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Gy CONTENTS
DR i ueelys
SERVING THE QUEEN’S COMMUNITY SINCE 1927 UNIVERSITY
COVER STORY 2 EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK
8 ENGAGING THE WORLD
3 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Queen’s Principal Karen Hitchcock has
unveiled a bold new strategic plan that 7 CAMPUS GAZETTE
will guide the University through the
coming decade and beyond.
FEATURE REPORTS
14 GLORIOUS AND FREE: aa
INSIDE THE BUSINESS OF WHIG-S
Nobel Prize winner delivers Dunning Trust
DEMOCRACY PROMOTION
Lecture, V-P (Advancement) George Hood
A quiet flowering of democratic ideals
retires, and much more.
is underway in various nations, and the
Queen’s-based Centre for the Study of CAMPUS SCENES
PBBCYLHE AORRTNKOA RD
Democracy is emerging as an important 10 Meet Leslie Dal Cin, the University’s new
player in the process. Chair of Athletics and Recreation
48 The club for reluctant members
BY ANNE KERSHAW
12 EUREKA!
16 KICKING THE TIRES
Updates on some of the fascinating and
ON A POSSIBLE NEW
noteworthy research that’s underway at
ELECTORAL SYSTEM
Queen’s.
Have you heard about the work of the
Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform? 24 KEEPING IN TOUCH
No? Well, some Queen’s people are ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTS
deeply involved in this historic Ontario 23 Elon Musk, Artsci’94
government initiative, which could have 33 Madeleine Hague, Artsci’78
a profound impact on how we
34 Dr. John O'Driscoll, Artsci’84, Meds’85
choose our elected officials.
35 Brendan Connor, Artsci’81
BY ALEG ROSS PSBIYUHH COUWTTAOT, ERST4O0CK Cyril Dabydeen, MA’74, MPA’75, Michael
Crummey, MA’89, and George Elliott
22 FIXING THE TROUBLE WITH HUBBLE
Clarke, PhD’93
Review Associate Editor Heather Grace chats with NASA astronaut
42 Lenna Bradburn, MPA’90
Andrew Feustel, PhD’95, who’s one of the crew members on the
upcoming mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. 46 Stacey Berdan, Ed’00
50 ELECTIONS 2007
Your guide to the candidates and your
ballot for the Board of Trustees and
University Council elections.
56 AT THE BRANCHES
58 ALUMNI BULLETIN BOARD
60 THE LAST WORD
“The decline of Queen’s spirit,”
by John Meisel, LLD’96
TBSWO IYTL EDP HEN
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CPONFOAH SUOART TOE SY DON’T FORGET TO...
NASA astronauts last worked on the Hubble Space Telescope in 2002.
Don’t forget to cast your ballot in Election
Now Queen’s alumnus Andrew Feustel has been chosen to be a member of a team
that next year will undertake repairs to the 11,000 kg astronomical instrument, For details, please see p. 50 or visit
which has been orbiting earth since April 1990. www.queensu.ca/secretariat/election
EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK ueens
ALUMNI REVIEW
[email protected]
What are the
www.alumnireview.queensu.ca
limits of free speech? ISSUE #1, 2007
VOL. 81, NO. 1
EDITOR
Ken Cuthbertson, Artsci’74, Law’83
‘n ever cease to be amazed by the decided not to publish the letter in EDITOR EMERITA
Letters to the Editor that arrive in my question. To do so would have served Catherine Perkins, Arts’58
mailbox. The range of opinions — on no useful purpose, and publishing it KEEPING-IN-TOUCH NOTES EDITOR
Sarah Withrow
everything from the Henry Report on would have given the writer’s anti-
campus diversity, to the merits of dif- Semitic opinions an unwarranted and ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Heather Grace Stewart, Artsci’95
ferent varieties of sheep’s wool (no, unwise air of legitimacy. What's more,
AT THE BRANCHES EDITORS
really!) — is endlessly fascinating. But even the freedoms of speech and intel- Liz Gorman, Sc’97, Deborah Shea
every so often a missive arrives that lectual inquiry, so fundamental to our Carla Ferreira, Artsci’02
stops me cold. society and to a liberal university such PROOFREADER
Marjorie Bousfield, Artsci’78, Ed’04
That happened last fall, when an eld- as Queen’s, have their limits. Or should
erly German-born alumna wrote to com- they? ART DIRECTOR
Larry Harris,
plain about Homecoming Weekend stu- At the end of the day, the specifics Queen’s Marketing and Communications
dent conduct on Aberdeen Street. What of this particular letter aren’t important.
