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See public health from Sagt yin on track 12 Karen Stintz, BA’92, Dipl’93, Chair of TTC a new vantage point STA Y THIRSTY 14 FOR ADVENTURE  John Marcus Payne, LLB’73, has almost done it all OSCAR WINNER FIRST 16 MUSIC Hall OF FAMER  Composer Barbara Willis Sweet, BMus’75 STOPPING YOUR OWN 18 GLOBAL WARMING  Cardiologist & author Bradley J. Dibble, MD’90 W rITING code for 20 Websites is fun?  Web designer Amanda Aitken, BA’05, Cert’05 WHO IS WATCHING 26 THE POLICE?  Director of Ontario’s SIU Ian Scott, LLB’81 NO JOKE: FAILURE CAN 30 LEAD TO SUCCESS  Comedian and writer Deepak Sethi, BSc’02 The new Master of Public Health. 26 Get ready to lead. Departments @ alumnigazette.ca LETTERS CONSUMER GUIDE 05 Impressed by student spirit 28 Top 5 wines to drink now at Homecoming MAKING THE FRENCH CONNECTION BEST KEPT SECRET P urSUIng joint PhD life-altering CAMPUS NEWS 32 Famous signatures in Western experience for Kristen Snell, BSc’09, 07 Clinical trials of AIDS vaccine Archives MSc’11 making progress THE ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD

NEW RELEASES Q & A WITH COMEDY WRITER DEEPAK SETHI, 36 Save the Humans by Rob CAMPUS QUOTES BSc’02 09 Western hosts guest speakers Stewart, BSc’01 A CAREER OF PERSISTANCE MEMORIES GAZETTEER An expanded story on Dr. Masashi • 12 months full-time APPLY NOW • Deadline March 1 22 Winter Carnival on UC Hill 41 Alumni notes & Kawasaki, BA’53, MD’57 • intensive case-based learning schulich.uwo.ca/publichealth announcements SAVE THE HUMANS – EXCERPT • interdisciplinary faculty BY ROB STEWART, BSC’01 • 12-week practicum On the cover: Karen Stintz, BA’92, Dipl’93 (Political Science, King’s) is chair of the Toronto • international field trip Transit Commission (TTC). See related story on page 12. Photo by Nation Wong.

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Eitord ’s Western Alumni Gazette Winter 2013 (ISSN 1189-6272) Editor: David Scott Small world in big family Notebook of Western alumni Executive Editor: Jason Winders, MES’10 (Re: Alumni Notes & Announcements, with David Scott Director, Alumni & Development Communications: Diana Cunningham Fall 2012) As a graduate of Western, I recently Publisher: Helen Connell, MBA’96 read the Fall 2012 issue and realized Art Director: Terry Rice, BFA’98, MA’00 what a small world it is. Designer: Rob Potter You had Alumni Notes and Staff, Faculty & Volunteer Contributors: Announcements spanning different Steve Anderson, Jenn Davila, Natalie Devereux, decades. In the 1940s grad section you Fred DeVries, Susanna Eayrs, Keri Ferguson, featured Dr. Keith Moore, who happens Western, world survive & thrive Mathew Hoy, Heather Hughes, Jo Jennings, to be my husband’s uncle. What makes If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance and want to teach yourself how to create Douglas Keddy, Kathryn Kinahan, Keith Marnoch, this story richer was that my husband Scott May, Paul Mayne, Frank Neufeld, the misinterpreted Mayan doomsday your own online presence, alumna Amanda Sonia Preszcator, Jeff Renaud, Gulnara Shafikova, recently had the pleasure of awarding Uncle prediction didn’t come to pass, the Aitken, BA’05, Cert’05, has a learning tool to Allison Stevenson, Marcia Steyaert, Adela Talbot, Keith with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Earth is intact and the History Channel empower you and alleviate your fears: Girls Janis Wallace, Trista Walker, Kathy Wallis, Medal for his contributions to medicine. is still airing Ancient Aliens, explaining all Guide To Web Design. Jen Wilson, Angie Wiseman, Scott Woods My husband, Rod Jackson, was able unknown activities past and present as If your world is seeing the world and Photography/Art: Amanda Aitken, to do this in his capacity as MPP of “extraterrestrial.” cramming in as much adventure as possible Dr. Brad Dibble, Dr. Masashi Kawasaki, Barrie. When I saw Uncle Keith featured Even though this New Year carries the and never saying no to an opportunity, then London Free Press Collection/Western Archives, in the Alumni Gazette I realized what infamously unlucky 13 as its last two digits, alumnus John Marcus Payne, LLB’73, has a Natalie MacLean, Paul Mayne, Robyn McCallum, a small world this is and how big the McDonald’s Hong Kong, Zoran Miletic, we’re hopeful that aside from a few suffering story for you. Whether it’s England, Nepal, Genevieve Moreau, John Marcus Payne, Western Alumni family really is! triskaidekaphobia, the human race will carry Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, India or the U.S. or Terry Rice, Jennifer Robinson, Shawn Simpson on and it will be “business as usual” – for Canada, he has found work or hobbies on (SWS Photography), Rob Stewart, Nation Wong Joanne (J.M.) Jackson, BA’81 (Soc.), CSL’98 good or bad – on a global scale. the backs of elephants, flying in the air, Advertising Inquiries: Denise Jones, At Western, there are reasons to be playing polo with rock stars, working for 519-661-2111, ext. 85460; [email protected] Western where? hopeful for the year ahead. When I started the Saudi Royal family, coaching an African Guest Contributors: Suzanne Boles, (Re: Fall 2012, Marcia Steyaert’s last issue here in 2004 – after four years at a medical basketball team and teaching law at a Amit Chakma, Robert Collins, BA’77, as interim editor) journal in the Research Park – there had university, to name a few. Helen Connell, MBA’96, Sheldon Gordon, With shining faces (including yours) on already been much buzz around campus If you are in charge of the transit system Natalie MacLean, MBA’92, Paul Mayne, almost every page you’ve made the Gazette about Dr. Yong Kang working on a cure for at the Centre of the Universe (a.k.a. Toronto, Zoran Miletic, Alan Noon, Jennifer Robinson, Impressed by student Good times at a glamour mag. Too bad you’re leaving. I MLIS’97, Herb Shoveller, BA’78, MA’80, HIV-AIDS. Eight years later, there is positive to the unfortunate people who haven’t lived regret the departure of your smiling face! Marcia Steyaert, BA’96 (King’s), spirit at Homecoming gorgeous campus news following the first human trials of a there), it’s a daunting task. In all seriousness, Stuart A. Thompson, BA’10, Janis Wallace, (Re: Homecoming 2012, Sept. 27-30) (Re: Fall 2012) People now ask me “Western where? preventative HIV vaccine. the TTC is behind only New York and Mexico BMus’75, BEd’76, Paul Wells, BA’89, I just wanted to pass on how enjoyable this Thank you for a great magazine! I am Australia? Samoa?...” Damn silly change of Just like becoming a doctor, important City as North America’s busiest public Jason Winders, MES’10 year’s Homecoming was for me personally. turning 60 this year and really enjoy name, dropping “the local habitation and a research takes time. You can’t rush success. transit system. TTC chair, alumna Karen The Alumni Gazette is published three It was excellent. There was something for thinking of Western and the good times name” that gave specificity. It’s been a two-decade quest to end the Stintz, BA’92, Dipl’93 (Huron), is no stranger times annually by the Department of everyone to partake in, and I enjoyed it all. at a gorgeous campus and many P.S. The photo of Derwentwater is deadly disease for Kang. His is the only HIV to pressure and politics. Communications & Public Affairs in partnership I was quite impressed with the students at return trips. outstanding (panoramic Photo Contest vaccine currently under development in We also enter the worlds of an award- with Alumni Western and the Department Western. Their school spirit and exuberance I am three years retired from being Winner). of Alumni Relations & Development. Canada, and one of only a few in the world. winning composer, a stand-up comedian is second to none. I have always been such an elementary teacher/librarian with If you’re concerned about rising & comedy writer, a survivor of Canada’s For publication dates or to make submissions, a proud Western grad, and the current Simcoe County District Board of Christopher M. Armitage, BA, MA (Oxon.), contact the managing editor at 519.661.2111 ext. temperatures and a change in our weather, internment camps for Japanese in World students have shown me Western is still on Education, Orillia, Ont. Enjoying lots of MA’64 (English), PhD (Duke) 87482, e-mail at [email protected] or mail at you are not alone. Alumnus Brad Dibble, War II, the director of Ontario’s Special Western University, Suite 360, Westminster Hall, top. I want the student body to know how forest and provincial park walks with our Professor of Distinguished Teaching MD’90, decided to investigate further Investigative Unit and the managing director London, Ontario, N6A 3K7. Forward change of impressed I was with their warm welcome, adopted rescued Aussie who was 8 years Adjunct Professor of Peace, what we can do as individuals to make a for McDonald’s Hong Kong. address information to [email protected] or call as well as the City of London. old and orphaned, and a one-year-old War and Defense difference. The result is a handbook for It’s comforting to know the Editor’s (local) 519.661.4176 or The football game was great, and I just Aussie pup as well. We have a beautiful Dept. of English and Comparative Literature global warming: Comprehending the Climate chair was still here waiting for me – and (toll-free) 1.800.420.7519. love seeing our mascot, JW. I would like to 18-month-old granddaughter, do some The University of North Carolina Crisis: Everything You Need to Know about the Alumni Gazette (along with the rest of Printed in Canada. make a special mention with regards to travelling; retirement is quite a privilege. Global Warming and How to Stop It. the world) – when I returned after a year in Publication Agreement #40069342 the Retro ’80s dance. What a brilliant idea! We are very proud of our two children If your world is the world wide web, Advancement Services learning the ways of Return Undeliverable Canadian Addresses to: It was well done, and I think this could be who followed my footsteps and went Western University, Suite 360, Westminster Hall, you’re a young woman with a great idea Prospect Research. It’s good to be back. done again as the music and sentiments of to Western as well. Robyn Foreman, EDITORIAL POLICY London, Ont. N6A 3K7 Publication is at the discretion of the the ’80s are timeless. Congratulations to BA’03 (Honours Sociology), and Dustin Read the Gazette online at: www.alumnigazette.ca editor. Letters may be edited for length, the individuals involved in making it a most Foreman, BA’05 (Administrative and style and clarity. Maximum: 300 words. enjoyable evening. 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productivity of Canada to respond to Human clinical the lightweight challenges facing North importance of Internationalization America’s automotive transportation By Amit Chakma, President a broader diversity of global perspectives trials of HIV/AIDS industries, as well as the development & Vice-Chancellor and cultures. of innovative products for the renewable Attracting international students, vaccine making energy and construction material uch has been said about however, is only half the equation. More industries,” said Frank Henning, Fraunhofer universities becoming more than 1,000 Canadian-born Western steady progress deputy institute director. “It creates a Minternational but what has been students visited another country to study The first and only preventative HIV vaccine unique platform for the training of the next lacking is a discussion around what is or participate in experiential learning based on a genetically modified killed whole- generation of engineers.” meant by internationalization, or the opportunities this school year. Western’s virus has been making steady progress in Fraunhofer, Europe’s largest research benefit it brings toW estern students and goal is to ensure at least 1-in-10 students Phase I Clinical Trials in the United States and development organization, has been Canada as a whole. have these opportunities. and the interim results are being analyzed in L ouis Kaptur, BESc’12, and Vanja Ugresic, BESc’08, MESc’11, reflect the true nature credited with the invention and patent of This past year, We believe gaining international preparation for the next steps. of partnership involved at Fraunhofer Project Centre (FPC) for Composites Research the MP3, among many other discoveries. at Western. Both research development engineers, Kaptur, a London native, works with I had the honour experience is so important that we are Developed by Dr. Chil-Yong Kang and This joint venture is the first comprehensive equipment partner Dieffenbacher, and Ugresic, a Republic of Serbia native, works for of chairing the introducing Global Opportunities (GO) his team at Western’s Schulich School of Fraunhofer. (Photo by Terry Rice) initiative between a Canadian university and Advisory Panel awards to ensure that Canadian students Medicine & Dentistry, with the support of an institute of Fraunhofer. on Canada’s won’t miss out because they lack the Sumagen Canada, the vaccine (SAV001-H) International financial means. holds tremendous promise for success in Education Strategy, Western students who get the chance the final phases of clinical testing now that SAV001-H has proven safety and tolerability Western the formation of to go to other countries speak of their the first hurdle has been accomplished. in humans and given Sumagen confidence Western, Fraunhofer which reflects the adventures as being life-altering. The It is the only HIV vaccine currently for the next clinical trials to prove its neuroscientists importance Canada benefits of these relationships spill under development in Canada, and one immunogenicity and efficacy evaluation. celebrate innovative places on international education. over into careers as companies and of only a few in the world. The first human In addition, the humoral immune breakthrough on Our report recommends Canada double organizations are becoming more applied clinical study (SAV CT 01) using responses, such as HIV-1 antibody partnership the number of international students international and need employees who can a genetically modified killed whole-virus formation against SAV001-H, are currently A full house of local, national and physical cause of to 450,000 by 2022. That goal can be open doors and bridge cultural gaps. vaccine (SAV001-H) to evaluate its safety being analyzed. The interim data showed international leaders helped Western and accomplished while still maintaining a There is a great responsibility that and tolerability was initiated in March 2012. significant increase in the HIV-1 antibody Germany’s Fraunhofer Society launch vegetative state steady 5 per cent increase in the number accompanies introducing students This study is a randomized, observer- formations after SAV001-H administration the Fraunhofer Project Centre (FPC) for By exploring parts of the brain that of Canadians attending universities and to new worlds. We want students to blinded, placebo-controlled study of killed compared to the base line in some patients. Composites Research at Western at the trigger during periods of daydreaming colleges, thereby ensuring Canadian-born succeed, so that means recruiting top whole HIV-1 vaccine (SAV001-H) following Even though this study is a blinded centre’s Advanced Manufacturing Park and mind-wandering, neuroscientists students are not displaced. international students and putting intramuscular (IM) administration. Infected study until completion, these results are (AMP) location on Nov. 5. The launch from Western University have made a Canada has much to gain since it’s the supports in place to ensure they men and women, 18 to 50 years of age, have encouraging for the possibility of the represents an unprecedented partnership significant breakthrough in understanding estimated by 2020, almost 100 per have the same great experience at been enrolled in this study and randomized prophylactic potency of SAV001-H. bringing together a Canadian university, what physically happens in the brain to cent of our workforce growth will come Western as Canadian-born students. into two treatment groups to administer With these interim results, Sumagen is a German industry and three levels of cause vegetative state and other so-called from immigrants. International students It also means partnering with other killed whole HIV-1 vaccine (SAV001-H) or confident of the safety of SAV001-H and the Canadian government. “disorders of consciousness.” represent a great opportunity to attract the universities and organizations around the a placebo. potency of inducing immune responses in Located in the AMP, just north of Highway Vegetative state and related disorders very brightest. world to provide Canadian-born students Sumagen announced human trials. 401, near London, the centre will focus on such as the minimally conscious state are Many other international students with opportunities that will broaden their Nov. 8, 2012 that the Dr. Dong Joon Kim, a spokesperson for developing lightweight composites at this amongst the least understood conditions will return to their home countries knowledge and help them develop their patient enrollment has Sumagen Co. Ltd. says, “We have proven testing-ground facility through full industrial- in modern medicine because there is as industry and government leaders. leadership skills. progressed smoothly that there is no safety concern of SAV001-H scale trials. no particular type of brain damage that Their understanding of Canada and As someone who came to Canada as an and there have been in human administration and we are now Western President Amit Chakma said the is known to cause them. This lack of the relationships they form here can international student, I know intrinsically no adverse effects prepared to take the next steps towards university’s partnership with Fraunhofer will knowledge leads to an alarmingly high level open doors to future opportunity and what these opportunities mean for observed including Phase II and Phase III clinical trials. We are benefit industry, the manufacturing sector, of misdiagnosis. partnerships for our country. students. I also get to see in our students local reactions, delighted to be one step closer to the first the economy, researchers and students In support of the study titled, “A role Western is already becoming more how it opens minds and hearts to whole signs/symptoms and commercialized HIV vaccine.” alike, as well as align with his global Western for the default mode network in the bases global in terms of our students, faculty and new worlds of opportunities. laboratory toxicities In future, the company will be looking vision. of disorders of consciousness,” Davinia staff.I nternational students account for 9 Internationalization was not the goal after SAV001-H for collaboration with multi-national “I speak often of the importance of Fernandez-Espejo, a post doctoral fellow at per cent of this year’s incoming class – that when Western was founded in 1878. Then, injection in all biopharmaceutical companies internationalization and taking Western to Western’s Brain and Mind Institute (uwo. is three times more than two years ago. the world most students competed in enrolled for globalizing clinical trials and the world and bringing the world to Western. ca/its/brain), utilized a technique called While we are well situated to surpass our didn’t extend much beyond Ontario’s patients commercialization. This is an incredible accomplishment diffusion tensor imaging tractography to goal of having 1-in-10 students come from borders. In comparison, the print version to date. This Phase I clinical trial (for that), starting here, to build both the investigate more than 50 patients suffering outside Canada by 2013, we still lag behind of this magazine will be read by Western With (SAV CT 01) was partially Advanced Manufacturing Park and the from varying degrees of brain injury. some other leading Canadian universities. alumni living in 145 countries. these funded by the Industrial Fraunhofer Project Centre at Western,” he This state-of-the-art magnetic resonance Both international and domestic We are committed at Western to interim Research Assistant Program of said. imaging (MRI) technique allows researchers students benefit from the enriched preparing our students to embrace results, the National Research Council “This (centre) will support the to virtually reconstruct the pathways that educational experience of being exposed to opportunities on the world stage. the Canada since January 2012. competitiveness and increase the connect different parts of the brain in the

