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Donors, and Friends of
St. Clair College
WINTER 2014
St. Clair College Receives $1 Million Donation
From the Toldo Foundation. Building Named in
Anthony P. Toldo’s Honour
St. Clair College is pleased to announce that its premier Health
Science Centre has been named in honour of a generous
benefactor. The Anthony P. Toldo Centre for Applied Health
Sciences was unveiled on October 3rd, 2014 at the College’s
south campus. Anthony P. Toldo, who passed away 5 years
ago is remembered and cherished for his entrepreneurship
and philanthropy in Windsor Essex. Anthony Toldo had an
un-wavering passion for health care initiatives within the
community, and his legacy
has been honored on a
building that educates and
trains the best in future
health care specialists.
The passion for pursing exceptional health care in the local
region moves forward with the next generation of the Toldo
Family. Tony Toldo, the son to Anthony Toldo, proudly spoke
about the significance of their families support towards St.
Clair College. “My Father had a passion for excellence in
health care in our community. With the naming of the
Anthony P. Toldo Center for Applied Health Sciences, his
unwavering support will live on in the success the graduates
have in their future
careers as the health
care professional here
and throughout the
world”.
“This gift from the Toldo
Foundation is a clear
sign that a community
leader has recognized
that the combined talent
of an amazing staff at
this college is making a
difference as the leading
educator in the province of
Ontario,” said College president Dr. John Strasser.
St. Clair College graciously embraces the
generous donation made
to its capital campaign,
‘Foundation for Life’
by the Toldo Family.
The $100 million dollar capital campaign is
in its final fundraising
phase of $10 million dollars. The Foundation for Life campaign represents the three pillars of the college which are,
entrepreneurship & innovation, academic excellence and
student life. The campaign began in 2007 under the leadership of Dr. John Strasser. Dr. Strasser’s foresight is to sculpt
the college into a destination learning institution offering
pertinent programs and hands-on work experience to the
student body. Since 2007 St. Clair College has experienced
vital growth in student enrollment given the college’s new
leading-edge learning facilities, high-end technological
teaching equipment, additional advanced programs, and
stimulating student life. The Foundation for Life campaign
is the building blocks of St. Clair College’s future. To date
St. Clair College has graduated over 85,000 students since
its inception.
The donation to the college will support its reputation as
the number one college in the province for the education
and training of health care professionals. In response to
the growing demand in the health care sector, the College
built a 100,000 square-foot innovative teaching facility
that provides education for more than 2,400 students in 13
programs. The Centre produces elite graduates in a wide
variety of disciplines including Nursing, Practical Nursing,
Dental Hygiene, Dental Assisting, Medical Laboratory
Science, Medical Laboratory Technician Paramedic,
Pharmacy Technician, Personal Support Worker,
Sonography, Respiratory Therapy and Cardiovascular
Technology.
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What’s Inside
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St. Clair Receives $1
Million Donation - Toldo
Foundation
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SIM Mannequins at
Thames Campus
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Saints Athletics:
A Championship Year
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Winning Graphic Design
Free Swimming
Free Skating
Golf Tournament
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Family Fun Day
Surprise Proposal
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Winners of Hackathon
Alumni Family
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Annual Giving
Campaign Donation
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Dinner Shows
Windsor SportsPlex
Animal Health Tech.
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New Cutting Edge SIM Mannequins
Arrive at Thames Campus
ALUMNI BOARD 2014
PRESIDENT
Serge Bertucci
St. Clair College Thames Campus
is thrilled to announce that it
has received two new Simulation
(SIM) mannequins to enhance
training for students in the
Nursing and Practical Nursing
programs. The total value of the
equipment is $45,000.
VP FINANCE
EXECUTIVE VP
Tom Malanfant
Kim Davis
DIRECTORS
Jody Cloutier
Don France
Colin Lehoux
Lindsay Lovecky
Dina Misur
Derek Renaud
Allison Rusling-Bigelow
This new, cutting edge technology
is part of the Mary Uniac
Health Sciences Education
Centre development. The centre opened in September 2013.
