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RootTHE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE • SPECIAL ISSUE • WINTER 2016

GO BLUES! CELEBRATING OUR RENEWED AFFILIATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF Guest Editorial

The Rebirth and Renewal of UTS Coming together as a community to achieve what once seemed impossible.

There is an old saying that you can never go alma maters have renewed and reinvigorated home again. I think we at UTS have proved the their connection in a way that will benefit saying wrong with the renewal of our Affiliation both organizations in the future, as it has in Agreement with the , and the past. the news that the school will remain at 371 Bloor I know that it has been a long road to reach this Street West. renewed affiliation, and that many of you have I am sure that, like me, most of you could spent countless hours in meetings, advocating in never have imagined UTS being anywhere but the community, and offering advice and support at its current location. And certainly the idea to help us get to this momentous day. As always, that UTS’ future would not involve the university I am proud of my fellow alumni. Along with UTS Mark Opashinov ’88 was unthinkable: after all, the two have been parents, staff, and students, we have once again President, UTSAA connected since the founding of UTS in 1910. come together as a community to achieve what Thankfully, that is not a future we will have seemed impossible. to envision. I invite you to enjoy this commemorative issue As an alumnus of both UTS and the University of The Root, and to join me in celebrating this of Toronto, I am truly delighted that my two milestone in the history of UTS.

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The UTS doors will be open on Saturday, May 28 from 10 am to 4 pm as part of the 17th annual Doors Open Toronto. Come see UTS’ take on this year’s theme of Re-used, Revisited and Revised. CONTENTS 12 Photo courtesy of I-Think Initiative, Rotman School of Management A School in Search of Founders By Jim Fleck C.C. ’49...... 4 Walking the Halls A stroll through 371 Bloor Street West from 1910 to today On the cover: Hal Jackman O.C.’50, Don Schmitt ’70, John Duffy ’82, By Jack Batten ’50...... 6 Principal Rosemary Evans, and Jim Fleck C.C. ’49 gathered on the front steps of UTS on December 15, 2015, moments before the renewed affiliation agreement was passed by the University of Toronto’s Governing Council. As the Tree, So the Branch

Above: Deep roots and new growth characterize the affiliation between UTS students at the Global Ideas Institute, a UTS initiative U of T and UTS run in conjunction with the Munk School of Global Affairs. By Principal Rosemary Evans...... 10 Our thanks to this issue’s contributors: Jack Batten ’50, John Duffy ’81, Rosemary Evans, Jamie Day Fleck, Jim Fleck C.C. ’50, Johan Hallberg-Campbell, Emma Jenkin ’03, Jane Rimmer. Talking Affiliation A look at the members of the U of T and UTS leadership who Publisher: Martha Drake came together to reach a new agreement ...... 13 Editor & Writer: Carla Murphy

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E S L U U The Root is available to all alumni, parents, and friends of UTS. Contact us at the above T M A AR R addresses to receive a copy or to change your address. BOR ITA The issue is also available at: www.utschools.ca/root and www.issuu.com/utschools If you would like to receive your copy of The Root electronically only, please contact: [email protected] or 416-978-3919. A School in Search of Founders

hirty years ago, Uwe Kitzinger – dean of opportunity to give back in a very tangible Tinternational graduate business school and meaningful way to his old school; that the Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires idea of contributing to the education of future (INSEAD), and soon to be director of the Oxford generations of business leaders appealed to him Centre for Management Studies (OCMS) – wrote on both intellectual and emotional levels. an article, “A College in Search of a Founder,” that UTS now finds itself in a very similar position was at heart a plea for a donor to come forward to OCMS. With the signing of the affiliation as the Founder of a new college at Oxford. At the agreement that this issue celebrates, UTS now time, I was teaching at INSEAD and had several faces a new challenge: the rebirth of our aging interesting conversations with him about his plans facilities so that we can continue to provide the for this new college and his quest for a Founder. very best educational experience for our students. As you can see, Uwe’s ideas and vision have stuck There are very few times when we are with me through the years, but I’ve never had the presented with an opportunity that can truly be opportunity to apply them until now. described as once-in-a-lifetime. Even fewer are At first it seemed that Uwe’s article had fallen those events that provide us with the chance to on deaf ears, but then an occasional lecturer impact not only our own lives, but also those of at the Centre asked for 50 copies of the article current and future generations in a life-changing to distribute to his business contacts. From way. Alumni, parents, staff, and supporters of UTS there, a benefactor – John Templeton – stepped are in that fortunate position as we enter this new forward, became a Founder, and Templeton phase of our history. College was born. To fulfill the promise inherent in the renewal I can only surmise what thoughts went through and expansion of our relationship with the John Templeton’s mind when he first read that University of Toronto, UTS must raise an article from his alma mater (he was a graduate unprecedented (for us) amount of money: of Balliol College, Oxford). I like to imagine $60 million. These funds will allow the school that he was inspired by the once-in-a-lifetime to redevelop 70,000 square feet of our current

