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36 Celebrate NAIT’s 22 From the Ground Up 36 Top 50 Alumni 73 The Fine Art of Food Anniversary In the early 1960s, few Find out why these grads A history in five courses knew a technician from a made the grade 76 Recipe technologist, even if industry technofile 64 Ooks Through the Ages What does the suave, needed them more than ever. We may not be bowling or sophisticated ook reach for 17 Status Update That’s when NAIT arrived canoeing anymore, but over during the cocktail hour? After 10 issues, we revisit five with the answer the years our teams have still A NAITini, of course stories of innovators and their 27 A First Time for Everything been known by rivals to “kick projects. As it turns out, you What was NAIT’s first their pants” win some, you lose some – but departments building? Degree? Tweet? A you always learn along the way 67 The Meaning of Ookpik list of 50 points of origin 8 Contributors NAIT’s search for its missing 32 The Futurists mascot turns up more 11 Editor’s Note A view of the world of than just a cute and cuddly 12 Feedback tomorrow, courtesy of our Canadian icon staff and alumni 13 Connections with the President 34 NAITology How well do you know NAIT? 15 Newsbytes Find out by taking our quiz Recent news from the institute

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What’s New at techlifemag.ca 62 Contest Between biannual issues of techlife, we publish stories online. Sign up for the techlifemag.ca Here’s a selection from recent months. e-newsletter and win a limited edition T-shirt! Cuisine by Capra Taking it to the Streets Why Hokanson Chef in Residence Chef Nathan McLaughlin’s new 79 5 Ways to Get Involved Massimo Capra trains cooks, food truck makes a stop at Food With NAIT not chefs Network’s Eat Street 81 Acclaim techlifemag.ca/capra-hokanson-chef- techlifemag.ca/the-act-on-eat-street. in-residence.htm htm Award-winning grads, staff Scan this QR code to and friends Get Your Motor Running Hockey Heroes connect to techlifemag.ca. Want to tour, cruise or travel at The undefeated ’84-’85 Ooks enter 82 Rewind Accompanying some of this the Alberta Hockey Hall of Fame A piece of NAIT history comes shocking speeds? Here’s how to issue’s stories are QR codes techlifemag.ca/ooks-hockey-perfect- home – thanks to an alum and pick the right motorcycle that connect you to our online season.htm his garden shed techlifemag.ca/motorcycle-buying- content. All you need is a guide.htm Sense and Sustainability QR code reader; download Canadian Content Three alumni turn a troubled one for free from your Photographer Heather Paul rescues residential corner into a model of smartphone’s app store. Then, national treasures from the dustbins green design and construction use it to scan the codes found of time (and Winnipeg) techlifemag.ca/belgravia-green-net- throughout the magazine. techlifemag.ca/photo-restoration.htm zero.htm

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v6.1 2012 As a communications specialist, Fiona Bensler loves the opportunity to work with staff from across NAIT. She enjoys learning from that – and definitely learned a thing or two from the four top 50 alumni she interviewed for techlife this issue. Their passion, drive, dedication and desire people technology innovation to give back are valuable takeaways. Besides writing for techlife, Bensler edits NAIT’s weekly staff newsletter and techlifemag.ca editor is managing editor for A Report on Giving (included in this Sherri Krastel issue), which highlights donors to the institute. She is also managing and online editor PAGE f 45, 50, 55 & 57 a frequent contributor to techlifemag.ca. Scott Messenger associate editors Kristen Vernon, Heather Gray art director Derek Lue associate art director John Book (Photographic Technology ’87) is an avid Andrea Yury designers birdwatcher, fly-fisher and, of course, photographer. “Not Sandy Brown, Dru Davids, Trina Koscielnuk, Jennifer Lubrin, very many individuals have the option to work every day Sheena Riener at what they consider their hobby, but I do,” he says. Book copy editor Kathy Frazer has been busy with his hobby for 22 years at NAIT, where circulation manager he produces images to support curriculum and promote Nicole Rose (Marketing ’08) the institute. In searching out archival photos for several advertising manager Lynn Ryan stories in this issue, Book selected from over 200,000 contributing writers digital files and more than 60 binders of negatives to help Eliza Barlow, Fiona Bensler, Ruth Juliebo, Frank Landry, PAGE f 22 & 64 capture the institute’s 50-year history. Kim MacDonald, Cheryl Mahaffy, Nancy McGuire, Lindsey Norris, Lisa Ricciotti, Sandy Robertson, Don Trembath contributing photographers John Book (Photographic Technology ’87), Leigh Frey (Photographic Technology ’01), Jeanette Janzen (Photographic Technology ’10), Blaise van Malsen subscriptions Heather Gray likes the challenge a new opportunity Send changes of address to [email protected]. brings. Proof of this came recently when she moved from Sign up for the techlifemag.ca e-newsletter at health-care education administration to communications. techlifemag.ca/subscribe.htm. freelance submissions She performed a similar move, but in the opposite Send queries to [email protected]. We do not accept direction, 30 years ago when she traded her newspaper unsolicited manuscripts. writing and editing career for an education in medical letters to the editor [email protected] laboratory science. A few months ago, when given the advertising and circulation inquiries opportunity to join NAIT’s communications team, it was [email protected] a full-circle moment she couldn’t resist. For her, working PAGE f 39 as a writer and editor on this issue, which focuses on Techlife magazine is published twice a year by NAIT Marketing and Communications. Online features are celebrating NAIT’s history, reinforced the notion that our published regularly at techlifemag.ca. Opinions expressed past experiences shape us. are not necessarily those of NAIT or the editorial team. Techlife is a proud member of the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association, abiding by the national magazine advertising/editorial guidelines (albertamagazines.com).

Since graduating from Photographic Technology in 2010, Jeanette Janzen has travelled the world in search of curious, marvellous and unexpected things that make up its cultures. Thinking she would spend her life As NAIT celebrates its 50th anniversary, we recognize as a photographer overseas, she surprised everyone – including herself – when she landed back at NAIT. As the institute for helping develop the skilled workforce a student, her favourite subject matter was food and Canada needs to prosper. beverages, so helping to photograph this issue’s CuliNAIT a report on giving feature, in particular the NAITini, felt like catching up managing editor PAGE f 73 with an old friend over drinks. But no matter what she’s Fiona Bensler contributing writer shooting, she still loves the rush she gets from one of her Nancy McGuire favourite hobbies: developing black and white film. contributing photographer Blaise van Malsen encana.com

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EDITOR’S NOTE

“this institute fulfills one of the greatest needs in our society.”

– Ernest Manning Premier of Alberta, 1943-68

“this institute fulfills one of the greatest needs in our society,” said however, were for individuals who have avoided the spotlight Ernest Manning at NAIT’s official opening ceremony in the spring of 1963. but whose accomplishments were as impressive as any. We The late premier’s remarks remain as true today as they did nearly five honour them all. decades ago, when technical education was undefined and NAIT’s future We’re also taking advantage of this opportunity for a second yet to be written. look at some of the stories we’ve covered in the last five years In this commemorative issue of techlife, we celebrate NAIT’s golden (p. 17) and, to keep it interesting, we’ve asked some of our experts anniversary, and the more than 170,000 students and thousands of to weigh in on the future of several fields, including oil sands, staff and faculty whose lives have been enriched by the school. We’ve food production, education and alternative energy (p. 32) – their attempted to provide a snapshot of what has transpired at NAIT over predictions may surprise you. the last five decades, but it is by no means complete. We hope you enjoy reading this special issue and would love People and programs have come and gone, athletics championships to hear from you about this and previous issues. You can do so in have been won and lost, and facilities have been demolished and built. less than 10 minutes by taking our readership survey (p. 12). What has remained is Alberta’s need, and the growing demand, for the And, although much has changed since first student Bill Riches unique brand of education served up in the classrooms and labs, by arrived early in a cab on that October morning in 1962 (p. 22), experienced, passionate faculty and staff. some things do remain the same – our students are as eager, the That became evident during the process of compiling our Top Ookpik as cherished and Manning’s proclamation as relevant as 50 Alumni list (p. 36). From inventors to innovators, from artists to it was 50 years ago. philanthropists, from CEOs of the largest companies to owners of small Here’s to the next 50! businesses, NAIT graduates solve problems, create wealth and improve lives every day – not only in Alberta, but across the country and around the world. Many of the 162 nominations we received were familiar to the 11 of us tasked with evaluating them – after all, NAIT has produced its Sherri Krastel share of interesting personalities, many of whom we have covered in Editor the pages of techlife and its predecessor Alumnait. Many nominations, [email protected] Photo by blaise van malsen blaise van by Photo

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Here’s what you think about us We want to hear from you Tell us what you think about the stories you read in the magazine 22 22 21 17 11 7 the building in the aerial photo at the one of our announcers brought or at techlifemag.ca. top of Plenty of Parking (p. 66, V5.2) was your interview with Holger Petersen a two-storey structure converted from a (techlifemag.ca/holger-petersen- • Email: [email protected] department store into new digs for the talking-music.htm) to our attention. • techlifemag.ca (comment online by entire NAIT Architectural Technology Thanks for a great article about a logging in through Facebook) program in 1977. It is currently called the great man. Engineering Technologies Annex. The • Twitter: @NAIT Karen Howell focus of the story, M Building, wasn’t Web Editor, CKUA • Facebook: www.nait.ca/facebook even in the photo! • Mail: Sherri Krastel Respectfully, Editor, techlife magazine Bruce Benjamin 11762 – 106 St. N.W. Architectural Technology ’78 Edmonton, AB T5G 2R1

Published comments may be edited for length, grammar and clarity. reader response We asked about these six stories in our latest readership survey. Below, the percentage of respondents who read the stories in their entirety.

1 Backing Big Oil (p. 28): 22%

2 Moveable Feasts (p. 52): 22% MOST-read stories 3 3 Questions: The Labour Shortage (p. 15): 21% from v5.2 4 Ask an Expert: Brew the Perfect Cup of Joe (p. 48): 17% 5 Northern Composure (p. 38): 11%

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50 great years

nait at 50! What a marvellous time to serve as president and CEO of this needs for polytechnic education and research in Alberta. NAIT is outstanding institution. I am amazed by what NAIT has achieved, humbled relevant and responsive to the province, providing outstanding technical by what we are accomplishing and inspired by our plans for the future. education. While serving the needs of Alberta, NAIT is globally Our remarkable successes during the past five decades are competitive and recognized. testimony to the dedication and innovation of former staff and students. To industry, we promise to work as full partners as we create an NAIT has consistently built on our foundation as a relevant and exceptional skilled workforce. responsive polytechnic. We continue to deliver hands-on, technology- We promise students an education that prepares them for success based skills education in science, technology and the environment, in meaningful careers in their chosen field, enabling them to have an health, trades and business. Our motto – to learn, to do, to succeed – immediate impact. is as relevant today as at NAIT’s founding. We are central to To staff, we promise to make NAIT one of Canada’s most outstanding Alberta’s future. places to work, focusing on values we define as the NAIT Way. Partnerships with industry, government and other donor agencies, together with contributions from individuals, many of whom are NAIT alumni, have allowed NAIT to meet Alberta’s and Canada’s needs for outstanding skilled workers. For this support, we are eternally grateful. As we celebrate our 50th anniversary, we have embarked on a new vision. NAIT 2021 is our roadmap to the future and is critically important Glenn Feltham, PhD for Alberta in developing a highly qualified workforce. It is our pathway President and CEO to becoming the most relevant and responsive polytechnic in Canada. [email protected] Embedded in the NAIT 2021 vision are promises. This is our promise to Alberta: NAIT’s primary focus is on meeting the current and emerging Photo by blaise van malsen blaise van by Photo

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At work for the Boreal Research Institute in the Peace River region. ooks funding BOOST environmental studies and Alberta’s high-tech of the province’s burgeoning nanotechnology sector will benefit from over $5.6 million in federal industry, particularly in the areas of prototyping go grants awarded to NAIT. and product development. The funding will bolster ongoing research into Awarded in May, the grants include $4.05 mobile reducing the environmental impact of the oil sands million from the Natural Sciences and Engineering through the institute’s Boreal Research Institute and Research Council of Canada and $1.6 million from its Centre for Green Chemistry and Engineering. the Canadian Foundation for Innovation. this spring, the athletics Funding will also fuel a project to support members department struck a first for — Frank Landry Alberta college- or university- level sports with a new app dedicated entirely to its teams. Available as a free download championship the stars for iPhone, iPad and Android users, the app delivers Ooks curling news, schedules, results and more, as well as offers contests, canada’s best collegiate-level curlers will align converge in Edmonton this spring, when rewards for attendance and dr. glenn feltham says when he started as NAIT hosts the 2013 Canadian Collegiate event reminders. The idea president and CEO in 2011, “I heard loud and Athletic Association (CCAA) Curling National and product came from Lyle clear that sustainability is important to our staff.” Championship. Mozak (Electronics Engineering As part of his response, the institute obtained It’s fitting the institute was selected as the Technology ’68), CEO of its first rating from the Sustainability Tracking site, says Linda Henderson, director of athletics Appsdeveloper.ca Inc., who Assessment and Rating System (STARS). STARS and recreation. The institute has a rich history in presented it as a marketing tool is a self-reporting tool for educational institutes the sport: the women’s curling team won bronze to increase the Ooks’ fan base. to measure economic, environmental and social at the 2012 CCAA championship, and world-class “As an alumnus, I thought, ‘Let’s performance. NAIT registered a bronze rating – curlers Kevin Martin and Adam Enright honed see how a mobile app can fix a benchmark, says Feltham, by which NAIT can their craft as NAIT students. that,’” he says. measure its progress. The four-day, round-robin tournament — Scott Messenger takes place March 20-23 at the nearby Avonair — S.M. Curling Club. It will feature eight men’s and eight women’s teams. — F.L.

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Finning Canada is proud to support the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. Congratulations on 50 years. TECHNOFILE

Stories By kristen vernon Photos by Status blaise van malsen Update

People, technology and innovation are at the heart of the stories Above, Nap Pepin in his homemade we feature in techlife. After 10 issues, we decided it was time electric vehicle. for an update on ideas, projects and business ventures we’ve covered over the years. Here’s where a few of them stand today. The EV The hawk has landed advantage From Batteries Included, Vol. 2.1 Range: 210 kilometres per charge if it’s above 6 c and not raining, what he could from the BugE, built since August 2011, spent last Equivalent fuel economy: Nap Pepin can be found commuting partly with a kit, and apply that to winter designing a sophisticated maximum 0.81 litres/100 to work in his almost entirely hand- a new EV built from the ground up. battery management system (he kilometres (348 miles/gallon) built, two-seater electric trike– The Hawk addresses many of the made more than 23,000 spot Top speed: described in a recent St. Albert BugE’s shortcomings. “It’s just a lot welds to link 1,976 cells) and 170 kilometres per hour, though Gazette article “as something out more robust,” says the Electronics is now refining the front-end Pepin has never travelled past of NASA or Blade Runner.” Engineering Technology grad suspension and adding power 115 (“It can be pretty scary trying Pepin started building the (class of ’85). It’s heavier, has a assist to the steering. to test [a hand-built] vehicle for $26,000-Lithium Hawk two years longer range, better suspension, As for whether there’s another higher speeds.”) ago, after making room in his is almost completely silent and EV in his future, Pepin isn’t sure. Acceleration: garage by donating his first electric will perform just as well on a low “All the manufacturers are coming 0 to 100 kilometres per hour in vehicle (EV) – the Lithium BugE – battery as when fully charged. out with electric vehicles,” he says. approximately six seconds to the Reynolds-Alberta Museum. Pepin, who has put more than “So unless I can do something His intention was to learn 5,000 kilometres on the Hawk unique or better – why?”

