The Hidden Pierre Trudeau

ierre Elliott Trudeau was one of Canada's MacEachen and Otto Lang, and principal most flamboyant and controversial prime secretaries Jim Coutts and Tom Axworthy. Pministers, and, under the eye of the media, For many Canadians, Trudeau was an enigma. perhaps the most watched. Yet many Canadians He was credited (in some quarters blamed) for were taken by surprise by his traditional Catholic catapulting Canada into an era of moral and funeral . Until his death, many hadn't known religious tolerance (or permissiveness) by Trudeau was a practicing Catholic. liberalizing the laws on divorce, abortion, and Although he rarely spoke about his faith, homosexuality and by introducing the Charter of and was often critical of the church hierarchy, Rights and Freedoms. How did this square with "his Catholicism was the prism through which his deep faith? The answer, as conference speaker he looked at the world," says Waterloo history Stephen Clarkson noted, may lie in Trudeau's professor John English, Trudeau's official equally deep belief in democratic liberalism and biographer. With Richard Gwyn, author of The in the right of the individual to choose. Northern Magus, and Chancellor of St. Jerome's, According to St. Jerome's President Michael English instigated a well-attended conference held W. Higgins, who also spoke at the conference, at St. Jerome's and the University ofWaterloo in Trudeau's faith was a complex thing formed by May: The Hidden Pierre Trudeau: His Spirituality, the Jesuits (a strong sense of discipline), the His Faith, His Life, His Times. Dominicans (an intellectual approach combined "The conference worked because it blended with action) and the Benedictines (contemplation), some very serious academic questions on fai th as well as by a Catholic philosophical perspective and politics with input from individuals who had known as personalism that emphasized the actually dealt with those questions in political individual's personal responsibility to take action life," English says. Among the 30 speakers were to improve the world. some of Trudeau's former colleagues: prime The conference also explored the coexistence minister John Turner, cabinet ministers Allan of religion and politics in Canada. Religion has always played a vital part in Canadian life, and there's been no shortage of MPs who came to the House straight from the pulpit. Yet Canadians, and especially the media, have shied away from openly mixing religion and politics, especially in the last half­ century. Not so in the United States and Europe. Why is Canada different? Allan MacEachen suggests that, precisely because religion matters so much in Canada, potentially dividing English and French, we had to privatize faith in order to survive as a nation. Nobody was more aware of this than Trudeau, Clarkson says. Perhaps our most multiculturally sensitive prime minister, he saw Canada as a society in which no group could be allowed to impose their beliefs on others. In this, he believed Canada could serve as a model for the world. The conference was sponsored by Canadian Heritage, the Catholic R egister, the Donner Foundation, Dr. Desta Leavine, RBJ Schlegel St. Jerome's University Holdings Inc., St. Jerome's Volume 21 · Number r University, and the University Spring/ Summer 2003 ofWaterloo. ,f. Photo: GP (Ryan Remiorz) Understanding, exploration, and enlightenment

everal times during the course of the recent Catholics in Public Life conference-held every conference held jointly by St. Jerome's and two years and in partnership with the Waterloo Sthe University of Waterloo on Pierre Elli ott Catholi c District School Board- which focuses Trudeau-The Hidden Pierre Trudeau: His specificall y on a theme or aspect of leadership of Spirituali ty, His Faith, His Life, His Times- I deep current concern for Canadian Catholics, heard from numerous participants, registrants, whether healthcare, education, social policy, etc. scholars and journalists, biographers and Cabin et In addition, we establi shed through the generous ministers that this was the right thing for a support of the Wintermeyer fam il y the annual Michael W. Higgins is Catholic university to do. I also heard the same John J. Wintermeyer Lecture on C hristianity President of St. Jerome 's thing from several alumni who had taken the and Public Policy, a lecture that operates under University. time to come and attend all or part of the the auspices of the St. Jerome's Centre for Photo: Ron Hewson conference in order to learn something about Catholic Experience. one of Canada's extraordinary political leaders. It made perfect sense, then, for us to Why was it the right thing to do? Ifa undertake with the University of Waterloo this Catholic university does not undertake the kind two-day scholarly foray into areas that most of initiative we see in the Trudeau conference scholars, policy makers, and active politicians then what other institution of higher education fear or ignore. It is undoubtedly true that the will? It is right to subject to ca reful examination role of religion in our society is often marginalized, the role of religion, ethical decision-making, made the property of each individual's private spiritual formation, and devotional practice in concern, ignoring in the process the compelling the shaping of the worldview of a political leader need to know as much as possible about the and the impact that these may have on his or her different creeds, religious traditions, and spiritual party. It is right to ask questions in the public paths that emerge from the nmlti-ethnic components forum about the constructive role of religion in that make up the wider Canadian tapestry. the making and maturing of a public citizen. It Fanaticism, intolerance, ignorance, and fear is right for a Catholi c university to provide space flourish in the dark. As a Catholic university where questions can be debated, new issues federated to a provincial constituent university, reflected upon, probes and proddings justified, we have a very clear educational obligation to cast light on those dark areas that contribute to Some critics of our conference wondered aloud) and in print) division and disharmony. why a Catholic university would undertake to ((canonize>> What better way to perform one of our many Pierre Elliott Trudeau. tasks than by undertaking a conference of the kind sometimes indelicate matters raised, all forms that we had with The Hidden Pierre Trudeau. of censorship eschewed, and every effort made Some critics of our conference wondered to throw some illumination on the admittedly aloud, and in print, why a Catholic university complex interweaving of religious faith and would undertake to "canonize" Pierre Ell iott public leadership. Trudeau. The Trudeau conference was not about Over the last number of years St. Jerome's canonization, it was not a lovefest, and it was not University has worked in many ways to provide about hagiography. The conference was about a forum for appropriate enquiries regarding faith , understanding, exploration, and enlightenment. political perspective, philosophical beliefs, and And this is the right thing for a Catholic social policy. First of all , we launched the university to do. i­

