Active Alumni magazine 2003

University of Alberta

i n t o u c hactivealumni

Saville SportsCentreReady to Rock — finally!John Barry

After plenty of setbacks, delays, nail biting

and cliffhangers, the Saville Sports

Centre is finally a go! The contract for the

$6.5 million design/build contract for the 120,000 ft2

sport facility has been awarded to Bird Construction

Company of Edmonton.

The Saville Sports Centre, named for our major

benefactor, Edmonton businessman and avid sportsman

Bruce Saville, began in April and is expected to open

its doors by January 2004. Bruce is very involved in

community-oriented projects. His participation was

really the catalyst for the development of this second

facility linked to Foote Field at the South Campus.

There’ll be four key components as well as

associated ancillary spaces at the new centre:

•A state-of-the-art, 10 sheet, internationally sized

curling rink

•An eight court tennis facility — arguably the best

facility of its kind in the province!

•A multi-purpose gymnasium

•Approximately 600m2 of undeveloped space that

could be converted for numerous uses, including

a fitness centre or sports medicine clinic

The support we’ve had from the university, the

surrounding communities, provincial government and

especially from Bruce Saville, has been fantastic and

we’re very grateful for it.

Russ Sluchinski, manager of the existing university

tennis centre says it’s been a long haul, but worth

w i t h

the wait. “I’ve waited patiently, as have our

members, for countless years and the reality that it’s

finally about to happen is absolutely staggering!”

The Saville Sports Centre will benefit our students,

faculty and alumni, the university and community of

Edmonton. We anticipate that over 1000 people will

purchase memberships to use the curling facilities

and that an additional 600 to 700 will purchase

tennis memberships. The facility will be well used

by staff and students of the university, but we expect

the general public will account for the highest

percentage of usage.

Watch our web site for construction progress — I’ll

be taking regular shots as this terrific new facility of

ours comes out of the ground. ■

y o u

2003Published annually for the alumni and fr iends of the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation

Building boom!Other expansions and renovations to the faculty:

A $600,000 expansion of the Foote Field building

A $350,000 upgrade of the West Pool.

Renovations include:

■ new sound baffles

■ new tiles for pool basin

■ new hand rails

■ new lifeguard chair

The pool will be closed from April 22 till the

end of July, 2003

2University of Alberta

Spring — andbenefits — in theair for ActiveAlumni!Wendy Andrews, Alumni Association Representative

Irecently took on the challenge of representing the

Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation on

Alumni Council which is part of the Alumni Association

of the U of A. The goal of the Association is to create

lifetime connections between alumni and the University.

I had no idea how active the Alumni Association is, nor

how many services it has to offer to you, its alumni! As a

graduate of the University of Alberta, you automatically

become a lifetime member, at no charge, of the

University of Alberta Alumni Association.

As an alumnus you are eligible to receive many benefits.

Besides special access rates to university services and

facilities, you can benefit from group purchase rates for

auto, home and life insurance, and credit card services.

The world travel and education program is phenomenal

and who would have thought that there would be an

alumni book club! And there’s more!

With your Alumni ONEcard you get special alumni

rates for the university’s Fitness and Lifestyle Centre,

discounts at the Bookstore, access to university library

services, entrance to campus pubs, even access to

recreational facilities at select universities and colleges

all across Canada.

There are many U of A alumni events, on campus and

around the world: a tailgate party before a Bears or

Pandas game in Edmonton, a Shakespearean play, a

show jumping event and dinner at Calgary’s Spruce

Meadows, a skating party in New York’s Central Park…

these are just a few of the unique events that the Alumni

Association hosts every year. Keep in touch!

You can keep in touch and register for your Alumni

ONEcard by logging on to www.ualberta.ca/alumni.

My job is to represent alumni from the Faculty of Physical

Education and Recreation. I hope to be in contact with you

soon for information on how your Alumni Association can

be effective for you. Stay tuned. ■

“With your Alumni ONEcardyou get special alumni ratesfor the university’s Fitness

and Lifestyle Centre,discounts at the Bookstore,access to university library

services, entrance tocampus pubs, even access torecreational facilities at select

universities and collegesall across Canada.”

Wendy Andrews

From the Dean’sdesk: Mike Mahon, PhD; Dean

The times, they are a’changing. I am very pleased

to greet all of you — our valued alumni and friends

— via the newest communications vehicle for the Faculty

of Physical Education and Recreation, Active Alumni.

During the past number of months our communications

strategist, Jane Hurly has helped the faculty to determine

how best to reach out around the world to all of you —

as effectively — and cost-effectively as possible. In the

future Active Alumni will be mailed to you once a year;

and, as 64 percent of you are online, we’ll also be

communicating with you more via email. You’ll receive

two electronic issues of Active Alumni per year. Our

newsletter will be available in PDF format on our web

site as well.

Besides a more contemporary style for our alumni

journal, in the near future we will unveil our new web

site, designed to meet the needs of our most important

constituents — our students, alumni and friends. Through

these and other new communications vehicles we hope

to keep you abreast of our latest teaching initiatives, the

state of the art research conducted by our faculty, and

what is happening on the athletics and recreation fronts.

But while we may have a new look, our desire to

maintain the essence of our roots, established by our

pioneers, remains strong. These traditions are rooted in a

commitment to maintaining close ties with our alumni. I

am extremely pleased to welcome Wendy Andrews as our

faculty’s newest representative to the U of A Alumni

Council. Wendy is a graduate of our BPE program (1978)

and has a passion for the mission of the faculty. With

Wendy’s help, we hope to reach out to many of you over

the next year to ensure that you have an opportunity to

tell us how we can meet your needs as an alumnus of

the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation.

There are many exciting things happening in the Faculty.

We will break ground for the construction of the Saville

Sports Centre in early April. Since we last reported on

this project, we have enhanced its scope to include a

brand new curling facility, an expanded tennis centre

with eight indoor courts, a new gymnasium, and space

for a future sports medicine facility. We are presently

recruiting two new faculty members in the areas of active

healthy children and behavioural medicine — two of our

key strategic initiatives. In March our Pandas hockey team

won their third national championship, building on the

success of our Pandas rugby team who brought home the

gold for a fourth consecutive national championship this

past fall. These are but a few of the many exciting

activities taking place in the Faculty, some of which are

highlighted in this first issue of Active Alumni.

