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A Passion for Palaeontology September 22, 2012-March 17, 2013 BACK COVER PAGE COVER PAGE Bearing Witness Inside the ROM Governors A dark chapter in ROM NEWSLETTER OF THE Cambodia’s history ROM GOVERNORS The Institute for Contemporary FALL/WINTER 2 012 Summer at the ROM has been a whirlwind of activity. Culture (ICC) presents Observance Exciting new initiatives such as Friday Night Live and our and Memorial: Photographs from family weekend programming have been extremely popular S-21, Cambodia, featuring over 100 and we have seen many new visitors and partners come photographs developed from original through our doors. Also hugely successful has been our negatives abandoned by the Khmer Special thanks to Susan Crocker and INSIDER groundbreaking exhibition Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants from Rouge in January 1979, at the S-21 secret John Hunkin, Ron Graham, the Gondwana, which pioneers the use of Augmented Reality prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Honourable William C. Graham and and includes the largest dinosaur ever mounted in Canada. Curated by Photo Archive Group, and Cathy Graham, Deanna Horton, Dr. Carla Shapiro from the Munk School Richard W. Ivey, and Sarah and Tom This month, it is a great pleasure to welcome Robert Pierce of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Milroy for their generous support of this as the new chairman of the Board of Governors. As a this exhibition calls attention to the exhibition. For information on how you long-time volunteer, Board member for more than 12 years, atrocities in Cambodia in the 1970s can support Observance and Memorial and supporter of the ROM, Rob has served in a leadership or to make a donation to the ICC, BIG and human rights issues. It runs from capacity on several philanthropic committees and initiatives, please contact Britt Welter-Nolan at PHILANTHROPIC A Passion for Palaeontology September 22, 2012-March 17, 2013. including the Renaissance ROM Countdown to Completion As we prepare for the ROM’s centennial in 2014, we 416.586.5579 or [email protected] OPPORTUNITIES AT Task Force, the Finance and Investment Committee, the aim to help the ROM become a more public-focused David Evans, Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the ROM THE ROM Museum’s signature fundraising event, Fact? or Fiction?, institution that will give our patrons and donors better and the Royal Patrons’ Circle (RPC) Committee. Over the access to our world-class research and curatorial Unidentified prisoners from secret prison S -21 past decade, Rob has led by example, generously supporting expertise. A key fundraising priority will be the future “I hope my research will ultimately provide a better understanding of the causes and Inside Scoop Images: Courtesy of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum and Photo Archive Group. the ROM’s highest priorities and philanthropic projects. gallery of Early Life. This gallery will showcase the consequences of mass extinctions in general, and give insights into the biodiversity crisis • The ROM’s signature fundraising event • Run for the ROM! Join your colleagues, ROM’s impressive collection of fossils that come to us that we face today—a mass extinction event induced by human activity.” Fact? or Fiction? returns on October 16, family and friends for the Scotiabank We are also pleased to have Elyse Allan, Salvatore Badali, from coast to coast across Canada. Read on to discover 2012. Match wits with clever curators Toronto Waterfront Marathon Group John Bianchini, Robert Keilty and Thor Eaton as new Board more about this exciting project and the people working to determine the true nature or purpose Charity Challenge on October 14, members. This newly re-energized Board and an enhanced to bring it to life. of mysterious artifacts and objects from 2012. Register to raise funds in support partnership with the ROM Board of Trustees will enable us Like many kids in Ontario Mongolia, Saharan Africa and even the Canadian arctic , David Evans first fell the ROM’s vaults. The answers will be of the ROM’s highest priorities, including to help bring the Museum’s strategic plan to life. Dianne Lister in love with dinosaurs at the ROM. A couple of decades —where he had a dramatic run-in with a polar bear. David revealed during a gala dinner with the future gallery of Early Life. For more President & Executive Director later, he’s still eager to know more about these is a world-recognized authority on duck-billed dinosaurs, ROM experts. Reserve your table today information contact Keiko Okutsu at ROM Governors magnificent creatures—how they lived and reproduced, and has published extensively on dinosaur anatomy, for this lively event in support of ROM 416.586.8064 or [email protected]. and what ultimately led to their disappearance from the evolution, and functional morphology. And