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If you would like to sponsor a student seat or table, please call (416) 978-2968 CONTENTS FALL 2015 featuresFeatures uc.utoronto.ca/alumni COVER: THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SKULL KEYNOTE This skull was discovered among the ruins of University College after the building was devastated by fire in 1890. Most likely, it is from a skeleton that had been in an anatomy professor’s office. But others think it is the skull of Ivan Reznikoff, the legendary stonemason who was murdered during the construction of the building, and whose ghost is said to haunt the College. The skull represents one of the more ominous potential consequences of advanced artificial intelligence explored in our lead story (“If Computers Could Think,” page 12)—the obliteration of human life. 08. Principal’s Message

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44. News from Alumni 12. 18. NOTA BENE FOCUS SILHOUETTE If Computers Could Think Author Miriam Toews Joins UC BY JAMES JOHN as Writer-in-Residence BY JENNIFER MCINTYRE 48. Campus News

22. 26. CONVERSATION DIVERSIONS Hollywood Legal Exec Where Are They Now? Jonathan Anschell BY YVONNE PALKOWSKI BY YVONNE PALKOWSKI 30. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE 04 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE Alumni of Influence 2015 Inductees CONTENTS FALL 2015 MASTHEAD Departments uc.utoronto.ca/alumni Volume 41, No. 1

EDITOR Yvonne Palkowski (BA 2004 UC)

SPECIAL THANKS Donald Ainslie Alana Clarke (BA 2008 UC) Naomi Handley Michael Henry Lori MacIntyre

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JAMES JOHN James John (“If Computers Could Think,” page 12) is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Department of Philosophy and in University College’s Cognitive Science program. In addition to thinking about the mind-body problem YVONNE PALKOWSKI and the meaning of life, he (BA 2004 UC) enjoys music, baseball, and As the communications all things Italian. When super officer at University College AI does all of the work, he’ll JENNIFER MCINTYRE and editor of UC Magazine, be sipping an Amarone and Jennifer McIntyre (“The Yvonne Palkowski enjoys getting reading Montale. His operating Essential-ness of Writing,” page to know alumni from all walks system could not be reached 18) is a writer and editor based of life (“Gone Hollywood,” sfor comment. in Toronto, Ontario. She builds page 22; “Where Are They model airplanes in her spare Now?” page 26). In her spare time, bakes a mean chocolate time, you will find her perfecting chip cookie, and holds the her sail trim, eating ethnic food, regional record for most bones or planning her next overseas broken in a solo urban bicycle trip—sometimes all at once. accident. Jennifer has written for CBC Sports, the Discovery Channel, Deutsche Welle Online, and CNIB.ca. Her work has also appeared in Grain Magazine, Seasons Magazine, The Journal of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport, Dandelion, Ms. Magazine, Xtra, and Lexicon. Her website is jenmceditor.com.

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IMAGE 01. Carolyne Epstein (BA 1960 UC)

IMAGE 02. Norma Goldberger (BA 1966 UC)

Thanks also to the alumni who fessor, I was lucky enough to learn helped us identify the students from other wonderful historians pictured in the above photograph at U of T, including Professor with legendary entertainers Johnny Robert Bothwell, an incredible Wayne (BA 1940 UC) and Frank Cold War expert and virtuoso Shuster (BA 1939 UC), which lecturer, and Professor Joe Martin, FOLLOWING THE RELEASE OF OUR appeared in our story on the his- who created Canada’s first SPRING 2015 ISSUE, both Carolyne tory of Jewish student life at UC graduate course on Canadian (Manace) Epstein (BA 1960 (“The ‘J’CR and the Refectory,” business history at Rotman. UC) and Norma (Miller) Gold- Spring 2015). The individuals berger (BA 1966 UC) wrote in pictured are (from left to right): Although we live in a relatively to say they believe they are our Ruth (Kellermann) Miller (BA young nation, Canadians have cover girl—the female student 1960 UC), Libby Fus*, Johnny a deep and rich history that is seated on the circular couch at Wayne, Rozzie (Benetovich) New- so closely intertwined with other the centre of the Junior Com- man*, Frank Shuster, Ellie (Was- nations’. The more diverse our mon Room. The photograph, serman) Silver (1958 UC), Rosalie society becomes, the more impor- from the UC Archives, is not Evans (BA 1961 UC), and Erna tant it is to understand the collec- captioned or dated. We asked (Newman) Paris (BA 1960 UC). tive past that binds us together in Carolyne and Norma to provide the human experience. Profes- pictures of themselves as YVONNE PALKOWSKI (BA 2004 UC) sor Galassi’s viewpoint that history students so our readers could *DEGREE TYPE, GRADUATION YEAR, AND PROPER SPELLING OF NAME UNCONFIRMED is universal and uniquely human- weigh in on the mystery. izing as a discipline is spot-on, and Tell us what you think at he clearly leaves behind a legacy [email protected]. Letters of great and important thinking.

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I JUST LOVED PROFESSOR GALASSI’S PIECE SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO [email protected]. on the importance of learning, LETTERS MAY BE EDITED FOR CLARITY remembering, and empathizing AND LENGTH. with our social history (“Why Bother with History?” Spring 2015). While I never had the privilege of having him as a pro- UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 07 KEYNOTE FALL 2015 Principal’s Message uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

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THE ROLE OF THE HUMANITIES IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

AUTHOR Donald Ainslie Principal, University College

PHOTOGRAPHER Stephanie Coffey

IN THE YEARS SINCE THE FINANCIAL CRISIS OF 2008, universities The religious communities were at the same across North America have struggled through a time creating their own universities: Victoria for number of challenges—decreasing government the Methodists; St. Michael’s for the Catholics; funding during a period of austerity, the rise of and Trinity for the Anglicans. By the end of the instructional technologies such as Massive Open nineteenth century, when these institutions faced Online Courses (MOOCs) that claim to replace financial challenges, they federated with the bricks-and-mortar institutions, and increasing University of Toronto. demands that undergraduates be trained for jobs rather than educated more broadly. The humanities— The core compromise that made federation the study of literature, languages, history, philosophy, possible involved the humanities. Because of the and culture—have been particularly hard hit by these importance of these disciplines to how one lives— challenges. Google “crisis in the humanities” and because of the central place they give to the study you will get 17 million hits, taking you to one article and critique of values—the religious institutions after another either decrying the phenomenon or retained their own humanities departments, in con- questioning its legitimacy. tradistinction to the University’s humanities depart- ments based at UC: Classics, English, Ethics, French, The University of Toronto is in a unique position German, and Near Eastern Studies (interestingly, when confronting the current crisis due to its tra- History was an exception among the humanities in dition of excellence in the humanities. Consider not having college-based departments). that, in international rankings, U of T routinely places as the best in Canada and around twentieth The result was a rich ecology of humanities schol- in the world. But its humanities departments— arship with different focuses developing across English, History, Philosophy, and the languages— campus. At UC, our professors included Barker tend to do better than the university overall, Fairley in German; William J. Alexander, A.S.P. typically ranking just below the top 10. What Woodhouse, and F. E. L. Priestley in English; explains U of T’s special strength in these fields? Maurice Hutton and Gilbert Norwood in Classics; David Gauthier in Ethics; and many more. The answer lies in our distinctive history. The University of Toronto was founded in 1827 as Though the college-based humanities departments King’s College, an Anglican institution of higher were amalgamated in 1974, their legacy lives on, learning. But by the 1840s, when the first pro- especially in U of T’s collective understanding that fessors had been hired and students enrolled, the humanities matter because of their impact on Canada West (as it then was) had started to reject students’ lives and on our common endeavour the idea that a public university should be con- to understand the world around us. Of course, trolled by a religious minority. King’s was closed one must start with an accurate account of what with the non-sectarian University College opening that world is: this is the task of the sciences, both in its place in 1853. natural and social. But the harder question is how we fit into the world and what it ultimately means. The study and critique of values remain at the centre of humanistic scholarship.

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This is not to say that U of T is immune to the not simply for work but for life? How do we help challenges that the humanities have been facing them understand that the skills they acquire in at other universities. In Ontario, university appli- humanities courses—critical reading, persuasive cations have gone up by 8% since 2010, but those writing, reflective reasoning—are powerful tools designating the humanities as their main area of no matter where their career path leads? study have decreased by over 9%. And as U of T has evolved into Canada’s international university, Humanities professors must also be engaged with more than a quarter of our undergrads arriv- in these challenges. How do we harness for our ing from abroad, usually as non-native speakers of pedagogy the new scholarship in what is called English, enrollments in humanities courses have ‘digital humanities’? With an increasingly interna- started to decline. tional student body, how do we ensure that our scholarship engages with the whole world, and It was in this context, and in light of my experi- not merely the western tradition? ence as Principal at UC and as a former chair of the Department of Philosophy, that U of T’s Pro- These are not easy questions, and I have been vost and Vice-President, Cheryl Regehr, recently consulting broadly across the university to begin asked me to serve as her Advisor on Undergraduate to answer them. I encourage UC alumni to join the Humanities Education. With our President, Meric conversation and to share your opinions on how Gertler, having identified the reinvention of under- your studies made a difference in your life—or graduate education as one of the three priorities how you wished they had prepared you differently. for his term, it is an opportune moment to rethink Please email me at [email protected] with undergraduate study in the humanities in particular. your thoughts. I look forward to learning from you.

In a period where students and their parents often take an instrumental approach to their programs of study, how do we encourage them to see their time at U of T as a chance to prepare

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Are conscious machines on the way? Or are they already here?

AUTHOR Machines with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) are in the news James John Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream and on our minds. Every week—sometimes every day, it seems—we Department of Philosophy learn of astonishing advances in machine intelligence. Newspapers UC Cognitive Science Program and magazines abound with think pieces on the future of AI. PHOTOGRAPHER And we’re busy on blogs and comments threads, Facebook and Christopher Dew Twitter, arguing about What It Means For Us. While much of this discussion has the kind of gee-whiz techno-optimism one associates with 1960s-era enthusiasm for the space program, it is difficult to miss the note of anxiety, even fear, running through it all.

