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Summer 2010 Lasting Connections LASTING summer 2010 Connectionsthe magazine for Loyalist College Alumni and Friends Front Cover: A message from your Alumni Association Loyalist welcomes hundreds of students every year into its community of highly a r t & d e s i g n successful alumni. This community can f o u n d a t i o n only accomplish its endeavours with the active engagement of its members. This multi-canvas work is based on Jan Vermeer’s The We want to continue to provide you with the opportunities that will meet Artist’s Studio, which is found in the Kunsthistorisches your needs and your ability to stay actively engaged and connected with Museum, Vienna, Austria. 39.37”x47.24”. your Loyalist family. By providing us with your current and complete contact information you are helping to ensure our highest level of commitment and The challenge was to divide the art work into 25 service. This information will remain confidential and will be used to help individual 16”x20” canvases. Each student was to provide you with information about events, activities, reunions and on- sketch out his/her portion of the Vermeer on their own campus discounts. We will also be able to keep you in touch through Lasting canvas and were told to be as radically creative as Connections, the Grapevine section and social media. they chose. In fact, they were discouraged from trying to paint it traditionally as Vermeer had done. This was Call, write, e-mail – stay in touch and let us know what is important to you. not an exercise in duplication. This was a celebration What have been the highlights in your career since graduation? Your stories of individual expression and the process of creation. help to guide current Loyalist students in their professional lives. We welcome The multiple canvases in and of themselves appear and value your comments. interesting in an abstract sort of way. When the viewer steps back and looks at the entire 80”x100” piece from All information is provided on a voluntary basis and will not be distributed 30 feet away, they then realize that each canvas flows without your consent. into the next, thereby completing the entire body of work. This piece is indicative of the individual complex Brian Miller, President natures and areas of interest each person has in this Loyalist College Alumni Association program. When brought together in a cohesive whole it tells a new story. It is visible in a dimension beyond its individual canvases and ultimately serves to become representative of the community of creative talent that exists in the Art & Design Foundation program. This piece is a gift created on behalf of the inaugural graduating class of 2010. The students take great pride in donating this incredible work to Loyalist College for the rest of the community to enjoy. The panels were created by: (from top left) 1 Amanda McGrenere 2 Chloe Baretta 3 Samantha Tripp 4 Lucy Durling 5 Christa Maracle 6 Katharine Kelly 7 Kyla Morris 8 Kelly Taylor Donations for Student Support 9 James McCartney 10 Christa Maracle Loyalist College presented a cheque for $656,487 to the Loyalist College Foundation at 11 Erika Lachance 12 Dalton Hadwen 13 Kyle Sherwin the Foundation’s Annual General Meeting on May 27th. This total includes $240,412 14 Sammie O’Grady 15 Heather Doyle in donations to the College for student financial assistance and awards, and enhanced 16 Emily Harding 17 Christa Maracle 18 Amanda Snarr matching funds of $416,075 from the provincial government’s Ontario Trust for Student 19 Demetri Begopoulos 20 Erika Lachance Support program. Among those celebrating the support for the endowment fund 21 Robert Kranendonk 22 Rashelle Aukema are: (L-R) College President Maureen Piercy; Student Government VP Student Life Lara 23 Crystal Matheson 24 Sherry Martin 25 Ryan Gordon Couch; the Hon. Leona Dombrowsky, MPP, Prince Edward-Hastings; Vice-Chair of the College Board of Governors Kay Manderville; and Foundation Chair Beverley Townsend. President’s Message I am pleased to have this opportunity to bring this message to you as the summer unfolds! One of the highlights of the academic year is our annual Convocation, and this year was no exception. You will see photos in this issue of those special days in June, when we welcomed more than 1,900 new grads and celebrated their success along with their families and friends. In my congratulatory remarks to the grads of 2010 I reminded them that they have joined a family – the Loyalist College Alumni family, which has grown to almost 30,000 members! As a Loyalist grad myself, I know how important this network can be in providing the support needed to succeed in our careers and communities. With the challenges the world faces today in our environment, in our economy, in every arena, the skills of Loyalist grads