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Download Print volume 34, no. 1 spring/summer 2021 The University of Regina Magazine AG ESM AZIN RE E G .C E A D Degrees IS NOW ONLINE! D E A G .C RE NE ESMAGAZI Wascana Park was the location of a unique outdoor theatre experience in mid-March. Come Along was created by Theatre Department students as a means to interact with a live audience during these pandemic times. Steeped in magical realism, the play presented themes of transgression and transformation. It featured original musical compositions by Music Department students Anika Zak and Connor Stewart. The cast included Kaydence Banga, Bronwen Bente, Benjamin Matity, Macey Hay, Tianna Chorney, Owen Westerlund, Billie Liskowich, Brad McDougall, Jadav Cyr and Jiness Helland. Stage management was by Rachel Butt, assisted by Erik Lillico. Music Department students Anthony Merkel, Joshua Stewart and Nathan Syrnick provided the music. The sold-out show had to close early due to more stringent COVID-19 health measures. Despite the early closure, Media, Art and Performance faculty member Shannon Holmes congratulated the cast and crew and said the experience was a magical, playful romp of a fairy tale for grown-ups. She added it was lovely to remember what it’s like to play live and see some joy on a spring evening. Photo by Trevor Hopkin, University of Regina Photography Department. Degrees | spring/summer 2021 1 Welcome to the 2021 he handles the unit’s IT allows people to video chat Staying in touch with Spring/Summer edition needs. He has fallen in with friends while playing your alma mater is as of Degrees. Degrees and love with Saskatchewan and mobile games. important as staying in touch its predecessor, The Third looks forward to raising his On page 38, U of R with family and friends Degree, have been informing family in the province, all journalism graduate Kerry (socially distancing of and entertaining University the while giving back to the Benjoe shares some insights course.) We want to know alumni and friends since community. His story begins of her journey from residential what you’ve been up to 1989. In those 32 years, we on page 20. school, through a violent since you walked across have brought you thousands We’ve also got a story that spousal relationship that the Convocation stage of stories of the talents, profiles three women who led to the loss of her leg, to (or virtually graduated) and adventures and triumphs are making their mark in homelessness. While many proudly hung your framed of thousands of people professional sports around the would be defeated by such degree, certificate or diploma associated with the world. Business Administration events, Benjoe has picked on a prominent wall. University of Regina. alumna Anita Sehgal is the herself up and today is Please consider devoting For close to three and senior vice president of telling important stories as a little time to write a short a half decades, we have shone Marketing and Communications CBC Saskatchewan’s first note about what’s been a brief light on individuals with the Houston Astros. Indigenous storyteller. going on in your life since who, in their own ways, are Sidney Dobner, a former You can read these stories you last walked the hallowed making the world a better Cougars women’s basketball and so much more in this hallways of the U of R. place every day. The magazine player, is now an assistant issue of Degrees. Maybe you got your dream is the mirror that reflects an coach for the Milwaukee Bucks What you won’t find in job, travelled around the amazing community made of the NBA, one of the few this issue is our Class Notes world, welcomed your first up of alumni, students, woman coaches in the league. section. child into the world or faculty, staff and friends of And Jaycee Magwood, a recent When I took over the earned your PhD – we would the University. I also like star with the Cougars women’s Degrees editor’s role like to share that with the to think it brings us all hockey team, is playing (admittedly, in the days 40,000 some readers who a little closer together. professional hockey in Sweden. before smartphones) each receive Degrees twice annually. In this issue, we’d like to You can read about the trio issue of the magazine Who knows, maybe one of add a few more stories to the starting on page 26. dedicated multiple pages your classmates will read thousands already told. Starting on page 32, you to Class Notes – the little your submission and be Our cover story is about can read about some of our updates of the achievements, inspired to look you up to Rashique Ramiz, a graduate entrepreneurial alumni who milestones and other notable catch up on old times. student in the Kenneth Levene are making tremendous life events submitted by We look forward to Graduate School of Business. inroads in the tech world. alumni. However, the glory receiving your Class Note. Ramiz, who was born in Meet the alumni who started days of Class Notes appear You can email it to Bangladesh, is realizing his OneShot Golf, a mobile app to be behind us. Slowly, [email protected]. personal and professional that allows people from all submissions began to I trust you will enjoy this dreams in Saskatchewan. over the world to play a robotic dwindle to the point where issue of Degrees. He has landed a co-op mini-golf game. You’ll also today, we aren’t getting placement at the Childhood meet a graduate who co- many at all. We would like Greg Campbell BFA'85, BJ'95 Trauma Research Centre where founded Bunch, an app that to change that. Editor www.degreesmagazine.ca 2 Degrees | spring/summer 2021 Editor Greg Campbell BFA’85, BJ’95 Alumni Association Board of Directors 2020-2021 President Christine Niemczyk CPR’88, PLC '21 Vice-President Scott Carson BSc’04 Second Vice-President (Finance) Roxanne Olynyk BBA’13 Past-President The University of Regina Magazine Monica Deters BHJ’04, MPA’09 spring/summer 2021 Directors volume 34, no. 1 Sandra Kitts BEd’80 Carmen Lien BEng'07, MCert’11 Talitha Smadu McCloskey BA’12, CPR’14 On the cover: University of Regina graduate student Rashique Ramiz is living proof that Jennifer Murray BA’03, BEd’05 a can-do attitude and unbridled resourcefulness can overcome any setback. (Photo by Robert Ellis BA'70, BAHC'71, MA'78 Trevor Hopkin, University of Regina Photography Department.) TonBari Menegbo, DBA’12, BBA’14, CEcon’15 Yaya Wang, DBA’09, BA’11, CPR’14, CPHR’18, MCHR’20, MBA’21 Ex-Officio Members Gwen Keith BEd’74, MEd’77, PGDEA’83, MEd’84 Senate Representative – University of Regina Hannah Tait, President, University of Regina Students' Union Sarah Fedirko BBA’11, Associate Director, Alumni & Community Engagement, University of Regina Contributors Terina Abrahamson Bill Armstrong Mats Bekkevold Kerry Benjoe BA’00, MJ’20 Adrienne Bilodeau Sabrina Cataldo BA’97, BJ’99, Cert. 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