AUTUMN 2018

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA ALUMNI MAGAZINE

Dementia steals people away from the lives they knew. Research is finding a better way forward

AUTUMN 2018 ON THE COVER VOLUME 74 NUMBER 2 A patient-centred approach to dementia care means working to replace feelings of disconnection with a sense of purpose and wellness. Page 18. Illustration by Hugh Syme

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18 Living with Dementia What a new approach could mean for families 26 Alumni Awards Meet 23 alumni doing great things in the world

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3 Your Letters 5 Notes What’s new and noteworthy 10 Continuing Education Column by Curtis Gillespie 13 Thesis Let’s take a look at food. Because sustenance is about so much more than what you eat 41 Trails Where you’ve been and where you’re going 42 Books 44 Class Notes 52 In Memoriam 56 Small Talk

Compassion has always driven Anwar Shah to help others. His work with the World Bank will improve lives for future generations, including that of his granddaughter Amina. Page 26. Photo by John Ulan new trail autumn 2018 1 }upfront

OFFICE OF ALUMNI RELATIONS Native Studies Sean Price, ’95 BCom Chancy Black Water, Awakas’ikitstakiaki Associate Vice-President (Deer Offering Woman), ’10 BA(NativeStu), ’10 Cert(AborGov/Ptnshp) Greg Latham Director, Alumni Engagement Nursing Eric Martin, ’09 BSc, ’13 BScN Tracy Salmon, ’91 BA(Hons), ’96 MSc We Are the Change Kate Young, ’07 BScN, ’15 MBA Director, Alumni Programs Pharmacy Coleen Graham, ’88 BSc(HEc), ’93 MEd brought changes to paid maternity Ron Pohar, ’95 BSc(Pharm) in 1916, with the world gripped by Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives war, universities were depleted leave, disabled rights and Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation of resources and students were employment equity. As co-counsel ALUMNI COUNCIL EXECUTIVE Bill Werry, ’73 BA(RecAdmin) Alumni Association President Public Health being sent to the front lines. The at the Supreme Court of Canada Ayaz Bhanji, ’91 BSc(Pharm) Salima Thawer, ’03 BSc, ’05 Dip(DentHyg), first president of the University of for Delwin Vriend, the Alberta President-Elect ’06 BSc(DentHyg), ’13 MPH Alberta, Henry Marshall Tory, urged teacher who was fired for being gay, Heather Raymond, ’82 BEd, ’86 Dip(Ed), Rehabilitation Medicine campus to continue to honour the Greckol set in motion advances in ’95 MEd, ’02 PhD Grant Irwin, ’75 BSc, ’79 BSc(PT) Committee Chair: Alumni Awards Science spirit of the institution. “Let us gender-minority rights — not just Ryan Thompson, ’03 BSc(Hons), ’13 MA Ross Lockwood, ’08 BSc(Hons), ’15 PhD continue to adjust our differences in Canada but around the world. Committee Chair: Alumni Student Council MEMBERS AT LARGE Ashlyn Bernier, ’06 BSc, ’11 PhD, ’13 MBA and solve our problems by means Anwar Shah, ’83 PhD, grew up Yasmin Barre, ’09 BSc, ’12 MSc of free discussion,” he wrote in in Pakistan and yearned for a way Committee Chair: Career Services Ramesh Bhambhani, ’66 BSc, ’68 MSc, ’72 PhD Christy Ciezki, ’02 BSc(Spec), ’09 MEd the Gateway, adding: “The ability to lift people out of poverty. While Maxine Clarke, ’03 BCom Committee Chair: Priority Programs Rick Dowell, ’03 BSc(MechEng), ’09 MBA to work with our fellows in the studying economics, he saw great Phil Wong, ’85 BSc(Spec) Vivian He, ’08 BCom Joel Johnston, ’16 BA(RecSpoTourism), ’16 common interest of all is one of the promise for change through the Committee Chair: Strategic Planning Cert(ABSR), ’16 Cert(CESL) Bill Werry, ’73 BA(RecAdmin) finest products of our education.” decentralization of government. 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We would like to hear your comments about the magazine. Send us your letters by post or Hair Scare email to the addresses on page 4. Letters In the late ’50s, when my hair was much more than may be edited for length or clarity. a mere memory, I had a haircut in a barbershop in the basement of Tuck Shop (Spring 2018, page 45). At the time, a friend told me he had gone there once but would never go back because “very short” was the only style one of the barbers knew. However, current students shouldn’t worry. I’m sure by now he has gone to the great barbershop in the sky, where St. Peter always has to ask him to leave the hair longer behind his ears. Memories of ’67 –Chuck Crockford, ’62 BEd, Waterloo, Ont. I was interested to read about New Trail digital. I wrote features for the original New Trail from 1967 Baking up Some Nostalgia to 1969, when I was a PhD student Several alumni requested the recipe for the famous Tuck Shop cinnamon buns, offered in the last issue. A few wrote back to let in linguistics. I worked afternoons three days a us know how it went. Look for more cinnamon bun memories week to top up my scholarship, as befits someone in a future issue or email to share yours. with two small children (and three by the time I graduated). Those were heady days. One of my signed articles was called “Goodman, Guevara, My first attempt at the cinnamon buns! guitars and God,” about the campus chaplains. I think they turned out quite well, Another profiledClare Drake [’58 BEd, ’95 LLD although I say it myself. And they tasted great. It really brings me back to the (Honorary)]. One of the bonuses for my New Trail U of A. Of course, I will share them with labours was the privilege of photocopying my my friends here and make them envious of PhD thesis on the office Xerox — five copies, while the what they missed all these years. secretary looked the other way. Glad to know New Trail –Marianne Henn, ’77 BA(Hons), ’79 MA, ’84 PhD, Toronto will thrive under totally different conditions. I took advantage of our rainy weather last Friday to –Jack Chambers, ’70 PhD, Toronto make the Tuck Shop cinnamon buns. They turned out really well! The Tuck Shop was gone by the time I started my education degree in 1975. But I do remember the cinnamon buns at CAB, which may Greetings from Taylor Crescent have used the Tuck Shop recipe. My husband says An observation regarding the article on Richard Taylor (Spring 2018, page 6). he remembers having what he calls the breakfast We are fairly recent residents of Medicine Hat and honestly had never of champions at CAB during the 1980s: a cinnamon given much thought to where our street name (Taylor Crescent) originated bun, a coffee and a cigarette — when smoking was until I read the piece. I wonder what his thoughts were on coincidences? still allowed inside CAB. Yikes! –Lorraine Belanger, ’17 Cert(LandUsePlanning), Medicine Hat –Pamela Young, ’79 BEd, ’91 Dip(Ed), ’99 MEd, Edmonton

MORE ONLINE Find these stories and more at ualberta.ca/newtrail. CORRECTIONS In the Spring 2018 issue (page 39), Ask Me Anything: So, You we misspelled the Want to Work in Magazines name of The New Trail crew teams up with Kristina ’16 MA, and Alumni Career Services to answer Vyskocil, mistakenly gave her all your burning questions about the wrong degree. In 7 Things You Should Know a career in magazines. Join New the same issue (page About Billy-Ray Belcourt Trail’s editor-in-chief, Lisa Cook, 38), we incorrectly Belcourt, ’16 BA(Hons), has won and art director, Marcey Andrews, listed the degree for three major awards (and counting) for a live Ask Me Anything event Serge Cipko, ’95 PhD. for his book This Wound is a World, on Facebook Aug. 8 at noon MDT. We apologize for including the 2018 Griffin Poetry Can’t make it? All the questions the errors. Prize. Get to know more about the and answers will remain available U of A’s newest poetry sensation. on Facebook at @UAlbertaAlumni.

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Supervising Editors Mary Lou Reeleder Cynthia Strawson, ’05 BA, ’13 MSc Editor-in-Chief Lisa Cook Managing Editor and Digital Editor Karen Sherlock Associate Editors Amie Filkow, Mifi Purvis, ’93 BA Art Director Marcey Andrews Senior Photographer John Ulan Staff Writer Sarah Pratt Editorial Assistant Stephanie Bailey, ’10 BA(Hons) New Trail Digital Ryan Whitefield, ’10 BA; Joyce Yu, ’07 BA, ’15 MA Copy Editor/Fact Checker Therese Kehler Proofreader Philip Mail Advisory Board Anne Bailey, ’84 BA; Jason Cobb, ’96 BA; Susan Colberg, ’83 BFA, ’91 MVA; Rhonda Kronyk, ’04 BA, ’07 MA; Kiann A team of literacy experts. McNeill, Robert Moyles, ’86 BCom; Julie Naylor, ’95 BA, ’05 MA; Sean Price, ’95 BCom; Karen Unland, ’94 BA Young kids left behind by reading difficulties. CONTACT US Email (Comments/Letters/Class Notes): See how U of A research dramatically [email protected] Call: 780-492-3224; 800-661-2593 improved children’s reading ability. Mail: Office of Advancement, University of Alberta, Third Floor, Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Ave., Edmonton, AB T5J 4P6 Facebook: UAlberta Alumni Association Twitter: @UAlbertaAlumni folio.ca. Get news right from the source. Address Updates: 780-492-3471; 866-492-7516 or [email protected] TO ADVERTISE Trevor Battye, Clevers Media Email: [email protected] Call: Toronto: 647-376-8090; Vancouver: 778-773-9397

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4 ualberta.ca/newtrail ILLUSTRATION BY DAVIDE BONADONNA scientists thought scientists ago, much earlier than years million 240 the Earth These reptiles crawled King Lizard

notes and study co-author Michael Caldwell , ’86 BPE, ’91 BSc(Hons). learn from any of the species of lizards and snakes alive today,” says paleontologist compiled. “It tells us things about the evolution of lizards that we simply cannot analysis of 130 living and extinct reptiles, creating the largest reptile dataset ever lizards and snakes. The study involved CT scans, photographs and molecular that dates back 240 million years, making it the oldest known ancestor of today’s led by PhD student Tiago Simões has proven Megachirella wachtleri is alizard scientists, who suspected it was a lizard but couldn’t be sure — until now. Research a fossil found two decades ago in the Italian Alps has remained a mystery to what’s new and noteworthy and new what’s 2018 trail autumn new – katie willis , ’13 ba , ’13

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SPORT NUMBERS HOCKEY INJURIES NOT JUST A MEDICAL ISSUE Sports culture plays a big role in attitudes toward injuries and violence, say researchers On Dec. 4, 2016, Connor McDavid was removed 24 billion from a game by one of the NHL’s concussion The number of pascals of pressure spotters after the Edmonton Oilers star forward a rare diamond would have sustained when it was formed fell and bounced his chin off the ice. McDavid, his 700 kilometres below the Earth’s teammates, the media and fans all questioned Osborne argue that a sociological and historical surface. The diamond contains the wisdom of the decision and wondered approach would offer better understanding. the first evidence ever found of whether the players shouldn’t have more say in Lorenz’s recent work looks at violence in calcium silicate perovskite, a whether they are fit to carry on. After all, “it’s a hockey in the early 20th century, including two mineral that normally can’t survive at the Earth’s surface. Found in man’s game,” said teammate Patrick Maroon. cases in which a player charged with murder South Africa, the diamond is proof “They’re saying the same things that people for killing an opponent with a hockey stick was the Earth’s oceanic crust recycles have been saying for more than 100 years,” says acquitted, largely because such violence was deep into the lower mantle, says Stacy Lorenz, ’91 BA, ’12 PhD, a hockey historian deemed intrinsic to the sport. researcher Graham Pearson. with Augustana Campus. The NHL has worked to rid itself of dangerous Lorenz, along with his colleague, Augustana play and change attitudes toward injury. But sociologist Geraint Osborne, presented their former players have launched a lawsuit that IN MEMORIAM socio-historical approach to hockey at The Hockey alleges the league has been wilfully negligent in Conference – Edmonton 2018, which took place its approach to head injuries. COACH’S COACH July 5-7 at the U of A. “We are suggesting that the “In the past, when you combine a lack of Clare Drake is remembered behaviours and approach of hockey over 100 years understanding of outcomes with a deep culture for many things: his winning ago taught people how to respond to injury.” of expectations of playing through pain and not career as head coach of the Today’s sport injuries are treated as medical, showing weakness, then you can see why we got Golden Bears hockey team, scientific or technological problems. Lorenz and to where we are now,” says Lorenz. –michael brown his legendary influence on the game, which led him to be known as the coach’s coach. At the U of A, the longtime professor emeritus is known as the teacher who instilled a lifelong passion for learning in generations of student-athletes. “I am constantly astounded by the lasting positive influence coach Drake had on his athletes, many years and decades past their playing days,” says Kerry Mummery, ’94 PhD, dean of the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation. “Clare truly epitomized the power of sport.” Drake died May 13 at age 89. –folio news staff

QUOTED “It was the life teachings that he shared with me on the ice for which I’m most grateful and are most FIRST BLOOM Almost 4,000 people visited the Aga Khan Garden, Alberta as it opened to the public meaningful for me.” for the first time over the Canada Day long weekend. Part of the University of Alberta Botanic Garden, it’s the northernmost Islamic garden in the world. “It engages all the senses, from the sound of the Wilton Littlechild, ’67 BPE , ’75 MA, water to the taste of the fruit, the smell of the roses, the feel of the limestone and granite, and the ’76 LLB, ’07 LLD (Honorary), Treaty 6 sheer beauty of it all,” says director Lee Foote. The garden was made possible by a $25-million gift Grand Chief and former Golden Bears

from His Highness the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslim community. hockey player under Clare Drake TOP PHOTO CAL SPORT MEDIA / ALAMY; BOTTOM PHOTO SWANSON BY PAUL

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Thousands sign up for Indigenous MOOC A massive open online course about Indigenous Canada has proven to be a hit with people wanting to learn about Indigenous history and current issues. The free MOOC was the most popular online course in Canada on the Coursera platform for 2017, reaching more than 23,000 learners.

Documents move to new archive The U of A’s oldest treasures have an ultramodern new home at the Research and Collections Resource Facility on South Campus. With space to house LIBRARY CONSERVES CULTURE Jean Urina, Esau Iligayak, Jimmy Memogana, Frank Kuptana, Alice millions of materials, Kuptana and Lucie Qiurviqqaq pose in front of a tent on the ice north of Holman Island in 1958. The some going back to 1908, photo is part of Digital Library North, a project spearheaded by professors Ali Shiri and Dinesh Rathi the facility provides better of the School of Library and Information Studies in close collaboration with northern communities in protection for materials the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. More than 5,000 digital artifacts include Inuvialuit books, photos, and better access for the music, oral histories and language resources. All three dialects of the Inuvialuktun language have been public, researchers and preserved, as have videos on drum dancing, whaling, and traditional games and stories. –sheena moore students.

HEALTH PAIN MEDS, STAT A SPOONFUL There is a notion that OF SUGAR EASING CHILDREN’S PAIN pain relievers will Mary Poppins was It’s a scary feeling to have to take a child to the hospital. But there are things you can mask the symptoms. on the right track. do to help minimize your child’s pain and distress in the face of sudden illness or injury. Not true, says Ali. In Ali says it takes just Pediatrician Samina Ali specializes in emergency care and has studied pain treatment fact, a comfortable two millilitres of as a researcher in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry. She offers these tips. child will be easier to concentrated sugar examine and diagnose. dripped onto a baby’s REDUCE STRESS DON’T HESITATE Over-the-counter tongue to make a (AND DISTRESS) TO SPEAK UP pain relievers like medical procedure Distractions ranging No time to grab acetaminophen or easier. For older from storybooks to Advil before rushing ibuprofen won’t mask children, offering age- smartphones will help to the ER? Ask the serious ailments. appropriate information get your child’s mind triage nurse. Your (Don’t give a child about what’s going on off the pain, while a child dreads getting Aspirin for pain relief, and a role in decisions simple splint, ice pack needles? Request though. It can cause (what colour cast do or even cuddles some numbing cream. Reye’s syndrome, you want?) can ease can reduce their Ideally, these will be a rare but serious their loss of control and

TOP PHOTO INUVIALUIT CULTURAL CENTRE DIGITAL LIBRARY; BOTTOM PHOTO THINKSTOCK discomfort. offered; if not, just ask. liver condition.) help them feel better.

