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FALL 2011 TRU Alumni & Friends Magazine ISSUE #6 Bridges
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Take a walk at TRU pg 4
A World of Students to Celebrate pg 18
Future home of the TRU Faculty of Law
Getting to know TRU Law pg 14
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4 10 Campus Commons TRU World 4 Take a walk at TRU 18 A World of Students 6 The path of to Celebrate most resistance Student Street Inside TRU 21 Tulo students among 8 Honeybees: A buzz first graduating class on campus of new program Research Review Alma Matters 10 A story for Elder care 26 Class Notes 12 Toolkit for 28 Let's Remember a Changing World Track the 'Pack Cover Story 29 WolfPack Rookies 17 14 Getting to know TRU Law Sieze the Season Open Learning Community Report Interested in receiving 17 Breaking Borders 31 Report Section (I-VII) From the University and Bridges online? the TRU Foundation Update your information www.tru.ca/alumni/bridges
An artist’s rendering of the atrium, which will be in Onthe the new homecover: of TRU’s Faculty of Law. Designed by Diamond and Schmitt, architects of the Brown Family House of Learning, the two storey 40,000 square foot addition is a landscape-inspired vision to re-energize Old Main. Student & Alumni Contributors
Sadie Cox is a graduate student in the MSc Environmental Science program. She also holds BSc and B Journalism degrees from TRU. She has lived in Kamloops for 12 years, having grown up in Northern BC and Squamish. Aside from being a student, Publisher Sadie is also a mom and somewhat of a gym rat—she’s a certified > Christopher Séguin, weight trainer working towards her personal trainer certification. Office of University Advancement > Arlene Olynyk, TRU Alumni & Friends Assoc Managing Editor > Diana Skoglund Allison Gibbard is a freelance journalist and photographer, Assistant Editor in her last year of Journalism at TRU. Born and raised in > Anita Rathje Kamloops, Gibbard has enjoyed her time in the community Contributing Editors and as a student. Her work can be seen in a number of local > Bart Cummins publications. Gibbard looks forward to stepping out into the > Tina Pelletier world of journalism to begin her career. > Will Garrett-Petts > TRU Faculty of Law > Lindsey Norris > Larry Read Photography > Bart Cummins Michael Potestio is a fourth-year Journalism student at TRU. Born and raised in Kamloops, his interests include writing, Graphic Design history, sports and movies. After years of experience in the > Amanda Blyth food industry he has gained an appreciation for fine cuisine. Advertising Sales He tackled his Accolades assignment with gusto. > Karen Gamracy
A graduate of TRU's journalism program, Sherry Bennett's fondness for the written word has guided her towards a career as a freelance writer. Her articles have appeared in a number of Interior publications and her affinity for local history has lured her to local libraries and archives, where she has spent many a pleasant hour.
Alumni Board of Directors:
• Susan McIntyre, Chair Committee Directors • Rob Williamson, Vice- Chair • Christine Anderson • Hoberly Hove Contact us: • Rob Wycherley, Treasurer • Melissa Baker • Bill Jaswal TRU Alumni & Friends Association • Christopher Séguin, • Jennifer Billingsley • Janice MacDonald Ex-Officio 900 McGill Road, • Ryan Dunn • Dean Paravantes • Ray Sanders, Kamloops, BC V2C 0C8 • Mike Finch • Niki Remesz Ex-Officio Williams Lake Phone: 1.250.828.5264 • Wendy Heshka • Lindsay Wilk Email: [email protected] • Arlene Olynyk, Alumni Officer MC115338 TRU Alumni & Friends Association Welcome Friends From the editor From the Chair Some of my best friends are TRU Community is a topic this magazine Alumni and so are most of my revisits often, as part of the vision and colleagues. Whether it’s my dentist’s mission of the TRU Alumni & Friends sons, my husband’s boss or the Association as well as a focus for much hundreds of folks I keep in touch of TRU’s teaching and research. with on Facebook and Twitter, we all In this issue we feature a look at Dr. Wendy have a TRU connection. Hulko’s culturally safe dementia care If you want to see the power of this research project, a unique collaboration connectivity in action do what you can between TRU, the Interior Health Authority, to attend Networking 411. We are all and First Nation Elders on the best busy these days but taking two hours practices for looking after our aging out to “speed network” last month First Nations populations. You’ll find with a few students that were looking more community connected projects We have come a long way from our for some career insight was rewarding. by Hulko’s colleagues in the Faculty origins as a naval munitions base. It wasn’t just rewarding because of Human, Social, and Educational You’ll find a community report, some young people were asking Development, Dr. Julie Drolet and Dr. Diane news on the women’s soccer division for, and raptly listening to, the same Purvey, and a story about Matt Osborne, win, an introduction to the Law Class of great advice that I dole out unheeded a Social Work student with a passion 2014 and much more. In response to our to my university-attending sons. for affecting change for the homeless reader survey we’ve also included Class But because the room was full of TRU by sleeping under the stars. Notes again; so let’s hear from you too. Alumni, who like me, wanted to see This summer we were able to connect with We offer many opportunities to participate these 250 or so students succeed. Culinary Arts Alumni at the Farm2Chef with TRU. You can be a mentor at We care, I think, because someone grazing event at Thistle Farms. Our photo Networking 411, volunteer on our many at a point along the way in our own essay by Bart Cummins captures these TRU & Friends committees or help out paths at TRU took a few minutes vibrant, passionate chefs spreading the at other University events. Contact us at to impart some of their wisdom. gospel of good local food. www.tru.ca/alumni. As always, we look I am lucky, I see those caring faculty Beyond our people and programs, forward to your ideas and opinions. from Arts, Journalism and Horticulture TRU connects to the community by its in the halls and gardens of TRU weekly. geography. You will read about how We re-connect in the line for soup in our Campus Master Plans and land use the Food Training building or at the strategies are continuing to evolve. new Tim Hortons in the Brown Family House of Learning. We are genuinely TRU Alumni & Friends Association Chair happy to see each other, and for me, each time I see my poli-sci prof I remember how he imparted confidence to my inner academic. That’s why I went to Networking 411, because I remember that feeling of OMG (no we didn’t use that acronym then) I have invested 4 (or 5 or 6) years in this degree, now what? I’ll bet you remember too, so if you can become a mentor, trust me it’s worth the time.
Managing Editor Campus Commons
Take a Walk at TRU Campus development & sustainability By Sadie Cox & Anita Rathje
or over forty years, TRU’s campus “TRU and the City of Kamloops are Owen said other plans being considered F has been constantly growing and working together to make alternatives include constructing a secure bike strategically evolving. TRU has become to car transit attractive to people, facility by the Brown Family House more that the sum of its buildings, and increase the walkability of the of Learning. “It will have cameras and green spaces and pathways; it has campus,” said Tom Owen, director of I think we’ll also put in a minor bike become a community, a place to learn, environment and sustainability at TRU. repair facility right on campus.” live and play. The Transportation Demand Study, The House of Learning is a new hub for On November 14th, TRU announced that being conducted by Urban Systems, students, staff, and visitors, with its a new corporate trustee, TRU Community is looking for creative ways to encourage learning commons, full service Tim Horton’s, and the Irving K. Barber British Corporation, will manage development the 55 percent of staff and students Columbia Centre theatre venue. on TRU property. Building on the 2003 living within one bus route of TRU to Green spaces created beside it and Campus Plan, which recommended greater use alternative modes of transportation the addition of over 500 metres of density and sustainability, TRU is taking more frequently. A proposed pedestrian new sidewalk also contribute to the steps towards a “university village” overpass on Summit Drive, part of the walkability of campus. model for new development. study and the city’s Bicycle Master Plan, would reduce the walk between Upper Warren Asuchak, associate director Additional on-campus housing in College Heights and Old Main by 500 of Facilities Services, said the sidewalks particular will enrich campus life for metres, and provide a safer, more direct provide shorter and safer routes TRU students and add vibrancy to cycling route to the campus and areas connecting buildings, parking lots and the campus. Mixed use development like the Tournament Capital Centre. bus stops. “The additional sidewalk that includes grocery and drugstores, between Facilities and the House of “TRU can become a leader in that retail stores and other services below Learning is an easier access from the regard,” said Dylan Houlihan, residences means greater walkability – core of campus to the bus stops,” transportation planner with Urban encouraging students, staff and visitors said Asuchak. to stay and enjoy their time on campus. Systems, “reducing the number of people “Having more housing and services right on campus will help with student “The village concept will make the campus engagement,” said Peter Hilton, Vice-Provost, Students who regularly more alive, especially when classes aren’t cycles or walks to work in Old Main. on. Students will stay on campus more during the “The village concept will make the campus more alive, especially when classes aren’t weekdays before, between, and after their classes, on. Students will stay on campus more and come to campus more on the weekends.” during the weekdays before, between, and after their classes, and come to Peter Hilton, Vice-Provost, Students campus more on the weekends.” “I’m all for higher density,” said TRU staff Hilton believes Canadians need to work member Linda Komori, whose commute driving to the campus and increasing harder to reduce our carbon footprint, to campus is a 20 minute walk. the adoption of other modes of particularly reliance on cars. “As a cyclist, “Kamloops has tended towards urban transportation.” The study recommends I like the idea of having services nearby. sprawl. Even walking distances across a target of 40 per cent of people taking When students or staff need to run campus have been increasing.” transit to campus, and suggests errands – shopping, banking – they won’t Komori hopes to see expanded bus incentives to make alternatives more have to head off campus, so there’s no service, pedestrian malls, and a greater attractive than driving, such as the reason to bring a car. That’s making the pedestrian overpass, improvements number of services close by. “TRU needs planet better for future generations.” to find a balance between urban density to transit, and more residence space and preservation of our natural setting.” on campus. TCC and TRU play well together
By Allison Gibbard
he Tournament Capital Centre (TCC) T has successfully partnered with TRU as the stage for events such as the World Master's Indoor Athletics Championships, the BC Lions Training Camp, and the Western Canada Summer Games. But for students, faculty and staff, it also represents a campus lifestyle that isn’t all work and no play. It’s the convenience of the TCC to TRU that’s appealing to students. “The food and everything is in walking distance,” said Ken Olynyk, director of athletics and recreation at TRU. “It’s awesome.” “Students are really great because they are a big part of our business here,” said Jeff Putnam, the parks recreation facilities and business operations manager for the City of Kamloops. He values the symbiotic relationship with TRU. “Part of the reason the TCC gets the opportunity to host events like the Western Canada Summer Games and the BC Lions training camp is because the TCC is packaged with the university.” “It’s great to have everything in close proximity,” said Wally Buono, BC Lions head coach. For training camp, the players stay at the residence on campus so they are in walking distance of the TCC facility. “This allows for more efficient use of time and (the team has) a better chance to stay healthy and repower.” The relationship between TCC and TRU is a great draw for recruiting athletes, and attracts other students, staff, and faculty that want to train there. “Our partnership allows TRU students to use one of the prime facilities in the country,” said Olynyk. “We work together and people get to see the facility and the campus because of it.”
