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2001 CUAA Alumni Recognition Awards
On April 5, the Concordia University Alumni Association (CUAA) hosted its 11th Annual Alumni Recognition Awards Banquet. Each year the CUAA honours outstanding alumni, students, teachers and friends of Concordia. The awards include the Humberto Santos Award of Merit, the CUAA’s highest honour, named after the late Humberto Santos, recipient of the Award of Merit in 1996. Immediately prior to the banquet, the CUAA approved the renaming of the Distinguished Service Award to the Benoit Pelland Distinguished Service Award, after the late Benoit Pelland, BAdmin 88, president of the CUAA, 1992-94, who passed away in January.
This year’s recipients: at left, (front) Concordia professor of applied linguistics Patsy Lightbown, Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching; Concordia’s first rector John O’Brien, Honorary Life Membership; former Loyola Alumni Association presidents Claude St. Amour, L BA 63, and John Freund, L BCom 64, Benoit Pelland Distinguished Service Award; and Concordia governor Jonathan Wener, S BCom 71, Humberto Santos Award of Merit; (back) Association of Alumni of Sir George Williams University board member Malcolm Renshaw, S BA 59, Benoit Pelland Distinguished Service Award; Concordia professor of applied human sciences Randy Swedburg, Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching; and former Concordia hockey Stingers captain Vincent Labossièrre, BSc 00, Outstanding Student Award.
Ottawa
The Ottawa Chapter of the CUAA has long been one of the association’s most active and enthusiastic chapters. That spirit was on display at the 10th Annual Alumni Dinner at the Army Officer’s Mess, April 25, as more than 55 alumni and friends welcomed Director of Alumni Laura Stanbra, BA 89, MA 95, Concordia Vice-Rector, Services, Michael Di Grappa, BA 84, as well as the Chapter’s foundin president, Alice Kubicek, BA 77, MBA 85, who spoke of the value of being a volunteer. Pictured at left: outgoing first vice-president president Adje Van de Sande, S BA 71, and outgoing president Joanne Paine, BA 77, celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Annual Alumni Dinner. Seymour Dubrow, S BA 69, will be the Chapter’s new president
MBA
Despite harsh winter weather, Rector Frederick Lowy joined 36 MBA alumni at the re-launch of the MBA Chapter of the CUAA, March 22. The event was held at Le Piment Rouge restaurant, owned by MBA alumna Hazel Mah, BCom 78, MBA 81, who sponsored the event.
Concordia Sports Hall of Fame
Each year, the University proudly celebrates the long tradition of sports achievement at Concordia, Sir George and Loyola at the Concordia Sports Hall of Fame. This year’s honourees, inducted April 26 at Montreal’s Molson-O’Keefe Breweries, well represented that tradition. Pictured at right, above: (standing) Al Grazys, L BSc 63, who excelled in basketball, football and hockey for the Warriors; Trevor Kerr, S BCom 67, Georgian hockey star; Doug Yeats, BEng 85, championship Concordia wrestler; Gordon LeRiche, S BA 63, Sir George championship golfer; and Paul Vajda, economics 91, All-Canadian Stinger football lineman; (seated) Stirling Dorrance, accepting for the late Father Patrick Malone, S.J., former Loyola College rector; and Corinne Swirsky, BSc 00, multiple-award-winning forward for the women’s hockey Stingers.
Pictured at right, below, members of the 1962-63 Loyola Warriors Men’s Basketball Team: (standing) Al Grazys, _L BSc 63, Jim Bay, L BA 63, George Lengvari, L BA 63, Ronald Markey, L BA 65, and Jean-Claude Vadeboncoeur, _L BA 63; (seated) Gill Dunn, L BA 63, L MTM 71, Stan Wasserman, L BCom 64, Jim Renahan, L BCom 65, Neil Lavoie, L attendee 63, Peter Howlett, L BA 63, and Harry Hus, L BCom 64.