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HEALTH ‘BENIGN’ HEART ATTACKS RISKIER THAN BELIEVED A category of heart attacks not linked to blocked arteries is more common and poses a greater risk — especially in women — than thought, a U of A study has discovered. Heart attacks in people with unblocked arteries have long ENVIRONMENT been considered benign, with no need for followup care. But a 12-year study involving close Put a Lid on Plastics to 36,000 people showed that Oceans could hold more plastics than fish by 2050. Six to Nix after one year, five per cent of Here are six things you can do to change that Plastic bags patients with “benign” heart Instead, carry groceries in attacks either had another plastic is cheap, convenient — and choking the planet. reusable bags or a backpack. heart attack or had died of Slow to decompose and complicated to recycle, plastics one — not far off the nine per cent for traditional heart attack were singled out by organizers of Earth Day 2018, as well as by Bottled water patients. After five years, that world leaders at the G7 Summit in June. “Plastics are a multi- Drink tap water from number increased to 11 per faceted problem. They’re found in almost everything we use, a reusable bottle. cent for the non-traditional but we don’t think about the environmental costs,” says Aphra patients, compared with 16 per Sutherland, ’17 BA(Hons), of the U of A’s Office of Sustainability. Straws cent for heart attacks caused The numbers are staggering. Plastic straws take about by blocked arteries. 200 years to break down, The study — the first in the In 2016, world plastics production totalled about 335 million causing an increase metric tonnes. By 2050, oceans are expected to contain more world to take a long-term look in microplastics in the at MINOCAs, or myocardial plastics than fish by weight, according to the World Economic environment, according to infarctions with non-obstructive Forum. Sutherland says consumers can take action now, the Plastic Ocean Project. coronary arteries — was especially with throwaway plastics. launched by cardiologist Kevin “Day to day, if we can make small changes visibly, we can Fleece Bainey, ’98 BSc(Hons), ’02 MD. influence everyone else around us and definitely make a Microfibres are shed in The study also found that, while laundering and can end difference.” women make up 25 per cent up in marine life. Suit up One of the most important ways people can cut back on of all traditional heart attack in biodegradable fabrics sufferers, they make up fully plastics is to send a strong message as consumers about things like wool or cotton. half of this group. like extra packaging, she says. It has worked before: microbeads “MINOCA has been seen in shampoos and body scrubs are banned in some countries Disposable coffee cups as a benign condition and thanks to consumer reaction. A layer of plastic prevents patients are commonly sent Try making things yourself — freshly squeezed juice or these from being recyclable home without any treatment or or compostable. Use homemade cleaning and self-care products go a long way to lifestyle advice,” Bainey says. your own mug. “They need to probe their eliminate plastic containers. You can even eliminate takeout physicians for more information packaging just by bringing your own mugs, utensils or Plastic utensils … and ways to prevent a second containers. “It may seem strange … but it’s one of the best ways to Buy durable versions that heart attack.”

discourage disposable plastics,” Sutherland says. –bev betkowski can be used repeatedly. –lesley young, ’94 ba OLIVEIRAPAULO / ALAMY

8 ualberta.ca/newtrail your strength and indicate places you will find harder to navigate,” says Ferguson-Pell. “Then you can change your ACCESSIBILITY route accordingly.” The app, dubbed Click Map App for Wheelchair Users ’N’ Push, took top prize App that rates difficulty of different routes on at Edmonton’s inaugural city streets wins team top prize in hackathon HealthHack competition in April, which sought proposals maps inside apps are very challenging and if they for improving mental, commonplace these days, can’t navigate it, they suffer physical, social or economic but a U of A team has added social isolation,” says Martin health. HealthHack was a new element by building Ferguson-Pell, a biomedical part of the 2018 Smart Cities WORK in the ups and downs engineer in the Faculty of Challenge. experienced by wheelchair Rehabilitation Medicine. As part of the HealthHack YOU + YOUR JOB users in Edmonton. The prototype includes competition, Ferguson- = TRUE LOVE The idea behind the app a feature that allows users Pell — along with research Turns out you can love your is to identify the exertion to choose their relative associate Kenton Hamaluik, job but, just as in matters of required to navigate the strength. ’11 BSc(MechEng), ’14 MSc, the heart, it takes the right city in a wheelchair. “People “The result is that you will and master’s student Musi conditions who use wheelchairs often see hot spots on an exertion Ala — had one month to You can be immensely find the built environment map that are matched to develop and present a satisfied with your job, but prototype to a panel of judges. can you actually love it? An organizational behaviour They set to work modifying expert seems to think so an existing technology called and used an interpersonal Redliner, also developed by love model to prove it. Ferguson-Pell, that informs Michelle Inness wanted wheelchair users of distance, to get at the heart of what speed and overexertion. it means to love your job, so The $5,000 in prize money she and her research team used psychologist Robert is being used to develop Sternberg’s “triangular theory a business plan, collect of love” to see if it could be feedback and make the app a applied to work. The theory reality. –lesley young, ’94 ba supposes three aspects of love — passion, commitment and intimacy — need to be present to achieve “consummate love.” SCIENCE IN A CEREAL BOWL “We wanted to develop a way of measuring that love, to try and capture the A single Cheerio floating in milk does psychological experience of loving a job,” said Inness, an three things: it deforms the surface of associate professor in the Alberta School of Business. the liquid, it creates more surface and Inness developed a nine-item scale that asked therefore it generates more surface respondents to rate how they feel about their jobs based energy. Two Cheerios floating together on statements such as “I am excited to do my job each day” deform the liquid surface less than two and “I feel very close to the people at work.” single Cheerios, so the two together The research determined that people whose job is create a lower energy state than two a labour of love have no intention of leaving, are more separate Cheerios. By sticking together, likely to go above and beyond the call of duty, take it upon the Cheerios minimize the surface energy. themselves to help or enhance the organization and tend to CBC science show Quirks & Quarks checked with Janet Elliott, engineering professor and Canada Research Chair in find a sense of purpose in their

TOP LEFT IMAGE PROVIDED; TOP RIGHT PHOTO THINKSTOCK Thermodynamics, to craft this answer to the question: “Why do my Cheerios stick together when they are in milk?” jobs. –michael brown

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Learning doesn’t end when you accept your degree. We are all lifelong learners, whether we pursue lessons in a class or a lecture hall — or these lessons pursue us. Curtis Gillespie, ’85 BA(Spec), reflects on the continuing opportunities for education that life throws our way, sometimes when we least expect them. by Curtis Gillespie

wild unpredictability, spontaneity and unshackled imaginative flights of fancy. That the only way we can free up our imagination is to treat every day like a piñata we’ve got to bash open to see what spills out. Uh, no. The truth, at least for me and most of the creative people I know, is that routine and orderliness and regularity are vital to the creative process. “Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition,” wrote the poet W.H. Auden. Another myth is that creative people speak through their muses. Trust me, if I sat around waiting for my muse to arrive, I’d write a couple of paragraphs a year. There are many writers who need strictly imposed self-discipline in order to create. Graham Greene wrote 1,000 words a day and then stopped, whether that took him an hour or 10 hours. Charles Dickens’ son said of his father that, “no city clerk was ever more methodical or orderly than he.” Mark Twain used to count words. Stephen King does six pages a day, no more, no less. Alice Munro worked precisely from 8 to 11 every morning of every day. The point is that routine is central to creativity. And because the only things creative people have to offer the world (and to make a living) are what they can Creature of Habit squeeze out of their hearts and minds, MY WIFE’S EXTENDED HOLIDAY AT HOME HAS RATTLED MY ROUTINE AND we tend to get a little obsessed with our TAXED MY, ER, PRODUCTIVITY. BUT A SHAKEUP ISN’T ALWAYS A BAD THING routines — though that routine might not always look the part. Most people, ’m not sure at what point in our current era the word routine took on the for example, would not think that a negative connotations now attached to it. Maybe it came with the advent of routine means working from 8:45 to industrialization and the notion of the factory worker doing the exact same 9:45, doing five minutes of yoga, making thing 800 times a day. Perhaps it was during the 1970s when the boomers a coffee, filling the water in the bird believed every single person had a unique genius to uncover and doing bath, working from 10:20 to 11, playing a something routine was seen as soul-harming. Maybe it was when Tonya couple of games of online backgammon, Harding announced she had a new routine for the Olympics. Who knows? chatting with an editor for 15 minutes, IAll I know is that I will freely admit I like my working conditions to be as routine checking email, eating lunch … and then as possible. As someone who writes both creatively and journalistically, I often have requiring a rest to recover from it all. to step out of my comfort zone, take some chances, upset patterns. Typically, such Hey, nobody said it was easy. experiences involve the research or reporting phase of a project. I embrace these It’s important to note here that much moments. But when it comes to periods when I need to hunker down and put words of my routine revolves around the fact on paper, disruption is not advisable, at least not for me. That’s something of a myth that I work at home. I have a small office

or misconception about writers and creative people; namely, that we lead lives of in our basement, with the emphasis on ILLUSTRATION BY SUTHERLAND; KELLY PHOTO BY JOHN ULAN

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small — most closets would be insulted everyone likes to sit around all day, you She was sitting at her desk. to be associated with my office. But it’s know.” “What is it?!” where I work, it is habit and the house She quickly finished off her “I am totally stuck. I just don’t know is, for most of the daytime hours during breakfast and — this was still before 8 whether I should ride my bike to Square the week, empty and quiet. The only a.m. — launched into cleaning the kitchen One coffee shop or whether I should sounds that normally emanate from the windows as I sat at the table trying to drive there and then go for a walk with house, other than the ones I produce, have a peaceful coffee. That day, and in my mum afterwards. What do you think are when the dog goes bonkers when fact the next few weeks, saw her burst I should do?” the mail carrier swings by around 3 p.m. into spasms of activity that involved During her time off, I received (Oh, I forgot — that’s part of my routine, painting the garage door, painting numerous texts and emails like this. too, checking the mail every day for the window trim, washing the front So often, in fact, that I succumbed the letter informing me that I’ve been windows, reseeding part of the lawn, to Stockholm Syndrome — I began awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. planting various perennials and annuals, sympathizing with the difficulty of such After that moment passes, I typically cleaning out cupboards, organizing kayak dilemmas and devoted quite a bit of soothe the disappointment with a cup trips, visiting friends and walking the time to helping her resolve them. I also of tea and a cookie.) And if I feel on any poor dog to within an inch of its life. The became conditioned to respond promptly given day that my routine requires common denominator in most of these to urgent texts and emails saying, “Come some disruption — which I am given to activities was that they involved making upstairs, QUICK, there’s something understand is all the rage in corporate a hellacious racket all over the house. wrong with the printer/computer/ circles — I’ll shake things up and work at One hot June day, she strolled phone/dryer/dishwasher/fridge/toaster/ the kitchen table. unannounced into my tiny office. I kettle/toilet/sink/vacuum …” Now that you know all this about my happened to be doing some online The truth is, my wife’s supportive routine, I can segue to the actual point I research on the upcoming U.S. Open and funny presence has upset the want to make. In the late spring, my wife, Championship. I have written about golf delicate rhythm of my workday, in the Cathy, was presented with the chance to in the past, so I consider this a legitimate same way that a Tasmanian devil might take the summer off. A good break was use of my time. (Do you believe me?) disrupt the routine of a three-toed sloth. well-deserved and well-earned. Cathy burst into my office, saw the Golf But don’t criticize the sloth. As I said to But there was the small matter of my Channel on my screen and said, “Oh, Cathy at one point, quite profoundly, routine. working hard? Or hardly working?” She I thought: “Oranges are orange and I first knew trouble was brewing laughed at her own joke and plopped lemons are yellow.” when it came to the brewing. For 20-odd herself down in the little reading chair She considered that. “Is that what years I have got up and made coffee the behind my desk chair. “Oh, it’s so nice and you spent all morning coming up with same way, my way, the right way, every cool down here. It’s boiling outside. I was down there?” weekday. But one day I got up and the just cleaning the driveway and then I In the end, Cathy being home hasn’t smell of coffee was coming from the was weeding the vegetable garden. Man, particularly negated my productivity, kitchen. That was immediately outside oh, man.” since (I can hear her saying), it sure didn’t my routine. Feeling unsettled, I went I turned around and gazed at her. look like I accomplished much on any downstairs. Cathy was sitting at the “You do know that I’m working?” given day anyway. Truly, it has been great kitchen table and the newspaper was “Working?! Good one.” She took her having her around the house. It makes spread all over it. There was nowhere to sandals off and put one of her bare feet the day brighter and more interesting, put the sports section. up on the armrest of my desk chair. which is what’s supposed to happen “Good morning,” I said. “Umm, I “Don’t mind me. Just keep ‘working.’ I’ll when you get to spend more time with usually sit in that seat when I have just sit here for a while. I won’t bother the person you married. breakfast …” you. Anyway, can’t you concentrate But I have to be honest. If she retires “First come, first served. I’ve been up with someone around? That’s not very while I’m still writing for a living, you for an hour. I’ve already walked the dog impressive.” might see me scouting around for an and watered my planters.” What could I do? I turned around and office outside the home. With a pinched expression, I said, started working. After all, sometimes you’ve got to “Oh.” I went about making my toast. “So, A couple of days later I was hard at shake things up to get into a routine. what are you up to today?” work, actual work, around mid-morning, She proceeded to list off a ridiculously when I got an email from Cathy. It was Curtis Gillespie has written five books and earned long roster of activities. marked URGENT! “Come upstairs!” she’d seven National Magazine Awards. His New Trail article “A Hard Walk” won gold for best article of “I said today, not this week.” written. I hurriedly saved the document 2018 from CASE, an international post-secondary “I’m action-oriented,” she said. “Not I was working on and bolted upstairs. association.

12 ualberta.ca/newtrail thesistaking you deeper on one topic

imagine a loaf of bread, quartered. This first quarter, still warm from the oven, is simple — bread Daily Bread solves hunger. Sidle up to our buffet. In these Another quarter brings you a friend, your companion. Your cultural worldview determines whether you share this quarter pages, we look at the food in our early on or you wait a while. Perhaps you even share it first, pantries, labs and imaginations. before you partake. After all: as we eat, so we live Then there is the quarter that you trade for something to eat

ILLUSTRATION BY LYNN SCURFIELD LYNN BY ILLUSTRATION with that bread, a most basic version of trade economy.

