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DAN FALK SHELDON GORDON YVONNE PALKOWSKI Like several of the scientists Like the late Dorothy Bennett, (BA 2004 UC) profiled in “Reaching for the the alumna whom he profiles Reporting on this summer’s Stars” (page 12), journalist Dan on page 28 (“Like Mother, Like archaeological excavation in Falk has been passionate about Daughter”), freelance writer University College’s Sir Daniel astronomy ever since he was Sheldon Gordon has a passion Wilson quadrangle (“What Lies a teenager gazing up at the for reading and is a stickler for Beneath,” page 18) was enough stars from his family’s summer correct grammar. (He does not, to make Yvonne Palkowski wish vacation spot in Nova Scotia’s however, share her aversion to she had majored in archaeology. Annapolis Valley. He is a regular mystery novels.) He’s deployed Indiana Jones fantasies aside, contributor to Ideas on CBC the English language during in her spare time Yvonne enjoys Radio One, and his latest book three decades in journalism, being active out of doors and, is The Science of Shakespeare: including stints with the Toronto conversely, sitting down at A New Look at the Playwright’s Star , the Financial Post and the home with a good book, typically Universe (Goose Lane, 2014). Globe and Mail . Born in a travelogue or biography. , he has lived and worked (and curled) in Montréal, , and Toronto and reported from Japan, India, and Sri Lanka. He now devotes his free time to volunteering.

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AS YOU MAY KNOW, this spring UC Magazine , in conjunction with U of T Magazine , conducted a readership survey. The results were overwhelmingly Letters positive —80% of UC Magazine readers are satis - fied with the publication overall and 93% approve of its design. Credit for the latter goes to Noël Nanton, Creative Director of typotherapy, who is as humble as he is talented. Thank you, Noël, for making us look so good!

In addition to telling us what we’re doing right, you also told us what changes and improvements you’d like to see. Topping the list was an electronic alternative to the paper magazine, so starting this fall we have introduced a digital edition of UC Magazine , delivered via email to the account we have on file for you. A significant number of readers told us they wish to receive both electronic I HAVE BEEN READING YOUR MAGAZINE WITH GREAT INTEREST ever since I graduated from University College and print versions, so you will continue to get the in 1953 and during that time, I've seen countless paper magazine unless you opt out using the link makeovers—usually when a new editor takes over. provided in the email. If you did not receive the But I must tell you that the appearance of your email and would like to opt into the digital edition latest spring issue is the brightest and most exciting or out of the paper version, please contact us. I have ever seen—bold new typography, brilliantly coloured pictures, and imaginative headlines. In terms of content, you said you wanted The dog pictures were worth the price of more stories about fellow alumni and University admission alone! College’s remarkable history—and we delivered. JACK HARTLINE (BA 1953 UC ) Flip to page 24 to meet some UC alumni just like you, and page 18 for some recently unearthed SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO [email protected] College relics . LETTERS MAY BE EDITED FOR CLARITY AND LENGTH.

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PHOTOGRAPHER Christopher Dew

THIS PAST SUMMER, a group of students spent a few So I think a version of Moody-Adams’ argument for weeks in the northeast corner of the Sir Daniel the fundamental continuity in our practices, across Wilson quad conducting an archaeological dig. cultures and across history, might even apply to They were taking Professor Ted Banning’s ARH the College. We remain committed to offering 306Y Archaeological Field Methods , a course that students the opportunity to challenge themselves gives them the opportunity to learn how archaeo - intellectually and providing them with the skills logical research really happens – with dirty hands they will need to make a difference to the world. and sweaty clothes. But educational practices do change. Professor A phrase kept coming to mind as I watched the Banning, whose course was using the College as students unearth layer after layer of our College’s a research site this summer, is himself a UC alumnus history: “fieldwork in familiar places.” The philoso - (BA 1978 UC), as well as a College faculty member pher, Michelle Moody-Adams, used this phrase as and the Chair of the Department of Anthropology. the title of her important 1997 book, where she When he was a student here, his studies did argues against taking anthropological findings of not include digging up the College grounds, synchronic or diachronic cultural diversity as rea - though he did eventually have the opportunity sons for embracing moral relativism. By engaging in to join in off-site archaeological research as an what she calls a kind of fieldwork within academic undergraduate student. philosophy, she isolates its blind spots about the social sciences—as if they do not make significant He approached me about the possibility of using philosophical assumptions in the course of their the UC grounds as a teaching site because he investigations—and about our own practices of wanted students to have the opportunity to learn everyday moral reflection—as if academic in the most active way possible, by themselves par - theory were entirely isolated from public life. ticipating in archaeological research. And he knew Moody-Adams’ fieldwork, by “making the familiar that I believed that the College’s heritage should unfamiliar,” reminds us of the robustness of our be used in support of student learning, and not moral commitments and our capacity to make merely preserved as relics. As the fall 2013 issue moral progress. of the magazine explained, we plan to reinvigo - rate Canada’s most important academic building The fieldwork in a familiar place this summer by highlighting its significant architectural her - was a more literal kind of fieldwork, of course. itage while also providing 21 st -century students What did the students find in their dig? Some coins. with new educational opportunities. Remnants of burned wood and some nails—detri - tus from the fire of 1890, no doubt. A lipstick tube One year into the fundraising campaign for the UC from the 1920s and pieces of sherry glasses—signs renovation, I am very pleased that the alumni com - that, throughout its history, University College has munity has come together in support of our plans been a community where students learn from one (see “Campaign Update,” page 27). Edmund and another outside of the classroom as well as in. Frances Clark have generously provided a lead gift of $2.5 million, and many others have joined them in recognizing the need to ensure that the College

08 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE continues to provide its students with the best and gryphons, looks as if it has not changed in educational experience possible. Though we the 155 years since its opening. In fact, the College remain some distance from achieving our overall has repeatedly had to adapt itself as the needs of its goal, plans for implementing phase one of the students changed, even as we remain committed renovation are underway. to challenging our students to think in new ways— undertaking fieldwork in familiar places in one way The Sir Dan’s quad is now back to normal, with or another. little indication that almost a dozen metre-square DONALD C. AINSLIE pits had been dug only a few months ago. Another UNIVERSITY COLLEGE PRINCIPAL UC orientation has come and gone and I suspect that a new layer of lost or dropped items has been deposited in the quad. The University College building, with its imposing towers and gargoyles

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THE PHOTOGRAPHS IMAGE 01. OF ALLEN GINSBERG Jorge Zontal, Portrait of AA Exhibition through Bronson as December 6, 2014 Shaman, 1973. Featuring over 200 photographs Silver gelatin print, from the Allen Ginsberg archive 5 x 7. Published in FILE Magazine v.2 recently donated to the no. 3, 1973. University of Toronto, docu - Courtesy of AA Bronson and Esther menting Ginsberg’s daily life, his Shipper, Berlin. creative community, and the Beat movement. IMAGE 02. Allen Ginsberg U of T Art Centre, (1926-1997), Allen northeast corner of UC. Ginsberg and Peter 01. Orlovsky, 5 Turner For info: (416) 978-1838 or Terrace. Black and AA BRONSON: dusted self-portraits of Bronson’s utac.utoronto.ca white silver gelatin LIFE AND WORKS artist-shaman persona alongside print with ink, 11x14. Gift of the Exhibition through his other experiments with self- Larry & Cookie November 15, 2014 portraiture. Family Foundation, Featuring recent work by AA U of T Art Centre, northeast 2012. Bronson, prominent Canadian corner of UC. artist, this exhibition centres on For info: (416) 978-1838 or a series of life-size, diamond- utac.utoronto.ca

