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CONTENTS

07Remembering Richler McG New s Mordecai Richler was one of Canada’s greatest novelists and 03 Editor’s Notebook McGill felt the sting of his satirical prose several times. Now, a new program named in his honour is making it possible for 04 Letters other top writers to share their insights with McGill students. 06 The Principal’s Perspective BY SALEEMA NAWAZ 07 Newsbites 11 Discovery: Research at McGill 15No hell in this kitchen 15 Alumni Profile 36 Reviews Think you’ve got a tough boss? As the head chef of the revamped 38 Making History version of one of Montreal’s most beloved family restaurants, Guillermo Russo, BA’05, has the notoriously demanding 40 Alumni Activities Gordon Ramsey looking over his shoulder. 44 Alumni Profile BY WENDY HELFENBAUM 45 Alumnotes 56 In Memoriam 16The oldest rabble-rouser on campus 60 Online Offerings Over the course of 100 years, the McGill Daily has launched the careers of many of Canada’s finest journalists. The combative student newspaper might have irritated more than a few McGill administrators along the way, but it’s always been a force to be reckoned with. BY ALLYSON ROWLEY, BA’77

22How Montreal perfected hockey 2011 Massey Lecturer Adam Gopnik probes the origins of Canada’s favourite winter sport and uncovers a unique bit of alchemy involving McGill, French Quebecers and Irish Montrealers that could only have occurred in one city. BY ADAM GOPNIK, BA’80

27Moments that changed McGill The University is celebrating its 190th anniversary this year. Discover some of the turning points that transformed McGill over the course of 19 decades. BY DANIEL M CCABE, BA’89

32Judge Judy n’a qu’à bien se tenir Bien qu’elle ait fréquemment attiré l’attention par son langage coloré ou ses emportements, Anne-France Goldwater (B.C.L. 1980), nouvelle vedette du petit écran, n’en demeure pas moins une avocate redoutable dont les succès ont transformé le droit familial au Québec. PAR DAVID SAVOIE

36Not such a violent world after all As bullets fly in too many parts of the world, and as blood-soaked video games sell in the millions, it’s easy to think we live in the most violent of times, but psychologist Steven Pinker, BA’76, DSc’99, says things are actually getting bette r—and they used to be much, much worse. BY DIANA GRIER AYTON

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McGILL-QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY PRESS www.mqup.ca Follow us on Facebook.com/McGillQueens and Twitter.com/Scholarmqup McG New s EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK VOLUME 92 / NO 2 FALL /WINTER 2011 EDITOR Daniel McCabe, BA’89 SENIOR CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Diana Grier Ayton Tales from CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Julie Fortier times gone by DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI RELATIONS Derek Cassoff uch of this issue concerns (CaPS) and handed in my draft. A short time PROOFREADING itself with history and later, one of my editors, Melinda Wittstock, Jane Jackel that’s no accident. As I BA’86, summoned me for a chat. She gently Karine Majeau strolled along Peel Street pointed out that my story was awfully similar ADVERTISING M on my way to work this to one the paper had run the previous year, Christina Barile Tel.: 514-398-6043 morning, I walked past several street lamp including almost identical quotes from that EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS banners, heralding the University’s 190th nice fellow from CaPS. Christina Barile anniversary (the banners were designed, I was mortified. I hadn’t plagiarized. I didn’t Niyosha Keyzad coincidentally, by the same talented fellow even know the previous story existed. But I ADVISORY BOARD Bob Babinski, BA’86 (Chair) who helps put together this magazin e— did learn some important lessons: always be Catherine Cunningham, BA’99 Steven McClenaghan). aware of what was written before about your Robert Emblem, BCom’86 To mark this anniversary, I had the idea subject; make the extra effort to be original; David Harpp Siu-Min Jim, BA’03 of polling about 30 McGillian s—some of and do what you can to encourage intervie - Antonia Maioni them historians or history enthusiasts, wees to supply quotes that aren’t the same Olivier Marcil Courtney Mullins, BCom’06 some of them current or former McGill stale, reheated comments they pass along to Donna Nebenzahl, BA’75 administrator s—and asking them to everyone else. That was probably one of the Honora Shaughnessy, MLS’73 choose a moment in the University’s history more valuable learning experiences I had at Dane Solomon, BA’79 Doug Sweet that had a profound and lasting impact on McGill and there are hundreds of Daily alums Derek Webster, DipEd’94 McGill. Often, when you canvass 30 inde - who’ll agree that their time at the newspaper Marc Weinstein, BA’85, BCL’91, LLB’91 pendent-minded people for their opinion on provided an education in itself. Kudos to the DESIGN Steven McClenaghan something, you get 30 different responses. organizing committee that recently put Graphic Design, Public Affairs Not this time. More than half of the folks together the very successful Daily 100th ONLINE EDITION I contacted offered the same answe r—the anniversary reunio n—Harold Rosenberg, Content and Collaboration Solutions arrival of William Dawson as McGill’s fifth BSc’71, Craig Toomey, BA’75, Will Vanderbilt, MCGILL NEWS and most transformative principal. BA&Sc’11, and John Dufort, BCom’67. 1555 Peel Street, Suite 900 Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 3L8 It makes you wonder about the role Our third history-tinged article comes Tel.: 514-398-6043 fate plays. Dawson might well be the most courtesy of the New Yorker ’s Adam Gopnik, Fax: 514-398-5293 single important figure in the University’s BA’80, one of the best essayists currently Email: news.alumni @mcgill.ca Web: publications.mcgill.ca/mcgillnews history, but he actually had his heart set on putting fingertips to keyboard. Gopnik recently McGill News is published another job before coming here and McGill’s delivered the prestigious Massey Lectures on by McGill University governors weren’t wildly enthusiastic CBC Radio and the focus for his talks was Circulation: 200,000 copies. about hiring him in the first place (he was winter. He’s a longtime hockey fan, old enough Printed in Canada ISSN 0709 9223 only 35, for one thing). One wonders how to remember cheering for Guy Lafleur and the Canadian Publications Mail Product McGill might have developed if Dawson dominant Canadiens teams of the seventies, Sales Agreement No. 40613661. hadn’t come. Would McGill be the McGill so one suspects that Gopnik might have chosen we recognize today? his topic primarily as an excuse to delve into Cover photo of a hockey Another story in this issue focuses on a hockey. In a recent interview with the Globe game at McGill in 1910 from the McCord Museum McGill institution that is marking a pretty and Mail , Gopnik lamented that his New impressive anniversary of its ow n—the Yorker editor, David Remnick, views hockey McGill Daily , now a proudly cantankerous “as just a bunch of white guys banging each centenarian. The Daily has long been a train - other over the head with sticks.” In the lectures ing ground for some of the finest journalists (currently available in bookstores as Winter: in the country, and while I know I’m not in Five Windows on the Season ), Gopnik argues that category, I did learn a thing or two as a the case for his favourite sport. In an excerpt Daily contributor in the mid-eighties. we’re proud to include in this issue, he explores My very first Daily assignment dealt the origins of the game and its roots as a with summer job prospects for students product of Montreal’s unique demography. that year. I dutifully interviewed the head of the McGill Career Planning Service DANIEL M CCABE

M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 3 LETTERS

my fellow McGill NDPers Harold Koblin, Lorenzo in Shakespeare’s The Merchant Steve Yudin and Alan Conter. of Venice says below, it can also put us Hey guys: ready for another go in on our best behaviour: 2015? This time, we mean it! The man that hath no music in himself, S

S DAVID WINCH , BA’80 Nor is not mov’d with concord of E R P

N Geneva, Switzerland sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, A I D

A stratagems, and spoils; The motions N A C

/ n the latest edition of the McGill News , of his spirit are dull as night ... S E H

G Ithe article “Surfing the Orange Wave” Let no such man be trusted. U H

M omitted the election of Joe Oliver, BA’61, (Act V, Sc. 1) A H A

R BCL’64, new Conservative MP for RICHARD ORLANDO , MLS’79 G Eglinton-Lawrence and the minister of Montreal, QC Laurin Liu was one of five McGill natural resources in the federal cabinet. students elected as NDP MPs in May. CHARLES SHAIKOVITZ , would love to BSc’62, DDS’66 Idraw attention SOME SURFBOARDS SANK Haifa, Israel to the McGill read with great interest your article support that Ion the NDP electoral surge in Quebec Mr. Oliver’s election did slip past our surrounded me (“Surfing the Orange Wave,” Spring- notice at first. We hope to make up for on my recording Summer 2011) and the five McGill that by including him in this issue’s Treelines students who were, amazingly, elected Alumnotes section. (mentioned in to Parliament. the McGill News I know their astonishment must be egarding “Surfing the Orange Wave,” Spring-Summer deep, as I preceded them on that then- Ryou might also point out that the NDP’s 2011 Alumnotes ). This recording has quixotic quest over 30 years ago; friends director of operations, responsible for, been getting outstanding international are still surprised that I was allowed among other things, staffing the offices of recognition by the press, including a on the federal ballot back in 1979 and all the NDP MPs, is also a McGill grad. She is 4 1/2 -star review in the June issue of 1980. Our opponent: Liberal incumbent the remarkable Jess Turk-Browne, BA’99. Downbeat . We also were honoured to Pierre Trudeau. Regarding the Greatest McGillians, receive Quebec’s Conseil Québécois de la In short, early in 1979, a group of I am surprised that the McGill News has Musique Prix OPUS for jazz recording of student activists centred on the McGill paid so little attention to outstanding the year. None of this would have been Daily , including myself, decided to take a McGillian Sir Andrew Macphail and possible without the incredible guidance run at the NDP nomination in Mount the recent comprehensive biography and support that I have received from Royal riding. As the riding association about him by McGill grad Dr. Ian Ross staff, students and alumni within the there consisted of a handful of aging Robertson. Schulich School of Music. Most of the Jewish labour-organization veterans, it ALLAN Q SHIPLEY , BA’67 musicians involved with Treelines are was ours for the taking. I was selected as Toronto, ON graduates from the McGill jazz program our flag-bearer. Away we went! and/or hold teaching positions at the We jerry-rigged a $125 campaign We certainly have no quarrel with Schulich School of Music. (all figures reported to Elections Canada) Mr. Shipley over Dr. Macphail’s suitability CHRISTINE JENSEN , and went through the motions of a “real” for being a Great McGillian. Well regarded BMus’94, MMus’06 campaign, including Saturdays spent in both the literary and medical commu- Montreal, QC earnestly passing out flyers in front of the nities, Macphail created University Côte-des-Neiges shopping plaza. Magazine , a widely respected literary POOR CHOICE OF WORDS Our reward for all this enthusiasm? quarterly for many years. He was also was very disappointed to see the A narrow defeat, ha, by 40,000 votes or so, the founding editor of the Canadian Iuse of the discriminatory term both times we tried (in May 1979 and Medical Association Journal and McGill’s “Néo-Québécois” in your article about February 1980). Hence my lament today: first professor of the history of medicine, McGill graduates who are Quebec MNAs. We were just nine elections too early! a position he held for 30 years. The article also asserts that Vanier College, A decade later, during the Brian which I attended, was largely dominated Mulroney era, I penned a wry recollection THE BARD AND THE BEAT by immigrants. The people the article of this misadventure for the Montreal ot only can music make us feel good refers to may have been the children of Gazette (“23-year-old’s challenge to Nby releasing dopamine in the brain immigrants, but we cannot have been Trudeau fell short by 40,000 votes”). (“Getting High on Music,” Spring- immigrants ourselves, having been born That piece also salutes the collaboration of Summer 2011), but as the character here. The many McGill alumni who were

4 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 born here of immigrant parents are no In the seventies, my daughter, then The other letter in the issue that more or less Québécois than anyone else around 10 (now a PhD and a professional in touched me was written by one of my who calls Quebec their home. her own right), saw it on my desk and asked long-term heroes, Dr. Charlie Scriver. CHARLES C. GAMBINO , BA’80 what it was. I showed her the inscription I was doing graduate work at McGill at Pierrefonds, QC proudly. “What’s a debating champion?” the time and know of the contribution of she asked. “Debating is a mind game, where Arnie Steinberg to the Vitamin D success DEBATABLE TROPHY you have to think on your feet,” I replied. story. I have told that amazing Vitamin D s a member of the McGill Debating “Why is it a man?” she rightly asked. story in my talks to leaders over the years ATeam (1955 to 1959), I loved “Because there were very few woman to inspire the understanding of what your article on the Debating Union debaters then.” “That’s silly,” she said. “They leadership is about and how science and (Fall-Winter 2010) and I read with could see you’re not a man.” business can work together. interest the letters from Ken Frankel, Since then, I’m sure many more McGill GERALDINE (OSTROFF) Hon Col B.J. Finestone and John Hobbins debaters have been women, and I’ve SCHWARTZ , BA’59, MA’69, PhD’76 in the Spring-Summer 2011 edition. benefited my whole life from the gift of Principal and Senior Psychologist In 1956, my partner Stuart Smith being able to think on my feet. The ability The Vancouver Learning Centre, BC (the former head of the Liberal Party of to spontaneously engage in the thrust and Ontario and the former chair of the parry of professional discussion and Science Council of Canada) and I won the debate has stood me in good stead. ASUS Novice Debating Championship. The thought of what that means was Something on your mind? We received a big trophy on loan for a brought home full circle last month as I Write to us at: McGill News year and a small hand-sized one to keep observed my granddaughter participate in 1555 Peel Street, Suite 900 of a bronze man in a suit standing on a her high school debating tournament Montreal, Quebec H3A 3L8 podium gesturing. I was so proud of that (in French!) in Vancouver along with her little thing that it survived on my desk or fellow young women classmates as if it Or send an email to: bookshelf for more than five decades and was their birthright. No little men on the news.alumni @mcgill.ca through many moves. trophies for these women!

M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 5 THE PRINCIPA L’ S PERSPECTIVE

A time to tak e stock

EDITOR’S NOTE: It certainly has not been a quiet fall at masked and hooded, forced their way into the offices of the McGill. The University’s 1,700 clerical and support staff have Principal and Provost in the James Building. Police officers arrived just returned to work after a three month strike and months and decided to call for backup in the form of the riot police to of negotiations. During the strike, many employees across disperse a crowd of protesters outside the James Building. McGill’s two campuses worked long hours to provide student The next day, Principal Heather Munroe-Blum asked services and keep the University functioning. Daniel Jutras, Dean of the Faculty of Law, to investigate independ- On November 10, tens of thousands of people, mostly ently the events of November 10. His report will be submitted Quebec university students, marched to protest tuition fee December 15 and released to the community without delay. increases. The largely peaceful march ended at Quebec In this edition of “The Principal’s Perspective,” she addresses Premier Jean Charest’s office, just outside the Roddick Gates. recent events. A similar message was recently sent out to the Shortly afterwards, 14 protestors, some of whom were McGill campus community. N

any members of the A G E

McGill community, E W both on and off campus, O Mhave been upset and concerned by the events of November 10. Some have expressed the concern that McGill is moving away from being an open, tolerant and safe environment. I am profoundly sorry that events so at odds with the culture and values of our University have happened here, and that people are hurt and upset. Principal Heather Munroe-Blum talks to a student following As Principal, I am ultimately responsible a Town Hall event at McGill in the fall of 2010 for what occurs on our campuses. The events of November 10 have served as a their presence on and around our turn our University upside down, but wake-up call for me about problems campuses may be necessary. we must make our University more we have with respect to how we commu- I am encouraged by the many open, more inclusive and stronger. nicate, plan and interact as a community. gestures of mutual support offered by For nearly 200 years, McGill has I commit to work with the McGill our student groups, faculty and staff, stood strong by its core values of community to find solutions. including peaceful gatherings like the academic freedom, freedom of speech, Dean of Law Daniel Jutras’s report, one that took place on November 14. openness, tolerance, hard work, which will be presented to McGill’s These events show that in spite of integrity, collegiality, democracy, Senate and Board of Governors and different points of view, we all care justice and equity. I accepted the made public without delay, will provide deeply about McGill. position as Principal of McGill, because an opportunity for further discussion I also recognize how difficult the long I hold those values dear. Like so many and learning. strike was for everyone in our commu - members of this community, I believe I expressed to Montreal Chief of ni ty—including those who walked the passionately in an open, tolerant, Police Marc Parent the shock and dismay picket lines. The fact that the strike is respectful and safe environment for that we, the McGill community, felt as over is great news. We are very pleased to discussion, debate and the peaceful a result of the deployment of the riot have our colleagues back and to have the expression of dissent. squad. Given that we rely on collabora - opportunity to work together again. These values will continue to guide tion with the police to foster a safe I have been meeting with students, me—as well as the rest of McGill’s and secure environment at McGill, faculty and staff to hear their experi - administratio n—in the actions and we agreed to work to improve our proce - ences and recommendations to improve interactions we will undertake in the dures for those rare instances where relations at McGill. We do not need to coming weeks and months .

6 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 NEWSBITES

Remembering

Richler Mordecai and Florence Richler

When Noah Richler, BA’83, was a child, his father shortlisted for all Mordecai would sit him down on Saturday mornings with three major Canadian awards in 2010 a writing exercise. (the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction “I would be given four words typewritten on a blank Prize, and the Governor General’s Literary Award), as well sheet of paper, or maybe a first or last sentence, and as for the 2011 Orange Prize in the U.K. instructed to write an essay using them.” Winter explains that students chosen to work with her It’s no accident that all five of Mordecai Richler’s children can look forward to individualized instruction. “I try to have gone on to write books or to work as journalists. get rid of how students think they should write, and cut The mischievous satirist, one of Canada’s greatest novelists, to the part that really means something for them.” was deadly serious when it came to the subject of writing well. LOUIS HAMELIN , who will take up the post on the Budding young writers at McGill now have access to French side, snagged a Governor General’s Award with some of the country’s most accomplished authors, thanks his first novel in 1989 and is now the author of nine books, to th e new MORDECAI RICHLER WRITERS-IN-RESIDENCE including the prize-winning La constellation du Lynx , PROGRAM , an initiative kick-started by a $100,000 gift a novel about the October Crisis. from Florence Richler, Mordecai’s widow. Though both writers were chosen fully on the basis of The bilingual program will support two writers a year — literary merit by a committee comprising members of both one each in the Department of English and the Département departments, neither is indifferent to Mordecai Richler’s artistic legacy. Growing up as a British immigrant in N A

G Newfoundland, Winter appreciated the tensions in Richler’s E

N E writing between old and new worlds, remembering, W O “When I was younger it meant a lot to me that he wrote unpretentious, vivid prose with a lot of concrete detail.” Noah Richler points out that Hamelin, who cites Mordecai as an influence, “has had a fascinating relationship with my father’s work for a long time —critical, both from a political and a literary point of view, but in the best sense of the term, engaging with it on its own terms.” At an event celebrating the launch of the program — which is still seeking philanthropic support to reach its fundraising goal of $2.5 million —Hamelin wondered aloud what Mordecai would make of it all. Though Richler (l to r) Louis Hamelin and Kathleen Winter, the inaugural accepted an honorary doctorate from the University shortly writers for the Mordecai Richler Writers-in-Residence Program, before his death, McGill was a frequent target of his satire. chat with Professor Gillian Lane-Mercier Richler also famously did not believe that creative writing could be taught. But Noah Richler considers the program de langue et littérature françaises —to teach creative writing a suitable honour for his father, whom he remembers as and enrich the artistic life of the University with readings an “exceptionally generous” mentor. and workshops. The initiative has the additional, ambitious “He is one of the few writers I know —and in my own mandate of creating a new literary journal. work I have met many —who was always ready to promote Two novelists have been selected as the inaugural writers, and give a leg up to younger writers in whom he and their r ésum és leave no doubt as to the quality of talent saw talent —Guy Vanderhaeghe, Richard Wright and the program hopes to attract. KATHLEEN WINTER is fresh Adam Gopnik to name a few.” off a whirlwind year with her novel Annabel , which was SALEEMA NAWAZ

M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 7 NEWSBITES

Triumph and tragedy

First the news was sensational. Then it was sad. Then it got a little strange. On Monday, October 3, the Nobel Prize Foundation announced that Rockefeller University immunologist

RALPH STEINMAN , BSc’63, would be the seventh McGill Y T I S R

graduate to become a Nobel laureate. No sooner had the E V I N U

celebrations begun before they were cut short by a R E L heartrending update —Steinman had passed away just a L E F E K

few days earlier. C O This posed a dilemma for the Nobel Foundation. Its R longstanding policy is to not award prizes posthumously, but system to potential threats. Though the scientific community no one from the foundation had known about Steinman’s was initially skeptical about the finding, Steinman’s work is death when he was selected as one of its three 2011 Nobel widely influential today. Existing and potential treatments Laureates in Medicine. Would the award be rescinded? for cancer, HIV and transplant rejection all owe their origins The foundation deliberated the matter and came to a quick to his research. conclusion. Steinman’s Nobel would stand. “The events that Before his death, Steinman was rumoured to be in the have occurred are unique and, to the best of our knowledge, running for the Nobel. At a press conference, his daughter are unprecedented in the history of the Nobel Prize,” the Alexis Steinman remembered joking with her father in the foundation announced. days leading up to the prize announcement. “We said to him, Steinman earned the Nobel for his co-discovery of dendritic ‘Hang on until Monday’” when the winners would be named. cells in 1973. These cells play a unique role, serving as a first He wasn’t able to, but earned his Nobel all the same. line of defence against antigens, and alerting the immune DANIEL MCCABE, BA’89

A Savvy Auntie Indeed

Aunts don’t always get A few years back, Notkin was struck by the notion that the best press. They’re there were plenty of these women playing a vital role in the often portrayed as sweet, lives of children. After examining U.S. census data, Notkin but dull ( The Andy recognized a significant market trend. More than 47 percent Griffith Show ’s Aunt Bee) of American women 44 or younger aren’t moms —but a or as eccentrics who sizeable chunk of those women do have nieces or nephews or care little about kids godchildren. “I said, ‘Here’s a real market opportunity to (Aunts Patty and Selma reach these women and, well, everybody is zigging towards from The Simpsons ). mom, why don’t I zag toward the non-mom?’” MELANIE NOTKIN , BA’92, is redefining what it means And zag she did. Her site, SavvyAuntie.com, garnered a to be an aunt. In her view, aunts are hip, fun to be with, Webby Award nomination, her recent book, Savvy Auntie: and committed to the kids they love, and the author The Ultimate Guide for Cool Aunts, Great-Aunts, Godmothers, and entrepreneur —check that, auntrepreneur —is busy and All Women Who Love Kids , cracked the Wall Street making converts. Journal best-sellers list, and her sizeable Facebook and An aunt herself, the New York-based former Montrealer Twitter followings led Real Women magazine to describe her firmly believes that aunts do a lot to enrich a youngster’s as one of its “Social Media Female Superheroes.” life. “No child suffered from too much love.” Notkin is “This is really just the beginning,” vows Notkin. After all, giving a voice to the women she calls PANKS (“Professional she says, every kid could use “an auntorage.” Aunts, No Kids”). VICKI SALEMI

