Canadian Merit Scholarship Foundation - Loran Award

The Canadian Merit
Scholarship Foundation
460 Richmond St. W., Suite 502
Toronto, ON M5V 1Y1
toll-free: 1.866.544.2673
www.loranaward.ca
Honourary Council
R. Alan Broadbent, C.M.
Robert Cluett
David Crombie, P.C., O.C.
Kim Echlin
David Friesen
J. Douglas Grant
James K. Gray, O.C.
Lucy Hanes Chatham
Barbara J. McDougall, P.C., O.C.
Rod MacLennan, C.M.
Grant Reuber, O.C.
W. Galen Weston, O.C.
Karen E. Wilson
Board and Officers
James Appleyard, Vice-Chair
Ruth daCosta
Wendy Cecil
Purdy Crawford, O.C.
Jack Darville
Erin Eacott (Loran ’93)
Franca Gucciardi (Loran ‘90)
Ray Ivany
Terry Nickerson, Treasurer
Kim Parlee
Gilles Patry
John Phillips, Chair
Craig Pho
Richard Powers
Wendy Rebanks
Lucas Skoczkowski (Loran ’92)
Johan van’t Hof
Fred Wright
Vali Bennett, Secretary
Staff
Franca Gucciardi (Loran ’90)
Executive Director & CEO
Ted Aubut, Program Officer
Claire Barcik
Director of Programs & Operations
Chris Cowperthwaite (Loran ’99)
Executive Assistant
Kim Dupré, Program Officer
Jesse Helmer
Manager, External Relations
Meghan Henry, Program Officer
Canadian Merit
Scholarship Foundation
Volume 10, Issue 2, Summer 2007
International, enterprise and public policy summers broaden horizons
2003 Loran scholar Matto Mildenberger, who graduated from University of Toronto this Spring
as the recipient of a Moss scholarship, stands in front of Queen’s Park. He is interning in the cabinet
office of the Government of Ontario.
Being a Loran Scholar involves much more
than studying. Even during the summer,
when school’s out for most people, we want scholars
to pursue their ambitions and develop outside
the classroom. That’s where the summer enrichment
program comes in. Under this program,
each scholar can receive up to $7,500 in support
and draw on our network of stakeholders to find
rewarding summer placements.
An enterprise internship allows scholars to
hone their business sense by either working
in a corporate setting or starting up their own
venture. A public policy internship gives them an
inside look at how the policy-making process
works. And an international experience immerses
them in a foreign culture as workers, volunteers
or students.
2003 Loran scholar Matto Mildenberger,
who recently graduated from University of Toronto,
says his public policy internship “provides
an unparalleled front row seat for how the government
works.” This summer, he is working
in the Ontario Cabinet Office. “They’ve given
me a taste of policymaking,” he explains, “and
confirmed my appetite for a career with a policy
focus.”
2006 Loran scholar Maria Maute (Mount
Allison University) opted to combine an interna-
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Winetasting
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to 7:30 on Wednesday, 14 November 2007
at Torys LLP, downtown Toronto
tional and enterprise experience this summer in
Germany. Brushing up her language skills, she
is gaining practical knowledge of the journalism
world. “I am able to experience first-hand how
things work in a newspaper office,” says Maria,
who is editing, writing, and taking photos for
the Schwarzwälder Bote, a daily newspaper with
a circulation of 380,000. “And because CMSF
requires an internship to be a minimum of 12
weeks, I’m able to really ‘live’ the daily experience
of a journalist.”
A Queen’s University student, 2006 Loran
scholar Mark Ouseley is spending his summer
in Calgary as an advisor to the Secretariat of the
National Task Force on Carbon Capture and
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From the Executive Director
From its inception in 1994 under the
chaimanship of CMSF trustee Greig
Clark, the summer program has stood as
a testament to the breadth of interest and
potential of Loran scholars and the value
of the network of volunteers and supporters
of the Loran Awards.
Thanks to a grant from an anonymous
foundation, we redesigned the
summer program this year. Our aims
are for scholars to use the time between
academic terms in highly productive
ways and to learn and develop professional
skills and assess their abilities
in different work environments. We
expect them to explore career and personal
interests through different work
placements, to deepen their understanding
of global issues and gain experience
in working within a different
cultural context (ideally, gaining a basic
level of fluency in aanother language),
and to strengthen their research, analytical
and management skills.
In assessing the summer program,
we learned a few things. Some lessons
were straightforward. For instance,
we found that duration was positively
correlated to achievement of intended
outcomes: longer internships tended
to be more challenging and meaningful.
We therefore require international
summers to be at least 10 weeks and etnerprise
and public policy summers to
be at least 12 weeks.