2 Celebrating art and spirit at St. Jerome's

he First Annual St. Jerome's Festival ofArt and Keith Jarrett, as we ll as li ve music by Toronto and Spirit will present a tapestry of music, songwriter John Dawson. T words, images, and dance on July 4 and 5. T he main events on Saturday, July 5 are two "It all began rather simply," says Michael sessions of readings by Canadian novelists, short W. Higgins, St. Jerome's President. Last year, at story writers, and poets: Dennis Bock, author of the opening of the new St. Jerome's U ni versity The Ash Garden; Erin Noteboom Bow, Ghost Art Gallery, Higgins commented that most people Maps-in press; Pier Giorgio DiCicco, We Are experience the transcendent "not by means of the Light Turning; Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces; reading an academic text, poring over a theological KD Miller, Holy Writ; John S. Porter, Spirit disquisition, or even listening with focused Book Word; Gloria Sawai, A Song for attention to an inspiring homily or sermon," but Nettie Johnson; and David Waltner- through art-music, painting, sculpture, fiction Toews, The Fat Lady Struck and poetry, and dance. To which Chancell or Dumb. Readings are followed Richard Gwyn replied that St. Jerome's should do by conversations hosted by more than just talk about the relationship of KD Miller and John S. spirituali ty and creativity. "A year later," Higgins Porter. The afternoon concludes, "here we are in the festival business." concludes with a Everyone is welcome, says organizer Danine discussion on creativity Farquharson, a professor of English at St. and spirituali ty led by Jerome's. "Anyone interested in art and in CBC Radio host creativity should find something to whet their Michael Enright. appetite at our festival." Other events include The gala opening on the evening of Friday, a special screening of July 4 features a multimedia performance by Saint Monica, with director Kevin Burns, entitl ed Some Mystery Must Remain. Terrance Odette present to St. ]eromes University Burns explores the links benveen musical creativity answer questions, a and spirituality with short scenes by Canadian performance by Carousel Dance writers Tomson Highway and Timotl1y Findley, T heatre, and a closing performance writings on creativity and purpose by mystic by the Halifa,\'.-based contemplative jazz Thomas Merton and conductor Leonard trio Sanctuary, led by Peter Togni. An exhibit of Bernstein, a riff on the Temptation of St. Anthony art from the Peter Warrian and Margret Hovanec (for Flaubert and Freud a central metaphor for Collection, St. Jerome's Art Gallery, and a book the artist, an isolated person fighting his demons fair sponsored by Words Worth Books will run in a cave), and an anthology of quotations and throughout the festival. .t excerpts from the works of contemporary For more information, visit composers such as Arvo Part, John Tavener, www.sju.ca/events/festiva l.html

Patrick Flynn, BA '68, a member of the also rece ived Golden Jubilee Medals either by virtue of Board of Governors of St. Jerome's, was being in the Order of Canada (Chancellor Richard Gwyn) appointed to the bench of the Ontario or by virtue of their leadership positions (Deborah Supreme Court of Justice in October 2002. Pecoskie, Chair of the Board of Governors, and He has practiced law in Kitchener since Michael W. Higgins, President and Vice-Chancellor) . 1980. • In January Doug Letson, English, • A history of the Roman Catholic Church in Bermuda was awarded the Queen 's Golden Jubilee by James Wahl , C.R., History, was published by the Medal, for his outstanding record as a volun­ Diocese of Hamilton in Bermuda, marking the 50th teer in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, including anniversary of the Congregation of the Resurrection's his advocacy for the Walter Bean Trail. He undertaking the pastoral care of the Bermuda church. was one of 15 people locally and 40,000 Planting the Banner of Christ on the Isle of Devils (the across Canada who were recognized for title refers to an early belief that Bermuda was an distinguished service to their communities abode of demons) covers the Catholic history of the with this medal created to mark the 50th island over the last 450 years. Wahl plans a book on anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's reign. In the history of the Ontario-Kentucky Province of the addition, three other St. Jerome's people Congregation for 2007. • A book series for the Culture

3 Religious illiteracy in Canada

n the confusion following the World Trade including some teaching on world religions. Towers disaster, one thing became clea r. Many The suppression of religious studies in schools I Canadian journalists kn ew almost nothing has created what Lois Sweet, author of God in the about Islam, including the fact that it's divided Classroom, ca ll s a generation of "reli gious into several di stinct branches. T hat led to some illiterates," unfit to li ve in a society where their very misleading news coverage, says David Selj ak, next-door neighbours could belong a professor of Reli gious Studies at St. Jerome's. to a different ethnic or religious group as likely as T he reporters weren't alone. Selj ak finds that not. T he implications for Canada are worri some, most students in his first-year Reli gions of Seljak says. We will need to be very clever at the East course are dismissive-and deeply finding ways to li ve together, and such solutions ignorant- when as ked to describe their idea can o nly be based on knowledge of each other's of what reli gion is. fundamental valu es, beli efs, and practices. "These are iss ues that every country in the Most students in pubhcl\j funded non-sectarian high schools world will be facin g in a few yea rs," he notes. "They will come to us to see how across Canada learn nothing about world religions. we did it in Canada. H ow we manage this question of teaching world reli gions Why such ignorance? One reason emerged will be critical to our success or failure." when Seljak began a research project on reli gion The survey results will be submitted as an and education at the U niversity of Victori a's article to a leading Canadi an journal of educa ti on Centre fo r the Study of Reli gion and Society last and will be integrated into a chapter in a book year. Discovering that nobody kn ew exactl y what Seljak is co-editing with Paul Bramadat- R elwion is being taught abo ut world reli gions in Canadian and Ethnicity in Canada (Pearson, 2004). His public schools today, he launched his own survey, goal is to push the public debate, which is fuell ed entitled Who Teaches What? Wo rld R elwions in by memori es of the uniformly Christi an public Canadian Classroo ms. ("World reli gions" is school system of the 1950s, by the 1982 Charter academic shorthand for a list that usuall y includes of Rights and Freedoms (which many people Judaism, Christianity, Islam , Hinduism, Buddhism, incorrectl y believe bans any mention of reli gion the religions of East Asia, abori ginal religions, and in public schools), and by the concerns of sometimes also Sikhism and Zoroastrianism.) religious minoriti es. Selj ak fo und that most students in publicly "The chore will be to convince the architects funded non-sectari an hi gh schools across Canada of the public system that the push to teach world learn nothing about world reli gions. A few religions is not a way of trying to sneak individual schools might offer an optional course, Christianity, or any reli gious co mmitment, or, more rarely, a board will mandate a course. in through the bac k door," Seljak says. "It's a In Ontari o, an optional ministry-approved course form of multicultural education, and it has the reaches one student in 10. Only Quebec has same goa l s- fo s te rin g~the values of tolerance in provin ce-wide mandatory religious education, a plurali stic soc i e ty." ~

