UNBF BUSINESS STUDENT RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS SOBEY AWARD
A third-year business student at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton has received one of the region's top academic prizes. Gordon Margison (shown below) is the recipient of a Frank H. Sobey Business Excellence Award for 2006-07.
Valued at $10,000, the award honours outstanding academic achievement and community involvement. Mr. Margison, is the son of Douglas Margison and Jennifer Griffiths of Fredericton. He is a full-time student studying aviation and operations management. This unique three-year program integrates commercial flight training with essential business and management skills development.
Outside of university, Mr. Margison is a scout leader, volunteers with the ski patrol at Crabbe Mountain, and tutors fellow students in preparation for their pilot’s licensing exams.
"Gordon Margison is clearly an outstanding student," said Dan Coleman, dean of the faculty of business administration at UNBF. "We were very pleased to recommend him for the Sobey Award, pleased that he received it, and thankful to Sobeys for sponsoring this scholarship which recognizes excellence in business studies."
Mr. Margison feels honoured to even be considered for the award. "It was with great surprise and even greater pride that I received the Frank H. Sobey Award for Business Excellence and join a long list of admirable recipients,” said Mr. Margison.
Mr. Margison has his commercial pilot’s license. This award will allow him to continue his aviation career and obtain an instructor rating for his pilot’s license so that he can teach new students how to fly and share in one of his passions.
His future plans also include managing and flying with a corporate flight department or an international MedEvac operation, but for now he plans to continue working in the community and preparing for graduation in May.
The Frank H. Sobey Fund for Excellence in Business Studies was established in 1989 in memory of Frank H. Sobey, the late chairperson of Sobeys Inc. and Empire Co. Ltd. It supports as many as six awards each year. To be eligible, candidates must be residents of the Atlantic provinces, have completed one year of business studies, and be enrolled full-time in a faculty of business at a university in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island or Newfoundland and Labrador.
The academic qualification for these awards is a minimum overall average of 85 per cent or 3.67 grade points with no individual mark below 80 per cent. The recipients are recommended by the deans of their respective faculties of business. Final selections are made by the board of the scholarship fund.
This is the 11th time that a student from the UNBF faculty of business administration has received the Frank H. Sobey Business Excellence Award.
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