University of St. Michael’s College Alumni Newsletter, www.utoronto.ca/stmikes DoubleBlue Vol. 41, Number 2, Autumn 2003 Letter from Jim Milway '73 President, Alumni Association

our alumni Board membership. We have an active group Y The University of board is of Board members – but we need more alum- St. Michael’s College gearing up for ni to be involved in Alumni Newsletter DoubleBlue a new year. helping us with new ideas and energy. We Published twice a year with We have iden- recently welcomed David Montgomery '77 a circulation of 23,000 by: The Office of Alumni tified two priorities for 2003-04. First, we and Steve Williams '94 as new Board mem- Affairs and Development Letter from Alumni President need to regain the momentum in the success bers and look forward to welcoming others. 81 St. Mary’s Street Toronto,Canada M5S 1J4 of the Annual Fund. The Annual Fund is a Let me know if you’re interested in getting central means by which alumni can support St involved. Production and Publication Group: Michael’s College in its mission of excellence Fr. Richard Donovan, CSB . in Catholic higher education. These funds sup- As we look ahead to the new year, all of the J. Barrett Healy Fr. Robert Madden, CSB port programs such as Christianity and Culture Alumni Board join me in thanking Mary Ellen Eva Wong and Celtic Studies, programs so important to Burns for her five years of dedication and enhancing the distinctiveness of the school. determination as the Director of Alumni Design and Layout: Addesign The funds also help fund bursaries for assis- Affairs. Mary Ellen embodied the spirit of St tance to students. In a variety of other ways Michael’s and its alumni. She was always The Alumni Board and Office Staff express sin- the Annual Fund helps provide myriad activi- working on the next friend-raising event at the cere thanks to the follow- ties that make the school special. The need is school – from fall homecoming to the ing for their contributions:

even greater this year as unavoidable costs at Christmas tea to the Lenten reflection and the The Editor and staff of the the College have been mounting. spring reunion. She reinvigorated the St. Michael’s Staff Bulletin Vicki Garnett DoubleBlue – making each issue better than the In the past four years the Board has set Dr. Mimi Marrocco last. Most recently Mary Ellen successfully Brian O’Malley aggressive growth targets for the total amount and the contributors to coordinated the 150th anniversary celebrations contributed by our alumni to the Annual Fund. Info-Update-Bravo for the College. There were many successful and all other contributors In the years 1999/2000 we achieved solid events carried out by all the College’s con- of articles and photos in growth in the Annual Fund as more of our this issue. stituencies all with Mary Ellen’s support. We alumni gave, and those who gave, gave more. wish her the best as she leaves St. Michael’s. Please send comments, We reached a record for the Annual Fund corrections, & enquiries to: Alumni Affairs and when we reached 1.1 million in 2000/2001. Development Office Unfortunately, this growth has stalled. In the University of Jim Milway most recent year the Annual Fund achieved St. Michael’s College 81 St. Mary Street $942 thousand. For us to get back on track Toronto, ON M5S 1J4 we need more of our alumni to be giving, and Phone: 416 926-7260 Fax 416 926-2339 we need to increase the average gift. Email: [email protected] Your alumni board will be working hard to ______President identify new strategies to re-invigorate the Alumni and students of Annual Fund. But success will be the results Alumni Association St. Michael’s College receive this magazine free of charge of your generosity as the College asks for your support in the coming year.

Our second priority will be in strengthening 2 SMC President’s Column 3 62 ' Richard Richard Alway St. St. Michael’s College President, This column, as many others I have written since 1990, This column, as many others I have written in our operation generally, in our operation opportu- tried to maximize from nities for income and ancillary operations, struc- maintained a salary dedi- ture that reflects the of cation and commitment ori- a staff and faculty fully of ented to the mission the College. One dramat- this last point. Government reporting ic statistic illustrates the public listing of all uni- requirements have mandated a salary of $100,000 or more. This versity personnel with the UofT. past year there were 1,200 on this list from list. This is some- There was no one on the St. Michael’s time so that the thing that must and should change with but it also speaks gap does not hurt our competitiveness, of the income to why your College with only a fraction is and Victoria from endowment enjoyed by both Trinity am also pleased to able to keep pace. On a related note, I many investment funds when report that this last year, numbers, our across North America shrank by double-digit endowment showed a modest increase. graduates and attempts to bring you, our most interested recent develop- best friends, up to date on some of the – in this instance as campus ments on the St. Michael’s a new period of after our 150th anniversary, we enter, for future genera- building the College and its programmes help and encourage- Your students. tions of St. Michael’s ment ensure that these efforts will bear fruit, and that the will, as great educational project that is St. Michael’s always, go from strength to strength. 60's, more stu- '

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DoubleBlue The The View From Elmsley Place dents are being taught more courses at the College than There are more students in our at any time in our history. residences, and all, resident and non-resident alike, benefit from the largest and best College library and the most extensive concentration of state-of-the-art technology to be found in the Faculty of Arts and Science at UofT. more efficient make all this possible we have become To Elsewhere in this issue you will find a new feature by our Principal, Mark McGowan, that will appear periodically in the the exciting academic initiatives now underway at St. Although under vastly different circumstances Mike’s. than when I was an undergrad in the early In fact, from this perspective, it is almost hard to remem- In fact, from this perspective, months ago was in the midst of just four ber that Toronto the most intensively reported and the SARS outbreak, epidemic of the last half century. least well understood is fast receding that unpleasant phenomenon Fortunately, linger on, in par- but its effects into the mists of memory, of Toronto ticular the negative impact on the image here at the University, borders. Even beyond Canada’s not find any- where, at the height of the scare you could St. Michael’s one wearing a mask, there were problems. an English as a has for the past several summers hosted their early teens second language school for students in enrolment from Asia and Latin America. Last summer wake of SARS it is under in the peaked at 267. This year, has been 40. Summer business, which the College years as a way of aggressively promoting for the past ten year show a rev- augmenting academic budgets, will this dollars. enue shortfall of almost a quarter of a million in insur- When this is added to a 100 per cent increase utilities costs (par- ance costs post 9/11, and much higher can attest) we ticularly electricity as anyone from Ontario face obvious financial challenges. Number One, Elmsley Place, is a marvellous place from is a marvellous place Elmsley Place, Number One, of a positive features the largely which to contemplate From my office summer. high warm Toronto sunny and Joseph slowed along St. sees that traffic has one window, has never looked more beautiful Street and the campus plantings as our grounds staff with masses of colourful what is already the most finds new ways to enhance the University of Toronto. attractive campus at Cardinal Gerald Emmett Carter 1912 - 2003 Cardinal Carter

By Michael Higgins, President, St. Jerome’s College, University of Waterloo

erald Emmett Cardinal Carter, the recently deceased savings that he had built up from his salary as a priest and GChancellor Emeritus of the University of St. bishop during his long career. He established a close rela- Michael's College and Archbishop Emeritus of Toronto, tionship with President Alway, who met with him almost was every inch the educator. He relished his association every month to brief him on developments on campus. with St.Mike's, not because it was part of his job as The President was also an honorary pallbearer at the Archbishop, but because he treasured education, Cardinal’s funeral on April 10th. St. Michael’s gave public attached high importance to the role of the teacher (no expression to its admiration and appreciation of Cardinal matter the level--primary, secondary, or tertiary), and rec- Carter when it conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of ognized the deeply humanizing and sanctifying signifi- Divinity honoris causa when he retired as Chancellor in cance of education in the life of the mature Catholic and 1998. democratic citizen. Emmett Carter was destined quite early in his life as a

For 20 years Cardinal Carter was the Chancellor of St. priest to see to matters educational. Within just a few Michael’s, faithfully presiding at Baccalaureate Masses and months of his ordination in 1937 he was assigned by his University Convocations, always using his good offices to Bishop to assume duties as the new Ecclesiastical further the mission of St. Michael’s in Catholic higher edu- Inspector of English Schools in Montreal. He was wholly cation. "He was always very comfortable in the university unprepared. And he knew it. But he was not to be daunt- environment," remarks President Richard Alway. "Ideas and ed. He took on his the life of the intellect were important to him, and he inte- new respons- grated them into his personal faith in a way most of us ibilities with would like to emulate, though few manage to approach". panache, became St. Michael’s financial well-being was of particular concern the Catholic Chaplain to him and he often volunteered to introduce the College at McGill University, to potential donors and to act as host at lunch and dinner earned a doctorate in meetings to present the case for St. Michael’s. He was education at the also generous with his own personal finances. In 1992, University of when the College financial picture was particularly bleak, Montreal (his disser- he called President Alway to his office in the Chancery tation, and presented him with a cheque for $125,000, which he said represented the Our Front Cover: Cardinal Gerald Emmett Carter and President Richard Alway at Convocation 4 1998. (Photo:Overbook Studios) "The Psychological Import of Religious Education", received cation continuum that nur- Carter Cardinal a good deal of critical attention because of its rather daring tures the heart, the mind, fusion of psychology and religion), became the first presi- and the soul from cradle- dent and a charter member of the Thomas More Institute to-grave. Emmett for Adult Education, founded St. Joseph's Teachers’ Carter's own philosophy College, became the first rector of St. Lawrence College in of education is best Ste. Foy, and published widely on pedagogy, catechetics, summed up in his religious education, educational psychology, and education- favourite and oft-repeated al history, including three major works on these subjects: Augustinian quotation: "In CATHOLIC PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF QUEBEC (1957), PSY- necessaris unitas, in dubi- CHOLOGY AND THE CROSS (a 1959 reworked version of is libertas, in omnibus cari- Cardinal Gerald Emmett Carter his dissertation that was considered so controversial by his tas" ("In the fundamental publisher--Macmillan of Canada--that he was informed that issues, unity; in matters of "there is little doubt that it could be sold but it would surely opinion, freedom; in all things, charity.") A worthy credo have a rough time in the hands of Catholic educators in by SMC's former Chancellor, whose episcopal motto--Pax America") and THE MODERN CHALLENGE TO RELIGIOUS et Lux ("Peace and Light")--defines nicely the ideal goal of EDUCATION (1961). In time, the young cleric who had all education. thrust on him in the summer of 1937 the demanding role of Ecclesiastical Inspector of Schools would so rise to the The Canadian Church, the Archdiocese of Toronto, and the task that by the time he was named Auxiliary Bishop of University of St. Michael's College were blessed in many London, Ontario in 1962 he had become arguably the fore- ways by the presence and ministry of Cardinal Gerald most Catholic educator in the country. Emmett Carter.

And that would not change after he was ordained to the [Michael W. Higgins taught for the Faculty of Theology episcopate. He was personally instrumental in helping set and in the Christianity and Culture Programme in the late the stage for the decision of the Government of Ontario in 70s and early 80s and is married to St. Mike's gold medal- 1984 to extend full public funding from elementary to the ist Krystyna Peterson ' 72. He is the author of the official conclusion of secondary education in Catholic schools and entry on Cardinal Carter for the New Catholic exercised deep personal interest in the fortunes and direc- Encyclopedia, Carter's obituarist for The Tablet of London, tion of such post-secondary institutions as King's College, England, and co-author of the 1990 biography of the Brescia College (both at the University of Western Cardinal, My Father's Business (Macmillan).] Ontario) and Assumption University of Windsor while he was in London and finally with St. Michael’s and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto. Education was in Carter's blood. St. Mike's embodies in its undergraduate, post graduate (specifically in theology), and continuing education initiatives precisely those vital areas of formation that he saw as part of the Catholic edu-

5 plans for an exciting renovation for this famous St. Michael’s program. In the autumn we will begin our search for a new One Year Later faculty member in Christianity and Culture, and our Celtic Studies program is attracting an impressive array of visiting By Professor Mark McGowan professors and guest lecturers (including former Irish President Garret FitzGerald this autumn).

