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613-900-2232 thecapitolcondos.com contents Issue 4, 2015, Volume 89, Number 4 Serving the Queen’s community since 1927 queensu.ca/alumnireview 2 Queen’ALU MN IREVIsEW Editor’s notebook 3 Letters to the editor 5 From the principal 6 Quid Novi News from campus 8 Magna Carta and women’s rights 16 Jacqueline Davies: Excellence in teaching t n o

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12 u S Honest on the page, COVER STORY honest in the classroom Business education has a new name 26 “It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.” Keeping in touch Jane austen, J DGJD @GC JDGJEAEFEKN On Oct. 1, Stephen J.R. Smith, Sc’72, announced his $50-million gift to the school of 38 business at Q ueen’s, now named The Stephen J.R. Smith School of Business. “I have never Your global alumni forgotten my experience at Q ueen’s, ” he says. He is an entrepreneur, a bibliophile and a network man with a bold vision for business education. Meet Stephen J.R. Smith. 40 Quaa president’s message 42 The literature of boredom: Art Cockfield on David Foster Wallace g n i

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18 e b SPOTLIGHT The evolution of 50 Ex libris Queen’s Nobel laureate Queen’s Library From six little books to the ‘Clever, humble, multi-faceted’: a profile of 52 world of information, learn how The last word Arthur B. McDonald, 2015 co-recipient, Queen’s Library has grown. By Sharon Murphy Nobel Prize in Physics.

On the cover: Stephen J.R. Smith, Sc’72, outside Goodes Hall, home to Smith School of Business. Photo by Suzy Lamont ed ito rs NO TEBOO’K

s we started production of this issue, Queen’s University got some exciting news, first with the announcement of

the new Smith School of Business and then with the Volume IJ, No. E, CABF news of the Nobel Prize in Physics. In this issue, you’ll [email protected] meet Queen’s newsmakers Stephen Smith and Arthur queensu.ca/alumnireview McDonald. In our February issue, we’ll delve deeper into @queensureview the work of Dr. McDonald and his colleagues in Queen’s The Queen’s Alumni Review (circ. 130,000), published Physics and at snOLaB . by University Communications, As well, we explore the evolution of the Queen’s Library and provide is a member of the Council for some Queen’s perspectives on the world of books and documents, from the Advancement and Support of Education. Subscriptions free to Magna Carta to comic books, Jane Austen to David Foster Wallace. alumni, $25 cdn /year for others. For this issue, I was fortunate to work with the talented Sarah Opinions expressed in the Review are not necessarily those of Pierroz, Ed’06. A graduate of the Artist in the Community stream in Queen’s University or of the Quaa . the Faculty of Education, Sarah is an artist, teacher – and now an Issn # 0843-8048 author – living in Italy. Her forthcoming book, A Sketch of Venetian Queen’s University History , combines art, ecology, travel and history with beautiful ink Principal and Vice-Chancellor illustrations. I commissioned Sarah to create some modern versions of Daniel R. Woolf, Artsci’80 historiated initials to set off some of our stories. You can see her work V-P University Relations Michael Fraser above, and on pages 22, 42 and 44. Executive Director Marketing One of my favourite authors is Mark Helprin. Helena Debnam I have two copies of his book, Winter’s Tale . One is Editor a dog-eared, torn and coffee-stained paperback Andrea Gunn, MPa ’07 copy that I’ve had since my undergrad days. The Staff contributors

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n Contributors equally valued. Which books do you cherish, and r e why? Let me know at [email protected]. b Carolyn Harris, Ma ’07, PhD’12 John Stackhouse, Com’85 We’ve reviewed the results of our 2015 readership survey. We were Andrew Stokes, Artsci’13, Ma ’14 particularly interested to compare reader input with that from our 2011 Art Director survey, and see if our 2014 re-design changed reader engagement. Larry Harris, University Marketing Thanks to our readers across Canada, the u.s. and 61 other countries Associate Designer (KIT) who took part in the survey. Your feedback is important in the planning Wilma van Wyngaarden Advertising/Sponsorship Officer and development of future editions. Here’s some of what we learned: Peter Gillespie, Artsci’01 B Phone: 613.533.6000 ext. 75464 The QaR remains the main source of information about Queen’s Email: [email protected] University for 87% of our respondents, CABE-CABG Queen’s University B The magazine received higher average ratings on every section Alumni Association President than it did four years ago, George M. Jackson, Artsci’85 B Alumni spotlights and Keeping in touch remain the two most-read The mission of the QUAA “To reach out and foster a lifelong parts of the magazine, association with Queen’s , to engage B Readership of research news rose dramatically to third place overall our members in the life and work (at 91% of respondents). This is due in part, I think, to the way we of the university, and to serve the alumni community in all its diversity.” now present news of exciting research coming out of Queen’s , with Canada Post publications great visuals complementing smart content, mail permit KEBAIJABH B Readers who use the QaR as a source of information are more Postage paid at Kingston, On Return undeliverable Canadian and likely to recommend Queen’s to a student, attend a Queen’s event, other addresses to the Review offices. contact a former classmate, or make a donation to, or volunteer Queen’s University with, Queen’s , and 99 University Avenue B 58% of readers were unaware that the QaR is available online. Kingston, On K7L 3n6 Phone: 613.533.6000 ext. 77016 The survey took place before we published our digital special edition Fax: 613.533.6828 in late September. If you didn’t know, you can choose to read the To update your address QaR in print or online. (If you choose the latter, I’ll send you an email [email protected] whenever the latest digital version is published.) Some readers choose or call 1.800.267.7837 both versions! Just let us know your preference. (toll-free in Canada and u.s. ) Cha ghèill,

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2 issue 4, 2015 | queensu.ca/alumnireview le TttersO THE EDITOR

The active life Porter and David Skene. It brought back Re: “The active life: getting revved up” a flood of memories for me as manager I am so glad that you featured the of the 1960 football Comets, the 1961 and Revved Up program offered by the 1962 football Gaels, and the 1962 and School of Kinesiology and Health 1963 men’s hockey Gaels. These teams Studies at Queen’s . I have referred many were packed with future teachers, clients over the years to this program lawyers, doctors, business leaders, social and they have always come back with workers, scientists, engineers, and so on, rave reviews about the program. It is an all of whom learned the value of friend - affordable and safe option for individu - ship, hard work, dedication, and team als with mobility issues and I hope it work, through the opportunity to be part does not remain a “hidden gem” but of the Gaels experience. The fact that the gets the recognition it deserves. Gaels experience continues to be alive Thanks, and well, through a variety of athletics, Sangeeta Gupta, BScOT’JG, MSc (Rehab)’BA is indeed inspiring. Occupational Therapist, Adult Mental Mike Lewis, PHE’GD, Atikokan, Ont. Health Program, Hotel Dieu Hospital, Kingston Nobel Prize in physics The Oct. 6 announcement that Art The “athletics issue” was both inspiring McDonald of Queen’s had won the and memorable. I could particularly re - Nobel Prize made many people happy late to the article about Dr. Cal Connor, but probably the happiest of all was a who remembers well the support and woman in Sudbury. encouragement that he received from My daughter Martha and I had the fellow athletes and future doctors Terry good fortune to tour the Sudbury

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Neutrino Observatory about a quired to keep the place spotless. year before its breakthrough The woman who guided my discovery. This involved a daughter through the entrance packed elevator ride straight ritual was a cleaning lady. One down for over two kilometres could question why she would and then a one-kilometre walk take this job so far down under - through a tunnel of a working ground and removed from mine. There were puddles along mankind and the sun all day. the way and the post-doc, who Surely she could have gotten an Call for was our guide, called ahead to easier job in the city. But she be sure the water was not too said she came to work every day Nominations high that day for us to proceed. very excited. She knew nothing Upon arriving at the “cleanest about physics but she knew she UNIVERSITY place on earth” we went through was part of something big. She COUNCIL men and women’s entrances. was part of a team that would One removed all clothes and change the world. No scientist The closing date only put one’s underwear could have had greater faith in for nominations is through a window past the what he was doing. March %, #!"$. barrier. After a shower, one So bless her confidence and For information please emerged on the other side of the foresight. She was part of some - see the next issue of the barrier and dressed in coveralls thing big and I am sure she is Alumni Review and boots provided by the celebrating even though history (Issue #", #!"$) project. Then it was through an books are not likely to record and check our website at air shower and across sticky her vital contribution. queensu.ca/secretariat/ paper to cleanse our soles and Gordon Dowsley, Arts’GG, Ottawa elections/university-council finally into the maze of pipes and gauges. Any dust would Read more about Nobel Prize adversely affect the many gauges winner Dr. Art McDonald on so considerable effort was re - page PV.

“Canada’s charitable donation rules have seen many recent changes. Most of these are beneficial to taxpayers.”

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4 issue 4, 2015 | queensu.ca/alumnireview FROM THE principal A transformative gift BY PRINCIPAL DANIEL WOOLF

rincipal George M. Grant is said to have re - Pmarked, shortly before the end of his life, that Queen’s could always count on its alumni for sup - port. Over a century later, that remains true, and the names attached to many buildings, endowed chairs and professorships, and scholarships and bursaries attest to the great love for and gratitude to this university that our graduates, going back to Robert Sutherland’s time, feel in their hearts. Among our most generous alumni donors, some names are understandably well known: Robert Sutherland; the Goodes family; the Richardson family; the Chernoff family; stadium lead donors Stuart and Kim Lang; Robert Buchan; Robert Beamish; Donald Munro; and of course, Drs Alfred and Isabel Bader. To that list we now add the name of Stephen J.R. Smith, Sc’72, whose recent $50-million donation in support of our business school is the largest-ever gift to any business school in Canada. As an endowment to support our faculty and students in perpetuity, this will help the school – renamed in honour of our benefactor “The Stephen J.R. Smith School of Business at Queen’s University” – continue what has been a steady and strong upward rise among the world’s leading business schools. As David Saunders, k

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school’s success is its endowment per faculty n r e member. Mr. Smith’s gift will immediately b accelerate the School’s upward trajectory. Principal Daniel Woolf holds a favourite book from his A few words about Stephen Smith, whom own collection, a <@;= edition of Roma Instaurata by I have come to know quite well over the past six Renaissance era historian Flavio Biondo. years: already a generous donor to Queen’s (to the Department of Economics and the Faculty many alumni and most notably by the generosity of Engineering and Applied Science), he has of Mel and Nancy Goodes, whose prior gift to also served on our Initiative Campaign cabinet. support a new home for business, Goodes Hall, Stephen left Queen’s in 1972 with strong quantita - has made so much else possible. tive skills and a keen interest in finance stimu - Stephen is a modest man, and one with a sincere lated by his engineering training and through commitment to giving back to the community with his elective courses in economics. his ‘time and talent’ as well as his ‘treasure’. I have Like many of our alumni, Stephen is an entre - had the pleasure of working with him for a few preneur who embodies the spirit of initiative. He years on the board of the non-profit organization co-founded First National Financial Corporation Historica Canada. His leadership style is warm and and has built it over the years into one of persuasive but low-key. He has achieved success Canada’s leading financial institutions outside of not only through his training, discipline and energy, the chartered banks. Since then, he has invested but through cultivating relationships. Stephen in or created a number of other businesses. He Smith is, in a word, one of Canada’s great success invests in success, and he has recognized the stories and I am proud to have his name perma - enormous leaps that our business school has nently associated with Queen’s University and made in the past couple of decades, assisted by Smith School of Business. B

issue 4, 2015 | queensu.ca/alumnireview 5 QUID no vi? *being a compendium of “What’s new” on campus In memoriam Brant House ronald Lampman Watts, C.C., the 15th principal of Queen’s university, died oct. 9. dr. Watts, professor from 1955 to 2015 and principal from opens 1974 to 1984, was also one of Canada’s leading experts on federalism. Queen’s celebrated the opening of brant “dr. Watts was a beloved and respected member of the Queen’s house, one of two new student residences, community, and will be sorely missed,” said Principal daniel Woolf. on oct. 3. the building is named in honour “he was also an enormously influential figure in the debates on of dr. marlene brant Castellano and dr. Clare federalism in Canada over several decades, a greatly respected Clifton brant – mohawks of the bay of Quinte This portrait of international consultant on governance, and a fine teacher, many of the tyendinaga mohawk territory, mem - Principal Emeritus of whose students went on to successful careers in academe, the bers of the Wolf Clan, and Queen’s graduates. Ronald L. Watts private sector and the public service.” dr. marlene brant Castellano (arts’55, by Cleeve Horne born in Japan to Canadian anglican missionary parents in 1929, LLd ’91) is a leader in aboriginal education hangs in he was educated at the university of toronto and oxford university. and research who has dedicated her life to Wallace Hall. he arrived at Queen’s university in 1955 as a lecturer in philosophy, the rights and well-being of indigenous but moved to the department of Political and economic Science in students. her late brother, dr. Clare Clifton 1961. dr. Watts took an interest in the administration and students brant, md’65, was Canada’s first aboriginal of Queen’s, serving as a residence don in mcneill house and helping psychiatrist and worked to advance to plan the many residences built during the 1960s. aboriginal mental health issues. he was appointed dean of arts and Science in 1969 before the residence, which accommodates 271 becoming principal five years later. at 45, he was the youngest students, is located on Lower albert Street. principal since george monro grant assumed the office nearly 100 Queen’s campus is situated on traditional years earlier. during his time as principal, several buildings were anishinaabe and haudenosaunee territory. expanded, including botterell hall. Faced with reductions in government funding, dr. Watts also launched a campaign to cut costs, such as reducing energy con - sumption, while also maintaining the quality of teaching and research at Queen’s. his second five-year term was highlighted by laying the plans for the Queen’s national Scholar program to attract outstanding young faculty members as well as starting the planning for the establishment of the School of Policy Studies. k

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adviser to the federal government on constitutional affairs, and b consultant to governments all over the world. Dr. Marlene Brant Castellano at the opening a memorial service was held on campus oct. 30. donations in of Brant House. memory of dr. Watts may be made to the J.a. Corry memorial Fund (intergovernmental relations). givetoqueens.ca/watts there will be an article about dr. Watts in the February issue of Honorary degree the Review . recipients IN MEMORIAM two distinguished individuals will receive honorary degrees at fall convocation Brian Hope , mSc’59, Phd’62, Professor emeritus, Civil engineering, ceremonies. died June 15. Nellie Cournoyea , doctor of Laws, in Roger Browse, associate Professor, Computing and information recognition of her distinguished career in Science, Psychology, died July 18. political governance and outstanding record of commitment in stimulating the economic, Michael Bristow, former professor, biology, died Sept. 25. social and cultural development for aborigi - Mary Balanchuk, ba ’49, Professor emerita, Faculty of education, nal people, and Richard W. Battarbee , died Sept. 29. doctor of Science, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the reconstruc - In the online review , read an in memoriam piece about Dr. Hope by tion of environmental changes that have his colleague Dr. Mark F. Green. become critical tools for lake managers and policy makers.

