volume 20, no. 2 fall 2008 The University of Regina Magazine

No more missing women. Faculty and students fight back.

More than just the hues of autumn were on display at this year’s fall convocation. The main floor of the Connexus Arts Centre was awash with colour as members of the platform procession prepare for the ceremony. University photographer Don Hall took this shot from the balcony just before the group made its way to the convocation stage.

Degrees fall 2008 1 As the editor of this magazine, On Sept. 11, 2001, the glorious If you have a story associated I am fortunate to hear my vantage point was sent with the U of R, we want to share of engaging tales about crumbling to the streets of hear about it. Please let us the people associated with the New York when highjackers know about your tales of U of R. It never ceases to flew two commercial airliners success, courage, discovery, amaze me—the incredible into the great twin towers, intrigue or woe. Or, if you stories of the men and women reducing them to twisted iron have an idea for a story, we who teach, study and and rubble. want to hear from you too. administer at, or have You’ll find all our contact graduated from, the University There was no way that Minoru information on the facing of Regina. Yamasaki could have known page. what fate had in store for his This is a dream come true for World Trade Center complex Oh, that reminds me, did you those of us who spend a fair when he stood on a Regina hear the story of the U of R amount of our professional life stage to receive a University of student who… chasing down stories that we Regina honorary degree in the hope will inform, engage, fall of 1967. Greg Campbell entertain and resonate with Editor readers. As a colleague of In this edition of Degrees we mine used to say when I first have the story of Luther stepped into the employ of faculty member Brenda the U of R, “There is no Anderson who, with the help shortage of great stories of others from around the around here.” University and around the globe, is doing what she can Here’s one of my favorites: In to ensure mothers like 1961, Minoru Yamasaki, a Gwenda Yuzicappi (pictured on Michigan-based architect, was the cover) never feel the pain hired to design a 100-year of a missing or murdered plan for the development of daughter. an urban park in Regina that included a layout of the You’ll also find the stories of Regina Campus of the our Alumni Crowning University of Saskatchewan. Achievement Award Yamasaki’s master plan for recipients—seven graduates, Wascana Centre would, in his each with their own unique own words: “Make Regina one stories of compassion, of the greatest cities in the distinction and achievement. world.” As well, we present the story His design legacy can be seen of three passionate individuals (left to right) Minoru Yamasaki, John Archer and William Riddell at the official opening of the U of R Library on October 14, 1967. in three buildings on campus: who are giving back to the the Classroom and Laboratory University as members of the buildings, and the Dr. John U of R senate. And then Archer Library. there’s the story of alumnus Mark Docherty, a renaissance In 1966, about the time the man who hasn’t let his U of R was opening its advancing multiple sclerosis Yamasaki-designed buildings, stop him from helping others construction began on his who are in need in our signature project: a Manhattan community. office complex featuring two 110-storey skyscrapers that You’ll find these stories and were, at the time of their many more in this issue of opening, the tallest buildings Degrees. After all, that’s what in the world. On a clear day, Degrees is all about—it’s visitors to the observation about stories, it’s about decks of the mammoth storytelling. structures could see 70 kilometres in every direction.

2 Degrees fall 2008 Editor Greg Campbell ’85, ’95

Acting Communications Director Anna Willey

Alumni Association Board 2007–08 Charlene Banjac ’98, ’06 President The University of Regina Magazine Sean McEachern ’03 First V-P Fall 2008 volume 20, no. 2 Margaret Dagenais ’87, ’91, ’97 Second V-P

Colin Woloshyn ’99 V-P Finance On the cover: Gwenda Yuzicappi holds a picture of her daughter Amber Redman whose Loni Kaufmann ’95 remains were found on May 5, 2008, on the Little Black Bear First Nation. Find out Past President what U of R faculty members and students are doing to help put an end to the Teresa Drew ’01 disappearance and murder of woman across Canada and around the world. The story Rebbeca Gibbons ’99 begins on page 14. Photo by Don Hall, University of Regina Photography Department. Matt Hanson ’94, ’97 Neil Jacoby ’74 Richard Kies ’93, ’03 Jay Kirkland ’99 Paul Owens ’03 ’06 Shawn Pearce ’91, ’06, ’98 Christy Ross ’93 Jessica Sinclair Byron Traynor ’78

Contributors Bill Armstrong Shannon Bachorick Don Hall 29 34 Brian Miller ’89, ’95 14 Marie Powell Mendenhall ’80, ’88, ’01 Brenda Oliver David Sealy Mark Taylor ’00, ’04 Changing the World, One All photos by University of Regina features Photography Department Classroom at a Time 34 unless otherwise noted. Alumni Crowning Education faculty member Original design and layout by Buryl Bernard has dedicated Bradbury Branding and Design. Achievement Awards 8 Meet the cream of this year’s himself to a project that is not Degrees is published twice a year by crop of distinguished alumni. only helping impoverished External Relations at the University of Cambodian schoolchildren, it’s Regina. The magazine is mailed to alumni and friends of the University. Ideas and Our Missing Mothers, turning Regina elementary opinions published in Degrees do not Sisters and Daughters 14 school students into citizens of necessarily reflect those of the editor, the the world. Alumni Association or the University of U of R faculty members are Regina. Letters and editorial doing what they can to help contributions are welcome. Advertising stem the terrible tide of missing inquiries are invited. women in Canada. departments To reach us: Homecoming 24 One of the best ways alumni Feed Back 2 Editorial/Advertising/Letters Degrees, External Relations can continue to serve the President’s Note 4 210 North Residence, University of Regina University is by sitting as a 3737 Wascana Parkway member of Senate. Here is the Around Campus 5 Regina, SK S4S 0A2 story of three graduates who are Ph: (306) 585-4402 Fax: (306) 585-4997 Spot Light 21 E-mail: [email protected] as passionate about shaping the future of the University of Focal Point 22 Address Change/Alumni Relations Regina as they are about Alumni Relations Alumni News 38 210 North Residence, University of Regina fulfilling the motto “As One 3737 Wascana Parkway Who Serves.” Class Notes 40 Regina,SKS4S0A2 Ph: (306) 585-4112 Fax: (306) 585-4997 360 Degrees 42 E-mail: [email protected] Doc 29 Toll-free: 877-779-4723(GRAD) Mark Docherty has packed a lot (in Canada and U.S.) of living into his 47 years. In University of Regina homepage spite of a diagnosis of multiple www.uregina.ca sclerosis a decade ago, one gets the feeling that his best years Publication Mail Agreement Number 40065347 are still ahead of him. Return undeliverable magazines to: External Relations 210 North Residence, University of Regina 3737 Wascana Parkway Regina, SK S4S 0A2 ISSN 0843-7092

Degrees fall 2008 3 President’s Note It has been an exciting and present “Greater Together with mature and international It’s been a wonderful hectic but most enjoyable time the Community,” a series of students. beginning for me and my since I took over the events that highlighted the family in Regina. We feel so at President’s office on amazing diversity of our An emphasis on home. I have enjoyed every September 1. It’s hard to University and the rich crop of internationalization and moment of getting to know believe we are on the cusp of activities that our faculty, staff internationalizing curriculum the people of the community the holiday season and and students are engaged. will be another focal point of and the people who make our another Canadian winter—my mine. And, while we open our campus the special place it is. first in Saskatchewan. This is one of my top doors to international priorities—to build on the students, we also want to The University of Regina is an Since my arrival, we have relationships that have already provide our students with amazing university. I am so undertaken a full slate of been established between the opportunities to study thrilled to be here. With your activities and set for ourselves campus, the city, and the elsewhere. As well, we want support and active a pace that I feel will serve province. I have already met our faculty and staff to have involvement, I look forward to the University of Regina well many people from the opportunities for international seeing it grow and prosper. into the future. community—U of R alumni, exchanges and to visit other government and industry institutions so that we can I wish good fortune to you Among the highlights of the representatives, and give our students a truly and your family and all the past four months was my first community and business international educational very best that the holiday convocation ceremony on leaders. I am so impressed season has to offer. perspective. October 18. I can tell you it with the positive reputation was a great pleasure to be a the University has in our Vianne Timmons I am also looking to part of the celebration that is community. I will continue to strengthen the University’s the culmination of all the hard work to expand and develop leadership team and I look work, dedication and those relationships we have forward to establishing new perseverance of our students. already established, as well as goals and strategies, building looking for new connections ideas, and working together in It was so gratifying to share that will serve the University this special day with students, well in the future. respectful dialogue and their friends and families. My debate. hope is that as they begin Another of the objectives I their careers both in the have taken on in my first six In this regard we have province and beyond, our months is to focus on student undertaken a strategic graduates maintain their recruitment and retention planning process that will connection to the U of R and through engagement. This involve major consultation recognize that we have a approach is reflected in our with our internal and external shared responsibility to serve new and improved website, stakeholders to help us our greater community. which has been revised with identify what our University students’ needs in mind. will look like in the next five Community was in fact the years. I would ask that alumni theme of 21 University events We have also embarked on a involve themselves in this presented during the weeks long-term strategic enrolment important initiative when surrounding convocation and plan that will support more called upon. We plan to my installation as president extensive future initiatives in a conclude the process by fall and vice-chancellor. The entire multi-faceted approach to 2009 with recommendations to campus came together to attract high school, graduate, the Board of Governors.

4 Degrees fall 2008 At right: James McNinch.

At left: Gary Boire.

Below: Harley Weston.

