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Canada Post Publications Mail Return undeliverable Canadian Agreement No. 40065040 addresses to: Alumni Office Dalhousie University Halifax NS B3H 3J5 If this were a hockey team, they’d all be forwards. Meet the Dalhousie fundraising team. Play makers. Team players. Leaders. An eclectic group of dedicated professionals with one goal – a stronger Dalhousie. If you haven’t met them yet, you will. Relationship building is forefront on their agenda, every day. For more information or to schedule lunch, give them a call at 1.800.565.9969.

LEFT TO RIGHT, FRONT ROW: Rhonda Harrington, Director of Advancement, Faculty of Medicine; Ann Vessey, Planned Giving Officer; Suzanne Huett, Director, Advancement Strategy; Linda Crockett, Director, Global Gifts; Dawn Ferris, Administrative Assistant; Sharon Gosse, Administrative Assistant. LEFT TO RIGHT, BACK ROW: Rosemary Bulley, Development Officer, Engineering & Computer Science; Mary Lou Crowley, Development Officer, Health Professions; John MacDonald, Director, External Relations, Faculty of Management; Chris Steeves, Development Officer, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences; Diane Chisholm, Development Officer, Law; Jennifer Laurette, Development Officer, Dentistry. Not Pictured: Wendy McGuinness, Director, Planned Giving; Ron Mitton, Sr. Advisor, Corporations & Foundations; Debbie Bright, Adminstrative Assistant DaMAGAZINE l h o u s i e 22Improving the health of our Maritime community

Understanding sleep 18The ‘millennials’ disorders, hearing are coming to an problems and patient office near you safety. Extending the reach of specialists through a The millennial generation bedside robot. Volunteering 10Culture club is beginning to graduate in a developing country with and is heading out into inter-professional health Kidding aside, they’ve got to 14Reading between the labour market in care teams. We’re pleased to be about the most cheerful the lines quantities unheard of since share some highlights from On our cover employees around. Sean the baby boom. Instead Dalhousie Medicine 2007. Aloft is Sean Durfy, President and Durfy, WestJet’s President For a hundred years, readers of fighting for jobs, as in Edited by Betsy Chambers CEO of WestJet, who was a gracious and CEO, was responsible have loved author Lucy years past, there’s a stronger for the “because owners Maud Montgomery’s classic possibility that the jobs host to our photographer and care” advertising campaign. Anne of Green Gables. Now, will be fighting for them. DEPARTMENTS writer during their visit to corporate He more than lives up to it children’s writer Budge by Ryan McNutt FROM THE EDITOR 2 headquarters in Calgary. — he embodies it. Perhaps Wilson has written the (Danny Abriel Photo) that’s why their nickname prequel Before Green Gables CONVOCATION 4 is “BestJet.” and historian Elizabeth by Marilyn Smulders Epperly has described UPFRONT ON CAMPUS 6 the creative process DALUMNI 28 in Imagining Anne. What’s CLASS NOTES 34 been a secret THE BACK STORY 40 between bosom buddies until now is that these writers share the Dalhousie experience. by Marilyn Smulders

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hen she first got the invitation to be our cover ART DIRECTOR model, Karen Beazley tried to beg off. Fran Ornstein MAGAZINE CLASS NOTES/ DALUMNI/ IN MEMORIAM You can’t blame her, really. She was in her office For submissions, contact: Joanne Ward-Jerrett [email protected] BIG PICTURE W — in the Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building — sporting a thinking ADDRESS CHANGES my halifsterax’s owyn massive shiner. Tel: (902) 494-6855 writer fostering 1 (800) 565-9969 the will afghan of the During a trip overseas, she’d fainted at her London hotel, Email: [email protected] people po wer researchhouse for the region bumping her head on a porcelain bathtub. Waking up seconds Alumni Records, Macdonald Building VOL.24 | NO.2 | FALL | 2007 Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5 later, she felt the bump already growing. She’d been home just PRODUCED BY long enough for the bruising to spread and become multi-hued. Dalhousie University Communications and Marketing Creative director Fran Ornstein was merciless about the photo, but offered some compassion. “We’ll bring makeup,” she promised, dispatching photographer Nick Pearce. CONTRIBUTORS Temporarily in charge of a Designer Brian Harrison featured the image on his multi-layered cover to illustrate Marie WestJet 737, at least in their Weeren’s story “Big Picture Thinking.” dreams, are “pilot” Marilyn Smulders and “co-pilot” We were working on a new format under prompting from our boss Jim Danny Abriel. As well as writing Vibert, an advocate of creative risk taking. This cover was an Atlantic Journalism the profile of Sean Durfy for this issue, 2 Award finalist, offering a chance to celebrate the hands and hearts and minds Marilyn discovered the strange connection between that shape the magazine. This same edition — the first expanded and Budge Wilson and Lucy Maud Montgomery. redesigned university magazine — earned a national gold Prix d’Excellence At 25, Ryan McNutt is the youngest member of the Communications and Marketing award from the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education. team but an older member of the millennial generation. He’s called upon to speak for

M A G A Z I N E It all comes back to seeing and hearing from you. This time, we profile the high- his generation regularly enough that he

| figured he’d best do some research before flying Sean Durfy, who leads WestJet and cheers his university on from Calgary. answering with any authority. His article exploring ‘Gen Y’ was aided greatly by Don (See “Culture Club”, Page 11). We’ll pursue a literary thread uniting alumnae Lucy Christie of Dalhousie’s Career Services Centre, who Maud Montgomery, Budge Wilson and Elizabeth Epperly. (See “Reading between provided countless contacts and background research. Improving the health of our Maritime community, which the lines,” Page 15). Our focus on research continues with the Dalhousie Faculty of contains capsules of selected articles in the current issue DALHOUSIEMedicine. (See “Improving the Health of our Maritime Community,”Page 22). It’s a of Dalhousie Medicine, was prepared in consultation with Dalhousie Medicine’s editor, Betsy Chambers, from stories pleasure to recognize our 2,800 newest alumni. (See “Facing the future,” Page 4). by Melanie Jollymore and Betsy Chambers. The ‘millennial’ generation faces the brightest career prospects in decades. (See Brian Harrison, a partner with Halifax-based Trivium Design, continues to guide the evolution of our new design. “Turning Ideals into Reality,” Page 18). Thanks to all who are willing to share Welcome to Debora Jewitt who has joined Creative Services their lives with us and who, one by one, are telling the Dalhousie story. and handles photography arrangements. Thanks to Jane Lombard for production coordination and Marla Cranston After all, it’s unanimous that Karen Beazley is a particularly for answering proofreading requests.

good sport. And in the end, what matters most is how her Billy Comeau hails from Clare, N.S. He seems to be enjoying his internship with qualities of scholarship and leadership shine. Communications and Marketing, following “I got lots of comments on that magazine cover,” says Dr. Beazley, his program in Public Relations at the Nova Scotia Community College. Billy laughing. “I always ask, ‘Can you tell that I had a shiner?’ And nobody contributed a number of stories for different sections of the magazine. knew! That’s what you guys can do when you all get together.”

