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Harvey Secter
President at Resolution Processes, Inc925 - 167 Lombard Ave
Winnipeg, MB R3B 0V3
(204) 942-4408
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Harvey Secter
President at Resolution Processes, Inc.
Profile
Harvey L.
Secter is currently a Director at James Richardson & Sons Ltd.
and President at Resolution Processes, Inc. He was previously the President & CEO of Ricki's Canada Ltd.
from 1972 to 1988.
He also served as a Director at FP Newspapers Income Fund from 2002 to
2011 and as an Independent Director at FP Newspapers, Inc. from 2010 to
2020.
Additionally, he was the Chancellor of the University of
Manitoba from 2012 to 2019 and briefly served as a Professor at the same
institution in 2008.
Mr. Secter holds a graduate degree from
Harvard Law School and a graduate degree and an undergraduate degree
from the University of Manitoba.
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Harvey Secter active positions
| Companies | Position | Start |
|---|---|---|
| Resolution Processes, Inc. | President | 17/01/2011 |
James Richardson & Sons Ltd.
| Director/Board Member | - |
Former positions of Harvey Secter
| Companies | Position | End |
|---|---|---|
| FP NEWSPAPERS INC. | Director/Board Member | 06/04/2020 |
| University of Manitoba | Corporate Officer/Principal | 31/05/2019 |
FP Newspapers Income Fund
| Director/Board Member | 07/01/2011 |
| University of Manitoba | Corporate Officer/Principal | 30/06/2008 |
| Ricki'S Canada Ltd. | Chief Executive Officer | 01/01/1988 |
Training of Harvey Secter
| University of Manitoba | Undergraduate Degree |
| Harvard Law School | Graduate Degree |
https://umanitoba.ca/law/community-and-partners/our-history
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2021-Present
Dean of Law Richard Jochelson is the current Dean of the Faculty of Law. He holds a Ph.D. in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, a Master of Laws from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Calgary Faculty of Law (Gold Medal), and a Bachelor of Science in Zoology (with Distinction), also from the University of Calgary. He served his articling year as a clerk at the Alberta Court of Appeal and Court of Queen’s Bench, before working at one of Canada’s largest law firms. He taught criminal law for 10 years at the University of Winnipeg prior to joining the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law.
Community leaders David Asper, Harvey and Sandra Secter among the honourees at recent University of Manitoba convocation
By MYRON LOVE Community leaders David Asper and Harvey Secter were among ten individuals who were recipients of honorary degrees at the University of Manitoba’s most recent convocation.
For Harvey Secter, who was recognized
with a Doctorate of Laws, the award was the culmination of a 30-plus
year relationship with the university in one capacity or another. What
made the event even sweeter for the university’s former Chancellor is
that his wife, Sandra, was also honoured by the university with the
Peter D. Curry Chancellor’s Award, which is given out annually to an
individual who “has made outstanding contributions to the develop of the
university.”
The Secter name is well known in our community.
Harvey’s parents, the late Joe and Gwen Secter, set the bar high in
terms of philanthropy and community leadership for their children – and
Harvey and Sandra have certainly made their own mark in community
service.
Harvey Secter began his working career in the family
business, succeeding his father in operating Ricki’s Canada Ltd., a
chain of ladies’ clothing stores across Canada, in partnership with his
brother-in-law, Sam Guralnick.
In his time in business, Secter was
involved with the Jewish Child and Family Service, which led into
volunteering with the United Way, including chairing the 1998 United Way
campaign.
He was part of the fundraising effort on behalf of the
St. Boniface Hospital’s new Research Centre and served on the board of
the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba for more than 12 years.
In 1982,
Secter and Guralnick sold the business and Secter, after fully retiring
from the company – by then in his 40s – returned in 1988 to the
University of Manitoba – from whence he had previously earned a Bachelor
of Commerce degree in 1969 – to pursue a career in law. He followed
that up with a Master’s degree in Law from Harvard in 1995.
That same
year, after returning to Winnipeg, he became a lecturer in Law at his
alma mater, teaching in the fields of mediation and arbitration. In
1999, he was appointed Dean of the Law faculty. And, after retiring from
that position in 2008, he was asked to serve as Chancellor of the
university, a role he filled until 2019.
It was her contributions to
the university as the wife of the Chancellor that earned Sandra Secter
the Peter Curry Award. Harvey notes that it is unusual in that Sandra
has never held an official position at the university.
The Chancellor
serves, in a sense, as the university’s leading ambassador, Harvey
Secter points out, and Sandra was the consummate “ambassador’s wife” by
regularly engaging all the stakeholders, be they students, faculty,
alumni or donors.
In her own right, Sandra Secter has contributed
substantially to our community with leadership roles with the National
Council of Jewish Women, the Combined Jewish Appeal – where she and
close friend Marsha Cowan served as co-chairs of the 1997/8 campaign and
again in 2001– as well as many arts organizations over the years.
“It was been really gratifying that others have found our joint efforts
as volunteers over the years on behalf of the university and the
community at large to be meaningful and worthy of recognition at this
stage of our lives,” Secter concludes.
For David Asper – who was also recognized with a Doctorate of Laws,
it was more of a bittersweet moment because David Milgaard wasn’t able
to share the podium with him. Milgaard, the man that Asper spent many
years moving heaven and earth to free from prison after he was falsely
convicted for murder, was also scheduled to receive an honorary degree
but, sadly, passed away in mid-May.