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Dollars for data Above, Since 2009, revenues for Davis McGregor’s Mobile From Firestarter, Vol. 3.2 Data Technologies have grown more than 50-fold. few entrepreneurs opt to keep needed a cash infusion to keep in 2009 to $5.8 million in 2012. Opposite, top, outsourcing bootstrapping when investors pace. Mobile Data Technologies With sales for the year closing elements of production has come to the table. Yet the four got the investment needed and in on $6 million, “We’re right on allowed Tanya and Ryan engineers behind Mobile Data moved into a 560-square-metre track,” he says. “We’re actually Clarke of Dr. Scientist Technologies, which designs (6,000-square-foot) shop in ahead of that curve.” Sounds to keep working from home and meet and sells sensor monitoring and Acheson, a few minutes west of Mobile Data Technologies has booming demand. recording units for the oil and Edmonton. The company also since expanded from Western Opposite, bottom, after a gas industry, decided that it started hiring, expanding from Canada into the United States, few hard years, Innovequity’s wasn’t the right time for external five employees to its current and sales south of the border will Mark Holtom (left) and investment – despite a successful 24. Today, the product line has be the company’s focus for the Ben Bertrand have leads pitch to the angel investors of grown considerably, and coming year. By 2015, McGregor for their automated the VentureAlberta Forum in demand has been so high that expects the focus to shift even homebuilding technology. early 2010. eager customers have bought further afield. In the meantime, Less than a year later, the prototypes for systems still the company’s engineers are however, it was a different story. in development. working on a prototype for a new In early 2010, Mobile Data As its 2011-12 fiscal year product – a prototype they had web extra Technologies was selling about closes, the company is exactly not intended to sell. Demand, Read the original stories and get updates on other previously three units a month. In August, where president and CEO Davis however, proved too great. “Once featured innovations by visiting it sold seven. In November, it McGregor predicted in his initial again, the customer stepped up techlifemag.ca/updates- sold 11 in a single day – and 16 pitch to the VentureAlberta and said this is what we need fall-2012.htm. that month. By late 2010, the investors. Back then, he forecast now,” McGregor says. former novaNAIT incubator client sales to grow from $114,000

18 techlifemag.ca Pedal power From Frazz Dazzler and the Sunny Day Delay, Vol. 1.2 when ryan and tanya clarke returned from their wedding in Tofino in the fall of 2009, the duo behind Dr. Scientist Sounds needed to find a way to up production of their boutique guitar effects pedals. After all, they were almost a year behind filling store orders. Ryan (Electronics Engineering Technology ’05), who engineers the pedals, now outsources the build of the circuit boards for two of their four pedals. Tanya (Graphic Sign Arts ’02), whose designs give the pedals their unique look, no longer applies finishes, but instead has her designs printed and applied by a company in the United States. As a result, they’ve largely eliminated the backlog (at most they’re a month behind these days). And they are able to produce more than twice as many pedals, shipping about 120 a month to 35 stores around the world. “We’re just in a lot better control of how it all goes down now,” Ryan says. The long-term goal is “to keep growing at a rate that we find comfortable,” Tanya says. After all, she adds, they do this for the lifestyle of working together at home.

Building equity From On the Brink of Big, Vol. 2.1

things haven’t gone as planned for Ben Bertrand and Mark Holtom. By now, they’d hoped to have revolutionized the construction industry with their Geometric Construction System (GCS), which can automatically build floors and walls, complete with wiring, plumbing and finishing coverings. “We would have loved to have been selling our machine a couple years ago,” says Holtom, CEO of Innovequity, a former novaNAIT incubator client. Building the $1.4-million prototype of the GCS was, at times, a frustratingly slow process. But in summer 2010 the machine built its first floor, complete with plumbing, electrical and HVAC lines. Since then, Bertrand, Innovequity’s chief technology officer and inventor of the GCS, has finished a beta prototype for building walls (minus insulation, a capability soon to follow). Without a first client, cash flow is currently the largest challenge; at times, it has the company struggling to keep its Drayton Valley factory open. But 2013 could be the year Innovequity’s fortunes change. The company hopes to break ground on two projects. One involves building rental office and sleeper trailers for industrial use. The other is a residential development tied to a major refinery project now underway. The GCS would be used to build a four-storey, 20-unit apartment block in Bon Accord, 30 kilometres north of Edmonton.

v6.1 2012 19 TECHNOFILE What wood have been From No Car, No Furnace, No Problem, Vol. 2.2

the home of Conrad Nobert and thought to build a net zero house the stove to test if the house Net electricity use over a 12-month Rechel Amores was designed in Edmonton,” he says. could reach net zero, they fell period for this home is between to be net zero, producing at Nobert and Amores short of their goal. Had they 1,600 and 2,600 kilowatt-hours least as much energy as it (Computer Systems Technology installed a geothermal system – (again, without burning wood, consumes over the course of a ’99) opted for baseboard heaters which can be accounted for on which can’t be counted by the year. Three years after the NAIT and a high-efficiency wood- the electricity meter – Nobert power meter). The average staffers moved their family of burning stove to shore up their has no doubt they’d have met Edmonton home, in contrast, uses four into the 200-square-metre insulation and passive solar their goal. “We learned that it’s 40,000 kilowatt-hours (with (2,200-square-foot) house, it heating. But because the energy possible, but we didn’t quite natural gas consumption converted has yet to reach that goal. But from burning wood can’t be make it,” he says. to its electric equivalent) over the it’s come close – and Nobert accounted for on the electricity The fact remains: the energy same period. wouldn’t change a thing. “I think meter, when they stopped using savings are remarkable. it’s probably harder than we

The Nobert-Amores family home didn’t qualify as net zero, but it still uses a fraction of the energy consumed by an average Edmonton house.

The zero effect

By incorporating the following features into their home, Conrad Nobert and Rechel Amores almost achieved net zero status:

• 40-centimetre walls filled with cellulose fibre insulation • large south-facing windows • interior concrete floors that absorb heat during the day and then release it during the evening • a six-kilowatt solar electric system fed by 32 photovoltaic modules • solar hot water

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INNOVATE from the ground

approving building plans, circa 1960

Fifty years ago, Alberta wondered how it Story By Don Trembath would keep pace with a booming economy. Photos archival Then NAIT came along.

main campus, circa 1966

1964 , circa 22 techlifemag.ca medical laboratory technology circa spring 1963. photo supplied by dr. Krishan Kamra

approving building plans, circa 1960 library , 1969

architectural technology , 1969

n 1962, bill riches was a 26-year-old communication of Technology and Art (now SAIT) in Calgary. Taking “NAIT was put electrician with Alberta Government Telephones advantage of a $400-million federal fund introduced I(AGT) in Edmonton. He knew the position well, to stimulate the development of such training in charge having come to it from a job at Canadian Telephone institutions, a team of visionaries led by NAIT’s first Supplies in Vancouver. So when he and his colleagues principal, Jack Mitchell, began the daunting task of inventing were sent to NAIT to begin an apprenticeship program of building a post-secondary institute from the for the job he was already doing, he was a bit miffed. ground up. a person Previously, the company had been conducting In 1962, after choosing 10.5 hectares (26 acres) a four-year apprenticeship program on its own for near Edmonton’s municipal airport as the site of the who had employees. “That’s what I thought I was doing,” he says. $16-million school, the group began assembling staff “I didn’t know what I had to go to school for.” to coordinate programming and schedules, and to not existed The change had actually been set in motion years find qualified instructors. One of the first hired was before.” earlier. In 1959, the Government of Alberta announced Dr. Krishan Kamra. As department head of Laboratory plans to build a new vocational training institute in Sciences, he could see the challenge ahead. “There was – dr. Krishan Kamra first director of Edmonton. The timing was perfect: the province’s tremendous pent-up demand from industry for Canada instruction prosperity was growing with the development and to create a new workforce,” he says. Particularly for export of its natural resources, Edmonton’s population northern Alberta, “NAIT was put in charge of inventing was on track to nearly double over the decade, and new a person who had not existed before.” construction was transforming the capital’s skyline Even defining technician proved to be a challenge. from brick walk-ups to the cosmopolitan look of a “At my job interview, [personnel officer] Bill Hobden city with a busy future in store. asked me, ‘What is a technician?’” says Kamra, who With this growth came soaring demands for was appointed NAIT’s first director of instruction in more technically educated workers than companies 1966. “I flubbed the answer. I didn’t know.” themselves could produce – a labour gap NAIT aimed The industries driving Alberta’s burgeoning to fill. At that point, the only two technical training economy knew what they were looking for, however. centres in Canada were the Ryerson Institute of Hospitals needed a proper training ground for their Technology in Toronto and the Provincial Institute medical laboratory technologists and dentists wanted

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“We gave the kids who came , 1969 medical x-ray technology here a future they didn’t have before.”

– Bob Busse retired instructor

“ I was the first student to ever attend NAIT. I lived on 124 Street. To take a bus around the entire airport would take one hour, if I caught all my connections. I didn’t want to be late my first day, so I called a cab. I arrived quite early. A photographer from the Edmonton Journal took my picture. That – Bill Riches Communication Electrician ’63 was my 15 minutes of fame right there.”

24 techlifemag.ca dental assisting, circa 1965

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someone other than themselves to train dental Western Canada and, by 1965, was already expanding technicians and dental mechanics (known today as to include the $2.5-million Tower Building. Early denturists). Communications companies AGT and EdTel projections of 10,000 students and 300 instructors demanded a local apprenticeship program. And industry before the end of the decade seemed realistic. leaders from fields such as engineering, building “This institute fulfills one of the greatest needs in our construction, banking, business communications and society,” said Premier Ernest Manning at NAIT’s official photography worked alongside NAIT’s administrators to opening. “There have been complaints that technology ensure classroom curriculum aligned with the needs of is taking away jobs. It is not technology [that causes the the workplace. problem], but the failure of society to keep pace with the training necessary to prepare young people to fulfill The challenge ultimately fell to the instructors, few useful functions.” of whom had formal training as teachers and little or no Then, as now, NAIT’s relevance to the economy put curriculum developed. But they did have knowledge and it at the top of Canada’s polytechnic institutes. “The experience that went far beyond words in a textbook. reason we were created has remained our raison d’être,” “We had exceptionally good instructors,” says Kamra. says current president and CEO Dr. Glenn Feltham. “We “Most of them were in their 30s, had supervisory or are providing skilled workers. We have been absolutely similar attributes, and were competitive in their fields.” true to ourselves.” And they were able to figure out the role as they went, Eventually, Bill Riches figured out for himself the he adds. “There was a lot of learning by doing.” value of NAIT. After graduating as a communication web extra Visit techlifemag.ca/NAIT- Bob Busse, an early instructor in the apprenticeship electrician, he worked in the field for eight years. program, sums up his classroom experience as 50th-anniversary-video.htm Later, he returned to NAIT – to become a baker. “It was or scan the QR code with your extremely rewarding. “We gave the kids who came here a good experience. Very good,” he says. “The difference mobile device to see more of the a future they didn’t have before.” for me was, before I went to NAIT, I knew how to do all story of NAIT’s development. Don’t have a QR code reader? Combining that teaching talent with state-of-the- the things for my job. After I went, I knew why. I knew See p. 7. art equipment, NAIT attracted students from across the theory.”

v6.1 2012 25 Congratulations to NAIT Investing on your 50th anniversary in education There are few investments more important today than with promoting the skills and a focus on abilities of our young math, science & technology people. At Imperial Oil, we sponsor a wide range of educational programs designed to spark Canadian students’ interest in science,

- one of the mathematics and ways we’re contributing technology – skills to Canada’s essential to our future country’s prosperity.

www.imperialoil.ca/giving INNOVATE A first time for everything Five decades have passed since we admitted our first students and began construction on our first buildings. More than 172,000 graduates later, we have celebrated many milestones on our journey to becoming one of the top polytechnics in the country. Here’s a look at 50 firsts – the people and the events – that together, tell the NAIT story. — Sherri Krastel

1962 1964

1 Building 5 Issue of the 8 mascot Mortar Trades, completed in April student newspaper, Chosen by the NAIT Students’ The Nugget Association. “We all need an Ookpik, Published Jan. 1 it will help you pass, it will make 2 class you happy, it will make you great,” 29 Communication Electrician declared The Nugget apprentices, including first student 6 Open House Bill Riches, registered and began 20,000 visitors attended 9 Yearbook training Oct. 1 from March 11-13 The Northern Torch published

7 NAIT Students’ Association (NAITSA) 10 Awards Day president Minister of Education R. H. McKinnon 1963 spoke on the need for higher William Miles, elected in April education at the Oct. 28 event 3 Full-time students The Technology Division offered 18 programs to 580 students and the Business and Vocational Division offered six courses to 498 students (the Apprenticeship Division, meanwhile, 1965 1966 offered 19 trades programs to 2,506 students and four pre-employment 11 Convocation 12 Provincial courses to 49 students) Honoured 326 graduates of diploma championship and certificate programs Won by the badminton team 4 Full-time tuition Started at $40 for one year (Student Association fee: $17) llustration by jennifer lubrin by I llustration

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13 Plastics 17 Continuing COurse Education spring/ Introduction of this summer session manufacturing-focused course calendar was unique to North America. Featured more than 35 courses Last offered in 2003-04

14 Respiratory Therapy program Based at an educational institute in Canada 1980 The program was accredited in 1969, 18 Athletes of the Year allowing the graduates (then called 1987 Inhalation Therapists) to challenge Curler Steve Pelech and the national certification exams runner Julie McDonald 21 NAIT Foundation fundraiser A Corvette was raffled off

22 Alumni magazine 1968 1982 Alumnait, first published as a two-page newsletter 15 Shinerama 19 national NAIT students have since raised championship more than $530,000 for the Won by the men’s hockey team cystic fibrosis fundraiser 1988 1985 23 Homecoming 1970 Themed “Achieving 20 Distinguished Friend Together.” Held May 28 16 President of the Institute William A. B. Saunders (he held Dolliver Frederick (Business 24 Time capsule the title of principal from 1962-70; Administration ’65), a member Jack Mitchell was the first principal Placed in the wall of the student of the first full-time graduating of the proposed Edmonton vocational lounge, The Nest, at its official opening class and the first alumnus school, appointed in January 1960) (the time capsule is scheduled to be to speak at Convocation opened on May 28, 2013)

28 techlifemag.ca 1989

25 fantasy cruise 26 NR92 Broadcast 27 Capital fundraising fundraiser Went on air at 8 a.m. campaign The SS Benefit NAIT sailed to Jamaica on Oct. 23 and could be Partners for Tomorrow on Feb. 24, starting a tradition that heard in the main lobby, raised $5.4 million continued for 20 more years hairstyling, pool and arena

1994 1997 2000

28 World Culinary 32 Alumni Award 35 personal $1-million Cup gold medals of Distinction donation Culinary students participated Guy Turcotte (Gas Technology ’72) Gifted by Duncan and Verda McNeill on Team Alberta

