Leslie Brown, Professor, Mount Saint Vincent University

Tanya Gracie, Canadian Co-operative Association

Catherine Leviten-Reid, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan (President)

J.J. McMurtry, Assistant Professor, York University (Interim Secretary/Treasurer)

Robin Puga, Board Member, Vancouver Co-op Radio and Co-host of Each for All: The Co-operative Connection (Vice-president)

Janel Smith, Research Coordinator/Social Economy Student Network Coordinator, British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies, University of Victoria

Luc Theriault, Associate Professor, University of New Brunswick

I snapped this photo of Lou Hammond Ketilson after receiving the 2008 CASC/ASÉC Merit Award — it couldn’t have gone to a more deserving person. I was surprised to hear that Lou is the first woman to receive the award.

Please use this photo in your publications, newsletters, websites, etc to congratulate Lou and to promote CASC (http://www.coopresearch.coop/). Here is a link to the Lou’s photo online: http://photos.bcics.org/main.php?g2_itemId=7566&g2_imageViewsIndex=1
Those looking for some bio information on Lou Hammond Ketilson can check out the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives website: http://www.usaskstudies.coop/staff/Lou/index.php

If you would like to see the rest of the photos I took at CASC this year you can view them on the BCICS Photo Gallery website here: http://photos.bcics.org/main.php?g2_itemId=7345&g2_page=1