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The final quarter builds hand-built creations, and long-term security. By sharing the making transformed it, you are creating more strangers into friends. companions, who may have, Once they have when one day you lack. Or prepared roti in a group, you may sell it and reinvest Gnanapragasam says, “they this fruit of your labour. find it’s easy to do it again.” Still again, you may Maryann Baziuk set it as exemplar, to help (Chorney), ’76 BEd, makes transmit this knowledge ceremonial breads to so fundamental to maintain her Ukrainian civilization — how to heritage, and passes the skill transform grain into bread. on to her daughters. Kolach, Mind you, you could the most famous of these just go to the store and buy breads, graces church altars, a sliced loaf. It’s cheaper. marks weddings, births In today’s Canada, says and funerals, and honours Amy Kaler, associate chair significant relationships. of the Department of In this spirit, Baziuk Sociology, making bread by offeredkolach last summer hand is not about physical to Darlene Auger, ’02 BA, to necessity, as in rural, non- launch Ancestors & Elders, industrial communities. a performance project Here, it is about identity, and exploring 125 years of Alberta’s connection among people. Cree and Ukrainian history. “Loneliness is one of the Auger responded in kind with surprising factors in food an offering of tobacco. Of her insecurity,” says Juanita bread offering, Baziuk said: “It Gnanapragasam, ’19 MPH, symbolized how important ’16 BSc. For her, making and we feel it is to bring these breaking bread together communities together, to is one key to combating work together in good faith.” food insecurity among Whether it’s a simple foreign students, the fried roti or an elaborately focus of her research. braided Ukrainian kolach, Gnanapragasam has been bread connects us to the land, surprised and gratified by our own abilities and each students’ response to her other. Bread carries history. work — never more so than And what of the future? when she offered an evening As Kaler says, here and workshop on making roti. now we don’t need to make “I’d expected 12 to 17 bread by hand. Our staples students, but within three rest in a web of industrialized hours, over 80 had signed agriculture and international up! And in January, the trade. So, what happens if darkest, coldest part of that web is torn? If climate the year,” she says. change causes industrial- Cooking and eating alone scale crop failures? If the provokes homesickness, uneasy political tides of so students often rely on this moment also rise in How Long Until takeout. And some young unpredictable ways? students may have limited Imagine a day when we experience in the kitchen. have only the food we can We Eat the Zoo? Roti is simple — flour, water make. True hunger is never far away. How would and salt, shaped by hand, Build a loaf of bread, by your city make out in tough times? fried. Still, participants hand. Quarter it. –anna marie showed great pride in their sewell, ’91 ba(spec)

14 ualberta.ca/newtrail when the prussians closed the roads complex,” she says. “People take for Community gardens have wait-lists, during the siege of Paris in 1870-71, food granted they can pop down to the store and municipalities are supporting the shipments ceased and larders depleted, for what they want.” And while a drought movement. “In Saskatoon, for example, starving the city into submission. Parisians in California spikes orange prices, serious the city provides water, composting and resorted to eating cats and dogs, rats and upheaval could render us unable to get mulch to every community garden,” Beckie pigeons and, finally, zoo animals. It sounds enough food. Some of us stockpile, but says. In 2018, the City of Edmonton started shocking, but how long would it take a others have only the remains of last night’s a pilot program offering vacant municipal modern city to follow that same path? takeout. How we’d cope under siege would lots to gardeners. More significantly, new Common wisdom says there’s about vary per personal and regional resources. interest in regional food production is three days of food on hand but it’s hard During the First and Second World building outside the city. In 2016, Statistics to put an exact number on it, says Mary Wars, backyard and community vegetable Canada reported that, for the first time Beckie. An associate professor in the plots known as victory gardens were a since 1991, the number of people under Faculty of Extension, Beckie has expertise necessity to augment food rations. And 35 taking up farming increased. So take in sustainable and localized agri-food in recent years there’s been a renewed heart: outside the ramparts, crops are still

WORLD HISTORY ARCHIVE / ALAMY systems. “The global food system is interest in local and regional food. growing. –mifi purvis, ’93 ba

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HAVE YOUR BURGER AND Deserts and Swamps when you think of a North „ Where are they? In 2014, EAT IT, TOO American food desert, you Qiu and colleagues found that Have we seen the future of meat? might imagine a hollowed-out, Edmonton’s food deserts lie gritty city centre with shuttered in a ring of older suburban businesses and few services. “The neighbourhoods (Blue Quill classic example is Baltimore or and Malmo Plains, for example) is there a way we could become more sustainable Detroit,” says Brent Swallow, a between downtown and the and self-sufficient, and still eat meat? Isha Datar, ’09 professor in the Department newer neighbourhoods on the BSc, thinks so. She’s the executive director of New Harvest, a non-profit that funds openly accessible of Resource Economics and outskirts of the city. Think of the scientific research aimed at creating cultured food, Environmental Sociology. blank space around a bull’s-eye. including meat, from cells grown in a lab. Think of it The phenomenon is better Food swamps are found in denser as the “meatri dish” solution that could provide ready known in the United States neighbourhoods (for example, access to sustainable meat. than in Canada. And while Garneau and Alberta Avenue). The carbon footprint of a steak comes from the there haven’t been systematic energy, feed and water that went into raising and Canadian studies, Swallow „ Four of housing the animal. Not to mention methane and other Local response: greenhouse gases livestock emit. Creating meat in a says, “there have been several the neighbourhoods (Alberta lab could eliminate those issues. one-offs.” These suggest a Avenue, Boyle Street, Inglewood, In theory, here’s how it works: take a few cells from different pattern is emerging Malmo Plains) developed an animal’s muscle tissue and seed them on some kind here. In Edmonton, for example, community gardens within half of scaffold, a structure on which the cells can grow. researchers like Swallow and a kilometre of their centres. Next put the seeded scaffold in a nutrient-rich liquid his colleague Feng Qiu have medium, then add the works to a bioreactor. Boom, you are growing meat without vast tracts of land or huge found food deserts — and food „ Not just scarcity: Food consumption of energy. swamps — in surprising places. security is complicated. “We also In reality, though, it’s not that easy. The obstacles consider people’s perceptions include creating an edible scaffold and a stable liquid „ What are they? A food desert or their worries about where medium that is not derived from animals. (Liquid media is a neighbourhood in which it’s their next meal is coming from,” are usually made from fetal bovine serum, taken from tough to find groceries and a food says Swallow. In North America, the blood of cow fetuses.) So far, New Harvest has funded projects that have swamp is an area with a plethora food swamps feature access to created egg protein and milk in cell cultures. Datar of fast food and convenience highly processed, less nutritious knows cultured animal protein won’t soon replace stores, Qiu says. Neighbourhoods foods that can lead to people industrial livestock. But, she says, “the density and can be both, and both threaten being overweight, a predictor number of animals we’re dealing with on factory local food security, which the of various health problems, farms is reaching global limits.” –mifi purvis, ’93 ba United Nations calls access including diabetes. to affordable, acceptable and nutritious food. Researchers „ What to do? For one, you found eight food deserts and 13 could volunteer with Grocery food swamps in Edmonton. Run, which helps families in emergency situations. The group „ What do they have in distributes food within 24 hours, common? These neighbourhoods says co-ordinator Sandra Ngo, have a higher population density, ’12 BSc, ’16 MSc. And it reduces more kids, a lower median food waste by redirecting income and less access to cars. healthful food, such as day-old Often new Canadians live there. loaves from local bakeries, from “These neighbourhoods used to the landfill to dinner tables. be served by supermarkets in Check out Grocery Run at New Harvest provides funds for researchers to investigate strip malls,” Swallow says, “but ualberta.ca/alumni/volunteer.

animal-free systems for growing cultured meat. those are disappearing.” –mifi purvis, ’93 ba IMAGESPA / ALAMY

16 ualberta.ca/newtrail Three Things About Sustenance as the planet burgeons with more than seven billion of us, what we eat and drink is increasingly important on a global scale. Take a look at how a few big thinkers are caring for plate and planet.

1. Test the Waters Parmiss Mojir Shaibani, ’12 MSc, ’17 PhD, and her husband, Amirreza Sohrabi, ’12 MSc, ’17 PhD, invented a handheld sensor that tests drinking water on-site for E. coli, microscopic bacteria that can sicken people and animals. The sensor reduces test time, cuts costs and needs no special expertise to use.

2. Leftovers Using waste from potato processing, U of A researchers led by Marleny Aranda Saldaña have created a cling-film for food storage. The film will biodegrade sooner and more completely than petroleum-based EXPAND YOUR PALATE products. And treating the starch-based film with are you a fussy eater? There’s good news: Wismer’s research demonstrates that custom nanoparticles taste perception is not immutable. To expand hormones, age, illness and medication can your palate, it might help to know how your change flavour perception. She works with has the potential to keep sense of taste works. cancer patients and aims to create a tool foods fresher longer. Taste is about 40 per cent of how we to improve how they perceive flavour. (For perceive flavour, which is influenced to a example, advising what to eat or avoid if a 3. Crickets? Jiminy! greater extent by smell. medication leaves a metallic taste.) Silvia Ronzani and Claudio “Aroma lends character to food,” says Variations among individuals also affect La Rocca, ’16 MSc, own Wendy Wismer, ’83 BSc(FoodSci), associate flavour. About half of you have an average Camola Sustainable Foods, professor in the Department of Agricultural, density of taste receptors on your tongues. Food & Nutritional Science. Our perception (You all have them in your cheeks, gums and which produces goods of flavour is also affected by colour, cooking gastrointestinal tracts, too.) A quarter of you prepared with ingredients method or even temperature. Two mugs of have fewer receptors, and another quarter are that include ground crickets. milk — one hot and one cold — just don’t taste “supertasters,” with numerous, densely packed Slightly earthy in taste, the same. taste receptors. cricket flour is high in protein Understanding flavour might help master Finally, if you find yourself reaching for the and packed with nutrients, cravings for junk food, which has been same meal day after day, you could be what such as iron, calcium and engineered to trigger what Wismer calls a Wismer calls a “food neophobe,” reluctant or hedonic reward, that good feeling you get when afraid to try new dishes. She recommends you vitamin B12. And insect you dive into a bag of Cheezies. The more highly challenge your gustatory regimen — slowly. protein is more sustainable to processed the snack, the likelier it is to deliver a “Make subtle changes,” she says. “Try one produce than animal protein. quick hit to all five of the discrete tastes: sweet, new taste or flavour per week.” –with files from lesley young,

ILLUSTRATION BY LYNN SCURFIELD; THINKSTOCKILLUSTRATION LYNN BY salty, sour, bitter and umami (or savoury). –mifi purvis, ’93 ba ’94 ba, and helen metella

new trail autumn 2018 17 OUTOUT OF THE SHADOWSSHADOWS

18 ualberta.ca/newtrail Dementia is altering the lives of more than half a million Canadians and their families, and the toll is expected to grow. Improving care is one way we can make SHADOWSSHADOWS their lives better right now

By Bruce Grierson, ’86 BA(Spec)

Illustrations by Hugh Syme

new trail autumn 2018 19 People with dementia, it turns out, are especially good candidates for such interventions. “A person with dementia is suggestible,” Strickfaden says. “You work with that.” Elements similar to the De Hogeweykian approach are being introduced in care facilities around the world. One of these is Canterbury Lane, the dementia wing of the Canterbury complex in west Edmonton. Strickfaden, a design anthropology professor in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences, has been hired to consult on the multimillion-dollar revamp. It will include features such as a garden that allows residents access to the outdoors without having to be escorted. Hallways that don’t dead-end, but loop back into the heart of n June 2015, Megan Strickfaden, ’89 the action. Little designated spaces for purposeful activity, BA(Spec), ’02 MDes, and her grad student such as folding laundry. And a cottage system of living spaces Nicole Gaudet, ’15 MSc, arrived at a little divided by theme or feel, matched to the residents’ upbringings. village on the outskirts of Amsterdam The renovations will take close to four years. Unfortunately, with a Harry Potter-ish name: De the resident in one room is unlikely to live to see it completed. Hogeweyk. An octogenarian gentleman That’s just my guess, knowing that resident quite well. was visibly thrilled to see them. She is my mother. This called for wine. He took Strickfaden by the arm and more than 50 million people worldwide are afflicted with squired her into the village grocery dementia right now. And since the human lifespan is increasing store, she recalls. He found a nice red more quickly than medical science seems to be closing in on a and brought it to the till. He pulled a cure (which is to say, not quickly at all), dementia will be part of handkerchief from his pocket and paid all our stories: your story or the story of someone you love very for the wine with it. The clerk accepted much. “Its shadow lies over us all,” writes Jay Ingram, ’67 BSc, the payment, bagged up the wine and gave the man back his ’09 DSc (Honorary), in his book The End of Memory. handkerchief as change. So what to do — beyond saying a prayer and giving power of To its residents, De Hogeweyk — a dead-ringer simulation attorney to your most trustworthy blood relative? As recently Iof a traditional Amsterdam village — isn’t a cutting-edge as 20 years ago, people living with dementia who could no experiment at the frontier of humane dementia care. It is longer manage in their homes were simply institutionalized. In simply home. They cruise on tandem “cosy cycles” down the that setting, doctors were authority figures and patients were cobblestone streets. They munch pastries in the café, catch the passive recipients of meds, directives — and very little in films at the cinema. They wander among gardens so cunningly the way of treatment. designed as to appear limitless. They return to family-sized But another paradigm is emerging. Dementia treatment is living spaces that closely match the tenor of the household coalescing around the idea of patient-centred care. they grew up in, whether country-cosy or artsy-cultural, full of In an analysis of dementia care studies published in 2015 music and light. Trained geriatric nurses and caregivers form a in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society, researcher kind of stealth army of invisible support. They’re dressed not Hannah O’Rourke, ’08 BScN, ’15 PhD, an assistant professor as authority figures but as shopkeepers, neighbours, friends, in the Faculty of Nursing, found four things are of central perhaps relatives. importance in working with people with dementia. A sense of De Hogeweyk’s reputation rests on what its residents don’t place. Connection to others. A sense of purpose. And shoring do, says Strickfaden. Based on her observations up those three poles of the tent over two extended visits to the village, residents supports the fourth, which is linked to don’t fall as much or night-wander as much or take Dementia is a physical well-being: a sense of wellness. anti-psychotics nearly as much as comparable syndrome, a So, while scientists continue their populations elsewhere. deterioration search for ways to prevent and treat the “The place itself is medicine,” she says. in the ability to disease (see “The Elusive Cure,” page 23), The discovery that environmental “nudges” caregivers are doubling down on tactics process thought can boost psychological well-being is one of the that promise benefits right now. Call beyond what might triumphs of the last quarter-century of social it the “3 Ws” model of dementia care: science. (One of its founders, Richard Thaler, be expected from focusing on the Where, the Who and won the Nobel Prize in 2017 for contributions to normal aging. It the Why of the subjective experience of behavioural economics.) And design elements are affects memory, this devastating syndrome. psychological levers. By manipulating colours, thinking, language, furnishings, acoustics or the layout itself, architects behaviour and the to family members, the hardest can send the human mind back in reflection or ability to perform part to fathom about dementia is the forward in aspiration. They can slow a frightened everyday activities. staggering difference between Good heart or stoke curiosity or foster human connection. World Health Organization Days and Bad Days. Good Days make

20 ualberta.ca/newtrail you second-guess your decision to move your loved one out of their own home into extended care. Bad Days grimly confirm it. On a recent visit, my mom positively lit up when I walked through her door. We spent a great day together, at the end of which I promised I’d be back tomorrow. Ten-kilowatt smile. But when “If we can set aside I walked through her door the next day, OUR OWN FEARS, ASSUMPTIONS she greeted me with a face that looked as about the disease, if a bad fish needed taking out. “What are AND STIGMAS you doing here?” she snarled. there is HOPE. People with DEMENTIA Mom was officially diagnosed with have identified MANY WAYS TO ACHIEVE Alzheimer’s when she failed the “mini- ” mental” exam 10 years ago, at age 84. A GOOD QUALITYof life. We just need to LISTEN. Though in truth, we noticed her slipping – Hannah O’Rourke as early as her late 70s, one “W” after another. The “where” seemed to go first. On an Alaskan cruise, to celebrate her “80th year,” she struggled to find her way back to our cabin and had not cracked Are We Our Memories? the nut even by our last day at sea. who are we without our memories? For people with dementia, recovering even some Then the “when” became wobbly. On a of the experience they have banked is a crucial part of feeling, well, like themselves again. visit to the West Coast, she became deeply One theory of dementia-related memory loss is that it’s a retrieval issue, rather concerned that we’d miss our flight if we than a data-loss issue. In other words, the memories are still in there, only their tags didn’t leave right now. So I raced us to have fallen off. In recent years, researchers have experimented with using sensory the airport, only to hear upon our arrival: triggers to call some of those memories up. “Why the heck are we here so early?” In Scotland, aging soccer fans living with Alzheimer’s are exposed to Social filters fell away. Mom started reconstructions of big games. In North America, people with dementia are supplied making derogatory comments about with iPods loaded with personalized playlists. Out of Sweden comes an ingenious people standing right next to her. invention called the BikeAround: a stationary bicycle attached to a wrap-around movie She began repeating herself every screen onto which a moving landscape is projected. Plug in the client’s childhood-home 30 seconds. Sometimes she noticed address on Google Street View and suddenly there they are, back in the old ’hood, herself slipping. “I feel like … I’m … not cruising down streets they probably haven’t since they were a kid on a Schwinn. right in the head!” she’d say and she Reminiscence therapy, this kind of intervention is sometimes called — and could barely contain her terror. preliminary research suggests it can not only boost happiness levels but improve The changes in her reflected cognitive function. This year, the Canterbury Lane staff tried a simple version of it in the brutally quixotic nature of the the run-up to Mother’s Day with a scrapbooking activity. Family members were asked disease. Like a tornado through a to contribute photos of mom or dad through the years, surrounded, if possible, by trailer park, it destroys some faculties the people they have loved the most. “You’re really trying to get them to live in those while leaving others bizarrely intact. moments,” activities supervisor Mbalia Kamara told me. “And then to really validate On a recent visit, I told Mom it was the feelings that emerge.” our dog’s birthday — we were having For Mom, it was pretty profound. As she turned to a snapshot of her and Dad circa a couple of the neighbourhood 1980, both of them tanned and smiling in Hawaiian sunshine, she began to cry. A staff pooches over to celebrate. member allowed her to sit with that sadness for a few moments, and then steered “Penny,” she said, remembering the her toward the light. “He must have been a great guy,” she said. “Tell me about your name of an animal she’d never met. “How wedding day.” old is she, again?” The tonic here, as much as the memory work, is the attention. People with “She’s four.” dementia often lose their voice as the disease progresses. The world stops listening. “So, our 28,” Mom said instantly. “People used to think that because there was cognitive impairment there wasn’t Sometimes my sisters and I leave the insight — but that’s not true,” says nursing professor and researcher Hannah facility feeling gut-punched, yearning O’Rourke. “People with dementia still know what they like and don’t like.” To pull that for the sweetness we know is in Mom to insight out is not that difficult, she says. “You ask. You just ask.” surface more often. And our questions A couple of years ago, Elly Park, a post-doctoral fellow in the U of A Faculty of are everybody’s questions: what must Rehabilitation Medicine, undertook a project with researchers from Simon Fraser it be like to be her? And what can University and the University of Toronto on digital storytelling. Facilitators helped we do to help make this a little more people with dementia create a digital story with photos, music and narration bearable — for everyone? by the participant. “Storytelling is a tool,” writer Ursula K. Le Guin put it, “for