BC Lions training Camp at the TCC Campus Commons
The path of most resistance By Bart Cummins
ife is full of opportunities, and at Foubister recalls. “I liked the promise It’s taken Foubister many revisions and L times, it’s difficult to know when (of the software) and knew if I didn’t go more than 15,000 lines of code to get to dive in and when to hold back. for it, I would always ask, ‘What if?’.” to his current success: giving TRU students A little more than a year ago, What if Foubister hadn't left Waterloo access to a sleek, customizable and Scott Foubister (BSc Physics 2010) was two weeks into the fall 2010 semester easy-to-use web application that faced with a choice between two paths, to return home? And what if he hadn’t looks nothing like the original Excel though one held a lot more prestige and signed up for a one-month intensive spreadsheet that started it all. Last fall promise than the other. Spanish field school in Mexico in May approximately 150 Spanish students at 2010, where the story begins? TRU beta-tested a downloadable version On the one side, a lucrative master’s Wanting more than a tourist’s of the program. That number has tripled scholarship at the Institute of Quantum understanding of Spanish, he created this fall and it includes students in Computing at the University of Waterloo. a list of words and phrases in an Excel Spanish, French, Japanese, English as On the other, a return to his hometown spreadsheet. He wrote macros to turn a Second Language, botany and of Kamloops to further develop the spreadsheet in a program that linguistics. In most of these classes language-learning software he had could quiz him and track his progress. students receive a portion of their course created in his last year at TRU. When he shared the program with mark based on their usage of Vocaba. One opportunity was loaded with Annette Dominik, modern languages Students pay $10 per semester to get certainty and a long career in science. coordinator at TRU, Foubister saw access to the website. The other held a lot of unknowns, great possibilities to help others as and no financial resources to work with. Foubister would like to see 1,000 well as himself. TRU students using Vocaba by January Easy decision, right? Yep. If he hadn’t signed up for that field 2012 as he continues to expand “I quickly realized I was more passionate school and if he hadn’t left Waterloo, coverage to more courses and programs. about the language program I was Foubister’s language software, which is Vocaba is suitable for any course leaving behind than I was about the now called Vocaba, may never have involving vocabularyor terminology – research career I was starting,” been born. from languages to sciences to business
6 Thompson Rivers University • Fall 2011 Support for Innovation Innovation and technology development in the Thompson region got a boost this summer when TRU received nearly $890,000 in Western Diversification Every time you solve Program funding. TRU will purchase equipment which “ a problem, or say to until now had not been available regionally, to help local organizations and industry commercialize new yourself ‘I wish this existed’ bioproducts, value-added food products and analytical techniques. there is the potential for an Equipment includes a low-temperature incubating facility, a highly complex mass spectrometer, and meat research entrepreneurial enterprise. and development equipment. It will support the many local small- and Lincoln Smith, ” medium-sized businesses linked to the Industry University Liaison, TRU agriculture, bio-product and natural resource sectors. “The new analytical tools enabled by Western Economic Diversification have expanded the capacity and potential of TRU and our region for discovery and innovation,” said Dean of Science, Dr. Tom Dickinson. “Just as importantly, we are now able to broaden the opportunities for our students to do applied research that leads to immediate and direct outcomes.” and more. Sometime soon, he’d like to with ease. He can respond much more “As a result, our grads have gained see Vocaba used at other universities, quickly to suggestions, often able to a national reputation for their skills high schools and even in workplaces. implement them in a matter of minutes and competence on some of the most Foubister’s passion has taken him far, or hours. technically sophisticated analytical but he’s the first to tell you he’s done Smith has also shown Foubister how equipment in the world.” a lot of listening along the way and to be critical of Vocaba and to adopt heeded a lot of advice. Among those an entrepreneur’s mindset. he owes a world of gratitude: “Scott is an example of what you can Lincoln Smith, Industry University do when you follow your passion, Liaison in the Research, Innovation, and remain open to opportunities it can and Graduate Studies Office (RIGS) provide,” Smith says. “Everyone has at TRU; the entrepreneur incubator an idea for an innovative product or Kamloops Innovation Centre; and the service. Every time you solve a problem, Interior Innovation Science Council. or say to yourself ‘I wish this existed’ It was Smith who helped identify there is the potential for an the distribution problem that would entrepreneurial enterprise. If you prevent Foubister from scaling up his remain open to this potential, and seek business. Requiring users to download the support to evaluate it, great things his application meant people didn’t can happen.” always have the latest and greatest, He goes on to say, “It takes only ten leading Foubister to spend more time minutes to sit down with a mentor to on maintenance than on growing investigate a business idea, to save his business. Being web-based now Dr. Don Noakes, TRU AVP Research and Graduate a life time of wondering ‘What if?’.” Studies; Dr. Tom Dickinson, Dean Faculty of Science; means he can continue to improve his Christopher Séguin, TRU Advancement; and Cathy software and distribute it to customers McLeod, MP Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo during the funding announcement inside tru
HoneybeesA buzz on campus By Bart Cummins
here's a quiet buzzing atop the roof Arts. There could even be workshops, T of the Food Training Building and seminars, and a clothing line. it has nothing to do with electricity For students and faculty, the hives or the solar panels located nearby. serve as another on-campus source for Rather, it’s a honey of a project created teaching and learning where they can last spring by Culinary Arts instructor incorporate any aspect of the production Ron Rosentreter. What started out in process into their coursework, whether in the spring as an interesting experiment Arts, Business, Science, or Trades. with two hives and a few thousand Rosentreter’s hobby offers an abundance bees has turned into a world of spin-off of learning opportunities that includes possibilities that could eventually touch hands-on, theoretical, and research. every faculty and school on campus. So what got Rosentreter on this path Plans are to incorporate honey into menu in the first place? items at Accolades, TRU’s fine-dining “I’ve always been interested in bugs and restaurant staffed by students in the even as a kid I kept a few black widows Culinary Arts and Tourism Management in the house,” says Rosentreter, programs. As well, VIPs could soon be who on this blue-sky day is dressed receiving small jars of the stuff as from head to toe in a white beekeeper’s a memento of their visit to campus. suit. “Recently, a friend of mine got Rosentreter envisions public sales, into bees. I started watching them and with the money coming back to Culinary got interested in what they were doing.
8 Thompson Rivers University • Fall 2011 When you start showing an interest in If there’s one thing that stands out something, you get a little curious and as most important about this initiative, then it grabs hold of you.” Rosentreter says, it’s knowing the That got him thinking TRU would university is playing a role in aiding be a good location for an apiary, a struggling bee population, which has and the more he thought about it, been hit hard in recent years from the the more it made sense. Not only does effects of climate change, pests, and disease. the roof offer plenty of space and protection, the bees have plenty of food “The bee population isn’t doing very opportunities on campus thanks to the well and the future of it may be backyard abundant and diverse plant life. beekeepers that keep it going. I’m happy to be playing a role in their survival.” So, armed with suggestions from local apiaries, enthusiasts, the Internet, and wherever else he could glean information, Rosentreter set out on the in the new year for adventure. Wisely, he started small so Watch a fund-raising dinner, Where are YOU now? he could learn and adapt as he went with money going towards along. In late August, he squeezed production costs and the Send us your update in 160 characters 50 pounds from the honeycombs while purchase of more hives. or less. Your classmates are asking leaving enough honey for the bees to for you! feed on during the cold winter months. It's simple. Go to www.tru.ca/ alumni/updates and fill out our form. What's New? Have a new job? Married? Children? Moved?
Photos are welcome and must Academic Plan be 300dpi. It's great to hear from you. By Bart Cummins
RU will soon have a new Academic field study opportunities, applied learning, T Plan, a roadmap of sorts outlining research opportunities, and programs how the university will continue to blending two or more areas of study. attract students and prepare them to The Academic Plan is the product compete in a rapidly changing world. of more than a year of consultation, At its core, the document addresses including town hall meetings this the need for graduates to be innovative fall—one in Kamloops and another and creative problem solvers. This will in Williams Lake. be accomplished in part by educating TRU Senate members are scheduled students from all walks of life, to vote Dec. 19 to officially endorse and providing an array of intercultural the Academic Plan. experiences, flexible course delivery,
TRU Alumni & Friends Magazine www.tru.ca/alumni 9 Research Review
A story for Elder care By Anita Rathje Photo by Diana Skoglund
veryone loves listening to a good Back row left to right: Star Mahara (Co-investigator), Jean William (Elder advisor), James Shawana E story. Whether it’s family history (Research assistant), Elisabeth Antifeau (Practitioner co-lead). or shared mythology, our elders have Front row left to right: Brad Anderson (Co-investigator), Cecilia DeRose (Elder advisor), Evelyn Camille (Elder advisor), Wendy Hulko (Researcher co-lead), Estella Patrick Moller (Elder advisor) a wealth of tales to tell. But for First Not pictured: Colleen Varcoe (Co-investigator) Nation Elders, storytelling is a means of preserving the knowledge and culture “First Nation Elders have been an current Indigenous Cultural Competency of a people and a place, and may be overlooked population in dementia training to increase nurses’ knowledge the key to ensuring that Elders with research,” said researcher co-lead and understanding of First Nation dementia are cared for by health Dr. Wendy Hulko of TRU’s School cultural safety. practitioners in a culturally safe manner. of Social Work and Human Service. Starting in January, in a process called Researchers from TRU and the Interior “Yet, dementia appears to be increasing knowledge translation and exchange, Health Authority (IHA) are collaborating among this group due to the aging Secwepemc Elders in Kamloops, with Secwepemc Nation Elders on demographic and the high rates of Williams Lake, and Chase will share a community-based project called risk factors that are a consequence stories and experiences in sharing “Culturally safe dementia care: of colonization, such as diabetes, circles with three groups of nurses building nursing capacity to care for low socio-economic status, obesity, employed by Interior Health and First Nation Elders with memory loss.” cardiovascular disease, and lower levels First Nations and Inuit Health, so that of formal education.” knowledge translation can occur between Hulko and practitioner co-lead the nurses and Elders. Elisabeth Antifeau of IHA were awarded “Through the stories being told to the a $213,700 grant from the Michael nurses they will gain insight in how to Smith Foundation for Health Research for look after Elders, whether in their home the project, which builds on the results or a residential care home off reserve, of their previous exploratory research, and an understanding of the cultural ways “First Nations perspectives on dementia.” of First Nations, such as sharing food,” “Health care providers and First Nation said Heather Morin, a community-based communities expressed the need researcher working with the team. for specialized training for nurses on “It’s a collaborative research project cultural safety and dementia care, with Elders on our advisory board and so that nurses can better care for First we will work together until the end of Estella Patrick Moller is one of several Elders at Nation Elders with memory loss,” the project.” TRU available through the ‘Elders in the House Program.’ The Elders provide personal consultation, said Antifeau. Their exploratory research This exciting collaboration continues conversation, guidance, and mentorship to with Secwepemc Elders suggested through 2012. aboriginal students storytelling could be used with the
10 Thompson Rivers University • Fall 2011 TRU joins the Research Universities' Council of British Columbia
r. George Iwama, President and RUCBC represents the collective D Vice Chancellor of the University of interests of its members in support Northern British Columbia and Chair of common issues. RUCBC provides of the Research Universities’ Council of leadership in the development of British Columbia (RUCBC) announced on relevant public policy and also October 4th that TRU and Royal Roads provides a coordinating forum for its University (RRU) joined the Council. member universities. Current members include the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria and University of Northern British Columbia. www.rucbc.ca
Roadside Shrines By Anita Rathje
f you ask Diane Purvey for a definition Death, Dying and Disposal Conference I of “shrine”, she won’t describe at Radboud University Nijmegen, a temple in a Chinese gorge or a niche the Netherlands, in September, carved into a cave in India. She might Purvey and Belshaw explore the history show you a photo from one of many road of public mourning in BC and the impact trips she’s made over the past few years, of the province’s diversity of cultural pilgrimages to seek out a recent traditions on memorials and mourning phenomenon that is particularly prevalent practices among teens. They interviewed in British Columbia: the roadside memorial. students, teachers, principals, Purvey is an international expert on and counselors about teen responses On Highway 97B south of Salmon Arm, two hockey to death, and how school culture and referees killed on their way home from a game are the subject. An associate professor in remembered with these unique markers Education at TRU, Purvey and her partner practices around grief have evolved. John Belshaw, former TRU professor “Teens feel a strong need – and right – them than are the adults. The public – of history and current Dean of Social to memorialize their fellows in some and youth in particular – is reclaiming Sciences and Management at Langara manner,” notes Purvey. Locker shrines death and reappropriating ritual. College in Vancouver, co-authored and roadside memorials are spontaneous, Despite much debate and great variation Private Grief, Public Mourning: The Rise personal, idiosyncratic, and imaginative, in legislation due to the very public nature of the Roadside Shrine in British Columbia in contrast to more traditional, of these memorials, roadside shrines (Anvil Press, 2009) after several years of less transitory, designated sites of continue to spring up in BC, in other documenting roadside death memorials remembrance like cemeteries. parts of Canada, and around the world. all over BC. Building on the book, “Public grieving in schools is used as their recent research focuses on youth, a kind of temporary, workplace therapy.” “Death is the great litmus test of any exploring other sites of mourning like Purvey and Belshaw also found that civilization: how we choose to remember high school locker shrines, and changes although benches and other more defines and reveals us,” said Purvey. in grieving practices in schools. permanent memorials are not Purvey and Belshaw’s most recent book, In “Deathscapes in the west: road warriors established by the students, over time Vancouver Noir, 1930–1960 (Anvil Press), and teen angels”, presented at the 10th the students are more likely to reference will be available in December 2011.
