ALUMNI QUARTERLY
FALL 1997
A R C H I T E C T U R E

Katy (Fluck) Flammia, MArch'91, was recently commended for her thesis, An Urban Spa-Architecture, Perception and the Body, at the Boston Architectural Centre. She opened her own design firm on January 1, 1997, and resides in Arlington, Massachusetts.


A R T S

Barbara Whitley, BA'40, DLitt'92, was the main speaker at the 90th anniversary luncheon of the Women's Canadian Club of Montreal on April 7, 1997. She has been a much decorated volunteer in the club for 50 years. She is also on the 175th anniversary committee of the Montreal General Hospital and is an active volunteer with her church, St. James the Apostle.

Herbert Bercovitz, BA'45, President of the McGill Institute for Learning in Retirement, represented the institute at the Opsimaths Convene at University of Massachusetts, along with vice-president Joan Walker, BA'51, curriculum chair Moshe Bar-Urian, BEng'54, DipEng'61, and planning committee member Anita Heller, BSc'47, MSc(MCg)'48, MA'70. The institute has been operating since 1989 and now has a membership of close to 700.

Eva (Dubska) Kushner, BA'48, MA'50, PhD'56, was made an "officier de l'ordre des palmes ocedéheiques" by the French government in 1995. She also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Western Ontario in 1996, and was elected President (1996-1999) of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures. She is a professor at the University of Toronto.

Margaret Stavert, BA'51, has made a generous donation to McGill to help create the Dr. A. Gerald Racey Prize for a fourth year undergraduate student who has excelled in the comprehensive oral examination in oral and maxillofacial surgery. The prize is also supported by an annuity from the late Dr. Gerald Racey, DDS'37.

T. K. Rymes, MA'58, PhD'68, was appointed Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, Carleton University, Ottawa, on July 1, 1996.

Moses Znaimer, BA'63, endowed the Jewish Public Library in Montreal with $50,000 in memory of his parents. He is president and executive producer of CITY-TV, Much Music, Musique Plus, and the Bravo network, based in Toronto.

George Newman, BA'67, has been appointed to chair the Annual Program of the American Immigration Lawyers Association in June 1998 in Houston, Texas. He has also been a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association Board of Governors since 1981, as Missouri/Kansas chair (1981-1995) and as an elected Director (1995-present). He resides in Clayton, Missouri.

André Liebich, BA'68, has been elected a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, for 1997-98. This is his sabbatical from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He has also completed a book entitled From the Other Shore: Russian Social Democracy After 1921, Harvard University Press, 1997.

Ellen Roseman, BA'68, has moved to the Toronto Star to assume the position of Business Editor after 21 years as a reporter, columnist and editor at The Globe and Mail.

John Ralston Saul, BA'69, DLitt'97, was honoured at McGill's 1997 Spring Convocation with a doctor of literature degree. He is the widely acclaimed author of numerous publications, both fiction and non-fiction.

Frances Harber, BA'70, performed in Les Belles Soeurs at Langham Court Theatre, Victoria, in March 1997. She also teaches in her native Victoria, and her new children's book, Chayim's Sons, is to be published by Albert Whitman, Chicago, in Spring 1998.

David H. Levy, Arts'70, married Wendee Wallach in Tuscon, Arizona, on March 23, 1997. They had their reception under the lunar eclipse that evening which is fitting since David is senior instructional specialist at the University of Arizona, bringing astronomy into schools in Arizona. He is tied for third place in history for the person who has found the largest number of comets.

Nancy Naglin, BA'71, is the author of Seducing Dali, to be published by Scribner.

Linda Clemente, BA'73, is a co-author (with husband Bill Clemente) of Gabrielle Roy: Creation and Memory, published in January by ECW Press, which introduces readers to the writer Gabrielle Roy from Saint Boniface, Manitoba. She has also written Literary objets d'art, Ekphrasis in Medieval French Romance 1150-1210, published in 1992 by Peter Lang Publishing Inc. She lives in Ripon, Wisconsin.

Victoria Lees, PhD'77, CertProfFr'92, McGill's Secretary-General, has been appointed as a director of the National Association of University Board Chairs and Secretaries.

Tycho Manson, BA'78, returned to school after attending graduate school in political science and working as a journalist for several years, and obtained an LLB from the University of Toronto in 1994. He is an associate in the litigation department at McCarthy Tetrault in Toronto.

Suzanne King, BA'79, CertProfFr'89, is now working as a research psychologist studying schizophrenia and the family. She is an FRSQ research fellow at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre in Verdun, Quebec, and is an assistant professor of Psychiatry at McGill. She is married with a daughter, Marie-Christine, 6, and a son, Simon, 3.

