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IMAGE 01. Re: “Highly Promising Youths: East Hall Memorial Window Remembering the UC students who fell in the Fenian raids” IMAGE 02. (Spring 2016) Professor Henry Holmes Croft Brenda Cossman and Mail, and mindbodygreen. Jennifer McIntyre “Whenever my father, Walter Brenda Cossman (“Transforma- Tracy was also previously the Jennifer McIntyre (“A Curious Barry Coutts (BA 1941 UC)— tion: The evolution of trans rights editor in chief of CAA Magazine. Man: The lyrical world of André a UC grad and later a prof in Canada and abroad,” page 12) She loves writing profiles and Alexis,” page 18) is a writer and of management studies—set is a Professor in U of T’s Faculty thoroughly enjoyed interviewing editor based in Toronto, . exams that were held in the of Law and Director of the Mark donor Paul Cadario for this issue. She builds model airplanes in East Hall, he used to offer his S. Bonham Centre for Sexual When not poised over her laptop, her spare time, bakes a mean students the option of writing 01. Diversity Studies at University Tracy enjoys travel, yoga, and chocolate chip cookie, and an explanation of the windows College. She teaches courses on wine—not always in that order. holds the regional record for in lieu of any one of their family law, gender and law, and most bones broken in a solo other exam questions. Perhaps law and film. Her most recent Ido Katri urban bicycle accident. Jennifer because the exams were gener- book, Sexual Citizens: The Legal Ido Katri (“Transformation: has written for CBC Sports, the ally on accounting or taxation, and Cultural Regulation of Sex The evolution of trans rights in Discovery Channel, Deutsche no one ever took him up on it.” Canada and abroad,” page 12) and Belonging, was published by Welle Online, and CNIB.ca. Her Sheila Coutts (BA 1987 Trinity) Stanford University Press in 2007. is a doctoral candidate at the work has also appeared in Grain She is actively involved in law University of Toronto Faculty Magazine, Seasons Magazine, I was pleased to receive a copy reform, particularly in the area of of Law and in the collaborative The Journal of the Canadian of the Spring 2016 issue of UC same-sex couples and definitions graduate program at the Mark Association for the Advancement Magazine. Professor Radforth’s of family, and has co-authored S. Bonham Centre for Sexual of Women in Sport, Dandelion, article on the Fenian Raids reports on the legal regulation Diversity Studies at University Ms. Magazine, Xtra, and Lexicon. (“Highly Promising Youths: of adult relationships for the College. He is a 2016 Pierre Her website is jenmceditor.com. Remembering the UC students Law Commission of Canada Elliott Trudeau Scholar and a who fell in the Fenian raids”) and the Ontario Law Reform Vanier Canada Scholar. His doc- Yvonne Palkowski and the role of Professor Croft Commission. A frequent com- toral thesis, “Troubling Gender (BA 2004 UC) reminded me of another of that mentator in the media on issues Self Determination,” is a legal As the communications officer at gentleman’s contributions to relating to law and sexuality, she ethnographic project aimed at University College and editor of the early years of the University. was elected to the Royal Society documenting the current rise of UC Magazine, Yvonne Palkowski An 1847 examination paper of Canada in 2012. trans political and legal demands (“Field Trip,” page 22; “A Conver- for one of his courses contains through the voices of community sation with Col. Jennifer Pritzker,” questions on geology and Tracy Howard members fighting intersectional page 17; “In Memory of June mineralogy and marks the first Tracy Howard (“Answering the exclusion, and connecting legal Surgey,” page 46) helps tell the record of such subject matter Call,” page 34) is a Toronto-based discourses of gender, race, and myriad stories of the College and in U of T courses. In 1998 a writer and editor specializing nationality. Before coming to its people. She enjoys travelling, major celebration recognised in lifestyle, wellness, and travel Toronto, he co-founded The Gila sailing, and spicy food. Much to 150 years of geology (now content for print and digital Project for Trans Empowerment, her own surprise, she recently Earth Sciences) teaching and publications. She’s contributed to a grassroots action group work- took to gardening. research at the University. both newsstand and branded-con- ing to better the life chances of Jeff Fawcett tent titles, including Flare, Today’s gender variant persons. His work Emeritus McRae-Quantec Professor of Geosciences 02. Parent, the Toronto Star, The Globe has been cited by courts, and is University of Toronto published and forthcoming in law journals, legal literature, and 06 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE in a queer theory anthology. UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 07 Keynote FALL 2016 Keynote FALL 2016 Principal’s Message uc.utoronto.ca/magazine Principal’s Message uc.utoronto.ca/magazine

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Thoughts on the Road Ahead

AUTHOR Donald Ainslie Principal, University College

PHOTOGRAPHER Christopher Dew

This past summer, I spent many hours cycling the It nonetheless remains highly stigmatized and highways and byways of southern Ontario. I was especially hard to handle for those without access training for the Friends for Life Bike Rally, the to appropriate medical care and social supports. sustaining fundraiser for Toronto’s People With PWA’s services fill this gap. AIDS Foundation (PWA). For 18 years, a group of dedicated volunteers have been cycling the So when I was cycling this summer, I thought 600-odd kilometres to Montréal over six days, about how each of our lives are subject to luck. raising over $15 million to help PWA provide Sometimes it is the trivial luck of avoiding a flat food, complementary therapies, counselling, tire. But often it is the luck by which you avoid and more for people living with HIV and AIDS. ending up infected with a hitherto unknown I did the ride to Montréal in 2008, but this year I disease, or through which you were born into opted for a new one-day option: 108 kilometres to a family with the emotional and financial means Port Hope, a destination that resonates with the to raise you well. hope that PWA provides its clients. As part of the Bike Rally, I asked my friends, Cycling gives you time to think. My other sport, colleagues, and family to sponsor me by making competitive “masters” swimming, is the opposite. a donation to PWA. Some people do not like The point of a workout in the pool is to take you engaging in this kind of solicitation. But when you to the point where you stop thinking, where you believe in the cause, when you can articulate the focus only on finishing the lengths in the allotted difference a contribution makes, I think you live time. But with cycling, the cadence of the pedal up to the Greek roots of ‘philanthropy’—the love strokes soon brings your breathing into a coordi- of humanity. nated rhythm and frees your mind to wander. In my role as Principal at University College, I I spent a fair amount of time thinking about why routinely ask for philanthropic support from our I had opted to spend my free time on a bicycle, alumni community. I think that the mission of raising money for PWA. When the AIDS epidemic the College—helping students in their pursuit of first became apparent, in the early 1980s, I was academic excellence and preparing them to make still a teenager—graduating high school, starting a difference to the world—offers our students the university, and coming out of the closet as a gay best possible defence from bad luck. man. For those 15 or so years—1981 to 1996, the years in which I came of age—AIDS was the defin- Just as cycling frees my mind to wander, spending ing feature of gay life. I met the first person who their undergraduate years at University College openly disclosed his HIV-positive status in 1988, gives our students the time and space to think, and since that time I have lost too many friends develop, and grow. So when they confront the to the epidemic. next set of challenges on the road ahead, be they foreseen like climate change or unforeseen like Development of effective medications in the an epidemic, the capacity for critical thinking and mid-1990s changed things radically so that AIDS is the commitment to social engagement that they now a chronic though mostly manageable disease. learned at UC will help them stay upright no matter the destinations they set for themselves. 08 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 09 Calendar FALL 2016 Calendar FALL 2016 What’s On at UC uc.utoronto.ca/magazine What’s On at UC uc.utoronto.ca/magazine

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AUTHORS Ido Katri, Doctoral candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto & Brenda Cossman, Director, Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies

IllustrationS Alexander Barattin

THE EVOLUTION OF TRANS RIGHTS IN CANADA AND ABROAD

he headlines are full the right to gender self-deter- of trans rights stories mination. It is a more positive these days. From the right—one that empowers federal government’s individuals to determine their introduction of Bill own gender. It means that C-16 to finally add gender-variant people, like non- gender identity and gender gender-variant people, have an expression to the Federal Hu- autonomous right over their man Rights Code, to Ontario’s gender that others are obliged upcoming reform to add the to respect and protect. sex designation “X” to public registries, trans rights are on So, is this good news? Is it more the move. But where exactly are inclusive? Are we leaving any- they going? While the right to one behind? Let’s consider how non-discrimination seems to be far trans rights have come in increasingly recognized, there is the recent past, to contemplate a newer right on the horizon: the as yet unknown future. 4