TRU Alumni & Friends Magazine www.tru.ca/alumni 11 Research Review
Toolkit for a Changing World By Anita Rathje
rom fires and floods to the mountain “Outreach activities will network from Drolet’s original study discussed F pine beetle epidemic, the effects affected communities in BC, the impacts of the mountain pine beetle of climate change in British Columbia providing a community-level forum on smaller communities: can have devastating consequences to share the innovative ways that “I think that our community has definitely for small cities and rural communities. small cities and rural communities are been affected by climate change. “Climate change is the most significant adapting to climate change,” said Drolet, When I moved here in the '50s we used environmental, social, cultural and inaugural director of the Centre for to have -40˚C to -45˚C weather and now economic threat facing humankind,” International Social Work and Research because we do not have that cooling states Dr. Julie Drolet in her Social Sciences at TRU and faculty member in the School weather we had a huge pine beetle and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Social Work and Human Service. infestation…that has hugely impacted public outreach project, “Community level “This research will lead to support to our community because we’ve had saw adaptation to climate risk”. build their capacity and deal with the mills that have closed down and many challenges that lie ahead.” The project aims to improve the resiliency people are now unemployed,” said one of BC communities to the impacts of According to the BC provincial focus group participant. climate change by sharing knowledge, government’s Climate Action Plan, increasing awareness, and developing parts of the province have been warming Allysa Gredling, a community researcher a toolkit of strategies to help communities at a rate more than double the global from the Kamloops Women’s Resource adapt. The experiences of affected average. The effects are well documented. Group Society, and Yasir Ali, communities in the BC Interior – Warmer winters, for example, an undergraduate student research Kamloops, Quesnel, Prince George, have contributed to the spread of the assistant, assisted Drolet with the Clearwater, 100 Mile House and Merritt – mountain pine beetle, which has analysis of data collected from 121 are being shared as part of a knowledge destroyed more than 16 million hectares participants through interviews, mobilization plan. of pine forest. Community narratives focus group discussions, and a survey,
Average temperatures in Sea level could rise Alaska, western Canada, 18 to 59 centimeters by and eastern Russia have century's end, reports the risen at twice the global Intergovernmental Panel on average, according to the Climate Change. A rise of just multinational Arctic Climate 10 centimeters could flood Impact Assessment report many South Seas islands compiled between 2000 and swamp large parts of and 2004. Southeast Asia.
Kelowna wildfires in 2003. Flooding in Bella Coola, BC in 2010, Ministry of Transportation
12 Thompson Rivers University • Fall 2011 New book offers Canadian context for field education By Bikram Bathh
ulie Drolet and Natalie Clark of Social discussion questions to help students J Work and Human Service, along with of social work, human service, and child former Social Work dean Helen Allen and youth care get the most out of (not shown), recently published Shifting their practicum placement. It is the first Sites of Practice: Field Education in Canada. text in its field to provide examples of The book offers a variety of perspectives, practice in a Canadian context. theory, case scenarios, exercises and
to learn about community members’ mitigate the effects of climate change sharing adaptations, Drolet hopes responses and adaptations to the impacts at the local level. communities can identify what kind of climate change. Participants such “Another impact…is that people are quite of capacity and support is needed. as community leaders, activists, interested in local food production The knowledge gained from the project, disaster managers, and women leaders knowing that it’s healthier and it has developed into a toolkit to share among offered opinions and positions on different a smaller carbon footprint, too…there stakeholders and presented by Drolet subjects, as well as personal insights. is a lot of interest in that issue and at international conferences, will inform Localization, food security, community and people are trying to eat more local,” emergency service volunteers, sustainable development issues were said one participant. policy makers, planners and managers, health professionals, community members, among the topics raised in focus groups Changing food growing practices is and interviews in regards to purchasing educators, public and private sector just one way people are adapting at executives, emergency responders, and gathering food, participating in a community level to a changing climate. community gardens, giving preference the academic community, and the By understanding the various ways in general public. to local produce, developing new skills which communities are affected and and accessing resources to adapt and
Over the next 10 years 80% of BC's mature pine forest is expected to be lost due to the infestation of the mountain pine beetle.
Aerial view of extensive attack by mountain pine beetle
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TRUAs submitted by the Faculty of Law Law n May, 2010 the Faculty of Law at and supports comparable to those in law careers they will undertake in the Law. I Thompson Rivers University was still schools across Canada. “The demand In addition, they will be ready to accept just an idea. Just 16 months later, for the best faculty and law students is leadership roles in their communities.” on September 6th, 2011 the Faculty of increasingly competitive”, Axworthy said, This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity Law and TRU marked an historic day – “this will be a major challenge as we for all involved. the opening of Canada’s first new Law move to the next critical stages of the School in over 30 years. “This was Law School’s development. We have This fresh approach, enthusiasm, a remarkable achievement”, a great foundation on which to build – and confidence was a deal-maker for noted Dr. Alan Shaver, President of TRU, great faculty and students and Stephan Salo of Timmins, Ontario. “especially since the Founding Dean of Law, a commitment to the very best education He turned down an offer in Ontario, Chris Axworthy QC and Anne Pappas we can provide.” packed his bags, and headed west. comprised the Faculty of Law for almost “The experience of being in the first class TRU Law offers its students a unique wasn’t something I could turn down,” a year. Seeing everyone in the room on opportunity to contribute to building said Salo. “I applied to a lot of places, Opening Day was, indeed, special as the new Faculty and developing its and was accepted here and at the the Law Faculty had suddenly grown curriculum. The Faculty of Law will offer University of Windsor. I decided to come from 2 to 85.” students a unique legal education, here.” Likewise, Chrystie Stewart, Dean Axworthy, appointed in May, 2010, blending knowledge of the Law, from Kamloops, said, “I was excited set about establishing the Faculty of requisite professional skills to use when I heard there was a law school Law. After all of the necessary university, that knowledge, together with opening here, I was accepted to UVIC, professional and government approvals a sophisticated understanding of the as well but I thought it was important were obtained, there began the ethical and professional responsibilities to stay and be part of the first class.” establishment of the best Faculty of Law rightly expected of lawyers. Axworthy said, possible. This involved hiring the best “Our graduates will be particularly So, what have these 75 new law faculty members, recruiting the best well-suited to take on the challenges students been up to in the last few students and providing student services presented by the complex and varied months? Many note the heavy workload and they are adjusting to twelve hour days, with hours of preparation nightly. They have discussed, debated and voted in their brand new Society of Law Students (“SLS”). This was a wonderful opportunity to get to know each other and decide how they should organize themselves to pursue their best interests. Calgarian James Michi, the recently elected SLS President, says, “I made a strategic decision to apply to TRU Law because I was inspired by the idea of being part of a program from the ground up, or being an academic pioneer of sorts. That was something that captivated me. We (my partner Charlotte and I) also discussed the idea and were both in agreement that a smaller city would do us some good. So far, that choice
SLS President 2011 James Michi SLS Vice President 2011 Chrystie Stewart
14 Thompson Rivers University • Fall 2011 Photo by Kamloops Camera House of TRU Law's inaugural class, Sept. 6th.
has proven to be a very good one. core courses. They include Professors and faculty members expected to join We love Kamloops and the surrounding Ken Cooper-Stephenson (Tort Law), the Faculty in the summer of 2012 and, area. And I am obviously loving my Margaret Hall (Tort Law), Mary Hemmings of course, the next group of 80 first year experience at TRU Law”. (Fundamental Legal Skills), Dr. Richard students who, once admitted, will start Heavy workload aside, the group is taking Oppong (Contract Law), Sharon Mascher in September 2012. time to set up resources for themselves (Property Law), Debra McKenzie Axworthy is excited at the prospect of and future students. Without the wisdom (Legislation, Administration and Policy), being part of the first new law faculty in of second or third year students to draw Janna Promislow (Constitutional Law), Canada in over three decades, on, the law class of 2014 is blazing its and Micah Rankin (Criminal Law). and also, to have the opportunity to own trail. Dr. Cooper-Stephenson, fondly called re-define a law library that is designed All agreed there is an expectation that “Coop” by students, is known for his for the digital age. “Three decades ago they are always prepared and professional. research in personal injury damages and law libraries were focused on buying “This isn’t just about the books, it’s about couldn’t resist the opportunity of being books. Today with so many advances the core education,” said Stewart. a founding faculty member for the in technology, law libraries are focused on “They’re training us to become different second time in his career! acquiring e-books and on-line resources”. people—socially responsible, Professor Sharon Mascher, a native of Louis Mirando, the Chief Law Librarian professional and accountable.” Calgary, joins TRU to be part of the newest at Osgoode Hall in Toronto, and Neil Stewart and Salo are not alone in their law faculty in Canada. choice. Many of the 75 students had Sharon moved to other options but chose to attend TRU. Kamloops, having taught With the intense competition to secure in the Faculties of Law in admission to law schools in Canada, Western Australia (most Assistant Dean, Anne Pappas said, recently), “I am not surprised at the high quality of in Saskatchewan and in students accepted to the Program”. New Zealand. “We are all thrilled to be part of On Opening Day Dean Axworthy this ‘ground-breaking remarked that the journey upon which experience’,” these 75 students were embarking says Professor Micah “is a special one”, one in which they will (L–R): Hon. Dr. Terry Lake, Minister of the Environment and MLA Rankin, who teaches become members of the legal profession, Kamloops-North Thompson; Dr. Alan Shaver, TRU President and Criminal Law. a profession that Axworthy describes as: Vice-Chancellor; Hon. Wally Oppal, QC, TRU Chancellor; John Hunter, The Faculty of Law is QC, Vice President, Federation Law Societies; Hon. Mr. Justice Richard “Noble and proud. A caring profession Blair, Supreme Court of BC; Sharon Matthews, President, The Canadian charged with protecting society’s most temporarily located on the Law Association, BC Branch; Hon. Lance Finch, Chief Justice of BC; precious rights and freedoms. It is second floor in the recently Chris Axworthy, QC, TRU Founding Dean of Law; Cathy McLeod, a profession committed to justice, humanity, dedicated Brown Family MP Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo; Mayor Peter Milobar and Gavin Hume, QC, President Law Society of BC. respect and dignity. It is a calling, House of Learning. more than just a job. This is a great “We have already filled the privilege and a great responsibility”. available space in the building, with the Campbell, the Chief Law Librarian at the Like Axworthy and Pappas, the opportunity current compliment of faculty and staff” University of Victoria, agree. to open the first new Canadian Law says Axworthy. He is optimistic that the Campbell and Mirando were consulted Faculty in over three decades could not Faculty of Law’s new location in the Old and provided recommendations for be passed up by the founding faculty Main Building will be completed soon, TRU’s new law library thanks to a grant members who are teaching first year making space for the additional staff from the Law Foundation of British >>
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Columbia. “Law libraries are more McLachlin, P.C., Chief Justice proactive environments, they are of Canada, wrote, “TRU Law a place where people go for information has a special mission as the and to engage with one another,” only Canadian law faculty not says Mirando. TRU’s new Chief Law located in a major urban centre. Librarian Mary Hemmings, who joins By bringing legal education TRU from the Faculty of Law at the to a broader community, University of Calgary, agrees and will be Thompson Rivers University implementing the recommendations of will make an important Mirando’s report. contribution to tackling the access to justice problem”. (L–R): Micah B. Rankin, Margaret Isabel Hall, Chris Axworthy, Diamond and Schmitt Architects in Toronto Dr. Richard Frimpong Oppong, Dr. Ken Cooper-Stephenson, are certainly keenly aware of this too, On that day, The Honourable Debra McKenzie, Anne Pappas, Mary Hemmings, Janna Promislow as they commence the design of the Lance Finch, Chief Justice of and Sharon Mascher. new Law Faculty space in the Old Main British Columbia, told the Building. Donald Schmitt sees the new students, “You have begun an law library as a space “that creates adventure, a life-altering opportunity”. a great environment for thinking and The Honourable Thomas Crabtree, reading”. Reading and thinking is Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of something that all TRU Law students British Columbia, said, “forever you will expect to do in abundance. be known as the first graduating class – an honour you will carry the rest of In her message to the inaugural class, www.tru.ca/law The Right Honourable Beverley your career”.
