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Spring 2016 + Fenian Raids Remembering the UC students who gave their lives 16. Banned in Brazil Reporter Isabel Vincent 12. UC’s Newest Rhodes Scholar Jessica Phillips 24. The Gold Standard Mining exec Carol Banducci 34. uc.utoronto.ca/magazine Come home to University College for the weekend. University College Spring Reunion 2016 U of T Spring Reunion Registration MAY 25 TO 29, 2016 Form I would like to attend the: Celebrating graduating classes o 1970s UC Residence Reunion 70s UC Residence with years ending in 1 or 6 Number of tickets __ o UC Lunch in UC Quad: Reunion Number of tickets ____ o UC Themed Movie Night in the Quad: Reconnect with your residence neighbours from the 1970s! Number of tickets ____ Thursday, May 26th, 2016 The Trouble o The Trouble With Brunch: Number of tickets ____ 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Howard Ferguson Dining Hall with Brunch o UC Historical Walking Tour: and other Number of tickets ____ Name: _____________________________________ UC Lunch urban Class of: ___________________________________ IN THE QUAD concerns Former (maiden) Name (if applicable): __________________________________________ Enjoy lunch with old friends Shawn Micallef (author, Toronto Star and classmates. columnist, UC One instructor) will discuss Guest(s) Name(s):____________________________ Just social, no speeches! his work, including his most recent book, __________________________________________ Friday, May 27th, 2016 The Trouble With Brunch. Address:___________________________________ 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Saturday, May 28th, 2016 UC Quad 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. City:______________________________________ West Hall Province/State:_________ Postal Code/Zip:________ Phone: ( )______________________________ UC Themed Email: _____________________________________ Movie Night UC Historical Dietary requirements:_________________________ IN THE QUAD Walking Tour RSVP by mail to: University College Advancement Enjoy a movie filmed at UC or involving UC alumni. Learn about the history of UC as told by our 15 King’s College Circle Look out for an online poll to help us pick the flick. Principal, Donald Ainslie. Toronto, ON M5S 3H7 Friday, May 27th, 2016 Tel: 416-978-7416 | Fax: 416-978-3802 Saturday, May 28th, 2016 [email protected] 8:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. UC Quad Meet at the front entrance to UC Sign up for Spring Reunion 2016 online! www.springreunion.utoronto.ca Come home to University College for the weekend. University College Spring Reunion 2016 U of T Spring Reunion Registration MAY 25 TO 29, 2016 Form I would like to attend the: Celebrating graduating classes o 1970s UC Residence Reunion 70s UC Residence with years ending in 1 or 6 Number of tickets __ o UC Lunch in UC Quad: Reunion Number of tickets ____ o UC Themed Movie Night in the Quad: Reconnect with your residence neighbours from the 1970s! Number of tickets ____ Thursday, May 26th, 2016 The Trouble o The Trouble With Brunch: Number of tickets ____ 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Howard Ferguson Dining Hall with Brunch o UC Historical Walking Tour: and other Number of tickets ____ Name: _____________________________________ UC Lunch urban Class of: ___________________________________ IN THE QUAD concerns Former (maiden) Name (if applicable): __________________________________________ Enjoy lunch with old friends Shawn Micallef (author, Toronto Star and classmates. columnist, UC One instructor) will discuss Guest(s) Name(s):____________________________ Just social, no speeches! his work, including his most recent book, __________________________________________ Friday, May 27th, 2016 The Trouble With Brunch. Address:___________________________________ 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Saturday, May 28th, 2016 UC Quad 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. City:______________________________________ West Hall Province/State:_________ Postal Code/Zip:________ Phone: ( )______________________________ UC Themed Email: _____________________________________ Movie Night UC Historical Dietary requirements:_________________________ IN THE QUAD Walking Tour RSVP by mail to: University College Advancement Enjoy a movie filmed at UC or involving UC alumni. Learn about the history of UC as told by our 15 King’s College Circle Look out for an online poll to help us pick the flick. Principal, Donald Ainslie. Toronto, ON M5S 3H7 Friday, May 27th, 2016 Tel: 416-978-7416 | Fax: 416-978-3802 Saturday, May 28th, 2016 [email protected] 8:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. UC Quad Meet at the front entrance to UC Sign up for Spring Reunion 2016 online! www.springreunion.utoronto.ca CONTENTS SPRING 2016 featuresFeatures uc.utoronto.ca/magazine KEYNOTE 08. Principal’s message CLASS NOTES 12. 16. 42. SILHOUETTE FOCUS News from alumni New York Post reporter and Remembering the UC students who fell author Isabel Vincent in the Fenian raids, 150 years ago BY SHELDON GORDON BY IAN RADFortH NOTA BENE 46. Campus news 24. 