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rans The other five provinces and expression to the list of prohibited In this move towards the movements, nationally and territories—British Columbia, grounds for discrimination in ultimate trans right—a right globally, have worked tirelessly Québec, New Brunswick, the Human Rights Act, and for gender self-determination— to ensure that the law’s protec- Nunavut Territory, and the to the “identifiable group” there is still one question no tion includes gender variance. Yukon—have implicit protec- clauses of the Criminal Code, one can (or should) answer: In 2002 the Northwest Terri- tion, having interpreted their making it federally illegal to Who is trans? What is considered tories became the first govern- Human Rights Codes as including discriminate in the provision gender variance? ment in Canada to explicitly gender variance under existing of housing, employment, and prohibit discrimination against prohibited grounds. The idea is social services on the basis of The people who experience trans people by including that discrimination against trans gender variance, and making and practice gender variance gender identity in their Human individuals constitutes discrimi- crimes motivated by a hatred are highly diverse, and getting Rights Code. Manitoba followed nation on the basis of “sex.” of gender variance subject to more diverse by the day. Gender a decade later. Also in 2012, While this has provided some harsher sentences, respectively. identities and practices are Ontario and Nova Scotia added protection against discrimina- shifting rapidly as new identi- both gender identity and gender tion, trans advocates argue that Provincial trans legislation is ties emerge, from transsexual expression to their human rights it does not capture the unique moving forward more quickly through transgender, two spirits, laws. Prince Edward Island as nature of the discrimination that than Bill C-16 and a body of law and third gender, to bigender, well as Newfoundland and trans individuals face. supporting a right for gender been considered farfetched in Denmark (2014) and Malta agender, multigender, gender- Labrador followed suit in 2013. self-determination seems to even a few years ago. But in (2015), and similar laws to be sexual, pangender, and trigen- In 2014 Saskatchewan made The federal government was be forming. Québec already 2012, Argentina passed a Gen- introduced in the near future in der (and the list goes on). As provisions for gender identity, late to the game. Neither gender adopted a regulation regarding der Identity Law that recognized the UK, Portugal, Norway, and the young gender-independent and in 2015 Alberta joined identity nor gender expression government-issued identifica- one’s right to determine one’s other countries. This emerging warriors keep teaching us, once the club, adding both gender were included in the Canadian tion that allows individuals to gender, and imposed a duty on human right is popping up you start unraveling gender identity and expression to their Human Rights Act. Bill C-16, change their sex designation, the state to recognize and pro- even at the international level, there is no limit to where you Human Rights Code. introduced by the Trudeau and Ontario is about to add an tect that choice, as well as pro- with the UN Human Rights can go with your creativity government, will finally address “X” option to their registry. vide access to medical and other Council’s decision from June and imagination. this exclusion. The Bill will resources. This sort of legisla- 2016 to appoint an independent amend the Canadian Human On a global scale, gender self- tion is now sweeping through expert on protection against Moreover, as feminist and critical Rights Act and Criminal Code, determination as an indepen- the European Union, with new violence and discrimination race theorists have long argued, adding gender identity and dent human right would have gender self-recognition laws based on sexual orientation our gendered experience and gender identity. 14 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 15 REPORT FALL 2016 REPORT FALL 2016 Transformation uc.utoronto.ca/magazine Transformation uc.utoronto.ca/magazine

IMAGE 02. Jennifer Pritzker A Conversation with Col. Jennifer Pritzker Chicago-based business leader, philanthropist, and retired US Army Colonel Jennifer Pritzker is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Tawani Enterprises, President of the Tawani Foundation, and founder and chair of the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. She was in Toronto this spring to receive an award from the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies for her contributions to trans rights and scholarship. While in town, she made a gift towards a new third- year course in trans studies for the Sexual Diversity Studies program, and sat down with UC Magazine editor Yvonne Palkowski to discuss trans issues.

What is the next step in advocating for trans rights? I think it’s very important to try and help people be less apprehensive about who trans people are, and certainly to help people understand that being transgender in and of itself is not a threat. Transgender people are like anyone else—they have strengths and weaknesses.

[Advocacy] is a continuing process of educa- tion and enlightenment, with some very focused 02. activism—choosing the right court case, putting pressure on the right politician, the right company. to heal people, they do so in a non-judgmental I think sometimes there’s a tendency for activism manner. But there’s also critical thinking—there’s cannot be detached from other legal forces that shape Where should trans rights to get lost in a sort of euphoria—the excitement of no free licence to engage in whatever you want. spheres that shape our social and sustain the exclusion be heading? Perhaps gender- protesting in the streets, waving signs, and circu- Everything is studied on its own merits. world, such as racism, ableism, of trans people. variant people’s engagement lating petitions with all sorts of explosive rhetoric. sexism, classism, and ageism, with shaping the law will open There is a place for that, but I think whatever is What is your hope for the next generation of youth just to name a few. The rights In March 2015, the British Co- a range of future possibilities. done ought to be thought out very carefully. And struggling with their sense of self and gender? you need recognized and lumbia Human Rights Tribunal Maybe the move towards pro- the university or a clinical environment where I hope for a friendlier, more supportive environ- protected as a poor trans femi- opened its decision in the case tecting and promoting the right people can find some common ground is the ment. It’s an issue for medical and mental health nine person of colour are very of Angela Dawson vs. the Van- to gender variance will require best, so here we are. professionals to determine at what point a person different than the ones you need couver Police Board with the us to rethink some of the very should be given access to permanent medical recognized and protected as an following statement: “Gender. categories that have informed You recently established the first-ever chair in Trans- intervention. But given an environment where upper-middle-class white trans It may be the most significant legal protections. Once-stable gender Studies at the University of Victoria. Why is it a child can express themselves—as long as that masculine person. Layers upon factor in a person’s identity. categories like “sex” and important to invest in academic research in this area? child is respectful of other people while they’re layers of discrimination make It is intensely personal.” The “gender,” long considered Universities are institutions of higher learning, doing it—maybe that will lead to an environment some individuals less visible and tribunal gave us a glimpse into unchangeable, natural, and therefore by definition their mission is to edu- where people can make the decision a little more more vulnerable. But, the law is what a right to gender self- constant, are currently unraveling cate people at all levels. Getting back to your first rationally, with no regrets, and save a lot of energy. a one-size-fits-all kind of system. determination might look like: over fibre optic cables across question about next steps, I think it’s important It will be a challenge because I think people still Paradoxically, in the name of a right that starts and ends with the globe, literally at the to establish a network of people and organiza- want reference points in terms of where you are equality, laws and policies are the individual, that accounts speed of light. tions that have common goals. To use a baseball on a gender expression spectrum. It’s all a matter designed without taking into for only one factor of one’s analogy, it’s like pulling off a double play. I’ve also of spectrum, sort of like absolute zero—it doesn’t account the multiplicity of identity and neglects to account Maybe if we considered gender done a lot of work with, for example, the Univer- really exist, but it’s a reference point. Somewhere experiences, the different for the ways in which one’s not as something that we have sity of Minnesota medical school, developing their on the spectrum of gender expression, there’s a shades of exclusion painted gendered experience is shaped or we want, not as a product programs in human sexuality which focus not just hypothetical extreme of feminine and a hypothetical by all those overlapping and by the open-ended list of social that we can consume, but as on LGBT people, but also on human sexuality in extreme of masculine. Nobody is the absolute extreme intersecting spheres of life. In constructs that influence how a force that distributes access general because it’s all connected. A number of but some of us are closer than others. And I think this context, gender self-deter- one is perceived and treated to life chances, then we could LGBT people are also mothers and fathers. Some that will always continue, because people need mination might be just another by others and by the law. In start thinking about how to of them are senior citizens dealing with aging and reference points. You can have them, but allow honey trap—one that puts so an absurd turn, gender—the make sure that gender variant continuing sexuality. We all face the threat of sex- people more flexibility between those extremes, much focus on the individual concept that feminists argued practices and experiences— ually transmitted diseases, no matter what our ori- so people can function. that it makes it hard to look at is inherently public—is now specifically for those who face entation or expression is. And in medical school, the complex web of social and becoming intensely private in intersectional exclusion—are For an extended interview with Jennifer Pritzker, they address all of this. 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Alexis, now 59, was born in This year, just for something The senior Alexis graciously that I enjoyed the company of Trinidad and grew up in Canada. different, he is writing a work defers to his talented young off- writers more. I had more friend- His latest novel, Fifteen Dogs, for puppets, which will be spring in the arena of musical art- ships with writers; they were inter- the story of a pack of dogs who produced by Calgary-based istry. “She’d say ‘Daaaaad, you’re esting to me because they talked are suddenly gifted with human Old Trout Puppet Workshop. playing your guitar! Nooooo!’”, about our artistic problems in consciousness after a bet by he demurs, with a certain delight. ways that I identified with. two capricious gods, won the “It seemed like a really cool idea. “I know my place.” $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize I’ve always wanted to work with “I kind of knew that I was fated in the fall of 2015 and bagged puppets,” he says enthusiastically. For Alexis, this place is firmly to be an artist—it was only a the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust “I love them. And Old Trout is in the world of prose—although question of what kind of artist I Fiction Prize a week later. a really great company. Famous some would argue that some was fated to be. For the writer in Puppet Death Scenes is one of their of his work, especially with com- me, [my friendships with writers] (This means that Alexis has now productions. It’s really beautiful. posers Rolfe and Krausas, could made sense because I could iden- earned two of Canada’s three well be considered poetry. tify with how writers spoke about major fiction awards—the third is “The music [for this production] things. I found they spoke in ways the Governor General’s Award.) is going to be written by Veronica “I also wanted to be a poet,” that meant something to me.” [Krausas]. For me, [writing this he says. “But it’s hard work. It’s Fifteen Dogs is the second in an libretto] is kind of the easy part. harder work, I think, than being And speaking with writers of ambitious five-part series of books I know that world. a prose writer. It depends on all ages is what he relishes about Alexis has called his “quincunx;” the person. There are people his post at UC. the first wasPastoral , which he “I started out wanting to be a who are naturally inclined to “What’s interesting to me is published in 2014. musician. So it seems a natural the poetic and it seems like Given his gruelling book-a-year learning the difference between thing for me to apply my work they’re born with that skill.” writing schedule, Alexis says that ost people, when asked a McCartney song and a Lennon “My timeline is one a year,” says to that medium,” he explains. “being the writer at UC will be the what special qualities song. Melodically they’re very Alexis. “I’ve got another one “I started off playing guitar and Not coincidentally, Alexis easiest part. I think it will be fun. they bring to a new job, different creatures. Lennon is [The Hidden Keys] that’s coming that’s what I was going to be. I counts many poets among his The other writing, my own books, would trot out the standard as much about the feel as about up this fall, and I have to write wanted to play blues.” friends. “My best friend, for is a bit more arduous. “I’m a perfectionist” or “I get the music, but there are some the next one after that, so I’m in- instance, is Roo Borson. I talk things done.” McCartney songs that are credibly busy writing all the time.” Although he doesn’t play profes- about poetry with her quite a “I’m looking forward to talk- simply beautiful. ‘Blackbird,’ sionally, he regularly picks up his bit. And just now I was making ing to writers—it gives you a But award-winning Canadian for instance—that’s just a Although Alexis is perhaps guitar to give his “writing brain” a date with Ricardo Sternberg chance to rethink answers to author André Alexis is not wonderful song. There’s a better known for his prose, he a break. “I use it to just …” he to go watch some soccer. questions that you think you’ve most people. really lovely simplicity to how is equally at home in the world gropes for the correct word here, settled in your mind but maybe he composes that I like a lot.” Alexis, University College’s Barker of music and Canadian com- “…well, to waste time.” He laughs “But then there are people who need a re-questioning. posers. In addition to finishing gently. “It’s a good time-waster. It are born with the prosaic, and Fairley Distinguished Visitor in Asked if he would pose for up The Hidden Keys, he is cur- allows me to think. You can do I think I’m one of them. Story- “I love the chance to be ignorant Canadian Studies in 2016-17, this feature with his guitar in rently writing an opera libretto— that with your guitar in hand. It telling has always fascinated me. again. It’s a very important thing names “ignorance” as his primary hand, Alexis laughs uproariously. one of many he’s created. actually ends up being quite nice. And I think I have a propensity to not know all the answers.” qualification for the job of UC’s “Oh god, no,” he chortles. “My I would be useless without it. in that direction. That’s the thing writer-in-residence. daughter would totally freak.” “I’ve actually written for opera that Roo always talks about. She quite a lot,” says Alexis. “I work “Mostly I play whatever pops into doesn’t know how to write a “I’m comfortable talking with The daughter in question, with two composers. One is my head, but I’ve just started story; she doesn’t know what any age group,” says Alexis, “but Nicola, now 23, was born James Rolfe, and the other is a project of learning Beatles’ storytelling means. There’s a long I love talking with young people. around the same time Alexis’s Veronica Krausas.” songs. I think Paul McCartney is conversation about this that I’ve I love the questions they bring first novel,Childhood , was incredibly talented. Melodically, been having for about fifteen to me. It’s like getting a chance published, and studied music His collaborations with Rolfe obviously, but when you start years with her. to start again from ignorance— at Toronto’s renowned Etobicoke include Aeneas and Dido (2007), learning the songs you learn just but a good ignorance, you know? School of the Arts. A sense of ‘Well, how does this Orpheus and Eurydice (2004), how talented he is as a song- “I started writing early, like in my work?’ Coming at problems and Fire (1999); with Krausas, he writer…. You can see the nuts early teens… I knew I was inter- with fresh eyes.” has worked on Sillages (2014), and bolts in his discipline as well. ested in writing for some reason. Waterland (2010), and From I find it fascinating. Although I loved music, and still Easter (2000), among others. do, I found as I was growing up 20 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 21 CAMPUS FALL 2016 CAMPUS FALL 2016 Field Trip uc.utoronto.ca/magazine Field Trip uc.utoronto.ca/magazine

