LAKEHEAD ALUMNI MAGAZINE | SUMMER/FALL 2019 JOURNEY ALL JAZZED UP The searing music of award-winning percussionist Rick Lazar defi es boundaries

VANISHING HOBBITS Unearthing the fate of the early human species Homo fl oresiensis MONSTER MAYHEM What are we so afraid of?

PLUS Tom Rose upholds the legacy of famed humourist Stephen Leacock MMA fi ghter Emma Horner takes no prisoners

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11 14 18 03 09 14 ON THE MAP HISTORY BUFF SULTAN OF SAMBA Essential news from Lakehead Orillia Tom Rose came back home to Orillia Award-winning percussionist Rick and Lakehead Thunder Bay and discovered the lure of the past Lazar is an innovator in the vibrant world music scene 10 06 MONSTER MASH 18 HOBBITS AND Fear and fascination permeates our long-running obsession with monsters RACCOON DOGS STEGODONS A beloved creature tries to make a Searching for the reasons behind home in overcrowded Tokyo the extinction of a race of 3.5-foot- tall early humans 11 FISTS OF FURY Don’t get on MMA fi ghter Emma 22 08 Horner’s bad side A LOOK BACK TURNING POINTS Alumni milestones and achievements Kevin Ford reminisces about his Lakehead SCUBA exploits

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1 SUMMER/FALL 2019 • Volume 35, Number 2 FROM ALUMNI Lakehead Journey Alumni Magazine is published twice HOUSE a year by the Communications and Marketing team GREETINGS which is responsible for establishing policy, editorial direction, and content for the magazine. The views • Develop and foster a culture of expressed or implied do not necessarily refl ect those The year 2019 started off of Lakehead University or the Communications and philanthropy within the alumni Marketing team. with some very exciting news community Publications Mail Agreement Number 40062450 QTY: 34,000 for Lakehead University. • Support a dynamic Alumni CONTACT US Communications, Marketing and Clayton Browne For the fi rst time in over two Ambassador Program that Web Development Director provides opportunities, training, Editor Tracey Skehan decades, we were selected to Graphic Design Melissa Kastern receive a TD Insurance Meloche stewardship, and recognition. Telephone: 807-343-8134, Fax: 807-346-7770 Monnex Fellowship in Advancement Email: [email protected] Feedback from the University through the Canadian Council for community has been positive, CONTRIBUTORS Editor Tracey Skehan, Brandon Walker, Bonnie Schiedel the Advancement of Education with many indicating that this plan SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO (CCAE). Jenna Kirker, a former positions us as an industry leader Offi ce of Annual Fund and Alumni Engagement Phone-a-thon supervisor and within the postsecondary sector. Lakehead University Alumni Ambassador to Hamilton, 955 Oliver Rd., Thunder Bay, ON Canada P7B 5E1 During May and June of this started her one-year fellowship in Telephone: 1-800-832-8076 year, the Alumni offi ce ran a Fax: 807-343-8999 late May. Email: [email protected] or online alumni.lakeheadu.ca special contest to spring clean ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS In April, as a follow-up to our award- our database. Over 1,400 alumni President and Chair Debra Woods winning CCAE Varsity Engagement updated their address information Vice-President Yolanda Wanakamik Vice-President Karen Boz Program, External Relations staff and were entered into a draw for a Treasurer Paul Popo-Ola Anna Sampson and Mark Tilbury $750 Amazon gift card. The contest Past President Michel Beaulieu Director Nancy Angus delivered a one-hour webinar about boosted our social media followers Director Michael Michaud the program to colleagues across Director Chris DaSilva – with the greatest growth taking Director Linda Henderson the country. During the webinar they place on Instagram with an 8.66% Director Nancy Luckai shared their formula for establishing Director Chris Vaillant increase. the program, building relationships Director Kevin Ford Convocation 2019 was a time to Director Laara Losier with the varsity coaches and Director Peter Lau celebrate the addition of 1,738 new players, and how the program was Director Ashleigh Quarrell members of the Alumni Association. Director Mike Walton leveraged to build an ambassador Annual Fund and Mark Tilbury They have joined our network of network throughout Ontario. Alumni Engagement Director over 64,000 alumni living and EXTERNAL RELATIONS TEAM After a lengthy consultation and working around the world. Welcome External Relations Vice-President Deb Comuzzi Associate Vice-President Ann Brandt development process, the Alumni to the family – you are Lakehead for (Toronto Offi ce) Association approved Lakehead’s Life! Annual Fund and Mark Tilbury fi rst ever fi ve-year plan for alumni Alumni Engagement Director And fi nally, Lakehead University Government Relations Director Richard Longtin engagement. The plan, called (Toronto Offi ce) has secured a $20,000 grant from Communications, Marketing and Clayton Browne Lakehead for Life, aims to: Web Development Director the RBC Foundation to subscribe Philanthropy Director Kathryn Davidson • Develop high-quality Special Projects and Michel Beaulieu to a mentoring platform called External Relations Associate engagement opportunities 10,000 Coffees. The platform will External Relations Coordinator Patricia McCluskey Annual Fund and Jill Cooper and benefi ts that offer value to help match students with alumni for Alumni Engagement Assistant alumni Annual Fund and Meghan Hanbury the purposes of mentoring, career Alumni Engagement Manager development, and personal growth. Annual Fund and Diane Robnik • Create opportunities for alumni Alumni Engagement Associate to connect with one another We will be rolling out the program Annual Fund and Anna Sampson Alumni Engagement Associate and with students this fall, so please watch for details. Campaign Operations Associate Jennifer Steers TD Insurance Meloche Monnex Fellow Jenna Kirker Media, Communications and Brandon Walker Marketing Associate Donor Events Associate Alexandra Jones Donor Events Manager Patti Merriman External Relations Associate Jacquie Kent (Lakehead Orillia) External Relations Associate Samantha Carothers (Toronto Offi ce) Gift & Database Administrator Katie Friday Communications and Marketing Associate Tracey Skehan Marketing and Branding Associate Melissa Kastern Debra Woods, President Mark Tilbury, Director Media, Communications and Jaclyn Bucik Alumni Association Annual Fund and Alumni Engagement Marketing Associate (Lakehead Orillia) Philanthropy Associate Lee-Anne Camlin Stewardship and Student Aid Associate Tara Monteith Web Development Manager Spencer Ranta Web Developer Justin Michel Web Information Designer Stefan Hoard 2Web Information Designer Ian McLeod ON THE MAP

