L-r: MacPherson, Heaslip, Gallins, Lou-Poy
It’s common knowledge that UVic people make a difference in the community—and on Jan. 24, four such people were honouored for their contributions with Victoria’s Leadership Awards.
The Lifetime Achievement Award went to Ronald Lou-Poy, UVic’s chancellor and a prominent lawyer known for his deep commitment to the Greater Victoria community. As a volunteer, Lou-Poy works tirelessly with the Victoria Police Board, the Kiwanis Club, the United Way, Victoria Crime Stoppers and the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
The Lou-Poy family’s generosity is evident though their financial support for the Harry Lou-Poy Infant and Toddler Child Care Centre at UVic, named for Lou-Poy’s father, and the May and Ron Lou-Poy Fund of Excellence in the Faculty of Law.
Faculty members Glenn Gallins and Ian MacPherson (retired) were recipients of the UVic Community Leadership Awards, which salutes exemplary leadership in linking UVic and the community for greater public benefit.
Over the past 28 years, thousands of people of limited means in the Capital Region have gained legal information and representation from law students working under Gallins’s supervision at the Law Centre. In his role as teacher, lawyer, mentor and administrator, Gallins has been the driving force behind the centre. By passing on his knowledge, skills and values to students, he has helped to build a community in which everyone, regardless of income, can access the legal services they require.
For more than 30 years, Ian MacPherson focused his energies on understanding and improving co-operative organizations and co-operative learning in the service of communities. He has also championed a unique relationship between the university and community in Victoria and around the world. In 1999, he established the BC Institute for Co-operative Studies, and he now directs the organization, which conducts research into co-operatives.
Recent UVic political science graduate Ashley Heaslip was recipient of the the Vancity Youth Award. Heaslip has a passion for refugee rights and HIV/AIDS prevention and has worked with the World University Service of Canada (WUSC), locally, nationally, and internationally. Working with the UVic chapter of WUSC, she has been instrumental in increasing the number of refugee students that UVic sponsors and in increasing the number of WUSC volunteers. In addition, she has raised substantial funds for local AIDS prevention and relief agencies.
The Victoria’s Leadership Awards are organized by a partnership among Leadership Victoria, the Rotary Clubs of Greater Victoria and the University of Victoria.
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