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18 Pursuit of Justice What’s next for former Supreme Court chief justice Beverley McLachlin? 27 Handmade Tales A Victorian hair wreath and Inuit snow goggles take vintage to a new level

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3 Your Letters 5 Notes What’s new and noteworthy 10 Continuing Education Our scribe steps into the batter’s box in defence of mastering the mechanics 13 Thesis Ditto is all about agreement. So let’s agree to celebrate our differences, too 33 Trails Where you’ve been and where you’re going 36 Class Notes 41 In Memoriam 46 Small Talk

Beverley McLachlin remains actively involved in law. Here she prepares to deliver a lecture at an event hosted by the Law Society of British Columbia in Vancouver in June. Page 18. Photo by John Ulan new trail autumn 2019 1 }upfront

OFFICE OF ALUMNI RELATIONS Medicine Sean Price, ’95 BCom Beverly Wilson, ’83 BMedSc, ’85 MD Associate Vice-President Native Studies Greg Latham Chancy Black Water, Awakas’ikitstakiaki Director, Alumni Engagement (Deer Offering Woman), ’10 BA(NativeStu), ’10 Cert(AborGov/Ptnshp) Tracy Salmon, ’91 BA(Hons), ’96 MSc Director, Alumni Programs Nursing Christine Westerlund, ’95 BScN(Hons), Coleen Graham, ’88 BSc(HEc), ’93 MEd ’01 MSc Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives A Mighty Force Pharmacy ALUMNI COUNCIL EXECUTIVE Ali Damani, ’02 BSc(Pharm) Alumni Association President Public Health growing up, were you expected to take pictures around the U of A, Heather Raymond, ’82 BEd, ’86 Dip(Ed), Salima Thawer, ’03 BSc, ’05 Dip(DentHyg), go to university? Was getting your and they make connections on ’95 MEd, ’02 PhD ’06 BSc(DentHyg), ’13 MPH degree the presumed next step campus. It’s an empowering and Past-President Rehabilitation Medicine after high school? transformative experience. I see Ayaz Bhanji, ’91 BSc(Pharm) Michele Moon, ’92 BSc(OT), ’05 MSc Committee Chairs: Alumni Awards Science When I was principal at them go from scared on Monday to Rick Dowell, ’03 BSc(MechEng), ’09 MBA; Keri Reid, ’05 BSc Norwood School in north feeling as if they own the place by Salima Thawer, ’03 BSc, ’05 Dip(DentHyg), ’06 BSc(DentHyg), ’13 MPH MEMBERS AT LARGE Edmonton, I met many students Friday. They discover a community Ali Assi, ’15 MPH Committee Chair: Alumni Student Council Yasmin Barre, ’09 BSc, ’12 MSc who never thought about for them at the U of A. Phil Wong, ’85 BSc(Spec) post‑secondary. They didn’t grow Right now there are 40 students Ashlyn Bernier, ’06 BSc, ’11 PhD, ’13 MBA Committee Chair: Career Services Ramesh Bhambhani, ’66 BSc, ’68 MSc, ’72 PhD up in a home with family who attending the U of A who are Kate Young, ’07 BScN, ’15 MBA Maxine Clarke, ’03 BCom had gone to university; many of graduates of U School. I think about Committee Chair: Priority Programs Joel Johnston, ’16 BA(RecSpoTourism), Jessica Vandenberghe, ’00 BSc(ChemEng), ’03 MSc ’16 Cert(AboriginalSpo/Rec), their parents hadn’t finished high those students — and the fact that ’16 Cert(CommEngage/ServLearn) Committee Chair: Volunteerism Jesse Moore, ’09 BA, ’09 Cert(Trans) school. If they did set foot on the program just wrapped up its Ryan Thompson, ’03 BSc(Hons), ’13 MA Rachel Persad, ’15 BA(Criminology) campus, it felt like another planet. 10th year — and consider how many Board of Governors Representatives Ruth Spetter, ’94 BCom They didn’t see themselves there lives have changed trajectory as a Mary Pat Barry, ’04 MA Michael Wong, ’01 BCom Bill Werry, ’73 BA(RecAdmin) and, because of that, they believed result of U School. I’m proud to be Senate Representatives EX OFFICIO a university degree was something part of that. Charlene Butler, ’09 MBA Honorary President other people got. Sometimes when we stare Tyler Hanson, ’00 BSc(MechEng) David Turpin Interim Vice-President (Advancement) A degree from the U of A is a inequality in the face, we feel FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES Kelly Spencer, ’97 BA Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences life-changing opportunity, but not inadequate. We wonder what Associate Vice-President (Alumni Relations) Chris Kallal, ’14 BSc(Forest) everyone has the chance to get a difference one person can possibly Sean Price, ’95 BCom Arts Dean of Students degree. Sometimes providing that make. But as alumni, we are Jim Gibbon, ’85 BSc, ’87 BA, ’06 MBA Andre Costopoulos opportunity means helping socially not one person. We’re a mighty Augustana Dean of Students Designate Matthew Hebert, ’05 BA vulnerable kids recognize that group — 290,000-people strong and Bryce Meldrum Business there really is a place for them at growing — and our small actions Graduate Students’ Association Denise Prefontaine, ’86 BA(RecAdmin), ’95 MBA university. That’s why I volunteer add up fast. Volunteering with Marc Waddingham Campus Saint-Jean Students’ Union with U School. The program, U School is my small way of helping Thomas Pomerleau, ’18 BCom(Bilingual) Adam Brown run by the University of Alberta my community. What’s yours? Dentistry Senate, connects the university Hafiz Damani, ’93 BSc(Dent), ’95 DDS with students between grades 4 Did you know you can volunteer Education Ken Shields, ’69 BEd, ’84 MEd and 9 who are from vulnerable, through the Alumni Association? Engineering Indigenous or rural communities. Check out uabgrad.ca/volunteer for Gail J. Powley, ’84 BSc(ChemEng) For a week, those kids get to visit upcoming opportunities. Extension campus with their classmates for Melissa Myskiw, ’05 BA, ’17 MA Graduate Studies an immersive experience led by Olena (Alyona) Shynkaruk, ’16 PhD U School teachers and supported Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation by volunteers. They take classes Vacant with professors and ask questions, Law Alexander Yu, ’03 BA, ’06 LLB learn about photography and

Heather Raymond, ’82 BEd, ’86 Dip(Ed), ’95 MEd, ’02 PhD

president, alumni association PHOTO BY JOHN ULAN

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This sweater is a one-of-a-kind knit by You were among the first Raymond, herself! @UAlbertaAlumni. It’s administrators to send kids MEET YOUR to U School, which connects students from socially NEW ALUMNI vulnerable communities to hopeful to see that so the U of A. Why is USo School often PRESIDENT important to you? The new Alumni Association president begins we say to young people, “You many great minds are her two-year term in, ’82June. BEd, We ’86 caught Dip(Ed), up ’95 with MEd, should go to university,” but Heather Raymond they have no experience base. ’02 PhD, a retired teacher and principal, to find Many students that live on out what keeps her energized as a volunteer. Edmonton’s north side don’t working towards the , ’82 BA even travel to the south side. Scott Rollans By Some of the kids at Norwood or McCauley didn’t know What do you like most about the university exists. And future, when policy The pace. I can retirement? that persists today. U School actually get up and read the paper provides kids with a concrete, and drink my tea before I go to my lived experience of what desk — which I never used to do. IN THE NEWS can seem stagnant university would look like. It’s touching the lives of a lot That sounds nice. So what would of children — and changing make you say yes to a new volunteer I had been a passive their outcomes. , ’90 and/or regressive. gig like this one? National Nod for BioWare Greg Founders Zeschuk alumni member, to be quite honest, , ’90 BMedSc, ’92 MD, (above, right) and A lot of people hesitate Ray Muzyka but when I became part of Alumni We would like to volunteer, especially if Council, my commitment escalated. BMedSc, ’92 MD, are among the 103 Canadians appointed to the Order of they can’t spare the time. #ClimateCrisis I saw the quality of activity and Canada in December. Muzyka and Zeschuk were recognized for founding How do you convince those started to really understand what it the video-game software company BioWare in 1995. The two are active people they can still make to hear your was all about. Alumni Council allows I think back to in Edmonton’s business and non-profit community — Muzyka is the a difference? you to take your best skills and apply founding chair of the University of Alberta’s Venture Mentoring Service Powered up | my time at Norwood School them. The [Alumni Relations] office and Zeschuk owns the local Blind Enthusiasm Brewing Co. and Biera as a principal. Every offer was –cbc edmonton creates that environment — they’re gastropub. comments about valuable. It could be someone building on the best skills their giving me a basket full of New Trail volunteers bring to the table. school supplies or it could be someone giving me $10,000. the magazine. You’ve worked with children with Each of them contributed. disabilities, communities living One of the things that drew with poverty and recent immigrants. me to Alumni Council, and What draws you to advocate for Send us your letters Through my keeps me committed, is DID YOU KNOW? Lindsy Hill, marginalized people? the number of alumni we In one of the odder research journey, I came to realize that I wanted have. If each of us makes a projects of the Second World War, to stand beside families who are U of A engineers were involved in ‘11 BEd, Grande Prairie, Alta. small contribution, what’s by post or email Operation Habbakuk, an idea from marginalized. My first administrative the cumulative impact position, at McCauley School, was one of an eccentric British professor to of that? It’s huge. build immense warships out of ice. the most exhilarating experiences I ever 49 had. When I started at the school, we had to the addresses This interview has been new trail spring 2019 no parental engagement. By the time

PHOTOS BY JOHN ULAN; ILLUSTRATION BY WENTING LI WENTING BY ILLUSTRATION ULAN; JOHN BY PHOTOS edited and condensed. I left, between myself and the principal, we were able to get 200 families to show on page 4. Letters up at events. It wasn’t that families didn’t care about their children before then; it was the way we invited them. may be edited for 48 ualberta.ca/newtrail length or clarity. A Tight-Knit Wanted: Arts Perspectives I write to congratulate you on the Spring 2019 issue. It is vibrant, indicating top-flight areas of research activities at my alma mater. But therein Alumni Community lies the rub: there are too few items that deal with the arts, and that, as you may expect, should not be a complaint from a scientist. While your Congrats to the new alumni president, writers are upbeat and catch the attention (e.g., “… undergrads created a Heather Raymond, who knit and wore buzz in Alberta’s honeybee industry …” on page 5) and selected scientists her super cool one-of-a-kind green-and- hit the mark with comments on our dilemma with energy (see Mavis Ure on page 37), there could be, in my opinion, a fairer coverage of subjects gold sweater in the spring New Trail from departments of art, history and languages, to name a few. With best magazine. Please include the pattern, wishes in continuing to strive for excellence in journalism. yarn and colour in the next alumni –Victor Snieckus, ’59 BSc(Hons), Kingston, Ont. magazine. I will be retiring this summer and need a winter project. –Karen LaValley (Boulton), ’78 BScN, Calgary Grammar Gaffe Congratulations to you on your upcoming Geoffrey H. Sperber, professor emeritus, wrote in to point out a retirement. In my retirement, knitting — a hobby grammatical error in our Spring 2019 issue — in a headline, no less! that I love — is a creative outlet that is mentally The headline on page 27 should have read “These Bacteria Eat Gas for stimulating, relaxing and productive, hence the Breakfast.” We take subject-verb agreement very seriously around here creation of my green-and-gold sweater! The and always appreciate our readers’ high standards. sweater pattern is “Trolly Dodger,” downloaded from knitpicks.com. Yarn is Estelle Worsted colour ways 1217 Golden Rod and 1222 Forest Green. Happy knitting to a fellow alumna! –Heather Raymond, ’82 BEd, ’86 Dip(Ed), ’95 MEd, ’02 PhD, MORE ONLINE Alumni Association president Find these stories and more at ualberta.ca/newtrail. Nuclear Omission After coming back from Australia and reading the energy section of New Trail [Spring 2019], I noticed a glaring omission. The only place that nuclear energy is mentioned is in the Energy Milestones chart [page 24]. Why is the option of nuclear energy, Are You a Sucker for Pseudoscience? Timothy Caulfield, ’87 BSc(Spec), or perhaps even individual fusion in each residence, Making Room for All Kids to Thrive ’90 LLB, helps you sort the New Age not mentioned? Strategies to foster inclusion and nonsense from the real goods with

BOTTOM LEFT PHOTO SOLSTOCK / GETTY / E+ IMAGES –Joe Prins, ’74 BCom, St. Albert, Alta. help you broaden your community our handy quiz

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supporting hunting and on-the-land practices in the Arctic would be an effective and inexpensive way to enhance Inuit health, a new study recommends. Land Based Working with the people of Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, researchers learned about For the Inuit of Nunavut, being Inuit relations to the land, especially through the concept of “therapeutic landscape,” the idea that healing and well-being can occur in specific sites. After on the land is important to taking part in land camps rooted in Inuit knowledge, community members health and well-being described the experience with words like “lightness” and “happiness.” Sean Robertson, associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies, says being on the land is not simply a retreat from the stresses of settled life for the Inuit; it creates