A TRU Start to TRU Law rts graduate Lisa Scruton knew TRU beautiful and the student body is vibrant A was where she wanted to study from and energetic. After seeing that during the moment she began taking English TRU-Start, I knew I didn’t want to leave." courses here, while still a high school Just before Convocation in June, student in the first year of the TRU-Start Lisa learned she would be part of program with School District 73. another first at TRU: she is one of the TRU-Start gives local secondary school inaugural group of students in TRU's students in their final year an opportunity new Faculty of Law. Lisa and her fellow to take first-year university courses while students will interact closely with still in high school, tuition free, and get a diverse faculty, focusing on First a sense of university student life. Nations, Natural Resources and Energy Lisa's choice of English became her law. The next phase of Lisa's student life major once she enrolled at TRU, and she at TRU started this fall. Lisa Scruton, BA, 2011 and member of the then added the Political Science and "TRU has been such an incredible inaugural class of law. Economics joint major to round out her university to attend over the last few Bachelor of Arts. years," said Lisa. "I can’t imagine any "I chose to attend TRU in part because other university in the country that could Read more about Lisa Scruton's experience at TRU on of location," said Lisa in an interview have done what TRU has done for me — the blog by Will Garrett-Petts, Associate Dean of Arts. with her former professor and Associate allowing me to be a trailblazer for two Dean of Arts Will Garrett-Petts, "and partly incredible programs." because the TRU-Start program instantly petts.blog.mytru.ca made it my home. The TRU campus is
16 Thompson Rivers University • Fall 2011 BreakingBorders Discover the story behind the winner of the most recent TRUe Story Contest By Lindsey Norris
or Lee Davidson, earning his athlete and student just beginning his Norwegian, raised a family and finally F university degree has been a journey university studies. Like many others, resumed pursing the university degree 15 years in the making. This journey Davidson wasn't sure what he wanted he started many years ago. involved a health crisis, a continental out of his college experience but did He acknowledges the difficulty in move, fatherhood and a host of other know he wanted to play football. So he coordinating all his obligations. He is life changes. dabbled in a few Arts courses and joined no longer married, and while he shares the junior football team in Kelowna, Today, Davidson lives in Oslo, Norway, parenting responsibilities with his spending half his time there and the where he holds a full-time coaching ex-wife, it means he often juggles the other half in his hometown of Kamloops. position and raises his two children. role of single father alongside his job While you might think he has enough But he was forced to put both his football and coursework. However, unlike the to keep him busy, he plans to complete career and his academic pursuits on hold young student he was 15 years ago, a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology when he was diagnosed with cancer. today he knows what he wants through Open Learning, focusing on For two years he underwent treatment and where he wants to go. sports psychology. and when he was declared cancer-free, “No matter what the circumstances are, he reassessed his goals. His interests if you really want to do something there “I have finally decided to finish my still lay with sport, but this time around, is always a way to make it happen if you degree because I'm interested to blend on the coaching side. He also hankered are willing to work hard and see your my interest for psychology with my to live abroad. He did some research goals through to completion,” he said. experiences in sport,” he explained. in Europe and knew it offered a growing “I need 10 courses to finish my degree. “I was looking for distance education; fan base for American Football and thus If that takes two or three years, that's okay. flexibility was the biggest draw and tremendous opportunity to those who could The important thing is to jump in and Thompson Rivers University was bring their experience to a new market. get started.” a natural choice.” “So it was coaching that brought me It was a natural choice because Davidson to Norway, and now I actually coach was once an on-campus student here in hockey,” he said. 1996, when TRU was still called Cariboo Since moving to Norway 11 years ago www.tru.ca/assets/ College. At that time, he was a young to coach, Davidson has learned to speak ol/ebooks/truestory
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Mark February 6–10, 2012 on your calendar.
hat began 18 years ago as followed by an address by Grand Chief W a one-day showcase of cultural Edward John on global indigenous foods and artifacts has since issues. Then there were presentations developed into an award-winning on tax implications for international campus-wide festival with dozens of students, an exhibit on international events spread over five days. social work, and talks on the Study International Days celebrates all Abroad program and tourism in East things international at TRU and Africa. An international film festival throughout Kamloops. featuring an Indian drama and For a week in February, the banners a documentary on Islam closed what of International Days and the colourful was only the first of five days full flags of dozens of nations festoon the of excitement. campus lamp stands to brighten up As in past years, International Days the otherwise dreary days just before will culminate in a showcase Friday reading break. featuring food, cultural displays, “Last year we had 80 events over five days,” performances and an ethnic said Wes Koczka, associate vice-president fashion show. of international and CEO global operations. Seeing the showcase for “This year we are changing up the themselves during a campus program to bring internationalization tour sealed the deal for to a broader audience.” Plans include delegates from the BC Council adding five guest scholars who will be for International Education making special lecture appearances (BCCIE). In April 2010 the throughout the campus, a panel of Council recognized TRU’s international education developers and International Days two keynote talks on global issues. with the first ever Gwynne Dyer, historian and independent Outstanding journalist, will deliver a keynote address Program in on Monday, Februrary 6, on the Arab International Spring. On Wednesday, February 9, Education Award, Capt. Charles Moore will speak on the for the high seas of plastic that are rapidly taking quality and over the world’s oceans. highly creative The week always kicks off with a flag programming that goes parade. Last year the parade was into International Days. 40 Years in the Making
t seems like everyone is getting on I the internationalization bandwagon these days. While provincial Photo by Amit Chaudhary at the Diwali Celebration this past October trade missions give momentum to campuses, and elementary and secondary schools join the market, TRU proves international education isn't just a passing trend. Bright Colors Dazzle TRU began its inroads into at the International Showcase international education shortly after it was founded. Charles Mossop, who is credited with building the foundation for TRU World, first took Cariboo College to China in 1971. Charles Brewster, Cariboo College President from 1979 to 1986, travelled to Asia with several other BC educators in 1986 to establish international connections. TRU is a university with four decades of experience, and a student population that reaches every corner of the globe. “We know how important having solid international relationships are continued to building a culturally diverse and stimulating educational experience for Internationalization is celebrated the sights and sounds of Africa without all our students,” said Alan Shaver, throughout the year in other ways as leaving Kamloops. Africa Day has TRU President and Vice-Chancellor. well. Different student clubs herald their featured performers like Naby Camara, Shaver is encouraged that the cultures with extravagant festivals and a Juno award winning musician and Province is taking a leadership role on feasts of their own making. In October member of the Canadian group African international education, and noted over 300 guests celebrated Diwali, Guitar Summit. Africa Day offers an that a strong partnership going the Festival of Lights at the Grand Hall. array of drama, dance, fashion and forward that works towards top-quality In January the TRUSU India Club will much more. education and good international bring out pigments for Rang De Basanti Short stay visitors have also taken relationships will position BC’s (Festival of Colors). the time to give back to the community universities and colleges well in an The Chinese New Year Dinner, with an afternoon of music and dance. increasingly competitive world. celebrating the Year of the Dragon this In June, 135 International Islamic year, will have its work cut out for it to Education Counsel students from surpass the festivities celebrating 2011’s Jakarta called Kamloops and TRU home Year of the Rabbit. Chinese student clubs for three weeks. As they worked on organize the event, which is open to the their English and gained a better DID YOU KNOW? whole campus. The ticket price includes understanding of Western culture, a dinner buffet, performances, games, the Indonesian students also found For the fall 2011 semester TRU has lucky draws, karaoke, and fireworks. time to practice for their hour-long 1,572 international students on campus, representing 85 countries For the last five years the Pan Africa cultural performance. from all over the world, an increase Club has made it possible to experience of 8 per cent over last year. International students studying at TRU bring approximately $88 million For more information about the celebration, to the Kamloops economy every year. visit www.tru.ca/internationaldays/schedule
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Alumni Events Save the date!
APR Distinguished Alumni Awards JUN Annual General Meeting. 13 Night. A night of celebration, 25 Find out what's happening honour, and entertainment. with your Aumni and Time: 6pm Friends Association and Pictured: Megan Perkins, Jenn Olsen, Rebecca Paliwoda, enjoy music, wine and Place: The new Mountain Amanda Jones, Tiffany Fransbergen, Karen Farmer, a captivating speaker. Carley MacIntyre, Garreth Bloudell, Jess Risley, Joy Umoyoh, Room – CAC Time: 5pm Tim Routtu, Martha Clarke Cost: $80 Missing: Evee Lu, Akemi Darlington, Nathan Kellock, Place: House of Learning Patrick McCaffery, Neville Obbu, Mike Reid MAY Alumni and Friends Golf Tourney. Chemistry Biochemistry Club 11 Open the season with a round raises $1,200 for RIH of fun, food and prizes. In honour of Kieren O'Neil and family, Time: 2pm TRU's Chemistry Biochemistry Club Place: Pineridge Golf Course members raised $1,200 for Royal Inland www.tru.ca/alumni Hospital's Pediatric Department. Money was Cost: $75 raised through a pub night, magic show, and bake sales. Tailor-made training to fill skill gap in Williams Lake
RU Williams Lake has been awarded The grant will improve the economic both the workplace and the individual T a $245,000 grant to help address well-being of the region, adversely affected participants’ needs. TRU-WL will implement the literacy skills gaps of workers in the by a reduction in the timber industry, the training plans through both credit forestry, manufacturing and mining sector. by providing workers with more and non-credit offerings. The program The Cariboo region’s campus is one of transferable skills. is designed to facilitate and support only eight recipients in the province to The Cariboo Skills Plus grant will learning by building self-confidence. receive funding from the Colleges and provide the TRU-WL catchment area, This grant is the first major award for the Skills Development Branch of the BC Cariboo Chilcotin, the opportunity for TRU Williams Lake campus. Shirley Pat Ministry of Advanced Education under its business and industry program partners Gale, Grants Officer, was the author of SkillsPlus Phase III – Intergrating Essential and eligible participants the proposal and will be the primary Skills in the Workplace Program. to determine administrator of Working with its partners ESP Consulting essential the grant. Ltd and Cariboo Chilcotin Partners skills levels for Literacy (CCPL), TRU-WL will through provide continuous assessment, a variety of evaluation and reporting to assessment ensure program success tools. and to encourage the Tailor-made participants to training plans continue the will be pursuit of developed lifelong to match learning.
