KAROL DABBS - A multi talented personality with varied interests

expanse of calling.
Do you have a calling for the wild and the
untamed? Do you desire to capture the
spectacular, mind-blowing, awe-inspiring
beauty and bounty of nature in images to
create your own ever lasting impressions?
Do you have a flair for many things and
wonder what your true calling is? Well, our
next speaker is sure to inspire and
motivate you no matter how vast your
“Life is notes under our fingers—we just have to figure out what notes to play” - Jamie Fox
CGS welcomes:
KAROL DABBS - A multi talented personality with varied interests
Educator, Pianist, Vocalist, Nature Conservator
Director,The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada.
March 26 2013
11:30 – 12:30 Lakeview Gym
Karol was born in the Peace River country of Northern Alberta and grew up on a Canada Agriculture
Research Station near the isolated farming and First Nation’s community of Fort Vermilion. Her
passions from an early age were her Music (piano and voice and her experiences in Nature.
Karol has degrees in Piano, Biology, Music Education and a Masters of Education with a specialization
in The Motivation and Management of Human Resources. Karol’s more than 40-years of experience in
education encompasses the role of a teacher (K to XII), music consultant, and school principal. She
completed her career as Coordinator of Administrative Staffing and Leadership Development for the
Calgary Board of Education.
A person with varied interests: During her teaching career Karol continued her voice and piano

studies, taught in the Children’s’ Choir Program at Mount Royal and was Volunteer Chair of Youth
Culture for the 1988 Olympics which included Dance in Opening Ceremonies. She also continued to
enjoy various environmental pursuits.
Other Accomplishments:
Recipient of the Alberta Excellence in
Teaching Award and the Alberta
Achievement Award.
Delegate and presenter at Congress of
Educators at the International Olympic
Academy in Olympia, Greece in addition
to working with School Principals in Seoul,
Korea.
“Remember that imagination is the faculty of the soul and that when it suggests new pathways to us; we are being
invited to explore the territory of the soul in ways that will certainly change and re-enchant us.” - Caitlin
Matthews
publications and presentations.
Other Community Involvements:
Director at the JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE OF CANADA
Active Retirement:
Since retiring Karol has worked as a
consultant in the field of education and
volunteered with the Calgary Foundation.
She continues to volunteer with:
The Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park
Foundation,
The Honens International Piano
Competition, and
The Nature Conservancy of Canada to
whom she donates her photographic
images for use in many of their
Karol and her husband were honored to work on a Jane Goodall Project on Environmental Education
with primary school teachers in rural Uganda in March, 2012.