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
upset her was a quote in a Review article What is important and what intrigues AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
in which the speaker compared rowdy me are two much larger questions: one Anne Kershaw
students to “drunken Hitler Youth.” The is the nature of historical “truth” in an ADVERTISING COORDINATOR
Ying Gilbert
letter writer found that comment ex- increasingly digitalized world where Phone: [phone] ext. 75464
tremely offensive. The unexpected twist reality can be altered with the click of E-mail: [email protected]
in her argument was that she claimed to a computer mouse. The other is the EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
have been a member of the Hitler Youth matter of what topics, if any, should Heather Armstrong, Artsci’92
Tara Mansbridge, Artsci’98
in the 1930s, and protested, “We never be “off-limits” for serious discussion. Greg McArthur, Artsci’03
drank or behaved as badly as Queen’s When told we wouldn’t be publishing Marissa Nelson, Artsi’99
Richard Powers, Artsci/PHE’78,
students!” My reaction to all of this was his letter, our Holocaust doubter com- MBA’83, Law’86
to shake my head and smile. plained, “If the ‘Holocaust’ [sic] was the Robert Renaud, Com’96
Siobhan Roberts, Artsci’94
Alas, I couldn’t take the same light- central issue in the War, as portrayed by
THE QUEEN’S ALUMNI REVIEW
hearted approach to a letter I received the media and education system, surely
(circ. 103,000), published four times
the other day from a reader in Ottawa. the details should be as worthy of dis- annually, is a member of the
Council for the Advancement
This alumnus, a member of Arts’49, cussion and debate as, say, the terror
and Support of Education.
wrote to question the historical accura- bombing of Dresden, massacres in Subscriptions free to alumni,
$25 CDN/year for others.
cy of Prof. Gordon Dueck’s article, “The Africa, and the Armenian tragedy.”
Opinions expressed
truth in a simple woolen cap” (Issue #3- He makes an interesting point. in the Review are not necessarily
2006, p. 18). I say he questioned the What do you think about this matter? those of Queen’s University
Alumni Association.
“historical accuracy” of the Dueck arti- What — if any — limits should be placed
2006-2007 QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY
cle, but what I really mean is that he on “free speech” and debate in our let-
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT
disputed its essence. The letter came ters pages and at a University? Did we Dan Rees, Com’92, Artsci’93
from the pen of a Holocaust “doubter,” do the right thing in not publishing the THE MISSION OF THE
someone who questions the “Jewish- Holocaust doubter’s opinions? Your QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
ness” of the Holocaust and whether the comments are welcome. — K.C. “To reach out and foster a lifelong
Nazis really did systematically slaugh- association with Queen’s, to engage our
members in the life and work of the
ter more than six million Jews. ATTENTION AMATEUR University, and to serve the alumni
I was puzzled by this. Being a histo- SHUTTERBUGS. community in all its diversity.”
ry major in my undergrad years at The Review and the ISSN # 0843-8048
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2 ISSUE 7 2007 * QUEEN’S ALUMNI REVIEW
Ep LETTERS
trary, with many donors simply saying, “strike a balance between quotas and
“Put the funds to work where they’ll do incentive-driven initiatives.” Of course
the most good.” universities are actually in the business
So I dispute the conclusions reached of ideas. So what really matters and
by Samantha King based both on that what we really need is a mandated di-
experience (and) other fund raising versity of ideas, including political per-
campaigns and as a decision-maker on spectives. Perhaps we should start with
an annual-donations budget sponsored the faculties of Arts and Science and
ll \)
mee | by the partners of my firm that totals Law at Queen’s.
