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Groundhog Day Free admission and open to all alumni, faculty and staff. pizza extravaganza RSVP: [email protected] Alma Matters MARIANOPOLIS COLLEGE | WINTER 2010 and silent auction Silent auction + alumni + beer and pizza = February 4, 2010 • 6-9 p.m. the annual reunion LUMINOCITY Marianopolis Science Camp summer 2010 CENTENNIAL GALA promises to be bigger and better SHINES SPOTLIGHT Marianopolis College is pleased to open its doors to a younger generation for a second consecutive summer. DG LEN EVEN’S Now expanded for ages 8 to 15, the Marianopolis Science Camp will run for four weeks, from July 5 to FIRST 100 DAYS July 30. Budding scientists can sign up for one to four weeks. Offered in collaboration with McGill ECUADOR University’s WOW Lab and Let’s Talk Science program, the camp includes day trips to the city’s EXPEDITION world-renowned science centres, cool experiments and SUPPORTS fascinating demonstrations by guest scientists. Registration begins January 5, 2010 and places are STUDENTS limited. Children of alumni, faculty and staff are eligible for a 10 percent discount. Please visit www.marianopolis.edu/sciencecamp for registration forms, information on discounts and any updates. Mark your calendar For details about these and other events, please visit www.marianopolis.edu January 27: Marianopolis College Speaker Series, March 14: Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. Professor Jacques Nantel (HEC Montréal) March 15: Prix d’expression musicale February 4: Groundhog Day Pizza Extravaganza April 21: ArtsFest Concert in memory of Sister February 16: Winter Concert Mary O’Neil February 17: Marianopolis College Speaker Series, April 15, 28, May 8: Spring Concert Series Principal and Vice-Chancellor Michael Goldbloom (Bishop’s University)

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40737555 Alma Matters Winter 2010 Editor: Anneliese Papaurelis ’88 Message Contributors: Arjun Basu ’86, Nancy Berman, Table of contents Maeve Blandford Wells ’61, Dr. Suzanne Daningburg, from the Director General Barth Gillan, Kathryn Haralambous, Vida Lietuvninkas ’67, Elisabeth Livingston, Alex Polkki Designer: Rudy Moley, Doxa Design t’s a pleasure to be publishing the first issue of Alma Matters, Print coordinator: Finger Communications I since I became Director General of Marianopolis College on Cover photo: Len Even, the new Director General, following a Speaker Series lecture in the College’s July 1. Auditorium. (Owen Egan ’85) Photo credits: Veronique Champoux, Owen Egan ’85, Along with the entire Marianopolis family, I am grateful to my predecessor, Barth Gillan, Kathryn Haralambous, Bob Hendricks, Sister Françoise Boisvert, for her decades of service to Marianopolis. As the Anne Jeannet, Anneliese Papaurelis ’88, 04 06 College embarks on its second century, it is a remarkable institution, one Advertising: Anneliese Papaurelis ’88, Speaker Series The first 100 days with a well-earned reputation as a welcoming place for motivated, globally [email protected], (514) 931-8792 ext. 202 continues in January minded students. Marianopolis’ success was celebrated on November 5 at the LuminoCity Centennial Gala, where local luminaries, from political Circulation: 18,000 copies Alma Matters is created and published semi-annually representatives to the leaders of local universities, and members of the for the Marianopolis community. Alumni, faculty, staff, Marianopolis community, from alumni to employees, retirees and donors, parents and donors receive this magazine through a complimentary subscription. To add or modify your celebrated our century of creating bright futures. I cannot imagine a better mailing information, please contact the Development way to have been introduced to the extended Marianopolis community than and Alumni Affairs Office, [email protected], this memorable evening. On Pages 10 and 11, you can read more about this (514) 931-8792 ext. 206. spectacular gala, which could not have been possible without the vision and Printed in ISSN 1918-5677 dedication of many of our volunteers and alumni. Canadian Publications Mail Product Sales Agreement No. 40737555 On Page 8, you will find an update on the 2009-2014 Marianopolis College Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: 09 15 Strategic Plan. This is a tremendous time at the College, a time to plan for 4873 Westmount avenue, Westmount, QC H3Y 1X9 Student achievements Help bring Marianopolis a future that promises to be as bright as our past. The strategic plan is a students to new heights blueprint for much of this endeavour. During my first few months here I’ve been warmly welcomed by everybody from students to faculty and staff to alumni, many of whom are 15 Chemin de la Côt exceptionally dedicated to their college. The volunteers on our boards have e-St-Luc

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Building bright futures 720 02 ALMA MATTERS | Winter 2010 ALMA MATTERS | Winter 2010 03 On campus On campus Speaker Series brings people and ideas together Marianopolis introduces new jazz program idely decorated humanitarian Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire addressed a full house in the College’s he Marianopolis Music Program launched Jazz as a new DEC option this fall. Students in this discipline study with W Auditorium during an October talk on youth activism and Canada’s world role. A Senior Fellow at Concordia T jazz professors and audition for jazz combos at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music and play in a jazz University’s Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, the Senator, McGill Institute for the Study of combo either at the Schulich, the McGill Conservatory or at Marianopolis. Like their classical counterparts, jazz students Canada Director Antonia Maioni and marketing expert Suzanne Lalonde, were guest lecturers in partnership with have the opportunity to pursue a double DEC in Science, Social Science or Creative and Liberal Arts. For further Concordia and McGill universities and the Université de Montréal. information please contact Professor Nancy Berman, Music Department Chair, at [email protected] ◊ Free and open to the public, the Marianopolis College Centennial Speaker Series continues with the talk “Is Marketing Going Astray?” by HEC Montréal General Faculty news Secretary and Marketing Professor Jacques Nantel, 7 p.m. January 27. Former Star Publisher Monique Polak ’79, English Michael Goldbloom, Bishop’s University’s principal and Department, has won the vice-chancellor, will discuss media and democracy in the Writers’ Federation Prize for 21st Century on February 17.The series features Children’s and Young Adult renowned experts from Quebec’s top universities Fiction for her novel What World Is sharing their diverse knowledge of world issues. ◊ Left. Also nominated for the American Library Association Chris Cargnello ’01 asks Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire to sign the Marianopolis Young Adult Fiction Prize and the Library’s copy of his book, Shake Hands with the Devil, during a reception before the Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice humanitarian’s October 27 Centennial Speaker Series lecture. Award, the novel is historic fiction based on her mother’s Upcoming speakers Previous speakers imprisonment in Nazi 6:30 p.m. refreshments, 7 p.m. lecture concentration camp Suzanne Lalonde November 18 Theresienstadt. The prolific Marianopolis College Auditorium Professor of International Law, Université de Montréal professor has also launched her On Thin Ice: Canadian Marianopolis has produced several jazz performers over the years, including bassist Richard Rosato ’07 Sovereignty in the latest two young adult novels, The and saxophonist Chet Doxas ’99. Changing Arctic Middle of Everywhere, set Nunavik’s Inuit community, and Junkyard Dog, Do you know a future Marianopolis Admissions and application inspired by a guard dog she student? Please share this