City of Orillia Partnership Meloche Monnex Fellow This June, the City of Orillia signed For the fi rst time in more than a Memorandum of Understanding 20 years, Lakehead University (MOU) with Lakehead University. has received a TD Insurance “This MOU formalizes our mutual Meloche Monnex Fellowship desire to collaborate further and through the Canadian Council for establish a strong and active the Advancement of Education partnership that benefi ts students, (CCAE). Lakehead’s Fellow is Jenna faculty, the business community, Kirker, who has a long-standing and residents,” said Lakehead relationship with the University, President and Vice-Chancellor External Relations, and the Alumni Dr. Moira McPherson. Possible Association. Jenna started as a areas of collaboration between caller in Lakehead’s Alumni Phone- the City and the University range a-thon program, but she was from policy development, funding quickly promoted to supervisor. opportunities, and entrepreneurship “As I worked to raise money for  Lakehead President Dr. Moira to international engagement and Lakehead’s cases for support as McPherson and City of Orillia Mayor advocacy with other levels of well as the Annual Fund, I realized Steve Clarke were excited to sign a government. what an impact I was making on my Memorandum of Understanding at a special event in the Orillia Council fellow students,” she said. Over the Chamber on June 5, 2019. course of her yearlong fellowship, Jenna will be working on projects within the alumni engagement, annual giving, and legacy giving Equity Grant International Grads portfolios. Lakehead is one of only 15 This spring, the fi rst group of organizations in Canada to be international students graduated awarded a new grant to promote from Lakehead Orillia. Boluwatife equity, diversity, and inclusion Fabanwo from Nigeria, Linlin (EDI). The Natural Sciences and Feng from China, and Chenhan Engineering Research Council Chu, also from China, majored of Canada (NSERC) is giving in business administration and Lakehead $384,700 over the all three accepted their Honours next two years to advance its EDI Bachelor of Commerce degrees at priorities. The funding will also the June convocation ceremony. allow the University to implement The internationalization of the Orillia a Government of Canada pilot campus is proceeding rapidly. program called Dimensions: Equity, There are currently 43 full-time Diversity and Inclusion. Dimensions international students at Lakehead seeks to transform research Orillia working toward a degree and culture by removing systemic during the 2018-19 academic year, barriers, particularly those faced the campus welcomed its fi rst two by underrepresented groups such inbound study abroad students as Indigenous Peoples, women, – one from Finland and one from  Jenna Kirker (BEd’15/HBA’15/MA’17) racialized minorities, people with Japan. Congratulations to our new was one of only two recipients selected disabilities, and the LGBTQ2+ international alumni! from the postsecondary sector for a TD community. Insurance Meloche Monnex Fellowship.

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Holly Prince Education PhD student Holly Prince has received a prestigious Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship (PETF) worth $180,000 for her research into First Nations community-based palliative care education and programs. Prince is an Anishinaabekwe from the Red Rock Indian Band, Lake Helen Reserve, and a researcher and project manager at the Centre for  “After a number of major life changes I was no longer doing what I loved to Education and Research on Aging do,” Irma Hall explained. “I wanted to & Health (CERAH). “I feel both work in the fi eld of social work. The only way I could do that was to go back to humbled and extremely responsible university.” in my role as an Indigenous scholar to see my own doctoral work  Holly Prince’s PhD work is focused on as improving the conditions for accessible, culturally relevant, well- being and education services that are Mother Daughter Duo academic research with Indigenous determined with and controlled by The June 8 convocation ceremony communities,” Prince said, “or Indigenous people. at Lakehead Orillia was a very bringing research back to life or special one for Irma Hall and her positive repute in communities.” daughter Becca. Irma, 51, received She is one of only 20 Canadian and an Honours Bachelor of Social Work international doctoral students to be and Becca received an Honours awarded a PETF scholarship. Bachelor of Arts and Science in Interdisciplinary Studies. Their journey started several years ago when Irma was debating whether to study social work at Lakehead. Becca immediately became her mom’s biggest cheerleader, encouraging her throughout the application process. Irma’s We’re better, together. determination would end up inspiring her daughter to enrol at Lakehead too. “It feels like I’m living in a movie,” Becca said. “But it’s a great thing and I’m so proud of my Comprehensive coverage. Superior value. mom for going back and completing Term Life Insurance Dependent Term Life Insurance her schooling.” Now that they are Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance Critical Illness Insurance university graduates, Irma is thriving Office Overhead Insurance Travel Medical Insurance Health & Dental Insurance as the executive director of the Lakehead Personal Insurance Program Orillia Pregnancy Resource Centre and Becca is taking time off to travel For a personalized quotation or to apply online, please visit us at: solutionsinsurance.com/lakehead the world. 1.800.266.5667

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Native Nurses Milestone At this year’s Thunder Bay convocation ceremonies, the Native Nurses Entry Program (NNEP) celebrated a major achievement. The 100th Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN) student who entered the program through NNEP earned their BScN degree. Since its inception in 1987, NNEP has provided access to the BScN program for Indigenous learners. “Our NNEP is an example of the work being pursued at Lakehead through our new Academic Plan’s Anishinaabe Miikana Gichi Kendaasiwin priority,” explained Dr. David Barnett,  Lakehead Enactus team members in Vancouver (L-R): Quinn Dombroskie, Lisa Chiarelli, Lakehead’s interim provost and vice- Madison Sameshima, Kyle Neabel, Silas Young, and Adrienne Belanger-Barnes president (academic). Enactus Competition Elk Behaviour This spring, students in Enactus Lakehead competed at the Enactus Canada Dr. Brian McLaren’s research National Exposition in Vancouver, along with 68 other Canadian universities team investigated why free-ranging and colleges. Enactus is a global non-profit organization that allows students, herbivores often gather in groups communities, and business leaders to address economic, social, and when they feed. His team observed environmental needs through entrepreneurship. The organization enables group foraging in domesticated student leaders around the world to create social enterprises that address North American elk raised at Egli’s the United Nations’ 19 Sustainable Development Goals. At the National Sheep Farm near Dryden, Ontario, Exposition, Lakehead students presented two projects – Making Cents! in an attempt to understand the and Getting Financially Lit! – in a dynamic 17-minute presentation, winning causes of aggregation and how it runner-up in their league in the opening round. This is their second year of might influence animal well-being. competition and the first time they have placed at the National Exposition. It’s been observed that dominant individuals in free-ranging groups of elk engage in “kleptoparasitism” – displacing their subordinates You’re Invited History Talk and appropriating their feeding CFL FOOTBALL Everyone is invited to attend patches whenever they perceive “Reclaiming Place: Community that group mates are encountering Join the GTA Alumni Chapter for History at the Shingwauk Residential higher food availability. In the an exciting night of CFL football School Site,” a free lecture that is dominant elk that Dr. McLaren’s on Friday, September 20 at 7 pm. part of the 2019-20 Thunder Bay team tracked, however, this wasn’t The Toronto Argos will be playing Historical Museum Society’s Lecture always the case. As a result, they the Calgary Stampeders at the Series sponsored by Lakehead’s concluded that group feeding might BMO Field in Toronto. Tickets are Department of History. The talk will be a strategy to manage predation $20 per person and include a be given by Krista McCracken, the risk, especially in situations where professional photo on the field at researcher/curator of the Arthur dominants contribute to the whole the end of the game. A. Wishart Library and Shingwauk group’s sense of security. Contact the GTA Chapter at Residential Schools Centre at [email protected] for . It takes place on more information. September 24, 2019, at 7:30 pm at the Museum, which is located at 425 Donald Street East in Thunder Bay.

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The Hobbit Apocalypse What rats can tell us about the rise and fall of Homo floresiensis by Tracey Skehan Image credit: Chip Clark/Smithsonian Institution’s National Chip Clark/SmithsonianImage Museum credit: Institution’s of Natural History

 Artistic reconstruction of Homo floresiensis by paleoartist John Gurche. Hominin expert Dr. Matt Tocheri is often asked to comment on major human evolution stories in Asia. In April 2019, for instance, he wrote an article for the scientific journal Nature aboutHomo Luzonensis that was quoted around the world – from the New York Times to BBC News.