“— a 4 several hundred thousand dollars. What percentage of Queen’s profes-
Also, I believe the very success of the sors in these areas do we honestly think
DISPUTING THE PINK RIBBON Breast Cancer campaign is contributing vote Tory as opposed to something fur-
RESEARCH CONCLUSIONS to a level of donor fatigue. It has be- ther to the political left? Let’s be unreal-
Re: “Pink ribbons go corporate,” come a rolling, unending solicitation istically generous and put it at 15 per
ISSUE #4, 2006, P. 20 process starting in our community in cent. That's still far, far below the num-
the late winter/early spring and rolling ber of Canadians who vote Tory.
ih ave a different perspective than Dr. through summer and fall events. Some No doubt the Principal and her top
King on the more general comments events require partici- Or advisors will be tak-
she has made, (regarding) and they fall pants to meet a mini- Is GA lthough Queen’s did not get ing immediate steps
in two categories: overexposure of the mum donation target adverse national publicity this to hire only those
breast cancer cause; and corporate do- to be welcome at the year, why are the students on on the right of the
nations. event. The conse- Aberdeen allowed to hold the political spectrum,
As a past Chair of the Alberta Chil- quence to the public University to ransom and force it in order “to foster
dren’s Hospital Foundation, I had the at large is that we are to incur extra costs to maintain an institutional cul-
privilege of sitting on its Board of Direc- now getting multiple some semblance of order? This ture that favours di-
tors for more than a decade. We recently asks for this worthy is disgusting! § 9 versity on campus.”
successfully completed a capital cam- cause ... rapidly lead- CARMAN CHISAMORE SC’57, Meantime, I think I
paign raising more than $50 million fo- ing to “over-flogging” SCARBOROUGH,ON might institute my
cused on “excellence” related programs of the cause. I should own version of the
and associated physical asset purchases add that my wife and I are annual con- Henry Report and start donating my
(although the majority of the funds tributors to the Breast Cancer campaign money on a quota and incentive-driven
raised were directed to non-physical as well as to the Tom Baker Cancer Cen- basis, rather than on anything related to
asset investments). Donors included in- tre in Calgary; and so despite my criti- merit or underlying excellence.
dividuals, local corporations and na- cisms, we believe these causes are very JAMES ALLAN, ARTS’82, LAW’85
tional and North American corpora- worthy of our support. BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA
tions. There were a number of I have seen no “corporate meddling”
The writer is Garrick Professor of Law, Uni-
million-dollar donations from both indi- in the directing of dollars donated to the
versity of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
viduals and corporations. causes I’ve been associated with; in fact,
The areas to which the funds went it’s quite the contrary. Second, I believe STi
were determined entirely by the staff of that the Breast Cancer campaign is now
the Alberta Children’s Hospital (ACH), in danger of overexposure. Maybe the LET’S COMPARE APPLES TO
in consultation with professional and Pink Ribbon trademark should be more APPLES
support staff at the hospital, the Calgary carefully guarded and managed as a Re: “An end to special privilege,”
Health Region and the U of Calgary. symbol of the Breast Cancer cause. ISSUE #4, 2006, P. 5
Donors were offered a choice of pro-
IAN BRUCE, ARTSCI'76
grams to put their donations towards, CALGARY, AB L:: A. Airth comments: “Kirk Ceder-
including sponsored University Re- berg’s vitriolic letter illustrates most
In fact, the pink ribbon logo is not trade-
search Chairs, distance outreach pro- effectively the absolute need for the im-
marked. — Ed.
grams, telehealth, preventive health plementation of the recommendations
programs, etc. The common theme was of the Henry Study.”
they had to be focused on excellence IS MANDATED POLITICAL Upon reading the Cederberg letter, |
and it could not be a “soft” form of tax- DIVERSITY NEXT? find a person who sees political correct-
ation, displacing costs that should be Re: “Making Queen’s a better ness pushing out intellectual honesty; in
borne by provincial funding. place,” this, he’s passionate. Sometimes you
Not one donor asked us to spend his ISSUE #3-2006, P. 14 need “vitriol,” which is caustic, to cut
or her donation in an area or target that through the rust that sometimes accu-
had not been generated by the ACH. My Wi: a splendid idea the Henry mulates on the minds of “ivory tower
point is, no corporate donor told us Report sets out. By all means administrators,” and inhibits their abi
what to do. In fact, it was quite the con- let’s mandate diversity, aiming to ty to think.