information evening is 4-7:30 p.m. encountered at a dépanneur near important news. February 8 her Notre Dame de Grâce home. New application system Secondary V students and their parents are invited to join us to learn more about She returns to the classroom in We are happy to announce that students admission to our programs and our new January 2010 after a fall can now apply directly online: January 27 February 17 application system. sabbatical. www.marianopolis.edu Jacques Nantel Michael Goldbloom “Student for a Day” continues this Are you an alumni parent of a future or General Secretary and Professor Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Michael Tritt, English current Marianopolis student? Please of Marketing, HEC Montréal Bishop’s University February has collaborated Students who would like to sit in on a contact the Development and Alumni Is Marketing Media and Democracy Dr. Antonia Maioni Department, st September 23 class, meet teachers, have lunch with Affairs Office to learn about volunteer Going Astray? in the 21 Century Director of the McGill Institute with his daughter Shona ’02, in for the Study of Canada students and experience college life at opportunities and benefits for alumni: Presented in Presented in Health Care in Canada: writing Chasing Perfection: Death collaboration collaboration Marianopolis may book a visit by calling [email protected]. with with Where from Here? Denial in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birth-Mark,” an essay which (514) 931-8792 ext. 300. approaches Hawthorne’s story Join the Marianopolis network from the perspective of Ernst Marianopolis is a mouse click away Becker’s generative theory of Thanks to the College’s growing alumni communities on • www.marianopolis.edu/bevideo - A two-minute video tour of death denial. Shona is completing Facebook and LinkedIn, you are never far from Marianopolis reflects student life on campus. Marianopolis. Join our groups and keep in touch with a Master in Psychodevelopmental graduates around the globe. Neuroscience at Yale University’s • www.marianopolis.edu/strategicplan - Marianopolis continues to Child Study Center. The essay is evolve to best serve our students and ensure a bright future. available at the PSYART online • www.marianopolis.edu/annualcampaign - Encourage Professor Anne journal, www.tinyurl.com/y9ylc4c.◊ Jeannet and Dora Serbanescu ’02 as they climb Mount Chimborazo Student Abdaal Mazhar Shafi, Dr. Antonia Maioni and Len Even. Keywords: Marianopolis College Alumni. this December by giving to the Annual Giving Campaign. 04 ALMA MATTERS | Winter 2010 ALMA MATTERS | Winter 2010 05 On campus On campus The perfect place to pursue university of first choice, due in part because we don’t just push the academics alone, we balance it out by offering the myriad of clubs, student support services and other activities. I’m a big supporter of sports. My kids play sports. I have a personal excellence daughter here, she’s on the basketball team and I’m rooting for her. It’s nice to be intelligent but make sure your body by Arjun Basu ’82 is also happy. As Marianopolis embarks on its second century, it The CEGEP system is unique. What does it bring to students that other systems might not? welcomes a new Director General, Len Even. A The CEGEP system gives students a voice, it makes them alert to the possible directions to pursue after grade 11 which otherwise they would do a year later in life in the rest of North America. Making the choice to go into science, Montrealer, Even spent the past 18 years in the social science or creative arts and making the choices that affect your Netherlands, most recently at Webster University in schedule, what time you wake up, what time you come home, what Leiden. Here, Even shares his vision for the future of activities you get involved in, is a maturing process and that’s a Marianopolis, what he’s learned so far at the College and healthy thing. It’s an excellent vehicle to personal growth. why a happy student is the best kind of student. Now that you’ve acclimatized yourself here, what are some the challenges you want to tackle? What’s in store in your next What brought you back to Montreal from Holland? 100 days? The main thing that brought me back from Holland is that I actually The biggest challenge at Marianopolis is implementing our recently missed Montreal. I missed my family and friends here and being in the approved strategic plan. The strategic plan basically suggests several place where I grew up. But, probably more importantly, I wanted my kids, areas that we should be working on. We’ve boiled these down to five who were becoming very Dutch, to know their Canadian side. priorities, or primary areas, and we are busy transforming the process You’ve been at Marianopolis for 100 days now. What has struck you most and what have you learned? from one of review and analysis to one of implementation and action. In the next 100 days I will be looking carefully at how we will best be What I’ve noticed most is how warmly I’ve been received. The sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame care so able to align our resources with our strategic objectives. “I seek first to deeply about the place but they’ve entrusted it to me. And they’ve entrusted it to the emerging group of people who will understand before I’m understood,” as Stephen Covey would say. I lead this college long after they have relinquished control. want to make sure I understand the very good reasons for many of the You are, in many ways then, the first “outsider” to lead this institution. Are there any added pressures of being the things that exist here but at the same time I know that many people first one who’s not in the Congregation to lead this college? are in support of change and moving forward and development. On campus with students Ryan Brun and Rebecca Brosseau. I don’t feel any additional pressure. I think managing and leading an institution is similar to what I did before, in Marianopolis depends to a large extent on alumni and volunteers. What role do you see them playing in the future? Holland. So the thing that I’m going to apply over and over is: earn people’s trust, treat them with respect and It’s the same with alumni and volunteers at every college and university around the world. The more the volunteers communicate, communicate, communicate. and alumni give back to their college, the more likelihood there is for the college to be successful. We’re seeing more Is there anything you learned in Leiden that you would want to apply here? and more children of graduates coming here and they talk about their time here and they look back with great pride What the Dutch understand very well, is that academic success cannot be separated from personal success. And I and they’re satisfied. So I would say it’s a win- win set up. believe very strongly in happiness. I believe that happy people make better students, better colleagues, better If there was one message you would want to give the world about Marianopolis what would it be? employees and better family members. You don’t have to grind (students) into the ground to get good results. Their Marianopolis is the perfect setting to pursue personal excellence. We offer just the right setting: not too big, not too emotional intelligence is probably a higher indicator of future success than their academic intelligence. small, a lot of different opinions and variety that will stimulate students, yet they won’t get lost in the hallways and This school has always had many advantages compared there is the personal attention they receive in our to other , notably its size and its spirit as well. How relatively small classrooms. important is the spirit of the school? How happy are you to be back in Montreal? It can make a big difference if I consistently remind people I’m pretty happy. Although I’ve warned my family, about the importance of being happy and being successful. winter hasn’t arrived yet! But so far, so good. The kids