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St.University of St. Michael’s Michael’s College in the University of Toronto Alumni Magazine Volume 44 Number 2 Fall 2005 www.utoronto.ca/stmikes Father Harry Gardner Refl ects on 55 Years of a Basilian Life Pope Benedict XVI With a Peaceful and Conciliatory Spirit Th e Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto St. Michael’s Fall 2005 1 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Board of Directors EXECUTIVE Brian R. O’Malley EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Karen A. Chambers 8T8 ALUMNI AFFAIRS & PRESIDENT DEVELOPMENT Steven A. Williams 9T4 MEMBERS President’s VICE-PRESIDENT David Collins 9T7 Michael T. Mazza 9T5 Michael Doyle 9T6 TREASURER Terri A. Farkas 7T3 Message Ania Kordiuk 8T6 Gloria Chisholm Buckley 4T8 Marianna Korman 4T8 SECRETARY Stanley Makuch 6T7 We had a great turn out at the Annual General Meeting of David Montgomery 7T7 the Alumni Association Board on 16 May 2005 with over 40 James B. Milway 7T3 Ann L. Sullivan 7T7 alumni in attendance. I want to thank everyone for coming PAST PRESIDENT and showing your interest and concern for St. Michael’s STUDENT College. Kathleen M. Ancker, CFRE REPRESENTATIVES At the Annual General Meeting, many of you expressed DIRECTOR, ALUMNI Avril Sequeira interest in coming on the Board of the Alumni Association. AFFAIRS SMCSU President We would love to have you! We have openings on the Rosemary Rago following four committees: SMCSU Vice-President Th e Membership Committee actively solicits and maintains a list of potential alumni candidates required by the alumni executive and its committees; ERRATA: Spring 2005 issue of St. Michael’s Th e Presidents’ Circle Committee recommends and It was incorrectly reported that co-ed residences existed at the University of Notre implements strategies for increasing fi nancial support to Dame in Indiana. Unfortunately, we misread an article in Notre Dame’s alumni USMC; magazine that referred to the school opening its campus residences to women. Th e Events Committee assists with planning, promoting Th ere are women in residence at Notre Dame, but in separate residence halls. and implementing events for alumni; We are happy to extend a sincere apology to Gretchen Shaunessy Wintermeyer. Th e Year Rep Committee develops a recruitment We received misinformation and included her name in our Rest in Peace column. strategy, as well as recognition and stewardship strategies for our Year Reps. ERRATA: June 2005 issue of Donor Report St. Mike’s is an excellent place to be, not only for Th e name of donor France McCabe 6T9 was spelt incorrectly, and the name of students but for alumni too! Come and join us by donors Maureen Nolan-Hanagan 6T5 and Susan Murray 7T2 were not listed. contacting Kathleen Ancker, our Director of Alumni Th e Basilian Fathers of St. Basil’s Parish were incorrectly identifi ed as St. Basil’s Aff airs, at (416) 926-7259 or toll-free at 1-866-238-3339. Church, while Emöke Szathmàry 6T8 should have been listed as a Presidents’ Circle member. By Karen Chambers 8T8 Please accept our apologies. Th e View from Elmsley Place niversities are, importantly, places of refl ection. In a culture increasingly dominated by the 24-hour news Ucycle, our professors and students are encouraged to think in terms of decades, centuries, and even millennia. Th is can lead to the notion that universities, especially those dedicated to the liberal arts, are somehow removed from the world. Th e events that took place in Rome in April, 2005 - the death of Pope John Paul II and the election of Pope Benedict XVI - were of great signifi cance for obvious reasons. And they remind us how important and relevant universities are, precisely because universities take the long view Th e University of St. Michael’s College off ered an important service during those events. Five St. Michael’s professors - Fr. Dan Donovan, Mark McGowan, and Reid Locklin (Christianity PHOTO: PETE GAFFNEY and Culture), Joseph Boyle (Philosophy), and Michael Attridge (Th eology) - responded to more than 100 requests for interviews residence halls and houses on campus, a new reality is very much from Canadian and international media (electronic and in evidence. Anticipating the closure of St. Joseph’s College next print), providing background and understanding to millions May (see St. Michael’s, Spring 2005 issue), St. Michael’s, for of people during Pope John Paul’s fi nal illness and death and the fi rst time, is welcoming 75 women students into what has the subsequent conclave. St. Michael’s played a key role in previously been an all-male residence operation. introducing Cardinal Ratzinger to Canadians when he gave the Housed on the top fl oors of Sorbara and Elmsley Halls, President’s Lecture here in the spring of 1986. Th is spring our with women dons recruited from St. Joseph’s and