BARBARA DANIELL
graduated from West Hill Collegiate Institute as an
Ontario Scholar in 1974. She then attended the Ontario
College of Art and Design, graduating with an Honours
degree in 1978. An accomplished freelance designer,
her work can be seen at the Royal Ontario Museum,
the Toronto Historical Board, the Canada Council Art
Bank, the Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, and
several private collections. In 2000 she moved from
Toronto to rural Newfoundland, where she set up a
studio space in Woody Point. Her work she is making,
isn't a record of what her eyes see - it's about finding
the right equivalent for how the place resides in
my thoughts.
BRONWEN HUGHES attended West Hill
Collegiate Institute from September 1977 to June 1981.
Bronwen began her film career by directing a Discover
Card campaign, a LEVER 2000 commercial, and Kids in
the Hall shorts. Her 1996 feature HARRIET THE SPY
was extremely successful, and Steven Spielberg invited
her to make a movie for his Dreamworks Pictures. Bronwen
Hughes' FORCES OF NATURE, starring Sandra Bullock
and Ben Affleck became a best-selling film in 1999
and allowed her to then make "the kind of movie
that made me want to make films in the first place,"
Bronwen says.
Bronwen Hughes' 2003 film, STANDER, dramatizes the
true story of Captain Andre Stander, a white policeman
who lead the infamous Stander Gang-South Africa's
most wanted criminals in the 1980's. "It's a
film about the man, not a film about the heists,"
Bronwen says "Watching a movie is two hours out
of a viewer's life, but two years of thinking about
nothing else night and day, including my dreams, for
the time I'm making that movie. It really is that
intense. It eats you."
DENISE DONLON attended West Hill
Collegiate Institute and graduated in the mid 70's.
Her music business career began while she was attending
University; she booked bands for events and co-ordinated
national conferences. In 1985 she was appointed as
host/producer for MuchMusic. In the first phase of
her career, Denise gave new insights into the international
music scene, offering a unique perspective through
the magazine program The New Music. In 1990 Denise
Donlon married Canadian singer songwriter Murray McLauchlan.
In 1992, Denise was appointed Director of Music Programming
for MuchMusic/City-TV. To further develop media literacy
skills in young people, Denise Donlon started the
discussion panel, which promoted discussion on images
of violence, racism and sexism in music videos. In
1993 Denise won two Gemini Awards - received ABC Canada's
"Peter Gzowski Award of Merit" - and three
times won Canadian Music Week's Broadcast Executive
Award. In 1997 she became Vice-President and General
Manager of the nation's music station and was honoured
by Women In Films & Television Toronto with their
"Outstanding Achievement Award". In 1998,
she was named one of the "25 Most Important People
in new Music".
In year 2000, Denise Donlon resigned from MuchMusic
to accept a position as President of Sony Music Canada.
In 2001, she received the Wired Women's "Women
of Vision Award" and the Canadian Women in Communications
"Woman of the Year Award". In 2002, Denise
Donlon was inducted into the Canadian Association
of Broadcasters' Hall of Fame. In February 2005, she
was appointed a member of the Order of Canada.
JIM KERNAGHAN, a 1960 WHCI grad,
went on to study journalism at Ryerson University.
He began his career at Canadian Press in 1964 and
shortly after was hired by the Toronto Star.
Jim spent 17 years there, covering the Toronto Maple
Leafs, major boxing matches, Olympic Games, Grey Cups
and World Cups of soccer. During that time, Jim was
deeply involved in the Special Olympics for the intellectually
challenged and received a citation from Eunice Kennedy
Shriver for his service. Jim wrote the Star's Sunday
sports column along with his regular features. He
moved to the London Free Press as sports columnist
in 1981, appearing five days a week. In his time there,
Jim won three Ontario Newspaper Awards and was a runner-up
six times. In 2005, Jim received the annual Achievement
Award by Sports Media Canada.
Since retiring in the summer of 2006, Jim has kept
busy freelancing, specializing in travel stories.
He has visited Ireland, the Bahamas, the Scottish
Highlands, Sweden and went on safari in Kenya for
stories. His writing has appeared in the Globe &
Mail, Toronto Sun and various magazines. When not
touring, Jim tinkers with his 1946 Ford Convertible
-- the same year and make of car he once drove to
WHCI. Jim and his wife Carol have four children and
four grandchildren and reside in London.
MARILYN CANNON was born in the West
Hill area and graduated from West Hill Collegiate
Institute in 1963. She worked in a chocolate factory
before marrying and moving to Halifax, Nova Scotia
in 1966. Fascinated by diabetes, cancer and the immune
system research, Marilyn worked as a research technician
at Dalhousie University until 1972. Then she returned
to Toronto to work in the pharmacology division of
the Hospital for Sick Children.
During her lifetime, Marilyn discovered and developed
an impressive amount of medical information. She presented
some of this to a forum of doctors in Greece. Tragically,
Marilyn was killed in 1987, while walking beneath
faulty boarding at a demolition site.
NANCY LEE was born in Scarborough,
Ontario and graduated from West Hill Collegiate Institute.
Nancy was involved in sports at Carleton University
as a competitive swimmer and captain of the women's
varsity team during her undergraduate years at the
University of Toronto.
Nancy began her career with CBC in 1987 when she
won a job competition for a short-term assignment
as a radio sports reporter for CBC in Toronto. Her
first Media position was News Editor, CBC Radio, Quebec
City. One of her career highlights was working the
Seoul, Atlanta and Sydney Summer Olympics. She hosted
and produced CBC Radio's weekly sports magazine show,
"The Inside Track". In the year 2000 she
was promoted to the position as Executive Director,
CBC Television Sports.
"Working for a public broadcaster is different,"
she explains. "Of course, generating commercial
revenue is very important for the continued existence
of CBC television sports, but what we do exists to
serve Canadians in ways that aren't focused on generating
revenue, such as our "broadcasts of amateur sports."
Nancy Lee says her job has less to do with what goes
on in the course of a sporting event than harnessing
the power of the medium. In broadcasting these big
events, I hope we're somehow helping their development
as athletes and as people."
Nancy has now accepted a position as the Chief Operating
Officer of the host broadcast team for the 2010 Winter
Olympics in Vancouver.
SUSAN MOXLEY, (nee Lummiss) graduated
from West Hill Collegiate Institute in 1965. She received
a Bachelor of Arts and then a Master of Arts degree
from the University of Western Ontario. Susan completed
her post-graduate degrees with a Ph.D. in Education
and Psychology from the University of Michigan. In
1984 she created the Food Bank in Hatchet Lake. In
2004, Susan was ordained as an Archbishop in the Anglican
Church in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
Susan is particularly involved in Social Justice
and works to improve life for those who are on the
edges of society, "for whatever reason."
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