2018 Alumni Crowning Achievement Awards

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For his life-long dedication to education, Dr. Ray Cleveland LLD (Honorary)'18 is receiving the University of Regina’s highest honour – an honorary degree.

Cleveland was born in Nebraska and later moved to California. He graduated from Westmont College with a bachelor’s degree. Later, he received his master’s and PhD from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. As a graduate student, his educational experience was enhanced by working as secretarial assistant to W. F. Albright, one of the most influential biblical archaeologists of the 20th century.

He went on to work on several archaeological excavations, most notably at Jericho under the direction of Kathleen Kenyon, another of the most influential archaeologists of the 20th century. Dr. Cleveland also had occasion to work with Wendel Phillips, an expedition leader and founder of the American Foundation for the Study of Man. Dr. Cleveland served as a researcher and editor on Phillips’ books Oman: A History and Unknown Oman.

“Teaching provides human contact that many occupations do not,” Cleveland says. “Teaching is especially great because it brings interaction in the realms of information and ideas.”

“I left archaeological fieldwork and research in part to have more varied ideas to consider and too have contact with a greater variety of people,” he says. “Archaeological field work and research were in a sense preparation for my later teaching. I recommend it for any student who wants to teach history, especially ancient history. Working with the material culture of earlier societies provides important insights into the historical process.”

He came to Regina in the mid-‘60s and for 27 years was one of the most respected teachers in the Department of History. Cleveland introduced and taught courses on ancient history, modern Middle East and the history of Islam. He was named professor emeritus upon his retirement in the mid-‘90s.

“Teaching provides human contact that many occupations do not,” Cleveland says. “Teaching is especially great because it brings interaction in the realms of information and ideas.”

Cleveland donated hundreds of scholarly books and journals to the Dr. John Archer Library. (A former student recalls the collection on ancient history was largely made up of Cleveland’s donations.) He was also an active academic publisher. His scholarly writing included book reviews, articles and contributions to numerous books. His books, The Middle East and South Asia, 1967, and later, The Middle East and South Asia 1988, were published in 21 annually revised editions.

“When Dr. Timmons called me to offer this honour, I found it hard to believe. At my stage in life, this honour does not make me any more marketable, but it makes me happier.”

Cleveland is recognized internationally as an expert on the history of Palestine and continued to publish on the subject long after his retirement. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of the Pacific in 1970.

For decades, he has taught older adults at the U of R’s Lifelong Learning Centre (LLC).  His courses have covered such topics as ancient history, the modern Middle East, and archaeological research on ancient cultures.

“Teaching older adults differs in the first way because of the life experience that older people have,” says Cleveland. “They are able to view early cultures, history and current events from a broader perspective than young students. Teaching non-credit classes to older people also allows for greater flexibility in classroom discussion.”

Today, students in his LLC classroom remain as engaged with the gifted educator as were his students in the mid-‘60s.

“When Dr. Timmons called me to offer this honour, I found it hard to believe. At my stage in life, this honour does not make me any more marketable, but it makes me happier. I think too that it will please many of my present and former students, and that is a cause for some satisfaction.”

Dr. Cleveland received his honorary Doctor of Laws on October 19.

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Distinguished Professional Achievement Award

Allan Bonner’s BEd’78 extraordinary career began 40 years ago with the first of many post-graduate degrees – a Bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Regina. Ever since he has been building his professional experience and skills and is considered one of the most respected risk and crisis managers in the world. He has worked on five continents, lectured at universities in England, Russia, the United States, and Canada, and his books are used as texts at leading universities in North America and England.

During his career, he has counselled nearly 30,000 senior executives and played a role in working through some of the most controversial public issues of our time. These issues include: Hong Kong’s return to China, European Union, NAFTA, overfishing, cross-border pollution, G7 meetings, Kosovo, Gulf Wars I & II, 9/11, and the recent OECD and G20s attempt to make the international taxation issue, Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS), or so-called transfer pricing, more equitable and rational.

Allan has consulted to the military (JAG, Chiefs of Defence Staff, Provost Marshall, Peacekeepers), international diplomats (including at the UN and its agencies), domestic, offshore and central banks, oil, gas, and chemical companies and other blue chip clients on five continents.

He has worked with 12 heads of government, more than 100 cabinet ministers and UN officials in Nairobi, Malta, Vienna, and New York. Two of his long-standing clients are Nobel Peace Prize recipients.

Allan began his career as a journalist at the local and network levels in Canada and in the United States. In Saskatchewan, he worked for CJME and both CBC Radio and CBC. He holds graduate degrees in: political science; business administration; law; risk, crisis, and disaster management; and urban planning. He is currently studying for a degree in public policy and administration which will be his seventh post-graduate degree.

For 30 years he has been both a guest lecturer and taught full courses at the Banff School of Fine Arts, Canadian Police College, Federal Study Centre, the Canadian Foreign Service Institute, Osgoode Hall Law School, New York University, York University, the University of Toronto, the University of Western Ontario, The George Washington University, Oxford University (UK), Royal Holloway University (UK), the Kamsky Institute of Humanitarian and Engineering Technologies in Izhevsk, Russia, and the University of Regina.

He is the author of eight books on the topics of communication, leadership, urban planning, and crisis management. He has written about 200 articles for Marketing Magazine, Law Times, Bout de Papier, Internal Communications Focus, Canadian Corporate Counsel, The Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, the Hill times, Troy Media syndication, Tribune News Service syndication, Lawyers Weekly, Calgary Herald, Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, and National Post.

He was the first North American to be awarded a post-graduate degree in risk, crisis, and disaster management. A life-long learner, Allan has been trained in negotiation skills and leadership at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has taken extension courses at the University of Toronto, and is part-way through a certificate in emergency preparedness at Ryerson University.

Allan has just been named to the board of the Mackenzie Institute, the think tank dedicated to security issues.

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