Alumni News and Views - Conestoga College

Table of Contents
Editor’s Notebook
Welcome to the Summer 2005 Edition of Connections . . . 2
Alumni Association, Slate of Officers 2005/2006 . . . . . . . . 2
Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Cover Story
Machelle & Tony Denison - Not Just an Ordinary Couple . . . 3
Grad Profile
Alumnus of Distinction Award Recipients 2005 . . . . . . . . . 5
Paul Siebel... PAC Chair & Donor of Steel Teaching Aid . . . 6
Beyond an Apprenticeship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Heard it Through the Grapevine
Keeping in Touch with Our Alumni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Lost Sheep
Too Baaaad We Can’t Find Ewe!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
In Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Membership Has Its Benefits - Help Us Stay Up-To-Date. . 15
PAC’s Profile
Paul Kalbfleisch, PAC Chair - Advertising Program . . . . . . 16
Steel Teaching Aid Officially Dedicated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Editor: Monica Himmelman*
Creative Director: Valerie Gray*
Contributing Monica Himmelman*
Writers: Sam Egleston*
Lynne Kattenhorn*
John Sawicki*
Ingrid Town
Violet Boutilier
Jason Sonser**
Tom Kalbfleisch**
Jonathan Wolfe
Tracey Jasmine*
Mike Shipley
Brenda Warner
Photos Cover - Rick Kowalczykowski,
icon Photography Inc.
Margie Williams, Kevin Garrett, Beatriu Canet
* Conestoga Alumnus or ** Conestoga Student
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Campus Update
Get Out the Hammers! Conestoga is Growing Again!. . . . 18
Conestoga Program Earns Prestigious Yves Landry Award . . 20
New Direction in Apprenticeship Trades . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Ground Broken for New Student Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Lauren Weber, Governor General’s Academic Medal Winner 22
Student Life Coordinator Leanne Holland Brown . . . . . . . 23
Woman to Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Valentine O’Donovan – A Leader in Technology &
Philanthropy 1936-2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Alumni News & Views
Reunions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Upcoming Reunions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Alumni Association Celebrates 15th Anniversary . . . . . . . 28
Tim Kingsbury – A Challenge to Alumni . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
First Annual Alumni Golf Tournament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Conestoga Students Inc. Looking to the Past . . . . . . . . . . 30
Alumni Survive Hurricane Katrina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Privacy of Personal Information Statement . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Materials & Operations Management Program . . . . . . . . . 32
Degree Opportunity for Accounting Grads . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Students Serve Up Pancake Breakfast at Oktoberfest . . . . 34
Susan Hilton:An Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Mission Statement
“The Alumni Association of Conestoga College is a network
of volunteers committed to an active partnership among
the Alumni, the Community, and the
College in order to create a lifelong interest in
the success of the College.”
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