Loretto, professors were the major source of information, commentary, these students will be the vanguard of an even larger number of and analysis in Canada as Pope Benedict began his pontifi cate. women resident students in the future. Currently, as is the case Th is contribution continues, on a more personal level, in with liberal arts institutions across North America, our academic this issue of St. Michael’s. Fr. Donovan recounts meeting then- enrolment is almost 60 per cent female. Even with the welcomed Professor Ratzinger during the Second Vatican Council, when continuation of Loretto as an all-women’s residence college, it Fr. Donovan was studying at the Biblical Institute in Rome and has become obvious that St. Michael’s must adjust to the closure Professor Ratzinger was a peritus advising the bishops, and his of St. Joseph’s and take steps to ensure equity of treatment for all experience a few years later as one of the future pope’s doctoral our students seeking places in residence. Judging by the reactions students in Germany. Fr. Donovan’s article off ers insight into of both women and men students at the College, changes now Pope Benedict’s character and pastoral concerns and helps put a underway are seen as both positive and timely. An exciting new human face on the new occupant of the Chair of Peter. chapter in the College’s history begins. For more than a century, an active residence life has been a feature of the student experience at St. Michael’s. Th is By Richard Alway 6T2 September, as a new fi rst-year class begins to settle in the various President, University of St. Michael’s College St. Michael’s Fall 2005 1 Honours IN RECOGNITION To Recognize Service, Wisdom and Trust Th e Senate of the University of St. Michael’s College recognizes individuals annually whose lives exemplify the ideals of USMC University Fellow, Robert W. Chisholm “It is fi tting that Robert Chisholm 6T8, devoted to his Church and family, actively concerned for the poor, advocate of education, generous with his talent and time in volunteer public service, and an example of professional excellence and business integrity be presented to you now to receive the honour of University Fellow for the honour he has bought to St. Michael’s.” “Robert (Bob) Chisholm was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Th ose who have been associated with him during his outstanding career in the fi nancial industry could quite rightly consider him another ‘Wise Man from the East.’” “Th e word ‘Trust’ is linguistically indicative of the integrity that, with other qualities, marks his character, and his career in PHOTO: STEVE FROST the banking world.” L to R: Back Row, Professor Heather Munroe-Blum, Principal and Vice- “Bob, a member of Legatus, a group of Catholic laymen Chancellor of McGill University, Principal Mark McGowan, Most Rev. John Boissonneau 7T0, Auxilary Bishop of Toronto, Pro-Chancellor of Uni- dedicated to the welfare of the Church, was chosen “Catholic versity of St. Michael’s College, President Richard Alway 6T2 and Rev. Business Person of the Year” in 2002 by Meritus, the Toronto Robert Madden, CSB 5T2. Front Row: Robert W. Chisholm 6T8 and Dr. Rose Wolfe the newly invested Honorary Fellows, after the Baccalaureate Mass organisation for Catholics in business and other professions.” (Excerpts from Fr. Robert Madden’s presentation on 9 June new country, and so began Rose Wolfe’s seven decades-long 2005 in St. Basil’s Church.) association with the University of Toronto.” “In the aftermath of the Second World War, she began work University Fellow, Dr. Rose Wolfe for the Jewish Family and Child Services, fi nding homes for orphans from the Nazi concentration camps. Th is would instill “Today we recognise a woman who has given to society a lifetime in her a passion for the protection of human rights.” of service as a volunteer, philanthropist, and supporter of more “Five years ago she generously founded the Chancellor Rose than 20 cultural, religious and educational organisations. Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies at the University Wolfe represents in the most distinguished way the ideal of of Toronto, dedicated to advancing scholarship on the history, service.” causes and consequences of the Holocaust. ” “Her parents’ expectation was that a university education (Excerpts from Dr. Richard Alway’s presentation on 9 June would enable their children to build a better life in their 2005 in St. Basil’s Church.) 2 Fall 2005 St. Michael’s OUR UTAA SCHOLAR 2005 Ah-Jung Lee 0T5 ome truly outstanding achievements have marked the who were so supportive; the time I invested there really paid off . student career of this friendly and unassuming joint- I had a fantastic undergraduate experience overall. It was richly Sspecialist student in International Relations and Peace rewarding - and fun too.” and Confl ict Studies.