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Alumni Gazette CONTENTS PUSHING FOR CLARITY 11 AT THE BANK OF CANADA Stephen Poloz, MA’79, PhD’82, named new Governor of Bank of Canada AU CONTRAIRE 12 Contrarian Benj Gallander, BA’78, rarely follows the Bay Street flock ADVOCATING FOR GIRLS 14 ON WORLD STAGE Rosemary McCarney, LLB’77, Plan Canada President & CEO 100 YEARS OF 18 WESTERN ATHLETICS Celebrating a century of sport with Stephen Brunt, BA’81, MA’82 FREEZE FRAME 24 2013 Arlie Laxton Alumni Photo Contest winners 2013 HOMECOMING 31 KICKOFF & SCHEDULE 12 @ alumnigazette.ca DEPARTMENTS TURNING MED ED ON ITS HEAD DR. W. KEN MILNE, BSC’91, MSC’95, EMBRACES SOCIAL MEDIA & UNORTHODOX APPROACH LETTERS BEST KEPT SECRET 05 What was real fate of the 35 Hidden treasure – The G. PLAQUES LEAVE THEIR MARKS ON WESTERN Franklin expedition? Howard Ferguson Award MARK KEARNEY, BA’77, EXPLORES A FEW OF THE 300 TRIBUTES DOTTING THE CAMPUS. CAMPUS NEWS MEMORIES 06 36 ONLINE ONLY BENJ GALLANDER Cowins and Thompsons Celebrating 75 years of EXPANDED STORY donate total of $7 million Western’s marching band INTERVIEW WITH BLACK SHEEP OF INVESTING WORLD CAMPUS QUOTES NEW RELEASES 08 Honorary degree recipients at 37 Voice Acting for Dummies AGE OF BOOK NERD - ONLINE ONLY PROFILE Western’s 301st Convocation by Stephanie Ciccarelli, NICOLE WINSTANLEY, BA’96, NEW PRESIDENT BMus’06 OF PENGUIN CANADA CONSUMER GUIDE 28 MORE SUDS ON TAP Microbreweries with alumni 41 GAZETTEER A FROTHIER, LARGER MUG OF WESTERN connections Alumni notes & BREWERS ONLINE announcements FALL 2013 EDITION 3 Alumni Gazette EDITOR’S Western Alumni Gazette NOTEBOOK Fall 2013 (ISSN 1189-6272) Editor: David Scott WITH DAVID SCOTT Executive Editor: Jason Winders, MES’10 Director, Alumni & Development Communications: Diana Cunningham Publisher: Helen Connell, MBA’96 Art Director: Terry Rice, BFA’98, MA’00 Designer: Rob Potter Staff, Faculty & Volunteer ROOTS OF SUCCESS IN FIRST YEAR Contributors: Steve Anderson, Melissa Cheater, Jenn Davila, Natalie Devereux, rafting that personality that carries and fans at games and Homecoming Fred DeVries, Susanna Eayrs, Keri you through your career and life for generations. The band has been Ferguson, Susana Gajic-Bruyea, Mathew Creceives some major molding in drumming up school spirit for 75 years. Hoy, Jo Jennings, Douglas Keddy, university. It doesn’t matter if you were Instead of running with the crowd, Kathryn Kinahan, Stephen Ledgley, Keith top of the class or won the most awards contrarian investor Benj Gallander, BA’78, Marnoch, Scott May, Paul Mayne, Frank Neufeld, Sonia Preszcator, Jeff Renaud, at your high school graduation. Come took the path less trodden and found Gulnara Shafikova, Allison Stevenson, September, it’s a clean slate and you’re success investing in companies others Marcia Steyaert, Adela Talbot, Janis one of thousands of high achievers trying had given up on. He’s made a career of Wallace, Trista Walker, Kathy Wallis, Jen on a new university student identity. it and he’s a speaker and columnist in Wilson, Angie Wiseman, Scott Woods There is a reason your parents sent you demand. But learning how to do financial Photography/Art: Dave Chan, Robert here. They hoped you would succeed. ratios at Western ignited his original Collins, Rachel Lincoln, Paul Mayne, That success forms in tiny increments passion for numbers and statistics. Genevieve Moreau, Plan Canada, Adela in a myriad of settings and experiences. At 27, Western law alumna Rosemary Talbot, Nation Wong, Scott Woods The first time you offer your opinion in McCarney, LLB’77, found her passion Advertising Inquiries: Denise Jones, class when no one else answers the prof’s backpacking through