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<strong>ALUMNI</strong><br />
news<br />
Spring 2006<br />
Cover<br />
Story: Story<br />
Dale Hancocks<br />
Senior VP Operations<br />
Nelvana • Page 5<br />
PLAN YOUR<br />
OWN CLASS<br />
REUNION<br />
Page 29<br />
TIPS FROM<br />
THE INSIDE<br />
Page 9<br />
MUSIC INDUSTRY<br />
ARTS TURNS 30!<br />
Page 15
22 Alumni<br />
Dale Hancocks<br />
balances cartoon<br />
characters and<br />
corporate law at<br />
Nelvana.<br />
table of<br />
contents<br />
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<strong>ALUMNI</strong><br />
news<br />
Touring<br />
Tuscany<br />
Sue<br />
Willoughby, RRT<br />
Fashion<br />
Design in India<br />
Diploma to<br />
Degree<br />
Alumni<br />
Perks<br />
Class<br />
Notes<br />
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Managing Editor<br />
Karen Monahan<br />
Editor<br />
Simone Graham<br />
Graphic Design<br />
Trish Tully, Flair Creative<br />
Alumni PERKS<br />
Michael Wickett<br />
Cover Photography<br />
Paul Miszczyk<br />
Inside Photography<br />
John Sing<br />
Looking inside at<br />
trades training.<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni Association<br />
Board of Directors<br />
Randy Dafoe – President<br />
Betty Holme – Vice-President<br />
Jennifer Baxter – Treasurer<br />
Directors: Bev Anderson, Catherine Chester,<br />
Wendy Curtis, Jean Drummond, Jordan Hobbs,<br />
Walt Jeschenig, Gail Malcolm, Karen Monahan,<br />
Christine Thomson, David Wyatt, Lindsay Zajac<br />
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Designer Derrick<br />
Gilders turns a few<br />
heads.<br />
Music Industry Arts<br />
marks 30 years with<br />
a reunion celebration.<br />
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cast of<br />
falcons<br />
Siskinds is one of Southwestern Ontario’s largest and most established law fi rms,<br />
with more than 65 lawyers and 100 plus support staff working from offi ces in London,<br />
Toronto, Windsor, and an affi liate law fi rm in Quebec City. With more than 25 practice<br />
groups, the fi rm offers extensive experience in virtually every area of law, serving the<br />
legal needs of a diverse range of clients, from individuals to large public and private<br />
institutions. Winners of the London Chamber of Commerce 2004 Large Business of the<br />
Year award, Siskinds was also recently named one of the top ten mid-sized law fi rms in<br />
Central Canada by Canadian Lawyer magazine.<br />
When we visited their historic offi ce location in London, Ontario at 680 Waterloo<br />
Street at Pall Mall, we were delighted to meet these 20 <strong>Fanshawe</strong> alumni and sorry to<br />
miss the others who couldn’t make it on picture day.<br />
From left to right in the back row: Tina (Stumph) Ferguson (Legal Assistant 90); Lise<br />
(Nielsen) Grasso (Legal Assistant 95); Bev (Telehus) Dolgos (Legal Secretarial 78/ Offi ce<br />
Administration 94); Mary Ann (Ritchie) Leget (Professional Secretarial 83); Beth (Hood)<br />
Traynor (Journalism- Broadcast 80); Richard Morrison (Audio Visual Technician 93/<br />
Broadcasting- Television 95); John Mount (Computer Programmer Analyst 03)<br />
and Jason Schattin (Law Clerk 99).<br />
From left to right in the middle row: Deanna Wall (Law Clerk 04); Gina (Schwarz)<br />
Pennington (Legal Secretarial 77); Sylvia Rutter (Legal Assistant 99); Marcia Fraser (Legal<br />
Offi ce Administration 76); Victoria Beasley (Legal Offi ce student); Jody (LaMarsh) Stone<br />
(Legal Assistant 93); and Melora Lake-Rodrigues (Legal Offi ce Administration 82).<br />
From left to right in the front row: Cheryl (Waechter) Burton (Legal Secretarial 76); Melissa<br />
(Spohn) Taylor (Graphic Design 99); Lisa (Karn) Dixon (Personal Support Worker 99);<br />
Denise (Ward) Smith (Legal Assistant 96); and Amanda Woods (Legal Assistant 83/ General<br />
Business 96/ Human Resources Management 00/ Business Administration 00).<br />
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Ever wonder where people get such<br />
fantastic designs for their masks, helmets<br />
or vehicles? Could be you’re seeing a<br />
Derrick Gilders’ original. He has been<br />
creating high profile headwear and luxury<br />
motorcycle designs for the past 10 years.<br />
Heads Up:<br />
Artist at Work!<br />
O<br />
Once you meet Derrick Gilders (Industrial Design 89 /Mechanical<br />
Engineering Technician 92) you never really look at a helmet or<br />
motorcycle the same way again. The plain ones tend to look like<br />
a canvas or, if already decorated, they are indeed works of art.<br />
“My work is custom order, so I meet to discuss ideas, start<br />
with some sketches and go from there,” says Derrick. “Whatever<br />
you can imagine, I can design: from animals, birds and mythical<br />
creatures to superheroes, sports crests and flaming skulls.”<br />
He does the design work in his home studio but the surface<br />
preparation and painting is done in a rented corner of a<br />
mechanic’s workshop in London. He uses automobile paint<br />
and the production process has a number of intricate steps and<br />
layers.<br />
While he became used to seeing his work at local hockey<br />
arenas, he got a big thrill in 2003. “I was watching NHL hockey<br />
on TV with my son and Ottawa Senators’ goaltender Martin<br />
Prusek skated out wearing a Gilders Design original,” recalls<br />
Derrick. “It was my first year for a mask in the NHL and that<br />
was pretty cool.”<br />
The studio roster is impressive with projects completed for the<br />
New York Rangers, the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Cinncinati Reds<br />
and the London Knights just to name a few. He’s still busiest<br />
at Christmas though. “Parents and grandparents just love to<br />
surprise their young puck-stoppers,” says Derrick. “Those jobs<br />
are fun because they’re so personal.”<br />
Referrals are now providing more than steady part-time work,<br />
and while it may become full-time some day, Derrick says<br />
he’s quite content for now to keep his full-time job at General<br />
Dynamics where he has been a technical writer and editor for<br />
the past 14 years.<br />
To see more of Derrick’s high profile handiwork, visit<br />
www.gildersdesign.com<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006
COVER<br />
STORY<br />
It’s a long way from playing guitar in<br />
high school to holding one of the top<br />
management roles with entertainment<br />
giant Nelvana, but Dale Hancocks<br />
(Music Industry Arts 88) is proof that it<br />
can be done. His strategic decisions<br />
along the way have built on a set of skills<br />
originally honed at <strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
and for a man immersed in both<br />
cartoon characters and<br />
complex international contract<br />
law, he’s refreshingly relaxed.<br />
(All images copyright of Nelvana<br />
and used with permission.)<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006 5
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Nelvana’s shows are seen<br />
in 160 countries and<br />
include such well loved<br />
favourites as “Franklin”,<br />
“Little Bear”, and “Babar”<br />
as well as newer properties<br />
such as “Caitlin” and<br />
“Jonesy” from the show<br />
“6teen” seen hanging out<br />
at the mall with Dale above.<br />
Below is a lovable buggie<br />
from “Miss Spider’s Sunny<br />
Patch Friends”.<br />
As Senior Vice-President of Operations<br />
for Nelvana, Dale Hancocks works for<br />
one of the world’s largest international<br />
producers and distributors of<br />
children’s animation and related<br />
consumer products. Nelvana is<br />
owned by Canadian-based media<br />
and entertainment giant Corus<br />
Entertainment, a market leader in<br />
specialty TV and radio.<br />
So how did Dale land this great<br />
job surrounded by such colourful<br />
characters and a hugely diverse range<br />
of international partners? Well, it all<br />
began with a love of music. He took<br />
a year off after high school to play<br />
guitar in a band but then it was time to<br />
consider a full-time career.<br />
“It’s funny. I always thought I would<br />
end up working for a record company,”<br />
recalls Dale. “I heard good things about<br />
the Music Industry Arts program at<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> and thought that would be a<br />
good basis – a good start.”<br />
While at <strong>Fanshawe</strong>, Dale particularly<br />
enjoyed courses he took from<br />
professor Terry McManus on contracts<br />
and the business aspects of the music<br />
industry. After <strong>Fanshawe</strong>, Dale’s love<br />
of music led him to enrol in the music<br />
program at Wilfrid Laurier University<br />
but he ended up taking all his electives<br />
in business and earned a business<br />
degree instead.<br />
“The hands-on teaching and the<br />
camaraderie at <strong>Fanshawe</strong> and at<br />
Laurier were great,” Dale recalls.<br />
“We got to really connect with<br />
individuals who not only<br />
taught us skills, but we also<br />
heard about their lives, their<br />
experiences in the fi eld<br />
and I thought that was<br />
extremely relevant.”<br />
With his mind<br />
on the business<br />
of music, Dale<br />
enrolled in law school at The University<br />
of Western Ontario. “I already had<br />
both music exposure and a business<br />
education, so I thought I could use a<br />
legal background as well. That was<br />
my only reason for studying law,” says<br />
Dale. “Law School was a very strange<br />
place to be really because everyone<br />
else was there to become a lawyer in<br />
the usual sense of the word. I was just<br />
as happy to get in and get out.”<br />
While preparing to write his bar<br />
exams, Dale chose to article at a<br />
small but full-service law fi rm in<br />
Oakville, Ontario so he could gain<br />
broader hands-on legal experience<br />
before launching into his fi rst love:<br />
entertainment law.<br />
After passing the bar, he cut his teeth<br />
for four years at two different law fi rms<br />
in Toronto handling music supervision<br />
and clearing music rights for fi lm and<br />
TV productions. When Dale heard that<br />
Nelvana was planning two new live<br />
action productions and needed an<br />
experienced law fi rm, Nelvana became<br />
a client and Dale started working on<br />
the fi le.<br />
“Since the production legals<br />
were so involved and the shooting<br />
was in Alberta, I fostered a pretty<br />
strong relationship with one of the<br />
producers,” explains Dale. Nelvana<br />
offered him a position as in-house<br />
Legal Counsel in 1996 which he took.<br />
Dale’s fi rst role at Nelvana was<br />
development work which involved a<br />
lot of underlying rights agreements,<br />
optioning properties, and working<br />
closely with Nelvana representatives<br />
in Los Angeles where most of those<br />
properties originated.<br />
“I was very involved with copyright<br />