new trail autumn 2018 21 knowing who we are and what we want.” People with dementia are no different from the rest of us in this way. Park’s research found that encouraging participants to think about and OUR QUESTIONS share meaningful stories enhanced relationships are with caregivers, increased communication and EVERYBODY’S QUESTIONS: interaction, and gave participants a sense of what must it BE LIKE to BE HER? accomplishment. “In several cases, participants And WHAT CAN WE DOto help said they surprised themselves with the stories they were able to remember,” says Park. MAKE THIS a little more BEARABLE— With Mom, I have found that if I press her too FOR EVERYONE? much for family history, she often clams up. For her, the fact-finding is stressful. This is not uncommon. That’s why University of Wisconsin theatre would be it. I waited beside her as ice ages came and went. Eventually she’d professor Anne Basting received a MacArthur track me down in some corner of the facility. I could smell her coming. Fellowship, sometimes called a genius grant, for But wait: how many of these details are true? “Every act of memory her invention called TimeSlips. It replaces “the is to some degree an act of imagination,” the neurologist Oliver Sacks pressure to remember with the freedom to imagine,” wrote. We’re all unreliable narrators. That doesn’t mean we all have as she puts it. TimeSlips is like a book club where neurodegenerative disease; dementia in its various forms is a syndrome no one has read the book, except in this case it’s with specific physiological signatures. But it does mean that people a photograph. Each photograph is striking and with dementia cannot be dismissed as Other. Every time we call our mysterious. It looks as if it has a story to tell, so kid by the dog’s name or drive off with our coffee cup on the roof, the everyone makes one up. There’s no way to be wrong, difference between the two worlds, practically speaking, grows moot. which seems to loosen tongues. “The absolute key And somewhere a busker plays There but for Fortune. to the entire process,” Basting says in a video about TimeSlips, “is that we validate everything they say.” This sounds like — it is like — improv theatre. Our Purpose, Our Selves Something a little magical happens when we “if the residents here were able to describe their biggest frustration, start telling stories to each other, whether they’re what would they say?” I asked Wendy King, executive director of the true or not. Neuroscience has shown that it boosts Canterbury Foundation, not long ago. “I think maybe they would say, ‘You the sense of connection between the teller and the don’t understand me,’ ” she replied. listener. As the story unspools, the brains of teller Hence, a recent trend in dementia care toward what you might call deep and listener sync up — a phenomenon psychologists client profiling. In the old days, staff received an incoming resident’s medical call “linguistic alignment.” Another bonus: for charts, some basic biographical data and not much else. Now, families are people who can no longer have out-there-in-the-world adventures, storytelling is an excellent proxy. It a genie — aducanumab, stimulates many of the same parts of solenezemab — have raised the brain that light up when we are hopes that were later dashed. In actually experiencing things — just THE ELUSIVE CURE a dozen years, not a single new as reading does. HOPES ARE RAISED, THEN DASHED, medicine for Alzheimer’s has For the scrapbooking exercise BUT CAN WE TILT THE ODDS? been approved for consumers. Why is this so hard? at Canterbury, not all the families One reason is that there’s contributed photos. So those no agreed-upon cause of the residents instead received pages of disease. Two kinds of proteins their scrapbooks with stock photos run dangerously in a brain of a random family. Which sounds a little sad but JUNE 12, 2018: Another day, addled by Alzheimer’s. One is turns out to be a perfectly serviceable alternative. another scrapped clinical trial beta-amyloid, which clumps “Just the idea of family can get people talking about of a high-profile Alzheimer’s into sticky plaques that block drug. This time it was cell-to-cell signalling and shut their own,” says Kamara. lanabecestat, which performed those cells down. The second so poorly that after 31/2 years, is tau protein, which forms for some reason, my own earliest memories of researchers pulled the plug. tangles inside brain cells that Mom are all tagged to scents: the cinnamon-y Bee Despite massive (and finish them off. Bell Bakery, the chlorine of the Y swimming pool, increasing) efforts, the search The question of which is the the baseball-mitt smell of Jack and Jill Shoes. for a cure for Alzheimer’s, most likely culprit behind the the most common form disease has split the scientific We’d march into these places hand-in-hand and, of dementia, has come up community into the so-called invariably, she’d spot someone she knew and tractor- empty. One by one, drugs “BAPtists” and the “Tau-ists,” beam them in with her smile. She’d let go of my with names that sound like says Jack Jhamandas, a hand — she needed both of hers to talk — and that incantations to summon professor of neurology and

22 ualberta.ca/newtrail Alzheimer’s disease is the often asked to flesh out the most common At Canterbury, one resident used to be a millwright, story of mom or dad. The more cause of dementia, so he’s routinely given things to tinker with. Another was data, the greater the likelihood accounting for a homemaker who raised a big family. She struggles to a resident ends up where they about 60 to 70 find words and can get frustrated and withdrawn, but belong, doing things that pluck per cent of cases. she positively melts when handed lifelike “Baby Sophia.” the strings of their hidden She dresses the doll in tiny clothes warm from the dryer, Dementia can enthusiasms. whispering and cooing to her and, after a while, “she’s more also be caused by A “sense of purpose,” as open to the activities the rest of us are doing,” says Kamara. O’Rourke discovered in her stroke, injury or But there’s purpose and then there is purpose —something analysis of dementia studies, other diseases. closer to what the Japanese call ikigai. Roughly: the sense can involve many things: World Health Organization that life is worth living because we are needed here. Japanese the feeling of contributing research has found that people with ikigai live longer. A study to others; a belief in a higher published in JAMA Psychiatry in 2012 found that people with power; some control over how your day Alzheimer’s who are animated by purpose staved off cognitive decline longer. No one unfolds. From a caregiver’s perspective, knows quite why it matters to feel as if we matter — only that it does. restoring a sense of purpose is about “Feeling you matter is at the core of being a person,” British dementia consultant reconnecting people with who they used David Sheard often says. “Knowing you matter is at the heart of being alive.” Sheard to be — placing them back in the vicinity is the founder of Dementia Care Matters, better known as the “butterfly” model of of that intersection where, as American dementia care. I could see its principles in action the day I visited Copper Sky Lodge, writer and theologian Frederick in Spruce Grove, Alta., Canada’s first butterfly facility. Copper Sky’s CEO is Phil Buechner put it, their deep desire meets Gaudet, well-known in Alberta as the former head of the Good Samaritan Society, a the world’s deep need. long-running non-profit care provider. But the lodge is mostly run these days by his Strickfaden recalls one man at daughter, Nicole Gaudet. The same Gaudet who, with her thesis advisor Strickfaden, De Hogeweyk who was restless and was embedded at De Hogeweyk. searching, and a bit aggressive and As dementia advances and individuals turn inward, they’re less able to seek out the hard to approach. Staff went back into multi-sensory stimulation they may need. So the stimulation must come to them — as his file and discovered he’d once been butterflies come to flowers. “Even things like this soft sweater I have on are part of it,” a farmer. “So one day they hid a bunch Gaudet says of the fuzzy sweater she’s wearing. “I’ve been getting lots of hugs today.” of eggs all around the courtyard. And At the centre of the butterfly model is emotion. The theory: people will forget what they said, ‘We need you to go collect you say, and even what you do, but they will never forget how you made them feel. the eggs in the morning.’ And he’d do That’s because feeling is processed in a more primitive part of the brain; it’s protected, that. And then he’d be wonderful for in a sense, from the damage to the neocortex that dementia causes. And so the staff the rest of the day. It was something at Copper Sky are trained to circulate, alighting here and there, touching, affirming, that validated who he was.” offering a cup of tea or a taste of mint, introducing short activities. “Ultimately, we are

Alzheimer’s researcher in the on the neurocircuitry of the Jhamandas. Since inflammation to reverse symptoms. Of six Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry. hippocampus, where memories has been linked to gut health, participants who had stopped Jhamandas calls himself a are formed and socked away this theory invites the appealing working because of cognitive “BAPtist with an open mind.” for later retrieval. Cautious idea that Alzheimer’s might have fog, all six were able to return Not long ago, he and his optimism surrounds an some relation to the bacteria to the job, Bredesen reported in research team discovered experimental procedure called and other organisms that 2014 in the Journal of Aging. that a compound called optogenetics. A Columbia colonize the gut and thus may The cruel irony of Alzheimer’s AC253, originally developed University study used lasers on be preventable, at least in some disease is that many of the brain for diabetes, appears to mice to activate the neurons people, by lifestyle interventions abnormalities are present at protect brain cells from the that store memories, suggesting such as a change in diet. least 20 years before symptoms worst effects of beta-amyloid lost memories might still exist in Indeed, some researchers typically appear, at which plaques, at least in mice. the brain and be recovered. On are starting to think of point the damage is done. But he admits — and here’s another tack, a research paper Alzheimer’s disease more For scientists, that means the open mind part — that published in June in Neuron the way we think of chronic identifying those who are at the strategy of clearing or has reawakened interest in the diseases such as hypertension risk of developing the condition preventing beta-amyloid theory that viruses might play a and diabetes, which are known but show no symptoms — and plaques could be a dead role in Alzheimer’s. to respond to improved health treating them with everything end. No one knows whether Another prime suspect habits. A small study out of that’s deemed safe to try. either protein is a cause or a is inflammation. Introduced UCLA by neurologist Dale “Of course, you want to hit consequence of the disease. It decades ago by Vancouver Bredesen created a protocol of a home run — find the cure,” could be both are byproducts of researchers Edith and Patrick lifestyle changes for early-stage says Jhamandas. “But a more the fundamental process that’s McGeer, the neuro-inflammation Alzheimer’s patients, including realistic expectation in the actually driving the train. theory fell out of favour. But such things as intermittent short run is that we can modify Indeed, some researchers as our understanding of fasting and improved sleep the trajectory of the disease: are taking completely different inflammation has evolved, “the habits. The protocol not only delay its onset, mitigate its tacks, focusing, for example, pendulum has swung back,” says slowed but actually seemed severity.” –bruce grierson

new trail autumn 2018 23 TLC means more work for them, there’s evidence that such “I would ABOLISH an approach leads to lower burnout, since it puts caretakers’ LONG-TERM CARE in Canada and actions more in line with the reasons they got into this work in the first place. START OVERbecause I think “I would abolish long-term care in Canada and start over,” WE’VE GOT IT WRONG. says Gaudet, “because I think we’ve got it wrong. We need to We need to be given the FREEDOMto deliver be given the freedom to deliver new kinds of care in inspiring environments.” NEW KINDS OF CARE O’Rourke is cautiously optimistic about the future of in INSPIRING environments.” dementia care in Canada. “If we — clinicians, researchers, community members, society — can set aside our own fears, – Nicole Gaudet assumptions and stigmas about the disease, there is hope. People with dementia have identified many ways to achieve a good quality of life. We just need to listen.” all feeling beings,” says Gaudet. “So if you can connect to what somebody is already feeling, you’re four steps ahead.” one recent wednesday afternoon at Canterbury Lane, But there’s research and then there’s practice. Changing residents sat drowsing in easy chairs in front of an old Jimmy how we care for people with dementia isn’t easy. After their Stewart movie on the big-screen TV. My mother wasn’t among experience at De Hogeweyk, Strickfaden and Gaudet were them. She likes the privacy of her room and to pick her own gung-ho to update legislation around dementia care in Canada. shows — and to crank up the volume. They soon discovered they were facing frustrating headwinds, On this visit, I had a plan. Having steeped myself in the some of which were cultural. Alzheimer’s literature and the best ideas of countless experts in multiple domains, I was eager to try a few things. I wanted a country’s dementia care can reveal a lot about its values. to help Mom grasp where she is, who she is and why she is. I’d China, for instance, is a culture of service, notes Strickfaden. brought an artifact: a tennis racket. Not one of the fancy big “But that can actually get in the way of good elder care. ones people wield now but a vintage wooden one. This is what People are literally served to death.” The Netherlands is big on you used in the era when Mom learned to play, gliding around personal liberties. How far you want to push your the shale courts of Garneau tennis club, not long after she and limits is up to you, within reason. Quality of my dad met. People can see it on the wall and ask Mom about life reigns supreme. tennis. And maybe some of those locked-up memories — a Canada has made a different choice. serve tossed into the sun, the fitz of a new tin of balls, my dad Here a dementia-care facility gets so gentlemanly out there that he actually cheated against accredited or not based in part on how himself — will come rushing back. safe it’s deemed to be, says King, head Not long ago my sister Lynn Lariviere, ’79 BEd, noticed of Edmonton’s Canterbury Lane. So De Mom paging through a magazine that had a big splash about Hogewykian elements like cobblestones, the Royal Family. Mom pointed to a gentleman in a waistcoat. public fountains, accessible barbecues “That is the man I’m going to marry,” she said. A few years ago and knives, unfenced kitchens are red Lynn might have laughed or corrected her. But we have learned BY THE flags. In Canada, safety trumps freedom. NUMBERS that it’s not our job to pull Mom back into this world. Our job is So does efficiency. Funding here is task- to meet her in hers. Lynn raised her eyebrows in enthusiasm, based. “Staff have a task list and a limited 564,000 nodded and asked for details about the wedding. amount of time to do it,” says King. “So if Canadians living These days Mom’s eyes reveal a lot. There’s not much a resident puts up resistance, it creates with dementia reminiscing going on. Nor is there planning. The headlights stress — because the staff person knows, reach to the next bend in the road and that’s it. But this is what ‘I’ve got to go to Mrs. Jones next.’ ” 937,000 people with dementia have, most profoundly, to teach us. They The task-based funding model Canadians are champions at living in the now. The question, for all of us, is is, predictably, frustrating for more predicted to how can we make the now better? progressive voices in dementia care. have dementia I believe the answer is to just be there. Or in the case of my in 15 years “You’re regulating to the point of own too-infrequent visits, make sure I’m there when I’m there. strangulation,” says Gaudet. So Mom and I go for silent wheelchair tours to check out After Copper Sky received a poor 50 the action over in the nearby manor — past the kitchen, down grade in its first effort to become a MILLION the long, carpeted hallways. Little bios outside each resident’s certified butterfly facility three years cases of dementia door tell of their unique strengths. That’s right out of the David ago, Gaudet spearheaded massive staff worldwide Sheard playbook: “Search for the treasure in each individual.” retraining. The first thing she impressed “I’ve learned that if I attach too much to whether she on caregivers is that human connection $818 remembers my visit, I’m going to be bitter,” Lynn told me on the comes first. You are not going to be fired BILLION phone recently. So you shift the bar. A cup of coffee, a stab at if you don’t get this task and this task estimated costs a cribbage game, a trip to the atrium to hear the piano player and this task done, she told staff. Even (USD) to society plink out Moon River: that is a win. We are not our memories. though by some measures the extra worldwide in 2015 Even though it sometimes feels that way.