6 issue 4, 2015 | queensu.ca/alumnireview ca mpus SCENE Picture yourself...as an engineer Comic books contextualize disciplines in engineering for Aboriginal youth

I’m a Chemical Engineer is a comic-style book geared to kids aged 8 to 14 to get them thinking about careers in engineering. the first in a series, I’m a Chemical Engineer introduces the reader to Siobhan, a comic book character talking to a young friend about the many uses of chemistry, links to chemistry in traditional aboriginal cultural prac - tices, and her work as a chemical engineer. on the last page, we meet the real-life Siobhan dooley, Sc’12 (Chemical), and a member of the St. theresa Point First nation in manitoba, now working as a chemical engineer in Sudbury. the book was the initiative of melanie howard, artsci’95, ed’98, director of outreach and aborigi - nal access with the Faculty of engineering and applied Science. With the help of her Circle of advisors, including Carol ann budd, Sc’89, howard created the book to engage young aboriginal students with role models at Queen’s, as well as to highlight the engineering disciplines available at the university. there are now four books in the series featuring First nations and métis students and young graduates, and a fifth is in development. Learn more: aboriginalaccess.ca. g n i r e e n i g n e

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8 issue 4, 2015 | queensu.ca/alumnireview and his younger brother King John “Lackland” income. Without control of money or lands, (1199 –1216) those rights were under threat. Both Isabelle could not exercise significant cultural kings needed additional income to fight their or political patronage as previous queens had military campaigns: Richard was one of the lead - done. Noblewomen who appealed to Isabelle to ers of the Third Crusade and John spent much intercede with John found that the queen had of his reign fighting King Philip II of France for little influence. control of his family’s ancestral territories in After years of growing discontent, John finally Normandy, Maine, Anjou and Aquitaine. In these lost the support of a key faction of barons after circumstances, Richard and John ignored the being defeated by Philip at the Battle of Bouvines terms of Henry I’s coronation charter and sold the in 1214. Stephen Langton, the Archbishop of right to marry to noble widows to their supporters, Canterbury brought together the grievances of confiscating the inheritances of women who re - John’s discontented subjects in a Charter of Liber - fused the second husbands chosen by the king. ties that would become known as Magna Carta: For example, John was offered 50 marks and two The Great Charter. When John’s rebel barons and palfrey horses from a knight named Ralph Ridell clergy compelled him to accept Magna Carta in for the right to marry Alice, the widow of John 1215, making him the first English monarch to Belet. Only when Alice’s father accept limits on his power im - offered twice that sum to the posed by his subjects, the inheri - king was Alice allowed to tance and marriage rights of ) k

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issue 4, 2015 | queensu.ca/alumnireview  future campaigns for women’s equality in politics Eight hundred years after Magna Carta, the and before the law. In 1915, the 700th anniversary right of freedom from forced marriage continues of Magna Carta, British suffragist Helena Norman - to be reaffirmed in modern human rights legisla - ton wrote a treatise comparing the rebellion tion. Article 16 of the United Nations Universal against John in the 13th century to the struggle for Declaration of Human Rights states that “Marriage women’s suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th shall be entered into only with the free and full centuries. consent of the intending spouses” and that men Normanton wrote, “The power of the crown and women “are entitled to equal rights as to has long ceased to be a source of tyranny for marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.” women…It is parliament which is for women an This provision was not accepted by all United unchecked despot, whether its despotism be Nations member states when the Declaration beneficent or malignant. It is for women to end was created in 1948 and equal rights for women that tyranny by striving ceaselessly to obtain the within marriage remains an ongoing struggle in franchise, and by taking all labour for her various regions of the world today, demonstrating province to acquire that economic power which is the continued importance of Magna Carta. the most potent lever to thrust from her cramped limbs the dead weight that oppresses her. The Carolyn Harris teaches message which Magna Carta brings to those who history at the University can read into its aged yellow parchment the story of Toronto, School of Contin - of all the efforts and thoughts it enshrines from uing Studies. She often the past is one of mighty encouragement an provides royal commentary perennial hope.” The treatise followed in the on the BKM News Channel tradition of 18th century political tracts that and BAB Radio. Her first advocated a larger role for women in the public book, Magna Carta and Its sphere including The Declaration of the Rights of Gifts to Canada: Democ - Women and the Female Citizen by Olympe de racy, Law, and Human Gouges and The Vindication of the Rights of Rights, was published by Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft. Dundurn Press in QOPS. B

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Stephen Smith, Sc’1/, at Goodes Hall, home to Smith School of Business.

verything about Stephen Smith’s office Pride and Prejudice , which he rereads every five in downtown Toronto fits the mold of years or so – and the emerging sense of social a 21st-century finance company: the obligation that shaped that century, which he quiet warren of workstations, the bank believes is needed more than ever. of tV screens on the wall, the ceO ’s “I was extremely lucky to grow up in Ontario favourite espresso machine, even and in Canada at a time when we had a first-rate pictures of him heli-skiing in western Canada. education system, and Queen’s was the epitome EEverything, that is, except a large annotated novel of that,” Smith said in a series of interviews before on his coffee table. The copy of Persuasion , Jane his gift was announced. Austen’s final work, is the annotated edition by Nearly five decades after he first set foot on Queen’s University scholar Robert Morrison, and Queen’s campus, Smith is hoping his record gift to was given to Smith by Principal Daniel Woolf. the business school, which now bears his name, Not many ceO s would display a novel, let alone will inspire other alumni to give to the university, an early 1 9th- century work, so prominently. Then while supporting its faculty and students to push again, not many ceO s are like Smith, the self-made themselves to the highest standards in the world. financier who built a billion-dollar mortgage His endowment comes at a time when the eco - company and in October gave $50 million to the nomic and social relevance of universities is ac - school of business at Queen’s . It is the largest gift tively debated, and the competition for top-flight ever to a Canadian business school, and will be professors and students is both fierce and global. directed to faculty chairs and scholarships for Rather than focus on buildings or technology, graduate students. Smith wanted to strengthen Queen’s intellectual A lover of words, a student of history, a disciple muscle in line with Dean David Saunders’ drive of economics, Smith often turns to Austen for the to make the business school among the best in universal truths of human behaviour that she the world. captured in Persuasion , and in his favourite work, “We need to up our thought leadership,” said

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Saunders. “In 10 years, we should be, indisputably, ideas are likely to become prisoners to their past. the best business school in Canada and among As a teenager in the 1960s, he thought he would the best in the world.” be a product of his family’s own past, and stay in Two-thirds of the endowment will fund faculty Ottawa. Then, in July 1968, as North America was research chairs to be held by professors who, engulfed in social upheaval, his Smith proposed, should enjoy complete academic parents took him on a day trip The endowment calls freedom for their research. “The foundation of all to Kingston, asked him what he great universities are great faculty,” Smith said. thought of the campus (“pretty for “vigilant protection The final clause of the endowment contains a line good” was his answer) and told for the rights of crafted by the donor himself, calling for “vigilant him their decision had been protection for the rights of freedom of speech, made: he’d be attending freedom of speech, academic freedom and freedom of research.” Queen’s that fall. His father was academic freedom and The remaining third of Smith’s gift will finance an admirer of John Deutsch, a scholarships. Competition is particularly tough prominent economist and gov - freedom of research.” among business schools worldwide to attract the ernment adviser who had just best and brightest students. The availability of been named principal, and the elder Smith scholarships is often the deciding factor to choose thought Queen’s was the place for his son, a star one school over another. Smith’s priority is to student, to excel. ensure that students gain as much access to ad - While the younger Smith agreed to the univer - vanced learning as their minds can allow. “In the sity, he chose electrical engineering rather than sense that you want to have a society based on public policy or economics. He was an avid ham meritocracy, which I think is good, it’s becoming radio operator and was also dabbling in the new increasingly difficult,” he says. field of computer coding, specializing in Waterloo Like universities, Smith fears, societies that Fortran, or WatFor, as the popular script was then don’t allow for the free movement of people and known. Away from the campus mainframe, he soon

issue 4, 2015 | queensu.ca/alumnireview 13 found economics to be as alluring. He made special duplex for a profit, and figured he, too, could make arrangements with the dean so he could take some it in real estate speculation. He fell flat on his face, economics courses under the academic titans of losing what little he had. Picking himself up after a their day, Richard Lipsey and David C. Smith. few bad deals, he decided to try his hand as a mort - Despite summer work as a coder and a job upon gage broker, teaming up with a young Guaranty graduation in 1972 with Bell Northern Research in Trust manager, Moray Tawse, to form their own Ottawa, Smith’s mind was restless. “Coding drives business, First National Financial. Their timing you crazy after a while. It’s not intellectually stimu - was exquisite. After the Progressive Conservative lating,” he says with a laugh. He pursued, instead, government opened up Canada’s financial sector a master’s degree at the London School of to competition from non-banks, the young busi - Economics, and at 21, found a new course in life. ness partners quickly figured out how to bundle England was in the midst of political and economic and sell mortgages to investors. In 1988, their first upheaval, which captured Smith’s imagination. full year, First National booked about $200,000 At the Lse , where he specialized in micro-eco - in revenue – a quarter of which was profit. nomics, he began to see the relationship between For Smith, the mortgage business was an acci - business decisions and public policy, and soon be - dental blend of micro-economics and computer gan to test it in the real world. After graduation, he coding. He and Tawse had figured out how to worked as a market researcher for Mullard Electron - price and package mortgages more aggressively ics, the storied British firm, and then returned to than their bank competitors. They also realized Canada to join Canadian Pacific and later Hawker that to stay ahead of the banks, they needed so - Siddeley, the aircraft manufacturer. His interest in phisticated computer programs, which Smith free markets collided with his free spirit, and in wrote at night after putting his three young chil - 1980 he was fired for speaking his mind. “If my boss dren to bed. He remained the First National’s IT told me to do something and I didn’t think it was director until the turn of the century, when he right, I didn’t hide that,” Smith recalls. “I thought I realized he couldn’t both keep pace with the was smarter than my bosses. I was insolent, which changes in coding and run a business. is probably the character of entrepreneurs.” As First National grew, Smith maintained an Out of work as the Canadian economy spiralled interest in public policy, joining the board of the toward recession, Smith watched a friend flip a C.D. Howe Institute and increasingly turning his t n o m a L

y z u S Stephen Smith and students smile for the cameras at the Oct. < event. Mr. Smith’s endowment will go to student scholarships, as well as research chairs.

14 issue 4, 2015 | queensu.ca/alumnireview mind to history. On a 2007 trip to Vimy Ridge in France, for the rededication of the Canadian war on oct. 1, Stephen J.r. Smith announced his $50-million gift to Smith School memorial, he discovered a passion for Canadian of business. here’s part of his speech to the packed crowd at goodes hall history, and desire to do more. He joined the that morning. boards of the Historica Foundation and Dominion “i was told that my first donation to Queen’s was $8. i have no recollection Institute, which merged in 2009, and more re - of this gift and trust it was used well. over the years i have made other cently, with his wife, Diane Blake, a librarian, donations to the university and enjoyed staying engaged with my alma mater. archivist and fellow history buff, granted $3 million i have never forgotten my experience at Queen’s. i received an excellent to a project to create a Toronto history museum. education from outstanding professors who were academic leaders dedi - The past and present, they felt, were inseparable. cated to their students’ success. When i left, i was well prepared for the next Smith’s life is about more than books and his - steps in my academic and professional life. i am ever grateful for my time tory, though. Once his business was off the ground, at Queen’s. and his three children growing, he took up skiing So today is first and foremost an expression of my gratitude. seriously, learning to tackle mountains only when it is also a vote of confidence in my alma mater. and, in the university’s he was in his late 30s. Ten years on this morphed leadership and direction. into his true passion – heli-skiing. “A helicopter Queen’s has ambitious goals. i have witnessed the resolute focus of the takes you to the top of the mountain and drops you chair of the board, barb Palk; Principal Woolf, dean Saunders; vice-Principal in 30 cm of powder snow,” he says. “I was hooked.” (advancement) tom harris and countless others through my involvement as The challenge of the terrain and the thrill of navi - a volunteer on the initiative Campaign Cabinet and other dealings. i am gating the unknown, played to his appetite for risk convinced that the central values that made Queen’s so special when i was and discipline of control. He now heli-skis with a student continue to reside here.” either family or friends in British Columbia, four or five times a year. Smith is out for more than solo thrills. In National emerged stronger from the turmoil, Smith Toronto, he belongs to a cycling club called Les does not discount the impact that the ensuing Domestiques, the term used for the support groups malaise will have on business, the study of business, that cycle with Tour de France contenders. “They and public confidence in business. Recent banking sacrifice their chance to win in order to support the scandals and the current Volkswagen debacle have team and the leader,” he says. His group, whose only heightened his concern that business and members range from bank executives ethics have drifted too far apart. “There to police officers, cycles 30 kilometres, is such a premium on making money three early mornings a week. that people lose their moral compass,” It was his love of history, however, he says. “Business schools have to bear that created an instant bond with some responsibility.” Woolf, when the new principal, after For bearings, Smith sometimes his appointment in 2009, called on turns as much to the past as to the the alumnus. He wanted to know future. Even in a free market system, he if Smith might add to the nearly has found, government and business $2 million he had already given to must work together and yet respect Queen’s , for a bursary program for en - one another’s strengths, just as he gineering and economics students and for a believes faculty and students need to be given faculty fellowship in economics. Smith invited their space on a thriving campus. His views were Woolf to join the Historica board, and as they strengthened when he recently read Nation Maker, discussed Queen’s , they agreed the business the second volume of Richard Gwyn’s biography school would make the most of a major gift. of Sir John A. Macdonald. Canada was already in the midst of a boom in Without Macdonald’s resolve, Smith concluded, large-scale donations to universities, and profes - the national railway would not have been built, sional schools in particular. In 2002, oil man Richard and what is now western Canada most likely Haskayne put University of Calgary’s business would have been absorbed by the United States. school on the map with a $16-million gift. Smith’s Macdonald was able to broker competing points business friend, Hal Jackman, gave $30 million to of view, in the national interest. The same ability University of Toronto for humanities. Joe Rotman’s to bridge public interest and private concern, with gift to U of T, however, resonated most with Smith policy, economics and the fine art of the deal, may as he debated whether to attach his name to the again serve Canada well. In Smith’s eyes, it may business school at Queen’s . Like Rotman, he felt it also inspire business education. would encourage others to do more. “A society that cares is a successful society,” he The negotiations coincided with the aftermath says. “It’s important to pay taxes. It’s important to of the global financial crisis, and while First give back. It’s important to be civically engaged.” B

issue 4, 2015 | queensu.ca/alumnireview 15 ADVANCEMENT sp otl ight Recognizing excellence in teaching

t probably shouldn’t surprise anyone to learn “Jackie’s classes always had a different feel to Ithat Jacqueline Davies considers Socrates one them,” says Galen Watts (Artsci’15), the student of her heroes. She is, after all, a professor of phi - who nominated her for the award. “They were losophy. But Dr. Davies has another hero, who democratic, un-hierarchical and inclusive.” has influenced her in ways Socrates never could. Dr. Davies began her career at Q ueen’s in 1990, Ms. Frizzle, the eccentric, adventuresome in what was then the women’s studies program. third-grade teacher from the “Magic School Bus” Today she is a continuing adjunct professor in the cartoon series, keeps Dr. Davies inspired as she Department of Philosophy with a cross-appoint- encourages her students to “take chances, make ment in gender studies and affiliations with cul- mistakes, get messy!” tural studies and Jewish studies. She also serves as Dr. Davies’s ability to inspire her own students acting head of the Department of Gender Studies. to learn fearlessly and embrace their mistakes has And while she specializes in topics ranging led to her selection as the 2015 recipient of the from feminist thought to critical thinking and Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching. the insights of Emmanuel Levinas, she says the subject matter is always secondary to the students. “It’s really important to keep in mind that you’re not teaching a subject,” she says. “You’re teaching people.” This insight has shaped a nimble, mindful approach to teaching which enables her to adapt to the needs of her students as she becomes aware of them. “I’m a very verbal learner,” she says. “But I’ve come to realize that not everybody has that style.” After receiving feedback early in her career that her lectures weren’t visually stimu- lating, she began actively looking for ways to en- gage all types of learners. “Now I incorporate a lot of material – film, music, things you can handle...” Dr. Davies says the diverse approach is a helpful counterpoint to some of the material she teaches. “A lot of the ideas we discuss are threatening because they challenge beliefs that students have,” she says. “It’s important to help people feel comfortable when they’re having their beliefs challenged.” She may not lead her students on field trips to the ocean floor or the inside of a beehive, but like her cartoon hero, she keeps them eagerly antici- pating their next learning adventure. “It was always a fun surprise to arrive at Jackie’s class,” Mr. Watts says. “You never knew precisely what she would come up with next.”

The Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching was established by the Q ueen’s University Alumni Associa- k

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Dr. Arthur B. McDonald Inaugural Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics Director, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration

 Nobel Prize in Physics Congratulations Professor Arthur B. McDonald Queen’s University professor Arthur B. McDonald, along with Takaaki Kajita of the University of Tokyo, has been awarded the -+,. Nobel Prize in Physics. Dr. McDonald and a team of Canadian and international scientists worked deep underground unlocking the mysteries of neutrinos, fundamental building blocks of nature. Their revolutionary work redefined the basic laws of particle physics and confirmed the detailed understanding of how the sun burns. This exemplifies research at Queen’s: leading-edge ideas, advances and discoveries that address the world’s greatest challenges.

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t an early age, Arthur B. McDonald was world’s deepest underground laboratory, the snO already busy trying to figure out the way team – made up of scientists from several Canadian things work. universities – discovered that neutrinos change A“His mother will tell you that at age five, he from one type, or “flavour,” to another on their jour - used to take apart clocks,” says Dr. McDonald’s ney to Earth from the core of the sun. This finding wife, Janet McDonald. “Very early he was intrigued confirmed that these fundamental particles have a by how things work.” finite mass and that the current models for energy It’s that interest in the mechanics of the world generation in the sun are very accurate. that eventually led Dr. McDonald, the 2015 co-win - Dr. McDonald shares the prestigious Nobel win ner of the Nobel Prize in Physics – to study the with Japanese scientist Takaaki Kajita, a professor universe on a fundamental level, through physics. at the University of Tokyo who similarly found, at “In high school, I was interested in science, not the Super Kamiokande detector in Japan, that necessarily physics. And I had a math teacher, neutrinos created in the atmosphere underwent Bob Chafe, in Sydney, Nova Scotia, who inspired a metamorphosis in their journey to Earth. many to pursue math,” says Dr. McDonald. “When “I am truly honoured,” says Dr. McDonald. I started studying at Dalhousie, I went to study “While I am a co-winner of the Nobel Prize, the math and science, but it was other teachers, honour really represents a culmination of the hard Professors Ernest Guptill and Innes MacKenzie, work and contributions of many colleagues with who inspired me in physics. I also found that I whom I have collaborated during my career.” could do it and it was fun.” The Nobel Prize win recognizes the immense r. McDonald grew up in the small Nova Scotia contributions Dr. McDonald has made over his Dcity of Sydney, where a tightknit family gave lengthy career, but particularly honours his him a strong sense of community and laid the longtime research and groundbreaking findings foundation for his successful career. into neutrinos – sub-atomic particles considered “There was a lot of knowledge and respect there, the basic building blocks of the universe. within his family,” says Mrs. McDonald, who is also In 1989, he became director of the Sudbury from Sydney and met Dr. McDonald at a dance in Neutrino Observatory ( snO ), located in the Vale high school. The couple will celebrate their 50th Creighton mine near Sudbury. Working in the wedding anniversary in 2016.

18 issue 4, 2015 | queensu.ca/alumnireview “He’s very clever, but along with that, he has a really good sense about things. He’s multi-faceted,” the 2015 nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly she says. to takaaki kajita and arthur b. mcdonald “for the “Art has a wonderful way with people. He is discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows very humble and respectful, and I think that’s why that neutrinos have mass.” the snO collaboration has done so well. They are the prize was established in 1901. dr. mc - all very collegial. That starts with the director and donald is the fourth Canadian, and first faculty permeates through the group.” member of Queen’s university, to receive the nobel Prize in Physics. in december, dr. mcdonald r. McDonald left Sydney for Dalhousie Univer - travels to Sweden to receive the nobel medal from the Dsity in Halifax, graduating in 1964 with a BSc royal Swedish academy of Sciences. (Honours) in physics and a year later, with an MSc the medal depicts alfred nobel (1833-1896), who in the same field. From there, he headed south, left the bulk of his fortune to honour outstanding and west, to complete a PhD in nuclear physics at contributions to humanity. the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. the inscription on the obverse of the medal for He and Mrs. McDonald came back to Canada physics, taken from virgil’s Aeneid , reads: Inventas vitam in 1969 and settled in Deep River, where Dr. juvat excoluisse per artes which, loosely translated, says, McDonald worked at the Chalk River Nuclear “and they who bettered life on earth by their newly Laboratories with Atomic Energy of Canada, found mastery.” performing fundamental nuclear and particle physics experiments with accelerators and reactors. After 12 years in Deep River, Dr. McDonald was clear evidence that the neutrinos from the core of offered a position at Princeton University. They the sun were changing their type, a process arising were raising their four children in Deep River, and from neutrinos of finite mass undergoing oscilla - while somewhat reluctant to leave, the family tions. This result, coupled with results for atmos - moved and stayed in Princeton until 1988, when pheric neutrinos from Dr. Kajita’s experiment in Dr. McDonald came to Queen’s on sabbatical for a Japan, requires modifications to the Standard year and stayed on permanently. Model of Elementary Particles to include massive “While I was at Chalk River, I was already work - neutrinos. snO results also provided a very accurate ing with scientists from Queen’s who became the confirmation of current models of the sun and its snO team here,” says Dr. McDonald. “And when I energy-generation processes. was at Princeton, I returned to Chalk River in the summers to complete research. Our snO collabora - hile Dr. McDonald says he’s retired, he still tion began in 1984 and I started to study low Wcomes into campus regularly and is busy radioactivity materials in our labs at Princeton.” contributing to two experiments at snOLaB . As project director at snO , now known as Of course, the Nobel changes things. It’s a snOLaB , Dr. McDonald was responsible for the distinction he knows will shift his life in exciting development, construction, commissioning and ways. At the same time, he feels a responsibility to operation of the unique underground site, as well represent his colleagues, university and country as the analysis and presentation of scientific results. well when in the spotlight that this prize brings. It was his persistence, dedication and leadership “It was a feeling of amazement,” says Dr. over many years that paved the way to the signifi - McDonald. “I am so grateful, for the award, and cant scientific breakthroughs made by the team. for all my colleagues and students who have been “We knew that we could make a significant alongside me throughout my career.” measurement on the property of neutrinos, if we could only complete this very complex project Dr. Arthur McDonald recently finished and control radioactivity to an enormous degree,” reading The Quest: Energy, Security, and he says. the Remaking of the Modern World by At snO , Dr. McDonald’s leadership led to the Daniel Yergin. B creation of the ultimate in a low-radioactivity instrument using 1,000 tonnes of heavy water as the heart of a solar neutrino detector. Whereas previous experiments had primarily observed Coming up... electron neutrinos, snO also observed the total In our February issue,we take a closer look at the flux of all active solar neutrinos and could show work of Dr. Arthur McDonald and his colleagues, decisively whether the electron neutrinos had both at SNOLAB and in the Department of Physics, changed into other types. Engineering Physics & Astronomy at Q ueen’s. The results from the snO experiment provided

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n her own writing and with that of her kept Ms. Smart’s career bubbling and fresh. She students, Carolyn Smart takes a no-holds- launched her sixth book of poetry, Careen , in barred approach. She doesn’t follow any September, to a full house in the Malting Tower fashion, the latest hip way. She stays true to of the Tett Centre in Kingston. Careen is a long Iher own voice and urges the same of her students. poem, a new take on the tumultuous lives of “You are your strongest critic. You’ve got to feel Bonnie and Clyde. good about it. Be honest with yourself, with oth - At the event, Julie Salverson, a friend of Ms. ers,” says Ms. Smart, a poet who has taught creative Smart’s and drama professor at Queen’s , said a few writing in the Queen’s Department of English since words before Ms. Smart read from the book. Ms. 1989. “And I am honest with my students. There is Smart often guest-stars in one of Dr. Salverson’s no point in unwarranted praise.” drama classes on the artist as witness to risky stories. It’s this tough, fearless attitude that has long Here’s a small excerpt of what Dr. Salverson said:

20 issue 4, 2015 | queensu.ca/alumnireview “She dive-bombs into the darkest of places. were living, existing beings. And that I wanted to She brings up sweetness. be one myself.” She shows us that those places are in all of us. Back in Canada, and in her usual fearless way, She is fearless in her gaze. Ms. Smart entered the world of Canadian litera - Her words are fierce, untamed, beautiful not pretty, ture, working in her twenties for the Macmillan anguished not sad. publishing house, under Douglas Gibson, in She takes no prisoners, this one.” Toronto. She was hired as poetry editor and worked with Gwendolyn MacEwen, already an Ms. Smart admits that it’s not always the easiest established and award-winning poet. road, being honest on the page. Her work flip-flops “My knees knocked meeting her,” says Ms. between two styles – from dissecting her own life in Smart. “She was just wonderful. So brilliant and a confessional and lyrical way in her books The Way other-worldly, magical. She lived in a world of to Come Home and Stoning the Moon , to the more language and metaphor.” narrative works that explore others’ lives in Careen The first two books Ms. Smart promoted went and Hooked ( which is also a highly celebrated one- on to become huge pillars on the Canadian scene: woman play performed by Nicky Guadagni, most Hugh MacLennan’s The Rivers of Canada and recently at Passe Muraille in Toronto). Dennis Lee’s Alligator Pie . In those confessional works, Ms. Smart has Outside of work, she surrounded herself with delved into difficult parts of her own past – her poets – Roo Borson, Susan Glickman, Barry memoir At the End of the Day explores family, and Dempster, Pier Giorgio di Cicco. They shared She pushes in particular her father, through prose-poetry and their work constantly, and talked. A blind date students to prose. At times, it’s a difficult book to read, for its led to marriage, which led to moving to the their best, dance around abuse – and she’s said in the past Kingston area, where her husband worked that it’s the hardest book she has written. and still works designing kitchens. They live and in turn “There is an intimate life hidden from view in on the outskirts, on a piece of land between is fuelled most of us. I think it can be revealed in writing in a Harrowsmith and Sydenham. helpful sort of way,” she says. “Writing has helped “I like living in an isolated place. I don’t like by their me understand my own pain, grow beyond it, heal being in the action – this way I get to choose to “constant from that.” come in and out.” Teaching writing can be equally revealing. For Taking the Queen’s job 26 years ago was both ideas” and many in her classes, it’s anxiety-causing to bring difficult and exciting, she says. She was hired to energy. forth personal stories, and to be pushed to be replace her longtime friend, poet Bronwen Wallace, honest about those stories. In most academic who died suddenly of cancer at 44 years old. years, Ms. Smart has about 150 students over two “I was in deep grief when I first started, and terms. She teaches both poetry and fiction. didn’t know if I could do it, but as time wore on, “There is a lot of emotion in the classroom. I realized I was doing all right, and the job gave me Sometimes I do feel a bit like a psychotherapist. a great deal of confidence. I also wanted to keep There’s a trajectory of healing that moves through going for Bron, to keep her memory alive.” the classes.” She honours her friend, too, through the RBc Bronwen Wallace Award, which Ms. Smart s. Smart began writing at a young age. When founded in 1994. Offered by the Writers’ Trust of Mshe was 11, she started studies at a boarding Canada, the award celebrates emerging writers school in the u.K . Her father was a diplomat, mov - under 35 in fiction and poetry, alternating every ing around quite a bit, and her parents wanted conti - year between the two genres. nuity for Ms. Smart and her sister, who attended a The award seems fitting, given Ms. Smart has different school. Ms. Smart remembers feeling like mentored and propelled the writing lives of an outsider, the only one in her class with a non- thousands of Queen’s students over the years. British accent. She found her place when she started She pushes them to their best, and in turn is writing fictional stories for one of her classes. She fuelled by their “constant ideas” and energy. read her story based on writer and adventurer “There’s so much talent out there. This univer - Walter Raleigh to the class, and they loved it. sity attracts such a high level of knowledge. And “I was so enthralled to do something I loved, I’m that teacher parents hate, because I’m the one and to be praised for it,” she says. “I started writing who talks their students out of going to med real bodice-ripping romances. Pot-boilers. I’d read school,” she says, laughing. them aloud to my friends.” Later on, Ms. Smart remembers how the What Carolyn Smart is reading: Don Coles’ British writer Nicholas Monsarrat would visit the poetry, Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby , family home. “It was then that I knew writers and The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison. B

issue 4, 2015 | queensu.ca/alumnireview 21 feature REPORT The evolution of Queen ’s Lib rary BY JENNIFER AMOS

ueen’s University had a fledging of a course on the history of medicine. Still others library before it had students, are much sought after by researchers who travel to buildings, or even teachers. In Kingston to consult resources such as the private 1840, Judge James Mitchell made a library of author John Buchan (Governor General donation of six volumes to the of Canada, 1935 –1940). new institution. Now known col - Speaking of the rich resources held in archives lectively as the Mitchell Gift, these and special collections, Martha Whitehead, volumes were a Latin Bible (1592), Vice-Provost and University Librarian, says, “We a Greek New Testament (1760), a want our learners to be excited by these treasures, French New Testament (1664), a Greek Lexicon and to engage with them. This library is their (1821) and a 1760 two-volume set of John Locke’s world, and as they navigate through it, we want Essay Concerning Human Understanding. This was a them to feel a sense of welcome, and that we will full year before Queen’s College was formed by help them explore the many paths of research.” Royal Charter and nearly two years before two In its early years, one of the library’s main professors and 13 students came together for focuses was on expanding collections. It was so Queen’s University’s first class. much a priority that it is said the Rev. William These days the Mitchell Gift is housed in the Snodgrass, Queen’s sixth principal (1864 – 1877) Queen’s Library’s special collections, no longer did not stop at soliciting donations of books from used for everyday classes. Other rare volumes held friends, family and Canadian authors, but “occa - at Queen’s , however, are still part of modern stu - sionally carried home more than was given,” dent learning, such as the 1543 first edition of De according to Volume I of the Queen’s history humani corporis fabrica by early anatomist Andreas (And Not To Yield by Hilda Neatby). Vesalius. Medical students study the work as part This early emphasis on amassing physical resources has shifted, over the years, toward a focus on discoverability, the ability to uncover the existence of information. This includes not only the books and e-journals the library has collected, but information produced around the globe. Library staff help researchers navigate the ever- expanding world of information to discover what information exists, wherever it is, and how to acquire it. The structure of the modern Queen’s library is based on the notion that anyone in the library is able to help a member of the Queen’s community get started on their research question. “The research journey starts with one question and leads to many more, and we have people to assist at different stages along the way,” White - head says. “We want everybody to come to us as the place that can help them run with an idea,

