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Wattimes.Spring.2021(PDF) This document contains both information and form fields. To read information, use the Down Arrow from a form field. SPRING/SUMMER 2021 WATtimes VOLUME 25 | NUMBER 3 PUBLISHED BY THE RETIREES ASSOCIATION AND THE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO Outdoor Recreation and PERSONAL HEALTH Hiking the trails in the Grand River watershed SEE PAGE 4 Be cautious in the great outdoors and know your limitations SEE PAGE 8 Vivek Goel, Frances Westley among recipients of Order of Canada SEE PAGE 4 WATtimes INSIDE THIS ISSUE UWRA president’s message ............................. UWRA President’s Message From the University president .................... 2 Letter from the editor .................................. 3 Spring update Stories of outdoor recreation and personal health: BY SUE FRASER Hiking the trails in the Grand River watershed ...............................................4 Greetings to retirees! The importance of outdoor recreation and I hope that the spring hiking in my life, by Stewart Forrest .................5 weather has lifted your Health benefts of outdoor activities: spirits and encouraged refections from the pandemic, you to engage in more by Paul Eagles ..................................................6 outdoor activities. Be cautious in the great outdoors Unfortunately, and know your limitations, by the UWRA was James Ashworth ..............................................8 not aforded the Reaching out with mathematics opportunity to ofer our and computer science ................................. 10 usual social events during the Get to know your UWRA team – winter and spring of 2021 due to public health featuring David Matthews .......................... 12 restrictions and social distancing. We are hopeful Celebrate Feridun Hamdullahpur’s that social events can resume later this year. decade of impact .......................................... 13 The UWRA has endeavoured to host more Vivek Goel, Frances Westley among online events this year. Board members James recipients of Order of Canada .................. 14 Ashworth, Paul Eagles and Stewart Forrest Changes to extended health presented a UWRA Special Seminar: Outdoor care benefts .................................................. 16 Recreation and Health During the Pandemic UWRA Zoom meeting summary: on March 17th. Dr. Stuart McGill on back pain .................. 17 Another presentation was held on April 21st We remember ................................................ 18 on the topic: The University of Waterloo New retirees .................................................. 24 in 2050, featuring speakers Mark Seasons, Board of directors ....................................... 25 professor, School of Planning, and Paul Eagles, Membership in UWRA ................................... 26 distinguished professor emeritus, Recreation and Leisure Studies (also a UWRA Board member). ISSUE EDITOR: Alan George On behalf of the UWRA, I would like to [email protected] thank President and Vice-Chancellor Feridun LAYOUT AND PRODUCTION: Hamdullahpur for his support for the UWRA University Relations since his appointment in 2010. Feridun’s PHOTOGRAPHY: appointment will end in June 2021. Feridun Grand River Conservation Authority/Sigrid Rhodes has participated at many UWRA events and and Getty Images The UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO RETIREES ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS regularly contributes to our WATtimes publication. Jim Frank is serving as Vice-President this He has made signifcant efort to welcome retiree year as well as our Keystone Fund Representative participation at University of Waterloo hosted events. and Manager of the UWRA Scholarship and We wish him all the best in the future. Bursary Program. The Scholarship and Bursary Program provides support to undergraduate Earlier this year we sent our congratulations and and graduate students. welcome message to Dr. Vivek Goel, president designate who begins his appointment on July 1st. Pam Van Allen is continuing in her role as We have provided Dr. Goel with information on the Secretary on the UWRA Board. Jim Marshall is UWRA and our Memorandum of Agreement with the our Membership Coordinator, and David Matthews University of Waterloo. We plan to meet with Dr. Goel is the Treasurer for the UWRA. later this year to learn more about him and to discuss I would like to thank Brandon Sweet from University plans for the University, mutual interests, and our Communications for his monthly updates to the continuing relationship. UWRA Board on University of Waterloo news The UWRA Board meets monthly online. I would including events, appointments, policy changes, like to thank all Board members for their great work and stories from faculty, staf, employees and the and commitment to the Association. We continue