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‘THIS IS ALL THE FREEDOM I WANT’ HOW ABDULLAH ALTAMER AND OTHER STUDENTS ARE REBUILDING THEIR LIVES AFTER ESCAPING SYRIA Page 26 WINTER 2017 ON THE COVER VOLUME 73 NUMBER 3 Even the act of walking to school is meaningful to Abdullah Altamer, one of 14 Syrian students who have come to the U of A through the President’s Award for Refugees and Displaced Persons. Page 26 Photo by John Ulan

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We would like to hear your comments about the magazine. Send us your letters by post or email to the addresses on page 4. Letters @medfitconsult: may be edited for length or clarity. I know that smile! Congratulations @LalithaTaylor! My Photographic Memory @UAlbertaAlumni OFFICE OF ALUMNI RELATIONS Graduate Studies @RunGhirl: Things Christopher Michell-Viret, ’83 BSc, @yegSouthsidePCN a small boy’s hand sits neatly Gazing at that old photo of my Sean Price, ’95 BCom I learned about Associate Vice-President ’84 BSc(SpecCert), ’89 MSc on a large book. His other hand is oath of citizenship reminds me @Marty_Chan from lisa workman, ’02 bpe, ’04 ma Greg Latham Law raised with palm facing forward. that I no longer consider myself an Director, Alumni Engagement Simon Foxcroft, ’99 LLB #NewTrailMag: Close by are the boy’s mother, immigrant. I am a Canadian. Tracy Salmon, ’91 BA(Hons), ’96 MSc Medicine Engineer Wannabe? father and younger brother. Director, Alumni Programs Robert Agostinis, ’86 BMedSc, ’88 MD So glad you chose Native Studies It’s 1977 and this family is Coleen Graham, ’88 BSc(HEc), ’93 MEd writing. Great article Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives Carol Wagner, ’06 BA(NativeStuHons) & now I want a taking the oath of Canadian Nursing cinnamon bun citizenship together. The ALUMNI COUNCIL EXECUTIVE Eric Martin, ’09 BSc, ’13 BScN @tkorte: Great to see Kate Young, ’07 BScN, ’15 MBA scene is captured in a black- Alumni Association President susan q @UABearsFootball alum & Ayaz Bhanji, ’91 BSc(Pharm) Pharmacy and-white photo, faded and Past-President Ron Pohar, ’95 BSc(Pharm) coach Jim Lazaruk featured in blurry, its edges curling Mary Pat Barry, ’04 MA Physical Education and Recreation @UAlbertaAlumni New Trail with age. But this image Committee Chair: Alumni Awards Bill Werry, ’73 BA(RecAdmin) #midastouch needed this year Robin Everall, ’92 BA(Spec), ’94 MEd, ’98 PhD is precious to me and a Public Health #GoBears Committee Chair: Alumni Benefits Salima Thawer, ’03 BSc, ’05 Dip(DentHyg), reminder of how lucky I am. Rayan Bou Farraj, ’13 BSc(Spec), ’14 MA ’06 BSc(DentHyg), ’13 MPH terry korte, ’91 bcom, My Sweet Addiction ’94 bed, ’08 med The boy in the photo Committee Chair: Alumni Student Council Rehabilitation Medicine is me. And that moment Eric Martin, ’09 BSc, ’13 BScN Grant Irwin, ’75 BSc, ’79 BSc(PT) I thoroughly support the article “Sweet Cinnamon” by Marty marks the end of a Committee Chair: Community Relations Science Randa Kachkar, ’86 BA(Spec) Ross Lockwood, ’08 BSc(Hons), ’15 PhD Chan. I started my degree in 1974 and was instantly addicted to the harrowing five-year journey. Committee Chairs: Corporate Alumni Relations cinnamon buns in the CAB. This addiction continued when I went MEMBERS AT LARGE On Aug. 4, 1972, the comfortable My journey comes back to me Bill Werry, ’73 BA(RecAdmin) Yasmin Barre, ’09 BSc, ’12 MSc back to complete more study in 1986. Living in New Zealand, they Christy Ciezki, ’02 BSc(Spec), ’09 MEd life my parents had built for me as I look at the photos, starting Ashlyn Bernier, ’06 BSc, ’11 PhD, ’13 MBA have no equivalent to these delicious sticky buns. Scones and jam and my 18-month-old brother was on page 26, of U of A students Committee Chair: Student Experience Ramesh Bhambhani, ’66 BSc, ’68 MSc, ’72 PhD Tyler Hanson ’00 BSc(MechEng) Rick Dowell, ’03 BSc(MechEng), ’09 MBA toppled in an instant. Idi Amin, who fled Syria to start new lives just do not fill the void. I felt homesick reading his article and can Task Force Chairs: Diversity and Inclusion Vivian He, ’08 BCom the ruthless dictator of our home in Canada. The moments from Keith King, ’04 BScN Mark Korthuis, ’07 BA(RecSpoTourism) add that, on many occasions, just the smell of them made me feel Sandra Gawad Gad, ’12 BSc, ’15 MSc Felicia Liang, ’16 BCom, ’16Cert(Intl) able to cope with the full workload I had. country, Uganda, had ordered the their daily routines — walking Andre Prefontaine, ’85 BCom, ’88 BSc(Spec) Board of Governors Representatives expulsion of the country’s Asian to class, making dinner, talking Eli Schrader, ’12 BA(RecSpoTourism) –Teri Nichol, ’87 BEd, Christchurch, New Zealand Mary Pat Barry, ’04 MA Charity Slobod, ’10 BA, ’10 Cert(Trans), ’15 MA population. With almost no notice, with friends — are so ordinary. Glenn Stowkowy, ’76 BSc(ElecEng) Ryan Thompson, ’03 BSc(Hons), ’13 MA we had to leave everything — our But for them, those moments are Senate Representatives Phil Wong, ’85 BSc(Spec) house, the family business, our extraordinary; they are peace. 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ENERGY a decade at the U of A researching the integration Working to Upgrade the Grid of AC and DC circuits in the PUBLIC HEALTH North America’s power needs have moved existing grid. way beyond the traditional AC circuits “The grid was developed TRANS YOUTH Footnotes to deliver mechanically AT HIGHER RISK flip a switch and a light between customers and generated electricity through The first survey of young A brief look at turns on. That simple act utility providers. One of the alternating current, AC, in transgender Canadians what’s new at the U reassures us that all is well goals is to make the grid one direction — from the paints a heartbreaking with the electricity industry. more responsive, efficient generation plant to the user,” picture of their daily Evergreen Park realities, but these same Marks 150th But North America’s and reliable. It will be able Li explains. “But every time we young people can help find power system is due for an to handle the conversion use an electronic device with A new urban park on solutions. “Trans youth are South Campus is the a box [an AC adaptor]attached overhaul, as the century-old and transmission of next- the experts at identifying university’s gift to the electrical grid struggles with generation power sources. to its plug, we’re actually the challenges they face,” community to mark new devices that complicate Li was awarded $2.5 converting that AC current says Kristopher Wells, ’94 the 150th anniversary the energy system, as well as million from the Canada into DC, direct current.” BEd, ’03 MEd, ’11 PhD, author of Confederation. of the Alberta portion of the transition to renewable Foundation for Innovation To further complicate Opened in September, the Canadian Trans Youth Evergreen Park serves power sources. toward construction of the matters, electricity now Health Survey, released in as a public greenspace The solution is a smart $6.27-million Future Smart moves in both directions, mid-October. “When trans and a gathering place grid, says Ryan Li, an electrical Grid Technologies Lab, with solar or wind youth feel cared about, for outdoor ceremonies, and computer engineering expected to be operational installations on the user side they report much lower performances and lectures. The naturalized researcher whose work is in 2018. sending power into a grid levels of distress and better health,” adds Wells, faculty space includes Evergreen helping put the university “A few labs of this type that was never designed director with the Institute for Pond, the Circle arena at the forefront of North exist in Europe and the to receive it, Li says. “All Sexual Minority Studies and stage, walkways and American smart-grid research. United States,” says Li. “But of this requires voltage Services. Findings include: stone benches. Smart grids combine our facility will be uniquely conversion between AC and digital technology with designed … with a focus on DC, which can lower the Grads Have Highest electrical grids to allow the Canadian environment.” efficiency and quality of our 67% Job Rate in Canada two-way communication Li has already spent electricity — and we’re seeing of trans youth aged 18 or U of A grads have the top employment rate it more every year.” younger had considered suicide; almost 41 per cent in Canada and 52nd in The new lab will have had tried at least once. the world, according to a flexible test grid that the 2018 QS Graduate Employability Ranking. encompasses power SPACEMEN Former astronaut Chris Hadfield chats with Charles Nokes, ’16 BSc, Ex-Alta 1 project It also ranked fifth in manager, and other AlbertaSat students about the cube satellite, which launched in April. Hadfield generation, including 71% Canada and 94th in from renewable sources, reported discrimination. visited the university in October as part of World Space Week. Students on the AlbertaSat team are the world in graduate distribution, loads, storage now working on Ex-Alta 2, which will monitor ground conditions in search of hot dry spots in order to employability, based predict where forest fires might begin. It will also examine smoke particles in the air to track the fires. and communication systems. on alumni outcomes, Prototypes will be tested in 81% employer-student connections, employer Canada-specific scenarios. said their family did not understand them. reputation, graduate This means future MENTAL HEALTH employment rate and Canadians will still be able to partnerships with flip on the lights — no matter HOW TO STAY SERENE THIS WINTER employers. A U of A 32% Career Centre survey how the power is generated. had run away from home. Hoping for the holidays to actually feel like a holiday? Want to make it to spring with a spring in your step? Mindfulness — the practice of keeping your mind fully focused on the present in 2015 found 91.4 per cent of alumni who had –kenneth tam with files moment — can help alleviate stress, manage mental health and reduce burnout, says from therese kehler graduated in the previous Catherine Phillips, ’80 BMedSc, ’82 MD, assistant clinical professor in the Department of five years were employed. 70% Psychiatry and a certified mindfulness instructor. She offers these three tips to help you cope experienced sexual with whatever comes your way this winter. –lewis kelly harassment. New Name for QUOTED Phys-ed and Rec The new year will bring a 91% new name to the Faculty “In that moment I realized, ‘if this dude’s of younger respondents STOP AGONIZING CHECK IN of Physical Education who did not seek mental Much of our suffering is Realize you miscounted the and Recreation. As of heart stops beating right now, I’m going health support said it was caused not by pain or stress dinner guests? Pause before Jan. 1, it will become the because they didn’t want itself but by our reaction to NAME IT TO TAME IT you panic. Pay attention to your Faculty of Kinesiology, to know what to do.’ ” their parents to know. it. Mindfulness teaches us to Name negative emotions body and your surroundings, Sport, and Recreation recognize the moment with when you experience them but then finish with several slow, to more accurately –scott lingley Fourth-year nursing student Nena Powell, on putting her training to work aiding one of the victims of an attack on openness, even if that moment remind yourself they will come deliberate breaths. Check in reflect its fields of PHOTO BY DON WHITE / ALAMY pedestrians by the driver of a U-Haul in downtown Edmonton on Sept. 30. TOP PHOTO BY EPIC PHOTOGRAPHY; BOTTOM PHOTO THINKSTOCK is unpleasant. and go like any emotion. like this several times a day. study and research.