Last July (2002), as I In March, we announced the formal approval of our new inter- approached my new duties as disciplinary minor program in Book and Media Studies, under College Principal, I was filled whose umbrella we shall link some of the most exciting with the sense of "possibility" minds and valuable teaching resources in the University of as St. Michael’s celebrated its Toronto. This is the first undergraduate program of its kind in first 150 years. Many chal- North America. We are very excited about the way in which lenges were still peeking over it will marshal the vast print and media resources of the the horizon and drawing closer University and the wider community and place them at the in my agenda book – World disposal of our students. Youth Day, the first "dry" orien- tation since the 1960s, the In January, we began a process that aims to create a minor new "coed floor" at the Delta-Chelsea Hotel that housed some program in Mediterranean Studies, which is also bringing SMC students, a new Provost at the University of Toronto, together various interested parties from both the College and the second Furlong lecture, "Understanding Islam" , and the several faculties at the UofT. This is an exciting moment as we

Principal Mark McGowan: One Year Later much anticipated preparations for the "double cohort". As I contemplate an interdisciplinary program that will explore the quickly learned, there would be plenty of unanticipated chal- lands and peoples of the entire Mediterranean area (with which lenges awaiting me and my team, some of them rewarding, an increasing number of St. Michael’s students can claim eth- others not so pleasant. nic affiliation). The Program will also assist us in our plan to cre- ate an ongoing forum at St. Michael’s for the continuing dia- When I began my term, I had three main goals: to enhance logue between the three great religious traditions of Abraham: the lines of communication between the partners that form Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. In the spring of 2004, our third the St. Michael’s campus community; to expand our curricu- Furlong Lecture will bring all three groups together to discuss lum and create opportunities for greater academic energy on "the Creation," and the response of each of these traditions to our campus, with the hope of spilling over into the wider the challenge of nurturing "the earth." community; to build community life at St. Michael’s as we head towards our bicentennial. Plans are being laid for a new look to Brennan Hall in order to enhance student life at St. Michael’s; many can remember These goals have been unfolding gradually. To enhance the the times when the Coop was full and Brennan was a hive of communication side I have established a whole host of new undergraduate activity. My plan, in co-operation with the stu- standing committees, advisory committees and less formal dents, USMC, and the Faculty of Arts, is to renovate Brennan working groups. The inspiration for these developments is not and make it the "heart of St. Michael’s"–including student club my love of committees, but a sense that we needed new and space, a coffee bar, campus ministry, The Mike, and the better ways of connecting the various groups and centres of Registrar’s office. Alumni Hall would be reconverted into concern on campus. In this process I have learned the impor- much needed office and classroom space to accommodate tance of being visible as Principal while all the while being a the pressing needs of the double cohort. The new Brennan discerning listener; a college community can only be strength- would energize the campus and help us build community. ened and nourished if all of its members know that they are partners in a common enterprise. As I enter year two of my mandate, I recognize that the three virtues are omnipresent in the College’s mission: Faith, in our With the numbers of the "double cohort" in mind, and in full endeavour to offer a holistic education, as expressed in our knowledge that our new SMC students have a plethora of mission statement; Charity, to be a presence in the greater interests and come from diverse backgrounds, our curriculum community; Hope, in the great things that our community can must be flexible, innovative and imaginative. Our traditional build and celebrate. I thank the Alumni for their ongoing sup- programs, Celtic Studies, Mediaeval Studies, and Christianity port and look forward to working with you more closely as we and Culture, remain the backbone of our academic life. This enter the next era of SMC’s history. year we undertook a review of Mediaeval Studies and have

6 Frank Buckley / Planned Giving Feasibility Study 7

Sisters of Loretto and St.

March 10, 2003 Dear Graduate, an alumnus I am writing to you as University of and supporter of the College. My educa- St. Michael’s guiding tion, which included the influence of the Basilian Fathers and the provided me with a legacy Joseph, that is with me every day of my life. I am so grateful for the excel- lent experience I had at St. Mike’s, that I have left a donation to the College in my will. In the next few days, a representa- tive will be calling to invite you to consider making a similar gift. I hope that you will consider the This proposed options carefully. request is not just an opportunity to give, it is the chance to support Catholic education for generations to come. If you have any questions about this initiative, please con- Executive tact Brian O’Malley, Alumni Affairs and Director, Develop-ment, at 416-926-7261 or [email protected]. has For over 150 years, St. Mike’s provided an exceptional academic and moral approach to education. I hope you will join me in securing the tradition for future students. Sincerely, Frank Buckley SMC BCom 1942

By Brian O’Malley, Alumni Executive Director, Affairs and Development Planned Planned Giving Feasibility Study The survival and future of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto will The survival and future of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto very much depend on our ability to continue to build the endowment. The to results of the survey by Legacy Leaders make us hopeful that we will be able achieve this goal through alumni/ae support sufficient to sustain the future via- bility of St. Michael's College. Since 1990, St. Michael's College has actively worked to build an endowment. Through generous gifts from the Basilian Fathers, Sisters of Loretto and St. Joseph, bequests, donations, and careful management, the endowment has replace the "living endow- grown from $7,100,000 to $35,400,000 in 2003. To ment" with a fund which will provide sufficient income to offer services, scholar- ships and bursaries to our students which are comparable to those offered by we must build an endowment Victoria, and the other federated colleges, Trinity well in excess of $100,000,000. Until recent years, the future of St. Michael's College has been secured by the Until recent years, the future of St. Michael's sisters of Loretto and St. Joseph. They donated services of Basilian priests and As vocations to the religious life were considered to be our "living endowment". that its future viability must be the College recognized declined dramatically, income, which will replace the gift of secured by an endowment to generate and religious. donated time and service from priests We have been informed by Legacy Leaders that an 11% confirmation rate We for the College among our constituency. demonstrates a strong level of support the long-term financial stability of St. It was made clear from the survey that by our alumni/ae and friends. Michael's College is regarded as important A team of specially trained representatives of Legacy Leaders followed up Mr. A team of specially trained representatives to discuss the idea of a planned giving com- letter with a phone call Buckley’s were reached by phone. Of that mitment. Approximately 350 of our graduates that they have named St. Michael’s 39 graduates or 11% declared number, were giving consideration to remember- College as a beneficiary in their will or ing the College. The initial survey took place in late March when 500 College graduates and place in late March when 500 College The initial survey took SMC ’42, Buckley, Frank letter on this page from Mr. friends received the in his will. named St. Michael's College as a beneficiary explaining why he has giving commit- alumni/ae to join him by making a planned He also encouraged the tradition for future students. ment which will secure Last spring, St. Michael’s College commissioned Legacy Leaders Inc. to con- Legacy Leaders College commissioned St. Michael’s Last spring, deter- of the study was to The purpose study. giving feasibility duct a planned in providing support among our alumni/ae and friends mine the level of interest giving. The a bequest, trust or other form of planned to the College through a long-term information necessary for a decision regarding results will provide planned giving. project to encourage the Congregation of the Sons of the Immaculate St. Michael’s Honors Bishop Conception, he was ordained in Toronto in 1970 and served in several pastoral and administrative capacities. In Nicola De Angelis and Dr. 1980 he received the degree of Doctor of Ministry from St. Michael’s. His religious community recalled him to Janet Somerville Rome to serve as Treasurer General, and in 1986 he was elected their Superior General. In 1992 Pope John Paul II At the beginning of the 12 June ’03 Baccalaureate Mass, appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, where he Honourary Fellows in the presence of the ’03 graduates and their parents, served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Central Pastoral Region spouses and other relatives and friends, two distinguished of the Archdiocese, and Episcopal Vicar for the Ethnic graduates of St. Michael’s were invested as Honorary Apostolate, for the Pastoral Mission Fund, and for all Fellows of the University of St. Michael’s College by the Catholic Faculties of Theology in Universities. He was Most Reverend John Boissonneau ’70, Pro-Chancellor of Episcopal Liaison with the Toronto District School Board the University. and with Catholic Lay Movements, Groups and Associations, and Spiritual Advisor to the Catholic Dr. Janet Somerville received her BA degree in 1959 and a Woman’s League in Ontario. Bishop De Angelis’s episco- Master of Theology degree in 1965. She then joined the pal ministry to Toronto was marked by warmth, cordiality, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as the co-ordinating insight, sensitivity, spiritual depth, and good humour. The producer of Ideas, the award-winning series on CBC radio. Bishop has also been a member of the Pontifical After five years, she resigned from the CBC, turning her Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and attention to exploring, with various Canadian Christian Apostolic Societies and a member of the Pontifical Church networks, the inter-relationship between biblical Councils for Interreligious Dialogue and for Migrants and faith and social and economic justice. Through the ' 70s Itinerant People. On 28 December ’02, Bishop De Angelis and ' 80s, she worked informally in various Church circles was appointed Bishop and Ordinary of the Diocese of as a religious educator, sometimes in conference settings, Peterborough, ON. often through Bible study, but most often as a contributor to Church connected publications. Her work often took St. Michael’s is proud to honour Bishop De Angelis and her abroad; in 1987 she was appointed a lay perita on the Janet Somerville, and is honoured by its association with Canadian bishops’ delegation to the Vatican Synod on the them. We pray that God will continue to bless them in laity. For a number of years in the ' 90s, Janet was an their respective ministries. important member of the staff of the inde- pendent bi-weekly newspaper The Catholic New Times. She served as Associate Editor of the paper, which won national and interna- tional awards in several categories of religious journalism. In 1997, Janet became the first Roman Catholic and the first woman to be appointed to a five-year term as General Secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches. The citation presenting Janet for the Honorary Fellowship concluded with these words, "Janet’s life and ministry enfleshes her belief ‘that God has high hopes for the world and it is intrinsic to being a Christian to take your life in the world seriously and try to bring about God’s hopes.’ (Compass volume 14 #1)”

L to R: Back Row, Professor John McLaughlin, Dean Anne Anderson, CSJ, Rev. Terry Kersch, CSB, Bishop Nicola De Angelis was born in Italy President Richard Alway, Rev. Peter Wood, Principal Mark McGowan. Front Row: Janet Somerville and came to Canada in 1967. A member of newly invested Honorary Fellow, Most Rev. John Boissonneau, Auxilary Bishop of Toronto, and Most 8 Rev. Nicola DeAngelis, CFIC, newly invested Honorary Fellow, after the Baccalaureate Mass Mary Ellen Burns / Gordon Cressy Award / Doris Lau 9 Mary Ellen Burns ’70 02,is the of recipient a honourary ' degree at St. Michael’s convocation, with SMC at degree President St. Michael’s Alway in Richard UofT quarters Chancellor’s Dr. Doris Lau, D.S.Litt Dr. is the result of her creativity and has justly received many compliments. Her concern for is the result of her creativity and has justly

