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BRANDON UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2018 forever blue & gold 20 From a common beginning, members of the Class of 1968 have followed very different paths doorway into yesteryear 24 homecoming 2018 13 Fifty Years of Growth Aerial photos taken in the late 1960s and earlier this year show a familiar scene but also the dramatic growth that has taken place on the Brandon University campus over the past 50 years. As the University’s footprint continues to grow, so does its effect in the community, with generations of BU graduates contributing to the local economy and culture, while also extending BU’s impact worldwide. Photo: S.J. McKee Archives, Brandon University Photo: Sandy Black Serious Illness. Critical Coverage. Brandon University If serious illness interrupts your life, don’t let worries about money get in your way of getting better. Critical Illness Insurance DEGREE FRAMES provides a tax-free cash payment to spend any way you need. 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To solutionsinsurance.com/brandon 1.800.266.5667 view the many different styles go to Underwritten by Industrial Alliance Insurance & Financial Services Inc. iA Financial Group is a business name and trademark of BrandonU.ca/Alumni/Frames Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc. 2 CLARK MAGAZINE SUMMER 2018 IN THIS ISSUE 4 President’s Message 13 Homecoming 2018 30 Discovery 5 Convocation 2018 18 Alumni 32 Support 9 Campus 20 Features 34 Donations FIRST CLASS 20 doorway into yesteryear 24 Courting Success 28 OUR TEAM Produced by BU Marketing & Communications Advancement & External Relations Staff Send us your stories – As alumni, you undoubtedly have much to tell us about the relationships that you – Tyler Crayston, Carla Eisler, Craig Cesmystruk, Web Content Editor Writers developed while at BU – [email protected] Shawna English, Grant Hamilton, Rob Henderson, Carla Eisler, Director, Advancement & Alumni Affairs Diane Nelson, Perry Bergson, Dr. Steven Robinson Shawna English, Development Officer Clark is published twice a year and reaches more than Grant Hamilton, Director, Marketing & Communications 15,000 alumni and friends of Brandon University – Grant Hamilton, Rob Henderson, Photographers Rob Henderson, Marketing Communications Officer worldwide. Keywest Photo, Sandy Black Robyn Long, Stewardship & Information To date, thousands of alumni have supported the – Left to right: Bill Myers, Lana Myers Management Administrator On the Cover Brandon University Alumni Association (BUAA) and Bill Hillman; Photography by Sandy Black Greg Misener, Web Designer through participation in alumni programs, affinity Carolyn Vodon, Office Assistant Layout & Printing – Leech Printing Ltd., Brandon, products and service offerings. If you do not wish to Man. This magazine is printed on paper stock be provided with product or service offers or do not obtained from sustainable sources. wish to receive Clark in the future, please contact the Brandon University Alumni Office Alumni Office. Advertising – 204.727.9762 or [email protected] Phone: 204.727.9697 • Fax: 204.727.4674 [email protected] • BrandonU.ca/Alumni Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Feedback or Letters to the Editor Publications mail agreement #40064061 Brandon University Alumni Association [email protected] 270–18th Street, Brandon, MB R7A 6A9 SUMMER 2018 CLARK MAGAZINE 3 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Our Tradition of Ambition MBITION IS AT THE HEART of many activities past for us and for future generations, as well as a soon-to- A at a university campus. Each year thousands of be member of our Athletics Wall of Fame, who came to students arrive at Brandon University to fulfil their Brandon University for basketball and went on to spread a ambitions of building a bright future, for themselves, for legacy of dedication and attention to detail to generations their families and for the world they will inherit. of students across Western Canada. Those who work at Brandon University hold great Herein also is a glimpse into our plans for Homecoming ambition as well. They take pride in helping our 2018. With the theme of Forever Blue and Gold, this is students achieve their dreams, and they are committed will be our biggest homecoming ever, and I hope that to advancing BU as an institution that fosters success you will join us for a celebration that is not only for our academically and drives growth and development in the alumni, but also for our community. community. While BU50 has been about celebrating our history, Our faculty are working on countless ambitious it also gives us an opportunity to take stock of where projects, shaping our world and how we interact with it we are and look forward to what we will become. through innovation. Brandon University is currently experiencing a tremendous period of vitality. Another notable increase This same ambition was present in the founding in our student population is projected