Alumni Elections, P. 21 — Vote online at www.unb.ca/alumni UNB Vol. 13 No. 3 ALUMNI NEWS Spring 2005 WWW.UNB.CA/UNBDIFFERENCE Where it’s hopping. In New Brunswick, where there are great jobs, affordable housing, safe communities and a quality of life that’s virtually unmatched. Along with many other New Brunswickers who’ve come home for challenging careers and a balanced lifestyle. Right now. Employers need talented people like you. Don’t wait. Log on and check out the career level opportunities posted on the website. NBjobs.ca BE PROUD OF IT. Spring 2005UNB Vol. 13 No. 3 BE PART OF IT. ALUMNI NEWS INSIDE 12 Official launch set The Forging Our Futures fundraising campaign will be officially launched on Associated Alumni both campuses on June 9, Council Members and you’re invited to be President part of the kickoff! Carey A. Ryan (BA’70, MEd’79) Vice-President Barry Beckett (PhD’70) Treasurer Marti-Lou Neill (BA’69) 14 Last call for Homecoming Secretary Kathie Brien (BBA’67) We’ll be ordering the lobsters before Executive Member at Large you know it for Homecoming 2005 Judy Weeks (BBA’77-SJ) Immediate Past President so get a move on and get those Richard J. Scott, Q.C. (BBA’74, LLB’76) registration forms (online or hard Board of Governors Representatives Sally W. McAllister (BA’72, BEd’73) copy) in to the Alumni Office as Richard J. Scott, Q.C. (BBA’74, LLB’76) Andy Devereaux (BScEE’71, BA’73, DLitt’98) soon as you can. Councillors Eric Burchill (BBA’92) Jeff Clark (BSc’97, BBA’98) Kevin Ferguson (BBA’92, BA’93) Carol Foley (BBA’83) Yves Goudreau (BBA’86) 37 Cameras . action at AUC Larry Hachey (BBA’87) Aren Hunter (BSc’05) Fredericton’s Aitken Centre Lynn A. Hruczkowski (BA’82) Jill Jollineau (Class of ’75, MEd’02) has been turned into a David T. Le Blanc (BBA’82) Moscow arena for a made- Aaron McIntosh (BBA’97, BA’00) Mary Ellen McKinney (BBA’77, BN’00) for-TV movie about the ’72 Heather Neilson (BPE’72) Judy Orr (BA’75, BBA’76) Canada-Russia series. Marcia Trail (BN’73, MN’99) President of the Associated Alumnae Bonnie Murray (BA’78) Cover Photo UNB President John McLaughlin (BScSE’69, MScSE’71) While we all have visual reminders of our days at UNB — bean- Association Executive Director ies, jackets, banners — at the core of our memories are the peo- Mark Hazlett (BPE’87, MPE’89) ple. Come back for Homecoming 2005. See pages 14-20! • Photo: Joy Cummings UNB Alumni News is published by the UNB Associated Alumni. Material may be printed in whole or in part with appropriate credit to UNB Alumni 4 Comment News, except where copyrighted by the author. Distributed three times a year to alumni and friends of 6 Literature UNB. ISSN 1191-8276. Mailed under Canada Post 7 UNB Digest Publications Mail Agreement No. 40063270. Subscription for non-alumni: $15 21 Association Activities Editor: Milt Thomas Hither and Yon: Kim Bishop UNB Digest: Compiled with assistance of Office of 25 Hither & Yon Development and Donor Relations, Office of Student 37 Sports Recruitment and Integrated Marketing (F) and Office of Advancement (SJ) Advertising: Kathy Mac Farlane, Alumni Office, [email protected] www.unb.ca/alumni Tel: (506) 453-4847 Fax: (506) 453-4616 E-Mail: [email protected] At the Office of the UNB Associated Alumni, we care about your privacy and take the Next Issue: Fall 2005 matter very seriously. We recognize that our alumni are concerned about the information Deadline: August 15, 2005 we maintain and how that information is used. As the basis for our own policy, we follow Printed in Canada Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). SPRING 2005 UNB ALUMNI NEWS • 3 COMMENT My thanks to all of you for your support s my two-year term as president strengthen our relationship with alumni . for that I thank Acomes to an end in June, I would you. like to take this opportunity to extend a To UNB President Dr. John McLaughlin — thank you for heartfelt thank you to those who have your continued support of the Associated Alumni and our made this time so fulfilling and enjoy- Alumni Council. By signing the Memorandum of able. Agreement this past fall we have a renewed commitment To members of the Alumni Council recognizing our association as a major constituent within — you were open to new suggestions to the university community. The association continues to pur- the agenda and in the way our regular sue its agenda in support of the university as laid out in our meetings are conducted. I believe we strategic plan, Energized and Involved. have been able to make our meeting times more productive And