Brag - Spring2023

Words from the
President
I often remind myself that saints are indeed our living friends in prayer life of
our College. Jesuit Spirituality emphasizes friendship with the Lord as sacred
relationship that is worth seeking. This is very true of Edmund Campion’s friendship
with the Lord, and whose name we choose for our College thanks to his scholarship
and sanctity within our Mission. I ponder what possible views he has of us as the
Campion community serving higher education in Saskatchewan. I thank God for his
friendship marked in his intercessions for us. That level of holy engagement is very
real for those who pray to the Lord in the friendship of his saints.
This academic year has been a special one of grace and I could sense it through the
practice of faith in our broken world of insecurities, places of war, and high costs
of living, to name a few. We held rather well against the wave of the pandemic, the
concern of student enrollment, mental anxieties, and the financial restraints that
are upon us. Our staff and faculty along with our supporters have understood the
parameter of commitment to our students, and each one at Campion has strived to
give the best possible service to our enrolled students. We are living the faith.
The Ignatian spirituality will aid us in the coming academic year to start a process
of reflection, based on the Examen prayer, on how we are living and growing with
our College Mission. We are joining other Jesuit Colleges and Universities in our
global network in this endeavour, and we at Campion are preparing ourselves for
this process.
Campion College stands firmly for the Jesuit ideals of trust and service. Our inspirational
founder in his Brag, his final speech, reminds us, “The expense is reckoned,
the enterprise is begun; it is of God, it cannot be withstood. So the faith was planted;
so it must be restored.” Each of these Campion’s words touches our reality at the
College: a people of faith, a community of sacrifice, and God’s involvement which we
discern by the riches of the Ignatian spirituality. We are a community that continues
to transform others into hearts of generosity in the pathway of education. I like the
symbol of our College, the winding path in a Cross-shape indicating the “way” of the
Cross; and the crest of our College, affirming the divine presence, as oval-looking
Eucharist just above the motto Sapientia Regina. We understand that wisdom
has a path to enlighten our students as we walk with them, and we extend hearty
congratulations to our graduates this year. It was a great privilege having them.
Please keep us in your prayers.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
President’s Message 3
Spring Grads 4
Grad Stories 6
St. Edmund Campion Medal 7
New Student 8
The Plague Comes to Campion 10
Journey to Cuernavaca 12
Rapid Test Kit Distribution 14
Champions of Change 15
Rising Politician 16
Student Activities 17
Nash Lecture 18
Alumni of Distinction 20
Brag-a-Bits24
Alumni in Business 25
Editor:
Krista Calfat
Photography:
Cover: Trevor Hopkin
Kelly Bourke
Krista Calfat
Brandi Klein
Contributors:
Kelly Bourke
Krista Calfat
Dr. Allison Fizzard
Dr. Dawn Flood
Holly Gustafson
Bronwyn Heerspink
Fr. Sami Helewa, SJ
Shae Sackman
Raiha Shareef
Katelyn Wood
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Previous Donors List 26
Environmental Talk
and Scholarship 28
Mission Priority Examen 30
Faculty Notes 31
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