24 ualberta.ca/newtrail Statistics: Alzheimer Society of Canada, World Health Organization new trail autumn 2018 25 INFLUENCERS. ACHIEVERS. ADVOCATES. MEET U OF A ALUMNI WHO ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE This year’s crop of alumni award winners € have something in common: they believe every distinguished alumni award problem has a solution and they are driven to FOR FINDING WAYS find it. Whether it’s saving lives, serving justice, healing through art and conversation or just TO TREAT CANCER listening, meet a group of alumni motivated Charles Lee, ’90 BSc(Spec), ’93 MSc, ’96 PhD by compassion for others. Medical geneticist Treating cancer is what gets Charles Lee out of bed in the € morning and what keeps him up By Sarah Pratt at night. “I think, ‘Do I need to sleep for another hour or should I use that hour more constructively?’”

26 ualberta.ca/newtrail Lee is a medical geneticist and he is are each given a different drug or the mouse with a similar tumour. all too familiar with statistics like, “One combination of drugs. A month later, The project is underway at the in two men and one in three women Lee and his team can see how well each billion-dollar Jackson Laboratory for will develop cancer.” That’s why Lee treatment worked on the same tumour. Genomic Medicine in Farmington, Conn., is spending every waking moment When a drug treatment overpowers a where Lee is director. The lab opened working on a potential solution — one tumour, the successful results are put four years ago with three employees but beyond surgery, radiation, into a database, where the tumour’s is now home to 386 employees — more chemotherapy and traditional drug genetic fingerprint is also stored. For than half of whom are researchers. Lee therapies. It’s genomic medicine and it each tumour in the database, there is estimates the database and treatments will suggest a drug treatment specific to a corresponding treatment that was will be ready for direct application in each patient’s needs. successful in treating a mouse. In the two to four years, though that feels like It starts with a surgeon removing real-life application, if a person's tumour an eternity to him. one tumour, cutting it into tiny pieces has a similar DNA profile to one in the “I feel nervous and a major sense and implanting one piece into each database, the patient could work with of urgency,” says Lee. “This can help of several mice. The tumour grows their oncologist to decide whether to countless people. It’s huge and we don’t

PHOTO BY JOHN ULAN BY PHOTO until it’s a treatable size, then the mice take the course of drugs that worked on want to waste any time.”

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The Pandas rugby teams of 1999-2003 were a dominant force in the sport, winning five straight national championships and fielding summer job plunged Boyd generator, headlamp and a athletes who were not € into the world of dentistry cold sterilization kit.” Boyd only athletic all-stars but distinguished alumni award academic all-stars as well. faster than she could have was flown into communities A number of the players imagined, and her and met by dog team and she continued to give back For being a experiences in northern had to estimate how many to the program through communities taught her to weeks she would need before coaching, managing, true pioneer apply her knowledge to solve they would return to pick officiating and as members in the field of problems. The adventurous her up. The conditions were of the medical team. dentist, professor emerita rugged. “I would set up in a dental care and former dean at the school, near a window for NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS: University of British extra light to do fillings. I did Marcia Boyd, ’69 DDS Columbia reflects on some of extractions while the patient Five Canada West and CIS Dentist her memorable experiences sat in a wooden chair. I did national championships from a career that started in things that give me a full When new graduate the Arctic and ended on the body shudder now.” CIS players of the year, rookie Marcia Boyd saw a Pacific coast. of the year, All-Canadians, job ad in the „ New experiences: There Academic All-Canadians Edmonton Journal for „ A steep learning curve: are some moments in Canada West coach of the dentists in 1969, she applied, “I had a pink skirt on and was Nunavut that stand out in year not knowing the position heading north. I was going Boyd’s memory. “In Pond would send her 2,700 to be the queen of Frobisher Inlet, I helped deliver a baby Nine Pandas played for the kilometres away to what was Bay. When I arrived, they girl.” And her northern social Canada National Senior then Frobisher Bay, N.W.T. handed me a duffel coat, life was always fascinating.

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used in Canada wasn’t Edmonton’s Committee able to cope with the to End Homelessness cold winters. Pheasey in 2008, he helped began to manufacture develop a 10-year plan drilling equipment to help the city’s most € sturdy enough to operate vulnerable people find alumni honour award in some of the world’s safe and affordable harshest climates, housing. The committee FOR FINDING including Alaska, Russia applied an approach and the Amazon jungle. that focused on mental SOLUTIONS In 1972, when the oil health and addiction TO BIG and gas industry in prior to addressing Alberta was heating up, housing issues. By 2012, PROBLEMS Pheasey entered into the number of homeless Frederick Pheasey, the oilfield equipment Edmontonians dropped ’65 BSc(MechEng) manufacturing and by 30 per cent. Engineer distribution industry Pheasey, who has with the business he co- also supported the next Frederick Pheasey has founded, Dreco Energy generation of engineers spent his life doing what Services. at U of A and the United engineers do best: solve Pheasey also saw an Way for more than problems. opportunity to use his 25 years, is committed to In the early 1970s, he problem-solving skills using innovation to help realized much of the to tackle a bigger social solve problems, whether American-made oilfield problem: homelessness. it’s in the business world drilling equipment As a member of or his community.

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in movies to watch. One ON ISSUES THAT MATTER was The Cyclops, and for Paula Simons, ’86 BA(Hons) two weeks afterwards, the Journalist soapstone carvings were all cyclops.” Overall, Boyd says her time in Nunavut was a “For nearly two decades, Paula magical experience. “It was has been a voice of authority on fascinating for a new grad.” virtually every issue that impacts „ Advancing personally this community. … People who and professionally: While care about public affairs know they continuing with part-time clinical practice and after must read Paula to get a thoughtful working as a professor at perspective. Whether they agree or UBC, she became dean of disagree with her, they know Paula the Faculty of Dentistry. Here she guided the faculty will provide them with the through advances in critical thinking and analysis dentistry and an increase that is essential to in the number of women in the field. “[Including] more understanding the issues.” women has brought a further Linda Hughes, University of Alberta richness and depth to the chancellor emerita and former publisher

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new trail autumn 2018 29 € alumni honour award For being a voice for people living with HIV Barbara Romanowski, ’71 BScMed, ’73 MD Doctor, expert on HIV and sexually transmitted infections

Barbara Romanowski’s early career coincided with the rise of the HIV epidemic in the 1980s. She sat down with longtime colleague Michael Phair, chair of the U of A Board of Governors, to talk about the leadership, compassion and challenges of that time.

MP: The first media conference we did in Edmonton, do you remember what you talked about?

BR: I don’t have a vivid memory but I remember those days well and the media activity and how they wanted to sensationalize this disease. I think back with horror when these individuals were hospitalized and signs went up on the Barbara Romanowski and Michael Phair doors saying, “Contaminated. reminisce about their time working together to help people living with HIV. Do not enter.” It was the Dark Ages. I kept saying to the media, “This is not a gay disease.” I saw education as went to many funerals in the based on sexual orientation you’ve done then and are still part of my job. first few years of HIV care and, in those days, the type doing. You’ll never know how and it took a personal toll. of disease that they had. much it meant to people like MP: I remember those There came a point where I On a positive note, oh, my me and the others that I work days. I remember visiting had to step back. There were God, we’ve gone so far in with, and the people who individuals in the hospital too many. 30 years. We now have a unfortunately died. and taking food in because disease that is manageable. some of the staff left food at MP: Oh, everyone died. … Patients should look forward BR: There were lots of sad the door. No one lived more There were funeral homes to living to a geriatric age. times. There were some good than two years at that time. that wouldn’t deal with Having said that, I think times as well. One moves I’m sure that had an impact them. There were also some continued education is as forward with a balance of the on you. religious organizations that important, if not more so, sad times and the pleasant wouldn’t perform the usual than it was in the early years, times. BR: It had a tremendous kind of ceremony. because people have become impact. I did not learn in complacent. This conversation was edited medical school how to BR: I find it extremely for length and clarity. A provide palliative care but difficult to accept that a MP: Well, thank you for all longer, audio version will be that’s what we were doing. I family would reject someone the wonderful work that made available online. JOHN ULAN BY PHOTO

30 ualberta.ca/newtrail € alumni horizon award FOR BEING A SCIENTIST AND

But writing wasn’t ENTREPRENEUR enough for Chute, who David Brown, ’13 BSc uses her life experiences to comfort and inspire others. Entrepreneur She was compelled to tell If you haven’t heard of chitosan, you’re her story visually as well not alone, though you may soon see and connect with people, it in food, beverages and medicine. especially those who are Chitosan is a fibre traditionally made grieving. She directed and from the chitin in the exoskeletons of produced a documentary crustaceans and used to make food film, Expecting Sunshine. In preservatives and biomedical products it, she interviews doctors, such as dissolvable pill capsules. nurses, counsellors and other Chitosan from shellfish, however, comes bereaved parents. with inherent challenges, such as food Chute has dispensed her allergies, a highly polluting production € message of hope in many process and a lack of purity. alumni horizon award other ways, as well. Biotechnology entrepreneur David A series of photographs Brown saw a need for a new kind of FOR SHOWING HOW ART called “The Quiet Rebuild” chitosan and built two companies features volunteer models that are using mushrooms and CAN HEAL THE HEART who want to share their fermentation instead of shellfish. In stories of overcoming 2013, Brown formed Mycodev Group, Alexis Marie Chute, ’07 BFA adversity. She also teaches a company that makes chitosan from fungal fermentation. The product Healing Through Art, a class Artist is highly pure and manufactured that uses painting, collage, according to pharmaceutical quality When Alexis Marie Chute’s newborn son died from writing and sculpture to standards. It’s sold around the world a cardiac tumour, she turned to art to help with the work through trauma. She is for pharmaceutical and medical use for long process of healing. also a motivational speaker. drug delivery systems, gene therapies Chute describes the year after her loss As people share their and tissue engineering. as her “year of distraction.” She documents stories of heartache and work Three years later, Brown created this season of her life in her award-winning through their own grief, it Chinova Bioworks after seeing a need memoir, Expecting Sunshine: A Journey of can help to know they are for natural preservatives in food, Grief, Healing and Pregnancy After Loss. not alone. beverages and personal care products. Chinova uses chitosan from edible mushrooms. It’s a natural dietary fibre, an antioxidant, tasteless, odourless and is kosher, halal and vegan. € was the first surgeon in Alberta to Brown’s creative solutions have alumni honour award successfully treat kidney cancer offered sustainable alternatives to under hypothermic circulatory harmful ingredients and processes. For transforming arrest, which involves cooling the cancer care body and stopping blood flow and brain function for a short period. Ronald Moore, ’80 BSc, ’86 MD, ’91 PhD An internationally recognized Surgeon-scientist clinician-researcher, Moore developed laser treatment as therapy Know it. Fight it. That’s how Ronald for prostate and bladder cancer. It’s Moore approaches cancer. He has called photodynamic therapy and dedicated his professional life it activates chemotherapy drugs to understanding and treating inside tumours with the help of laser urological cancers, while also light. It’s less invasive than regular training hundreds of students. treatment and gives hope to patients. Moore’s contributions have led Moore’s work has changed to significant advancements in urologic and transplant surgeries bladder, kidney and prostate cancer. and helped improve the lives of Plus, Moore has been involved in countless cancer patients and

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new trail autumn 2018 31 € distinguished alumni award FOR GIVING PEOPLE A VOICE € Anwar Shah, ’83 PhD sports wall of fame Economist When Anwar Shah For being a was growing up in a coach and a small village in northern Pakistan, he knew leader exactly what he wanted to be — even if he didn’t know David Breakwell, what it was called. He wanted money to build the school government functioned. ’79 BCom a job where he could help and work to get accreditation When Shah moved to Hockey player and coach developing countries. from the government — this Canada to do a PhD in Shah can trace this shaped my own view of the economics, he saw local David Breakwell has been unusually mature and world and I knew I wanted government empowerment a volunteer hockey coach socially aware world view to contribute to society,” and was inspired. Shah for 38 years. More than back to his father, Shah says Shah from his home in went on to spend most 800 players benefited from Muhammad, who worked to Potomac, Md. of his career working for his experience and 14 of raise money to build a girls’ Shah pursued an the World Bank, helping those went on to play in the school near their village, education in economics, decentralize governments National Hockey League. Chak No. 113 JB Phulahi. At motivated by growing up in developing countries and CAREER HIGHLIGHTS the time, the boys travelled in a society where the rich giving people a voice. He has AS A PLAYER: eight kilometres to school lived alongside people who conducted policy and reform but the girls couldn’t attend could hardly feed themselves dialogues in 47 countries, 1977-78 Golden Bears hockey because parents feared for and were denied basic and showed people how to team national champions their safety. Muhammad’s rights and services. He saw find democratic solutions • Team’s leading scorer girls’ school opened in 1953. no accountability and was to combat corruption in

• Canada West First Team “Watching my father raise disheartened by the way the government. JOHN ULAN BY PHOTO DESPAU; DAVID ILLUSTRATION BY all-star • National championship all-star team € 1978-79 Golden Bears alumni honour award national champions 1978-79 Olympic team final FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE INNOVATION 40 (Red Team tour of Europe) David Wishart, ’83 BSc(Hons), Biochemist, professor 1977-78, 1978-79 Member of two championship teams at Metabolomics is an innovative approach to health care, using a technique that identifies and the Pacific Rim Tournament, catalogues every chemical in the human body and looks for patterns in those chemicals that where the Golden Bears correspond to different illnesses. David Wishart developed tools and techniques that helped represented Canada against launch Canada’s first metabolomics company, Chenomx, in 2000. He also leads The Metabolomics teams from Japan and the Innovation Centre that provides services to labs around the world. Those who know Wishart recount United States the impact he has had on students, peers and the medical community.

32 ualberta.ca/newtrail € alumni honour award For blazing a trail for women in business For a man who has spent his life helping people around the world, it’s a treat for Anwar Stella Thompson, Shah to enjoy a moment ’68 MA with his daughter, Sana, and Businesswoman granddaughter Amina. Stella Thompson is a businesswoman in every “World Bank gave me a sense of the word. In her platform to work from and more than 40-year career, access to people of influence Thompson has cut a swath in the developing world, through the business world politicians who wanted in marketing, strategic positive change,” says Shah. planning, information on to be the first woman to among others. She After spending years systems, finance, policy sit on boards for Allstate currently lends her governance and more. Her Insurance, Agra Inc. and expertise to Connect First making a difference, Shah experience has led to titles Laidlaw Inc. Credit Union. returned to Pakistan five such as co-founder, chair After winding down Thompson, who has years ago for a visit. The and director, as well as her consulting company advocated to increase school his father worked so positions on many boards. in 2008, Thompson turned gender diversity in the hard to bring to life is still Thompson’s work as an her full attention to board boardroom and tackle going strong. oil executive with Petro- commitments. She has gender issues in the “My early life and Canada led to her first served on the boards of workforce, has this advice education prepared me well board appointment: the Atomic Energy of Canada, for young women: “Don’t for my career,” says Shah. “I Prime Minister’s National Calgary Airport Authority, take the forward movement have always been motivated Advisory Board on Science Genome Alberta, Talisman for granted. Keep on

ILLUSTRATION BY ROBERT CARTER ROBERT ILLUSTRATION BY to help people.” and Technology. She went Energy and WaterSMART, fighting the fight.”

“David has worked in a tireless, energetic “The satisfaction I derived from “He is truly doing research manner to establish a world-class working in the Wishart lab was the that is unique and world-class. foundational centre for metabolomics, light in my life at a very dark time. The tools and techniques and he has had a positive influence on In addition to providing me with developed by Dr. Wishart have the whole research community.” meaningful work, Dr. Wishart was led to new discoveries and new also individually supportive.” Randy Goebel, associate vice-president, academic; technologies.” associate vice-president, research; principal Connie Sobsey, ’07 BA, PhD student, Christoph Borchers, professor, investigator, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute Faculty of Medicine, McGill University University of Victoria, McGill University

new trail autumn 2018 33 € distinguished alumni award FOR USING THE LAW TO PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS Sheila Greckol, ’74 BA, ’75 LLB Judge

When Sheila Greckol was growing up in the small town of Vilna, Alta., she saw young people trapped by circumstance. Greckol’s mother, Lura, was a Grade 1 teacher who would sometimes bring home students who lacked warm winter clothing or food. As a result, Greckol became aware that some of her classmates had no freedom of choice when it came to what they ate, where they lived and how they lived. Many of these children were from First Nations, including nearby Saddle Lake Cree Nation and Good Fish Lake First Nation. Greckol carries these early childhood memories with her today in her work in the justice system. “Some of the things I witnessed, including violent incidents involving local police and Indigenous people, as well as poverty, racism and the accompanying social problems, are still with me, even though it’s been 50 years since I left home to go to university,” says Greckol. She spent 25 years as a lawyer working on cases involving abortion and freedom of choice, the rights of members of the LGBTQ community, paid maternity leave and more. In her current role, as a justice of the Court of Appeal of Alberta, Greckol is still witness to the disadvantage in the lives of Indigenous people. “We see the consequences of colonialism — aptly called cultural genocide — every day in the courts. The tragic narratives, the vast overrepresentation of Indigenous offenders in the criminal justice system,” says Greckol. One of the many issues Greckol feels must be advocated for is Indigenizing the courts. This means locating the courts within or near First Nations communities, having community members working there, using traditional cultural approaches to guide people toward a healing path, and fashioning creative, rehabilitative sentences where possible. Greckol believes non-Indigenous people in Canadian society have a responsibility to do what they can to work toward reconciliation with First Nations peoples. “I believe it rises to the level of a moral imperative,” she says.

