Cassady & Darren Spencer

In 2023, Cassady and Darren Spencer (Forest Technology ’25, both) decided to answer the call of the wild… [which] led them to one place: as father and child studying the same program at NAIT at the same time. Darren, now 49, was curious about a career change. Cassady, now 21, was intrigued by a summer job as a junior forest ranger with Alberta’s Ministry of Forestry and Parks. Once Cassady was accepted into NAIT, Darren broached the issue. “We discussed the strange possibility of me going to post-secondary school with Cass,” he says. But Cassady didn’t think it was strange at all. The opposite, in fact. …We caught up with them, now out in the wild – Darren with Alberta Parks as an interpreter in the David Thomson Corridor; Cassady with West Fraser Timber, supporting forest management – to learn more about their mutual milestone.