Donna Seidman Salzman, BA'79, was chairman of the 10th anniversary celebration of the Just for Kids Foundation, held at Place des Arts, Montreal, in April 1997.

Seth J. Vogelman, BA '81, has been named Deputy Director of the Israel Office of both the California Trade & Commerce Agency and of the Georgia Department of Industry, Tourism & Trade. These offices help to promote trade ties between the American states and Israel, especially in the area of export promotion. Seth lives in Maale Adumim, Israel, with his wife and four children.

Doug Durr, BA'86, was co-chair of the 1997 McGill Alma Mater Fund Phonathon in Ottawa.

Rochelle Lerner, BA'86, was on the organizing committee of the 10th anniversary celebration of the Just for Kids Foundation, held at Place des Arts, Montreal, in April 1997.

Philip Zelazo, BA'88, is director of psychology at the Montreal Children's Hospital and has designed a testing procedure for autistic children which allows for more accurate measurement of their abilities and for testing at a younger age. He has also created a company, Psymetrics Research Corporation, which will begin marketing his research and technology.

Kevin Davis, BA'90, is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. His teaching and research interests include commercial law, white collar crime, and law and development.

George Vanberg-Wolff, BA'90, DipManAppl'92, joined the San Francisco law firm of Kaufman & Logan, specializing in environmental insurance coverage and business litigation.

Blair Michael Sheridan, BA'92, will be taking up a new position in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, as Uzbekistan Country Director of Counterpart Consortium, a contractor of the United States Agency for International Development.

Sheila Patterson, BA'93, is working at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind in Hamilton, Ontario, as a developmental disability worker.

Eric Petersiel, BA'93, married Tami Moscoe, completed a bachelor's degree in Education, and is now finishing his master's degree in Arts in Near Eastern Studies at the University of Toronto. He has spent two years as Director of Education at Shaarei Beth El Congregation in Oakville, Ontario.

Catherine Tamayo, BA'93, worked in Toronto for a Russian-Canadian joint-venture company as a Russian translator until spring of 1995. She is now working in San Francisco with Blanc & Otus as a senior publicist and international public relations consultant for MCI Communications and other high-technology companies. She was married to Simon G. Zinger, BA'93, in August 1995.

Simon G. Zinger, BA'93, received his JD from the University of San Francisco School of Law and passed the California Bar Examination in August 1996. He practices corporate, tax and executive compensation law as an associate with the San Francisco office of Graham & James LLP. He was married to Catherine Tamayo, BA'93, in August 1995.

Robert Astroff, BA'94, graduated from Dalhousie Law School with an LLB in May 1997, and will be pursuing a Master of Arts degree at the Norman Patterson School for International Affairs in Ottawa.

Daniel Holland, BA'94, is Sales Associate, International Money Markets, with the Bank of Montreal in London, England.

Karen Schaffer, BA'94, recently wrote a book entitled Hire Power: The Ultimate Job Guide for Young Canadians, which provides students with information about employment and addresses students' vulnerabilities. She makes her home in Toronto.

Wilson Ricarte, BA'95, is working for BTB Compressors, a division of Enerflex Systems, makers of field gas compressor units, based in Calgary. He maintains and coordinates the company's Quality Management Program.

Ilan Gewurz, BA'96, has been awarded a Dorot Fellowship in Israel by the Dorot Foundation. He will participate in a summer intensive Hebrew language program and spend the remainder of the year between concurrent part-time academic study and part-time internship in his field of interest.

Shilah Hasan, BA'96, is pursuing a master's degree in corporate communications at Seton Hall University, New Jersey. His major is public relations and he is interning in New York City this summer at Lippe Taylor, a public relations firm.

Lauren Telchin, BA'96, is a University Fellow at the George Washington University, D.C., and is pursuing a master's degree in museum studies. She is also employed by the Phillips Collection. This summer she was an intern at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Catherine Wallace, CertProfFr'96, is presently city editor of The Gazette in Montreal, and has been awarded a Southam Fellowship to study at the University of Toronto for eight months.


D E N T I S T R Y

Marvin H. Steinberg, BSc'70, DDS'72, was elected President of the Quebec Association of Orthodontists for 1997-98. He is a Fellow of the American College of Dentists, a Fellow of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada and a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics.

Noah Zacharin, BSc'81, DDS'83, has played guitar for a number of releases by other artists, and his two recordings, Noah Zacharin and Silence spoken here, have been re-issued in CD format. He now has a toll-free number, 1-888-sing-t-yu, and is working part-time as a dentist at Regent Park Community Health Centre.