The value of the Loran Awads
network was also clear. Particularly for
enterprise and public policy summers,
scholars benefitted greatly from the
advice and contacts of mentors, donors
and volunteers. If you have or know of
an opportunity that seems ideal for a
Loran scholar, please call or e-mail me.
In line with our business plan, starting
with the class of 2006, all scholars
have access to up to $7,500 in funding
for public policy and international summer
experiences. Without the financial
support of our friends, this growth and
the conconmitant opportunities for our
scholars would not be possible. Thank
you for your continued support.
Warm regards,
Scholars use summers in diverse, pro
2006 Loran scholars
Zoe Barrett-Wood (Guelph) is interning at RARE
Charitable Reserve near Cambridge, ON. (BMOCM)
Kyla Brophy (UBC) is volunteering at a school in
Tanzania. (BMO)
Sunny Cheung (UW) is taking a course and travelling
in China. (R)
Caroline Crawford (Queen’s) is working as an
assistant to a VP at Richardson Capital. (W)
Patrick Duncan (UWO) is helping to build a community
centre in Costa Rica. (W)
Alain Dupuis (Ottawa) is working as a page in the
House of Commons and for the Federation of Young
Franco-Ontarians. (W)
Conor Falvey (Ottawa) is working as a teacher in
the Volta region of Ghana with BRIDGE.
Rea Fenger (McGill) is interning at Raincoast
Conservation Society on Queen Charlotte Islands.
Mark Godfrey (U of T) is touring seniors’ homes
in Southwestern Ontario with his jazz band. (CH)
Afzal Habib (York University) is teaching young
people in Vanuatu and interning at VANWODS, a microfinance
organization. (Y)
Ali Hamandi (McMaster) is teaching English and
assisting health care workers in Rabat, Morocco. (W)
Beth Hong (McGill) is learning French in Montpellier,
France. (W)
Mathieu Isabel (McGill) is working with the advocacy
team at Auberge communautaire du Sud-Ouest
in Montreal. (W)
Megan Kavaner (U of A) is working with Family
and Community Support Services in Manning, Alberta.
(W)
Kathryn Lennon (UW) is working at a greenhouse
and taking a bike tour of northern Alberta. (BMOCM)
Grace Li (UW) (pictured below left) is enrolled in a
French language program at the Sorbonne and living
with a host family in Paris, France. (W)
Matthew Little (Guelph) is working as a reasearcher
at the Sudbury Cooperative Freshwater Ecology
Centre.
Lindsay Lloyd (Queen’s Univerisity) is working on
a series of ecological projects near Wellington, New
Zealand. (W)
David Lussier (Manitoba) is working with scientists
on an HIV/AIDS research project in Kenya. (W)
Maria Maute (Mount A) (pictured above) is interning
at Schwarzwalder Böte, a newspaper in Southwestern
Germany.
Jessalyn McGregor (UBC) is coordinating the
Shinerama for UBC’s student union. (W)
Justin Oake (Mount A) is helping to build a school
in Costa Rica.
Eloise Ouellet-Decoste (McGill) is working for
a member of parliament from Québec. (PP)
Mark Ouseley (Queen’s) is a research assistant on
carbon capture and storage at University of Calgary.
John Pegg (Guelph) is working as a wildlife rescue
officer for the Ontario SPCA in Newmarket. (W)
Shawn Potter (Mount A) is educating people
about HIV/AIDS in Ghana. (W)
Christopher Proctor (UBC) is working at Woodlands
Pioneer Museum. (W)
Katie Sardinha (UBC) is volunteering at an orphanage
in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Christine Wadsworth (Queen’s) is working as
an administrative assistant at a law firm.
Yannick Wittwer (UBC) is working for an engineering
firm in northern BC. (W)
2005 Loran scholars
Eric Beaudoin (Ottawa) is working as a tour guide
on Parliament Hill. (W)
Maren Beeston (U of A) is interning at the Calgary
Animal Referral & Emergency Centre. (W)
Samuel Breau (Ottawa) is working at the finance
department at Elections Canada and as a planner for U
of O’s welcome week.
Francois Cadieux (U of T) is interning at the
Munk Centre’s Citizen Lab. (W)
Keelan Cumming (U of T) is studying Central
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European history in Brno, Czech Republic. (B)
Michael Currie (Mount A) is helping to build a
community centre and improving his Spanish in Costa
Rica.
Andrea Figueroa (McGill) is interning with the
Social Justice Committee in Montréal. (W)
Natalie Gerum (Mount A) is working on ecological
literacy with the Green Party of Canada’s director
of research. (W)
Sheryl Johnson (U of T) is interning at KAIROS
Canada on a just and sustainable national energy
policy. (W)
Maggie Jones (Dal) is interning at the Bermuda
Aquarium and completing a language program in
Cuba. (W)
Sharon Kennedy (Ottawa) is coordinating activities
for orphans at Restoration Children’s Home in
Bamburi, Kenya.
