• Competed in Golden Bears basketball (1953-57).
• Played on two Canada West championship-winning teams; team captain and leading scorer during his last two years.
• Member of the Edmonton Town Hallers senior basketball team who won the Western Senior Championship and went to the Canadian Olympic Tournament finals in 1956.
• Served as professor in the Business faculty at Queens University for over thirty years.

Norman Macintosh (BComm ’57) began his successful and lengthy career in high performance sport in Vancouver. His family moved to Calgary where he first gained attention in leading his junior soccer team to the city championship. His athletic versatility became evident at Crescent Heights High School where he captained the soccer team, played junior and senior football, and came into his own as captain and leading scorer on the first junior then senior basketball team. In his last two years in high school he was league MVP and leading scorer. The city high school scoring record became a family affair in that Norman broke the record established by brother Donald, and a new mark was subsequently set by younger brother Wallace.

While at the University of Alberta, he starred on Golden Bears basketball teams in the 1950s, playing major roles in two Canada West championships. Team captain and leading scorer in his final two years, he also served as president of the Big Block Club, the precursor to the Block A sweater. He doubled as a member of the Edmonton Town Hallers basketball team, Western Canada senior champions and Canadian Olympic Tournament finalists in 1956. After graduation, he coached high school basketball and was a playing coach on a provincial men’s B championship team. He took up tennis at an early age and after winning several club championships, teamed up to win a number of Calgary and Alberta tennis men’s and mixed doubles crowns.

Following his studies at the University of Alberta, he earned his chartered accounting degree in 1959, an MBA at Western Ontario (1963) where he distinguished himself as a scholar, and did further graduate work at IMEDE in Switzerland, and later at Harvard. He joined Queen’s University in Kingston in 1967 and was promoted to Professor in 1986. In Kingston he coached tennis, youth soccer and remained active in squash, competitive tennis and Shark-class sailing. Successes in sailing included three appearances in the World Championships and a 7th place finish in 1978.

As in sport, Norman excelled as an academic. He contributed more than 65 papers to referred journals and conference proceedings and authored books that have received acclaim from his peers world-wide. His international reputation in the organizational, behavioural, sociological and postmodernist aspects of accounting earned him a place among the world’s leading experts. Brilliance as a researcher, writer, lecturer and seminar leader led to visiting professorships and invitations as a seminar presenter at prestigious universities and institutions around the globe.

Among his research honours are the Queen’s School of Business Award for Research (’91); the Canadian Academic Accounting Association Outstanding Educator Award (’94), and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Awards in 1991 and 1995. He served on the editorial boards of many academic journals, the American Accounting Association council and the SSHRC Awards committee.

The discipline and commitment learned in the pursuit of excellence in sport provided a durable foundation for meeting the challenges of an exceptional academic career. Looking back, Norman concluded that the inevitable legacy from sport was rooted in the unfailing support of teammates, family, friends and his many coaches, although none had greater impact than Dr. Maury Van Vliet, his mentor and coach during his memorable years at the University of Alberta.