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H.E. STUBBS LECTURE IN MARCH CLASSICS AND LITERATURE “IMAGING COLOUR” October 22, 2014 at 4:30 p.m. R.K. TEETZEL LECTURE Elaine Scarry IN ARCHITECTURE Walter M. Cabot Professor of “LEONARDO, MICHELANGELO, AND THE QUESTION OF THE Aesthetic and UNFINISHED IN THEIR ART” General Theory of Value March 4, 2015 at 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Carmen C. Bambach IMAGE 03. OCTOBER UC Room 140 UC Book Curator of Drawings and Prints Sale volunteer For info: (416) 978-7416 The Metropolitan Museum of Art David Miller New York

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IMAGE 04. UC Alumni of F.E.L. PRIESTLEY MEMORIAL Influence awards LECTURES IN THE HISTORY OF IDEAS ART AND THOUGHT IN THE COLD WAR March 18, 19 & 20, 2015 at 4:30 p.m. 04. Louis Menand 03. Anne T. and Robert M. Bass NOVEMBER Professor of English Harvard University 37TH ANNUAL UNIVERSITY 3RD ANNUAL UC ALUMNI UC Room 140 COLLEGE BOOK SALE OF INFLUENCE AWARDS October 17 to 21, 2014 November 6, 2014 For info: (416) 978-7416 Proceeds support students Awards gala in celebration of and the UC Library. distinguished UC graduates. APRIL UC East and West Halls. Hart House Great Hall, U of T. For info: (416) 978-0372 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto BONHAM CENTRE Tickets $125 AWARDS GALA For info: (416) 978-2968 April 23, 2015 W.J. ALEXANDER LECTURE Dinner and gala in support of or see page 3 IN LITERATURE the Mark S. Bonham Centre for “THE HORROR OF NUMBER: CAN HUMANS LEARN N. GRAHAM LECTURE IN PHYSICS Sexual Diversity Studies. TO COUNT?” “THE ACCELERATING UNIVERSE” Celebrating The Strength October 1, 2014 at 4:30 p.m. November 19, 2014 at 4:30 p.m. of Sport. Steven Connor Brian P. Schmidt Hart House Great Hall, U of T. Professor in the Faculty Distinguished Professor 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto of English Research School of Astronomy For info and tickets: University of Cambridge and Astrophysics (416) 978-7416 UC Room 140 Australian National University For info: (416) 978-7416 UC Room 140 MAY For info: (416) 978-7416 SPRING REUNION May 28 to 30, 2015 JANUARY Save the date for UC Spring Reunion activities. THE DOG DAYS OF WINTER For info: (416) 978-2968 January 18, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. Bring your dog and meet fellow alumni at the off-leash dog park in the UC quad. For info: (416) 978-7416

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REACHING FOR THE STARS For these UC astronomers, the sky is definitely not the limit

AUTHOR ara Seager’s enthusiasm for Dan Falk astronomy began with a camping

ARTIST trip at age ten, when she was blown NASA/Ames/ away by the myriad of stars that SETI Institute/ JPL-Caltech were visible when one escaped far sfrom city lights. Today, the Professor of Planetary Science and Physics is focused on stars that have their own planets, and especially any planet that might resemble our own blue- green world – or as she calls it, “Earth 2.0.” She states her goal plainly: “We want to find a planet which, like earth, could support life.”

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Mount Hopkins in Arizona IMAGE 01. that are monitoring the bright - Sara Seager

ness of thousands of red dwarf IMAGE 02. stars. Seager, meanwhile, tells David Charbonneau me about TESS ( Transiting IMAGE 03. Exoplanet Survey Satellite); due Wendy Freedman for launch in 2017, the space - craft will look for transits involv - IMAGE 04. NASA's Kepler ing nearby stars, helping to pin mission has discov - down specific, potentially life- ered a world where two suns set over the friendly planets in our own horizon instead of “stellar neighbourhood.” just one. The planet, 01. 02. called Kepler-16b, is the most 'Tatooine- Seager (BSc 1994 UC) graduated And the search is moving quickly. Future missions may allow like' planet yet found from the University of Toronto, We might be less than a decade astronomers to study an exoplan - in our galaxy and is et’s atmosphere directly, in the depicted here in this picked up a PhD from Harvard away from identifying another artist's concept. in 1999, and has been at the life-bearing world, says David hope of finding “biosignatures”— Massachusetts Institute of Charbonneau (BSc 1996 UC), the signs of any chemical, or IMAGE CREDIT NASA/JPL-Caltech Technology since 2007. Last another grad who is passionate combination of chemicals, that year, she received a MacArthur about planets. “I think we really might hint at the presence of life. “genius” award. Her timing has could be in the business of “Whether that life is single-celled been impeccable: She began looking for life on its surface, bacteria or intelligent alien life, her career when the field itself on a timescale of five or ten we’re not able to discern,” says was young, putting her on the years,” says Charbonneau, who Seager. But any biosignature front lines as the idea of “extra - now works down the road from discovery, she says, would be a solar planets” (or “exoplanets”) Seager, as a Professor in the momentous discovery. went from being science fiction Department of Astronomy to an active area of nuts-and- at Harvard. Like Seager, bolts research. Charbonneau was star-struck at an early age, but in university The most compelling data has his first choice was cosmology. come from Kepler, a space-based Then, suddenly, planets became telescope launched in 2009. a hot topic. “I switched entirely Kepler has been aimed at a what I was going to do for my single, small swath of sky— thesis, and I never looked containing thousands of stars — back,” he says. and checking to see how many of them are periodically dimmed As a graduate student, by the motion of a planet pass - Charbonneau made the first ing in front (what astronomers ever detection of an exoplanet call a “transit”). “Kepler has transiting its parent star —and 03. been revolutionary,” says Seager. he did it using a telescope with “Its goal was to tell us how com - a measly 4-inch (10 centimetre) While Seager and Charbonneau mon earth-like planets around diameter lens. That was in 1999; look for planets, Wendy sun-like stars are —so that if we just ten years later came the Freedman (BSc 1979 UC) wanted to do something more launch of Kepler, which has is probing the origins of the detailed, we’d know what the “revolutionized the whole field,” universe itself. Freedman earned odds are.” Those odds now look Charbonneau says. her PhD in 1984, and in that pretty good: Kepler has flagged same year she joined the staff nearly 1,000 exoplanets, some of But Kepler is just the beginning: of the Observatories of the them remarkably similar in size With the transit method now Carnegie Institution in Pasadena, to our own Earth. tried-and-true, other projects California, where she’s been the are adopting a similar approach. Director since 2003. In 2013, she Charbonneau is excited about received an honorary Doctor of “MEarth” (pronounced “mirth”), Science from U of T. a transit-hunting array of robotic 14 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE telescopes perched on top of FOCUS FALL 2014 Reaching for the Stars uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

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IMAGE 05. A good chunk of her career David Dunlap Observatory An artist's concep - has been devoted to pinning in Richmond Hill; from 1935, tion shows the Kepler-10 system, down the value of something it would be home to Canada’s home to two rocky called the “Hubble constant”— largest optical telescope, with its planets. In the fore - a critical parameter in the big 74-inch (1.9 metre) mirror. ground is Kepler-10c, a planet that weighs bang model of the cosmos, 17 times as much as necessary for calculating the Today —seven years after his Earth and is more universe’s size and its age. official retirement —Percy is than twice as large in size. optimistic about the state of The good news is, there’s been Canadian astronomy. Canadian IMAGE CREDIT Harvard-Smithsonian a huge amount of progress over scientists are involved with Center for Astrophysics/ the last couple of decades, some of the world’s largest tele - David Aguilar thanks to fine-scale mapping 06. scopes, including the Gemini

