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TH E MAGA ZI N E OF QU EEN"S U N IVERSIT Y, KI NGSTON, ONTAR IOW W W.ALU M N I R EVI EW.QU EENSU.CAISSUE 3, 2013

Boot camp for student innovatorsA view at the end of life

The little biological research station that grew

QUBS

Thank you to our sponsors:

Each weekend includes

October 4-6

for reunions of the classes of

1968, 1978, 1988, 1998, and 2008

Featuring special 25th anniversary programming for the class of

1988, Department of Enersary celebration,

and a reunion of the 1978 Vanier Cup Gaels football team.Queen"s Bands parade

Home football game and half-time parade

Various faculty, school, and departmental events

Variety of Gaels sporting events

Movies in the Square

Career networking event

Student research showcase

Queen"s Gives Back alumni-student charity event

Queen"s and Kingston scavenger hunt

Tours of new campus facilities and more!

Register for your Queen

s Homecoming!

October 18-20

for reunions of the classes of the Tricolour Guard (1940-1963), 1973, 1983, 1993, and 2003 Featuring special programming for the members of the Tricolour Guard, a 50th anniversary welcome to the class of 1963 into the Tricolour Guard, a 45th anniversary reunion of AIESEC, 25th anniversary reunion of QIAA, plus Gaels All-Sport Homecoming events and a School of Music SHOWCASE. Contact us at reunions@queensu.ca or call 1.800.267.7837 (toll-free in Canada and the U.S.) 2013

HOMECOMING

queensu.ca/homecoming2013

Welcome home to Queen

s alumni celebrating a reunion in 2013. 1

C O N T E N T S

2EDITOR"S NOTEBOOK

3LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

O

PINION

6"Down to the sea with a history PhD"

8FROM THE DESK OF THE PRINCIPAL

10QUID NOVI?

News from campus.

SOME CAMPUS SCENES

17"Putting Vimy on solid ground"

18"Greece enlightening"

20"Boot camp for student innovators"

25HOMECOMING"13 UPDATE

GRACE"S GRADS

26Dr. Balfour Mount, Meds"63, LLD"02

ALUMNI BOOKSHELF

40New books by Debra Komar, MSc"96,

Iain Reid, Artsci"04, and Marina Adshade,

MA"98, PhD"08

46AT THE BRANCHES

48QUAA PRESIDENT"S MESSAGE

50QUAA UPDATE

"A Queen"s oasis in the Far East"

55KEEPING IN TOUCH

70ALUMNI BULLETIN BOARD

s71FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE

NEWSLETTER

76"AND ONE MORE THING ..."

"A view at the end of life"

ISSUE #3, 2013

VOLUME 87, NUMBER 3

SERVING THE QUEEN"S COMMUNITY SINCE 1927

C O V E R S T O R Y

28QUBS

Boosted by a generous donation

from alumni Laurie Thomson,

Artsci"84, and her husband

Andy Chisholm, Com"81,

(right),Queen"s has entered into a partnership with the

Nature Conservancy of

Canada to grow

QUBS- one of North America"s premier scientific field stations.

By Wayne Grady

F E AT U R E R E P O R T

32TAKING EDUCATION IN

NEW DIRECTIONS

Queen"s is broadening its academic scope

with a new Indigenous Studies program and enhanced educational opportunities for Aboriginal students

By lindy mechefske

QUEEN"S UNIVERSITY MARKETING

A dancer performs a "Fancy Dance" at a ????

Four Directions Aboriginal Centre pow-wow. Stephen Poloz, Artsci"?? PLUSA special newsletter insert for Chemistry grads Q U E E N "S U N I V E R S I T Y M A R K E T I N G

36STILL AT THE

HEAD OF THE

ECONOMICS

CLASS

For the third time in

the Bank of Canada"s

78-year history, a

Queen"s graduate

has been appointed its Governor, one of this country"s most important and influential economic jobs.

