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  • Mike Carson, Class Note

    1960s

    Mike Carson

    – Sc’69

    Spring 2025

    Mike was inducted into Curling Quebec’s Hall of Fame in 2024, in the category Player and Builder. His involvement in the sport of curling began in 1970, and since then he has gone on to win more than 15 medals in provincial championships, including four Seniors and four Masters Championships. He also received the Sportsmanship Award in 2001 and a Masters Silver Medal in 2012. He was only the second player in the history of Quebec curling to have skipped for two different teams the same year (2009). During his career he was involved in the 1982 Quebec Games, the 1983 Canada Games, the 1988 Brier, the Canadian Masters championships for 10 years, as well as Curling Quebec. He played various roles in each of these organizations, either as director, administrator, technical director, coordinator or president. He also developed the first page system for curling; was a member of the Governor General’s Curling Club (2013); was chosen as administrator-volunteer for Sports Quebec (1988); and received the Curling Canada Ray Kingsmith Lifetime Volunteer Award (2018). He's happy to here from friends who’d like to get in contact with him.

     

  • 1960s

    GW Stephen Brodsky

    – Arts’69

    Spring 2025

    Steve’s book, Intimations of Joseph Conrad: A Century of Sightings and Citings of Conrad's Presences in Print, Crafts, Media and Monuments, was published in September 2024 by Palgrave Macmillan. He regards book-writing as indecent at age 91. Therefore at age 92 he writes only articles and reviews.

  • Dakota Lavery, Class Notes

    2020s

    Dakota Lavery

    – Com’20 

    Winter 2024

    Dakota married his wife, Karen Law (BFA’19, Artsci/Ed’20) on Oct. 11, 2024. They met at ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ as residence dons, where he worked at Victoria Hall and Karen at Gord-Brock. They celebrated with many of our classmates and colleagues from ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥. Karen is now an emerging artist, and Dakota works in finance for Hiawatha First Nation. They are excited to start the next chapter of their lives together. 

  • Kaziwa Dylan, Class Notes

    2020s

    Dr. Kaziwa Dylan

    – PhD’20

    Winter 2024

    Dr. Kaziwa’s book, Genocide Culture: Cultural Habitus, Ethnic Engineering and Religious Doxa, has been published by Routledge in 2024. Her book considers different stages of Kurdish history, oppression, and genocide through a critical lens, offering an historiography of Iraq and colonialism. Through interviews, primary archival documents and nonparticipant observation, Dr. Kaziwa studies the links between everyday cultural practices and microaggression in general, and the nexus between the state and the general population in the implementation of macroaggression and genocide.

  • 2010s

    Michael Green and Taylor MacPherson

    – Artsci'15, MA'16 and Artsci'15, BEd’16

    Winter 2024

    Michael and Taylor are delighted to announce the arrival of their second child, Robin MacPherson-Green, born in November 2024. Story time is now even more special with two little ones, and, who knows, maybe they’ll be future literature majors, too!  

  • Victoria Henry and John Polak, Class Notes

    2010s

    Victoria Henri and John Polak 

    – Sc’18, Sc’18 

    Winter 2024

    Victoria and John got married at the end of August. Many of their guests attended Queen’s, and John's dad is Sc’87 alumni too! They asked their guests to bring their GPAs and Artsci jackets for a group photo during the wedding.