So, we welcome your presence — personally or virtually.

Students, alumni and friends are the foundations of our

faculty. Please keep in touch! ■


“We hope to reach out tomany of you over the next

year to ensure that you havean opportunity to tell us howwe can meet your needs as

an alumnus of the Faculty ofPhysical Education and

Recreation.”Dr. Mike Mahon


But for John, when the tennis school added swimming

lessons to its roster, life took an unexpected turn after a

chance meeting with then national swim coach Bert

Kinnear who invited him to get his swimming

qualifications and coach the sport.

Coaching swimming was exhilarating. Soon the young

physical education teacher — John taught high school

in Croyden, England — had a squad of promising

youngsters under his wing, training out of Crystal Palace

National Training Centre. At the ’68 Olympic Games, 13

of his swimmers swam for their country.

He served as Scotland’s national coach and director of

swimming from ’69 to ’74 with a stellar record of success.

But another turning point in John’s career occurred

when he was introduced to Dr. Maury Van Vliet at the

Commonwealth Games at Christchurch, New Zealand in

1974. Shortly after, the Canadian Amateur Swimming

Association and Jasper Place Swim Club in Edmonton

created a professional coaching position for him for two

years as part of the 1976 Olympic preparations. John and

Sally settled in Edmonton in September 1974.

In 1976 John was invited by the U of A to combine the

Jasper Place club team with the university team and he

joined the faculty as a sessional instructor. The next six

years were tough as he tackled his master’s degree and

doctorate — coaching, teaching and attending classes.

“It was exhausting, but I don’t regret it. It was the best

possible place to be; it was the best time to be studying

sport psychology,” he says.

Dr. John Hoggretires to BCin June: 35 years as swimming coachand athlete mentor

An athlete once said about Dr. John Hogg that what sheliked best about him was “that he really cared.” “That’sbeen etched on my life,” he says.

For 35 years, John has lived the mantra of caring

— and caring deeply about his students and the

hundreds of athletes he’s trained over the years. But

he’s 65 now and in June this year he retires to BC and the

13-acre Salmon Arm hobby farm he and his wife Sally

bought in 1985. “I’m really getting quite excited about it,”

he says, but confesses he worries about who will carry on

the work in performance psychology and who will be

there for the student athletes who seek him out on any

given day, for counselling, advice, and courage.

He began teaching and coaching youngsters early on in

life. Growing up in England, John began his 35-year

career coaching for a large tennis school to see him

through university after an injury sidelined a promising

career. “I spent my college years (at the University of

London) going round the stately homes of Berkshire

teaching rich kids to play tennis!”

Class of ’63 — Get ready to Celebrate 40 years!

Hard to believe the time has flown by so quickly, but Reunion 2003 celebrates our 40th anniversary!

Plan to attend reunion from October 2nd through 5th this year at the University. Catch up with

friends and faculty, visit your old haunts and hangouts at your alma mater. There’ll be so

much to do and see, so come on out and join us for a wonderful weekend of memories.

Check the Reunion 2003 web site at www.ualberta.ca/alumni/reunion.

There’ll be more information as we get closer to the event.

Contacts for Reunion 2003: Class Organizer: Margo Wyley ([email protected]); phone 780-430-6060

Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation: Nadine McMahon ([email protected]);

phone: 780-492-3893

In 1982 he joined the faculty full-time and set about

improving the aquatics program and then the coaching

route. “I saw myself as a moderator,” explains John of his

approach. “A moderator takes the science of the sport

from the sport scientist to the coach, and from the coach

to the scientist.”

In addition to numerous books and articles on swimming

and mental skills training for athletes, John has recently

devised, and experimented with, several specific mental

skills programs both for high school athletes and for

young children (10 years and under).

His proudest accomplishment? “Without a doubt it’s the

growth of female athletes and the overdue recognition

for them,” says John. “I’ve really tried to be part of that

by spending time with female teams — soccer, hockey,

ice hockey, basketball and volleyball (John has worked

with the Pandas volleyball team for 10 years). I think the

pride rests in the fact that they have done well and that’s

been due in some small part to understanding the mental

and emotional aspects of competition.”

Now the future beckons. John plans to keep writing; he’s

building a greenhouse “to continue my interest in growth

and development by tending plants” — he may even get

back into coaching. “Apparently some local teams are

waiting for me to relocate,” says John. “And maintaining

13 acres will keep me busy!” ■


“It was exhausting, but Idon’t regret it. It was

the best possible placeto be; it was the besttime to be studyingsport psychology.”

Dr. John Hogg

Class of 1963Eric AbellJohn AchesonNeville AndersonRussell ArmstrongJohn AudinDale BjornsonAlbert CarronVictor ChmelykLinda Clute (Johnson)David CraggFred Curr

James CurreyAlbert DawsonRoy GallowayEugene GushatyDonald GustafsonDouglas HallWalter HawryschukDouglas HayesBert MahuraLarry MaloneyRonald Marteniuk

Margo Niewchas (Wyley)Guy PasseyJohn PattersonGerald PercyJohn ReidEsther Segal (Solin)George ShawGarry SmithPeter StothartRichard WintermuteClaud Zinger


Spotlight on thenewsmakers

The Provincial Fitness

Unit and the Alberta

Fitness Appraisal and

Accreditation (FACA)

program awarded

Dr. Gordon Bell with

the Dr. E.E. Bako Award

at the recent Perspectives

In Exercise Testing and

Prescription conference.

The award is in

honour of Dr. E.E. Bako, a physician who was dedicated

to the promotion and importance of physical activity and

measurement. It’s presented to an individual who has

made an outstanding contribution to the Alberta FACA

program.

Past recipients include Drs. Art Quinney, Alfred

Nikolai, Dru Marshall and Garry Wheeler.

December, 2002: Dr. Gordon Bell received a McCalla

professorship award. This award is in recognition of

Gordon’s outstanding scholarship and provides him with

a teaching release for one year.

