Teaching Award

Congratulations to Steven Van Zoost ('92), a high school English teacher at Avon View High School in Windsor, NS, who is the 2007 recipient of the Lieutenant Governor's Teaching Award.

Steven was a member of the Education faculty of Mount Saint Vincent University in 2005-06, where he taught teachers in Masters Programs and continued to work on his Doctorate in Philosophy, Education from the University of South Australia. He has a Masters of Education in Curriculum from Acadia University, and a Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Arts, and Bachelor of Commerce, from Mount A.

He received a Roy C. Hill Award (a national award for innovative classroom practices) from the Canadian Teachers' Federation 1997 and a Governor General's Gold Medal, in Educational Research, from Acadia University.

Read more about Steven's work, and his many accomplishments.

Exhibition: Works on Paper + Canvas

Alum Harold Feist's exhibition Works on Paper + Canvas, from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Algoma in Sault Ste. Marie, ON will be held September 20 to October 27, 2007.

This exhibition of Harold’s works on paper and canvas represents the artist’s evolution from the beginning of his career to the present.

As the exhibition suggests, Harold’s own evolution has undergone transformations, from the brutish spirals to the rough colour wheels of the early seventies, the bold radiating colour spokes of the later seventies and early eighties and the vapourous topographic fields and lattice-work grids he currently explores.

At each stage, the brilliant colourism is underscored by Harold’s ability to synthesize intelligible structure with an intuited sense of the raw force and physical determinism of the material itself; nature and culture fused in exquisite complex harmony.

Read more about Harold's exhibition: Works on Paper + Canvas.

Climate Wars

Highly regarded Canadian journalist and international affairs analyst, Gwynne Dyer, will give a talk at Mount A entitled Climate Wars on Tuesday, September 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Brunton Auditorium, Marjorie Young Bell Music Conservatory.

Based on a forthcoming CBC “Ideas” series and Random House book of the same name (to be released in April 2008), the lecture looks at the frightening geopolitical implications of large-scale climate change. The talk is co-sponsored by l’Université de Moncton and Mount Allison University.

Dyer’s articles are published in over 175 newspapers in 45 countries. Dyer’s recent book, Ignorant Armies: Sliding into War in Iraq, reached number-one on the best-seller list in Canada in 2003.

His other best-selling books include Future Tense, War, and his most recent book, After Iraq, which was number three on this list this past spring. Dyer collaborated with Tina Viljoen on a documentary television series, War, one episode of which was nominated for an Academy Award.

He won Gemini awards for The Human Race, and Protection Force, a series on peacekeepers in Bosnia. Dyer is also an award-winning broadcaster of such series as The Gorbachev Revolution, based on his experiences in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in 1987-90, and Millennium, based on the emerging global culture.

More about Gwynne Dyer & Climate Wars

In the Fast Lane

It’s news that Gary Ross ('10) can find his way to MacAulay Field most days, let alone put up Hec Crighton-type stats for the Mount Allison Mounties.

Gary is a rarity in Canadian university football, blending gridiron success with wife Tenecia and two sons — four-year-old Gary and two-year-old Denzel — and a 3.8 grade-point average in sciences at the New Brunswick school.

He also helps his wife run a daycare for five or six other children on the days he doesn’t have classes.

His role in the improvement of the Mounties in the last two seasons can’t be overstated. His 60-yard punt return touchdown Saturday helped his team beat St. Francis Xavier 25-13 for its first win of the season.

Read more of the article: In the Fast Lane The Chronicle Herald

PSE Commission Report

So, what does Mount A think of the recently-received recommendations of the Commission on Post-Secondary Education in its final Report?

Read on!

Former NFL/CFL quarterback to speak at Mount A

A former professional quarterback and social activist will be the guest speaker at Mount A's Speaker's Series on Tuesday, Sept. 25.

Former National Football League and Canadian Football League quarterback Donald G. McPherson will speak at Crabtree Auditorium at 7 p.m. Everyone is welcome and there is no admission charge.

McPherson was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1988, after a college career at Syracuse University. During his time at Syracuse he won the Maxwell Award and finished second in the 1987 Heisman Trophy voting.

He also played for the Houston Oilers and for the Hamilton Tiger Cats and Ottawa Rough Riders.

After retiring from football in 1994, McPherson joined the staff of Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society, before becoming the first executive director of the Sports Leadership Institute at Adelphi University.

As a social activist he has founded several outreach and mentoring programs, and states that the standard constructions of masculinity and femininity both limit men's emotions and overall well-being as well as contribute to gendered violence.

Put Us in the CENTRE!

Make sure to look in your mailboxes this week for cards from students asking: "Put us in the CENTRE!"

We need your help to put us in the new Student Centre, which is set to open in September 2008.

Go to the site for more info!