of Cities research project, co-edited by Kieran Bonner, grace, or at least from the boughs of one of the forbid­ Sociology, and Will Straw, a communications professor den trees in the head priest's orchard, and the subse­ at McGill University, is being launched by McGill­ quent search for an appropriate punishment." • In Queens University Press. The first book, The spring 2003 Maureen Drysdale, Psychology, and James Imaginative Structure of the City, by project director Downey, past president of the University of Waterloo Alan Blum , came out in May 2003. Future volumes will and director of the Waterloo Centre for the include a Toronto/ Montreal comparison, a book on Advancement of Co-operative Education (WatCACE) , circulation of artifacts, and a book on citizenship and began a research study on the connection between political theory to be edited by Bonner and Greg academic learning and the co-op work term . • Carol Nielsen. • Bernice Friesen 's story, "The Irish Book of Acton, English, presented papers at two conferences Beasts," is among 10 chosen for Best Canadian this spring: "There Are No Men Here: Demythologising Stories 2002 (Oberon Press). It was first published in the warrior in women 's war writing,"at the Conference The New Quarterly (Vol. XX, No. 4), which is published on War and Conflict held at the University of New out of St. Jerome's. "The story," says TNQ editor Kim Hampshire in April; and "Masses of Memoried Flowers: Jernigan, "actually an excerpt from a novel, tells of the Combatant mourning and the subverted pastoral, " at new boy at an Irish Catholic school and his fall from the Association for the Study of Literature and the

4 If a student calls Relaunching the Ten Big Ones If a student calls from the University of Waterloo seeking your "Business, obviously, has a fever-but it's the Canadians are growing cynical, Dall a Costa financial support, they whole society, including its religious heart, says, and no wonder. Leaders in all spheres have are also calling on which has come down with the moral flu ." been evading accountability fo r their ac tions, and behalf of St. Jerome's. John D all a Costa is talking about the "summer not only the leaders. According to a recent Ernst This year, students will of shame" of 2002, when a se ri es of scandals in and Young survey, one in four Canadian workers call seeking support for business, government, and the church fo llowed has committed some fra ud against their employer. five SJU projects, two new and three ongoing. the fa ll of Enron. All that high-profile lying, In such a world, cynicism may seem a smart greed, and incompetence, with its fallout of lost defence. But as trust unravels, so does a sense of They are: pensions, jobs, and lives has undermined the shared purpose. • A graduate program in bedrock of public trust on whi ch society and the Five years ago, you didn't hear much talk of Roman Catholic Life economy stand, Dall a Costa says. What can we ethics in the boardroom. Now, says Dalla Costa, and Thought do about it? many CEOs agree that our institutions are in • A Chair in Quantum H is answer is capsuli zed in the title of the moral crisis, and that what we need is not more Computation 2002-03 Ignatian Lecture, "The Ten regulation, but more moral business peopl e. To • Scholarships Commandments: A Theology for Business that end he recommends a new look at the Ten Leaders," delivered at St. Jerome's on Januar y 24, Commandments as "a framework fo r relationship, • Handicapped accessibility projects 2003, as part of the St. Jerome's Centre for not a checklist of prohibitions. " Catholic Experience. Founder of the Centre fo r Not that he's claiming business is inherently • The Centre for Catholic Ethical Orientation (CEO ), a Toronto-based evil. "What I'm saying is that business is too Experience lectures consulting fi rm, he is the author of four books on important to be left untethered to some grounding To support one of these business ethics, including The Ethical Imperative: morali ty, " he concludes. "Just as the Jews wangled projects, simply tell yo ur Why Moral Leadership is Good Business (1998). to preserve the law under Roman occupation, we caller that you want to H e also holds a Master of Divinity degree from too must find the courage and imagination to designate all or part of your gift to SJU. Regis College. name the Ten Commandments, and claim their meaning in our public dialogue." £. And thank you!

John Dal Li Costa, left, and Doug Letson, former president of St. Jerome's University.