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NUMBERS minutes of special instruction three times a week reduced reading difficulties in 97.6% of elementary‑aged children, a study by education develop normally, leading to professor George neurological issues. Georgiou found. “Our findings have 30 potential implications for autism and seizure TRUTH AND disorders that currently RECONCILIATION aren’t treatable — at least INDIGENOUS not by targeting GABA,” says ALUMNI REUNITE Eisenstat, senior author of the More than 20 Indigenous study, published in August in alumni, some of the university’s the Journal of Neuroscience. first Indigenous graduates from He is chair of the Department the ’60s through ’80s, returned of Oncology at the U of A to North Campus at the invitation of the provost’s office as well as a professor in the and Alumni Relations for three departments of Pediatrics days of discussions in October. and Medical Genetics. In addition to sharing GABA is the most stories of their lives and important inhibitory achievements since their time neurotransmitter in the as students, they discussed two proposals: to develop a brain. It is synthesized from grand council of Indigenous PUBLIC HEALTH the chemical glutamate, elders and knowledge keepers MEDICINE the brain’s excitatory to offer wisdom and direction neurotransmitter — and to university leadership in Feeling Sick? Stay Home, Says Expert Insight into Brain Development GABA’s exact opposite — in a implementing the Truth and next time you’re feeling guilty about calling Reconciliation Commission’s Become a Graduate Student Internship Discovery of gene mutation in embryo creates process triggered by the two in sick — don’t, says a nurse practitioner. PREVENTION, genes. Problems occur when calls to action, and to create “For those of us working in a large building or PREVENTION, Program (GSIP) employer by hiring potential for new treatment for brain disorders an Indigenous alumni chapter PREVENTION the two neurotransmitters to strengthen community with the immunocompromised, one of the best a motivated and highly skilled the object of the discovery fall out of sync. ways to prevent infection of others is to stay home,” connections. The best approach is to avoid PhD or master’s student to meet is tiny — a pair of genes in a “GABA tells the brain Those gathered also shared says Susan Prendergast, ’10 MN, a lecturer in the getting sick in the first place, developing embryo — but the to slow down. Glutamate stories with current Indigenous Faculty of Nursing. Staying home is also the best of course. Here are a few tips your organization’s needs. impact could be enormous, tells the brain to speed up. faculty, students and alumni way to take care of yourself, she adds. worth repeating: with the potential to find new A healthy brain is found about the work done in the Corporate polls suggest more than 50 per cent GSIP is a simple, flexible, matching ’60s and ’70s to create many of therapies to treat seizures or in the balance,” Eisenstat of Canadians don’t call in sick when they’re ill, and the Indigenous programs and Getting a flu shot is among the funds employment initiative. some types of autism. explains. “If, going back to services that exist today. guilt is one of the biggest reasons, Prendergast says. top ways to stay healthy, says A team led by David “OUR FINDINGS these diseases, we have a Further discussions are “A lot of people feel they will be judged for staying Prendergast. Eisenstat, a medical genetics HAVE POTENTIAL better idea of how to balance planned. –karen sherlock home. But everyone needs to understand that other researcher, focused on two IMPLICATIONS glutamate and GABA, we people’s health is at risk,” she says. “If there aren’t Washing your hands thoroughly HIRE A GRADUATE STUDENT TODAY specific genes — DLX1 and FOR AUTISM could potentially come up financial or other urgent reasons for going to work and often is important, says DLX2 — that are known to with new therapies.” QUOTED when sick, then don’t.” Nicholas Ashbolt, a professor uab.ca/GSIP AND SEIZURE in the School of Public Health. regulate the creation of a DISORDERS.” About 25 per cent of “We must ensure Keeping your germs to yourself is especially [email protected] chemical in the brain called children with autism also important given predictions of a particularly bad There’s evidence to indicate fewer than five per cent of gamma-aminobutyric acid. David Eisenstat, have a seizure disorder. The that the debate and cold and flu season in Canada. medical genetics researcher people are doing a proper job GABA plays a role in brain reason is not well understood, clash of ideas so Prendergast would like to see more research handwashing, he adds. GSIP is made possible by a development. he says. “But this hypothesis inherent to discovery on prevention measures aimed at reducing virus Government of Alberta grant. The research team is worth further testing.” of new knowledge transmission in workplaces — including encouraging Make sleep and rest a top discovered that even during Eisenstat hopes the employees to stay home when they’re sick — and on can take place priority, Prendergast suggests. the first few months of research has opened a within a space of how they would affect productivity. The stay-home gestation, the genes are pathway that could lead to intellectual freedom message also needs to be promoted by government already regulating GABA drugs to treat developmental to bring about a shift in attitudes — especially in the Make time for stress-reducing activities, she adds. “I can’t synthesis. But if the two brain disorders and and integrity.” business world, she says. emphasize enough how genes mutate, GABA hopes other researchers “We need policy to encourage a culture shift so U of A President David Turpin, important it is to keep your production is disrupted will build on this new during his 2017 State of the people take the day off, when possible, instead of stress levels low during cold

and the brain will not knowledge. –ross neitz University address TOP LEFT PHOTO BY PANTHER MEDIA GMBH / ALAMY THINKSTOCK infecting others.” –lesley young and flu season.”

8 ualberta.ca/newtrail new trail winter 2017 9 }extra credit Don’t Forget the Helmet Telescoping Arms Safety first, Santa. “To avoid lit fireplaces or chance “He’s flying around out encounters with children, he could there and could get hit use a telescoping arm, with a camera with a drone!” Give Santa a Hand. Or Two in the palm, so he could do a flyby and Anne Bissonnette, Santa could use the new HANDi just launch the presents down the dress historian Hand technology that Patrick Pilarski and chimney. The arm would look around his colleagues are developing. “He’d be very the room through the camera and hands-on; you could imagine him with many position the presents under the tree, HANDi Hands.” Painted red and coated then pop back out.” –Pilarski with heat-resistant Kevlar, the additional appendages could allow many presents to be, er, hand-delivered simultaneously. “He could put himself in many places at once.” Patrick Pilarski, ’09 PhD, machine intelligence researcher

Layer, Layer, Layer Here comes Santa Claus, with his Santa’s not Santa without his famous suit, but it needs jelly belly and his sleigh full of toys some tweaking to stand up to severe wind chills. He and his tiny reindeer, just as expected. should take a cue from Inuit wisdom and line the inside of his coat with fur. “The two densities trap the air inside But what if the jolly old elf wanted to and keep you really warm — this is perfect for Santa.” jingle his way into the 21st century? For an outer layer, try Gore-Tex, a waterproof, windproof, Get more high-tech with his gear? breathable fabric. – Bissonnette Technology has evolved enough to upgrade everything from his bright red suit to his soaring sleigh. We asked three U of A researchers what they’d put under Santa’s tree this Christmas.

By Bev Betkowski Illustration by Michael Byers

Stealth Suit Only the most observant of children would spot Santa in a metamaterial suit of active camouflage. His suit would be studded with tiny cameras that would take video of the surroundings and project it back onto the material. “It would be like a Harry Potter cloak.” Wear-Resistant Runners John Nychka, ’97 BSc, materials engineer The runners on Santa’s new sleigh would need to withstand wear and extreme temperatures, and modern science offers a few options: tungsten carbide and silicon nitride, wear-resistant materials used in metal-cutting tools; or boron carbide, the same material used in bulletproof vests. –Nychka

Hypersonic Sleigh Santa should consider a hypersonic scramjet engine, which has no moving parts but travels at nearly 10 times the speed of sound, meaning he could fly around the Earth in less than 31/2 hours. It’s still in the prototype stage, but perhaps NASA would let Santa test it out. Rudolph and his friends could still help with liftoff. –Nychka

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had been violently torn asunder. It was handed) was a useless sandbag roughly so far, before seeing my physio again — at immediately clear to me that something stitched to my torso. A couple of weeks which point she would tell me to keep bad had happened. The sound was so into rehab I wondered if I’d ever be able moving at the same pace. Over the course unnatural it made me queasy. The pain to lift a cup of coffee again, let alone play of months, I rarely seemed to make any was intense. I couldn’t lift my arm above sports or garden. (Although not having noticeable leaps, but one day my physio shoulder height. It felt like some ogre to vacuum or drive kids around was a announced I was ready for pushups. I had torn my arm off and was beating my minor compensation.) was astonished. The overt moral of the socket with the stump. And let’s keep things in perspective: it fable, I guess, is obvious — that slow and Of course, I finished the match. was a sports injury. People are suffering steady wins the race — but the greater Hey, I never said I was the most from real injuries and real tragedies insight for me was how difficult it cerebral athlete. Afterwards, one of my every day all around us; those are actually is to go slow and steady. It’s not teammates, a physiotherapist, did a things that truly matter. Nevertheless, the easy way out. Don’t ever be fooled quick assessment, subjecting my arm the situation presented itself as an by someone who says they plod along; and shoulder to a series of peculiar and opportunity to see life through a they probably know exactly what they’re painful tests. “My quick assessment,” he different lens. I had a lot of time to doing and it wouldn’t be such a bad idea said, “is that you’re screwed, buddy.” think and to live in ways I normally to follow along at the same speed. He was right. An MRI revealed a wouldn’t. On holidays in the Okanagan, And although I’d rather have been severe tear of the rotator cuff, the set I’d typically have been running, cycling, golfing, cycling and running, there were EMPEY LECTURE of muscles and tendons that keep your golfing, water-skiing. I couldn’t do any other rewards to taking it slow that I’d shoulder in place and allow you to do of those things, so I went on long, slow never have otherwise uncovered. I guess things like … well, like everything. And walks. I studied the effect of the breeze for lack of a better word, I was forced Celebrating 100 Years of Human it wasn’t just one torn tendon, but two. I on the lake. I learned the names of a into a more intense “noticing” of my also had a badly damaged bicep, as well couple of plants. I went on a couple of environment. I admit these are perhaps Ecology & Home Economics as various bone spurs. The fully torn long hikes. I conducted a longitudinal idiosyncratic observations, but I noticed tendon had retracted back behind my research program into why a martini how little noticing actually takes place in shoulder blade and would soon shrivel tastes so much better at 5 p.m. than it our world. I had to take the bus around •••••••••••••••••••••••• up like an old piece of bacon if not does at 9. town for six weeks, being unable to drive, repaired. It was decided surgery had to It wasn’t exactly sudden, but and I saw well-behaved but self-absorbed happen right away. somehow I ended up looking at the teens who missed an opportunity to offer A look at the history, accomplishments and future The surgery was like a TV show, and I world in a slower and perhaps more a seat to a senior. Unable to type or write, was both observer and participant. After contemplative way, although no one is I sat in coffee shops where I saw friends directions of Home Economics/Human Ecology. the needle went in, the anesthesiologist ever going to mistake me for a Buddhist who must have taken the time to get told me to count to 10, laughing that I monk. One day a couple weeks after the together but who then spent it checking wouldn’t make it. I counted to five and surgery, sitting at home trying to figure their phones. Philosophers have often Presented by: Dr. Sherry Ann Chapman turned my head to her to say, somewhat out how I was going to get out of a chair, talked of the ability to see deeply into worried, that it wasn’t working. I opened I actually did stare at my belly button the reality of the world. The reality that my mouth and then woke up in the post- for a few minutes. 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And I like Trying to sit up to get out of bed and go steps rather than leaps, progressing by to hope that I’ll stay there. to the bathroom — picture Napoleon the subtlest of degrees, making sure part Having said all that, my physio says crossing the Alps in the winter — drove 1 was achieved before moving to part 2. my shoulder should be strong enough by Watch from anywhere in the world: home what I was going to have to learn I am probably like most people in that I January to return to squash. I can’t wait to make it through the next year with am patient in some ways and impatient to get back on the court. The guy that did livestream.com/ualberta both shoulder and mind strong enough in others, but this enforced patience in this to me is toast. to use. I was in a sling for six weeks and recovery became almost meditative. never slept more than an hour or two I would routinely do the same 10 or Curtis Gillespie has written five books, including the novel Crown Shyness, and has earned seven at a time. The pain was constant and, at 12 exercises over and over, every day, National Magazine Awards. He lives in Edmonton times, sharp. My right arm (I’m right- hundreds of them at a time, pushing only with his wife and their two daughters.

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by Todd Babiak

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It’s successful! In the past few years I’ve been delighted by the opportunity to think about and fall in love with my school: its origin, its firsts, its inventions, but primarily its people. The U of A, at its best, is a distillation of my hometown at its best. For a long time, this place was isolated and far from easy imports. We worked together, solved our own problems, and when these solutions were ready we took them to the world. It’s still happening. Writing for New Trail has helped me take the school apart and put it back together again in my small way, every few months. Readers have been kind enough to send me suggestions, ideas, complaints and corrections — and new trails. The year I graduated from the U of A, I could not have imagined doing what I am doing today: in business, in the arts, as a volunteer, as a dad. But the books I read and how I read them, the ways I spectacularly failed and modestly succeeded, my friends and my professors, The Gateway and Dewey’s, and the odd A Place of Pride meditative hour on the grass between the Business building, the Arts building, THERE IS VALUE IN CONTEMPLATING THE IMPACT OF HUB and Rutherford Library: these OUR EDUCATION AND THE PLACES THAT MAKE IT POSSIBLE all helped make much of what is good about my life possible. Sometimes the y job allows me the opportunity to visit American cities from time U of A lets me down, but only because to time and to have dinner with clients. I understand why we break the university taught me to understand bread together and I enjoy it, but the potential for awkwardness is its potential. always in the air when we try to manufacture intimacy. This is my last column in the magazine, There’s weather and kids and dogs and the work we’re doing but it has been a genuine honour to learn together. We avoid politics, wherever possible. While I might veer about my university and its people in the into travel or the cities I have lived in and love, Americans prefer to talk about their act of writing Whatsoever Things Are Malma mater. True. I’ll continue learning, in my informal They do it with ease and enormous pride. They know exactly what to say, even yet obsessive way. when they feel their university is losing its way. They continue to follow and support I’m writing this from Australia. their school, financially and emotionally. Even if they now live far away from the Tonight, I will have a glass of wine with University of Michigan or Rutgers or Georgia Tech or Princeton, they follow their clients and — after defending Canadian sports teams the way Canadians follow NHL. weather, deciphering hockey and In the U.S., your college doesn’t say something about you. Fair or not, your college showing pictures of my wife and kids take a moment to examine this piece of art. Certainly says everything about you. and dog — I know just what to say about you noticed it when you turned to this page — it is, after all, I’m glad that Canadian universities don’t put us in an inescapable status box. the U of A. Words and Images a striking image — but then, like most readers, you probably Yet we could do a much better job of preparing one another for what our school Thanks, everyone. Go Bears! jumped right to the headline, looking for more information. means — what makes it different and special, what it does to the world. Go Pandas! There is a magic that happens when So now go back to the image and take the time to really look Before I began writing for New Trail, I admit I had trouble participating in these you place words alongside a picture. at it. Examine the colours, the layering. Take in the different Todd Babiak, ’95 BA, works at a strategy company conversations. It wasn’t as though I wasn’t a proud graduate of the U of A. I just called Story Engine. His latest work of fiction,Son of Understanding the interplay can enrich elements and how they are working together. Think about VIRUS #1 COURTESY OF THE ARTIST OF VIRUS DETAIL didn’t think too much about it, apart from empty superlatives. It’s great! It’s large! France, is published by HarperCollins. SELENA PHILLIPS-BOYLE BY MILIC; DUSHAN ILLUSTRATION BY PHOTO the way we see and think what the image means to you before you turn the page.

