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Nobel Laureates and Michael Spence That’s Entertainment! UTS grads shine brightly in the entertainment industry.

Alumni News • Crawford and Hall of Fame Awards • Donor Report UTSAA Mark Your Calendars Board of Directors

Thursday, October 11, 2012 President Urban Paintings by Don Boutros, Retired Faculty John B.A. Wilkinson ’78 Keys Gallery Opening Reception [email protected] Room 107a, 7:00 p.m. Vice President Mark Opashinov ’88 Saturday, October 13, 2012 [email protected] UTS Admissions Open House New Past President 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. All alumni are welcome to drop by for a tour. venue! Peter Neilson ’71 Annual Alumni Dinner See page 21 [email protected] for details. Reception: 5:30 p.m. Dinner: 7:00 p.m. Treasurer RSVP to www.utschools.ca/rsvp or 416-978-3919 Bob Cumming ’65 [email protected] November Branch Events Secretary Hong Kong and . See p 27 for details. Nina Coutinho ’04 [email protected] Thursday, November 8, 2012 Honorary President Remembrance Day Service Rosemary Evans Reception: 10:15 a.m. Service: 10:45 a.m. [email protected] Alumni luncheon following, hosted by Principal Rosemary Evans Honorary RSVP to [email protected] or 416-978-3919 Vice-President Heather Henricks Tuesday November 13, 2012 [email protected] How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and Directors the Hidden Power of Character Don Ainslie ’84 Paul Tough ’85 Canadian Book Launch and Discussion. 7:30 p.m. [email protected] Sharon Au ’08 Friday, November 23, 2012 [email protected] Young Alumni Living in the US – Seminar and Café Jonathan Bitidis ’99 Seminar: 12:35 p.m. Café: 1:15-2:15 p.m. [email protected] On Black Friday, alumni who are U.S. university students are invited to visit UTS. Aaron Chan ’94 [email protected] Thursday, November 29, 2012 Branching Out Alumni Panel on Scientific Careers George V. Crawford ’72 [email protected] 6:30 p.m. Details TBA. See www.utschools.ca/alumni Aaron Dantowitz ’91 [email protected] Friday, December 14, 2012 Robert Duncan ’95 Holiday Concert [email protected] Café Blanc: 5:00 p.m.; Concert: 6:30 p.m. Peter Frost ’63 Contact: Judy Kay, [email protected] or 416-978-6802 [email protected] Penny Harbin ’78 Saturday, February 9, 2013 [email protected] Basketball 3-on-3 Tournament. Oliver Jerschow ’92 9:30 a.m. [email protected] RSVP to www.utschools.ca/rsvp or 416-978-3919 Jennifer Suess ’94 Visit the website regularly for updates: www.utschools.ca/alumni or call [email protected] 416-978-3919 Philip Weiner ’01 [email protected] Contents 7 Mark Your Calendars 2 Working Holiday Bits & Pieces 4 Science was not Nobel Laureate John Polanyi’s first love – but over time, he came to be captivated by the President’s Report 8 beauty of the subject matter...... 12 Principal’s Report 9 UTS Board Report 10 Turning Complex into Simple Advancement Report 11 Nobel Laureate Michael Spence likes to take complex, confusing economic phenomena and make them Annual Donor Report 31 seem simple...... 15

On the cover: Nobel Laureates, alumni John Polanyi and (inset) Michael Spence. Photography: Cover – John Polanyi courtesy NSERC; That’s Entertainment! Michael Spence, courtesy Pioneer Investment. UTS has produced some shining stars in film, stage, Looking Back background: © iStockphoto.com/Peter Zelei radio, and TV. Here’s a brief Who’s Who...... 18 Alumni Dinner ad background: © iStockphoto.com/ PaulMaguire Our thanks to this issue’s contributors: Jenifer Aitken ’79, John Bowden ’48, James Campbell, Harry Chen ’14, Alumni News Nina Coutinho ’04, Martha Drake, Rosemary Evans, Peter Frost ’63, John Hass ’83, Rebecca Henfrey ’14, Daniel All the latest in the lives of your classmates, including Henke Tarnow ’14, Jean Iu ’79, David Lang ’70, Bob In Memorium and tributes to the lives of three Lord ’58, Daniel Lovsted ’14, Jane Rimmer, Sandeep Sanghera, Diana Shepherd ’80, Nick Smith ’63, Adam distinguished alumni...... 22 Waitzer ’14, John Wilkinson ’78, and Carole Zamroutian.

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New Vice Principal at UTS assumes the role of Honorary VP of the be a gift of genetics or an elusive Muse Heather Henricks joined UTS as vice UTS Alumni Association. n instead of a thinking process that can be principal in July 2012, replacing Rick developed. Parsons who moved on to become UTS Teachers Provide This spring, composer and music principal of Sterling Hall School in Professional Development teacher Ron Royer gave a lecture- Toronto. Rick joined UTS in 2000, to Peers demonstration called “The Hollywood serving as English teacher and English Ask UTS students what makes their Sound” for music teachers at the Harford department coordinator before school special and, chances are, they Technical High School in Bel Air, MD. becoming vice principal in 2004. As the will mention – among other things – Ron has regularly given lectures on parent of a UTS student, he will continue their remarkable teachers. However, teaching music through movies in to be a member of the UTS community. UTS students are not the only ones who Ontario schools and at OISE. With Heather, who is currently working on benefit from the talents and skills of colleague Sarah Shugarman, Ron lead a her Doctorate at OISE, was previously their teachers: our teachers are highly- string workshop at York Memorial C.I. VP at York Region District School regarded professionals who contribute in Toronto for students and teachers Board’s (YRDSB) Thornlea Secondary to the enrichment and professional as part of the Massey Hall and Roy School. Throughout her career she development (PD) of their peers beyond Thomson Hall program, “Share the has worked collaboratively to facilitate UTS. Here is a very small sampling of Music,” which supports music programs changes in instruction and assessment recent endeavours. for schools in need. This summer, Sarah aimed at increasing student success and Frequent conference presenters Charlie also taught string pedagogy seminars for has actively promoted social raising the Pullen and Janet Williamson (visual arts) all OISE music Additional Qualification profile of equity issues. She is a member gave a workshop entitled “Demystifying (AQ) courses. of the York Region Athletic Association and Enabling Creativity” at the Ontario An OISE instructor and administrator Executive, is a former OFSAA Co-Chair, Art Education Association’s conference since 1990, Reg Hawes (history) currently and believes the power of athletics this fall. The workshop addressed the administers a website for teachers on can transform students’ lives. Heather idea that creativity is often considered to educational law. He says that, “Teaching at UTS and OISE is a ‘win-win’ scenario. OISE students value learning from an instructor with ‘real-world’ classroom experience, and keeping current with the latest in educational practices helps me bring new strategies and ideas to my UTS students.” Mike Farley (geography) gives presentations to teachers about the use of computer simulations and games in the curriculum – most recently at the 2011 Games for Change Festival in New York City (see http://mikefarley. weebly.com). Vince Dannetta (history) teaches at OISE and is a long-standing Associate with the faculties of Queens, Trent, and the University of Buffalo. He is a former Director of the Civics Education Network – a teachers’ organization for which he has set-up conferences and delivered workshops. Vince has also consulted and helped draft a discussion LEFT: Incoming VP Heather Henricks; RIGHT: Rick Parsons. paper to the Ministry of Education and

4 THE ROOT • FALL 2012 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Nicola Townend with the UTS contingent to the Ontario High School German Contest; visiting principals from Chile; Shawn Brooks in the UTS SMART classroom; Andrew Wilson introduces this year’s keynote speaker at the Ontario Philosophy Teachers’ Conference.

Training on civics education. Josh Fullan (biology), Meg O’Mahony (biology and Secondary Curriculum Committee. (drama) masterminded the environmental general science), Elizabeth Straszynski Angela Vavitsas (chemistry) has taught and urban design high school program (biology and general science), and PD at various school boards using “Maximum City.” The winner of the J.W. Marisca Vanderkamp (chemistry and biology and chemistry textbooks (for Ansley Award for Educational Research physics) have all taught in various grades 11 and 12) she co-authored for from OSSTF, Maximum City is now being capacities at OISE. Jennifer and Shawn Nelson Canada. shared broadly with other educators and have presented at the Science Teacher’s Nicola Townend (German) is president academics; see www.maximumcity.ca Association of Ontario (STAO), and of the Ontario Association of Teachers for details. Jennifer works closely with chemistry of German, is on the Executive of the Math and philosophy teacher Andrew professors across Canada in the creation Canadian Association of Teachers Wilson organizes the Ontario Philosophy of the Canadian Chemistry Contest of German, and is part of a blended Teacher’s Association (OPTA) conference exam. Shawn works with the Perimeter learning community (steered by the for high school teachers, which is hosted Institute for Theoretical Physics’ teacher Goethe-Institut Toronto). She has taught at UTS This year’s keynote was given by network and is a volunteer with the at OISE and Niagara University, and has John Ralston Saul and past speakers have Ontario Association of Physics Teachers. given workshops on technology in the included UTS alumni Donald Ainslie ’84, Elizabeth has been closely involved with language classroom. Tom Hurka ’71, Jennifer Nagel ’85, and the Ontario Society of Environmental Finally, on a trip arranged by Wayne Sumner ’58. Education for ten years – including a OISE/UofT to learn about Canadian UTS science teachers have also been term as president. Meg ran PD sessions educational practices, 30 school busy. Jennifer Pitt-Lainsbury (chemistry at various school boards last year principals from Chile spent the day and physics), Shawn Brooks (physics and worked collaboratively with the at UTS last January. They spent time and general science), Sarah Cescon GreenLearning Canada Foundation to in classrooms chatting with students, (chemistry), Anand Mehadevan (biology develop a Climate Change teaching watching lessons, and in discussion with and chemistry), Maria Niño-Soto unit; and she also served on an STAO UTS faculty members. n

THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 5 UTS-Rotman “I-Think” incompatible, solutions. with leading scientists, entrepreneurs, Summer Institute The I-Think Institute brought and social innovators in off-site visits This summer, UTS partnered with the together 21 students from grades 8 to to MaRS Discovery District and cutting- I-Think Initiative at the University 12 to first learn the tools of integrative edge labs at UofT’s Edward S. Rogers, Sr. of Toronto’s Rotman School of thinking and then to apply them to Department of Electrical and Computer Management to deliver an intensive the development of Ontario’s future Engineering. Institute focussing on the solving of energy policy – exactly the sort of The program culminated in student complex problems through integrative complex problem that is very often presentations in one of Rotman’s brand- thinking. Based on research by Rotman reduced to a lose-lose choice, in this new state-of-the-art classrooms to a Dean Roger Martin into the way case between environmental health panel of outside experts that included highly successful leaders go about and economic prosperity. Ashoka Canada Director and UTS making decisions, integrative thinking Instructors Nogah Kornberg (Rotman) alumna Elisha Muskat ’01. involves the critical examination of the and Christopher Federico ’91 (UTS UTS is continuing its ongoing conventional wisdom that forces us teacher and alumnus) guided Institute partnership with I-Think to expand into unpalatable either-or choices; it participants through system modelling, integrative thinking across the also explores innovative ways to obtain brainstorming, design thinking, and curriculum, and planning is already in the benefits of multiple, seemingly prototyping, and put them face-to-face progress for next summer’s Institute. n

The UTS-Rotman “I-Think” Summer Institute proved challenging, creative and thought-provoking. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: a brainstorming activity; on a field-trip to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UofT; analyzing and organizing; Rotman Dean Roger Martin addressing the participants.

6 THE ROOT • FALL 2012 Discovery and camaraderie characterized the Pelican Falls–UTS exchange program.

Pelican Falls—UTS their crafts after hundreds of hours of We returned home to our families Exchange Program dedicated practice. They welcomed and to UTS with hope that a just and This spring, five UTS students and two us warmly into their spaces, and the right relationship between First Nations teachers participated in an exchange students were open and excited about peoples and Canadians is possible. We with students and staff from Pelican sharing their lives and talents with left inspired by the incredible work Falls First Nations High School, an us – despite the fact that for many of that so many First Nations people and independent boarding school run by a them life at Pelican Falls is hard. To communities are doing in the face of coalition of First Nations communities get an education, students have to live incredible odds to re-build and heal their in the Treaty 3 and Treaty 9 Territories far from their families within a strict communities; the future of First Nations of Northern Ontario. Students and staff boarding-school environment with little communities is in incredible hands. from Pelican Falls spent four days with personal space or freedom. Despite There are four key people who we us in Toronto as part of their Honour these obstacles, we also saw how have to thank for making this experience Roll trip, and then two weeks later unconditionally supportive and inclusive possible: UTS principal Rosemary we spent a week at their school in the students and staff are with each Evans and Darryl Tinney (principal of Sioux Lookout. other; this is how all schools should be Pelican Falls First Nations High School), The elementary school on the Lac and feel. whose support and vision made all of Seul Reserve – designed and built We sat around dinner tables and talked this possible; the alumnus donor who by the community – was one of the about all the same things students talk was willing to support this pilot project most beautiful we’d ever seen: bright about at UTS: about homework we don’t and the future opportunities we hope classrooms filled with light and happy want to do and courses that bore us; it will create; and Glen Whiskeychan, kids; hallways filled with examples of about music we love and music we love Social Counsellor at Pelican Falls whose student art and history projects; signage to hate; about relationship problems generosity, good humour, and patience in Oji-Cree, a visual example that this and fights we have with friends and helped us see more than we imagined generation of students is growing up family. These conversations were we could. n understanding their language. special and important, enabling us to – S5 students Harry Chen, Daniel Henke Pelican Falls is a place filled with build relationships and see that despite Tarnow, Rebecca Henfrey, Daniel remarkable athletes and artists and so many differences, there is much Lovsted,and Adam Waitzer; UTS teachers musicians who had all clearly honed common ground. James Campbell and Sandeep Sanghera

THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 7 President’s Report

UTSAA is your Association This year, plan to take advantage of opportunities to get involved with the UTS Alumni Association.