DALHOUSIE MAGAZINE appears three times a year. Editorial deadline for the next issue is August 6, 2008. Photo: Danny Abriel Danny Photo: Guestview

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t’s hard to believe four years have passed since I was a fresh-faced first-year, joining other Jessica Wishart is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed new students on what was perceived by some as exciting, by graduating with the Iothers as a terrifying new adventure. Whatever our initial sentiments, most will agree (at Class of 2008. the risk of sounding cliché), that although we may be broke financially, we leave this experience enriched with more than just a piece of paper. Though I am a Haligonian, scholarship funds enabled me to stay in residence at first. This allowed me to become more involved in student life both socially and academically and to enjoy perks such as ‘bedhead chic’ from rolling out of bed 15 minutes before classes. Despite feeling a little shell-shocked adjusting from a fairly slack high school career to what I exaggerated as an endless onslaught of homework, I quickly adjusted to self-structuring. I will admit more independent study led to a few coffee–fuelled all-nighters, but it was this flexibility that I enjoyed most about university life. Studying international development allowed me the freedom to explore history, philosophy, environmental issues and economics. I was relieved by the ability to structure classes around my interests, favourite profs and schedule (spending hours 3 SPRING ...a large school with the in search of the elusive three- day weekend). I was also able

intimacy of a small school... to combine the facilities and | selection of a large school with the intimacy of a small school by remaining an official King’s 2008 student while taking all my classes at Dal. With Dal’s financial and academic support, I attended UN Climate Change Conferences in Kenya and Indonesia, reinforcing my belief in the value of education beyond the classroom. I was able to apply what I learned in class to real-world situations. I appreciate that Dal recognizes the importance of out-of-class education and personal development. This recognition is apparent in the many study abroad programs at Dal. I used language study as an opportunity to spend a summer in Spain on exchange. Immersing myself in Spanish food, drink, culture and history only amplified my desire to study the language upon my return. Education outside the classroom didn’t just come through world travel. It also came from attending Dal-sponsored lectures and getting involved in university events, societies and sports. This involvement can beef up your resumé, expand your mind and social circle, and may even score you a date for Friday night. Whether grabbing a beer at the Grad House following a lecture, breaking a sweat at Dalplex, or having a breakdown in the library, these past four years have been a wild ride and I’m not ready to get off anytime soon. The real world can wait. I’ve gotten used to the university lifestyle. Master’s here I come! DALHOUSIE | MAGAZINE 4 F Welcome follow,” said Mr. Fountain. your roots, blossoms will their journeys take them. in their hearts wherever Dalhousie and Nova Scotia be a part of you,” by keeping them to continue “to let Dal day.” He also encouraged to enjoy being “a star for a Mr. Fountain urged graduates Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, black-gowned at sea the and avelvet birretum. trimmed with gold braid black brocade gown lavishly May, looking regal a in at spring convocation in Dalhousie’s sixth chancellor attend many, many more. 2000—andin he’s about to honorary degree recipient as a law grad in 1974 and an over the years at Dalhousie— few convocation ceremonies red Fountain has attended a Convocation “If you take care of In his speech to the He made his debut as about thisfineinstitution.” he said. “I’m passionate to become your chancellor,” support Dalhousie. of Fountain’s generous Fredof and Elizabeth named appreciation in wing, Fountain House, is Foundation. The residence Medical Research a director Dalhousie of Managementof and as to Dalhousie’s Faculty boardchair the advisory of continues to serve as the from 1990to 1999and Governors at Dalhousie He sat on the Board of long and distinguished. Dalhousiewith has been Mr. Fountain’s association Dalhousie University. degrees from Acadia and educator” also had honorary degree. The “entrepreneurial firstpeople to acquirethe University—one the of and his MBA from Boston from Acadia University went on to get his BA old. Sheldon Fountain when he was just 17years one-room schoolhouse through to Grade a 12in Fountain taught primary Island, N.B., where the elder in Wolfville, N.S. to Deer his father from their home travelling as aboy with his late father. He recalled his love learning from of late 2006at the age 92. of Fountain passed away in shared in the day: Sheldon wished his father could have Marjorie Fountain. He said he Katharine and his mother, two children Alexander and Mr. Fountain’s wife Elizabeth, “I amdeeplyhonored A dedicated volunteer, Mr. Fountain inherited Looking on proudly were 2008

Photo: Nick Pearce other countries. approaches usedin Canada’s developments with in Canada. She contrasts of renewable electricity for greater penetration examines the policy needs Administration. Her research Science and Public degree in Environmental an interdisciplinary doctoral N.S. her hometown Grafton, of grid, strawbale cottage near she’s building been an off- marketenergy Canada, in transform the renewable she’s not examining how to they are her life’s work. When many but for Judith Lipp change are top mind for of Global warming and climate Graduate Studies of2008 Class New beginnings:

Ms. Lipp is completing

Cooperative. Cooperative. Toronto Renewable Energy executive director the with Lipp’s next role will be as factors.and social Ms. including environmental Scotia’s current mix, energy assessed cost the full Nova of and Oxford University. She Energy, Pollution Probe Scotia Department of consulted by the Nova home using turbines.” wind systems or powering your energy, hot water heating bigger solutions —solar changes, then look to the the small but important footprint. When you’ve made can do to reduce our energy are small things that we all auditdo an energy —these around windows and doors, up the heat, carpool, caulk sweater instead turning of Canadain today. energy development the barriers to renewable policies, by identifying to play in legislating green the role governments need Ms. Lipp has investigated and we need to do it fast.” how we each use energy impact we need to change we are going to make an European countries. If times as much energy as She has been “Walk more, put on a “Canada uses three Keri Irwin

