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It takes a lot of hats to learn THE BACK STORY 40 and share the lessons from 20Fossil record our past. Researcher, writer, producer and director Sylvia After Charles Lyell visited Hamilton’s latest film about the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, his segregated schools reveals impressions influenced a an aspect of Canadian young Charles Darwin. The history that has been all place where the fossil record but invisible. Time for a documents evolution in second take. action has since been dubbed 10Building on a by Marie Weeren a ‘coal age Galapagos.’ Now On our cover family tradition the site is inspiring a current 22Research matters Alumna Sylvia Hamilton, Gemini- generation of geologists, award winning director, was Enter the Goldberg architects and community From the infinitesimally Computer Science leaders who have made the small world of quantum photographed at the University of Building. Dalhousie students world take notice, once again. physics, to the most King’s College where she teaches, will benefit from a new by Marilyn Smulders ancient life forms that by Nick Pearce of Dalhousie’s scholarship established 16Talking points emerged on earth, Creative Services. in recognition of Halifax’s investigators are pushing Goldberg family And you know, it don’t the boundaries of knowledge. by benefactor come easy. Not being able We share the most recent Seymour Schulich. to talk, sing, share or even research highlights from by Joanne Ward-Jerrett argue with people you OutFront magazine. care about is frustrating by Julia Watt and isolating. An intensive speech therapy program is teaching stroke patients how to communicate, while providing hope for caregivers. by Ryan McNutt FromtheEditor DalhousieMAGAZINE

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xit, stage left: From the Class of 1926, Wilf Creighton. ART DIRECTOR Fran Ornstein Wilf grew up nearby on LeMarchant Street, went pond skating on the Murray CLASS NOTES/ DALUMNI/ IN MEMORIAM homestead before it became the Studley campus, saw the damage in the neighbourhood For submissions, contact: Joanne Ward-Jerrett [email protected] E from the Halifax explosion, and witnessed royalty opening buildings that are now cloaked ADDRESS CHANGES in ivy. A lifelong friend of Dalhousie, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2004, the same Tel: (902) 494-6855 1 (800) 565-9969 Email: [email protected] year he celebrated his centenary. Alumni Records, Macdonald Building Farewell, old friend. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5 PRODUCED BY Dalhousie University Taking centre stage: Each autumn, every student arriving on campus embodies the possibility Communications and Marketing of realizing his or her own unique potential. Achieving that self-awareness and ability CONTRIBUTORS will involve facing unknown challenges and – as we say around here – discovering When not interviewing illustrious benefactors and the unexpected. notable alumni for stories that appear within these pages, Joanne Ward-Jerrett toils as communications When CBC recently aired The Little Black Schoolhouse, it was a reminder that the ability to advisor in Dal’s Advancement Marketing pursue a higher education is predicated on access to a solid secondary education. The original and and Communications department. thought-provoking film by Sylvia Hamilton explores the legacy of the segregated school system, a Marie Weeren gives full credits for the 2 little known aspect of Canadian history (see “Lessons from the Little Black Schoolhouse,” Page 12). cover story to Dr. Sylvia Hamilton and the other interviewees who so freely shared Accessibility is based on many factors, including financial means. Philanthropist Seymour their insights and experiences. Marie is president of 10th Floor Solutions, a Schulich still appreciates the choices opened up by his own “life-changing” university scholarship Halifax business specializing in public and wants future generations to have similar opportunities. As a result of his legacy in recognition relations writing and workshops.

MAGAZINE of Halifax’s Goldberg family, students in science and computer science will be able to concentrate | As a debater and volunteer with the more fully on their academics. (See “A family tradition,” Page 10). Sodales Debating Society, Ryan McNutt is as comfortable with the spoken word as he is Learning is a life-long pursuit, especially when contending with unexpected setbacks. Stroke with the written one. In this issue, he explores the stories of people who have lost the ability patients who have lost their ability to communicate are enrolling in a workshop with speech to connect thought with speech, and the language pathology students. At the same time that the students are applying their clinical skills, speech therapy program that’s helping them rebuild their lives one word at a time. DALHOUSIE they’re testing the water as health educators (see “Talking points,” Page 16). They’re beginning their journey as teachers, a route that award-winning professor Tom MacRae – a mentor to many of his Marilyn Smulders is thankful she brought her children students and peers – describes as “a lifelong challenge” (see Guest View, Page 3). Noah and Jessie along to the Joggins Fossil Cliffs because they spied numerous fossils Enter, stage right: The Class of 2012; just over 15,000 strong, brimming with on the walk along the beach and she didn’t find one! potential, talent and curiosity. They’re singing along with Wintersleep’s Weighty Ghost at an outdoor concert, joking with the comedy troupe Brian Harrison added to the fun of moving his company Trivium Design to a new home at 1583 Hollis Street by Picnicface at the Grawood, and rock-climbing on walls high above the also designing the Dalhousie magazine at the same time. Jane Lombard, a familiar hand on the magazine, added Studley quadrangle. production assistance, design and layout skills. Debora Hello, new friends. Jewitt coordinated numerous photography sessions with photographers Nick Pearce and Danny Abriel. Thanks to Bruce Bottomley and Josh Boyter for photos.

DALHOUSIE MAGAZINE appears three times a year. Editorial deadline for the next issue is December 15, 2008. Photo: Danny Abriel Danny Photo: Guestview

It takes a lifetime

was raised in a small village in New Brunswick, the son of a fisherman who left school to support Tom MacRae won the his family, and a war bride who braved uncertainty in Canada. I went to the same one room Dalhousie Alumni Ischool as my father and carved my initials beside his on a beam in the school’s wood house. I Association’s Award of learned many lessons from my parents and two have been very significant to me as a teacher. The Excellence for Teaching. first was to respect others and the second, as you might guess, was the value of hard work. These were learned by example, not by preaching. My mother took care of her family and worked many hours a week in the local store, an unusual thing for a woman of those days in a rural environment. After high school, which focused primarily on cars and girls (well, really only one girl), I was introduced to the privilege of academic life as an undergraduate at Mount Allison University. At first, I was unimpressed, but it was better than my previous job rolling logs into a saw mill. Then, a young professor, Bill Trentini, arrived at Mount A; he was tough, demanding, uncompromising, challenging, fair and interested in his students. Bill pushed me to my limits, let me know when I could do better and praised me when I did well. This experience was followed two graduate degrees under the supervision of Howard McCurdy at the University of Windsor, focusing on micro- organisms. At Windsor I had the opportunity to experience a 3 FALL My “secrets” for effective great lecturer in action. Howard

was also heavily involved | teaching are simple... in the promotion of civil 2008 rights in Canada, where, by the way, many things remain to be done, and he followed a path that led to a seat in the House of Commons. Perhaps supervising me drove Howard from science? It is one thing to watch others perform on the teaching stage, quite another to produce yourself. I failed rather miserably in my first attempts. The reviews were scathing, informing me that I mumbled, lacked organization, and expected far too much from second-year students, especially at exam time. I remember saying to my wife, Cheryl (yes, the girl from high school), “I am in the wrong business.” The harsh criticisms of my first teaching effort, which were mostly right on the mark, eventually paid dividends to me. I came to Dalhousie a year later, determined to better meet the needs and interests of my students. It was by working with many students, and a dedicated group of professional developers, that I sharpened my skills as a university teacher, and the process continues. The rewards for investing time and energy in teaching are many. These include the satisfaction of seeing students grow and develop as thinkers, of meeting them later in life as successful individuals within a diversity of endeavors, and of knowing you are remembered upon receiving a picture of the latest addition to a growing family. My “secrets” for effective teaching are simple – organization and attitude. Organization requires hard work and understanding your discipline, but it pays off by allowing a person to say something interesting in a coherent manner without wasting time. As for attitude, respect your students and treat them like you would like to be treated, fairly and with compassion. Having a sense of humour really helps as does parking one’s ego outside the classroom. How long does it take to become a teacher? For me, it has been a lifetime. DALHOUSIE | MAGAZINE 4 of theFaculty ofManagement. fees, says David Wheeler, dean offsetting much of the tuition will pay upto $35,000, the employer. Jobplacements qualified,known resource for offer for the student and a result in a meaningful job ideally the work term will student and employer – residency benefits both through the corporate of work experience offered The and quality quantity over an eight-month period. management-level salaries to pro-rated, earn residency enables students placements, the corporate shorter work terms or co-op which often incorporate other MBA programs, its Canada. in kind of Unlike Residency MBA is the first America’s top employers. paid internship with North through an eight-month real world work experience brightest young people to gain allow 50 of Canada’s best and revised MBA program will University’s completely 2009, in Beginning Dalhousie Canadian first program a Unique MBA Upfront The Corporate

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Faster, stronger, higher

A record number of athletes with Dalhousie connections competed at the 2008 Summer Olympic games in Beijing. Karen Furneaux: The sprint kayaker from Waverley, N.S. made it to the semi-finals of the women’s K-1 500 metres. She placed seventh in the heat but did not qualify for the finals. As part of the K-4 team, her boat was edged out of the finals, with little more than one second separating the top teams. Adrienne Power: The former Dal Tiger ran 23.51 seconds in the second round of women’s 200-metre Marking time sprint qualifying at the Beijing Olympics, finishing seventh in her Historic sites from the heat but missing the semifinals. From former community of East Jeddore, she’s keen to return Africville live on in and build on the physical memory and now through and mental challenges location markers created that strengthened by architecture students. her as an athlete. Students took on Kiera Aitken: Now the project in cooperation a two-time Olympian, with the community as Kiera Aitken surpassed part of Professor Kim 6 her personal best and No eel will, right? Thompson’s ‘free lab,’ which set a new national is designed to take learning record for Bermuda. Talk about a Kinder Surprise: part of Julia Lawson’s job outside of the classroom. She swam 1:02:62 in at the Bermuda Aquarium Museum and Zoo entailed Today, Seaview Park, in the semi-finals of the filling plastic eggs with shrimp as treats for octopuses. the shadow of the MacKay