1995 1999 2002 33 Honorary diplomas 3 6 animal blood bank 29 Voice mail Henry Gusse, founder and chairman Established by the NAIT Animal Added to all phones on Main Campus of the Edmonton Exchanger Group of Health Technology program, (at the time, only 30 per cent of Companies, and Madeleine Mercier, it remains the only animal blood callers were successful in reaching chartered financial planner bank that makes canine the desired party on the first attempt) blood products available across Canada Instructional 34 Excellence Awards Given to David Burry, Biomedical Engineering Technology; Everett 1996 Hale, Sheet Metal/Aircraft Skin and Structure Repair; Angela Bork, 30 applied degree Biological Sciences; and Joe Acker, 2005 EMT-Paramedic Offered in collaboration with SAIT; two years later, 26 NAIT students 3 7 Alumni Council graduated with a Bachelor of Applied president Information Systems Technology Wayne Land (Business Administration – Management ’70) 31 Public lecture in the newly opened Shaw Theatre Delivered by journalist David Frum

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38 baccalaureate 44 Hokanson Chef 45 entrepreneur degree in Residence in residence Bachelor of Technology in Celebrity chef Rob Feenie (In addition VentureAlberta Forum Technology Management to Feenie, top chefs David Adjey, president Randy Thompson Susur Lee and Massimo Capra have since spent three to five days mentoring 39 techlife magazine students and engaging with the local Published in October culinary community at NAIT’s Hokanson Centre for Culinary Arts)

2008 2010 2012

40 Full-time coaches 46 Nanotechnology 49 Polytechnics The six coaches hired were Systems diploma Canada member to a first in the Canadian Collegiate A Canadian first get a rating from Athletic Association the Sustainability Tracking Assessment 41 Tweet & Rating System (STARS) On Jan. 19: “Getting ready for Info Week (Feb. 4-7, 2008) 2011 NAIT received a bronze from STARS, www.nait.ca/infoweek.htm” a self-reporting tool that allows educational institutes to measure 47 Applied their performance within the three 42 Facebook post Research chair pillars of sustainability: economic, environmental and social On Feb. 19: “Support ecoNAIT Dr. Haneef Mian named Ledcor http://www.facebook.com/group. Group Applied Research Chair in Oil php?gid=6612490807 Sands Environmental Sustainability. 50 Season in which http://www.nait.ca/econait” Chairs in the JR Shaw School of Business and the Encana Centre each Ooks team made for Power Engineering Technology provincial playoffs 43 Business followed, giving NAIT the most That led to these national medals: incubator applied research chairs of any gold in men’s soccer, silver in Canadian college or polytechnic NovaNAIT, NAIT’s centre for women’s soccer, bronze in women’s applied research and technology curling and two golds in badminton transfer, established to foster 48 Presidential applied research and provide installation budding entrepreneurs office space, expert advice and support services Held May 5, when Dr. Glenn Feltham was installed as NAIT’s sixth president

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Health Care wireless Communications In 20 years, health care will be much more personalized. Prevention and In terms of wireless communication systems, consumers are driving treatment of disease will be customized to align with a person’s DNA. this industry. And it’s more than just personal communications and The current focus on chronic illness will shift to prevention. Technology smartphones. Oil and gas, business and health care all use wireless will make diagnosis, treatment and personal health tracking much more systems to transmit voice, video and data in countless applications. sophisticated. Rather than blasting a person with chemo, we will target Since demand is ever increasing, the future will focus on overcoming the only the cancer cells. You will be able to get replacement body parts challenge of limited bandwidth and vast geographical coverage areas. beyond a hip or a knee – toes, for example. In 50 years, people will live There will always be applications better served by wired and optical 20 years longer. We’ll be healthier. technologies, but, even now, our kids will use wired technology only Ellen Hughes when absolutely necessary. Dean, School of Health Sciences Colin Polanski (Communication Electrician ’87) Associate Chair, Wireless Systems Engineering Technology

NAIT Campus Oil Sands In 50 years, we will be twice as large: one dynamic, pedestrian-friendly There is currently no cost-effective technology to deal with tailings. campus interlinked with a vibrant community of 30,000 located on Over the next five to 10 years, we’ll see full commercialization of the former City Centre Airport. NAIT retail services – meat store, that. Once we create reclaimable deposits, we’ll be hit with another bakery, Ernest’s Dining Room – will be showcased at the front of this challenge: dealing with the water, which contains pollutants. Technology community. The next 10 to 15 years will bring new residences, academic for that will follow. The next stage will come as some of the mines close buildings and a wellness centre. We will continue to minimize energy in 30 to 50 years. In some cases, the intent is to fill the pits with water used in our heating and cooling systems and increase water and waste to create lake ecosystems. So you’re going from tailings to water to recycling. In the short term, the arrival of the LRT on campus in 2014 reclamation. They go hand in hand. is a game changer. Dr. Haneef Mian John Engleder Ledcor Group Applied Research Chair in Oil Sands Associate Vice President, Capital Projects and Facilities Operations Environmental Sustainability THE FUTURISTS As much as it’s an opportunity to celebrate how far we’ve come, an anniversary is the perfect time to imagine where we’re headed. What will the world look like five, 10, 50 years out? We asked staff and alumni to tell us what they see in the cards.

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Photo by leigh frey with you iswhatwe’re headedtowards. like asking Sirito dothingsonaniPhone.Having computers interact example, like onaniPad. From there itgoes to theall-voice command– of thatisthenatural-user interface: dragging withyour fingers, for there’s software –click thisandsomethinghappens.The evolution To get acomputer to doanything, you once hadto know codes. Now personal C Instructor, Automotive Service Ron Lavigne emissions. expect to seeextended range for fullyelectricvehicles withzero mapping systems andheads-updisplays. Asfor propulsion systems, We’ll seeadvances inautomated parkingtechnologies, voice command, helping drivers keep theirhandsonthewheelandeyes ontheroad. The focus willbeonadvancing thetechnology –allwiththegoal of Most ofwhatwe’ll seeinthenext five years isalready onthemarket. A Instructor, Culinary Arts Blair Lebsack (Cook ’98) 50 years, we willhave eliminated food waste. using ediblecutleryandtableware –your glass could bemadeofice. In genetically modifiedfoods. Restaurants willbecome more sustainable, will declineaswe get backto organics andwholegrains andeschew of food, includingplantingseedsandbutchering meat.Dietaryissues Culinary studentswillbecome more familiar withtheentire lifecycle homes andschoolswillbecome standard, aswillrooftop gardens. People willbecome more self-sustaining. Greenhouses attachedto F ood Production utomobiles omputing Technician Steve Chattargoon Chair, DigitalMediaandIT going to progress more dramatically. more ofthesekindshomesasanoption.Andfrom there thingsare that towards 10years, we’re going to seeanew buyer whowilldemand said, thegeneration coming outofuniversity isallinto this.Myfeeling is change, butto seeareal inthemarket mindsetshift takes awhile. That there’s now more publicawareness ofenvironmental issues andclimate Building highenergy-efficient homesisstillinitsinfancy. Obviously Homebuilding Provost andVice President Academic Dr. Paula Burns have thequalificationsto dothejob. required, placingtheonusoncareer-hunters to demonstrate thatthey contributing to society. Intheirplace, employers willlay outtheskills credentials willbeseenasnothingmore barriers thanartificial to fully institutions willbeseamlessly integrated withworkplaces and help themconnect withcareers andgrowth Educational opportunities. learning withexperience. to StudentswillchooseNAITasapartner In 50years, studentswilldesigntheirown education by mixingformal Education Chair, Alternative EnergyTechnology Dr. JimSandercock quite significant. power. Probably withinadecade,thesehybridizations willbecome in asensibleway, suchasusingone system to supply bothheatand economics andthegains canberealized by hybridizing technologies systems. We’ve beenlookingatindividualsystems, butalotofthe And thisisprobably thenext bigachievement for alternative energy We’re to seeintegrated starting systems really emerge intheindustry. Al Managing Partner, Effect Home Dale Rott (Carpenter ’96) Associate Chair, BachelorofAppliedBusiness –Finance Hardeep Gill continue to work 65. after not justtalkaboutfinancialassets, butwillbeacareer adviseraspeople will bemuchmore holisticthanitisnow. The adviserofthefuture will focused onproduct salesandmore focused onprocess andadvice. It at thesamelevel asaccountancy. Itwillrequire advisers to beless Thirty years from now, financialplanningwillbeseenasaprofession Financial Planning ternative Energy Builders energy-future.htm V Web Extra energy technologies. future ofavariety ofalternative Sandercock’s predictions aboutthe isit techlifemag.ca/alternative-

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Photo by leigh frey INNOVATE NAITology Test your knowledge of NAIT with our quiz. If you get stumped, just flip through the magazine – all the answers are in these pages. Then tally your score, counting a point for every correct answer. If you place low on the scale, don’t despair – every good Ook started out as an egg.

Questions: Scoring: 1. What was our first apprenticeship program? 2. In what school year did the men’s hockey team complete a perfect season? 3. What is the name of our current president? 4. What year did we hold our first convocation? 5. What was the name of our old yearbook? 0 – 5 correct answers 6. Which NAIT Students’ Association president received our original Ookpik Egg mascot from the federal government in 1964? 7. What is our on-campus bar called? 8. Who coached renowned curler Kevin Martin at NAIT and continues to do so? 9. In what year was the first issue of techlife magazine published? 10. What is the name of our first baccalaureate degree?

11. What is our student newspaper called? 6 – 10 correct answers Hatchling 12. What year did NR92, our radio station, start broadcasting? 13. How much was NAIT’s first full-time tuition in 1963? 14. In what sport did we win our first provincial championship in 1966? 15. Who was our very first student? 16. How much did it cost to build NAIT? 17. Which premier officially opened NAIT?

18. Which school kidnapped our Ookpik mascot in 1966? 11 – 15 correct answers Fledgling 19. What was the name of our old alumni magazine?

20. What is the name of our on-campus fine dining restaurant?

Nest The 7. $40 at Started 13. Ernest’s 20.

Miles William 6. 1989 12. Alumnait 19.

The Northern Torch Northern The 5. The Nugget The 11. SAIT 18.

1965 4. Management Technology Manning Ernest 17.

Feltham Glenn Dr. 3. in Technology of Bachelor 10. million $16 16.

1984-85 2. 2007 9. Riches Bill 15.

Electrician Communication 1. Owchar Jules 8. Badminton

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Founded in 1947, the Ledcor Group of Companies is diversiﬁ ed, privately held, employee-owned collection of construction companies, specializing in building, civil, infrastructure, industrial and telecommunication projects.

Ledcor is proud to be in partnership with the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. Through the Ledcor Group Applied Research Chair in Oil Sands Environmental Sustainability as well as numerous student scholarships, Ledcor continues to see the value in NAIT’s programs and services that meet the needs of the market.

Congratulations to NAIT on your 50th Anniversary!

Photos by Victor Gillman The 1970s Shirley Long Blaise van malsen and 39 45 nait staff photographers 39 James McPherson 42 Fred Atiq 46 Holger Petersen 39 Jack Menduk 42 Gil Cardinal 46 Brian Straub CONTENTS 40 Bob Morgan 43 Nolan Crouse 47 Guy Turcotte The 1960s 40 Ray Rajotte 43 Roger Dootson The 1980s 38 Bernie Fedderly 41 Archie Roberts 44 David Dorward 48 James Ahnassay 38 Clifford Giese 41 Stewart Roth 44 Marleen Irwin 49 Naseem Bashir 45 Andrew Lee

36 techlifemag.ca It’s almost impossible to go a day without encountering the achievements of NAIT grads. They’re mainstays on TV and radio, and cultural mavens and tastemakers. They’re captains of industry, and government and community leaders. They’re winning Olympic medals and setting sporting records, and making breakthroughs in science and medicine. They’re leading-edge designers at work in your neighbourhood – if, in fact, they didn’t actually build your neighbourhood. And, overall, their contributions are too numerous to mention. Here, we celebrate 50, chosen for the difference they make in our communities, and for inspiring future generations of alumni to do the same.

49CONTENTS Carol Blake 5240 BobMark Morgan McNeill The 1990s The43 Nolan2000s Crouse 40 Ray Rajotte 43 Roger Dootson The49 Dave1960s Buchaski 53 Mark Ohe 56 Michael Anderson 60 Stephani Carter 50 James Cumming 5341 GeorgeArchie Roberts Rogers 56 Mark Hamblin 6044 DavidDon Oborowsky Dorward 38 Bernie Fedderly 50 Kees Cusveller 5441 TraceyStewart Scarlett Roth 57 Andrew Hore 6144 MarleenJules Owchar Irwin 38 Clifford Giese 51 Randy Eresman 54 Julie M. Shaw 57 Chris Kourouniotis 6145 AndrewJavier Salazar Lee 39 Victor Gillman The 1970s 51 Greg Korbutt 55 Bruce Woloshyn 58 Ashif Mawji 6145 ShirleyMarlon LWilsono 39 James McPherson 42 Fred Atiq 51 Kevin Martin 55 Sandy Yakimchuk 58 Corbin Tomaszeski 39 Jack Menduk 42 Gil Cardinal 52 Daryl McIntyre 55 Daniel Wai Yuk Yeung 58 Dean Turgeon

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Last year, we put out a call for NAIT grads or How we retirees who have made significant contributions in the categories of service, leadership, innovation and role model. We received 162 chose nominations. A committee representing alumni, retired staff, instructors, students and NAIT’s the Top departments of Advancement and Marketing 1960s and Communications then had the tough job of whittling the list down to 50.

web extra Visit www.nait.ca/nait-50th-anniversary- videos or scan the QR code for 50th anniversary videos, including top 50 alumni Ray Rajotte, Daryl McIntyre and Kevin Martin. Need a QR code reader? See p. 7.

With his dad, he opened the first Mr. Lube in 1976 and, within a decade, there were 47 stores across Canada. In 1987, the chain expanded into the United States after Giese secured a partnership with oil giant Exxon. In business, Giese explains, you must take calculated risks, and be prepared to lose. “To me, the thrill is to play the game.” Sometimes, the stakes are Clifford Giese higher, as when Giese’s wife, Robin Bernie Fedderly hoto by brandon baker by p hoto (Secretarial Technology ’68), was Marketing ‘68 stricken with multiple sclerosis. Motor Mechanics ’67 worked his way to the big clifford giese was a young When her health stabilized after she compared to most people leagues, where he helped turn Edmonton stockbroker when he started taking an experimental drug who find themselves spinning John Force Racing into one of took his dad for lunch and dreamed being developed at the University their wheels, veteran crew the most successful teams in up an idea that spawned an of Alberta, Giese founded BioMS chief Bernie Fedderly made National Hot Rod Association industry. Medical (now called Medwell his name doing just that. history. Now 70, Fedderly is The elder Giese had taken his Capital Corp.). He and his team For more than four decades, considering retirement. Slowing car for an oil change that morning raised $270 million and took the the Canadian Motorsport down, however, may not be and at lunchtime, it still wasn’t drug as far as a worldwide trial. The Hall of Famer has set lofty easy. These 8,000-horsepower ready. The minor annoyance stuck results weren’t good enough to standards in the art of motor cars – and the sights, sounds, with Giese, in particular because bring the drug to market, but Giese maintenance – and a few even smells of the race track – self-serve gas stations were arriving continues to dedicate his life to records on the pro hot rod still fascinate him. “I’m in awe on the scene – a shift he figured finding a better treatment for MS. circuit. After honing his skills of them,” he says, “even after would spell the demise of the full Though essentially retired, he’ll on tracks around Alberta, the all this time.” service garage. still give a tempting opportunity one-time milk truck mechanic So how about a new kind of — Scott Messenger his signature 360-degree look. “It’s place, he thought, with oil changes better to have played and lost than web extra while you wait? never to have played at all.” Visit techlifemag.ca/bernie-fedderly.htm to see what it takes to be a crew chief on the professional — Eliza Barlow auto racing circuit.