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he news of Mary Ellen Burns’s decision to step down from her position step down from decision to Mary Ellen Burns’s he news of sadness. was a cause of St. Michael’s of Alumni Affairs for as Director Gordon Cressy Award Gordon Winners Cressy Award 2003 was presentation The held 10th Anniversary Student on Cressy Gordon Leadership 2 Awards April 2003 in the Hall Great of Hart House; LSMC Back recipients: Row, to R: Luke Stocking, Anne-Marie LCollege. Marrin, Mary CSJ, Ellen Row, Front Dean, Burns, St. Sr. Joseph’s to R: Samantha Brutout, Elizabeth Holly Bozek, Johnson, Christina Nicolas Wong, Pappalardo. Missing photo: Gerberi, from Davide and DeLuca, Eunice Todd Yang

T Thank You Mary Thank You Ellen Burns '70 and work with the students was exemplary. Giving spirit to her many gifts and her love for St. Michael’s was a strong was a Giving spirit to her many gifts and her love for St. Michael’s and work with the students was exemplary. the St. in by her graduate theological studies at Regis College, to minister, desire, influenced and supported no doubt her imaginative and invit- with whom and for whom she worked. Her sense of duty, tradition, to the people Michael’s out to individual alumni, her deep appreciation of their contributions to the ing leadership, her concern for and reaching were among the many characteristics that are gratefully to St. Michael’s College, and her unquestioned devotion remembered. Mary Ellen was able to provide a leadership that attracted people to be to provide a leadership that attracted people Mary Ellen was able Alumni for the work of the St. Michael’s involved and take responsibility of the Association, strengthen the committee structure the Board Executive, she helped to with Association. Working in its functions, and developed important new initiatives and events. The drew more people into active participation present format of That sadness was proof of, and underlined, the general respect, appreciation underlined, the general was proof of, and That sadness St. and staff of faculty, administration, the alumni, students, and affection her and benefited by developed for her as they worked with had Michael’s Her dedication to the during her tenure as Director. her devotion and talents to maintain and and her determination of St. Michael’s, purpose and mission of College life marked her engagement in every level enhance its traditions in contact. with which she came Graduation Awards

President Richard Alway congratulates Paola Luca, recipient of the Governor General's Graduation Awards Certificate of Excellence for the highest academic standing in a Bachelor degree pro- gram; the College Gold Medal for the highest grade point average in Science; the Khoury Memorial Fund Award for highest grade point average and entering UofT’s Faculty of Medicine.

Prof. A. J. Bewell, Acting Chair of the UofT Department of English, presents the College Gold Medal for the highest grade point average in the Humanities and Social Sciences to Elizabeth M. Nicolas Pappalardo, recipient of the Principal’s Medal for upholding the practice Balogh. of Catholicism proper to a university community, achieving an excellent academic record, and participating fully in and making a distinctive contribution to, College life. Dr. Abbeyanne Lynch presented this award, which was established by the Lynch family to honour her late husband, Professor Larry Lynch ’27, former Principal of St. Michael’s William Zunic receives the Mercier- Knowlton Prize for highest grades in Philosophy and in Christianity and Culture from Mrs. Adele O’Connell, daughter of the late Leo Knowlton ' 27, Raymon ' 56 and Sylvia Pegis Santin ' 60 present Samantha Brutout with the donor of the Marina Santin Award, which they established in memory of their late daughter prize. and St. Michael’s graduate to recognize a young woman graduate who has achieved a good academic record, exemplifies the Christian ideals of joyful engagement in life, openness to others, service to the community, responsible leadership, and who has distinguished herself by an active and constructive involvement in the life of the College. Principal Mark McGowan, congratu- lates Luke Stocking, recipient of the William B. Dunphy Medal for combining excellence in academ- ics with sustained com- mitment to volunteer service in the wider community; the W.H. Broadhurst Graduate Scholarship for aca- Professor Jennifer Harris, Christianity and Culture, presents the Sister St. John Aere demic excellence and Perrenius Prize to Liam O’Hare. This prize is awarded to graduating students in the entering a graduate Christianity and Culture program who demonstrate serious interest in the study of program in the liberal 10 Latin. (Amie Di Carlo and John MacDonald were also recipients of this award.) arts at the UofT. Convocation / Tree Planting 11 Baccalaureate Mass Baccalaureate Tim O’Brien at Tim planting tree L to R: Elizabeth Bozek '03 and Holly Johnson '03 en to route the L to R: Dean Higgins, Pam Wright, (Kelly) McGee and Fr. Bob (Kelly) Madden, McGee CSB and Fr. Marshall Deeney, Fr. Bob Madden, CSB, and Fr. Marshall Deeney, 03 ' President Alway reflects on Barry’s tree. Ltree. Alway on reflects President Barry’s to R: Brian Sheedy, Ed (Thompson) Kerwin, Sheedy, Mary Pat Valerie Moore, Beckman, President Alway, Bill Evans, Alway, Beckman, Megan President McGee, Pat

By Elizabeth Bozek

Friends and classmates from the United States and Canada joined Barry’s Friends and classmates from the United States and Canada joined Barry’s wife, Patricia Kelly McGee ’68 and one of their daughters, Megan, for the brief President Richard Bill Evans and Pat spoke briefly; St. Michael’s ceremony. tree" was planted right outside his office window, noting that "Barry’s Alway, Bob Madden, CSB offered a prayer expressed gratitude for the memorial gift; Fr. of blessing and dedication. There followed a simple reception with light refresh- ments in the offices of the President, and Alumni Affairs and Development, now housed in Belisle House. Many memories were shared, and all recognized the aptness of a tree as a memorial to one who had brought life to the campus for so many years and in so many ways. For several of those returning to campus for the Spring Reunion there was an For several of those returning to campus with grand memories. Many of added event of great importance and charged late Barry McGee ’68 gathered at 11:00 the classmates and other friends of the to take part in the blessing and Weekend A.M. the Saturday morning of Reunion favourite trees) recently (one of Barry’s dedication of a flowering crabapple tree the south (St. Joseph Street) side planted in his memory on the lawn bordering longtime friend, schoolmate and fellow of Belisle House. Bill Evans ’68, Barry’s project that resulted in funding for the Rochesterian, had initiated this memorial tree and an appropriate memorial plaque. Barry McGee Tree

A friend of mine who chose not to attend the convocation ceremony because his parents ceremony to attend the convocation mine who chose not A friend of reason to attend—"after all, me afterwards that he did not see any could not make it told I thought that I agreed, just a photo-op for the parents?" Although the ceremony really isn’t Convocation than just the many, thought that there was a bit more to I realized after some reminded us of the Catholic tradi- Church morning Mass at St. Basil’s many pictures. The carried over into the after- and the pride and motivation this instilled tion of the College, by the speeches heard were inspired not only Hall. We noon ceremony at Convocation reality that we are leaving were also faced with the other as well. We but by each that day, good-bye to just saying home; for many of us, we weren’t what has become a classes were held across campus, as well. Although most of our but to St. Mike’s UofT, at SMC, and it was important to gather together once again and celebrate our many of us lived (or just seemed to live) to say good-bye to some friends, and to rekindle other friendships that Convocation was thus a chance community. years of whatever) a chance to reminisce about our four (or three, or five, or... might have waned over the years. It was with high expectations—and what better way to close this chapter of our and to look forward to the future university, years memorable! lives than with those that made these Thoughts Thoughts on Convocation Spring Reunion 2003 Spring Reunion 2003

Mary (Palmer) Mallon '33 and Laura (Richardson) Keegan '33 with Allan Alter '56 Back Row, L to R: Frank Kielty '58, Doreen (Quinlan) Tracy, '58, Joe Lawless '58, Marcelline (O'Mara) Brown '58, Jack Burns '58, John Regan '53, John Lychy '58. Front Row: Mary (Holland) Lambie '58, Pat (Ryan) Szego '58, Michael McDonald '58, Mary-Pat (McNamara) Kielty '58, Fr. Bob Madden, C.S.B., '52

Frank Kielty, Class Representative, 1958 The St. Michael’s campus is never more beautiful than in the late spring. On the weekend of May 30, the college welcomed returning alumni from the class of 1958 for our 45th reunion. You may think this is Class of '53 friends at 50th Anniversary Lunch. Standing, L to R: Jean (O'Gorman) premature, but I’m asking you and Kallmeyer, Anne (Berthon) Clune. Sitting, L to R: Lorraine (O'Donnell) Williams, Fr. Owen Lee, CSB and Lorraine everyone in SMC 5T8 to mark the Patricia (Barron) Burgess, Mary (Lonergan) Landry, Betty (Rosar) Bracken (O'Donnell) Williams entertained calendar for the weekend of 30 May their classmates at the 50th 2008. No one who comes back to Anniversary Lunch St. Michael’s leaves unmoved.

while playing shuffle board or that mother of all video Reflections of '68 Triggered games, "pong." Having emerged from all-male high schools (and grade schools) none of us was especially by the '03 Spring Reunion slick with the girls. One thing brought us together more than anything else - by Ed Tonello ' 68 playing cards. SMC’s renovated Brennan Hall lounge opened in 1967 and offered an anvil upon which we There were eleven of us in September 1965 when we would forge some of our strongest memories – an began our freshman year at St. Michael’s College. We unprecedented, exclusively-dedicated card-playing room! were from Toronto, graduates from the Catholic high In our third and final year an unspoken ritual evolved. schools, De La Salle and St. Michael’s College School. Once a week after completion of the first class of the day, We did not originate as a group but gravitated together. sometimes several of us would drift into the room with There was nothing particularly auspicious about any of us. the expressed purpose of just wanting to "see what’s We enrolled in the three-year General Arts program, going on.“ Soon the beachhead was enlarged as others eschewing the four-year Honour Course program. We from the group ambled in from their classes, thereby avoided demanding subjects, like math and science. That achieving a "critical mass" with the inevitable result that a is not to suggest that we lacked commitment to our aca- card game would break out. Guilt was assuaged by demic obligations –our studies remained our focus. everyone avowing that the game would be only for "a hand or two." We did not excel in extra-circular activity. For example, in hockey some of us played intramural in the bottom eche- Within minutes of the first game getting under way, all lon - no try-outs, just show up – so that we could stick pretence, along with books, was cast aside. Off came the together. We occasionally drank beer to excess, usually jackets, spectators pulled up chairs to claim turf, sleeves across the street at the BayBloor (draft $0.15 per glass), were rolled up, and hands gleefully slapped together, 12 Spring Reunion 2003 13 The Class of '68 (and friends) turned out in force. L to R: Rick Against Hayward Window: O'Brien. L'70, Back Tim Row, to Bob Madden R: John Fr. Moore, O'Sullivan, C.S.B. Bob '52, Terry Shiley '69, Rob Cunningham, Tom Mark L White. Riley, Row, Front to R: Bill Evans, Mary Pat Soucie, (Prentiss) Valerie (Thompson) Beckman, Pat (Kelly) Gabriel, McGee, Marty (Ward) Joan (Harrison) Johnston, Peter Rogers, John Jane Tuer Lavery, '69, with Mary Agnes (Schlueter) O’Brien, seated and front centre. —all this was happening as we played Laugh-In dent riots in Paris, the violent suppression of the freedom dent riots in Paris, the violent suppression the Chicago revolt in Prague, the public/police riots in Convention, Jackie streets during the Democratic National Onassis, increased opposi- marriage to Aristotle Kennedy’s war and its toll in human life, Richard tion to the Vietnam of the moon, mari- Nixon elected President, the first orbit power enters juana is becoming a household word, flower rights, marches, protests, rights, civil the lexicon, women’s colour TV, cards; things would never be the same again. casual or informed, would be justified in An observer, believing that we appeared to be a collection of listless, shallow individuals. But what was not so apparent was our last fling at boyhood camaraderie - some- bonding; life’s 35 thing that does not leave the consciousness even now, years after the last hand was played. Forever thanks, alma mater. PS. the on to become lawyers, one a teacher, Four went others mostly MBAs & CAs. The May 30/03 Friday night and All Alumni Reception was our 1st Reunion together, we remembered. "The Clover Hill LCrew", to R: '69, John Mark Tuer White '68, Frank Petruzella '68, Tom Riley '68, '68, Tom Dave Didur ’70, Peter Rogers '68