IMAGE 06. of the cosmic microwave back - do the trick; for some, a Observatory (with twin 8-metre John Percy ground radiation, often glimpse of Saturn’s rings telescopes in Hawaii and Chile), described as the faint “echo” through a telescope will become a giant radio telescope array of the big bang, and also from a memory that lasts a lifetime. known as ALMA (Atacama studies involving the motion “Astronomy isn’t just for Large Millimetre Array) in of distant galaxies. Freedman astronomers,” as John Percy Chile, and the James Webb herself led the Hubble Space (BSc 1962 UC), known around Space Telescope—the replace - Telescope Key Project, a decade- the world for his astronomy ment for the much-celebrated long effort in which astronomers outreach efforts, told me. Back but soon-to-be-retired used the Hubble Telescope to in 1967, Professor Percy was a Hubble—due to launch in study galaxies by measuring the founding faculty member at 2018. With those instruments, brightness of certain kinds of the University of Toronto’s and with many other more variable stars, known as Cepheid Mississauga campus. His own modest ones, a new generation variables, within those galaxies. research has focused on vari - of astronomers will be tackling able stars and stellar evolution, the mysteries of the universe, All of these measurements but outreach and education from the big bang to black holes. help pin down the value of the was always a top concern. He’s Hubble constant, and, in turn, worked extensively with school “When you do surveys of astro - quantities like the universe’s boards in developing curricula, nomical productivity, Canada age. “Twenty years ago, we were and in providing resources for is always in the top three,” says arguing whether the universe teachers that might not have a Percy. “If this was hockey, it was 10 billion years old or 20 background in astronomy. would be on the front page of billion years old – we really the newspapers, but Canadians didn’t know it to better than In fact, U of T astronomers have aren’t fully aware of how many a factor of two,” says Freedman. been spreading the word about important contributions “Now the argument has come the cosmos for decades. As Percy Canadian astronomers have

down to, is it 13.7 billion years points out, the Dunlap Institute made”—nor of how many

old, or is it 13.8 billion years for Astronomy and Astrophysics Canadian astronomers got old? So we have really made a their start at UC. owes its existence to a public ^ major step forward.” lecture: The year was 1921, and Clarence Chant, the founder of the Astronomy Department, was You don’t have to reach for giving a public talk about a Dan Falk is a science the edge of the universe or the comet that was visible at the journalist based in beginning of time to appreciate time from Canadian skies. A Toronto. His most the grandeur of the cosmos. For wealthy mining executive named recent book is The members of the public, a bright David Dunlap happened to be Science of Shakespeare: comet or a solar eclipse might in the audience. After his death, A New Look at the Dunlap’s widow donated the Playwright’s Universe. funds for the construction of the

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AUTHOR Yvonne Palkowski Archaeological PHOTOGRAPHER excavation reveals Christopher Dew similarities in College life past and present

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And find things they did. “I think the most interesting thing I found was a shotgun shell,” says Jeremy Dunin-Markiewicz, a first-year UC student pursuing an Archaeology specialist. “They used to train with rifles in this area during the First World War, when all University students had to be part of the militia,” he explains. group of students got down and dirty—literally—in UC’s Sir Daniel Wilson quadrangle this summer as part of ARH

306Y Archaeological Field IMAGE Methods . The course, led Jeremy Dunin-Markiewicz by Professor Ted Banning PHOTOGRAPHER (BA 1978 UC) and Dr. Sally Christopher Dew Stewart (BA 1980 UC) of the Department of Anthropology, is an introduction to the basic field methods of archaeology, including mapping, surveying, and, of course, excavation.

“The purpose of the course Aside from evidence of historical isn’t so much to find things, conflict, the students also although it makes it more unearthed objects indicative interesting for the students of more peaceful, leisurely when we do,” say Banning. times. Fragments of crystal “We’re usually pretty lucky stemware and ceramic transfer - on the University of Toronto ware, marbles, and animal campus. Because it’s so old, bones were likely deposited we typically find objects from during a picnic or garden party the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.” UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 19 CAMPUS FALL 2014 What Lies Beneath uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

IMAGE Dr. Sally Stewart & Prof. Ted Banning

PHOTOGRAPHER Christopher Dew

human processes—digging and moving stuff around— that causes the build-up,” Banning explains.

And what happens to the objects once the site is back - filled? “They’re catalogued that was, perhaps, hosted by after the course,” says Matthew the College steward or Dean of Reijerkerk, a fourth-year UC Men of the day; Bissell House, student in Archaeology, History, which was the official resi - and Geographic Information dence for both positions, is Systems . “They get sent to the located adjacent to the site. archaeological lab where other students will do the testing And given the site’s location and dating. Then they will be along the western wing of cleaned and stored in the U of T University College, which Anthropology Department.” served as a men’s dormitory until 1899, it is perhaps unsur - The meticulous processing of prising that the students found the artefacts isn’t just a learning several clay pipe stems and opportunity, it’s a requirement broken bottles—“smoking and of the Ministry of Tourism, drinking paraphernalia,” as Culture, and Sport, which issues Banning tactfully calls it. permits for archaeological exca - vations in . Under the Betraying the arrival of greater all point to restoration and terms of the permit, Banning numbers of women students at rebuilding efforts, a common and Stewart are required to UC is a tube of lipstick with a theme in UC’s history. submit a substantial report on stylized logo consisting of the the results of the dig, to which initials HR. “It’s Helena Rubinstein As for any indication of the the students contribute through brand,” says Stewart, “and fire of 1890, which destroyed their individual reports. the logo dates from when she much of the College, Banning started the company in 1915. says: “We found some charcoal, In addition to its clear peda - She sold it in 1927 and they but not a huge amount, so I gogical significance, the course changed the logo when the wouldn’t say so we have certain also has a positive reputational new company bought it. So we evidence of the fire. I think value. “I think it’s important know for sure that this lipstick, we’d get more of that if we for the University of Toronto which is completely intact, dates were on the other side of the to have this sort of thing hap - from somewhere between 1915 building, because the west pening here,” says Stewart. “It’s and 1927.” wing didn’t burn.” fairly high-profile and we’ve had numerous people walking by Also uncovered was a consider - By this point you might be won - asking questions. They’re all able amount of construction dering, how does all this stuff excited about what we’re doing.” debris. Fragments of brick, end up in the ground, anyway? copper, and ironwork, as well as “The build-up would largely be Banning concurs: “One man nails and even a tape measure due to landscaping activities and said to me, he got his degree at a also leaves from trees, which fall different university, but seeing us and add material to the soil. excavating here made him wish 20 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE Quite often in archaeology, it is he had gone to U of T.” CAMPUS FALL 2014 What Lies Beneath uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

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& White Ball during Frosh Week. A fellow Wallacite and I decided to sit on the benches in Where front of UC to enjoy how eerily beautiful campus was at night when someone came running up King’s College Circle. As they Jack Hartline (BA 1955 UC) Are Retired Newspaperman got closer, it became apparent that the runner was sporting a Surrey, British Columbia head-to-toe gorilla costume. They YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY OF UC: Unfamiliar with university life, my friend and I shrugged it off Snoozing on a big leather couch and continued our conversation while listening to an anonymous Now? only to be interrupted moments fellow student playing the piano. Ever wonder what later by a car screeching and happened to so-and-so stopping not far behind the TITLE OF THE LAST MOVIE YOU SAW: from your residence gorilla-suited person. What Keeping Mum house, chemistry lab, seemed like a game of tag with or history tutorial? the passengers and the one in YOUR HOBBIES OR TALENTS: costume followed. They all got in Reading memoirs and biogra - We caught up with the car and drove off never to be phies and writing occasional fellow UC alumni from seen again. Years later I’m still humour columns. over the years not sure what I saw! WHAT’S ON YOU BUCKET LIST: Living to be 100 years old. TITLE OF THE LAST MOVIE YOU SAW: The Artist