from a chain of title point of view and<br />
the commercial side of things,” says<br />
Dale. “So when someone writes a book<br />
or does a drawing or creates some<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006
intellectual property, we would<br />
come along and say, we think that<br />
can become a TV series or some<br />
kind of audio-visual production.”<br />
The process of taking a creation<br />
from its original form to another<br />
format is complex. First, Nelvana<br />
has to acquire the rights from the<br />
person who created the work.<br />
That’s where Dale would come<br />
in. “Once we gain the rights to<br />
adapt the characters and content,<br />
we would get into discussions<br />
not only about the commercial<br />
arrangements but also about the<br />
approval process along the way,”<br />
explains Dale.<br />
Just about that time, Nelvana<br />
was a company in transition and<br />
Dale decided to take a break.<br />
In 1998, he joined a colleague<br />
who was working at an outside<br />
law fi rm. With a keen interest in<br />
copyright issues, Dale also enrolled<br />
in a part-time Masters of Laws<br />
program in Intellectual Property<br />
at Osgoode Hall through York<br />
University.<br />
While working with the law fi rm,<br />
Nelvana continued to provide him<br />
with legal work. “I got to know the<br />
new general counsel at Nelvana<br />
pretty well,” recalls Dale. “He said<br />
that they wanted to establish an<br />
international distribution operation<br />
in Ireland and that I’d be perfect to<br />
start it up.”<br />
So, while Dale had never been<br />
to Ireland, he and his wife did not<br />
have children yet so they felt free<br />
to go. Just as he was working to<br />
complete his Master’s thesis, he<br />
rejoined Nelvana and set out for a<br />
six-year adventure in Ireland and<br />
England.<br />
Dale set everything up in Ireland<br />
from scratch and it worked out<br />
well because the government of the<br />
Shannon-side region offered tax<br />
incentives to companies engaged in<br />
intellectual property work.<br />
As Managing Director of Nelvana<br />
International, Dale focused on<br />
international licensing activities<br />
which sold programs to broadcasters<br />
“Creating animation<br />
programs is an incredibly<br />
complex business to<br />
fi nance. A show can<br />
cost you anywhere from<br />
$8 to $10 million for<br />
26 half-hour episodes.<br />
No one really has<br />
that kind of<br />
money lying<br />
around.”<br />
around the world. After three and a<br />
half years in Shannon, Dale went to<br />
London, England which is more of a<br />
hub for fi nanciers.<br />
“Creating animation programs<br />
is an incredibly complex business<br />
to fi nance. A show can cost you<br />
anywhere from $8 to $10 million<br />
for 26 half-hour episodes. No one<br />
really has that kind of money<br />
lying around,” explains Dale.<br />
“While the Canadian government<br />
has negotiated treaties with<br />
other countries to allow fi lm and<br />
television productions to be done<br />
in a team context, it makes putting<br />
together a patchwork of fi nance<br />
partners very complex and time<br />
consuming.”<br />
Dale’s expertise in bringing<br />
such parties together gave him<br />
excellent success and confi dence,<br />
but on the family side of life it<br />
was time for a change. In Ireland,<br />
he and his wife had welcomed<br />
twin boys and a third son. Then<br />
in England, they had a baby girl.<br />
“When our children started<br />
school, we decided it was time to<br />
come home. We wanted them to<br />
be in the Canadian school system<br />
and for all of us to be closer to<br />
family,” says Dale.<br />
While the family situation was<br />
one factor, there was another one<br />
brewing at Nelvana. “One of the<br />
main business reasons for my<br />
coming back to Toronto was to<br />
help pull the company together<br />
from a strategic point of view,”<br />
says Dale.<br />
He was in a unique position<br />
to do so, given his international<br />
exposure and expertise in<br />
business and legal issues on both<br />
the development and distribution<br />
sides. “In my current role, I make<br />
certain that we all try to pull in<br />
the same direction to accomplish<br />
our fi nancial and creative<br />
objectives,” explains Dale.<br />
Since returning to Canada in<br />
August 2005, Dale has been<br />
balancing life as a senior level<br />
legal executive and doting Dad.<br />
When asked how he manages<br />
everything, Dale is quick to credit<br />
his wife and he sums up his<br />
position with a relaxed smile:<br />
“Well, with four young children at<br />
home watching cartoons, I have<br />
my own little focus group, so that<br />
helps.”<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006 7<br />
<strong>ALUMNI</strong> SUCCESS
Front row, from left to right: Lisa Stapleton, Steve Tippett,<br />
Shawn Gingrich, Ron Koudys, Mark Moir and Richard<br />
Forster. In the back row: Aaron Deactis, Josh MacLean,<br />
Mike Kari, Michael Dren and Norma Staples.<br />
The gardens of Villa d’Este in Tivoli, Italy form one of<br />
the most remarkable and comprehensive illustrations of<br />
Renaissance culture at its most refi ned. Its innovative<br />
design along with the architectural components in the<br />
garden, such as fountains and ornamental basins, make<br />
this a unique example of an Italian 16th-century garden.<br />
These gardens had a profound infl uence on the development<br />
of garden design throughout Europe.<br />
8<br />
TOURING AND<br />
TEACHING IN TUSCANY<br />
What better place to learn and experience the beauty of<br />
landscape design than in the ancient garden paradises<br />
of Italy under the Tuscan sun. Nine <strong>Fanshawe</strong> students<br />
took the trip of a lifetime last fall and spent their fi fth<br />
semester in a learning environment usually studied only<br />
in textbooks. Instead, this fortunate group got to breathe<br />
in the beauty fi rst-hand, returning to Canada after 14<br />
weeks with a lifetime of memories and a much more<br />
worldly view of their chosen profession.<br />
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With stops at some of the most beautiful garden settings in Italy,<br />
third-year students within <strong>Fanshawe</strong>’s landscape design program<br />
gained a world of knowledge on their optional fi eld trip to Europe<br />
last fall.<br />
Their guide for the 14-week excursion was Richard Forster,<br />
a retired professor from the University of Guelph who has a<br />
passion for the history and theory of landscape architecture.<br />
It took about a year to get the trip organized and approved at<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> and that process was led by Ron Koudys, who is<br />
coordinator and professor within the Landscape Design program.<br />
Both Ron and the Senior Vice-President of Academics, Joy<br />
Warkentin travelled to Italy to visit and see the group in action.<br />
Ron stayed for two weeks and was very impressed by the quality<br />
of the learning experience.<br />
“Some of the gardens and monasteries toured were 300<br />
years old so it was surreal to walk through them – like walking<br />
back in time,” explains Ron. “You can’t help but appreciate the<br />
early construction techniques and the design history within<br />
such a beautiful setting. Then for the class to sit down together<br />
at a nearby bench or table and discuss it all was a spectacular<br />
experience.”<br />
Daytrips were fi lled with this kind of hands-on learning and<br />
evenings were spent documenting their work and preparing<br />
assignments on computers. The school work was structured so<br />
students would get full credit for the semester. During weekends,<br />
students were able to travel and sightsee because trains and<br />
buses were accessible and relatively inexpensive.<br />
The fi eld trip was so successful that there are plans to offer it<br />
again in 2006 but perhaps structured within an eight-week tour<br />
that will tie in better with the academic year and lower the cost<br />
per student which amounted to about $5,000 last year.<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006
Respiratory Technology as a career was still in its infancy when Susan<br />
(Johnson) Willoughby (Respiratory Technology 80) fi rst considered<br />
it. After graduating and working in Canada for 10 years, she made a<br />
strategic decision to move to the United States. Her career has matured<br />
along with the profession and her decision to settle in Florida turned out<br />
to be a wise and successful move. This is her story, in her own words.<br />
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When I graduated high school in 1976, it took me<br />
a few years to fi nd my niche. I tried Engineering at<br />
UWO, but then switched to Natural Sciences where I<br />
stayed for a year. It didn’t seem like that course would<br />
lead to a job, so I started looking around.<br />
A family friend who taught at <strong>Fanshawe</strong> suggested<br />
Respiratory Therapy. It wasn’t a very well known<br />
career then but the fi eld was growing. I was intrigued<br />
by the technical aspects and I also liked the idea of<br />
working with people.<br />
When I signed up, it was a two-year program with<br />
no time off. Since the fi eld was just developing,<br />
we were maybe the fi rst ones to really get into the<br />
intricacies of ventilation. It was an interesting and<br />
exciting time to be a student.<br />
My fi rst job out of college was with Stratford General<br />
Hospital in 1980 as a staff therapist. I married a great<br />
guy and after three years in Stratford, we moved<br />
to Smith Falls in eastern Ontario. I had no problem<br />
TIPS FROM THE INSIDE<br />
By: Sue Willoughby, RRT<br />
fi nding a good job in Kingston which was about 60<br />
miles away. During eight years in Smith Falls, we<br />
welcomed our fi rst two boys: Josh born in 1984 and<br />
Shaun in 1987.<br />
My work in Kingston was a catalyst for many things.<br />
The respiratory fi eld was really growing by this time.<br />
I worked with several doctors and researchers who<br />
were involved with cutting edge developments and<br />
therapies, including pioneering work with surfactant to<br />
help neonates (pre-mature babies).<br />
One day, the TV news said the United States was<br />
issuing a non-preference VISA that would allow<br />
Canadians to work in the States. There was a limited<br />
time frame to apply and applications were through the<br />
US embassy in Ottawa.<br />
Since I was getting really tired of my long daily<br />
commute, we looked seriously at emigrating. The<br />
weather in the southern states was appealing, plus we<br />
fi gured my husband would have a better chance to put<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006 9<br />
<strong>ALUMNI</strong> SUCCESS
TIPS FROM THE INSIDE<br />
10<br />