E D U C A T I O N

Lynn Butler-Kisber, BEd'68, MEd'72, won the 1997 YWCA of Montreal Woman of Distinction Award in the Education category. She is an associate professor in the McGill Department of Educational Studies and director of its graduate program. As a member of the Senate Committee on Women and the Advisory Committee on Women Student Issues, she developed a pilot project to promote the safety of McGill's female students and personnel.

Nancy Layton, BEd'72, MEd'87, became the first Head of Bishop's College School, Lennoxville, Quebec, to be married in the School's Chapel. Her new husband is Joe Stairs. Despite her hectic schedule, she still likes to fit in some time for golf in the summer and skiing in the winter.

Vera Danyluk, BEdCert'86, chairman of the executive committee of the Montreal Urban Community, initiated the Voice Symphony of the Police Brotherhood of the Montreal Urban Community concert, held on April 29, 1997. The concert raised funds for a day centre for street kids. She was presented with the annual Woman of Achievement award by the Business and Professional Women's Club of Montreal in April 1997.

Dawn Levy, BEd'89, married Al Vandenbussche, BEng'87, on September 6, 1996. She completed her master's degree in Educational Administration at the University of British Columbia in April 1997 and lives in Vancouver.

Priscilla Bailey, BEd'93, taught English for a year in Mexico, then returned to Montreal and taught grade two from August 1996 to December 1996. She is presently substitute teaching and tutoring in Montreal.

Laura Nymark, BEd'93, teaches business English in the Netherlands.

Laura C. Petre, BEd'93, is teaching grade three in Oshawa, Ontario. She is married to Brian Farrugia, BSc'90, and they have a baby boy.

Dawn Cruchet, MEd'95, a registered nurse and grief counselor with a master's degree in death education, gave a talk on "The Grief Journey" at Selwyn House on April 3, 1997. She lives in Hudson Heights, Quebec.

Marc Lehmann, BEd'95, works at the Mississauga Campus of the Toronto French School. He and his wife, Claudia Dobranski, BEd'96, have a new son, Alexander Jay, born January 31, 1997, a brother for Jessica, who turned five on May 25, 1997.

Patricia Hutchinson, BEd'96, is coaching for the Beaconsfield Bluefins/Sports-Études Jean XXIII swim team in Beaconsfield, Quebec, where she makes her home.


E N G I N E E R I N G

J. Ross MacEwan, BSc'49, BEng'52, PhD'57, retired in 1989 after 31 years of research at Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.

Aimé Baribeau, BEng'52, has been retired for 10 years and still resides in Lorette, Quebec.

Selwyn Bell, BEng'52, is semi-retired and is spending a lot of time in Australia.

Ed Carpenter, BEng'52, retired from IBM and is now working full-time as a volunteer in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

G. A. Cockfield, BEng'52, MBA'78, retired from DuPont in 1994 and now spends his

time golfing and skiing. He capped his cross-country career by winning both the Canadian and U.S. Masters titles in his age group. He lives in Oakville, Ontario.

Christine Desmarais, BEng'97, is a 1996-97 Rhodes Scholar and was nominated for the 1997 YWCA of Montreal Women of Distinction Award in the youth category.

Ken Godwin, BEng'52, retired from Chevron and stayed on at Bainbridge Island, Washington.

Kyriaco Hatzidakis, BEng'52, is retired from New York Telephone Company, N.Y.

Vince Jolivet, BEng'52, is in his 25th year as a self-employed expert witness in finance and economics in litigation in Washington State and Alaska.

Peter Kindersley, BEng'52, has sold Engineered Valves International and is looking forward to retirement in Glens Falls, NY.

Bernard King, BEng'52, retired from Ford Motor Company in December 1988 and lives in Tecumseh, Ontario.

Norman Kipnis, BEng'52, divides his time between B.C. and Newfoundland.

J. Raymond Lauzon, BEng'52, retired in 1986, spends five months of the year in Florida, and makes 200 litres of wine a year. He spends the rest of the year in his native Boucherville, Quebec.

Bernard Lederman, BEng'52, after 32 years with CNCP Telecommunications, Quebec, still spends winters in Florida.

Laurent Lemieux, BEng'52, retired as Vice-president of CIL/ICI Quebec and spends his winters in Florida.

Robert Little, BEng'52, plans to retire in 1998 but will not spend winters in Florida because he prefers the "Great White North" of Haileybury, Ontario.