YOUR HOBBIES OR TALENTS: I tend to fill my spare time by volunteering, which is a habit I definitely strengthened at UC! Currently, I’m the Outreach Coordinator with the Feminist Art Conference as well as a Youth Advisor for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games. In between work and Aldeli Albán Reyna (BA 2010 UC) volunteering, I also love balcony Projects & Research gardening, baking, birding, and Grace Liu-Biggar (BA 1996 UC) Coordinator, YWCA Canada creative writing. Child and Family Therapist, and Toronto, Ontario owner of Graceful Learning Ajax, Ontario WHAT’S ON YOUR BUCKET LIST: YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY OF UC: It changes every so often, I have many favourite memories mainly because I can’t remember YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY OF UC: but one of my most interesting everything but some key items I loved going for tea and cookies moments took place at the Red are: Visit Machu Picchu, travel at the UC union every afternoon. to every continent at least once, learn more languages, have TITLE OF THE LAST MOVIE YOU SAW: a conversation with bell The Lego Movie hooks, attend an NHL playoff game, etc. YOUR HOBBIES OR TALENTS: Travelling, arts and crafts, gar - dening, watching sitcoms and trashy reality shows, and going to the butterfly conservatory.

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the “moat” surrounding Sir films, and I love playing pool, Dan’s residence below (not baseball and basketball. I’m an recommended for amateurs). avid powerlifter, when I have It’s a favourite memory the energy. I also have a sketch - because I survived! book for doodles and other drawings, and enjoy making TITLE OF THE LAST MOVIE YOU SAW: soups and smoothies. Filomena (my allergies flared up during this one and I snif - WHAT’S ON YOU BUCKET LIST: fled a lot!) Visiting all seven continents (four to go), reaching the peak YOUR HOBBIES OR TALENTS: at Kilimanjaro, and playing pool Bridget Bayliss (BA 1984 UC) In addition to long runs, I play with President Obama. Administrator, Co-operative saxophone. For our graduating Housing residents I formed a band called Toronto, Ontario the “Iliotibial Band” and look forward to a revival soon. I also love golf and still long for a hole YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY OF UC: Dancing to the Sex Pistols in one. at pub night. WHAT’S ON YOU BUCKET LIST: Running marathons on all seven TITLE OF THE LAST MOVIE YOU SAW: continents. As of this date I am Ida scheduled to run 42.2km at Machu Picchu, and then if still YOUR HOBBIES OR TALENTS: Travelling, taking in events standing, I’m scheduled to run and happenings around my seventh continent in Rick Clow (BSc 1974 UC) Toronto, cooking, gardening, Antarctica in early 2015! General Manager collecting wine . Quinte Waste Solutions Belleville, Ontario

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TITLE OF THE LAST MOVIE YOU SAW: The Grand Budapest Hotel Perry A. King (BA 2007 UC) YOUR HOBBIES OR TALENTS: Freelance Writer Attending live theatre, Toronto, Ontario especially musicals; volunteer - ing as a peer in the industry YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY OF UC: and at a college; gardening; The UC tradition of sitting masonry; biking; travel. Michael Kates (BSc 1977 UC) in the intersection of Bay and Family Physician Bloor Streets and making Mississauga, Ontario WHAT’S ON YOU BUCKET LIST: motorists honk their support Hike Kluane National Park; write for UC. historic novel; walk up Mount YOUR FAVOURITE MEMORY OF UC: Kilimanjaro; innovate third During a night of festivities I TITLE OF THE LAST MOVIE YOU SAW: world business opportunities. recall being held upside down Dallas Buyers’ Club from the second floor, with

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CAMPAIGN UPDATE RENEWING A STORIED SPACE A bold plan to revitalize the interior spaces of University of UC whose father, Samuel Delbert “Del” Clark (PhD College has taken a leap forward with the generous 1938, Hon. LLD 1988), founded sociology as a discipline donation of $2.5 million by Ed (BA 1969 UC, Hon. at U of T. Fran Clark’s parents were Dr. John P. Fletcher LLD 2012) and Fran (BA 1969 UC, MA 1990, PhD (BA 1933 UC, MD 1937) and Jean P. Fletcher (BA 1933 2002) Clark toward the restoration of the West Hall. UC, MA 1934, PhD 1938), a physiologist who worked alongside Drs. Charles H. Best (BA 1921 UC, MA 1922, University College is at the centre of U of T, geographi - MB 1925, MD 1932) and Frederick G. Banting (MB cally and philosophically. The opening of UC in 1853 1916, MD 1922), who discovered insulin along with marked the rebirth of the University as a non-sectarian J.J.R. Macleod and J.B. Collip (BA 1912 VIC, MA 1913) institution of higher learning. The West Hall’s interior has at the University of Toronto. Banting and J.J.R. Macleod played a central role in Convocation for thousands of subsequently won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for this graduating students as an assembly space for donning cap groundbreaking work. Both the Fletchers were UC and gown. It has also served as an exhibition space for graduates, as indeed are Ed and Fran Clark—they met as the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum. students in residence.

Now, it will be renamed the Clark Reading Room and Speaking on behalf of UC students, Ryan Phillips, updated with technology that will not interfere with the Vice-President of the UC Literary and Athletic Society heritage of the space. The new name for the West Hall is (2013-14), says “Thank you, Ed and Fran, for your thoroughly grounded in U of T tradition. Ed, the generous gift, which will help ensure that many genera - President and CEO of TD Bank Group, is an alumnus tions of UC students will be able to experience UC as it was meant to be.”

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AUTHOR Sheldon Gordon

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I am not eccentric. It’s just that I am more alive than most people. — Dame Edith Sitwell, British poet and critic

orothy Gurofsky Bennett, 1919-1997, was a bibliophile, scholar, and teacher. She was also “more alive than most people.”

In her memory, her daughter Diana Bennett and Diana’s husband, Spencer 01. Lanthier, have each pledged IMAGE 01. $25,000 toward the University Dorothy Bennett College building restoration, under the rubric of Boundless: “Books were her haven,” says Diana. “She read vora - the Campaign for the University of Toronto. ciously, and had read all the major Victorian English D authors by her late teens.” She studied under such Their donations will fund an alcove in the Library professors as A.S.P. Woodhouse, revered former head Collections Room to be located in University College’s of UC’s English department. East Hall. Diana is a UC graduate (BA 1965 UC) and so was Dorothy (BA 1942 UC), and Spencer received an She met her future husband, watercolour painter John honorary doctorate from U of T in 2002. Rather than Bennett, when they both took courses from Northrop create a scholarship in tribute to Dorothy, the couple Frye at Victoria College. “His literary influence shaped chose to participate in the building restoration. both my parents, but especially my mother,” says Diana. “She developed a razor-sharp eye for criticism—not just That choice speaks to Diana’s love of UC’s architecture. in what she read but also in what she saw in the theatre.” “One of my greatest pleasures as a student was being part of that fabulous structure,” she recalls. “The idea Dorothy acquired the nickname Dédé from her of restoring elements of the building to its original French professor, and John Bennett made sure that it grandeur and purpose is very appealing.” stuck, liking its exotic flavour. They were married dur - ing the war. John went overseas in 1943 and returned The alcove in particular honours her mother’s spirit, when Diana, their first daughter, was two-and-a-half says Diana. “She was a reader, and she was shy. She years old. A second daughter, Brenda, soon followed. would have sought a quiet retreat at UC where she could be unto herself rather than mixing and mingling.” “She was my teacher even before she became an actual teacher, always guiding me and suggesting books for The child of a Jewish father and a Presbyterian mother, me to tackle,” says Diana. Dorothy was the primary Dorothy chose UC for her undergraduate program phrase crafter for Diana’s high-school valedictory because of its non-denominational character. It was address, and coached Brenda so effectively in public there that she found a refuge from her parents’ frac - speaking that she won the Ontario Secondary tious marriage. Schools championship.

