By paNOW Staff

Gordon Rawlinson awarded honorary SIAST diploma

Jun 14, 2013 | 5:20 PM

It’s a day many look forward to after years of hard work—graduation.

On Friday SIAST Woodland Campus held their graduation ceremony at the E.A. Rawlinson Centre in Prince Albert.

More than 200 graduates walked across the stage out of the 800 in the 2013 class and SIAST president Dr. Larry Rosia said that is good considering the rainy weather.

“It was a really good turnout given the weather. It might have been raining outside, but it was sunshine on the inside. It was a great day for SIAST,” said Rosia.  “There’s a lot of proud families; a lot of proud parents and spouses and loved ones.”

Jennifer Hoey was all smiles as she accepted the Governor’s General’s Academic Bronze Medal early on in the program and so was Tyler Vanstone who won the SIAST Student Outstanding Citizenship award.

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In addition to recognizing the efforts of many students, owner of Rawlco Radio Ltd. Gordon Rawlinson was awarded an honorary diploma.

“Our winner today is from the Prince Albert area and is certainly a symbol of what you can do with your life and how you can really build a great career and is someone we’re really proud of and honoured to have accepted this award on our behalf,” Rosia said.

Rawlinson addressed the graduating class and opened up with a laugh, saying he also puts Saskatchewan first to the point where the donor bank won’t take his blood because he “bleeds green”.

He delivered a speech meant to help the graduates advance into a successful career.

“Everybody says ‘do what you love’, but I want to add a second thing and that is do what you love but also what you’re good at. Just doing what you love if you’re not really good at it, you can spend a lot of really tough times. Or if you’re really good at something, but you don’t love it you won’t do your best,” Rawlinson said in his speech.

He continued on to explain how he thinks a happy life can be achieved.

“I believe you should look at your life as if it is a three-legged stool. There’s yourself, your career and your family and you want to try and keep that stool in balance. If any one of those three things falls down, the stool can kick over.”

Rawlinson was born in Prince Albert and graduated in 1968 with distinction from University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor of commerce in administration.

He has built himself a successful career over the years starting as a sales person and ending up with 15 radio stations across Alberta and Saskatchewan.

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