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SCRABBLE SAVANT O

When JOEL WAPNICK ’s mother introduced her nine- year- old son to the game of Scrabble many years ago, she couldn’t have imagined the fire she was lighting in his young mind. He grew up to win the U.S. National Scrabble Championship (1983), the Canadian Championship (1998), and the World Scrabble Championship (1999). Wapnick, a professor of music education at the Schulich School of Music, is rarely at a loss for words. Fired up This summer, he earned his second Canadian championship, just two weeks after his 65th birthday. The victory about earned him $7,000 and a spot at the Worlds in Warsaw in October (he finished 35th in a field of 106). basketball

When an internationally celebrated rock star visits his alma mater, fresh Arcade Fire’s Win Butler on the attack on the heels of winning both the Grammy and the Polaris Music Prize, one might expect hoopla, not hoops. But WIN BUTLER , BA’04, really likes basketball. On September 24, two days after Arcade Fire attracted an estimated 100,000 concert-goers to a free show that had Montreal all abuzz, Butler and members of his band N A

M turned up at the McGill Sports Centre for the first annual L L U C

Pop vs Jock charity basketball game. Win and brother Will R E G

O suited up for the Pop team, along with Vampire Weekend’s R Chris Tomson and Graham Van Pelt from Miracle Fortress. Wapnick has memorized thousands of unusual Representing the jocks were members of the McGill and words over the years without bothering with piffling Concordia basketball squads. Sound like a mismatch? distractions like definitions. He points out that we Not so much. needn’t know how our car engine works to drive, For one thing, the Butler boys exhibited surprising court nor how our heart works for it to beat. skills —particularly Win, who landed several three-pointers. He has literally written the book on the game — For another, the Butlers stacked the deck, recruiting How to Play Scrabble Like a Champion —in which he ex-NBAer Paul Shirley and San Antonio Spurs forward Matt discusses memorization methods, how to bluff, and Bonner to play for their side, a duo not exactly renowned when to challenge. His strategies include playing a for musical ability (unless you count the sheepish version phony, but plausible, word to lure opponents to place an of “I’m a Little Teapot” that Win coaxed out of the pair “S” down to pluralize it, and then challenging them off during intermission). the board (he once played “henbite(s)”, easily mistaken Win’s wife and bandmate Régine Chassagne (who briefly for the real “henbit”). This is a man who dreams of studied jazz at McGill) played organ throughout the match, the opportunity to slap down “comm” on “unique” to treating the crowd to “The Macarena” and other cheesy create “communiqué.” morsels. More music came from Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Scrabble players can be notoriously superstitious, Parry and scratch DJ Kid Koala (aka Eric San, BEd’96). bringing favourite pens or hats to tournaments. In the end, the Pop team triumphed, 106 to 100, Wapnick made sure to pack his lucky rack for Warsaw. to the obvious delight of a widely grinning Win Butler. A red plastic one from a deluxe Scrabble game his All proceeds went to DJ Sports Club, a Montreal organization mom bought in 1962. that provides sports and recreational programs to more MAEVE HALDANE than 900 youths. DANIEL MCCABE, BA’89

M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 9 NEWSBITES

THE GREATEST OF THE GREATS

After nearly 60,000 votes and months of sometimes furious the University’s founder, debate, the results are in for the Greatest McGillians James McGill. contest. And the winner was a bit of a surprise. The contest aimed to THOMAS CHANG , BSc’57, MDCM’61, PhD’65, might not educate as well as to spark have the Nobel Prize pedigree of third place finisher Ernest discussion, and MAA Rutherford, or the worldwide celebrity status of runner-up executive director Honora Leonard Cohen, BA’55, DLitt’92, but the director of McGill’s Shaughnessy, MLS’73, Artificial Cells and Organs Research Centre clearly earned feels that those goals S

the rock-solid support of a sizeable number of the voters were accomplished. I R A G I

who took part in the contest. “There are now thousands L L A C

Chang invented the artificial blood cell in his dorm room in the McGill community O I D U

as a McGill undergraduate and became an early pioneer of who are more aware of the A L biomedical engineering in the process. His later work led achievements of someone C to, among other things, a treatment for drug poisoning that like a Thomas Chang, or a Bernard Belleau, who was used around the world. co-developed the highly effective anti-AIDS drug 3TC.” The contest, developed by the McGill Alumni Association The contest might be closed, but the Greatest McGillians (MAA) as part of the celebration of the University’s 190th will live on. The 20 finalists, and some 30 other Great anniversary, called on members of the McGill community McGillians, will be enshrined in a new web-based, historical to nominate candidates for the title of Greatest McGillian, timeline highlighting McGill’s history through its greatest then vote on a final field of 20. Other nominees who achievers. Contest organizers plan to “induct” a new set earned substantial support included William Osler, Wilder of McGillians into the timeline each year. Penfield, Brenda Milner, John Humphrey and, of course, DANIEL CHONCHOL, BCL’81, LLB’82 N A G E

N E W O Beating the Off Campus Blues

are trained to direct off campus students to McGill resources they can benefit from. The fellows also help build mini-McGill communities across the city and the greater Montreal area by organizing events in their designated neighbourhood, such as potlucks, game nights, and study groups. McGill off campus fellow Vera Khramova Off campus fellow Vera Khramova, a fourth-year cognitive science student living in Mile End, enjoys showing off the McGill has come a long way since it first opened its doors in the pleasures of her neighbourhood to new McGill students, 1840s to a handful of students who studied in the Arts Building introducing them to the wonders of Montreal bagel shops and and probably slept there too. the Jean Talon Market. “So many students living off campus Today, more than 90 percent of McGill’s roughly 35,000 have a hard time connecting and finding friends without the students live off campus and that poses challenges. “It became benefit of a social structure like residence,” she notes. clear that off campus students didn’t use McGill’s network of Freedman encourages alumni to get involved too. “It would student services, simply because they didn’t have anyone to be great to have alumni volunteers helping us with events in guide them,” says Eli Freedman, the coordinator of McGill’s their neighbourhoods. We’re all part of the same McGill new OFF CAMPUS FELLOW PROGRAM . The program recruits community, it’s intergenerational.” upper-year students living in different parts of Montreal who NIYOSHA KEYZAD

10 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 DISCOVERY: RERSEARCH AT MCGILL

In defence of religion

In the 10 years since the September 11 Gregory Baum, a convert attacks, the mainstream consensus has to Catholicism who served come to define religion by its most as a theological advisor extreme and violent adherents. Osama during the Second Vatican bin Laden’s scriptural interpretations Council, Tariq Ramadan, were accepted by many in the Western an Oxford professor of media as being authoritative, while theology and the author of reporters covering last year’s burning of Western Muslims and the a Koran by a fringe-dwelling Floridian Future of Islam . The guest never failed to identify him as a who garnered the most Christian preacher. attention, unsurprisingly, In such an atmosphere, ARVIND was the Dalai Lama, Nobel SHARM A’s belief in the positive poten - Prize winner and exiled tial of religion seems to be not just naive, leader of Tibet’s Buddhists. but a form of secular apostasy. Sharma concedes Sharma’s faith in religion’s ability to the big names helped draw inspire our better natures was a driving the big crowds, but the force behind the Global Conference star-struck were asked to on World Religions After 9/11, which put what they heard into attracted more than 2,000 participants practice almost immediate - on September 7, a sequel to a similar ly. At the end of the day, S conference held in 2006. I the conference attendees R A G I

“The perception in the media [since L produced and agreed on L A C

O 9/11] was that religion was largely nega - three resolutions: that, I D U A

tive. But with that, we were depriving wherever in the world there L C ourselves, of religion, and of the possibil - are religious schools (semi - ity of it being a force for human flourish - nary, or yeshiva, or madrasah, etc), day-to-day experience of the people ing,” explains Sharma, McGill’s Birks they should teach a course in world living them, and people can change. Professor of Comparative Religion and religions; that violating the sanctity Sharma points out that Christianity the chief organizer for the conference. of the scripture of any religion has progressed from the Inquisition to “It is assumed that religions must amounts to violating the sanctity of the a state where there is an unwritten be in conflict with each other [and] it scriptures of all religions; and finally, prohibition against proselytizing in is assumed that religion must be in that the religions of the world should Jewish communities. conflict with the secular. The core of come together to formulate a Universal “One of the surest ways of dissolving our conference has been to be a correc - Declaration of Human Rights by the bias against a religion in the person, tive to these misperceptions.” World’s Religions. is to introduce a member of that faith to Convinced that “religion,” broadly Of those three, it is probably that person. This is an amazing solvent, speaking, deserved to speak back, the call for education that is the closest of the stereotypes we have come Sharma invited writers, academics and to Sharma’s heart. The global clash to hold because of the nature of our leaders from a variety of traditions: New of religions that appears to be the public life. This is the distillation of the Age spiritualist Deepak Chopra, Steven inheritance of mankind masks a larger point that the world’s religions are T. Katz, director of the Elie Wiesel Center truth: religions are not entities unto living entities.” for Judaic Studies at Boston University, themselves: they are part of the MARK REYNOLDS

M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 11 DISCOVERY

Rich Man, Poor Man, Sick Man

quality of life: poorer and less educated less infectious or chronic disease, Canadians can count on lower life better mental health, or more dexterity expectancy and more health problems. and mobility in older age . “Where you are at age 20 tends to “The good news,” says Ross, put you on a track for your life course,” “is that there doesn’t seem to be an says Ross. “And the track for people accelerated decline for those with E H T

Y with the poorest education and lowest lower incomes, even in the older age S R O F income is low and stays lower through - groups.” Their health is not as good, T T A

M out the life course.” “but they’re not sliding more rapidly Ross and her colleagues pored over in the wrong direction.” There is a widening gap between the data on 17,000 Canadians aged 20 to What can be done to close the gap? rich and the poor in Canada, and the 80 who were questioned about their “I think our findings support the news just got worse for those who get health over a 16-year period as part of importance of early life experiences in by with less. Statistics Canada’s National Population setting one’s health trajectory. If you Research led by NANCY ROSS , an Health Survey. Those with more look at our investment in kids, it has associate professor of geography, shows education and higher incomes had been weaker than in other countries.” that there is also a gap in health-related better overall health, whether it was ANDREW MULLINS

What big teeth you have, Fido

It’s not often that old bones make crocodiles, the creature bears no worldwide headlines, but the discovery resemblance to any previously of the remains of a very peculiar-looking known animal. crocodile did just that this summer. “They were nothing like In the July issue of the science journal living crocodiles today,” a sense of PLoS One , HANS LARSSON , BSc’94, says Larsson. “They were not whether cer - McGill’s Canada Research Chair in amphibious, they weren’t crawling on tain parts of the Vertebrate Palaeontology, and his their bellies, they didn’t have low, brain were more colleagues described the long-extinct flat skulls, and they didn’t have a lot develope d—for Pissarrachampsa sera crocodile, a beast of teeth.” example, the areas for shaped more like a dog than any Instead, they walke d—or sight, or smell, or crocodile. Previously, almost nothing bounded —atop their legs, like dogs, balance.” They are in was known about these crocs. and ate with teeth like those of a the process of preparing “Their fossils were hidden away in sabre-toothed tiger. politically charged areas most researchers Larsson and his team have hadn’t been able to see,” explains Larsson. continued to explore the fossils,

Following on the discovery of a collection most recently by subjecting them to COURTESY HANS LARSSON of five fossils in Brazil, however, Larsson CT scans at the Jewish General Hospital. and his team (which included graduate “The data is just extraordinary,” several more articles expanding their student Felipe Montefeltro) have mapped says Larsson. “We’re now reconstructing findings, which have completely the crocodile in extreme detail. the areas inside the skull, including the changed the science world’s under - A member of the previously misun - brain-space, to get an idea of the size and standing of Baurusuchia crocodiles. derstood Baurusuchia grouping of shape of the brain. This allows us to get JESSE STANIFORTH, BA’01, MA’03

12 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 Stress and the City

Ever wonder why people like to escape the dwellers face a 21 percent higher risk big city for the countryside? Sure, it has for anxiety disorders and a 39 percent fresh air and natural surroundings, but a higher risk for mood disorders. recent study suggests people who live in Schizophrenia is nearly twice as preva - cities are neurologically more prone to lent in cities. But Douglas Mental getting stressed out. Health University Institute researcher Published in Nature , the internation - JENS PRUESSNER was part of a team al study looked at how city living affects that showed for the first time that being regions of the brain that manage emotion born and raised in a city can affect the and stress. It was already known that city brain in measurable ways.

EDWARD KWONG NO BETTER THAN A COIN TOSS The researchers analyzed the brains of healthy individuals from city and rural environments using functional MADHUKAR PAI (pictured) recently magnetic resonance imaging. The helped change World Health Organization results showed that current city living policy. Pai, an assistant professor with entailed higher activity in the amygdala, McGill’s Respiratory Epidemiology and an almond-shaped structure involved in Clinical Research Unit, co-authored a emotion and memory. An urban paper that highlighted the ineffective - upbringing was found to affect the ness of the serological (antibody) blood perigenual anterior cingulate cortex, tests that are widely used to detect which helps regulate amygdala activity, negative feelings and stress.

tuberculosis. His work was one of N A G

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W of city living our brains respond to to recommend that these tests be O permanently retired. differently,” says Pruessner. “It could While “antibody tests work well for shouldn’t, while patients receiving a be a stimulus which actually occurs other infections, such as HIV,” Pai says false negative are unknowingly both in urban as well as rural their accuracy rate for TB is only about spreading the infection. environments, but more frequently 50 percent, “which literally means that While WHO policy carries some in urban environments.” they are no better than a coin flip.” weight, the organization has no way Pruessner, who directs the McGill Unfortunately, more than a million of of enforcing its recommendation, and Centre for Studies in Aging, says further these tests are carried out each year, Pai worries that these tests are still on experiments are needed to understand despite the fact that they often produce the market. He hopes that the profit the impact of cities as human popula - dangerously misleading results. motive will encourage drug compa - tions everywhere continue to flock to “We learned that 17 of the 22 highest nies to work on more effective tests. urban centres. TB-burdened countries in the world “If there is such a worldwide mar - “This stress sensitization effect of have these tests on the market, and ket for tests which are scientifically city living needs to be studied in subjects many clinics use them.” unproven, imagine what kind of mar - who are affected by disease, to under - Pai’s study also looked at the cost- ket there would be for a proven test.” stand if and how this further affects their functioning.” effectiveness of these tests. He found Pai is doing his part. He is busy at TIM HORNYAK, BA’95 that antibody tests, while cheap in the work developing a new type of TB short term, prove to be expensive in test that could diagnose the disease the long run for a nation’s health care within minutes at a cost of less than system. Patients receiving false positive $2 a test. results are taking drugs that they SYLVAIN COMEAU

M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 13 DISCOVERY A Quantum Leap for Research

“It’s a lot of computing power,” that would normally take years to says SANGYONG JEON , director of process can be crunched in weeks, CLUMEQ, the supercomputer-based explains Jeon, an associate professor of consortium that brings together McGill, physics at McGill. “You can break up your Université Laval, Université du Québec program into a thousand pieces, run and École de technologie supérieure in them all together and they communicate. the high-performance computing world The real power is in having this massive of gigaflops and petabytes. Inaugurated parallelism.” in June, CLUMEQ’s new acquisition That means the huge amounts has been funded by provincial and of data generated in developing new federal governments and supported by drugs, mapping the brain using 3D IBM Canada. imaging or studying climate science Guillimi n—named after Marie- suddenly becomes exponentially more Charlotte Guillimin, James McGill’s manageable, as do the costs. wife — has been called a game-changer “The system is already in use about

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O and a quantum leap for research in 85 to 90 percent of the time,” says Jeon. W K

R Quebec and Canada and is ranked the “Nuclear physicists, engineers, social A W

D 55th fastest computer in the world. scientist s—everybody is interested E Actually a cluster of 1,200 connected in using it.” You thought your shiny new laptop computers containing 14,400 cores, ANDREW MULLINS was fast? Meet Guillimin, McGill’s new Guillimin is physically housed at École supercomputer, an $8.3-million dream de technologie supérieure and can be machine for university researchers, accessed remotely by researchers across who get to put Guillimin’s enormous the country. memory to work on everything from Taking advantage of all those cores astrophysics to neuroscience. working at the same time means data

HIP-HOP HIGH SCHOOL

Many word s—not all of them Low’s interest in hip-hop stems from complimentar y—have been used to its influence on language, specifically describe hip-hop. But in its 30-plus among young people. This led her to a years of existence, the Bronx-bred white high school English teacher keen art form, though a dominant cultural on learning more about the music and force, has seldom been called “peda - culture to improve his rapport with his gogically exciting.” students, most of whom were black or BRONWEN LOW , an associate Hispanic. Low quickly realized that the professor in the Faculty of Education, very reasons why hip-hop made many

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aims to change that. In 2002, Low instructors and administrators feel A G I Z embarked on a study that saw her antsy about it were also what made it T introduce hip-hop and spoken-word such a valuable classroom tool. poetry to several English classes in an “The conversations we had about own classroom interactions. “I definitely arts-magnet high school in the north - language, or about race and identity bring in that work to my students,” she eastern United States, an experience and cultural ownership issue s—these says, “because one of the things we’re try - she explores in her recent book Slam actually became the sites where not ing to understand is how best to engage School: Learning Through Conflict only the students seemed to learn a lot, young people, and getting a sense of how in the Hip-Hop and Spoken Word but the teachers did, too.” they use language is a big part of that.” Classroom (Stanford University Press). Low carries this research into her LUCAS WISENTHAL, BA’03

14 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 ALUMNI PROFILE

Guillermo Russo with his famous boss, Hell’s Kitchen star Gordon Ramsay S S E R P

N A I D A N A C / S E H G U H

M A H A R G No Hell in This Kitchen

GUILLERMO RUSSO , BA’05, may have a degree in Last winter, Russo was one of three chefs to make industrial relations and international development, but he’s Ramsay’s short list for the Laurier job. Russo suspects been keeping busy reinventing a Montreal culinary landmark. he got the gig because he was respectful of the Last winter, rotisserie chicken fans across the city raised restaurant’s past. eyebrows at the news that their beloved Laurier BBQ was “We had to create a tasting menu of how we saw the set to become British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s first future of this classic rotisserie,” recalls Russo. “I think Canadian restaurant. Longtime patrons wrung their hands, [the other candidates] forgot that this institution has been wondering how the in-your-face chef would transform the around since 1936, so the menu is not something you 75-year-old institution. can easily revamp. I took some of the classics, gave them a Although the retro wood panelling and hunting bit of a spin, and played around with rustic dishes. I kept memorabilia have been replaced by a sleek new bar and it family-style and very straightforward.” glassed-in wine cellar, head chef Russo intends to preserve Since the restaurant reopened in mid-August, Russo the spirit of what older clients loved while attracting has been clocking 14-hour days and managing a staff of 50. younger, hipper customers. “I didn’t want people to feel I “Kitchen hours are very different from corporate hours,” was taking away something they’re attached to.” he laughs. “Being a chef demands a lot of dedication, but The son of a diplomat, Russo was born in Peru and has I don’t see it as a job; I do it because I love it.”Classic lived all over the world, yet he spent much of his life in poutine and rotisserie chicken are still the stars of the Montreal, growing up just a few blocks from Laurier BBQ. But menu, yet Russo has managed to put his stamp on things, how does an industrial relations grad suddenly become a chef? such as buying local and organic whenever possible, and “Throughout my studies at McGill, I was always working insisting on everything being made fresh. in restaurant kitchens to support myself,” explains Russo. Russo’s association with the flamboyant Ramsay has “When I finished my university degree, I realized I’d spent launched him into the culinary spotlight; he’s lost count as much time in kitchens as in the library. It became clear to of how many people have asked him if he’s running a me that cooking was my true passion.” Hell’s Kitchen , and admits that some of his boss’s exacting After finishing his McGill studies, Russo enrolled in ways have already rubbed off on him. Le Cordon Bleu Ottawa Culinary Arts Institute. He did stints “Gordon knows what he wants, and he won’t stop at several award-winning Toronto restaurants, including The until he gets it. I push towards the same standards. Black Hoof and Chez Lucien, and then managed Ottawa’s Whether it’s 3-star Michelin or pub food, it has to be Aroma before returning to Montreal to become executive the best possible.” chef at Olivieri bistro. WENDY HELFENBAUM

M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 15 N Joan Moses, the McGill Daily’ s A R T

X coordinating editor E L A

16 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 THE OLDEST RABBLE-ROUSER ON CAMPUS

For 100 years, the McGill Daily (also known as the “McGill School of Journalism”) has trained some of the country’s best reporters, while giving senior McGill administrators frequent cause to reach for the antacids. BY ALLYSON ROWLEY, BA’77

kay, listen up, all you corporate mouthpieces terrific training,” says Phillips, currently the editorial page and capitalist lackeys. On October 2, 2011, the editor for the Toronto Star and formerly the editor of both McGill Daily student newspaper turned 100. the Victoria Times Colonist and the Montreal Gazette . OThat’s an entire century of questioning author- Phillips recalls the laborious process of producing the ity, poking and prodding the powers-that-be, paper, back in the days of typewriters, cold type technolo - and giving voice to the voiceless. Not to mention a whole gy and lay-out sheets which were (literally) cut-and-paste. lot of late-night pizza and early-morning smoked meat. “It involved not sleeping and missing classes and turning Now, in the spirit of “there’s no such thing as objectivi - your life over to this thing,” Phillips remembers. “It was very ty in journalism,” let me state right up front: I am not now, exciting. You felt you were at the crossroads of everything nor have I ever been, a journalist. Still, I do have my own that was going on.” McGill Daily experience. I wrote a short article about a pro - Like it or no t—and people generally have strong feel - fessor who had been suspended. I think. (This was at least ings about the paper one way or the othe r—the Daily is 35 years ago, after all.) After handing in my sweaty effort, McGill’s second-oldest ongoing publication. ( Old McGill , I learned there is this thing called “A Lede .” (Those darned the student annual, was first published in 1897). How to journalists have special words for everything.) When I define it? Judging from the many and various claims to opened the paper later in the week, I saw my article had fame over the decades, this has proven slippery even for been rewritten into something really quite impressive, Daily staff. In 1915, it billed itself as “the only college daily bearing only passing resemblance to what I had handed in. in Canada.” This was hammered home even more fervently After that, I stuck to theatre reviews. (and a tad grumpily) a few years later in Old McGill 1917: But I learned a lot from that brief experience. I learned “The average student does not perhaps appreciate the fact I could meet a deadline (very good). I learned I’m the kind of that in the McGill Daily he has the only daily college news - person who tends to believe what people tell me (some - paper published in all the length and breadth of Canada.” times very bad). And along the way, I learned that “30” By the thirties, the Daily had revised its plug to “the wasn’t just any old number in an endless series of numbers oldest college daily in Canada.” By the seventies, it was vari- heading toward infinity. It was The End. ously known as “one of only 37 student dailies in North “Working on the Daily was by far the most important America” and “the second-largest English-language morn - thing I did at McGill,” says veteran journalist Andrew ing newspaper in Quebec” (after Montreal’s Gazette ). Phillips, BA’76, who was the student editor responsible for Today, the Daily ’s website describes itself as “at one time that efficient rewrite of my fledgling article. “I could always the oldest daily student newspaper in the Commonwealth” write, but I was quickly drawn into editing and coordinat - and “currently the second-largest student newspaper in ing and production work. It was a real immersio n—and Canada and the most widely read.”

