Nonita T Yap was an OAC Faculty from 1992 to 2017 first in the School of Rural Planning and Development and then in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development. She was an environmental specialist with an active international program of research and consulting.  She retired in August 2017 and was awarded Professor Emerita in the spring of 2018 to be conferred at convocation in June.  She intended to continue an active research program and she led a successful SSHRC application for a project on corporate social responsibility, mining companies, and communities in Northern Canada and the Philippines.  We heard about the success of her proposal in April 2018.  

Sadly Nonita passed away in May from a stoke she suffered while working as a volunteer for CESO in Bolivia.


On behalf of Nonita’s family and SEDRD we would like to invite you to a celebration of her life on September 15^th from 7 to 11 pm in the Bullring.   Nonita was a Filipina who loved a fiesta with lots of people, food, and music.  That is what we plan.  There will be some formal words in memory but the evening will be primarily a chance for all those who knew her and worked with her over the past 26 years as colleagues, students, and friends to come together to share memories of her in a casual setting. 

Please join us and feel free to bring a guest.

Very best regards,
Nonita’s husband, John Devlin
Nonita's son,  Sean Devlin,
and
SEDRD Director, Sean Kelly