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OUR MAN in WASHINGTON Michael Kergin Reflects on His Tumultuous Years As Ambassador to the U.S PLUS: IRAQ–A ‘JUST WAR?’ • THE NEW PUPPETEERS • MORE RHODES SCHOLARS! TRINITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE VOLUME 41 NUMBER 2 SPRING 2004 OUR MAN IN WASHINGTON Michael Kergin reflects on his tumultuous years as ambassador to the U.S. SUMMER 2003 1 O! call back yesterday, bid time return. – Shakespeare SPRING REUNION 2004The next best thing to turning back time Thursday, June 3 – Sunday, June 6 All alumni are welcome to attend Reunion events. Honoured years are all those ending in “4” or “9.” ❥ Farewell for Dean Elizabeth Abbott, ❥ Garden Party in the Quad and St. Hilda’s College. Strachan Hall. ❥ St. Hilda’s Lunch. Guest speaker: Lynda ❥ Private class parties arranged by year reps. Reeves 7T6, host of House & Garden Members of honoured years will receive Television: “It’s Only Decorating!” a registration package with more details. ❥ Return to the classroom: seminars with ❥ For a full list of scheduled events, Trinity faculty. with dates and times, see page 31. Please send me tickets for, or reserve, the following: __ St. Hilda’s College Alumnae Association Lunch @ $25 __ Back to the classroom lectures (Free. Further details to come) __ Garden Party @ $18 __ Residence @ $40 per person per night Fri. __ Sat. __ I enclose a cheque payable to Trinity College for $________. Send your order to: Office of Convocation, 6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto M5S 1H8. VISA/MasterCard/American Express orders accepted by mail; phone: (416) 978-2651; fax: (416) 971-3193; or e-mail: [email protected] VISA ___ Master Card ___ Amex ___ #___________________________________________ Exp. Date ___________________ Signature __________________________________________ Name _________________________________ Phone number___________________________ Address _______________________________________________________________________ Postal Code ____________________ e-mail address ___________________________________ Name of Guest(s) _______________________________________________________________ FromthetheProvostProvost Like the world in the past year, Trinity has come through some turbulent times. SARS hit us hard last summer, along with the rest of Toronto, when virtually all our summer residence bookings were cancelled. The stock market also caused us some uneasy Cover photo of Michael Kergin by moments, but I am pleased to say that we weathered that partic- Ryan Remiorz/CP 8 ular storm well. Over the past four years the value of our invest- n.b. ments increased on average by almost five per cent annually, while College observations 4 those of some other universities declined. worth noting In spite – or perhaps because – of all this, the college continues to flourish. It is a haven By Graham F. Scott from the world, but still very much part of it. Our students and fellows grapple with the The Washington Post great issues of our times, from international relations to bioethics. We have had some won- Michael Kergin ’65, 8 derful guest lecturers. Prof. Diarmaid MacCulloch of Oxford University, a leading expert Canadian ambassador to the on the Reformation, talked on Thomas Cranmer, our own Prof. Mark Kingwell was this U.S., reflects on his term in the diplomatic hot seat year’s Larkin-Stuart lecturer, and Prof. John Foley of the University of Missouri-Colum- By Andrew Mills bia gave the Mary White Lecture. Academically, Trinity continues to shine. Our admission standards are among the high- Who’s Pulling the Strings? est in the province, and our students do well while they are at the university. We like to The puppet wizardry of 12 Judd Palmer and Jay Williams think that we at Trinity help to make this possible. With our dedicated staff and our aca- By Stacey Gibson demic dons, we give a level of support to students that no other college at U of T can match. This year, a Trinity student and one of our academic dons won the Rhodes Schol- Matters of Justice Trinity fellows weigh in arships awarded in Ontario, and one of them also won the Moss Scholarship, a top award 16 on the war in Iraq and the for the best all-around graduating student at the university. Last year, both Ontario Rhodes International Criminal Court Scholarships were won by Trinity students. A recent survey shows that 49.3 per cent of By David A. Welch and our students aim for further education, significantly more than at any other college. Noah Novogrodsky We have been going through a major strategic planning exercise, initiated by the uni- A Rhodes is a versity, which has obliged us to think about our long-term academic goals. These are to Rhodes is a Rhodes 22 keep doing what we already do well and to strengthen our college programs in Ethics, Maria Banda and Navindra URRID Persaud are Ontario’s 2003 C Society and Law, International Relations and Immunology. Rhodes