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“The production of art gives people access to think about [the topic] in a broader way.” Now, how does that meaning change when I Sean Caulfield, Centennial Professor tell you that this work of of Fine Arts art is called Virus #1? Are you rethinking how you interpreted each of the elements? One more detail: this image was created for a book called The Vaccination Picture. As you process that last bit of information, examine once more what you think this piece of art is Alberta Libraries and the trying to convey. Faculty of Graduate Studies It’s probably safe to say and Research. More than 100 that with every new detail, students submitted images you moved further away in 2017, and New Trail is from your own interpretation featuring the winning entries. and closer to understanding Why ask researchers the artist’s intention. This to turn their work into is the magic of words and images? Academic writing images, says Charity Slobod, can sometimes be a barrier ’10 BA, ’10 Cert(Trans), ’15 MA. when researchers share “Words help anchor the their work with the public, image and bring context says Slobod, who works and meaning to a more with the professional universal understanding development team for the and the author’s intention,” Faculty of Graduate Studies says Slobod, who studied and Research. Art can Canadian comic book invite conversation with translation for her master’s non-experts in a way that in Modern Languages and academic studies in peer- Cultural Studies. reviewed journals can’t. An image by itself has “The production of art a very open meaning, she gives people access to think explains. The vascular system about [the topic] in a broader might mean one thing to way,” says Sean Caulfield, a nurse and something ’92 BFA, ’96 MFA, Centennial completely different to an Professor of Fine Arts. He engineer. But once you add created Virus #1 and other words alongside the image, pieces for The Vaccination the meaning becomes Picture, a book by his brother, narrower, more closed. Timothy Caulfield, ’87 BSc, ’90 In the case of the images LLB, director of the U of A’s you see on the facing page Health Law and Science through page 25, the artists Policy Group. The book pairs € are graduate students seeking art and science to debunk the Self Portrait in 2045 The image depicts a robotic hand expressing its identity through self-portraiture, challenging to capture the essence of myths about vaccinations. First Prize (Tie) the viewer to reconsider a prosthetic hand as merely a crude replacement. While this level of dexterity and intelligence is still beyond the capabilities of prosthetic limbs, it is entirely their academic work in one “At a certain point, data Dylan Brenneis, ’16 BSc(MechEng) possible that in the future, such a self-portrait won’t be far-fetched. The Bionic Limbs for striking image, with a title don’t change minds,” says Master of science student in the Department of Improved Natural Control (BLINC) Lab is dedicated to restoring lost limb function to amputee and short description. This Sean Caulfield. Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering patients — not only physical movement but also sensations of touch and spatial orientation. expertise-stretching task was “Telling a story can Image created with Michael (Rory) Dawson, ’08 My research focuses on creating devices such as the featured hand, which has a camera set before them in the Images open up dialogue. It can BSc(MechEng), ’11 MSc, Jaden Travnik, ’15 BSc(Spec), integrated into the palm, to change the way people think about prosthetic limbs. By including of Research competition, encourage viewers to look and Patrick Pilarski, ’09 PhD, in the Bionic Limbs for features such as on-board cameras, telescoping limbs or interchangeable tools, I am exploring organized by University of in a new way.” –lisa cook Improved Natural Control Lab, University of Alberta what is possible when we don’t restrict ourselves to humanoid forms.

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€ I Am Not Alone First Prize (Tie) Camelia Vokey Master of science student in the Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine Image created by Artur Merkulov on Whyte Avenue, Edmonton

The eyes tell it all. In the company of a dog, this military veteran can begin to move beyond the debilitating memories and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. My research explores the effectiveness of animal- assisted therapy in treating PTSD. All humans benefit from animal interaction, and the use of animals in therapy is growing. Spending time with dogs and other animals increases levels of the hormone oxytocin, which is associated with reducing stress, anxiety, sleep disturbances and social isolation. People yearn for the “free zone” that a dog provides — free from judgment, criticism, rejection, punishment, evaluation and unsolicited advice. For veterans, caring for a dog can decrease trauma-inflicted anxiety, loneliness, stress and anger. A dog encourages them to trust and feel safe again and helps them regain their self-confidence and self- esteem. This bond is not only a key to escape from desolation but also the beginning of a faithful friendship.

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My research focuses on our relationship with the environment. I’m concerned The peripheral nervous system, a fragile network easily injured by trauma, damage with what I call “nature-culture dislocation” — how we have distanced ourselves or disease, is capable of regeneration but it can be limited and incomplete. My work € as a culture from the realities of the planet we live on. We curate everything that € involves investigating the biochemical pathway that may act as “brakes” in preventing the Wonder-Trail in Blue and Yellow surrounds us, and photography is a great example of how this occurs in modern Outgrowth regeneration of axons — slender, information-transmitting fibres that project from a nerve Third Prize life. I use photographs, my own or those taken by others, and then embellish them People’s Choice Award cell. An example might be regulatory mechanisms designed to prevent cells from growing using print, painting or drawing media. I also get inspiration from topographical out of control. Finding ways to block these mechanisms could improve the growth of Noemi de Bruijn Trevor Poitras, ’16 BSc(Spec), maps, where the contrast of art and science reflects the dislocation I speak of in my neurons and the chances of a functional recovery. This image shows a dissociated sensory Master of fine arts student in the Master of science in neuroscience student research. By altering the horizon lines of the landscape, I hope to entice the viewer to neuron culture from a rat’s dorsal root ganglion, which is being tested to determine Department of Art & Design, Faculty of Arts in the Neuroscience and Mental Health have a second look and to reconsider what they are seeing in the imagery. When that whether drugs or particular molecules can cause neurons to grow new projections. These Institute, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry Image created at Abraham Lake, Alta., happens, I feel that I have achieved a reconnection to the landscape and the land, types of experiments are important for developing clinical treatments that can help repair and developed at the University of Alberta and I believe that makes my work worthwhile. Image created at the University of Alberta peripheral nerve damage.

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Historians rely overwhelmingly on written sources, interpretation and analysis to examine La distancia que nos aproxima, “the distance that brings us closer,” is a ritual dance € past events. My doctoral dissertation explores consumer behaviour in 17th-century piece dedicated to my friend Nadia Vera, a Mexican dancer, activist and anthropologist. ‘Divers cullort ribbans’: Material Scotland. I use everyday documents that people created — diaries, household account € Before her 2015 murder in Mexico City, Vera believed the arts could influence social Evidence From the Archives books, receipts and letters — to understand how average Scots lived their material lives. Body as a Home transformation. My PhD focuses on Indigenous rituals and performing art, and this piece, Honourable Mention This photograph illustrates a rare occurrence in my research, where both the written and Honourable Mention created at the university’s Arts-Based Research Studio, is a reflection of my interactions material evidence exist in a single source. An Edinburgh woman wrote this letter in 1660 to a with other artists, Indigenous peoples, activists and scientists. In it, I explore an Ashley Sims, ’13 MA Camille Renarhd (Burger) cloth merchant in London requesting “1 ell” (94 centimetres) of a specific red velvet ribbon. underscore of jumps and voice, finding physical and emotional engagement in a body that Doctor of philosophy student in the Doctor of philosophy student in the Generally, I can only imagine the particulars of the desired goods or hope something similar is resilient, explosive, alive. How can we continue to dance with a missing part of us — with Department of History and Classics, Department of Drama, Faculty of Arts has survived in a museum. But 357 years ago, the writer included a cutting of the ribbon, our grief, our sadness — and transform it? Jenny Abouav took this photo as I was jumping Faculty of Arts giving me direct access to the object — and further connecting modern historian and Image created with Jenny Abouav in front of a blue square projection. My body is dissolving into the light, losing its human Image created in Edinburgh, Scotland historical figure. This photograph shows just how familiar and accessible the past can be. at the University of Alberta shape, transformed in an abstract landscape.

24 ualberta.ca/newtrail new trail winter 2017 25  Bashar Aldyab, Ahmad Al-Hariri and Abdullah Altamer (from left) chat with friends at that most Canadian of locales, Tim Hortons. Tim locales, of Canadian most that at friends with chat left) (from Altamer Abdullah and Al-Hariri Ahmad Aldyab, Bashar 26 ualberta.ca/newtrail activities take onnew are puttingtheirlives hanging with friends. hanging withfriends. Syrian refugees who Cooking, studying, meaning for three Words by Omar Mouallem back together as These mundane These mundane

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27 SEEN Aldyab had received the University of Alberta President’s Award for Refugees and Displaced Persons. He was going to Canada. Bashar Aldyab read the first three words “I’ve been here a year and I still can’t believe it,” says the of the email, “We are pleased … ,” and threw 27-year-old science student on a fall afternoon, lounging in his HUB Mall apartment with a view of the food court. Bhis phone. The Syrian refugee living in His roommate Ahmad Al-Hariri nods in agreement. He also Jordan did not speak English well enough got the full scholarship, which, along with the World University to know the nuances of the word “please” Service of Canada’s resettlement program, gives them and assumed the letter from the World permanent residency and puts them on a path to citizenship in as few as four years. “It was too good to be true,” he says. “We do University Service of Canada was yet believe we did something good in our life, maybe helping other another rejection. Since leaving Syria in people, so God rewarded us.” After a brutal war uprooted their 2013 during his fourth year of dentistry at lives, halted their educations, killed relatives and dispersed their families across Asia and Europe, it’s not surprising that Damascus University — prompted by two any good fortune might seem like an act of God. wrongful arrests and detentions — Aldyab The Syrian conflict, which started during the 2011 Arab had applied for three scholarships and Spring with protests against an oppressive regime that has ruled was thrice turned down. By this point, now for 46 years, has become a proxy war for various militias and nations, including Russia, the United States, Saudi Arabia he was so accustomed to misfortune and Iran. To date almost half a million people have died and 12 that the possibility of anything else was million people have been displaced — comparable to the number  COOKING WITH FRIENDS Though they come from a region with a rich culinary culture, cooking isn’t natural for of people who fled Germany during the Second World War. these men. As this is their first time living without their mothers, it’s also their first time making their own meals, a impossible to imagine. Finally, after five lesson all the more necessary since restaurant prices are five times what they’re used to. Ahmad Al-Hariri, having The conflict hit the front page in Canada after the death of minutes had passed, he read the full email: worked as a prep cook in Jordan, is more skilled but he still relies on YouTube videos and messaging his mom for recipes. a three-year-old boy in September 2015. Alan Kurdi drowned Together the young men have learned to make thick lentil soup, a spicy chicken and rice dish called kabsa, and fattet, “We are pleased to offer you a sponsorship after his family’s raft capsized during an escape attempt to a hummus and pita-bread pudding. They leave Friends on the television in the background; it’s like having free for the 2016-2017 academic year.” Greece. The image of his body washed up on a beach sparked English‑language lessons. (Facing page, from left: Ahmad Al-Hariri and Bashar Aldyab; above: Aldyab and Al-Hariri.)

