For me, Fantastic Alumni Day at the University of Waterloo is all about family. It begins with my dad, mom, sister, and me suiting up for the big game in our black and gold apparel.
I was born on a farm in Northern Ontario in 1938. After graduating from high school at the age of eighteen, I taught public school for a year, worked as a laboratory technician in a chromium plant for a year, and saved enough money to register in a very new co-operative engineering degree program at UWaterloo.
I was born a Warrior. For math alumni, it means in a sample size of 36 family members, 42% of my extended family and 100% of my immediate family are Waterloo alumni. For AHS alumni, it means I am unstoppable.
Studio Robazzo is a multi-disciplinary Design Studio offering unique and diverse design services as well as eco-friendly handmade products out of Victoria, BC.
Written by Lucy Rupert (BA ’96)
I started at the University of Waterloo in the fall of 1992 as a young woman who had planned most of her life to become “an artist” and throughout high school had been focused on becoming a concert pianist. Secretly though, I wanted to be a dancer.
I’m Dr. Melina Roberts, I’m a Naturopathic Doctor, author of Building a Healthy Child and founder of Advanced Naturopathic Medical Centre in Calgary.
It’s hard to fathom that ten years have elapsed since my first semester as a wide-eyed teenager.
If you had tried to guess the career for which I was preparing myself while studying at the University of Waterloo, you would have been hard pressed to come up with an answer.
When I left UWaterloo for grad school, I could not have known the road ahead. I was off to make a difference in the lives of individuals and families.
On November 10th, 2016, we held a discussion between local LGBTQ activists and members of the Islamic community in response to the Orlando Nightclub Massacre—the deadliest incidence of violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in U.S. history.