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emember those lectures that just seemed to go on forever, and wanting nothing more than to get up and stretch your legs? It’s never been a problem for students enrolled in UC One: Engaging Toronto, a special set of first-year seminars that prepare students for success in their studies at U of T no matter what their fields of interest, and give them the tools to use what they learn in the

AUTHOR classroom in the world around Yvonne Palkowski them. UC One uses the city and its diverse communities as a laboratory for learning.

Of course, the guest speakers and field trips are just too cool not to share on social media. Here are just a few examples, from one UC One instructor and To learn more about UC One, please visit flâneur extraordinaire, Shawn uc.utoronto.ca/ucone. Micallef, and a student, Melissa Vincent, who took UC One in 2013-14; the experience inspired her to major in Urban Studies. 22 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 23 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2016 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2016 Alumni of Influence uc.utoronto.ca/magazine Alumni of Influence uc.utoronto.ca/magazine

University College Alumni of Influence 2016

The University College Alumni of Influence awards were introduced in 2012 in order to recognize the accomplishments of UC graduates and share them with today’s students and fellow alumni.

In 2016, we honour 17 distinguished University College alumni from today and yesterday. Please join us for the awards gala in their honour at Hart House, University of Toronto, on November 16, 2016 (see page 3 for details).

Your help is required to identify candidates for future editions of the awards. For more information or to submit a nomination, please visit www.uc.utoronto.ca/aoi.

Alumni of Influence Selection Criteria A committee of UC alumni, within the wider community faculty, and friends selects the and their philanthropy. Phi- Alumni of Influence on the basis lanthropy to the University of of nominations submitted by Toronto specifically was not a members of the UC community. factor. Members of the selection The committee considered the committee, sitting politicians, nominees’ contributions to their and the current U of T Presi- professional field at the interna- dent, Vice-Presidents (UTM and tional, national, or local level, UTSC), and Chancellor are as well as their volunteerism excluded from consideration.

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Prof. James Bassingthwaighte The Hon. Sarmite Bulte (BA 1951 UC) (MD 1955 U of T) (BA 1974 UC) (PhD 1964 Mayo) Sarmite (Sam) Bulte is a lawyer James Bassingthwaighte is a and former politician. A former Professor of Bioengineering and member of the UC Literary and Radiology at the University of Athletic Society, she owned and Washington. An active teacher operated her own law firm before and researcher, he is known for an being elected as the Member of integrative, quantitative approach Parliament for the riding of to cardiovascular physiology. Parkdale-High Park, which she He earned his MD at U of T, represented for 9 years. In the completing his PhD at the Mayo House of Commons, she held Clinic where he later joined the the positions of Parliamentary faculty, before moving onto the Secretary to the Minister of Carol Banducci (BCom 1982 UC) a Bachelor of Commerce from University of Washington where Industry, Parliamentary Secretary Carol Banducci is Executive Vice- the University of Toronto, and he chaired the Department of to the Minister of Canadian President and CFO of IAMGOLD completed the Directors Educa- Bioengineering and founded the Heritage, and Chair of the Task Corporation. She plays a key role tion Program at the Rotman National Simulation Resource Force on Women’s Entrepre- in driving the corporate strategy School of Management. She is Facility for Circulatory Mass neurship. She was appointed to and has expertise in corporate a board member of Thompson Transport and Exchange. In the Privy Council in 2004. She restructurings, mergers, and Creek Metals Company Inc. and 1997, he founded the Physiome is currently a consultant, legal Prof. Clarence Chant He would gladly help any sincere acquisitions. She was chair of the Euro Ressources S.A. She is a Project, an international effort advisor, and speaker on public (BA 1890 UC) (PhD 1908 Har- correspondent, from naive begin- board of directors of Niobec Inc., member of the working com- to define the physiome through policy, governance, parliamentary vard) (LLD 1935 U of T) (d. 1956) ner to accomplished professional. a former subsidiary of IAMGOLD, mittee of the Canadian Board the development of databases capacity-building, and entrepre- Clarence Chant, known as the He served as president of the Royal prior to orchestrating its sale in Diversity Council, and in 2015 and models which facilitate the neurship with the United Nations father of Canadian astronomy, Astronomical Society of Canada 2015. Prior to joining IAMGOLD in was recognized by the Women’s understanding of the integrative Devleopment Program. She has studied mathematics and and founded its namesake journal 2007, she held financial executive Executive Network as one of function of cells, organs, and provided training and assistance physics at UC, earning a doctorate which he edited from 1904 until positions in the manufacturing Canada’s 100 Most Powerful organisms. The author of two to Cambodia, Kenya, Macedonia, in physics at Harvard University. his death in 1956. He also led an and explosives industries. She has Women. She co-chaired the books and more than 300 papers, Somalia, Trinidad and Tobago, His interest in astronomy began expedition to Australia in 1922 to 2015 Grad Ball for Pathways to he is a member of the National Tunisia, and Yemen, just to name in 1892 when hired by the U of T observe a total solar eclipse, thus Education, a non-profit organi- Academy of Engineering and a few countries. A seasoned board Department of Physics. Instru- helping to verify Einstein’s predic- zation that helps disadvantaged a Fellow of both the American and committee member, she has mental in the development of the tion concerning the deflection of youth across Canada. In 2016, she Institute of Medical and Biological served the Canadian Association of astronomy curriculum, he ulti- light by massive bodies. With Jessie formed a partnership with the Engineering, and the Interna- Women Executives and Entrepre- mately became the Department of Donalda Dunlap, the widow of University of Toronto’s Depart- tional Federation for Medical and neurs, the National Ballet School, Astronomy’s inaugural chairman mining entrepreneur David Dun- ment of Psychiatry to launch a Biological Engineering. He has and the St. Joseph’s Hospital Foun- in 1918. He was the sole Canadian lap, Chant established the Dunlap fundraising initiative for the been honoured by the American dation, among other organizations. to train astronomers until 1926 Observatory at the University of prevention and early detection Physiological Society, Maastricht For her tremendous contributions, and many students later became Toronto. It was inaugurated on of mental illness among adoles- University, and McGill University, she has been recognized with the directors of astronomical observa- May 31, 1935, the day Chant turned cents and young adults, which among other institutions. Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, tories. Committed to popularizing seventy, received an honorary doc- raised $400,000 in its first year. the Lifetime Tribute Award from astronomy to all, he published torate, from U of T, and retired. Women Entrepreneurs of Canada, Our Wonderful Universe in 1928, gave and the Order of the Republic of 26 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE public lectures, wrote for news- UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 27 Lithuania, among other honours. papers, and delivered radio talks. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2016 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2016 Alumni of Influence uc.utoronto.ca/magazine Alumni of Influence uc.utoronto.ca/magazine