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Former Daily ites (l to r): National Post managing editor for features Ben Errett, BSc’01, Toronto Star editorial page editor Andrew Phillips, BA’76, and Globe and Mail critic and editor Carl Wilson, BA’89

PRONE TO PROVOCATION No matter how you spin it, there’s little doubt the Daily the Gazette to ask about job openings. I was told that is, arguably, the best-known student newspaper in the women could work only on the women’s page and the pay country and that it has been at the centre of a fair bit of was $25 a week. Even in 1956, you couldn’t live on that. controversy throughout its history. As early as 1933, two The ceiling wasn’t glass in those days, it was concrete, and student publications associated with the Dail y—The we cracked our heads on it frequently.” Davis went on to Alarm Clock (published by a student socialist organiza - become an award-winning author and a frequent contribu - tion) and The Black Sheep (run by a group of suspended tor to magazines like Redbook and Woman’s Day . Daily students )—provoked public outrage and were each The Daily has frequently broken new journalistic banned from publication. From charges of “obscene libel” groun d—for example, supporting French-language rights in 1967 against several Daily staffers (which resulted in in the sixties, publishing a special issue on International student protests and the occupation of the administra - Women’s Day in the seventies, and creating a gay and lesbian tion’s offices), to Daily staffers being visited by Quebec supplement in the eightie s—often long before these issues police during the October Crisis of 1970, to the many heated were covered by the mainstream media. Daily staff have campaigns over the years by student council to fire Daily occasionally scooped their professional counterparts on the editors-in-chie f—it’s clear the paper has earned its big stories of the day. And all the while, of course, the Daily stripes as a venerable, leftist (if one can use those two has constantly criticized the University administration. words in the same phrase) newspaper which challenges “A student newspaper is meant to be provocative,” says the status quo. Judy Rebick, BSc’67. Author, activist and a professor of “I learned a lot, working on the Daily , including a few distinction at Ryerson University, Rebick echoes Phillips’s things that were misleading,” says Flora Davis, BA’56, the assessment of the value of working on the Daily : “My life second woman to become the paper’s managing editor. totally changed when I joined the paper in my second year. “My experience on the Daily suggested that women could It was the centre of my education at McGil l—and the start expect equal treatment. Then in my senior year, I phoned of my adult life.”

18 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 Rebick remembers a seminal experience when she worked on the Daily . Editor-in-chief Sandy Gage, BA’67, was What I learned at the Daily fired by the student council for an article exposing a McGill professor’s research for the U.S. Pentagon. The Daily staff resigned en masse in protest; Gage was reinstated two weeks later through an arbitration process. “It was the first While my political views shifted significantly to the left time in my life that I took on a leadership role,” says Rebick, during my year on the Daily , my passion for the night who went on to serve as president of the National Action sky also increased. I enjoyed writing stories about the Committee on the Status of Women and as the founding December 13, 1974, partial eclipse of the sun, visible from publisher of rabble.ca. McGill, and about astronomer Fred Hoyle’s visit to campus. DAVID LEVY , DSc’03, is a contributing editor for INK-STAINED AND WELL-TRAINED Sky and Telescope , a columnist for SkyNews and one of the most successful comet discoverers in history. If the main purpose of a student newspaper is to get up the nose of those in authority, clearly it serves another essen - The most important thing I learned, especially while tial purpose: to foster the next generation of journalists and I was co-associate editor with John Fraser, was to remain opinion-makers. And that, the Daily has done in spades. calm when the usual brush fires threatened to coalesce Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Krauthammer, BA’70, into infernos. This lesson has stood me in good stead. DLitt’93, one of the most influential syndicated columnists FREDERICK LOWY , BA’55, MDCM’59, LLD’01, in the U.S., is a former Daily editor, as is legendary CBC pro - is the president and vice-chancellor of Concordia University. ducer Mark Starowicz, BA’68, DLitt’01, the driving force behind Canada: A People’s History . You’ll find ex- Daily ites As cheesy as this sounds, that the friends you make on the mastheads of most of the major newspapers in this at university are what you will remember bes t—not the country. You’ll even find them in Ottawa. Canada’s natural most interesting courses, or the most popular profs. The Daily was my family for two years. resources minister, Joe Oliver, BA’61, BCL’64, once chaired CÉLINE HEINBECKER , BA’00, works for the the Daily ’s editorial board. Brian Topp, BA’83, one of the Canadian Foreign Service . leading contenders for the leadership of the federal NDP, is a former Daily editor. The most important thing I learned as a result of working Neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne, BSc’80, DSc’11, at the Daily is what I would do with the rest of my life. started off as a photographer at the Daily before serving DON MACPHERSON is the Montreal Gazette ’s as science editor. “We put together special editions on many Quebec affairs columnist. of the topical issues of the da y—including test-tube babies, genetic engineering and alternative energy source s—some of which are just as topical today,” says Tessier-Lavigne, now president of Rockefeller University in New York. “It was definitely one of the highlights of my McGill experience.” Even a media mogul or two got their start at the Daily . to a favourite newsstand to buy the New York Times , which “I was as low-level a reporter as you could be,” says Mortimer he would read from cover to cover. “It was all part of my pas - Zuckerman, BA’57, BCL’61, LLD’11, of his time at the paper. sion for the news. I know it sounds corny, but I still love it,” It was an important chapter in a lifelong love affair for says Zuckerman, a Manhattan-based real estate magnate, Zuckerman, who remembers biking as a teenager every day philanthropist and political commentator, who owned (and sold) the Atlantic Monthly and Fast Company maga - G R E

B zines, and now owns both U.S. News & World Report and M O O

L the New York Daily News . B / S E

I And let’s not forget the poets. According to a special K C I F 100th anniversary edition of the Daily published earlier N A H T

A this year, the paper’s annual literary supplement in the N O J twenties was “arguably the birthplace of Canadian Modernism.” Edited by Canlit giant A.J.M. Smith, BSc(Arts)’25, MA’25, DLitt’58, the supplement featured the early work of such Canadian literary icons as A.M. Klein, BA’30, and F. R. Scott, BCL’27, LLD’67. Speaking of icons, a 20-year-old Leonard Cohen, BA’55, DLitt’92, published his award-winning poem “The Sparrows” in the Daily in 1954. In 1962, Irving Layton, BSc(Agr)’39, MA’46, offered two of his poems for publica - Former Dailyite Mortimer Zuckerman, now owns tion: “Breakdown” and “Drunk on McGill Campus.” Not US News & World Report and the New York Daily News too surprisingly, Layton is quoted as advising undergrad - uates to “go out and lead drunk and disorderly lives.”

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So, how did this iconic rag (a.k.a. the unofficial “McGill L A School of Journalism”) get its start? Seems it happened in the usual wa y—with a lot of debate, discussion, doubts, and trial and error. According to Old McGill 1914, the Daily was “the outcome of several more or less unsuccessful attempts at journalism.” A monthly magazine named the Gazette had been launched in 1873 and lasted 17 years. The McGill Fortnightly followed from 1892 to 1898. Then came two weeklies: the McGill Outlook, which had an eight-year lifespan, and the McGill Martlet, which lasted three years. Why start up a daily, when weeklies, biweeklies and monthlies had failed? Well, it might have had something to do with one rather ambitious young man: 19-year-old William E. Gladstone Murray, BA’12, the Daily ’s first McGill Daily production night: Busy at work are (l to r) editor-in-chief. Nicole Stradiott o, Rebecca Katzman and Alyssa Favreau Judging by Old McGill 1912, “Weg” was a busy guy. Not only editor of that year’s Old McGill , he was also class supplies and toothpaste, with a few surprisingly timeless president for Arts 1912, he belonged to the Arts Literary headlines (“How about a Glee club?”) along with a few Society, the Mock Parliament and the Western Club (pre - not-so-timeless (“Study of Latin has increased greatly”). sumably, because he hailed from Vancouver), and he was Military coverage had grown, of course, including lists of treasurer of the Track Club and captain of the Harriers McGill casualties. (The Daily even published a weekly called (long-distance runners), who were the Canadian intercol - the McGilliken by former members of the editorial staff legiate champions that year, ousting the U of T favourites stationed in France.) in a surprise upset. Printed at the office of the Westmount News , the With the encouragement of Stephen Leacock, Murray Daily had a staff of six women and 19 men in 1913-14, transformed the weekly Martlet into the Daily . A daily rising to 10 women and 30 men by 1915-16. (The Daily student newspaper “has long been the dream of enthusiasts office was the only place in the student union building for the welfare of McGill,” states an article on the front page not restricted to men.) Recurring concerns were pretty of the Daily ’s first issue, published Monday, October 2, 1911. much the same then as now: whether to pay the editor; Years later, in 1936, Murray would become the CBC’s first whether to pay anyone at all; how to get enough advertis - general manager. ing revenue to pay for the paper’s operations; how to over - The first issues of the Daily sold for five cents a copy. come the usual apathy of the student body; and how to It was published four days a week, although that soon negotiate the age-old give-and-take between satirizing increased to daily (except for Sundays). Not surprisingly, your least favourite professor and knowing when you sports got a lot of coverage. And also theatr e—this was have gone too far. before TV, movies and even radio, of course. Still, there was much that was familiar. For example, the A “FIERY DIVORCE” October 15, 1915, issue had ads for clothing, coffee, school Let’s flash forward now to 1981. After years of locking horns with the student council over editorial policy and S E V I especially over its choice of editor-in-chief, the Daily H C R A becomes independent, ratified by a student referendum Y T I S

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G overseen by the student council. C M Interestingly, the Tribune itself has now gone inde - pendent, as of 2010-11. Former Tribune editor-in-chief and board chair Matthew Chesser, BA’11, explains this was several years in the making to ensure a smooth and peaceful transition. “I’ve heard the Daily ’s split described as like a fiery divorce after an affair, whereas with the Tribune , it was more of a mutually beneficial break-up,” he jokes. Today, the Daily is published twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays. It shares its office with sister publication McGill Daily staffers in 1915 exhibiting Le Délit (rough translation: “offence,” as in “criminal a somewhat stricter dress code misdemeanour”) which hits the stands on Tuesdays. Their combined weekly circulation is 28,000.

20 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 The Daily no longer has an “editor-in-chief,” choosing She credits her Daily experience with teaching her not instead the egalitarian title of “coordinating editor” only to be a journalist, but also an entrepreneur. “It was (although annual elections are still held for the position). so critical to my education,” says Wittstock. “Technology Its website clearly reflects the Daily ’s continued left- may change… but words have power.” leaning bent: One of its statements of principles is “… the Daily recognizes that all events and issues are inherently For more about the Daily ’s 100th anniversary celebra - pol itical, involving relations of social and economic power.” tions, including more comments from former Daily “It’s a really great thing to be a part of,” says 2011-12 staffers and video coverage of the Daily Reunion at Daily coordinating editor Joan Moses, a U3 student in McGill Homecoming, please visit publications.mcgill.ca/ political science and English. Late nights and early morn - mcgillnews. ings are still de rigueur , despite the fact that current staffers now use sleek Macs and Adobe InDesign software. (They Allyson Rowley is a writer and editor living in Toronto. upload a PDF directly to the printer.) Moses speculates that Until recently, she was senior writer for the McGill News the new technology in fact enables staffers to work even and the editor of Making History: McGill’s Report on later, since they no longer have to worry about physically Private Giving . getting files to a printer. Run by the Daily Publications Society, the paper is fund - ed by advertising revenue and student fees ($6/semester per undergraduate). Boris Shedov, the DPS’s full-time general and advertising manager, emphasizes this revenue has to pay What I learned at the Daily for three issues a week (two from the Daily and one from Le Délit ), as well as two ongoing websites. “The world has changed,” says Shedov, who has been a DPS staff member since 1984 and now oversees five part-time staff. He points I learned that writing was fun when you wrote about to increased competition from more free newspapers and issues that mattered. I learned that working together web publications, as well as significant increases in with other like-minded people to change the world was cost s—all the while running a fully independent business exhilarating. And I learned that you couldn’t focus not subsidized by a larger media parent and funded in part only on student problems, you had to look beyond by student fees which are “not indexed to inflation.” campus to the society in which it existed. Shedov emphasizes the important opportunity the ELLEN ROSEMAN , BA’68, is a Toronto Star columnist Daily continues to provide to McGill students. “They are free specializing in personal finance and consumer issues. to write what they think, before they go out and work in the Be curious, bold and question conventional wisdom. commercial world. It’s the only true liberty they will ever Do not be afraid to challenge authority. And have have,” says Shedov, adding: “We really draw some of the fu n—it’s only journalism! I hope the Daily continues to brightest students at McGill.” teach those lessons to new generations of aspiring “It was one of the most fulfilling things I’ve ever done,” writers in its next 100 years. says Daily board member Will Vanderbilt, B A&Sc’11, of his JULIAN SHER , BA’75, is a national correspondent two years as production and design editor. “It’s a huge time for the Globe and Mail and the author of six books. commitment, but you gain an amazing skill set.” Caroline Zimmerman, BA’08, agrees. Now a literary 1. How to write clearly, succinctly, and on time. agent with the Kneerim & Williams Agency, she was a Daily 2. That you should write as though you will lose culture editor, overseeing the work of 25 to 30 writers. “It was 10 percent of your audience per paragraph. an education in real-world teamwork,” says Zimmerman, 3. That consensual decision-making in large groups is impossible. who credits her Daily experience with helping her to nab JOSEPH HEATH , BA’90, is the director of the Centre for Ethics internships and then land her first job. at the University of Toronto. Broadcast journalist Melinda Wittstock, BA’86, has spent the past nine years leading Capitol News Connection, It’s okay to work for free. Some of the most interesting work a news service which specializes in localized “shoe leather” will have no paycheque attached to it. In journalism and in reporting. “My office is close to the Supreme Court,” says the life. Think about making a baby; no one pays you to do that. Washington-based Wittstock, who has also worked with JOHN ORTVED , BA’03, is the author of BBC World TV and ABC News. “All the struggles that play The Simpsons: An Unauthorized, Uncensored History. out here on Capitol Hill played out hour by hour at the Daily . Was it good training? You bet it was!” If you don’t enjoy making the paper, no one’s going Wittstock is now launching a new venture called to enjoy reading it. Newsit, a user-generated news service which leverages BEN ERRETT , BSc’01, is the managing editor for social media to create what she calls “hyper-relevant features at the National Post . news” —local news which “people are passionate about and the media doesn’t cover.”

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A hockey game at McGill in 1902

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Take a dash of McGill ingenuity, add a pinch of French-Canadian flair and sprinkle liberally with Irish grit. According to bestselling author Adam Gopnik, that’s the recipe that has made hockey “the greatest of all games.” BY ADAM GOPNIK, BA’80

M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 23 ce hockey is a peculiar hybrid, many sports brought violent sport of the time. (The hockey rule, not held in together into one. Far from being a simple rural sport, common with association football kinds of games, that a kind of pastoral child of winter and ponds, it is above there is space behind the goal is a carryover from lacrosse, Iall a city sport, and it’s made in the strange crucible of and it gives hockey a distinctly strategic character.) The the growing Canadian cities. Through city pressures DNA of hockey, its combination of being the most flashily and city privileges, the game we know gets made, and in par - brilliant and speedy of games and at the same time the ticular it gets forged from the melting pot of Irish, English, most brutal of contact sports, comes from that double - and French attitudes in my hometown of Montreal. nes s— from the reality that what Creighton was trying to create when he first codified the rules of hockey in 1873 RUGBY ON ICE was a form of rugby on ice, played according to rules The earliest records we have of a game of ice hockey come inflected by lacrosse. from the 1870s and ’80s around McGill, but it seems quite Hockey’s rules have changed and evolved since then. possible that the winter game was brought there from Nova When Creighton first invented (or consolidated) those Scotia. Certainly it was a young Nova Scotia-raised engi - rules, there were no forward passe s— just like rugby, where neer, James George Alwyn Creighton, BCL1884, working you can carry the ball or shift it backwards but can’t pass it in Montreal as the Grand Trunk Railroad was ahead. Not only its explicit rules but also its implicit spirit being built, who first consolidated the rules recall that brutal and yet most gallant of games. And, like of hockey at McGill in 1873. rugby, hockey is (or pretends to be) a self-policing sport. Creighton was a rugby player, and Rugby is brutal, but pointed as much to the shared party hockey for him was a way of extending after as the triumph of one team. It rewards comradeship, the rugby season into the winter penalizes selfishness, and has its own unwritten internal months. The scene of his invention rules to mitigate its violence. There are right ways to tackle was the old Victoria Skating Rink in and wrong ways, and since the point of the sport is that James Creighton Montreal, the first large purpose-built after-party, the rules are enforced by the social group. So

E M rink in Canada, between Drummond hocke y— both grim and graceful, brutal as much as bal - FA F O L and Stanley, where on a cold March day letic — belongs both to the family of association sports, of AL L H NH Creighton is said to have been heard hollering control sports, and to the rugby family of collision sports. out rugby rules to the players of the new sport. (Lord Its history, in a sense, is the struggle to see which of its two Stanley saw his first ice hockey game at the Victoria Rink.) parents will determine its legacy. As someone once said, the central point of rugby is to survive it. And that’s where an ambiguity begins. Ice hock - HOCKEY AS HAMMER ey is a hybrid, even a frea k— what botanists call in a very Two parents . . . and two solitudes? We think of that time different sense a “sport” —seeming to belong to the asso - and that plac e— Montreal at the end of the 19th century ciation football family, it also belongs to the rugby family, —as one of two parallel encampments, of a British and a while the other contact sport that feeds into it is lacrosse French establishment living apart from each other in a kind —also an “association” game, one in which team play in of gloomy splendour, the French establishment dominated passing is paramount, and it is also the other acceptably by an extremely hidebound pre-Quiet Revolution Roman M U E S U M

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A hockey game at the Victoria Rink in 1893

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Catholic Church, while the English-speaking Scottish E S U M establishment, gloomier even than its counterparts back in D R O

Scotland, has McGill University at its centre. C C In one way we expect sports to mirror the social arrange - M ment of their society. But sports are a hammer as much as a mirror, breaking social conventions as they invent them. Baseball was shaped by 19th-century Irish and German immigrants to the United States, who gave the game its char - acter, but it later acted as a conduit for Jews and Italians, who entered the game to take on Americanness. Sports preserve the pressures of the era that they’re made in, but they alter some of them too. Hockey reflected the social order of late- 19th century Montreal, but it disturbed that order too, in healthy and invigorating ways. For there was a kind of free-valence atomic shell at play in Montreal life at that time. Between the pious French and the prosperous English stood the Irish, who occupied two positions at once, in a way that would prove potent for the making of the winter game. As English-speakers they were in one way aligned with the anglo elite. But they were also Roman Catholics, and that meant they were educated with (and sometimes married to and buried alongside) the French. To be Irish was to have a kind of double identity. On the one hand you belonged to the English-speaking minority The Shamrocks hockey team in 1899 and on the other hand you despised your masters in the English-speaking minority; you were a fellow worshipper Laurent, and then largely through the tutelage of the Irish with the French-speaking majority but at the same time students. In 1894 and 1895, though the student body at you were reluctant to identify with the French underclass. Collège Sainte-Marie is heavily francophone, the hockey When you played hockey, you wanted to beat the Brits team at Sainte-Marie is entirely Irish, and only slowly does it at McGill . . . but the way to do it might be to look for help begin to become more and more francophone. The first kids from the francophones across the hall. And so the Irish who come to play are from mixed marriages, and even today played a central role, in some ways the central role, in the historians have a hard time being certain if a name represents invention of ice hockey. a francophone, mixed, or Irish family background. The Kent The old flag of Montreal, which showed an impress brothers, Stephen and Rosaire, for instance, play for various quartered among the French, Irish, Scots, and English, teams at the beginning of the century, but Rosaire, with his was exclusivist (we would now need to include Greeks French first name, seems to play exclusively for French teams, and Portuguese and Jews and Haitians) but it was not while his brother Stephen goes back and forth. The circum - false. Ethnic rivalry, and coalitions of convenience, made stances, at least the sporting ones, are more mixed than the a city culture. clichés of solitude quite allow for. Hockey, as we’ve seen, is first played by the students of Although hockey is passed from the Irish to the French McGill as winter rugby, and as members of the anglo elite in in the colleges, the game seems in francophone neighbour - Montreal, they begin with a monopoly on it. But then the hoods to have some of the aura of a street sport: a game Irish kids down in Pointe Saint-Charles need a winter sport played at high speed for fun with an emphasis on individ - to play as well, and so they form an Irish hockey club called, ual skil l— much like African-American street and play - naturally, the Shamrocks. At this time the idea of Catholics ground basketball in U.S. cities in the forties and fifties. playing sports with non-Catholics is one that the Catholic An awareness grows that on the French-Canadian side Church in Quebec tries hard to discourage. Indeed, the people play with a particular kind of flair, and eventually whole idea of sport is frowned on by the Church hierarchy, two teams, the National and the Montagnards, emerge who actually try to ban tobogganing in 1885. As a conse - (the Montagnards began as a snowshoeing club, which quence, organized hockey is slow to spread among the fran - gives them their name). The new clubs are successful cophone majority. Yet, because there is a kind of implicit enough to get their own rink in the East En d—at the alliance between the Irish and the French in Montreal, corner of Duluth and Saint-Hubert, just north of Sherbrooke based on their common Catholic education, you begin to Stree t— and become the first Qu ébécois hockey teams. get French-Canadian kids playing hockey for Irish teams. One of the fascinating things that happen in the his- It’s not at the street level that hockey gets passed to the tory of hockey in Montreal through these crucial crucible francophone communit y—the neighbourhoods are still years is that there is a constant awkward dance among too separate for tha t—but at the Catholic college level, at the Shamrocks, the Montagnards, and the National for the Collège Sainte-Marie and Mont-Saint-Louis and Saint- allegiance of their players.

