Honours and Awards Recipients 2001

Dr. Robert Faith
BA'53, DDS'56
Retired orthodontist

"McGill provided me with an excellent profession for 40 years and with leadership opportunities within my Faculty. Through the Alumni Association, I met and befriended a broad selection of grads in all disciplines, from all over the world."

Ralph Howard Estey
BSc(Agr)'51, PhD'56
McGill Emeritus Professor of Plant Science

"As a young man, thinking about my future education, I imagined McGill to be far beyond my reach. Earning [my] first degree was a highlight in my relationship with McGill."

Heidi Allardyce, BA'79
President, Atlanta Branch, McGill Alumni Association 1996-present
Roswell, Ga.

"I loved living on campus -- three years at Gardner Hall! The architecture of the buildings near Sherbrooke was exquisite to look at each day on the way to class. I felt as if I were still living in Europe."

Sevag Yeghoyan
BA'97
Law Student/Entrepreneur

"Whenever I drive to Montreal from Toronto, regardless of how tired I may be, I always get the most amazing rush of adrenaline when I drive by the Roddick Gates on Sherbrooke Street. I plan on being involved with McGill for the rest of my life."

John C. R. Collis, BCom'79
Barrister and Attorney
Warwick, Bermuda

As Chair of McGill's Bermuda Scholarship Trust, John has coordinated the McGill Alma Mater Fund solicitation among 130 graduates in Bermuda for the past eight years, has been a member of the Bermuda Branch since he graduated, and was a Rhodes Scholar at McGill.

Peter Leuprecht
Dean, McGill Faculty of Law
Westmount, Quebec

"'McGill -- excellence without arrogance.' This is what I tell my students and this, I believe, must be our objective."

Leslie Copeland
First-Year Coordinator, McGill Student Services
Montreal, Quebec

"My most recent memorable McGill moment was during the Discover McGill orientation program when we fed 3,500 new students and 250 volunteers 800 pizzas in an hour and a half. Watching the deliverymen walking in with towers of pizza was a sight to see!"

Charles (Chuck) Adler, BEng'71, MUP'75
Director, McGill University Planning Office

"McGill is a tradition; it is always there. Through good times or bad, it always seems to draw the best out of people."

Engineering Class of 1950

The Class raised over $270,000 to fund a state-of-the-art Learning Centre in Engineering. The new facility is a renovated auditorium which features a suite of the latest electronic teaching aids. Pictured at right are organizers Maurice Bluteau, BEng'50, Bob Keefler, BEng'50, Dean of Engineering John Gruzleski, and Don MacCandlish, BEng'50.

Glenn Casbourne
BEng'80, Chicago Branch President Engineering Consultant
Chicago, Ill.

"I attended McGill's victory over UBC in the 1987 Vanier Cup at Varsity Stadium in -30ºC weather! My favourite memories are of Gert's pizza and Thomson House baseball."

Calgary Branch
John Drummond, BA'72, President
Number of Members: 2,000

Over the last four years, the Calgary branch has focused its attention on raising McGill's profile in the Calgary community. Members have raised awareness of McGill's reputation with guidance departments in the high schools, and secured publicity in the Calgary Herald for alumni events.

McGill Society of Hong Kong Annual Alumni Dinner

Each year, the enthusiastic and loyal members of the Hong Kong branch throw a special party to celebrate McGill, with distinguished guest speakers, tremendous door prizes, and some rousing karaoke on occasion. This year's event was held at the Hong Kong Jockey Club and featured a special tribute to Dr. Milton Leong, BSc'66, MDCM'70, DSc'00, who had received his honorary doctorate one month earlier at McGill's fall convocation.

Macdonald Branch
Throughout its long history, the Branch has annually hosted hundreds of alumni as they return to Homecoming activities on the Macdonald Campus. Each spring, the Branch hosts a party for the graduating class to welcome McGill's newest alumni. In recent years, the Directors have increased Macdonald participation in all McGill Alumni Association events.

Medicine Class of 1955
Class members initiated and have maintained continuous contact with each other since graduation. Their first class project was in 1958 (Dean Duff Memorial). The class project for their 45th anniversary was the Scriver Visiting Professorship in Genetics, with a goal of $45,000, and was organized by David Harvey, MDCM'55, and Arthur Leith, BSc'51, MDCM'55. Dr. Harvey is pictured here to the right of Dean of Medicine Abraham Fuks.

Melissa Buban
BA'01, Sociology
Toronto, Ont.

President of Student Organization for Alumni Relations (SOAR), 2000-01.
Involved with SOAR as a member and executive for four years.
Volunteered for Homecoming events and many Alumni Association functions.
Nominated Students' Society Club President of the Year, 2000-01.

Costa Lambrakis
BEd'02
Physical Education
St. Laurent, Que.

Student Athletic Council, Co-Chair McGill Intercollegiate Sports Council.
McGill Athletics Board.
Elected 2001-02 Physical Education President.
Established Volleyball Alumni support and raised over $1,500 over the past 18 months.

Astrid Christoffersen-Deb
MDCM'01
Medicine
Montreal, Que.

Chair, WHO Health Assembly at McGill Model United Nations Conference.
President, United Nations Student Association at McGill University.
YWCA Young Woman of Distinction, 2000.
Rhodes Scholarship, 2001.

Wojtek Baraniak, BA'01
Political Science
Montreal, Que.

President, Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU), 2000-01.
Vice-President, Community and Government Affairs, SSMU, 1999-2000.
Representative in various student associations.