2025 Winter - This year marks the 25th anniversary of the London, U.K. Alumni event, a gathering that has turned into a tradition bringing Mount Allison graduates together for more than two decades.
2025 Winter - Let us know your latest news by submitting a Class Connection online or e-mailing alumni@mta.ca and we will share it in a future edition of the Record.
2025 Winter -
Please feel welcome to submit memories of departed Allisonians you have known and loved.
2025 Winter - I remember my grandmother Margaret as a poised and sophisticated woman who would gently tuck stray strands of hair behind my ears.
2025 Winter - At the heart of every Allisonian is a simple wish — that current and future students experience the same transformative, life-changing education that shaped our own journeys.
2025 Winter - It’s a well-known fact that Mount Allison students graduate well-prepared to take on the challenges of graduate and professional programs across Canada and around the world.
2025 Winter - Aminah Simmons' first introduction to Mount Allison was meeting admissions counsellor, now recruitment and admissions coordinator, Curtis Michaelis (’09) at a post-secondary school fair at her high school, Cedar Ridge Academy.
2025 Winter - Sally Carson has spent decades leading science education and conservation efforts along New Zealand’s coastline. Her career started on the opposite side of the world in Nova Scotia’s Halifax Harbour.
2025 Winter - Many of us are familiar with the concept of meditation, it’s been around for centuries after all. We know we should be getting our Om on, but that can be easier said than done.
2025 Winter - Mount Allison’s 57th Rhodes Scholar Claire Wilbur ('25) grew up knowing she wanted to pursue medicine.
“It's probably a cliché to say that I've always wanted to be a doctor,” she says. “But it’s true.”
2025 Winter - Since the 1940s and even earlier, the relationship between Canada and the Netherlands has always been a close one.
2025 Winter - At Mount Allison, every experience builds the foundation for a future full of possibilities, empowering students to embrace change and seize new opportunities.
2025 Winter - Mount Allison Mounties Women’s Hockey Head Coach Addie Miles-Abbott served as assistant coach at the 2025 FISU Winter World University Games, which took place from Jan. 13–25, 2025 in Torino, Italy.
2025 Winter - It was Michaela Cabot’s first time travelling outside of Canada. In 2024, the fourth-year Music student spent two weeks attending the Breno Italy International Music Academy.
2024 Fall - The Multi-Sport Complex is designed to bring people together in meaningful ways.
2024 Fall - This year marks a meaningful milestone as the Commerce program celebrates its 70th anniversary. Over the decades, the program has steadily grown, providing a solid foundation in business education and helping many graduates build successful careers in various areas.
2024 Fall - Mountie Pride has been echoing through Mounties Athletics — and indeed across campus — for more than a decade. It’s been the mantra that has united the Mount Allison Athletics community.
But where did it originate?
2024 Fall - Let us know your latest news by submitting a Class Connection online or e-mailing alumni@mta.ca and we will share it in a future edition of the Record.
2024 Fall - Please feel welcome to submit memories of departed Allisonians you have known and loved.
2024 Fall - Sacha DeWolfe's innovative community-based experiential courses are making significant strides in expanding educational opportunities for students and communities in the region.
2024 Fall - Andrew Brenton (’80) and Kerry Wood want to make a difference in the lives of Maritime youth. In 2015, the couple gave their first gift toward the Brenton Wood Scholarship at Mount Allison and, over the last decade, they have continued to donate and ensure the long-term impact of their award.
2024 Fall - Like many high school graduates, Ian Fogarty felt anxious about choosing the right university.
2024 Fall -
Owens Art Gallery receives Dr. Marilyn Trenholme Counsell Literacy Award
The Owens Art Gallery received the Dr. Marilyn Trenholme Counsell Literacy Award in the category of Community Literacy Program.
2024 Fall - Dr. Ian Sutherland most recently served as a vice-president of Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador, with primary responsibility for leading the Grenfell Campus — an institution dedicated to the liberal arts and science tradition, in the tight-knit community of Corner Brook.
2024 Fall - Ian Metcalfe joined Mount Allison University as part of the 2002 class.
2024 Fall - This year, Rachel O’Brien was at the helm of eight shows a week, conducting Anne of Green Gables: The Musical and Jersey Boys at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown, PE.
2024 Fall - Amanda Peters never pictured going to university. Very few in her family had. But in Grade 10, she went with a friend to a university fair at their high school. After that, she knew she would go to university at Mount Allison.
2024 Summer - When we think about travelling 10,000 km as Canadians now, we recognize that as a significant journey. Imagine making that trip in the 1890s from Hakodate on the main northern island of Japan all the way to Sackville, NB without the benefit of airplanes or cars.
2024 Summer - Alden Leard (’41) spent more than 30 years on campus, as a student, assistant professor in Commerce, and headmaster of the Mount Allison Academy and Commercial College.
2024 Summer - Convocation 2024
Approximately 425 crossed the stage during the 2024 Convocation ceremonies on May 13. Four distinguished Canadians were recognized with honorary degrees, all of whom are esteemed alumni.
2024 Summer - Let us know your latest news by submitting a Class Connection online or e-mailing alumni@mta.ca and we will share it in a future edition of the Record.
2024 Summer - When Emelyana Titarenko came to Mount Allison from Fredericton, NB, she first noticed how active and involved everyone was on campus. She quickly discovered that the Mount Allison Students’ Union (MASU) was where she wanted to get involved.
2024 Summer - It was during their time at Mount Allison when Franziska Glen and Lily Falk discovered their shared passion for storytelling and theatre. United by their interest and desire to make theatre accessible to all, they founded Gale Force Theatre in 2019.
2024 Summer - As we look forward to 2025, Mount Allison University is poised to mark a significant milestone in its history and in the annals of higher education.
2024 Summer - Mature and first-generation student Heidi-Lyn O’Connor always loved school and wanted to attend university, but life took her in a different direction.
2024 Summer - The last name Crawford really needs no introduction in the Mount Allison Record.
2024 Summer - A new micropress has set up shop at Mount Allison.
Spearheaded by English professor Dr. Geordie Miller and library staff member Keagan Hawthorne, High Marsh Press follows in the footsteps of a longstanding print tradition on campus.
2024 Summer - Close your eyes and think about the R.P. Bell Library. What memories come to mind? The colours of the carpet? The smell of the books? Settling into a study carrel late into the night? Every Mount A alumni since 1970 is also an alumni of the R.P. Bell Library.
2024 Summer - Edgar and Dorothy Davidson had a keen interest in the early history of Canada and in 1969 announced their decision to donate their private book collection on the subject to Mount Allison.
2024 Summer - Courtney Pringle-Carver has worked in the public, private, and non-profit sectors, and run for political office. In her many leadership roles, Pringle-Carver has remained a strong advocate for community and Maritime life.
2024 Winter - Every year for the last 70 years, the Don Norton Memorial Award has been awarded to a graduating student who has made the greatest overall contribution to student life during their time at Mount Allison.
2024 Winter - Is there anything more thrilling than the sweet victory of crossing an item off your to-do list? I swear, each time I do it, there’s a dopamine party in my brain! As the executive director of the Mount Allison Alumni Board for over 17 years, I’ve had my fair share of list triumphs.
2024 Winter - Let us know your latest news by submitting a Class Connection online or e-mailing alumni@mta.ca and we will share it in a future edition of the Record.
2024 Winter - Tara (Kelly) Milburn’s path to creating a leading online distributor of sustainable promotional products began more than 30 years ago — fuelled by the belief that corporations and how we do business were badly broken and needed to change.
2024 Winter - Please feel welcome to submit memories of departed Allisonians you have known and loved, and we will be h
2024 Winter - As managing editor of Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press in Halifax, NS, Whitney Moran guides authors through the key stages of publishing a book.
“So much of the job is relationship building,” says Moran. “It’s a lot of conversations with authors at different stages of the process.”
2024 Winter - “Our University invites students from around the world to study here and provides all students a globally minded education,” says Marcie Meekins, Mount Allison’s director of development.
2024 Winter - When Elizabeth (Rising) Howell graduated from Mount Allison in 1939, it was with dreams of becoming a dietetics teacher. But as the world plunged into war, her life took an unforeseen turn.
2024 Winter - Renowned marine biologist and co-founder of Oceans Initiative Rob Williams’ journey was anything but a straightforward swim.
2024 Winter - Immediately after graduating from Mount Allison with a Bachelor of Arts last spring, Abbey Stroud set sail on the Bluenose II.
Originally from Pictou, NS, her interest in joining the schooner’s crew was rooted in her family’s heritage.