Comings and goings December 31, 2008. Kelln also Jeanne Shami, faculty received the Outstanding serves as dean of the Faculty of representative elected by Fundraising Executive Award Gary Boire has been named the Graduate Studies and Research. University Council; Jessica from the Regina Chapter of the new vice-president (academic). Sinclair, Students’ Union Association of Fundraising As the senior academic officer, James McNinch has been president and student Professionals. Pollock led the Boire is responsible for appointed the new dean of the representative; President University’s Building Dreams developing, maintaining and Faculty of Education. McNinch Vianne Timmons; Chancellor and Futures Campaign to supporting top-calibre academic holds a BA (honours) in English William F. Ready; and Chair surpass its $75 million goal by programming and quality and history from Simon Fraser Mo Bundon. $7 million. teaching. Boire comes to the University, a diploma in U of R from Lakehead education from the University William Chapco, a faculty The University of Regina University in Thunder Bay, of Alberta and a PhD in member of the Department of Cheerleading Team placed first Ontario, where he served as comparative studies from the Biology, retired at the end of at the Canadian University dean of Graduate Studies and University of Essex, England. August after almost 40 years at National Cheerleading international liaison officer. He has served the University in the University of Regina. Championships held Nov. 28–30 various capacities including as in Brampton, Ont. The team David Gauthier has been a faculty member and an had finished in third place in appointed vice-president administrative team member. Congratulations each of the last three years. (research and international) for a term until June 30, 2011. Three new appointees have University president Vianne Mark Brigham, a biology Gauthier has served in an been added to the University’s Timmons has been selected as professor whose work acting capacity in the position Board of Governors by a recipient of the 2008 specializes in the ecology and since March 2007. He has also Saskatchewan government Canada’s Most Powerful behaviour of bats, was named served as associate vice- orders in council: Brenda Women: Top 100 Award. The the recipient of the 2008 president (research) and Barootes BSc’84, Lee Elliott Top 100 Award is an initiative Joseph Grinnell Award at the executive director of the BA’88, MBA’08 and James of the Women’s Executive 88th American Society of Canadian Plains Research (Paul) McLellan BAdmin’81. The Network and is co-presented by Mammalogists annual general Center. As well, he founded the trio join current Board member the Richard Ivey School of meeting in June. (See page 21). Centre for GIS and helped Sue Barber BA’84, who was Business and Scotiabank. found the Prairie Adaptation reappointed for a second term Timmons was also recently Harley Weston, long-time Research Collaborative (PARC) by the province; Greg Swanson appointed chair-designate of professor in the Department of at the U of R. BAdmin ’76 and Ben Grebinski the Canadian Bureau for Mathematics and Statistics, has BEd’79, PGDEA’89, MEd’91, International Education. been named the recipient of Rod Kelln has agreed to extend who were elected by the U of R the Canadian Mathematical his term as associate vice- Senate (Swanson in June 2007 Barbara Pollock, vice-president Society’s 2008 Adrien Pouliot president (research) until and Grebinski in June 2008); of External Relations, has Award for his contributions to

Degrees fall 2008 5 Far left: University president Vianne Timmons addresses an audience at one of the 21 events of the Greater Together with the Community series.

At left: The U of R’s most recent Canada Research Chair, biologist Chris Somers.

mathematics education. Earlier series “Wapos Bay,” which is convocation to a student will use his funding to this year, Weston was awarded written, directed and produced receiving a first degree with a establish a state-of-the-art the 2008 Pacific Institute for by alumnus Dennis Jackson minimum average of 80 per genetics laboratory at the the Mathematical Sciences BFA’98. Ron Forsythe BFA’80 cent who has shown leadership University of Regina, and to Education Prize. received the Gemini for Best and commitment to conduct research on mutations Direction in a Live Sporting extracurricular activities. Fuller and population genetic changes Lori M. Walker BA’90 MA’96 Event for his direction of the completed her four-year-degree in animals affected by human received the 2008 Garth CBC’s coverage of the 95th program in only three years activities. Ferguson Award for excellence Grey Cup game. while maintaining a high in televised education in academic standing and working Another donation by Crown Saskatchewan. Walker began actively as a music teacher and Investments Corporation of her sessional work in 1996 at Briefly volunteer. Saskatchewan (CIC) is helping Simon Fraser University where Aboriginal students at the she taught an introductory Celebrating the University’s The ceremony also included the University of Regina and the criminology course. She has community connection was the presentation of the University First Nations University of been a sessional lecturer at the theme during two weeks in of Regina Board of Governors Canada. At an announcement in University of Regina since fall mid-October in a series of Distinguished Service Award to late September, 59 under 1997 where she teaches for the events called Greater Together former University president Jim graduate students received department of Sociology and with the Community. Faculty, Tomkins. The award is reserved bursaries of $2,500 each. Social Studies, Luther College staff and students organized for individuals who have made and Department of Justice the events designed to engage outstanding and sustained The students are the latest to Studies. the public, bring them to contributions to the U of R. receive the bursaries courtesy campus and, in many cases, Tomkins has been associated of a commitment CIC made in The Campion College 2008 bring University personnel out with the University for some 2004 to fund $2 million in Alumni of Distinction Award into the community. 40 years and served as the bursaries over the next five goes to Frank Flaman and head of the Mathematics and years for Aboriginal students Daniel Coleman BEd’86, MA’89. On October 18, the University Statistics Department, vice- enrolled at the U of R and First celebrated student achievement president (administration) and Nations University of Canada. A quartet of alumnus from the at the 2008 Fall Convocation. most recently as president. The bursaries are intended to Department of Media Five hundred and forty-three create more opportunities for Production and Studies have graduates received their Christopher Somers,an youth and Aboriginal picked up Gemini awards this degrees, diplomas and assistant professor of biology participation in Saskatchewan’s year for excellence in Canadian certificates. Jaime Lynn Williams in the Faculty of Science, has Crown corporations. English-language television. BA(Hons)’01, MA’03, PhD’08 been named as the University’s Ian Toews BFA’99 received the received the 2008 President’s newest Canada Research Chair Climate change research at the Gemini for Best Performing Arts Distinguished Graduate Student (CRC). Somers’ research University of Regina took an Program or Series/Arts Award as the student whose examines the nature and important step forward this fall Documentary Program or Series outstanding academic frequency of genetic mutations with the signing of a for his television series performance over the course of that can be passed on from memorandum of understanding “Landscape as Muse.” The a graduate program included one generation to the next in (MOU) between the U of R and award for Best Direction in a an exceptional thesis, birds and other animals. Innovation Norway, an Oslo- Children’s or Youth Program or exhibition or performance and Somers’ work supports wildlife based organization whose Series went to Robert Pytlyk corresponding defence. conservation and habitat mandate is to increase BFA’03 for the series “Drug protection while helping academic and commercial ties Class.” The Best Individual or Natalie Fuller BMus’08,a scientists better understand the between Norway and Canada. Ensemble Performance in an graduate of Luther College, risks of genetic mutation in The signing of this MOU is the Animated Program or Series received the President’s Medal, humans. During the course of most recent example of the went to the actors on the the award presented at each his research program, Somers U of R’s continuing involvement

6 Degrees fall 2008 At right: Vianne Timmons offers her congratulations to Paul Hill on the occasion of the unveiling of the Paul and Carol Hill Family Commemorative Wall.

Centre: Fourth-year theatre student Kaitlyn Semple, recipient of a Hnatyshyn Foundation Developing Artist Grant.

Far right: Agnes Groome. in Norwegian energy and provide for U of R students. Union (URSU) has pledged learning, she took her last environment initiatives. In Part of the gift includes a new $250,000 to the upgrade of a course at the University of March, HTC Purenergy, a opportunity for U of R students central heating plant on Regina at the age of 88. As Regina-based company to participate in an elite campus, which will significantly part of her dedication to commercializing carbon capture partnership program with one reduce the U of R’s carbon education in Saskatchewan, technology developed at the of Canada’s leading business footprint. The upgrade will Agnes established several University of Regina, signed a schools. Twelve students each provide at least 20 years of scholarship funds at the contract to provide an received $40,000 to study at efficient operation and a University of Regina in the engineering and design plan for Richard Ivey School of Business calculated reduction of name of her husband Les a full-scale CO2 capture project and graduate with an honours 417 tonnes of CO2 emissions Groome, her brother-in-law Paul at a power plant in Kårstø, business administration (HBA) annually, which is equivalent to Groome and her parents Sam Norway. Also in March, HTC degree. The 2009 scholarship the carbon emissions produced and Isabelle, and made a agreed to provide a design winners are Amanda Baron, by almost 180,000 litres of generous donation to the plan for a European CO2 test Kalen Emsley, Tina Paridaen, gasoline or the carbon University of Regina centre at Mongstad, Norway. Kyle Scott and Minh Vuong. sequestered annually by 95 establishing the Groome Family The 2010 scholarship winners acres of pine forest. Fellowship in Health Research. The University of Regina’s are Derrick Emsley, Karlee Canadian Plains Research Goby, Seth Hunt, Jeff Myers, Fourth-year University of Regina Bill Howard passed away on Center (CPRC) has offered up a Whitney Moeller, Jada Styre theatre student Kaitlyn Semple October 21 in Victoria, B.C., copy of its award-winning book and Brandon Wolfram. Each has received a Hnatyshyn following a brief battle with Building for the Future: A Photo student will study at the Foundation Developing Artist cancer. He graduated with a BA Journal of Saskatchewan’s U of R’s Paul J. Hill School of Grant for English theatre acting. in English from the University Legislative Building to each and Business for their first two The 21-year-old acting major of British Columbia in 1967, every one of the province’s 930 years and spend their third and graduated from Campbell earned a master’s degree in schools. The book was written fourth years at the Richard Ivey Collegiate in Regina and is the 1969 and went on to earn a by Gordon Barnhart, School of Business at the daughter of well-known PhD from the University of Saskatchewan’s lieutenant University of Western Ontario. Saskatchewan musician Jack Leeds. Bill committed his governor. The CPRC is the Over the next five years, the Semple. Semple receives a professional life to the oldest research institute at the Hill-Ivey scholarships will result $10,000 grant to continue her University of Regina as a University of Regina, with a in 30 students receiving studies. teacher and administrator. He broad mandate to improve $40,000 each to support their served as the assistant head of understanding and appreciation business education. In addition, the Faculty of Graduate Studies of the Canadian Plains region, $200,000 will create awards to We remember and Research and was the its people and its resources. support doctoral candidates department head of both the through the Ivey Business A great friend of the University English and French On September 2, the University School. Funds will also support Agnes Groome MA’67 passed departments. He served two unveiled the Paul and Carol Hill visiting professors at both the away peacefully at St. Joseph’s terms as the University librarian Family Commemorative Wall to Ivey Business School and Hill Hospital in Toronto on May 30, and was the faculty honour Paul and Carol Hill. School of Business, and the 2008. Dr. Reverend Agnes representative on the Board of Paul Hill, president and CEO of creation of new cases for use Groome was a woman of Governors. Howard was also a the Hill Companies and Harvard in business courses. remarkable energy and noted scholar in 19th-century Developments, gifted $10 organizational skills. An British literature. In 2007 he million last November to create University of Regina students accomplished educator and was awarded the Distinguished the Paul J. Hill School of are doing their part to create a minister, she was highly Service Award by the University Business. The wall will serve as sustainable campus by educated, earning seven for his lifetime of service. a permanent reminder of the reducing greenhouse gas degrees in seven decades (BA, Hill’s generosity and the emissions at the U of R. The BEd, BDiv, MA, MEd, PhD and opportunities it will continue to University of Regina Students’ MDiv). Involved in lifelong