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While studying computer tentacles and extract the shrimp,” says Ms. Lawson, a park. But until it was razed science at Dalhousie, Ms. biology major who did her science co-op placement in the mid-1960s in the Aitken was a member of at the Bermuda Aquarium Museum and Zoo. name of urban development, the Dal Tigers swim team. Octopus training was new to the 21-year-old it was known as Africville, a David Kikuchi: The Haligonian. But each day brought a learning experience – mostly black community on DALHOUSIE gymnast competed in five from making a weight belt to restore mobility to a disabled the northern edge of Halifax Photo: Nick Pearce Nick Photo: events, men’s parallel bars, hawksbill turtle rendered permanently buoyant to cleaning which had been settled pommel horse, rings, horizon the North Rock exhibition, a replica of a coral reef off for more than a century. bar and individual all-around. Bermuda. Sharks, baracuda, pompano and golden-frilled In his best event, the rings, triggerfish inhabit the 4.5-metre-deep, 530,000-litre tank. Mr. Kikuchi placed 23rd out of Casper the moray eel looks fearsome, can’t see or hear well, 71 competitors. The Fall River and could inflict a nasty bite if you are mistaken as food. resident coaches provincial teams “There’s usually something that comes out to at Alta Gymnastics in Halifax. harass you,” she says. “The tank is so big, basically the Oliver Bone: Along with job is to dive in and scrub off the algae from the glass.” his partner Stephane Locas, the The fourth-year biology student went on to study coral one-time Dal student placed 29th reef reproduction at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences. in the men’s double-handed The research ties into climate change and its detrimental dinghy with 205 points. effects on coral reefs, fragile and complex ecosystems which are under threat throughout the world’s oceans. “I feel like co-op gives me so much more confidence and ability as a scientist,” she says. Now there’s a Susan Spence Wach has sign at the entrance been appointed Associate from Barrington Street Vice-President Academic identifying the green space Programs and Keith Taylor … as Africville. Throughout the Associate Vice-President the park, markers indicate Academic Outreach and Children with epilepsy to benefit Skinner’s Well, Africville International Programs. from William Dennis Chair Abriel Danny Photo: School, Seaview African Both academics are well- Baptist Church, Tibby’s Pond known at Dalhousie. Dr. On an idyllic Nova Scotia summer evening in Chester, Dr. and Kildare’s Field, an open Spence Wach moves from Michael Esser, Dalhousie’s newly-appointed William Dennis space near the water where the Faculty of Medicine. Chair in Pediatric Epilepsy Research, was welcomed by the kids used to play. But while A former winner of the Dennis family and friends and supporters of the chair. they look rough and make- Oxford Marathon who is Commenting on the meaning of the occasion, Sarah shift, the markers are strong still running today, she is Dennis (BA’91) says: “For me it’s about families. It’s the loss of and should last for years. known for her endurance a beloved member of our family and the support we’ve gotten “They’re a reflection in leading diverse groups from families since William’s death. I think it’s about trying of Africville – here are all to consensus. Dr. Taylor, to help other families in Atlantic Canada. It’s the Dal family, these scars and scratches and from the Faculty of it’s the Esser family coming here. It really is about families.” dents and rust, but it’s still Science, has led impressive In 2002, Ms. Dennis’ brother William died suddenly, a very strong community,” New faces outreach programs for at the age of 30, from complications related to an epileptic says Shyronn Smardon, high schools and has seizure. The $3.5 million fundraising goal for the chair – the an architecture student. Along with first-time created international first of its kind in Canada – was realized thanks to a $2.3 “That steel will be there students arriving on academic partnerships. million gift from the Dennis family and the generosity of for a very, very long time, campus, the university also Andrew Cochrane other donors. William’s father, Graham Dennis, observes: as will the community.” welcomes new leaders to is reappointed as dean of “I think you’ve got to return to society what it’s given you.” The project turned the Dalhousie community. continuing education; Mike “It’s unique in Canadian medicine and in Canadian into a warm collaboration Some are new faces, Shepherd becomes the research to be offered this opportunity,” says Dr. Esser, who 7 FALL between students, former others are in new roles. dean of Computer Science; earned his master’s, doctoral and medical degrees from residents and descendants. Martha Crago became Marty Leonard is now the Dalhousie. “It’s a great melding of individual sponsorship

“Erecting signage Dalhousie’s Vice-President acting dean of Science; and family sponsorship and two fine institutions, the IWK and | 2008 reclaiming Africville of Research, moving from Christine Macy is dean of Dalhousie, coming together with a unified goal – to help kids.” is something we had the University of Montreal. Architecture and Planning, Dr. Esser, who will be based at the IWK Health Centre, identified,” says Irvine Currently a member of the while Thomas Boran has a cross-appointment with Dalhousie’s pediatrics and Carvery, a former resident University Advisory Group becomes dean of Dentistry. pharmacology departments. In addition to carrying out and president of the at Industry Canada, she’s basic science and clinical research, he will work to increase Africville Genealogy also served as president of public awareness and education around epilepsy. Society. “The students the Canadian Association for “For a lot of people, the first time they encounter met an immediate need.” Graduate Studies. Dr. Crago epilepsy it’s very difficult to understand,” he says. has published extensively “What is epilepsy? What does it mean? How and, among many activities, is this going to affect my child? What about serves as the editor of their hopes and dreams? I think it’s helpful Applied Psycholinguistics, to try to increase the understanding of published by Cambridge what it means to have epilepsy.” University Press. Dr. Cook says it surprises people how frequently epilepsy appears in the population and at various stages of life. “There’s a lot we do not know about its origins, and even the best treatments in some areas are still somewhat experimental.” He says understanding the basic underlying science and correlating that with clinical observations will ultimately lead to improved care. Marie Weeren Upfrontoncampus Photo: Bruce Bottomley Bruce Photo:

The new face of comedy “When you’re on stage you can gauge a reaction from They’re the most exciting the audience immediately,” name in the Halifax says Ms. Rosen. “And our comedy scene, but audience forgives us a lot. nailing down Picnicface’s They don’t hold it against style is a bit tricky. us when we screw up and “It’s all over the place,” often they laugh with us. says Evany Rosen, early The Internet, in comparison, A critical look modern studies and history is not so forgiving – those student, and a member of the nerds are harsh!” at the comics Abriel Danny Photo: sketch comedy troupe. “It’s Having conquered alternative and weird and the Internet, Picnicface is City living as It’s official: comics are cool. Hardcore comickers leaning towards the bizarre, planning forays into other The Dark Knight steamrolled will not be surprised but it’s also very welcoming. media: they’ve paired up ‘child’s play’ its competition at the that classic superhero We don’t just want to alienate; with Breakthrough Films multiplex, Japanese “manga” controversies will be we want to entertain.” of Toronto to produce a Dalhousie computer science comics are stocked en taught – they date back to Picnicface began three television series and just student Devin Horsman masse at your local library, the decency debates of the years ago when Ms. Rosen signed a book deal with specializes in evolutionary and Free Comic Book Day early 20th century. But even and two fellow Dalhousie Harper Collins. As for programming. “It’s a method 8 is celebrated on the first the most serious fans may students, Mark Little and Ms. Rosen, she’s got an of solving difficult problems Saturday of May throughout be startled to hear about Kyle Dooly, got together undergrad thesis on Faust by using evolution, training North America. other items in Prof. Enn’s to start an improv troupe. to complete, which one good solutions to survive Enter Donald Duck, curriculum – for instance, Since then, they’ve grown can only assume will be while others don’t,” he says. Wonder Woman and Babar. a possible unit on Donald to eight members – almost hilarious. Ryan McNutt “It’s automating discovery.”

