Table of contents
- Council
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Members
- AOE - Members - Audrey McFarlane
- AOE - Members - Honourable Claudette Tardif
- AOE - Members - James Angus Watt
- AOE - Members - James Carter
- AOE - Members - Joe Lukacs
- AOE - Members - Max Foran
- AOE - Members - Stella Thompson
- AOE - Members - The Right Honourable Stephen J. Harper
- AOE - Members - Rosella Bjornson
- AOE - Members - Gary W. Bowie Ph.D., LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Wayne Chiu CM, ICD.D
- AOE - Members - Anne Fanning Binder CM, MD, FRCPC
- AOE - Members - Barry Bultz PhD
- AOE - Members - k.d. lang OC
- AOE - Members - David Bissett LLB, CFA, BBA (Hon), LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - David Manz PhD, P.Eng
- AOE - Members - J. Stephens Allan FCA, ICD.D
- AOE - Members - Linda Hughes LLD (Hon), D.Litt (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Jack C. Donald BBA (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Marie L. Gordon K.C.
- AOE - Members - Sheldon Kennedy OC, OM, LLD
- AOE - Members - Solomon J. Rolingher QC, JD
- AOE - Members – Sharon Dawn Carry MCS, B.App.Sc. (Hon), BBA (Hon), B.Ed.
- AOE - Members - Allan Wachowich QC, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dennis M. Erker MSM, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Douglas Eaglesham CD
- AOE - Members - Leroy Little Bear JD, DAS (Hon), LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Rev. James L. Holland OMI
- AOE - Members - Tony Cashman CD
- AOE - Members - F. Morris Flewwelling CM, BA (Hon), B.Ed.
- AOE - Members - Fil Fraser CM, DLitt (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Michael Massey B.Mus, Dip.V.
- AOE - Members - Ralph Young MSM, P.Eng., LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Robert Hironaka PhD, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Roger Gibbins PhD, FRSC LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Steve E. Hrudey D.Sc., FRSC, FCAE, FSRA, FEC, FGC (Hon), P.Eng, D.Sc (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Colin Glassco MBA
- AOE - Members - Douglas O. Goss QC
- AOE - Members - Patricia Blocksom K.C.
- AOE - Members - Paulette Patterson
- AOE - Members - R.C. (Reg) Basken
- AOE - Members - Roger C. Jackson OC, PhD, D.Sc. (Hon), LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Stan G.P. Grad Eng, B.Sc. (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Vivian Manasc AAA, MBA, FRAIC
- AOE - Members - David P. Werklund LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Philip John Currie PhD, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - George W. Govier OC ScD PEng FCIM LLD (Hon) ScD (Hon) D.Eng (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Irving Kipnes B.Sc. LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Jacob H. Masliyah OC, PhD, FRSC, FCAE, FCIC, P.Eng., NAE, DSc. (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Julia Hamilton B.Ed., BA
- AOE - Members - Martin Cohos B.Arch., LLD (Hon), P.Eng. (Applied, Hon), FRAIC
- AOE - Members - Shirley Penner M.Mus, ARCT
- AOE - Members - Bill Yuill LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Bruce W. Hogle CM
- AOE - Members - Frits Pannekoek PhD, D.Litt. et Phil. (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Griffin Lloyd PEng, PGeol
- AOE - Members - James A. Marshall
- AOE - Members - Ralph Philip Klein
- AOE - Members - Shirzad Ahmed BA, LLB
- AOE - Members - Wilton Littlechild IPC, CM, FP, QC, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Clare Drake BPE, B.Ed., LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Ernest Preston Manning CC
- AOE - Members - HCol (Ret’d) Frederick P. Mannix OC, CD, LLD (Hon), Bcomm
- AOE - Members - Henry J. Bergen CM, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Hon. A. Anne McLellan PC, OC, LLM, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Janice Eisenhauer BA (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Janice McTighe
- AOE - Members - Walter Paszkowski
- AOE - Members - Catherine M. Roozen BComm LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Helen Hays CM, MD, FCFP, CCFP
- AOE - Members - Eric Rajah
- AOE - Members - Her Honour, the Honourable Lois Mitchell
- AOE - Members - Louise Annette Miller CM, MBA
- AOE - Members - Lt. General Donald C. Laubman DFC, CD
- AOE - Members - Reinhard Mühlenfeld
- AOE - Members - Ron Southern CC, CBE, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - William H. Bowes
- AOE - Members - Allan P. Markin B.Sc., P.Eng., LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Aritha van Herk MA
- AOE - Members - Dr. Howard V. Gimbel M.D., F.R.C.S.C.
