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UNIVERSITY OF REGINA ALUMNI MAGAZINE FALLFALL 20052005 VOLUMEVOLUME 17,17, NUMBERNUMBER 22 AA PrairiePrairie boyboy returnsreturns PresidentPresident RobertRobert HawkinsHawkins takestakes overover thethe toptop jobjob LastLast WordWord LookingLooking backback onon 100100 yearsyears ofof SaskatchewanSaskatchewan historyhistory Editor University of Regina Greg Campbell ’85, ’95 Alumni Magazine Alumni Association Board 2005-06 Fall 2005 Lisa King ’95 Volume 17, Number 2 President Brian Munro ’96 First V-P Loni Kaufmann ’95 Second V-P Michael Tomka ’96 V-P Finance Matt Hanson ’94, ’97 Past-President Charlene Banjac ’98 Margaret Dagenais ’87, ’91, ’97 John Kearsey Teresa Lewis ’01 Sean McEachern ’03 FEATURES Anita McLennan ’96 Christy Ross ’93 Greg Swanson ’76 4 A Prairie boy returns Victor Thomas Meet Robert Hawkins, the U of R’s fifth president. Contributors Bill Armstrong Sabrina Cataldo ’97, ’99, ’04 8 U of Research Joy Cummings 4 Colleen Dundas The U of R’s research capacity is growing – so too are the Stuart Gradon reputations of University researchers and graduates working in Deborah Humeniuk ’89, ’93 Glenn Lowson cutting-edge fields across Canada. B. D. Miller ’89, ’95 James Pitsula Deborah Sproat 12 University gets Naked Rock concert kicks off academic year and ushers in new era of The Third Degree is published twice a year by External Relations at the University of Regina. community building at U of R. The magazine is mailed to alumni and friends of the University. Ideas and opinions published in The Third Degree do not necessarily reflect those 24 Wasn’t that a party of the editor, the Alumni Association or the University of Regina. Letters and editorial con- Alumni help blow out the birthday candles on Saskatchewan tributions are welcome. Advertising inquiries are centennial celebrations across Canada. invited. To Reach Us: 35 Last Word Editorial/Advertising/Letters History professor James Pitsula celebrates Saskatchewan’s The Third Degree, External Relations centennial with a look back at the past 100 years. 210 North Residence, University of Regina 3737 Wascana Parkway Regina, SK, S4S 0A2 Ph: (306)585-4402 Fax: (306)585-4997 E-mail: [email protected] DEPARTMENTS Address Change/Alumni Relations 210 North Residence, University of Regina 2 University News 8 3737 Wascana Parkway Regina, SK, S4S 0A2 Ph: (306)585-4112 Fax: (306)585-4997 14 Alumni Update E-mail: [email protected] Toll-free: 1-877-779-4723(GRAD) (in Canada and U.S.) 32 Time Goes By University of Regina Home Page http://www.uregina.ca SPECIAL CENTRE INSERT Building Dreams and Futures campaign update Publication Mail Agreement Number 40065347 Return undeliverable magazines to: University Relations 12 210 North Residence, University of Regina On the cover: On October 15, Robert Hawkins was installed 3737 Wascana Parkway as the fifth president of the University of Regina. Regina, SK, S4S 0A2 ISSN 0843-7092 Fall 2005 THE THIRD DEGREE 1 WHAT’S NEW AT THE UNIVERSITY OF REGINA Ceremony includes four years as leader of the opposition, and U of R receives national 10 years as Saskatchewan’s premier. He is installation of president and now an adjunct professor in the U of R’s quality and productivity honorary degree for former Graduate School of Public Policy. award premier. The University of Regina has been Professor elected Fellow of awarded the National Second prize in the the Royal Society of Canada 2005 Canadian Association of University Business Officers (CAUBO) Quality and Professor Shadia Drury has been elected as Productivity Awards. a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada The University’s award-winning (RSC), the highest honour that can be submission titled, “Partnering to Project attained by scholars, artists and scientists Success” outlines the U of R’s strategy for in Canada. Drury is the first U of R faculty delivering large, complex capital projects member to be honoured with this national involving multiple internal and external distinction. stakeholders. The submission stems from Drury is a Canada Research Chair in the University’s recent physical expansion, Social Justice and professor of philosophy which more than doubled the size of the and political science. She is a highly campus between 1997 and 2004. The U of R’s submission illustrates how effective team building through University chancellor Art Wakabayashi partnerships results in outstanding capital congratulates former Saskatchewan premier projects. Three recent projects (North and Roy Romanow after presenting him with an South Residences, Centre for Kinesiology, honorary degree of laws at fall convocation ceremonies on October 15. Health and Sport, and the artificial grass field) were completed at costs that are low In addition to bestowing 421 degrees, for the industry, on aggressive schedules, diplomas and certificates to the and with a co-operative team approach. University’s most recent graduates, the CAUBO is