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Comics (ENGL 2080) will trace Donald’s lack of pants; connections – that sell out automated about Mr. the history of cartoons and rather, it’s the imperialist their bi-weekly sketch show Horsman as he leaps over comics, from 18th- and ideology he presents. at Ginger’s Tavern, with concrete walls or bounds 19th-century political In fact, children’s Haligonians lined up around around urban obstacles. For propaganda to the golden literature is often loaded the block waiting to get in. a practitioner of ‘parkour,’ DALHOUSIE age of Marvel and DC. with cultural implications. But some of their every step is potentially a Julia Wright, Dal “Babar is often read as a biggest success has been new discovery. professor and Canada parable about colonialism,” online. Last year Picnicface “Parkour is the art or Research Chair in European Prof. Enns explains. “Babar started producing short discipline of overcoming Studies, proposed the course is educated in Europe and comedy videos and posted physical and mental and Prof. Anthony Enns, that’s the reason why he’s the them to websites like obstacles as efficiently and currently working on a king of the elephants.” YouTube and Funny or Die. quickly as possible,” he critical essay about comic Prof. Enns is also One video in particular – a explains, noting that the books, is taking the reins. well-versed in more mock commercial for a activity is more akin to a traditionally highbrow fictional energy drink called martial art than an extreme graphic novels, such as “Powerthirst” – became a sport. “Physically, it’s passing Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer- virtual sensation thanks over anything that’s on your winner Maus, a Holocaust to a hearty endorsement direct route from one point fable told, like Orwell’s from comedian Will Ferrell. to another, by climbing, Animal Farm, through the To date, it’s been viewed jumping, vaulting and use of animals-as-people. over 10 million times. so-forth. Mentally, it’s about Rebecca Schneidereit applying that awareness and understanding to obstacles in your everyday life.” Photo: Josh Boyter Josh Photo: The Life Science “The choices that Research Institute (LSRI) we make about our has been in the planning own sexuality and the stages for many years relationships we form have and funding has now Sexonomics – some basis in economics. been secured. The idea We often think that we’re is to create a bioscience Who knew? making choices, but it’s all “cluster” in Halifax, with biology and economics,” the chief tenant being In Greek mythology, the says Dr. Adshade. the Brain Repair Centre goddess Hera blinds Tiresias The new class will At age 19, Mr. Horsman Campus changes – a world-class research for surmising women gain cover millennia of human was diagnosed with type 1 facility investigating such more pleasure from sex history, from the first diabetes. He reacted not by The times they are a disabling conditions than men. A majority of the marriages in Neolithic times retreating into his condition changing … and so are as Parkinson’s disease. world’s population live in to modern sexual issues. The but by finding new ways of Dalhousie’s campuses with Construction should begin polygamist societies. Studies class will include studies living with it. He’s since done more changes to come. before the end of the year. suggest that men, rather on marriage, speed dating, presentations for Dalhousie Excavation is The campus plan than women, are under online dating sites, risky pharmacy students underway on a new will see Dalhousie develop pressure to fake orgasm. sexual behaviors, AIDS, explaining the realities of academic building at the a master plan to guide Like these perspectives, and controversial subjects living with diabetes, and he’s corner of LeMarchant development on all material in the new course such as teen sexuality and adopted parkour as one way and Coburg. Plans are three campuses, Sexton, ECON 2214: Economics of Sex prostitution. Dr. Adshade of staying active. “I’m fit and going forward for a Life Studley and Carleton. and Love is often surprising. will even pose the other healthy, and I have much more Sciences Research Institute “It’s time for Marina Adshade insists ageless question – Does energy since I started parkour,” on land behind the Dalhousie to have a clear, economics are vital to sex make you happy? he says. Tupper medical building concise vision of how the a full understanding of “Sex does make you Mr. Horsman, at College and Summer physical campus should relationships. happy!” she laughs. 9 FALL originally from Tantallon, streets. A consulting develop in line with the Rebecca Schneidereit Nova Scotia, discovered team has been hired to university’s strategic

parkour on the Internet, facilitate the development plans,” says Jeff Lamb, | 2008 where videos of its of a campus plan. assistant vice-president, practitioners – or ‘traceurs’ The new academic Facilities Management. – are shared by enthusiasts building will rise on the IBI Group, a multi- worldwide. He trains for site of the old Faculty of disciplinary Canadian based anywhere from four to eight Management tower. It, the planning and design firm, hours each week, gathering old church and a house were has been chosen as the with other members of the demolished to make room consulting team and Halifax Parkour Community for the four-storey building. will bring local and and traversing the urban Tenants will be the College national members infrastructure. They of Continuing Education, to the team to guide occasionally practice near the School of Social Work, future development. This Dalhousie’s Sexton campus the Ocean Tracking Network will include examining and Mr. Horsman often finds and research lab space for capital funding, building time to practice on the walls the Faculty of Computer maintenance, building around Studley campus in Science. The building is form, building retention between classes. scheduled to open in 2010. or replacement, and a host “It’s essentially living of other requirements in the urban environment such as environmental as if it’s child’s play,” he sustainability. Consultation, says. “Go on what you want, with both internal and how you want, instead of external stakeholders, on the defined path. But will be carried out we always make sure to over the next several do so respectfully. We use months. Mary Somers architecture – we don’t abuse it.” Ryan McNutt Photo: Danny Abriel Danny Photo: 10 DALHOUSIE | M A G A Z I N E Goldberg with four of their Goldberg withfouroftheir Earle –onSarah’s lap,Julia and Adeline) just before they and Adeline)justbeforethey seven children(l-r:Meyer, immigrated toCanada Sarah and Joseph Sarah andJoseph I I think they’veI think made big contributions to Halifax society telephone interview. “It’s really about [the Goldbergs] and University. is not“This about me for once,” he says a in family and their contributions to Halifax and Dalhousie tribute to his wife, Tanna Goldberg Schulich, the Goldberg scholarship created fund by Mr. Schulich at Dalhousie in that’s the whole point. The dedication recognizes anew billionaire philanthropist shunning the limelight. But the generally gregarious and highly visible Canadian Schulich is loving minute every it. of Things are going exactly as planned and Seymour storied Goldberg family and to have doing time agood it. outhas turned to celebrate the accomplishments the of ebb and flow. theMuch Halifax of Jewish community itswith modish steel and glassatrium, some 200guests Inside Goldberg the striking Computer Science Building, hues more intense, the flower gardens morefragrant. when nature is edged sharp in relief –the spring t’s acrisp, sunny June afternoon, day of the kind Indeed, it does seem alittle incongruous to find ward-jerrett by joanne number Jewish of students until the 1960s, but Dalhousie has make significant contributions theto community.” professionalsof and business people, well-equipped to transformed from itself its immigrant roots to afamily Dalhousie’sof influence,the Goldberg family and several others who went there but didn’t graduate.” areas of kinds graduated –who actually from Dalhousie nine [Goldberg family] graduates –doctors, lawyers, all fourth generation.” Remarkably, he says, “we’ve traced generation, sothe third generation, you if will, or the is my wife’s generation. And now they’re into another people basically emerged the next generation, which seven (five kids boys and twogirls). “Fromthose seven to Halifax 1912and in ended up alarge with family of almost acentury. Sarah and Joseph Goldberg immigrated Goldberg clan, whose Halifax and Dalhousie roots span and they gave me my wife, which is awonderful thing.” “Most universities North in America limited the In his remarks, Victor Goldberg noted, “because As Schulich points out, there is much to admire the in 11 FALL | 2008 has certainly paid it forward. it paid certainly has “I’ve given away in total about $220 million in a lot lot a in million $220 about total in away given “I’ve in philanthropists greatest the of one As scholarships in the faculties of Science and Computer Computer and of faculties Science in the scholarships two and scholarships merit academic Two Science. awarded be will scholarships service-based community Schulich fact, In Dalhousie. entering students first-year to total the brings benefaction Dalhousie the out, points 675 – a few funds to he scholarships of annual number goal of 1,000. far-from-modest his to closer steps of different areas [including music, management, nursing nursing management, music, [including areas of different the that is denominator common the and medicine] and young help to scholarships to goes ofbulk money the says study,” to them enable and expenses their defray people received he scholarship $1,600 the credits who Schulich, at MBA his complete to him enabling as Co. & Bache from They things. life-changing are “Scholarships 1965. in McGill what do to you enable and burden of lot a from you free which life, of your stage that at be doing to supposed you’re silver-spooner. no – I’m me at look … I mean, study is at and lot whole a had that family a from come didn’t I [scholarship].” that get to me to a lot meant time it that he history, Canadian Tanna and Seymour Schulich Tanna For all his macho reputation – decades of hard- – decades reputation all macho his For about most admires he him what ask Just know, you wife, describe my to words think best the “I of courtship his talk to about reluctant is he While Seymour the is something That Given the close ties between the Goldbergs and and Goldbergs the between ties close the Given

Dalhousie, the idea of idea name in making their the a benefaction Dalhousie, has date to who Schulich, for leap a quantam hardly was “I inCanada. education of to $220 million in excess donated They’re family. of Goldberg the been admirer an always have a than dysfunctional less certainly they’re very cohesive, something is cohesiveness their and families of other lot somebody as up stepping be to fun It’s … inspiring find I a for and a family for something be doing to Toronto from recognition.” of some worthy are of both which university, and mining the of trenches the in mega-success won a is – Schulich a person to will that do industries oil observations His conversationalist. easy surprisingly traits dry and laugh wit, easy his by punctuated are a self-made he’s Sure, warmth. natural his reveal that in as business his in unprecedented as – billionaire man. a family heart he’s at – but philanthropy his of wife 38 years. Halifax-born his Tanna, softening. tone his says, he lady,” a great mother, a great she’s world setting the out kids I was while the raised really “She pretty working and living a earning mind, own my in fire on both that credit a is really it and – credit the And it. at hard her to largely – belongs so well turned out have daughters my a as her have to very lucky very fortunate, basically … I’m act.” a class She’s together. life through partner journey in our dead a want you (“do ’60s the in back Halifax in Tanna topic the to warms Schulich hands?”), your on benefactor with years 22 his on reflecting connections, Halifax his of served also He firm. Maritime-owned a Securities, Eastern ’86. 1980 to from Airlines of Provincial chairman as Eastern he of Maritimes,” the fond been extremely always “I’ve to marriage my before there down roots had “I says. quite there down travel I used to And wife. my Halifax of fond very I’m So, pre-Tanna. bit a gone I’ve know, you ‘gee, I kind ofand said, and Quebec and Ontario in things done and why … Israel and Nevada and Calgary Maritimes?’” in the something do not which Fund, Scholarship Schulich $39,000 renewable four will award always remained open to all,” says Dalhousie President President Dalhousie says all,” to open remained always Traves. Tom Photo: Danny Abriel Danny Photo: b l e a c k t t l l i s c h o oh lo u s e ‘ t h m f r o n s s s o e l e ’