38 techlifemag.ca Victor Gillman

Biological Sciences Technology ’69 and contributed expertise in the Alumni Award of Distinction ’06 area of fisheries management. fuelled by a lifelong passion “Twenty-eight years later, this is for conservation, Victor Gillman still one of the most successful helped make Canadian history land claim structures in Canada.” in the 1980s when he was He notes the agreement has part of a team that negotiated functioned with little to no and implemented the first litigation, unlike a lot of other land comprehensive land claim north of claims, and the parties involved the 60th parallel. Signed in 1984, continue to operate with a sense the Inuvialuit Final Agreement of commonality and trust. protects the rights of the Inuvialuit, Gillman spent nearly four while protecting and preserving decades in fish and wildlife local wildlife in an area of the management, retiring in 2006 as high western Arctic that includes a DFO regional director. Today, parts of Northwest Territories and he still dedicates much of his Yukon. time to conservation in the North Jack Menduk “There were no other examples as chairman of a co-operative to work from. We were on new committee that helps to manage Architectural Technology ’66 ground,” says Gillman, who was the Inuvialuit Final Agreement. nait’s centre for sustainable energy technology, opened in 2011, working for the Department of — Frank Landry features banks of tall windows and high ceilings. That sense of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) openness mirrors the design principles of Jack Menduk, the retired associate vice president of NAIT Capital Projects and Facilities Operations, who led the project to build the state-of-the-art facility. A strong belief in open communication and fairness lies at the root of Menduk’s successful 25-year career. From small renovations to new building developments, he ensured everyone affected remained part of discussions from planning to completion. “I always tried to see everything through their eyes,” he says. That extended to industry partners, too: “We wanted to be the owner of choice for contractors and consultants.” Looking back, those relationships are a point of pride for Menduk; they enabled him James McPherson and his team to repeatedly deliver on time and on budget. What’s more, they allowed him to highlight NAIT’s strengths, Distributive Technology ’69 that remains with McPherson. All project by project. Menduk’s ability to communicate his vision and back in 1968, james mcpherson told, 114 NAIT students raised have others share it has influenced everything from his first project had no idea the fundraiser he $2,503.39 in the first Shinerama. renovating NAIT’s Distribution Centre to the plans for the proposed helped organize would go on to That experience – coupled Centre for Applied Technologies. “We took out the brick walls raise more than $530,000. Forty- with the values instilled by his and put in glass,” he says. “We opened up the spaces, brightened four years after NAIT joined the parents – helped set McPherson them to celebrate the teaching spaces – celebrate what NAIT annual national Cystic Fibrosis on a lifelong path of giving back, was all about.” Canada fundraiser, Shinerama is whether volunteering with the Next time you’re at NAIT, take a close look at the imprint still going strong. “That’s incredible,” Special Olympics, United Way or Menduk left on the school where his post-secondary education says McPherson, who forged a a number of other organizations. began. The quality of the facilities proves that strong relationships successful insurance career, with a It was for this type of work lead to great spaces. hiatus from 1982 to 1986 to serve that McPherson was named Red — Heather Gray as the MLA for Red Deer. Shining Deer Citizen of the Year for 2012. shoes – lots of them – is a memory — F.L. v6.1 2012 39 PEOPLE • Cover story

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Baker ’66 level provincial and national apprentice bakers across competitions. “The biggest Canada have Bob Morgan impact was for the person Ray Rajotte to thank, at least in part, for [competing] to realize he had Medical X-Ray Technology ’65 helping to define the skill sets become the best of the best,” Issues may remain, but Alumni Award of Excellence ’01 they should possess. says Morgan. Rajotte is optimistic. He and An instructor in NAIT’s Morgan was also part of islet cells play a vital role in his colleagues have made many Baker program from 1969 to a group of instructors and regulating blood sugars. Should promising advances to ensure 2000, Morgan participated industry leaders who crafted the they fail, the result is Type 1 the long-term success of the in establishing Skills Canada questions posed to bakers taking diabetes. Luckily, for the roughly Edmonton Protocol, including Alberta and the Red Seal exam the Red Seal exam, which is the one million Canadians living improved anti-rejection drugs. for apprentice bakers, both of inter-provincial standards exam with this disease, Dr. Ray Rajotte Success, however, also relies on which encourage excellence in that confirms journeymen have has spent more than 40 years a large supply of islet cells, which the baking trade. “To encourage achieved a nationally recognized investigating a treatment. the team hopes to make available the trades also encourages the level of competency. Prior to An Alberta Order of through the development of growth of our country,” says the establishment of this exam, Excellence recipient for his work, genetically designed pigs that Morgan. “Canada was built by there weren’t national standards. Rajotte established the group produce islets compatible with tradespeople.” Essentially, it was up to industry– that performed Canada’s first humans. As a volunteer in the early the individual bakeries – to islet cell transplant in 1989 – Rajotte’s commitment is days of Skills Canada – the decide whether to recognize a leading to the Edmonton Protocol. clear: “An islet can perform this not-for-profit organization journeyman ticket, Morgan says. This procedure allows 100 per vast function of regulating the that promotes careers in Today, a Red Seal endorsement cent of transplant recipients to blood sugars that sustain life; this the skilled trades – Morgan qualifies a journeyman to seek become insulin independent for is miraculous and fundamental to helped develop the high- work in other provinces. varying periods of time. the survival of so many people.” — Frank Landry — Sandy Robertson

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over the past five decades. We share your Greg’s son Kyle has spent a couple of summers stories throughout this feature. on grounds maintenance. My second son, Doug, enrolled in Chemical Technology (class of ’80) and I joined NAIT in July 1962 as head of Drafting finally there was Bruce, who was employed at NAIT Technology (later Engineering Design and for a number of months before enrolling in Computer Drafting Technology) and remained in that Systems Technology (class of ’88). When you position for almost my entire career, which ended consider that Doug’s wife, Janette, also spent four in June 1986. My son Greg attended Architectural years at NAIT, first in med lab technology and later “Technology (class of ’78). He joined NAIT in in computer systems, I think that the Appelts have December of the same year and left NAIT in 2011. had a considerable connection with NAIT. Between Greg and me, we covered 49 of NAIT’s 50 years. Too bad he retired last year! – Felix Appelt, hired 1962 – retired 1986 as Head of Engineering Design and Drafting Technology

40 techlifemag.ca They had a ceremony when they opened the institute. Premier Manning came down. It was conducted in the heavy duty shop. They set a platform right in the middle of A101. “In the heavy duty shop, there’s a great big transverse crane. It’ll pick up diesel engines. So to be rather dramatic, they brought this crane over to the centre of the stage and they had a big velvet curtain or a canopy rigged up over this thing. I can remember the premier pushed the button and it lifted the curtain and all the dignitaries were there.

– Graham Johnson, Dean of the Industrial Division (1962–96), on the institute’s official opening on May 27, 1963

Stewart ROTH

Chemical Technology ’69 Alumni Award of Distinction ’01

as president and ceo of guardian chemicals, Stewart Roth is an advocate and supporter of responsible economic development in Alberta. In the 30 years since he teamed up with fellow alum Wilf Nikolaj (Accounting ’80) to become shareholders and eventually purchase Guardian, the company has grown into one of the nation’s largest specialty chemical suppliers. Guardian products are proprietary industrial process chemicals used in a variety of settings: mining, pulp and paper mills, transportation, oil and gas, water Archie roberts treatment, printing, firefighting and more. By focusing on continuous improvement through research Architectural Technology ’69 and development, the company has moved to the front end of the Distinguished Friend of the Ledcor Industries. Later reviving Institute ’96 innovation curve – and into international markets. As a result, Roth the Intex name, Roberts launched Board of Directors 1991-94 heads a growing crop of chemical companies spanning the United a construction management States, Egypt, Ecuador, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and a leadership coach with a consulting practice that merged China. A few, such as the U.S. oil and gas supplier Sierra Chemicals, passion for building things, Archie in 2006 with Pivotal Projects have been sold to local managers. “We practice intrapreneurship,” Roberts is paying forward the Inc., gaining national reach. Still Roth says. “The ideas and technology come from within our mentorship that began in his actively guiding up-and-comers company, but we encourage employees to take it to the next level grandfather’s workshop and through the World President’s and become involved financially.” continued with his first boss in Organization, in his own family Roth also puts energy into growing community, whether the the construction industry. Proving and at Pivotal as a senior adviser, subject is education or ingenuity. Believing that success in business, a quick study, Roberts launched Roberts’ passion for building as in community, depends on quality people, Guardian funds Intex Construction in 1983, which clearly extends to people as well. scholarships at NAIT and the University of Alberta, expanding the thrived through the recession, “It keeps me young, vital, thinking,” talent needed to continue diversifying Alberta’s economy. earned him a nod as Edmonton’s he says. — C.M. Small Businessman of the Year in — Cheryl Mahaffy 1985, and was eventually sold to

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when film director gil cardinal started out, an aboriginal making films about the aboriginal community was relatively rare. Now, after 30 years in television and film, the award-winning director of Métis descent is a role model in the field. Cardinal made films on various topics in his early career, but a project about children and child welfare began to focus his attention on telling aboriginal stories. “Before I asked anyone else to bare their soul, I thought I should do that myself,” he says. The

1970s result was Foster Child, his story of the search for his birth family. Today, Cardinal continues to create aboriginal programming, most recently as a writer on APTN’s Blackstone, a dramatic series set on a fictional reserve. — Kim MacDonald

FRED Atiq

Mechanical Engineering Technology ’72 Alumni Award of Honour ’06 Fiberex Glass in Leduc, stands having added three among Canada’s top 100 fastest successful enterprises to growing companies despite Alberta’s manufacturing serious competition from the industry, Fred Atiq is fortifying likes of Owens Corning USA, a the sector through Next major concern in the field of Equities, a fund to boost extruded fibreglass. Still serving fledgling companies. Since as Fiberex president and CEO, arriving from India as a teen Atiq takes pleasure in putting and training at NAIT, Atiq the family’s hard-earned cash has brought to the province to work through Next Equities. vinyl window and extruded “If I can put one guy into vinyl product manufacturing business a year,” he says, gil Cardinal through two companies “I’m a happy man.” (since sold and still going Radio and Television Arts ’71 — Cheryl Mahaffy strong). His third venture, Honorary Diploma ’00

During my first year of Civil Tech, I helped set for that trophy. We made a plywood model that up the display for Open House and thought that showed how a curved roadway was built. We even our display was very mundane and ordinary. added a landscape ‘architect’ component by using Our ‘rivals’ were Architectural Technology and, green floor sweeping compound granules for the of course, they had some very artistic and nice landscaping of the finished roadway. I used my “looking models, so they won the Open House calligraphy skills to produce a scroll titled The Role trophy for best display for the third year in a row. of a Civil Technologist. Needless to say, we won In my second year, I decided that I would and the Architectural Technology students were organize the Open House display and compete disappointed. – Henry Vanderpyl, Civil Technology ’72

42 techlifemag.ca One of our very first memories was watching the 1972 Canada-Russia hockey series. We skipped classes to see Canada win the final game. I still remember jumping up and down “in our living room hugging each other as Paul Henderson scored that memorable goal.

– Ed Toupin, Electronics Engineering Technology ’73

Nolan Crouse

Chemical Technology ’73 love of community service, he nolan crouse, st. albert’s decided to take another chance second-term mayor, owes much of on a learning curve. “I didn’t have his success to a healthy appetite any knowledge of politics per se,” for knowledge and risk. Take his Crouse admits, but he had what transition to the big city and NAIT he needed. “You end up using all as a 17-year-old farm boy looking the skills you have but … in an for life skills and a technical entirely different realm.” Today, he sees the job as a way to make education. “I knew nothing about p in ed tou su pp lied by Photo anything,” he says, but eventually a positive impact – and, judging From left, Ed Toupin (Electronics Engineering Technology), Nolan an MBA followed his diploma, by his experience, as achievable Crouse (Chemical Technology) and Laren Giacomuzzi (Electronics as well as a lengthy career, split for others. “People who want to Engineering Technology) in June 2012. All graduates from 1973, between industrial management, contribute in a broader sense can they trace their 40-year friendship to campus and the year they entrepreneurship and coaching get involved, make change and roomed together in an apartment on 109 Street and 107 Avenue. hockey. But when politics occurred build their community.” to him as a way to build on his — Scott Messenger

He graduated from NAIT and eventually joined PCL, where he became a respected executive and leader on many high-profile projects, including the southeast leg of the Anthony Henday and the terminal expansion at the Edmonton International Airport. “I just love being part of building things,” he says. “To go back and see the finished product, even years later, is very satisfying.” Dootson is a builder not just of buildings, but of the construction industry itself, having served on several boards to advocate for the industry, such as the Merit Contractors Association and the Alberta and Canadian construction associations. During Alberta’s last boom, which hit as baby boomers began to retire, Dootson foresaw a potential leadership vacuum at PCL just when good leaders would be crucial. In response, he led teams to roger dootson Germany and the United Kingdom to recruit seasoned construction managers “to help us through the high tide.” Everyone hired on those Carpentry ’77 recruiting trips remains in Alberta today, he says. Alumni Award of Distinction ’08 Dootson retired from PCL last year and now devotes much in 1971, a 17-year-old farm boy from Irma, Alta., got his first big-city of his time to his Roger Dootson Charitable Foundation, helping construction job loading concrete blocks onto a scaffold and making young Albertans follow their dreams of a career in the trades and sure the bricklayers had enough mortar. His name was Roger Dootson, professions. It’s just his way of making sure tomorrow’s bricklayers and the small but vital role on the site of the Dominion Bottling have enough mortar. warehouse in Edmonton’s west end had him instantly hooked. — Eliza Barlow

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Patricia Campus might not have been part of the institute for long if it hadn’t been for Thomas Harding. The stock keeper showed up to work his usual half-hour before everyone else, when he smelled acetylene – a gas used in welding – coming from the autobody shop. He slowly

1970s opened the door to the shop, careful not to make any sparks. “The sparks would have blown the place up,” says Harding, who worked at NAIT from 1962 to 1994. He aired out the shop and was eventually able to find the acetylene tank that hadn’t been turned off. The gas and the risk were mitigated before staff and students arrived.

david Dorward

Accounting ’73 by his own admission, david dorward wasn’t made for basketball – not as a player, anyway. A tad short at the end of high school but still drawn to the game, he took to refereeing instead. Given where that led, however, perhaps that slight remove allowed him to better see the impact the game can have on players’ lives. During that time and the years following as a coach, Dorward saw basketball as a way to reach less-privileged young people. “I used the game to encourage kids to stay in school and do well,” he says, “and hopefully make the next team as they go through life.” To that end, he boosted access to the sport by founding the Saville Community Sports Centre (Go Centre). The multi-function south Edmonton facility features as many as 12 hardwood courts and is home to local heroes kids might emulate: the players of the International Basketball League’s Edmonton Energy. Recently, Dorward has had to step back from his beloved game. Elected April 23, he’s now in his first term as MLA for Marleen irwin Edmonton-Gold Bar, a neighbourhood he has lived in for more Respiratory Therapy ’75 A clinical researcher with the than half a century. Unlike point guard, politician is a position University of Alberta’s Heart for which he’s perfectly suited. From building his chartered there’s nothing half-hearted Failure Etiology and Analysis accountancy firm, he’s got a solid understanding of complex about Marleen Irwin’s career as a Research Team, which is seeking finances. He’s energetic to the point of making social activism certified cardiac device specialist. improved heart disease therapies, look like athleticism. Most importantly, he feels as personally Her contributions to combatting she has earned accolades and invested in the role as he did courtside. “To be able to serve the heart disease, one of Canada’s awards for raising the bar in people in the area you grew up in is a real thrill,” he says. leading causes of death, include research, clinical care, teaching whittling the in-hospital stay for — Scott Messenger and management. For her, every pacemaker surgery from seven day is an opportunity to improve web extra days to day surgery and bringing patient care, and she predicts that Visit techlifemag.ca/edmonton-energy.htm to read in a crucial competency exam in more about David Dorward’s passion for basketball. will never change. cardiac pacing for allied health- care professionals and physicians. — Cheryl Mahaffy

