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Editor Luke Muller, MA’00 features Location: College Building Production 08 Convocation Hall DHS Communications 08| Waskesiu’s Heritage Museum 107 Administration Place Production Manager Monica Pollard, BComm’93 BY BEV FAST Date: Thursday, June 15, 2006 In conjunction with the Alumni Association’s Art Director Evoking images of a simpler time, the new Waskesiu Heritage 90th Annual General Meeting Natasha Hnidy, LGDC Museum provides a touchstone to the past for visitors to this Time: 6:00pm Complimentary hors d’oeuvres with cash bar (beer & wine) Prepress Technician remarkable resort community in Prince Albert National Park. Ryan Kerr Limited Seating Please RSVP by Monday, June 12, 2006 to: Advertising 10 | Hope or Hype?: [email protected] or 966-5186 or 1-800-699-1907 (306) 966-5186 The Realities of Stem Cell Research Editorial Advisory Board To view the Alumni Association webpage please visit BY MICHAEL ROBIN http://www.usask.ca/alumni/alumnisite/association/ Joanne C. Paulson, BA'82 Peter K. Fenton, BA'97 Hype surrounding stem cell research promises everything from Michael Robin cures to intractable diseases to growing replacement body parts. Melana Soroka, BA’84 But how realistic are these expectations and when can we expect Gordon Barnhart, BA’66, PhD’98 Ben Voss, BE’99 to see results?

The Green & White, with a circulation of 90,000, is published twice annually 13 | The Art of Conservation The (approx. Oct 25 and May 25). An electronic BY MATT BARRON version is published in January. Views and opinions expressed in the Green & White Sarah Spafford-Ricci (BSc’84) and Tara Fraser (BFA’90) have the Alumni do not necessarily reflect an official position healing touch. From parchments to paintings, Trans-Ams to of the Alumni Association or the University 10 Tibetan Thangkas, they’ve restored it all. of Saskatchewan. Advantage The Green & White was founded in 1939. The University of Saskatchewan is 16 | The Lynching of Louie Sam committed to protecting the privacy of BY DAVID HUTTON alumni, donors, and stakeholders including On a moonlit night in February 1884, an American mob rode Take advantage of personal information held by University Advancement and the U of S Alumni north, abducted, and hanged Louie Sam, a 14-year-old boy your Alumni status Association. Any personal information from B.C.’s Stó:lõ Nation. After years of researching the provided to the University is collected, used, lynching, U of S historian Keith Carlson uncovered a sordid tale and disclosed in accordance with applicable of murder and international intrigue. on campus and… provincial/federal legislation and applicable University policy. For more information, visit the University Advancement website at As a University Get fit www.usask.ca/advancement. of Saskatchewan Contributors 13 Learn a new language Beverly Fast is a freelance writer in Saskatoon who has written for the graduate you’ve Green & White, Western Living worked hard Buy a computer Magazine, and The Commuter. Matt Barron lives in Saskatoon and is to meet your Find a good book currently a freelance writer to trade magazines. departments educational goals. Michael Robin is a research 16 Dine out communications officer specializing in 03 | president’s message science and technology in the Research Now, enjoy the Communications Office at the University Attend the theatre of Saskatchewan. 04 | on campus rewards of the Colleen McKay is a Research 10 | discovery Explore new job Advancement Analyst at the University of alumni programs Saskatchewan, as well as a proud alumna. possibilities 19 | alumnews and services David Hutton (BA’04) is a student intern in the U of S Research Communications 23 | in print available to you. office. He is currently completing his Master’s degree in English. 24 | class notes Canadian Publications Mail Agreement #40064722 26 | in memoriam Return Undeliverable Canadian addresses to: University of Saskatchewan Room 223 Kirk Hall 28 | Q & A 117 Science Place For complete details visit: www.usask.ca/alumni Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C8 Pick up your free alumni card at the University Advancement Customer Service Email: [email protected] Centre in Room 223 Kirk Hall on campus or contact us and we’ll mail it out to you. www.usask.ca/greenandwhite Call (306) 966-5186 or 1 (800) 699-1907 or email [email protected] editor’s note letters president’s message he University of Saskatchewan continues to inspire those who work, study, When we think of I enjoyed the article, “The Sisters of Mercy” (Jan 2006). However, it should be conservation we tend to and visit our campus. Indeed, we are living the aspirations of the University’s think immediately of our noted that there is also a religious order associated with Saskatoon that is called T founding president, Walter Murray, who believed unequivocally that this environment, and rightly the ‘Sisters of Mercy’. This can lead to a bit of confusion. University was destined to have “an honoured place among the best”. so. With debates raging James Schmeiser, BA’60 Fulfillment of President Murray’s vision, however, has not come at the expense of over everything from global warming to Just read the online G&W and signed up to save you the price of sending a paper our roots. Our programs continue to evolve to satisfy demand from the gas prices, it wouldn’t be difficult to argue community. A Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness, for example, will be offered copy all the way to Australia. I do have one problem with the layout, though. that conservation is one of the defining beginning this fall – the first new degree in agriculture in 90 years. A Masters of issues of our time. Like far too many webpages, this document is set up to view properly on older International Trade will also be introduced, building intellectual capacity to More broadly construed, however, Windows PCs. Please get into the 21st century by ensuring your web pages use capitalize on the export focus of our province. New graduate programs, too, in conservation may be understood as a kind UNICODE for their character encoding. public health, public policy, and the environment will also be available in the next of preservationism that encompasses or George W. Gerrity, BE’62, MSc’65 several years. protects the things we believe matter most There is a nice picture of Mr. Kennedy presenting the And we are ever conscious that our students must remain a central focus of our – everything from art (which preserves efforts. We have made considerable investment in both graduate and “Huskie Men’s Hockey” poster in the online G&W, but culture) to history (the past) to human undergraduate scholarships. We are implementing programs to assist our health (the body). The stories featured in no mention of how I could buy the poster and get it Aboriginal students in making the transition to university life, including a first-year this issue of the Green & White, in their shipped down to Ottawa. Any ideas? experience program, summer transition courses, and a math and science various ways, are reflective of exactly this Clarke La Prairie, BE’82 enrichment program. And the student experience at this University continues to be kind of conservation. defined and enhanced by small class sizes and substantial teacher contact. (Note: The posters can be obtained by contacting Dave You’ll meet, among others, Sarah Adolph at (306)966-1031 or via email at We are also dramatically expanding our infrastructure, which will enhance the University’s teaching, learning, and research environment. Spafford-Ricci and Tara Fraser who, as [email protected].) The Academic Health Sciences Centre building project, for example, will do much to attract and retain medical specialists, health science conservators, are preserving not only art, researchers, and health science students. These professionals will study and train in an interdisciplinary environment that is second-to-none but history and culture as well. You’ll meet in the country. The Saskatchewan government’s $100-million investment in this project speaks to the ongoing significance and relevance of Ione Langlois, whose strong sense of Please write to Editor, Green & White, our University in the life of this province. history and deep connections to Prince c/o University Advancement or email Albert National Park have led her to [email protected]. And our relationship with Saskatchewan and our community is one we take very seriously. Our Foundational Document on Outreach and establish the Waskesiu Heritage Museum. Engagement recognizes our traditional role of providing extension service to the province and places it in a contemporary context. It clearly identifies the ways in which we can – and should – engage our community, as well as the people across Canada and throughout the world, You’ll also read about U of S history in our scholarly and artistic works and partnerships. professor Keith Carlson’s contributions to documenting and rehabilitating history’s In this, the City of Saskatoon’s centennial year, we have reaffirmed our commitment to our community and we are meeting these account of the lynching of Louie Sam. commitments with determination and vigour. I am deeply proud of the fine work being undertaken at the University of Saskatchewan – And in our cover story you’ll meet James work that has placed this University prominently on the national and international map, and continues to engender a spirit of excellence Till and Freda Miller, whose work in the that we are increasingly becoming known for here at home. field of human health has led to the discovery and practical application of human stem cells. In the spirit of conservation, I’d like to mention that we’ve now made it possible Peter MacKinnon, President for you to receive ALL issues of the Green & White electronically. It is our hope that many of you will choose this more environmentally-friendly and cost- effective method of receiving your alumni magazine and staying in touch with your alma mater. Simply visit the magazine’s Hold the dates for Reunion 2006, website at www.usask.ca/greenandwhite to sign-up. June 22-24. We are welcoming back As always, I invite you to let us know what all college graduates from 1928 to you think of the spring 2006 issue of your 1945, and Honoured Years of 1946, alumni magazine. 1951, 1956, 1961 and 1966.

Enjoy! If you would like assistance gathering Luke Muller, MA’00 your classmates together for Reunion 2006, please contact Alumni Relations at (306) 966-5186 or toll free at 1-800-699-1907 or e-mail: [email protected].