2024 Winter - Mount Allison students have the opportunity to conduct original research at the undergraduate level, something that rarely happens at larger universities. For Katherine Estabrooks (‘23), that resulted in being first author on a peer-reviewed academic paper.
2024 Winter - Growing up in Toronto, fourth-year music student and Bell Achievement Award recipient Emma Yee had every opportunity to immerse herself in the world of performing arts.
2024 Winter - Mount Allison has unveiled its plans and concept designs of the R.P. Bell Library: Centre for Innovation and Learning to the University community, marking the first renovation to the building in more than 50 years.
2024 Winter - Back in 2010, I transferred to Mount Allison not only for its reputation, but I also felt I had a better shot of walking onto the varsity basketball team, compared to other then-CIS (now U SPORTS) schools.
2023 Fall - Charles Frederick Allison Award
The Charles Frederick Allison Award, named in honour of the University’s founder, serves to acknowledge an Allisonian who has demonstrated exceptional, lifelong dedication to Mount Allison.
2023 Fall - MtA Soccer Alumni, July 28, 2023
This summer, five decades of Mountie Men’s Soccer Alumni came together to host the very first Mount Allison Soccer Alumni Golf Tournament! There were twenty-four Mount A alumni in attendance, sharing stories and reliving memories.
2023 Fall - While many Mount Allison alumni have left their mark on history, some have quietly reshaped the world in ways that have mostly stayed hidden from view.
Shedding light on one such unknown story is a new book by UNB professor Dr. Jason Bell.
2023 Fall - When Dr. Anne Koval first encountered Mary (West) Pratt’s work at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in 2014, she experienced a sensation like no other — an art attack, a profound physical and emotional response to art, otherwise known as Stendhal’s Syndrome.
2023 Fall - Mount Allison and the Johnson Scholarship Foundation are celebrating five years of partnership. In 2018, the foundation created JSF Pathways at the University's Meighen Centre for students with disabilities.
2023 Fall - Ten years ago, Mount Allison merged three of its academic programs to give students the opportunity to examine the world through three distinct lenses — Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE).
2023 Fall - Every fall for the past 50 years, the familiar phrase “Touchdown Mounties” can be heard echoing across the Tantramar Marsh from then MacAulay Field — now Alumni Field. That longtime ‘Voice of the Mounties’ is none other than Steve Ridlington.
2023 Fall - Let us know your latest news by submitting a Class Connection online or e-mailing alumni@mta.ca and we will share it in a future edition of the Record.
2023 Fall - Please feel welcome to submit memories of departed Allisonians you have known and loved and we will be happy to share short tributes.
2023 Fall - Mount Allison’s Entrepreneurship for Everyone is a for-credit course that builds on the University’s growing offerings in entrepreneurship. The course is open to students from any academic discipline.
2023 Fall - From the start, Tricia Black’s ambition was clear.
“I’ve always known I wanted this career. That I wanted to act, to be in films, and TV, to direct — I wanted to do it all,” says the award-winning actor, writer, and comedian.
2023 Fall - Louise Adongo was prepared to embrace the unknown when she moved to Canada to study at Mount Allison.
2023 Fall - The 2023-2024 academic year is upon us and with it, a new era on our campus.
2023 Fall - In recognition of honorary degree recipient and celebrated Sackville musician Ray Legere (LLD ’23), his friends at CHMA produced a radio documentary that chronicles his remarkable career and features many of the talented musicians who have shared the stage with Ray over the years.
2023 Fall - When Dr. Robert MacKinnon (’78) first arrived at Mount Allison in Fall 1975, it was with his identical twin brother, Richard, and the siblings-turned-roommates were moving into Hunton House.
2023 Fall - Over the past few years, Mount Allison has been actively working towards greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our newest Alumni Board networks are taking another step in that direction.
2023 Summer - Let us know your latest news by submitting a Class Connection online or e-mailing alumni@mta.ca and we will share it in a future edition of the Record.
2023 Summer - May was a significant month for Ellen (West) Ayer as she celebrated her 100th birthday — a milestone that few are fortunate enough to reach.
Born in Sackville, NB in 1923, Ayer was the daughter of Marjorie (Bates) and Frank West, a professor of engineering at Mount Allison.
2023 Summer - 2023 Grad Awards
The ninth annual Last Lecture, recognizing graduating students for their contributions to the Mount Allison and Sackville communities, was held on April 4, 2023. Dr. Robert Lapp from the Department of English was selected to address the Class of 2023.
2023 Summer - Throughout the 2022-23 academic year, three Mount Allison community engaged learning students — Madeleine de Ste-Croix, Leor Handelsman, and Galen Juliusson — joined forces with Moncton non-profit the Autism Resource Centre (ARC) to create an outdoor education program for neurodivergent students
2023 Summer - After three long years of uncertainty and separation, we were thrilled to plan the return of the annual Mount Allison University Reunion in its traditional Reunion/Convocation format in May.
2023 Summer - Approximately 450 students crossed the Convocation Hall stage this spring as part of the Class of 2023.
2023 Summer -
More than 450 Mount Allison alumni returned to campus on May 12-14 for Reunion Weekend 2023.
2023 Summer - Please feel welcome to submit memories of departed Allisonians you have known and loved and we will be happy to share short tributes.
2023 Summer - Cynthia Dyck (’21), Mount Allison’s first-generation program administrator, knows how difficult the transition to university life can be.
2023 Summer - The following is an extended version of the article that appears in the print edition of the Record.
2023 Summer - Earlier this year, graduating defensive back Lucas Cormier, from Sackville, NB, was selected in the 2nd round of the CFL Draft by the Ottawa Redblacks as the 10th overall pick.
2023 Summer - Histology, also known as microscopic anatomy, is a branch of biology that deals with the study of the microscopic structure and function of tissues and organs. It is a crucial part of medical research and diagnosis, providing insights into how our bodies work and how diseases develop.
2023 Summer - At 25, David Spence wanted a change. He quit his job selling cars in Hamilton, ON and after a Google search and quick road trip to visit Sackville, enrolled at Mount Allison.
2023 Summer - A successful career in the arts requires passion, resilience, and stamina.
2023 Summer - I’m not sure any child dreams of becoming a fundraiser when they grow up. It is not a profession that commonly appears in aptitude tests or that guidance counsellors promote.
2023 Winter - On Friday, November 18 and Saturday, November 19, 2022, students, faculty, staff, and community members gathered to commemorate the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Argosy, Mount Allison’s independent student newspaper.
2023 Winter - Several of Mount Allison’s newest programs take an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning, building on established programs to give students more flexibility in their degrees.
2023 Winter - Let us know your latest news by submitting a Class Connection online or e-mailing alumni@mta.ca and we will share it in a future edition of the Record.
2023 Winter - Please feel welcome to submit memories of departed Allisonians you have known and loved.
2023 Winter - The existing Mount Allison Gemini Observatory (MAGO) houses two 11" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes, which are used by students, faculty, and the wider community.
2023 Winter - When William Wolfe-Wylie walked into the Argosy office during his first year at Mount Allison, he did not expect that his work with the student newspaper would launch him into the world of journalism, nor that journalism would lead to a career in data.
2023 Winter - Harper Hall renovation underway
Harper first opened its doors in 1965 and since then more than 8,000 students have called it home.
2023 Winter - The Mount Allison University Archives are full of hidden stories. Sometimes facts encountered there unexpectedly lead to a deeper understanding of our institutional history.
2023 Winter - Students can now enroll in an exciting new program that is unique in the Atlantic region, the Bachelor of Arts Joint Major in Computer Science and Music.
2023 Winter - Tess Casher has been awarded a 2023 Rhodes Scholarship from the University of Oxford — the 56th Allisonian to receive this honour.
2023 Winter - Alumni classes often come together and create fundraising projects to support future Allisonians. It is just one example of the commitment and caring Mount Allison graduates have for their alma mater.
2023 Winter - Alumni often ask me how they can support Mount Allison University and its students. Many are surprised when I say, “Keep your contact information up to date.”
2023 Winter - When April MacKinnon graduated with her certificate in engineering from Mount Allison in 1998, she didn’t envision her path leading to award-winning skin care and entrepreneurship — or Sackville.
But the universe had other plans.
2023 Winter - In July 2022, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, NB opened a permanent gallery space dedicated to Fine Arts at Mount Allison, including some of Canada’s most renowned artists.
2023 Winter - Dr. Stephen (Steve) A. Westcott was an internationally renowned chemist and longtime Canada Research Chair in Green Boron Chemistry. A sought-after collaborator globally, Westcott published and reviewed hundreds of chemistry papers and studies over his career.