“I accepted his degree on behalf
of David,” Asper says, “but it wasn’t the same without him. I missed
having my guy beside me. That was to be his moment of full redemption.”
For
readers who are unaware – or may have forgotten the details, Milgaard
was a young man from Winnipeg – a drifter at the time – who happened to
be crashing in Saskatoon for a period. In 1969, on a cold winter
morning, a young nurse by the name of Gail Miller was brutally raped and
murdered at a bus stop in Saskatoon. Footsteps in the snow led to the
nearby house where the then-16-year-old Milgaard was temporarily
staying.
Saskatoon police soon decided that Milgaard was their man.
As the great Canadian criminal lawyer Eddie Greenspan pointed out in his
autobiography, once the police and the Crown zero in on a suspect, they
do their best to prove his guilt and ignore evidence that points to his
innocence.
Thus, even though Milgaard steadfastly insisted that he
was innocent, he was convicted of the crime and sentenced to life in
prison. Through a quirk in our prison system, once convicted you can
only get parole if you acknowledge your guilt – something which Milgaard
refused to do.
David’s mother, the late Joyce Milgaard,
believed in her son’s innocence and worked tirelessly to find anyone
who would give him a fair hearing. In 1986, after 16 years in prison,
the late Hersh Wolch took on the case and brought David Asper – a lawyer
for Wolch’s firm – in to help.
Asper was soon spearheading the defense.
“I
worked on David’s case for six years before he was released in 1992,”
Asper recalls. “He was finally fully exonerated in 1997 by science and
the evidence provided by DNA analysis. We became very close. A certain
level of intimacy and intensity developed in our relationship”
(Another
man – a serial killer as it turned out – who happened to be staying at
the same house where Milgaard was staying at that time – was
subsequently arrested and convicted of the murder.)
Asper observes
that life outside went on in the years that Milgaard was incarcerated.
“I met Ruth, the woman who would become my wife in 1986,” he says. “We
had two children before David was released and our third before he was
exonerated While my wife was working at starting a business and I was
travelling across the country pursuing justice for David, his mother
stepped up and helped us with our own family.”
In recent days, with
kids grown, David Asper reports that he has cut back on his activities.
“I am taking it easier,” he says. “I am still involved though in public
service as a director of the North Portage Partnership Board and Chair
of the Manitoba Police Commission, which I have found to be an
interesting role.”
| Written by Rebeca Kuropatwa | |
| Wednesday, 13 January 2010 | |
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Winnipeg – Harvey Secter has been appointed the University of Manitoba’s 13th chancellor effective Jan. 1. Secter, born in Brandon and raised and educated in Winnipeg, is a highly respected business, community and academic leader with a long university history.“I’ve been involved in the university and business community for decades,” he said. “I’m looking forward to being able to serve in this new role, with the hope of effectively contributing.” The new chancellor explained that his new role is not unlike being on a relay team. “A torch is being handed to me,” he said. “I have a responsibility to contribute well and then to pass the torch along.” In 1967, Secter earned his bachelor of commerce at the university. He then directed the growth of Ricki’s Canada Limited, his family’s retail business, from a 10-store chain to a multi-divisional national operation of 150 stores. Also a member of the Winnipeg Jets (hockey team), Secter pursued his business career until 1988, when he returned to the univeristy as a law student. After earning his law degree with a Gold Medal in Law in 1992, Secter pursued his master of law at Harvard, serving as a visiting researcher and instructor at Harvard’s negotiation program and as an assistant teacher in negotiation and mediation. Having been involved in the Jewish community for as long as he can remember, Secter said, “I was actively involved in my teens, as a young businessman, and later with the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba, the Jewish Federation, Jewish Child and Family Services, Friends of Hebrew University and the Combined Jewish Appeal.” Some of the honours Secter has received over the years include an honourary doctorate from the University of Winnipeg, the Sol Kanee Distinguished Community Service Award from the University of Manitoba and (along with his wife Sandra), the Negev Award for Community Service. An active community philanthropist and volunteer, Secter is past president of the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba, a current member of the Premier’s Economic Advisory Council, the Board of the Health Sciences Centre Foundation, the United Way Advisory Committee, and the Assiniboine Park Conservancy. Secter sees universities as playing a significant role in everything from “human rights, sustainable communities, public health and safety, technology and the arts. “Every generation has its own challenges and opportunities,” he said. “I’m fundamentally an optimist and have great confidence in young people and the future. Past generations have survived depressions, droughts, floods, recessions and rebuilding their lives after wars. We can survive and thrive too by finding and creating opportunities.” A major boon in this area is high-quality education. “They’re inextricably linked, which today goes hand-in-hand with knowledge and a high-tech society,” said Secter. With an eye on the future, Secter said, “These are interesting and challenging times for individuals and whole communities in Manitoba. My contemporaries – then, new Canadians – went on to become doctors and lawyers, creating unimaginable opportunities for themselves and their families. Their parents’ generation didn’t even have the chance to go to school. “Education provides the opportunity for new generations to pursue their dreams to the betterment of our community.” The chancellor is the volunteer, titular head of the university, conferring on all degrees and diplomas and playing a lead role in advancing the university. Secter’s predecessor. Dr. Bill Norrie, will step down on Dec 31 after nine years of service. The chancellor appointment is for a three-year renewable term. |
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