Maurice Mack, BEng'52, is Chairman of Empire Maintenance, a family company which has 4,500 employees in Canada, Poland and the Ukraine. He resides in Beaconsfield, Quebec.

D. Keith McMullan, BEng'52, retired in 1989 and enjoys travelling outside of his native Don Mills, Ontario.

John Mikulec, BEng'52, puts in one or two days a week with his son operating Environair Canada Ltd., based in Montreal.

Gordon Mount, BEng'52, is "mostly retired" and doing some consulting in his hometown of Ottawa.

W. Darrel Murray, BEng'52, is retired and is enjoying life in Burlington, Ontario.

Clifford Quince, BEng'52, retired from Bell Canada in 1982 and is a volunteer in the education departments of the Museums of Nature and Civilization. He lives in Wakefield, Quebec.

Gerard Roy, BEng'52, "quit" his job in 1987 (he doesn't like the word "retirement") and enjoys the freedom in St. Bruno, Quebec.

William "Bill" Seath, BEng'52, spent his career with Pratt & Whitney Canada and retired as Vice-president in 1991. He also goes to Florida in the winter, from his home in Kingston, Ontario.

J. Duncan Strachan, BEng'52, is "almost totally retired" while waiting for his company to "stop being profitable." He resides in Markham, Ontario.

William "Bill" Thompson, BEng'52, retired in 1983 after 30 years with Ontario Hydro, is still "married to the most wonderful girl in the world" and lives with her in London, Ontario.

Fred Walters, BEng'52, reports that he is "getting old" in his town of Belleville, Ontario.

John Wheelwright, BEng'52, still works part-time in pre-engineered building construction, but spends more time skiing, canoeing, hunting and fishing with his eight grandchildren in Palgrave, Ontario.

Len Zarifi, BEng'52, the Class Agent for Engineering'52, spends most of the summer in Europe, specifically Greece.

Colin H. Campbell, BEng'56, has been appointed chair of the Honours, Awards and Fellows Committee of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He is a past President of the institute, and practices structural engineering with Campbell Woodall & Associates in Calgary.

William T. Houghton, BEng'59, retired from San Francisco-based Chevron Corporation where he was President of the Chevron Information Technology Company. He and his wife, Louise (nee Forbes), BSc'62, will continue to reside in Danville, California.

Don Calder, BEng'65, has been appointed the president and chief executive of B.C. Telecom Inc., Canada's second-largest telecommunications company, as of July 2, 1997.

Nunzio Spino, BEng'73, was co-chair of the 1997 McGill Alma Mater Fund Phonathon in Montreal and helped volunteers bring in $91,000 in pledges.

Doug Bulger, BEng'76, and his wife Heather (nee Nicholls), BA'76, have returned to Calgary from a foreign assignment in Hamburg, Germany, with Shell.

Dennis Cliché, BEng'76, has been appointed to the position of Senior Vice-President of Air Liquide Canada Inc. He has been with the company since 1981 and makes his home in Burlington, Ontario.

Stavros A. Argyropoulos, MEng'77, PhD'81, has been promoted to Professor in the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the University of Toronto.

Kimberly Woodhouse, BEng'79, has received an Engineering Medal for Engineering Excellence from Professional Engineers Ontario for her achievements in artificial skin development for burn and chronic wound victims. She has joined the faculty at the University of Toronto, where she has established an independent research program.

Alain Vandenbussche, BEng'87, married Dawn Levy, BEd'89, on September 6, 1996, in Vancouver. After more than nine years in sales at Matrox, he joined Triant Technologies in October, 1996, as Sales Manager. Both companies are in Vancouver.

Bruce A. Eckfeldt, BSc(Arch)'94, BArch'95, has been appointed a member of the jury for the American Institute of Architects' 1998 Honor Awards for Architecture. He makes his home in Saint Paul, Minnesota.


L A W

Huntington Sheldon, BA'51, LLD'96, was recently honoured as a "Distinguished Brooksian" at ceremonies last week at Brooks School, from which he graduated in 1947, for his work over the years. He makes his home in Shelburne, Vermont.

W. Warren Allmand, BCL'57, was appointed president of the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development after 31 years as Liberal Member of Parliament for Notre Dame de Grace, Quebec.

Richard W. Pound, BCom'62, BCL'67, Chair of McGill's Board of Governors, has been named Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Association of University Board Chairs and Secretaries.

Eleanor Clitheroe, BCL'78, is the chief financial officer of Ontario Hydro.