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A Great Gift Law Goes Green What’s In A Name? SaskTel has donated $1 million A multi-million dollar expansion to the College of Law will be the first building After a faculty assembly vote on April 12, 2006, the College of to both the University of project on campus to meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Agriculture will be recommending to University Council that the Saskatchewan and the Royal (LEED) standards. The LEED advanced construction guidelines will result in name of the College be changed to “The College of Agriculture and University Hospital Foundation Bioresources.” Council is likely to consider this recommendation in an environmentally-friendly expansion that makes optimal use of natural light to support three projects. and passive solar heat, provides greater comfort for occupants, and requires either June or September, 2006. less energy to construct and maintain. According to Dean Ernie Barber, the College of Agriculture and Bioresources will continue to broaden its expertise and Preliminary drawings show a three-storey expansion that adds about 31,000 programming, in collaboration with other colleges, to Half the shared funding will sq. ft. to the existing building, new space that will house classrooms, offices, embrace all renewable resource systems, support a synchrotron-based a new student lounge, and the Native Law Centre. The addition such as agriculture and forestry, that research chair in Pharmacy is expected to be completed in August 2007. involve harvesting and processing and Nutrition. The remaining biomaterials, as well as those that $500,000 will be divided involve conservation and recreation. equally between the College The College will pay particular attention of Kinesiology’s Building to human interactions within these Equipment Fund and an systems and especially to rural academic clinical and research communities. professorship related to the The current academic programs will implementation of a Picture continue under their existing names Archive and Communication and the building will continue to be System based at RUH. called the “Agriculture Building.”

Medicine Accredited A Writer in Exile The cloud of probation has been lifted from over the College of Medicine’s A Pakistani journalist, who had to undergraduate program. leave her home country after being Dean William Albritton announced March 2 that the Liaison Committee on hunted by Islamic fundamentalists, Medical Education has decided to restore full accreditation to the program will spend the next year at the University of that had been on probation since 2003. The decision comes as a relief to the dean and college faculty, who have worked diligently to remedy Saskatchewan as part of PEN Canada's Writers in shortcomings in 12 areas of the program that were found wanting. Exile program – the first placement of its kind for the Griffiths’ Spring Renos Construction will soon begin on upgrades to the University. While at the U of S, Ameera Javeria will The undergraduate program is required to meet 124 standards, explained University of Saskatchewan’s Griffiths Stadium. Albritton. The areas of non-compliance that resulted in probation included a continue writing In the Line of Fire, her book examining The upgrades are expected to be completed before lack of diversity among medical students, a shortage of library resources, the first Huskie football home game on crimes committed against women in Pakistan. too few professors, and an outdated curriculum. When the probation was September 2, 2006. As a journalist, Javeria focused extensively on women's announced, the provincial government responded quickly with an injection The upgrades will include, among others, a new of $13.2 million to address the shortcomings. rights in Islamic societies. Last year, she received the team building, expanded seating on the east side Helman Hammet award from the Human Rights Watch of the Stadium, new javelin, shot put and discus Albritton said the college has been very successful in addressing most of the for her courageous work in Pakistan. areas, installation of artificial turf and field committee’s concerns. Some $2.6 million was spent upgrading the medical lighting, and construction of an enhanced library’s information technology systems, and the college now has Aboriginal PEN Canada is a non-profit organization that works on entrance gate. students in each of its four undergraduate years. “And just because probation behalf of writers, at home and abroad, who have been Upgrades to Griffiths Stadium are planned in has been lifted doesn’t mean we’re going to stop working in these areas.” forced into silence for writing the truth as they see it. response to the University’s successful bid to host Although probation has been lifted, the accreditation cycle rolls on with the the Vanier Cup national football championship on committee’s next visit to the U of S scheduled to take place in 2008-09. November 25, 2006. Funding for the upgrades is being provided through donations to the University.

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programs to the public would be threatened, and that its Outreach focus on the pedagogy of distance learning would be lost. Document Approved Proponents of the new Outreach and Engagement model countered that, in fact, this kind of extension education After an almost year-long process of has been practiced by many other academic units across consultation, revisions, and contention, campus since the U of S was created nearly 100 years ago. University Council enthusiastically passed They also said no one central unit was called for to the Foundational Document on Outreach support and co-ordinate all outreach; rather, and Engagement at its January 26 meeting. co-ordination and support should be handled by a combination of existing and new campus offices. The 34-page foundational document sets out In the document, this includes a Continuing Education a plan to develop new ways for faculty and Unit, a new President’s Round Table for consultation, students across the U of S to get more a New Learning Centre, and a new Office of University- involved with the community and for the community to become more involved in the Community Relations. University’s academic programs. This will include a new emphasis on the growing trend among universities of “service learning”; more community-university Saskatchewan's New In his annual address to the Chamber research partnerships; working with of Commerce, President Peter Lieutenant Governor communities and industry on applying and MacKinnon said that the new model for commercially developing research findings; outreach and engagement is intended Former U of S Secretary, Professor of promoting continuing education in the “to encourage University participation in Political Studies, and Alumni Association community, particularly in the professions; areas of community interest where we and more collaboration with scholars around have much to contribute.” board member Gordon Barnhart (BA'66, the world. PhD'98) has been appointed by Prime The development of this foundational Minister Stephen Harper as Saskatchewan's newest document, however, was not without its challenges. The Extension Lieutenant Governor. Division expressed concern that now no single unit would co-ordinate No stranger to public service, Dr. Barnhart has worked on a support for extension education, that its offerings of non-degree number of projects with government-supported agencies. In his capacity as a consultant, he trained elected members and public servants in South Africa, led a seminar in Vietnam for 110 newly-elected female parliamentarians, and designed and facilitated workshops for Russian-elected members and public servants.

In addition, Dr. Barnhart also served as the Clerk of the Senate and the Clerk of the Parliaments from 1989 until 1994. Prior to this position, he served for two decades as the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.

"Dr. Barnhart is an accomplished academic with a laudable record of public service," said Harper of the appointment. "There is no doubt in my mind that [he] will continue to serve Saskatchewan and Canada with distinction in his new role."

These news items are drawn from recent editions of On Campus News, the official newspaper of the University of Saskatchewan. For more past and current U of S news, see On Campus News at www.usask.ca/ocn

greenandwhite SPRING 2006 7 Peggy Marleau, Betty Anderson, and Betty no bathroom, but there’s no indoor Anne Kielbiski on the Waskesiu Heritage plumbing or electricity at all.” Museum’s executive committee. “It’s important to honour our past,” In short order, tasks were set and a Langlois says. “Generations of families mission statement drafted. Carla’s have grown up here, their roots are here, instincts proved on the money, when the and they’re fiercely loyal to Waskesiu.” museum received a $1,900 grant from Langlois counts herself among them. the Saskatchewan Community Initiatives She and husband Herve (BA’65, BEd’65, Fund. This helped pay for the design and MEd’68) bought a cabin here in 1983. construction of secure display cabinets. Their four children – three of whom are The Friends of the Park donated a room also U of S graduates – grew up ASKESIU S in their building to house the museum holidaying in Waskesiu, and now a third ’ for two years. With additional support generation is enjoying the family WW from the Waskesiu Foundation Inc. and tradition. Prince Albert National Park, “we were For Ione, the family connection well on our way,” Langlois says. “In just intensified a growing sense of urgency six months, we went from an idea to she felt about creating the museum. “I actually opening the museum.” H ERITAGE think we got this going just under the Staffed by volunteers, the museum wire. Young people are taking over family preserves the culture and heritage of cabins and they don’t always see the Waskesiu and Prince Albert National Park value in old newspaper clippings and in a variety of displays and images. photos of people they don’t know. A lot USEUM There’s Prime Minister Mackenzie King, has been thrown away.” M looking dapper in suit and tie, arriving to It’s a bittersweet pill for committee Doc Sissons c.1950s give the opening-day speech in 1928; old members. Still, when the museum put Doc Sissons standing outside his seashell out the call for donations of “treasures, souvenir shop; fishing boats tied up at artifacts, photos, and memorabilia” last the main beach; and shack tents neatly spring, there was a generous outpouring. EVOKING IMAGES OF A SIMPLER TIME, THE NEW WASKESIU folded and stacked for winter storage. By August, they had catalogued more HERITAGE MUSEUM PROVIDES A TOUCHSTONE TO THE PAST If you don’t know what a shack tent is, than 540 artifacts, from household items you’re not alone. In the park’s early days, to fishing gear to a mint condition FOR VISITORS TO THIS REMARKABLE RESORT COMMUNITY IN summer visitors were only allowed to opening-day program. Donations are still erect shack tents – 14’ x 16’ cabins with a coming in, including items from the wooden floor, wooden walls, and a Aboriginal community. The museum is RINCE LBERT ATIONAL ARK by Beverly Fast P A N P . canvas roof. The canvas roof meant that expanding into a second room this hen alumna Ione Langlois (Scharnatta) (BEd’82) first heard that funding might be the cabin could be taken down, folded summer, but even more space is needed available to create a heritage museum in Waskesiu, she didn’t get her hopes up. up and stored through the winter, then to display larger items. W re-erected the following spring. For years, “We’d been down this path too many times and for one reason or another, it never got If you have artifacts you wish to donate, visit this was cabin life at Waskesiu. off the ground. I wasn’t going to get excited until I knew we could do it,” she says. www.waskesiu.org for information. The shack tent era is a major focus of the As it turns out, they could – and did. The Black and white photos courtesy of Parks museum, and Langlois would love to be Waskesiu Heritage Museum opened on July 1st, Canada Agency. 2005 and welcomed more than 2,500 visitors in able to put up a shack tent. “Imagine the its first 68-day season. response from youngsters when they step inside and realize that not only is there It was a phenomenal response to a one-room display of treasures, artifacts, photographs, and memorabilia from the early days of this resort community’s history, a response that was also welcome vindication for Langlois’s belief that The Waskesiu Heritage Museum Waskesiu badly needed the museum. Top to Bottom: Ione Langlois (Scharnatta), The catalyst was a midnight walk in September 2004. Langlois and Carla Flaman, the Inside the museum, a block of shack tents in park’s director of communications, were strolling back to their cabins after a community what is now the day-use area c.1948, the main meeting. “I remember saying how much we needed a heritage museum and wouldn’t it beach c.1950s, shack tents in storage for the be nice if we could get funding. I didn’t think much more of it. But in January, Carla said winter c.1940s. she was pretty sure we could get funding and she had found us space.” That’s when Langlois, a veteran of the Waskesiu Heritage Group, put her organizational skills into high gear. She had no trouble collecting a like-minded group of volunteers. Langlois was joined by Sheila Brayford, Brenda Davies, Marilyn Booth, Marj Matheson,