January 2003: Dr. Kerry Courneya has been

nominated for a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair. The CRC

program was introduced by the federal government to

attract and retain Canada’s best academics, and stem the

brain drain. The University of Alberta has chosen to

allocate a ‘retention’ Tier I CRC to Dr. Courneya.

Dr. Courneya has been allocated a CRC in the area of

Behavioural Medicine (one of the faculty’s key strategic

initiatives) in the Canadian Institutes of Health Research

category. His nomination will take place within the next

year. This is a peer reviewed competitive process.

The Canada Research Chairs represent one of Canada’s

most significant academic honours.

November 2003: The Pandas soccer team took silver in

the CIS Women’s Soccer Nationals.

February, 2003: CISWomen’s NationalVolleyballChampionships


head coach LaurieEisler is the 2002–2003

recipient of the Coach

of the Year Award,

receiving the honour for

the second time in her

career (1994–1995). The Regina, SK native has coached

at U of A for 12 seasons since 1991 (assistant or head

coach) winning six consecutive CIS championships

from 1995 to 2000 and claiming a national silver

medal in 1993.

Laurie was also the recipient of a Queen’s Jubilee

Medal for her outstanding accomplishments in sport

for Canada.

February 2003: Dr.Brian Maraj won a

Teaching Excellence

Award. He was

recognised by the

Delta Chi Fraternity,

Alberta Chapter. This

is a student-nominated

award.

March, 2003: CIS Men’sNational Volleyball Championship. U of A’s Golden

Bears took silver against the University of Manitoba’s

Bisons.

CIS Men’s National Hockey Championship: U of A’s

Golden Bears beat the New Brunswick Varsity Reds for

the bronze medal.

CIS Women’sNational HockeyChampionship.U of A’s Pandas won the

championship, taking

gold against University

of Toronto’s Varsity

Blues. ■

Looking back he says the most important life lesson he’s

learned is that, “People tend to emphasize the difference

between Asian and North American countries. But what

I learned from my experiences in Edmonton was that

there are lots of similarities between the two. That

makes me stronger!”

He and Miho keep active: they both love boating and

fishing — and singing their hearts out at Karaoke! Their

pet rabbit, says Makoto, keeps them ‘hopping’ around

the house too.

He has plans to visit Edmonton in 2005 when the

World Masters Games takes the city by storm. “I’ve

started playing baseball again and I’m really looking

forward to participating in the Games, and I’d like to

bring my wife, parents and friends to the event!”

So what’s the next big thing he’d like to do? “I’d like to see

the World Masters Games come to Japan in 2009,” he says. ■

Makoto’s contact information:

Makoto Chogahara PhD

Faculty of Human Development

Kobe University

3-11, Nada, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan

Email: [email protected]

Telephone and fax: 078-803-7731 7University of Alberta

Dr. MakotoChogahara (PhD ’98): baseball playing alumnus carves hiscareer at Kobe University, Japan

When Dr. Makoto Chogahara completed his PhD at

the University of Alberta in 1998 and returned to

his native Japan, he little thought he’d bump into his old

mentor and supervisor, Dr. Sandy O’Brien Cousins again!

Yet just five years later, both were invited to attend the

2003 International Conference on Physical Activity,

Ageing and Productivity in Hokkaido, Japan, hosted by

Dr. Tsutomu Suda of the University of Hokkaido.

It was a wonderful reunion, recalls Makoto, who is

now associate professor in the Faculty of Human

Development at Kobe University where he teaches

exercise gerontology, exercise and sport promotion at

both the undergraduate and graduate levels. “Sandy is a

scholar whom I truly respect. Everything she said to me

really lifted my spirits — just as they did when I was a

PhD candidate in Canada!”

Makoto came to Canada for his PhD, having completed

his undergraduate and masters’ degrees at the National

Institute of Fitness and Sport in Kanoya, Japan. The

subject of his dissertation, “The positive and negative

social influences on physical activity in older adults”

launched a lifelong interest in physical activity and its

value in healthy ageing. His current research interests

are in exercise, and sport promotions and campaigns

for older adults, and in master sport event management.

Makoto has plenty of fond memories of Canada. He and

his wife Miho married in Edmonton at the Hotel

Macdonald in 1996. Miho supported him while he was

studying — something he’s truly grateful for. “Miho

worked very hard to support me. Her unfailing support

and caring made it possible for me to pursue my goal.

Sharing both the good times and the hard times in

Canada are our precious memories,” he says.

Does he miss anything about Canada? “Beer! Especially

Molson Dry; shopping at IGA, the way Canadians say,

‘eh’ — and our best friends Steve and Mauricette! I miss

the food too, but I like both,” he adds.

“People tend to emphasize thedifference between Asian andNorth American countries. But

what I learned from myexperiences in Edmonton was

that there are lots ofsimilarities between the two.”

Dr. Makoto Chogahara

Makoto and Miho

Dr. Sandy O’BrienCousins keynotes atJapan conferenceon ageing andsocial productivity

In February this year, exercise

gerontology expert Dr. Sandy

O’Brien Cousins was the keynote

speaker at the first International

Conference on Physical Activity,

Ageing and Social Productivity in

Sapporo on the north island of

Hokkaido in Japan to share her most

recent findings on physical activity

and productive ageing. The conference, organised by

Dr. Tsutomu Suda, an expert on physical activity and its

impact on social productivity, provided Sandy with an

unprecedented opportunity to compare snowbound

Edmonton and Sapporo and how senior citizens in

particular, meet the challenges of winter. Sandy presented

new data on older adults in Edmonton on the ways they

become more energetic and productive after exercising.

Sapporo, with 1.8 million people, is much like Calgary,

says Sandy, bounded by the mountains and with

excellent Olympic facilities.

Sapporo’s annual cross-country marathon was an eye-

opener, she says. “I was very impressed by the number

of middle-aged and elderly people out there skiing! The

oldest woman was 78 years old and the oldest man was

92.” And while that might not be remarkable in itself,

it is when you consider that Japanese culture favours

gentility, — “the people are very gentle — and genteel”

— yet they participate very aggressively in what seniors

in Canada might consider a high risk sport in their later

years — and vigorously tackle social policies that are

barriers to them too!