. Money was a mere prop: de rigueur The year 1968 was epochal, not unlike 1848. Although somewhat cocooned at the card tables in Brennan Hall, we understood quite well that the world outside was “The Times swirling with profound change: Bob Dylan’s “My They Are A Changin’” replacing the Temptations’ Girl”, Haight-Ashbury displacing Main Street, the assassi- the stu- nations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, Through the windows in the south wall of the card room Through the windows in the south wall rhythm of the we could see the trees and the changing seasons along the walkway from the campus quad to St church and Clover Hill, where some of our classes Basil’s unforgettable Religion 300). Belyea’s convened (e.g. Fr. John Kelly Library was about to open. There were The Fr. only two tall buildings in the area – the Sutton Place Hotel Street. Yorkville, and an apartment building on St. Mary’s inexplicably then in its coffee house- folk singing heyday, did not hold attraction for us. our penuriousness (and equal card-playing skill!) ensured our penuriousness (and equal card-playing that over time losses and wins washed. money put on the table, imminent classes went unmen- money put on the table, imminent classes to twelve hour sessions, with washroom tioned. Ten became breaks only, President Alway with President Sylvia and Stephen Ponesse '63 Spring Reunion 2003

Rosemary McCormick '38 gives L to R: Gerry (Wilson) Kennedy '43, John Whyte, Marion (Sirdevan) Nelligan '48, Rosemary and James MacKenzie '43 Fr. Frank Mallon, CSB '29 a ride John Nelligan '47, Louise (Hart-Smith) Aldous '43, Peggy (O’Brien) Whyte '43 at the Friday Reception on Saturday night.

Class of '48, Betty Hill, Marianne Korman, Betty Reinhart Higgins, Vern Mulhall '47, Maureen (Hickey) Mulhall, Sheilagh (O’Leary) Deuel, Gloria (Chisholm) Buckley, Philip White. Back Row: Fr. Hugh Foley CSB and Angela (Wilson) Keyes '43ers after Mass: standing L to R: Peggy (O’Brien) Whyte and Gerry (Wilson) Kennedy with seated, L to R: Marie (Reid) Tosoni and Louise (Hart- Smith) Aldous Gloria Buckley, Class of ' 48 Reunion is a special time, June 2003, our 55th anniversary, was Marie Tosoni, Class of ' 43 wonderful and special in many I enjoyed the 2003 Spring ways. God bless St. Mike’s Reunion very much. It was and all! especially important this year because my daughter, Mary Tosoni Kelly ’68, and my grand- daughter, Jennifer Pryde ’98, were also present. My con- nection with St. Michael’s is L to R: Jennifer (Kelly) Pryde '98, Ian Pryde '98, Kay Kelly '58, very important to me. Marie (Reid) Tosoni '43, Mary (Tosoni) Kelly '68 (Photo courtesy of Maria Tosoni)

Mary Anne (Egan) Giannini '92 and Desmond Egan '84, (standing), with Eileen (Egan) Rodrigues '67 and Rita Standing, L to R: Phyllis (Weiler) Horbatiuk '48, Gene Horbatiuk, Earl Burke, Andrea Mudry '63, Angela (Wilson) Keyes '48. (Burke) Egan '38, reminiscing about Seated, L to R: Vernon Mulhall '47, Gerry O’Meara Burke '47, Maureen (Hickey) Mulhall '48, Sr. Helen Harber '48, Sr. Marion Rory Egan '38, Rita’s husband, who 14 Norman, IBVM '39 passed away last year Spring Reunion 2003 15 , and the many great Martha Dominguez '83 The Mike L Conrad Lauber to CSJ R: ‘56, Sr. Janet Loo ‘99, Leona Fernandes ‘00, Anne-Marie Marrin CSJ Sr. L to R: Rosemary McCormick ‘38, Mary Pat (Whalen) '68, Moore Maureen (McCool) Pappin '68 at Sunday Brunch L to R: Scanga (Bury) Michelle '99, Henry Liz '98, Lundy Vanessa '98, Veronica Kenny '98, Camille Piovesan ‘98, Daniela Keenan '98, Kristi Downey (Durette) '98, Kathleen Hogan '98, '98 Janet Loo '99, Alex Vernon Kathleen Hogan ‘98 like a long time, Though five years since graduation at first seemed and old study bud- the quick laughter and smiles at seeing friends passed at all. dies made it apparent that hardly any time has Thank you for having us! St. Patrick's Day pubs at the Coop. From '78, From L Steve to Quinn, R: Joanne Hart, Alex Connie Greene Fieglar, Reeve, Terry Connie Reeve ‘78 SMCSU, with Attendees from the class of '78 met old friends and recalled fondly their involvement with New Yorkers Viggo Rambusch '53, Viggo Joyce (Kury) New Healy Yorkers and Don Healy '68 with Alway and Richard President Brian O’Malley L to R: Paul Riley Mary '63, Phil Eleanor Barrette, Hynes Lawlor, '63, Andrew (Menihan) '63, Barrette Rita (Manning) Lawlor '63, Joan Pisarra (Schloderer) '63, Kevin (Hauser) Dunn '63, Michael Dunn, '63, Don Allen Corcoran Carolyn Wright, Schmidt '63 Kevin-Dunn Class of ‘63 - ‘63ers from as far away as California, It was a great get-together braved the threat of Montreal, New Jersey and Boston New York, SARS. L ‘62, Birgeneau to M. R: Catherine Mary Kelly Catharine ‘68, (Ware) Madeleine Kneider ‘58, Robert ‘63, Birgeneau UofT Donovan, Richard CSB and President, Fr. ‘47 at the night Saturday reception valued and respected member of the University of St. Faculty Profile: Michael’s College community. Martin Dimnik was born in 1941 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia. In 1943, after the death of his father in Fr. Martin the war, he, his mother, and other members of his family fled to Austria; in 1949 he and some of the ' family emigrated to Western Canada. He graduated Dimnik, CSB 65 with the Student of the Year Award from the Basilian high school in Lethbridge, Alberta, in 1960 and in Senior Fellow and Former August of that year entered the Basilian novitiate in Richmond Hill, ON. In 1961, after professing religious

Faculty Profile: Father Dimnik Praeses of the Pontifical vows, he was appointed to residence in St. Basil’s Seminary, Toronto for his undergraduate education. Institute of Medaeval Studies Registered at St. Michael’s College, he pursued Honours Slavic Studies at the University of Toronto, "Martin Dimnik has established himself as the premier graduating in 1965. After teaching for two years at authority in the world on medieval Chernigov….[he] St. Michael’s College School, Toronto, he returned to has reshaped the political map of pre-Mongol St. Basil’s Seminary for his theological studies. During Russia…. [His] research achievements are extraordi- his theology studies he also did graduate work in the nary." UofT's Department of Russian Languages and Literature, receiving a Master of Arts degree in 1970. "…Professor Dimnik is one of only a few real authori- As a Deacon he lived at St. Michael’s College, where ties in the USSR or the West on chronicles as histori- he taught a course on Russian Civilization in the cal sources for pre-Mongol Rus’." Freshman (Western) Course and completed his theo- logical preparation for ordination. Ordained a priest in "Now that [Oxford Professor] John Fennell has left the the Basilian parish in Lethbridge in June of 1971, he field of Russian studies, Dimnik is becoming the rec- began his doctoral studies in Oxford University that ognized successor to his mantle….[and] one of the autumn. He received his D. Phil from Oxford in 1976 most accomplished historians now teaching in North and, with his appointment to PIMS that same year, America." began an outstanding multifaceted career that contin- ues to this day. These are but a few assessments by fellow historians of the academic work of Fr. Martin Dimnik, CSB, Fr. Dimnik’s fields of specialization are the history of Senior Fellow and former Praeses of the Pontifical Kievan Rus’ (Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries), and the Institute of Mediaeval Studies (PIMS). history of the Slavs in the Balkans in the middle ages. As Senior Fellow of PIMS, Full Professor in the UofT’s On 1 July ’03 Cambridge University Press published Centre for Medieval Studies, Associate of the UofT’s The Dynasty of Chernigov 1146-1246, the third and Centre for Russian and East European Studies, and final volume of a research project which developed Adjunct Professor of the Faculty of Theology of St. out of Fr. Dimnik’s doctoral studies at Oxford Michael’s in the Toronto School of Theology, he has University. His productive research and publishing taught courses on Kievan Rus’, the Orthodox Church, activities combine with his involvement in teaching, the Slavs, Medieval Institutions and Legal Traditions, administration, and priestly ministry to make him a 16 Faculty Profile: Father Dimnik 17 Fr. Martin Dimnik, splendour CSB '65Fr. enjoys Nature’s Endowment for the Humanities as well as for sever- Endowment for the Humanities as al academic journals. Dimnik is often involved in As a Basilian priest Fr. parish ministry on weekends and in various ministeri- in the al activities in the local Basilian community, and on campus. One broader civic community, should add that, certainly in his earlier days, he was an accomplished athlete and was known to play a mean game of tennis! He now enjoys lengthy walks in the country as well as in the city. College community The University of St. Michael’s Martin Dimnik rejoices in the accomplishments of Fr. and is grateful for the example he gives of dedication to its spiritual and intellectual purpose and values. , and sev- The Modern The Encyclopedia of The New Cambridge The Cambridge History of and in (Macmillan Reference USA, New , thirty-four entries in Medieval History Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet articles pub- Dimnik has had eral book reviews, Fr. conferences in lished or has made presentations to Ukraine, Croatia, England, Canada, Germany, Currently in Belgium, Serbia, and the United States. the press are chapters in Russia Russian History and articles to appear in publications in Serbia, York), Ukraine, and Canada. No one can accuse him of resting on his laurels! His administrative experience includes the Presidency (1990-96) and Academic Secretary (1987-90) of PIMS, and current member- ship on the local council of the Basilian Fathers of St. He also serves on various academic Michael’s. boards and committees and is an Appraiser for the granting bodies SSHRC and The National Along with his three-volume history referred to Along with his three-volume history above, twenty-nine entries in Saints Cyril and Methodius, and early Slavic and Methodius, Cyril and Saints his research of Assessors the Balkans. in Christianity to his- he has made out the contribution have pointed his specialization by in his fields of torical studies by his chronicles, and analysis of early careful textual (the and numismatics findings use of archaeological medals, and related materi- history of coins, coinage, involved in several archeological als). He has been co-organizer of the on-going excavations, and is Archaeological Expedition Ukrainian-Canadian in the regions of Ukraine which is Baturyn and Chernihiv by the Shevchenko State jointly administered Ukraine, and of Chernihiv, Pedagogical University received a grant (one of several PIMS. In 1996 he the Social he has received for his research) from Council of Sciences and Humanities Research archaeological Canada (SSHRC) to participate in an by the expedition to the Crimea organized Academie of Archaeological Institute of the Ukrainian he served on the Sciences. In 1995, 1998, and 2001 Advisory Boards of the three International Numismatic Congresses held in Croatia. Building Community

