100Spring 2012 Alumni of Influence CELEBRATING DISTINGUISHED GRADUATES FROM TODAY AND YESTERDAY 13. Sarah Polley ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE 42. Beyond the Border PERSPECTIVES 46.

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PERSPECTIVES UC experts on the US-Canada border deal BY EMILY GILBERT, CHELSEA BIN HAN, OSADOLOR ERIBO, AND IAN SUTCLIFFE

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YVONNE PALKOWSKI (BA 2004 UC) Born and raised in Toronto, Yvonne Palkowski studied English and French at PROFESSOR EMILY GILBERT University College, U of T. Emily Gilbert is the Director Three days after convocation, of the Canadian Studies pro- she hopped on a plane and gram at University College. Her spent six months travelling research focuses on questions independently for a different relating to citizenship, security, kind of education. Upon her migration, borders, nation- reluctant return, she enrolled in states, globalization, monetary Ryerson University’s publishing organization, and governance. program. She works as the She relishes being able to communications officer for engage with and mentor under- UC and the editor of UC graduate students as they Magazine, a fine alternative research contemporary to the figure skating career Canadian issues. When she JENNIFER MCINTYRE of her childhood aspirations. is not following the intrigue Toronto writer and editor of Canada-US border relations, Jennifer McIntyre is much she can be found cheering on happier profiling others, her sons on the soccer pitch. so turned to a trusted friend for her biography: “Jennifer’s activities include running, cycling (once, memorably, with a broken arm), yoga, and spin classes. She plays several instruments, speaks a couple of languages, and draws cartoons—all with the skill one would expect from a member of MENSA, and marred only slightly by an uncontrollable tendency to pun everyone else

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REGARDINGDONALDAINSLIE'SINSTALLATIONSPEECH THE REACTION TO SPRING’S REDESIGN OF UC MAGAZINE last December which was reprinted in UC Magazine has been overwhelmingly positive, and it (“Keynote,” Spring 2012): his selection of the has emboldened us with respect to our latest college staircase “chimera” as his principal topic makeover, the College website. If websites are may seem somewhat unusual for academia, but a window into an institution, then UC must have perhaps not. Thus, a formerly legendary sea appeared nearly impenetrable until recently. serpent has been shown by our west coast research group to be based on an actual aquatic reptilian With the launch of our completely overhauled zoological species. Cadborosaurus willsi (Bousfield & website this fall, we sought to make UC more LeBlond, 1995) was recorded mainly in coastal accessible and appealing to our online audience marine and fresh waters of British Columbia. Since of students and graduates through improved the species apparently occurs also in China and aesthetics and functionality. I encourage you to Japan, the classical Chinese dragon may be based visit the new site at www.uc.utoronto.ca, and on its lateral view image. Pending capture of actual hope you will agree that it presents a face to specimens, the species may also prove identical with the world of which we can all be proud. the fabulous Loch Ness monster of deep freshwater YVONNE PALKOWSKI (BA 2004 UC) lakes of northwest Europe. Ainslie has given SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO [email protected] plausible zoological options for what appears to be a nebulous or concocted image. Considering also its crenulated back, lack of wings, etc., its possible species reality may yet prove worthy of actual scientific investigation.

DR. EDWARD L. BOUSFIELD (BA 1948 UC), FRSC, AQUATIC BIOLOGIST (RETIRED)

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AUTHOR Donald Ainslie

PHOTOGRAPHER Christopher Dew

ONE OF THE GREAT PLEASURES of my first year as Principal This issue of UC Magazine is devoted to 100 at University College has been meeting alumni. of the College’s most accomplished alumni from They work in almost any field you can name: law, our founding in 1853 to the present day. You’ll business, art, politics, medicine, academia, architec- read in these pages how UC is at the centre of ture, publishing, entertainment, and many more. their sUCcess. And while they have chosen different professional paths, they are unified by their ongoing commit- This fall and for the first time ever, the University ment to the values that were nourished during College community will gather in celebration of their time at the College. the alumni who evoke our greatest pride. The inaugural Alumni of Influence awards will formally They continue to value excellence and open recognize the success stories of our alumni, making inquiry, and they have ascended to positions them known to today’s students, fellow graduates, of leadership by exemplifying these qualities in and the public at large—and in so doing, it will their day-to-day activities. So many of them have mark the start of a new era at UC. worked to change our society for the better, so that decisions, both public and private, that make Every year, we will add to this prestigious group a difference to people’s lives are premised on on the basis of nominations from alumni and respect for difference and an openness to the others in the UC community, and we will come evidence, wherever it leads. together as a community to honour the most recent inductees.

The Alumni of Influence awards are important because they give us occasion to show our pride and to reconnect with each other. I invite you to join us on the evening of November 15 to be part of the birth of this great, new College tradition.

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SEPTEMBER IMAGE 01. Robert Wilson, 2012, video still.

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IMMERSIVE LANDSCAPE: IMAGE 03. A CANADIAN YEAR David Lieberman, Exhibition The Alchemist’s Garden, video still. October 23—December 1, 2012 A narrative of seasonal IMAGE 04. evolution drawn from Anne Savage, Fletcher's Field the UC and Art Centre (recto); untitled Collections featuring (verso), nd, works by Tom Thomson, Purchased by the University College members of the Group of Seven, Class of 1941 in 02. and their contemporaries. 1944, University F.E.L. PRIESTLEY MEMORIAL U of T Art Centre, northeast College Collection.

