Founders Day 2015
Story appeared in the 2016 issue of QMS Connections Magazine.
BY LEANNE SCHULTZ, OPERATIONS & HR MANAGER
Each October, Queen Margaret’s School celebrates its Founders by inviting a distinguished alumnae to speak to students, staff and special guests about their passion and their path from the School to where they are now in their lives.
This year, nine students received Heritage Pins on Founders’ Day, representing their families’ legacies at Queen Margaret’s School.
Arrington Bricker (Grade 10) | Alexandra Berry-Dillen (Grade 8) | Andrea Benavides De Alba (Grade 8) | Taylor Kropp (Grade 10) | Teegan Kropp (Grade 7) | Ana Suarez Crespo Huerta (Grade 6) | Supriya Parhar (Kindergarten) | Jessana Parmar (Kindergarten) | Katia Bannister (Grade 7) – not photographed.
.A special Heritage Pin was awarded to speaker Eve Savory (‘65) in recognition of her own mother, Dorothea, who attended the School from 1926 to 1927.
On October 28, 2015, Ms. Eve Savory was the school’s featured speaker. After graduating from QMS in 1965, Ms. Savory went on to study at UBC, graduating in 1969 with a degree in Asian Studies. She entered radio journalism as a general reporter for a private radio station in Vancouver, and then went on to enjoy an illustrious career with the CBC, where she worked her way up from being a general reporter in Vancouver to achieving national prominence as an award-winning medical, science, environment and technology specialist for the network.
Being in the public eye as a reporter for The National, Ms. Savory’s impact in the world has been highly visible and celebrated. Through her work as a science journalist, she was instrumental in bringing the world’s attention to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and the global warming crisis in the 1990s. At Founders’ Day, to underscore her talk, Ms. Savory brought some video from a story she did in Churchill, Manitoba in 1999, showing her helping to move baby polar bear cubs around for tagging and speaking to research scientists about the devastating effects of global warming, including the impact of receding ice in the north, on the polar bear population. Students were awed—not only by the footage of Ms. Savory touching a huge mother polar bear, but also by the extent of the global warming crisis and a QMS alumnae’s efforts to spread the word about the urgency of the situation long before they were born.