I’d like to take this opportunity to remind you UTS Parents Association, the UTS Foundation, that the UTS Alumni Association (UTSAA) is your and the . Association, and that UTSAA is moving forward • Developing a social media and online on many fronts in order to make its activities communication strategy. In this context, the and events current, relevant, and engaging. UTSAA held its AGM in May in the school I encourage you to get involved and to take library and simultaneously in a “virtual meeting advantage of UTSAA opportunities. room.” By doing so, we were able to welcome The UTSAA Board is here to provide leadership, both in-person guests – including incoming coordinate activities, assist Year Reps in their UTS vice principal Heather Henricks – and all-important roles, and liaise with the school and virtual guests from as far away as Hong other stakeholders. Examples of ongoing Board Kong! The UTSAA extends special thanks John Wilkinson, ’78 initiatives include: to Justin Tan ’93 for his expertise and the President, UTSAA use of his company’s (Blackboard) meeting • Continuing governance rejuvenation. We have room software. created new foundational documents including a Mission Statement, a Vision Statement, and a All of these efforts require hard work by Statement of Organizational Values. These UTSAA’s Board. The directors not only spend seminal documents (posted at: www.utschools. hours working on behalf of UTS and its alumni, ca/alumni) are worthy of your review as they but I am also pleased to say that 100% of Board guide UTSAA’s Board in all it does. members donated to the school last year. Incidentally, the school’s engaging leader, I want to thank the many alumni who, Principal Rosemary Evans, is a director. If you have not yet had the opportunity to meet her, year in and year out, support UTSAA. I urge you to do so: she will instill in you great confidence for the future of UTS! • Recognizing the value and strength of the Finally, I want to thank the many alumni who, Year Rep program and the need for ongoing year in and year out, support the UTSAA. For recognition and support of these invaluable some of you, there are “in years” and “out years.” volunteers. Why not make this an “in year” by attending an • Working for a more involved relationship with event (such as the Annual Alumni Dinner), calling other stakeholders, such as the UTS Board, the your Year Rep to touch base, making a donation, or communicating with any UTSAA director about a school-related issue or idea? Information about The UTSAA Treasurer’s Report will now be published in the UTSAA can be found here in The Root, or at spring edition of The Root; this change will allow for the www.utschools.ca/alumni, or by calling the UTS Office of Advancement at 416-978-3919. completion of the audit of the UTS financial statements with With your support, UTSAA is able to provide year-end of June 30th. As outlined in last year’s Treasurer’s ongoing and crucial assistance to UTS, allowing Report, the operating expenses for UTSAA are accounted for in the school to continue its tradition as a remarkable and unique institution that produces graduates the books of UTS and are subject to the audit process of UTS. who are perfectly positioned to make a positive difference in the world. n

8 THE ROOT • FALL 2012 Principal’s Report

A Talent Incubator A place where students receive exceptional opportunities for developing as leaders.

An alumnus recently described UTS as “an UTS provides an equitable school experience and exceptional talent incubator.” The record of prepares students to understand and challenge the achievement of our alumni surely supports this instances of marginalization and oppression that claim (see Martha Drake’s Advancement report for they may encounter in their lives. This strategic details). Clearly, there is something unique at play direction supports the school’s vision, “to develop at the school. socially responsible global citizens” and aligns Certainly one of the distinctive features of the with the school’s long-standing role as a place school is, and always has been, our rigorous where students receive exceptional opportunities adherence to merit-based admission. This is for developing as leaders. maintained today by our three-stage admission UTS was created as a laboratory for process. The Secondary School Admission Test developing excellence in education; this Rosemary Evans (SSAT) taken by prospective applicants acts element of our tradition is still clearly evident, Principal, UTS as an initial “screening”. Following the SSAT, with examples too numerous to enumerate. applicants take UTS assessments in English UTS teachers are continuously learning and and in mathematics and present a portfolio of innovating as educators, providing unique successful achievements. Finally, they participate learning experiences – and enormous levels in a Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) system. The of dedication – to our students. A visit to the MMI was developed by McMaster Medical School UTS Facebook site during any week serves and, in January 2012, UTS was the first secondary as a window into the school’s singular and school to adopt it. During the MMI, students meet dynamic learning environment. Through unique with 10 interviewers, one for each question. As a partnerships at the University of Toronto and result, the interview process is less subject to bias beyond, our students have opportunities to and acts as another measure by which we can engage with some of the research challenges identify students of exceptional ability who have a that are currently puzzling scholars, and to tackle passion for learning. complex global problems. A second aspect of the school’s uniqueness is our ongoing commitment to financial access, equity, and inclusion. This is evidenced by the This strategic direction supports the fact that UTS has always maintained a needs- blind admission process – a feature that results school’s vision, “to develop socially in greater diversity in the student body. It also responsible global citizens.” necessitates the ongoing availability of bursary assistance; currently, 20% of our students receive financial support. Another example is our UTS’ recipe for generating exceptional talent is recent partnership with the Centre for Urban not a secret: it is the synergy created by combining Schooling at OISE/UofT to conduct a review of capable students, innovative teachers, a dynamic our Equity Framework (created in 2008). We are program that focuses on engaging students in now formulating a plan to enhance equity and authentic inquiry and, of course, committed inclusion both for the present and in the future – alumni who reach across the generations to an ongoing pledge. Our goal is to ensure that support UTS students and recent graduates. n

THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 9 UTS Board Report

UTS Financial Independence Ensuring that UTS remains a centre of excellence accessible to talented young people.

During a year marked by exceptional involvement to work with the University over the next year to and engagement, the UTS Board of Directors has reformulate the Affiliation Agreement (2006) that focussed on a review of our strategic priorities, defines our relationship with the University. revitalizing our affiliation with the University UTS has now achieved full financial of Toronto, ensuring our long-term financial independence with a break-even budget. The sustainability, and proactively exploring options school has a small reserve fund of just under for a new site. $1 million accumulated from the transition In reviewing Building the Future, the UTS funding provided by UofT. We are striving to strategic plan launched in 2008, the Board of control costs and moderate tuition increases Directors has established the following strategic to remain accessible to students who meet our priorities for the next two years. We recognize this rigorous admission standards. Thanks to the Bob Lord ‘58 as an ambitious undertaking but are confident that prudent financial stewardship of funds held by Board Chair, UTS with the support of our stakeholders we will make the UTS Foundation, bursary support is currently significant progress toward achieving these goals: available to 20% of our student body, a figure that is among the highest in Canada. 1. Enhancing our transformative educational Our Site Search Committee co-chairs – real- program for the 21st Century estate lawyer Peter Neilson ’71 and architect 2. Defining the UTS diploma for the future Donald Schmitt ’70 – lead a dynamic committee 3. Developing The Global Ideas Institute within of alumni, parents, and teachers. The team has the school community and through our refined specific site options – including surplus partnerships public schools and joint development initiatives – 4. Ensuring equity and inclusion in the school and is assessing them against our site priorities: community , in our commitment to access, and meeting our program needs, being financially in our work with our partners doable and sustainable, remaining accessible via 5. Developing a full school support model to public transit for our students, and maintaining sustain the health and well-being of students proximity to the St. George campus. The team is and staff employing a financial modeling tool developed 6. Refining our rigorous admission process and by Board Director David Allan ’78 that allows us to finding a new school site. ascertain the cost implications for any given option 7. Revitalizing our affiliation with the University of and the impact on future tuition and bursary Toronto requirements. Feedback from UTS community 8. Clarifying and enhancing our communications, members who attended our recent forum will marketing, and branding definitely inform our work in the future. In the coming months, we will continue to The Affiliation Committee, led by UTS alumnus pursue each of the initiatives described above. In and lawyer David Rounthwaite ’65, includes so doing, please rest assured that our motivation Board members, alumni, and parents. During the is to ensure UTS continues to be a centre of summer, committee members met with Professor excellence, known for its unique and exceptional Scott Mabury, the new UofT vice president, program. At the same time, we are determined University Operations, who assumed responsibility to remain accessible to talented young people for liaising with UTS at the end of June. We briefed regardless of their economic circumstances or Professor Mabury and indicated that our goal is where they live in the GTA. n

10 THE ROOT • FALL 2012 Advancement Report

UTS Alumni by the Numbers Crunching the numbers reveals that generosity from members of the UTS community is widespread.

I’ve been thinking about numbers lately; it students. Our gratitude is profound, and on behalf happens every year when we put our annual of UTS, I thank you. donor report together for the fall issue of The Root. With a nod to Lewis Lapham of Harper’s Index I’ve crunched the numbers and I’m pleased to fame, I would like to share some other numbers report that they support my theory that generosity about UTS alumni that have impressed me. This from members of the UTS community is, indeed, list is by no means exhaustive and I invite you to widespread. In fact – with the exception of contact us with the notable alumni known to you. campaign years – this past year, UTS alumni, parents, students, staff, and friends exhibited 2 Nobel Laureates the highest rate of giving ever in the history of 20 Rhodes Scholars UTS. Almost 20% of alumni made a donation to 5 University Presidents UTS this year and, of the 724 donations received, 5 University Chancellors Martha Drake 434 donors (or 70%) increased their donation 1 Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Executive Director, Advancement amounts. Our UTSAA Board, UTS Board, and 30 Recipients of the UTS Foundation Directors have led the charge 8 Recipients of the Order of Ontario with their individual donations, and the UTS 12 Prince of Wales Scholars community at large has come together to keep 26 Recipients of the Governor General’s UTS financially strong. Academic Medal Interestingly, the percentage of alumni donors 4 Recipients of the Governor General’s Award is consistent with the number of students who 9 Recipients of the Mayor of the receive bursaries. This past year, approximately City of Toronto Trophy 20% of UTS students received financial aid with 65 Recipients of the University of Toronto an average bursary of $7,200. UTS has been able Arbor Award to provide such a high level of support thanks to 52 Living World War II Veterans the generosity of our donors. Some of the bursary 1 Olympic Order comes from the endowments held and stewarded 11 Olympians by the UTS foundation while other funds 1 Discoverer of a star come from the UTSAA Annual Fund and other 3 Ambassadors donations earmarked for immediate expenditure. 2 Oscar/Emmy award Recipients Your donations have helped keep UTS accessible 1000s who have made significant contributions and they have directly impacted the lives of our to the world in myriad ways. n

Celebrating 13 years! Help defray costs with a voluntary subscription to The Keys Gallery is located in TheRoot “Urban Room 107A at UTS. If you would like to exhibit, contact Liv Mapué The suggested minimum ’04 at Olivia mapue@knilstudio. is $35 but all donations Paintings” are appreciated! Exhibiting in com or Johanna Pokorny at the Gallery Call 416-978-3919 or go by Don Boutros, [email protected] to utschools.ca/supportuts this spring: Retired Faculty for further information. and specify The Root.

THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 11 Working Holiday

Science was not Nobel Laureate John Polanyi’s first love – but over time, he came to be captivated by the beauty of the subject matter. In his words: “We are obsessed by what we do, so it is a holiday to be permitted to do it.”

By Diana Shepherd ’80

John Charles Polanyi was born in 1929 “My foster-parents (who had picked me out Dr. of Hungarian parents in Berlin, of a large pool of children coming to Toronto as ; his father, scientist-philosopher ‘war guests’, in an arrangement with Manchester Michael Polanyi, had gone from Budapest to University, where my father was a faculty work in Berlin – the world capital for science. member) were determined that I go to UTS, which In 1933, Michael Polanyi resigned his post in they considered to be an outstanding school protest against Nazi legislation and moved his scholastically – as I believe it to be,” Professor laboratory to Manchester University. During Polanyi said during a recent interview with WWII, John’s parents sent him to Canada to avoid The Root. the bombings; while in Canada, he attended UTS He was just 11 years old when he made that from 1940 to 1943. trans-Atlantic trip in 1940; his older brother, George, was serving in the British Army. “I was accustomed to being packaged and sent off to distant points, having just survived several years at a boarding school in England,” he pointed out. “This promised to be a change for the better,

Courtesy: University of Toronto University of Courtesy: replete with Mounties and grisly bears. The trip by sea on board The Duchess of Richmond was enlivened by the presence of about 100 English kids. The thrill of wearing a life-jacket day and night soon wore off (German U-boats were active, hence the precaution). The smell of an ocean- liner – marine paint and stale food – remains something I try to avoid.” While in Toronto, John lived on Prince Arthur Avenue with Dr. Malcolm Cameron and “his charming physician wife Olive and their son Donald,” he recalled. The Camerons’ two other Professor John Polanyi at the Presidential Installation of David Naylor at UofT in 2005. sons were in the Canadian army overseas, staying