2022 Fall - This fall Mount Allison University welcomed its first students into its newest degree program — Bachelor of Arts and Science in Interdisciplinary Health Studies.
2022 Fall - Mount Allison has the privilege to claim the first woman to earn a bachelor’s degree in the British Empire (Grace Annie Lockhart, 1875) and the first female Bachelor of Arts in Canada (Harriet Starr Stewart, 1882).
2022 Fall - As part of its transformational gift in 2021 to establish the Pierre Lassonde S
2022 Fall -
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2022 Fall -
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2022 Fall - Mount Allison is built on tradition and academic excellence. Our small, primarily undergraduate university has — over its 183-year history — celebrated many successes and risen to many challenges to continue to offer a campus community that is thriving, innovative, and inclusive.
2022 Fall - In 2039, Mount Allison University will enter its third century. Seventeen years feels like a lifetime, but it is the blink of an eye in the life of a 200-year-old institution.
2022 Fall - This year, the independent student newspaper at Mount Allison, The Argosy, reached its sesquicentennial anniversary.
2022 Summer - Let us know your latest news by submitting a Class Connection online or e-mailing alumni@mta.ca and we will share it in a future edition of the Record.
2022 Summer - From graduating with first-class honours in chemistry to launching a venture capital firm targeting a $100-million fund for women’s and children’s health technology, Annie Thériault’s career shift led her to the mission-driven work she always wanted.
2022 Summer - In 1947, George Sutton Patterson was appointed acting head of the Canadian diplomatic mission in Tokyo.
2022 Summer - Convocation and Reunion Weekend is always a highlight on campus and in Sackville — welcoming graduates back and celebrating the newest graduating Allisonians.
2022 Summer -
The Alumni Engagement Office is in the process of developing a strategic plan to grow alumni engagement and participation over the next three years.
2022 Summer - Please feel welcome to submit memories of departed Allisonians you have known and loved.
2022 Summer - As it continues to adapt to the ever-changing 21st century and prepare for a future no one can ever truly predict, Mount Allison University is wearing a hard hat these days, working on infrastructure projects with a scope that rivals the earliest days of the University’s founding in the 19th cent
2022 Summer - 2022 Grad Awards
The eighth annual Last Lecture, recognizing graduates for their contributions to the Mount Allison and Sackville communities, was held on April 7, 2022. It was the first in-person awards ceremony since 2019.
2022 Summer - When The Hershey Company has a research and development puzzle that requires an external partner, they turn to Stephen Crozier to help find a solution.
2022 Summer - For Director of Drama Dr. Sarah Fanning — as for many — the pandemic brought about great change for her field.
2022 Summer - Since becoming CEO of Eastlink — an Atlantic Canadian, family-owned company that delivers internet, mobile, TV, data, and related services across Canada and to international locations — Jeff Gillham and his team of 1,300 have been guiding the company through the pandemic all while introducing a s
2022 Summer - Many things have been and will be written about Christopher, our wise and wickedly witty classmate. These are a few observations that describe how he was as a student, and how he retained his relationship with the University long after he left.
2022 Summer - The 2022 Convocation ceremonies at Mount Allison were historic for several reasons.
2022 Summer - Two innovative learning spaces just opened in the Crabtree and Avard-Dixon buildings and are attracting lots of attention.
2022 Summer - At the end of the 2021–22 academic year, it was announced that Mount Allison’s dean of science and graduate studies, Dr. Amanda Cockshutt, would be leaving Mount Allison to start her new position as academic vice-president and provost at St. Francis Xavier University.
2022 Winter -
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2022 Winter -
Over the course of her nearly 40-year career, Mount Allison biology lab instructor and technician Gay Hansen developed the well-earned reputation as a true teacher, mentor, and naturalist — inspiring hundreds of students in her l
2022 Winter - Rivers Corbett believes he was born to be an entrepreneur. It is in his DNA.
2022 Winter - Please feel welcome to submit memories of departed Allisonians you have known and loved.
2022 Winter - I am looking forward to spring with more enthusiasm than usual this year. As soon as the frost lifts, planting will begin on Mount Allison’s first green roof.
2022 Winter - Dr. Jeff Hennessy became Mount Allison’s provost and vice-president, academic and research a few months into a pandemic, charged with plotting a significant change of course for the University in a time of broader global change.
2022 Winter - When Doug (’80) and Catherine (MacQuade) Fraser (’80) gather for family photos and holiday celebrations, they also bring together generations of proud Mount Allison alumni.
2022 Winter - New international field school opportunities established
Mount Allison is developing a triad of new accessible international field school opportunities with partner universities in the Netherlands [Dr. Lisa Dawn Hamilton, Psychology], Ecuador [Dr.
2022 Winter - Like many teenagers, Raven Elwell Stephens (’21) had a fondness for makeup.
2022 Winter - Over the course of the pandemic we’ve all experienced the importance of connection. Many of us have learned new ways of connecting with each other, whether it be through a Zoom call, Instagram post, or a good old fashioned letter.
2022 Winter - The portrait of Rev. John Beecham first appeared at Mount Allison in 1857. A commissioned piece by William Gush, it was a companion to a later painting by Gush of Mount Allison founder Charles Frederick Allison.
2022 Winter - When second-year psychology student Gabriel Kahan, from Brooklyn, NY, took on the role of Quadrant Intern in the Alumni Engagement Office, he had no idea he would soon be hosting the University’s inaugural Linkedin Livestream series.
2021 Fall - Let us know your latest news by submitting a Class Connection for the Record!
2021 Fall - Working in the Recruitment, Admissions, and Awards Office, I have the pleasure of meeting with prospective students daily as many of them choose to continue their education at Mount Allison.
2021 Fall - When we hop onto Zoom, I know by the time we get “It’s nice to meet you” out of the way that the Class of 2020’s Angel Farias is likeable. Not the kind of likeable that grows on you. But rather, the instantly-likeable kind.
2021 Fall - Studying psychology was always the plan for fourth-year student Kennedy Hunt. Focused on taking the MCAT and going to medical school, she felt a psychology background would give her an edge.
2021 Fall - Bella Stein’s interests in the arts and sciences formally collided when she signed up for a Philosophy of Science course in her first year of university.
2021 Fall - Third-year international relations student Ainsley Cunningham grew up in Sackville, NB.
2021 Fall -
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2021 Fall -
Compiled by: Aloma Jardine
While it seems the whole world hit pause more than 18 months ago, at Mount Allison, President Jean-Paul Boudreau has continued to move forward his vision for the University.
2021 Fall - Dr. Jennifer Tomes, associate professor of psychology, is Mount Allison’s new interim dean of science. Tomes began her one-year appointment on July 1, 2021.
2021 Fall - To recognize the significance of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Mount Allison, in partnership with local Indigenous communities and the Town of Sackville, held a series of on campus and virtual events and activities this fall.
2021 Fall - As a kid, Perry MacDonald (’86) would stand in front of his parents’ old turntable in their Sydney, Cape Breton home and pretend he was a famous radio announcer.
2021 Fall - In September, on your behalf, I had the pleasure of welcoming this year’s incoming class into the Mount Allison alumni community at Pilei nipi.
2021 Fall - The Pierre Lassonde School of Fine Arts was officially celebrated this fall. Housed in the Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts, the School builds on and enriches student artist opportunities in Canada’s first Bachelor of Fine Arts program, which marked its 80th anniversary this year.
2021 Summer -
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2021 Summer - Banner caption: Realism in a sea of abstraction by Michael de Adder ('91, LLD '20).
2021 Summer -
We are so pleased to share the Summer Record with you, our first issue to appear both in print and online since the pandemic began.
2021 Summer - Visual and Material Culture Studies (VMCS) is an interdisciplinary program that studies images, objects, and spaces from various cultural contexts and historical periods.
2021 Summer -
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2021 Summer -
Giving back to Mount Allison through your estate shows your confidence in the University — not just today, but over the long term — and we are conscious of the honour and trust bestowed upon Mount Allison in your estate plan.
2021 Summer - Visitors to Mount Allison University’s website will notice a new look, which went live on July 21. The re-designed website can continue to be found at www.mta.ca.
2021 Summer - Mount Allison University’s Department of Music has some strong connections with the Cape Breton music community including The Barra MacNeils [Sheumas (’84), Kyle (’85), Stewart (’87), and Lucy (’91)], and Lydia Adams (’75, ’76, LLD ’03).
2021 Summer - Mount Allison has approved a number of new and exciting programs in order to provide students with more options for either pursuing new major study areas, or increased learning opportunities, within their existing programs.