QUEEN‘’S ALUMNI REVIEW °*
In other letters, it’s mentioned that which is available on-line at
13 per cent of people in Canada self- www.gne.queensu.ca. — Ed.
identify as being members of a visible
minority (vis min) while 26 per cent at
PIT BULL ANALOGY ILL-INFORMED
Queen’s so identify themselves. The Re-
Re: “The Tories’ tricolour pit bull,”
view editor notes that vis mins are con-
ISSUE 4, 2006, P. 24.
centrated in a few major cities such as
JS OURNAL
Toronto. He then says that the universi-
W': I read Hugh Winsor’s arti-
ties in Toronto have a higher number of QUEEN cle on John Baird, apparently
vis mins than does Queen’s. given its title by the Review editor, | was
Well, if we’re going to cite the num-
alarmed and saddened.
ber of vis mins at schools in areas such
It’s bad enough for Winsor to use the
as Toronto as seemingly being a func-
SSMCHA'IY07VE.RA , ill-informed metaphor of a fine type of
tion of location where the vis-min popu- The mood was festive and there were no major dog as a colourful, catch-phrase image
lation is high, then we have to look at problems on Aberdeen Street on the Saturday
for a nasty, aggressive person, but it’s en-
night of Homecoming ‘06.
the vis-min population of Kingston to
tirely unacceptable for a journal with in-
see how that population is reflected at
tellectual pretensions often obsessed
Queen’s. I would guess that the percent- IT’S TIME TO CURE “THE DISEASE”
with issues of prejudice and political cor-
age of vis mins at Queen’s is vastly
rectness to perpetuate this sort of tripe.
higher than it is in Kingston. I: just read the Review news article
TERENCE COTTRELL, MA’86
Getting back to Kirk Cederberg, I about Homecoming’06. Apparently,
KINGSTON, ON
agree with his intent and his method. the author is confusing “symptoms”
When you're dealing with a creeping with “disease.” The writer is a former president of the
variation of neo-fascism, then an as- It only took 250+ police officers from Kingston Humane Society. — Ed.
sertive and vigorous response is called three different forces to subdue “the
for. To approach this from another symptoms.” There were in excess of 250 BAIRD WAS “RUSTY,” NOT
angle, the Empresses of PC, and their offences and 58 people were jailed. That “CURLY”
supporters, have no clothes. And those is “the disease.”
of us who have noticed this should not I must be getting old and out of
n his article on John Barid, Hugh
be cowed into silence by “groupthink”, touch with the latest expectations of Winsor quotes me “as one of Baird’s
but should have the courage to speak university students, but I find this be- teachers in grade seven”. Unfortunately,
out about their naked aggression. haviour unacceptable. Sorry Queen’s, Hugh must have misread his notes
but by any measure these gatherings are
PETER NAZWASKI, ARTS‘65 when he wrote that John’s former nick-
MISSISSAUGA, ON nothing more than drunken orgies. name at the time was “Curly”. John was
They’re damaging to the reputation of
known as “Rusty,” not “Curly,” during
POLICING MONEY COULD BE the University. They’re an insult to the his years in elementary and secondary
BETTER SPENT citizens of Kingston, and they’re mak- school. In the interests of accuracy,
Re: “Homecoming’06 relatively ing me ashamed to admit that I gradu- would you kindly make this correction
quiet,” ated from Queen’s. known?
ISSUE #4-2006, P. 10 It’s time to cure the disease. Pay the As a former teacher and a longtime
police costs. Assess the student body for friend, I am always pleased to read of
a Review describes Homecoming the costs. Publish the names of those John’s commitment to public service
‘06 as being relatively quiet, but at charged and arrested. Let peer pressure and the political process. Thank you for
what cost to Queen’s or the City? work its way through the student body. providing this profile of his success.
