Michael Crombie,
BCom'56,
Retired Businessman
Calgary, Alberta

Volunteer work:

President of the McGill Alumni Association of Southern Alberta, 1978-1988.
Director, Calgary Pathways Advisory Council, 1998-present.
Director, Parks Foundation Calgary's Rivers Valley Committee, 2000-present.

Distinctions:

Distinguished Service Award, McGill Alumni Association, 1986.
Director of the Calgary Pathways Advisory Council, where he plays a leading role in the preservation and extension of Calgary's 400-km. multi-use trail system.

McGill memories and higlights

President of the Red Birds Ski Club, 1967-1968, member from 1950-present.
Member of the McGill Indian Football Team (McGill's junior squad), 1950 league champions.
Member of the McGill Redmen Football Team, 1952 and 1953.
President of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, 1954-1955.
Member, Scarlet Key Society, 1952-1955.

"I remember watching the Redmen football team play against Queen's, U of T and Western in Molson Stadium with marching bands and cheerleaders. The rivalries were intense, the crowds in excess of 17,500."

"Also 'Scarlet Keying' in our white flannels and Scarlet Key sweaters. We were roving ambassadors for the University and prominent fixtures at many campus events."

Gordon Lindsay,
BEng'48,
Retired Engineer
Vancouver, British Columbia

Volunteer work:

Past President, Alumni Societies in Vancouver and Edmonton.
Active Member, Alumni Societies in Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary.
Team Captain, The McGill Twenty-First Century Fund Campaign and phonathons.

Distinctions:

McGill Distinguished Service Award, 1999.
Fellowship in the Life Members Organization of the Engineering Institute of Canada -- currently Vice-President.
Past Chairman and Member, Vancouver Branch of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia.

McGill memories and higlights

"The many, many different undergraduate groups during University days broadened my outlook greatly. The McGill Outing Club, the Red and White Society '46, the football excursions to Toronto, Queen's and Western and many other activities were all great."

"McGill has given me some of my closest friends. Just mention the word 'McGill' anywhere and any time, and it will open many doors."

Andrew Large
Professor, McGill Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
Beaconsfield, Quebec

Service to the community:

Co-Chair, Faculty and Staff Fund Committee, McGill University.
Member, Board of Directors, Atwater Library and Computer Centre.

Distinctions:

Outstanding paper for 2001, Online Information Review ("Designing and Developing Multimedia CD-ROMs").
CN-Pratt-Grinstadf Chair in Information Studies, 1998.
Governor General's Commemorative Medal, 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada, 1992.
Director, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, 1989-1998.
Over 170 published papers, chapters, articles and books.

McGill memories and higlights

"Arriving from Wales for my McGill interview in early February 1989 with highs in the -20s, and still taking the job."

"Belonging to a University that is well known and highly respected wherever I travel in the world."

John A. Drummond, BA'72,
Lawyer
Calgary, Alberta

Volunteer work:

Past President, McGill Alumni Association of Southern Alberta.
Vice-President, Finance and Fund Raising, for the Calgary Fish Creek P.C. Association.
Past Chairman, Foreclosure Subsection, Alberta Branch, Canadian Bar Association.

Distinctions:

Founding partner, Drummond, Phillips & Sevalrud LLP, Barristers and Solicitors.
Finisher, Stampede Marathon 2000.

McGill memories and higlights

"My association with McGill continues to educate me and put me in the company of interesting and entertaining people. The same as 30 years ago. The courses and the degree only tell part of the story."

Gael Eakin,
BA'61,
Artist
Montreal, Quebec

Volunteer work:

Director, McGill Alumni Association.
Chair, Reunion Weekend.
Member, Town and Gown Committee.
Member, committee to establish the McGill Sports Hall of Fame.
Board representative, McGill Sports Hall of Fame.
Alumni representative and member at large, McGill Board of Governors.
Member, McGill Senate.
Member, McGill Visual Arts Committee.
Member, Committee to Select a Chancellor.
Member, Greville Smith Scholarship Committee.