20 Thompson Rivers University • Fall 2011 Honorable Wally Oppal, QC, presents certificate to Stella Oneita Ostrander Performances and presentations at the First Nations Tax Administration Banquet. Tulo students among first graduating class of new program Story and Photos by Tina Pelletier
leven graduates of the Tulo said Clarke, who is currently the property Clarke says she is looking forward ECentre of Indigenous Economics – tax administrator at Songhees Nation. to applying her new skills to contribute in a partnership formed with the First Her education will soon contribute to the to the legal, administrative and technical Nation Tax Commission and Thompson project development of a new wellness needs of Songhees, and feels confident Rivers University in 2008 – were awarded centre that is presently in the works, the First Nations Tax Administration their certificates in First Nations Tax which will be complete with a full-size program has equipped her with the Administration at the 2011 TRU gymnasium, museum, conference facilities, skills to work effectively with engineers, Fall Convocation. accountants, lawyers, band members, health centre, community centre, and taxpayers. Christina Clarke was among the first and administration offices. In attendance graduates of the program, which aims to at Christina’s graduation was Chief “I am excited because of the new ways provide its students with the hands-on Robert Sam of the Songhees Nation, I can contribute to Songhees Nation,” experience to manage First Nations tax the first First Nation to convert its bylaws said Clarke proudly, adding, “Now that systems. Clarke’s schooling will equip from s.83 of the Indian Act to FSMA laws. I finished the program, it means I can her with the practical tools necessary to He says the award ceremony marks help bring new opportunities for our First implement the First Nations Fiscal and a time of rapid growth and change. Nation that will not only maximize the Statistical Management Act (FSMA). benefit of the land but, ultimately, “I was excited to take the Tulo program “First Nations in Canada are in transition,” help our band membership onto a future because there was a lot of emphasis said Chief Sam. “And we will need path of prosperity.” on understanding how to implement more graduates of the Tulo programs the FSMA for the benefit of the economic to help lead our people down the road development on First Nations,” to self-determination.” www.tulo.ca
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Camping Out for Youth Outreach By Anita Rathje
f you saw some young people huddled people in our community safe,” said Matt COBS Bread and Starbucks. The event Iin sleeping bags on the TRU Campus Osborne, the Human Service grad ended at 6am with breakfast donated by Commons lawn one chilly night this fall, who started the event last winter after Lynn Joly, Associate VP Human Resources and wondered for a moment if they working with at risk youth during his and Planning at TRU. Various businesses had beds to go home to, the campers practicum at ICS. “The Youth Outreach also donated prizes. made their point. TRU students, staff, Program had 1,378 interactions with over “I'm so proud of the organizing committee and community members spent a night 400 youth in the past year, and prevented and each participant that slept out under the stars at the 2nd Annual Camp the loss of housing for 134 youth. overnight. Their level of commitment is Out on Campus to raise awareness and Money raised will continue to help young so inspiring and is the reason that we funds for Kamloops youth outreach. people learn life skills, find housing, will likely see a 3rd Annual Camp Out on The inaugural event started last and build confidence and self-esteem. Campus next October,” said Osborne, February, with snow still on the ground, We are essentially investing in the future now a Bachelor of Social Work student. and organizers had a challenge convincing of Kamloops.” He hopes this event will continue to people to pledge to spend a night Joining TRU students and staff were support youth outreach for many years outdoors. This fall, 69 people registered members from the community including to come. “Thank you to everyone who for the event, which began at 6pm on staff and management from Interior helped to make the 2nd Annual Camp October 18th, and of those, 27 spread Community Services, CLBC and Out on Campus a success and we out tarps and sleeping bags on the grass ASK Wellness. Elder Mike Arnouse look forward to your support in the in front of the Brown Family House of welcomed the campers to the traditional coming years.” Learning to sleep for the entire night. Secwepemc Territory at about 8:30pm. The student-run pledge drive raised over A late meal of chili and buns and other $5100 toward Youth @ Risk Programs food and through Interior Community Services beverages (ICS), a local non-profit agency. for the night City of Kamloops “Youth @ Risk Programs through Interior were donated Community Services help to keep young by ICS,
Thurs May 10 - Fri May 11, 2012 Thompson Rivers University 900 McGill Road, Kamloops, BC The 3rd Annual Cities Fit for Children Provincial Summit is dedicated to increasing the knowledge of the positive impact that local partnerships, e ective policies and business engagement strategies have in contributing to safe, healthy and sustainable cities. This provincial conference is dedicated to child and family Photo by Keith Anderson, The Daily News. Kimberley SiWallace, BEd, development through natural play concepts, building diverse and inclusive unpacks her sleeping bag for a night under the stars during the second annual Camp Out on Campus, outside The Brown Family House of communities as well as the healthy build environment. Learning, background. The event will bring together local, municipal and regional leaders involved in policy decisions and those involved in designing and building healthy safe communities for children and families. The objective of the Summit is to showcase exemplary and visionary community initiatives, strategies and practices in Kamloops and around the province. For more info, call Nicole Beauregard at 250-828-3758 or email 22 Thompson Rivers University • Fall 2011 [email protected]
www.kamloops.ca/cities tforchildren Alma Matters
RU grads Wendy Chernivchan "I like engaging Aboriginal T (Human Service Diploma ’11) students and developing and Vernie Clement (BBA ’09) their strengths as they learn were recently hired by TRU to navigate and access Aboriginal Services and services and supports. have roles tied directly to student success. Clement That's where I operate from. is the Aboriginal Mentor Everyone has strengths they Coordinator and may or may not be aware of." Chernivchan is the —Wendy Chernivchan Aboriginal Life Skills Coach. "I like to help make change With each thrilled and now I’m in a position to be applying their where I can help drive skills and talents some of that change. in a direct and If it’s helping first-year positive manner to students succeed, helping better the lives of the institution, helping our Aboriginal peoples, Bridges asked, people—it’s all good to me." ‘What is one thing —Vernie Clement that excites you about the position?’
Alumni Journalist Wins Top BC Awards Also at the Websters • Mel Rothenburger, ive years after graduating from Olsen’s series a former journalism F TRU’s Bachelor of Journalism on marijuana instructor at Cariboo program, alumnus Tyler Olsen has grow-ops in College credited with won three top honours in the BC Chilliwack also working to establish newspaper industry, for his series won him top the journalism called “Growing Concern” for the awards from program at TRU, Chilliwack Times. the Canadian received the Bruce Hutchinson Lifetime At an awards gala on October 24th, Community TRU alumnus Tyler Olsen at Achievement Award. Olsen received the Jack Webster Newspaper the Jack Webster Foundation Association Mel Rothenburger, Editor, Award for Community Reporting, Awards Gala • Jason M. Perry, which recognizes broadcast journalists and the British received a Kamloops Daily News from small market broadcast Columbia and 2011 Student organizations and print journalists Yukon Community Journalism Award from publications with less than Newspaper Association. 50,000 circulation whose work The Jack Webster Foundation, demonstrates extraordinary enterprise, established in 1986, talent or courage in bringing vital recognizes excellence in information to their community. journalism in British Columbia.
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Alumni4Farm2Chefs Culinary grazing for a sustainable future By Diana Skoglund
n a brilliant summer Sunday “from seed to plate”. Culinary Arts Oafternoon, a passionate group of alumni and chef instructors at TRU chefs and farmers took over Thistle are at the forefront of the movement Farm in Westsyde (Kamloops) at the towards a sustainable food system first annual Farm2Chefs fundraiser. in the region. Eleven Culinary Arts alumni from TRU “I really wanted to showcase the were among the 30 vendors offering agricultural bounty of our region, one-bite celebrations of local food in to serve our guests something fresh, support of the Thompson-Shuswap indigenous and unique,” said Ed Walker, Chef-Farmer Collaborative (TSCFC). TSCFC’s founder and chair of the culinary Attendees at the sold out event were arts program at TRU. As serving local treated to culinary creations by TRU food has become more important to alumni representing a wide variety chefs, it has also become important for of restaurants and food producers the industry’s future food purchasers from the Thompson-Shuswap region, and preparers. “This collaborative will who joined the TSCFC to cultivate let us instill the passion for fresh, local, connections between local farmers and sustainable food in our students.” chefs to help bring locally-grown food
24 Thompson Rivers University • Fall 2011 Nami Tamaki, '06, Adam Florence, Vanessa Lochead, '07, Noble Pig, '06, and James Robbins, '07 of with pulled pork sliders. Felix on Fourth hold blueberry blossom Hilltop Honey coronets Maeghan Summer, '02, Noble Pig, with Felix-made ricotta from Hotel & Resort Diploma with one Blackwell Dairy farm milk, of the fine pilsner and ales from fresh blueberry compote, the local brew house. and candied Laughing Swan lemon thyme. Brad Plamondon, '11, of Shuswap Jenna Angle, '08 (Manteo’s) and Chefs, located in Salmon Arm. Brent Pilon, '08 (Hillside Estate) Ted’s Trout Farm trout brined in of the Okanagan Chef's Association Crannog’s ale. prepping Lois Lake smoked steelhead paté, Okanagan Red Alison Sawyer, '11, of The Spring carrot fry bread, Westsyde Pump in Kamloops. organic cucumber apricot relish, Beet chips and goat cheese – and Okanagan Spirits cherry a new take on chips and salsa. shortcake with honey crème fraiche. Alamu Durand, '10, Terra with Mitchell Shafer, South Thompson chicken salad and jalepeno and Inn and Conference Centre and his lime dressing. one bite roast beef dinner.
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lassNotes ‘00 Kraig Montalbetti online: • Upcoming events C • Guest speakers • New Alumni & Friends Card ’85 Lisa Johnston, Kamloops, BC, with medical school, graduating in • Affinity partners discounts completed University Transfer courses 2006. He has been back in Kamloops at Cariboo College in 1985 and received for two years now, with his wife and • Updates and story ideas her BA with a Major in Criminology one-year-old son. Kraig recently took • Volunteer as a Career Mentor from Simon Fraser University in 1987. over a family practice and enjoys • Nominate a Distinguished Alumni For 17 years Lisa worked as a probation mentoring TRU pre-medical students. officer, mostly in the Lower Mainland, Email us at [email protected] with a year in Auckland, New Zealand. ’00 Ken Salter, Kamloops, BC, For the last three years she and her started a position at the AIDS Society of husband and two children have lived Kamloops six months after he graduated in Kamloops, where she works as from the BSW program at TRU, and still www.tru.ca/alumni a parole officer. works there eleven years later. He was the fourth employee when he started ‘97 Andrea Laliberte, Las Cruces, and has witnessed the agency expand New Mexico, followed her BNRS degree to fifty-seven employees. He has had the with an MSc in Rangeland Resources incredible experience of designing his in 2000 and a PhD in Forest Resources own position, coordinating the Street in 2003, both at Oregon State Outreach Program for the ASK Wellness University. At New Mexico State Center. “I set the goals, and I get to University, Andrea is a leader in the field decide how best to reach those goals. of object-based image analysis (OBIA) I have the best job in the world.” with high spatial resolution imagery, and has made the Jornada Experimental ’01 Cheryl Weatherhead, Kamloops, BC, Range a well-known presence in the a preschool provider for the past application of unmanned aircraft 15 years, was recently awarded the remote sensing for natural resource Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence applications. Her research also includes in Early Childhood Education. The ECE the development of remote sensing grad was nominated by parents of monitoring tools for the US National the children attending her preschool Resource Inventory (NRI) in support of the in Kamloops. Conservation Effects Assessment Program. ’02 Jennifer Howatt, Kamloops, BC, ‘00 Kraig Montalbetti, Kamloops, BC, worked for a year at NRI Distribution completed his Associate of Science as HR Assistant after getting her BBA degree at UCC, transferred to UBC to in Human Resources, then joined the complete his BSc, then followed that HR department at the City of Kamloops
26 Thompson Rivers University • Fall 2011 Did You Know?
You are a member of the TRU Alumni & Friends Association if you are a: • Past Student of TRU who has completed 18 credits • Mentor in our TRU Career Mentoring Program • Donor to the Foundation and our student scholarship program '07 Duncan Olthuis and '09 Daniel Hall '10 Breeanne Hollett and '05 Heidi Budnaryk Jamie Simpson • Graduate of TRU The Alumni and Friends Association is a not-for-profit society; membership is free. The programs, benefits and in 2003. Jennifer married Neil Howatt, passion is competing in triathlons, student support we offer are made fellow TRU BBA grad, in 2004 and now has and she sits on the Kamloops Tri Club possible by: two little girls, Hayley and Megan, board of directors. and "Bluesy", a big black dog. She achieved her Certified Human '09 Daniel Hall, Kamloops, BC, placed 10th Resources Professional (CHRP) designation at the World Skills Competition in London, in 2005. She is proud to call Kamloops England in October. He was accompanied home and enjoys being involved in by his trainer Mark Foan, who taught family-friendly community events, electronics at Cariboo College from 1978 and speaking and mentoring at TRU. to 1985, and Educator Emeritus Al Green who coordinates the Skills competitions '03 Dustin Oaten, Kamloops, BC, for TRU. followed up his BNRS degree with an Hall, a graduate of the Telecommunications (Convocation Photography) MSc from UBC in 2007, and is currently and Networking Technology diploma completing his PhD, also from UBC. program, earned gold at Skills Canada • Stay informed through our Dustin is married with three kids in 2009 and 2010. His 10th place finish Bridges magazine, AGM, website and works as a biologist with Golder at the World competition was one of the and e-newsletters. Associates Ltd. in Kamloops. highest ever achieved by a Canadian • Get involved through our student in the category. He has completed '05 Heidi Budnaryk and '07 Duncan mentoring programs, golf tourneys his first year of Engineering at TRU and Olthuis, Kamloops, BC, were married and socials has been accepted into UBC’s Electronic on July 30, 2011. Duncan is TRU Engineer Program. • Stay connected. Athletics, Sport Camp and Event To update your contact information, Coordinator and head coach for ’10 Breeanne (Hollett) Simpson, Trail, BC, tell your story and get details on great the Kamloops Broncos. Heidi is an completed her BBA, double majoring services, visit our website. accountant at James Western Star. in HR and marketing, with a little perseverance, Open Learning ‘06 Quinn Savage, Kamloops, BC, opportunities, co-op experience and graduated with a BBA in Marketing, a lot of encouragement from her and did a short stint at both the Royal www.tru.ca/alumni manager at Teck Metals Ltd, where she Bank and KPMG. After two years in is an HR Generalist. Breeanne married a marketing job for Tourism Kamloops, Jamie Simpson, store manager of the she joined the City of Kamloops as Trail Safeway, in Nuevo Vallarta, Marketing and Communications Mexico on February 24, 2011. Coordinator, where she’s been for a year and a half. Quinn’s main
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transition and reorganization, all the TRU Pride while maintaining a focus on students and Student Let's Remember and what they needed for success. Representative Jane Powell, School of Education. on the Professor Robb Fry, Department of Her particular specialty was drama Comprehensive Mathematics. Dr. Fry had an excellent education and she instilled a profound University research career in mathematics in part sense of the discipline’s importance in Enhancement because the subject was simply part of her students while at the same time Fund Committee. his soul. His upper level courses in Analysis, was always ready to share light hearted Bradley was History of Mathematics, and Measure moments and laughs with colleagues. also involved in Theory were highlights for many students. As a graduate supervisor she was many community He was invited by students to be encouraging and patient. theatre related speaker to the Canadian Undergraduate activities. TRU will Mathematics Conference (held at Carleton Charles Brewster served as President be awarding Professor Robb Fry in 2009) a national conference for of Cariboo College from 1979 to 1986 his degree students, by students. and led in the establishment of the first posthumously. permanent campus in Williams Lake. Kathy Mitchell came to UCC in the mid John Janke, Department of Economics He, along with several other BC educators, 1980s and held many roles: instructor in began working for TRU in September travelled to Asia in 1986 and made University Prep and in Student Success, 1971. He was one of the longest serving a difference as a builder of TRU. Program Coordinator, Department Chair, faculty members at TRU, recently receiving researcher, and Dean of the Faculty of Bradley Munro, a student in his last his long-term, 40-year service award. Student Development. In 2006, she was semester of his degree in Theatre, He taught in the Department of awarded the Master Teacher award, was a very active student on campus with Economics and had also worked in the in recognition of her skill and dedication involvement on numerous committees, Departments of Math and Commerce. to her students. As Dean, she led the groups and anything theatre related, Faculty through the challenges of including assisting in strengthening TRU community passings since August 2011
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WolfPack Rookies Sieze the Season Tom McManus Coach of the Year
Guiding his team to the playoffs despite losing four regulars to serious injuries has resulted in Tom McManus of the TRU WolfPack being named the PACWEST women’s soccer coach of Photo by Douglas Sage the year for 2011.