28 ualberta.ca/newtrail new trail winter 2017 29 outrage around the world. The U of A scholarship was created shortly after that incident and prompted nearly $8,700 in donations. “I believe Alan Kurdi is the reason we are here,” says Abdullah Altamer, another recipient of the President’s Award, who lived with Aldyab and Al-Hariri until moving into his own apartment downtown. In total, 14 people have received the President’s Award over the past two years, and these students are now starting to get a foothold in Canadian life. Years of turmoil crushed their plans for the future, but now their lives are developing again like a rediscovered roll of film.

ach of the images on these pages is a single frame in a single second E of the last 10 months in the lives of three men who sought refuge in Canada. It captures them as they create support networks, seek new friends of similar interests, adjust to new customs and rekindle their interrupted ambitions. It also captures them learning to live independently for the first time — as when they try to replicate family recipes with the long-distance guidance of their mothers, who are still in Jordan. These pictures show mundane tasks because that’s what peace is. Peace is a calmness that creates space in the mind to imagine a future. It’s the ability to walk through a green park, safely. To play an organized soccer game with friends and strangers, safely. To drive to the mountains or a farmers market, safely. (And without travel documents.) “This is all the freedom I want,” says Altamer, now a second-year engineering student.  A STUDENT'S LIFE Before the He describes his last years as civil war in Syria, the recipients of living in two distinct prisons. In the President’s Award were living Syria, his liberties were inhibited by purposeful lives with the means and danger — where even walking to school ambition to obtain university degrees. could be deadly and some of his friends For them, their lives are less about starting over than about picking up and family were killed or arrested. As and moving forward in a safe place. a refugee in Jordan, his liberties were “I think that I’m now settled down restricted by having to work 48 hours a and have no trouble,” says Abdullah week on top of his course load to be able Altamer (above, in a class). “The only to afford to study. Now, in Edmonton, trouble I have is studying trouble.” he has regained leisure and stability but not without consequence. He can’t stay home long without getting anxious,

30 ualberta.ca/newtrail new trail winter 2017 31 he says. The freedom outside is too intoxicating — even when the weather the freedom a second arrest, too. Yet, as a second-year U of A student planning for a is frigid — and the four walls inside can drive his mind back to dark places. outside is too career in dental hygiene, he says he feels like a coward. This is what the camera can’t capture: emotional subtleties like intoxicating and “I don’t like fighting, but when your family is killed, when your people post‑traumatic stress or survivor’s guilt, an insidious consequence of the four walls are killed, you should have to do something. But this is what I do now. I can freedom regained. inside can drive take my revenge by helping bring Syrian people to get an education.” He his mind back to recently helped two friends apply successfully for World University Service ot long after Aldyab witnessed the first crackdown on protesters, dark places. of Canada scholarships. in 2011, police came for him and his cousin while they were Getting here, though, is just the beginning. Adaptation is a slow N sleeping; as males of battle age they were considered potential process. Take something as simple as offering a cup of coffee to a friend: recruits for the rebels. He was rounded up with hundreds, possibly Canadians will either accept or decline. But in Middle Eastern countries, the friend is expected to decline — even if they want the coffee — and only accept it after repeated insistence. (Persians call this taarof and it confuses

 ON THE JOB A stock clerk job at No Frills has done more than provide supplemental income for Ahmad Al-Hariri (right). It has allowed him to make friends and build a community. In Jordan, where he lived as a refugee before coming to Canada, there is a massive class division between the growing Syrian refugee population and Jordanian nationals. As in other areas where the population feels overwhelmed by migrants, workplace exploitation is rampant, say the students. thousands of other men, he says, and beaten all the way to the detention  OPEN AIR Abdullah Altamer shops for artisanal Bashar Aldyab recalls an even the savviest travellers.) The overnight change to rules of society centre. There, he was blindfolded, interrogated and burned with jam at an Edmonton farmers market. At home in employer in Amman, Jordan, such as these young people have experienced can result in unintentional Syria, civil war made simply leaving the house a risky denying him a chair during something hot enough to leave permanent scars. The cell was crowded endeavour. Two of his friends were killed — one by 12-hour shifts as a receptionist. offences for both parties, though there are fewer every day for the three with so many prisoners that men slept on their sides in a position they a rocket, another by kidnappers — and two And whereas his Jordanian friends. “I love the Canadian way,” says Al-Hariri, “that when you say ‘Yes’ called “the sword.” cousins were arrested five years ago and never colleagues were paid monthly, you mean yes and when you say ‘No’ you mean no.” “I was expecting death at any time,” he says. heard from again. Canada has returned peace to he was paid every two or They’re also beginning to understand the many degrees of “please” Aldyab was released 27 days later and 26 pounds lighter. He stumbled the students’ lives, but it has also introduced an three months. “They told me and become fluent in Canada’s particular brand of politeness. This, too, through the streets in an altered state, frightening passersby, until a unfamiliar loneliness that comes with individualism. if I took one day off, they’d takes adjusting. “Sometimes they make me feel like I’m a bad person,” says Canadians, to the Syrian friends, don’t drop by the replace me. They enslaved pitying taxi driver took him home. Aldyab. “It’s always ‘sorry this, please that.’ ” What seems like a courtesy to house or call to hang out unexpectedly. Altamer us,” says Aldyab, who has That he recovered enough to return to university in Syria is says he’s often the one who takes the initiative. found meaningful work in most of us could feel like an overwhelming pressure to be perfect, he says. astonishing. Nobody would have blamed him for taking off then or, like “And if no one responds, I will go by myself. I can’t Edmonton as a translator and “But you know,” adds Al-Hariri, “we’re starting to hold doors now and his cousin, joining the rebellion and dying in combat. Aldyab survived stay at home all day. It makes me nervous.” university soccer referee. say sorry for everything, too.”

32 ualberta.ca/newtrail new trail winter 2017 33  THE BEAUTIFUL GAME Recreational soccer at the Butterdome is a fulfilling activity for when your Bashar Aldyab (pictured, below), who played regularly with friends in Damascus until the family is killed, civil war made it unsafe. But there have been some adjustments in Canada. The teams are “ when your people unisex, for one. But it’s the non-competitive spirit that frustrates him, like seeing a player apologize to a goalie for scoring on him. “They tell me, ‘Hey, relax man, we came just for are killed, you fun,’” he says. “I’m like, ‘Guys, no, we have to win!’” One memory he cherishes is an informal should have to do game during the World Indigenous Nations Games near Edmonton last summer. An Enoch something. Cree Nation player told him: “This is our land and we welcome you. If any Canadian tells you –bashar aldyab to go back home, just tell them it’s not their land.” ”

 A WALK WITH FRIENDS Abdullah Altamer (right) and other Syrian students volunteered in September to welcome five more recipients of the President’s Award for Refugees and Displaced Persons. They’re happy to extend the same hospitality they were shown. “When I got off the plane, I found people holding signs, ‘Welcome Abdullah to Canada,’” Altamer says. The student volunteers helped him get his U‑Pass card, apply for engineering, connect him with his advisers. “And then they invited me into their homes for Thanksgiving.” Bashar Aldyab adds, “We must have done something really good in life to deserve this, so that gave us the motivation to help people again.”

34 ualberta.ca/newtrail new trail winter 2017 35 CREATOR: Gary Stringam, professor emeritus DATE: 1 1995 IMPACT: Rescued Canada’s fledgling canola industry, now worth more than $20 billion to the economy

By Habib Rahman quantum

Every computer in the world today owes a debt to a tiny but vital discovery by a U of A grad. Discover canola five groundbreaking objects that you might be ➤ I was a plant breeder in surprised have a U of A connection and hear from Europe in the 1990s, with a small part of my breeding experts about their national, global and activities in Canada. At sometimes very personal impact. the time, canola was a burgeoning industry in Canada, worth millions of dollars to farmers, and blackleg disease posed a very serious threat. The fungus attacked the plant, rotting the stem at ground level, cutting off nutrients to the rest of FIVE OBJECTS the plant and resulting in as much as 30 per cent crop yield losses. Researchers were racing to find a solution. Then Gary Stringam discovered a blackleg-resistance gene THAT CHANGED in an Australian canola and used biotechnology to create the blackleg-resistant cultivar Quantum. The new cultivar also produced OUR LIVES very high yields. Bingo! It was like winning the lottery for farmers and the PHOTOS BY JOHN ULAN canola industry. Canola today contributes more than $20 billion to Canada’s economy, and the blackleg- resistance gene is still found in many canola cultivars.

Habib Rahman is a crop scientist in the U of A Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science.

36 ualberta.ca/newtrail new trail winter 2017 37 CREATOR: Kelly James, ’81 BSc(MechEng) DATE: 1991 3 IMPACT: Allows more than 70,000 amputees around the world to walk with a safer and more natural gait

By Adele Fifield c-leg prosthetic ➤ I was 13 in 1979 when I lost my leg to cancer, and my first prosthesis had a pretty basic CREATOR: hinge-type knee. I remember Ray Lemieux, ’43 BSc, trying to walk on it out to the end ’91 DSc (Honorary) of our roadway, to hang out with DATE: friends. It had rained and, honest 1953 to goodness, I fell three times. 2 I had to go change my clothes. IMPACT: “It was years before When you’re young, you adapt, Laid the foundation I thought: ‘Oh. This is for vaccines, but every piece of technology my life … forever.’ ” By David Bundle antibiotics and other that makes things easier is just ADELE FIFIELD modern medical so critical. When I got the C-Leg technologies in 1997, it changed my life. There SUCROSE is a nuance to walking that I didn’t even realize I was missing. ➤ Many of today’s fundamental medical interventions — refined For example, with an ordinary blood typing, antibiotics and vaccines — can be traced back to the artificial leg, you have just one chemical synthesis of sucrose. Chemist Ray Lemieux was the first speed, but with the C-Leg I can to build the three-dimensional sucrose molecule in the lab, giving pick up my pace in a crosswalk, scientists control over sugars in the human body. The discovery gave or slow down in a crowd. I’m us the ability to link sucrose to other sugars and then attach them to not one of the prettiest dancers, different molecular compounds like proteins. In essence, lab-made but the C-Leg gives me control sugar laid the groundwork for antibiotics, vaccines, early anti-rejection and lets me participate without techniques for organ transplant and even early treatments for worrying whether the leg will hemophilia. be there when I move. I went The synthesis of sucrose was a breakthrough at the time; it was up Machu Picchu, with all those really a harbinger. Aside from his groundbreaking work on sugar, stairs, and I’ve been on the Lemieux taught many fellow chemists, including me, and launched Great Wall of China. The point three spinoff companies instrumental in Alberta’s burgeoning of the C-Leg isn’t to jump over biotechnology industry. His legacy extends far beyond his own work buildings. But if there is ever an to the research of today’s leaders in glycomics, metabolomics and emergency, it will sure help me immunochemistry. get out of one safely.

U of A chemist David Bundle is the R.U. Lemieux Professor of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Adele Fifield of Ottawa is one of the first associate chair of research in the Faculty of Science. users of the C-Leg. SUCROSE PHOTO BY IMAGE SOLUTIONS LLC / ALAMY

38 ualberta.ca/newtrail new trail winter 2017 39 who seen Author Calgary. of University Mitchell archive at the W.O. the of part are Wind the Seen Has Who of edition afirst and with editorial corrections This printer’s typescript 40 (1973) andADiscovery of Strangers (1994). Governor General’s Award for Fictiontwice, for TheTemptations of BigBear of Big Bear over the prairie, to its far line where sheet lightning, elusive as creaks when I open its heavy pages to read: ➤ 1947 — the story of “a boy and the wind.” Amazingly, it takes a butterfly, winked up the world’s dark rim.” edition copy, but without the dustjacket; the faded-red spine pronouncing the label on apair ofoveralls. unforgettable as a prairie meadowlark song, telling stories… much practice perfecting. In fact, I also have it in five other of place in Saskatchewan. The boy is a prairie kid like me. Now a By Rudy Wiebe Canadian classic, read by millions! And I have my own first- taught fiction at the U of A while I worked on The Temptations had supper with my wife, Tena, and me during the years he his first-edition books. He signed them one of the evenings he it could make you laugh or cry — as he saw fit — simply by

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41 Help Children trailswhere you’ve been and where you’re going Discover the U

Volunteer with the University of Alberta’s U School Share your U of A experience with kids from vulnerable communities by becoming a classroom mentor, interviewee, photography guide — or present on a topic you’re passionate about. If a child can see themselves in you, they can see themselves on campus, too!

To volunteer or for more information, visit uab.ca/uschl.

Hockey Heroes For more than 40 years, faculties took to the ice in the battle for ultimate glory they were future dentists, aspiring pharmacists and budding biologists, but on game night at the South Side Covered Rink, they were all looking for hockey glory. The University of Alberta’s inter‑faculty hockey league started in 1921, fielding eight teams in two divisions. With nicknames like Learn more at “Dentals” and “Aggies,” faculty teams battled for campus supremacy uab.ca/MACE and division winners played for the championship trophy. The “Pharmacy and Dents” team won the inaugural season and continued to dominate the league’s early years. Perhaps fittingly, the trophy’s final inscription, from the 1965‑66 season, identifies a new campus champ: up-and-comers from the new

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Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Donald C. Brinton, ’51 BSc(Ag), (seated) celebrates with friends and members of the broadcasting industry. Class Notes

industry. In 2013, he received the Canadian Business Leader Award from the Alberta School of Business.