community. Check out the Daily Bulletin on the to represent retirees on the University of Waterloo university website for daily updates. Pension and Benefts Committee and related working Many thanks to Alan George, editor-in chief and his groups (Mary Thompson, Stewart Forrest), as well editorial group – Bob Hicks and Ron Champion – as the University of Waterloo Honorary Member for this production of WATtimes Committee (Sue Fraser). Sue Fraser and Peggy Day are continuing their relationship with the University of Thank you. Waterloo Staf Association social committee to share LYNN JUDGE, President news on activities and future joint events. University of Waterloo Retirees Association RETIREES ASSOCIATION | uwaterloo.ca/retirees-association 1 FROM THE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT The importance of connection and resilience BY FERIDUN HAMDULLAHPUR Dear retirees, It has now been more than a year since COVID-19 has connection. In addition to the health benefts of exercise, upended our daily routines, which have since become getting outside allows us to take a pause from our daily anything but routine. The ordinary has made way for a stresses. Research supports the positive efects of connecting “new normal” that certainly is not normal. Indeed, the impacts with nature on our mental wellbeing. Additionally, outdoor of the global pandemic have weighed heavily on us all. activities have ofered safer ways to connect socially due to the lowered risks of virus transmission outdoors compared We all faced obstacles we never thought we’d have to manage. to indoors – providing yet another salve to our isolation As I refect on the past year, I want to forget a good part of it. during the pandemic. Not being able to see our students on campus or connect with colleagues in person has been difcult for me. But at the same We need each other, we need our community, now more time, I am flled with so much gratitude. I am so thankful for than ever. The University of Waterloo Retirees Association and proud of the resilience of our community. We all did our has demonstrated the power of staying connected. In the absolute best to put the health of our community frst and absence of interacting daily with others in the workplace, adjust our operations so that we could continue our mission the UWRA provides a channel for connecting and keeping to advance learning and knowledge. in touch with the University community. As the pandemic stretches on, I have been thinking a lot about This is the fnal WATtimes issue in which I write to you resilience. Hope is on the horizon as thousands of Canadians as president and vice-chancellor. I would like to take across the country are vaccinated each day. But we still face this opportunity to thank you for your countless and questions of the pandemic’s longer-term efects on society immeasurable contributions to the University over the years, and our daily lives. If the past year was about adapting and and for remaining active members of our community – we overcoming the disruption the pandemic has imposed on us, have learned so much from your wisdom and experience. this next phase will be about healing and rebuilding. And that starts with our own personal wellbeing. As I contemplate what the future holds for me, I know I will be spending a lot of time outdoors and staying in I’ve heard from so many in our community over the past touch with our amazing Waterloo community. year about the challenges of increased isolation, distance from extended family and the sheer mental pressures of what is Wishing you all the best, happening in the world. We have endured to protect the health of our community and loved ones, and as we look ahead, we must also protect our own mental health and wellbeing. This issue explores the benefts of spending time outdoors, which ofers opportunities for both self-care and social FERIDUN HAMDULLAHPUR, President and Vice-Chancellor UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO2 FROM THE EDITOR Let’s go outside BY ALAN GEORGE Welcome to the Spring/Summer edition of WATtimes. The pandemic has prompted a huge surge in working from home and limitations on numerous other opportunities for social interaction. A consequence is that people are getting outside to walk, hike, snowshoe, or cross-country ski. I go for a long walk almost every morning and the number of people out walking is notably much larger than it was pre-pandemic. Since it is no secret that one of the keys to a long and healthy life is to stay active, this increase in outdoor activity is arguably a collateral beneft of the pandemic. With this thought in mind, a key theme of this edition of WATtimes is “Outdoor Recreation and Personal Health during the Pandemic.” Three of the articles are text renditions or excerpts from a March 17th Zoom presentation of the same title, organized
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