34 ualberta.ca/newtrail € alumni innovation award € For sports wall of fame empowering parents of sick For a career children of coaching excellence Lisa Hartling, ’90 BSc(PT), ’10 PhD Rob Daum, ’82 BPE, ’84 BEd Professor, Department of Pediatrics Hockey coach

Shannon Scott,’06 PhD Rob Daum had a decade of Professor, Faculty of Nursing coaching excellence with Golden Bears hockey, as Knowledge translation well as stints in national and in health research international arenas.

More than two million children treated in settings other than scientific evidence. Parents CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: visit an emergency department busy emergency rooms — such can educate themselves on a in Canada each year, yet more as a doctor’s office or the variety of common childhood Three national than 80 per cent don’t receive home — whenever possible. illnesses using these animated championships specialized pediatric care. It all begins with the videos, audiobooks and Instead, they are seen in a parents. In an effort to help interactive infographics. Nine consecutive national general emergency department. parents make better health- The goal is to give parents tournament appearances Lisa Hartling and Shannon Scott care decisions for their children, the confidence to decide where want to ensure that children, Hartling and Scott developed and when to seek medical Five-time Canada West regardless of where they are innovative knowledge attention. coach of the year treated, receive the best care translation tools that combine These tools were developed based on their age, situation and parents’ stories of their health- with funding from various Two-time national coach of up‑to‑date pediatric knowledge. care experiences with their local, provincial and national the year They also want to see children children, art, novel media and agencies. Alberta record for conference regular-season winning percentage, .823, when finished career at € U of A alumni honour award Assistant coach, Edmonton FOR EFFECTING CHANGE Oilers, 2007-08 TO INDIGENOUS HEALTH CARE

Lynden (Lindsay) Crowshoe, ’93 BMedSc, ’95 MD Researcher As a researcher and member of the Piikani First Nation, Lindsay Crowshoe works to ensure Indigenous Canadians have culturally appropriate medical care. He advocates for change through research, lectures, mentorship and Indigenous health working groups. These groups focus on the social factors that determine the health of Indigenous people, including barriers to access, cultural bias and intergenerational trauma. Crowshoe works with a variety of organizations, including the Elbow River Healing Lodge, which provides culturally competent care to Indigenous Canadians, and the Truth and Reconciliation Working Group at the University of

PHOTO BY JOHN ULAN; BY DESPAU WENTING ILLUSTRATIONPHOTO LI; BY TOP BOTTOM DAVID ILLUSTRATION BY Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine.

new trail autumn 2018 35 Deborah Barrett’s € son, Anthony, is the inspiration behind sports wall of fame Anthony at Your Service. For € “Anthony at Your Service demonstrates excellence on alumni innovation award the court that individuals with significant For giving a intellectual disabilities can contribute Douglas Baker, ’80 BPE meaningfully to their community Basketball player and coach future to adults with intellectual through visible, paid employment. This Douglas Baker joins his wife, initiative changes social perceptions Trix, on the Sports Wall of disabilities and cultural perspectives while creating Fame. Their child, Jordan, real jobs for real pay. Dr. Barrett’s holds 10 Golden Bears Deborah Barrett, basketball records, has ’75 BA, ’89 MSc vision, perseverance and hard work played for Canada and could Anthony at Your Service give adults with intellectual disabilities one day join them on the Sports Wall of Fame. Anthony at Your Service is a and families hope for a better future business that employs adults with they haven’t had until now.” CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: intellectual disabilities to do custom

deliveries in the Edmonton area. Lyndon Parakin, vice-president, Autism Society Alberta JOHN ULAN BY PHOTO DESPAU; DAVID ILLUSTRATION BY Three-time Golden Bears basketball MVP Three-time Canada West € all-star alumni honour award CIAU All-Canadian 1976-77 FOR SERVING THE MOST VULNERABLE Golden Bears records for season field goals Susan Richardson, ’87 BA(Spec), ’08 MA, Judge and season field goals attempted, 1976-77 Two years changed Susan Richardson’s life. After graduating from law school in 1990, she spent two years as program manager at Excel Resources, which helps prepare adults living with mental illness or Scored an average of developmental disabilities for employment. This guided Richardson toward a legal career that would 18.4 points per game, help protect the rights of the most vulnerable. In 2011, Richardson was appointed as a judge of the second best in Bears provincial court of Alberta and continues to work with vulnerable populations. Richardson’s peers basketball history call her a passionate advocate who lives with respect for the law and people’s rights.

36 ualberta.ca/newtrail a content development company. “There were people who had actively vowed to never sit across the table from someone of the other faith, who have had their minds changed by the group.” Imagine if more of these conversations were going on around the world.

HOW TO HAVE A TRANSCULTURAL CONVERSATION For anyone having exchanges with people from different cultural communities, Valerio offers some tips:

„ Approach each other with the intention to share, listen and learn. Recognize that people’s voices and experiences do not necessarily speak for their entire community, just as yours don’t.

€ according to Statistics cultures and understand „ Expect that things will be alumni horizon award Canada. In 2017, there were and put into practice the uncomfortable and embrace 1,752 anti‑Semitic incidents organized efforts required that. Discomfort is a place FOR recorded in Canada — the for coexistence. from which we can learn, second straight record- Valerio is also a volunteer grow and begin the journey BUILDING breaking year. These rising educator and community of questioning the self. rates of anti-Semitism organizer. In 2016, she INTERFAITH and Islamophobia fuel the co-founded the AMPAC „ Recognize that safe BRIDGES work of Nakita Valerio. Her Muslim‑Jewish Women’s spaces are carefully curated graduate studies, focused on Collective, a group that and enforced. Set your Nakita Valerio, the history of Muslim-Jewish meets monthly to share, boundaries and stick to them. ’09 BA, ’17 MA relationships in colonial learn, build friendships Writer, entrepreneur contexts, inform her research and do charity work. „ Get to know people as and much of what she does “It’s been really positive they are, not just as they Police-reported hate crimes outside the classroom. Her in a short amount of time,” have been labelled or as they targeting Muslims more than mission is to help people says Valerio, who owns The self-identify. Identities are

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“Susan Richardson’s desire “She is a role model for “When Judge Richardson was appointed to the to learn and continuously criminal law practitioners, provincial court, I knew … [she] had not only been educate herself on society’s particularly young women who an outstanding prosecutor but one who had complex issues has are considering entering the dedicated herself throughout her professional undoubtedly shaped her practice of criminal law and career to continuous learning — not only of the reputation as a role model who may ultimately consider a law but also of the complicated social issues both in and out of court.” career on the bench.” which so often underlie criminal behaviour.” Lesley Cormack, dean, Donna Valgardson, judge of the Terrence Matchett, chief judge, Faculty of Arts provincial court of Alberta provincial court of Alberta

new trail autumn 2018 37 € alumni honour award FOR WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES

Brenda Walker, ’71 Dip(DentHyg) Dental hygienist

Brenda Walker's efforts to ensure patients’ health and safety have resulted in important regulations that often go unnoticed as we sit in the dental chair. Here are a few highlights:

„ Self-regulation: Walker lobbied for 25 years to remove legislation requiring dental hygienists to be supervised by a dentist. In 2006, the Health Professions Act was introduced, allowing hygienists to practise alone in settings that include long-term care facilities and rural communities. Hygienists must be registered with the College of Registered Dental Hygienists of Alberta.

„ Degree status: The U of A’s three-year dental hygiene program was approved € her if I could get my remind one of Bea for baccalaureate status in 2000. Walker alumni honour award own radio show on Arthur’s Dorothy Zbornak helped lobby the university for the politics — because why on The Golden Girls, change. For not just ask? She told me told me something like, to report to the station “That’s a person. Forget „ Pharmacy training: In 1998, approval listening for training. the questions on your was given for dental hygienists to A partner and I paper. Just look him administer local anesthetic, and a Malcolm Azania, started a show called in the eye and smile groundbreaking program that allows ’91 BA, ’94 BEd Radio H.E.R.E.T.I.C.S., and have an actual hygienists to prescribe drugs, such conversation.” Writer, teacher, journalist and let me tell you, as antibiotics and fluoride drops, was we sucked. Our radio That advice changed introduced in 2006. These changes We asked Malcolm Azania work was as exciting as me forever. have increased care for all Albertans, to tell us about someone our essays. We lacked I began wording who inspired him. He brevity, personality, questions to make them especially those who live where access to wrote us the following. humour, effective more personable, and dental care is limited. storytelling — pretty spent my interviews not The solution to all the much everything radio just waiting for the next world’s human problems, needs. After two months break to shove in my next from loneliness to of suffering our weekly question, but by listening climatic catastrophe, lies output, Tasha heard me to hear what mattered so with people, and it starts preparing to interview an I could ask them about it. with listening. And no one anti-apartheid organizer I’ve learned that deep did more to teach me that from South Africa. As listening (not just asking lesson than Tasha Larson usual, I was as loose as a questions other than, “So almost 30 years ago. man in a full-body cast: how do you feel about In the summer of reading questions from that?”) is cheaper, more 1989, as I was entering a sheet, not making eye convenient and more my third year, I attended contact, and behaving effective than marriage a campus club confab as if I were programming counselling. and found myself at an old mainframe with So, thank you, Tasha. CARTER; DESPAU ROBERT ILLUSTRATION BY BOTTOMTOP DAVID ILLUSTRATION BY the table for CJSR-FM’s punch cards rather than I always ask my guests campus radio. The conversing with an actual to tell me about their woman running it was human being. favourite teachers, Tasha, the station’s Tasha, who, despite however they define tough news and public her appearance and the word, and you’re affairs director. I asked youth could at times definitely on my own list.

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Education. Hankins writes: “The years have passed but some memories don’t fade. Nor has the gratitude I feel towards a sizable number of teachers, mentors, professors and clinicians of all kinds.” A U of A Love Story 1940s Shaunie Shammass, ’78 MSc, ’85 PhD, wrote in to share her love story’s humble U of A beginnings: “It was 1976 and he (Saeid Shammass, ’78 MSc, ’83 ’41 Gerald W. Hankins, BSc, PhD) had just arrived from Shiraz, Iran. I had grown up in ’51 MD, provided an update Edmonton. “We met in the cafeteria of SUB. He says it was love at on his career in medicine, first sight. That was how it all started. We got married in which included 12 years as 1978, right after I got my master's. After graduating with a surgeon in Kathmandu, our PhDs, we were known as ‘Doctors S. Shammass.’ I Nepal, publishing seven s actually once got a call asking for Dr. Shammass. I then 1950 asked, ‘Which one?’ They replied, ‘Dr. S. Shammass.’ I then books and receiving several recognitions, including the had to ask, ‘Which one? Saied Shammass the engineer, or Alberta Order of Excellence, ’54 Gordon Kay Greene, BA, ’55 Shaunie Shammass the linguist?’ “Fast forward 40 years and we have now written a an Award of Merit from the BEd, ’62 MA, learned that his book called My Mother’s Persian Stories: Folk Tales for College of Physicians and historical novel, Papa Luna: All Ages in English and Farsi. It is a bilingual book of 30 Surgeons of Alberta and the Benedict XIII & The Schism, Persian folk stories my husband’s mother told him when Distinguished Alumni Award was selected by Foreword he was growing up in Iran. We thought that these stories from the Calgary Board of Reviews as a finalist for the would disappear if we didn’t write them down. I wrote the English part and he wrote the Persian part and did all of the illustrations, including the cover art painting. “And to think that it all started with a chance meeting at SUB so many years ago!”

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Shaunie Shammass Saeid Shammass Gerald Hankins (right) with his wife, Lois Alger, ’44 BA

44 ualberta.ca/newtrail DID YOU KNOW? In 1913, a U of A student riding a donkey was the first person to cross the High Level Bridge.

2017 Book of the Year Award. Another notable project from Greene, a former dean of Wilfrid Laurier University’s Faculty of Music, includes helping produce a 25-volume IN THE NEWS series on 14th-century polyphonic music for French classical music label Les New Appeals Justice Éditions de l’Oiseau-Lyre. Ritu Khullar, ’85 BA(Hons), has been appointed as a justice of the Court of Appeal of Alberta, one year after being appointed a justice of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench. Khullar previously worked as a labour lawyer. She is the first South Asian judge in Alberta and the first South Asian woman named to any Canadian appeal court. –edmonton journal

1960s business and education is chancellor of the University still paying off. Thank you to of Calgary. Yedlin has my alma mater, mentors and worked as a journalist for ’64 Del Fredlund, MSc, ’73 employers.” the Financial Post, Globe and PhD, was awarded the K.Y. Lo Mail and Calgary Herald. Medal by the Engineering ’80 Jennifer Rees, BSc(PT), Institute of Canada in represented the U of A’s ’85 Allan MacRae, MEng, January. The award was in Green and Gold Community received a community service recognition of his significant 1980s Garden at a ceremony in award from the Society of engineering contributions Ottawa in November to Petroleum Engineers for at the international level. receive a Senate 150th averting a potential sour gas Fredlund’s career led to him ’80 Dawn Jackson, BEd, wrote Anniversary Medal in disaster at the Mazeppa gas touring the world to explain in with career news. “After recognition of the garden’s processing plant southeast major developments related an exciting work experience community impact. The of Calgary in 2016. MacRae to the science of unsaturated in industry and education, community garden grows says he learned from a soil mechanics. He was I retired last year and I and sells produce, with confidential informant that recently selected to deliver seem to be even busier now all profits supporting the the project wasn’t being the Blight Lecture in Seoul, than before. I started a Tubahumurize women’s safely maintained and was South Korea, in recognition management consultancy association in Rwanda. risking the exposure of of his lifelong and worldwide and leadership training thousands of Calgarians to contributions to geotechnical business and my vast ’84 Deborah Yedlin, BA(Spec), deadly hydrogen sulphide

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Billy-Ray Belcourt, ’16 BA(Hons), has won a $65,000 Griffin poetry prize, the world’s largest prize for a first-edition single collection of poetry written in or translated into English. Belcourt, who is from Driftpile Cree Nation in Paul Vaillant Alberta, won for his book This Wound is a World.