44 techlifemag.ca andrew lee

Survey Technology ’73

in 1970, a young andrew lee importance of hard work – a came to Canada from Hong Kong value he applied to starting Amar with $500 and a desire to study Surveys with his wife in 1982. Now, and look for new opportunities. Lee is transferring the company to Soon after, he enrolled in the his son, giving him an advantage Survey Technology program. To he never had. “I won’t tell anyone get through, Lee shared a cramped ‘If I can do it, you can do it’,” says room in a bad part of town Lee. “It’s hard work with some luck and, when not studying, waited involved, and you just have to tables and washed dishes. But keep going.” the experience taught him the — Fiona Bensler

Bread, amongst other goodies, was sold to Shirley long

customers in the bakery sales area to recover Medical X-Ray Technology ’71 part of the cost of instruction. It so happened Alumni Award of Distinction ’02 that flour prices took a hike in the mid-’70s. The while helping train students in their clinical practicum, Shirley Long discovered that, while radiologists and physicians had texts bakery program head went to the front office “ explaining how to use mammogram images for diagnosis, there to ask to increase the price of a loaf of bread. was nothing about how to get those images in the first place. “If you Bread at NAIT was 10 cents. We needed to don’t have the right pictures or the right kind of pictures, the doctors can’t diagnose,” she says. increase the cost to 12 or 13 cents to bring us To fill the gap, she created the Handbook of Mammography (now near the break-even point. The answer came in its fifth edition), the first textbook specifically for technologists. Combined with high-quality digital imaging, the positioning skills back from the vice president: there would be no outlined in the handbook enable technologists to show minute increase because students and staff needed a changes in breast tissue years before they can be felt. “That’s such a wonderful place to be: that you’ve caught it so early that the woman break wherever they could find one. has a 95 per cent chance of 20-year survival,” says Long. – Bob Morgan, Baker ’66; hired 1969 – retired 2000 — Kim MacDonald as Baking Program Head

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it’s a long way from commiserating around the coal tipple with the farmers of central Alberta to rubbing shoulders with the sultan of Brunei. But for Brian Straub, the value of both gatherings was the same: to establish relationships with people, and respect their point of view. Straub grew up near Alix, Alta., where his father owned a strip coal mine. When farmers came to buy coal, they’d sit around the coal-burning stove, telling stories while the young Straub listened. “It gave me the ability to understand people,” says Straub, and it was

1970s a skill he’d use time and again over the course of an international career in oil and gas. After graduating from NAIT, Straub was hired by Shell, which in its various entities would employ him for the next 32 years. In 1993, he got his first overseas assignment in Oman, where he ran up to 28 drilling rigs and managed an annual budget over $400 million. He was posted in several more countries including Brunei, where he and his wife got to know the sultan and his two wives. Companies that want to break into overseas markets need a thorough understanding of the region and the culture, says Straub. They also need to embrace the country’s workforce and steer clear of corruption. Even in the age of videoconferencing, he says it’s still essential to occasionally meet people face-to-face – a lesson he learned at his father’s coal mine all those years ago. Straub, who in his retirement sits on the boards of energy companies Molopo and Ridgeline, finished his career as president and Canada country chairman for Royal Dutch Shell. “I returned, in some ways, to being a miner.” holger petersen — Eliza Barlow Radio and Television Arts ’70 Alumni Award of Distinction ‘04

what holger petersen talks about when he talks about music is, essentially, a lifelong love affair. Following graduation, he began his efforts to elevate roots and blues by hosting CBC’s Saturday Night Blues and CKUA’s Natch’l Blues, the latter a fixture on Canadian radio for more than 40 years. Petersen also founded Stony Plain Records, promoting new artists and legends, including Steve Earl and Ian Tyson. In the process, the DJ has become a cultural icon himself, inducted as a member into the Order of Canada in 2003. Today, his devotion to music continues unabated. Picking up from his days as a music journalist for The Nugget, NAIT’s student newspaper, Petersen recently published Talking Music, a book that documents the history of roots and blues through interviews with the musicians themselves. For Petersen, it’s just another labour of love: “We shouldn’t forget these great people.” — Scott Messenger

web extra p hy Photogra A ngelo Visit techlifemag.ca/holger-petersen-ckua.htm to read about Holger Petersen’s 40 years as host of brian straub CKUA’s Natch’l Blues, and techlifemag.ca/holger- D ’ by p hoto petersen-talking-music.htm to learn about his first book, Talking Music. Hydrocarbon Engineering Technology ‘75

46 techlifemag.ca My tuition in 1976 was about $180. Beyond the cost of books, there was the recommendation to own a good scientific calculator. I bought a Texas Instrument one from the NAIT “bookstore for around $265, more than the rest of the supplies needed for the entire year. It was one serious purchase at the time for a poor student. Fast forward to today. My wife and I were on the road to buy some building supplies the other day when we realized we forgot to bring along a calculator. I pulled into the nearest dollar store and I selected one for $2. In the queue to pay, it occurred to me that the $2 calculator in my hand was every bit as good as the one I bought at the NAIT store 36 years earlier for, hmm, let’s see: 265/2 = about 132.5 times more, not including inflation!

Guy Turcotte – Bruce Benjamin, Architectural Technology ’78

Gas Technology ‘72 Alumni Award of Distinction ’97 guy turcotte’s foresight for economic opportunities is guided by his respect for the environment and the value he places on people. Turcotte’s connection to nature has its origins on the Chauvin family farm, where he milked cows from age eight and could spend 10 hours a day on the tractor as a teenager. That connection has remained with him thoughout his career as an oil and gas executive, financier and property developer. As president and chairman of Stone Creek Resorts, Turcotte’s approach to developments at Canmore and Invermere, B.C. reveres what nature has to offer, creating world-class destinations where visitors find tranquility, great golfing and magnificent views. He founded three successful public companies – Chauvco Resources,

Fort Chicago Energy Partners (now Veresen) and Western Oil Sands – ’78) T echnology orest never losing sight of employees while managing these multi-billion- dollar enterprises. “Creating excellent careers, opportunities and wealth for employees, that’s what’s important.” His passion for clean energy is exemplified in Western Hydrogen Limited. “This is potentially the biggest thing I’ve done,” he says of the private company founded in 2006. With a pilot project scheduled to commence operations this year near Fort Saskatchewan, Turcotte envisions huge global opportunities from commercial rights to nolan ( F garry su pp lied by p hoto a leading-edge technology using sodium salts as the catalyst to When an April 1977 snowstorm cancelled field classes at Kidney manufacture hydrogen. The technology has far-reaching implications Lake camp, Forest Technology students built a 3.6-metre timber for fuel cell power, hydrogen costs and greenhouse gas emissions – cruiser snowman (but only after a snowball fight). good for people and the environment. — Nancy McGuire

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this summer, wildfires roared within 17 kilometres of Meander River, one of three communities of the Dene Tha’ First Nation in northwestern Alberta. As a blanket of smoke drifted in, Chief James Ahnassay and his council ordered an evacuation, sending nearly 400 people to High Level, nearly 75 kilometres south. The air quality became bad enough to aggravate Ahnassay’s mild case of asthma. “For people who have more severe conditions,” he says,

1980s “I can’t imagine what it must have been like.” During four terms, that kind of focus on the well-being of others has defined Ahnassay’s approach to leadership. And it extends far beyond health and safety. Since taking office in 1993, he has promoted education as a path to personal success as well as a way to improve local services. He also remains dedicated to economic diversification in the region, including ecotourism possibilities in surrounding wetlands – which has meant advocating for the conservation of these and other parts of Dene Tha’ territory of interest to the oil and gas industry. The remoteness of the Dene Tha’ communities, home to roughly 1,800 people, will always present logistical challenges. But Ahnassay, now thinking over a campaign for re-election next fall, sees progress. Employment and education are on the rise, budgets are balanced and, as with the recent wildfire, they’ve proven themselves capable of overcoming extreme adversity. “We’re making improvements,” he says, “slowly but surely.” james ahnassay — Scott Messenger Civil Engineering Technology ’88 Alumni Award of Distinction ’09

In fall 1980, I enrolled in Business Paul Saville, came along. Although he Administration. Coming from small- was on his way to teach a class, he took town Alberta and a high school that the time to talk with me and convinced had a graduating class of 12, I found me to stick it out. That turned out to “adjusting to a larger, busier educational be the best coaching advice I ever environment a bit challenging. By received! The caring and compassion early December, I felt I might become demonstrated by that instructor is just a ‘Christmas Graduate,’ as I was one of the qualities that makes NAIT considering withdrawing. A few days the first-class educational institution before the end of term, I was in one that it is. Thanks for setting me up for of the student lounges, looking a bit lifelong success!

distraught, when my English instructor, – Marcel Ulliac, Business Administration ’82

48 techlifemag.ca carol blake M ichelle L azette by p hoto

Dental Laboratory Technology ’84 hometown of Kincardine, Ont., on carol blake’s decision to join the shores of Lake Huron. It has the Canadian military in the late also influenced her professional 1970s set her on a path to become life. Just like in her military days, a dedicated community-builder. Blake keeps on the move, this “I learned so many valuable time through nearby countryside naseem bashir lessons in the military, but the with her mobile dental technician most important is that it’s not business, serving the dentists and Electrical Engineering Technology ’88 all about you,” says Blake, who denturists responsible for rural naseem bashir knows the difficulties of managing a mid-sized trained in a unit that delivers communities. As resourceful as company in Western Canada today. Competitors from outside the supplies and equipment to front she is conscientious, Blake also province, even country, are showing up hungry for work, and that line troops. Since then, that uses the route to spread the word demands creative leadership from the president and CEO of Williams philosophy and skill set have about programs she supports that Engineering Canada. Talent, brand and sustainability are constant motivated her to lead fundraising encourage health and fitness and priorities, as they would be for any savvy executive. efforts amounting to more than environmental conservation. What sets Bashir apart, however, is his ability to hold a company $250,000 for schools in her — Sandy Robertson together despite disaster. That was tested five years ago. In October 2007, a company plane piloted by CEO and founder Allen Williams crashed, killing him and the CFO. Five months later, another plane flown by Allen’s son Reagan– his successor as CEO – also went down, claiming his life and those of two other top executives and two contract employees. Called up to Edmonton from his Calgary post as vice president, Bashir postponed grieving to focus on the company’s viability. “There’s no map to tell you what you should be doing,” at a time like that, he says. “All you can do is rely on your own basic instincts and principles.” He admits to thinking it would be easier to let someone else step in. Calgary was home; he’d be uprooting his family and leaving friends. But that risk had to be weighed against that faced by the company. Dave Buchaski The future of every employee, him included, lay in the balance. Today, the company is ready and eager to grow. A regional firm Electronics Engineering Technology ’84 with a reputation for reliability, environmentally friendly designs and diagnostic medical sonography equipment.) Buchaski also keeps community-mindedness, Williams Engineering is eyeing the possibility students benefit every day from NAIT instructors current by of going international. The current economic climate – involving more the impact Dave Buchaski has on arranging seminars and bringing clouds than sunshine – may delay those ambitions, but Bashir seems campus. A long-time electronics in stellar speakers. For him, the satisfied with progress under his leadership. Looking back, as hard as aficionado, Buchaski now teaches, key is to not just promote reliable, the decision to lead the company may have once seemed, “I think I mentors, funds and promotes NAIT upgradeable equipment, but to made the right choice.” ultrasound students – helping ensure it is understood by staff– — S.M. to prepare them for roles in and so by the grads that NAIT Alberta’s vital allied health-care produces. “No matter how good sector. (Because of his efforts, his the technology is,” he says, “it’s web extra employer, Philips Healthcare, also no use unless we empower the Visit techlifemag.ca/naseem-bashir.htm for Naseem Bashir’s take on the challenge of running a pitches in with resources, including people who use it.” professional services firm in the current economy. state-of-the-art sonography — Cheryl Mahaffy

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the construction industry positions at PCL Construction, can’t afford to stand still, says he led Graham Group’s Calgary Kees Cusveller, vice president expansion, growing its annual of business development and revenues in the city from less than pre-construction services with $30 million to $275 million in a the Graham Group. “We need decade. Now, he also applies that to be able to compete with the same lead-the-charge mentality international firms that are starting to a passion for volunteering to move in.” To him, that means (which, incidentally, has roots in

1980s evolving in every aspect of the his 1979-80 tenure as president of business, including productivity, the NAIT Students’ Association) safety, and environmental and with construction associations social responsibility. Cusveller’s and to developing building-related own successful career gives that programming in post-secondary point of view credibility. After education. holding increasingly challenging — Cheryl Mahaffy

james cumming

Construction Engineering Technology ’81 Alumni Award of Distinction ’03 Board of Governors 2004 - present

when something is important to James Cumming he gives it his full attention. In 1998, not long after his son Garrett had to start using a wheelchair due to muscular dystrophy, Cumming joined the Muscular Dystrophy Canada board, serving as its national chair from 2001 to 2003. After that, he continued to contribute by helping to raise $1.61 million to establish the Friends of Garrett Cumming Research Chair in Muscle Disorder at the University of Alberta to pursue cures for debilitating neuromuscular disorders. After his intense work with that board, Cumming stepped back to change the focus of his community involvement to education. NAIT was an obvious point of focus. Currently the CEO of Creative Door Services, Cumming credits his NAIT training as the foundation of his lengthy career as owner and kees Cusveller leader of construction and development businesses. In 2004, Building Construction Engineering Technology ’80 he returned to his alma mater as a member of the Board of Governors. In October 2010, he became its chair. Going forward, Cumming is excited about NAIT’s future. Right now, amongst other priorities, he’s devoting himself to planning for the proposed Centre for Applied Technologies, which will boost simulation-based training and applied research on Main I got my first job as a secretary two months Campus. As an industry insider, he has an intimate understanding before I actually finished my coursework. I was of the need for skilled workers. “We’ve got a marketplace that’s busy and begging for more trained individuals,” says Cumming. hired by an engineering firm because NAIT “Our challenge is to make sure that we’re in front of that demand, was the only place that was using magnetic not behind it.” media storage (electronic typewriters with — Fiona Bensler “ mag cards) and they wanted someone who web extra could use a word processor! Visit techlifemag.ca/james-cumming.htm for a conversation with NAIT’s current chair of the Board – Sharlene Millang-Borst, Secretarial Technology ’81 of Governors.

