From the beginning, Loran scholars have re-ceived more than just a cheque and a tuition waiver. Our enrichment programs – chiefly the summer program, mentoring, and gatherings of scholars and the wider Loran Awards community – are designed to challenge and inspire schol-ars to seek out and pursue opportunities to serve their communities, to learn and to develop as leaders.

The various opportunities scholars pursued this summer are described on pages two and three of this newsletter. It is clear that the effort volun-teers and staff have put into securing partnerships with intern hosts is paying off. The quality of the public policy internships, in particular, is steadily increasing year after year. One encouraging sign is that several organizations that hosted one scholar are asking for two the following year.

For the first time, the incoming class of 30 Loran scholars participated in a five-day outdoor expe-dition in Algonquin Park. Led by Outward Bound, the expedition focused on leadership, teamwork, and environmental stewardship. The expedition culminated in the scholars’ retreat, where the incoming class met their fellow scholars, partici-pated in workshops, and learned more about the Loran family. We hope that the incoming schol-ars, before they head in different directions to study at our various partner universities, will feel very much a part of the national community of nearly 400 past and present Loran scholars.

A multi-year donation from Nancy and Bob Young has made this outdoor expedition pos-sible. We are very fortunate to have found two people who believe strongly in our approach to fostering leadership in Canada, and who are ea-

ger to invest in a new initiative.

Another new initiative, started this past year, is the senior fellow dinner. In cities with several or more Loran scholars, we are recruiting a long-time volunteer to serve as senior fellow for the scholars in the area. At least annually, the senior fellow will convene a dinner for current schol-ars in the area, as well as their mentors. To date, founding trustees Bob Cluett and Kim Echlin have agreed to serve as senior fellows in Kings-ton and Toronto.

To cap off our 20th anniversary celebrations, a two-day reunion on September 25-27th, 2009 will bring together the network of 275 past Lo-ran scholars. Throughout the alumni weekend, scholars will reconnect with old friends and grapple with a modern version of the question that gave rise to the Loran Awards: What leader-ship for Canada’s future? Several panel discus-sions will explore this question in different do-mains. For example, a panel on cities and culture will discuss how cultural assets in our cities can spur economic and social growth and another panel will explore opportunities to better foster entrepreneurship and innovation in Canada. Founding trustee David Bell, professor emeritus at York University, will deliver the dinner keynote address. The weekend will be paid for and orga-nized by alumni.

Warm regards,

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SUMMER PROGRAMThe summer program is meant to enrich the undergraduate experience for our scholars by encouraging constructive use of summers. Scholars have access to up to $7,500 and extensive networks to create three different summer internships: enterprise, public policy and personal and/or community development. The descriptions below pertain to the 2009 summer.

2008 Loran scholarsAdam Fearnall (Western) worked in a re-mote Aboriginal community in northern Ontario running a literacy camp for Frontier College. (W)

An Tran (Montreal) worked in Egypt on re-search project concerned with reducing violence against women in public spaces in selected Egyptian cities. (FLF)

Alyssa Anderson (Saskatchewan) interned in the office of Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agricul-ture and Agri-Food. (W)

Catherine Gagné (UBC) interned with the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA). (W)

Cheney McWaters (UofT) worked at Anmchara International School in Ghana. (W)

Clara Sellers (UofT) worked at the Joint Centre for Bioethics, helping to research the ethical concerns linked to pandemic man-agement. (YF – HCF)

Connor Bays (McGill) worked as a pub-lic policy intern with the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association in Calgary. (W)

Danny Hertz (Queen’s, pictured at right) interned at the Canadian Embassy in Wash-ington.

Danika Teeple (McMaster) interned with the City of London, conducting research to build upon London’s poverty reduction strat-egy. (RBC)

Diana Wong (Waterloo) interned at Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami in the Health and the Envi-ronment Department. (AB)

Erene Stergiopoulos (UofT) interned at MASS LBP, working on a citizen’s reference panel on health priorities.

Haley Robinson (Queen’s) worked with the Government of Saskatchewan, researching policy options and best practices for dealing with suicide, food security, and children’s health in the La Ronge region. (W)

Humera Jabir (McGill) worked as a journal-ist intern with an international human rights organization, writing articles about the work

of an organization in Kenya that provides pro bono legal help to prison inmates. (W)

Hyla LaPointe (Mount Allison) studied French in Bordeaux, France, with BLS École de Français. (W)

James Di Paolo (McGill) worked at the Ca-nadian Urban Institute.

Jonathan Hann (McGill) interned at the Learning Enrichment Foundation. (CC)

Jonathan Paradis (UBC) interned with the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, learning about microcredit. (W)

Kaiti O’Shaughnessy (McGill) worked in In-dia at a school for children of the Cobbler and Dalit castes. (BMO CM)

Katherine Pelletier (Montreal) interned at the North American Forum on Integration. (BMO CM)

Kolby Olsen (Dalhousie) worked in Tanza-nia, conducting a qualitiative evaluation of an HIV/AIDS prevention and education pro-gram. (BMO)

Louis-Charles Moreau (McGill) worked as a legal intern with the Iraqi Information Office in Egypt. (RBC)

Lynsey Grosfield (McGill) worked at Envi-ronment Canada in Edmonton, researching grasslands and water management. (W)

Maya Fernandez (Guelph) worked with the Mosaic Institute in Toronto. (W)

Melinda Jacobs (UofT) worked at Artscape in Toronto. (W)

Natasha Peters (Ottawa) worked in a re-mote Aboriginal community in northern Ontario running a literacy camp for Frontier College.