Margaret Somerville, DCL'78, won the 1997 YWCA of Montreal Woman of Distinction Award in the Science and Technology category. She is the Director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Romano Robusto, BSc(PT)'79, BCL'83, LLB'84, was appointed Chair of the Board of Directors of Briana Bio-Tech Inc., a bio-pharmaceutical company which focuses on the development and commercialization of innovative therapeutic and diagnostic products for cancer and neurological disorders. He resides in Laval, Quebec.

Christian Couturier, BCL'81, LLB'81, is a certified family mediator, having obtained a certificate in family mediation from the Quebec Bar in April 1997. He resides in Lasalle, Quebec.

Peter McArthur, BCL'82, LLB'83, the nine-time chair of the McGill Alma Mater Fund Phonathon in Vancouver, led 13 volunteers who elicited $21,813 from area graduates last spring.

John Redfern, LLB'84, BCL'85, has returned to Canada from Europe after some nine years. He is President of QC Data Petroleum Services Limited, based in Calgary.

Alida Gualtieri, BCL'87, LLB'87, is legal counsel for the Fonds de Solidarité des Travailleurs du Québec, a venture capital fund sponsored by the Quebec Federation of Labour.

François Longpré, BCL'88, LLB'88, has been practicing law with Mackenzie Gervais in Montreal since 1989, specializing in labour law for the last four years, and has recently been admitted as a partner. He has two children with his spouse Hélène Mireault, BCL'84.

Gary Bell, BCL'89, LLB'89, has left McGill to assume a law position at the National University of Singapore.

Dimitri G. Mastrocola, BCL'89, LLB'89, moved to New York City and is an associate attorney in international private finance with Shearman & Sterling, in Manhattan. He married Rose Agozzino in Montreal on July 13, 1997.

Trudo Lemmens, LLM'95, won the 1996 Association for Politics and the Life Sciences Graduate Student Paper Award for his paper entitled Considerations for an Ethical Policy on Genetic Screening of Job Applicants. A revised version of this paper appeared in the March 1997 issue of Politics and the Life Sciences. He makes his home in Montreal.


L I B R A R Y   &   I N F O R M A T I O N   S T U D I E S

Grace D. Parch, BLS'51, obtained her master's in library science degree at Kent State University in 1983, and did her post-graduate work from 1984-1985 at the School of Librarianship, Wales, Great Britain. She resides in Bedford, Ohio.

Gerald Glass, BLS'62, is retiring from the Academic and General Book Shop, in Montreal.

Faith Wallis, BA'71, MA'74, MLS'76, McGill Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Social Studies of Medicine was awarded the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1996-97. She was praised by students for her "erudition, diligence, respect for students, powerful lecturing, and obvious love of her subject".

Derek Robertson, MLS'78, was co-chair of the 1997 McGill Alma Mater Fund Phonathon in Ottawa.

Margaret (Meg) Raven, BA'88, MLIS'91, is working as a Reference and Systems Librarian at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. Her husband, Mick Sullivan, BA'81, is an associate professor with the Department of Psychology at Dalhousie University in Halifax.


M A C D O N A L D   C A M P U S

Mairi St. John Macdonald, BSc(Agr)'46, received an honorary degree at the Mount Saint Vincent University (Nova Scotia) Spring Convocation. She has been a tireless advocate for women's education and lifelong learning and was Director of Continuing Education at the University from 1972 until her retirement in 1988. She was also a founding member of the Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women and the Metro Council on Continuing Education.

Marc Bieler, Dip(Agr)'58, BA'64, recently sold his Quebec-based company, Atoka Cranberries Inc., to Northland Cranberries Inc. for $28.5 million in cash and convertible debt. Atoka owns North America's largest cranberry marsh and Bieler was featured in the Spring'97 McGill News ("The Cranberry King").

Suzelle Barrington, BSc(AgrEng)'73, PhD'85, was nominated for the 1997 YWCA of Montreal Woman of Distinction Award in the science and technology category. She is an associate professor at in Faculty of Environmental and Agricultural Sciences. She was the first Quebec woman to receive a PhD in agricultural engineering. This year she will chair the Canadian Society of Agricultural, Food and Biological Engineering.

Hugh Maynard, Dip(Agr)'78, has been selected to take part in the 1997 class of the Leadership for Environment and Development training program, administered in Canada by the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, which includes training sessions in Costa Rica and Zimbabwe.

Nancy Geronazzo, BSC(NSc)'89, lives in Toronto and works in a community health care centre. She also has a part-time nutrition consulting business. Her son, Demetre, was born on April 16, 1995.

Don Buchan, BSc(Agr)'91, is working in Ottawa doing water treatment for heating and cooling applications.