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management and publication decisions, and original splendour. The map is a significant tracking the impact of research findings. The document in the ongoing study of the Rideau Copyright Advisory Office within the library Canal, especially now that it is a unescO World provides copyright and intellectual property Heritage site. information and services, as well as practical Archivists also influence the learning environ - copyright guidelines for instructors and students. ment at Queen’s . This past year, they helped Queen’s University Archives staff are also develop two internships with the Department responsible for conservation, and sometimes of History. History 501 and 502 give course credit restoration, of the holdings. Students in the to students conducting archival work in collabora - Queen’s Master of Art Conservation program tion with archives staff. [Learn more in “Bringing also take on conservation projects with the history alive,” in the online Review .] archives every year. In 2015, the archives was contacted by the Yorktown-Mt. Pleasant Town - A legacy of revered learning spaces ship Historical Alliance in Indiana, which had an In 1841, the library’s initial collection was housed item in its collection that, its staff felt, belonged in the tower of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. at Queen’s . Their gift was the 1856 – 1865 official By the 1870s, the library operated out of the old ledger of Thomas Burrowes, Justice of the Peace medical building, with no indoor access. The and postmaster at Kingston Mills from 1846 until Queen’s Journal described chilly winter line-ups and his death in 1866. The ledger contains a detailed a librarian, bundled up like “a sort of library Santa record of cases (names, offences, sentencing and Claus” handing out frigid books. In 1880, the col - other pertinent details). The volume is a great lections moved again, to Theological Hall, where source of information for a variety of researchers: Dr. George Bell, librarian and registrar, maintained genealogists; social, economic and legal histori - a “death-like silence” in the new reading room, ans; sociologists; and historical geographers. again, according to the Journal. When conservator Margaret Bignell began work By 1924, the notion of the library as a community on the Burrowes ledger, she discovered another place had become central to Queen’s . Douglas interesting document within its pages: an 1841 Library, the first purpose-built library building on hand-drawn survey map, documenting the campus, opened in that year. Contrary to campus Rideau Canal and surrounding region between legend, the building was not constructed backwards. Kingston and Lake Opinicon (Chaffey’s Locks). Despite a striking “back entrance,” blueprints in Bignell restored the faded, delicate drawing to its the archives confirm that neither entrance was

issue 4, 2015 | queensu.ca/alumnireview 23 A tradition of dedicated Queen’s Library, by the numbers * people and services B 11 linear kilometres of archival records, including 3 million images, In the 1840s, the library was open for approxi - 300,000 architectural drawings and thousands of sound mately one hour a day. By 1889, the stacks re - recordings and moving images. mained closed to students who were permitted B 12,860 answers to individual queries to borrow no more than two books at a time B more than 3 million physical volumes (In fact, if they had two books out, they were not B 17,118 students taught in 752 classes/consultations across all permitted to consult reference materials on site). faculties and schools But this didn’t imply a lack of dedication on the part of library staff to their clientele. Back in 1895, *2014/15 numbers Adam Shortt, the professor in charge of the li - brary, returned from a visit to the Harvard library designated the main entrance. The elaborate east inspired, and single-handedly produced the first side of the building would have been the most card catalogue for Queen’s , making the library’s frequently used entrance on account of the layout resources much easier to find for users. of campus in the 1920s. Today, undergraduates may borrow up to 100 Seventy years later, the Joseph S. Stauffer items at a time and there are no limits for gradu - Library was built, opening in 1994 and winning ate students, faculty and staff. Stauffer Library is the Governor General’s Award for Architecture open 24/ 7 during exams, with a 2 am closing in 1997. In this same period, the library won an most other days in winter season. Queen's alumni, innovation award from the Canadian Association community borrowers and St. Lawrence College of College and University Libraries in recognition students all may obtain borrowing privileges, of its leadership in providing services and and they make regular use of the material at the resources to students with disabilities. library and archives. Researchers from around the Today, Queen’s students and researchers can world visit the archives, in person and online, to connect electronically to library resources any - view the genealogical collections. Parts of the time, anywhere. And they still frequent the Dr. H.C. Burleigh fonds, which contains genealog - libraries on campus. Library spaces are campus ical research on more than 1,000 families with hubs with inviting, accessible learning spaces. roots in the Kingston area, have now been Cozy library locations include the Alan G. Green digitized for online access. (Learn more at Fireplace Reading Room in Stauffer Library, and bit.ly/ H@I RPSWV.) And sometimes the materials the 1923 and 1966 wing reading rooms in Douglas in the archives do the travelling. For example, Library. Students can find silent library space to several items from the fonds of John Alexander concentrate deeply on their studies, as well as (Alex) Edmison, a key figure in the United places where collaboration is encouraged. Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Queen’s Learning Commons ( QLc ) supports during and after the Second World War, have students as they develop inquiry, communication been used in exhibits at the Canadian War and teaching skills. Aside from service and work - Museum in Ottawa and the Montreal Holocaust shop delivery, QLc also hosts events such as a Memorial Centre. weekly “Material Matters” graduate student dis - cussion group, which provides a forum for inter - An evolving future disciplinary graduate research. This group started From six little books to a portal to the world of as a small project out of the Department of Geog - information, the Queen’s Library has seen im - raphy: it has been so successful, a sister group is mense changes in the last 175 years. The library now being set up at the University of Toronto. remains a guardian of traditions, heritage and history while facilitating teaching, learning and discovery in a changing world. Anticipating The Queen’s Library comprises: ongoing change, the Library and Archives Master B Stauffer Library, housing the QLC and academic Services, plus Plan ( LaMP ) was developed in 2013 with input of humanities and Social Sciences resources and services the Queen’s community, and since then has been B douglas Library, housing the engineering and Science Library guiding the way forward. As Whitehead says, “Our and the Jordan Special Collections and music Library students, staff, faculty and alumni own the library; it is theirs, and so it adapts to their needs.” Learn B bracken health Sciences Library (botterell hall) more about LaMP at queensu.ca/connect/lamp/ . B education Library (mcarthur hall) B Lederman Law Library (macdonald hall) Vice-Provost and University Librarian B university archives (kathleen ryan hall) Martha Whitehead is currently reading His Whole Life by Elizabeth Hay. B 24 issue 4, 2015 | queensu.ca/alumnireview

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Documenting change In 8?;8, Dorothy Wardle, Arts’;9, was elected as the first female president of the Alma Mater Society. Certain holdings in the Queen’s Archives document the election campaign, which was run on faculty alliances. Slates from the faculties of Arts, Science and Medicine and from Levana (the official association of female students from 8>>> until 8?<=) all entered the race. Medicine’s C.R. McLean, Meds’;9, was elected vice-president, and Wardle’s Levana running mate, Sylva Rowley, Arts’;:, became +,- secretary. Seen here: pages from the 8?;8 Queen’s Journal and from a photo album and scrapbook of Diana (Wheeler) Grandfield, Arts’;:, who documented the election as well as other aspects of campus life. Diana wrote to the Review a few years ago, “As a feminist, I often feel the triumph of electing a woman president of the
 in 1941-42 is overlooked. Levana, with its approximately 200 women, was regarded as a separate faculty and we were running our candidate, Dorothy Wardle, against the all-male faculties of Arts, Science, and Medicine. It was a weighted ballot so the second choice was important. Science, the largest faculty, was regarded as a shoo-in because it was using its supposedly superior mathematical collective mind to calculate where each member should cast his second and third vote (I believe it was done by year and alphabetically). They blew it because they did not realize what instructions Medicine was giving. Levana was told to give no votes to Science. (I was one of the few who secretly disobeyed and voted my second choice for Science’s Norm Grandfield, whom I eventually married.) Dorothy received enough second choices to win.”

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reluctant traveller, she ventured to friends, easily maintaining, until her Up to !! . Peru and Poland with Andy. Prior to mid-90s, an extensive correspon - retirement, Madge and Andy, with dence with friends and family all over Family News the help of several close friends, built the world. Bob Schock , their A-frame cottage on Watabeag John H. Hemming , MD’52, died April Sc’48, cele - Lake, where they spent many pleas - 23 in London, Ont., in his 93rd year. brated his ant times throughout the years. Beloved husband of Sally; loving fa - 90th birthday George Grant Cameron , BSc’43, ther of Bruce, Jennifer and Joanna; in August. died Oct. 30, 2014, at home in Port proud grandfather of Erin and Lau - Bob studied Elgin, Ont. A proud graduate of ren. John spent most of his career mechanical Queen’s civil engineering, George with the Department of Veterans engineering at served as a lieutenant in the Royal Affairs, retiring in 1986. Queen’s upon Canadian Engineers, 1943-46, then his return from Kenneth Harry Lendon , BA’50, died worked as a construction engineer serving overseas in the Royal Navy, in Owen Sound, Ont., at the age of with Ontario Hydro for 34 years. Fleet Air Arm. Bob always wears his 87. Ken’s itinerant life of self-imposed Many of Grandpa George’s children Queen’s tam during the winter; this exile from the conventional virtues and grandchildren have followed summer he sported a new summer of “Toronto the Good” carried him him to Queen’s. George’s parents Queen’s cap he got for his birthday. across the globe. At Queen’s, he was were Edna (Spottswood), BA 1907, Thanks go out to Bob’s son Rob associate editor of the Journal . He and D.R. Cameron, MA 1905, MD Schock, Artsci’75, for sending us also served as a cadet on the de - 1909. George was respectfully the birthday news and photo. stroyer Athabaskan, until he was named after former Queen’s principal cashiered for writing a possibly naïve Notes George Monro Grant. He spent a life - article in a radical journal denounc - Readers who saw the death notice of time giving back to his alma mater. ing militarism in the military. He took Umeo Nakano in our last issue may His grandchildren at Queen’s fondly his PhD at Johns Hopkins University have spotted an unfamiliar name in refer to the doors beneath the iconic in 1954 with a dissertation on the the list of Umeo’s Sc’59 friends: “Marv campus clock tower as “Grandpa’s early novels of D.H. Lawrence. This Patry.” Somewhere along the line, doors.” His memory survives with his sojourn in Maryland made him a life - two names got merged into one. We wife, Dorothy (Montgomery), his long fan of the Baltimore Orioles, a apologize to Umeo’s friends Marv children James (Judy), Susan quixotic affiliation more productive Kriluck and Bob Peterson. (Michael), Alison Davies (Thomas), of rueful disappointment than of tri - Gordon, Sc’87 (Laurie), his sister umphant joy, and left him with no Deaths Catherine Cockburn, Arts’52, and great confidence in American law Marjorie (Huskisson) Brzoza- 10 much-loved grandchildren. enforcement. Wearing a beard to Czempinski , BA’50, died May 16 in Helen Mary (Lynton) Davis , BA’41, look less absurdly young, he was Thunder Bay, Ont. in her 94th year. died May 11 in her 98th year, having once arrested as a deserter from the Predeceased by husband Andrew, lived a long and happy life. She was U.S. Army, it being taken for granted BA’54, whom she met at Queen’s, predeceased by her beloved hus - in the clean-shaven 1950s that only she is survived by her daughter Judy band, Bill, her brothers Gordon and a fugitive attempting disguise would (Grant) Hall and granddaughters Russell, and her stepson Bob. She is so conceal his face. Ken’s first aca - Katherine and Jennifer. After gradua - survived by her niece Jennifer demic appointment was at the tion, Madge headed north to teach Lynton-Tingley, Artsci’85, and her University of California at Santa in Cochrane, Ont. for a year. During family, and her stepchildren Mary, Barbara, a town that he found even this time, future husband Andy Arthur and Margie and their families. more boring than Toronto. He conse - became captivated with the north After graduation from Queen’s and quently resigned and toured Europe while visiting Madge. As a result, the serving her country during the war with his wife, Deborah (Pierce), two spent most of their life together effort, Helen began her career with Arts’49, in a Citroën Deux Chevaux: in the northern Ontario town of Iro - the Bank of Canada. In 1968, she they disagreed in later years about quois Falls, although Andy’s career as married the great love of her life, who got to steer and who had to a researcher and high school teacher Bill (Most Reverend William W. Davis, push when the underpowered car took them briefly to Chippewa, Archbishop of the Diocese of Nova was defeated by the hills of Spain. Smooth Rock Falls, Petawawa and Scotia and P.E.I.). Joining him in A life of wandering in lands far from Wawa, Ont. Madge stayed home for Halifax, Helen proved to be of great Toronto funded by spells of teaching several years to raise her daughter assistance in helping Bill carry out his suited Ken perfectly, and when Deb - and eventually returned to work as a duties as archbishop. She travelled orah suggested that she would find supply teacher. She was knowledge - with him to the many parishes of his such an existence more tolerable if able on many subjects; she was a diocese, making lasting friendships accompanied by regular rations of dedicated gardener, an avid reader, along the way. Always a friendly and food and hot water, he became a a philatelist, an impeccable hostess outgoing person, Helen made lecturer for the British Council. That and an outstanding cook. Although a

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organization sent him on stints Clarence (“Ken”) Marshall, BSc’41, Nancy May (Hawley) Robinson , teaching English literature at univer - died at home on June 23 with family BA’48, MA’49, died July 18, aged 87. sities in Iran, Indonesia, Lebanon and by his side. Ken’s 97 years were Nancy grew up in Kingston, the finally to Waseda University in Tokyo. happy, productive and rewarding in daughter of Gladys (May), BA 1920, There he lectured until his retirement many ways. Predeceased by his bride and James Hawley, BA 1919, MA in 1998. Ken came to maturity as an of 68 years, Betty, in 2011, Ken is sur - 1920 (and former head of the De - academic in the blissful era when vived by his children Bob (Maureen), partment of Geology, after whom being an author, rather than a literary Barbara (Walter) and Bruce (Bever - the Hawley Research Laboratories critic, was regarded as unexceptional ley). He was so proud of his five ac - were named). Nancy started at for a professor of English. Under the complished grandchildren, Erica, Queen’s at the young age of 16 to pseudonym Leo Vaughan, he wrote a Scott, Joanna, Ashleigh and Elisa. study biology. At Queen’s, Nancy met pair of successful comic novels, The Recently, Ken celebrated the birth of her future husband, Malcolm Robin - Jokeman, about his experiences his seventh great-grandchild. After son, MSc’49. Nancy and Malcolm teaching in Iran, and It Must Be the graduating from civil engineering, raised their family in a variety of lo - Climate , about his time in Indonesia. Ken served as a flight officer in the cales, including Vancouver, Port of Later The Japan Times commissioned RCAF. He dedicated his life to two Spain, Trinidad, Denver, Calgary and from him a series of gently comic family businesses, Dominion Struc - White Rock, B.C. Nancy’s professional pieces under the title Off and On tural Steel and Marshall Steel. Ken career began as a research assistant Campus , which were collected and was a true innovator, consistently in the Atomic Energy of Canada published as a book of the same designing improvements in the pro - Limited’s Chalk River, Ont., facility, name. In retirement, Ken joined his duction process. One of his unique where she conducted applied re - brother Hal and sister Judy, Arts’59, in endeavours was building his family’s search in medical bacteriology. In Owen Sound, where the family had first home out of steel. An excellent the 1960s, she taught zoology at removed from Toronto. And there in golfer, he belonged to golf clubs in Calgary’s Mount Royal College. Fol - recent years he came ardently to ap - Montreal, Ottawa and Naples, Fla., lowing a move to the west coast, she preciate exactly those Old Canadian his winter home. The Florida vacation taught at Douglas College in Surrey. qualities of civility, honesty, kindness home and the house in Morin Nancy was predeceased by her par - and family affection that he had Heights, Que., where he engineered ents, her brother Donald, BCom’55, found cloying in his teens and from and built a funicular to the lake, pro - and her husband. She is survived by which he had fled overseas for 50 vided his family with years of won - her children Wendy, Dave, Scott and years. He is survived by Deborah, his derful memories. Ken enjoyed Bruce, and their families. sons Michael and Ted, his siblings, woodworking and making furniture Rudolph “Ruda” George Roden , and extended family. for his family, and took up painting MD’55, died Feb. 24, aged 91. He is Allan Henry at the age of 90. survived by Eva, his wife of 72 years, Lee , BSc’52, A. Colin McKinley , and their children, grandchildren and died May 8 in MD’58, died July 9 great-grandchildren. Ruda survived a Edmonton. He in Winston-Salem, brutal wartime, had diverse careers, is survived by N.C. He had a suc - and was a trusted friend, counsellor his wife of 62 cessful career as a and physician to many. Born in years, Diana doctor in Canada Prague, he grew up a passionate (Wellington) and the U.S., serv - hockey player, and was a goalie for Lee, Arts’54 ing in the Royal the Czech junior team in the 1930s. (Chemistry); children Dennis, Karen, Canadian Air Force In the late 1930s, European turmoil Mus’78, Donald and Sandra; 12 and in hospitals in almost sent him to Palestine, but he grandchildren and six great-grand - New York, Michigan and North stayed in Prague with his wife-to-be. children. Allan worked for Sherritt Carolina. He had a lifelong passion He was incarcerated at the Terezin, Gordon Mines for most of his career for flying and was an accomplished Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen con - and was instrumental in the com - model builder, glider pilot and glider centration camps, lost most of his mercial development of Sherritt’s instructor. He also once built an air - family to the death camps, and sur - pure nickel coinage strip and coin plane in his garage. He retired from vived a death march in spring 1945. blanks and the later production of Baptist Hospital/Bowman Gray After liberation, he crossed Europe to nickel-plated steel coin blanks. The School of Medicine. He is survived by retrieve Eva at the Bergen-Belsen development of bronze-plated nickel his wife of 58 years, Merylin (Masters) camp, and they returned to Prague blanks for the Canadian “loonie” and McKinley, Arts’56, sons Dougal and with his father-in-law, Marek. Ruda the Netherlands’ five-guilder coin Robbie McKinley, daughter-in-law went to medical school in Prague was the highlight of his career at Mary Jane McKinley and grandchil - and in his last year, fate again inter - Sherritt. In his retirement, Al learned dren Ian and Cecilia McKinley. Please vened: with the election of a totali - to paint and enjoyed this hobby in send condolences and memories to tarian government, Ruda, Eva and his declining years. His artwork can [email protected]. Marek moved to Montreal. Ruda be seen at artbyallan.blogspot.ca. spent two years searching for a spot