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patients while detecting subtle differences in It is important that they are recognized their brain damage. because they serve as role models for Specifically, Fernandez-Espejo was able Canadian women and girls. to show that in vegetative-state patients, a “It was how I got inspired at the start of Western is group of brain regions known as the default my career, and we’ve been returning the renewing its mode network that are known to activate favour every day since.” during periods of daydreaming and mind- Stephenson, named to the list for the strategic plan, wandering were significantly disconnected, second time, was recognized in the Public and wants to relative to healthy individuals. Sector category for her work developing hear from you “These findings are a first step towards Ivey’s new $110 million building, including identifying biomarkers that will help us fundraising, site selection, design details and Western’s Senate to improve diagnosis and to find possible construction plans, bringing the school’s Committee on University therapies for these patients” says current dispersed programs under one roof. Planning (SCUP) has been Fernandez-Espejo. “But they also give us Western’s alumnae also made a huge tasked with facilitating new information about how the healthy brain splash, occupying a fifth of the list all to a strategic plan renewal generates consciousness.” themselves. process for the University by Fernandez-Espejo collaborated with Sylvia Chrominska, BA’73 (Economics), soliciting and receiving input Adrian Owen, Canada Excellence Research HBA’75, Scotiabank, Global Human from key stakeholder groups Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and Resources and Communications group on campus and from the Imaging, and colleagues from the University head, was named in the Business category. external community. of Barcelona, the Medical Research Council She was recognized for re-launching the Members of SCUP will Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in bank’s Advancement of Women initiative, hold a series of meetings Cambridge, U.K., the Department of Clinical making executives more accountable for the with key stakeholder Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, advancement of female employees. groups to gather input, and the Coma Science Group, University Carol Hansell, BA’81 (History), Davies I believe on a personal level that we are devoting too many resources while individual faculty, Hospital of Liège on this study. Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, senior partner, to the wrong things, and not enough to the right things…The U.S. is staff, students, alumni The findings were released Oct. 3 in was named in the Professional Services and external community Annals of Neurology, the official journal of category. She was honoured for creating becoming the opposite of the principles upon which it was originally founded.” members can share ideas the American Neurological Association and a reliable corporate voting system for the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry’s Leaders in Innovation Dinner guest speaker: award-winning actor, author and spinal cord research and suggestions in the the Child Neurology Society. benefit of the issuer and their shareholders. advocate Alec Baldwin (with Dean Michael Strong), Nov. 19. following ways: Rosemary McCarney, LLB’77, Plan Online Form: Canada president and CEO, was named uwo.ca/plan2013 Most influential in the NGO category. She was recognized Email: [email protected] for the ‘Because I Am A Girl’ campaign, Mail: Strategic Plan women includes a global initiative to end gender inequity, Renewal, C/O Office of the promote girls’ rights and lift millions of girls, President and Provost/SCUP, dean, alumnae and everyone around them, out of poverty. Suite 2107, Stevenson Hall Richard Ivey School of Business Dean This campaign led to the United Nations Fax: 519-661-3139 Carol Stephenson, along with five Western designating Oct. 11, 2012 the inaugural When making a written alumnae, have been named among ‘International Day of the Girl.’ submission, please include Canada’s most influential women, according Bonnie Schmidt, BSc’86, Dipl’88, your name, affiliation to to Women of Influence Magazine. PhD’93 (Physiology), Let’s Talk Science Western (student, faculty, Released in its Winter 2012 issue, the founder and president, was named in the We, as an educational staff, alumni, etc.) and email Canadian publication’s 2nd annual Top 25 NGO category. She was honoured for her institution, have a address. While there is no Women of Influence list celebrates women program’s ability to transform the thinking responsibility to ensure that prescribed format for what who have demonstrated, over the last year, of young people who see science as an I believe that the Western written submissions must strong and unyielding leadership in one of important part of society, but not relevant mission and mandate, as Indigenous students, staff and contain, consideration may five distinct sectors. The women listed have to them. She gets kids to see that many job We are going to see one of Canada’s great academic faculty have a voice, but more than be given to exploring themes an unparalleled reach and influence, today. opportunities will be closed if they don’t activism come to the fore institutions, will help us bring that, that all students, staff and outlined at uwo.ca/plan2013. “Creating access to role models is have an open attitude toward these fields. because of social media and our about a new and better era for our faculty understand our shared Deadline for submissions is the most compelling reason why these Karen Stintz, BA’92, Dipl’93 (Political communications revolution…You are society, first by having developed Canadian history, understand February 28, 2013. achievers must be celebrated,” said Carolyn Science, King’s), Toronto City councillor the generation that can make that you as leaders, as well as through its Indigenous knowledge and the For more information visit Lawrence, BA’00, Women of Influence and TTC chair, was named in the Public contributions it can make to major uwo.ca/plan2013 happen; www means no borders.” research efforts.” president and CEO. “The women we profile Sector category. Stintz was honoured issues of contemporary society.” have made an important impact in their for her ultimate vision to see a TTC – and Senator Roméo Dallaire at the 2012 Alumnus Joseph L. Rotman, BA’57, LLD’09, chosen fields and they are all using their community – improved by 2014, better than Claude and Elaine Pensa Lecture in Human in his new role as Western’s 21st chancellor at Candace Brunette, Western’s new influence to change the world, for the better. when she found it. Rights in Western Law, Nov. 23. the university’s 300th convocation on Oct. 25. coordinator for Indigenous Services, Nov 29.

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The challenge with climate change is not how can we afford to reduce emissions, but how can we construct an economy that lives within the confines of nature’s boundaries.” E nvironmentalist David Suzuki, with economist Jeff Rubin on The End of Growth – How to Achieve A Truly Sustainable Future, cross-Canada book tour, Oct. 18. Extraordinary creativity starts here.

We need to respect the It is an honour to be asked difference between an Sarah Richardson (BA‘93) is an internationally acclaimed designer, Gemini to serve a second term as enemy and an adversary. An enemy Award-winning host, producer with four hit HGTV shows to her credit, and I think students have to be Western’s president. In my time is someone you want to destroy particularly careful. The here, I have been impressed by the and an adversary is someone a writer. And her love of the arts blossomed at Western. more you are informed, once you passion and commitment of faculty, you want to compete with in a can identify the problem, then the staff, students and alumni in raising fair fight. All democracies have problem can start to disappear.” Western’s profile for excellence.” to manage to understand that.”

Margaret Trudeau delivers the 2012 Nov. 23, Western’s Board of Governors Michael Ignatieff delivers the Centre Faculty of Health Science Distinguished re-appointed President and Vice-Chancellor for American Studies/Canada-U.S. Institute Lecture, entitled Exploring Mental Health Amit Chakma to a second five-year term, lecture, Us and Them: Opponents and Help develop the next generation Issues, Nov. 1. ending on June 30, 2019. Enemies in Politics, Nov. 8 of extraordinary leaders. extraordinary.westernu.ca

10 alumnigazette.ca Profile: Alumni Gazette Karen Stintz

attitude. Where transit was once the purview That would come in handy a decade later. of a few activists, most citizens today – and, In 2003, Stintz was helping John Tory run in turn, their governments – are starting to for Toronto mayor against David Miller. see it as necessity. “It was also a time when I was “There were periods last February and considering where I wanted to go in my March (during the transit fight) that were life. I had mentioned to my husband I had very difficult times and often I questioned considered politics. He said if that’s what the wisdom of what I was doing,” she said. you want to do, then do it. Don’t wait. There “But I stayed true to the belief that this is an opportunity now, since it is a municipal was the only way to contribute to the next election, and while you won’t be successful, generation. I knew I had to stay focused on you can start building your base,” she that goal.” explained. Stintz speaks truth to power with ease She would run, and win in a shocking and sanity. She credits experience and, victory fueled by opposition to a midtown particularly, her failures with fortifying a condo development. The long-time political spine which is the envy of many. incumbent she knocked out of the seat happened to be a close political ally of Miller, who would win the mayor’s race over Tory. “It was at “So I was already starting out on the Western where wrong foot,” she laughed. “I thought I knew a lot about how government worked I learned how having studied it in school. But being at the municipal level is a whole different beast. It to take risks, has been a trial by fire.” Since taking office, Stintz has fortified confront her standing as a true believer in the power of local government, and laments the fact challenges, fewer are not engaged in the process. “The range of things we do (as a try new things.” municipality) is remarkable, yet voter interest is the lowest and voter turnout is the “I’ve had a lot of them (failures),” she lowest and most people don’t actually know said. “But it’s the decision to recover from who their city councillor is,” she said. “So for ong

W those failures, and keep going, that inspires me, it is a fascinating dynamic.” me to take on new challenges. We all make If she could walk into a classroom today, ation mistakes, yet if you’re confident in the cause she would stress one point. N you are pursuing, then you’ll find a way to “It is possible to make change,” Stintz recover.” said. “Don’t get disengaged. It is possible It’s a whirlwind political career that to build consensus and you get better Photo by by Photo started at Western. outcomes when you do so.” She arrived on campus at 17, a bit And while the study of politics often Stayingto change thatOn dialogue. Being able toT have rackConservative leader Tim Hudak – over the organization, she is focused on the city’s younger than many classmates. She would revolves around the conflicts, Stintz Dealing with a vision, show leadership, engage the public, what she sees as shortsighted decisions long-term commitment to transit. With more soon move from Saugeen-Maitland Hall into explained much of the practice of politics is those are skills we should acknowledge and regarding the city’s transit planning. than half a billion riders annually, the TTC a house with six other people. Many of those about that consensus. Toronto’s promote.” Now, as Ford’s future has become is behind only New York and Mexico City roommates she still calls friends today, a “How are we going to manage our energy After nearly a decade on council, Stintz, muddied, Stintz’s name has been bandied as North America’s busiest public transit feat she could credit to an early propensity policy? How are we going to build a just Transit BA’92, Dipl’93 (Political Science, King’s), about as a possible candidate to replace system. at political compromise. society? How are we going to ensure we are now finds herself centre stage for one of the him. She considered a run for the top job “The big fear is we continue to talk about She would be drawn to Political Science building a productive nation competing on Growth Big Smoke’s greatest political dramas, the in 2010, but instead successfully ran for it, but don’t build it. It’s a lot easier to push with hopes of becoming a journalist, but the global stage? Those are the issues that Mayor Rob Ford Era. her council seat a third time. Stintz hasn’t the problem to the next government. But that fast faded. “I wasn’t very good at it,” she require thoughtful discourse, not conflict,” Bys Ja on Winders, MES’10 In her role as Toronto Transit Commission shied away from the current speculation, knowing we are out of time is the constant laughed. she said. “Solving those challenges are not (TTC) chair, she has been both ally and opening the door to the chance of her name pressure for me,” she said. “Everyone has “It was at Western where I learned how easy, but it can be done. It’s simply not a dirty word to Karen Stintz. critic of the controversial mayor. She has appearing on a possible by-election ballot. been kicking the ball down the field. But to take risks, confront challenges, try new “There are a lot of issues – as a country, “Yes, I am a ‘politician.’ And there is no supported Ford’s efforts to control spending, In 2010, Stintz was named TTC chair and we’re out of field.” things,” Stintz said. “Because it was a new as a province, as a city – that we’re only shame in it,” said the Toronto city councillor but she has gone toe-to-toe with him – as immediately started addressing the financial This push for a long-term plan has put environment, but still a safe environment, going to solve if we engage the public. And for Eglinton-Lawrence. “Politicians are so well as other city and provincial leaders, and customer service issues plaguing the her at odds with proponents of short-term you could try a whole bunch of things, fail at part of that engagement is having good anxious to run as a ‘non-politician;’ we ought including Western alumnus and Progressive transit system. With many of those behind savings. But she is seeing a real shift in a few, and then try again.” politicians.”