a non-profit organization highlight of the 2005 fall convocation that promotes the professional and ceremony included the installation of new effective management of the president Robert Hawkins and an administrative, financial and business affairs of higher education. Its annual honorary degree presentation to former Shadia Drury Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow. awards program is designed to recognize, Romanow received an honorary doctor productive and influential scholar whose reward and share university achievements of laws degree during the ceremonies work has generated vigorous debate, in improving the quality and reducing the October 15 at the Saskatchewan Centre of discussion and controversy in the field of cost of higher education programs and the Arts. The ceremony also saw Hawkins political philosophy. Drury has been a services. installed as the University’s fifth president steadfast critic of the postmodern politics and vice-chancellor (see story page 4). of both the left and the right. She is best Romanow was first elected to the known for her books on neoconservative Lab Building addition Saskatchewan legislature in 1967. Until Leo Strauss: The Political Ideas of Leo underway his retirement from active political life in Strauss (1988) and Leo Strauss and the 2001, his career included 11 years of American Right (1997). By the time it’s completed, the service as the province’s attorney general University’s expanded Lab Building will and as intergovernmental affairs minister, house some of the best and most modern 2 THE THIRD DEGREE Fall 2005 research and teaching facilities in the country. The ven though I have only been in the job for $31-million project currently underway will provide a short time, I have had the opportunity to state-of-the-art laboratory space for faculty and E see first-hand how important our alumni’s students will have enough space to accommodate 30 contribution is to our University. Two examples principal investigators, each with a team of four to come immediately to mind. The first was the five post doctoral researchers and graduate student recent media conference held to announce an increase in the Building Dreams and Futures researchers. campaign goal. Because of the generosity of supporters such as our alumni, that goal will be increased from $75 to $100 million. We hope to raise much of the additional funds through planned gifts made by supporters naming the University of Regina as a beneficiary in their wills and life insurance and RRSP policies. At that news conference, Diane Secoy, former head of biology and dean of graduate studies and research, spoke movingly of how important it was for those who have benefited from a university education to give back to students just starting out. Her remarks illustrate one of the reasons why our alumni matter so much to us. Alumni connect our past and our future. Alumni are our living memory. Alumni connect both our pride in what we have been and our confidence in what we are becoming. Nothing illustrates this better than the second example of alumni generosity that I saw in my first days here. The highlight Message of Orientation Week was “Naked on the Green.” I had to ask Nic, my 16-year-old son, who Bif Naked was. When he heard that I was to introduce her concert, he could not stop laughing. It turns out that Bif is a charming and talented rock star who electrified thousands of students who filled the green on a beautiful fall afternoon during the first week of classes. Those students, who in a few years will become alumni themselves, are going to remember the week that they started university for a long time to come. In sponsoring this event, the Alumni Association gave their future members their first taste of pride in our University. As alumni, you have much to be proud of in your alma mater. President’s My wife, Marie-France, our three sons, Nicolas, Pierre and François, and I have been impressed with everything that we have Former U of R president David Barnard (right) and seen. The residence buildings, along with the new Centre for Saskatchewan Learning minister Andrew Thomson Kinesiology, Health and Sport, are beautiful. Construction is well officially kickoff construction of the Lab Building underway on the new Lab Building addition which will complete addition at a May 16 sod turning event. the circle of buildings around the Dr. Lloyd Barber Academic Green. Late fall flowers, and sparkling clean halls, are a real credit Located south of the existing Laboratory to the staff who look after us. Our students are eager and clearly Building, the addition will be energy efficient, using excited about their first classes. I have met faculty dedicated to natural light wherever possible, and space efficient. their teaching and their cutting-edge research. The main north-south interior pedestrian link Most of all, you should feel proud of your University of Regina between College West and the future Lab Building degree.