EX-OFFICIO
Dr. John Strasser
Two important pieces of simulation equipment are now in place. Noelle is a SIM adult
birthing mother and she comes with an in vitro fetus as well as a newborn baby. In addition,
the Centre has received Hal, a 5 year old pediatric SIM. Both of these new installations will
provide students with tremendous hands-on learning which helps build their confidence
when dealing with emergency situations, and ultimately produces a better prepared graduate
for the important work they will do in our health care sector.
VICE PRESIDENT COLLEGE AND
COMMUNITY RELATIONS
John Fairley
ALUMNI RELATIONS MANAGER
Jody Maskery
Noelle replaces a 15 year old birthing simulator and is an important addition to the program.
SIM guru and Faculty member Cindy Pallister is thrilled to have both pieces of important
technology added to the Centre. “It is critical that Nursing students have state-of-the-art
equipment to support the learning process. This will allow us to simulate multiple scenarios
in a clinical setting which will provide a more comprehensive set of skills for our students.”
The computer aided technology allows Faculty to train students in various scenarios
including monitoring vital signs, fetal heart monitoring and OB simulations and more
complex emergency procedures including breech birth and preeclampsia.
ALUMNI OFFICE
Room 273 - 2nd Floor
St. Clair College South Campus
2000 Talbot Road West
Jody Maskery
ALUMNI RELATIONS MANAGER
Alumni can purchase Spitfire tickets at a
special rate for the following
Alumni and Friends Spitfire Games:
Saturday, January 17, 2015
@ 7pm; vs. Kitchener
FOUNDATION OFFICE
519-972-2383
Sunday, February 1, 2015
@ 2 pm; vs. Belleville
Room 336 - 3rd Floor
St. Clair College South Campus
2000 Talbot Road West
Thursday, March 5, 2015
@ 7 pm; vs. Sault Ste. Marie
2 Tickets in the St. Clair College Alumni Suite
Thursday, March 5, 2015 @ 7pm
Phone: 519-972-2727 ext 4708
Fax: 519-972-2733
E-mail: jmaskery@stclaircollege.ca
The alumni will be hosting their
Suite Night on
Thursday, March 5, 2015 @ 7pm
Call 519-972-2747 for Ticket Information
vs. Sault Ste. Marie
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John Fairley
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Phone: 519-972-2762
Fax: 519-972-2733
E-mail: jfairley@stclaircollege.ca
Saints Athletics A Championship Year
Men’s 2014 Champions
What an amazing year it has been for the St.
Clair College Saints! The Men’s Baseball team
has won their 2nd consecutive OUA/OCAA
Championship by defeating Brock University.
The Saints topped Brock in the first game
3-2 and needed the extra game in the double
knockout format to win the Championship by
a score of 7-5.
St. Clair College’s Eric Cunningham (LaSalle,
ON) is the 2014 Ontario Colleges Athletic
Association (OCAA) Men’s Baseball Player of
the Year. Cunningham was third in league
batting at 0.458 and in hits with 27. He was
also fourth with 21 runs scored. Cunningham
led the league with 16 stolen bases and also
contributed 12 RBI.
As a catcher, Cunningham caught a pitching
staff with a league low ERA of 1.44 over 2 ½
runs better than the next best team. Notably,
Cunningham and many outstanding St. Clair
College Saints received awards. Dave Cooper
received the OCAA Men’s Baseball Coach of the
Year and Kyle Breitner received the Pitcher of
the Year award.
2014 OCAA Champions
Women’s Softball Awards
The Saints Women’s Softball team won gold
with a 7-5 victory over Conestoga (Kitchener)
claiming its first crown since 2009. This was the
fourth OCAA title for St. Clair’s Women’s Softball
team since the program’s inception in 2002.
Windsor’s Alexa Georgiou was named MVP
for the Championship Tournament pitching
complete games in all three wins for the
Saints. She was also the leading hitter for the
tournament finishing with a 0.727 batting
average and was tops for the weekend with 6
RBIs and a homerun. St. Clair centre fielder
Lisa Ternosky (Windsor) was also named to
the Championship All-Star Team batting 0.556
overall.
2014 OCAA Champions
Women’s Varsity Golf
The St. Clair College Women’s Varsity Golf
team clinched gold for the second time in team
history. Their strong play in the final round of
the OCAA Golf Championships finished with 42
strokes ahead of the silver medal contenders.