12 alumnigazette.ca winter 2013 Edition 13 Profile: Alumni Gazette John Marcus Payne S taying thirstyfor adventure

By Marcia Steyaert, BA’96 (king’s)

ohn Marcus Payne’s journey began alongside missionary parents in JNigeria, and brought him to a quiet, small town north of Chicago where he lives now with his wife and three children. But it’s the points in between that make Payne, LLB’73, a contender for the “most interesting man in the world.” Born in Toronto,Payne Seated left to right: John Marcus Payne, Ram Gurung, Prasant Mishra and the late Jim was 2 when his family Edwards, co-founder of Tiger Tops jungle lodge, after their team won the first World Elephant moved to northern Polo Championship, December 1983. (Photo provide by JM Payne) Nigeria in 1950. His parents worked for Serving in Mission (SIM), After graduating from Western, Payne left Bell and the next year began working partners. Oh, and then there’s rock and roll. Raised Baptist, Payne drifted away from Payne one of the world’s largest studied theology in England before joining for the Royal Saudi family, helping to set “I knew what I By chance, he met Ginger Baker, drummer his faith as a young man. “Then, in the mid- evangelical missions. In the decade spent Nigeria’s Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) as up a telecomm company, HiCap (High didn’t want to do for Cream, at a Nigerian gas station; they 1990s, I realized there had to be more.” He there, Payne fell in love with Africa. It opened a law professor and assistant track coach in Capabilities). became friends and Payne taught him to began teaching bible school and today sits his eyes to the world, and he wanted to see August 1974. A few months later, he found In 1987, Payne opened a chain of – end up at a major play polo. Got Ringo Starr playing elephant on the boards of two Christian organizations. more. himself coaching ABU’s basketball team, ‘Jumpers’ (English for sweaters) shops law firm, with a polo, too. Payne applauds Western’s efforts Eventually though, the family returned despite his limited experience, and the team in England, and four years later, he set up For a man with a passport like John to provide students more international to Ontario; Payne went to high school in went on to win the national championship an international consultancy, Parrington window on the Marcus Payne’s, why settle in sleepy, small- opportunities. “When students go to other nd Woodstock, completed his undergrad at the same year. Associates; work he continues to this 22 floor...doing town Illinois? countries they need to remember they are McMaster, and then chose to study law Soon after, Payne was called upon by the day. An early win for the company came commercial Simple: Family and faith. there to learn. They have to be prepared, at Western. He had three years of athletic Nigerian general’s chief-of-staff to coach in 1995, helping to set up Bharti AirTel in While he owes his adventuresome and observe. ‘You need water? I’m going to eligibility left, and Payne figured a law degree the national team. Nigeria being a military India, now the world’s third largest mobile real estate.” spirit to his parents, Payne missed out on physically help you dig a well.’ That will do would open doors for him. dictatorship at the time, Payne’s protests telecommunications company. knowing his extended family growing up. more than lecturing on the use of “I knew what I didn’t want to do - end up that he was unqualified fell on deaf ears. “I It hasn’t been all work and no play for for captaining the first world championship He vowed if he had children, they would clean water.” at a major law firm, with a window on the did what I was told,” he says. The team won Payne. He bought into Tiger Tops, a tiger elephant polo team. know their grandparents, cousins, aunts “You can’t stay in one place and have 22nd floor, looking out to the building beside their way to the All-African finals in 1975. jungle lodge in the Chitwan Jungle bordering He got his pilot’s license at Toronto Island and uncles. Life today in the Village of the kinds of experiences I’ve had,” Payne me, doing commercial real estate.” One thing leads to another, as they say. Nepal and northern India that had a fleet Airport’s flying school – in three weeks flat. Glencoe (population 8,723), on Chicago’s says. “It’s about being in the right place at He ran track under Bob Vigars and And in Payne’s case, another. And another. of domesticated elephants. He and some He’s led safaris in several African countries, north shore offers his children (ages 11, the right time. And if someone asks me recalls winter training, running the tunnels From 1976 to 1979, he played professional friends trained the mahouts (elephant taken on commissioned photo assignments 10 and 9) that opportunity in spades. if I can help them design a widget, I say from Law to Engineering. The experience polo and articled at two law firms until Bell drivers) in the fundamentals of polo, from Arizona to Zimbabwe and owned a With wife Virginia’s family nearby, it isn’t ‘Yes, of course!’ Then I look up widgets on led him and his teammates to lobby for an Canada picked him up in 1980 as director eventually establishing the World Elephant polo team in England. He’s made a few treks unusual for them to host Sunday family Wikipedia,” he says, laughing. “I might not indoor track, resulting in the one found in of contract operations, a go-between for Polo Association. Payne wound up in the to Everest Base Camp, where he has met dinners for 30 or 40; and the Payne know today, but tomorrow I will be able to Thompson Arena today. Bell and the Saudi government. In 1982, he Guinness Book of World Records in 1985 and made life-long friends and business children see their grandparents weekly. help you.”

14 alumnigazette.ca winter 2013 Edition 15 Alumni Gazette O scar winner first Music Hall of Famer By Janis Wallace, BMus’75, BEd’76 told us it was too dry for children.” When the young filmmakers returned n inaugural inductee into Western’s for their reel, they noticed a sign for Music I give to Western so Music Alumni Wall of Fame went with and Arts. So they went in. “Roger Kennedy Aher gut instinct of making music for liked our naïve enthusiastic energy. He loved “ films rather than becoming a concert pianist the film and said he’d run it in the Sunday students will have the and found Oscar-winning success. afternoon slot if we added some interviews Barbara Willis Sweete, BMus’75, made and behind-the-scenes shots.” same opportunity I had.” the life-changing decision on a bus ride The CBC sponsored the young group to from Ottawa to London during her final participate in an international organization Carolina Torres, BACS’05 year at Western. of music broadcasters, buyers and “I decided I wanted to go into film. I hadn’t recording companies. “We were the first to Student award recipient even made a home movie, but thought I had attend as makers of product,” Willis Sweete Senior Credit O‚ cer, RBC Capital Markets the visual instinct, the musical instinct and said. “So we got a lot of attention and very was used to working with teams of people,” quickly became known to opera companies, said Willis Sweete. orchestras, dance companies and public Willis Sweete’s instincts were accurate. broadcasters.” Not only was she accepted into the film When Willis Sweete describes her program at York University, she was to techniques, the musical references are clear: become one of Canada’s leading filmmakers lyrical sections, holding a shot as long as it with a long list of awards, including: an can go, the rhythm. “Everything is music,” Oscar for best original score for The Red Barbara Willis Sweete she said. “I did not realize how my music Violin, dozens of Gemini Awards, three training would inform every moment. My Make an extraordinary impact Genie nominations and one Genie win for choice of subjects is often musical. I can Perfect Pie, three international Emmys, three “It’s like speak the language of the maestros, and As a student, Carolina received a Western scholarship that provided her with meaningful opportunities to Grammy nominations and dozens of awards with comfort comes trust.” learn and grow. Since graduating in 2005, she has been making a monthly gift, ensuring other students have at festivals around the world. In June 2012, anything live – Producing the Live at the Met broadcasts the same Western experience. Join Carolina by giving to Western and make an extraordinary impact. she was named Honorary Director of the evoked Willis Sweete’s performance Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto. She is something always anxieties from student days. 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They That has become my modus operandi.” Visit us on the web at givingtowestern.uwo.ca Your contribution will be receipted under Charitable Registration (BN) #10816 2587 RR0001. Western respects your privacy. Personal information you provide will be updated on our database and used to provide you with a receipt for your gift or pledge, to communicate with you about events & activities, alumni programs & services, and fundraising. At any time you have the right to request that your personal information cease to be used. For more information or to make a request, please go to advser.uwo.ca/privacystatement.htm, or contact Advancement Services at 519.661.4176, 16 alumnigazette.ca 1.800.420.7519, by fax at 519.661.4182 or by email at [email protected]. winter 2013 Edition 17 Profile: Bradley J. Dibble

radley J. Dibble, MD’90, is concerned about the excellent overview of climate change. He sets out practical cardiovascular health of a very large patient: planet solutions—like ending coal-fired power and ramping up solar BEarth. and wind energy—that in relatively short order could bring Like many, the Barrie-area cardiologist, who lives and great improvement,” says Gideon Forman, executive director. practises in Midhurst, took a deeper interest in global Dibble encounters many people who say: “even if I believe warming and environmental issues following the release of Al in global warming and even if I believe it’s man-made, the Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth in 2006. market will sort it out.” He doesn’t buy that. “I was very impressed with all of that. I was frustrated that “I think the market in most part is driven by selfish Stopping governments and societies didn’t seem to be coming on motives, and not for ones that are going to have long term board. I thought there has to be more to this story.” benefits. In fact, a lot of what society has to face is ‘do we do Dibble undertook a massive self-education, reading as what’s right for today’s economy – or do we do what’s right many books and articles as he could find on environmental for tomorrow’s environment?’ ” YOUR OWN issues affecting not only Canada but the entire planet. As far as environmental concerns, nothing draws public What he found when he tried discussing the topic with others and media attention like the Oil Sands of Alberta, both north was that most people’s knowledge on the issue was limited and south of Canada’s border. Even with a contentious to media sound bytes and many didn’t bother digging any energy source like the Oil Sands, Dibble still likes to view all deeper. sides of the argument for the complete picture. “What I found was there wasn’t really a good book that “You know it’s the dirtiest oil on the planet. It creates a GLOBAL took people who were open-minded and wanted to know the lot of jobs in Canada. And we’re sitting on 13 per cent of the facts and broaden their horizons on this so they could make world’s source of bitumen (the heaviest, thickest form of their own informed, intelligent decisions.” petroleum). So, do we just deny that when the whole world So, he solved the problem by writing the book he couldn’t wants it?” WARMING find:Comprehending the Climate Crisis: Everything You Need He admits that although “it’s environmentally awful” By David Scott to Know about Global Warming and How to Stop It (2011, what’s happening in Alberta, that it does help Canada’s iUniverse). The book is structured into three sections: the economy. The Oil Sands continue to be developed but he

“..do we do what’s right for today’s economy – or do we do what’s right for tomorrow’s environment?”

background science, the problem of global warming, and the asks: “Does every decision have to be made for today’s solutions available to us all. economy?” “I wanted to fill a niche that I thought was missing… I’ve The cardiologist thinks a major problem with our political always loved all sorts of science, so that’s why geology and system is that it is not designed for long term planning. evolutionary biology and astronomy and cosmology were “They think no more than four years because that’s the interests of mine anyways.” next election and they can’t do a decision that’s going to help In August 2012, Dibble was selected, following an involved 20 years from now because it usually won’t be so helpful in application process, to receive training from Gore, the former the next four years.” U.S. vice president and Nobel Laureate, as part of the Climate So, if the federal government eventually introduces a tax Reality Project. “He will be providing me with some valuable (or a less controversial political term) on carbon, electricity education and tools that will allow me to provide a version of and natural gas, heating is going to cost more and in turn his climate talk for Canadians,” reported Dibble on his blog. encourage Canadians to move towards renewable energy, “There will be more than 1,000 people from more than 20 reasons Dibble. But then, it’s also going to create a lot of countries attending this event. Canada will be represented by opposition and resistance. 115 individuals, and I’m thrilled to be one of them.” “People start to look for cheaper alternatives and if they’re Dibble’s new book, which is widely available through do-able and they’re cheaper, they’ll go to them. But people Chapters and Amazon, is gaining the attention and support will hate that group (of politicians) and they’ll vote them out of fellow physicians, including Western alumnus, Dr. Marc next time… We almost have to have a long-range committee Lewin, MD’90. for the planet.” “I’ve just finished this book and I’ve got to say that it’s In the mantra of short-term pain for long-term gain, Dibble incredible. It really ought to be required reading for all 9th admits: “You’re going to have to expend the energy of today graders in social studies classes,” Lewin says. “The way he (to develop green energy). But then the energy of tomorrow explains the science... makes it real, understandable and will be green and we won’t have that problem ongoing but it’s personal.” going to be a problem in the short term.” He also has the endorsement of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. “Dr. Dibble’s book is an For more information: braddibble.com

18 alumnigazette.ca winter 2013 Edition 19 Profile: Alumni Gazette Amanda Aitken

1 2 3 Writing Code for Websites is Fun? Empowering women on the web

Amanda Aitken

By Suzanne Boles therapy” session for $200 with a business coach she’s teamed up Some websites created by Amanda’s course include: 1) girafferevoluton.com 2) lovebeautyalchemy.com 3) thatvitalspark.com with. he owner of Better Than Chocolate web design, and founder Her sales approach – chatty, ‘hey girlfriend’ style - is appealing Better than Chocolate web design company, with the focus on and CEO of Girls Guide To Web Design (GG2WD), has a totally and the offer to learn HTML and CSS code without any prior “What I’m doing now is creating a website in a day, now marketing it as a “branding studio.” Tunique business model – Jetsetter – that’s really taking off. knowledge, enticing. Support for learners comes from her Facebook “What I’m doing now is offering a much more rich, totally She’s been named to Forbes’ list of “20 Inspiring Young Female page, monitored by three former students. offering a much more customized immersive experience…designing brands for websites Founders to Follow on Twitter” and ranked third place in Ali Brown’s Born in Montreal, her family moved to Toronto when she was 8. for women entrepreneurs really based on who they are.” “Entrepreneurs Who Thrive” contest. Interviewed by CBC, profiled At 13, they moved to Ottawa and she taught herself code rich, totally customized Less than a year since their wedding Aitkin and husband, Justin in the Montreal Gazette and quoted by numerous online e-zines and began designing websites for clients. She attended the Verrall, headed out on a six-month adventure in November 2012, and popular blogs, Western’s MIT grad, Amanda Aitken, BA’05, prestigious Lisgar Collegiate Institute’s full-time high school, immersive experience… traveling to Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Hong Kong 31, has a way with words, a flair for design, and gets a thrill out of gifted students’ program. and beyond. Aitken will remain hands on with her businesses “empowering women.” With a voracious creative appetite she wasn’t about to be designing brands for throughout the journey, and plans to grow GG2WD, adding level 2.0 From her apartment in Montreal, Aitken created GG2WD to help pinned down to any specific specialty. Knowing her next move and, rolling out a Guy’s Guide to Web Design, with Justin jumping on women become “empowered” and to “unleash your inner designer was university, Aitken chose Western’s (then new) MIT program websites for women board, and likely the voice behind the videos for this new enterprise. and create an awe-inspiring WordPress blog or website.” “because I saw it’s a degree of possibilities.” Her final year was an entrepreneurs really Reflecting back she says “I didn’t ever see myself doing this. “It really is filling a gap,” Aitken says. Up until GG2WD the “only exchange at McGill University. She graduated in 2005 adding the When I was at Western I hadn’t yet fully woken up to the fact that place to learn (WordPress) web design, and to have this support certificate in writing to her credentials and stayed in Montreal. based on who they are.” I was an entrepreneur at heart, but looking back I can see that my and handholding, would be to go to school.” Her resumé is impressive including copywriter for a marketing decision to go to Western specifically to enroll in the MIT – which To date, more than 600 women have purchased the 35-hour company – something she says she really enjoyed, and allowed fashion website and magazine, Lady Licorice. Also bilingual, at one is such a flexible interdisciplinary program – was definitely an video-training course, launched in July 2011. With a reasonable her to expand on the tools she learned from both the MIT and point she did fashion and beauty translation for LouLou Magazine important stepping stone for me.” price tag of $397 US, this has catapulted her over the $200,000 writing certificate programs - to indulging her passion for fashion that, she says, was “an easy add-on to a full-time job.” gross income mark. She also offers an add-on, one-hour “website via entrepreneurial forays as The Stylish Copywriter and her online She finally decided to take the leap of faith and launched her More information at: girlsguidetowebdesign.com