12 THE ROOT • FALL 2012 from time to time in Manchester with John’s parents and brother, when George was on leave from the Army. “Donald was rejected by UTS, but got his own back by totally out-foxing me at ice-hockey,” John said. “My foster parents took pity and enrolled me in an Upper Canada cricket team. The team won a trophy while I was in hospital having a minor operation, so I sported an impressive badge on my blazer.” John’s first impressions of UTS were less than stellar; fortunately, he was able to change his opinion during his second and third years at the school. “I had grown to expect little from Courtesy: NSERC schools,” he explained. “Year one at UTS did not, Receiving the 2007 NSERC Herzberg Gold Medal. therefore, surprise me. We visitors (impostors, since we had not sat for the entrance exam) about this, he responded, “In my experience, were put in a special class designated ‘O.B.’ every young man tries his hand at poetry, and for ‘Overseas Boys’, but better known as ‘B.O.’ even gets some specimens into print. I am no Teachers with English connections kindly exception. I never dreamt, however, of being volunteered or were volunteered to look after us. a poet. I was attracted to journalism and was The form master was Major Bramfitt. I have no offered a job on something new called BBC-TV. recollection what he taught, but recall the weight Instead I took the safer path of a Fellowship at the of his hand! In the two subsequent years of my National Research Council (NRC) labs in Canadian sojourn I entered the mainstream of the and then at Princeton.” school (Forms Two and Three) where life was easier. I dreamed my way through science (largely descriptive), French and Latin, coming alive for history where a teacher, primed with alcohol, Words of Wisdom spoke convincingly of the disposition of armies in ancient Rome.” When asked whether he had Professor John Polanyi, when pressed, offered two pieces of a favourite teacher or subject at UTS, he replied: advice for the UTS class of 2013: “Science was taught with charm and enthusiasm.” “I am put in mind of both by the book I am reading; the 1864 After three years in Canada, John returned to England and attended Manchester Grammar novel by Anthony Trollope called Can You Forgive Her? I’ll explain School, which he described as “a more rigorous the title in a moment. But first I note the advice to be found on experience academically” in comparison to UTS. page 140 (of my Penguin edition). It is probably superfluous to “It was also deathly cold,” he remembered. In a UTS graduate, but I endorse it anyway: ‘It is of moment to a high school, his interests were history, politics, and science. “Since my older brother went on young person when entering life to decide whether he shall to study history and politics at the university, I make hats or shoes,’ Trollope remarks, ‘but not half the moment decided that I would study chemistry. I never that will be that other decision, whether he shall make good felt ordained for a career in chemistry, and I never abandoned my keen interest in history and shoes or bad.’ I have done my feeble best to make good shoes, politics,” he wrote in an autobiography for UofT. but am confident that I would have been equally fulfilled had I John entered Manchester University in 1946. attempted to make good hats.” During his first year, his father Michael, a The second piece of advice John offered is implicit in the title professor in the chemistry department, was one of his teachers. “I attended a full year of my father’s of Trollope’s novel; Can You Forgive Her? “The dreadful sin you are first year chemistry lectures,” he said. “They were asked to forgive… is the affront that the heroine makes to society a pleasure. The pleasure for him was that he was by breaking off her engagement to be married. What, then, is my forbidden to mark the exams.” advice? It is that you consider the possibility that the world may John wasn’t always convinced that science was his true calling – some sources claimed that he change. You might even wish to change it yourself.” briefly considered a career as a poet. When asked

THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 13 known) in order to obtain the ‘right’ result. Out of curiosity I would vary the method from that given in the laboratory manual, with the consequence that I routinely got the ‘wrong’ result. All this was symptomatic of the fact that I lacked the discipline to learn, or at any rate to learn with any degree

Courtesy: University of Toronto archives Toronto University of Courtesy: of pleasure, the large number of rules that one must master before one can play the game of science.” Without great enthusiasm, he persisted through years of training; gradually, he came to be “captivated and engrossed by the beauty of the subject matter and the thrill of the challenge that it offered.” He acknowledged that: “This is a peculiar story for a scientist to give of the birth of his interest in his subject. It happens to be my story, and may serve to illustrate that in the choice of a career, as in other major decisions, a lifelong commitment need not start with a love affair.” In 1956, he became a lecturer at UofT; he was promoted to assistant professor in 1957, associate professor in 1960, and full professor in 1962. In 1974, he was named University Professor. In 1986, cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for “contributions concerning the John Polanyi in his office at UofT. “We are obsessed by what we do, so it is a holiday dynamics of chemical elementary processes,” to be permitted to do it.” John won the in Chemistry for his work in chemical kinetics – a prize he shared with After completing his Ph.D. in 1952, “Chance, Dudley Herschbach of Harvard University and and a lucrative Fellowship ($3,000 per annum)” Yuan Lee of the University of California, Berkeley. enticed John back to Canada to do postdoctoral The years have not diminished his enthusiasm for research at NRC in Ottawa. scientific inquiry. “Work has continued without a In his autobiography on UofT’s website (www. break in the lab,” he told The Root at the end of utoronto.ca/jpolanyi), John confessed that the August. “We are obsessed by what we do, so it is a study of science was initially a disappointment holiday to be permitted to do it.” to him. “In the laboratory I found that it was His Nobel medal – on display at UofT’s Massey necessary to follow procedures that had not been College, where he is a Senior Fellow – is one of fully explained (if, indeed, the explanations were many honours John has received over the years. n Awards 1962: The Marlow Medal of the Faraday Society 1986: The 1965: The Centenary Medal of the British 1988: The Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize 1989: The of the Royal Society of 1965: The Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences London 1967: The Noranda Award of the Chemical 1992: The John C. Polanyi Lecture Award of the Institute of Canada Canadian Society for Chemistry 1974: Officer of the Order of Canada; in 1979, 2007: The Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold he was promoted to Companion. Medal for Science and Engineering 1977: The Henry Marshall Tory Medal of the 2010: Faraday Lectureship Prize Winner from the Royal Society of Chemistry 1982: The Wolf Prize in Chemistry

14 THE ROOT • FALL 2012 Turning Complex into

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Nobel Laureate Michael Spence ’62 likes to take complex, confusing economic phenomena and, by identifying the main structural features, make them seem simple. The Root’s Editor, Diana Shepherd ’80, spoke with him recently about attending UTS, Princeton, Oxford, and Harvard – and winning the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001.

Although your parents lived in Ottawa in 1943, you Your family moved to Toronto in the early ’50s, and DS were born in Montclair, NJ. How did that come about? DS you entered UTS in Grade 7 in 1955. What were your My father was Canadian and my mother was an first impressions of UTS? Did you have a favourite teacher MS American. When the war came, my father joined the or subject? Wartime Prices and Trades Board. They had to work closely I loved the school from the moment I got there. The with the Americans, so my father was going back and forth MS teachers were terrific. They maintained discipline and from Ottawa to Washington. My mother came along on one they taught effectively. I was playing hockey outside of the of the trips when she was about eight-and-a-half months school until Grade Eight, playing 70-80 games a year in a team pregnant; she stopped off to visit friends in New Jersey, and sponsored by the Blackhawks. UTS Athletic Director that’s where I was born. She never admitted it, but I think she Jack Life called me in and told me that if I didn’t quit, he’d have did it on purpose. me kicked out of the school. He was bluffing, but I quit the team. In 1950, your family moved to a farm outside I had a wonderful, wonderful experience at UTS in multiple DS Toronto where you went to school in a two-room dimensions: intellectually, in sports, with people… schoolhouse. Do you have any memories of those rural I had many favourite teachers. On the athletic side, a lot schooldays? of us were very close to Don Fawcett. And I played hockey We lived on a 320-acre farm in Maple for two years. for Bruce MacLean – I missed his hundredth birthday party MS It was a wonderful experience. My brother Randy last year, which was a shame. We had a hilariously funny [William Randall Spence ’63] and I attended a school with two and talented science teacher, Fred Speed, who was a bit classrooms – one for Grades One to Four and the other for absent‑minded. One year, he posted the final exam by mistake Grades Five to Eight – and one teacher for the whole shootin’ on the bulletin board and a bunch of us had to go and take match. I don’t think it would have been a super place to be it down before anyone took the exam! But he was a terrific educated up through Grade Eight, but for Grades One and teacher... The teaching at UTS was really fabulous in terms Two, it seemed to work and was fun. of engaging students. Of course, there was a terrific group

THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 15 It was a really interesting and MS disorienting time: I walked through picket lines to get to class; the University was shut down at one point; somebody related to my first wife was hauled out of a building and arrested. Underneath the Vietnam War issue, there was a massive social change underway. Young people were rejecting aspects of their society they thought were unacceptable, including post World War II ideas of gender and equality. We all assumed that we were throwing off chains and that it would be a freer, easier world, but we completely misunderstood the complexity Receiving an Honorary Degree from U of T in 2000. LEFT-RIGHT: David of creating new models: how you live, how you Galloway ’62, then-Principal of UTS, Linda Newnham, Michael Spence and work, how you integrate family with working life, etc. The then-Chancellor, University of Toronto, Hal Jackman ’50 Junior and Senior classes at Harvard and Radcliffe were in the eye of the hurricane; they became revolutionaries in their own of students at the school, and we learned a lot from each minds and some got lost when the world gradually drifted back other as well. to a new normal. They tried to live as if that time-frame were What did being elected UTS School Captain in 1962 going to be a permanent state of affairs. But of course, social DS mean to you? and other revolutions are never permanent conditions: they Personally, it was a very rewarding experience, and happen, cause change, and then people go back to figuring out MS a surprise. It brought me closer to a wider range of how to live, work, be happy, and spiritually rewarded. So we people in the school; if you play football or hockey, you end had a mini lost-generation: people who were disaffected from up hanging out with your teammates for much of the school the old society but also disaffected from the new one. year – and there’s an awful lot of interesting people outside of You have said that you have had two careers: first those groups. It was nice when my brother Randy was elected DS as teacher and scholar and then in academic School Captain the year after me. administration. You joined New Leonard After graduation, you attended Princeton, N. Stern School of Business as a professor of economics DS graduating with a BA in philosophy in 1966. What in September 2010; you are a senior fellow at the Hoover attracted you to Princeton – and to the study of philosophy? Institution and the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of In those days, the natural thing for people who were Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford MS doing well academically was to go to UofT. It was University. Is this a return to a “first love” – teaching? and is excellent, but at that time it had the old British structure, The academic administration part lasted 15 years, which meant that you had to specialize right away. My parents MS starting in 1984 when the president of Harvard asked and I talked with UTS headmaster Brock McMurray, and I me to be the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Then I ended up at Princeton largely because it had the American became Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business in Liberal Arts structure. Philosophy was my undergraduate major, California (from 1990 to 1999). I enjoyed both jobs and learned but I never intended to make it a career. a lot, but I think 15 years was enough. We now live in Milan, A Canadian Rhodes Scholar, you received your BA/ so we’re not able to get to the West Coast much, but coming DS MA in Mathematics from Magdalen College, Oxford over to New York in the fall seems to work. It has been nice in 1968. Can you tell us a little about it? to be able to settle in one place and teach for part of the year: I loved Oxford. I started out in philosophy, politics, sharing whatever I’ve managed to learn with students and MS and economics; then switched to economics; then colleagues about emerging economies. switched again to mathematics. My advisors were very tolerant What was it like to win the Nobel Prize in Economics? of this. I also played hockey for Oxford – that was hilarious! DS There were a great group of Canadians and Americans on the It’s been an amazing and unanticipated part of my life team. Cambridge was good; David Johnson [current Governor MS for 11 years now. My predecessor at Harvard told me General] played for them, and he was a great hockey player. that if I took the job [as Dean], I’d never win the Nobel Prize. The other teams in England had kind of forgotten how to play I believed him, but then again I thought I probably wouldn’t hockey after learning from us during the war. receive the Nobel Prize anyway. So I made the choice and You received your Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard took the job – I didn’t stay in teaching and research and I gave DS in 1972. “What was it like to attend an American up thinking about the Nobel Prize permanently. Turns out he institution during the Vietnam War years?” was wrong.

16 THE ROOT • FALL 2012 Winning the Nobel changes your life, no question about who live and work in Toronto or New York who don’t have it. 2001 was the hundredth anniversary of the Nobel Prize, and a clue what’s going on in South Africa or Western China or for the Centennial, they invited all Nobel laureates in all five Jakarta have huge blind spots. In the old days, you might fields who were still alive to come back. It was an amazing have thought, “That’s interesting, but it doesn’t have much gathering. One of the Nobel requirements is that you come to to do with me.” Now it does. That’s why I wrote The Next Stockholm and give a lecture to your peers; in this year, all the Convergence [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011]. By the middle Nobel economists were there. Sitting in the front row were Paul of this century, the world will be a place in which the vast Samuelson, Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, Bob Fogel, Robert majority lives in pretty comfortable, advanced circumstances. I Solow, and many more – all the “gods” of the profession I’d wanted to explain how we got there, from the post-war world chosen – and I thought: “This is the scariest thing I’ve ever in which 15% lived in advanced countries, and then to answer done in my life!” Your life changes because you become way the question: “What problems do we have to solve in the next more visible than you’ve ever been or thought you would be. 50 years for this whole thing to work?” Is there a dividing line between your life pre- and You said one, but I’ll sneak in a second: find something DS post-Nobel? that you love to do – that motivates you to get up in the It’s hard to know what the counter-factual would morning – and just do that. You’ll be the happiest that way. MS have been – what would have happened if – because Don’t worry much about income or wealth or status or fame. you never get to run the experiment. I stopped being an Those things take care of themselves and don’t matter as much academic administrator and set out to have a rewarding life as loving the work you do. in some combination of business, investing, and academia. Is there anything else you’d like to share with the Then the Nobel Prize came along out of the blue. I probably DS UTS community? would have done the same things (emerging economies, the Well, I’d like to say thank you. UTS was and is a global economy etc.), but the Nobel made it easier to get MS wonderful, liberating place: it gives you the feeling started. It’s a label you carry with you for the rest of your life, that there are a whole lot of interesting things you could and it gives you credibility – even when it shouldn’t. One of do, and that you really can do them. It’s more than the very my friends who had previously won the Nobel sat me down high quality of the education – important as that was and is and said “People are going to ask you a whole lot of questions in empowering us – UTS gave me a sense of freedom and on subjects you know absolutely nothing about. The most opportunity for which I’ve always been grateful. n important thing you have to learn is to say ‘I don’t know’.” Aside from winning the Nobel Prize, can you describe NOTE: this article features excerpts from the original interview. DS some career highlights — accomplishments that give To read it in full, go to www.utschools.ca/alumni. you the greatest personal or professional satisfaction? Receiving the John Bates Clark Medal was a pretty MS big highlight as well. The research I did for my Ph.D. thesis and right after – work for which I eventually won the Nobel – was very rewarding. There was a moment when I

realized that the work might actually be quite important in the Pioneer Investments Courtesy: construct of economic theory. What I really like to do is to take a situation in the world that looks complex and confusing – like you’re seeing it through a fog – and stare at it, digest it, and try to make it seem simple. If you can make it seem simple, then you can explain it to other people and it will seem simple to them, too. If you could give one piece of advice to the UTS Class DS of 2013, what would it be? My advice would be that there’s a reasonably MS decent chance that you’re going to live in a global economy, and it’s worth taking the time to understand who those 6.5 billion people are: where they are in life, how they live, how that’s changing over time. I’d urge them to learn other languages. This is a tool for accomplishing Item One: make yourself as comfortable and knowledgeable as possible about vast amounts of the world as you can. Not because At a Pionner Investments Colloquia Series panel discussion: LEFT-RIGHT: you necessarily want to live or work outside Canada, but Robert Merton, Nobel Laureate 1997, Michael Spence, and Eric Maskin, because you need to know what’s going on out there. People Nobel Laureate 2007.

THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 17 UTS alumni are a talented bunch, making many important contributions to science, politics, economics, medicine, law, and academics. UTS has also produced some shining stars in film, stage, radio, and TV. Here’s a brief Who’s Who; to learn more about their accomplishments, go to www.utschools.ca/alumni That’s Entertainment! Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg) ’18 Gordon Sheppard ’54 Melvyn entered Form 4C at UTS in 1913 when he was 12 years Gordon wrote, produced, and directed award-winning films, old. He had a long theatre, film, and television career as a lead public affairs programs, and documentaries – including player, stretching from his 1930 Broadway role in Tonight or The Most (1962), an examination of Hugh Hefner and Never until just before his death in 1982. Melvyn won Academy Playboy Enterprises, and the feature film Eliza’s Horoscope Awards for Hud (1963) and Being There (1979), and was (1975). Gordon Sheppard or the Art of Dying Well premiered nominated for a third for I Never Sang for my Father (1970). at Le Festival International du Film sur l’Art in 2011; this documentary film, shot during the last 18 months of Gordon’s George Douglas (George Lamar Hesselberg) ’19 life, is “an inspiring, courageous and harrowing examination Melvyn’s kid brother George entered Form 3B in 1913 when of an artist’s life by looking at a close-up of his death.” he was 11 years old. George’s film and TV niche was Westerns/ Action and and Sci-Fi/Horror. Peter Pearson ’57 A director, producer, and screenwriter, Peter’s movies and (James) ’36 television dramas have received 19 Canadian Film Awards – Mavor was a librettist, composer, actor, director, producer, more than any other Canadian director – and a slew of author, academic, and administrator who wrote more than ACTRA awards. After graduating, Peter determined that he 100 works for stage, radio, television and film. He began “wanted no career where I would ever again wear blue blazers playwriting at 12, and by 15, he was acting regularly on radio. and grey flannels. In my dotage, I now run a film club – At UTS, he expanded his theatrical range to play Falstaff www.cinemagique.ca.” and Macbeth in school productions. In 1948, he began the infamous satirical revue, Spring Thaw, which ran annually until Garrick Hagon ’58 1971. Mavor served as CBC Television’s first chief producer Starting at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Alec Guiness’s (1950–1954) and executive producer for television at the Richard III, Garrick has played English and North American United Nations (1955–1960). roles in many films (including Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope), on stage, radio, and TV (including the Doctor Who series in 1972 and 2012). “No doubt plays at UTS (Twelve Angry Men, The Mikado, and others) spurred me on,” he noted. “We had a great English teacher, Ron McMaster, who directed the plays and encouraged us all, though he was always cautious about the possibility of making a living in Stephen Stohn ’66, Garrick Hagon ’58, Jack Roe ’72. ABOVE: Melvyn Douglas with Greta Garbo in Ninotchka. the ‘business’.”

18 THE ROOT • FALL 2012 Erik Fitz ’81, Graham Yost ’76, Rick Marin ’80, RIGHT (L-R): Elizabeth Radshaw (Hot Docs); Lisa Valencia-Svensson ’86, director Maria Teresa Larrain, and Sarah Jane Flynn (Shaw Media).

(John) Stephen Stohn ’66 Steven Westren ’77 Stephen has been involved in the music and TV side of the Steven is a Toronto-based TV and movie writer, director, and entertainment industry since 1975. The president of Epitome producer. He has been nominated for four Gemini Awards, Pictures, he is executive producer of Degrassi: The Next winning twice (for Fakers in 2011 and My Friend Rabbit in Generation and Instant Star. Stephen was executive producer 2009). Fakers follows three teenagers from a prestigious private of the telecast of The Juno Awards for almost 20 years school; the trio become drawn into a dangerous underworld (ending in 2009); during that period, he was a director and where both cops and criminals are out to get them. Steve has then chair of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and written for more than 20 TV series, including Almost Naked Sciences. He was also Chair of MusiCounts, a charity that, Animals, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot about That!, Dragon, among other things, distributes musical instruments to schools and The Zack Files. He directed the movie The Man in my in need. Stephen’s most recent project is the TV series The Microwave (1996) and the TV series Internet Slutts. L.A. Complex. Rick Marin ’80 Jack Roe ’72 Rick has written for TV – the screenplay of his memoir Cad: Jack’s career has taken him through stints as an on-air disc Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor – as well as produced two jockey, phone-in show host, public affairs program host, plays in Los Angeles – Neighorhood Watch and The One That program director of two radio stations with the CHUM Group, Got Away. “I’ve always been a writer, first a journalist – at news director for two radio stations for the CHUM Group, Harper’s, Newsweek, and The New York Times – before associate producer of radio drama with the BBC, weekly moving to Los Angeles,” he explained. “I credit UTS with correspondent for CBC Radio (Ontario Morning show, nurturing my love of the written word, with a shout out to Radio 1), and news anchor for 680 News in Toronto. He also Nora Maier for taking it to another level.” has a parallel career as an award-winning stage actor. “My education at UTS was in many ways responsible for the career Eric Fitz ’81 I now enjoy – especially the teachings of Don Gutteridge, who Eric is a location sound recordist for drama and documentary taught English during my tenure,” he said. productions. Career highlights include: “the grueling four-day trek across the Nunavut winter tundra, surviving on frozen fish Graham Yost ’76 and seal meat; the challenging months we spent in Rwanda Graham knew from the age of 18 that he wanted to be filmingShake Hands with the Devil; the glorious spring I a filmmaker. His father, Elwy Yost, hosted a weekly film spent in Europe shooting in the factories of companies like show on TVO. “In our family, everything was about movies Braun, Playmobil, and Baccarat; or the night we survived on a and books,” he said. His feature film credits include Speed capsized boat floating in the Philippine Sea!” Eric has recently (1994), Broken Arrow (1996), Hard Rain (1998), Mission started his sixth season of Murdoch Mysteries. to Mars (2000), and The Last Castle (2001). As a producer, Graham won Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for the HBO Brian Hamilton ’82 miniseries From the Earth to the Moon; he also garnered an Brian is a managing partner in Omnifilm Entertainment, Emmy nomination for writing the episode “Apollo One”. He focusing on documentary and dramatic TV series. He started wrote two episodes of the Golden Globe and Emmy Award- out as a documentary editor and then filmmaker, and is now winning miniseries Band of Brothers, and he won an Emmy focussing primarily on scripted TV series. Current projects Award for the epic miniseries The Pacific. Graham is currently include Arctic Air, which had a record-breaking premiere executive producer and writer on Justified, a series based on recently on CBC, and Ice Pilots, a top-rated documentary series. a character created by crime novelist Elmore Leonard. On “The well-rounded education I received at UTS prepared me June 1, Graham visited UTS to address drama and American well,” he said. “Film/TV project ideas can be drawn from any History students. He also sat down for an interview with area of study, from science to politics to literary arts, so having Root Editor Diana Shepherd ’80; you can read this online at an appreciation and understanding of a variety of academic www.utschools.ca/alumni. topics has been very valuable.”

THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 19 Alycia Rossiter ’89

Raph Nogal Alycia found her niche producing reality competition shows when ABC enlisted her to work on their hit, The Bachelor. “Now, I run the show and its spin-offs: The Bachelorette and Bachelor Pad – from casting to shooting around the world to producing the edit,” she said. “I was always a sucker for romance and travel; now, it’s how I make my living.” She credits UTS with helping her to believe that she was smart. The Kuperman brothers – Ricky ’07 and Jeff ’08; James Cheng ’88. “Hollywood is cut-throat and to get attention you have to be good looking or smart, or if you’re lucky, both. Connections Dave Auster ’86 are great, but you are nothing in this town if you don’t have Dave has managed or produced live theatre since 1991 – from drive or if you don’t believe in yourself.” Peter Pan to Inherit the Wind to Spamalot. This spring, he moved from New York to Ontario to become the producer of Tosan Lee ’92 the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. “I have occasionally had the Tosan is CEO and co-founder of All TV: a Korean TV specialty extraordinary experience of meeting a person who has created service broadcasting across Canada. He co-founded All TV work that I have studied,” he said. “For example, I had the with his father and brother in 2000 and launched the service good fortune to work on Broadway productions of several of in 2001. Although he said that UTS didn’t play a specific role Tom Stoppard’s plays, and I could never be in a room with him in his decision to go into broadcast media, he regards his UTS without remembering the first time we were assigned to read education as the “foundation for critical thinking that helps in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at UTS.” all stages.”

Lisa Valencia-Svensson (Lisa Swenson) ’86 Tim Lindsay ’04 Lisa has been producing documentaries in Toronto since 2005. Tim is a sound designer and technician for live theatre. “It Her first feature-length documentary, Herman’s House, had its was something I was fascinated by from a very young age, Canadian premiere at Hot Docs in Toronto in May 2012. “It’s but working on UTS Stage Crew and particularly on our a hard industry to survive in, and I am very much a minority Grad Project (with Jon Bright, Alyssa Mackenzie, and Kat as a woman of colour, a lesbian, and a politically progressive Sandler to produce a new musical they co-wrote) certainly person,” she said. “There is a great need for a wider range of encouraged me to take the plunge and turn pro,” he said. viewpoints and perspectives in our media, because only once “It was through the encouragement of great arts teachers at people truly understand other people’s realities do they start to UTS that I found the will to follow my passion. It’s not the feel committed to work for a more just and equitable world.” most lucrative career financially, but I’m very happy to be living my dream!” Ben Carlson ’87 Ben has appeared on stages throughout Canada and the US. Ricky Kuperman ’07 and Jeff Kuperman ’08 He spent 12 seasons at the Shaw Festival and he is currently in Brothers Ricky and Jeff work in the theatre, dance, and film his fifth season at Stratford, playing “Benedick” in Much Ado industries – their work often combines all three of these about Nothing and “Captain Fluellen” in Henry V. Ben has also disciplines. “UTS helped to cultivate a spirit of exploration worked in film and TV; credits include The Firm, Rookie Blue, and of risk – whether it was by giving the students control of Warehouse 13, Grey Gardens, Angela’s Eyes, and Slings and a full theatrical production or offering courses with inspiring Arrows. In 2001, he received the Award for teachers that pushed students artistically. Because so many The Doll House; in 2007, he won the Joseph Jefferson Award for students were excelling in so many diverse artistic disciplines, his portrayal of the title role in Hamlet. UTS made it seem like pursuing a career in the arts was a viable and important option.” The brothers’ first short film, In James Cheng ’88 a Moment, has screened internationally at festivals across the James has been involved in the entertainment (sketch-comedy) United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, and Europe. industry since 2006. As a result of his comedic stage work, he “We’re excited now to begin work on our next commission, was chosen to play a lead role in a short romantic-comedy, The the creation of a new dance-theater piece about Stravinsky’s Magic Charm, which premieres at the Reel Asian Film Festival The Rite of Spring.” n in November 2012. UTS played a role in his career choice: “Our Grade 13 English class with Nora Maier incorporated readings Editor’s Note: This article was compiled and excerpted from of plays and text – something that allowed me to explore responses to our request for submissions. Are we missing the written word in a live format. Also, the UTS improv club anyone? If so, please let us know so we can add them to the fostered creativity and leadership outside the classroom. full‑length article on our website at www.utschools.ca/alumni!

