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Guelph to Install Wallin as Seventh Chancellor
University to honour nine Canadian global citizens during summer convocation
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| Sally Armstrong |
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| Lloyd Axworthy |
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| Bruce Aylward |
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| Louise Fréchette |
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| Peter Hannam |
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| Craig Kielburger |
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| Marc Kielburger |
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| Valerie Raymond |
Pamela Wallin, one of this country's most accomplished and esteemed journalists, diplomats and entrepreneurs, will be installed as U of G's chancellor June 13 during summer convocation. She is the seventh person and the second woman to hold the position since the University's founding in 1964.
President Alastair Summerlee calls Wallin “a charismatic and remarkable person who is very humble about her considerable achievements. Pamela's passion and commitment will create a renewed buzz around the University of Guelph. She will be an outstanding role model for our entire University community.”
Summerlee adds that Wallin, who succeeds Lincoln Alexander, will be “standing in the shoes of a very significant public figure but in ways that are different from and yet complementary to Lincoln's skills.”
Alexander, who was U of G chancellor for an unprecedented 15 years, has been named University chancellor emeritus and will continue to serve Guelph in ceremonial roles, including participating in some public events and convocations.
U of G is hosting its second annual “thematic” summer convocation June 11 to 14, with all nine honorary degree recipients being renowned Canadian global citizens.
During 10 ceremonies in the Gryphon Dome, Guelph will also bestow University professor emeritus status on four retired faculty, name a University Fellow and award more than 3,000 degrees and diplomas.
The University of Guelph-Humber will hold two convocation ceremonies June 18 and present an honorary degree to Gemini Award-winning reporter and television host Wendy Mesley. More than 550 students will receive honours bachelor's degrees from U of G and diplomas from the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning.
The University of Guelph will present honorary degrees to:
Sally Armstrong, a journalist, documentary filmmaker, author, teacher and human rights activist;
Lloyd Axworthy, a former Canadian foreign minister who instigated a landmark treaty to ban anti-personnel land mines;
Dr. Bruce Aylward of the World Health Organization's global polio eradication program;
Louise Fréchette, the first deputy secretary-general of the UN;
Peter Hannam, a pivotal leader in Canadian agriculture;
Craig and Marc Kielburger, who run the international youth agencies Free the Children and Leaders Today;
Dr. Don McKenzie, a research pioneer in physical activity and breast cancer; and
Valerie Raymond, Canada's former high commissioner to Sri Lanka.
Convocation begins June 11 at 10 a.m. with a ceremony for the College of Arts. Armstrong will be honoured at this ceremony and will give the convocation address. At the 2:30 p.m. ceremony for the College of Biological Science, Aylward will receive an honorary degree and address the graduands. At a second CBS ceremony at 7 p.m., McKenzie, a 1970 CBS graduate, will be honoured and will give the convocation address.
On June 12 at the morning ceremony for the College of Physical and Engineering Science, honorary degrees will be awarded to the Kielburger brothers, and Marc Kielburger will address the graduating class. Also at this ceremony, physics professor and former provost and vice-president (academic) Iain Campbell will be named University professor emeritus.
At the afternoon ceremony for the College of Management and Economics (CME), Raymond, a 1973 BA graduate of Guelph, will be honoured and will give the convocation address. History professor and former College of Arts dean David Murray will be named University professor emeritus. A second CME ceremony begins at 7 p.m.
At the June 13 afternoon ceremony for the Ontario Veterinary College, Wallin will be installed as the University's next chancellor and pathobiology professor Carlton Gyles will be named University professor emeritus.
Two ceremonies will be held June 14 for the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences. Axworthy will be honoured and will deliver the convocation address during the morning ceremony, and Fréchette will be recognized in the afternoon.
At an 8 p.m. ceremony for the Ontario Agricultural College and the Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Hannam, a 1962 OAC graduate, will receive an honorary degree and address the graduands. Animal science professor Larry Milligan will be named University professor emeritus, and former Kemptville Campus director Bill Curnoe will be named a University Fellow.
Editor's note: A photo of Dr. Don McKenzie was unavailable at presstime.