50 techlifemag.ca in a natural gas market that can only be described as a decade- long roller coaster ride, Randy Eresman’s grip on his company is as firm as ever. Eresman took the helm of Encana – one of the world’s largest natural gas producers – as president and CEO in 2006, 26 years after he joined Alberta Energy Company, an Encana predecessor. Before that, the Medicine Hat native was the company’s chief operating officer from 2002 to 2006. Despite a prolonged plunge in natural gas prices over the last few years, Encana has remained strong under Eresman’s leadership. It beat analysts’ predictions in the first quarter of 2012 in cash flow and earnings and has plans to weather the storm, including continuing to lead the way in a variety of oil and natural gas plays. Going forward, Eresman is buckled in and ready for the ups and downs. “I remember seeing high natural gas prices, and then those drop like a rock, and I remember seeing high oil prices, and then those drop like a rock,” he told the Financial Post in February. “Easy money, hard money – this is the business.”

randy Eresman way colin by p hoto — Eliza Barlow Petroleum Engineering Technology ’80

kevin Martin greg korbutt Petroleum Engineering Technology ’87 Honorary Bachelor of Technology in Technology Management ’10 Biological Sciences Technology ’82 Alumni Award of Distinction ’11 Alumni Award of Distinction ’01 Then he began experimenting with as an 18-year-old from Lougheed, at the rink. “I was there for the dr. greg korbutt is a world- neonatal pigs as a source of islets. Alta., Kevin Martin faced a tough education,” says Martin, “but … I renowned diabetes researcher on Now he’s ready to move that to choice: play collegiate hockey in was living at the Avonair [Curling the verge of a major breakthrough. clinical trials, a North American Red Deer or Medicine Hat, or curl Club] the whole time.” Today, But from 1978 to 1980, he drove first. To do so, he’s secured $26 at NAIT. Luckily for Canadian Martin has yet to work in his field a Coca-Cola truck with no idea million to build in Edmonton the curling, he chose to go with who of study. Instead, he earned rock- where the road of life would first Western Canadian facility to he calls “Canada’s best curling star status as a curler, winning take him. Even when he applied meet Health Canada and the Food coach,” NAIT’s Jules Owchar – who Olympic silver and gold, four to NAIT it was to five areas; and Drug Administration’s strict likened Martin to a young Gretzky. Briers and numerous tournaments eventually, he settled on science. regulations for stem cell research. Martin’s instructors also recognized on the world curling circuit. “It was Discovering latent talents in lab “It’s not the ultimate cure for his potential on the ice and teased a good decision made in the fall of research, Korbutt worked with diabetes,” says Korbutt. “But it’s him about how much time he spent ’84,” says Martin with a chuckle. Dr. Ray Rajotte (Medical X-ray a good stop-gap solution, which Technology ’65) and his Edmonton will increase the availability of islet — Ruth Juliebo Protocol team to pioneer cells for transplantation.” web extra transplants of insulin-producing Visit techlifemag.ca/kevin-martin-jules-owchar.htm — Lisa Ricciotti islet cells for severe diabetics. for the story of the most successful player-coach relationship in the history of curling.

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he’s spent 33 years growing his family’s Edmonton-based manufacturing business into a global export powerhouse – but the last thing Mark McNeill wants to do is keep the secrets of his success to himself. McNeill is president and CEO of Stream-Flo Industries, founded in 1962 by his father Duncan McNeill (Distinguished Friend of the Institute ’03), and Master Flo Valve, which they acquired in 1982. “As the experienced crowd, we need to educate and pass on our life’s learning – and learn from the new generation – to make sure we service

1980s our customers and our industry as best we can,” he says. To that end, the McNeill family has a passion for sharing their expertise with up-and-coming businesses. NAIT’s Duncan McNeill Centre for Innovation provides early stage businesses and entrepreneurs with office space and advice from NAIT experts. daryl mcintyre And McNeill knows a thing or two about building a business. He joined Stream-Flo in 1979, sweeping floors and building wellheads, then Radio and Television Arts ’83 put his aversion to losing and competitive nature to use with a shift to inside sales. He estimates he spent 40 per cent of his time on the road, ctv’s daryl mcintyre has been the Maddox Flynn story. In 2010, living in most parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan. an evening news anchor longer McIntyre accompanied the But he really cut his teeth in 1986, when he started a five-and-a- than anyone in Edmonton. He two-year-old, born with a severe half year stint in Indonesia, opening up Southeast Asia to the company, credits that to a willingness to facial deformity, and his family to whose leadership in manufacturing wellheads, valves, chokes and embrace change. During his New York for surgery. Combined other equipment for both the offshore and surface oil and gas industry 26 years with the station, he’s with his traditional reporting, the has seen its products installed in at least 50 countries across four witnessed seismic shifts in journalist’s blog, Twitter and continents. the media landscape: mergers, Facebook posts allowed people to Doing business overseas means managing cultural differences declining advertising revenue stay fully engaged with the story, and time zones, but McNeill says building and nurturing personal and the explosion of social which saw the generation relationships with customers is a universal imperative. media. of nearly $300,000 in donations His words of advice? “Be open-minded. And expect to work For him, the beauty to help the family cover costs. very hard.” of social media, including “When people decide to Facebook, Twitter and blogging, mobilize it’s an extraordinary — Eliza Barlow is how they increase the thing to watch,” he says. connection with viewers. That — Ruth Juliebo power became evident with

For Scott Matheson (Building Construction Engineering Technology ‘83), “Crushing the competition in the bridge building challenge without getting wet,” was a highlight of Mark mcneill the 1981-82 school year. Matheson, team captain, came up with the winning design pictured here. Business Administration – Marketing ’82

52 techlifemag.ca When NAIT was first automating the Executive Office (sometime in the ’80s), we had a challenge with a certain academic VP who had no interest in joining in on the fantastic opportunity. We replaced the unused computer in his office with “a cardboard replica and he loved it! Today, our executive all use the latest technology – what a change! – Helen Wladyka, hired 1972 – currently Chief Information Officer, NAIT Information Services mark ohe

Air Conditioning Engineering Technology ’81 Alumni Award of Distinction ’98 Board of Governors 2010 - present

just as mark ohe was taking a founder Bill Ohe, who always told lead role in the family mechanical his kids, “Giving needs to be part business in 1991, a backfiring of your life,” recalls Ohe. “Not just airplane propeller smashed his leg. money, but your time and energy.” Less than four years later, he ran Now one of Western Canada’s a marathon and raised $10,000 leading mechanical service for the Rainbow Society of Alberta companies, Gateway’s corporate to help grant the wishes of kids generosity helped build the NAIT with chronic illnesses. Ohe’s blend Gateway Mechanical Services of grit and generosity has also Centre for Building Environment served environmental, social and Technology, which is teaching the health-care groups. He traces next generation how to optimize his attitude back to his father, building environments. Gateway Mechanical Services — Cheryl Mahaffy

Oh, the Ronald McDonald Cups. It started when the [University of Alberta Golden] Bears were ranked george ROGERS No. 1 in the country in their conference and we [the Business Administration – Accounting ’80 Ooks] were ranked No. 1 in the country in ours. And born in a jamaican village, George Rogers knows what it is to go without. So it’s a point of pride that as an elected official, first for the all of a sudden the talk shows started saying: ‘Who City of Leduc and now as MLA for Leduc-Beaumont, he has helped “is the No. 1 college team in the country?’ and it just lay the groundwork for communities to enjoy improved quality of mushroomed from there. It was exciting. And that’s life. Trained as an accountant, Rogers turned to real estate, and then public office, to work more closely with people. Attracting record- when we really felt the school was behind us. I think setting vote tallies, he served as Leduc alderman then mayor while there were 15,000 people [at the game at Northlands active in the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association and the Coliseum]. We lost that game. It was 5-4. Exciting Federation of Canadian Municipalities. “I grew up in Leduc, and back then we had to go to Edmonton for almost everything,” he recalls. game. Lots of hits. The crowd was going nuts. It was “Today it’s all available right here, and a lot of the decisions I’ve been a really good experience. a part of led to that successful growth.”

– Ron Amyotte, Respiratory Technology ’87; Member — C.M. of the Ooks men’s hockey team from 1984 to 1987

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julie m. shaw was working her first job at Nelson Lumber in Edmonton when a young couple came in, house plans in hand, to buy the materials they needed to build their new two-storey home. She immediately noticed a glaring omission. “I said, ‘You know you don’t have a staircase in these plans.’ They just kind of looked at each other.” Three decades later, Shaw applies the same matter-of-factness to her role as vice president facilities, design and management with Shaw Communications. Founded in 1966 by her father, JR Shaw (Distinguished Friend of the Institute ’97, Honorary Diploma in 1980s Business Administration ’07), the company has grown to become Canada’s leading communications provider. She also serves as vice chair of Corus Entertainment. Shaw has always had a keen interest in the mechanics of how buildings come together. After she completed her education, she landed an interior design job with Vancouver firm Hopping Kovach Grinnell while “moonlighting” for the family business back in Alberta. “When your family asks you to do something, it’s always, ‘It won’t take long,’” she says with a chuckle. “My dad or brother would ask, ‘Could you just do this? Could you just do that?’ You feel compelled.” Tracey Scarlett Today, she and her team run all of Shaw’s sites across Canada, managing everything from building improvement and design to Medical Laboratory Technology ’87 parking. She’s overseeing the construction of a 25,200-square- metre (280,000-square-foot) data centre in Calgary, due to open nine to five? no thanks, says tracey scarlett, who prefers to around 2015, and a new Global TV studio in Halifax. “We want control her own destiny – and loves to help others do the same. to make sure it’s a creative environment that’s exciting and The CEO of Alberta Women Entrepreneurs, a non-profit motivating [for the company’s more than 14,000 employees].” organization that assists women with business ventures, One thing’s for sure: she’ll never miss a staircase. Scarlett cut her entrepreneurial teeth raising 4-H calves on the family farm near Sexsmith, Alta., an environment she credits — E.B. for teaching her to blaze her own trail. “Growing up on a farm teaches you a lot of independence and self-sufficiency, and how to handle things you can’t anticipate.” After graduating from NAIT, she went from managing labs for small companies, to running an electrical contracting business, to starting a consulting practice working with scientists on market research. KMT Hepatech, which had developed a technology involved with Hepatitis C testing, became a huge industry success in two years with Scarlett as its chief operating officer. When the opportunity came along to head Alberta Women Entrepreneurs, Scarlett jumped at the chance to help other women work for themselves, which contributes $117 billion a year to the Canadian economy. “Seeing businesses come to life on a daily basis, creating jobs, creating wealth – these are tangible outcomes that I find really rewarding.” Many women who come to her are dealing with young families or aging parents, but the need for flexibility isn’t what’s driving them from the corporate world, says Scarlett. “They don’t want to be passive about their lot in life. They want to create their futures.” Just as Scarlett continues to create her own. julie M. shaw — Eliza Barlow Architectural Technology ’82

54 techlifemag.ca I almost burned the school down. I was making a music video…. We were shooting in the bigger of the two studios in the RTA building. One of the airns things was to have a Valentine’s card on fire drop to the floor. It caught the bed on fire on the set and everybody started flipping out. There was a bruce Woloshyn john C by p hoto “ Radio and Television Arts ’84 entertainment industry fire extinguisher right at the door. I grabbed it and professional group, in Vancouver, put the fire out. And then everybody was thinking, people don’t think of vancouver and, in 2007, hosted the voting as frontier territory. But in 1995, ‘You’re going to be in a pile of trouble when they for Special Visual Effects for the when Bruce Woloshyn joined Emmy Awards at Rainmaker – the find out you discharged the fire extinguisher.’ And visual effects startup Rainmaker first time it was held outside the I thought, ‘Yeah, but I’m going to be in a lot less Digital Pictures, it was. At least as United States. The award-winning far as Hollywood was concerned. trouble than if I burned the studio down.’ visual effects supervisor, who now “We had to do things to show works for Method Studios, has we could be taken seriously and – Bruce Woloshyn, Radio and Television Arts ’84 also been charting new courses on that the industry could grow the big and little screens, where and thrive in Canada,” says his many credits include Stargate Woloshyn. Thanks to those early SG-1, The Twilight Saga movies efforts, Vancouver is now one of and Night at the Museum. “Almost the largest production centres every project demands that we for visual effects in the world. do something we’ve never done Woloshyn was instrumental in before. And I really thrive on that.” helping to establish the Visual Effects Society, an international — Kristen Vernon

Daniel Wai Yuk yeung sandy Yakimchuk Dental Laboratory Technology ’81 Alumni Award of Distinction ’06 Electronics Engineering Technology ’85 as the youngest of 14 siblings, daniel yeung learned that (PLC) for NAIT’s electronics after nait, sandy yakimchuk collaboration is the only way to get things done. “I am lucky to have engineering and nanotechnology worked with electronic control learned these lessons, because I continue to apply them to my work,” programs, and also helped systems on oil rigs around the he says. Once, it saved his career. After Yeung got his first job as write an accompanying course. world, travelling all continents a dental technician in 1981, a downturn led to layoffs. “I was saved Students will learn about except Antarctica, a life-changing because one of our clients said they wouldn’t work with anyone but applications for PLCs in different experience he believes wouldn’t me.” Since becoming president of Universal Dental Laboratories, a Alberta industries and how to have happened without his provider of dental services and products, he continues to put people write the software they use to education. Now owner and operator first. Yeung is known as a student mentor and adviser, and as a control machines and equipment– of Control Freaks Automation, tireless community volunteer. As the only dental technician in the broadening their career options an Edmonton-based firm that Edmonton and District Dental Society (most members are dentists), upon graduation. “This is a favour specializes in designing electronic he contributes to the Shine for Dentistry Program, which offers dental back to NAIT for allowing me controls, Yakimchuk volunteered care to Edmonton’s less-fortunate youth. to have such a lot of fun in my nearly 500 hours to build 13 custom career,” he says. — Sandy Robertson programmable logic controllers — Fiona Bensler v6.1 2012 55 PEOPLE • Cover story

whatever environment Mark magazines. In addition, he Hamblin chooses to inhabit, he’ll regularly mentors and hires find ways to make it better. As NAIT students, and organizes a teen, he designed inventory an annual industry event at the control software for his favourite NAIT Shell Manufacturing Centre motorcycle shops. At NAIT, and to showcase technologies and later at Matrikon, he created practices manufacturers can use more software to streamline to excel. “The manufacturing manufacturing processes. Still in industry in Alberta is definitely pursuit of productivity fixes, in behind the times compared 2008 Hamblin launched Dynamic to other jurisdictions in North 1990s Manufacturing Solutions to help America,” he says. “They need us improve business operations – and they need NAIT to help move efforts that have earned accolades them forward.” for innovation and rapid growth — C.M. from Profit and Alberta Venture

Michael Anderson

Business Administration – Marketing ’98 Business Administration – Management ’99

mike anderson brought a Anderson parlayed that whole new buzz to campus passion into a career with the life, creating events that launch of Trixstar Productions. became the stuff of memories. Quickly becoming a go-to firm As a student, his zany antics for celebrity events, its list of made him top choice as Ook big snags has included UFC’s mascot; Ookfest, which he Forrest Griffin and William launched as a NAIT Students’ Shatner of Star Trek. The Little Association (NAITSA) vice Brother Anderson mentored for president, grew into one of a decade now wants to follow North America’s top campus in his footsteps, and no wonder. parties during his nine years Not every little brother enjoys as NAITSA entertainment backstage access to the likes of and marketing manager. “I Ookfest veterans Nickelback. Mark Hamblin love entertaining people,” — Cheryl Mahaffy Computer Engineering Technology ’95 he says. Alumni Award of Distinction ’01

I loved being the Ook. It was an outlet for me to I would play for the NAIT staff hockey team have a lot of fun…. One time I was dancing in the because we had such a rivalry with SAIT and there bleachers and I jumped down and cracked my was a lot of pressure for me to play. One time heel. I’d do a figure skating show after the game. we went down … and about the second period or I’d spin around and fall on my face. I was still halfway through the third, I got a puck in the ear. “determined to put on my show. I laced up and “And they took me to the hospital and they said, went out there. It took me about an hour to get ‘Boy, are you lucky. We happen to have a plastic my skate off after. surgeon here.’ Thirty-four stitches later … I even bled for NAIT. – Mike Anderson, Business Administration – Marketing ’98, Business Administration – Management ’99; Ook mascot ’96 – Stan Souch, NAIT President 1980-97

56 techlifemag.ca During my time at NAIT, my father was a welding instructor. He loved his breads and visited the NAIT bakery almost daily. Sitting in the study hall, I could often catch a glimpse of my dad off to the bakery to check the daily goods during his breaks. “Dad is now long retired but still remembers his fulfilling years at NAIT.

