PROFILE:
Ed Buckingham was born in St. John’s in 1959 and grew up on Monkstown Road, in the heart of the former St. John’s East district. He attended St. Bonaventure’s and Brother Rice High School, and pursued post-secondary studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland where he earned Bachelor of Commerce (1982), Bachelor of Education (1990) and Masters of Education (2000) degrees.
His first foray into politics was in his early twenties when he was elected President of Memorial University’s Council of the Students’ Union (CSU) in 1982. In that year Memorial University presented Ed with the Birks Medal - an honour awarded to the student of the graduating class who has shown most leadership in student affairs during his/her university years.
Ed’s teaching career began at the Brother T.I. Murphy Learning Resource Centre on Water Street, where he was a faculty member for seven years. In 1993 he returned to teach at his alma mater, Brother Rice High School, and remained there when it became a junior high school in 1999. From 2003-2005 he served as Chair of the Brother Rice School Council and continued teaching at the school until the fall of 2007.
Actively involved in organizing and coaching numerous sports at the community and school levels for many years, Ed has been an executive member of the Newfoundland Amateur Baseball Association and is a past president of the St. John’s Minor Baseball Association. In 2006 he was the Newfoundland and Labrador nominee for Baseball Canada’s Volunteer of the Year.
Married with two children, Ed continues to live in the district. He considers himself a 'St. John’s East boy' through and through. |