30. CAMPUS REPORT Meet Jessica Phillips, UC’s newest OOHLALA cofounder Peter Cen Rhodes Scholar BY JENNIFER MCINTYRE BY CYNTHIA MACDONALD 34. CONVERSATION 04 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE Mining executive Carol Banducci BY YVONNE PALKOWSKI CONTENTS SPRING 2016 MASTHEAD Departments uc.utoronto.ca/magazine Volume 41, No. 2 EDITOR Yvonne Palkowski (BA 2004 UC) SPECIAL THANKS Donald Ainslie Alana Clarke (BA 2008 UC) Michael Henry Lori MacIntyre Mark Riczu COVER IMAGE East Hall Memorial Window Christopher Dew ART DIRECTION + DESIGN www.typotherapy.com PRINTING Flash Reproductions CORRESPONDENCE AND UNDELIVERABLE COPIES TO: University College Advancement Office 15 King’s College Circle Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3H7 University College Alumni Magazine is published twice a year by the University College Advancement 10. 01. Office and is circulated to 26,000 IMAGE 01. alumni and friends of University Paul Muldoon College, University of Toronto. Howard G. B. 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CALENDAR IN MEMORIAM What’s on at UC Alumni passed UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 05 CONTENTS SPRING 2016 Contributors uc.utoronto.ca/magazine Contributors SHELDON GORDON JENNIFER MCINTYRE IAN RADFOrtH Like Isabel Vincent, the Jennifer McIntyre (“OOHLALA Ian Radforth (“Highly Promising alumna he profiles on page 12 Mobile: Wherever Students Youths: Remembering the UC (“Banned in Brazil”), freelance Go, There They Are,” page 30) Students Who Fell in the Fenian writer Sheldon Gordon formerly is a writer and editor based in Raids,” page 16), a Professor in worked at The Globe and Mail Toronto, Ontario. She builds the Department of History (although their paths never model airplanes in her spare and a member of University crossed). He has devoted four time, bakes a mean chocolate College, teaches and researches decades to journalism, including chip cookie, and holds the Canadian history. He is the stints with The Toronto Star, The regional record for most bones author of a number of books Financial Post, and the CBC. Born broken in a solo urban bicycle and articles, including Royal in Winnipeg, he has lived accident. Jennifer has written Spectacle: The 1860 Visit of the and worked (and curled) in for CBC Sports, the Discovery Prince of Wales to Canada and Montréal, Ottawa, and Toronto Channel, Deutsche Welle Online, the United States. Currently his and reported from Japan, India, and CNIB.ca. Her work has also research focuses on celebrations and Sri Lanka. He devotes his appeared in Grain Magazine, and demonstrations in the free time to volunteering. Seasons Magazine, The Journal streets of Victorian Canada. A of the Canadian Association for recent publication, for instance, CYNTHIA MACDONALD the Advancement of Women in examines Toronto’s patriotic Cynthia Macdonald (“Meet UC’s Sport, Dandelion, Ms. Magazine, celebrations of the militia Newest Rhodes Scholar,” page Xtra, and Lexicon. Her website volunteers, including some UC 24) writes frequently about is jenmceditor.com. students, who in 1885 suppressed science, education, the arts, and the Riel resistance movement in a variety of other topics for pub- YVONNE PALKOWSKI the Canadian Northwest. lications around the University Toronto native and UC of Toronto. A veteran journalist graduate Yvonne Palkowski and broadcaster, she has also (“The Gold Standard,” page 34) contributed articles and com- is the communications officer mentary to (among others) The for University College and the Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, editor of UC Magazine. She en- the CBC, CTV, and TVOntario. joys cycling, sailing, and spicy food. An avid traveller, she is always planning her next overseas trip. 06 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE BRIEFLY SPRING 2016 Letters uc.utoronto.ca/magazine Briefly Letters IMAGE 01. I VERY MUCH ENJOYED THE articLE UC Follies 1957 publicity photo “If Computers Could Think” (Fall (L-R): Ruth (Keller- 2015). Artificial intelligence is a mann) Miller (BA hot topic these days but I am not 1960 UC), Libby Fus, Johnny Wayne (BA convinced that we as mankind 1940 UC), Rozzie stand on the brink of complete (Benetovich) New- destruction or enslavement to man, Frank Shuster (BA 1939 UC), Ellie machine overlords. There are still (Wasserman) Silver many areas to tackle before AI is (BA 1961 UC), Rosa- lie Evans (BA 1961 capable of such machinations and UC), Erna (Newman) independent thought. Paris (BA 1960 UC). It is mentioned in the article that “a computer doesn’t get sick or require a pension.” While it is true that a computer does not require a pension, one must remember that the harder you work a machine, the quicker 01. it will break down. The older a computer gets, the more it will I JUST PICKED UP THE FaLL 2015 ISSUE Ed Sullivan Show) were invited which features a picture of the suffer from age in the form of to watch one of the last rehearsals 1957 UC Follies.