Henry Maier: A memorial service for Henry Maier was held in traditional Quaker Friends tradition  in Seattle Washington on May 22.  See http://www.cyc-net.org/People/050518henrymaier.htm  The University of Washington is establishing  a memorial chair in his honour. See http://admin.urel.washington.edu/uweek/archives/issue/uweek_story_small.asp?id=2771 

Dr. Frances Ricks retired from the University of Victoria, School of Child and Youth Care this month. See http://www.cyc.uvic.ca/

Gerry Fewster retired from the School of Child and Youth Care at Malaspina College in Vancouver.  See http://www.mala.ca/calendar/UniversityDegreeCompletion/bacyc.asp

Mark Smith:  Mark is moving to Edinburgh University  this coming September. See http://www.ed.ac.uk/

Ryerson University in Toronto recently received approval for a BA in Child and Youth Care and for a special 6 course Certificate program in Residential Care.  See http://ryerson.ca/ualca/programs/child.html

John Digney of I Rath na nOg in Ireland was the keynote speaker for the Nova Scotia CYC Association conference during International CYC week.  See http://www.garthgoodwin.info/NSCYCWA.htm

Mark Krueger's new book "Themes and Stories in Youth Work Practice" has been released.  See http://www.cyc-net.org/index.html#market

Parry Shere and Niall McElwee edited the first Irish text book which was released during international CYC week. See http://www.cyc-net.org/index.html#market

The Ontario Association of Child and Youth Counselors celebrated Child and Youth Care Worker's week in the first week of May. See http://www.cyccanada.ca/

Joe Markey waas elected as the new president of the nova Scotia Child & Youth Care Workers Association. See http://www.garthgoodwin.info/NSCYCWA.htm

The New Brunswick Child and Youth Care Workers held their 2nd annual conference in the second week of May. See http://www.garthgoodwin.info/CYCANB.html