COLLEGE COUNCIL

Province appoints three new members and renews three

The Ontario government has appointed three new public members to College Council and extended the appointments of three others.

Almonte's Bill Kirkwood, Toronto's Mel Greif and Burlington's Rollande Lavictoire have been appointed by the province to serve one-year terms as public members on Council.

The government extended the appointments of Council members Andrew Kane, Garry Humphreys and Gabrielle Blais for three years.

Bill Kirkwood

Kirkwood retired from Ontario's Ministry of Education in 1994 after a distinguished career in public education that included 14 years as a secondary school teacher in Peel.

After serving two years at the Peel board's head office, Kirkwood joined the Ministry of Education where he held positions as Education Officer, Executive Assistant to the Deputy Minister, and Acting Director of the Communications and Marketing Branch, the Administrative Services Branch and the Central Ontario Regional Office.

After retiring from the Ministry, Kirkwood served as Director of Education Services for the Purchasing Management Association of Canada from 1994-97. A qualified principal and supervisory officer, Kirkwood holds a BA and an MEd.

Mel Greif

Mel Greif is one of Ontario's most decorated history teachers. Greif taught history for 35 years at Toronto's Humberside CI, and was named Ontario's Teacher of the Year in 1999.

He has received the Governor General's Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History, the Jane Jacobs' Prize for community action, and the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal for community service.

As a Governor General's Award recipient, Greif was profiled in the June 2002 issue of Professionally Speaking.

Greif served as a director of the Czechoslovak (Toronto) Credit Union for 36 years and as its president the last 10. He successfully amalgamated the organization with the Pace Credit Union and now serves as an executive member on the PACE board of directors.

In addition to serving in civic electoral campaigns and community groups, Greif belongs to Grassroots Albany, an environmental group, and is active on the board of the Friends of the Sesquicentennial Museum and Archives of the Toronto DSB.

He holds a BA, BEd and MEd.

Rollande Lavictoire

As a career educator, Rollande Lavictoire has made a lifelong commitment to public education. She joined the teaching profession in September 1967 and has served as a regular classroom teacher in Ontario in elementary and secondary schools and for the Department of National Defence in Germany.

She has also served as a Special Education teacher, gifted-program consultant, and a principal at both the elementary and secondary panels.

Towards the end of her career, Lavictoire was the founding principal of Hamilton's Académie catholique Mère-Teresa within the Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud.

For the last five years, she has served as a leadership advisor with the Ministry of Education's Turnaround Teams program, helping schools across the province improve the effectiveness of their early reading programs.

In the last year, she has worked with the Ministry's Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat as a student achievement officer for the Ontario Focused Intervention Partnership.

Lavictoire serves as president of Burlington's Club Richelieu and is a member of a variety of social clubs. She holds a BA and BEd from Laurentian University and an MEd from the University of Ottawa.