Degrees fall 2008 7 2008 Alumni Crowning Achievement

Photos by University of Regina Photography Awards Department unless otherwise noted.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD DR. NORMAN AMUNDSON BA(HONS)’69, MA’71

Norman Amundson received his bachelor of arts (honours) in psychology in 1969, then went on to earn a master’s degree in the discipline in 1971. He received his doctorate in counselling psychology from the University of Alberta in 1975. Over the course of his stellar academic career at the University of British Columbia, Amundson has distinguished himself as an expert in career counselling and has literally shaped the field nationally and internationally—his influence in the area reaches far and wide. His research and writing has attracted international interest and recognition and he has been invited to work around the world. Dee. Martin by Photo He is the National Career Development Association’s outgoing chair of the International Committee. He served as and is an honorary lifetime member of the Swedish Career editor of the National Employment Counseling Association’s Development Association. Journal of Employment Counseling. He is also a governor of the Canadian Career Development Foundation. “I received some excellent instruction in the psychology and His work is not just of a scholarly or academic nature. His the social science programs. The instruction in qualitative work in career counselling, for example, developed from his research methodology and philosophy of science was concern for professionals who had experienced traumatic particularly helpful. I feel very fortunate to have had this unemployment during periods of economic recession. His early training in qualitative research methodology. This creative The Physics of Living is a book that uses metaphor training gave me perspective at a time when almost all North and the fundamental concepts of physics to help guide and American research was being done with standard inspire people through their life. quantitative methods. The research program that I have built Among the honours Amundson has received is an at UBC was firmly grounded in the learning that I had honorary lifetime Board membership with Education and received from the U of R.” Networking for Rehabilitation and Career Development Practitioners. At the international level, he received an Norman Amundson honorary doctorate from the University of Umea in Sweden,

8 Degrees fall 2008 The Alumni Crowning Achievement Awards were established in 2005 to celebrate University of Regina alumni who have realized extraordinary achievements and made remarkable contributions to the U of R and their community. The fourth annual Alumni Crowning Achievement Awards gala was held on Thursday, November 13. For more information, visit the Alumni Crowning Achievement Awards website at www.uregina.ca/alumni/aa-aca.htm.

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD FOR PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT NORM BOLEN BA’69

From his beginnings as the editor of U of R student newspaper The Carillon, Norm Bolen has risen to the top of the Canadian broadcasting industry. Hired by CBC in 1976, Bolen worked his way up from a reporter and editor to become head of the network’s documentary department and weekly current affairs series. In 1997 he moved to the private sector with Alliance Atlantis Communications as vice-president of programming for History Television. In short order, Bolen helped make History TV a great success. He was later named head of Showcase and appointed executive vice-president of Alliance Atlantis. He played a leading role in the Canadian television industry during a period of phenomenal growth and left his Christopher Dew. by Photo mark on specialty channels such as HGTV, Food Network Canada, Slice and Showcase and on classic shows such as the Gemini Award winning “Trailer Park Boys,” “Holmes on He is currently a media consultant and a director of mDialog, Homes” and “Turning Points of History.” a web-based high-resolution video distribution platform Bolen has always found time to serve on the boards of optimized for the iPhone. industry-related organizations such as the Canadian Television Fund and the National Screen Institute. He has “My time at the University of Regina was very exciting. I chaired and moderated festivals in Canada and around the recall tremendous exhilaration with the freedom, intensity world and also mentored upcoming journalists. and academics I encountered there. I was exposed to a For his creative leadership, mentorship and many tremendous range of interesting professors who introduced contributions to Canadian broadcasting, Bolen was honoured me to new ideas and ways of thinking. It was an explosively with the Crystal Award of Mentorship from Toronto Women energizing experience.” in Film and Television and the Canadian Association of Norm Bolen Broadcasters, 25-Year Service Award. Bolen serves as chair of the Banff World Television Festival and co-chair of the Hot Docs International Television Festival.

Degrees fall 2008 9 OUTSTANDING YOUNG ALUMNI AWARD DR. DWIGHT NEWMAN BA’96 (LUTHER COLLEGE)

Dwight Newman, one of Canada’s brightest academic stars, earned his bachelor of arts at the U of R in economics and philosophy in 1996. While earning his degree, he was the recipient of a number of prestigious academic awards including a President’s Medal. He went on to complete four more degrees. The first, a law degree at the University of Saskatchewan, he earned while accumulating the highest academic average of any graduate in the 60-odd year history of the U of S College of Law. Later he attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship and earned another law degree and his master’s and doctoral degrees in legal philosophy. While at Oxford, Newman was the recipient of numerous Photo by Liam Richards. by Photo academic awards and in 2002 received the Herbert Hart Prize as the top student in Oxford’s graduate jurisprudence course. He also taught in the undergraduate jurisprudence and public “The liberal arts education I gained at the University of international law courses and co-convened the Oxford Regina is a foundation for everything I have gone on to since. Jurisprudence Discussion Group from 2003 to 2005. It has given me an appreciation for the many complex sides to In 2005, he was hired by the College of Law at the different problems that one faces in contexts within the law University of Saskatchewan, then, only a year later, was and within my work in the law. The educational experience in appointed an associate dean of the College—an unheard of which I had the chance for close interaction with professors feat at an academic institution. gave me a real chance to test ideas and to build confidence in His meteoric rise was complemented by an astonishing what I could do, and I carry this confidence with me today.” record of publication. At the same time, he has proven himself to be a gifted teacher as his 2006 nomination for a teaching Dwight Newman award bears out. Newman has an unwavering commitment to the humanitarian side of the law. His scholarship and pedagogy focus on the protection of the rights of society’s most vulnerable citizens, especially Indigenous Canadians. His time spent in South Africa as a human rights intern endowed him with a special understanding of the inequities still plaguing that nation post-apartheid. For him, the law is an instrument for ensuring that social justice prevails both in Canada and around the world. As one of the letters of support puts it, “Dwight is well on his way to becoming a national treasure.”

10 Degrees fall 2008 DR. ROBERT AND NORMA FERGUSON AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE GREG SWANSON BADMIN’76

For many years now, Greg Swanson has demonstrated exceptional volunteer leadership and service to the University of Regina and the University of Regina Alumni Association (URAA). Swanson was a volunteer member of the URAA Board between 1996 and 2007 and was president of the URAA in 2001–02. After his six-year term with the URAA Board ended, Swanson continued as the Association’s Senate representative through 2007. On July 1 of that year, he was elected as the Senate representative on the U of R Board of Governors. Swanson brings a well-respected opinion to the Board with a loyalty and dedication to the University that has always served the institution well. His governance expertise has often been called on and he played a significant role in helping the URAA Board become more strategic with a policy making Swanson is a partner in the firm McKercher LLP and is one focus. He also played a crucial part in the development of of the firm’s tax law specialists. branch alumni activities across Canada. From 1998 through 1999, he chaired the Harvest Moon Beer Festivals, a significant “Alumni of the U of R are its ambassadors. After graduation, fundraising effort that supported scholarships at the U of R. the actions of alumni directly reflect upon the U of R and the Swanson has many other volunteer interests away from quality of education that it provides. These ambassadors have the university. He is past president of the Great Plains Trans an indirect effect upon an employer deciding whether to hire a Canada Trail Association, Saskatchewan Trails Association, co-op student or a graduate of the U of R, or a high school Regina Branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses and Oliver student deciding what university to attend. I am honoured to Knowles District of Scouts Canada. He is also past council receive this award. It is a bit surprising though that for member of Christ Lutheran Church in Regina, and served as having fun and being involved with a very exciting and vice-president of the Regina Ballroom Dancing Club. vibrant institution, one receives an award. The opportunity to In recognition of his contribution to the community, be involved with the Alumni Association and the University Swanson received the Canada 125 medal in 1992 and in 1999 has been my award.” was honoured with the Saskatchewan Legal Education Society Inc.’s Outstanding Volunteer Award for southern Greg Swanson Saskatchewan. Most recently, he received a BV peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell. This review-based rating recognizes Swanson’s above average ability and unquestionable ethics as a lawyer. Swanson is well deserving of this award as demonstrated by his long-term loyalty and dedication to the University of Regina and the University of Regina Alumni Association. Swanson’s volunteer leadership and service shows that he clearly takes to heart the University’s motto “As One Who Serves.”

Degrees fall 2008 11 AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED HUMANITARIAN The team’s vision, enthusiasm and commitment to the We AND COMMUNITY SERVICE “WE SEE YOU TEAM” See You project is empowering the people of these developing DR. PAMMLA PETRUCKA BSC’85 (CAMPION countries, helping them revitalize their communities and COLLEGE), KEVAN MCBETH CA’99, SHEENAH KO giving them hope for the future. BBA’06

Over the past seven years, a group of dedicated volunteers “This award has special meaning as it is a team award. It have come together to add new meaning to the three R’s. recognizes that as a group of U of R alumni from three very Under the leadership of Pammla Petrucka, the We See You distinct “eras,” we have come together to represent our alma team has set out to recycle and reuse Saskatchewan medical mater in a unique and global manner. It is so much more equipment and educational supplies in response to the needs important than individual accolades or recognition, and of developing countries in Africa and the Caribbean. recognizes how our team has become “As One Who Serves.” The team, which also includes alumni Kevan McBeth and Pammla Petrucka Sheenah Ko of SaskTel’s YOUTHnetwork, has devoted countless volunteer hours to co-ordinating, collecting and “I think that alumni have the obligation to continually sorting medical and educational items that find their way into contribute to their alma mater and the community as a cargo containers destined for some of the world’s most needy whole. I don't necessarily mean contribute in the sense of countries. strictly financial support, but to be a resource for the next To date, 56 of the 12-metre containers have been sent generation of students, the next generation of citizens.” under the We See You banner to 14 countries. Each container is stocked according to the needs of the recipient Kevan McBeth communities—even ambulances have made the trip overseas on more than one occasion. “I feel extremely flattered to be receiving this award. This By involving high school and university students in their acknowledgement motivates me to continue to work hard in projects, the We See You team is helping to further trying to make a positive difference, and to provide Saskatchewan youth’s understanding of the importance of opportunities and assistance to youth and community global citizenship. members who would like to make a difference in the global Saskatchewan health regions and schools have become the community, as well as in our province.” key sources for providing the desperately needed items that Sheenah Ko are sent to countries like Kenya, Mozambique and Dominica. In a container destined for Kenya, for example, the team focussed on addressing the needs of orphans, the victims of the country’s HIV/AIDS crisis. Also involved in the effort were youth in Regina and Saskatoon who created handmade teddy bears to bring comfort and warmth to the Kenyan children.