M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 25 Irishmen; if they stayed with the Montagnards they would Winter Explorations remain ghettoized within the narrow precincts of the French-Canadian, Church-dominated culture and remain intermediates forever. We can only imagine the pressure on Over the course of 25 years of writing these two kids — improve your lot or declare your loyalty? for the New Yorker , ADAM GOPNIK If you were making this movie in anglophone Canada, has firmly established himself you would have Hurtubise and Viau play with the as one of North America’s finest Shamrocks, where they would Overcome Obstacles, and storytellers —witty, urbane and then all would band together to beat some American team. eager to examine the wide array of And if you were making the movie in Quebec you would subjects that capture his interest. have Viau and Hurtubise, after their flirtation with false This essay on hockey’s origins is excerpted from Winter: Five Anglo-Irish glor y— room here for a lovely Franco-Irish Windows on the Season , the book romanc e— go back to the Montagnards to assert their version of the 2011 Massey Lectures, delivered recently national identity in face of the temptations of assimilation. by Gopnik (he joins an august crowd —past lecturers And if you were making a real documentary about what include Northrop Frye, Martin Luther King and Noam actually happened .. . they would take turns, playing on Chomsky). The book covers a lot of territory —everything both teams at once, in the best Canadian way. For that from the evolution of Christmas to the science of seems to be what did actually happen: the best surmise in snowflakes to the “maddeningly inept and a murky story seems to be that they played a bit for one courageous” Arctic explorers of the 19th and team and then a bit for the other. Canadianly, they found a early 20th centuries. compromise that involved never actually having to choose, keeping a dual identity and playing occasionally for both sweaters. The controversy does not so much come to a crisis and climax as just drift away in the cold winter air. And in a broader sense, this sinuous unfolding compro - In 1898 the Montagnards include a Proulx and a mise of styles and skaters sneaking back and forth across Mercier, but also a Cummings and a Conrad. If anyone lines, never resolved but routinely companionate, is what wanted to make a great Canadian movi e— the great gave hockey its identity. It was the merging of manners — Canadian movi e— it would be all about the hockey love the rugby-based style of the McGill team; the very rough- triangle among the Montagnards, the Shamrocks, and the and-tumble and in some ways brutal style of the Shamrocks; McGill Redmen in Montreal between 1900 and 1903. On and the increasingly pass-oriented creative style of the the one hand all the prejudice and bigotry that kept these Montagnards (what we call river hockey, though really communities apart still existed, and at the same time there born on frozen back-alley rivulets )— that gave composite was an irresistible attraction, through the medium of this hockey its strong identity. new sport of hockey, towards assimilation and joint effort That’s how pro hockey is made, with all the elements —towards collaboration, in every sense. Sport, as I said, that we can still see today. It is in part an improvisational acts as a mirror for our divisions, but it also acts as a ham - game played on a frozen street, in part a brutal game of mer that destroys them, if for no higher reason than that rugby at high speed, in part a form of soccer on ice. All these the tribal urge to defeat the enemy in surrogate warfare is elements get mixed with residual British ideas of fair play stronger even than ordinary social bigotry. and self-policing schoolyard justice, which produce both the long handshake lines at the end of playoff games and A SIX DAYS’ WONDER the sometimes ugly sense that the players should settle it At a crucial moment in 1903, two of the stars of the themselve s— a sense unknown to the supposedly more Montagnards, Louis Hurtubise and Théophile Viau, were anarchic but actually more authoritarian American games, incited to “cross over” and play with the Irish Shamrocks, where one punch gets you thrown out by the ref. Hockey is who were in a senior, professional league while the fran - both a city sport and a clan sport, a modern melting-pot cophone team continued to play in the intermediate league. sport that retains an archaic tang of my gang here versus The potential betrayal was a six days’ wonder in Montreal. your gang there . The most creative of sports that a single Could these kids leave the Montagnards for the Shamrocks original mind can dominate, it is also the most clannish, —a much more visible team, playing as they did in the most given to brutal tribal rules of insult and retribution. Victoria Aren a— and do so without betraying their nation - And it is the pla y— the compromise, one might sa y— al identity? True, they would help the Shamrocks beat the between clan and creativity that still gives it its character rival English teams, but they would also be crossing over now. It’s still this game, with its tightly wound strands of from one allegiance to another, from east to west. tripartite DNA, that we love. For a week or two Hurtubise and Viau, a speedy winger and a rock-solid defenceman, had the whole weight of Excerpted with permission from Winter: Five Windows national identity on their shoulders: if they left the on The Season (House of Anansi Press) © 2011 by Montagnards they would in effect become symbolic Adam Gopnik.

26 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 MOMENTS that changed MCGILL

As McGill celebrates its 190th anniversary, we canvassed several history experts and history-makers (individuals who have held senior positions at McGill over the years) about what they believed were the history-making moments that helped shape the University’s identity. Here are some of the moments that were

mentioned most often. BY DANIEL M CCABE, BA’89 O T O H P K C O T S I

M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 27 1855 THE MAN WHO changed EVERYTHING

overnor General David Johnston, LLD’00, amid a wilderness of… rubbish, overgrown with weeds knows a thing or two about leading a univer - and bushes.” sit y—probably more than anyone else in the Dawson, who would serve as principal for 38 years, got to Gcountry. He served as McGill’s principal work. He personally taught up to 16 classes a week and spear - between 1979 and 1994, after all, and was headed his own beautification effort, planting gardens and president of the University of Waterloo from 1999 to trees at his own expense. He and his wife Margaret became 2010. So his choice for the key moment in McGill’s history formidable entertainers, hosting soirees for the city’s elite carries a lot of weight, especially since it focuses on the and weekend teas for McGill students —even personally impact of another McGill principal. nursing a sick student back to health, now and then. Johnston says his pick for the University’s most trans - Dawson wanted the University to become a leading force formative moment would be “the arrival of the young in science. He also saw McGill as a potential engine for the William Dawson as principal.” Johnston isn’t alone in city’s development in terms of equipping graduates with settling on that momen t—most of the people consulted practical skills —in agriculture, engineering and mining. for this article did the same. His vision for McGill, along with his charm and his Dawson might have been destined to become the single growing stature as one of the leading scientists of his era, most influential figure in McGill history, but when he arrived proved to be a powerfully persuasive combination for some in 1855 to become McGill’s fifth principal, he viewed the job of Montreal’s wealthiest citizens. The Molson family, Peter as something of a consolation prize. Redpath and William Macdonald, He had been hoping to become among others, would become crucial the chair of natural history at the and generous allies, inspired by what University of Edinburgh. In fact, he Dawson was trying to accomplish. was all set to sail for Scotland to per - And, according to Dawson biographer sonally lobby for the position, when Susan Sheets-Pyenson, the McGill he received word that the post had principal could be wily in his dealings gone to someone else. At roughly the with Montreal’s leading families, same time, an intriguing offer from becoming “adept at exploiting the Montreal came along. petty jealousies and competitiveness What Dawson didn’t know was that both divided and drove this T L U A

that the people making the offe r— E community.” R I M

McGill’s board of governor s—weren’t E Under Dawson, McGill attracted I N R

entirely convinced that Dawson was E other leading scientists to its faculty the right man for the job. When they B ranks. It established itself as a top- had consulted Governor General Edmund Head about notch science centre, in large part due to Dawson’s own whom they should hire, they were surprised by the advice contributions (he grumbled about how his research was they received. Historian Edgar Andrew Collard wrote, “They limited by his teaching and administrative responsi- had expected [Head] to indicate ‘some man of mark in bilities, yet still managed to produce dozens of scientific England.’ Instead, [he] urged them to choose… a young papers and several books). He established the McGill colonist in Nova Scotia. Few, if any, of the governors of McGill Normal School to train badly needed teachers for the had heard of him.” English school system (the Normal School would evolve Dawson might not have been on their radar, but the into the Faculty of Education). The McGill campus pride of Pictou, Nova Scotia, was already on his way to welcomed the Redpath Library, the Redpath Museum becoming Canada’s first native-born scientific star. His work (created, in part, to prevent Dawson from being lured away with Charles Lyell in Joggins, Nova Scotia, had yielded by a lucrative offer from Princeton), the Macdonald remarkable fossil finds, including some of the earliest known Engineering Building and the Macdonald Physics Building reptile specimens ever discovered. Dawson’s brief tenure as (a first-rate facility that would prove to be instrumental in Nova Scotia’s superintendent of education would soon lead wooing future Nobel laureate Ernest Rutherford). to profound improvements to its educational system. Summing up Dawson’s impact on the University, the When the 35-year-old Dawson saw McGill for the first Times of London declared that McGill now enjoyed “a time, he probably lamented the lost opportunity at prestige only excelled in America by that of Harvard.” The Edinburgh all over again. The University had a budding paper added, “The scientific side of the University… may young medical school … and not much else. be described as Sir William Dawson’s creation.” Stephen In his own words, the McGill campus was “two blocks Leacock had his own assessment. “More than that of any of unfinished and partly ruinous buildings, standing one man or group of men, McGill is his work.”

28 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 1884 GENTLEMEN, kindly MAKE WAY

n the spring of 1884, four young women, all recent Dawson saw the proposal as “providential” and graduates of the Montreal High School for Girls, moved swiftly. Within five years, women constituted journeyed to William Dawson’s McGill office to make one-third of all McGill arts students. The students proud - I a special plea directly to the principal. They wanted ly dubbed themselves the Donaldas in recognition of the to do what no woman had ever done before. They man who had made their arrival at McGill possible. wanted to study at McGill. Smith’s devotion to the cause would lighten his “After completing high school, there was nowhere in wallet considerably. In all, he would spend more than Montreal for them to go,” explained Margaret Gillett in a 1981 $1.5 million to support female students at McGill, an interview with the McGill News . Gillett, an emeritus profes - incredible sum at the time, and much of it targeted towards sor of education, wrote They Walked Very Warily , the defin - the creation and upkeep of Royal Victoria College, which itive account of the early experiences of women at McGill. opened in 1899 and provided the Donaldas with a place Dawson listened sympathetically and then politely of their own. turned them down. Later that same year, the quartet While the McGill women weren’t subjected to the same found themselves at the University anyway, making histo - level of hostility that the first female students had encoun - ry as part of the first group of women tered at some other universities, the to enroll as McGill students. first few years for the Donaldas In the 1880s, there was general were uneasy nonetheless. Octavia support for the notion of accepting Ritchie, BA1888, recalled being “at female students at McGill (though first blushingly self-conscious” when some, like Stephen Leacock, still male students teased her in the hall - had reservations). Indeed, McGill ways. Another Donalda, interviewed ran the risk of lagging behind the times by Gillett, remembered feeling as if if it didn’t open its doors to women. “she bore the weight of formulated Vassar College, North America’s first womanhood upon her shoulders, all-women’s college, had begun opera - although men, even then, were not tions in 1865 and many Canadian uni - expected to live up to the ideal man.” versities, including Mount Allison, When Ritchie, one of the group Queen’s, Acadia and Dalhousie, had all of four who had originally met with welcomed female students to their Dawson in his office, graduated in campuses. 1888 as one of McGill’s first female T L U

Though Dawson has been por - A graduates, her valedictory address E R I M trayed by some as resistant to change, was combative. To cries of “Shame!” E I N R

Stanley Frost, in his two-volume his - E and “Never!” from some in the tory of the University, argues that the B audience, she said, “The doors of the principal wasn’t really opposed to having women pursue Faculty of Arts were opened four years ago; those of their studies at McGill. Dawson had, after all, played an [the Faculty of] Medicine remain closed. When will instrumental behind-the-scenes role in establishing the they be opened?” Montreal High School for Girls. But “nothing could be done Ritchie and her classmate Maude Abbott, BA1891, until money was forthcoming,” wrote Frost. Almost every MDCM1910 (honorary), LLD’36, would both be thwart - new initiative, no matter how high-minded or noble, need - ed in their desire to study medicine at McGill (they went ed a deep-pocketed champion in those days. to Bishop’s instead), but the University did begin accept - Enter Donald Smith. The future Lord Strathcona, Smith ing female students in medicine in 1918. Abbott would was a key figure in the construction of the Canadian Pacific go on to become one of McGill’s most illustrious graduates , Railway (his role was so essential, he was given the honour a pioneering figure in the study of diseased hearts, and of hammering in the last spike himself) and his marriage the recipient of not one, but two honorary degrees from was the subject of whispers throughout Montreal high McGill. Another Donalda, Carrie Derick, BA1890, would society (his wife had a previous husband and the legality of go on to teach botany at McGill, becoming the first female her subsequent union with Smith was somewhat in ques - university professor in the country. tion). A few months after Dawson’s meeting with the young Today, more than half of McGill’s student population is women, Smith came forward with an unexpected offer. female and the University’s alumnae include Olympic gold He was willing to immediately pay the way for the arrival of medalists, bestselling authors, award-winning scientists women students at McGill, so long as they were educated and national leaders. They all owe a debt of thanks to the separately from the men. determined Donaldas who paved the way.

M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 29 1976 A not SO QUIET REVOLUTION

s a weary-looking René Lévesque took to the familiar sight on the front lawns of many Montreal neigh - stage on the evening of November 15, 1976, the bourhoods. More than 130,000 anglophones left the victor in one of the most dramatic elections in province between the years 1976 and 1981. By some esti - A Canadian history, Quebecers across the mates, more than 300,000 English-speaking Quebecers province wondered what would happen moved away in the 20 years that followed the 1970 next. Not only did Lévesque’s Parti Québécois government October Crisis. promise to introduce tough legislation that would restrict For a university that was so tightly bonded to access to English schools and ban the use of English on Quebec’s anglophone community, that kind of popula - commercial signs, it also pledged to do what it could to tion shift couldn’t help but have repercussions. “For years push the province right out of confederation. it was understood that the sons and daughters of Quebec nationalists, who had never tasted victory Westmount and Montreal West and the Town of Mount on this scale, were jubilant. Most English-speaking Royal, when it was time for university, there was no ques - Quebecers had a markedly different reaction. Recalling tion about where most of them would be going,” notes the mood in his book, My Life Drummond. Suddenly, many of at the Bar and Beyond , Alex those students, along with their Paterson, BCL’56, LLD’94, who families, were heading out of town chaired McGill’s board of gover - with no plans to return. In the late nors from 1990 to 1995, wrote, seventies, one worrisome estimate “Needless to say, all of this trau - predicted that McGill’s student matized our community.” population could plummet to a The uncertainty left McGill paltry 12,000 by 1991. reeling as well. As several corpo - “In a strange sort of way, the rate head offices began to leave election of the PQ and the first ref - the province, rumours circulat - erendum, followed by the exodus ed that McGill might end up of the anglophone community, doing the same. Emeritus pro - set McGill on the road of having fessor of architecture Derek to become a national university,” Drummond, BArch’62, confirms says Alan Shaver, a former McGill that there was brief, but serious, dean of science who now heads T L U A

consideration given to moving E Thompson Rivers University in R I M

the School of Architecture to E Kamloops, BC. I N R

another province. E McGill had always prided B Former dean of medicine itself on its ability to attract stu - Richard Cruess muses that institutions facing a particu - dents from other provinces and other countries. Now it larly unsettling set of circumstances “either fall apart or realized it needed even more of those students if it wanted get stronger. I think [this period] proved that McGill to prevent its enrolment numbers from becoming could weather profound changes in Quebec society. In dangerously low. some ways, it brought us closer together. The teaching The University was also busy re-evaluating its role in hospitals and the Faculty of Medicine became much Quebec, a process that began in earnest years earlier in more unified.” Cruess points to the arrival of the relent - the wake of the McGill Français protests in 1969. “The lessly positive-minded David Johnston in 1979 as a key history of McGill is the history of the Anglo-Saxon elite of development. “He gave McGill its self-confidence back.” Montreal,” observed Pierre Anctil in a 1989 Montreal Drummond also gives credit to Lévesque. “He made a Gazette piece. Then the director of McGill’s French Canada point of talking about the important role that McGill Studies program, Anctil added, “But now McGill is living played” and the premier’s words helped soothe frazzled something else. In the past 20 years, there has ceased to nerves. In a 1977 interview with the McGill News , be a feeling of fear her e—there’s a feeling of openness. PQ education minister Jacques-Yvan Morin, BCL’52, McGill has adapted.” insisted that his government was not at odds with One persuasive piece of evidence relates to the number McGill. “We are indeed on good terms. There is no reason of francophone students who choose to study at McGill. In not to be.” the mid-sixties, French-speaking students made up less With a referendum on Quebec’s status within than five percent of the University’s student population. Canada in the works, many anglophones decided that Since 1980, francophones have generally comprised at least their futures lay elsewhere. “For sale” signs became a 17 percent of McGill’s student body.

30 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 Other moments that mattered

OSLER RETURNS AN UNFORTUNATE LAND DEAL In terms of McGill When it comes to matters of real estate, Derek becoming internationally Drummond, the former director of the School of known, William Osler, Architecture, laments that McGill, too often, has a MDCM1872, “is every bit habit of “selling at the worst time and buying at as important as Dawson the worst time.” The University’s biggest blunder, was” in Richard Cruess’s in his view, dates back to the 1850s, when the estimation. Cruess, who governors of a cash-strapped McGill decided to co-authored a two volume sell a big chunk of the University’s property — history of the Faculty of property that now encompasses “some of the Medicine, believes that the faculty’s rise to highest valued land in the city.” A bustling stretch of St. Catherine international prominence coincided with the Street shops, Central Station, the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, the Peel return of Osler to McGill in 1875 as the first and McGill metro stations and Place Ville Marie all occupy land that full-time member of its teaching staff. He once belonged to the University. McGill had failed in its attempts to credits Osler with “transforming medical lease the land during a period when the city was just beginning to education here” by stressing the need for emerge from a blistering recession. Drummond says the governors practical experience and for advanced training should have tried harder to lease. “Can you imagine what that land in anatomy and pathology. Osler didn’t do it would be worth today?” alone —he was part of a remarkable group of young medical faculty that also included Francis Shepherd and Thomas Roddick. LOTS AND LOTS OF NEW PROFS And even after Osler left for good (he went In the late nineties, McGill embarked on an on to co-found the Johns Hopkins School of unprecedented hiring spree. With many of the Medicine, among other things), his influence University’s most accomplished professors continued to be felt at McGill. Osler, who inching closer to retirement, Luc Vinet, then the became the best-known physician in the provost, declared that “academic renewal is English-speaking world, championed Maude the single most significant challenge that McGill Abbott’s pioneering work in chronicling heart faces over the next few years.” Principal Bernard ailments and helped secure instrumental Shapiro (pictured) and Vinet devised an ambitious funding from the Rockefeller Foundation that plan to recruit 1,000 new professors over a reshaped the Faculty of Medicine along lines 10-year period. Former dean of science Alan Shaver characterized it he had recommended —by creating stronger as “the biggest renewal of the professoriate McGill has ever seen.” links between clinical and basic science So, how’s it going? It looks like the new kids are working out just fine. research, for instance. “That changed the face Maclean’s just named McGill the top medical-doctoral university in of teaching and research in the [Faculty of Canada for the seventh straight year, while the QS World University Medicine],” says former Montreal Neurological Rankings recently ranked McGill as the 17th best university in the Institute director William Feindel, MDCM’45, world. The new hires “really transformed McGill,” says former dean DSc’84. of agricultural and environmental sciences Deborah Buszard.

HISTORICAL SITES: WANT TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT M CGILL’S RICH HISTORY? STEER YOUR WEB BROWSER IN THESE DIRECTIONS:

The Greatest McGillians contest might be over, but the project lives on through an online dateline spotlighting some of the special people who called McGill home over the years. aoc.mcgill.ca/greatest-mcgillians

The McGill Reporter devoted a recent special edition to a comprehensive look at McGill’s 190 years. publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2011/10/the-history-issue

190 Years of History offers plenty of meaty morsels about the University’s historical development and the accomplishments of its people. www.mcgill.ca/about/history

To read about more moments that transformed McGill, please visit the McGill News site at publications.mcgill.ca/mcgillnews

M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 31 N A G E

N E W O

JUDGE JUDY N’A QU’À BIEN SE TENIR

Le moins que l’on puisse dire au sujet d’Anne-France Goldwater, c’est qu’elle ne passe pas inaperçue, que ce soit par son franc-parler ou par les causes qu’elle défend. Rencontre avec celle qui fait désormais la loi le vendredi soir sur les ondes de V et dont la dernière cause —celle de Lola contre Éric —a tant fait jaser dans les chaumières du Québec. PAR DAVID SAVOIE

32 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 e n’est que tôt, un samedi matin, q u’Anne- Pour Yves Thériault, le choix de l’animateur de L’arbitre France Goldwater (B.C.L. 1980) réussit à nous allait de soi : l’avocate au franc-parler était toute désignée. accorder un peu de temps. Son horaire est « Elle est d’un naturel », dit-il d’entrée de jeu. Il ajoute que C dément : en plus d’un procès qui lui gobera 15 l’intérêt de M e Goldwater pour la formule américaine de heures par jour durant plusieurs semaines, elle l’émission a facilité la sélection. Vieux routier de la télévi - doit jongler avec les tournages de l’émission L’arbitre , qu’elle sion au Québec, Yves Thériault pense qu’avec Anne-France anime depuis septembre, et répondre à des demandes Goldwater comme animatrice, une étoile de la télé est née. d’entrevues de journalistes. « Elle a un charisme, un magnétisme incroyable. » Le visage rond, les cheveux bruns parsemés de blond, Déjà, la CBC a manifesté de l’intérêt pour adapter l’émis - Anne-France Goldwater est énergique; elle brasse de l’air. sion en version anglaise. « Et je suis beaucoup plus amusante Au fil des ans, l’avocate est devenue un visage incontourn - en anglais », décoche l’avocate dans un grand sourire. Elle ne able du paysage juridique québécois. Avec ses déclarations ferme pas la porte à une présence accrue à l’écran, mais à l’emporte-pièce et son style passionné et flamboyant, la affirme que le droit demeure sa principale passion et qu’elle femme de 51 ans détonne dans un milieu synonyme de ne pourrait cesser de le pratiquer. « Je ne pourrais pas aban - protocole et de politesse. donner ma carrière! C’est ce qui me garde vivante! » Ce milieu, elle le connait bien. « J’ai littéralement grandi au palais de justice », dit-elle. Pour Anne-France Goldwater, PRÉCÉDENTS MARQUANTS parler du droit, c’est aussi parler de toute sa vie. « Les Depuis 1991, Anne-France Goldwater a mené des dossiers moments les plus dramatiques de ma vie, je les ai vécus dans difficiles. Cette année-là, elle fait reconnaître par les une salle d’audience », que ce soit une fausse couche lors d’un tribunaux québécois le syndrome de l’aliénation parentale grand procès ou l’annonce du suicide de sa mère. dans la garde des enfants. Quelques années plus tard, Issue d’une famille d’éminents juristes, elle s’était pour - l’avocate obtient la reconnaissance du droit du père à tant juré de ne pas faire de droit. Jeune fille, elle excellait en continuer à partager l’autorité parentale, même lorsque mathématiques et voulait étudier la médecine. Le décès de la garde est confiée à la mère. son père la ramènera sur la voie du droit. À 21 ans, enceinte, En 2003, M e Goldwater obtient le premier jugement elle fonde son propre cabinet, Goldwater et Dubé. Se spé - favorable au mariage gai au Québec, dans la cause de Michael cialisant d’abord en droit fiscal, elle tâtera le droit criminel et Hendricks et René Leboeuf, victoire qui lui vaudra le Prix de optera finalement pour le droit de la famille, un milieu l’alliée de l’Association du Barreau canadien. Elle parviendra qu’elle juge plus stimulant sur le plan intellectuel. C P

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M Goldwater s’est bâti une réputation d’avocate intel - T T E R ligente et redoutablement confiante, devenant du même R A B

coup une figure polarisante dans toute la province. Son A I langage color é—parsemé de mots ne pouvant être repro - duits i ci—et ses emportements ont souvent davantage retenu l’attention que son travail acharné. « J’aime plaider, et un bon plaidoyer contient une bonne part de spectacu - laire », dit-elle pour expliquer son style unique. L’APPEL DES PROJECTEURS Ce n’est donc pas étonnant que les producteurs qui cher - chaient le pendant québécois de Judge Jud y—cette Américaine cinglante qui tranche des causes au petit écra n—aient approché Anne-France Goldwater pour lui confier l’animation de L’arbitre sur les ondes de la chaîne télévisée V. Le concept est simple : deux plaignants viennent résoudre devant l’avocate un litige dont les réclamations ne peuvent excéder 7 000 $, comme à la cour des petites créances. Malgré le créneau difficile du vendredi soir, l’émission attire en moyenne plus de 400 000 téléspectateurs chaque semaine. Selon Yves Thériault, producteur de l’émission, le diffuseur est très satisfait des cotes d’écoute. Il va sans dire que le style tranchant et vif de M eGoldwater y est pour quelque chose. Il faut la voir interpeller les participants de Les victoires juridiques d’Anne-France Goldwater façon assez théâtrale. Anne-France Goldwater n’hésite pas ont contribué à transformer le droit familial au Québec, à voir dans l’émission des qualités éducatives sur la résolu - notamment celle en faveur du mariage gai dans la cause tion de conflit. « Quelle meilleure façon que d’enseigner par de René Leboeuf et Michael Hendricks l’exemple? », explique-t-elle.

