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PLUS:THE ‘FAITH IN DIVINITY’ CAMPAIGN CONTINUES

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TRINITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE VOLUME 42 NUMBER 3

Student The Play’s Willing Union The Thing and Wise Heads of College Earle Grey, The Forward- Ashutosh Jha and Tom Patterson and Thinking Supporters Michelle Choi Get Trinity’s Shakespeare Who Make Ready to Go Co-ed Connection Planned GiftsWINTER 2005 1 13049 Trinity 8/15/05 3:00 PM Page 2

FromtheProvost

The Life of a Provost No two days are alike

lumni often ask me what a provost does. I’ve often glad to say, sometimes brings her new son, Jack, with her. wondered that myself. There are times when I feel like The Bursar and I talk almost daily about college finances. Our my counterparts in the military police, and other conversations are sometimes gloomy (the rising price of natural gas A times like (according to the Oxford English Dictio- threatens our balanced budget) and sometimes more cheerful nary) an assistant fencing master. It’s a good question, though, and (when our investments do well). I spend just as much time with I thought I would answer it by describing a typical day as the head the Director of Development. We are just completing a successful of a federated university at the University of Toronto. But I can’t campaign to endow the dean’s position at the Faculty of Divinity, find one. Every day at Trinity, so it seems, is different. and we are in the middle of planning a major endowment cam- Sometimes my days start early with breakfast meetings; some- paign for the college. times they end late with evening lectures. I often work on week- In one way and another, a lot of what I do is related to fund- ends. I go to chapel at least once a week. I have lunch and dinner raising and keeping in touch with all those who support Trinity. In at High Table. I teach twice a week. As much as I can, I get to the past three years, I have learned just how loyal Trinity alumni know the students. I go to Conversat or TCDS plays, and I invite are. And they are everywhere. I have been to receptions from them to the Lodge several times a term to listen to interesting peo- Ottawa to Hong Kong. I have had drinks with alumni in Wash- ple talk about their lives and careers. ington, dinners in London, lunches in Beijing. When they come The Provost is the public face of the College. People make back to Trinity for alumni reunions, I go to as many lunches, appointments to see me or drop by during my open-office hour. dinners and tea parties as I can. (I wish I had asked for the occa- Students want advice on graduate schools; alumni passing through sional visit to a health farm in my contract.) Toronto come by to see the new provost. I also get complaints: I am an ambassador for Trinity, and one of the most important Trinity students have been singing rude songs under the windows relationships I have is with the University of Toronto. I get together of other colleges. The traffic light on Hoskin is too slow. The salsa frequently to discuss mutual concerns with my counterparts at dance classes in Seeley Hall are being run by a breakaway group St. Michael’s and Victoria colleges or with the senior officers of the from the University of Toronto Ballroom Dancing Society – and University. And I attend many university functions: meetings what am I going to do about it? (inevitably), Convocations, garden parties, receptions to say good- Much of my time is spent on day-to-day affairs. I don’t, I hasten bye, or receptions to say hello. I get invited to talk at other colleges to add, sit in my office barking out orders. I don’t need to, because or other universities. Trinity’s managers look after their own areas with a minimum of There are no schools or correspondence courses for provosts, fuss and a maximum of efficiency. But I like to know what is going but what I can pass on to my successor in a few years is to expect on. I go to a lot of meetings: the Finance Committee, the Invest- a job that brings the unexpected. I have had to get to know every

EWS ment Committee, the Senate, the Board of Trustees, Corporation. nook and cranny of Trinity from the Angel’s Roost to Sub-Kirk. N

AILY The Provost’s Advisory Committee – made up of the Bursar, the This summer I was in the old library as workmen tore it apart D Registrar, the Building Manager, the Director of Development and to make new rooms and offices, and I have been on top of EACH B Alumni Affairs, the Deans, the Chief Librarian, the Archivist and scaffolding to see the cracks in our roof finials. ALM P / the Chaplain – meets every other week during term. The College is also its people: the staff, many of whom have been

GATTUSO The Chair of the Board of Trustees, the Chancellor and I talk here for years; the Fellows, who come from across the campus; you,

REER frequently about issues that are coming up. Derek Allen, the Dean the alumni; and the students. I do my best to get to know you all. : G of Arts, drops by to tell me what is happening with Trinity’s own I sometimes wish there were a bit more time in the day, but I courses and programs. Or Kelley Castle, the Dean of Students, can’t think of a more interesting job. HOTOGRAPHY

P keeps me posted on the residences and student affairs – and, I am MARGARET MACMILLAN, Provost and Vice-Chancellor 2 TRINITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE 13049 Trinity 8/15/05 3:00 PM Page 3

n.b. College observations 5 worth noting By Graham F. Scott

All’s Well That Starts Well Earle Grey staged Canada’s first 10 Shakespearean festival under the stars of the Trinity quad. It was the harbinger of a ferment of national cultural activity, including that wildly successful 10 Earle Grey upstart, the Stratford Festival By Cynthia Macdonald

Nobody’s Fool Tom Patterson made his 16 madcap dream – the Stratford Festival – come true By Julie Traves

Student Union Trinity tradition just got 18 an update. Beginning this fall, college residences will go co-ed on a floor-by-floor, or house-by-house, basis By Julie Traves 18 Michelle Choi and Ashutosh Jha Present Perfect Making a planned gift now can 22 have a significant and lasting effect on the life and well-being of Trinity in the future By Susan Lawrence

The Final Lap Alumni, faculty, clergy, 26 parishes and friends all have ‘Faith in Divinity’ By Susan Perren

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OBSERVATIONSn. & DISTINCTIONSb. WORTH NOTING • BY GRAHAM F. SCOTT

Ryerson Makes a Fuss Oxford Post Provost Margaret MacMillan taught at Ryerson University for Provost for almost 25 years. Now MacMillan she is an honorary Ryerson in 2007 alumna since receiving an honorary doctorate from the rovost Margaret Toronto university in June. PMacMillan became Prof. John Cook, chair of Trinity’s first female provost Ryerson’s English department, in July 2002. Now, when her cited Provost MacMillan as a term at Trinity ends June historian, political commenta- 30, 2007, it appears that she tor, university leader and “a will become the first wise and generous mentor to Margaret MacMillan many of us.” He thanked her woman and the first for her imaginative tracing ... Canadian to head an Oxford College, according to an Oxford source. and sensitivity to the arc of Provost MacMillan (6T6) was elected to the post of Warden of St. Antony’s College in human history.” (To read June. Over the next two years, she will continue the important work she has begun at his citation for Provost Trinity, including the implementation of the Trinity One program of small classes for first- MacMillan, go to www.trinity. year students, the integration of the residences, the conclusion of the Divinity Campaign to utoronto.ca/alumni) “I was so delighted and endow the position of the Dean of Divinity, and, in spring 2006, the launching of Trinity’s touched to get the honorary major $15-million capital campaign. degree from Ryerson,” St. Antony’s College, founded in 1950, specializes in international studies and is one of MacMillan said after the seven colleges at Oxford that admit full-time graduate students. It is the most international ceremony. “It was a bit like EWS N of Oxford’s colleges, both in its concentration on international studies and in the composi- coming home and having AILY D tion of its student body, with some 350 postgraduate students representing more than them make a fuss over you.” EACH B 50 countries. ALM P / In the early 1970s, Provost MacMillan was a student at St.Antony’s, where she completed The Hon. and a DPhil in 1974 on the British in India.“I am extremely privileged and proud to be associated Honorary Michael GATTUSO

REER with such outstanding colleges,” she said.“Both are lively and important centres of learning; H.Wilson : G both have a special interest in international relations; and both attract excellent students Trinity College Chancellor and fellows.” and former Canadian finance HOTOGRAPHY

P minister Michael Wilson

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(5T9) Partnership.” A Responsible Attendees heard three received an “Sometimes the work is addresses by Archbishop honorary difficult,” Wilson told the Place at the Table Andrew Hutchison (6T9), doctor of graduands. “It can take both About 80 Divinity alumni Primate of the Anglican laws degree a physical and an emotional and friends gathered in June Church of Canada, on the from the toll. But I assure you, the at a Trinity College Divinity history of the worldwide University rewards are boundless. Your Associates conference, entitled Anglican Communion, the of Toronto life will be enriched.” “Ties that Bind,” to discuss bonds that hold it together Michael Wilson in June for For Provost MacMillan’s the state of the worldwide and its future in view of seri- his contri- citation and to read Anglican Communion in ous strains in recent years. butions to Canadian politics, Chancellor Wilson’s full light of recent tensions, The lectures were delivered finance and voluntarism. Convocation address, go to including the blessing for the Primate, who was ill, In his address to the gradu- www.trinity.utoronto.ca/alumni of same-sex unions. by Archdeacon Paul Feheley. ating students, the chancellor To read the Primate’s words, encouraged them to make vol- please see www.trinity.utoron- unteering an important part of to.ca/alumni their lives. “My volunteer and On the final day of the political experience has taken conference registrants drafted me into another world: from a statement, entitled “A Bay Street to Main Street. And Responsible Place at the more important, it has made Table,” which is being me a better person.” circulated to the worldwide After working for several church. It was a call to remain years in private finance, in communion while respect- Wilson was elected a Conser- ing differing points of view vative MP for Etobicoke and accepting that conflict is Centre in 1979. In 1984, he part of reality. David Hamid Colin Johnson became finance minister under former prime minister Brian Divine Degrees The Incredible Mulroney. He first did volun- Shrinking teer work for the Canadian he Trinity College Faculty of Divinity bestowed honorary Cancer Society in 1967. After TDoctor of Divinity degrees upon two prominent Anglican Stadium he left politics in 1993 he Bishops in May.The Rt. Rev. David Hamid and The Rt. Rev. U of T’s Governing Council became a committed advocate Colin Robert Johnson were honoured during a ceremony that approved plans in June for a of mental-health issues. scaled-back development of also marked the Convocation of Trinity’s 17 Divinity graduates Wilson’s son Cameron was the former Varsity Stadium this year. later diagnosed with depres- site just north of Trinity sion and took his own life. Hamid (MDiv 1981) was recognized for his extensive work College. Trinity, which had “Out of that loss,” said in Latin America and Europe, and his continent-bridging opposed U of T’s earlier Trinity Provost Margaret efforts to bring together Anglicans from around the world. In plan to build a 25,000-seat MacMillan, who gave Wilson’s 2002 he was named the Suffragan Bishop of the Church of stadium on the property, citation, “he has courageously England in Europe, overseeing more than 200 European con- welcomed the news. undertaken to work to fur- The $16-million first gregations. ther our understanding and phase of the project, to be Johnson (7T7) was named Bishop of Toronto in 2004, the

INTA treatment of mental illness completed by the fall of 2006, L and to provide support and same post first occupied by Bishop John Strachan, founder of includes a 5,000-seat stadium,

AMELLA leadership for organizations Trinity College. He was honoured for his extensive work in a playing field and a track. : C such as the Centre for the Diocese of Toronto.To read Bishop Johnson’s Convocation Subsequent phases call for a Addiction and Mental Health address, please go to: www.trinity.utoronto.ca/alumni bubble-like structure installed HOTOGRAPHY

