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University of Winnipeg Alumni Association

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  • Collectivité
  • 1967-

The University of Winnipeg Alumni Association traces its roots to the Wesley Graduates Association, which was organized at a meeting of nearly 150 alumni on February 15th, 1935. Other alumni organizations already existed within Wesley and Manitoba Colleges: such as the Wesley Club, the Wesley Alumnae Association, and the Manitoba College Alma Mater Society. The Alumnae Association joined them at their second meeting on March 14th. The Wesley Graduates Association had an elected President and Executive and served to keep updated information on alumni and distribute College literature to its members i.e. Vox Wesleyana. It also raised funds for scholarships and bursaries. In June 1938, when Manitoba and Wesley joined as United College, the Wesley Graduates Association became the United College Graduates Association and also took over the Alma Mater Society of Manitoba College. United College became the University of Winnipeg in July 1967, and during the academic year of 1967-1968 the United College Graduates Association voted to changed its name to the University of Winnipeg Alumni Association.

The University of Winnipeg Alumni Association increased its membership and involvement with the University after 1967 with several initiatives, such as publishing the Alumni Bulletin starting in 1970 to communicate news and stay in touch with alumni, and campaigning for the Entrance Scholarship Program starting in 1973. In addition to other awards and scholarships offered or funded by the Association, starting in 1990 the Distinguished Alumni Award was established.

Crook, David

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  • Personne
  • 1960-

Dave Crook was born in Winnipeg, MB. He graduated from Elmwood High School, and then the University of Winnipeg in 1982. In addition to coaching at Elmwood and West Kildonan high schools, he was the assistant coach of the Wesmen men's basketball team under Bruce Enns from 1982-1984. He was hired in 1984 as the head coach for the men's basketball team at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. He was laid off when funding for the athletics program there was cut in 1989, and moved to the University of Lethbridge, as head coach and instructor, from 1989-2000. University of Lethbridge publications describe him as their “winningest coach.” Due to his performance in that role, he was awarded the Men’s Basketball Coach of the Year by CIS. In 2001 he returned to the University of Winnipeg as head coach of the Wesmen men’s basketball team and instructor until 2010. He resigned as coach (but continued to teach) that year; in 2015, he was made the University’s Athletic Director, in which role he continues today.

University of Winnipeg Library

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  • Collectivité
  • 1938-

The University of Winnipeg Library traces its roots to the libraries of Manitoba and Wesley Colleges. These institutions, founded in 1871 and 1888, respectively, included libraries in their first permanent facilities that opened in 1882 and 1896, whose collections were built up and overseen by devoted members of the Colleges’ faculty.

Much of the history of the library is one of inadequate space and expansion. Manitoba College sold its building in 1931 and mostly transferred its facilities to Wesley College, including its library collection. Due to limited space, the books mostly wound up in Wesley’s attic. Wesley constructed a two-storey expansion for its library in 1934. When the two colleges joined to form United College in 1938, so did their library collections. After World War 2, the influx of returning soldiers caused an enrollment boom that necessitated the construction of the Library & General Theological Building – later renamed Bryce Hall – in 1951. Ashdown Hall opened in 1959 as another expansion, as increasing space was allotted to the library in Bryce. Finally, in 1972, the library moved to its present home in the upper floors of Centennial Hall.

Merasty, Connie

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  • Personne

Connie Merasty is a Swampy Cree and Two-Spirit person from the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Manitoba. She has worked with the Opaskwayak Educational Authority, the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network, and Two Spirited People of Manitoba. Her career has also involved human rights activism, dancing, writing, and acting.

Mordoch, Elaine

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Dr. Elaine Mordoch is a Registered Nurse and an Associate Professor at the University of Manitoba. Her research and teaching involve mental illness, trauma, and the intergenerational/family effects of these conditions, with a focus on the Indigenous community.

Two-Spirited People of Manitoba Inc.

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  • Collectivité
  • 2018 --

Two-Spirited People of Manitoba Inc. is an organization that seeks to improve the quality of life of Two-Spirit (Indigenous lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) people. It is run by a volunteer Board of Directors, and its activities include awareness workshops, community events, and activism. It has existed since 1986, co-founded by Albert McLeod; it was registered as a Non Profit Organization in 2007. It is one of seventeen organizations affiliated with the International Council of Two-Spirit Societies.