STPHANELEMIRE / ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES feelings of interconnection, unity and collective autonomy. –jordan mae cook, ’07 ba

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UNDER THE SURFACE If the mountains had NUMBERS been created through a The Making of a gradual buildup — known as Number of episodes in Mountain Range accretion — that very sharp the kid-focused podcast It was more like a massive rear-ender than mantle boundary wouldn’t Surgery ABCs, created exist, Gu says. by the Department a gradual buildup, new research suggests of Surgery to answer The collision was the first questions like Why am for a long time, scientists beneath it and started to sink, step toward forming the I ticklish? or Why does have thought the Canadian the two continents majestic Rockies, adds 11 my tummy rumble? Rocky Mountains grew smashed together study contributor slowly, building up over and created the Stephen Johnston, For more on millions of years with beginnings of ’85 MSc, ’93 PhD, HEALTH these and other material and debris caused by the Canadian great U of A chair of the NEW RESOURCE shifts in the Earth and small Rockies, says research stories, Department HELPS ASSESS visit folio.ca. intercontinental collisions. Jeffrey Gu, of Earth and MENTAL CAPACITY New research suggests the physics professor Atmospheric A new tool kit for assessing formation was more like a and study co‑author. Sciences. The two seniors’ decision-making massive rear-ender. The study analyzed continents would have abilities promises to Based on new data, high-resolution seismic ground against each other dramatically reduce U of A researchers propose data at the Alberta-British for another 50 million years unnecessary testing and create that a thin, ribbon-shaped Columbia border to track or so, carving the landscape less disruption in seniors’ lives. The model — developed by continent existed about 100 the speeds of seismic waves to create what we see today. a U of A-led research team in million years ago, separated from earthquakes as they It’s unclear whether the collaboration with community from North America by a travelled through the Earth. collision theory applies partners — led to a 60 per cent small ocean on the west Researchers found a sharp equally to the United States drop in referrals to geriatricians coast. As the ocean bottom boundary in the mantle, with portion of the Rockies, but and an 80 per cent drop in between the two continents waves travelling at different the researchers believe it’s interviews to test capacity became denser than the earth speeds on either side. possible. when it was first piloted. “We recognized that we “The study highlights actually lacked a clinical how deep-Earth images process,” says Jasneet Parmar, PEAK PARTNERSHIP from geophysical methods associate professor of family The Canadian Mountain Network, hosted by the U of A, can help us understand the medicine. “We had legislative will receive $18.3 million over five years from the federal evolution of mountains,” acts and policies, but there was Networks of Centres of Excellence. The network is an says Yunfeng Chen, ’14 MSc, no clarity on how to uncover the alliance of universities, governments, Indigenous and evidence to declare whether ’18 PhD, who conducted the non‑Indigenous communities, not-for-profits and businesses someone is capable or not.” dedicated to the sustainability of mountain environments research during his PhD Parmar launched the and communities across the country and around the world. studies at the U of A. project in 2005 when she –katie willis, ’13 ba, ’18 ma realized medical professionals were given little guidance on assessing a person’s capacity, a determination that can have life-changing consequences. “We developed an actual pathway to follow,” says Lesley Charles, associate professor and director of the Care of the Elderly program. “We wanted to cut down on wasted time and testing for both the patient and the health-care professionals.” The Decision-Making Capacity Assessment Model Toolkit went online earlier this year. It has been adopted in hospitals, medical clinics, home care, supportive living and nursing homes in Edmonton, Calgary and other Alberta communities.

–gillian rutherford LUCKY PHOTOGRAPHER / ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES

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A brief look at what’s new at the U

$1M Gift Boosts Mentorship BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka, ’90 BMedSc, ’92 MD, and his wife, Leona De Boer, ’91 BSc, have donated $1 million to the university to support mentorship and training. That includes expanding an alumni program, whose advisory board Muzyka chairs, that connects entrepreneur ventures with mentors. The program’s new name is ThresholdImpact University of Alberta Venture Mentoring Service, uabgrad.ca/ vms, to reflect the RAPID-FIRE DISCOVERY An international team of astronomers, including U of A researchers, name of a company discovered rapidly changing emissions from a black hole 7,800 light-years from Earth that could offer the couple founded. a clue to how galaxies are formed. Scientists were observing the black hole V404 Cygni “feeding” on a nearby star when their instruments recorded jet streams firing rapidly from the hole in different Science Names directions, unlike anything ever seen. One explanation, U of A astrophysicist Gregory Sivakoff told First Female Dean CBC, is that space and time were bending around the jet, dragging the fabric of the universe along Matina Kalcounis- with it. “We were gobsmacked by what we saw,” says Sivakoff. “It tells us a little more about that big Rueppell is the new question, ‘How did we get here?’ ” –andrew lyle, ’11 bsc(eleceng) dean of the Faculty of Science as of July 1, the first woman to hold the post. She most recently EXPERT ADVICE served as head of biology at the University of North GRASS ROOTS VICTORIES Carolina at Greensboro. The turf wars are real and they’re happening in your yard, with grass plants and weeds battling for The faculty has the most territory. “You want to balance the war so the weeds lose,” says Ken Willis, head of horticulture undergrads at the U of A. at the U of A Botanic Garden. Strategic mowing — choosing different lawn heights based on the season — is key. And don’t cut it too short, he says. “People think they need to make their lawns Faculty Club Adopts look like a golf course, but that’s a different type of turf.” Here are Willis’s tips to help you be New/Old Name outstanding in your field. –bev betkowski The Faculty Club is changing its name to ICE IS NOT NICE HEAVY-FOOT BLUES SHORT AND GRASS ROOTS the University Club. The Poor spring drainage If turf isn’t thoroughly LONG OF IT Reseed dead patches new name better reflects leaves grass-killing icy dry, efforts to tidy In spring, set your after spring green‑up, the club’s membership, patches. Corrective winter debris will mower to seven and aerate at least including alumni, and landscaping like raised compact the ground centimetres. Increase every three years to its connections to the gardens can solve and make it difficult the height in stages to let air and water into wider community, says trouble spots. Or you for grass to establish 10 centimetres in the the roots. In fall, boost past-president Bruce can dig out the dead roots, Willis says. heat of summer. In late nutrients with a light Sutherland. The club’s patches, regrade the As well, vigorous August, slowly reduce spread of compost, original name was low spots and replant raking will spread any to seven centimetres topsoil or slow-release University Club when it

ICRAR the turf. remaining snow mould. by freeze-up. fertilizer. was founded in 1911.

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IN MEMORIAM SHE OPENED DOORS TO WOMEN From the chemistry of baking to the puffs of smoke conjured for school presentations, Margaret-Ann Armour, ’70 PhD, ’13 DSc (Honorary), believed science was a fun part of everyday life. During her trailblazing 40-year career, Armour taught others to believe it, too. Give. The beloved professor who tirelessly advocated for women in science careers died in May at age 79. Grow. Armour grew up in Scotland and puts high school students to work in attended the University of Edinburgh university labs. With her soft Scottish burr before coming to Edmonton to earn her and nurturing ways, she endeared herself Transform. doctorate in organic chemistry. In to hundreds of students. 1979, she became one of the science “She often encouraged us to dream big faculty’s few female instructors. In and to ‘do science as if people mattered,’ ” the early ’80s, she was asked to lead a recalls WISEST team lead Fervone Goings, committee to explore how to increase ’00 MSc. “Her legacy will continue to have the number of women in science. This led an impact for years to come.” her to co-found Women in Scholarship, Armour received numerous honours: an Engineering, Science and Technology Edmonton school is named for her, she was (WISEST), which continues to encourage a member of the Order of Canada and she young women and other underrepresented received a number of honorary doctorates. groups to pursue these fields. She was The final one, from Concordia University of also the university’s first associate dean Edmonton, was bestowed in her hospital (diversity), in the Faculty of Science. room hours before she died. The speech One of Armour’s greatest joys was to she’d prepared was read at the graduation mentor WISEST participants in initiatives ceremony the next day. –bev betkowski and like the summer research program, which jennifer-anne pascoe, ’02 ba(hons), ’18 ma

Uganda after cases began GLOBAL IMPACT appearing there in June. Research Boosts Battle The highly contagious disease is spread through Against Deadly Ebola contact with body fluids. u of a research is playing to document how an Götte’s team is also a role in combating the experimental treatment focusing attention current Ebola outbreak, called remdesivir works: on the World Health the second-worst since it inhibits the enzyme Organization’s “Blueprint the virus was discovered the Ebola virus needs for list of priority diseases,” in 1976. replication. a roster of pathogens Virologist Matthias “It’s reassuring if you with high epidemic Götte made an important have an inhibitor and you potential and few known breakthrough in 2018 know how it works,” says treatments. when his lab in the Li Ka Götte. The team’s research The Ebola outbreak Shing Institute isolated corroborated data on demonstrates the the enzyme responsible animals and cell culture. need for governments, for copying the genome Remdesivir is now one non‑profits and academics that spreads Ebola. of four treatments used to step up basic research The discovery allows in clinical trials in the to fight these diseases, researchers to safely Democratic Republic of says Götte, chair of the study new medications Congo, which is suffering Department of Medical without handling the an outbreak of Ebola. Microbiology and highly contagious virus. It’s also among three Immunology.

Götte then went on drugs approved for use in –brent wittmeier PHOTO BY JOHN ULAN

8 ualberta.ca/newtrail times more likely to be inattentive, hyperactive PARENTING or defiant or to act out than those who spent less Screen Test than 30 minutes a day. when it comes to screen time for young children, The two-hours-plus kids how much is too much? A new study suggests it’s a were seven times more lot less than you might think. likely to report symptoms A study of more than 2,400 Canadian families similar to attention deficit compared the behaviour of three- and five-year- hyperactivity disorder. old children based on how much time they spent “Prior to this, there weren’t with screens such as TV, DVDs, computers, game a lot of data that asked the consoles, smartphones and tablets. questions, ‘How much is too It found that children who spent two-plus much? Are the guidelines hours a day with screens showed more behavioural appropriate?’ ” says lead problems than those who spent less than 30 author Sukhpreet Tamana, minutes daily. The link between screen time and ’16 PhD, a post-doctoral fellow behavioural problems exceeded any other risk in the pediatrics department. factor, including sleep, parenting stress and socio- “This study gives parents economic influences. some of those answers.” Canadian guidelines suggest a maximum of two The research identified hours of screen use a day for five-year-olds and factors that protect children less than an hour a day for three-year-olds, says from the negative effects researcher Piush Mandhane, an associate professor of screen time. Organized of pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry. sport had a highly significant “But our research suggests that less screen time is protective effect, due not only even better.” to physical activity but to the Study results showed the children who spent organized aspect of it. –ross more than two hours a day on screens were five neitz, with files from kim wright Learn. Lead. Amplify.

Congratulations to our CEO, Martin Garber- Conrad, on receiving an honorary doctor of laws degree. Under his leadership, Edmonton Community Foundation grants more than $20 million each year to

QUOTED deserving charities. “I’m not drafting a kid with a crazy parent. … If there’s a parent up in the stands [who is] just going crazy, he’s negatively affecting his kid’s brand.” 780.426.0015 • ecfoundation.org One of 16 hockey scouts in a study by Ryan Guenter, ’18 MA, that looked at the criteria

TALIP / E+ / GETTY / E+ TALIP IMAGES scouts use to evaluate draft-eligible players for the Western Hockey League

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Learning doesn’t end when you accept your degree. We are all lifelong learners, whether we pursue lessons in a class or a lecture hall — or these lessons pursue us. Curtis Gillespie, ’85 BA(Spec), reflects on the continuing opportunities for education that life throws our way, sometimes when we least expect them. by Curtis Gillespie

an outcome called a deadline. [Editor’s note: he’s right.] I remember reading a book about writing by the American novelist Anne Lamott entitled Bird by Bird. In the book, she explained how she came up with the title. Her younger brother had ignored a school essay about bird life in their area, and then, on the day before it was due, he panicked and frantically began asking his family how he was going to get the essay done and what method would work. There’s only one way to do it, his father told him. Bird by bird. I’ve recently had the good fortune to work on a project that has further reinforced the value of prizing process over outcome. It’s not often you get to peek inside the way something successful was made, but that has been my experience lately helping write a history of the Edmonton Community Foundation (ECF). But first let’s talk about baseball. It applies, trust me. Baseball is a lot like life. Sometimes it moves quickly and sometimes it takes forever. There’s plenty of sunshine and a few rainy days. It involves a lot of sitting around. And you do a ridiculous amount of running in circles for no apparent reason. Some of my favourite sayings have to do with baseball lingo. A classic you’ll run into frequently these days is, “He was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.” Meaning that a person was essentially gifted his wealth but thinks he earned it Making Solid Contact through his own hard work and talent. IN LIFE, AS IN BASEBALL, WE OFTEN DREAM OF A HOME RUN One of the rarest feats in baseball RATHER THAN KEEPING OUR EYE ON THE BALL EVERY TIME AT BAT is when a batter “hits for the cycle,” meaning that in one game a hitter has a ou’ll find plenty of life philosophy out there that recommends focusing single, a double, a triple and a home run. on process versus outcome, but this was a foreign concept to me as I It’s so rare that it has happened only entered adulthood — unless avoidance followed by panic followed by 327 times since professional baseball all-nighters counts as a process. Submitting essays in university became began late in the 19th century. And it has a test in its own right to see how close to the deadline I could get before happened only once since they started handing something in. And I don’t mean the posted deadline, I mean a formal post-season in Major League the deadline deadline, the date on which professors had to hand in their marks. I was Baseball in 1903. Once in 116 years. a rankY amateur, though. A friend of mine once handed in an essay six months late, Hitting for the cycle is that rare, and having convinced the prof that he’d be good for it. yet, even though baseball is a lot like life, The irony is not lost on me that I ended up in a career as a freelance writer — a I wonder if too many of us spend our lives field in which deadlines have been known to matter. My career might be why I have in these self-actualized times stepping become increasingly fascinated with the relationship between process and outcome. up to bat thinking we have to hit for the So much so that I think I’m increasingly starting to view the process as the outcome. cycle, rather than just focusing on making