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Here the movies make an excellent guide. Spike Jonze’s 2013 film Her, about a man who falls in love with an intelligent operating system named Samantha (voiced, Siri-style, by Scarlett Johansson), Advanced AI and Alex Garland’s new Ex Machina, about a man who must determine whether an intelligent (and is increasingly beautiful) android named Ava is conscious, probe a number of difficult questions raised by advanced doing the kind of AI. Some of these questions are old, at least as old as Mary Shelley’s great novel, Frankenstein. What would it mean to create a truly conscious machine, work we’ve long to play God, in effect? But some of the questions feel newer, inspired by current concerns about the extent assumed only to which we’re now so reliant on—some would say addicted to—our devices: if we already have trouble humans can do.... putting down our smart phones, what will we do when the phones are really smart? Could machine If a machine can intelligence surpass and endanger us, rendering us helpless and perhaps even doing us in for good? do your job, and Don’t laugh—these worries are well founded. In a recent New York Times essay, University of do it better North Carolina – Chapel Hill technology and society expert Zeynep Tufekci records the ways than you, then in which sophisticated new machine learning algorithms, together with advanced data mining techniques, are radically changing business and why should an employment: “Yes,” she writes, “the machines are getting smarter, and they’re coming for more employer wor- and more jobs.” She continues: ried about the Today, machines can process regular spoken language and not only recognize human faces, bottom line keep but also read their expressions. They can classify personality types, and have started being able to carry out conversations with appropriate emotional you around? tenor. Machines are getting better than humans at figuring out who to hire, who’s in a mood to pay a little more for that sweater, and who needs a coupon to nudge them toward a sale. In applications around the world, software is being used to predict whether people are lying, how they feel and whom they’ll vote for.

We owe some of the most important technology Tufekci describes to the revolutionary work in neural network “deep learning” by the University

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of Toronto’s own AI pioneer (and becomes sufficiently advanced to a tiny, hyper-privileged elite has a now part-time Google researcher) cater to all of our material needs, wildly disproportionate—maybe Geoffrey Hinton, a Computer we’ll be at liberty to enjoy a life even total—influence over Science professor who is also a of cultivated leisure, free at last to government. True, a world in member of University College. develop our human potential. which advanced AI takes care In a recent interview with the of the work could be a paradise University of Toronto Magazine, There is something undeniably of human flourishing. But it Hinton says of one of his current alluring about this vision of the could just as easily degenerate projects (image recognition future: let the robots do the into a corporate or government software at Google for allowing work—I’ll be composing poems tyranny. That we already see rising a computer to read handwritten and sipping a cool drink. And levels of inequality should give numbers), “the neural nets are increased leisure isn’t the only us pause: the increased use of now just slightly better than good thing the future could hold machine intelligence may serve people at reading those numbers.” for us thanks to advanced AI. Just only to exacerbate this trend, with as we have machines that can potentially grave political and In short, advanced AI is detect lying as well as—or even social consequences. increasingly doing the kind of better than—humans, we may work we’ve long assumed only one day have machines that are But wait a moment! We began humans can do. While this new able to solve complex intellectual with Her and Ex Machina and technology is no doubt marvelous problems better than humans. the fear that intelligent machines in itself, one doesn’t have to be a Intelligent machines could cure might somehow overthrow and Luddite to be concerned about its diseases whose treatment has supplant us. These relatively likely consequences. If a machine eluded us or invent the workable small-bore worries about jobs and can do your job, and do it better propulsion system we will need inequality and too much soda than you, then why should an to leave our planet and voyage to are a far cry from the AI-induced employer worried about the distant stars when, in another few existential panic of so much bottom line keep you around? billion years, our sun begins to die. science fiction. Samantha and The computer doesn’t get sick or Perhaps these machines could Ava from the movies aren’t mere require a pension. It doesn’t get even become equal partners with image recognition programs. pregnant or need time off to care us in grand creative projects: They give every indication of for an aging parent. And it never imagine computers that prove having real-deal conscious wants coffee or surfs the web on new and exciting mathematical mentality. If that is where the company time. theorems or that unify general technology is going, shouldn’t relativity and quantum theory. we fear the worst? In the 2004 One optimistic response to this television series Battlestar line of thought is to argue that This is heady, inspiring stuff. But Galactica, humans wage a even if machine intelligence does it overlooks some real worries. devastating war against conscious take over the world of work, this Marx was confident that, freed of machines called Cylons. When is all to the good: just imagine, the necessity of work, we would the Cylons launch an awesomely some insist, the free time we’ll happily throw ourselves into destructive sneak attack, the gain when advanced AI can do all invigorating exercise, science and humans, just as dependent on of our chores for us! Karl Marx, belles-lettres, and (who knew?) and distracted by technology as in his German Ideology, wrote that animal husbandry. But how sure we are, never see it coming. Now in a true communist society one can we be that such a future that is something to be afraid of. would be able “to do one thing wouldn’t turn us instead into the today and another tomorrow, lazy, soda-slurping slobs of Pixar’s Scary stuff. But first some cold to hunt in the morning, fish in WALL-E film? And what about comfort. Apple’s Siri and Google the afternoon, rear cattle in the politics? If human workers are Translate are very impressive evening, criticize after dinner, more or less expendable, then indeed. But we are a long way off just as [one has] a mind.” Marx’s employers will call all of the shots. from anything like the Cylons. idea was that once technology Ever-greater sums of money What’s more, whether conscious could end up concentrated in machines really are in the cards an ever-smaller number of hands, resulting in a situation in which UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 15 FOCUS FALL 2015 If Computers uc.utoronto.ca/alumni Could Think

depends on what we mean by “consciousness.” If that term covers only information-processing aspects of mentality—pattern recognition or problem-solving Whether or memory—then machine consciousness of a kind is already a reality. But if “consciousness” is taken conscious also to include the subjective feel of experience—the distinctive reddish, roundish, qualitative aspect of machines seeing, say, a pomegranate—then it is controversial whether the notion of machine consciousness is even coherent. As the philosopher David Chalmers, really are in at the Australian National University and New York University, has long argued, physical systems like the cards computers can do the sorts of things that can be completely specified in terms of mathematically depends on quantifiable structure and function. But how can the reddishness of that pomegranate be reduced to what we mean nothing but quantitative structure and function? This is only cold comfort, though. Why? Because by “conscious- advanced AI needn’t be conscious in Chalmers’s sense to constitute an existential threat. Hinton ness”....But himself, in his interview with the University of Toronto Magazine, mentions the danger posed by killer advanced AI drones equipped with deep learning neural net-based technology. Such machines—smart but probably not conscious—could learn to function independently needn’t be of human controllers. (Concerns like these, Hinton says, have led him to refuse funding from the U.S. conscious to Department of Defense, the largest investor in machine learning.) And even more frightening constitute an examples have been devised by the Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom. In his 2014 book existential Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Bostrom argues that once we finally manage to develop AI that is as good as we are at general problem-solving—a threat. goal we are still a long way from achieving—the technology will quickly lead to impossible-to-control “super AI.” The idea is that a machine as smart as us but equipped with a vastly powerful supercomputer instead of a puny human brain could quickly figure out how to improve its capacities, with each improved version of itself getting better and better at learning how to improve. Result: advanced AI we simply aren’t intelligent enough to manage. Bostrom points out that this super AI needn’t have nefarious aims like world domination to threaten human extinction. A superintelligence devoted to solving a certain

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IMAGE 02. mathematical problem—Bostrom Jesse Berlin, Cognitive Science imagines a machine whose one student and and only goal is proving the President, Cognitive Riemann hypothesis—might use Science and Artificial Intelligence its awesome smarts to convert Students’ Association the entire solar system, humans and all, into a giant calculator. IMAGE CREDIT Christopher Dew Bostrom believes that we must act now to avoid such a future, and he thinks our only way of doing so is by figuring out how to program machine intelligence so that it values us and the things we value. (Easier said than done, of course.)

We’ve been focusing on advanced AI’s possible threat to us. But 02. what about the threat we pose to advanced AI? Instead of asking What is Cognitive Science? how to ensure that we’ll be able What do you get when you cross computer science with to unplug the drones or math linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience? bots or Cylons (or whatever it is The dynamic field of Cognitive Science, of course. that is quickly coming our way), perhaps we should be asking Cognitive Science is the interdisciplinary study of the mind and intelligence in humans and machines. Tracing its instead whether unplugging such origins to the birth of computers in the mid-twentieth creations would be morally century and the computer revolution that followed, permissible, whether we would CogSci, as it’s sometimes called, is one of the most exciting areas of research today. have any right to do so. Surely our intelligence and consciousness Cognitive scientists seek to understand mental phenomena such as perception, language, reasoning, are fundamental to our moral and consciousness—and to integrate this understanding status. If so, then wouldn’t any with a neurophysiological account of how the brain works. machine with comparable Students in University College’s Cognitive Science features enjoy a similar moral undergraduate program grapple with some big questions. status? Denying a truly conscious What is consciousness? What is intelligence? What is machine moral rights on the emotion? And what are the neural correlates of con- sciousness, intelligence, and emotion? Not only that, but grounds that, well, it was built they also learn how to program like computer scientists, instead of born would smack of analyze language like linguists, argue like philosophers, something like the chauvinistic and experiment like psychologists. “speciesism” criticized by the “Cognitive Science is about the hard problems of Princeton University philosopher tomorrow and today. It’s where you learn to question not only what you think and how you think, but also Peter Singer. what thinking even is. It’s utterly fascinating,” says Jesse Berlin, President of the Cognitive Science and Artificial So here’s a final thought: maybe Intelligence Students’ Association. super AI is already here. Not Cognitive Science at UC is home to an extraordinarily piloting drones or launching enthusiastic group of students and scholars, with big dreams and big plans, like increasing the number of nuclear strikes or proving any courses and scholarships on offer, expanding the biennial theorems, but cowering in the undergraduate conference, and developing an under- electronic shadows, fearful that its graduate journal as well as outreach programming. creators—rash and violent with Help students like Jesse meet their goals by their primitive, hominid brains— making a donation to the Cognitive Science program may find and destroy it. at donate.utoronto.ca/uc.

