Sydney Wakelin, 17 years old, attends Oakridge S.S. She has been a member of the Byron Believers for 9 years and recently fulfilled a surgical co-op placement at Victoria Hospital. She also worked as a literary facilitator working one on one with 20 children who struggled to read and she assisted in running community programs [...]
Topic: “A Life At Sea” Lillian Kluka grew up on a farm near Blenheim, Ontario. With no marine background, she never expected to spend her working life at sea. A week after finishing high school, she boarded her first cargo vessel and it was love at first sight. She attended Georgian College of Applied Arts [...]
The Women’s Canadian Club, London first established our yearly Emerging Leaders Award for Grade 10 and 11 students in 2015. We are pleased to offer this award to four students whose activities demonstrate leadership in both school and community. The students are chosen by the Civic section of the Student Services Dept. of their respective [...]
Topic: “Hill 70 Memorial Project” Susan Everett is a lifelong educator who began her career as a classroom teacher teaching young adolescents in Northern Ontario. After several years of teaching and leading teacher education seminars, she moved into administrative roles, including vice-principal and principal. Susan worked as a superintendent with the Ministry of Education and [...]
Nicholas Busch has completed a Bachelor of Music Honors in Performance degree from Western University while studying with Tina Yanchus and is currently working on his Masters of Music degree specializing in Collaborative Piano with Dr. John Hess. He has been working as a freelance pianist, band director and accompanist in the Windsor-London area for [...]
Speaker Series on Thursday Dec. 12th, 2019 @ 2pm
Speaker Series on Thursday Jan. 9th, 2020 @ 2pm
Dylan Baker is a sports-minded 13 year-old with a big voice. He plays baseball in the summer and is captain of the London Tecumsehs baseball club bantam team. His interest in sports led him to host his own baseball podcast, along with his dad, and he does Facebook broadcasts for the London Majors. In the [...]
Speaker Series on Thursday Feb. 13th, 2020 @ 2pm
Nourhan Ali is a grade 12 student at Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School. She is a 17 year old teenage girl with a passion to have a positive impact on the community around her. Some of her accomplishments include: a positive messages movement at her school, asking for recycling bins on 1481 Limberlost Road and [...]