Which is probably not what my editors want to hear, given that their process involves solid contact. Our life plans so often are ILLUSTRATION BY SUTHERLAND; KELLY PHOTO BY JOHN ULAN

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about hitting extra base hits that get us three, five decades hence. He saw from the process, which is largely something somewhere in a hurry, whereas focusing Day 1 that none of that would be possible we do control. on making quality swings every time is without the integrity of a strong daily The obvious metaphor for all this is more likely to get us where we want to go. process. His investing principle was that you’ll never have a chance to hit Process, in other words, not outcome. simple, sound and unsexy. He invested for the cycle if you don’t focus on the Making solid contact is something like a great hitter goes to the plate: he mechanics. And for me, it’s becoming I’ve been thinking about a lot these focused on waiting for the right pitch, ever more evident that the grind, the days in the midst of writing the ECF not swinging at balls off the plate, and mechanics, the daily focus is reward history. The foundation gathers and when he did swing, making solid contact. enough. Many people go to the plate manages endowment funds to create The result? ECF’s endowment is trying to hit a home run, and some of capital returns to distribute to charitable nearing $600 million and, having granted them occasionally knock one out of the organizations in the Edmonton area. It about $180 million in three decades, ECF park. But for the most part, the process is was created three decades ago by some is integral to the function of the city’s the prize. Revel in it. Dig in. Enjoy every of Edmonton’s leading philanthropic charitable and cultural organizations. aspect of the process. That can be tough families. Bob Stollery, ’49 BSc(CivEng), In some ways, the notion of process to remember in the heat of play or the ’85 LLD (Honorary), who had just retired over outcome is about what we do and everyday. But as baseball legend Yogi as president of PCL Construction, was do not control. If a nice outcome arises Berra once said: “Baseball is 90 per cent the foundation’s first president and from the process — you sell your novel, mental. The other half is physical.” also its first financial adviser. And he your business makes a ton of money, you was a genius. Not just a good human run a personal best marathon — then Curtis Gillespie has written five books and earned being and a successful executive but a that’s almost a bonus. There are simply seven National Magazine Awards. His New Trail article “A Hard Walk” won gold for best article of genius, because he understood what an too many things we can’t control, things 2018 from CASE, an international post-secondary organization and a city might need two, usually tied to the outcome rather than association.

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when some people ask for fair play, they want the same set of rules to apply to everyone. To gain admittance to university, Fair Play to get a job, to play a game: they want a set of parameters that allows for the blossoming of some combination of talent, There’s no way to level the playing intelligence and drive. In sport, fair play requires athletes field but we can aim to do better to follow the same rules and use roughly the same type of by each other more often equipment: ditto and ditto. But should that even be the goal?

ILLUSTRATION BY JUNKIN DAVID People are as different in makeup as they are in opportunities.

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Sports fans lauded grades 3 to 6 the opportunity Michael Phelps for his to participate in sports. swimmer’s physique — all Herbert, a Pandas soccer torso and wingspan — but alumna who also played never called his edge unfair. on Canada’s national team, On the other hand, the has shifted her career to governing body of track and focus on more accessible field told Caster Semenya community sport. The league to take medication to lower has removed the barriers her natural testosterone of cost, transportation and to bring it in line with that organization and allowed kids of her competitors. What the chance to strive together assumptions inform that on their own terms, inviting conversation? their differences in. “Opening “The level playing field doors to people is what is a myth,” says Danielle interests me,” she says. “We’re Peers, ’01 BA, ’09 MA, ’15 a sport organization on the PhD, assistant professor in outside but a human services the Faculty of Kinesiology, organization on the inside.” Sport, and Recreation. Even the word “The unequal distribution competition hints at in coaching, training and co‑operation. From Latin, equipment means there’s it means striving together, an unequal distribution says Billy Strean, a professor of opportunities.” Parents in KSR. “If there’s an ‘I/thou’ with kids in sport know the relationship in a race, for challenges of trying to pay example, competitors may the fees, buy the equipment seek to bring out each other’s and get the kid to the game best.’ ” If simply winning is on time. Now imagine the your goal, that relationship child is new to Canada or may change to “I/it” and your has a single parent or has no competitor may be reduced access to transportation. to an obstacle to be overcome. “Equitable access to sport And you might wonder, starts with the assumption “What can I get away with?” that sport should be safe, Strean worries when he accessible and affirming,” sees the “I/it” attitude at play says Peers. As a wheelchair in business and politics. “If athlete, Peers understands we spent more time on a this better than most. consideration of the purpose “My colleague Dales Laing of the undertaking of sport, said, ‘our goal should be to if these conversations enable more people to bring were foundational, we more of themselves, more could recognize the of the time,’ ” Peers says. It interdependence and invites participation and interconnectedness allows us to celebrate the of the effort.” Phelpses and Semenyas of the Life has no level playing world. What can we achieve field, and we can’t confuse when we expand this goal to sameness and fairness. But if Seen One, the rest of our undertakings: we put ourselves up against family, work, community? our differences rather than Liz Herbert, ’97 BPE, ’02 fitting into “ditto,” we start to Seen ‘em All MBA, is the program manager strive together and bring out Schools of identical Prussian carp of Free Footie, an Edmonton- more of each other, the best are here — and they’re hungry based soccer league that in each other, more of the provides vulnerable kids in time. –mifi purvis, ’93 ba

14 ualberta.ca/newtrail here’s what you need to know about here and they’re making the most of it. they can kill their invaders with a modified Prussian carp. They’re an invasive species Each female can reproduce three herpes virus, and testing is underway to of clones. Hundreds of thousands of times a year by hijacking other fish ensure the virus doesn’t affect native mostly identical Prussian carp are now species’ sperm, which they find floating fish. So far in Canada, we have education aggressively populating the Red Deer, Bow in waterways. A protein in the sperm and monitoring. First, don’t throw a carp and South Saskatchewan river basins. activates fertilization of the carp eggs but back if you catch one. Second, Poesch Prussian carp first appeared in North the offspring have zero genetic material and students are working with the Alberta American waterways in about 2000 in from the stolen sperm. (Mysteriously, a Conservation Association to document Medicine Hat, says Mark Poesch, associate fraction of Prussian carp turn out male.) the population distribution of the clones professor in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life The fish, which can grow to three by taking water samples, testing for the and Environmental Sciences and principal kilograms and 40-plus centimetres long, presence of Prussian carp DNA. investigator in the Fisheries and Aquatic are also called Gibel carp. They can survive There are Prussian carp recipes online. Conservation Lab. Someone may have almost anywhere, even in a ditch. They Poesch jokes that if the scientist thing goes released the carp, lurking among aquarium plunder resources, out-competing local fish. sideways, he may start an invasive-fish-

ILLUSTRATION BY RYAN JOHNSON RYAN BY ILLUSTRATION or farmed fish, into the wild. Now they’re Australian researchers have shown taco food truck. –jennifer allford, ’84 ba

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DUPLICATE STUDIES Whole Medicines A registry of twins will let researchers look james makokis, ’04 BSc(Nutr/ health care and lack of access deeper into what factors influence our Food) is many things: a to health care, which doesn’t health and behaviour doctor, a two-spirit man from change to address these gaps. Saddle Lake Cree Nation „ and an ultramarathon trail So, why aren’t there more yao zheng likes it when he sees double. A Faculty runner who married his doctors who work with of Arts researcher focusing on human development, he husband partway through the transgender patients? Many says studying twins offers insight into everything from Vancouver marathon. (The pair family doctors don’t feel the development of cancer to the heritability of mental participated in Amazing Race confident to assess gender illness. “When we study humans, there’s no way to control Canada this summer.) Now he’s dysphoria and prescribe for everything,” he says. “But twins offer a quasi-natural experiment and help us understand how genes and helping both transgender and hormone transitioning. When environment shape us.” Indigenous people find healing I’m training residents or To delve deeper, Zheng is in the process of launching and health, with practices in other doctors, I remind them the Alberta Twin Registry, the opening date of which is to Edmonton and Kehewin. they already do hormone be determined. He hopes to convince thousands of Alberta therapy: contraceptives, post- twins to participate, which would make it one of just three „ What do we miss when we menopause therapy, hormone twin research registries in Canada — and the largest by far. (Research from the other two is scant, he says.) It will talk about Indigenous health therapy in older males. require persuading lots of twins to participate in regular markers? Every report says surveys, following them for years to develop broad-based, Indigenous people want access „ How do you ease the meaningful studies. Zheng himself plans a study into to their own medicines, culture, suffering of Indigenous anti‑social behaviour. songs, languages. Treaty 6 transgender youth? Half of You can put almost everything that influences a was the only one to include two-spirit Indigenous youth person’s health into three buckets, Zheng says. First is a commitment to provide have attempted suicide. I our genes — our heritage from our biological parents. Second is our shared environment — the external factors medical care and services want to change those stats, that influence a study’s subjects. If you were studying, say, in our treaty territory — we so in addition to providing lumberjacks, then wearing flannel and felling trees would didn’t intend to give up our medical hormone treatment be part of their shared environment. The third bucket is the medicines. When Cree healing to trans patients, I ask, “What non-shared environment, stuff that doesn’t fit in the other practices are funded alongside else can we do?” It can mean two. The passion fruit protein shake one lumberjack downs western medicine, we’ll begin decolonizing our traditional daily? Part of his third bucket. Since twins share half or all their genes and much of to decolonize our health and ceremonial spaces to include their home environment, researchers can control for the healing. We’re doing this in sweat lodge ceremonies and first two buckets. They can use large-scale twin studies Kehewin with assistance from making the space inclusive to arrive at the holy grail of population health research: a three-year federal grant. to people from all genders. In cause-and-effect findings. The Alberta Twin Registry would For instance, my husband is our traditional rite-of-passage be a major step toward making that happen. –lewis kelly co-ordinating a birthing centre ceremonies, two-spirit youth that revitalizes Cree midwifery. should have the chance to Children can be born with participate in whatever gender traditional ceremonies; the first they’re transitioning to. welcoming songs they hear will be in our language. I began my „ What would you love to practice in Kehewin because add to your practice? Dream the elders, council and health big! I’d open a clinic where I director believe in our Cree can work seamlessly in both medicines and the strength of Cree and western systems. our culture. Colonization took away our ceremonies, which gave us „ How are the barriers our systems for health and in health similar for social norms. To be happy, transgender and Indigenous healthy and whole, we need to people? These people rebuild these. Reconciliation experience the same things: means rebuilding what was marginalization, oppression, taken away, meaningfully and

discrimination, substandard sustainably. –carissa halton PHOTO BY GEORGE MARKS / GETTY IMAGES

