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  • 1960s

    Ruben (Butch) Nelson

    – Arts’61, member of Theology’64

    Winter 2021

    Ruben is still using the extraordinary education he received at Queen’s. He has earned an international reputation among those who undertake futures studies in the emerging field of strategic foresight. He is the only Canadian who is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, the World Business Academy, and the Meridian Institute on Governance, Change, and the Future. He is also a Johnson Award recipient – an honour bestowed by the Queen’s Alumni Branch in Calgary. You will find some of his recent videos and his paper on Civilizational Paradigm Change: The Modern Industrial Case if you Google “Ruben Nelson civilization.” After 20 years in Ottawa, he and his partner, Heather, now live in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta at Lac des Arcs.

  • Selfie of Jim Fraser and Rossana Raffo.

    1960s

    Jim Fraser and Rossana Raffo

    – Arts’61

    Winter 2021

    Jim and Rossana spent July until September on the Lake Champlain islands in northern Vermont; seven months in Lima (Miraflores), Peru, from November through May; and two months (coming and going) on Fripp Island, South Carolina. Jim has been retired since 2015 after 48 years teaching Spanish and coaching hockey, cross country, and track at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio.

  • 1950s

    Venetia Elliott Crawford

    – Artsci’59

    Winter 2021

    Venetia is still president of the Pontiac Archives in Shawville, Que. Her son, Allan Crawford, owns Canadian Wilderness Adventures in Whistler, B.C. Her daughter teaches in Blackburn Hamlet, outside Ottawa; she is married to Scott Collins and has two children, Sage, and Riley. Sage is helping Venetia write about prehistoric stone structures found in Venetia’s neighbourhood.

  • 2020s

    Sherin Varghese

    – MBA'21

    Fall 2021

    Congratulations to Sherin, who married her lovely wife in Dubai, UAE., on July 3rd, 2021. Due to the pandemic, they could not have a lot of people join them. However, they were grateful to have close family and friends join them on their special day.

    A special shout-out to Sherin’s MBA team and cohort, who sent video messages for their special day.

    Additionally, Sherin has started her new role at TD as a Graduate Leadership Program (GLP) manager. In Sherin’s own words, “2021 has been an exciting and blessed year so far.”

  • 2020s

    Emma Wilson

    – Artsci'19, MSc'21

    Fall 2021

    Emma, Artsci'19, MSc'21, is very excited to announce that the women’s health research project that she started during her graduate studies at Queen’s University is being published. Her paper, “Knowledge and Use of Cannabis in Pregnancy: An Ontario Public Health Needs Assessment,” will be available in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada very soon. She feels she could not have done it without the support of the incredible staff of the MSc program in anatomical science and Dr. Graeme Smith and Jessica Pudwell at KHSC.

  • 2020s

    Mason Kohn

    – Artsci

    Fall 2021

    Mason is enrolled in the Single J.D. program at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law.