Sandy also met up with her former graduate student,

Dr. Makoto Chogahara from Kobe University. “We are a

generation apart but we get along so well. I admire the

way he has maintained his English and switches gears

between cultures so easily.” Makoto translated Sandy’s

presentation for the Japanese audience.

The town of Mikasa with its substantial elderly

population is the site of Dr. Suda’s research on the

welfare of older citizens. He’s looking specifically at

snow-shovelling as a fitness activity for seniors, then

measuring their social productivity — to what extent they

help others — as a result of their being fitter and

more energetic. With its heavy snows which virtually

incarcerate the elderly in their homes, Mikasa’s isolation

takes its toll on the mental and physical health of the

population. “The wet snow comes down almost every

day,” says Sandy. “It takes all the energy of the able

seniors who have to dig out their doorways and those of

their more frail neighbours. They don’t dig out their

windows and so they have no daylight in the winter.

They are literally buried alive unless they can keep

digging themselves out! Travel is limited as their rural

roads aren’t cleared. The only way to get to the market

is to walk seven or eight km down the highway,” says8University of Alberta

“I was very impressed by thenumber of middle-aged and

elderly people out there skiing!The oldest woman was

78 years old and the oldest man was 92.”

Dr. Sandy O’Brien Cousins

Sandy. “The highway is narrowed by

ploughed snow and therefore very

dangerous for pedestrians of any age!”

Depression and suicide are very high

among seniors in Mikasa.

“The Japanese in Sapporo are better in

some ways at making winter an active

living opportunity than we are. They

have outdoor festivals going on all

winter,” remarks Sandy, noting the

extravagant snow-sculpting festival

which dominates Sapporo’s snow-

packed main street boulevard, attracts

thousands of tourists from other parts

of Japan and abroad. “It would be

like closing down Jasper Avenue for

10 blocks and building snow structures

that light up at night and function as

music and entertainment stage areas in

the day. I’d like to see Edmonton do

something comparable, so that winter

can be as meaningful and participatory

as our summer events.”

“It was a small conference, but I learned

so much,” says Sandy. And was the

sushi great? “I’m not a fish eater”

she ‘fesses up. “But Sapporo beer is

THE best! ■


Lack of snow leads toCampus OutdoorCentre closureTwenty-one years after its inception, lack of snow for four years

has forced the closure of the Campus Outdoor Centre this

spring. Capricious weather, and a lack of public knowledge about

the offerings of the centre meant it simply wasn’t bringing in the

users — and the revenues — needed to run it profitably. With the

operating deficit expected to balloon to over $300,000 this year, the

demise of the centre became a certainty said dean Mike Mahon.

“This was a very difficult decision to make but we simply cannot

afford to carry a large debt. Moreover, the university does not allow

any faculty to run a deficit. It’s essential that we be fiscally prudent.

Our only option was to close the centre.”

The centre, located in the northwest corner of the Universiade

Pavilion, provided instruction in a range of outdoor activities

including cross-country skiing and snowshoeing in the winter and

rock-climbing, canoeing and kayaking in the summer. Outdoor

equipment rentals were also part of the centre’s business.

Equipment will shortly be liquidated through tendered group sales

to not-for-profit organisations, rather than through individual sales.

All cross-country ski lessons and wilderness adventure programs at

the field centre at Rocky Mountain House have been wound up.

However, the wilderness adventure programs may be picked up by

the centre’s former private sector partner Hela Ventures, which will

continue to operate the field school. The faculty is continuing to

form partnerships for program delivery.

The climbing wall, which is fiscally viable, will remain open for

business for mountain training and will be run through faculty

operations on a self-sustaining basis.

Plans are currently underway to find creative, cost-effective and

workable solutions to continue to offer outdoor programs to our

students. This may mean partnership with an outside group or

company which provides this type of programming.

“In hindsight perhaps the centre was too much of a well-kept

secret,” said assistant dean John Barry, adding that more

aggressive marketing may have assisted in making it more visible

in Edmonton. “But this was a weather-dependent centre and

with our weather as unpredictable as it has been over the past

few years, this unfortunately spelled the end for the operation.” ■

Magnificent snow sculpture at Sapporo’s annualsnow-sculpting festival

Former DeanHerb McLachlanremembers 1953 —and all that jazz!Graduates of the faculty’s first BPE degree program

this year celebrate 50 years since convocation. And

a great year it was! Rita Hayworth wowed the crowds in

Salome; polyester made its debut, Life with Father was on

the box; Beatnik culture was hip, soda fountains were

big, Rock ‘n Roll and James Dean were way cool; the

bikini, poodle skirts and hoola hoops were in.

But for Herb McLachlan, who served as dean from 1978

to 1983 a favourite memory will always be seeing that

first graduating class of the newly-minted Faculty of

Physical Education and Recreation convocate. “Seeing

them in convocation — it always stays with you.”

Born in Edmonton in 1923, Herb had just completed his

degree at McGill — one of two universities in Canada

to offer a BPE (the other was University of Toronto),

when he met the legendary, late Dr. Maury Van Vliet.

“I was just about to take a year of teacher preparation

in Alberta,” he remembers, “and here a nice job arrived.

I had many offers when I left McGill, but I wanted to

come back to my roots — and I wanted to teach.” It was

1948, the war was

over, he was a young

husband — he and

Aletha have been

married 57 years now

— and the princely

$2800 a year in salary

meant “I was made!”

“My first job was to

coach the Pandas in

track and field,” says

Herb, who “got into

basketball,” ran the

men’s intramurals

and taught the

anatomy class.

A big kick for Herb

was seeing the Van

Vliet Centre come out

of the ground in 1959. “The building made our lives so

much easier,” he says. “Before we had the Clare Drake

arena, we played hockey at the old Varsity Rink — a

wooden structure built in 1929. No artificial ice there.

The only way to keep the ice frozen was to keep the

doors open all the time! If we had a melt in February,

we had to cancel the intramurals.”