4 THE ROOT • Special Issue • Winter 2016 building, as well as to construct a 70,000-square- foot addition. This massive project will bring the spaces in which our students learn into the future. It will provide them with the equipment and facilities they need and deserve as they continue to shine both academically and personally, preparing them to go on to post- secondary studies in their chosen fields. Jamie Day Fleck UTS has not undertaken a task of this magnitude expertise, advocacy and funds from our alumni, since its founding in 1910 and nothing of the kind parents, students and staff. As referenced by will likely be undertaken again in the lifetime Mark Opashinov ’88 in his guest editorial, UTS of current alumni, or even the lifetime of our alumni are very involved with their alma mater current students. out of a sense of stewardship and a desire to I recognize that only a few of us are fortunate give to future students an institution that is even enough to be in a position to make seven figure better than the one they attended. gifts, no matter how strong our devotion to As your Board Chair, I invite you to join me UTS. If you are one of those few, a potential in celebration of the renewal of our affiliation Founder, I call on you to identify yourself to me with the University of Toronto. I call upon you to ([email protected]), as John did to Uwe, and join continue to tell your friends and colleagues about me in funding the rebirth of our alma mater. the wonderful accomplishments of UTS students, For those of you – and I appreciate that this is staff, and graduates; to share our plans for the the majority – who do not have this capability, future; to search for our Founders and to give please spread the word and give ’till it feels good. what you can. Together we will bring our vision Together we will meet our goal. for the future of UTS to fruition. Over the years, UTS has been blessed with the most incredible support in the form of time, — Jim Fleck C.C. ’49

THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 5 Photos on pages 6 to 8 courtesy of University of Toronto Archives Jack Batten ’50 is UTS’ unofficial, and very much appreciated historian, having written UTS: 75 Years of Excellence (1985) and University of Toronto Schools: 1910 – 2010 for our centennial in 2009. A journalist and author, Jack has been published in magazines ranging from Reader’s Digest to Rolling Stone. He reviewed jazz for the Globe and Mail in the 1970s, movies on CBC-Radio’s Metro Morning from 1977 to 2002, and has reviewed crime fiction for the Toronto Star since 1998. Jack is the author of five crime novels and more than thirty books of non-fiction.

6 THE ROOT • Special Issue • Winter 2016 Walking the Halls A stroll through 371 Bloor Street West from 1910 to today

BY JACK BATTEN ’50

hen the original three-storey UTS was the gym? A cafeteria might have been nice By the 1930s, the Wbuilding went up in 1910, it was almost too, and an assembly hall was usually deemed structure of the UTS as remarkable for what it left out as for what it indispensable in a complete school. But the building as we know it today was completed. included. In dimensions, the school covered building budget was too tight to afford such only the middle block of the building that was luxuries in the otherwise shiny new UTS. eventually to come. This mini-version of UTS To fill in the architectural blanks, the school offered enough space for classrooms on all made do with what spaces were available. For three floors, a handsome library on the second, weekly assemblies, staff and students squeezed and $25,000 worth of spiffy chemistry and into the former ballroom in a ramshackle mansion physics paraphernalia on the third. But where next door on Spadina Avenue. The masters felt

THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 7 Clockwise from top left: so offended by the gloom of these makeshift reigned as the venue for meetings and music, an early class of UTS quarters that they scorned the assembly hall salutes to the school’s war-time heroes on students on the front as “the shed.” For meals, the boys scattered Remembrance Day, awards to students on Prize steps; boys at manual throughout the school and the grounds out Day, greeting new students entering the school, training; building back with their brown-bagged lunches. And in and bidding farewell to graduating students. It construction in 1931; full-service lunch room place of a gym, the schoolyard emerged as a was a place for drama where Mavor Moore ’36 in 1923. multi‑faceted play space: two handball courts, (later Canada’s greatest all-round man of theatre) two ball diamonds, and a winter hockey rink. trod the boards in 1935’s production of Macbeth, In upgrades that soon followed, correcting the and where Hal Jackman O.C. ’50 (later Ontario’s freelance eating arrangements came first. That Lieutenant-Governor) dazzled as Hotspur in unfolded in 1915 when the university kicked 1949’s Henry IV Part 1. It was the place where in $600 to install two stoves, a refrigerator, and the masterfully inventive English teacher Scott enough cutlery and plates to serve lunch to Baker challenged student performers with works 200 boys – double that number in the winter – in in the 1990s that might have seemed beyond their a basement cafeteria. A typical luncheon menu artistic range – a challenge they met head on. consisted of mulligatawny soup, wieners and Who could forget the inspiring version of You’re beans, and raisin pie – a bargain at 15 cents and a Good Man Charlie Brown? And, beginning in still a steal for $3.50 in 2016 dollars. 1993, it was the place where The Show arrived Then, in a massive 1923 expansion, it was annually in all its stunning size and variety to goodbye to “the shed” and hello to new facilities present dance, song, comedy, and drama in which that brought the school as close to completion casts of hundreds celebrated the school’s – indeed as any student, or his parents, could ask. The the whole world’s – cultural diversities. construction doubled the size of the east wing – The school building underwent two more adding nine more classrooms, a manual training major pieces of construction, in 1931 and 1949, shop, a gym, a swimming pool, and, most but these were of immediate benefit almost glorious of all, an assembly hall that became exclusively to the Faculty of Education’s half of for decades UTS’ communal gathering place. It the premises in the much enlarged west wing.

8 THE ROOT • Special Issue • Winter 2016 t I wasn’t until the late 1990s when the generally organizing and executing projects Education Faculty merged with the Ontario that best engage the school’s entire plant. Many Institute for Studies in Education and moved to times, Facilities has been called upon to rise to a OISE’s premises further east on Bloor Street that challenge. The story of the broken chariot wheel UTS enjoyed for the first time the run of the entire is one of those times. building at 371 Bloor West. Now the school had It seemed an irredeemable disaster when the As the school more classrooms, two more gyms, extra locker right wheel of UTS’ chariot burst into uselessness expressed more space, an enhanced Guidance Centre, and the at Brock University in May 2015 during the annual exuberance in space to accommodate so many new boys and Classics Conference. girls that the student population was lifted to Lawrence Park Collegiate, having finished its its appearance, just over the 600 mark. own race, made UTS a loan of its chariot’s right it also added UTS’ building was now much bigger, filled wheel and for the 20th straight year, UTS won the new spaces with even more thriving people. But was it more overall Classics title. and utilities physically attractive? But this exhilarating victory didn’t complete the for the students Not to Stewart Bull’s eye. When he arrived in episode of the disintegrating chariot. UTS needed (and staff, too) 1959 to begin his long career teaching English to build a new chariot for the 2016 Conference; to more broadly and history at UTS, such adjectives as “dingy” and however, where would the complex chariot express their “dim” came instantly to his mind as descriptions building take place? for his new professional premises. It was Mr. Bull Facilities came to the rescue. Among its 2015 creativity who pushed for aesthetic reform. A naturally decisions, the department reconfigured the space in different ebullient man, he turned into a nag, and he got once known as the cafeteria (but more latterly disciplines. what he thought students and staff deserved. The as the Commons) to allow for a dedicated area upgrades included fluorescent lights and brightly where students could carry out construction tasks. coloured tiles, fresh paint for the classrooms, new And that was where members of the UTS classics greenboards and tack boards, tiled floors, and contingent prepared to get to work in early 2016 movable tables and chairs replacing the nailed- on building a new chariot. down desks of an earlier era. It’s not yet known exactly what the new UTS Principal Stan Pearl (1995-1999) put an ultimate structure will look like. It promises to include, stamp of creativity on the process of sprucing up for the school, a 700-seat auditorium, a new the building in 1998 when he let loose a squad of atrium, a black box theatre, and a double gym. It artistic-minded students on the basement locker also promises to preserve the present building’s area. What the students produced were swooping historic façade. flows of colour spreading across the entire length Maintaining the façade will be UTS’s own of the lockers. UTS had shed its institutional special responsibility, and measured in terms of dinginess in favour of a large aspect of wit the 105 years of affection and ingenuity that have Training in the parking lot and colour. already gone into the premises at 371 Bloor West, for the Classics chariot As the school expressed more exuberance in the school will be more than up to the task. n race is a UTS tradition. its appearance, it also added new spaces and utilities for the students (and staff, too) to more broadly express their creativity in different disciplines. Thus, there came the Keys Gallery for artists among staff, retired staff, and alumni; and the Ridley Fitness Centre for students looking to improve their physical fitness. For the theatre crowd, there arrived in 2015 a control booth at the back of the auditorium that enabled the stage crew to better command the sound, lighting, and video. That same year, the school’s musicians rejoiced in the purchase of a gorgeous Yamaha piano. There were more challenges to come, however, as the academic and space needs of UTS’ growing student body changed with the years. A three- person unit known as “Facilities” is charged with

THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 9 As the Tree, So the Branch Deep roots and new growth characterize the affiliation between U of T and UTS

BY PRINCIPAL ROSEMARY EVANS

n my first week at UTS, in July of 2011, two mission, while also keeping an eye on the future I events stood out. First, Professor Martin to pave the way for new development. As a part Friedland – father of Tom Friedland ’81 and author of the university community, we pledge through of The University of Toronto: A History – arranged our letters patent “to provide highest-quality for materials related to the founding of UTS to and accessible education to students selected be set aside for me to review in the University on the basis of merit; to serve as a resource and of Toronto Archives. Reading through this facility for the initial and continuing education of fascinating collection of documents, I learned that teachers; and to develop, support and advance UTS began as the result of the recommendation of school and university curriculum, instruction a Royal Commission to develop an experimental and assessment methods through research and school as part of the newly formed Department of innovation in both the Canadian and international Education at U of T. This school was to serve as contexts.” We are committed to broadening a laboratory for the training of secondary school our school’s programming opportunities while teachers in the quest to develop efficient teaching also bringing worthwhile and valuable input methods to prepare students for jobs in the to U of T. The many academic partnerships we nation’s rapidly emerging industrial infrastructure. have developed with members of the university The second noteworthy event was a research community enrich both university personnel and activity co-designed by UTS teacher Dr. Maria our own students and staff. Indeed, many of these Niño-Soto, OISE PhD candidate Michelle Lui, programs were initiated by UTS teachers and and Michelle’s advisor, Dr. Jim Slotta. UTS reflect their quest for innovation. students investigated evolutionary principles Our new affiliation journey allows this using animated digital scenes of the Borneo valuable relationship to continue and opens up rainforest from 2,000,000 years ago and 200 years new possibilities for UTS. In the past, we were ago. The students compared the flora and fauna principally connected with the Department of evident in the scenes of the different time periods. Education/OCE/FEUT and, most recently, OISE. They then tagged, classified, and categorized their Today, our direct liaison is with the Office of evidence using interactive technology, and co- the Provost and we will now report to the Vice- constructed their theory of evolution. Provost, Innovations in Undergraduate Education. The past, present, and future merged during that We will have biannual meetings with university week to reinforce the uniqueness and potential of representatives to review existing relationships UTS as a school for highly motivated students and and explore future areas for collaboration. UTS faculty: engaged in teacher education, educational is also examining University of Toronto President research, and innovation. Looking back, those two ’s Three Priorities to explore how we experiences exemplify the benefits to both UTS can enhance these initiatives. and the University of Toronto of continuing the It is our hope that UTS can contribute to the affiliation that marked our very beginnings. University of Toronto’s efforts to transform This affiliation agreement represents an exciting educational practices. To this end, UTS has been renewal of our relationship with the University of involved in a number of exciting and innovative Toronto. It encompasses a return to our original initiatives with the university, including the

