader and Heather Avery for their welcoming posture. After several trips and scouting of town college buildings the Alumni association opted for a three-office facility in Langton House. The new location means a doubling in square footage, a distinct office for the Alumni Affairs Administrative Assistant, better space for student assistants, enhanced display space for the Alumni wall of fame (now housed in the Alumni Heritage Meeting room), a new display stand of all alumni brochures and publications, our first consolidated storage area in several years and a small office supplies cupboard. On top of all these improvements Alumni Affairs is now part of a college and closer to the Peterborough community. Louis Taylor '68 has contributed the sketch of Langton House to the Alumni Association in order to best illustrate what our new home looks like. Alumni are warmly invited to visit our new "digs" where we will gladly give you a tour. Our alumni/ae continue to make their own moves in their careers and accomplishments. We are pleased to pass on these milestones which we receive from our press clipping service and other sources. If you see news of alumni accomplishments, please let us know. Nothing speaks better to the value of a Trent education than the breadth and diversity of our graduates' contributions to societies and communities around the globe. Janice Linton '88 has been recognized by the British Columbia Library Association as an individual who has made a substantial contribution to librarianship in B.C. and who has moved library service forward in the province over a period of several years. Janice , librarian at the Pacific AIDS Resource Centre Library, was honoured in June 1998 for her achievements in developing a resource centre that has achieved a reputation as one of the foremost sources of HIV/AIDS information in North America. Her expertise has also assisted in the development of smaller resource centres in the province, and Janice is a founding member of the Canadian HIV Resource Centre Network. In an e-mail to the Trent magazine Janice noted "I really do owe so much of my success to the wonderful education, support and encouragement I received at Trent during my undergraduate years. I am so proud to be a graduate of Canada's outstanding small university and I sing her praises regularly. Thank you to all of you for supporting the alumni community." (From British Columbia Library Association press release July 21, 1998) The Ontario Historical Society's Riddell Award for 1997 is a distinction earned by Sally Cole '69, associate professor of Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal. The award recognizes the best article in any field of Ontario history published in Canada during 1997. "Dear Ruth: This is the story of Maggie Wilson, Ojibwa Ethnologist" was published in Great Dames, edited by Elspeth Cameron and Janice Dickin (University of Toronto Press 1997), and was the result of research for a larger project, the biography of anthropologist Ruth Landes, on which Sally is currently at work. She is also the author of Women of the Praia: Work and Lives in a Portuguese Coastal Community (Princeton University Press 1991 and Publicacoes Dom Quixote, Lisboa, 1994) and co-editor with Lynne Phillips of Ethnographic Feminisms: Essays in Anthropology (Carleton University Press 1995). Sally is the daughter of the late Alf Cole, Trent's former Registrar and university historian. Doctor James Orbinski '80 has become the first Canadian president of Medecins Sans Frontieres - Doctors Without Borders - an international organization of doctors who deal with humanitarian emergencies in more than 80 countries. James was one of the original founders and vice-presidents of MSF Canada, established in 1990. He worked in Somalia during the 1992-95 famine and in Afghanistan during 1994. He has headed missions in Kigali, Rwanda during the 1994 genocide and in Goma, Zaire in 1996, during that country's refugee crisis. For his work in Rwanda Dr. Orbinski was awarded the Governor General's Meritorious Service Cross in 1998. The Alumni Association recognized James' exceptional career by presenting him with the Spirit of Trent Award in 1992. (Toronto doctor to lead international aid group, Globe and Mail, August 12, 1998) Thomas H.B. Symons (Honorary) received the Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies on May 27, 1998. Founding President and Vanier Professor Emeritus of Trent University; teacher and writer in the fields of Canadian Studies, contemporary intellectual and cultural issues, international academic and cultural relations; founding member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Canadian Studies; founding member of the Board of the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions; Chairman of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, of the National Statistics Council, and the Advisory Committee on the National Atlas of Canada - no other Canadian is as closely associated with Canadian Studies in Canada and around the world as T.H.B. Symons. (International Council for Canadian Studies) Jeffrey Lynch MSC 1998 , has been awarded the University of Alberta PhD scholarship, valued at about $100,000 over four years. The scholarship is awarded to superior scholars newly admitted into a PhD program. Jeff received the scholarship in competition with over 20 other graduate students. Richard Bachmann '70 and Jane Irwin and their bookstore, A Different Drummer Books (513 Locust Street, Burlington) have been named the Canadian Booksellers Association's 1998 Bookseller of the Year. In a letter of congratulations Premier Mike Harris noted "this award is a tribute not only to your entrepreneurial spirit, hard work, and love of books, but to the tradition of service which has sustained this bookstore for 31 years, made it a focal point in your community, and renowned in the country."