2021 Summer - The Mount Allison leadership team welcomed two new individuals on July 1.
2021 Summer - This isn’t really an article about Gloria Jollymore. Well, it is. But it also kind of isn’t.
2021 Summer - For the first time in program history, in 2020-21 Mount Allison’s Varsity Women’s Hockey team had an all-female staff at the helm, including Head Coach Lucrèce O’Neal, Assistant Coach Kristen Cooze (‘15), Goalie Coach Keri Martin (’17, ’20), Team Manager (2020 Female Manager of the Year) Laura Ho
2021 Summer - It is May 2021 and four noted Canadian philanthropists have gathered together on a Zoom call (how else?) at the invitation of President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Jean-Paul Boudreau to discuss their views on philanthropy in general and Mount Allison in particular.
2021 Summer -
May 17 was a special day for all Allisonians. For the second year in a row, Mount Allison hosted a virtual Conferring of Degrees ceremony to celebrate the Class of 2021. In-person Convocation ceremonies, along with Alumni Reunion celebrations, are scheduled in 2022.
2021 Winter - 1950s
JUAN ENRIQUE VARGAS DUARTE (’54) recently celebrated his 92nd birthday! He completed his MA thesis at Mount A in a time where there were just a few MA students.
2021 Winter - Barbie Smith (’75, ’76) — Charles Frederick Allison Award
The Charles Frederick Allison Award, named in honour of the University’s founder, recognizes outstanding, lifelong dedication to Mount Allison by an Allisonian.
2021 Winter - In a year defined by “self-isolation” and “physical distancing,” Canadians of 2020 were due for a dose of that which brings us together — a sense of unity, an inside joke.
2021 Winter -
Eastern Ontario Alumni Virtual Gathering — Feb. 2, 2021
2021 Winter - When recently-retired Mount Allison history professor Dr. David Torrance passed away in November 2020, his family knew they wanted to find a way to continue his legacy of kindness on campus. The David Torrance Fund was established just days later.
2021 Winter -
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2021 Winter - It is one of those few companies that is such a part of our everyday lives, it has become a verb. Google it.
2021 Winter - In April 2020, I was on a Teams call with the class presidents of the Classes of 2020 and 2021, Nigel Verret and Emily Shaw. Convocation and Reunion 2020 had just been postponed. We had no real choice with the pandemic raging across the world.
2021 Winter - Mount Allison is assisting in New Brunswick’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic by providing ultra-low freezer space with a loan of two -80C-degree lab freezers to the province for vaccine storage over the coming months.
2021 Winter - Last November, we watched Mount Allison students and community members come together and take a stand against sexual violence.
2021 Winter - Michael MacMillan is showing his fellow Mounties that success can be found no matter what path you take.
2021 Winter - COVID-19 stopped the professional sports world in its tracks this past year — just like it did the rest of the world. Travel was restricted. Major events were cancelled. Bubbles were created. Seasons shortened. Playoffs re-imagined.
2021 Winter - In high school at Tantramar Regional High School in Sackville, NB, Kimberly Stephens wanted to be a scientist working towards a cure for cancer. At Mount Allison, she chose a different path of Commerce and accounting, then achieving her CA designation.
2021 Winter - Mount Allison University students are known for their passion for social justice and commitment to their communities. Now, there is a new program designed to help students purposefully connect their academic learning with community partnerships and advocacy.
2021 Winter - Students in the seminar psychology class Stress, Burnout, and Resilience, taught by associate professor Dr. Lisa Dawn Hamilton, took their learning to the airwaves recently.
2021 Winter - The pandemic has caused a retreat into our homes, and the comfort of a sorely-needed escape is just a book away. Grab your favourite hot beverage and get ready to cozy down and dig in.
2021 Winter - Growing up in Sackville, NB, attending Mount Allison seemed like a natural next step for Gillian Crooks when she graduated from high school.
2020 Fall - 1950s
JOYCE KNAPP (’50) wants to know, “What about us Class of 1950 people? Some of us are still here and expect to be recognized! I, for one, am living on my own and loving life. Maybe Class of 1950 will have a reunion next May.”
2020 Fall - On July 27 the Mount Allison Alumni Engagement Office released an urgent call for volunteers. In less than three weeks, more than 150 students — many who had never set foot on campus — were due to begin two weeks of self-isolation in residence.
2020 Fall - With the Atlantic Bubble open and in the Public Health alert yellow level, 36 golfers, including Mount A grads, supporters of the University, friends, and coaching staff, gathered in Moncton, NB for a down-sized Golf Classic, organized by Norval McConnell ('80).
2020 Fall - Atlantic Canada-based artists and Mount Allison alumnae D’Arcy Wilson (’05) and Melanie Colosimo (’06) were both selected as recipients for the 2020 Sobey Foundation Art Award earlier this spring. This year, the national awards include $25,000 each in support for artistic projects.
2020 Fall - On the day Dr. Bonnie Henry was profiled by The New York Times as being “one of the most effective public health officials in the world,” I was making skirts for gerbils.
2020 Fall -
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2020 Fall - There is no question that the global COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on all of us in unique ways. Despite this affliction, communities across Canada have been coming together to spread love and make light of the situation.
2020 Fall -
Mount Allison University has expanded its academic programming for 2020. More than a dozen new or revamped opportunities for students were introduced to the University's academic calendar this fall.
2020 Fall - In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mount Allison introduced a hybrid of both online (scheduled and unscheduled) and in-person classes for the 2020-21 academic term. Faculty and staff members have worked over the past several months to prepare to teach their students, wherever they may be.
2020 Fall - When the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March, Tristan Grant ('18) was just returning from an Indigenous artists' retreat in Manitoba and David Myles ('03) was about to go on stage in Dieppe, NB.
2020 Fall - In the fall of 2019, we experienced the largest intake of new students in over seven years and launched a number of new academic programs and certificates. In the winter of 2020, we navigated a labour disruption, threatened changes to regional health care, and then a pandemic.
2020 Fall - Executive members of this year’s Mount Allison Students’ Union (MASU) were freshly elected and appointed to their new roles just as the COVID-19 pandemic hit in mid-March 2020, forcing the closure of campus and the move to online education and services.
2020 Fall - When the COVID-19 pandemic began, there was never a debate over whether there would be a vaccine, only when.
Less than a year in, there are already several viable vaccines being tested — the result of a truly remarkable research effort.
2020 Fall - Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, several Mount Allison University faculty members have answered the call to learn more about the virus and its effects on both our health and society.
2020 Fall - Mount Allison's Philosophy, Politics, and Economic
2020 Summer - 1960s
MURRAY BAILLIE ('69) received an award from the North Shore Archives Society honouring his past and continued support of the Tatamagouche-based organization.
2020 Summer - For Dr. Gary Brooks, attending Mount Allison was just what you did in his family. His father Garland Chapman Brooks (’34) was the first to attend. Brooks and his siblings Sheila (’58) and brother Randall (’72) followed.
2020 Summer - In the fall of 1916, 43 students arrived at Mount Allison, members of the Class of 1920. Over the next four years the class would face unimaginable struggles and live through events so significant they are still remembered and talked about 100 years later.
2020 Summer - The Winter Reading Week at many universities is typically a time for faculty and students to catch up on assignments (writing and marking), perhaps schedule some down time, and well, read. It is a busy, but for most, quieter pace on campus with no scheduled classes.
2020 Summer - While alumni events changed course due to COVID-19, many Allisonians gathered virtually over the last few months.
Class of 1986-88 — May 2020
2020 Summer - The sixth annual Last Lecture, recognizing graduates for their contributions to the Mount Allison and Sackville communities, was held virtually for the first time on May 1, 2020.
2020 Summer - When Mount Allison made the difficult, but necessary, decision to postpone both the 2020 Reunion Weekend and Convocation ceremonies due to the COVID-19 pandemic, plans to celebrate the Class of 2020 and ensure they received their degrees in a timely manner moved into action.
2020 Summer - Class of 2020, we did it. We graduated from Mount Allison University. This is without a doubt a huge accomplishment — the product of many years of hard work, commitment, and resilience. It took a lot to get to where we are today.
2020 Summer -
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2020 Summer -
Dr. Jeff Hennessy has joined the Mount Allison community as the University's senior academic officer. Hennessy began the role of provost and vice-president, academic and research on July 1.
2020 Summer - 2020 has been an unprecedented time globally. This time last year few of us could have imagined what would lay ahead with the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020 Summer - The week before Mount Allison suspended on-campus classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Christiana MacDougall received an e-mail from the Grad Class Executive asking her to deliver the Class of 2020’s Last Lecture.
2020 Summer - Dealing with the pandemic has been complicated and difficult for many of us both professionally and personally. The ability of organizations to pivot and adjust to our new reality will determine how well they recover and adapt.