Network. Keri Irwin Aboriginal Peoples Television career working goalof for the programArts afuture with enrolled the in Bachelor of returning be the in fall,will advanced studies. Ms. Lee explore through her passion further she will class and tutorial — a writing through her English discovered apassion for extremelysupportive.” professors are and staff new perspectives and the she says. “I’m exploring shifted my thinking,” studies course. Scotians through the black Indigenousof Black Nova program and the history through the Native Studies history of her culture learning about the true work).social is completing her degree in mother and her sister (who thein footsteps her of program at Dal. She follows her family to complete the Lee is the third member of student, Lee. Carrie Ms. Transition Year Program It’s afamily affair for Continuing Education College of Photo: Nick Pearce

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Community It all started here There’s a curious connection leaders join the between Scotiabank and celebrations Dalhousie, both among Dalhousie recognized the earliest organizations leadership and community established in the province. contributions with honorary Originally, Dalhousie degrees for: Robert Gillespie, a College was situated senior executive in the global downtown on Halifax’s consumer goods industry; grand parade. The Bank of Stuart Hamilton, opera voice Nova Scotia was looking for coach and broadcaster; a central business location. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Two rooms in the college innovative and ‘green’ urban were rented by the bank’s landscape architect; Richard board for 50 pounds a year Seewald, researcher focusing starting on May 31, 1832, on child-friendly hearing aids; And, they’re healthy too states The Scotiabank Story, Farewell and Matthew Warren Spence, John Bragg understands the A History of the Bank of Nova physician and internationally true nature of success. The Scotia, 1932-1982. Over his six years as Dalhousie chancellor, recognized health research President and Chairman Shortly afterward, the Richard Goldbloom estimates he’s been to visionary. of Oxford Frozen Foods entire building was converted 100 convocation ceremonies and sent 25,000 developed his company from into a cholera hospital. Dalhousie graduates out into the world. Sable Island is her home a local, family run business By July, the bank rented a There have been many special moments. There Wild horses couldn’t drag Zoe to nothing short of a global stone house at the corner of was the time a graduate-cum-magician made Dr. Lucas away from Sable Island. phenomenon. Oxford Frozen Granville and Duke streets. Goldbloom’s toonie disappear, then pulled it from But they certainly lured Foods has grown into an Now there’s another behind his ear. Or when his granddaughter, Ellen her to the remote, windswept international industry connection between Goldbloom, graduated from Dalhousie Medical School isle for a fascinating lifetime leader, specializing in wild Dalhousie and Scotiabank. and later became the family’s fourth generation of biological research and blueberries. Brian Porter, executive pediatrician. He’s greeted international students in environmental monitoring. Mr. Bragg’s business vice-president and chief their own language—offering a “ni hao,” hello in 5 SPRING Following her first visit in acumen has extended risk officer of Scotiabank, is Mandarin or “sabbah-el-khair,” good morning in 1971, Ms. Lucas landed to other entrepreneurial receiving an honorary degree Arabic—and been rewarded with surprised giggles. a job with a seal research pursuits, including the from his alma mater. And then there was the time he noticed one

program in Dalhousie’s Eastlink communications Amid a demanding older-than-average graduate on a cellphone while he | psychology department. By and entertainment company. career as one of Canada’s waited for the dean to call his name. Dr. Goldbloom 2008 the mid-1980s, she moved His entrepreneurial success top banking executives, Mr. thought the man was rude until he realized that he permanently to Sable, located is balanced with a strong Porter always makes time was talking to his elderly mother in British Columbia 160 kilometres off the commitment to community, for his community. His who couldn’t be part of the ceremony. As the man province’s southeast coast. higher education and management experience knelt before him to be capped, Dr. Goldbloom asked Now a research associate philanthropic causes, brings leadership and if he could call the man’s 85-year-old mother and with the Nova Scotia Museum, particularly higher education. wisdom to a variety of then proceeded to chat with her from centre stage. Ms. Lucas continues to study In recognition of his support, important causes and “As chancellor, you really write your own job the horses, seals and other the Marion McCain Arts charities. A commerce description,” says Dr. Goldbloom, 83, who resolved to talk wildlife in their unique and Social Sciences Building grad, he is on the to each and every student who walked across the Rebecca habitat. She monitors the includes a room named in Faculty of Management Cohn stage. He asks about hometowns, future plans and beaches for sea litter and honor of the Bragg family. Advisory Board. the highs and lows of their time spent at Dalhousie. oil-contaminated birds, and Dawn Morrison “I remember one young woman groaning conducts environmental when I asked what her plans were: ‘Oh don’t ask impact studies for the me that,’ she tells me, ‘I just got out of bed.’ offshore energy industry. Her work has appeared in many scientific journals and she is well-known for public education. Marla Cranston Photo: Nick Pearce Nick Photo: DALHOUSIE | MAGAZINE 6 Tom Traves. needs,” says President at least into part in space the strategic goals translate break them down, most of financial stability. “If you support and continued advancement fundraising of human resources, the the development excellent of an increase enrolment, in enriched student experience, research excellence, an enhanced academic and Facilities Management. assistant vice-president of goals,” align with Dalhousie’s strategic shouldgrowthe campus to clear, concise version ofhow to come. development for years for the university’s physical to provide clear direction campus planning process Dalhousie a is beginning things to come The shapeof Upfront Those goals include university needsa “The says Jeff Lamb,

Mary SomersMary plan place in by 2009. fall have amaster campus Environmental Design.) Leadership and Energy in certified. (LEED stands for LEED-designedbe and on campus have will to builtis that everything the opportunitiesOne of at more than $200million. maintenance—estimated issue deferred of a master plan is the dealt developing in with issues that must be and neighbours. students, faculty, staff out carried be with will team. Public consultation committee and aplanning team, up setting asteering aconsulting hiring with oncampus Mr. Lamb hopes to the toughOne of The process begins

