Most outstanding geography student in Canada

Sarah Blake-Dickson (’08) of Waterloo has just received the 2008 Canadian Association of Geographers Undergraduate Award. This award is presented to the most outstanding student in Geography at universities across Canada.

The head of the department, Dr. Mike Fox calls Sarah a model department citizen. She was the student representative on the hiring committee for two new professors in the department during her time at Mount Allison.

Last summer, she worked for the Rural and Small Towns Programme, a university-based research group that works on rural issues, where, on one of her projects, she worked on a housing study for the town of Sackville.

It is amazing that Sarah found the time, but outside the classroom she volunteered in the Best Buddies program, which works with the special population and she played intramural sports including softball, soccer, and volleyball.

This summer Sarah is working for Industry Canada as a Community Economic Development Assistant at the Stratford Community Futures/FedNor Office in Ontario.

Luckily the East Coast gets her back as Sarah, who has had her choice of university graduate programs, has decided to attend Dalhousie University in the fall to do a master’s of Resource and Environmental Management.

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