Dr. Norman Doidge (BA 1978 UC) Dr. Graham Fraser (BA 1968 UC) Prof. Rose Geist (BSc 1969 UC) Urjo Kareda (BA 1966 UC) (MA (MD 1983 U of T) (MA 1973 U of T) (MD 1975 U of T) 1967 U of T) (d. 2001) Norman Doidge, MD, is a Graham Fraser was appointed A pioneer in medical psychiatry, Arts journalist, dramaturge, and psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, Canada’s Commissioner of Rose Geist has established new theatre director Urjo Kareda was author, and poet. He studied Official Languages in 2006. He care models that help patients a key figure in Canadian film and classics and philosophy at UC and has been a champion of bilin- with unexplained medical theatre. Born in , at age graduated with high distinction. gualism and diversity through- symptoms, and co-occurring five he moved with his parents to After winning the E.J. Pratt Prize out his distinguished career. As mental and physical symptoms. Toronto. He studied at UC, then for Poetry at age 19, he won early a journalist, he wrote in both She is currently the Program Cambridge University in Lon- recognition from the literary official languages on cultural Chief and Medical Director don, from where he wrote for The critic Northrop Frye, who wrote and foreign policy, constitutional of Mental Health at Trillium Toronto Star and . that his work was “really remark- debates, and provincial, national, Health Partners. A proponent Returning to Toronto, he became able… haunting and memorable.” and international politics, for The of collaborative care, she is also the Star’s theatre critic before being He earned his medical degree at Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Director of the newly formed hired by the and U of T, followed by psychiatric The Gazette, Le Devoir, and Ma- Medical Psychiatry Alliance, a later the Tarragon Theatre as artis- and psychoanalytic training clean’s. The author of five books, partnership between Trillium tic director. Over the next twenty at Columbia University, and a including the influential Sorry, I Health Partners, the University years, he would turn the Tarragon National Institute of Mental The Hon. Kathryn Feldman Judges’ Association, and in 2001, Don’t Speak French, he has played of Toronto, the Hospital for Sick into a centre for new dramatic Health Research Fellowship. (BA 1970 UC) (LLB 1973 U of T) became the first recipient of the a key role in explaining Québec Children, and the Centre for Ad- work, earning it the unofficial An expert in neuroplasticity, Justice Kathryn Feldman of the Canadian Superior Court Judges politics and the importance of diction and Mental Health, with title of The Playwright’s Theatre, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and Ontario Court of Appeal has Association President’s Award. bilingualism to Canadians. He is the mandate of changing the and becoming in the process one neuroscience, he is on faculty distinguished herself as a jurist She is currently a director of the the recipient of the Public Policy way mental healthcare is taught of the most respected voices in at the University of Toronto’s of the highest quality. A former Canadian chapter of the Inter- Forum’s Hyman Solomon Award to residents and delivered to English-Canadian theatre. For his Department of Psychiatry and partner with Blake Cassels & national Association of Women for Excellence in Public Policy patients in Ontario. She is a fre- tremendous contributions to the Columbia University’s Centre Graydon LLP, she was appointed Judges. As an alumna, she sat on Journalism, the Baldwin-LaFon- quent speaker on mental health nation’s developing arts scene, he for Psychoanalytic Training and to the Superior Court of Justice the Moss Scholarship selection taine Award from the Canadian issues for both professional and was recognized with the Order Research. He is the author of two in December 1990, where she committee for six years, three as Club of Vancouver, and the Che- lay audiences, promoting access of Canada, the City of Toronto New York Times bestsellers, The presided over criminal and civil chair, on the President’s Interna- valier de l’Ordre de la Pléiade from to care, including through tele- Award for the Performing Arts, Brain That Changes Itself and The matters, before being elevated tional Alumnae Council, and is the Assemblée parlementaire de la psychiatry, and removal of the the Chalmers National Award for Brain’s Way of Healing. His writing to the Court of Appeal in June a recipient of the University of Francophonie. He holds honorary stigma associated with mental Artistic Direction, and an honorary has appeared in medical journals 1998. As a lecturer, she has made Toronto Arbor Award. doctorates from the University of illness. In the community, she Dora Mavor Moore Award, among and The Wall Street Journal, Time, tremendous contributions to Ottawa, Université Sainte-Anne, has served the Governing Council other honours. The Daily Telegraph, The Globe and continuing legal education Université Laval, Concordia Uni- of U of T, and the Capacity to Mail, and The National Post. for students, lawyers, and versity, and York University. Consent to Treatment in Youth. His work has been recognized judges. She served as chair She earned a master’s in conduct- by Brain Injury Canada, the of the Insurance Committee ing from the University’s Faculty Mary S. Sigourney Prize, the of the Canadian Superior Court of Music in 2011. CBC Literary Award, and four National Magazine Gold Awards.

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is the leading cause of preventable national business columnist, and death in Canada, and his studies senior crime reporter at major daily evaluating a range of interventions newspapers in Canada and the US, to reduce smoking, combined with including The Globe and Mail, The his teaching and scholarship on Vancouver Sun, and The Houston Post. effective public health policy, have She is a former board member of led directly to a decline in tobacco the Downtown Eastside Women’s use. He is currently the Executive Centre in Vancouver, and was Director of the Ontario Tobacco named one of British Columbia’s Research Unit, and a Senior Scien- 100 Women of Influence in 2010. Prof. Tashi Rabgey (BA 1992 UC) tist at the Centre for Addiction and As a journalism educator, she has (MA 1994 Oxford) (LLM 1995 Mental Health, positions he has received a number of awards for her Cambridge) (PhD 2011 Harvard) held since 2011. He led the evalu- writing and teaching. Tashi Rabgey was the first Tibetan ation of the Smoke-Free Ontario Rhodes Scholar. A former UC strategy, and established a Smokers’ Literary and Athletic Society Panel to facilitate long-term study president, she completed law Avi Lewis (BA 1988 UC) of more than 4,000 smokers, as well degrees at Oxford and Cambridge, Documentary filmmaker and as the effects of Ontario’s smoking and earned a PhD at Harvard broadcaster Avi Lewis has made cessation system. He is the recipient University. A Research Professor of a career of advocating for social of the Dalla Lana School of Public International Affairs and Director justice and environmentalism Health’s 2012 John Hastings Award of the Tibet Governance Project at through the media. In the early for Excellence in Service to the George Washington University’s 1990s, he hosted City TV’s land- University and the Community, Ilana Landsberg-Lewis Elliott School of International Prof. Wai Haung (Ho) Yu mark music journalism show, The and the 2010 J.E. Hodgetts Award (BA 1988 UC) Affairs, she is currently writing (BSc 1991 UC) (MSc 1994 U of T) New Music, and later hosted CBC’s for the best article published in Human rights lawyer Ilana a book about the need to reframe (PhD 2001 U of T) live, nightly political debate show, Canadian public administration, Landsberg-Lewis is the Executive the Sino-Tibetan dispute. She has Wai Haung (Ho) Yu is Assistant Counterspin. When he moved to Al among other honours. Director and cofounder of the spent much of the past 15 years Professor in Clinical Pathology and Jazeera USA, he hosted a biweekly Foundation, an working inside the region and has Cell Biology at Columbia Univer- show on US politics and a weekly organization working to turn the led the development of the TGAP sity’s Taub Institute for Research series examining the issues behind tide of HIV/AIDS in Africa. She has Forum, a seven-year academic on Alzheimer’s Disease and the the US presidential election. His travelled extensively in developing dialogue process on governance in Aging Brain. He earned a PhD in first independent feature docu- countries, working directly with Tibet with policy researchers of the pharmacology from the University mentary, The Take, tells the story of more than 300 grassroots organiza- Dr. Stephen Leacock Chinese State Council in Beijing of Toronto, receiving the Alzheimer Argentinian workers who struggle tions on 1400 initiatives. She spent (BA 1891 UC) (PhD 1903 Chicago) as well as Harvard, Université du Society of Canada’s Pre-Doctoral to take over an abandoned factory eight years at the United Nations (d. 1944) Québec à Montréal, and other global Award, as well as the T.I. Sherman and save their livelihoods. It pre- Development Fund for Women, Beloved Canadian author academic partners. With her sister, Award in Neuroscience. He did miered at the Venice Biennale, and working to strengthen the UN’s Dr. Stephen Leacock was the best- Losang Rabgey (BA 1993 UC), postdoctoral work at New York won the International Jury Prize implementation of the Convention known humorist in the English- she is the cofounder of Machik, Prof. Mary Lynn Young University and the Nathan Kline In- at the American Film Institute to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimi- speaking world from 1915 to 1925. an organization that develops op- (BA 1988 UC) (MA 1996 U of T) stitute for Psychiatric Research, and Festival. He is cofounder of The nation Against Women. Also at He wrote more than 60 books, in- portunities for education, capacity (PhD 2005 U of T) was promoted to clinical instruc- Working World, a capital fund the UN, she cofounded UN PRIDE cluding Sunshine Sketches of a Little building, and innovation in Tibet. Mary Lynn Young is an Associate tor and then assistant professor at that makes microloans to worker to fight for the rights of gay and Town and Arcadian Adventures with Professor in the Graduate School NYU, before joining the Taub Insti- cooperatives, and a board member lesbian employees, many of whom the Idle Rich. He studied languages of Journalism and Associate Dean, tute in 2006. His research interests of the Jackman Humanities faced extreme discrimination by at UC, then taught at Upper Canada Communications and Strategy, in include the role of protein quality Institute at the U of T, as well as the their home country employers. College before earning a PhD in the Faculty of Arts at the Univer- control, in particular, autophagic- Council of Patrons of the Canadian She was named a YWCA Woman political economy at the University sity of British Columbia. She is lysosomal degradation and its Centre for Victims of Torture. His of Distinction in 2009, and in 2012 of Chicago. Returning to Canada, an authority on gender and the relationship to neurodegeneration. parents, Dr. Stephen Lewis (1959 she was named one of the Top 25 he joined the faculty at McGill media, newsroom sociology, media He is associate editor of the journal UC) and Dr. Michele Landsberg- Women of Influence in Canada. University where he remained until credibility, and representations Frontiers in Psychiatry, the founder Lewis (BA 1962 UC), and his sister She is the daughter of inaugural UC retirement. A prolific writer of hu- of crime. She is a consultant, and past president of the Greater Ilana Landsberg-Lewis (BA 1988 Alumni of Influence award recipi- morous fiction, literary essays, and public speaker, and frequent NYC Society for Neuroscience articles on social issues, politics, UC) have all been honoured as UC commentator on current media ents, humanitarian Dr. Stephen Prof. Robert Schwartz Chapter (braiNY), which received economics, science, and history, Alumni of Influence. and policy issues. In 2007, she Lewis (1959 UC) and journalist Dr. (BA 1982 UC) (PhD 1987 the Chapter of the Year Award 2013, he claimed in his later years, “I can cofounded FeministMediaProject. Michele Landsberg-Lewis (BA 1962 Jerusalem) and he serves as advisor for research UC), and the sister of documentary write up anything now at a hun- com, which provides a feminist foundations like Alzheimer Drug Robert Schwartz has made out- filmmaker Avi Lewis (BA 1988 UC), dred yards.” The leading award for perspective on media depic- Discovery Fund and the Weston standing contributions to public a fellow honouree this year. humour in Canada is named after tions of missing and murdered Brain Institute Canada. him, and his summer home in Oril- health in Canada and beyond women. Prior to completing her through his research and policy 30 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE lia is now a museum which attracts PhD in criminology at U of T in UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 31 thousands of visitors each year. work on tobacco control. 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University College Young AlumnA of Influence 2016

