Remembering Gerry Pond

I first saw Gerry Pond in action on Feb. 19, 2015, at a post-secondary education conference hosted by the Association of Atlantic Universities. I’d met Gerry before. In fact, I was lucky enough to chat with him often over the last fifteen years, and was one of the legion of friends and admirers saddened last week to learn he had died at the age of 82. His impact was felt more in the Maritime provinces than in Newfoundland and Labrador, but I feel comfortable in saying that he did more than any o