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Making a Difierence THE RootTHE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE • SPRing 2013 Making a Difference UTS alumni – including Charles Catto ’46, David Morley ’73, and Layusa Isa-Odidi ’05 – are working to make this world a better place. Bob Lord ’58 retires; Jim Fleck ’49 appointed new Chair. Alumni news • CrAwford And HAll of Fame AwArds • AnnuAl Alumni dinner UTSAA Mark Your Calendars Board of Directors THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2013 President Ottawa Branch Event John B.A. Wilkinson ’78 5:30 p.m. [email protected] RSVP at www.utschools.ca/rsvp or 416-978-3919 Vice President Mark Opashinov ’88 Art and Music Nights [email protected] FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013 Past President 5:30 p.m.: Annual Art Exhibition and Opening Reception Peter Neilson ’71 6:30 p.m.: Junior Music Night [email protected] Treasurer FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2013 Bob Cumming ’65 5:30 p.m.: Annual Art Exhibition and Closing Reception [email protected] 6:30 p.m.: Senior Music Night Secretary 9:30 p.m.: Senior Café Bleu Nina Coutinho ’04 For more information, contact Judy Kay (music) at [email protected] or [email protected] 416-978-6802 or Charlie Pullen (art) [email protected] Honorary President Rosemary Evans WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2013 [email protected] UTSAA Annual General Meeting Honorary 6:00 p.m. in the UTS Library Vice-President Contact: [email protected] Heather Henricks [email protected] WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013 Directors UTSAA Golf Tournament Don Ainslie ’84 Join us at St. Andrew’s Valley for our 18th Annual Tournament. [email protected] Tee-offs from 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sharon Au ’08 RSVP at www. utschools.ca/rsvp or call 416-978-3919 for more information. [email protected] Jonathan Bitidis ’99 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2013 [email protected] Annual Alumni Dinner and Awards Jonathan Bright ’04 REGISTRATION Anniversary Year Celebrations 1933, 1938, 1943, NOW OPEN! [email protected] 1948, 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, Aaron Chan ’94 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008 [email protected] All years are welcome! George V. Crawford ’72 Special celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Co-Education at UTS! [email protected] UTS Hall of Fame Inductees will be honoured. The fifth H.J. Crawford Award will be presented and the recipient honoured. Guests will also have an opportunity Aaron Dantowitz ’91 to visit the UTS Open House during the day. More information TBA. [email protected] Location: Marriott Yorkville Robert Duncan ’95 5:30 p.m.: Reception, 6:30 p.m.: Awards Ceremony and Dinner [email protected] Registration now open: www.utschools.ca/rsvp, or email [email protected], Peter Frost ’63 or call 416-978-3919. [email protected] Penny Harbin ’78 Visit the website regularly for updates: www.utschools.ca/alumni or call [email protected] 416-978-3919 Oliver Jerschow ’92 [email protected] Jennifer Suess ’94 [email protected] Philip Weiner ’01 [email protected] Contents 22 Victor Yeung Mark Your Calendars 2 Making a Difference Bits & Pieces 4 Many UTS alumni are working with Not-for-Profit and Non-Governmental Organizations on local, national, and President’s Report 8 global stages to make this world a better place. Here are Principal’s Report 9 a few of their stories – including interviews with Charles Catto ’46, David Morley ’73, and Layusa Isa-Odidi ’05. ........12 UTS Board Report 10 Advancement Report 11 Alumni News Crawford Award and Hall of Fame 21 All the latest in the lives of your classmates, including Annual Alumni Dinner 22 In Memoriam and tributes to the lives of five distinguished alumni. .............................................24 Above: Reception entertainment at the Annual Alumni Dinner was provided by the UTS Jazz Trio: musicians Thomas Broadley, Trevor Clokie, and Alexander Levy with vocalist Lucinda Qu (all Class of 2013). On the cover: Charles Catto ’46 and David Morley ’73; photograph: Jamie Day Fleck. (Inset: Layusa Isa-Odidi ’05) Our thanks to this issue’s contributors: Derek Bate ’44, Don Borthwick ’54, Ted Cross ’43, Nina Coutinho ’04, Martha Drake, Rosemary Evans, Christopher Federico ’91, Jim Fleck ’49, Meg O’Mahony, Charlie Pullen, Jane Rimmer, Diana Shepherd ’80, John Wilkinson ’78, and Carole Zamroutian. Special thanks to our new proofreader: retired UTS principal Don Gutteridge Looking Back background: © iStockphoto.com/Peter Zelei Editor: Diana Shepherd ’80 University of Toronto Schools Alumni Association F TORON O TO Y Design: PageWave Graphics Inc. IT S 371 Bloor Street West, Room 121, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2R7 S C H R E O Phone: 416-978-3919 Fax: 416-971-2354 Printed in Canada by Colour Systems Inc. V O I L N S