Swimming used to be held at the YMCA, so the pool in

the VVC was a godsend; and it was a relief to have a

gym to replace the decrepit old airforce gym — unsafe

and dangerous — with its cracking beams that had to be

sandbagged in place while the gym was in use!

Offiating basketball “was my main activity,” says Herb,

who helped launch the Edmonton Basketball Association,

now 275 strong.

Herb’s ties to U of A remain strong: he’s been a

member of the University Scholarship Committee since

its inception in 1985 and shows so signs of letting up;

he’s a volunteer with the City of Edmonton too. He sits10University of Alberta

Class of ‘53

Richard Bradshaw

Muriel Clapp (Shapka)

Leonard Cooper

*Lynn Crawford

James Day

Jean Grusz (Henderson)

Huestis, Marilyn (Holmes)

*Donald MacIntosh

Joan McFarlane (Thomas)

Stephen Mendryk

*Albert Olson

Robert Rosborough

*Walter Tuck

Margaret Visser (Southern)

*Deceased

“The only way to keep theice frozen was to keep thedoors open all the time! Ifwe had a melt in February,

we had to cancel theintramurals.”

Former Dean Herb McLachlan

Herb and his wife Aletha

on the Veterans for Sport committee and on a committee

to establish a Sports Hall of Fame for the City.

Herb, who took his doctorate at the University of

Oregon, turns 80 in August this year and he’s still got

a twinkle in his eye; he’s still physically fit and very

active — he and Aletha are avid line dancers! — And

he works out at the university fitness centre or at the

gym in his apartment building.

Regrets? “None. But I did want to go into medicine at

one time and be an ophalmologist,” he says. A pilot

during WWII, Herb says he longed to go overseas and

“see some action.” But that wasn’t to be either. Maybe

it’s just as well, says Herb. “I really wouldn’t do anything

different if I had to live my life over. I’ve been so lucky,

always, to be in the right place at the right time.” ■

1953: Remember when?■ A microwave network connects CBC television stations

in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. The first private

television stations begin operation in Sudbury and

London.

■ Queen Elizabeth’s coronation is also televised this

year, and the CBC beats U.S. competitors to the punch

by flying footage across the Atlantic.

■ Hurricane Hazel devastates Southern Ontario

■ Korean War ends

■ The first Corvette rolls off the assemby line

■ Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel meet at Forest Hills

High School

■ Ikea opens its first showroom in Armhult, Sweden!

■ Sir Winston Churchill wins the Nobel Prize in

Literature

■ Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the 34th President of

the United States; Harry S. Truman dies

■ Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick

discover the double helical structure of deoxyribose

nucleic acid (D.N.A.) and change the face of crime-

solving forever

■ Big movies: The Big Heat, From Here to Eternity, The

Robe, Roman Holiday, Shane

■ Oscar award for best picture goes to The Greatest

Show on Earth, Producer — Cecil B. deMille

■ Russian composer, Sergey Prokofiev dies; brilliant

astrophysicist Edwin Hubble dies as does hated

dictator Josef Stalin

■ Montreal defeats Boston in the Stanley Cup

■ Maureen Connolly takes women’s Wimbledon title;

Victor Seixas wins the men’s title

■ Edmund Hilary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay

of Nepal summit Mt. Everest


Where are you?Keep the University informed ofyour address changes too

Changing your address? Updating your mailing

preferences? Keep in touch with U of A by letting the

office of Advancement Records External Relations

know where you are.

Via email: [email protected]

Phone: (toll-free in North America) 1-866-492-7516

Local: 780-492-3471

Check out the alumni web site at:

http://www.ualberta.ca/ALUMNI and use the online

form.

Larry and

Bernice (nee

Coward) Beres

(both BPE ’62)


Reu

nio

n 2

00

2Yo

u w

ere

ther

e! W

e’re

so

glad

you

mad

e it

!

Left:

Gabrielle Barry

(BA Recreation ’77)

and

Jamie Drake

(BA Recreation ’76)

LtoR: Joe Lovsin,

Dr. Andrea

Borys (BPE ’62)

and Dr. Peter

Dooling

LtoR: Ron

Richards (BPE ’67;

MSc ’69), Esone

Richards and

Larry Dufresne

(BPE ’67; MA ’71)

Photo credit: Pat Bates


Universityof Alberta

ReunionWeekend

2003October 2nd to

5th 2003Connecting toEvery Decade

Faculty ReunionWeekend Events:

■ Friday, October 3— Pub Night at Foote Field from

7-9 p.m. (following the U of A’s

Welcome Back Alumni BBQ)

Enjoy live music and a drink on us!

■ Saturday, October 4 — Work up a Sweat:

Join the Faculty’s Turkey Trot,a fun walk/run/stroll fundraiser

for United Way

■ Dean’s Lunch — mix and mingle for every

generation of our alums — 12–2 p.m.

■ Brainiac Blast — 10 a.m.–12 p.m. and 2–4 p.m.

— Learn what’s new in ourresearch — three top

level presentations

— PhD poster displays — meet tomorrow’s ground-

breakers today

— Tour our labs — see the human body as you’ve

never seen it before

■ Pandas Field Hockey — Foote Field 2–4 p.m.

— Watch our Pandas bring downtheir prey — and a championship!

Check the web site:

www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/per

Gene Dextrase

(BPE ’62) and

Arlaine

Monaghan,

widow of Jack

Monaghan (BPE

’64). Jack and

Arlaine’s children

are alumni of

our faculty too!

Dale (BPE ’90) and

Jackie (BPE ’99)

Dan Gilmet (BPE

’63) and Bob

Coyle (BPE ’62)

LtoR: Dr. Bob

Wandez (BPE ’67,

MA ’71, PhD ’74),

Grant Sharp

(BPE ’67) and

Margaret Sharp

When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, Tracy

David’s father and grandparents sewed precious

belongings into the hems of their clothes and escaped

to Canada. They were among a small group of Sudeten

Germans who settled on an abandoned Northern B.C.

ranch now known as the community of Tomslake. In

the middle of nowhere, few things were familiar,

except for the game they played.

“They brought soccer with them,” said David, who was

immersed in the sport from the time she could kick the

ball. “I love it. It’s just all-consuming. When they talk

about soccer in other countries being a religion —

I’m a fanatic.”