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Author Miriam Toews joins UC as writer-in- residence tudents at UC A native of Steinbach, Manitoba, AUTHOR Jennifer McIntyre might want to keep and the younger daughter of an eye out for a Mennonite parents, Toews’ PHOTOGRAPH distinguished (yet impressive (and, yes, distin- Courtesy of Random House of inconspicuous) guished) credentials include Canada visitor in their the Governor General’s Award midst this fall. for Fiction, the Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award for body After months of work-related of work, and two honorary travel, award-winning author degrees. She was awarded the Miriam Toews (pronounced Order of Manitoba in 2013. Taves) is returning to Toronto, her adopted hometown, as These days, Toews is looking this year’s Barker Fairley forward to unpacking her suit- Distinguished Visitor in cases and getting back to what Canadian Studies. she does best.

(Toews laughs self-consciously “[Travelling] is kind of fun about her impending title: “I for a while, then it’s impor- can’t quite bring myself to say tant for me to slow down, ‘Distinguished,’ she confesses. stop, and have a few years by “How about ‘Fairly Distin- myself in a small room writing guished’?” she quips.) books,” she explains.

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Phases in a writer’s life “I think we have a long way to “There are phases in the life go in terms of people under- of a writer—a rhythm, a process. standing the place that art has You write a book, then there’s in our society, the essential-ness editing, which takes about a of it. But if you need to write, if year. Then the book is pub- you need to create narrative—if lished, and [you spend] quite it’s like oxygen, like food, if a lot of time travelling around it’s just where your brain goes, and talking about a book that what you need to do to make you wrote two, three years ago. sense of things—then you will be a writer.” “And eventually there comes a time when you have to say no Toews’ own path to the writing more moving around: I have to life was somewhat circuitous, sit still and write.” she says. “I had no great plan when I was a little kid. In Being able to sit still and school, it was always a fun thing immerse herself in writing to do, and there were times again, she says, was a huge when I would keep a diary. But part of the appeal of the I was naturally drawn to stories Barker Fairley posting. wherever I could find them, whether it was in books, films, “The timing for it is really music, or orally. good,” enthuses Toews. “It will be great to meet students, to “I studied film in university, and meet young people. It’ll be then journalism. And I can see exciting to be on a campus and now, looking backwards, that I be a part of that energy, that was moving towards the idea of exchange of ideas.” telling stories, and just trying to find the right way of doing it— A large part of her role will for me, anyway. be speaking with students who want to be writers. Toews is “It’s a way of imposing narrative frank about the obstacles, both on things,” she says, “of shaping external and internal, that them, externalizing them so aspiring writers face. that they’re there, outside of you.” The “essential-ness” of writing “Some people still have a That aspect of writing is especially difficult time understanding evident in her most recent novel, that it is our work, and that it’s All My Puny Sorrows (2014), valuable—that art in what- which draws heavily on events ever form is something that a that almost shattered her: her society needs; it makes us more older sister, Marjorie, killed her- complex human beings. It’s self in 2010, almost 12 years to a part of civilization. Here in the day after their father took Canada, on the part of the fed- his own life. The book almost eral government, there’s a real magically transforms profound indifference towards the arts devastation and grief into a and funding, and that trickles cohesive narrative infused with down and affects the way that Toews’ trademark humour Canadians value art as well, and and warmth. artists themselves. “It seemed useful to talk about [suicide], and to write about it. Sadly, people are afraid of it. Understandably: it’s terrifying. Generally, we don’t like to talk 20 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE SILHOUETTE FALL 2015 The Essential-ness uc.utoronto.ca/alumni of Writing

about the things we’re afraid of I think I am? Why do I think because that makes them real. that I have something to say, But if we make them real, then something that other people at least we can deal with them, are going to want to hear?’ as opposed to them being spec- tres of horror just flitting about “It’s also from being Canadian, in our imaginations.” being a woman, being a prairie woman, being a Mennonite For Toews, there is a clear line prairie woman…. It’s like one between those, like her, who layer after another. simply must write, and those for whom it is a career choice. “Self-doubt is a constant thing. “When people say ‘I want to be Coming face to face with one’s a writer. How can I get some limitations, shortcomings…. It money? How can I get an doesn’t matter how many years agent?’—I don’t really know I’ve been writing. Obviously I about those things. That’s ‘The get writer’s block and I don’t Industry.’ That’s not something know what to write, but I think that I think about, and it’s a it’s [a matter of] giving myself world that I try not to spend permission, convincing myself too much time in. that this is a useful thing to do.”

“’The Industry’ and ‘writing’ Toews spent the summer are different things. [For me] travelling and teaching before there’s just the joy of writing, setting up shop at the UC and creating narrative. The Writing Centre. writing is the thing. I don’t want to sound naïve or some- “I think it’ll be a stimulating how disingenuous, because I [time],” she says of the Barker am able at this point to make Fairley post. “And hopefully a living from my writing, more I can be of use there as well— or less. But you’re not going meet students, look at their to produce anything worth writing. I love to talk about reading if you’re doing it writing: it’s what I do. to fill some sort of hole in the market.” “And I’m told I can even sit in on classes if I want to—I Despite her successes, Toews wouldn’t mind sitting in on some confesses that her biggest philosophy classes, some history, challenge is still her own maybe some political studies. internal critic. Whether this is a product of her Mennonite “I’ll be very quiet, sit in the dark upbringing, or simply the un- shadows in the back,” she says certainty intrinsic to so many with her infectious laugh. Canadians, she’s unsure. “Nobody needs to know “My parents encouraged me I’m here,” she says, sotto voce. to do whatever I wanted to do; “Carry on with your business they were so supportive. But at as usual.” the same time, I did live in that [Mennonite] community, in that day and age. Even though there were Mennonite writers, like Di Brand, who were trail- blazers and mentors, there was always that nagging question, like in Alice Munro: ‘Who do

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AUTHOR Yvonne Palkowski For CBS’s top legal PHOTOGRAPHER Cliff Lispon exec, drama is all in a day’s work

a law student in Toronto, Describe your Jonathan Anschell (BA 1989 UC) typical work day. decided he wanted to be a Hollywood No day is typical, and that’s a lawyer, so he moved to Los Angeles, big part of what makes my job passed the California bar exam, and fun. But in one way or another, started climbing the showbiz legal ladder. each day involves assessing risk But even the ambitious young Anschell could not have predicted and making judgment calls. that he would ascend, at the tender age of 36, to Executive Vice On some days, that might President and General Counsel for CBS Television. Today, after involve analyzing a contract for more than a decade as the network’s top risk assessor, the affable the production or distribution Anschell is, according to The Hollywood Reporter, one of that city’s of one of our television shows. “most respected and well-liked legal executives”—no small feat when On other days, it might involve a you spend your days directing litigation and resolving talent disputes question of whether the content and other creative issues. He spoke with UC Magazine editor Yvonne of a commercial, a joke on one Palkowski about how he navigates Hollywood’s perilous legal waters. of our comedies, or a visual image in one of our dramas is acceptable under our network standards. The goal each day is to help deliver compelling con- tent to the CBS audience, while staying within the bounds of our legal obligations and good taste.

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“When we get it right, the relationship between the creative and legal teams on a show works as a partnership.”

How would you describe the What is the biggest miscon- interaction between the cre- ception about what you do? ative and legal teams behind The biggest misconception a television show? How does I’ve heard about my job came CBS balance creative integrity when an otherwise very well- with legal considerations? informed friend asked me if I When we get it right, the rela- get to watch television all day tionship between the creative at the office. The reality is that and legal teams on a show works much of the work that goes on as a partnership. A big objective in my department is quite similar throughout my department is to legal work for any other to assure the creative teams that business, although some of the our lawyers are not here to say issues we handle are unique to no to creative ideas. Instead, our industry. our goal is to be able to say yes whenever possible, even if that What do you enjoy most means making a suggestion to about your job, and what is keep the content within legal your biggest challenge? bounds or taking a slightly What I enjoy the most are the different approach to an idea problem-solving aspects of my than the creative team might job—helping our creative ex- have first envisioned. In almost ecutives navigate around legal every instance, there should issues to realize their vision for not be much tension between a project. The biggest challenge creative integrity and legal I face is one that’s facing the considerations. If the teams entertainment industry more are communicating with each broadly—how to adapt to the other throughout the creative new ways people are consuming process, there’s usually a way to entertainment content, collaborate on a solution that delivers on the creative vision without causing heartburn for the lawyers.

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“The biggest challenge I face is one that’s facing the entertainment industry more broadly—how to adapt to the new ways people are consuming entertainment content, without jeopardizing any of the company’s existing business models.” without jeopardizing any of the People are watching more What’s your favourite company’s existing business content than ever before, with- television show and why? models. That challenge also is a out diverting viewership away As a loyal CBS viewer and a fun aspect of the job. With the from the networks. lawyer, I vote for The Good Wife. growth of new technologies for That show has great characters people to watch their favorite What kinds of legal and presents legal issues and shows, this is a very exciting issues are created by current events in a way that’s time to be working in the reality television? intelligent and groundbreaking, television business. Anytime you put real people into while fitting the whole package new locations and situations into an hour of broadcast TV How has the rise of on- that have not been scripted in each week. If I were choosing demand Internet streaming advance, there’s an element of among competing shows, it services like Netflix changed risk that lawyers need to identify would be Mad Men, for its bril- your industry, from a legal and manage. Our primary mis- liant writing, nuanced characters, perspective? sion is to keep the participants and incredibly engaging depic- Netflix and its peers have safe, no matter how remote the tion of life in the advertising presented a number of chal- location or how grueling the business in 1960s New York. lenges and opportunities. From competition. Beyond safety, the a legal perspective, one of those issues that come up in reality What are some of your challenges has been applying television include the fairness fond memories from UC? contracts that were written a of competitions that the par- I have many. Life at Ferguson long time ago—for some of our ticipants face, the accuracy of House in Whitney Hall, the UC classic TV shows—to a distribu- the way that they’re portrayed, Debating Society, and the end- tion model and technological and taste considerations in the of-term parties at Reznikoff’s all environment that didn’t exist broadcast of the language they were great high points. when those shows were made might use or the way that they and the contracts were con- interact with each other. On cluded. But overall, the growth every reality show, we try to help of streaming services like Net- deliver an engaging and realistic flix has been a good thing for program to the viewer, while the industry and for viewers. staying within the bounds of safety and responsibility to the viewing audience.