The Championships were hosted by Fleming
College at Wildfire Golf Club near Peterborough.
Ashley Unrau (St. Thomas)
led the way for the team
and picked up an individual
bronze medal. Her three day
total was 234 (+18) with
rounds of 77, 77, and 80. She
finished 12 strokes behind
the gold medal winner.
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The St. Clair team three day total was 495.
Three players played for the women each day,
with the two best scores counting. Laura Martin
(Chatham) had a three day total of 261 (+45)
for 6th place and Victoria Ducharme (Windsor)
had a three day total of 268 (+52) which
landed her 7th place. The team is coached
by head coach Kevin Corriveau and assistant
coach Heather MacKenzie.
2014 OCAA Champions
Women’s Cross Country
The St. Clair College Women’s Cross Country
Team ran to a team Silver Medal at the OCAA
Provincial Championship hosted by Seneca
College in King City and qualified for the CCAA
National Championships in Calgary, AB.
Natalie Omahen (Tecumseh) and Amanda
Matthews (Windsor) ran to 10th and 11th spots
just a second apart, over the 5km course in a
field of 86 runners. Omahen crossed the line
in 22:32 with Matthews right behind at 22:33.
Other finishers for the Saints were Paiton Del
Monte (23:46, 26th place), Patricia Battocchio
(23:49, 29th place), Donia Binder (24:20, 36th
place), and Morgan Jones (25:10, 40th place).
Graphic Design Student Has The Winning Combination
St. Clair College is thrilled to announce that Sydney Taylor
has brought home a Silver Medal in Graphic Design from the
National Skills competition held recently at the International
Centre, in Toronto!
The competition was judged based on technical proficiency
and creative treatment. “My internship helped me immensely
in the competition, along with everything I learned in my
program. The entire experience has been tremendous.”
On the heels of her Gold Medal win at the Ontario
Technological Skills Competition in Waterloo in May, Taylor
toughed out the grueling two day competition to capture the
Silver medal.
Earlier in the year, Taylor was also the winner of the Shores
of Erie Wine Festival poster design contest. “I have been very
fortunate to have the chance to showcase my capabilities as
a graphic designer, in great part to the opportunities provided
through the Graphic Design program at the College
“I was thrilled to hear my name called,” says Taylor.
“The scope of the project was very demanding with just 6
hours each day to complete two very involved advertising
campaigns. Once you developed your creative treatment there
was no time to change it up.”
St. Clair College Thames Alumni Fall Festival Family Day
Our First Annual St. Clair College Alumni Fall Festival
Family Day was a great success. Hundreds of alumni
and friends gathered on Saturday, October 4, 2014 at
the Thamesville Corn Maize to enjoy a day filled with
intricate corn mazes, games, pumpkin picking and great
food sponsored by the Alumni Association.
Check out our website for details on the
2015 Chatham fall event
www.stclairalumni.com
FREE COMMUNITY EVENTS FOR ALUMNI & FRIENDS
Sponsored by the St. Clair Alumni Association
WINDSOR
Free Community Swims
Sundays 1pm - 3pm
till April 2015
CHATHAM
This Winter Season
Free Family Skate in Chatham
at the Thames Campus Arena
Sunday, January 4th, 2015
Sunday, February 1st, 2015
Saturday, March 1st, 2015
from 1:00 - 2:15pm
Save The Date For the Next Alumni and Friends
Golf Tournament
Congratulations to the 2014 Alumni & Friends
Golf Tournament Winners.
The Animal Health Technician 1974
graduates are planning a reunion for
Saturday, May 16, 2015
at St. Clair College.
If you are interested in attending,
please contact Jody Maskery,
Alumni Relations Manager at
(519) 972-2727 ext. 4708 or
by email: jmaskery@stclaircollege.ca
Get your foursome ready to join us on July 25,
2015 at Kingsville Golf and Country Club.
2014 Golf tournament winners: Rick Bissonnette,
Tom Boroski, Dan Boynton, Tom Friesen
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2014 Golf tournament winners: Rick Bissonnette,
Surprise Proposal!
Become Part of Magnet!