2020 Summer - Kevin Morse (’02) is known to many Allisonians in a few roles — former classmate, performer, professor, mentor, and now, award-winning teacher.
2020 Summer - After 27 years, Rev. John Perkin is retiring this summer as Mount Allison’s chaplain. Perkin has been called to serve as minister at First Baptist Church in Ottawa — the oldest Baptist church congregation in the heart of the city.
2020 Winter - 1960s
Retired judge CLYDE MACDONALD (’64) of New Glasgow, NS launched his 16th book on Pictou County and Nova Scotia history in August 2019. The book is called More Nova Scotians In and Out of Court.
2020 Winter - Builders from all areas and ages could take a page from Brent Harris’ book.
2020 Winter - There is something special about reading a novel and recognizing a place you know.
Project Bookmark Canada is taking that feeling to the next level by presenting excerpts of Canadian literature on enameled porcelain aluminum plaques installed at the very place the excerpt describes.
2020 Winter -
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2020 Winter -
Fall 2019 events
October — Bermuda Mountie Pride event
November — Southern Ontario event
November — Sudbury, ON gathering
2020 Winter - Growing up, Claire Tansey was an extraordinarily picky eater. At the age of 10, her family moved from Montreal to Kathmandu, Nepal for three years for her father’s work. This is where she fell in love with food for the first time.
2020 Winter - Excellence. Joy. Gratitude. These are the three words that guide Donna Vieira.
2020 Winter - Dr. Leslie Kern wants cities to be feminist. An urban geographer, Kern is an associate professor of geography and environment and director of women’s and gender studies at Mount Allison. She’s also the author of two books, including the recently-released Feminist City: A Field Guide.
2020 Winter - It was during 2008 Reunion celebrations — the Class of 1973’s 35th Reunion — that the life officers initiated discussions about a class legacy project, and the idea of sponsoring a bursary focusing on international travel and exchange opportunities for students took hold.
2020 Winter - Travis Osmond (’15) and Dr. Andrew Grant may have the Midas touch, with a green twist.
2020 Winter - Mount Allison has a treasured history with Bermuda, which includes some of the University’s most engaged and generous alumni. Alumni have supported infrastructure projects like Alumni Field, the Student Centre (Bermuda Wing), and the Bermuda House residence.
2020 Winter - During his time at Mount Allison, Bruce Squires was a leader. He captained the swim team. He was a residence assistant in Trueman House and a teaching assistant in economics.
2020 Winter -
Internationally-renowned pianist Kirill Gerstein joined the Mount Allison University community this January as the second annual Bragg Artist-in-Residence. Throughout the residency he conducted masterclasses, workshops, and worked with students in various Music courses.
2020 Winter - Last year, the Alumni Engagement Office began a process to re-imagine the traditional alumni events we were hosting across the country and beyond.
2020 Winter - An assistant professor in geography and environment and a wildlife ecologist, Dr. Jesse Popp has been a driving force in raising awareness around Indigenous knowledge and supporting reconciliation efforts on campus. And her work is getting noticed — big time.
2019 Fall - 1960s
SHIRLEY (ROBINSON) PEARMAN (’62)’s book Hands On! The Art of Traditional Crafts and Play in Bermuda was published in 2016.
2019 Fall - Two years after graduating from Mount Allison, Adam Cheeseman chose to call Sackville home again.
2019 Fall - We hear it over and over from students and graduates — living in residence is an integral part of their Mount Allison experience. Friendships last a lifetime and memories are unforgettable.
2019 Fall -
The Amanda Wynne Ellis Award was established this year by friends and family of Amanda Ellis (’00), who passed away tragically in February 2019.
2019 Fall - When Chris Parker left Mount Allison after earning her BFA in 1976, she thought she would only be back for the occasional visit or Reunion Weekend.
2019 Fall -
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2019 Fall - The following is an extended version of the article that appears in the print edition of the Record.
From 1947 to 1959, every student who attended Mount Allison walked through Christine MacInnes’ door.
2019 Fall - This past summer more than 60 students gained valuable experience as interns with a number of organizations on campus, in the region, and beyond.
2019 Fall - Computer science graduate Trish Fry has been involved with the Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens since its opening in 1981.
2019 Fall - Mount Allison’s Meighen Centre marked its 25th anniversary this year. A community celebration was held on campus on Oct. 21, the anniversary of the Centre’s official opening.
2019 Fall - A new academic program offering introduced this past year is already seeing success among students and the wider artistic community. Museum and curatorial studies is a new degree minor option — the first of its kind in Atlantic Canada among undergraduate programs.
2019 Fall - It had to be in the country and it had to have a bit of land. It had to be sustainable and durable, with a low carbon footprint both for construction and operation.
But most of all, it had to be beautiful.
2019 Fall - Mount Allison held a community gathering and vigil in response to the National Inquiry for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and LGBTQIIA2S this fall.
2019 Fall - Photo caption: BIG SWIM Event Director Heather McGrath, middle right, onsite at the 2019 event for the non-profit organization GIVETOLIVE
2019 Fall - Xavier Gould is wearing a sparkly gold sweater vest and a long-sleeve camo blouse. A large chunky yellow hoop earring hangs from the left ear.
2019 Summer - 1950s
HARRY CURRIE (’53) writes, “Well, I graduated in 1953, and I’m now 88 years old. I’ve had a wonderful life, mainly in music but with a few other things (!), and my four years at Mount A prepared me for that life.
2019 Summer - In Ottawa, before he became Senator Wetston, The Honourable Howard Wetston CM, QC (‘69) was known as ‘Suitcase’ Wetston.
2019 Summer -
Approximately 400 graduates joined the alumni community during the 2019 Convocation ceremonies held May 13.
Six individuals were also recognized with honorary degrees:
2019 Summer -
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2019 Summer - Adam Young paints every day.
“I think it’s important,” he says. “Most of the time I am just sitting down and putting paint on canvas and hoping something comes out. I start and it evolves into something.”
2019 Summer - It is with some sadness but with great pride that I write my last letter to you as Alumni Board President. I will be moving on to the position of past president in the next few weeks.
2019 Summer - In 2005 Caley Webster came to visit Mount Allison from Ontario on the recommendation of family friends who are alumni. As they drove past the Waterfowl Park, they stopped to let a pheasant cross the road.
2019 Summer - In the 10 years since her graduation from Mount Allison University, Gretchen Lescord (’09) has worked to launch an impressive research career in biology and environmental studies, first pursuing a master’s at the University of New Brunswick and then a PhD at Laurentian University in Sudbury, ON.
2019 Summer - Commerce graduate Andy Hay (’08) has built a career by having an open mind and taking chances.
“I tend to like throwing myself into situations just to see how I survive and how I do,” he says when asked what led him to audition for CTV’s MasterChef Canada Season 5.
2019 Summer - Canada is fortunate to have thousands of museums, small and large, that help us learn more about culture, history, science, nature, and our communities. They are an important resource for understanding our world and our place in it.
2019 Summer - Class of 1969
In alphabetical order: Murray Baillie, (with Bob Lutes’ picture), Brian Black, Martha Jane Brown, Paul Christie, Sheila (MacLean) Clark, Bruce Coates, Nancy Day, Carol Dewar, Jim Dewar, Ross O.
2019 Summer - It could be said the Milburns have made a direct route to Mount Allison over the years. Four out of five brothers in the Sydney, Cape Breton family are Allisonians and three of those brothers met their spouses on campus, including Doug (’86) and Michelle (Campbell) (’87).
2019 Summer - As the director of experiential learning and career development, I see first-hand how the experience students have at Mount Allison provides the foundation for future careers and a pathway for the next steps in their life. The work resonates with me in a personal way.
2019 Summer - Nova Scotia artist Tom Forrestall has had a fascination with silver spoons for as long as he can remember. Growing up in the Annapolis Valley, his mother collected Georgian silver spoons from rummage sales and church sales. One day she gave him a handful of them to paint.
2019 Summer - In 2013 Mount Allison librarian emerita Margaret Fancy was combing through old copies of The Argosy, indexing material related to the First World War.
2019 Winter - 1950s
Two generations of Allisonians met up in downtown Ottawa in November 2017 — lifelong friends MABEL (MUNDLE) BANNERMAN (’54) and LIZ (FOSTER) CORKUM (’54), with their daughters
2019 Winter - Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal may soon need to start its own Mount Allison Alumni Network.
2019 Winter - Many can relate to feeling stressed and reacting in certain ways to it. For some these reactions may be food-related, such as overeating or perhaps losing your appetite. The adage “stressed is desserts spelled backwards” is well-known for a reason.