Pinky Langat (McGill) volunteered with a Canadian organization in Tanzania, re-searching the dietary needs of the kids in an orphanage. (BMO CM)

Riccardo Ciccarelli (Dalhousie) interned at the Institute for Canadian Citizenship in Toronto.

Sheiry Dhillon (McMaster) interned at the Canadian Centre for International Justice and the Nobel Women’s Initiative. (W)

Siobhan Stewart (McMaster) worked in Ne-pal for Friends of Needy Children, educating families on hygiene and nutrition. (W)

2007 Loran scholarsAnaïs Lacroix (McGill) worked with the Institut du Nouveau Monde in Montreal. (BMOCM)

Aneil Jaswal (UBC) worked on a research project with the World Health Organization in Kenya, studying cell phone intervention to improve HIV/AIDS treatment. (W)

Anja Zeljkovic (Queen’s, pictured on fac-ing page) worked at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, helping to coor-dinate two summer festivals. (W)

Brigette DePape (Ottawa) worked at Om-lanchinski Centar, a youth centre for Chris-tian and Muslim youth in Bosnia.

Cynthia Beaudry (McGill) worked in the Dominican Republic at an orphanage in the community of Consuelo.

David-Martin Milot (McGill) worked in Orissa, India, researching HIV/AIDS policy with the Xavier Institute of Management. (W)

Elizabeth Miazga (McGill) worked in Tanza-nia at the Arusha Hospital for Women and Children. (W)

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Emily Meisner (Dalhousie) worked at the Chil-dren’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario’s (CHEO) Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group. (W)

Jonathan Holmes (Ottawa) worked in Nepal with a Canadian NGO concerned with the maintenance and construction of democratic societies and governments.

Julia Hiscock (Dalhousie) volunteered with Cross Cultural Solutions in Tanzania at a day care and a school.

Kathryn Dingle (McGill) interned with the Mongolia International Capital Corporation in Ulaanbaatar. (W)

Kira Page (McGill) interned in the Market-ing Department of the McGill-Queen’s Press. (BMO CM)

Linda Sun (Queen’s) volunteered at a hospital in Ghana and took an ethnomusicology course through the University of Alberta. (JLM)

Lucas Kruitwagen (McGill) interned at Peter Kiewit & Sons, an engineering firm.

Michael Singh (UBC) created and lead a sum-mer program to teach youth about finance in his hometown of Charlottetown. (W)

Rebecca Gill (Queen’s) worked at the BC Cen-tre for Criminal Justice Research. (S)

Rob Sparrow (Waterloo) worked with Engi-neers Without Borders in Malawi, helping to train local mechanics. (W)

Sara Hassani (Ottawa) worked with the Arab Institute for Human Rights in Tunisia. (BMO CM)

Sarah Briand (Dalhousie) interned at the No-bel Women’s Initiative in Ottawa. (W)

Sophia Lu (Queen’s) interned as a Know Your Client Analyst with BMO Capital Markets. (W)

Stacey Yue (Western) interned at the Executive Council Office, Ontario Cabinet Office. (YF)

Victoria More (Queen’s) interned at North Shore Business Improvement Association, fo-cusing on local small business initiatives in Kamloops.

2006 Loran scholarsAfzal Habib (York) worked as a strategic man-agement consultant for a small telecommuni-cations startup called eTopia. (YF - HCF)

Alain Dupuis (Ottawa) worked with La Federa-tion de la jeunesse franco-ontarienne (FESFO) and with Unicef Canada. (W)

Caroline Crawford (Queen’s) worked at the Business Council of Manitoba and the Gov-ernment of Manitoba. (W)

Christine Wadsworth (Queen’s) interned at the Economic, Environment, Justice and In-tergovernmental Policy Branch of the Ontario Cabinet Office.

Chris Proctor (UBC) worked for the Govern-ment of Manitoba in the Life Sciences Division of the Department of Science, Technology, En-ergy and Mines. (W)

Eloise Ouellet-Decoste (McGill) worked in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, at a community pool that has been recently opened in response to increased drowning of Inuit people due to melting ice. (BMO CM)

Beth Hong (McGill) worked as a Project Out-reach Coordinator with the NDG Food Depot in Montreal. (W)

Jessa McGregor (UBC) worked for Alberta Health Services, which is a recently created amalgamation of 12 regional health districts and mental health boards. (W)

Kathryn Lennon (Waterloo) took a summer course about the Inuit in Pangnirtung, Nunavut and volunteered at a community pool. (BMO CM)

Katie Sardinha (UBC) worked with Inuit Ta-piriit Kanatami, researching linguistics and the impact of language barriers in the north on the provision of health services.