M A N A G E M E N T

Brian Rourke, BCom'61, has moved to Charleston, South Carolina, after 31 years in California and various Asian locations. He is now concentrating on supervising the building of a house and perfecting his boating ability.

John E. Cleghorn, BCom'62, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto. He was also the guest speaker at the Westmount High School Old Boys' Association 1997 annual general meeting and dinner and was honoured for his lifetime contribution to the association. He graduated from Westmount High School in 1951.

Patrick J. Mars, BCom'62, MBA'65, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Meridian Gold Inc. He is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Chivor Emerald Corporation Ltd., and makes his home in Toronto.

Richard M. Wise, BCom'62, a Fellow of the Order of Chartered Accountants, has also been elected to Fellowship of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. He is a managing partner at Wise Blackman, Montreal.

J. Doug Barrington, BCom'64, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. He is also a managing partner of national services, Deloitte & Touche, Toronto.

Bruce R. P. Richmond, BCom'68, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. He is the national director, corporate clients, Deloitte & Touche, and lives in Toronto.

Mordecai Rozanski, BA'68, was reappointed President of the University of Guelph extending his term to 2003.

Percy Kissoon, BCom'72, was co-chair of the 1997 McGill Alma Mater Fund Phonathon in Toronto and, with the help of 90 volunteers, raised $79,112 over two evenings.

François Coutu, BCom'76, President and Chief Executive Officer of Jean Coutu Group Inc., was the prime sponsor and chairman of the 1997 Daffodil Ball, held atop Mount Royal, Montreal, which raises money for the Canadian Cancer Society.

Pierre Matuszewski, MBA'79, a été nommé au poste de directeur général de la Banque d'Investissement.

Sophie Valois, BCom'84, lives in Ile-Bizard, Quebec and is a town clerk for the town of Roxboro.

Marina Boulos-Winton, BA'86, DipMgmtAppl'90, was co-chair of the 1997 McGill Alma Mater Fund Phonathon in Montreal, and helped volunteers bring in $91,000. She has left her position as Executive Director of Dans La Rue charity to move to New York City and live with her husband of two years, Grant Winton.

Stephane Carrier, BCom'90, completed his MBA at the University of Toronto in 1995 and worked as a derivatives analyst at the Toronto Dominion Bank until December 1996. He subsequently joined the Financial Structuring Group at Hambros Bank in London, England.

Gemma Raeburn-Baynes, CertPubRelMgt'91, won the 1997 YWCA of Montreal Woman of Distinction Award in the public and community affairs division. She is a long-time activist in Montreal's black community and is research coordinator of workplace equality at the Bank of Montreal.

Claude J. Thibault, MBA'91, was appointed Vice-President, Corporate Finance of Midland Walwyn Capital Inc. which he joined in 1994 as Corporate Finance Associate.

Sheila M. McIntosh, MBA'92, was appointed Vice-president corporate communications and investor relations of Canadian Pacific Ltd., based in Calgary. She was previously the assistant vice-president corporate communications.

Natalie Brady, BCom'94, a reçu le prix Fernand-Cloutier pour les meilleurs résultats obtenus au programme professionnel de CMA. Elle est analyste en compatibilité à la Sun Life.

Jonathan Mogil, BCom'94, is working as an equity research associate at RBC Dominion Securities in Toronto.

Luc C. Picard, MBA'95, has opened a Commercial Arbitration and Mediation Office in Longueuil, Quec.

Genevieve Riverin, BCom'95, is a sales and editorial representative with Prentice Hall Canada, and received the second place award for her exemplary performance in 1996. She lives in Laval, Quebec.


M E D I C I N E

David E. Rodger, MD'35, is still living in Victoria and recently enjoyed a talk given at an alumni event by McGill's own Professor Stephen Toope, BCL'83, LLB'83. He really wants to get a McGill tie!

Nathan Kaufman, BSc'37, MD'41, was recently awarded the International Academy of Pathology gold medal for outstanding contributions to international pathology education and research. He is Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Pathology at Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.

Colin Campbell, MD'53, was honoured by the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, a community state medical school, which named its Atrium in the Regional Academic Support Facility the "Colin Campbell, MD, Atrium." He was the school's provost and dean from 1983 to 1990, and president and dean from 1990 to 1992. In 1992, he was named president and dean emeritus and professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology. He continues to teach and resides in Akron with his wife, Catherine.

Evelyn (Dawe) Rourke, Dip(PT)'57, has moved to Charleston, South Carolina, after 31 years in California and various Asian locations.

