Art Grad Designs Canada Day Beer Artwork

Mount Allison graduate Deborah Colvin ('77) has designed art for a limited edition Canada Day beer brewed by Edinburgh-based brewery Innis & Gunn.

Deborah lives just north of Toronto, but she honed her craft at Mount Allison. Now, the artist will have her work on the packing of a limited edition run of "Canada Day 2011" beer.

Since 2009, the craft brewery has made a yearly brew in honour of Canada. This year, for the first time, the bottles will be sold in cartons featuring original Canadian artwork.

Deborah earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1977, and says her design was a "deeply personal" re-examination of her background.

Her father William immigrated from Scotland with his parents. She describes her dad as being "firmly Canadian," a hockey coach who taught neighbourhood kids how to skate on a rink in the backyard. Her grandmother missed Scotland fiercely, while her grandfather "had feet in both areas."

The multi-layered design features hockey players, birch bark and hand-drawn maps of Canada against a vivid red background.

The "Canada Day 2011" brew has a limited run of only 3,000 cases, for a total of 72,000 individually packaged bottles. The brewery describes the beer as a creamy Auburn vintage with notes of toffee and oak.

Read full story: Mount A art grad lands unique project (Telegraph-Journal)

Hunton House Golden Celebration

For 51 years, Dr. Sidney Hunton was a distinguished and world-renowned professor of mathematics at Mount Allison University.

Fifty-one years ago, a new university residence was named in honour of Dr. Hunton. We thought it was time to celebrate both the man and the building.

Please join us at a reception to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Sidney Hunton and the golden anniversary of Hunton House.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011
6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Tweedie Hall, McCain Student Centre

Special guests: President Robert Campbell and University Archivist Rhianna Edwards

Hunton House memorabilia will be on display. Please send any anecdotes, photos, or memorabilia to Ellie Salsbury, lesalsbury@mta.ca.

Dress: business attire

Hunton House shot glasses will be sold.

RSVP before March 28, 2011: klewis@mta.ca

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.

Allisonians named Top 20 under 30

Congratulations to Mount A student Laura Stymiest (‘11), President of Global Medical Brigades Mount Allison, and alumna Sarah Craig (‘07), employment co-ordinator and chair of the FUSION networking group in Saint John, for being named to Here NB’s Top 20 under 30 list. Read their profiles and see the entire list at Here NB (Jan. 20, 2011).

Fine Arts professor featured on CTV

Photographer, typographer, and Mount Allison Fine Arts department head Thaddeus Holownia was featured on CTV’s Live at 5, the Maritimes' #1 news magazine show on January 24, 2011. Watch his story here.