his love of fl ying to good use, since<br />
they did aerial spraying year round.<br />
It was 1989 and I found lots of<br />
RT positions listed all across North<br />
America in the trade magazines.<br />
We looked seriously at Florida and<br />
Ocala caught our eye. The city had<br />
about 150,000 people then and has<br />
since grown to 250,000. I applied<br />
to Monroe Regional Medical Centre<br />
as an RT. They wanted people with<br />
experience which I had.<br />
Turns out I saw more trauma in<br />
the fi rst three months in Florida<br />
than I had in 10 years working<br />
at trauma centres and teaching<br />
hospitals in Ontario. We’re right on<br />
the I-75 interstate highway which<br />
is a busy spot for accidents. Plus,<br />
compared to Canada, I was seeing<br />
more trauma due to weapons, like<br />
gunshot wounds and stabbings.<br />
So while that wasn’t a pleasant<br />
aspect of the job, you take it as a<br />
challenge because you’re there to<br />
help make people better. The fi rst<br />
few minutes that someone is being<br />
treated for such serious injuries, it’s<br />
really important that you do what<br />
you can do and not panic.<br />
In 1996, I was offered a really<br />
good opportunity at Ocala Regional<br />
Medical Center. It also meant far<br />
less weekend work, so I took it. Our<br />
third son Andrew had been born<br />
while I was at Monroe in 1994.<br />
The new job was as an Emergency<br />
Room Specialist in an expanded<br />
role where RTs and RNs took a<br />
team approach to looking after the<br />
patient.<br />
For about the next four years, I<br />
had my summers off. For RNs and<br />
RTs, it can be very fl exible because<br />
the population of Florida swells<br />
in the winter and falls again in<br />
the summer. During the non-peak<br />
summer months, we travelled,<br />
camped and visited relatives in<br />
As far as advice goes, I<br />
recommend that students<br />
search the Internet to fi nd<br />
out what jobs are out<br />
there. Our HR department<br />
goes a long way to help<br />
health care workers<br />
relocate. We have nurses<br />
and RTs from countries<br />
around the world.<br />
Canada for extended periods. That<br />
was really great.<br />
I transitioned out of the Emergency<br />
Room Specialist role about three and<br />
half years ago. I now work between<br />
West Marion Community Hospital<br />
and Ocala Regional. When our<br />
Director left, I went from Supervisor<br />
to Interim Director of Respiratory<br />
Therapy and ultimately Respiratory<br />
Director of both facilities.<br />
Then in January 2006, I became<br />
Cardiopulmonary Director. In this<br />
role, I manage workload issues,<br />
check on how the therapists are<br />
doing with patients, plus there<br />
are a lot of quality assurance and<br />
government mandated programs<br />
to oversee.<br />
After all these years, I’m still a<br />
Canadian citizen. I have an Alien<br />
Registration Card that allows me<br />
to be a permanent US resident<br />
and it needs to be renewed every<br />
10 years.<br />
As far as advice goes, I<br />
recommend that students search<br />
the Internet to fi nd out what jobs<br />
are out there. They’ll fi nd lots<br />
of opportunity down here. Our<br />
human resource department goes<br />
a long way to help health care<br />
workers relocate. We have nurses<br />
and RTs from countries around<br />
the world.<br />
In particular, North Central<br />
Florida offers a wide variety of<br />
work environments and living<br />
options in both rural settings<br />
and large cities. In Ocala, we’re<br />
only an hour from Orlando.<br />
While the city is growing, it’s still<br />
family-oriented and neighbours<br />
are friendly. When you’re new, it<br />
doesn’t take long to be accepted<br />
as one of the community.<br />
Overall, it’s a pretty easy place<br />
to like. When you see fl owers<br />
blooming in February, it renews<br />
your spirit. As for Ontario, I do<br />
miss my family and I still dream<br />
about the best summer sausage<br />
I’ve ever had that’s made in a<br />
market in Tavistock, Ontario.<br />
But as opportunities go, our<br />
move was a good one and life is<br />
what you make it. We’ve done<br />
very well and our boys are happy<br />
and well educated. The world is<br />
open to them and I hope they will<br />
fi nd fulfi lling careers and happy<br />
lives as we have.<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006
fashion<br />
design<br />
fi nds its<br />
style in<br />
India<br />
Teaching fashion design half a world away from home has made the past<br />
academic year a whirlwind for Wendy Sperry. In a country of one billion people,<br />
the culture and working environment in India was just about as far removed<br />
from the London, Ontario campus as you could possibly get. In Chandigarh,<br />
this seasoned college professor met personal and professional challenges that<br />
have made her stronger and wiser and she has connected with students and<br />
a culture she will never forget. Here’s how it all came to pass.<br />
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
INTERNATIONAL NEWS<br />
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“I would strongly<br />
recommend this kind of<br />
exchange program,” says<br />
Wendy. “I know I am a<br />
better teacher. I’m not only<br />
bringing home new course<br />
materials on textiles, but<br />
certainly a<br />
deeper level<br />
of skill...”<br />
When <strong>Fanshawe</strong> was offered the<br />
chance to deliver its world-class<br />
Fashion Design program in India, the<br />
opportunity was a perfect fi t. The<br />
<strong>College</strong> was already well into a strategic<br />
plan to internationalize that began<br />
in the mid-90s. Through concerted<br />
efforts, recruitment levels had risen to<br />
more than 300 international students<br />
each year and exchange programs<br />
and international partnerships were<br />
fl ourishing.<br />
What worked so well in this case<br />
was that Georgian <strong>College</strong> in Barrie,<br />
Ontario already had a viable working<br />
arrangement with CIIS, the Canadian<br />
Institute for International Studies, in<br />
Chandigarh in the Punjab state in North<br />
India. The modern campus of about 650<br />
full-time students focuses on delivering<br />
North American diploma and degree<br />
programs. <strong>Fanshawe</strong> became a partner<br />
with Georgian and CIIS in 2005.<br />
It is a very attractive feature to Indian<br />
students that the curriculum at CIIS is<br />
equivalent to what the student would<br />
be learning in Canada. Their diploma in<br />
Fashion Design will be from <strong>Fanshawe</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> and students may transfer to<br />
study at <strong>Fanshawe</strong> in Canada and get<br />
full standing for their credits.<br />
One key step was selecting a<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> professor willing to travel<br />
to India and work for the year. Enter<br />
Wendy Sperry, a 17-year veteran within<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong>’s Fashion Merchandising and<br />
Fashion Design programs. She taught<br />
part-time in London for 13 years and<br />
full-time for the past four years. For<br />
many of those years, she also ran her<br />
own business, designing, manufacturing<br />
and marketing a high-end line of<br />
children’s clothing.<br />
When she arrived in Chandigarh<br />
in August 2005, she was warmly<br />
welcomed by her Georgian colleagues,<br />
her Indian hosts, and her fresh-faced<br />
students. India is the world’s 12th<br />
largest economy with a population of<br />
one billion. While its fashion design<br />
industry is only about 10 years old,<br />
it is growing exponentially within an<br />
incredibly rich textile base. Textiles form<br />
a huge part of the national economy<br />
and culture in India.<br />
As program coordinator and<br />
professor, Wendy got the program up<br />
and running at CIIS. She purchased<br />
equipment, hired staff, interviewed<br />
students, and even worked with<br />
carpenters to build the design studio.<br />
She mentors other staff members so<br />
that they understand the <strong>Fanshawe</strong><br />
curriculum and Canadian teaching<br />
methods.<br />
Admittedly the work environment<br />
is quite different. Virtually everyone<br />
speaks either Hindi or Punjabi with<br />
very little spoken English. There is a<br />
strictly defi ned level of hierarchy, so no<br />
one wants to take action without an<br />
OK from the top. “One strange thing<br />
that happens almost daily in India is<br />
power outages,” says Wendy. “Now,<br />
we don’t even notice if the lights go<br />
out except in sewing class.”<br />
The assignment has been<br />
challenging both personally and<br />
professionally. “I am away from<br />
everything I know and love,<br />
especially my family, which has been<br />
pretty hard at times,” she admits.<br />
“Plus there is such a lack of privacy<br />
and autonomy. Indians would not<br />
even understand these concepts but I<br />
miss them dearly.”<br />
While her Indian students seem<br />
younger and have different priorities<br />
in terms of their education and<br />
career, they have become very<br />
dear to her heart. “It is culturally<br />
unacceptable for students to hold part<br />
time jobs. They’ve had servants all<br />
their lives and most still live at home<br />
with their parents,” says Wendy.<br />
“Since their educational system is<br />
based largely on memorization,<br />
our type of hands-on learning and<br />
creative thinking is new for them.<br />
But I must say they like it and have<br />
adjusted well.”<br />
Students in India tend to work<br />
as a unit not as individuals. Wendy<br />
has had to adapt her teaching style<br />
because they all want to do every<br />
assignment together. “Their approach<br />
means that the whole class will make<br />
the same mistakes on the assignment<br />
so I have to watch for that.”<br />
Overall, Wendy feels she has<br />
connected very well with her<br />
students. They are quite sensitive<br />
to her needs and really seem to<br />
appreciate what she is giving them in<br />
terms of knowledge and skill.<br />
As she prepared to return home in<br />
May, she refl ected on an incredible<br />
year. “I would strongly recommend<br />
this kind of exchange program,”<br />
says Wendy. “I know I am a better<br />
teacher. I’m not only bringing home<br />
new course materials on textiles but<br />
certainly a deeper level of skill in<br />
dealing with international students.”<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006
Diploma D TO<br />
Degree<br />
To what degree is a Bachelor degree valued in today’s<br />
marketplace? It depends on many factors, but the reality is that<br />
to get ahead in some professions, a degree is still viewed as the<br />
preferred standard requirement. Why then are so many students<br />
