Manderville feature

Nice feature from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette on Kent Manderville and his Cornell days. Interesting that he's still working on his degree.

[www.post-gazette.com]

[q]But an Ivy League education did, so he accepted a scholarship from Cornell [/q]

??

Probably some sort of aid package.

I "accepted a scholarship from Cornell," too. I'd guess close to half of entering students do. Sure wasn't based on my skating or shooting skills.

And it was a long way from a "free ride."

Cornell always referred to my financial aid grant as a "scholarship." Sometimes the grant didn't have a name attached, but a couple of times it was the "So-and-so alum who donated financial aid money" Scholarship. The distribution of named scholarships seemed pretty random. The only difference was in one case the university asked me to write a thank-you note and in the other they didn't.

I'm glad that Manderville is doing well, but it still disappoints me that Dan Ratushny never really made it in the NHL. I thought he was a spectacular player.

And Kim Ratushny was more than just the best women's hockey player - IIRC, she graduated with a 4.0.

Maybe one of our resident canucks can clarify, but it is my understanding that many Canadians refer to any form of financial aid as a scholarship. Although a need based financial aid package is usually a mix of loans, grants and work study, I suspect that the mix is skewed toward grants in the case of athletes given the lack of time for work study. Thus, if you get a 25,000 aid package and most of it is in the form of grants, I can see why many people, from either side of the border, would fail to make the subtle distinction between that and a scholarship.

Given that the median Canadian income of a 2 parent household with children in 2000 was around $48,000 (US dollars) ($77000 CAN * .6362), a healthy financial aid package isn't out of the question.

Okay, so today is a snow day and i'm bored so I decided to look up better data. The average household income in Alberta in the 1990 census was 52,768 but the exchange rate was much better (.8605) on Jan 15th 1990 so that puts the income around 45k in US dollars when Manderville was in school.

Yup. most canadians refer to any kind of help as a scholarship - cause we don't have "need based financial aid" in Canada. Schools help out - but it is more or less all merit based. More or less all Canadians at Cornell get a big chunk of their tuition from Cornell financial aid.

[www.nhl.com] has an audio file of a Manderville interview. I haven't listened yet. still downloading.

The nhl.com page also contains an article written by Darren Eliot (too bad his bio at the bottom doesn't list his Cornell days) and an article about the Canadian Junior team that mentions Lenny...I think Cornell is pretty well represented.

It's actually a Real Video file, about 3:25 in length and 4 MB to download. He spends the last minute of the interview talking about his decision to go to college. No mention of which institution that is, though.