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Degrees fall 2008 13 OUR

MOTHERS, SISTERS AND DAUGHTERS

Gwenda Yuzicappi outside her home on the Standing Buffalo First Nation near Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan.

Each year, scores of women, many Aboriginal or otherwise marginalized, are murdered or go missing in Canada. Compelled by events both close to home and afar, U of R faculty and students have come together with members of the community to try to put some understanding to an issue that is incomprehensible.

14 Degrees fall 2008 By Marie Powell Mendenhall BFA’80, BAJC’88, MA’01 Photos by University of Regina Photography Department.

Degrees fall 2008 15 The missing women’s conference in Regina brought together people from across North America to discuss the issues around missing and murdered women especially in Canada and Mexico. Here marchers trek from the Conexus Arts Centre to the University campus in a show of solidarity shouting “Ni una mas” (not one more).

he numbers are staggering: there are more than 500 “It was the Stolen Sisters report that really blew the lid off murdered and missing Aboriginal women in of the issue of missing women and brought it out into the Canada, according to Amnesty International’s 2004 public,” says Brenda Anderson, a religious studies instructor at report Stolen Sisters: Discrimination and violence Luther College at the University of Regina. But it was Amber against Indigenous women in Canada. Redman, she admits, who really drew her into the issue. TWomen like Amber Tara-Lynn Redman, who disappeared “The real heart of it for me was when we were out camping on July 15, 2005, from the Trapper’s Bar in Fort Qu’Appelle, in Fort Qu’Appelle two and a half years ago and I saw the Sask., at the age of 19. Her remains were found May 5, 2008, poster for Amber Redman on a drugstore window. And the on the Little Black Bear First Nation. thought that just went through my head was, not another “I always had the strong hope that she would one day one. Not another one. How can this be happening? And there come home,” says her mother Gwenda Yuzicappi. “But I’m was just the point of ultimate failure that society had let very fortunate on the other hand that my daughter’s remains down all these women. That it wasn’t safe for them to be on were located, and I was able to bring her home, and for her to the street because they had brown skin.” start her journey.” Anderson’s response was to develop a class in feminist “[Amber] was radiant,” Yuzicappi remembers. “She was theory, followed by a 300-level course on missing and inspired by her culture.” Amber participated as a junior Indigenous women from a global perspective. That class has princess when she was 12 years old as well as a girl’s fancy been cross-listed with women’s studies, police studies and dancer. “She took that honour as a priority,” says Yuzicappi. human justice, and has attracted students from political Earlier in her life, Amber had been asked to re-enact the science, international studies and journalism as well. traditional Lakota legend of the White Buffalo Calf Woman. This past spring, students in an eight-day class travelled to Then, after her daughter’s remains were found, two of the Mexico City. Developed by Anderson and Carla Blakley, Bread buffalo living nearby came right up behind her house. “They of Life Lutheran pastor, the class included visits to Lutheran just looked at us,” Yuzicappi says. She believes it was a sign, and Catholic centres to meet with family members and grass “that they were coming to give me strength.” roots organizations involved in the human rights struggle for The family visited the area where Amber’s remains were Indigenous women. found. “We needed that as a family.” While there, family “These students picked up the challenge and said, ‘What members remember hearing unexplained movement in the are we going to do about it?’” Anderson says. “It was an bushes. “We believe the relatives were coming and letting us important goal for us to partner with the community, in this know that they were there with her. I believe that Amber was case the churches, in order to show the broad responsibility not alone that night. Physically she was, but spiritually she our whole society shows for this issue.” had relatives that were with her. For me as her mother, that Anderson, Blakely and the students also worked together gave me so much comfort, in knowing that she was not on the international conference Missing Women: alone.” Decolonization, Third Wave Feminisms and Indigenous

16 Degrees fall 2008 “It was the Stolen Sisters report that really blew the lid off of the issue of missing women and brought it out into the public,” says Brenda Anderson, a religious studies instructor at Luther College at the University of Regina. But it was Amber Redman, she admits, who really drew her into the issue.

U of R psychology student Alexis Johnson ties a pink ribbon on one of the trees between the Conexus Arts Centre and the First Nations University as a way to remember women who have gone missing. In Mexico when a woman goes missing people paint a street pole pink and mark it with a black cross. The art project coincided with the conference Missing Women: Decolonization, Third Wave Feminisms and Indigenous People of Canada and Mexico. Luther College faculty member Brenda Anderson (left) and First Nations University of Canada Academics vice-president Shauneen Pete pose beside Bison Sentinel, a memorial to missing and murdered women commissioned by Casino Regina. The creator of the legacy sculpture, artist Adrian Stimson, describes it as a living memorial because of the tree that will grow up through it. The memorial sits in the Healing Gardens near the First Nations University of Canada.

People of Canada and Mexico held in August. The conference LaPlante’s aunt Emily Osmond (LaPlante), 78, disappeared goals included raising awareness of violence against from her acreage north of the Kawacatoose First Nations in Indigenous women, especially in Canada and Mexico. the Raymore/Wynyard area. She was last seen on Sept. 9, 2007. “The students have been involved right from the start on Extensive searches of the area and RCMP investigations have the core group and on the volunteer positions,” Anderson not located her. says. “Always we have these highs and these lows,” says The conference brought people together from a broad LaPlante. “We think, today is the day they make a break in the spectrum to discuss the issues, including family members, case. We hang onto every hope. Whatever form that she students, academics, activists, government workers and comes home in, the main thing is to bring her home. We members of faith communities, law enforcement and the never waver on that. We pray every day that she will be media. Special guests and speakers at the conference included found.” activist Marta Perez of San Salvadore, filmmaker Lourdes While her family has had co-operation from media and Portillo and journalist Isabel Arvides of Mexico. “Having law enforcement, LaPlante says, that hasn’t been the case for family members speak definitely put a face on it,” says Kim some families. “There’s a huge impact,” she says. Family Karpa, fourth year women’s studies student at the U of R. members may have to take time off work and travel for Karpa took the winter and spring classes and helped organize searches, incurring financial costs, as well as emotional and the conference. She says the conference helped open up her health issues. She estimates it has cost her family $30–40,000. awareness. In the past, with fewer public memorials and almost no media “Before that I didn’t know about this issue. How many coverage, families and communities were more isolated in other people are really aware of it?” dealing with such a tragedy. Now she’s writing an honours thesis on the subject. “I A march at the Regina conference began quietly, she adds, definitely feel powerless. That’s why I write about it. With but as they went along the chanting got louder and louder: numbers comes voice, and hopefully something will be done “Not one more.” Recent media coverage has improved for the about it.” issue overall, LaPlante says, and especially for Iskwewuk events this fall. “I think the media is listening. People are listening; people are hearing.” The conference forged links between several organizations. Iskwewuk e-wichiwitochik is a Saskatoon-based support A special room was set aside for family members to use, and group for families of missing Aboriginal women. The group elders were available to speak with people if they wished. The has adopted the symbol of a pink banner with a black cross, national Status of Women has asked to see student papers “as a symbol of our commitment to raising the awareness and with useful critiques and solutions, and several participants supporting the families.” LaPlante says the symbol has been also took part in the Walk for Justice that moved across used in Regina and Saskatoon and will hopefully become a Canada to Ottawa. national or even international symbol to keep the issue in “That’s a very grassroots kind of work but I don’t want to front of the public. separate the theoretical [study] from that kind of work,” says Paula Flores, a conference “guest mom,” had created the Anderson. “I think those two things should be in tandem.” symbol when her daughter went missing. Telephone poles in Myrna LaPlante was also a conference organizer. LaPlante Juarez and Mexico are painted with the symbol every time a is a member of Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik (Women Walking woman goes missing. Flores saw the same symbols on trees in Together) in Saskatoon, and took part in the Walk for Justice. Regina during the conference. “She was profoundly moved to

18 Degrees fall 2008 Far left: Gwenda Yuzicappi enjoys a laugh with her sister Erna Whitehead (centre) and niece Maureen Bear, at the Yuzicappi house on Standing Buffalo First Nation.