20 alumnigazette.ca winter 2013 Edition 21 Memories

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Winter blahs blow away 1

Contributed by Alan Noon was a dramatic drop in the number of entries as interest in snow sculptures 3 4 began to wane and official competitions were terminated. n the evening of Jan. 21, 1971, several students Other popular attractions included a giant slide on University Hill, which walking across campus peered into the shadows remained in daily operation until 4 a.m. A game called ‘Powder Puff’ football Onear University College and spotted a large dinosaur. encouraged female students to don football gear and carry the ball. As a A giant cat-like animal sitting on a nearby lawn, in turn, was spectator later remarked, “It was somewhat disarming to hear a player flatly watching them. The 1971 winter carnival had arrived! refuse to wear a helmet because it would ruin her hairdo.” Meanwhile, the Circa 1960, The Purple Spur, a University Council club men strained and grunted in ‘tug of war’ competitions, chariot races in the promoting student social activities on campus, decided old JW Little Memorial Stadium, and snowmobile races on the Baldwin Flats, to organize an annual ‘Winter Carnival’ to help eliminate now site of the TD Waterhouse Stadium. For the less hardy, there was the the winter blahs. Activities would include snow sculptures, Winter Carnival Queen competition, frat parties that seemed to run almost

sporting games, dances, fashion shows and concerts by continuously and dances both on and off campus. Fashion shows featured 7 leading acts of the day. Western’s finest from mini skirts to midis and everything in between. Perhaps the most public aspect of each carnival was the Beginning in 1968, feature concerts were held in Alumni Hall. Not all of 1) Giant slide on University Hill snow sculptures that dotted the campus. The first ones, them ran smoothly. Some artists, including Leonard Cohen, cancelled on 2) T ypical scene carvings 1981 during the early 1960s, were simple and straightforward but two-weeks notice and the Purple Spur organizers had to scramble for a 3) W inter Carnival Queen 1971 as the years past there developed a keen competition for replacement. Appropriately, blues guitarist Johnny Winter was available and Linda Hammett the various prizes and accompanying prestige leading to an performed twice for the admission price of 50 cents each show. Rock legend 4) Lumberjack 1978 increase in overall quality. Many entries were coloured and Little Richard’s appearance was delayed by a bomb scare and his first set 5) Cat with bird admired by displayed incredible talent and originality. was four hours late in starting. Further complications delayed the second Phyllis Horpenuk 1971 As each carnival rolled around some of the entries show and the local Free Press reporter remarked that when he departed 6) P uff football players 1971 became risqué and a few were considered in bad taste and Alumni Hall at 5 a.m. Sunday morning the audience was still rocking to Good 7) Little Richard performs in removed by order of senior Western officials. By 1982, there Golly Miss Molly. 5 6 Alumni Hall 1971

22 alumnigazette.ca winter 2013 Edition 23 Profile: Alumni Gazette Randy Lai

andy Lai has gone from a “golden time” on Western’s campus to running one of the most successful R‘Golden Arches’ operations in the world. Lai, BA’93 (Economics), serves as McDonald’s Hong Building green earns green Kong managing director, accountable for the overall By Stephen Johnson direction of the company’s more than 200 restaurants in the country. Under her leadership, McDonald’s Hong Kong has onathan Westeinde, BA’92, is the highest transaction base in the world. promoting a new type of capitalism – At Western, Lai, who fondly recalls living in Lambton Jone that puts equal importance on the Hall, completed her Economics degree in just two and a environment and making profits. Westeinde half years. After graduation, she returned to Hong Kong, is the founder and managing partner of where she would earn an Executive MBA from the Chinese Windmill Development Group. The company University of Hong Kong. has completed a number of high-profile She joined McDonald’s China in 1998 as a marketing green building projects in cities like Victoria, executive, and then moved to the marketing department of Calgary and Ottawa. They have won many McDonald’s Hong Kong in 2005. local, national and international awards for In 2010, she would be named as managing director of their commitment to green building. McDonald’s Singapore, the first woman to serve in that Considering position. She would return to Hong Kong as managing these credentials, director. one might think Today, Lai, named CEO of the Year 2012 by the Asia Westeinde Pacific Customer Relationship Excellence Awards, pushes had a PhD in for restaurant expansion and customer service, while also Environmental OverArching dedicating vast resources to employee training and career Studies. He actually development. In 2011, McDonald’s was named among the has a Bachelor of D ockside Green project in Victoria, B.C. Aon Hewitt Best Employers in Hong Kong. Economics from And the root of that success, she credits Western. Western University. “In the past 20 years, I have gone through different W esteinde “My mother and are Western engineering grads helps with do. “The word to describe building green phases of my life, both ups and downs,” said Lai, who was father (John, BESc’62 & Shirley, DiplN’63) that mission, too. Jonathan’s father, John projects is perseverance,” commented Success recently honoured with Western’s 2012 Young Alumni Award went to Western,” said Westeinde. “I had a (class of ’62); his brother Jeff, BESc’89 and Westeinde. “It certainly takes a lot more Bys Ja on Winders, MES’10 of Merit - Asia. “But one thing was certain, my university very enjoyable time there as well. I found the sister-in-law Colleen, BESc’91, and his sister time and the learning curve increases. Most education at Western has provided me with a strong courses useful and had fun as a member of Julie Westeinde, BESc’89, were all involved developers are risk-averse so we are doing foundation, both academically and personally, to enable me the rowing team.” in the setting up of Windmill Developments something that is against the norm.” to walk through my journey. After completing his degree, Westeinde and are still involved in varying degrees There are a number of benefits to “For that I am eternally grateful.” worked for a consulting firm setting up today. green developments beyond the obvious Canada Post outlets across western Windmill was quickly able to put its green environmental ones. “We found with Canada. He began to consider how to blend credentials to work. The company became Dockside Green and our other projects, the an interest in the environment with a career one of the founding developers behind green features are a natural advertisement. in business. “In 1998, when I completed the high profile Dockside Green project We calculated about 2.5 million dollars Nominate an outstanding my MBA from Trinity College in Dublin, in Victoria, B.C. Dockside was a 15-acre worth of free advertising for Dockside Green. Ireland, I was actually considering doing a brownfield that the City of Victoria became Less marketing is required to fill occupancy Western alumnus degree in Marine Biology. Around this time, owners of through default. The plan is for with our projects. Also we find selling the I read a book called Natural Capitalism. It the project to be built over seven years being health benefits of not using toxic materials for a prestigious really helped frame my ideas about green a model sustainable community. Some of is almost greater than the energy benefits of buildings and the business opportunities the unique features of the project include green construction.” Alumni Award of Merit 2012 Community Service Award: 2012 Young Alumni Award: available within that context.” an on-site biomass gasification plant that Westeinde sees his business evolving Towhid Noman, BSc’90 Carolyn Lawrence, BA’00 In 2003, Westeinde founded the Windmill transforms wood waste into biogas, which is over the next few years. “We are still Categories, criteria and nomination form Development Group. “I formed the company burnt as fuel to provide hot water and heat. developing new green projects but the can be found at www.alumni.uwo.ca/ with the intent to be a visionary real estate The project also provides onsite treatment material and labour are getting very connect/awards/merit.html development and services group with of its own sewage. Dockside Green has expensive. Windmill has teamed up with expertise in brownfield redevelopment and been awarded a LEED (green building the Ledcor Group in Vancouver to form The nomination deadline is Friday, March 15, 2013. green developments,” said Westeinde. “We rating system) platinum status. Windmill LedcorRenew. In the coming decades, there Awards will be presented on Homecoming weekend, will be a huge opportunity to retrofit existing also wanted to adhere to a triple bottom also achieved LEED platinum for projects September 27-29, 2013 line approach placing an equal emphasis on completed in Ottawa and Calgary. buildings to make them more energy people, profits and the planet.” While constructing green buildings is efficient. This will help to reduce energy For more information, please call Having family members at Windmill who a laudable goal, it is not always easy to costs and greenhouse gas emissions.” Susan Henderson at 519.661.2111 ext. 85871 2012 Dr. Ivan Smith Award: 2012 Professional Achievement Agnes Chan, BACS’81 Award: Dr. John Roder, PH.D’77

24 alumnigazette.ca winter 2013 Edition 25 Profile: Ian D. Scott

By Sheldon Gordon in order to make the Unit’s investigations more transparent. He now issues a detailed public annual an D. Scott, LLB’81, has the thankless report as well as news releases following fatal but essential job of policing the police. As incidents and when charges are brought. IDirector for the past four years of Ontario’s When he has issued releases citing lack of cop co- Special Investigations Unit (SIU), he oversees operation, “it has caused great consternation within probes into police actions that have ended in the police community,” Scott says. “But if we could I’m death, serious injury, or allegations of sexual not do a thorough investigation, I’m going to report Not assault (Alberta is the only other province to the public on that.” with an independent investigative unit). T he Western alumnus is not related to the late here to be The SIU investigates incidents across Ontario, Ian Scott, the former Ontario Attorney-General, or involving any of the 28,000 municipal, regional and to Iain Scott, the current Dean of Western Law, or to buddy-buddy provincial police officers. Scott’s role in the process any of the Ian Scotts in private law practice. But he of police accountability hasn’t won him many friends brings not only a respected name but also the right w ith the police. in blue, but he says his mission is to “develop public legal background to the SIU leadership. confidence in the civilian oversight of the police. I’m He earned his LLB at Western in 1981. “Those not here to be buddy-buddy with the police.” Instead, were good years,” he recalls. “They provided a strong he has pushed for “independence, thoroughness and foundation for the next step in my career.” That step transparency” at the SIU. was to clerk for judges of the former High Court of In 2010-11, the last fiscal year for which data are Justice. He intended to practice civil litigation, and available, the SIU conducted 291 investigations, and did so for six months at Stikeman Elliott LLP, “but I laid 12 charges against officers.A lmost half of the got tired of it, and wanted to be a courtroom lawyer.” investigations were of deaths or injuries suffered in So in 1985, he joined the Ministry of the Attorney police custody. Despite a growing number of probes, General as a Crown Attorney. however, Scott and his staff of 87 investigators are A career highlight was his successful prosecution sometimes thwarted by police refusal to co-operate. in 1997 of a former Ontario Provincial Police officer “I’ve advocated for changes in the legislation for the shooting death of aboriginal protester that would give the SIU more power,” says Scott. D udley George during the land dispute at Ipperwash Currently, the unit can compel interviews with Provincial Park. Scott left the Attorney General’s officers who witnessed an incident, but not with office soon afterward “for a new challenge,” starting the officers being investigated, he says. “We cannot his own practice as a criminal defence lawyer. But compel them to give us a statement or their notes.” in 2001, when the A-G’s Ministry “made me an offer He would like uncooperative officers to be subject to that I couldn’t refuse,” he returned to do appeal work. disciplinary measures, including possible dismissal W ill he return to the Ministry when his term at from the force. the SIU ends in 2013? Or would he accept a second While the provincial government hasn’t acted term? “Five years here might be enough,” he says. on this recommendation, Scott has overcome ”I will have been the Director of the SIU longer than resistance from officials within the Ministry of the anyone else has. Frankly, you don’t make a lot of

A ttorney General (from which he is seconded) friends here.” ■ Wong Nation by Photo

26 alumnigazette.ca Consumer Guide

Liquid Assets: Top 5 Wines to Drink Now

By Natalie MacLean, MBA’92 Cuvee Georges Domaine Puig-Parahy 2010 Côtes Du Roussillon, Midi, France Remember Finance class at Ivey? P/E multiples, ROI, EPS … Spicy dark fruit on the nose with layers of velvet texture on the don’t keep those concepts just for your investments. Use them to palate. Full-bodied and generous: I like that in a wine. Pair this big maximize the present value of your everyday living, too. beauty with a rack of lamb, grilled pork chops or the Netflix release I pride myself in being a wine cheapskate, as I don’t think you of that great movie you missed while in theatres. Drink: 2012-2016. should pay more for pleasure than you have to. And these days, Product No: 171025 14.5% XD $15.95 Score: 90/100 you don’t have to as you can find terrific wines in the liquor store at great prices. Here are my top five bargain bottles at the moment. Natalie MacLean, author of the bestseller Unquenchable: A Tipsy Search for the World’s Best Bargain Wines, is editor of Canada’s Henry of Pelham Estate Winery Sauvignon Blanc 2011 most popular mobile wine apps and wine site at Niagara Escarpment, Ontario www.nataliemaclean.com. Lovely aromas and flavours of ripe melon rather than the herbal notes in some sauvignon blancs. I like this medium-bodied wine a Natalie MacLean’s Top 5 Tips for Finding Bargain Bottles lot, and the price even better. Bring on refreshment as well as white- fleshed fish, oysters, goats milk cheeses and crisp walks. Drink: 1. When a region is stereotyped for one kind of wine, in Niagara’s 2012-2015. Product No: 430546 12.3% D $14.95 Score: 89/100 case icewine, look for what else it does well, such as sauvignon blanc or riesling. These are the best supporting actors that often Cathedral Cellar Kwv Chardonnay 2011 offer stellar performances in the glass. Western Cape, South Africa Terrific price for such a luscious, full-bodied chardonnay. Bursting 2. International trade bans are tough on any country, but it can with aromas of green apple, butter and toasty goodness. Pair with motivate domestic industries to be more competitive afterwards. roast chicken, corn dishes and a blazing fireplace. Drink: 2012-2014. South African wine has made amazing progress quickly following Product No: 328559 14.7% XD $14.95 Score: 88/100 the end of Apartheid and they offer extraordinary taste and value.