E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.utschools.ca/alumni U V E S L U U Published spring and fall, The Root is available to all alumni, parents and friends of UTS. T M A AR R Contact us at the above addresses to receive a copy or to change your address. BOR ITA The issue is also available at: www.utschools.ca/root Bits & Pieces A COMPENDIUM OF NOTEWORTHY UTS TIDBITS Bob Lord Steps Down from a department within OISE to an “Bob never forgets to remind Stan and after 14 Years affiliate of the University of Toronto and me of this time,” says Don. “Little did any Words cannot do justice to the an independent legal entity. Throughout one of us know the journey ahead, but contributions that Bob Lord ’58 has his tenure, Bob has provided remarkable we certainly made the right choice.” made to UTS: he exemplifies the stewardship as UTS achieved a As a UTS student, Bob played both values of the school through his governance structure, financial football and hockey; during his early commitment to scholarship, athletics, independence, a strategic plan, and the years, he could always be counted volunteerism, respect, and leadership. resultant stability to solidify our future. on to be in the stands for the hockey As Chair of the Development Steering Bob often harkens back to the “Firsts” games. His classmates remember Committee (1999); Vice-Chair, Building office visitDon Borthwick ’54 and him for his sense of humour, and in Opportunities Campaign (2000/2001); retired principal, Stan Pearl, made in particular his hilarious imitations. Upon Chair, Interim UTS Board (2001-2004); 1999 to request his acceptance of the graduation from UTS, he received the and Chair, UTS Board of Directors (2004- Development Committee Chair – a time second George and Elizabeth Rutherford 13), Bob’s contributions have been truly when UTS was attempting to migrate Scholarship at Victoria College. outstanding. He will be remembered from its “Preserving the Opportunity” Through his years of volunteer for successfully leading UTS through bursary campaign success to an ongoing involvement at the school, Bob was the intricate and challenging transition Development/Advancement operation. able to establish positive relationships with alumni, parents, students, staff, and friends of the school. Don noted that one of Bob’s great strengths was his ability to coalesce many diverging opinions and move the issue ahead to a satisfactory conclusion. He has spent countless hours as a UTS advocate and advisor, and this passion for UTS has influenced many others to support the school. Bob has earned much success and respect in his professional life: as a Chartered Accountant who served as the Vice-Chair of Ernst & Young, as the Chair of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Royal Life Saving Society of Canada, and as a Director of the YMCA of Greater Toronto. Bob also served on the boards of several public and private corporations and has participated in many advancement efforts for the University of Toronto and his alma mater, Victoria University. In all spheres, Bob is recognized and appreciated as an advisor and for his socially responsible global citizenship – the core of the UTS vision today. These attributes were recognized in 2010 when Bob Lord, with his wife Patricia, and granddaughter Zoë at UTS this winter, in front of a display he was the second recipient of the Henry chronicling Bob’s accomplishments. Job Crawford award. n 4 THE ROOT • Spring 2013 Victor Yeung Paul Moore with Principal Rosemary Evans and UTS teacher (and veteran) Christopher Federico ’91. Coming Face-to-Face the 21st-century traveller to his or her At the ceremony, UTS recognized with the Past intended destination. one of our most experienced time- Memory, we know, is an extremely That’s a problem, of course, because travellers – one who has shared his personal thing. So in some respects it is a much as we might wish to partition off journeys with the school for nearly bit peculiar to put 700 students, teachers, the unpleasant events of the past, we 25 years and who, despite having and alumni all together in one room know that outside of school one can’t officially retired long ago, remains every Remembrance Day and ask them just drop history if one doesn’t like the dedicated to illuminating UTS history. to collectively remember something results. So to remember thoughtfully, we Thanks to the leadership and inspiration that happened to other people long ago must do a better job of unravelling that provided by Dr. Paul Moore, the online and far away. Of course 90 years ago, ball of “wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey Commemoration Project allows us to when Canadians first began observing stuff” [Ed. quoted from the long-running come face-to-face with the UTS veterans Remembrance Day, it was very British TV series, Doctor Who] we call of WW1 – and we shall soon be able to different.
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