Happiness and success are not mutually exclusive. We can are very happy here. My wife is taking French lessons help a lot of academically successful students become even and painting lessons. The dogs are happy. And I’m more successful and more likely to succeed in the future if enjoying my work. we help them understand the importance of happiness in the mix. Research has shown that the setting, the nature of Arjun Basu was editor in chief of enRoute magazine from 2001 to 2008 and today the faculty and the involvement of the student in activities is the Editorial Director of Spafax, a global custom media provider. Last year, he outside of class are all extremely important in their general released his first book of short stories, Squishy, and is now at work on a novel. He education and positively impact their likelihood of success lives in Montreal. You can read some of Arjun’s work on Twitter as they graduate. Most students are getting into their www.twitter.com/arjunbasu. Prior to addressing over 400 guests in the Auditorium, Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire met Working with students is a priority for the new DG who is featured in the most recent issue of the school with local high school principals in the library. Pictured here with Len Even and Chris Cargnello ’01. paper, The Papercut. Pictured here with Len Even is Student Congress President Terrence Adams. Download the podcast of this interview at www.marianopolis.edu/almamatters. ◊

06 ALMA MATTERS | Winter 2010 ALMA MATTERS | Winter 2010 07 On campus On campus Blueprint for the future: Strategic Plan highlights Student success s the College begins its next 100 years, the Marianopolis community has crafted a five-year strategic plan to set it on a hanks to the dynamic A clear course of shared priorities. During listening sessions in September 2008, every member of the Marianopolis T student-grad team of family — from alumni to parents to employees, from retirees to governing board members to volunteers — was given the second-year student Julia opportunity to offer input on the future of the College. In October 2008, 60 stakeholders participated in a two and a half-day Deutsch and Kartik Sameer workshop to discuss and develop the first draft of the strategic plan. In March 2009, the Board of Governors approved the Madiraju ’08, Marianopolis final document, the blueprint for excellence as Marianopolis embarks on its second century. became the first CEGEP level The 2009-2014 Marianopolis College Strategic Plan represents the goals collectively deemed most crucial for the College institution to host the to pursue as it continues its tradition of excellence. The plan will be supported by a specific, sequential implementation Canadian University Society program and a multi-year strategic financial plan. Highlights include: for Intercollegiate Debate’s championships this October. Students and Student Life secure and accessible campus, be a good steward of the The College’s debating society Strategic Goal: Marianopolis College will provide its environment, continually improve its physical plant and co-hosted, in conjunction with students with opportunities to engage actively in personal extend its learning environment outside the classroom. its counterpart at McGill, the 100-plus-year-old McGill and academic growth to achieve their full potential. It will Internal and External Community Relations prepare and support its students as they strive to live the Debating Union, one of North Strategic Goal: Marianopolis College will build and Vision and Mission of the College both within and outside America’s oldest and most maintain strong relationships among all stakeholders to Marianopolis. respected debating societies. ◊ foster its Vision and Mission and an environment of Program excellence in education. This fall, two Commerce students returned to the College having been Strategic Goal: The student, the centre of the Finance and Fundraising Marianopolis College learning community, will be prepared named 2009 Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation In-Course Strategic Goal: Marianopolis College will provide to pursue academic excellence, life-long learning and Excellence Award Laureates. Jean-Philippe Gauthier and Ivana Cescutti responsible financial management to support its Vision and leadership in the world. were among 1,034 nominees from more than 220 post-secondary Mission and fund its strategic plan. institutions from across Canada. Personnel Governance Strategic Goal: Marianopolis College will attract, recruit Ivana is a peer tutor at Marianopolis, as she was at Vincent Massey Strategic Goal: As stewards of Marianopolis College and and retain an accomplished and diverse faculty, Collegiate, where she graduated as valedictorian. She plans to apply her its Vision and Mission, the Board of Governors will ensure administration and staff of the highest academic and $10,250 award toward studying entertainment law at McGill University. the effective functioning of and planning for the future of ethical standards, who will respect and promote its Vision the College. and Mission. Jean-Philippe is continuing the extra-curricular involvement and academic achievement that have characterized him since he was a high school www.marianopolis.edu/strategicplan ◊ Campus and Facilities student at Collège Jean de Brebeuf. He wants to use the $4,500 to study Strategic Goal: Marianopolis College will have a safe, international business at Harvard University or the University of Pennsylvania following completion of his studies at Marianopolis. ◊ October 2008 Strategic planning workshop participants (L-R): front row, Margaret Fung, Lesley Lacate, Jill de Villafranca, Sr. Anne Leonard, Susan Stone, Sr. Françoise Boisvert, Caroline Jo is at Princeton Mary Liistro Hebert, Mariana Better-Moreno, University, after having How can you help Mary Lu, Zareen Ali, Louise McLellan, Aris been named one of Hadjinicolaou ’09; second row, Norma Raimondo, Sr. Elaine O’Grady, Patti McDonald Canada’s Top 20 Under 20™ Marianopolis with ’79, Amin Noorani ’85, Alex Polkki, Sr. Marilyn last spring for her work on Doucette, Régine Duboulay, Len Shenker, Sr. behalf of the environment, its strategic plan? Clare O’Neill; third row, Peter Malouf, Pam which she began at The Butler, Adèle-Elise Prévost ’03, Jérémie Vinet, The College seeks parent and alumni Andrew Lefcoe, Josée Gravel ’76, Dr. Anne Study. While at involvement Fitzpatrick, Michael Sendbuehler; fourth row, Marianopolis, she served on • Guest speakers on campus Amy MacLean, Sabine Walser, Diane Quart, Student Congress as the Kathy Fazel ’88, Patricia Roman, Dr. Roy Eappen • Event sponsorship ’80, Dolores Chew, Claude Bélanger, Colleen Coordinator for Social • Mentors for young alumni Feeney, Sr. Susan Cleevely; fifth row, Louis Justice and organized an • Event volunteers Santillo ’79, Philip Dann, David Wells ’79, Eco-fashion show during • Directors of volunteer boards: Alumni Orazio La Riccia, Mary Allen, Rocco Iafigliola, Barth Gillan, Kathryn Haralambous; back row, Earth Week. ◊ Association, The Marianopolis Millennium Douglas Slobon, Stewart Daly, John Ryan, Foundation and Board of Governors Lillian Heron ’76, Patrick Baker. To learn more, please contact Anneliese Papaurelis ’88, [email protected]. 08 ALMA MATTERS | Winter 2010 ALMA MATTERS | Winter 2010 09 Foundation Foundation

From left, Katie Kostiuk ’98, newlyweds Jean-Michel Cohalan’98 and Amanda Beattie and Juno Master of ceremonies Todd van der Heyden ’94 announces the evening’s raffle winners. award-winning singer-songwriter Antoine Gratton’98, the evening’s final entertainer.

THE MARIANOPOLIS COLLEGE CENTENNIAL GALA Many thanks to our sponsors

Sister Françoise Boisvert ’58 (left) and Len Even, the College’s former and current directors Notable guests of honour: The Honorable Kathleen Weil, Justice Minister, and Marc Garneau, general, lead the official centennial toast from the gala stage. Member of Parliament for Westmount-Ville-Marie.