Natalie Riegler, BN'58, recently published a book entitled Jean T. Gunn: Nursing Leader, Canadian Medical Lives Series, Toronto, Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1997.

Margot Roach, MD'59, is the recipient of a 1997 Woman of Distinction award, presented by the YMCA/YWCA of London, Ontario. She is presently a professor and physician in London.

John D. Hsu, BSc'57, MD'61, completed the editing of the third edition of Atlas of Orthotics and Assistive Devices, a reference textbook for physicians and allied health professionals in rehabilitation. He is Clinical Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Southern California, and Chairman, Department of Surgery, Rancho Los Amigos Medical Centre, Downey, California.

Joel Paris, MD'64, DipPsych'72, was appointed Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, McGill University. His work has focused on personality disorders and he is the author of 70 journal articles and five books on psychiatry.

Robert R. Orford, BSc'69, MD'71, was installed as consultant in the House of Delegates for the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He joined Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, in 1988, and moved to Mayo Clinic, Scotsdale, Arizona, in 1996. He has been head of Mayo's Aviation Medicine Consultation Service since 1991, and is joint medical director for Northwest Airlines, Inc.

Stuart Glaser, BSc'70, MD'74, médecin à Mont-Royal, vient d'être nommé «Médicin de famille de l'année du Québec» par la section québécoise du Collège des médicins de famille du Canada. Installé à Mont-Royal depuis 1966, il en a fait le lieu d'exercice de sa profession. Il a également travaillé à l'urgence du Centre hospitalier St. Mary's pendant 18 ans, en plus de donner des cours à l'unité de médicine familiale. Il est aujourd'hui professeur agrégé de clinique en médicine familiale à l'Université McGill et il s'occupe de la formation médicale continue (actualisation des connaissances des médicines de famille ) à l'Hôpital Royal Victoria.

Ramie A. Tritt, BSc'71, MD'73, is President of Atlanta Ear, Nose & Throat Associates, P.C., a 22-person otolaryngology (ENT) group in Atlanta, Georgia. He is President and Chairman of the Board of Physicians' Specialty Corporation, a physician practice management company.

Debbie Giser, BPhysTher'72, BSc(PT)'74, CertCBIS'87, was on the organizing committee of the 10th anniversary celebration of the Just for Kids Foundation, held at Place des Arts, Montreal, in April 1997.

Ronald D. Gottesman, BSc'78, MD'82, was inducted as an honorary Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine at San Diego, California, in February 1997. He is currently Director of Pediatric Intensive Care at the Montreal Children's Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill.

Robert Levy, MD'79, has been appointed Medical Director, Lung Transplant Program, of the British Columbia Transplant Society. He is an associate professor in the division of respiratory medicine at the University of British Columbia. He was previously Medical Director for the Heart-Lung Transplant Program at McGill.

Graeme Magor, MD'81, is planning an Arctic expedition which will retrace the steps of Russian Otto Sverdrup, who mapped much of Canada's northern regions. He also hopes to set up an interactive Web site which will bring students details of the voyage as it unfolds.


M U S I C

L. Louis Spritzer, BMus'64, has just finished a video entitled Sinon de Quoi vit On? which is based on the last three years of his teaching the vocal aspect of music training at Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique de Montreal.

Ivana Pelnar-Zaiko, BMus'69, was named Vice-president of Wagner College in New York, N.Y., responsible for development and alumni relations.


R E L I G I O U S   S T U D I E S

Rev. Asa W. Sprague, BTh'82, has been appointed Senior Minister of the Sun City Centre United Methodist Church of Sun City Centre, Florida.

Mark Parent, PhD'91, is Policy Chair for the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. He resides in Pereau, Nova Scotia, where he is the minister of the Pereau United Baptist Church, as well as teaching for the Department of Continuing Education of Mount Allison University. He is also an honorary research associate at Acadia University.


S C I E N C E

Rudy Marcus, BSc'43, PhD'46, DSc'88, was given the American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry for his contributions to understanding the fundamental processes that underlie many chemical reactions. He resides in Pasadena, Calif.

Judith (Cohen) Saffran, BSc'44, PhD'48, retired from the Medical College of Ohio on June 30, 1997. She was Assistant Professor of Pathology, Associate Director of Toxicology and Director of the federally licensed Drug Testing Laboratory. She plans to devote more time to her 8 grandchildren and to her summer home in the Laurentians. Prior to moving to Toledo in 1969, she taught the advanced biochemistry laboratory class at McGill for several years.

Murray Saffran, BSc'45, MSc'46, PhD'49, retired from the Medical College of Ohio on June 30, 1997. He was Assistant Dean for Medical Education and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Prior to moving to Toledo in 1969, he was a professor in the Department of Biochemistry at McGill.