M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 33 aussi à faire accorder aux enfants le droit de choisir l’avocat ment du Québec. Les règles actuelles appauvrissent les qui les représentera lors d’un litige familial. enfants du Québec, car elles imposent des sanctions aux Or, la cause la plus célèbre défendue par M e Goldwater mères. Plus une femme gagne d’argent, moins la pension est celle de Lola, qui poursuit son ex-conjoint de fai t— alimentaire qu’elle reçoit est élevée », assène l’avocate. « Éric »—afin qu’il lui verse une pension alimentaire (outre Éprise de justice, passionnée, et prompte à s’enflammer. celle qu’il lui accorde pour leurs enfants). Hautement médi - Le Barreau lui a déjà fait des remontrances vocabulaire. atisé, l’impact potentiel de la décision suscite beaucoup de Dans une affaire récente, elle a envoyé promener un réactions au Québec. D’abord déboutées, Lola et Anne- collègu e—ce qui lui vaudra d’ailleurs un passage devant France Goldwater l’emportent en Cour d’appel, mais le un comité de discipline. « Je suis comme ça », offre-t-elle gouvernement du Québec décide de porter la cause en Cour comme toute réponse. Pour elle, chaque client est unique suprême. Le suspense se poursuit donc pour les nombreux et elle le défend bec et ongles. « Si j’ai du succès après 30 ans couples québécois qui vivent en union libre. comme avocate, c’est parce que les gens qui m’embauchent Malgré l’imposante charge de travail qu’ont entraînée savent que je vais les défendre jusqu’à ce que j’en saigne, tous ces dossiers, l’avocate continue de publier de nombreux dit-elle d’un ton théâtral. Je suis une avocate très agressive articles. « Je serais incapable de ralentir mon rythme en ce de façon tout à fait adorable », renchérit-elle à la blague. moment. La stimulation me pousse à continuer. Le droit Quant aux commentaires de ses détracteur s—qui l’ont n’est pas nécessairement un domaine stimulant sur le plan affublée de tous les nom s—elle hausse les épaules. Il y a intellectuel. C’est la façon dont je l’approche qui me nourrit longtemps qu’elle a cessé de se préoccuper de l’opinion au quotidien. » des autres. Avant de songer à raccrocher sa toge, elle compte défendre une cause qui lui tient à cœur. « Je remets en Journaliste montréalais, David Savoie a notamment question l’appui du gouvernement fédéral dans le dossier collaboré à La Presse , Les Affaires , la radio de Radio- des tables de pension alimentaire fixées par le gouverne - Canada et CBC.

No shrinking violet

ANNE-FRANCE GOLDWATER , BCL’80, is a one-of-a- kind presence on the Quebec legal scene. Her frank manner and shoot-from-the-hip style stand out in a world soaked in protocol and civility. It doesn’t hurt that she has a knack for court cases that grab O

newspaper headlines. T O H

Coming from a family of legal experts, Goldwater P K C O

says, “I literally grew up in the courthouse. The most T S I dramatic moments of my life took place in court rooms,” everything from losing a pregnancy during a major Her short fuse frequently gets her in trouble. case, to finding out about her mother’s suicide. The Bar has warned her about her language. At the age of 21, she started her own firm, Caustic comments about a colleague recently Goldwater, Dubé. She dove into tax law, dabbled in landed her before a disciplinary committee. “That’s criminal law, but ended up a family law specialist, the way I am,” she says. “I’m successful because because she found it more intellectually stimulating. the people who hire me know that I will defend “I love arguing cases, and a good argument has a them to the death. ” healthy dose of the spectacular,” she says to explain The flamboyant lawyer’s career is heading in a her unique style . new direction. Since September, Goldwater has been She has made her mark in several major cases. L’Arbitre (“The Arbitrator”), on Canal V. The concept is In 2003, Goldwater secured the first judgment in simple: Two plaintiffs come before her to resolve a favour of same-sex marriage in Quebec, in the case of dispute where the claim is under $7,000, as in small Michael Hendricks and René Leboeuf. That victory claims court. earned her an award from the Canadian Bar Association. “She’s a natural,” says the show’s producer, Her most famous case might be Eric vs. Lola, in Yves Thériault. Already, the CBC has shown interest which a woman sued her wealthy ex-common law in an English-language version of the show. “I’m spouse for spousal support. The outcome could even more entertaining in English,” Goldwater have a major impact on all common law says with a grin. spouses in Quebec. DANIEL M CCABE, BA’89

34 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011

REVIEWS N I E T S D L O G

A C C E

Not such a violent B E world after all R

ou’re not alone if you think the knightly virtues? Pinker dismisses we’re living in an age of esca - them as good P.R. Feudal knights Y lating violence. Unwinnable were ruthless warlords, he says, who wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, “engaged in bloody tournaments and ethnic cleansing and recent tribal other demonstrations of macho conflicts in Darfur, Somalia and Congo prowess gussied up with words like have produced hundreds of thousands honor, valor, chivalry…which made later of casualties. generations forget they were blood - Closer to home, we’re rocked by thirsty marauders.” accounts of gang shootings on city The civilizing factors that turned streets, child abductions and disturbed people to their “better angels” includ - students who rampage through schools ed the centralization of authority and with automatic weapons blazing. governance, the establishment of Surely we’ve reached some sort of trade between states and the widen - pinnacle of visiting hurt on each other. ing of “circles of empathy” as people According to author and Harvard began to know others beyond their psychology professor STEVEN PINKER , families and tribes. BA’76, DSc’99, the opposite is true. Progress was slow, as early systems In his latest book, The Better Angels of of law often sanctioned barbaric Our Nature (a phrase borrowed from practices. Pinker quotes diarist Samuel Abraham Lincoln), Pinker widens Pepys, who cheerfully recounts a day in the lens to examine violent behaviour 1660 that included a morning visit over the course “to see Major-general Harris hanged, of recorded drawn and quartered.” The hanging Author and psychologist Steven Pinker human history portion was not fatal as the victim was and presents intended to suffer through subsequent of violence, perhaps “the most evidence of a disemboweling and castration. Pepys, significant and least appreciated devel - steep decline, noting that the public reacted with opment in the history of our species.” especially in “shouts of joy,” then apparently enjoyed Pinker warns against complacency, the last few a lunch of oysters. however, as our inner demons seemed decades. And Pinker kicked up some dust in poised to play havoc —witness the two this downward earlier works, How the Mind Works World Wars and an uptick in violence trajectory and The Blank Slate , by suggesting we in the 1960s. He calls these “random occurs at all are predisposed to violence and that spasms” rather than reversals of the level s—in nature is a stronger element than continuing trend, though even he has families, neigh - nurture in shaping character. “I had conceded one chilling reality: “The world bourhoods, between armed factions to anticipate the objection of people has never before had national leaders and among nations and states. who fear that if you say that humans who combine pre-modern sensibilities Pinker starts with the Bible. For sheer, have any innate tendency toward with modern weapons.” hair-raising gore, not much beats the Old violence, that dooms us all to perpetual Pinker is persuasive in urging us Testament and its scorched-earth punish - war and strife. Even if we do have to shift our focus from why there is war ments where enemies were wiped out impulses that lead to violence, we also and violence to why we are enjoying a to the last living being. The Middle Ages, have impulses that steer us away,” period of historically unprecedented featuring Crusades and inquisitions, he explains. peace. If it is to continue, we need raised torture of heretics and infidels to He offers 700 pages of exhaustive to know what we’re doing right. an excruciating art. What of Camelot and argument to support the decline DIANA GRIER AYTON

36 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 THE LONG WAY BACK I’ll be honest: I typically find by Chris Alexander, BA’89 this sub-genre of comics/music experiments tedious. At best, Few westerners have a better grasp of one element is usually stronger the steep challenges that stand in the way than the othe r— at worst, of a stable, peaceful Afghanistan than it’s a misdirected messy mélange Chris Alexander. The recently elected done as a gimmick to move Conservative MP spent six years in that records (or books). This is not country, first as Canada’s ambassador, the case with Space Cadet . then as a senior UN representative. What Koala has done here is create “How to Keep Your Day Job” starts In his new book, The Long Way Back , a modern adult storybook about love, off with a nameless narrator offering Alexander acknowledges that many in the loss and parenthood in which the music advice that’s both droll and shrewd, until west are growing weary of the grim news actually elevates and enhances the an unexpected tumble steers the story that seems to flow out of Afghanistan on a wordless images. The end result feels like to darker terrain. “Research” focuses regular basis, but he worries that the real, you’re reading a silent movie. on the lone fact-checker who, to her tangible progress that has been achieved While the pictures are painstaking, the mystification, dodges the pink slips that in the country over the past decade is narrative is uncomplicated: a bittersweet wipe out the rest of her department. being overlooked. Millions of Afghan metaphor for child-rearing that will Uncertain about how to adapt to this ex-pats have returned; roads and schools resonate for those with young children. new status, she soon decides to focus have been built; incomes have improved; The music is layered and haunting (think her skills on the people who populate sectors of the economy, including Sigur Rós with samples) and may be San’s her workplace. Like Rosenblum herself, agriculture and telecom, are beginning to most mature work to date. she adopts an intriguing approach to flourish. “This investment is not only If you choose to buy Space Cadet determining what makes people tick. worth protecting; it is worth celebrating ,” I suggest you do what I did: set aside DM he writes. some quiet time, put on a good pair of Mistakes have been made along the headphones and experience it as SOUNDCHECK way. Almost everyone badly underesti- San intended you t o— as a sublime, mated the resilience of the Taliban. bittersweet whole. BEN WILKINS Afghan leaders, too often, have been BRAD MACKAY by Ben Wilkins, BMus’06 willing to turn a blind eye to incompetence, cronyism and corruption. But Alexander THE BIG DREAM Ben Wilkins might soon is clear that the biggest problem, by far, by Rebecca Rosenblum, BA’01 grow weary of receiving lies across the border in neighbouring so many comparisons to Pakistan, which has not only provided Five years ago, Rebecca Rosenblum Ben Folds, but he is earning them for all sanctuary for Taliban fighters, but established herself as a young writer on the the right reason s—his clear tenor voice, weapons and training as well – all the rise with her first short story collection, his delicately crafted, piano-driven while denying everything. He cites one Once . Her latest collection, The Big Dream , songs, his clever bittersweet lyrics. Burt memorable meeting with former provides further testimony to Rosenblum’s Bacharach is another name that comes up Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf as storytelling talents. when considering Wilkins, and that’s a “tour de force of self-serving chutzpah.” In particular, Rosenblum has a no accident. Wilkins has a soft spot for the DANIEL M CCABE, BA’89 knack for authentic-sounding dialogue straightforward pop of the late sixties (even when the speakers are awkwardly and seventies, music that didn’t hit you SPACE CADET struggling to think of things to say to over the head with how skillfully it was by Kid Koala (aka Eric San, BEd’96) one another) and for capturing the assembled, trusting that you’d appreciate resigned ennui of young urbanites who its rich, understated textures on your own. Moody and melancholic, Kid Koala’s Space have no illusions about happily-ever- The multi-talented Wilkins has just Cadet is an artistic experiment nearly a afters. They’ll settle for getting dental released his first full album and the decade in the making. A graphic novel insurance or avoiding the axe at work. contents, including the biting “The Back about a heartbroken robot and his human The stories revolve around an of My Head” and the poignant groove daughter, the book is executed entirely in imperiled magazine publisher, but the of “Soup for One,” should appeal to scratchboard and comes with a CD of characters and situations vary widely. anyone in the market for smart, sharply original Koala compositions intended to The best stories are the ones that veer the produced pop. be listened to while reading the book. furthest away from standard narrative. DM

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ALUMNI ACTIVITIES HONOURS AND AWARDS

Once again, the McGill Alumni Association paid tribute to some of the outstanding volunteers who devote time and energy to promote MAA activities, to enrich the student experience and to serve their communities. The annual Honours & Awards Banquet last May recognized alumni, parents, friends, students and staff, representatives of the worldwide network that serves McGill so well. PHOTOS BY CLAUDIO CALLIGARIS

EAST AND WEST Board of Governors Chair Kip Cobbett, BA’69, BCL’72, and Principal Heather Munroe-Blum (back row) greet guests invited by Ellen Wong-Tso, BMus’71, MMA’75, some of whom came from as far as Hong Kong and California. They included (in no particular order) Alex Chu, BArch’73, MArch’78; Philip Lo, BScArch’71; Felix Tso, Dr. Douglas Lin, BSc’71; Dr. Charles Tu, BSc’71, BArch’73; Todd Springer; Mary Ting, BSc’71; Lily Chu, BSc’72, MSc’74; Dr. Philip Chiu, BSc’70; Roseangela Chan, BSc’71; and Florence Koh.

HAIL FROM THE CHIEF President of the McGill Alumni Association Cynthia Price, BCom’82, begins the evening with a salute to the audience. Cynthia co-hosted the banquet with Alumni Governor Michael Richards, BA’60, BCL’63.

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AWARD OF MERIT A CAPITAL FELLOW Marvin Corber Kareem D. Sadiq, CertProfFrench’95, DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD BA’97, with Anne Cole and Arnav Tomas J. F. Pavlasek, BEng’44, MEng’48, PhD’58 Manchanda, BA’05, MA’07. Kareem was Robert J. David, DDS’62 honoured with the Catherine Nance Common President of the Year Award HONORARY LIFE for his good work with the McGill MEMBERSHIP AWARD Alumni Association of Ottawa. Among Jim Nicell his accomplishments have been uniting the young alumni with the general DAVID JOHNSTON AWARD FABULOUS FUNDRAISERS branch and increasing networking Morty Yalovsky, BSc’65, MSc’68, PhD’77 Tom Thompson, BSc(PE)’58, opportunities for Ottawa-area grads. Robyn Wiltshire MEd’78, 2008 winner of Peter D. L. Knox, BSc(Agr)’74 the Award of Merit, chats with FACULTY AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE Marvin Corber, this year’s IN ALUMNI ACTIVITIES recipient of the award, the Alumni Jane Everett, PhD’88 Association’s highest honour. Paul Meldrum Working in various development roles at McGill, Tom helped run E.P . TAYLOR AWARD four capital campaigns, while Lorena Cook Marvin has been a fundraising volunteer for the University ALUMNI EVENT OF THE YEAR AWARD for four decades. Goodman Cancer Research Gala/ Rosalind Goodman, BA’63

CATHERINE NANCE COMMON SHE DOES IT ALL PRESIDENT OF THE YEAR AWARD Kareem D. Sadiq, BA’97 Honoree Ariane Gauthier, BSc(FSc)’11 , McGill Alumni Association of Ottawa with proud père Dr. Claude André Gauthier. Ariane won a Gretta CHARLES PETERS Chambers Student Leadership BRANCH OF THE YEAR AWARD Award for her enthusiastic McGill Alumni Association of Southern Alberta involvement in the Macdonald Natalya Nicholson, BSc’99, President Campus Students’ Society, the Food Science Association, the D. LORNE GALES AWARD Class of Medicine 1963/David Chui, MDCM’63 FAMILY GUY Woodsmen Intercollegiate team, The 2011 Student Engagement Award the Macdonald Branch of the STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AWARD went to outstanding volunteer Rob McGill Alumni Association and the Rob Steinberg Steinberg, co-chair of the International Brewer’s Union of Mac —dedicated Parents Council in Boston. He and his to the appreciation of fine beers. GRETTA CHAMBERS STUDENT wife Bea host parent gatherings in LEADERSHIP AWARD their home and Rob has participated Celine Junke, BCom’11 in local student send-offs. He has also Ariane Gauthier, BSc(FSc)’11 significantly boosted giving by parents Matthew K . Morantz, MSc’11 in the Boston area. He’s shown with daughter Simone, currently a McGill JAMES G . WRIGHT AWARD Mae J. Nam, BA’05, BCL/LLB’11 student, Bea, and in-laws Jeanine and Jacques Poncet.

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SEPARATED BY HALF A CENTURY… …BUT UNITED BY A NEWSPAPER ENTHRALLED AUDIENCE McGill Daily staffers from the 1950s Daily editors from the 21st century mingled Economics professor Chris Ragan has Gordon Wasserman, BA’59, Freda Lang, BA’59, with their predecessors who came from listeners spellbound as he discusses and Leonard Rosmarin, BA’59, MA’60, all over North America. Shown here are Canada’s economic situation, climate reunited at the paper’s centennial celebrations, staff from the middle to late 2000s: PJ Vogt, change and globalization. Ragan, who which consisted of a Friday night cocktail Arts, Ben Travers, BA’07, and Simon Lewsen, advises national banks and the federal reception and a Saturday night dinner. BA’08, MA’11. government, was a presenter at the popular Classes Without Quizzes lecture series.

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with two sold-out evenings. A special ceremony was held to bestow an honorary degree on renowned pianist Alfred Brendel who was this year’s Beatty lecturer. Parents and alumni came to campus from all over the world to attend dozens of events and more than 50 individual classes held reunions around the city. It all happens again next year from October 11-14, so start planning now. To see more photos, visit http://bit.ly/sAvjGB. N O R E G R E B

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BACK IN THE DAY CURIOUS COW INTO THE WOODS Wandering down memory lane are Mac grads Barbara Hermon, BSc(FSc)’75, greets a Natural resource sciences professor Brian Duckett, BScAgr’71 and Margaret Duckett, member of the dairy herd during a visit Jim Fyles leads a tour of the Morgan PEDipEd’69. The Saturday Memorabilia Breakfast to the Macdonald Farm. The tours Arboretum, located at the western end always includes a display of material from the of Mac facilities were highlights of both of the Mac campus. Fyles is academic Macdonald archives. Homecoming and Parents Weekend. director of the 245-acre woodland, a facility popular with human hikers and skiers, as well as 50 species of animals and 170 species of birds. N A G E

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TOURING THE TOWN WHAT LIES AHEAD HAPPY VISITORS A City of Montreal guide shows parents around Vice-Principal (Development and Alumni Malaysian parents Jasbir Kaur and her Old Montreal’s Place Jacques-Cartier. City Hall is Relations) Marc Weinstein, BA’85, BCL’91, husband Mahindar Singh travelled from in the background, sporting a new copper roof. LLB’91, gets goofy at the annual Parents Qatar, where Mr. Singh currently works, Dinner as he models McGill cold weather to visit their son, Roshan Nanua. Having garb. As emcee for the evening, he come so far, they extended their stay familiarized families with Montreal, noting beyond the weekend and really enjoyed our two seasons, “July and winter.” getting to know McGill and Montreal.

