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2008-2009 LECTURERS' BIOGRAPHIES Gordon Greene Gordon Greene is a cultural historian with a special interest in the development of music over the centuries. He earned advanced degrees in English literature, philosophy, music history and choral conducting. His teaching positions included the University of Alberta, Western Ontario, Toronto and Wilfrid Laurier where he served as Dean of Music for eleven years. He remains an active teacher of Lifelong Learning groups in Ontario and in Florida in the winter months. Judy Thomson A graduate of the University of Toronto, Judy taught art history and writing at Georgian College for 19 years, and was recognized with the faculty Award for Teaching. In 2004, she was appointed Professor Emeritus of the college. Judy has previously presented lecture series for BALL on European Art History and the History of Canadian Art, and with husband Ken, a series about their year in China. Kenneth Rae Q.C. Kenneth was born, raised, educated and always worked in various parts of Ontario. He was in private law practice from 1966 to 1968, and then as a Crown Attorney until 2007. He was the chief Crown Attorney in Grey County from 1974 to 1999, and has appeared in all levels of trial and appellate courts. Stephen LaCroix Father LaCroix was born in England in 1942 of Canadian parents who returned home after the war. He is a member of the Congregation of St. Basel, a Roman Catholic teaching order, and entered the Basilian Congregation in 1965 , was ordained in 1975. He has studied at three universities. He has been an Associate pastor at St. Mary's church in Owen Sound since 1976, with a ten year break to lecture in Theology at St. Joseph's College, University of Alberta, and was Dean of Bruce-Grey from 1996 to 2006. Douglas Grace L.L.B.,P.Eng Douglas was born in Sudbury, Ontario, and Graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto in 1970, and from Osgood Hall Law School in 1975. He has had a General Law Practice from 1975 to the present and his area of legal practice includes Wills, Estates, and Estate Planning. His outside interests include skiing, skiing, skiing, and tennis. Brian Barrie Brian graduated HONS. English from RMC in 1969. He earned an M.A. in English from U.N.B. in 1973, an LLB from Queens in 1976, and was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1978. He is Certified as a dual Specialist in Civil Litigation and Criminal Litigation by the Law Society of Upper Canada,. and is the former Director and now member of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association (O.T.L.A.) Brian has acted for Deputy Chief Defence Staff at the Somalia Inquiry, has handled three of the seven fatality claims arising out of the Walkerton Water Scandal, and has acted as Defence Counsel on more than thirteen charges. Pamela Newall Pam is an independent consultant in Forensic DNA Interpretation, and President of Newall Consulting Inc. She received her B.Sc. Honour Science, and Masters Embryology from U.of T. , and was a member of the Centre of Forensic Science Biology Section as an analyst and Research Scientist. She has headed the DNA Unit and Research, Development and Confidential Testing for CFS. Pam is qualified in Ontario as an expert witness to give opinion evidence in DNA analysis and interpretation in criminal cases and has been directly responsible for the exoneration and release of seven wrongly accused and imprisoned persons. Gary Draper Gary Draper is an Associate Professor of English at St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo, where he teaches both early and contemporary Canadian Literature. He has been a book reviewer, a librarian, a poetry editor with Brick Books (London, Ontario) and a short-fiction editor with The New Quarterly (Waterloo). As organizer of the St. Jerome's Reading Series, he has had the pleasure of talking with a wide range of contemporary Canadian writers, of whom he is largely in awe. |
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