Sports Wall of Fame
• Captained of the Pandas golf team, skipped the curling team, and started for the volleyball team.
• Won the WCIAU volleyball championship in 1962.
• Won the Bakewell Trophy in 1962 as the U of A's most outstanding female athlete.
• Continued to compete in golf after graduation, winning championships in four different decades.
• Also continued to compete in curling, winning the Canadian National Ladies' Curling championships twice.
Since its inception in 1948, the Bakewell Trophy has symbolized outstanding athletic excellence in the University of Alberta Pandas programs. It was fitting that June (Jamison) McDonald was awarded the Bakewell Trophy in 1962. As an intervarsity athlete, June represented the Green and Gold in three sports - golf, volleyball and curling. She was the captain of the Pandas' Golf Team from 1958 to 1961 and under her leadership the team won the Western Canada Interuniversity Athletic Union (WCIAU) championship in 1958. From 1959 to 1962 June competed in the WCIAU as a member of the Ladies' Curling team. She skipped the team for three years and in 1959 they won the WCIAU championship. Not satisfied with championships in golf and curling, June joined the Pandas' volleyball team in 1960, won a position as a starter, and helped lead the Pandas' to the WCIAU championship in 1962. It is a rare accomplishment for an athlete to star in three such divergent sports and June did not restrict her participation to these three major activities. She participated in all of the intramural sports except for those in which she was an interuniversity athlete.
June (Jamison) McDonald was a dominant athlete outside of the University as well. She won the Edmonton City Junior Ladies' Golf Championship in 1958 and was a member of the Alberta Ladies' Golf team in 1959 and 1960. June and her mother, Hazel, continued championship play in the Edmonton City Mother and Daughter and Marnier Classic competitions winning them in 1960, 1986, and 1987. Continuing in her competitive ways, June won the Leisure World Ladies' Golf Club championship in 1997.
After graduating from the University, June joined an elite group of Edmonton curlers who went on to win city championships in this sport. In 1966 and again in 1968 she was a member of the Alberta Provincial Ladies' Curling Championship team. Her teams advanced to the Canadian National Ladies' Curling championships and brought the national title home to Alberta in both years.
June has served the University as a leader in student governance, the city as a teacher, and the province as the president of Junior Achievement of Northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories from 1988 to 1998. Under her direction, this Junior Achievement organization grew to become the second largest in Canada and it was June who brought to our province President George Bush and Margaret Thatcher as speakers for the Junior Achievement's fund-raising dinners. From 1970 onward, June (Jamison) McDonald has served as a volunteer fund-raiser for the Winnifred Stewart School, the Canadian Cancer Society, the Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Heart Fund and the Salvation Army. Clearly this inductee is a team player who has made a significant difference to every team and organization of which she has been a member. The University is proud to add the name of June (Jamison) McDonald to the Sports Wall of Fame.