For almost a million years, Like the hobbits, they were probably That’s why from 2009 to 2014, Dr. attracted by herds of stegodons Tocheri measured the hip joints of ‘hobbits’ lived on the Indonesian grazing outside the cave. Stegodons over 10,000 rats while his graduate island of Flores. – an extinct elephant approximately student, Grace Veatch, measured the size of a large cow – were more than 1,000 elbow joints. These 3.5-foot-tall hominins – the main food source for these Their research established that officially known asHomo floresiensis scavengers. “The hobbits probably diverse rat species – ranging from – thrived until about 50,000 years waited until the Komodo dragons mouse-sized to common rabbit- ago. Then, inexplicably, they and the scavenging birds were sized – inhabited the cave and disappeared without a trace. done picking over the stegodon its surrounding area but that the Their existence only came to light in corpses and then they cracked frequency of the different-sized rat 2003 when a group of Indonesian- open whatever bones were left species varied over time. “A striking Australian researchers unearthed and sucked out the marrow,” he pattern emerged that gave us new the skeleton of a female hobbit explains. insights about the kinds of habitats in a vast limestone cave called Dr. Tocheri, who is also a Lakehead that surrounded the cave at various Liang Bua. The find was a major University associate professor and points through time.” breakthrough in the evolutionary in Human During the age of the hobbits, the field. Origins, initially went to Liang Bua cave was dominated by a medium- Since the discovery, most as a hominin expert. “Early humans, sized rat called Komodomys. anthropologists have been in though, tend to be rare,” he says, This species still survives today consensus that hobbits went extinct “which meant that a lot of the time I in grassland regions, however when they vanished from Liang Bua didn’t have much to do, so I started approximately 60,000 years ago 50,000 years ago. But now, Dr. Matt looking at everything else being at Liang Bua, it was replaced by Tocheri, the co-leader of the Liang excavated. I soon noticed that rat smaller and larger rat species more Bua excavations, and his team have bones made up 85-90% of all the common in forested areas. uncovered evidence to the contrary. animal bones being recovered from “We realized from the rats that Dr. Tocheri says that Komodo the cave.” there was a dramatic environmental dragons, giant marabou storks, and He saw the rodents as a potential change at Liang Bua around 60,000 vultures were once large species trove of information about Homo years ago – when habitats shifted common at Liang Bua. floresiensis and their environment. from mostly grasslands to dense

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forest.” It’s likely that this drove  Stegodon teeth found at Liang Bua and an artistic reconstruction. Scientists the stegodons, which prefer more are still searching for evidence as to why open habitats, to another part of the stegodons went extinct. Hypotheses island with more hospitable terrain. include major climate fluctuations and volcanism, but the likelihood that The hobbits and other scavengers modern humans wiped them out soon probably followed them. after they arrived on Flores is quite high. Image credit: The Liang Bua Team and If that’s the case, there’s another the National Museum of Nature and intriguing mystery to solve. How Science, Tokyo much longer did the hobbits survive after leaving Liang Bua and why did they die out? “I consider it most likely that modern humans were responsible for the extinction of Homo floresiensis, however, we Image credit: Chip Clark/Smithsonian Institution’s National Chip Clark/SmithsonianImage Museum credit: Institution’s of Natural History need more evidence to prove that,”

Dr. Tocheri says. “Modern humans show up in Australia around 60,000 years ago,” he notes. To get there, they had to travel across the many Indonesian islands that lie between the Asian and Australian continents. “Despite this, the earliest evidence of modern humans within the Indonesian archipelago only dates to 40,000- 45,000 years ago,” says Dr. Tocheri. “Yet, the hobbits and stegodons disappeared around that time – it’s suspicious. A lot of our work at Liang Bua is focused on refining the timeline and seeing if we can find evidence of modern humans arriving a little bit earlier.” Modern humans may never even have directly interacted with the hobbits but their behaviours could have easily led to their extinction. “Modern humans could have done enough damage to stegodon herds within one or two seasons after arriving on the island to cause the stegodon population to crash and quickly go extinct.” In this bleak scenario, once the primary animal the hobbits Bua Team Liang The Photo credit: had relied upon to survive for a million years was gone, their fate  Dr. Matt Tocheri and Bonefasius Sagut measure a modern giant rat (Papagomys armandvillei) at Liang Bua. Besides stegodons, Homo floresiensis probably ate smaller was sealed. game, including rats, to supplement their diet. “The rats on Flores are very clean forest animals, no different from small mammals such as beavers and squirrels,” Dr. Tocheri says. Rats are also exceptionally useful in painting a picture of prehistoric life at Liang Bua. Rat bones appear continuously in the cave sequence – a period of approximately 200,000 years.

7 A Look Back... Kevin Ford (BEng’78) Makes a Splash p In 1978, Kevin Ford (in the red wetsuit) and his fellow SCUBA co-conspirator braved the ice of Lake Tamblyn in a bid to attract more students to their SCUBA instruction program.

The architects who Since then, Lake Tamblyn has He taught the fundamentals of been a magnet for students looking SCUBA diving at the Lakehead masterminded the expansion for a place to relax and enjoy the pool along with a local instructor. of Lakehead’s Thunder Bay outdoors. “It was cool because I got to work campus in the 1960s had Even before the lake was built, with a lot of different programs and an ambitious idea – dam up the Argus student newspaper was students, mostly phys ed students,” excitedly proclaiming: Kevin says. “It was also open to the McIntyre River to create the general public so I got to know an artificial lake and then “This body of water will provide local lawyers, accountants, and construct the University’s new a focal point comparable to businessmen who took me under the mountains of Simon Fraser their wing and fed a poor student buildings around it. University. The lake will inevitably once in a while.” be used by students for skiing and swimming, and a sand beach might The expedition to Lake Tamblyn even be considered.” caught everyone off guard. “It really freaked out the students who were For Kevin Ford, who completed a in the overhanging cafeteria,” Kevin degree in mechanical engineering recalls. “What fun!” in 1978, the lake would have a more unusual use. Kevin’s risk-taking streak grew even stronger after his Lakehead “I was a certified SCUBA instructor days. He describes himself as a and co-taught the SCUBA program serial entrepreneur and he was while I was an engineering student,” the founder and CEO of Parliant he says. This led Kevin and a fellow Corporation, a maker of Mac student diver to execute a chilly computer telephony products and publicity stunt as the lake was iPhone and iPad applications. He’s starting to thaw, in the hopes of currently the CEO of Onshoring recruiting students to their SCUBA Ventures Inc., a start-up that class. encourages Canadian companies to “At lunchtime, we ran, slid, and manufacture products locally rather floated across the ice that was than overseas. breaking up on Lake Tamblyn.” Kevin has a natural affinity for the p Entrepreneur Kevin Ford has a water. “Before coming to Lakehead, Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering I was a lifeguard and a swimming ‘A Look Back’ is a regular Journey from Lakehead University and a Naval instructor in Hamilton and when Magazine feature. We invite alumni, Architecture and Marine Engineering faculty, and staff to share their MSc from the University of Michigan. I was 18, I became the youngest memorable Lakehead experiences In 2015, Kevin was given a Lakehead SCUBA instructor in Canada at the with us. Alumni Honour Award in recognition Please email your stories and photos of his career accomplishments. He time.” to [email protected] for also serves on the board of the Alumni consideration in one of our upcoming Association of Lakehead University. issues.

