Ali Pejman, CA - Institute of Chartered Accountants of BC

Registrar Retires
After 26 Years
Noreen Kelly Solloway, Registrar
for the Chartered Accountants of B.C.
for 26 years, retired last July.
A native of Woodstock, Ont.,
Solloway began her career at the
Institute as the Assistant Registrar.
Prior to accepting the position, she
had been traveling for four months
throughout Southeast Asia.
“To that point in my life, I worked for
a period of time and then quit to take
extended trips,” Solloway explains. “Prior
to working at the Institute, I hadn’t
stayed in one job longer than five years.”
A 1959 graduate of the University
of Western Ontario with a B.A. in
Secretarial Science (now Administrative
Studies), Solloway worked for companies
in both Toronto and Montreal in
the early years after college. She then
traveled to Europe where she worked
briefly in Switzerland and England
before returning to Canada, this time to
Vancouver.
Having worked for Chemcell in
Montreal, Solloway held two different
positions at Columbia Cellulose,
Chemcell’s Vancouver subsidiary. She
worked there for five years, then
resigned to travel in Mexico and
South America for six months. When
she returned, it was to a job at
Neonex, a Jim Pattison company
where she provided administrative
support to the Senior Vice President
of Finance. Again, true to form, she
held that position for five years and
then left for further travel in Southeast
Asia where this time, she met
her future husband Bob Solloway
outside of the Raffles Hotel in Singapore.
When she came back to Vancouver,
she joined the Institute in
November of 1974.
“I feel truly privileged to have
met and worked with so many
outstanding individuals in my years
of association with the CA profession,”
Solloway said. “Needless to
say, I have seen many changes
during my years at ICABC and I think
they’ve worked to strengthen the
profession. Most recently, the reengineering
of the student education
program is an exciting development
and both Don Carter and
Richard Rees deserve a lot of credit
for their work in that regard.”
In retirement, she plans “to
enjoy life” which means more
time in the garden, skiing, flyfishing,
biking and, of course,
traveling. She and Bob, who
retired last April as Vice President,
General Counsel and
Secretary at Weldwood after 32
years, plan a trip to France and
Spain this fall.
— Deborah Folka, APR
September 2000 / Beyond Numbers 23