The Quebec Committee for Rhodes Scholarships convenes at Power Corporation (Peggy Curran, Montreal Gazette, November 26, 2010)

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Start Home Delivery Subscriber Services Digital Edition iPad App Quick Links: Shopping, Obituaries, Horoscopes Search montrealgazette. com. . . Find a business or person on:  1°C Light snow Montréal Detailed Forecast The long road to Rhodes Scholarship An insider s view of the demanding selection process at Oxford University, and how two young Quebec women prevailed BY PEGGY CURRAN, THE GAZETTE NOVEMBER 26, 2010 “Are we ready to send them up?” Members of Quebec’s Rhodes Scholarship committee have spent the last hour doing some preinterview bonding in the executive offices of the Power Corporation. Curator Paul Marechal has taken them on a tour of the firm’s collection of art masterpieces by the likes of Jean-Paul Riopelle, Corneilius Krieghoff, Tom Thomson and Marc-Aurèle Fortin. Now they’ve arrived at a pretty reception room. The time has come to meet the candidates. Soon, the room is abuzz, as applicants for the province’s two scholarships flit from grou Less