Hall of Presidents

There카지노 게임 컬렉션�s a Kingston corporation that employs 800 people, has an annual budget in the neighbourhood of $16 million, and gets a new CEO every year.

Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Alma Mater Society (AMS), the oldest student association in Canada, is unique among student governments in its almost complete reliance on undergrads to run its affairs, including in the role of president, who is elected annually.

Given that the society has been around since 1858, it adds up to one heckuva lot of former AMS presidents (152 at last count), many of them still knocking about in post-Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s pursuits: the president and CEO of CARE Canada, for example, or the retired hospital chaplain. And let카지노 게임 컬렉션�s not forget the beekeeper who fronts a popular Japanese pop band.

Early last year, Stewart Goodings (Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션�62) and Jane Matthews Glenn (Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션�63, Law카지노 게임 컬렉션�66) 카지노 게임 컬렉션� back-to-back AMS presidents in 1961카지노 게임 컬렉션�62 and 1962카지노 게임 컬렉션�63 카지노 게임 컬렉션� began to wonder about all the presidents who preceded and succeeded them. They wondered if they, like themselves, had been significantly impacted by their experience.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�When I thought back to my time at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s, everything started there,카지노 게임 컬렉션� recalls Mr. Goodings.

Through much of the 카지노 게임 컬렉션�90s, Mr. Goodings served on the university카지노 게임 컬렉션�s board of trustees, and met with each of the AMS presidents during those years. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Every one of them was impressive 카지노 게임 컬렉션� committed, exciting, dynamic 카지노 게임 컬렉션� and it was a great thrill to think that these young people were kind of like I was, except better.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Mr. Goodings and Prof. Glenn began tracking down former AMS execs willing to share their experiences in student government. Sixteen other presidents agreed to respond to a survey about their tenures. The earliest is Prof. Iain Gow (Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션�55, MA카지노 게임 컬렉션�58), elected president in 1954, and the latest is Jennifer Li (Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션�17) who served during the 2017카지노 게임 컬렉션�18 academic year.

Respondents were asked about their challenges, accomplishments, and relations with the university카지노 게임 컬렉션�s administration during their terms. They were additionally asked whether the experience affected their lives after Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s.

What Mr. Goodings and Prof. Glenn discovered was a lot of similar experiences and a lot more that had changed with the tenor of the times. If you look at yearbooks from the early 카지노 게임 컬렉션�50s, Prof. Iain Gow notes in his response, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�one sees that it was almost entirely a white class of graduates each year, mostly men, but with some excellent women students and leaders.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

In 1951, says Prof. Gow, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노 게임 컬렉션�was more like a village than anything else: there were no fraternities or sororities, no alcohol to be had on the campus, and no men카지노 게임 컬렉션�s residence.카지노 게임 컬렉션� Enrolment was just over 2,000, and the AMS Council met once a month. These days, the AMS serves almost 18,000 students; runs pubs, a coffee house, and the Tricolour Outlet, and funds entire student-led offices to deal with everything from academic and municipal affairs to social justice and human rights.

In the early 카지노 게임 컬렉션�60s, says Mr. Goodings, being president 카지노 게임 컬렉션�was hectic and interesting and memorable, but nowadays it means leading a medium-sized business, with scores of employees, significant programs, and extensive involvement with the administration on a range of student issues.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Some of those issues haven카지노 게임 컬렉션�t changed much through the years. Relations between the student body and the larger Kingston community 카지노 게임 컬렉션� town and gown issues 카지노 게임 컬렉션� have had remarkably similar flashpoints, the survey shows.

In September 1953, writes Prof. Gow, a 카지노 게임 컬렉션�freshman riot카지노 게임 컬렉션� prompted the AMS to adopt a policy of assessing damages from such melees to the organizing body (in this case the arts and engineering faculties), rather than the student body as a whole. In the 1959카지노 게임 컬렉션�60 academic year, Bruce Alexander remembers accompanying longtime university chaplain Marshall Laverty to the police station to negotiate the release of a freshman who had 카지노 게임 컬렉션�commandeered an OPP cruiser and driven it around town before abandoning it in a field beside Morris Hall, with its siren and emergency lights on.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

During Stewart Goodings카지노 게임 컬렉션� tenure (1961카지노 게임 컬렉션�62), the AMS had to negotiate with CN Rail after students damaged railway cars taking them to a Gaels카지노 게임 컬렉션�-Varsity Blues football game in Toronto. Rev. John Lougheed (AMS president 1984카지노 게임 컬렉션�85) says he had to negotiate with the vice-principal, mayor, and chief of police after a record-setting street party attracted more than 1,000 raucous students, some of whom might have faced eviction without the AMS카지노 게임 컬렉션�s intervention.