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in medical school and was finally Staveley, and Melissa McKay and to a job offer at Victoria University’s accepted at Queen’s, where he re - Kaitlin Watters; great-grandmother economics department. Later, John peated the entire curriculum, gradu - of seven. After graduation from established the Industrial Relations ating with honours in 1955. Over the Queen’s, Eileen went on to Kingston Centre at the university. His ability to next 15 years, he ran a solo general Business College. After working at host and foster debate between oth - practice in Montreal, doing surgery, the Royal Bank of Canada and Alcan, erwise warring parties was both re - running a busy office, taking his own she joined the S. Anglin Company’s markable and timely. He took the role X-rays, doing his own lab work and board of directors in 1964. Eventu - of heading a “national” centre literally, delivering more than 2,000 babies. In ally, she would become president of and rather than focus the centre’s ed - the 1970s, he trained as a psychoana - the board and the first woman, in ucational activities exclusively in the lyst and was appointed professor of 1993, in a line of Anglins to head the large cities, he and his team travelled psychiatry at the University of Texas business. She was an active lifetime to regional areas hosting workshops Medical Branch at Galveston in 1976. member of Sydenham Street United and seminars on industrial relations In 1987, he returned to Montreal Church, a proud Cataraqui Golf & issues of the day. He developed a where he continued his psychother - Country Club member and outstand - certificate (and then a diploma) in apy practice until his retirement ing volunteer within her community. industrial relations, which brought three years ago. Medicine was just Eileen was presented a 25-year serv - together employers, trade unionists one of his talents. He was an avid ice recognition pin from Ongwanada and government officials in two- water-skier. Mushrooming was a pas - in 2001, and made honorary life week blocks, three times a year. This sion. He would not hesitate to drag a governor of its board in 2008. had an enduring and positive impact chain saw up a tree to trim branches Joseph Viner , BCom’48, died Nov. on New Zealand labour relations. In that blocked his view at their Eastern 29, 2014, one day before his 89th 1990, John was awarded an OBE for Townships retreat. He and Eva went birthday. He is survived by Ruth, his his services to industrial relations. to graduate school in the Depart - beloved wife of 63 years, their four He is survived by Janet, their children ment of Slavic Languages at the children, 10 grandchildren, and a and grandchildren. Université de Montréal, where he great-granddaughter. Joe came to received his PhD for studies of Queen’s after serving in the air force. ! s. Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot . He and Eva After completing his degree, he published their wartime memoir, worked for A. J. Freiman’s Depart - Notes Lives on Borrowed Time , in the 1970s, ment Store in Ottawa for 14 years. Veronica Redgrave , Arts’67, won and Ruda took up writing as a full- At age 40, Joe became a real estate the mandate to launch and direct the time avocation in his 80s. He pub - broker. He then co-founded Levin - marketing for the world premiere of lished six further collections of both son-Viner Ltd., remaining president Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The fiction and reminiscences in Czech of the firm until his retirement in Exhibition, now at Montreal’s Palais and in English, and was highly 1996. The company was known for des congrès. Veronica manages her celebrated, particularly in Prague, real estate, insurance and property firm Communications Redgrave de in this, his last career. management but its great success Miguel Inc. and is also an art critic, Eileen (An - was in syndications. Joe was a past writing for Huffington Post Québec , glin) Sinclair , president of the Ottawa Real Estate Vie des arts , and other publications. BA’40, died Board and the first chairman of Viner She is currently studying Italian, and Feb. 27 in Assets Inc. His friends and colleagues goes to school in Florence each year Kingston after remember Joe for his graciousness, to sigh and watch the Arno run. a full and joy - wisdom and integrity. [email protected] ous long life. Frederick John Lenane Young , She was pre - MA’52 (Economics), died July 17 in Deaths deceased by Nelson, New Zealand, aged 91. An Jon Couch , BA’64, died Aug. 20 in her beloved husband, R. Malcolm emeritus professor of industrial Thunder Bay, Ont. He is survived by Sinclair, BCom’48, by her parents, relations at New Zealand’s Victoria his son Derek and daughter Kathlyn. Gertrude and Charles Anglin, BSc University, John pioneered the disci - At Queen’s, Jon was involved with 1903, and her siblings Doris, Arts’37, pline and application of industrial CFRC Radio. He was also a member and Harold, BA’35. Eileen is survived relations in that country. He did his of the Fort Henry Guard. He was a by her children: Robert M. Sinclair, undergraduate degree at St. Andrews professor at Algonquin College from Arts’67, Law’78 (Cathy), Douglas G. University in Scotland, where he met 1967 to 1996. Sinclair (Brenda and the late Chrissie) his future wife, Janet Church. In 1950, Wilbert “Wib” Cox , BA’62, MDiv’65, and Carol Watters (Rob). She was John received a scholarship to con - died May 19 in Peterborough, Ont., predeceased by her daughter Nancy tinue his economics studies at aged 75. Wib is survived by his wife, E. (Staveley) Neill, BA’68, BEd’70. Queen’s. He returned to Queen’s in Dawn (Good), Artsci’90, children Grandmother of Andrew and Ian 1956 to teach. There, he met a visiting Shawn and David, and three grand - Sinclair, Mark, Cmp’97, and Jill scholar from New Zealand, which led children He was predeceased by his

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son Craig. Retired Artsci’93 (Pat Dennehy), his grand - operettas and enjoyed playing violin from his work as children Aiden and Declan and his and saxophone. He turned to medi - a minister of the sister Evelyn Silvester, Arts’58. cine after realizing he wasn’t going United Church, Graham Ford, to be a successful hockey player or Wib had worked Permanent Presi - musician. He was the author of sev - at Rawdon/ dent of Science ’62, eral books and contributed to a num - Springbrook, died July 22, in ber of scientific articles. He received Castleton Würzberg, Ger - Distinguished Achievement and Grafton, Humber many. Graham Distinguished Scholar Awards from Valley and St. James Peterborough. grew up in Regina the U of T as well as from the Toronto He was a member of Kiwanis for 40 and came to Psychoanalytic Society. In 2004, he years and the Rock Lake Hunt Club Kingston to study engineering received the Citation of Honour from for 50 years. physics in 1959. He was the soul of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society. Roderick Gerry “Garry” Davidson , Science ’62, participating in all of its Helen “Nan” BCom’63, died July 11 in Guelph, group activities, from the “Grease (Gilbert) Ont. He is survived by his children Poll” caper to graduation activities. Macdonald , Stewart, Kimberly and Matthew and He was a member of the AMS and MD’66, died April extended family. Garry spent his was inducted into the Tricolour 2, aged 73. She had childhood in Lanark County where Society. He also won the D.S. Ellis been ill and in an education in the local one-room Memorial award in fourth year. But hospital for six schoolhouse was spent honing skills most of his classmates will remem - months with leg as a practical joker. These skills came ber Graham as the Stick who guided paralysis due to osteoporotic verte - in handy later as a member of the Air Sc‘62 to winning the Bews Trophy in bral fracture, but died of complica - Cadets. Garry spent his career in fi - 1960. After graduation, Graham tions of a heart attack. Nan grew up nance, including 25 years with the spent most of his life in Würzberg. in Kingston, the daughter of Frances University of Guelph, and more than He was awarded an MBA there and and William Gilbert, (BSc’32, DSc’93, 20 years in personal tax and financial spent many years consulting for professor of mechanical engineering planning. He was a valued member German businesses. Latterly, he and “Thermo Bill” to his appreciative of the Guelph community, coaching founded and headed the “ Tiere students). Nan married her classmate youth soccer and baseball teams, Helfen Menschen ” Society (Animals and best friend, Ian L. Macdonald, and serving as an elected trustee for Helping People) which takes animals Meds’66, the evening before gradua - the public board of education. He (especially dogs) into hospitals and tion. After initial post-graduate train - was instrumental in the preservation convalescent homes, enriching the ing, they travelled in Europe for of Kortright Waterfowl Park. Garry lives of many sick or physically chal - almost a year, then practised in was an avid baseball fan and enjoyed lenged people with the uncondi - Kitimat, B.C. for six years. Both their the outdoors, including fishing and tional love of animals. He grew the sons, Angus and Duncan, were born camping. His greatest passion was organization to more than 5,000 in Kitimat. While Ian did further resi - spending time with people. He was members. In 2007, he was awarded dency training, Nan practised family a great dad and grandfather, always the German Cross of Honour for his medicine in Vancouver and Toronto. ready to encourage participation work. Graham was also a longtime The family returned to Vancouver in and celebrate success with ice cream, member of a very fine choir, the 1980, and Nan resumed family prac - and make dinner for everyone. Far Philharmonischen Chor St. Stephen, tice, while indulging her thirsts for ahead of his time, he played many Würzberg. Cha ghèill ( Graham never tennis, sailing, music and travel. non-traditional family roles, planned did!). Sic transit gloria mundi. Both sons went to Queen’s. Angus, and enjoyed trips, and drove a Douglas H. Frayn , MD’61, died July Artsci’94, is now a financial analyst scooter to work in his suit before 1 in Toronto. He is survived by his in New York City, and Duncan, Sc’95, it was trendy. He was supportive, wife, Eileen, two children and two is an environmental consultant in caring and giving, never afraid to grandchildren. A well-known Toronto Vancouver. Both are happily married, poke fun at life and laugh along psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Doug and Nan has three gorgeous grand - with its trials and tribulations. was an associate professor of psychi - daughters of whom she was fiercely William Edmund atry at the University of Toronto and proud. Nan is also survived by her Doherty, BA’63, a training psychoanalyst (and past siblings, Paul, Sc’73, and Beth, died July 11 in director) of the Toronto Institute of Artsci’74, MBA’76, and their families. Cobourg, Ont., Psychoanalysis. Born in Kingston, A beautiful service of remembrance aged 75. Bill is Doug was the youngest son of the for Nan was held at the UBC Museum survived by his deputy warden at the Kingston of Anthropology. One of her favourite wife, Mary Jane, Penitentiary. Doug played junior pieces of music was played by a their children Mike, hockey with Don Cherry, sang at string quartet from the Vancouver Pete and Kate, Westminster Abbey, performed in Symphony Orchestra. 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present were Queen’s graduates. at home in London, Ont., on April 2 John Russell Wood , BA’63, BA’68, Photographs of her childhood, uni - after a three-year “waltz” with died Jan. 5 at home in Baie-d’Urfé, versity life, family adventures and melanoma. His career included 19 Que. He is survived by Diana, his wife sports activities were shared. Weeks years as professor of law at the of 51 years, children Ben (Erin) and later, members of her sailing club University of Alberta and at Western, Sylvia (Robert) and three grandchil - staged a sail past in her honour, and nearly four decades as a labour dren. He is also survived by his sib - dropping flower petals on the ocean, arbitrator. He was a keen photogra - lings, James, Arts’62, (Diane reciting poems and listening to pher for all of his life, and a great (MacDougall), Arts/PHE’62) and music played on the violin and the lover of music, learning to play the Elizabeth (Jim), and extended family. bagpipes. Nan had directed sailing clarinet and joining his first band at After completing his doctorate at training in the club for many years. age 60. He leaves his wife, Pam McGill, and a post-doctoral fellow - She is deeply missed by her husband, (Godfrey), Arts’64, three children ship at the Centre Technique du sons and their families, relatives, and five grandchildren – as well as Papier in Grenoble, France, John had friends, former patients and devoted furry friends. a successful career in the pulp and colleagues. Ronald Colquhoun Smeaton , paper industry. He was a well-re - David Clifford May , MD’62, died MDiv’63, died Aug. 3 at home in spected scientist, known for his May 27 in Peterborough. He is sur - Guelph Ont., aged 80. He was an or - rigour and attention to detail and the vived by Deborah, his wife of more dained minister of the United Church worldwide reputation in his area of than 50 years, daughter Allison of Canada for more than 50 years. He expertise. He remained active in Doyle, Artsci/PHE’91, Ed’92 (Michael, is missed by his wife, Delores, chil - science until the end, serving on in - Artsci/PHE’91, Ed’92), son Charles dren Iain and Ruth, his grandchildren dustry committees and participating May, Artsci/PHE’93, and two grand - and many friends and colleagues. in conferences. John was happiest when he was in the “great outdoors,” children. He was predeceased by his Lynne Anabel Webb , BA’68, BEd’70, enjoying sailing, canoeing, hiking brother C. Kennedy May, BCom’55. died July 14, 2014 at the age of 68. and skiing. Although his children and David was the class president for She is survived by her husband, Gary nieces and nephews liked to tease Meds’62, and president of the Bagley, Artsci’65 (Math, Physics), John about his “nerdy” science side, Queen’s Aesculapian Society in 1961. MSc’68 (Math); her sister Belva Webb he loved people and spending time He did his post-graduate work in (Richard Burman), and extended with them. He was always interested Montreal, New Haven, Conn., and family. After graduating from in others’ lives and work and had re - Pittsburgh, Pa. He practised internal Queen’s (in French and Russian), mained a true lifelong learner. He medicine at The Medical Centre in Lynne began teaching in Atikokan, loved a good debate whether it was Peterborough for 36 years. David Ont. After her marriage, she moved what to do about climate change, enjoyed an active and adventurous to Ottawa and worked at Revenue Quebec politics, or which ski wax to retirement, pursuing outdoor activi - Canada for the rest of her career. She use. These could go on for hours if ties, travel and volunteer work. continued her pursuit of learning, you wanted, and involved your wine Michael Moziar , BSc’62, died June earning an MA in French literature glass being refilled several times. 28 in Toronto, in his 81st year. Born in and a CGA designation. Her love of John lived life to the fullest with Port Arthur, Ont. (later part of Thun - education and desire to encourage it great kindness and enthusiasm. His der Bay), Mike came to Queen’s to in others is reflected in the Queen’s motto was “Never regret the things study mechanical engineering. Later, bursary she set up in honour of her you do, only those you don’t do.” he established a scholarship to pro - father. The Oliver Alan Myers Webb vide financial support to mechanical Bursary supports mature women Correction: The obituary for David engineering students at Queen’s, students seeking a university educa - Thomas Wilson, in our last issue, with preference given to students tion. Lynne travelled the world with listed his Queen’s degrees as BSc’59, from Thunder Bay. Mike began his her husband and took her then- MIR’60. In fact, David had a 1960 professional career with Abitibi teenage sister on her first trip to professional diploma from Industrial Power and concluded it with Ontario Europe. Having no children of her Relations. The Queen’s Industrial Hydro, where he spent 18 years. His own, she was a loving and doting Relations professional diploma work there, as a senior design engi - aunt to her Burman nieces, and was program began in 1945. The master’s neer specialist, involved the design unfailingly kind and hospitable to a program began in 1983, as a joint ini - of nuclear power stations. Mike was wide circle of friends, relatives and tiative of the Industrial Relations an ardent traveller and sports fan acquaintances. Lynne and Gary Centre, the faculties of Business and who lived a full and active life. He is shared a keen interest in genealogy, Law and the Department of Econom - missed by his family, including his and Lynne was especially proud to ics. The first MIR graduates at Queen’s sister Rose and brother Daniel, Sc’58, discover that she was both a belonged to the class of 1984. and his friends, including his Sc’62 Mayflower and a United Empire Thanks to Ruben Benmergui, MIR’84, buddies. Loyalist descendant, and was active for the clarification. You can read a history of the Industrial Relations Joe Samuels , BA’63, LLB’66, (LLM in both societies. Centre’s first 50 years online at: London School of Economics), died http://bit.ly/QAR9273