Rajiev Krishnakhanthan (UWO) is working as
an outreach officer for a YMCA employment centre.
(W)
Lindsay Lenters (UBC) is caring for orphans at
an SOS Kinderdorf Village in Gulu, Uganda. (W)
Marie-Claire Lussier-Desbiens (Laval) is
travelling in Spain and working on a farm in India. (C)
“The Loran summer program is really
wonderful in that it lets scholars get
beyond the university and grow through
real and applied challenges.”
2003 Loran scholar Matto Mildenberger
Meaghan McAneeley (UBC) is interning with
the Centre for Community Organizations in Montréal.
Dilzayn Panjwani (McMaster) is taking summer
courses and travelling in Tajikistan and Pakistan. (W)
Debjani Poddar (McMaster) is working at the
Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Hamilton.
Matthew Reid (UWO) is learning French in Quebec.
(W)
Jesse Robson (McGill) (pictured at upper-right)
is working on a demographic assessment project at
The Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company.
(D)
Alexandra Rouillard (Montreal) is working as a
research intern in northern Quebec. (BMOCM)
Graham Smith (McGill) is interning at Kituo
Cha Sheria Legal Advice Centre in Mombasa, Kenya.
(BMO)
Elizabeth Sully (McGill) is interning at Liverpool
VCT in Nairobi, Kenya. (W)
Kailea Switzer (Mount A) is facilitating Leaders
Today workshops in Kenya and China. (W)
Jesse Robson, a 2005 Loran scholar from Newfoundland who is studying at Mc-
Gill, in front of her enterprise summer employer’s office tower in downtown Toronto.
Ashley Tufts (UBC) is interning in the department
of the environment, Government of Nunavut. (W)
David Vlemmix (UWO) is interning at the Hong
Kong economic and trade office in Toronto. (W)
Yin Ying Zhang (U of T) is a research assistant at
U of T. (W)
Hayes Zirnhelt (UBC) is working as a self-employed
blacksmith.
2004 Loran scholars
Anne Aubut (Mount A) is conducting research on
the semi-palmated sandpiper.
Kelsey Cassidy (UWO) is volunteering at the
Tropical Institute for Community Health & Development
in Kisumu, Kenya. (JLM)
Akinrinola Famuyide (Manitoba) is interning at
the Canadian Centre for International Justice. (W)
Emma Feltes (U of King’s College) is working with
the Toronto Community Social Planning Council amd
attending the Global Youth Assembly in Edmonton.
(W)
Nadia Festinger (UWO) is working in Argentina.
Melissa Gibaldi (Queen’s) is working as a tour
guide in Kingston.
Wojciech Gryc (U of T) is training members of an
organization that supports youth in Kibera, Kenya. (W)
Allison Keating (U of A) is interning at OSEF in
France. (W)
Courtney Lancaster (UBC) is working as a project
assistant at Festival Antigonish in Nova Scotia. (W)
Brianne Lewis (Queen’s) is researching HIV/AIDS
at Bejing Normal University. (W)
Mandeep Mahal (U of T) is working with local
physcians and partipating in clinical rotations in Mumbai,
India.
Elise Min (UWO) is working as assistant brand manager
at S.C. Johnson.
Constance North (McGill) is conducting medical
research at U of A.
Neil Peet (UWO) is interning in the cabinet office, Government
of Ontario. (W)
Ekaterina Smolina (Guelph) is volunteering in
medical clinics in northern India. (W)
Stephanie Subject (UBC) is helping to build a
school in Costa Rica. (W)
Laura Thomson (UWO) is interning at University of
Northern British Columbia. (W)
Joshua Wales (McGill) is studying German and
training with musician in Berlin, Germany. (W)
Alexander Way (U of T) is working at a camp for
Aboriginal children in northern Ontario.
Kate Welwood (U of A) is working at the Make A
Wish Foundation.
Legend: B= Burgundy Asset Management Loran
Scholar; BMO = BMO Loran scholar; BMOCM = BMO
Capital Markets Loran scholarr; CH= CHUM Limited Loran
Scholar; C = CIBC Loran Scholar; D = Dominion of
Canada General Insurance Company Loran Scholar; JLM
= John Lindsay Morehead Loran Scholar; R = Redknee
Loran Scholar; W = Weston Loran Scholar; Y = Young
Fund Loran Scholar. The Morrison Foundation underwrites
Loran Awards for four scholars.
About this newsletter
With each year, the Loran Awards network
of scholars, alumni, volunteers
and supporters continues to expand
throughout Canada and around the
world. Our goal with this newsletter
is to inform and inspire the extended
Loran Awards family.
