How Will We Power the Future? an Exciting Benefit for You As a University of Alberta Alumni Association Member
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It is distributed by Meloche Monnex Insurance and Financial Services, Inc. in Québec, by Meloche Monnex Financial Services Inc. in Ontario, and by TD Insurance Direct Agency Inc. in the rest of Canada. Our address: 50 Place Crémazie, 12th Floor, Montréal, Québec H2P 1B6. Due to provincial legislation, our car and recreational insurance program is not offered in British Columbia, Manitoba or Saskatchewan. All trade-marks are the property of their respective owners. ® The TD logo and other TD trade-marks are the property of The Toronto-Dominion Bank. SPRING 2019 VOLUME 75 NUMBER 1 “We are somewhere between the hydrocarbon age and the age of electricity. And one is supporting the other.” larry kostiuk, ’85 msc 3 39 Your Letters Trails Where you’ve been and 5 where you’re going Notes What’s new and noteworthy 40 Books 10 Continuing Education 42 Column by Curtis Gillespie feature Class Notes 13 20 51 Thesis Energy: from now to next In Memoriam It’s beyond the stars and within From fire to coal, wind to steam, our cells. How we organize our our energy has always evolved. 56 human spaces defines us. Why are we so worried? Small Talk new trail spring 2019 1 }upfront A Community of the ‘Kind People’ OFFICE OF ALUMNI RELATIONS Native Studies its steel body was a crisp sky “rescued” from grocery stores that Sean Price, ’95 BCom Chancy Black Water, Awakas’ikitstakiaki Associate Vice-President (Deer Offering Woman), ’10 BA(NativeStu), blue. The bright-red tow arm was blemished or in damaged ’10 Cert(AborGov/Ptnshp) Greg Latham fit my tiny fingers perfectly as I packaging and would otherwise be Director, Alumni Engagement Nursing Eric Martin, ’09 BSc, ’13 BScN pushed the toy effortlessly around thrown out. The program was only Tracy Salmon, ’91 BA(Hons), ’96 MSc Kate Young, ’07 BScN, ’15 MBA Director, Alumni Programs our family’s apartment, bashing a pilot and needed volunteers to Pharmacy Coleen Graham, ’88 BSc(HEc), ’93 MEd keep going. U of A alumni stepped Ron Pohar, ’95 BSc(Pharm) into walls, my lips sputtering like Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives an old diesel engine. forward in a big way. Working Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation I loved my Tonka truck. with the Community-University ALUMNI COUNCIL EXECUTIVE Bill Werry, ’73 BA(RecAdmin) Alumni Association President Public Health And even though the Partnership, alumni lined up Ayaz Bhanji, ’91 BSc(Pharm) Salima Thawer, ’03 BSc, ’05 Dip(DentHyg), downstairs neighbours complained partnerships with grocery stores, President-Elect ’06 BSc(DentHyg), ’13 MPH daily about the noise, I didn’t care. obtained insurance and worked as Heather Raymond, ’82 BEd, ’86 Dip(Ed), Rehabilitation Medicine I was happy. I was safe. drivers to get food to those in need. ’95 MEd, ’02 PhD Grant Irwin, ’75 BSc, ’79 BSc(PT) Committee Chair: Alumni Awards Science It was 1972 and my mother, Last year, volunteers — 72 per cent Ryan Thompson, ’03 BSc(Hons), ’13 MA Ross Lockwood, ’08 BSc(Hons), ’15 PhD father, younger brother and I had of whom are alumni — gave Committee Chair: Alumni Student Council MEMBERS AT LARGE Ashlyn Bernier, ’06 BSc, ’11 PhD, ’13 MBA just arrived in Brantford, Ont., 716 hours to Grocery Run and Robert Agostinis, ’86 BMedSc, ’88 MD having been kicked out of our home supported 115 families a week. Committee Chair: Career Services Yasmin Barre, ’09 BSc, ’12 MSc Christy Ciezki, ’02 BSc(Spec), ’09 MEd country of Uganda by its ruthless Our university calls on us to Ramesh Bhambhani, ’66 BSc, ’68 MSc, ’72 PhD Committee Chair: Priority Programs Maxine Clarke, ’03 BCom dictator, Idi Amin. I remember “uplift the whole people.” Projects Phil Wong, ’85 BSc(Spec) Rick Dowell, ’03 BSc(MechEng), ’09 MBA Vivian He, ’08 BCom many visitors — “the kind people,” like Grocery Run demonstrate the Committee Chair: Strategic Planning Joel Johnston, ’16 BA(RecSpoTourism), Bill Werry, ’73 BA(RecAdmin) my parents called them — stopping power of our alumni community to F EXCE FF E EXXCCEEL FF EEXXCCEEL F EXCE O LL ’16 O OCert(AboriginalSpo/Rec),LLL ’16 OO LL O LL E E ELE EE LEE EE E E L N L NN L NN L N Committee Chair:C Volunteerism With Students CC C C C C C C R Cert(CommEngage/Serv)C R C C R by with food and to teach us the deliver on this promise. 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