Happy Holidays!

Mount A's holiday break is from the end of day Friday, December 21, 2007 to Wednesday, January 2, 2008. All administrative services of the University will be unavailable during this time but will resume on Thursday, January 3, 2008. Classes start on Monday, January 7, 2008.

Have a safe and happy holiday!!!

Forrestall heading to Italy

Dartmouth painter Tom Forrestall ('58) is heading to Italy to raise money for a Halifax Church. He is leaving for Rome Monday and hopes to complete between 20 and 25 paintings in and around the Vatican and Rome. He expects the paintings to sell for about $3000 each and has promised to give half of his sale proceeds to the St. Patrick’s Church Restoration Society.

The parish is to be merged with the St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica, and if the society’s fund raising efforts fail, the church will be sold. Fund raisers need $300,000 in cash and an additional $300,000 in pledges to keep the church open and they expect to reach the half-way mark by the new year.

Tom Forrestall also donated an orginal watercolour to Mount Allison University, in memory of his late wife, Natalie Forrestall ('58).

You can reserve the limited edition print, "PIC-NIC SITE" and contribute to the NATALIE FORRESTALL FINE ARTS BURSARY.

Find out how.

Congrats to our 07-08 Bell Scholars!

What do a highland dance instructor, a scuba diver, and a volunteer for the Make Poverty History Asia campaign have in common? They are all part of the group of first-year Mount Allison students selected for the noted Bell Scholarships, Bell Achievement Awards, and Mary Emerancy Pickard Music Scholarship.

The Awards, valued annually at $12,000, $9,000, and $6,000, respectively are the University’s most prestigious awards, recognizing students with strong academic standing, leadership, a commitment to extracurricular activities, work experience, and good citizenship.

This year’s Bell Scholarship recipients are:

• Laurie Campbell of Summerside, PEI, a voice major and volleyball player;
• Charlotte Gleave-Riemann of Victoria, BC, an arts student who worked on an archaeological dig;
• Ashra Kolhatkar of Kodaikanal, India, a biology and anthropology student who is also serving as a councillor with the Students’ Administrative Council representing international students;
• Alexandra McLennan of Port Hood, NS, a science student, and the highland dance instructor;
• Kelly O’Connor of Kelowna, BC, an international relations student and scuba diver;
• Ariane Wylie of Ottawa, ON, an arts student and Leadership Mount Allison participant.

The Bell Achievement Award holders are:

• Hannah Allen of Moncton, NB, an arts student and member of the Mayor’s Youth Advisory in Moncton;
• Pamela Hudson of O’Leary, PEI, a science student who served as co-president of her high school student council;
• Evan Mounce of Newport, NS, a music student and co-chair of the Provincial Student Education Council of Nova Scotia;
• Sasha Van Katwyk of Hong Kong, an international relations student who was heavily involved in the Make Poverty History Asia campaign in Hong Kong and plans to start a Mount Allison chapter.

Sarah Short of Carboneau, NL, a voice major is the recipient of the Mary Emerancy Pickard Music Scholarship who plans to become a university professor and was the volunteer sports assistant for the Corsairs Wrestling Team in Carboneau.

Read more about the Bell Scholarships and Achievement Awards at Mount A.

New Webcams

Would you like to see the new Student Centre live? Now you can with our webcams!!

Just go to www.mta.ca/webcam to see a live feed...

Snowed in Sackville!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...

Here are a few pictures of the snow in Sackville this morning, thanks to our in-house photographer Sue Seaborn.

The University was closed yesterday due to the storm, which dumped half a metre (20 inches) of snow in Metro Moncton, and drifted throughout the tri-community.

VP External re-appointment

Please join with me in congratulating Gloria Jollymore ('77) for her re-appointment as Vice-President External here at Mount A!

Earlier this fall, a re-appointment advisory committee was struck to establish a collegial process to consider her re-appointment, who has been since July 2006. It called for and received input and comments from all parts of the community.

The committee recommended to the President that she be re-appointed.

The President is happy to report that the Board of Regents has accepted his recommendation that Gloria Jollymore be re-appointed Vice-President External for a five-year period, 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2013.

Thanks to all that sent us your input!

Mountie named CIS 2007 all-star

Windsor’s Gary Ross ('10) had another successful year with the Mount Allison University football Mounties and has just been named an All-Canadian in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) conference as the nation’s best special teams player.

From his very first game of the season, last year, he has been a cornerstone for the Mounties’ successes.

Ross, a five-foot-nine, 178-pound multi-purpose player for the football Mounties, won university athlete of the month honours for September; twice won Mount A athlete of the week; three times was honoured as AUS conference athlete of the week; once was named the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) conference athlete of the week; and at season’s end, was selected as the AUS league’s top wide receiver and the conference’s best special teams player.

Ross led the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) conference in both punt return yardage (686) and kick return yardage (607). For the second year in a row, he led the Atlantic conference in all-purpose yardage.

That statistic included a league-high 633 receiving yards, as well as two returned punts and two kickoff returns for touchdowns. Also this year, he found the end zone five times as a receiver.

In eight regular season games, he accumulated over 200 all-purpose yards on five occasions, over 100-yards receiving three times, and was the only player in the conference to score a touchdown in every game.

A 2006-’07 AUS conference all-star returner and receiver, Ross is also a former city all-star and MVP from Riverside Secondary School in Windsor, Ont. As a rookie last season, he was named as one of Mount Allison’s University athletes of the year, and the football team’s overall MVP, and offensive MVP.

He is in second-year science and plans to pursue a career in medicine.

Sackville Tribune

Former Mountie skates into limelight

Kevin Foran ('82) ranked third in a magazine poll of the country's best-ever college hockey players.

It's been a generation since Kevin Foran ('82) last skated with the Mount Allison Mounties men's hockey program.

But the leading scorer in Canadian Interuniversity Sport history is back in the spotlight this month after The Hockey News ranked the Dalhousie product as the third greatest player in CIS hockey history in its 60th anniversary special edition.

"I know there have been a lot of really good hockey players who played Canadian University - players like Ross Yates (Mount Allison), Randy Gregg (Alberta) and Mike Ridley (Manitoba), who went onto great hockey careers," said Foran, who posted 267 points in five seasons at Mount Allison from 1978-83.

Read full article (Telegraph-Journal)