starting out in diploma programs at community college when their<br />
ultimate goal is to get their degree? Because it works. Here’s how.<br />
There are hundreds of students<br />
taking college level programs with<br />
the express intent of paving their<br />
way to a university degree. Here are<br />
two such stories of students who<br />
specifi cally chose <strong>Fanshawe</strong> as the<br />
route to get there.<br />
Enter Keith Ardron. His goal was<br />
to get his Bachelor of Landscape<br />
Architecture from the University of<br />
Guelph. When he couldn’t secure<br />
direct entry from high school because<br />
of intense competition, he found<br />
another way in.<br />
He applied to <strong>Fanshawe</strong>’s threeyear<br />
diploma program in Landscape<br />
Design in 2000. While at <strong>Fanshawe</strong>,<br />
he studied hard and participated<br />
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<strong>ALUMNI</strong> SUCCESS
14<br />
Diploma D TO<br />
in two co-op work<br />
placements, one in a<br />
nursery which enriched<br />
his plant knowledge<br />
and one in estate<br />
maintenance.<br />
Armed with practical<br />
work experience and a<br />
solid academic record<br />
at <strong>Fanshawe</strong>, he was<br />
accepted into the<br />
third year of the fouryear<br />
Bachelor degree<br />
program in Landscape<br />
Architecture at the<br />
University of Guelph in<br />
2003. There are a number of seats<br />
set aside for college graduates to<br />
transfer in each year.<br />
“Just after my fi rst year at<br />
Guelph I got a great summer job<br />
with ELT – Elevated Landscape<br />
Technologies, a company<br />
specializing in green roofs and<br />
living walls,” explains Keith.<br />
“They needed someone with CAD<br />
experience (computer<br />
assisted design) and<br />
plant knowledge,<br />
two skills I had<br />
from <strong>Fanshawe</strong>.”<br />
Keith<br />
continued to<br />
work parttime<br />
for ELT<br />
during his<br />
second<br />
Keith Ardron<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> diploma in<br />
Landscape Design<br />
and degree from the<br />
University of Guelph.<br />
Degree egree<br />
Julia Xu<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> diploma in<br />
Business Accounting and<br />
degree from the University<br />
of Western Ontario.<br />
and last year at Guelph and joined<br />
them full-time upon graduation.<br />
Today, he is Marketing Director<br />
with ELT. “I knew a degree would<br />
open up a broader range of career<br />
opportunities, but earning my<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> diploma fi rst was the<br />
key to making it happen,” says<br />
Keith.<br />
His story is not unlike that of<br />
Julia Xu of China who came to<br />
Canada with the goal of getting<br />
a Bachelor degree in Accounting.<br />
It is extremely diffi cult for<br />
international students to secure<br />
direct entry into a Canadian<br />
university so she applied fi rst to<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong>’s two-year diploma<br />
program in Business Accounting.<br />
She fi nished at <strong>Fanshawe</strong> in<br />
only 18 months by taking four<br />
straight semesters.<br />
She then applied to<br />
The University of<br />
Western Ontario and<br />
was accepted with<br />
advanced standing<br />
into the third year<br />
of the Bachelor of<br />
Management and<br />
Organizational Studies<br />
program on the main<br />
campus.<br />
“The university<br />
transfer agreement<br />
between <strong>Fanshawe</strong><br />
and UWO is awesome.<br />
My diploma studies at<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> couldn’t have<br />
worked out better and I<br />
graduate with my degree from<br />
UWO in June – all this in just<br />
four years,” explains Julia.<br />
“Better yet, I’ve started fulltime<br />
work as an investment<br />
accountant in Toronto with<br />
one of the world’s largest<br />
global investment fi rms. It’s a<br />
fantastic opportunity.”<br />
The routes that Keith and<br />
Julia took to get their degrees<br />
represent two of more than<br />
40 such transfer agreements<br />
that are in place between<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> and top level<br />
universities across Canada.<br />
Mission accomplished!<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006
MUSIC INDUSTRY ARTS<br />
It’s a bond that bridges 30 years and one that is stronger than ever: once an MIA<br />
grad, always an MIA grad! The Music Industry Arts program at <strong>Fanshawe</strong> turned<br />
30 years young this year and continues to train talented people in the art of making,<br />
producing and managing music. This close-knit alumni group gathered in Toronto<br />
at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in March 2006 to celebrate and continue to bond.<br />
Here’s just a sampling of who’s who and what’s new.<br />
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30TH ANNIVERSARY<br />
MUSIC INDUSTRY ARTS<br />
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Tom Treumuth (at left) and<br />
Gary Furniss (at right),<br />
both Class of 1976, were<br />
delighted to share some<br />
memories with professor<br />
and music recording<br />
legend, Jack Richardson.<br />
Tom Treumuth is President of Hypnotic<br />
Management Inc. and Fallen Sky<br />
Records. He is currently working on<br />
the Best of Honeymoon Suite DVD<br />
for Warner as well as promoting<br />
singer-songwriter Rob Lemonthe,<br />
whose album Tom just produced. Gary<br />
Furniss, President of Sony/ATV Music<br />
Publishing Canada, enjoyed the MIA<br />
reunion and adds with a smile: “Jack<br />
was a huge inspiration and mentor for<br />
my musical journey in this industry!”<br />
MIA professor and<br />
Juno-award winning<br />
record producer Kevin<br />
Doyle (MIA 79) gets<br />
caught up on news<br />
with Paula Anderson<br />
(MIA 90). Paula is Creative<br />
Producer and Senior Supervisor at<br />
Crunch Recording Group in Toronto.<br />
She is active in voice casting and voice<br />
direction, as well as editing music<br />
for children’s programming seen<br />
in Canada and overseas. Kevin was<br />
welcomed back to <strong>Fanshawe</strong> from a<br />
distinguished track record in industry<br />
(13 Juno awards and nominations) and<br />
as part of the MIA teaching staff, he<br />
now mentors the next generation of<br />
MIA students and stars.<br />
Marianne Hewitt-<br />
Anderson (MIA 93) was<br />
pleased to reconnect with<br />
retired coordinator and<br />
professor Jan Greene.<br />
Marianne is Supervisor, Online and<br />
Tariff Licensing with the CMRRA<br />
(Canadian Musical Reproduction<br />
Rights Agency), where she is<br />
involved with the changing shape of<br />
distribution and licensing in Canada.<br />
She admits times are pretty exciting<br />
for the agency with the ground shifting<br />
so much within the music industry<br />
these days.<br />
The Class of 1995<br />
was well represented<br />
by this group, including<br />
Jeff Wright, Dave Steen<br />
and Brett Humber, shown<br />
below with current MIA Program<br />
Coordinator, Terry McManus. Jeff<br />
Wright (MIA-Recording Engineering<br />
95) is a freelance recording engineer<br />
and producer, who also teaches<br />
sound and recording and heads the<br />
Audio Program at Trebas Institute<br />
in Toronto. Jeff was chief recording<br />
engineer in a recent 2006 Emmy<br />
nominated show and he has recorded<br />
hundreds of cartoons, including a<br />
recent guest record for Fox’s “Family<br />
Guy”. After graduation, Dave Steen<br />
(MIA Recording Engineering 96/<br />
MIA Recorded Music Production 95)<br />
became Chief Engineer and Producer<br />
at The Barn Recording Studio, as well<br />
as live sound engineer for many local<br />
venues. In 2001, Dave returned to<br />
radio in Thunder Bay. He now runs<br />
the Production & Imaging department<br />
as well as being on-air host for Magic<br />
99.9FM & 105.3 The Giant in Thunder<br />
Bay with new station ownership<br />
from Canada’s largest broadcasting<br />
company, Newcap Radio. Brett Humber<br />
(MIA-Recording Engineering 95) is<br />
owner/operator of the Sound Foundry<br />
Recording and Multimedia Studio<br />
based in Windsor, Ontario and he is<br />
still performing with his band, Area 51<br />
– 12 years, 1200 shows – rock on!<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006
A steady stream of guests<br />
signed in and mingled<br />
much, including Julie<br />
James (MIA-Recorded<br />
Music Production 89)<br />
below right. While she couldn’t<br />
stay long, she enjoyed catching up with<br />
friends. Julie is Program Director with<br />
The New 103.1 Fresh FM in London,<br />
Ontario. Rick Starks (MIA-Recording<br />
Engineering 81) is an engineer in postproduction<br />
at CBC-TV in Toronto. The<br />
end of last year was busy fi nishing up<br />
a pet project he always wanted to do,<br />
producing a record featuring his brother,<br />
jazz musician, Tom Starks.<br />
It was a great night to<br />
celebrate music and<br />
where a music career can<br />
take you. Below are Dale<br />
Heslip (MIA-Recorded<br />
Music Production 80)<br />
with Jack Richardson, and<br />
Dale’s wife, Patty Shaw. Dale<br />
is a TV commercial director represented<br />
by Imported Artists in Toronto, Motiv<br />
Films in the US and Mr. Hyde in the UK<br />
and France. He recently completed work<br />
on a spectacular commercial featuring all<br />
the cultural greats for Ontario Tourism<br />
– most readers will know the tune in the<br />
ad from watching Bugs Bunny as a child<br />
- “On with the show, this is it!”<br />
Terry McManus welcomed<br />
the chance to hear all the<br />
news from Geoff Jarvis<br />
(MIA-Recorded Music<br />
Production 94) below at left<br />
and Yurko Mychaluk (MIA-<br />
Recording Engineering 94)<br />
at right. After working around and<br />
about, including a stop in Halifax,<br />
Geoff is happily settled back home in<br />
Kingston, Ontario working as Regional<br />
Manager with Sunrise Records and he’s<br />
also done some band management.<br />
Yurko spent 18 months touring with<br />
Dreamworks recording artist Nellie<br />
Furtado in support of her debut CD<br />
“Whoa, Nellie” which included television<br />
appearances on Jay Leno’s Tonight<br />
Show, Last Call with Carson Daly, and<br />
Rosie O’Donnell. Yurko has recorded and<br />
toured with many independent artists<br />
and he has just launched his own debut<br />
CD entitled Heavy.<br />
ode to 30 years<br />
of bonding<br />
Wow – even after 30 years, I<br />
am still amazed by the strength<br />
of the bond I feel towards<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> and the teachers.<br />
I have been working in the<br />
industry for many years and<br />
I have seen numerous former<br />
students come through. There is<br />
an instant bond that is formed<br />
with people who have been<br />