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Expectations can get raised beyond what is actually achievable they gave them bone marrow transplants from healthy mice. in the near future,” says James Till, currently a professor The irradiated mice survived. emeritus at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto. “Others had shown that cells in the transplants were Freda Miller, a senior scientist at Sick Kids Hospital in responsible for this spectacular result,” Till says. “But little was Toronto, concedes the possibilities are truly exciting – a known about those cells.” topical cream that would allow burn victims to re-grow their Zeroing in on this question involved irradiating the donor own skin, for example, or a cure that would allow paraplegics marrow at different doses to determine the radiation to walk again. But these are “dream situations,” and the first sensitivity of the cells that were allowing the mice to survive. It applications are apt to be more modest. was during one of these experiments that McCulloch noticed “In the shorter term, in the next 10 years or so, the application something odd. might be something like helping bone healing or cartilage One Sunday, while dissecting mice that had received relatively repair – things that are a bit easier to go in and surgically small numbers of transplanted bone marrow cells, he found repair,” she says. bumps on their spleens. That Monday morning, McCulloch Stem cell research was born in the 1960s when Till and looked for Till. collaborator Ernest McCulloch first revealed to the world that “He was waving this piece of paper, and saying, you’ve got to the body contained precursor cells capable of producing all see this!” Till recalls. three constituents of blood: white blood cells, platelets, and red blood cells. “This” was a piece of graph paper showing that the bumps matched the bone marrow cells – the more cells transplanted, the more bumps – colonies founded by the marrow cells. in the next 10 years Subsequent experiments showed that the colonies stemmed “ from cells capable of self-renewal, with the ability to or so, the application differentiate into different kinds of cells. This definition of might be something like stem cells still holds true today. helping bone healing or “What our work showed was pretty strong support, at least in the mouse, for a multipotent stem cell,” Till says. cartilage repair ” The discovery forged a new field of stem cell biology. In 2005, Till’s research career began at the U of S in the 1950s just after Till and McCulloch received the Lasker Award, often called Harold Johns and his team had set up the first cobalt-60 “America’s Nobel,” for their work. Hope or radiation therapy machine for cancer treatment. Today, adult stem cells have been found in the brain, eye, Johns, Till’s advisor for his Master’s degree, found a biophysics heart, muscle, intestines, and even fat. All are multipotent: program at Yale that matched the young scientist’s interest: the able to differentiate into a few different cell types. There is effect of radiation on living cells. Later, after moving to the also a type of stem cell that is pluripotent – able to new Ontario Cancer Institute, Johns offered Till a job. differentiate into any of the body’s 200-plus tissue types. Hype?: These are embryonic stem cells, formed mere days after an egg Here, Till met McCulloch, a physician and researcher who and sperm unite. Typically, such cells come from surplus wanted to try experiments on irradiating mice and embryos from in-vitro fertility treatments. transplanting bone marrow. He needed a biophysicist to make The Realities of Therein lies the controversy. Under proper treatment and with it happen and Till volunteered, forming a lifetime friendship and a collaboration that would last two decades. a little luck, these embryos have the potential to develop into people. But since they are surplus, to be destroyed anyway, is Stem Cell Research The two set up experiments where mice were exposed to a it ethical to use them to help improve the lives of others? radiation dose that would kill them within a month. Then by Michael Robin James Till (BA’52, MA’54) and Freda Miller (BSc’79), two University of Saskatchewan alumni and trailblazing stem cell researchers a generation apart, say that while there is great promise in the field, there are no miracles impending – at least not yet.

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Miller has found an alternative that, at least in part, circumvents cells that help to build the embryo into many things don’t just this thorny issue: stem cells from adult skin. disappear.” A native of Calgary, Miller moved with her family to Saskatoon This spring, Miller was guest of honour and keynote speaker at in time to pursue a BSc in biochemistry in 1979. She returned to the U of S College of Medicine for its annual Life and Health her hometown to launch straight into a PhD in molecular Sciences Research Conference. She told the standing-room-only biology from the University of Calgary. After completing her crowd about her research with collaborators in Toronto that postdoctoral training at the Scripps Research Institute in showed SKP-derived Schwann cells – a particular type of glial California, she returned to Canada and a faculty research cell – may help heal spinal cord injuries. position at the University of Alberta. Schwann cells are responsible for creating the myelin sheath Five years later, she moved to Quebec, and a research program at around nerves, which basically acts as “insulation” around the the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University that nervous system’s “wires.” Without myelin, nerves cannot would make headlines around the world. transmit their signals effectively, nor can they determine where to grow. This is a major challenge in Miller reasoned that since skin constantly renews itself, spinal cord injuries, where nerves it would be a good place to look for stem cells. Also, cannot find their way across the damage the skin’s deeper layer, the to heal the break. The result is paralysis. dermis, contains numerous receptor cells When Miller and her collaborators that transmit information treated paraplegic rats with SKP-derived Clockwise to Right: Freda about the outside world. Miller, Skin-derived precursor Schwann cells, the animals regained As a neurobiologist, she cells, James Till (left) and movement in their lower extremities. wondered if these cells Ernest McCulloch were the first Subsequent study showed the cells had in the world to discover stem and nerve cells might cells. (PhotoGraphics, produced myelin, allowing the neurons have common origins. University Health Network) to create new connections. Sarah Spafford-Ricci The team isolated The work has broad and long-term what they called implications not only for spinal cord works on the John “skin-derived injuries, but for the treatment of stroke Leman mural at the precursors” – SKPs – victims or even people suffering from Saskatchewan that can differentiate diseases such as Parkinson’s. Legislature Building. into blood, fat, And while adult stem cells can’t various types of skin match the versatility of the tissue, and perhaps embryonic version, they may most exciting, neurons just offer a range of exciting and the glial cells that support them. benefits of their own. The research was ofof published in 2001. the “This particular class the t was a parchment over two and Tara Fraser at their lab in Group of Seven painting and a of very potent ArtArt centuries old and bearing the South Surrey, B.C. In an wax replica of Liberace’s hands precursors exists in Sarah Spafford- signature of George attempt to dissolve the adhesive to 4,000 Canadian nautical adult skin tissue,” I Washington, yet it looked like a that had worked itself into the plans and 30,000 maps of Miller says. “The stem ConservationConservationRicci (BSc’84) place mat in some diner. The paper, the parchment was historical Seattle. Situated document, laminated at one immersed in a container of somewhere in that spectrum is and Tara Fraser point in its life, presumably to solvent. The restoration proved an unusual National Gallery of protect it from aging, ran yellow a success, though, as Fraser later Canada art piece: a black Trans- (BFA’90) have and cloudy under the plastic. says, “That was one we held our Am with the Book of Revelations breath over.” After all, beautifully scrawled all over it. Before Washington became the the healing touch. unrestored, the parchment was United States’ first president, he Of course, what unites these only worth $50; but, was the modern-day equivalent disparate objects is the successfully restored, it was From parchments to of a real-estate agent, and had deterioration they face, worth over $40,000. signed this contract for the sometimes through neglect or paintings, Trans- purchase of land. But those at This project is just one of many damage, but mostly through the museum in Loudoun, that Spafford-Ricci and Fraser simple aging. Conservators Ams to Tibetan Virginia, in whose collection the have tackled over the last attempt to slow down this indenture parchment now sits, decade. As conservators, the inexorable process as much as Thangkas, they’ve didn’t yet know the details of pair restores and preserves not possible. “We specialize in this contract, since the yellow only art, but also historical and preservation, in making our clouding left it unreadable. cultural artifacts, the spectrum cultural history last as long as restored it all. of which is astonishing. They possible,” says Spafford-Ricci. In 1999, the parchment found by Matt Barron have restored everything from a its way to Sarah Spafford-Ricci