P and the Neuroscience Canada over the playing field in the

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winter months, a three- or four-storey building for train- ing, research and teaching, And the Award and renovations to Varsity for Most Awards Arena. Subject to funding, the Goes to… entire project could be com- ryony Lau (0T5),Trinity’s pleted by fall 2008. Bnewest Rhodes Scholar, Presidential added some more feathers to Material her cap at the Trinity College Dr. David graduation awards ceremony Naylor will in June.“I was tremendously be installed jet-lagged,” said Lau, who had just as presi- returned the previous night from dent of the a vacation with family in China. University “I was all turned around, thinking of Toronto Bryony Lau on Oct. 1. it was still the morning.” David Naylor Naylor has She was turning other people’s heads at the awards ceremony, however, when she collected six been a awards and scholarships in addition to the Rhodes Scholarship, announced last November. Lau took faculty member at U of T a Governor General’s Silver Medal, the Chancellor’s Gold Medal in the Arts, the Ambassador since 1988 and dean of the Kenneth Taylor Prize for Highest Standing in the International Relations Specialist Program, the Klaus Faculty of Medicine for the Goldschlag Scholarship in International Relations, the Meltzer Memorial Travelling Scholarship in past six years. He shot to national prominence in 2003 International Relations, and was named a Provost’s Scholar. In May, she was honoured as a University when he was appointed chair of Toronto Alumni Association Scholar. “I was happy to be nominated for the Governor General’s of the National Advisory Silver Medal,” Lau said.“I won the bronze when I graduated from high school, so that was fun.” Committee on SARS and Many other Trinity high-achievers were honoured during the ceremony, including former Public Health, which female Head of College Alexandra McCoomb, who received the St. Hilda’s Alumnae Association responded to the SARS crisis Exhibition Award, and Ben Barry, who was recently named a Commonwealth Scholar, which will in Toronto. As chair of the committee, Naylor oversaw allow him to pursue graduate studies in business at Cambridge University. the appointment of the first Chief Public Health Officer The Hon. Frank Iacobucci College and Oxford. Lord for Canada. He received his is to be honoured for his Patten was most notably the Trinity’s Bricks- medical degree from U of T extensive work at U of T and last British governor of and-Mortar Man in 1978 and completed a its Faculty of Law and for his Hong Kong and oversaw the Bill Chisholm, who was DPhil in 1983 at the service as chief justice of the handover of the colony to Trinity College’s building University of Oxford, where Supreme Court of Canada, China in 1997. services manager for almost he was a Rhodes Scholar. along with his numerous John Tuttle is organist and 20 years, retired at the end other contributions to choirmaster at St. Thomas’s of June. Three Cheers! Canadian civil society. Anglican Church in Toronto “A building this old,” he A former Supreme Court Lord Christopher Patten and leads both the Hart said, gesturing around him chief justice, a former gover- of Barnes, chancellor of the House Chorus and the days before departing his P nor of Hong Kong, and one University of Oxford, will be Exultate Chamber Singers, a office in the east wing of HOTOGRAPHY of Canada’s premier organists recognized for his extensive nationally prominent choral Trinity College, “has a lot of

will receive honorary doctor- work in international politics ensemble. He is Organist to unique things you have to : C ates from Trinity College at and for the close historical the University of Toronto take care of. The idea has AMELLA

its fall Convocation on and contemporary connec- and teaches at the Faculty always been stewardship of L INTA September 7. tions between Trinity of Music. the facilities to support

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education … but it’s difficult by the Academic Board of never bestride Bay Street it’s for the students to concentrate U of T’s Governing Council an opportunity to get board on their studies if the roof is in May. University Professor is experience,” he said. He’s not leaking.” the highest academic honour without previous expertise in Chisholm said he had the university can bestow, that area, though: Bothwell offered only two pieces of with only 34 faculty members has served on the Ontario advice to his successor, Joseph currently holding that title. Heritage Foundation, the Dunham: “First, you can Waddams was recognized for board of the Canadian blame it on me for the first his substantial achievements Museum of Civilization, and year,” Chisholm laughed, “and in, and contributions to, legal the building committee of the second, get to know the peo- theory and history. “Naturally Canadian War Museum. ple, and get to know what I’m very pleased,” said they really need. Get to know Waddams. “It’s significant Head ’em up the community.” recognition by the university The 2005-06 Trinity student Chisholm said he’s going to of something I value highly: heads were chosen in the Bill Balfour spend more time working in namely, scholarship.” spring elections. his Masonic fraternity, playing • Male Head of College: Taking Credit with the Toronto Banjo Band, Setting His Sights Ashutosh Jha 0T6 ill Balfour, 82, got a doing some of his beloved • Female Head of College: sustained ovation at hunting and fishing, and per- on Historic Sites Michelle Choi 0T6 B haps even finishing some odd Trinity fellow Robert • Male Head of Arts: Terrence Convocation Hall June 7 jobs around the house. Bothwell, director of the col- Laukkanen 0T7 when he picked up his 1948 lege’s International Relations • Female Head of Arts: bachelor of arts degree from Highest Rank program, has been appointed Caroline Henry 0T6 the University of Toronto in Trinity College fellow Stephen to the National Historic Sites • Male Head of Non-Resident the company of the members Waddams (6T3), who holds board of directors, the body Affairs: Christian Martin 0T7 of Trinity’s 2005 graduating the Goodman/Schipper Chair responsible for designating • Female Head of Non- class. Balfour completed two at the Faculty of Law, was heritage landmarks across the Resident Affairs: Angela appointed University Professor country. “For those of us who Mammone 0T6 years of a chemistry degree at Trinity College in the 1940s before enlisting in the navy /LQWD +(/3 during the Second World War. He earned another year of

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Extracurricular cheerfully) in the Arctic, most change are the highest sediment lab, which will studies micro-fossils to see the latitudes – I’m trying to help to generate “enough and Extraordinary effects of climate and environ- identify areas where global convincing data” of serious Nine Trinity students received mental change over time. warming is evident and when climate change. “Some people U of T Gordon Cressy “The work I do is trying to it started.” Among other in our society don’t see the Student Leadership Awards in document global change,” said things, the increased funding speed with which change is the spring. The Cressys are Douglas. “The parts of the will allow her to enlarge a happening,” she said. awarded for outstanding con- world that are showing the micropaleontology and wet- tributions to extracurricular Energetic activities at U of T. The win- ners are: Natasha Bollegala, Ambassadors Courtney Brady, Suzanne Two Trinity students, Matto Brooks, Jordan Feilders, Mildenberger and Brian Stephenie Harrison, Lindsay Kolenda (both 0T7) were Kochen, Kartick Kumar, named Energy Ambassadors Bryony Lau, and Joy by Natural Resources Canada Nishikawa. All graduated in in March, in recognition of June except Nishikawa, who is their research on how to make a 2000 grad. Trinity College more energy- efficient. Chairs Big After surveying students in the residences, Kolenda and Enough for Two Mildenberger installed devices Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker to monitor energy use in two of the Department of sections of the building. Fund- Immunology and Marianne ing for the pilot project came Douglas of the Department of from the Student Capital Geology were awarded presti- Jalynn Bennett Campaign Committee and gious Canada Research Chairs the college. “We gave people in the spring. Zúñiga-Pflücker Speak Up – We Can’t Hear daily feedback on the energy is a fellow, and Douglas an they’d used the day before,” associate of Trinity. alynn Bennett (6T5) spoke quietly but firmly (and humorously) said Mildenberger. “In some “It was pretty exciting to be Jat a luncheon sponsored by the St. Hilda’s Alumnae cases we were able to encour- awarded this recognition,” Association as part of Trinity’s Spring Reunion in June. Her talk age a reduction in energy use said Zúñiga-Pflücker, who is was about how women can make their voices heard in by about five per cent.” The researching stem cells and how Canadian business, politics and society. pair said they will be expanding they may be able to improve Bennett is well-versed on the subject. She was named one their experiments next year the health of people with and making information of the top 10 most influential women in Canadian business by damaged immune systems. about energy efficiency part of He said the seven-year federal the National Post in 2000 and serves on the boards of some this fall’s orientation week. funding package will provide of Canada’s largest and most successful corporations. Two other Trinity Students, the boost to move his team’s Bennett joined Manulife Financial right after graduating in Joanna Angus (0T5) and research from the lab to the economics in 1965. By the time her third child was born, Kathryn Kinley (0T7), were clinic within the next decade. also made Energy Ambassadors

Manulife had a maternity-leave program in place.“Subsequently, P “We hope to have clinical for energy projects they con- HOTOGRAPHY virtually every major Bay Street investment firm called me to ask studies going by then, and ducted outside the college. what they needed to do to accommodate the needs of the next hopefully, some results.” The ambassadorships, award- : C Douglas, who does her generation of women who wanted to work and to have families. ed to 20 undergraduate pro- AMELLA

research into paleo-limnology “Voices can be quiet,” she said.“But they need to be firm.” jects across Canada, come L INTA (“I work with mud,” she said with a $1,000 award. ■

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EARLE GREY AS GREMIO IN THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. OPPOSITE: A YOUNGWILLIAM HUTT AS RICHARD II

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Earle Grey staged Canada’s first Shakespearean festival under the stars of the Trinity quad. It was the harbinger of a ferment of national cultural activity, including that wildly successful upstart, the Stratford Festival

BY CYNTHIA MACDONALD

well, he didn’t have one. For Earle Grey and his merry band, the Unbidden guests open sky of the Trinity College quad was always roof enough. Are often welcomest when they are gone – King Henry VI, Part I THE STORY OF EARLE GREY’S SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL BEGAN ON AN On the night of July 13, 1953, Alec Guinness took to the revolu- evening some 65 years ago, when the Irish-born thespian took a fate- tionary new thrust stage at Stratford, Ontario and spoke the first ful stroll along Philosopher’s Walk in the company of his actress lines of Richard III. Guinness was not the only celebrity the new wife, Mary Godwin. The tree-lined path led onto a space we now festival would entertain that season: there was the famed director know as the quadrangle, though at that time, the northern wall Tyrone Guthrie, of course, and world-renowned stage did not yet exist. The thought occurred to both of them: wouldn’t P actress Irene Worth. The production, staged within a this be the perfect place to perform Shakespeare? HOTOGRAPHY giant tent, heralded the promise of a legendary new At the time, Shakespeare was rarely staged in

enterprise. It was a stunning success. Canada. It was taught in schools, yes, but few students :C OURTESY But Earle Grey was probably too busy to notice. had ever seen it come to life; for them, Prospero and J

The industrious actor-director didn’t have much Mercutio were nothing more than printed words. The ENNIER time to bother about what was happening in the little professional theatre scene in Toronto consisted largely of S town southwest of Toronto. After all, he had his own travelling shows from the U.S., or even from England – NELL /P

Shakespeare festival to worry about. No revolution- in fact, one such tour was responsible for the Greys’ pres- ETER S

ary staging for him: he made scenery and props in his base- ence in Canada. They had come to “seminate the seeds of MITH

ment. Costumes were made, rented, begged and borrowed, and British culture” with a British Council troupe in 1939 and were , S sound effects provided by his daughter Jennifer, who gamely shook subsequently detained by the outbreak of the Second World War. TRATFORD a metal sheet backstage. Some of his actors had professional expe- To support his young family, Grey scrabbled out a living as a radio F rience, but many of them might charitably be described as rude writer and actor, eventually becoming head of the first radio actors’ ESTIVAL mechanicals: Grey specialized in hiring unknown young turks with union, later to be known as ACTRA. But theatre was his first love. A names like William Hutt (Trinity, 1949), Don Harron, and Tim- “He was an actor, first and foremost,” says Martha Mann, former RCHIVES othy Findley. As for a giant tent – or any other kind of building – head of design for U of T’s Graduate Centre for the Study of

