{"id":12131,"date":"2024-03-05T14:02:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T19:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=12131"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:59:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:59:33","slug":"jean-teron-and-william-teron","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/jean-teron-and-william-teron\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Teron and William Teron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jean Teron was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9:30a.m. ceremony on Thursday, June 13, \u201cin recognition of outstanding contribution to business and commitment to philanthropic endeavours and the community.\u201d
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Jean Teron, along with her husband Bill, has been a long-time champion of fundraising in various sectors of the Ottawa community. Her work with the United Way campaign, the Kidney Foundation, the Ottawa Hospital Foundation and the National Arts Centre has had a significant impact on the lives of many people living in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has a psychology degree from Carleton and has served the university in several capacities as an active alumna, and as a member of the university’s Board of Governors. In 1983, she became the first woman to be the chair of Carleton\u2019s Board of Governors and served in that capacity until 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has also been a board member with the Trillium Foundation, and a member of the Ashbury College Board of Governors, serving as its chair for a three-year period beginning in 1986. She co-founded the William and Jean Teron Foundation in 2008, is a current Life Governor at Ashbury College, and is involved with fundraising at Ottawa Chamber Music Society,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Teron was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on Thursday, June 13, \u201cin recognition of outstanding contribution to business and commitment to philanthropic endeavours and the community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Willam is the founder of Teron International Building Technologies and is known as the “Father of Kanata” for his influence in shaping and building the west-end neighborhood in Ottawa. He is responsible for two suburban developments in the Ottawa area – the development of the former hamlet of Bells Corners, Ont. into a garden suburb (through the development of housing estates called Lynwood Park and Arbeatha Park in the early 1960s) – and the development of Beaverbrook, the beginning of the city of Kanata (later amalgamated into greater Ottawa) from a greenfield site in the Township of March, west of the Ottawa greenbelt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frorn 1973 to 1979, he was the chairman and president of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). He has been active in the community through his work with the National Arts Centre, Canadian Housing Design Council, the Ottawa General Hospital and the African Students\u2019 Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1978, he was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute at Canada. He has won three national and four regional awards for housing from the Canadian Housing Design Council. He has also received the Queen Elizabeth Il Silver, Galden and Diamond Jubilee medals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jean Teron was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9:30a.m. ceremony on Thursday, June 13, \u201cin recognition of outstanding contribution to business and commitment to philanthropic endeavours and the community.\u201d Jean Teron, along with her husband Bill, has been a long-time champion of fundraising in various sectors of the Ottawa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":340,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-12131","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12131"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13560,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12131\/revisions\/13560"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=12131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}