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Not so invisible now, thanks to Dr. Hamilton’s Hamilton’s Dr. to thanks now, invisible so Not , Scotia Nova of Black Heart the From It! Speak and Black Mother Black Black Mother Black films in the and this work In in schools segregated of study its Through In the film, Prof. Michelle Williams (BSW’91), Williams (BSW’91), Michelle Prof. film, the In who teachers and students from accounts First-hand there are points where the level of this institutionalized institutionalized this of level the where points are there think I and profound very been has neglect and racism community.” white majority the to invisible often Zoom in: wrote, she which , House School Black Little The work, newest Films Maroon company her through produced and directed She Distribution). Images Moving via distributed (and Inc. African of struggle the about story “a as film the describes dignity equality and in education.” for Canadians Daughter and shortcomings complexities, the reveals Hamilton Dr. Her study. detached a not is work Her education. of power her from learned lessons from part, in shaped, are insights own her and schools, segregated in taught who mother, school segregated a attending include which experiences, years. school elementary early her during Encyclopedia Canadian (the Scotia Nova and Ontario notes Ontario’s last segregated school closed in 1965, in 1965, closed school segregated last Ontario’s notes in 1983 in film, Hamilton’s Dr. to according and, reveals House School Black Little The Scotia), Nova many. to unknown history a part of Canada’s of director Program Mi’kmaq and Black Indigenous legal “a was there that explains School, Law Dalhousie of custom a longstanding to in addition framework permitted that Scotia in Nova in schooling segregation exist.” to schools segregated

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N Flash back: (MA’00, Hamilton Sylvia and writer filmmaker Scotia Nova her in descent African of student only the is She LLD’01). when which, home take to a form her gives teacher Her class. non-academic the into Hamilton Dr. direct will completed, “…If says, teacher The stream. yourself.” for job a little get you’ll maybe school, Voice-over: well-intentioned most the been have well may she because I thing. best the mind, her in was, this that thinking person, made judgment a was there that is know I All idea. no have basis no make, to right no had teacher this that me about race.” than other make, to which upon Flash forward: not does Truro, in College Normal provincial the of in remains Hamilton Dr. and form the complete she explains, Hamilton Dr. As stream. academic the Black the from graduate school high first the becomes earn to on goes She NS. Beechville, of community degrees. honorary and graduate undergraduate, were who people Black many the of speaks she Instead, spit just system “the but achieved, have could and bright have people that not It’s … ways bad really in that out them it’s – wanted haven’t people that not it’s tried, not

profound and I think often invisible to the majority white community. profound and I think The level of this institutionalized racism and neglect has been very racism and neglect has been The level of this institutionalized Photo: Nick Pearce Nick Photo: 14 DALHOUSIE | MAGAZINE opportunity forsomeonefromthecommunity. In allofherworkshe’s triedtoincorporatealearning Back story: fell by the wayside.” couldn’t hack it. They couldn’t hack the racism and so theyto elementary school with in the segregated school – just school) and a lot of his colleagues – kids he would have gone area, about talks when he hit junior acommon (in high of racism. “Historian David States, from the Windsor Plains those who had no idea, would able be to see.” had experienced, and so those who denied that this existed or those who lived it would have some validation of what they these experiences on film as possible,” Dr. Hamilton says. “So students who attended common schools. resources and there are stories of blatant racism towards of teachers’ dedication and creativity in the face of limited racism bring Prof. Williams’ words to life. There areexperienced tales the segregated school system and systemic us something about that heritage. That just was not there.” about people of African descent that was positive or that told and see people who would look like us or learn something “wouldn’t take for granted that we’d open our schoolbooksDr. Hamilton says, noting that she and those she grew up are,with never mind what you’re opening your to books find….” looks like you or that has some understanding of who you encountered what was a “very alien environment.” Dr. Hamilton the left segregated Beechville school she areas as spelling, deportment and mathematics. After Skinner, and her encouragement and instruction such in who might have little education, complete forms and papers. guided. Dr. Hamilton says teachers would often help parents, them,” Dr. Hamilton says. And it wasn’t onlymemories the studentsabout what she she did for them and how she cared for mother was my teacher,’ and they have just such incredible schools. was a labourer and Marie taught in a number of segregated youngest Gerald and Marie of Hamilton’s six children. Gerald And perhaps see the potential that was lost because “It was essential for to capture me to try as many of “To go through a system and to not have anybody that Dr. Hamilton fondly recalls her first teacher, Marion “Even to this day I run into people who will say, ‘Your Dr. Hamilton grew up in Beechville, the second “and there if is historic backup and background in existence, Dr. Hamilton carries out primary research documentaries are based on a book or research already successfully made invisible by systemic racism for 300years.” especially black Nova Scotians – a community that has been itsee as aplace that’s built been by many different peoples, they can’t see Nova Scotia as just New Scotland. They haveinternational to audiences. “If they look at Sylvia’s films… conception what of is Nova Scotia for regional, national and and she could the get community.” of the trust couldn’t tell, because she brings afirst voice experience, telling or willing to take the time to tell or probably “She’s told stories that nobody else was interested in in to filmmaking Nova Scotia, Ms. Kipping says: programming committee for the National Film Board. then, including when Ms. Kipping served on the regional Collective. Their paths have crossed many times since ago while working with Reel Life – the Women’s Media they would know something that they hadn’t known before.” it exists, that they could it see and they could about talk it and surprised, moved to tears, confounded, and also grateful that the in good sense that people have interested, been jolted, Halifax, and screened for school high and university students. played to a packed house at the Oxford movie theatre in Zoom out: was really significant.” advantage of it, that happened at the community level and encouraged at school, but for those who were able to take had Baptist youth organizations….You weren’t necessarilyto see something of themselves, were encouraged. They church-organized oratorical contests. that Dr. Hamilton learned about public speaking through Baptist church the in community. It was there, for example, Ms. Kipping explains that while many Ms. Kipping says Dr. Hamilton has broadened the When asked what Dr. Hamilton has contributed Pat Kipping met Dr. Hamilton more than 30 years Dr. Hamilton says: response“The has very, been very “That was the key place that I think young people began So it was found in other places, such as the African The Little Black School House has on been TV, 15 FALL | 2008 To compile a script detailing Dr. Hamilton’s life life Hamilton’s Dr. detailing script a compile To the question that came to my mind was, have we really really we have was, mind my to came that question the “I always try to encourage and pass along a positive positive a along pass and encourage to try always “I still is there that recognition the with tempered Hope her with scenes family be would that to Added in engaged her show would scene final the Perhaps women Black as only not think I them. to message to need we community Black the of members as but challenges are there times of lot a because that, do there’s is message my and hopeless people leave that messages the to back right goes It ... there out hope years.” the over me given has Sylvia words the and School Black Little The I watched “When be done. to work much Housethe but degree, different a to struggles, same The far? that come students our faced, film the in elders glad the that I’m struggles “And same says. Colley Borden Ms. facing,” still are today that continue, to needs dialogue the that us reminding is Sylvia two-year-old a have I sad. very that’s and – battle a still three there’s him for like be to going it ‘what’s thinking, I’m and son to have I shouldn’t starts school)?’ he (when now from years him?” for be like to going it what’s but that, worry about Montage: all to of above, the addition In task. be a major would work to contribution her to dedicated be to need would scenes Indigenous School’s Law Dalhousie of organization the James university’s the and Program Mi’kmaq and Black Also Studies. Canadian Black in Chair Johnston Robinson advisory the on service past her be would highlighted Nations First for Program Year of Transition the board service current her and students Canadian African and Art Gallery advisory Dalhousie committee. the on former MEd’89), (BA’80, Greenlaw Bev husband daughter their and coach, basketball men’s Dalhousie’s in majored who graduate King’s a recent (BJ’08), Shani younger with her scene be another would There theatre. African of Office the of CEO Hamilton, Wayn brother of her be also shots could There Affairs. Scotian Nova of Journalism, School King’s at with students working workshop. television advanced an teaches she where with the discussion thought-provoking and a thoughtful image that as then And work. her of screening a at audience be heard: would Kipping Ms. from words these out, fades artists great what done humanitarian…she’s true a “She’s know, they write what they know, they what paint They do: taken has she And know. they what about films make they pursuit scholarly a into it turned she’s and knows she what pursuit.” a social and justice artistic an and pursuit Dr. Hamilton has long practised mentorship. She practised mentorship. long has Hamilton Dr. staff reporter Sherri Borden Colley . Colley Sherri Borden staff reporter Two of the individuals she’s mentored are Dalhousie Dalhousie are mentored she’s individuals the of Two a variety of on Hamilton with Dr. worked Tynes Ms. I if know don’t I opportunity an me give did really “She has Hamilton Dr. difference the to speaks Tynes Ms. on assistant production was Colley Borden Ms. it passes also Colley Borden Ms. Today, Two shot: Two a learning tried incorporate to she’s in all of work that her says always “I’ve community. the from someone for opportunity different a of people encourage to important it’s that believed me,” before generations from that I received because generation forward.” that pass to stage next the is really it “So says. she Chronicle and (BA’93) Tynes Quenta advisor academic Herald for workshop a coordinate to helping including projects, be might who communities marginalized from women of a series with assisting and production, in film interested focus. Scotian African Nova vignettes with an CBC television “And says. Tynes Ms. elsewhere,” found have would necessarily certainly has it that think I because grateful forever I’m that for development.” professional and personal own my helped voice a people given she’s think “I films. her through made says. she venue,” in a public it have normally wouldn’t who to opportunities have do we community Black the “Within for important are stories our but ourselves, amongst share be heard, to voices this allows So doing hear. to everyone real.” more stories our makes It perspectives. different allows It! Speak film, Award-winning Gemini Hamilton’s Dr. don’t people know “I . Scotia Nova of Black Heart the From because is certainly she but model, be called to a role like aspiring young other so many gives she and me gave she Without opportunity. an filmmakers and journalists a meet to able been never have would us of many Sylvia, worlds.” or journalism film the in either of people lot from students to presentations through forward variety a on speaks She university. to elementary experiences. personal her including of topics that she’s used, often she’s participated in some way in in way some in participated she’s often used, she’s that along helped and mentored has she or … that gathering that.” done have who people other or historians 16 DALHOUSIE | MAGAZINE POINTS TALKING WHEN YOUCAN’TCOMMUNICATE THEWAY YOUWANT TO,ITCANBEDEVASTATING. I because they know how hard it is to get their point across.” them together,” she says. “They bond during the program Therapy program (InteRACT, for short). “It really brings Dalhousie’s Intensive Residential Aphasia Communication communication,of explains Linda Wozniak, director of sounds, relying on gestures to communicate. understand its flow. Others speak onlywith indiscriminate to join the conversation with relative ease but struggle to abilities to share thoughts with one another. Some seem Humanof Communication Disorders their in wildly vary patients seated in the boardroom of Dalhousie’s School jigsaw puzzle: a piece here, a fragment there. The five Reagan. Theis jovial; mood laughs and one-liners abound. maché turkey, aseaside painting and asculpture Ronald of pieces of folk art scattered around the table: a paper forth. It soon shifts to a discussion about the various about the day to come, last night’s hockey game and so t starts out like any other table conversation: gossip Despite their differences, they all share the challenge But to an observer, the conversation feels a bit like library – are all aimed at retraining the brain to reconnect – which include excursions to the shopping mall and the itself. The individual therapy sessions and group activities in a person’s ability to produce or comprehend language physical function of speech. Instead, it’s an impediment aphasia is not, as you might think, an impairment in the do before they started their battle aphasia.” with newtry things or learn to do old activities that they used to outside of it,” says Ms. Wozniak. “We want to get people to but making sure that they can communicate when they’re continue to work them with when they leave Halifax. frompartner home, afamily member or who friend will residence and are accompanied by acommunication experience two with unique features: patients live in come for an intensive four-and-a-half week immersion from around the world to Halifax each summer. They program, which since 2002 has attracted aphasia patients Though it’s often the consequence astroke, of “It’s not just about what goes on the in therapy room, This group session is a daily part of the InteRACT ryan mcnutt by by