through the program.<br />
We shared the same<br />
experience! An experience, I<br />
might add, that I have not been<br />
able to top in all the years since.<br />
I truly hope that current students<br />
stop and smell the roses while<br />
they are there and appreciate<br />
the opportunity they have been<br />
given.<br />
It wouldn’t be possible to write<br />
about <strong>Fanshawe</strong> without writing<br />
something about the teachers.<br />
It really is quite remarkable that<br />
the core teachers have continued<br />
to teach at <strong>Fanshawe</strong> as long as<br />
they have. That only comes from<br />
people doing what they love to<br />
do and also caring about the<br />
people they are teaching. Thirty<br />
years look great on you!<br />
Ron Porter (MIA 87)<br />
Director of Copyright, CMRRA Ltd.<br />
(Canadian Musical Reproduction<br />
Rights Agency)<br />
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30TH ANNIVERSARY<br />
MUSIC INDUSTRY ARTS
30TH ANNIVERSARY<br />
MUSIC INDUSTRY ARTS<br />
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Juno Award honours<br />
work on Prince’s<br />
Musicology<br />
L. Stu Young (MIA-Recording<br />
Engineering 88) won the 2005<br />
Juno for Recording Engineer of the<br />
Year for Prince’s Musicology (NPG/<br />
Sony BMG) for his work on tracks<br />
“What Do You Want” and “Man In<br />
Your Life”. It was a great party in<br />
Winnipeg for the Juno presentations<br />
and he stopped briefl y at Portage<br />
Avenue for the photo above.<br />
As head engineer of the worldrenowned<br />
Metalworks studio in<br />
Toronto, Stu was at the helm of the<br />
recording sessions when Prince<br />
spent three weeks there towards the<br />
end of 2003, recording tracks for<br />
Musicology. Prince then recruited<br />
Stu to complete the recording<br />
and mix sessions at studios in<br />
Los Angeles and New York. Stu<br />
regularly works with high profi le<br />
Canadian and international artists,<br />
and his credits include projects for<br />
Tina Tuner, David Wilcox, Alannah<br />
Myles, Anne Murray, George Fox,<br />
Dan Hill and the Henries.<br />
Living at the DA lab<br />
For current students in the postdiploma<br />
Recording Industry Digital<br />
Applications program at <strong>Fanshawe</strong>,<br />
the DA lab is their home away from<br />
home. Set up in 2000 and located<br />
in D-1046 at the London campus,<br />
the lab includes the digital audio<br />
work station above. Here, professor<br />
Steve Malison shows students<br />
how to edit and mix sound to<br />
picture within a MIDI/digital multimedia<br />
environment. The system<br />
is completely fi le-based and fi nal<br />
output can be cut directly to DVD.<br />
Stuart Brawley<br />
inspires students in<br />
Studio Two<br />
Stuart Brawley (MIA-Recording<br />
Engineering 94) took a break from<br />
his Backyard Recording Studio in<br />
Sherman Oaks, California in March<br />
2004 to visit back at <strong>Fanshawe</strong> for<br />
a recording studio workshop. His<br />
expertise and success in mixing<br />
and recording for some of the<br />
world’s top international artists<br />
inspired students as he shared<br />
professional tips and personal<br />
experiences. Stu has engineered<br />
records for Michael Jackson, Don<br />
Henley, Seal, The Eagles, Cher,<br />
NSYNC, Barbra Streisand, and<br />
Celine Dion. He has also worked<br />
with some totally cool up-andcomers<br />
including the next great<br />
band from the great white north,<br />
STRADIO. Stu is shown above<br />
with Don Geppert (left) and Terry<br />
McManus (centre).<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006
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1.800.561.4574 OR 519.542.4444<br />
25% off regular rate<br />
AUTOMOTIVE, CAR RENTAL<br />
Bob Jones Auto Supply<br />
519.451.1100<br />
15% off auto parts<br />
OK Tire Huron Park<br />
10 Washburn Drive, Unit 6, Kitchener<br />
519.895.8632<br />
15% off service and parts<br />
(including tires)<br />
National Car Rentals<br />
1.800.CAR.RENT®<br />
www.nationalcar.ca<br />
Quote contract ID# 3816862<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> alumni discount rates<br />
Alamo Car Rentals<br />
1.800.354.2322<br />
www.alamo.ca<br />
Quote contract ID# 7011846<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> alumni discount rate<br />
Huron Motor Products<br />
640 Main St. S., Exeter, Ontario<br />
519.235.0363 OR 1.800.265.3476<br />
mikebhmp@cabletv.on.ca<br />
Drive home a new GM vehicle at<br />
a great discount (4% over dealer<br />
cost on a new vehicle). Students<br />
and grads ask about GM’s new<br />
“Student Honour Roll” program<br />
www.fanshawec.ca/alumni/perks<br />
Visit our Web site for complete details of each PERK.<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006 19
CLOTHING FAMILY FUN<br />
Arby’s<br />
Dundas St. at First St., London<br />
10% off your purchase<br />
put Perks to work<br />
Cinnabon<br />
White Oaks Mall and Masonville Place,<br />
London<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> $2.00 Alumni off any <strong>News</strong> Cinnapack Spring 2006<br />
20<br />
A Star Is Born,<br />
Children’s Outfi tters<br />
8 Front St. W., Strathroy<br />
519.245.8181<br />
10% off regular price<br />
Aladdin Cleaners and Tailors<br />
797 York St., London<br />
519.642.0878<br />
15% off regular price<br />
AllMaple Apparel<br />
573 Richmond St., London<br />
20% off<br />
www.allmaple.ca<br />
Blue Bayou<br />
Masonville Place and<br />
White Oaks Mall, London<br />
10% off regular price<br />
Bud Gowan Formal Wear<br />
3 London locations, Sarnia & Woodstock<br />
519.672.6210<br />
15% off rentals<br />
www.budgowan.com<br />
Labatt Retail Store<br />
Richmond and Horton St., London<br />
519.667.7212.<br />
25% clothing/merchandise<br />
Quick Alterations<br />
1286 Jalna Blvd., London<br />
519.680.7022<br />
15% off alterations, dry cleaning<br />
and European clothing<br />
Circle R Ranch<br />
3017 Carriage Rd., Delaware<br />
Dingman Creek Valley<br />
519.471.3799<br />
Save $2.00 on a horseback ride<br />
Dinosaur Valley Mini Golf<br />
Sudbury, Ontario<br />
705.897.6302<br />
10% off<br />
www.dinosaur1.homestead.com<br />
The John Labatt Centre<br />
99 Dundas St., London<br />
Contact Alumni Offi ce for info<br />
Discounts on selected events<br />
Spike’s Indoor Beach<br />
Volleyball Courts<br />
120 Weston St., London<br />
25% off court rentals<br />
Spike’s Indoor Rock<br />
Climbing Gym<br />
120 Weston St., London<br />
15% off climbing<br />
Canada’s Paramount Wonderland<br />
Discounted tickets<br />
available through the<br />
Alumni Offi ce<br />
ELECTRONICS & COMPUTERS<br />
PowerFlower WebDesign<br />
London 519.461.0871<br />
$100 off a custom designed Web site<br />
Start Communications<br />
354 Wellington St. S., London<br />
519.434.5888<br />
First month Internet free<br />
and more!<br />
Head 2 Head Games<br />
246 Dundas St., London<br />
519.434.5591<br />
$1.00 off all computer access<br />
OPTICAL SERVICES<br />
Lenscrafters<br />
Masonville Place, London<br />
519.660.1104<br />
20% off purchases<br />
London Optical<br />
527 Richmond St., London<br />
519.850.0027<br />
20% off prescription glasses<br />
O’Hagan’s Contacts Plus<br />
231 Oxford St. E., London<br />
519.433.4046<br />
15% off<br />
PERSONAL SERVICES<br />
Aromatica<br />
270-215 Eugenie St. W., Windsor<br />
519.966.8000<br />
5% off holistic courses<br />
www.aromatica.on.ca<br />
Chromata Hair<br />
419 Old Wonderland Rd., London<br />
519.474.7988<br />
25% off fi rst visit, 10% after that.<br />
chromata@rogers.com<br />
Johnson Insurance Inc<br />
1.800.563.0677<br />
Preferred rates on home and<br />
auto insurance<br />
The Healthy Home<br />
143 Westmount Rd. E., Kitchener<br />
519.894.4772<br />
Free placement services for foreign<br />
live-in nanny/caregiver<br />
RESTAURANTS<br />
FOOD SERVICES
Hamilton’s Bakery<br />
12 Front St. W., Strathroy<br />
10% off novelty cakes<br />
Kernels Popcorn<br />
Masonville Place/White Oaks Mall, London<br />
519.686.1986<br />
Buy one get one FREE<br />
Kelsey’s Restaurant<br />
All London locations<br />
15% off your meal<br />
Yu’s Sushi Garden<br />
Food Court, Galleria London<br />
519.963.1193<br />
10% off combos<br />
RETAIL SERVICES<br />
That Party Place<br />
551 York St. or<br />
9 Southdale Rd.E., London<br />
10% off<br />
Southwestern Pet Centre<br />
Dundas at First St., London<br />
10% off accessory items<br />
Beta Photos Portrait and<br />
Wedding Studio<br />
519 Richmond St., London<br />
519.438.7195<br />
10% off on photographs<br />
Speed City Records<br />
428 Richmond St., London<br />
$1 off new CD or vinyl, $2 off t-shirts<br />
Walter’s Music<br />
Masonville Place<br />
519.660.1460<br />
15% off regular price items<br />
Bijan Art Studio<br />
743 Richmond St., London<br />
10% off all art supplies,<br />
25% off framing<br />
New Image<br />
Adelaide St. N., at Princess (lower level)<br />
519.432.0341<br />
15% off all lamination services<br />
McIntosh Power & Leisure<br />
2557, Road 163, St Marys<br />
519.229.8210<br />
$25 off selected mowers/trimmers<br />
start saving today<br />
Middlesex Appliance<br />
331 Neptune Cres., London<br />
519.659.3000 or 1.800.265.2062<br />
Builder/contractor pricing with<br />
PERKS card<br />
SPORTS, ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Cyzzle Cycles Inc.<br />
360 Springbank Dr., London<br />
519.657.1729<br />
20% on sales, 15% on repairs<br />
Missing Link Cycle and Ski<br />
1283 Commissioners Rd. W., London<br />
519.641.5056<br />
15% off service/accessories<br />
Entertainment Tonight<br />
18 Front St. W. Strathroy<br />
Rent 5 library movies for 7 days for $6<br />
Jumbo Video<br />
Adelaide St. and Southdale St., London<br />
and Strathroy location<br />
Rent two NEW RELEASES get<br />
third rental FREE!<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Community<br />
Fitness Centre<br />
1460 Oxford St. E., London<br />
519.452.4477<br />
Alumni membership rate<br />
TRAVEL SERVICES<br />
CruiseShipCenters<br />
11 Baseline Rd., E., London<br />
519.690.2488 – ask for Betty<br />
$25 shipboard credit per cabin<br />
Goliger’s Travel Plus<br />
234 King St. S., Waterloo<br />
800.465.4437<br />
$50 off vacation package<br />
www.gotravelplus.com<br />
Sherwood Travel Service<br />
Sherwood Forest Mall, London<br />
519.471.9348.<br />
10% of vacation packages<br />
FANSHAWE COLLEGE:<br />
ON-CAMPUS<br />
Counseling and Student Life<br />
519.452.4282<br />
10% off listing fee for Alumni landlords<br />
10% off career counseling<br />
and testing<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> Library and<br />
Media Services<br />
519.452.4236<br />
Free borrower’s card<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> Continuing Education<br />
519.452.4439<br />
10% off courses (up to $50)<br />
Must register in person.<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Clothing and Gift<br />
Store<br />