10 THE ROOT • Special Issue • Winter 2016 creation of Massive Open Online courses (MOOCs) (see The Root, Fall 2015), coupled with research into the efficacy of secondary school students taking MOOCs. We are also currently engaged in an innovative educational initiative with The Learning Partnership and the Munk School that focuses on engaging senior secondary students in global problem-solving units of study that incorporate university-level work, and that will help them to bridge successfully to post-secondary education. As a host school for a renewed Master of Teaching cohort, UTS is partnering with our university teaching colleagues to develop innovative teacher training. Our exciting teacher Courtesy of Sharon Zillmer research initiative, Eureka!, has demonstrated research project. She has involved other OISE UTS students present to the power of practitioners working with research instructors and they are facilitating a teacher Professor Zhong-Ping experts to investigate real-life teaching issues. research inquiry community at UTS which is also Feng of the Department of Physiology, U of T, during UTS will continue to demonstrate that our the subject of research for Prof. Kosnick and her a Bright Lights session. school is an incubator nurturing creative colleagues. The project is fully funded by the individuals who have the power to reshape our UTS Eureka! Endowment. This year Professor world for the better. Indeed, over the past five Kosnick and her team presented on the project at years the excitement of my first week at UTS the American Educational Research Association has not diminished. Our renewed affiliation Conference in Chicago. The team’s research provides multiple opportunities for UTS students has also been presented at both provincial and to excel, and ensures that the creative learning international conferences. environment so evident within the school since its inception can continue to evolve and develop, Youth Participatory Action Research (yPAR), OISE: and leave a lasting impact. UTS is an affiliate in conducting research into elite schools and issues of equity and inclusion UTS and University of Toronto (see The Root, Fall 2015). This research utilizes Affiliation Activities the Youth Participatory Action Research (yPAR) Here is just a sampling of some of the many Model which Prof. Rubén Gaztambide-Fernandez It is our hope affiliation activities which enrich both institutions: is also using to understand the experiences of that UTS can Latino students and First Nations students in Master of Teaching (MT) Program, OISE: UTS is the Toronto District School Board. A grant from contribute to the currently the only school-based cohort site for Newton Foundation, through UTS, is funding a University of the renewed MT program for intermediate and post-doctoral fellow. We hope that this unique Toronto’s efforts senior divisions. We provide opportunities for research initiative will increase our understanding observation, curriculum development, student of how we can maintain and enhance equity to transform engagement, teaching, mentoring, research, and and inclusion, a distinguishing attribute of the educational volunteer placements for 30 teacher candidates UTS community. practices. under the direction of OISE Professor David Montemurro. UTS is committed to being an Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Research: engaged and contributing partner, working UTS received research funds from the Gates together with OISE to ensure that the new MT Foundation to support research related to Prof. program reflects best practice in teacher and Dilip Soman’s MOOC: Behavioural Economics graduate education. For years, UTS students and in Action. Principal Rosemary Evans and UTS teachers provided a stimulating environment for teacher Christopher Federico ’91 presented teacher candidates; we are pleased to continue this research at the MOOC Research Initiative this tradition. Conference held in Texas in December 2013, and their paper, “MOOC Integration into Secondary Research Initiatives School Courses”, co-written with Hedieh Najafi, Professor Clare Kosnik, OISE: Prof. Kosnick is was published in The International Review of working with six UTS educators on a teacher Research in Open and Distributed Learning.

THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 11 Teaching Initiatives funding from the Fulbright Foundation and Global Ideas Institute (GII): For the past six was led by UTS teacher and Fulbright Fellow, years, UTS has worked with the Munk School Anand Mahadevan. of Global Affairs and, more recently, with The Learning Partnership, Rotman, and OISE, on the MOOC: UTS joined forces with the University GII. This program provides a unique learning of Toronto and Professor Jim Slotta (OISE) to experience annually for more than 150 GTA develop and deliver an innovative MOOC that secondary school students related to a specific was offered last summer on the Edx platform. global development challenge. The GII works Entitled Teaching with Technology and Inquiry: with Global Innovation Group professors Janice An Open Course for Teachers, this unique MOOC Every year, UTS Stein, Joseph Wong, Dilip Soman, Stanley Zlotkin, provided participants from around the world and various Yu-Ling Cheng, and Anita McGahan, as well with significant opportunities to collaborate on as graduate students, senior undergraduates, curricula design. UTS classes and teachers were academic and OISE teacher candidates. UTS helps recruit video-taped and highlighted in the course. The departments at schools and assists the GII organizational team MOOC was created with financial support from the University with curriculum development. the Office of the Vice President and Provost, University of Toronto, the Dean of OISE, and of Toronto Rotman Integrative Thinking: UTS and the Newton Foundation (through UTS). collaborate to I Think Team at Rotman have organized summer host numerous programs introducing students to complex Maximum City: Developed by UTS teacher Josh problem-solving strategies. These programs are Fullan, Maximum City is an award-winning conferences marketed and organized by UTS. Christopher curriculum and research project in sustainable and events. Federico was seconded part-time to Rotman to urban design for high school students. For help the I Think Team deliver programs for public the past four summers, students from schools school boards, other educational institutions, and across the GTA worked together with leading the Ontario Ministry of Education. experts in architecture, design, transit, and civic engagement – including University of Toronto Bright Lights in the Lab: UTS has been a partner professors – to tackle real-life sustainability with physiology professor Zhong-Ping Feng challenges and planning issues. The learning and the Firefly Foundation for the past four modules developed in the summer program are years. Bright Lights gives students from grades currently being taught to a broader cohort of six to 12 an opportunity to design and perform students as part of their in‑school curriculum. open-ended science experiments on behaviour, Global Innovation Group Conferences and Competitions professors Janice Stein learning, and memory using invertebrates. More and Dilip Soman at a Global than 30 students each summer take part in the Every year, UTS and various academic Ideas Institute event. program. Last summer, the program received departments at the University of Toronto collaborate to host numerous conferences and events, as well as competitions, that draw participants from across the province and country, and around the world. Some examples include: The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the Ontario Association of Physics Teachers contest, and the Ontario Philosophy Teachers’ Conference.

Outreach Initiatives Recruitment and Admissions Department: UTS has worked closely with Ken Withers, Director, University Student Recruitment. UTS has also provided opportunities for University admissions staff to promote the university at UTS events open to students from across the province and beyond; for example, debate tournaments and model United Nations events. n Photo courtesy of I-Think Initiative, Rotman School of Management

12 THE ROOT • Special Issue • Winter 2016 Talking Affiliation Jamie Day Fleck

A look at the members of the U of T and UTS leadership who came together to reach a new agreement

dedicated group of alumni volunteers, UTS staff, and school. He is one of just many alumni, parents, students, and A University of Toronto administrators put in many hours community members without whom the negotiations would to successfully negotiate a new affiliation agreement. These not have reached such a successful conclusion. Throughout this teams, profiled below, turned the eviction notice received in process, they have offered advice, encouragement, support, 2011 into a rebirth for UTS in its current location and a renewal and advocacy, and UTS thanks them for their ongoing efforts of the vital connection between our school and the university, on behalf of the school. a relationship that brings great value to both institutions. Thanks and appreciation go as well to the team of lawyers – In addition to our incredible committee members, UTS Steve Moate ’75 and Tad Brown, Counsels for the University also owes a great debt of gratitude to people such as the of Toronto; Signe Liesk of Cassels Brock, who also represented Honourable Hal Jackman O.C. ’50, former Lieutenant Governor the university; and Graham Rawlinson, representing UTS – for of Ontario, who advocated with great passion on behalf of our turning a conceptual document into a legal agreement. UTS Leadership

Rosemary Evans, Principal diligently to have UTS flourish and to create a meaningful As principal of UTS, Rosemary was a key figure in the partnership with the University of Toronto. affiliation negotiations; her many contributions summed up Rosemary received her B.A. in History from the University by her can-do attitude and complete commitment to saving of Western Ontario and her M.A., B.Ed., and MBA from the the future of UTS. Jim Fleck C.C. ’49, chair of the Board of University of Toronto. She served as a teacher, department Directors and also a member of the Affiliation Committee, head, and subject coordinator for the Peel Board of Education, described her as “the linchpin that held everything together. and later as a vice principal in the former East York Board I cannot speak more highly of her. Thrown into a difficult of Education. During her time as an instructor in the Initial situation, she worked passionately to save our school.” Teacher Education Program at OISE (Ontario Institute for Rosemary was named principal of UTS in February 2011, Studies in Education), Rosemary was the recipient of a with her term to begin that July. In April, however, the Teaching Excellence Award. She later accepted the role of University of Toronto informed UTS that it had declined UTS’ academic head at Branksome Hall, where she oversaw the site redevelopment proposal for 371 Bloor Street West. Since implementation of the International Baccalaureate Programs the moment she became our principal, Rosemary has worked from junior kindergarten to grade 12.

