• Played both offence (fullback) and defence (linebacker) for the Golden Bear football team 1944-47.
• Wilson Challenge Trophy winner (1947) and Men's Athletic Board president (1946-47).
• Played professional football with the Calgary Stampeders (1949).
• Played a prominent role in various amateur sports organizations in Victoria, BC.

G.M.(Mickey) Hajash's life reads like an adventure novel. Born in northern Hungary, his family emigrated to Canada, living first in Estevan Saskatchewan and then on a farm near Brooks Alberta. He graduated from Brooks High School in 1943. From his early school years in Canada he excelled in hockey, softball, basketball, and track and field, including a provincial record in the junior pole vault in 1941.
Following high school he played a season for the North Hill Blizzard junior football team in Calgary, before enrolling in mining engineering (BSc, '47).
At Alberta he had an outstanding career as a fullback and linebacker for the Golden Bears at a time when players went both ways with very limited substitution. A feared runner, he was seldom denied in short-yardage situations and his example and other leadership qualifies led to his being named captain in the 1946 season, and to membership in the Block "A" dub. Meanwhile, he took part in intramurals in hockey, basketball, track and field, and wrestling. In 1947 he was named winner of the Wilson Trophy as the outstanding male athlete on campus. He found time to serve terms as president of the Men's Athletic Board in 1946-47, and the Track and Field Club in 1944-45, and in the summers suited up with the semi-pro Purity 99's baseball team, provincial champions in 1946.

After graduation he played the 1949 season with the Calgary Stampeder Football Club and since then has devoted his athletic efforts to golf, a game he has played on many of the most exotic courses in the world.

Mickey’s professional working career began during summers of his undergrad years in field exploration for Imperial Oil, a company with which he was to spend his entire working life. With wife Donna, whom he met at university, he served the company for more than 40 years in Canada, the Middle East (Baithdad,13ahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi), London, New York, Houston and the Far East (Singapore and Kuala Lumpur), before retiring to Victoria, B.C. in 1986.

Throughout his career he worked at the leading edge of oilfield exploration technology and made significant contributions to the discovery of major oil and gas fields in Western Canada, the Middle and Far East, and the North Sea His integrity and knowledge of all phases of exploration resulted in the assignment to oversee ethics and contractual procedures while working in the U.K

A deep concern for others is evident in a wide range of volunteer service, beginning as a minor hockey coach in Edmonton in the late 1950's, and more recently as a worker for the B.C. Games, international softball, senior golf, and in preparations for the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria. He was a moving force behind a 52-unit housing project for the needy and exceptional service to the United Way led to his nomination as Volunteer of the Year in 1993. Mindful of his roots, he and Donna have set up a foundation that at present is funding eight post-secondary scholarships for graduates of Brooks Composite High School Mickey Hajash has made a difference as a student and athlete at Alberta, and carried that quality forward into his family, professional and community life.