20 THE ROOT • FALL 2012 Fourth Annual H.J. Crawford Award Announcement Don’t miss the UTS is pleased to announce that the fourth Annual H.J. Crawford Award will be presented to H. Donald “Don” Gutteridge. Don, who was appointed in 1972, served as Annual headmaster (though he quickly updated his title to principal) for 10 years. His profound dedication to educational ideals, his easy rapport with students, and Alumni his forward-thinking vision of what UTS should and could be brought changes that were transformative. During his tenure, the school became co-ed and Dinner he pressed for the inclusion of women on the UTS faculty; grade 13 was eliminated; the curriculum was modernized; music and the arts found their Saturday, October 13, 2012 rightful place at the school; and the first bursary Brennan Hall fundraising program was launched. Following his UTS career, Don moved on at St. Michael’s College University to OCE and OISE/UT where he helped develop many facets of the Ontario 81 St. Mary Street school curriculum. 5:30 Reception • 7:00 Dinner Don has been a stalwart supporter of UTS for 50 years; his commitment to the school has been unwavering, and he has continued to promote the All alumni are welcome – especially best interests of UTS within the University of Toronto and beyond. UTS is those celebrating anniversary years: delighted to be able to honour Don with this award. The H.J. Crawford Award, named for UTS’ first headmaster, recognizes 1932 • 1937 • 1942 • 1947 the significant contribution to UTS made by an individual or group through 1952 • 1957 • 1962 • 1967 commitment, dedication, and volunteerism, or contributions to greater society 1972 • 1977 • 1982 • 1987 through other significant lifetime achievements. 1992 • 1997 • 2002 • 2007 Be sure to attend the UTSAA Annual Alumni Dinner to celebrate the As part of our dinner program, the presentation of this prestigious award to our revered retired principal. Reserve 4th H.J. Crawford Award will be now at 416-978-3919 or www.utschools.ca/rsvp. n presented and the UTS Hall of Fame inductees will be honoured. UTS Hall Of Fame Induction Announcement UTS and the UTS Alumni Association are proud to announce the 2012 New this year! From 10 am – 2 pm, inductees into the UTS Hall of Fame. visit the school and meet staff Two retired faculty members, Ornella Barrett and and students during the UTS Ron Wakelin, have been selected for their superlative Open House. contributions to coaching and for their commitment to health and physical education at UTS. Over their RESERVE NOW! long teaching and coaching careers at UTS, these www.utschools.ca/rsvp dedicated and highly motivated teachers promoted or call 416-978-3919 an environment of sound ethics, fair play, and equal opportunities, and they challenged our athletes to achieve their full potential. Ornella and Ron provided advice, support, feedback, and progressive and accessible development paths to student athletes, assistant coaches, and team managers of all abilities. Under their watch, UTS saw the attainment of many district and provincial titles. During the early 1990s, the girls’ field hockey team clinched the Toronto Secondary School Women’s Athletic Association championships four times in five years, ensuring a berth at the Ontario Federation of Secondary School Athletic Associations Championships (OFSAA) in each of those winning years. Members of the 1991–2 and 1992–3 teams will be inducted into the UTS Hall of Fame at the UTSAA Annual Alumni Dinner on Saturday, October 13, 2012. Help celebrate the accomplishments of these UTS former staff and alumni: reserve now at 416-978-3919 or www.utschools.ca/rsvp. n

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Don Borthwick ’54 has retired from the School Choir, North York Chorus, North Board of the UTS Alumni Association York Teachers’ Choir, and Ontario (UTSAA) after almost 20 years of service. Youth Choir as well as his reputation Don has been a Director since 1993, as an outstanding tenor soloist. Former serving as UTSAA President from 1995 classmate Jim Domm ’55 points out that to 1999. In 1999, Don became Executive Albert “started his vocal career as a lead Director of the Alumni Association. He in the UTS Gilbert and Sullivan operetta was also Director of the UTS Office HMS Pinafore in 1953.” During Albert’s of Development and Alumni Affairs tenure, the Cellar Singers developed (now the UTS Office of Advancement) an excellent reputation for its annual until June 2007. At the UTSAA Annual concert season, performing many works General Meeting on May 30, 2012, from the classical choral repertoire. UTSAA President John Wilkinson ’78 and Highlights of Greer’s leadership included UTS Executive Director Martha Drake a concert tour of England in 1990 and acknowledged Don’s long-term service a European tour including Prague, to the UTSAA and presented Don with a Budapest, and Vienna in 1999. Greer Windscape at the 2012 Luminato Festival gift that will benefit UTS students directly: will continue to serve as organist and the UTSAA grant to student activities choir‑master of St. James Anglican Diamond Schmitt Architects – of which will now be known as the “H. Donald Church, Orillia. Don Schmitt ’70 is a principal – in Borthwick Student Activities Fund”. conjunction with artist Mitchell F. Chan. Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune The installation inspired The Globe Albert Greer ’55 has retired from his (McGill-Queen’s) written by former and Mail’s Martin Knelman to write: post as artistic director – which he has UTS teacher Rod Stewart and his wife “Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a held since 1977 – of The Cellar Singers, Sharon Stewart, made The Globe and windsock, which by day looks like an a renowned mixed-voice choir based Mail’s list of top 100 books of 2011 oversized carrot in flight but at night in Simcoe County and Muskoka. Greer for non-fiction. takes on endless colours and plays came to the Cellar Singers with a wealth choreographed stunts to take us on of experience from his time as conductor Windscape, a project for the 2012 flights of fancy with musical partners.” of the Bathurst Heights Secondary Luminato Festival, was created by The installation transformed Toronto

Left: Don Borthwick ’54. Centre: Albert Greer ’55. Right: Former UTS teacher, Rod Stewart and wife Sharon Stewart.

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downtown’s David Pecaut Square into a Last fall, award- sidelines, puts on a jersey that’s three welcoming hub for the festival. winning cooking sizes too big and throws himself into the Nick Stark ’74 and Bill Robson ’77 are instructor, food world of kids sports.” (For more on Rick, both graduates of the 36th Toronto historian, and former see “That’s Entertainment!” on page 19.) ICD-Rotman Directors Education chef, Michael Krondl Program (DEP). Jointly developed by ’78, published a Root editor Diana Shepherd ’80 recently the Institute of Corporate Directors and new book Sweet served as a judge for the 30th Annual UofT’s Rotman School of Management, Invention: A History Western Magazine Awards, selecting the DEP helps participants to clarify of Dessert (Chicago winner of the Gold Award for Best their governance mission and fully Review Press, 2011). Article. The Western Magazine Awards exercise their leadership potential as The book combines copious research Foundation (WMAF) honours and board directors. and skilled narrative in a journey celebrates editorial excellence in Western through the history of dessert. Italian and Canadian magazine writing, photography, David Frum ’78 is Chinese translations are scheduled to be illustration, and art direction. “During my the author of seven published in late 2012. career as a magazine writer and editor, books, including I have entered articles and publications most recently his Richard Marin into industry competitions,” she says, first novel, Patriots ’80, author of “but this is the first time I’ve ever been (CreateSpace, May the bestselling on the other side of the table. It was an 2012), a political memoir Cad: eye-opening experience!” The awards satire about life in Confessions of a ceremony took place in Vancouver on Washington that Toxic Bachelor June 15, 2012. The Economist (Hyperion, 2004), described as “excellent political satire – recently published Kim Lee Kho ’81 is painting away madly and, for those in the know, bears more a Kindle Single to prepare for an exhibition at the than a passing resemblance to reality.” entitled Keep Swinging “which chronicles Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art Gallery David is a CNN contributor and also a the rookie season of an indoorsy TV in Guelph (September 15-October 15); contributing editor at Newsweek and The writer raising two alpha boys whose for more information, call the gallery at Daily Beast. life turns around when he gets off the 519-821-9068.

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In September 2011, UofT professor Dr. selected for her diabetes research, which weighed in at 3.3 kilos. Also celebrating Martin Schreiber ’81 was named one of examines the liver’s role in glucose are grandparents Alice and Antonio in Ontario’s most outstanding university regulation and production, and how Portugal and Susan and Ian in Toronto. teachers by the Ontario Confederation of elevated fatty acids contribute to insulin University Faculty Associations (OCUFA). resistance and inflammation in humans The Poplack family has had much to “Professor Schreiber is recognized with glucose intolerance or obesity. celebrate recently. On March 7, Jonathan by his colleagues as ‘an exceptional “Dr. Hawkins is an innovative clinical ’89 and his wife Dr. Heather Thomson, teacher, and a cornerstone’ of UofT’s scientist, committed mentor, prolific welcomed a daughter, Thea Maude; Undergraduate Medical Education member of our Diabetes Research and just a few weeks later, on March 27, program,” said Judith Poe, chair of the Center, and an international force Jonathan’s brother Mitch ’94 and his wife Teaching Award selection and past through her leadership of Einstein’s Rachel welcomed Myles Maxwell. Myles award recipient. “This, coupled with Global Diabetes Initiative,” said Harry joins big sister Hannah. his commitment to promoting student- Shamoon, M.D., director of the Einstein- centred learning make him a natural Montefiore Institute for Clinical and choice for an OCUFA Teaching Award.” Translational Research and one of her A nephrologist at St. Michael’s Hospital, former research mentors. “This is well- Martin is the recipient of 41 teaching deserved recognition.” Meredith is a awards, including the Dean A. Chute previous recipient of AFMR’s Junior (Silver Shovel) award, the University Physician-Investigator Award. She is also of Toronto President’s Teaching an attending physician in endocrinology award, and St. Michael’s Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center, the Department of Medicine Outstanding University Hospital for Albert Einstein Postgraduate Teaching award. “It has College of Medicine. been my great privilege to be able to spend time helping medical students Further to the announcement in the last and postgraduate trainees learn about issue of The Root letting us know about medicine, both at the University of the arrival of Serena Lauren Falconer Toronto and at St. Michael’s Hospital,” Wilson, daughter of Elizabeth (Allan) he said. Wilson ’91 and David Wilson, Elizabeth Myles and Hannah Poplack writes: “Serena’s maternal great- Sheila Miller ’82, who holds Bachelor’s grandfathers both attended UTS, and In August, 2011, former Trinity College and Master’s degrees in music, teaches we were pleased to locate photographs student, Mike Morgan ’97, was appointed yoga, mindfulness meditation, singing, of James Gilbert Falconer ’19 and the first-ever Raymond Pryke Chair and piano in Toronto. Blandford Meredith Eliot Allan ’27, along and director of the Margaret MacMillan with a photo of our lovely Serena.” Trinity One program – one of the Meredith University of Toronto’s most prestigious Hawkins ’84, Allie Binnie ’93 and Pedro Castelo and competitive first-year programs. professor of Branco are pleased to announce the In July 2012, he took up a position as medicine and birth of their son Tiago Corneil Binnie assistant professor of history at the director of the Castelo Branco in Toronto on March 20, University of North Carolina at Chapel Global Diabetes 2012. Tiago, brother of big sister Sofia, Hill. He writes: ”My wife, Molly Worthen, Initiative at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York City, is the recipient of the Outstanding Investigator Award – the American Federation for Medical Research’s (AFMR) highest honour for medical research. The prestigious prize is given annually to one exceptional investigator aged 45 or younger for excellence in James Gilbert Falconer ’19, Blandford Meredith Eliot Allan ’27, and Serena, daughter of Elizabeth biomedical research. Meredith was (Allan) Wilson ’91

24 THE ROOT • FALL 2012 who’s also a history professor, was offered a job at UNC earlier this year. UNC subsequently offered me a position too. I loved my job at UofT (I had a UTSer in one of my classes this past year, and a number of UTSers have done extremely well in the Trinity One program over the last few years!), but since it’s rare to find two academic jobs at the same institution, we made the difficult decision to leave Toronto. We’re excited about the new challenges ahead Jonathon Lee ’02 in Chapel Hill and plan to stay connected to Toronto while we’re down there.” Bruce Broughton, and works by Ron and heroes. For more on this, see Branching another Canadian composer, Kevin Lau. Out on page 27.] A launch party was held in June 2012 for “Premieres”, the first album from violinist In April 2012, Farah Mohamed Jonathan Lee ’02 recently competed in Conrad Chow ’99. The CD, which is interviewed Elisha Muskat ’01 for the Bravo’s TV series, Way Off Broadway. generating excitement in both Canada “Giving” column in The Globe and The show follows 21 Canadians who face and the US, features Conrad performing Mail. Elisha is executive director of their fears to live their dream in Sarina with Sinfonia Toronto, conducted by Ashoka Canada – a global association of Condello’s production of The Wizard of UTS music teacher Ron Royer; tracks individuals with 2,000 fellows worldwide Oz. When he is not singing and playing include premiere recordings of music by who have system-changing ideas to guitar, Jon is occupied with completing renowned Oscar Nominee and Emmy solve some of the world’s most urgent the requirements of his psychiatry Award-winning L.A. film composer social problems. Elisha was introduced residency training at the University of to Ashoka when she researched the Toronto and doing research at the Centre organization as part of her MBA at the for Addiction and Mental Health in Schulich School of Business, from which transcranial magnetic stimulation. He has she graduated in 2008. [In the article, been a tenor in the University of Toronto Elisha cites John Mighton as one of her Gospel Choir for four years.

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The new CD by Conrad Chow ’99.

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Chava Schwebel ’04 graduated UofT question of justice for the massive human at the 2009 Canadian Music Competition, Law this past spring and will be joining rights violations that have occurred: as well as Third Prize and the Domaine Paul Weiss’ corporate practice group in in particular the forced abduction of Forget Prize at the 2009 OSM Standard New York in September 2012. Chava children pressed in to service with the Life Competition. He made his soloist also provided updates for her siblings, rebels or the army. They interviewed debut with the Orchestre Métropolitain Paula ’99 and Aaron ’06. Paula recently more than 700 individuals across in 2011 and, in December 2011, he finished her Ph.D. in philosophy at the Northern Uganda and presented a report performed at the Thierry De Mey live@ University of Toronto (2011); she spent of their analysis and recommendations to CIRMMT concert in the presence of the 2012 as a Post-Doctoral researcher at three UN agencies. Sima says, “Traveling composer. Noam holds a Bachelor’s the University of Antwerp, Belgium, abroad to work on an independent degree in performance from McGill and she will be taking up a fellowship project was an incredibly rewarding University and will continue studies (2012-2015) at the University of Potsdam, experience,” says Sima, who hopes that this fall at the Conservatoire de Paris, Germany and the . their findings “will also help actors on pursuing a Master’s degree. Aaron just finished his Masters in Violin the ground learn how to address a set of Performance at Indiana University and complicated issues more effectively.” A new book of will be an apprentice with the National poetry, Begin Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa this Noam Bierstone ’08 is a founding With the End in year; he is also a substitute violinist for member of the percussion quartet Mind (Arbeiter the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Architek, which performed at Gallery Ring Publishing, 345 in Toronto on June 6, 2012. The 2012), by Emma Shereen Ladha ’06 was a member of the Montréal-based group focuses on the Healey ’09, has dance troupe “Broken Dance”, which presentation of avant-garde art music, been described as: made it to the finals on the TV show and experimental and electroacoustic “Residing on the Canada’s Got Talent this year. works. Architek is also dedicated to the border between creation of new works by Canadian poetry and prose.” Her poems explore Sima Atri ’08 and Salvator Cusimano ’08 composers. The innovative quartet relationships and experiences as they were featured in a recent UofT Magazine recently was a featured ensemble in are distilled through encounters with article entitled “In Pursuit of Justice” – a the “Journées de la culture” in Montréal such diverse elements as “the CBC, reflection on their travels last summer to and also worked with Vinko Globokar chain bookstores, the contents of a Northern Uganda to conduct research at The Music Gallery in Toronto. The kitchen, or the expanse of a whole related to the involvement of children in four members met as students at McGill city.” Emma is a creative writing major conflict and its consequences for peace- University and have since received at Concordia University. Her fiction has building and transitional justice efforts. favourable reviews from audiences and appeared in Joyland, Broken Pencil, Sima and Salvator were interested in the musicians alike. Noam won Grand Prize Cellstories, Can’tLit, and Gulch. She is also the founder and editor-in-chief of The Incongruous Quarterly, an online literary magazine “devoted to publishing unpublishable literature.” Congratulations Class of 2012 Our graduating students were offered $1.7 million in university scholarships this year! UTSAA Director, Professor Donald Ainslie ’84, stopped by the school in June to congratulate them and to welcome them to the ranks of UTS alumni. In addition to sharing information about the UTSAA, his reflections on what being a UTS alumnus means to him resonated with the group. The UTSAA looks forward to hosting the LEFT: Shereen Ladha ’06. RIGHT: Sima Atri ’08 and Salvator Cusimano ’08 and friends in graduates of 2012 at a banquet in their Northern Uganda. honour in November.

