Media Release - For Immediate Release
April 28 2010
Six to Receive Honorary Degrees from Saint Mary's University
Our Honorary Degree Recipients, clockwise, Claude Mongeau, Mike Durland, Sandra Irving, Patricia Rowe, Paul Dyer and Neville Gilfoy. |
Six prominent leaders from the world of business, publishing, philanthropy and education will receive honorary doctorates from Saint Mary’s University later this month.
Paul Dyer, Regional Vice-president Scotiatrust, Dr. Mike Durland, Co-CEO of Scotia Capital, CN President Claude Mongeau, Publisher Neville Gilfoy, Pioneering psychologist Patricia Rowe and arts and humanities advocate Sandra Irving will all receive Honorary Degrees May 21 during Convocation ceremonies at the Halifax Metro Centre.
“These individuals have set the bar very high in their respective fields,” said Saint Mary’s President J. Colin Dodds releasing the list of recipients. “They are important role models for our students, each with professional and community accomplishments that are numerous, important and long lasting.”
More than 900 students will cross the stage during the ceremony to receive parchments as graduates of Saint Mary’s University. The convocation ceremony is divided into morning and afternoon sessions. The morning ceremony will feature graduates of the Faculty of Arts, Science and the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research. It will begin at 9:30 a.m. The afternoon ceremony for graduates of the Sobey School of Business will begin at 3 p.m.
Our Honorary Degree Recipients
Claude Mongeau is President and Chief Executive Officer of CN. He joined CN in 1994 and has held various positions including Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Vice-president, Strategic and Financial Planning, and Assistant Vice-president Corporate Development. In 1997, he was named one of Canada's top 40 executives under 40 by the Financial Post Magazine. In 2005, he was selected Canada's CFO of the Year by a committee of prominent Canadian business leaders. He sits on the boards of CN, SNC-Lavalin, and Forces Avenir, a group that promotes projects involving young people that arouse the desire for success. He was the Keynote Speaker at the Turning Points in Leadership Dinner in April 2009.
Mike Durland (B.Comm. 87) is Co-CEO, Scotia Capital, sharing responsibility for the overall management of Scotia Capital's operations worldwide. He is also Group Head, Global Capital Markets, which gives him overall responsibility for Scotia Capital's capital markets operations on a global basis. He joined Scotia Capital in 1993 and has held various management positions. He is an active supporter of many community groups and charities, including the United Way in Greater Toronto. He and his wife Catherine, also a Saint Mary’s alum, volunteer with Mississauga North Stars Hockey Club. He spoke at the Saint Mary's Commerce Society Dinner in 2009.
Neville Gilfoy is President and Publisher of Progress Media Group. He has been in the publishing industry for more than 30 years and has been an entrepreneur for 25 of those years. Over the past several years he has been the Chair of the Board of the Atlantic Provinces Chambers of Commerce, Chair of the Board of the Greater Halifax Partnership, Chair of the Capital Campaign for the Dartmouth General Hospital and the Chair of APCC’s Atlantica Council. He is on the International Committee of the Rotary Club of Dartmouth and is actively involved in building schools, wells and health clinics in Niger in Central West Africa and Burkina Faso in West Africa. He is the Honourary Consul of France for Nova Scotia.
Sandra Irving is a strong advocate of post secondary education in creating mentorship and scholarship opportunities for students in Canada and the US. She is a member of the Executive Committee of RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences and is also Co-Chair of the RSC Extending Excellence Fundraising Campaign. Sandra serves on the Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission, the Junior Achievement New Brunswick Business Hall of Fame Board as Past Chair, the President’s Leadership Council at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH and the President’s International Alumni Council of the University of Toronto. She was actively involved in the planning and development of the K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre and the Harriett Irving Botanical Gardens for Acadia University. Over the years she has served on the boards of the New Brunswick Region 2 Health Authority, the University of New Brunswick and other public service organizations.
Paul Dyer (B.Comm. 68) is a Regional Vice-president of Scotiatrust, Scotia Private Client Group, a former Chair of the Saint Mary’s Board of Governors and an active supporter with the University’s capital campaigns. A committed community volunteer, he has served on the boards of the YMCA Metro Halifax, the IWK Health Centre Foundation, Symphony Nova Scotia and the Grace Maternity Hospital. In 2008 Mr. Dyer received the Community Volunteer of the Year Award from the Saint Mary’s University Alumni Association.
Patricia M. Rowe is a Canadian pioneer in the field of Industrial Organizational Psychology and has taught or influenced the careers of many of the leaders in the field today. Now retired, she was a professor at University of Waterloo for almost 40 years. She has conducted extensive research on cooperative education, especially its effects on work outcomes, such as employment status, job satisfaction, job performance and other job behaviours. Her research and that of her students, has been published in a variety of journals, and papers have been presented on the topic of co-op education at numerous conferences.
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