8 Tom Rose Digs into the Past by Tracey Skehan

1928, the house was turned into Shortly after he graduated from a museum by the City of Orillia in Lakehead, Tom saw a posting the 1950s. “We are lucky to be for a tour guide at the Leacock stewards of this stunning gem,” he Museum and spent the summer says. introducing visitors to the life of Although Tom was familiar with Stephen Leacock. He enjoyed his Leacock from a young age – he new surroundings so much that he spent much of his childhood in the enrolled in a one-year museum and Orillia area – he didn’t foresee that gallery studies program at Georgian their paths would intersect quite so College in Barrie. “Suddenly I felt closely. like I knew what I wanted to do.” Before the course was even over, By the time he was in high school, he’d been hired as the Leacock he was living in Windsor and Museum’s collections and program struggling with the structure and supervisor. rigidity of the classroom. He chose to leave school and earn his In this position, Tom spends most General Education Development of his time overseeing the collection (GED) certificate. Unsure what to and doing conservation work. “Last do next, Tom took a series of retail summer I fixed a 1920s Victrola and service jobs in and record player,” he reports. “Now we Orillia. By 2011, his dissatisfaction can wind it up and play records for In the last two years, Tom Rose was growing so he decided to study the guests. On top of that, I design English at Lakehead University’s and install all the exhibits.” (HBA’17, English) has become Orillia campus. “I wanted to find a Tom’s favourite part of the job is an expert in the life of the purpose. I’d spent a lot of my life watching people’s reactions as they iconic Canadian writer Stephen aimlessly drifting.” enter the house. “It’s been fun to Leacock. It was a turning point. “Everybody breathe new life into the place – the in the English faculty was fantastic,” exhibits hadn’t changed much since “By 1915, Stephen Leacock was Tom says. “As soon as I started the former curator retired in 2016.” the most well-known humourist in taking Dr. Cheryl Lousley’s classes, the English-speaking world,” Tom I got a completely different says. “More people recognized the viewpoint on things. It made me name ‘Leacock’ than they did the feel better about decisions I’d name ‘Canada.’” made.” Leacock lived in Montreal where Tom also enriched the local arts he was a McGill University political scene by launching the Drunk science professor and he also kept Poets’ Society in January 2016 a summer cottage in Orillia. In fact, at The Brownstone pub. “The his famous 1912 book Sunshine idea was to host a monthly poetry Sketches of a Little Town was reading night and bring Lakehead loosely based on the townspeople students into the downtown core.” of Orillia. “He created what we The readings became a popular think of as quintessential Canadian event that connected students with humour,” Tom says, “wry and a the community and encouraged little sarcastic, but well meaning.”  Collections and Program Supervisor budding poets. “People would Tom Rose (R) and Museum Coordinator As the collections and program come in saying that they didn’t write Jenny Martynyshyn (L) accept a supervisor of the Leacock Museum, poetry, that they were just there posthumous Alumni of Influence award from Dr. Alan Bowker on behalf Tom spends his days in the 19- to listen. Then a few months later, of Stephen Leacock. The award was room English-style lakefront cottage they’d be on stage reading.” presented by University College, where Leacock where Leacock summered. Built in completed his Bachelor of Arts in 1891.

9 society does not allow to belong because they disrupt the separation between particular categories. “A werewolf is monstrous because it calls into question the category of wolf and the category of person. A zombie breaches the line between life and death – now there is something both Monsters Teach dead and alive.” Us about Ourselves by Brandon Walker Journey asked Dr. McVeigh if the following fi ctional characters are do violence to us and we are allowed monsters: to do violence to them, so there’s historical signifi cance to studying Walter White from Breaking Bad monsters, but I’m interested more in Ruling: Monster. the sociological signifi cance.” He is a disruption of category. It’s The sociological signifi cance hinges interesting to watch Walt become upon how the presence of monsters the character that he has created changes the way we act compared for himself. This tough guy pose that to the way we normally act around he adopts, he leans in and doubles people who are more like us. down to become Heisenberg. He’s for “An easy way to think about this is to sure a monster by the end, so he has pretend there’s a zombie apocalypse. to die – it was the only ending that Professor Ryan McVeigh believes What happens to the everyday norms made sense. we can learn a lot about the of society – the rules and regulations The Wicked Witch of the West from we abide by?” the Wizard of Oz world by studying monsters. “You pack up your car and your Ruling: Monster. As an assistant professor in Sociology kids, everyone is ready, you’re going Even her portrayal was designed and Interdisciplinary Studies at to fl ee, you need to get out of the to be seen as monstrous due to Lakehead Orillia, Dr. McVeigh neighbourhood, and – oh, you come her bright green skin, plus she understands how life connects to a red light. Are you going to stop surrounded herself with fl ying people in various ways, which is why at the red light? Probably not,” Dr. monkeys – not normally the company monsters fascinate him. McVeigh says. you want to keep. “Since people are so deeply Those regulations and rules “get Malefi cent from Sleeping Beauty connected to each other, it’s tossed out the window,” Dr. McVeigh Ruling: Monster. interesting that they hurt other says, much like prescriptions against She was a stepmother. Step or people, which is why I also started to violence.” study violence,” he says. otherwise, as a mother you’re “Violence is not something people are culturally expected to care for your “Because monsters in some sense normally allowed to do,” he says. “But children, and she turns into a dragon permit or promote you directing if a zombie walked into your offi ce, at the end – in case there was any violence towards them, I started what would you do?” doubt. to wonder what the sociological “You would probably ignore the law signifi cance of monsters was.” Edward Scissorhands and do your best to kill it. If you have Ruling: Monster. Dr. McVeigh says civilizations from ever seen the show the Walking Others see him as a monster but he all recorded periods of history have Dead, you know there’s no question. really struggles to be accepted and some semblance of a monstrous If you’re faced with a zombie, there’s belong. One of the defi ning traits of “other.” In myth, legend, and folklore, no, ‘Hmmm, is it morally okay?’ In monsters is that they are not allowed all cultures feature creatures that fact, you are morally responsible to to belong even though sometimes those societies do not allow to belong. attack a zombie. They invite that they want to. You empathize with him violence.” “These excluded ‘others’ are trying not to appear as a monster. He characterized as evil outsiders that we Dr. McVeigh defi nes monsters as looks monstrous but you want to give are supposed to stay away from. They humans and non-humans who him another chance.

10 The Fighter Emma Horner channels her inner beast by Tracey Skehan

 Emma Horner (BScN’16)

“Fighters don’t go in the cage Being an MMA fi ghter demands mastery of many different forms expecting to lose,” says 25-year- of combat – like jiu-jitsu, boxing, old Emma Horner, a fl yweight kickboxing, and wrestling – because the sport sanctions any type of mixed martial artist. grappling and striking, including She is establishing a reputation as blows to the head. a ruthless combatant. “In my fi rst fi ght, I went in for the kill right away. Emma competes in Ultimate Fighting Now I take my time – I don’t want Championship (UFC) matches to to spend all my energy.” Even when push herself to her limits. she’s playing cat and mouse, Emma “UFC is like the Olympics of fi ghting,” is lethal. “In a recent match, I had she says, “it’s a primal test of my opponent down on the ground combat.” And it takes its toll. “I’m  Emma trains at the Steel City MMA gym run and I punched her in the head 130 used to being sore all the time – the by her coach Brent Fryia (BA’05/BEd’05). times.” It’s this ferocity that has muscles in my hand from gripping, Brent, his father Ted (BPE’78/BA’78/ BEd’84), and his brother Mitch (BA’08) were allowed Emma to dominate her last my arms, neck, and feet – the all Lakehead University varsity wrestlers. few fi ghts. hardest thing, though, is the grind of Mitch was also an MMA fi ghter and he now coaches at Steel City with his brother. Her ascent is even more impressive going to the gym every day.” when you consider that she Before taking up MMA, Emma combines a gruelling mixed martial excelled as a high school and Everything really comes together the arts (MMA) training regimen with a university wrestler. She was a star of moment Emma heads into the MMA career as an emergency room nurse Lakehead’s wrestling team, winning cage, with the walk out song she’s at the Sault Area Hospital. Although a gold, silver, and two bronzes at picked blaring over the speakers. nursing and fi ghting seem like a the Ontario University Athletics “Once I’m in the ring, it seems like it strange mix, Emma believes they championships. She also earned takes forever to be announced. I just complement each other. three silver medals at Canadian want to start fi ghting right away, I’m “They’re both really intense Interuniversity Sport competitions. so full of adrenaline.” professions. Mixed martial arts Right now, Emma is sidelined with a prepared me for the emotional Stepping into the Cage downhill skiing knee injury. Even so, burnout and physicality of nursing. Emma has always been competitive she is continuing to train and work on Also, as an ER nurse and an MMA and single-minded – her sights her technique. fi ghter, you have to be ready for resolutely set on the next match. “I want to go as long as I can while anything.” “A couple of weeks before the fi ght I have my youth,” she says. Emma She was introduced to MMA in I feel scared, but as the match gets hopes to win an MMA or jiu-jitsu grade 11 by Brent Fryia, her high closer, I go into killer mode,” she amateur world championship and school wrestling coach and a fellow says. “My senses are extremely then go pro. “My goal is to be a Lakehead grad. He’s now her MMA heightened on match day and when good fi ght fi nisher – to grind down coach and she trains at his Sault Ste. I start warming up, my movements my opponents and maul them like Marie gym – Steel City MMA. become very smooth and automatic.” a bear.”

