AlumniGazette WESTERN’S ALUMNI MAGAZINE SINCE 1939 SUM MER 2010 SPRING 2010 WESTERN’S BRAIN GAIN HOMECOMING WESTERN TIES TO UP CLOSE WITH 2010 ISSUE DONNELLY MYTH KEVIN O’LEARY AlumniGazette Get a Second Opinion CONTENTS DONNELLY MYTH 12 ENDURES TEST OF TIME 130 years since family massacre BY DAVID SCOTT THEATRE THAT 18 CHALLENGES AUDIENCES Western alumnus co-founds Passionfool BY ROBYN ISRAEL, MA’96 ‘THAT FEELING YOU HAD’ 20 What makes Western’s Homecoming a must-attend event? BY DAVID DAUPHINEE WESTERN GAINS BRAIN 26 Adrian Owen brings his Cambridge team In these turbulent investment markets, a Second Opinion to Canada could bring you the stability you’re looking for. WESTERN’S BY TOM SPEARS TOO SUCCESSFUL Why Do You Need a Second Opinion? 28 Uncertain market conditions can leave you trying to balance your own peace-of-mind BRAIN TO RETIRE with your investment needs and goals. 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C5051CA SUMMER 2010 EDITION 3 AlumniGazette LETTERS Summer 2010 (ISSN 1189-6272) EDITOR’S Editor: David Scott STUDENTS NEED TO ‘SPY HOLE’ USED TO Executive Editor: Jason Winders KNOW HISTORICAL CHECK ON RADIO Publisher: Helen Connell CONTEXT AUDIENCE NOTEBOOK (Re: Celebrating March 7 – Founder’s Day, (Re: Best Kept Secret - Spy hole for Art Director: Terry Rice WITH DAVID SCOTT Spring ’10) professors?, Spring ’10) Staff , Faculty & Volunteer Contributors: Steve Anderson, Further to the request in the Alumni Gazett e Evidence of professors spying through the Jess Bechard, Jenn Davila, Kris Dundas, Karmen Dowling, about suggestions for Founder’s Day, I wish to ‘secret door’ of Somerville House’s Great Susanna Eayrs, Mathew Hoy, Ann Hutchison, Scott May, Paul Mayne, Rob Pott er, Jeff Renaud, Terry Rice, Angie Wiseman, say fi rst that this is an excellent idea and should Hall is not available here but I can reveal one FINDING THE STORY WORTH RETELLING Marcia Steyaert, Allison Stevenson, Heather Travis, Janis Wallace, be both continued and extended. use it served during my era as president of Kathy Wallis, Andy Watson, Scott Woods ALUMNUS SPEARHEADED Of course, it the UWO Broadcasting Society, long before CELEBRATING MARCH 7 We are a country of immigrants. When some their polar opposites. Design: Rob Pott er VANCOUVER BID FOUNDER’S DAY does reinforce Radio Western was a gleam in anyone’s eye. Western’s “Founder’s Day” is March 7, leading the charge to “reinforce that pride of Students, alumni, faculty and staff were also the day upon which the UWO Act was going to Western and staying connected encouraged to: proclaimed in 1878. to Western.” of our ancestors arrived in an intimidating We have to tell stories. It’s in our nature. (Re: Veni, Vidi, Vici, Spring ’10) Last year, the Alumni Association This year, the residence dining halls on rThink about Western and reconnect with our connection to Th e litt le ‘cupboard’ contained a launched a grassroots initiative to campus enjoyed a special Founder’s Day menu University friends celebrate Founder’s Day and honour the and celebration on March 3 (as March 7 fell on a rWear purple or Western attire on March 7 historic roots of the University, one of Sunday). The menu included “items of yore” such rParticipate in an Alumni Western program, Photography/Art: CBC-TV, Barbara Crisp, Julie Enfi eld, Canada’s oldest. as Yorkshire pudding, fried bread with bison chili, branch or chapter event Robert Collins, BA’77, Director of the heirloom carrots, corn bread and sticky toffee rCheer on the Mustangs at a home or away Alumni Association Board and Chair of pudding. The staff wore Founder’s Day shirts and sporting event forested landscape in the 1800s, they tried to For entertainment, education, history, habit, the Alumni Outreach Committee has been served cake sporting the Founder’s Day image on it. rPromote Western by joining Western’s Western. But I believe Just read with great interest your article social media groups microphone linked to a P.A. system that rMake their Facebook status “purple” on Ray Fazakas, Shane Gonsalves, BSc’05, JD’09, London Free Press Founder’s Day Alumni Outreach Officer Natalie Devereux says, “Founder’s Day provides another opportunity to strengthen Western’s profile cling to and replicate whatever home country myth creation, politics, propaganda, religion regarding alumni who were involved with the locally, nationally and internationally,” adding it strikes other equally served the Great Hall and the downstairs it allows for those unable to participate in Collection/Western Archives, Lucan Area Heritage & Donnelly traditional campus events, such as Homecoming, to be involved. “It is yet another opportunity to strengthen that shared pride and passion for Western.” Anyone with thoughts or ideas about how to expand Founder’s Day is encouraged to contact culture they could for their own comfort. Th e and nurturing young minds. But it’s not all Winter Olympics in Vancouver. As an FYI you Natalie at [email protected]. important notes. Somerville House cafeteria, both of which Museum, Paul Mayne, Derek Rutt an (Sun Media), David Scott , For more on Founder’s Day and Bishop Isaac Hellmuth, Western’s founder, visit www. alumni.uwo.ca/connect/foundersday.html. wilderness off ered none. Th ey brought with bloodshed and violence that is worth repeating. Shawn Simpson (SWS Photography), Heather Travis should know that probably the single most Today’s students served as places for eating lunch in the them their belief systems and defi nitions of We have grown here at Western in our 132 Advertising Inquiries: Denise Jones, infl uential person in winter sport and the have never been primary noon breaks. During part of the 1962 SPRING 2010 EDITION 39 what was considered civilized and uncivilized years from an institution off ering arts and 519-661-2111, ext. 85460; [email protected] man responsible for spearheading the bid for more in need of to 1964 period, members of the Broadcasting behaviour. Th ey built churches and schools. medicine to local learners, to an internationally Vancouver to get the Games is a UWO alumnus. historical context, the context that is essential Society spoke to those lunch audiences with Editorial Advisory Board: Gary Blazak, MA’79, Sometimes communities and institutions recognized institution with leading researchers Carol-Lynn Chambers, BSc’82, MPA’01, Helen Connell, MBA’96, Robert Storey, BA’65, went on to have a in these tumultuous times. Th e students have ‘public service’ announcements and a promo worked, other times things went terribly att racting students from around the world. Kris Dundas, BA’94, MA’95, Susanna Eayrs, Jim Etherington, successful career as a bobsledder and as an a hunger for this historical background. As a for a half-hour program about Western that wrong – like the story of the Black Donnellys We have our own stories to tell. We have BA’61, Terry Rice, BFA’98, MA’00, Marcia Steyaert, BA’96, entrepreneur. Robert has been President of the professor of economics, I see this in my own the Broadcasting Society produced and was near Lucan, just north of London.