Envi ronment fifth biennial conference , held at Boston tclearly he va lues and idea ls of St . Jerome's University in June . • A new book of essays about Un iversity: academ ic excellence , good cit izenship, Wil liam Lyon Mackenzie King was launched at King's and contributions to community. • Other grad uating ch ildhood home, Woods ide, in Kitchener last honours: Lynn Chiniborch, Sexuality, Marriage and December. Mackenzie King: Citizenship and Community the Fam ily, and Mark Orr, Engli sh Language and (Robin Brass Studio) was ed ited by professors John Literature , won Community Contribution awards. Engli sh and Kenneth Mclaughlin, Hi story, and St. Kerri Schira, Psychology, Douglas Stebila , Mathematics Jerome's alu mnus Whitney Lackenbauer, BA '98, (Combinatori cs and Opt imization/ Computer Science), currently fini shing up his PhD at the University of Aaron Ursacki, Mathematics (Computer Science), and Ca lgary. The book expl ores King's K-W roots and how Amilynn Bryans, Psychology, all won University Life that upbringing may have infl uenced his political awards. Th e Todd Earl Awa rd , which recogn izes t he ca reer. • At St. Jerome's annual Awards Night on contributions of a first-year student to the spirit and March 29, t he Zach Ralston Awa rd we nt to Maria vital ity of the St. Jerome's com munity, went to Flavia Benadik, a fin al-year student in English Language and Quintana-Escalona, a first-year Reli gious Studies Literature with a Religious Studies mi nor. The award student, and t he Douglas Letson Community Service recogn izes the gradu ating student who manifests most Awa rd was presented to Tracy Pickard, also in fi rst­

5 Canadian health care reform: What kind of people are we?

n poll after poll , asked to and effici ency. (In the case of a co mmon good name the things that are like health care, this does not mean market-style I characteristically Canadjan, effi ciency, Kenny says. She points out that in we tend to come up with two: Canada, roughly 9 per cent of the Gross Domestic 7 good hockey and public health care. Product is spent on heal th care, while in the United "But hockey has been bought out- it's States, where health care is largely privati zed, the not Canadian an y more," says Sr. N uala fi gure is 13 per cent.) Kenny, a leading N ova Scotian pediatrician, H ow should we shape our health care system? member of the Sisters of Charity of Halifax, and If we give way to pressure from pro-globali zation chair of the Department of Bi oethics at Dalhousie and pro-market fo rces and change our University. "And health care runs the same risk." fundamental understanding of what health care Kenny spoke on "Justice and Compassion in should be, what will that make us? "Change the Canadian H ealth Reform " at St. Jerome's last poli cy, and it's calling us to be a diffe rent kjnd of November. Her talk, part of the 2002 -2003 peopl e," Kenny says. season of the St. Jerome's Centre fo r Catholic We'll have to make some diffi cult decisions. Experience, was the Inaugural John Sweeney O ve r the 40 yea rs of the Canada H ealth Act, Lecture in Current Iss ues in Catholic H ealthcare, science introduced cardiac resuscitation, the established this yea r with funding fr om St. Mary's po rtable ve ntilator, organ transplants, dialys is, and General H ospital and St. Joseph's H ealth System modern genetics. At the sa me ti me, every aspect in memory of the late Chancell or of St. Jerome's. of our li ves, "everything fro m maki ng a baby to Lookin g forward to the publication of the dyin g," has been professionali zed , with expensive Romanow Report on the reform of Canaillan technology often crowding o ut the human health care, Kenny said this is "a crucial time fo r dimension of care. And the lin e between li fe and good citi zens." She called on her listeners to death has blurred; the old Catholi c delineati ons of think hard abo ut the kind of system they want. "ordinary and extraordin ary measures" no longer Public poli cy- the way we choose to treat the apply, Kenny says. poor, the ill , the prisoner- defines who we are, "Remember- tough as individual decisions are Kenny says. "Good public policy is prophetic, in about the ri ght choices fo r health care for yo urself the sense of reclaiming to a people the vision of or your loved ones, poli cy determines the who they said they were, who they wanted to be possibilities fo r others," she concl udes. "The as a people. " challenge fo r us is how will we shape this poli cy The principles of the Canada H ealth Act­ for the next generation, and the one after that, universal deli very of health care based on need­ and the one after that. " .t translate into the values of solidari ty, fa irness,

year Honours Arts. Awa rds for aca demic distinction catalyst for the Ca mpus Recreation Table Tennis Club, went to graduating students Melissa Stephens, playing and training some of the top international table English ; Gregory Francis, History; Danica Albano , tennis pl ayers. He is still an active volunteer. + In Italian; Ian Macintyre, Mathematics; Jim Zettel, November 2002, Scott Kline, Religious Studies, Philosophy; Catherine Rawn , Psychology; Tania Da wa s in Toronto at the annual meeting of the American Costa, Religious Studies; Ashley Warne, Sociology; Academy of Religion , where he delivered a paper enti­ and Alison Bevan, Sexuality, Marriage and the Fam ily. tled "Toward an Ethic of Embedded Economy? The + Danine Farquharson, English, is developing an inter­ World Faiths in Dialogue with the Institutions of esting new 200-level course called Convict Literature, Globalization. " In January 2003, with Rebekah Miles a study of prison literature written by and about prison­ of Southern Methodist University, he co-convened the ers. Still in the approval stage, the course will likely be Reforming Realism working group at the annual meet­ introduced in fall 2004. + Frank Erdelyi , who worked ing of the Society of Christian Ethics, held in at St. Jerome's as maintenance supervisor from 1966 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In May, he travelled to Berlin, until he retired in 1986, was inducted into the UW Germany, to represent St. Jerome's University at the Ath letics Ha ll of Fame at the hal l's 20th annual induc­ 2003 Ecumenical Kirchentag-the first t ime t ion ceremony in April. For nearly 40 years he was the Germany's Protestants and Catho lics have he ld a joint