ABOVE: Members of the UTS leadership team: L-R: Bill Saunderson ’52, David Allan ’78, John Duffy ’81, Don Schmitt ’70, Principal Rosemary Evans, Jim Fleck C.C ’49, Iain Dobson ’70.

THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 13 Jim Fleck C.C. ’49, Chair, Board of Directors school was given walking papers and John protested the decision An active member of the UTS alumni community, Jim to the media, he has pursued relentlessly what he calls “the new has donated generously and in many ways to the school deal” with his other alma mater: the University of Toronto. throughout the years. During the affiliation process, Jim’s level John brought a wide range of deal-making skills, which head and unflappable leadership led the way through a series have been honed in the worlds of business, government, of complex negotiations. His insight and business expertise and politics, to the project. Prime Ministers, premiers, and were key to the successful conclusion of our talks with the mayors, as well as the blue-chip corporate clients of his leading University of Toronto. consulting firm, StrategyCorp, have all relied on John’s gifts as A highly respected entrepreneur, business professor, and a strategist, storyteller, and diplomat. Working on the UTS deal philanthropist, he currently chairs the Canadian Museum is a way of thanking the school for the gifts it has given him in of History as well as Business for the Arts. He is a past chair every corner of his life. of ATI Technologies and Fleck Manufacturing. Jim has taught at Harvard Business School, The Kennedy School, and the David Allan ’78 University of Toronto. His government service includes CEO With a strong background in finance and law – he began his of the Office of the Premier of Ontario, Secretary of the career as a lawyer specializing in banking, project finance, Cabinet, and Deputy Minister of Industry and Tourism. and securitization, and has since held numerous senior roles Jim holds a doctorate of business administration in finance in the banking and finance industries in securitization and from Harvard, and has received honorary degrees from the finance – David provided financial expertise and a thorough University of Toronto and the University of Trinity College. He understanding of how to plan and manage the financial is also a Companion of the Order of Canada and recipient of aspects of affiliation. His knowledge was particularly valuable many awards for philanthropy and volunteerism. given UTS’ minimal assets. David is currently a principal and executive chairman of Donald Schmitt ’70 the TAO Group of Companies. He has also served as head of Don played a vital and multi-faceted role in the affiliation CIBC Wood Gundy’s Canadian Securitization Group, global negotiation process. He has been working since 2010 to head of Credit Structuring for what was then CIBC World envisage what a renewal of the current UTS building and Markets, and head of Capital Markets with Toronto-based site might look like as we move into a new era. The building structured finance boutique Coventree Inc. He has a B.A. possibilities and planning options represented by the vision (International Relations) from the University of Toronto, an were key to moving the negotiations forward. In addition, LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School, and an MBA from the Don was the UTS expert in bringing together the underlying Schulich School of Business. principles of affiliation. A world-renowned architect, and a principal at Diamond Iain Dobson ’70 Schmitt, Don has designed academic, healthcare, and research Iain played a significant role in helping UTS and the University facilities with an emphasis on sustainable design. He was of Toronto situate the vision of a renewed site within the recently named architect for Geffen Hall at the Lincoln larger urban context and the changing landscape of Toronto. Center for the Performing Arts. Don is the founding chair of After several months of searching for a new home for UTS, the Public Art Commission for the City of Toronto for which Iain wrote “Value Plan: The Case for UTS Staying at 371 Bloor he was awarded the Civic Medal. He was a member of the Street.” By the end of 2013, after several meetings with the Advisory Committee on Planning Design and Real Estate for university, these arguments were beginning to change the the National Capital Commission, Ottawa, and is a member of outlook for UTS’ tenure at 371 Bloor. the Waterfront Toronto Design Review Panel. Don is a member Iain has a background in real estate development, having of the Canadian Art Foundation Advisory Committee, and is an spent 30 years working with some of the world’s largest and academician with the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. most successful real estate developers. He was engaged in leading-edge research on intensification surrounding John Duffy ’81, Vice Chair, Board of Directors transit for the province and is well known for developing You might not think that one of the city’s most prominent the arguments to place Sheridan College into downtown Liberals would have double-blue in his blood, but such is John Mississauga and Centennial College’s new campus at Duffy’s relationship to UTS. Married to an alumna (Jill Presser Downsview Aerospace Cluster. ’87), with two daughters at the school (Martine ’17 and Simone Iain is founding chair of the UTS Annual Alumni Campaign. ’21), and siblings, in-laws, and cousins dotting the UTSAA He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Trent University. roster, John’s service since 2012 as board vice chair is just one more strand in a life intertwined with the that of the school. Bill Saunderson ’52, President, UTS Foundation For John, maintaining UTS at 371 Bloor West and within the As inaugural president of the UTS Foundation and a longtime U of T family has been a passion. From May 2011, when the donor and volunteer to both UTS and U of T, Bill’s dream has