University of Winnipeg Foundation

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  • Collectivité
  • 2003-

The University of Winnipeg’s official fundraising began in 1990 with the formation of the Fundraising Office and the “Strengthening the Links” campaign, a part of University Relations or its variants. In 2001, the University conducted a Feasibility Study to determine the possibility of a separately incorporated fundraising body. Using insight gathered through this study, the University of Winnipeg Board of Regents approved the idea of an incorporated private fundraising body in 2002. The University of Winnipeg Foundation was incorporated with charitable tax status 2 August 2002, and publicly announced 1 April 2003. The Foundation was guided by a Board of Directors, to whom a CEO reported along with a contingent of financial, administrative, and donor relations staff. The Foundation took custody of assets, investments, and scholarship and bursary funds from the University, and was given offices in Wesley Hall. Shortly after, the Foundation undertook its University of Winnipeg Campaign, a fundraising and investment effort that would continue until 2011. The campaign was launched publicly in November 2007 as the “A World of Opportunity” Capital Campaign with an initial goal of $70 million, exceeded by the time the campaign came to a close in September 2011 by over $7 million.

The Foundation’s financial support and fundraising has played a major enabling role in the University’s campus expansions and program development since its incorporation. Some notable examples include the restorations to Wesley Hall; the Aboriginal Student Centre; the Canwest Centre for Theatre and Film; and the Richardson College for the Environment and Science Complex. In addition to campus and curriculum, the Foundation also provided over $1 million per year as scholarships and bursaries.

Chair in German-Canadian Studies, University of Winnipeg

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  • Collectivité
  • 1989-

The Chair in German-Canadian Studies was established in 1989 with a grant from the Secretary of State's Program for Canadian Ethnic Studies and with a grant from a group of private philanthropists within the German-Canadian community of Winnipeg. It is affiliated with the History Department at the University of Winnipeg.

Brown, Wilson B.

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  • Personne
  • 1938-2017

Dr. Wilson Bertram Brown was an American economist, professor, and poet who taught at the University of Winnipeg from 1983 until his retirement in 2004.

Born April 12, 1938 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and raised in nearby Livingston, Brown –known to his family as “Bill”-- started writing poetry at age 18, encouraged by his mother, Alberta Doris Brown (nee Ham) and grandmother Rose Ham (nee Wiedmann). He was the first member of his family to attend university, where he wrote “The West Land,” a satire about Brown University’s student residences (1961). Appearing in Brown University’s student newspaper, it was his only published poem until the posthumous release of his collected works, An Economist Writes Poetry, in 2022.

At Brown University (1957-1961), he majored in international relations, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts. During that time, he met fellow student Jennifer S.H. Brown and they married in 1963. That same year, he won a Fulbright fellowship to study the Peruvian economy in Lima, Peru. Brown proceeded to earn a Master of Arts from Cambridge University (Boston, Massachusetts, 1964) and a PhD in international affairs from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (1966).

Brown began his academic career as Assistant Professor of Economics at Colby College in Waterville, Maine (1965-1968), later moving to Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois to take on the position of Associate Professor of Marketing. Brown won another Fulbright grant to study at Chiang Mai University, Thailand in 1977-1978. In 1983, Brown and his family moved to Winnipeg, where he served as Professor of Economics at the University of Winnipeg for the remainder of his career. For a time, he was a visiting scholar at University of Reading in England.

Brown’s professional writings include The New International Economics (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co, 1979), Markets, Organizations and Information (e-book) (Elsevier Science, 2017), and International Economics in the Age of Globalization (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000), which he co-authored with Jan S. Hogendorn. Brown continued to write after retirement. In 2013, two years after moving to Denver, Colorado, he and his wife co-authored Col. William Marsh: Vermont Patriot & Loyalist (Denver: Tiger Rock Press, 2013), a well-received biography of his wife’s ancestor, a United Empire Loyalist.

Family, friends, events, and personal interests play prominent roles in his poetry. These include the death of his infant daughter, Susanna, from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS); the friendship with his college roommate, Richard Kostelanetz; his love of music, nature, and genealogy; and the many summers spent at his wife’s family cottage in Georgian Bay, Ontario.

Brown died in Denver on May 15, 2017, leaving his wife Jennifer, a son, Matthew Harcourt Brown, and granddaughters Katherine Brown and Sophia Brown.

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