Trinity's Students: What Are They Thinking?
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Trinity Trinity Alumni Magazine Summer 2015 Trinity’s students: What are they thinking? Plus: The Trinity Book Sale turns 40 The (in)famous Trinity Escapades hockey team Note from the editor Changes are always a bit of a gamble. That’s why we’re pleased that so many of you have responded so positively to our refreshed approach to Trinity magazine. s we promised in our last issue, also find links on the website to send Check us out online at A we’re growing our online channels us your news, update your address and magazine.trinity.utoronto.ca to offer you more ways of connecting preferences, link to the Trinity online with your College. In that spirit, we’re events calendar, donate to the College, Trinity proud to officially launch the Trinity and more. magazine website at magazine.trinity. Please check it out and let us utoronto.ca. know what you think. Start an online This new format will supplement conversation about one of the stories. the print edition of the magazine and We’re listening. offer you the opportunity to connect more directly with us, and with each other. Want to respond to something Trinity Alumni Magazine Spring 2015 you’ve read? It’s as simple as inputting your name, your comment, and clicking “post” to get the conversation started. One on One: John Allemang ’74 In addition to a more interactive, sits down with John Tory ’75 online layout of the magazine, you’ll Plus: An epic Arctic discovery Baillies boost student support Congratulations! Congrats to Shauna Gundy ’14, who was Co-Head of Divinity in 2011 and 2012 and is currently working toward her Master of Divinity degree at Trinity. Shauna was the lucky winner of an iPad mini 3 after she entered our “update your email address” contest in the Spring issue. We hope she’ll enjoy reading Trinity online using her new toy! To make sure you’re up-to-date on all the latest Trinity news and events, send your email address [email protected] 2 TRINITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE Contents TRINITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE SUMMER 2015 20Friends, indeed: How a minor book sale grew into a noteworthy, not-to- be-missed Trinity tradition FEATURES 12 12 20 Taking the pulse The Trinity Book Sale turns 40 Trinity’s students share their thoughts on Not many book sales garner coverage tradition, mental health, life on and off in national newspapers. A look at the campus, and everything in between enduring popularity of this annual event By Cynthia Macdonald by Liz Allemang 24 Published by the Editor PROVOST’S LETTER .................................. 5 Trinity College Office Jennifer Matthews of Development and Managing Editor Alumni Affairs NOTA BENE ........................................................ 6 Jill Rooksby 6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto, Dispatches from campus Ontario, M5S 1H8 Canada Art Direction and Design Hambly & Woolley Inc. T 416-978-2651 F 416-971-3193 ..................................... E [email protected] Cover Illustration ALUMNI AT LARGE 24 W trinity.utoronto.ca Karsten Petrat Returning to Ground Zero Charitable Registration Trinity is sent to 14,000 alumni, 119269751RR0001 By Dr. Kathryn Campbell Challoner ’70 parents, friends and associates of the College. Trinity College Publications Mail Agreement complies with the Ontario 40010503 CLASS NOTES .................................................. 26 Freedom of Information and We welcome your letters News from classmates near and far Protection of Privacy Act. and inquiries at We protect your personal [email protected] information and do not rent or CALENDAR ........................................................ 30 sell our mailing list. If you do not wish to receive the Things to see, hear and do in the magazine or wish only to receive it electronically, coming months please contact us. PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY ................ 31 TRINITY SUMMER 2015 3 TRINITY’S FUTURE LEADERS NEED SOMEONE TO BELIEVE IN THEM TODAY. Trinity students and alumni are known for making a difference—both at home and around the globe. Derakhshan Qurban-Ali ’15, while Inspired to learn more and to tell the stories pursuing her Joint Specialist Honours BA of the people she met, Derakhshan later in International Relations & Peace, Conflict returned to Hungary—again with the support and Justice Studies at Trinity College, spent of Trinity donors—to conduct interviews for the summer of 2013 volunteering at the her undergraduate thesis investigating the Bicske Refugee Camp and Integration barriers to refugee integration as well as Centre in Hungary, where her passion for the evolution of irregular migration trends global advocacy took hold. Derakhshan’s in the European Union. international experience was made possible through the donations of Trinity alumni