Winter 2011 Record

The artist known as “Sweetheart.” An opera star. A RCAF Snowbird jet pilot. A top executive and one of Canada’s most powerful women.

The Winter 2011 edition of the Record is now online!

Paging Dr. McIntyre

Bill McIntyre (’06) says in many ways Mount Allison chose him. His parents met at Mount A and he grew up knowing he would attend the University after high school. It just made sense. When it came time to apply, he was awarded a Bell Scholarship — one of the University’s most prestigious awards.

During his four years at Mount A he was involved with the Students’ Administrative Council, the Bioscience Student Society, and the varsity football team. He was also awarded a summer undergraduate research grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). And was recognized with the University’s Gil Latter Award in his final year as the male graduate who made the greatest overall contribution to university life.

And to complete the Mount Allison story for the McIntyres, his graduation fell on the same weekend as his parent’s 30-year reunion at the University.

Following Mount A, he was accepted into the School of Medicine at Queen’s University. And now, five years later, he is officially Dr. McIntyre and is working towards a career in cardiology, which requires six years of study.

After his first three years of residency, he plans to apply to a cardiology residency, potentially at the Ottawa Heart Institute, and then there are three sub-specialties to choose from. His interest is in the area of electrophysiology, which includes pacemakers, and could see him training anywhere in the world.

“Cardio is the goal and pacemakers is the dream, but we’ll have to wait and see what the future holds.”

Read full story: From Mount Allison to Medical School

Summer in Kosovo

Last summer Roger Roy (’65) spent six weeks in the Western Balkan region of Europe where he was a parliamentary development advisor for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Kosovo. He was tasked with writing and designing a project to assist MPs to help address/alleviate the extreme poverty in the area and assist those who urgently need social services. His wife Gerry accompanied him and volunteered teaching English to parliamentary interns and UNDP staff. Roger writes, “We had some wonderful weekend visits to Orthodox churches in Kosovo including the UNESCO World Heritage Site at the Decani Monastery. We also had an amazing visit to Montenegro, Macedonia, and Albania where the scenery and old towns such as Kotor, Ulcinj, and Ohrid were an amazing voyage of discovery.”


Roger is pictured on the left, with his wife Gerry, centre, and Kenar Loshi the Head of the Goverance Programme at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP-Kosovo) on the right. The photo above was taken on the grounds of the Serbian Orthodox Monastery in Peya, Kosovo.