2008 Award Recipients
We are pleased to present our 2008 Alumni Award Recipients:
 | Kate Bird
Young Alumni Award Kate Bird is the founder of Career Essentials, a company that helps adult learners learn new skills and prepare for the job market. The programs she offers include literacy skills, academic upgrading, English as a Second Language, computer training, job search skills, customer service training and GED (General Educational Development) test preparation. In each of the past five years, PROFIT magazine has ranked Kate Bird as one of Canada's Top 100 Women Business Owners. |
 | Dr. Elizabeth Murray
Alumni Honour Award Liz Murray is an accomplished researcher in life sciences and the recipient of numerous academic awards, including the prestigious national fellowship from the Medical Research Council of Canada (now the CIHR). She completed a PhD in pathology at Queen's University, focusing her research on the genetic causes of von Willebrand's Disease, a bleeding disorder. She works for SemBioSys Genetics, a new biotechnology company in Calgary, where she oversees the testing of all new products in her position as the company's Group Leader of Efficacy and Pharmacology. |
 | Duncan Weller
Alumni Honour Award In his visual art, writing, and films, Duncan Weller observes the world in a fresh, insightful way that delights and inspires both children and adults. Three of Duncan Weller's children's books have been published by Simply Read Books: Space Snake (2004), Night Wall (2005), and The Boy from the Sun (2007). The Boy from the Sun was awarded the 2007 Governor-General's Literary Award for Children's Literature - Illustration. |
 | Glenn A. Miller
Alumni Honour Award Glen Miller is Chairman of PenEquity, a leading real estate development and management company he founded in 1984. PenEquity provides asset management to pension funds and institutional investors, specializing in large-scale retail and entertainment projects. A current PenEquity project is Toronto Life Square, a retail, office, and entertainment complex on the northeast corner of Yonge and Dundas Streets in Toronto. When complete, it will have 500,000 square feet of floor space, filled with restaurants, stores, and 24 movie theatres. |