Distinctions:

Almost left McGill as a student when she was invited to join Canada's National Ski Team. The terse telegram back from her parents in response to this invitation was "No!"

Eakin says, "I have never regretted it!"

McGill memories and higlights

She led a dual life for a time -- as a Concordia arts student clad in tight jeans and a black turtleneck and as a member of McGill's board of governors, decked out in a dark pin-striped suit. She spent a lot of time in university washrooms transforming herself from one to the other on days when courses and Board meetings coincided.

Peter McNally,
BLS'65, MLS'66, MA'77
Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, McGill
Montreal, Quebec

Service to the community:

President, McGill Faculty Club.
President and Executive Secretary, James McGill Historical Society.
Faculty canvasser, The McGill Twenty-First Century Fund Campaign.
Speaker, Council of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research.

Distinctions:

President, Bibliographic Society of Canada.
Convener, Library History Interest Group of the Canadian Library Association.
Research fellow, University of Toronto.
Research fellow, Mount Allison University.
Research fellow, National Library of Canada.

McGill memories and higlights

"I have always enjoyed the richness of character and personality to be found among the people who work and study at McGill."

"McGill sits splendidly in a park, with one leg planted on the lofty Olympian slopes of Mount Royal, and the other planted in the hustle and bustle of downtown Montreal."

David W. Kerr, BSc'65
Chairman and CEO, Noranda Inc.
Toronto, Ontario

Volunteer work:

Member, McGill Board of Governors.
Volunteer, The McGill Twenty-First Century Fund Campaign.
Member, Advisory Board for the Faculty of Engineering.
Member, coordinating committee for the campaign to refurbish McGill's McConnell Winter Stadium.
Trustee of the Max Bell Foundation on behalf of McGill.
Chairman, 1999 United Way of Greater Toronto Campaign (and volunteer for the United Way for years).
Chair, Major Gifts, York University Capital Campaign.
Director, Canadian Special Olympics Foundation.
Vice Chairman, World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Distinctions:

Addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations during a special session on sustainability in his capacity as Vice Chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

McGill memories and higlights

A member of the McGill Redmen hockey team for four years, Kerr was the squad's captain in his final season. But that isn't his most cherished hockey memory. "As the coach of the McGill women's hockey team, I met another very enthusiastic hockey person -- my wife Sheryl."

"McGill is a place where someone always makes you feel welcome and part of something important."

Anna Galati
Annual Fund/Alumni Relations Coordinator,
Montreal, Quebec

Achievements:

Designs, edits and publishes Coming Events brochure, distributed to about 20,000 alumni and donors in the Montreal area.

Provides information and direction to the Montreal-area branches.

Manages the administrative support that assists over 45 McGill interest groups in their support of annual fundraising campaigns.

As Class Reunion Coordinator (1989-1999), organized all aspects of selected Homecoming events and recruited and trained reunion chairs and class representatives.

McGill memories and higlights

"My most memorable McGill moment was when I organized my first Homecoming event (Principal's Dinner) and witnessed a reunion of two former classmates who had not seen each other in 50 years. Both graduates, through tears of joy, embraced fondly as they reminisced about 'Good Old McGill.'"

Associate director (Alumni/Annual Fund) Maria Keenan says:

"In all her dealings with McGill volunteers, never once have I heard any alumnus say anything negative about Anna! The same can be said by her colleagues at Martlet House and in the Faculties."

David Harpp
Professor of Chemistry, McGill University
St. Lambert, Quebec

Distinctions:

Principal's Prize for Teaching Excellence, 2001.
Chair, McGill's Department of Chemistry, 1998-2001.
3M Teaching Fellow, presented by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 1998.
Michael Smith Award for the Promotion of Science, presented by Canadian government, 1996.
David Thomson Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision and Teaching, 1996.
The Royal Society of Canada's McNeil Award for the Public Awareness of Science, 1992.
Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching, McGill's Faculty of Science, 1982.
Over 200 research papers published by journals.