When Prof. Jane Matthews Glenn became president in 1962, she was only the fourth woman to hold the post, according to Mr. Goodings카지노 게임 컬렉션� research. The first was Dorothy Wardle, chosen in 1941, two years into the Second World War. There have been just 12 more women presidents since Prof. Glenn카지노 게임 컬렉션�s tenure.

Prof. Glenn credits her time in student government with broadening her horizons. It led to her participation in a summer seminar in Pakistan sponsored by World 카지노게임사이트 Service of Canada. The opportunity required participants to return to their university in the year following the seminar. Prof. Glenn enrolled in the Faculty of Law, thinking she would stay for a year and then find work as a legal secretary. Turns out she liked the law. Called to the bar in B.C., she earned a doctorate from the Université de Strasbourg and spent her career teaching law at McGill 카지노게임사이트.

Though women had played senior roles in the AMS by the time of Prof. Glenn카지노 게임 컬렉션�s tenure, there were still gender-based divisions on campus. The first liberalization of gender divisions at campus residences, for instance, didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t come until the 1969카지노 게임 컬렉션�70 presidency of Ross McGregor (Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션�70). The looser rules meant longer visiting hours and eventually open visitation at segregated residences, McGregor writes.

In the late 카지노 게임 컬렉션�80s, women카지노 게임 컬렉션�s issues on campus took on a darker colour. Prof. Emily Moore (Sci카지노 게임 컬렉션�92) was an 카지노 게임 컬렉션�enthusiastic student organizer카지노 게임 컬렉션� with the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Engineering Society in the fall of 1989, when a group of male students responded to an AMS 카지노 게임 컬렉션�No Means No카지노 게임 컬렉션� campaign with misogynist slogans plastered on residence windows. Weeks later, the Montreal Massacre happened.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I literally became a feminist on Dec. 14, 1989,카지노 게임 컬렉션� recalls Prof. Moore. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�When I was approached to run for [AMS] president that spring, my newfound feminism got me to make the commitment.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Debate over response to the 카지노 게임 컬렉션�No Means No카지노 게임 컬렉션� incident dominated the campaign, she recalls. During her term, the AMS was forced to defend its non-academic discipline system from a lawyer hired by the parents of the offending students.

Prof. Moore notes that in her year, the AMS made a conscious effort to hire students of colour in its senior salaried positions. A few years later, in the 1994카지노 게임 컬렉션�95 academic year, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s students elected their first minority woman as AMS president: Taslim Pirmohamed Tagore (Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션�95). Her experience suggests the campus still had a ways to go in accepting diversity.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I카지노 게임 컬렉션� experienced a lot of pushback, racism, misogyny, and challenge to my leadership (in big and small ways) simply because I didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t fit the AMS presidential mould,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Ms. Tagore writes in her survey response. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�As you may know, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s was a culture of assimilation. We all joined in to sing the Oil Thigh, to attend football games, homecoming. [There were] purple engineers, and a school culture that was very white and European,카지노 게임 컬렉션� she recalls.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�So much of what really mattered and defined me had to go 카지노 게임 컬렉션�underground카지노 게임 컬렉션� at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s so that I could behave as the majority white student population did,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Ms. Tagore recalls.

Similar doubts about the university카지노 게임 컬렉션�s diversity almost convinced the AMS카지노 게임 컬렉션�s first Black president, Gregory Frankson (Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션�97, Ed카지노 게임 컬렉션�99), not to run for the 1996카지노 게임 컬렉션�97 term. He had been asked to run on a ticket with Annette Paul (Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션�98, MPA카지노 게임 컬렉션�16) as VP of 카지노게임사이트 Affairs, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�but I didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t think it made much sense for two people of colour to run for AMS executive on the same ticket. I feared that 1990s-era Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t ready to vote for it.카지노 게임 컬렉션� History proved him wrong.

Mr. Frankson also chaired the Robert Sutherland Task Force, which recommended the commemoration of Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션�s (and Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s) first Black university graduate. Sutherland matriculated in the early 1850s, practised law, and left his entire estate to his alma mater, the largest bequest Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s had ever received. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�It led to two of the proudest days of my life,카지노 게임 컬렉션� writes Mr. Frankson, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�the official unveiling of the Robert Sutherland Room in the JDUC in 1998, and the ceremony to rededicate the Policy Studies Building as Robert Sutherland Hall in October 2009.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Despite such advances, racism was still an issue for the AMS카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 2010카지노 게임 컬렉션�11 president, Safiah Chowdhury (Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션�11). As a visibly Muslim student, she had felt the sting of prejudice and decided to run, in part, because of it. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�My year in the AMS was the most difficult year of my life thus far,카지노 게임 컬렉션� she recalls.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I was personally targeted weekly, from letters to the editor attacking my intellect to anonymous violent and misogynistic text messages to my cellphone. As a 21-year-old, it was a lot to deal with.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Ms. Chowdhury says her interaction with Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s administration was much more civil. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�We worked well together in transferring power from the administration to the student government for the Student Life Centre,카지노 게임 컬렉션� she writes. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�I also found them to be more amenable to anti-racism and equity measures.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