Photo: Nick Pearce the coolest job the in world.” Wishes come true and thinking thatand thinking would be VP Student Life at the time I remember meeting the meet alot people, of and Nova Scotia. “I got to native Cole of Harbour, very scared,”very admits the shy on my first day, and Courtney Larkin Larkin Courtney “I was extremely Week. Week. recalls her most Orientation memorable hesitation: moment at without Dalhousie Ryan McNutt stuff, which Ireally enjoy.” and it’stime alot creative of do group projects the all my program,” she says. “We management degree. “I love her to work toward a entrepreneurship inspired was probably 12.” want to gohere,’” shesays. “I Cohn,Rebecca andthinking ‘I atshows the orperformances age than most. “Iremember Dalhousian at afar younger who declared a herself It’s afitting role for a student herelecting DSU president. promoted Ms. Larkin, Shelter.Animal $4,000 for the Bide Awhile that Ball Charity raised Orientation Week, and a the James Bond-themed responsible for organizing special events planner was spirit on campus. The to increaseactivities student Student Union, organizing the job Dalhousievery with Ms. held Larkin down that A course in Students have Four years later, 7 SPRING | 2008

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It’s been a son’s dilemma that’s fascinated people worldwide: What should Dmitri Nabokov do with his father Vladimir Nabokov’s unfinished last novel, languishing these past 30 years in a Swiss bank vault? Should he burn the manuscript for The Original Weighing in of Laura—as were his express deathbed instructions—or on poutine Next, he wrote a publish it? The controversy newspaper column about was recently taken up on hospitals and junk food the pages of The Times. offerings that prompted Save it, argued novelist John discussions from Simon Banville. Burn it, decreed Tom 8 When Halifax’s Citadel Fraser University to Stoppard. High School banned junk the University of New The editor of a new food in favour of healthier Brunswick. Toronto blogger Dalhousie academic journal, cafeteria fare, some students and physician Yoni Freedhoff Nabokov Online Journal, crossed the road to get their described him as “… an stepped right in the middle

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restaurant that served them using his voice.” journal obtained an exclusive the fries, burgers and pop Dr. Stevenson says interview with Dmitri in that they craved — it was a there has been amazing January and posed the burn- hospital cafeteria. support at the QEII, with an or-not-to-burn question. This got Dr. Rob open dialogue established Just hours before the 2008 DALHOUSIE Stevenson thinking about with the administration edition of the journal was to the cafeteria’s poutine, a as they work together to be deployed on April 23rd, mélange of French fries and find a way forward. “Public Nabokov’s birthday, professor cheese curds, smothered in Health and the Department Yuri Leving was able to gravy. Why would a hospital of Health Promotion and update the story with Dmitri’s serve poutine? Prevention have also been definitive answer. Dr. Stevenson, a very helpful,” he says. “I have toyed with the idea cardiology resident with “Change happens in … of being an obedient son Dalhousie Medical School, an instant,” he adds. “Every and destroying the manuscript. and a group of colleagues day is the perfect day to stop On the other hand wouldn’t it from the hospital crossed serving fries and doughnuts.” be fun, before my time does the same road to check Dawn Morrison run out, to have a last spin in a out the high school’s healthy remaining Ferrari or in my fast offerings. 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The company recently underwent an expansion expansion an underwent recently company The more the all is growth managed carefully WestJet’s Top five in the world—isn’t that overreaching? Just Just overreaching? that world—isn’t the in five Top continued on p.12 low-cost carrier has 74 Boeing next-generation 737s, 737s, carrier 74 Boeing has next-generation low-cost million 11.9 to host played has and people 7,000 employs lingo. WestJet in “guests,” 27 to flies now it Vacations; WestJet of launch the with seven and States United the in 12 Canada, in destinations Mexico; Mazatlan, including Caribbean, in the hotspots Bahamas. in the Nassau and Jamaica; Bay, Montego the plagued that’s turbulence the considering impressive and security the including years, recent in business airline WestJet Indeed, 9/11. of wake the in raised concerns safety low-cost other many when thrived and Jetsgo survived has CanJet, Royal, Air, Roots Air, airlines—Greyhound took never profits when grounded 3000—were Canada and bankruptcy for filing affected, was Canada Air Even off. losses, a string of heavy suffering in 2003 after protection the as now But airline. efficient more leaner, a as emerging of south continues turbulence the Canada, over clear into skies cutting economy U.S. the in downturn a with just border, has the airlines, U.S. biggest the of one Delta, demand. to travel had recently Airlines American workforce. its on back cut issues. of maintenance because flights 3,000 than more cancel world by providing safe, friendly and affordable affordable and friendly safe, providing by world most of five be the one to is vision The travel.” air 2016. by world in the airlines international successful already has WestJet line, of bottom basis its the on margin, operating cent a 16 per With vision. its achieved in airline profitable most fourth the as ranks WestJet and Copa Panama’s Ryanair, Ireland’s behind world, the accomplishment, amazing an It’s AirAsia. Malaysia’s 12 skies the to took only company upstart the that given destinations. flyingto five planes with three ago years the $2 billion, than more at value a market having Now

of everyone in WestJet’s WestJet’s in everyone of mission is “to enrich the lives lives the enrich “to is mission the lanyard around his neck. The The neck. his around lanyard the in charge of the place, there’s no Kool- no there’s of place, the in charge “don’t no coolers, water the in Aid worry, be happy” memo. But with a wry But memo. be happy” worry, from lobby—hang the in displayed and corporate-coloured, teal blood. blood. teal corporate-coloured, or place the in believe either “You smile, Sean Durfy professes to bleeding bleeding to Sean Durfy professes smile, mounted ones same statements—the Rest assured, says the Dal grad the says assured, Rest within much pretty know you’ll don’t; you culture.” our all about It’s company. the value and vision mission, WestJet’s ticket agent for the airline with some with airline some the for agent ticket out?” gone a memo “Has frustration: says here,” ofworking months six first the interests of our people with the interests of with interests the of people our interests When comedian Rick Mercer investigated the the investigated Mercer Rick comedian When The customer service representative click click service representative customer The Mr. Durfy (BCom ’89), president and CEO and president Durfy ’89), (BCom Mr. on his TV show, he approached a smiling approached he TV his show, on aligning the about is really is “It WestJet. of “hysterically happy WestJetters” phenomenon phenomenon WestJetters” happy “hysterically

he guy driving the baggage cart is whistling. guy he to counter the around high heels on clacks receptionist sings out a sunny “good morning!” “good a sunny out sings receptionist The flight attendant cracks jokes on the trip trip the on jokes cracks attendant flight The front-desk the Calgary, in office head WestJet’s at And,