London Campus - F1002<br />
519.452. 4252<br />
10% discount on any in-store purchase<br />
www.estores.fanshawec.ca<br />
www.fanshawec.ca/alumni/perks<br />
Visit our Web site for complete details of each PERK.<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006 21
22<br />
Facing Oxford Street, west corner.<br />
UNDER CONSTRUCTION:<br />
A LOOK INSIDE<br />
If you’ve driven east on Oxford Street in London in the past three years, you’ve likely<br />
noticed the front face of <strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> changing dramatically. Just west of<br />
what was B-Gym, a new Centre for ConstructionTrades and Technology has been<br />
constructed from the ground up. This inside look gives you a peak at the new twostorey<br />
high Plumbing Lab (just above) and the Electrical Wiring Lab (large photo on<br />
next page). Phase I also houses a 9,000 square foot Carpentry Shop with a 25-foot<br />
high ceiling that is big enough to build a complete house inside. Phase II, located<br />
directly east of Phase I where B-Gym was, will be ready in August 2006 featuring<br />
new classrooms, computer labs, drafting labs and academic space.<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006
The new labs shown here are used by both apprenticeship and<br />
post-secondary students who are training for careers in the<br />
construction industry. <strong>Fanshawe</strong>’s capacity to train electricians<br />
and plumbers has doubled since 2001 and more than four times<br />
as many carpentry students now have access to state-of-the-art<br />
training facilities compared to our numbers five years ago.<br />
These students are in high demand in a construction industry<br />
that has been booming for the past five years at the same time<br />
when many mature tradespeople are retiring. Each purposebuilt<br />
lab simulates a construction site so students learn both<br />
the theory and practical skills they will use daily on the job.<br />
Moreover, they also gain hands-on training in specialized<br />
aspects of their professions, such as back flow prevention for<br />
plumbers and industrial high voltage wiring for electricians.<br />
What you probably don’t know from driving by is that the<br />
new Centre for Trades and Technology represents only the<br />
tip of the iceberg of new facilities and renewal that has been<br />
transforming the London campus over the past five years.<br />
Government funding from the province has combined with<br />
strong support from industry partners and individuals to make<br />
it all happen. Stop in to look around next time you drive by -<br />
you’ll be amazed by what all is new!<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006 23
making a<br />
planned<br />
gift makes<br />
all kinds of<br />
sense<br />
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CAMPAIGN<br />
For Deborah Mates (Physical Fitness Instructor 83), there are<br />
a few “givens” in her life. It is a given that her daughters are the<br />
centre of her world and she gives to her community, her career<br />
and her friends in so many creative ways it’s hard to count. Now,<br />
she has also given a planned gift to <strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> which is<br />
a method of giving that makes sense for her and many others.<br />
“I was the only one in my family to attend college, and I knew it was<br />
an opportunity and a privilege,” says Deborah Mates as she recalls her<br />
college days. “I know that <strong>Fanshawe</strong> shaped my life and my career in a<br />
signifi cant way.”<br />
Now it is Deb’s turn to shape the direction of the many causes she<br />
supports in a signifi cant way, including that of her employer. In her<br />
role as Resource Development Manager, she leads a $6 million capital<br />
campaign for the London Ski Club, a charitable organization.<br />
After graduation from <strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong>, she worked in the fi tness<br />
industry for a few years before being drawn to work in Marketing and<br />
Communications at Cuddy International. At the same time, she was<br />
putting in many hours as a volunteer at Parkwood Hospital.<br />
“It was Mac Cuddy who encouraged me to pursue fundraising work,”<br />
she remembers. “He said, ‘Deb, you need to be at Parkwood.’ It was<br />
a defi ning moment for me. I knew I had to be doing something that<br />
benefi ts other people.”<br />
Deborah says the pleasure and rewards of helping others is being<br />
passed along to her daughters Maranda (14) and Chelsea (11). “My<br />
girls already understand the importance of giving. During their time in<br />
daycare at Parkwood, they visited patients and were involved in arts<br />
and crafts with the veterans. I am proud to see that they are growing<br />
into kind and caring people.”<br />
Deborah has found a way to ensure that future <strong>Fanshawe</strong> students<br />
have the life-shaping opportunity she had. She has made a generous<br />
planned gift to <strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
“<strong>Fanshawe</strong> gave me confi dence and provided me with the tools I<br />
needed to succeed in all the work I’ve done since,” says Deborah. “A<br />
planned gift through a life insurance policy is an affordable way for me<br />
to make a contribution to thank <strong>Fanshawe</strong> for what it gave me. I know<br />
that the <strong>College</strong> and its students are our future. It just feels right!”<br />
Whatever the future may hold for Deborah’s career, we’re pretty sure<br />
that volunteering and giving will continue to be a big part of her life. If<br />
you’d like to fi nd out more about making a planned gift, please contact<br />
the <strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Development Offi ce at 519.452.4112 or online<br />
www.fanshawec.ca.<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006
FEATURES<br />
Joanne Beaton is a <strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> graduate who is<br />
proud to celebrate all that <strong>Fanshawe</strong> has meant to her<br />
and her family. She recently sponsored a seat through<br />
the Alumni Appeal campaign, and it felt so good, the<br />
family just named a second one! But don’t worry, there<br />
are lots more left for you.<br />
In the many years between her early days at <strong>Fanshawe</strong> and today,<br />
Joanne has never forgotten those fi rst ties to the college: it was<br />
where she fi rst met her husband Brad who sat behind her in<br />
marketing class.<br />
They settled in St. Thomas and Joanne worked in offi ce<br />
administration before becoming a full-time Mom to her growing<br />
family. They now have fi ve children: Andrew (22), Emily (21), Peter<br />
(18), Elizabeth (17) and Katherine (15).<br />
Over the years, she was also an avid community volunteer with<br />
the Elgin Association for Community Living. As Volunteer Chair of<br />
the Community Relations Committee, the Association sponsored<br />
her to take a 24-hour course at <strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> in philanthropy<br />
and fund-raising. It proved to be a fi eld that she was really keen to<br />
learn more about.<br />
She returned to <strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> to take Fund Development in<br />
2001 and Public Relations in 2003. In 2004, she followed up with a<br />
third certifi cate in Corporate Communications.<br />
“It was daunting at fi rst to return to college as a mature student<br />
but it was the best thing I ever did,” she says. “<strong>Fanshawe</strong> has<br />
opened doors for me in a whole new career fi eld – one that I love.<br />
I want my children to know that when you have a good life, you<br />
also need to give back. My support of <strong>Fanshawe</strong> is a way that I can<br />
model that for them.”<br />
Today, Joanne is Foundation Offi ce Assistant at <strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
and she was only on the job a few months last fall when she saw<br />
the perfect way to give back. She chose to sponsor a seat for<br />
$1,000 as part of the Alumni Appeal fund raising campaign.<br />
The tradition continued this year when she and her husband<br />
bought a second seat, this one named in honour of their eldest<br />
son, Andrew, who graduates from <strong>Fanshawe</strong> in Multi-Media Design<br />
and Production in June.<br />
There are lots of seats left to name in the Alumni Lecture Theatre<br />
(D-1060). You are invited to call 519.452.4112 for more information<br />
on how to take a seat of your own!<br />
taking a<br />
stand by<br />
taking a<br />
seat!<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006 25
CLASS NOTES<br />
What’s new with you? We’d love to hear from you – marriages, moves, career changes, new<br />
jobs, children, travels – anything you’d like to share with your former classmates.<br />
Send your news to us by: Email: alumni@fanshawec.ca Phone: 519.452.4285<br />
Toll free: 1.800.661.ALUM Fax: 519.659.9393 Mail: <strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong>, Alumni Offi ce D 1043<br />
1460 Oxford Street East, P.O. Box 7005 London, ON Canada N5Y 5R6<br />
David Raposo<br />
(Photography 00/<br />
Advanced Photography<br />
01): David has passed<br />
along news about a<br />
new London Fashion<br />
Exchange (LFE)<br />
networking group<br />
which welcomes<br />
models, agencies,<br />
photographers,<br />
makeup artists, fashion<br />
designers, hair stylists<br />
and other industry<br />
related professionals.<br />
Members of LFE<br />
26<br />
have the opportunity<br />
to display and<br />
maintain their own<br />
online portfolio,<br />
and the network<br />
helps them search<br />
out other members,<br />
seek advice, and<br />
promote their services<br />
within Southwestern<br />
Ontario. LFE hosts<br />
monthly workshops,<br />
facilitated by industry<br />
professionals, and an<br />
annual networking<br />
party is planned so<br />
members can show off<br />
their portfolios faceto-face<br />
with fellow<br />
industry associates.<br />
For more information<br />
on the network and<br />
how to join:<br />
www.londonfashion<br />
exchange.com<br />
Gail (Naugle)<br />
Fillmore (Fashion<br />
Design 95): Looking<br />
for Jessica, Bridget,<br />
Steve, or anyone else<br />
from my class, would<br />
love to hear from<br />
anyone.<br />
Steven Batson<br />
(Control Technology<br />
Systems 85): Just<br />
built new house in<br />
Woodstock.<br />
Wendy Barbour<br />
(Legal Secretarial<br />
73): After graduating,<br />
I worked for a short<br />
time in the Trust Dept.<br />
of Canada Permanent<br />
Trust Co. but have<br />
spent the majority<br />
of my career in the<br />
general insurance<br />
business and am now<br />
the Chapter Manager<br />
for the SWO Chapter<br />
of the Insurance<br />
Institute of Ontario.<br />
One of my most vivid<br />
memories of my two<br />
years at <strong>Fanshawe</strong><br />
is that I made my<br />
fi rst blood donation<br />
