Win marks three years in a row for college alumni
Benjamin Valliquette Kissell accepts his Premier’s Awards Photo courtesy: Higher Education Summit & Premier’s Award
Benjamin Valliquette Kissell, a graduate from George Brown’s construction management program, has won the 2015 Premier’s Award in the recent graduate category.
The annual awards, which were handed out in Toronto on Nov. 17, honour the efforts of college graduates in Ontario and around the world. Award recipients and nominees were profiled in the Globe and Mail newspaper.
Kissell, who now serves as a project manager for construction management company, Gillam Group, graduated from George Brown College in 2013. According to a release from George Brown, Kissel played an important part in the construction of the Aga Khan Museum and the Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism, and the renovation of the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto.
As a student at George Brown Kissell was involved in charitable work. According to the college, Kissell was the director of the Habitat for Humanity Campus Coalition, which helped to construct over 100 habitat homes in the GTA.
Five other GBC graduates were nominated along with Kissell across different categories at the 2015 Premier’s Awards. Brad Goreski for creative arts and design, Susan Gapka for community services, Cheryl Cecchetto for business, Louis Busch for health sciences and Doug Hietkamp for technology.
George Brown alumni have won Premier’s Awards for three consecutive years. Jessica Lynn Whitbread, a graduate from the community workers program, won in 2014, Jim Caruk, a graduate of the sheet metal workers program, received the honour in 2013, and Roger Mooking, a graduate of the culinary management program won in 2012.