lift a heavy bag on the carousel for an elderly man. man. elderly an for carousel the on bag lift a heavy a is this you remind me “Let country: the across says she flights,” WestJet all are as flight, nonsmoking smoking, caught you’re “If lifts airplane off. the as immediately.” aircraft the leave to be asked you’ll T Photo: Danny Abriel Danny Photo: Airline Weekly, the trade paper for the airline industry, documented WestJet’s success in March under the headline, “BestJet: What makes WestJet one of the world’s most It really is about successful airlines?” With the salutation “Hello WestJetters,” Mr. Durfy forwarded the story aligning the interests to every employee. He’s tickled about “BestJet” and likes to use it himself. “For me, it’s never been about nice planes and comfortable leather seats,” says Mr. of our people with Durfy, 42, a Calgarian by way of Corner Brook, Nfld. “I just get juiced by the people we’ve the interests of the got here and what we’re offering.” He’s actually still settling into the place and the position—the corner office with company. It’s all about the sign in the hallway which simply says “Sean and Hugh.” (Hugh is Hugh Dunleavy, our culture. executive vice-president for commercial distribution.) The windows, offering a scenic He winces as he admits it, but he didn’t really get view of the parking lot below, are lined with photographs: five-year-old daughter Kennedy WestJet’s down-home corporate culture at first. Within 12 at the Calgary Stampede; Kennedy at a Calgary Flames game; 15-month-old son Reilly in months of his arrival, he was ready to go ahead with wife Tracy’s arms; Mr. Durfy and Mr. Mercer taken during the fellow Newfoundlander’s a $6-million, national advertising campaign dubbed WestJet “investigation”; and with friends at a Great Big Sea concert in Calgary. He has “WestJetiquette.” Described as witty and tongue-in-cheek, another photo of himself that he keeps close by but tucked away in a desk drawer—he’s the campaign included three TV spots outlining the dos

MAGAZINE 10 years younger and 50 pounds heavier. and don’ts of flying on WestJet. In one ad passengers | “I was 33 years old and I looked like I was 50. I was told at the Foothills Medical are told: “Do love WestJet’s leather seats, but don’t get Centre that I was bound for a heart attack unless I made some dramatic changes. So I try romantic with them.” very hard to keep a balance in my life,” he says. He runs most mornings before arriving at “Kind of at the last moment, we thought, ‘Let’s show work around 9 a.m. and returns home in time to give the kids their baths and read their our folks,’ and we had a big meeting in the hangar,” recalls DALHOUSIE bedtime stories. During this interview, he sips vegetable juice from a rinsed roll-up-the- Mr. Durfy. “The reaction was very strong—they thought rim cup. I was making fun (of them). I thought I was going to be Mr. Durfy arrived at WestJet four years ago on the invitation of the company’s killed by the angry mob.” energetic founder Clive Beddoe, a real-estate developer and pilot who led the company He pulled the campaign the day before it was due through a period of explosive growth. At the time, Mr. Durfy had spent 10 years in the to air, and rolled up his sleeves to lead development on Alberta energy industry, where he was president and chief operating officer of ENMAX a new one. Corporation, the energy utility for the City of Calgary. He and Tracy were looking for a “It was a hard lesson. They were telling me, ‘You don’t change; they had drawn up a business plan and were going to buy and operate a hotel in get us yet.’” the Caribbean when a friend called with a suggestion, “Why don’t you meet this guy Clive Within six weeks, the marketing team shaped the Beddoe?” highly successful “Because Owners Care” campaign, with A 20-minute meeting turned into two hours and by the end of it, Mr. Durfy wanted the now-familiar line, “Why do WestJetters care so much? to join WestJet’s executive team. He did in December 2004, as executive vice-president Because we’re also WestJet owners.” Folksy, fun, even a for sales, marketing and airports. He became WestJet president in September 2006 and little corny, the campaign reflects the pride employees added chief executive officer to his title last September, as Mr. Beddoe moved to become have in the company; more than 84 per cent of them chairman of the company’s board of directors. are WestJet shareholders. They can dedicate up to 20 continued on p.13 13 SPRING | 2008 “It defined me as a person, I would say,” “It defined me as a person, I would say,” night-life While at Dalhousie, he enjoyed Halifax’s But not always—he got a failing grade on Frederick G. Crane, now at Northeastern “I’ve taught him everything he knows,” he jokes. he continues. “I believe he is “But seriously,”

president and CEO of WestJet. Durfy, says Mr. biggest boosters in one of Dalhousie’s He’s his children in Dal sweatshirts dressing Calgary, and hosting functions for Alberta students who are deciding where to go after high school. learned and made a wide circle of friends. But he also marks. to manage his time efficiently and pull off good his first-year marketing class, a mark that only feel made him more determined. (“I was made to that, like a meathead,” he rails. “I thought, screw He graduated I’ll make marketing my major.”) in 1989 with a double major in marketing and finance and was the valedictorian of his class. University in Boston, remembers being impressed drive and entrepreneurial spirit. Durfy’s with Mr. He has stayed in touch with his former student and features his leadership role at WestJet in his textbook, Marketing (McGraw-Hill Publishing). a shining example of the type of education students energy Sean’s receive at Dalhousie … Clearly, and innovativeness have helped WestJet become A combination a major brand in its category. of his innate abilities and the education he received are the platform of his success.” As the kid from As the kid Corner Brook, Sean Durfy says coming to Dalhousie was the formative experience of his life. Photo: Danny Abriel Danny Photo: WestJet’s caring attitude is not for show, like the the like show, for not is attitude caring WestJet’s of comeuppance, his scene hangar, the In companies. other from different a lot is “This place some to admits Guenther Vern WestJetter (Clive but culture, WestJet learn the to had “Sean want you airline, an at work to going you’re “If The ideas behind Because Owners Care have have Care Owners Because behind ideas The