By Larry Read “I am very honoured to have been recognized by my peers as Coach of the iding a 13-match unbeaten During a match on Thanksgiving Year,” he says. “ It has been a tough R streak this season, the WolfPack weekend against UNBC, fourth year season with all of the injuries, but all of women’s soccer team fought their way stopper Blair MacKay, who was later the players and coaching staff bought to the provincial title and a trip to the named a PACWEST first team all-star, into what I have been trying to do and Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association broke her nose in two places when without them supporting my decisions National Championships in Quebec, she went up for a header between two it could have been disastrous. I have despite losing three regulars to opposing players, and missed the last been very lucky to have excellent season-ending injuries. four regular season matches as well coaching staff and excellent support The injury bug hit before the first regular as the playoffs. In the same match, staff from the WolfPack office and my season match when PACWEST first team third year outside midfielder Chianne thanks goes out to all of them.” all-star sweeper Sarah Gomes went Smith suffer ACL damage. Smith was one up for a ball in an exhibition match of two players responsible for taking and suffered a severe concussion that corner kicks. to score the winning goal. In the final scrapped her sophomore season. McManus looked at his rookie-laden against host UBCO, Bekkering scored the Fourth year defender Maddy Reid hadn’t roster and knew he had to make some first goal of the match, and broke a tie even suited up for training when she was adjustments in order to make a run at in overtime for a 2-1 victory. injured playing U-21 summer soccer. a playoff spot. Reid went to the stopper McManus’ philosophy of "possession As a result, head coach Tom McManus, position, Smylie back to sweeper. all" was the key to the WolfPack’s formerly assistant coach with Canada’s Rookies Vanessa Zilkie and Madison success. Bekkering was named the National Women’s Team and head coach Wells, both outside midfielders, championships’ Most Valuable Player, of the Winnipeg Fury, was forced to move were moved to outside back, where they and McManus was voted PACWEST Coach one of his strongest offensive threats performed like veterans. And third year of the Year for getting the most out of to the sweeper position. Relying on midfielder Alanna Bekkering, who had his inexperienced roster, from regular top scorer Laura Smylie’s versatility, sat out the previous year, emerged as season victories to the provincial title McManus slotted her into Gomes’ spot one of the top players in the league and and a spot in the Nationals. in the starting roster. was named a PACWEST first team all-star The WolfPack placed 4th in the CCAA Reid took the sweeper position when she for a strong performance. National Championships and were recovered, allowing Smylie to have a turn In the playoffs, Bekkering was taken off chosen Most Sportsmanlike Team up front, but the injury bug continued to the field with a scratched retina in the of the tournament. plague the ‘Pack. semi-final against Langara, but came back
TRU Alumni & Friends Magazine www.tru.ca/alumni 29 Accolades Goes Local By Michael Potestio
80 percent of the menu at Accolades Restaurant now comes directly from local suppliers, thanks to the work of the Thompson-Shuswap Chef Farmer Collaborative (TSCFC). The push to feature more local ingredients in Accolades' menu began in April 2010, when Chef Instructor Ed Walker of TRU’s Culinary Arts program founded the TSCFC to connect chefs to local farmers. Walker said that although buying organic vegetables “We want or a whole lamb may cost more, a good product to his culinary students will learn to use put on the plate and a good every part of the product. product for our students to work “You’re getting a better product at the with,” said Chef Instructor Jeff Jordan. end of the day. Initially it will cost He wants his students to understand a little bit more, but in the long run where their food is coming from and you’re actually going to see a savings, how it gets from the farm to the plate, I think,” said Walker. and to see the potential of BC food.
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30 Thompson Rivers University • Fall 2011 A Report to the Community Key founding principles guide the continued growth and development of TRU. Learner-centeredness, accessibility and quality of education and service are the principles that steer program development that meets the needs of the region's communities, and responds to many unique educational, cultural and social needs.
TRU prides itself on being the and distance education through University of Choice, making student the BC Centre for Open Learning. engagement, research, environmental sustainability Program options are further and international opportunities augmented by opportunities for a primary focus. To this end, co-op education, internships or TRU offers a wide variety of practicum placements and a Study undergraduate and graduate degree Abroad program offering exchanges and post-baccalaureate diploma to over 40 countries via either direct options and diploma and certificate exchanges with a partner institution programs that allow access to flexible or the International Student degree completion through laddering, Exchange Program. TRU Connects to the Community by:
Supplying skill scholarships, bursaries, and awards Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship Nearly 70% of new job openings from the TRU Foundation and internal (ACE) National Exposition in Toronto. in BC in the next eight years will university funding. SIFE provides university and college require a post-secondary credential; students access to real world experience, Offering expertise almost 38% a college or trades through the implementation of certificate and 30% a university Students in the School of Business and economic outreach projects that degree. TRU’s unique combination Economics leant their expertise complement in-class studies. of program options facilitates the in human resource management, Improving health ability to educate students for the marketing and strategic planning to majority of occupational openings projects focused on non-profits and Faculty and students in the School across BC. small businesses. Students worked on of Nursing in partnership with the 12 projects in 2010, contributing to the CONAYT Native Friendship Centre Inciting conversation community while gaining experience in Merritt, BC, provided Aboriginal The Brown Family House of Learning is with organizations such as Simpcw people and Elders with health care, a 78,000 square foot facility containing First Nations, Big Little Science Centre, screening, and education. a library, learning commons, space for Open Door Group, Kamloops Therapeutic Students also worked with the clients Aboriginal programs and services and Riding Association, The United Way, and staff of New Life Mission to develop the Irving K. Barber British Columbia Interior Health and Kamloops a health street fair that was attended Centre. This in-the-round lecture Immigration Services. by over 150 people. The fair addressed theatre is designed after a Salish In May 2011, the United Way Thompson needs identified as significant by those pit house and is the largest in the Nicola Cariboo presented TRU’s living in poverty and with mental province. The theatre features state of Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE TRU) health and/or addiction issues. the art technology to support lectures, with the 2011 “Youth Inspired Spirit Other projects include the development meetings, symposia and conferences Award” for their generous contribution of a series of 12 free public lectures in a setting that will encourage and to the community. The SIFE TRU team on issues relevant to chronic back facilitate interactive dialogue in the also won multiple awards at the 2011 pain, its prevention and treatment. tradition of Aboriginal culture. Inspiring ideas Providing financial support Through the TRU President’s Lecture The 2010 United Way campaign at TRU Series and the TRU Student Union raised $58,510, a 20% increase over Common Voices Lecture Series, 2009. Another campaign goal was met the community is invited to hear with the addition of 38 new donors. the thoughts and ideas of world During the 28th Annual Foundation renowned speakers free of charge. Awards Ceremony last November Past guests include Stephen $448,178 was given to 530 students Lewis, Dr. David Suzuki and through 280 donor-sponsored Phil Fontaine. These highly awards. It is expected almost regarded presentations $1.6 million will be given to have generated local students throughout the and international year in the form of responses and motivate many TRU students to Ceremonies was Richard Van Camp, become actively involved in a variety an internationally renowned of developing world projects. storyteller. This event highlighted Both the Science Seminar series and TRU’s diversity of research, the Environmental Science Seminar linkages to community-based and Sarah White (left) and Emily Oliver (right) of Women’s series run on Thursdays throughout applied research, new funding for Soccer help out at McHappy Day the year. A wide range of topics are research labs and analytical facilities, covered with representations from excellence in student research, an array of disciplines such as biology, research mentorship and support from natural resource sciences, geography, the business community. politics, history, philosophy, economics, During 2010–11 TRU received mathematics, geology, tourism, $989,692 in funding from Western sociology, anthropology, journalism, Economic Diversification and other chemistry, physics, and education. sources to purchase a suite of analytical tools for Bioproducts Bringing game Discovery and Development. TRU has 11 teams competing in In October 2011, TRU was accepted eight different sports and the into the Research University Council cheerleading team is entering its of BC (RUCBC). This council provides fifth season of enlivening audiences. leadership in the development of TRU joins RUCBC. Dr. Alan Shaver with Allan Cahoon, WolfPack basketball and volleyball (middle), President and Vice-Chancellor of Royal public policy and a forum for member compete in the Canadian Interuniversity Roads, and Dr. George Iwama, (right), President and universities. Current research includes: Sport (CIS), soccer and badminton Vice-Chancellor of UNBC and Chair of RUCBC, at the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association • Understanding and preserving announcement Oct. 4th (CCAA), and baseball now competes threatened ecosystems in the newly formed Canadian College • Global climate change and Baseball Conference (CCBC). rural communities In May 2010 the WolfPack became • Maintaining healthy forests official members of the Canada West • Sustainable and innovative Universities Athletic Association. changes to the BC cattle industry WolfPack community activities include • Utilizing microbes to break down McDonalds/TRU WolfPack Sports environmental pollutants Camps and Kids Club. • Developing and The Athletics and Recreation department understanding lantibiotics also offers a wide range of intramural sports and recreation programs. • Devising mathematical solutions to real-world problems James Charbonneau, TRU Science alumnus (’04), Accommodating activity gives a lecture titled 'Parity Violation and Topological • Tools for sustainable and diverse As a venue, the University hosts dozens Currents' on Nov. 17, 2011 as part of the Science urban planning for small cities Seminar Series. of events each year that range from academic conferences to secondary • Endangered species school performing arts and science • Chronic illness management competitions, from political caucuses • Creating a safer workplace to professional association conventions. by treating sleep disorders In August, the TRU residence housed • E-learning practises 2200 young athletes for the 2011 and opportunities Western Canada Summer Games. Developing discovery TRU held its first university-wide celebration of research on April 2, 2011. The honourary Master of
WolfPack Men's Basketball helps launch TRU's United Way campaign.