If you have comments on this newsletter
or ideas for stories or themes
for subsequent issues, please e-mail
them to newsletter@cmsf.ca.
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Primary supporter ($500,000+) Major Supporters ($200,000+)
Associate Supporters ($50,000+)
Anonymous foundation
BMO Financial Group
CHUM Limited
The Dominion of Canada General Insurance
Company
The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
The Michael Young Family Foundation
The Morrison Foundation
Redknee Inc.
Torys LLP (pro bono legal services)
Founders’ Circle ($25,000+)
Bob Cluett
Cathy & John Phillips
Fay & Donald Simmonds
Louise & Robert Simmonds
* indicates Loran alumnus or alumna
Executive Director’s Circle
($1,000-2,499)
Paula & Michael Aldersey
Gail Asper
Marjorie & Morley Blankstein
Richard Campbell
Robert Chipman
Ruth daCosta
Alan T. Dickson
Virginia Froman
Doug Holtby
Principal Benefactors ($25,000+)
Anonymous foundation
Avana Capital Corp.
Business Propulsion Systems
HSBC Bank Canada
Scotiabank
Founders’ Circle ($10K-24,999)
James Appleyard & Tamara
Rebanks
In honour & memory of Jean
Motley Morehead Larkin
Craig Pho & Mireille Moors
Richard Rooney
Fred Wright
John C Kerr
Morley Koffman
Robert Korthals
Geoffery Matus
Bill & Betty Morris
Terry Nickerson
LO Pollard
Wendy Rebanks
Lionel Schipper
Lyle Schwartz*
Scholar summers, cont’d
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Principal Supporter ($1,000,000+)
Sponsor of the Weston Loran Awards and exclusive
sponsor of the Garfield Weston Merit Scholarship for
Colleges awards program.
Storage, which advises the government on limiting greenhouse
gas emissions. Mark says his public policy internship has made
him aware of new possibilities: “I think the greatest benefit of this
program is the exposure to an area of work which I had not originally
considered pursuing,” says Mark. “I learned how valuable
research work in this area could be.”
In the private sector, 2005 Dominion of Canada General Insurance
Company Loran scholar Jesse Robson is working for the
sponsor of her award. A Newfoundlander, Jesse moved to Montreal
to study at McGill University. Bringing her engineering
background to bear on insurance matters, Jesse is working with
Elizabeth Bronson, manager of product development. “Working
at The Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company gave
me the opportunity to explore the insurance industry, an industry
that I would otherwise not had the chance to discover. The staff
made every effort to allow me to explore the company, creating an
engaging, yet flexible work environment in which I had the opportunity
to pursue my specific interests,” says Jesse.
Executive Director’s Circle
($500-999)
Alison & David Appleyard
Patricia Arroyo*
John & Gwenne Becker
Gurpreet Brar*
Pierre Boudreault
Jennifer Clark
Michelle Dagnino*
Glenn Fraser
Catherine Fowler
Chair’s Circle ($5K-9,999)
Bryan P. Davies
Wendy Cecil
Franca Gucciardi* & Alex Usher
Rod MacLennan
Rudy North
Heinz & Margaret Rieger
Lucas Skoczkowski* & Erica Wong
Our Supporters & Benefactors
(as of 13 July 2007)
Major Benefactors ($10,000+)
Burns Family Fund at The Winnipeg Foundation
Burgundy Asset Management
Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc.
Friends of Canadian Education
Friesens Corporation
Great-West Life, London Life, and Canada Life
Lifetouch Canada Inc.
McLean Budden
Nexen
Suncor Energy Foundation
Brian Gardner*
Gregg Hanson
Yaacov Iland*
Sally & Detlef Kunz
Michael Laine
Robert Livingston
Gaëtan Lussier
Sandra* & Rodney MacGillivray
Margaret MacMillan
Klara Michal*
Kim Parlee
Chair’s Circle ($2,500-4,999)
Marilyn & Jim Burt
Jack Darville
Ruth & Douglas Grant
Richard Powers
Jim & Leney Richardson
Johan van’t Hof
Glenn Pearce
Jansi A. & Stephen G. Pereira
Joanne Pooley
Loraine Ronchi*
Evan Short* & Catriana McKie
Warren Tranquada*
Beatrice & Daniel Traub-
Werner
Steven Uster*
Ryan Van Wert*
Karen Wilson
In February, Lyle Schwartz (Loran ‘96) spoke to first-year scholars
about his international summer experiences, which included
working as a research analyst in London, Boston and Hong Kong
for several different firms. Lyle is now vice-president, equity capital
markets, for Goldman Sachs, the firm that he worked for during his
summer in Hong Kong. Photo by Mischa Bartkow (Loran ‘99)
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