The Uts Alumni Magazine • Special Issue • Winter 2016
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THE RootTHE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE • SPECIAL ISSUE • WINTER 2016 GO BLUES! CELEBRATING OUR RENEWED AFFILIATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 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 University of Toronto, 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. DOORS OPEN TORONTO 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 Proofreader: Steve Craig ’78 Cover Photo: Johan Hallberg-Campbell F TORON O TO University of Toronto Schools Alumni Association Y IT S S C 371 Bloor Street West, Room 121, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2R7 Design: PageWave Graphics Inc. H R E O V O I Phone: 416-978-3919 Fax: 416-971-2354 E-mail: [email protected] L N S Printed in Canada by Colour Systems Inc. U Web: www.utschools.ca/alumni Facebook: www.fb.com/utschools Twitter: @utschools V 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.