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Drama, who has made an extensive study of the history of amateur wasn’t exactly a formal costume department then, but there were theatre in Ontario, “but he was also an aesthete, steeped in the tra- lots of odds and ends. “Earle would say, ‘Just put it together and ditions of the British theatre, and one of the last actor-managers.” make something,’” recalls Peter Wylde, a Ryerson University act- An approach to Trinity Provost R.S.K. Seeley proved successful, ing instructor who performed with the troupe. “I became very and on June 4, 1946, the Greys unveiled their first Twelfth Night. inventive as a result.” As dusk fell, their little “theatre” soon filled up. Unaccustomed to The Grey connections helped somewhat. In Britain, both Earle seeing the Bard’s words in motion, the audience may not have and Mary had enjoyed true prestige. The Dublin-born Earle had understood every word. But they applauded loudly. And the next once starred in the world’s first televised play. He had also toured night, folks returned. with Laurence Olivier in the U.S., been directed by George In those early days, Grey “really had nothing” in the way of sets Bernard Shaw, and trod the boards with Ralph Richardson or scenery, recalls his and John Gielgud. “They daughter, Jennifer Snell, of knew everybody,” says Toronto. Later, he was to Vincent Tovell. Not that build sets that would prestige translated into strike modern eyes as money in the ’20s and rudimentary; later still he ’30s, either. Legendary was able to erect an names learned what it was impressive, multi-level like to tour and play stage in the small space in slum neighbourhoods, allotted him. “But for their lives a study in grind- him, the play was the ing poverty. most important part any- “I didn’t continue act- way,” she confirms. “That ing,” says Grey’s son, Tony simplicity was essential.” (5T9), once a promising Earle Grey and Mary Hamlet, “mainly because Godwin seemed to have of the financial insecurity. captured a moment. After It was quite an important the war, many people SHAKESPEARE matter for me… If you do returned to Canada having COMES ALIVE IN THE extraordinarily well you imbibed the cultural TRINITY QUAD. INSET: can make money, but oth- atmosphere overseas, and erwise you’re sort of strug- some of them were eager TONY GREY AND gling. And I didn’t want to replicate that environ- to do that.” (It is worth ment at home. “Britain HELEN THOMPSON IN A noting that after graduat- sponsored the arts quite MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM ing from Trinity, Tony actively during the war, subsequently earned a law and a lot of veterans saw their first theatre there, their first dance, degree at U of T and moved to Australia, where he went into the their first opera,” says former CBC broadcaster and TV producer mining business. After discovering the world’s largest high-grade Vincent Tovell, now a Senior Fellow at Massey College, who played uranium mine in 1975, which was never developed, he used the Duke Orsino in that first production. “That’s a very important part increase in share value to invest in resource companies, and today of the wartime experience. That’s the happy side.” In little more he is a wealthy man.) than a dozen years, the cultural ferment of the times would pro- In spite of their straitened circumstances, over time the senior duce some of our most cherished institutions: the Canadian Opera Greys were able to import a truly impressive collection of cos- IBRARY

L Company, the Canada Council, the National Theatre School, and tumes and memorabilia through connections in England, much many more. of which found its way into their productions: gilt shoe buckles,

EFERENCE But in 1946, funding for the arts was pretty much non-exis- a pair of gloves, an amulet and a cross – and most famously, R tent. The Greys poured every cent they could spare into their two cloaks worn by acting legend Ellen Terry. Some of these

ORONTO little festival. artifacts would be exhibited before the plays, and Elizabethan , T

OAM “They had no money,” Jennifer Snell remembers. “It was very musicians were also hired to complement the productions. One S much on a shoestring.” Like her brother and sister, she was pressed of these musicians was Geoffrey Chick, who recalls Mary Godwin’s

DMOND into action as a troupe member playing walk-on parts and pro- determination. E viding free labour. Props, made by Grey, his stage manager and “Once she cottoned on to you, she was like a dog with a bone,” whatever actors he could dragoon into helping him, were stored recalls the former troupe harpsichordist, who also acted in small parts HOTOGRAPHY

P in the basement, as were a set of cumbersome old footlights. There and now is a sometime organist at Trinity. Like most of the artists in

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Earle Grey’s company, he had to work a day job. “My boss suggested the “star-domed settings and sweet harmony of sound....” Strange, to me in no uncertain terms that I get this woman to stop phoning then, that history has sometimes been unkind. Some theatre his- during business hours. She was very persistent.” tories write dismissively of the troupe, describing the productions While her husband was fair and refined, Mary was dark and as being “of dubious quality,” or “often unexciting.” dynamic. A former concert pianist, she had even founded her own “This is entirely unfair,” says Peter Wylde with great force. “It theatre company in England. “She wasn’t much of an actress,” is true that much of this was pre-professional, and then Stratford recalls Martha Mann, yet still played all the leading ladies herself, came along and made a big splash. We didn’t. We were doing it though she was famously beyond the age of most of them. “Mary with local people – we were kids!” But the Greys’ greatest contri- Godwin,” recalls actor Don Harron, “was very sweet, very gracious, bution, he says, was “the intense and superb training of people who and far too old to be playing Kate in The Taming of the Shrew.” It went on to establish careers in the theatre.” got to be a little strange, affirms Peter Wylde, “when she was play- Indeed, education was a prime objective. Along with training ing Viola, and her son, Tony, was their actors, the Greys also took the playing Sebastian – her twin brother.” then unheard-of step of performing Indeed, by the time the Greys in schools, boarding buses and started their festival, they had already trucks to small towns in Ontario and led full lives. Earle was in his 50s, his the Maritimes in order to spread the wife somewhat younger. Earle recog- Bard’s gospel. Mary was known nized that by now he was more of a occasionally to reprimand unruly character actor than a leading man; children from the stage, the first more a Shylock, Lear or Malvolio of many Canadian Shakespearean than a Hamlet. He was worlds away actors to be so obliged. from the green, untrained actors who But children and adults alike flocked to him, eager for their first were mostly responsive. In 1946, the taste of staged Shakespeare. These Players staged a two-night stand; by included the future novelist Timothy the early ’50s, they were performing Findley (“a great actor,” says Peter four plays over a period of a month. Wylde. “I’m so sorry he gave it up”); In 1951, the U.K. High Commis- William Hutt, who played Theseus in sioner planted a mulberry tree in the A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Lorne Trinity quadrangle to commemorate Greene, an experienced radio bari- the festival’s success. It was no ordi- tone, fresh from his stint as “the Voice nary tree, but a cutting from one of Doom” in Canadian radio in the reputed to have been planted by Second World War; and Harron, a Shakespeare himself in Stratford- young rascal whose alter ego, Charlie upon-Avon. The ceremony was sim- Farquharson, once later soliloquized TONY GREY ple, but it meant much. Earle Grey’s in the Shakespearean style. AS HAMLET little project had truly arrived. “If we “I replaced an actor who got were in the Sahara, we’d do Shake- drunk or something the night before,” Harron recalls of his first speare,” he once told a reporter, and there must have been times appearance with the company. “I played a tailor in the The Tam- when he felt as if he was doing just that. ing of the Shrew, and I played him in the style of Danny Kaye.” It But the good times would not last. was true that the actors sometimes clashed stylistically. Loose, In 1953, a young man who had graduated from Trinity four informal Canadian kids were set next to physically extroverted years earlier realized his dream of holding a Shakespearean festival British actors, who performed in what Peter Wylde describes as in his hometown of Stratford, Ont., 150 kilometres from Toronto. “the grand style.” Still, nothing was more thrilling than to see a Tom Patterson (see page 16) claimed to have nurtured this partic- Grey import such as Major James Annand strutting his stuff and ular dream since he was a teen. Was he influenced by Grey’s suc- rrrrolling his r’s. “Watching these guys work was a whole revela- cess? No one can be sure, as he never credited Grey and claimed tion to me,” Wylde recalls. “It was complete heaven to be in their to have seen only one or two plays in his life – as a serviceman

OUSE company.” overseas – before initiating the Stratford Festival. But Jennifer Snell H

ART Poverty, untrained actors, planes flying overhead, inclement thinks he may have been influenced by reports of her parents’ suc- H

OF weather – not to mention football games in Varsity Stadium, cess. “It was in the air,” she says. “He would have known that it which sometimes took place just behind the plays – with every- could be done.”

OURTESY thing the Greys had going against them, one wonders: were the Patterson went into overdrive. A natural businessman, he was able : C plays any good? to lure the legendary theatre impresario Tyrone Guthrie from Eng- Many reviews were enthusiastic. “There is only one thing to say land, along with the great designer Tanya Moiseiwitsch. Luminaries HOTOGRAPHY

P of it,” one critic reported. “It excels.” Others rhapsodized about such as Alec Guinness and Irene Worth were tapped for the debut.

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Audiences started to turn their attention westward. The Greys’ Then disaster struck. Provost Seeley – their champion, always an Trinity location had always been a difficult one since it was impos- ardent supporter of the arts – was killed in a car accident. Soon after, sible to see from the street. Now it became a true liability. At one Earle Grey received a letter from the new provost, indicating that point, a patron got into a taxicab in downtown Toronto and asked Trinity no longer wished to support his festival. The college, appar- to be taken to the Shakespeare Festival. The driver obliged him by ently, was losing opportunities for residence revenue because of it. driving, and driving: all the way to Stratford. “People never knew The Earle Grey Shakespeare Festival was now homeless. Its where we were,” Grey said ruefully. principals embarked on a frantic, year-long search for new lodg- Actors were looking in the same direction. Stratford’s early sea- ings. Edwards Gardens, Casa Loma and the Toronto Island were sons boasted a roll call of Grey proteges – Hutt, Wylde, Findley, Har- sought as possibilities, but nothing quite worked out. Eventually, ron, Greene – all of them moving up and on. They were in the big Earle and Mary decided to move back to England. time now. “I am not bitter,” Grey sighed to an interviewer several days Still, the Greys sol- before leaving Canada. diered on. “I must get “We were well treated. down to see the new the- We, on our part, were atre at Stratford,” Grey careful to behave as said in an interview, but guests when at Trinity, he most likely never got but we lost a tremendous there. After all, his season advocate in the late coincided with theirs. Provost R.S.K. Seeley, And, in spite of whatever who believed the prestige jealousy he might natu- and notice we brought rally have felt at Stratford’s to the College compen- success, it seems true that sated for any loss in rev- he was trying to do some- enue.” By this time thing different than they Grey was almost 70. were. His simplicity was Back home, he still had not born merely of many years to live. But in poverty. Stratford has MODEL OF festival terms, the rest since been derided by ELIZABETHAN STAGE, was silence. some for its emphasis on These days, of course, Hollywood-style produc- ADMIRED BY MARY GODWIN, Canada is home to more tion values – and, had he open-air Shakespeare fes- not been a man of such EARLE GREY AND tivals than it can count, taste and restraint, Earle PATTY GILLARD-THOMAS. from the Free Will Players Grey would surely have to Bard on the Beach, echoed these sentiments. INSET: GREY AS JAQUES, AS YOU LIKE IT from Shakespeare by the Speaking of his own work, he said that “the audience will only be Sea to Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan. But Earle Grey was there confused by elaborate productions. Plays should be dressed in the first. “I don’t think he ever got the credit he deserved,” says Peter P period Shakespeare had in mind. To dress them in any other man- Wylde. “He put his life’s blood into it, working at it day and night. HOTOGRAPHY ner is a freakish idea.” More matter, less art: that was Earle Grey, There was passion!”

and not just for monetary reasons. Glory is like a circle in the water, : M The public, however, did not necessarily agree. “Although often Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, ETROPOLITAN the productions they did were good, they were increasingly old- Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.

