The Trudy & Dave Times

Dr. David I. Shore, B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D.
The Eifel Tower. Taken During David's World Tour

  In April of 1997 David finally finished the last requirement for his PhD - the oral exam. It was the last exam David should ever have to take (we hope). Yes, believe it or not, his education is complete. After only twenty five years of formal education (not including kindergarten) David can say "I am finished". The process of completing this last requirement was almost too much for him. There was a bureaucratic mishap, a cancelled defence and a second flight out to Vancouver, but, in the end, he passed without the need for too many revisions. David would like to thank all those people who made this accomplishment possible - Trudy, his Mom and Dad, the rest of his family, Jim Enns, Vince Di Lollo and his many friends at the UBC Department of Psychology .
  So, you ask, what does it mean to be a doctor. Well, first off, David can not write you any prescriptions, he cannot council you or your friends on how to cope with your misbehaving child, parent, sibling or spouse. Basically, it means that he can put an addition three letters after his name (PhD) and two letters in front (Dr). Seriously though, it means that he has learned a lot of stuff about things you would never want to hear about. OK, enough joking. He is very, very excited to have his PhD and the research he is doing now is even more exciting. In brief, David is examining temporal processing in perception (vision, touch, and hearing), which is to say, "How does the brain know when events in the world occur?". Most of this work is being completed in collaboration with Dr. Charles Spence (see page 6) of Oxford University.
  In addition to his over-extended research time, David is also team-teaching a third year laboratory course in cognition with Ray Klein. This is a lot of fun! They decided to take a very historical slant on the course. As such, many of the readings come from before the turn of the century. It is truly amazing how much they knew over one hundred years ago!
  David's official position at Dalhousie is Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow. You can call him fellow for short.
  His current funding ends this summer and we are presently waiting to find out where in the world we will end up next year. David has applied for two fellowships to work in Toronto and he has applied for additional funds so that we could remain here in Halifax. Beyond these two easy choices, he has also applied to positions all over the continent. We will have to wait and see what materializes. Keep your fingers crossed.

Continental Kitty at it Again

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we had seen the Halifax Herald classifieds on the internet and Ray actually went to see our eventual home. We ended up renting a beautiful place with hardwood floors, a fireplace, a backyard with a garden and a nice new kitchen with windows above the cupboards just for Bailey.
  Trudy flew back to Vancouver to finish up at Crofton on January 7th. She stayed with our friends, Norah and Maris, in our old place on Yew Street. They had taken over our lease and were kind enough to put her up for the month, and David for two weeks. It's a strange feeling living in your own house with someone else's stuff. A huge thank you Norah and Maris for letting us invade their space. David headed back east about mid-month, stopping in Toronto along the way to pick up Bailey who was staying with Trudy's parents. Trudy arrived in Halifax for good on February 7th. She, of course, managed to squeeze in a few days of skiing before leaving BC.
  And that's it - we're here in Halifax. It's a great place to live and visitas many of you found out this summer. We're both really happy to have had the chance to live on both coastsalthough we do still miss Vancouver and, especially, Whistler.

Trudy's Christmas break started on December 18th, 1996 and the movers picked up our belongings on the 19th. Of course we had everything packed into neat, little, labelled boxes well in advance - NOT! We drove to Toronto starting on the 20th. Bailey came with us in the car and behaved very well (thanks to our other companionkitty kat valium). We made excellent time with a little cooperation from the weather man and the fact that there is no daytime speed limit in Montana - woohoo! We made it to Toronto on the 24th. As usual, we had a great time in the big city, but, as usual, our stay was too short. We spent New Year's up north with the gang (see story on opposite page).
  On January 2nd, we were off to Halifax to do some apartment hunting. This turned out to be relatively easy. We had a place to stay, with David's sponsor, Ray Klein, and we had Liz's cellular phone at our disposal. These two things are indispensable when looking for an apartment! Thanks to both the Klein family and Liz. Weeks before we even left Vancouver

Back in the Classroom?

   You guessed it, more school. David just couldn't stay away. He missed studying and belonging to a student body. He is presently enrolled in a black and white photography course at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD). David took the same course last term and developed the pictures you see on these two pages. He also developed the family photo on page 7. David is using an old 35 mm Minolta metal body camera which used to belong to his Dad. It's been around the world, bumped, bruised and beaten up. But it still has a lot of life left in it!
  It was a tough decision whether to take photography or pottery. David took a number of pottery courses in Vancouver, really enjoys it and will do it again, but photography won out for right now. Besides, pottery just wouldn't be the "girls' night out" that it was in Vancouver with Heather and Norah. In the end, David chose photography over ceramics because he wanted to shoot, develop, scan and publish pictures (ie. be involved in every stage of the process). This volume realizes that goal for him.