01. LECTURES IN THE HISTORY corner of UC. IMAGE 05. OF IDEAS For info: (416) 978-1838 or Vince Pietropaolo, ROBERT WILSON: Title TBA Bakery Worker, www.utac.utoronto.ca GOULD VARIATIONS October 22, 23 & 24, 2012 Crupi Brothers Exhibition Bakery, Dundas Prof. Steven Nadler Street, 1973 from September 11—October 6, 2012 Department of Philosophy These Streets Were Sixteen large-scale videos with a University of Wisconsin- Not Paved With Gold Project, 2006, soundtrack combining trickling Madison water, red horned frog vocaliza- silver gelatin print, For info: (416) 978-7416 University College tions, and Glenn Gould playing Collection. Bach’s Goldberg Variations. U of T Art Centre, northeast corner of UC. For info: (416) 978-1838 or www.utac.utoronto.ca 05

OCTOBER FROM ARTISTS TO COLLECTORS: RECENT GIFTS Exhibition NOT CONFIDENTIAL 03. October 23—December 1, 2012 October 11 at 5:10 p.m. Displaying works by ALCHEMIST’S GARDEN A discussion with Ian Brown, artists Kenneth Lochhead, Exhibition author of The Boy in the Moon: Rembrandt Harmenszoon A Father's Search for His Disabled October 23—December 1, 2012 Created by architect and artist van Rijn, Gord Peteran, Son and Camilla Gibb, author of Phil Richards, Vincenzo The Beauty of Humanity Movement. David Lieberman. A series of digital landscapes and a video Pietropaolo, Rob MacInnis, Senior Common Room, Max Streicher, John Hartman, University College. invite us to move through spaces that shift and unfurl and William Kurelek, all recently Presented by the UC Canadian donated to the Art Centre. Studies program and the Mark temporally, topographically, and geographically. U of T Art Centre, northeast S. Bonham Centre for Sexual corner of UC. Diversity Studies. U of T Art Centre, northeast corner of UC. For info: (416) 978-1838 or For info: (416) 978-7416 For info: (416) 978-1838 or www.utac.utoronto.ca 10 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE www.utac.utoronto.ca CALENDAR FALL 2012 What’s On at UC www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

IMAGE 06. STUBBS LECTURE Dana Claxton, Title TBA Paint Up #1, 2009, lightjet c-print, November 16, 2012 Collection of the Prof. Stephen Greenblatt Morris and Helen Department of English Belkin Art Gallery. Harvard University For info: (416) 978-7416

INAUGURAL LECTURE IN ASIAN CANADIAN STUDIES Title TBA November 28, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. Delivered by The Hon. Vivienne Poy to officially launch the new minor program in Asian Canadian Studies. East Hall, University College. 06 For info: (416) 978-8083 SPLICE: AT THE INTERSECTION NOVEMBER OF ART & MEDICINE DECEMBER Exhibition October 23—December 1, 2012 An international selection of FRIDAY CHAT WITH FILMMAKER SARAH POLLEY CRAVE AND US & THEM contemporary art exploring November 9, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. Centre for Drama, Theatre, tensions between the aesthetic Robert Gill Theatre and Performance Studies and the factual in anatomical Centre for Drama, Theatre, Directors' Shows drawings, and how representa- and Performance Studies December 7 & 8, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. tions of the body are informed 214 College Street, Toronto December 9, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. by cultural, political, and techno- For info: Helen Gardiner logical phenomena. Curated by [email protected] Phelan Playhouse Nina Czegledy and co-presented 79 St. George Street, Toronto with the Blackwood Gallery. For info and tickets: U of T Art Centre, northeast [email protected] corner of UC. For info: (416) 978-1838 or www.utac.utoronto.ca

ALUMNI OF INFLUENCE November 15, 2012 Inaugural awards gala in celebration of 100 distin- guished graduates from today and yesterday. The Eglinton Grand 400 Eglinton St. W., Toronto Tickets $100 For info: (416) 978-7416 UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 11 or see page 02 CALENDAR FALL 2012 What’s On at UC www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

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FEBRUARY ALEXANDER LECTURES MARCH Title TBA February 14 & 15, 2013 Prof. Ania Loomba TEETZEL LECTURES THE AGE OF AROUSAL Catherine Bryson Title TBA Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Professor of English February 4 & 5, 2013 Performance Studies University of Pennsylvania Dr. Barry Bergdoll Resource Show The Philip Johnson For info: (416) 978-7416 March 5—10, 12—16, 2013 Chief Curator of at 8:00 p.m. Architecture and Design March 17, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. The Museum of Modern Art Written by Linda Griffiths New York City Directed by Kate Lynch For info: (416) 978-7416 Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse 79 St. George Street, Toronto For info: [email protected]

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University College Alumni of Influence More than 50,000 people have become part of the University College alumni community since our founding in 1853. Among this privileged group are a considerable number of individuals whose achievements qualify as broadly significant and consequential.

We believe that the success stories of University College alumni should be known to today’s students, fellow graduates, and the public at large. In order to recognize the accomplishments of our distinguished graduates, this fall University College proudly presents the first annual Alumni of Influence awards.

The Alumni of Influence are a group of distinguished University College graduates from today and yesterday. They come from many different walks of life: they are actors, artists, athletes, business people, community builders,doctors, humanitarians, leaders, legal professionals, scientists, teachers and more.They are tremendously influential locally, nationally, and internationally.

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On the evening of November 15, 2012, University College students, faculty, and graduates will gather in celebration of our Alumni of Influence. Fittingly, the awards gala and dinner will take place beyond campus at Toronto’s Eglinton Grand, in the greater community where our alumni have made their marks.

The Eglinton Grand, much like UC, is a holdout from bygone era. Built in 1936 as the flagship cinema for Famous Players, it remains one of the city’s finest examples of the art deco style. As with University College, the design elements that define the Eglinton Grand have been faithfully preserved and, on the evening of the awards, the theatre’s original marquee and screen will light up with the names of our shining stars—the 100 UC alumni who evoke our greatest pride.

