Kelvin Broad's roving commission - Part III

19/10/2008

Over the last couple of years, the Foundation's website has outlined the life and times of Kelvin Board (1975-79).

To recap – in 2006 Kelvin was the Assistant Professor for Curriculum, Teaching and Learning in the Graduate Division of the University of Calgary. Having graduated with a PhD, MA, BEd and Dip Teaching, it wasn’t surprising Kelvin looks for outdoor pursuits to balance his day. A former member of the New Zealand mountain running team, Kelvin has not long taken up a new interest – that of sheep dog trialing.

At the 2006 Alberta trials, Kelvin and his border collie Blade took out the Alberta Novice Championship.

Part 2 of the story was that not long afterwards, while still involved with distance learning at two universities, Kelvin and his wife Angie shifted to the south west of Scotland where they spend a large part of their day training sheep dogs and being involved in trialing.

The New Zealand sheep dog trialing team at last month's world championships in Llandeilo, Wales. Kelvin Broad and Blade are seen at left

We can now report Part 3, thanks to Kelvin’s father Michael Broad (1943-47).

Kelvin and Angie are now in Wales where they wanted to make a contribution to an event they refer to as the Olympics of the sheepdog world – the World Sheepdog Trial. This event was staged In mid September where 22 countries were represented by 242 handlers. Kelvin and Blade were members of the New Zealand team.

Angie's job was looking after the World Trial website and helping to ensure the world knew about the event. Her PhD in Marketing came in handy. She and Kelvin designed the World Trial Souvenir Programme and Kelvin also helped out in organising the layout of the trade stands.

All of this was squeezed in around Kelvin’s teaching commitments for Universities in the United States and Canada. Kelvin, with a PhD in Education, now teaches Language Arts Education to students around the globe through the internet.