Calgary
Each
year, the University proudly celebrates the long tradition of sports
achievement at Concordia, Sir George and Loyola at the Concordia Sports
Hall of Fame. This year’s honourees, inducted April 26 at Montreal’s
Molson-O’Keefe Breweries, well represented that tradition. Pictured at
right, above: (standing) Al Grazys,
L BSc 63, who excelled in basketball, football and hockey for the
Warriors; Trevor Kerr, S BCom
67, Georgian hockey star; Doug Yeats, BEng 85, championship Concordia
wrestler; Gordon LeRiche, S BA
63, Sir George championship golfer; and Paul Vajda, economics 91,
All-Canadian Stinger football lineman; (seated) Stirling Dorrance,
accepting for the late Father Patrick Malone, S.J., former Loyola College
rector; and Corinne Swirsky, BSc 00, multiple-award-winning forward for
the women’s hockey Stingers.
Pictured at right, below, members of the 1962-63 Loyola Warriors Men’s Basketball Team: (standing) Al Grazys, L BSc 63, Jim Bay, L BA 63, George Lengvari, L BA 63, Ronald Markey, L BA 65, and Jean-Claude Vadeboncoeur, _L BA 63; (seated) Gill Dunn, L BA 63, L MTM 71, Stan Wasserman, L BCom 64, Jim Renahan, L BCom 65, Neil Lavoie, L attendee 63, Peter Howlett, L BA 63, and Harry Hus, L BCom 64.
Rector Frederick Lowy, Tom Zsolnay, BA 86, Executive Director of University Advancement & Alumni Relations, and Laura Stanbra, BA 89, MA 95, Director of Alumni Relations, visited the CUAA’s New York Chapter and were hosted at Quebec House by Quebec Delegate General Diane Wilhelmy, March 29. More than 30 alumni and friends attended, including Chapter president Morris Zand, S BCom 68, and Quebec House chef, Laura Damiano, BCom 87, who wowed the guests with her fine cooking.
On April 17, Rector Frederick Lowy hosted the Millennium Circle inaugural dinner at his home. The inaugural Millennium Circle consists of donors who contributed $100,000 and over to the Campaign for a New Millennium. In the future, membership will be for those who contribute $25,000 or more in a given year. Pictured above: Baljit Chandra, Jane Molson and Concordia Chancellor Eric Molson enjoying the Rector’s hospitality.
In the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall Lobby on the Loyola Campus, David Brown, S BA 70, president of the Association of Alumni of Sir George Williams University, and John Economides, S BCom 43, toast one of the two large installations that were unveiled at ceremonies on each campus, February 20. The lit lanterns acknowledge the generosity of more than 300 donors who contributed at least $5,000 to the Campaign for a New Millennium. An identical illuminated sculpture is in the atrium of the Sir George Campus’s J.W. McConnell Building. The designers, Howard Davies and Jennifer de Freitas, MA 98, teach part-time in the design art department at Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts.
Rector Frederick Lowy hosted an informal reception at his home, April 4, to recognize the $1 million contribution to the Campaign for a New Millennium by Harriet and Abe Gold, above. The Golds are former Montrealers. Their endowment will fund, in perpetuity, 10 graduate fellowships of $5,000 each for master’s or doctoral students. Pictured with the Golds is Christian Desroches, recipient of a 2000 Abe & Harriet Gold Fellowship.
Over
the past year, 24 senior members of the Kosovo news media have come to
Canada, funded by CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency), to
learn strategies for rebuilding their media infrastructure. The visits
have included three-day seminars held by Concordia’s communications
studies department, organized by Dennis Murphy, L BA 67, executive
director of University Communications. On January 30, Concordia held a
reception for six of the Kosovo media representatives at the Maison de la
Culture NDG, which was holding an exhibition, “Bare(ly) Alive,” by
artist Bertha Shenker, BFA 80,
MFA 85, above, who spoke about her art.