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Smus Sch Ties Summer 13.Pdf SUMMER 2013 • ST. MICHAELS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL School On the Edge Fashion Online Teaching Technology In an ever-changing Both challenges and The benefits of new industry, four alumni share opportunities can be tools in the classroom how SMUS prepared them found in marketing and and the advent of a new for an unpredictable career. selling apparel online. artistic medium. Thanks to Our Sponsors and Golfers With your help, we raised $14,000 for the Alumni Endowment Fund 1 t the 2012 Annual SMUS Alumni & Friends Golf Invitational, A 112 golfers took to the Victoria Golf Club course in support of the Alumni Endowment Fund. The diverse group, comprised of men, women, parents, staff and alumni, enjoyed a seasonable and sunny afternoon oceanside. As incentives for great play – or great luck – there were opportunities to win big prizes with a hole-in-one, but none were taken home this year. Thanks to Steve Tate ’98 and all our organizers, volunteers and guests who continue to make this event a wonderful success. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1. Luke Mills, Colin Brown ’90, Francois Muller, Dave Fracy 2. Cathy Dixon, Kathy Jawl, Rani Singh, Joan Snowden 3. Steve Keeler, Vanessa (Young) Keeler ’84, Tracey Hagkull, Blair Hagkull 4. Dan Matthews, Blane Fowler, Michael Burrows, Jack Foster 5. Lisa Matthews, Allison Fowler 6. Mat Geddes ’93 7. Steve Selina ’81, Jim Brust, Ted Balderson ’82, Jim Taylor 8. Andy Maxwell ’79, Susanna Crofton ’80, Frank Corbett, Danielle Topliss ’91 9. Chuck Hemingway ’88, John Fraser, Travis Lee ’88 10. Rob Connolly ’96, Andrew Williamson ’98, Chris Noel ’98, Steve Tate ’98 School Ties is distributed to more than 5,000 members of the St. Michaels University School community, including current families, friends, and current and past staff and students. The goal of the publication is to communicate current activities and initiatives and 2 Technology provide ar ticles and repor t s on the alumni Contents community. If you have any comments or Bob Snowden on how technology suggestions regarding this publication, affects education. please email [email protected]. Published by the Advancement Office 3 Highlights from St. Michaels University School the SMUS Review 3400 Richmond Road News stories from all three campuses Victoria, British Columbia Canada V8P 4P5 published on our web forum, the Telephone: 250-592-2411 SMUS Review. Admissions: 1-800-661-5199 Email: [email protected] 6 Athletics Highlights 23 On the Edge: Alumni in Tech School Ties magazine and archive Sports highlights from August 2012 copies can be found in the publications to March 2013. Four alumni are working in an section of the school website: ever-changing field. www.smus.ca/pubs 8 Arts Highlights 28 The Class of 2012: If you are interested in attending alumni Arts highlights from September 2012 events, visit the online Calendar of Events to March 2013. The Road Ahead at alumni.smus.ca. Find out where our newest group of alumni 13 Using Technology to Teach Editors: Erin Anderson, Laura Authier, are spending their first year after SMUS. Gillian Donald ’85, Peter Gardiner, New tools help educators change the way Darin Steinkey students learn. 30 Alumni Weekend From an international marketplace to Contributors: Erin Anderson, 16 A New Approach to Art Laura Authier, Gillian Donald ’85, boisterous reunion dinners, our alumni Peter Gardiner, Mat Geddes ’93, The digital art program opens up received a warm welcome. Bob Snowden, Darin Steinkey, new media. Brenda Waksel, Jim Wenman ’67, 35 Alumni Receptions Rob Wilson and SMUS community 18 A Different Lens Connecting with alumni in Vancouver, members. We apologize for any Two alumni use technology to capture omissions. Tokyo, Toronto, London, Hong Kong stunning images. and Los Angeles... Photos: Erin Anderson, Chris Bateman, Shayla Baumeler, Frank Chang, 20 Online Style: Fashion 38 Alumni Updates Gillian Donald, Rob Ducharme, on the Web Anastasia Efremova, Ann Fenje, News from our alumni around the world. Katie Jones, Peter Gardiner, Three alumni talk finding fashion online. Lizette Greyling, Chris Hanebury, Jake Humphries, Kent Leahy-Trill, Melanie Masson, Jody Nishima, Darin Steinkey, Mark Yager School Ties is Your Magazine Design and Layout: Reber Creative 8*/5&3t45.*$)"&-4 6/*7&34*5:4$)00- #40063624 Publications Publications Mark Your Calendars Mail Agreement Agreement Mail S ch o o l Printed in Canada February, 2012 Tell Us What You Want to Read Vancouver, BC 46..&3t45.*$)"&-46/*7 W 46..&3t45.