Alumni of Influence Selection Criteria A selection committee of In selecting the 100 Alumni selection committee, eight UC alumni, faculty, and of Influence, the committee sitting politicians, and the friends met to select the inau- considered their contributions current U of T President, Vice- gural 100 recipients. In future to their professional field at an Presidents (UTM and UTSC), years, ten alumni will be hon- international, national, or local and the Chancellor were oured annually. To nominate level, as well as their volun- excluded from consideration. alumni for next year’s awards, teerism within the wider com- please call (416) 978-2968 or munity and their philanthropy. visit www.uc.utoronto.ca/aoi Philanthropy to the University of Toronto specifically was not a factor. Members of the

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Dr. Irving Abella (BA 1963 UC) MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA Eminent historian Irving Abella is an expert on the Canadian labour movement and the history of Jews in Canada. The former chair of Vision TV and president of the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Canadian Historical Association, he is currently the Shiff Professor of Canadian Jewish History at York University. Abella has been recognized with the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, the National The Hon. Madam Justice Jewish Book Award, and the Rosalie Abella (BA 1967 UC) Queen’s Jubilee Medal, among SPECIALLY ELECTED FELLOW OF THE ROYAL many other honours. He is mar- SOCIETY OF CANADA ried to Supreme Court Justice Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Rosalie Silberman Abella. The Silberman Abella studied arts and couple met at UC and they have law at U of T. She practised civil two sons, both lawyers. and family law until the age of 29 when she was appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice, becom- ing both the youngest and first pregnant judge in Canadian his- tory. She was elevated to the Ontario Court of Appeal and in 2004, she became the first Jewish woman to sit on the Supreme Dr. Philip Anisman (BA 1964 UC) Court of Canada. One of the Barrister and solicitor Philip nation’s foremost experts on Anisman, a sole practitioner and human rights law, Abella sat on authority on Canadian securities the Ontario Human Rights law, was a professor at York, Commission for five years, and Western, and Monash Universities, was awarded the International and director of corporate Justice Prize, among many others. research, Consumer and She currently holds 30 honorary Corporate Affairs Canada. He doctorates. She is married to his- 16 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE is the author of books, articles, torian Irving Abella (BA 1963 UC). UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2012 Alumni of Influence www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

and reports to governments Dr. Claude T. Bissell (BA 1936 UC) on corporate, securities, constitu- COMPANION OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; tional, and administrative law, FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA and has advised securities regula- Scholar and higher educator tory organizations in Canada and leader Claude Bissell was the internationally. He has appeared eighth president of the University before all levels of courts in of Toronto and a former dean of Canada. Having taken undergrad- men at UC. The academic environ- uate courses with the outstanding ment created under his leadership teacher, Professor F.E.L. Priestley, attracted luminary thinkers such he led efforts that established the as Northrop Frye, Marshall annual F.E.L. Priestley Memorial McLuhan, and John Polanyi, Lectures in the History of Ideas at UC. among others. He led the University through important reforms and a period of unprece- dented growth, and his early visit Diane Bean (BA 1969 UC) to China foreshadowed the spirit Corporate leader Diane Bean of international exchange at U of is the Executive Vice President T today. His contributions to U of of Manulife Financial. She has T are honoured in the namesake also held leadership positions Claude T. Bissell Building at with several educational, health- Robarts Library and Bissell House care, and arts organizations. at University College. As a member of the Toronto Regional Immigration Employment Council, Bean Edward Blake (BA 1854 UC) spearheaded Canada’s first-ever Politician and lawyer Edward internship program for interna- Blake was the second premier tionally qualified professionals. of Ontario and later, the leader of For four consecutive years, she Liberal Party of Canada. Recruited Dr. Harry Arthurs (BA 1955 UC) was named one of Canada’s Top into politics by George Brown, he OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; 100 Most Powerful Women. won the 1871 provincial election, FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA; establishing a Liberal dynasty MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF ONTARIO Dr. Wilfred Gordon Bigelow which ruled Ontario for more than thirty years. He later became Scholar Harry Arthurs is an expert (BA 1935 UC) leader of the federal Liberal Party, in legal history and theory, labour OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; and eventually resigned to sit in law, globalization, and constitu- FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA the British House of Commons tionalism. A former dean of Innovative heart surgeon William as an Irish Nationalist MP. Upon Osgoode Hall and president of Gordon Bigelow was instrumental his retirement, Blake returned to York University, Arthurs has in the development of open-heart Canada to serve the University of served as an arbitrator and has surgery and the cardiac pacemaker. Toronto as senator and chancellor. been called upon by governments As a captain in the Royal to advise on a wide range of legal Canadian Army Medical Corps issues. He is the recipient of the during WWII, he performed prestigious Killam Prize for life- transfusions and surgeries in the time contribution to the social field. In the laboratory, he was a sciences, and the Bora Laskin pioneer in the use of hypothermia Prize for his contributions to make open-heart surgery safer. to labour law. Bigelow also discovered that stim- ulating a stopped heart with an electrical probe will resume its beating, paving the way for the pacemaker. He was a recipient of the Gairdiner Award for Medical Science and a member of the UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 17 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2012 Alumni of Influence www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

The founder of BPI Mutual Funds Leonard Braithwaite and Strategic Value Corporation, (BCom 1950 UC) he is an expert in analyzing the MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; equities of individual companies. MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF ONTARIO He is also an avid supporter of Lawyer Leonard Braithwaite was Casey House, the Inside-Out Film the first black Canadian to be Festival, and the University of elected to a provincial legislature. Toronto. In 2006, he endowed the Born in Toronto to West Indian Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual immigrants and raised during the Diversity Studies at University Great Depression, Braithwaite College, a hub for leading-edge served overseas with the RCAF teaching, research, and advocacy during WWII. In 1963, he was of sexuality. He is a recipient of elected to the Ontario Legislature U of T’s Arbor Award. as a Liberal member, where he served as critic of labour and welfare, advocated for the admis- Prof. Michael Bliss (BA 1962 UC) PHOTOGRAPHY sion of female pages, and helped Alan Borovoy MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; revoke a regulation that had Law Foundation FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA allowed for racial segregation in of Ontario Leading public intellectual and schools. He was recognized with historian Michael Bliss provides numerous awards, including insight into the politics and U of T’s Chancellor’s Award and events that shape Canadian life. the Black Alumni Association’s He is the award-winning author Lifetime Achievement Award. of 14 books on business, politics, and medicine for both scholarly and popular audiences. He retired Rudolph Bratty (BA 1953 UC) from U of T’s department of his- Lawyer and real estate tory in 2006 after 38-year career tycoon Rudolph Bratty has during which he earned the elite built communities across the rank of University Professor, an Greater Toronto Area. He is the honour conferred upon less than founder of Bratty & Partners LLP, Dr. Alan Borovoy (BA 1953 UC) two percent of tenured faculty. a law firm specializing in real OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA estate, development, and plan- Lawyer, author, and civil ning. As chair and CEO of The libertarian Alan Borovoy is one Remington Group, he is also a of Canada’s most vociferous real estate developer whose defenders of human rights. For projects have changed the land- more than four decades, he acted scape of the city. Bratty has been as general counsel and chief honoured with a lifetime spokesperson for the Canadian achievement award from the Civil Liberties Association. Building Industry and Land Borovoy has been a visiting pro- Development Association, as fessor at Dalhousie, Toronto, well as a star on the Italian Walk Windsor, and York Universities, of Fame on College Street in and currently holds four honorary Toronto’s Little Italy. doctorates. He has been recog- nized with the Award for the Advancement of Intellectual Freedom in Canada, and an Mark S. Bonham (BA 1982 UC) inscription in the Honour Roll Investment magnate Mark of the aboriginal people Treaty Bonham cut his teeth at UC and Number 3. the London School of Economics.