University College launched the Young Alumni of Influence Award in recognition of the achievements of graduates who are in the early phases of their careers.

The prize, honouring UC alumni aged 21 to 35 who have demonstrated exceptional leadership in their field, was introduced in 2015. It is conferred annually in conjunction with the UC Alumni of Influence Awards.

Aliya Ramji (BSc 2004 UC) She was called to the Ontario Bar legal aspects of international (JD 2007 Queen’s) in 2008 and subsequently studied business at Ryerson University. (LLM 2012 New York) international law at New York In the community, she has served Aliya Ramji is the Director of University, becoming licenced to the Aga Khan Education Board Business and Legal Strategy for practice in New York in 2013. She for Ontario, and the Young Gover- Figure 1, a global platform for acted as legal counsel and global nors’ Council of Junior Achieve- connected healthcare that was business unit advisor for CSA ment of Central Ontario. named one of Canada’s tech com- Group (formerly the Canadian panies to watch in 2016. A former Standards Association) prior to member of the UC Literary and joining Figure 1 in 2014, where Athletic Society and winner she presided over the expansion of the Gordon Cressy Student of its mobile platform from a Leadership Award, she went on handful of countries to more than to earn a JD at Queen’s University 190 in 18 months. She teaches and article with Gowlings LLP. business law and the

32 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 33 Campaign Update FALL 2016 Campaign Update FALL 2016 Answering the Call uc.utoronto.ca/magazine Answering the Call uc.utoronto.ca/magazine Answering the Call With a new major gift to UC, Paul Cadario continues to give back to his “home and native land”

AUTHOR Tracy Howard

Upon hearing that the benefactor behind While Cadario didn’t spend much “I’m a big fan of millennials,” Cadario IMAGE 01. a new major gift to UC didn’t attend time at UC as a student: “As an Paul Cadario in front of says. “Since I have none of my own, Croft Chapter House the College, your first reaction might engineer, I was in other parts of the it’s exciting to get their perspectives be puzzlement. After all, people tend campus”—geographical boundaries on things.” image credit to give to the organizations with pose little obstacle for the retired Christopher Dew which they have the closest acquain- World Bank senior manager. As for his appointment at the Munk tance. But after spending time with School, where’s he’s also on the Paul Cadario and hearing about his He spent a 37-year career at that advisory board, he dubs himself wide-ranging commitment to the institution travelling the globe to a “friend of the MGAs (Master of University of Toronto, his $3 million help improve living standards in the Global Affairs students),” doing career gift to University College’s Croft developing world, including over- and leadership workshops, helping Chapter House makes perfect sense, seeing the first World Bank-financed debrief students on internships, and especially because it will also help to projects in Guinea-Bissau and “trying to be helpful.” facilitate a new space for the School Mongolia, and working on frontline of Public Policy and Governance development programs in Western And at the Centre for Global (SPPG), which will soon be Africa and China. Engineering (CGEN), he meets moving to UC. periodically with PhD students to And as a Distinguished Senior Fel- ensure they have enough public Cadario, who earned a degree in low in Global Innovation at U of T policy in their doctorates. civil engineering from U of T in since 2012—he’s jointly appointed 1973, describes his gift as a reflection to the Faculty of Applied Science Cadario began giving back to the of his loyalty to his profession. and Engineering and the Munk University as an undergrad when he School of Global Affairs—and part was a member of the student govern- “I’ve always seen engineering as linked, of a Civil Engineering capstone ment and one of the first student through innovation, to identifying design course, Cadario makes more members on the Governing Council. and solving societal and community than 30 trips annually to his home- Later on, when only in his early problems,” he explains. (There also town, Toronto, from his home base thirties, he was elected as an alumni seems to be some kismet involved, in Washington, DC. governor on the Council and served for Cadario has heard there’s an for nine years. engineering hook in UC’s history. While Cadario cracks that when Indeed, the beginnings of U of T’s asked about participating in U of T’s Among his many other volunteer Department of Civil Engineering can first undergrad engineering posts were as a member of the be traced to the merger of the On- course with a global development Alumni Association, of which he tario School of Practical Science with component, his initial thought was eventually became president—the individual courses in civil engineer- “my retirement vision didn’t include first one to live outside the GTA. ing taught at UC in the 1850s.) grading papers,” he clearly relishes He also chairs or sits on a number of

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UC Revitalization

The UC Revitalization project currently consists of 3 phases. Phase 1 will move the 03. UC Library back to its historic home in East and West Halls, create a new café and student space on the third floor of the central tower, and make accessibility improvements to the building, including a new elevator at the front entrance. Phase 2 includes the redevelopment of the southwest corner of UC to create the Cadario Conference Centre at Croft Chapter House. Phase 3 will feature the redevelopment of the UC Quadrangle. We have retained Kohn Shnier in partnership with the heritage firm ERA Architects to make our vision a reality. Construction is slated to begin on Phases 1 and 2 by early 2017. With the support of 04. alumni and friends, the UC Revitalization will transform our College while honouring our heritage and also meeting the needs of the next generation of students.

