Second College Council is a Mix of Veterans and Newcomers

The 17 elected positions on the College’s second Council were taken by seven veterans and 10 newcomers when the results of the College’s province-wide vote were announced October 18th. The 17 elected members were joined by the 14 public members who have been appointed over the last three years when the College’s second Council met for the first time on November 2nd.

The 17 positions represent various geographic areas and school systems, as well as private schools, faculties of education and senior administrators. Five members – from the francophone system, private schools and faculties of education – were declared elected by acclamation at the close of nominations.

Seven of the elected members are returning to Council: Sterling Campbell, Larry Capstick, Doug Carter, Margaret Dempsey, Marilyn Laframboise, Harry Mulvale and Nancy Hutcheson. Hutcheson was elected to the first Council in 1997 from the Northern elementary category, but resigned when she moved to southern Ontario with her family.

First-time Council members are Bernard J. Adam, Guill Archambault, Karl Dean, Jerry De Quetteville, Audrey Hadfield, Mark Lefebvre, Dick Malowney, Iain Munro, Elizabeth Papadopoulos and Rich Prophet.

Ballots were mailed out to 175,963 College members in good standing early in September. The mail-in balloting period ended October 16th and 24,477 members returned ballots, a participation rate of 13.9 per cent.

The votes were tabulated electronically at the College on October 17th by Toronto officials who conduct the city’s municipal elections, and the election process and official count was audited throughout by the accounting firm of Grant Thornton.

The next Council elections will be held in April 2003.

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College Members Elect 17 to Second College Council

The College’s second Council will benefit from the experience of seven returning elected members and the enthusiasm of 10 newly elected members. These 17, elected and acclaimed by College members, will set policy for the College along with 14 appointed public members for the next two-and-a-half years.

Bernard J. Adam is a veteran educator who has taught at the Intermediate and Senior levels in Sudbury, Mississauga, Ottawa and at a Canadian Forces base in Germany. He has taught French, English, Spanish, Commerce, Religion and Music. He is now in charge of the special project Passerelles for the Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario. Adam was acclaimed in the French-Language Public Elementary/Secondary category.

Guill Archambault has been on secondment at the Sudbury AEFO regional office since 1992. A former executive member of the Association des enseignantes et des enseignants de franco-ontariens, Archambault was also president of the Ontario Teachers’ Federation in 1990-1991. He has represented francophones at the Conseil des affaires collégiales and was a governor of Laurentian University in Sudbury. Archambault is also currently on the board of Collège Boréal. He was acclaimed in the French-Language Roman Catholic Secondary category.

Sterling Campbell is one of the returning members of Council. Campbell teaches English and Co-operative Education at Sudbury Secondary School. He was certified to teach in Ontario in 1973, having earned a BA in political science and film studies from Wayne State University in 1971. In 1985, Campbell was awarded an MA from Central Michigan University. He was originally appointed to Council after the previously elected member resigned, and served on the Discipline and the Registration Appeals committees. Campbell was elected in the Northeast Region.

Larry Capstick was re-elected to Council in the English-Language Public Secondary category. He has been a classroom educator for 22 years, teaching various subjects including History, Co-operative Education, English and Sociology and all grades from 9 to OAC. He has been active in his federation both at the branch and district levels and is currently the membership services officer for the Ottawa-Carleton Secondary School Teachers’ Federation. He also served on the OTF’s and the OSSTF’s faculty of education committees. On the previous Council, Capstick served as chair of the Accreditation Committee and as a member of the Discipline and Quality Assurance committees.

Doug Carter was re-elected to Council in the Southeast Region. He taught in New Brunswick and Quebec prior to moving to Ontario in 1970. He has held many federation positions at both the local and provincial levels and most recently, he served as president of the Ottawa Carleton Elementary Teachers’ Federation. Carter served on the first Council as chair of the Registration Appeals, Nomination and Election committees and as a member of the Investigation and Quality Assurance committees.

Karl Dean has been a secondary teacher for the last 17 years. He teaches transportation technology in Grades 9 to 12 at Western Secondary School in Amherstburg. He has been an active member of the OSSTF both locally and provincially for the last 15 years, serving as president of his district for seven years and working on OSSTF’s provincial collective bargaining committee. Dean was elected in the Southwest Region.