I’m very upset that officers from Expel those who are found guilty of
KAY STANLEY
Kingston, the OPP, and Toronto were the charges laid, and publish their OTTAWA, ON
needed to maintain “a relatively quiet names.
Homecoming.” The costs of the extra Should there be a repeat of this year’s Hugh Winsor comments: “Kay Stanley is
police officers could be put to much bet- gathering, Homecoming should be can- right. I think it was a slip of the memory,
ter use in furthering educational priori- celled for a few years. Otherwise, and (Baird) does look more like a ‘Curly’
than a ‘Rusty’.” — Ed.
ties at the University. Although Queen’s Queen’s will become known as Drunk U.
did not get adverse national publicity
ROLAND WHITE, SC’54
this year, why are the students on Ab- FONTHILL, ON UNCALLED FOR EDITORIAL
erdeen allowed to hold the University COMMENT?
The University has agreed to pay the City of
to ransom and force it to incur extra
Kingston $100,000 as its contribution to the
costs to maintain some semblance of B: used to reading the centre-left
costs of policing Homecoming’06. For more
order? This is disgusting! orthodox opinions in the Alumni
on this story, please see p.3 of the December
Review, I was a little surprised to see a
CARMAN CHISAMORE, SC’57
11, 2006 edition of the Queen's Gazette,
SCARBOROUGH, ON profile of Conservative cabinet minister
4 issue 1, 2007 + QUEEN’S ALUMNI REVIEW
and ‘92 Queen’s grad John Baird ina re- those priorities are.” Hugh Winsor heading back to our base after a morn-
cent issue. Moreover, I thought the pro- would do better by his readers to keep ing jaunt. We were on a single-track
file was readable and informative. But I his personal political views to himself. road, in the middle of Scotland, on a
couldn’t help but laugh at the parting MARIO JELIC, SC’91, MBA ‘96 Sunday afternoon. Suddenly, and with-
ideological shot that writer Hugh Win- OAKVILLE, ON out warning, the van’s engine died. We
sor left us with at the end of the article: were able, luckily, to get the van off the
Since the Review published Hugh Winsor’s
“The future of his leader and his party road, but now what to do?
article, John Baird has a new job. When
will depend on whether he has made We were only a mile or so from our
the right assessment of what those pri- Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced base and so son Andrew, Artsci’84,
a cabinet shuffle on January 4, he moved
orities are.” stood by the roadside to flag down the
How does the future of the Conser- Baird — whom Tory insiders in Ottawa have next motorist so two of our party could
dubbed “Mr. Fix-It” — into the high-profile,
vative party or Stephen Harper depend go home for some help. After (we had a
high-pressure Environment portfolio. ~ Ed.
on Baird’s assessment of Tory policies? considerable wait, a vehicle hove into
And what does the future of either have view, slowed down and stopped. The
to do with a profile of a Queen’s grad?. WHO WAS THAT MYSTERIOUS window went down. A small world was
I’m sure if the profile were of a top en- SCOTSMAN? about to become smaller.
gineer working for XYZ Corporation, “Ye look like ye could do with some
the article wouldn’t end with “the fu- I:A ugust-September my family, some help.”
ture of the company and CEO Micheal friends, and I spent a glorious few We explained the situation.
Jones will depend on whether he has weeks in Scotland. Just before we were “Och, I'll be glad tae help out. Ye’d
made the right assessment of what due to come home, four of us were be Americans then?”