Inniskillin Wines Pinot Noir 2011 3. A bargain is not the cheapest wine but rather the best price/ Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario quality ratio, Pinot noir is expensive to grow and make. Niagara Loaded with mouth-watering cherry-berry flavour delivered on pinots are a bargain compared to those in Burgundy, which easily a satin texture with medium- to full-bodied weight. A blackberry- top $50 a bottle as a starting price. infused finish makes this wine go down slippery fast. This wine is a great match for turkey, salmon carpaccio, grilled tuna and wild 4. Look for wines from warm regions, such as Chile and Argentina. mushroom risotto. Drink: 2012-2016. Product No: 261099 13.5% D Often the cost of production is cheaper because winemakers $13.95 Score: 89/100 aren’t battling disease, rot and weather as much as cool climate producers do. Therefore, there’s less crop loss and lower costs Falernia Reserva Syrah 2009 for production. Elquí Valley, Chile A full-bodied palate-whacker that doesn’t take a bite out of your 5. Ultra-fashionable wine regions often get all the attention for any wallet. Lots of fleshy black fruit and coffee depth. Pair with a juicy particular country, as do France’s Bordeaux and Burgundy. They rare steak, prime rib and meaty discussions about your vacation command high prices. Look for the lesser-known regions for your plans this year to warmer climes. Drink: 2012-2015. Product No: best value bottle, like southern France’s Languedoc-Rousillon, 208371 14% XD $15.95 Score: 89/100 where the deals are to be found.

28 alumnigazette.ca winter 2013 Edition 29 Profile: Alumni Gazette Deepak Sethi

ow does a computer science graduate working in his father’s the TV show Romantically Challenged starring Alyssa Milano. chickpea business end up on a top 10 list with comedy Blitt took Sethi under his wing and asked him to send him some Hgiants Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert? sample scripts to read. Sethi agreed. He had none. Standup comedian and comedy writer Deepak Sethi, BSc’02, So he bought every script-writing book he could his hands on, landed a computer science dream job after graduation: doing then wrote three sample scripts and sent them off. He called back encryption for wireless Internet networks. He was building ciphers Blitt later for his reaction. and travelling extensively from his workplace in San Antonio, Texas. “Did you sent this to anyone yet?” “In one year, I earned 250,000 Air Miles. I took about seven “No.” business trips a month when I was 23 and 24. Around the USA and “Well, don’t. It’s terrible.” to Europe.” Blitt patiently helped Sethi along with his script development. His Eventually the company Sethi was working for went bankrupt. His agent sent Sethi some scripts of The Office. He then wrote some job – and he honestly claims this is no joke – was outsourced to his spec scripts and sent them to Blitt until one hit the mark. Patience cousin in India. paid off. “We talked later and he said ‘your job is SO easy,’ ” said Sethi. Blitt then shared it with Seth MacFarlane, creator of the animated Plan B was joining the chickpea business in Toronto, to his adult comedy series Family Guy. father’s great approval, in 2005. He also enrolled at Schulich School Escalation up the TV ladder resulted in Sethi being invited to L.A. of Business at York University to complete his MBA. to meet with executives in the Family Guy offices. To fill the creative gap in his busy schedule, he started creating There was no way around this. He had to tell his father funny posts on his Facebook page. something. The first one was about his self-confessed “creepy goatee.” “I told my Dad I was doing research for beans.” Word of mouth amongst friends spiked interest in his public His meeting went well and Sethi was offered a one-year contract musings. Sethi started getting 50 to 60 comments per post from to work on the Family Guy. people he didn’t know. This time, he had to break it to his Dad for real. “Those were good days. It made me happy.” “It was tough. He had all these succession plans for the business. On a friend’s advice, he started his own blog and wrote My sister wasn’t interested.” anonymously. After one month of posts, he was eager to check his Without someone to take over the family business, his Dad sold online statistics. the business. Total: six viewers. But Sethi has since given his father plenty of reasons to be proud. Not discouraged, he continued his intense regimen of waking up Near the end of his year with Family Guy, he got his first writing at 4 a.m. each day to write his blog before going to the bean factory. credit on an episode. He was also fitting in university classes for his MBA. “It was sad, “I was asked to co-author the season finale. It was an amazing depressing, hard,” admits Sethi. turn of events,” he said. Then his luck changed. Following his contract, he entered the cutthroat world of He wrote an article on “why I hate Tropicana juice.” It got 3,000 freelance comedy writing where his agent warned him “there are views. His next one got 15,000 to 20,000 views. Then he started 5,000 writers with the same credentials as you looking for work.” Tweeting small, funny thoughts. Sethi continued to write on advice from Blitt. And he was rejected It culminated in 2009, when out of the blue, Sethi’s blog was again and again - including from The Rosie O’Donnell Show. named No. 8 of 10 top funniest sites or online people by MSNBC. “You could get 100 rejections in a year. Some people would just Also on the list, Comedy Central’s flagship stars Jon Stewart of The focus on that. But you only need one ‘yes’. ” Daily Show and Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report. Sethi’s advice: “Don’t worry about rejection. It got me to where I “I got 5,000 (Twitter) followers overnight.” am.” He needed a persona, so he created “a fat guy with boobs who His persistence paid off. He made it into the Just for Laughs lived in his parents’ basement.” comedy festival with a short film he produced. A CBC executive saw Soon Sethi was attracting the attention of Hollywood. Actress the film and called him. He pitched a show idea and they bought it. Alyssa Milano sent him a private tweet. And comedian Denis While the national broadcaster hasn’t committed to a production, it Leary’s wife, Ann Lembeck Leary, was a regular reader. She asked is a positive. the Computer Science grad turned blog writer when he’d be in Since then he signed with Comedy Central and has a contract By David Scott New York next. “Oh, next week,” scrambled Sethi, not knowing with Daniel Tosh to write on his animated series Brickleberry. what would happen. In addition to his script writing gigs, Sethi loves the thrill of a live He bought a ticket to the Big Apple and met Leary for lunch. After audience in the world of standup comedy. In November, he had a a friendly chat and realizing Sethi really wasn’t “a fat guy with boobs stint at the L.A. Comedy Factory on top of Planet Hollywood on the who lived in his parents’ basement,” she told him “you should do Las Vegas strip and played YukYuk’s in Toronto. stand up.” He got his first agent through Leary in 2009. The computer science grad doesn’t have many regrets on his His next brush with fame was a pivotal conversation with Ricky path to Hollywood – but if he could change just one thing, it would be Blitt, one of the original writers on Family Guy. In 2010, he created his Soph name at Western, which translated to “Indian Lover Boy.” Photo by Shawn Simpson Shawn by Photo

winter 2013 Edition 31 Best Kept Secret How will you impact future generations?

Clockwise from top left: Charles Darwin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bernard Law Montgomery, C.S. Lewis, Stephen Leacock, Just sign here Alfred Lord Tennyson and Lester B. Pearson. “Western is like a family to me and I want to do my part to take care of my alma mater.” “With my student scholarship, I have been able Hidden Treasures of presidents. student. Lester B. Pearson signs off as ‘Mike to explore my educational interests and discover Western Archives: What makes these signatures even more Pearson’ in a letter to Western President Sally Lane, BA’73, BEd’74 Famous Signatures interesting is the context in which they ‘Ed’ Hall. A favourite find is a letter written my ultimate career goal in public health.” - donor appear – usually in correspondence, i.e. by Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock to By Jennifer Robinson, MLIS’97 handwritten letters expressing sentiments Edward Reid of the London Life Insurance Sanna Malik, BScN ‘12 Communications and Outreach that today would likely be accomplished company, in which Leacock speaks about - student award recipient Librarian digitally, through email or even Twitter. There the editing process for his latest book, noting is something very special about discovering that he is happy to receive corrections, hile the materials in the Western a letter from Field Marshal Bernard Law directing those reading his manuscript to Archives are indeed hidden Montgomery (known as Monty) written on also “...put in better jokes...” if desired. Wtreasures at Western, stored his own letterhead (“From Field Marshal The The discovery of these signatures in in climate-controlled spaces with limited Viscount Montgomery of Alamein”) in his an age where people think more about For alumna Sally Lane, it’s helping students, faculty and researchers achieve their goals through ongoing fi nancial access by the general public, valued for their own hand, thanking an unknown writer for their digital signature than their signature support and including Western in her will. monetary and/or historical worth, perhaps a letter praising Montgomery’s memoirs. signature is made all the more exciting, even more priceless, and certainly more This was the same hand that doubtless and perhaps bittersweet, knowing that While those who benefi t from planned gifts may never meet the donor who helped them, they will always appreciate hidden, are those treasures discovered by wrote out battle plans for the D-Day invasion correspondence archived from 2013 will archivists as they set about arranging and at Normandy, a polite and friendly missive lack the flourish of pen and paper. No the opportunities they have been given because of someone else’s generosity. describing materials acquired by Western penned by the man who defeated Rommel’s stray inkblots, no embossed personalized Archives. For many years now archivists army at El Alamein in 1942. letterhead or post-marked envelopes. Consider making an endowed gift to Western through your will. Your commitment will help the next generation at Western have been compiling a list of In addition to Montgomery, while going Correspondence today is often of the achieve their full potential. famous signatures discovered among about their duties Western archivists have digital variety; collections of emails with various donations. These serendipitous finds uncovered hidden treasures such as a an automated signature file identifying the givingtowestern.uwo.ca/howtogive/giftplanning include signatures from Arthur Conan Doyle, letter written by Charles Darwin in 1873, a sender. This is part of what makes these creator of Sherlock Holmes, to Billy Graham, short note penned by Alfred Lord Tennyson hidden treasures, scattered among the files a Christian evangelist notable for having and the familiar signature of C.S. Lewis on of Western Archives, all the more precious been a spiritual advisor to a number of U.S. a neatly typed academic reference for a and unique. For more information, contact: Jane Edwards at [email protected] or call 519.661.2111 ext. 88829 Western University, Alumni Relations & Development, Gift Planning 32 alumnigazette.ca Westminster Hall, Suite 160, London, ON N6A 3K7 Profile: Alumni Gazette Masahi Kawasaki The Path of Persistence Dr. Masashi Kawasaki never gave up hope in pursuit of his dream

By David Scott, with notes from Dr. Masashi Kawasaki Dr. Helen Battle, BA’23, MA’24, LLD’71 In 1957, Masashi Kawasaki was Editor of Internment camp in Slocan City, B.C., in (PhD’28, U of T), had a science and pre- the Medical School Journal, a member winter 1942. The first winter was so bad that He lived through four med teaching career at Western that of the Hippo-Campus medical student the snow and ice came right through the spanned more than 50 years, beginning in newspaper staff, and received a Hippocratic cracks of some shacks. Many woke up to a years of internment 1921. She was the first woman in Canada Honour Society Award for his extensive frozen pot of water on the potbelly stove. camp as a teenager and to be awarded a PhD in Marine Biology. participation in student activities. (Photo from Library and Archives Canada) was educated by nuns so he wouldn’t lose his high school years. He situation. You ask yourself ‘Did we do Life in Windsor and university “Dr. Battle, it’s the last day for Kawasaki survived near fatal bouts anything wrong, that we’re put in this in London applications to medical school.” of pneumonia as a child and as a medical situation?’ We use the word: shikata ga nai Following internment, Japanese “Yes, it is, I went by the Registrar’s student, yet he persisted to become the first – it can’t be helped. That’s a word used over Canadians could not return to Vancouver. Office this morning and saw Helen Allison Japanese graduate with a medical degree and over again.” They were spread across the country. (Registrar, BA’24, LLD’65). I went down the from Western. Back at Western for Homecoming 2012, The Kawasaki family ended up in Windsor, list of the people, and noticed your name Dr. Masashi Kawasaki, BA’53, MD’57, Kawasaki recalled his years in the camp Ont. The children were the first Japanese wasn’t on there. Why not?” an otolaryngologist (ears, nose, throat without bitterness. The temporary housing students in the public school system in the “Dr. Battle, I can’t afford it. I don’t have specialist), has enjoyed a successful career they lived in had no insulation, only tarpaper. border city. any money to go to school.” in Dallas, Texas, and was back on campus to The lumber used for construction was wet. Kawasaki admits his English was not She replied “We won’t worry about that, celebrate his 55th anniversary of graduation It split when it dried, which made for cold strong when he first attended high school will we?” at Homecoming 2012 and to reflect on nights when winter started. He remembers in Windsor. Kawasaki said “yes, I have to worry about his past. waking up some mornings with snow on his “I met the challenge with the first it. Where am I going to get the money to go? blanket. math exam. I got the same mark as their I think that’s going to be out of the picture.” Internment Camp “Food was not plentiful. My parents top math student. From then on, things Battle asked “would you do me a favour?” The attack on Pearl Harbor changed leaned on their gardening skills to plant changed. We got along better, the teacher She pointed over to Allison’s office. “Would the lives of Japanese Canadians. In a vegetables. I remember one evening we and I and everything started to improve. I you go over there and register right now?” tragic chapter in the country’s history, all feasted on cooked sparrows—cleverly, worked hard.” “Yes maam! And she was happy with Canadians of Japanese descent on the west mother threw one of the army blankets over Although money was tight, his parents that. I had a green ticket.” coast were interned in prison camps in B.C., a gathering of sparrows and smothered saved and sent him to Western for his Kawasaki had learned of three other very in 1942, following the Pearl Harbor attack in Back row from left: Kawasaki is standing beside his mother and father. In the front row are them. Under my mother’s tutelage, we undergrad degree. He worked in his bright Japanese students who had earned December 1941. his brother Jun and sisters Mary and Shirley. The photo was taken before the family spent gathered mushrooms from the wooded summers to help pay the tuition each year. their undergrad degrees and were pursuing His father arranged to have a family four years in an internment camp. (Photo Provided) areas. Dandelion inner leaves served as our In third year, he started wondering if he PhDs at Western: Fred Sunahara, BSc’48, photo taken before they were sent away. salads.” should go into medicine. PhD’52; the late Samuel Yamada, BSc’49, They all dressed up for a formal picture. The interned Japanese set up a school “There was one lady involved in all of PhD’55;and Kaney Ebisuzaki, BSc’50, “My Dad was a very handsome man. As in one barn, his father in another, his mother, There was no barbed wire, no barriers. to educate the elementary age children. this, who made the decision for me. It (MS’52, PhD’55, University of Wisconsin). was my mother, very distinguishing.” two younger sisters and 6-year-old brother Because the mountains were running north Fortunately, in 1943, the Roman Catholic was Dr. Helen Battle. She was a marine There seemed to be an underlying belief Masashi’s parents were forced to sell the in still another. With other Japanese men, and south and we were in the valley. And Order of the Sisters of Assumption biologist.” in the 1950s that no Japanese student small family store, valued by an appraiser at his father was transported to Slocan City, on one of the sides of the mountains, you responded to the call from the Bishop of would be admitted into Western’s medical $100,000, for a mere $1,000. Two months British Columbia, to quickly build shelters have coyotes –you can hear them on a Nelson, B.C., to establish a high school. Dr. Battle’s Influence school. But following a personal meeting later, the family registered at Hastings Park for the internees—their own families. clear moonlit night. One would howl, then “I would have lost my high school years. She called Kawasaki into her office for a with university president George Edwin Hall Clearing Station—where the Japanese were Fortunately, three months later, the family they would all start – a whole mountain of It was an entrance into realizing what 2 p.m. meeting. “I saw all these degrees and to discuss the matter, and coming through herded, processed and later transferred to reunited in Slocan City. Some families howling. The other side was cougars, bears,” the future is going to be if you don’t get honours she had. It was a huge room. She with good marks, Kawasaki became the prisoner-of-war camps, called relocation remained separated during the internment he said. educated.” had a beautiful desk. Very impressive for a first Japanese medical school graduate at camps. In Hastings Park, they lived in years. At the time, the teen wasn’t sure what “I well remember the imposed young boy with no money, nothing.” Western in 1957. livestock barns and slept in bunk beds with He and his family spent four years in the was going to happen. “In one sense, you’re humiliation of incarceration during those She says “What day is this today?” To read more about Dr. Kawasaki’s time straw mattresses. camp. an adventurous guy, so you don’t mind it. years of my life. However, I have forgiven the He answered “It’s Wednesday, April 29.” at Western & medical career, please visit: The family was split up—Kawasaki lived “You could move around in our camp. In another sense, this is a very insecure acts by those in power and bear no hatred.” “What else?” www.alumnigazette.ca

