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Welcome to News X-change, your hub for alumni community highlights. Check out the latest milestones, adventures and achievements of your fellow StFX grads. Remember the days of StFX past and those who are no longer with us, while celebrating the friendship and bonds that connect us today.
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Reconnecting – StFX Terry Fox Humanitarian Atlantic award winners share moment together
On March 22, 2025, a gathering called the TFHA Alumni (Re)Connect Tour was held in Halifax, NS to bring together current and past recipients of the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award from across Atlantic Canada. StFX alumni, both current and past TFHA award winners, drew together to celebrate the X-Ring for a few moments and get to know each other, sharing their pride for both the X-Ring and for the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award.
Kate Tompkins '88
Kate Tompkins '88 (Master of Adult Education) recently had two books published by Moosehouse Press in Nova Scotia: The Non-Therapist: How to help as if you were a pro, and Guide to The Non-Therapist for Coaches and Instructors.
Learn more here.
John Scott MacIntyre '89
John Scott MacIntyre '89 (pictured left) won a silver medal at the 2025 Canadian National Bench Pressing Championships.
Ethan Payne '19
Ethan Payne '19, MD, completed medical school at Saba University School of Medicine and has entered residency at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita Family Medicine Residency Program at Ascension Via Christi in Wichita, Kansas.
Vatican Visit
Olivia (Gallant) Liboiron ‘05 ‘07 had booked a trip to Rome for the canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis, but it was rescheduled due to the death of Pope Francis. She decided to go to Rome anyway. She says she woke up at 5 a.m. and made her way to St. Peter’s Square for the Pope’s funeral. She snapped a photo of her X-Ring while there.
1921 People’s School – Can you help us name the people in our history?
Dr. Robin Neustaeter, an assistant professor in the StFX Adult Education Department, is looking for assistance from alumni and friends. Dr. Neustaeter is looking to help match faces to names in the photo below from the 1921 People’s School, snapped in the winter outside Xavier Hall. Some faces are easily recognizable such as those of Father Jimmy Tompkins and Hugh ‘Doc’ MacPherson.
Fortunately, to help with the task, the names of the participants are listed in both the January 27, 1921 issue of The Casket, and the 1921-1922 StFX Academic Calendar (see below).
If you can identify any of these individuals pictured, please reach out to Dr. Neustaeter at rneustae@stfx.ca. We appreciate your support in this. It will help the StFX Archives and StFX history!
We lovingly remember these Xaverians who are no longer with us.
| Philip "Skit" Ferguson '46 | James Borst '64 | Jo-Anne MacIntosh '77 |
| Marguerite Power (Beaton) '47 | Raymond Steel '64 | Sr. Genevieve CSM MacDonald '77 |
| John F. McIntyre '47 | Dr. David Doyle '65 | John Rogers '78 |
| Herbert Hough '49 | John Hunkin '65 | John David McShane '78 |
| Jacques Belanger '51 | Wilfred MacEachern '65 | Hilary Amit '79 '85 |