11 HOMECOMING Thursday, October 3 - Saturday, October 5, 2019 – LAKEHEAD THUNDER BAY Friday, October 18 - Saturday, October 19, 2019 – LAKEHEAD ORILLIA

Lakehead Thunder Bay SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Thursday, October 3 Wrestling Meet and Greet Dinner and Reception Foreign Film Night Thursday, October 3 Saturday, October 5 Wrestling Meet and Greet Men’s game Wrestling Reception Coffee Tasting Friday, October 4 Alumni Honour Award - Dr. Donald Chow - Dave Siciliano (BSc ‘77) (BA ‘69) Friday, October 4 HEAD COACH – Wrestling Men’s Basketball Game Lakehead University’s Outstanding Young Women’s Basketball Game wrestling team is Alumni Award Wrestling Reception celebrating its 50th anniversary season in - Rosa Carlino (HBComm ’08, MSMGT ‘10) 2019-20. Coach Francis Clayton is hosting Alumni Legacy Award Saturday, October 5 special events throughout Homecoming Wall of Fame Induction Weekend for anyone who has been involved - Jim Eccles - The Paterson (posthumously) Family Women’s Basketball with the team over the years, including a Zanatta Games - social on Thursday evening and a reception Honorary Membership Volleyball and Basketball Games at the Victoria Inn on Friday evening. Over 100 people have already registered. - Frances Harding - Dr. Moira Alumni Honours Dinner McPherson Registration for the events is required. - Vince Mirabelli Concert in the Hangar - Paul Weber* - Ross Murray

* Paul Weber received his Honorary Membership during Lakehead Orillia the Chancellor’s Dinner in Orillia on June 7, 2019 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Induction Ceremony Friday, October 18 Saturday, October 5 TBD Lakehead University Athletics is excited to Saturday, October 19 announce the 2019 Wall of Fame inductees. Principal’s Brunch Among those being honoured are: 9-Hole Golf Tournament at - Ron Lappage - Jylisa Williams Hawk Ridge Golf Club Dinner BBQ - Justin - Kelly Williams Hockey Game at Rotary Place – BeauParlant - 2001-2002 Alumni vs Students - Andrew Ritchie Wrestling Team

* View the full schedule for Lakehead Thunder Bay To read the full article visit: and Lakehead Orillia on the Homecoming website thunderwolves.com/homecoming-2019- Registration and tickets available at: wall-fame-inductees-announced lakeheadu.ca/homecoming SUPPORTING OUR STUDENTS. RIGHT HERE. RIGHT NOW.

For over 35 years, alumni and friends have kept a special tradition strong by donating to the Lakehead Annual Fund in support of campus projects and fi nancial aid for students. In addition to funding scholarships, bursaries, in-course student research and fi eldwork, the Lakehead Annual Fund recently assisted with student enhancement projects. Some of those projects included:

 Updating the student space above the Agora (Lakehead Thunder Bay) close to the new Student Central

 Water bottle fi lling station at Lakehead Orillia

The generosity of our donors enables Lakehead University students to achieve their goals. Thank you for believing in our students.  Renovations to the Muslim prayer room (Lakehead Thunder Bay)

13 To make a gift online visit: donate.lakeheadu.ca 13 Rick Lazar (BA ’70) is a World Music Legend by Bonnie Schiedel

“Every day, I wake up and get into it. Music draws you in and demands your attention,” says Rick Shadrach Lazar, who has been a career musician ever since he was a teenager in 1960s Thunder Bay.

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The founder of several innovative, (BA ’70) Juno-award-nominated musical Rick Lazar groups, his work with percussion and drums pulses with the heat is a World Music of Afro-Latin-New World fusion and the cool rhythms of North American jazz. Rick is also a music Legend educator and co-owner of a Toronto by Bonnie Schiedel creative studio. Creating the Beat for more than 50 Years Pop music dominated the radio in the 50s and 60s, but at home, the Middle Eastern music his parents favoured thrummed through the  “Your emotions change with your experience,” Rick says. “In the beginning, you’re very rooms and hallways. excited and can’t wait for the performance to begin – excitement mixed with a degree of “Arabic music affected me a lot nervousness.” because it’s heavy on the rhythm and they use a lot of quarter tones,” says Rick, who is of Assyrian another teenager who would make Rick also introduced him to the descent. His fi rst music teacher his mark in the music world. Before music of blues guitarist Michael was his dad, who played in the Paul Shaffer was the leader of The Bloomfi eld and harmonica player city band and taught him clarinet, World’s Most Dangerous Band and Paul Butterfi eld, and the fi rst piece saxophone, and piano. “When he a fi xture on David Letterman’s late of equipment that got unloaded at practised tenor sax I was always night talk shows, he was a fellow gigs – Rick’s Beatles boots. “Funky amazed at the sound coming out of student at Thunder Bay’s Fort Ricky understood the importance his horn.” William Collegiate Institute. of putting the fashion in the funk,” Shaffer recalls in his book. It was natural that as a high school One day in the school music room student, Rick would play sax in the after hearing Paul play the song The local DJs who hosted Saturday high school band and in his own Pipeline, 14-year-old Rick said to night parties at the Gardens often band, The Fugitives. As chance 13-year-old Paul: “Wanna jam?” gave Rick access to the sample would have it, Rick befriended They played until the custodian told 45s they didn’t want to play on the them it was time to lock up. For radio—mostly songs by Black R & the next fi ve years, Rick, Paul, and B artists. He can still remember the their Fugitive bandmates rocked fi rst time he heard James Brown the house every weekend at Friday sing “Papa’s Got a Brand New night dances at area high schools Bag.” “It was so exciting—his voice, and Saturday night parties at the the energy, the rhythm was so raw. Fort William Gardens. When the It opened up a whole new vision for drummer quit, Rick took over. “We me. Bang, I was just woken up!” played the hits on the radio and I In Rick’s fi rst year as a history would fi gure out the drum parts,” student at Lakehead, The Fugitives he says. “That’s how I learned. We played a lot of gigs there. “On played the music the kids wanted breaks we had to go start the car to dance to.” so it wouldn’t freeze.” The group In his autobiography We’ll Be Here disbanded when Paul went to for the Rest of Our Lives, Paul university in Toronto and Rick describes his friend Funky Ricky: started another band called Who “A year older, a decade hipper, Rick Cares? On the academic front, Rick  Rick was in Grade 10 at Thunder Bay’s was the edgiest junior high schooler believes that Lakehead gave him Fort William Collegiate Institute in Thunder Bay.” He remembers the opportunity for a hometown when he asked schoolmate Paul Shaffer university education that otherwise to join his band. “Hearing him play I how Rick could simultaneously knew he was special and very talented,” play a sax and smoke a cigarette. would have been out of reach. says Rick.