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Voice of mater again – be it in your own community together to better their local community. We with fellow alumni or back on the main would love to hear your suggestions, please Alumni events Find us on Facebook Alumni campus. You want that Western student contact Trista Walker, executive director, experience, the one that hooked you in the [email protected], to share your ideas. Alumni Events with Robert first place, to grow and expand into a lifelong Sharing our Connections. Connecting Collins, BA’77 Western alumni experience. the talents of our students and our Connect with old friends and make new ones at Alumni And we know the pressure is on us to alumni through enhanced school-to- Western events happening in locations around the world. deliver just that. work opportunities and ongoing career Our full events listing can be found at: Your alumni association Board of linkages where alumni can provide mutually alumni.uwo.ca/connect/events Directors, through its committees, is actively beneficial experiences. Visit our website, developing ways for you to engage. While we alumni.uwo.ca, through 2013 as we enhance Featured Events are always on the lookout to develop more our career service offerings. Feb. 7 – Hope for the HIV/AIDS Epidemic with fulsome programs, here are a few steps you Raising our profile. Nobody, I mean Dr. Chil-Yong Kang, F.R.S.C. – Toronto, Ont. can take right now: nobody, knows how to celebrate quite Feb. 12 – UWOpera – Cosi Fan Tutte – Sarnia, Ont. Let us tell you a story. Tell us about like Western. We already own the best interesting alumni doing interesting things Homecoming in Canada, now our challenge March 28 - The Power of LinkedIn - Waterloo, Ont. in interesting places. We love to tell the is to make Founder’s Day (March 7) a global May 13 – China, Past, Present & Future with Professor M any ways stories of our alumni – be it on our website, occasion on the same scale. How would you Ken Bowlby – Vancouver, BC alumni.uwo.ca, or in our magazine, Alumni suggest people acknowledge their purple Gazette. Do you know a notable alumnus? and proud traditions in their communities March 7 - Celebrate Founder’s Day around the world to engage Send Alumni Gazette editor David Scott, and offices around the world? Send a note • Hong Kong • Ottawa [email protected], a note today; to [email protected] with your ideas today. • London, UK (Mar. 5) • Vancouver e know you want to be a part of this. Serving our communities. Looking It’s said postsecondary institutions with • London, Ont. • Toronto and more From left, Julie He, MPA’11, Spencer Sandor, BA’11, BA’12, Julien Patel, WSo let me tell you how to get started. to continue that sense of responsibility to the most engaged alumni are those with the • New York BA’12, and Paul Szabo, MPA’13, at the Western Local Government When I speak with alumni like yourself, it others fostered during your Western years? longest tradition of excellence, are the most Program - 2012 Annual Conference, Nov. 2 in London. quickly becomes clear you crave a range of We are exploring a variety of community- resilient and are held in the highest esteem. opportunities to get involved with your alma service initiatives for our alumni to work Your alumni association hopes to rise to How would you suggest people acknowledge their purple and Founder’s Day proud traditions in their communities March 7 and offices around the world? Celebrating 135 years Alumni Western’s 2013 Discover the World program offers travel opportunities It’s time to remember the contributions of for Western alumni and friends. this challenge and is currently reviewing our strategic mandate, renewing our our founders and celebrate the extraordinary Join like-minded travellers on one of our journeys, enhanced by knowledgeable constitution, refreshing our alumni legacy accomplishments of our students, sta , faculty lecturers and tour directors, offering an exceptional cultural and educational on campus and recruiting talented alumni and alumni. experience. volunteers, to ensure that it can enhance Celebrate with fellow alumni around the world. its contribution to Western’s ongoing Spring Fall excellence. Italy, Istanbul, Danube, Greece, Toronto All this activity would not be possible Cycling the Loire Valley China, Italy, France London, ON without the countless hours of our current London, UK alumni volunteers, the talent of our staff Vancouver Summer and the important contributions of our New York 2014 Spain, England Lakes, commercial affinity partners – MBNA, Hong Kong Galapagos, Panama Russia, Black Sea Manulife Financial and TD Insurance. And, Ottawa Canal, Celtic Lands most importantly, your participation. As you read this and have a comment, a alumni.uwo.ca/connect/founders-day suggestion or want to share an opportunity, alumni.uwo.ca/connect/founders-day To view all upcoming trips, visit alumni.uwo.ca/travel. please contact us at [email protected] Contact us to receive a copy of our catalogue or to be added to our mailing list. Robert Collins is president of Western’s Susan Henderson Alumni Association. 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Robert Nightingale, LLB’75, has 1970s been appointed to serve with the 1980s Alumni Notes and Announcements D r. James McMillan Franklin, PhD’70 Superior Court of Justice in south- Thomas D. Willock, MBA’80, has (Geology), has been appointed to the central Ontario. recently been appointed to the Board technical advisory board for Falco of Directors for Orestone Mining Corp. Pacific Resource Group Inc., in Quebec. Dennis Fairall, BA’75 (Phys-Ed), in Toronto. Don Getty, HBA’55, was inducted into decades to Naval Veterans in Canada, BEd’78, has recently been inducted the London Sports Hall of Fame on the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust, the Seventy-two year old Don McLeish, into the Windsor/Essex County Joseph Tomenson, BA’80 (Economics), Nov. 8. Getty served as quarterback Friends of HMCS Haida, and for bringing BA’70 (Huron) of Mississauga again Sports Hall of Fame for his work has been appointed a financial advisor for the Mustangs while attending credit to Canada in his pioneering work teamed up with Peterborough’s Mike with the Windsor Lancers. to the Raymond James Ltd – the Western and led the team to two with the International Association of Moloney to win the men’s T-7 2x Canadian branch of Raymond James consecutive Yates Cup victories in Conference Center Administrators, and doubles category at the Canadian Dr. William Colby, BSc’77, MSc’80 Financial Inc – NA investment dealer. 1952 and 1953 before leading the the Interim Ministry Network. Sculling Marathon 10.5 km distance on (Microbiology/Immunology), has He is FA to TT Wealth Management team to the Eastern Collegiate Union the Ottawa River. McLeish and Moloney been appointed as Chatham-Kent’s Group Football Championships in 1954 and Garry Douglas Cardiff, BA’66, has posted a time of 55 minutes 14 seconds permanent medical officer of health. 1955. Getty played basketball for the been inducted into Brockville Collegiate to beat their perennial competition by On Aug. 26, Jocelyne Zucco, BA’81 Mustangs as starting guard and won Institute’s Hall of Excellence. 4 min 28 seconds from Niagara Rowing Paul Haggis, BA’77 (History), is a new (French) won a Canadian Comedy the Sr. Collegiate Championship of School. Rowers from Ottawa New chairman of CP Railway Ltd., Vancouver. Award: “Best Performance by a Female Ont. three consecutive years from The Canadian Ophthalmological Edinburgh Club, Burnstown RC, Island - Film” for her portrayal of Nicole in the 1952-54. Getty’s football career Society (COS) has named Dr. W. Bruce Rowers, Beachburg RC, and Ottawa Richard Senechal, HBA’77, has been 2011 feature filmFunkytown . Funkytown continued to a professional level Jackson, MD’67, as the recipient of RC rowed in excellent conditions in appointed as CEO and president for is a Canadian drama directed by Daniel playing for the Edmonton Eskimos the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award. 1x, 2x and 4x categories. McLeish DUCA Financial Services Credit Union Roby and written by Steve Galluccio. for 10 years, winning two Grey Jackson was presented with his award tore his hamstring the day before the Ltd. in North York. Set in Montreal during the disco era, Cup Championships. He was also on June 27 during the COS’s 75th race in 2011,and spent six months in the film revolves around the Starlight, Thomas Plant (1940s) and named Outstanding Canadian in the annual meeting held in Toronto. After physio/rehab and PRP injections, but Brenda Fisher Dickie, BA’77, (BEd), a fictionalized version of Montreal’s Dean Michael Milde Western Conference in 1959, and was 17 years at McGill University, Jackson finally training at the London High married 32 years to John Dickie, a famed Lime Light discothèque. The runner-up for the Schenley Award arrived in Ottawa to help establish the Performance Centre and was able to lawyer. They have two daughters, the film won a Genie Award for Best for Outstanding Player in the CFL. University of Ottawa Eye Institute in compete in 2012. first an event manager, the second a Achievement in Costume Design. Jocelyne Zucco (1980s) 1991. He served as director general Visual Arts educator, now on their own. 1940s After retiring as a vice-president of until 2008 and is now director of the Ken Martin, BA’71, president and Dickie is still teaching, but supplying Paul Sommerville, LLB’81, has been Faculty of Arts & Humanities Dean Nortel Networks in 1995, Winn Walters, Refractive Surgery Laser Program. In CEO of Pacific Blue Cross, director now and enjoying traveling. appointed VP, Regulatory Affairs and research and teaching, to independent Michael Milde recently presented BA’59, became a sculptor, and recently 1992, he pioneered the excimer laser of Ovarian Cancer Canada and the General Counsel for Toronto Hydro- geological consulting and government alumnus Thomas Plant, BA’42, with installed a major work at the new program at the Eye Institute, the first Canadian Life and Health Insurance David Cornhill, BSc’77, MBA’80, Electric Systems Ltd. relations. His academic career a certificate from Amit Chakma, a pin Centre for Addiction and Mental Health university training program of its kind Association, has been elected chair of has been ranked 10th out of 100 by brought him to positions at the and gifts from Homecoming to mark (CAMH) in Toronto. Now working on a in Canada. the Vancouver Board of Trade. Financial Post as a 2011 Top CEO. Carman Overholt BA’81, (LLB’84, University of British Columbia, the his 70th anniversary of graduation life-size bronze sculpture of Lucy Maud He is chairman & CEO of Alta Gas Ltd. Queen’s), has resigned from the University of Windsor, and finally from Western. Milde and Jo Jennings, Montgomery. He has works in many Paul Beeston, BA’67 (Huron), will P aul Beeston (1960s) Karen J. (Stoskopf) Harding, in Calgary. partnership of FMC Law to establish to the University of New Brunswick communications officer, heard fantastic private collections and public pieces remain president and CEO of the BA’74 (MA’77, Art History, U of Overholt Law in the heart of downtown (UNB) where he served as Chair of stories of the faculty in the ’40s, in urban and institutional settings. Toronto Blue Jays. The 67-year-old from T), received Richmond Hill’s 2012 Anthony Brown, HBA’78, has joined Vancouver where he has practiced the Department of Earth Sciences. Plant’s D-Day history, and got to see Welland, Ont., agreed to a three-year M. Vogel Prize by the Society for Volunteer Achievement Award in Brookfield Financial as a managing since his call to the Bar in 1986. his original transcript. He regaled them deal in October 2009 after spending Industrial Archeology, in recognition of the Arts, held at the Richmond Hill partner in Hong Kong. Overholt can be reached at carman@ Rower Lesley Thompson-Willie, BA’82, with stories of all of his old professors, 1960s the previous 12 months in the role on an “outstanding scholarship in the field of Centre for the Performing Arts. Her overholtlawyers.com BEd’83, won a silver medal at the 2012 most of whom he remembered by William Thomas, BA’63, MSc’67, interim basis while searching for Paul industrial archeology.” volunteer appointments include 18 Dr. Patrick Ferris, BSc’78 Summer Olympic Games in London. name; he also had to justify his grades MDiv’80, was awarded the Queen Godfrey’s successor. Initially reluctant years on the Richmond Hill Public (Biochemistry), a University of Arizona James N. Fairbairn, BA’81, has been Coxswain Thompson-Willie pushed the to his wife and granddaughter. Read the Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, to take the position on permanently, Harry H. Panjer BA’69, MA’71, PhD’75, Library Art Committee, the Board research associate in the department added to the board of directors of women’s eight to a silver medal win full account online at alumnigazette.ca. in Ottawa on June 3, acknowledging Beeston said he’s “committed to seeing was awarded the title of distinguished of Directors of Arts Richmond Hill of Ecology/Evolutionary Biology, has Eurocontrol Technics Group Inc. on Aug. 2. She has won five Olympic his contributions over the last three this thing through,” although he refused professor emeritus by the University of and member and archivist of the recently had a newly discovered species in Toronto. He is CFO of Band-Ore medals (gold in Barcelona, bronze to put any sort of time frame on that. Waterloo at its Fall 2011 convocation for Sculptors’ Society of Canada (1984 of algae named after him. Resources Ltd. in Burlington. in Sydney, silvers in London, Atlanta 1950s his contributions to the field of actuarial to present). Harding also founded and, as part of the coxed four, in Los James Fleck, HBA’53, has been William Campbell, MBA’67, has science. He has served as president of and chaired the annual Richmond Hill Arthur Reimer, BEd’78, has just Leslie McIntosh, BA’81, LLB’84, after Angeles), more than a dozen world appointed as vice-chair to the board of recently been appointed as senior the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, as Youth Visual Art Festival in 2007. retired from 23 years of teaching with 20 years in New Zealand, is leaving championship or World Cup medals, Canadian Museum of Civilization Co. operating advisor of New Silk Route’s President of the U.S.-based Society of the District School Board of Niagara. her current role of Chief Legal Counsel and was named one of the sport’s leadership team based in New York. Actuaries, and on the executive of the Also, during a teacher financed leave Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand Top 10 women by the International Brgn. W. Donald McNamara, BA’54, New Silk Route is a leading Asia- International Actuarial Association. In last year, spent three wonderful weeks to take up Senior Counsel Corporate Federation of Rowing Associations is the current Chair of the Board of focused private equity and growth addition to 29 years at Waterloo, he driving around southern Europe. Arthur Services role with IATA in Geneva, in 2011. This was the seventh time Governors for Royal Military College of capital firm. has taught at Western, the University and Deborah L. Reimer, BSW’77 Switzerland. the 52-year-old rowing legend has Canada. He is a retired (1988) Brigadier of Texas at Austin and the University (King’s), are now proud grandparents of competed in the Olympics. General with the Canadian Air Force. Alan Thicke, BA’67 (English) recently of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is now three beautiful grandchildren. John W. Vandertuin, BMus’82, In 2009, McNamara retired from the starred in a new Canadian musical (mostly) retired and living in Comox, MMus’88, an organist for several Patrick Joseph Nangle, HBA’82, is Queen’s School of Business as an called Queen for a Day, performed B.C. and Elora, Ont. Allan Oberman, BA’79, has been churches in Brantford, performed at Purolator Inc.’s new president and CEO associate professor. In November 2011, at the Richmond Hill Centre for the appointed president and CEO of Teva Western in October. On Oct. 27, he was effective Jan. 3. Nangle joins Purolator he completed 15 years as Honourary Performing Arts. Frank McCrea, BSc’69 (Computer Americas Generics. He is president added to the university’s Wall of Fame from PNI Digital Media Inc. Prior to Colonel, Canadian Forces College, Science), received a Queen’s Diamond & CEO of Teva Americas Generics in at the Don Wright Faculty of Music. joining PNI, he served as president Toronto. The same month he received Robert A. Brine, BA’67, has been Jubilee Medal on Oct 16. He is president North Wales. of Digital Dispatch Systems Inc. the 4th clasp to Canadian Forces awarded Fanshawe College’s annual of Procom – Professional Computer In July 2012, Dr. Bruce E. Broster, Throughout his more than 15 years in Decoration (52 years of uniformed president’s distinguished full-time Consultants Group. Maureen P. Brosnahan, MA’79, has PhD’82 (Geology) P.Geo., of senior leadership roles, he has held service). In June 2011, he received teacher award. received an award from the United Food Fredericton, N.B. was the recipient pivotal senior positions in a number the Canadian Forces Distinguished Walter Iwaniw, BA’69, MA’71, asks if and Commercial Workers Union and of the 2012 Canadian Professional of prominent global firms, including Service Award from Chief of Defence R obert W. Passfield, BA’68, senior any Western rugby players are still alive the Agriculture Workers Alliance for her Geoscientist Award from Geoscientists Neopost and the Ascom. He earned Staff, and in June 2012 was awarded Winn Walters (1950s) historian emeritus, Parks Canada from 1967-70 teams, or the 1968-71 Dennis Fairall (1970s) outstanding contributions to improving Canada. He has been involved at his MBA from the Sauder School of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. Agency, has been awarded the Robert hockey team. the lives of agriculture workers in Canada. every level of his profession from Business in 1986.

