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Vandana Shiva Take S on the World AlumniGazetteWESTERn’S ALUMNI MaGAZINE SINCE 1939 SPRINGFALL 20102011 VANDANA SHIVA TAKE S ON THE WORLD HOMECOMING FAVOURITE REMEMBERING 2011 ISSUE TV DAD 9/11 ALAN THICKE AlumniGazette CONTENTS COUD L ALAN THICKE 11 BE THE WORLD’S FAVOURITE TV DAD? Profile of multi-talented Western alumnus BY JASON WINDERS, MES’10 S EEDS OF THE FUTURE 12 Vandana Shiva, PhD’79, LLD’02, takes on the world BY JASON WINDERS, MES’10 REMEMBERING 9/11, 14 10 YEARS LATER Reflections of Western alumni who experienced the attack You don’t need a better F ROM BOARDROOMS 20 TO BODICES… Beverly Behan, HBA’81, LLB’84, Financial Advisor. makes Canada’s history sexy BY DAVID SCOTT You need a great one. ALLE IN TH FAMILY 22 Western’s multi-generation graduates BY DAVID DAUPHINEE Like any great relationship, this one takes Just log on to www.accretiveadvisor.com hard work. and use the “Investor Discovery™” to On the cover: Indian philosopher, environmental activist and lead you to the Financial Advisor who’s eco-feminist Vandana Shiva, PhD’79, LLD’02, has made her Choosing the right Advisor is the key to best for you and your family. impact around the world. (Photo by Nitin Rai) a richer life in every way. 12 After all, the only thing at stake here But to get what you deserve, you need DEPARTMENTS is the rest of your financial life. alumnigazette.ca to act. Right now wouldn’t be a moment @ 05 LETTERS 33 MEMORIES WINNIPEG’S RETURN TO NHL HOCKEY too soon. www.accretiveadvisor.com H onour Society existed T radition of pranks keeps By Edward Fraser, BA’03, MA’04, Managing Editor, The Hockey News before 1952 campus on its toes BY ALAN NOON CYBORG TRADING SYSTEMS PRODUCES 08 CAMPUS NEWS SOFTWARE FOR HIGh-FREQUENCY TRADERS Labatt’s history home at 34 NEW RELEASES By Christopher Clark BA’88, MA’92 Western archives T he White Luck Warrior by T HOU DOTH PROTEST: PEACEFUL PROTEST OR R. Scott Bakker, BA’95, CONSUMER GUIDE DESTRUCTIVE RIOT? 29 MA’97 T HOUGHTS ON the LONDON riots What do you need from by Meghan McMorris, BA’10 (Anthropology) an eReader? ALMANAC 36 FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON 9/11 2011 Alumni Award BEST KEPT SECRET By alumnae Andrea Canning, BA’94, ABC News 32 Winners correspondent based in New York, and author Beverly Franklin the Turtle creator Behan, HBA’81, LLB’84. a Western alumna MORE MULTI-GENERATION WESTERN FAMILIES By David Dauphinee A more successful financial relationship™ F ALL 2011 EDITION 3 AlumniGazette LET T ERS EIOD T r’S Fall 2011 (ISSN 1189-6272) Editor: David Scott CHET MIS RY GRAD NOTEBOOK Executive Editor: Jason Winders, MES’10 WORKED foR IBM IN USA W ITH DavID SCOTT Publisher: Helen Connell, MBA’96 ( Re: Spring/Summer 2011 issue) Art Director: Terry Rice, BFA’98, MA’00 I just received my copy of the Alumni Gazette Designer: Rob Potter and was very interested in your stories on Staff, Faculty & Volunteer Contributors: Steve Anderson, IBM Canada and the Western grads who Diana Cunningham, Jenn Davila, Kris Dundas, Karmen Dowling, contributed so much to that company. I was Susanna Eayrs, Keri Ferguson, Mathew Hoy, Douglas Keddy, born and lived in London, Ontario, Canada Kathryn Kinahan, Scott May, Paul Mayne, Sonia Preszcator, and on leaving the army attended Western, Jeff Renaud, Terry Rice, Angie Wiseman, Marcia Steyaert, THE SE scISSORS couLDN’T graduating with the 1950 chemistry class. llison Stevenson, Heather Travis, Janis Wallace, Kathy Wallis, Jennifer Wilson, Scott Woods I then went to the University of Connecticut CUT THE TENSION for my graduate work, staying at UCon for Photography/Art: Tom Brent, Colorado State University, I was working as managing editor for one of knife, were confiscated and held at the London Ian Crysler, Karmen Dowling, Barry Druxman, EDC, several years on the faculty before I joined the American Heart Association (AHA) medical International Airport in formerly uneventful Brian Flynn, Michelle French, Hans J. Gerhardt, HGTV, IBM in the early 1960s and spent 25 years in journals, S troke, when I first heard the news of southern Ontario. Peter Hurley Photography, London Free Press Collection/ San Jose, California ending at the Almaden Western Archives, Paul Mayne, Terry Rice, Gene Rosow, the 9/11 attacks. Returning from a trip shortly after from Research Center in that city. David Scott, Shawn Simpson, Alicia Thurston, Rayanne Tipert, We were in daily contact with the AHA Boston, when security measures were in high Heather Travis During my career at IBM, I visited the facility head office in Dallas and Lippincott, Williams effect and yellow and orange levels became in Toronto a number of times and met several Advertising