2019 Winter - Eli Wood, a first-year psychology student from Weymouth, NS, was honoured this fall with the Discovery Centre’s Youth Award for his research and device that seeks
2019 Winter -
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2019 Winter - This term, Mount Allison hosted its first hackathon.
2019 Winter - If you haven’t updated your contact details with the Alumni Engagement Office recently, particularly your e-mail address, you could be missing out.
2019 Winter - Katherine Reiss (’19) is not your average university student.
2019 Winter - Over the past 40 years, the J.E.A. Crake Foundation, established by the late Dr.
2019 Winter - An archival research project has led Renée Belliveau (’17) to Mount Allison’s very first Acadian graduate — and back to her own roots.
2019 Winter - Fourth-year Commerce student Alex Blades was looking to add another layer of hands-on learning to her degree. Last summer she took part in Mount Allison’s internship program, working with Emera in Halifax on the tax team.
2019 Winter - When Tammy Wilson came to Mount Allison she had her sights set on studying geography and becoming a teacher. Through a scholarship from CMHC in the Rural and Small Town Studies Program, she was introduced to community planning — and that changed her path.
2019 Winter - Over the past five years, both the Record and our Mount Allison website have undergone a series of changes, some large, some small.
2019 Winter - Today’s animated films are so sophisticated they can make you feel you are truly looking out over a huge city, scaling a snowy peak, or flying through a forest.
2019 Winter - The French language brought Blair Lawrence and Diane Ross together more than 40 years ago in Professor Jean-Antoine Bour’s French 3110 class in the Gairdner Building at Mount Allison. And the language has been inspiring their lives ever since.
2018 Fall - 1950s
DAWN MACNUTT (’57) writes, “We call ourselves ‘The Scraggs’ (defined as rawboned or scrawny persons...which we are not!). Rather, we are friends for life, having met one another on the MtA campus circa September 1954.
2018 Fall -
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2018 Fall - Dr. Richard MacKenzie says much of his life and career has been a product of serendipity.
In fourth-grade he decided he wanted to become a doctor. He became the first in his family to graduate high school.
2018 Fall - Lindsay Ross-Stewart has always wanted to work in sport psychology. This dream has become her reality, on a number of levels. Ross-Stewart is a psychology professor and sport psychology consultant at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE).
2018 Fall - Student recruitment continues to be an ongoing challenge for universities in the Maritimes. The University has asked the Alumni Board to make student recruitment one of our top priorities.
2018 Fall - A few years ago, over lunch at the University Club on campus, professors Dr. Mike Fox, Dr. Fiona Black, Dr. Andrew Wilson, and Dr.
2018 Fall - Micah Stairs only graduated a year ago, but he has already given back to his alma mater in a big way.
Stairs, who has a joint honours in mathematics and computer science from Mount Allison, has created a fully endowed fund to support competitive programming at the University.
2018 Fall - When the waters of the North Atlantic closed over his head, Stanley Chambers would have been forgiven for believing that moment was his last.
2018 Fall -
Mount Allison welcomed several new faculty members to campus, including two academics with a specific focus on Indigenous knowledge.
2018 Fall - As team leader of UNICEF’s polio program, Melissa Corkum has worked to master the art of communicating a simple concept in complex conditions.
2018 Fall -
Mount Allison’s Orientation committee, staff, and volunteers gave new students a warm welcome to campus this fall. With hallmark events like the Alympics and the Town of Sackville’s Welcome Corn Boil, first-year students quickly became part of the Mount Allison and Sackville communities.
2018 Fall - Just to be clear — the photograph on the cover of this issue of the Record is not in any way staged. Dr. Jean-Paul Boudreau, Mount Allison’ 15th President and Vice-Chancellor, and his Ferrari Red vintage Vespa, are becoming a very familiar sight on the streets of Sackville.
2018 Fall - Lara Murphy (’93) has always been known for seeing things differently.
“As a kid, I always had a curiosity about how things were built and my family was very encouraging,” she says.
2018 Fall - A decade ago, Mount Allison announced a partnership with the nearby Moncton Flight College (MFC), one of the leading flight training establishments in North America, to offer a Bachelor of Science in Aviation.
2018 Fall - Growing up in Sackville, NB, the son of Mount Allison Chemistry Professor Dr. Ken Adams, choosing Mount Allison seemed natural for John D.S. Adams.
2018 Fall - There are few archaeological treasures that have captured the world’s imagination like Pompeii, from the moment it was rediscovered 270 years ago to present day, when teams continue the painstaking work of uncovering the lost city.
2018 Summer - 1920s
MARGUERITE (HEISLER) ROBERTSON (’27) celebrated her 111th birthday on May 13, 2018. She is currently the third oldest person in Canada, 33rd all time, and the oldest living Mount Allison graduate on record.
2018 Summer - Dr. Elizabeth Shouldice says Mount Allison is the best life decision she ever made. Coming from Ottawa, ON, she was looking for a small university experience that was well-rounded.
2018 Summer - Dr. Robert Campbell and Dr. Christl Verduyn have been part of the Allisonian family for a long time. Many alumni may remember the announcement of the 14th Mount Allison President and Vice-Chancellor in 2006, in a world before iPhones, Netflix, and only the early days of social media.
2018 Summer - Over the spring, the Record staff have been working to launch a ‘refresh’ of our magazine. We’ve incorporated some new design elements, added some new features, and continue to build our ever-growing online presence through the magazine’s website.
2018 Summer -
Approximately 400 students joined the Mount Allison alumni family during the University’s Spring Convocation ceremonies May 14.
2018 Summer - Mireille Eagan has been working in art galleries since she was 16 years old.
“I’m from Fredericton and had my first job at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery,” she says. “I always had an interest in art but actually intended to study archeology when I started at Mount A.”
2018 Summer -
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2018 Summer -
The annual Grad Awards were announced at the Last Lecture held on campus this spring. International relations professor Dr. Dave Thomas was chosen by the Class of 2018 to deliver the last lecture.
2018 Summer - More than 115 years after her death, Canadian artist Ethel Ogden may finally be poised to get the recognition she deserves.
2018 Summer - As Mi’kmaq singer, drummer, and composer Hubert Francis performed the Mi’kmaq Honor Song, Mount Allison Music professor Vicki St. Pierre’s voice entered quietly, a subtle counterpoint with a Latin chant, ubi caritas.
It was magnificent — and deeply distressing.
2018 Summer - CHARLES FREDERICK ALLISON AWARD — SCOTT MCCAIN ('78)
The Charles Frederick Allison Award recognizes outstanding contribution to Mount Allison by an alumnus or an alumna.
2018 Summer - Brier Bear was meant to be a one-time only gig.
“I was on the organizing committee for the 1981 Brier in Halifax,” recalls Reg Caughie. “Other sports had mascots and I suggested we have one for the event that year. They said, ‘Reg, great idea, you’re it.’”
2018 Summer - The tradition of canes at Mount Allison dates back more than a century. During Mount Allison’s early years, male members of the senior class were accustomed on Sundays and on ceremonial occasions to carry walking sticks and canes on campus.
2018 Summer - On Friday, Dec. 13, 2005 there was only good luck for Dr. Robert Campbell as he received the call that he had been chosen to become Mount Allison University’s 14th President and Vice-Chancellor. He and his wife, Dr. Christl Verduyn, were in Leiden in South Holland.
2018 Summer - Hundreds of students, faculty, staff, and community members braved a late March snowstorm to attend the University’s first powwow.
2018 Winter - 1930s
MURIEL (JO) (WILLIAMSON) SQUIRES ('37) graduated 80 years ago and had her 101st birthday this summer. She often thinks of friends from MtA and kept in touch as long as others lived!
2018 Winter -
David White ('13) is extending Tintamarre's (Mount Allison's bilingual theatre troupe) impact. White is a French teacher and has started a Tintamarre-style troupe at this current school in La Ronge, SK.
2018 Winter - Nancy (Waller) Cutler ('68) calls the start of her career in meteorology 'happenstance.'
2018 Winter - Fleming Daniel "Danny" Gray stood shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the leading figures of the civil rights movement — people like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
2018 Winter - Lynn Loewen almost did not come to Mount Allison. She planned to pursue music education elsewhere in Atlantic Canada, but just weeks before she was to leave her home in Newfoundland, she changed her mind.
2018 Winter - Please feel welcome to submit memories of departed Allisonians you have known and loved.
2018 Winter - It has only been five years since Aleka MacLellan walked across the stage at Convocation Hall, but she has packed a lot into a short time.
