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FEBRUARY 2004 VOLUME 35, NO.1 TRENT is published three times a year in June, September and February, by the Trent University Alumni Association. Unsigned comments reflect the opinion of the editor only. Trent University Alumni Association, Langton House, Traill College, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, K9J 7B8; call 705-748-1399 or 1-800-267-5774 fax 705-748-1785 e-mail: [email protected] web: www.trentu.ca/alumni EDITOR Liz Fleming ’77 EDITORIAL BOARD Martin Boyne ’86 Marilyn Burns ’00 Jan Carter ’87 Kathleen Easson ’78 Tania Pattison ’84 Dale Rodger ’77 Tony Storey ’71 In This Issue GRAPHIC DESIGN Editorial . 2 Trent University Design Office PRINTING AND BINDING Association Co-president’s Message . 3 Ricter Web Printing Ltd., Brantford President’s Page . 4 TRENT UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION COUNCIL A Life Less Ordinary . 6 HONORARY PRESIDENT T.H.B. Symons Cover story : The Double Cohort Opportunity . 8 HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENT John E. Leishman Trent Summer Sports Camp : Connecting with the Community . 12 PRESIDENT Rod Cumming ’87 / Maureen Brand ’89 Three Generations at Trent University . 14 PAST PRESIDENT Cheryl Davies ’68 Forecasting Fate and Effects : The Big Picture . 15 VICE-PRESIDENT Adam Guzkowski ’95 Teaching and Learning in Cyberspace . 16 SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT Sierra Leone Adventures . 17 Denis Desjardins ’76 COUNCILLORS CSI Trent! DNA Forensic Summer Camp . 20 Jan Carter ’87 Georgina Galloway ’91 Susan Underhill ’87 Storeyline . 21 Lenaee Dupuis ’91 Mark Gelinas ’89 Sunshine Sketches . 24 Iain MacFarlane ’95 Jennifer Mercer ‘91 In Memoriam . 26 Holly Morrison ’95 BOARD REPRESENTATIVES It’s Natural . 27 Dan Coholan ’77 Kate Ramsay ’71 Chapter News . 28 CHAPTER PRESIDENTS Greg Burnett ’90 (Golden Horseshoe) Fran Cooney ’77 (Kingston) Yancy Craig ’95& Kevin Brown ’90 (National Capital) Caleb Smith ’93 (Niagara Region) Vicki ’69 & Garry ’67 Cubitt (Oshawa/Durham Region) Nordra Stephen ’75 (Belleville/Quinte) Vacant (Peterborough) Neil Thomsen ’86 (Southwestern Ontario) Gord ’93 and Joanne ’97 Stencell (Toronto) Kerry Tomlin ’95 (Calgary) Jim Doran ’73 (Edmonton) Cover photo: First-year students. Andrew Hamilton ’87 (Vancouver) Andy ’85 & Liz ’87 Rodford (Vancouver Island) Back row: Pat O’Brien, Melissa Francois Senecal ’83 (Montreal) Deacon, Erica White; front row: Mary Elizabeth Luka ’80 (Halifax/Dartmouth) Richard Gardiner ’73 (London/Middlesex) Danielle Leighton, Edna Carloss. Jim Barber ’87 (Georgian Triangle) Gretchen Rosenberger ’95 (York Region) Patrick Lam ’86 (Hong Kong) Mas Dati Samani ’82 (Malaysia) Aznan Abu Bakar ’93 (Singapore) Andrew Homer ’86 (Tokyo) DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI AFFAIRS Tony Storey ’71 ALUMNI AFFAIRS ASSISTANT Kathleen Easson ’78 Distributed in accordance with Canada Post Canadian Publications Mail Sales Product Agreement #40064326 • That you get a letter from Revenue Canada saying that a mistake has been found in your tax return … EDITORIAL The other day, while listening to and you’ve paid too much! the radio, I heard a rather pompous • That your in-laws live close radio announcer listing his ten wishes enough that they can enjoy the for the New Year. They included such grandkids, but far enough away things as a ban on all broadcasting of that you still enjoy them! rap music and an end to fast food • That someone in your aerobics chains (my son in the passenger seat class has more trouble following needed oxygen!) While few of the the routines than you do. announcer’s wishes appealed to me, I • That one day, your son says to loved the idea of the list, so I’ve you, “I think I need a haircut”, all developed my own. on his own. If I could bestow ten small good • That the radio wakes you at 6am wishes on my friends, they would be: one cold winter morning to report • That the dog barking behind the that everything’s closed and can- door turn out to be a Pekinese, celled because of the snow. (It’s and never a Pit Bull. good to be Canadian.) What I • That your children play basketball • That your friends be too many to and not hockey, so the practices count and your enemies be too are after school in a warm gym few to matter. wish for and not at 5am in a cold arena. • That you believe with all your • That the five pounds you think heart that family, and not money, you’ve gained really be the fault of is what really matters in life. TRENT MAGAZINE you… a broken scale, just as you’ve been telling yourself. May 2004 bring you much joy! 2• Liz Fleming ’76 Come Home to the Spirit of Trent! Trent Celebrates its fortieth teaching year. Be sure to return for: ☞ The TIP 21st reunion ☞ Champlain early 80s reunion ☞ Trent Week Oct 11-17 featuring Black Tie and Birkenstocks on Friday the 15th and “The Big Party” on