Scholars OHN : J As always, we come back to the question of resources. With funds from U of T insuf- By Graham F. Scott ficient to cover our costs, we have to rely on our endowment and on the generosity of our HOTOGRAPHY Class Notes P alumni. You support us in so many ways. Thank you again. News from classmates Sincerely, 26 near and far MARGARET MACMILLAN, Provost Calendar Published three times a year by the friends and associates of the college. Things to see, hear 31 Office of Convocation, Trinity College, We respect your privacy. We do not sell, trade and do this spring Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1H8 or rent our mailing list. If you do not wish to Phone: (416) 978-2651 receive the magazine, please contact us. The Big Step Fax: (416) 971-3193 Editor: Karen Hanley Email: [email protected] Art Direction: Carol Young/ It’s 1904: Trinity 32 http://www.trinity.utoronto.ca Ireland + Associates federates with U of T Trinity is sent to 13,000 alumni, parents, Publications Mail Agreement 40010503 By Margaret Webb SPRING 2004 3 OBSERVATIONSn. & DISTINCTIONSb. WORTH NOTING • BY GRAHAM F. SCOTT Spreading the Gospels the Saunderson Rare Books Room of the John W. In Graham Library at Trinity College, Chief Librarian Linda Corman carefully places the 500-page, meticulously illuminated Lindisfarne Gospels on the reading table. “It’s really quite extraordinary,” she says, turning the heavy pages of the book, which was acquired recently as a result of a donation by alumna Hilary Nicholls ’59. Nicholls had first learned about the Gospels while attending the University of Toronto library school in 1961. Last August she was reminded of the book again when she saw an article about it in the Globe and Mail.“It sounded wonder- ful,” says Nicholls.“I phoned and asked Linda if it would be nice for the library, and she said yes.” The 1,300-year-old original still resides in the British Library.Trinity’s version, a limited-edition reproduction from the Swiss printing house Faksimile Verlag Luzern, is one of only 980 facsimiles that have been printed world- wide.“It’s the quality of the reproduction that’s so amaz- ing,” says Corman.The manuscript is illuminated in 45 different colours and tones and includes a unique combination of Anglo-Saxon and Celtic elements, making it significant for the study of Old English and medieval art. Written in Northern England between AD 715 and 720, the Lindisfarne Gospels,a St. Jerome Vulgate version of the Latin Bible, predates the Book of Kells by almost 100 years. With Old English added between the lines in the 10th cen- A richly illuminated image from tury by the scribe Aldred, it is considered by some scholars the Lindisfarne Gospels, perhaps the ©T to be the most important item of cultural heritage in the HE most important artifact of cultural B British Isles.“It is the oldest surviving English translation RITISH LIBRARY heritage in the British Isles of the Bible,” Corman says. 4 TRINITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE Contemplating Faculty of Law to document Vancouver. Kumar says this of Trinity,” she says, then adds and research the horror knowledge will be used with a wry smile, “but not the Cambodian that seized Cambodia in the to advocate for justice for administrative life.” Genocide 1970s, when an estimated survivors. Abbott, who last year “Genocide in general is inex- 1.7 million people – published A History of plicable, but in Cambodia it 21 per cent of the population Abbott retreats Mistresses, already has two was absolutely incomprehensi- – were killed by the Khmer to write books book contracts ahead of her. ble,” says Kartick Kumar, a Rouge regime. “I have a new boss,” says “And now I’m going to spend third-year Trinity student The group has invited Trinity’s departing dean of the rest of my life writing majoring in international guest speakers, formed discus- women, Elizabeth Abbott. the books I’ve always wanted relations and political science. sion groups, and has begun a “Me. She’s tough, but to write.” Kumar is founder of the project documenting the she’s fair.” A cocktail reception will Cambodian Genocide Group, testimony of survivors of the Abbott will be stepping be held for Dean Abbott on a new student organization genocide now living in and down at the end of this acade- Thursday, June 3, from 6 to 8 working in co-operation around Toronto. This sum- mic year after 13 years as dean p.m. in Melinda Seaman Hall with the Munk Centre for mer, it will also gather infor- to devote herself to her writ- at St. Hilda’s College. It is International Studies, the mation from the Cambodian- ing. “I plan to continue to be sponsored by the St. Hilda’s Asian Institute and U of T’s Canadian community in involved in the intellectual life College Alumnae Association The Producer he last thing I thought I’d be is an executive producer on a movie,” “TSimon Jackson says.
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