| Donald Azar '52 | Kay McAlduff '65 '67, Retired Faculty | Adele Doiron '79 |
| Robert Vocisano '52 | Brena Ryan '65 | Donald Landry '79 |
| Gerard Walsh '52 | Joseph Starzomski '65 | Martin MacDonald '79 |
| Donald LaPierre '53 | John Strasser '65 | Peter Garnett '80 |
| Mary Parago (Poirier) '53 | Joseph (Joe) Webb '65 | Kathleen Read '80 |
| Fr. Stanley MacDonald '54 | David Atwood '66 '67 | Patricia Taylor Hon '81 |
| Thomas Blackmore '55 '60 | E. Allan Gilmour '66 | Laurie Flood '84 |
| Bernadette Brooks '55 | Catherine MacDougall '66 '70 | Rae Chisholm '85 |
| Russell Churchill '55 | William Matthews '66 | Patricia Fraser '85 '86 |
| Ronan Halloran '55 | Peggy Anderson '68 | Augustin Nweze '85 |
| Michael Hennessey '55 | Sr. Anne CSM Coady '68 | Cardinal Kelvin Felix '86 |
| Marion Froats (Lukeman) '56 | Jon Purcell '68 | Joseph White '86 |
| George Kent '56 | Kevin Msgr. Maloney '68 | Alexander MacLellan '89 |
| Dr. John "Packy" McFarland '56 '62 | Peter Sorochuk '68 | Pius MacNeil '89 |
| Donald Burgoyne '57 | Shaun Quirk '68 | Blaine Burke '89 |
| Gerald (Bud) Lang '57 | David Wallace '68 | Shirley MacAulay '91 |
| Guy Noel '57 | Frank O'Connor '69 | Roderick MacEachern '91 |
| Joan Noel (Lownds) '57 | William Burns '70 | Ruth Gillis '92 |
| Dr. Robert Westbury '57 '58, Hon '07 | Margaret Lee (Kennedy) '70 | H. Keith Driver '93 |
| William Hall '58 | Frances Nunn '70 | Helen Copeland '95 |
| Fr. Jack Hamilton '58 | Penny Ross '70 | Shaun Smith '95 |
| F. Marie MacDonald '58 '59 | Jerome Sullivan '70 '71 | Henri Sangalang '96 |
| Roderick MacLean '58 | Mark Farren '71 | James (Jim) Roussy '98 |
| Leo Doyle '59 '60 | Gerald (Bud) Eagan '71 | Wayne Francis '99 |
| Eugene Jasinski '59 | Charles Gould '71 | Krista Beam (MacEachern) '03 |
| John McCurnin '59 | Brian O'Meara '71 | Bryan MacDonald '03 |
| Carl Smyth '59 | Nick Oxner '71 '72 | Dr. Irene LeFort '04 '05 |
| Francis Doyle '60 | Joan Pearson (Hadley) '71 | Celena Eltvik '06 |
| Catherine Best '61 | Gordon Barker '72 '82, Former Faculty | Catharine MacDonald '11 |
| Mary Gardiner (MacMullin) '61 '83 | Duncan MacDonald '72 | Korey Latta '14 |
| Helen Bishop-MacDonald '61 | Angus MacKillop '72 | Maari Singfield '16 |
| Hughena MacNeil (Kennedy) '61 | Robert MacKinnon '72 | Dr. Tony Novelly Hon '20 |
| Charlene Sommerville (Pelletier) '61 | Julia MacQuarrie '73 '75 | Dr. Tony Miller (Retired Faculty) |
| Raymond Alyward '62 | Marie Bilof (Gillis) '73 | Marguerite Oxner (Retired Staff) |
| Estelle Bonna-Baccardax '62 | Oonagh O'Rourke Grady '73 '74 | Judy Bernard-Julian (Former Staff) |
| John Boone '62 | Roland White '73 | Rosie Benoit (Retired Staff) |
| Michael Cameron '62 '65 | John Costello '74 | Tara Buksaitis (Registrar) |
| Mary Agnes Kennedy (Hogan) '62 | Lawrence MacKenzie '74 | Leah Duffy (Retired Staff) |
| Hector Lelievre '62 | Ron Corbett '75 | Betty Durley (Retired Staff) |
| Joseph (Joe) Miller '62 '64 | Helen Giffin (MacIntosh) '76 | Mary Jane "Dede" Kelly (Former Staff) |
| Daniel Noah '62 | Roberta Hickey (Carmichael) '76 | Dr. Tim Goddard (Former Faculty) |
| Carolyn Ross '62 | Daniel Johnston '76 | Jane Landry (Retired Staff) |
| Alan Chafe '63 | Patricia Kehoe '76 | Anna MacDonald (Retired Staff) |
| Reginald Stapleton '63 | Rev. Douglas Stewart '76 | |
| Daryl Poirier '63 | Andrew Svirsky '76 |