fashioned,” says Martha Mann. “And with the glamour and the – Henry VI, Part I P HOTOS excitement and the pizzazz of the Stratford Festival they just kind Trinity soon began construction of the north wall of its quad- /E

of fell by the wayside.” In some ways, though, things seemed to be rangle, in place of what had been Earle Grey’s first stage. Now, only ASON

looking up for the Greys as the decade wore on. In 1958, they were a small plaque on the north terrace attests to the festival that once H UMPHREYS able to access funding for the first time. An infusion of cash from saw glory here. Shakespeare’s mulberry tree is long gone too, a vic-

the Atkinson Foundation allowed them to move their stage from tim of the harsh Toronto winter. Another slip of this tree is being , T the north to the west side of the quadrangle, where a grand new cultivated in the University of Toronto greenhouses. ORONTO three-level, 10-entrance stage was constructed. (“We couldn’t store When officials at the Stratford Festival heard about the tree sev- R that in our basement, Jennifer Snell chuckles.) That same year, they eral years ago, they jumped at the chance to revivify a mulberry once EFERENCE received money from the province, and the city soon followed, planted by the Bard himself. A cutting was immediately taken west L with the Canada Council matching the grants. It looked as if from U of T and planted in the city gardens there. How is it doing? IBRARY things might not be so bad after all. Still alive, says the man from the parks department. ■

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“The thing about Dad was this: it could be the most bizarre idea, and he’d get it to NOBODY’S work,” says Tim. “He had the sense of being able to make his FOOL vision your vision, so that you suddenly would want to Tom Patterson made his madcap dream become involved in it.” – the Stratford Festival – come true Barry MacGregor, who first performed at Stratford in 1964 BY JULIE TRAVES and this season appears in The Tempest, As You Like It and The Lark, says that he always admired the way Patterson made bold decisions – to go was going to It more than redeemed the or two, but when he attended down and see Laurence Olivier be either a city. By the time of his death Trinity College after the war in New York, for example. At hockey school in February at 84, the festival he was not part of student that time, says the 68-year-old IT or a Shake- had become North America’s theatre. He studied history, not actor, it was tantamount to spearean festival. Tom Patter- largest classical repertory the- drama. And after he graduated trying to cast the Queen for a son and his friends were sit- atre, with four stages, 1,000 in 1949, he took a job as a movie about royalty. ting on the banks of the Avon employees and a $52-million writer at a trade magazine Not everyone was in thrall River in Stratford, Ont., operating budget. It generates called Civic Administration. of his plan. Tim says when his tossing around ideas to rescue more than $145-million in Yet, as Patterson’s son Tim nanny went to her Baptist their town. The small Ontario annual revenue. says, telling anyone in his fam- church one day, the preacher burg had recently got a bad Despite such success, Strat- ily that something can’t be stood up and said pointedly rap as home to one of the ford was hardly an obvious done is “like a dare – it’s like a that anyone who worked at most violent labour strikes of location for a theatrical enter- challenge.” So the wiry Strat- the festival, or looked after the the Depression – so strongly prise. As John Allemang (7T4) ford native approached Strat- children of those who did, Communist that city council wrote in his obituary of Patter- ford’s mayor at a conference he would be damned. opened meetings with a rendi- son in The Globe and Mail, was covering for his employer, Others were less concerned tion of The Internationale. “It was no outpost of high Maclean Hunter Ltd., and with bringing the sin of the Businesses were suffering, culture – a steam-locomotive boldly asked his permission to stage to the community than and locals were divided. repair plant dominated the start up a Shakespearean festi- with the sheer silliness of the Stratford was known as a local economy, and the idea of val. The reply was a casual: concept. Florence Patterson, breeding ground for NHL a Shakespearean festival in the “If it’s good for Stratford, then Tom’s sister-in-law, says, stars. And, of course, it had a heart of Ontario farm country I'm all for it. Go ahead. See “I thought it was the most patron saint of sorts in the should have been dismissed as what you can do.” ridiculous thing I ever heard.” Bard. “And so, as a concerned utter craziness.” What Patterson could do She became the first employee teenager,” recalled Patterson in Tom Orr, chair of the Strat- turned out to be rather a lot. of the festival, however. In a a 1988 essay for enRoute ford Festival’s board of direc- Though a trip to New York to three-room office with sloping magazine, “I looked around, tors, admits that was exactly meet Laurence Olivier didn’t floors, one manual typewriter noting that town wards and the reaction Patterson got from pan out, the budding theatre and a boardroom table loaned schools had names like many in the town. “He cer- impresario managed to con- by a local office-supply com- Hamlet, Falstaff and Romeo, tainly got shot down by lots of vince one of the world’s leading pany, she and Tom set to and I dreamt up the patently people,” he says. “They didn’t Shakespearean directors, Tyrone work. The biggest challenge? absurd idea that some kind of know who Shakespeare was, Guthrie, to lead the festival in “Money, money,” she says. drama festival might save my let alone ever attend a play.” its first year. Lore has it that “It was touch and go.” community from becoming Patterson’s own knowledge Guthrie didn’t hear the sum he Then came opening night: a ghost town.” of theatre was limited. While was offered (just $500) because July 13, 1953. The Stratford Patterson made his wild overseas as a soldier, he of a bad phone connection, Festival premiered with a pro- notion a reality by founding enjoyed his visits to London but came anyway, impressed duction of Richard III starring the Stratford Festival in 1953. music halls and had seen a play with Patterson’s passion. Alec Guinness. The packed

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line was, ‘I can honestly say my wife got into Mick’s pants.’” Even when Patterson was sick with thyroid cancer from 1995 onwards, he retained his renowned wit. Actor Christo- pher Plummer recalls that when Patterson was too ill to attend his performance of King Lear, he sent him a tele- gram: “To King Lear: Sorry I can’t make it. Hope you can manage without me. The Fool.” Patterson’s health didn’t stand in the way of his attending the festival’s 50th anniversary. Though in intensive care much of the previous year, the founder made it to the gala performance of Richard III and was wheeled TOM PATTERSON on stage. “It was an immediate IN 1953 WEARING TENTMASTER Still, Patterson remained standing ovation. People were humble. As Tim says, “Some crying,” says Tim. SKIP MANLEY’S HAT, AS THE people do projects for financial Patterson made his last trip STRATFORD TENT IS RAISED value or for credit, or whatever. to Stratford with fellow vets at For him, the most important Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospi- house surrounded a thrust productions with William Hutt thing was the goal. I don’t think tal in 2004 to see King Henry stage like those used in the (4T9), Don Harron and Tim- he ever looked for acclaim, VIII. He died this year on Renaissance. Four regimental othy Findley. “From then on, certainly not financial.” Feb. 23 leaving behind four cannons were fired before the people lined up on the street MacGregor agrees: “I think children: Tim, Bob, Lucy lights went down. to get to the box office,” recalls he was a very modest person. and Lyle. He was predeceased For his part, Patterson Florence. “Everyone wanted to He never let what happened by his daughter Penny and claimed all he felt was sleepy. be a part of it.” and what he started go to his his first wife, Robin. In an interview with Richard Patterson continued his head. He was always Tom.” He also left behind a the- Ouzounian for the book Strat- involvement in the festival One of the first places Patter- atrical legacy. At a salute to ford Gold, he said, “I’d been until the late 1960s. He was son went whenever he visited Patterson following his death, running all over town, looking also a key player in founding the theatre was not backstage Plummer said: “Tom invented after all these guys who were the National Theatre School with the stars, but to the crew the festival, but he invented all coming in, making sure they of Canada, set up a touring room, where he’d listen to the of us – actors and audiences – were comfortable and so on, company with actor Douglas guys’ stories over beer. as well.” and then, you know, all the Campbell called the Canadian Patterson loved to tell a Most of all, perhaps, he left business that goes on. So, on Players, and was co-president good yarn, too. Like the one behind an enduring example opening night, I finally sat of a music company with about getting bored at Buck- of how even the most madcap down in the front row and I Duke Ellington. For all this he ingham Palace and ending up dreams can come true. “With fell asleep with relief.” was named a member of the in the garden chatting with all his kids, I don’t think he P Luckily, none of the critics Order of Canada in 1967, the Queen Mum for an hour. really cared what they did in OTOGRAPHY nodded off. Nor did they received an honorary degree Then there was the time his their life, but if they had a

notice that Richard III’s orb of from the University of Toronto second wife, Pat Scott – an dream ... do it. Don’t talk : S TRATFORD office was a painted toilet- in 1981 and had his own the- expert costumer – was called about it, do it. That’s a pretty bowl float. They wired rave atre named for him in Strat- upon to make last-minute tall order. But for him, that F reviews to Vienna, London ford in 1991. There’s even an alterations for Mick Jagger was it,” says Tim. “My father ESTIVAL

and New York, and soon there island in the middle of the before a big show in Toronto. taught me more than anything A RCHIVES was an audience of 68,000 for Avon River that bears his name. Tim says, “Afterwards Dad’s about the power of an idea.” ■

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Student Union Trinity tradition just got an update. Beginning this fall, college residences will go co-ed on a floor-by-floor, or house-by-house, basis

BY JULIE TRAVES

he word tradition echoes through Trinity’s residences. At St. Hilda’s, residents can lounge on antiques while studying in the Stedman Library. Across the street at Trinity, High Table continues to be served each Wednesday in Strachan Hall. But one tradition is about to change: this year, Trinity’s residences are going co- ed. The integration is partly a response to a growing number of women students (about 60 per cent of enrolment) in need of living space; St. Hilda’s, formerly for women only, simply can no longer house all of the female students who wish to live in residence. And while integration will happen on a floor-by-floor or house-by- house basis, so that men and women will still live in separate areas, the move is also aimed to provide both men and women with a broader, more egalitarian choice about where they live at the college. Women first came to Trinity in 1888 as students of St. Hilda’s. As an annual t18 TRINITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE 13049 Trinity 8/15/05 3:01 PM Page 19

SPACE PIONEERS: As incoming Heads of College, Michelle Choi and Ashutosh Jha will preside over the new co-ed experi- P

ence. She will HOTOGRAPHY reside at Trinity, and he at St. Hilda’s : C HRISTOPHER D EW

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report from the period put it, the goal of book of reminiscences published on the At a practical level, the residences weren’t the women’s college was to give women 100th anniversary of St. Hilda’s, Naomi completely segregated, at least not after both a university education and religious Kuhn (4T9) wrote: “Of course, it goes the ’60s. “There were a lot of men who instruction. The school also wanted to without saying that strict segregation of stayed overnight,” says Mary Shenstone share “the social advantages of Collegiate the sexes was the rule at Trinity and St. (8T1). “You would be quite conscious of Life in a residence under wise and experi- Hilda’s residences. The only occasions a this when there were fire alarms.” enced control.” man could appear on the second or third In the early 1990s rules were relaxed to Not surprisingly, the “Saints,” as St. floor of St. Hilda’s were the sherry parties make dining rooms at the residences co-ed. Hildians were called, were carefully super- permitted before the traditional college Then, in 1997, select women were offered vised. Over the course of their school year dances.” housing at Trinity due to a shortage of – divided into Michaelmas, Lent and But even in the early years, there were accommodation for them at St. Hilda’s. A Easter terms and presided over by a “Lady always small “rebellions” at the residences. few men were bunked at St. Hilda’s as well, Principal” – a typical day would start with The late Margaret McDougall, a 1919 grad, as part of a pilot project in 2001. chapel at 7:50 a.m., followed by lectures, a recalled that around Halloween, male stu- Graham Andrews, a history student second chapel service and evening study. dents came to serenade the women. In going into his fourth year at Trinity, says of Lights out at 11 p.m was a strict rule. Sanctam Hildam Canimus she wrote: “We his residence experience to date, “You Leisure time was constrained, too. would have no warning but suddenly this never get the feeling that you never see There were two hours of quiet time each awful clamour of pots and pans. We would women. They’re always around.” evening. As well, the rules demanded that immediately put out the lights and peer Despite an informal integration, making ladies refrain from “whistling, calling or into the darkness. This was followed by a an official shift to co-ed residences was any unnecessary noise.” Male callers were rendition of ‘Good-Night, Ladies.’” important to many students and alumni. permitted only on Thursdays, when they Students from the 1950s onwards also Claire Immega, last year’s Head of College were received in the common room while quietly challenged convention by going to (St. Hilda’s), who will return for her fourth girls knitted or played music. breakfast in the dining hall in academic year of residence this year, struggled with the In the 1940s, fairly rigid checks on robe – over a pair of comfy pyjamas. And concept because the traditions of St. Hilda’s mingling between the sexes were still in males and females were often smuggled had many cohesive benefits for the students. place. In Sanctam Hildam Canimus, a into rooms at both residences. However, overall she says, “I feel that single-