16 ualberta.ca/newtrail approach is a comforting mistake we’ve been making for a while,” says Dia Da Costa, a professor of educational policy studies. “Intersectionality takes a clear look at a daunting reality. It doesn’t pretend social justice is easy.” The concept is older than the word. “The idea of intersectionality, if not the term, goes back at least a century,” Da Costa says.“It is articulated in the writing of Black and Indigenous writers, who’ve experienced multiple forms of historical wrongdoing.” Luhmann and Da Costa say intersectionality is gaining notice because the perils of ignorance are becoming difficult to overlook. “Technology that isn’t intersectional is often discriminatory or deadly,” says Luhmann. “For example, it’s common today to use AI to screen the CVs of job applicants.” But she says research shows that if we build our assumptions, many of them unconscious, into AI, the system can actually amplify a lack of diversity. More Than the Sum of Your Parts And add this to a list of the word “intersectionality” sounds like the brainchild of a traffic engineer, but it’s more unintended consequences about people than asphalt. Basically, it is the idea that a person can’t be reduced to a single of AI untrained in category. Say, for example, you check the “male” box on the census. But you’re more than that. intersectionality: “Right now, You are male and you’re middle class and you’re of Irish descent and you’re gay. Every part of you driverless-car technology influences the way you interact with the world and how the world treats you. cannot recognize Black faces,” Luhmann says. “To deadly Intersectionality is having practices. The suit was professor in the Department consequences if we don’t a moment right now, popping dismissed on the basis that of Women’s and Gender attend to these questions in up in news outlets, in online GM had promoted Black Studies. “This case shows research design.” discourse and all stops in people and it had promoted race and gender interact. Da Costa and Luhmann between. It’s a simple concept female employees. Therefore, If you only think of one are glad major institutions with deep roots and big the judge ruled, GM had not you won’t grasp the whole are paying attention to implications. discriminated against its situation.” That call to attend intersectionality, which was The term was coined by Black female employees. to people and systems in their launched as a signature the legal scholar Kimberlé “The judge couldn’t see complexity is the heart of research area at the U of A in Crenshaw in 1989. She used that they were discriminated intersectionality. In this way, March. As intersectionality the term while writing against not because they intersectionality addresses enters mainstream discourse, about a lawsuit brought by were women or because long-term societal issues. we need to understand it, Da five Black women against they were Black, but because “The idea that social Costa says, and use it as a tool General Motors that alleged they were Black women,” justice can be addressed to see what has escaped our

ILLUSTRATION BY JUNKIN DAVID discrimination in promotion says Susanne Luhmann, a through a single-issue notice. –lewis kelly

new trail autumn 2019 17 Justice is at the heart of what drives Beverley McLachlin, whether she’s writing groundbreaking judgments at the head of Canada’s highest court or a bestselling legal thriller. Expect more of the same in her next chapter BEYOND the BENCH

BY CURTIS GILLESPIE, ’85 BA(SPEC) PHOTOS BY JOHN ULAN

18 ualberta.ca/newtrail McLachlin signs a copy of Full Disclosure, the legal thriller she started writing while she was still serving on the Supreme Court. The protagonist is a young female defence lawyer in Vancouver.

new trail autumn 2019 19 INTERVIEWING FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE BEVERLEY MCLACHLIN IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART.

She is widely regarded as one of the greatest legal Supreme Court and 17 years leading it, the longest minds ever to come out of Canada. Her tenure at run ever for a chief justice — elicited an outpouring the Supreme Court of Canada, particularly as its of praise, respect and admiration. The high regard with which she was, and still is, held has since been chief justice (the first woman ever to hold the post), reinforced by her being named to the Hong Kong is generally viewed not only as the high-water mark Court of Final Appeal and appointed to review of Canadian jurisprudence but also as an example allegations of misspending by two officials in the of judicial excellence much of the world seeks to B.C. legislature. She had a few other surprises up the arm of her robe, too. Shortly after retiring, she emulate. Her decisions and writings on dozens upon produced a legal thriller, Full Disclosure, which dozens of intellectually intricate and ethically thorny immediately shot to the top of the bestseller issues are models of clarity and precision. lists and discussions are underway for a screen The impact on the lives of Canadians has been incalculable. Not treatment. (More about the book later.) Her memoir, only has McLachlin, ’65 BA, ’68 LLB, ’68 MA, ’91 LLD (Honorary), weighed Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the in with fairness and precision on such issues as the right of prisoners Law, is due to be released this fall. to vote, Indigenous land claims, systemic discrimination against In short, McLachlin is — and there is no fear of women, safe injection sites, assisted dying, hate speech, and free and exaggeration — one of the most truly impressive fair electoral practices, but she has done it while fostering an open people this country has ever produced. and collegial environment on the Supreme Court. When interviewing such a person, a journalist McLachlin’s retirement from the bench in 2017 — after 28 years on the frequently looks for, or at least remains alive to,

20 ualberta.ca/newtrail Since her retirement from the Supreme Court in 2017, Beverley McLachlin continues to be involved in law and justice. Here, she prepares to deliver a talk in June at a Vancouver event hosted by the Law Society of British Columbia.

flaws to offset the subject’s outward-facing impressiveness (if for no other Her parents encouraged her academic ambitions reason than to hang on to a shred of one’s self-worth). But there is no such during an era that was less than welcoming to recourse with McLachlin because as impressive as she is intellectually, she women in the white-collar professions. McLachlin seems equally kind and gentle in person. And genuine. And polite. And knew she wanted to go to a university of good self-deprecating. One can only come away feeling that one’s own life path, standing when she finished high school. no matter how unswerving and ambitious it may have seemed, is but a “The U of A was always something of an icon,” weedy backwoods trail full of soggy maps, aimless backtracking, popped she says. “But there was also a practical reason. blisters and roots tripped over, and which, in the end, hasn’t led anywhere I didn’t have any money and my parents had four particularly interesting … but this is not about me. children younger than me, so there was no way that Born in 1943, McLachlin grew up in southern Alberta, near Pincher they had the luxury to say, ‘Would you like to go Creek, the eldest of five children. Her father, Ernest, was a rancher and to UBC or the University of Toronto?’ But I never farmer and also ran a sawmill. Her mother, Eleanora, ran the household wanted to, either, because everything I knew about and helped with her husband’s various business ventures. McLachlin the University of Alberta was that it was a very fine describes her upbringing as not affluent but says her parents always had institution. And indeed, it was and still is.” enough to feed and clothe their children. Though that didn’t prevent Once she finished her undergrad degree, economic anxiety. McLachlin went on to complete a master’s “There was always a sense of, ‘Will there be enough money to pay the in philosophy and a law degree at the bills? To pay all the people we have to pay at the end of the month?’ It was U of A — graduating with both, remarkably, a rural community and nobody was wealthy. It wasn’t a class community in the same year. By then she had married her in that sense, and so I never had any sense of entitlement at all.” first husband,Rory McLachlin, ’70 MSc. He was

new trail autumn 2019 21 supportive of her career and urged her to take it as far as she could. “He always told me, ‘You’ll be on the Supreme Court one day.’ I would laugh at him.” (Tragically, he died of cancer at age 47.) The study of law resonated deeply and immediately with her. It suited her intellectual interests — exploring ideas, developing positions, arguing for certain stances — and it was also about people. It seemed to her a good avenue to engage with society in a direct way. Law was still mainly the domain of men. There were 65 students in her class at the law school, seven of whom were women, four of whom went on to legal careers. Sexism was a mountain that a woman in a professional field had to climb every single day. “It was just the way the world was,” McLachlin says. “It’s changed a lot, thank goodness. But I remember when I went for my first interview for articles, and it was with a prominent practitioner, a wonderful man. We had a great interview and I was the top of the class. I thought I’d get the job. At the end of this lovely interview, he said, ‘Why do you want to practise law?’ I was completely flummoxed and didn’t know what to say. Seeing my discomfiture, he said, ‘Well, you know, you’re married!’ I thought, ‘What does that have to do with it?’ I remember just fleeing the office and feeling, ‘I’m not going work there, even if they were to ask me.’ They never did. But I went across the hall and got a job with a different firm that had had women working for them.” She was soon to discover the depth of sexism that existed, even once a woman had secured a job and established her bona fides. The sexual banter, the casual disrespect. The day she started with the new law firm, she was put in an office with another female lawyer; none of the male lawyers shared offices. It wasn’t that people were unkind, she recalls, but there was an entire set of working assumptions taken for granted. “I even remember times you’d finish a case and the firm would have a victory lunch at a men’s-only club! I fumed and in the end just said to them, ‘I’m hurt, you shouldn’t have done

22 ualberta.ca/newtrail that, and that was wrong.’ … Basically, I decided should be, and if you’re not true to that, you’re not that if things happened, well, that was the other doing your job. Which means no matter how much person’s problem and I wasn’t going to let it get you respect your colleagues, there are going to be me down. I always had a certain doggedness and confrontations. But she led the way in creating determination that I would not let that kind an environment of respect for opinions, ideas and of thing get in my way. I’m a pragmatic person. shared humanity. Sometimes you have to stand up, but do it honestly “At the basis of all her decisions is compassion,” and politely. That has always been my approach says legal scholar Ian Greene, ’70 BA(Hons), who and I think it has served me well.” is co-writing a book with Peter McCormick, She would go on to bring about many ’68 BA(Hons), called Beverley McLachlin: The changes in the workplace. An observer will no Legacy of a Supreme Court Chief Justice, due out doubt wonder whether her early experiences of this fall. “She has been arguably one of the most discrimination etched into her a passion for fighting for the powerless. “The greatest satisfaction I got out of the “I’d get up at 5:30, work on the book early years of my practice,” she for a couple hours, take my dog for says, “were those cases where I took on somebody who didn’t a walk, shower, then go to court and seem to have a hope. You knew the rest of the day was judge stuff.” they were in a bad situation, and I found some small role to play in rectifying their situation or getting them justice. I found that effective judges the court has had in terms of the enormously satisfying.” advancement of the rule of law and human rights, McLachlin worked as a lawyer in Edmonton clarity of writing, leadership and the promotion of and British Columbia, then as a professor at UBC, collegiality.” before taking on various judge positions up the One has to wonder how a person can retain the chain until she was appointed in 1988 as chief mental and emotional strength, not to mention the justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. physical stamina, to do a job like that day after day, When former prime minister Brian Mulroney year after year. McLachlin admits she had to remain appointed her to the Supreme Court of Canada in constantly aware of managing the stress, as every 1989, she found almost instantly that it suited her judge does. Most find ways to sublimate the strain, intellectually and temperamentally. The 70‑hour to bleed off the pressure with outside interests. workweeks weren’t a problem. “When you’re She recalls the advice of former Supreme Court involved with what you’re doing, it’s fine. The most justice William McIntyre. When she replaced him, important thing is not how much you’re working she asked if there was one piece of advice he could but that you love what you’re doing and that you’re give her. He thought about it for a while and then involved with what you’re doing.” said, “Find outside interests. Otherwise this job will Yet the stress of the Supreme Court is real and consume you.” relentless. Again, McLachlin’s temperament helped “It was wonderful advice,” McLachlin says. “I had set the tone. “I’ve always felt in my soul that it’s a young son at the time. And Frank [McArdle, her right to achieve as much consensus as possible. second husband, to whom she has been married I mean, I will never resile from what I feel is the for 27 years] and I have a cottage we get away to. right position, so someone else would probably I walk a lot. I turn off my electronics for a day say, ‘She is pretty confrontational.’ And I’ve written or two. I go to concerts. I see friends outside the my share of dissents. But there’s a high level of legal profession. You need to stay connected, to collegiality. During my time on the court, I was read the papers, to be involved with society. You privileged to serve with wonderful people. We had have to be part of the community to understand a lot of good times and great discussions. It’s fun. the community. I was appointed in 1989 and left When you’re working that closely with people, you the court in 2017, and there’s no way I could have develop intense bonds.” survived that period so happily if I hadn’t had a It might be difficult to understand how two good human life.” judges can argue a point of law vociferously in A generation ago, the Supreme Court of Canada the afternoon and then have an enjoyable meal was not viewed as a template for other countries; together in the evening. Professional differences, today, countries around the world have sought she says, are part of the work. It doesn’t mean counsel from and even attempted to emulate the you don’t respect one another. You have to be practices of our highest court. That’s not an accident, true to your vision of the law and what the result though McLachlin would never think of taking