Jack Halpern, BSc'46, PhD'49, DSc'97, the Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of the Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, was honoured at McGill's 1997 Spring Convocation with an honorary doctor of science degree. He is an adviser to governments and Vice-President of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.

David M. Culver, BSc'47, LLD'89, was appointed to the Outstanding CEO of the Year Advisory Board for 1997 by the Caldwell Partners, CTV and The Financial Post. He is Chairman of CAI Capital Corporation and the International Foundation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture. He has also been awarded the 1997 B'nai Brith Canada Award of Merit.

Alexandra I. Cowie, BSc'50, performed in Michel Tremblay's Les Belles Soeurs, at Langham Court Theatre, Victoria, in March 1997.

Stanley J. Pappelbaum, BSc'59, has been appointed Executive Vice-president and Chief Operating Officer of Scripps Health in San Diego, California.

Major (Retired) Harvey R. Bailey, BSc'60, retired in August 1996 after 30 years of service in the Canadian Military Engineers and six years working for the Department of National Defence. He and his wife have moved to St. Catharines, Ont.

Lawrence D. Rogers, BSc'64, and his wife, Joy, have resigned from their jobs, sold most of their belongings, and moved onto their boat. They intend to sail for at least a year from San Diego, heading north in the summer and south in the fall.

Sidney Katz, BSc'65, MSc'68, PhD'71, has been appointed Director General and CEO of the Ontario Science Centre. He had been Executive Director of Science World, Vancouver, since 1991.

David Ash, BSc'66, PhD'73, was promoted to General Manager and Director of Manufacturing at Uniroyal Chemical Limited in Elmira, Ontario.

Judith (Kirkpatrick) Coulter, BSc'66, has retired from SHL Systemhouse of Ottawa and has a two-year term position with Government Telecommunications and Informatics Services in Hull, Quebec. She lives in Ottawa.

Mary L. Hébert, BSc'69, has been appointed headmistress of The Study, an independent school for girls in Westmount, Que. She was previously the vice-principal and director of the middle and senior schools at Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School, Westmount.

Don Hogarth, BSc'85, was co-chair of the 1997 McGill Alma Mater Fund Phonathon in Toronto and, with the help of 90 volunteers, raised $79,112 over two evenings.

Lloyd MacLean, DSc'90, was the guest speaker at the Royal Victoria Hospital Foundation lecture on April 8, 1997, speaking on Healing: Past, Present and Future. He was the chief surgeon at the hospital from 1962-1968, and is a former President of the American Surgical Association and American College of Surgeons and chairman of the McGill University Faculty of Medicine.

Simon W. M. John, PhD'92, a biologist specializing in glaucoma research at The Jackson Laboratory in Maine, has been appointed an assistant investigator by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Kerri Lake, BSc'93, graduated from Western Michigan University in April with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering. She will be working at Stryker Instruments in Kalamazoo, MI. Stryker is an international corporation that designs and manufactures surgical equipment.

Reid McDougall, BSc'95, received the Richard Pound Award this year, given to a graduating student who best exemplifies proficiency and leadership in athletics. Reid was chair of the McGill Intercollegiate Sports Council, a member of the McGill Athletic Board, and a member of the Students Athletic Council. He plans to pursue studies in environmental science.

Patrick Nedellec, PhD'95, went to France after his graduation for a post-doctoral position at Pasteur Institute. He then obtained a full-time position at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique as "Chargé de Recherche" in the Laboratoire de Neuroendocrinologie in Paris.

Kevin W. Jiang, Cert (MIS)'95, BSc'97, is working as an applications programmer analyst at Planmatics Inc. in Westmount, Que.

Vicky Tessier, BSc'97, was nominated for the 1997 YWCA of Montreal Woman of Distinction Award in the youth category. She is a talented basketball player, winning the McGill Mac Tesky trophy in 1995, and breaking the McGill all-time scoring record in 1996. She led her team to two consecutive Quebec Championships and to third place at this year's Canadian Championships.


S O C I A L   W O R K

Freda L. Paltiel, BSW'49, taught a course on women, health and development to international students at Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem. She lives in Ottawa.

Karen Schafer, BA'81, BSW'85, MSW'87, has relocated to Victoria, B.C. and begun a new private psychiatry practice. She also acted in a production of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles Soeurs, at Langham Court Theatre in Victoria.

Heather Astroff, BSW'96, was admitted as an advance standing student at New York University. She was awarded her master's degree in social work in May 1997.