6 St. Jerome's Upcoming events Centre for Catholic Experience 2003-2004 September 19 John Allen, The Word St. Jerome's Feast for from Rome: The Next Catholic University Pope and the Future of Education the Church (Somerville Friday, September 26, 6:30 p.m. Lecture) Also in Toronto, September 18 SJU Community Centre T he Third Annual St. Jerome's ~1 Sepf. 3CJ/0 3 Feast for Catholic University Rabbi Dow Marmur, Education will honour this year's Holiness and Spirituality: recipient of the Chancell or John Are They Mutually 1 Sweeney Award for Leadership in Exclusive? (Catholic Catholic U niversity Education, the School Boards ' Lecture) 1 Honourable Allan J . MacEachen. The Honourable Allen j. MacEachcn October 17 Besides a distinguished career in federal politics, delivered one of the live liest talcs at the Kathleen Skerrett and Mr. MacEachen has provid ed exemplary vo lunteer Trudeau eonfrence in Mai• Lorraine Ferguson, leadership at St. Francis Xavier U ni versity in Photo: Ron Hewson Bodily Pain and Spiritual Antigoni sh, N.S. Growth (Sweeney T ickets: $75.00 per person (includes GST) St. Jerome's Graduates' Association Lecture). Workshop Funds raised support the Master's Program in Fourth Annual SJU Trivia Challenge October 18 Roman Catholi c Life & Thought. Friday, November 21, 7:00 p.m October 31 Tickets: Contact Harry Froklage (details below.) SJU Community Centre Preston Manning, Put that head-full of useless info rmation to work! Managing the Interface Play and win valuable prizes as a member of a Between Faith and Fr. Norm Choate Distinguished table of trivialites! T his event is open to grads and Politics (Wintermeyer Graduate Award and Graduates' the general public. Free pizza and munchables; Lecture) Association Lecture Cash bar. November 14 Friday, November 7, 7:30 p.m. T ickets: per person: $14.00 (includes GST) Cynthia Mahmood, Siegfried Hall Per table of eight: $96.00 (includes GST) Women and War (title subject to change) This year's Distinguished Graduate is Richard J. For tickets to the St. Jerome's Feast and Callahan (BA '62, Latin & English ). The SJU Trivia Challenge contact (Teresa Dease Lecture) Graduates' Association Lecture will be delivered Harry Froklage, Director of Development Also in Toronto, November 12 by Fr. James Wahl, C.R. of the Department of & Grad uate Affairs History, who will speak about St. ]erome,s: The St. Jerome's U ni ve rsity January 23 Kingsdale Years. Admi ssion is free and all 290 Westmount Rd. N. Fr. Robert Schreiter, are welcome. Waterloo ON N2L 3G3 Plurality and Change in Phone (519) 884-8111, x255 an Unstable World Fax (519) 884-5759 (Scarboro Missions E-mail [email protected] Lecture) Also in Toronto, January 24 February 13 Fr. Joseph Schner, S.J. , Growing Up in a School national conference. In June 2003, he wi ll take part in on the play on Wednesday, July 9 . • Ken Mclaughlin, of Love (lgnatian a workshop at McGill University on the topic "Evil and History, and graduate student Cheryl Dietrich are taking Lecture) l International Affairs, " sponsored by the Carnegie part in an oral history project to document the history March 26 Council on Ethics and International Affairs. "And I plan of the development of computing at the University of Christopher Burris, How to complete my book on German-Lutheran political Waterloo, co-funded by the Waterloo Foundation for the Shall I Hate Thee ? (Joint ethics late this summer," Kl ine adds. "The trip to Advancement of Computing and the University Library. Waterloo Region Catholic Germany for the Kirchentag will help facilitate this. " Ralph Stanton, founder of Waterloo's Mathematics District School Board • In April , a dozen students and one staffer (Richard program , was the first to be interviewed. Jim Mitchell, Lecture 1) Crispin, IT systems administrator) at St. Jerome 's BSc '66 (Mathematics) is also part of that history. The April 2 sacrificed hair, beards, or both to raise more than math wh iz was one of four undergrads who worked Miriam Martin, Women $1,800 for the Canadian Cancer Society. St. Jerome's with the late J. Wesley Graham to develop the WATFOR and Worship (Joint residence council organized the cutting-edge event. compiler in 1965, an innovation that revolutionized the Waterloo Region Catholic The longest hair was donated to make wigs for young teaching of computer programming and took District School Board cancer patients. • Ted McGee, English, wi ll be busy at Waterloo's name around the world. Mitchell returned Lecture 2) the Stratford Festival this summer. Besides writing the to campus in May to put his story on record . program notes for Pericles, he will be giving a Table Talk www.sju.ca/ services/ stju_centre