IN THE NEWS 1960s And He Kept It Safe for 78 Years ’68 Patrick D. Daniel, BSc(Eng), On a lifeboat fleeing the torpedoed SS Athenia in the first hours of the LLD (Honorary), was group dinner and outdoor Second World War, a frightened Sid Worrall handed his watch to Gerald inducted into the Calgary activities. Christine is looking Hutchinson, ’40 BA, ’43 BDiv, for safekeeping. Almost 78 years later, a 1970s Glasgow museum’s detective work united Worrall’s descendants and Business Hall of Fame at forward to reconnecting the annual awards gala held and reminiscing with her Hutchinson’s children, including Rob Hutchinson, ’79 BEd, (above left) at by Junior Achievement ’72 Ted Bishop, BA, was classmates. the unveiling of a new museum display about the attack. The watch is Alberta in October. He is inducted into the Edmonton now part of the display. –the herald (scotland) chair of Cenovus Energy and Arts and Culture Hall of ’78 Harry S. Anchan, BSc, has more than 40 years of Fame this last spring. His has fabulous memories of experience in the oil and gas travel book, The Social Life his years in the bachelor of Ink, has been issued in of science program at paperback for the United the University of Alberta, place in Ottawa. She has States market under the including his classmates spent nearly 40 years title Ink. When Ted is not and teachers. He started his working for the City of writing, he teaches creative postgraduate career working Edmonton, where she has U of A Sweeps non-fiction, book history and for CBS Records before held various leadership and modernist literature courses. returning to school. He then support roles in recreation Paleontology Awards went on to work for IBM in and sport. Candice has Two alumni and one faculty member swept the Society ’78 Christine Whittaker Calgary, where he has been also done consultation and of Vertebrate Paleontology’s annual awards in Calgary in August. Ted Fremd, ’79 BSc(Spec), a researcher with the (Jarmoluk), BSc, is organizing living since 1979. Harry is support work for more Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University a 40-year reunion of the now a systems analyst for than 15 not-for-profit sport of Oregon, received the Morris F. Skinner Award for his Faculty of Rehabilitation Alberta Justice at the Calgary organizations. contributions to science through supporting the collection Medicine speech pathology Courts Centre, where he of vertebrate fossils. Hans-Dieter Sues, ’77 MSc, curator and audiology class of 1978. supports both justice and ’79 Charalee Graydon, BA, of vertebrate paleontology and department chair at The reunion will take place administration professionals. ’82 JD, has held academic the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, received the Gregory Award for outstanding service to the June 4-5, 2018, in Kelowna, positions in Canada, England welfare of the society. Philip Currie, professor and Canada B.C., at sister resorts Hotel ’78 Candice Stasynec, MSc, and New Zealand since Research Chair in Dinosaur Paleontology, won the Romer- Eldorado and Manteo has been honoured by the graduating from university. Simpson Medal for lifetime achievement in the field of Resort on Okanagan Lake. Canadian Sport Tourism She is now a faculty member vertebrate paleontology. The award recipients are selected Festivities will include Alliance with its Champion at Euclid University, an by a nomination process, and the competition is open to paleontology professionals across North America. an opening reception Maureen McCubbin, ’58 Dip(Ed), ’67 BEd, ’80 Dip(Ed), Award at the annual Prestige online-only post-secondary BOTTOM RIGHT PHOTO BY SUB PHOTO/NEW LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY; cocktail party, winery tour, shares a grad photo at Cap ‘n Gown during Alumni Weekend. TOP PHOTO BY AKEMI MATSUBUCHI PHOTOGRAPHY TOP RIGHT PHOTO BY HERALD AND EVENING TIMES Awards event, which took institution headquartered

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Royden Mills’ sculpture Potential, Site 1 of the Resonant Progression Neil Hansen, during his U of A days installation at Terwillegar Park in Edmonton

in Banjul, Gambia. Charalee paintings depicts the “Michael has his heart set on otolaryngology (head and Neil’s memoir collection is is also a published author dramatic geology of the returning to Alberta for his neck surgery) at the Stanton titled To Say Nothing: A Diary of literary and legal works. Torngat Mountains in residency program in four Territorial Health Board of Memory and is available on She recently took part in a northern Labrador, which years — hopefully at the in Yellowknife. He has also Amazon. panel at the 40th-anniversary Christine explored with U of A!” travelled extensively across celebration of Rhodes women geologists in 2012. The Northern Canada, providing ’88 Ted Hart, BSc(Eng), along at Oxford University’s exhibition was on display ’83 Don Giovanetto, BMedSc, health care to remote with two of his colleagues, Rhodes House. from August to October 2017 ’85 MD, is one of four winners communities. was named a 2016 Ernst and as part of Parks Canada’s of the 2017 Royal College of Young Prairies Entrepreneur Canada 150 celebrations. Physicians and Surgeons ’87 Neil Hansen, BSc, has of the Year in the Cleantech of Canada Regional Prix taken up writing his memoirs and Environmental Award ’82 Arlene Christie (Kozar), d’excellence – Specialist of during his retirement, which, category. He is a founding BEd, has retired from her the Year Award. Winners are he says, is something he partner of Envirotech teaching career after 35 chosen based on excellence swore he would never do. He Engineering, Envirosoft Corp. years. She spent six years in patient care, service and has already written three and Target Emission Services with the Grande Prairie creating a positive impact volumes for a total of 1,600 Inc., a group of companies Catholic School District and within their communities. pages and intends to write specializing in web-based IN THE NEWS 1980s the past 29 years with the Don works as a specialist in a fourth and final volume. emissions management Calgary Catholic School software, emissions detection District, which included a services and environmental Where Science Meets Health ’81 Christine Koch, BA(Hons), role as co-ordinating teacher DID YOU KNOW? consulting. Canadian broadcaster VisionTV has ordered a second season of A User’s ’86 BFA, recently exhibited her for the district’s gifted and Talk about running a clean visual artwork ROCK FIRE talented program. This fall, operation. U of A founder ’88 Royden Mills, BFA, ’90 Guide to Cheating Death. The six-episode television docuseries follows ICE: Images of the Torngat at Arlene and her husband, Henry Marshall Tory’s 1908 office MVA, an instructor in health law professor Timothy Caulfield, ’87 BSc(Spec), ’90 LLB — author the Parks Canada Discovery Tom, saw their middle son, at the Duggan Street School the Department of Art of Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture Centre in the Newfoundland Michael, off to medical school campus eventually found new and Design, recently saw and Science Clash — as he debunks health myths and explores the science purpose as a broom closet. town of Woody Point. The at Queen’s University in his sculpture project behind current diet trends. The first season of the series premiered on RIGHT PHOTO BY MATT BARNES collection of large-scale Kingston, Ont. She writes: CHOW ERIC BY ILLUSTRATION Resonant Progression added Sept. 18. –playback

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of Political Science, was for Canada’s geoscience Sign Up for named the 2018 International profession. Jeff lives in Studies Association – Canada St. John’s, N.L., where he Distinguished Scholar. is director of resource Alumni Insider to the City of Edmonton She was recognized for management and chief Get the most current alumni-exclusive event invitations, Public Art Collection. The her contributions to the conservation officer with Learn artwork consists of three study of global politics, the Canada-Newfoundland discounts and benefits delivered straight to your inbox. sculptures — Potential, African politics, race and and Labrador Offshore uab.ca/insider Travel Resonant Point and Beyond 1990s racialization, feminist Petroleum Board. Listening — and has been theory, decolonization, and installed at Terwillegar Park. equity in the university and Explore ’90 Dilini Vethanayagam, beyond. As the Distinguished ’89 Sherry Heschuk, BPE, ’91 BMedSc, ’92 MD, associate Scholar, Malinda will take •••••••••••• BEd, has fond memories of professor of pulmonary part in a panel discussion the University of Alberta, medicine in the Faculty themed around her research, including time spent on of Medicine & Dentistry, teaching and mentorship at a the Pandas track and was recently named one conference in San Francisco field team with her sister, of the joint winners of the in April. Marcy McCaw, ’95 BSc(PT), Academic Woman of the Year 2000s ’96 BPE. Together, they Award from the University ’98 Jeff O’Keefe, BSc(Eng), has competed in the 1991 Canada of Alberta’s Academic taken office as president of West Universities Athletic Women’s Association. Geoscientists Canada for the ’01 Asif Ali, BSc(Nu), works Association championships, Dilini was presented with 2017-18 term after serving a as a nurse in Edmonton both while managing her award at a reception year as its president-elect. but has also been pursuing multiple other sport and and awards ceremony in Together with colleagues on training as an aircraft pilot school commitments. Sherry October at the University the organization’s executive since 2007. He received his is sad to share that Marcy of Alberta Faculty Club. committee, he will focus private pilot licence in 2010, died in July. In Marcy’s on building Geoscientists his commercial pilot licence honour, her family has ’93 Malinda S. Smith, PhD, a Canada into an effective in 2012 and his instrument, established the Marcy Lynn professor in the Department national/international forum multi-engine and flight McCaw (Heschuk) Memorial Graduate Award in Physical Therapy at the U of A. The award will support physical therapy students involved in student athletics. For more information, contact [email protected]. Explore the world A team of U of A health and fitness experts. with U of A friends. An aging, heavier generation. Keep the joy of Here’s how baby boomers can beat learning alive. the belly bulge. uab.ca/AlumniTravel

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Jagannath Das, founder of the J.P. Das Centre on Developmental and Learning Disabilities (second from left), We all have a campus memory — whether it’s a personal moment or a shared experience recently reunited with (left to right):Rauno Parrila, ‘96 PhD, one of Das’s last doctoral students; John Kirby, that connects us all. Share your memory at ualberta.ca/alumni/connect/class-notes. forevergreen&gold one of his first doctoral students; and George Georgiou, Parrila’s doctoral student.

with an eventual jungle of houseplants. While doing research in the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, I discovered the old card catalogue and looked up instructor qualifications my dad’s graduate thesis by in 2014. Asif also works as a name, title and faculty. flight instructor in Red Deer, Just as it had for my Alta. He writes, “I would like parents, the university to fly medevac for a while connected me to a community before moving up to airlines, and expanded my family. which has been a dream of The student orientation mine for some time.” program quickly became more of a lifestyle than a ’04 George Georgiou, MEd, volunteer job. The Gateway ’08 PhD, recently enjoyed became my home away from spending time with John home and launched my Kirby, ’76 PhD, professor career in communications emeritus at Queen’s and technology. And I met University, who visited Jacqueline Knowles, ’93 the U of A’s Department of BA(Criminology), ’99 MEd, ’03 Educational Psychology in at CanadianBusiness.com. PhD, (now Jacqueline Pei) June. John’s visit brought Justin co-founded Famoso with whom I would raise our together four generations with Jason Allard and three amazing children. of researchers affiliated Christian Bullock, with their Even though much of with the J.P. Das Centre on first location opening in my student life happened Developmental and Learning Edmonton in 2007. Since then, within the Students’ Union Disabilities, established by the pizzeria franchise has Building, I always felt as if my U of A professor emeritus grown to 31 locations across Home Sweet Second Home roots were next door at the Jagannath Das. Alberta, British Columbia, General Services Building Saskatchewan and Ontario. HOW MY FAMILY’S CAMPUS ROOTS ADDED MEANING TO MY EDUCATION where my dad once made a ’06 Justin Lussier, BA, carrel his home. And wouldn’t wrote to let us know that ’06 Vikki Wiercinski, BDes, The U of A has been like my by new friends from the Coming to campus as a you know it, a few years his business Famoso was named Western Living family’s second home since local Chinese community, as student nearly 20 years later, after graduation, I returned Neapolitan Pizzeria was magazine’s 2017 Maker before I was born. well as students and faculty I felt as if I was rediscovering to campus to work for what recently recognized in of the Year as part of the In 1968, my dad, Charles from the university. Dad’s my roots. As the child of was then known as Alumni the Profit 500 for the fifth publication’s Designer of Pei, ’75 MAg, settled into a new best friend and fellow immigrants, I drew a deep Affairs. Not long after I year in a row — this time the Year Awards program. carrel in the General Services student, Will Pattison, ’67 sense of belonging from started, our offices moved to listed at No. 181. The full Prior to starting her own Building as a graduate BSc(Ag), ’70 MSc — who had knowing that my father had the sixth floor of GSB — back rankings were published design studio, called student from Taiwan recently married Marion walked these same halls, to where my family’s U of A in the October 2017 issue Mezzaluna, Vikki worked in studying in the Department Pattison (Swanson), ’68 that my mother had combed story began. of Maclean’s magazine and corporate design. She has Vikki Wiercinski of Rural Economy. His then- Dip(Nu), ’69 BSc(Nu) — even through these same library Although GSB isn’t the fiancée,Caroline Shueh, ’82 lent his in‑laws to my dad stacks. I could remember prettiest building on campus, BEd, (later, Caroline Pei) as parental stand-ins at playing in the student lounge the “Pei Family Tower,” as we followed him to Edmonton the wedding. It was a role of the Humanities Centre call it, stands the tallest and DID YOU KNOW? a year later, also settling into “Grandma” and “Grandpa” with my little sister when brightest to me. When alumni first conceived this magazine in 1920, they named it The Trail. Why? We’ll let them tell you the same building, first as a Swanson gladly took on and our parents lacked child care in their own words: “Julius Caesar ‘in the long ago’ conceived the brilliant idea of binding all the Roman secretary, then as a student in they made it clear it wasn’t and had to bring us along to Winston Pei, ’94 BA, provinces together by a system of ‘trails.’ … By this system, towns and cities were united, peace followed computing science. just for the day; it was a class. Walking the campus, I ’02 MA, is an Edmonton- based communications turmoil and danger gave place to security. With that same purpose would we work and endeavour in these New to Edmonton and full‑on adoption. It wasn’t smiled at the tropical plants, consultant, community pages to keep our graduates in touch with the university from which imperial thought and inspiration may with no family in Canada, my long before my parents knowing that my mom had builder and dad. He is also come and to let them know of the safety and progress of their fellows at work in the world.” the president of the Kokopelli Choir mom and dad were married decided to make Edmonton snuck cuttings from many Association and sings baritone in its

ILLUSTRATION BY ERIC CHOW ERIC BY ILLUSTRATION ILLUSTRATION BY EVA VÁZQUEZ in a celebration arranged their permanent home. of them to fill our home young adult choir, Òran.

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Kenzie Gordon

AUTHOR JASON LEE NORMAN, ’06 BA, TRANSFORMS A flashback CAMPUS MEMORY INTO A WORK OF FLASH FICTION.

won numerous awards for DID YOU KNOW? her art projects — including In 1978, U of A drawing, painting and President Harry textile works — and also Gunning saw nothing wrong with joining a co-ordinates Edmonton’s huge student protest at Royal Bison, an art, craft and the Alberta legislature design festival and market against rising fees. The that happens twice a year. In board ordered him September, Vikki served as to stay home — but an artist‑in‑residence at the students did get Arteles Creative Centre in support from campus faculty who cancelled Haukijärvi, Finland. the afternoon’s classes.