*$)"&-46/*7&34*5:4$)00-&34*5:4$)00- March, 2012 Seattle, WA by Hillside Printing Ltd., Victoria, BC Portland, OR Send us your thoughts on our latest Washington, DC Hong Kong, CH Tokyo, JP S ch o o l Seoul, KR April, 2012 issue and themes you would like to see San Francisco, CA May 4-6, 2012 Alumni Weekend appear in the future. (www.smus.ca/ties) Register at alumni.smus.ca/events Tell Us What’s New 2013 • - Summer Ties School Passages SMUS History Online Alumni Abroad Remembering co-ed Five alumni who Our new interactive website brings our past pioneer and former discovered opportunities headmaster John Schaffter Victoria, BC, CANADA V8P 4P5 V8P CANADA BC, Victoria, 3400 Richmond Road Richmond 3400 into our present St. Michaels University School University Michaels St. in faraway places Submit an update online to let your former OnOn the Edge classmates know what you’re up to through FF a as s h h i o i o n n O O n nl i nli ne e Teaching Technology InIn an an ever-changingever-changing Both challenges and Teaching Technology industry, four alumni share Both challenges and TheThe benefits benefits of ofnew new industry, four alumni share opportunitiesopportunities can can be be howhow SMUSSMUS prepared them toolstools in inthe the classroom classroom foundfound in in marketing marketing and and and the advent of a new forfor anan unpredictableunpredictable career.career. selling apparel online. and the advent of a new selling apparel online. artisticartistic medium. medium. School Ties. (www.smus.ca/update) This issue of School Ties was printed on Opus 30 Dull Text 30% post-consumer recycled paper. By selecting this paper, St. Michaels University School has preserved 7 trees for the future, saved 698 gal of water and 634 lbs of solid waste, and conserved 910 kilowatt hours of electricity. It reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 1,152 lbs and landfill waste 1 by 2 cubic yards. Technology While the tools at our disposal have changed, Bob finds certain aspects of education endure. by Bob Snowden SCHOOL of ire, hand tools, the wheel, the printing press, electricity: all life, in the end? While technology has accelerated the contact Fof the epochal technologies forged anew how we share a meal, that earlier technologies also accelerated, does that necessarily secure a dwelling, understand a common history and envision mean our students will become different creatures from earlier a common future. Transforming technologies earned that label generations? Or will their main purpose still be to seek the because they were a successful experiment in bringing people fulfillment that comes with sharing their lives with others: with HEAD HEAD face to face, a catalyst for community, family, trade, pleasure and their families, the broader community and the wider world, as safety. Technology has always been a social medium, in one form always? Will education’s main purpose still be the pursuit of or another. truth and goodness? When our school was established, the texture of life consisted We now livestream many important school events so that of crude automobiles and electricity, more disease and infection alumni, parents and friends of the school can witness the and less convenience. Students used pen and ink rather than Closing Ceremonies, the Concerto Concert or other aspects of keyboards and screens, travelled home on passenger trains rather life at SMUS. Even a few years ago, this sharing was impossible. than passenger planes, communicated person to person rather Our alumni who plan reunion gatherings do so by setting up than over text or video. Our Facebook pages. I have about founders imagined an education Because our current 750 connections on LinkedIn, whose flesh and bone was the most of whom are SMUS family, classroom, the sports field, the technology comes in digital and to whom I send school library, the stage and the dining updates regularly. Then there is table. They believed these essential form, racing along pathways the Internet: for the young mind experiences would endure and it is an exciting and flowing river sustain a learning community. both wired and wireless, how of information, as wide as your Today, as I look out my different is life, in the end? curiosity. In this river you can window, students are streaming learn to swim, to sift the relevant from the Crothall Centre onto the quad, carrying violin cases from irrelevant – or alternatively you can simply float, or to orchestra rehearsals, and hustling to dining hall. Or as I look possibly drown. out onto fields the boys are playing rugby, and the girls playing A recent exchange I had with a parent lamented the time soccer; or as I pick up from my desk the slim volume from that is wasted on social media like Facebook or Twitter or which I read the poems and stories composed by our senior Instagram. I don’t know how much time these media waste. writing students – as I do any of these things, I conclude that Nor do I know how much time people wasted a hundred, five the vision of our founders worked. A discussion today that hundred or a thousand years ago when they used to sit around a imagines the school in another 100 years would likely put some fire or smoke a pipe discussing politics in a coffee house or copy new details in the picture I see today, but the similarities would texts in a dusty library.
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