12 U of S Alumni Magazine greenandwhite SPRING 2006 13 Sustaining yourself through such Showmanship’s arcane treatments, Spafford-Ricci says, is collection of pianos, sheet easy, as long as there are other music, and clothing, including conservators to help. “To be a the famous 200-pound “King conservator you have to be okay Neptune” costume. with methodical work. You just FSR also advised those involved have to have that personal trait with the 2005 Saskatchewan where you see those small Centennial mural, painted by progressions and you’re really Métis artist Roger Jerome and pleased with them.” Pulp Fiction featuring a pastoral Northern Professor Emeritus Man-Kam Leung But since the best restoration Saskatchewan scene. The mural just might be the prevention of now hangs directly across the has donated his massive collection Spafford-Ricci discovered art Surrey, with its artist easels paintings often need to be of books on Chinese history and avoidable deterioration, FSR legislative building from the conservation while working and fume hoods, looks like a touched up in a way that will spends half of its time advising Leman mural. Prior to its culture to the University Library, at the Ukrainian Museum of cross between art studio and do justice to the creator of a giving the U of S one of the top five museums and cultural and restoration, the Leman held Canada in 1984, just after chemistry lab. This is hardly work of art or the history government institutions on only 50 per cent of its original Chinese book collections in Canada graduating from the behind a document. and the best in the Prairies. ways to preserve collections. quality, partly because of the University of Saskatchewan. Sometimes it can take a long FSR has worked with the water damage it had suffered “This collection started 50 years Soon thereafter, time to find the right International Monetary Fund to from being mounted against ago when I was a student in Hong she enrolled in the treatment. For example, it assess and help prevent the the wall. Kong,” says Leung, who has been art conservation took FSR a year and the threat posed to documents, “We don’t want what happened teaching at the U of S since 1965 program at testing of around 150 historical coins, and bills by the to that mural to happen to the as a member of the Department of Queen’s University solutions to finally restore a light, temperature, and Leman,” says Spafford-Ricci, Far Eastern Studies. in Kingston, Tibetan Thangka, a kind of humidity found in its adding that both she and Fraser Ontario, the first cultural painting. Once Washington, D.C. building. His collection, which consists of remember seeing the Leman Saskatchewanian found, though, the treatment They’ve done the same for the more than 15,000 books and during class trips to the to do so. took only 15 minutes. Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, 60,000 volumes, is diverse, ranging Left to Right: Tara Fraser, Legislature. She says during the Sarah Spafford-Ricci pouring over Mr. from academic journals and Around the same Sometimes, the right chemical next Centennial, “it should dictionaries to medical texts and time, Fraser was is literally at your fingertips – Left: Tara Fraser inpaints or look very much the same as it pulp Chinese fiction. The bulk of his working in an art gallery that is, saliva. Because of its touches-up the Leman mural. does now.” collection consists of Chinese- frame store. One day, she “We specialize low toxicity, saliva is a language books written by modern accidentally broke an intricate solution much in use by Chinese scholars on history, glass-encased photo. Not in preservation, conservators. In 2005, FSR literature, and philosophy. knowing who fixed such restored the John Leman things, Fraser soon discovered mural Before the White Men Leung’s collection of academic art conservation herself. in making our Came, which has hung in the journals published in China and Rotunda of the Saskatchewan Hong Kong will be the first of its A couple of years later, Fraser Legislative building for 73 kind for the U of S Library. met Spafford-Ricci at the cultural history years. Before restoration, Royal Saskatchewan Museum, The library currently has basic texts however, thick layers of dirt where Spafford-Ricci worked on Chinese history, literature, and last as long covered it, and saliva turned as conservator. The two kept philosophy, with strength in out to be the best cleaner. in touch and in 1997, Buddhist and Taoist texts and the “We tested every fancy decided to enter private as possible.” Chinese dynastic histories. Leung’s chemical because we wanted practice together. to use something quite fancy,” donation will significantly expand surprising since the Spafford-Ricci jokes. holdings in these areas. They now run the second profession of conservation, largest art conservation Conservators carefully rolled Although he cannot estimate the as Spafford-Ricci says, requires company in Canada, swabs soaked in saliva over all worth of the collection, he says it the mind of a chemist and Fraser/Spafford Ricci Art and 480 square feet of its canvas, a consists of numerous rare books, the hand of an artist. Archival Conservation Inc. process that required the many of which have fewer than 50 (FSR). Their expansive The right chemical or better part of 221 hours and copies in circulation worldwide and conservation lab in South cleaning solution must be over a million swabs. are quite valuable. found – or concocted – and

Top Right: Wax casts of Liberace hands owned by Liberace Museum before and after conservation. Right: The Politkovski (1910), by artist John Moss, owned by Bainbridge Island Historic Society, Bainbridge Island, Washington State, USA.

14 U of S Alumni Magazine lynchers, many of whom boasted about their involvement. They returned with statements from witnesses that implicated two Washington men: William Osterman and his brother-in-law David Harkness. Osterman and Harkness had the motive and the means. Harkness was living with shopkeeper James Bell’s estranged wife. They were looking to gain custody of Bell’s 10-year-old son. Osterman had sided with his brother-in-law against Bell and, coincidentally, was the last person to have seen the shopkeeper alive. The Harkness and Osterman families also stood to benefit financially from Bell’s death. Indeed, they profited from the estate, and used the money to open a dry-goods store to replace the void created by the burning of Bell’s establishment. “When Louie Sam was able to get back into Canada, they feared that he was going to receive a translator from the Canadian government and thereby foil their plan,” explains Carlson. “They had to do something quickly to prevent that from happening.” The Stó:lõ people, pragmatic by nature, entrusted the punishment of the American vigilantes and the guilty men to the Canadian and American governments. But as Carlson explains, once the threat of a cross-border war had passed, the governments began lying to the On a moonlit night in February Stó:lõ people, saying they were still looking into the matter. 1884, an American mob rode The Stó:lõ, for their part, were patient in waiting for justice to come north, abducted, and hanged about. And for more than 100 years, they waited. • • • • • Louie Sam, a 14-year-old boy Carlson continued reconstructing the story of murder, cover up, from B.C.’s Stó:lõ Nation. After years of international politics, racism, and injustice, eventually publishing Until Carlson’s research, the tragic tale of Louie Sam was the stuff of a detailed journal article in 1996 and consulting on a local legend, virtually unknown in Canada beyond the borders of the researching the lynching, U of S historian documentary film of the story – all the while working with the Stó:lõ community. In the U.S., however, it was the lynch mob’s Keith Carlson uncovered a sordid tale of Stó:lõ Nation to convince government to redress this historical version of events that prevailed and became historical record. wrong and help bring peace to the community. murder and international intrigue. After Carlson’s meticulous reconstruction of the Sam story appeared in the • • • • • journal B.C. Studies in 1996, it caught on. by David Hutton 14-year-old Louie Sam lived just north of the U.S./Canada Vancouver director David McIlwraith chronicled the story in his 2004 resh out of graduate school with a Masters degree in border in a small Stó:lõ community. In February 1884, he had documentary, The Lynching of Louie Sam. Based on Carlson’s research, the history and looking for work in 1992, Keith Carlson been offered a job in the border community of Nooksack. film blends historical events with interviews and narrative journalism. Ffound a job doing contract research with the Stó:lõ Upon arriving and finding that there was in fact no work, Sam During the shooting of the film, the Stó:lõ community worked together to recreate Nation, a Coast Salish first nation’s people situated along the turned around and headed home. the tragic events of the lynching and reflected on the lingering impact of the events lower tributaries of the Fraser River in British Columbia. on their community. But that same day, Nooksack storekeeper James Bell was shot Carlson was originally asked to examine historical changes to and his store set ablaze. Sam was accused of the murder and Spurred by the success of the film, word of the injustice spread through the press traditional leadership practices when one of the people in the tracked by the local American sheriff. By doubling back and people began to call for a public apology. Stó:lõ office brought to his attention a rash of suicides in their through a forest and crossing again into Canada, Sam was able On March 1, 2006, almost exactly on the 122nd anniversary of Louie Sam’s death, community. Some Stó:lõ were concerned that something from to elude his pursuers and avoid capture. amid the echo of drum beats and deep, resonant chants in the Washington State their past was unsettled. Oral history surrounding a ‘hanging The next day Stó:lõ leaders, convinced of Sam’s innocence, legislative building, Louie Sam was remembered and his lynching redressed. tree’ made them believe it might have something to do with a turned the boy over to Thomas York, a deputized Canadian young boy, Louie Sam, who was lynched over a century before. With members of the Stó:lõ Nation present, the Washington senate passed a constable situated near the border, believing he would be resolution, which Carlson helped draft, stating that both the Washington and B.C. “Elders were wondering, well, perhaps Louie Sam was lynched treated fairly. governments of the time “failed to take adequate action to identify the true culprit on this tree? Is this what these suicides are about? Is this his More than 100 American vigilantes, however, had other plans. of the murder and bring the organizers and members of the lynch mob to justice.” unsettled spirit causing problems? Perhaps he’s not resting and his spirit is what’s bothering the youth in this community,” Dressed in women’s clothes in order to mock the regalia worn “Professor Carlson’s research into these events is simply outstanding, and will have says Carlson. by Stó:lõ spirit dancers, their faces painted and darkened with lasting impact,” says U of S Vice-President Research Steven Franklin. “It is charcoal, the mob crossed the border and seized Sam from From Top: Dr. Keith Carlson, a particularly heartening to see how this research is affecting international political What Carlson uncovered was a treasure trail of documents, Drum Circle is held in Washington’s Canadian custody. events and social justice issues. It has truly made a difference.” ranging from a coroner’s inquest to detailed undercover police Capitol Rotunda to seal the Apology, a man who witnessed the reports, newspaper stories, and diplomatic cables that Sam’s body was found the next morning hanging from a lynching as a teen revisits the site of “It’s unbelievably rewarding to see this happen,” says Carlson. “The Stó:lõ people documented the death of a shopkeeper in Washington, the cedar tree. the lynching tree (c. 1935), Louie deserve this acknowledgment of the injustice to Louie Sam. I hope it will serve to lynching of Louie Sam, and a near race war with international Sam was escorted to Constable help improve relations and promote healing all round.” The discovery almost ignited a cross-border race war. York’s house where he was to be implications. held overnight; instead, he was Carlson, currently completing a book on the subject, notes that suicides among To help keep the peace, the Canadian government promised to abducted and killed. Carlson would soon complete his PhD and begin work at the Stó:lõ youth, while still of concern, seem to have dropped in recent years. bring Louie’s murderers to justice, and British Columbia sent University of Saskatchewan. But the Sam story, with its intrigue two undercover officers south. The two detectives, working and implications, never left his mind. undercover in Nooksack, had no trouble identifying the