Service to the community:

Sought-after speaker for alumni and public events as one of the principals in the popular "World of Chemistry" series.
Graduate Supervision and Teaching Award Committee, 1996-1998.
Faculty of Engineering Tenure Committee, 1995-1997.
Faculty of Science coordinator for McGill Open House, 1996.
Leo Yaffe Award Committee, 1993, 1995-1999 (Chair, 1998-1999).

McGill memories and higlights

"When former students contact me after years. One in particular, now a successful inventor/scientist and a multi-millionaire, called to say that I had had a profound influence on his life."

Chemistry professor Masad Damha says:

Any award entitled 'Prize for Excellence in Teaching' has Professor Harpp's name written all over it."

Kappy Flanders,
Volunteer,
Montreal, Quebec

Volunteer work:

Currently organizing a new public education seminar about lung cancer.
Founder and Co-Chair of the Council on Palliative Care, McGill University.
Member Jewish General Hospital Task Force for Palliative Care.
Member, Board of Governors, McGill University.
Member, Advisory Board, McGill Middle East Program in Civil Society and Peace Building.
President, United Israel Appeal of Canada, 1974.

Distinctions:

Member of the planning committee that formulated the Canadian Palliative Care Initiative, a blueprint for enhancing palliative care research, scholarship and care throughout Canada.

Driving force behind McGill's popular and widely publicized 'Mini-Med' lecture series for the general public, featuring some of McGill's top medicine professors discussing their areas of expertise in a jargon-free, accessible manner.

McGill memories and higlights

"Walking through the campus, particularly in winter."

Director of University Relations Kate Williams says:

"Kappy Flanders is a catalyst. She is energetic, creative and committed."

Tina K. Hobday, BA'88, BCL'93, LLB'93,
Lawyer
Montreal, Quebec

Volunteer work:

President, McGill Young Alumni.
Member, Faculty of Law Young Alumni Advisory Board, 2000-present.
Alumni Association representative on Career and Placement Service Advisory Board, 2000-present.
Member, Alumni Association Board, 2000-present.
Member, McGill Young Alumni Board, 1998-1999.
Vice-President Programs, McGill Young Alumni, 1999-2000.
President, Graduation Ball Committee for McGill law students, 1992-1993.
Student member, Faculty Board, 1991-1992.

Distinctions:

Partner in Langlois Gaudreau law firm, 2001.
McGill Young Alumni award, "Most significant contribution," 1999-2000 and 2000-2001.
Ambassador of Switzerland Prize for work as McGill arts student, 1988.

McGill memories and higlights

"McGill has opened my mind to different ideas, has filled my mind with knowledge, has allowed me to meet interesting people (and continues to do so), and has opened many doors both personally and professionally."

McGill Alumni Association of Ottawa

Frances Fleming Ross, BA'68, MEd'72, President

Number of members: 9,000

McGill is one of Canada's very best universities when it comes to producing new insights into the world of science and Ottawa-area graduates have taken full advantage of this fact in the past year. Science has been the theme for most of the branch's highly successful series of events.

Chemistry professor David Harpp visited with Ottawa alumni to discuss the chemistry of food, and other recent visitors include deans from three of McGill's scientifically oriented faculties. Topics tackled at events organized by the Ottawa branch ranged from the future of our health care system to the promise of stem cell therapies to genetically modified food.

The branch did far more than mull over the latest advances and controversies in biology and chemistry, however. A wine lovers' evening for Valentine's Day was organized, as was a spirited verbal joust on the benefits and dangers associated with decriminalizing marijuana, courtesy of the McGill Debating Union. The Mexican ambassador offered a lecture on politics, followed by a dinner at her residence.

The branch's Young Alumni program, headed by Dominique Groulx, also organized several successful get-togethers, among them, a guided haunted walk, curling and apple picking.