2018 Winter - Except for a few brief periods, one which included earning his degree in economics at Mount Allison, John Main ('02) has been a life-long resident of Arviat, NU, a community of approximately 3,000 in the southern part of Nunavut, along the Hudson Bay. It is about 200km north of Churchill, MB.
2018 Winter - Mary Jane Dykeman knew from an early age that she wanted to follow in her father's footsteps and practise law.
But it wasn't until she met the late Dr. Ross Stanway, a professor of philosophy at Mount Allison, that her path became clear.
2018 Winter - Honours history student Colin Robertson became part of Mount Allison's history this year as the University's 54th Rhodes Scholar. Robertson is one of only 11 students selected across Canada to receive the award.
2018 Winter - As a committee that spans the country, disciplines, and ages, the Alumni Board is continuously working to communicate clearly to Allisonians what is happening behind the scenes in the meeting rooms.
2018 Winter - It has been an eventful two-and-a-half years since I began my journey here at Mount Allison University. When I started my position as Indigenous affairs co-ordinator it was Mount Allison's Year of the Environment. What a beautiful way to work towards change for the Indigenization of campus.
2018 Winter - Mount Allison University English Professor and Director of the Centre for Canadian Studies Dr. Christl Verduyn received two national honours this year for her contributions to Canadian studies at Mount Allison and the wider community.
2018 Winter - Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Associate Professor Dr. Lauren Beck was named the Canada Research Chair in Intercultural Encounter this fall.
2018 Winter - Mount Allison President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Robert Campbell recently announced on campus that Gloria Jollymore ('77) will continue in her leadership role as Mount Allison's vice-president, university advancement for an additional four-year term.
2017 Fall - 1950s
TOM FORRESTALL (’58) and ROGER SAVAGE (’63), pictured, at Parrsboro’s Art Lab in early July. Tom and his son WILLIAM FORRESTALL (’82) led a painting workshop in egg tempera painting technique.
2017 Fall - Chris Lumsden grew up in Canso on the northeastern tip of mainland Nova Scotia — current population, just over 800. There was one road in and one road out. It was a community formerly sustained by a fish plant, which is now an empty lot.
2017 Fall - Roberta Jane Taylor (1925) was born in Amherst, NS in 1905 and died there in 1990, just days short of her 85th birthday.
2017 Fall -
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2017 Fall - Canadian statistics show a decline in volunteer activity over the past 25 years, but having spent those years at Mount Allison I can certainly attest that this is not the case at this University!
2017 Fall - Sister Elaine MacInnes was born into a musical family in Moncton, NB. Her mother Georgina Ethel Melanson (1910) studied Music at Mount Allison and MacInnes followed in her footsteps, studying violin.
2017 Fall - First-year students were welcomed in style with a full Orientation Week.
2017 Fall - Thanks to the help of two young alumni volunteers, one of Mount Allison’s closest alumni chapters is active once again.
The Moncton and Area Chapter held its first alumni event in the city in 2016 following a five-year hiatus.
2017 Fall - Mount Allison has always fostered a proud and tight-knit family of alumni around the world and a strategic focus on new graduates. We, as Allisonians, work to offer support through this challenging transition period.
2017 Fall - It all began with a casual chat. Geologist John Burzynski and a few friends were having a discussion in early 2016 about the recently discovered lost ships from the Franklin Expedition in Canada’s Arctic.
2017 Fall - In the summer of 2011, then second-year biochemistry student Alex Whynot (’14) and his family set out on a mission to spend some time together and face some personal challenges.
2017 Fall - Ask any Mount Allison graduate (or parent) to name a University Convocation highlight. Chances are, if it’s within the past eight years, the name ‘Mansbridge’ will be in the answer.
2017 Fall - In the spring of 2012, Dr. Vett Lloyd decided to do a little scientific digging into a problem with a very personal connection.
The Mount Allison biology professor had contracted Lyme disease from a tick bite.
2017 Fall - It’s a Saturday morning in early September. Biology and psychology student Erica Geldart (’18) is on the road.
2017 Summer - 1950s
BOB LATIMER (’52) writes, “Copies of the congregational history have been placed in the Archives of Maritime Conference and Mount Allison University.”
2017 Summer - New Zealand exchange student Marley Richards knew nothing about Canada before he arrived to study at Mount Allison in January 2016. Now, over a year later, he has seen more of the country than most Canadians.
2017 Summer - Third-year student Shaelyn Vlaar spent last semester on exchange in Otago, New Zealand at the University of Otago. An anthropology major, she was interested in completely immersing herself in another country.
2017 Summer - When Andrew Brenton (’80) was in the final year of his Bachelor of Science at Mount Allison, he decided to take a finance course. This marked the turning point to move from a career in science to a career in business.
2017 Summer - Mount Allison’s relationship with Bermuda goes way back — way, way back. So far back, that when the first students from Bermuda arrived at Mount Allison, Canada was not yet a country.
2017 Summer - Students from the Class of 2017 were recognized for their contributions to the University and the Sackville community with a variety of grad class awards at the annual Last Lecture in March.
2017 Summer - Mount Allison University distinguished alumnus Alex Colville (’42) has become the focus of attention this year as the University received a major gift from the Colville family and a generous grant from the Government of Canada on the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation.
2017 Summer -
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2017 Summer - A series of historically valuable Harvard lectures may have been lost to time the moment they were erased from the blackboard, if not for the precise recording of Mount Allison’s own Winthrop Pickard Bell (1904).
2017 Summer - Picture yourself on a peaceful hike through Fundy National Park and co
2017 Summer - Approximately 425 new graduates joined the ranks of Mount Allison’s alumni during Convocation ceremonies on May 15, 2017.
2017 Summer - Mount Allison has alumni living all over the world, with alumni chapters in 21 locations, including:
2017 Summer - From its earliest history, a significant number of Mount Allison graduates have gone on to become doctors (see Winter 2012 Record).
2017 Winter - 1960s
The late DAVID READ (’63) was inducted into the Business Hall of Fame for Nova Scotia. David was raised in Sydney and moved to Halifax in his 30s.
2017 Winter - Fourth-year Music student (voice/piano) Branden Olsen began playing the piano at the age of four and was involved in musicals and band in high school.
2017 Winter - We all have our favourite Canadian songs: music that entertains, inspires, and connects us — to each other and to the diverse and beautiful landscape of our country.
2017 Winter - Mary Elsinore "Elsie" Tait (1917) was born in St. John's, NL in 1894, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. James Sinclair Tait.
2017 Winter - Just before coming to Mount Allison, Music alumna Laurel Young worked in the activity department at a nursing home in Cape Breton playing piano and singing for the residents. She continued this work during her summers in Sackville at the Drew Nursing Home.
2017 Winter -
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2017 Winter - PEI event honouring the 100th anniversary of the passing of Grace Annie Lockhart — Sept. 18, 2016
2017 Winter - In November, the U4 League — Acadia, Bishop’s, Mount Allison, and St. Francis Xavier Universities — announced the next step in its alliance: it is now known as the Maple League of Universities.
2017 Winter - Gwendolyn (McDonald) Black came to Sackville to study, but stayed because she found something she had never experienced before.
2017 Winter - As our country marks a major milestone, celebrating its 150th anniversary, we are also looking back at Music’s long history at Mount Allison.
2017 Winter - William Fiset, Finn Lidbetter, and Micah Stairs have made the Mount Allison history books as the University’s first team to qualify for the World Finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest.
2017 Winter - Physics professor Dr. David Hornidge is a specialist in experimental subatomic physics. He also has a love for music and plays the guitar. Five years ago he decided to combine these two passions to create a new course — the Physics of Music and Sound.
2017 Winter - Fresh off a tour of China and South Korea, and a performance in New York City, the award-winning Tesla Quartet is back in its adopted hometown of Sackville, NB.
2016 Fall - 1940s
MURIEL PALMER (TAYLOR) JACOBSON (’40) celebrated her 102nd birthday this summer.
2016 Fall - Lorraine Saab-Lucas received a priceless inheritance from her parents.
2016 Fall - As time and technology ever progress so must our little University consistently adapt. The needs of students and campus are always shifting, and the changes made to accommodate are a dynamic, but nonetheless regular, part of Mount A life.
2016 Fall - The Bermuda Chapter has 172 active alumni and is celebrating a special anniversary in 2017. It is the 150th anniversary of the first Mount Allison graduate from Bermuda — James F. Cardy.
2016 Fall - Think back, and try to recall the nerves you were experiencing as you entered your graduate year of university. Can you remember the apprehension, the excitement, the uncertainty of it all?