the 16th ☞ Original Classes (’64–’66) reunion ☞ Aquatics Staff Reunion at Head of the Trent ☞ 40 Dinners for 40 Years – a global celebration of Trent’s 40th on Saturday, October 16. To organize a dinner in your region, contact [email protected] ☞ Peter Gzowski College and First People’s House of Learning Opening th ☞ Head of the Trent Rowing Regatta 40 A year of Celebration: come join us! A complete list of highlights is included in the Association’s annual report, but we did wish to touch BY MAUREEN BRAND ’89 If you’re a member of Trent’s specifically on the five themes listed alumni e-mail list, you’ll already know above. all about our fabulous showing this fall in some pretty important publica- OUTREACH tions. (If you missed that e-mail, you This past year was special because a should get hooked up on our Alumni very special Trent person retired, and E-Directory at www.trentu.ca/alumni then promptly went to work for the so it never happens again!) Alumni Association. Paul Wilson’s 36 year career as Athletics Director may From that happy e-mail, you would have concluded, but his role as an have been one of the first to find out alumni relations ambassador acceler- that, in the annual Maclean’s rank- ated in 2002. On our behalf, Paul met ings, Trent: with alumni in Vancouver, Victoria, a) was ranked number one as Calgary, Edmonton, Peterborough, Ontario’s primarily undergraduate Toronto and Kitchener/Waterloo. And university; just how did our alumni respond, you 3• b) was ranked number one for stu- might ask? Consider the following: Association 2004 SPRING dent retention, medical/science over 300 alumni & friends made research funding, AND scholar- donations to the PSB Wilson Fund for Co-president’s ships and bursaries; Athletics and Recreation, a record 90 c) had ten other top-ten rankings golfers attended a Port Hope tourna- including placing ninth in Canada ment, the Association filled two Message for alumni support! tables at his induction into the Also contained in that e-mail was Peterborough Sports Hall of Fame, information that students themselves 180 guests turned out for the ranked Trent number one of 38 Peterborough Community Dinner and Canadian universities. Something we another 125 alumni attended the have known for a long time, current regional receptions. The newly estab- students who responded to a large lished Wilson Fund quickly became Globe and Mail sponsored survey one of the university’s most success- placed us ahead of the pack in terms ful named endowment fund cam- of the “Quality of Education” they paigns. Although we did allow Paul receive at Trent. & Gillian a two-month break in AND, as if all this wasn’t enough, England, Paul was back on the alum- Trent AGAIN took top honours when ni circuit recently with a successful the National Post declared that we evening in Oakville. were the number one primarily under- graduate university named as a BENCHMARKING Research University for the Year for Consistent with our Association plan- 2003. ning priorities (2001-05), 2002 We knew all of this great stuff became the year of measurement. We about Trent all along - what took the tracked meetings, activities, events, rest of Canada so long? programs, volunteerism, financial Congratulations to everyone in the support, and e-mail, phone and mail Trent community who has always traffic. Reports on all these areas are worked so hard to keep Trent among included in this annual report. We the best in Canada and the world! will continue to measure our vitality in 2003 and 2004, so that we can OUTREACH, BENCHMARKING, meet the Association’s goals. Please CONSULTATION, CITIZENSHIP, take the time to review these reports. SUPPORT We believe they paint a picture of an 2002-03 was another important & engaged and dynamic association. impressive year for our alumni associ- ation. continued on page 30 the greatest growth in enrolments since the 1960’s. Over the next eight years, student populations in the PRESIDENT’S PAGE province are expected to increase by Alumni are likely familiar an additional 90,000. As we grow, it with the term “double cohort” by is important to note that investment now, the first-ever influx of two high in universities is key to innovation school graduating classes to universi- and productivity, but a report by the ties across the province of Ontario. Council of Ontario Universities tells You may be less familiar, however, us that Ontario lags behind most with the double cohort’s extraordi- other provinces and the U.S. in gov- nary effect at Trent University. The ernment funding for post secondary anticipation and the preparation education. involved in the accommodation of Regardless, Ontario universities these students, has enlivened our have been responsive to the double campus and enriched our community. cohort, having ensured that qualified This fall, Trent successfully wel- students receive offers of admission.