At left: Marta Pérez, a Zapatista activist speaks at the conference Missing Women: Decolonization, Third Wave Feminisms and Indigenous People of Canada and Mexico. Pérez holds a machete, the symbol of the Zapatista’s agrarian traditions and way of life.

tears to see people here knowing and caring about the miraculous, because of the wide range of forms of oppression conditions of her country,” Anderson says. A call from the that exist.” conference floor asked for these banners to be used across Pete went to school with the parents of Daleen Bosse North America until people pay attention. Muskego, 27, who went missing from the Onion Lake First LaPlante also spoke during the conference session for Nation in May 2004. Family members were scheduled to families, and she calls it the most emotional of all the speak, but on August 8 Daleen’s remains were found outside presentations and talks about her aunt. She appreciated Saskatoon. (Charges have been laid in her case, and in the case having a room allocated to allow people to sit and be quiet, of Amber Redman.) and elders available to counsel people. The conference would be a good model for a future conference addressing issues specific to local Aboriginal families, to help them find Results from the conference have included increased funding and deal with the impacts. networking among activist groups, especially through Yuzicappi was scheduled to speak at the conference as facilitated affinity groups that met on the final day of the well, but she became ill and was unable to attend. She will be conference to brainstorm solutions and calls for action across writing her memories of her daughter Amber Redman for all of the areas touched on during proceedings. Sisters in Spirit. “I continue to talk about Amber every day. It “We didn’t initiate it, we continued from what had already gives me so much strength.” been in place, and I think we’ve strengthened that a “There’s a lot of families that I still pray for, and will lot,” Anderson says. As well, a documentary DVD, website and continue to pray for, that don’t know where their loved ones print publication of the proceedings will help keep up the are,” Yuzicappi says. “They’re still feeling that emptiness. momentum generated at the conference. They’re still feeling that loss of those loved ones. I continue to The conference was a chance to build relationships, says pray for them, and for justice. Yuzicappi, who had met some of the women and their “I know as a nation that we need to come together to translators at another conference in 2007. ensure that justice is served for our loved ones.” As well, Pete says, the broad range of topics presented at the conference helped contextualize women’s oppression to help prevent sensationalizing the issue. The session in which families spoke out about their loved “Bringing those messages to the public maybe more ones affected many people at the conference. helpful, I think, than just looking specifically at the loss of [an “I heard the pain and the anguish and the anger in their individual] woman,” adds Pete. “Because really, in a country voices,” says Shauneen Pete, Academics vice-president of the where brown women are so much the target of violence, is co-sponsoring First Nations University of Canada. “The voices any woman safe?” D followed me.” “These stories are more than just stories. They’re our Marie Powell Mendenhall is the Regina-based author of sisters, they’re our relatives, they’re our friends, they’re Dragonflies are Amazing! (Scholastic, 2007), as well as other potentially any woman.” published articles, poems, and short stories. She is currently enrolled “I don’t know any First Nations women who haven’t in the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing MFA experienced childhood sexual abuse or family violence, and program. violence directed towards them because of their gender,” says Pete. “The fact that I’m 43 this year in some ways is almost

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20 Degrees fall 2008 We recently got together with Mark Brigham, the head of the biology department, a respected bat researcher and a popular faculty member. In June, he was named the recipient of the 2008 Joseph Grinnell Award at the 88th American Society of Mammalogists annual general meeting. The prestigious international award is presented each year to an individual who has made outstanding and sustained contributions to mammalogical education. Brigham is the first Canadian to receive the award.

D What about bats would most D Youspendalotoftimeinthefield people be surprised to discover? conducting research. Can you recount a moment you experienced that best Many people are especially scared of illustrates the magic and beauty of the bats in our part of the world due to the natural world? perceived risk of contracting rabies from them. In Canada, more people have been I am so fortunate to have had so many crushed to death by vending machines experiences like that; however, to pick than have died due to rabies from bats. just one, I’d relate details about a trip to South Africa in the summer of 2006. I D What is it about being in a was at a small nature reserve called classroom and interacting with students Kgaswane. The north side of the reserve that is so satisfying? follows a line of small mountains and we spent many nights tracking birds from For me it is simply that each situation is the top of the mountains. The view south different so it never gets dull. The thing into the reserve was as magnificent. As that stays the same is when you can the sun set one could see numerous actively see the light go on in the eyes of herds of impala, zebra, hartebeest, etc. a student and you can tell without a grazing in a scene that looked for all the doubt that they get it and they think it’s world like a clip from Out of Africa. really cool! However if one turned around and looked north, you could see the D When you’re not observing bats, sprawling city of Rustenburg. It sits on what do you like to do for fun? one of the most heavily mined areas in the entire world. Sunrises were gorgeous I play badminton most days with a because the sun shone through the wonderful bunch of colleagues on dense clouds of emissions from the campus and I play hockey and curl once mines. As the sun rose, you could also a week in the winter. In the summer I am make out the huge “townships” outside absolutely addicted to golf—it’s a great the city that were home to the thousands way to see some wonderful wildlife as of Black workers and their families that well. I also get exercise by riding my bike make the mines run. I suspect that few of to work and walking the dog for 30 them had ever had the chance to see minutes every morning. I like watching what lay on the south side of the hockey (Lord help me, I am a Leafs fan), mountains—barely 10 kilometres from football, golf, cricket, rugby and Aussie where they lived. I had come 10,000 rules football. kilometres and got to see both sides. It made the magic of the south side all that D What is one common characteristic more special. that you see in good scientists and good science students? D What do you like to do to relax?

I think it would have to be I love to relax over food and drink while tenaciousness. Different from the enjoying stimulating conversation with perception of most people, the vast people who have strong opinions that majority of scientists are not “brilliant” they can back up logically. Okay, that geeks. They ARE talented and bright sounds way too ostentatious; I love to people to be sure, but I think that the eat, drink good red wine and argue! best ones succeed because they are stubborn enough that they will stick with it, until they solve the problem.

Degrees fall 2008 21 22 Degrees as aphotographer. where hecurrently works part-time Living Living “Corner Gas” andthe magazine, thehittelevisionseries Harrowsmith Canadian Press, Times-Herald photographer andjournalistatthe Taylor beganhiscareer asa studies andjournalism.In 2004, home andearned degrees infilm Baseball Academy—Taylorreturned college baseballwiththePrairie Lethbridge—where healsoplayed fortwoyears attheUniversityart of and raisedinRegina. After studying TaylorMark BFA’00, BJ’04wasborn such as Taylorthen, hasworked forclients photographer andjournalist.Since to pursueacareer asafreelance TaylorIn 2007, setoutonhisown Moose Jaw, Sask. Focal Point magazine, Briarpatch The Globe and Mail and Globe The fall 2008 , adailynewspaperin magazine, Flavours Leader-Post Western magazine, , CBC, , Following the2007 galleries throughout Saskatchewan. Taylor’s,number of inupto24art photos ofNorth Central,as well as a planning totourthesestudents’ is Councils Saskatchewan Arts Currently, theOrganization of students. Scott Collegiateart teach aphotojournalismclassto from theSaskatchewan Board to Arts and received an grant ArtsSmarts Taylorthe NCCA, alsoappliedfor North Central. While workingwith the people,placesandissuesof photographing andgettingtoknow Taylor tospendcloseayear newsletter. This opportunity allowed liaison andeditoroftheNCCA’s asacommunity (NCCA) toserve Central Community Association Taylor washired by theNorth “Canada’s worstneighbourhood,” that dubbedNorth CentralRegina as Maclean’s story celebration. during theNorth CentralCommunity Association’s 2007Fall Fest officer Curtis Kemp getsinonashinnygameoutsideScottCollegiate from Regina mayor andformerboxer Pat Fiacco. Employment Program works outattheRegina Boxing Clubafterapeptalk (bottom): put through arigorous workout duringavisittotheRegina Boxing Club. (centre) city homeasaneighbouracross thestreet ishauledawayby thepolice. Far right, toptobottom: inter-agency chilicook-off attheIndian Metis ChristianFellowship Centre. Top row (left):Rocky Boormanworks onhistruck. social change.” some Scott Collegiate,mighteffect by thephotojournalismstudentsat these photos,aswell asthosetaken North Centralabetterplace.Ihope the goodworkbeingdonetomake people Iphotographedaswell asall ofthe by thekindnessandtrust however, Iwasprofoundly touched own backyard. More oftenthannot, I witnessedmere blocksfrom my and ashamedby someofthethings almost allmylife,Iwasshocked Taylor says.“Having lived inRegina an incredible learningexperience,” “Working inNorth Centralhasbeen Participants from aNorth Centralyouth employment program are A participantintheNorth CentralCommunity Association’s Youth Children watchfrom thefront doorofaninner Below: (right) Regina CityPolice The annual Point F o cal

Above: Nathan Still takes a breather during a break in a shinny game outside Scott Collegiate. Top right: Students from Herchmer School rush to the edge of their playground to meet Santa and get a glimpse of a passing parade marking National Children’s Day. Bottom right: Albert Carpenter walks past a burnt and boarded up home on his street. In June of 2007 one 15-year-old and two 18-year-old boys were stabbedhere, one fatally. A month later, a 14-year-old girl was charged with arson after fire destroyed the home. At left: A boy races a horse and sleigh team during a community Christmas celebration in North Central.

Degrees fall 2008 23 Homecoming Serving Senate Brings Alumni Full Circle

It’s University Secretary Annette Revet and her office that supports the Senate.

24 Degrees fall 2008 There are 95 members of Senate—the body that oversees academic decision-making at the University of Regina. Many members find their way to the Senate table by virtue of the positions they hold within the University. Others are student representatives who are elected, and there is representation from a wide variety of professional societies and organizations. Fourteen Senate positions are earmarked for graduates who vie for seats in an annual election. This is a story of three of those grads. Although they come from different walks of life, they share a passion for post-secondary education and are living up to the University’s motto “As One Who Serves.” By Bill Armstrong Photos by Don Hall, University of Regina Photography Department.

o describe taking a seat at the U of R Senate table as a the Senate handles issues sent to it by the Executive of homecoming might not seem like a big deal, but for Council. Major decisions made by the Senate go to the Board of the people who let their names stand for the job, Governors, which has final responsibility for the operation of serving on the Senate is very much a homecoming. the University. “The creation of the Kenneth Levene Graduate TElaine Bourassa, Patrick Maze and Joseph-Michel Fortier are School of Business and the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School all elected members of the U of R Senate at very different of Public Policy are recent examples of significant decisions stages of service. Bourassa attended her first meeting in that passed through the Senate,” Revet says. October. Maze is into his second year of service and Fortier is Joseph-Michel Fortier is a seasoned veteran on the Senate completing his second three-year term, which follows an whose connection to the University goes back to the mid- earlier stint of six years. 1950s, when he took art classes from Ken Lochhead and What they share is a passion to serve and a commitment to Art McKay, two members of the famed Regina Five group of the job. All three agree—being connected to the U of R artists. through the Senate enriches them, and gives them great “I attended Saskatoon Teacher’s College in 1956–57 and satisfaction. It reconnects them to their student days, or received a bursary to attend the Murray Point Art School at completes the circle of their academic career. Emma Lake,” Fortier says. “This was my first experience with “It’s very rewarding to contribute to the decision-making the Regina Campus (of the University of Saskatchewan, as it process,” says Maze, who teaches science and psychology at was then). Lochhead and McKay left me with a real affection Regina’s Cochrane High School, and represents District 2 on for Regina post-secondary education.” the Senate. “I find the two positions, being a teacher and on the Fortier is a retired teacher now living in Saskatoon. He Senate, tend to parallel one another. The issues are often taught everything from kindergarten to Grade 13, and while similar.” he taught all subjects at one time or another in his 32-year What is it that members of the Senate are asked to do? career, art, English and religious studies were his favourite areas. Primarily the U of R Senate makes decisions about academic While he was teaching, Fortier studied evenings and matters at the University. weekends, earning a bachelor’s in education in 1963, followed “The Senate is the senior academic decision-making body,” by a bachelor’s in history, an advanced certificate, a bachelor’s University secretary Annette Revet explains. The portfolio in religious studies, a certificate high honours in art history, a includes decisions related to admission requirements; bachelor’s of fine arts and finally a master’s in theological academic standards for students; granting certificates, studies in 1996. diplomas and degrees (including selecting honorary degree “I obviously believe in higher education, having recipients); establishing or making changes to the University’s accumulated 14 years of it,” Fortier says. “I owe Regina for part academic organization and courses of instruction; and filing of my education and my love of learning. I was happy to be applications for affiliation or federation. Generally speaking, asked to let my name stand for election.”