he Marianopolis community shone the spotlight During the course of the evening, Todd van der Heyden ‘94 shed T on the College’s brilliant legacy of education on some light on the origin of the name of the Gala. November 5 with the LuminoCity Centennial Gala. “You may be wondering where the name The glittering celebration began with a VIP reception and cocktails, followed by a six-course gourmet dinner, ‘LuminoCity’ came from. Well, luminosity raffle prizes, live entertainment and dancing. Over 400 means the state of shining brightly, and guests, including alumni, faculty and staff, parents, lights and lamps are often a symbol of students, volunteers, business partners, distinguished guests of honour and community leaders helped raise education. Marianopolis means ‘City of more than $135,000 to benefit The Marianopolis Mary’ in Greek, hence the tie-in to the Millennium Foundation in support of the College and its students. word ‘city.’ Marianopolis is 100 years old and the Roman Numeral for 100 is a ‘C,’ CTV News Montreal anchor Todd van der Heyden ’94 was the master of ceremonies for the evening that not thus the Capital ‘C.’ Put them all together only highlighted 100 years of Marianopolis history, but and you get LuminoCity.” also set the tone for its future. Performances by TRIBE jazz trio from the Montreal Chamber Music Festival, Chris Cargnello ’01 Group, soprano Mylène Bourbeau and Antoine Gratton ’98 entertained guests while DJ Max Julien kept the celebrations hopping late into the night. For more photos, visit the photo gallery at Alain Simon FLEURS design www.marianopolis.edu/centennialgala. PHOTOGRAPHER Heartfelt thanks are extended to each and every volunteer, donor and sponsor who helped make the Gifts provided by: GUIDE evening a success. DEBEUR 10 ALMA MATTERS | Winter 2010 ALMA MATTERS | Winter 2010 11 Annual giving Annual giving “You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.” - Winston Churchill Janine Cooke Aikins ’49 Patricia McDonald ’79 Katherine M. Wolters ’86 Catherine Kelly Lapierre ’63 hanks to the generosity of alumni, parents*, faculty and staff, students and friends of the College, over $394,000 Lorne Cooper Louise McLellan Tania Woroby Belaine Lacey ’80 T was raised in last year’s combined Annual Giving campaign and special Centennial appeal. This allowed The Lois B. Côté ’59 Barbara McNaughton Amy Y. Yu ’03 Marc Lapointe Marianopolis Millennium Foundation increase support for scholarships and student financial aid, to ensure ongoing Mario D’Angelo Monica McQueen ’84 Tamara Zakon Constance Lavallée ’64 investment in campus facilities and education resources and to provide enriching activities for students and to grow its Karen Davison Anna Michetti ’89 Jeannine Lawlor ’63 endowment for the future. Donations are greatly appreciated and help to enrich the Marianopolis experience for every Dina Della Porta ’86 Marion Mistrik ’57 Neville Lefcoe one of our students. Marissa Delli Fraine ’01 Guy Mizrachi ’89 Mona Agia ’69 Jacqueline Levesque Murray ’55 Danilo Di Vincenzo ’92 Lorraine Morrison ’79 Ioana Antonescu ’05 Vida Lietuvninkas ’67 Thank you to the following donors who contributed to the Annual Giving campaign, the Centennial appeal and the Michael E. Dickstein ’77 Heather Morrison John Archer ’81 Mary Liistro Hébert Françoise Boisvert Dedication Fund between July 1, 2008and June 30, 2009. Robert Drummond ’84 McCarrey ’62 Martha Argyrakis Tsadilas ’60 Jane Logan Beland ’67 Jolaine Drury Constant Nucci Julie Ann Barna Mary Lowe Leprohon ’70 Annique Dufour ’89 Rosemary O’Donnell Guylaine Béliveau ’80 Jim Magdalenos Margaret Fung Carlo Fallone ’83 Valerie Tannage ’80 Claire Dussault Hewson ’70 Gilda Bello ’92 Mannon Malo ’82 Gaetano Geretto ’78 Kathy Fazel ’88 Vitaly Terekhov Jacques Duval Corey Omer ’08 Hélène Marcogliese ’67 Melissa D. Adler ’98 Eric Bernier Giovanni Iafigliola ’90 Colleen Feeney Diane Trainor Oelmann ’62 Clarence Epstein ’86 Grace E. O’Reilly ’44 Vincenza Martinez ’88 Amos Alter Esther Bérubé ’97 Patricia Jean-Michel Anne Fitzpatrick Robert Vairo Jean-Pierre Falet George Pajuk Carmela Martinez ’86 Maria Babinski Eric Bettan ’95 Ann M. Kelly ’58 Fort Insurance Michael Vassilyadi ’80 Janice Festa ’91 Mary Patocskai Anna-Maria Martinez ’93 Beaumont Barnabe ’80 Jeffrey Blicker ’82 Olga Kowal ’50 Irene F. Godbout ’61 Nicole Viau Doucet ’58 Mary Anne Fitzsimmons Gary D. Pencer ’84 Clare McFarlane Barwick Family Foundation Kory M. Brewster ’97 Janice N. Kussner ’75 Carol Ann Grazys ’63 Hélène Vigeant ’70 Marie-Hélène Fox ’66 Willa Pharand John Meletakos Anne Brooke ’70 Catherine Brown ’54 Pedro Martinez ’93 Ada Hainey ’49 Jérémie Vinet Kimberly Fuller ’92 Sylvia Piecaitis ’60 Elizabeth Mellon Nucci ’51 Centraide/United Way Grant Caverly Véronique Monet ’84 Barbara Handfield ’59 Andre Volpe Rosalinda Go Alphonso Pinto Gianfranco Mezzanotte Aileen Collins ’51 Will Z. Chen ’03 Karen Mrejen-Shakin ’86 Erika Hermon Christopher Wiegand ’87 Ann Grace ’69 Pitsas Architectes Charlene Milne Congrégation de Notre-Dame Brian P. Chernoff Gary F. Nachshen ’79 Nathalie Hess ’92 Audrey J. Williams ’50 thankMiriam Grassby ’64 Brenda E. Plescia ’65 Beate Cloetta you’61 Hans Moller Congregation of Notre Dame - Amin Noorani ’85 Rocco Iafigliola Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Isabelle Gryn ’83 Natalia Ponomarenko Alexandra G. Muller ’93 Visitation Province Alan Coffey ’74 Oblicas Inc. Michel D. Ingham ’91 Christine Zawilinski ’61 Athanasios Hadjis ’83 Patricia Potter ’72 Antonietta V. Niro ’93 Jill de Villafranca Jean-Michel Cohalan ’98 Norma Raimondo Jeffrey Kadanoff ’90 Carol Hepworth Mizgala ’57 Eriola Qendro ’03 Orca Book Publishers Ltd. Diane Dorn ’77 Margaret Collins Anne-Marie Scerbo ’65 Beatrice Keleher Raffoul ’70 Christina Hlusko ’84 Helga Rudolf John Osborne Roy Eappen ’80 Haneefa Corbie ’99 Simon A. Sinclair ’97 Muriel Kilgour ’49 Elayne Aber ’79 Stephanie Hogan ’89 Jeffrey Rudolph Robin Pacholka Hardman ’66 David S. Gameroff ’79 Susan Costantini Margaret Skowronska- Frederick Kirouac ’78 Greg Aikins ’75 Peter Howick Sharon Rutherford Marie-Claire Paré Holland ’63 Justin Geagea ’93 Kevin A. Custodio ’06 Binek ’63 Ronald Kolanitch ’82 Nabeel Ali ’95 Serena Hum ’99 Schneider ’01 Claudia Pasteris Sayegh Barth Gillan Marielle Demers Angas ’57 Margaret Taussig Linda Kowal ’72 Nicholas Androsoff ’82 Allan Hum ’85 John B. Ryan Denise Patenaude Yazdi ’64 Gustav Levinschi Foundation Ginette Desmarais-Inagaki Kathleen M. Toomey ’57 Anthony S. Layton Elisa Arcaro Francesca Iacurto ’86 Mary E. Salisbury Erica Patocskai ’89 Inés Holzbaur ’90 Andrée Deveault Barbara Tumas ’61 Anita Lebeuf Nevins ’54 Bernd Baier Gary Johnson Carole M. Savignac David Patocskai ’85 Malouf Family Fund at the Maria Di Chiaro ’85 George A. Vassiadis ’86 Judie Livingston Patrick R. Baker Kane & Fetterly Melodie Schweitzer ’85 David Raizenne Foundation of Greater Scot G. Diamond ’79 Pierre Velghe ’76 Arnold Ludwig