Recipients of the 2025 Distinguished Service Awards stand on stage with Queen’s Chancellor Shelagh Rogers and Principal and Vice-Chancellor Patrick Deane. From left: Chancellor Rogers; Principal Deane; Stephen Archer, Meds’81; Sandra Murray; Ann Tierney, LLB’89, MPA’04; Tianna Edwards, MA’23; Heather Black, Sc’81; and Panagiotis (Takis) Katsabanis, MASc’83, PhD’88. The ceremony was held Nov. 7 at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. (Photo: Stephen Wild)
On Nov. 7, the Queen’s community gathered at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts to celebrate the six recipients of the 2025 Distinguished Service…
Flying Officer George Publow Kinnear, Royal Canadian Air Force, Meds'47, at left; Lieutenant Bruce Mackenzie Deans, 1st Hussars, Com'38, centre; and Able Seaman Donald Winchester White, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, Com'36.
More than a million Canadians and Newfoundlanders served in uniform during the Second World War – an astounding number given Canada’s population was just 12 million…