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Susan Juby MPub'03
Photograph by Mark Mushet
Susan Juby (MPub’03 ) wins the B.C. Book Prize’s Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literary Prize for Miss Smithers, the follow-up to her wildly funny first novel, Alice, I Think. Miss Smithers is also shortlisted for the
Stephen Leacock medal for Humour and the White
Pine Award. Juby’s third book in the series, Alice MacLeod, Realist at Last, is in bookstores now. Juby
recently signed a deal for a TV series on the books. She also teaches writing to field staff of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Health Organization through the Commonwealth of Learning. <www.susanjuby.com>
1965 They Came to Stay
Craig Asmundson (BSc’72, MSc’80), Barry Beyerstein (BA’68), and Lindsay Meredith (BA’69, MA’74, PhD’81), all in the same year at Burnaby South High School, come to SFU as charter students. So does Rolf Mathewes (BSc’69), from Princess Margaret Secondary School in Surrey. Forty years later they are still here. Each leaves briefly for graduate school and work, but soon comes back. Asmundson is a lab instructor in kinesiology, Beyerstein is a professor in psychology, Meredith is a professor in business, and Mathewes is associate dean of science.
Remember When?
We hope you do. We’re looking for your recollections. We want to hear from everyone with fond
memories (or not so fond). Go to Share Your SFU Memories at <www.sfu.ca/40th_anniversary>
1969 A Lasting Legacy
Students Shirley Chan (BA’71), Tony Westman (BA’70), and Peter Morley (BA’68, MA’69) take protest off campus and become leaders in the successful fight to save Chinatown and keep freeways out of Vancouver. Chan is a founder of the civic group, Strathcona Property Owners and Tenants Association (SPOTA), that took on City Hall and won.
Zombie Alert!
Watch for Fido in spring 2006. The $10-million flick is the biggest independent movie ever produced in western Canada. Writer-director Andrew Currie (BA’93) and producer Trent Carlson (BA’93) set their film in a 1950s universe where the dead have risen from their graves as flesh-eating zombies. Critics are calling it a “blend of contemporary social and political commentary, dry satire and heart.
Alumni Deaths
Former Port Moody mayor Rick Marusyk (BA’85) and retired Abbotsford police department deputy chief Paul Tinsley (PDP’76, BA’77, MA’88) both died in June. Marusyk was mayor from 1996 to 1999; Tinsley finished his doctorate in 2000 and began teaching full-time in the criminology department of the University College of the Fraser Valley last fall.
1978 A Year of Adventure
David Hopkins (MASc’81) and Stewart Jones (BA’81) are on the extreme edge of adventuring. Hopkins leads a British expedition to the 26,645-foot Himalayan peak Nanda Devi, while Jones survives the tragic Fastnet Irish Sea sail race in which at least 15 die. aq. aq
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