most of all I would like to thank all the alumni with and engaging. Volunteer council members have been pro- whom I have had the pleasure of working and meeting dur- vided with greater input on programming and with more ing my travels as president. I feel honoured to have served knowledge about current university activities. Thank you as your president and assure you that it was with great pride for putting your trust in me and working so diligently over that I attended outreach events, presented scholarships, hon- the past two years. oured alumni with awards, joined in Celebration ’04 and To alumni staff — which as an association we are so are gave special gifts to graduating students as they walked fortunate to have — Executive Director: Mark Hazlett; across the stage and became alumni. I will treasure these Associate Director: Kathy Mac Farlane; Administrative memories! Secretary: Kim Bishop; Communications Co-ordinator: The one common factor that I have found among all Milt Thomas; Alumni Program Manager (Saint John): Mary alumni, no matter what year you graduated or no matter Duffley; Reunions and Special Events Co-ordinator: Barb where life has taken you, is the many fond memories of MacMullin; Students and Young Alumni Co-ordinator: your days at UNB and your pride in being alumni. Annette Wetmore; Alumni Student Recruitment Co-ordina- Although my term as president will end, I look forward tor: Shawna Pratt; Outreach Co-ordinator: Lillian Ryan, to continuing to be actively involved with the Associated who recently retired after seven years of service; Vicki Alumni and the university and I will always be “Proudly Lanteigne, currently on maternity leave; and former staff UNB”! members, Athena Kreiner and Suzie Jones. You are a dedi- cated group of professionals who work effectively every day to implement the programs and services that we offer to our alumni. I know that you are committed to working with President, council to continually improve our programs and to UNB Associated Alumni Homecoming 2005, a chance to catch up with your past aybe it’s just a function of the fact I work at UNB, but And that’s why I hope I’ll be seeing some of those people MI find myself running to the bookcase in the Alumni this summer at Homecoming 2005, so I can simply walk up Office fairly often to look up someone in a yearbook. And to them and say “Hey, remember me, and the time we went usually it’s just out of curiosity. to ——— and got ———— and then we ————?” Generally, it happens something like this . I get an e- So, if you’d like to fill in some blanks of your own with mail from someone asking for their alumni ID number, or people you may not have seen for a dog’s age, Homecoming I come across a name as I’m editing Hither and Yon for the 2005 will be the perfect chance to do so. Think about it. magazine. Sometimes it’s the name itself that triggers a • ring of familiarity from my particular period at UNB, and In the centre of this edition you’ll find a ballot for our sometimes it’s just the year. Regardless, I end up thumb- annual Alumni Council elections. It’s your chance to be ing through a yearbook to see if the person is indeed some- actively involved in your Associated Alumni, so please take one I remember from my undergraduate years. Often he or a moment to consider the candidates and cast your vote. As she is, and I wonder what’s transpired in their life between we’ve done for the past two elections, an electronic ballot, then and now. which has proven highly successful, is available until May I met an awful lot of people during my four years here in 31 at www.unb.ca/alumni/elections. Please vote — it’ll the late ’60s and early ’70s. Some ended up as lifelong friends only take a minute. with whom I still stay in contact, while others were more casu- al acquaintances whose paths I’d occasionally cross in a class- room, over a card game or coffee at the SUB, or at a party. But as I remember it, they were all good company. Milt Thomas, Editor 4 • UNB ALUMNI NEWS SPRING 2005 Blake Brunsdon UNB Graduate – Faculty of Forestry WE ARE PROUDLY UNB... & Environmental Management, BScF ‘79 For us, believing in New Brunswick means Chief Forester believing in our university. We are Proudly UNB, J.D. Irving Limited a group of alumni from the University of Saint John, N.B. New Brunswick that devote time to building awareness and support for our alma mater. Our goal is sim- ple… get the message out that the university is vitally impor- tant to our province… to our industries and communities, and for our future.