’08 Alex Fitzpatrick, BDes, a lighting designer based in Sydney, Australia, is one of Alumni, students and friends enjoy live music at Fest of All during five winners of the Rising Alumni Weekend in September.

Talent Awards Asia 2017. In BOTTOM PHOTO BY LAUGHING DOG PHOTOGRAPHY LEFT ILLUSTRATION BY ERIC CHOW; RIGHT ILLUSTRATION BY JEANNIE PHAN September, Alex picked up his award at Maison & Objet Paris 2017, one of the largest design, furniture, lighting and tableware fairs in the world. Alex is the owner of ADesignStudio PTY Ltd., a lighting consulting and manufacturing practice in Sydney. POWER PLANT That narrow walkway from Quad to the Power Plant might as well have been the Champs Élysées. We practically danced past CAB like two characters in a French new wave film. Holding hands and jumping in fresh puddles and twirling! God, I remember literally twirling with you. Do you remember that? We were just kids, partners playing the game of adulthood as best we could. You would call me the mornings of exams or mid-terms, just in case my alarm didn’t go off. I would keep dry gym 2010s socks in my backpack because I knew of your penchant for puddles. Whenever it rains in late April I think about those two people. In that place in my mind my hair is damp and flat and you are holding a cold ’12 Kenzie Gordon, BA(Hons), glass of beer with both hands. You shiver, poking your frigid feet at my ’11 Cert(Peace/PCSt) received knees under the table as I toss the spare socks to you with a knowing the Boardwalk Rental smirk. If friendship were just cold beers and warm socks, we would have Communities Learning everything we ever needed. and Change Award, which provides the master’s This piece of flash fiction was inspired bySheila Graham, ’98 BA, who fondly recalls the pure joy of post-exam student in humanities puddle jumping. Submit your own memory at [email protected].

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Participants in the Turkey Trot Fun Run take the “fun” part of the day seriously. The event Alumni Horizon Award recipient Lalitha Taylor, ’05 BSc(Nutr/Food), was part of Alumni Weekend activities. with her grandmother at the Alumni Awards ceremony in September

IN THE NEWS 150 Acts of Reconciliation To mark Canada’s sesquicentennial, two researchers in the Department of History, Crystal Fraser, ’08 BA, and Sara Komarnisky, ’03 BCom, published a list of 150 suggestions for “everyday reconciliation,” such as learning why headdresses aren’t for festivals or buying books by Indigenous writers. Fraser is Gwich’in from Inuvik, N.W.T. Her PhD dissertation is about northern residential schools, and she hopes people will rethink views about their Indigenous peers. –metro edmonton

computing with funding to Assault Centre of Edmonton. ’12 Norma Dunning, recently wrote to New Trail ’13 Albert Remus Rosana, create, design and execute a The intent is to educate users BA(NatStu), ’12 Cert(AborGov/ to say: “ ‘Annie’ is being read in MSc, a second-year PhD project in conjunction with on sexual assault bystander Ptnshp), ’14 MA, celebrated two local book clubs and has student, was named a 2017 a partnering community intervention. The video game the launch of her new book been made required reading Vanier Scholar. The Vanier organization. She created a was launched at an event Annie Muktuk and Other for a University of Alberta Canada Scholarships video game called It’s Your in August, where attendees Stories with an event held in course. She is having the time Program recognizes doctoral Move, designed with the were able to get a first September at Audreys Books of her life, and I thank you for students who display assistance of the Sexual glimpse at Kenzie’s project. Ltd. in Edmonton. Norma your generous support.” both leadership skills and academic achievement in natural sciences and engineering, social sciences and humanities, SPECIAL GUESTS or health sciences. Opening INCLUDE: Hal Johnson & ’15 Jason Buzzell, MA, was Joanne McLeod Centennial recently promoted to director Timothy Caulfield of digital communications at Billy Strean the University of Nebraska Event at Omaha. His team is

RSITY OF part of that university’s IVE AL N BE U R central communications E T A NEW U100 H T office. They are in charge Nursing Education & Wellness at UAlberta of digital communications Saturday, February 3, 2018, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. governance and storytelling for the university website, 100 Edmonton Clinic Health Academy | 11405 - 87 Avenue | University of Alberta social media, internal on cati du E ing communications channels, urs Yearsof N The Faculty of Nursing invites you to play... digital signs, analytics and mobile applications. A Game of Wellness The team also supports featuring dozens of “try me” activities and demonstrations that promote general media relations and crisis wellness, movement and activity. communications on campus This family friendly event is one you cannot miss! and throughout the University of Nebraska. Move through the NEW U100 game, learn about the Faculty, its contribution to health and P reparing Leaders wellness, try activities you have always wanted to try, and attend our special guest presentations.

Who Make a Difference Visit NU100.org for more information or call 780-248-1813 Norma Dunning with

TOP PHOTO BY JESSICA HONG; TOP RIGHT PHOTO BY AKEMI MATSUBUCHI PHOTOGRAPHY; BOTTOM RIGHT PHOTO BY JOHN ULAN her grandson, Joel, 4

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The Alumni Association notes with sorrow ’53 Flora Jean Allison the passing of the following graduates (Morrison), Dip(Nu), spending habits and money (based on information received between ’54 BSc(Nu), of Calgary, ALUMNI management. June 2017 and September 2017). AB, in August 2017 “They don’t know how to be ’53 Lorne D. Wiley, ADVICE better with their money, so they BEd, of Medicine Hat, are embarrassed and they don’t AB, in April 2017 feel that they are equipped with the skills to improve it. So ’54 David Gilmour Dawson, BSc(ElecEng), couples just sweep it under the of Burlington, ON, rug.” But the mess is bound to in June 2017 come to light eventually. So, whether you’re ’54 Robert Carl Edlund, co‑habiting, heading to the BSc(CivEng), ’57 MSc, of Calgary, AB, altar or already growing old In Memoriam in August 2017 together, here are four tips for financial — and maybe more ’49 Finley Smeltzer ’50 Andrew Dickson ’54 Humphrey Fedorak, blissful — coupledom. Morrison, BEd, of Robson, BSc(CivEng), of BSc(ElecEng), of Fort 1940S Victoria, BC, in July 2017 Calgary, AB, in June 2017 Myers, FL, in July 2017 1) Talk about your goals ’42 Marjorie M. Campbell, ’49 Mary Smithson ’50 Robert Charles ’54 Betty Jane BA, ’44 Dip(Ed), of Leduc, Fitzpatrick, BSc(HEc), Don’t avoid money talks — plan Sheppard (Clark), White, BSc(CivEng), AB, in June 2017 BA, of Sheffield, ’62 MSc, of Edmonton, of Don Mills, ON, for them. Whether it’s England, in July 2017 AB, in July 2017 in August 2017 purchasing a home, having ’42 David Edward Davids, children or travelling, determine BSc(Ag), of Medicine ’49 William John A. ’50 Katherine ’54 Lorne Ronald Hanson, Hat, AB, in June 2017 Toole, BCom, of Calgary, C. Wynn, BEd, ’71 BSc, of Cochrane, what you want to accomplish AB, in May 2017 together. “It’s important to ’42 Ellen Elizabeth AB, in August 2017 Dip(Ed), of Edmonton, AB, in July 2017 know where you stand before Thomson (Towerton), ’54 Joan Marie Henning you can set any sort of goals for BCom, of Edmonton, ’51 Edward Burritt Allan, (Beaudry), Dip(Nu), ’55 FOR LOVE the future,” says Scorgie. AB, in May 2017 1950S BCom, of Edmonton, BSc(Nu), of Edmonton, AB, in June 2017 AB, in June 2017 ’43 Lora Lillian Fried ’50 David Moyes Allan, AND MONEY 2) Make a budget (Furhop), Dip(Nu), ’44 BSc(ElecEng), of White ’51 Ian Alexander ’54 Ted Stanley Kolber, BSc(Nu), of Edmonton, Ferguson, BSc, ’55 MD, of BSc(ElecEng), ’63 “Without a jointly agreed-upon Rock, BC, in August 2017 Four keys to a happier AB, in June 2017 Calgary, AB, in June 2017 BDiv, of Edmonton, budget, it is almost impossible ’50 Barbara Ann AB, in June 2017 relationship and a to achieve anything financially,” ’43 Marjorie Mae Bassett (Blackett), ’51 Ronald Leslie Gibson (Thompson), ’54 Monica Maureen says Scorgie. Balance sheets BA, of Toronto, ON Harris, BSc(PetEng), healthier bottom line BA, of Vancouver, Theresa McLaren, that record household income of Surrey, BC By Jyllian Park BC, in June 2017 ’50 L. Jean Coglon Dip(Ed), ’66 BEd, of and expenses are the most (Sawdon), Dip(Nu), ’51 ’51 William Victor Pauls, Calgary, AB, in effective tool for financial ’44 Helen Audrey BSc(Nu), of Edmonton, Dip(Ed), ’70 BEd, of August 2017 Nothing takes the romance accountability. Roberts, BA, ’54 AB, in June 2017 Didsbury, AB, in July 2017 out of a relationship quite like BEd, of Edmonton, ’55 Jack Adolph, financial stress. But there are AB, in July 2017 ’50 Denny Emerson ’51 Douglas Lawrence MD, of Saskatoon, Petherbridge, BEd, ’67 IN THE NEWS solutions. 3) Make your own Duff, BSc, ’51 MSc, of SK, in June 2017 grass greener ’46 Margaret Nancy Cutt Calgary, AB, in July 2017 PhD, of Lethbridge, “[Financial challenges] (Davis), BA, ’49 MA, of AB, in April 2017 ’55 Karl Heinz Richard are the leading cause for Don’t spend yourself into debt Victoria, BC, in July 2017 ’50 John Edgar Dutton, Gemeinhardt, DDS, of separation and divorce,” says trying to one-up your friends BA(Hons), of Victoria, BC ’51 Nadia Lena Ponich, Delta, BC, in July 2017 Cool Grad, Cool Job and neighbours. “People can ’47 Yvonne Patricia Dip(Nu), of Edmonton, Lesley-Anne Scorgie, ’05 Harrison, Dip(Ed), of ’50 Charles Edgar French, ’55 Kenneth Maxwell waste a lot of money trying AB, in June 2017 When Shawna Pandya, ’06 BSc(Hons), ’12 MD, was asked how she knew BCom, a financial coach and Calgary, AB, in June 2017 BSc(Ag), of Cardston, MacDonald, DDS, to look rich. It just raises she’d made it, the physician/astronaut/scientist replied: “I will tell you if founder of MeVest, a financial AB, in July 2017 ’52 Melba Wyllo of Winnipeg, MB, planning company. the questions: who are we ’47 Philip Ferdinand Gutowski, Dip(Ed), in May 2017 Proctor, BSc(CivEng), ’50 John Gordon Geddes, I get there.” Recently added to Flare magazine’s list of Canadian women For Scorgie, the hurdles following, why are we doing of Edmonton, AB, with cool jobs, Pandya describes her journey as taking roads less travelled it, and how is it [affecting] our of Edmonton, AB, DDS, of Edmonton, in August 2017 ’55 John Stanley Moore, that couples face dealing in August 2017 AB, in August 2017 BA, ’56 LLB, of Calgary, and working “very, very, very hard.” –flare magazine with money could fill a whole finances?” ’52 William Cameron AB, in September 2017 book — specifically, The ’47 John Douglas Wordie, ’50 Allan Stuart Laureshen, Modern Couple’s Money Guide: BSc, of West Chester, Hay, BSc, ’52 MSc, ’87 BSc(ChemEng), of ’55 Keith Mackay Page, 4) Don’t be a hero OH, in June 2017 DSc (Honorary), of BA, ’61 BDiv, of Seguin, 7 Smart Steps to Building Calgary, AB, in June 2017 Financial plans often require Niskayuna, NY, in ON, in March 2017 Wealth Together. Published outside help, and the best time ’48 Stephen Ian Hnatko, August 2017 ’52 John Edward Miller, last year, her book uses basic BSc, ’55 MD, of Edmonton, BSc(CivEng), of Calgary, ’55 Norman Albert Rolf, for an accountant, financial AB, in June 2017 ’50 Bruce Munro BA, ’58 LLB, of Westerose, principles of budgeting and adviser or other form of money AB, in September 2017 open communication to MacKenzie, DDS, AB, in June 2017 Calgary Business Leaders Recognized coach is right after you form ’48 John Gerald O’Neill, of Saanichton, BC, ’52 Peter Matthew help couples get out of debt BSc(ChemEng), of ’55 Olga Sherstan, Business in Calgary magazine recently honoured four Calgary-based U of A alumni with 2017 your permanent household. in June 2017 Nash, BSc(ElecEng), and plan for the future. “Get some advice and learn to Toronto, ON, in July 2017 of Edmonton, AB, in Dip(Ed), of St. Albert, Leaders Awards: Fabrizio Carinelli, ’94 BSc(Eng), president of Cana Construction Co. Ltd.; ’50 Douglas Wayne AB, in May 2017 Combining finances and do this together.” ’48 Elmer Lionel J. September 2017 Wendy Coombs, ’92 BSc(Spec), ’96 BSc(PT), CEO of Momentum Health, Evidence Sport and household duties can be hard Minion, BSc(CivEng), Smith, MD, of Kelowna, ’52 William Ernest ’55 Claus Adolf Wirsig, Spine, Innovative Sport Medicine; Robert Heaton, ’86 BSc(Pharm), CEO of Cambrian Pharmacy; to navigate. Couples often of Spruce Grove, AB, and Bruce Rabik, ’83 BA(Spec), ’85 BCom, chief operations officer of Rogers Insurance Ltd. The original version of this article was BC, in June 2017 in August 2017 Selby, BSc, of Calgary, BA, ’57 MA, of Toronto, encounter problems over their published in the Spring 2017 issue of AB, in September 2017 ON, in July 2017

romantic partners’ debts, LEFT PHOTO BY COOPER & O’HARA; RIGHT PHOTO THINKSTOCK UAlberta Business magazine.

