volume 24, no. 2 fall/winter 2012 The University of Regina Magazine Greening the planet Ten trees at a time Lightening strikes light up the sky over the University of Regina during a July 2012 summer storm passing through the Queen City. This past summer was unusually active for severe weather in Saskatchewan with the province recording as many tornadoes in July as the entire United States. The photo was taken by Greg Johnson, one of North America’s top storm chasers and severe weather experts. Johnson is also an accomplished photographer, speaker and workshop leader. Visit his website at: http://tornadohunter.ca. Degrees | fall/winter 2012 1 I’ve written in this space many reconstruct war-damaged times before about how much museums, libraries, archives of a thrill it is for me to discover and monuments. great tales about the people When he returned to North associated with the University America in 1951, Heinrich of Regina. served as a curator at the Here is another one. Huntington Library in San In the late 1980s, about Marino, Calif., and then at New 200 boxes containing York’s Metropolitan Museum of postcards, manuscripts, Art. In 1955 he came to Canada photos, research documents where he served as director of and assorted other materials the Royal Ontario Museum in showed up on the doorstep Toronto. of the University’s Archives In 1964, he was invited by and Special Collections. The a fledgling art school in the boxes contained the lifelong middle of the Canadian prairie A postcard of the National Hotel in Cairo, part of the Theodore Allen Heinrich accumulations of one Theodore to serve as a visiting professor collection in the University of Regina’s Archives and Special Collections. Allen Heinrich. of art history. He accepted. And So, who is Theodore Allen so, Theodore Allen Heinrich of his will. You can have a look at some Heinrich? arrived on the Regina Campus of And so it was that Bloore sent of the items from the Heinrich He is a renaissance man. the University of Saskatchewan. those boxes filled with letters, collection online but, better yet, In addition to being an At the same time, The diaries, photos, declassified why not drop by the University art historian, curator, writer, Regina Five were enjoying military files, postcards and see the collection for lecturer and educator, he was popular acclaim. Heinrich got and Nazi interrogation yourself. Anyone can drop in. also Cambridge-educated, a to know the abstract painters transcripts to the University of It’s located on the first floor of world-traveller, bon vivant and Ken Lochhead, Art McKay, Ted Regina Archives and Special the Dr. John Archer Library. spy. (The name is Heinrich – Godwin, Doug Morton and Collections. I hope you enjoy this issue Ted Heinrich.) Ron Bloore, who had earned Archives are great places of Degrees. I trust you will find His days of espionage national artistic acclaim at to fuel the imagination. They the stories informative and came during World War II with a 1961 National Gallery of take us back to a previous era entertaining. I hope they fuel the Supreme Headquarters Canada exhibit Five Painters and they house the collective your imagination. Allied Expeditionary Force from Regina. The quintet were thoughts of a bygone people. Please contact us with story where he was a junior officer all associated with the Regina They put faces on our past ideas or just send us a note and on the Intelligence staff of Campus and two (Lochhead and and connect us to our shared let us know how you are doing. General Dwight Eisenhower, Bloore) would find their way to history. While you’re at it, let us know the supreme commander of York University in Toronto where Some of the materials from how we are doing with Degrees. the Allied forces. There, he Heinrich would go to teach in Heinrich’s collection can be Incidentally, this issue will specialized in the strategic 1966. found on the website Wish You soon find its way into Archives intelligence of the German- Later in his life, in 1977, still Were Here, a collection of 4,500 and Special Collections where controlled railway system – writing and critiquing, Heinrich digitized postcards from 11 the stories of the people the Reischbahn. wrote in a review of Bloore’s archives around Saskatchewan featured within these covers will After his days in 15-year retrospective show at including the University of join those of other interesting reconnaissance, Heinrich the Mac Gallery in Toronto, Regina Archives and Special people associated with the remained in Germany to help “Bloore is the most fastidious Collections. Notably, the University of Regina like repatriate some of the great and possibly the most erudite of website features a large Theodore Allen Heinrich. European art treasures that had all Canadian painters.” collection of cigarette cards been pilfered by the Nazis. Later When Heinrich died in 1981, Heinrich had acquired during