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James Brett, MLIS’84, has been the forefront of patient care. She has Michael Nolan, BA’87 (Economics), Roz Elliott, BA’89 (King’s, Engl/ Michael Back, BA’93 (Economics), Shelley Niro, MFA’97, is the first named among Ontario’s most been a member of the Uniting Against has recently been appointed as VP, Hist), MA’91 (Journalism), has been has been nominated for Ernst & laureate of the new Ontario Arts Council outstanding university librarians by the Lung Cancer’s medical board since chief financial officer and treasurer promoted VP, public affairs of Denver Young Entrepreneur of the Year in Aboriginal Arts Award. She received the Ontario Confederation of University 2003. She is being honored for her of AMRI (Albany Molecular Research energy company DCP Midstream in the Business-to-Business Products award on Aug. 2012 at the Woodland Faculty Association. contribution to advancement in the Inc). January 2012. & Services category. He is President Cultural Centre in Brantford during the field of lung cancer and for guiding the and CEO of Collective Point of Sale Planet IndigenUS activities. Her work is Nazir Valani, BSc’84 (Mathematics), foundation’s scientific program. George McEwan, BEd’87, has Paul Ziemer, BSc’89 (Biology), Dip’91 Solutions Ltd. of Toronto. recognized internationally. has been appointed a partner to KPMG recently become the principal of (PhysEd), has been appointed as in Toronto. Scott Thomson, HBA’86, has recently Central Huron Secondary School in director of EKO International Corp. Jordan Shapiro, BA’94 (Philosophy), Jayne Paquin, BA’97 (English Lang/ been appointed CEO of Manitoba Hydro. Clinton, Ont. has been appointed a director of Lit, King’s), has been selected as the Dr. Michael W. Neumeister, BSc’84 His former position was EVP Finance, Metropolitan Energy Corp. in Vancouver. 2012 winner of the Alan Marentette (Physio/Pharm), has been promoted Regulatory and Energy Supply, CFO at Peter Shearing, BESc’87, of 1990s Manager of the year award. She is the to chairman of the Department Fortis BC. Vancouver has been appointed to Karim Karsan, BA’90 (Political Thecla Ellen Sweeney, BA’94, MBA’99, HR manager for Pen Financial Credit of Surgery at Southern Illinois the board of directors of Rare Earth Science), 44, received a Queen has been promoted to Partner at Birch Union in Welland, Ont. University School of Medicine. He Dr. Connie Deline, MD’86, has recently Metals Inc. Shearing is the current VP Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal Hill Equity Partners at Toronto. has been chief of the Division of opened Sante Integrative Medicine in of business development at CEC Rare for his community service. Managing Steven B. Kroeker, MBA’97, is the new Plastic Surgery since 2002. Lower Paxton Twp., Penn. Earth, which has been retained as an Director, Compliance and Consumer Christopher Gratias, HBA’94, has been vice-president and chief financial officer D r. Michael W. Neumeister adviser to Rare Earth Metals Inc. Protection at the Ontario Energy appointed as Co-Head of global mining of Keyera Corp. in Calgary. He was (1980s) The Municipal Government of Michael Meneguzzi, BA’86, has been Board, Karsan was born in Kenya investment in CIBC, in Toronto. formerly the company’s Vice-President Shanghai has presented Andrew appointed as president of High Rise After seven years as a National and emigrated to Canada with his of corporate development. Au, HBA’84, CEO of Citi China, with Division of Empire Communities - a Coach with the Canadian Curling family in 1973, settling in Belleville. Corey A. Dias, BA’94, MBA’00, has In August, the Ontario Teachers’ a Magnolia Award in recognition of residential builder and developer in Association, Scott Arnold, BA’87, has As a gay man who is acutely aware been appointed to the Board of Mitchell W. Pady, BMus’97, is the new Federation Board of Governors elected his contributions to the city, at the Vaughn. accepted a position with the World of the hardships that HIV/AIDS have Directors of Equinox Exploration Corp. artistic director of The Cellar Singers, a Thunder Bay teacher Terry Hamilton, award conferment ceremony held at Curling Federation as a Competitions placed on people in Canada and other He is a Research Analyst, Agriculture 60-member choir in Orillia, Ont. BEd’82 (Math/Physics), as the 69th Shanghai’s Xijiao State Guest Hotel in Paul L. Rooney, BSc’86, has been and Development Officer. countries, he joined the ACT board of and Special Situations at MGI Securities president of the Ontario Teachers’ September. Named after Shanghai’s appointed chief operating officer and directors in 2004. During 2009 and in Toronto. Rajeev Aggarwal, BSc’97, MBA’03, is Federation at its annual meeting in official flower, the Magnolia Award senior executive vice-president of Armour Shield, a company owned 2010, he chaired the board. In 2011, a CEO and co-founder of Localytics, in Niagara Falls. Hamilton has been a honors foreigners living in the city who Manulife Financial Corp. in Toronto. by Assaad El Dik, BSc’88, won the Karsan joined Casey House as the vice Lucy Emery, BA’95 (Eng/Soc), has Cambridge, Mass. Localytics provides math and science teacher with the contribute significantly to Shanghai’s 2012 Integrity Award from the Better chair of its $10 million Redevelopment been nominated a Partner with PwC app analytics and app marketing for the Lakehead Board of Education since the economic performance, international Enrique Mendoza, MA’86, PhD’89 Business Bureau of Western Ontario. Campaign Cabinet, which is allowing Canada in Montreal. mobile market, similar to companies early 1980s. Hamilton has also been relations, business environment, (Economics), has been appointed the organization to address the such as Flurry and Adobe. very active in his Affiliate—the Ontario management standards and as Presidential Term Professor of Paul W. McDonald, MA’88, has been changing need of HIV/AIDS care with a Lawrence M. Chu, BA’95 (Admin/CF/ Secondary School Teachers’ Federation community development. Economics in the School of Arts appointed as the first head of Massey new Day Health Program in a state-of- Econ), has joined Goodwin Procter’s Joseph Odhiambo, MA’98 (Political Melissa Sawatsky (2000s) (OSSTF)—serving in a variety of local and Sciences at the University of University’s new College of Health in the-art facility to be opened in 2016. Business Law Department, Silicon Science), of Ottawa, returned safely capacities in Thunder Bay including George A. Cope, HBA’84, has been Pennsylvania effective Jan 1. New Zealand. Valley Office, as a member of Goodwin’s from Bamako, Mali, following the March branch president, chief negotiator, ranked 17th out of 100 by Financial Howard Grosfield, BA’90 Technology Companies, M&A/ 2012 military coup that destabilized and district president. Post as a 2011 Top CEO. He is president Rory Ring, BA’87 (PoliSci), became the Jon A. Hantho, MBA’89, is the 2012 (Philosophy), LLB’94, has been Corporate Governance and Private the country and resulted in a sustained 2000s and CEO of Bell Canada and BCE Inc. new president and CEO of the Sarnia- recipient of the Services category at appointed president and CEO Equity Practices. political, economic and humanitarian Paul Asmundson, MBA’01, has joined The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Toronto. Lambton Chamber of Commerce in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the of American Express Canada, in crisis. Odhiambo is grateful that he was People Corp. as vice-president of announced that G. Paul Fitzhenry, mid-December. Year Awards in Ontario. Markham. Peter Marshall and Alana McClure, able return to Canada through Burkina corporate development in Winnipeg. BA’83 (EnglLang/Lit), was elected by Marvin Haasen, BA’85 (Geo/UrbDev), BA’95, married April 16 in Punta Cana, Faso after numerous unsuccessful the Board of Directors as senior vice has been appointed the new president Troy Wright, BA’87, was appointed an Ian Cullwick, MBA’89, has been Rev. Don M. Aitchison, BSc’91, Dominican Republic. attempts to leave the country. He was Michael Joudrie, MBA’02, has recently president of global communications, and CEO of Madison Pacific Properties executive VP and president and CEO of appointed VP, Leadership & HR MDiv’94, of Port Hope, was awarded in Mali as the Canadian representative been appointed as VP, Business effective Oct. 8. Inc. in Vancouver. He is also joining the Group Financiero Scotiabank Mexico Research to the Conference Board of a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Toronto Life (Dec 2012 issue) to a global initiative for clean energy Development at Teck Resources Ltd., board of directors. effective October. Canada in Ottawa. Medal on Oct. 25. highlighted Nicole Winstanley, and fuel sources which was launched in Vancouver. Peter Manojlovic, BSc’83 (Geology), BA’96 (Eng Lang/Lit), in its article on February 2012. has been hired as the vice-president of Julis Pataky, MBA’85, has been David Holler, BMus’91, has been Toronto’s most influential people. The Dr. Mohammad-Haneef Mian, PhD’04 exploration at Nevsun Resources Ltd. in appointed a partner to KPMG in appointed the new artistic director Penguin pubisher was named as one Stephen Eddy, BA’98 (Economics), (EngSci), has been appointed to the Vancouver. Vancouver. overseeing the Fanshawe Chorus of Toronto’s Next Moguls, with expert has been appointed as VP, sales and Board of Directors of Seair Inc. London, The Gerald Fagan Singers and networking and fast growing clout. marketing for Niobec Inc-subsidiary Joyce Musial, BSc’83 (Geology), Thomas Apostolos, BESc’85 the London Concert Orchestra. for IAMGOLD-gold mining company. Dr. Scott Jobin-Bevans, PhD’05, has has been promoted to vice president, (Electrical), has been appointed In this newly created role, he will be been appointed a member of the Board corporate development at Batero Gold president of Ricardo Inc., a global, David Graham, HBA’92, has been responsible for sales and marketing in of Directors for Northern Shield. He is in Vancouver. world-class, multi-industry consultancy appointed a Judge of the Tax Court the North American and Asian markets. a national correspondent for the CBC for engineering, technology, project of Canada. in Toronto. Jim Mignaul, BA’83, is an executive innovation and strategy. Arthur Zuidema, MPA’98, MBA’05, has financial consultant for Investors Group Judy Bornais, BA’92 (PoliSci), Dip’93 been appointed as city manager for the Scott Blandford, MPA’05, has Financial Services Inc. and recipient of Christopher John Halyk, HBA’85, (Brescia, PoliSci), BScN’98 (King’s), City of London. accepted the position of dean at the Herbert H. Carnegie Community has been appointed as chair of the MSc’99 (Physiology), Psychology, the Fire & Public Safety Centre of Service Award for 2012. Among his Board of Directors of Research-Based professor in the Faculty of Nursing, Erin Pond, HBA’99, has recently Excellence at Lambton College, Sarnia. many charitable endeavors, he has Pharmaceutical Companies (Rx&D). He University of Windsor, is a recipient of become the owner of Jackman’s been a tireless advocate for diabetes is the president of Janssen-Ortho Inc. the 2011-12 Teaching Awards presented The Flower People in North Bay. She Eugene Profis, HBA’05, MBA’08, has treatment, research and education. He by Ontario Confederation of University purchased the business from her been appointed VP of Burgundy Asset has volunteered for several community Dr. Katherine Pisters, MD’85, was Faculty Associations (OCUFA). parents. Management Ltd., Toronto. organizations in London, Ont. honored at Joan’s Legacy: Uniting Against Lung Cancer’s “Strolling Mark Morabito, JD’93, of North The Second Cup Ltd. announced Melissa Sawatsky, BA’06, has been David I. Climie, MA’84 (Journalism), Supper with Blues and News,” gala Vancouver, is set to join the Savary October 9 that Stephen Kelley, BSc’99 teaching in St. Walburg, Saskatchewan has been appointed the new vice in New York City on Nov. 14. Pisters, board of directors as a director after (Mathematics) has been appointed to the since 2009. On Aug. 13, 2011, she was president of communications at Hill + professor of thoracic/head and neck the closing of the acquisition of Company’s Board of Directors. He was married to Bryon Gabrielli. In February Knowlton Strategies, a public relations medical oncology at the M.D. Anderson Alana McClure (1990s) Wedding photo by John Reid Photography Burkina Gold Corp. by Savary Nicole Winstanley (1990s) the Chief Executive Officer of Stocom 2012, they went on their dream and public affairs firm in Vancouver. Cancer Center, is a leading clinician at Capital Corp. Research Trading & Investments Ltd. honeymoon to Oahu, Hawaii.