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Though a 1950s housewife, Dorothy was no model Dorothy’s collecting and gifting weren’t limited to of domesticity. Her culinary skills were minimal, and books. “She loved fine things,” says Diana. She would when her family ran out of clean socks, she simply mine sales at Birks and Creed’s for the best bargains. bought new ones. She was more comfortable writing She was a strategic shopper.” But if someone admired limericks for parties, where she matched wordplay one of her acquisitions, Dorothy was likely to give it with others in the cultural community. to them, then and there.

Dorothy also ghostwrote remarks for her husband In perhaps her most unusual act of generosity, she to deliver at the openings of his art shows. It was gave away burial plots at Park Lawn Cemetery to when the couple separated for a few years that non-relatives. Dorothy’s mother had bought the plots Dorothy, at age 45, turned to teaching. She graduated in bulk when they were a bargain. Dorothy didn’t see from teacher’s college, then taught English at Jarvis, why they should be reserved only for family members. Thistletown, and East York Collegiates in Toronto. Dorothy’s greatest gift, however, was the love of litera - During this time, she decided to do an MA in English ture and the English language that she imparted to her literature. In 1969, Dorothy, Diana, and Brenda all students. “She was an unusually embracing teacher to received their master’s degrees at the same convocation anyone with a spark of passion for the kinds of books at U of T. Although a moment of great family pride, it that she felt were important,” says Diana. (That did not was totally unplanned. A photo appeared in the Toronto include mysteries or best-sellers.) Star the next day showing the three graduates together in their gowns and mortarboards. Her purist approach to the English language was unrelenting. Even during her final days, she lectured Dorothy wrote her master’s thesis on Dame Edith the nursing staff at St. Joseph’s Hospital on the Latin Sitwell, the mid-twentieth century British poet and roots of English words. “She would correct anybody’s critic whose life in many ways resembled her own. grammar at the drop of a hat,” says Diana. She intimi - “There were a lot of shared eccentricities,” says Diana. dated Diana’s friends, including all of her boyfriends.

Dame Edith described her hobbies as “reading, listening “Diana has assured me I would have passed the test,” to music, and silence.” Dorothy might have, too. Music says Spencer, who didn’t meet Diana until a few years was her second passion. “She would buy single opera after Dorothy’s death. Now retired, he was chair and tickets,” recalls Diana, “and, toddle down to the O’Keefe CEO of the accounting firm KPMG through much of Centre, even in her later years.” She also made sure her the nineties. Diana, also now retired, was a teacher for daughters had a solid grounding in musical theatre. 15 years and then was TV Ontario’s managing director of, consecutively, Corporate Affairs, Marketing, and Dorothy, like her mother before her, was an avid Development over 16 years. collector and a hoarder. “Dorothy’s mother was a fabu - lous bargain hunter, and Dorothy was like that with The couple are arts patrons, and Diana serves as books,” says Diana. Every Saturday morning, she would Chair of the Advisory Board of the University of frequent David Mirvish Books and emerge with bags Toronto Art Centre at UC. “We try to give back to full of books purchased at discount prices. the community,” says Spencer. “We hope that our giving will encourage other alumni to give, too.” By the end of her life, her living room and basement Dorothy Bennett would approve! were stacked from floor to ceiling with books and clippings from high-end magazines. This was despite having given away thousands of books to friends, students, and neighbours.

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IMAGE 02. Spencer Lanthier (L) and Diana Bennett

PHOTOGRAPHER Christopher Dew

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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ALUMNI OF INFLUENCE 2014

The annual University College Alumni of Influence awards were introduced in the belief that the success stories of our graduates should be known to today’s students and fellow alumni. This year, we honour 14 distinguished University College alumni from today and yesterday. Read on for their stories and please consider joining us at the awards gala in Toronto on November 6, 2014 to celebrate their remarkable achievements.

Your help is required to identify candidates for future editions of the awards. For more information or to submit a nomination, please visit www.uc.utoronto.ca/aoi.

Alumni of Influence Selection Criteria A selection committee of eight volunteerism within the wider UC alumni, faculty, and friends community and their philanthropy. meet to select the Alumni of Philanthropy to the University Influence on the basis of nomina - of Toronto specifically is not a fac - tions submitted by members of the tor. Members of the selection UC community. The committee committee, sitting politicians, considers the nominees’ contribu - and the current U of T President, tions to their professional field at Vice-Presidents (UTM and UTSC), an international, national, or local and Chancellor are excluded from level, as well as their consideration.

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IMAGE Lawrence Cherney

PHOTOGRAPHER Trevor Haldenby

Lawrence Cherney (BA 1969 UC) (MA 1978 Toronto) Lawrence Cherney started his career under the baton of Igor Stravinsky. Ever since, for more than 40 years, he has been at the forefront of Canadian music. He is the founding Artistic Director of Soundstreams, a charter member of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and founding Artistic Director of the summer festival Music at Sharon.

Under his leadership, Soundstreams has become one of the largest and most dynamic organizations of its kind in the world, and a leading producer of Professor Robin Armstrong Armstrong has served on concerts, contemporary opera, (BA 1958 UC) (PhD 1961 Toronto) numerous federal and provincial and international festivals. Higher education leader and research committees, including as Known for the high quality of its physicist Robin Armstrong, vice-chair of the National Science innovative national and interna - Professor Emeritus in the and Engineering Research Council. tional collaborations that cross Department of Physics at the He was a founding director of the genres, cultural traditions, and University of Toronto, has had a Canadian Institute for Advanced disciplines, Soundstreams hosts long and distinguished academic Research. He is currently chair of an annual concert series in career. He has co-authored almost the Canadian Arthritis Network. Toronto, produces new Canadian 200 publications and conference opera, and tours Canadian music proceedings in condensed matter His achievements have been and opera in Canada and interna - physics, in most cases with his recognized by the Royal Society tionally. It co-produces an out - many PhD graduate students. of Canada, of which he is a reach series, Salon 21, with the Fellow; by the Canadian Gardiner Museum, and has He served as chair of the Physics Association of Physicists with developed a state-of-the-art web Department and dean of the its Herzberg Medal and Medal of platform that includes a digital Faculty of Arts & Science at U of T Achievement; by the University concert hall and archive. before becoming president of the of Cordoba with its Vistante University of New Brunswick, Distinguido award; and by the Cherney has performed as oboe where he initiated its most ambi - University of New Brunswick soloist and recitalist in North tious fundraising campaign to with an honorary doctorate. America, Europe, and Israel. date and attracted a state-of-the- He was named to the Order of art MRI centre, on the strength of Canada in 2003, awarded the his scholarly reputation. Toronto Arts’ Foundation’s Award for Outstanding International Achievement in 2007, and in 2012, the Friends 34 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE of Canadian Music Award. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2014 Alumni of Influence uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