Inquiries: Denise Jones, 519-661-2111, & Wilkins (LWW), our publishers in Baltimore, part of the vernacular, another pair of scissors ext. 85460; [email protected] of the people mentioned in your articles would cause my blood pressure levels to rise. from our basement office in theS iebens-Drake Editorial Advisory Board: Gary Blazak, MA’79, without realizing their Western backgrounds. Building on Western’s campus. Putting my carry-on bag through the x-ray Chris Makuch, BA’93 (King’s), Helen Connell, MBA’96, R OBERT COX, BSC’50 (CHEMISTRY) Our basic science satellite office was located machine, one of the security officers asked if Kris Dundas, BA’94, MA’95, Susanna Eayrs, Jim Etherington, ASHLAND, OREGON at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, I had a pair of scissors in my baggage. I had BA’61, Terry Rice, BFA’98, MA’00, Marcia Steyaert, BA’96, Janis Wallace, BMus’75, BEd’76, Jason Winders, MES’10 the city where two of the planes took off from learned my lesson and answered ‘no.’ However, HoU NO R SOCIETY AT NO HER IBM H ERE’S THE BEEF… that fateful day 10 years ago. she was insistent that I did and called over a Guest Contributors: Beverly Behan, HBA’81, LLB’84, EXISTED BEFORE 1952 SUCCEss stoRY ( Re: Consumer Guide, Spring/Summer 2011) Andrea Canning, BA’94, David Dauphinee, Edward Fraser, manager. I kept denying I did, while casting We heard shortly after 9 a.m. from our BA’03, MA’04, Michelle French, BA’93, Hans J. Gerhardt, ( Re: Alumni Gazette Letters, ( Re: Taking time to think about success, R egarding the article on page 38 of the Spring- colleagues in the United States that “America is nervous glances left to the U.S. Army guard in S. E. Gordon, Laura Janecka, Nicole Laidler, BA’04, MA’04, Spring/Summer 2011) Spring/Summer 2011) Summer Alumni Gazette (“Five ways to make under attack.” We weren’t sure what that meant. fatigues with an automatic rifle about 15 feet Katherine Low, MA’08, Chris Makuch, BA’93, John Moore, Although I graduated two years ahead of Joe I have just read your Editor’s Notebook and your footprint smaller”) there is a statement Then we turned on CBC radio and looked on away watching with a steel gaze. BA’92, Dip’93, Alan Noon, Jennifer Robinson, Fricker, I remember a very active and friendly would like to point out another graduate that cannot go unchallenged. Namely, that Paul Thomas, HBA’85, Paul Wells, BA’89 news sites and watched as the world did in The security officer rejoiced when she young man. His memories in the last issue were of Western that did well at IBM and other it takes 100,000 litres of water to produce a disbelief. When the first tower collapsed close pulled out a sealed sewing kit that included The Alumni Gazette is published three times annually by quite a revelation and his life has obviously institutions. I strongly agree with your kilogram of beef. Assuming that a yearling steer the Department of Communications & Public Affairs in a tiny 2-inch pair of scissors that I must have to 10 a.m., it seemed impossible. partnership with Alumni Western and the Department been well lived. comments about respect and support of dresses out at 200 kg, that would require 20 The McKellar lecture hall at UCC, that unconsciously scooped into my luggage with of Alumni Relations & Development. However, the Honour Society was initiated individuals. million litres of water or 54,794 litres per day! doubles as the location of Western Film, was the other hotel freebees like shampoo and For publication dates or to make submissions, contact well before 1952. On checking my 1947 Jacob Slonim arrived here shortly after I This is about 180 times the gross weight of the transformed into an open-door news-watching soap. I told her she could keep it when she the managing editor at 519-661-2111 ext. 87482, O ccidentalia I see on page 35 those honoured joined Western as an assistant professor of steer. Even assuming that three-quarters of the theatre with CNN tuned in on the big screen. offered to return it to me. No need to repeat e-mail at [email protected] or mail at The University were shown with no indication that even that biophysics in 1967. He and his family stayed water is used in irrigation and at the packing When we made our way over at lunch, the live that experience. of Western Ontario, Suite 360, Westminster Hall, was the first year. with us for a few days until he and his wife and plant, this is still a ludicrous figure. London, Ontario, N6A 3K7. Forward change of Inside these pages and online at scenes of devastation in New York were surreal. address information to [email protected] or call The Merit Awards came along in 1949 for infant son got settled.
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