By Hugh Winsor,

Arts"61

Stephen Turliuk,

Sc"?? boot-camp

participant

MEGHAN BRUNNERCOURTESY OF THE BANK OF CANADA

COVER PHOTO

QUBS staff(l-r)Frank Phelan, Kait Pasic,

Carolyn Banta, and Stephen Lougheed

QUEEN"S UNIVERSITY MARKETING

HOMECOMING 2013

queensu.ca/homecoming2013

2I S S U E 3 ,2 0 1 3 ¥ Q U E E N " SA L U M N IR E V I E W

E D I T O R " S N O T E B O O K

VOLUME 87, NO. 3, 2013

review@queensu.ca w ww.alumnireview.queensu.ca

EDITOR

Ken Cuthbertson, Artsci"74, Law"83

EDITOR EMERITA

Catherine Perkins, Arts"58

KEEPING IN TOUCH (KIT) EDITOR

Andrea Gunn, MPA"07

ART DIRECTOR

Larry Harris, University Marketing

ASSOCIATE DESIGNER (KIT)

Wilma van Wyngaarden

STAFF CONTRIBUTORS

Liz Gorman, Sc"97

Michael Onesi

EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS

Lindy Mechefske

H eather Grace Stewart, Artsci"95

ADVERTISING COORDINATOR

Peter Gillespie, Artsci"01

Phone: 613.533.6000 ext. 75464

Email: advert@queensu.ca

THE QUEEN"S ALUMNI REVIEW

(circ. 123,000), published quarterly by

University Communications, is a member

of the Council for the Advancement and

Support of Education. Subscriptions free

to alumni, $25 cdn/year for others. Opinions expressed in the Revieware not necessarily those of Queen"s University or of the QUAA.

ISSN# 0843-8048

QUEEN"S UNIVERSITY

CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER

Michael Fraser

2011-2013 QUEEN"S UNIVERSITY

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT

Jess Joss, Artsci"96

THE MISSION OF THE QUAA

"To reach out and foster a lifelong association with Queen"s, to engage our members in the life and work of the University, and to serve the alumni community in all its diversity."

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Happy returns?

H ere at Queen"s, preparations are underway for the start of another academic year. The campus soon will once again pulsate with youthful energy as the Class of 2017 begins arriving. Most frosh, who are 17 or 18 years old, were born in the twilight of the 20th century.

To them, the 9/11 terrorist attacks of 2001,

the iPhone, 3-

Dmovies, Wayne Gretzky,

and most other cultural touchstones of the past two decades are ancient history.

That"s a sobering realization to an old

fogey like me, a 1970s grad.

Also on the horizon is the return, on a

trial basis, of fall Homecoming. Then-

Principal Tom Williams made the decision

in 2009 to suspend the annual celebration for two years out of concern about safety, deteriorating town-gown relations, and damage to the University"s reputation, nationally - and perhaps even globally - caused by rowdy behaviour and alcohol abuse on the part of some students and uninvited party crashers. The trouble occurred on the Homecoming"08 weekend.

William"s decision was subsequently en-

dorsed and the suspension extended by his successor, Daniel Woolf.

However, after extensive discussion

with internal and community partners,

Woolf has announced that Homecoming

will be reinstated as a pilot project mak- ing it clear that student and alumni safety are paramount. For logistical reasons,

Homecoming, with its increasingly large

class reunions, will be spread over two weekends, Oct. 4-6, and Oct. 18-20.

Staff in Alumni Relations, report that

more than 89 classes and groups have in- dicated they will be "coming home" in

October. Preparations are on track on

campus and in the broader Kingston com- munity; more than 100 special events are planned, and scores of student volunteers are being recruited to help run events. "We"re all really looking forward to

Homecoming"13," says Sarah Indewey,

Artsci"01, the Manager of Volunteer

Relations and Reunions. "Many alumni

have told us how keen they are to see therevival of a much-loved fall tradition that has really been missed the last four years."

If all goes as well as we hope this year,

the autumn Homecoming will be re- established on a permanent basis.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ...Prof. John

Smol, PhD"82(Biology), Canada Research

Chair in Environmental Change, who re-

cently earned two more major honours.

In June, he was named an Officer of the

Order of Canada, and in July he received

the Weston Family Prize for Lifetime

Achievement in Northern Research, which

is awarded by the W. Garfield Weston

Foundation. Smol is widely recognized as

one of the world"s foremost experts on long-term changes to lakes and rivers and short-term changes to arctic wildlife habi- tat, and made profound contributions to identifying environmental change due to human and natural forces. He has also travelled to 10 countries in the past year giving lectures, teaching, and doing re- search.