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“A year older, a decade hipper, Rick was the edgiest junior high schooler in Thunder Bay.” ~ Musician Paul Shaffer

this broad knowledge of musical genres, mostly from the African diaspora but also the Middle East and India and other places, that we combine together,” he says. “He comes up with a lot of interesting ideas based on his vast knowledge.”  Rick was 12 years old when his musician father taught him to play his first instrument, Rick’s leadership also makes his the clarinet. groups a success. “He’s really good at seeing what somebody can “University gives you the discipline group, using Brazilian and Arabic do and finding a way of making to tackle assignments and get influences.” Rick plays a dizzying that part of the band. His ego isn’t things done,” Rick says. “It helps array of instruments – Afro-Cuban threatened by that in any way,” your writing skills. The research percussion instruments (congas, Gord says. Rick is a pro at engaging teaches you how to think, how to bongos, timbales, shekeres, with the audience too. “He’ll figure out things.” cajon), Afro-Brazilian instruments encourage them to sing along, (repinique, surdos, tamborim, clap, all that showmanship that After graduating from Lakehead, is part and parcel of a show. I’ve Rick headed to Indiana University caixa), and Arabic instruments (darbouka, riq). mentioned all these world grooves to study percussion, playing with that he uses, but he also introduces the school’s acclaimed University Establishing his own groups, elements of funk and rap, genres Jazz Band. He also did side gigs, starting way back with The that are familiar to the audience, in particular, with The Screaming Fugitives, has always been a and that tends to engage them. Gypsy Bandits, who blended source of creative satisfaction and He’s also a great guy!” rock, folk, and world music, and professional pride. “When you’re he toured as a percussionist with playing for other people, you don’t Rick’s other long-time group, Barry White’s Love Unlimited want to force your vision on to Samba Squad, is celebrating its Orchestra. In the late 70s he moved someone else’s. You’re there to do 20th anniversary. Made up of to Toronto and started making your best for their project. With as many as 30 professional and connections and contacts through each of those groups I created, non-professional percussionists, it live performances and studio work. it was my vision, and we’ve been blends samba, salsa, soca, funk, He founded another group, dance successful.” and reggae to wow audiences. Rick, band Coconut Groove, in the early the creative director and founder, Fellow band member Gord Sheard, says the band is a microcosm 80s, which was a key player in the pianist and main composer for emerging world music scene. “We of cosmopolitan Toronto. “We’ve Montuno Police, has known Rick got people from all walks of life. were doing world music before for nearly 30 years and says the term ‘world music’ was a There’s this connection between there are a number of factors that people who wouldn’t normally meet thing,” he says. Another group he contribute to that success and set founded, Montuno Police, grew out each other, who enjoy each other’s Rick apart as a musician. “First of company and become friends.” of Coconut Groove in 1987 and is all, he’s got a lot of skills together. still playing today, having earned He’s got really good technique on In addition to building up his own a Juno nomination for their 1995 his instruments—he’s a virtuoso groups, over the years Rick has CD – Touch. “We started off as an percussionist. He researches a lot worked with Loreena McKennitt Afro-Cuban-Latin jazz group, and of styles from different parts of the on five albums, including her now we’ve become a global jazz world really deeply and he’s got Juno-winning album The Visit,

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and a variety of other Canadian “Rick is the most incredible person and international artists ranging to go into business with,” she says. On Rick’s Playlist from Bruce Cockburn, The Blues “He has great business sense and Rick likes NPR’s Tiny Desk Brothers, Moe Koffman, and Jesse he’s a great person to bounce ideas Concert to get both the video Cook to Jane Bunnett, Jeff Healey, off. He always provides really wise and audio experience. and Great Big Sea. advice in very simple terms. When Rick met his business partner, you sit down with him and talk SOME OF HIS FAVOURITES about a situation that might seem Gili Zemer, when she joined Samba The Pedrito Martinez Group Squad 20 years ago. They soon to be complex in your head, he just decided to start a company as somehow is able to distil it to: it’s Alfredo Rodriguez owners of Geary Lane, a soundproof either this or that. And then you’re Los Van Van like, you’re right. That’s his charm.” studio space where Samba Squad Amadou & Mariam could practice (not many landlords Through Samba Squad, Rick also want to rent to 30 percussionists) gives group lessons to corporations Betsayda Machado and school groups and has as well as rent out the space to Daniil Trifonov other creative professionals for fi lm, developed workshops for kids called music, and events. Samba Kidz and Samba Teens. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah Adding music education to Samba Joey Alexander Squad was a logical decision, as Chick Corea & Gary Burton Rick taught music at for a number of years and ÌFÉ “We were doing has been a music instructor at York world music before the University since 2002. “I teach Percussion and Latin Ensemble term ‘world music’ was Performance. They’re hands-on Rick’s Discography a thing.” percussion courses. There are no exams—you have to learn the CDS BY SAMBA SQUAD rhythms with whatever instrument Samba Squad you’re playing, whether it’s the big drums (surdos) or the agogô bells Batuque or the tamborim. You get marked Que Beleza on your attendance and your improvement over the term. It’s CDS BY MONTUNO POLICE fun. You have to mould them into a cohesive ensemble by the end Bang of the year. The goal is to perform Touch at the spring World Music Festival organized by .” The Call Teaching keeps you close to a Nomads younger generation, Rick says. “It keeps you fresh. They bring their energy to the group. It’s like recycling the energy. That’s a great thing.” What’s next? More music education, more festivals, and pop- up street concerts all over Toronto. The beat goes on!

 “As you gain experience and become a professional, your highs and lows balance out but you still aim for the joy that a wonderful performance brings.”

17 Where the Raccoon Dogs Roam by Tracey Skehan

 Privacy please. Researchers analyzed the temporal patterns of 3,257 raccoon dog latrine visits. They found that the animals used latrines near human activity less frequently in the daytime to avoid having contact with people. They also used latrines more frequently in the wintertime.