26 THE ROOT • FALL 2012 Left: Don Ainslie ’84. Centre Left: John Mighton. Centre right: John Allmang ’70. Right: Wen Chan ’95.

News from the Branching Alumni are invited to an Alumni on November 3, 2012. Alumni in the Out Mentoring Program Panel on Scientific Careers on Thursday, Far East, contact alumni@utschools. The Branching Out Mentoring Program November 29 at 6:30 p.m. Check your ca or 416-978-3919 to update your has set a new record! 36 alumni ranging email newsletters for further details. Be information. Invitations will be emailed from ’76 through ’07 have been paired sure to send updated email address info and updates will be posted on Facebook with students now in S6. to [email protected]. (www.fb.com/utschools) as well as On May 7, we were privileged to We need you! A new group of students on the UTS website (www.utschools.ca/ welcome John Mighton (father of will be applying to Branching Out in alumni). alumna Chloe Mighton ’10) to speak to February, 2013. Alumni from the late ’80s the group. John is an Ashoka Fellow, a to the mid-2000s are urged to consider Montreal: Friday, November 10, 2012 winner of the 2005 Governor General’s volunteering for this worthwhile program. Principal Rosemary Evans will host a Literary Award for Drama, and the Please contact the Office of Advancement reception for Montreal-area alumni. inventor of JUMP (Junior Undiscovered at 416-978-3919 or [email protected]. (Details to be sent out by email Mathematical Prodigies) – a not-for- invitation.) Contact alumni@utschools. profit program that enhances kids’ math Branch Events ca or 416-978-3919 to update your skills. Ashoka is a global organization Vancouver information. that identifies and invests in leading On March 29 2012, Martha Drake social entrepreneurs. Elisha Muskat ’01 (Executive Director, Advancement) and Alumni Visitors (mentor this year to Sarah Liu ’13 and Rafe Angell ’83 hosted a Vancouver In April, S6 (Grade 12) Writer’s last year to Min Jo ’12), the executive Branch Event at Milestones Yaletown. Craft students were treated to some director of Ashoka Canada, was on-hand A great time was had by the 18 alumni illuminating insights when journalist to introduce John. He shared some ranging from the Class of ’45 to the Class John Allemang ’70 shared practical tips powerful messages – including how of ’08. Rafe has been appointed the “B.C. and advice. He suggested students read he overcame his failures in creative Rep” and has started a Facebook group George Orwell’s essay, Politics and writing and mathematics to become for alumni living in B.C. English Language, and emphasized a successful playwright and to earn a the importance of “making yourself an doctorate in mathematics. He stressed Upcoming Events expert in something.” He mentioned the that open-mindedness, innovation, and Hong Kong: UTSAA Director Phil Weiner potency of simple words and pointed experimentation are the keys to success. ’01 is planning to host a Branch Event out that readers find real-life chronicles fascinating. RIM engineer Wen Chan ’95 visited the S6 Computer Science class. He shared his belief that engineers both understand and master the world around us, and that they are driven to make things better. Wen holds that self-esteem, intuition, creativity, and testing wild ideas are the important characteristics of engineers. He advised students to keep their options open and not to overlook Vancouver Branch event. L-R: Mary Ainslie ’83, Kevin Keystone ’03, David Ingram ’58, Des Horan ’45, John Hunter ’67, Martha Drake, Suzanne McBeath ’93, Ian Worland ’86, Rafe Angell ’83, Charlie Snelling the trades. Wen’s Branching Out mentee, ’56, John Caldwell ’87, Baldwin Hum ’93, Doug Carter ’70, David Sutherland ’70, Rein Vasara ’58, Alex Allan Luk ’13, thanked Wen on behalf of Hart ’70, Paul Wright ’70. the class.

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In Memoriam Jim was a popular classmate, better were considered among the top breeders Remembering the Lives and known for his athletic prowess than of Simmental cattle in North America. Achievements of our Alumni for his academics. That may be why he How can you sum up a life in five decided to leave UofT after his first year words? He was a good man. James Davidson Lang ’47 to begin work as a salesman in the family – David Lang ’70, Jim’s son 1928 –2012 business, Lang Brothers’ Specialty. His brother, Gord, also joined the business William Francis ’48 James (Jim) after completing university. They worked 1930–2012 Lang ’47 passed closely with their dad until his death in away on May 19, 1959. They developed two divisions: 71 years ago, 2012. What can Samson Dominion, which manufactured 11 year-old you say about electrical appliances; and Connecticut William (Bill) a man’s life in Chemicals (now CCL Industries). By the Francis made 250 words or end of the 1960s, it is likely that every his way to UTS. less? That nice home in Canada contained at least one Bill was a good guys, like Jim, of their products. student and don’t always finish last. That he lived for In the early 1970s, Jim decided to participated in more than 83 years despite his fondness sell his stake in the company. He had extra-curricular for alcohol, television, and golf. That his purchased a country property north functions ranging from president of loyalty, dependability, and strong moral of the city a few years earlier and Literary Society to manager of the senior compass left a lot of people, including agriculture had started to consume more basketball team, with many activities in a wife, two sons, five grandchildren of his time and passion. Along with his between. He graduated in 1948 with two (including Lindsay Lang ’00), and sons, David ’70 and John, he developed university scholarships and moved on to seven great grandchildren mourning a prominent purebred cattle operation Medicine at UofT where he joined Theta his passing. called JL Farms. By the late 1980s, they Delta Chi Fraternity. A new hospital, York Finch, opened in 1971 and Bill was Chief of Obstetrics & Condolences are extended to the families of Gynaecology on opening day. Over his these alumni who passed away recently. 30 years, he delivered 8,000 babies (267 per year). There, Bill conceived of the Benson T. Rogers ’30 William Francis ’48 “Awesome Golf Tournament” which is February 27, 2012 June 3, 2012 now a major fundraiser for the Humber H. Murdo MacKinnon ’34 William Henderson ’49 River Regional Hospital. He was known July 8, 2012 February 3, 2012 as Dr. Awesome – a term that so typifies Charles Wilson ’36 George Gibson ’50 Bill’s character. Through his active years March 24, 2012 September 11, 2011 in practice, he was totally committed to excellence and was highly regarded by David Shiels ’52 Thomas Brown ’37 his peers. He continued contact with July 15, 2012 May 2, 2012 the Hospital right up until mid-May of Lyman Henderson ’39 Robert McCleary ’53 this year. June 22, 2012 February 10, 2012 Bill’s vivacious nature was a reflection Walter R. Henson ’43 Robert Wilkinson ’57 of the love and affection he had with April 14, 2012 February 7, 2012 Leona (Bunny) during their 32 years of marriage. Bill was always there for his Richard M. Wilson ’45 Duncan A. Baillie ’60 friends and performed many kind acts April 18, 2012 March 31, 2012 in a very quiet way. If it were a medical James D. Lang ’46 Paul R. Davidson ’66 issue, he would lean on one of his May 19, 2012 June 15, 2012 connections to get resolution. If it were a non-medical issue, he would lend an ear M. Peter Whyte ’46 Shaun Gollish ’77 March 4, 2012 May 22, 2012 and help to connect with resources to solve the problem. He epitomized what John Finlay ’47 Leslie Dunlop ’79 friends are all about: being there to help October 17, 2010 April 18, 2012 friends in need. – John Bowden ’48

28 THE ROOT • FALL 2012 Leslie Jane Dunlop ’79 1962–2012

Leslie Dunlop ’79 passed away on April 18, 2012 after a courageous battle with cancer. Leslie arrived at UTS with the first intake of girls in 1973. She earned a B.A. in 1983 from Trinity College, UofT, and an LL.B. in 1986 from the UofT Faculty of Law. Leslie spent the early years of her career at McMillan Binch and then Faskens where she developed her expertise in intellectual property. She was corporate counsel at Quaker Oats for eight years. In 2001, she became vice president and corporate counsel at Bioniche Life Sciences. Leslie thrived in the complex, fast-paced environment of a small biotech firm, tackling each challenge with the combination of wit, intelligence, and integrity that earned her the respect and love of friends and colleagues. Leslie’s life-long love of the arts, particularly music, was nurtured at UTS. TOP: A small but enthusiastic group of alumni from the Class of ’92 met at the school on Saturday, Jean Iu ’79 recalls: “Leslie was a quiet August 11 to reminisce and meet each other’s family members. Out-of-towners from Vancouver, soul with deep feelings… In music, Waterloo, Virginia, and Maryland attended. Former staff members Scott Baker, Frank Mustoe, and she found her voice and her passion. Mary (Vecchio) McCrae dropped by to extend their anniversary congratulations. bottom: In recognition of the 337 Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps’ historic ties to UTS, its Fortunately for Leslie, [music teacher] Annual Ceremonial Parade returned to Varsity Arena on June 9, 2012 for the first time in more than John Fautley arrived at UTS in ’74; 40 years. Alumni, former Cadets, veterans, students, and staff were invited to attend. The Corps’ he brought life and excitement to the Captain, Warren Ralph ’71,was in attendance, and Principal Rosemary Evans was on hand when a UTS music program and Leslie was a special presentation was made to UTS. A special tribute was also paid to alumni veterans. beneficiary. As an accomplished clarinet player, Leslie played in the concert band. Music remained a passion throughout Make a difference today Leslie’s life – a passion she shared with for tomorrow’s students... her daughter, Zoe. Leslie generously gave her time and If you would like to designate talent as a member of the boards of a specific bequest to UTS Loyalist College, Albert College, and or receive information on UTS. She served on the first UTS Board planned giving, please contact: of Directors, established in 2004, Martha Drake, Executive Director, Advancement and devoted herself passionately to at 416-946-0097, or strengthening the school. [email protected]. Leslie is sadly missed by daughter Zoe, mother Frances, husband Harvie Brydon, ...and leave your mark sister Alex, and many relatives and friends. on UTS’ future! – Jenifer Aitken ’79 and Jean Iu ’79

THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 29 TOP LEFT: The Brothers Lowden (Steve ’56, Jim ’54, Sandy ’51) at the Golf Tournament; TOP RIGHT: Michael Gillies ’67, champion golfer. BOTTOM: together on the ice, the UTSAA hockey game participants. th 17 Annual UTSAA and Dave Decker ’70 nabbed the shortest made it a family affair with Jon ’82, Alumni Golf Tournament drive challenge. Finally, the “Don Kerr Mike ’84, and Mike’s sons Adam ’11 and Our 17th annual golf tournament [’39] Trophy” for most honest golfer star goalie Cameron ’15, while alumna took place on a sunny June 19,, 2012 was awarded again to Henry Noble ’55. (mom & spouse) Suzanne ’84 cheered at St. Andrews Valley in Aurora. The Our thanks to our sponsors, House of from the stands. UTS Board Members proceedings – which included an Kangaroo, for their continued support, (Andre Hidi ’77 and David Allan ’78) and update on the school site situation and to Carole Zamroutian, Alumni Affairs UTSAA Board Members (Peter Frost ’63 from Martha Drake (Executive Director, Officer, who, along with Martha Drake, and George Crawford ’72 – who cheered Advancement) and UTS Board member joined in the post-round festivities. along his son, Stephen ’07) also attended David Allan ’78 – were enjoyed by all. Here’s hoping to see you next June at the game. Principal Rosemary Evans Michael Gillies ’67 clinched the “Hargraft our 18th tournament! dropped the puck and the “Old Boys” Trophy for Champion Golfer” for the – Peter Frost ’63 and Nick Smith ’63 (the Class of ’82 and older, coached by first time. The “Low Net Trophy” went Al Fleming ’54 and Norm Fox ’48) battled to Peter Frost ’63. Dave Lang ’70 and UTSAA Hockey Game the “Young Guys” (Class of ’83 and Peter Frost ’63 shared the “President’s 2012 younger, coached by Jeff Kennedy). UTS Trophy”, and Bob Tweedy ’60 won An alumni hockey game, organized Health and Physical Education teacher the “Don Borthwick Legends Trophy” by Peter Frost ’63, John Hass ’83, Mitch Chuvalo manned the penalty box. nipping our legendary Don by one shot. UTS Athletic Director Jeff Kennedy, The game was close but the Old Boys The “Dave Jolley Memorial Trophy” for and Alumni Affairs Officer Carole prevailed winning 9–5. A post-game best ball by class was won for the second Zamroutian, was held on March 30, 2012 celebration at The Duke of York was time by the class of ’70’s Bob Jacob, at Varsity Arena. Players – including enjoyed by players and spectators alike. Paul Wilson, and Bob Tweedy. Doug 13 players from the class of 1978 – See you on the ice in 2013! Rankin ’78 won the long drive contest, spanned more than 50 years! The Martins – By John Hass ’83

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Donors who have given for five consecutive years Thank you. Your ♥ Monthly Donors generous support is 1930–1937 1939-1940 Total: $2,190 Total: $550 Benson T. Rogers ’30 Robert G. Dale ’39 much appreciated! A. Gillean MacKinnon ’32 Peter A. Hertzberg ’39 Richard J. Boxer ’36 Ernest C. Goggio ’40 Geoffrey M.C. Dale ’36 James O. Sebert ’40 Ralph L. Hennessy ’36 Ian A. MacKenzie ’36 As a community, you have been very generous! Your donations have made 1941 Thomas C. Brown ’37 an impact in many areas, including financial aid, classroom and athletic John G. W. McIntyre ’37 Total: $835 equipment, capital improvements, and student projects. Your support helps David Y. Anderson to ensure that UTS is able to offer the outstanding education and financial 1938 Walter E. Bell, Q.C. accessibility that have been such important parts of the UTS experience Grant N. Boyd for many years. Thank you to all the individual donors and also to all the Total: $1,350 Kenneth C. Brown groups who gave as a class to UTS. John H. C. Clarry, Q.C. Richard W. Jeanes W. T. Erskine Duncan W.H. Frere Kennedy ♥ – Rosemary Evans, Principal Donald Fraser G. Jarvis Lyons John C. Laidlaw J. B. Seaborn, C.M. This report recognizes gifts to the UTSAA Annual Fund and other UTS John A. Rhind projects for the period July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012. William A. Sheppard, Q.C.