In general, the respondents reported cordial and even genial relations with the administration. Hugh Christie (Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션�78, Law카지노 게임 컬렉션�81), AMS president for 1977카지노 게임 컬렉션�78, recalls regular poker games with the VP of Finance. Tyler Turnbull (Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션�06) writes of becoming close with Board of Trustees chair John Rae during his 2004카지노 게임 컬렉션�05 term and being influenced by Mr. Rae to enter into what has become a very successful career in advertising.

Maynard Plant (Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션�98) remembers starting his 1997카지노 게임 컬렉션�98 term as part of a group that occupied the principal카지노 게임 컬렉션�s office to protest tuition increases. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�But in time,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he writes, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�we developed a great working partnership.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Mr. Chuck Edwards (Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션�65, MSc카지노 게임 컬렉션�69), however, recalls a different experience during his abbreviated AMS term in 1968. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�I found the administration카지노 게임 컬렉션�s attitude to the AMS paternalistic,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he writes. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�This was the late 1960s when the world was changing rapidly and the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s administration was resistant to any change.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Mr. Edwards was the first AMS president in Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s modern history to be directly elected by the student body. Previously, the president had been chosen by AMS representatives from each faculty. The change was opposed by Mr. Edwards카지노 게임 컬렉션� AMS predecessor, George Carson (MD카지노 게임 컬렉션�68), who felt direct election would favour candidates from the larger faculties.

Mr. Edwards, however, writes that 카지노 게임 컬렉션�choosing the AMS president in a secret conclave카지노 게임 컬렉션� was an example of how 카지노 게임 컬렉션�the AMS was disconnected from the student body.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

According to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s historian Duncan McDowall (Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트, 1691카지노 게임 컬렉션�2004: Testing Tradition), Mr. Edwards and his running mate, Jan Lichty, reflected the emergence of student radicalism on campuses in the late 카지노 게임 컬렉션�60s. They participated in a 카지노 게임 컬렉션�tent-in카지노 게임 컬렉션� on the lawn of the principal카지노 게임 컬렉션�s home to protest a crisis in student housing and pushed the AMS to support striking workers in the Kingston community and provide buses to out-of-town Vietnam war protests. Mr. Edwards카지노 게임 컬렉션� agenda got pushback from other members of the AMS.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�Cut off from the capacity to pursue the changes I thought necessary and had promised in my presidential campaign, I resigned,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Mr. Edwards writes. This led to a second election and the shortened presidency of David Pakrul (BSc카지노 게임 컬렉션�69).

The following year, Ross McGregor pursued a less provocative course towards some of the same goals Mr. Edwards championed, including a student-owned residence, the first student pub, and the formal incorporation of the AMS.

Mr. McGregor writes that in this turbulent period from 1968 to 1970 카지노 게임 컬렉션�[Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s] moved from an in loco parentis environment where the administration managed or influenced almost everything, including students and student [government],카지노 게임 컬렉션� to 카지노 게임 컬렉션�an era of much stronger student engagement and self-determination.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Barbara Grantham (BAH카지노 게임 컬렉션�83) recalls her time as being 카지노 게임 컬렉션�much tougher than I expected: to run and have responsibilities for a large student society, a corporation that employed full- and part-time staff, etc.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Christine Fisher (BSc카지노 게임 컬렉션�05), president during the 2003카지노 게임 컬렉션�04 year, says the job카지노 게임 컬렉션�s notoriety made it even harder. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�I was at the centre of a lot of public attention and had to face the negative scrutiny,카지노 게임 컬렉션� writes Ms. Fisher. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�The pressure and stress were hard for 21-year-old me 카지노 게임 컬렉션� frankly, I think the job would be hard for the current 39-year-old me!카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Jennifer Li, president for the 2017카지노 게임 컬렉션�18 academic year, notes a sad facelessness that accompanies the office. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�It meant people forgot that when they make critical Facebook statuses and comments, there was a human behind the screen reading it all and taking the hits.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Despite this, the experience was invaluable, Ms. Li writes, a sentiment echoed by many other respondents. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�My year as AMS president laid a strong foundation for skills that I use every day at work 카지노 게임 컬렉션� leadership, written and oral communication, strategic planning, stakeholder management, community organization, and project management.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

카지노 게임 컬렉션�It sounds crazy to say this,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Ms. Li writes, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�but being AMS president was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that I do not take for granted. It shaped a big part of who I am and what I chose to do after Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s.카지노 게임 컬렉션