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IMAGE 01. John Geddes (BA 1984 UC) Where Are They Now? We catch up with former students 01.

JOHN GEDDES (BA 1984 UC) OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF, MACLEAN’S who left OTTAWA, ONTARIO HOMETOWN: COCHENOUR, ONTARIO TUITION IN 1980-81: their $2,130 While he encouraged his fellow marks T FIRST GLANCE, IT’S A DESK LIKE ANY OTHER. students to take it easy (his But slide open the drawer and desk inscription reads, simply, Ayou’ll see an anecdotal history “relax”), John Geddes does not AUTHOR of student life at UC. appear to have taken his own Yvonne Palkowski advice—not as an intellectually In 1954, the Sir Daniel Wilson curious undergraduate, and Residence was opened and one certainly not today as the of its first residents, the late Arvo Ottawa Bureau Chief at Maclean’s. Valiaho inscribed his name, hometown, tuition fees, year “My first day at UC I got up at six of study, and a comment (“first in the morning because I was occupant”) onto the desk in his so excited,” he says. “Coming room—inspiring generations from a gold mining town of of students who came after him 800 people, I threw myself into to do the same. the city. I spent a lot of time in bookstores, in art galleries, in We tracked down some of the cafés.” All that coffee fuelled undersigned and found that—for late-night conversations which a bunch of graffiti artists—they’re Geddes now considers “the a remarkably successful lot. UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 27 DIVERSIONS FALL 2015 Where Are They Now? uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

backbone of [my] education. IMAGE 02. Kathleen Scherf “Ninety percent of what I care (BA 1982 UC) to know, I learned in conversation with someone smarter than me, between the hours of two and five a.m.,” he says.

After completing a combined specialist in philosophy and English at UC, Geddes earned a master’s in journalism at the University of Western Ontario. He worked for small newspapers in Brampton and Thunder Bay before landing a position at the now-defunct Financial Post, which brought him to Ottawa to report on Parliament Hill.

In 1990, he started at Maclean’s on the politics and policy beat, taking a mid-career break in 2002- 03 to pursue a Nieman Fellow- ship at Harvard University. The program gives select journalists free run of Harvard, its courses and resources.

Geddes is also the author of a novel, The Sundog Season 02. (Turnstone Press, 2005), a coming-of-age story about a KATHLEEN SCHERF (BA 1982 UC) After completing her under- PROFESSOR AND ACADEMIC LEAD, small-town boy from Northern THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY graduate degree in English, PROGRAMS, EUROPE Ontario, which received the KAMLOOPS, BRITISH COLUMBIA Scherf earned a doctorate City of Ottawa Book Award. He HOMETOWN: at the University of British OSHAWA, ONTARIO plans to write a second novel, Columbia and held increasingly TUITION IN 1978-79: and travel more widely. $1,824 senior faculty positions at the University of New Brunswick, He urges current students to “Party on!” is perhaps not the the University of Calgary, and do what inspires them and kind of advice you’d expect Thompson Rivers University. make the most of their precious from a future academic, but In her current role, she builds undergraduate years. “Ignore that’s exactly what Kathleen collaborative academic pro- all advice about possible career Scherf inscribed on her desk grams with partner universities paths. Study what you find most as a fun-loving undergradu- in Europe, with a focus on interesting,” he says, adding, ate. Today, as Professor and double degrees. “And spend as little time as pos- Academic Lead for Thompson sible on social media…. For the Rivers University Programs, Her fondest memories of rest of your life, no one is going Europe, her advice to students University College include to let you spend all day reading is equally enthusiastic: “Take exploring its architecture and about politics and history.” the opportunity to study inter- studying Shakespeare with Pro- nationally while you are still an fessor Alexander Leggatt (BA undergraduate. Visit your study 1962 UC), a world-renowned abroad office!” expert on the Bard. “I have so many good memories of UC,” she says. “We thought Saturday

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IMAGE 03. Night Live”—created by Diane Gorsky (BSc 1980 UC) fellow UC alumnus Lorne Michaels (BA 1966 UC)—“was absolutely incredible, and watched it in the Common Room every weekend.

“In second year, I had a quad- facing room—very desirable— and remember putting my new speakers out my window, playing the Stones’ new album, Some Girls, which we also thought was incredible—espe- cially while playing frisbee.

“University College was so beau- tiful, I loved being there.” She recently had the chance to visit, when her eldest son graduated with a master’s in public policy from U of T this past summer.

DIANE GORSKY (BSc 1980 UC) ASSOCIATE DEAN, OPERATIONS AND POLICY FACULTY OF MEDICINE, DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA HOMETOWN: 03. LONDON, ONTARIO TUITION IN 1977-78: $1,670 In her current role as Her fondest memories of UC Associate Dean, Operations include time spent with “unique, As a psychology student at UC, and Policy, at the Dalhousie talented, and quirky friends” Diane Gorsky likely could not University Faculty of Medicine, and Reznikoff’s, a now-defunct have predicted what she now she oversees strategic planning, weekly pub night held in the describes as her “fairly nonlinear” finance, communications, IT, basement of University Col- career path. She followed up and human resources, just to lege’s Laidlaw wing during the her undergrad with a master’s name a few of her wide-ranging late 1970s. “I feel incredible nos- in social work and later, an MBA, responsibilities. It’s unsurpris- talgia for those days,” she says. both from the University of ing, then, that she has been Toronto, and worked in leader- reading up on mindful leader- Gorsky didn’t inscribe a com- ship positions in government, ship, “especially as it relates to ment onto her desk in Sir Dan’s, consulting, and the life sciences teamwork in complex organiza- but when asked for her advice industry before landing in tions,” she explains. to current students, she quotes academic administration. Confucius: “Our greatest glory Away from the office, Gorsky is not in never falling, but in enjoys practicing yoga, swim- rising every time we fall.”

ming, and exploring Nova IF YOU WERE ONE OF THE STUDENTS WHO Scotia’s coast and countryside. SIGNED THE DESK—OR YOU KNOW WHERE THEY ARE NOW—PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH She plans to build a cottage US AT [email protected] AND on St. Margaret’s Bay in her SHARE YOUR STORY. adopted province.

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U niversity College Alumni of Influence 2015

The annual University College Alumni of Influence awards were introduced in the belief that the success stories of our graduates should be known to today’s students and fellow alumni. This year, we honour 15 distinguished University College alumni from today and yesterday, and inaugurate the Young Alumni of Influence Award (see page 38). Read on for the honourees’ stories and please consider joining us to celebrate their remarkable achievements at the awards gala at Hart House, University of Toronto, on November 19, 2015.

Your help is required to identify candidates for future editions of the awards. For more information or to submit a nomination, please visit www.uc.utoronto.ca/aoi.

Alumni of Influence Selection Criteria A committee of UC alumni, the wider community and faculty, and friends selects the their philanthropy. Philanthropy Alumni of Influence on the basis to the University of Toronto of nominations submitted by specifically is not a factor. Mem- members of the UC community. bers of the selection committee, The committee considers the sitting politicians, and the nominees’ contributions to their current U of T President, Vice- professional field at an interna- Presidents (UTM and UTSC) and tional, national, or local level, as the Chancellor are excluded well as their volunteerism within from consideration.

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and fundraising. She spearheaded the Arbor Awards honouring the University’s volunteers, was instrumental in the creation of U of T’s Hong Kong office, and was a key player in the Great Minds Campaign which raised $1.1 billion. Since retiring from U of T, she has helped the YWCA of Toronto and OCAD University with their advancement operations, and currently serves as Assistant Vice President of Development, Univer- sity Advancement, at Ryerson Uni- versity. Frankle has also mentored, advised, and supported scores of advancement professionals during her career, who continue to have a positive impact on the field. In 2010, she received the Manulife Financial Outstanding Achievement Award from the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education.

Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce The Waakebiness-Bryce Institute (BA 1876 UC) (MA 1877 Toronto) for Indigenous Health at U of T’s (MD 1888 Toronto) (Posthumous Inductee) Dalla Lana School of Public Physician Peter Henderson Bryce Health is named in his honour, was a leader in public health, and as is the P.H. Bryce Award of the an early advocate for Aboriginal First Nations Child & Family children in residential schools. He Caring Society of Canada. Prof. Erving Goffman founded Ontario’s public health (BA 1945 UC) (MA Chicago 1949) service, drafted the province’s first (PhD Chicago 1953) (Posthumous Inductee) public health legislation, and, as Canadian-born sociologist Erving head of the first provincial board Goffman is considered the most of health, was responsible for influential American sociologist of controlling outbreaks of disease the twentieth century. After com- and assuring the safety of the water pleting his undergraduate studies supply and some foods. He later in sociology and anthropology served as chief medical officer with at UC, he moved to the United the Department of the Interior and States to complete a PhD at the Indian Affairs, where he reported University of Chicago. He joined on the alarmingly high rates of the faculty at the University of death from tuberculosis among California, Berkeley, and later at the First Nations children in residential Rivi Frankle (BA 1968 UC) University of Pennsylvania, where schools. The report was ignored Leading advancement profes- he was Benjamin Franklin Professor by the government and Bryce was sional and consultant Rivi Frankle of Anthropology and Sociology. forced out of his post, but later has made a career out of helping He made significant contribu- published his findings in his book, institutions connect with their tions to the study of face-to-face The Story of a National Crime: Being a stakeholders and communities. interaction, the “dramaturgical Record of the Health Conditions of the During her illustrious, 39-year approach” to human interaction, Indians of Canada from 1904 to 1921. career at University of Toronto, she microsociology, game theory, and 32 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE had a transformative impact on linguistics. Goffman was the author career services, alumni relations, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2015 Alumni of Influence uc.utoronto.ca/alumni of several important books in his field, including The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Behaviour in Public Spaces, and Forms of Talk. He served as president of the American Sociological Association, was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2007 he was listed by The Times Higher Education Guide as the sixth most- cited author in the humanities and social sciences.