Pascal Bédard Catherine Kelly ’52 Sandra Seely Brodeur ’57 Estelle Rannie ’61 Montreal Maurice Dufour Walker Glass Company Ltd. Aileen Mahoney ’63 Robert Berger Honore Kerwin-Borrelli ’68 Brian Silver ’87 Ian A. Ratzer ’00 Marianopolis Alumni Heather Flockhart ’62 Joan D. Webber ’52 Pamela Marcogliese ’98 Dawn Bernard Stephen A. Kowal ’91 Anne Skene Joanne Reid Association Alana Forrester-Verge ’68 Mary Ann Mongeau ’62 Rebecca Bird ’86 Hang Hong Kwok ’97 Barbara A. Smith ’79 Michael Rogers ’81 Marianopolis College Renée Fretz Margaret Montague Shapiro ’68 Colette Boisvert Walsh Lesley-Ann Lacate Heather Smith ’82 Charlotte Schmid Mariantonia Morena Suzanne Galipeau Ioanna Barkoulas ’97 Louise Morin ’72 Tiffany Brotto ’07 Monique Lafontaine Vézina ’55 Marilyn Steely Michael Sendbuehler Ann Neysmith ’64 Hurtubise ’59 Elizabeth Behrens ’67 Leslie Muccino ’63 Magda Bruce Elaine Lalonde ’80 Karnon Suen ’97 Jana Simandl ’78 Constance B. O’Donnell ’60 Tracy Gallacher Doris Bilous ’61 Rajesh Pereira ’93 Phyllis E. Burns ’51 Helen Lanthier ’48 Agata Szlanta ’00 Theodore G. Skaperdas Mark Ropeleski ’88 Johanne Gallagher Humes ’71 Brian Boire Bertrand Poirier Elizabeth Cahill Dominic Lemelin Donat J. Taddeo Caroline Springer RSM Richter Chamberland Trish Gardham ’81 Rolande Boisvert Catchpaugh Monique Polak ’79 Michael Calce ’80 Paul Livingston ’90 Antoinette Taddeo ’66 Marchand ’66 Shelagh Skerry Christina Garnes ’95 Susan Burpee ’63 Madeleine Poulin ’59 CanadaHelps.org Edith Low-Beer Michael Tritt Victoria Tan St. Patrick’s Society of Ed Gauthier ’56 Barbara Byrne Auclair ’50 Diane Quart Thomas Chou ’98 Luigi Luponio ’84 Suzanne Végiard ’75 Laraine E. Taylor Foscato ’67 Montreal Pierre Geoffroy ’80 Edith Cavanaugh Sharon Rankin Jason B. Chrein ’84 Shaun G. Lynch Roberts Vitins ’88 Frederic Thomas-Dupuis ’97 Wilson Wong ’91 Alan K. Goff Matthew Cesari ’99 Richard Robicheau ’80 Suzanne Chrysler Margaret MacDonald ’40 Jean Walkinshaw Diane Gratton ’50 Bernice Triller Hoi Kei Phoebe Chan ’04 Patricia Roman MacDonald ’61 Adrian Macek ’82 Sabine Walser Nicole Gratton Fredette ’58 Magdalini Vassilikos ’02 Beth Cummings ’98 Michael Samotis ’81 Young Sup Chung Susan Mackenzie Weisbord, Del Gaudio, Iacono Margaret Griffin ’52 Danielle Villeneuve Mutty ’57 Janet C. Casey Elaine Davy Russell ’70 Louis Santillo ’79 Enza Cignarella ’89 John Marinelli Cathy F. Westbury ’81 Olga A. Gross ’80 Yuval Weiss Peter Cherna ’84 Sabrina Delli Fraine ’99 Eva G. Siliauskas Michael Climan Ermine Mastrocola Wright ’68 Juanita Westmoreland- Clara Guardo Paradis ’56 Andrew Willmer Desmond Clarke Helen Donahue ’70 Caroline Smart Emblem ’57 Doreen Cohn Norris ’48 Maxwell Cummings Family Traore ’63 Si Yue Guo ’06 Dai Lu Wu Thomas Davis Patricia Dyke ’60 Carolann Steinhoff ’75 Liliane Comeau ’69 Foundation James Wilson ’81 Elizabeth Hall Burns ’47 Kathryn Xistris Trent ’82

12 ALMA MATTERS | Winter 2010 ALMA MATTERS | Winter 2010 13 Foundation Foundation Commemorative fund honours Boisvert legacy $20 will help us reach the summit! ast spring, the Marianopolis community rallied in great numbers to hen Physical Education Professor Anne Jeannet and Dora L honour the retirement of Director General Françoise Boisvert, W Serbanescu ’02 carry a Marianopolis flag 6,267 metres up CND. Over $51,000 was raised for The Marianopolis Millennium Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo this December, they will be helping raise Foundation by almost 300 alumni, parents, faculty, staff and friends. money to support the 20 percent of our students who receive some form During her retirement ceremony on June 8, Sister Boisvert was of financial aid. Your donation will inspire them to reach the summit presented with a commemorative plaque for the Heritage Room, a space and will help students who face tough financial circumstances have on campus that has been dedicated in her name. An endowment fund to access to a Marianopolis education. All money collected will go directly provide financial assistance to students, a priority during her 28 years at to The Marianopolis Millennium Foundation in support of our students. Marianopolis, has also been established in her honour. Contributions to the fund are still welcome, www.marianopolis.edu/donate. ◊ Your $20 will make an even bigger impact. The Marianopolis College Alumni Association has pledged to add an extra $20 to each new donation of $20 or more. Donations support the College and its students We count on our 24,700 alumni worldwide to ensure that all students may attend Marianopolis regardless of their financial means. Your gift Thanks to the support of its generous donors during the past year, The Marianopolis Millennium Foundation was able ensures that Marianopolis remains at the summit. to make a number of grants toward key areas of need identified by the College. While making a sizeable grant of $463,000 from its Moving hearts and minds Capital Campaign, the Foundation also provided $287,000 in scholarships, Are you up for the challenge? bursaries and student financial, and $89,000 for equipment, technology, educational resources and special projects. Donate online at www.marianopolis.edu/donate. To sponsor Anne and Dora on Particular new additions made possible by these funds were laptops to equip the Physics Lab, a new social science this and upcoming expeditions, please contact Anneliese Papaurelis ’88, database for the Library, technological upgrades to the Auditorium, a portable stage, lighting, sound equipment and [email protected]. ◊ bicycle racks as part of the Greening Marianopolis initiative. The Marianopolis College Alumni Association made an additional contribution of $2,500 to purchase a large flat-screen television for the Student Lounge. ◊ Marianopolis Friends and family organize Annual giving continued Millennium fundraiser in alumna’s honour Derek Yaple-Schobert ’91 Anne Fairhurst Alper ’62 Anneliese Papaurelis ’88 Andrea Thomas ’70 The Only Love Inspires Foundation (OLI) was Franco V. Zullo ’87 Irene Feher Josée Perron Nayia Tsonis ’85 Foundation founded in 2008 in honour of O’Linda Cuffaro ’98, Margaret Feinberg Ronis James Pettit Jean Verardo ’85 George Fleischer Corinne Popescu Salamis ’72 Brian Webb awards entrance who was left debilitated after surgery for Zsolt Alapi Monica G. Giacomin Hildegard Procska-Boivin ’72 Maeve A. Wells ’61 craniopharyngioma, a rare, slow-growing tumor that Mary Allen Huguette Gingras ’54 Afram Rafai Far Linda Wood affected her pituitary gland and hypothalamus. Clarence Barnes Ian J. Gold ’81 David Rafai Far ’04 Joan Zafran ’86 scholarships Founders Karyn Modugno ’98, Sandra Messina and Françoise Beaubien Vien ’58 Ellen Gollop Poulton ’49 Sourendra Raut ’98 *Thank you to each of our Seventy incoming students received Frankie and Cristina Cuffaro hope to raise Elaine Greer Marion Reynolds Phelan ’51 Damien-Claude Bélanger ’95 37 anonymous donors. scholarships this fall semester. awareness