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inspiration, game-changing innova - College London and senior vice-pres - !  s. tion and a trademark sense of ident, international marketing, at humanity to everything he does.” Sony Classical. The MacCallums have Births Lubomyr Luciuk , Artsci’76, MA’79, returned to their long-time summer Cathy Burton was honoured with an Ontario home in Prince Edward County. TeKamp , Arts’70, V olunteer Service Award for 50 years [email protected] has a new grand - of community activism at a ceremony The Rev. John Mathew, MDiv’75, son, Andre held in Kingston in June. His most and Joyan Mathew , MTS’93, have TeKamp, born Jan. recent book, Famines in European left Canfield United Church, Erie 9, 2014 in Halifax. Economic History: The Last Great Euro - Presbytery, Hamilton Conference for While Andre’s pean Famines Reconsidered (co-edited New Zealand to serve St. Andrew’s parents, Mark and with Declan Curran and Andrew G. Church in Gore, South Island, a con - Wendi, are both Dalhousie grads, Newby) has just been published by gregation of the Presbyterian Church Andre’s Queen’s family includes his Routledge (#71, Explorations in of Aotearoa, New Zealand. godfather, Greg McElrea, MEd’08, Economic History Series , 2015). and his great-grandfather, Reginald Jobs Burton, BCom’41. Cathy reports that Paul E. Owens , MBA’74, was awarded Brian Sterling , Sc’74, is now the Andre exhibits great intellectual and the Libby Slater Award for his contri - president and CEO of Safe Food athletic abilities, and he should be bution to pension law and the pen - Canada, a new national not-for-profit ready for Queen’s by 2032. sion industry from the International Pension and Employee Benefits organization comprising leaders from Honours Lawyers Association at its 2015 con - the Canadian food industry, govern - vention in Brussels. After an extensive ment regulatory bodies and acade - career in pensions, benefits and in - mia dedicated to the creation and vestments, since 2012 he has been coordination of food protection learn - the deputy superintendent of pen - ing partnerships. Previously, Brian was sions for the Government of Alberta. the managing director of the Global Food Traceability Center in Washing - Family News ton, D.C. safefoodcanada.com Ed Barre, Artsci’76 (MSc, Ottawa; PhD, Guelph) was promoted to full Vijay Bhargava , Sc’70, MSc’72, professor (Human Nutrition), at PhD’74, professor at UBC, received Cape Breton University in July. Ed’s the 2015 Killam Prize in Engineering, research involves type 2 diabetes, in presented by His Excellency the terms of its potential molecular Right Honourable David Johnston, triggers, as well as pre- and post- Governor General of Canada (Law’66, onset management using genomic Christine Cheung , Artsci’76, writes, LLD’91) at Rideau Hall in May. The Kil - approaches with a view to polyphar - “After talking on and off for over 40 lam prizes are administered by the macy reduction. He resides in years about getting together for a Canada Council for the Arts and are Sydney, N.S., with his wife, Kazimiera, reunion trip, it finally happened! Our funded by a private endowment and their son, Alexander. Their group of Queen’s alumni joined to - supporting creativity and innovation. daughter, Emily , Ed’11, now teaches gether for a wonderful and memo - Vijay received $100,000 in recogni - secondary school in Ed’s hometown rable Caribbean cruise in April. We tion of his exceptional career of Barrie, Ont. enjoyed each other’s company so achievements in engineering. Vijay John , Artsci’76, and Deb (Lynde) much that we have already started has also received a Humboldt Re - MacCallum , Mus’76, recently re - planning for our next trip, which search Award from the Alexander turned to Canada following 17 years hopefully will not take another 40 von Humboldt Foundation and will living and working in London, U.K. years!” In the photo, left to right: spend the 2015-2016 academic year After several years as a piano techni - Christine, (who worked for IBM cooperating on research projects cian, John returned to school there to Canada Ltd. until her retirement); with Professor Robert Schober of the study computer programming. He her husband, Paul Chan; Gary Wing- Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat. was a senior developer at Aircom In - King, Eric Cheong, Sc’74, (quality Stephen Graham , Com’79, was in - ternational in Leatherhead, U.K. for 10 officer, supply chain quality services ducted into the Marketing Hall of years. Deb spent her final eight years at Ontario Power Generation), Susan Legends by the American Marketing in London as a vice-principal at the Wing-King, Susan Cheong, Eric Association. Stephen was cited as Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Wing-King, Sc’75, MSc’78, (an advi - “one of Canada and North America’s She was made a fellow of the school sory automation engineer at Eaton most awarded marketing and (FGS) and awarded Freedom of the Corp.); Maria Poon, and Thomas transformational business leaders, City of London in 2012. Prior posi - Poon, Sc’74, enjoying a birthday recognized for bringing passion, tions included a similar role at King’s dinner and his retirement.

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In June, Bill Graham , Sc’70, was immeasurable impact Chris has had lished in 1904 to promote and en - named chair of the board of the on her clients, their families, the courage the translation, publication, Canadian Automobile Association community and the field of clinical distribution and use of the scriptures (CAA). Bill had joined the CAA South occupational therapy, she received throughout Canada, and to co-oper - Central Ontario board in 2003. CAA the CAOT National Award for Innova - ate with other bible societies in inter - is a federation of nine clubs across tive Practice from the Canadian Asso - national work. CBS supplied the Canada serving more than 6 million ciation of Occupational Therapists More Than Gold 2015 interfaith members. and the National Award for Profes - chaplaincy with 6,000 English/Span - Michael R. Stinson, PhD’79 sional Caregivers from the non-profit ish and French/Portuguese New (Physics), is now president-elect of organization Canada Cares. T estaments, as well as audio and the Acoustical Society of America. Braille bibles, for athletes at the Pan He assumes the role of president in Job News Am and Para Pan Am Games. May 2016. Mike served as principal Kenneth G. Hood, Law’80, was Jonathan Mayer , Artsci’87, (DDS, research officer at the National appointed a judge of the Ontario U of T) left private practice to be the Research Council of Canada, where Superior Court (Toronto Region) in medical director of the Ottawa Hos - he is now researcher emeritus. His May. Ken is married to Janet Sim, pital Dental Clinic, the only dental research activities have spanned a Artsci/PHE’75, Ed’76, Law’80, and is facility in eastern Ontario dedicated broad range of technical activities, the father of Graham Hood, Artsci’07, to the dental needs of medically including studies of the acoustics of MPA’08) and Julia Hood, Artsci’10, compromised and special needs pa - the human ear canal and middle ear, and and father-in-law of Leslie tients. Jonathan, his wife, Catherine which have led to advances in hear - Siegrist-Hood, Mus’07. Fyfe, Artsci/NSc’89, and sons Daniel ing aid design. His recent work has Don Hutchin - and Andrew have lived in Ottawa for looked at propagation of infrasonic son , Artsci’82, 11 years. noise from wind turbines. was appointed Nevil Whitty , Sc’82, has been ap - interim na - pointed country leader of The Deaths tional director Chemours Canada Company, created Jerry Wyatt Austin , BA’70, died Feb. and CEO of the from DuPont’s performance chemi - 28, in Kitchener, Ont., aged 66. Jerry Canadian Bible cals businesses. The company is a is survived by his daughter, Katy, Society (CBS) in April. CBS was estab - market leader in the safe production Katy’s mother, Corda, and four sib - lings. He was predeceased by his parents and by his soulmate, William J. Gibbons. Jerry worked for Canada Revenue Agency for 20 years. Prior to that, he worked for the Holstein Association of Canada. He enjoyed family genealogy, comparative reli - gions and gardening. Jerry enjoyed singing; he spent a number of years with the Simcoe Gentlemen of Har - mony Barbershop Chorus and more, recently, the Waterloo Regional Police Male Chorus. !  s. Your Event... Our Backdrop Honours Chris Everdell , OT’83, is the owner of Make WeddingsReceptions Parties Way For Me! Occupational The perfect backdrop to showcase any special event. Therapy For Children and Youth in Kingston. Chris Interested in booking an event and was recently recognized for demon - would like to tour our facility? strating exceptional leadership and innovation in her clinical practice, as Contact us today! well as providing quality client care, advocacy and education. Due to the 613.533.2846 ext 78917 • [email protected]

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of performance chemicals. Nevil also Archibald, Artsci’75, and Elizabeth, chemistry. Her teaching methods serves as a director and officer of the with their children Joanne, Artsci'14, include using kinesthetic learning company. Nevil can be reached at Adrienne, Sc'15, and Craig, Artsci'19. activities to complement practical [email protected] as laboratory time. Yvonne lives in well as through LinkedIn. !! s. Cambridge with her husband, Matthew, Artsci’89, Ed’90, and their Family News Honours three children. Yvonne (Borger) Clifford , Artsci’91 Job News (Chemistry), Ed’92, is the 2015 recipi - Chris Hartwick, Sc’98, now works for ent of the prestigious Beaumier Xylem, a global water technology Award for High School/CÉGEP Chem - provider. He was recently appointed istry Teachers. The national award, to the position of managing director sponsored by the Chemical Institute for Xylem’s Applied Water Systems of Canada, recognizes excellence in (AWS) business unit in Canada. Chris teaching chemistry at the high is responsible for managing and school or CÉGEP level, and is leading the AWS Canada operation, awarded to only one teacher every including all major functional areas year. Yvonne teaches chemistry at Elizabeth Palatics , Law'84, sent us (marketing and sales, operations, Jacob Hespeler Secondary School this family photo from the Septem - finance, IT and HR). chris.hartwick@ in Cambridge, Ont. Her goal as a ber Gaels football game at Toronto. xyleminc.com Seen here, cheering on the Gaels to teacher is to get every student to be Dan Hocoy, MA’93, their (37 to 18) victory are Frank able to experience the wonder of PhD’97 (Psychol - ogy), is president of Antioch Univer - SPOTLIGHT sity in Seattle. He completed the management and Class of 8??9 – where are you? leadership in edu - cation executive program at Harvard University in 2012 and is returning to Harvard for its seminar for new university presi - dents this year. Dan is the author of numerous articles and book chapters that transect higher learning, psy - chology, culture and art. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist and has worked in psychiatric hospitals as well as private practice. Helen Vasilevski , Com’92, con - tinues to take on new chal - lenges, grow - ing the iconic

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Notes Oosthuizen, Sc’91, and Patrick Europe (OSCE) as its deputy director Oosthuizen, Professor Emeritus, of human resources and as organiza - Rev. Paul Faculty of Engineering and Applied tion’s ethics co-ordinator. He joins Hutchison , Science. Erica and Richard currently this international organization after MDiv’95, and live in Nanaimo, B.C., where Richard serving as the chief HR project officer Sharon works as an ER physician and Erica is at the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza - (Garnham) a family practice resident. tion (NATO) in Brussels, Belgium. Hutchison , Andrzej is based in Vienna. Artsci’93, Gord McGuire , Artsci’06, and Ed’94, are seen Heather Mills , Artsci’05, were mar - Abby Ramcharan , here at Paul’s graduation from Drew ried Aug. 28. Friends in attendance Artsci’06, has had University in Madison, N.J. Drew included best man Tyler Turnbull, an adventurous received his Doctor of Ministry Artsci’06, and best woman Stacey journey since degree from the university. Paul’s Bowman, Artsci’05. “We actually graduating from ministry project provided an oppor - never met at Queen’s,” writes Gord, Queen’s. She went tunity for his congregation of St. “but had many mutual friends and on to study urban Mark’s United Church, in Scarbor - many near run-ins, and thankfully planning, worked ough, Ont., to enter into conversa - met in 2012 at a party of a mutual as a junior planner for the Region of tion to draw out both their individual friend (and fellow Queen’s alum).” Peel, and then moved to Grenada, and collective understanding of The couple lives in Toronto, where where she worked as a regional plan - what is means to be “a progressive, Gord is a lawyer at Adair Barristers ner. For the past three years, Abby inclusive, life-affirming Christian and Heather is a fundraiser at the has lived in Shanghai. She works in community of faith within the United Sick Kids Foundation. the Shanghai headquarters of Educa - Church of Canada.” Paul is celebrat - tion First, a Swedish firm. Abby works ing his 20th year as an ordained min - Honours as an international teacher recruiter, ister in the United Church of Canada. Principal Emeritus Bill Leggett, responsible for hiring teachers to fill LLD’04, was honoured in a recent positions in more than 200 schools in  s. article in University Affairs. “Remem - China. When she isn’t working, Abby bering a favourite professor” asked enjoys the local cuisine and travel - Births famous Canadians to write about ling to other parts of Asia. You can professors influential in their lives. contact her on LinkedIn. Melanie (Crawford) Before he served as Queen’s principal Shortly following his PhD graduation Ionta , NSc’00, and her (1994-2004), Dr. Leggett taught husband, Alessandro, ceremony at Cranfield University in biology at McGill. One of his PhD the U.K., Ian Di Tullio , MBA’03, and are thrilled to an - students there was Louis Fortier, now nounce the birth of his family have decided to leap even professor of oceanography at Univer - further by relocating to Doha, Qatar. their son Michael An - sité Laval, and scientific director of thony Ionta on March 18 in Toronto. Ian is now vice-president, CRM & ArcticNet. Read about the lessons Loyalty, with Qatar Airways. Commitments he learned from Dr. Leggett: bit.ly/QAR41577. In September, Dr. Notes Erica Hack and Richard Oost - Leggett was named as a fellow of the Amanda Sage , Artsci’01, wants to huizen , both Artsci’09, were married American Fisheries Society, in recog - in Campbell River, B.C., on May 16. hear from you. The creator of the nition of his meritorious contributions Kickass Canadians website (among to his field. His research interests in - other endeavours: she’s also a film - clude the reproductive ecology of maker, photographer and children’s fishes, environmental regulation of author) invites Canadians to con - fish migration and distribution, and tribute writing and artwork celebrat - the dynamics of large marine ecosys - ing inspirational people in their lives. tems. He has received several other These pieces are shared on Amanda’s major awards from the society for new platform, the Kickass Contin - teaching and research excellence. uum. “Doing good happens on a continuum,” says Amanda. “Some Queen’s friends in attendance in - Job News people change our lives by launching cluded best man Sohaib Siddiqui, Andrzej foundations and showing us a better groomsman Eric Tozzi, bridesmaid Antoszkiewicz , way. Or inspire us by breaking world Kristyn Hope and Alison Laroque, all Sc’02, MSc’05, was records and setting the bar even Artsci’09. Queen’s family in atten - recently appointed higher. Others influence us in smaller dance included groomsman Michael by the Organization ways, but ways that are no less im - Hack, Sc’11, Clive Oosthuizen, Sc’85, for Security and portant.” Learn more at http:// MBA’87, Beth McKay, Artsci’84, David Co-operation in kickasscanadians.ca/continuum/.