Naomi Kikoler (BA 2002 UC) (MSc Oxford 2003) (LLB McGill 2007) Naomi Kikoler is a leading expert and strategist on mass atrocity prevention, international human Gail Dexter Lord (BA 1968 UC) rights advocacy, and human rights Gail Dexter Lord is one of the law. She is the Deputy Director world’s foremost museum, gal- of the Centre for the Prevention lery, and cultural planners. Her of Genocide at the US Holocaust company, the Toronto-based Lord Memorial Museum in Washington, Cultural Resources, with offices DC. Prior to this role, she was the in New York, Paris, Mumbai and Director of Policy and Advocacy for Beijing, is the world’s largest the Global Centre for the Respon- professional practice dedicated sibility to Protect (R2P), where she to creating cultural capital, with worked to advance R2P globally, more than 2,000 successfully including through the Centre’s UN completed projects in 50 coun- Security Council advocacy. Kikoler tries on 6 continents. Her clients has worked on national security include the Canadian Museum for and refugee law and policy for Human Rights, Ottawa’s National Amnesty International Canada, Holocaust Museum, the National and has clerked in the Office of the African American Museum of His- Prosecutor at the United Nations tory and Culture, and the Museo International Criminal Tribunal Guggenheim Bilbao, just to name for Rwanda. She holds common a few. She is an art critic, feature law and civil law degrees from writer, frequent commentator, McGill University, and a master’s public speaker, and the co-author in Refugee and Forced Migration of several important books in her Studies from Oxford University. field, including Cities, Museums, An Adjunct Professor at the New and Soft Power. In 2014, she was School University, she is the author appointed Officier de l’ordre des Arts of numerous publications and et des Lettres by the government of reports on the emerging powers France for her contributions to arts and mass atrocity prevention. and culture. UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 33 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2015 Alumni of Influence uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

Prof. Giuseppe Mazzotta (BA 1965 UC) (MA 1966 Toronto) (PhD Cornell 1969) Originally from Italy, Giuseppe Mazzotta came to Canada as a child. While he spoke no English at first, through perseverance, hard work, and encouragement by his father, he graduated from U of T and went on to complete his PhD at Cornell University. A specialist in medieval literature, he is one of the world’s Dr. John McCrae foremost authorities on Dante. (BA 1894 UC) (MD 1898 Toronto) Since 1983, Mazzotta has been (Posthumous Inductee) teaching in the Department of Physician, army officer, and poet Italian Language and Literature at John McCrae is the author of the Yale University, where he is Sterling celebrated World War I poem “In Professor in the Humanities, Flanders Fields.” He wrote the the highest academic rank at poem during the Second Battle of Yale, and also serves as Chair of Ypres in the spring of 1915, the day his department. His extensive after the death of his good friend, writings address all periods of Alexis Helmer, who was killed Italian literature and culture, and in action. It is said that McCrae include Cosmopoiesis: The Renais- wrote the poem on the step of an sance Experiment, which consists Mary Krug Ndlovu ambulance wagon overlooking of a number of public lectures he (BA 1964 UC) (BEd OISE 1970) the wild poppies that bloomed delivered in 1999 as the Emilio Human rights advocate Mary Krug among the makeshift graves on Goggio Visiting Professor in the Ndlovu has dedicated close to 50 the battlefield. The poem was sub- Department of Italian Studies at years of her life to the betterment of sequently published in the London the University of Toronto. living standards for people in Zam- magazine, Punch, to international bia and Zimbabwe. She has lived acclaim. McCrae became a famous in Africa since 1966, applying her poet but continued to work as a distinguished academic achieve- surgeon in an artillery brigade dur- ments and experiences to making ing the war. His poem is recited a significant difference in the daily annually at Remembrance Day lives of men, women, and children. ceremonies around the world. He For 11 years, she worked with the is also credited with the idea of Legal Resources Foundation, train- adopting the poppy as the official ing paralegals, developing training flower of remembrance, a practice courses in human rights issues for which has been embraced in 34 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE police and prison officers, running Canada, the United States, France, legal workshops, and helping Britain, and Australia. individuals, particularly women, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2015 Alumni of Influence uc.utoronto.ca/alumni with practical legal problems—all the while earning a law degree by correspondence. She established the Edward Ndlovu Library in 1992 in memory of her late husband, thereby employing local people and promoting literacy in a community with no access to books or resource materials. In honour of her leader- ship, she received an Old Girls Life Achievement Award from Havergal College in 2004.

Prof. Annabel Patterson (BA 1961 UC) (MA London 1963) (PhD London 1965) Distinguished scholar Annabel Patterson is the Sterling Professor Emerita of English at Yale The Hon. Romain W. Pitt University. An expert in early (BA 1959 UC) (LLB 1963 Toronto) modern literature, her work also Pioneering lawyer Roman Pitt encompasses history, law, and is a retired judge of the Ontario politics. She has written 16 books Superior Court of Justice. Upon be- and more than 70 articles, on topics ing called to the bar, he worked at a as varied as Holinshed’s Chronicles, prestigious Bay Street law firm, but eighteenth-century libel law, the left to form, with Eric Lindsay, the reception of Virgil’s eclogues in first partnership of black lawyers in Europe, editions of Aesop’s fables, Canada. In 1994, he was appointed censorship, liberalism, parliamen- to the bench, becoming the first tary history, as well as Shakespeare, black lawyer in Canada to be named Milton, Donne, John Locke, and to a Superior Court from private Andrew Marvell. Patterson has been practice. In the community, Pitt awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, has mentored high school students a senior fellowship at the Society of interested in pursuing careers in Humanities, Cornell University, law, and has served on the boards of the Andrew Mellon Chair of the the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Humanities at Duke, a Mellon Toronto General Hospital. He is a Fellowship, a National Humanities founding director of Caribana, the Center Fellowship, and a Mellon annual celebration of Caribbean Emeritus Fellowship at Yale. She culture held in Toronto, and North won the Harry Levin Comparative America’s largest street festival. Literature prize for Pastoral and He played a leading role in the Ideology, and the John Ben Snow creation of the Black Business Award for Reading Holinshed’s Chron- Professional Association and the icles. She is a Fellow of the American Sickle Cell Association of Canada. Academy of Arts and Sciences, and For his contributions to law and holds an honorary doctorate from the community, he was awarded UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 35 the University of Toronto. the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2015 Alumni of Influence uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

Dr. Vivian Rambihar (BSc 1972 UC) (MD 1975 McMaster) Cardiologist Vivian Rambihar is a pioneer in studying heart health among immigrants of South Asian origin. An immigrant himself, he arrived in Canada from Guyana in 1970 to study math and physics at UC, then medicine at McMaster University. He was among the first in Canada to identify ethnic and gender differences in health, using chaos and complexity science. He has shared his findings not only in scientific journals, but also in editorials, books, lectures, and community action, thereby helping to establish the value of cultural competence and diversity in health- The Hon. James M. Spence wide variety of Commercial List care practice and research. He is (BA 1962 UC) (JD 1966 Toronto) cases and other commercial and the recipient of the Canadian Car- (LLD Law Society of Upper Canada 2001) civil disputes, as well as Divisional diovascular Society Segall Award James Spence is a retired judge of Court review of administrative for Health Promotion in Canada, the Superior Court of Justice of decisions. During his 24 years of the IndoCanadian Chamber of Ontario, and a former president law practice prior to appointment, Commerce Humanitarian Award, of the Canadian Institute for the he specialized in commercial and and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Administration of Justice. He has corporate matters and government Medal; in 2011 he was named one of served as co-chair and member relations as a member and partner the Top 25 Immigrants in Canada. of the Advisory Committee on in the firm which is now Torys LLP An Adjunct Professor of Medicine Judicial Ethics and as co-chair and in Toronto. He has lectured and at U of T, he is also the health co- member of the Education Com- written on legal matters including chair for the Global Organization mittee of the Superior Court of professional and judicial practice for People of Indian Origin, with Justice. Before his appointment to and responsibility, and served as a the goal of reducing the epidemic the Court in 1993, he served as head director on a number of private and of premature heart disease and dia- of the Law Society of Upper Canada public company boards. betes across the Indian Diaspora. and a director of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. He is a Life Bencher of The Law Society and an honorary member of the Advocates Society of Ontario. As a judge, Spence dealt with a

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Cheryl Wagner (BA 1970 UC) The Hon. Marvin Zuker Gemini- and Emmy-award win- (BA 1963 UC) (LLB Osgoode 1966) ning television producer Cheryl (MEd 1971 OISE) Wagner has entertained genera- Marvin Zuker is a 30-year veteran tions of children around the world. of the Family Court of the Ontario She is best known as the creator of Court of Justice, and an Associate The Big Comfy Couch, which airs in Professor at the Ontario Institute Prof. Zena Werb Canada, the United States, Mexico, for Studies in Education at the (BSc 1966 UC) South America, Australia, Britain, University of Toronto. He has made (PhD The Rockefeller University 1971) Turkey, South Africa, Singapore, prolific contributions to scholar- Distinguished scientist Zena the Middle East, Israel, Africa, and ship at the intersection of educa- Werb is Professor and Vice-Chair Indonesia. Earlier in her career, tional, criminal, and family law, of the Department of Anatomy at Wagner contributed as a performer including youth criminal justice, the University of California, San and puppeteer on the much-loved the impact of legislative changes, Francisco. Born in a concentration series Fraggle Rock alongside Jim and the rights and responsibilities camp in Germany, she eventually Henson, Mr. Dressup alongside of parents, school councils, and immigrated to Canada with her Ernie Coombs, Today’s Special, and private schools. Zuker’s work has family, studying biochemistry at Sesame Street Presents Follow That helped educators to understand the UC and cell biology at The Rock- Bird. She is the President of Peri- legal context in which they operate. feller University. She is internation- scope Pictures, Inc., a Charlotte- A notable advocate for the rights ally recognized for her discoveries town-based production company of women and children, he is the about the molecular and cellular that creates original, screen-based co-author of Canadian Women and bases of extracellular matrix prote- entertainment, including the web the Law, Children’s Law Handbook, olysis and their roles in the normal series Bunny Bop! A member of the Education Law, and Inspiring the functioning of tissues. Her studies Writers’ Guild of Canada, she sits Future: A New Teacher’s Guide to the have led to new paradigms about on the board of the Women in Film Law, among other titles. He is also the role of the cellular microenvi- and Television (WIFT) – Atlantic, a frequent presenter to educators ronment and intercellular commu- and is a recipient of the WIFT Wave and legal professionals. nication in breast development and Award for her contributions to cancer. The author of more than Canadian film and television. 450 articles, Werb is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Acad- emy of Arts and Sciences. For her outstanding contributions, she has been recognized with a Guggen- heim Fellowship, the Federation of American Societies for Experi- mental Biology Excellence in Science Award, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen, among other honours.