led WestJet to top the annual list of Canada’s 10 most 10 most of list Canada’s annual the top to WestJet led Other in a row. years three cultures corporate admired Waterstone from designation, the receive to companies Boston Hotels, Seasons Four include Capital, Human When of Bank Canada. Royal the and International Pizza in a was he honour, latest the about Durfy heard Mr. Calgary the airport at uniform customer-service-rep’s rush. holiday the in during pitching It’s company. off for dusted gets of that set best china in passionately. believe employees airline’s the something in believe they lesson,” his “learned Durfy Mr. since And, too. him, a 737 are over checking workers maintenance for taken photograph his gets he as boss their heckling magazine. the with Potekal “Potts” Duane says guy,” the at look I mean, the on standing direction—he’s Durfy’s in Mr. a glance bigwigs see the unless never “You wing of plane. the knows He down.’ you shutting ‘We’re say to coming they’re talks us.” and to comes He names. our Beddoe Mr. respected the heard he when apprehension down. stepping was campaign “That says. he him well,” Beddoe) taught just it all and that, funny was it oh us, showed he with Owners the head the on it nailed he But us. wasn’t campaign.” Care Cape from Stewart, Lorraine adds WestJet,” at work to pace. the sets “He cockpit. the cleaning while Breton, like all really we pilots, the to cleaners old little us From WestJetters.” being per cent of their salary in share purchases, an amount amount an purchases, of salary their in cent per share offer to encouraged also They’re company. the by matched a of features One ads the runs. airline the how on input when rocking a cryingaisle; in the baby attendant flight parents, of arms exhausted the to baby the returns she ad—the Another too. snoozing, is cabin in the everyone 22 Minutes Has Hour This on parodied mercilessly one flight efficient the —features Report Mercer Rick the and left briefcase a passenger’s returns only not who attendant power-point. his up pumps she plane, the on behind Photo: Danny Abriel Danny Photo: 14 DALHOUSIE | MAGAZINE BETWEEN THE LINES THE BETWEEN by marilyn smulders Epperly (MA 1974). examining L.M. Montgomery’s scrapbooks by Rollins Elizabeth 100 Mrs. Wilson (BA 1949, BEd 1953). Penguin was also planning a continued onp.15 th I anniversary collector’s edition, a lavishly illustrated tome offered some advice for wannabe authors. as real and just as plentiful.” woods and mountain peaks towering to the stars are just pigsties because they are ‘real.’ Rose gardens and pine generation of Dalhousie students. “Don’t write about the lovely, of things of good report,” she implored to a new prequel to Anne Green of Gables. Will you do it?’” recounts of cherry trees “thickset with blossoms,” lakes of shining waters and “tremulous grasses” her in debut novel, Anne Greenof Gables. Five publishers rejected it before the embraced by readers acentury ago and by generations Boston-based L.C. Page Co. published it in 1908. It was Avonlea ever since. A year later, L.C. Page published Anne of phone from call Helen Reeves, an editor at Penguin. Two years ago, the Anne with Green of Gables centenary over the as the of writer Anne and Emily books— Lucy Maud Montgomery—by then beloved the world n aguest editorial for the Dalhousie Gazette 1939, in approaching, Nova Scotian author Budge Wilson got a “Out the blue of she says, ‘We’d like you to do the But until now, there’s never an been Anne prequel. L.M. Montgomery followed her own advice, writing “Write, I beseech you, of things cheerful, of things , the first seven of Anne sequels.

15 SPRING | 2008 Photos: Danny Abriel Danny Photos: birthday. She wrote birthday. th -century Scotia? Nova What th As MontgomeryaL.M. young woman, was flooded read “I real: were life Maud’s in Lucy pigsties The the in what detail tantalizing enough was there But Wilson OnceputShe pendecided, Mrs. to paper. She also creates a bleak picture of life for women, women, of for life picture a bleak creates also She suitors. a dozen than more by with proposals marriage Ewen of proposal the accepted finally she 30s, her In clergyman to came who Presbyterian the Macdonald, Cavendish; writing in her journal, she wrote she felt like her Later, day. wedding her on prisoner” “hopeless a she that illness of mental bouts long suffered husband job. his keep could so he up covered tried keep to Lucyjournal Maud Montgomery’s and realized what Wilson, Mrs. says had,” she life unhappy exceedingly an Montgomery too. lot, a endured had “Anne 81. age now herself hintsgave of these things but she never pursued sad.” too just was It it. do to want didn’t I think she them. build to Marilla spinster the to reveals Anne 11-year-old be so feisty to came Anne how out puzzle and a story shrewd “was Marilla, like Wilson, Mrs. articulate. and and history Anne’s of lines the between read to enough truth.” the divine in Gables 71 Green of Before 71 chapters the wrote 80 her on draft the finishing days, in longhand with her arthritic hand—“sometimes I bed, her on perch her —from scrunch” it hear would mostly in the little fish houseby theofshore her home As the pages Bay. in Margaret’s onNorthwest Cove St. drifted one by one to the floorby theshe bed, jotted Wilson: Alan husband, historian her for questions down in 19 travel people did How shoes did they wear in the winter? Had the egg beater yet? been invented who birthed and buried scrubbedbabies, kept clothes, tendedhouse, livestock and tilled fields in backwoods continued on p.16 “I was dumbfounded. I think I said something something I think I said dumbfounded. was “I book another had She no. say to instinct was Her a book, Gables of Green Anne reread she then But in L.M. history Anne’s of echoes are There it.’” think about to like ‘I’d like milquetoast, really she wanted to write—a collection of poems touching on the crash of Swissair Flight 111 AnneThe ten years ago. dealing to up wasn’t she and intimidating too was task beguiling, the regard who fans of ardent with legions the She sacrosanct. as Shirley Anne freckle-faced red-haired, her want not might Montgomery L.M. that worried also it. do to The 79. at all more the loved and nine age at enjoyed she about clues interesting some book contains also lively a dark Scotia, in Nova history early girl’s orphan the current of “bald deprivationdeath, The and hard labour. by deaths parents’ her include Anne, to according facts,” Thomas Mrs. housekeeper the in by being taken fever, and husband,” a drunken had and poor was she “though to Hammonds, the family, another to over handed then help care for eight children under the age of five—two times in succession.” three “twins plus ones wee Born in life. far-from-storybook own Montgomery’s When childhood. a lonely had she P.E.I., 1874 in Clifton, of died Clara mother her of 21 months, a baby was she tuberculosis and her father left her behind to be raised by strict grandparents. moved He on to Saskatchewan remarried. and in, I started to relax. I got really caught up in the story I got really caught up … She had captured Anne and that was the task.” in the story...she had The two authors (both Dal alumnae as was L.M. Montgomery) met while Mrs. Wilson was doing a captured Anne... reading in Charlottetown and conversed frequently on the phone during the writing of Before Green Gables. Nova Scotia. Mrs. Wilson could relate to the sense of “After I finished it, spent, I ran to the phone, you profound isolation she creates on her pages; it wasn’t all know with tears in my voice, saying ‘You did it, you did that different from when she and her husband moved it!’ I hear Budge on the other end of the line, ‘Um, who is to the old house in Northwest Cove in the early 1950s. this?’” There was no electricity, no running water, no telephone. Before Green Gables was launched at the Royal 16 Mrs. Wilson did the laundry in a galvanized tub using a Ontario Museum in Toronto last February and the plunger with holes in it. “It was about eight years before backlash Mrs. Wilson dreaded never came. Even we had running water,” she remarks. “This stuff just skeptical reviewers have mostly been won over, as have didn’t seem odd to me.” the fans. “I did end up liking the book more than I