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From March 6th-9th, upper-year Survey Says! 2006 students at the U of S participated In November 2005, the University of Saskatchewan Alumni Association and in the DISorientation program, which offers a series of sessions University Advancement invited alumni to participate in an online survey, the and presentations designed to purpose of which was to assist the Association and the University to develop prepare students for life beyond the best possible alumni programming for U of S graduates. Over 3,550 alumni the University. offered their input. This year, the program included Here are some of the highlights: several new and exciting sessions, • The survey indicated that 76% of respondents prefer alumni such as a Professional Etiquette communication via email. Moreover, 68% would be interested in Wine & Cheese at the Faculty Club. Students were also offered the Through the generous support of U of S an electronic newsletter focusing on campus current events. And opportunity to attend a Speed alumni and friends, Future of Discovery – when asked if interested in an option to receive ALL issues of the Networking Session, which allowed Annual Fund 2005/06 has set a new record, Green & White online only, 54% of respondents said they would them to connect with alumni and raising more funds in support of the sign-up today (NOTE: This option is now available at Alumni and students engaged in ‘speed networking.’ business representatives from University of Saskatchewan than ever www.usask.ca/greenandwhite). around Saskatchewan. before. Thanks to over 7,500 alumni and • The survey revealed that alumni want to know what’s happening on friends, close to $1,150,000 has been raised campus. 63% of respondents indicated that they read the Green & to support, among other things, student White to hear about campus activities, such as stories focusing on U awards, computer/equipment improvements, 2006 Board of Directors Retreat of S faculty and staff and interesting research initiatives. They also program enhancements, and library indicated that they are very interested in receiving more regular On Saturday March 11th, the U of S Alumni Association's Board of Directors met for its resources. Of course, all Annual Fund communications from the colleges and departments. annual retreat – a full-day planning session at which the Board reviews its contributions have been counted towards accomplishments from the past year and sets out its plans for the year ahead. the $100 Million goal of Thinking the World • Respondents who volunteered for the University of Saskatchewan The Association established a two-year strategic plan in 2005 and this year’s planning of our Future,the and/or the U of S Alumni Association in the past indicated that they session, facilitated by Past President Susan Milburn (BComm'78, MBA'80), focused on were satisfied or very satisfied with their volunteer experience. major campaign reviewing the Association’s progress on fulfilling three main goals: Clarifying roles in for the University Although most indicated their volunteer involvement was with relation to the University, building a sense of alumni community, and adding value to of Saskatchewan. college activities (30%) or student events (22%), all volunteer the U of S alumni experience. activities were represented by the respondents. Given the ambitiousness of the plan, • We have more work to do to promote the full array of alumni the Alumni Association will extend Candace Savage, noted programs and services. Alumni are interested in access to services the two-year plan into 2007. In the Saskatoon-based, award- such as degree framing, alumni clothing, group travel, and meantime, the Alumni Association winning author of more than discounts to on-campus facilities. A significant number of alumni has achieved significant progress in two dozen non-fiction books, have not accessed these services because they have either not heard fulfilling its strategic objectives and graciously came on board of them, they are enrolled in a similar service, or they have will continue to work on building a this year as the honorary spokesperson for insufficient information. Alumni expressed an interest in on-line sense of community and providing Title Match 2006 – Supporting Learning, alumni merchandise and U of S memorabilia. In response to the opportunities to connect with 2005-2006 Alumni Association Board members at the retreat alumni. Further information on the the annual spring campaign exclusively survey, we hope to offer further on-line services in 2006-2007. held on campus at Marquis Hall. L to R: Melana Soroka, BA'84, in support of U of S libraries. Title Match Kevyn Kristmanson, BSc'97, Caroline Cottrell, Fred Fulton, strategic plan will be presented at the launched in early March 2006, and we have BSA'50, PGD'68, MCtgEd'72, Jeffrey Vicq, LLB'98, Michael J. Annual General Meeting scheduled Clark, BComm'95, LLB'96, Marianne Schneider, BSN'94, for June 15, 2006. high hopes to raise more than $70,000 with If you are interested in reviewing the results of the survey in their entirety, MBA'96, Joy Crawford, BComm'93 the help of our alumni please visit our website at http://www.usask.ca/alumni/surveys/. and friends. 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Coming Events Retired and Still Rolling: Cycling Across Canada (Widmar Publications, 2005) by Loretta and In accepting the gift,President Peter MacKinnon said the Grahams,like the more than JUNE 2006 • Dog Day Afternoon, Griffiths Marvin Wideen (BA’58, BEd’58, MEd’64) – 25,000 other donors to the campaign,are assisting the University in building for the • Presentation of the Amati Quartet Stadium This is the story of Loretta and Marvin future by “strengthening our commitment to research and scholarly activities,and and the Alumni Association’s TBA Wideen’s 7,000 km cycling trip across Canada creating new and exciting opportunities for our outstanding faculty,graduate Annual General Meeting from Victoria to St. John’s. The Wideens OCTOBER 2006 students,and undergraduates.” Thursday, June 15th in the cycled across Canada to celebrate their 65 • Celebrating Our Successes College Building, years of living, to pursue a dream, and to Heather Magotiaux,Vice-President University Advancement,said the Grahams are an Convocation Hall at 6:00 p.m. Alumni Awards example of the “outstanding support this University has received from people around Presentation and Gala Dinner promote awareness of schizophrenia, the illness that touched Loretta the most during her 28 years as a hospital caregiver. the world – alumni,business and friends. The fact that we have reached the $100 • U of S Reunion 2006 – Your time Thursday, October 12th A gift of more than $4.78 million to the U of S from two of its graduates has pushed to Shine! Welcoming Honoured million mark at this point in a campaign that runs until the end of 2007 speaks at TCU Place the Thinking the World of our Future capital campaign past its initial mark a full 18 Years of 1946, 1951, 1956, Think Like A Goat? (Crane Creek, 2005) volumes to the fact that the University is seen as a quality institution and a national by Allison (BA’52) and Stephanie months ahead of schedule. 1961 & 1966 and all graduates • Saskatchewan Roughriders vs player in both education and research.” from 1928 to 1945 Toronto Argonauts, Toronto, ON (MSc’85) Mitcham – A reluctant 8-year- At a special event May 4 on campus,Ron and Jane Graham (BE’62 and BEd ’62) were Friday, October 20th old boy visits his veterinarian aunt’s farm. The total in campaign gifts and pledges as of March 31 was $102,016,183. June 22nd – 24th recognized for contributing to the University’s $100 million campaign. The majority of After a series of incidents, including the NOVEMBER 2006 • Canada Day Party, Seattle, WA appearance of a coyote, the boy learns to the money – $3.27 million – will be used to support technical and professional While campaign donations have been directed to many priorities across campus, Hosted by Canada-America • CIS Vanier Cup 2006 Activities in observe the body language of a number of animals – communications education in the College of Engineering. Another $1.2 million will be Magotiaux said the largest beneficiaries have been student awards and scholarships, Society Saskatoon November 23rd – 25th observations that impact the boy deeply, especially in his used for the clubhouse facility at Griffiths Stadium while $300,000 will be directed to research and academic programs,and bricks and mortar projects like the College of Thursday, June 29th scholarships. And,Huskie women’s basketball will receive $10,000. Law expansion and Griffiths Stadium. • U of S Huskie Football encounters with other human beings. JULY 2006 Alumni Reunion Emmett Hall: Establishment Radical (Fitzhenry While there have been a number of significant corporate donations made to the She added there were more than $100 million in needs and priorities identified when • Saskatchewan Roughriders vs November 23rd – 26th campaign,the Graham gift is the largest single personal gift. Ron Graham is the campaign went public in November 2004,and more have been added since. “This BC Lions, Vancouver, BC (Contact: Cory Thoms at and Whiteside, 2005) by Dennis chairman of the Graham Group of Companies,formerly Graham Construction and is a very dynamic environment which is why the campaign continues. In fact,there is Friday, July 14th 306-260-7770 or e-mail Gruending (BA’70, Arts’84). Foreword by Engineering (1985) Inc.,a family and employee-owned construction company based still a lot of work to do. We’re moving from ‘campaign’to campaigning with the goal [email protected]) Roy Ramanow (BA’60, LLB’64) – Emmett SEPTEMBER 2006 Hall is widely hailed as the father of in Calgary. With offices across Canada and throughout the United States,the company of maintaining the current level of support to the University over the long haul.” Please visit our website for • U of S Welcome Week Activities Canada’s universal medicare system. He also does over $400 million in construction work annually,and is the general contractor on up-to-date information on Begin, The Bowl stood alone against eight of his fellow these and other events. the expansion project at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine. Tuesday, September 5th Supreme Court Justices in declaring that • Powwow in the Bowl convicted murderer Steven Truscott had not TBA received a fair trail. The life of this remarkable Canadian is a story of unwavering dedication to the public good. This newly revised and updated biography also carries with it a For an up-to-date list of alumni branches and upcoming events in your area or foreword by The Honourable Roy Romanow. to find out more about becoming involved in your local alumni branch, phone our office toll free at 1-800-699-1907 or email [email protected] or Dry (Coteau Books, 2005) by Barbara Sapergia visit our website at www.usask.ca/advancement. (BA’64) – Dry is a powerful literary thriller that weaves its fable around the lethal conflict between two families. Forecasting a prairie where healing and growth will require powerful magic, Dry offers a chilling and yet redemptive vision of the future of the great grasslands of the west. Casualties (Coteau Books, 2005) by Terrence Heath (BA’59) – Casualties is a tragic, historical novel about people’s lives being shaped and destroyed by the interplay between the forces of history and their own passions and limitations. The truth is only the first of the many casualties of war, whether it be World War II, the Spanish Civil War, or The Regina Riot.