In May, David, who played on Canada’s first national

women’s team in 1986, will be inducted into the

Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame. The 42-year old is

being recognized for her many exploits as a player, but

could easily have qualified as a builder or coach. “To

me it’s not work, it’s fun,” said David, who still thinks

of Tomslake, population around 300, as home. Blue

eyes wide, she admitted being shocked by the hall of

fame announcement.

Hired to coach the UVic Vikes women’s soccer team

this year, David came to Victoria with a resume

reflecting the development of women’s soccer in

Canada. It started in the north, where a game featuring

the Tomslake Pioneers men’s team was a community

event, and a visit to a neighbour usually included a

friendly match. David, and a couple of other girls

played as fillers on the lone boys’ team, coached by

her dad. The only competition was at tournaments.

“I think the reason I was good enough to play on

the national team was because I played with boys,”

said David.

Moving from Tomslake to attend the University of

Alberta, David was on the field when women’s soccer

debuted at the Western Canada Games. She played in

the first under-18 girls’ national championship, and

organized the Edmonton Angels, an intensely

competitive club team that won six national

championships in 10 years. While David was still a

student, and president of women’s athletics at Alberta,

she received an invitation to a tournament at the

University of Victoria. Because Alberta had no varsity

team, David gathered everyone she knew to make the

trip. Paying their own way, the pick-up squad bunked


“Ithink the reason I was goodenough to play on the

national team was becauseI played with boys.”

Tracy David

Soccer veteranand alumnus Tracy David tobe inducted toCanadian SoccerHall of FameSharie Epp, Times Colonist sports staff

Reprinted with permission

Please Keep inTouch — electronically We need your email address

It’s a fact of life that the Internet is making it easier

and easier for us to keep in touch. In many ways,

it’s the natural evolution of the way we communicate

today. To its advantage it’s cheap, fast, easy-to-use.

You may have noticed from the nameplate of Active

Alumni that the alumni newsletter will be published only

once a year from now on. A big part of the reason for

that is cost: printing 6000 copies and sending out a

newsletter the size of Katimavik three times a year had

become too costly. So we’ve had to whittle that down to

once a year for a printed publication and, to keep you

posted, we’ll produce two electronic newsletters that

we’ll email to you and post on our new web site that’ll

be launched at the end of May.

In fact, we’ll be using our web site more for every type

of communication — with students, faculty and alumni.

That’s in line with what U of A is doing to reduce

costs: students apply exclusively online now; the

university calendar is online and soon the print version

of the calendar will be phased out.

In many ways it’s become the central way we navigate

our lives. In Canada 62 percent of us are online; in the

US that’s 72 percent; in Japan, Korea and UK half the

adult population uses the Internet; in Australia 42

percent are online.

Internet use has moved from routine to essential and

we can’t ignore its might as a communications tool

most of us use regularly. So keep your finger on the

pulse: send me your email address — and you’ll need

to keep it current — so we can stay in touch with you.

I’ll pass your email address to Advancement Records,

External Relations as well. ■

Contact: Active Alumni

Jane Hurly, Communications StrategistFaculty of Physical Education and Recreation


Phone:780-492-6821; Fax:780-492-1008

email: [email protected] (Note: no ‘e’ in Hurly!)

Web site: www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/per/

with UVic players, played in borrowed uniforms, and

won the tournament.

The next year, 1983, David’s lobbying led to the

formation of the Alberta Pandas soccer team. By the

time the inaugural Canadian Interuniversity Sport

women’s soccer championship was held in 1987,

David was coaching the Pandas. In 16 years, she

guided Alberta to CIS crowns in 1989 and ’97. Now,

after moving to Victoria to be near partner Bruce

Wilson, coach of the Vikes men’s soccer team, David

hopes to put a CIS banner on the wall for the Vikes.

“I want UVic to win a number of national

championships,” she said.

Meanwhile David is working on her master’s degree in

coaching, and is the assistant coach of the under-17

national team. And she continues to use her aggressive

midfielder’s skills to move the ball in women’s soccer.

Whether it’s as the only woman taking Level 4

coaching certification with former pros such as

Wilson and Bob Lenarduzzi, or sitting around the

table at a male-dominated conference, she still feels

the need to fight for her cause.

“Even to this day, I still feel I have to prove myself —

maybe because I’ve always had to do it. I’d always

have to show them I could play the game,” said David,

not sure enough young women are growing up with

her brand of street soccer mentality.

“In that part we have a way to go.”

Players these days are identified as national team

prospects at 13 years old. By the team they reach

University, they usually have 10 years of solid

competitive experience. The game between Canada

and the United States at the under-19 women’s world

championship in Edmonton last summer drew a huge

television audience, and more than 50,000 people in

the stands. The advancement is there, but too slow,

David said.

“I think it’s fantastic, but to echo the sentiment of my

generation: What took them so long?”

The answer might be that not enough of them grew

up in Tomslake. ■



On the EdgeKevin Kwan launches Kwantumto offer broad spectrum ofwellness services

It’s a frigid day in March but the sun streams through

the wall of windows in Kevin Kwan’s chic, decidedly

upscale third floor office in Manulife Place in downtown

Edmonton, filling it with light and warmth. Kevin, who

launched Kwantum in October 2001, looks relaxed in the

hive of activity that surrounds him and perfectly at home

in his new role as successful businessman. We sit in

cushy leather chairs as Kevin explains how he made the

leap from holding down four jobs after graduation from

the BPE program in 1998, to owning his own full-service

wellness company.

“I come from a very entrepreneurial family,” says

Kevin, who was born and raised in Smithers, BC. “I

have four older brothers and a sister and I’ve always

looked up to them — they’re all very successful. My

mother is my biggest supporter and has instilled ethics

and value in everything I do. My father came from

China with virtually just the clothes on his back. He’s

now a successful businessman who owns a hotel,

restaurant, clubs, and a liquor store. He showed me

it’s definitely possible. It’s not just education, but a

combination of your drive, education, and contacts that

make for success.”

