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 alumni.association@lakelandcollege.ca
 780 853 8466
 

We're #2 in Alberta, #1 in your heart

Here's our story by the numbers: Vermilion School of Agriculture 21st Celebration

  • We're the 3rd oldest post-secondary in Alberta.
  • We're the 2nd to establish an alumni association.
  • We're 1st in the hearts of our alumni.

The first class of the Vermilion School of Agriculture formed an alumni association in 1914. This was just a year after the college opened and before anyone officially graduated. One of the remarkable things is the association has thrived. And found reasons to celebrate. The best example might be the 1935 21st anniversary celebration. 

Twenty-one years isn't a significant anniversary. It doesn't end with a zero or a five. But the alumni association believed it had something to celebrate. VSA reopened the previous September after closing for the 1933-34 term. It was the middle of the Depression. Economic times were tough. Drought made it even tougher for farmers. But more than 100 alumni attended the special celebration. More than 250 sat down to a banquet including their families, current and former staff, students and even the provincial agriculture minister.

Those two days in July were when VSA came of age. Some of today's homecoming traditions started then. A roll call by year has become the class parade of today.

For more than a century, the association has served and supported the thousands of students who attended:

  • the Vermilion School of Agriculture (1913 - 1963)
  • the Vermilion Agricultural & Vocational College (1963 - 1970)
  • Vermilion College (1970 - 1975)
  • Lakeland College (1975 - present)

Alumni House in the fall

Learn more about the association and its activities in the drop down menus below.

You are more than welcome to contact the association.

By the way, the association and its members were instrumental in restoring Alumni House. The Edwardian house started life as the demonstration farm manager's home and housed college principals. Today Alumni House is the oldest building on campus and has five guest rooms.

President: James McLaughlin, Class of 1967
Secretary/Treasurer: Jim Storch, Class of 1990

Directors:
Bert Journault, Class of 1970
Ed Lefsrud, Class of 1965
Sherry Martin, Class of 1989
Egon Larsen, Class of 1974
Jenny Songhurst, Class of 1974

College Liaison:
Kayleigh Schmid, Class of 2011

The Lakeland College Alumni Association is dedicated to the fellowship of former students and friends of Lakeland College. Our five objectives are:

  1. To assist members in their efforts to maintain contact with those they came to know during their time at Lakeland College and to provide for an opportunity to reunite from time to time, and
  2. To promote and provide activities which will assist students at Lakeland College academically, recreationally, socially, and/or financially, and
  3. To assist Lakeland College in its efforts to keep in touch with the educational needs of the community and region it serves, and
  4. To promote the best interests of Lakeland College, its students, and its staff and the community.
  5. Provide scholarships or bursaries to students of Lakeland College.

Filed on July 24, 2016