Former Westwood Collegiate student Mark Hearson was one of 11 Canadians who were awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford for 2012

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Former Westwood Collegiate student Mark Hearson was one of 11 Canadians who were awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford for 2012

Former student earns world’s most prestigious scholarship

St. James and Headingley have a Rhodes Scholar in their midst.


Mark Hearson was recently awarded a Rhodes scholarship, considered the most prestigious educational prize in the world, to study at the University of Oxford in England later this year.


“It’s pretty amazing,” said Hearson, a Headingley resident who graduated ...

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