Media Release

For Immediate Release

March 28, 2008

Bridges Named Vice Chair of 2011 Games

Chuck Bridges, Vice President (Assoc.) of External Affairs at Saint Mary’s University, is all set to make Canada proud.

He has been appointed Vice Chair of the Halifax 2011 Canada Games Host Society. He will also serve on its Board of Directors.

Over the last decade, Bridges has been a part-time professor of Management at the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University.

He has also served on management teams and boards for the United Way (Halifax) and the Neptune Theatre. As well, from 1997 to 1998 he was President of the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education (CCAE).

He also received his MBA Degree from the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s in 1992.

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For More Information:

Paul Fitzgerald
Public Affairs Officer
Saint Mary's University, Public Affairs
(902) 420.5514
E-mail: paul.fitzgerald@smu.ca
www.smu.ca