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Dr. David Charbonneau (BA 1996 UC) Harvard astronomy professor David Charbonneau searches for Earth-like planets that can sustain life beyond our solar system. He is the recipient of the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, the Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences, and the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award. In 2007, he was named Scientist of the Year by Discover Magazine. Currently, he is working on NASA- and National Science Foundation-funded projects which aim to detect distant planets capable of supporting life.

Dr. Austin Clarke (1959 UC) Dr. William Edmund Clark MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; (BA 1969 UC) MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF ONTARIO MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA Austin Clarke is a celebrated As President and CEO of TD Bank author of novels and essays on the Financial Group, Ed Clark is one Canadian immigrant experience. the most influential figures in the A prolific author of 11 novels, six financial industry in Canada. short story collections, and five Under his leadership, TD Canada books of nonfiction, he is the Trust grew into the nation’s recipient of the Rogers Writers’ second-biggest bank by assets. Trust Fiction Prize, the Toronto For his extraordinary vision, Clark Book Award, and the W.O. has been honoured with the Egale Mitchell Award for support of Leadership Award for support of young writers. In 2002 he won LGBT communities, as well as the both the Giller Prize and the Catalyst Canada Honour for Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for women’s advancement. Clark was The Polished Hoe. Beyond writing, named Canada’s Outstanding CEO he has served as Cultural Attaché of the Year in 2010, followed by of Barbados, manager of the the Ivey Business Leader Award in Caribbean Broadcasting 2011, and an appearance on Corporation in Barbados, and Barron’s prestigious annual list of on the Immigration and Refugee the world’s top 30 CEOs in 2012. Board of Canada. UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 19 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2012 Alumni of Influence www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

Dr. Dian Cohen (BA 1955 UC) MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA Economics consultant, journalist, and broadcaster Dian Cohen has helped Canadians make sense of the economy and personal finance for more than four decades. She began her career as a syndicated columnist writing about money matters in the 1970s, and parlayed her success into a radio and televi- sion career with CTV and CBC. She is the author of a number of books on economics for popular audiences, and her writing has been recognized with the National Business Writing Award and the Literary Guild Award. John Robert Colombo (BA 1959 UC) MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA Writer and folklorist John Robert Colombo is the ultimate enthusiast of Canadian culture. Known nationally as the Master Gatherer, he has compiled more than 200 anthologies of quota- tions, lore, literature, mystery, and horror. A frequent commen- tator and avid supporter of the arts, Colombo has been described as a “national treasure” by The Globe and Mail. For his prolific body of work and dedication to Dr. Ruth M. Corbin (BSc 1972 UC) preserving Canadian culture, Colombo has been honoured with Corporate director, business Marshall Cohen (BA 1956 UC) the Centennial Medal, the Order executive, and psychologist, Ruth MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA of Cyril and Methodius, the Corbin is a Canadian authority on Lawyer and corporate titan Harbourfront Literary Award, intellectual property policy and Marshall Cohen has led some and an honorary doctorate protection. She is an adjunct of Canada’s most recognizable from York University. professor at Osgoode Hall and brands, including The Molson the author of several books, Companies Ltd, Barrick Gold articles, and public addresses. In Corporation, TD Ameritrade, and her corporate career, Corbin has AIG, among others. He has lent held top management positions his expertise to a number of non- with Kroll Canada, Angus Reid profits, including the C.D. Howe Group, Leger Marketing, and Institute, the Montreal Museum Royal Trust, among others. An of Fine Arts, and Mount Sinai in-demand speaker, she has been Hospital. Currently, Cohen is named among Canada’s 100 Most retired counsel at Cassels Brock, Powerful Women and Canada’s a business law firm in Toronto. Top Women Entrepreneurs. She is currently managing partner of CorbinPartners Inc, a firm specializing in intellectual 20 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE property auditing and forensic marketing evidence. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2012 Alumni of Influence www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

a leader in higher education. He is currently President of The Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on the inter- sections of law, economics, development, and public policy, in such areas as corporate and securities law, social and eco- nomic regulation, and the role of law and legal institutions in promoting third-world devel- opment. He is the author or editor of seven books, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prof. Janet Currie (BA 1982 UC) Prominent economist Janet The Hon. William G. Davis Currie studies how socioeconomic factors affect health and well- (BA 1951 UC) being. She has taught at UCLA, COMPANION OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; MIT, and Columbia University, MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF ONTARIO and is the editor of several eco- Lawyer and statesman Bill Davis nomic journals. Currie is also served as the eighteenth premier of Ontario from 1971 to 1985. He Dr. David Cronenberg Vice-President of the American was elected to the Legislative (BA 1967 UC) Economics Association, and the Assembly of Ontario at the age of OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; Director of the National Bureau 29 and appointed a minister in FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA of Economic Research’s Program John Robarts’ cabinet. Responsible Filmmaker David Cronenberg is on Children. She has written for education and university widely acknowledged as one of extensively on early intervention affairs, he created Trent and Brock the greatest directors of all time. programs, programs to expand Universities, 22 colleges, and the A native of Toronto, he studied health insurance and improve TVO educational network. He suc- arts at UC where the short film health care, public housing, and ceeded Robarts as party leader and of a classmate sparked his interest food and nutrition programs. led the Conservatives to victory in cinema. The director of the in three consecutive elections. acclaimed Crash, eXistenZ, A dedicated federalist, Davis A History of Violence, Eastern played a key role in negotiating Promises, A Dangerous Method, Canada’s constitutional accord, and Cosmopolis, among many promoting the spirit of com- others, Cronenberg has a promise that made the agreement reputation for making highly possible. After retiring from original and daring films. In politics, he served as the special recognition of his incredible envoy on acid rain, and as director body of work, Cronenberg was of several corporations. He is awarded the Carrosse D’Or for life- sworn to the Queen’s Privy time achievement from the Council for Canada, and is a Cannes Film Festival, as well recipient of the Légion d’honneur, as the Légion d’honneur from the France’s highest honour. government of France.

