47th Alumni Awards Celebration
Saturday, September 24, 2022
5:30 PM - 10:00 PM

The Great Hall, Somerville House, Western University

Alumni Awards

Please join us at the 47th Alumni Awards Celebration, where Western honours our extraordinary alumni during a fabulous three-course meal.

The Alumni Awards of Merit and the Faculty of Science Alumni Award of Achievement recipients as well as the Don Wright Faculty of Music Alumni Wall of Fame inductees will be recognized at this event.


Reception: 5:30 p.m.  

Dinner and awards presentations: 6:30 p.m.

Tickets are $100 per person, with eight people per table.

The honourees for 2022 are:

Alumni Award of Merit

  • Dr. Ivan Smith Award – David Simmonds, BA'07
  • Professional Achievement – Raywat Deonandan PhD'01
  • Community Service – Manisha Braithwaite, BA'97
  • Young Alumni – Leigh Vanderloo BHSc'10, MSc'12, PhD'17


Don Wright Faculty of Music Alumni Wall of Fame

  • Gwyn Beynon, BA’67, MEd’83
  • Victor Micallef, BMusA'96


Faculty of Science Alumni Award of Achievement

  • Amy Gottschling, BSc'99, PhD'05


Please purchase your tickets online no later than Friday, September 16, 2022

Please contact Western Alumni if you require information in an alternate format or have other accessibility needs.

Covid 19 - Event will follow all Provincial Government and Local Health Authority (MLHU) requirements.

We are sorry, the deadline for registering for this event online has passed. Please email alumnirsvp@uwo.ca or call 1-800-258-6896 and press 2 if you are still interested in attending. Please leave your name, email, phone number, the name of your guest and specify which event you will be attending.


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