– David Robinson, Electronic Service Technician ’85, Business Administration ’91

My husband Rory and I met in 1996 while both andrew hore attending NAIT. He was in the Architectural Technology program (class of ’98), and I was in Business Administration – Marketing ’99 Civil Engineering Technology (class of ’98). We when andrew hore attended NAIT’s hockey camp in 1986 at 10 both played basketball for the Ooks. We met years old, the powerhouse men’s hockey team made it the place to play. But during his own time as a student and Ooks forward from “one night at a social after one of the games and 1996 to 1999, the facilities and equipment had seen better days. So realized that we both attend classes in the same in fall 1999, Hore co-founded the Ooks Hockey Alumni Association building. We dated all through college and were to help improve the program. Last year, it gave $200,000 – its largest donation ever – to cover scholarships, maintain equipment married on June 2, 2001. and send kids to NAIT hockey camps. Today, Hore, currently – Stephanie Koska, Civil Engineering Technology ’98; corporate partnerships director for the Edmonton Oilers, thinks Civil Engineering Technology Instructor 2001 – present NAIT hockey is ready to match its glory days. “In my mind,” he says, “it’s one of the top college hockey programs in Canada.” — Fiona Bensler

with restaurateurs for parents, up-and-comers like his younger Chris Kourouniotis grew up with self by acting as an adviser to an insider’s view of the hospitality NAIT’s Interior Design Technology business. But it wasn’t food that program and mentoring its influenced his career path, it was students. “It’s my opportunity the dining experience – and the to steal someone every year,” special role a designer plays in he says, and that way continue that. “We’re creating a two-hour to transform common Alberta holiday,” says Kourouniotis, dining experiences into meals principal of CKDesign Associates, to remember. an Edmonton-based firm — Scott Messenger responsible for hundreds of restaurant and office interiors across Alberta and, through web extra Visit techlifemag.ca/nest- franchised clients, as far afield renovation.htm to see Chris as India and Pakistan. Today, Kourouniotis’s recent redesign chris Kourouniotis seeks to inspire of The Nest, NAIT’s campus Kourouniotis bar and grill. Interior Design Technology ’94

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own and that would be it,” says Tomaszeski. By focusing on his craft – and on a philosophy that great food has the power to bring people together – he rose to the rank of executive chef at Toronto’s Holt’s Café. Only then did a producer notice his talent (and his congeniality and quick wit). Since then, life under the bright 1990s corbin Tomaszeski lights has galvanized his resolve Cook ’92 to remain realistic – and authentic. Alumni Award of Distinction ’10 “The person you see on TV is the one I am in real life,” says corbin tomaszeski is an ideal Tomaszeski. “I want to be genuine. role model for students cooking If I lose sight of that, I have to up plans to become celebrity think about doing something else.” chefs – mostly because the host of Food Network TV shows Crash — Scott Messenger My Kitchen, Restaurant Makeover web extra and Dinner Party Wars never Visit techlifemag.ca/chicken- expected his success. A realist dumpling-soup.htm to watch Corbin ASHIF MAWJI raised on a central Alberta farm, Tomaszeski make soup with his mom, “I thought I would work at a few and techlifemag.ca/chef-corbin- tomaszeski.htm for his views on what Computer Systems Technology ’92 restaurants, be a chef at my makes good food television. Alumni Award of Distinction ’03 Board of Governors 2004-10

as the former president and ceo of upside software, Ashif Mawji remembers the first time the company bought new chairs for the office. “That was a big deal – everyone was really excited.” Formed 12 years ago, just as the dot-com bubble burst, the contract management software company had to be frugal to weather the shattered market. “We got a lot of things from eBay,” he recalls. Mawji learned the value of self-sufficiency while growing up in Kenya, where, from the age of 12, he sold watches on consignment to make pocket money. And he’s long had a keen sense of the smartest uses for his dean turgeon money, one that would help his future business survive and thrive Engineering Design and Drafting Technology ’90 through market ups and downs. On a family trip to the United Kingdom, he bought a computer to sell at a profit back in Kenya. dean turgeon has never stopped So in 2003 he started his own After he immigrated to Canada, Mawji used that same asking, Why? After graduating company, Vital Engineering, with entrepreneurial savvy to start two companies, including Upside. from NAIT at 20, this habit caused a focus on educating clients about Its first client was Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway and, a clashes when he worked for the benefits of design options couple of months later, Hewlett Packard signed on. From there, construction firms as a surveyor, including geothermal, solar and the deals kept coming. drafter and design technician. “I passive energy sources. Turgeon In time, so did offers to purchase the company. This August, never wanted to follow the norm has become a leader in his own he finally accepted one, freeing him up to focus on volunteer if there was a better process right, too. He regularly shares efforts with charities including the Kids Kottage Foundation and to improve efficiencies,” says his expertise with industry and the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation. Turgeon. But when he discovered government associations, and It has also allowed him to look toward new ventures. Among an emerging green building helped develop NAIT’s Alternative them: a software-as-a-service venture to help non-profits become philosophy in the early 2000s Energy Technology program, for more efficient and, just as he learned to do, survive and thrive. called Leadership in Energy and which he continues to serve as an Environmental Design (LEED), his advisory board member. — Eliza Barlow big question became, Why follow — Lisa Ricciotti when you can LEED?

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in 2006, stephani carter turned (LEED) professional and helped her private war on waste and start Alberta’s LEED chapter. As toxins into her profession, taking her expertise and experience have on the challenge of greening the grown, she’s blossomed from construction industry by founding “that green girl” to a professional EcoAmmo Sustainable Consulting whose insight is sought after in Edmonton. Despite that artillery at conferences and by industry allusion, Carter’s only weapon is members keen to go green. eco-knowledge. To her pleasant EcoAmmo, in the meantime, surprise, industry colleagues have has grown to three partners and

2000s willingly joined the campaign. “Our consulted on everything from net society is demonstrating a strong zero housing to commercial projects social desire for more sustainable for clients, including Walmart living; that’s now influencing the Canada and Second Cup, as well building industry,” says Carter. as international firms. Regardless She traces her path back to of the frontiers the company her first interior design position, will conquer next, Carter hasn’t where she realized she was more forgotten her roots, and gives back concerned with paints that weren’t by guest lecturing on sustainable poisonous rather than the perfect building products and materials shade. So she partnered with to NAIT design and architecture the provincial government and students, and by serving on its Climate Change Central to create interior design advisory committee. Green Alberta, an online database — Lisa Ricciotti of green building materials. Since then, her progress has been, well, organic, with web extra one project seeding another. Visit techlifemag.ca/green-building- Along the way she became an products to watch Stephani Carter’s Stephani carter accredited Leadership in Energy tutorial on building with environmentally friendly materials. and Environmental Design Interior Design Technology ’01

“tradespeople with certificates are not born, they’re made.” So says Don Oborowsky, who has dedicated much of his career to advancing the trades and apprenticeship training in Alberta. As president, CEO and co-founder of Edmonton-based Waiward Steel Fabricators, Oborowsky says that at any given time, 20 per cent of his 500-plus employees are apprentices. Qualified tradespeople, he says, require less supervision on the job, increase productivity and help make workplaces safer. “The whole apprentice program is important, not only to me but to the whole industry. It plays a very important role in our whole economy.” The need for more spaces to train apprentices to sustain the economy led Oborowsky to make a significant investment in establishing the NAIT Waiward Centre for Steel Technologies. The world-class facility opened in 2006, boosting NAIT’s steel trades training capacity by 60 per cent. Interestingly, Oborowsky – already a successful businessman – returned to NAIT four decades after starting his Carpenter don Oborowsky apprenticeship to complete his own training in 2007. He says he always felt “a little bit of guilt” about not completing his training. Carpenter ’07 “I finished it because I wanted to finish it.” Honorary Bachelor of Technology ’09 Board of Governors 2002-08 — Frank Landry

60 techlifemag.ca it’s like an episode of Cheers: Jules Owchar walks into a curling rink in northern Alberta and everyone knows his name. He’s had his fair share of media attention for coaching curling’s golden boy, Kevin Martin, for the past 27 years, but that’s not the only reason for his celebrity status. He’s also coached hundreds of junior and professional curlers from around the world. “I just fell into coaching,” says Owchar. In 1969, he began at NAIT as a physical education instructor. Throughout the decades of mentoring young athletes, “the kids,” as he fondly calls them, have gone on to win more than 40 provincial and national championships (some of those were in golf – Owchar is an expert instructor in that other Scottish sport as well). “There’s such a satisfaction if you can give something to the kids,” he says, “and watch them climb.” Javier Salazar Arguably, none have climbed higher than Kevin Martin, a gold medallist at the 2010 Winter Olympics. “Jules has an eye for seeing Photographic Technology ’09 the mechanics of a curling delivery,” says Martin. Over the years, javier salazar inspires confidence it to a person who hasn’t ever the two have developed a working relationship that continues to in others – whether it’s the high had a professional portrait produce positive results. “We understand each other,” Martin adds. school students he mentors or the taken – who receives that Although Owchar officially retired from NAIT in 2003, he low-income Edmontonians portrait and cries in front of you,” continues to coach the men’s and women’s curling and golf teams. he photographs. says the owner of Javier Salazar With his rare, natural talent for spotting a winner, there’s no better Salazar, who emigrated from Photography. scout for curling’s next star. Mexico to attend NAIT, has been By day, Salazar works for — Ruth Juliebo organizing Edmonton’s Help- Junior Achievement of Northern Portrait since 2009, offering those Alberta, where he mentors high in need a professional portrait as a school students. “The way we way of boosting their self-esteem. empower kids, that’s what’s kept “You don’t really understand the me there for so long,” he says. value of a portrait until you give — F.L.

independent urban music record label, he also nurtures local musicians. That’s just one example of how he gives back. For 13 years he has volunteered as a radio host at CJSR. He’s been a member of several high- profile arts boards and continues to serve on the Juno Awards’ rap advisory committee. And beyond music, he supports his larger marlon wilson community through fundraisers including his annual Hip-Hop Business Administration – Marketing ’02 for Hunger event, which has aided the Edmonton Food Bank if marlon wilson – musician, since 2002. Call him Marlon or marketer, mentor, producer, radio Arlo Maverick, his is a name to DJ, philanthropist and ambassador– watch. had an alias for each of his successful endeavours, we’d never — L.R. know his real name. Wilson’s better known as Arlo Maverick, one- quarter of the successful Edmonton web extra hip-hop group Politic Live. As Visit techlifemag.ca/marlon- wilson.htm to learn why some call jules Owchar co-founder of Music for Mavericks him the father of Edmonton’s urban Entertainment, an acclaimed music scene. Athletics Wall of Fame ’03

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62 techlifemag.ca people through Ooks the ages

nait’s entry into intercollegiate athletics – at least on the basketball “The SAIT Trojans court – was tentative at best, if a 63–28 drubbing of the men by a veteran SAIT squad on March 6, 1964 is any indication. Judging from better beware for next The Nugget that week, all that mattered was that NAIT had entered the fray: “The SAIT Trojans better beware for next year – we shall kick their year– we shall kick pants for them!” Since then, NAIT has indeed kicked some pants (some years more their pants for them!” than others). Consider this the highlight reel: the records set, the dogged development, the major players and the big wins. This is the - the nugget story of the Ooks through the years – champions, win or lose. — Scott Messenger

too cute to cut it The instigator The Perfect Season Nix on the Chicks adopted in 1964, the Ookpik immortalized on the Athletics the 1984-85 Ooks men’s hockey the 1989-90 season represents remains the perfect sports Wall of Fame, first dean of season ended in a statistical a slam dunk for gender equality mascot for a northerly Student Services Gary Meadus improbability: 25 wins, no losses. in NAIT athletics. That season, polytechnic: also known as a set balls rolling, pucks sliding That perfect season carried into women’s basketball finally snowy owl, it’s a Canadian icon and all manner of sports the playoffs, as the men swept traded the Chicks moniker (they and an adept hunter. Its only paraphernalia in motion by the provincial and national were even the Ookpikettes at drawback is that it can look a establishing the institute’s championships. In recognition one point) for Ooks, the name bit cute – hence the most recent athletics programs and joining of this history-making feat, the emblazoned on the men’s redesign initiated by athletics the Western Intercollege squad was inducted this June jerseys. director Linda Henderson. Conference in 1964, now into the Alberta Hockey Hall “The previous one looked too the Alberta Colleges Athletic of Fame. much like a caricature,” she Conference. says. “We wanted it to look a little bit more intimidating.”

bygone teams The Ooks once made their mark in these discontinued sports:

Alpine skiing Fencing Bowling Racquet sports 186 23 Total Alberta Colleges Total Canadian Collegiate Canoeing Swimming Athletic Conference Athletic Association championship titles championship titles Cross-country skiing Wrestling (various sports) (various sports)

64 techlifemag.ca Clockwise from left, the Chicks basketball team, the 1984-85 Ooks men’s hockey team, the most recent version of the Ooks logo.

Full-time commitment The contenders Just one of the guys the future shortly after henderson until the 2011-12 season, never shannon szabados joining the more championship banners took over as director of athletics had all women’s and men’s men’s hockey program as its first are an obvious goal, says and recreation in 2008, she teams advanced to the post- female goalie qualifies as another Henderson. Providing full floated the idea of full-time season. Last year, student- victory in athletics gender issues. scholarships for every student- coaches – a first for Canadian athletes competed for provincial It was also an obvious choice. athlete in every sport is another. colleges. She asked for 12, got championship titles in soccer, When not tending the Ooks But for her, the way forward is six (men’s and women’s hockey, volleyball, curling, hockey, golf, net, the Personal Fitness Trainer defined by much bigger thinking: basketball and volleyball), and basketball, badminton and student backstops Team Canada. “We need a new facility.” With it, set the standard high, hiring and cross-country running. They won “She’s the best female goalie in NAIT could host more national firing like the pro leagues. national gold in men’s soccer the world,” says Kyle Johnson, championships, attract more The result: stronger internal and men’s singles and women’s captain during Szabados’ first student-athletes and, she adds, support of athletics, increased doubles badminton. year in 2011-12. “And we have her continue to give the institute post-season representation and on our team.” plenty of opportunities to gather more provincial and national and celebrate by cheering on banners. “Other schools didn’t its Ooks. really believe it would be successful or sustainable,” says Henderson. “When it became both, I just smiled.” P HERS P HOTOGRA NAIT STAFF by Photos “She’s the best female web extra Visit techlifemag.ca/ooks- goalie in the world, history.htm for features on Linda Henderson’s efforts to rebuild NAIT athletics, Shannon Szabados as the and we have her on men’s hockey team’s first female goalie, the 1984-85 men’s hockey our team.” perfect season, and the full results - Kyle Johnson of the historic 2011-12 season. Captain, 2011-12 ooks men’s hockey team

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The Meaning of Story By Ruth Juliebo Photos by NAIT STAFF Ookpik photographers What happens when the search for a cherished, iconic artifact turns up empty? Sometimes you reconsider what it is you’re looking for.