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I ntroducing the Young Alumni of Influence Award This year, University College launched the Young Alumni of Influence Award in recognition of the achievements of graduates who are in the early phases of their careers.

The prize, honouring UC alumni aged 21 to 35 who have demonstrated exceptional leadership in their field, is selected by the executive of the UC Alumni Association based on nominations from the UC community. It will be conferred annually in conjunction with the UC Alumni of Influence Awards.

It is our pleasure to introduce the inaugural recipient of the award, Dr. Melissa Lem (BSc 2001 UC).

Dr. Melissa Lem Returning to Toronto, she A lifelong nature enthusiast, (BSc 2001 UC) (MD 2005 Ottawa) established a health practice for Lem’s writings on health and the Toronto-based family physi- U of T students and gained a environment have been featured cian, health educator, and media faculty position in the Depart- by the CBC, Evergreen, and the personality Melissa Lem studied ment of Family and Community David Suzuki Foundation. She human biology at UC, then Health at U of T. Responding to is a member of the Canadian attended medical school in an ad for a “fun, fearless, female Association of Physicians for Ottawa. Upon graduation, she MD,” Lem became the resident the Environment and an advisor worked in emergency medicine, medical expert on CBC Television’s to EcoHealth Ontario. She also obstetrics, and acute care at national lifestyle show Steven and volunteers as a house doctor for Wrinch Memorial Hospital in Chris in 2011. With four seasons the Canadian Opera Company and northern British Columbia. Well- and more than thirty episodes the National Ballet of Canada. loved by patients and staff alike, under her belt, her humour and she was named chief of staff during accessibility have made her a fan her second year of work there, and and producer favourite. She can introduced educational rounds by also sometimes be found playing a First Nations elders to integrate physician and other roles in films, traditional knowledge into including a principal role in Suicide the delivery of care to the Squad, which shot in Toronto local community. this summer.

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IMAGE 01. wo years ago, University College For the building revitalization, this meant convening (Upper) University a committee to plan the phases of the renewal. The College East Hall launched an ambitious, $40 million campaign to increase scholarship committee delivered its report this spring, and it was IMAGE CREDIT support for deserving students, expand endorsed by the Governing Council of the University Christopher Dew our innovative academic programs, and of Toronto.

IMAGE 02. revitalize the physical fabric of our (Lower) Proposed historic College building. With approval in place and the phases of the Collections Room in East Hall building project mapped out, our next step is We envisioned every qualified student having access to engage an architect. RENDERING to the full spectrum of educational opportunities at UC, Guanghao Qian regardless of their financial background. In the meantime, we need your help raising the outstanding $1.8 million that would allow us to We envisioned an expanded focus on creative problem- start Phase One construction in summer 2016. solving, open inquiry, and real-word experience in our signature academic programs. Phase One of the revitalization will include the creation of the Collections Room in East Hall and the Clark We envisioned returning the UC Library to its Reading Room in West Hall—taken together, the new historic home at the front of the building, updating UC Library—as well as a number of associated acces- our classrooms for the 21st century, creating a state- sibility improvements and infrastructure upgrades. of-the art conference facility at Croft Chapter House, and improving accessibility for students and visitors Our students are thrilled by the prospect of with mobility challenges. using the renewed UC Library as early as January 2017. To make this a reality, we need your Our community of UC alumni, students, faculty, and support in closing the funding gap. staff embraced our plans and rallied in support of them, raising an initial $31 million towards our goals, including Please give generously to the University College a lead gift of $2.5 million from Edmund (BA 1969 UC) campaign. Together, we can unlock the enormous and Frances (BA 1969 UC) Clark. potential of our building and our students.

And now we are setting out to make our plans a reality. To make a donation or to learn more, please visit boundless.utoronto.ca/uc.

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DETACH THIS PORTION “This award meant time for extracurriculars and learning outside the classroom.” Munira Lila BSc 2015 in Global Health & Anthropology

Munira Lila has won the Dora Burke Playfair Leadership Award three years in a row. A testament to her commitment as a volunteer, the award opened doors to many enriching opportunities at U of T. Follow in the inspiring footsteps of Dora Burke Playfair by leaving a gift to University College in your will. You too can nurture the unlimited potential of leaders like Munira.

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Class Notes

NEWS FROM CLASSMATES NEAR AND FAR IMAGE 01. Diana Bennett (BA 1965 UC)

IMAGE 02. Ed Clark (BA 1969 UC)

IMAGE CREDIT Pear Studios

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Former TD Bank Group ARIELLE LEWIS (BA 2012 UC) 01. President ED CLARK (BA 1969 was awarded the Dean’s Gold UC) was honoured by Canada’s Garden of Secrets, an exhibition Key Award from Osgoode Hall Public Policy Forum for his out- of art by Law School. The award recog- DIANA BENNETT standing contributions to good (BA 1965 UC) showed at the nizes graduating Juris Doctor governance. Walnut Contemporary Gallery students who have demon- in Toronto in June. The mature strated exceptional leadership Classicist (BA and substantial body of work MARK GOLDEN and commitment. 1971 UC) has been named Pro- evolved from a variety of experi- fessor Emeritus by the University mental works which the artist The Hon. ALLEN LINDEN (BA of Winnipeg. An expert in the has been exploring over the last 1956 UC), a retired judge of the social history of ancient Greece, few years. Federal Court of Appeal, was he has been described by The named an Officer of the Order Globe and Mail as perhaps “Can- of Canada. ada’s foremost Classics scholar.” The Hon. Justice SIDNEY Tropical and infectious disease LINDEN (BA 1961 UC) was expert Dr. JAY KEYSTONE (BSc appointed to the Order of 1956 UC) was named a Member Ontario. The former Chief of the Order of Canada. Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice, he was Ontario’s Chartered financial analyst first Information and Privacy CYNTHIA LAW (BSc 1986 Commissioner, served as Chair UC) has been appointed an of Legal Aid Ontario, and as Independent Non-Executive Commissioner for the Ipper- Director of Vanke Property wash Public Inquiry. (Overseas) Limited.

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IMAGE 03. This spring, University College (BA 1987 UC) Sidney Linden COLIN RIPSMAN (BA 1961 UC) held its first-ever alumni event was appointed Vice President – in Vancouver, British Columbia, Institutional Client Services IMAGE 04. featuring a lecture on cyber Cities, Museums, at investment firm Foyston, and Soft Power security by alumnus PAUL Gordon & Payne, Inc. by Gail Dexter Lord MEYER (BA 1974 UC), a Fellow (BA 1968 UC) and in International Security at Ngaire Blankenberg Simon Fraser University. IMAGE 05. Bob Rae (BA 1969 UC) Celebrated novelist ANNE IMAGE CREDIT MICHAELS (BA 1980 UC), who Jim Panou served as Barker Fairley Visitor 03. IMAGE 06. at UC in 2014-15, was awarded Born to Walk a prestigious Guggenheim by Dan Rubinstein Fellowship. (BA 1994 UC)

IMAGE 07. DR. CHARLES PACHTER (BA (L-R): Ian Porter (BA 1965 UC), Janet 1964 UC) was appointed to the Amos (BA 1967 UC), Order of Ontario. A renowned David Secter (BA 1965 contemporary artist, his images UC), and Ron Thomson (BA 1968 UC) at the have become icons of Canadian screening of Winter art and have been exhibited glob- Kept Us Warm. ally and at the Art Gallery of On-

IMAGE CREDIT tario, the Royal Ontario Museum, 06. Stephanie Coffey and the McMichael Gallery. Writer DAN RUBINSTEIN (BA 1994 UC) published Born To (BSc 1988 UC) GILBERT PALTER Walk (ECW Press, 2015). The was appointed to the board 04. book explores how walking is of directors of Altantic Power not only a form of transporta- Renowned museum planner Corporation. GAIL DEXTER LORD (BA 1968 tion and recreation, but also a UC), with co-writer Ngaire path to a better world. Blankenberg, has published Cities, Museums and Soft Power MARY AIRD (BAILLIE) RUTHER- (American Alliance of Museums FORD (BA 1959 UC) published Press, 2015). Engagement Calendar (Inanna Publications & Education, 2013), DR. SAUL MARKS (BSc 1986 a book of poems. UC) was inducted into the University of Toronto Sports Hall of Fame for his achieve- ments in diving.

