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Alumnus helps Nova Scotia student find his way to Mount Allison When he was in Grade 9, Pleasantville, NS resident Alex Whynot cared more about basketball than he did schoolwork. He spent his summers landscaping for people in his neighbourhood. That year his father had a brain tumour removed, altering Whynot’s perspective on his future. He then set his sights on a path to medical school. “My focus shifted at that point to wanting to help people,” he says. One of the neighbours he worked for was Mount Allison alumnus Don Hopkins (’60). As Whynot moved through high school, Hopkins began talking to him about Mount Allison. “We would have lunch and he would tell me that Mount Allison is where I needed to be and that even though Mount Allison is a smaller school, the opportunities would be amazing.” Hopkins took Whynot to visit Mount Allison, where he was introduced to many members of the Mount Allison community. 00 / Summer 2011 / RECORD Don Hopkins (’60) Alex Whynot (’14) “It was such a personal entry point. I left feeling really happy. I didn’t even pursue any of the other universities I had been considering.” Now in his second year of the biochemistry honours program, Whynot is involved in undergraduate research, is a residence assistant at Campbell Hall, a Leadership Mentor, a Relay for Life captain for Campbell Hall, a Shinerama volunteer, and a member of the Students’ Administrative Council (SAC). He is also President of Health Care Outreach – a club he helped create. The program is a support package developed through Leadership Mount Allison that will be delivered to brain tumour patients in order to mentally support them and their families. The group is working directly with a neurosurgeon in Halifax to make the patient care initiative happen. It is expected to be administered to 250 patients at the QEII Hospital this year. “I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else and I give Don full credit for helping me find my way to Mount Allison.” Know someone considering university? Make a referral at www.mta.ca/referral
Mount Allison is serious about its commitment to providing an international university experience. Whether it’s in the form of academic exchange or study abroad programs, internships with corporate or nongovernmental organizations, course-based travel, independent study, or volunteer roles in Canada or abroad — these experiences provide a context for students to better understand themselves and their place in the world. Mount Allison currently has exchange programs and study abroad opportunities for students in 15 countries around the world. These international experiences are transformative and life changing. Students form friendships, learn foreign language skills, and gain cultural immersion opportunities that encourage them to become globally-minded citizens. “Spending a year on exchange in Japan was definitely the most challenging, but also the most exciting and rewarding experience of my life. Living in a country where I had a limited grasp of the language and culture was certainly difficult, but there was no shortage of people willing to help me out,” says recent biology graduate Rachael Buell (’11). Most importantly, students who study abroad say it changed the way they think and they returned with an expansive view of the world and the desire to make a difference. Fran and Edmund Clark believe in the power of international JumP uPdate Supporting student mobility student mobility. Earlier this year they created the Fran and Edmund Clark Mobility Fund, valued at $200,000, to assist deserving students who lack the necessary financial means to participate in an international experience. In a campus-wide survey on internationalization, more than 30 per cent of students expressed a keen interest in studying abroad. Fewer than 10 per cent actually applied for a study abroad or exchange program, and fewer than two per cent ended up going. With a one-year exchange program costing as much as $20,000 and an eight-week study abroad program approximately $6,000, those students who wanted to go, but did not, said cost was the deterring factor. Over the past three years approximately 200 students have participated in one of these opportunities. Mount Allison has ambitious plans to strengthen the program and more than double that number in the coming years. “This generous gift by Fran and Edmund Clark will assist us toward our goal of ensuring that any student wishing to study overseas, either through an exchange or other international opportunity, will not be barred from participating simply because of their financial situation. We wish to thank the Clarks for recognizing the importance of internationalization to our students’ education,” says Mount Allison vice-President, International and Student Affairs, Ron Byrne. JUMP CAMPAIGN GOAL: $86,000,000 JUMP CAMPAIGN TOTAL: $85,100,000 As of October 1, 2011 / 27
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