Alumni Elections, P. 21 — Vote online at www.unb.ca/alumni UNB Vol. 12 No. 3 ALUMNI NEWS Spring 2004 MAKING A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE ONE MAN’S GIFT TO THE FUTURE UNB UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK WWW.UNB.CA/UNBDIFFERENCE Where it’s hopping. In New Brunswick, where there are great jobs, affordable housing, safe communities and a quality of life that’s virtually unmatched. Along with many other New Brunswickers who’ve come home for challenging careers and a balanced lifestyle. Right now. Employers need talented people like you. Don’t wait. Log on and check out the career level opportunities posted on the website. www.nbjobs.ca HELPING STUDENTS Spring 2004UNB Vol. 12 No. 3 PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE ALUMNI NEWS INSIDE 16 Major UNBSJ milestones Forty years ago this fall the first classes were held in this building at UNBSJ. This fall, ASSOCIATED ALUMNI the Associated Alumni will COUNCIL MEMBERS help celebrate this and other President milestones in the UNBSJ Carey A. Ryan (BA’70, MEd’79) story. Vice-President Barry Beckett (PhD’70) Treasurer Marti-Lou Neill (BA’69) Secretary Mark these dates Kathie Brien (BBA’67) 18 UNB Executive Member at Large In just more than a year, we’ll Gary Lawson (BBA’76-SJ, LLB’79) Immediate Past President be expecting thousands of Richard J. Scott, Q.C. (BBA’74, LLB’76) you back in Fredericton for Board of Governors Representatives Sally W. McAllister (BA’72, BEd’73) another all-inclusive reunion! Kevin K. Ratcliff (BBA’82) Richard J. Scott, Q.C. (BBA’74, LLB’76) Book the time NOW! Councillors Eric Burchill (BBA’92) Jeff Clark (BSc’97, BBA’98) Kevin Ferguson (BBA’92, BA’93) Carol Foley (BBA’83) Larry Hachey (BBA’87) 37 Lynn A. Hruczkowski (BA’82) Jill Jollineau (Class of ’75, MEd’02) David T. Le Blanc (BBA’82) Warren D. McKenzie (BScCS’76) Mary Ellen McKinney (BBA’77, BN’00) Heather Neilson (BPE’72) Judy Orr (BA’75, BBA’76) Cassandra Simmonds (Class of ’05) Marcia Trail (BN’73, MN’99) Judy Weeks (BBA’77-SJ) President of the Associated Alumnae Margie Gregg (BA’92) UNB President John McLaughlin (BScSE’69, MScSE’71) Association Executive Director Hockey madness Mark Hazlett (BPE’87, MPE’89) UNB hosted the CIS men’s national hockey • championships in March for the second year UNB Alumni News is published by the UNB Associated Alumni. Material may be printed in whole in a row. It was a tournament made or in part with appropriate credit to UNB Alumni News, except where copyrighted by the author. memorable by our V-Reds’ performance. Distributed three times a year to alumni and friends of UNB. ISSN 1191-8276. Mailed under Canada Post Publications Mail Agreement No. 40063270. 4 Comment Cover Photo Subscription for non-alumni: $15 5 Literature Alumnus William S. Editor: Milt Thomas Hither and Yon: Kim Bishop UNB Digest: Compiled with assistance of Office of 6 UNB Digest Lewis with UNB doctoral Development and Donor Relations, Office of Student students. See page 12. Recruitment and Integrated Marketing (F) and Office of 18 Association Activities Advancement, Communication and Recognition (SJ) 25 Hither & Yon Photos & Photo Advertising: Kathy MacFarlane, Alumni Office, Illustration: [email protected] 37 Sports Tel: (506) 453-4847 Fax: (506) 453-4616 Joy Cummings E-Mail: [email protected] Next Issue: Fall 2004 Deadline: August 1, 2004 Printed in Canada www.unb.ca/alumni SPRING 2004 UNB ALUMNI NEWS • 3 COMMENT A renewed emphasis on Pride & Loyalty n the last edition of the UNB Alumni ni a feeling of pride in being a UNB graduate, and a sense INews, I reported that Alumni Council of loyalty to UNB. None of the other KRAs can be reached has been going through a process of without alumni first having this positive feeling about their reviewing and evaluating the relationships with each other and with UNB. Chapter devel- Association’s Strategic Plan. opment, reunions, social events, student recruitment recep- Much has been accomplished and tions and other similar events must engender pride and loy- much has changed in the last three alty among alumni and must encourage greater participation years. Interviews were held with vari- from alumni. Watch for opportunities to show your pride . ous stakeholders, including alumni, . Celebration 2004 on the Saint John campus and staff and university administrators, to Homecoming 2005 on the Fredericton campus are coming receive feedback as to the progress and development of the soon . or why not attend a lobster boil in Calgary or a golf plan. These comments, together with extensive discussions tournament in Halifax . or if there is no established event held by