Nairobi, Kenya. She 519.661.2111, ext. 85460; [email protected] question. Helping a classmate who is was one of the first two Canadian students Guest Contributors: Amit Chakma, a complete stranger. Getting your first to go to the United States on an exchange Robert Collins, BA’77, Helen Connell, university essay back and realizing the mark program in 1976, when Western and MBA’96, Sheldon Gordon, Paul Mayne, M.J. Stone, Adela Talbot, Paul Wells, is much lower than you’re used to. Accepting Case Western Reserve University in Ohio BA’89, Jason Winders, MES’10 the fact you don’t know a single person in established the Canada-U.S. Law Institute. a lecture hall with hundreds of students That chance to travel – like so many Western The Alumni Gazette is published three times annually by the Department of and this is part of being at university. students still do – led to her career now Communications & Public Affairs in In this issue, we look at some great as President and CEO of Plan Canada. partnership with Alumni Western and examples of alumni who can trace their Success was found by Stephen Poloz, the Department of Alumni Relations inspiration for success right back to MA’79, PhD’82, the new Governor of the & Development. their time on campus. Collectively, any Bank of Canada (page 11); Peter Devlin, For publication dates or to make past Western student who participated BA’82, former Lt. Gen. of the Canadian submissions, contact the managing editor in individual or team sport knows the Forces and new President of Fanshawe at 519.661.2111 ext. 87482, e-mail at sense of commitment and effort it takes College (page 16); and Ray Novak, BA’00, [email protected] or mail at The University of Western Ontario, Suite 360, Westminster to succeed. The majority pressured Chief of Staff for Prime Minister Harper Hall, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7. Forward themselves not only to compete on the (page 27). Also brewing up a winning change of address information to courts, fields, rinks, tracks, water and formula are the many Western grads [email protected] or call (local) 519.661.4176 gridiron but also to excel academically. who have delved into the burgeoning or (toll-free) 1.800.420.7519. Western is marking its 100th year of craft beer industry (page 28). Printed in Canada. sports this fall, a monumental milestone. This issue also features the 2013 Publication Agreement #40069342 Alumnus and national sports writer Stephen Homecoming schedule, alumni award Return Undeliverable Canadian Addresses Brunt, BA’81, MA’82, eloquently takes winners, Arlie Laxton Photo Contest to: Western University, Suite 360, Westminster Hall, London, ON N6A 3K7 us through Western’s athletic legacy. winners and quotes from our recent Read the Gazette online at: Also celebrating is Western’s marching honorary degree recipients. www.alumnigazette.ca band, providing inspiration for athletes See you at Homecoming! YOUR RIGHT TO PRIVACY Western respects your privacy. At any time you have the right to request that your personal information cease to be used for alumni programs, to provide information about alumni services, or for fundraising purposes. For more information, please visit www.advser.uwo.ca/privacystatement.htm or contact Advancement Services: phone 519.661.4176 or 1.800.420.7519 (Canada & U.S.), fax 519.661.4182 or e-mail [email protected]. 4 ALUMNIGAZETTE.CA LETTERS There is speculation that lead in the Stamp Advisory Committee (SAC). pipes of the (then) state-of-the-art water So, please accept this editorial bouquet systems of the Erebus and Terror may for a great issue! As a retired journalist the have leached out into the ships’ drinking Spring 2013 issue is a tour de force.