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It’s 11 p.m. and SHEILA KUSSNER , BA’53, LLD’90, is still 450 volunteers, many of them cancer survivors, on the phone. In her distinctive raspy voice, the words who offer counselling to patients and their families. spilling out as if there’s no time to lose, she offers counsel “This year we’re celebrating 30 years in the and comfort to a frightened young person with cancer. business,” says Kussner in her brass tacks style, Kussner knows that fear well. When she was just 14, adding proudly, “It’s the only organization of its kind she was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma, a form of in Canada” (though it’s being emulated in Calgary, bone cancer, and her leg was amputated. Toronto, New York and Australia). Now, nearing 80, she works up to 19 hours a day, Along the way, Kussner championed the creation seven days a week, giving guidance to people battling of McGill’s Department of Oncology in the late the disease, overseeing the organization she founded, eighties, spearheading a $27-million fundraising Hope & Cope, and fundraising tirelessly. She’s got great campaign that focused on research and patient care. connections in the medical community, and chances are She also played an instrumental role in establishing that first thing tomorrow morning she’ll pull a few strings the Christine and Herschel Victor/Hope & Cope Chair and get that young cancer patient in to see a top in Psychosocial Oncology, the first of its kind in specialist ASAP. In jest, friends and colleagues Quebec. The Jewish General Hospital’s palliative sometimes call her the Energizer Bunny. But there’s a care unit also owes its existence, in part, to Kussner’s streak of Mother Teresa in her, too. perseverance. When the teenaged Kussner was operated on for bone Her efforts haven’t gone unnoticed. She is an officer cancer, the odds weren’t in her favour. Osteogenic sarcoma of both the Order of Canada and the Ordre du Québec, was typically a death sentence. “There was no physio and holds honorary degrees from McGill and the then, there were no self-help groups, so I just plodded Université de Montréal. For several years, Kussner along as best I could.” She went on to finish high school, served on McGill’s board of governors, and is now a attend McGill, get married and have children. She counts governor emerita. herself lucky. “Because of that, I owe the community Her latest accomplishment, the JGH Hope & Cope something. I’m paying back.” Wellness Centre, is a haven where people recovering But it wasn’t her own illness that galvanized her from cancer can come for fitness training, yoga and into action. Years later, when her husband Marvyn meditation, cooking lessons, art therapy, or to join a developed a serious cancer at 42, she realized that self-help group, all at no cost. “People come here there was hardly any information available on where and they forget they have cancer!” says its founder. to find a good doctor, a decent book on the disease, “If people are happy doing what they’re doing, or a wig if you faced chemo-related hair loss. That’s they may live longer,” she adds. The best proof of that when she created Hope & Cope. Affiliated with might be Kussner herself. the Jewish General Hospital, the organization has SHELLEY POMERANCE

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AGRICULTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES DOUGLAS DRUICK , BA’66, is the new president and Eloise W. Martin Director of the Art Institute of ALFRED DALE ELLS , BSc(Agr)’61, was Chicago. A longtime curator at the Art Institute and awarded an honorary degree by Nova Scotia the former chair of two of its departments, Douglas Agricultural College, where he studied before played a leading role in the creation of some of the most significant exhibitions in the museum’s history, attending Macdonald College. He returned O G A C

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for International Development. During his R A retirement years Dale authored Shaped Through Service: An Illustrated History of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and in instruct and delight audiences” in her role as for the Governor General’s Literary Award 1998 he was named dean emeritus of NSAC. the acting director of the McIntosh Gallery at and the Charles Taylor Prize. Her latest book the University of Western Ontario. She was is Haiti: A Shattered Nation (Overlook Press), EYAD JAMALEDDINE , BEngBioresourc e’11, recently appointed as an adjunct research pro - which examines a country perpetually in dire was selected as a recipient of one of ECO fessor in UWO’s Department of Visual Arts. straits and a people who remain remarkably Canada’s Student Ambassador Awards. Eyad resilient, despite all. presented his research on composting biore - MYRON J. ECHENBERG , BA’62, MA’64, is actors at ECO Canada’s booth during the the author of five books, the most recent of COLIN MATLEY , BA’66, has emerged 2011 Americana conference and trade show which is Africa in the Time of Cholera: A from retirement to publish The English in Montreal in March. History of Pandemics from 1817 to the Wordsmith , the work of an old friend. This Present (Cambridge University Press). After tubby tome, which is a compilation from ARTS receiving his doctorate from the University various sources, includes 8,000 difficult, of Wisconsin in 1971, Myron taught African obscure, and unusual words and phrases. history at McGill from 1969 till 2008, when The author, David W. Andrews, was an HOWARD A . BACAL , BA’54, MDCM’58, he retired as a professor emeritus. His eminent London lawyer who spent a lifetime is the co-author of The Power of Specificity research focuses on the history of health and collecting interesting words to illustrate in Psychotherapy: When Therapy Works disease in the developing world. the richness and diversity of the English and When It Doesn’t (Jason Aronson language. For more information please visit MICHAEL C. CORBALLIS , PhD’65, Publishers). The book examines specificity www.theenglishwordsmith.com. theory, a contemporary process theory of recently authored The Recursive Mind: The psychotherapy that holds that therapy hap - Origins of Human Language, Thought, and HARRIET MAUER , BA’66, recently retired pens at the fit between the patient’s particu - Civilization (Princeton University Press). In after a 40-year career in social work in New lar therapeutic needs and the therapist’s this book, Michael challenges the commonly York City. Harriet was honoured with a life - capacity to respond to them. Apart from his held notion that language is what makes us time achievement award for her contribu - private practice in Los Angeles, Howard is uniquely human, and instead argues that tions to child welfare. The prize was present - also a training and supervising analyst at the what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom ed by New York archbishop Timothy Dolan. is our capacity for recursion: the ability to Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis HENRY F. SREBRNIK , BA’66, MA’70, pro - embed our thoughts within other thoughts. and at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. fessor of political studies at the University of Michael is a professor emeritus of psychol- JUDITH MACLEAN RODGER , BA’61, Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown, has ogy at the University of Auckland, New received the 2011 Woman of Excellence written Creating the Chupah: The Zionist Zealand, and has published several other Award for Arts, Culture, and Heritage from Movement and the Drive for Jewish books, including From Hand to Mouth: the YMCA of Western Ontario. Judith was Communal Unity in Canada, 1898-1921 The Origins of Language . credited with being “instrumental in the (Academic Studies Press). The book assesses development and implementation of commu - ELIZABETH ABBOTT , MA’66, PhD’71, is a the role of Canadian Zionist organizations nity-based art initiatives designed to attract, historian whose work has been nominated in the drive for communal unity within Canadian Jewry in the first two decades of the 20th century and describes Zionist activ - ities within the larger spectrum of Canadian GARRY BEITEL , BA’70, MA’76, received a $50,000 Jewish life. lifetime career award from the Conseil des Arts et des lettres du Québec. The first anglophone filmmaker JOANNE ROCKLIN , BA’67, Dip Ed’68, pub - ever to receive the prize, Garry has directed several lished her children’s novel One Day and One documentaries over the course of his career, Amazing Morning on Orange Street (Amulet Books), which has received starred reviews

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JONATHAN L. WOODS , BA’70, is the standing volunteers for their dedicated and recipient of the 2011 Spinetingler Award for exceptional service to the ICRF. Sharon is the Best Crime Short Story Collection of 2010 second individual to receive this award in the for his latest work, Bad Juju & Other Tales organization’s 36-year history. of Madness and Mayhem (New Pulp Press). SIANG YANG TAN , BA’76, PhD’80, is a full His book also won best Crime Book Cover professor of psychology at Fuller Theological of 2010 (cover art by Kenney Mencher). Seminary in Pasadena, California, and RICHARD POMERANTZ , BA’71, wrote A senior pastor of a church in Glendale. He Love Letter From Princess: Lucky, Mommy recently authored a textbook, Counseling & Me . The book relates the true story of and Psychotherapy: A Christian Perspective his wife’s recovery from a terminal cancer (Baker Academic). Sian g—who is a fellow diagnosis, all through the perspective of her of the American Psychological Associatio n— cancer companion dog. A portion of every is a recipient of the William C. Bier Award for

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I VICTOR TEBOUL , MA’71, has published Association for Psychological Studies, and his third novel, Bienvenue chez Monsieur B! the Gary R. Collins Award for Excellence in DAN SELIGMAN , BA’00 (in black), is the creative (Les Éditions L’Harmattan). He has written Christian Counseling from the American director of Pop Montreal, an indie music and at length about Québécois-Jewish relations, Association of Christian Counselors. arts festival he co-founded with Peter Cowan and his most recent work of fiction focuses and NOELLE SORBARA , BA’00, BCL/LLB’10 . on Montreal’s Jewish community. Victor ROBERT M. MACLEAN , PhD’77, is the Pop Montreal celebrated its 10th anniversary this holds a PhD from Université de Montréal author of The President’s Palm Reader , a year with a free outdoor concert headlined by and has had an extensive teaching career at comic novel about a con man who unex- Arcade Fire that attracted an audience of various institutions, including Cégep Lionel- pectedly finds himself in the Oval Office, 100,000. The festival has become an important Groulx, Université du Québec à Montréal defending a failing president from a con - annual showcase for up-and-coming Montreal and McGill. He was also the editor of the mag - spiracy to impeach him. Robert’s previous bands while also featuring internationally azine Jonathan , and has hosted several radio book, Foreign Matter: In Trouble with My recognized artists like Beck and Patti Smith. programs on Radio-Canada. He is currently Fantasies (described by Publishers Weekly the founding editor of the online magazine as “fresh and spirited”) has been reissued Tolerance.ca . For more information visit for Kindle. www.victorteboul.com . CertSpEd’79, are proud of their rich family ROBERT J. VALLERAND , MA’79, received diversity. Roman is of East Indian and MURIEL (HALTRECHT) GOLD , MA’72, a the Canadian Psychological Association’s Slovak origins, Cindy is Jewish, and their theatre producer, director and author, has a Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished two adopted daughters are Inuit and Mayan new book out, The Dramatic Legacy of Contributions to Psychology as a Science. respectively. Roman and Cindy are part of a Dorothy Davis and Violet Walters: The This award is presented to CPA members or lobbying effort to include inter-racial mar - Montreal Children’s Theatre, 1933-2009 fellows who have made a significant contri - riage status in the information compiled (iUniverse Inc.). The book tells the story of bution to Canadian psychology as a scientif - by Statistics Canada. They also helped the two dynamic women, Dorothy Davis and ic discipline. Robert, who has published five organize a mixed-race couples and families Violet Walters, who ran the Montreal books and more than 225 scientific articles social forum that meets three times a year . Children’s Theatre in the midst of the Great and book chapters, is recognized as an inter - Depression. Murie l—herself a former stu - national authority on the study of motiva - MORDECHAI NISAN , MA’70, PhD’75, dent and teacher at the schoo l—recounts its tional processes. He is a professor of social retired after 35 years of teaching Middle East history through innumerable anecdotes, psychology and director of the Research studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. recreating the magic of past Children’s Laboratory on Social Behaviour at the He has written extensively on Middle East Theatre productions. Université du Québec à Montréal. topics, and his latest book, Only Israel West of the River: The Jewish State and the SHARON (LONDON) LISS , BA’76, was MARJORIE (GIGI) KILLEN ROSEN - Palestinian Question (CreateSpace), was presented with the Lifetime Achievement BERG , BA’80, has written her first book, The published in June. The book puts forward a Award from the Israel Cancer Research Fund Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing: How to Find possible political solution for a problem that in May 2011. The award acknowledges out - Funds and Write Foolproof Proposals for is more than 100 years old.

JOANNE SOROKA , BA’70, is the author of LUIS MIGUEL CASTILLA RUBIO , BA’91, was Tapestry Weaving: Design and Technique appointed as Peru’s new minister of finance and (Crowood Press). This lavishly illustrated economy on July 28. A former deputy finance minister book leads readers through the process of in Peru, he has also been a consultant for the World weaving with detailed diagrams focused on Bank and a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, the work of contemporary weavers. Joanne where he earned his PhD in economics. teaches at the University of Edinburgh and exhibits internationally.

46 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 the Visual, Literary, and Performing Artist (Watson-Guptill). The book is designed to TARA JOHNS , BA’92 , is the writer transform starving artists fumbling to get by and director of The Year Dolly into working artists who can confidently tap Parton Was My Mother , a feature into all the resources at their disposal. She film about an 11-year-old growing lives with her family in Portland, Oregon, up in the Prairies who becomes where she launched her professional devel - convinced that the country music opment workshops and also works as a star is her real mom. The film, writer and presentation coach. Gigi teaches described as a “treasure” by the in Chicago, New York City and Washington. Toronto Sun and as “surprisingly A I D MARK TAKEFMAN , BA’82, received a one- E potent” by the Vancouver Sun , was M

E recently released on DVD. year appointment to work as an organiza - R G N tional development consultant with VSO O China in Chengdu, Sichuan. Mark had just M concluded a two-year term as an organiza - PAMELA KLASSEN , BA’89, is an associate he worked in both Shanghai and Beijing tional advisor for VSO India. professor in the Department for the Study of between 2006 and 2011. Over the course of MARK WOLFE , BA’84, has been appointed Religion at the University of Toronto and the his CBC career, Anthony has hosted the local as an adjunct professor in the Faulty of Arts author of Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, morning show in Ottawa as well as CBC at the University of Calgary. He also recently Healing, and Liberal Christianity (University Radio’s political flagship show The House . became a research fellow with the Van Horne of California Press). The book examines the AXEL KINDBOM , BA’90, has joined the Institute in Calgary. A new monograph by politics of body, mind and spirit among Toronto office of the law firm Dickinson Mark, Say What? An Ethical Leader’s Guide North American liberal Protestants during Wright LLP. Axel practices business law and to Communicating in the 21st Century , is the 20th century. counsels clients on corporate and board scheduled for release this fall. ANTHONY GERMAIN , BA’90, is the new governance, regulatory and securities com - ANNE BERGERON , BA’86, has signed with host of the St. John’s Morning Show on CBC pliance, pre-acquisition due diligence and Ballantine Dell for her Regency romance Radio in Newfoundland and Labrador. other subjects. He studied international law novel, A Tale of Two Sisters , as well as a Before arriving in St. John’s, Anthony was the at Lund University in Sweden, and received second book in the series. Anne writes histor - CBC’s foreign correspondent in China, where his JD from Tulane University Law School. ical romance under the pen name Aislinn Macnamara. RHONDA B. KANTOR , BA’87, is the direc - tor of the Quebec Association for Adult Learning. Her new book, Are Parents and Teachers Natural Enemies?: Practical Insight for Sustainable Parent/Teacher Relationships at the Secondary Level (VDM Publishing), offers information and insights aimed at Geriatric Services & Resources fostering a successful partnership between home and school at the secondary level. Do you have elderly parents in Montreal? HÉLÈNA KATZ , BA’87, is an author and freelance journalist. Her latest book, Justice We can help you to navigate the health Miscarried: Inside Wrongful Convictions in Canada (Dundurn), tells the stories of 12 ca re s y stem to ensu re t he h ighest sta nda rds Canadians, including David Milgaard and of physical and emotional care. Donald Marshall, who were wrongly convict - ed and examines the errors in the justice sys - Provide home care staﬀ. tem that changed their lives forever. Hélèna has a master’s degree in criminology from Advise re appropriate nursing home. Université de Montréal and lives on an alpaca farm in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories. On call service 24 hours a day. CATHERINE FIESCHI , BA’89, PhD’00, is the director of Counterpoint, the British Council’s new London-based think tank. Counterpoint provides research and other Contact Dee Davidson RN [email protected] services to governments, businesses and organizations interested in the cultural 514-697-CARE (2273) www.completecare.ca analysis of risk.

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MAI-GEE HUM , BA’98, has been appointed JONATHAN GLENCROSS , BA’11, received the director of career management services Earth Day Canada’s 2011 Individual at Concordia University’s John Molson Hometown Heroes Award at the national School of Business. Mai-Gee first joined JMSB environmental charity’s annual gala on in 2007 in external affairs as its associate June 8, in front of 500 business and director of recruitment, graduate programs . environmental leaders at Toronto’s Drake More recently, as JMSB’s communications Hotel. One of the architects of McGill’s officer, she contributed to branding efforts Sustainability Projects Fund, Jonathan was through increased media presence and by described by Earth Day Canada president showcasing JMSB’s research and academic Jed Goldberg as “an environmental leader accomplishments. I T

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M awarded a Seminary Consultation on Mission A D A (SCOM) research grant to study in the Middle East, which is awarded annually to ALISON J. MCQUEEN , BA’90, is the author University of California, Berkeley. She is the develop and deepen a global perspective in of Empress Eugénie and the Arts: Politics and co-editor of Rallying for Immigrant Rights: seminary life. Last summer he worked in the Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century The Fight for Inclusion in 21st Century Diocese of Mt. Kilimanjaro, before heading to (Ashgate Press). The book details Eugénie’s America (University of California Press). The Israel on a Two Brothers Fellowship to work (wife of Napoleon III) position as a private col - book traces the evolution and legacy of the on an archeological dig. Stephen is a graduate lector and a public patron of a broad range of widespread 2006 protest movement for student at Yale Divinity School with a focus media. Alison is the first to examine Eugénie in immigrant rights in the U.S. on Anglican theology. the context of her importance to the develop - SIMONE PILON , MA’95, was selected by the CATHERINE CHANDLER-OLIVEIRA , ment of France’s institutions and internation - U.S. Department of Education to take part in MA’01, is the author of a full-length collec - al relations. Alison is an associate professor of the Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad program tion of poetry, Lines of Flight (Able Muse art history at McMaster University . to Morocco and Tunisia this summer. The pro - Press). She was invited to present her work at KRISTYN M. DUNNION , BA’92, has pub - gram provides short-term study and travel the West Chester University at Pennsylvania lished The Dirt Chronicles (Arsenal Pulp seminars abroad for U.S. educators in social Poetry Conference in June, for which she Press), her fourth book and her first short sciences and humanities for the purpose of received a full scholarship, and was a featured story collection. In these linked tales, urban improving their understanding and knowl - poet at StoryFest in Hudson, Quebec, in the outlaws and outliers in Toronto find their edge of the peoples and cultures of other coun - fall of 2011. Among other awards, she is the world threatened by a crooked cop who is tries. Simone is an associate professor of recipient of the University of Evansville- bent on exterminating the city's defiant French at Franklin College in Indiana. sponsored Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. underclass. Catherine teaches ESL and music at the ALEXIS SHOTWELL , BA’96, is the author Commission scolaire des Trois-Lacs in the MICHEL GRYNBERG , BA’92, is the proud of Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Montérégie region of Quebec. new father of a baby girl, Sarah Deborah Implicit Understanding (Penn State Univer- Elisabeth, who was born on February 21 in sity Press). The book explores how one may GREGORIO OBERTI , BA’01, DipAcct’05, Paris, France. In May, after 10 years of work - act in prejudiced ways toward others without recently completed a master’s degree in inter - ing for Groupe Crédit Agricole, Michel explicitly understanding the meaning of national trading, commodity finance and switched jobs, becoming a project office one’s actions. Alexis is an assistant professor shipping, at the University of Geneva, manager for BNP Paribas, where he supervis - at Laurentian University’s Department of Switzerland. Gregorio works with Deloitte es five project management officers who Philosophy and a past president of the as an audit manager, and is also the co-presi - oversee more than 100 IT projects. Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy. dent of the McGill Alumni Association in JENNIFER C. ANDREWS , BA’93, is the author of In the Belly of a Laughing God: Humour and Irony in Native Women’s APRIL ENGELBERG , BA’10 (right), and Poetry (University of Toronto Press). The AMANDA GARBUTT , BA’11, earned first book examines how eight contemporary place in the MaRS Upstart Business native women poets in Canada and the Competition for new business ideas that United States employ humour and irony to was held in Toronto in May. The duo earned address the intricacies of race, gender and $10,000 for The Hot Plate , a cooking show nationality. Jennifer is a professor in the they co-produce that debuted on the Department of English at the University of student-run TVMcGill. The program, hosted New Brunswick, the co-editor of Studies in by Amanda, presents tasty meal ideas that students can make for themselves.

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48 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 Switzerland. He lives in Geneva with wife Jordann and their two children. LOUISE COWIN , P hD ’99, is the new vice MICHAEL TODD , BA’01, and Theresa president, students, for the University of Hohenauer were married in Tirol, Austria, British Columbia. In this role, she will have on July 29, 2011. leadership responsibility for shaping the student experience and broad learning CHRISTOPHER J. BRYAN , BA’02, is a post - environment at UBC. Her portfolio includes doctoral fellow at Stanford University’s student development and services, student Department of Psychology. His work recently housing and hospitality services, and attracted international attention. Christopher athletics and recreation. Previously, Louise and his colleagues discovered that subtle was the warden of Hart House, a student linguistic cues have the power to boost voter activity centre at the University of Toronto. C

turnout. His research was published in B Proceedings of the National Academy of U Sciences and has been covered by MSNBC, Discover , and CBC Radio’s As It Happens . of Canada and its policy choices. A former NSERC and CIHR. Robin is a member of ERIK MICHAEL GRAYSON , MA’03, com - vice president academic of McGill’s Arts the Neuromuscular Research Group at the pleted his doctorate in English at the State Undergraduate Society, Patrick is working on Montreal Neurological Institute. a master’s degree in public and international University of New York in 2010, and recently COLLEEN CURRAN , BEd’81, is a Montreal - affairs at the Glendon School of Public and accepted a visiting assistant professorship in based playwright whose latest work, True International Affairs at York University. English at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Nature , opened the fall season at Montreal’s Three of the 2011 Action Canada Fellows are Centaur Theatre on October 4. The play, a AMIR BARADARAN , BA’04, is an artist McGill graduates. whose latest work, Venice Augmented , was bittersweet romantic comedy which exam - ines science and social class, is inspired by active throughout the duration of the 54th DENTISTRY Venice Biennale. Using augmented art (AR), the true story of Mary Anning, an extraordi - Amir’s work comprised a number of (un) seen nary but unsung Victorian-era fossil collec - attributes embedded throughout the docks GERALD RUDICK , DDS’66, was recently tor. True Nature was developed and work - and gardens, accessible to visiting publics awarded a mastership in dental implant shopped at McGill’s Redpath Museum. through a number of activation points scat - prosthodontics by the Implant Prosthetic tered throughout the Venice landscape. Section of the International Congress of Oral Implantology ( ICOI). He is also a fellow JESSICA DERE , BA’04, MSc’06, and EDSEL and diplomate of the ICOI and an associate PHILIP , BEng’06, MSc’10, were married at fellow of the American Academy of Implant mOntrea l’s the McGill Faculty Club on May 21, 2011, in Dentistry. Gerald runs a private dental prac - the presence of their family and close friends. tice in Montreal. best bagels Jessica is completing her PhD in clinical nOw available psychology at Concordia University and EDUCATION Edsel is a consulting analyst at Accenture plc. acrOss c anada The couple will always have McGill close to DUNCAN M CGEACHY , BSc(PE)’49, has their heart s—they started their relation - been inducted into the New Brunswick ship at McGill in 2002, and became engaged From our wood-burning Sports Hall of Fame. The retired principal of while at McGill in 2008. ovens in montreal to St. Stephen High School coached basketball, FRANCIS HALIN , BA’04, MA’08, has been track and field, cross country running and your front door. appointed to Montreal’s Conseil jeunesse for soccer over the course of his career as an a three-year term. Members of the council educator. The basketball teams he coached, advise the mayor and executive committee both boys and girls, won more than 20 on matters related to Montreal’s youth popu - provincial championships. lation. In 2009, Francis was a semi-finalist at ROBIN N. MICHEL , BEd’80, is a Canada the Festival international de la chanson de Research Chair (Tier One) in Cellular Granby and will be releasing his first original and Molecular Neuromuscular Physiology album, recorded with multi-instrumentalist at Concordia University. Together with Olaf Gundel, in 2011. BERNARD JASMIN , BEd’83, a professor PATRICK BOILY , BA’09, is one of 17 prom - of cellular and molecular medicine at the ising young Canadians selected to serve as University of Ottawa, he is pursuing research 2011 Action Canada Fellows. The Action on calcineurin, an enzyme that orchestrates Canada Fellowship Program is dedicated to muscle growth adaptations. The work could building an exceptional network of leaders have important implications for rescuing Order Online @: for Canada’s future by developing their muscle fibres damaged by muscular dys- www .stviateurbagel .cOm skills and broadening their understanding trophy. The research is funded by both

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World Championships in Italy next summer. Industrial Research Chair for Multidisciplinary The team is in need of sponsors to assist with Computational Fluid Dynamics . travel expenses. For more information or to AHMED S. KAMIS , PhD’85, is the leader support this cause please visit www.cdsabas - of the Chartered Institution of Water and ketball.com.