Degrees fall 2008 25 Being prepared to serve is a common theme among play a small part in continuing to build this respected Fortier, Maze and Bourassa. Maze read an article in The Third institution.” Degree calling for nominations for his district, and decided to It’s only natural that Maze would find his way back to the apply. Bourassa readily agreed when she was approached to campus. After all, he earned his BA, BEd and MEd (Admin) let her name stand. Like Fortier, her roots go back to the days degrees at the U of R. His education, he notes, has allowed when the Regina Campus was affiliated with the University him to obtain his teaching certificate and progress into of Saskatchewan. Bourassa is currently chief operating administration as a core leader at Cochrane High School. officer of Greystone Managed Investments, but in the early “As a high school teacher I am naturally interested in 1970s she was employed on the support staff of Regina trends in academics,” says Maze, “and I see my main duty on Campus. She eventually became secretary to the dean of the Senate as bringing my perspective and thoughts to those education before leaving her position to become a student. questions, such as declining enrolments, which is Bourassa received her bachelor of administration degree in 1984, graduating as the most distinguished student in that happening at the secondary and post-secondary levels. There faculty. After working as a consultant for a few years, she are likely several causes for this and different possible returned to the U of R to earn her chartered accountant responses, but the question for the Senate becomes, ‘How designation. “So, you see, returning to campus as a member can we be flexible with academic programs while still of Senate is like coming home,” she states. “I’m honoured to offering a quality education?’

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26 Degrees fall 2008 Opposite page (left to right): Senate members Patrick Maze and Elaine Bourassa.

At left: Joseph-Michel Fortier.

“The Senate doesn’t have all the answers to the challenges knowledge to attend the University of Regina, and for him, facing the university,” Maze continues, “but it is a diverse it’s personal. group of people who place the university’s best interests at “I believe my eldest daughter is a successful teacher and the forefront of the decisions they arrive at. I enjoy listening grad student because of the solid grounding she received at to others’ perspectives and I feel good about giving back to the U of R, a smaller university where she wasn’t just a the university by serving on the Senate.” number. The reward for serving on the Senate is the For his part, Fortier is proud to bring a perspective to the knowledge that many students will benefit from this kind of table that is particularly sensitive to French and First positive academic experience,” Fortier states. D Nations concerns. ”I was born of French Canadian parents of Norman ancestry whose ancestors arrived in Quebec City in Calling all graduates! Help shape the future of the University 1642,” Fortier states, “and I have nephews who are Cree and of Regina. Give back to your University as a member of Senate. cousins who are both Dene and Inuit. The University of Consider letting your name stand for the 2009 Senate election. Regina does outstanding work in regard to these ethnic For more information, visit communities.” http://www.uregina.ca/presoff/senate/elections.htm. Because the Senate represents alumni from the entire province, Fortier calls it a model of grassroots democracy. He encourages anyone seeking a solid academic grounding and

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Degrees fall 2008 27 Senate is a Senates are a rarity at Canadian The other members making up the universities. Most universities employ Senate include the past and present window on the a faculty council and a board of chancellors of the University, the University governors for their governance, but president and vice-presidents, other University Secretary Annette Revet academic representatives, the heads says it’s important for the U of R to of affiliated or federated colleges, six have representatives from student representatives, and the communities around Saskatchewan. minister and deputy minister of the The Senate serves as the University’s provincial government department window on the world, and also as responsible for post-secondary the world’s window on the University. education. The chancellor serves as chair of the Senate. “We have the people around the table who have different expertise, The Senate usually meets three times and a whole range of perspectives a year; immediately before the fall from their communities and and spring convocations, and in experiences,” Revet says. You must February. Revet notes that many be a graduate of the U of R to be Senate members stay to watch the elected to the Senate. The Senate convocation ceremonies. One of the includes 14 representatives from 12 perks of being on the Senate, she electoral districts (with Saskatoon adds, is that you can place the and Regina having two each) academic hood on your own child, covering the province, plus other spouse or other family member when appointed members representing they graduate from the U of R. about 40 professional or occupational organizations in the province. Both elected and appointed Senate members can serve two consecutive three-year terms. They must sit out at least a year before serving again.

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28 Degrees fall 2008 A man who inspires by example C O

D By David Sealy Photos by Don Hall, University of Regina Photography Department and courtesy of Mark Docherty.

Mark Docherty has hung out ere’s an eye-opener for those of us Docherty has worked as a front-line with The Tragically Hip and struggling with the compromises of youth worker, pursued athletic competitions Hday-to-day life, fumbling for the spark throughout the world and owned a local Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams. He’s that spurred us on in our glory days: consider music club. He is a founding Board member competed in the Hawaii Mark Docherty, a man who inspires by of one of Regina’s most effective non-profit Ironman Triathlon, earned three example. organizations, Street Culture Kidz, and has U of R degrees and run with In spite of being diagnosed with multiple mentored countless marginalized youth. the bulls in Pamplona. And sclerosis 10 years ago, the soft-spoken Docherty also worked in Northern Ireland, while his 1998 MS diagnosis dynamo has been active all his life. Docherty, where he witnessed the landmark signing of or Doc as his friends call him, has earned ceasefire agreements in 1994. has slowed him a little, anyone three degrees from the University of Regina— He wryly refers to himself as Forrest who knows the 47-year-old will physical geography (SIFC, 1993), human Gump. But unlike the fictional character tell you, his most important justice (1995) and master’s of social work who witnessed key twentieth century events, accomplishments still lie ahead. (2003). He is contemplating a fourth. Docherty is well aware of the vagaries of

Degrees fall 2008 29 Docherty with The Tragically Hip frontman Gord Docherty with friends former MuchMusic VJ Mike Docherty competes in the 1987 Hawaii Ironman Downie in 2006. Campbell and executive director of CBC radio Triathlon. Denise Donlon at Campbell’s Halifax home in 2000.

existence. He smiles, “I ended up in all “Doc’s so genuine in his interest. youth worker, he became interested in these places, but sometimes thought I He’s formally educated, but he has his competing in the Hawaii Ironman don’t have any right being there.” finger on the pulse of the grassroots. Triathlon. “I was watching it on TV, and The Regina-born and -raised native He’s a visionary who is capable of I said to my buddy, ‘I can do that.’ He has recently returned from the moving the vision forward, which is just laughed at me.” Maritimes to assume the directorship of rare. I can’t wait until he gets his PhD, In spite of his lack of experience, Dales House. Dales House works with so we can call him Doc Doc.” Docherty qualified for the 1985 World youth aged 12–15. Docherty explains, Docherty is currently in discussions Triathlon Championship in Hawaii. “There’s not a typical client. They can with First Nations University of Canada “Tropical Storm Fifi was causing huge be victims of the sex trade, they could to do an interdisciplinary doctorate, swells. The extreme heat and the crazy be used as drug mules for gangs, and focussing on the systemic distances back-to-back, I thought that they could be runaways. They’re discrimination he has witnessed over was normal. It’s the Ironman; it’s got to victims of their homes; they’re victims the years. “It’s not necessarily be kooky.” And if that wasn’t enough, of the street. They’re in need of deliberate, but systems have a way of “The native Hawaiians in the early days protection and that’s our function.” capturing our most marginalized. In weren’t happy with the attention the Since 1983, Docherty has worked at this province it’s pretty easy to see the event caused. I didn’t know this until I several youth facilities, including the over-representation of First Nations got home and watched it on Wide Paul Dojack Youth Centre and Dales folks in our social and justice systems.” World of Sports, but they ‘chummed’ House. Kim Sutherland, the director of The epitome of a well-rounded the water to attract sharks.” Street Culture Kidz and a close friend individual, Docherty is also a life-long Docherty managed to finish in the for many years, says, “I don’t think Doc athlete. He trained and competed in a middle of the pack of 400 athletes. “I realizes the impact that he has. I see it range of sports including rugby, team was physically broken, but in ’86 and all the time. A young person comes up handball, lacrosse and triathlon ’87 I did better. I discovered a great deal to him who was in Dales House 15 throughout Canada, the U.S., New about physical capacity and my own years ago, and they’ll talk to Doc about Zealand, Australia, France and Ireland. thresholds. You learn a lot when you’re the impact that he had. Shortly after starting his first job as a suffering and you need to keep going

30 Degrees fall 2008 Docherty is a regular visitor and a sought after lunch companion at the Street Culture Café located in the downtown Regina YMCA.