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’56 Carl Daneliuk, BA, ’57 ’58 Alda Lavee Myrthue, BEd, ’66 Dip(Ed), ’75 of Camrose, AB, ’67 Douglas Takeshi ’71 Patrick John of Edmonton, AB, ’76 Janet Bauerfind ’79 Joyce Charmayne ’84 Julian Michael ’89 Hannelore Renate ’96 BPE, of Yardley, BEd, ’68 MEd, of Surrey, Dip(Nu), of St. Albert, MEd, of Edmonton, in April 2017 Yamamoto, Gathercole, BA, of in April 2017 (MacKenzie Rayment), Peabody, BEd, of St. H. Coward, MBA, Sterzik (Tschampel), PA, in July 2017 BC, in June 2017 AB, in May 2017 AB, in May 2017 BSc(ElecEng), of Edmonton, AB, in BEd, of St. Albert, Albert, AB, in August 2017 of Victoria, BC, in Dip(Nu), of Edmonton, ’65 Philip John Unland, Edmonton, AB, in August 2017 ’72 Jacquelyn Ann AB, in May 2017 September 2017 AB, in May 2017 ’95 Robert Lawrence ’56 R. Garth Helland, ’58 Harry Roy Rudy, ’62 Jim J. Cope, PhD, of BSc(MechEng), of August 2017 Penner (Brownlee), ’79 Donna Alice Pipa, Rau, BSc(CivEng), BSc(Pharm), of MSc, of Calgary, AB, Aptos, CA, in August 2017 Calgary, AB, in ’71 Patricia Jane BA, of Medicine Hat, ’76 Roy Allen Hennig, BSc(Pharm), of Cochrane, ’84 Donald Cochrane ’89 Patrick James of Edmonton, AB, Sherwood Park, in August 2017 August 2017 ’68 Frederick George Hardwicke-Brown, BA, AB, in April 2017 BSc(MechEng), of AB, in April 2017 Machum, BA, of St. Stokes, BEd, of High in June 2017 AB, in June 2017 ’62 John Patrick Bosch, BSc(ElecEng), ’74 Dip(Ed), of Lac La Qualicum Beach, Albert, AB, in August 2017 River, AB, in July 2017 ’79 John Sneep, Dip(Ed), ’58 Ormond James Kehoe, BA, ’68 MA, ’65 Mary Isabel Ward of Calgary, AB, in Biche, AB, in March 2017 ’72 Phylis Jeanette BC, in June 2017 ’82 MEd, ’89 PhD, of ’56 George Alexander Uptigrove, MD, of of Whitehorse, YT, (Sneddon), BEd, ’71 March 2017 Rigby (Olson), Dip(Nu), ’84 Michael Peter ’89 Wilda Therese Moruzi, BSc(MiningEng), Calgary, AB, in June 2017 in January 2017 Dip(Ed), ’75 MEd, of ’71 John Hermans, BEd, ’85 BSc(Nu), of Spruce ’76 Sylvia Adele Lyon Burnaby, BC, in June 2017 Markowski, BSc, of Swampy, BEd, of 2000S of Guelph, ON, in Edmonton, AB, in ’68 Therese M. Potvin, of Ascona, Switzerland, Grove, AB, in June 2017 (Miller) BEd, of Camrose, Saint-Lazare, QC, Maskwacis, AB, in March 2017 ’59 Daniel Joseph ’62 Adelaide Elizabeth August 2017 BEd, of Edmonton, in September 2017 AB, in August 2017 in May 2017 September 2017 ’01 Herbert Clifford Gau, BSc(EngPhys), ’67 Mullen, Dip(Nu), AB, in July 2017 ’72 Yvonne M. Rouleau, Belcourt, LLD ’56 John Cecil Murison, DDS, of Edmonton, of Rochester, MA, ’66 David John Feniak, ’71 Gwendolyn Gay BEd, of Edmonton, ’76 Judy Ann Pahl 1980S ’85 John Francis (Honorary), of Sherwood BEd, of West Vancouver, AB, in July 2017 in May 2017 BSc, of Edmonton, ’69 Terry James Casey, Johnston (Tkachuk), AB, in August 2017 (Linderman), Bourchier, BEd, of St. Park, AB, in July 2017 BC, in March 2017 AB, in July 2017 BEd, ’71 BSc, of Calgary, BA, of Gibbons, AB, Dip(DentHyg), of ’80 Monique Rose Albert, AB, in June 2017 ’59 John Anthony ’62 Lloyd Edwin ’72 Valerie Jeanne Vik, 1990S AB, in June 2017 in August 2017 Medicine Hat, AB, Belanger, BEd, of ’01 Ian David Newel, ’56 Tova Yedlin, BEd, ’59 Mayzel, BA, of Victoria, Symyrozum, BEd, ’66 Maurice Leo Dip(Nu), of Edmonton, in April 2017 Fort Saskatchewan, ’86 Jamie Barton ’90 Bruce Meldrum BA(Rec/Leisure), MA, ’69 PhD, of Calgary, BC, in August 2017 ’71 MEd, ’81 PhD, of Simoneau, DDS, of ’69 George Robert ’71 Nadia Ruth Kryschuk AB, in May 2017 AB, in June 2017 Church, BSc(MetEng), Buchanan, BPE, ’92 of Edmonton, AB, AB, in September 2017 Edmonton, AB, Candle Lake, SK, Chalmers, BSc, ’70 MD, (Shwaikowski), BA, ’75 ’76 David Thomas of Arnprior, ON, BEd, of Calgary, AB, in June 2017 ’59 Zelick Perler, ’73 Michael Francis in May 2017 in August 2017 of North Vancouver, Dip(Ed), of Edmonton, Robottom, BCom, ’78 ’80 Patricia Ann in June 2017 in June 2017 ’57 Doris Elizabeth MD, of Vancouver, BC, in May 2017 AB, in August 2017 Meraw, BCom, of MBA, ’79 LLB, of Calgary, Dalton, BEd, ’95 MEd, ’01 Lawrence Stefan Cybulski (Cruickshank), BC, in July 2017 ’63 Francois J. Casavant, ’66 James Ivar Tangjerd, Calgary, AB AB, in May 2017 of West Kelowna, ’86 Gary Dwight ’90 Suzanne C. Urbanski, MPH, of Dip(Nu), of Regina, SK, BEd, ’65 Dip(Ed), ’76 BEd, of Edmonton, ’69 Marjorie ’71 Brian Philip Spencer, BC, in June 2017 Juszkiewicz, BSc(Spec), Lundrigan, BA(Spec), Edmonton, AB, in ’73 Wayne Allan in September 2017 Dip(Ed), of Sherwood AB, in August 2017 Cheperdak (Mycek), BSc(Med), ’75 MD, of ’76 F. Lorraine Wylie, of Edmonton, AB, of Edmonton, AB, September 2017 Scott, MSc, of Calgary, Park, AB, in August 2017 BEd, of Edmonton, Victoria, BC, in June 2017 BSc(Speech/Aud), ’99 ’80 Korey Cecelia in June 2017 in June 2017 ’57 Kenneth E. Howery, 1960S ’66 Leroy Douglas AB, in April 2017 AB, in June 2017 MScSLP, of Edmonton, McDonald (Bokenfohr), ’04 Timothy Edward BSc(CivEng), of ’63 Arthur Wesley Travis, BEd, ’69 MEd, ’71 John William BEd, of Edmonton, ’86 Edith Irene ’90 Sandy Auld Lee Hague, BA, ’06 ’73 Neda Svob, BA(Hons), AB, in September 2017 Edmonton, AB, ’60 Kenneth Brown Cragg, BA(Hons), ’64 ’75 PhD, of Vancouver, ’69 Stephen Douglas C. Willock, BSc, of AB, in August 2017 Stearns (Simonsen), Mactaggart, LLD BEd, of Edmonton, of Edmonton, AB, in May 2017 Innes, BCom, of MA, of Aurora, ON, BC, in August 2017 Hawrelak, BSc, of Edmonton, AB, in ’77 Leslie Gail Cook, BEd, of Edmonton, (Honorary), of Islay, AB, in June 2017 in June 2017 Fairmont Hot Springs, in August 2017 Edmonton, AB, in August 2017 Dip(Nu), ’83 BSc(Nu), of ’80 Carla Esther Nolan, AB, in June 2017 Scotland, in July 2017 ’57 Ronald Robert BC, in August 2017 ’67 Alistair William BA(Hons), of Toronto, ’07 Charlene Emilie September 2017 ’74 Andrew James Boyd, Victoria, BC, in July 2017 Jackson, BSc(ChemEng), ’63 Sheila Janice Porter, M. Anderson, BCom, ’71 Margaret Patricia ON, in August 2017 ’87 Laurel Noreen ’90 Randy Lawrence Marshall (Roberge), BEd, of Ardrossan, AB, of Hialeah, FL, in ’60 Richard Louis BA, of Calgary, AB of Sherwood Park, ’69 L.M. Melitta Kandler, Wilson, Dip(DentHyg), ’77 Garry Joseph Kitz, Middendorf, BSc(Spec), Poon, BSc(ChemEng), BA, of St. Albert, AB, in September 2017 April 2017 Old, BEd, of Calgary, AB, in July 2017 BA, ’72 MA, of Salt ’81 BEd, ’99 MEd, of BSc(Ag), of Two Hills, ’81 Patricia Marie ’93 BSc(Pharm), of of Calgary, AB, in in August 2017 AB, in August 2017 ’63 Jane Elise Rigel, Stevenson (Manning), Spring Island, BC, in Edmonton, AB, ’74 Larry Ross J. Case, AB, in August 2017 Edmonton, AB, in August 2017 ’57 Frank Kiyooka, BPE, Dip(Nu), of Calgary, AB, ’67 Leonard Clarence BEd, of Edmonton, September 2017 in July 2017 BSc, of Calgary, AB, September 2017 of Valemount, BC, in ’60 Anne Vipond-Skibo in September 2017 Bracko, BEd, ’84 ’77 Richard John Kuchar, AB, in July 2017 ’90 Michael John in June 2017 September 2017 (Aleksiuk), BSc, of Dip(Ed), of Parksville, ’69 John Daniel ’72 Allison Kenneth BCom, of Edmonton, ’87 Gregory Lee Penney, Redshaw, DMus, of Fairmont Hot Springs, ’63 Richard John ’81 Kathleen Ellen 2010S BC, in August 2017 Ritter, BEd, ’78 MEd, Brownlee, BSc, ’76 ’74 Gerald Charles AB, in June 2017 BA, of Edmonton, Victoria, BC, in July 2017 ’57 Elizabeth Ann BC, in August 2017 Roberts, BSc, of Calgary, Thomas (MacKenzie), of Edmonton, AB, MBA, of Calgary, Daniels, BEd, of AB, in August 2017 ’10 Muriel May Pabst, Dip(Ed), ’77 AB, in June 2017 ’67 Terry Richard Davis, ’77 Wendy Elizabeth BEd, of Edmonton, ’91 Hameed Nasseri, Crompton, MEd, ’61 Charles Ross Beggs, in August 2017 AB, in June 2017 Edmonton, AB, in BEd, of Edmonton, BA(Hons), ’68 MA, of Mortis (Elliott), AB, in June 2017 ’88 Wilfred Lawrence BA, of Edmonton, AB of Victoria, BC, in BEd, ’67 BA, of Edmonton, ’64 Lawrence Harold August 2017 AB, in August 2017 Calgary, AB, in May 2017 ’69 Marjorie Grace ’72 Marilyn Patricia BSc(Nu), of Calgary, Bird, Dip(Ed), ’89 August 2017 AB, in July 2017 Chapman, BA, ’73 BEd, ’82 Theresa Jacqueline ’92 Susan Jane Murphy, Schill (Magee), Campbell (Millard), ’74 Brian James AB, in June 2017 Dip(Ed), of St. Albert, ’57 Margaret A. Ginger ’91 MEd, of St. Albert, ’67 Leonard P. Gietz, Swan, BEd, of Clyde, BA, of Toronto, ON, ’13 Megan Jamie ’61 Gordon Charles BEd, of Edmonton, BEd, of Edmonton, Erickson, BA, ’75 LLB, AB, in June 2017 Young, Dip(Nu), of AB, in August 2017 BSc, ’69 MD, of Victoria, ’77 Bruce Charles Pearcy, AB, in July 2017 in May 2017 Campbell, BEd, of Domeier, BSc(ElecEng), AB, in July 2017 AB, in August 2017 of San Antonio, TX, Brandon, MB, in TX, in April 2017 BCom, of Victoria, ’88 Robert Andrew Hall, Edmonton, AB, of Surrey, BC, in July 2017 ’64 Robert James in September 2017 ’82 Susan Margaret ’93 John Dycha, September 2017 ’69 Derek Richard ’72 Jeffrey Parker BC, in March 2017 BPE, ’92 BEd, of New in July 2017 Fairbairn, BSc, ’73 ’67 Leslie Wayne Healy, Worth, BA(Spec), of BSc(ChemEng), of ’61 Gordon Neville Taylor, MEd, of Devins, BCom, ’73 ’74 Terrance Kelly Sarepta, AB, in May 2017 ’58 Hugh Arthur Dip(Ed), of Edmonton, BSc, of St. Albert, AB, ’77 Cornelis Stam, Edmonton, AB Missouri City, TX, ’13 Kimberly Ann Hobson, BA, ’62 MA, Grande Prairie, AB MBA, of Vancouver, Flock, BSc(ElecEng), of Baird, BSc(ElecEng), AB, in June 2017 in September 2017 BA, of Edmonton, ’88 Gordon Bruce in August 2017 Jasinski, BSc(Spec), ’64 PhD, of Victoria, BC, in January 2017 Calgary, AB, in July 2017 ’83 Allen Scott Hinman, of Edmonton, AB, AB, in June 2017 McDonald, BSc, ’90 of Edmonton, AB, BC, in July 2017 ’64 Anna Harder ’67 Allen Douglas PhD, of Calgary, AB, ’93 Therese Williams in May 2017 ’72 Maria Eleanore ’74 Alvin Lawrence BEd, of Brooks, AB, in June 2017 (Martinek), BEd, Holmes, BSc, ’70 MSc, ’78 Ruth Merle Kelly in August 2017 Fuller, MSc, of San ’61 Heidi Judith Kass, Dunki, BSc(Nu), of Swyripa, BSc, of in May 2017 ’58 Kenneth Edwin of Edmonton, AB, of Edmonton, AB 1970S (Sanborn), BA(Spec), Diego, CA, in May 2017 ’14 Kirk William Hennel, BEd, ’63 BSc, ’69 PhD, Cochrane, AB, in Edmonton, AB, ’83 Lorraine Marie Brown, BSc(CivEng), of in June 2017 ’70 James William Ebbels, ’16 LLD (Honorary), ’89 Agnes Ching-Yee MFM, of Calgary, of North Vancouver, ’67 Sharon Ann September 2017 in July 2017 Kramer, BEd, of ’93 Joshua Christopher Calgary, AB, in July 2017 BA, of Edmonton, AB, of Edmonton, AB, Au, BSc, of Edmonton, AB, in April 2017 BC, in May 2017 ’64 Francois Eugene Hutchings (Link), BA, of Invermere, BC, Stebbins, BSc(MechEng) in September 2017 ’72 Richard Douglas ’74 Wanda Nadine in June 2017 AB, in August 2017 ’58 Patricia J. Diediw, Meunier, BA, of Devon, AB, in April 2017 in July 2017 Germsheid, BEd, ’74 MEd, Wetterberg, ’15 Rashmi Ravishankar BSc, of Edmonton, ’61 William John Edmonton, AB, ’70 Theodore Roy ’78 Douglas Wayne ’89 Janet Lorraine ’94 Paul Gordon Jehn, ’67 Oleh Shykora, BEd, ’82 PhD, of Edmonton, BA(RecAdmin), of Bale, BMgt, of Calgary, AB, in May 2017 O’Callaghan, MD, ’63 in July 2017 Hellqvist, BSc(Ag), Spotowski, BSc, ’83 ’83 Cheryl Ann Kuzyk, Coatham (Ferguson), BA, of Edmonton, ’78 MEd, of Vegreville, AB, in June 2017 Edmonton, AB, AB, in August 2017 MSc, of Edmonton, of Calgary, AB, in BEd, of Edmonton, BA(Spec), of Edmonton, BSc(Nu), of Red Deer, AB, in July 2017 ’58 James Wooley ’65 Gerald Edwin Keindel, AB, in July 2017 in July 2017 AB, in June 2017 September 2017 ’72 Taras Nick Klym, AB, in July 2017 AB, in June 2017 AB, in July 2017 ’16 Bill Nelems, Post- Gibb, BSc(Pharm), ’61 BEd, of Edmonton, ’94 Emily Mary A. Rowan, ’67 Lenora Mae Stratton, BEd, of Vernon, BC, ’75 Bruce John baccalaureateCert, MSc, of Salt Lake ’61 Norman Arnold AB, in August 2017 ’70 Gregorius Marian ’78 Heather Joanne ’83 Douglas Charles ’89 Dianne Margaret BA, of Edmonton, BSc, ’69 BEd, of Calgary, in April 2017 Collingwood, of Kelowna, BC, in City, UT, in July 2017 Sande, BEd, ’70 MEd, Mandziuk, BA, of Woolley (Lindgren), Prud’Homme, BCom, Giannakopoulos, AB, in June 2017 ’65 Herman Peter AB, in May 2017 BSc(Spec), ’76 Dip(Ed), March 2017 of Edmonton, AB, Edmonton, AB, in ’72 Rolf Heinrich W. BSc, of Edmonton, of Sherwood Park, BA(Spec), of Edmonton, ’58 Jon Bruce Johnson, Kroeker, BSc, ’68 ’84 LLB, of Victoria, ’94 Jennifer Lynn Smith, in August 2017 August 2017 Kugelstadt, BEd, ’77 AB, in August 2017 AB, in June 2017 AB, in August 2017 BSc(CivEng), of MBA, of Calgary, AB, ’67 Graham Walker, BC, in August 2017 MScSLP, of Winnipeg, BSc(ElecEng), ’75 MEd, of Edmonton, West Vancouver, BC, ’61 Helmut Schroer, in August 2017 ’70 Doris Evelyn ’79 John Richard G. Horn, ’83 Robert Junior ’89 Kevin Len Knoblock, MB, in July 2017 PhD, of Edmonton, AB, in May 2017 ’75 William Danyluk, in August 2017 BA, of Edmonton, Ogrodnick, BEd, of BEd, of Whitecourt, AB, Schantz, BEd, of Calgary, BEd, of Edmonton, ’65 Larry Wilbur AB, in July 2017 BEd, of St. Paul, ’95 Vincent Michael AB, in July 2017 Ryley, AB, in June 2017 ’72 Harry Lewis, in September 2017 AB, in July 2017 AB, in June 2017 ’58 Annette Macpherson Mills, BSc(ElecEng), ’71 AB, in July 2017 Corkery, MEng, of If you’ve lost a loved ’67 Brian Douglas BSc(Spec), of Calgary, one who is a University MacCallum Madsen ’61 Leo Superstein, MBA, of Edmonton, ’70 Barrie Pickles, ’79 Gordon Wallace ’83 Garry Victor ’89 Shauna Dee Roller, Edmonton, AB, Warrack, MSc, ’73 AB, in September 2017 ’75 Christopher James of Alberta alumnus, (Brown), BEd, ’82 BCom, of Edmonton, AB, in July 2017 BSc(PT), of Ottawa, McPhee, BEd, ’83 MEd, of Spotowski, BEd, of BEd, of Edmonton, in May 2017 AB, in April 2017 PhD, of Toronto, Scopis, BSc(Spec), Edmonton, AB, in contact alumni records Dip(Ed), of Kelowna, ON, in July 2017 ’72 Michael Robert Calgary, AB, in June 2017 AB, in June 2017 ’95 Marcy Lynn McCaw BC, in July 2017 ’65 Raymond Alfred ON, in July 2017 Lippe, BCom, ’76 LLB, of Edmonton, AB, August 2017 at [email protected], ’62 Evelyn Dolin Nerland, BSc(MechEng), in August 2017 (Heschuk), BSc(PT), 780-492-3471 or Blakeman-Crofford, 1-866-492-7516.

