Reminiscing: from CCWESTT to the Senate

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Reminiscingfrom CCWESTT to the Senate

• The Honourable Dr. Lillian Eva (Quan) Dyck
• Senator
• CCWESTT conference, Calgary, June 23, 2006

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Outline

• Remembering past WIS conferences
• Realizing their importance
• Recollecting memories of our proudest moments
• Lessons learned

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Gender does matter in science!
An eye-opener I wasnt crazy after all!
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My first WIS conference, 1993
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If Women ran science
A Panel presentation that was submitted after the
deadline.
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Chairing our own WIS conference in Saskatoon, 1996
My paper Putting the Aboriginal into the
scientist a female, urban Indian Scientists
perspective.
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CCWEST conference, 1998
My paper Stages in the Path to Equity for
Faculty Women in Science departments
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WIS bkfst Roundtable, 1998
Invited by DFAIT and partly funded by the UofS
My role an impromptu telling of my story
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WIS Forum, London, UK, 2000
My paper Western, Feminist and Aboriginal
Science
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The inside story of London 2000.Betsy, forget
the rules!Go straight to the president of the
university.
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ICWES conference, Ottawa, 2002
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The Medicine Wheel Finding Solutions to
Obstacles
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Provide tutors, mentors
Keep the spirit alive
Trust/use intuition
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Offer support, befriend
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CCWESTT conference, 2004
My paper Enrolment of female graduate students
in the sciences at the University of
Saskatchewan
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CCWESTT meeting, St. Catherines, 2004
Graduate students sponsored by the PACSW, U of S.
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WIS Harvard Forum, 2005
A Blue Ribbon Panel to be developed. Senate
Statement.
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Lessons along the way

• WIS conferences kept my spirit alive.
• WIS confs were interesting.
• WIS confs were fun!
• WIS confs stretched my thinking.
• WIS confs got me recognized.
• WIS activities got me into the Senate!

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We can make a difference step by
stepconference after conference.So lets keep
going Up, up and away!
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