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Having met in  s. high school, they re-con - Commitments nected while at Queen’s and this is where their relation - ship began. Among those standing up with them at spring convocation. Evan is the were fellow classmates Laura Holmes, son of Sandie Wood and Creighton Kaila Johnson, Christine McDonald, Madill, both Artsci’81. Evan’s brother Meaghan Whitehead, David Baird and Maxwell, Sc’18, and aunt Leslie Scott MacIntyre, with many other Wood, Artsci’79, were also in atten - Queen’s alumni also in attendance. Justin Brooks , Sc’12, and Leah dance at the ceremony. It was a dou - Macnamara , Artsci/PHE’13, were Job News bly special moment for the family, married Aug. 21 in Banff, Alta. Join - who sat in the same place in Grant Bassem El ing them to celebrate were 38 fellow Hall where they had all been at fall Rahimy , Artsci’14, Queen’s graduates, including Leah’s convocation in 1996. On that date, co- founded GVE parents, Liane (Milburn), Artsci’81, they were there to see Sandie and Online Education, Ed’82, and Doug Macnamara, Sc’81, Leslie’s father, Don Wood, receive an an ed-tech plat - Ed ‘82, as well as Leah’s grandfather honorary degree. Dr. Wood, MA’53, form that con - Don Macnamara, retired professor, LLD’96, was professor of economics nects North Smith School of Business. Justin and and director of the Queen’s Industrial American English tutors with stu - Leah live in Calgary. Relations Centre, 1960 to 1985. dents in China. Business is growing, Chris Dubsky , reports Bass, who studied economics Matthew Ponsford, Artsci’10, gradu - Artsci’10, and political science. The platform is ated from the JD (Common Law) pro - married Caitlin now in launch phase across China gram at the Faculty of Law, University Hudson , and it is currently hiring over 600 of Ottawa (Dean’s Honour List). Artsci’11, on English tutors from across North Matthew works for the global law May 17 in America. Learn more: gveoe.com. firm Dentons Canada LLP. Next year, Toronto. Many he will complete his LLM (Master of Jane Lin , MPA’14, has returned home Queen’s Laws) at McGill University and return to B.C. after 12 years of working in alumni were to Dentons to complete his articles. Ottawa for Statistics Canada and the in attendance to celebrate their Public Service Commission of Alexander Salt , Artsci’10, completed marriage, including best man Paolo Canada. She is currently a business his MA at the University of Manitoba Miguel Uy, Artsci’10, MSc’13, brides - analyst in workforce analytics with in political studies with a speciality in maid Jennifer Owen, Artsci’10, usher Vancouver Coastal Health. The role defence studies. He is currently at the Graeme McDowell, Artsci’11, and builds on her past experience with University of Calgary, undertaking many family members and friends. the Labour Force Survey and staffing his PhD in the Centre for Military Chris and Caitlin live in Toronto. analysis for the federal public service. and Strategic Studies. “I miss Queen’s In May, Holly Heighington , and Kingston, but the Rockies Artsci’10, and Garrett Verbakel, Notes are beautiful,” he writes. 2010 Artsci’09, were married near their Evan Wood Madill , Sc’15, received classmates can contact him at hometown in Norfolk County, Ont. the medal in engineering chemistry [email protected].

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L a y o r Behind the scenes at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Queen’s alumni were welcomed rWb company in such an intimate words, “kingston has always felt like to the royal Winnipeg ballet in and interactive setting had alumni home.” this is no surprise, given that September for a rare glimpse behind captivated from start to finish. ms. bonnell’s parents are Queen’s the scenes of a professional ballet Following a dynamic question-and- alumni and her sister is currently a company in the days leading up to answer period, alumni gathered student at the university. the opening night. Led by artistic direc - across the street for refreshments evening – the first Winnipeg branch tor andré Lewis, the rWb company and conversation with rWb corps event of the 2015-16 school year – rehearsed a selection of repertoire du ballet member katie bonnell. was a resounding success and in-studio from the hauntingly ms. bonnell hails from oakville, ont. alumni are eagerly anticipating the beautiful Giselle , hailed as one of the and is a graduate of the rWb School next opportunity to connect with greatest classical ballets of all time. professional division ballet academic one another “behind-the-scenes.” this unique opportunity to witness and aspirant programs. even after Kate Fennell, Artsci’ the supreme artistry and technical so many years oscillating between Director of School Operations, RWB brilliance of the world-renowned oakville and Winnipeg, in her own Winnipeg Branch volunteer Three new branches New branch presidents alumni in nova Scotia are invited to join the recently London, U.K.: naaznin adatia hirst, artsci’02. launched Halifax branch. the branch will be headed [email protected] by abby Lanthier, artsci’12, mir’14. Contact abby at New York: Julia reid, artsci’08. [email protected]. [email protected] alumni in victoria, b.C. and its surrounding area are Southern California: elena Christopoulos, artsci’10. invited to join the new Victoria branch. the branch [email protected] will be headed by molly brewis, artsci’06. Contact molly at [email protected]. Toronto: theresa Wetzel, artsci’07 [email protected] South of the border, matt towery, artsci’10, is excited to launch a branch in Atlanta , ga. matt can be reached at [email protected].

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Success.” register for this event ($15) or for the full series Canada . at events.queensu.ca. Kingston Nov. CF – Toronto Branch Award reception after a long hiatus, the toronto branch award returns. Dec. BH – Holiday hugs the award will be presented to mary ann turcke, Sc’88, after a successful inaugural year, including winning mba ’97, at a reception at the university Club of toronto. Quaa initiative of the year, the kingston branch once tickets are available at events.queensu.ca. again invites fellow alumni to provide some warmth and Feb. CH – Gael Force football dinner cheer for students still on campus on thursday, dec. 17. Share an evening with friends, alumni and family while distributing “chocolate hugs” to students is one way to supporting the Queen’s Football Club. montecassino Pl. show that alumni care about students who are still on gogaelsgo.com/footballdinner campus this late, busy studying for their exams. register early! this event filled up quickly last year. register Ottawa online at events.queensu.ca Dec. BH – Branch social night Feb. CJ – Cha Gheill luncheon Come for a holiday meet-up in downtown ottawa. dr. david Lyon, director, Queen’s Surveillance Studies Follow the ottawa branch on Facebook at Centre will be our guest, speaking on “ Surveillance after facebook.com/Queensalumniottawa to view the full Snowden .” details and hear about future dates and locations. Toronto Feb. G – Annual curling funspiel Join us at this popular event from 2 to 5 pm at the Nov. CE – Queen’s authors’ showcase series ottawa Curling Club, 440 o’Connor St. Curlers of all the four-part 2015-16 season kicks off with an evening abilities and beginners are welcome. equipment and with alan mallory, Sc’07. alan will discuss his book, The instruction for beginners will be provided. the Family That Conquered Everest and the Secrets to Their registration fee of $27 per person covers curling and a light supper. note the change in venue from previous years. events.queensu.ca/ottawacurling U.S. . Portland, OR Dec. D – Alumni get-together Join fellow alumni for our last networking night of the year, Portland brew pub style. meet us at bridgeport brewing Company on thursday, dec. 3. Look for the Queen’s flag on the table! rSvP appreciated – [email protected] o t o h P

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issue 4, 2015 | queensu.ca/alumnireview 3 QUAA PRESIDENT’S mess age Why volunteer?

has always had an extraordinary reputation as one of Canada’s leading universities – one that strives to create a transformative learning experience for students and connects alumni all over the world. We want to continue working and expanding on that vision. Participating in the university’s upcoming 175th anniversary is one way in which the Quaa board of directors is helping engage alumni, expand networks and cultivate a culture of volunteerism and philanthropy. Although most celebratory initiatives related to the anniversary will take place between 2016 and 2017, we have already started laying the groundwork for alumni involvement during the anniversary festivities. I have been fortunate to serve on the 175th g n i

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Q now, know that Queen’s global alumni network will have an active role. If you’re looking for more his is my second-to-last column as the president information about how to volunteer for Queen’s , Tof the Quaa , your alumni association. My term you can always check out our volunteer website ends next April. www.queensu.ca/alumni/volunteer.html Writing this column prompts me to reflect, Why get involved? This is a question I get as I so often do, on the work of the alumni asked a lot. The answer is simple. When we get association and why so involved, we can make a difference. Most of our many of us volunteer to en - volunteers are motivated by a strong desire “We are taught the sure its v ibrant future. to help out and make things better. It is an im - spirit of volunteerism As many of you know, mensely rewarding experience to be a part of the association’s mission is something bigger than you. Not only do you stay as students at Queen’s “to reach out and foster a connected to the university, you also increase and that spirit lifelong association with your network by meeting other passionate Queen’s , to engage our volunteers, learning from them and growing continues as alumni.” members in the life and with them. work of the university, and We are taught the spirit of volunteerism as to serve the alumni community in all its diversity.” students at Queen’s and that spirit continues as We focus on the following strategic pursuits: alumni. If you are not already involved, I invite you to connect with me and join our extended B Inspiring greater alumni engagement with the alumni family in making a difference. We can university and with each other, make things better together. B Promoting a culture of philanthropy and B volunteerism among current and future alumni, George M. Jackson, Artsci’IF and President, Queen’s University Alumni Association B Developing bridges and avenues for current George Jackson recently finished reading and future alumni to meet and network. Men Against the Sea, the story, by Charles These goals allow us, as alumni, to come Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, of the together and expand our own networks while epic sea journey of Captain William Bligh raising the profile of our alma mater. Queen’s and his crew after the mutiny on the Bounty.

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ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD MARSHA LAMPMAN ONE TO WATCH AWARD BRANCH VOLUNTEER AWARD Shirley Tilghman, Artsci’79, DSc’24 Michele Romanow, Sc’28, MBA’29 Zhaodi Culbreath, Sc’29 ALUMNI MENTORSHIP AWARD RISING STAR VOLUNTEER AWARD OUTSTANDING STUDENT AWARD Bruce Alexander, Com’72, LLD’33 Adam Shetler, Sc’29 Taylor Jennings, Artsci’36 HERBERT J. HAMILTON INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR AWARD VOLUNTEER SERVICE AWARD ALUMNI HUMANITARIAN AWARD Kingston Branch – George M. Jackson, Artsci’96 Fiona Sampson, Artsci’96, Law’:5 Holiday Hugs ALUMNI AWARD FOR (Lee Wetherall, Ed’87, MBA’94) EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING Jacqueline Davies, Artsci’95, MA’96, PhD’:8 Department of Philosophy

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issue 4, 2015 | queensu.ca/alumnireview 41 ca mpus SCENE he li terature of boredom Professor Art Cockfield explores the beauty behind workplace boredom in David Foster Wallace’s novel The Pale King. BY ANDREW STOKES

nce a year, every year, we’re forced to for a tax law article, the work attracted significant think about taxes. It’s mercifully short, media discussion, in The Independent and The O because while filling out our return forms, Paris Review , among others. [Read it online: searching for old receipts and crosschecking de - bit.ly/ QaR 44415] duction numbers, it’s abundantly clear how diffi - “One of the great existential challenges of cult, complicated and utterly boring the whole modernity is workplace boredom,” says Dr. process is. Tax law is dense and repellant to the Cockfield. “For most of history, you worked from general public, so it came as a great surprise to sunup to sundown and were probably too ex - many that until his death, David Foster Wallace, hausted to feel bored – being bored was a luxury.” one of the most respected writers of his genera - But Dr. Cockfield says that Wallace believed tion, had been working on a massive novel about there was something deeply important about the American IRs and the people who work there. boredom, and so he populated his novel with The Pale King , as the novel was called, expounds IRs workers whose work is so mind-numbing, at length the heroic virtue of working quietly for they’re given boredom-survival training. year after year doing monotonous work that re - “What I think he’s driving at is that work – ceives no applause. It caught the attention of Art what we do all day – is important to our identity. Cockfield (Law’93), a professor of tax law at If we look at it as tedium, it crushes us, but if we Queen’s and an admirer of Wallace’s work. The decide to push through it, we can be much hap - novel, with its frequent asides about tax revisions, pier,” Dr. Cockfield says. “If you’re going to do surprised Dr. Cockfield as much as anyone – with something every day, you should try to make publications to his name like “Examining Policy it interesting.” Options for the Taxation of Outbound Direct For Wallace, it’s the trying that counts. If we’re Investment,” he knows that tax law isn’t for the thoughtful, present and make an effort to see faint of heart. When Dr. Cockfield was named the the importance of a repetitive task, it becomes Fulbright Visiting Chair of Policy Studies at the exhilarating. It’s an outlook that requires cus - University of Texas at Austin, he took the opportu - tomer service reps to regard every phone call as nity to indulge his curiosity. In between writing a chance to help a fellow human, and it’s what more orthodox articles about tax policy, he went makes scanning a tax return an act of love and to the university’s archives, home to Wallace’s justice, helping both individuals and the state collected works, and dove in. get what they’re owed. “It was a very happy coincidence,” says Dr. “The Pale King is saying that it’s possible to get Cockfield. “I started searching through the past the monotony. We can choose to look at the thousands of pages of Wallace’s old notes and workday, not as some dreary horror, but as an the writings gave me some insight into what he adventure,” says Dr. Cockfield. “We can be ‘infor - was thinking.” mation cowboys,’ to borrow Wallace’s term, rather The result is “David Foster Wallace on Tax than spinning cogs.” Policy, How to Be an Adult, and Other Mysteries It may be heroic to push through tedium and of the Universe,” a recently published article in there may be beauty on the far side of boredom, the Pittsburg Tax Review that tackles one of The but even Dr. Cockfield admits it’s not likely to get Pale King’s major themes: boredom in the people excited about tax season. B workplace and how to deal with it. Unusually