for the coming of Brandon College in 1899 and was exemplified academic year, which would mark a sixth consecutive when Brandon University became an autonomous year of enrolment growth. The exemplary work of institution in 1967, initiating a period of rapid growth our faculty continues to be recognized through strong and transformation. We are celebrating that golden results in research funding awards, and I am moved by anniversary through Homecoming 2018 as we pay your generosity, which has been displayed through an tribute to the Class of 1968, the first to graduate with excellent reception to our new 50th Fund as well as a BU degrees, as well as all those responsible for 50 years significant increase in donations to our Annual Fund. of accomplishment. As these successes show, ambition continues to drive us This issue of Clark looks at just a small sample of individuals at Brandon University, and I am excited to see where it who have carried on BU’s illustrious traditions through will take us next. the years. We read about the proud members of the Class of 1968, who bridge from our past to our present, as they graduated from being active and dynamic members of our campus to enjoy tremendous success professionally, culturally and as community leaders. We also learn about DR. STEVE ROBINSON BU’s S.J. McKee Archives, which open a doorway into the Interim President of Brandon University 4 CLARK MAGAZINE SUMMER 2018 CONVOCATION 2018 Honorary Doctorate BU grad keeps growing Dr. Linda Hutcheon Brandon University celebrated its largest graduating class in six years on June 1, 2018 as 583 students Linda Hutcheon is a specialist in received their degrees at Spring Convocation. postmodernist culture and in critical Along with graduating students, several others are theory, especially irony, parody and also recognized at Convocation each year, including adaptation, publishing nine books in those receiving honorary degrees, and awards this field. She has also co-authored that honour significant accomplishments. They are four books with her spouse, highlighted here. physician Michael Hutcheon, on the interdisciplinary links between For those who weren’t able to attend the ceremonies, a operatic and medical history. video archive is available at BrandonU.ca/Convocation. Linda holds the rank of University Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. Linda has received major awards from the Canadian Council While in her early years as an educator at Seneca College for the Arts, including the Molson Prize for social sciences and and McMaster University, Linda began teaching—and then the humanities, and the Killam Prize, in recognition of her publishing—in the field of Canadian literature. She translated distinguished academic career. the work of Québec writers Félix Leclerc and Madeleine In 2016, she was awarded the Lorne Pierce Medal of the Royal Gagnon and co-edited a book of interviews and stories on the Society of Canada. She has also been the recipient of major topic of multiculturalism. Later she wrote two books on Canadian fellowships and honorary degrees in Canada and Europe. culture. Linda was elected the 117th President of the Modern Language Since 2002 she has been a co-organizer of “Opera Exchanges” Association of America in 2000, becoming only the third under the auspices of the Munk School of Global Studies Canadian and the first Canadian woman to hold this position. Humanities Initiative and the Canadian Opera Company. These Opera Exchanges offer the broader cultural and historical In 1990, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, context for an opera being performed in Toronto. and in 2010 she was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. Lifetime Achievement Award Richard Pass An accomplished leader and passionate advocate for families, Richard found his calling when he developed a Brandon Richard Pass has directed his career YMCA summer day camp program while studying for to building strong communities and his undergraduate degree at Brandon University. After providing much-needed support for graduation, his passion to help others led Richard to various families through his dedicated tenure senior roles including Program Director for the YM/ at two of Canada’s top charitable YWCA of Moose Jaw, Sask., Senior Manager of the Outdoor organizations: the YMCA and Education and Camping Division for the YMCA of Greater Ronald McDonald House. For the Vancouver, and General Manager & Annual Giving Director past 12 years Richard has supported of the Downtown Vancouver YMCA. He has held the role thousands of families living with seriously ill children as CEO of Chief Executive Officer, Ronald McDonald House BC & of Ronald McDonald House BC & Yukon. Yukon, since 2006. SUMMER 2018 CLARK MAGAZINE 5 CONVOCATION 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award Steve Dzubinski part in as an athletic therapist were the Olympic Summer Games on three occasions: in 1976 in Montreal, in 1992 in Steve Dzubinski spent more than Barcelona and in 2000 in Sydney.