Alberta Energy Regulator, which quickly suspended all operations at the plant.

founding a meal-assembly ’02 Cynthia Scott Wandler, ’09 Erin Searcy, PhD, service called Dashing Dishes, BEd, won the 2018 Jon Whyte bioenergy technologies Grech is now a quantitative Memorial Essay Alberta department manager at investor and writes about Literary Award in June. Her Idaho National Laboratory, 1990s his expertise on his website winning essay, “Things You was highlighted recently on quantopolis.com. Can’t Do With a Broken Left the lab’s website. In the article, Arm,” will be published in Searcy credits engineering ’91 Pramod Puligandla, the literary magazine Blank professor Peter Flynn, ’74 PhD, BSc(Hons), a professor of Spaces in November. Visit as one of her strongest pediatric surgery at McGill cynthiascottwandler.ca to influences in pursuing a University, has been elected check out other publications career in bioenergy. to the Pediatric Surgery or just say hi. Board of the American Board of Surgery — making him ’08 Lyndell Grey, BCom, the first pediatric surgeon after 12 years at RBC, joined from Canada to be elected 2000s her brother, Chris Grey, ’92 to this position. Over the BA, ’95 MBA, and business next six years, Puligandla partner Bruce Grant, ’96 BSc, will participate in defining ’02 Paul Vaillant, at RBC Dominion Securities and setting the standards BSc(CompEng), is the new in June 2017. The Grey for certifying specialists chief technology officer Wealth Management Group 2010s in pediatric surgery across for Testfire Labs, which works with high-net-worth North America. uses machine learning and individuals to increase their artificial intelligence to wealth, preserve their estates ’10 Jennifer Emond, BA, ’98 Michael Grech, MSc, wrote modernize the way people and help with business completed a master’s degree in to share his tale of how work. In his new position, succession planning. When in European policy in Belgium he “started in one place and Vaillant will implement new Grey is not working, she says, and has been living abroad ventured off the beaten path technologies, supervise you can find her scuba diving, and working for the United to go on and do lots of fun system infrastructure and cycling, coaching soccer or Nations ever since. There, she things.” After working for a assure system integrity, avidly daydreaming about has focused on facilitating

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IN THE NEWS ‘We Still Have Work to Do’ Brenda Lucki, ’93 BA, was named the new RCMP commissioner in March. Lucki, a 32-year veteran of the force, is the first woman to hold the top spot at the RCMP on a permanent basis. “When people refer to me as the first female commissioner, it just tells me that we still have work to do because we don’t often hear that the 23rd commissioner was male,” she says. Lucki has been awarded the United National Force Commander’s commendation for bravery, two UN protection forces medals and the Canadian peacekeeping service medal. – cbc Therapy Now describing her experience delivering general oncology education to health (continued from page 46) professionals in Doha, Qatar. to protect aid recipients from sexual exploitation by ’12 Jennifer Hiebert, humanitarian workers. Her BSc(CivEng), a civil engineer, roles within the UN have volunteered with Calgary- taken her to Brussels, Haiti, based Engineering Ministries the Democratic Republic International Canada in of Congo and Iraq. “Talking February. As a member of about sexual abuse is a an international team of challenge, particularly in a architects and engineers, conservative society,” Emond Hiebert worked with Haiti writes. “But I find that ARISE to provide master speaking so openly on the planning and design services topic during the workshops for a birthing and maternity and trainings I facilitate helps centre in Grand Goave, Haiti. reduce the stigma and makes This was Hiebert’s second people feel more comfortable trip with Engineering reporting abuses.” Ministries International.

’10 Lyndsey De Souza, ’12 Zach Polis, BA, has been MScRS(OT), published named the City of St. Albert’s an article in the January inaugural poet laureate and

Zach Polis edition of Occupational received the RBC Emerging TOP LEFT PHOTO BY THE CANADIAN PRESS / MICHAEL BELL

48 ualberta.ca/newtrail City of Edmonton HealthHack finalists: (from left) Fahim Hassan, Mohib Khan, S.A. Rokib and Hamman Samuel CAMPUS How to SAINT-JEAN Hack Health Êtes-vous une ancienne ou un ancien du Campus A number of alumni Saint-Jean? Partagez votre expérience dans le New were finalists in the Trail. Pour ce faire, nous vous invitons à remplir City of Edmonton’s first HealthHack le formulaire ici: ualberta.ca/campus-saint-jean/ competition, which anciens/new-trail. invited residents to submit proposals to improve mental, physical, social and economic health. Proposals included: Reed Sutton, ’16 BSc, and Joe Dang, ’17 BSc(ChemEng): A public blockchain ecosystem to safely share data around cannabis use. P.J. Rawlek, ’92 BMedSc, ’94 MD: A fitness app to help beginners get active by providing valued support from a professional team. S.A. Rokib, ’15 MSc, Fahim Hassan, ’11 MA, Norma Dunning, ’12 BA(NativeStu), Mohib Khan, ’15 MSc, ’12 Cert(AbGovt/Part), ’14 MA, won Hamman Samuel, ’11 the $10,000 Danuta Gleed Award for the best first collection of MSc: A web app that short fiction by a Canadian author geo-codes and analyzes ’85 Denis Vincent, BMedSc, ’87 de consultation pour leurs published in English, for Annie Twitter data to help MD, médecin et finissant du patients. En un instant, les Muktuk and Other Stories. planners and policy- makers improve urban Campus Saint-Jean, ainsi que informations importantes design. son équipe, ont développé du patient sont transmises Artist award at the St. Albert le système ezReferral. Ce à leurs médecins. C’est avec See page 9 to read Mayor’s Celebration of the about the proposal service, basé sur le Cloud, grand enthousiasme que Arts in acknowledgment that took top prize: a permet aux professionnels Denis nous informe que of his photography wheelchair accessibility de la santé de facilement l’ezReferral est maintenant à published on Vogue Italia’s mapping app developed effectuer des demandes l’étape de mise en marché. website. Polis also keeps by a U of A team. busy as a filmmaker and photographer for numerous Alberta municipalities and multinational corporations.

’14 Jesse Werkman, BA(Hons), DID YOU KNOW? and Patrick Michaud, ’17 BA, The U of A’s first physics professor, produced and self-funded Robert Boyle, led a team that VISTA, a documentary that developed the first workable sonar shares the stories of survivors used during the First World War. British warships were equipped of the 2014 Isla Vista campus with the sonar in October 1918. shooting in Santa Barbara

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ALUMNI ADVICE

BOARDROOM MILLENNIALS Reverse mentoring is changing the C-Suite By Jordhana Rempel, ’11 BA

Reverse mentorship pairs a younger worker with a company veteran so the latter can learn from the former. With millennials predicted to make up nearly half the workforce by 2020, reverse mentorship is being used by big corporations like Microsoft and Target to bridge the generation gap and stay on the cutting edge of digital culture. U of A business student Christina Luo, who recently did a stint as ATB’s Google ambassador, mentored Lorne Rubis, ’73 BEd, ATB’s first chief evangelist (an executive who helps a company adapt to new technologies). IN THE NEWS Rubis and Luo each saw the opportunity as a learning experience. They offer some Food ‘From the Wild’ tips for the uninitiated. PHOTOTYPEHFX; ILLUSTRATION BY SARAH JACKSON @ Kevin Kossowan, ’99 BCom, was nominated for a 2018 James Beard Media Collaborate, Award. The third season of Kossowan’s web series, “From the Wild,” was don’t compete one of three finalists in the Video Webcast, On Location category. While Studies from the Zur Institute, Kossowan didn’t win the award, his work showcasing regional Canadian an organization that provides cuisine continues to attract international recognition. The James Beard continuing education to Foundation, a non-profit organization, celebrates the best in food culture counselling psychologists and other health-care in the United States and Canada. –the globe and mail professionals, show that millennials learn best through

participation and intuition PHOTO BY ANDREW DONOVAN,

50 ualberta.ca/newtrail instead of linear manuals. AUTHOR JASON LEE NORMAN, ’06 BA, TRANSFORMS A They thrive on collaboration flashback CAMPUS MEMORY INTO A WORK OF FLASH FICTION. and trial-and-error. For example, Rubis says, when he’s working with Luo, “we get stuff done. We work through conversations, not necessarily through structured meetings.”

Break power barriers Rubis says that millennials, who’ve grown up with the internet, tend to see the world as more egalitarian than his generation. He encourages this nontraditional attitude by bringing Luo into board meetings and introducing her to people in different positions to “remove the aura of power.”

Tech it up a notch While millennials’ digital savvy can certainly help keep companies trending on social media, that’s not the only technical skill they have. Luo helps Rubis make sure ATB’s live online broadcasts stream smoothly to audiences of up to 1,300 viewers. “She’s so intelligent,” Rubis says of Luo, “she writes code for fun.”

Try new things Rubis says that Luo often comes to him with ideas she gleans from a variety of sources, such as Twitter or podcasts. He mentions the seven-star design principle of Airbnb, in which a host anticipates your ideal holiday and makes provisions. It’s a new model for thinking outside TILTING the box. “I had no idea some I don’t know what Alonso Quixano had inside him that made him go of this was out there,” Rubis mad. I don’t know what made him wake up one morning and put a says of the information Luo uncovered. “I learned to be bedpan on his head, calling himself a knight errant and dragging his poor more fearless and open to old horse out of her comfortable pasture on a warm June day with the experimenting.” cool shade of an olive tree nearby. It may be the very same madness that lives inside me, that made me agree to read a chapter of Don Quixote (in Communicate openly the original Spanish) in front of 100 or so people in honour of the 400th The dissolution of traditional anniversary of its publication. Maybe old Alonso Quixano’s spirit left his mentor roles comes with a body as he charged at those windmills the same way my brain left my steep learning curve on how to communicate. Says Luo, body when the time came to read in front of all those native Spanish “I had to learn not to ask for speakers. Or maybe he would’ve blocked it all out of his memory like I did permission to do what I think and thought the whole experience just a dream. The both of us waking up is right.” Rubis adds, “I learned the next day with the name Dulcinea on the tips of our tongues. how much I didn’t know, and I had to learn to be vulnerable This piece of flash fiction was inspired byJennifer Keys Lavallee, ’06 BA, who still has horrifying flashbacks of

ILLUSTRATION DUSHAN BY MILIC in that regard.” reading Don Quixote out loud in her 400-level Spanish class.

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The Alumni Association notes with sorrow ’51 John Malcolm ’54 William Howard ’59 Peter Holdsworth the passing of the following graduates Asplund, BSc(Ag), ’57 Tye, BCom, of Canmore, Buckley, BSc, of North (based on information received between MSc, of Orem, UT, in AB, in February 2018 York, ON, in March 2018 February 2018 February 2018 and May 2018) ’55 Francis Garfield ’59 Raymond Andrew ’51 Dorothy Mina Anderson, Dip(Ed), ’61 Heller, BSc, of Hamilton, Graham (Eidem), BEd, of Calgary, AB, ON, in August 2017 Dip(Ed), ’54 BEd, in February 2018 of Vernon, BC, in ’59 Ralph March 2018 ’55 Margaret Hildur Wohlgeschaffen, Harms (Lien), BEd, BSc(ChemEng), of ’51 Beatrice Hunter of Calgary, AB, in Calgary, AB, in April 2018 (Cole), BSc(Nu), of March 2018 Edmonton, AB, in March 2018 ’55 Mary Bridget MacMillan, Dip(Ed), 1960S In Memoriam ’51 Everett Ray ’58 Dip(Ed), ’60 BEd, McCrimmon, BSc(Ag), of Vancouver, BC ’60 Margaret Jeanette of Edmonton, AB, in ’49 Helen Newman, of Toronto, ON, in Gilbertson (Evans), ’55 Kenneth Ian February 2018 BSc(HEc), of Edmonton, February 2018 Dip(Nu), ’61 BSc(Nu), Morrison, BSc(CivEng), 1930S AB, in March 2018 of Calgary, AB, in ’48 Thelma Elizabeth ’51 Alexander Baillie of Campbell River, February 2018 ’39 ’Marian Kathleen Irvine (MacKenzie), ’49 Norman Leslie Reid, Morrison, BSc(Ag), ’52 BC, in January 2018 Corday (Lipkind), BSc, Dip(Nu), ’49 BSc(Nu), BSc(CivEng), ’51 MSc, of MSc, of Bountiful, UT, ’60 Marjory Edith ’56 Evangeline Elizabeth ’40 MSc, of Los Angeles, of Coldstream, BC, Sidney, BC, in April 2018 in February 2018 Hanley (Miller), Campbell (McArthur), CA, in May 2018 in March 2018 Dip(Nu), of Calgary, ’51 Richard Gordon BA, of Ottawa, ON, AB, in May 2018 ’48 Murray Frank Wheatley, BA, ’54 in January 2018 ’60 Smith, BEd, ’74 PhD, LLB, of St. Albert, Gina Mabel Myhre 1950S ’56 Hal Mackenzie (Johnson), BEd, of of Edmonton, AB, in AB, in March 2018 1940S Freeman, MD, of February 2018 ’50 Donald McLennan Edmonton, AB, in ’43 Esther R. Williams Black, BSc(Ag), of ’52 Ralph Morley Miller, New York, NY February 2018 (Anderson), BSc(HEc), ’48 Mary Van Alstine Calgary, AB, in BA, ’58 MA, of Calgary, ’56 Donald Alan ’60 of Camrose, AB, in (Greer), Dip(Nu), ’49 AB, in March 2018 Lois Dorothy January 2018 MacGregor, BA, of January 2018 BSc(Nu), of Victoria, Naundorf, Dip(RM), ’52 Minerva Carolynne Edmonton, AB, in BC, in May 2018 ’50 John Sidney of Queensville, ON, ’45 Barbara June Cox Forge, Dip(Ed), ’50 Purnell (Johnson), March 2018 in November 2017 (Causgrove), Dip(Nu), ’46 ’49 Reginald Edward BEd, of Sidney, BC, Dip(Ed), of Cardston, ’56 Orvall Kenneth Roer, ’60 , Dip(PHNu), of Qualicum Bailey, BSc(CivEng), AB, in November 2017 Ralph Carl Wirsig in February 2018 BSc(Pharm), of Victoria, Beach, BC, in April 2018 of Edmonton, AB, in BSc(MechEng), of Perth ’52 David Ernest Ritchie, BC, in March 2018 February 2018 ’50 Louis Anthony Hague, Road, ON, in March 2018 ’45 Joyce Elaine DDS, of West Vancouver, BSc(Pharm), of Calgary, ’56 Elizabeth Ann Rose, ’61 David Bowlby Robson, Hagg (Christensen), ’49 Evelyn Mae Brown BC, in March 2018 AB, in February 2018 Dip(Nu), of Edmonton, BSc(ElecEng), of Calgary, Dip(Nu), of Calgary, (Dennis), BSc, of Calgary, ’52 Walter Stanley AB, in March 2018 AB, in February 2018 AB, in October 2017 ’50 Edythe Elaine Kinzel AB, in April 2018 (Code), BSc(Pharm), Scott, BSc(CivEng), ’56 John Carl Zaparinuk, ’61 Alan John Rolfe, ’45 Doris Elizabeth ’49 Clifford Ryerson of Regina, SK, in of Penticton, BC, in DDS, of Victoria, BSc(ElecEng), of Pimm (Tanner), Driver, BEd, ’68 Dip(Ed), December 2017 December 2017 BC, in May 2018 BSc(HEc), of Edmonton, of Edmonton, AB, in Alexandria, VA, ’52 Betty Wordie, in April 2018 AB, in January 2018 September 2017 ’50 Clark Thomas Leavitt, ’57 Muriel Pamela Loney, BA, ’54 MD, of Calgary, BSc, of Victoria, BC, Dip(Ed), of Victoria, ’61 ’47 Janet Esther Bentley, ’49 William John Harvie, in January 2018 Alonso Margaret AB, in April 2018 BC, in March 2018 BA, of Edmonton, BSc, ’55 LLB, of Calgary, Rose Tascon, Dip(Arts), ’53 Ivo Giovanni Dalla ’63 Dip(Arts), of Encino, AB, in March 2018 AB, in February 2018 ’50 Dalton Carson ’57 Maureen Kathleen Lana, MSc, of Edmonton, CA, in February 2018 MacWilliams, BSc, O’Sullivan, Dip(Nu), ’69 ’47 Waunita Merritt Ellis ’49 Alice Elizabeth of Beaverton, OR, AB, in March 2018 BSc(Nu), of Provost, ’61 (Fizzell), BA, of Burnaby, Henbest, BA, of Peter Gerhard in March 2018 ’53 Gerald Oscar AB, in February 2018 BC, in April 2018 Edmonton, AB, in Thede, BSc(ElecEng), Lundgren, BSc(Pharm), of Edmonton, AB, in February 2018 ’50 Kathleen Patricia ’57 Patricia Eleanor ’47 Muriel Eva Hole, of Victoria, BC, in February 2018 Schlosser (Scott), Simonds, MD, of Dip(Nu), ’48 BSc(Nu), ’49 James Rutherford BSc(HEc), of Edmonton, January 2018 Edmonton, AB, in ’62 of Edmonton, AB, Hume, BSc(MiningEng), Bernice Gertrude AB, in February 2018 ’53 William Robert December 2017 in April 2018 of Calgary, AB, in Beres (Coward), BPE, of Prunkl, Dip(Ed), ’56 BEd, Sooke, BC, in March 2018 April 2018 ’50 Lorna Ethyle ’58 Clare James Drake, ’47 Patricia A. Thorpe, Simmonds, BEd, ’64 BA, of Edmonton, BEd, ’95 LLD (Honorary), ’62 Guenter Wilhelm BSc(Nu), of Ottawa, ’49 Kenneth Herbert of Nelson, BC, in AB, in February 2018 of Edmonton, AB, , BSc(Ag), ’67 ON, in May 2018 Hutchings, BSc(Ag), Riedel March 2018 ’53 Helen Vera Raby, in May 2018 of Edmonton, AB, PhD, of Ottawa, ON, ’47 Lois Patricia BA, of Calgary, AB, in February 2018 in April 2018 ’50 Eira Tydfil Spaner ’58 Frank Walter King, Verchomin (Nichols), (Jones), BEd, ’85 in April 2018 BSc(ChemEng), of ’64 Joan M. Harvey Dip(Ed), ’49 BEd, ’49 Kathleen Marjorie PostgradDip, of ’54 Solomon Berg, BSc, Calgary, AB, in May 2018 (Jackson), BA, of of Victoria, BC, in Lae (Taylor), Dip(Nu), Edmonton, AB, ’56 MD, of Brookline, Halfmoon Bay, BC, January 2018 of Burnaby, BC, in April 2018 ’58 Florence Irene McKie MA, in February 2018 in February 2018 in April 2018 (Danyluk), BEd, ’63 MEd, ’48 Samuel Belzberg, ’50 Richard Edward ’54 Wesley Percy Eddy, ’85 PhD, of Edmonton, ’64 William Henry Jones, BCom, of Vancouver, ’49 George Wright Taylor, BSc, ’52 MSc, BEd, ’57 BA, ’62 MEd, AB, in April 2018 BSc(CivEng), ’68 MEng, BC, in March 2018 MacKintosh, BCom, ’91 DSc (Honorary), ’68 PhD, of Lacombe, of Sturgeon County, of Edmonton, AB, of Stanford, CA, in ’59 Ernest Matthew ’48 Marshall John AB, in March 2018 AB, in February 2018 Dolinsky, BSc(CivEng), in April 2018 February 2018 Braithwaite, BCom, of Surrey, BC, in March 2018

