Carleton University student, Kathleen Courtney, has been awarded a 2006 Terry Fox Humanitarian Award. Kathleen is in her third year of the Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management (BPAPM) program specializing in Human Rights.
“We are very proud of Kathleen for receiving this prestigious award,” says Eileen Saunders, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs and Director of the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs. “She embodies all of those qualities of dedication, excellence and commitment that we seek to foster in the B.PAPM program.”
The award is given to 20 Canadians each year who are recognized as having “demonstrated the highest ideals and qualities of citizenship and humanitarian service while in pursuit of excellence in academic, amateur sport, fitness, health and voluntary community service.” In doing so, recipients have “reflected those ideals of courage, humanitarianism, service and compassion, which Terry Fox embodied.” The competition is open to open to graduating secondary school students and those currently studying towards their first university degree or diploma.
Courtney, who originally hails from Goderich, Ontario, has served her community in a number of ways. Since 2005 she has volunteered as a Transportation Accessibility Correspondent for the city of Ottawa. She has also worked with the War Amps Matching Mothers Program and Camp Trillium.
“I think that being part of Carleton’s unique BPAPM program helped me to win this award,” says Courtney. “The program complements the award itself plus I had a chance to show that I was pretty passionate about what I have been studying.”
Courtney still has side effects from having cancer and chemotherapy and from losing her leg to cancer when she was a child. “Carleton has been so supportive and flexible to me. Clearly a lot of work has gone toward making sure people with unique requests can continue studying at Carleton without problems.”
Courtney will be participating in this year’s Terry Fox Run www.terryfoxrun.org on September 17 to help raise funds for cancer research. The run begins at Carleton University’s Anniversary Park near Bronson Avenue with registration at 7:30 a.m.
Other recipients of the Terry Fox Humanitarian award include over 70 medical doctors, 50 teachers, and six graduates of the program who went on the win the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University.
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For More Information:
Lin Moody
Media Relations
Carleton University
613-520-2600 ext. 8705
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 in News Releases
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