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Hospital and is a consultant physician at numerous Florida hospitals. Zubin is the book review editor for the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Matteo Pasquale 1975 Matteo attended Stanstead College from 1972 to 1975. He is the CEO of Cintec Group, which specializes in the treatment and landfill of contaminated soils, rehabilitation of contaminated sites, construction of engineered landfill sites, integrated municipal waste management and hazardous waste elimination. He is the father of Grade 7 student, Anthony. Philip Renaud 1989 Philip attended Stanstead College from 1986 to 1989. He graduated from Franklin College of Switzerland with a BA in International Financial Management and is presently managing director of Church Advisors, a European financial advisory business. Until recently, he was a founding partner of Change A few words about debating at SC Stanstead College hosted its second Invitational Junior Debating Tournament on October 12. Forty-four students from 11 schools from Montreal and the Eastern Townships participated. Participating schools were Stanstead College, Bishop’s College School, The Study, Miss Edgar’s & Miss Cramp’s School, Lower Canada College, Vincent Massey Collegiate, Trafalgar School for Girls, Selwyn House, Royal West Academy and Centennial Academy. Capital Partners, a 300 million Euro private equity fund. In the past 10 years he has worked closely with his family in both private equity and natural resources. He currently holds directorships with Canadian Underwriting Ltd., Dia Bras Exploration Inc., Barewalls.com and the Churchwine Company. He lives in London, England with his wife Estefania and their three children. Harry Walker 1947 A native of Montreal, Harry attended Stanstead College for Grades 10 and 11 from 1945 to 1947. After graduation, he worked for a year as a junior clerk at the Bank of Toronto in Montreal before going into business for himself. This eventually led to a chain of five Walker’s Dry Cleaning outlets in the west end of Montreal. In the seventies, Harry purchased Evans & Co., which specialized in automobile after-market supplies. Retired for the past 18 years, Harry enjoys golf and divides his year between his home in Beaconsfield and Florida. The day included three rounds of impromptu debate, followed by a closing debate between the top two teams. The winning team from Selwyn House consisted of Harry Cape and Marc Perlman, with runners-up Harley Nadler and Duncan Stewart from Centennial Academy. The top speaker was Michael Oberman from Royal West Academy. Stanstead's William Bright was fifth, while Javier Quintero placed eighth. The tournament’s judges were drawn from the participating schools and the community. Stanstead College students assisted as timekeepers. In other debating news, Helen White, Grade 11, was selected as one of three Quebec students to participate in a qualifying event in Vancouver in November to select the Canadian Schools Debating Team for the next World’s Debating Tournament in Greece in February 2009. Three students from each province across Canada competed for a spot on the nine-member team. Helen made a good showing but unfortunately did not place. In January, Helen and Grade 12 student Ives-Hugo Lanoie qualified to compete at the 10th Annual National Debating Championships to be held in Calgary, Alberta in April. Stanstead debaters Andrew Decelles and William Bright prepare to put forth their arguments.
Martin Aller-Stead, 1970, Ontario’s top teacher Stanstead College teachers inspire students. And sometimes they inspire those students to teach and go on to inspire future students. Martin Aller-Stead (1970) is one of those inspired/inspiring teachers. Last October, he received an OTIP Teach Award from the Ontario Teachers’ Federation as the province’s best high school educator in 2007. Martin is currently a senior/cooperative education teacher at Monarch Park Collegiate in Toronto but he has also taught in Montreal, Alberta, British Columbia and Nigeria. “At Monarch Park, he finds innovative and ‘right fit’ co-op placements for all of his students and uses his life experience to illustrate, enhance and punctuate lessons,” stated the OTF’s web bio for Martin. “The Co-operative Education Pre-Employment Sessions can sometimes be an analytical examination of provincial legislation. Not when Martin brings in his banjo to play old union songs. The students discover why unions continue to be relevant today. “A colleague says, ‘He makes all students – regardless of economic, social or Martin with his wife Gail. physical ability or disability – successful if they choose to be. He is a constant support and provider of hope for many who never thought they would get a chance.’” In fact, Martin may at one time have put himself in that very category. “When I began this racket, even my mother bet against me! $200!” he says. “She said that I was going to be too much of a rebel, that I wouldn't last two years.” In fact, Martin has been teaching for 30, though he’s still by his own admission a rebel. “The years have not really mellowed me much at all,” he says. “I'm still a bit of a disturbance.” Martin is full of stories of shenanigans at Stanstead, most of them involving sneaking cigarettes. “I remember as a Colby boy getting up early in the morning. We’d open the window and have our morning cigarettes, blowing smoke out the top window slot,” he says. “Occasionally Mrs. Galambos would walk on campus while we were engaged in this little morning prayer, but she’d rarely raise her eyes to see what was going on, so intent was she to get to her obligations. One day we had a fit of giggles, and (worse!) had a light on. She stopped and looked up, counted the windows and we thought, ‘Oh cripes, we're in it for sure.’ When we went up for breakfast Mrs. G. just found each of us, spent a minute looking long and hard at us, and wandered off, ram-rod straight as usual. No word was ever said. But we found our discretion!” Martin also played the school organ. (His rendition of “Love is Blue” was a code for the other boys that someone was coming, so put out your smokes!) His organ skills led him to practicing at the Unitarian-Universalist Church in Derby Line and eventually to him becoming a member of the congregation. Today, among his many other talents, Martin is a UU chaplain. “I owe a huge debt to Stanstead and our teachers there at the time,” he says. “Mrs. G., who took herself seriously but not too much, Mr. Lester, who got to know each 7 of us as kids, not just as names, Mr. Gallant, whose idea of history was something which, for me, lived and breathed. English classes, the visiting musicians, the requirements to have – and use – good manners, the Chapel services...” At Monarch Park Collegiate in the east end of Toronto, where Martin works with a lot of inner-city students in his co-op, foods and senior philosophy classes, he tries to ensure that they receive the very best that Stanstead offered. “They don't know it, but they owe Mr. Lester and everyone who was working with him a huge debt of gratitude for the inspiration he gave me to become a different kind of teacher from the norm. It seems to have worked, in more ways than I know.” Martin describes his OTIP award as “not something one may ask for or hope for. It’s a given grace, and I am still quite astonished.” In addition to his classroom time, Martin has been a trainer in international, intercultural exchange dynamics; a coach for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards Program, rugby teams, and rowing teams; and staff advisor for Student Council, the Fitness and Nutrition Club, the Glee Club and the Gay-Straight Alliance. He even runs a free educational-services website: www.aller-stead.com/martin/ If you want to see Martin in action, the OTF produced a three-minute video about him. You can find it at www.teachingawards.ca/en/honourees.php As he says in the video, “Teachers have to be givers. We literally give our lives away to the larger society, through the children. That’s sort of our ancient, ancient job.”
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