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Faculty Giving back to make a difference
t has been more that forty years the Arts have been added,” said Glenda, I since Ron and Glenda drove down speaking for Ron who has difficulties the Yellowhead Highway, heading to due to Parkinson’s disease. “One thing Kamloops and a faculty position for Ron that has not changed, though, is the in the Arts department of a brand new need to support arts students. Cariboo College. Running low on fuel and “However people make their living, high on anticipation, Ron and Glenda physicians, accountants or lawyers, were unsure of what awaited them at the all of us benefit from the works of dusty little campus made up of portable students educated in the arts. These are classrooms on borrowed land. the people that become our playwrights, Decades later, Ron finished his career our curators and the many other careers as the Dean of Arts, Education and that are based on an arts degree.” Social Work when he took medical leave The wisdom he imparted in 1997, in 1998. He retired in 2009 after running for Striving Ahead; 25 Years at Cariboo, the Cultural Events program at TRU holds true today. Reflecting on his for 30 years. At this year’s Foundation career he said, “Our single most exciting Breakfast, Ron and Glenda announced opportunity for the future? This is going a $100,000 donation to start an to sound hokey, but: the opportunity for endowment to fund a large bursary for people to become more interdisciplinary a Bachelor of Arts student. This is the in their teaching…these things lead to largest contribution ever by a TRU a greater understanding of people and Ron and Glenda Miles donated $100,000 faculty member. their environment.” to start an endowment fund for TRU Bachelor of Arts students. “The college has certainly grown over the years and more programs and courses in
Foundation hits $3 million mark in annual funds raised TRU Foundation $3,500,000 Board of Directors
11.3% > John O'Fee, Chair $3,000,000 > Stella Black, Vice Chair 25.0% > John Sparks, Secretary $2,500,000 > Norman Daley, Treasurer 62.7% > Cameron Gatey $2,000,000 > Dr. G. Bas Gowd > Jeff Glaicar $1,500,000 16.4% > Les Consenheim 17.5% 15.3% > Dr. Gautam Parghi $1,000,000 31.9% > Frank Luciani -14.6% > Roxanna Ferguson $500,000 > David Paul > Christopher Séguin $0 > Ken Lepin Fiscal Year FY2003 FY2004 FY2005 FY2006 FY2007 FY2008 FY2009 FY2010 FY2011 > Azzra Bardai, Student Representative Fiscal Year FY2003 FY2004 FY2005 FY2006 FY2007 FY2008 FY2009 FY2010 FY2011 > Diane Jules, Growth % N/A -14.6% 31.9% 15.3% 17.5% 16.4% 62.7% 25.0% 11.3% BOG Appointee Funds Raised $759,379 $648,241 $855,004 $986,241 $1,158,442 $1,348,433 $2,193,281 $2,742,276 $3,052,840 Dear Donors, Your generous donations in the form of scholarships, awards and bursaries make an incredible difference to TRU students. The reality most students deal with on a day-to-day basis is a challenging one; the need to funnel one's attention span into intense study in the beginning of a semester, and the constant worry and stress to keep the scholastic momentum up during the semester in order to be successful in meeting one's deadlines and educational goals. I have received several awards and Then there’s all the ‘life’ that happens bursaries at TRU, which has made the outside school that students have to difference when paying bills, keep organized in order to fulfill academic buying groceries and paying rent. requirements. Easier said than done. But your financial contributions not only give support, they also give recognition A single parent, I began my university to students that may have slipped under career about 6 years ago when my the radar, public acknowledgement for daughter was 9 years old, without family those who have risen past limitations support or resources. I was determined and reached higher. to push past the limits of ‘single mom’ and living hand to mouth, and be It is with a huge sigh of gratitude that able to sustain my family. I wanted to I say thank you! Thank you to you, the TRU plow through economic barriers and Donors, for supporting me and all TRU most importantly present a role model students by giving us the financial for my daughter. I wanted her to encouragement to continue on our understand that despite the day-to-day educational paths, and helping to nurture struggles, one can pursue academic and socially engaged citizens. extracurricular achievements and set goals and dreams. Melanie Bilodeau 4th Year BA student in Theatre Thank you Donor List Visionaries – $500,000+ Contributors – $5,000+ Accent Inns Canadian Association of Mark & Susan Dixon Equipment Distributors Irving K Barber Carl & Karen Abbott Edward Adams Michele L. Dodds Canadian Union of Public Mark & Ellen Brown ARAMARK Canada Ltd. Robert & Karen Adkin Annette D. Dominik Employees Local 3500 Leaders – $100,000+ Armstrong Family Advanced Electrical Domtar Pulp & Capital City Construction Ltd. Foundation Systems Ltd. Paper Products Inc. Ron & Rae Fawcett Capital Power Corporation BDO Dunwoody LLP Advantage Travelwise Lorraine Drdul Fulton & Company LLP Sonia Carmichael BMO Bank of Montreal Connie E. Alger Duffy's Pub KPMG Gayle Carson British Columbia Allteck Susan M. Duncan Southern Interior Lottery Corporation Cates Carroll Watt Lawyers Development Initiative Trust Anchor Equipment (2005) Ltd. Robbie & Calla Dunn Starr & Gayle Carson Cedar Creek Landscaping The Stollery Dr. Donald Andrews DW Builders Charitable Foundation Credit Union Central of BC Aon Reed Stenhouse Inc. Central Victoria Veterinary Larry & Cheryl Dyck Hospital Ltd. Tom LaFreniere & Daley & Co Chartered ARC'TERYX Eagle Point Golf & Country Club Century Glass Donna Mellquist Accountants LLP Artistic Signs Services Ltd. Anthony & Lynn Eberts CFDC of Cariboo - Chilcotin Ambassadors – $50,000+ Kelly Dutchak Peter Aylen & Elite Soccer School CFDC of Thompson Country Estate of Irene Evening Auxiliary Royal Moira Bennedette Elk Valley Properties Ltd. Inland Hospital Fiona Chan Margaret Wilson Ayres Fencing Installations Excelsior Rebekah Kamloops Senior Citizens G & T Metallurgical Dr. Chinnama Baines Chartered Accountants Lodge No. 23 Services Ltd. Education Foundation of BC Housing Society Ed & Dianne Barker Carolynne Fardy Government of Michael Chinganda The Kamloops Daily News Thomas G. Barley Kevin R. Fertile British Columbia Shawn Chisholm The Jim Pattison Dr. Roger & Paula Barnsley Fidelity Investments Broadcast Group Interior Savings Credit Union Brian A. Christianson Alf Bawtree Canada Ltd. United Food & Commercial Kamloops Bar Association Brendalee Christie BC Northern Real Estate Board Rita Fincham Workers Union 247 Kamloops Foundation CIBC BC Society of Ken J. Finnie Partners – $10,000+ Kamloops Honda Respiratory Therapists City of Kamloops First Nations William Lennox & Acres Enterprises Ltd. BCAA Group Affinity Services Roy Click Mary Cameron Tax Commission BC Gaming Policy & Gloria L. Beaver Troy S. Clifford FOCUS Enforcement Branch Lafarge Canada Inc. John & Martha Belicka CN Fort Kamloops Chapter Canadian Institute of Mining, Dr. Duncan & Marie MacRae Jason & Sheila Bermiller Coca-Cola Refreshments I.O.D.E. Metallurgy & Petroleum Minerva Foundation Canada Co. The Foundation for Education for BC Women Dino Bernardo Cariboo Woodlot Harvey & Barbara Comazzetto & Advancement in Technology Education Society NL Broadcasting Ltd. Jagdish Bhalle Commodore Ventures Ltd Rob & Traci Froese Zofia Cisowski Pace Group Dr. James & Marie Christine Bilbey Concord Security Bill & Alana Frymire Donner Canadian Foundation Communications Inc. Bill Bilton Jr. and Sr. Les Consenheim Fusion Rotaract Club Charles & Edith Fawcett Pacific Veterinary Sales Ltd. Corix West Shore of Kamloops Pineridge Trailer & Dr. Stella Black John & Candace Galbraith Environmental Services Stephen Gainey Equipment Ltd. Fearon R. Blair & Gateway Casinos & Council for Brian G. Garland Eric & Lori Putoto - Platinum Richard M. L. Blair Entertainment Ltd. Exceptional Children Realty Inc. BMO Investments Inc. Richard L. Garner Kamloops Blazers Bruce T. Cunliffe Don Garrish Education Society Pronto Enterprises Ltd. BMO Nesbitt Burns Cunliffe Schreurs Tupper Greg Garrish Kamloops Blazers Sports Rotary Club of Kamloops Anthony Bockman Kori Dacho Society Legacy Fund Royal Canadian Daniel J. Bose Cameron Gatey Norman V. Daley Gwyneth Lamperson Legion Foundation James & Evelyn Bowersock Geo Grout Inc. Daniel & Catherine Dallaire Lee's Music Kathleen Scales Paul Bradford Gestion 3D Ltee Michael Dalziel McDonald's Restaurant SECWEPEMC Child & Sharon E. Brewer Gillespie Renkema Family Services Dash Tools Inc Barnett Broadway Jeanette Murray British Columbia TRU Environment & Dave's Cleaning Service Jeff & Jane Glaicar Roland & Anne Neave & Family Lung Association Sustainability Dept. Dawson Construction Ltd. Glover Prescriptions Ltd. Peterbilt Trucks Pacific Inc. Scott Broadfoot TRU Faculty Association Susan Dealy Golfland Entertainment Ltd. RBC Royal Bank Dr. Richard Brownlee & Urban Systems Ltd. Margaret Querin Delta Hotels & Resorts David & Aruna Gore South Thompson Wildlife Vancouver Airport Services Stewardship Committee John & Judy Brunette Delta Sun Peaks Resort Dr. Bas & Shankaramma Gowd Supporters – $500 + The Sprott Foundation Brian & Tara Callander Sandra L. Dever Graycon Group Lynne Totten 12 Stones Chapel Larry Campbell Ambo Dhaliwal GVIC Communication Corp. TRU Students' Union 974668 Alberta Ltd. Canada's Mastermind Paramjit & Kulwinder Dhillon Dr. Rick & Susan Hallett Development Corp. Vancouver Foundation Abstract Registry Dr. Tom Dickinson & Ted Hallman Services Ltd. Nancy Flood Thank you to the following donors who made contributions this past fiscal year (April 1, 2010 – March 31, 2011). Their generosity has helped many TRU students and made TRU a better place
Cathy Hall-Patch Kiwanis Club of Kamloops, BC Ron & Susan Olynyk Robert Hamaguchi Kevin & Debbie Krueger Kevin O'Neil Chris & Robin Hans Michael Kuromi & Dr. Ross Outerbridge Gerard & Sharon Hayes September Weir Overwaitea Food Group Charles A. Hays L.A. West Associates Inc. Darren Ovington Richard & Sandra Heney Dr. Terry & Lisa Lake Pan Pacific Heritage Office Furnishings Ron Lamperson Whistler Mountainside Maurice Hindle & Andre Larouche Kirk & Andrea Panser Sydney Johnsen Lawyers Business & Barbara Paterson HMZ Law Property Network Margaret H. Patten Robert & Mirella Holden Dr. Maureen Leia-Stephen Gordon & Linda Turner Personal Real Mary Ellen Patterson Staff from the Pattison Broadcast Group in front of the Pattison James & Laurie Horne Broadcast Group classroom in the Brown Family House of Learning. Estate Corporation Hot Nite in the City Society Leigh & Rachann Pedersen London Drugs Ltd. HPF Engineering Ltd. Don Phillips Loric Industrial Insulation Inc. Tom & Elizabeth Shouldice Dr. Bruce A. Tucker HSBC Bank Canada The Hon. Mr. Justice The Frank & Shirley Shuswap Naturalist Club Tulo Centre of Dr. Anthony & Patricia Human Robert & Elizabeth Powers Luciani Families Patricia Sidey Indigenous Economics Richard Hunter Pollard Family Foundation Rob MacDonald Sikh Cultural Society Scott & Kathryn Tupper IRL Idealease Ltd Jeff Preymak Maria A. MacIntosh Dr. Gur & Manju Singh Twin River Plumbing & Karen F. Irving Dr. Larry & Joan Prins Brian MacKay Heating (1985) Ltd. Charleen Proznick Ronald & Karen Skillings Scott Janzen United Floors Dan Maher The Honorable Madam Ravindeep Johal Dr. Barbara Prystawa Mainland Sleep Justice Daphne & Bud Smith Upper College Heights Pulp, Paper & Woodworkers Law Corporation Diagnostics Ltd. Valhalla Pure Outfitters of Canada Local 9 Ken Sommerfeld & Johnson Controls David & Penny Marr Catherine Ferguson Valley First Credit Union R.G. Dunn Electrical Services Joanne A. Jones Colin Matthews South Cariboo Labor Council Richard Vander Mey Dr. Nancy Greene Raine Doug Jontz & Nancy Plett Nan McBlane & Al Raine Spectra Energy Doreen Veale K & P Construction Ltd. Peter McCordic Dennis & Helen Ralph Rob Splane Nels Vollo Kal Tire Elspeth M. Mcdougall Raymond James Ltd. Joanne Spooner Sean & Lynn Wallace Kamloops & District John & Susan McIntyre RBC Wealth Management Sun Country Toyota David Hunter & Kennel Club Bev Wassen-Hunter Thomas & Bonnie McInulty Regency Towers Sun Rivers Golf Kamloops Blazers Dr. Alex & Lynn McLean (Owen Sound) Ltd. Resort Community Christopher & Diane Wells Hockey Club Gordon & Cathy McLeod Retired Teachers Association T G Consulting Inc. Western Canada Kamloops Business & Gordon Tarzwell Theatre Company Professional Women's Club Allan & Cathy McNeely Rivershore Estates & Golf Links Larkin D. Taylor Westwood Fibre Ltd. Kamloops Chartered Rod Michell Grant R. Robertson Whistler Golf Club Accountants Assoc. Dave Mitchell Rona Revy Inc. TD Bank Canada Trust Barry Wilford Kamloops Council Kathleen G. Mitchell Rotary Club of TD Waterhouse Dr. David & Lois Williams of Canadians MJB Lawyers Williams Lake Daybreak The Rotary Club of Williams Lake Williams Lake Lions Club Kamloops Exploration Jeff Mooney RTO BC Group Society James H. Thomson Cal Wohlford Morelli Chertkow Dr. Neil & Ellen Russell Kamloops Farmers Lawyers LLP Robert & Patricia Ryan Tobiano Vera Wojna Market Society Rob K. Morrison Willy Saari Gerry Toews Dr. Kitson & Miki Wong Kamloops Ford Lincoln Ltd. The Mutual Fire Dr. Wendy & Dan Sanford Tourism Sun Peaks Peter Young Kamloops Home Hardware Insurance Co. of BC Philip Schettini TRU Ancillary Services Ron Young Building Centre Martin Nicoll Dr. Tim Schmidt TRU Assoc. of Yukon Service Kamloops Medical Harald & Sherry Nielsen Professional Administrators Supply Company Imaging Inc. Schoening Funeral Nihal Labour Contracting Ltd. Service Ltd. TRU Biology Cheryl Zawaduk Kamloops Outdoor Club Undergraduate Society Al Norgaard Derek & Lynn Schreurs The Zawaduk Family Kamloops Paddlewheelers TRU Board of Governors Glennis Zilm Lions Club Norgaard Ready-Mix Ltd. Christopher Seguin TRU ESL Dept. Kamloops West Rotary Club North Shore Repair Ray & Susan Sewell TRU Faculty of Northern Development Kelly & Heather Shantz Roger Kato Student Development Initiative Trust Drs. Alan Shaver & James & Karla Keith TRU Study Abroad Department Pat & Evelyn O'Brien Deborah Buszard Kemp Concrete Products TRU Trades & John & Daniela O'Fee John E. Sherwood Brian & Tanja Kiloh Technology Department
