The Crusader - Fall 2011 September 20, 2011 - St Paul's High School

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Ambassador Gary Doer ’66 Announced as 2011 Ignatian Challenge Award Recipient Release Date 7 March 2011, St Paul’s High School, News Release St Paul’s High School, an independent Catholic School operated by the Jesuits in English Canada with a emphasis on academic excellence and the growth of the whole person in preparing young men for postsecondary education and leadership in the community, is delighted to announce His Excellency Gary Doer ’66, Canadian Ambassador to the United States of America, as the recipient of the 2011 Ignatian Challenge Award. “It is a pleasure to announce His Excellency Ambassador Gary Doer as this year’s Ignatian Award Recipient” says Fr Alan Fogarty SJ, President of St Paul’s High School. “In his leadership role as Premier of Manitoba for ten years and today as Ambassador, Gary Doer advocates for and represents what it means to be Canadian and the ideals that make us a strong and globally respected country. Ambassador Doer is, in the literal sense, a Man for Others.” During his time as Premier of Manitoba he won three consecutive elections with successive increased majorities. His government introduced balanced budgets while reducing taxes. He worked extensively with U.S. Governors to enhance Canada-U.S. cooperation on trade, agriculture, water protection, climate change and renewable energy. His tenure included strategic investments in health care, education, training and infrastructure. In 2005, he was named by Business Week as one of the top 20 international leaders on climate change. The Ignatian Challenge Award will be presented to Ambassador Doer at a formal dinner in Winnipeg at the Winnipeg Convention Centre on Tuesday, 1 November, 2011. The award recognizes individuals within our community who embrace the ideals of St Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, and who reflect the characteristics and qualities inherent in a Jesuit education at St Paul’s High School. Award recipients, through their leadership and commitment to service, become examples for our students of a lived faith and philosophy of becoming Men and Women for Others. Ambassador Doer joins past recipients including Dr Arthur Mauro, Mr Paul Albrechtsen, Dr Michael Phelps ’63, Mr & Mrs Kevin and Els Kavanagh, Mr Gregg Hanson ’69, Fr Joseph Driscoll SJ, Dr Angus Reid ’65, Mr & Mrs Richard and Kathryn Bracken, Mr Joe Stangl, Dr William Norrie, Mr Robert Puchniak ’65, Mr & Mrs Gary and Janice Filmon, Mr Robert Chipman ’44, Mr James Tennant ’66, Mr Hubert Kleysen, Dr Emőke Szathmáry and last year’s recipient Dr Peter MacDonald ’76. The event is an annual fundraiser for the St Paul’s High School Bursary Fund that provides need-based tuition assistance to current students. 16 Crusader Fall 2011
Dr Daniel Woolf ’76 20 th Principal & Vice Chancellor, Queen’s University M E N F O R O T H E R S Dr Michael Mahon ’77 6 th President & Vice Chancellor, The University of Lethbridge Born in London, England, Dr Woolf and his family moved to Winnipeg in 1961 when he was three years old as his father sought to further his career as an ear, nose and throat surgeon. In 1972, Dr Woolf entered grade 9 at St Paul’s High School and immediately became involved in a wide variety of activities at the school including Reach for the Top, curling, debating and school drama as a musician. However it was The Crusader Newspaper that Dr Woolf was most heavily involved in, becoming editor in his grade 12 year and propelling him further in his aspirations of an academic career. It was at St Paul’s, more specifically in Mr Grover’s history classes, that Dr Woolf discovered his passion for history and led him to later become an extremely accomplished historian. Following St Paul’s, Dr Woolf went on to study at Queen’s University where he received a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in History. He then returned to his home soil and attended the University of Oxford in Oxford, England where he completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Seventeenth-century British History. Dr Woolf then returned to Queens as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow in history, teaching part-time during that period. He then taught for a year at Bishop’s University until he joined Dalhousie University’s History Department in 1987 as an assistant professor. In 1994 he was promoted to full professor, serving as Associate Dean and then Acting Dean of Graduate Studies. In 1999, after twelve years at Dalhousie, Dr Woolf moved to “… you get a lot further as part of a team than on your own.” McMaster University as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and three years later joined the University of Alberta as Dean of Arts. Currently, Dr Woolf has just started the third year of a five year term as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. In