7 Participants Susan A. Guaglio, Not for the meek: St. Jerome's BA '75 (Religious Studies), BA '77 (Fine Arts) Principal, St. John School, all- Dennis and child-centred learning. All our grads spoke warmly of the close-knit Kitchener Radwanski and standardi zed testing. St. Jerome's community, where their values were H T he Common Curri culum. T he new reinfo rced and challenged in chapel and in late­ Madeline L. Hughes, Ontario Curriculum. T he last three decades night debates at the coffee shop and the dorm. BA '66 (History) have been a roll er coaster ride fo r education They met people from different bac kgrounds and Principal (retired), professionals in Canada, especially in O ntario . absorbed the idea that racial, cultural, and St. Timothy School, To find out at fi rst hand what it's been like, religious dive rsity was something to be valu ed. Kitchener we asked some of our alumni about the changes, For some, like Madeline H ughes, who came to the constants, the challenges, and the rewards. university during the fe rment following Vatican Dennis W Koebel, Between them, these fi ve grads have logged more II, St. Jerome's planted the seeds of a calling. BES '73 (Geography) than 120 years as teachers and principals, and As Mi chael Quinn sums it up, "The Principal, Lackner they had plenty to say. community of friendship and faith present at St. Woods Public School, Jerome's made a lasting impact on me, that I Kitchener How did your time at St. Jerome's hope has allowed me to become a more faithful prepare you to become a teacher? and compassionate builder of community here By providing a sound education, was the at St. Michael 's." Michael Quinn, consensus. And by instilling a love of learning BA '81 (English), How has the field of education MA '83 (English) fo r its own sake. "St. Jerome's began a scholarly Teacher, St. Michael's inquiry in my life which is still in motion today," changed since you began teaching? College School, says Michael Quinn. "My studies at St. Jerome's It's changed in almost every way, fr om the Toronto gave me a fo undation to build on, and each behaviour of young people to the amount of passing year I li ke to fe el that I am developing paperwork on a teacher's desk. Government this body of knowledge and sharing it with policies, curricula, the role of trustees and parent Stephanie A. Tate, my students." councils have all changed . And the pace of change BA '89 (History) Teacher, St. Vincent de Stephanie Tate remembers her fo urth-year seems to increase daily. Paul School, history semi nars with Ke n McLaughlin-"where "A major change is in the image of the Calgary I really fo und myself and gained a lot of learner," says Madeline H ughes. We've come a confi dence as a student." Our grads had vivid long way from H all-Dennis. Along with more and fond memories of professors who became ri gorous curricula, everything is centralized and role models as teachers: John Orlando, Walter structured , including staff certification, Bildstein, Eric McCormack, Stan Fogel, Ted performance appraisal, and school rules. Ministry McGee, Jim Wahl , and Gerry Stortz, among policies cover just about everything now, with others. "Our professors encouraged us to think special emphasis on safety and accountabili ty. critically, to act with integrity, and to both "Education is much more political than it's ever question and value our Catholic faith tradition," been," says Stephanie Tate. "Everything you do says Susan Guaglio . Madeline H ughes especially has to be justifi ed on paper. " It sometimes feels as recalls Fr. Finn and Sr. Leon. "They demonstrated if the foc us is more on the process now than on fo r me both academic excellence and moral the students, she says. values, and a joy in living. " Since Sue Guaglio started teaching almost 25

~ In June 2002, Eugene L. Gryski Patrick Greaney (BES '77, Geography) and .,.,. (BA '66, English ; MA '81, English ; Kathy Greaney (nee Carpe, BA '73, UW) MEd '86,Toronto) retired from teaching at send word that Pat has taken a position with a mining - St. Robert Catholic High School, Thornhill, services company, P & H MinePro Services Canada, in Ontario. His successor as head of the Calgary, and they moved from St. Albert to Calgary in English department is another St. Jerome's summer 2002. The five youngest of their eight chil­ grad , John Heinrich (BA '85, English). "It's a dren, Dynan (18), Neal (16), Zoe (15), Liam (13), and good time to step down because St. Robert Colleen (7) are still at home. Oldest daughter Alana has now been designated an International and her husband Oscar also moved to Calgary, but Baccalaureate School, and I was part of the Rachel and Meghan stayed in Edmonton to pursue team that brought this about, " Gene says. university and work. [email protected] He and his wife Christine (nee Kardos, BA f.r.lm Paul Sims, C.R. (BA '82, History; MDiv '85, '82, English), a freelance artist and writer, Dl9 Aquinas Institute of Theology; MEd '94, are supply teaching at St.Michael's College DePaul ; PhD '02, Loyola) sends this update on his life School and looking into overseas teaching since graduation: 12 years teaching at Gordon Tech and travel. [email protected] High School in Chicago, including nine years as supe­

8 Survival guide for grads in education young teachers Just starting out? Here are some pointers from our panel of experts. years ago, she's seen a more diverse student job. There's the satisfaction of meeting those + Be flexible. You never population, and "an increased variety of challenges; the chance to work with good know who or what you'll challenges facing us as educators." The students' teachers; and, as Michael Quinn says, "the process end up teaching. needs are also more diverse-needs for special of learning and teaching others what you've + Experiment. education and second language instruction, and learned, helping others discover the truth of a Government teaching needs arising from social problems. "This calls for situation, helping them discover their vocation in plans may not fit you a multidimensional role for both the teacher and life-that's very rewarding." exactly. the principal that goes beyond the traditional But the kids are really what it's all about. As + Whenever you try role," she says. Stephanie Tate says, "When you're able to have something new, take the an impact on a child's life choices, when you can time to assess how well What hasn't changed? help a child develop a skill that they can use later, it worked, how you can Fundamentally, people don't change. Parents that's priceless." Often, they surprise you. It's make it work better. want the best for their children and most want hard to beat the experience of meeting a young + Be a sponge. Learn to co-operate with teachers. And, says Madeline adult in the street-often unrecognizable after a from experienced teach­ Hughes, despite more complex emotional, social, few years of growth-and hear them say, "I ers. Take courses on and spiritual needs, "our young people still have remember when you taught me-it was great." new skills. the same innocence, trust, joy, and energy they Dennis Koebel has a favourite example. "In + Don't teach in isola­ always had." my career, the one student who stands out was a tion. Stay in touch with "The kids are the one constant," Stephanie young lad in grade seven at Margaret Avenue other teachers. Tate agrees. "You've got your good ones, your Public School-a thin, wiry boy who loved + Nurture your own weak ones, your funny ones, your challenging athletics. He was in my homeroom for t\vo years. personal, intellectual, ones. This year I have the most amazing class of He had a bit of a chip on his shoulder and needed and spiritual growth. grade nines-they make me want to go to work a fair bit of special education support. Keep work and personal every day-but I know some of them are going Building relationships was at times life in balance. to give me headaches!" difficult for him. I was fortunate to + Don't get discouraged. Another constant is the teacher's responsibility develop a good relationship with him The first year or two may to the student-not just to teach well and stay and we always got along well. be rough, but it gets current in their field, but to be a good role model Today he is the heavyweight better with time. and an accessible human being. "Students now champion of the world­.... and forever need to be treated with respect," says Lennox Lewis." ~ Dennis Koebel. "They need to know that you genuinely care and that there is far more to education then what's in a math text." Would you be a teacher if you could start over again? "Yes." "Absolutely!" "Without a doubt." Teaching is not an easy job, they agree. But in spite of the daily challenges, it is a rewarding