Dr. William J. Deadman (BA 1911 UC) (Bsc Med 1913 Toronto) William J. Deadman was one of Canada’s first forensic patholo - gists. After completing his med - ical training, he served in WWI and thereafter become city pathol - ogist in Hamilton, a position he held from 1919 to 1956. He was an in-demand expert witness and became known across Canada dur - ing the Evelyn Dick trail in 1946, one of the most sensationalized trials in Canadian criminal history. Ronald Gould (BA 1955 UC) He established one of the largest Ronald Gould is one of the world’s forensic medicine laboratories in leading experts on the organiza - Canada and set up a formal train - Professor Donald Forster tion and management of elections. ing program for laboratory staff, (BA 1956 UC) (MA 1958 Harvard) He joined the Canadian public which led to the creation of the Higher education leader and service in 1955 and worked in Canadian Society for Laboratory economist Donald Forster studied various departments, ultimately Science; the Society’s William political science and economics at becoming assistant chief electoral J. Deadman Prize in Forensic the University of Toronto, where officer at Elections Canada, a posi - Medicine was established in he later joined the faculty as a tion he held for 20 years. his honour. lecturer in political economy. He assumed increasingly important He has participated in more than He published extensively and administrative roles at the 100 elections in over 70 countries, frequently presented at scientific University, starting with his role including Cambodia—where he meetings as well as to pathologists, as a don in UC’s Sir Daniel Wilson headed the team for the country’s coroners, and police officers. He residence and culminating in his first general election—Bosnia, also lectured on forensic patholo - service as vice-president and Haiti, Sierra Leone, Yemen, South gy and medical jurisprudence at provost of U of T from 1972 to 1975. Africa, and Mozambique. In 2007 the University of Western Ontario Thereafter he served as president he conducted an independent (now Western University) and the and vice-provost of the University inquiry into the Scottish election University of Toronto. At the end of Guelph. results for the UK Electoral of his distinguished career, he was Commission. the consultant in pathology to the In 1983, he was elected president Attorney General’s Centre for of the University of Toronto, but He is the author of books A Forensic Science in Toronto. sadly died of a heart attack just Guide for Election Observers and 23 days before he was due to take Strengthening Democracy: A He had a keen interest in public office. In addition to his contribu - Parliamentary Perspective , as well affairs and community, and was tions to higher education, he was as several articles on international named Citizen of the Year by the a member of the Economic elections. For his contributions to City of Hamilton in 1950. He also Council of Canada and served as democracy, Gould was named a served on the University of an advisor to several governments Member of the Order of Canada, Toronto Senate (now Governing in the developing world. and received the Medal of Honour Council), and as president of the from the Medical Alumni Association and Association of Canada, the UC Alumni Association. Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee Medals, the Ten Years of Democracy in South Africa Award, the Canadian Peacekeeping Medal, and the Outstanding Service Award from the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws.

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John D. McKellar (BA 1955 UC) (LLB 1959 Osgoode) Lawyer John McKellar is partner emeritus at WeirFoulds LLP. In the course of a busy commercial practice, he is or has been a direc - tor or officer of various corpora - tions, including the Giffels and NORR (now “Ingenium”) group of architects and engineers, Fruit of the Loom Canada Ltd., General Mills Canada Ltd., Chum Ltd., Uniroyal Ltd., Musique Plus Inc., SportsNet Inc., and Netstar Communications Inc. He has been an advisor to the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Canadian Tax Foundation.

He is known for the many per - forming artists and arts organiza - tions he has advised, counselled, and supported. He is now the Chair of the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Cultural Attractions Professor Warren Kirkendale of the 18th, and he is renowned Fund, and the Young Centre for (BA 1955 UC) (PhD 1961 Vienna) especially for his interdiscipli - the Performing Arts, Vice-Chair of Warren Kirkendale is an interna - nary knowledge of the Italian the Ontario Arts Foundation, and tionally acclaimed Canadian Renaissance. Director of the Tarragon Theatre, music historian. Educated at the Off-Centre Musica Salon, and the Universities of Toronto, Bonn, He is the only North American Glenn Gould Foundation. He is a Berlin, and Vienna, he taught at music historian ever to have past president of the Arts and the University of Southern been appointed to a chair at Letters Club of Toronto and a California from 1963 to 1967 and a university on the European former director of the Canada Duke University from 1967 to continent (receiving offers from Council for the Arts. He has, alone 1982. From 1983, he directed the both Germany and Italy), and or with others, produced theatri - Institute of Music History at the the only one to hold an honorary cal shows across Canada and in University of Regensburg, doctorate from there, from the the US, and has several theatrical Bavaria. As emeritus he resides University of Pavia, Italy. He is projects now in development. since 1992 in Rome. the recipient of the prestigious medal of the Collège de France , He became a Member of the He is a prolific writer and lectur - and he was, with professors from Order of Canada in 1996 being er, having produced more than Harvard and Yale, one of only described as a “lawyer, volunteer, 4,500 pages of original research, three music historians to be and impresario.” In 2011 he was and lectured in more countries, made honorary members of the awarded the Edmund C. Bovey universities, and languages than exclusive Accademia Filarmonica Award which is presented by any other musicologist. His work in Bologna, whose members Business for the Arts for demon - covers Italian music of the 16th included composers such as strating a lifetime of significant and 17th centuries and Austrian Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, support or leadership in arts and and Ravel. culture in Canada. He is also a recipient of the 2002 and 2012 36 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE Queen’s Jubilee Medals. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2014 Alumni of Influence uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

national peace organization. In later life he was known as the “Grand Old Man” of Canada .

University College’s Mulock House is named after him, as is a second - ary school in Newmarket, Ontario.

The Honourable Robert K. Rae (BA 1969 UC) (MPhil 1971 Oxford) (LLB 1977 Toronto) (Hon. LLD 1999 Toronto) is a senior partner at Olthuis Kleer Townshend LLP.

Sir William Mulock (BA 1863 UC) He was elected 11 times to the (MA 1871 Toronto) (LLD 1894 Toronto) House of Commons and the Sir William Mulock was a lawyer, Ontario legislature between 1978 educator, businessman, politician and 2013. He was Ontario’s 21 st and judge. premier from 1990 to 1995, and served as interim leader of the In Parliament from 1882 to 1905, from he was postmaster general under 2011 to 2013. Laurier and organized the federal Department of Labour, becoming He is working now as a negotiator, Erna Paris (BA 1960 UC) its first minister. He negotiated an mediator, and arbitrator, with a Erna Paris is the author of seven intergovernmental agreement to particular focus on first nations, acclaimed works of literary non- establish a telecommunications aboriginal, and governance issues. fiction and the winner of twelve cable linking Canada, Australia, He also teaches at the University national and international writ - and New Zealand and was instru - of Toronto School of Governance ing awards for her books, feature mental in joining Canada and the and Public Policy, and is a widely writing, and radio documen - UK through radio. He chaired the respected writer and commenta - taries. Her works have been pub - parliamentary inquiry into tele - tor on public policy issues in lished in fourteen countries and phones that led to the regulation Canada and abroad. of Canadian telecommunications, translated into eight languages. Long Shadows: Truth, Lies, and and took part in the negotiations An author of four books and many History was chosen as one of that led to the creation of Alberta studies and reports, Rae is a Privy “The Hundred Most Important and Saskatchewan as provinces. Councillor, an Officer of the Order Books Ever Written in Canada” of Canada, a Member of the Order by the Literary Review of Canada He was chief justice of Ontario of Ontario, and has numerous Her most recent work, The Sun from 1923 to 1936. As vice-chancel - awards and honorary degrees Climbs Slow: The International lor of the University of Toronto from institutions in Canada and Criminal Court and the Struggle from 1881 to 1900, he was the pri - around the world. mary force in federating denomi - for Justice was first on The Globe and Mail’s “best book of the year” national and professional colleges Rae attended UC from 1966, was list and shortlisted for the into the modern university. He Literary Director and Students Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for served as chancellor from 1924 Administrative Council rep, and Political Writing. to 1944. lived for two years in McCaul House in the Sir Daniel Wilson Paris is a member of the Honorary Mulock was active in both busi - residence. He studied modern Council of the Canadian Centre ness and the community, and was history and was a Rhodes for International Justice; a mem - involved in the foundation of the Scholar for Ontario in 1969, and ber of the Canada Committee of Toronto-Dominion Bank, the completed his MPhil at Balliol Human Rights Watch; a member Toronto Star , Toronto Wellesley College. He is also a graduate of of the board of the Canadian Civil Hospital, and Canada’s first the Faculty of Law at U of T. Liberties Association; and a past chair of the Writers’ Union of His late father, Saul Rae, is Canada. In 2012, Paris was also a UC Alumni of Influence awarded the World Federalist recipient in 2014. Movement– Canada World Peace Award. UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 37 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2014 Alumni of Influence uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

IMAGE Saul Rae

PHOTOGRAPHER Michael Bedford

Professor Jeffrey Wong (BA 1959 UC) (PhD 1963 Toronto) Jeffrey Wong is a distinguished international scientist and Professor Emeritus at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Biochemistry, of which he is the founding head.