Kwantum fulfills Kevin’s dream to offer a downtown

based company providing full-spectrum workplace

wellness solutions, educational programming,

rehabilitation and medical fitness services to

Edmontonians.

“There are essentially three prongs to our

business,” says Kevin. “Facilities

management and design, which we

provide for schools and corporations;

workplace wellness (typically provided

on a company’s premises), and the

downtown centre, serving workers in

the core, offering physical therapy,

exercise therapy, exercise testing,

massage therapy, and nutritional

counselling.” Kwantum also manages

the Manulife Place fitness centre and has

several large meeting and conference rooms for

presentations and conferences.

Though the doors have only been open a short time,

Kwantum already has several large projects to its name:

Elk Island School Board brought in Kwantum to design

the wellness facility at Salisbury Composite High School.

“We were brought in at ground zero,” says Kevin,

consulting with the client on their needs, then

designing a facility, procuring equipment and

customising programming for the students.

“We teach everything from anatomy and

physiology to circuit training and body

composition at the school,” he says.

Kwantum also designed and delivers a

workplace wellness program for the

Provincial Health Authority of Alberta. This

customised wellness program involves regular

education sessions at the client’s premises,

twice-yearly wellness consultations with each

employee, ergonomic work station consultation and

“It’s not just education, buta combination of your drive,

education, and contactsthat make for success.”

Kevin Kwan


set up. “We design custom programs for each employee

— and provide consultation on anything from wanting to

get in shape to how to buy a treadmill, to where do I

find a golf pro.”

But he’s not as busy as he wants to be yet. “I’m working

on building the area of exercise referrals, working with

physicians to refer their patients to us when they

prescribe exercise to their patients.” It’s a challenge, he

concedes, and a process of education to set physicians at

ease that the treatment Kwantum will provide is both

research-based and delivered by qualified staff with

degrees in kinesiology and physical education.

Also, he says, though Calgary and Vancouver have similar

centres to his downtown, “People in Edmonton aren’t yet

used to accessing this type of service downtown. We’re

seen as personal trainers, they don’t see the true breadth

of what we do and and appreciate it. I think that will

come as we revitalise the downtown core.”

Kwantum’s primary services, are provided by a team of

BPEs — all alumni from U of A. Erin Dola, Lindy Woo,

Lynnette Scharfenberg and Greg Lembke all have BPE

degrees in sport performance; Trina Bandi, who

provides the workplace wellness programs holds a BPE

degree in adapted physical activity; Kevin specalised in

active living, health promotion and wellbeing. Besides

the core team, there’s a network of health and physical

activity experts outside of Kwantum to round out the

services they offer.

Kevin, who is also vice chairman of Capital Health’s

Community Health Council for West Central and a director

of the Downtown Edmonton Community Association,

takes on practicum students and volunteers from the

faculty, engaging them in organizing a fun ‘Tribal

Challenge” (www.tribalchallenge.com) to help

Edmontonians acquire points for the physical,

intellectual, emotional, spiritual, occupational,

environmental and social dimensions of

wellness. If that’s not enough, he’s also one

of the head coaches for the Edmonton

Dragonboat races held every summer, and

senior men’s volleyball coach at

M.E. LaZerte High School.

As for the future, Kevin says international opportunities

for Kwantum beckon: he recently made a presentation

to a diverse group of company directors and high-

level bureaucrats from China here to study executive

management at U of A. “They were definitely interested

in what I’m doing at Kwantum. The head of a power

corporation wants a similar facility to the one I built for

Salisbury School,” says Kevin, “and an executive from a

hotel chain expressed interest too.”

It’s an opportunity that would dovetail with Kevin’s

personal desire to provide a legacy wellness facility for

Beijing in time for the 2008 Olympic Games. “This would

really be a tribute in many ways to my heritage and a

culture that helps define me today,” he explains, adding

that the introduction of Western foods in China has

caused health issues there he’d like to help combat.

In time, he says, “I would love to be in a position to say

to Dave Mitsui, (practicum supervisor in the faculty),

‘We have a facility in China. I would like four or five

practicum students who want international exposure to

come with me and deliver wellness programs …’”

As I leave the spacious offices, Kevin adds, “You know,

my father’s entrepreneurial character taught me a lot,

but my 98 year-old grandmother taught me the lesson

of being active for life. She rode her exercise bike right

to the end of her life. A lot of what you see here is for

her too.” ■

Kwantum is located at:

Manulife Place

Suite 388,

10180 – 101 Street, Edmonton

www.kwantumwellness.com

email: [email protected]

Phone: 780.428.9355


Play in themidnight sun By Audrey Giles, PhD candidate

As a person who grew up in the heart of suburban

Toronto, I am often asked to reflect on the path

that led to my PhD research, which investigates Dene

women’s changing involvement in traditional games in

the Northwest Territories. The often bumpy but never dull

path that led me to the University of Alberta took me

through several provinces and territories, several Inuit,

Cree, and Dene communities, as well as a great deal of

personal growth.

After a few summers working as waterfront staff at a

residential camp, my twin sister Sarah and I decided to

apply to the Northwest Territories (NWT) Aquatic

Program for summer employment following our first

year of university (Queen’s University for me, Dalhousie

University for her). That summer, I spent three months in

Cape Dorset, NWT (now Nunavut) as the community’s

swimming pool supervisor.

As a white, feminist, university educated, vegetarian, I

experienced profound culture shock. The fact that Cape

Dorset was plagued with poverty and had the highest

suicide rate in Canada that summer did not help the

situation.

Upon returning south, I do not think that my friends and

family members thought that I would return North again.

While, undoubtedly, I had a trying summer I found

myself increasingly fascinated by (to quote Robert

Service) “the strange things done in the midnight sun,” —

particularly the sport and recreation practices that I saw.

As a physical and health education student who hoped

to specialize in sport psychology, I found myself writing

papers about socio-cultural aspects of Northern sport and

recreation. This interest was reinforced by my subsequent

work with Alberta’s Future Leaders Program in Northern

Alberta, as well as another with the NWT’s Aquatic

Program, this time in Fort Simpson, NWT. Eventually, I

commenced my graduate work in anthropology of sport

at the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation at the

U of A, with my incredible supervisor, Dr. Debra Shogan.