All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy in this list. If an error or omission has occurred, please call the Foundation office at 250.828.5264. Keep Your Cheques Consider donating RRSPs and RRIFs
anada’s tax incentives for charitable balance of your Gift of RRIF RRIF to Estate Cdonations are designed to make it RRSP/RRIF assets easier for you to support your favourite directly from your Value of RRIF $300,000 $300,000 charities. Once you’ve decided which financial institution. Tax Liability (43.7%) $131,100 $131,100 charities to donate to, and how much Because the assets Tax Credit (43.7%) $131,100 n/a you can afford to give, you may want are passed directly to consider alternatives to getting out to the beneficiary, Gift to Estate n/a $168,900 your chequebook and making a cash no probate or executor Gift to Charity - Legacy $300,000 n/a donation. How you structure your fees will be charged, charitable donations can be as resulting in further important as the amounts you give, savings. Your estate then receives a tax of the proceeds of the RRIF valued both to the charity and to the donation’s receipt from the TRU Foundation that at $300,000, contrasted with the RRIF after-tax cost to you. can be used to offset taxes owed, as the designated to the estate for the two entire plan is reported as income. children. This example shows that by Your after-tax cost for a $1,000 cash gifting the RRIF rather than leaving it donation ranges from $500 to $600, An alternate approach is to name your to her estate, she has saved $131,000 depending on your province of residence. estate as the beneficiary of your RRSP in taxes. Probate fees have not been But your options are much broader than or RRIF and include a bequest to the TRU considered for this example. Foundation that is equal to the value of simply giving cash or leaving a sum Philanthropy requires a strategic of money to a charity in your will. the RRSP or RRIF. A donation receipt will be issued to the estate which will offset approach and donors should be aware Gifts of property (known as “gifts in of the tax implications kind”), such as securities, artwork, taxes owed upon the collapse of your plan. However, please note that with this and benefits of giving in real estate, RRSP/RRIFs, TFSAs and life today’s environment. insurance can be tax-effective alternative, probate fees on the assets passing through the estate will likely apply. Careful planning with an alternatives to gifts of cash. informed tax adviser RRSP/RRIF Gifts Example of tax impact on death can help ensure that your bequest One tax-effective way of contributing to Mrs. Smith is a widower with two adult will be made a charity is through the donation of your children, a $1.5 million estate and as you intend RRSP or RRIF. If you wish to support the a marginal tax rate of 43.7%. The RRIF and provide Thompson Rivers University Foundation, is expected to be worth $300,000 on significant tax you may name the Foundation as the her death and represents the largest savings for beneficiary (or alternate beneficiary). tax liability in her estate. your estate. Upon your death, or that of your spouse, The above chart shows the tax savings the Foundation would receive the associated with the direct designation
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38 Thompson Rivers University • Fall 2011 President and Vice-Chancellor’s Message
t is a cliché to say that time flies but on research, but they all have one thing Old Main, our original building and hub Iit surprises me that I have been at TRU in common: they are striving to make of the campus, into a stunning architectural for over a year now. In that time I have the world a better place by generating expression and state-of-the-art facility seen what a great education the university knowledge and understanding in our for learning that will include an exciting provides for its students thanks to the students and in our communities. permanent home for the Faculty. wonderful work of our profs and staff TRU continues to build on its strong Stay tuned for more news on this and the support of alumni and friends tradition of research and innovation. transformation in the future. of TRU and the commitment of the Over the past year a great deal of work TRU is about to take another new step students themselves. and excitement has gone into the in the development of our campus. In our four Convocation ceremonies in June, development of a new Academic Plan Discussions are underway about nearly 2,500 students joined the ranks for TRU. Our academic programs are a University Village concept which will of those alumni, receiving diplomas, the foundations of our mission and are enhance campus life and activities, professional and trades certificates, critical for attracting and supporting especially after hours and on weekends, and bachelors and masters degrees. It was a diverse range of excellent students. by creating residential areas on our a big day for our graduates; they epitomize The plan reinforces social mobility of our campus. A review of best practices at the new face of post-secondary education, students and access to learning for a wide other universities has led the Board of coming from all parts of the world, from all variety of students; envisions flexible Governors to establish the “TRU Community races, creeds and cultures with shared learning models and hands-on opportunities; Corporation” which will lead the campus aspirations to make a difference in the and fosters excellence in undergraduate and community in consultations on the world. It was also a big week for our new and graduate education. I invite you to read design and planning of this exciting Chancellor the Honorable Wally Oppal the draft plan at www.tru.ca/vpacademic/ project. More reasons to stay tuned to TRU! Q.C. and I because we were both installed academic_plan and to feel free to send In my first year, I have witnessed and been the day before those Convocations over me any feedback you might have. privileged to take part in, yet another which we presided. I was as excited as On September 6 we opened Canada’s year of transformational change for TRU. I had been when I graduated with my first new Faculty of Law in over 30 years. And while we continue to evolve to meet degree many years ago. The Brown Family House of Learning, the demands of a changing world, Recently our provincial university the building in which the Faculty is our founding value remains the same: peers welcomed TRU into the Research temporarily housed, did not even exist excellent learning for the benefit of all. Universitys' Council of British Columbia a year ago. Our first class of 75 eager (RUCBC). The RUCBC membership students now have the opportunity to includes: UBC, SFU, UVic, UNBC and obtain a TRU law degree, preparing them now TRU and Royal Roads. Each of those for a wide variety of contributions to society. universities has a unique perspective Preparations are underway to transform Alan Shaver President and Vice-Chancellor [email protected]
TRU Alumni & Friends Magazine www.tru.ca/alumni 39 TRU Historical
Photo by Mairi Budreau Remembering the Home Base By Sherry Bennett
nconspicuously nestled in the trees updated to function as classrooms, Ion the southeastern perimeter of offices, and communal spaces, from the TRU’s Kamloops campus are a series Welcome Centre to the campus daycare, of homey Cape Cod houses. but maintain their historic character. Constructed in 1944 as part of the For Karl deBruijn, former TRU Board Royal Canadian Navy Ammunition of Governors Chair, one house in Depot (RCNAD), the original 10 houses particular holds special significance: accommodated key personnel and duty House No. 5 (now the Gathering Place). officers and complimented 22 bunkers Not because he attended seminars and a series of administration buildings in it as a Cariboo College student, Photo of Karl deBruijn, former TRU Board of Governors Chair and mess halls. but because it served as his own Planned after strategists deemed it home for seven years. advisable to store ammunition away from An officer with the Royal Canadian the West Coast, the threat of invasion Air Force at Mt. Lolo, Karl’s father was non-existent when the depot was granted housing at the former opened in 1945, but with a continued RCNAD site in 1966, when the need to store ammunition, Kamloops was Provincial Department of Public Works one of two depots selected to continue. began renting out vacant quarters to Between 1945 and 1964, when the RCMP and RCAF officers. While many advanced ordnance depot was declared might cringe at the thought surplus and closed, several major of a neighbourhood straddling a jail, improvements were made, including an a graveyard, a city dump and aerial tramway to transport ammunition ammunition bunkers, Karl recalls his childhood stomping grounds as a paradise and an extensive water and power Photo by Bikram Bathh system that made the site lucrative for a child with an adventurous spirit. for future development. The deBruijn children explored the sage-dotted acres surrounding their In 1967, two years after being taken home by foot, by go-cart, and later over by the Provincial Government, in dad’s 1950 Ford Prefect. 12 RCNAD administration buildings were refurbished into the Kamloops With fond memories of her modest Regional Correctional Centre, home at #5 Royal Navy Residence, where Walmart stands today. Karl’s mother, Velma Schrader, was attracted to House 5 because Faced with an exploding student of its lavish size, 800 square feet. population and limited facilities, Cariboo College took over the officers’ “It was huge,” says Velma. “So much quarters in 1973. Under the university’s room for my six children.” jurisdiction, the houses have been
40 Thompson Rivers University • Fall 2011 Have you checked out your WolfPack lately?
A lot has changed since you went to school. The WolfPack are making big strides in the CIS, PACWEST, BC Intercollegiate Hockey League and the Canadian College Baseball Conference. Check out a game live. Can’t make the game? Follow your alma mater on their website: www.tru.ca/athletics Plan Your Future
NewEvent Management Certificate The online and distance learning Division of Thompson Rivers University (TRU) is pleased to offer the new Event Management Certificate, which provides students with the opportunity to achieve an industry-specific credential while continuing to work. Thompson Rivers University, Open Learning (TRU-OL) introduces students to the event management and tourism industry through this new certificate program, which enables them to acquire the skills they need to successfully plan and manage conferences, festivals and other special events. The Event Management Certificate is designed for people who are new to the industry as well as current tourism professionals who wish to upgrade their skills. It may also be laddered into a Bachelor of Tourism degree at TRU. The program consists of six courses and covers a range of topics, including: marketing strategies, industry law, risk management and volunteer recruitment and management. To learn more, please visit the Tourism section of our website under Programs. MC#115302
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