new trail autumn 2019 23 McLachlin, shown with her Supreme credit for any of it. “It’s all part of our Canadian Court colleagues collective psyche, I think, which tends to promote in 2015, fostered an open and collegial the rational, pragmatic outcome, the concern for all, When she retired in 2017, Beverley atmosphere not just individualism. And ultimately Canadians, McLachlin was the longest-serving during her tenure as chief justice. even if they feel that they themselves are not happy chief justice of the Supreme Court with their situation or what’s happening, they seem in Canadian history. In that role, collectively able to understand what needs to be she sat for more than 1,000 appeals done to move forward together.” and contributed legal opinions McLachlin is upbeat about the future of the in 252. Her opinions have been country’s top court. She foresees a time when lauded for their prescience, clear- citizens and the court have an even greater engagement, a more open dialogue. In the long run, mindedness and groundbreaking she hopes Canadians continue to understand and exposition of the Charter of Rights even elevate their understanding of how vital it is and Freedoms. We asked lawyers to retain the institutional integrity of the justice and judges what they view as her system. “It really is fundamental,” she says, “to most important judgments. everything that we enjoy in our democracy, that we preserve the rule of law, and that we maintain the institutions. Everything rests on public confidence.” OPINING Her words are so optimistic and so hopeful, so full of that the pragmatic wisdom she generously OPINIONS ascribes to us all, that I can’t help but ask how she plans to put that good nature aside By Jay Smith, ’02 BA(Hons), ’05 MA as she works on her next crime book, which must, as the genre dictates, feature all manner of depravity and malfeasance. She laughs. “One thing about being a judge,” she says, “is Chief Justice Catherine Fraser, that you get exposed to the whole range of human ’69 BA, ’70 LLB, ’13 LLD (Honorary), behaviour. So, by the time you’ve been a judge for as Chief Justice of Alberta long as I have, you understand that people operate McLachlin’s fingerprints are all over the and act in a lot of different ways. I’m very aware of most important judgments of the Supreme the darker currents of human nature.” Court in the charter. She’s able to see past I ask how she managed to get a book written in the legal horizon to things others cannot yet the first place. Where did she find the time? see. Many have a favourite case or sentence “Oh, you just compartmentalize,” she says from one of her judgments. Mine is three words — a sentence fragment only — from breezily, as if anyone could run the Supreme Court R vs. McIntosh (1995). In those three words, and write novels in their spare time. “I’d get up at she captured the very essence of why, in a 5:30, work on the book for a couple hours, take my democracy, we have laws: “Life is precious.” dog for a walk, shower, then go to court and the rest of the day was judge stuff.” Justice Ritu Khullar, Justice Sheila Greckol, Judge stuff. How much of her work, I ask, was ’85 BA(Hons), Alberta Court of Appeal ’74 BA, ’75 LLB, Alberta divided between writing and … judge stuff. Court of Appeal “They were long weeks,” she says. “But I was My two favourite McLachlin-penned often really surprised at what came out. I’d be decisions were both released in 1999. They McLachlin was a visionary. writing in the morning and think, ‘Where did I come represent the high-water mark of Canadian She conceived that social, up with that line or that idea?’ That’s an amazing human rights jurisprudence. The first, historical and legal context Meiorin, provides a clear articulation of the ensures impartiality. feeling, to see that happening and to allow yourself meaning of discrimination when otherwise Contextual decision-making to see that happening.” seemingly neutral rules have a discriminatory took hold: in Gladue (1999) She’d had the story of Full Disclosure niggling impact on an individual. Meiorin also explains and Ipeelee (2012), her court away at her for decades, but it wasn’t until she knew the obligation of employers or service required sentencing judges retirement was coming that she began those early providers to accommodate an individual who to consider the historical morning writing sessions. No doubt most observers has experienced discrimination to the point disadvantages, wrought by would have expected her to write something with of undue hardship. The second, Grismer, colonialism, of individual emphasizes that human rights assessment Indigenous offenders. great intellectual weight — a history of the Supreme focuses on the impact on the individual. Prescient, imaginative, wise. Court or an examination of legal practices in other countries. But, no. She surprised pretty much

24 ualberta.ca/newtrail Rose Carter, Neena Ahluwalia, Dan Chivers, ’78 BA, Queen’s counsel, partner ’80 BA(Spec), ’83 LLB, Queen’s counsel, senior ’97 BCom, ’04 LLB, partner at at Bennett Jones LLP manager at Alberta children’s services Pringle Chivers Sparks Teskey

In my practice area of health law, As a law student, I learned a dissenting McLachlin was a unifying force within the 2015 Carter decision was a sea opinion today may become a majority decision the court and a strong leader who change. McLachlin set the stage for later. That was true when McLachlin’s 1993 left a legacy of numerous decisions. this significant change in her dissent dissenting opinion in Rodriguez became the Canada vs. Bedford was one of in the 1993 Rodriguez decision, in basis for the court’s 2015 decision in Carter. her most prominent cases, which which the slim majority of the court She also weighed in on the roles court and expanded protections under Section 7 denied Sue Rodriguez, terminally ill Parliament play in the Constitution. She of the charter. This decision prevented with ALS, the right to end her life with wrote: “The focus [of the court] is not on why the possibility of any law that would assistance. McLachlin’s stance, which Parliament has acted, but on the way in which allow for inequality and unsafe work in 2016 became law, lets adults who it has acted.” Rodriguez was a harbinger for environments for sex workers. Bedford are physically incapable end their decisions that challenged executive power, remains as a lasting example of lives with the assistance, comfort and forged ahead on charter rights, recognized McLachlin’s willingness to challenge

PHOTO BY BLAIR GABLE / REUTERS safety of a health-care professional. Aboriginal title and protected access to justice. Parliament where necessary.

new trail autumn 2019 25 everyone when she went to the opposite end of the to have kept expectations in check (“I’m not Proust!”), which meant she spectrum. Crime writing. A genre novel. Packed was pleasantly surprised when she finished the book, found an agent and with wrongdoing and scandal and unsavoury then a publisher. She was convinced it was something she had to get out characters and sex and intrigue. Full Disclosure is of her system and then she’d move on. But she is now a full-fledged success a legal crime thriller full of the kind of lurid details and is already at work on her next book, the aforementioned memoir. you’d see in a TV legal show. Clearly, McLachlin had “I never set out to create a literary masterpiece,” she says of Full things other than legal decisions bubbling under Disclosure. “But I did have a philosophy in the book to write about the the surface all those years. She laughs when I ask truth and my reflections on social justice and the downtrodden, to address her about that. the situation of those less fortunate, or who are weak or discriminated “Oh, I always knew I had it in me,” she says. against, who are maybe caught up in something that they shouldn’t “So when I finally wrote be caught up in, and can they fiction, it just felt so be redeemed. So that does come liberating to exploit that part through because that’s what my of my personality. To create fundamental concerns are.” characters, describe things, be These have been the concerns of creative. Because as a judge, her entire career but to lay them out you’re not supposed to be in fictional form takes a different creative. You are developing kind of courage. I ask her what legal concepts, yes, and the the reaction to the book has been law has to develop to meet from her colleagues in the legal and new situations, so there’s an judicial worlds. She laughs. element of creativity. But “Well, it depends. Some have storytelling was so different read it and really enjoyed it; others, and great fun.” I think, didn’t know quite what to McLachlin is smart make of it. Nothing negative, though. enough and humble enough I thought that there would be some negative reaction, but if there has been, it hasn’t been communicated to me. As I said to one of my colleagues, this is my little frolic.” A frolic her new freedom allows her. She says her friends have remarked that she seems lighter, freer, since retirement, even with the work she has taken on since leaving the Supreme Court. It’s not hard to understand why, given the tremendous demands of the job she shouldered for so many years: nothing less than helping shape law in this country. To those who know McLachlin, or know of her remarkable role in Canadian jurisprudence, it is clear that she made the role, the role did not make her. Greene notes in the upcoming book that her career was not one that she planned for herself. “But her personal qualities of collegiality, hard work, insight, impartiality and down- to-earth humility quickly brought her to the attention of senior judges and politicians.” He sums up his thoughts for this article: “Although she rose from obscurity to become one of the world’s leading jurists, she never lost her humility and compassion. We are all beneficiaries of her example.”

26 ualberta.ca/newtrail If objects could talk, they’d teach us so much about the world and ourselves. Discover the secret stories of stuff through an unexpected sampling of artifacts from the U of A’s Anne Lambert Clothing and Textiles Collection.

by stephanie bailey, ’10 ba(hons) photos by john ulan

lettering by luke lucas

new trail autumn 2019 27 A An ancient Egyptian tapestry and the rubber boots Lois Hole wore while gardening. Both items tell stories of everyday life. And they’re both part — perhaps an unexpected part — of the U of A’s Anne Lambert Clothing and Textiles Collection. “Most people come to the collection expecting to see a very specific sample of historical clothing — garments you might see in Downton Abbey,” says Vlada Blinova, a researcher and collections manager who leads public tours. “[People are] often surprised to see that we also have lots of cultural textiles, tools and accessories.” Indeed, the donor- supported collection holds a seemingly bottomless well of artifacts — more than 23,000 pieces that span 350‑plus years of history — that expand our understanding of the world. sunburn for your corneas that takes days to heal). Students, researchers and To protect their eyes from other curious folks can learn SNOW the harsh spring sun while first-hand about historical hunting, Inuit traditionally and cultural traditions from wore snow goggles carved around the globe. Here are GOGGLES out of bone or antler and, a few objects that tell us 1954. Kugluktuk, Nunavut ( formerly Coppermine, N.W.T.), Canada later on, out of wood — like stories about the world that the ones shown here from once was. the 1950s. The narrow slits View the collection at acted like a permanent Alumni Weekend, Sept. 19‑21, There is a whole lot of snow in the Arctic. And where squint, shielding the eyes or visit clothingtextiles. there’s snow, there’s glare. And where there’s glare, from harsh ultraviolet rays ualberta.ca. there’s the risk of snow blindness (think: a painful and helping bring objects

28 ualberta.ca/newtrail STUMPWORK BOX ca. 1650-1675. England

It’s hard to believe this intricately embroidered box could have been fashioned by an 11- or 12-year-old. In the 17th century — long before Polly Pockets and iPads — young girls were put to work learning how to sew. As early as age six, girls of all social classes learned basic needlework techniques, such as hemming and seaming, to help make undergarments and basic household linens. These skills were essential to running a household in a time when popping out to Bed Bath & Beyond wasn’t an option. But only a privileged few were able to afford the time and materials to create embroidered boxes like this one, which was created in England. For young girls who spent years practising embroidery, these boxes were seen as the “final exam” of their needlework education. The panels often featured stumpwork embroidery, where stitched figures depicting scenes from the Bible — like the stories of Joseph and Moses seen here — are raised from the surface in a 3D effect. Not just mantelpiece dust collectors, stumpwork boxes were functional, housing jewelry and writing tools.

at a distance into better focus. Each pair would be custom-made for the wearer’s face to block out as much sun as possible. Sometimes soot was applied to the inside of the goggles to cut down on glare even more. They’d never fog up or ice over, making them superior even to modern, high-tech sunglasses. Eat your heart out, Oakley.

new trail autumn 2019 29 We’ve all heard of a family tree but what about a family hair wreath? However hair-raising this might seem to our modern sensibilities, hair art was common during the Victorian era. Hair doesn’t decay or lose its colour, making it the perfect sentimental token of love and friendship, or a way to remember the dead. To make a wreath like this one, hair was collected from family members FA M I LY and then painstakingly woven into intricate designs, often in the shape of flowers. If you wanted to make HAIR your very own family “hairloom,” you could find patterns in stores and in women’s magazines. Victorians were W REATH less squeamish about death than we ca. 1890. North Dakota, United States are today, perhaps because mortality rates were much higher and most funerals happened at home. In fact, the living room used to be called the death room because that’s where most Victorians would host funerals and display the deceased for viewing.

30 ualberta.ca/newtrail BATIK CAP ca. 1945. Java, Indonesia

Indonesian batik is a method of hand-drawing intricate LOTUS SHOES designs onto fabric with wax. Guangdong style, ca. 1890-1910. China After soaking the cloth in dye, the maker removes the wax with boiling water and draws These Chinese shoes are small enough gangrene and ulcers. But the practice another design before re-dyeing. to fit in the palm of your hand. So, promised a different kind of mobility: (A method similar to that of how could they fit the feet of a grown social. Tiny feet in China — much like decorating a Ukrainian Easter woman? For more than a thousand tiny waists in Victorian England — were egg.) A far cry from fast fashion, years in China, some mothers and the height of feminine beauty, elegance grandmothers would begin tightly and status. It was common for a pair a fine piece of batik could take binding the feet of girls as young as of a girl’s handmade lotus shoes to anywhere from a few weeks to four years old. The ultimate goal of this be given to a prospective husband, a year to create, which meant painful process was to deform feet to a especially when the family hoped to that high end batik fabric was mere 7.6 centimetres long, roughly the “marry up.” Very small and elaborately length of your thumb. These were called embroidered shoes were seen as only accessible to the elite. In the “golden lotus” feet for their pointed evidence of self-discipline, patience 19th century, copper wax stamps lotus bud shape. Though few achieved and fortitude, as well as artistic and like this, known as caps, helped this ideal, women would go to extreme household skills. While the practice speed up the process and lower lengths trying, despite the fact that foot was outlawed in 1912, it persisted until binding could limit a woman’s mobility the founding of the People’s Republic the price of textiles to compete and lead to a slew of health issues like of China in 1949. with cheap European imports. Batiks are still woven into the everyday fabric of Indonesian life today, including celebrations of marriage or pregnancy. Some royal batiks are even thrown into volcanoes during ceremonies to prevent eruptions. You can celebrate this cultural tradition every year on Oct. 2, international Batik Day, which marks the anniversary of UNESCO declaring Indonesian batik a part of humanity’s intangible heritage.

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36 ualberta.ca/newtrail of facilities management and planning at Carleton University. This wraps up a 40-year career serving universities such as the U of A and Western University. He is now acting as the president of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air- Conditioning Engineers.