THE “TRICK” TO GREEN POWER wind-farms still tend to fascinate trav- The unfortunate discovery that
Re: They have seen the wind, elers and visitors, but as a constant wind turbines are killing bats at rates
ISSUE 2, 2006, P. 22 presence, they may become an eye- that could threaten the survival of
sore. New wind turbines some species and the health of the
I: always wonderful to have been improved great- ecosystems they support, has resulted
hear that new ly from the earliest versions in Bat Conservation International (BCI
businesses are considering by finding ways to reduce — www.batcon.org ), along with the
being “green” in the busi- the noise associated with Bats and Wind Energy Cooperative
ness decisions they make. them — whether or not cur- (BWEC), conducting research to dis-
But harkening back to rent noise levels are accept- cover the safest places to locate wind
Newton's Third Law, we able would need to be de- farms and to develop devices or strate-
need to keep in mind that termined by local residents gies for keeping bats away from spin-
we'll never be able to ex- who would live with this ning blades.
tract energy from our plan- condition. If Ian Baines, Sc’74, MSc’76, and
et’s environment without Wind turbines have been Samit Sharma, MBA’02, are truly con-
PBKMYEHU VORITPNOH Y
impacting it in some way. Daphne Murphy shown to impact the micro- cerned about the environment and
The trick to being green climate around each one wish their wind power facilities to
is to determine in what ways we will and the local climate of the area. If support a green and growing economy,
impact the environment and then to de- such farms are placed in close proximi- I urge them to join with organizations
termine ways to minimize that impact. ty, they could have a much larger im- conducting research into better and
Wind-powered electricity is certain- pact on climate over a larger area. Con- more environmentally friendly designs
ly a step in the right direction by not siderations should be given to size, and techniques and to adopt modifica-
contributing to climate change, smog, location, and placement with respect to tions on new developments and retro-
acid rain, and other atmospheric pollu- other wind farms before new construc- fit when and where possible.
tants. However, it inherently will have tions begin. And the impacts of wind By adopting a philosophy of pro-
some impacts on the environment we turbines on animals are only beginning gressive environmental development
so care about and cherish. to be understood. Many new turbines as a cornerstone of their company,
I can immediately think of five en- have a far-reduced impact on birds they'll ensure that the green aspect of
vironmental impacts that can and than the earlier versions, and practices the company remains for future gener-
should be considered by any energy such as feathering of the blades to keep ations. That’s a company that would
firm wishing to consider itself green. them still during periods of low wind impress me, and I’m sure the scores of
Two of them I can’t speak to, as I’m can add to this success. New discover- environmentally minded citizens of
not a resident of the area in which the ies may reduce their impact even fur- the local, greater Queen’s, and pro-
new “farm” is proposed. ther. But (impacts on) other animals are gressive global communities.
Being relatively new and few, far less understood. DAPHNE (SYME) MURPHY, ARTSCI'90
REGINA, SK
QUEEN'S ALUMNI REVIEW *
“No, Canadians.” FOND MEMORIES OF BERNIE in front, see pg. 27). It’s me, W. S. Chown
“Weel, now, I live in Ottawa.” BURGESS — U14720, as per naval records. I gradu-
“Ottawa? Ontario? Canada?” Re: “Remembering Bernie ated in Chemical Engineering.
“Aye. I was born and raised in Blair- Burgess,” That group in the photo is the draft,
gowrie, but emigrated several years ISSUE #3-2006, PP. 30-31 uniformed in the “round rig,” with
ago. I come back every year tae see fam- shiny boots, headed for Halifax by train
ily and friends.” Wissf irst time I met Bernie Burgess it for two weeks of training at sea.
“Really! We live in Kingston.” was in the old Students’ Memorial The training during the school year
“T know it well. My daughter went Union building. I didn’t know who he was every Monday night, 7-10 pm, at
to Queen’s.” was. We chatted over lunch, and I was HMCS Cataraqui for four years. (Guess
I went to Queen’s. My wife Jean impressed. This was in 1941 or 1942. what that did to the study schedule?) I
(Millward), Arts’60, went to Queen’s. The second time I met Bernie, it was don’t remember the names of any of the
Two of our children went to Queen’s. 10 years later, at the Pulp and Paper others, but I recognize some of the faces.