Principal’s Circle Our thanks to the members of the UTS community who contributed $1,000 or more.

David C. Allan ’78 Barry Cooper B&B Hamilton Fund at Daniel & Ingrid Mida William W. Stinson ’51 Paul L. Barnicke ’71 William J. Corcoran ’51 the Toronto Community Drs. Min & Chong Optometry George H. Stowe ’48 Dan Berbecel ’08 Andrew & Kathleen Dalglish Foundation Professional Corporation Andras Z. Szandtner ‘62 Anthony Berger ’92 Kevin E. Davis ’87 Dale E. Gray & James G. N. Andrew Munn ’80 Estate of J. Stephen Monica E. Biringer ’78 Robert C. Dowsett ’46 Hamilton Tazmin Merali & Nasir Tatrallyay ’75 William R. C. Blundell, O.C. Martha Drake Andre L. Hidi ’77 Noormohamed John W. Thomson ’48 ’45 George W. Edmonds, Q.C. David J. Holdsworth ’61 Susan E. Opler ’79 & Paul F. Tanya Lee & John Torrey J. Christopher Boland ’73 ’44 Richard S. Ingram ’61 Monahan Gregory Turnbull ’73 J. Nicholas Boland ’79 Denis R. Evans ’46 Alvin C. Iu ’73 Bernadine Morris & Juri Vandewater Charitable Michael F. Boland ’71 John R. Evans ’46 Henry N. R. Jackman, O.C. Otsason Foundation at the Toronto Bothwell-Accurate Co. Rosemary Evans ’50 Pomerantz Family Community Foundation (2006) Limited Richard A. Fairbanks ’74 Patrick Kaifosh ’06 Elena & Marc Pope Estate of Olwen Owen Walker John A. Bowden ’48 Ruth D. Fairbanks Knightsgrange Foundation Kenneth Radcliffe ’44 David M. Ward ’61 Michael Broadhurst ’88 James I. Fairbanks ’77 John I. Laskin ’61 Cedric E. Ritchie, O.C. John B. A. Wilkinson ’78 Bruce E. Brown ’46 Peter Ferguson ’60 Evelyn Kai-Li & Francis Li David Rounthwaite ’65 Douglas R. Wilson ’53 Peter & Joanne Brown George A. Fierheller ’51 Robert E. Lord ’58 William J. Saunderson ’52 Robert J. Wright, Q.C. ’51 Foundation James ’49 & Margaret Fleck John H. Lynch ’59 Donald Schmitt ’70 WWF-Canada Christopher Burton ’90 John J. Fox ’43 W. Bruce MacLean D. Malcolm Seath ’58 Patricia Foran & Mark Peter L. Buzzi ’77 Thomas A. Friedland ’81 Paul N. Manley ’61 James E. Shaw ’61 Yarranton Gary F. Canlett ’54 John B. Geale ’61 Dena McCallum ’82 John N. Shaw ’50 Graham J. Yost ’76 Felicia Y. Chiu ’96 Gary & Sandra German Bernard McGarva ’72 Patricia Adams & Lawrence Robert B. Zimmerman ’73 JC Clark Ltd. Peter C. Godsoe ’56 James A. McIntyre ’71 Solomon Anonymous (4) James S. Coatsworth ’69 K. Vanessa Grant ’80 John G. W. McIntyre ’37 Paul & Theodora Soong

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1942 Anonymous John E. Crawford E. John Hambley 1958 Peter Fairclough Robert L. Joynt Total: $650 1947 George A. Fierheller James R. Lowden Total: $8,170 William E. Gilday D. Ross Holden D. Keith Millar George M. Carrick John E.A. McCamus Total: $2,183 J. Alexander Lowden John D. Murray Douglas A. Davis Kenneth D. McRae William I. Copeland C. Michael McKeown, Q.C. Desmond M. O’Rorke Arthur D. Elliott A. Cal Wilson Michael A. Fair David Spendlove J. Richard Parsons Richard Farr Anonymous T. Douglas Kent William W. Stinson William R. Redrupp Peter J. George Tracy H. Lloyd Allan Townshend Gordon R. Sellery Patrick T. Gray 1943 Thomas H. B. Symons Guy W. Upjohn John H. Wait Bruce E. Houser Hugh E. Zimmerman James A. Wilkinson William G. Leggett Total: $3,040 Anonymous (2) William E. Wilson 1955 Robert E. Lord F. Geoffrey Adams Robert J. Wright, Q.C. James R. Mills John J. Fox 1948 Anonymous Total: $2,160 Kit Moore James A. Low Harold L. Atwood David P. Ouchterlony ♥ W.O. Chris Miller, Q.C. Total: $9,550 1952 David R. Brillinger Douglas G. Peter William R. Paul Hugh Anson-Cartwright John R. Gardner J. Garnet & Susan Pink Joseph D. Sheard Philip L. Arrowsmith Total: $4,720 W. Gary Goldthorpe D. Malcolm Seath Anonymous John A. Bowden Gerald A. Crawford Albert Greer James M. Spence, Q.C. Keith G. Dalglish James D. Floyd William T. Hunter Joseph A. Starr 1944 Albert P. Fell E.A. Austin Fricker Martin Jerry J. Derek Taylor Norman D. Fox Gordon G. Goodfellow Howard D. Kitchen Rein C. Vasara Total: $6.932 William B. Hanley Peter J. Harris Robert K. Metcalf Richard Walker David L. Bate Michael K. Ireland Richard S. Howe Anthony Morrison William R. Weldon C. Derek S. Bate J. Fergus Kyle Leslie G. Lawrence Ian M. Smith Barry N. Wilson Gordon S. Cameron Frederick F. Langford R. Conrad Lister Douglas R. Coutts John G. C. Pinkerton Jack F. McOuat 1956 1959 George W. Edmonds, Q.C. George H. Stowe Darrell B. Phillips G. Dean Gooderham John W. Thomson William J. Saunderson Total: $4,528 Total: $4,527 Dr. F. Griffith Pearson Ian S. Wishart Paul B. Cavers Donald G. Bell Morton B. Pullan 1953 Darcy T. Dingle E. Bradley Brown Kenneth Radcliffe 1949 Jon L. Duerdoth Alexander A. Furness George N. Soulis Total: $3,380 David M. Flint John K. Jacobi George A. Trusler Total: $4,285 Edward B. Cross Joseph F. Gill W. L. Mackenzie King Anonymous William H. Angus Kenneth Culver Peter C. Godsoe, O.C. Terence S. W. Lee Gordon M. Barratt Martin D. Gammack Ryan R. Kidd John H. Lynch 1945 Richard M. Clee John W. Holland Stephens B. Lowden Roger A. Pretty James & Margaret Fleck Robert Labbett James C. McCartney, Q.C. Ian A. Shaw Total: $53,250 Robert E. Logan William P. Lett Arthur R. Scace John A. Sloane William R. C. Blundell, O.C. Chris Loukras James C. Mainprize Peter D. Scott James P. Stronach Donald G. Bunt Ian A. Stewart Robert D. McCleary Peter F. Stanley Ian C. Sturdee Keith M. Gibson Richard D. Tafel Alan E. Morson Douglas I. Towers Tibor A. Szandtner David S. Graham Gordon W. Perkin, O.C. C. Murray Woodside Donald K. Wilson J. Desmond Horan 1950 Thomas Riley Robert J. Young Anonymous William E. Rogan 1957 Total: $3,075 Robert Saunders 1960 1946 Gilbert E. Alexander, Jr. David O. Wainwright Total: $3,027 Roger G. Crawford Hugh D. Wainwright Murray A. Corlett Total: $3,325 Total: $19,420 George A. De Veber Douglas R. Wilson Robert M. Culbert Peter Ferguson Bruce C. Bone Henry N. R. Jackman, O.C. Robert G. Darling ♥ James & Mary Fisher Bruce E. Brown David H. Lewis 1954 Robert A. Gardner John R.D. Fowell George H. Cuthbertson William J. McClelland James D. Graham Robert P. Jacob Robert C. Dowsett William J. McIlroy Total: $5,025 James R. Grand Robert N. McRae Denis R. Evans John N. Shaw David K. Bernhardt Bruce M. Henderson J. Paul Mills John R. Evans J. Frederick F. Weatherill Ronald M. Bertram Terence Johnson Peter C. Nicoll William A. Firstbrook Anonymous H. Donald Borthwick David W. Kerr R. Malcolm Nourse H. Donald Guthrie, Q.C. Douglas G. Brewer Stephen A. Otto Douglas Rutherford James D. Lang 1951 Gary F. Canlett Alan B. Perkin Robert J. Tweedy Donald B. Montgomery James A. Cripps John G. Sayers James M. Tory, Q.C. Total: $5,820 G. Alan Fleming Donald Van Every 1961 David G. Watson John Catto Robert Gibson J. Douglas Ward Peter Webb, Q.C. William J. Corcoran John M. Goodings Class of 1957 Gift Total: $33,304

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John B. Geale Peter W. Y. Snell ♥ David G. Stinson Gregory H. Knittl Ann Louise M. Vehovec David J. Holdsworth George E. Swift Paul Wright Timothy Turnbull John S. Visosky Richard S. Ingram J. Joseph Vaughan Anonymous Anonymous John B. A. Wilkinson John I. Laskin Peter B. MacKinnon 1965-1966 1971 1975 1979 Paul N. Manley ♥ Donald Philpott Total: $2,200 Total: $9,699 Total: $11,400 Total: $3,360 Alexander D. Potts Robert A. Cumming ’65 Paul L. Barnicke Paul M. Anglin J. Nicholas Boland James E. Shaw James K. A. Hayes ’65 Derek A. Bate Graeme C. Bate John Burns James Sissons Peter G. Kelk ’65 Michael F. Boland Martin A. Chepesiuk Julie Gircys Michael Tinkler Peter MacEwen ’65 Paul Brace Jonathan F. Lapp Andrew H.K. Hainsworth David M. Ward Anthony J. Reid ’65 Peter G. de Buda Kenneth J. McBey Jean C. Iu ♥ John R. Wright David Rounthwaite ’65 John S. Floras David M. Sherman Susan E. Opler Jeffrey R. Stutz ’65 Richard C. Hill ♥ Estate of J. Stephen Tatrallyay 1962 William A. MacKay ’66 Robert D. Hodgins 1980 John S. Rogers ’66 Thomas M. Hurka 1976 Total: $4,406 J. Peter Jarrett Total: $4,323 Gordon R. Elliot 1967 James A. McIntyre Total: $3,514 Andrew P. Alberti David A. Galloway William O. Menzel Peter M. Celliers Peter S. Bowen Kirby M. Keyser Total: $3,211 Peter G. Neilson ♥ Alistair K. Clute Sarah C. Bradshaw Robert H. Kidd D. Peter Best Warren G. Ralph Myron I. Cybulsky Kevin G. Crowston Donald A. Laing George B. Boddington Adrian Shubert Marko D. Duic Christine E. Dowson Peter W. C. Markle Richard J. Boxer R.D. Roy Stewart Vincent J. Santamaura David C. Evans Donald A. McMaster Michael R. Curtis Anthony Storey ♥ Jeffrey W. Singer K. Vanessa Grant David S. Milne Peter C. Donat Class of 1971 Gift Gary S. A. Solway Sheldon I. Green W. Douglas Newman Joseph Fodor Daniel P. Wright Bernard E. Gropper Michael A. Peterman John J. L. Hunter, Q.C. 1972 Graham J. Yost Daniel R. Houpt Andras Z. Szandtner Stephen H. Kauffman Eric Kert Bryce R. Taylor Gordon E. Legge Total: $2,525 1977 Abba Lustgarten Wayne D. Thornbrough Bruce R. Miller George V. Crawford Nomi Morris Allan G. Toguri W. Scott Morgan Robert L. Fowler Total: $8,525 N. Andrew Munn Dean Tudor Hugh W. Teasdale David S. Grant P. Timothy Birnie James B. Sommerville Robert S. Weiss Bernard McGarva Peter L. Buzzi Christine D. Wilson Anonymous 1968-1969 Howard J. Scrimgeour Robert B. Crewe Christopher D. Woodbury James I. Fairbanks 1981 1963 Total: $3,624 Robert Wright Andre L. Hidi John R. Collins ’68 David M. Le Gresley Total: $3,030 Total: $2,490 John B. Lanaway ’68 1973 Stephen O. Marshall Sigita J. Bersenas-Balzekas W. Paul Bates Murray E. Treloar ’68 David R. McCarthy Suzanne E. Campbell James E. G. Fowell John Bohnen ‘69 Total: $5,804 Anonymous Jeremy Celliers Peter H. Frost William J. Bowden ’69 J. Christopher Boland Edward E. Etchells Frank E. Hall James S. Coatsworth ’69 Jeffrey Clayton 1978 Lorna Finlay Nelson G. Hogg John B. Deacon ’69 David W. Fallis Christopher J. Francis John R. Kelk Stephen C. Farris ’69 James C. Haldenby Total: $13,274 Thomas A. Friedland Robert D. Lightbody Frederick R. E. Heath ’69 Alvin C. Iu ♥ David C. Allan Bruce M. Grant William N. F. Ortved Robert J. Herman ’69 John G. Kivlichan Deborah Berlyne Thomas Hicks J. Robert Pampe David White ’69 Miles Obradovich Monica E. Biringer Alison J. Murray Lane K. Prentice John D. Wright ’69 Dr. Jaak Reichmann Irene J. Cybulsky Sudhashree Rajagopal J. Fraser Wilson Anonymous ♥ John Sweet Sherry A. Glied Hellen Spanjer Anonymous ♥ Gregory Turnbull Penelope A. Harbin Molly K. Whalen 1970 Walter L. Vogl Kenneth Kirsh ♥ 1964 William W. Wilkins Susan L. Lawson 1982 Total: $2,977 Robert B. Zimmerman Dana Lewis-Orenstein Total: $1,601 R. Ian Casson Christina H. Medland Total: $2,560 James S. Cornell David A. Decker 1974 Ann Pennington Benjamin T. B. Chan Collin M. Craig Douglas N. Donald Douglas Rankin Peter K. Czegledy William R. Jones Brian D. Koffman Total: $2,646 Donald A. Redelmeier Brian Denega Michael F. Kimber J. David Lang Andrey V. Cybulsky Peeter H. Reichman Lisa C. Jeffrey ♥ David W. O. Rogers Peter H. Norman Terence R. Davison John S. Robson Jon & Robin Martin Jeffrey R. Rose D. Kenneth Roberts Richard A. Fairbanks John A. Rose Dena McCallum Michael J. Ross Donald Schmitt James H. Grout Timothy Sellers Anonymous (2)