Prof. Ronald Daniels (BA 1982 UC) The former dean and James M. Tory Professor at U of T's Faculty of Law, Ronald Daniels is a noted scholar of law and economics and UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 21 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2012 Alumni of Influence www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

Alliance on Race Relations, and Kenneth Field (BA 1945 UC) on the Governing Council of the Lawyer, executive, and entrepre- University of Toronto. She is the neur Kenneth Field has always recipient of the YWCA’s Women had a knack for business. At the of Distinction Award, and was tender age of 27, he was appointed named one of Canada’s Top director of United Trust. He later 100 Lobbyists by The Hill Times. presided over a period of dramatic A frequent commentator and growth at Bramlea, and founded public speaker, Eng is currently Greenfield Ethanol, the largest Vice-President of the Canadian manufacturer and distributor of Association of Retired Persons. fuel ethanol, industrial alcohol, and alcohol-related products in Canada. Field has been named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, and as one of The Financial Post’s Hot 20 on Linda Silver Dranoff (BA 1961 UC) the Climate Change Power List. Precedent-setting lawyer and writer Linda Silver Dranoff is a specialist in family law, known for her role in reforming family law to provide for the equal sharing of matrimonial assets, and for advancing the cause of equality for Canadian women. She is the author of popular handbooks including Every Canadian’s Guide to the Law. She was for 25 years a legal columnist for Chatelaine Hershell Ezrin (BA 1968 UC) magazine. She is the recipient Hershell Ezrin is one of Canada’s of the Ontario Bar Association’s foremost political advisors, policy Distinguished Service Award, experts, and strategic communi- the YWCA Women of Distinction cations counselors. Initially a Award, the Governor-General‘s career diplomat, he served as Award in commemoration of the Canadian consul in New York and Sheila Fischman (BA 1957 UC) Person’s Case and the Law Society Los Angeles, in the Privy Council MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; Medal, among others. Office under Pierre Trudeau CHEVALIER OF THE ORDRE NATIONAL where he worked on the patriation DU QUEBEC Susan Eng (1972 UC) of the Canadian constitution, Translator Sheila Fischman is in Longtime community leader and as deputy minister to premier large part responsible for bringing Susan Eng works to promote David Peterson. After leaving the riches of contemporary safety, security, and justice for all politics, he led two multi-national Québec literature to the English- citizens. She is best known as the companies and founded the speaking world. For her skill in former chair of the Metropolitan Canadian Council for Israel and translating nearly 150 books from Toronto Police Services Board, Jewish Affairs. A frequent blogger French to English, she has been where she tackled issues of and commentator on public recognized with the Governor accountability, use of force, and issues, he currently heads a General’s Literary Award for anti-racism. Eng has served on the social media advocacy company. Translation, the Canada Council boards of the Canadian Civil He has served on numerous Translation Prize, the Félix- Liberties Association, the YWCA health, arts, and culture boards Antoine Savard Translation Prize, of Greater Toronto, the Urban and was chair of the TSO. and the Molson Prize in the Arts. The holder of two honorary doc- torates, Fischman is the founding coeditor of the journal Ellipse:

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Ouevres en traduction / Writers In Translation, and a founding mem- ber of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada.

Dr. Martin Friedland (BCom 1955 UC) COMPANION OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; Dr. Wendy Freedman FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA (BSc 1979 UC) Lawyer and writer Martin Astronomer Wendy Freedman Friedland is one of the nation’s studies the rate at which our foremost legal scholars. He taught universe is expanding. The direc- at Osgoode Hall before joining the tor of the Carnegie Observatories, Faculty of Law at U of T, where he she has been honoured with served as dean from 1972 to numerous scientific awards, 1979. He has lent his expertise including the prestigious to a number of committees and Gruber Foundation Prize in commissions on legal issues, cosmology. She is currently and has written extensively leading a project that uses the on criminal law and the adminis- tration of justice. For his out- Spitzer satellite to measure the Dr. Charles Freedman standing contributions to the Hubble constant to an accuracy (BCom 1963 UC) legal system, Friedland was recog- of 2 percent. She is an elected Charles Freedman has helped nized with the Molson Prize, the member of the National Academy steer Canada’s financial course. Mundell Medal, the Arthur Martin of Sciences, the American He studied commerce at UC, Criminal Justice Award, and the Academy of Arts and Sciences, winning the Governor General’s Sir John William Dawson Medal, and a Fellow of the American Silver Medal, attended Oxford among other accolades. Physical Society. University on a Commonwealth Scholarship, then MIT where he earned a doctorate in economics. In his 15 years as deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, Freedman played a key role in the formula- tion and implementation of mon- etary policy, financial system stability, and the development of clearing and settlement systems. He has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and is scholar in residence at Carleton University and a research fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute. UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 23 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2012 Alumni of Influence www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

Barbara Frum (BA 1959 UC) Barbara Frum was one of Canada’s most respected broadcast journal- ists. She wrote for The Toronto Star before joining CBC Radio in 1971 as the host of As It Happens, where she became widely known for her interviewing skills. Throughout the 1980s, she hosted 2600 episodes of newsmagazine The Journal, where she interviewed many notable figures, including Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela. Frum’s signature calm and integrity set an example for fellow reporters, and she is often credited with paving the way for female journalists in Canada.