The Gift of Country Life (Natural Heritage Books, 2005) by Victor Carl Friesen (BA’61, BEd’61, MA’65) – V.C. Friesen’s poetry evokes all the simplicity and beauty of farming in the 1940s. An authority on Henry David Thoreau, Friesen conjures poignant images of a different time, a time before farming was the highly sophisticated and technical operation that it is today. If you graduated from the U of S and have recently published a book, let us know!

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1945 1969 Douglas (Doug) Leonard Mark Still, BA’72, BEd’77, of to operate Half Diamond “K” Farms at Macklin while Animal Industries Award in Extension and Public Service Saskatoon and are big fans of the Huskies. Dr. John (Jack) Douglas Mollard O.C., BE(CE)’45, Rennie Anne Holley, BA’69, has been living in White Humboldt, SK, received the Saskatchewan Centennial raising daughters Natalie and Amanda. from the Canadian Society of Animal Science. Shelby Lynn Anne LaFramboise-Helgeson, BEd’99, of LLD’95(Regina), PhD(Cornell), MSc(Purdue), of Regina, Rock, BC since 1971. She worked in Surrey School District Medal on December 10, 2005 due to his work as former 1983 1998 Saskatoon, SK, received the Saskatchewan Centennial SK, received the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal on #36 since then as a junior sec teacher of fine art, math, and Mayor of Humboldt and Vice-President of the Lydia Marilyn Dyck (Hamm), BEd’83, MA’87(oth), of Patricia (Patty) Helen Thille, BSPT’98, BA’01, of Medal on July 15, 2005. December 8, 2005. French until 1992; as a district consultant for mathematics Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association. After Steinbach, MB, began her education in the latter ‘50’s Ottawa, ON, recently finished her MA in Women’s 2000 1948 K-12 until 1996; and as an elementary school 30-plus years of teaching at Humboldt Collegiate then taught in Edmonton, AB, and in three cities in Studies from the Joint Women’s Studies Programme in Institute, he retired in January 2006. In February, he Janice Marie Bernier, LSC’00, of Regina, SK, received Dr. John Francis (Frank) Roy S.O.M., BA’48, BEd’53, administrator until she retired in December 2003. She Saskatchewan. She married Henry Dyck and raised three Halifax, NS. Upon convocation, she was awarded the the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal on September 30, currently divides her time between her home in White started a new position as Provincial Secretary/Chief children. She was able to complete her two degrees in Governor General’s Gold Medal and Graduate Thesis MA’68, LLD’05, of Saskatoon, SK, received the Executive Officer for the New Democratic Party of 2005 for her work with the United Way of Regina and Saskatchewan Order of Merit on October 11, 2005. Rock, a village in Mexico, and her cottage at White Bear the ’80’s and has done a variety of teaching in Manitoba. Award. She’d like to thank all her classmates and the Regina and District Labour Council. Lake in Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan. 1950 Lydia is currently retired and still volunteers teaching professors who encouraged her to pursue graduate 2001 Dr. Lorraine (Lorri) Neilsen Glenn (Boggs), BEd’69, of 1973 grade six classes and is writing a book covering 25 years studies. Norman August Flaten, BE(AE)’50, BA’71, of Weyburn, Professor Emeritus Henry Woolf, LLD’01, of Saskatoon, Halifax, NS, was recently appointed Poet Laureate of William (Bill) Lloyd Newman, MSc’73, BA’66(Regina), of her work coordinating an education program in 12 1999 SK, received the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal on Halifax for a four-year term and was the recipient of of Calgary, AB, has retired from his position of Director, IT schools. SK, received the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal on February 13, 2006. Dallas George Victor Carpenter, BA’99, has received his February 17, 2006. Mount Saint Vincent University’s 2005 Award for Research Infrastructure, Library and Archives Canada. He and his 1984 1952 Master of Arts in Applied Communications degree from Excellence. Dr. Neilsen is the author and editor of eight wife Carol have moved from Ottawa to Calgary. Jeffrey (Jeff) Norman Grubb Q.C., BA’84, LLB’87, of Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC. Dallas, his wife Dr. James (Jim) Edgar Till O.C., BA’52, MA’54, books and currently lives and writes in Halifax. Her Peter Norys, BA’73, of Moose Jaw, SK, received the Regina, SK, received the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal Kimberly and their daughter Madeleine live in PhD’57(Yale), of Toronto, ON, was a co-recipient (with forthcoming book, Combustion, is set both in Saskatchewan Centennial Medal on February 21, 2006. on January 26, 2006. Ernest A. McCulloch) of the 2005 Albert Lasker Basic Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia. 1974 1985 Medical Research Award of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Kapil Gurtu, MSc’74, of Edmonton, AB, for the last 30 Heather Lorraine Miazga (Thompson), BSN’85, of Maxine Thevenot years has been working in pharmaceutical sales. He 1954 Saskatoon, SK, recently changed jobs from Clinical took early retirement after working for 25 years with Nurse Educator in Emergency to Manager of Nursing Professor Emeritus Douglas (Doug) Albert Joseph Born in Zenon Park, SK., Maxine Bristol-Myers Squibb. He has been with Pfizer since Thevenot (BMusEd’91) now Cardiosciences at the Royal University Hospital, Schmeiser Q.C., BA’54, LLB’56, of Saskatoon, SK, July 2005. He and his family have been living in Saskatoon, SK. received the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal on February enjoys an international career as Edmonton since 1977. an organ soloist with a repertoire Kenneth (Ken) Oscar Olsen, BE(ME)’85, MBA’89, has 27, 2006. Jerome Raymond Konecsni, BA’74, MA’76, BEd’77, of ranging from early 16th-century recently relocated to Santiago, Chile where he is General 1955 Saskatoon, SK, was recently appointed President and CEO Manager, Global Operations for Canadian Rockport Bert Wallace (Wally) Walker, BComm’55, of Swift Spanish works to contemporary of Genome Prairie in Saskatoon. works written especially for her. Her Homes. Current, SK, received the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal Sister Rosetta Louise Reiniger, BSc’74, of Prelate, SK, 1987 on October 1, 2005. performances have taken her around the world – from la Cathèdrale de Notre Dame in Paris to received the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal on October Henri Pierre Victor Chabanole, LLB’87, of Regina, SK, Edwin John Walker, BSA’55, of Regina, SK, received the international music festivals in Bratislava, 1, 2005. received the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal on January Saskatchewan Centennial Medal on February 22, 2006. Budapest, Prague, and Vienna. Maxine now 1975 26, 2006. 1959 resides near the Sandia Mountains in Marjorie Jane Hewitt (Thomson) C.A., BComm’75, of 1988 Norman Kenneth Rebin, BA’59, of Saskatoon, SK, Albuquerque, New Mexico and was appointed Victoria, BC, formerly Director, Ancillary Services at the Catherine Lynn Surtees (Ravis), BA’88, of Saskatoon, received the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal on February Associate Organist-Choir Director at the University of Regina, is now Director of Financial Services SK, received the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal on 13, 2006. Cathedral Church of St. John in September at Camosun College, Victoria, BC. September 9, 2005. 1961 2005. She graduates this May with a Doctor of 1976 1991 Peter Elmer Zakreski C.M., BA’61, of Saskatoon, SK, Musical Arts degree in Organ Performance from Dr. Sarah Alexandra Carter, BA’76, MA’81, the Manhattan School of Music, New York City. Kathleen Rose Alexander, BAC’91, of Saskatoon, SK, received the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal on February PhD’87(Man), of Calgary, AB, has taught history at the received the Long Service Award for 25 years of service She will be performing opening night at the 16, 2006. University of Calgary since 1992. She is presently on a with the City of Saskatoon on November 18, 2005. 1962 American Guild of Organists National two-year Killam Research Fellowship. In July 2006, she Convention in Chicago at Orchestra Hall this will join the University of Alberta as Henry Marshall Tory Alexander (Alex) Michael Frazer-Harrison, BA’91, of Dr. Vera Rose Pezer, BA’62, MA’64, PhD’77, of Saskatoon, SK, is currently a freelance journalist and Saskatoon, SK, received the Saskatchewan Centennial July. For more information on Maxine, visit her Chair in the Department of History and School of Native website at www.maxinethevenot.com. Studies. book editor based in Calgary. His writing has appeared Medal on February 17, 2006. in the Calgary Herald, as well as Canadian, British, and 1964 Robert (Bob) Bruce Coleman Q.C., LLB’76, BA’76, was American magazines. His editing work has also been Dale Wesley Toni, BSP’69, of Moose Jaw, SK, received the appointed Chief Crown Prosecutor for Lethbridge, AB and Robert Alan Shay, BSP’64, and his wife Donna have sold featured in numerous books. He is also a columnist Saskatchewan Centennial Medal on October 25, 2005. area. He was also appointed Queen’s Counsel on January for the Rockabilly Hall of Fame their pharmacy in Hafford, SK and dispensary in Blaine 31, 2006. Lake, SK to Donna L. Tremblay-Thompson (nee 1970 (www.rockabillyhall.com/Extra.html). In 2005, he Tremblay), BA’81, BSA’82, BSP’89 and her husband Heather Maudeen Bishop C.M., O.M., BA’70, of Randall (Randy) Percival Weekes M.L.A., Dip/Agric’76, participated in the planning of Rock is Fifty, a series of David Thompson, BSA’80. Woodmore, MB, received the Order of Manitoba on of Biggar, SK, received the Saskatchewan Centennial celebrations of the 50th anniversary of Rock and Roll. Medal on October 4, 2005. 1966 August 29, 2005. 1993 Joan Richards White, MBA’76, of Saskatoon, SK, as of Joan Phyllis Bell, BEd’66, PGD’73, MEduc’77, of Phyllis Rose Miller (Pangracs), BSP’70, of Esterhazy, SK, Karen Lynn Carleton, BA’93, BEd’96, of Fort Smith, recently married fellow classmate Wayne Allen Miller, August 15, 2005, has been serving as University of NT, is currently completing an online MEd (Workplace Saskatoon, SK, received the Saskatchewan Centennial Saskatchewan Liaison to the University Services Branch of Medal on January 19, 2006. BSP’71. It was a second marriage for both of them after and Adult Learning) program through the University they found each other in Lethbridge a few years ago. The Saskatchewan Learning. of Calgary, while working as a Workplace Educator at Leonore (Lee) Jean Hunt, BA’66, MEd’89(Calgary), of wedding took place on campus in the gardens of the 1978 the Diavik Diamond Mine, while operating her own Calgary, AB, received the Alberta Centennial Medal in Boffin’s Club. The reception was on the Terrace at the consulting business and substitute teaching in her recognition of her volunteer work with hospice advocacy, Ronald (Ron) Wayne Hewitt Q.C., BA’78, LLB’78, of Bessborough and included a flyover by the night Police time off. the M.S. Society, the Heart Fund and anti-graffiti Victoria, BC, after more than 25 years in various roles in Patrol plane and celebratory wing dip! They are both community murals. the Government of Saskatchewan, has been appointed David John Drysdale, BA’93, and Jillian Jennifer back working as Pharmacists in Lethbridge. President, GeoSpatial/SALASAN, a Victoria consulting 1968 Drysdale (Millar), BA’93, along with daughter Katie Rita Elaine Seipp (Mitzel), BSN’70, of Saskatoon, SK, company. welcomed John Aidan on April 6, 2005 in Calgary, AB. Garth Eugene (Gene) Kessler S.V.M., BAPE’68, received the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal on January 1979 1995 Dip/Educ’69, BEd’69, of Pangman, SK, received the 19, 2006. The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Paul Harold Andrew Korpan Q.C., LLB’79, of Regina, Peter William Ryan, BA’95, and his wife Vicki have Saskatchewan Volunteer Medal on April 28, 2005 and the Saskatchewan nominated Rita for her leadership, SK, was appointed Queen’s Counsel on December 28, moved back to Canada after five years in the UK and Saskatchewan Centennial Medal on February 13, 2006. invaluable contributions, and long-standing service and 2005. Ireland. They are settled in Montreal. He continues to farm organically with his family at support. Pangman and remains an active volunteer. 1981 1997 1972 Lynn Arthur Smith Q.C., BA’68, LLB’73, of Regina, SK, Keith Von Eliasson, BComm’81, and his wife, Astrid, have Dr. Linda Roberta Hancock, BA’97, BSW’95(Regina), Terrence James Sinclair, BA’72, of Regina, SK. After many was appointed Queen’s Counsel on December 28, 2005. recently moved to Calgary, AB. He is working for Imperial MEd’00(U of L), of Medicine Hat, AB, recently years working as a heritage researcher and planner for the Oil and has moved into a new role as Method of Business convocated with a PhD in Psychology from Southern Sidney (Sid) Robert Wallace, Cert/HosAdm’68, of Government of Saskatchewan, Terrence was appointed Manager – Industrial and Wholesale in Calgary. They California University for Professional Studies. Dr. Calgary, AB, was made the Founder of the Friends of the Acting Manager of Government House Heritage Property moved from Sherwood Park, AB, where he had been the Hancock, who is licensed as a Chartered Psychologist Colonel Belcher in their fundraising activities leading up in Regina. He was seconded to the Saskatchewan Branded Associate Sales Manager – West. and Registered Social Worker, operates a private practice to the opening of the Carewest Colonel Belcher Care Centennial 2005 Office as Director of Community Candace Ann Elizabeth Kloster (Stefan), BSN’81, of in Medicine Hat, AB. Veteran’s Centre in Calgary in 2003. In June of this year, Initiatives. He was presented with the Centennial Macklin, SK, returned to the nursing workforce in January he stepped down from the Chair of the FOCB Society. On Leadership Award and then the Saskatchewan Centennial David “Lee” Whittington, MBA’97, of Saskatoon, SK, 2004 at St. Joseph’s Health Center, Macklin, SK. She and the 2nd of November, he was presented with the Alberta Medal for work during 2005. Manager of Information Services for the Prairie Swine Centennial Medal. husband Stephen Joseph Kloster, Dip/Agric’79, continue Centre of Saskatoon, was the recipient of this year’s