and you’re the only one you have to Campbell.” I’ve seen him on vacation, red, the day before. We had used water- answer to.” and he’ll spot some kid on the street soluble paint and when it rained the Not content just to work, compete in and go over to help him out. He always red bled through, and Adams said, ‘The triathlons and take university classes, put the welfare of kids ahead of monument is showing us the blood of Docherty somehow found time to everything.” the victims.’” Docherty eventually renovate an old garage in Regina’s In the mid ’90s, Docherty worked at witnessed the initial IRA and Loyalist Warehouse District and turn it into a the Pat Finucane Centre in the North of ceasefire agreements coming off the fax music club. As co-owner of the Venue Ireland as part of his practicum for his machine at the Pat Finucane Centre. (now the Distrikt), Docherty played degree in Human Justice. “We helped “Just holding the agreements was host to many up-and-coming bands, people who were arrested without trial daunting knowing that you are a part including 54-40, Cowboy Junkies and or legal defence under the Prevention of of something truly historic.” The Tragically Hip on their first For someone who had reached Terrorism Act. They were essentially Canadian tour. “I would contact the daunting physical challenges head-on, political prisoners, and could be held promoters and offer the best we he wasn’t prepared for what ultimately without bail, without charge, without could—The Hip got $467 to play here was going to be the greatest physical lawyers for an indeterminate time. It their first time through the city.” challenge in his life. The first warning During his stint as an impresario, could be years. So we drew attention to that something was wrong came to him Docherty met his long-time friend, their plight by working with when he was cycling to Lumsden and Mike Campbell, then co-host of organizations like Amnesty his leg began to burn and buckled. His MuchMusic’s Mike and Mike’s Excellent International.” neurologist confirmed that it was MS. Cross-Canada Adventure. Campbell says, Docherty, who sat on the Bloody Docherty said to his neurologist, “Doc’s a lot of fun. He was always very Sunday Organizing Committee, “Okay, let’s go. What do I do first? What eager to help us find stories that remembers the president of Sinn Féin, do we do?” He looked at me and paused showed his community off in the best Gerry Adams, speaking at a and then he said, “We don’t know why light. commemoration of Bloody Sunday to you have this. There’s no cure.” “I was always very humbled by his 30,000 onlookers. “We’d painted Free Docherty smiles, “Okay, there’s no dedication to his work,” says Derry Corner white from its previous cause and no cure. For me, that doesn’t

Degrees fall 2008 31 Street Culture Kidz connections: director of Street Culture Kidz’ Kim Sutherland (left) and Teena Singh share a moment with Docherty.

“I see him inspiring people. He motivates you to do everything you can in life. Because he’s done so much, you feel you can, too.”

fly. I looked around and I tried and offers healthy homemade fare. works for Street Culture. She sits at the everything, every wacky alternative Several guitars are mounted on the counter reading. “Anytime I think of treatment you could imagine, from wall; a patron takes one down and plays Mark,” she says, “I see him inspiring being stung by bees to magnet vests. I quietly. The café, a Street Culture Kidz people. He motivates you to do went on Betaseron for five years and project, is staffed by youth and offers everything you can in life. Because he’s suffered flu symptoms every day. So I them the opportunity to participate in done so much, you feel you can, too.” just withdrew and considered what I non-threatening, purposeful work. What next for the man who’s done could do instead.” “It’s a no-reject, no-eject program,” more than most? Docherty smiles as he He found that a regimen of Docherty says. “The programs that kick drinks his coffee, contented amid the swimming, his least favourite triathlon you out after one transgression don’t cheerful noon-hour bustle. “I’m looking stage, was critical in helping him work. When kids are exiting gangs or forward to pushing social issues and manage the disease. At least four times have addiction issues, they need more advocating for marginalized youth. a week Docherty swims laps to find a than one chance. They’ve been Does it ever get easier? Yes, I think sense of freedom and normalcy. “It abandoned; they’ve been abused. Of everyone wants to do the right thing; doesn’t keep it in check, but it keeps me course they’re testing—are you going they fundamentally want to do happy. It’s joyful to be in the water.” to be another adult who turns their something well. Sometimes you just Docherty typically swims laps at the back? Street Culture Kidz says no, we have to remind them of that.” D Regina YMCA, and then goes to lunch are not.” at the Street Culture Café in the Y’s east Teena Singh BA’07 (Justice) is a David Sealy lives, works and writes in wing. The café has a bright, retro look former student of Docherty’s and now Regina.

32 Degrees fall 2008

Buryl Bernard could not have known that his impromptu visit to the land of the Killing Fields and Khmer Rouge would be so transformative. Whatever was at play as the education faculty member toured the mystical remains of Angkor Wat, it led to a pledge. Now, Bernard has dedicated himself to a project that is not only helping impoverished Cambodian schoolchildren, it’s turning Regina elementary school students into citizens of the world. CHANGING

Cambodian schoolchildren like these at Aknuwat Primary School are the beneficiaries of a new program started by Faculty of Education member Buryl Bernard.

34 Degrees fall 2008 by B. D. Miller BA(Hons)’89, BJ’95 Photos by University of Regina Photography Department and courtesy of Buryl Bernard. THE WORLD one classroom at a time

hildren helping children is the Cambodia ranks 131 of 177 countries need some guidance from the teachers,” philosophy behind a new pilot on the United Nation’s human Bernard says. “But this will be a student- C project in Regina that is being development index, which is based on driven initiative. The students will developed by U of R Education faculty education level, standard of living and develop their own ideas so that they member Buryl Bernard. life expectancy. Canada is at the have ownership of this project.” The Cambodian-Canadian opposite end of the scale, ranked fourth. To help foster bonds among the Classrooms for Change project is While in Cambodia, Bernard also children on opposite sides of the Pacific partnering elementary schools and visited a local school and saw firsthand Ocean, Bernard envisions monthly classrooms in Regina with needy how poverty and lack of funding was photo and e-mail exchanges between schools in Cambodia. Under the affecting the students and teachers the partnered classrooms in Canada and supervision of teachers and parents, there. “I was so moved by my Cambodia. Participating teachers in local students will design and complete experience in Cambodia with the Canada will also be encouraged to teach fundraising initiatives to benefit their schools and at Ankgor Wat,” he says. units on Cambodian culture. counterparts in southeast Asia. “It’s difficult to come back and forget Sayla McCowan teaches a class of Bernard says the goal is to improve about those kids over there. I came back 29 Grade 5 and 6 students at Jack the quality of educational opportunities to Regina and started thinking about MacKenzie School. When she first offered to the Cambodian children, as what I could do to help these people heard about Bernard’s project, she well as encourage students in Canada to and these children. It’s something that immediately wanted her classroom to develop understanding, empathy, hope happened to come at the right time for become involved. “I thought it would be and the ability to take action to make me in my professional life and personal a perfect way for our children to learn the world a better place. life.” about another country, to learn about Bernard got his inspiration for the The project began in September with what’s happening with education in project last summer during a trip to the partnering of Aknuwat Primary other countries and to be able to help southeast Asia. After touring Vietnam, School in Achalak Village Commune, out,” she says. “Buryl is very passionate he decided to spend a few days in central Cambodia, with Jack MacKenzie about this project and he really got us neighbouring Cambodia and visit the School, a K-8 public elementary school fired up about it as well. We’re thrilled famous 900-year-old temples of Angkor in southeast Regina. Three classrooms at to be part of this—it’s a marvellous Wat. Jack MacKenzie have already project and something we need to do.” “These temples are very mystical, committed to participate, with the McCowan has already talked to her spiritual places, and I started thinking specific fundraising initiatives to be students about the project and how about my life and what I was doing determined by the students themselves. different it is to go to school in an with it,” Bernard says. “I resolved to do “Some of the students who impoverished nation such as Cambodia. something to help Cambodia, but I participate [at Jack MacKenzie] may be “We looked around our classroom and wasn’t sure what.” as young as eight years old, so they’ll talked about all the things we wouldn’t

Degrees fall 2008 35 Top left: Bernard poses in front of the 900-year-old Cambodian temples of Angkor Wat. Top centre: Friendly students at the project’s partner school, Aknuwat Primary School in Achalak Village Commune in central Cambodia. Bottom left: An old tire rim becomes the school bell at Achalak. Bottom centre: Cambodian classrooms typically lack the supplies and resources we take for granted in Canada. At right: Bernard and some of the Jack MacKenzie School students and teachers involved in the project (teachers, back row, left to right) Sayla McCowan, Laura Rhead, Karen Marchuk.

have. I tried to get the students to Although a formal application for in Cambodia will begin in earnest in imagine what our classroom would be support from the foundation will need January. Bernard is confident that the like with bare walls and not much to to be made, MacKenzie says Bernard’s children and staff at Jack MacKenzie work with other than a piece of chalk Cambodia initiative strikes him as “an School will help his project get off to a and a slate, and how different their ideal act of kindness to people who are roaring start, laying the groundwork to learning would actually be.” needy, and right in line with the hopefully expand the initiative to other McCowan hopes her students will be purpose and targets of the fund.” But he schools across Canada and Cambodia in able to secure matching funding or adds, “The pupils can’t just tap into the the years ahead. other support for their fundraising money. They have to put a lot of their “There’s no shortage of classrooms in efforts from a charitable foundation personal effort and personality and Cambodia that could use help,” he says. established by retired educator Jack resources into the project. There has to “No electricity, dirt floors. If they have a MacKenzie, for whom their school was be significant contributions from the chalkboard, they’re lucky. Every public named. class, and the pupils have to school there is in need.” D A committee helps administer demonstrate that it’s their project.” MacKenzie’s foundation, assessing each Meanwhile, the teachers in B. D. Miller is a Regina-based playwright application on its merits before Cambodia will decide how the monies and fiction, and non-fiction writer whose approving the release of funds. raised can be best put to use on behalf work has appeared in numerous magazines MacKenzie says his foundation is part of of their children. “We’ll leave that up to and anthologies and on CBC radio. His a tradition of caring that has been their discretion, but there will be historical drama Kobyla, about the life and cultivated over the years at Jack accountability,” Bernard says. “One death of convicted war criminal Hermine MacKenzie School. hundred percent of the funds raised by Braunsteiner, received a staged reading as “We have a couple of themes at the our classrooms in Canada will go part of the Saskatchewan Playwrights school,” he says. “One of them is directly to the Cambodian partner Centre’s 2008 Spring Festival of New Plays. random acts of kindness. Being kind to classrooms and schools. I’ve promised others is something that the parents, everyone that if you donate a dollar, pupils and staff try to reflect in the way that entire dollar will go to those kids in they live and act, and also through Cambodia.” school projects such as providing The fundraising efforts at Jack hampers to the needy at Christmas.” MacKenzie School to help the children