Dr. Reva Gerstein (BA 1938 UC) COMPANION OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF ONTARIO Eminent psychologist and mental health pioneer Reva Gerstein is a longtime advocate for people with psychiatric conditions. She is known for her signature non- medical approach, which calls for basic social supports for psychi- atric survivors. Gerstein served as the first woman chancellor of Western University, and has held leadership positions with several hospitals, charities, and arts organizations. She established Ira Gluskin (BCom 1964 UC) the Gerstein Crisis Centre, helped Investment mogul Ira Gluskin is create Mental Health Week, and the cofounder of Gluskin Shelf + lent her expertise to many com- Associates, an independent mittees and tasks forces. She has wealth management firm whose been recognized with six hon- clients include some of the most orary doctorates and numerous noted families and individuals in other awards and accolades. Canada. After graduating from UC, he worked in the investment industry for two decades, gaining a reputation as a leading securities analyst. A strong supporter of arts and cultural organizations, Gluskin has also served as chair of the U of T Asset 24 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE Management Corporation. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2012 Alumni of Influence www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

Dr. Anne Golden (BA 1962 UC) Canada for nearly 20 years. partners of the Toronto law firm MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA Goldfarb has also dedicated con- Goodmans LLP, he was also a Community titan Anne Golden siderable energy to philanthropic member of the Queen’s Privy is one of Canada’s foremost pro- activities as a foundational Council for Canada. ponents of social justice. She is supporter of several arts and the former CEO of the United educational institutions. Dr. Calvin Carl Gotlieb Way of Greater Toronto and the (BA 1942 UC) Conference Board of Canada. MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; Golden gained national renown FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA as the chair of task forces on the Computing pioneer and scholar Greater Toronto Area and home- Calvin Carl Gotlieb is aptly lessness, and has served as policy described as the father of com- advisor to the Ontario Liberal puting in Canada. He cofounded Party. She holds eight honorary the computation centre at U of T doctorates and has been recog- in 1948 and was part of the team nized as one of Canada’s Most that built the first computers in Powerful Women, among many the nation. Gotlieb also created other accolades. the first course in computing to be offered at a Canadian univer- sity, and the first graduate depart- ment in computer science, both at U of T. An expert in mathematical, business, and scientific applica- Dr. Cynthia Good (BA 1974 UC) tions, he is often consulted on Publisher and editor Cynthia social issues, timetables, graph Good has made an indelible mark theory, international develop- on the printed word in Canada. ment, and seaway calculations. The UC English graduate served as the first editorial director of Penguin Books Canada, where Prof. J. Wesley Graham she worked with authors John (BA 1954 UC) Ralston Saul, Michael Ignatieff, MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, Computer scientist J. Wesley and Timothy Findley, among Graham was a leader in the field others. The former fiction editor of software development in Canada. He worked for IBM Dr. Martin Goldfarb (BA 1962 UC) for The Walrus, Good is also the until he joined the University OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA founder of the Creative Book of Waterloo in 1959, where he Marketing tycoon Martin Publishing Program at Humber served as the first director of the Goldfarb has made tremendous College. She is currently an department of computer science. contributions to public life and adjunct professor at Trent In the 1960s, he collaborated the business world. A sociologist University and a popular speaker with the Ministry of Education by training, he is an expert in at book fairs across the nation. to pioneer the creation of soft- human behaviour as it relates to ware to support education. the marketplace. A leading figure The Hon. Edwin A. Goodman Upon his death his papers were in marketing since the 1960s, (BA 1940 UC) donated to the University of he is the founder of Goldfarb OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA Waterloo, where they formed Intelligence Marketing, an inter- Lawyer Edwin Goodman’s influ- the start of the J. Wesley Graham nationally renowned market ence extended from the court- History of Computer Science research firm. He has consulted room to the political backroom. Research Collection. for numerous high-profile inter- The former chair of the National national brands including Ford Conservative Party, Goodman and DeBeers, and served as official was a close friend and advisor to pollster of the Liberal Party of former Ontario premiers John Robarts and Bill Davis (BA 1951 UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 25 UC). One of the founding UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2012 Alumni of Influence www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

at Women’s College Hospital, where she cultivated a compas- sionate, patient-centered approach to care.

Abby Hoffman (BA 1968 UC) OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA Female athletes in Canada owe a debt of gratitude to trailblazing Olympian Abby Hoffman. At the age of nine and in reaction to the dearth of girls’ hockey teams at the time, she cut off her hair so she could join a boy’s league. She advanced with the team until

Dr. Francess Halpenny Hart Hanson (BA 1981 UC) asked to produce a birth certifi- (BA 1940 UC) Critically acclaimed television cate. News of her true gender COMPANION OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; writer and series creator Hart made international headlines FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA Hanson has entertained millions and Hoffman moved onto other Distinguished scholar Francess across North America. He studied sports. As a student at UC, she Halpenny is the prolific author English at UC where it was the took up track and field, only to be and editor of articles on Canadian encouragement of his professors thrown out of male-only training biography, publishing, and the that turned him onto writing. facilities. Still, she made the humanities. She is the former Hanson wrote for and produced Canadian Olympic team and dean of the Faculty of Library many Canadian shows including attended four consecutive Science (now the Faculty of Road to Avonlea, Street Legal, and games, acting as flag bearer Information) at U of T. The editor North of 60, and created the Bay in 1976. After her competitive of the definitive Dictionary of Street drama Traders before mov- career, she taught and worked as Canadian Biography from 1969 to ing to Los Angeles and writing a sports consultant, becoming 1988, Halpenny also held leader- for Ally McBeal, The Practice, and the first female director of ship positions with U of T Press Judging Amy, among others. He Sports Canada. She received the and the National Library. She is created the hit show Bones in 2005 International Amateur Athletic the recipient of numerous awards and The Finder in 2012. He is the Federation Medal in 1998, and is and honours, including the presti- winner of four Gemini Awards and currently a senior advisor with gious Molson Prize for research. an Outstanding Television Award. Health Canada.