In general, I find that everyone loves to see my photos,

especially from my fieldwork in Sambaa K’e, NWT

(a community of 65 people accessible only by chartered

aircraft), and to hear my stories of, for example, narrowly

avoiding being shot, making my own moccasins, the trials

and tribulations of chopping wood for heat, and living

without hot water for months on end, etc. Very few

people want to hear the other stories that I have to tell

about the legacy of colonialism, people’s experiences

with residential schools, as well as poverty and other

social problems that are rampant in many Northern

communities.

While I hope that my research makes a contribution to

creating a more complete record of sport and recreation

in Canada’s North, I often feel more confident about the

contributions of the non-profit organization that my sisters

and I founded and continue to run.

Our organization, Sporting Partnerships of Universities

and Northern Communities (SPUNC), links universities

and schools across Canada with communities in the

NWT. Our goal is to reduce regional disparities in

access to sports equipment. In the past four years,

SPUNC, through our partnership with Sport North,

Matco, and several airlines, has sent about 4,000 lbs

of equipment to the North free of charge. Though my

sisters and I are all extremely busy with our various

pursuits (my twin sister is now in medical school, while

my older sister is a project advisor for a non-government

organization in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), we all

remain committed to trying to put smiles on the faces

of some wonderful Northern children. ■

“As a white, feminist,university educated,

vegetarian, I experiencedprofound culture shock.”

Audrey Giles

U of Ahockey hasplenty tocelebrate Richard Cairney

Reprinted with permission from ExpressNews

University of Alberta hockey

teams were on a high in

March. The undefeated Pandas

are celebrating their second

consecutive national championship,

and third in three years.

The Pandas, who posted a 31–0–1 record in regular-season

play, defeated the University of Toronto Varsity Blues 5–4 in

overtime at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) women’s

hockey championships in Regina, SK. March 9. On the

same day, the Bears won the Canada West Men’s Hockey

Championships and a shot at a national title when they

defeated the University of Saskatchewan Huskies 5–2.

The tight contest against the U of T in the finals saw Pandas’

head coach Howie Draper’s prediction that his team would

need to play its best hockey of the season come true. The

U of T took a 2–0 lead in the second period but the Pandas

came back with four unanswered goals from Alison Benfeld,

Lori Shupak, Taryn Barry and Kristen Hagg. That’s when

things started to go wrong.

“We came back and we were ahead 4–2 and we started to

think ‘well, this one’s in the bag’ but Toronto had something

to say about that,” said Draper. The Blues bounced back

with two goals, sending the game into overtime with just

19 seconds remaining in regular time.

So what does a coach say to a team that has blown a two-

goal lead, just before the overtime period?

“One thing we’ve worked on a lot this year is being able to

come back twice as strong after you’ve been scored on,”

said Draper. “Every goal, for you or against you, has to

make you better.”

The ones for you, of course, are the easiest to deal with.

And the best goal of the year came in overtime when

Taryn Fjeld won the title for the Pandas.

This year, Draper says, most of the team’s scoring has come

from a line made up of Danielle Bourgeois, Lori Shupak,

and Kristen Hagg. The U of T managed to key in on the

high-scoring trio but other players stepped in to get the

job done.

“The sign of a good team is when one line can’t perform

the role they are used to, another line steps up. And we got

input from all of our lines which made the finish that much

more satisfying.”

The victory is the third championship the Pandas have won

since forming six years ago.

In Edmonton, the Bears defeated the Huskies 5–2, winning

a best-of-three Canada West finals and a spot at the CIS

championships in Fredericton, NB, March 20–23. The victory

marks the Bears’ 42nd Canada West title.

Bears coach Rob Daum said the opportunity to go back to

the nationals — this was the team’s seventh consecutive

appearance at the University Cup championships — is a

“terrific achievement” for the team.

“There isn’t any anxiety, we’re just looking forward to

the challenge, and we’re pleased with what we’ve done

to get there.”

The Bears captured bronze, beating the New Brunswick

Varsity Reds 8–2. ■

For all the Bears and Pandas sports action visit: http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/athletics/ 19University of Alberta


Wall of Fame Fund-Raiser and Dinner May 1, 2003 at the Shaw Conference Centre

Schedule of Events: May 1, 2003

5:30 p.m.: No-Host Reception5:30 p.m.: Silent Auction

begins7:00 p.m.: Balloon Blitz7:30 p.m.: Dinner9:00 p.m.: Induction

Ceremony

This year’s Inductees:Jim Fleming (Hockey)

Barry Kennedy (Swimming and

Water Polo)

Joe Poplawski (Football)

Alex Romaniuk (Wrestling and

Builder)

Shona Schleppe (Field Hockey and

Soccer)

Join our faculty and alumni for a glittering, memorable evening to

honour outstanding athletic alumni and to raise funds for

scholarships for new and current student-athletes.

Last year we raised $29,000. This year we’d like to up the ante

and raise $45,000! We know it’s ambitious, but with your help we

can help student-athletes reach their full athletic potential. Who

knows — you may be helping the next Canadian Olympian onto

the podium at the next Olympic Games!

Please join us!

■ Cost: $150/person. (Tax receipt issued for $100/ticket purchased)■ Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Avenue Edmonton, Alberta■ Donations: Donations in any amount are, of course, gratefully received. Your donation will be receipted in the full amount.

Contact: Nadine McMahon Phone: 780.492.3893 E-Mail: [email protected]

activealumni

Active Alumni is produced annually for the alumni and friends of theFaculty of Physical Educationand Recreation.

Story ideas? Comments?Suggestions?Contact editor Jane Hurly at780.492.6821; email: [email protected]

Visit our web site!www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/per/

Jane Hurly, Communications StrategistFaculty of Physical Education and RecreationW1-34 Van Vliet CentreUniversity of AlbertaEdmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H9

activealumni

40063741

Date post:	07-Mar-2016
Category:	Documents
Upload:	faculty-of-physical-education-and-recreation
View:	236 times
Download:	6 times

Active Alumni magazine 2003

Documents