He is the co-developer of Dextran-Hemoglobin, a blood substitute that is used in trans - fusions to deliver oxygen to vital organs in cases of severe blood loss. Along with fellow UC alum - nus Dr. Jan Blumenstein (BA 1954 Dr. Saul Rae After doing pioneering work UC), Wong first developed and (BA 1936 UC) (PhD 1938 London) on public opinion research with tested the substance at the Saul Rae was born in Hamilton, George Gallup, he joined the University of Toronto and Mount Ontario, of immigrant parents. Canadian foreign service in 1940. Sinai Hospital in the late 1970s, He showed a talent for music He served in Algeria, Paris, when he was a Professor in U of T’s and theatre at a very young age, London, , Washington, Department of Biochemistry. and travelled across Canada as Geneva, , New York, part of a family troupe called and the Hague, and served as His main research contribution “the little Raes of sunshine.” Canadian ambassador to the UN is the coevolution theory of the in Geneva and New York, as well origin of the genetic code, which He came to UC on a scholarship as Mexico and the . posits that the code is mutable, in 1932, and had an active stu - having coevolved with, and dent life, becoming president of He retired in 1980, and kept up therefore having been shaped by, the Lit, an active debater at Hart an active interest in public amino acid biosynthesis. House, and producer and direc - affairs, as well as music and the - tor of the UC Follies. He won the atre. On his death in 1999 prime He has published more than 40 Moss Scholarship and became a minister Jean Chrétien called articles in scientific journals and Massey Fellow, completing his him “one of the most remarkable is a member of the Society for PhD at the London School of men I've ever met. His sense of Biochemistry and Molecular Economics in 1938. humour and lively mind drew Biology, the Federation of people to him, and I was proud American Societies for to know him as a friend.” Experimental Biology, and the International Committee Lois, his wife of six decades, is on Blood Substitutes. enjoying her one-hundredth year, living in Toronto. 38 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2014 Alumni of Influence uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

IMAGE He has been a Butterworth’s She is a former director of the Frederick Zemans Fellow at the Institute of Canada Council for the Arts and PHOTOGRAPHER Advanced Legal Studies, former dean of the Faculty of Fine Laura Pedersen University of London; and Arts at York. She currently serves Visiting Professor at the London as a member of the advisory School of Economics, Kobe committees of the Toronto Arts University Law Department, Council and Foundation, the UCLA, and the National Law University of Toronto Art Centre, University, New Delhi. He served Theatre Museum Canada, and the for many years as chair of boards Jarislowsky Institute for Studies of inquiry for the Ontario Human in Canadian Art at Concordia Rights Commission and, in recent University, among others. years, as a mediator and facilitator in private and public disputes. A Member of the Order of Canada, she is the recipient of He is married to Professor Joyce numerous awards and honours, Zemans, a fellow UC Alumni of including the Queen’s Golden Influence recipient. and Diamond Jubilee Medals. She holds honorary degrees from the University of Waterloo, Professor Frederick H. Zemans the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and Concordia (BA 1960) (LLB 1964 Toronto) University, and she is an Frederick H. Zemans is a pioneer Honorary Fellow of the Ontario in clinical legal education, alter - College of Art and Design. native dispute resolution (ADR), and the community legal clinic She is married to Professor movement in Canada. Frederick Zemans, a fellow UC Alumni of Influence recipient. He is the founding director of Parkdale Community Legal Services—Ontario’s first commu - nity-based legal aid clinic, estab - lished in 1971—and of Osgoode Hall Law School’s Intensive Program in Poverty Law. He was Professor Joyce Zemans the director of clinical education (BA 1962 UC) (MA 1966 Toronto) at Osgoode for many years and Joyce Zemans is an internationally was one of the original faculty recognized scholar who has made teaching in Osgoode’s programs profound contributions in the fields in ADR and continues to teach of Canadian art history, cultural in the field. policy, and arts administration.

His publications have focused She is Senior Scholar and primarily on the Canadian legal University Professor Emerita at profession, access to justice, legal York University and Director of services for low-income persons, the MBA Program in Arts and ADR, and quality assurance of Media Administration at York’s state-funded legal services. Active Schulich School of Business. Her nationally and internationally in research focuses on cultural poli - the field of legal aid, he is a mem - cy, curatorial practice, and 20th- ber of the International Legal Aid century Canadian art with a par - Group, and was, for many years, ticular interest in the develop - the Canadian board member of ment of abstraction in Canada the Inter-American Legal Services and the work of Canadian Association. He is a founding women artists. member and past president of Canadian Law and Society.

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IMAGE 01. NEWS FROM CLASSMATES Michael Bliss NEAR AND FAR IMAGE 02. Irving Abella

(BA 1990 IMAGE 03. CHARLES BLATTBERG David Cronenberg UC) has published The Adventures of Young Philosopher IMAGE 04. Ronald Daniels Theo Hosen of Toronto (Angst Patrol, 2014), a semi-autobio - IMAGE 05. graphical novel set at University Michael Fine and Susan Graham College and the University of Toronto. The author is a Professor of Political Philosophy 04. at the Université de Montréal. RONALD DANIELS (BA 1982 UC), President of Johns 01. RUTH CORBIN (BSc 1972 UC), Hopkins University, was awarded an expert in intellectual an honorary Doctor of Laws MICHAEL BLISS (BA 1962 UC), University Professor at U of T, property policy, received an from the University of Toronto was named an Officer of the honorary doctorate from in recognition of his extraordi - Order of Ontario, for his contri - Carleton University. nary accomplishments as a butions as an historian and leader in higher education. author dedicated to illuminating Canada’s history. CHARLOTTE FIELDEN (BA 1955 UC) has published The Somerset Stranglers (CFM Books, 2014), a psychological thriller and the third volume in the Virginia Gilmore mystery series.

02. Historian IRVING ABELLA

(BA 1963 UC) , Shiff Professor 05. of Canadian Jewish History at Congratulations to MICHAEL York University, was named a (BSc 2009 UC) and Member of the Order of FINE SUSAN 03. GRAHAM (2010 UC) on their Ontario for his contributions engagement. The couple met Filmmaker DAVID CRONENBERG to documenting the story of while students at UC and Jewish Canadians, and his com - (BA 1967 UC) was named a Member of the Order of connected over their love of mitment to the principles of Orientation Week and the UC Lit. social justice and tolerance. Ontario, for his internationally acclaimed contributions to cinema. 40 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE CLASS NOTES FALL 2014 News from Alumni uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

Toronto-based poet and novelist IMAGE 06. ANNABEL PATTERSON (BA 1961 Catiline: The SHARON MARCUS (BA 1955 UC), Sterling Professor of Monster of Rome by UC) has published two new English Emeritus at Yale Francesco Galassi books, A Toronto Story and University, was granted an hon - IMAGE 07. Record of Days (The Sufi orary Doctor of Laws by the Romanesque Press, 2014). Sculpture: An University of Toronto. She is an Ecstatic Art by expert in early modern literature. Sharon Marcus

IMAGE 08. The Honourable BOB RAE Debbie Ohi (BA 1969 UC), former Premier of Ontario and former Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, has joined law firm Olthuis Kleer Townshend LLP as a senior partner.