’85 Tom Noseworthy, MSc, has been CEO at the British Columbia Academic Health Science Network since June 2018. Noseworthy previously served as a leader in the development of Alberta Health Services’ Strategic Clinical Networks, head of the University of Calgary’s IN THE NEWS Department of Community Health Sciences, and CEO and president of the Royal Grand Chief Recognized Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton. The United Nations Association of Canada honoured Grand Chief Wilton Littlechild, ’67 BPE, ’75 MA, ’76 LLB, ’07 LLD (Honorary), with the 2019 ’86 Maria Thompson Corley, Pearson Peace Medal for his work advancing the rights of Indigenous BMus, has had a number Peoples in Canada and internationally. Carolyn Bennett, minister of of successes in the musical Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, presented and literary worlds since the medal and tweeted: “You are a fearless advocate, & true partner in, graduating from the Juilliard reconciliACTION.” School with a doctor of musical arts in piano performance. Most recently, her song cycle, Grasping Water, was added to the Taylor’s album How Sweet the Edmonton Historical Board’s has included serving as curriculum at the Jackdaws Sound: A Charm of Spirituals. recognition award in April. the secretary-general Music Education Trust in Cincinnati’s Women’s Choir Cole was recognized for her of the Commonwealth the United Kingdom. Her commissioned and premièred 30‑year career promoting Association of Museums arrangement of “Steal Away” her arrangement of “If I Canadian museology and speaking around the was recorded on Darryl Can Help Somebody” at a locally and globally, which world on museums’ roles celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Thompson Corley’s short stories and poetry also recently were published in Midnight and Indigo and Fledgling Rag, and she has a poem forthcoming in Kaleidoscope.

’88 Catherine Cole, MA, DID YOU KNOW? received two awards this The snake dance was a popular orientation event spring: the International in the 1950s. A chain of as many as 8,000 students would make its way across the High Level Bridge and Council of Museums down Jasper Avenue, tying up traffic for hours. Canada’s International

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in reconciliation and and internationally, and repatriation. he currently serves as the executive associate dean of ’89 Valerie Sluth, education at the University BA(RecAdmin), was of British Columbia’s Faculty appointed the RBC Executive of Medicine. CAMPUS Woman in Residence at the University of Regina’s Faculty ’91 Ava Karvonen, of Business Administration. BA(RecAdmin), ’16 MA, and SAINT-JEAN This appointment recognizes Scot Morison, ’80 BSc, have Êtes-vous une ancienne ou un ancien du Campus Saint-Jean? her efforts in building produced more than half a Partagez votre expérience dans le New Trail. Pour ce faire, nous Saskatchewan’s largest dozen documentary films vous invitons à remplir le formulaire ici: ualberta.ca/campus- locally based management together over the past saint-jean/anciens-et-amis/new-trail. consulting firm, Praxis 20 years. Their latest feature Consulting. In May, she was work, Finding Bobbi, had its ’05 Winston Tuttle, BCom (bilingue) a récemment fermé son elected the 2019 chair of the world première and two sold- cabinet d’avocat, Winston Tuttle Professional Corp. Depuis Saskatchewan Chamber of out screenings at the Ashland novembre 2018, il travaille chez TD Wealth Private Investment Commerce. Independent Film Festival in Advice comme planificateur fiscal où il aide les clients fortunés Oregon this April. The film avec la planification de succession. tells the story of Canadian actor Bobbi Charlton’s journey through gender dysphoria and follows her return to theatre after a 23‑year absence. at writing it, and even helped create a Cree Grammar Guide ’95 Denise Epp, BEd, lives with alongside Marjorie Memnook her husband in Japan, where and Donna Paskemin. It 1990s she is an associate professor was the most enriching and at Daiichi University of rewarding time of my life. Pharmacy. Epp, who has a Twenty-one years ’90 Roger Wong, BMedSc, ’92 PhD in clinical pharmacy later, I have now set up my MD, received the Canadian education, recently helped 2000s counselling business part- Geriatrics Society’s highest establish a research and time in the U.K. Recently, honour, the Ronald Cape exchange partnership I heard a meaningful Distinguished Service Award, between Daiichi and the ’01 Sally Warr, comment: ‘It takes 10 seconds at the society’s annual U of A’s Department of BA(NativeStuHons), writes to get out of your comfort meeting in Halifax. Wong Pharmacology. “I was about her life-changing zone, which could change founded the state-of-the- very excited that my first experience moving from the your life forever.’ It most art Acute Care for Elders partnership agreement United Kingdom to enrol in certainly did for me!” Units, which have been would be with my alma native studies at the U of A: implemented nationally mater,” Epp writes. “I packed my bags and flew ’08 Tanya Kalmanovitch, PhD, to Edmonton with a sense of an associate professor at adventure and trepidation all Mannes School of Music at rolled into one. I remember the New School, presented walking down Whyte Avenue her documentary play, thinking, ‘What on Earth Tar Sands Songbook, in am I doing here all alone?’ New York City at the United However, I was warmly welcomed by the staff at the [Faculty of] Native Studies and friendly people at the international student centre. From Native Studies 101, I started to gain knowledge about the history, culture and the sociological and health aspects of Indigenous Peoples in Canada and worldwide. I learned to speak Roger Wong some Cree and became adept Sally Warr

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Business as Unusual PLLC catalyzes leadership development at the U of A through critical reflection, Open-concept offices can make it tricky to focus on a big project experiential learning, interdisciplinary or make a private phone call. To solve the problem, Nick Kazakoff, collaboration and community engagement. ’13 BDes, left, andBrendan Gallagher, ’13 BDes, came up with the Loop, a booth designed to offer privacy in the midst of the Public Events: workaday buzz. The pair’s company, onetwosix, which they • Lougheed College Lectures • Leadership & Diversity Series founded after meeting in the U of A’s industrial design program, co-hosted with Intersections of Gender has sold the Loop to companies including Pokémon, Shopify, Burt’s Bees and L’Occitane. –edmonton journal Grad and Post-Doc Programs: • Graduate Leadership Development • Teaching Fellow Program

Undergrad Academics: • Foundations of Leadership (INT D 301) Nations Permanent Forum • Topics in Leadership (INT D 306) on Indigenous Issues. The • Certificate in Interdisciplinary event was held in partnership Leadership Studies with the U of A’s Tracking Change research initiative, Develop your leadership capacity which seeks to give voice to this year! Indigenous communities in the governance of major freshwater ecosystems. Find out more at uab.ca/PLLC

’09 Steven Murchison, BSc(EnvSci), has received the DID YOU KNOW? Dean’s Award for Full-time In the U of A’s inaugural year, 1908, full-load MBA Student Excellence undergraduate arts tuition was $20. at Georgia Tech’s Scheller

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Still Exploring Graduates of the U of A’s Explorations program gathered last year for a reunion at Long Lake Provincial Park north of Edmonton to share memories and photos of past projects. Explorations ran as a capstone project out of the Physical Education Department from 1980 to 1996. For one full semester, students would pursue a full course load of independent study courses and take part in a trip in Western Canada — ranging from sea kayaking in Haida Gwaii to paddling from Rocky Mountain House to Lake Superior. Explorations has gone on to influence several other outdoor education and independent learning capstone projects across the country, says Bob Henderson, IN THE NEWS ’81 MA, ’95 PhD, who facilitated the inaugural trip in 1980 and wrote Staying on the Ball in with the update. After completing Jordan Baker, ’13 BCom, ’17 MA, eludes a Niagara River Lions player Explorations, Henderson during a Canadian Elite Basketball League game in Edmonton. Baker is developed an outdoor one of several U of A connections with the Edmonton Stingers, including education curriculum at McMaster University. fellow player Kenny Otieno, ’15 BSc. It’s the inaugural season of the six‑team professional league. –edmonton journal Explorations graduates gathered last year

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DID YOU KNOW? In 1948, a group of agriculture students decided to host a dance for students from all faculties — no one was barred from attending. The annual Bar None campus mixer is now a U of A institution.

40 ualberta.ca/newtrail The Alumni Association notes with ’52 Ronald Llewellyn (continued from page 39) sorrow the passing of the following Taylor, BSc(PetEng), of College of Business. He was graduates (based on information received Calgary, AB, in July 2018 honoured for his work in between February 2019 and May 2019). ’52 Vernon Roy Wishart, sustainable business research, BDiv, of Edmonton, including collaborating on AB, in May 2019 Coca-Cola’s World Without ’53 Tannis Muriel Edgar, Waste initiative. He also BA, in March 2019 has been named one of ’53 Robert Roy Graves, the “2019 Best & Brightest BSc, of Stuart, FL, MBAs” by Poets & Quants, a in August 2018 news website devoted to the ’53 Rosemary Holsworth, coverage of business schools. BA, ’55 BEd, of Edmonton, AB, in February 2019 ’53 John Gordon King, BSc(PetEng), of Calgary, In Memoriam AB, in March 2019 ’48 Eileen Young ’50 William Harold ’53 Donald Wilson Lang, (Kowalchuk), BSc, Reginald Tanner, BSc, ’55 MD, of Comox, 1940S ’49 Dip(Ed), ’64 BEd, BSc, of Calgary, AB, BC, in February 2019 ’41 Winifred Mary of Edmonton, AB, in March 2019 ’53 Ronald Perry Mullen, in April 2019 Wilson (Van Kleeck), ’51 William Cameron, DDS, of Edmonton, BSc, ’45 MD, of Vancouver, ’49 Geraldine Harvey, BSc(ElecEng), of Calgary, AB, in April 2019 BC, in May 2019 Dip(Nu), in March 2019 AB, in September 2018 ’54 Doreen Avonne s ’44 Margaret W. Anderson, Dip(Ed), 2010 ’51 Adeline Pauline Ferguson (Warren), Christie (Kryskow), ’64 BEd, of Camrose, BSc(HEc), of Winnipeg, Dip(Nu), of Santa AB, in March 2018 ’12 David Galvez, PhD, has MB, in April 2019 1950S Barbara, CA, in April 2019 ’54 Gordon Braidwood started a new role as chief ’50 Victor Edward ’45 Margaret Jean Bohme, BSc(PetEng), ’51 Mary Kaliciak, Duncan, BSc(Pharm), scientific officer at HollyWeed Wright (Kaiser), of Calgary, AB, in Dip(Ed), of Calgary, AB, ’59 MD, of Edmonton, North Cannabis, a federally BSc(HEc), of Vermilion, March 2019 in December 2018 AB, in February 2019 AB, in March 2019 licensed processor that ’50 George W. Elaschuk, ’51 George Donald ’54 Marilyn Louise specializes in the extraction ’46 Leo Mickelson, Dip(Ed), ’54 Dip(Ed), Kermack, BSc, ’55 Gaelick (MacDonald), BCom, of Edmonton, BSc(Pharm), of and manufacturing of ’55 BEd, of Edmonton, BSc(CivEng), of AB, in February 2019 AB, in February 2019 Parksville, BC, in Edmonton, AB, in cannabinoid-containing oils October 2018 ’47 Dorothy Cecilia November 2018 and finished products. Galvez ’50 Francis Patrick Beazley (Jones), ’51 Robert Matthew ’54 Rhoda Stuart also wrote in to announce that Flanagan, BA, ’51 BSc(HEc), in April 2019 BEd, in March 2019 Perry, BSc, ’53 DDS, Menzies, Dip(Ed), ’56 BEd, ’81 Dip(Ed), in July 2018 his wife, Anayansi Cohen- ’47 Herberta Bernice of Calgary, AB, in Fernandez, ’12 PhD, was ’50 Donald Walter December 2018 Fisher (Martin), Hepburn, BA, ’52 BEd, ’54 Irene Agnes recently named the program BEd, of Calgary, AB, ’64 MEd, ’77 PhD, in ’51 Marion Dorothy Willing (Hoffman), head of the ecological in March 2019 December 2018 Sproule (MacKay), Dip(Nu), of Calgary, AB, in August 2018 restoration master’s program ’47 Joan Campbell Le Gall Dip(Nu), ’52 BSc(Nu), ’50 Marjorie Rose ’86 BA, of Edmonton, at the British Columbia (Fraser), BA, of Toronto, Kennedy, Dip(Nu), ’55 Ian William Adam, ON, in March 2019 AB, in April 2019 BA(Hons), of Calgary, Institute of Technology. in December 2018 ’51 Allen Rollins Wells, AB, in November 2018 ’47 Marguerite Leng ’50 Lena Lamoureux (Lambert), BSc, of BSc(Ag), of Oshawa, ’55 John Duncan Dewar, ’15 Missy LeBlanc, BA, (Kachur), Dip(Ed), ON, in May 2019 Midland, MI, in May 2019 ’52 Dip(Ed), ’56 BEd, BPE, in December 2018 ’15 Cert(IntLearning) won the ’47 Margaret Lilian of Edmonton, AB, in ’52 Margaret Violet ’55 Robert Wagner 2019 Middlebrook Prize for McIver (Stewart), September 2018 Berg, BSc, in May 2019 Dowling, BSc(Pharm), of Young Canadian Curators BSc(HEc), of Camrose, ’50 Albert William ’52 Henry Gray, Jasper, AB, in March 2019 AB, in May 2019 for Tina Guyani|Deer Road. Ludwig, BA, ’51 LLB, BSc(CivEng), of ’55 Maurice Raymond Her project features new ’47 Eileen Vivien in February 2019 Sherwood Park, Galarneau, BSc(Pharm), AB, in April 2019 works from residents of the Shouldice (Nelson), ’50 Stewart of Edmonton, AB, BSc(HEc), of Edmonton, in April 2019 Tsuut’ina Nation in Southern Montgomery, BA, ’52 Audrey Myra AB, in August 2018 in March 2019 Hrynchuk, Dip(Ed), ’70 Alberta that speak to the ’55 Donald Elmer ’48 William Ray Corbett, BEd, in February 2019 Kirk, BSc, ’57 MD, of impacts of development on ’50 Marcel Berna BEd, of Calgary, D. Poitras, Dip(Ed), ’52 Barbara Ann McLeod Campbell River, BC, First Nations land and how AB, in July 2018 ’52 Dip(Ed), ’56 BEd, (Lipsey), Dip(Nu), of in February 2019 stories of loss can generate ’48 Edna Beth Spackman of Edmonton, AB, Calgary, AB, in May 2019 ’55 James E. Logan, BA, in May 2019 ideas of a better future (Tanner), BSc(HEc), ’52 Gordon Keith Minty, ’57 Dip(Ed), ’71 Dip(Ed), for Indigenous Peoples. ’52 BEd, of Calgary, ’50 Timothy Shaw DDS, of Vancouver, of Edmonton, AB, LeBlanc’s exhibition will be AB, in August 2018 Roebuck, BA(Hons), BC, in February 2019 in March 2019 of Kingston, ON, on display at the Art Gallery ’48 James Fletcher ’52 Walburga Brigetta ’55 Joseph Andrew in April 2019 of Guelph (Ont.) from Sept. 12 Wilson, BCom, of O’Hara, Dip(Ed), Sisko, BEd, of Medicine Calgary, AB, in April 2019 Hat, AB, in January 2019 through Dec. 15. in March 2019

