Catching up on members’ news
Anthology
When a call went out for writers to contribute to a COVID-19 anthology shortly after the virus arrived in Canada the following current and former Media Club club members responded: Ainalem Tebeje, Susan Hallett, Kita Szpak, Jayne Simms Dalmotas, Cynthia Chinkwisky (aka Cee), plus our 2020 Melba Lent Woelflé award winner Katelin Belliveau and June Coxon. COVID-19 Chronicles, containing items written by a total of 39 writers was published in November 2020.
The book idea was spearheaded by Jagjeet Sharma, founder of the Ethnic Media Forum and our club co-produced the book with that group. Layout of the book was done by OIW club member Bob Barclay. Jagjeet was interviewed about the anthology for an article that appeared in the Ottawa Citizen shortly after it was published. A second COVID anthology, produced by Jagjeet and the Ethnic Media Forum will be published shortly and it contains contributions by Media Club members Ainalem Tebeje and June Coxon.
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Lorraine Lafreniere
Lorraine Lafreniere, CEO, Coaching Association of Canada, was one of those interviewed on CBC radio, on June 28, 2021, as part of a story about sexual abuse in high school sports. A former Media Club member, she was president of the Ottawa branch in 1999-2001
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Dawn Monroe – mini-biographies of Media Club members
Out-of-town club member, Dawn Monroe, now has over 3,100 mini biographies on her Famous Canadian Women website. They include 63 Canadian Women’s Press Club/Media Club members. They are:
- Kate Aitkin, Doris Anderson, Gladys Arnold, Alice Asselin,
- Gertrude Balmer Watt, Robertine Barry, Arlyone Barrette Corkum, Jeanne Benoit, Elsie Janet Bill Gardner,
- Lily Changfoot, Kathleen Coleman, Doris Clark Ludwig, Irene Currie Love, Thelma Craig,
- Mary Adelaide Dawson, Lotta Dempsey, Clara Dennis, Grace Dennison, Rosaleen Dickson, Marjory Douglas Weir,
- Isobel Ecclestone Mackay,
- Muriel Flexman, Barbara Florio Graham,
- Elsie Janet Bell Gardner, Antoinette Gerin Lajoie, Anne Marie Gleason. Margaret Graham, Miriam Green Ellis,
- E. Cora Hind, Maude Hill-Beaton,Nora Mary Holland, Simma Holt, Dorothy Haworth,, Katherine Hughes,
- Edith Josie,
- Valerie Knowles,
- Cecile Laberge, Renaude Lapointe, Lily Laverock, Eunice Laycraft, Genevieve Elsie Alice Lipsyt Skinner,
- Madge MacBeth, Hughes McCorquodale, Kit McDermott, Emilie Musgrove Boswell, Ruth McKenzie, Edith McConnell Stewart-Murray, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Margaret “Ma” Murray,
- Borgny Pearson, Jean Portugal,
- Joy Roberts-White, Mattie Rotenberg,
- Rosa Shaw,
- Kate Simpson Hayes, Mairuth Sarsfield, Edna Staebler,
- Dorothy Turcotte,
- Léonise Valois,
- Margaret Weiss, Florence Whyard
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Qais Ghanem
Club member Qais Ghanem was featured in a column in the June 2020 issue of Vistas community newspaper.
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Shailendra Verma
Club member Shailendra Verma was profiled in the National Arts Centre newsletter, Your Legacy, noting his commitment to and support for the arts.
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Shirley Van Dusen
Club member Shirley Van Dusen received two honorary awards in 2020 one from the Ottawa School of Art and another from the City of Ottawa