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Y A Guide to Section 1 of the ASME Boiler and was the recipient of his university’s Excellence R Pressure Code (ASME Press). John was a long - Award in 2010, and in 2009 earned first prize RAY LALONDE , B Ed ’86, became time member of the American Society of in a faculty contest for website development. Mechanical Engineers’ Boiler & Pressure the president of the Montreal RAEHAN “BOBBY” UMAR , BEng’94, Vessel Standards Committee and earned Alouettes football team in March. launched his inaugural “Power of Connection” ASME’s J. Hall Taylor Medal for distin - A former player and coach with workshop series, designed to challenge guished service in the field of codes and the McGill Redmen football squad, participants to reflect critically upon their standards pertaining to piping and pressure Ray was director of football strengths and potential, in July. He is an vessels in 1997. operations for the Montreal award-winning developer and teacher of Machine of the World League of VINCENT JOLIVET , BEng’52, has retired programs designed to motivate senior execu - American Football and part of at the age of 80. After earning an MBA and tives, business professionals, and students. the management team for NBA a doctorate, Vincent spent 10 years teaching Bobby draws on his diverse experience and Europe before he joined the finance at the University of Washington, academic training to lead Raeallan, a training Montreal Canadiens organization IMD Business School, and Stanford. He then and speaking company . in 2001. As the Habs’ vice president served as VP and director of a rocket company and chief marketing officer, Ray’s for six years, and worked as a self-employed LAW responsibilities included overseeing expert in finance and economics for the last the team’s 100th anniversary 38 years of his caree r. celebrations in 2009. RICHARD W. POUND , BCom’62, BCL’67, DEAN H. JOURNEAUX , BEng’60, is the LLD’09, was named chairman of the board of new president and chief executive officer of directors for the Foundation of Greater New Millennium Iron, where he previously Montreal. Richard is a partner in the SUZANNE REISLER LITWIN , BEd’85, is served as the chief operating officer. In 2003, Montreal offices of Stikeman Elliot, and is a the author of the children’s picture book Dean co-founded the company currently member of the firm’s tax group. A member of The Black Velvet Jacket . The book tells the known as the Millennium Iron Range, devel - the Organizing Committee for the 2010 true story of a young man’s coming of age oping large world class iron ore deposits in Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, he is a and inspires those who believe that wishes the Schefferville area of Labrador and chancellor emeritus of McGill. really do come true. She is the mother of Quebec. three children and lives in Montreal. For LARRY HERMAN , BCL’75, LLB’76, was more information about Suzanne’s writing, WAGDI (FRED) HABASHI , BEng’67, appointed deputy banking ombudsman for go to suzannereislerlitwin.com . MEng’70, is the 2011 recipient of the the ADR Chambers Banking Ombuds Office. Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute’s This office reviews decisions of the Royal S. DARLENE KEHYAYAN , BEd’93, MEd’99, McCurdy Award for outstanding achieve - Bank of Canada (RBC) ombudsman when GradCertEdLeadership’06, GradCertEd- ment in the science and creative aspects of RBC customers are not satisfied with the Leadership2’09 , is the principal of Dunrae engineering related to aeronautics and outcome of the process. Larry has been a Gardens Elementary School in the Town of space research. He occupies McGill’s NSERC-J. roster mediator in the Ontario Superior Mount Royal. After joining Dunrae as the Armand Bombardier-Bell Helicopter-CAE Court of Justice Mandatory Mediation new principal in 2008, Darlene was success - ful in increasing the school’s student popula - tion by more than 450 students in her first JOE OLIVER , BA’61, BCL’64, was appointed to few months. A French immersion school Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s cabinet as within the English Montreal School Board, Canada’s minister of natural resources in May, Dunrae regularly welcomes student teachers shortly after being elected to the House of from McGill. Darlene previously worked as Commons for the first time as the new MP for the the principal of Cedarcrest Elementary Ontario riding of Eglinton-Lawrence. A former School in St. Laurent. executive director of the Ontario Securities Commission, he chaired the editorial board of the

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S McGill Daily during his time at McGill. He is also mer McGill varsity basketball player now N A R a former editor of the McGill Law Journal . coaching the Canadian Deaf Basketball N O S A Team, which will be participating in the J

50 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 Program (Toronto and Ottawa regions) RON LEVI , BCL’94, LLB’94, has been litigator with the Canadian Department of since 2000 and is a recent recipient of the appointed the George Ignatieff Chair in Peace Foreign Affairs. Formerly, Ian was a UN legal chartered mediator designation by the ASR and Conflict Studies at the University of and political advisor in the Middle East, and Institute of Canada. Larry is continuing his Toronto. Ron is a faculty member of the from 2005-2007, he was part of the UN’s mediation practice with ADR Chambers Inc. Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal humanitarian relief effort in Iraq. Three of and resides in Toronto with his wife, Aline Studies, with cross-appointments in political the 2011 Action Canada Fellows are McGill Baltar, a psychiatric social worker. science and sociology. His research focuses on graduates. global justice, crime and politics, and legal and BARRY SELTZER , LLB’79, is the coauthor institutional responses to mass atrocities. of Fat Cats and Lucky Dogs: How to Leave LIBRARY & (Some of Your) Estate to Your Pet (Prism FRED W. HEADON , LLB’96, BCL’96, is INFORMATION STUDIES Publishing). The book provides guidance to the senior counsel for labour and employ - those who would like to explore planning ment law at Air Canada. He was elected PETER F. M CNALLY, BLS’65, MLS’66, possibilities for their families and pets. second vice-president of the Canadian Bar MA’77, received the 2011 Tremaine Medal Association in March, 2011. The second vice- and Watters-Morley Prize from the CHRISTIAN COUTURIER , BCL’81, Bibliographical Society of Canada for out - LLB’81, has been named vice-president of presidency is the first step on the ladder to the presidency, which he will assume in 2013. standing service to Canadian bibliography the board of directors of the Groupe de Droit and for distinguished publication in either Collaboratif du Québec. Christian currently He is the first in-house counsel to be elected to this position. English or French in that field. His career as practices collaborative family law, civil, com - a librarian and historian, spanning nearly mercial, and family mediation, out of court ALEXANDER BAYER , LLM’98, became a 40 years, has been devoted to the study of negotiation, and is also a trainer in collabora - partner at Wragge & Co, focusing on IP and Canadian bibliography. Peter was the coordi - tive family law. IT law. In 2008, he was appointed to open the nator of the Roundtable on Bibliography GREGORY D. WILLIAMS , BSc’77, LLB’81, firm’s first continental Europe office in from 1981-1988, and also served as presi - has joined Pepper Hamilton as a partner in Munich and established a new branch for a dent of the Bibliographical Society of Canada the intellectual property practice group. UK law firm. Alexander got married the same from 1999-2002. Gregory specializes in the life science sector, year and is now a proud parent of a 2-year-old focusing on intellectual property acquisition daughter, Johanna. MANAGEMENT and management. Prior to joining Pepper IAN G. PHILIP , BCL/LLB’07, has been Hamilton, Gregory worked at New England selected as one of 17 promising young DICK IRVIN , BCom’53, is the recipient of Biolabs, Inc. as general counsel, as former Canadians who will serve as 2011 Action ACTRA Montreal’s 2011 Award of Excellence. chief IP counsel, and as a senior member of its Canada Fellows. He is an international trade His 50-year career in sports broadcasting has global business development team. JEFFREY F. EDWARDS , BCL’86, LLB’86, was appointed an adjunct professor in McGill’s Faculty of Law. Jeffrey has taught law at McGill for more than 10 years as a sessional instructor. He recently published the second edition of his book, La garantie de qualité du vendeur en droit québécois (Wilson & Lafleur)—often cited by the courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Jeffrey will maintain his full-time position as partner and head of the liti- gation department at Tutino Edwards Joseph, where he also acts as arbitrator and mediator in construction and product liability law. LORRAINE PILON , BCL’88, is the execu - tive vice president, corporate affairs, and sec - retary of the Banque Laurentienne. In her job, Lorraine oversees legal affairs and com - pliance, the secretariat, public affairs, com - munications and investor relations, internal audit and security. She joined the bank in 1990, initially working in legal affairs. Lorraine earned an executive MBA from Université du Québec à Montréal and an undergraduate degree in administration from the Mississippi University for Women.

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already earned him spots in the Hockey Hall of JOSEPH MAH , DPA’80, is the author of Yin Fame, the Canadian Broadcasters ’ Hall of Yang Qi-The Art of Balancing Health . The Fame and the CBC Sports Hall of Fame. He book contains recipes for over 50 traditional is the author of six books on the game of Chinese soups and congees developed to hockey and continues to be involved in special address specific aspects of health. While Joe Official Hotels Program events for Hockey Night in Canada and the is a Montreal-based chartered accountant offers preferential rates for Montreal Canadiens. with business experience at firms such as the entire McGill community. TED T . GREENFIELD , BCom’54, was Deloitte & Touche and Abbott Laboratories, Simply request the McGill rate he was also trained by Chinese herbal experts when contacting our partner awarded an FCA by the Order of Chartered Accountants of Quebec for bringing honour on how to use specific foods to prevent and hotels to verify availability and cure illnesses. Growing up in Montreal’s book your arrangements. to the profession through his more than 50 years of service to the community. Ted is Chinatown, he apprenticed in Chinese herbal a retired partner and consultant with Fuller medicine stores, learning the recipes that Landau LLP. were handed down through generations of Holiday Inn Midtow n- Montreal Montreal’s Chinese community. 420 Sherbrooke St. West RUBEN ROSEN , BCom’57, has recently Montreal, QC H3A 1B4 completed his legislated maximum six- JOHN S. KOLODA , BCom’83, founded his Toll Free #: 1-800-387-3042 year term as founding chair of the North own consulting firm, Groupe KolodaCORE McGill #: 514-398-8177 Simcoe Muskoka Local Health Integration Inc. John has 28 years of experience in the www.rosdevhotels.com Network. The NSM LHIN is one of 14 financial services industry, most recently as vice president eastern Canada with Great Residence Inn by Marriott - Ontario Crown Agencies established in Montreal Downtown 2005 to plan, manage and fund health serv - West Life. He lives in Montreal with wife 2045 Peel St. ices for a specific geographic region. During Margaret, and two sons, Karl and Konrad. Montreal, QC H3A 1T6 the first six years of its existence, the NSM MATHIEU GAUVIN , BCom’83, DPA’84, is Toll Free #: 1-888-999-9494 LHIN dedicated itself to improving the one of the newest members of RSM Richter McGill #: 514-398-8081 health of its residents and visitors and Chamberland, an accounting and business www.residenceinn-mtl.com developed a master strategic plan to guide advisory firm with offices in Montreal, its progress in the future. Delta Montreal Hotel Toronto and Calgary. He has more than 475 President Kennedy Avenue JOHN KELLETT , BCom’68, received the 25 years of experience in the field of mergers Montreal, QC H3A 1J7 Morningstar Canada Career Achievement and acquisitions. Toll Free #: 1-877-286-1986 McGill #: 514-398-7422 www.deltamontreal.com ENDERSON GUIMARAES , MBA’90, is PepsiCo’s new Sofitel Montreal Golden Mile president of global operations. He comes to Pepsi from 1155 Sherbrooke St . West Swedish household appliances maker Electrolux, where he was Montreal, QC H3A 2N3 chief executive of its appliances business for Europe, Africa Toll Free # in North America: 877-285-9001 and the Middle East. In his new job, Enderson is responsible McGill #: 514-398-7285 for strategic sourcing management, global operations, www.sofitelmontreal.com business and information solutions and global productivity. He reports to PepsiCo chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi. Château Versailles 1659 Sherbrooke St. West (north side) Le Méridien Versailles 1808 Sherbrooke St. West (south side) Award at a gala black tie dinner held at the HOWARD JOHNSON , DPA’89, is a manag - Montreal, QC H3A 1B4 Royal York Hotel in Toronto last December. ing director at Veracap Corporate Finance Toll Free #:1-888-933-8111 Peter Mansbridge hosted the award presen - Limited in Toronto. The author of several McGill #: 514-398-8091 tation, at which a short video of John’s career books on the subjects of business valuation www.versailleshotels.com in the investment industry was shown. The and corporate finance, Howard’s latest is www.lemeridien.com first winner of this annual award was Sir Building Value in Your Company , a practical, John Templeton. hands-on explanation of how shareholder value is measured, created and ultimately McGill Official Hotels Program Contact: HÉLÈNE FORTIN , DPA’80, is the new chair - realized. The book focuses on the key value Michael Lepage woman of the board of directors for Groupe drivers of cash flow, risk management and michael.lepage @mcgill.ca / 514-398-3669 Bikini Village Inc., a swimwear manufacturer invested capital. Official Hotels Program web link with boutiques across eastern Canada. An www.mcgill.ca/travelservices/hotelprogram/ associate with the CA firm Demers Beaulne RICK M CCREARY , MBA’97, was appointed and a public accountant with more than 30 senior vice president corporate development The McGill special guestroom rates vary throughout with Barrick Gold Corporation. Richard was the year and offer exceptional value to McGill Alumni, years of experience, Hélène also chairs the students, staff, faculty and visitors. board of directors for both Loto-Québec and previously employed at CIBC World Markets Infrastructure Québec . as managing director and head of global

52 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 tal sciences category, while SUSIE NAPPER , VICTOR DZAU , B Sc ’68, MDCM’72, D Sc’ 08, is the artistic director of the Montreal Baroque 2011 recipient of the Henry G. Friesen International Festival and an instructor at the Schulich Prize in Health Research. His scientific exploration of School of Music, won for arts and culture. the renin-angiotensin system has made important contributions to our understanding of a wide range of AVRUM SPIRA , MDCM’96, an associate heart and blood vessel diseases, from hypertension professor of medicine at Boston University, to heart failure. The president and CEO of Duke has won BU’s 2011 Innovator of the Year University Health System, Victor established the Award for co-identifying genetic abnormal - Duke Global Health Institute, an interdisciplinary ities among lung cancer patients. The dis - effort aimed at addressing health care problems in covery is spurring the creation of new non- under-served and under-resourced countries. invasive and inexpensive tests for detecting the disease. mining investment banking. He can be Rheumatology’s monthly newsmagazine. MUSIC reached at rmccreary @barrick.com. Simon is the director of education & fellow - ship training at Brigham and Women’s KAREN TAKACS , MMgmt’02, received the YOKEMUI MAY PHANG , BMus’92, Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He’ll YWCA Toronto’s Woman of Distinction MMus’94, took second place nationally in begin his new role with The Rheumatologist Award for International Development and the American Prize in Piano Performance, in in January, 2012. Advocacy. The award is presented annually both the solo and concerto competitions. to recognize the contributions of women ALLAN D. PETERKIN , MedicalResident’90 , May obtained her doctorate from Temple who have helped other women and girls DipPsych’92, is a Toronto-based physician University and is an associate professor of achieve equality, economic sustainability, and writer. His latest book, illustrated by piano at DePauw University in Indiana. She and lives free from violence. As the execu - Emmeline Pidgen, is The Flyaway Blanket , a performs frequently as a recitalist and cham - tive director of Canadian Crossroads picture book aimed at four- to eight-year-olds ber musician and is also active adjudicating International, Karen has been a leading that explores attachment and bonding. Allan local and state competitions, presenting proponent for the participation of women is an associate professor of psychiatry and master classes and giving presentations. as being essential to poverty reduction and family medicine at the University of Toronto TARAS N. KULISH , BMus’95, is the international development. and the head of Mount Sinai Hospital’s founder and general and artistic director of a Program for Narrative and Humanities in new Montreal opera company, Opera Piccola. MEDICINE Healthcare. The goal of this company is to present profes - JOHANNE LIU , MDCM’91, a pediatric sional quality opera in the summer in an inti - JAMES C. CHAN , MDCM ’64, received the emergency physician and a past president mate setting at the Outremont Theatre 2011 Henry L Barnett Award from the of Médecins Sans Frontières Canada, was while making the art form more affordable American Academy of Pediatrics. The prize chosen as the Montreal YWC A’s 2011 Woman and accessible. For the last six years he served recognizes a pediatric nephrologist for out - of Distinction for Community Involvement. as artistic director of the Green Mountain standing teaching and clinical care for chil - Opera Festival, which is now considered one ANGELA GENGE , MedicalResident’93, dren with kidney disease. The award was of New England’s premier opera presenters. was selected as the Montreal YWCA’s 2011 presented to him at the academy’s annual Taras still manages to lead a very active Woman of Distinction for Science and meeting in Denver, Colorado, in May. James singing career. He sang twice with the Opéra Technology. She is the director of the Clinical is a professor of pediatrics at Tufts University de Montréal this past season, and is sched - Research Unit at the Montreal Neurological in Massachusetts and director of research uled to perform with the Calgary Opera and Institute. She wasn’t the only McGill teacher at the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at the Opéra de Québec. For more information cited as a Woman of Distinction at the awards Maine Medical Center. visit his website at www.taraskulish.com . ceremony. Professor LAURETTE DUBÉ DAVE WILLIAMS , BSc’76, MDCM’83, from the Desautels Faculty of Management JONATHAN CROW, BMus’98, an associ - MSc’83, DSc’07, is the new president and earned the prize in the social and environmen - ate professor of violin at McGill’s Schulich CEO of Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, Ontario. The recipient of four honorary degrees, Dave was also reappointed DEBORAH CORBER , BMUS’81, became the new chief as an assistant professor of surgery at the executive officer of Federation CJA on September 6. Deborah University of Toronto. The former director served for 24 years as a senior legal and policy advisor to the of the Space and Life Sciences Directorate at federal government in the area of aboriginal affairs, first as legal the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, counsel to the Department of Justice, and for the past 10 years, Dave logged more than 687 hours in space as in her own consulting practice. Based in Montreal, Federation a Canadian astronaut. CJA plays a key role in the city’s Jewish community, raising and L E SIMON HELFGOTT , MDCM’77, has been I distributing funds for those in need and overseeing the delivery N A D named the new physician editor of The of a range of services and programs. M I D

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School of Music, is the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s new concertmaster. He made his SEAN FERGUSON , M Mus ’93, D Mus ’03, is the new dean of McGill’s debut in his new role on September 22 dur - Schulich School of Music. He joined the McGill faculty as an assistant ing the TSO’s 90th season opening night con - professor of composition and director of the Digital Composition cert. Between 2002 and 2006, Jonathan Studios in 2003, and was named associate professor and director of served as the concertmaster for the Montreal the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology Symphony Orchestra, and was the youngest in 2009. His research focuses on computer-assisted composition, concertmaster of a major North American psychoacoustics applied to musical harmony, live electronics, and orchestra at the time.

N digital musical instruments. His compositions have been performed A G E by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and other ensembles.

CARLOS JIMÉNEZ , BMus’06, MMus’08, N E W recently released his debut album, O Undercurrents . Carlos, a jazz guitarist and composer, is joined on the album by pianist Detroit, has been named the 2010-2011 IAN DE VERTEUL , BSc’84, is rejoining Josh Rager, BMus’98, MMus’02, bass player president-elect of the American Board of BMO Capital Markets as global head of Dave Watts, BMus’96, MMus’08, and drum - Dermatology. Henry was also a plenary research. Over the course of his career as an mer Michel Berthiaume, BMus’04, MMus’06. session speaker at the World Congress of analyst, Ian achieved top rankings in three All About Jazz praises the album for its “cool Dermatology in Seoul, Korea, in May 2011. sectors: consumer products, insurance and self-confidence and keen precision.” Carlos His fifth co-edited textbook, Cancer of the banks. He left BMO in 2009 to join the teaches at the Schulich School of Music. For Skin , will be published by Elsevier this year. Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board as more information, visit www. carlosjimenez - head of fundamental research. music.com. WILLIAM (BILL) J. POWER , BSc’75, retired from Shell Canada as manager, labo - VIRGINIA BARRAQUIO , PhD’90, has received the 2010 National Research SCIENCE ratory and pilot operations, oil sands, after more than 29 years with Shell. After earning Council of the Philippines Achievement his PhD from the University of Toronto, he Award in Agriculture and Forestry. Virginia DONALD J. BEAUPRIE, BSc’51, DDS’56, joined Imperial Oil Research in Sarnia before is a professor at the College of Agriculture, recently accompanied his grandson, moving to Shell. Over the course of his career, University of the Philippines Los Baños. ALISTAIR OWEN BEAUPRIE , BCom’11, he researched almost every refinery process. to his McGill convocation. ALEXANDER HUTCHINSON , BSc’97, is A career highpoint was in 2003, when he the author of Which Comes First, Cardio or SIMON KOCHEN , BSc’54, MSc’55, was shared the Alberta Science and Technology Weights? Fitness Myths, Training Truths, recently appointed emeritus professor of Award for Oil Sands research for his contri - and Other Surprising Discoveries from the mathematics at Princeton University. He butions to the commercialization of a unique Science of Exercise (McClelland & Stewart). won the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number bitumen cleaning process. Bill and his wife Alex also writes the Globe and Mai l’s Theory from the American Mathematical Carol are moving to Kelowna, B.C. “Jockology” column on the science of fitness. Society in 1967 and chaired Princeton’s BEVERLEY AKERMAN , BSc’80, MSc’87, is Department of Mathematics from 1990- an award-winning writer whose recent short SOCIAL WORK 1993. Credited with important contributions story collection, The Meaning of Children to mathematical logic, model theory, number (Exile Books), made it to the final Top 10 STACIA A. KEAN , BSW’06, was selected as theory and quantum mechanics, Simon is also for the CBC-Scotiabank Giller Prize Readers’ one of 17 Action Canada Fellows for 2011. She recognized outside the mathematics com- Choice Contest. The Rover describes her is the co-chair of the Canadian CED Network’s munity for co-developing the “Free Will book as “a beautifully written exposé on the Emerging Leaders Standing Committee and Theorem,” which asserts that if humans have meaning of life.” Beverley turned to writing in 2010 was invited to make a co-presentation free will, then elementary particles, such as after spending more than two decades in to the Federal Standing Committee on atoms and electrons, possess free will as well. molecular genetics research. It pleases her Finance Pre-Budget Consultations concern - HENRY W. LIM , BSc’71, chairman and C.S. strangely to believe she’s the only Canadian ing community economic development. Livingood Chair of the Department of fiction writer ever to have sequenced her Three of the 2011 Action Canada Fellows are Dermatology at the Henry Ford Hospital in own DNA. McGill graduates.

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Welcome back, Bill Speaking at a breakfast event hosted by the McGill Alumni Association, William Shatner confessed that he “blundered his way through my undergraduate years.” The two-time Emmy Award winner credited his McGill management degree for his start as an actor (theatre companies hired him assuming he had some management skills, then put him on the N A G E stage once they realized he didn’t). Shatner was in N E W

Montreal to receive an honorary degree from McGill. O Shatner received a James McGill bobblehead and a personalized Redmen hockey jersey from Vice-Principal (Development and Alumni Relations) Marc Weinstein, BA’85, BCL’91, LLB’91, McGill board of governors vice-chair Lili De Grandpré, MBA’81, and McGill Alumni Coming from far and wide Association vice-president Tina Hobday, BA’88, BCL’93, LLB’93. Last June, former graduate students in economics from the mid-eighties met in Washington, DC, for a mini-reunion. My Fur Reunion It’s been more than 65 years since My Fur Lady , probably the most successful student theatrical production in Canadian history, made its debut at McGill. Some of the talent responsible for the legendary satirical musical got reacquainted at Vancouver’s Leacock Luncheon in April, including (l to r) Ann Golden Fisher, LMus’58, BMus’68, Tim Porteous, BA’54, BCL’57, and Audrey Rockingham Gill, BA’58.

