Money raised for memorial bursary

Congratulations to the organizers of the Ian McConnell Golf Tournament! $4,000 was raised at the alumni golf tournament in support of the Ian McConnell Memorial Bursary, organized by friends of Ian McConnell (class of 1995) and monastery alumni on June 21, 2008 at the Amherst Golf Club.

See more photos of the event.

ER Staff

Here's a recent photo of your External Relations Department, with a few new faces, taken at Hammond Lounge on June 27, 2008.

Front row:

• Sue Seaborn, Sports Information Director
  
• Gloria Jollymore, Vice-President, External Relations
  
• Joy Wilbur, Alumni Services Coordinator
  
• Carolle de Ste-Croix, Director of Alumni & Development
  
• Anna Acton, Administrative Assistant
  
• Sheila Blagrave, Director of Marketing & Communications
  
• Marlene Hopkins, Campaign Volunteer Coordinator
  
• Laura Dillman, Media Relations Coordinator
  
• Lisa Arsenault, Researcher
  

Back row:

• Tracy Bell, Communications Officer
  
• Lesley Johnson, Marketing and Communications Coordinator
  
• Michael Cantwell, Executive Director of Campaign & University Advancement
• Joyce Terrio, Gift Processing Officer
  
• Susan Smith, Stewardship, Annual Fund and Community Relations Officer
• Mona Estabrooks, Assistant Director of Alumni Events
  
• Carol Heaslip, Senior Development Officer
  
• Nadine LeBlanc, e-Communications Coordinator
  

50 years of achievements

The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is marking 50 years of Tom Forrestall’s (’58) achievements with a special exhibition. Tom Forrestall: Paintings, Drawings, Writings is running from June 14 – September 1, 2008.

This retrospective exhibition and the book that accompanies it chronicle Tom’s art works in oil, watercolour and egg tempera over the course of several decades.

In 1954, Tom was awarded a scholarship to the Fine Arts department at Mount A (where he studied with Alex Colville). He received one of the first Canada Council grants for independent study which enabled him to travel throughout Europe. Tom was assistant curator at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton (1959), but shortly thereafter, began to devote himself full time to painting.

• Read more about the exhibition.
• Read more about purchasing a Tom Forrestall print in support of the Natalie Forrestall Fine Arts Bursary.

A couple of new faces coming to Mount A

Patricia McGorlick ('58) presented Mount Allison Scholarship Awards to Shea Lee DeGroot and Hyla LaPointe of Dalhousie Regional High School on Wednesday, June 18 during their graduation ceremony.

Let's welcome Shea and Hyla to the Mount A family!

Interim Head Coach for the Mounties

Kelly Jeffrey has been named Interim Head Coach of the Mount Allison Football Mounties for the upcoming season.

Kelly has been part of the Football Mounties for the last two seasons, as quarterback coach, special teams co-ordinator, and co-offensive co-ordinator.

He served as Head Coach at Mayville State University in the US before coming to Mount A.

Kelly is familiar with the Mount Allison program and has been influential in its success over the last two seasons.

His appointment for this season will allow the team and coaching staff to continue to build on this success and growth in a supportive and continuous manner.

The position of Head Coach will be advertised in the fall and a national search will take place at that time.

We hope that you will support our Football Mounties this fall.

1st Annual Ian McConnell Golf Tournament

Friends and former classmates of the late Ian McConnell (’95) are hosting the first annual Ian McConnell "Handy Best Ball" invitational golf tournament June 21 at the Amherst Golf and Country Club, in support of the Ian McConnell Memorial Bursary.

Ian graduated with a bachelor of commerce in 1995. Following his sudden passing in 2002, a few of his good friends started the Ian McConnell Bursary Fund as a way for Ian's legacy to remain in the hearts and minds of his friends, family and the students who would attend Mount A after him.

Providing financial aid to students at need, the bursary has already helped several Mount Allison students since its inception, and tournament organizers see the fund raiser as an opportunity to ensure it continues to make a difference in McConnell's name.

Tournament registration is $52.50 per player and includes 18 holes, a golf cart, as well as the dinner and awards reception to be held at the Olive Branch in Sackville.

Contests will be held for the longest drive, closest to the pin, as well as a hole-in-one shootout to win a dream golf vacation in Scotland (retail value of $6,800.) Registration begins at noon with tee-off at 1 p.m.

The tournament is open to all Mount Allison University alumni and friends of Ian McConnell.

Click here for more information, to register, or to make a donation.

Going to Yemen!

Laura Turnbull (’08) will be studying cross-culture anthropology with eight other students from across the world at the Yemen College of Middle Eastern Studies starting in the fall.

She graduated from Mount A with a major in anthropology and sociology. Her thesis focused on how Muslim immigrants experience New Brunswick's culture through their senses.

Laura was looking for a Canadian university with a master's program when a professor told her about the college in Yemen, and so decided to postpone her master's studies for a year to study overseas.

Read full story:
Student to get up-close look at Mideast culture in Yemen (Fredericton Daily Gleaner)
Understanding Culture (Mount Allison University)