Dr. Linda Hutcheon (BA 1969 UC) Dr. Marguerite Hill (BA 1940 UC) OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA Pioneering physician Marguerite FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA Hill helped pave the way for Distinguished scholar Linda female doctors in Canada. She Hutcheon has enriched the fields studied psychology at UC and of literary theory, criticism, served in the Canadian Women’s Canadian studies, and opera Army Corps during WWII as one with her trademark cross-disci- of the few woman psychologists. plinary approach. Known for her After the war and despite the theories on postmodernism, she objections of her family, she holds the elite rank of University enrolled in the Faculty of Professor at U of T. Hutcheon Medicine at U of T, graduating is the recipient of numerous at the top of her class. Hill sub- academic awards, including sequently became the first female the Guggenheim Fellowship chief resident at Toronto General and prestigious Killam Prize. She Hospital, and the first woman to holds several honorary doctorates 26 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE be appointed to the board of the and is the former head of the CIBC. She enjoyed a 26-year career Modern Languages Association. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2012 Alumni of Influence www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

The Hon. Julius Consortium, and director of Alexander Isaac (BA 1955 UC) the Rebecca MacDonald Centre MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA for Arthritis and Autoimmune Legal luminary Julius Isaac was Disease, Division of Advanced the first black person to sit on the Therapeutics. An active Federal Court of Canada. Born in researcher, he is the author Grenada, Isaac came to Canada to of more than 170 papers and the study at U of T, taking jobs as a winner of the Senior Investigator maintenance person and railway Award of the Canadian porter to pay for his arts and law Rheumatology Association. degrees. He practised law in Ontario and Saskatchewan, earn- ing the esteemed designation of Queen’s Counsel and later serving on the Supreme Court of Ontario. In 1991, Isaac was appointed Chief Dr. Bruce Kidd (BA 1965 UC) Justice of the Federal Court by OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA former prime minister Brian Academic leader and Olympian Mulroney. Upon his death in 2011, Bruce Kidd’s victories include he held several honorary doctor- winning numerous national and ates as well as the Silver Jubilee international track-and-field Award of Grenada. medals, enshrining athletes’ rights in Canada, and eradicating discrimination in sporting com- munities around the world. His undergraduate career as a student of economics at UC was concur- Dr. Jay Keystone (BSc 1965 UC) rent with an amateur athletic World-renowned travel physician career that took him to the 1962 Jay Keystone is an expert in Commonwealth Games and the tropical and infectious disease. 1964 Olympics Games. He is a He is the former president of the longtime member of the Canadian International Society of Travel Olympic Association, and he Medicine, the clinical section of is the only person to be twice the American Society of Tropical inducted into the Canadian Medicine, and the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame. He served Society of International Health. as dean of U of T’s Faculty of Currently, he is the Director of the Kinesiology and Physical Health Medisys Travel Clinic in Toronto, Dr. Edward Keystone for 19 years, and is currently the a professor in the Department of (BSc 1965 UC) Warden of Hart House. Medicine at U of T, and a frequent Professor and physician Edward speaker on traveler’s health. His Keystone is a leader in arthritis research focuses on leprosy and research. A consultant in rheuma- intestinal parasites. tology at Mount Sinai Hospital, he is also the founder of the Arthritis and Autoimmunity Research Centre, chair of the Canadian Rheumatology Research

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The Right Hon. William Lyon The Hon. Horace Krever MacKenzie King (BA 1895 UC) (BA 1951 UC) MacKenzie King was the tenth Retired Justice Horace Krever is an prime minister of Canada. He accomplished lawyer, academic, was in office for a total of 22 years, and judge. He practised law in making him the nation’s longest- Toronto and taught at U of T and serving prime minister. The only Western University before being prime minister to hold a PhD, he appointed to the Ontario Superior presiding over sweeping changes Court of Justice. He was subse- to domestic policy, and was quently elevated to the Ontario named the greatest Canadian Court of Appeal. Krever also led Prime Minister by a survey of several high-profile committees national historians. and commissions, including the Royal Society’s 1987 project on AIDS, and the famous inquiry into the blood system in Canada.

Dr. Michele Landsberg (BA 1962 UC) OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA Journalist Michele Landsberg is one of Canada’s foremost femi- nists and social justice activists. She is best known for her former Prof. Walter Kohn (BA 1945 UC) Toronto Star column, in which she Walter Kohn, a condensed matter chronicled the state of women’s theorist, has made seminal con- Dr. Sonia Labatt (BA 1960 UC) and children’s rights in Canada tributions to the understanding Community leader and environ- and around the world. She is of the electronic structure of mental advocate Sonia Labatt is the recipient of two National materials leading to the develop- recognized nationally and inter- Newspaper Awards and the ment of density functional theory, nationally for her contributions YWCA Women of Distinction for which he won the Nobel to public life. A specialist in Award, as well as numerous other Prize in 1998. He is the founding environmental economics, she honours for her writing and work director of the Institute for is the author of books on the to advance the cause of women. Theoretical Physics at the financial implications of climate She holds several honorary doc- University of California Santa change, and has taught at as an torates and is an in-demand Barbara. In 2005, he produced a adjunct at U of T’s Centre for speaker on progressive issues. well-received documentary on Environment. In the community, She is married to former Canadian solar power entitled The Power of Labatt has served on the boards ambassador to the UN Stephen the Sun. Currently, he consults of arts, health, and educational Lewis (1959 UC). with the National Renewable institutions. Along with hus- Energy Laboratory, gives lec- band Arthur Labatt, she has also tures, and is working on macular provided founding support for a degeneration, renewable energies, number of academic fellowships and global warming. and institutes in health and the environment.

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The Right Hon. Bora Laskin (BA 1933 UC) COMPANION OF THE ORDER OF CANADA Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Bora Laskin was one of the nation’s most distinguished jurists and academics. He excelled in his study of law but was unable to find employment as a prac- tising lawyer due to the discrimi- nation against Jews in the profes- sion at the time. Laskin opted for a career in academia and taught at U of T’s Faculty of Law for more than 20 years. Subsequently, he was appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal and then the Supreme Court of Canada. He was elevated to Chief Justice by Pierre Trudeau in 1973, a position he held until his death in 1984.