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In recognition of his contributions discussing SPPG scholarships he “SPPG’s students will doubtless IMAGE 02. But the contemplation basically the fire of 1890. (Originally used Cadario says he’s delighted to sup- endowed as well as funding for an be inspired by a College that has Aerial view, Cadario ended when he discussed the as a chemistry lab, it was set apart port the remodelling of “not only a to U of T, as well as his service to the Conference Centre at World Bank, Cadario was awarded annual visiting public lecture. produced so many fine statesmen Croft Chapter House project with Dan Gordon, his from the rest of UC in case of any historical building, but a historical an honorary doctor of laws in 2013. and individuals dedicated to public partner of 30 years. explosions. Ironically, this separation element of the University,” as well RENDERING This degree follows the BA and MA Knowing of Cadario’s connection service,” says David Cameron, Dean Kohn Shnier and ERA protected it from fire damage.) as help meet the needs of SPPG. in economics and politics he received to SPPG from its near inception of the Faculty of Arts and Science. Architects “Dan said, ‘this is one of the prime “So I’m getting sort of a twofer!” from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, (he’s also a member of its external pieces of real estate on the campus Currently used for meetings and he says. IMAGE 03. and the master’s in organization advisory board) sheds light on his For his part, Cadario says he gave Lobby, Cadario and they are proposing that you receptions, the space will become development he earned from enthusiasm to support its move “because I think student experience Conference Centre at refurbish it into a place where an accessible, full-service confer- While he sums up his own American University. to its new space in the Laidlaw is important and student experience Croft Chapter House people debate ideas and will have ence centre with state-of-the-art generosity in a light manner,

wing where the UC Library is is primarily who teaches you and RENDERING conferences that are important to lighting and audiovisual features, Cadario speaks passionately He’s also contributed financially currently located. whom you learn with. And when Kohn Shnier and ERA you and your name will be on it?’” that will host University, national, about the need for support. Architects to U of T with the Cadario Facility [UC Principal] Don Ainslie showed Cadario recalls with a smile. “And and international symposia. for Integrated Learning for Civil Moving to UC from its current me the plans for the project, I said IMAGE 04. he said ‘of course, you’re going to say “Great research universities are Engineering and a gift to CGEN in location on the margins of campus, ‘this is just great.’” Section, Cadario yes, you always say yes, how in the When Cadario speaks about the where leaders of tomorrow need Conference Centre at the new Centre for Engineering in the Canadiana Gallery, will allow Croft Chapter House world could you not say yes!’” “exquisite plans to make the building to come from,” he says. “And any Innovation and Entrepreneurship, SPPG’s students and faculty to more Concerning the transformation what it was, but modern,” his eyes of us who have the means and both in the Faculty of Applied Science actively connect with the rest of the of the southwest sector of Univer- RENDERING With its circular shape and domed light up. disposition to help make great Kohn Shnier and ERA and Engineering. When he learned University, and in particular with sity College into the Paul Cadario Architects ceilings, Croft Chapter House is one universities make the world that there was to be an SPPG, helping the Faculty of Arts and Science, to Conference Centre at the Croft of the most iconic spaces at the Uni- “Universities are places where students better, I think we’re called upon it out seemed like a no-brainer. which both SPPG and UC belong. Chapter House, he admits that versity. Named for Henry Croft, the come to learn and people do research,” to do that. The relocation will also provide when approached by David Palmer, chemistry professor who campaigned he says. “But they’re also places where “At the World Bank, I lived my life a larger space for classrooms and Vice-President, Advancement, the to establish U of T as non-sectarian people are convened to talk about No doubt, Cadario has answered in public policy,” says Cadario, when seminar rooms—as well as some less size of the donation required institution, with UC as its founding great and difficult ideas, and where that call. tangible benefits. some consideration. college, the structure is one of the there’s controversy that leads to parts of the College that survived understanding and solutions.” 36 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 37 Class Notes FALL 2016 Class Notes FALL 2016 News from Alumni uc.utoronto.ca/magazine News from Alumni uc.utoronto.ca/magazine

IMAGE 04. Sidney Himmel (BSc 1975 UC) Jing Li (BCom 2006 UC) has Cover art for Einstein at Home by Josef Eisinger (BA 1979 UC) was appointed been appointed a joint compa- (BA 1947 UC) chair of the board of Namaste ny secretary of Carnival Group Technologies, Inc. International Holdings Ltd. image credit Courtesy of Prometheus Books Peter Hogg (BCom1992 UC) The Hon. Justice Sidney B. Class Notes has been appointed Chief Finan- (BA 1961 UC) was IMAGE 05. Linden Ira Gluskin cial Officer of Reliant Gold Corp. named a Member of the Order (BCom 1964 UC) of Canada for his contributions News from classmates IMAGE 06. to public administration and near and far Cover art for to the administration of justice Looking for Light by in Ontario. Susan Ioannou (BA 1966 UC)

image credit Courtesy of Hidden Brook Press

IMAGE 07. Rebecca Kukla (BA 1990 UC) spars 04. with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in (BA 1947 UC) Brooklyn Josef Eisinger published a new book, Einstein at IMAGE 08. Home (Prometheus Books, 2016). John McKellar (BA 1955 UC) It was preceded by his Einstein on the Road, which is based on Einstein’s travel diaries. Both books contain some little-known 06 links of Einstein to Toronto. Susan Ioannou (BA 1966 UC) published Looking for Light Stephen Finlay (BA 1979 (Hidden Brook Press, 2016), a 02. UC) was appointed Executive new collection of poetry. Director of ARA Mental Health Gail Dexter Lord (BA 1968 IMAGE 01. Rosalie Silberman Association in Vancouver. He is UC) has been named a Member Abella (BA 1967 UC) Rebecca Kukla (BA 1990 also Secretary-Treasurer of Law of the Order of Canada, for UC), Professor of Philosophy at her contributions to museum image credit Enforcement Against Prohibition Georgetown University, had a Philippe Landreville 08. planning and management and (LEAP Canada). chance to spar with Prime Min-

for her work in supporting the IMAGE 02. ister Justin Trudeau during his Lawyer and impresario John cultural sector in Canada Gail Dexter Lord Emi Furuya (BA 1996 UC) was visit to New York City in April. McKellar (BA 1955 UC) has (BA 1968 UC) appointed Canadian ambassador and abroad. Trudeau was at the boxing gym received the 2016 Ramon John 01 to the Kingdom of Denmark. IMAGE 03. to train with kids from the Give Hnatyshyn Award for Volun- Elizabeth DelBianco tarism in the Performing Arts. Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Wisconsin, to study cardiac (BCom 1981 UC) A Kid A Dream program. Silberman Abella (BA 1967 energetics from mitochondrial UC) has become the first metabolism to the exercising Canadian woman to receive heart. This will be a contribu- an honorary degree from Yale tion to the Physiome Project, a University law school. She comprehensive mathematical received an honorary doctor analysis of human physiology of laws from U of T in 1990. which he initiated in 1993. He is a member of the US National Professor James Bassingth- Academy of Engineering and a waighte (BA 1951 UC) 2016 UC Alumni of Influence leads a new multi-university award recipient. 03. 05. research program, the Cardiac (BA 1981 UC) Power Grid, bringing together Chris Cooter Elizabeth DelBianco Investment mogul Ira Gluskin a team from the Universities was appointed Canadian ambas- (BA 1981 UC), Chief Legal (BCom 1964 UC) has been of Washington, Michigan, UC sador to the Republic of Turkey. and Administrative Officer at appointed to the advisory board San Diego, and Medical College Celestica Inc., was awarded the of Vision Capital Corporation. Jason Dehni (BA 1995 UC) 2016 Canadian General Counsel was named Chief Executive Award in the category of 38 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE Officer of Sun Life Hong Kong. litigation management. UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 39 07. Class Notes FALL 2016 Class Notes FALL 2016 News from Alumni uc.utoronto.ca/magazine News from Alumni uc.utoronto.ca/magazine

IMAGE 09. IMAGE 11. Lorne Michaels UC Spring Reunion (BA 1966 UC) with 2016. L-R: Arlene wife Alice at the (Banack) Lapowich White House (BA 1966 UC), Sharon (Detsky) Rapoport IMAGE 10. (BA 1966 UC), Sharon Bob Rae (BA 1969 UC) (Mandel) Weisbrod and Jessica Phillips (BA 1966 UC), Susan (BSc 2016 UC) (Kaufman) Nuss (BA 1966 UC), Anita (Weinstock) Greenstein (BA 1966 UC), Leigh (Firestone) Eisenberg (BA 1966 UC), Patty (Gelber) Rubin (BA 1966 UC), Roz Lofsky (BA 1966 UC), Shelagh Hewitt-Kareda (BA 1966 UC), Sandy (Drevnig) Lyons (BA 1966 UC), Carole (Cappe) Wolfe (BA 1966 UC), Sharon (Pelchovitz) Train (BA 1966 UC)

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09. University College was well represented at the White House state dinner on March 10, 2016 in honour of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Alumni in attendance included Lorne Michaels (BA 1966 UC), 14. creator of Saturday Night Live, More than 220 alumni came and public affairs strategist back to UC for Spring Re- (BA 1984 UC). Leslie Noble union from May 25 to 29, 2016. 12. The weekend kicked off with (BSc 1988 UC) has 15. Gil Palter IMAGE 12. a lunch social, and highlights been appointed to the board of Photo taken at the included a historical tour of UC (BA 1991 UC) directors of RPX Corporation. class of 1965’s 25th Alice Woolley reunion in June 1991. by Principal Donald Ainslie, a was appointed ethics advisor in L-R: Leigh (Firestone) lecture by Toronto Star columnist the newly established Integrity Eisenberg (BA 1966 UC), Carole (Cappe) and UC One: Engaging Toronto and Ethics Office for the city Wolfe (BA 1966 UC), instructor Shawn Micallef, and of Calgary. She is a Professor in Anita (Weinstock) an outdoor screening of Weekend the Faculty of Law at the Univer- Greenstein (BA 1966 UC), Sharon (Mandel) at Bernie’s, a film directed byT ed sity of Calgary and President of Weisbrod (BA 1966 Kotcheff (BA 1952 UC). the Canadian Association for 10. UC), Sandy (Drevnig) 13. Lyons (BA 1966 UC) Legal Ethics. Rhodes scholar and former On- IMAGE 14. The Hivernante: Marie Anne David Orenstein tario premier Bob Rae (BA 1969 IMAGE 13. (BSc 1974 UC) (left) Lajimoniere, The White Mother Professor Frederick Zemans UC Cookies at UC) and (BSc and Ho K. Sung Jessica Phillips Spring Reunion of the West, a historical fiction (BA 1960 UC) was honoured 2016 UC), UC’s latest Rhodes (BSc 1980 UC) at novel by UC Spring Reunion Mary Willan Ma- with a Law Society Medal 2016 scholar, are pictured at a recep- 2016 son (BA 1943 UC), received a for his exceptional career tion for University of Toronto gold medal from the Indepen- achievements and contribu- Rhodes scholars last spring. IMAGE 15. Alice Woolley dent Publisher Book Awards, tions to the community. (BA 1991 UC) Canada west region. 40 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 41 Nota Bene FALL 2016 Nota Bene FALL 2016 Campus News uc.utoronto.ca/magazine Campus News uc.utoronto.ca/magazine