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Please note that the following was (1935) Dr. James Donald Weir, (1940) Allan Melvin Dignan, (1943) Reverend John Milton (1947) Harold Frederick Aston, (1950) Reverend Thomas Lloyd (1956) Edwin “Ed” Campbell (1969) Leland Roger Heppner, incorrectly listed in a previous issue BSc’35, BA’38(Oxf), MSc’41(Har), Dip/Agric’40, of Moose Jaw, SK, d. Reynolds, BA’43, of Claremont, CA, BE(Geo)’47, MSc’49, of Victoria, BC, Dice, BA’50, of Prince Albert, SK, d. Robinson, BA’56, LLB’56, of Regina, BEd’69, of Calgary, AB, d. April 3, of the Green & White: PhD’43(Oxf), of Calgary, AB, d. March 1, 2005. USA, d. April 17, 2005. d. September 3, 2005. November 18, 2005. SK, d. December 27, 2005. 2005. Reverend George Everett Ward, November 3, 2005. (1941) Professor Emeritus John (1943) Albert “Duncan” Scott, (1947) Clifford Arthur Batty, BA’47, (1950) Donald Warren Lamont (1958) George Goos, BE(CE)’58, (1969) Donald Lloyd McLean, BA’43, BD’55 (Tor), DD’82 (1936) Anne Bruay Morrison George Egnatoff C.M., BA’41, BSA’43, of Batavia, IL, USA, d. BComm’48, of Victoria, BC, d. Read, BSA’50, of Swift Current, SK, d. PGD’70, MSc’71, of Victoria, BC, d. Cert/BusAdm’69, of Sherwood Park, (Flavell), BA’36, of Penticton, BC, d. EDD(Tor), BPAED(Tor), of November 12, 2005. December 21, 2005. December 11, 2005. January 4, 2006. AB, d. January 11, 2004. December 7, 2005. Saskatoon, SK, d. August 8, 2005. The Alumni Association has noted, (1943) Charles Mervin Thompson, (1947) Dorothy “Jean” McCart (1950) Louis Shenfeld, BE(EP)’50, (1961) Arie Gillis de Jager, (1969) Sewall Melford Joseph with sorrow, the passing of the (1937) Mona Ione Gladwell, (1941) Bernard “Morris” Livergant, BE(CE)’43, of North Vancouver, BC, (Dix), BHSc’47, MSc’49(Iow), of of Willowdale, ON, d. January 26, BE(CE)’61, of Wieringerwerf, Olauson, BEd’69, PGD’75, of following faculty: BHSc’37, of North Battleford, SK, d. BA’41, LLB’50, of Calgary, AB, d. d. April 8, 2005. Chapel Hill, NC, USA, d. August 6, 2005. Netherlands, d. September 8, 2005. Saskatoon, SK, d. January 2, 2006. October 30, 2005. October 22, 2004. 2005. Professor Emeritus Christopher (1944) Catherine Emily Margaret (1950) Joseph Duncan Tomney, (1963) David Lohman Jordan, (1970) Ronald Jerome Lorenz, Hedley Bigland, of Saskatoon, SK, d. (1937) Cecil Albert Wheaton, (1941) Helen Miller (Gowan), Irvine, BA’44, of Regina, SK, d. July (1947) Wilbert (Bert) Robinson BComm’50, of Prince Albert, SK, d. BA’63, MA’67, of Calgary, AB, d. April BSc’70, of Calgary, AB, d. November December 16, 2005. BSc’37, of Saskatoon, SK, d. August BHSc’41, of Winnipeg, MB, d. July 13, 2005. Orr, BAcc’47, LLB’48, of Maple April 2001. 19, 2001. 22, 2005. 11, 2005. 24, 2005. Creek, SK, d. October 20, 2005. Dr. Leo F Kristjanson C.M., of (1944) Ernest Burnham Meyers, (1951) Kathleen “Mary” Mahoney (1964) Reverend Ronald Reginald (1971) Irene Lynda Mae Banks, Gimli, MB, d. August 21, 2005 (U of (1937) Alfred John Williams, (1941) Dr. Orville Alva Olsen, BAcc’44, of Ottawa, ON, d. May 18, (1948) Kathleen Margaret Alison (Jones), BComm’51, of Calgary, AB, Clark, BA’64, BD(oth), of Balgonie, BA’71(Reg), Arts’72(Reg), S Past President) BE(ChE)’37, of Regina, SK, d. BSA’41, MSc’48(Man), 2005. Bingeman (Beynon), BHSc’48, of d. February 25, 2006. SK, d. November 15, 2005. MA’75(Que), of Winnipeg, MB, d. November 25, 2005. PhD’61(McG), DSc’89(Mem), of (1944) Sam George Reimche, Winnipeg, MB, d. March 2005. (1951) Roger Vernon Ruse, (1964) Albert Edward Dunn, November 17, 2005. Professor Emeritus Peter Yates Leduc, AB, d. December 2004. Walmsley, of Saskatoon, SK, d. (1938) Arnold Truman Calder, Dip/Agric’44, of Leader, SK, d. April (1948) Dr. Walter Alexander Gray, BComm’51, of Kitchener, ON, d. Dip/Educ’64, BA(oth), of Castlegar, (1971) Professor Emeritus Cecil November 22, 2005. BA’38, MComm’45(Tor), of (1942) Alma Irene Edwards Smith 22, 2005. BA’48, MD’58, MA(Tor), of January 9, 2006. BC, d. June 22, 1994. Cameron Ewing, AdEund’71, Sherwood Park, AB, d. January 23, Taft, BA’42, of Edmonton, AB, d. (1944) Helen MacKenzie Lethbridge, AB, d. August 23, 2005. (1951) Graham Stewart Simpson, (1965) John Merlyn Young, BEd’65, MB(oth), CHB(oth), of Saskatoon, 2006. September 27, 2006. Warkentin, BA’44, of Moose Jaw, SK, (1948) The Honorable Thomas BA’51, BComm’51, of Ottawa, ON, d. of Regina, SK, d. August 20, 2005. d. March 24, 2006. The Alumni Association notes, with (1939) Dudley Robert Foskett, (1942) William Francis Hall, d. October 30, 2005. Clarkson Wakeling, LLB’48, of May 28, 2005. (1966) Richard Arnold Burback, (1971) Josephine Bernadette sorrow, the passing of the following BA’39, MA’51, of Victoria, BC, d. BE(CE)’42, of Winnipeg, MB, d. Regina, SK, d. November 19, 2005. Hassen, Cert/HosAdm’71, of graduates: (1945) Brian Howard Rowbotham, (1952) Garth McRae Armstrong, BEd’66, of Yorkton, SK, d. September September 24, 2005. December 17, 2004. BE(ME)’45, of Richmond Hill, ON, (1949) Arthur Oliver George, BComm’52, of Calgary, AB, d. 4, 2005. Saskatoon, SK, d. June 25, 2004. (1929) Eleanor Catherine Stoddart (1939) Herman “Jay” Harding, (1943) Robert (Bob) Henry Cooper, d. April 15, 2005. Dip/Agric’49, of Bengough, SK, d. November 24, 2004. (1968) Peter Joseph Hudy, BEd’68, (1971) Mark Warren Petersmeyer, (Knox), BA’29, of Victoria, BC, d. BE(CE)’39, of Garden Grove, CA, BSA’43, MSc’50, of Kelowna, BC, d. August 19, 2005. BE(ME)’71, Cert/DatPro’69(Reg), of December 3, 2000. (1946) Lieutenant Colonel William (1955) Beverley Ann MacPherson BSc’70, of Yorkton, SK, d. October 6, USA, d. March 3, 2005. September 22, 2005. Onysko, BE(ChE)’46, of Ottawa, (1949) Peter Horlick, BComm’49, of (Wright), BA’55, of New 2005. Cochrane, AB, d. October 30, 2005. (1933) Orval Lloyd Gamble, (1940) Viola Eleanor Allan (1943) John Walter Nargang, ON, d. May 13, 2000. Victoria, BC, d. January 23, 2006. Westminster, BC, d. October 27, (1968) Jacob Taves, (1971) Curtis Lloyd Peterson, Cert/Pharm’33, of Kelowna, BC, d. (Henschel), BSHEc’40, of Langham, BE(ME)’43, of Walnut Creek, CA, 2005. Cert/HosAdm’71, of Shellburne, NS, July 9, 2003. (1949) Professor Emeritus Samuel Cert/BusAdm’68, of Saskatoon, SK, SK, d. March 13, 2006. USA, d. November 23, 2005. Laimon, BComm’49, MBA(oth), d. October 9, 2005. d. July 4, 2005. MBA(Chi), of Saskatoon, SK, d. (1971) Dr. Bela Sivak, PhD’71, December 5, 2005. MSc(oth), BSF(oth), of Coquitlam, BC, d. June 2006. (1973) Keith Douglas Hodgson, BA’73, of Nanaimo, BC, d. September 28, 2005. (1975) Sharon Lynn Hood, BSc’75, of Landmark, MB, d. October 11, 2005. (1976) Garret Stanley Raynier, BSc’76, of Thornhill, ON, d. August 16, 2005. (1976) Richard Joseph Trager, BE(EE)’76, of Regina, SK, d. August 11 , 20 05 . (1984) Dr. Sivarama Prasad Dandamudi, MSc’84, PhD’89, of Ottawa, ON, d. December 24, 2005. (1987) Ronald Archie MacLean, LLB’87, of Moose Jaw, SK, d. March 7, 2005. (1990) Kathryn Marie Baynton, BEd’90, of Lloydminster, SK, d. September 3, 2005. (2000) Geoffrey David Newman Tozer, LLB’00, of Pointe-Claire, QC, d. January 2006.