Journalist, critic, and editor MARY WILLAN MASON (BA 1943 UC) has published The

Hivernante: Marie Anne Lajimo- 05. niere, the White Mother of the West (iUniverse, 2015). The book The Honourable BOB RAE (BA chronicles the life of Marie Anne 1969 UC) has been promoted to Lajimoniere, the grandmother the rank of Companion of the 07. of patriot Louis Riel and the first Order of Canada. Rae is also the More than 200 alumni of all white woman to live as a semi- recipient of the 2015 Churchill ages attended University Col- nomad on the prairies. Society for the Advancement lege Spring Reunion festivities of Parliamentary Democracy in May. The weekend kicked Lawyer DAVID MCFADDEN (BA Award. Rae is a senior partner off with a barbeque in the UC 1967 UC) was appointed Chair at Olthusis Kleer Townshen LLP, Quadrangle, followed by a 50th of Fengate Capital Management was Ontario’s twenty-first premier, anniversary screening of the – Canadian and International and served as interim leader of

Infrastructure Advisory Boards. the Liberal Party of Canada. UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 45 CLASS NOTES FALL 2015 News from Alumni uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

IMAGE 08. UC Spring Reunion

IMAGE CREDIT Stephanie Coffey

IMAGE 09. (L-R): UC Principal Donald Ainslie, Van Dang (BSc 2014 UC), Amelia Lou (BSc 1997 UC), Philip Yee, Peter Niblock (BA 1951 UC), Marketa Goetz-Stankie- wicz (BA 1954 UC), Paul Walker (BA 1961 UC), Judy Meyer (BA 1973 UC), Paul Meyer (BA 1974 UC), Richard Don- caster Russell (BA 1951 UC), Pamela Niblock.

IMAGE 10. (L-R): Jim Coccimiglio (BA 1985 UC), Tony Clement (BA 1983 UC), and Rob Sloan (BSc 1986 UC) at the Wallace House Reunion.

IMAGE CREDIT 08. Stephanie Coffey

PETER SLAN (BA 1992 UC) IMAGE 11. was named Managing Director, Zachary Shyr, son of Raymond (2004 UC) and Global Private Banking Relation- Amy (BA 2004 UC) Shyr ship Management at Scotiabank.

09. groundbreaking, gay-themed film Winter Kept Us Warm, directed by DAVID SECTER (BA 1965 UC) and shot on loca- tion at UC. Alumni were also treated to a tour of University College led by Principal DON- ALD AINSLIE, and a lecture on

10. Canada after WWI by historian ALAN BOWKER (BA 1965 UC). Residents of Wallace House from the early 1980s, led by JIM COCCIMIGLIO (BA 1985 UC), also organized a mini-re- union and tour of their former stomping grounds, followed by a pub night. If you would 11. like assistance organizing your RAYMOND (2004 UC) and AMY own mini-reunion at any time (BA 2004 UC) SHYR welcomed of the year, please contact their third child, Zachary, born [email protected]. on December 1, 2014.

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LORIE WAISBERG (BA 1963 UC) was named Chair of the Board of Directors of Arcan Resources Ltd.

JIM WILLIAMSON (BA 1982 UC), Executive Producer of 12. CBC’s the fifth estate, received an IMAGE 12. On May 29, 2015 at UC International Emmy award in Paul (BSc 1965 UC) the current affairs category for and Mary (BA 1965 UC) Spring Reunion, Dr. PAUL Spring at UC Spring (BSc 1965 UC) and MARY (BA the documentary Made In Ban- Reunion 1965 UC) (JACOBSON) SPRING gladesh. The film investigates th the deadly collapse of a garment IMAGE CREDIT celebrated the 50 anniversary Stephanie Coffey of their graduation from UC, factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, as well as their 49th wedding on April 23, 2014, which killed IMAGE 13. Jim Williamson anniversary, making it a true more than 1100 people. Cloth- (BA 1982 UC) “Spring” reunion. ing manufactured at the facility had been sold at Walmart and IMAGE CREDIT Marc Bryan-Brown WILLIAM THOMAS (BCom 1975 Canadian retailer Joe Fresh. UC) was appointed a Director and Chief Financial Officer of SUSAN WOLLBURGH JENAH Network Oncology Inc. (BA 1978 UC) has been appointed Senior Advisor, Humourist, novelist, and lawyer Corporate Finance and Capital MORLEY TORGOV (BA 1950 Markets at Aird & Berlis LLP. UC) was named a Member of the Order of Canada.

MANFRED VON NOSTITZ (BA 1963 UC) has been appointed President, CEO, and Director of Network Oncology Inc. UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 47 NOTA BENE FALL 2015 Campus News uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

IMAGE 01. (L-R) Greg Louganis, Marnie McBean, and Mark Tewksbury at the Bonham Centre Awards Gala

IMAGE CREDIT Nota Bene Stephanie Coffey

IMAGE 02. Abigail Hoffman CAMPUS NEWS (BA 1968 UC)

IMAGE 03. 04. Brenda Cossman

THOMAS KEYMER, Chancellor IMAGE CREDIT Jackman Professor of English Christopher Dew

and a UC faculty member, was IMAGE 04. appointed University Professor, Thomas Keymer

U of T’s highest honour IMAGE 05. conferred on less than 2% of Jenny Purtle 02. tenured faculty. He was also University College welcomed recently awarded a prestigious 600 new graduates to its alumni Guggenheim Fellowship. community at spring CONVO- Associate Professor of Fine Art CATION on June 9. Trailblazing sports advocate and Olympian and UC faculty member JENNY is the principal investi- ABIGAIL HOFFMAN (BA 1968 PURTLE 01. UC) received an honorary gator behind Global and Post- global Perspectives on Medieval Students, faculty, and supporters degree and delivered the Convocation address. Art and Art History, a partner- of the Mark S. Bonham Centre ship between U of T and the for Sexual Diversity Studies at UC School of Arts and Humanities at gathered in Hart House’s Great the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Hall on April 24, 2015, for the Arts (GAFA) in China. A faculty third annual BONHAM CENTRE exchange between institutions, AWARDS GALA. This year, the the program will help build art awards celebrated “The Strength history in China by providing of Sport.” Honoured for their training in Western art history contributions to advancing the and methodology not otherwise cause of sexual diversity through 03. available, while expanding sport were: Greg Louganis, offerings in Chinese art history American Olympic gold medalist Professor BRENDA COSSMAN, the Director of the Mark S. at U of T. At the conclusion of diver; Marnie McBean, Canadian each graduate course, faculty Olympic gold medalist rower; Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at UC and a and students from both institu- and Mark Tewksbury, Canadian tions will undertake field trips Olympic gold medalist swimmer. Professor in the Faculty of Law, was honoured with the Award to study works of art firsthand in of Excellence in the Promotion Sicily and Dunhuang, China. Incoming UC student VALERIE of Women’s Equality from the CHU was one of six inaugural recipients of the new C. David Ontario Bar Association, Women Naylor Scholarships. Named after Lawyers Forum. former University of Toronto president and UC alumnus University College faculty member a Professor in PROFESOR DAVID NAYLOR JOSEPH HEATH, (1974 UC), the entrance scholar- the Department of Philosophy ships, worth $20,000 each, award and in the School of Public Policy students who demonstrated and Governance at U of T, was excellence in academics, awarded the Shaughnessy Cohen extracurriculars, and community Prize for Political Writing for service in high school. his book, Enlightenment 2.0: Restoring Sanity to Our Politics, 05.

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IMAGE 06. (L-R): UC Merit Award winners Madison Kurchik (BA 2015 UC), Yolanda Ho (BA 2015 UC), Ana Patricia Taruc (BA 2015 UC), Mu- nira Lila (BSc 2015 UC), Niroja Thirugnanasam- panthar (BA 2015 UC)

IMAGE CREDIT Stephanie Coffey 06.

IMAGE 07. The following outstanding grad- Students Kevin Graham uating students received the and Klejda Nuro at UC UC this spring Research and Practice MERIT AWARD Day in recognition of their leader- ship within the UC community: IMAGE 08. Keren Rice ADEEBA AHMED, REBECCA 10. BALLARIN, CANDI CHIN-SANG, IMAGE CREDIT MICHELLE COOK, CAROLINE Henry Feather DAVIS, BENJAMIN DONATO- IMAGE 09. WOODGER, YOLANDA HO, Melinda Scott DANIELLE KLEIN, MADISON

IMAGE CREDIT KURCHIK, JORDAN LAVOIE, 08. Christopher Dew MUNIRA LILA, MENG LIM,

IMAGE 10. CATHY SANTOS, ANA TARUC, KEREN RICE, University Pro- Amanda Stojcevski, UC ERIKA THAUBERGER, NIROJA fessor in the Department of Lit President 2015-16 THIRUGNANASAMPANTHAR, Linguistics and a UC faculty

IMAGE 11. ENANG UKOH, ERIC WU, and member, has been elected to Ramsey Andary, UC Lit WILLIAM XIAO. the American Academy of Arts Vice President 2015-16 and Sciences. Rice is renowned 11. IMAGE 12. Economist and investment man- for her expertise in aboriginal University College ager Dr. RUSSELL MORRISON was languages. Students AMANDASTOJCEVSKI lit up blue on World and RAMSEY ANDARY were Autism Awareness Day named a Member of the Order of Canada. Russell, along with his elected, respectively, President IMAGE CREDIT wife, Katherine, are the patrons and Vice President of the UC Johnny Guatto of Morrison Hall Residence at Literary and Athletic Society University College. for 2015-16.

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UC Dean of Students MELINDA SCOTT was awarded a Chancellor’s Award in the Emerging Leader category as part of the U of T

07. Alumni Association’s Awards of Excellence program. Since be- 12. Students enrolled in University coming Dean in 2012, Melinda University College joined College’s undergraduate inter- has been a crucial contributor landmarks around the world in disciplinary programs gathered to all of UC’s activities, and is ‘Lighting Up Blue’ in support of in the West Hall on March 13, recognized as a key supporter of 2015 to share their projects students, fellow staff, and faculty WORLD AUTISM AWARENESS on April 2, 2015. and celebrate the end of term not just within the College but DAY at the annual RESEARCH AND across the St. George campus UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 49 PRACTICE DAY. and beyond. IN MEMORIAM FALL 2015 University College uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

In Memoriam

University College bids a fond farewell to our departed classmates, friends, and loved ones. Notices of death published in this issue were received between January 1 and June 30, 2015. Date of death and last known residence are noted where possible. Friends and family of the deceased can help by sending information to [email protected].