E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature and Uni- versity College faculty member George Elliott Clarke has published a novel, The Motor- Nota Bene cyclist (HarperCollins, 2016). In February, Cognitive Sci- IMAGE 01. ence program students took Campus News Ramsey Andary, UC Lit part in the University of Toronto President 2016-17 Interdisciplinary Symposium IMAGE 02. on the Mind, which attracted Daman Singh, UC Lit leading researchers in the field Vice-President 2016-17 05. from around the world. The IMAGE 03. IMAGE 05—06. conference was organized by the L-R: Barbara Fischer, UC students at Executive Director Research and Cognitive Science and Arti- and Chief Curator, Art Practice Day ficial Intelligence Students’

Museum; Sandy Welsh, Association (CASA). CASA was Vice-Provost, Students; IMAGE 07. Diana Bennett (BA UC Convocation 2016 also named course union of the 1965 UC), former year for 2015-16 by the Arts and advisory board chair, image credit Science Students’ Union. Art Museum; Donald Stephanie Coffey Ainslie, Principal, University College. IMAGE 08. Graduates Matthew 01. IMAGE 04. Mohan (BA 2016 UC) Bonham Centre (left) and Ryan Phillips Award 2016 winners (BCom 2016 UC) at (L-R) Heather Conway, the UC Convocation 06. 03. Jennifer Pritzker, and reception Selisse Berry On March 11 and 18, respec- Members and friends of the image credit Stephanie Coffey tively, Canadian Studies and Art Museum at the University Health Studies students held of Toronto celebrated the con- their annual end-of-year sympo- tributions of Diana Bennett sia. The events allow students to (BA 1965 UC), who finished showcase their research projects her term as chair of the Mu- and develop presentation skills— seum’s advisory board in June, opportunities that can be rare at at a garden reception at Bissell the undergraduate level. Also on House. The Art Museum is the March 18, students representing new federation that partners each of the College’s signature 07. 02. the U of T Art Centre at UC 04. programs, including the UC One: with the Justina M. Barnicke Engaging Toronto seminar Ramsey Andary and Daman More than 230 friends of the Mark Gallery at Hart House. series for first-year students, Singh were elected President S. Bonham Centre for Sexual and Vice-President, respectively, Diversity Studies at UC gathered at gathered to share their work at of the UC Literary and Athletic Angeline Bellehumeur Hart House on April 13, 2016 for Research and Practice Day. completed an unprecedented Society 2016-17. Andary, a the fourth annual perfect season as part of the Bonham Cen- commerce student entering his Celebrated University College student University of Toronto Varsity tre Awards Gala. fourth year, was Vice-President for their contributions as LGBT Marko Cindric was honoured Blues women’s volleyball team, of the Lit in 2015-16. Singh is a business and policy leaders were with a Student Engagement in which also won its first national political science student entering founder and the Arts Award in recognition title this year. She graduated Selisse Berry, his third year. CEO of Out & Equal Workplace of his leadership role in the arts in June 2016 with a degree in Advocates; community at U of T. Marko is Environmental Geography and Heather Conway, Executive Vice-President, CBC the editor-in chief of DEMO, the Environmental Studies. 08. English Language Services; Hart House Music Committee online and print issue magazine. and Col. Jennifer Pritzker, University College welcomed founder of the Tawani Founda- He is a fourth-year student in 697 new graduates to its alumni cinema and fine arts. tion and President of Tawani En- community at spring Convoca- terprises, Inc. Guests were thrilled tion on June 14, 2016. Thomas by the surprise announcement Keymer, University Professor of a $60,000 gift from Pritzker to- and Chancellor Jackman Profes- wards a new trans studies course. sor of English, delivered the 42 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 43 Convocation address. Nota Bene FALL 2016 Nota Bene FALL 2016 Campus News uc.utoronto.ca/magazine Campus News uc.utoronto.ca/magazine

IMAGE 13. Nelson Wiseman’s term as Health Studies student Lily Ren Director of the Canadian Studies program has been extended image credit through June 30, 2018. Wiseman, Christopher Dew a Professor in the Department IMAGE 14. of Political Science, will be taking Prof. Tamara Trojanowska a six-month leave starting January 1, 2017; Professor Smaro IMAGE 15. Kamboureli, Avie Bennet Prof. Nelson Wiseman Chair of Canadian Literature image credit in the Department of English, Christopher Dew has graciously agreed to step in

IMAGE 16. as Acting Director of Canadian University College lit Studies during that time. up in green for Mental 11. Health Week Luisa Pacheco was awarded IMAGE 09. Prof. Brenda Cossman the Principal’s Distinguished 13. Staff Award. She is the Lead image credit Health Studies student Lily Ren Hand Cashier at University Christopher Dew took tops honours in an under- College Food Services and has IMAGE 10. graduate research competition Prof. Cynthia Goh been with UC for an incredible sponsored by the National Initia- 43 years. IMAGE 11. tive for the Care of the Elderly. Luisa Pacheco (R) Lily is also the Vice-President receives the Principal’s Distinguished Staff of the Health Studies Students’ Award from Principal Union. Her project looked at Donald Ainslie the incidence of hip fractures IMAGE 12. in seniors who are prescribed Prof. Ana Pérez-Leroux benzodiazepine, with a focus on

image credit those living in community dwell- Christopher Dew ings and long-term care facilities. This marks the second year that a Health Studies student has taken the first place.

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Brenda Cossman, Director of the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at UC and a professor in the Faculty of Law, was honoured with a Lexpert Zenith Award 2016 for her contributions to diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.

16. 10. 14. University College was University College faculty 12. illuminated in green light member Professor Cynthia Professor Tamara Tro- every evening during the week ’s term as Goh has been appointed the Ana Pérez-Leroux janowska of the Depart- of May 2, 2016 for mental Director of the Cognitive Science inaugural Academic Director of ment of Slavic Languages and health awareness. the Banting & Best Centre for program has been extended Literature has been appointed Innovation & Entrepreneurship. through June 30, 2018. She is a Director of the Centre for She is a physical chemist, cross- Professor of Linguistics and of Drama, Theatre, and Perfor- appointed to the Departments Spanish and Portguese, and will mance Studies for five-year of Chemistry, Materials Science be taking a one-year research term commencing July 1, 2016. and Engineering, the Institute of leave starting July 1, 2016, during The Centre is an affiliate of UC. Medical Science, and the Munk which time Dr. John Vervaeke 44 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE School of Global Affairs. will act as Director. UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 45 obituary FALL 2016 In Memoriam FALL 2016 June Surgey uc.utoronto.ca/magazine University College uc.utoronto.ca/magazine

Obituary Obituary

In Memory of June Surgey (BA 1951 UC) Beloved alumni organizer helped countless students and others

AUTHOR Yvonne Palkowski

June (Johnson) Surgey was born in June 1, 1930 in Québec City.

The loving wife of the late James Dermot (Derry) Surgey and beloved mother of Cathy and Michael, she had three grandchildren and one great- grandchild.

She attended University College in years following WWII, gradu- ating in 1951 with a bachelor of arts. She married and raised a Peter Richardson, who was prin- the College. She retired with family, returning to her alma cipal of the College during most him to Picton in 1992, and mater as a volunteer and then a of June’s tenure. later moved to Owen Sound to staff member, starting in the late be closer to her children and 1970s through the early 1990s. Amir Hussain (BSc 1987 UC) grandchildren. agrees. “I first met June in 1983, She immersed herself deeply my first year at UC, at the scholar- Tireless and relentlessly in the life of the College, ship dinner. I was what we now dedicated to helping others, organizing events and activating call ‘first-generation,’ the first in even in her later years she not only fellow alumni, but my family to go to university. It served on the boards of the also students and faculty. She was a pretty alien place in lots of Loyalist College Foundation, had a knack for connecting ways for a working class kid from the Children’s Aid Society, and with people and forging Parkdale. June helped me to the Residential Hospice of Grey relationships among them, by adjust and to thrive,” he says. Bruce, receiving the Ontario arranging informal networking Volunteer Service Award from and mentorship opportunities Another former student, Bev the Ontario Ministry of Citizen- for alumni and students. Her Batten Simpson (BA 1981 Wood- ship and Immigration. “She efforts marked the beginnings sworth) recalls how June encour- never stopped,” says her son, of and laid the groundwork aged her to go to law school, and Michael. “To the day she died for a more professionalized even helped arrange her wedding she was a fundraiser and alumni relations program at reception at University College. board member for so many University College. “If it weren’t for her faith in me, great causes.” I doubt that my life would have “Her network of friends and con- gone the way it has and we are She passed away on June 10, tacts was vast, and she helped all blessed to have known her.” 2016 at the age of 86. She will be of us to think more strategically missed by the many individuals about UC’s place in the Univer- June’s husband was also a whom she touched. sity. And she was especially good visible presence at College events, with students,” recalls Professor though he was not a graduate of

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Notices of death published in this issue were received between January 1 and June 30, 2016. Date of death and last known residence are noted where possible. Friends and family of the deceased can help by sending information to [email protected].