in the gym there for<br />
the Red Cross. After<br />
many years, and<br />
about 212 donations,<br />
the discovery of<br />
an elevated protein<br />
level in my blood<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006
y Canadian Blood<br />
Services means that<br />
my doctor can keep<br />
a close eye on it and<br />
also that I can no<br />
longer donate blood.<br />
If any alumni have<br />
considered being a<br />
blood donor, please<br />
don’t delay – do it now<br />
– for others and for<br />
yourself!<br />
Laura Mazreki<br />
(Developmental<br />
Service Worker 02):<br />
Just had our second<br />
child on November<br />
3, 2005 – a baby boy<br />
- Lucas Benjamin.<br />
Therese D. Rooney<br />
(Business-Information<br />
Systems 95): I am the<br />
proud grandmother of<br />
three boys. Chandler<br />
turned three in March.<br />
Joshua 17 months and<br />
Richmond was born<br />
January 12, 2006.<br />
Mitzi Judith Lee<br />
(Fletcher) Hall<br />
(Early Childhood<br />
Education 98): Got<br />
married August of<br />
2001 to Mark Hall<br />
a youth pastor. I am<br />
involved with kids<br />
and youth. No kids<br />
of our own yet. After<br />
grad, I worked with the<br />
School-Age Program,<br />
then in retail, and now<br />
I work at a Christian<br />
Daycare with the<br />
Toddlers…yeah! God<br />
bless you all!<br />
Jay Brintnell<br />
(Computer<br />
Programmer 97): Now<br />
married, fi ve kids, and<br />
lovin’ it!<br />
Tristan J. Coysh<br />
(Graphic Design 05):<br />
Taking multimedia<br />
at <strong>Fanshawe</strong> and<br />
thoroughly enjoying it.<br />
POWERFLOWER WEBDESIGN<br />
MARKS FIFTH ANNIVERSARY<br />
Jason Recker<br />
(Advertising Art 90):<br />
Since graduating from<br />
Advertising Art with<br />
a major in Design in<br />
1990, I worked for<br />
seven years as an<br />
in-house corporate<br />
graphic designer then<br />
fi ve years at Honey<br />
Design as Art Director.<br />
In the fall of 2004,<br />
I ventured out and<br />
started my own design<br />
studio called Carve<br />
(www.carvedesign.ca).<br />
I look forward to<br />
hearing from any other<br />
graphic design alumni<br />
from those days before<br />
computers.<br />
Kim L. Pearce<br />
(Photography<br />
& Advanced-<br />
Photography 96): I<br />
would like to hear<br />
from anyone from the<br />
photography program<br />
1993-1996.<br />
hwy1west@quadro.net<br />
Kendell (Hardman) Hall (Industrial Design 88/ WITT 93/ Digital<br />
Imaging Fundamentals 00) and Megan McKay (Digital Imaging<br />
Fundamentals 00) are celebrating fi ve years of partnership and success in<br />
2006 with their business PowerFlower WebDesign. It is a one-stop custom<br />
design house and projects range from logo and graphic design to Web site<br />
design, hosting and custom programming. Check out the new PERK being<br />
offered to Alumni (page 20). (Photo by Kimberley Vander Schelde of KVS<br />
Photography). www.powerfl ower.ca<br />
fashion grad<br />
“best overall” in Paris<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> graduate Morija Reeb<br />
(Fashion Design 05) represented Canada in<br />
the acclaimed International Young Fashion<br />
Designers Competition in Paris, France,<br />
winning “Best Overall” of the Canadian entries.<br />
Morija was chosen for the semi-fi nals based<br />
on her original design, inspired by northern<br />
landscapes and Inuit art. Young designers from<br />
15 countries participated in this prestigious<br />
competition at the Louvre on December 15,<br />
2005. Their creations were judged on creativity,<br />
originality, and technical execution. Morija says<br />
it was big commitment of time and resources<br />
but she is very glad she participated in the<br />
competition. The experience helped her gain<br />
confi dence to launch her career and we are<br />
pleased to report that she started work with<br />
Mezzaluna Designs in Windsor, Ontario as<br />
an Assistant Designer and Product Developer<br />
in March 2006. Mezzaluna provides quality<br />
custom uniforms to the casino and hospitality<br />
industry in the United States and Canada.<br />
(Photograph by student photographers: Ashley Dorken and<br />
Heather Dietz and the model is from Exclusive Models.)<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006 27
Perry Jay Gummow<br />
(Broadcasting-Radio<br />
91): Hey I would love<br />
to get in touch with all<br />
my classmates from<br />
radio class of ’91.<br />
Email me:<br />
djshagginsherman@<br />
hotmail.com<br />
Heather Linda<br />
(Beare) Garrett<br />
(Design Urban 98):<br />
Just got married on<br />
October 22, 2005<br />
to Jason Garrett, we<br />
met our fi rst year at<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong>.<br />
Walter Dutchak<br />
(Electronics<br />
Engineering<br />
Technology 77): I<br />
have been “downsize<br />
retired” from Bell<br />
Canada for three<br />
years now (after over<br />
22 years of loyal<br />
service with this<br />
company). Perhaps<br />
I should have been<br />
more adventurous, and<br />
tried other companies<br />
over those long years.<br />
Well, that would have<br />
been diffi cult in any<br />
case since I had left<br />
teaching to go for the<br />
three-year course at<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> and I was<br />
married to Rosie and<br />
had a 3-year-old son,<br />
Peter, already at that<br />
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time, so changing<br />
careers would have<br />
posed additional<br />
unneeded stresses on<br />
the family. But my<br />
3 years at <strong>Fanshawe</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> were a<br />
wonderful experience<br />
for me. And I must say<br />
that, in my opinion,<br />
our instructors were<br />
very good teachers and<br />
great human beings<br />
to boot. I was glad to<br />
see that a note from<br />
my classmate Klaus<br />
Martinek appeared in<br />
the Fall 2005 issue<br />
and I thank him for<br />
mentioning having<br />
met me at the Alumni<br />
25th reunion. It is<br />
unfortunate that no<br />
one else from our<br />
THYETY class could<br />
attend this reunion,<br />
for it would have been<br />
a pleasure to have<br />
seen them again; but<br />
it seems that there<br />
are many ‘busy’ lives<br />
these days. I had a<br />
chance meeting with<br />
Ed Gorski from our<br />
class a few years back.<br />
It would be good to<br />
hear from classmates<br />
and their experiences<br />
over the years. If any<br />
classmates wish to<br />
contact me – please<br />
send email to:<br />
wladicus@hotmail.com<br />
Richard W. Jewell (Nursing<br />
Assistant 76) in September 2005.<br />
G. John Koskamp (Motive Power<br />
Technician – Automotive 00) on<br />
January 1, 2006.<br />
Wilfrid R. Lalonde (Industrial<br />
Electrician 00) on December 1, 2004.<br />
Dave C. McLean (Farm Equipment<br />
Technician 02) on January 24, 2006.<br />
in memoriam<br />
Robert C. Prickett (Broadcasting<br />
– Television 78) on March 8, 2006.<br />
Barry P. Sarazin (Instructor and<br />
Coordinator of Radio Broadcasting)<br />
on November 29, 2005.<br />
Ruth-Ann Wiebe (Nursing 78) on<br />
April 1, 2006.<br />
gold medalist makes<br />
fanshawe proud<br />
Karen Blachford (Fitness and Health<br />
Promotion 04) took home a Gold Medal<br />
for Canada at the Paralympic Games<br />
in Torino in March 2006 in Wheelchair<br />
Curling. Along with her teammates,<br />
Sonja Gaudet, Gary Cormack, Gerry<br />
Austgarden and Chris Daw, the<br />
Canadian team triumphed over Great<br />
Britain in the fi nal match on Day<br />
Eight of the games held in Pinerolo,<br />
Italy. Karen says travelling to Italy<br />
and competing was an amazing oncein-a-lifetime<br />
experience. The world<br />
class facilities and organization of the<br />
games were outstanding and she really<br />
enjoyed meeting and getting to know the other athletes. Karen has just<br />
relocated from London to Kingston where she will continue both her<br />
career and her curling. We congratulate her on all her accomplishments<br />
and wish her much happiness in her new home.<br />
golf classic<br />
Plans are now well underway for the 4th Annual <strong>Fanshawe</strong> Golf<br />
Classic to be held at London’s Sunningdale Golf & Country Club on<br />
Tuesday, August 22, 2006. Proceeds from the tournament will support<br />
student awards and bursaries. There are many opportunities to participate<br />
in this great tournament. If you would like to play golf, sponsor a hole<br />
or activity, or donate silent auction or prize items, we’d love to hear<br />
from you. For information on how to register for the 2006 Golf Classic,<br />
please visit the <strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> website www.fanshaweca.ca or<br />
contact Linda England at 519.452.4430 ext. 4750.<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006
PLAN YOUR<br />
OWN REUNION<br />
If you’ve ever thought: I wonder what happened to Cathy or Mike or Paul, it’s<br />
time to fi nd out! They’re probably wondering about you too – did you ever get<br />
rid of that clunker of a car? did you ever move out to BC like you always said<br />
you would? Why not take it on – take the lead and fi nd out what everyone’s<br />
up to. All you need is one other classmate for moral support and the Alumni<br />
Offi ce will be your resource to help pull it all together. Planning a class reunion<br />
is easy and there’s no time like the present...here’s how it’s done.<br />
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it’s as EASY AS 1-2-3<br />
Step One: Touch base with at least one old friend from class and discuss when and where you’d like to have your reunion. It<br />
can be in London or your campus town, but doesn’t have to be. If most of you live now in Toronto or BC, or you’ll all be attending a<br />
professional conference in some other city, you could host it there. But most reunions happen in London and many at the campus<br />
itself. We’ve got lots of space, room to dine, take a tour of the hallowed halls, and even stay overnight in residence if you<br />
plan to meet in the summer. October is Alumni Month so that could also be a time frame to shoot for.<br />
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Step Two: Think about what you’d like to do during the event and who should attend. Most reunions are held at a restaurant<br />
either on campus or in the community but they don’t have to be. Sometimes a casual BBQ supper or afternoon/evening picnic at<br />
someone’s home is good, especially for smaller groups. Spouses and kids? The jury is out. If your spouse never attended <strong>Fanshawe</strong>,<br />
he or she might fi nd three or four hours of crazy stories and “whatever happened to Joe” just a bit too much. If they also attended<br />
and will know other friends at the party, it can work out fi ne. Past instructors? Yes, we can help you track them down.<br />
Step Three: Call the Alumni Offi ce and we’ll help you get word out to your classmates that a reunion is being planned. Replies<br />
