More than three decades after leaving to make his mark on the world, an alumnus of Waterloo Engineering has been formally honoured by his Ontario hometown for his athletic achievements.
A mural of Taly Williams (BASc ’94, civil engineering), who played for the Waterloo Warriors before suiting up in the Canadian Football League (CFL), was unveiled recently on the wall of the local arena along with other successful athletes from Haliburton.
An effort to recognize Williams and his sister, Lesley Tashlin, who represented Canada as a sprinter and a hurdler at the 1996 Olympics, was spearheaded by a class of Grade 7 and 8 students at J. Douglas Hodgson Elementary School who discovered they had been overlooked and set out to right a wrong.
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A mural of Taly Williams was recently unveiled on an arena wall in his hometown of Haliburton, Ontario.