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sex residences within a community new committees, the Trinity and can have the effect of polarizing St. Hilda’s House Committees, men and women, creating a false which will take on the house and sense of divide between them.” food responsibilities for each Shenstone, a member of the building. Board of Trustees, shares that On the whole, Alexandra opinion. “The world we move in McCoomb, Head of College (St. is co-ed in every other respect. I Hilda’s) in 2003-04, feels that think it’s more normal [for the debate that preceded the female students] to go through decision to integrate was a posi- their formative years knowing tive experience for the students what it’s like to be with men,” she involved. “I think the students says. “It’s healthier.” learned a tremendous amount Incoming Head of College about how to express themselves, Ashutosh Jha, who has lived in a how to put their opinions for- co-ed residence at the University ward in a very productive way,” of Guelph and in the formerly she says. “I’m very proud of all male-dominated dorms at Trinity, also supports a gender mix. “It makes the HOME SWEET residence experience really rich,” he says, RESIDENCE: adding: “I want my college to be a tradi- In the 1904 Trinity tional college, but also a progressive room, shown at college.” top, everything was Not everyone was in favour of the inte- in its place, so it gration, though. Surprisingly, the loudest seems. Men never opposition came from students who were adamant that the student voice be heard. entered the rooms Some students had personal concerns; at St. Hilda’s, below, others feared a loss of the school’s special until much later, and spirit. “I was certainly pretty vocal against only if invited to

it,” says Jesse Parker, last year’s male Head sherry parties P HOTOGRAPHY of College. “I hope that the tradition and before traditional community at Trinity don’t suffer because college dances

of it.” : T RINITY Dean of Students Kelley Castle under- A stands students’ passion for the rituals of residency and helped to develop a plan to the students (both those for and against it) RCHIVES the school. “Trinity is an institution with a create single-sex floors or houses in both and how they pulled together to have a /1904 long and inspiring history, and as such its residences. Washroom facilities will be voice.” traditions are well-loved by the students designated female- or male-only. The male As for the new dorm pioneers? Incoming PHOTOS

and other members of the college,” she Head of College and the female Head of Head of College Michelle Choi will have BY says, “but I believe that the sense of com- Arts will live at St. Hilda’s, and the female a room in Trinity for her last year of DUNCAN munity and traditions such as the Lit Head of College and the male Head of university after three years at St. Hilda’s. STRACHAN debates, High-Table dinners and lively stu- Arts will live at Trinity. “Overall, I think it’s a good move,” she

dent involvement in the college will be The students also worked hard last year says. “I think it gives people more options ROBINSON strengthened by the change in the resi- to effect an integration of their men’s and about where they want to live.”

dence structure, as both the residences and women’s student governments. The Joint And, as alumna Mary Shenstone points ; ST . the student body will have a stronger sense College Meeting has now become the out, the key thing, regardless of gender, is HILDA ’ S

of cohesion.” Trinity College Meeting, and the Joint that students in residence have the oppor- PHOTO To co-ordinate a new mix of men and Board of Stewards is now the Trinity tunity to experience “a general delight in women in residence, Castle put together a College Board of Stewards. In both cases, meeting other people and an understanding FROM committee last year that included student officers and functions remain largely the of what makes other people tick and how BEATRICE representatives (resident and non-resident) same, and both bodies remain charged to get along with other people in a fairly TURNER from each year of study, alumni, faculty, with student life. In place of the Trinity intimate setting.”

dons, administration and staff. They dis- College Meeting and the St. Hilda’s That’s a goal that St. Hilda herself (1T9) cussed and addressed concerns around co-ed College Meeting, there will now be two might endorse. ■

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Making a planned gift now can have a significant and lasting effect on the life and well-being of Trinity in the future

BY SUSAN LAWRENCE PRESENT Planned giving. The phrase evokes a crazed Donating property such as real estate or art, for example, professional shopper about to snare a year’s worth of allows donors to continue to use their assets during their presents at a Boxing Day sale. It is nothing so superficial as lifetime and receive an immediate tax receipt. Maurice Cooke, that. In fact, it represents the most significant and lasting act for instance, continues to enjoy the cool breezes at his cottage of giving that an individual can make. on Ontario’s Lake of Bays, knowing that the proceeds from More than 140 alumni and friends have made a planned gift the eventual sale of his summer property will make a differ- to Trinity by remembering the college in their will.These gifts, ence for future Trinity students. large and small, are a huge support, as they most often go to Giving at its best is creative, and planned giving is no the general endowment, which is the foundation that keeps different. Ruth Bell decided to support a key Trinity program, Trinity strong. the Academic Dons, through a planned gift. She created the Making a straightforward bequest of a designated sum, as Rolph-Bell Donship in the ’90s and will see it solidly endowed the Stedman sisters (profiled in the following pages) did, is through a stipulation in her will. (For further ideas, see the most obvious option. However,“there is a variety of 10 Ways to Leave a Legacy to Trinity College on page 24.) other ways to make a planned gift, some of which come with “Whatever the medium, the intention is always the same: significant tax advantages,” says Analee Stein, who recently to keep the college strong,” says Stein.The alumni featured joined Trinity as the college’s planned giving officer. here are doing just that.

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PERFECT Ruth Bell economy. In addition, she has established a bursary (the Frederick “Let me gather my wits,” says Ruth Bell from Rolph and William Rolph Award) for financially needy students

Ottawa when the phone catches her unpre- of Canadian affairs. I LLUSTRATION pared, adding quickly, “all two of them.” She’s Bell, whose father died when she was 10, leaving her mother in now in her 80s, but her sharp sense of humour straitened circumstances, has known financial need firsthand. : S

hasn’t dimmed, nor has her lifelong drive to Although she almost always stood first in her class and dreamed of ARA T

make the world a better place, especially for studying languages, her mother couldn’t afford to send her to uni- YSON

women. versity, so Bell began working at 18. After she married Rolph, a /P Now that she’s financially comfortable, Bell has pledged a gen- history professor, in 1945, they moved around – New York City, HOTOGRAPHY erous planned gift to Trinity that will bolster the Rolph-Bell New Orleans, then Australia. He taught while she worked and

Donship, created in 1997 when she made a gift of $50,000. The took university courses. When he died unexpectedly in 1953 from : C ITY

donship is named in honour of her first husband, Bill Rolph – infected blood after routine surgery, his colleagues helped her OF N

who was a Trinity grad (4T0) – and his uncle, Frederick Rolph secure a donship at St. Hilda’s. She finally finished her BA in 1955, EPEAN (0T1), who graduated in 1905 from Trinity’s medical school. It after 10 years of classes at five universities in three countries. She A also recognizes Bell’s own contributions at Trinity, where she was calls that degree one of the major achievements of her life, saying RCHIVES a don at St. Hilda’s in 1954-55 while finishing her BA in political proudly, “I worked damn hard for it.”

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Her second marriage, in 1963, to the Hon. Richard A. (Dick) Bell, a Conservative MP and cabinet minister, took her to Ottawa, where she earned a master’s degree in political science at  WAYS: 72 Carleton University. Among her many accomplishments during a long, varied career replete with community service, she has /($9( $ taught political science to engineers at the University of Waterloo, organized the Conservative party archives, been president of the Canadian Federation of University Women, and held executive /(*$&< 72 positions with a dizzying number of organizations including TVOntario, the YMCA, and the National Action Committee on 75,1,7< the Status of Women, where she was vice-president. Bell’s humour shines through in her 2004 biography, Be a “Nice” Girl, which outlines her role in the struggle for women’s &2//(*( rights. In it, she entertainingly recounts her 1974 skirmish with the Royal Bank of Canada. Bell, a bank shareholder, had received a letter asking for her proxy, which she refused to grant because the bank had no women directors. “Surely a goodly proportion  3UHSDUH D ZLOO WR HQVXUH \RXU HVWDWH SODQV DUH of our customers are women?” she wrote the vice-president crisply. IXOILOOHG LQFOXGLQJ \RXU OHJDF\ WR 7ULQLW\ The bank president phoned, saying, “Why don’t you be a nice girl and let me exercise your ballot?” Adamant, Bell forwarded  'HFLGH LI \RX ZDQW \RXU JLIW WR VXSSRUW WKH him the names of well-qualified female candidates and organized FROOHJH DV D ZKROH RU D VSHFLILF SXUSRVH VXFK DV a campaign to withhold proxies. Roasted in editorials across the D VFKRODUVKLS RU EXUVDU\ country, the Royal Bank eventually succumbed and appointed a woman to the board. “I still spoil my ballot when there aren’t any  $UUDQJH IRU \RXU JLIW WR EH D VSHFLILF GROODU women to choose from,” she writes in “Nice”Girl, not because she DPRXQW RU D SHUFHQWDJH RI WKH DVVHWV LQ \RXU ZLOO always votes for women, but because “I want a choice.” One of the women benefiting from Bell’s gift is Gina &RQVLGHU GRQDWLQJ DVVHWV RWKHU WKDQ FDVK VXFK Stephens, a graduate student in international relations, who was  DV VWRFNV ERQGV PXWXDO IXQGV WHUP GHSRVLWV the Rolph-Bell Don at St. Hilda’s for 2004-05. Since 1970, UHDO HVWDWH DUW RU MHZHOOHU\ Trinity’s Academic Dons have been selected not just for their people skills and ability to help students in crisis, but also to 'HVLJQDWH 7ULQLW\ &ROOHJH DV D EHQHILFLDU\ RI mentor students in their subject areas, by, for example, going  \RXU 5563/ 55,) over students’ essays with them one-on-one when asked.  1DPH 7ULQLW\ &ROOHJH DV WKH EHQHILFLDU\ RI D The Academic Donships are “really valuable pedagogically,” QHZ DQ H[LVWLQJ RU D SDLGXS OLIH LQVXUDQFH says Stephens. “They are one of the best programs we have.” SROLF\ Maurice Cooke  (VWDEOLVK D FKDULWDEOH UHPDLQGHU WUXVW ZLWK Another member of the Gerald Larkin Society, 7ULQLW\&ROOHJHDVEHQHILFLDU\ the association of alumni and friends who have made planned gifts to Trinity (see box page 3XUFKDVH D FKDULWDEOH JLIW DQQXLW\ WKURXJK 25), is Maurice Cooke (5T1), who has pledged  7ULQLW\ &ROOHJH to the college the proceeds from the future sale of his Lake of Bays cottage, where he summers 5HPHPEHU \RXU ORYHG RQHV DQG IULHQGV ZLWK from May to October. In the meantime, he  PHPRULDO JLIWV WR 7ULQLW\ &ROOHJH enjoys the property, particularly the breeze he gets off the lake while Toronto swelters during summer. &RQWDFW $QDOHH 6WHLQ 3ODQQHG *LYLQJ 2IILFHU Cooke remembers the post-war Trinity as a small, caring com-  IRU PRUH LQIRUPDWLRQ DW  RU munity of about 800, and in particular Mossie May Kirkwood, DQDOHHVWHLQ#XWRURQWRFD then dean of women, as an “absolutely brilliant woman ahead of her time.” It was Kirkwood who pointed Cooke in the direction 75,1,7< &2//(*( of teaching, and the provost of the time, R.S.K. Seeley, who sug- 8QLYHUVLW\ RI 7RURQWR gested that Cooke apply to teach at private schools, since he  +RVNLQ$YH 7RURQWR 21 06 + couldn’t afford another year of university at teachers’ college and ZZZWULQLW\XWRURQWRFD private schools didn’t require teaching certification. Cooke taught English and Latin at Appleby College in