BRUCE REILLY (BCom 1983 UC) was appointed Chief Financial Officer of iSIGN Media 06. Solutions Inc. FRANCESCO GALASSI (BA 1981 UC) has published Catiline, The Harry Rosen CEO LARRY Monster of Rome: An Early ROSEN (BA 1978 UC) was Case of Political Assassination 07. named Distinguished Retailer (Westholme Press, 2014). The Art historian SUSAN MARCUS of the Year by Retail Council book traces the political biogra - (BA 1955 UC) recently pub - of Canada. phy of an ancient Roman noble - lished Romanesque Sculpture: An man, Lucius Sergius Catiline. Ecstatic Art (Friesen Press, 2014). A fundraiser organized by UC alumna and graduate student (BSc 1980 DOUGLAS GEORGE SEMRA SEVI (BA 2012 UC) saw UC) has been appointed Consul six professors competing to raise General at the Consulate the most funds to avoid being General of Canada in Detroit. pied in the face. The Pie a Prof event in support of Syrian ROGER GREENBERG (BCom child refugees raised a total of 1977 UC) was named a Member $13, 307.24. University College of the Order of Ontario, for faculty member JEFFREY his contributions as a fundraiser KOPSTEIN participated but and trusted counsellor to could not raise enough to avoid numerous charities and educa - being pied. tional institutions in the 08. National Capital Region. DEBBIE OHI (BSc 1986 UC) is WALTER EUGENE SWAYZE the cover illustrator of seven (BA 1944 UC) passed away on Footballer RICHARD KOLLINS Judy Blume classics reissued for January 28, 2014 at the age of 91. (BA 1964 UC) was recently the middle grades, including Are He served in the navy during inducted into the University of You There God? It’s Me, Margaret WWII, then completed graduate Toronto Sports Hall of Fame. (Atheneum Books for Young studies at Yale University. He Readers, 2014) . taught for most of his career in Film and television director the English Department at the (BA WILLIAM (TED) KOTCHEFF ROLAND PARIS (BA 1989 UC), University of Winnipeg, and was 1952 UC) was honoured by the Associate Professor in the head of the department for Academy of Canadian Cinema Graduate School of Public and many years. and Television with the Academy International Affairs at the Board of Directors’ Tribute, for University of Ottawa, has been Dr. ANDREW BOWIE his outstanding and enduring appointed to a NATO expert TEPPERMAN (BA 1994 UC) was contributions to Canadian film panel tasked with developing appointed Vice-President of and television. recommendations to strengthen Charles River Associates. the trans-Atlantic partnership as well as its collective security. UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 41 NOTA BENE FALL 2014 Campus news uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

Nota Bene

Honoured for their contribu - Director of UTAC since July IMAGE 01. CAMPUS NEWS tions to advancing the cause of 2013. Fischer is also currently Sylvia Bashevkin sexual diversity through writing Executive Director and Chief IMAGE 02. were authors Waawaate Fobister, Curator of the Justina M. Lawrence Spicer (R) Patricia Nell-Warren, Shyam Barnicke Gallery at Hart House. of RBC presents the Selvadurai, and Edmund White. She will continue in these roles. Bonham Centre Award to writer Edmund White

PHOTOGRAPHER Christopher Dew

IMAGE 03. New graduate Sarah Qidwai (BA 2014 UC) celebrates at the UC Convocation reception

01. Former UC Principal Professor SYLVIA BASHEVKIN was hon - oured with the 2014 Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association, Canadian Politics section. She also received the 2014 Award in Gender Studies from the Royal Society of Canada.

03. University College welcomed EMILY GILBERT , an Associate 671 new graduates to its Professor of Geography and alumni community at spring the former director of the UC CONVOCATION on June 16. Canadian Studies program, was University Professor and UC honoured with an Outstanding faculty member KEREN RICE , Teaching Award from U of T’s an internationally renowned Faculty of Arts and Science. linguist, delivered the 02. Convocation address. ELIZABETH HARVEY , a Professor The MARK S. BONHAM CENTRE of English and UC faculty mem - FOR SEXUAL DIVERSITY The University of Toronto Art ber, was recently honoured with STUDIES at University College Centre (UTAC) at University the University of Toronto held its annual Awards Gala on College has appointed BARBARA Alumni Association's Northrop April 24 in Hart House’s Great FISCHER as Director for a term Frye Award for linkages between Hall. This year, the awards cele - through June 30, 2019. A Senior teaching and research. brated The Power of Word . Lecturer and Director of the Master of Visual Studies - University College student Curatorial Studies Program DANIELLE KLEIN has been at the University of Toronto, named Editor of The Varsity , Fischer has served as Interim U of T’s student newspaper. 42 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE NOTA BENE FALL 2014 Campus news uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

Klein is in her fourth year of a Professor DAVID NOVAK , the University College faculty Jewish Studies, English, and J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff member Professor RINALDO History program. Chair of Jewish Studies at U of T WALCOTT has been appointed and a UC faculty member, has Director of the Women & UC faculty member Professor been invited to give the presti - Gender Studies Institute at the ELIZABETH LEGGE was re- gious Gifford Lectures at the University of Toronto. appointed Chair of the University of Aberdeen in 2017. Department of Art. Since their inception in 1888, NELSON WISEMAN has been the Gifford Lectures have been appointed Director of the UC Second-year UC student JESSIE one of the foremost lecture Canadian Studies program MACALPINE has been named series dealing with religion, for a three-year term through one of Canada’s Top 20 Under science, and philosophy. June 30, 2017. He is a 20, for her international out - Professor in the Department reach activities and for finding of Political Science where he an ingredient in mustard oil that teaches courses on Canadian could double as an affordable government and politics. His and effective malaria treatment. research interests include provincial politics, Canadian public administration, elections, and voting.

University College and the 05. Mark S. Bonham Centre for ANA PÉREZ-LEROUX has been Sexual Diversity Studies hosted appointed Director of the UC the WORLDPRIDE HUMAN Cognitive Science program for a RIGHTS CONFERENCE as part three-year term through June 30, of WorldPride 2014, an interna - 2017. A Professor in the tional celebration of LGBT Department of Spanish and politics, education, and culture Portuguese, and the Department which took place in Toronto in of Linguistics, her research June. More than 400 delegates focuses on questions of language from 51 countries attended and thought, and the effect of the conference, which received bilingualism in children. signifcant media coverage locally,

04. nationally, and around the world. University College is thrilled to IMAGE 04. Anne Michaels welcome celebrated poet and novelist ANNE MICHAELS (BA PHOTOGRAPHER Marzena Pogorzaly 1980 UC) in the role of Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor in IMAGE 05. Canadian Studies for the 2014- Ana Pérez-Leroux 15 academic year. Michaels’ first PHOTOGRAPHER collection of poetry won the Christopher Dew Commonwealth Prize for the

IMAGE 06. Americas. Her first novel, David Rayside Fugitive Pieces , was published to PHOTOGRAPHER international acclaim, winning Christopher Dew the Trillium Prize, the Books in 06. Canada First Novel Award, the Professor DAVID RAYSIDE was Orange Prize for Fiction, the elected to the Royal Society of Guardian Fiction Prize, and Canada. Rayside is the founding America’s Lannan Literary director of the Mark S. Bonham Award for Fiction. As writer-in- Centre for Sexual Diversity residence, Michaels will be avail - Studies at UC and a Professor able to students for one-on-one Emeritus in the Department of mentoring sessions on all forms Political Science. of writing. She will also partici - pate in the wider UC community by giving talks and attending College events. UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 43 “When people think of the University of Toronto they think about University College. As a UC student I carry around that pride and I want our beautiful building to be used as well as it can be.” Ryan Phillips, Vice-President UC Literary & Athletic Society 2 0 1 3 – 1 4

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