rior of the Resurrectionists living at Gordon Tech; asso­ the country and will be building a house just north of ciate pastor at Our Lady of Loretto Parish in St. Louis, Georgetown. [email protected] Missouri from 1988 to 1990; chaplain at the Stritch "Movies at the Campus Centre on Wednesday School of Medicine at Loyola University of Chicago nights, snowball wars with St. Paul's and from 1999 to 2000. Since 2000 he has been dean of Renison, covert raids on Notre Dame ... I still remem­ - students at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary ber with pride the record number of lights we broke on High School, Chicago, and for the next two years he third floor playing ball hockey in the hallway," writes will be chair of the Archdiocese of Chicago Catechesis David Cash (BMath '88, Actuarial Science and Statistics; to Adolescents implementation program. MSc '90, Oxford). He also captained the UW swim [email protected] team, won the Samuel Eckler Medal as top graduating After 15 years teaching in the Catholic student in Actuarial Science, and went on to Oxford school system, Ginny Truyens (nee McRae, as a Rhodes Scholar for Bermuda, his birthplace. BA '85, English) is starting MA studies in Ministry and David is now chief actuary and chief risk officer - Spirituality at Regis College, University of Toronto. Her for Endurance Specialty in Bermuda, where plan is to become a high school chaplain. Ginny is he lives with his wife, Judith Landsberg, and their recently married; she and her husband have moved to three children.

9 Continuing Lessons from a lifetime ofwriting

Vietnam veteran wages war on a small The publication of these insightful refl ecti ons American town. An orphan betrayed by prompted me to make a virtual connecti on with A 1is surrogate father plots violent revenge. David , first through his website (www.davidmorrell A drifter claims to be a man's abducted brother. .net) and afterwards by phone. Just bac k fro m a A writer, abandoned in childhood, harnesses his tour to promote his latest release, The Protector, terror in equall y terrif)1ing stories. he was jovial and eloquent, animated by memories The veteran, orphan, and drifter are fi ctional of his time at St. Jerome's and of a writing career characters. T he writer is the man who created that has produced twenty-six books, many of them: David Morrell. them international bestse ll ers and many of them drawn from the trauma of Over the ~ears, David has paid aprice for creating Rambo­loss. "As I grew up," he acknowledges, "I keenl y missed he recaUs being hissed at a universit~ cocktail par~ upon being the affectionate attention of a male authority fi gure." Am ong introduced as the author ofFirst Blood. the men who served as his mentors-legendary In his recent book, Lessons from a Lifetime screenwriter Stirling Silliphant, science fi ction of Writing: A Novelist Looks at H is Craft, writer Philip Kl ass, H emingway scholar Philip the St. Jerome's graduate (BA '66, Engli sh) Young-was Larry Cummings, Professor of counsels writers to summon stories from the English at St. Jerome's. half-understood secrets of childhood. David recall ed C ummings' production of "My father (whom I never knew) died in the The Killing ofAbel ("I played Cain") wi th the second World War," he writes. "My feeling of St. Aethowold Pl ayers. "What that evening lacked abandonment was reinforced when my mother, in artistry was compensated by one of the wildest in dire fin ancial straits, was fo rced to put me in theatre experi ences ever. " It began with David an orphanage when I was four. " Eventually, his himself bl anking on hi s lines and culminated mother reclaimed him. But the themes that lurk when "God," observing the action from atop a beneath much of his early fi ction-confli ct and stepladder, began teetering precariously and had betrayal between sons and fi gurative fa thers-had to be rescued. been imprinted. After 1987, following the tragic "I remember taking literature courses with Dr. death of his fifteen-year-old son from bone cancer, Cummings-I still can't bring myself to call him the pattern reversed. Now, the stori es that 'Larry'-with four students in a class ." Cummings demanded expression involved fathers in search would frequently give David and his fri end, Bob of lost sons. Wiljer (BA '66, English) -now an associate

llJl!llll After graduation, Richard Whitney (BA '89, that these teachings stayed with me." He's now head -- Religious Studies) acquired an armful of of educational services for one of Europe 's largest other degrees: a master's in religious education from network solutions companies. the University of St. Michael's College, Toronto, a [email protected] master's in pastoral studies from St. Paul University, Ottawa, and a BEd from McGill. He lives in Sarnia with "If life is a highway, we 're in the fast lane!" says his cat Scully and is now chaplain of St. Patrick's High Paula Petsche-Wilhelm (BA '94, English). With her School in the St. Clair Catholic District School Board. partner Mark and their children Austin (5) and Aidan [email protected] (1), she recently moved to Burlington "to ease Mark's 11JJ1J1 Adam Lee (BA '94, English) worked in commute on the dreary QEW while I'm busy scheduling llf&ill Canada for three years before returning to karate, music class, play dates and part-time work in England , where he was born. "I ended up as an IT public education with the Ministry of Health Preschool trainer and education consultant, combining the best Speech and Language Service in Ham ilton." She of my Arts background and the strong IT influence of adds, "I grew up at Notre Dame and learned that the university, " he writes. "Creativity and flexibility I still have a lot to learn." were always stressed at SJU and I am proud to say [email protected]

