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Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients
The Distinguished Alumni Award was founded in 2002 in order to highlight the acheivements made by Brocks finest graduates. Receipients are outstanding memebrs of their field, contributing members of their community and tole models for current students and members of the Brock Community.
2011 and 2012 awards were not awarded to allow for the Alumni of Distinction Award celebrations.
2010 Recipient Mr. Roelof Makken, BA ’85, Badmin ’85
Nearly 25 years after graduating from Brock, Roelof Makken is the Brock University alumni Association’s 2010 Disitinguished Alumni Award Winner. MORE…
2009 Recipient Dr. Mary Guerrero-Austrom, BA ’81, BEd ’80
Cr. Mary Guerriero Austrom, graduated from Brock University in 1981 with a BA (first-class honours) in Psychology and Italian, and has gone on to become a world-renowned expert, advocate, researcher, educator and auther in the field of Alzheimer’s Disease. MORE…
2008 Recipient Dr. Yousef Haj-Ahmad, BSc ’80, MSc ’82
As a pioneer in the biotech industry, Dr. Haj-ahmad believes passionately that the 21st Century belongs to biotechnology. MORE…
2006 and 2007 awards were not awarded to allow for the Thirty From the Past Thirty Award celebrations.
2005 Receipient, Dr. Karl Kaiser, BSc ’74, LLB ’94
Dr. Karl Kaiser, one of Canada’s pre-eminent winemakers who introduced icewine to oenophiles around the globe, as a founder of Inniskillin Wines is the recipient of the 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award. MORE…
2004 Receipient, Dr. Andy Panko, BSc ’75
Panko has earned prominence for his exceptional contributions to his profession on a national level. MORE…
2003 Recipient, Mr. Rob Neill, BSc ’75
He and his partners successfully manage the largest accounting firm based in the Niagara Region, Durward Jones Barkwell & Compnay LLP. MORE…
He and his partners successfully manage the largest accounting firm based in the Niagara Region, Durward Jones Barkwell & Compnay LLP. MORE…
2002 Recipient, Dr. Ian Beddis, BSc ’68, LLB ’00
For more than 20 years, Dr. Beddis has been a leader in Calgary’s investment industry. He has served on many national industry boards and has held the position of Chairman of the Alberta Stock Exchange and Chairman of the Alberta District of the Investment Dealers Association. MORE…