Winnipeg Sun: Balmoral to fete Shell CEO Cook
By LINDSEY WARD, STAFF REPORTER
Mon, June 14, 2004
All-girl school Balmoral Hall is honouring Shell Canada’s Linda Cook as the first female CEO of one of the largest integrated oil and gas companies in Canada. Cook will receive the school’s second annual Yes She Can award at a special dinner at The Fairmont Winnipeg tonight.
“It was established to celebrate positive role models for Balmoral Hall students while co-currently recognizing exceptional women who have gained national and international prominence in their area of expertise,” the school’s director of advancement, Tina Alto, said of the honour.
The Yes You Can dinner committee, composed of a board of directors from the school, chose Cook to receive the award — a commissioned bronze statue of an older female and a student in a Balmoral Hall uniform by Canadian artist Anna Wiechec.
After the presentation, Cook will speak to the crowd of sponsors, student prefects and residence students about key qualities of success and what inspired her to get where she is today.
Alto says Cook is a role model for the students because she has pursued an engineering degree, is only in her mid-40s, and with two children is able to balance a family and a career.
“We encourage the girls at Balmoral Hall to strive to achieve their personal best in all that they do and this woman embodies that,” she says.
Cook joined the Shell Oil Company after receiving a degree in petroleum engineering at the University of Kansas. Last August she was appointed president and CEO and a member of the board of directors of Shell Canada Ltd., and this July she’ll head to the Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. of the Netherlands to become a managing director and a member of the committee of managing directors for the global Royal Dutch/Shell group.
The first Yes She Can award was presented in 2002 to Maureen Kempston Darkes, General Motors group vice-president and president of General Motors in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
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