Alumni
The University of Winnipeg Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Award
Earl Backman (pictured here with his wife Candace Backman) became the newest recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award at Spring Convocation on Sunday, June 1st, 2008.
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The University of Winnipeg Alumni Association Annual General Meeting
The AGM was held Monday, June 9th, 2008. The University of Winnipeg Alumni Association Council congratulates new members, Mike Cook (BA '80); Stefan Jonasson (BA ’88, MA ’97); Chris Minaker (BA ’04); Nick Unrau (BA '95); and Anrea Zazlov (BA '95, DCE '05)
Winnipeg 1919 General Strike Tour
The annual tour, held Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 was a sellout and a great success. Below is the text of a letter that appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press on May 9, 2008.
One great tour
On Tuesday night, I had the opportunity to attend the Winnipeg General Strike Tour event hosted by Nolan Reilly and the University of Winnipeg Alumni Association. Attendees truly experienced Winnipeg's significant and influential historical past come to life. The evening began with Andy Blicq's moving and highly technically creative film Bloody Saturday, detailing strike events and including rare film footage.
Adjourning to the waiting transit bus, Reilly led us on a historical journey. Distant voices resonated and past community bustle was pulled into the present through excerpts read from local biographies, oral histories and locally set historical novels. Most strikingly, Reilly made connections between past and present. As freight trains rolled heavily past the tour group assembled near the CPR Weston Shops, Reilly pointed out the nearby scene of death for J.J. Harper -- an event that sparked the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry.
History can teach us so much. The dynamics of the inequities that led to the Winnipeg General Strike still lurk today, albeit masquerading in different form -- perhaps better understood as a shape-shifting phantom whose only constancy is its presence when its heart of social injustice is unrecognized.
Shirley Kowalchuk
Board Member, Heritage Winnipeg
2007 News
The University of Winnipeg Alumni Association hosted its fourth annual Alumni Golf Tournament on June 14, 2007. Eighty participants enjoyed an excellent day of golf with fellow alumni, friends, faculty, and staff. For the third year in a row, this popular event was held at beautiful Southside Golf Course, an executive-style golf course.
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Winning Team #1 consisted of (left to right): Vijay Sharma (BA '84), Alan Reiss (BA '83), Ken Reiss (Collegiate '84) and Graham Lilburn |
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On Winning Team #2 was (left to right): Rob Gardiner (Collegiate '66), Diane Scott (Collegiate '84, BA '93) and Jeff Lieberman. Not pictured here is team member Rick Henry. |
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