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1983 Eugene H. Ho Damian Tarnopolsky Meira Louis ♥ Carole (Geddes) Anonymous Scott A. Thompson Jeffrey So Zamroutian ♥ Total: $1,500 Emily Wong Albert K. Tang Anonymous (2) Karen M. Mandel 1989 Veronica C. Yeung Laura Murray 2001-2002 Parents Earl Stuart Total: $1,352 1994 Elizabeth Turner Michelle Alexander Total: $1,255 Jennie Yi & John Bai Daniel Yoon Margaret S. Graham Total: $1,574 Ian K. Bradley ‘01 Teddy Chien Naomi Hume Aaron L. Chan Philip P. Weiner ‘01 Andrew & Kathleen Dalglish 1984 Michael Lower Adam Chapnick Jocelyn Cheng ‘02 Alison David & Bill Gore Eric Petersiel Brian Horgan Lea Epstein ‘02 Andrew & Christine Guy Total: $3,316 David M. Shaw Michael S. Jaskolka Liang Hong ‘02 ♥ Michelle & John Hull Donald C. Ainslie ♥ Gregory R. Shron Harrison F. Keenan Anonymous (2) Hae-Young Kee & Yong-Baek Nicholas G. Evans Anonymous Rachel Spitzer Kim Daniel & Ingrid Mida Edward A. Griffith ♥ Daniel E. Wang 2003 David Kreindler Kathy Siminovitch & Michael 1990 Miloff Michael R. Martin 1995 Total: $310 Suzanne N. Martin Total: $ 3,750 Allison Chow Susan E. Opler ’79 & Paul F. Cameron A. Matthew Tanya Y. Bartucz Total: $1,075 Kevin Keystone ♥ Monahan Kosta Michalopoulos Winsome S. Brown Nicole Agnew Johann Ly Monica Caverson-Moranis & Chandragupta Sooran Christopher Burton Rashaad Bhyat Justin Ma Stephen Moranis David J. Walker Matthew G. Campbell Robert Duncan Cao-Minh & Hanh Nguyen Tazmin Merali & Nasir Anonymous (2) Jason Fung Robin Rix 2004-2009 Jessica R. Goldberg Ilya Shapiro Noormohamed Patricia Adams & Lawrence 1985 Sara H. Gray Jeremy Weinrib Total: $2,685 Lennox Huang Jonathan C. G. Bright ’04 ♥ Solomon ♥ Marshall Swadron Total: $1,532 Henry White 1996 Nina Coutinho ’04 Isis E. H. Caulder Jessica D. Dorrance ’04 Tanya Lee & John Torrey Patricia Foran & Mark Carrie Ku 1991 Total: $3,288 Mackenzie Tan ’05 Kerstin Lack James A. Browne Patrick Kaifosh ’06 Yarranton Grant Lum Total: $2,088 Felicia Y. Chiu Katherine Magyarody ’06 Carson T. Schutze Karen B. Chan Amanda A. Martyn Eric Nicholson ’06 Parents of Adrian M. Yip Sandra A. Chong ♥ Frank Min Jong Park ’07 Alumni Aaron M. Dantowitz Ilan D. Muskat Dan Berbecel ’08 Peter & Elizabeth Alberti 1986 Jordan J. Feld Emily Rix Robert Bai ’09 Audrey M. Fried-Grushcow Amanda Ross-White ♥ Ana Komparic ’09 Kailash & Maria Bahadur Total: $888 Jeffrey Gans Anonymous Robyn & Kevin Beattie David & Eileen Berger Tracy A. Betel Jason D. Jones Class of 1996 Gift Current & David C. Bourne Class of 1991 Gift Mary Killoran & Douglas Former Staff Bradley Mark D. Phillips 1997 ♥ Consuelo Castillo Julie Williams 1992 Garth Chalmers Total: $3,001 Jean Collins Paul & Loretta Chan Alan & Jocelyn Chun 1987 Total: $1,750 Jessica Gunderson Dorothy Davis Karim Abdulla Jeffrey Hall-Martin Rose Dotten ♥ Thane & Sylvia Crossley Total: $2,536 Anthony Berger Michael D. Morgan ♥ Martha Drake ♥ Nancy E. Epstein John R. Caldwell Lia Copeland Veena Mosur Lynda Duckworth Aaron & Patricia Fenton Julia Cochrane ♥ Oliver M. Jerschow Michael Shenkman Fred Enzel ♥ Stephen & Anne Georgas Kevin E. Davis Anna Lim Anonymous Rosemary Evans ♥ Elena Gourlay Sascha M. Hastings Christopher A. Watson H. Donald Gutteridge & Dale E. Gray & James G. J. Timothy Morgan M. Anne Miller Hamilton 1998 Susan Ormiston & Keith Jill R. Presser 1993 Judith Kay Cari M. Whyne Total: $1,251 Ping Kong Lai Harradence Thomas Wilk Total: $2,540 Laura Bogomolny Rebecca Levere Kan Lee & Samuel Ip Kai Ming Adam Chan Clarence Cheng W. Bruce MacLean Shirley Chan & William Jeong ♥ Fred & Wendy Kaifosh 1988 Danielle I. Goldfarb Judy S. Kwok Anand Mahadevan Geoffrey R. Hung ♥ Rebekah Wahba Alec McCuaig Maria Kokai Czapar & Tibor Total: $2,420 Alexander B. Hutchinson Anonymous Lily McGregor ♥ Kokai Jennifer Andersen Koppe ♥ Jeffrey D. Jaskolka Paul Moore Mario & Branka Komparic Catharine & Nestor Kostyniuk Michael Broadhurst Jocelyn Kinnear 1999 Rick & Sarah Parsons ♥ James Cheng T. Justin Lou Marie-Claire Recurt Sujit Choudhry Richard D. Roze Total: $945 Amy Schindler ♥ Carmen Diges Jason E. Shron ♥ Jonathan Bitidis Ann Unger

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Jane Humphreys & Ron Linda Campbell Jean Kitchen Doug & Gail Todgham Gosia & Stan Pacyna Lalonde Stewart & Joan Marilyn Carter Knightsgrange Foundation Elizabeth Tory Hongmei Li & Anbing Peng Alan & Marti Latta Karen Holmberg-Cash John & Constance Langley Peter & Anne Trousdale The Pomerantz Family James & Isabella Leung Ellen P. Chapnick Mike & Donna Lauber William Turville Elena & Marc Pope Fung & Binh Ly Howard Cohen Jean Laundy Vandewater Charitable Miriam Shuchman & Donald A. Dannie Lai & Man Yick Ma Gerald Connor Bob & Anne Lindsey Foundation at the Toronto Redelmeier ‘78 Christa Jeney & Thomas Richard Conway Carlos Lopes Community Foundation Ewa & John Romanski Magyarody David B. Cook Raymond Ludwin Estate of Olwen Owen Walker Paul & Anthea Stern Lou E. Mason Barry Cooper Team TopLynn Sinead Walsh The Tang Family in honour of Mary Anne Huggins & David Robert & Grace Corcoran Judy Macdonald Charles & Ann Watson William McKeown Allan Crawford Jacqueline Manji Colin & Barbara Watson Anonymous (6) Barbara A. Morgan Michael Cruickshank Manulife Financial Tom & Mary Watterson Sara Shettleworth & Nicholas Robert J. Deluce Reg Marrison John & Maureen Webster Class of 2011 Mrosovsky George Deratnay Kate Marshall Brian & Joyce Westlake Camila Vaz & Jitendra Athayde Paul & Floree Muller John Digby John & Rosemary McIntosh Raymond & Muriel Whaley Cindia Chau-Boon & Kevin Gary & Marney Opolsky Elizabeth Dixon Willson McTavish Scott White Boon Anthony & Elizabeth Parr Ruth D. Fairbanks Joan M. Meek Sheila White Wai Louie & John Chu Tomas & Alicia Quejada John & Freda Finley Gerry Merritt Maclin Williams Noor Dewji Donald & Nita Reed Bob Fisher Mineola Men’s Hockey WWF-Canada Jack & Angela Fong Cedric E. Ritchie, O.C. Russell Fleischer Peter & Frances Money Anonymous (8) Jimmy & Aimee He & Family Richard & Jane Roberts Joan Forrester Laetitia Murray Kan Lee & Samuel Ip Bruce & Maura Rowat Gary & Sandra German Mary Neumann Graduating Class The Leith Family Janet Stanton & Philip Sohm David & Diane Gilday Ontario Power Generation Bursary Project James & Isabella Leung Paul & Theodora Soong Ruston & Lindy Goepel The Osborne Group Chau Ha & Man Ching Li John & Linda Unger Donald & Jodie Gray John & Gail Patterson Class of 2012 Suzanne Martin ‘84 & Michael Zulfikarali & Almas Verjee Sheila Green Jeff Phillips Paul Brace ‘71 Martin ‘84 Clinton Wang Yung Hahn Gary Blair & Earl Pinchuk The Chan Family Nora Underwood & Tim Powis Alexandru & Michaela Weiner Glenn & Susan Hainey Laura Pink Kelly Ding Paul & Janet Raboud Victor & Helen Wong B&B Hamilton Fund at Robin Porter Robert & Madelyn Elia Yun Oen & Yang Wang Gloria Chung-Yu & Joseph Yu the Toronto Community Hubert Bonnet & Brent Reid Wendy V. Hatch & Edward E. Anonymous (4) Foundation Briony Reid Etchells ‘81 Tribute Gifts Ann Wray Hampson Vincent Ricchio Drs. Min & Chong Optometry Friends of UTS The Hancocks Elsa M. Roberts Professional Corporation Thank you to everyone who Ken & Jane Harlock Rogers Family Lilian Leung & Terence Chow gave in honour or in memory Erica Armstrong Douglas Heighington Rosedale Golf Club Beverley Conner & Sydney of dear friends and family. Mike & Jane Barber Gary & Ann Hill Mr. Bob Royle Goldwater The Barber Family George & Lydia Holancin C. Peter Shirriff James & Katherine Gracie In Honour of: Bothwell-Accurate Co. (2006) Wanda J. Hunter Jane Simpson Abby Cheng & Hao Guan Bella Hahn ’16 Limited Geoffrey Hunter Allison Sinclair Don & Jeongmin Kim Gerald Hill ’45 John & Julie Botsford JC Clark Ltd. Hugh W. 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THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 35 Looking Back

Before there were computers and digital databases, there were Entertainment!” on page 18), while George played smaller index cards – and UTS had one for each student. From our roles – including the Sheriff in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. archives, here are two such cards, for the brothers Hesselberg: They appeared together in My Own True Love (1949) – Melvyn Melvyn Edouard and George Lamar. Beginning in 1913, in a starring role and George in a bit part. Melvyn served in both boys attended UTS for a few years before moving to the US army during WW2; “horrified” by anti-Semitism during the US with their father, Eduoard Gregory (a classical concert a trip to Europe in 1931, he and his wife, Helen Gahagan pianist, composer, and teacher), and mother, Lena Priscilla. Douglas, became outspoken anti-Fascists. Helen went on to Eduoard was appointed piano teacher and examiner at the become the third woman (and first Democratic woman) to be Toronto Conservatory of Music (which was later renamed elected to Congress from California. the Royal Conservatory of Music) in 1912; the family stayed Further reading: in Toronto until 1918. The boys went on to become the A Full Life by Helen Gahagan Douglas (Doubleday, 1982). movie actors Melvyn Douglas and George Douglas (taking See You at the Movies: The Autobiography of Melvyn Douglas the name of their maternal grandmother). Melvyn had an by Melvyn Douglas and Tom Arthur (University Press of esteemed career as a dashing leading man (see “That’s America, 1986).

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