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wheelchair racing and have now with Colette Bourgonje connected with him quite a bit this past year with skiing. He’s amazing. From being the first student in a G&W How important is having a solid wheelchair to graduate from the U of S network of sports experts locally? with a degree in Physical Education to winning bronze at the 2006 Paralympics CB It’s definitely a benefit to have it. If in Turin, Italy, Collette Bourgonje you want to be on the top, you need that support…it’s a pretty integrated system. (BSPE’84, BEd’85) has always set her We can access the same amount of sights high. We met with the elementary experts just as well as any of the able school teacher to talk about training, bodied people. We have access to teaching, and what it takes to nutritionists, psychologists, and a whole become a winning paralympian. sports science crew. G&W How have your students reacted to your victory in Turin? G&W How did you get involved in cross- toughest things you can do. And when country sit skiing? you’re disabled, you have to work even CB They’ve been really excited. harder. [However], it’s been nice to be able to CB I was involved in wheelchair racing come back and get into what we’re for quite a few years prior to skiing, and a G&W What’s your training regimen like? supposed to be focusing on. I teach part- friend, Joe Harison, asked if I wanted to CB It depends on the season, but I time, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to do try a sit ski that had been brought over normally train between five and six times this at all. Even teaching part-time is from Europe. I said sure, and I tried it out a week. At least three of those days I difficult. It’s demanding. and thought it was awesome. I’ve been train twice a day. It’s a lot of hours. doing it ever since. G&W Is the world starting to G&W How many different countries have acknowledge the legitimacy of the G&W Why did you make the jump from you traveled to this year? Paralympics? wheelchair racing to cross-country skiing? CB Quite a few. This year alone, we CB I think it’s getting better. I’ve started off with doing the World Cup in definitely seen changes. I’ve been around CB I like the environment a lot better. Lillehammer, then we went to France for for a long time, and I’ve seen a lot of You’re out in the woods, and some of the some races, then we skied some races in changes and a greater acceptance by the areas we’ve skied have been absolutely Switzerland, then Germany. Then we media over the years. I think once the amazing. So, mostly it’s the environment ended up in Italy. That was just this year media covers an event, people take it a [and] the skills that are required. It’s not alone. We were gone for over two months. bit more seriously. Once people are able pushing something in a circle – hand to see the events, they’re more cycling is just going in a circle – it G&W Why have you decided to base impressed because they see that requires skill and balance and technique yourself out of Saskatoon? [disabled athletes] train hard for their to be good at it. It also gives me the events. same feeling that cross country running CB I went to university here, and we have gave me, as far as being able to push the Sport Medicine and Science Centre yourself to the limit. It’s exhausting. It’s here with [Athlete Services Director] actually one of the toughest sports I’ve Bruce Craven. He’s totally awesome at ever done. Cross country skiing as an what he does. I worked with him with able-bodied person is one of the

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