10 Hey SJU grads! by Harry Froklage Have you moved? Changed jobs? Married? Any additions to the family? Help us keep your fellow grads informed by filling out and professor in the University of Waterloo's School returning this form. We 'II publish ofArchitecture-a ride to the coll ege. T hey your news, along with a photo, spent their days studying Anglo-Saxon, if there 's room, in SJU Update. Chaucer, and Shakespeare. "Somehow, Dr. Cummings persuaded us that the best thing Name (Please include bi rth name) was to have tutorials. He himself would sit in Address with. the rest of the students-all three of them-and the fourth student would give a presentation." Which meant a presentation and an essay about once a week, sometimes in more than one class. At night, C ummings Telephone drove the exhausted pair home. e-mai ljWWW "It was crazy," he concedes, but "the training was unbelievable." Degree/Year/ Programme Throughout his time at St. Jerome's, he wrote what he now calls "bad academic Are you working? fiction,'' publishing it in ]abberivocky, the Job title College's literary magazine. "I remember being so happy with one Employer story because of the number of Christ Address images I managed to work into it." At the same time, St. Jerome's curriculum-philosophy, Thomistic Telephone psychology, French and Latin, along with thirty term courses in e-mail/WWW English-primed him for doctoral studies at the University of Are you married? Pennsylvania and a lifetime of Spouse's name creative writing. He and his wife, the Degree/Year/ Programme former Donna Maziarz and herself a St. Jerome's grad What's new in your (BA '65, History), moved life? to the States with their (Enclose additional sheet if necessary) Contin11i11g Co1111cctions continues 1111 Plf. 12

In August 2002, Sarah Thornley (nee van 111Jn Jarrett Morrison (BA '98, English) and den Enden, BA '95, Psychology) married mat,11 Caroline (Lindholm) married in June 2001 Duke Thornley (BES '95, Geography, UW) . Duke is a and relocated to Vancouver last fall, seeking greener - web designer for Navantis, "and a drummer!" Sarah and wetter pastures. Jarrett continues his volunteer adds. She is now working on a BSc in nursing at the editing work with Canadian Catholic Campus Ministry. University of Toronto. "It's going great, although SARS He wonders if there is a St. Jerome's alumni group out is really messing up our clinical hours," she writes. west, like the one in Ottawa. "Perhaps if there isn't, I 0 Please do not publish this info [email protected] could start one," he says. in SJU Update. 11J111Jm Jay Prohaska (BA '96, History) sends greet­ [email protected] miYlll ings from Hong Kong, where he moved after Ra Heather Proulx (nee Recchia, BA '00, Please return this form to: becoming a teacher. "If Darren Becks, Gary, M.J. or _,.,. English) and her husband Marc announce the Harry Froklage Carolyn from the library are still around, please give birth of their first ch ild , Jacob Laurier Proulx, on Director of Development and them a big hug for me and let them know that I have December 12, 2002. "Jacob, Marc, and myself are al l Graduate Affairs never forgotten my time at St. Jerome's. I consider my doing fine," Heather reports. [email protected] St. Jerome 's University time there four of the best years of my life, and they Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G3 Phone: (519) 884-8111, ext. 255 were all important parts of that experience." Fax: (519) 884-5759 You can also send e-mail to: 11 froklage@uwaterloo .ca Continuing Connections continued ~...... ,. rT l Number 1 ~ Spring/Summer 2003 newborn daughter in 1966. While researching his When Canadian universities demonstrated no H ~~~li~~=:t:yis doctoral thesis on novelist John Barth, David interest in the newly minted PhD, he went to St. Jerome's wrote First Blood (1972) and created the teach at the University of Iowa and published University, federated controversial and iconic American warrior, John novels every other year or so until 1986, with the University of Rambo. Rambo's battle against a small-town producing The Brotherhood ofthe Rose (1984), The Waterloo, and mailed poli ce chief set the pattern of struggle between Fraternity ofthe Stone (1985), and The League of free of charge to all troubled sons and their heedless father-figures. Night and Fog (1987)-which opens with a graduates, former The book was favourably reviewed as one of clandestine meeting in a house just outside of Q residents, students, r'\.. , faculty, and friends the first novels to probe the psyc hic wounds left Kitchener. His son's sickness and deatl1, and a ~ of the University for by the Vietnam War, but tl1e film, produced ten move to Santa Fe, prompted a new creative ~ whom we have years later, flattened the complexities of the novel. direction tl1at expresses itself in Desperate ~ reliable addresses. David designed the book to give "equal vveight to Measures (1994), Extreme Denial (1996), and the protagonists. Some people thought the police Long Lost (2002 ). What he has learned along the officer was the hero, some people thought Rambo way about writing and about life is the subject of Editor Linda Kenyon was." The film marginalized details that added Lesso ns from a Lifetime of Writing (2002).

Desig n & Production deptl1 to the police chief, skewing the balance to As both a writer and a critic, David makes no Ampersand Studios favour the Stallone characterization. distinction between genre and literary fiction. Contributors Over the years, David has paid a price for Rather than imitating other writers, he says, tell Pat Bow creating Rambo-he recalls being hissed at a stories tl1at explore what your own pain and Harry Froklage Michael W. Higgins university cocktail party upon being introduced as experience and taboos have submerged in tl1e Photography the author of First Blood. But, as an academic, he form that best suits them. "It's better to be a Harry Froklage Ron Hewson recognizes that the book represents an important version of yourself than a version of anotl1er departure: "First Blood is the father of all modern writer." It is a credo this prolific St. Jerome's Advisory Board Kieran Bonner action novels." graduate has himself fully lived. $'.. Harry Froklage Michael W. Higgins

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