Distinguished Alumna Award | Trafalgar School for Girls

An Impressive Lot

Established in 2007, the Distinguished Alumna Award recognizes annually the achievements of a particularly accomplished Trafalgar Old Girl, a woman whose career or activities have made a difference in the world and can serve to inspire our students today. Based on nominations received from Traf alumnae, the award criteria are these:

She is a role model and inspiration to others
She embodies the courage to break new ground and to reach for her full potential
She is seen by others to have demonstrated excellence and/or has distinguished herself in her chosen field
She has made a difference in the lives of others/has contributed to her local or the global community;
She has demonstrated leadership through her vision or acceptance of responsibility.

Previous Award Winners

List of 13 items.

2019 - Susan Senecal '76

President and Chief Executive Officer of A&W Food Services of Canada Inc.
2018 – Alix Ohlin '88

Author and Educator
2017 – Jennifer Moroz ’90, Carolyn Taylor ’90

Traf Friends - Comedian & Journalist
2016 – Nilima Gulrajani ’95

Research Fellow
2015 – Leticia Artola Cox ’48

Pioneer in the field of family pschiatry, hygiene, and medicine
2014 – LCDR (Ret.) Sherry Daws-Knowles Richardson CD ’53

First female ship commander, Canadian Navy
2013 – Lola Sheppard ’88

Award-Winning Architect
2012 – Caryl Churchill ’55

Playwright
2011 – Lynne Echenberg ’89

Lawyer & Foster Care Advocate
2010 – Ruth Simons '75

Palliative Care Physician and Educator
2009 – Rhona "Grace" Wurtele Gillis '40, Rhoda "Isabella" Wurtele Eaves '40

Olympic Skiing Pioneers
2008 – Anne Wood '76

International Relief Worker
2007 – Cathy Ferguson Burrows '75

Bank Marketing and Information Pioneer

This Year's Award Winner

Sunniva Sorby '78 is Director of Global Sales for Polar Latitudes – Antarctic Operator and Co-Founder of Hearts in the Ice.

An experienced expeditioner, Sunniva has skied across the Greenland icecap, across King George Island, Antarctica, across Antarctica to the South Pole and has spent 23 years working in Antarctica as a guide and historian.

Hearts In The Ice is a platform for enthusiasm and positive energy around the negative impact of climate change. The goal is to inspire and motivate by being real-time modern day adventurers living as simply as possible with the most advanced prototypes for alternative energy, materials we source and the clothing we wear.

"Having explored and born witness to the changes in the Polar regions for over two decades, Hearts in the Ice is my way of highlighting the changes and engaging action - in a positive way!" -Sunniva Sorby '78