are urgently needed. I invited this year’s graduating class, and I invite you, to keep inspiring us and challenging us – and to keep your skills sharp by becoming a lifelong learner. We will welcome you back anytime! Loyalist President Maureen Piercy welcomes The Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, to Convocation on June 10, 2010. You are invited to keep in touch with your college through Career and Alumni Services, and through the Grapevine section of Lasting I am always proud to share the successes of the College family Connections, to keep up-to-date on career services and other with our communities, and I am pleased to tell you that Loyalist benefits available to you through our Affinity partners. graduates, students, and staff have earned a number of significant awards. Of course you can review Loyalist’s full-time or part-time program offerings on the web at loyalistcollege.com. You can also watch Several media grads have received recognition nationally and the progress of the very exciting Sustainable Skills, Technology and internationally, as you will read on page 13. Students involved in Life Sciences Centre under construction on campus, by visiting SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) won important recognition in the website and clicking on About Loyalist and then Investing in Calgary in May, as described on page 4. In June, I was privileged Knowledge. The project will be completed in January 2011, and we to receive awards on behalf of the College team presented by two will plan an official opening in March. We will have more details community partners, the Hastings Children’s Aid Society and in the Winter issue of this publication and hope that you will Plainfield Community Homes. (page 6) These partnerships reflect participate in the new space, by taking either a ‘virtual ‘ or the important, dynamic role that the College plays in in-person tour. our community. In addition to the Skills Centre project, a residence for upper year Be proud to be a Loyalist grad – and please, keep in touch to share students is being built on campus, and 32 units will be completed your news. for occupancy this fall. Another 72 rooms will be added during the coming year, providing a total of 104 new rooms on campus for Maureen Piercy September 2011. All of the construction on campus is contributing President to a busy and exciting summer. LASTING CONNECTIONS is distributed twice a year and is LASTING CONNECTIONS is a publication of the Loyalist Published through College Advancement & External available free of charge to all alumni, staff, faculty and College Alumni Association. Relations other members of the Loyalist Family. Additional copies Dianne Spencer, Executive Director ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT may be obtained by contacting the Alumni Office at Brian Miller Loyalist College Respects your Privacy. From time to time 1-800-99ALUMNI. The opinions expressed in this the Alumni Association contacts graduates regarding publication are not necessarily those of the Alumni Office CONTRIBUTORS various programs, benefits, and fund raising programs or of Loyalist College. The editors of LASTING Marilyn Warren, Matthew Burt, for Loyalist College or the Loyalist College Foundation. If Connections reserve the right to edit all submissions. Dan Truman, Britania Tremblay for any reason you do not wish to be contacted by mail 2010 Post-Graduate Public Relations students: EDITORIAL COMMITTEE or phone, please contact the Alumni Office by e-mail at Kim Stapley, Marina Apperley, Alanna McNutt, Catherine Campbell, Laura Naumann, Fran Nobes, [email protected] or call 1-800-99ALUMNI. Jeremy Bird Dianne Spencer, Marilyn Warren PHOTOGRAPHS DESIGN Tracey Reid Marilyn Warren, Bob House, Tiffany LeBlanc, Jessica Mulholland, Adam Gagnon, Chantal Dilts Lasting Connections 1 is being taught. By the second semester, not only had the class garnered three additional students, but they also now hold a record for the most high school visitors in the student-for-a-day program, which has resulted in students already filing applications for the program. “It’s been amazing,” Rob said. “Over 50 students have already applied for next year.” a r t & d e s i g n The program even attracted the attention of local art groups as the f o u n d a t i o n first annual Art and Design juried exhibition was held on April 14, giving the students a chance to display their art and have it judged not only by their peers and the public, but the discerning eye of the By Matthew Burt judges and members of the Quinte Arts Council, the Prince Edward County Arts Council, Arts on Main and long-standing artists in the In the fall of 2009, Loyalist College opened its doors to students for community who are committed to inspiring emerging artists.
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