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BY ANDREA GUNN Wickham’s planned elopement with Georgiana Darcy (then aged 15), and then in Wickham’s marriage to Lydia Bennet, aged 16. And while their appiness in marriage ages were a factor in both families’ objections to “ the unions, each woman was, in fact, over the age is entirely a of consent by law. However, as Dr. Bailey writes, matter of chance.” “The problem with such marriages was that they Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice took place over the often well-founded objections of the family. Legislators sought to prevent all such problematic marriages by imposing rules against private ceremonies.” Lord Hardwicke’s Act (1753) “Marriage,” writes Martha Bailey, “is the central required public church announcements (called theme and conclusion of Jane Austen’s novels.” banns) of intended marriages, to allow, in part, for From her first published book, Sense and Sensibility, objections to be raised. The act allowed for special to her last, Persuasion, Austen’s plots centred on licences without the reading of the banns, but the intricacies of marriage, from engagements and these required parental consent in the case of financial settlements to clandestine weddings, minors. When Wickham and Lydia elope, much adultery and illegitimate children. of the book’s tension comes from the couple’s Dr. Bailey has long been a Jane Austen fan. unknown whereabouts. They could have crossed “In law school, I re-read all her novels when I was the border to Gretna Green in Scotland (the act supposed to be studying for exams!” These days, only applied to marriages in England). Or they she teaches contracts and modern/Canadian could have set up house in London, and had their family law at Queen’s Faculty of Law. When she banns read without the knowledge of Mr. and Mrs. decided to take a closer look into the laws of Bennet. In the end, Lydia Bennet becomes Mrs. marriage in Regency England, she found some Wickham after a financial agreement is brokered illuminating things that helped her gain a deeper (by Mr. Darcy). The cost of a legitimate marriage, understanding of Jane Austen’s work – and her even to a despicable groom, was much less than world. Dr. Bailey recently presented her findings at the cost of a young woman’s reputation (and to her an Austen conference in Louisville, Ky., last month, sisters’ future marriage prospects.) “Living in Jane Austen’s world.” Dr. Bailey also challenges a few misconceptions Marriage, for women living in that world, was about British law that both the modern reader may a career choice, and one that had to be made make – and that Austen herself may have made. wisely. Proper young women could be governesses A favourite book of Dr. Bailey’s, plucked from the or they could be wives. A very few could become shelves of the Lederman Law Library, is the 1836 novelists, but even Austen herself would never tome The Laws of Adulterine Bastardy . This volume, live off her earnings as a writer. Men from impecu - among others, helped her to untangle the nuances nious families had a few more career choices – of the plot of Sense and Sensibility. In this work, a such as the church and the army – than did girl, Eliza Williams, is said to be the result of “a women. In Austen’s world, marrying for money guilty connection.” Readers of Sense and Sensibility alone was not good, but marrying when neither have long understood this to mean that Eliza was partner had a fortune was imprudent. Marrying an illegitimate child. And while Georgian society solely for love? Unheard of. took a wholly disapproving view of children born In her paper, “The Marriage Law of Jane out of wedlock, the laws of the time (without the Austen’s World,” Dr. Bailey explores the business of benefits of modern science to determine paternity) marriage and explains the legal precedents to needed much more evidence to rule that a child some of Austen’s storylines. For instance, in Pride was illegitimate. Jane Austen herself might have and Prejudice , clandestine marriage to a young bride been surprised at the legal presumption of is a major plot point, first in the story of George legitimacy of her fictional Miss Williams. B

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46 issue 4, 2015 | queensu.ca/alumnireview ADVANCEMENT sp otl ight A family tradition of supporting students s John Wong, Meds ’59, enjoys an active, Atravel-filled retirement from his California home, he has ample opportunity to reflect on all he has to be grateful for. In the 56 years since he graduated, John has expressed his gratitude in the form of generous donations to his alma mater. And now that he is in his ninth decade, he wants to make sure his children follow in his footsteps and keep his legacy alive – not just the philanthropy, but also the gratitude that inspired it. John’s own footsteps trace back to Hong Kong. The son of a dentist, John was 16 when he crossed the ocean and settled in Canada. Nine years later, he earned his medical degree and opened his psychiatry practice. And while his career has been good to him, much of his gratitude revolves around his Queen’s experience. “I am grateful to Canada and to Queen’s ,” he says. “I wouldn’t be who I am without my Queen’s education.” He remains in close contact with many of his classmates, attending official reunions on campus as well as frequent informal reunions, including one he hosted in 2011 that included a 10-day cruise around the Baja Peninsula. In 2007, John decided to express his gratitude for his education – and his journey – by establish - ing the Wong International Bursary, which allows students in financial need to study in China. “I t t

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the bursary to spend five months in Shanghai, g improving her command of the Mandarin lan - Seen here, seated, are John Wong, Meds’@D, and his daughter Diana. guage and soaking up the city’s culture. Standing behind them are John’s daughter Angela and son John Jr. Not in John created the bursary in memory of his the photo: John’s daughter Gloria. The Wong family dedicated a bench on parents, Min and Lau Wong, and he hopes his campus in John’s honour and a tree in memory of his wife, Lily. own children will honour this memory in a similar way. His four children have contributed to the interna - Although none of his four children attended tional bursary. And John has an even deeper com - Queen’s , John has instilled the tricolour spirit in mitment in mind. “What I want is for my children to each of them. Three of them joined him here for continue giving when I’m gone,” he says. the first time last fall, touring his old haunts and Last fall, his son and namesake, John Jr., joined getting a first-hand look at the campus they had him as the official family contact for the interna - heard so much about. The occasion was his 55th tional bursary. “My father understands the impor - reunion, and a double dedication ceremony – tance of honouring parents and expressing grati - a bench in front of the Old Medical Building to tude for everything they do,” says John Jr. “He set celebrate his 80th birthday, and a nearby native up the bursary to honour my grandparents. Now red maple tree planted in memory of his wife, there’s a way for my siblings and me to express Lily, who died in 2013. gratitude to our parents.” B

issue 4, 2015 | queensu.ca/alumnireview 4 ca mpus SCENE A tale of tested traditions BY MARK KERR

or do they obstruct our future? Should we jettison them or simply modify them to the times?’” In a sense, Dr. McDowall even “tested the tradition” of official Queen’s histories. From the outset, he knew that he wanted to take a broader, livelier approach to writing the university’s history than his mentor and former Queen’s professor Frederick Gibson, who wrote Queen’s University, Volume EE , PWPU-PWTP: To Serve And Yet Be Free , and Hilda Neatby, author of Queen’s University, Volume E, PVRP-PWPU: And Not to Yield. “I am not faulting Fred. History, like any other discipline at the university, has changed over the past 30 years,” Dr. McDowall says. “What’s missing from the two previous volumes is any sense of the cultural and social ethos of the university and what it was like to be a student, a professor or even an electrician at Queen’s . I hope I have brought some of that perspective into this volume.” The volume is still an institutional history, though, and Dr. McDowall doesn’t ignore the significant contributions the administration, k C

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A legacy continued

The generous legacy of Keith, Sc’43, and his wife Marguerite McCa!rey will long be felt by students making use of the Queen’s Centre, the new hub of student life on campus.

Keith Allan McCaffrey was born April -, ,1,1 in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. When Keith was just six months of age, his mother crossed the Atlantic with him to join his father who was working as an engineer in Toronto. Keith received his high school education at Jarvis Collegiate in Toronto and Glebe Collegiate in Ottawa. He then followed in his father’s footsteps and earned his mechanical engineering degree from Queen’s University in ,1/.. Upon his death in ,10., his wife Marguerite remembered how highly Keith had spoken of his Queen’s education. She also had wonderful memories of visiting Queen’s with Keith for his reunion celebrations. Marguerite felt it fitting to create during her lifetime, The Keith and Marguerite McCaffrey Awards for Applied Science students in Mechanical Engineering in memory of her husband. When Marguerite passed away .+ years after her husband, she also left a very generous estate gift in support of the newly constructed Queen’s Centre, a state-of-the-art student life hub including athletics and planning recreation, student club space, food court and much more. makes a Because of their love for each other and caring di!erence for Queen’s, their memory reminds us of the queensu.ca/giftplanning difference we can make. EX libris New books by faculty and alumni “I do have a big ego! the study of novel cancer therapeutic approaches. their As I often say, modesty is my only vice. primary goals are to identify the recommended dose, If I weren’t so modest, I’d be perfect.” schedule and pharmacologic behaviour of new agents or new combinations of agents and to describe the adverse that is how author Siobhan Roberts , artsci’94, intro - effects of treatment. in cancer therapeutics, such studies duces mathematician John horton Conway, the subject have particular challenges. due to the nature of the of her book Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John effects of treatment, most such studies are conducted Horton Conway . and, as she then says, his ego is so in patients with advanced malignancy, rather than in sizable that it seemed to demand its own font. therefore, healthy volunteers. this work is a useful resource for direct quotes from Conway, distinguished professor of oncology trainees or specialists interested in understand - applied and computational mathematics at Princeton ing cancer drug development. new to this edition are university, are interjected, in their own font, throughout chapters on Phase 0 trials and immunotherapeutics, and the text. his voice comes through loud and clear, inter - updated information on the process, pitfalls and logistics spersed with calculations, drawings, game theory and of Phase i trials. dr. eisenhauer is head of the Queen’s gossip, as roberts captures Conway’s fascinating world department of oncology and director of the nCiC Clinical of mathematics. the author describes her subject as trials group investigational new drug Program. “archimedes, mick Jagger, Salvador dalí, and richard Feynman, all rolled into one. he is one of the greatest Amy Kaufman , Law’04, is the co-author, with Leeann living mathematicians, with a sly sense of humour, a Beggs , of Out of Practice: Exploring Legal Career Paths in polymath’s promiscuous curiosity, and a compulsion to Canada. the book presents the experiences of lawyers explain everything about the world to everyone in it.” who have made changes, large and small, to their own roberts is a science writer and winner of four national careers, along with the advice of legal career coaches, magazine awards. her first book, King of Infinite Space, all within the context of what is happening in Canada’s won the mathematical association of america’s euler legal profession. it provides practical strategies to ex - Prize for expanding the public’s view of mathematics. plore and make the transition into a new career or, alter - natively, reassess and modify your current career path Russell Smith , artsci’86, ma ’88, has a new book of short in smaller ways. amy kaufman is head of the Lederman stories out that is garnering rave reviews. in the stories of Law Library at Queen’s. Leeann beggs, former director Confidence , there are ecstasy-taking Phd students, vio - of career services for Queen’s Law, is now director of lent and unremovable tenants, aggressive raccoons, student and associate programs at gowlings in ottawa. seedy massage parlors, experimental filmmakers who record every second of their day, and wives who blog in - Patricia Henderson , artsci’77, has written the non-fic - sults directed at their husbands. there are private clubs, tion book Inside Kingston: Stories Celebrating People’s Lives crowded restaurants, psychiatric wards. there is one & Passions. Published by Quarry Press, the book is about magic cinema and everyone has a secret of some kind. 150 people who made their lives quietly extraordinary as the QAR went to press, Confidence had been nomi - by following their passions and being true to themselves. nated for the rogers Writers’ trust Fiction Prize and the book features many Queen’s professors, including longlisted for the Scotiabank giller Prize. Lindsay davidson, Jonathan rose, michael adams and richard ascough. Patricia, a former CbC radio Sandra Campbell and Duncan McDowall , arts’72, ma ’74, writer/broadcaster, runs her own company, Writing explore the colourful history of bermuda in their collabo - by design, in kingston. Inside Kingston is available at rative work, Short Bermudas: Essays on Island Li fe . here kingston’s novel idea bookstore as well as online at you can find essays on the history of the bermuda onion, indigo. www.patriciajhenderson.com the bermuda connection to Civil War bioterrorism and bermuda’s high society and everyday people. each piece in Divine Intervention , Louisa Sparks is thrown into a is followed by suggested reading, for the reader who world of chaos and adventure when she finds an unusual wants to delve further into the history of the island. timepiece in the pocket of her grandfather’s old coat. dr. Campbell is also the author of Both Hands: A Life of With the press of a button, Louisa is suddenly trans - Lorne Pierce of Ryerson Press [see issue 2-2014] . her hus - ported through time. Soon after, she receives an invita - band, dr. mcdowall, is the Queen’s university historian. tion to join the strange fraternity of the dining and his book, Tested Tradition , the third volume of the official Social Club for time travellers. but her adventures have Queen’s university history, will be published in 2016. only just begun! time travellers are going missing and Learn more about this work on page <>. Louisa may be the only one who can save them. this is the first novel in the dining and Social Club for time Elizabeth Eisenhauer , meds’76, is co-editor of Phase I t ravellers Series for young adults by Elyse Kishimoto Cancer Clinical Trials: A Practical Guide. the second edition and Doug Feaver , artsci’01. doug is both co-author and of the book was published earlier this year by oxford illustrator of the books. university Press. Phase i trials are a critical first step in

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issue 4, 2015 | queensu.ca/alumnireview 51 THE LAST word Access to information, knowledge and ideas BY SHARON MURPHY

arrived at Queen’s 11 years ago. Since that time, In that same spirit, making Queen’s scholarly II have enjoyed three different librarian positions. output available worldwide can help improve I cut my librarian teeth working with engineering communities, policy, business, and people’s lives. and applied science, first at the Technical Univer - The library has teamed up with University Research sity of Nova Scotia, then at Dalhousie University Services on many such initiatives. For example, we and on to Queen’s where I started as the inte - co-organized a panel discussion in October as part grated learning librarian. After that I became head of Open Access Week and will be soon planning of the Engineering & Science Library before taking our third annual Data Day, together with It Serv - my current position as head of Academic Services. ices. Our partnership has been so successful that Throughout my years as a librarian, I have seen we have even taken it on the road. Karina McInnis a lot of change. Back when I was in library school (Executive Director, University Research Services), (MLIs , Dalhousie), we witnessed the beginning of Bo Wandschneider (Associate Vice-Principal, the internet. This was before there were graphical Information Technology), and I gave a presentation browsers, well before Google. We knew that the on data management planning at The Consortia internet could change everything, especially for Advancing Standards in Research Administration those of us who work in information. Information ( casRaI ) last year in Ottawa. I also Over the years I have also seen the price of infor - presented our work to the LIBeR (European mation (journals especially) skyrocket, squeezing Research Libraries) conference in London, u.K., our resources and making good quality research this past summer, and as a result they have asked inaccessible for many. Advocating for open access Karina and me to do some blogging for them so is a natural fit for me. Libraries are at the forefront we can share our experiences as a case study. of this movement, because of those cost pressures This is one of the things I really love about my and, most importantly, because access is at the core job: I get to work with people from all across the of what we do. Access to information, knowledge university. We have forged a number of similar and ideas really is the heart of librarianship. partnerships. For example, we also work with the provost’s office and the Centre for Teaching and Learning. We have learned a lot from each other. Another thing that sustains me in librarianship is the variety. I get to work in an environment that changes constantly – everything about it – most notably the research fields themselves. Students and faculty always tackling new problems, raising new questions. We have the privilege of exploring those paths with them, advising on literature reviews, recommending resources, advising on research data management, and teaching in the classroom (on campus and online). Every day, I have the opportunity to work on a whole variety of things. Every day – no, every hour – is different, and usually in unexpected ways. The most important thing about my work is that it is always about our community. My responsibility is to this great team of people I work with, and all of us are here to work with the students and the faculty. It is all about the Queen’s community of learning, teaching and research. That’s the key, k C

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