about neurological diseases and Anne Bernstein Kendra Griffiths ’90 Nicole Ricalens Pourchot contribute to advancements in neurological research. Natalie Bonneville Harvey Guttman Roméo Ronci *Thank you to each of our 1,265 Coming from 40 high schools Eva Brandl Mary Hlusko Thomas N. Rothsching ’84 parents who contributed during throughout Montreal, each of the 70 The Only Love Inspires charity event is the OLI Nan Cahill IBM International Foundation Amy D. Salomon ’97 the 2008-2009 academic year received a $250 Marianopolis Foundation’s annual fundraiser that raised $30,000 Caroll Ann Carmody ’64 Mary Aurelian Icely ’51 Sonia Sarkis and whose names do not appear Millennium Foundation Academic in 2009 benefitting the in this listing. Following a diagnosis of Frank Carnuccio Orazio La Riccia Michele Saumier Award in recognition of their craniopharyngioma, a rare pediatric Montreal Neurological Elena Cerrolaza Margaret-Ann Laffoley Franca Scolaro ’82 Every effort was made to ensure academic achievements. “The brain tumor, O’Linda Cuffaro ’98 Institute. The Marianopolis Wayne Clasper Smith ’52 Mary Shannon Zenaitis ’64 the accuracy of these lists. Foundation’s mission is to support underwent a surgery which has left Millennium Foundation will Patricia Languay Eric A. Shostak ’95 her hospitalized since 2004. Mary Connelly Willan ’56 Please report any omissions or the College and its students, so we receive $2,000 from the Jean Connors Catherine Leblanc ’63 Greg Silas ’87 errors to Elisabeth Livingston, are very happy to be honouring these Elisabeth Livingston Louisa Silvestri Godin ’79 proceeds of this year’s event. The Cuffaro family and Michelina Conte [email protected]. promising first-year students as they Christine Côté Ruth Malpartida Marilyn Sincennes friends, along with the OLI Foundation, hope to Gregory Courey ’05 Adriana Marandola ’72 Gail Snyder ’79 Donations to The Marianopolis begin their Marianopolis studies,” provide similar support annually to create a special Maureen McCormick ’86 Christopher Sokolnicki Millennium Foundation are tax- said Jill de Villafranca, Foundation fund to support students and facilities at Marianopolis Katharine W. Davidson- deductible. Gifts Heney ’76 Mary McDonald ’48 Marisa Spagnuolo received/postmarked before Chair and parent of Katie ’98 and in honour of O’Linda. www.olifoundation.com. Bonnie Day Beatrix Mihalovits ’72 Dino A. Starna ’94 December 31, 2009 will be receipted Christine ’02 Kostiuk. “This is a Maria Dikeakos Jonathan Mitchell ’97 Sarah Stein ’99 for the 2009 tax year. For more wonderful way to recognize their If you are interested in supporting this initiative or Karyn Modugno ‘98 and Frankie Arezki Djema Lorraine Morrison ’79 Jean Stutsman information please contact Barth achievements in high school and to partnering with Marianopolis for your event, please contact Cuffaro at the OLI Foundation Gillan, Director of Development, Anneliese Papaurelis at (514) 931-8792 ext. 202, fundraiser with Cristina Thurley Dwyer Khoury ’33 Michael Murphy ’92 Cecilia Szabo ’03 [email protected]. support their future endeavours.” ◊ [email protected]. ◊ Bortolotti, co-host of Ciao Montreal. 14 ALMA MATTERS | Winter 2010 ALMA MATTERS | Winter 2010 15 Alumni News & notables Marian Siminski ’67 is a musical director oldest investment management firm. Comedy Network and the Discovery and pianist with Theatre Panache’s With offices in Montreal, Toronto, Channel. Jo-Anna credits the The class of ’61 reunion production of Till We Meet Again, a Quebec City, London and Kingston, development of her comedic skills to musical about love, hope and “3Macs” focuses on providing high working as an admissions officer at brings old friends together connections during the Second World quality investment advice to individual , where she War. The play is a portrayal of a live investors. attempted to make high school pre- achelor of Science alumnae radio show broadcast from the requisites interesting and fun. After Licia Canton ’82 is a writer, editor and obtaining a Bachelor in History from from the class of ’61 gathered Normandy Roof of the Mount Royal B Hotel in the 1940’s. Marian holds communications consultant. She is the , she moved to for their annual reunion in performance diplomas in voice and in author of Almond Wine and Fertility Toronto and fell upon an open mic September to celebrate 48 years of piano from the Royal Conservatory of (2008), a collection comedy night where she performed on friendship. Twelve of the original Music in Toronto. She is the musical of short stories for a dare and never looked back. director for the Gilbert and Sullivan women and their class of 14 enjoyed a weekend at men, and editor-in- Victoria Kaspi ’86 has been awarded a Irene Zbikowski Godbout’s home in productions of the Lakeshore Light Opera where she conducts an 18-piece chief of Accenti 2009 Prix du Québec, the highest honour the Eastern Townships, with some orchestra, as well as being the choral Magazine, a conferred by the provincial alumnae arriving from across director and co-director of Camp national publication government, in Musical d’Asbestos. for lovers of all recognition of her Canada and as from as far away as things Italian. She contribution to Jamaica. Maeve Blandford Wells Raphael Thomas Justewicz ’77 is an holds a Doctorate social and scientific writes: “As we grow older, we architect, landscape architect and writer from Université de Montréal as well as advancement. appreciate and value the who was recognized this summer by a Master’s from McGill University. Victoria is a world- friendships…We intend to gather for Cambridge Who’s Who for dedication and Licia lives in Montreal with her renowned physicist excellence in landscape architecture. husband and three children and would known for her our annual reunions as long as we (L-R) front row: Ann Edwards Flynn, Marlene Sullivan Fulford, Maeve Blandford Wells; middle row: love to hear from old friends, cutting-edge work Carole Thompson Bishop, Magda Jass, Irene Zbikowski Godbout, Doris Rizok Bilous; back row: Christine Cambridge Who’s Who is an exclusive are able.” ◊ [email protected]. on neutron stars, Zawilinski, Janet Wolska, Mary Osman Ajersch, Beate Mueller Cloetta, Ruth Phaneuf Parker. membership registry that recognizes and empowers executives, professionals pulsars and supernovae remnants. She and entrepreneurs throughout the Peter Gruner ’82 wrote a one-act play has been honored with the Steacie Class of ’67 reunites after 22 years world. Raphael graduated from the entitled Laundomat at the End of the World Prize in the Natural Sciences, the School of Architecture at McGill (and no, it isn’t a typo). It was named one Rutherford Memorial Medal of the Twenty-two members of the University in 1988, during which time he of the top plays at the Hamilton Fringe Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Festival this summer and remounted at class of ’67 