Garfield Weston scholars

Music is more than a hobby for 2007 Upper Year Garfield Weston scholar Mikeal Abramoff. An aficionado of the viola and violin, he has explored many aspects of his chosen instruments. He has been playing and performing for many years, and last year he discovered violins from a new perspective: that of a maker. During his Garfield Weston summer, Mikeal moved from Calgary to New Hampshire to attend the Violin Craftsmanship Institute. “It was a wonderful experience to expand my knowledge of this art and learn new skills,” he says. He also valued the chance to study outside of Canada: “It was a learning experience to travel to the eastern U.S. and meet new people.”

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Blessed with determination, dedication and a love of healthy living, Geneviève has founded her own massage therapy practice in downtown Toronto, where she treats a variety of clients and educates people on issues related to holistic and alternative health care. She teaches in both the massage therapy and spa assistant programs at her alma mater, Centennial College, and also finds time to utilize her translation skills in the complementary and alternative health care research unit at the college. In her spare time, Geneviève creates one-of-a-kind art works on paper and canvas.

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For many years before entering college, 2007 Garfield Weston scholar Angela Musceo had been volunteering with women who have experienced violence. Moving into the assaulted women and children’s counsellor advocate program at George Brown College was a logical step in her personal development. It was, she comments, “a natural progression for me to gain the education behind the grassroots experience.”
Angela’s advocacy takes many forms. Both at school and in the Greater Toronto Area, she devotes much of her energy to supporting youth and lesbian, gay, bi- and transsexual  communities. She sits on George Brown’s LGBTQ committee, the Toronto Youth Cabinet, and the Chief’s Youth Advisory Committee; she helps out as a peer facilitator for the Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children; and she coordinates a radio show for young people through Regent Park Focus.

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For 2006 Upper Year 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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