17 FALL | 2008 Photos: Danny Abriel Danny Photos: On this particular day, student Courtney Digdon Courtney Digdon student this particularOn day, the of Digdon Ms. says rewarding,” very “It’s One gets the sense that Nancy Maloney’s story is an is story Maloney’s Nancy that sense the gets One t was completely out of the blue; in an instant our our instant an in blue; the of out completely was t lives changed.” I “IT WAS “IT WAS COMPLETELY OUT OF THE BLUE; IN AN INSTANT OUR LIVES CHANGED.” to tool a as art folk using session group a leads out picks patient Each communication. encourage questions answers and art folk of piece favourite their they’d much how it, chose they why – it about read also They it. name they’d what and it for pay questions. artists answer the and on biographies overcome patients aphasia help to opportunity important so that’s something “It’s disorders. their When communicate. to want all we – everyone to communicate can’t you or communicate, can’t you be can devastating.” it to, want you way in the unique somewhat the of spite in one, all-too-common Bruce husband, Her began. it which under circumstances but stroke, for factors risk major the of any lacked Landon, “ If that’s the case, then at first glance one might might one glance first at then case, the that’s If therapy, your adapt learn to to have really “You thought with speech. Ms. Wozniak says that it helps to to helps it that says Wozniak Ms. speech. with thought second a learning to akin as aphasia overcoming imagine like It’s again. over words the learning like “It’s language: been erased.” has vocabulary your patients the with work who students masters the consider is program InteRACT the in role their Yet translators. be to success, program’s the crucial to are They more. so much the of many facilitating and activities group the leading multiple with working by And sessions. therapy personal valuable gain they program, the throughout patients client. the to care the in customizing experience says different,” very is aphasia with patient every because working is students the of most like who Chapman, Shae pathology. language in speech degree master’s her towards in work to get I’ll chances only the of one likely is “This ideal the see to able I’m If program. intensive an such to learn I what take can I hopefully here, situation therapy setting.” clinical another

POINTS TALKING 18 DALHOUSIE | MAGAZINE constantly searching for new sources of funding to under acost-recovery system, and its organizers are Wozniak explains that the program operates entirely InteRACT program is private and costs $16,500. Ms. through the public medical system. As it stands, the over years appropriate with rehabilitation services.” grateful for any improvement. We know recovery happens able he did to before,” do everything she explains. “But we’re acknowledges there’s a long still path to recovery. program will produce some gains, although she personal attention. Ms. Maloney hopes the InteRACT right combination intensive of rehabilitation and to another in British Columbia, never finding the eight months bouncing around from one hospital ability to communicate. that led to a stroke, impairing both his motor skills and his a spontaneous tear of an artery in his brain formed a clot IMPORTANT.” IS EXTREMELY SO CONFIDENCE THEIR CONDITION, THEMSELVES IN RETREAT INTO FOR THEMTO “IT’S SOEASY She also wishes this sort of care was available “Bruce still gets discouraged because he wants to be Before entering the InteRACT program, he spent recovery, to thispoint, has slow been and hard. a bout encephalitis of just over ayear ago and memory, motion and speech have suffered all after also from Virginia, hopes for his wife Lynda. Her made: “Wonderful. Wonderful improvement here.” that sort of interaction and therapy with the gains he’s different opinions about different stuff.” He credits the same struggles: “Talking …interacting …sharing of the program is working with others going through are “tough tough” –good and says his favourite part from two years ago, when he fell on ill Day. Christmas clearcrystal and comprehensible –significant progress him. But while his speech is slow and stuttering, it’s also things out with his hands; numbers still aren’t easy for back this year. At times when talking, he stops to count Virginia native Perry Tsacoumis made his third trip help keep costs low for patients and their families. It’s improvement the of sort Chip Hilborn, Mr. Tsacoumis jokes that the student assistants For some, the investment is more than worth it:

19 FALL | 2008 Photos: Danny Abriel Danny Photos: “It’s so easy for them to retreat into themselves themselves into retreat to them for easy so “It’s the as display on confidence just not There’s never game the recovery, to path patient’s each Like also a chance for the group to participate in something something in participate to group the for chance a also back. confidence their build help and familiar extremely is confidence so condition, their in of“The majority Ms.Wozniak. says important,” self-confidence of that some back see gain we patients can alone that and skills, communication their in life.” everyday in their difference a huge make behind another one from cards their hide players trash bravado, there’s – notebooks and binders card hallmarks oftalking all a classic other and the as normal than longer take may game The showdown. seeking, they’re words try participants the the find to heartening. that’s it a normalcy to there’s but Tomorrow day. next the again up picks just it ends; really group another therapy, one-on-one more be will there – alike families their and patients the for – and session small. and big breakthroughs for hoping day another

The card game isn’t just for kicks. It’s part of a of part It’s kicks. for just isn’t game card The “The hopes are always greater than the realistic realistic the than greater always are hopes “The o fish,” says Steve Neighbors, speaking across across speaking Neighbors, Steve says fish,” o Lugli’s Mr. Lugli. Al of direction the in table the

process that Ms. Wozniak describes as “constraint “constraint as describes Wozniak Ms. that process in strength build to skill stronger a restricting – theory” describe to gestures use can’t patients The one. weaker a one to speak to forced are and cards, the on photos the It’s requests. to respond and cards for ask to another verbal communication skills are limited, but – ever the the ever – but limited, are skills communication verbal dips He glare. comical a with responds he – jokester hand, his to add to card select another to pile the into access. easy for brush upside-down an on out laid G he’s suggests tone his and concedes, Hilborn Mr. hopes,” we that hope I “But grounded. expectations his keeping more regain can she that and memories some spark can right the at just she’s Maybe communicate. to ability her of wife my weeks, three last in the but recovery in her point months.” eight past in the than progress more made has “ FOSSIL RECORD Only 350 million years later, the. world takesby marilyn notice smulders 20 MAGAZINE |