Margaret Dempsey has been returned to Council from the Principal/Vice-Principal category. She is a principal of staff development for the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. She was previously a classroom teacher and vice-principal. She served as president of the Federation of Women Teachers’ Associations of Ontario from 1992 to 1993. She was a member of the first College Council, participating in the development of the standards of practice as a member of the Standards of Practice and Education Committee. Dempsey also sat on the Fitness to Practise and the Accreditation committees.

Jerry De Quetteville was elected to Council in the Southcentral Region. De Quetteville has been active within the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, both locally and provincially, and has presented workshops for the federation at the OTF’s Summer Institutes.

 Audrey Hadfield, who was acclaimed in the Private School category, is executive director and founder of MacLachlan College in Oakville, an independent, co-educational JK to OAC school. She possesses a broad background in all elements of curriculum and serves as secretary on the executive committee of the umbrella organization, the Independent Schools Association of Ontario. She represented independent schools at the College in consultation sessions on principal’s qualifications, standards of practice, accreditation of professional learning programs and teacher testing.

Nancy Hutcheson, who was elected to the first Council as the Northern Ontario elementary member and served until her family moved out of the area, has been elected in the English-Language Public Elementary category. She has taught French Immersion in Grades 1 to 6 with the Lakehead board, the Upper Grand district and the Waterloo Region district for 13 years.

Marilyn Laframboise has been returned to Council after being acclaimed in the French-Language Roman Catholic Elementary category. She teaches Grades 7 and 8 at École Sainte-Ursule in McGregor. She previously worked as a school board social worker and for the Children’s Aid Society. She earned her BSW in 1975 at the University of Windsor and her BEd and teaching certificate in 1979. She also took Additional Qualification courses at Ottawa, Laurentian and Western universities. She has conducted workshops on teaching English-as-a-Second-Language at Junior and Intermediate levels and has participated in several writing projects on integration and implementation of the new curriculum. Laframboise was chair of the Fitness to Practise Committee and the editorial board of Professionally Speaking and sat on other committees, including Discipline and Executive.

Mark Lefebvre has been an educator for six years, active in volunteerism, curriculum development and team building. In 1997, he took a leave of absence from teaching to serve as one of the College’s first investigators, helping develop the policy and protocol for investigating complaints against members and promoting local issue resolution. Lefebvre teaches Grade 5 at St. Christopher Catholic School in St. Catharines and was elected in the English-Language Roman Catholic Elementary category.

Dick Malowney is a former vice-principal and principal who began teaching in 1969. He became a superintendent in 1985, and was appointed a chief superintendent in 1989. He assumed the role of director of Northumberland-Clarington in 1990 and is currently the director of the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board. Malowney was elected in the Supervisory Officer category.

Harry Mulvale has been re-elected to Council in the English-Language Roman Catholic Secondary category. He is a secondary teacher with 29 years of classroom experience, teaching History, Contemporary Studies and Italian. He is currently president of the Hamilton Secondary Unit of OECTA. Mulvale has been an elected teacher representative on the College Council since 1997 and was chair of the Investigation Committee. He also sat on the Executive and the Standards of Practice and Education committees.

Iain Munro was acclaimed to Council in the Faculty of Education category. He is a former secondary school head of History, now an associate professor in curriculum and comparative education at Queen’s. He has held numerous administrative roles including BEd program director, chair of the faculty board and is currently chair of the university’s International Centre. He has written numerous texts in both English and French. Munro’s current research is in citizenship education.

Elizabeth Papadopoulos is an elected executive officer and negotiator for the Elementary Teachers of Toronto. She has been teaching since 1991 in the primary division. Papadopoulos was elected in the Central Region category.

Rich Prophet has served as a gifted program teacher, a resource teacher and a classroom teacher. He has worked on the provincial executive of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association and the Board of Governors of the Ontario Teachers’ Federation for the past six years. Prior to that, Prophet served as president of the combined elementary and secondary OECTA unit of Sault Ste. Marie for six years. Prophet was elected in the Northwest Region category.

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