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T H E Da L H O U S I E L a W a Lu M N I M a G a Z I HEARSAYTHE DALHOUSIE LAW ALUMNI MAGAZINE VOLUME 32, 2009 Northern PerspectiVE Practicing above the 60th parallel CANADIAN LAWYERS ABROAD ZhiGUO Gao Alison Hopkins’ summer Elected judge of in Bangladesh international tribunal INNIS CHRISTIE destination A remarkable DHAKA voice quieted Student internship abroad Hearsay 2009 1 VOLUME 32, 2009 HeTHE Dalhousiear Law Alumnisa Magaziney Volume 32 / 2009 contentsContents Alumni Affairs ..........................................................................................................................................................8 School News ...........................................................................................................................................................28 1963 “The Bowling Alley” Studley Building Student Notes .......................................................................................................................................................32 Dean The editors welcome contributions, Phillip Saunders, LL.B. ‘84 information, and ideas from alumni. Please direct your submissions to: Editors Professor John Yogis, LL.B. ‘64 Editor Hearsay Karen Kavanaugh Dalhousie, Faculty of Law Weldon Law Building Faculty News ...........................................................................................................................................................38 Grapevine Editor 6061 University Avenue Marlene MacDonald Halifax, NS Canada B3H 4H9 Design and Production Weldon Award for Unselfish Public Service ....................................................20 Karen Kavanaugh tel: 902-494-3744 fax: 902-494-1316 2008 Alumni Reunion ............................................................................................24 E-mail: [email protected] Report on Giving .......................................................................................................52 Mailed under Canada Post publications agreement 41890527 Grapevine ....................................................................................................................57 Obituaries ....................................................................................................................63 FROM THE EDITOR There is a chill in the air in when Maggie takes me for my first walk of the day. The melancholy days of late summer are upon us—hopefully to be soon replaced by the autumn splendor that we have come to expect in this area of the country. The early morning frost on the pumpkin may, however, be an appropriate tie- in to our current issue. Three of our features have a direct link to the Canadian North. Professor A. Wayne MacKay (’78) gives us a legal perspective on Nunavut— Canada’s new frontier. At his suggestion we also contacted alumni working in the North to give us some of their unique perspectives. We also acknowledge the remarkable feat of David Shannon (‘91) in becoming the first person in a wheelchair to reach the North Pole. Finally, we are delighted to complement our northern exposure features with a fascinating account by John Ballem (’49) of his excursion to Antarctica. With this issue we also mark the closing of the 125th anniversary of the Law School. To commemorate this special occasion Hearsay has attempted to produce Professor John Yogis and Maggie Message from the Dean a running time line of the School’s past 125 years. In this respect it was assisted in large measure by John Wlllis’ A History of Dalhousie Law School; back pages of Ansul and Hearsay and other law school publications. While every attempt has been made to be accurate it is acknowledged that arbitrary choices may have been made in the selection of significant events in the School’s rich history. To accompany the “Time line” Hearsay also revisited two special additions of Ansul titled “In My Day” in which then dean Ronald St. John Macdonald (‘52) presented a series of reminiscences by alumni, and a few faculty, of their This academic year will be my final one Law, and will fund over 40 new scholarships with an average experiences and impressions of their time at Dalhousie Law School. We have as Dean of Law at Dalhousie, and as I look back over the last value of $12,000. The school will now have a scholarship several years, I am struck yet again by the tremendous support program second to none in Canada, and will provide a level reproduced in edited form many of these unique personal stories beginning and kindness shown by our alumni to the School, and to me of accessibility based on merit which is a great reflection Charles Morse with , a member of the School’s first graduating class. John Willis personally, over my term. We are truly fortunate in our friends, of the Weldon Tradition. In addition, there is support for remarked that these “vignettes which are full of flavour...give, as no formal and I thank all of you who welcomed me in your home towns, capital improvements, and a Schulich Academic Excellence history can, the feeling of what it was like to be there.” Hearsay has updated the in your firms and at many social occasions. Along with the Fund, administered through the Faculty, that will invigorate rare Macdonald collection—which ended in the late 1950s—with some additional challenges, this job is a privilege and a pleasure, and you, academic opportunities and provide support for exchanges and more recent material from its own pages, along with comments from the along with our students and faculty, have made it so. and internships. Over the last year we celebrated 125 years of excellence In October, as this magazine was going to press, we Dalhousie Law School’s 125th Anniversary Celebration video made possible by in legal education at Dalhousie, with dinners across the celebrated this wonderful gift at the Weldon Building (as William A. Rand (‘66) the generous contribution of . country. Speakers from recent and not-so-recent generations we will report fully in a subsequent edition). In honour and Of course, this issue contains our usual reports of what the alumni is up to, at Dalhousie shared their memories of their time in Halifax, recognition of Mr. Schulich’s support, the Faculty of Law has the goings on at Weldon—class reunions, faculty and student news—and much and these events will stand out for me as highlights of my become the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. more. We greatly appreciated the many letters we received on our last issue which time in this office. In recognition of the anniversary, John This name maintains the original connection with the came from across Canada as well as the United States, England, Israel and Russia. Yogis and Karen Kavanaugh have put together a wonderful university, while celebrating a solid commitment to its very compilation of the history of the last 125 years as an insert bright future. Karen Kavanaugh and I enjoy hearing from you and encourage you to keep your to this edition, which I hope you will enjoy as much as I The creation of a law school at Dalhousie in 1883 was comments, suggestions and contributions coming. did. This Hearsay also, as always, celebrates the remarkable made possible by an extraordinary gift from George Munro, achievements of our students, faculty and alumni. The School, which funded the first Chair and allowed for the hiring of in my view, continues to go from strength to strength, and the Dean Weldon. I am confident that the equally extraordinary Sincerely, accomplishments set out in these pages are evidence of that. generosity of Mr. Schulich will transform the future of the We are also looking to the future with great confidence, School, while ensuring that we maintain the best traditions of and with excitement at new possibilities. As most of you will the last 125 years. already be aware, in October President Tom Traves and I were pleased to announce an agreement between the university and philanthropist Seymour Schulich for a precedent-setting gift of John Yogis (‘64) $20 million. This donation is designated entirely for the Faculty of Dean & Weldon Professor of Law 4 Hearsay 2009 Hearsay 2009 5 Letters to the Law School Write to Hearsay magazine: 6061 University Ave., Halifax, N.S., Canada B3H 4H9; email [email protected]. DAL Law’S great Loss ies and some of the teachers are women! DAL Law Degree put to good USE conversations have motivated me to do another school project at Oda Chafe in I know it comes to all of us but it was The late Peter Gzowski, who also had an I was keenly interested in all the stories what I have been doing as a lawyer and the Bale Valley region. All this was done too soon for Innis Christie. I am sure interest in literacy, was a patron and sup- and our far-flung community of interest- volunteer. under the supervision of John paying his that the Law School has been swamped porter of Frontier College. ing people who have gone through Dal Brenda and I also had a lovely gabfest own way. Not a single dollar of Partners’ with expressions of loss, praise and I would guess that Frontier College Law School. I thought The Ansul had luncheon with Diane Ashworth and Dale contributions go to administration. All appreciation for the contribution Innis has many illustrious alumni teachers, but long since ceased publishing, as I do get Godsoe. Since returning home I have was paid for by the volunteer members made to the law. But I wonder if anyone I bet Innis was one of the best. He will be Hearsay, but hadn’t seen The Ansul logo received letters of congratulations from of the Board. mentioned a feature of his life that had
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