Brian Dixon:  

• After graduation in 1963 I was accepted in the U of Manitoba, Winnipeg, with a scholarship to take science classes required for the College of Dentistry. I had too good a time and failed. • I got a job as a bank junior which was lower than a teller. I took a couple classes at Regina College which, halleluiah, I passed. I then went to the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon and took Marketing in the College of Commerce. I still had a good time but kept my nose to the grindstone. • I met a young lady who played center for the U of S Huskiettes Women’s Basketball Team in a pub. She invited me to a Sadie Hawkins dance. We dated for a year and half and were married in the summer between my third and fourth year. My wife Judy and I have shared a tube of toothpaste for 45 years. • I have always had an interest in athletics and sat on the U of S Men’s Athletic Board whose job was to run the men’s intercollegiate athletic program. I was member for three years and the president for two. • I graduated in 1970 with a B. Comm degree in Marketing. My first job was with Sears in Saskatoon in the sporting goods department. I started to take MBA classes but I didn’t continue on to get that degree. • In 1972 I was hired by IBM in Saskatoon and moved to Vancouver where I have lived ever since. There I was exposed to tons of courses the best of which was executive type training at the University of Western Ontario. • I had lots of interesting jobs with them, li...Expand for more