and Derakhshan is just one of the bright and friends like you. engaged students who benefit from the generosity of Trinity’s alumni and friends. “I HAD ALWAYS wanted to volunteer at a By supporting academic programs and refugee camp because my parents were scholarships, your annual and legacy gifts refugees from Afghanistan and I wanted to can transform a student’s experience— pay forward the opportunities that I’ve been now and in the future. given in life,” she says. Your support allows students like Derakhshan to fulfil their own potential, and to change the world. To make a gift or for more information, see the self- mailing form in this issue or visit www.trinity.utoronto.ca Provost’s letter The Trinity Experience Developing the whole person AS I WRITE THIS on the evening before excellent snapshot of what our students Spring Convocation, I am particularly are thinking. More specifically, we now struck by the calibre and the character of have clear indicators of how we can Trinity’s students. begin to make an already-excellent The Class of 2015 is made up of Trinity experience even better. 348 people who are incredible in so As you’ll read in our cover story, which many ways. They have earned Bachelor’s begins on page 12, our students had a degrees in Arts, Science and Commerce. lot to say when it comes to their joys, More than 70 per cent of them gradu- their worries, their goals, their passions ated with distinction or high distinction and their thoughts on the College. This (compared with 45 percent of their Arts feedback is a wonderful opportunity for and Science cohorts across U of T), us as a community to focus our energies and Trinity students received 22 of the on what matters most to our students as U of T leadership awards given out we move into our next academic year. this spring. In the months ahead, we will continue And that is to say nothing of the to respond to the needs identified by community-minded citizens that many Trinity’s students in our ongoing effort of them are, devoting their time, energy to help develop these outstanding people and passion not only to their studies, during their short time with us. It is a “One theme in but also to their peers and to the greater huge privilege—and responsibility—to Trinity community during their years be able to mentor these future leaders of particular has at the College. community, business and country. As I My first year as Trinity’s Provost has move into my second year as part of this emerged strongly flown by. The countless highlights of the great College, I am honoured to play a past 12 months have been punctuated part in that. — that is, our need by many thought-provoking discussions and wonderful input from the Trinity Until fall, to strengthen community about how to best move the College forward. One theme in particular has emerged our focus on strongly—that is, our need to strengthen developing the our focus on developing the whole person. “ Our students are bright, ambitious Mayo Moran, Provost and dedicated even before they arrive whole person. on our doorstep. I believe our responsi- bility to them is to enhance their post-secondary experience in every way possible. We are already doing an excellent job of this in so many areas, from the Margaret MacMillan Trinity One program streams, to providing support that enables students to focus less on income-earning and more on fully engaging in everything the College has to offer, to increasing the opportunities for Trinity alumni and students to connect with one another. Our recent Student Experience Survey, the first of its kind, was incredibly well-received and provided an PHOTO: ANDY KING ANDY PHOTO: TRINITY SUMMER 2015 5 Nota bene Dispatches from Campus From the Archives by Sylvia Lassam, Rolph-Bell Archivist archives vault now contains Michael Ignatieff, who went on are shown here: Michael Ignatieff FAMILY TIES over 15 linear metres of boxes to write about both sides of his visiting his family’s former There seems to be no doubt containing the story of the family, and to make his own estate, Kroupodernitsa, now in that the Ignatieff family papers Ignatieffs, not just père et fils, mark as a public intellectual, the Ukraine, in 1993; a relaxed should reside at Trinity College. but also Count Paul (George’s historian, biographer, academic George and Alison Ignatieff George Ignatieff ’36, Trinity’s father) and his dramatic exit and politician. enjoying a glass of wine on Provost from 1972 to 1979, from Czarist Russia, and Alison The records complement vacation in the late 1950s; started donating his papers (Grant) Ignatieff’s distinguished each other, filling in gaps and Michael and Andrew Ignatieff to the College before his Grant and Parkin forbears. adding depth, notably through in striped t-shirts and straw hats death, and the remainder were The papers document the ongoing dialogue between from the same vacation. donated by his son Andrew.