he thinks research and educational programs. planet. David got his dinosaur-hunting chops working there is so much more to learn—he predicts that as the arctic For more information, visit rom.on.ca/ • The ROM’s BIG exhibition opens as a field technician for the Royal Tyrrell Museum in ice recedes, we will see a boom in dinosaur discoveries in factorfiction. November 3, 2012 in the Patricia Alberta while he was in graduate school. His doctoral the Polar Regions: “There are huge areas of Mesozoic age Harris Gallery of Textiles & Costume. New YPC Chair: Anna-Maria Kaneff dissertation analyzed skull growth and evolutionary rocks that are becoming more easily accessible with The installation showcases objects that, in one way or another, are BIG: big relationships in crested hadrosaurs. Since the ROM has climate charge and improved logistics,” he says. The Young Patrons’ Circle (YPC) is pleased to welcome Anna-Maria Kaneff as its in size, big in historical significance, one of the best collections of these dinosaurs in the new Chair. Anna-Maria joined YPC in 2008 and is involved in numerous charities; created by a big name artist or, simply, world, it was natural that David chose to do his Ph.D. she is Director of the Credit Valley Hospital Foundation Board and is a founding Board carry a big price tag. at the University of Toronto. Tales from dinosaur digs member of the Grassroots Reconciliation Group in Uganda, serving as its CFO and a Director of its board. She is Vice-President of the Commercial Division for the Kaneff Group David Evans will present In Search of African Cover image: “Water sleeve” evening gown, As one the ROM’s youngest and most accomplished Dinosaurs: Discoveries from South Africa & Sudan on Vivienne Tam, Jade Collection Fall 2011. Gift of of Companies, a private Peel-based real estate company that develops and manages commercial, curators, David regularly blogs and tweets while he’s in November 25, 2012, as part of the ROM’s Dinosaur Vivienne Tam. © Thomas Kletecka. residential and golf properties in Southern Ontario. the field searching for and collecting dinosaurs and other Hunters Speaker Series. For tickets visit rom.on.ca vertebrate fossils. While in South Africa in 2006, he Anna-Maria is honoured to take on the role of YPC Chair. “I see it as an opportunity to work with fantastic ROM staff, INSIDE THIS ISSUE played a key role in discovering the oldest dinosaur enthusiastic patrons and interact with curators in an intimate setting,” she says. “YPC lets young professionals engage nesting site—a major find that made headlines around • Larger than life: A BIG exhibition • True north strong and full of fossils: in the life of the ROM through special behind-the-scenes events. It’s a great way to meet people who have similar interests, Top left: David Evans in Mongolia. For more information, please call Royal Ontario Museum Governors opens at the ROM in November Canada's gift to the world Top right: David Evans behind the scenes at the ROM. want to learn about science and history, and discover a different side of the ROM at night with a glass of wine in hand.” the world. He has conducted fieldwork in Alberta, Dianne Lister at 416.586.5660 or 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario • Finding Nemo in the Life in Crisis: • Unearthing buried treasures with visit rom.on.ca/support Canada M5S 2C6 Schad Gallery of Biodiversity the ROM's top palaeontologists CJ28299 Insider.indd 1-4 9/12/12 4:49 PM marine multicellular life forms—is now on the cusp of by Loblaw Companies Limited, the exhibition featured Supporting school programs being declared a World Heritage Site as well. a 3D installation with more than 50 marine specimens The Life Aquatic and models, including the “unicorn of the sea”, the Oh, Canada! Over the past century, ROM researchers have built the mysterious narwhal of Canada’s Arctic Ocean. As one of Canada’s largest extra-curricular world’s largest and most definitive Burgess Shale fossil educators, the ROM welcomes more than 150,000 students collection and Jean-Bernard is considered a leading expert The ROM also welcomed Rob Stewart, acclaimed each year from more than 3,000 elementary, secondary on the Burgess Shale. His ongoing work informs our documentary filmmaker of Sharkwater for an event and post-secondary schools in Toronto and across Canada. growing understanding of the origin and early evolution called Ignite a Revolution on June 8, 2012. Held on World The generous support of our donors and corporate What makes Canada unique? Maple of animals, and his passion for the subject matter will be Oceans Day, attendees had a sneak peak of Rob's new sponsors help us give children magical and meaningful syrup, hockey and multiculturalism are vital to creating an evolving gallery of Early Life. movie Revolution followed by a multi-media talk. learning experiences at the ROM.
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