- AOE - Members - Evelyn L. Buckley RN, DD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Robert. C. Westbury CM PhD LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Sister Helen Hengel M Ed.
- AOE - Members - William H. Wilson OMM CStJ CD
- AOE - Members - William J. Mooney B.Sc.
- AOE - Members - Bernadette McDonald BA, BM
- AOE - Members - Chief Victor S. Buffalo
- AOE - Members - Dr. David W. Schindler OC, D.Phil., FRSC, FRS
- AOE - Members - Reza Nasseri P.Eng.
- AOE - Members - Sister Rosaleen Zdunich B.Ed, M. Sc.
- AOE Members - Dr. Norbert R. Morgenstern D.Sc., F.R.S.C.
- AOE - Former chancellor - The Honourable Gordon Towers
- AOE - Members - Daryl K. (Doc) Seaman OC, B.Sc., LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - David W. Leonard Ph.D.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Joseph H. Shoctor O.C., K.C., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Kenneth Sauer CM, CD, Ed.D, BAPE, BA (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Robert D. Steadward OC, PhD, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Alex Janvier CM, RCA, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Barrie Strafford FRCPSC, KSS, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Raymond Lemieux O.C., D.Sc., F.R.S
- AOE - Members - Gary William (Wilcox) McPherson CM, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - JR Shaw OC, BA, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - The Honourable Peter Lougheed C.C., P.C., K.C.
- AOE - Members - Douglas H. Mitchell CM, QC, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Arthur T. Jenkyns C.M.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Maxwell William Ward O.C., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Harold (Hal) Wyatt CM, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Thomas J. Walsh CM, QC, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. C. Fred Bentley PhD
- AOE - Members - Margaret E. Southern L.V.O., C.M., B.P.E.
- AOE - Members - Patrick R. Nixon CM
- AOE - Members - Dr. James H. Gray CM, LLD
- AOE - Members - The Honourable Ronald Martland C.C., K.C., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Alexander Johnston M.Sc., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - The Right Honourable Charles Joseph Clark PC, MP
- AOE - Members - Barbara Poole
- AOE - Members - Dr. Mary Percy Jackson O.C., Ch.B., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Alvin Gerald Libin OC, LLD
- AOE - Members - Dr. Chester A. Ronning OC, CC
- AOE - Members - Dr. John Carter Callaghan O.C., F.R.C.S.C.
- AOE - Members - Dr. David S. R. Leighton
- AOE - Members - Leonard Kane Haney C.M.
- AOE - Members - M. Ann McCaig B.Ed., LLD
- AOE - Former chancellor - The Honourable Helen Hunley
- AOE - Members - Dr. Walter Hugh Johns O.C.
- AOE - Members - Eric Patrick Newell OC, M.Sc., LLD
- AOE - Members - Herbert Thomas Hargrave
- AOE - Members - Bryan Perkins B.Sc.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Esther Robins C.M., R.N., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Winnifred M. Stewart O.C., R.N., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Senator The Honourable Ernest Charles Manning CC, PC
- AOE - Members - The Honourable Dr. J. W. Grant MacEwan O.C., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Dr. G. Richard A. Rice C.M., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - John Poole
- AOE - Members - Ron Sakamoto LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Thomas Benjamin Banks O.C., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Katie Ohe RCA, MFA (Hon), LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Robert Bertram Church PhD
- AOE - Members - Dr. William A. Cochrane OC, MD, FRCPC, FACP, DABP, D.Sc. (Hon), LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Malcolm S. Sissons BA
- AOE - Members - Bertha (Berdie) Fowler
- AOE - Members - Muriel Stanley Venne CM, BA (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Robert W. Chapman Sr.