addition to being Principal (the position usually called President at other universities), Dr Woolf is a professor in the Department of History, supervising graduate students and participating part-time in undergraduate teaching. An accomplished writer and historian, Dr Woolf is the author or editor of eight books; thirty-six articles, book chapters and companion articles and has several research publications in progress. Dr Woolf was awarded the John Ben Snow Foundation Prize for the best book by a North American scholar in any field of British studies and recently published a textbook on historiography. Certainly the term “Man for Others” applies to Dr Woolf in his role as Principal. In this role, Dr Woolf sees many different needs to satisfy from different parts of his university, many of which are not in agreement with one another. Dr Woolf explains that he entered administrative life “to help improve higher education—to try to fix things that struck me as wrong or problematic.” Not all problems have an easy fix and very few can be solved alone—something Dr Woolf explains he learned at St Paul’s thanks to Reach for the Top and The Crusader Newspaper. “… you get a lot further as part of a team than on your own.” And it is Dr Woolf and his team at Queens University that work every day to “help promote and facilitate the work of students, staff and faculty, and ensure that the university continues to make a useful contribution to a better country and better world.” From a young age, Jesuit education and values have played an important role in Dr Michael (Mike) Mahon’s personal, academic and professional life. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Dr Mahon began his education at another Jesuit-run school, St John Brebeuf. Dr Mahon entered St Paul’s in 1973 and connected with the sports program at the school playing Crusader basketball and football. He was also involved in many areas of the school including the drama production “The Teahouse of the August Moon.” Although it was through these extra-curriculars at the school that Dr Mahon developed many of the friendships that he has to this day — it was the Values Program, today’s Christian Service Program, in which Dr Mahon volunteered at St Amant Centre that ultimately had the biggest effect on Dr Mahon’s time at St Paul’s and his future career. After St Paul’s, Dr Mahon studied at the University of Manitoba, receiving his Bachelor of Physical Education. From there, he went on to receive his Masters of Science from the University of Alberta and his PhD in Education in Disability Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His academic career started in 1987 at his alma mater, the University of Manitoba, first as an Assistant Professor and then the Director of the Health, Leisure and Human Performance Research Institute in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation Studies. In 2000, he joined the University of Alberta and served two terms as the Dean of the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation. In 2010 Dr Mahon started his term as the sixth President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Lethbridge. “. . . encourages each student to complete a community engagement experience to assist them in understanding their responsibility . . .” A proponent for physical education for people of all ages and abilities, Dr Mahon has volunteered and worked on behalf of many organizations including the Canadian Special Olympics, Right to Play, bid committee co-chair for the 2015 Universiade Games and instrumental in the creation of The Canadian Athletics Coaching Centre. He is the proud recipient of the Award of Distinction from the Canadian Centre on Disability Studies. Dr Mahon bases his leadership of the University of Lethbridge on Robert Greenleaf ’s concept of servant leadership and is committed to what he calls ‘community engagement’. Community engagement, as he explains, “encourages each student to complete a community engagement experience to assist them in understanding their responsibility for becoming citizens of the world and also to enhance their career prospects.” This mantra of being one with your surrounding community is one directly learned from St Paul’s High School’s Value Program. He credits St Paul’s with helping him to understand that students should have multiple experiences and have a balanced, broad-based involvement in the community. In fact, one of Dr Mahon’s proudest accomplishments was winning the Harry Hood Award while at St Paul’s, an award that celebrates not only a student’s academic and sport accomplishment but also community involvement. Without a doubt, Dr Mahon embodies the Jesuit model of being a Man for Others and through his role as President and Vice Chancellor, there will undoubtedly be many Men and Women for Others that follow in his example. www.stpauls.mb.ca 1 7
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