M A G A Z I N E But there is sunshine among the dark shadows thought I would,” admits “AvFan4vr”, a sentiment that’s | of Before Green Gables. Mrs. Wilson picks up on the repeated again and again on the Avonlea Message Board. imaginary friends Anne mentions in Anne of Green Yuka Kajihara, a member of Buttercups, the oldest and Gables—her reflection “Katie Maurice” in the “enchanted largest Montgomery fan club in Japan, says she picked bookcase” at the Thomas house and the echo she names up Before Green Gables fully prepared to hate it but DALHOUSIE “Violetta” when she escapes for fleeting moments from ended up with grudging admiration for Mrs. Wilson. diaper duty at the Hammonds. She also creates new “Producing a biography of the early Anne must have characters and fleshes them out: Miss Henderson, the been difficult,” says Ms. Kajihara, who runs the blog schoolteacher who awakens her inquisitive mind; and Yukazine, exploring all things Montgomery. “I appreciate the reclusive Egg Man, who gives her five new words a her gentle, warm eyes towards adult characters whose week in exchange for her company. lives appear amazingly harsh to modern readers. Like Mrs. Wilson came to love creating the book, even as Montgomery, Wilson peppers fairy tale essences which she was hurried through the editing process and “clung nicely blend with realism in the story.” on by my fingernails” to save it from drastic cuts. Then, Ms. Epperly believes readers of Before Green Gables the draft went to pre-eminent Montgomery scholar will dive right back into the pages of Anne of Green Elizabeth Rollins Epperly, who recalls opening the Gables. “You just hope desperately she gets someplace package with trembling fingers. where she’s going to be loved. Of course you know “What if I hate it? What if she doesn’t have Anne?” it’s going to happen, but it’s so wonderful to immerse says Ms. Epperly, professor emerita and former president yourself in that world again and realize that it’s as of the University of Prince Edward Island. “Fifteen pages beautiful and as colourful as you’d like for Anne.” 17 SPRING | 2 0 0 8 During the writing of Before Green Gables, Mrs. “I actually feel shivery thinking of it,” says Mrs. Mrs. Wilson surmises that when L.M. Montgomery “I feel in my bones that it was the same room,” “I can’t Ms. Epperly finds the connection spooky. used to stand on the south-end of Barrington Street. At used to stand on the south-end of Barrington out one point, after a bout of measles, she was moved called of the infirmary to a tiny white room on a floor rooms. “third-and-a-half,” which included only five Even after she recuperated, she asked to remain. stay at Wilson and Ms. Epperly discussed the author’s Wilson: the Halifax Ladies College. And it struck Mrs. she she believes she stayed in the same room when was a student at the school half a century later. school Wilson, whose parents transferred her to the because she was constantly sick while attending Grade what was then LeMarchant Street School. (Her six 2 class there had 66 children compared to the very, students at the ladies college.) “The room was white very white: a white bedspread, white chair, lamp. If Montgomery was in that room and didn’t want to leave it, she was happy there. I was also so fond of that room. It is still very vivid to me today.” room in Green Gables, she was was imagining Anne’s remembering the little room at the Ladies College. Described at the beginning of the 1908 novel as “painfully bare” and “of a rigidity not to be described in words,” Anne comes to regard the room as a peaceful sanctuary, where she would sit and daydream at the open window. says Mrs. Wilson. say definitively because I never saw that room. But I think authors have intuition about these things. instincts on that.” And I would trust Budge’s anniversary of Anne of Green Gables. th ucy Maud Montgomery had the time of her life ucy Maud Montgomery had the time of her life studying English literature at what was then Dalhousie College in 1895-96. Maud, as she It was a time when her talents as a writer the Her affection for Dalhousie comes through on Montgomery scholar Elizabeth Rollins Epperly, “She wrote about Dalhousie in her journals and it’s “She wrote about Dalhousie in her journals and it’s While at Dalhousie College, L.M. Montgomery boarded was called by her friends, saved her teacher’s salary was called by her friends, saved her teacher’s for an entire year to pay the tuition; she reveled in the challenge of her studies, the intellectually to stimulating conversations and the proximity Point Pleasant Park where she loved to stroll. were first being recognized. In one week in 1896, three her short stories and poems were accepted in wrote. different publications: “$5 + $5 + $12!” she “I really feel quite bloated by so much wealth.” pages of her scrapbooks, in the snips of black-and-gold ribbon, newspaper clippings, convocation programs and fin-de-siecle fashion illustrations of women wearing satin gowns with glorious puffed sleeves. a Dal alum herself (MA 1974), writes about the scrapbooks and the profound influence they have on fiction, in Imagining Anne (Penguin L.M. Montgomery’s Before Green Gables, Canada). Like Budge Wilson’s the beautiful book has been released to coincide with the 100 L A room of their own A room of there in her scrapbooks,” says Ms. Epperly—Betsy to her And, of course, friends. “She looks back on it so fondly. she fleshes out the experience in Anne of the Island, calling Dalhousie ‘Redmond College.’ The year she spends at Dalhousie turns into a full-fledged BA for Anne.” at the Halifax Ladies College, an imposing mansion that INTO REALITY TURNING IDEALS 18 18 The ‘millennials’arecomingtoanofficenearyou DALHOUSIEDALHOUSIE || MAGMAGAZINEAZINE