The next issue of the Reviewwill feature

an article by Smol in which he relates his experiences as an academic visitor to

China - especially while delivering lectures,

including a series there as an Einstein

Professor -a distinction awarded every

year to just 20 researchers around the world by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

CORRECTION ... An article about the

retirement of Arts and Science Dean

Alistair MacLean,

MA"67, PhD"69, in

Issue #2-2013 ("He plans to catch up on

sleep ... no, really!", p. 13) reported inaccu- rate and misleading information about the Dean"s family history. In fact, he and his wife Helen (Seth) MacLean,

MA"69,

met in grad school at Queen"s, and they married in 1967. They have three children (Roderick, Artsci"93,

MA"95; Joanna, and

Janet) and three grandchildren (Tess

MacLean and Kala and Rylie Crawford).

The Reviewregrets and sincerely apolo-

gizes for any embarrassment or hurt its error has caused. -K.C. W W W . A L U M N I R E V I E W . Q U E E N S U . C A3

MISSING SOMETHING?

Re "Online learning comes of age"

ISSUE #2-20?3. P. 2?

W hile working full-time as a teacher and principal, I earned four degrees (

BAfrom Queen"s, and my

BEd, MEd, and EdD from the U of T),

all by night school and summer school, except for a one-year internship for my doctorate. Although I was thankful for the chance to obtain my qualifications,

I definitely have this nagging feeling

that I missed out on a once-in-lifetime experience.

Unlike my four children, all of whom

attended university full-time - two of them are Queen"s graduates: my daugh- ter Valerie McDonald, Artsci"81, and son

Greg McDonald, Artsci"86; my grand-

daughter, Anna Stratton, Artsci"15 (who is the daughter of Valerie and Bruce

Stratton, Artsci"81), and my brother

Arnold McDonald, MDiv"70, I slugged

away at my courses in my spare time, often meeting deadlines at the last mo- ment. It was stressful and not very satisfy- ing. Looking back, I, too, would have been thrilled to have had the opportunity to experience campus life as a fulltime u niversity student.

Online learning, especially when

you are holding down a fulltime job, will never replace fulltime learning.

As with night school, summer school,

correspondence courses, it will always be second-rate.

JAMES F. MCDONALD, ARTS"62

D

UNDAS, ON

The point James raises is an interesting

one that"s part of a much larger, all- encompassing debate about the future of the bricks-and-mortar university. Just as print - books, magazines, and newspapers - is evolving in the "digital age", so, too, are universities. If you have any thoughts to share on the cultural changes taking place, please share them in a Letter to the Editor. - Ed.

A SPECIAL KIND OF PERSON

Re "In Memoriam"

ISSUE #2-20?3, P. ?2

I f we"re decent grads, we never forget the people who help us with employment.

Alan Travers,

BA"70, MEd"77, was

one of those people at Queen"s who was a friend to students in the Faculty of Educa- tion. We enjoyed dropping by his office to chat and laugh. Truly, those of us in the sec- ondary panel wished that the BEd could be a two-year course many times over, and we appreciated the special respite from re- search and studying that the Faculty of Ed offered to us. We anticipated that our next year as actual teachers would be challenge enough, and we were right.

Having graduated from Queen"s and

L E T T E R S T O T H E E D I T O R

Alan Travers

FACULTY OF EDUCATION

4I S S U E 3 ,2 0 1 3 ¥ Q U E E N " SA L U M N IR E V I E W

living back with my ever-welcoming parents for the summer, I decided to give

Alan a call for advice on where to apply

for my first year in teaching. He sug- gested that I call the York Region Board o f Education, which I did. Within a day,

I had an interview and another day

brought me an offer of my first and wonderful job at Newmarket High.

You"ll likely receive many more letters

like this one. Thanks again, Alan Travers, a special person at Queen"s.

MARY O"RIORDAN, MA"83, ED"83

T

ORONTO, ON

IN PRAISE OF ALAN TRAVERS

I t was with shock and sadness that I learned of Alan Travers" passing. I had spoken with Alan in the last year or so about possibly working on a mutually beneficial project with retired teachers.

Currently, I am the Director of Adminis-

trative and Member Services with The

Retired Teachers of Ontario (

RTO/ERO).

I first met Alan in 1978 when I was an

Education student and served as presi-

dent of the Student Faculty in 1978-79.

With the support of then-Dean Tom

Williams, Alan and I worked on a pro-

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