Members of UVic's faculty of education gathered in the Lam Auditorium on Oct. 15 to honour donors and current student award recipients and present the second annual Distinguished Education Alumni Awards.
The ceremony honoured 94 scholarship and award-winners and the recipients of 135 bursaries.
"We're pleased to celebrate the achievements of our students in their academic endeavours and to thank all those individuals who assist us in recognizing this excellence through scholarship and bursary funds," said education dean Dr. Bruce Howe. "The costs to students today continue to escalate and this help is increasingly important to us."
Presented with the 1998 Distinguished Education Alumni Awards were Helen Bandy, Trevor Calkins, and Tarrance Grieve.
Bandy did her teacher training at UVic in 1970 and received her MEd in educational administration from UVic in 1981. In 1974, she became a seminar leader in the UVic elementary teacher education program, and in 1984, assumed what was to become the role of school experience co-ordinator, a position that she held until retirement earlier this year. Bandy was instrumental in developing a 1992 presentation to the Association of Teacher Education conference that resulted in an international award for the Saanich internship program.
Trevor Calkins earned his MEd in curriculum and administration from UVic in 1983 after serving in a variety of teaching and administrative roles at several local schools. He was principal at South Park and Rogers Community Schools when both were recognized as demonstration sites of excellent practice and community participation. Among his awards are: the Community Schools Association of B.C. Educator Award; the 1989 B.C. Mathematics Teacher of the Year Award; and the 1997 Victoria Optimist Club's Achievement in Education Award.
Tarrance Grieve received his BEd in secondary education from UVic in 1967 and his MA in educational psychology in 1969, focusing on learning and development. He began teaching in North Vancouver, became a school principal there and in Burnaby, and served as Kamloops assistant superintendent from 1977 to 1989 and superintendent since then. He has served as president of the B.C. Council for Leadership in Education, and as an executive member of the Association of B.C. School Superintendents.