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“I want to increase awareness of the association’s activities among graduates,” she says. “If Board members connect with as many alumni as they can, and those alumni, in turn, reach out to others, then we will soon have direct and personal contact with each and every one of our graduates, and they will feel part of something important.”
“This, in turn, might encourage alumni to share their experience and expertise by volunteering their time and energies to help current students,” says Hunter, who also wants to see greater recognition of the achievements of alumni, students and staff.
Hunter, who assumed the association’s top job last May, says that nostalgia and fate both played a part in the renewal of her involvement with the University.
“Having my son enroll at the University of Ottawa a few years ago, in the same faculty I was in, outfitting him for a lab coat, hearing him talk about classes in Marion Hall, all brought back positive memories of my days here,” she says.
“Just before that, by a quirk of fate, I had been given the opportunity, during a convocation ceremony, to welcome an employee I had informally mentored to the Alumni Association. From then on, I became very interested in working with the association.”
Hunter, who graduated with a bachelor of science, currently holds a senior management position with Treasury Board. While her training seems to have little to do with her present duties, she notes that her BSc studies taught her “how to apply logic to a set of observable actions, to document results clearly and succinctly, and to draw accurate and plausible conclusions. All this has helped me excel in my career.”
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