Attending were (l to r) Carlos Heredia, MA’86, chairman of international studies Into the vault at CIDE in Mexico, Fazal Davood, MA’86, an actuarial health insurance McGill supporters were put behind bars at a spring reception held in consultant in Pennsylvania, de Guise Toronto. The event, held at the Grand Banking Hall, gave recent Vaillancourt, BA’83, MA’87, now donors the opportunity to tour an underground bank studying psychology at New York vault guarded by a 40-ton, four-foot-thick steel door. University, Glyn Chancey, executive (l to r) Alex King, David Fung, BEng’70, director of business modernization at the MEng’72, PhD’79, Andrea Halperin, BSW’75, Canadian Food Inspection Agency in MSW’80, Stephen Halperin, BCL’75, LLB’78, Ottawa, Andrew Burns, MA’87, manager and Donald Lewtas, BCom’75 of global macroeconomics at the World Bank (he still uses his old textbooks), Massoma Habib, MA’87, an education policy researcher in Lahore, Pakistan, Claudia Heredia, legal counsel to the Mexico City government, and Winnipeg lawyer and former Manitoba Green Party leader Markus Buchart, MA’88, bearing a striking resemblance to Karl Marx.

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1930 s MONTROY COHEN , BSc’41, at HERBERT SAMUEL RANDALL , Westmount, Que., on June 14, 2011. MDCM’43, at Vancouver, B.C., JOHN M. CERINI , BA’32, at Pointe-Claire, on May 12, 2011. Que., on May 13, 2011. ENRICCO DE PIERRO , BArch’41, at London, U.K., on June 25, 2011. ARTHUR JOHN FRANCIS AVERILL , MILDRED BRONFMAN LANDE , BA’36, BA’44, at Maple Ridge, B.C., on CONSTANCE LIVINGSTON at Westmount, Que., on April 28, 2011. June 14, 2011. FRIEDMAN , BSc’41, MSc’42, PhD’48, SIMON GOLD , BSc’38, at Vancouver, on June 15, 2011. JAMES (JIM) RICHARD STUART , MDCM’40, MSc’45, at Montreal, BSc’44, MDCM’45, PhD’57, at Black R. HARRY JAY , BA’41, BCL’48, at Ottawa, on December 28, 2010. Diamond, Alta., on June 1, 2011. on May 15, 2011. EUGENE W. CHIPMAN , BSc(Agr)’39, HERSCHEL VICTOR , BCom’44, LLD’10, RENEE C. MCKAY , BA’41, at New York at Kentville, N.S., on April 6, 2011. at Westmount, Que., on May 13, 2011. City, on April 16, 2011. FREDRICK CHU , MDCM ’39, at MARY E. BAKER , BSc(HEc)’45, at DONALD EDWARD DOUGLAS , Vancouver, on March 19, 2011. Saint-Lambert, Que., on July 30, 2011. BSc’42, MSc’43, PhD’45, at Montreal, DOROTHY (JACOBS) SIMAND , BA’39, on May 8, 2011. ALFRED ASSALY , BEng’46, at Montreal, MSW’71, at West Palm Beach, Fla., on August 4, 2011. on July 5, 2011. RALPH R. HAYTER , BSc(Agr)’42, at Ottawa, on June 22, 2011. ALFRED H. D. HAIBLEN , BEng’46, EDNA FRANCES WOOTAN , BCL’39, at New York City, on June 23, 2011. at Westmount, Que., on March 5, 2011. GEORGES M. MASSON , PhD’42, at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., GERALD S. CHARNESS , BSc’47, MARCIA (MICHLIN) ZARITZKY , BA’39, on June 23, 2011. at Aventura, Fla., on March 13, 2011. at Côte Saint-Luc, Que., on July 15, 2011. HARRIET (MITCHELL) OUTHET , RENE FRANÇOIS JOOSTE , MSc’47, 1940 s BA’42, at Aylmer, Que., on August 11, 2011. PhD’49, at Ottawa, on April 12, 2011. ARTHUR (ART) HAMILTON BERUBE , DIMITRIOS (JIM) G. PANOS , RALPH P. RANDLETT , BSc’47, BCom’40, at St. Catharines, Ont., BA’42, MA’44, at Port Washington, N.Y., MDCM’49, at Cornwall, Ont., on on May 5, 2011. on July 14, 2011. July 5, 2011. KENNETH N. R. BRANDS , BEng’40, G. N. RUSSELL SMART , BSc’42, PhD’45, JOHN BETHUNE WIGHT , BCom’47, at Oakville, Ont., on June 17, 2011. at Allentown, Pa., on May 3, 2011. at Montreal, on April 11, 2011. MARY FRANCES CAMERON , BA’40, DAVID G. GUTHRIE , BSc’43, MDCM’44, JACK EMMANUEL ADAM , BA’48, BD’52, at Pointe-Claire, Que., on August 5, 2011. at Sainte-Foy, Que., on June 1, 2011. at Toronto, on July 13, 2011. EDWARD (TED) JULIUS ROSEN , DOUGLAS GRANT LOCHHEAD , LEONARD L. DRUCKMAN , BSc’48, BSc’40, MDCM’42, at Toronto, BA’43, BLS’51, at Sackville, N.B., DDS’54, on August 22, 2011. on March 15, 2011. on June 9, 2011. WILLIAM ARTHUR EDGE , BA’48, at Ottawa, on August 1, 2011.

It’s always sad to lose a gifted political PETER R. MACKELL , BA’48, BCL’51, leader, but the death of JACK LAYTON , at Montreal, on May 27, 2011. BA’71, on August 22 was particularly JOHN (JOCK) HUGH MACLAREN , wrenching, coming as it did only a few BSc(Agr)’48, on March 28, 2011. short months after he had led the NDP to unprecedented heights —103 seats in the IAN HERBERT MACLEAN , BCom’48, House of Commons and Official Opposition at Kelowna, B.C., on February 24, 2011. status. Layton’s good-humoured and WILLIAM (BILL) JOHN MYLES energetic performance in the 2011 federal MOORE , MEng’48, at Ottawa, election, despite his health problems, on May 11, 2011. drew widespread praise, even from political DAVID LEO NASH , BA’48, at Howick, S opponents. His commitment to social S E

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56 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 CHARLOTTE (GARFINKLE) STEINBERG , BSW’48, at Côte Saint-Luc, Even among the gifted minds that populated Que., on April 2, 2011. the fabled Bell Laboratories in the sixties, WILLARD BOYLE , B Sc ’47, M Sc ’48, P hD ’50, GRACE WHITE , DipNursT&S’48, at Toronto, on March 24, 2011. was a standout. Together with collaborator George E. Smith, Boyle invented the charge-

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at Vancouver, on September 22, 2011. N Wallace, Nova Scotia. O I T A JAMES THOMAS ELO , DDS’49, N at Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, Que., on June 24, 2011. KENNETH SHERRIFFS MORTON , JACK (JOHN) S. SALMON , BSc(Agr)’52, MDCM’50, at Gibson, B.C., on at Vernon, B.C., on May 29, 2011. ROMA ZENOVEA HAWIRKO , MSc’49, August 13, 2011. PhD’51, at Victoria, on March 4, 2011. RUPERT J. SMILEY , BSc(Agr)’52, ROBERT JOHN SIMPSON , BEng’50, at Sainte-Julie, Que., on May 27, 2011. BERNARD NATHANSON , MDCM’49, at White Rock, B.C., on March 4, 2011. at New York City, on February 21, 2011. JAMES M. DONNELL , BSc’53, MDCM’55, JOHN MAURICE WILLCOCK , BEng’50, at Gorham, N.H., on June 17, 2011. PEGGY PURVIS , BSc’49, BSc’71, at St. Augustine, Fla., on March 29, 2011. at Montreal, on May 18, 2011. DONALD JOSEPH MENARD , BSc(PE)’53, ALBERT LEWIS BENNETT , BSW’51, at Newmarket, Ont., on April 20, 2011. JOHN A. BRUCE ROBINSON , MSW’52, at Ottawa, on July 22, 2010. BSc(PE)’49, DDS’53, at Saskatoon, Sask., MURRAY C. PATRICK , MDCM’53, on July 27, 2011. JULIAN CHIPMAN , BA’51, BCL’54, at Fredericton, NB, on March 22, 2011. at Montreal, on March 29, 2011. WALTER SWISTON , DDS’49, at ISRAEL AKERMAN , BEng’54, Pointe-Claire, Que., on March 17, 2011. GEORGE E. CHIPPS , BEng’51, MEng’56, at Jerusalem, Israel, on April 5, 2010. at Georgetown, Ont., on July 10, 2011. MILDRED BROCKLEHURST MARGARET ANN (PHILIP) BAGNALL , (GREENBLATT) WOODS , BA’49, JAMES LEWIS HEFFERNAN , MDCM’51, BA’54, in Ontario, on March 27, 2011. at Toronto, Ont., on August 2, 2011. on January 21, 2011. CLAIRE W. CAMERON, BSc(HEc)’54, ROBERT D. HEYDING , PhD’51, at Stratford, Ont., on April 22, 2011. 1950 s at Kingston, Ont., on May 17, 2011. JOHN D. CIPERA , PhD’54, at Ottawa, BARBARA AINSLEY (CLARK) ELIZABETH V. LAUTSCH , MSc’51, on February 7, 2011. BILLINGS , BA’50, at Ottawa, PhD’53, at Sun City Center, Fla., ALBERT (TED) E. W. TRITES , MDCM’54, on May 30, 2011. on March 14, 2011. at Richmond, B.C., on February 22, 2011. JACQUES M. BONNEVILLE , BEng’50, LOUIS (LOU) MELAMED , BEng’51, TERRENCE W. CROWE , BEng’55, at Brossard, Que., on July 13, 2011. at Toronto, on February 24, 2011. at Calgary, on October 23, 2010. CLAIR ALLAN BUCKLEY , BSc(PE)’50, DONALD JAMES ROSS , BEng’51, RICHARD LEITHAM , BEng’55, at Victoria, on August 20, 2011. at Calgary, on July 1, 2011. DipM&BA’59, at Montreal, on April 30, 2011. KENNETH (KEN) E. EADE , MSc’50, CHARLES JAMES SMITH , MA’51, SYLVIA M. BURKINSHAW , BN’56, PhD’55, at Ottawa, on February 10, 2011. PhD’54, at Clarence, N.Y., on April 23, 2011. at Kingston, Ont., on May 1, 2011. MASSEY (VENDER) FLEXER , BA’50, BASIL ANDERSON SWAN , BEng’51, WILLIAM HENRY FULLER , BCom’56, MSW’68, at Montreal, on March 5, 2011. at Halifax, N.S., on June 28, 2011. at Victoria, on June 29, 2011. JOHN MARSHAM HALLWARD , BA’50, WOLFE FRIEDMAN , BA’52, BCL’55, EVA (BAS-KRAUS) KASHKET , at Montreal, on July 12, 2011. at Côte Saint-Luc, Que., on April 7, 2011. BSc’56, MSc’57, at Lexington, Mass., ROBERT HERDMAN , BEng’50, MARY HELEN OLIVE , BSc’52, on May 21, 2011. at York, S.C., on March 19, 2011. in California, on June 30, 2011. THOMAS (TOM) HARRY LEGG , MSc’56, AUBREY W. HUTCHISON , BSc(Agr)’50, PhD’60, at Ottawa, on June 14, 2011. at Toronto, on June 2, 2011.

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EILEEN IWANICKI , BSc(HEc)’57, HYLKE VAN DE WETERING , HANNAH (HECHT) BARENBAUM , at Fredericton, N.B., on January 20, 2011. BSc(Agr)’59, MA’61, at Miami Beach, Fla., BA’68, at San Francisco, Calif., on on June 24, 2011. June 12, 2011. J. GABRIEL NAULT , BEng’57, at Brockville, Ont., on May 31, 2011. MICHEL COTE , MDCM’68, 1960 s at North Hatley, Que., on July 3, 2011. JAMES R. RAINFORTH , BSc(Agr)’57, MSc’60, at Beamsville, Ont., on JACK (LEWIS) BOEKO , MSW’61, at MARKUS LUFT , BSc’68, at North York, June 23, 2011. Deerfield Beach, Fla., on March 18, 2011. Ont., on April 10, 2011. PATRICIA ANNE (POWERS) CAVELL , NORMAN LAURENCE (LARRY) EDE , SHIRLEY GONSHOR , BScN’68, BSc’58, on July 13, 2010. BEng’61, at Thunder Bay, Ont., on at Montreal, on June 27, 2011. August 3, 2011. BRUCE ALEXANDER GORDON , DAVID N. LATT , BSc(Agr)’68, BCom’58, at Perth, Ont., on April 8, 2011. JOHN ANTHONY DAVIES , MSc’62, at Montreal, on June 20, 2011. on February 1, 2011. COLIN DONALD GRIMSON , ROBERT S. SISCOE , BEng’68, BA’58, MA’66, at Sherbrooke, Que., JOHN MILTON GATES , BSc(Agr)’62, at Sorel-Tracy, Que., on May 4, 2011. on March 28, 2011. at Kingston, RI, on March 15, 2011. ISAAC JOSEPH ELLISTON , ROGER G. KNUDSON , MSc(A)’58, NAEMATULLAH (NAE) ISMAIL , BSc(Agr)’69, MBA’74, at Teaneck, N.J., at Bethlehem, Pa., on January 13, 2011. BSc’62, at Ottawa, on September 18, 2010. on March 4, 2011. JOSÉ K. ROSALES , Grad Dip IAN O. LESLIE , BEng’62, DipMan’67, LORENE MARIE (BARD) FREEMAN , Medicine’58, at Calgary, on August 20, 2011. at Ottawa, on January 5, 2011. BN’69, MSc(A)’71, at Victoria, on August 26, 2011. THOMAS KENNETH (T.K.) RYMES , SHIBLY ABELA , BEng’63, at Manotick, MA’58, PhD’68, at Ottawa, on Ont., on August 4, 2011. GERALD E. TUCKER , MA’69, PhD’73, May 14, 2011. MARILYN FICHMAN , BA’63, at Sherbrooke, Que., on April 20, 2011. GEORGE CHRISTIE , DipM&BA’59, at Montreal, on August 9, 2011. 1970 s at Châteauguay, Que., on April 20, 2011. HEATHER JILL DONEY , BA’65, VINCENT WILLEM KOOIMAN , BCL’59, at Edmonton, on March 11, 2011. PER A. V. AHLGREN , PhD’70, at Sweden, in May, 2011. at Ottawa, on December 19, 2010. OLEG PODYMOW , BEng’65, at Montreal, PHILIP HARRIS MCLARREN , BCom’59, on June 2, 2011. NICHOLAS MERLIN HANN , BA’70, MA’74, at Ottawa, on July 29, 2011. at Victoria, on April 17, 2011. VIVIAN (O’DION) CUMMINS , BA’66, ILYSE JOY (TAUB) SEGAL , BA’59, MLS’73, at Ottawa, on April 11, 2011. NEIL A.JOHNSON , BCom’70, at Toronto, on May 16, 2011. at Westmount, Que., on June 20, 2011. TERENCE H. KWIZAK , BSc’67, BEATRICE (BEA) SPIEGELMANN , at Montreal, on April 8, 2011. STEVEN H. PROPAS , BSc’70, at Toronto, on August 2, 2011. DipNurs T&S’59, at Calgary, DOUGLASS GORDON MCDOUGALL , on June 7, 2010. BA’67, at Montreal, on May 15, 2011. CHRISTOPH YING-WAI YUNG , Dip Psych’70, at Toronto, on July 4, 2011. ALBERT J. DEVITO , BMus’71, A gifted scientist, a visionary leader at Alexandria, Ont., on June 19, 2011. and a natural-born raconteur, DAVID COLMAN , director of the ANTONIN DUPONT , PhD’71, Montreal Neurological Institute, died at Montreal, on December 1, 2010. on June 1 in Montreal. Colman helped ANTHONY JOHANSEN , BCom’71, spearhead a new multidisciplinary at Ottawa, on February 28, 2011. neuroengineering program at McGill, while expanding the Neuro’s brain JUDITH ABBIE H. GIBBS , MDCM’72, imaging efforts and nurturing new at Toronto, on April 6, 2011. initiatives such as the neuropalliative DONALD KINSELLA , BEd’72, MEd’75, care program. Under Colman’s DipHRFLEd’78, at Kirkland, Que., leadership, the Neuro was named one on July 11, 2011. of Canada’s first national Centres of JOHN J. LAVERY , BA’73, at Gatineau, N

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58 M C GILL NEW S ⅐ FALL/WINTER 2011 ADAM LISIEWICZ , MSc’73, at Baltimore, Md., on April 28, 2011. IAN MUNRO , B Sc(Agr )’62, M Sc ’67, held many LYNN (LIONA) LEONARD-GRIFFITHS , titles over the course of his career —senior CertEd’74, BEd’80, at Montreal, bureaucrat with Health Canada, former director on August 9, 2011. of the Canadian Centre for Toxicology, professor of nutritional sciences at the University of BARBARA GROVE , MSW’74, at Kingston, Toronto, among them —but his devotion to the Ont., on February 6, 2011. cause of food safety was consistent. Together BRENDA (SKARF) WEINBERGER , with his wife Jayne, he donated $1.5 million BSc’74, at Montreal, on June 2, 2011. towards the creation of the Ian and Jayne Munro Chair in Food Safety in the Faculty of FRANS VAN DUINEN , MBA’76, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. N A G

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MICHAEL NEIL SMITH , BSc’77, at O Southampton, Bermuda, on May 7, 2011. JANA MARIE BUBENIK , BA’78, MA’85, at Council Grove, Kan., on May 24, 2011. GARY FRANKLIN NACHSHEN , BCL’87, MYER (BABE) HENDELMAN , BA’38, LLB’87, at Toronto, on March 24, 2011. MDCM’40, DipObstetrics’48, former COLIN DONDENAZ , BA’78, faculty member, Department of Obstetrics STEVEN WEINTRAUB , MBA’89, on April 20, 2011. and Gynecology, at Toronto, on July 19, 2011. at Montreal, on August 18, 2011. LAWRENCE BLAIR HAMILTON , ALAN GORDON KENDALL , BSc’48, MArch’78, on April 8, 2011. 1990 s MDCM’54, former faculty member, MARY ELEANOR (GATENBY) Royal Victoria Hospital, at Pointe-Claire, DIMITRIOS DESCHESNES , MDCM’90, MARCHADIER , MA’78, Que., on March 22, 2011. MedicalResident’92, at Montreal, CertProfFrench’87, on May 16, 2011. on March 10, 2011. ROBERT KINCH , former chair, KATHRYN SMITH , CertProfFrench’78, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, RAJPATTIE PERSAUD-BILLETTE , CertProfSpanish’01, at Montreal, at Montreal, on July 22, 2011. BCL’90, LLB’90, at Montreal, on July 4, 2011. on August 1, 2011. SHENG (BOB) LIANG KWEE , BSc’68, FLORENCE FU YANG FAN CHU , MDCM’72, assistant professor, Department LONA C. COLEMAN , BSc’99, MSc’01, MEd’79, at Montreal, on September 5, 2011. of Medicine, at Montreal, on July 7, 2011. at Phoenix, Ariz., on August 19, 2011. RALPH SIEGEL , BSc’79, PhD’84, at EVERETT COX REID , MDCM’48, former West Orange, N.J., on September 2, 2011. 2000 s chief of urology, Montreal General Hospital, at Pointe-Claire, Que., on June 12, 2011. 1980 s O’LINDA CUFFARO , BA’01, at CAROLINE ROBERTSON , BN’63, Saint-Laurent, Que., on July 21, 2011. MSc(A)’72, former director of nursing, PHILIP S. AZIMOV , BSc’80, MSc(A)’82, REBECCA MEREDITH S. CHAFFER , Montreal Neurological Institute, at at Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Que., BA’11, at Pohnpei, Micronesia, on Montreal, on June 25, 2011. on March 24, 2011. August 6, 2011. PEGGY ANN (STEADMAN) SANGSTER , PETER JOHN ASTRAUKAS , MEng’81, BN’77, MSc(A)’79, former director of nurs - at Mesa, Ariz., on August 14, 2011. FACULTY/STAFF ing staff development, Montreal General EDUARDO ANDRES CAMPOS , BEng’81, MARIKA (SALAMIS) ASIMAKOPULOS , Hospital, at Montreal, on July 10, 2011. MBA’83, at Guatemala City, Guatemala, BA’60, MLS’83, CertProfItalian’91, reference HENRY JAMES SCOTT , MDCM’41, on June 1, 2011. librarian, McGill Libraries, at Westmount, Dip Surgery’51, retired professor of surgery, SHIRLEY ANN FEE , MBA’81, Que., on August 12, 2011. at Montreal, on May 3, 2011. at Westmount, Que., on June 10, 2011. BRIAN BIRD , former chair, Department VERNON RANDOLPH VICKERY , ROBERTO FRANCESCON , BEng’81, of Geography, at Fitch Bay, Que., on BSc(Agr)’49, MSc’57, PhD’64, emeritus at Vancouver, on May 31, 2011. August 20, 2011. curator of the Lyman Museum, at Kentville, N.S., on August 30, 2011. PETER FRANCIS J. HABER , BCom’81, MICHAEL (MICKEY) M. A. GOLD , at Toronto, on August 18, 2011. BSc’40, MDCM’43, MSc’45, former director of undergraduate medical education, Jewish DOLORES VADER , BA’83, at Ottawa, General Hospital, at Westmount, Que., on on August 26, 2011. April 6, 2011.

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S FEAR HIM Compassionate doctor. E M I T MARC TOBEROFF , BA’77, Vainglorious jerk. Selfless hero. K R O

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is one of North America’s W E BETHUNE , the hot-tempered N most influential intellec- / S

E and inventive McGill surgeon R tual property lawyers. O L F As he battles DC Comics who became a legend in China, O I L I was one of the most complicated M over the rights to its E

. J flagship character and contradictory figures in Superman, the company views him as scarier than the Joker Canadian history. A recent and Lex Luthor combined. book paints the most complete picture of the man yet.

TOASTING HAVE BROOM, THE DAILY WILL TRAVEL MCGILL DAILYITES , Who says QUIDDITCH is young and old, gathered just the stuff of fiction? together during McGill Harry Potter’s favourite Homecoming to mark sport is catching on with

N the Muggles and McGill’s A the 100th anniversary R T

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E of the iconic student L A newspaper. Visit our site emerged as some of the

T best bludger beaters around, to watch a video featuring the recollections of former T E R

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justice minister Irwin Cotler, BA’61, BCL’64, Toronto Life A B

N university championship. columnist Jan Wong, BA’74, and many other Daily alums. A I

RIGHT SCHOOL TREASURED FOR YOU? TREES Under the leadership of its dean, Thanks to her popular JUDITH POTTER , the School of tree tours (many S Continuing Studies recently I focused on McGill’s R A G I

changed, not only its name, but L downtown campus) L A C many of its major programs — and her columns in the O I D

revamping its language offerings, U Montreal Gazette, A S I L C R

A creating the new McGill Writing BRONWYN CHESTER , G I L L

A Centre, and introducing new BSW’81, has become one of Montreal’s leading arboreal C

O I courses and workshops for D authorities. We asked her to select some of her favourite U A

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C McGill trees. Find out which ones she picked and why.

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