Marian Burdsall (BCom) and her husband David Morris are three years into their quest to see as much of the world as possible while still young and healthy. A summer return to Kingston is planned before the pair head out again in the fall. South America and Africa are the next continents on the itinerary. The highlight of this year’s trip, says Marian, was dancing sur le pont d’Avignon. Email: mburdsall@gmail.com
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Marian Burdsall (BCom) MDE (Master of Distance Education, Athabasca University), retired in August 2009 and is spending the winter in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, with her husband, David Morris (MBA, Athabasca) on what they hope will be the first of annual working/vacation sojourns in different countries around the world. Kingston remains their home base. Marian can be reached through her blog.
Published in: Spring 2010
Jennifer Camelford, MBA, ArtSci’74, and her husband Jim, ArtSci’78, welcomed their first grandchild, Reece Cordelia Camelford, who was born Oct. 2, 2017 in New Orleans. Jen and Jim are also keeping busy building a house in Toronto and playing golf.
Published in: Winter 2018
Jennifer (White) Camelford (MBA) retired from her market research career in 2010. Her company, Camelford Graham Research, was sold to Ipsos and is now known as Ipsos Camelford Graham. Jen got her retirement off to a good start by enjoying the winter in Florida with husband Jim and playing plenty of golf.
Published in: Summer 2011
Jennifer Camelford (MBA) and husband Jim (Artsci’78) live in Richmond Hill, ON, and are avid (not good) golfers, Jennifer reports. She is President of Ipsos Camelford Graham, a qualitative market research company located in Toronto. Jim sold his Wendy's restaurants a couple of years ago and is enjoying retirement. Their two children are now “launched” – Jason as a lawyer in Miami, and Jaime in the pet industry in Toronto.
Published in: Summer 2008
Novelist Melodie Campbell, BCom’78, has won accolades for her crime writing, including the Derringer Award and Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence. Her latest whodunit, The Merry Widow Murders, takes place aboard a cross-Atlantic ocean liner in the Roaring Twenties. When a dead man turns up in her stateroom, Lady Lucy Revelstoke, the unconventional widow of a British lord, must find the murderer before authorities dig into her past.
Published in: Fall 2023
Melodie Campbell, BCom’78, and Mike O’connell, BCom’78, found love during the pandemic, nearly 45 years after meeting in the Commerce program. The pair eloped April 12, 2022 at a drive-thru wedding chapel in Niagara Falls.
Published in: Spring 2023
Melodie Campbell, BCom, told us that her 11th crime book, The Bootlegger's Goddaughter, was shortlisted for the 2018 Ontario Library Association’s Golden Oak Award. The second book in this series, The Goddaughter's Revenge, won both the international Derringer Award for crime writing and the Arthur Ellis Award, presented for excellence in Canadian crime writing, in 2014.
Published in: Summer 2018
Maria (Bonnie) Duncan, BCom, tells us that she was recently appointed as a New Jersey state commissioner for the 2020 New Jersey Complete Count Commission, which is responsible for convening New Jersey's efforts for the 2020 census.
Published in: Summer 2019
Karen Gregory and Peter Webster (both BComs) met at Queen’s and married in 1980 in the Queen’s chapel with Padre Laverty presiding. The couple went out to Calgary to work in Employee Relations in the oil patch for six years before taking an extended bicycle trip in Europe and sleeping in a two-man tent every single night for 16 months. They knew they could work and do anything together after that. Wanting to work for themselves, they decided to study at LaVarenne cooking school in Paris. They were the first married couple to graduate with Grands Diplomes Culinaires. They returned to Karen’s home stompin’ grounds in a suburb of Montréal and opened their own catering business in Ste-Annede-Bellevue, called Bouquet Garni. The business is now celebrating its 20-year anniversary. Karen and Gregory have been married nearly 28 years and have three daughters, BrieAnn (18), Keesha (15) and Tareya (11).
Published in: Summer 2008