Governor General and husband honoured at SPUBy Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News OTTAWA (CCN) — It’s not every day the Canada’s Governor General and her husband, the Viceregal Consort, stop by to visit Saint Paul University.
Thus it was standing room only Jan. 27 at an assembly honouring Governor General Michaëlle Jean and her husband Jean-Daniel Lafond to mark the creation of a special endowment fund in their names.
The Haitian-born Governor General emerged from her limousine with her French-born husband, a former philosophy professor and documentary film producer and writer. Snowflakes dotted their coats as they entered the atrium to be greeted by SPU Rector Chantal Beauvais and communications and marketing director Anne Chevalier.
SPU established The Michaëlle Jean and Jean-Daniel Lafond Endowment Fund for Social Communications Studies to provide bursaries to international students enrolled in the Catholic university’s social communications department, which recently passed its 40th anniversary.
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