can come back into the Alumni Offi ce or directly to you by email if you prefer. We can give you ideas for a venue, how to cost it out,<br />
how to follow up with people and what ideas work best. Email, the Web and word-of-mouth are great ways to track people<br />
down and you can use a list from your professional association to fi nd lost classmates from your industry. RSVPs,<br />
accommodations and travel plans can also be coordinated by email.<br />
Ready to make that call and make some new memories? It’s easy to contact the Alumni Offi ce:<br />
we’re just a click away! Email: alumni@fanshawec.ca Phone: 519.452.4285 or 1.800.661.ALUM<br />
“We were amazed how many<br />
classmates we were able to fi nd<br />
and how many came and what a<br />
great time we had reconnecting after<br />
so long. It started with just three of<br />
us and a class list. We divvied up<br />
the names and used Canada 411<br />
on the Web and word-of-mouth to<br />
track the lost folks down. Thirty of<br />
us ended up coming to the reunion which we held at a<br />
London restaurant but we also visited the campus too. It<br />
was fun and it involved some personal work – but it was<br />
so worth it – everyone appreciated our efforts. We all<br />
wondered why we hadn’t done it sooner.”<br />
Dan Arts (Construction Engineering Technology 80)<br />
Director of Project Development for Maple Leaf Sports<br />
and Entertainment Limited, Toronto, Ontario.<br />
plan your own reunion<br />
“Our Dental Hygiene class has<br />
always been close-knit – there were<br />
only 16 of us – and we’ve made<br />
a point to hold a reunion every fi ve<br />
years. It’s been great to stay in touch<br />
and for each reunion we chose a<br />
different venue, a different type of<br />
party, even different towns because<br />
we’re spread out across Southwestern<br />
Ontario. For our 20th year, we gathered at the<br />
Riverview Restaurant in London and took a tour of the<br />
campus as well. While our profession has changed a lot<br />
and continues to evolve, we share a common experience<br />
that is always fun to celebrate and remember.”<br />
Sheila (Dekeyser) Lock (Dental Assisting 80/<br />
Dental Hygiene 83) Dental Hygienist, Dr. M.P. Bodnar,<br />
Orthodontist, London, Ontario.<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni <strong>News</strong> Spring 2006
Broadcasting – Design (Fashion) Hotel and Restaurant<br />
Television<br />
Felicity Baxter<br />
Management<br />
Mark Cleland<br />
Doris Brodie<br />
Ira Baptiste<br />
James Hayes<br />
Anne Chalmers<br />
Corey Lockington<br />
Deirdre Nugent<br />
Janet Clive<br />
Darlene Luckhardt<br />
Mike Seeley<br />
Joanne Gagnon<br />
Maureen Murphy Cleary<br />
Joanne Graham<br />
Janice Orr<br />
Broadcasting - Radio Patricia Grant<br />
Laura Peters<br />
Joann Ondrejicka<br />
Wendy Hardcastle Linda Ruickbie<br />
Trudy Hubbert<br />
Tracy Scapinello<br />
Library Technician Cindy Jones<br />
Barbara Spring<br />
Peter Kelly<br />
Rosemary Kercz<br />
Joan Turner<br />
Terry Milner<br />
Randall Zupanski<br />
Audio Visual<br />
Janet Peladeau<br />
Technician<br />
Susan Pulham<br />
Advertising Art<br />
Andrew Geisterfer Georgina Skikos<br />
Gayle Campbell<br />
Sandra Poissant<br />
Jayne Terry<br />
Kevin Dietrich<br />
John Starchuk<br />
Dawn Trask<br />
Elizabeth Evans<br />
Robert Van Acker<br />
Edward Krawchyk<br />
Richard Wright<br />
Deborah Lynch<br />
Paul Paetz<br />
Ricky Saliba<br />
Darren Thompson<br />
Janice Willcock<br />
Photography<br />
Bela Baliko Jr<br />
Ross Breadner<br />
Bruce Green<br />
Lori Meserve<br />
Danny Paul<br />
Music Ind Arts<br />
(Recording<br />
Engineering)<br />
Murray Bain<br />
Donald McLaughlin<br />
Jim Michelis<br />
Geraldine Neill<br />
Lisa Patterson<br />
Brian Pinches<br />
Lawrence Salciccioli<br />
Margaret Sutherland<br />
Music Ind Arts<br />
(Recording Music<br />
Production)<br />
John Booth<br />
Mark Forrester<br />
Vincent Garden<br />
Ken Halvorsen<br />
Shawn Hines<br />
Juliette Hinsche<br />
Charles Koka<br />
Lawrence Levin<br />
Tim Longboat<br />
Rommel Malik<br />
Patrick McWilliams<br />
David Ros<br />
Zoltan Simo<br />
George Van Bussel<br />
Robert Waddell<br />
Journalism-Broadcast<br />
Hugh Brown<br />
Carl Skiba<br />
Design (Industrial)<br />
Ian Campbell<br />
Joseph Freeman<br />
Larae Galka<br />
Janis Hodgins<br />
Angela Lloyd<br />
Jose Nino<br />
Shari Wagner<br />
Design (Interior)<br />
Janice Algra<br />
Lisa Arntz<br />
Marilyn Cook<br />
Mary Linton<br />
Barb Morello<br />
Madeline Oldford<br />
Claudia Oliva<br />
Barbara Scott<br />
Susan Somers<br />
Karen Tunks<br />
Marion Williamson<br />
Design (Urban)<br />
David Bradstock<br />
Alice Foubert<br />
Brian George<br />
Design (Landscape)<br />
Larry Dancavitch<br />
Ricci Gould<br />
Sandra Hillen<br />
Susan Shannon<br />
Janice Smith<br />
Shelley Stephenson-Dewit<br />
David Zimmer<br />
Fine Art<br />
Theresa Boychuck<br />
Louis Cecile<br />
Terri Dans<br />
Gordon Giffen<br />
Kim Jacobs<br />
Joanne Rodgers<br />
Graham Settle<br />
Business-Accounting<br />
Ken Bailey<br />
Jacqueline Baker<br />
Kevin Baum<br />
Aron Brown<br />
Susan Henry<br />
Gerald James<br />
Sheree Kudlac<br />
Susan Le Blanc<br />
Cornelia Lotz<br />
David McCormick<br />
John McLean<br />
Tammy Mels<br />
Cornelius Njoku<br />
Mike Thompson<br />
Mary Jo Verheyen<br />
Sharon Weeks<br />
Dan Wilson<br />
Business- Information<br />
Systems<br />
James Aitken<br />
Susan Barker<br />
Jeffrey Bentley<br />
Lynn Bickell<br />
Linda Bloomfi eld<br />
David Boker<br />
Hugh Boyd<br />
Sandra Brenzil<br />
Mary Brosel<br />
D. J. Cameron<br />
Randal Crighton<br />
Terry Daniels<br />
Myles Diamond<br />
Thomas Duffney<br />
John Falls<br />
Rachel Flanagan<br />
Michele Foxton<br />
Keith Gooder<br />
Anne Graham<br />
David Greenly<br />
Alex Hiddink<br />
Gioi Hoang<br />
Wanda Huggins<br />
Gavin Jillard<br />
Robert Jones<br />
Joon-Sik Kim<br />
Samuel Knight<br />
Renee Koeppen<br />
Gordon MacArthur<br />
Patricia MacDonald<br />
Sandra Maggs<br />
Darlene McConnell<br />
David Orosz<br />
Shari Porter<br />
Annemarie Rietdyk<br />
Grada Schut<br />
James Smith<br />
Bruce Spafford<br />
Mark Stankevicius<br />
Peter Stover<br />
Diane Van Eyk<br />
Mike Watson<br />
Hugh White<br />
Business<br />
Connie Driessen<br />
Michele Gaboury<br />
Mark Gerard<br />
Sabrina Greening<br />
Elaine Hardie<br />
Peter Hillen<br />
Jim Keys<br />
Robert Leclair<br />
Rafi qa Mall<br />
Robert Marshall<br />
Barbara McKenzie<br />
Marc Paquette<br />
Karen Sillett<br />
Martha Sinasac<br />
Frank Tecklenburg<br />
Richard Trottier<br />
Donald Wilson<br />
Peter Zadorsky<br />
George Zrini<br />
Margaret Campbell<br />
Business- Finance<br />
Mary Dewan<br />
Stephen Imrie<br />
Cathy Liebregts<br />
Thomas Pawlak<br />
Business- Purchasing<br />
Dino Delellis<br />
James Kelly<br />
WHERE WERE YOU IN ‘82?<br />
are you<br />
on the list?<br />
If you know any of these lost grads from 1982, ask<br />
them to email our Alumni Office at alumni@fanshawec.ca,<br />
or call 519.452.4285 / 800.661.ALUM. Then they won’t<br />
miss out on news, reunions and exciting alumni events.<br />
Business<br />
Administration<br />
Wayne Brown<br />
Bradley Cole<br />
Jeffrey Crawford<br />
Marie Ingratta<br />
Kevin Keck<br />
Richard Kinsella<br />
Fred Longe<br />
Dale Lynds<br />
Edward Myers<br />
Gregory Robertson<br />
Stephen Smith<br />
Bashir Umar<br />
Randolf Veres<br />
Chris Webster<br />
Urban Affairs &<br />
Real Estate<br />
Brian Lake<br />
Secretarial Arts<br />
Brenda Asselin<br />
Kelee Atkinson<br />
Mary Bartoszewicz<br />
Heather Berst<br />
Deborah Bolton<br />
Vickie Bolton<br />
Teina Butler<br />
Irene Campbell<br />
Susan Davis<br />
Lori Debellefeuille<br />
Gulnaar Dharamshi<br />
Christine Gago<br />
Jane Geerts<br />
Susan Gibson<br />
Ann Goodchild<br />
Barbara Green<br />
Trudy Green<br />
Katherine Grosch<br />
Liz Guenther<br />
Marion Heard<br />
Dawn Holmes<br />
Wendy Ireland<br />
Paula Jackson<br />
Karen Lyons<br />
Connie Mabb<br />
Kimberly Mabon<br />
Eloise Mac Donald<br />
Sheila McCann<br />
Kathleen McIntyre<br />
Margaret Newell<br />
Anna Oosterveld<br />
Karen Paton<br />
Mary Pelkmans<br />
Brenda Perry<br />
Susan Procop<br />
Christina Prout<br />
Sharon Rundle<br />
Eleonora Santosuosso<br />
Kimberlie Southcombe<br />
Linda Strickert<br />
Judith Toderan<br />
Diane Tower<br />
Annette Trovato<br />
Annette Vanberlo<br />
Susan Walkom<br />
Executive Secretarial<br />
Cathy Arcese<br />
Cheryl Barber<br />
Terri Cowan<br />
Susan Gilroy<br />
Anita Hallam<br />
Susan Henseler<br />
Karen Jones<br />
Heather Joy<br />
Elaine Leclair<br />
Christine Long<br />
Joanne Mackie<br />
Angela Meinen<br />
Melanie Papandris<br />
Myrna Powell<br />
Margaret Resendes<br />
Carol Somerville<br />
Cindy Stephen<br />
Leslie Sutton<br />
Wanda Trenchard<br />
Legal Secretarial<br />
Janet Bearss<br />
Valerie Bognar<br />
Marjorie Derry<br />
Cheryl Grass<br />
Fazeela Hussain<br />
Marian Lohonyay<br />
Julie Long<br />
Jan MacDonald<br />
Lori Masseo<br />
Orianna Ocovich<br />
Marlene Robillard<br />
Deborah Salz<br />
Joanne Turner<br />
Susan Vandercammen<br />
Medical Secretarial<br />
Amy Barlow<br />
Mary Sue Bernardo<br />
Josephine Brown<br />
Vickie Davies<br />
Janice Hetherington<br />
Janice Martin<br />
Barbara Rawlings<br />
Sandra Watson<br />
Professional Secretarial<br />
Linda Hicks<br />
Cathy Hill<br />
Nancy Innes<br />
Cathy Innes<br />
Katherine Smit<br />
Aileen Walters<br />
Medical Secretarial-<br />
Dictatypist<br />
Lynn Ellis<br />
Pamela Finnegan<br />
Carolyn McAsh<br />
Janet Murray<br />
Cheryl Parker<br />
Marian Patrick<br />
Judith Rose<br />
Jean Scratch<br />
Judy Watson<br />
Law and Security<br />
Administration<br />
Sharon Donaghy<br />
Gerry Dundas<br />
Susan Mathany<br />
Brent Mattice<br />
Angelia Nielson<br />
Julie Pecchia<br />
Regina Smith<br />
Legal Offi ce<br />
Administration<br />
(Certifi cate)<br />
Joanne Anderson<br />
Legal Offi ce<br />
Administration (Diploma)<br />
Greg Campbell<br />
Caroline Harper<br />
Business- Marketing<br />
Janis Turner<br />
Industrial Management<br />
Certifi cate<br />
Robert Allen<br />
George Bak<br />
Harley Underhill<br />
Marketing Certifi cate<br />
Jim Dean<br />
Michel Desloges<br />
William Hall<br />
Wendy Jacklin<br />
Business Administration<br />
Certifi cate<br />
Pamela Drewett<br />
Johanna Heisler<br />
Patricia Mann<br />
Data Processing<br />
Certifi cate<br />
Toni Kettnaker<br />
Secretarial Science<br />
Certifi cate<br />
Frank Collins<br />
Jane Jones<br />
Carol Rennocks<br />
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If undeliverable, please return to:<br />
<strong>Fanshawe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumni Office<br />
1460 Oxford Street East, P.O. Box 7005<br />
London, Ontario N5Y 5R6<br />
Alumni! Please send in your address changes!