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Dr. David I. Shore, B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D.			The Eifel Tower. Taken During David's World Tour
In April of 1997 David finally finished the last requirement for his PhD - the oral exam. It was the last exam David should ever have to take (we hope). Yes, believe it or not, his education is complete. After only twenty five years of formal education (not including kindergarten) David can say "I am finished". The process of completing this last requirement was almost too much for him. There was a bureaucratic mishap, a cancelled defence and a second flight out to Vancouver, but, in the end, he passed without the need for too many revisions. David would like to thank all those people who made this accomplishment possible - Trudy, his Mom and Dad, the rest of his family, Jim Enns, Vince Di Lollo and his many friends at the UBC Department of Psychology . So, you ask, what does it mean to be a doctor. Well, first off, David can not write you any prescriptions, he cannot council you or your friends on how to cope with your misbehaving child, parent, sibling or spouse. Basically, it means that he can put an addition three letters after his name (PhD) and two letters in front (Dr). Seriously though, it means that he has learned a lot of stuff about things you	would never want to hear about. OK, enough joking. He is very, very excited to have his PhD and the research he is doing now is even more exciting. In brief, David is examining temporal processing in perception (vision, touch, and hearing), which is to say, "How does the brain know when events in the world occur?". Most of this work is being completed in collaboration with Dr. Charles Spence (see page 6) of Oxford University. In addition to his over-extended research time, David is also team-teaching a third year laboratory course in cognition with Ray Klein. This is a lot of fun! They decided to take a very historical slant on the course. As such, many	of the readings come from before the turn of the century. It is truly amazing how much they knew over one hundred years ago! David's official position at Dalhousie is Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow. You can call him fellow for short. His current funding ends this summer and we are presently waiting to find out where in the world we will end up next year. David has applied for two fellowships to work in Toronto and he has applied for additional funds so that we could remain here in Halifax. Beyond these two easy choices, he has also applied to positions all over the continent. We will have to wait and see what materializes. Keep your fingers crossed.	The Eifel Tower. Taken During David's World Tour
			Continental Kitty at it Again
			Continued from Page 1	we had seen the Halifax Herald classifieds on the internet and Ray actually went to see our eventual home. We ended up renting a beautiful place with hardwood floors, a fireplace, a backyard with a garden and a nice new kitchen with windows above the cupboards just for Bailey. Trudy flew back to Vancouver to finish up at Crofton on January 7th. She stayed with our friends, Norah and Maris, in our old place on Yew Street. They had taken over our lease and were kind enough to put her up for the month, and David for two weeks. It's a strange feeling living in your own house with someone else's stuff. A huge thank you Norah and Maris for letting us invade their space. David headed back east about mid-month, stopping in Toronto along the way to pick up Bailey who was staying with Trudy's parents. Trudy arrived in Halifax for good on February 7th. She, of course, managed to squeeze in a few days of skiing before leaving BC. And that's it - we're here in Halifax. It's a great place to live and visitas many of you found out this summer. We're both really happy to have had the chance to live on both coastsalthough we do still miss Vancouver and, especially, Whistler.
			Trudy's Christmas break started on December 18th, 1996 and the movers picked up our belongings on the 19th. Of course we had everything packed into neat, little, labelled boxes well in advance - NOT! We drove to Toronto starting on the 20th. Bailey came with us in the car and behaved very well (thanks to our other companionkitty kat valium). We made excellent time with a little cooperation from the weather man and the fact that there is no daytime speed limit in Montana - woohoo! We made it to Toronto on the 24th. As usual, we had a great time in the big city, but, as usual, our stay was too short. We spent New Year's up north with the gang (see story on opposite page). On January 2nd, we were off to Halifax to do some apartment hunting. This turned out to be relatively easy. We had a place to stay, with David's sponsor, Ray Klein, and we had Liz's cellular phone at our disposal. These two things are indispensable when looking for an apartment! Thanks to both the Klein family and Liz. Weeks before we even left Vancouver
	Back in the Classroom?
	You guessed it, more school. David just couldn't stay away. He missed studying and belonging to a student body. He is presently enrolled in a black and white photography course at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD). David took the same course last term and developed the pictures you see on these two pages. He also developed the family photo on page 7. David is using an old 35 mm Minolta metal body camera which used to belong to his Dad. It's been around the world, bumped, bruised and beaten up. But it still has	a lot of life left in it! It was a tough decision whether to take photography or pottery. David took a number of pottery courses in Vancouver, really enjoys it and will do it again, but photography won out for right now. Besides, pottery just wouldn't be the "girls' night out" that it was in Vancouver with Heather and Norah. In the end, David chose photography over ceramics because he wanted to shoot, develop, scan and publish pictures (ie. be involved in every stage of the process). This volume realizes that goal for him.
A Typical Winter Day on the Dalhousie Campus
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