{"id":45001,"date":"2017-06-01T13:20:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T17:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=45001"},"modified":"2017-06-05T10:13:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T14:13:55","slug":"93-year-old-history-buff-among-students-to-walk-across-brock-convocation-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/06\/93-year-old-history-buff-among-students-to-walk-across-brock-convocation-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"93-year-old history buff among grads set to cross Brock Convocation stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With more than 3,500 students set to convocate next week at Brock University, there are plenty of inspiring stories of determination and hard work in the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Nine Spring Convocation ceremonies will take place in Ian Beddis Gymnasium over five days from Monday, June 5 to Friday, June 9. Ceremonies will take place at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. each day, except for Friday, when only a morning ceremony will be held.<\/p>\n<p>In all, 3,121 undergrad students and 433 grad students will receive degrees. Honorary doctorates will be presented to Maureen Sabia, Chairman of the Board for Canadian Tire Corporation and David Kanatawakhon-Maracle, an instructor of Mohawk language.<\/p>\n<p>Among those 3,554 graduands are 93 student-athletes in 24 different programs who have carefully balanced their time between studying and representing the Brock Badgers on 37 varsity or club sports teams.<\/p>\n<p>All of the Convocation ceremonies are free to attend and no tickets are required. Parking is free for guests throughout the week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Live and on-demand videos of all of this year&#8217;s convocation ceremonies will be available free online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/livestream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\">brocku.ca\/livestream<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Below is a schedule of this year\u2019s convocation ceremonies along with some of the highlight stories:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>Monday, June 5, 10 a.m. \u2014 Faculty of Social Sciences<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first convocation speaker of 2017, Psychology Professor Tim Murphy is the Social Sciences recipient of the Faculty Teaching Award.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Monday, June 5, 2:30 p.m. \u2014 Faculty of Social Sciences<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Devon Ainslie is one of 12 recipients of the 2016-17 Spirit of Brock Awards, given to one undergrad and one graduate student from each faculty who stand out as academic and community leaders. Ainslie has been a Brock ambassador and organizer for numerous events on and off campus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Tuesday, June 6, 10 a.m. \u2014 Faculty of Education<\/u><\/p>\n<p><u><\/u><u>Tuesday, June 6, 2:30 p.m. \u2014 Faculty of Education<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lauren Caldwell will become the Faculty of Education\u2019s first-ever BEd Specialist graduate as she completes the additional qualification program created in 2011. The professional degree program for educators allows for in-depth research and study in areas of teaching, learning and curriculum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u><\/u><u>Wednesday, June 7, 10 a.m. \u2014 Faculty of Applied Health Sciences<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lindsay Cline will receive her doctorate after completing award-winning research focusing on the power of positive body image<em>.<\/em> Cline is the recipient of the Governor General\u2019s Gold Medal for receiving a 97 per cent average, the highest mark of all 433 graduate students convocating this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u><\/u><u>Wednesday, June 7, 2:30 p.m. \u2014 Faculty of Applied Health Sciences<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jonah Mondloch was seven years old when his grandfather, Charles Burke, started taking classes at Brock. Fifteen years later, the two will graduate together \u2014 Jonah with a degree in Kinesiology and Charles with a general degree in Humanities. The two will be hooded by Brock Professor Cathy Mondloch, Jonah\u2019s mother and Charles\u2019 daughter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Thursday, June 8, 10 a.m. \u2014 Goodman School of Business<\/u><\/p>\n<p><u><\/u><u>Thursday, June 8, 2:30 p.m. \u2014 Goodman School of Business<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maureen Sabia, Chairman of the Board for Canadian Tire Corporation, who grew up in St. Catharines, will receive an honorary degree and give the Convocation address. Sabia, the daughter of high-profile social activist Laura Sabia who received her own honorary degree from Brock in 1979, is one of Canada\u2019s most powerful female business leaders.<\/li>\n<li>Business graduate Jessica Menchella will receive the Dean\u2019s Medal Award for the highest overall average in Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, but she\u2019s not the first in her family to receive the honour. Menchella is following in the footsteps of her brother, Jordan, who also received the prestigious honour when he graduated from the same program in 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u><\/u><u>Friday, June 9, 10 a.m. \u2014 Faculties of Humanities and Mathematics and Science <\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Kanatawakhon-Maracle, who has made it his life\u2019s work to teach the Mohawk language, will receive an honorary doctorate and deliver the Convocation address Friday. Kanatawakhon\u2019s texts have become the foundational tools for those learning indigenous languages.<\/li>\n<li>Robin Guard, 93, and Allan Edgington, 74, have spent nearly a century watching history unravel before their eyes \u2014 and the past few years closely studying it. The friends will convocate together, completing the Master of Arts in History program, of which Guard will become the oldest-ever graduate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more than 3,500 students set to convocate next week at Brock University, there are plenty of inspiring stories of determination and hard work in the crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":41548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,36,39,40,7,3319,4052,188,55,37,41,1,4,38,4665],"tags":[4437,5394,5393,156,5387,5389,5392,5390,5391,5353,5388],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45023,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45001\/revisions\/45023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}