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Western graduate Erica Masur, William (Bill) Watson Hood, HBA’59, Kenneth David MacLeod, BA’81, BScN’12, was awarded the 2012 Tim on July 21, 2012 in Georgian Bay, Ont. MLIS’83, on Aug. 8, 2012, in Owen Hickman Memorial Health & Safety Sound, Ont. Scholarship from the City of London. Peter O. Richardson, HBA’59, on Dec. Remembering : 19, 2011, in Hamilton, Ont. Gordon Kilburn, BA’82, on Oct. 18, 2012, in Stratford, Ont. In Memoriam Alan Dennis Fitzpatrick Dunn, BA’59, MS .ALEXANDRA MILETIC, BA’12 on Nov. 4, 2012, in St. Catharines, Ont. Gregory A. Kouri, BA’83, on August 11, R uth Fordyce, BA’31, on Sept. 30, 2012 in New York City, NY. 2012, in Ottawa, Ont. Lionel Kennedy Conacher, HBA’60, on BTY HE MILETIC FAMILY Environmental Committee at Nov. 8, 2012, in Toronto, Ont. Frank Campbell, BA’83, on Nov. 18, Western. She wrote her LSAT Beverley Shrives, BA’39, on Oct. 3, 2012, in Mitchell, Ont. Alexandra Elyse Miletic was exams and was on the waiting 2012, in Oakville, Ont. Edward Gordon Joseph Kennedy, BA’61 (King’s) on July 22, 2012, in St. Tanya Davidson, BA’85, on Nov. 10, born on Sept. 17, 1990 in list for Western, Queen’s and Winifred Robinson, BA’44, on June Mary’s, Ont. 2012, in London, Ont. Windsor, Ont. The world would Windsor law schools. 10, 2012, in Owen Sound, Ont. never be the same. Ally, as she As a testament to how Uldis J. Uiska, HBA’61, on Nov. 8, 2012, Bradley Dixon, HBA’86, MBA’91, on was called, drove her sleep- easily she could make a Jean E. Linton, BScN’44, on Sept. 12, in Nanton, Alta. Nov. 13, 2011, in London, Ont. 2012, in Essex, Ont. depraved parents crazy by lasting impression, many of Richard W. Welsh, BA’63, on Nov. 4, Vera L. Sharp, BA’87, on Nov. 19, 2012, waking up at night every 45 the hundreds of people who Dr. Garnet H. Smith, MD’45, on 2012, in Victoria, B.C. in London, Ont. minutes. The doctor said it was attended her memorial service Joshua Vander Vies (2000s) March 17, 2012, in St. Catharines, Ont. colic. Her parents knew better. had only met her once but still John MacDonald Roberts, BA’64, on Jennifer Mott-Mifflin, BA’87 (Brescia), George Beverly (Bev) Pearson, Sept. 17, 2012, in Nanaimo, B.C. on April 16, 2012 in Chatham, Ont. They believed the reason Ally felt compelled to express their Troy Krywulak, BA’06, MA’07 (History), Natalie Baalbaki, BSc’08, got married Dipl’46, on Nov. 5, 2012, in Ottawa, didn’t want to sleep was that in high school by teaching kids condolences. and Marissa Nash, BA’07 (French), June 15 in Beirut, Lebanon, to Nabil Ont. Dr. Rainer E.G. Ludwig, MD’66, on Oct. Clara L.E. Hendrick, BA’89, on Nov. 9, she wanted mental stimulation. how to skip. Ally passed away on August (BEd’08 OISE/U of T) were recently Jaroudi. 29, 2012, in London, Ont. 2012, in London, Ont. She craved experience; to see, To use the old cliché ‘”her 21, 2012 in Bracebridge, Ont. married in Stoney Creek, Ont. The two Lois Goeden, BA’48, on Nov. 4, 2012, met in second year (September 2003) Joshua Vander Vies, BA’09 (French/ in Oakville, Ont. Dr. Robert R. Campbell, BA’67, on Dec. Catherine Solly, BA’93, on Sept. 29, touch, smell, hear, taste and smile lit up the room” wouldn’t from an extremely rare brain in a class in NatSci 145 and have been PoliSci), together with Marco Dispaltro 23, 2011, in St. Albert, Ont. 2012, in Woodstock, Ont. most of all to cram as much life do her justice. Ally owned the tumour. She had a colloid cyst, together ever since. won a bronze medal in Boccia in George Eaton Bousfield, BA’49, on as possible into every waking room. She was radiant and which represents 1 per cent of the 2012 London Paralympics Sept.10, 2012, in Ottawa, Ont. Robert G. Woods, HBA’67, on Nov. 12, John Macdonald, EMBA’99, on Feb. 9, moment - and my gosh, how could make a friend for life in the all brain tumours. In addition to CTV Toronto announced in September Games. He is a law student at the 2012, in London, Ont. 2012, in Ballinafad, Ont. 2012 that Michelle Dubé, MIT’07, University of British Columbia. Robert Cake, BSc’49, on June 30, she did! blink of an eye. these long odds, three people will be Co-Anchor with Ken Shaw of 2012, in Salt Spring Is., B.C. Laszlo Gyorok, BA’69, on Nov. 18, 2012, Dr. Ian R. McWhinney, DSc’00, on Sept. At 4, she began to argue with She really began to bloom in a million will actually die Toronto’s No. 1 newscasts: CTV NEWS in London, Ont. 28, 2012, in London, Ont. her parents’ friends and family. when she started at Western. from having this kind of cyst. AT SIX and CTV NEWS AT NOON. 2010s Donald Lawless, BA’49, on May 9, She had already found her Always outgoing, she had We always said Ally was one Already well known to CTV News Sardar Hyder Khan, BA’10, is currently 2012, in Hamilton, Ont. M. Jane (Stuart) Klaray, BA’70, Danyal Bhyat, BSc’04, on April 7, 2012, viewers as a reporter and a fill-in working with CIBC as a Personal CertB’71, on May 17, 2012, in Edmonton, in Toronto, Ont. calling in life. discovered her utopia. Her in a million. She is survived anchor, Dubé continues to file reports Banker. Leslie Dickerson, HBA’49, on Oct. 13, Alta. In grade school she began Western experience was by her mother, father, sister, while co-helming newscasts. 2012, in Oshawa, Ont. Rockwell “Rocky” Campana, HBA’11, to jump rope competitively. everything she could have grandparents and numerous Kelley Coulter, MPA’11, has been William B. Hamilton, PhD’70, on Nov. 5, on Aug. 26, 2012, in Windsor, Ont. Finally, her parents thought, dreamed of and more. So many aunts, uncles and cousins. After about three years as a proprietary appointed as Bruce County’s new chief Dr. Stanley M. Jay Richardson, 2012, in Sackville, N.B. equities trader in Toronto, Brennan administrative officer. BA’50, MD’53, on Nov. 7, 2012, in “something to curtail that people to talk to and learn from. Ally’s family is starting a Basnicki, BA’08, decided to return Collingwood, Ont. Christopher H. Collins, CertA’71, PSLEA E NOTE: Gazetteer notices, like all boundless energy.” So many stories of her famous charity that will raise funds to to school for two reasons: to further Dr. Mark Ferro, PhD’11 (Epidem/ Dipl’71, on Sept. 9, 2012, in Richmond portions of the print magazine, appear in She and her younger sister Richmond Row shenanigans to build a bereavement retreat to an online version of Alumni Gazette and the his education and career, and launch Biostat), has been selected as a 2012 Phyllis M. Anderson, BA’51, on Sept. Hill, Ont. Olivia wound up jumping share. She was fiercely proud of help families that have lost a a passion project he long had in the Banting Postdoctoral Fellow. He is 5, 2012, in London, Ont. contents may turn up during a web search. back of his mind. The project, My Social currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Bev G. Curran, BA’71, on April 20, 2012, Publicly available personal information may all the way to the Canadian her school. child. For more information, Passport (mysocialpassport.com), is Offord Centre for Child Studies at Armand Anthony ‘Tony’ Belluz, in London, Ont. be collected for the purpose of updating Championships. Ally earned Ally was on the Dean’s visit: Alexandras-Haven. a social network for meeting people McMaster University. HBA’51, on June 30, 2012, in Thunder alumni records as well as for the purpose her community service hours Honour List. She sat on the tumblr.com. when traveling, moving, vacationing, Bay, Ont. Barbara Ryerse, BA’72, MA’77, PhD’89, of recognizing outstanding achievement or and more. Hodgson Russ announces Rajeeve on June 26, 2012, in Simcoe, Ont. distinguished service by alumni in University Thakur, LLB’11 (King’s) has joined Philip Anthony Molloy, BA’52, on Oct. publications. 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Yes indeed. “This rest of the population by only a step or year, more than one million students are two in rejecting students who do not care with pursuing their first degree,” the document to be trained, research that leads only to Paul continues. “The kind of experiences they understanding, and scholarship for no other Health care bills? have will have a profound impact on” — their purpose than to keep knowledge alive and Wells, life stories? The depth and variety of the preserve the university as the bastion of BA’89 human drama? Silly rabbit! — “Canada’s freedom it has been for centuries. What health care bills? ability to sustain our quality of life in the decades ahead.” “...if we persist There are passing hints that universities in claiming they Alumni Health & Dental Insurance can help you offer some other, subtler kind of benefit. But if you blink you’ll miss them. “Universities are job mills, lower out-of-pocket health care costs. You can pay T o train are the hub through which we develop we endanger new knowledge, prepare students to be engaged global citizens” — this is all true, everything at a less for prescription drugs, dental care, vision care, or to and disarmingly altruistic-sounding — university that does “and transfer the creative, innovative and hearing aids, massage therapy — and much more! ingenious ideas that will ensure we can not look like a job educate? compete to win.” Bam. You thought we were mill, which is most getting high-flown there, didn’t you. But have Visit www.healthplans101.ca/western for By Paul Wells, BA’89 no fear: the proper end of the production of of a university.” global citizens and creative ideas is national For a fair imitation of a Skinner rat frantically victory in a global competition. Who could Constant readers of this space will know more information or call toll-free 1-866-842-5757. pressing a lever in hopes of getting food think otherwise? I am repeating myself. But since I am clearly pellets, have a look at the Association of Sometimes the pitch becomes so frank not changing a lot of minds among the Universities and Colleges of Canada’s it’s unsettling. “Our vision for a prosperous people who push the food-pellet levers, I (AUCC) pre-budget submission to the Canada,” the AUCC says at one point, am content to say once again: explaining federal government for 2013. “continues to be one that leverages our what universities actually do is harder than Pre-budget submissions are, in every research and innovation through the training claiming, falsely, that they are efficient SAVE! sense, what they sound like. Various groups of students and the quality of research on job mills. But if we persist in claiming they Apply by and associations, knowing the federal our campuses...” I’m afraid I don’t recall the are job mills, we endanger everything at a March 31, 2013 government must write a budget every year, end of that sentence because I got hung university that does not look like a job mill, to lock in at put great effort into letting the feds know up on the mention of “training” students. which is most of a university. what they’d like to see in the budget. The Perhaps to really get into the spirit of things What the AUCC actually requested in its 2012 rates AUCC is pretty sure the only notion that we could rename Frosh Week as Get Into pre-budget submission is not objectionable. turns the Harper government’s crank when Harness. Indeed it sounds pretty good. They wanted it comes to universities is that universities In 2011 in this space I made gentle fun of steadier funding for basic research, a little help create the jobs of tomorrow. So, a quotation from Stephen Harper. “Research seed money to promote international the AUCC is all about telling the feds leads to discoveries and inventions,” he research collaboration, and programs that universities help create the jobs of had said. “That leads to patents that build to encourage aboriginal participation in tomorrow. Canadian businesses and create Canadian postsecondary education. Probably, reading In this, the association is persistent. It jobs, and that makes a greater prosperity this after the 2013 budget, you will know actually submitted two, er, submissions last for Canadian families and workers. ” The how those demands fared better than I did year with an eye toward this year’s budget. only way to make those sentences true is to when I wrote this before the budget. The first was for the Commons finance insert the word “sometimes” before “leads But the story higher education tells about committee. The second, for Finance Minister to patents.” But the sentences appear in itself matters, and there is no trustworthy Jim Flaherty, was more insistent. The AUCC the AUCC pre-budget report just as the shortcut in telling that story. understands that in Ottawa, Flaherty will get prime minister spoke them, which means you everywhere. Little pun there. Canada’s universities are eager to repeat Paul Wells is a senior columnist for Underwritten by “Canada’s universities put ideas to back to the big guy a notion of universities’ Maclean’s magazine. Follow him on Twitter The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (Manulife Financial). Manulife, Manulife Financial, the Manulife Financial For Your Future logo and the Block Design are trademarks work for Canadians,” the Flaherty-intended role within which most of what universities @InklessPW. of The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company and are used by it, and by its affiliates under license. Exclusions and limitations apply.

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