Greg Campbell he helped German authorities Bloore was named the executor the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Editor 2 Degrees | fall/winter 2012 Editor Greg Campbell BFA’85, BJ’95 Director, Communications and Marketing Anna Willey CPR’96 Alumni Association Board 2011-12: Gwen Keith BEd’74, MEd’77, PGDEA’83, MEd’84 President Richard Kies BAdmin’93, CPR’03 Past President Jeff Maystruck BBA’08 First Vice President Linda Dewhirst BA’75, MVTEd’04 The University of Regina Magazine Second Vice President fall/winter 2012 Margaret Dagenais CVTEd’87, BVTEd’91, Med’97, PHD’11 volume 24, no. 2 U of R Senate representative Lisa King Bed’78, MAdmin’11 U of S Senate representative On the cover: Fresh off their successful pitch on CBC’s popular program Dragon’s Den, Sean McEachern BEd’03 Kalen Emsley and David Luba are poised for tree-mendous success with their clothing Past-President Council representative company, Ten Tree. The company offers a unique guarantee – to plant 10 trees for every piece of apparel it sells. Photo by Don Hall, University of Regina Photography Nathan Sgrazzutti URSU Representative Department. Kaytlyn Barber BBA’12 Don Burns BA’97, MPA’05 Scott Cheston CA’05, DIPBA’06, BBA’08, MCert’10 Bob Friedrich BA’76, CPSTST’07 Brian Hillier DDA’04, BA’04, MBA’09, MHRM’11 Jay Kirkland BA(Hons)’99 Curt Schroeder CA’96, CCS’03 George Smadu BEd’74, BA’80, PGDEA’88, Med’91, PhD’08 Contributors Bill Armstrong Sabrina Cataldo BA’97, BJ’99, Cert. PR’04 12 22 28 Shannon Bachorick Rayanne Brennan Raquel Fletcher BA’12 Features Kramers honoured for Gilles Gonthier their contributions 26 Don Hall Trevor Hopkin The class of 2012 7 For their decades of selfless Greg Johnson philanthropy, Don and Claire Robin Lawless This year’s Alumni Association Erin Limacher BA’06 Crowning Achievement Awards Kramer are the U of R’s most BD Miller BA(Hons)’89, BJ’95 were the biggest and brightest recent honorary degree Diane Mullen recipients. Sean O’Shea BJ’84 yet. Meet the class of 2012. Deborah Sproat David Stobbe The acclaiming Enlightening frightening 28 Sociology graduate student, All photos by The University of Regina of the shrew 12 Photography Department unless Alumnus Jack Stewart BSc’71, roller derby queen and otherwise noted. Original design and punk rock band member layout by Bradbury Branding and Design. MSc’75 has found what could be a revolutionary new cancer Cassie Ozog’s BA’09 master’s Degrees is published twice a year by treatment in the darndest of thesis examines the zombie External Relations at the University apocalypse in popular culture. of Regina. The magazine is mailed to places – the spit of the short- alumni and friends of the University. tailed shrew. Ideas and opinions published in Degrees do not necessarily reflect those of the editor, the Alumni Association or the Form P.A. to L.A. 20 departments University of Regina. Letters and editorial Alumnus Nicholas Treeshin contributions are welcome. Advertising inquiries are invited. 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President’s Note 4 Editorial/Advertising/Letters Now he’s got his sights firmly Around Campus 5 Degrees, External Relations set on Hollywood. 210 North Residence, University of Regina Focal Point 16 3737 Wascana Parkway Regina, SK S4S 0A2 Ten Tree sees the Spot Light 27 Ph: (306) 585-4402 Fax: (306) 585-4997 forest and the trees 22 E-mail: [email protected] University of Regina student 360 Degrees 32 Address Change/Alumni Relations David Luba and Kalen Emsley Alumni President 210 North Residence, University of Regina 3737 Wascana Parkway DIPBA’09 have partnered to Message 35 Regina, SK S4S 0A2 create a unique and successful Ph: (306) 585-4112 Fax: (306) 585-4997 clothing company that appeals Class Notes 36 E-mail: [email protected] Toll-free: 877-779-4723 (GRAD) to the environmentally (in Canada and the U.S.) responsible mindset of today’s University of Regina homepage consumers. www.uregina.ca Publication Mail Agreement Number 40065347 Return undeliverable magazines to: External Relations 210 North Residence, University of Regina 3737 Wascana Parkway Regina, SK S4S 0A2 ISSN 0843-7092 Degrees | fall/winter 2012 3 President’s Note With an alumni base of more inspirational speaker, educator, year’s psychology graduate in teaching, research and than 60,000, approximately literacy worker, community students. community service, which is a 2,200 graduates per year and volunteer, writer and playwright. I am proud to say that like great source of pride for all of us, record enrolment this year of For his exceptional leadership our students and alumni, our extends to the continued work more than 13,000 students, the and service to the University of faculty members also continue on Building Knowledge – The University of Regina is making a Regina, Victor Thomas received to further the University’s College Avenue Campus Renewal bigger impact than ever before, the Dr.