And here we were, in the middle of the Building on Uni- Thanks for the picture. It revives
Scottish countryside on a ‘B’ road ona versity Avenue in many good memories. The University
Sunday afternoon, and “the Queen’s Montreal. I was Naval Training Division (UNTD) expe-
connection” appeared as if by magic. there for a job in- rience was an excellent one. I met many
Perhaps the mysterious standing stones, terview with university students from across Canada,
not far away, were at work! Bernie and Fred was “on draft” to Halifax twice (in 1947
All went well except we neglected to Stevens, who and 1948), for two weeks sea time each
get our Good Samaritan’s name, and so were vice-presi- time, and then was stationed in Es-
this is an appeal. If you are a female dents of the Pulp quimalt, BC, at the naval base there for
graduate, class of 85, living and work- and Paper Re- four months in 1949 and in 1950, during
ing in London, Ontario, and your father search Institute of which time I got to Portland, Oregon,
comes from Blairgowrie, but lives and Canada (which for the rose festival (HMCS Ontario had
Norman Poyser
works in Ottawa, we'd like to be in later changed its a float in the parade), Monterey, Califor-
touch with your father. Please contact name to Paprican). Initially, I didn’t re- nia; the Queen Charlotte Islands, and
the Review. call Bernie. The light only went on for points between.
me as I was leaving the interview. I finished my UNTD days with a
DAVID CRUICKSHANK, MA’71
WOLFE ISLAND, ON As things turned out, I got the job commission as Sub.-Lieutenant RCNR.
re and I worked for 30 years at Paprican in Many of the UNTD grads went into the
mL aia
many areas, first at the office on McGill RCN as full-time careers and con-
campus for 10 years, before I went to tributed considerably to the Canadian
the Point Claire facility, where I was in- naval establishment. Others continued
volved in the scientific measurement of actively in the reserve and increased
colour and pulp and paper analysis. their experience and rank that way.
None of this would have been possi- It’s unfortunate that this program
ble without the scientific training I re- was phased out some time ago, as it pro-
ceived during my student years at vided many of us with a view of Canada
3 F =) Queen’s. we might not otherwise have seen,
fa ah Sohail Bernie Burgess was an extraordinary meeting people from all parts of the
JCERAUNI CKSHANK
That's David Cruickshank {in the wheelchair) in person. I’m so happy to have read Sarah country, and living with and getting to
Scotland with son (l-r) Robin Cruickshank, Jane Dumbrille’s article. know them during our training periods.
daughter Julie Cruickshank, Artsci’90, her son
It also gave the country a back-up group
Quinn (age 2, Queen's 20247), family friend NORMAN POYSER, MEDS’45
Damon Kaller, and son Andrew Cruickshank, VANKLEEK HILL, ON of reserve officers available for call-up, if
Artsci’85. Jean Cruickshank took the photo. needed, in a national emergency.
The writer studied medicine at Queen's be-
WILLIAM CHOWN, SC’50
fore joining the army for a three-year stint.
BRICKBATS OR BOUQUETS? RENFREW, ON
After that, he worked in the antibiotics divi-
THE REVIEW AND REVIEW PLUS WELCOME sion at the Merck pharmaceutical company.
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almost mythic figures of the latter
half of the 20th century who’ve
spent a lifetime speaking out against e Brean, Francis B., a member of
the football Golden Gaels’
violence, repression and racism, for
coaching staff (2001-2005), died
which he received the Nobel Prize
on November 4 in Kingston
for Peace in 1986.”
from cancer, age 63.
CLOOFE AU,R TESY Hospice Club e Carmichael, Dr. John, MD’53,
longtime member of the
involvement changes
Department of Obstetrics and
student lives
Gynecology and former member
TKWHIHENI GGS-TSOTNA NDARD of the University Senate (1990-
For Ariel Le Huquet, Artsci’05, a
93), died December 13 in
Nobel Prize winner hospice is more than just a place for
Kingston at age 78
delivers Dunning the terminally ill. Last September,
e Hopwood, Robert, Emeritus
the second-year graduate student in
Trust Lecture Professor (History), died
respiratory physiology started the
November 9 in Kingston after a
An overflow crowd of students, Queen’s Hospice Club after spend-
lengthy illness, age 77.