1930s Mr. Donald F. Pattison (BA 1949 UC) Mr. Winston R. S. E. McKenzie (1957 UC) Mr. Philip B. Goulston (1961 UC) Mrs. Ruth A. Anderson (BA 1936 UC) of Toronto, ON; May 12, 2016 of Toronto, ON; Feb. 12, 2016 of Montréal, QC; May 20, 2016 of Mississauga, ON; Jun. 28, 2016 Mrs. Mary G. Phemister (BA 1940 UC) The Rev. Don R. McKillican (BA 1950 UC) Mr. Neil R. Gunn (BCom 1967 UC) Mr. Paul M. Hutcheson (BCom 1938 UC) of Ottawa, ON; Apr. 1, 2016 of Barrie, ON; Mar. 20, 2016 of Collingwood, ON; Mar. 30, 2016 of London, ON; Feb. 1, 2016 Mrs. E. A. Plunkett (BA 1949 UC) Mr. Sydney Moscoe (BA 1955 UC) Ms. Sheila M. Katz (BSc 1966 UC) Mrs. Clara M. Muskat (BA 1932 UC) of Burlington, ON; May 12, 2016 of Thornhill, ON; Mar. 8, 2016 of Ottawa, ON; Mar. 22, 2016 of Toronto, ON; May 15, 2016 Mrs. Gwendoline M. Pratt (BA 1942 UC) Mr. Peter F. Oliphant (BA 1951 UC) Mr. Martin H. Kramer (BSc 1962 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jun. 7, 2016 of Toronto, ON; Jan. 30, 2016 of Toronto, ON; Feb. 7, 2016 1940s The Rev. L. C. Raymond (BA 1948 UC) Mr. William J. Raymond (BCom 1950 UC) Mr. Michael J. Landauer (BA 1964 UC) Mrs. Beverly J. Arnold (BA 1948 UC) of Etobicoke, ON; May 18, 2016 of Etobicoke, ON; May 10, 2016 of Toronto, ON; Jan. 14, 2016 of Waterloo, ON; Mar. 27, 2016 Mr. Kenneth D. Robb (BA 1949 UC) Mr. Moishe I. Reiter (BA 1956 UC) Mr. Thomas G. McQuiston (BA 1960 UC) Miss Evangeline Begley (BA 1949 UC) of Mississauga, ON; Feb. 20, 2016 of Toronto, ON; May 6, 2016 of Toronto, ON; Jun. 12, 2016 of Etobicoke, ON; Mar. 12, 2016 Prof. A. E. Safarian (BA 1946 UC) Mrs. Diana M. Ritchie (BA 1956 UC) Ms. Jane J. (Miller) Morrison-Bernet (BA 1960 UC) Ms. Doris W. Bell (BA 1949 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jan. 29, 2016 of London, England; Mar. 7, 2016 of Guelph, ON; May 26, 2016 of Markham, ON; May 29, 2016 The Rev. Donald R. Sinclair (BA 1943 UC) Prof. Wendy L. (Law) Rolph (BA 1959 UC) Ms. Elizabeth Pinzhoffer (BA 1965 UC) Mrs. Bettina M. B. (Ratcliffe) Campbell (BA 1947 UC) of Orangeville, ON; Feb. 5, 2016 of King City, ON; Apr. 6, 2016 of Toronto, ON; May 4, 2016 of Ancaster, ON; May 4, 2016 Mrs. Ruth L. Stein (BA 1941 UC) Mr. Raymond Z. Schell (1959 UC) Prof. Guido Pugliese (BA 1965 UC) Mr. Robert S. W. Campbell (BA 1941 UC) of Toronto, ON; Mar. 12, 2016 of Yorkton, Saskatchewan; Jun. 1, 2016 of Downsview, ON; Jan. 12, 2016 of Don Mills, ON; Feb. 20, 2016 Mr. John M. Walroth (BA 1949 UC) Mrs. Anne C. (Burton) Smith (BA 1951 UC) Mrs. Margaret M. Coburn (BA 1944 UC) of Don Mills, ON; Apr. 12, 2016 Ottawa, ON; Feb. 20, 2016 1970s of Schomberg, ON; Jun. 18, 2016 Mrs. M. J. (Webster) Whitten (BA 1948 UC) Mr. Lloyd Solish (BA 1953 UC) Mr. Donald C. Crowe (BA 1970 UC) Mrs. Barbara J. Comerford (BA 1946 UC) of Mississauga, ON; Jan. 29, 2016 of Toronto, ON; Jan. 27, 2016 of Toronto, ON; May 10, 2016 of London, England; Feb. 28, 2016 Miss Nancy M. T. Stewart (BCom 1956 UC) Mr. Earl M. Fruchtman (BA 1977 UC) Mrs. Eugenie F. C. (Seitz) Delatour (BA 1942 UC) 1950s of Georgetown, ON; Apr. 25, 2016 of Toronto, ON; Jan. 7, 2016 of Carmel, CA; May 1, 2016 Mr. Garnet R. Banks (BA 1956 UC) Mrs. June A. (Johnson) Surgey (BA 1951 UC) Mr. Joel S. Kuchar (BCom 1972 UC) Mr. Frederick Floras (BA 1947 UC) of Toronto, ON; May 27, 2016 of Owen Sound, ON; Jun. 10, 2016 of Thornhill, ON; Feb. 26, 2016 of Don Mills, ON; Jun. 11, 2016 Mr. Douglas R. Booz (BCom 1952 UC) Mr. Gordon I. Wetstein (BA 1950 UC) Mr. Dennis A. Lawrie (BA 1976 UC) Mr. Sydney Gangbar (BA 1948 UC) of Toronto, ON; Feb. 29, 2016 of Willowdale, ON; Jan. 6, 2016 of Aurora, ON; Mar. 6, 2016 of Toronto, ON; Jan. 15, 2016 Prof. Mavis O. M. Cariou (BA 1950 UC) Mr. Thomas H. Wilson (BA 1959 UC) Mr. John B. Ridsdel (BA 1971 UC) Mrs. Martha A. Gerrard (BA 1949 UC) of Toronto, ON; Apr. 17, 2016 of Toronto, ON; Jan. 16, 2016 of Calgary, AB; Apr. 25 2016 of Newmarket, ON; Feb. 1, 2016 Dr. Austin Clarke (1959 UC) Mrs. Sheila E. (Sprachman) Wolfish (BA 1951 UC) Ms. Mary C. Roddy (BA 1974 UC) Mrs. Muriel R. (Macdonald) Haldenby (BA 1947 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jun. 26, 2016 of Toronto, ON; Feb. 25, 2016 of Toronto, ON; May 9, 2016 of Toronto, ON; Jan. 29, 2016 Dr. Jack G. Dale (BA 1953 UC) Mr. Perce Young (BA 1958 UC) Mr. John M. Kerr (BA 1949 UC) of Willowdale, ON; Feb. 3, 2016 of Welland, ON; May 8, 2016 1980s of Waterloo, ON; Mar. 28, 2016 Mrs. Lola Foster (BA 1950 UC) Mr. Randall Ferris (BA 1980 UC) Prof. M. Kathleen King (BA 1947 UC) of Toronto, ON; Mar. 21, 2016 1960s of Brisbane, Australia; Apr. 8, 2016 of Toronto, ON; Mar. 20, 2016 Mr. Lloyd W. Fraser (BA 1955 UC) Mr. Lloyd H. Coles (BA 1961 UC) Mr. John M. Kinna (BA 1982 UC) Dr. Walter Kohn (BA 1945 UC) of Willowdale, ON; Jan. 13, 2016 of Stouffville, ON; Jun. 14, 2016 of Key Largo, FLA; Feb. 11, 2016 of Santa Barbara, CA; Apr. 19, 2016 Mr. Stanley Gural (BA 1956 UC) Mrs. Wendy E. Dolan (BA 1967 UC) Mrs. Marion J. (Vanstone) Lesslie (BA 1941 UC) of Weston, ON; Apr. 12, 2016 of Thunder Bay; Feb. 20, 2016 1990s of North York, ON; Feb. 19, 2016 Mrs. Amelia Humphrey (BA 1951 UC) Mrs. Maxine Drevnig (BA 1967 UC) Mr. Dennis C. A. Moulds (BA 1991 UC) Ms. Judith E. J. McErvel (BA 1949 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jan. 28, 2016 of Willowdale, ON; Mar. 20, 2016 of Scarborough, ON; Jun. 8, 2016 of Toronto, ON; Apr. 24, 2016 Mr. John E. Humphries (BA 1950 UC) Mrs. Brenda B. Gale (BA 1967 UC) Mr. Clare W. Morrison (BA 1949 UC) of Scarborough, ON; Jun. 12, 2016 of Toronto, Ontario; Feb. 19, 2016 2000s of Sutton, ON; Apr. 18, 2016 Mr. Avrom Isaacs (BA 1950 UC) Mrs. Kathleen (Murray) Glazin (BA 1961 UC) Ms. Sara Rosen (BA 2003 UC) Mr. Sidney D. Olyan (BA 1949 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jan. 15, 2016 of Stouffville, ON; May 17, 2016 of Toronto, ON; May 12, 2016 of Thornhill, ON; Jan. 28, 2016 Mrs. Sally L. (Hogg) MacDonald (BA 1953 UC) of Thornhill, ON; May 3, 2016

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