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  • Dr. Wendy Rheault, Class Note

    1970s

    Dr. Wendy Rheault

    – PT’78

    Wendy has retired as president and CEO of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (RFU) in North Chicago, Illinois. RFU ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ ’s Board of Trustees has unanimously voted to confer upon her the title of President Emerita.

    Her decision concludes a remarkable career of nearly 45 years at RFU, where she has served as a faculty member, department chair, dean, vice-president, provost and as the university ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ ’s first woman president since 2019.

    She is a recognized leader in health professions education reform, playing a major role in transforming RFU into a national model for inter-professional health sciences education rooted in collaboration and community impact.

    Wendy is a distinguished fellow of the National Academies of Practice and a diplomate of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She served as a visiting professor at the Mayo Clinic, on two committees of the National Academy of Medicine, and as a member of the boards of the Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County and Lake County Partners.

  • Donna McNeely, Class Note

    1960s

    Donna McNeely

    – Artsci’68

    Donna would like to share that this group has had an annual reunion since their graduation from Queen ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ ’s in 1967–69. They are seven couples who are still alive and married! Photographer Nancy “U of T" kindly took their picture when they were gathered together in Spencerville, Ont., at Sheila and Barry Fawcett's farm Sept. 16–18, 2025. Front row (L–R): Sheila Fawcett (Artsci’68, MEd’93), David Baldock (Artsci’67), Bob Zacour (Artsci’66, PHE’67), Donna, Bonnie Zacour, and Barry Fawcett (Sc’67, Ed’70). Back row (L–R): Bruce McNeely (Artsci’67), Jamie Johnston (Artsci’68, MA’69), Joy Johnston (Artsci66), Bobby Rathbun (Med’69), Roger Rathbun (Artsci’68), Maureen McCay (Artsci’67) and Gord McCay (Sc’67, Law’70).

  • Dr. Jill Price, Class Notes

    2020s

    Dr. Jill Price

    – PhD’24

    Interdisciplinary artist Dr. Jill Price continues her research into UN/making as a creative act within her current exhibition, From There to Here: Walking for Tomorrow, which will be shown at the Art Gallery of Mississauga in May of 2026. For the exhibition, Price used detritus collected from a year of walking and cleaning beaches to create a multi-media installation of sound, video, assemblage, museological display, and text-based art. The intent of the exhibit is to draw attention to the variety of trash that threatens living bodies of land and water. The exhibition was shown at the MacLaren Art Centre, June-October 2025, located in Barrie, Ont. 

    An image taken of the exhibition From There to Here: Walking for Tomorrow at the MacLaren Art Centre, 2025. Jill Price acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council.

  • 2000s

    Ani Colekessian

    – Artsci’07

    Ani received the Jean Royce Fellowship for the research and writing of her debut novel. Blending historical research and creative storytelling, the novel explores how everyday people survive and enable systemic violence. Drawing on her own family history in both the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust, the novel will try to humanize these events through the lens of ordinary lives while addressing questions of complicity, survival, and the social conditions that allow violence to take root. For nearly 20 years, Ani has fought for human rights in Canada and around the world. She recently left her senior leadership and communications role at Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights to focus on the project full time.  

  • 2020s

    Dr. Jill Price 

    – PhD’24

    Interdisciplinary artist Dr. Jill Price continues her research into UN/making as a creative act within her current exhibition, From There to Here: Walking for Tomorrow, which will be shown at the Art Gallery of Mississauga in May of 2026. For the exhibition, Price used detritus collected from a year of walking and cleaning beaches to create a multi-media installation of sound, video, assemblage, museological display, and text-based art. The intent of the exhibit is to draw attention to the variety of trash that threatens living bodies of land and water. The exhibition was shown at the MacLaren Art Centre, June–October 2025, located in Barry, Ont. 

  • 1980s

    Robert Burgman

    – Sc’85

    Robert has been promoted to director of engineering for Ashland, a global specialty chemicals company. He is responsible for managing the company's capital expenditures and overseeing a department that executes large construction projects internationally.