reunited from received an AIA Foundation Scholarship Association of Physicists Herzberg Theatre Aquarius as part of the double- Medal and the Canadian Institute for across Canada and abroad and the Murdoch-Laing Prize for Design. He went on to obtain an bill “Best of Fringe 2009.” Peter has been Advanced Research Young Explorer this November to enjoy an undergraduate degree from MIT as well married to Deb Dagenais since 1988 and Prize. afternoon of friendship and as a Master of Landscape Architecture they have three children, Caileigh, has been artistic appreciation at the with Distinction from Harvard Keaton and Tara. Marco Della Rocca ’87 working for the past three years in Montreal Museum of Fine University. Raphael is a senior associate is a freelance with EDAW/AECOM in New York City, Heather Wood ’84 commercial real estate with Cushman & copywriter and creative prose writer. Arts. Organizers Ann www.cambridgewhoswho.com. Wakefield and Groupe Sutton. Prior to McMahon-Rusnak, Hélène Heather’s first novel Fortune Cookie this, he held management positions Marcogliese, Vida Sheema Khan ’80 lives in Ottawa with (2009) is a diary-style novel set in with Sheraton Hotels, Assante Wealth Montreal during the turbulent year of Management, Hoechst Marion Roussel and Lietuvninkas, Jane Howson- her husband and three children. She completed a Master of Physics and a 1989. Her work has appeared in Astra Pharma. Marco has served on the Wilson and Jane Logan- Doctorate of Chemical Physics, both publications such as Kiss Machine, Artistry Board of Directors of the Game for Hope Beland agree that 22 years from Harvard University, along with of Life, and Litbits, as well as in two Foundation for the past five years, was far too long to wait. post-doctoral stints at MIT and McGill anthologies, In the Dark: Stories from the helping raise over $330,000 for various Supernatural and IV Lounge Nights. They plan on reuniting University. She is a patent agent and children’s causes. Marco is married to since 2002 has been a monthly Heather’s chapbook Barbies, Breasts and Sophia Golanowski and has three more often in the future. ◊ columnist for the Globe and Mail on Bathing Suits was released in 2007. She children. (L-R) front row: Carol Clarke-Gendron, Ann McMahon-Rusnak, Susan McDonald-Smith, Vida Lietuvninkas; second row: Janice Tynan-Kennedy, issues of women in Islam. A collection of lives in Toronto with her husband Kurt Christine Granacki-Evans, Rosalind Kokeram-Tilbenny, Anne Adams, Laraine Taylor-Foscato, Hélène Marcogliese; third row: Carolyn Sands-Enke, her columns was recently published and two cats. Greg Silas ’87 Irene Biller-Armano, Ruth Morrell-Ingram, Sheilaeagh Nesom-Macdonald, Jane Howson-Wilson, Yvette Vigneault-Voisard, Muriel Morin-Squibb; under the title Of Hockey and Hijab: recently sold his fourth row: Jane Logan-Beland, Sharon Mulroney, Dana Zubas-Adams, Ann Soden, Nicole Aumond. Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman, a Jo-Anna Downey ’86 sports bar and hosts two weekly copy of which she recently donated to nightclub at Blue comedy nights in the Marianopolis library, Mountain and Toronto and has Ottawa, Toronto and NYC reunions www.tsarbooks.com/ moved to Toronto been a national OfHockeyandHijab.htm. where his wife, Dr. planned for spring 2010 touring comic for Christie Kim, is Daniel Thompson ’81 was recently the past 10 years pursuing a Alumni living in the Ottawa, Toronto or New York City vicinities are asked to please update their mailing information appointed CEO of MacDougall, with appearances fellowship in with the Alumni Office in order to receive news about the upcoming reunions in their area. Only those listed as living MacDougall & MacTier, Canada’s on CTV, The haematology at Princess Margaret nearby will receive an invitation, so don’t miss out on a great chance to network with fellow alumni in your city. ◊ 16 ALMA MATTERS | Winter 2010 ALMA MATTERS | Winter 2010 17 News & notables News & notables Hospital. Greg is the CFO of UBB Natalie Andres ’92 works for Marnie is also Assistant Director at the Jennifer Bracewell ’01 and Theo Randy and Marian Pinsky ’03 were Sheila Liu ’05 at the Montreal Corporation and he and his wife have PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Rotman School of Management’s McLauchlin ’01 were married at recently honored with the Lieutenant- Chinese Alliance Church in two children, Eva Isabella 2 ½ and Canadian Industry Marketing Corporate McGill University’s Birks Heritage Governor Youth Medal for academic Hampstead. Kun Shi ’05 was best newborn Calvin Jameson. Greg can be Manager, Energy & Natural Resources. Connections Centre Chapel on September 12, 2009. Lots of achievement, social man. Sheila is in her second year of reached at [email protected]. This summer, she helped launch the at the University of Marianopolis activism and medical school at McMaster and firm’s 2009 Canadian Energy Survey, a Toronto, where she mentorship of youth started her clerkship in November. Lionel Perez ’89 is the President of friends and alumni report providing insight as to how provides career were there to in the category of Mikhail and Sheila reside in Hamilton. CorporationCentre.ca, a leading energy companies will need to adapt in counseling to MBA Students of the Canadian online legal document filing celebrate, including Zachary Alapi ’06 co-edited a new the future. The publication is available students. She also Andrew Bryan ’00, World and Leaders and business registration services literary magazine, The Loose Canon, for download, partners with Mark Ordonselli of Tomorrow. Their firm. After completing a Bachelor in with his father, longtime Marianopolis www.pwc.com/ca/energysurvey. several ’01, Emilie Zaloum most recent Political Science from Concordia international English professor ’01, Brigid endeavor is co- University, he went on to receive law strategy consulting firms. After Dr. Zsolt Alapi. The Erin Polonsky (née Polansky) ’93 was Glustein ’01, Peter organizing a degrees from Osgoode Hall and graduating from launch took place at the first student to complete the newly Harrison ’01, successful public workshop series with Université de Montréal before introduced minor in Jewish Studies Marianopolis, McKibbin’s Irish bridesmaids Jennifer Dickson ’01 and the Social Justice Committee of Montreal practicing for a number of years and from Queen’s University in 1995, where Marnie completed Pub in September Katharine Childs ’01, Justin Mizzi on the subjects of Third World debt then co-founding she earned a her Bachelor of 2009 and featured ’99 and Ian Ratzer ’00 and the bride and social activism. Both students at CorporationCentre.ca. In the recent Bachelor. Upon Commerce at readings by and grooms’ brothers, Jonathan Concordia University, Marian is Montreal municipal election, Lionel graduation, Erin McGill University working on a Master of Sociology with prominent writers successfully