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Oakville, Ont., then at Ridley College in St. Catharines, Ont., hand that landed her a job at McClelland & Stewart publishers where he served as deputy headmaster. He never married – “I was before she returned to Brantford in 1950 after her mother’s death married to my job,” he says – so a gift to Trinity is a natural way to become managing director of Stedman’s bookstore. to give to the younger generation. When Margaret died in Brantford in April at the age of 90, she “I have a strong attachment to the old buildings,” he says, so he left a $100,000 bequest that capped a lifetime of generosity to has stipulated that a portion of his donation will go toward main- Trinity. All of the Stedman sisters long ago designated Trinity as a tenance of them. The remainder will go to bursaries for students beneficiary in their wills, and all have been long-time donors. in financial need, a situation that he remembers clearly from his They have supported the library building fund, student assistance own student years. and a broad range of projects at both Trinity and St. Hilda’s, often making large, undesignated gifts that allow the college to put the The Stedman Sisters funds to the best use. Margaret Ruth Mary The Stedman The Samuel W. Stedman Foundation has also given steadily sisters, Margaret, over the years to support renovation of the Stedman Library at St. Ruth and Mary, Hilda’s and other projects across the college, such as the construc- were all Trinity tion of a computer room, a wheelchair ramp, a security system, students during and upgrading of the phone system. The George Ignatieff Theatre the 1930s and and the Buttery have also benefited from the foundation’s support. 1940s, a time None of the three sisters ever married. “We were too indepen- when it was less common for women to attend university. Mary dent,” says Mary. “Besides, we had our education and we didn’t remembers St. Hilda’s, then Trinity’s women’s residence, as “a have to.” Their single-mindedness has translated into a will to tremendous experience.” make the world a better place, to pass on something to the next The times were very different: as she put it, premarital sex was generation. They are carrying on the family tradition of commu- a “no-no” (“the Pill hadn’t been developed and people didn’t want nity support, and Trinity is fortunate that they, and many others to get caught”). Girls were allowed to have boys in their rooms who make planned gifts large and small, are part of the college. ■ only for sherry parties that were held on the second floor before the Saints ball, as long as the doors were open at a 45-degree angle and a staff member paraded up and down the hall every 20 min- Trinity’s quiet philanthropist utes. For its time, that liberty was “quite radical,” says Mary. erald Larkin, the The sisters were the daughters of Samuel Stedman, co-founder Gowner of the Salada Tea of a chain of small-town department stores, headquartered in Company, was a quiet, unas- Brantford, Ont. until head office moved to Toronto in 1924. Sam suming benefactor, never began his working career delivering newspapers, then apprenticing allowing – let alone seeking – as a tailor before he and his brothers decided to open a book and recognition for his giving. stationery store. The brothers were so young that the landlord Although he never attended asked them for three years’ rent in advance, but that didn’t dis- Trinity (or any other univer- courage them. sity), he fell in love with it. Ultimately, by 1962, Stedman Bros. Ltd. had 350 owned and When he died in 1961, he franchised stores from coast to coast, the most outlets of any oper- left Trinity a bequest of ation of its kind in Canada. As the company grew from its mod- approximately $6 million. This was an astonishingly est beginnings, Sam became one of Brantford’s most respected cit- large gift for the time, quadrupling the college’s general izens and a dedicated community supporter. He also paid for his endowment and stabilizing its financial situation. daughters to have the university education that he, with only ele- Independent of his bequest, his gifts to the college

easily totalled $2 million. His donations largely financed P

mentary schooling, had never had. HOTOGRAPHY the construction of St. Hilda’s College, Strachan Hall, Mary, who is still living in her Brantford home, says she and her Whitaker House, and Trinity Chapel, to name just a few. sisters all lived at St. Hilda’s because her mother “felt it was impor- Despite his historic generosity, Larkin’s largesse was : T tant for every girl to experience living with other girls.” RINITY unknown to many. For this reason, the college created

Margaret graduated in 1936 with a BA, then, after a two-year A

the Gerald Larkin Society in his honour to publicly RCHIVES course at U of T’s School of Social Work, was employed briefly at acknowledge donors who make planned gifts to Trinity.

the Children’s Aid Society in Toronto before joining the Family /L The inaugural luncheon of the Gerald Larkin Society, ARKIN Service Bureau in Hamilton during the Second World War, where

for alumni and friends who have included Trinity P she helped wives and widows of soldiers. The middle sister, Ruth, College in their estate plans, will take place Tuesday, ORTRAIT graduated from Trinity in 1941. After earning her bachelor of Oct. 11 at noon in the Combination Room. Provost , C library science at U of T, she became a librarian with the Toronto Margaret MacMillan will host the event for members LEVE H

Public Library system. Mary studied languages, graduating in of the society and their guests. ORNE 1944, and followed that with a crash course in typing and short-

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BY SUSAN PERREN

he “Faith in Divinity” Trinity College Chapel. “The campaign is galloping Chapel has had a place in the Talong the home- hearts of many members of stretch and is now in sight of the Trinity community,” said its $3-million goal to endow Chaplain John Beach. “There the position of the dean of have been more than 1,000 the Faculty of Divinity. The weddings and hundreds of response to this campaign baptisms and funerals in this from alumni, faculty, clergy, sacred space.” At the celebra- parishes and friends has been tion service, the Lady Chapel extraordinarily generous – will be dedicated to Our Lady and the generosity continues. and St. Hilda. ■ Setting the pace was a gift of $1 million from Dr. James Fleck in honour of his wife, Margaret (MDiv 1982, DD Hon 2000), co-chair of the campaign, which will endow the Margaret E. Fleck Chair in Anglican Studies, to be held by the Faculty of Divinity’s dean, the Rev. The Rev. Margaret and Dr. James Fleck Canon Dr. David Neelands, and his successors. In making Management at the These contributions, the gift Jim Fleck said, University of Toronto. added to others ranging from “Margaret’s commitment to Most recently, an excep- $10 to $100,000, bring the the Faculty of Divinity at tionally generous contribu- total donated to date to Trinity, and its influence on tion to “Faith in Divinity” approximately $2.75 million. her life journey and all that came from the Rt. Rev. If all goes as planned – and if she has accomplished, make George B. Snell (BA ’29, prospective donors contribute this gift in her honour seem MA ’30), the eighth Bishop as generously as those who 50TH ANNIVERSARY most fitting.” of Toronto. Bishop Snell have already given – “Faith OF TRINITY A gift of $250,000, which transferred 10,000 Royal in Divinity” will arrive at the COLLEGE CHAPEL INTA

L also reflects the admiration of Bank of Canada shares to the finish line this November, A Festal Evensong will be the donor for Margaret Fleck, college, which yielded a gift having achieved, if not sur- celebrated on Nov. 20 at AMELLA

/C has been received from Dr. of $761,500 to the campaign. passed, its $3-million goal. 5 p.m. in the chapel, with ING K William Waters, a business “You have no idea how There will be rejoicing, the Trinity College Chapel

USAN and academic colleague of pleased I am,” said Bishop indeed, and the celebrations Choir under the direc- : S Prof. Fleck’s and professor Snell. “I haven’t been able to will coincide with those tion of Dr.Willis Noble. emeritus of the Joseph L. do anything along these lines marking the 50th anniversary All are welcome. HOTOGRAPHY

P Rotman School of before. . . I’m just happy.” of the consecration of the

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Bishop George Boyd Snell in 1966

The most recent major donor to the “Faith in Abraham, a long-time friend of Bishop Snell and A Bishop’s Divinity” campaign is a 98-year-old retired Anglican co-chair with Margaret Fleck of the Faith in Divinity bishop. Campaign. Gift With his donation of $761,500 worth of Royal Bishop Snell happily returned to Toronto in Bank of Canada shares, the Rt. Rev. George B. Snell 1951 to become Rector of St. Clement’s Eglinton. Bishop George Snell has made a truly significant mark on the life of This was followed by his election as Suffragan Trinity – one that virtually assures the endowment Bishop of Toronto in 1955 and as Diocesan Bishop leaves a lasting mark of the position of the dean of the Faculty of Divinity. in 1966. Bishop Snell’s affection for the college began in Since retiring in 1972, he has kept close ties at Trinity 1925 when he was part of the first class to study in with the church.Though he continues to live by Trinity’s new building on Hoskin Avenue, following himself in Mississauga (Esther Snell died in 1998 the college’s move from its former Strachan Avenue at the age of 91), he worships every Sunday at site. He graduated in Arts in 1929 and from St. James’ Cathedral in Toronto. Divinity in 1931. He is also part of a group of seven retired clerics Upon his ordination in 1931, he was appointed who meet once a month for lunch and call them- assistant curate at St. Michael’s and All Angels, selves “The Remnant.” “The group, which included Toronto, where he remained until 1939. During Derwyn Owen, was formed after the burial of a those years he also studied for a year at Oxford, cleric, when some of us realized that we were getting

married Esther Hartley in England and completed together only at funerals,” says Duncan Abraham. P his doctorate in philosophy. He served briefly as “The topic of conversation at lunch is often that HOTOGRAPHY rector of St. Mark’s in Port Hope, Ont., before things are not what they used to be, and that if we returning to St. Michael’s and All Angels as rector. were running it, the Church would be different!” : C

When Derwyn Owen, later provost, went Bishop Snell has always been a keen scholar, OURTESY abroad during the Second World War to serve as a which perhaps explains his deep devotion to the

chaplain in the armed forces, Bishop Snell returned college. Indeed, he says that the one thing in life A NGLICAN to Trinity to teach philosophy of religion. Following that he would like to have accomplished, but didn’t, the war, he became Dean of Calgary in 1948, but was to become the provost of Trinity College.The D his heart was still in Toronto.“While in Calgary he mark that his donation will make on the life of the IOCESE was upbraided one day by Bishop Ragg, who college, however, is one that would elude most, if OF

seemed to have a good information network, for not all, provosts. T ORONTO cheering for the Toronto Marlboros instead of the Provosts come and go, but Bishop’s Snell’s legacy Calgary home team,” says the Very Rev. S. Duncan will go on forever. ■

