Terry Crowe tracked down 95 of Waterloo Planning’s first graduates

Terry Crowe (BES ’72), a member of the fifth class of Waterloo’s School of Planning, wondered for years what his fellow graduates went on to do. After retiring he started asking, sending former classmates 12 questions about their studies, careers and views on the profession.

The result is a newly released grad report that follows the first five cohorts, who graduated from 1967 to 1971, to the present. Crowe found 95 of them. They include Jean Monteith, an award-winning planner and Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Planners who founded Monteith Brown Planning Consultants, and David Witty, who helped Atikaki Wilderness Provincial Park win its designation and prepared the memorandum of understanding behind Grasslands National Park.

Crowe himself had a 46-year career from coast to coast, including work on rerouting Nova Scotia’s Highway 101 to save Annapolis Royal and on the 2010 Winter Olympic Speed Skating Oval in Richmond, British Columbia. The faculty says the report shows how the early graduates shaped communities and policy, and reconnecting also brought back long-forgotten memories.