On Tokyo’s Akasaka Imperial What raccoon dogs crave, besides profi les.” Their latrines also function Grounds, cameras with infrared food and green space, is privacy as a way to mark territorial ranges. and a way to communicate with “The researchers counted the motion detectors were set up their fellow raccoon dogs. They number of times the raccoon dogs usually live in pairs and are shyer visited the latrines and if they to track an elusive and beloved than feral cats or dogs. That’s animal – the raccoon dog. defecated (called a defecation why a group of researchers, led event). Then they calculated the by Marie Tsunoda, wanted to “In Japan’s traditional folklore, frequency of the events,” Hisano determine if humans were having says. Latrines were categorized the raccoon dog is portrayed as adverse effects on the raccoon dog. a trickster; it’s seen as funny and as disturbed (daily human activity a little humorous,” says Masumi And they chose an unusual method within 10 metres) or undisturbed Hisano, a natural resources PhD to fi nd out. (situated away from human activity student at Lakehead University. It’s known that raccoon dogs with only the occasional human presence within 10 metres). Although they share a name and use olfactory signals to convey some physical similarities, raccoons information, so the researchers “In undisturbed sites,” Hisano says, and raccoon dogs are completely set up trail cams at latrine sites “raccoon dogs persistently used separate species. A member of – places where raccoon dogs the latrines in the daytime. In the the canid family, raccoon dogs are defecate – to see if human disturbed sites, they used them indigenous to East Asia and are proximity was interfering with their much more in the nighttime.” The unique among canids because they communication patterns. “The research paper concluded that hibernate. assumption was that raccoon dogs latrine sites are important to the perceive humans as a kind of spatial relationships of raccoon These furry creatures, also known predator,” Hisano explains, dogs and that interfering with them as tanuki, live in the countryside, “a natural enemy.” would be “detrimental to their social mountains, and meadows. They While working on his PhD at organization and thus their well- even thrive in cities. In the 1970s, being.” though, they disappeared from Lakehead, Hisano assisted Tsunoda Tokyo before reappearing 20 years with preparing the research paper There’s just one problem. later in parks and wooded areas for publication – including statistical “In Tokyo, latrines are often in the central part of the city. The analysis, writing, and revisions. removed because they smell Akasaka Imperial Grounds, the Tsunoda and Hisano did their really bad and their feces can home of members of Japan’s masters’ degrees at the Tokyo contain disease-causing parasites royal family, attract raccoon dogs University of Agriculture and and pathogens,” Hisano says. because of the abundant vegetation Technology, supervised by Dr. Yayoi Unfortunately, in the case of the and the fact that it’s sparsely Kaneko. bathroom habits of the raccoon populated. The results were published in dog, “there is a trade-off between Living in urban areas is possible the December 2018 issue of The raccoon dog benefi ts and human because raccoon dogs are foragers, Journal of Wildlife Management. b e n e fi t s . ” eating everything from snails and In it, the researchers point out earthworms to birds, reptiles, small “that raccoon dogs can recognize mammals, and fruit and nuts. They individuals and group membership will even chow down on garbage. (Ikeda 1984) from fecal odor

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OUR STUDENT ATHLETES AND COACHES APPRECIATE HAVING FANS IN THE STANDS AT THEIR AWAY GAMES!

Coach’s Highlight | Jon Kreiner HEAD COACH, WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

“I would like to personally thank our fans for their support and let them know that seeing you on the road in the stands is a special thing for us. It gives our team an extra boost when we see so many of our supporters cheering for us at away games. We have many tough away environments and at Lakehead we spend a lot of time on the road. Lakehead University has the greatest fans in the country.”

VARSITY AWAY GAMES: 2019-2020 SCHEDULE OF DATES, FIRST SEMESTER DATE VS CITY TIME VARSITY SPORT Thursday, October 3 Waterloo 7:00 pm EST Men’s Hockey Friday, October 4 Laurier Golden Hawks Waterloo 7:00 pm EST Men’s Hockey Saturday, October 5 Laurier Golden Hawks Waterloo 7:00 pm EST Men’s Hockey Friday, October 11 7:30 pm EST Men’s Hockey Laurentian Voyageurs Sudbury Saturday, October 12 7:30 pm EST Men’s Hockey Friday, October 11 TBD Women’s Basketball University of Saturday, October 12 Winnipeg TBD Women’s Basketball Invitational Sunday, October 13 TBD Women’s Basketball Thursday, October 17 TBD Men’s Basketball University of Saskatchewan Friday, October 18 Saskatoon TBD Men’s Basketball Invitational Saturday, October 19 TBD Men’s Basketball Friday, October 25 Toronto 6:00 pm EST Women’s Volleyball Saturday, October 26 Trent Excalibur Peterborough TBD Women’s Volleyball Sunday, October 27 Toronto TBD Women’s Volleyball Friday, November 1 Ryerson Rams Toronto 6:00 pm EST and 8:00 pm EST Women’s and Men’s Basketball Saturday, November 2 Ryerson Rams Toronto 6:00 pm EST and 8:00 pm EST Women’s and Men’s Basketball Thursday, November 14 Waterloo Warriors London 7:15 pm EST Men’s Hockey Friday, November 15 Ryerson Rams Toronto 7:15 pm EST Men’s Hockey Friday, November 15 St. Catharines TBD for both games Women’s and Men’s Basketball Saturday, November 16 Brock Badgers St. Catharines TBD for both games Women’s and Men’s Basketball Saturday, November 16 Ryerson Rams Toronto 7:15 pm EST Men’s Hockey Friday, November 22 Carleton Ravens Ottawa 6:00 pm EST and 8:00 pm EST Women’s and Men’s Basketball Saturday, November 23 Ottawa Gee-Gees Ottawa 6:00 pm EST and 8:00 pm EST Women’s and Men’s Basketball

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19 Naturalist Joan Crowe (HBSc’70) Leads the Way for Lakehead Students

 When Lakehead students needed help, Walter and Joan Crowe were there – as exceptional teachers, mentors, and donors.

When World War II broke out in has over 100,000 dried plants. new chapter, the couple continued the fall of 1939, an 11-year-old “Herbaria are used for plant to support Lakehead students. identifi cation and mapping plant With Walter’s death in 2016, Joan girl from the northwestern edge distribution,” Joan explains. and her children sought out ways of London spent the autumn days Because of her generosity, the to honour his legacy. They became Herbarium has been able to one of the fi rst donors to Lakehead wandering among the ancient oak purchase equipment and supplies, University’s Teaching Commons and beech trees of Epping Forest. continue digitizing the collection, campaign, making a $25,000 gift and hire a work-study student. to dedicate a space “In memory of School had been cancelled So how did Joan end up on the Professor Walter Crowe” outside the because of the threat of a German other side of the Atlantic far from offi ce of Learning Technologies and bombing campaign and she wasn’t Epping Forest? Innovation. In addition, the family going to waste a minute of her donated $30,000 to create the time indoors. In her hand was a “Walter and I liked to travel and Walter Crowe Business Bursary. wildfl ower identifi cation book and in 1966, he saw a job posting for “We want Walter to be remembered at her heels was her high-spirited an assistant business professor – the University was a big part terrier named Dan. at Lakehead University and he applied,” Joan says. Walter quickly of his life and he did a lot for Eighty years later, that young girl settled in and turned his attention Lakehead,” she says. is a distinguished botanist and a to shaping the fl edgling Faculty His loss was grieved by his passionate fi eld naturalist. Joan of Business Administration and family and friends as well as the Crowe has also become a woman mentoring his students. Lakehead community. In an online who has had a lasting impact on Joan, meanwhile, spent her fi rst condolence, one of his former Lakehead University as a student, students said: a lecturer, a volunteer, and as the year in Thunder Bay as a teacher curator of the University’s Claude E. in the public school system before “He was the best teacher that I Garton Herbarium. completing an Honours Bachelor had (and lots of them were of Science in Biology at Lakehead. very good). He was so down to Joan and her late husband, She subsequently did a Master earth and approachable, with an Professor Emeritus of Business of Science at the University of incredible sense of humour… Administration, Dr. Walter Crowe, Manitoba – while based in Thunder Thank you Dr. Crowe. The world have also given Lakehead students Bay – and used the Herbarium for is a better place because you a brighter future with their generous her research. Once her master’s were here.” donations to the University. was fi nished, Joan went back to This year, Joan made a $16,000 teaching Grade 7 and 8 students. gift to Lakehead’s Claude E. Garton Her retirement in 1985 gave her the To make a gift to the Herbarium Herbarium to establish the Joan opportunity to teach plant courses online, visit donate.lakeheadu.ca Crowe Bryophyte and Lichen at Lakehead and volunteer at the and go to the Herbarium project Collection (bryophytes are a group Herbarium. Then in 1990, Joan page or contact Kathryn Davidson, of plants consisting of liverworts, was appointed as the Herbarium’s Philanthropy Director, at: hornworts, and mosses). curator, a post she held until Walter E: [email protected] retired in 1993 and they moved to The Claude E. Garton Herbarium, T: (807) 343-8476 located in the Centennial Building, Owen Sound. Despite starting a