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Top left, first NAITSA president William Miles received NAIT’s first Ook mascot in 1964. Bottom left, the mascot-napping went both ways between Alberta’s polytechnics; in 1964, NAIT students captured SAIT’s. Above, right and below, though the stuffed version of Ookpik has remained nearly unchanged throughout the years, other depictions of the mascot have gone through several incarnations.

hen it comes to picking a school mascot, and a half. The powerful birds are keen hunters and have powerful creatures like eagles, tigers and few natural predators. Wbulldogs reign supreme. But in 1964, Naturally, NAIT athletics teams took the name NAIT made a different choice. The NAIT Students’ in 1964 (shortening it over time to Ooks) and several Association (NAITSA) chose a 20-centimetre-tall incarnations of a full-size mascot followed over the next Inuit handicraft: a snowy owl – known in Inuktitut five decades. Going forward, the Ookpik became firmly as an ookpik. embedded in NAIT’s identity, providing a positive image “At that time, ookpik was a big pop icon in Canada. for the institute and helping to build community and There was even a song about it,” recalls William Miles, camaraderie amongst students. NAITSA’s first president. On Oct. 28, 1964, Miles But over NAIT’s 50-year history, most people was presented with an authentic ookpik by an official haven’t had the chance to see that original Ookpik. No from the Department of Northern Affairs and National one knows where it went – a situation that has caused Resources at NAIT’s first awards day. “Being the most quite a stir on campus. northerly institute of its kind in Canada, we thought it That said, Ookpik has always had that effect on was a perfect fit,” he says. the staff and students of NAIT – not to mention those Although adorable, NAIT’s Ookpik represents a of other institutes. Soon after its arrival, word of its creature that was no less ferocious and strong than the importance to the institute made it south to the office of mascot of any other school of the day. The snowy owl, SAIT’s student newspaper, The Emery Weal. In 1966, its which can be found as far north as the Arctic Circle, is editor decided to act. “We drove to Edmonton, rented a one of North America’s biggest owls at approximately motel room and liberated Ookpik,” says Dan Lind. half a metre tall and with a wingspan of about a metre

68 techlifemag.ca The students broke the glass on the display case It seemed that nothing happened at NAIT without “the Ookpik holding Ookpik (which they later had to pay $50 to Ookpik. replace), and took it to Calgary – making it wear a white In light of that, as preparations began for NAIT’s represented Stampede hat. It was eventually sent back to NAIT in a 50th anniversary celebrations, it was only natural to black shoebox resembling a coffin. want to include the missing mascot. the whole The incident was part of a friendly tradition of “We started an intense search all over campus,” of NAIT and mascot-napping between Alberta’s polytechnics. In says Erin Kuebler, advancement relations officer. “There fact, the hijinks got so heated that NAITSA had a replica was an amazing response from our staff. It didn’t it was a way Ookpik made and placed in a display cabinet for would- matter which program or department you were in – the we could be thieves. The real deal was safely hidden away. Ookpik represented the whole of NAIT and it was a way In the meantime, Ookpik fever spread across we could express our affinity and appreciation for NAIT.” express our campus. The bookstore was named the Ookshop. The NAIT offered a five-course meal for six at Ernest’s, affinity and student pub was called The Nest. In 1977, Frosh Week NAIT’s on-campus fine dining restaurant, as a reward (held in September to welcome new students) was for the tip that would lead to Ookpik’s return. But not appreciation renamed Ook Week. even national media coverage, broadcasting the story Even classes and labs were inspired by Ookpik. to some five million Canadians in every province and for NAIT.” In 1967, the electrical and electronics departments territory, produced a viable lead. Instead, NAIT got other – Erin Kuebler combined their talents to build an electric ookpik more ookpiks – donations of about a dozen dolls from staff advancement than a metre tall. Sitting on four castors and completely and friends of the institute. relations officer covered in sealskin, the robot was manoeuvrable with But none came quite as close to the real thing as wire-controlled brakes and steering. the one from Peggy Richardson. Upon hearing about the

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Left, new Ooks under construction. Right, Inuit elder Peggy Richardson (centre) presents newly made Ookpiks to Dr. Glenn Feltham and NAITSA president Teagan Gahler.

“We are recapturing our past. As we think about where we’ve come from, restoring this symbol is absolutely priceless.”

– Dr. gleNn Feltham, president and ceo

predicament, the NAIT Inuit elder was inspired to create NAITSA president Teagan Gahler. “It’s very important two replicas of the original Ookpik. She was up for the that students have something to identify with when task. Richardson grew up in the 1960s in the community they’re here on our campus,” says Gahler, “and [also] of Hall Beach in what’s now Nunavut, and had a special when they become alumni.” affinity for the bird: “The ookpik is very special to the “We are recapturing our past,” says Feltham. “As Inuit,” she says. “They are our protectors.” we think about where we’ve come from, restoring this As well, her father worked along the Distant Early symbol is absolutely priceless.” Warning line, a system of Arctic radar stations set up NAIT never did find its original mascot. But the Web extra to detect Soviet bombers. He took orders from other quest to locate it undoubtedly brought all of NAIT closer Visit www.nait.ca/nait- workers for hundreds of souvenir ookpiks to be made by to Ookpik and its true meaning to us as an institute. 50th-anniversary-videos his daughter. She used the money to purchase clothes Ookpik is NAIT’s symbol of tradition and strength. to watch a video of NAIT Inuit elder Peggy Richardson from the Sears catalogue – clothes she would later wear More importantly, it continues to unify five decades of making Ookpiks, or scan the to attend NAIT. students, staff and alumni. And it will continue to do so QR code. Richardson presented one Ookpik to NAIT’s for decades to come. What more could you ask from a Need a QR code scanner? See p. 7. president and CEO, Dr. Glenn Feltham, and the other to school mascot?

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Story by Lindsey Norris Photos by Blaise van malsen when the first students enrolled in NAIT’s culinary program in 1963, Jeanette janzen the fine they embarked on “cook’s training” and served food in the aptly, if unremarkably, named Dining Hall. Today, students study culinary arts on the path to becoming chefs – or food writers, stylists, photographers, even researchers. Program chair Stanley Townsend describes the modern chef as a culinary artist producing an “evolving art.” The shift from cook to chef to art of artist speaks to the growth of the program, but also to the changing way we look at food: no longer is it just sustenance on a plate. In recognition of five decades of culinary training at NAIT, we asked the faculty to identify some of the most dramatic food trends of the past half-century. While some have proven to be a flash in the pan, others food have laid the groundwork for the way we eat today.

A period of conflict the 1960s doesn’t often get a lot of respect on the culinary timescale. It was a conflicted period in the kitchen. While technology was bringing more processed, convenience foods to market, it was also, through mass media, making it easier for home cooks to learn traditional techniques. It was the decade that saw the sale of the first countertop microwave and the creation of Cool Whip, the “non-dairy” spread (developed by a chemist, not a chef). But in the same decade, Julia Child and company published Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Soon after, Child’s TV show aired, and people could watch her spend an afternoon preparing beef bourguignon or roast chicken with port wine. For the first time, home cooks were encouraged on a mass scale to produce classic, restaurant-worthy food in their own kitchens.

It doesn’t get much more classically French than this: foie gras terrine paired with apricot chutney.

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The centre of attention by the ’70s, chefs and home cooks alike recognized that food was an opportunity for theatre. While cooking may once have been done in small, closed- off kitchens, roasts carved tableside and elaborate productions involving brandy and flame brought technique into the dining room. “It was the start of the open kitchen that you see more often in restaurants today,” says Teja Atkinson, a chef and instructor’s assistant with the Culinary Arts program. “Food was made right before your eyes, and it was a way to put on the best show, to get the aromas, and even for chefs to one-up each other.” While few home cooks today are regularly setting fire to the dessert, the original concept has taken hold in the open-concept kitchen, which literally brings food to the centre of the home.

Dishes like flambé cherries jubilee brought the action to the dining table.

A tall order if you had to distil 1980s style into one word, you might use big – or, more accurately, tall: tall hair, tall shoulder pads and equally stylized cuisine, which often placed structure and presentation ahead of flavour. Elaborate presentation was a must, and a truly spectacular dish might resemble a Jenga tower on a plate. By the latter half of the decade, flavour was beginning to catch up to presentation in importance. California cooking, or Tex-Mex, marked a continuing march away from classical preparations to a more contemporary approach in the kitchen. “People started veering away from the old masters, and started to invent lighter fare, much stronger in presentation and bolder in flavours,” says Stanley Townsend, Culinary Arts chair. “They were still using the classical methodologies, but they were using non- traditional ingredients.”

With its strong lines and abundant avocado, the Cobb salad combines both the stacked structure and fresh ingredients common in the ’80s.

74 techlifemag.ca The world is your oyster by the 1990s, globalization and the Internet helped of Asian and French fusion, or “Nouvelle Chinoise.” Fast transportation networks contribute to a shrinking world. It became increasingly Meanwhile, growing health consciousness was brought more seafood to Alberta. Here, a grilled salmon steak is easy to travel and experience international cuisines, pushing butter- and cream-laden classics further flavoured with low-calorie lemon as well as ship and import foods. People began to to the back burner. (Interestingly, in the 1996 book and fresh dill. experiment: fusion was big, and Canadian chef Susur Culinary Artistry, 32 celebrity chefs were asked which Lee (NAIT’s third Hokanson Chef in Residence) 10 ingredients they would take with them to a desert earned international recognition for his interpretation island. Only three listed butter; half listed olive oil.)

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Back to basics farm to fork. Nose to tail. Slow food. Is it a coincidence that modern food trends can be condensed to such simple phrases? Elevated cooking today is remarkable for what it isn’t: complicated, over-seasoned, elaborate. It’s taken a few years, but today a bottle of locally produced cold-pressed canola oil can respectfully take its place on the counter alongside the imported Greek olive oil. In 2005, NAIT’s newly renovated Hokanson Centre for Culinary Arts began training students on some of the highest-tech equipment available in the food realm, though it’s used to produce some very old-school concepts. “Right now, we’re focusing on seasonal ingredients and nose-to-tail books, so more utilization of what may not be considered prime cuts of meat,” explains Atkinson.

How to combine local, seasonal cuisine into one soup bowl? Try French onion soup, a recipe that has stood the test of time.

The future what’s next for food? Atkinson and Townsend Shaken or stirred? believe many trends that exist today will continue. NAIT Food Services has turned one of the quintessential before-dinner drinks Townsend also predicts that people will become more into a commemorative cocktail to celebrate the institute’s golden anniversary. health conscious and move away from big portions. Whether you prefer your martini shaken or stirred, this one is perfect for your They’ll become more concerned with sustainable next dinner party, or better yet – class reunion. products and cleaner flavours that highlight the ingredient. People will eat seasonally and locally more often, and The NAITini make more sustainable choices. If he’s right, it’s quite 15 ml (½ oz) blueberry juice possible that what we eat for dinner 50 years from now 45 ml (1½ oz) vodka will bear more resemblance to food from the 1860s than 15 ml (½ oz) triple sec from the 1960s – though with a lot less butter. 15 ml (½ oz) lime juice

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TIME CAPSULE As part of the NAIT@50 celebrations, we’re asking alumni, staff, students, friends and supporters to help produce a time capsule that will be opened on NAIT’s 100th anniversary. The capsule will represent our first half-century of success as well as this milestone year. Contact Erin Kuebler at 780.471.8499 or [email protected] if you have something to STAY CONNECTED contribute. For more information, To ensure you don’t miss out on visit www.nait.ca/nait50. the latest benefits and events, keep your contact information current. To make updates, visit 2www.nait.ca/alumniconnection or email [email protected]. 150th anniversary merchandise Show your Ook pride by getting 50th anniversary gear. Gadgets, Alumni office supplies and clothing can recognition be purchased at the Bookstore awards on Main Campus or online at www.nait.ca/onlinestore. Celebrate 50 years of student success by nominating a deserving alumnus for an alumni recognition award. Application deadline is Dec. 31, 2012. For more information, 3 4visit www.nait.ca/alumniawards. GIVE BACK Show your appreciation of NAIT by making a $50 donation www.waiward.com during our 50th anniversary year. Donations can be designated for programs, emergency bursaries, athletics or new equipment. Donate online at www.nait.ca/donate.

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Financial futures Brawny and When it comes to economic forecasting, NAIT faculty members are brainy among the best. This January, max varela and hardeep gill, JR Shaw Tying with Red Deer College, School of Business finance instructors, won two of six awards given by NAIT led the nation with 10 the Edmonton Chartered Financial Analyst Society for best forecasts. Academic All-Canadian Awards Varela won for the Canadian Equity Index, while Gill most accurately from the Canadian Collegiate pegged the U.S./Canada exchange rate. ellen wilson, chair of business Athletic Association. This in the Department of Continuing Education, was runner-up for the prestigious designation is overall best forecast award. Participants were asked to forecast oil awarded to student-athletes prices, exchange rates, bond yields and other key economic indicators who not only demonstrate for the coming year. outstanding athletic achievement but also attain honours in their academic programs. The Shoe Fits Business Continuing Education business Booster student huseyin mullaoglu won For promoting entrepreneurship, first place in the Business Strategy sandra spencer received the 2012 Game. Over the past year, 43,000 HSBC Woman Leader of Tomorrow post-secondary students in 50 Award for Western Canada in countries operated virtual athletic March. As former president of footwear companies in the NAIT’s Students in Free Enterprise online competition. Participants team, she started the Hatch in the simulation assessed and business competition, which has awarded three winners $20,000 responded to a variety of market each in seed funding and incubation space at NAIT. A Bachelor of conditions in a quest to have Business Administration student, Spencer is also a business manager the most successful business. at novaNAIT – NAIT’s home of applied research and enterprise Mullaoglu won with the overall development. best-performing company.

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besides its 50th, nait is celebrating another anniversary this year – “I just wanted to save it,” he says. The sentimental value appealed and, technically, it’s just as cool. to him: the “flying” NAIT logo, the Big Bird-like mascot, even the name Thirty years ago in Calgary, the men’s Ooks hockey team skated Ookpiks, long since shortened to Ooks. to its first of seven national championship titles, beating Toronto’s But the sign also stood for a remarkable stretch of athletic Seneca College 3 – 0. To help mark the milestone, Brian Stein (Radio achievement, Stein points out. Following that first national win, the and Television Arts ’82, Computer Systems Technology ’88) recently Ooks entered their most storied decade, winning four national titles gave the institute an athletics relic: the Ooks sign that hung in the SAIT and posting a perfect 1984-85 season during a run that included four arena the day of that historic win. Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference championships back to back, At the time, Stein – an inductee into NAIT’s Wall of Fame – was from ’84 to ’87. handling announcing and PR duties for the team, a job for which he That was no small feat, says Stein. The league may have been was recruited by legendary coach Peary Pearn. Still working with the smaller then, he adds, but the other schools weren’t pushovers. “They team in the 1990s when SAIT renovated its rink, Stein saw the sign had rose above the competition,” he says of the NAIT squads. They had come down and asked Trojans’ coaching staff for it. “We brought it back leaders on ice and off, talented recruits and spirited determination. on the team bus,” he says. From there, the four-by-eight plywood sign And, apparently, they had a good luck charm made out of three-

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