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’55 Pauline ’58 Casimir Lukay, ’62 William Arthur ’65 Barry Richard ’67 Robert Hedley ’69 David Tjart, BA, Skorobohach, Dip(Ed), BSc(CivEng), of McIntosh, BSc, of Tofield, Felstad, BSc(Ag), of Eccleston, BSc(ElecEng), ’71 Dip(Ed), ’71 BEd, ’76 of Edmonton, AB, in Edmonton, AB, AB, in October 2018 Dapp, AB, in March 2019 of Calgary, AB, in MEd, of Edmonton, September 2018 in March 2019 February 2019 AB, in April 2019 ’62 Neal Allan Patterson, ’65 Ronald Lloyd ’56 Joseph Kane ’58 Robert Lawrence BSc(ElecEng), ’67 MSc, Fenerty, BA, in ’67 William Douglas Chorney, MD, of Purdy, BA, of Calgary, of Horseshoe Valley, October 2018 Kobluk, BA, ’69 BEd, ’80 Saskatoon, SK, AB, in April 2019 ON, in April 2019 Dip(Ed), of Edmonton, ’65 Deanne Marie 1970S in April 2019 AB, in April 2019 ’58 Phyllis M. ’62 Leendert Philippus George (Stepchuk), ’70 Margaret-Ann ’56 Colleen Fay Dahl, Wise, Dip(Nu), in Schotte, BA, in BEd, of Edmonton, AB, ’67 Kenneth William Armour, PhD, ’13 Dip(Nu), ’57 Dip(PHNu), December 2018 February 2019 in September 2018 Leech, LLB, in July 2018 DSc (Honorary), of Las Vegas, NV, of Edmonton, AB, ’59 Leonard Ralph ’62 Otto Peter Strausz, ’65 Leo Dennis Heber, ’67 Maurice Donald in August 2018 in May 2019 Folkman, BCom, PhD, of Toronto, BEd, of Edmonton, Mandrusiak, BEd, ’56 G. Musanobu of Creston, BC, in ON, in May 2019 AB, in March 2019 ’71 BA, of Calgary, ’70 Kenneth Wayne Hasegawa, BSc(CivEng), December 2018 AB, in March 2019 Auch, BEd, ’75 Dip(Ed), ’63 Linzel Verne ’65 William Ronald of Lethbridge, AB, ’79 MEd, of Edmonton, ’59 Roy Edward Carmack, BEd, ’67 Hewins, BEd, in ’67 Gertrude McLaren in November 2018 AB, in November 2018 Hartling, BSc(Ag), ’61 Dip(Ed), ’68 BA, ’70 MEd, February 2019 (Bloor), BA, of Calgary, ’56 John Heidebrecht, BEd, in January 2019 in February 2019 AB, in September 2018 ’70 Richard Earl Berkley, ’65 Stanley Gordon Peck, BEd, in July 2018 PhD, of Hillsborough, ’59 Thomas Alleyne ’63 Forest Deane BA, ’68 LLB, of Edmonton, ’67 Kenneth Karl NC, in January 2019 ’56 Esther Maud Rayment, BEd, ’68 Jensen, BEd, ’70 AB, in May 2019 Pfannmuller, BSc(Ag), MacDonald (Williams), Dip(Ed), of Edmonton, MEd, of Raymond, ’70 MSc, of Edmonton, ’70 Shirley Ann Horon ’65 Suzanne Adele Barry, Dip(RM), of Edmonton, AB, in March 2019 AB, in March 2019 AB, in March 2019 (Tomashavsky), BEd, BA, in October 2018 AB, in December 2018 of Sherwood Park, AB, ’59 Patricia Valentine ’63 Terry Ross Patrick, ’68 William Alexander in February 2019 ’56 Allan Bruce Walker, BEd, of MD, of Malibu, CA, ’65 Leslie Turnbull, Coull, BEd, of Victoria, Dip(Nu), in March 2019 Ritchie, BA, of Calgary, Canberra, Australia, in February 2019 BC, in May 2019 ’70 Ron E. Lakusta, AB, in July 2018 in February 2019 BEd, of Sherwood Park, ’63 Mark Lawson ’65 Terrance Gordon ’68 Joyce June Fraser AB, in October 2018 ’56 Brian Patrick Shields, Sandilands, BA, ’69 Wright, BCom, of (Tannas), BEd, of Edmonton, AB, MSc, in February 2019 PhD, of Lethbridge, Edmonton, AB, in ’71 Werner Erhard in March 2019 AB, in August 2018 February 2019 Brozek, BSc(MetEng), ’72 ’56 W. Leigh Short, 1960S ’66 Jean Abigail Dip(Ed), in October 2018 BSc(ChemEng), ’57 ’60 Marshall Perle Bye, ’63 Eugene Louis ’68 Arthur William Bomarito (Hogg), MSc, of Williamstown, BEd, of Calgary, AB, Topolnisky, BEd, ’68 Nixon, BEd, of St. Albert, ’71 Ludwig Daubner, Dip(Nu), of Lake Oswego, MA, in March 2019 in December 2018 BA, of Edmonton, AB, AB, in February 2019 BPE, ’73 Dip(Ed), OR, in December 2018 in January 2019 of Edmonton, AB, ’57 Betty Ann ’60 Loretta Marion ’68 Annalene Mae ’66 Douglas Percival in July 2018 Burningham (Barlow), Salter, BEd, ’64 BA, ’63 Orlen William von Reedyk, Dip(PHNu), Gaudin, BEd, in Dip(Nu), in January 2019 ’71 BEd, of Red Deer, Hollen, BEd, ’65 BSc, in January 2018 ’71 Malcolm Ernest April 2019 AB, in October 2018 of Edmonton, AB, Dorin, BCom, of ’57 Malcolm Gordon ’68 Maria Alina in February 2019 ’66 John David R. Vegreville, AB, in Inglis, BA, ’60 BEd, ’61 Charles Edward Romanko, BEd, of McPhail, BCom, of March 2019 of Edmonton, AB, in Butterfield, BCom, ’63 Ole Westby, St. Albert, AB, in North Vancouver, September 2018 of Vancouver, BC, DDS, of Penticton, December 2018 ’71 Bernadette Dube, BC, in April 2019 in April 2019 BC, in May 2019 BEd, in March 2019 ’57 Muriel Pauline ’68 Joyce Grace ’66 Caroline Margaret Lambert, Dip(PHNu), ’61 Tom Emil Chmilar, ’64 Patricia Ralphene Stuparyk, Dip(Nu), ’71 Kenneth Michael Oliver, Dip(DentHyg), of Edmonton, AB, BSc, of Redwater, Bielish, BEd, in April 2019 in February 2019 Edwards, BCom, in in January 2019 in May 2019 AB, in April 2019 February 2019 ’64 Oksana Ensslen ’68 Sarah Joan Trettler ’66 Maryon Margaret ’57 Gordon Alexander ’61 William David (Chomiak), BA, of (Huston), BEd, ’81 MEd, ’71 Marian Elizabeth Petrie, BEd, of Calgary, Maxwell, MD, in Howell, BCom, Edmonton, AB, in in January 2019 Horn, BLS, ’78 MLS, AB, in April 2019 February 2019 of Bermuda, in February 2019 of Nanaimo, BC, ’69 Roderick Edwin February 2019 in March 2019 ’57 Morley Edward ’64 Charles Edward ’67 Malcolm Evo Blasetti, Haverslew, BSc, ’76 DDS, of Okotoks, Riske, BSc, ’60 MSc, ’61 Jack Flemming Frost, BA, ’68 LLB, MSc, in March 2019 ’71 Michael Christopher AB, in April 2019 ’67 BEd, of Camrose, Layton, BEd, of Innisfail, of Canmore, AB, Klinzmann, BEd, ’69 Edward Stanley AB, in February 2019 AB, in March 2019 in March 2019 ’74 Dip(Ed), ’76 MEd, ’67 Ernest John Holmes, BSc, ’71 MD, Bremner, BSc(CivEng), in January 2019 ’57 Lloyd Skoretz, ’61 Douglas Allen ’64 Helen Theodora of Edmonton, AB, in March 2019 DDS, of Edmonton, Marshall, BSc(ElecEng), Hrynyk (Lingas), in March 2019 ’71 Krystyna Mary AB, in March 2019 of Grande Prairie, AB, Dip(Nu), ’65 BSc(Nu), A. Kunicki-Tadman, ’67 William Charles Buss, ’69 Patricia Margaret in November 2018 of Edmonton, AB, BA, of Edmonton, ’57 Josephine Victoria MSc, of Albuquerque, Edith Loewen (Reid), in April 2019 NM, in December 2018 AB, in March 2019 Smith, BSc(Pharm), ’61 Martin John Willans, Dip(PHNu), of Calgary, of St. Albert, AB, in MD, of Kitchener, ON, ’64 John Zuk, ’67 Flora Elizabeth AB, in January 2019 ’71 Denis Joseph February 2019 in January 2019 BSc(ElecEng), Magnan, BA, in Campbell (MacLeod), ’69 Dennis Wayne of Edmonton, AB, BA, of Edmonton, March 2019 ’58 Donna Louise ’62 Patrick George Remington, BSc, ’69 MD, in February 2019 AB, in April 2019 Clandfield (McCalla), Collette, BSc(CivEng), of Spanish Fork, UT, ’72 Robert Wesley BA, in February 2019 of Ashburn, VA, in ’65 Nicholas Sydney ’67 Allan Howard in January 2019 Calvert, BA, ’73 LLB, of September 2018 Cowles, BSc(Pharm), of Calgary, AB, in May 2019 ’58 Walter Hans Gerdts, Cunningham, BEd, ’69 Lynda Susan Sallis, Calgary, AB, in April 2019 of Ardrosson, AB, BSc(Ag), of Red Deer, ’62 Robert Allan Mackie, Dip(Nu), in March 2019 ’72 Marie Melanie Fraser in March 2019 AB, in February 2019 BEd, ’69 LLB, of Calgary, ’65 Alice L. 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42 ualberta.ca/newtrail ’72 Marshall Rhyan ’74 Denis Andrew Roy, ’79 Stephen Michael ’82 Roy Allen Zinger, BA, ’92 Darcy Delisle, ’04 Shirley Louise Mithrush, BSc, BSc(CivEng), in April 2019 L’Heureux, BEd, of ’86 LLB, in February 2019 BSc(Ag), of Edmonton, Simmonds, BEd, ’76 BSc(Forest), of Edmonton, AB, in AB, in July 2018 in April 2019 Edmonton, AB, ’74 Robert Gordon November 2018 ’83 Elaine Marie Sax, in May 2019 Wilson, PhD, of Toronto, BCom, of Calgary, ’92 Ninele Jackson, ’09 Carina Garcia ON, in May 2019 ’79 Helene Claire AB, in March 2019 BEd, of Edmonton, AB, Palanca, BSc(CompEng), ’72 Dalton Irwin Philip, Long, BA, of Calgary, in September 2018 in January 2019 BEd, of Edmonton, ’74 Lawrence J. AB, in February 2019 ’84 Barry Douglas Scott, AB, in May 2019 Worobetz, BSc, of BSc(Spec), ’86 BEd, of ’92 Josepha McEachern, Sherwood Park, AB, ’79 Joyce Elaine Calgary, AB, in April 2019 BEd, in December 2018 ’73 Annabelle Mae in December 2018 Rushton, BSc(Spec), ’85 Michael Patrick ’93 Dale Harvey Hawn, 2010S Bourgoin, BEd, ’75 in December 2018 Dip(Ed), of Edmonton, ’75 Teresa Cecilia O’Hea, BA(Hons), BCom, in March 2019 ’11 Joe Schlesinger, Adamson, BSc(Speech/ ’79 Gladys Juvernia ’88 MA, ’96 PhD, ’01 DLitt (Honorary), AB, in March 2019 ’94 Darcy Michael Aud), ’98 MScSLP, of Taranger, BEd, in BEd, of Edmonton, in February 2019 ’73 Peter Cornelius Calgary, AB, in May 2019 February 2019 AB, in April 2019 Belanger, BEd, of Doonanco, BEd, ’80 Bishoftu, Ethiopia, ’16 Jeremy Matthew ’79 Frederick Gordon Dip(Ed), of Glendon, ’75 Marlene Lawrence, ’85 John Cornelius Van in March 2019 Kupsch, BCom, in Tully, BSc(CivEng), of AB, in February 2019 BEd, in January 2019 Damme, PhD, of London, January 2019 Leduc, AB, in March 2019 ON, in February 2019 ’94 Dogoni Cisse, ’73 Diane Patricia Grice, ’75 Valerie Anne Perry, PhD, of Durham, NC, Dip(Nu), ’89 BSc(Nu), BA, ’78 BEd, of Salt Spring ’85 William James in December 2018 in October 2018 Island, BC, in March 2019 Van Scheik, PhD, in January 2019 ’94 Isaac Edward ’75 Veronica Lynne 1980S Leonard, BSc(Spec), ’73 Maureen Gail Miller- Nielsen, BEd, of Cold Schroder, BEd, of ’80 Eleanora Mathilda ’86 Marjorie Elaine of Edmonton, AB, Lake, AB, in October 2018 Barrhead, AB, in Esslinger, BSc(Nu), of St. Ebanks, BEd, of in January 2019 October 2018 Albert, AB, in April 2019 Edmonton, AB, ’73 John Donald Payzant, in March 2019 ’94 Taras Michael PhD, of Edmonton, ’75 Heather Joy ’80 Gail Kathryn Szmihelsky, BEd, AB, in March 2019 Walker (Thomson), Jennings, BSc(HEc), ’87 Maxwell Alexander of Edmonton, AB, BSc(Pharm), of Calgary, ’84 MSc, of Victoria, Edgar, BCom, of in April 2019 ’73 Theophilus Ronald AB, in December 2018 BC, in February 2019 Innisfail, AB, in April 2019 Poots, BEd, of Sherwood ’94 Lesley Ann Young, Park, AB, in April 2019 ’76 Joseph Dennis ’80 Margaret Jeanne ’87 Howard Donald BA, in April 2019 Boisvert, BSc(Spec), Moher-Bjornson Ruttan, BSc, ’92 BEd, ’95 Terence Alexander ’73 Linda Lucy of Edmonton, AB, (Moher), BEd, of in November 2018 Huculak, BA, of Sodergren, BEd, in January 2019 Edmonton, AB, ’88 Tom Grant Baptie, Edmonton, AB, in of Sexsmith, AB, in April 2019 in March 2019 ’76 Deborah Marjorie MSc, ’90 MBA, of January 2019 Knall (McLeod), ’80 Thomas Wesley Mahasarakham, ’95 Sonja Elaine ’73 Dianne Bernadette BEd, of Edmonton, Pue, LLM, in April 2019 Thailand, in April 2019 Wensveen, BEd, of AB, in May 2019 Johnson, BSc(OT), of Red Lethbridge, AB, in ’80 Barbara Anna ’88 Heather-Ann Deer, AB, in March 2019 ’76 Rena Gertrude Szynkowski, BEd, ’86 Laird, BA(Spec), ’90 February 2019 ’95 Michael Hunt Jones, Pinckston, BA(Spec), BA, of Edmonton, AB, MLIS, of Victoria, BC, PhD, of Milwaukie, ’73 Eleanor Elsie Wilson, of White Rock, BC, in December 2018 in February 2019 BEd, of St. Albert, in March 2019 OR, in May 2019 ’81 Mavis Rose- ’88 Rhonda Lynette AB, in April 2019 ’95 Joelle Andree Roy, ’76 Adam Christopher Marie Hamilton, Reierson (Robins), BCom, in February 2019 ’74 Norman Lloyd Zorniak, BEd, in BEd, in May 2019 BEd, of Innisfail, AB, Carlson, BSc, ’91 MHSA, December 2018 in February 2019 ’96 Darren Beuerlein, ’81 Gary Michael in February 2019 BA, in May 2019 ’77 Jean Marjorie Lakusta, BCom, ’89 Carleton Derek ’74 Bill Allen Herman, Draker, BSc(Nu), in in March 2019 Leggo, PhD, in ’98 Linda Laura MSc, of Richmond, February 2019 March 2019 Foti, MEd, ’05 PhD, ’82 Alice Fodchuk, BC, in April 2019 in February 2019 ’77 Sonja Minna BEd, of Vegreville, ’74 Subhashchan Margaret Leiler (Stamp), AB, in April 2019 Moreshwar Karnik, BEd, of Wembley, AB, 1990S PhD, of Edmonton, AB, in September 2018 ’82 Dianne Marie in November 2018 Lubinski (Parfett), ’91 Grace Guyon, 2000S ’78 Andrew Joseph BSc, in July 2018 BSc(Nu), of Edmonton, ’00 Nicole Marie Mork, ’74 Lorne Curtis Herklotz, BEd, of AB, in January 2019 BEd, in May 2019 McFayden, LLB, in Edmonton, AB, in ’82 Bernice Sharon February 2019 February 2019 Magee, BSc(Nu), ’85 ’91 Bohdan Walter ’01 Jason Christopher MNu, of Edmonton, Krushelnycky, PhD, Houncaren, ’74 Jesse Brent Olsen, ’78 Dwayne David Jiry, AB, in May 2019 in March 2019 BSc(MechEng), ’06 BSc(Forest), of Kamloops, BEd, of Edmonton, MBA, of Edmonton, BC, in January 2019 AB, in April 2019 ’82 Margaret Stephanie ’92 John Alexander Murray, BSc(Nu), Alsoszatai-Petheo, AB, in May 2019 ’74 Harvey Reinard ’78 Jane Rosemary of Bellingham, WA, PhD, of Ellensburg, ’01 Vincent Napoleon Ramstead, MEng, Rudkin, BA, in in August 2018 WA, in February 2019 Steinhauer, BPE, ’04 of Calgary, AB, in January 2019 MA, of Saddle Lake, February 2019 ’82 Leonora Patterson, ’92 Dawn Marie If you’ve lost a loved ’79 Elizabeth Calleen BA, of Sechelt, BC, Carlsen (Woytowich), AB, in February 2019 one who is a University ’74 Andrew Nicholas Budd (Palmer), in March 2019 BA, of Camrose, AB, ’02 Mary Bernice of Alberta alumnus, Rencz, BSc, in BEd, of Edmonton, in February 2019 Brereton, BSc(Nu), contact alumni records at January 2019 AB, in July 2018 ’82 Lise Edith Smith [email protected], (Villeneuve), BA, ’84 of Saddle Lake, AB, in January 2019 780-492-3471 or BEd, in October 2018 1-866-492-7516.

