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Houston alumni: experience Quattro with us!Dr. Harvey Weingarten, president of the U of C, and the American Friends of the U of C are hosting an alumni reception at Quattro, Houston's only Mobil Four Star restaurant, at the Four Seasons Houston on September 17. U of C grads are the guests of honour and you are welcome to bring a guest. You'll also meet Laura Lucier, BSc'99 and the 2004 Graduate of the Last Decade. Please RSVP by September 10 to alumni@ucalgary.ca or call 1-877-220-8509.
Take four: alumni on film festival boardThe Calgary International Film Festival announced its 2007 board of directors in August, and four U of C alumni were named to the board. Alex MacWilliam, BA'78, Teresina Bontorin, BA'88, LLB'91, and Murray Ord, BFA'72, were named directors along with Domenic Venturo, BA'82, LLB'85, who is board president, a position he has filled since 2000.
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Alumnus amped up to rock KICKOFFAndrew Wedderburn, BA'01, has September 7 circled on his calendar. The frontman for the Calgary-based indie rock outfit Hot Little Rocket says the band is looking forward to returning to campus (three members are alumni) that day to open for the Sam Roberts Band at KICKOFF.07. |
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Open studioArtist Dirk van Wyk, BA'67, MA'70, has re-established his Calgary studio Make-Do Visibles, the Studio and Musery, after teaching at the American University of Sharjah. It's open to the public on the first Sunday of each month or by appointment. Dirk produces commissions in a variety of media, including furniture, books and 3-D constructions, and he was the original artist for Big Rock Brewery and Tree Brewing Co. |
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Alumna runs for fatherJessica Kozy (Vincent), BA'02, will compete in the Honolulu Marathon on December 9 as a member of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team In Training. Her goal is to raise $10,000 to support research, advocacy programs and patient services needed by those battling blood cancers. Thirty-eight Canadians a day are diagnosed with a blood cancer, one of whom was Kozy's father, Jim Vincent, who went through chemotherapy, drug programs and an experimental stem cell transplant to get him on the road to recovery. Kozy is inviting all alumni to learn more about blood cancers and make a donation in any amount to support the cause. |
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In Memoriam
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Martin SpoorCardiac surgeon Martin Spoor, MD'95, died June 4 when the plane in which he was traveling crashed shortly after takeoff into Lake Michigan near Milwaukee. Spoor was a member of a transplant team returning with a set of lungs destined for a patient at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor where he worked. Spoor is survived by his wife, Susan (MD'96), and three young children. A memorial was held July 27 at the University of Michigan for the six who perished on the flight. |
Jackie Maguire
Jackie Maguire, BA'80 and a teacher, author and world traveler, passed away in July at the age of 48 after two battles with breast cancer. Following her degree at the U of C, she was executive director of the John Howard Society before moving to Quebec to learn French, where she gained an interest in teaching English as second language. At the time of her death, Jackie was living in Bristol, England with husband and freelance writer Steve Hill, and the two had also worked in Dubai in recent years. A celebration of Jackie's life was held in Calgary on August 11.
Alumni in the News
Alumni with impact in Canada and around the globe
Abigail Richardson, BMus'98, was recently featured in the Hamilton Spectator's "Two minute job shadow". Richardson has worked with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra since 2006.
Michele Moss, BEd'84, co-founder of Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, is part of a large contingent hoping to secure a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for the world's largest dance class, slated to take place September 29 at MacEwan Hall, the Calgary Herald reports. The event will benefit Salud Plena, a group that sponsors surgeries for South American children with anorectal malformations.
The U of C's 2004 Graduate of the Last Decade, Laura Lucier, BSc'99, was the lead robotics mission planner for NASA's just-completed STS-118 shuttle mission. She worked in Mission Control in Houston and was involved in many of the critical decisions as the space shuttle Endeavour orbited the earth and serviced the International Space Station. The Calgary Sun spoke to Lucier once Endeavour had safely touched down.