- AOE - Members - Donald F. Mazankowski PC, OC, LLD
- AOE - Members - Dr. Gerald Warren Hankins MD, B.Sc., FRCS, FRCSC
- AOE - Members - Frances E. Wright BA, BJ, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Richard F. Haskayne OC, MD, PhD, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Audrey Attril Morrice LLD
- AOE - Members - Beckie Scott OC, MSM, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Margaret (Marmie) Perkins Hess OC, BA, DFA (Hon) LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. Steven Kyaw Htut Aung MD, PHD, OMD, FAAFP
- AOE - Members - Harry Hole B.Sc., P.Eng., FCAE, CD, LL.D (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Bonnie D. DuPont M.Ed., F.ICD.D., LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Elsie Kawulych B.Sc., H.Ec.
- AOE - Members - James Deverell Horsman CM, QC, LLD
- AOE - Members - James Kenneth Gray
- AOE - Members - James Simpson Palmer CM, QC, LLB
- AOE - Members - Louis Armand Desrochers CM, QC, LLD
- AOE - Members - Colonel (Retired) Donald Stewart Ethell OMM, MSC, CD
- AOE - Members - Dr. Robert E. Burrell MSC, PhD, FCAHS, FNAI
- AOE - Members - Hon. Samuel Sereth Lieberman CD, QC, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Jenny Belzberg CM
- AOE - Members - John Murrell
- AOE - Members - Leonard Peter Ratzlaff DMA
- AOE - Members - Ronald Neil Mannix B.Sc., H.Ec.
- AOE - Members - Donald Ross Getty OC, HBA
- AOE - Members - Dr. Chester R. Cunningham CM, LLD
- AOE - Members - Dr. Raymond V. Rajotte MSM, PhD, P.Eng., FRCPSC, FRCS
- AOE - Members - Father Charles Michael McCaffery M.Sc.
- AOE - Former chancellor - The Honourable Norman L. Kwong
- AOE - Members - Dr. D. Lorne J. Tyrrell MD, PhD, FRCP
- AOE - Members - Dr. Matthew Warren Spence OC, MD, PhD, LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Harley Norman Hotchkiss O.C., B.Sc. P.Geol., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Stanley George Reynolds CM
- AOE - Former chancellor - The Honourable Lois E. Hole
- AOE - Members - Dr. Shirley M. Stinson MNA, EdD, LLD
- AOE - Members - Ian Malcolm Macdonald
- AOE - Members - Ian Tyson OC, D Litt (Hon), LLD (Hon)
- AOE - Members - June Louise Lore B.Sc.N.
- AOE - Members - Arthur Ryan Smith
- AOE - Members - Dr. A. Ernest Pallister O.C., B.Sc., P.Geoph., D.Sc. (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Sandy Auld Mactaggart O.C., M.B.A., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Donald Russell Stanley S.D., P.Eng., D.Sc. (Hon)
- AOE - Members - Dr. John Snow LL.D., R.C.A., A.S.A.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Stanley A. Milner B.Sc., LL.D.
- AOE - Former chancellor - The Honourable H.A. "Bud" Olson
- AOE - Members - Dr. Francis G. Winspear O.C., F.C.A., LL.D.
- AOE - Members - Dr. Helen Isabel Huston O.C., M.D., LL.D.
- AOE - Former chancellor - The Honourable Frank Lynch-Staunton
- Abbreviations and post nominals
- AOE - Members - Salma Lakhani
- AOE - Members - Ed Stelmach
- AOE - Members - Lena Russell
- AOE - Members - Cam Tait
- AOE - Members - Cor Van Raay
- AOE - Members - Holger Petersen
- AOE - Members - Art Froehlich
- AOE - Members - Greg Powell
- AOE - Members - John Mah
- AOE - Members - Cheryl Foggo
- AOE - Members - Frances Harley
- AOE - Members - Merle Olson
- AOE - Members - Barb Olson
- AOE - Members - Charlie Fischer
- AOE - Members - Eleanor Chiu
- AOE - Members - Elizabeth Cannon
- AOE - Members - Jim Boucher
- AOE - Members - Murray McCann
- AOE - Members - Cyril Kay
- AOE - Members - JudyLynn Archer
- AOE - Members - Robert Brawn
- AOE - Members - Joan Donald
- AOE - Members - Maureen Bianchini Purvis
- History and investiture ceremony
- Nominate an Albertan
"Seeing little miracles unfold in classrooms…the child that couldn’t walk taking their first steps or the child who couldn’t communicate saying “I love you” to their parents for the first time… I never get tired of those stories and that’s what I’m most proud of."