2016 Fall - Being a chef was never part of Ross Midgley’s plan. In fact, he chose Mount Allison’s flexible liberal arts environment because he didn’t know exactly what he wanted to study or pursue as a career. He was also attracted to the strong swimming program.
2016 Fall - Emma Hassencahl’s art speaks.
Hassencahl, a fourth-year Fine Arts student specializing in painting and printmaking, puts a great amount of thought into creating pieces with many-layered messages.
“I just want people to stop and think about an issue for a second,” she says.
2016 Fall - Stroll through the Sackville Waterfowl Park on a warm spring day, and you may hear the chatter of belted kingfishers or see the acrobatic flights of tree swallows over open water.
2016 Fall - Jonathan Rouse knew he wanted to be a scientist. He spent much of his time outdoors, climbing and hiking around the world, and thought that being a research scientist would be a natural fit.
2016 Fall - Mount Allison Religious Studies Professor Dr. Susie Andrews is a scholar of East Asian religions and a firm believer in experiential learning and interdisciplinary studies.
2016 Fall - Mount Allison will soon be home to a world-class research facility thanks to infrastructure funding from the federal and provincial governments.
2016 Fall - Beginning July 1, 2017, visitors to Colville House at Mount Allison will be able to step into the late Alex Colville’s (’42, LLD ’68) studio. On Oct. 2, Colville’s family announced it is donating the entire contents of the studio to the University.
2016 Fall - When I was approached to write The Last Word for this issue of the Record I was initially unsure about what to say. Then, two sets of visitors to the Archives helped me to narrow my focus.
2016 Fall - The Mount Allison Record is marking its 100th anniversary this December, making it one of the oldest alumni publications in Canada.
2016 Summer - As the sing-along began at the ‘50s Decade Reunion, Harry Currie (’53) quietly took a s
2016 Summer - 1940s
MARY ALLWOOD (’46) was inducted into the Fredericton Sports Wall of Fame this spring. Mary won a pair of bronze medals nationally as a member of Grace Donald’s New Brunswick senior women’s curling team.
2016 Summer - The Alumni Board recognized a few of our most commendable alumni for the important efforts they put towards their community during Reunion Weekend’s annual Alumni Banquet.
2016 Summer - Approximately 470 new graduates joined the alumni family on May 16 during Mount Allison’s 2016 Convocation ceremonies.
Mount Allison also recognized four outstanding Canadians, conferring honorary doctorates at the events. The 2016 recipients include:
2016 Summer - Compiled from information sent to University Advancement Sept. 16, 2015 – Jan. 15, 2016
Please feel welcome to submit memories of departed Allisonians you have known and loved.
2016 Summer - There will be a few more Allisonians on Parliament Hill this September. Three of 10 students selected nationally for the Parliamentary Internship Programme (PIP) are Mount Allison graduates.
2016 Summer - Mervyn Arthur Upham was a Mount Allison success story. Born in Nova Scotia, Upham received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1939 — just as the world was heading into another world war.
2016 Summer - Google 'magazines over 100 years old.' Along with more than a few irrelevant results, you will see many household names: Maclean's, The Atlantic, and Harper's to name a few. This year, we are excited to have the Record join this century club as we celebrate our 100th anniversary.
2016 Summer - To the untrained eye, astrophysics and the world of finance appear to have little in common. But Réjean Dupuis has found a home in both over the course of his career.
2016 Summer - As alumni, you understand better than anyone how essential everything that happens outside the classroom is to the overall Mount Allison experience.
2016 Summer - Charles Frederick Allison Pin recipients
Gordon Mouland (’46), Glen (Spud) Crozier (’46), Arthur Chisholm (’46), Don Wiles (’46), Aubrey Atkinson (’57), Bill Bishop (’56), Clark Bushell (’59), Alex Champoux (’54), Elisabeth (Olding) Colwell (’56), Neil Colwell (’57), Frederic Colwell (’
2016 Summer - Mount Allison maintains regional alumni chapters around the world, keeping alumni connected to the University and to each other. Wherever you live, explore our alumni chapters to meet with alumni in your local area and attend Mount Allison Alumni events.
2015 Fall - 1950s
HARRY CURRIE (’53) is busy as ever as an author and composer. His second novel Portal to the Past is being published this year.
2015 Fall - When Dave van de Wetering heard about the chance to run a marathon with just 45 other people in the North Pole, while also raising money for Habitat for Humanity, he quickly seized the opportunity.
2015 Fall - In 2016 the Mount Allison University Record will reach a historic milestone. Our little alumni magazine turns 100!
2015 Fall - Homecoming is always an exciting time of year. School spirit is palpable. You can find garnet and gold around every corner. And a community of students, faculty, staff, alumni, families, and friends come together to celebrate Mountie Pride.
2015 Fall - The following list is compiled from information sent to University Advancement May 15, 2015 – Sept. 15, 2015. Please feel welcome to submit memories of departed Allisonians you have known and loved.
2015 Fall - “My favourite memory is probably from my first year when we played St. Mary’s at Homecoming,” he says. “They were ranked #1 nationally and hadn’t lost a regular season game in a couple of years, we had been 0-8 the two previous seasons.
2015 Fall - Editor’s Note: We’re pleased to introduce a new feature in the Record — Allisonian Archives, profiling historical Allisonians in partnership with the University Archives.
2015 Fall - Claire Henderson-Hamilton (’16), a philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE) student from Montreal, QC, spent this past summer working for the non-governmental organization (NGO), Inter Pares — Globalize Equality.
2015 Fall - Doreen Richard (’96) joined the campus community this past summer as the University’s first indigenous affairs co-ordinator.
2015 Fall - About 700 students were welcomed to the Mount Allison and Sackville neighbourhood in annual Orientation activities this fall.
2015 Fall - Erin Green is the communications officer for the Conference of European Churches, which represents 114 churches across Europe, working in their Brussels, Belgium office. Her path to the Conference began in the Mount Allison University Chapel.
2016 Winter - 1930s
FRANCES TITUS (nee ETTER) (’37) celebrated her 100th birthday on Dec. 19, 2015. A native of Sackville, she met her husband, ROBIE TITUS (’38) at MtA.
2016 Winter - The next time you return to campus, please make sure to visit our newest installation, which commemorates the Memorial Library and University Centre. In 2010, when plans were being made to build the new Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts, the University proposed to remember the building.
2016 Winter - Anyone who knows Bob Lutes (’69) won’t be surprised to hear he spends most of the conversation making jokes — sometimes at his own expense, sometimes gently teasing his wife, Jane Lutes (’70).
2016 Winter - On December 30, 2015, Mount Allison University President Dr. Robert Campbell was appointed to the Order of Canada.
2016 Winter - Concussions have become an everyday topic in our society, making media headlines, sports commentaries, and even an appearance on the silver screen this winter with the film Concussion starring Will Smith.
2016 Winter - The following list is compiled from information sent to University Advancement Sept. 16, 2015 – Jan. 15, 2016. Please feel welcome to submit memories of departed Allisonians you have known and loved.
2016 Winter - Grace Annie Lockhart unobtrusively stepped into the history books on May 25, 1875, when she accepted the very first Bachelor’s degree awarded to a woman in the British Empire.
2016 Winter - This year, the Mansbridge Summit hosted guest experts on the theme Social Media: Mobilizing Revolutionary Ideas.
2016 Winter - Sometimes you just have to try things. That’s a mantra Sarah LeBlanc (’06) lives by and one she is helping non-profits and other public and private organizations benefit from.
2016 Winter - Mount Allison maintains regional alumni chapters throughout the world, keeping alumni connected to the University and to each other. Wherever you live, explore our alumni chapters to meet with alumni in your local area and attend Mount Allison Alumni events.
2016 Winter - In October 2014, at the opening of the Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts, Canadian businessman Ron Joyce announced that The Joyce Foundation would be making a $5-million gift to Mount Allison University in memory of the late Purdy Crawford (’52, LLD ’91) — Mount Allison graduate, past Board chai
2016 Winter - Nathan Kelly is not your typical university student. There are not many psychology majors who can add pro-racer to their title before earning their degree. But this Allisonian has done just that, pursuing a career as a professional racecar driver and his undergraduate degree simultaneously.
2016 Winter - Arlen Dumas was just 31 when he was elected chief of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation (Pukatawagan) in northern Manitoba, where he was raised and mentored by his grandparents. He has come a long way from the bright and promising young man he was when he left the community to pursue education.
2016 Winter - Five Mount Allison students are taking their University experience to a whole new level.
The seventh annual Last Lecture, recognizing graduates for their contributions to the Mount Allison and Sackville communities, was held virtually for the second year in a row on April 29, 2021.