By Marilyn Elphick, Chaplain

The role of the pastoral team at St. Michael’s College is to tings. In addition to the annual autum- provide members of the university community with oppor- nal retreat on Strawberry Island, there tunities to grow in the intellectual, spiritual and practical are several retreat evenings scheduled dimensions of their faith. In other words, we strive to fur- throughout the school year. Building Community nish the tools for the members of our community to build The USMC Chaplaincy Centre for on, develop and integrate their baptismal calling to disciple- Social Justice works toward the "pref- ship in the university, the workplace, the family, and the Fr. Terry Kersch, CSB, erential option for the poor" through its Church. Chaplain collaboration with agencies such as Liturgical celebrations form the bedrock of our ministry, Society of Sharing, Sisters of the Good Shepherd Sharing and we offer several opportunities to the community Fair, Fontbonne Ministries, The Canadian Catholic throughout the academic year to participate in our Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP), the Eucharistic Celebrations. The University Mass, our weekly Canadian Catholic Students’ Association (CCSA), and the Sunday Eucharistic celebration, takes place at 4:30 P.M. in International Movement for Catholic Students (IMCS). This St. Basil’s Church during the academic year. This Mass fall, the Justice Centre, in collaboration with the Dominican gives the students an opportunity to learn and to serve the Family, is hosting a public lecture by Gustavo Gutierrez on worshipping community in various liturgical roles. Each 8 October at 7:30 P.M. in St. Basil’s Church. The St. year, a Twilight Liturgical Workshop takes place, and we Michael’s students staff and lead the Out of the Cold out- are fortunate in being able to utilize the rich resources of reach project. This program, which operates one day a the Faculty of Theology to assist us with the training of week during the winter months, provides a much-needed liturgical ministers. The evening concludes with a place of warmth, refuge, and a warm meal for the home- Eucharistic Celebration in which the students can use their less people in downtown Toronto. newly acquired skills. Future projects include planning for the 2005 World Youth Serving the community through a min- Day in Cologne, Germany and participation in the formation istry of presence, the pastoral team of a National Catholic Student Association. At this time, endeavours to provide an open door and we would like to express our deep gratitude for all your a safe, confidential environment to support and prayers; they enable us to carry out our mis- explore issues of spirituality through sion of building a strong faith community and bringing the ongoing formation and direction. Faith Gospel through liturgical worship, prayer, education, and Marilyn Elphick, discussion, bible study, and scriptural social action to the university and the world. Chaplain reflection groups gather in informal set-

Alumni Association Board of Directors 2002-2003 Executive: Members: Ann L. Sullivan ’77 James B. Milway ’73: President Terri A. Farkas ’73 M. Lynne Sullivan ’72 Karen Chambers ’88: Vice-President Michael R. Henry ’91 Steve Williams ’94 William J. Henry ’88: Treasurer Michael B. McCarthy ’84 Gloria Chisholm Buckley ’48: Secretary David Montgomery ’77 Joe Figueiredo (SMCSU President) Patrick Carroll ’70: Past President Bradley N. Morrison ’95 Michael Muir (SMCSU Vice-President) Brian R. O’Malley: Executive Director, John O’Brien ’94 Alumni Affairs & Development David M. Scandiffio ’94 18 Welcome Leslie and Christina / Golf Winners 19 Joseph Sorbara ‘63, Tournament Chairman, Joseph Sorbara ‘63, Tournament presents the winners’ trophy to Philip Horgan ‘84, Dominic Currado, Monsignor John and Bill Love. For the second year in Murphy, led by Monsignor team, a row Philip Horgan’s John Murphy and all the angels, took home the trophy. Millenium 2003 Golf Tournament Winners

Christina Attard ’03 has been appointed Administrative Assistant to the Major Gifts Team of Administrative Assistant to the Major Gifts Team Christina Attard ’03 has been appointed in Christina graduated from St. Michael’s/UofT the Office of Alumni Affairs and Development. degree in Medieval Studies with High Distinction. In 2003 with an Honours Bachelor of Arts of study at the Eberhardt-Karls Universität in Tübingen, 2001/2002, she was enrolled for a year College over the past three years, Christina has While studying at St. Michael's Germany. and Development part-time and in summers at a variety worked in the Office of Alumni Affairs research, and donor communications. In this of tasks including event organization, prospect assisting in support to the Major Gifts Team, position, Christina will provide administrative and co-ordination of special events and projects. basic donor research and in the development The Office of Alumni Affairs and Development is fortunate to be able to welcome Leslie Belzak to welcome Leslie fortunate to be able Development is of Alumni Affairs and The Office is a graduate of Leslie Team. Major Gifts with the St. Michael’s Development Officer as Senior Political Science. She comes to an honours degree in Journalism and Carlton University with Gallery of Ontario, where she was from the Fundraising Office of the Art St. Michael’s of Alumni Affairs and Development, Executive Director Brian O’Malley, Foundations. Manager, and knowledge from a successful to this position extensive experience remarked, "Leslie brings to the Art Gallery of Ontario, and fundraising." Prior to her appointment career in development Institute for Advanced increasing responsibility with the Canadian she had positions of Foundation. On her Women’s Hospital Foundation, and the Canadian Research, The Toronto