Photos: Nick Pearce Nick Photos: DALHOUSIE 21 FALL | 2008 , the first reptile; reptile; first the , was elusive on the beach beach the on elusive was , emerged from the water to to water the from emerged , , the largest terrestrial invertebrate in invertebrate terrestrial largest the , Hylonomus lyelli Earth Sciences Professor Martin Gibling says says Martin Gibling Professor Earth Sciences Alas, Officially opened on Earth Day, April 21, the Joggins the April 21, on Earth Day, opened Officially of design the landscape, the ifAs from pulled I guide tour fascinating most the was Calder “John , the earliest land snail, snail, land earliest the , vetusta Dendropupa Arthropleura Earth had one big continent and Nova Scotia sidled up up sidled Scotia Nova and continent big Earth one had humid. and hot was it equator, the near Morocco to an out lays it because world in the unique is Joggins inhabited that creatures the and landscape ancient entire it: our world’s history; Hylonomus lyelli world’s our and later Darwin would Charles of which discovery the an represents Joggins Origin. describe in The of Species vertebrates, when documenting milestone, evolutionary Hylonomus as lyellisuch reptiles cousins, amphibian its Unlike land. on live breed. to water the to return to need longer no in fossil form, so we returned to the interpretative interpretative the to returned we so form, fossil in – a floor the along tracks its followed and centre hideaway, a little into – and kids love feature neat tree-trunk den. its simulate to meant the to complement worthy a proving is Centre Fossil of the site reclaimed the on Situated themselves. cliffs showcase a is centre the Coal Mine, 7 No. Joggins Old displays and Exhibits collection. fossil extensive an for cliffs, of history Joggins geological the rich the depict the and site at the discovery of history the scientific local the community. shaped ofhistory that mining coal with and its shape in its cliffs the mimics building the sedimentary like in layers constructed walls, sandstone environmentally also is building The striations. a medal of awarded recently was and sustainable Design Governor’s Lieutenant the from excellence a 50-kilowatt include Features Architecture. for Award system, heating water hot solar generator, wind turbine a and use non-potable for water capture to a cistern cooling and in heating extremes reduce grass to roof (BA’79, Burdock Ron architect Lead of building. the WHW firm Halifax with the BArch’85) BEds’84, LEED gold for crossed fingers his has also Architects Council. Building Green Canadian the from certification Burdock. Mr. says passion,” his all caught – we had ever a designing than more turned into “The project of story the a community.” telling involved It building.

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“ Photos: Danny Abriel Danny Photos: Andrew Roger David Hoskin David alhousie’s Canada Research Chair in Ultrafast in Ultrafast Chair Research Canada alhousie’s quantum conducting is Hall, Kimberley Science, a profound have could that research physics To generate the data, Dr. Hall works with different- works Hall Dr. data, the generate To a for looking like a bit is data the “Generating the laying is Hall Dr. spin, electron harnessing By She uses nano-sized (very, very tiny) pieces pieces very tiny) (very, nano-sized uses She A quantum leap D of semiconductor material to trap electrons. electrons. trap to material of semiconductor laser a state-of-the-art of from light bursts Short called electron of trapped the a property manipulate Hall Dr. spin, this isolated controlling By spin. its electron. trapped in the information store can 100 femtoseconds. about last that spurts light sized a to are 100 femtoseconds in perspective, it put To from distance the to is a centimetre what second within happens what it’s And sun. earth the the to study. to wants she that 100 femtoseconds those is “It Hall. Dr. says dark,” grain of pitch in the sand experiments Some work. precise and demanding long meaning weeks, several for a day run 24 hours lab.” in the teamwork exceptional and hours computer. a quantum build to needed groundwork impact on how computers operate in the future. future. inthe operate computers how on impact 24 24 DALHOUSIE | MAGAZINE Cheryl Kozey outbreaks human in populations, is disconcerting. mutations, from beingharmless to causing massive that fact very many such microbes can change by has asignificantimpact on our lives own today. yearsof old is scientifically fascinating, but alsoit to other forms life an of in evolutionary sense.” to get clues as to how different organisms are related genomic DNA sequence provides away for researchers Dr. Roger, associate professor, Faculty Medicine. of “The evolutionary relationships amongst large animals,” says or other body structures that are usedto discern organisms, it’s impossible to compare bones arm the DNA its close of relatives. “For such single-celled tocan start compare the genomes of, say, Giardia to natural eradication by the body’s immune system. that exploits its host, lives without oxygen and avoids organism could evolve from a free-living entity into one the discomfort factor. He’s interested very how in an “We ignore evolution at our own peril. The Reconstructing relationships that are millions With genetic mapping rapidly advancing, Dr. Roger Chris McMaster Charlotte LoppieandFredWien Keeping peoplemoving impossible to develop vaccines against the disease.” can escape the immune system, it making nearly Look at HIV, that is evolving avirus sofast that it A actual neurologicalactual muscle impairment, where the effective treatment might exercises be directed at the overactive,” she explains. means“This that more just strengthened, order in to heal the back. actually suggests that the muscles may have to retrained, be not pain have muscle atypical activation patterns. This research has shown that people who have lower back people are feeling betterafew within weeks. through therapeutically-controlled exercises, most ultrasound and by strengthening muscles the trunk anti-inflammatorywith medication, massage and/or to sit, stand and even sleep. The news good is that “Specific muscles may have or turned areoff But often the condition is recurrent. Kozey’s Cheryl knows it debilitating. can be It agonizing can be nyone who has had serious lower back pain

Photos: Danny Abriel 25 FALL | 2008 ne of the most polluted places in North in North places polluted ofne most the Ponds. Tar Sydney the is America Dr. Loppie says that Aboriginal women are facing a facing are women Aboriginal that says Loppie Dr. of way by help, that hopeful is Loppie Dr. But In the early 1990s, he began to focus more more focus began to he 1990s, early the In Mi’kmaq Scotian of a handful Nova only 1973, In particularly still remain, impediments Major red Wien has witnessed major inroads in community in community inroads witnessed major has Wien red social and toward of working in 30 years his building, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), (PAHs), Hydrocarbons Aromatic Polycyclic and metals heavy (PCBs), biphenyls Polychlorinated O F younger generations, who are far less likely to embrace embrace to likely less far are who generations, younger health women’s that found also has She aging process. the in part due all ages at of control out spiralling are issues system. medical with western the clash a culture to to connected feel don’t they because trauma” “medical in preventive partake to Reticent system. care health the often resort, a last as only see doctors they care, health longer no are and progressed have illnesses their when victims often of now are women Aboriginal curable. health. poor perpetuates that something violence, sexual Aboriginal way. the on is research, life-improving to a point fact-finding beyond evolved has research improvements tangible to lead now can it where well-being. of overall and aboriginal health Rising above exclusively on aboriginal issues, supporting the the supporting aboriginal issues, on exclusively their over control take to desire People’s Aboriginal priorities. own their establish and well-being in enrolled were People Aboriginal other and hundred several to compared education postsecondary very few ago, Thirty years university. attending now by operated and owned were businesses established are there Today, province. in the People Aboriginal and in Millbrook especially stories, success notable now of organizations number a large And Membertou. of aboriginal society. interests various the represent research current Wien’s Dr. of health. area in the health effective – more purposes two serves Improving capacity. research increased and care and approaches treatment and intervention the within capacity aboriginal the research creating goals. his are themselves communities Cleaning up a toxic mess economic development in disadvantaged communities. in disadvantaged development economic

Dr. Kozey’s new project will determine if the research will if determine research the project new Kozey’s Dr. This clearly disturbs Charlotte Loppie, who through through who Loppie, Charlotte disturbs clearly This Dr. McMaster is working to isolate new genes that that genes new isolate to working is McMaster Dr. biology, a specific on research focusing “By the at colleagues his and McMaster Dr. off bacterial shut drugs that designed have “We ipids, or fats, are traditionally considered in considered traditionally are fats, or ipids, but high cholesterol or of terms waistlines magine a culture that embraces women with grey with grey women embraces that magine a culture changes age-related these Where wrinkles. and hair

I L team can predict which people with a previous occurrence occurrence with a previous people which predict can team based again, it experience in fact, will, pain back of lower patterns. movement and activation muscle their on Combatting major disease issue is more about motion control than strength.” strength.” than control motion about more is issue her research, has seen many efforts to keep this important this important keep to efforts many seen has research, her among in is jeopardy it However, intact. system value signify positive life progression, not diminished diminished not progression, life signify positive have traits these aboriginal cultures, many In sexuality. Unfortunately, valued. and been revered historically by being eroded slowly is elders for this respect glorifies which culture, of western imposition the shapes. body waiflike skin and flawless youth, Sick and scared there is far more to the story. According to Chris to According story. the to more far is there it in Biosignalling, Chair Research Canada McMaster, misregulation the that decades been for known has diseases. many impacts metabolism of lipid levels. lipid regulate properly to ability body’s the affect defective become that processes the characterizes then He normally. metabolized not is a particularwhen lipid diseases major touch to able are we lipids, namely infectious cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular, including including disorders neurodegenerative diseases, disorders inflammatory and disease Alzheimer’s explains. McMaster Dr. asthma,” as such are Centre IWK Health in Design the Drug Lab that found that of research taking advantage humans. than differently lipids bacteria make of strains kill and drug-resistant metabolism lipid new truly type“This first of the is says. he bacteria,” next The 30 years. past in the be introduced to antibiotic clinical establish and safe are they sure make to is step lipid on discoveries our transform can we trials so that lives.” will actual that an save medicine into metabolism 26

DALHOUSIE | MAGAZINE Robert Beiko D Protecting thebrain same way, and perhaps usedto be clean up toxic sites.” carefully bioengineered to compulsively respond the that enable thishabitat adaptation, amicrobe could be to Dr. Beiko. “Once we figure outthe specific genes breakactually down chemicals harmful is extraordinary future as more environmental changes take place.” predict how micro-organisms might respond the in genes are responsible for thistransformation and “From amicrobial perspective, Iwant to know which suchin seemingly hostile environments,” he says. diversity. It’s remarkable that these can live bacteria task. “I’m interested how in evolution has shaped and others like them –have evolved to assume this He is working to understand how these microbes – Bioinformatics,in thispresents afascinating challenge. industrial byproducts and render them harmless. for afood source and can seemingly digest poisonous that are deemed sodangerous. These are bacteria eager microbes are thriving, slowly eating thepollutants very exists the tar within ponds’ goop. Hundreds different of other pollutants, make any life signs of unexpected. drugs. And he wants the compounds to made be from its job is to design new that drugs don’t copy existing The that fact the microbes can not just survive, but To Dr. Beiko, Dalhousie’s Canada Research Chair To Robert Beiko’s intellectual delight, life indeed Clinical Neuroscience,Clinical tells his research team onald Weaver, the Canada Research Chair in