Alysha McNamee got more
than a diploma during June
Convocation ceremonies at St.
Clair College — her boyfriend
surprised her with a wedding
proposal.
Hundreds of students, teachers
and guests jumped to their feet,
cheering loudly when she gave
her answer: Yes.
With her diploma in hand, McNamee posed for a photo when she noticed her
boyfriend, Vincent Poudrier, walking towards her from the other side of the
stage.
Her heart sank.
“Will you literally make me the luckiest man in the world?” Poudrier said,
before getting down on one knee. She said “yes”.
Poudrier, 23, of Niagara Falls, said he was shaking, nervous and sick to his
stomach, but that wasn’t going to stop him from popping the question to his
girlfriend of five years.
“There are no words to describe what she truly means to me,” Poudrier said.
“I can’t see myself being without her.”
Poudrier, along with McNamee’s oldest sister Tabatha, contacted St. Clair
College requesting help with the proposal. The school was 100 per cent behind
them.
“This has never happened before at St. Clair College,” said Ann Hetherington,
director of marketing at St. Clair College. Congratulations, we wish you all
the best.
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Winners of the 2014 Family Fun Day
Family of the Year Contest…
The Hughes Family
Stop by the photo booth in 2015 and see if
you can be the next Family of the Year!
Our 7th Annual Family Fun Day, in August was a wonderful success!
Over two thousand people came by the college to enjoy the one-of-a-kind Alumni and Friends Event.
We enjoyed the clowns, dog show, kid’s activities, live entertainment, classic car show, barbecue, magicians, a meet
& greet with some of the Windsor Spitfire Hockey Players, free swimming and Windsor’s largest garage sale!
We will be hosting our 8th Annual Family Fun Day Sunday, August 16th, 2015.
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Two St. Clair Students Win Top Prize at HackWE 3.0 Hackathon
Just like the witches in “The Wizard of Oz”, there are good hackers and
bad hackers in the world. St. Clair’s Devin Pavao is a very, very good
hacker.
Among that throng was Devin Pavao, a second-year student in St. Clair’s
Internet Applications and Web Development program. It had already
been a pretty eventful year for Devin. In May, he won a silver medal in
the Website Development category of the
annual Ontario Skills competition (also
staged in Waterloo).
In the mainstream media, the term “hacking”
most often appears in its negative sense: “to
circumvent security and break into a server
or website with malicious intent”. But, in the
world of electronic professionals, “hacking”
means the process of creativity: the inventionfrom-scratch of a computer program, or the
clever improvement of an existing one.
“Hardware and software companies, app
developers, website companies - all of the
biggest companies in the industry were
there,” Devin said. “Most of them were
taking resumes on the spot. You could even
submit your resume to a central registry,
and it would be distributed for internship
openings, or even just to have your resume
critiqued.”
It was the latter process that was on display at
the University of Waterloo on the September
19-21 weekend where they hosted 1,000
computer programming and app-development
innovators - most of them students - at the
first annual “Hack The North Hackathon”.
In the wider realm, Hack The North really
served to put Canada on the “app-map”.
Left to Right: Devin Pavao with teammates “That world, professionally, is still pretty
After the fact, it was praised as probably the Robert Nguyen of California and Paula Barcante
much dominated by Silicon Valley in
largest gathering of its technological sort in of British Columbia.
the U.S.,” Devin said. “A well-organized
Canadian history.
event of this size, with so much corporate
Approximately a third of the 1,000 attendees were from the United States,
backing and involvement, made a lot of people realize that Canada is
and others flew in from South Korea, China, Brazil and a number of
interested in high-tech after all, and really has a great deal of expertise to
other overseas nations.
offer. “I think a lot of the international students who attended may start
looking at Canadian schools to pursue their educations.” Says Devin.
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Grand Opening of Windsor - Sportsplex
St. Clair College celebrated the grand opening of the new SportsPlex at the
Windsor Campus in September 2014. This state-of-the-art facility features a triple
gymnasium, 10,000 sq. ft. fitness centre, elevated walking track, workout studios,
12 team rooms, classrooms and more! It is located directly across from the student
residence so it is ideal for students to stop in before or after classes.
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