appointment to St. Michael’s she commented, "I am excited to be back in an academic setting and very happy to be at St. excited to be back in an academic setting she commented, "I am Michael’s appointment to St. experience and talents and have already begun to benefit from her too, are happy that she is with us; we We, Michael’s." look forward to working with her. Welcome Aboard Leslie and Welcome Christina tions. With financial assistance from the UofT’s Faculty of Campus Notes Arts and Science, adjustments have been made to the proscenium arch, the stage area, and to the aisle-seating configuration. A new sound system has been put in place, • Kudos to Fr. Michael A. Fahey, S.J., former Dean of the general lighting of the auditorium has been improved, the St. Michael’s Faculty of Theology. Fr. Fahey is the and a new control console has been installed which makes Campus Notes recipient of the distinguished John Courtney Murray possible the use of VCR/DVD equipment with Internet and Award, the highest award granted by the Catholic World-Wide Web connections, a document camera that Theological Society of America (CTSA). This honor is given projects images from a variety of sources, and a data pro- annually to an individual who has demonstrated excellence jector. This new lecture facility, which seats 284, is unique in theology. After entering the Society of Jesus in 1951, Fr. on campus, and this year is in academic class use five days Fahey studied at Boston College, the University of Louvain and four evenings each week. in Belgium, Fordham University, New York City, Carinthia, Austria, and completed his graduate education with a doc- In addition to the torate in theology from the University of Tübingen, new lecture hall, Germany, where he studied under Fr. Hans Küng and the new Odette Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. Fr. Fahey taught theology at the Learning Centre Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, MA and and the Roy and in the Department of Theological Studies in Concordia Ann Foss University, Montreal. In 1986 he came to St. Michael’s, Research where he served two terms as Dean of the Faculty of Common in the Theology. He returned to the United States as the Emmett John M. Kelly Roy & Ann Foss Research Commons, Kelly Library Doerr Distinguished Professor of Theology at Marquette Library are recent University in Milwaukee, where he continued his extensive and important additions publishing and his work as Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious to College’s continuing journal, Theological Studies, as well as serving on the efforts to meet the boards and committees of several academic, theological, changing academic and ecumenical institutions and agencies, often in an exec- needs of students. The Computer Classroom in the Odette Learning utive position. His research interests have focused in par- Odette Learning Centre Centre, Kelly Library ticular on theological issues that have separated the contains an "electronic Christian churches, especially the Christian East and West. classroom’ which provides thirty-eight Internet and World Fr. Fahey has been described as a theologian "with few Wide Web connected stations for computer-assisted peers in the realm of Catholic thinking," and as "the con- instruction. The Roy and Ann Foss Research Common has summate theologian, a meticulous scholar, who is rigorous replaced the library’s file-card catalogue system with online in research, elegant in writing…." The Alumni Association is computer access to library holdings across the UofT cam- happy and proud to join the St. Michael’s Faculty of pus. It also is the site of over fifty-eight student-accessible Theology in offering heartiest congratulations to Fr. Michael computer workstations. A. Fahey, S.J. on this well-deserved award. • At the opening of a special exhibition of sixty-two rare • The importance of electron- early printed liturgical books, Fr. James McConica, CSB, ic technology in teaching is Praeses of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, increasingly evident on the announced that the Institute Library’s Rare Book Room had St. Michael’s campus. The been designated as The Joseph Pope Rare Book Room in St. Michael’s theatre in recognition of Joseph Pope’s many donations of rare books Alumni Hall, whose electrical to the Institute. The special exhibition ran until 30 June in systems were in need of order to make it accessible to members of the Renaissance renovation, has been trans- From the balcony of the newly renovat- Society of America and of the Rare Book Librarians of the ed lecture hall/theatre formed to better serve as a American Library Association, both of which associations lecture hall for the larger met in Toronto this past spring. 20 classes. It can still serve as a locus for dramatic presenta- Info Update Bravo 21 , , and Danny Reda ’98 Danny Reda Languages Alive , former Auxiliary Bishop continue to live in Grand welcomed the arrival of a grand- welcomed the arrival of a were married 5 April ’03. taught part-time at a French . Their son, Conor Brendan, is a graduate of reports that she, her husband, reports that she, and her husband, Christian, have moved from has been appointed Pastor of St. Anselm’s parish in has been appointed Pastor of St. Anselm’s graduated from the Faculty of Law, U. of Western graduated from the Faculty of Law, Gunther Rathberg ’96 and his wife, Sandra, welcomed their first child, Robert Christina Betzen Dugan ’71 Marley O’Brien Carroll ’70 and Polymer Ventures (himself a lawyer) and Mary Grace Anne, look on with pride! and and Guy ’72 and their daughter, Samantha (ten months), have returned to Ontario "after Samantha (ten months), and their daughter, "have a new house in Bradford, a beautiful a brief sojourn in BC." They Danny and Alexandra are still very town just northwest of Newmarket." software business, Redasoft Corporation. much involved in their own Patrick ’70 18 May ’03. Patrick reports that their son, son, Braeden Henry Carroll, and grandson are doing well. He adds, "The Melissa, David, daughter-in-law, well too!" grandparents are doing pretty Joan Chen ’96 Gunther reports, "Joan and Gunther first met on a memorable [SMC] Frosh Gunther reports, "Joan and were sealed. The ceremony was held at St. boat cruise and their fates by Father Basil Thomas the Apostle Church in Markham, ON, celebrated grad [‘47]. The maid of honour was Nandie Myers. Breen, also a St. Mike’s grads Robert Ziger the wedding included St. Mike’s side of The groom’s and Christopher (best man), Jaroslaw Hawrylewicz, Carlos Rodriguez, Nicolaides—all of the Class of ’95." Brian Clough ’64 Fr. Regional Marriage at the Toronto Clough has been Judicial Vicar Fr. Toronto. for several years. He will continue to be involved in the work of the Tribunal Marriage Tribunal. Dawids ’83 Kay Yaw to La Herradura, Spain. Christian is from city, home Singapore, Kay’s Broker for a financial Denmark. Kay had been Deputy Manager/ Money born 2 Oct. ’01, and company in Singapore. They have two children, Mark, Matthew. his older brother, Most Reverend Nicola De Angelis, DD, DMin ’80 has been appointed Bishop of Peterborough, ON. Bishop De of Toronto, University of St. Angelis was invested as an Honorary Fellow of the College at the 12 June ‘03 Convocation Baccalaureate Mass in St. Michael’s Church. Basil’s Anna Maria Michelli DiMarcantonio ’85 immersion school last year and gave private piano lessons at home. Anna immersion school last year and gave private piano children, Michaela, 10, Maria, her husband, Aldo (New College ’83), and their and Jonathan, 4, live in Burlington, Ont. Aldo is a Controller at York Toronto. University, John DiMarco ’89 Joshua, 14 April ’03. John is the Computer Science Laboratory Manager for Faculty of Arts and Science. The family lives in Brampton, ON. the UofT’s ’00 Katie DiTomaso Ontario, and wrote her Ontario Bar Exams throughout this past spring and She is looking forward to returning to Cassels, Brock&Blackwell to summer. article. She will also be busy with her fiancé, Nolan Dubeau, preparing for par- their Christmas ’03 wedding in their hometown, Midland, ON. Katie’s ents, Michael ‘71 Rapids, MI, where Christina owns her own business, Michael is with Respiratory Therapist, and Mark is VP and CFO of the Brompton Group. Jeff and CFO of the Brompton and Mark is VP Respiratory Therapist, School of Management. Joseph L. Rotman is with the UofT’s ’98 Alexandra Carmichael Dartmouth College and Notre Dame Law School; daughter Molly Louise is a at every opportu- high school sophomore. Christina and Michael visit Toronto nity. Info Info Update Bravo Julie from Fr. Robert , . Fr. Bob Madden, . Fr. Fr. John Stortz, CSB Fr. honoris causa) , and welcomed Theodora Antonia, Mr. Frank Buckley ’42, Hon. Mr. Educational Computing Network of Mark Caranci ’92 . The St. Michael’s Alumni Association proud- Alumni Association . The St. Michael’s Fr. David Belyea, CSB ’49 David Belyea, CSB Fr. , ’97 recently became a partner in the Toronto office of recently became a partner in the Toronto has retired from education administration but is spending this year in Kobe, Japan, where she is former Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at former Professor of Theology was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada and Jeffry Muzzerall were married in St. Basil’s Church, and Jeffry Muzzerall were married in St. Basil’s Fr. Gareth Poupore, CSB ’48 Gareth Poupore, Fr. is currently finishing his Bachelor of Education Degree at is currently finishing his Bachelor of Education Degree , Marjorie Small Budnikas ’85 and Beata’s brother, brother, and Beata’s in Guelph, ON. and (honoris causa) , marked the 50th anniversary of their priestly ordination on 29 June ’03. , marked the 50th anniversary of their priestly ordination Fr. George Beaune, CSB ’48 George Beaune, Fr. Assumption University of Windsor, ON, 25 April ’03. Assumption University of Windsor, CSB ’50 Crooker, Dr. Gregory Baum, Dr. NEW ORDER OF CANADA MEMBERS: NEW ORDER OF CANADA General of Canada announced new appoint- On 5 August ’03 the Governor highest honour established to the country’s ments to the Order of Canada, and service in various fields of human recognize lifetime achievement Among the newly appointed are: endeavour. Honourable Hilary M. Weston, Emöke Szathmáry ’68; the Fellow ’98; Dr. D. S. Litt. honorees on this well deserved recognition of ly congratulates each of these to society. their important contributions Laws ( the degree of Doctor of St. Michael’s,received [We are grateful to all those who have contributed to InfoUpdateBravo. all those who have contributed are grateful to [We keep communications from you; please rely almost entirely upon We (with graduation date) can e-mail information You the news coming! to [email protected]] CSB ’52 officiated at the ceremony. Beata is an economist, Julie is a CSB ’52 officiated at the ceremony. Ontario (ECNO) Beata Caranci ’94 Toronto, 17 May ‘03. Members of the wedding party included SMCers 17 May ‘03. Toronto, remains busy as Executive Director of Richard ’95 Frank Buckley ’42 John F (Jack) Burns ’58 the law firm Davis&Company. She is a specialist in taxation law. Cathi, her taxation law. She is a specialist in the law firm Davis&Company. live in Fenelon Falls, ON. husband, Scott, and their children, Katie and David, 20 January ’03, a sister for Sophie, 3. 5 August ’03 for his role as consumer advocate and for his "enormous community contributions" through his lead role in organizations such as the Canadian Council on Drug Abuse, the Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation, the Metropolitan Social Planning Council, and the Catholic Family Services, among many others. Over the years he has been a loyal supporter of the College; this support and his other contributions to society an Honorary when he was invested as were recognized by St. Michael’s 1998 College at the June Fellow of the University of St. Michael’s Church. Convocation Baccalaureate Mass in St. Basil’s Caravaggio ’99 Robert Bravo ’94 Cathi Massel Brayley ’79 Elizabeth Bozek ’03 school to Japanese stu- teaching English as a second language in a private Alumni Affairs and dents. ‘Liz spent the summer assisting in the SMC Development offices. at various venues in Capilano College and performs regularly as a jazz pianist graduation Robert worked for Goepel McDermid as an After Vancouver. but decided to pursue his love of music and enrolled in RRSP Administrator, Community College. the Jazz Studies program at Vancouver Frs. Belyea, Beaune and Stortz celebrated with a concelebrated Mass, fol- Frs. Belyea, Beaune and Stortz celebrated with a concelebrated ON. Frs. Crooker and lowed by a reception, in Assumption Church, Windsor, and Honeoye Falls, NY Poupore marked the anniversary in Houston, Texas, respectively. ’48 Info Update Bravo Gerry ‘68 and Marty Ward Gabriel ’68 continue to live in Cornwall, Prince Dr. Laura Sefton MacDowell ’69 has had her book, Renegade Lawyer: the Edward Island. Gerry is a Consultant and Researcher with Community Life of J. L. Cohen, published by the Osgoode Society of Canadian Legal Development Association. Marty completed her PhD from U. of Ottawa and History. Cohen was an early specialist in labour law and an architect of the is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at the U. of PEI in Charlottetown. Canadian industrial relations system. The book received the Champlain Society’s Chalmers Award in Ontario History, and honourable mention for Katharina Hille ’89 and her husband, Steven Javor (New College ’90), wel- the Canadian Historical Association’s Sir John A. Macdonald Prize. Laura is comed their first child, Elowyn Amelie Hille, 17 Jan. ’03, 7lbs, 10oz ("and 2 Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, Mississauga

