Seven Concordia community members and two university icons were celebrated at the 21st Alumni Recognition Awards Banquet at Le Westin Montreal on May 17.
The 2012 Honorees included:
Humberto Santos Award of Merit
John F. Lemieux
Honorary Life Membership
Ned Goodman, BSc, MBA
Benoît Pelland Distinguished Service Award
Dennis Chan, BComm 77
Alumnus/Alumna of the Year
Jamie Orchard, BA 91
Alumni Award for Innovative Teaching
James Conklin, BA, MA 04, PhD 09
Outstanding Staff Award
Jang-Hwan Kwon, GrDip 96, MCSc 03
Outstanding Student Leader Award
Marvin H. Coleby
The Concordia University Alumni Association hosted a meet and greet at Shelf Life Book, complete with smoked meat sandwiches, which was followed by the bookstore’s Montreal Night. Four former Montreal authors, including Susan Calder, BA 88, read from their work.
This was the 23rd Shuffle.
The 2012 Freda Otchere Staff Recognition Award was given to Margaret Robertson.
Photos from a variety of 2012 Homecoming reunions that took place at Concordia University between September 28-October 11th. Select photos relate to the Engineering and Computer Science reunion, as well as, the President's Reunion Gala.
Those photos were taken in a reunion for the anniversary of the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery.
John W. O'Malley was the invited lecturer for the 2012 Loyola Lecture.
Concordia University alumni gathered at Vibes Cafe in Amsterdam for the first alumni event in the Netherlands, an informal networking evening hosted by Claire Deslongchamp, Communications Director of the Québec Government Office in Brussels. The Delegate General of Québec in Brussels, Christos Sirros, was invited as a guest speaker.
Stevie Cameron was the invited lecturer for the 2012 Reader's Digest Lecture.
Craig Morrison gave this lecture concerning the Beatles and their links to Montreal at the J.A. DeSève Cinema as part of Homecoming 2012.
The 2013 Honorees included:
Humberto Santos Award of Merit
Brian Edwards, BComm 71
Honorary Life Membership
Peter W. Hall
Benoît Pelland Distinguished Service Award
Robert Barnes, BA 68
Alumnus/Alumna of the Year
Walter S. Tomenson Jr., BA 68
MBA Alumnus/a of the Year
Julien BriseBois, EMBA 07
Alumni Award for Innovative Teaching
Martin Pugh
Outstanding Staff Award
Nancy Curran
Outstanding Student Leader Award
Eric Moses Gashirabake, BA 13
As part of this multi-year charitable program, Bell has given $500,000 to Concordia University’s Department of Psychology to subsidize therapy and assessment at the university’s Applied Psychology Centre and Centre for Clinical Research in Health.
2013 marked the 24th edition of the Concordia Shuffle.