14 THE ROOT • Special Issue • Winter 2016 been to see UTS maintain its affiliation with the University of a decade. He served as Minister of Economic Development, Toronto. The 2015 Crawford Award winner, Bill has led the Trade and Tourism in the government of , then foundation’s efforts to provide the financial arrangements for as chair of the Ontario International Trade Corporation. Bill initial construction of a new and renewed UTS building. chaired Trinity College’s most recent campaign, and is a Beyond UTS, Bill has had a very successful business member of U of T’s Group of 175. and political career and has helped health, arts, and other Bill holds a B.A. from Trinity College, is a Fellow of education-related foundations. He began his career as a the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants, and a chartered accountant with Clarkson Gordon (now Ernst & recipient of its Award of Outstanding Merit. He also holds Young), co-founded Sceptre Investment Counsel Ltd., and Honorary Doctorates from the University of Ottawa and worked with the Ontario Pension Commission for more than Trinity College. University of Toronto Leadership

Rosemary Evans described the University of Toronto team as could step into the role of a trusted development partner, being “wonderfully willing to be open-minded to finding a collaborating with the university to create a great work of city- win-win solution.” John Duffy added that they “challenged building at an iconic Toronto crossroads. His fair dealing and us to be both more independent and more relevant to the good humour helped lead to a strong partnership agreement. university than ever before.” Scott and Malcolm were supported in their work by a great team led by Christine Burke, U of T’s director of Campus Meric Gertler, President and Facilities Planning, and Adrienne De Francesco, the Meric’s vision of U of T as a great urban university collaborating university’s executive director of Capital Projects. Christine positively with its many communities as embodied by its and Adrienne are indispensable in ensuring the university’s “Three Priorities,” gave concrete shape to our joint vision for many projects come off flawlessly, from initial plans to the future. Those priorities – the university’s urban location, final execution. They’ve played an important role in the deepening key international partnerships, and reimagining development of the project agreement and will continue and reinventing undergraduate education – are all embodied to do so as the project progresses. n in the renewed affiliation agreement. His quiet support was indispensable to the success of the talks.

Cheryl Regehr, Vice-President and Provost Cheryl was responsible for addressing the academic affiliations between UTS and the university, including the Global Ideas Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs. Her focus on making UTS a full partner in the university’s pedagogical and academic missions, and her unshakeable belief in the benefits of a strong relationship with a great high school, allowed the team to expand its vision of what the new affiliation could look like.

Malcolm Lawrie, Assistant Vice-President, University Planning Design and Construction Malcolm was the University of Toronto lead on negotiating the building project side of the agreement, including the relationship between UTS’ proposed site changes and the university’s overall plans for developing the block. Malcolm’s patient, positive attitude was always aimed at solving problems rather than creating them. He was able to bring together both projects on tight deadlines, showing skill, dedication, and real imagination.

Scott Mabury, Professor and Vice-President University Operations

Scott Mabury truly worked hand-in-hand with UTS committee Jamie Day Fleck members to renew the affiliation as the UTS team reported UTS Board Chair Jim Fleck C.C. ’49 and former UTS Board Chair Bob Lord to him throughout the process. He always believed that UTS ’58 share a happy moment in celebration of renewed affiliation with U of T.

THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 15 LOOKING FORWARD

It was a blue and white, and a red-letter day all over! December 15, 2015 will go down in UTS history as the day of the schools’ rebirth. Following the unanimous passing of the renewed affiliation agreement by the University of Toronto’s Governing Council, the historic document was signed by University of Toronto President Meric Gertler and Professor Scott Mabury, Vice-President, University Operations and UTS’ Jim Fleck and Rosemary Evans. To mark the significance of the moment, the group followed the tradition, favoured by American Presidents, of using multiple pens when signing.

Photos by Jamie Day Fleck

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