Janice McTighe is founder of Calgary’s Renfrew Educational Services. Renfrew’s innovative internationally-recognized approach to education for students with physical and cognitive special needs has translated into stronger learning experiences and richer lives for countless young Albertans.
Janice Edith Edwards was born in Vancouver on January 30, 1941 and grew up in Parksville, British Columbia with parents, Kathleen and Carlisle Edwards, and three siblings. Her childhood offered ample opportunities to swim, bike and hike through the beautiful scenery of Vancouver Island. After high school, Janice was ready for new adventures and moved to Vancouver where she worked and learned valuable lessons in finance, creative thinking and management that would prove useful in her future endeavours. In the early 1960’s, Janice made a trip to Calgary to take in the Stampede and, although she had only planned for a short visit, she ended up staying and calling Calgary home. During her early years in Calgary she married, becoming Janice McTighe, and welcomed four children into her life.
In the early 1970s, Janice set about looking for work that would allow her to contribute to the community while spending as much time as possible with her children, Michael, Kelly, Denise and Daniel. Janice was working as a part-time coordinator for Calgary’s Renfrew District Kindergarten when the Alberta Children’s Hospital approached her and asked if a special needs child could join with the 55 typically-developing students attending the community-owned program. Janice saw no reason why a child with special needs couldn’t be integrated into the classroom and began working with therapists from the hospital to make necessary adaptations to the program. She soon realized that much could be done to help children with disabilities reach their maximum potential and she welcomed additional special needs students to the Renfrew classroom. Janice also began to see that typically-developing children benefited from the integrated program as much as their disabled counterparts, by learning compassion and understanding and by developing their innate skills as teachers and mentors to classmates needing assistance with socialization, language or play skills.
Organizing and running the program was difficult in the early years. Janice and her teammates had limited access to appropriate facilities and had to work within a very small operating budget. In those early stages of the Renfrew story all hands were directly involved with every aspect of the program, whether it was sweeping up sand, substituting in the classroom, changing diapers, wiping away parents’ tears, running parent support groups, or arranging exercise and recreation activities for moms.
As the programs moved into a second decade, Janice and her team had succeeded in establishing Renfrew’s credibility and could now focus on working to expand their expertise, extend the depth of programming and meet the growing demand for Renfrew services. As the capital bank account increased, planning began for the next stages of expansion. This included the goal of establishing purpose-designed and wholly-owned Renfrew facilities in various locations across Calgary.
By the turn of the new millennium, Janice and her team had embarked on an exciting new chapter in Renfrew’s evolution as diligent fundraising efforts allowed classes to begin in the new, specially-built Renfrew Main School, which has since been renamed the Janice McTighe Centre. Over the next few years more buildings and programs were added and the school expanded its small fleet of buses. By 2009, Renfrew programs were being offered in five day schools around Calgary, including three that were built through Renfrew fundraising efforts. Plans were also underway to create a new Renfrew centre within the Child Development Centre at the University of Calgary.
Something that had started as a modest community kindergarten had grown into a world-class, innovative educational leader serving some 650 children from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 6. Thousands more students were benefitting from support programs provided by Renfrew to 170 schools across the city, while rural communities were served by outreach programs for children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Remarkably, Janice and her outstanding team of special needs teachers, psychologists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, physical therapists, family support workers, child development facilitators, and administrative and support staff have built it all without ever operating at a deficit or carrying long term debt. Janice’s solid business model, commitment to staff development and careful succession planning will help ensure that Renfrew’s exceptional programs are in place to serve children and families well into the future.
Janice McTighe has been the leader and visionary throughout Renfrew’s impressive evolution. She has served children and families in her community with a unique blend of modesty, creativity, diligence, pragmatism and strong business sense. In 1994, her efforts were recognized with the Premier’s Award for Outstanding Service to Alberta Families. She received the Calgary YWCA Woman of Distinction Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001 and received the City of Calgary Community Achievement Award for Education in 2009. For nine consecutive years, from 2000 to 2009, Renfrew was among the one percent of Canadian schools to win the Platinum School Recognition Award from the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
Janice McTighe’s accomplishments to date offer a powerful and inspiring example of all that can be achieved when caring and compassion for others are combined with energy, enthusiasm and a strong drive to make our Alberta communities better places to be.