And for Trent alumni, there is an intriguing intersection with the work of the late Larry Turner '72. Both Larry and Julie spent summers growing up on Big Rideau Lake, although they didn't know each other then. They were introduced in 1994 when Larry Turner was preparing A Boy's Cottage Diary 1904. Later he asked Julie Johnston if the diary would make a good children's picture book. Julie suggested that it would make a better novel. Larry responded that Julie, the fiction writer, should write it. A week later Larry Turner died suddenly at the age of 44. About six months later 16 year-old Fred Dickinson, the "boy" in A Boy's Cottage Diary, along with other people, places and events in the diary, mingled with Julie's many lake memories and experiences to become The Only Outcast. (from Cottage Life October 1998 - Turning the Pages of cottage life : How an award-winning author wove a historic Rideau Lakes diary and her own summer memories into a new novel for the young at heart - by Amanda Lewis) A very special ceremony was held on August 15, 1998 to dedicate the Chaffey's Lock Memory Wall. The dedication included the unveiling of a plaque in honour of Larry Turner '72. Located at the entrance to the "open cathedral in the woods" and adjacent to an original monument from the 1820s, the site is a highly appropriate blend of historical and natural settings where those who wish to remember Larry's life and achievements can gather. Mary Elizabeth Luka '80 (Chapter President for the Halifax/Dartmouth chapter) has brought the medium of television to visual artists in the Maritimes. She wrote, directed and produced artspots, 30-second mini-films, each on one artist, that run on CBC TV in unsold commercial space. Response by TV viewers has been "phenomenal... the artists are approached by strangers in the street and people they know who say they saw their work on TV." Mary Elizabeth also wrote and directed The Invisible, Visual World at Pier 21, a documentary defining the character of community among the artists at an old immigration shed in Halifax, before they moved into a new complex of studios. (From Show Us Your Shorts, The Chronicle Herald, September 17, 1998)
Wendy Laut is currently a director on the Downtown Heritage Perth BIA and has also served as co-chair for the Perth Performing Arts Committee. Shadowfax is open 7 days a week and can be reached at 613-267-6817. (From the Perth Courier, November 18, 1998) John Brooke '70 is the second Trent alumnus to be awarded the Journey Prize. His short story The Finer Points of Apples was one of 14 stories selected for the 10th edition of the Journey Prize Anthology, an annual collection of promisimg Canadian writers. The prize was established by McClelland and Stewart publishing house with funding from Canadian royalty earnings from James Mitchener's 1988 novel Journey. The Finer Points of Apples is about a love affair around the time of the 1995 Quebec referendum. Yann Martel '81 was awarded the Journey Prize in 1991. (From the Peterborough Examiner. October 24, 1998) Larry Tayler '65 is one of the first two recipients of the Havergal College Chair for Teaching and Learning. Larry, a teacher of English and Drama at Toronto's Havergal College, has chosen to explore use of leading-edge technology in the teaching and learning of grammar and punctuation. He plans to develop techniques using the power of the Hyper Studio multi-media software to create self-teaching modules. These modules enable students students to solve their individual challenges with the mysteries of grammar and punctuation pitfalls. The Havergal Chair allows teachers to pursue an innovative project and attend a major conference related to their teaching. (From the Havergal Torch, Volume 1, Number, Fall 1998 - Reaching New Heights) Robin Barker -James '74 mobilized about 200 high school students, staff members and parents in a unique Remembrance Day exercise for Glendale high school in Tillsonburg, Ontario. With the support of the Royal Canadian Legion, military personnel from Canadian Forces Base London and the Oxford County disaster response team, the students recreated four World War I battles. Using the Barker-James farm just outside the town, the students dug trenches, strung up barbed wire (unbarbed twine) and built gun emplacements. Officer positions were taken by senior students, with the Kaiser's Imperial Army led by an 18 year-old and the Canadian side commanded by a 17 year-old. (From the Toronto Star, October 29, 1998 - Students recreate World War I battles) Paul Crookall '64 is the co-author of The Three Pillars of Public Management : Secrets of Sustained Success. Along with Ole Ingstrup (commissioner of Corrections, Correctional Service of Canada), Paul (former senior advisor, Correctional Service of Canada and now a private practice consultant) offers government managers insights that speak directly to their situation. Unlike other management books that promote fads and private sector models or focus on politics, policy and government-wide reforms, this book gives solid information on how to improve both public service agencies and their individual work sites. (McGill - Queen's University Press 1998) The Three Pillars of Public Management is available from the Alumni office for $27.00 including taxes and shipping. A contribution is being made to Trent from the sale of each book ordered through the Alumni Association. Please call 1-800-267-5774 to order. |
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Julie Johnston '75 whose novels for young adults have won two
Governor General's Awards (Hero of Lesser Causes and Adam and
Eve and Pinch-Me), has a new book, The Only Outcast (Tundra Books,
1998).
Wendy Laut '77 (also see Sunshine Sketches) has moved her retail
business, Shadowfax to 4 Gore Street in Perth. The main-street venue is
excellent and her new-look storefront with unique heritage design and overhanging
goose-neck lamps has been warmly received. Shadowfax offers a variety of
music, natural fibre clothing, accessories, unique gift ideas and jewellery.
Wendy is also expanding her lines of merchandise using recycled materials,
including recycled silks and hemp items. Her store will soon benefit from
a homepage on the Internet. Shadowfax is participating in the second phase
of Industry Canada's Community Storefronts program. A number of Perth businesses
offer their goods and services online at