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Burris Devanney, BA59, LLD04

Graduation Year: 1959

Burris Devanney continues his work in Africa, most recently helping to implement a unique "community mobilization" program in rural villages in Ghana and Uganda. Burris has also just edited and co-authored his second book, "Always a Work in Progress," a comprehensive analysis of social democratic policy-making in the Nova Scotia NDP since the party's founding in 1962.

Dr. Brian Flemming

Graduation Year: 1959

Dr. Brian Flemming BSc’59, LLD’14 was recently appointed to the Council of Canadian Academics (CCA) Expert Panel on the Transportation Needs of an Aging Population.
An international lawyer and a public policy advisor, he is one of Canada’s leading experts on transportation policy and the international law of the sea. He is a also a member of the Order of Canada and has two honorary degrees.