52 ualberta.ca/newtrail ’64 Wally Arthur ’69 Wayne Berlinguette, ’72 Marlene Loraine ’75 Brian August Yahn, of Edmonton, AB, ’98 Gloria Hsi, BSc, ’06 Sherwin, BCom, of BA, ’71 BEd, of Cold Ewaniuk (Lazaruk), BCom, of Edmonton, in March 2018 PhD, of Vancouver, Mississauga, ON, Lake, AB, in July 2017 BEd, of Keremeos, AB, in February 2018 BC, in January 2018 in March 2018 BC, in January 2018 ’81 Ralph Leroy ’69 Marjorie Luella ’76 Bryan Alfred Hiebert, Bergquist, Dip(Ed), of ’98 Tamye Dunbar ’64 Geoffrey Allen Goodwin, BEd, of Sidney, ’72 Wayne Emerson MEd, ’79 PhD, of Victoria, Brightsand Lake, SK, (Vansickle), BEd, of Smith, BEd, ’65 MEd, BC, in February 2018 Roberts, BSc, ’75 MSc, of BC, in March 2018 in February 2018 Sherwood Park, AB, of Englewood, FL, Elnora, AB, in March 2018 in March 2018 in March 2018 ’69 Wayne Allan Heth, ’76 Timothy Kevin ’81 Joanne Hannah BSc(CivEng), of Calgary, ’72 Joseph Ulan, BEd, McGillicuddy, BCom, Graham (Bell), BSc(HEc), ’65 John Gary Langford, AB, in January 2018 of Mundare, AB, in of Edmonton, AB, in of Edmonton, AB, in BSc(Pharm), of St. February 2018 February 2018 November 2017 ’69 Halyna Oksana 2000S Albert, AB, in April 2018 Horbay, BA, ’72 LLB, ’73 David Charles ’77 Neil William ’82 Joseph Neil MacNeil, ’00 Matthew Alexander ’66 James Neill Bishop, of Edmonton, AB, in Christophel, Dunwald, BA, ’79 LLD (Honorary), of McElwaine, BSc(CivEng), BSc, of Brampton, ON, February 2018 PhD, of Adelaide, MA, of Edmonton, Edmonton, AB, in of Sherwood Park, in February 2018 South Australia, in AB, in March 2018 February 2018 AB, in May 2018 ’69 Robert George January 2018 ’66 Anthony H. Marinus Leinweber, BEd, ’72 ’77 Gertrude Esther ’82 Lorie Marie ’04 Dina-Maria Glanz, Vander Voet, BSc, ’67 MEd, of Calgary, AB, ’73 Carmen Rose Emmott Kadatz (Handke), McArthur (Yakimishyn), BCom, of Edmonton, MSc, of Brampton, in March 2018 (Barbeau), BA, ’75 BEd, of Kelowna, BC, BA, ’84 MLS, of AB, in March 2018 ON, in April 2018 Dip(Ed), of Vancouver, in March 2018 Edmonton, AB, in ’69 Patricia Margaret BC, in January 2018 January 2018 ’06 John Nello Campacci, ’67 Richard Edwin Ness, Dip(Nu), ’82 BEd, ’77 Robert Joseph BA, of Calgary, AB, Anderson, BEd, ’69 ’92 MEd, of Edmonton, ’73 Gary Allen Gahr, Rosen, BMus, of Ottawa, ’82 Vern Basil in May 2018 Dip(Ed), ’73 MEd, AB, in February 2018 BA(Spec), ’79 MA, ON, in March 2018 Yakimishyn, BA, of of Edmonton, AB, of Surrey, BC, in Edmonton, AB, in ’08 Andrea Elise Kokotilo, in April 2018 ’69 Edward William November 2017 ’77 Stanislaw February 2018 BA, ’13 MD, of Edmonton, M. Robinson, BEd, Szynkowski, BFA, AB, in April 2018 ’67 Howard Vergil of Edmonton, AB, ’73 Donald James Hunt, of Edmonton, AB, ’83 Malcolm Stanton Olson, BA(Hons), ’70 in April 2018 BCom, of Edmonton, in May 2018 McKenzie, BSc(Nu), MA, of Holden, AB, AB, in December 2017 of Edmonton, AB, in January 2018 ’78 Alta Darlene Ball in March 2018 2010S ’73 Bill Johnston, (Spaerman), BSc, of ’67 Reiner Felix Sattler, 1970S BSc(Med), ’75 MD, of Grande Prairie, AB, ’86 Heather Elizabeth ’12 Sage Dorienne Lowry, BEd, of Cochrane, Edmonton, AB, in in April 2018 Austin, BA, of Edmonton, BSc(Nu), of Millarville, AB, in May 2018 ’70 John Bradshaw, February 2018 AB, in January 2018 AB, in April 2018 BA(Hons), of Sandy, ’78 Dolores Camille ’67 Margaret Theresa UT, in May 2018 ’74 Susan Janet Brydges, Hetu, MA, of Vancouver, ’86 Marcus Alphonsus Stevenson (McPhee), BSc, of Edmonton, BC, in January 2018 Walsh, BA, of Edmonton, BEd, ’69 MEd, ’95 ’70 Benjamin Bachmann, AB, in January 2018 AB, in March 2018 PhD, of Edmonton, Dip(Ed), of Vermilion, ’78 Keith Brian Janke, AB, in May 2018 AB, in December 2017 ’74 James Simon Groot, BSc, of Edmonton, ’88 Maria Pastuszenko, DDS, of St. Albert, AB, in March 2018 BEd, of Edmonton, ’67 Marilyn Gladys ’70 Rose Lillian Mandelin, AB, in May 2018 AB, in April 2018 Watt, BEd, of Calgary, BEd, of Edmonton, AB, ’78 Alan Wesley R. AB, in December 2017 in February 2018 ’74 Roy Masahiro McGee, BA, ’80 BCom, ’89 Blain Ray Banick, BA, Nagata, BEd, of Calgary, of Edmonton, AB, in ’96 MBA, of Arlington, ’67 Peter W. Witherly, ’70 Bryan Martin AB, in April 2018 February 2018 VA, in January 2018 BEd, ’71 MEd, of Saboe, BEd, ’73 BA, ’99 Prince Rupert, BC, Dip(Ed), of Knoxville, ’74 Alan Herbert Parsons, ’79 William Frederick ’89 Jocelyn Anne in February 2018 IA, in March 2018 BCom, of Edmonton, Eckert, BSc(MechEng), Frazer, LLB, of Calgary, AB, in March 2018 ’92 PhD, of Calgary, AB, in April 2018 ’67 Joseph Peter Yurkiw, ’70 Gertrude Joan Toews, AB, in January 2018 BEd, ’72 BA, of St. Albert, BSc, ’72 MD, of Rossland, ’74 Georgina May AB, in February 2018 AB, in January 2018 Smith (Hibbert), ’79 Janet Louise Small BEd, of St. Albert, AB, (Gibson), BEd, of Calgary, 1990S ’68 Hilton Gregory ’71 Herbert Bruce Jeffery, in February 2018 AB, in January 2018 S. Banfield, MA, of PhD, of Edmonton, ’90 Jarrad Daniel Edmonton, AB, in AB, in January 2018 ’75 Gregory John Friedenberger, BSc, ’93 January 2018 Barnes, BSc(ElecEng), BCom, of St. Albert, ’71 Cheryl Mary Schuh of Edmonton, AB, 1980S AB, in April 2018 ’68 Lee H. Bradshaw, (Middlemass), Dip(Nu), in January 2018 BEd, of Kelowna, ’77 BCom, of Edmonton, ’80 Noel Harvey Boag, ’91 Desmond Scott, BC, in May 2018 AB, in April 2018 ’75 Lorne Wallace PhD, of Lake Wendouree, BA, of Morinville, AB, Dalrymple, BEd, of Victoria, Australia, in February 2018 ’68 Lawrence Edward ’71 Witold Stanislaw Calgary, AB, in May 2018 in February 2018 Dunn, BSc(Ag), ’71 Swianiewicz, BEd, of ’92 Helen Ai-Jung Chung, LLB, of Calgary, AB, Calgary, AB, in April 2018 ’75 Thomas Joseph ’80 Clarke Edmund Dip(Ed), of Edmonton, in March 2018 Keller, BEd, of Three Gould, BA, ’81 AB, in February 2018 ’71 Robert Gerald Hills, AB, in March 2018 SpecCert(Arts), of ’68 William Patrick Wilding, MBA, of Edmonton, AB, ’92 Lee Marvin ’75 Carole Dianne Hrudey, MD, of Cayman Sault Ste. Marie, in April 2018 Haroldson, BEd, of ON, in April 2018 Little, BSc(Nu), ’91 Wetaskiwin, AB, in Islands, in February 2018 If you’ve lost a loved one MEd, of Edmonton, ’80 Renu Khullar, BSc, ’81 March 2018 who graduated from the ’68 Ronald Alexander ’72 Hugh William AB, in March 2018 SpecCert(Sc), ’86 MD, of University of Alberta, Shaw, BSc(ChemEng), Campbell, BEd, of Ottawa, ON, in May 2018 ’94 Byron Richard of Calgary, AB, in Edmonton, AB, ’75 Donna Mae Hinton, MBA, of Victoria, contact alumni records December 2017 in May 2018 Mah (Lafont), BA, ’80 Mark Stephen BC, in March 2018 at [email protected], of Edmonton, AB, McIlveen, BCom, 780-492-3471 or in April 2018 1-866-492-7516.

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Retirement is like a trip to Vegas: if you don’t plan ahead, you’ll wind up with an empty bank account and some novel health problems. In other words, neglect retirement @gypsysoul_t: Thanks planning for too long and you’ll Professor Räni‑Villem turn your golden years into Palo for the inspiring leaden ones. So pay attention @uofa_augustana Last to Jim Yih, ’91 BCom, retirement Lecture! It was such a guru and founder of the Retire privilege to be part of Happy blog. He shared tips at your literal last lecture of an Edmonton alumni event: your professional career.

START NOW: Yih recommends trina harrison, ’03 ba making a serious effort to put away 10 per cent of your gross income, starting as soon as yourself. “Nobody cares more account, which earns little possible. The longer you wait, than you about your money or interest. He says a bit of risk is the more you’ll have to cut back. your retirement,” Yih says. important — he recommends DON’T MISS OUT ON … 20 per cent of the money you’ve COVER YOUR BUTT: Don’t DO SOME, NOT ALL: earmarked for retirement be set just focus on income and Mortgage, life insurance, debt, aside for riskier investment. investments, Yih says. “It’s savings, emergency fund — it’s SWITCHBOARD important to protect ourselves impossible to do it all at one DON’T IGNORE HAPPINESS: Tap into your alumni network from curveballs.” The tools to time. Yih recommends focusing You save money to have a for career advice, mentorship have at hand? Life insurance, on the two or three areas most successful retirement. “But or more with Switchboard. This a will, a power of attorney and important to you now. Paying the lifestyle component is newly launched program for U of A a personal directive, naming down credit card debt is a great massively important,” Yih says. alumni offers a career forum where someone to make decisions way to start. “The busiest retirees are the you can ask questions, offer help or if you can’t. most successful ones, not the simply connect with other alumni TAKE A RISK: Losing money on ones with most money.” in your field. Visit uab.ca/sboard to DON’T LEAVE IT TO THE the stock market isn’t fun. But get started or check out the alumni PROS: The world of finance is Yih says this reasonable fear can Jim Yih is one of many speakers careers page for more ways to give intimidating, but pay attention drive people to unreasonable who share their expertise at your career a boost. to your money anyway. It’s actions, like keeping all alumni events. Watch for more never been easier to educate their money in a savings great events in Alumni Insider.

EVENT WISDOM “The excitement was like that for the iPhone, and for the people there the 64 technological advances Events taking place were amazing.” across all campuses during Alumni Weekend, Sept. 21-24. Ted Bishop, ’72 BA(Hons), on the 1945 uab.ca/aw2018 launch of the “miracle pen” that carried Stress-busting postcards delivered to students its own inkwell. The author of The Social during the winter 2018 semester. Alumni filled out Life of Ink shared the secrets of ink with these postcards with notes of encouragement, study alumni at events in Toronto, Ottawa 1,018 tips, jokes and more. ualberta.ca/alumni/volunteer and New York City earlier this year. TOP LEFT PHOTO THINKSTOCK 54 ualberta.ca/newtrail Sign Up for Alumni Insider Get the most current alumni-exclusive event invitations, discounts and benefits delivered straight to your inbox. uab.ca/insider

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Registration Woes Ah, registration. Get alumni together and eventually the conversation will turn to their experiences signing up for classes — especially for those who graduated pre-internet, when registration meant standing in line or waiting on the phone. We asked you to share your memories. Find more or share your own at facebook.com/UAlbertaAlumni. remember it! Running between An entire day I still have my last year’s phone- buildings to get the course paper standing in in and schedule page pinned to horrendously the back of the bedroom door of approved by the departments. long lineups in I –Daniel Ma, ’76 BSc my youth. I moved out almost 25 the Butterdome, years ago but my parents have criss-crossing kept it there until today! campus carrying I always felt that, if I could survive the –Leanna Buzak, ’94 BEd, ’08 MEd my two-inch-thick registration process, the degree itself course guide to should be no problem! get signatures –Jerry Iwanus, ’83 BA(Spec), ’86 MA to affirm registration, then doing it all over Well, it was a bit of a headache but what I wouldn’t do to again because relive those days. Oh, to be 18 again. I had to switch –Shauna Heinrichs, ’00 BA, ’09 BEd out one course for another. Years later: logs Early days of Touch-Tone course selection. My family finally got tone dial (upgrade into BearTracks, We only had a rotary phone; I had to go three from pulse) thanks to my impatient selects master’s blocks to the local pay phone. The biggest mother and the automated course system. courses, done. issue was making sure you had everything She got tired of having to go to the one What’s not to like? Touch-Tone phone we had, call in, then you needed and juggling it all in the booth. –Laurie Folliott, switch the phone to tone mode in order –Elaine Nixon, ’95 BA ’88 BEd, ’12 MEd to register courses. She finally marched down to the Telus store (maybe it was still EdTel at the time) to pay the $2 per month. As a recent convert to modems and BBS Oh, I do remember: the lines were systems, I was ecstatic. Thanks, U of A! great social times. Met a lot of people!

–Chris Neuman, ’99 BCom –Charlene Pratt, ’80 BSc(HEc) SIMARD RÉMY BY ILLUSTRATIONS

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