Info Update Bravo weeks early to boot" writes Katharina!); the first grandchild on the Hille side Campus and lives in Toronto. She and her husband have three children, and the first girl born in over 93 years on the Javor side. Katharina is enjoy- Stephen, Lawrence, and Jennifer. ing her maternity leave from teaching the junior grade level at Holy Rosary School, Toronto. Steven is a marketing manager of E business at Purolator. Fr. John Malo, CSB ’71 celebrated the 25th anniversary of his ordination to Katharina, Steven, and Elowyn Amelie live in Toronto. the priesthood 6 May 2003. Fr. Malo teaches at Bishop O’Dowd High School, the Basilian high school in Oakland, CA. Laura Hodson ’94 and Luigi Vigilanti were married 8 Aug. ’03 in St. Michael’s Cathedral, Toronto. Laura’s mother and father, Henry ’77 and Terrence Maloney ’94 and Susan Lupack were married in St. Basil’s Church Carol Codarini Hodson ’69 are SMC grads, as is her brother, Mark ’97. 26 April ’03. Fr. Bob Madden, CSB ’52 officiated at the ceremony. Terrence Laura has been teaching with the Toronto District Catholic School Board. and Susan now live in Brooklyn, NY. Terrence practices law with the New York firm of Sullivan Cromwell. Susan recently completed her PhD in Will Holub ’73 is now represented by Chiaroscuro Gallery in Santa Fe, NM Classics at the U. of Texas, Austin and is teaching and doing research. and Scottsdale, AZ. There was a one-person exhibition of his mixed media paintings in July at the gallery’s Santa Fe location on Canyon Road. Marrocco Report: Frank Marrocco ’67 was elected Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada this past June. Mimi Bucek Marrocco ’69, Dr. Aida Zuraitis Hudson ’73 has co-edited Windows and Words: A Look at Director of St. Michael’s Continuing Education Division, has been elected Canadian Children’s Literature in English, U. of Ottawa Press, August ’03. Secretary/Treasurer of the Canadian Association of University Continuing Aida is a Lecturer in children’s literature at the University of Ottawa; she and Education; she has also been named to the Board of the EthicsCentre (for- her husband, David, have three children, Andrew, Ginny, and Michael. Aida merly the Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy). lives in Stittsville, ON. Eddie Mattei ’93 and his wife, Sue Anne, welcomed their third child, Claire Mary Jane Kearns-Pagett ’75 and her husband, Richard, live in Ancaster, Susan Mattei, 8 Feb. ’03, a sister for twins, Ethan and Emily, born 18 June ON and celebrated the 25th anniversary of their wedding this past July. ’98. Eddie, a Chartered Accountant specializing in corporate taxation, is with Mary Jane reports that their oldest child recently graduated from UofT Royal Group Technologies, a plastics company located just north of Toronto. Engineering, the second oldest is in second year university, and the youngest is in final year of high school. Mary Jane continues to teach W. Edward McCall ’82 has been appointed Director of Choral Activities at English and is involved in Guidance; Richard is working in Forensic Council Rock High School North in Newton, PA. He is currently President of Psychiatry. the Bucks County Music Educators Association and is Chair of the South- East region for the PA chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. Fr. Joseph Kelly ’71 has been appointed Pastor of St. Monica’s parish, His wife, Christy, is the newly appointed Director of Bands at Council Rock Toronto. He was previously Pastor of St. Gertrude’s parish, Oshawa, ON. High School South. Edward reports that the McCalls live in Ivyland, PA with their two dogs, Mocha and Rocky. Doris Yuk-Sing Lau D.S.Litt. ’02 received the degree of Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from the University of Toronto at its 12 June ’03 Noreen McDermott ’89 and David Santilli were married 25 January ’03 and Convocation of St. Michael’s College. Dr. Lau has been very active in gener- live in Toronto. Noreen is a writer in advertising and communication, at al public service as well as in the Chinese community. She has also provid- present doing freelance work. David works with CIBC. ed generous assistance in various ways to the Archdiocese of Toronto and to the University of St. Michael’s College. Fr. Donald McLeod, CSB ’66 celebrated the 25th anniversary of his ordina- tion to the priesthood 6 May ’03. Fr. McLeod is Principal of Bishop O’Dowd Fr. M. Owen Lee, CSB ’53 has recently had his book, Athena Sings: High School, the Basilian high school in Oakland, CA. Wagner and the Greeks, published by the UofT Press. It has been described as an "elegant and masterfully argued book….written with the Joanne McWilliam ’51, Professor Emeritus of Religion in the UofT, clarity and depth that have characterized all Fr. Lee’s books on the Classics received the degree Doctor of Divinity (honoris causa) from Queen’s and made his six other volumes on opera bestsellers." University at its 7 May ’03 Convocation in Kingston, ON. In her address to the graduating class, she paid special tribute to the late Fr. John Kelly, CSB, Christine Leo ’94 and her husband, Christopher Jurusik, welcomed their who, when President of St. Michael’s, encouraged her to pursue theological first child, Madeline Emily, 20 February ’03. Madeline was born in White studies. In the presentation for her honorary degree, Dr. McWilliam was Plains, NY, where Christopher and Christine have lived since their marriage cited as a pioneer among women in the academic study of theology. She on 24 June ’00. Christine is currently practicing international securities law was the first woman to earn a graduate degree in theology from the with the firm of Stikeman Elliott LLP in New York City. University of St. Michael’s College, the first ordained woman to be tenured in the Faculty of Divinity at Trinity College, Toronto, the first woman holder Dr. Clare Loughlin-Chow ’91 and her husband live in Oxford, England, of the Mary Crooke Hoffman Chair in Dogmatic Theology at the General where they were married in August ’01. Clare is responsible for the "Junior Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church of the United States, and the Year Abroad" program for Worcester College, Oxford University. Clare first woman to be elected President of the American Theological Society. received her doctoral degree in English from Oxford in ’00. She is an internationally recognized expert on the works of St. Augustine. Joanne has four children, twelve grandchildren, and is married to Rev. Dr. Fr. Andrew Macbeth ’70 has been appointed Pastor of St. Margaret of Peter Slater. Scotland parish, Toronto. He was previously Pastor of St. John the 22 Evangelist parish, Whitby, ON. Info Update Bravo 23 Bob ’51 at the Museum reporters chosen to reporters chosen (honoris causa) , President and Vice- were married 7 Sept. ’02 in were married 7 Sept. ’02 Toronto Star Toronto Meritorious Public Service Meritorious Public Laurier Lapierre ’55 , the maternal grandparents, are thrilled by and her husband, Tom Turner, welcomed their Turner, and her husband, Tom Michael Schrenk ’97 Dr. Emöke Szathmáry ’68 Emöke Dr. Chancellor of the University of Manitoba, was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada 5 August ’03 for her leadership in the fields of post- secondary academic research and administration and for her volunteer work with numerous organiza- tions, including the St. Boniface General Hospital and the Manitoba Museum Foundation. As a scien- tist she has conducted influential research in popu- As a lation genetics and in physical anthropology. and is teacher-librarian in the newly opened Wismer Public in is teacher-librarian was one of a team of was one of a was invested as an Honorary Fellow of the University of was invested as an Honorary Fellow of the University , her husband, Don Nelson, and their two sons, Daniel, , reporter, commentator, author, and host of the CBC and host author, commentator, , reporter, and her husband, Keith McLaughlin, welcomed their second and her husband, Keith McLaughlin, welcomed their for their controversial series on race and crime. The award was for their controversial series Sara Mackin McLaughlin ’61 St. Vincent de Paul Church, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON. de Paul Church, Niagara-on-the-Lake, St. Vincent Janet Somerville ’59 College at the 12 June ‘03 Convocation Baccalaureate Mass in St. Michael’s outstanding and continuing church. This honour recognized Janet’s St. Basil’s ecumenism, social justice, work for the Church and the society in the areas of and education. Brenda Sweeney ’84 to Oakville, Ont. Brenda has 5, and James, 2, have moved from Toronto and Program accepted an appointment at Sheridan College as Professor Corporate Communications in the School of Animation, Arts, and Coordinator, in the near future. Design. Brenda also plans to begin work on her PhD Kevin Sylvester ’89 of Toronto was the guest speaker at the University morning sports show, General Annual Meeting held in Hart House 19 June ’03. Alumni Association’s Laura Syron ’88 3. Laura is Vice-President, child, Michael, 25 April ’03, a brother for Conor, Keith is in the Research, for The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario; and Michael Keith, Conor, financial industry with BMO- Nesbitt-Burns. Laura, live in Toronto. she has promoted accessibility and respect for stu- university administrator, dents of diverse cultural backgrounds, particularly for the aboriginal communi- Szathmáry received the degree of Doctor of Laws Dr. ty. College Convocation. from the UofT at its June 2002 St. Michael’s ’90 Maura McLaughlin Turner live in Dedham, MA. Maura received first child, Sean, 6 May ’03. The Turners and has been Communications degree from Boston University, a Master’s Director for Charlesbank Capital Partners of Boston. Needless to say, and this recent blessing. Andrew’s parish, Thunder Bay, ON. Bay, parish, Thunder Andrew’s ’84 Michelle Shephard receive the prestigious Michener Award for Michener Award receive the prestigious Journalism of Canada, Adrienne Clarkson, in a cere- presented by the Governor-General 10 April ’03. The series was also nominated for mony at Rideau Hall, Ottawa, two other national awards. Cindy Cariglia Sisti ’83 She was one of six Canadian teachers selected to School in Markham, ON. event hosted by participate in a four-day Her husband, Frank, teaches at Pierre Elliott of Civilization in Ottawa, ON. Alessandro, is in first-year high High School in Markham; their son, Trudeau Annalisa, is in Grade 7. The family lives in school, and their daughter, summer of ’02 in Italy. Markham, ON and spent the Skoberne ’97 Vivienne Info Info Update Bravo Dan ’51 Most Margaret Eleanor and the sis- and and Edward ’49 Faith, Hope and Charity as James Murphy ’54 published by University Press of America. Fr. and her husband, Vincent, welcomed their third and her husband, Vincent, MDiv has been appointed Pastor of St. Martin de Mary Theresa Murphy Houston ’84 and Paul Godlewski were married in St. Basil’s and Paul Godlewski were was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of to the priesthood for the was ordained , Bishop Emeritus of London, ON, who officiated at , Bishop Emeritus of London, , are St. Michael’s graduates, as is her uncle, graduates, as is her , are St. Michael’s has recently returned to Toronto from studies and has has recently returned to Toronto has been appointed Pastor of Our Lady of Victory parish has been appointed Pastor of Our Lady of Victory has recently co-authored and his wife, Patti Botz, welcomed their first child, a has completed her PhD in Theology at Boston College, has completed her PhD in Theology at Boston College, completed the MBA program at McGill University in April completed the MBA program successfully completed a six-day 660 kilometre bicycle ride and Colleen Bauman (VIC ’97) were married in Blessed Sherlock Monahan ’50 John Sherlock ‘46 Rev. also has several SMCer siblings. Elizabeth the wedding ceremony. Michael Murphy ’86 on 1 Feb. ’03; another grandchild for Elizabeth Murphy, Riley daughter, that Riley now weighs in at and Muriel Murphy of Goderich, ON. Mike reports Mike, Patti and talker." 6 kilos, is 61 cm long, "loves to laugh and is quite the Riley live in Paris, France. Patricia Murphy ’90 Boston, MA. She is the daughter of the late grads ter of St. Michael’s Fr. Robert Mignella ’97 Robert Fr. Toronto in St. Michael’s Cathedral 10 May ’03. He has been assigned to St. 10 May ’03. He has been Cathedral in St. Michael’s Toronto ON. parish in Mississauga, Dominic’s Allan Miranda ’90 and works in business development and licens- ’02. He now lives in Montreal company. ing for a Canadian pharmaceutical ’88 Elizabeth Greco Molinaro child, Alessia, 6 May ’03, a sister for Mateo, 5, and Tomas, 3. Elizabeth has sister for Mateo, 5, and Tomas, child, Alessia, 6 May ’03, a University research project for immigrants. been involved in a McMaster Elizabeth Monahan ’87 parents, 10 May ’03. Elizabeth’s church, Toronto, to Montreal this past 28 July-2 August. Some 162 riders and 40 crew were cheered and supported on their journey as they rode in the Friends for Life People With Aids goal was to raise funds for the Toronto June’s Bike Rally. Foundation. The venture was preceded by a lengthy period of intensive train- ing and conditioning to prepare her for the 110 kilometre per day ride. June commented that the training was more difficult than the ride! June lives in and is Director of Communications for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Toronto Foundation. Peter Damien Power ’95 Fr. Murphy Fleming ‘89. Robert O’Brien ’84 Fr. for the Archdiocese of been appointed Director of Lay Ministry and Chaplaincy parish, Toronto. He is in residence at St. Clare’s Toronto. ’85 John Papagno Fr. parish, He was previously Administrator of St. Catherine of Siena in Toronto. Toronto. Mike Patullo ’91 Mike reports, "The Mennonite- ’02. Sacrament Church, Ottawa, ON 2 Nov. following members of the Catholic wedding was also a mini-reunion," with the Antonet Kovacevic, Mike class of ’91 in attendance: Dave Curtin, Mark Drever, Perruzza, Parent O’Brien, Terri Bill Moreau, Emily Clare Loughlin-Chow, Henry, Mike continues to work as an engineer Diane Smith, and Cathy Walsh-Peters. while Colleen will be with a satellite communications company in Gatineau, Currency Museum to pursue a law leaving her work at the Bank of Canada’s degree in support of her refugee advocacy work. June Pierotti ’75 Porres parish in Scarborough, ON. He was previously Pastor of Holy Name parish, Toronto. Allan Savage ’74 Fr. Individual Psychology: With related Essays in in Adler’s Character Traits Spirituality and Phenomenology Savage is Catholic Chaplain, Thunder Bay Regional Hospital and Sessional in St. University of Winnipeg. He lives Faculty of Theology, Lecturer, The participants learned of the brilliant young man, oldest in The Father Henry Carr a family of eight, whose initial academic training took place in a public collegiate in Oshawa, Ontario in the late Symposium Nineteenth Century. A Sister of St. Joseph was instrumen- tal in his coming to St. Michael’s College, where he studied By Fr. Harold Gardner, CSB '54 Classics and again excelled academically. While at St. Michael’s, he was attracted to the Basilian Fathers and sub- sequently became a member. The decision led eventually A Symposium honouring the life and contributions of Father to two most important developments in post-secondary Henry Carr, CSB was held at St. Thomas More College, Catholic education in Canada, the establishment of the sys- University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, on 18-19 June tem of Catholic colleges federated with provincial universi- 2003. Sponsored by the St. Thomas More/Newman Alumni ties, and the founding at St. Michael’s in Toronto of a centre Association, the Symposium, whose planning spanned for the interdisciplinary study of the Middle Ages, which almost the whole preceding year, was the brainchild of Dr. developed into the world renowned Pontifical Institute of John Thompson, former President of St. Thomas More Mediaeval Studies. Some consider the establishment of the College, and Margaret Sanche, the College’s archivist/histori- Institute as Fr. Carr’s crowning achievement. an. It was held in the year 2003 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the death of Fr. Carr and his unique and last- This participant walked away with two statements of Fr. ing contribution to the founding and life of St. Thomas More Carr which seem to sum up his unique philosophy: "The College. most important work we have to do is to talk to students. In practice, it is impossible to do too much of it …. Here is The following presented papers: Dr. John Thompson; where real education takes place." The second describes Margaret Sanche; Dr. Kenneth Schmitz, Professor Emeritus, his influence on federation and his relationship to administra- University of Toronto; Mary Jo Leddy, a great-niece of Fr. tors in provincial universities, " Insist on your rights, and you Carr; Fr. James Hanrahan, CSB; Fr. George Smith, CSB; Mr. will get what you deserve – nothing. But act as a friend and Bernard Daly; Fr. P. Wallace Platt, CSB; and Sister Teresita be a friend among friends and the most cumbersome legal Kambeitz, OSU. machinery will roll smoothly on." Father Henry Carr Symposium / Info Update Bravo Presentations covered several topics: Fr. Carr’s family and his The Father Henry Carr Symposium honoured a remarkable early life; Fr. Carr the student, scholar, priest, administrator, man who was at once a priest, administrator, scholar, teacher, philosopher, story-teller; his role in establishing the philosopher, and friend; in effect, a person of extraordinary system of Catholic colleges in federation with provincial uni- vision who left a lasting mark on the spiritual and intellectual versities; his vision of the Church in the modern world; his life of Canada ministry as spiritual director and retreat master.