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Degrees fall 2008 39 We depend on our readers to Jacklynn Holmes (née Janine Pearson BA’83, send us items for Class Notes. 1970–1979 Rogowski) BAdmin’88 received BMus’83, BAHC’87 is the Please e-mail your information her MBA through the University recipient of the Theatre to [email protected], or Winona Kent BA’74, BAHC’75 of Phoenix FlexNet Program in Department’s Distinguished send the old fashioned way to had her feature film script, July 2007. She is now a senior Alumni Award. Pearson is the our mailing address (see page Committee of the Unloved consultant with a Calgary head of voice and coaching at 3). Digital photos must be of optioned by Vancouver’s Sistar consulting company and also the Stratford Shakespeare sufficient quality to appear in Films and Carrie Wheeler Films. teaches business courses Festival in Stratford, Ont. She the magazine. Please note that Kent wrote this script with her online for the University of is also an instructor in the Degrees is also posted on our writing partner Nola Tompkins. Calgary. Holmes has been Festival’s Conservatory for website. In addition to writing, Kent married to her husband Chris Classical Theatre Training and works as a program assistant for nine years and they have teaches in the education at UBC’s Faculty of Medicine, two young sons, Noah (six) program. As well, she teaches School of Population and and Jonah (four). at and is on the Board of the 1960–1969 Public Health. Centre for the Arts (a Raymond Konecsni CLGAJ’89 professional actor’s studio in David Goldsmith BA’68 retired John (Jack) M. Stewart BSc’71 accepted the position of Toronto), and is on the in 2003 after a long career in MSc’75 is a professor of director, Customer Support Advisory Council for Ryerson government, mostly in biochemistry at Mount Allison Services within Information University’s Theatre School. Saskatchewan. He has been University where he has been Services, at the U of R in appointed for a three-year for over 25 years. August 2007. Konecsni and his term as director of the Board wife of 19 years, Annette, live of the Interior Health Authority, in Southey, Sask., with their 1990–1999 which serves all of southern three boys, Andrew, Justin and British Columbia except for the 1980–1989 Aaron. Sabrina Cataldo, BA’97, BJ’99, lower mainland. Goldsmith is CPR’04 is currently working as also a scrimshaw artist who Shelley Boyes CLGAJ’88, Eric Langager PGDEP’86 was a a communications strategist at works on frozen woolly MPA’05 started the Kiley rural schoolteacher in western the Saskatchewan Arts Board mammoth tusks, recycled Carlson Memorial Scholarship North Dakota when he studied and has taken a one-year piano keys and antlers. at the U of R in 2007 in at the U of R in the 1980s. leave of absence from her memory of her daughter who After graduating in 1986, he English master’s program to Don Parsons BA’67, BEd’72, was killed in a single vehicle was a public interest lobbyist, recover from major jaw PGDEA’82 retired in June 2007 rollover in 2006. Each year then spent some years in the surgery. As part of her after 40 years as a teacher Boyes hosts a walkathon to trucking industry before recovery, she started a blog at and administrator in the adult raise funds for the scholarship. moving to Arizona to become www.smilingbella.com to and K-12 systems in a technical trainer. He taught chronicle her experiences and Saskatchewan and the Yukon. Maria Campbell (Honorary for several years at the help others going through the He is hauling crude oil and Degee)’85 received the Officer University of Advancing surgery. She also submitted a water in the southeast of the Order of Canada on Technology in Tempe, Ariz., non-fiction monologue about Saskatchewan oil patch-and July 1, 2008, for her before moving to Beijing, German orthodontic fetishists loving it. He lives in Torquay, contributions to Canadian China, in 2004, where he finding her blog to CBC Radio, Sask., with his wife Fadiah. literature and media as a teaches in the College of which was purchased for writer, playwright, filmmaker Software at the Beijing broadcast and aired on the and educator, as well as for University of Aeronautics and program SoundXChange on her advocacy of Métis and Astronautics. He is interested September 4, 2008. The Aboriginal issues. in meeting other U of R alumni monologue is archived on the who may live in his part of show’s website at www.cbc.ca/ Cam Fuller BAJ&C’89 was China and can be contacted soundxchange/audio.html. named the new editor of the through his blog: Saskatoon Star-Phoenix Arts beijingdiary.blogspot.com. Kim Grzybowski (née and Life section in June 2008. 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Degrees fall 2008 41 CHASING THE FLAME— A COACH’S DIARY

The Coaching Association of Canada’s Women in Coaching program asked U of R track and field coach Carla Nicholls to keep a diary as she realized her sporting dream— participating in the Olympic Games. So began the six- month adventure that brought the Olympic flame and Nicholls together in Beijing. Here are some excerpts.

U of R track and field head coach Carla Nicholls. Opposite page, left: National Stadium or “The By Carla Nicholls Bird’s Nest,” home of Nicholls’ beloved Olympic flame and site of the opening and closing Excerpted with the permission of the Coaching ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games. Opposite page, right: Nicholls during the closing Association of Canada’s Women in Coaching Program. ceremonies of the 29th Olympiad. Photos by Don Hall, University of Regina Photography Department and courtesy of Carla Nicholls.

Prelude March 10, 2008 March 23, 2008 I remember watching the 1972 Today Scott MacDonald called. He’s Tonight I was at Broadview Hospital Olympic Games when I was five years Athletics Canada’s national team with my dear father, my best friend and old. I was fascinated. To say the project director and technical manager my backbone. I was holding his hand, Olympic flame is burning in my heart of the Olympic team. He told me that I leaning into the bed so I could be may sound melodramatic, but it’s true. was being named to the team as an closer to him, listening to him struggle Not only has the Olympics been a event coach. I was, of course, extremely with every breath and trying to dream, it has been a passion. My dad, professional, thanked him for the imagine how someone so wonderful my number-one fan, always believed I opportunity, hung up, calmly walked could be struck with such a dreadful would make it somehow. I tried as an into my bathroom, closed the door, and disease. In the background a little athlete, but just didn’t have the talent. screamed, “Oh, my God, I can’t believe nightlight cast a ray of light on a it!” newspaper clipping that was hanging

42 Degrees fall 2008 on the wall at the foot of his bed. It August 8, 2008 and the entire team who worked to get read: “Nicholls named to Olympic Woke up in Singapore [Canadian track her ready. There was such a sense of team”. At that moment, there was only and field team training site] this accomplishment. my dad and me in the world. For the morning, struggled to get out of bed for August 20, 2008 first time, the Olympic Games meant my morning run. I was shuffling Must hit the sack; it’s 1 a.m. AGAIN nothing to me; I just wanted my dad amongst the locals as they do their tai and I have to be up at 0600hrs to back. Yet seeing that piece of paper chi on the beach when I realized it was prepare for two days of decathlon! The hanging there reminded me of what opening ceremony day. It was an following day I will coach the women’s was to come. I knew my dad was so amazing feeling, taking in my long jump final and have another very proud of me, but at this very surroundings, and knowing that the round of Olympic experiences. moment, who cared? flame was getting closer and closer to August 22, 2008 My dad passed away the next the Bird’s Nest stadium. I had the best Long jump was the last event I coached morning. I took the clipping down, run since coming here. The sun was at the Games. It was a great experience folded it into my pocket, and now have rising, ships were in the background, to be at the front row coaching a final it hanging in my home office. Chinese music filled the air—it was event. almost spiritual. April 15, 2008 August 23, 2008 I have to say this Olympic assignment August 15, 2008 Hit the markets and the Great Wall of is full of surprises. I’ve been asked to be It is 1 a.m., and in seven hours I fly to China. Back to the track—another big a guest speaker on three occasions after Beijing. Good night, Singapore. My night for us. It was a long, slow walk the Games! Why me? I guess this flame is burning in Beijing and I can’t home that night. Track was over and dream really is big! I promise to say wait to get there! Track and field starts we were all exhausted from early “yes” to every engagement and share in nine hours! mornings, late nights and emotional my experiences. Perhaps I can give August 15, 2008 rollercoasters all wrapped into one others hope that dreaming is closer to We were cruising along a special week. I was too exhausted to celebrate reality than they think. Olympic lane on the freeway when so went to eat and fell into bed. suddenly I saw the Bird’s Nest stadium August 24, 2008 June 22, 2008 and the FLAME!!! So exciting. China is a different world in a lot of Forty-four days until the Olympic ways, but the people are lovely, always Games begin! I’ve been busy being a August 16, 2008 smiling and excited to meet Canadians. mom and a personal coach. Booked my Today was my first time to coach during an Olympic competition. Jessica I am so privileged to have this flights for Olympic Trials and finished experience. Experiencing different my athletes’ workouts right up to Zelinka was having the heptathlon of her life—her best long jump and parts of the world is one of the July 2. I’m starting to realize that this beautiful benefits of sport. calm before the storm will only last a javelin performance of the year. She Closing Ceremony few more days. needed to run like crazy to finish eighth and set a new Canadian record. As we finally stepped into the stadium, July 1, 2008 She ran 2:07, a huge personal best 800- the crowd went crazy! It was amazing! Olympic trials—yes—finally! This metre time, second day score and It was the biggest party and celebration whole Olympic thing has felt quite heptathlon total score, finished sixth, I have ever seen. The Olympic flame surreal up to now. I’m super pumped and set a new Canadian record! shone bigger and brighter than ever, again and realize these next few weeks and then suddenly—it was out. I felt August 17, 2008 are very exciting—it is time to enjoy like I was the only one in the stadium Everything is great in Beijing, just and embrace every minute of it! for a small moment in time. I stared at absolutely great, and I am where I the handle that had held the flame. July 27, 2008 belong! For Beijing, I am coaching high jump, There were no tears. For the first time, I August 19, 2008 was not emotional about this crazy long jump, triple jump, pole vault, Today we had our first medal since flame. I realized that the flame was not heptathlon and decathlon. It’s a lot, but 1996! Priscilla Lopes-Schliep won the a dream; it was a reality for me. I have head coach Les Gramantik will share bronze medal in the 100-metre hurdles. dreamed about it for so many years, the load. I’ve never felt this confident I’ve have had the extreme good fortune finally made it and have never felt so at about a coaching assignment; I must be to be part of the team that helped her home. D where I belong. to prepare for her heats, semi-finals August 3, 2008 and final. Watching our flag being You can read the complete diary by visiting Today I am en route to chase my raised during the medal ceremony was Nicholl’s blog at dream. AMAZING. I was so proud of Priscilla www.coach.ca/eng/women/blog/beijing.cfm.

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