Branch event organizers include Fran Ross, Mina Dover-Cohen, Doug Durr, Clement Langemeyer, Tara Newell, Myron Rusk, Axel Bernabe, Paul Waksberg and Paul White, Young Alumni events were organized by Tania Callies, Andrew Bennett, Anu Pinnamaneni, Andrew Kovacs and Dominique Groulx.

Jeremy Farrell,
BA'02
Political Science and International Development
Montreal, Quebec

Activities:

President, Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU), 2001-2002.
Vice-President, Community and Government Affairs, SSMU, 2000-2001.
Floor Fellow, McGill University Residences, 1998-1999.

Achievements:

Chief Executive Officer for SSMU.
McGill Volunteer Week organizer.
Montreal Terry Fox Run organizer.
Tenants rights clinic organizer.
Represented McGill undergraduates to all levels of government.
Quebec Regional Director for the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations
McGill Faculty of Arts Centraide Campaign organizer.

"McGill is so much more than a place where students come to learn. It's a real community -- a city within a city. As a student leader, I was grateful for all the support in time, money and effort we were given by so many people, including McGill alumni."

Naomi Lear,
BSc'02
Honours Psychology
Toronto, Ontario

Achievements:

Spokesperson, Sexual Assault Centre, Students' Society of McGill University, 2001-present.
Leadership Trainer, programs prepared and implemented for McGill Health Services, Sexual Assault Centre and Quebec Public Interest Research Group, 2001-present.
Editor, Fire With Water: A Journal for Survivors of Sexual Assault and their Supporters, 2001.
Editor, Facilitator's Guide to Training Volunteers for Crisis Intervention, 2001.
Phone Counselor, McGill Nightline, 2001-present.
Big Sister, Jewish Family Services, 2001-present.
Equity Commissioner, Students' Society of McGill University, 2001.
Research Assistant on various projects for the Eating Disorders Clinic, the Department of Psychology and the Department of Pediatrics, on subjects ranging from bulimia to pain in association with MMR vaccinations, 1996-present.

Distinctions:

Young Woman of Distinction Award, Montreal YWCA, 2002.
Hiram Mills Scholarship (top ranked student in the Faculty of Science), 2001.
J.W. McConnell Award (among the top 5% of students in the Faculty of Science)
Scarlet Key Award for Leadership at McGill, 2001.
McGill Alumni Association of Toronto Community Service Prize, 2001.
Dean's List (top 10% of students in the Faculty of Science), 2000, 2001.
Planned Parenthood Award for work in the field of human sexuality, 2000.
Kruger Memorial Scholarship for Service to the Jewish Community, 1999-2002.

"My volunteer work is motivated by a desire to listen to voices that have been neglected, quiet voices, and to make those voices heard. I get a lot out of the things I do -- I've met so many amazing people and learned so much."

Ali-Ismail Shivji,
BEng'03
Electrical Engineering
Minor in Technological Entrepreneurship
Calgary, Alberta

Achievements:

Founding Member, McGill chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB).
Student Senator, Faculty of Engineering, 2001-present.
Member, Committee on Student Affairs, 2001-present.
Member, Committee on Academic Integrity, 2001-present.
Chair, University Affairs Committee, SSMU, responsible for $1.2 million within McGill Libraries, 2000-2001.
Civilian instructor, Royal Canadian Air Cadets, 1999-2001.
Volunteer, Montreal Neurological Institute, 1998-1999.
Organizer, McGill Model United Nations.

Distinctions:

Scarlet Key Award for Leadership at McGill, 2002.
As part of the EWB/Light Up the World project, installed low-cost, energy-efficient lighting in impoverished villages in Nepal, India and Sri Lanka.
Solicited sponsorships and donations for EWB national conference held at McGill in 2001.
TD-Canada Trust Scholarship for Outstanding Community Leadership, 2001.
Optimist Club of Calgary Exceptional Citizen Award, 1996, 1998.

"I'm grateful for all the opportunities this school has given me and which have made me the person I am today. I will proudly uphold and carry the McGill name with me for the rest of my life. McGill, you rock!"