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’66 Andrew Goss was inducted into Diary of a RAD the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts at the National Gallery of Canada in Documentary-Maker Ottawa in June. An Owen Sound, Ont. jewellery designer and metalworker, John Zaritsky is still creative Goss was one of 35 this year to join the after all these years 500-member organization, which recog- nizes significant contributions to the BY SUSAN LAWRENCE visual arts in Canada across 20 categories, including architecture, photography cademy Award-winning documentary filmmaker became a symbol on international newscasts everywhere and, more recently, crafts. The academy John Zaritsky fully realizes that anyone who knows of the tragedy of the Bosnian War. is among the oldest visual arts organiza- he graduated in 1965 can do the math, but he Those locations were thousands of miles and half a tions in Canada. A ’71 Margaret Ogilvie won the still doesn’t like saying his age (though he’s clearly in his lifetime away from Zaritsky’s days at Trinity, when he lived 60s). Keen on maintaining the creative edge, he doesn’t in Macklem House and was a member of the Kappa Alpha Carleton University Students’ want anyone to dismiss him because of a number. fraternity while studying history and English. “I had way Association Teaching Excellence Award His latest documentary is clear evidence that Zaritsky, too much fun chasing girls, drinking, playing bridge and for 2004-05. She has also been appointed who became an avid skier when he moved to Vancouver six reading a lot,” he says dryly. Oh, and learning those writ- a Senior Fellow of the Centre for the years ago, is maintaining his edge both at work and at play. ing and research skills that were important when he Study of Law and Religion at Emory In College Days, College Nights, Zaritsky focused for an aca- became a journalist. (He was a police reporter for the Law School for 2005 to 2010. demic year on 16 University of British Columbia students Hamilton Spectator right out of university, then worked for ’99 Marc Bhalla has been awarded who were given video cameras to film themselves talking the Toronto Star, then the Globe and Mail, where he won a the Jo-Ann P. Vickers Award by the privately and candidly every week. National Newspaper Award as an investigative reporter Institute of Law Clerks of Ontario for Zaritsky, who teaches a fourth-year class at UBC’s film before he moved on to CBC-TV.) achieving the highest mark in the school, had his film students edit the ensuing 600 hours of Some aspects of student life never really change. But in province in 2004 for Associate Level footage, which became the heart of a six-hour series. The other ways, concludes Zaritsky, today’s students, 400 of Real Estate and Estates. This honour film students also shot the cast in various aspects of their whom will be crossing Trinity’s threshold as freshmen this complements Marc’s work as Office daily lives, with friends and family, flirting at parties, doing year, are very different from those in the 1960s, who were Manager and Senior Law Clerk at the laundry. Viewers even get to see one daredevil Korean- riding the crest of the Sexual Revolution. Contemporary law firm Elia Associates in Toronto. Canadian youth bungee-jumping naked. (In a poignant students have fewer sexual partners (because of AIDS), are moment, the same student reveals his father wants him to more concerned about forming good relationships (possi- NEWS go to med school, but he’d rather be a fireman.) The appeal bly because many of their parents have divorced) and of the series is its intimate tone, an honesty Zaritsky says worry more about jobs (because the competition is more 1940s was fostered because cast and film students were peers. intense, and a BA doesn’t have the same employment clout ’40 Helen Fairbairn and Betty If it seems that Zaritsky is revisiting his youth, he has it did in 1965). Lindsay, both of Ottawa, Alberta travelled a long way for the privilege. Before he moved to College Days, College Nights has been so well received (Sinclair) Shearer of Pointe Claire, Vancouver and began focusing on what he calls “softer” that a two-hour condensed version will premiere on CBC Que., Ruth (Page) Jones of Windsor, topics, his journalist’s nose took him to the world’s hot on Sept. 1 at 8 p.m. It also has given Zaritsky (who has Ont., and Jean (Goodwin) Campbell spots, during what he calls his “death and destruction peri- been married twice) the inspiration to use the same video- of Winnipeg met for their third annual od.” He won the Academy Award in 1982 for Just Another diary approach to follow the lives of eight to 10 couples in 4T0 lunch in Ottawa in May. Missing Kid (about a Canadian couple’s heartbreaking a documentary that will be called The Therapy Room: ’43 John Riley and ’48 Mary Louise search for their son, who disappeared while travelling in Couples in Crisis. One subject, whose bathroom is the one Riley, of Bodega Bay, California, were the U.S.), made a movie in Uganda about a charismatic room in her home that is private, has taken to going there, the driving force behind the annual singer who died there of AIDS in the late 1980s, and “where she sits on the toilet and pours her soul out” to the Alan Kulan Memorial Lectures, estab- directed Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo, about a young cou- camera. The release date for Couples is at least a year and a lished in 1994 by the University of ple (he was Serbian; she was Muslim) whose deaths at the half to two years away, but the psychological trip will be no Toronto Department of Geology and hands of a sniper during the siege of Sarajevo in 1993 doubt worth the wait. ■ the Yukon Chamber of Mines. Kulan was a prospector who discovered new

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phosphate minerals in remote areas of painters have patience. Time to think Finland and Canada and raises funds for (Anglican Bishops School) in Guyana, Yukon. He died in 1977, but was and feel,” she says. hospices, shelters and other charities that South America, to Trinity College, recently inducted into the Canadian ’52 Keith Dalglish graduated last serve the ill and the homeless. Toronto, and now lives on Trinity Street Mining Hall of Fame on the nomina- November with a master’s degree in ’64 Robert Thomas continues as editor directly across from Little Trinity tion of the Rileys. history from the University of Toronto. of the third series of the philosophy of Church. She says that the Anglican ’48 Susan (Cochran) Simonsen helped His thesis focused on Sir John A. mathematics journal Philosophia Mathe- Church is a divine intervention of sorts build a secondary school in Kigali, Macdonald and his contributions to the matica, which he launched in 1993. because she did not actively plan to be Rwanda in February as part of an idea of a strong central government. After publishing it for 12 years, he has in these places. She comes from a family international and ecumenical mission Dalglish took four required undergradu- passed it to Oxford University Press. with very pragmatic, universal views spearheaded by Thunder Bay’s Knox ate courses for his master’s at Trinity about God and religion … and of United Church on behalf of Nu-Vision College over the past four years. 1970s Muslim heritage. Ministry. Founded by Rwandan ’59 Tim Reid, chair of the board of ’72 The Rev. Raemond Fletcher has ’87 James Harris was recently promoted graduates of Lakehead University, directors of the Ontario Lottery and been appointed rector of Bishop Cronyn to Senior Lecturer at the School of Nu-Vision is an international aid agency Gaming Corporation, has been Memorial Church, London, Ont.. History, University of Leeds. Stalin: A that sponsors educational and medical re-elected for a second three-year term ’77 Jamie Ker runs a process called New History, a collection of essays he projects in that shattered country. to the University of Toronto’s Governing ITIL Release Management for the IT edited with Sarah Davies of Durham ’49 Gordon Askwith’s paper, Council. He also serves on the Council’s team at the Bank of Montreal’s Private University, will be published in Sept- Dr. Abraham Low’s Recovery Incorporated: executive committee, planning and Client Group in Toronto. ember by Cambridge University Press. Implications for School-Based Family budget committee, and on its ’78 David Johnson is now a professor ’88 Michael Brown had his first major Counselling, presented last August at business board. of economics at Wilfrid Laurier solo art show with more than 30 mixed- Brasenose College in Oxford, was well media pieces at Shift Gallery in Toronto received, especially since three of the 6T5 REUNION in February. Over the past five years, he audience agreed to be a part of a has been monitoring at-risk youth and demonstration of Dr. Low’s recovery graffiti writers through a Community method. Arts project at Harbourfront. Together they have transformed over 40,000 square 1950s feet of exterior walls into public art. ’50 Frances (Arthur) Houlston and her husband, Clive, have acquired a 1990s small woodland in front of their proper- ’93 Michael Amm was named partner ty, which Frances is trying to turn into a at Torys LLP (Toronto). bluebell wood. They have a greenhouse ’93 Tim Novis (Divinity ’96) has been full of annual seedlings. Life is made appointed chaplain of Ridley College, interesting by watching their teenaged St. Catharines, Ont. grandchildren thrive and keeping up ’94 The Rev. Kristine Swire was with friends, reading and doing cryptic installed as an honorary canon of crosswords. At a Spring Reunion luncheon hosted by Norm Fraser at the Christ’s Church Cathedral in Hamilton, ’51 Ann Carson has published Shadows Toronto Hunt Club, members of the Class of 6T5 celebrated 40 years Ont. The following Sunday, the newly Light, an anthology of early and recent as fellow alumni. At the buffet are Ellen and John C.S. McLeod minted canon took up her new poems. Independently published, it is of Ottawa and Jed Stuart of Victoria, right. Ellen is a 6T7 grad posting as rector of the Church of the carried by various Ontario bookstores Ascension in Hamilton. in Toronto, Owen Sound, Bracebridge, University. His book, Signposts of Success: ’95 Allyson Kilbrai has been elected Kleinberg and Manitoulin Island, and 1960s Interpreting Ontario's Elementary School president of the Theseus MBA Alumni in Monhegan Island, Maine. ’60 Sandy (Stephenson) Brown will Test Scores, was published by the C.D. Association, a global network of more ’52 Jane Champagne is one of a group be installed as Grand Master of the Howe Institute in March. than 2,000 CEOs, executives, entrepre- of artists over 70 who are showing their Hospitaller Order of St. John of neurs, company founders and consul- work until Sept. 30 in an exhibit called Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller on Sept. 1980s tants in technology-intensive industries, “What’s Age Got to Do with It?” at the 24 in Windsor, Ont. She is the first ’82 Caroline Despard became a fellow such as telecoms, IT and biotechnology. Gallery de Boer in Owen Sound, Ont. Canadian and the first woman to hold of the College of Family Physicians of ’96 Graham Mayeda will be joining Jane has painted for many years, but has this post for this particular branch. The Canada in October 2004. the Faculty of Law at the University of never been happier with her art. “Senior Order has priories in the United States, ’85 Shameda Saffee moved from BHS Ottawa in the fall as an assistant professor.