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HEALTHY LIVING, @JMVandenberghe: Volunteering as part NORTH OF 60 of @UAlbertaAlumni council today - @UAlberta By Therese Kehler has some of the most beautiful views of Tradition plays a big role in #YEG! #greenandbold healthy living in the North — and it is important for traditional #dogreatthings values to be appreciated by jessica vandenberghe, all Canadians on both sides of ’00 bsc(chemeng), ’03 msc the 60th parallel, says Sangita Sharma, a professor and Indigenous health researcher. Sharma’s work in the Northwest Territories (funded in part by the DON’T MISS OUT ON … Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Canadian Sharma. Being on the land is sunlight. But sun isn’t the best Cancer Society) has looked also an opportunity for young provider in a northern climate. at nutrition, cancer screening people to spend quality time A traditional diet, however, ALUMNI WEEKEND and Indigenous seniors’ health with elders, helping ensure provides vitamin D from liver, Come back to campus, reconnect in partnership with elders, that wisdom is passed from seal meat, whale blubber and with friends and be a part of the community advisers and generation to generation. fatty fish. great things happening at the U of A territorial agencies. “This is at Alumni Weekend. There are actually the research that the FREEZER GOLD: In the SOUTHERN COMFORT: plenty of activities planned for you, community wants,” she says. Northwest Territories, It can be challenging for your classmates and your family. “It’s a chance in a lifetime to fresh produce is not always someone from the Northwest Find out more at uab.ca/aw2019. work with the most amazing available and it can be Territories to travel to Alberta people in a beautiful setting to incredibly expensive. Frozen for medical care, which ensure health and wellness.” can be much cheaper, means being far from home Here are several ways more adaptable and easier without family members Sharma and the team are to incorporate into meals, and a support network, working with communities in says Sharma. Lentils are says Sharma. When medical the Arctic. another ingredient that has professionals understand found success, especially these circumstances, they COUNTRY FOODS: Ptarmigan when added to caribou can play an important role in to bears, whales to fish. A soups and stews. making the patient feel more surge in on-the-land programs comfortable. for Indigenous youngsters is SUNSHINE VITAMIN: To encouraging more nutrient- better absorb calcium and Sharma is one of many dense (and delicious!) promote bone growth, you speakers to share expertise at @DeanALES_UofA: traditional diets, not to mention need vitamin D, which your alumni events. Visit ualberta. Another great increased physical activity, says body makes in the presence of ca/alumni/events. @UAlbertaAlumni event @Spruce_Meadows with a large group of @UofAALES alumni & supporters. Even if the weather was a bit 554 dreary the facility & grads honoured with an Alumni Award in the jumpers were in excellent program’s 25‑year history. form. @ualberta Recordings released by U of A Mixed Chorus in its 75 years. Request your complimentary #ualberta19 #yyc The Mixed Chorus Alumni chapter has raised more than tickets to this year’s $120,000 to support the group. uabgrad.ca/chapters awards at uab.ca/aw2019. stanford blade, 84 ’81 bsc Be Social @UAlbertaAlumni @UAlbertaAlumni @UAlbertaAlumni TOP LEFT PHOTO BY PEARL BUCKNALL / ALAMY

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U School is a program of the Office of the Chancellor and Senate that inspires students from socially vulnerable communities to discover the world of Volunteer with us: post-secondary education. www.uschool.ualberta.ca What advice do you wish you had received in your first year of university? Let us know for a chance to be featured in an upcoming issue. Email [email protected]. smalltalk

Downtime Destinations You’ve got two hours between classes. Where do you go to relax, study or catch up with friends? Fall asleep in HUB? Hide out in the library? Lounge in the salon des étudiants? We asked grads to tell us about their favourite hangouts. Find more or share your own at facebook.com/UAlbertaAlumni.

The pool hall and curling rink in the basement of SUB. –Tina James, ’70 BA, ’71 BLS hen I first got to university, I would meet my future husband in the The First Year Engineering Students’ Club office in WTV lounge, where we would eat a 1990, located in the old South Lab, had a well-stocked sandwich and an apple as we watched Star (and likely very illegal) beer fridge. It was a great Trek and The Love Boat. Then off we would place to laugh, yell, complain and cheer — and it helped me get through first year! go, he to his evening class and me to my –Dean Chan, ’95 BSc(MechEng) upgrading classes. –Kim Lang, ’91 BEd

Playing Raiden on one quarter at the arcade in HUB before a big test. –Anthony Puhjera, ’98 BSc, ’98 BEd

Dewey’s in HUB Mall. It was SUB music listening My daughter, a new education our Cheers; it seemed like you room, with its grad, discovered the lounge could drop in any time and ultra-mod chairs. on the 10th floor of Education find a friend, and they knew Select an album at Centre North and told me us by name. –Jason Cobb, ’96 BA the desk, slip into about it. I told her that we are your personal pod more alike than we think, as and put on your that was my favourite place CAB cafeteria at headphones. when I attended in the late ’80s! The old Rutherford lunchtime, which –Scott Rollans, ’82 BA, ’17 MA –Krista Mukanik Ketsa, ’89 BEd Library, reading in would often extend into those ancient leather the afternoon, to play chairs. I’d nod off with bridge. Often when the I had a kettle in my locker in the pedway between HUB and my ear against the fourth player would get Rutherford, so I would plug it in near the vending machines leather and I’m sure up to leave for class, we and make tea for me and my friends. Weird place to hang out, I heard something would say, “Stay!” in and probably weird to see someone filling up a kettle in the moving inside. order to keep playing. bathroom, but Locker Tea was a common occurrence. –John Berry,

–Valerie Ling, ’85 BEd, ’92 Dip(Ed) –Dorothy Hamilton, ’17 BA ’14 Cert(OccHealthSafety) SIMARD RÉMY BY ILLUSTRATIONS

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