OCTOBER 29, 1999
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THE UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA OCTOBER 29, 1999 |
| Members of UVic’s faculty of education gathered in the Lam Auditorium on Oct. 20 to honour donors and current student award recipients and present the third annual Distinguished Education Alumni Awards.
“The faculty is pleased to recognize those high achievers who bring credit to the university, the faculty and themselves,” says dean of education Bruce Howe. “We’re continually in debt to the generous people who support students to complete their study. As an individual who was the recipient of such an award, I know my career would have been markedly different had it not been for others’ generosity.” The ceremony honoured recipients of 77 scholarships, two convocation awards and 52 bursaries. Presented with the 1998 Distinguished Education Alumni Awards were Colleen Brownlee, Louise Burgart and Gary Walmsley. Colleen Brownlee earned her BEd and MEd from UVic. During 36 years of educational leadership, she has taught in Vancouver, where she was president of the Vancouver and District High School Athletic Association, and in Calgary, where she served as teacher, counsellor, vice-principal and principal. She was superintendent of the Rocky View School Division -- the sixth largest division in Alberta. She has received many awards and has continued as a volunteer coach and an administrator in civic and sports groups. Louise Burgart received her UVic MEd in 1989. Since the beginning of her teaching career 30 years ago, she has taught at small schools throughout the Fort St. James area and been a well-loved principal at both the elementary and secondary levels. She’s superintendent of the Nachako Lakes District, a director of the Yinka Dene Language Institute, and past-president of the B.C. School Superintendents’ Association. Gary Walmsley graduated with a UVic MEd in 1977. He has taught in Victoria and Nelson and served as a vice-principal supervisor of instruction in the Greater Victoria School District. He was co-ordinator of the intermediate program team in developing the influential Sullivan Report for the Ministry of Education. At UVic, he has worked as co-ordinator of elementary school experiences and as a part-time lecturer and seminar leader in the professional year program. |