faculty, staff, and alumni filled the ing time with patients in hospices,
atrium of Stauffer Library to hear an experience that she found mov- e Richardson, Jean, BA’35,
Assistant Registrar from 1935 to
Holocaust survivor and Nobel ing. “It is such a positive experi-
1965, died December 3, 2006, in
Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel de- ence,” she said. “I’d love for more
Kingston at age 93. (For more
liver the 2006 Chancellor Dunning Queen’s students to get involved.
details, please see Keeping in
Trust Lecture. Wiesel’s personal ex- For me, it’s been life changing,
Touch, p. 27.)
periences have led him to use work and I think it would be for other
as a writer, educator, and storyteller students as well.”
to defend human rights and peace The club, which brings student coming Weekend in 2005. “I found
throughout the world. Education volunteers into programs at that after the Aberdeen [Street]
professor Iain Munro, MEd’79, Kingston’s Hospice Palliative Care party, a lot of people made general-
chair of the Senate Committee on and St. Mary’s of the Lake, sprung izations about the students based
Creative Arts and Public Lectures, from an idea Le Huquet had after on the attitudes at that party,” she
describes Wiesel as “one of those witnessing the aftermath of Home- Continued on page 54
V-P Hood retires
Nye rencrel (Advancement) George Hood, Artsci’78, we deeply appreci-
MPA’81, has retired from the University. Hood, who was ate,” she says. “The
appointed in 1998, has left to pursue new interests and chal- entire university com-
lenges. “The time was right [for me] to leave,” Hood explains. munity owes him a
“When I began my second term as vice-principal, I indicated to debt of gratitude for
the Principal that I intended to retire close to the mid-point of his efforts.”
my term.” Dean of Applied
Hood says he’s proud that under his leadership, the Office Science Tom Harris,
of Advancement succeeded in surpassing its fundraising tar- Sce’75, who worked
gets for eight straight years. In addition, Hood led the Cam- with Hood on various
paign for Queen’s, which raised $262 million — $62 million projects over the last Nea
above target — and was the most successful capital campaign in eight years, echoes % CUTHBERTSON
the University’s history. He also helped launch the largest capi- the Principal’s com-
tal renewal ever at Queen’s (which resulted in construction of ments. “George was a
Chernoff, Goodes, and Beamish Munro halls and the Cancer great strategic thinker
PHC
Research Institute), and steered the University’s successful and his enduring lega- After eight years on the job,
V-P (Advancement) George Hood has
SuperBuild Growth Fund effort, which yielded $52 million in cy will be the organi-
stepped down to pursue other interests
provincial government funding, the largest single infrastruc- zation that he leaves
ture infusion Queen’s has received from the province. behind,” Harris says. “He loves Queen’s, and everything he
Principal Karen Hitchcock has praised Hood for his many did was to make this a better institution.”
accomplishments and dedication. “George has made an out- The formal search process to find Hood’s successor is no
standing contribution to Queen’s during his time here, which underway.
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PRINCIPAL’S
ENGAGING
Abt
followin g mon th. |
i: my Installation Address, I
asked everyone involved with
Queen’s to accompany me on a
journey into the University’s future
—a journey that would reflect our
commitment to renewal, build on
our strengths and engage our
many constituencies.
The roadmap for this journey is
a new Strategic plan for Queen’s, a
framework to guide our major de-
liberations and decisions for the
BCPBYLEH AORRTNnKOA e RDx t decade. Engaging the World is
the culmination of many months’ work. It began as a discus-
arait strategic plar JO, beginning a sion paper that I drafted and released in September 2005 to
{ round of consultation. The input received over serve as the basis for widespread consultation with the
Queen’s community. Throughout this process, specific
; themes emerged: a shared commitment to certain fundamen-
a See oe le tal values and principles; the need to determine our institu-
incipals, as well as addition cussions with faculty tional size and enrolment profile; the need to increase our
f 1d alumn any campus faculty complement; strategic strengthening and expanding
of our research programs and graduate education; our com-
mitment to diversity and equity and sustainability; our role
SeNJ e\ R eae cla eu oer as a national resource; and our impact on the global stage.
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