Council, have led to Energized & Involved II, which in your area, why not start one? The alumni office will pro- was to be approved at our April Alumni Council meeting. vide as much support as possible and I will personally Following Council’s approval, the revised strategic plan will endeavor to attend as many activities as possible to thank be posted on the Alumni website. you for showing your pride. While this new plan is once again intended to be in har- As a result of our plan, chapters are also going through a mony with the goals of the university and is written with the re-designing process and will soon have a different look and assumption of a continuing strong relationship and partner- format to encompass more towns, cities, regions, countries ship commitment from UNB, we must keep in mind that the and affiliation groups. As alumni, we are all part of the UNB purpose of the plan continues to be to “energize and community and our plan is committed to creating individual involve” alumni in support of UNB. opportunities to create a larger connection and network sys- In summary, the directions or Key Result Areas tem of alumni. (KRAs) have remained very much the same with the As I continue to attend Association and University exception of one new KRA, as well as defined “lead” and events, I am overwhelmed by the support, involvement and “support” roles for each area. The Associated Alumni commitment of so many alumni who are clearly proud of will take a “lead” role in Pride & Loyalty, Students & their affiliation with UNB. Young Alumni, and Advice. The Association will provide a “support” role in Fundraising, Advocacy, and Student & Faculty Recruitment. Pride & Loyalty has been defined as our newest KRA and is by far the most important. The Associated Alumni recog- President, nizes the fundamental importance of creating among alum- UNB Associated Alumni CIS hockey nationals brought out the best in our alumni t’s really too bad there’s no way to convey on these pages And were you there?” I— either through words or images — the intensity and Now that the bar has seen set, we encourage all alumni to depth of emotion the CIS national men’s hockey champi- look for opportunities to display their Pride and Loyalty. onships brought to the Fredericton campus in March. ● While we’ve tried (see pages 37-38), you really had to be at Actually, page 21 of this edition offers you all a chance to the Aitken Centre for the games, particularly the UNB tilts, to participate in an alumni activity from wherever you are in get a true sense of what Association President Carey Ryan is the world. We’re holding our alumni elections, and it’s your talking about in her column above — Pride and Loyalty. chance to have a direct say in the affairs of the association. You could feel the institutional Pride and Loyalty wafting Please take a moment to review our slate of eight candi- through the Aitken Centre rafters every time UNB took to dates, and then choose up to four of them. (If you choose the ice. I was there, and it wasn’t just my imagination. In more than four, you’ll spoil your ballot.) casual conversations with other fans, most of them alumni, You can vote via the mail-in hard-copy ballot on page 21, in the concourse between periods, the sense of excitement but we’ll also have available our convenient and easy-to-use was palpable. And during the games themselves, the crowd electronic ballot. Just go to www.unb.ca/alumni/elections was into it with an enthusiasm that hasn’t been witnessed at and send us your choices via the web. UNB in many, many years. All the local media pundits com- mented on the fans’ fervor, with The Daily Gleaner’s Dave Ritchie writing, “Ten years from now, they’ll still be talking about the night of March 27, 2004 (the gold-medal game). Milt Thomas, Editor 4 • UNB ALUMNI NEWS SPRING 2004 LITERATURE Under Tow: A History simultaneously in Canada and Britain, Publications senior writer and the author of Tugs and Towing comes from six collections and chapbooks of over 50 books on culture and sport. By Donal M. Baird (BSc’48) of poetry, the earliest published in 1972 when Bartlett was an undergraduate at Hockey’s Book of Firsts Vanwell Publishing Ltd. UNB. Of Bartlett's most recent collection, By James Duplacey (BA’76) ISBN: 1-4107-1018-1 Don Coles has written: “Mostly, what World Publications From the early British and Dutch towing strikes me about The Afterlife of Trees is the ISBN: 1-57215-337-7 companies to the current Canadian and very distinctive voice that, once opened, it This book is a detailed study of hock- global conglomerates, towing has been a shows forth. I’d recognize it among many.