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Photos: Nick Pearce Nick Photos: by ryan mcnutt ryan by The ‘millennials’ are coming to an office near you office near coming to an are The ‘millennials’ TURNING IDEALS IDEALS TURNING REALITY INTO 20 DALHOUSIE | MAGAZINE generations? four all of expectations and behaviours Do wereallytapintothemotivations, recruitment and practices hiring accordingly.” saysMs. Buahene. “They’re their changing also behaviours and expectations four all of generations?’” and saying, ‘Do we really tap into the motivations, work to support the employee to make it happen.” Frito-Layimprove can or his her work-life balance, we employer.and employee “Ifan suggests ideaon an how tosolutions find that both tries employeebenefiting company now offers aflexible work-lifebalance policy on-campusforrecruiting Frito Lay Canada. Her saysSeipp, Gail Dalhousie a graduate nowwho manages them thefrom best fit a work-lifebalance perspective,” aboutcome they who offerswhoand on board with “Companies are looking at their people practices “We’reaffordthat can they learning choosy to be activities on campus overand activities jobs were 15,000 fairs, 180employers participated other in career 215 organizations presented at campus-wide career profit recruitment.thispast During academic year, are amagnetfor corporate, government and non- are working through units like ours to reach them better.” understand their audience, give them what they want, and improving. dramatically is messaging They’re to trying changing. the production The of quality material and its say the same thing,” she says. “Today, are their tactics I’mand sure my colleagues across would country the encourage people to recruit students from Dalhousie, organizations are working to recruit university students. changesdramatic seen has how in companies and known as the Student Employment Centre, Ms. Addicott Centre’smandate. office the In her decade with formerly employers is increasingly central to the Career Services the process has to relationship be building.” by which the final connection is made. The rest of “It’sintegral, very still but it’s just mechanism the director Dalhousie’s of Career Centre. Services T continued onp.21 In the 21st century, universities like Dalhousie “Wehad to lotdo a more work thosedays in to Facilitatingrelationships betweenstudents and “It’s not enough,” says Laura Addicott, to attract students are numbered. meansdays the relying on adalonejob of a competition his for tomorrow’s talent 21 SPRING | 2008 “I was just casually chatting and he turned out to beand turnedhe to chatting casually out just was “I has big of peers, her many like Bakinson, Ms. mapped has Bakinson Ms. ways, many In concludes today,” available choice so much “There’s made an impression. It led to her current job in current her led to It an made impression. Oil. 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23 SPRING | 2008 “Sleep loss increases the risk of depression, of risk the depression, increases loss “Sleep important. also is sleep about awareness Public “It’s very important,” he says, “for physicians physicians “for he says, very important,” “It’s Drawing on his expertise in experimental and On Dalhousiehis initiative, became Canada’s few years back, as head back, offew years a busy local emergency Croskerry Pat begandepartment, to analyze

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28 or me, Dalhousie is a My involvement with Dal Being a lawyer can make natural fit. As president has also allowed me to volunteering challenging — Fof the Dalhousie contribute to improving Alumni Association (DAA), the student experience; not only in terms of freeing I am involved in sharing contributions that include

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DALHOUSIE alumni do, in the success of also faced the challenge of Dalhousie as one of Canada’s revamping Dal’s alumni leading universities. Part program. We’re helping the of the DAA board’s job Alumni Relations Office is to attend events and understand the perceptions, spread the message to attitudes and expectations alumni and prospective of our alumni in order to students that Dal students align strategy and resources and faculty continue to to meet those expectations. earn top honours and Stay tuned! international acclaim. Level Chan, (BA’99, LLB’02) President, Dalhousie Alumni Association

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1990 1992 PGM’92,Marlene Buckler, MD’91, has some surprising advice: “Stay away from doctors and takepills!” physician Sarasota-based The don’t is currently a new on work at book, and is the name: same the of site web a of originator Stay out of my ER! Buckler Visit Dr. www. at stayoutofmyer.com 1994 , BScWilliams (Hons), married J. David Jennifer Seattle,in 2007, 17, November Fankhauseron Expedia, Inc. joined recently David WA. as finance manager for the global air 2000s 2000 Rachel Matthews, BM, married Gordon Sweet in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on February 14, 2008. They are proud parents of Georgina (Gina), who will turn three on August 15. Rachel is a teaching assistant in Dalhousie’s Department of Music, and runs a busy little business, “Cortland Music,” delivering live classical string music in the Halifax area: www.cortland.ca. Sylvia Hamilton, MEd , LLD’01, was recently named to the Trudeau Foundation’s latest group of Trudeau Mentors — some of Canada’s most distinguished and accomplished leaders from a broad range of backgrounds who are each paired with a PhD student studying in a similar area. A noted filmmaker, writer and president of Maroon Films Inc., Sylvia is also co-founder of the New Initiatives in Film Program — designed to provide women of colour and First Nations women with opportunities to make films at the National Film Board’s Studio D. 2002 Tanya (Flood) Fleming, MBA/LLB, and Jonathan 36 Fleming, MBA’00, are proud parents of a baby boy, Jack David, born Christmas Eve 2007 and big sister Megan Elizabeth (May 2005). Jonathan is an oil and gas analyst with Canmark Securities and Tanya is a

MAGAZINE corporate lawyer with Oster, Hoskin and Harcourt LLP. | 2003 Beth Amiro, BA, and fellow Dal alumni Caralee Murphy, BA ’01 and Juel MacCallum, BA’05, were honoured with a bronze award for Best New Business 2008 by the DALHOUSIE Halifax Chamber of Commerce. Surfers, activists and community leaders, the women were recognized for their leading-edge business, One Life Surf School, Eastern Canada’s first women’s surf centre. 2004 Terry L. Nikkel, MBA, has written his first book: Making Library Web Sites Useful – a LITA Guide. It was published in 2007 by Neal- Schuman (www.neal-schuman.com). Terry is now director of libraries at UNBSJ. 2005 Kristy Mahoney, BScN, and her partner, Jordan Surette, would like to announce the birth of their little boy, Liam Jordan, who was born December 29, 2007. 37 SPRING | 2008

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NAME: Donna Goguen HOMETOWN: Halifax, Nova Scotia EDUCATION: BSc (Hons) 1980 PASSIONS: Family, fitness, volunteering NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS: Commissioner of Maritime University Field Lacrosse League, former regional director for Hockey Nova Scotia Female Council, articles in Journal of Biological Rhythms, Neuroscience Letters, Molecular Brain Research, and Neuroscience. JOB: Manager of Circadian Rhythms Neuroscience Lab at Life Sciences Centre TEACHES: Donna is a familiar face at Dalplex — she’s taught fitness for more than 15 years and aquafitness for a decade.

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