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Barbara Hallin Vajk ’54 and her husband, Hugo, celebrated the 50th The Honourable Hilary M. Weston, anniversary of their wedding 13 June ’03. The Vajks have lived in France D.S.Litt. (honoris causa) ’97 was appointed for many years. a Member of the Order of Canada 5 August ’03. The twenty-sixth Lieutenant-Governor van Driel Report: Kathy van Driel ’02 completed her MA degree in Art of Ontario, she championed community vol- History at the UofT in May ’03. Martin van Driel ’95 and Deirdre unteer work as well as women’s and youth O’Connor ’98 welcomed their second child, Noah, in May ’03, a brother issues. Throughout her private and public for Hannah, 3. Needless to say, Kathy and Marty’s parents, Henry ’70 and life she has sought to improve the quality of Christine Dent van Driel ‘69 are overjoyed at both "blessed events." life of others by her active involvement in numerous charities and not-for-profit organi- Fr. Mark Wendling ’95, a professed member of the Society of Our Lady of zations. St. Michael’s recognized her many contributions to society by the Most Holy Trinity, was ordained by Pope John Paul II in Rome 11 May conferring upon her the honorary degree of Doctor of Sacred Letters at its ’03. After graduation from SMC/UofT, Mark taught for two years as a vol- Theology Convocation in the fall of 1997. unteer in Benque Viejo in Belize, a coastal country in Central America, bor- dered by Mexico and Guatemala. After completing his novitiate year in Paula Wheeler ’91 received her PGCE degree from the University of Kent Belen, NM and one year of philosophical studies in Corpus Christi, TX, he (Christ’s Church College) and is now a Religious Education Consultant was appointed to St. Thomas Aquinas University (the Angelicum) in Rome, with the Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario. Last school Italy for his final four years of theological studies. Fr. Wendling will be year she traveled 30,000 kilometers assisting schools in her district with working with young candidates for his religious community and also carry- Religious Education matters. She reports a "small- world experience" from ing on missionary activity in Central America. Mark’s mother, Sharon this past summer. While having lunch in a restaurant in Kensington Dennis Wendling ’66 is an SMC graduate, and his father, Paul Wendling Church St., London, England, she found herself at the same table with (Engineering ’61), lived in residence at St. Michael’s. SMCer Toni Tomai ’69. Her comment, "It truly is a very small world."

Christina Wong ’03 began the MA program in Arts Education at the 24 University of Leeds, England this September. Continuing Education New Degree Program 25 readers not currently dasan, Catherine Barry, dasan, Angelo Catherine Barry, , 20-25 July ) and the Certificate s, Inez Mancuso, Penny McCabe, Laureto olic Leadership: Back row, olic L Leadership: Back row, to R: Michael DoubleBlue Classical Pursuits law and to grow in moral, theological and scriptural under- law and to grow in moral, standings. is just The Master of Arts degree in Catholic Leadership have emerged one of a number of new initiatives that Institute for under the aegis of the recently established undertaking Catholic Leadership. Itself a collaborative the Institute between Theology and Continuing Education, achieved by the owes its existence to the funding efforts money from two office of Alumni and Development. Seed engage the servic- foundations has enabled the Institute to O’Sullivan) and to hire es of sessional faculty (including Dr. design and courseware specialists to help with internet delivery. summer of 2003 In addition to these new ventures, the programs, saw us continuing to host previously introduced at St. including a popular week long learning vacation ( Michael’s (9-11 June). Our Program in Corporate Social Responsibility program calendar for 2003-2004 has just been printed and includes opportunities to discuss everything from "holiness" to "household words", "Ancient Mesopotamia" to "Thomas ethics, theology, Merton", science, literature, philosophy, music and art. The calendar is mailed each year – mostly by request -- to a growing number (well over 7,000, I’m told) of lifelong learners. on the Continuing Education mailing list are cordially invited to contact us. In the meantime, visit us online at love to hear from you in We’d www.utoronto.ca/stmikes. 2003. Leadership Globalization and will be available as part of . Dr. Brian O’Sullivan (SMC . Dr. Introducing…. The Master Arts of in Catholic Leadership Students and faculty at were the Faculty of Theology 7-18 July for the Master first of course Arts in in program Cath USMC’s Attridge (summer in co-ordinator program the newly established Institute for Catholic Leadership), Donatina Sylvana Parente, Go Brian Padewan, O’Sullivan Mark (Instructor), Guevarra, Damien Dr. LtoR: McGowan Rapthi and Maria Katerina Giardano. row, Front Roberto Minardi, and Ann Gregoris, Heemskerk By Dr. By Mimi Dr. Continuing Marrocco, Director, Education Catholic Educational Leadership, program not only in a traditional on cam- the new Master’s pus format, but also as a web based "distance" course. This new professional program is designed to enable lead- ers in Catholic settings such as schools, hospitals and social service agencies to gain fluency in articulating the distinctiveness of publicly funded Catholic institutions. The program has been designed to assist candidates to gain historical perspective, to integrate administrative and mana- gerial practices with the social teachings of the Catholic Church, to appreciate the implications of law and Canon Continuing Education of the new The summer of 2003 saw the inauguration at St. Master of Arts Program in Catholic Leadership first course: with the offering of its Michael’s Faculty of 7T9), seconded to the University of Toronto’s Catholic District School Education (OISE/UT) from the York of Brother Andre Board, where he had served as Principal course to 14 High School, designed and taught this first whom already enthusiastic graduate students, many of team members in hold positions as teachers or chaplaincy Ontario Catholic schools. Brian will return to St. Michael’s as a sessional instructor for the second course in the pro- gram, to be offered this fall. This course, Collaboration Collaboration with the Faculty of Theology in Issues in Catholic Education New New Degree Introduced Program by President and CEO of the Southdown Institute, during which time 2003 Theology Convocation she established the Southdown Consultation Services in Toronto, The Carter Centre for Excellence in Leadership, and "Hands Across 1 NOVEMBER ’03 2:00 PM ST. BASIL’S CHURCH the Snow", a clinical outreach program to Inuit At 2:00 PM 1 November 2003 in St. Basil’s church, Toronto, the people in the eastern High Arctic. She has served as a member of University of St. Michael’s College will grant degrees, diplomas and her Congregation’s leadership team and from 1990-93 as certificates to successful candidates enrolled in programs of the President of the Leadership Conference of Religious Women. Sr. Faculty of Theology and of the Division of Continuing Education. St. Donna has been asked to give the Convocation Address. She will Michael’s will also bestow honorary degrees on Mr. Patrick Keenan, receive an honorary Doctorate of Sacred Letters Sister Donna Markham, OP, and Father Peter Swan, CSB. Fr. Peter J. M. Swan, CSB is a graduate of St. Michael’s and cele- Mr. Keenan has a long history of public service and philanthropy brated the 65th anniversary of his graduation at the June ’03 within the Catholic community. His advice and expertise enabled Spring reunion. He was also a student in the Pontifical Institute Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital to survive a major financial crisis in while pursuing his MA and PhD degrees at the UofT. Fr. Swan the early ‘90s. His generosity to the hospital has resulted in a has been a Professor of Philosophy, and is President Emeritus of Chair in Medicine there, and major endowment funds for the hos- St. Michael’s and of St. Thomas More College, University of pital’s Cardinal Carter Wing and its medical research. He has also Saskatchewan. He has also served as Registrar and Vice-

Theological Convocation Notice / RIP endowed a Chair of Religion and Education in the St. Michael’s President of Assumption University of Windsor and as Dean of St. Faculty of Theology. He will receive an honorary Doctorate of Joseph College, University of Alberta, Edmonton. This year he cel- Sacred Letters. ebrates the 60th anniversary of his ordination as a Basilian priest. Fr. Swan was born in England and moved to Canada with his par- Sr. Donna Markham (CL ’68) is a member of the Adrian Dominican ents. He still feels a close attachment to Duncan, BC, where he Sisters, the community she joined when she left St. Michael’s spent the early years of his life in this country. He will receive an before her graduation. During the past ten years she has been honorary Doctorate of Divinity.

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Executive Position: Director, Alumni Affairs

Position Summary: The Director, Alumni Affairs, University of St. Michael's College is the key individual responsible for bringing new energy to Alumni Affairs and future annual fundraising activities. The Director will develop and put into practice a new strategic plan to define the future direction of Alumni Affairs at St. Michael’s College.

Candidate Requirements: The Search Committee is seeking an innovative, dynamic and ambi- tious leader with strategic vision and successful experience in alumni affairs and annual fundraising to fill this position.

The Opportunity: This is an exciting opportunity to assume a pivotal management role, which will be critical to the future direction of the University of St. Michael’s College, one of the most respected universities in Canada. The successful candidate will lead a team of four full time and three part time staff that works closely with our 29,000 graduates and students.

An attractive compensation package is offered commensurate with the seniority of the position. All inquiries regarding this position will be treated in confidence. Please send complete resumé to: The Search Committee Director, Alumni Affairs University of St. Michael’s College 81 St. Mary Street Toronto Ontario M5S 1J4 Fax: (416) 926-2339 Email: [email protected]

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