Photo: Danny Abriel Dr. Weaver, also the president Epilepsy of Canada. formation aseizure of focus, and prevent epilepsy,” says firstbrainoccurs injury to preventthe subsequent epileptogenic’ that drug could given be when the only after the person has developed epilepsy. are usedto symptomatically suppress the seizures the brain.” The currently available anti-seizure drugs cells thatmisfiring of short-circuit part a of small a seizure focus, aprocess Dr. Weaver describes as “a later. The epilepsy develops due to the formation of epilepsy, but frequently thisis two or three years When someone has abrain injury, they may develop developing people in who have suffered brain injury. curative approach efforts in to prevent epilepsy from rather acondition than with worsen that will over time.” disease, leaving the patient loss memory minimal with could stop brain further damage at theonset very the of and dementia,” says Dr. Weaver. “An anti-clumping drug amyloid peptides the in brain, which causes deterioration do that –he wants to obliterate the root cause. these diseasesof –there are already that drugs can disorders, Alzheimer’s and epilepsy. twowith medically perplexing neurological for life-altering improvements for people plagued molecules that don’t exist yet, not even nature. in “We are working to design apioneering ‘anti- His research team is pursuing thissame early “Alzheimer’s develops due to the clumping beta- of Dr. Weaver isn’t interested treating in the symptoms It’s order, atall but one the potential with Donald Weaver

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DALHOUSIE Canada, and a past-president organizations and gives to giving back to the of the Canadian Political tirelessly of her time to community. He is a member Science Association. He readings and workshops, of the Law Society of Upper also served as Dalhousie’s spreading her joy of Canada and a former vice-president academic and reading and writing to new member of the Licensing research from 1988 to 1993 generations. In 2004, she was Executives Society and and chair of the university’s made a Member of the Order ITCan. He currently sits on Call for nominations political science department of Canada. the boards of directors for 2009 Alumni Association Awards from 1980 to 1985. Dr. Stairs Business for the Arts – Arts Help us celebrate by nominating a was appointed an Officer of This award was established in Scene and Shakespeare in 2006 to recognize alumni for fellow grad for one of our 2009 awards. the Order of Canada in 2006. Action. outstanding accomplishments For further information, phone in career and community Shawna Burgess at 902.494.6051 Named in honour of A. Gordon service. Recipients demonstrate Established in 2006, this award or 1.800.565.9969 or Archibald, recipient of the very the true spirit of Dalhousie recognizes recent graduates for innovative accomplishments email: [email protected] first Alumni of the Year Award, University and set an inspiring this award was established in example. and notable contributions 1989 to recognize alumni for to society, the community or outstanding personal service, Dalhousie. commitment and contribution to Dalhousie University. 29 FALL | 2 0 0 8

Truro and Truro and receptions receptions Ottawa and www.dal.ca/alumni/ Photos from top to bottom: bottom: to top from Photos Reception at the Chester home of Brian (LLD’08, Porter Megan and BCom’80) Nursing class of 1988 20- year reunion Halifax alumni movie night: Indiana Jones and the Skull Crystal the of Kingdom View more pictures online at events/photos Alumni Alumni events into spring, late the Over early and summer the Dalhousie fall months, friends came and alumni and movies for together a picnic in Halifax, jazz night in Victoria, a pub in in Chester, Cape Breton. Sydney, or Watch for events in events for Watch the and Montreal, Toronto Annapolis Valley. For complete event details and updates, visit www.dal.ca/alumni/ at us contact events or [email protected] 1.800.565.9969. Coming up! Coming alumniNew England 6 reception – November and (BA’70) Larry Hosts: Brophy (BA’69) Nan Halifax Parade of Lights alumni & family 15 gathering – November Ottawa alumni reception – December 4 Arts Centre National Sharon Senator Host: (BA’62) Carstairs, Estate of Harley Harley Kushel The The gift recognizes brother felt“My grateful The Million dollar Million dollar smile Dalhousie is celebrating a $1 million bequest the to Faculty Dentistry.of Kushel (DDS’34) made the unsolicited bequestthis past June create to a scholarship fund students for in the Doctor Dentalof Surgery program. Dr. Kushel set his up orthodontic practice in New Rochester, where lived he withYork, his wife Catherine and daughter Pamela. Dalhousie’s open-door policy with respect qualified to Jewish candidates a time at when many professional schools levied Jewish quotas, according Kushel’s Marionto Dr. Forer, younger sister. Dalhousieto accepting for him and providing him with a quality education,” she said. do remember“I the fondness hadhe his for education at Dalhousie even – he named his favorite Irish Setter Dal.” Scholarship Fund will award scholarships based on to excellence academic Dental Surgery students beginning in the 2009-10 academic year. Described as an an as Described won has MacRae Dr. The Alumni Association Award Award Association Alumni The Teaching in Excellence for take who professors recognizes level. exceptional an to teaching instructors honours award The students of eyes the in who, colleagues, teaching and skills, teaching superior display enthusiasm and innovation an show and subject, the for the toward attitude exemplary of students. concerns and needs Dr. Tom MacRae Tom Dr. for Excellence in Award Teaching chair is MacRae Tom biology Dalhousie’s of 28-year his Over department. taught has he career, teaching of Dalhousie hundreds ranging in groups students, introductory large from smaller much to classes 15 10 or with just classes has also He students. senior who of students a team six his on him with collaborate research. outstanding “inspirational, educator, enthusiastic” and passionate is MacRae Dr. always and teaching about first. students his puts including awards, numerous Award Gill Rosemary the service students, to for 3M Teaching national the Faculty the and Fellowship for Award of Science in Teaching. Excellence 759-7101 DAL_DalMag.indd 1 30 DALHOUSIE | MAGAZINE You’ll get what you want because you’ll have what employers want. want. employers what have you’ll because So want you what employers. get You’ll leading America’s North program.the design to employers top of 30 than more with worked we Canada, one in MBA Residency Corporate with waiting. No world. corporate residency the in place your earning you’re corporate while MBA your paid earning you’re eight-month an with learning now. right world real the for designed experience learning hands-on and relevant The Dalhousie Corporate Residency MBA gets you what you want, faster. juicy. tothe Straight ResidencyCorporate dalmba.ca Our unique model is a practical, •

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1984 1940s Erin Steuter, BA, MA’87, is a professor of 1946 Sociology at Mount Allison University. She has John Bishop Ballem, BA, MA’48, LLB’49, has a written a critical account of the news media new book out. University of Toronto Press has called At War With Metaphor: Media Propaganda released the 4th edition of his “well-known and and Racism in the War on Terror, which was highly authoritative” legal text, The Oil and Gas Dalhousie Alumni published by Lexington Books in 2008. The Lease in Canada. He is currently at work on a book invites us to hold the media and ourselves Association new novel (his 13th). accountable for the choices we make when 2008-2009 Board of talking war and making enemies. Directors 1989 1950s Dan Falk, BSc, has a new book out. A science 1954 journalist, his latest book is called In Search New Members Nancy (Wickwire) Fraser, BA, will autograph of Time: Journeys Along a Curious Dimension. Tammie Deubry (BCom’02, MA’05), N.S. her new book, Letters from Paris: A Halifax Lass Within its pages, Dan covers a wide range of Alexandra Dostal (BA’98), Ont. Tackles the Sorbonne, 1954-55, in the fireside eclectic topics ranging from prehistory to the far W. Marc Douglas (BA’06), B.C. lounge of the Marion McCain Building on future. When not penning novels, Dan writes for Bonita Hansra (MBA’05), Ont. October 17, 2008. A percentage of revenue from The Globe and Mail, the National Post, Walrus Shaunda Wood (BScHE’91), N.B. the book launch will be donated to the French and The New Scientist, while also contributing to Department. Letters to Paris is dedicated to the CBC Radio’s Ideas and Quirks and Quarks shows. Returning Members late Professor Paul Chavy. He lives in Toronto. 1958 Nancy Barkhouse (BA’72), N.S., Helen Wickwire-Foster, BA, BEd’61, is now vice-president, BOG representative president of the Women’s Division of the Susan Zed Barry (BSc’79, DDS’83), N.B. 31 Dalhousie Alumni Association. 1990s FALL Andrew Bennett (BA’95), Ont. 1991 Christy MacLean-Chu, BA, spent a number of

