Profiles

We are always pleased to hear about the diverse experiences and accomplishments of our alumni and to share these stories with you.

Self-insured

By Renée Hartleib | fall 2014

A buzz of energy flows through the maze of cubicles at the TD Insurance office on Bayers Road in Halifax. Employees wearing headsets talk with customers on the phone while recognition awards suspended from the ceiling spin slowly over their desks. This is clearly a goal-driven work environment, and just one of the reasons two of their employees—both recent Saint Mary’s University grads—enjoy…

Niches

By Maroon & White | fall 2014

by Ali Bryan BComm’00

Where do you fit in a crazy world?  By former Dean of Education at Saint Mary’s University, Dr. Michael R. MacMillan (Dr. Mac). Following an exploration of (love), the fundamental focus of the book is discovering what (work) you do best and harmonizing it with how you earn your living.

Married Women and the Law. Coverture in England and the Common Law World

By Maroon & White | fall 2014

Married Women and the Law. Coverture in England and the Common Law World 

Edited by Saint Mary’s University Professor of History Tim Stretton and Dalhousie University professor Krista J. Kesselring.

The Blue Tattoo

By Maroon & White | fall 2014

by Steve Laffoley MAH’91, BA’87
 
The Blue Tattoo tells the sweeping story of the lives caught up in the unbelievable devastation of the Halifax Explosion.

Roost

By Maroon & White | fall 2014

by Ali Bryan BComm’00

Roost is a novel that explores family issues It is an accessible, humorous book that also tackles serious issues such as the death of a parent, divorce, and caring for an aging parent.

The Power of Children: The Construction of Christian Families in the Greco-Roman World

By Maroon & White | fall 2014

by Margaret Y. MacDonald BA’83 

This book examines Christian teaching about children in the context of family life in the Roman world. MacDonald is currently serving as the Dean of Arts at Saint Mary’s University.

Power of the Best

By Maroon & White | spring 2014

Explores how Canada’s leading companies have excelled in the Canadian and global marketplace. Their management teams lead the way in technology, sustainability, branding and marketing, mergers and acquisitions, funding growth, succession planning, leadership, globalization, attracting and retaining talent, and in productivity. Throughout this book, senior business executives explain in their own…

David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel

By Maroon & White | spring 2014

David Lodge is a much-loved novelist and influential literary critic. Examining his career from his earliest publications in the late 1950s to his more recent works, David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel identifies Lodge’s central place within the canon of twentieth-century British literature. J. Russell Perkin argues that liberalism is the defining feature of Lodge’s identity…

The Coffee Shop Meditations

By Maroon & White | spring 2014

After two bouts of homelessness, being in abusive relationships and environments, beating a gambling addiction and being diagnosed with a mood disorder, Fergus decided it was time for a change and to take charge of his own life. Through his experiences, he decided to put his perspective of the world around us into words and this eventually became what is known as The Coffee Shop Meditations.

The Human Fragment

By Maroon & White | spring 2014

“A photographic essay that reads like a real-life film noir.”

(Brooklyn Arts Press, NYC)