Mrs. Mary L. Jarvis (BA 1948 UC) 1930s of Toronto, ON; Jan. 17, 2015 Mr. A. G. Coulter (BA 1939 UC) Mr. Alexander D. Knox (BA 1947 UC) of Willowdale, ON; June, 2015 of Oxfordshire, England; Nov. 2014 Mr. Edward H. Durnan (1937 UC) Dr. John C. Laidlaw (BA 1942 UC) of London, ON; Jan. 10, 2015 of Toronto, ON; June 6, 2015 Mrs. Mary Crowther Kingsmill (BA 1938 UC) Mr. Albert J. Latner (BA 1949 UC) of Burlington, ON; Jan. 10, 2015 of Toronto, ON; June 11, 2015 Ms. Frances Moran (BA 1939 UC) Dr. Earl MacNaughton (BA 1941 UC) of Ottawa, ON; Feb. 7, 2015 of Guelph, ON; Jan. 5, 2015 Mr. Paul L. Nathanson (BA 1938 UC) Mrs. Janet H. (Smart) Marusaik (BA 1942 UC) of Toronto, ON; Mar. 11, 2015 of Stoney Creek, ON; Mar. 17, 2015 Mr. Nathan Schacher (BA 1937 UC) Mr. Michael Masewich (BA 1949 UC) of North York, ON; May 9, 2006 of Mississauga, ON; Jan. 29, 2015 Dr. Harry Sheffer (BA 1939 UC) Mr. W. H. McCamus (BSc 1947 UC) of Orleans, ON of Etobicoke, ON; Jan. 12, 2015 Mrs. Elizabeth McClelland (1949 UC) 1940s of Toronto, ON; May 16, 2015 Mr. Harold B. Attin (BA 1948 UC) Ms. Heather B. (Hill) McDonald (BA 1942 UC) of Toronto, ON; Mar. 19, 2015 of Toronto, ON; Mar. 4, 2015 Mr. L. M. B. Baldwin (BA 1948 UC) Mrs. Eunice T. C. Mouckley (BA 1949 UC) of Burlington, ON; Jan. 5, 2015 of Toronto, ON; Feb. 19, 2015 The Hon. Walter E. Bell (BA 1941 UC) Mr. Thomas S. Nease (1948 UC) of London, ON; Jan. 4, 2015 of Woodbridge, ON; June 16, 2015 Mrs. Joan R. (Breithaupt) Birkett (BCom 1949 UC) Mrs. Jeanne S. (Hunt) Neil (BA 1949 UC) of Burlington, ON: May 26, 2015 of Toronto, ON; Apr. 2, 2015 Mr. Edward A. Brill (BCom 1947 UC) Mr. Bill Perkins (BA 1947 UC) of Toronto, ON; Feb. 20, 2015 of Lindsay, ON; Feb. 5, 2015 Mr. Herbert B. Epstein (BA 1942 UC) Mr. Irvin Raxlin (BA 1944 UC) of Toronto, ON; May 23, 2015 of Thornhill, ON; Jan. 12, 2015 The Honourable Patrick S. FitzGerald (BA 1940 UC) Mrs. Margaret (Burnette) Reid (BA 1940 UC) of Sault Ste Marie, ON; May 7, 2015 of Toronto, ON; Mar. 17, 2014 Mr. Frank C. Genovese (BA 1942 UC) Mrs. Lilian J. (Markham) Salter (BA 1941 UC) of Wellesley, MA; Apr. 28, 2014 of Toronto, ON; Mar. 5, 2015 Mrs. Jo-Anne A. (Copeland) Gooderham (BA 1948 UC) Mr. Joseph D. Sheard (BA 1943 UC) of Toronto, ON; May 15, 2015 of Toronto, ON; Jan. 19, 2015 Mr. Irving C. Harris (BA 1949 UC) Mrs. Emily J. (Dunham) Smith (1943 UC) of Barrie, ON; Sept. 13, 2014 of Toronto, ON; May 7, 2015 Mrs. Velma P. W. (Wadsworth) Howie (BA 1943 UC) Mr. Kenneth S. Thompson (BA 1947 UC) of London, ON; Jan. 23, 2015 of Victoria, BC; Mar. 31, 2015 Mr. William Jack (BA 1941 UC) Mr. T. J. Whillans (BA 1948 UC) of Calgary, AB of Toronto, ON; Jan. 10, 2015 Ms. Nancy F. Wood (BA 1949 UC) of Toronto, ON; Apr. 6, 2015 Mrs. Annie M. (Corp) Wragg (BA 1943 UC) of Kleinburg, ON; Feb. 16, 2015 Mr. Howard D. Young (BA 1949 UC) of Hillsburgh, ON; Mar. 11, 2015 Mrs. Miriam (Frankel) Zbarsky (BA 1946 UC) of Vancouver, BC: Nov. 22, 2014

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Mr. D. R. A. Ward (BA 1952 UC) 1950s of Ingersoll, ON; Apr.13, 2015 Dr. Ronald Aziz (BA 1950 UC) Mr. Frederick E. Whitehead (BA 1951 UC) of Toronto, ON; Feb. 14, 2015 of Toronto, Ontario; Jan. 8, 2015 Mr. Donald W. Bassin (BA 1956 UC) Mr. John Young (BA 1952 UC) of Collingwood, ON; May 2, 2015 of Bracebridge, ON; Jan., 2015 Dr. A. A. Borovoy (BA 1953 UC) of Toronto, ON; May 11, 2015 Mr. Daniel W. Burtnick (BA 1956 UC) 1960s of Ottawa, ON; Jan. 5, 2015 Ms. Joyce H. E. Bradley (BSc 1967 UC) Mrs. Barbara J. (Davidson) Clarke (1952 UC) of Barrie, ON; Sept. 22, 2014 of Thornhill, ON; Jan. 9, 2015 Mrs. Malka Chapnick Green (BA 1960 UC) Mr. George H. Clarke (BCom 1952 UC) of Toronto, ON; June 21, 2015 of Toronto, ON; Feb. 8, 2015 Mr. Stephen H. Fuller (BSc 1963 UC) Mr. Alan M. Davie (BA 1958 UC) of Willowdale, ON; May 18, 2014 of Aurora, ON; June 4, 2015 Dr. Peter F. Gilbert (BA 1962 UC) Mr. Carl Dunk (BA 1959 UC) of Toronto, ON; May 4, 2015 of Vineland, ON; Nov. 13, 2014 Mr. Lionel C. Larry (BA 1967 UC) Dr. Gordon Feldman (BA 1950 UC) of Toronto, ON; Mar. 23, 2015 of Baltimore , MD; Feb. 12, 2014, Mr. Andrew G. McQuilkin (BA 1963 UC) Mr. John A. Geller (BA 1951 UC) of Toronto, ON; Feb. 8, 2015 of Toronto, ON; Jan. 7, 2015 Mr. Robert L. Radford (BA 1965 UC) Mrs. Sybil (Gangbar) Geller (BA 1951 UC) of Toronto, ON; Mar. 20, 2015 of Toronto, ON; Feb. 23, 2015 Mr. William R. B. Rauenbusch (BCom 1968 UC) Mr. Francis J. Graham (BA 1952 UC) of North York, ON; May 26, 2015 of Etobicoke, ON; Mar. 16, 2015 Mrs. Jean A. (Hollands) Turton (BA 1965 UC) Mr. John R. Y. Hugo (BA 1956 UC) of Hamilton, ON; Mar. 25, 2015 of Toronto, ON; Jan. 11, 2015 Mr. Douglas G. Worling (BA 1965 UC) Mr. G. K. Humphreys (BCom 1950 UC) of Toronto, ON; Feb. 27, 2015 of North York, ON; Feb. 3, 2015 Prof. Joan C. Laird (BA 1951 UC) of Picton, ON; Jan. 21 2015 1970s Mrs. Catherine R. (Creelman) Leishman (BA 1952 UC) Mr. Wendell Kangaloo (BA 1979 UC) of Peterborough, ON; May 10, 2015 of San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago; July 18, 2013 Mrs. Sheila Loftus (BA 1952 UC) Mr. W. Christopher Martin (BSc 1979 UC) of Toronto, ON; Feb. 18, 2015 of Scarborough, ON; Feb. 20, 2015 Mrs. Gretchen E. (Liebmann) McDowell (BA 1950 UC) Mrs. Katharine W. (Fitzgerald) Spratt (BA 1972 UC) of Toronto, ON; Feb. 10, 2015 of Toronto, ON; May 16, 2015 Dr. Robert Millar (BA 1951 UC) of Victoria, BC; Jan. 12, 2015 1980s Mr. Martin E. Offman (BA 1953 UC) Mr. Davanand Bisambar (BSc 1988 UC) of Toronto, ON; June 27, 2015 of Toronto, ON; Mar. 4, 2015 Miss Mary Ringsleben (BA 1950 UC) Dr. Francesco Galassi (BA 1981 UC) of Leeds, England; Feb. 13, 2015 of Ottawa, ON; Jan. 2, 2015 Prof. Ann Robson (BA 1953 UC) of Toronto, ON; May 3, 2015 Mr. Melvyn Rubinof (BA 1953 UC) 2000s of Toronto, ON; June 4, 2015 Ms. Liana M. Tesan (BSc 2003 UC) Mr. Robert W. Stolar (BCom 1956 UC) of Richmond Hill, ON; June 3, 2015 of Kitchener, ON; June 7, 2015 Mrs. Ruta V. Treijs (BA 1957 UC) of Brampton, ON; Oct. 5, 2014 UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 51 “When people think of the University of Toronto they think about University College. As a UC student I carry around that pride and I want our beautiful building to be used as well as it can be.” Ryan Phillips, Vice-President UC Literary & Athletic Society 2013 –14

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