Kyla Brophy (UBC) interned at the Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children’s Rights in Ottawa. (BMO)

Mark Godfrey (UofT) interned with the Foun-dation Assisting Canadian Talent on Record-ings. (CTV)

Mark Ouseley (Queen’s), along with two part-ners, started his own social enterprise in Kings-ton that promotes urban gardening.

Matt Little (Guelph) interned in the Health Policy Division of the Ontario Cabinet Office.

Pat Duncan (Western) spent the first two weeks of his summer in Russia, teaching a business course, and then interned with McKinsey & Company. (W)

Legend

AB = Applebanks Loran scholar; BMO = BMO Loran scholar; BMOCM = BMO Capital Mar-kets Loran scholarr; CC = Craig Casgrain Loran scholar; CTV = CTVglobemedia Loran scholar; FLF = Future Leaders Fund Loran scholar; JLM = John Lindsay Morehead Loran scholar; S = Simmonds Family Loran scholar; W = Weston Loran scholar; YF-HCF = Young Fund Loran scholar; YF - Young Foundation Loran scholar. The Morrison Foundation underwrites Loran Awards for four scholars.

The map shows where scholars were active during the previous four summers, 2005-2008.

OUR SUPPORTERS & BENEFACTORS (as of 15 June 2009) a full listing of donors is on our web site

Principal Supporter ($1,000,000+) Primary supporter ($500,000+) Major Supporter ($150,000+)

Associate Supporters ($75,000+)BMO Financial GroupCTVGlobemediaThe DominionHSBC Bank CanadaKPMG FoundationThe Michael Young Family FoundationRedknee Inc.

Principal Benefactors ($50,000+)Edge ImagingMorrison FoundationRBC FoundationTorys LLP (pro bono legal services)

Primary Benefactors ($25,000+)Avana Capital Corp.Friends of Canadian EducationScotiabank

Major Benefactors ($10,000+)Anonymous foundationBurns Family Fund at The Winnipeg FoundationBurgundy Asset ManagementDeloitte & Touche Foundation CanadaFriesens CorporationFuture Leaders FundGreat-West Life, London Life, and Canada Life

The Henry White Kinnear FoundationJPMorgan ChaseNexenSuncor Energy FoundationWestJet (10 in-kind flights)

Founders’ Circle ($25,000+)James Appleyard & Tamara RebanksCraig CasgrainCathy & John PhillipsRichard RooneyFay & Donald SimmondsLouise & Robert Simmonds

* indicates past Loran scholar

Founders’ Circle ($10K-24,999)AnonymousRobert CluettCraig Pho & Mireille MoorsWendy & Leslie RebanksJoseph SegalFred Wright

Chair’s Circle ($5K-9,999)Wendy M. CecilBryan P. DaviesJoe & Joanne HoussianRod MacLennanWilliam MorneauRudy NorthHeinz & Margaret RiegerLyle Schwartz*Lucas Skoczkowski* & Erica Wong

Chair’s Circle ($2,500-4,999)Jim & Marilyn BurtMary Ann FinnRuth & Douglas GrantFranca Gucciardi* & Alex UsherLO PollardRichard Powers

Executive Director’s Circle ($1,000-2,499)Gail Asper & Michael PatersonJeff Baryshnik*Marjorie & Morley BlanksteinPurdy CrawfordRuth daCosta

Patrick David* & Michael SmithElaine DaviesAlan T. DicksonMichael Douglas*Paul FaheyVirginia FromanRobert Korthals

Don & Rosemarie McCleanKlara Michal*Bill & Betty MorrisRichard PhillipsShayan Rahnama*Reza Satchu & Marion AnnauMark Schaan*

Tara & Rudy Sedlak*Lionel SchipperJordan Velestuk*Julia West & Richard Wernham

Bequest underwrites scholarships for students from New Brunswick

A $500,000 bequest from Ora Adeline Abraham will underwrite awards for young New Brunswickers who demonstrate character, service and leadership potential. The gift, which establishes a Ryan Family Fund within our Tomorrow Fund endowment, is designated to Ryan Family Loran Awards, finalist awards or provincial awards granted to students from New Brunswick.

Ora Abraham (née Ryan) was born 1915, in the Restigouche Valley of Sillarsville, QC. A woman of many gifts and accomplishments, she broke new ground as the first woman to be appointed administrative secretary of the Eastern District of Kiwanis International, where she worked until she retired. She passed away in Victoria, BC, on 29 September 2008.

Making a Planned GiftA bequest or other planned gift in support of the Loran Awards can have an enduring impact over many years and create opportunities for many young Canadians to fully realize their potential. Bequests can underwrite named awards or be otherwise designated.

If you are considering or already intend to make a planned gift in support of the Loran Awards, please contact Chris Cowperthwaite at 416-646-2120, x223.

We would be pleased to provide you and your legal counsel with sample language to ensure that we can accept the gift that you intend to make.

Planned gifts should use the foundation’s legal name “The Canadian Merit Scholarship Foundation” and reference our CRA number: 855132643RR0001.

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