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MEC rad pants, Alumni Events fleece, socks and sandals. –Jacalyn Hodgson, ’00 BSc(MechEng)

I lived in the new women’s residence while I was a student. At Fashion Sense that time, women were not allowed We asked alumni to share the in the Lister Hall cafeteria UPCOMING EVENTS most popular (or worst!) fashions while they were students. Find wearing slacks. more or share your own at If a woman was Stay involved with the U of A through wearing slacks, one of more than 50 alumni chapters facebook.com/UAlbertaAlumni. around the world. Check online for she was sent up to information about events near you. her room to put Plaid flannel shirt tied around on a skirt, even VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES BEIJING | DEC. 8 in the winter! Alumni Reception the waist, XL concert tees (for extra volume), baggy Levi’s –Tina Matiisen, ’67 BA EXAM GREETERS EASTER EGGSTRAVAGANZA EDMONTON | DEC. 13 501s with the button-fly, and EDMONTON | DEC. 11-22 EDMONTON | MARCH 31 Educated Luncheon – Extreme Weather six-hole black Doc Martens. | On the cusp of Student Accessibility Services is CAMROSE MARCH 31 with Gerhard Reuter And a choker necklace, of looking for some friendly volunteers Volunteer for the Alumni the yoga pants to help greet and check in students Association’s most popular family EDMONTON | FEB. 14 course. If it was warm, the era. Lots of jeans were replaced by denim for their accommodated exams. event — a giant Easter egg hunt. Educated Luncheon lue eyeshadow, heavily hoodies, flare- cutoffs worn with black leg jeans. #2002 UNWIND YOUR MIND GROCERY RUN ASSISTANTS PHOENIX | FEB. 24 tights. #90sGrungeGirl backcombed hair piled on top EDMONTON | DEC. 6-15 EDMONTON | ONGOING Annual Brunch – The Global Impact of –Cassandra Snider, –Isabela Varela Romero, ’96 BA ’06 BA Help students stay energized during Help distribute food to refugee and Wildfires with Mike Flannigan of the head, sleeping in hair long study sessions by delivering free B immigrant families in need at the rollers, cat’s-eye glasses, stiletto heels, CALGARY | FEB. 28 healthy snacks at campus libraries. Edmonton Intercultural Centre on Mid-1980s. Polo shirts, Benetton, the Thursday mornings. Lecture series silk flowers worn as brooches. And PETER LOUGHEED LEADERSHIP first round of stirrup pants, Daniel never, never pants to class. Warm COLLEGE LECTURE SERIES U SCHOOL EDMONTON | MARCH 14 Hechter sweatshirts from Fairweather’s, EDMONTON | JAN. 8, JAN. 22, EDMONTON | ONGOING Educated Luncheon – Renewable Energy perms and big hair, first round of neon, boots not invented yet, so walking FEB. 5, FEB. 26 Bring your enthusiasm for learning with Ryan Li Dynasty-style shoulder pads, “Dress for from Pembina Hall to Corbett Assist the Peter Lougheed Leadership to U School and inspire the next Success” and those blouses with the ties College with setup, guest check-in EDMONTON & CAMROSE | MARCH 31 Hall, where education classes were generation of U of A students. at the neck, jumpsuits, “Lady Di” haircut, and ushering, and then enjoy the Easter Eggstravaganza held, meant pumps and bare legs. lecture series that invites everyone to HEALTHY SNACKS WITH FRUITS Miami Vice look for the guys, loafers with be informed, challenged and inspired. OF SHERBROOKE EDMONTON | MARCH 31 no socks, skinny ties. Frostbite was not unknown. EDMONTON | ONGOING Campus Saint-Jean Chasse Aux Oeufs –Leanne Sim Nickel, ’87 BCom –Anita Jenkins, ’66 BEd JOB SHADOW WEEK Help prepare healthy snacks that will EDMONTON | FEB. 20-23 be donated to U of A programs. VICTORIA | APRIL 28 CAMROSE | MARCH 7-9 Spring Brunch Give a student a behind-the-scenes More at ualberta.ca/alumni/volunteer Late ’70s: experience at Winter Job Shadow VANCOUVER | APRIL 29 Big hair, shoulder pads, leg denim shirt, Week. Apply by Jan. 5. Spring Brunch blue jeans, warmers, scarf in the hair. hiking boots. –Siobhan Muldowney, ’88 BSc(Med), ’90 MD –Bob Kenyon, ’80 BA

Dates are subject to change; events are added daily. For more or to register, visit ualberta.ca/alumni/events. LEFT PHOTO BY LAUGHING DOG PHOTOGRAPHY; RIGHT PHOTO THINKSTOCK ILLUSTRATIONS BY KATY DOCKRILL KATY BY ILLUSTRATIONS When I was on campus in the ’60s, long hair was at its best. I wore a brush cut and got booed. –John Elson, ’65 BEd, ’68 BA

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Morning Commute Abdullah Altamer heads to the LRT on his way to North Campus for a physics exam. When he first came to the U of A as a recipient of the President’s Award for Refugees and Displaced Persons, Altamer lived in HUB. Now he is one of the many students commuting to and from North Campus every day. Photo by John Ulan

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