Sam Macmillan (Upper-Year W. Garfield Weston 2006) chose to study marketing communications at the British Columbia Institute of Technology because he thought the program would be the best preparation for entering the business world. As it turned out, his extracurricular activities with Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) also provided him with invaluable experience—in both the entrepreneurial and nonprofit sectors—that serve him well in his current role as an account executive with DDB Canada.

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Simon Garant (Entrance W. Garfield Weston Award 2005) has always wanted to work in the world of television production. He decided the media arts and technology program at Cégep de Jonquière would give him the requisite technical background—and, to say the least, doesn’t regret his decision. It was, he says, “a program where I could create and explore with classmates who were as motivated as I was. It wasn’t for nothing that I decided to perfect my training by doing an extra year. I loved what I was doing!” He’s now considering another diploma in 3-D animation.

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2004 W. Garfield Weston scholar Stephen Raye is grateful for the foundation provided by his college diploma. He studied chemical technology at New Brunswick Community College before embarking on an engineering technology in environmental studies degree. “It is great to have a strong college education to build on,” he observes. “I am thankful to W. Garfield Weston Awards for encouraging me to study in the college system and realizing the importance of such an education.”

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For 2006 Upper Year W. Garfield Weston scholar Ted Ross, the past is not another country: it is very much part of his here and now. A graduate of Algonquin College’s applied museum studies program, he has dedicated many years to Watson’s Mill Manotick Inc. This non-profit group runs a 19th-century grist mill in Dickinson Square—the only working industrial heritage site in the City of Ottawa.

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