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1980s Linda Murphy (BA’84/BEd’84) is Troy Dvorak (HBA’94/MA’96) on a six-month leave of absence has been a tenured faculty Evelyn J. Baxter (BA’88, Political from her career, her family, and member at the Minneapolis Studies) was appointed to the her home, in Collingwood, Ontario Community & Technical College Ontario Court of Justice as of May to hike the 4,279 km-long Pacific since 2005 and is the author of 23, 2019, to serve the Northwest Crest Trail, from Mexico to Canada. two books – Psychological Keys Region. Evelyn has extensive “At 57 years of age,” Linda says, to Student Success and Studying legal experience to draw upon “I will hike alone and unsupported vs. Learning: The Psychology of as a justice, including over 10 in an effort to raise awareness and Student Success. After graduating years as an adjudicator with the funds for women and children who from Lakehead in 1996 with a Independent Assessment Process. are victims of domestic violence.” Master of Psychology, Troy worked She also adjudicated cases Anyone who would like to support as a psychometrist at the Children’s involving former students of Indian Linda’s trek, can go to Centre Thunder Bay until 2003. Residential Schools for the federal www.tinyurl.com/hikinghomeforshelter His other accomplishments tribunal. Evelyn recently served and donate to the Canadian include being selected by as an Ontario Criminal Injuries Shelters for Abused Women and careersinpsychology.org as a “must Compensation Board adjudicator Children and Violence Prevention. take” psychology professor in the and chair of the Mercury Disability Twin Cities in 2015. Board. She is Anishnawbe-kwe Anna Torma (HBScF’84) was from Northern Ontario and a named the new public affairs Krista Power (BA’98) became member of the Marten Falls First vice-president at PotlatchDeltic the fifth city clerk for the City of Nation in the Treaty #9 area. – an American timberland real Thunder Bay in August 2019. estate investment trust (REIT). Krista, formerly the deputy city Kathleen Lynch (HBSW’83) PotlatchDeltic operates sawmills clerk, has been working for the became the president of and owns extensive timberlands City since 2010. She received on in South Arkansas. Anna joined her Bachelor of Arts degree in September 4, 2018, succeeding PotlatchDeltic as the public affairs English from Lakehead University outgoing president Jim Madder. director in April 2018 after assisting and completed her certificate in The College based their decision Deltic Timber with its strategic Municipal Administration with the on Kathleen’s more than 30 review and subsequent merger. Prior Association of Municipal Clerks years of leadership experience to working with Deltic, Anna was a and Treasurers. She previously in health care, human services, senior vice-president of corporate worked for the Ministry of Tourism and education. According to affairs at the Forestar Group. from 2000 to 2010. Confederation College’s Board of Governors’ Chairperson George 1990s 2000s Patterson, “Kathleen understands the unique needs of Thunder Sandra Clarke (BAdm’92) was Matthew Black (BA’07) has Bay and the Northwestern appointed as the chief financial joined the Timmins Police Ontario region.” Prior to joining officer of Toronto-based Synaptive Service after spending 10 years Confederation College, Kathleen Medical, a pioneer in automated with the Nishnawbe-Aski Police was the vice president of surgical planning and robotics, Service (NAPS). Originally from rehabilitative care at St. Joseph’s this spring. “I’m pleased to be Thunder Bay, Matthew completed Care Group. working for a company that is Confederation College’s police committed to providing physicians foundations program in 2005 the tools necessary to achieve and then enrolled at Lakehead optimal patient outcomes,” University where he completed Sandra noted. She gained his Bachelor of Arts in Political decades of experience in financial Science and Sociology in 2007. management and operations after Since then, he has amassed earning her Bachelor of Business extensive policing experience Administration in accounting and in several Northern Ontario her CPA designation. communities, including Constance Lake First Nation.

22 TURNING POINTS KEEP IN TOUCH

is an Karine Duhamel (BEd’05) 2010s You may update your address online at experienced historian, researcher, alumni.lakeheadu.ca. You may also fax this and consultant specializing in First Leah Nadin (BEd’15/HBA’15/ form to 807-343-8194 or mail it to: Nations, Métis, and Inuit histories MA’17) has written a children’s book called Tarantella to Thunder Alumni and Community Relations and politics who is currently the Lakehead University, director of research for the historic Bay published by the Institute 955 Oliver Road, National Inquiry into Missing and of Italian Studies – Lakehead Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7B 5E1 Murdered Indigenous Women and University. The book has its Girls (MMIWG). Of Anishinaabe origins in a master’s project Name and Métis heritage, Karine has a Leah completed at Lakehead. Telephone keen understanding and interest In a June 2019 article by Doug Address in the processes and dialogues Diaczuk on tbnewswatch.com, Email surrounding reconciliation and Leah explained, “My grandparents Degree(s) reparation. She took a leave of and family immigrated to Thunder Year(s) of Graduation absence from her position as Bay back in the day and I wanted Employer curator for Indigenous Rights at something for kids to learn about Employer Telephone Italian culture and be able to share the Canadian Museum for Human Employer Address Rights to lead the MMIWG inquiry. traditions with their families over the generations.” In addition to her Lakehead Position degree, Karine has a Bachelor of Spouse / Partner’s Name Arts from Spouse / Partner’s Education and a master’s and a doctorate Spouse / Partner’s Occupation from the . In Memoriam Allison Marie Hogan (BSc’18/ Started a new job? Have you married? Zachary (Zack) Kruzins BESc4’19), a Lakehead alumna Begun a family? Received an award? If so, we (HBOR’08/BA’08) started a Lake and student, passed away on want to hear from you! Take a moment to tell Superior outdoor adventure and December 31, 2018, after an us what is new and exciting in your life or just education company in 2018. Such to share your comments and story ideas for the 18-month battle with cancer with A Nice Day (S.A.N.D.) Adventure Lakehead Alumni Magazine. Use a separate her mother and her daughter Expeditions operates south from page if necessary. Teagan at her side. Allison, who Thunder Bay to the United States was born on May 15, 1974, border and eastward in the was in her last year of geology Lake Superior National Marine at Lakehead and had accepted Conservation Area. Zack spends a part-time job with Landore much of his time out on the water Resources. Once she graduated, leading excursions for novice and she was to become a full-time The Alumni Association and its affinity experienced kayakers as well as Landore employee. Allison’s world partners may contact you occasionally to paddling expeditions in a 34- revolved around her daughter promote programs and services that generate foot Voyageur canoe. Zack has revenue for Lakehead University. Teagan and she committed to also paddled in places ranging higher education later in life If you do not wish to be contacted, from Costa Rica and Argentina to to change the course of her Australia and Antarctica. • call 1-800-832-8076, or daughter’s future, as well as her • complete the online form on our website, or own. Allison’s family has set up a Go Fund Me page under the • check the box below and mail this form to the Office of Alumni Relations or fax it to: title “Teagan Hogan” to accept 807-343-8999 donations toward Teagan’s educational and other needs.  I do not wish to receive ANY materials advertising Lakehead University affinity programs.

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23 ANNOUNCING THE 2019-20 Alumni Entrance Award Winner Alexandra Grillo

For over 35 years the Alumni Association of Lakehead University has been bestowing the Alumni Entrance Award. It is one of the largest donor-funded awards at Lakehead University. Alexandra follows in the footsteps of her mother, Kristen (BA’91, RBA’91, BEd’92), to Lakehead University. She will be beginning her Honours Bachelor of Science in Biology with a concentration in Neuroscience in the fall.

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WISHES TO THANK ALL OF THIS YEAR’S APPLICANTS.

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