Heather Bown (BEDS’00, MARFP’02), N.S. years in Japan and Vancouver after graduation. | Straight to the juicy. Level Y.Y. Chan (BA’99, LLB’02), N.S., 2008 president, BOG representative 1960s She then moved to London, England where she The Dalhousie Corporate Residency MBA gets you what you want, faster. Our unique model is a practical, 1966 Chris Coulter (MBA’93), Ont. taught, entered a Master of Linguistics program relevant and hands-on learning experience designed for the real world right now. • It integrates classroom Shirley Hodder DeBow, BA was bestowed with an (graduated in 2006) and met her husband, Andrew Fraser (LLB’91), N.S. learning with an eight-month paid corporate residency with one of North America’s leading employers. So Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Lawrence Chu. Once married, they moved to Donalda MacBeath (LLB’79), Alta. you’re earning your MBA while you’re earning your place in the corporate world. No waiting. • As the only Lethbridge at spring convocation 2008. She was the United States and in 2006 welcomed their Nancy MacCready-Williams Corporate Residency MBA in Canada, we worked with more than 30 top employers to design the program. (LLB’89), cited for her substantial contributions to society, first child, a son, Lachlan Shen-Fai Chu. Christy You’ll get what you want because you’ll have what employers want. N.S., BOG representative to her field of social work and to the university. and Lawrence currently reside in San Francisco. Paul Pothier PEng (DEngr’83, Among her many other accomplishments, Friends can look her up on Facebook. BEng’86), N.S. she launched the first social services worker Mairi MacLean-O’Handley, BA, MSW’02, Jim Wilson (MBA’87), N.S., program at the Northern Alberta Institute of married Bobby O’Handley, BSW’05, on BOG representative Technology (NAIT). Following eight years of December 30, 2005. Bobby is currently the service on the University of Lethbridge Senate, director of Comhla Cruinn, a youth residential The board is grateful to retiring members Shirley served as chancellor from 2003 to 2007. facility with the Children’s Aid Society of Cape Chris Smith (BCom’88) and Louisa Horne Breton-Victoria, while Mairi is a child welfare (BSC’80, BEd’88, MEd’96), for their time, placement specialist with the Department of wisdom and leadership over the years. 1980s Community Services. In November, 2007, they 1982 welcomed their first child, Brody Alexander Michael Barry, MD, is the 2008-09 chairperson Duart O’ Handley. They reside in Sydney, Cape for the Saint John Board of Trade. He is the first Breton. Friends can look her up on facebook. physician to hold this position in the board’s 1993 188-year history. He brings eight years of Duart MacLean, BCom, attended the University volunteer service with the Board of Trade as well of Maine after graduation and obtained an as experience as the chief of radiology, president education degree. There he met Brenda Byer- of the Saint John Medical Society, and president MacLean, they married in 1998 and then moved of the AHSC Medical Staff Organization. to Oshawa, Ontario. Both are educators and they

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Mr. MacLean enjoyed 10 The Detroit Red Wings assistant coach from productive seasons, tallying 673 points before afraid to try Antigonish, N.S., was behind the bench for the injuries and retirement. something new or Red Wings this past season during their Stanley “I was one of the first guys to say ‘I’ll never get cut or fired. Cup run. be a coach’ but strange things happen.” “Imagine the best thing that you’ve ever He caught the bug for coaching while doing The experiences done or dreamed about doing and it’s even an assignment with the St. Louis Blues’s farm only make you better than that, it doesn’t even compare,” says team. As a minor league coach, he brought better.” Mr. MacLean. the Quad City Mallards to a championship in Even so, playing with the Tigers comes close. 2002. He’s been an NHL assistant coach for the The forward’s career with the Tigers included Phoenix Coyotes, Anaheim Mighty Ducks and scoring the winning goal – in overtime against the Detroit Red Wings. 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Tel: 902-494-3401 Tel: Conference 36 DALHOUSIE | MAGAZINE 604 8621773 [email protected] opportunity, contact CherGrahamat For moreinformation onthis M allowed him to remain in the racing His education and business savvy have speaks English, French, and German. Bayer’s Lake. He’s also a certified pilot who to own Kartbahn Indoor Karting in The 30-year-old Halifax native continues inspired by indoor tracks Germany. in business as an student, engineering different scenarios and tracks,” he says. drivers and mechanics and dealing with challenge in working with different than driving it because there is a new to three drivers, including a15-year-old. for the Atlantic Racing Team and a mentor not behind the wheel. Now he’s the engineer racing. By 2003 he realized his future was engineering, he resumed international an engineer andbe that never changed.” to me. I knew in Grade nine I wanted to “Education has always been very important he put the brakes on his racing career. value in higher learning and at age 18 could be over as fast as it began. He saw but Mr. Strackerjan knew that his career “We were really at the forefront.” professionally,” says Mr. Strackerjan. time, it was abig deal to 16and be racing Team, started by his father, Ingo. “At that North America for the Atlantic Racing (BEng ’00)it wasn’t adream, it was reality. checkered flag. For Lucas Strackerjan Mr. Strackerjan started his own “I enjoy engineering the car more After specializing mechanical in Many thought that he was set for life, He was racing professionally across 100 mph the and taking being race car drivers, going any teenagers dream of Spot light ENGINEERING A FALLBACK PLAN

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Charlotte Lyall (Lyall) Smith, BA’35, Halifax, June Bishop (Bishop) Grant, BA’47, Bedford, N.S., Doreen Weeks (Sheppard) Painter, BA’54, on N.S., on June 5, 2008 on June 30, 2008 April 20, 2008 Edgar R. Jones, BEng’35 (NSTC), Englewood, Howard Russell MacEwan, LLB’48, New Glasgow, John Ronald Tremblay, BCom’54, Mississauga, Fla., on July 13, 2007 N.S., on June 29, 2008 Ont., on August 6, 2008 Allister Sutherland MacRae, DEngr’34, BEng’36 Richard Montgomery Currie, DEngr’46, BEng’48 Walter Roy Atwood, BM’55, Roxboro, Que., on (NSTC), Peterborough, Ont., on May 19, 2008 (NSTC), Peterborough, Ont., on August 18, 2008 June 8, 2008 Mariam Charlotte (Murphy) Linton, BA’37, George Kendall Foster, DEngr’46, BEng’48 Donald Francis Murphy, LLB’55, Halifax, N.S., on Halifax, N.S., on April 26, 2008 (NSTC), Glen Haven, N.S., on July 18, 2008 May 16, 2008 Reginald J MacNeil, BEng’37 (NSTC), Coniston, John Harlow Merry, DPhrm’48, Bridgetown, N.S., Dallas Cecil Santry, BSc’53, MSc’55, Gloucester, Ont., on August 6, 2007 on July 10, 2008 Ont., on January 7, 2008 Wilson Campbell MacKenzie, BA’37, MA’38, Cameron MacInnis, DEngr’46, BSC’47, BEng48 Eleanor Ann (McCurdy) Hoyle, DPH’55, Ottawa, Ont., on February 8, 2008 (NSTC), Toronto, Ont., on August 18, 2008 Dartmouth, N.S., on June 12, 2008 Robert W Pike, BEng’38 (NSTC), London, Ont., John Thomas MacLeod, BCom’50, New Glasgow, William Ernest Greenlaw, MD’57, Halifax, N.S., on May 3, 2008 N.S., on April 21, 2008 on April 25, 2008 Perley Clinton Outhouse, DDS’42, Digby, N.S., on Francis Patrick Martin, BEng’50 (NSTC), Simon James Holliday Gray, BA’57, London, July 14, 2008 Halifax, N.S., on May 3, 2008 Great Britian, on August 7, 2008 Roderick Stuart Ideson, MD’42, Barrie, Ont., on Carl Cleveland Giffin, MD’51, Truro, N.S., on Sheila Jean (Coldwell ) Bonn, BA’56, BEd’57, April 10, 2008 August 6, 2008 Sarnia, Ont., on March 22, 2007 Margaret Grace Hunter (Morrison) Hoffman, Sidney Epstein, BCom51, St. John’s, N.L.., on Walton William Cook, LLB’57, Lunenburg, N.S., BA’45, Burlington, Ont., on July 27, 2008 June 8, 2008 on April 20, 2008 Douglas Lester Chapman, DEngr’46, BSc’46 Stephen Eric Copp, MD’52, Sun City Center, Fla, David Flemming Walker, BA’55, BCom’57, (NSTC), Miramichi, N.B., on May 13, 2008 on July 27, 2008 LLB’58, Barss Corners, N.S., on April 27, 2008 Dale Everett Yeadon, BSc’45, DEngr’45, BEng’47 Arthur John Spears, DPhrm’52, Yarmouth, N.S., Henry Ballantyne Severance, BEng’58 (NSTC), (NSTC), Brookside, N.S., on June 17, 2008 on April 24, 2008 Bridgewater, N.S., on April 26, 2008 George McKenna Saunders, MD’47, Amherst, Michael Thomas Casey, BSc’49, MD’53, Halifax, Michael Alexander McCulloch, MD’59, Oakville, 38 N.S., on July 30, 2008 N.S., on June 10, 2008 Ont., on May 4, 2008 Calvin Parker Wood, LLB’59, Halifax, N.S., on May 2, 2008 Ronald James Mansour, BEng’59 (NSTC), Halifax, N.S., on August 19, 2000 Leonard Brenton Hannon, BA’29, MA’41, LLD’60, MAGAZINE

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NAME Antoni Wysocki HOMETOWN Halifax, N.S. JOB Custodian with Dal’s “blue team” EDUCATION Working towards a BA in history PASSION Chess NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT Mr. Wysocki emerged as Nova Scotia’s chess champion after a three-day tournament held over the Canada Day weekend and reclaimed the crown he first won in 2005. In round-robin play, he won all four of his games, and with an impending shift to work, called a draw for the fifth and final game. “I had to work that evening, so that was further incentive not to prolong the tournament,” says the 42-year-old Dal employee, who says some of the matches last more than seven hours. “Chess trains one’s power of analysis and memory and even calls for some 40 creativity.”

IT’S YOUR MOVE Mr. Wysocki notes the Bluenose Chess Club meets in the Dal SUB on Monday

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