Annual dinner first official event for new chancellor Charles Weaselhead

trevor.kenney — Thu, 16 May 2019 16:05:36 +0000

The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge’s annual Chancellor’s Dinner is of special significance this year as it will mark the first official event for Charles Weaselhead, the U of L’s first Indigenous chancellor.

The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge's first Indigenous chancellor, Charles Weaselhead.

Weaselhead’s historic appointment by the U of L Senate took place earlier this spring and he will be installed officially as chancellor during Spring Convocation Ceremony I by Alberta Lieutenant Governor Lois Mitchell. He will then preside over the Chancellor’s Dinner later that evening, Thursday, May 30, at which a number of students, faculty and community members will be recognized.

Among those who will be celebrated are the winners of the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Volunteer Award, the recipient of the Speaker Research Award, the Distinguished Teaching Award recipient, the President’s Award for Service Excellence winners, honorary degree recipients and student medal winners from across the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ.

This year, the Blood Tribe Department of Health has joined the event as the Student Excellence Sponsor. Their involvement is making it possible for student award winners from each Faculty, as well as the recipients of the Governor General’s Gold and Silver medals, to attend and be recognized for their significant accomplishments.

Other sponsors for the event include Bruce and Donna Tait (table wine sponsors), Kurt Schlachter and Jason VandenHoek (champagne reception sponsor), Pink Tie Events and LA Chefs.

Limited tickets for the 2019 Chancellor’s Dinner (Thursday, May 30, 2019, 6 p.m. at the Coast Lethbridge Hotel) are available until May 21 and can be purchased by visiting the Convocation website: uleth.ca/convocation/chancellors-dinner.

Imogen Pohl stars as a volunteer

caroline.zentner — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 21:37:19 +0000

Volunteering seems to be in Imogen Pohl’s blood. At the age of four, she joined Girl Guides, following in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother, who, as a Girl Guide in England, had met Lady Baden-Powell, a key figure in the Girl Guide movement.

Now, as a second-year ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge student, she’s still volunteering with the organization — and numerous others. Her passion for and commitment to volunteering has put her in very esteemed company as one of six Albertans to win a 2017 Stars of Alberta Volunteer Award.

Lt.-Gov. Lois Mitchell, left, and Alberta's Minister of Culture and Tourism Ricardo Miranda, right, pose for a photo with Imogen Pohl at the awards ceremony. Photo courtesy of the Government of Alberta.

Pohl received the award on Dec. 5 in Edmonton at a ceremony where Lt.-Gov. Lois Mitchell and Ricardo Miranda, Alberta’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, handed out the awards.

“This award is for all of Alberta so I thought it would go to someone in Edmonton or Calgary who’s done something bigger,” says Pohl. “When I got the letter from the Honourable Ricardo Miranda, I was really excited. It was really neat meeting the Lt.-Gov.; she’s super cool.”

Pohl’s volunteering journey began in Grande Prairie, where she found Girl Guides gave her a safe place to explore all kinds of activities from camping to astrology.

“I did all of the levels and the badges and the top section awards,” she says. “When I was nine, I started being a ‘girl assistant’ and I worked with the Sparks (ages five and six). I continued working with Sparks and, when I was 18, I became a head guider for a group of Sparks.”

Pohl’s involvement in Girl Guides led to additional volunteer opportunities. She has worked on several international projects such as the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, Stop the Violence and Girl Effect, which gave her the chance to travel to Switzerland, England and Mexico. Through Guides, she also volunteers in the community by selling poppies for the Lethbridge Legion and packing Christmas hampers with the Lethbridge Food Bank. As a U of L student, she volunteers as a member of the Kappa Beta Gamma sorority. Pohl says volunteering is a way for her to pay it forward.

“As a child, there were hundreds and hundreds of hours put into developing me as a person, so I volunteer as a way of starting to put in my hours so I can help develop the kids who are going to be the next volunteers,” she says. “It’s very valuable to me because I get to see the results.”

At the U of L, Pohl is pursuing an undergraduate degree with a double major in neuroscience and psychology. She hopes to become a clinical psychologist and has her eyes set on furthering her studies at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Calgary.

“My family has been affected by schizophrenia. Lots of people study how the brain works but I don’t feel like there are enough people studying how the brain doesn’t work,” she says. “I feel that if we can understand how the brain isn’t working correctly then we can easily go back and say what should be going on.”

Six provincial Stars of Alberta Volunteer Awards are presented annually in connection with International Volunteer Day, a global initiative established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1985. Two awards in each category — youth, adult and senior — are presented.

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