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His current research focuses on law and March 14 in Toronto. Bolton: David ’60, June 5 in British Stephen Leggett ’58. development, criminal law, and the ’89 Eva Janssen and Robert Renaud: a Columbia, husband of Norah (Foot) Mackay: Anne ’48, March 1 in nature of common-law reasoning. This daughter, Heidi Camille, Dec. 15, 2004 Bolton ’59, past chair of Trinity’s London, Ont. summer he was in a training program in Winnipeg. Executive Committee of Convocation; McCarthy: Daphne M. (Laplante), at the Royal Military College working ’89 Peter Mantas and Kimberly father of Gregory Bolton ’92 and April 27 in Toronto, mother of Michele on his Hovercraft captaincy. Mantas: a daughter, Zoe Emma, Oct. Stephen Bolton ’88. Daphne McCarthy ’79, former member ’98 Fiona James recently graduated 25, 2004 in Ottawa. Box: Marion Grace (Leckey), June 28 of Trinity’s Board of Trustees. with distinction from the Ontario ’90 Gerette Gordon Braunsdorf and in Toronto, wife of T. Rodney Box ’48. Milne: Hilda E. (Smith) ’35, April 26 Veterinary College veterinary medicine Chris Wolfe: a daughter, Madeleine Buckley: Frances B., Dec. 11, 2004 in Oakville, Ont., sister of the late program at the University of Guelph Wolfe Braunsdorf, Oct. 26, 2004, in in Toronto, grandmother of David R. Norah E. (Smith) Gibson ’29 and the and has been accepted by the Small Arlington, Virginia. Dodds ’77 and Douglas Buckley late W.F.R Smith ’26. Animal Medicine and Surgery ’91 Anne (Shepherd) Heath and Dodds ’78. Pinos: Alice D. (Meek) ’44, April 5 in Internship Program at Michigan Andrew Heath: twin girls, Sarah Alice Butler: I. Frank ’35, April 21 in Oakville, Ont. Veterinary Specialists. and Katherine Anne, March 21 in Toronto, husband of the late Jean Poole: T. Carman ’78, July 18, 2004 in ’98 Kimberley Scully is a geoscientist Mississauga, Ont. Nieces of Carol A. (McKinley) Butler ’45. Toronto. working in Angola and the Democratic Shepherd ’95 and granddaughters of Chubb: Dorothy, March 7 in Toronto, Price: Christine (McLaren) D’Erespy Republic of Congo for BHP Billiton George O. Shepherd ’48, bursar of mother of Pat (Chubb) Keating ’67. ’49, June 12 in Vancouver. Minerals Exploration and is based in Trinity College from 1961 to 1991. Clarkson: Guy ’45, Jan. 4 in Toronto, Ralston: William, May 11, 2003 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She ’91 Julia (Grossman) Robbins and father of Ann Clarkson ’79, brother of Savannah, Georgia, former chaplain at worked for a year as a project manager David Robbins: a daughter, Sarah Joan Clarkson ’52 and Mary (Clarkson) Trinity College and lecturer in Divinity for diamond services at SGS Lakefield Elizabeth, July 14, 2004 in Vancouver. Whitten ’49. from 1957 to 1960. Research in Ontario, and for two years ’92 Virginia Priscus and Julian Daniel: Eileen, Oct. 8 in Toronto, Rooke: Frank E. ’42, March 2 in as a project geologist working near Padfield: a daughter, Lauren Virginia, wife of Ian H. Daniel ’56. Barrie, Ont., husband of Elizabeth Repulse Bay, Nunavut, for BHP on May 18. A niece for Anne (Priscus) De Guerre: Daniel J., April 30 in (Dunbar) Rooke ’42. Billiton World Exploration. Fair ’90 and granddaughter for Barbara Toronto, brother-in-law of Elizabeth Retter: The Ven. J. David, Div. ’65, (Graydon) Priscus ’62. (Steward) De Guerre ’46. May 21 in Vancouver. 2000s ’92 Liz Stock and Alistair Shepherd- Dufresne: Alec ’70, March 12 in Riddell: Peter Kevin ’85, May 28 in ’01 Hye-Jong Linda Lee graduated from Cross: a boy, Nicholas Alistair London, Ont. Nanaimo, B.C. Boston College Law School in 2004 Shepherd-Cross, July 6 in Toronto. A Farncomb: Anne Evelyn (Evans) ’49, Schreiber: Alexander, April 30, father and is working as an attorney at the grandson for Eileen Stock ’56. Nov. 18 in Toronto, sister of Buffy of Martin Schreiber ’85. Boston firm of Robinson & Cole, LLP. ’94 Matthew Christian and Elizabeth Meredith ’49 and Gwen Sutherland Smith: Evelyn (Churcher) ’33, April 7 ’02 Catriona James was awarded a Ridley: a daughter, Grace Isabella ’51, former wife of Donald Farncomb. in North York, Ont. master of arts degree in 2004 after Ridley, Feb. 13 in Toronto. Ford: Frank ’67, May 11 in Alliston, Smith: Murray, March 21 in Toronto, completing studies at the University of ’94 Alexandra (Freyman) Ont. father of Lisa (Smith) Battiston ’80. Birmingham Shakespeare Institute at Faryaszewski and Jan Faryaszewski: Gibson: Norah E. (Smith) ’29, March Sobocan: Rita L., April 29, mother of Stratford-upon-Avon. a daughter, Izabella Maria, Dec. 30, 24 in Oakville, Ont., sister of the late Thomas Sobocan ’85 and David ’02 Anna Gosline is living in London, 2004 in Paris, France. Hilda E. (Smith) Milne ’35 and of the Sobocan ’90. England, where she is a science ’94 Wendy (Ro) Porter and David late W.F.R Smith ’26. Stedman: Margaret E. ’36, April 8 in journalist for New Scientist Magazine. Porter: a daughter, Erika Leigh Tae- Gourlay: Robert William, June 16, Brantford, Ont., sister of Ruth Stedman Jong, Jan. 31 in Oakville, Ont. father of Matthew Gourlay ’01. ’41 and Mary Stedman ’44. (See page 25.) MARRIAGES ’99 Marc Bhalla and Andrea Bhalla: a Greatrex: Warren R. ’50, April 22 in Thompson: Margaret J.B. ’39, March ’61 Lisa Balfour Bowen and Walter daughter, Naomi Maureen, Feb. 18 in Cambridge, England, husband of Joan 26 in Victoria, B.C. Bowen reaffirmed their marriage vows Toronto, niece of Tara Meyer ’99 and G. (Garlick) Greatrex ’48. Throop: Alan, April 18 in Surrey, in Trinity College Chapel in June. Aaron Thompson ’99. Shahid Ahmad Headlam: Arthur, June 28, father of B.C., husband of Elenore (Whitaker) ’99 Justin Kim and ’00 Joanne Loo, ’00 is Naomi’s godfather. Bruce Headlam ’85. Throop ’48, brother-in-law of Betty May 24, 2003 in Trinity College ’00 Sarah Cameron and Eric Osborne Hunt: Jessica (Jarvis), April 16 in Tugman ’44. Chapel, Toronto. ’00: a daughter, Clara Linda Madeleine, Enderby, B.C., mother of Diana (Hunt) Wardle, Thomas Alfred, June 20 in ’99 Javita Rodrigues-Nascimento and Jan. 22, 2004 in Owen Sound, Ont. Inselberg ’65. Toronto, father of Arlene Matheson ’61 Daniel Cassidy, May 29 in Toronto. Kelley Castle, dean of students, and Imrie: Ian Gordon ’52, June 21 in and Thomas Alfred Wardle Jr. ’71; uncle The bridal party included Karina Walsh Dr. John Duncan: a son, Jack Warren, Ottawa. of John Wardle ’64 and Marilyn Box ’68. ’00 and Maria Papaconstantinou ’99. May 12 in Toronto. Jones: Derwyn DD ’90, March 8 in Wesson: Edwin W. ’46, March 27 in In attendance was Ben Harrison ’96. London, Ont., Bishop of Huron. Toronto, father of Nancy Wesson ’75, ’75 Warren Ralph and Catherine DEATHS Landoni: Tessa C., March 2 in Arthur, Virginia Wesson ’82 and Lawrence Shack, Feb. 23, in Banff, Alta. Black: Barbara R. (Moore), May 7, Ont., mother of Sheila (Landoni) Wesson ’72; grandfather of Nicholas mother of Robert Black ’89, former Wilson ’56, mother-in-law of William T. Wesson ’02. BIRTHS chaplain. Wilson ’56, grandmother of Margaret Wightman: Lois, April 19 in Toronto, ’77 Jamie Ker and Miki Ker: a daughter, Black: Margaret, March 5 in Victoria, (Wilson) Mousseau ’84 and grand- mother of Carolyn Landry ’65. Kate Omi Ker, February 2004 in Toronto. B.C., mother of Martha Black ’68 and mother-in-law of Christopher Ruffo ’91. Zitner: Sheldon P., April 26 in ’84 Margot Boyd and Andrew Smith: Elizabeth Black ’70, and mother-in-law Leggett: Suzanne Estcourt (Holland) Toronto, professor emeritus of English a son, D’Arcy Philip Boyd-Smith, of Stephen Clarke ’68. ’78, June 2 in Toronto, wife of the late and fellow emeritus of Trinity College. ■

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All events are free unless a fee COLLEGE is specified, but please phone Wednesday, Sept. 7. Fall Convocation. (416) 978-2651, or e-mail us Parents will congregate to see their at [email protected] first-year students matriculate. to confirm time and location Honorary degrees will be bestowed and to reserve a space. upon the Hon. Frank Iacobucci, former chief justice of the Supreme Court of CHORAL MUSIC Canada; the Rt. Hon. Christopher Patten, last British governor of Hong Sunday, October 2 Kong; and John Tuttle, organist and EUFONIA MALE CHOIR choirmaster. Convocation Hall, Cologne, Germany 31 King’s College Circle, 7.30 p.m. Parlour Music for a Sunday Evening Christina Kröhne, Artistic Director Thursday, Oct. 27. Annual Meeting Seeley Hall, 8 p.m. of Corporation. George Ignatieff Theatre, noon. (416) 946-7611; $15 ($10, students and seniors) The Eufonia Male Choir irreverently sends up the rituals of traditional men’s choruses Under the sponsorship of the with a repertoire that ranges from sacred music to barbershop and operetta. Attired [email protected] in top hats and tails, the two dozen members might engage in mime and shtick, but PARENTS Consulate General of the they don’t compromise on musical quality. They sing at Trinity on Oct.2. Federal Republic of Germany Toronto Saturday, Oct. 29. Parents’ Day. sultant. $25. Proceeds to the Trinity LECTURES Parents of first-year students are invited College Art Conservation Fund. to the college for a lecture, followed by Lecture, Seeley Hall, 3 p.m., followed Thursday, Oct. 20. Jane Dobell, Book lunch with Provost Margaret To reserve tickets call (416) 978-2651, by tours and reception. Registration is Collector: Memoirs of a Cover Girl. MacMillan. $20 per person. Lecture, or e-mail [email protected] required in advance: (416) 978-2651; Canadian children’s book collector and 10:30 a.m.; lunch, 11:45 a.m. For Tickets will also be available at the door. [email protected] Trinity alumna Jane Dobell (5T0, DSL details and to register: (416) 978-2651, BOOK SALE Hon. 1989) has enriched the Toronto or [email protected] Sunday, November 20 Public Library's Osborne Collection 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRA- Friday, Oct. 21 to Tuesday, Oct. 25. with gifts of books and book-related DONORS TION of TRINITY COLLEGE Friends of the Library 30th Annual art. Her lecture will be followed by a Thursday, Sept. 22. Salterrae Society CHAPEL Festal Evensong Book Sale. Friday night opening, 6 to reception and an exhibit of her gifts to Dinner, honouring those whose life- With the Trinity College Chapel Choir 10 p.m.: admission $4. Saturday, 10 a.m. the collection. Sponsored by the time giving to the college is $100,000 Dr. Willis Noble, Director to 8 p.m. Sunday, noon to 8 p.m. Friends of the Osborne Collection and or more. York Club, Toronto. Trinity College Chapel, 5 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Toronto Public Library. The Lillian H. Reception, 6 p.m.; dinner, 7 p.m. No admission charge Saturday to Smith Branch, 239 College Street, Sunday, December 4 Tuesday. Seeley Hall. To have book Community Room, 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11. Inaugural luncheon ADVENT LESSONS and CAROLS donations picked up or if you would like of The Gerald Larkin Society for those A candlelight service with music by to help with the sale: (416) 978-6750; Tuesday, Nov. 22. Mary White who have included Trinity College in Pärt, Palestrina and Weelkes www.trinity.utoronto.ca/library/booksale Lecture. Prof. Brian Stock of U of T’s their estate plans. Provost Margaret Department of Classics will lecture on MacMillan will host members and their Trinity College Chapel Choir HALLOWEEN Dr. Willis Noble, Director, 5 p.m. Ethics and the Creative Imagination. guests. Combination Room, noon. Trinity College Chapel, 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, Halloween Party Based on an analysis of changes in ART for Alumni with Children. Crafts and meaning of the Greek and Latin word Friday, Nov. 18. Provost's Committee Sunday, Nov. 13. Lecture and Tour refreshments; entertainment by Bright phantasia, he will offer some reflections Dinner for donors of $1,000 or more. of the Trinity College Art Collection Ideas. $5 per person for children, on the development of the notion of Reception: Seeley Hall, 7 p.m. Dinner: and Chapel. Dennis Reid, chief cura- parents, grandparents and friends. The the creative imagination in Augustine, Strachan Hall, 8 p.m. Tickets: $50 per tor, Art Gallery of Ontario, and Gerald Buttery, 2 to 4 p.m. (416) 978-2707; Dante and Coleridge. George Ignatieff person. Information: (416) 978-2707; Robinson, architect & liturgical con- [email protected] Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place, 4.30 p.m. [email protected]

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A Shining Example Some students bring their favourite teacher a nice shiny apple, but not the pupils of John Strachan, some 20 of whom reunited in July 1833 to present him with this épergne. Before Strachan founded Trinity College in 1851, he served as a P

schoolmaster in Cornwall, Upper Canada – and it was his former grammar school charges who proffered the gift. The HOTOGRAPHY silver centrepiece, used to hold dried fruit and candy, was made by British goldsmiths at a cost of £230. The small bowls : are supported by four figures representing religion, poetry, geography and history, and on the base are the names of more MICHAEL than 40 gentlemen whom Strachan helped to educate. After his death in 1867, Religion, Poetry, Geography and History VISSER were sent to reside at Trinity. – F. Michah Rynor

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