Alumni In Residence 2022 Lineup
As follow-up to our September update, we are pleased to make the following interim update about our Alumni in Residence Program!
These three initial participants will be amazing additions to our summer program, and I have no doubt will have lasting impacts on the campers and staff that they interact with. Thank you so much for all of the Alumni who have reached out to us thus far and those who still intend to contact us. There are many camp seasons to come, and we hope to place as many of you as we can at some point along the way. We will have other updates on the balance of our 2022 Alumni participants in the coming months. We are pleased to announce the first three of our Alumni in Residence: Linda Leckie, Jay Kennedy, and Bob Henderson. Please see more about them below. We are privileged and excited to have them aboard for 2022. These are world class outdoor-focused educators who have a passion and interest in TSC.
Linda “Lecko” Leckie
- Favourite classroom: Algonquin Park (as the former Director of Outdoor Education for the Bishop Strachan School and current Canoe Tripping and Outdoor Leadership Instructor)
- 20-year Camp Wapomeo relationship: As 6-year old camper, then staff, which included leading several 36-day canoe trips
- Algonquin canoe tripping and cottaging: A way of life for Lecko
- Scholarly Research : The role of wilderness travel in education
- Alumni in Residence Summer 2022 activities: Staff leadership training and preparation; canoeing and canoe tripping skills for campers and staff
Jay Kennedy
- TSC experience: 13 years as a camper and staff, and then Director of Ahmek for five years
- Education as a way of life: French Immersion teacher in Ontario, Head of Outdoor Education in BC, teacher and curriculum consultant in Indonesia; Currently lectures at Lakehead University in the Faculty of Education and the School of Outdoor Recreation, Parks, and Tourism
- Doctoral dissertation: Masculinity in outdoor education
- Favourite place: Ahmek Dining Hall. When empty it is a cathedral; when full, a riot we will make!
- Alumni in Residence Summer 2022 activities: CIT Program, technical skills in the outdoors, being an Ahmek camper and staff in the modern era
Bob Henderson
- TSC experience: Camper and staff 1964-1980, CIT 1973, Quetico camper and staff (Ahmek twice, Wap once, 72, 76, 78, 79, Outpost director 1980)
- Canoe tripping skills: Hard and soft skills, warm and green skills
- Education and Profession: McMaster University Outdoor Education 1981-2010, PhD, Outdoor Travel: Explorations for Change, University of Alberta 1995
- Alumni in Residence Summer 2022 activities: Outdoor leadership (group facilitation, boosting engagement and joy)
In case you missed David Jefferies’s recent happy new year and piano playing video messages, check them out here!