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Haskayne prof receives CMA fellowshipDr. Irene Herremans, accounting professor at the Haskayne School of Business, was recently named the first CMA Alberta Management Accounting Faculty Fellow. The fellowship is designed to support outreach programs in order to advance the study of management accounting including field study programs, funding for research and a distinguished visiting lecturer series in Management Accounting. The Fellowship is the result of a $250,000 gift from the Certified Management Accountants of Alberta. It will also support undergraduate and graduate scholarships. |
Scratch that itch for medical knowledge
Alumni of all ages are welcome to register for Mini Med School to feed that curiosity about the inner workings of your body and how to best take care of yourself. Each lecture combines basic science with real-life clinical situations to give a better understanding of systems within the body. A science background is not required. Mini Med School is taking registrations for the fall and winter sessions beginning September 25 and January 22.
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New teaching second language certificate programsU of C Continuing Education is introducing two new certificate programs this fall that can get you on your way to teaching a second language in Canada or abroad. In the next few years, these Teaching Second Language Certificate programs will be graduating specialists in English as a second or foreign language (TES/FL), international and heritage languages (TIHL), and French as a second language or French immersion (FSL/FI). "We're excited about launching this new certificate," says Margo Dilger, a program director. "We've designed this flexible program to meet some very specific needs in the community." Partners in developing the program include the Southern Alberta Heritage Languages Association and the U of C's Faculty of Education, the French Centre and the Language Research Centre. Students who take the TES/FL specialist stream will be able to apply their program towards TESL Canada certification. |
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Campus and Alumni Events
MBA alumni Calgary luncheon
The next MBA Alumni Networking Luncheon will be held on September 14 from 11:30am to 1:30pm at the Delta Bow Valley, Calgary. The speaker is Camille Dow Baker, co-founder, president and CEO of the Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology. She'll speak on "The Business of the Non-Profit." Cost of the luncheon is $25. Registration deadline is Sept. 11.
Know before you go: Is the cinema dead?
Movies are more popular than ever, yet movie theatres struggle to fill empty seats. Between DVDs and iPods, watching film has become an isolated experience. Dr. Charles Tepperman, Film Studies Professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture, discusses the impact of movie viewing technologies and asks: Why did we stop going to the movies and what do we lose when we don't watch together? It's a public talk at on September 19 at 7pm in the Outdoor Resource Centre, 1111 Memorial Drive NW.
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Three Markin-Flanagan readingsThe Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Program celebrates incoming Canadian writer-in-residence Sina Queyras (at left) and outgoing Canadian writer-in-residence Jaspreet Singh with a free public reading on September 13. Queyras reads from her award-winning collection of poetry, Lemon Head, and her new novel, and Singh reads from a selection of work written during his residency. Engineered Air Theatre, EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts, 205 8th Avenue SE. No RSVP is necessary but seating is limited. A book signing and reception follow the reading. The Markin-Flanagan program also presents a free public reading from Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright, Derek Walcott, on September 26 at 7:30pm. Walcott comes to Calgary as the 2007 Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Visiting Writer and reads from a selection of his work at the Rozsa Centre at the U of C. No RSVP is necessary but seating is limited. A book signing and reception follow. |
Speaker series brings innovation to life
University Technology Inc.'s seminar series will examine the pathway to commercialization and its potential impact on the broader community. Seminars will be held Sept. 26 (Mel Wong, Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, and Doug Maley, Western Economic Diversification), Oct. 10 (Dr. Kevin Casement, UTI and U of C researcher), Oct. 24 (Dr. Sabina Bruehlmann & Dr. George Shimizu, U of C) and Nov. 7 (Paul Cataford, UTI, Greg Ogrodnick, UTI, Cedric Bisson, MSBi Capital, Steven Koles, Hemisphere GPS, and Rick Rateick, Honeywell) from noon to 1:30pm at the MacEwan Hall conference centre. Seminars are free and open to the public by RSVPing to (403) 270-2432. Lunch is provided.
Women and wellness
From surviving financially in Calgary's economic boom to enriching your life through coaching, the Women and Wellness Conference celebrates the diverse challenges in the lives of this city's female population. The conference will feature three keynotes: Dr. John DeMartini, one of the teachers of "The Secret," Roxanne Kielburger with Free the Children and co-founder of Leaders Today, and breast cancer survivor Dr. Marla Shapiro of Balance: Television for Living Well. It takes place at the Round-Up Centre on October 28. Cost is $25, including three keynotes, two workshops, coffee and lunch. Registration will be available after mid-September.
For more events, go to http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/
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