ran with the Union entered the Hebrew in 1998 and moved to Toronto in 2005, Bracewell ’99 and Matthew in the new McLauchlin ’99. Jen and Theo are a focus on women-led responses to the Montreal Party for a seat on City Union College- www.thighsociety.ca. food crisis in India, and Randy is underground. The Council for the Darlington District in Jewish Institute of doctoral students at McGill, she in Loose Canon is a bi-annual publication archaeology, he in political science. continuing her interest in human Côte des Neiges-Notre Dame de Religion’s Mylène Dinh-Robic ’97 is a television rights in the Honors program of that is available in select bookstores Grâce. Lionel is married and has four Rabbinical actress who portrays Dr. Olivia Fawcett Political Science. and through their publisher’s website children. on the CTV international drama The Christine Ghawi ’02 won a 2009 Gemini www.sirensongpublishing.com. program. In Award for best performance by an addition to Listener. She starred opposite Nicholas Mikhail Klassen ’05 graduated magna Zachary graduated with a joint major Adam Atlas ’90 recently became the Campbell as city handler Rita Mah on actress in a leading in English and Religious Studies from achieving Rabbinical Ordination in role in a dramatic cum laude from Columbia University youngest person to be appointed 2000, she earned a Master of Arts in Da Vinci’s City Hall with a Bachelor of McGill University. While writing on his president of the Quebec Jewish and in the CBC program or first novel, he is working at Hebrew Letters. Erin served miniseries for her Science in Applied Congress (at 38). Congregation Bet Shalom in movie The Quality of Physics. He was Marianopolis as an English Monitor at Adam’s first Life, a spinoff of Da role as Céline Dion the Learning Resource Centre and as a Minneapolis from 2001-2004, during in the movie Céline. accepted to involvement in which time she married Loren Polonsky. Vinci’s Inquest. She McMaster Senior Library Assistant. Zachary is Jewish affairs was will guest star as The film is the preparing for graduate studies in the The family moved to Toronto in 2004 unauthorized University with an at Marianopolis and Erin assumed the position of Sgt. Claudette entrance fall of 2010. ◊ College when a Mackenzie on an biography of the Associate Rabbi at Temple Sinai singer and was scholarship and is sukkah installed by Congregation of Toronto, where she upcoming episode of beginning a Master the Hillel Society The Border on CBC broadcast internationally on CBC in To submit news or get in touch with someone continues to serve. She and Loren have October 2008. of Science program was vandalized. As three children Rueben, Ephram and this fall. Mylène graduated with in Astrophysics, studying star appearing in this issue, please contact student council Harli, who was born this year. Erin is distinction from Concordia formation under Dr. Ralph Pudritz. On Anneliese Papaurelis ’88, [email protected]. president, Adam spoke out. He looks pursuing a Doctor of Jewish Studies University’s Communications Studies August 16, 2009, Mikhail married back on this incident as his wake-up degree through Spertus College in program and studied acting at John call to become involved in Jewish Chicago. Strasberg Studios in Montreal and the with the McGill faculty and make use of their music facilities. This issues. He holds a Bachelor of Civil Lyric School of Acting in . beneficial relationship continues to flourish today. The annual ArtsFest Law, a Bachelor of Common Law and Jade Raymond ’94 is president of the Concert will honour her on April 21, 2010. Donations made in memory a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science new Ubisoft studio in Toronto. After Tatiana Boukh-Viner ’99 obtained her of Sister O’Neil will benefit the students of the Marianopolis Music from McGill University. His boutique obtaining a computer science degree Bachelor in Biochemistry at McGill Program. commercial law firm advises from McGill University, she landed her University and went on to Concordia principally on electronic transaction first full-time game industry job at Sony University to Lorena Gale ’77 passed away on June 21, 2009 at the age of 51 after law, www.adamatlas.com. Online only four days after graduating. complete a a battle with cancer. After graduating from Marianopolis, Lorena While with Ubisoft in Montreal , she Doctorate in pursued a life in the theatre and was recognized as an award- winning playwright, director and black community activist at the time of her Paul Frehner ’90 announces the produced Assassin’s Creed and was the Biology. Last We will miss... death. While she has many film and stage credits to her name, she is premiere of his piece Berliner Konzert, a year she th executive producer Assassin’s Creed II, passed away on May 17, 2009 in her 80 year. She triple concerto for piano trio and married Henk Diane Gratton ’50 best known for her role as priestess Elosha in the television series one of the most anticipated games this graduated from Marianopolis College with a Bachelor’s of Science and string orchestra. The piece was Lau, a Battlestar Galactica. Lorena leaves her husband, theatre director John holiday season. Later this month later became a longtime employee of IBM Canada. Diane loved to travel, Cooper, who she married in 1991, and their son, Clayton. performed by Canada’s Gryphon Trio, Ubisoft will release the game for the professional joined by the Württemberg Chamber golf and ski and was a devoted volunteer. She is survived by her cousins as upcoming blockbuster Avatar. sushi chef. She is looking for work in well as many dear and close friends. Raymond Mak ’84 passed away on July 15, 2009 at the age of 43 Orchestra, one of Germany’s most the wine industry as a fermentation after a lengthy battle with cancer. He leaves his wife, Paulina Yee, and renowned musical ensembles, on a Marnie Consky (Rabinovitch) ’95 specialist and would also love to teach Sister Mary E. O’Neil ’69 passed away on June 15, 2009. She joined his children, Ryan and Caitlyn, along with many other relatives. tour of four cities in Ontario in recently launched a specialty women’s biology. Tatiana has fond memories of the faculty of Marianopolis College in 1962 and she set up and directed a November. underwear brand called Thigh Society her days at Marianopolis and keeps in program leading to a Bachelor with a major in Music. She established a Owen Neil Catchpaugh ’01 died on November 20, 2009. Owen that is sold online and in specialty touch with a group of former unique relationship between Marianopolis music students and the McGill lived with Crohn’s disease for 17 years and more recently battled boutiques in Toronto and Montreal. classmates. Faculty of Music, whereby the Marianopolis students were able to study cancer. He leaves his parents, many friends and relatives. ◊

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