Prof. Richard Lee (BA 1959 UC) Dr. Stephen Lewis (1959 UC) FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA Internationally renowned anthro- COMPANION OF THE ORDER OF CANADA pologist Richard Lee is an expert Stephen Lewis is a Distinguished on hunter-gatherer societies. Visiting Professor at Ryerson Early in his career he worked at University. He is the board chair Harvard, leading field expeditions of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. to study and live among the !Kung He served as the UN special envoy San bushmen of the Kalahari. Lee for HIV/AIDS in Africa, as deputy joined the department of anthro- executive director of UNICEF, and pology at U of T in 1972 and was as Canada's ambassador to the promoted to the elite rank of UN. Lewis was leader of the University Professor in 1999. Ontario New Democratic Party He is the author of more than from 1970 to 1978, during which 100 papers, and his authoritative time he became leader of the book on the !Kung San people was Official Opposition. He holds 34 honorary degrees from Canadian named one of the most important Michael Levine (BA 1965 UC) universities, and is married to works of the twentieth century Lawyer Michael Levine has journalist Michele Landsberg by American Scientist. helped shape the entertainment (BA 1962 UC). landscape in Canada. An expert in the legal aspects of show business, he specializes in the financing and distribution of theatre, film, television, books, and multimedia. Levine has lent his expertise to organiza- tions such as the Canadian Film Centre, TV Ontario, Roy Thompson Hall, and the Royal Ontario Museum. Currently, he is the scholar-in-residence at

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Timothy Long (BA 1969 UC) Television writer and producer Tim Long has made millions of Dr. Susan Mann (BA 1963 UC) people laugh. A former writer for MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA and head writer for The Late Show Distinguished scholar and With David Letterman, Long is best academic leader Susan Mann is known as a writer and producer an expert in modern Canadian for the hit animated series The history. Notably, she has taught Simpsons, the longest-running the history of English Canada in scripted show in television French, and the history of French history. He is the winner of five Canada in English. Known for her Emmy Awards and the Annie groundbreaking research into Award for outstanding achieve- women’s issues, she is the founder ment in writing for an animated of the women’s studies program television production. at the University of Ottawa, and a founding member of the Heather Mallick (BA 1981 UC) Canadian Research Institute for Dr. Lorna Marsden (BA 1968 UC) Award-winning journalist and the Advancement of Women. MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; author Heather Mallick is not one The former president of York MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF ONTARIO to mince words. Opinion pieces University, Mann also served Sociologist and academic leader and lifestyle articles in her trade- as director of TV Ontario. mark, no-holds-barred style have Lorna Marsden’s influence has appeared in The Globe and Mail, been felt in the classroom, the Chatelaine, The Toronto Sun, and boardroom, and the Red Chamber. The Guardian, among other publi- She was appointed to the Senate cations. The author of two novels, by Pierre Trudeau, resigning to she currently teaches courses on become vice-president of Wilfrid politics and writing at U of T’s Laurier University and later, presi- School of Continuing Studies and dent of York University. Marsden lectures on human rights and has sat on the boards of major Canadian nationalism. corporations including Manulife Financial and SNC-Lavalin. She holds six honorary doctorates and has been recognized as one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women, as well as with the YWCA Women of Distinction

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His Excellency, the Right Hon. The Hon. Barbara McDougall The Right Hon. Arthur Charles Vincent Massey (BA 1960 UC) Meighen (BA 1896 UC) (BA 1910 UC) OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA Lawyer Arthur Meighen was ORDER OF THE COMPANIONS OF HONOUR; Financial analyst and former the ninth prime minister of COMPANION OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; politician Barbara McDougall has Canada. He was first elected as FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA been profoundly influential in a conservative member in 1908, Diplomat Charles Vincent Canadian public life. A former serving in various cabinet port- Massey was the first Canadian- federal minister of state, finance, folios including solicitor-general. born individual to be appointed employment, and immigration, Renowned for his sharp wit and Governor-General. During his she has also held leadership posi- logic, Meighen is widely acknowl- tenure he sought to unite tions with Scotiabank, Sun Media, edged as the finest debater and Canadians in their diversity and and Stelco, among many others. orator ever to speak in the House promoted bilingualism 20 years A financial commentator and of Commons. He was appointed before it became an official policy. columnist, McDougall is currently to the Senate in 1932. A supporter of the arts, Massey an advisor at Toronto law firm was instrumental in the creation Aird & Berlis LLP, where she Anne Michaels (BA 1980 UC) of the National Centre for the Arts counsels clients on matters of Poet and novelist Anne Michaels and the Governor-General’s Medal international business develop- is one of Canada’s most celebrated for Architecture. In retirement he ment, corporate governance, and writers. The UC English gradu- dedicated his time to stewardship government relations. ate’s first novel, Fugitive Pieces, of the Massey Foundation and was published to international its endowment to U of T in par- Dr. John Cunningham acclaim, winning the Trillium ticular, creating Massey College McLennan (BA 1892 UC) Prize, the Books in Canada First and the Massey Lectures. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Novel Award, the Orange Prize Eminent physicist John for Fiction, the Guardian Fiction Cunningham McLennan made Prize, and America’s Lannan tremendous contributions to the Literary Award for Fiction. advancement of science. The first Similarly, Michael’s first collec- person to receive a doctorate in tion of poetry won the physics from U of T, his labora- Commonwealth Prize for the tory was at the forefront of Americas. She is also a composer research in radioactivity, spec- of musical scores for theatre. troscopy, and low-temperature physics. McLennan is credited Dr. Lorne Michaels (BA 1966 UC) with discovering the cosmic ray Entertainment powerhouse Lorne and pioneering the use of radium Michaels is the creator and execu- to treat cancer, accomplishments tive producer of Saturday Night which earned him a knighthood. Live, the longest-running, high- During WWI, he acted as scientif- est-rated weekly late night televi- ic adviser to the British Admiralty sion program in history. A former and helped found the National member of the UC Follies theatre Research Council. troupe, Michaels began his career as a writer and producer for the CBC. His television and film cred- its include The Kids in the Hall, Wayne’s World, The Late Show With Conan O’Brien and 30 Rock, among many others. He is the winner of 10 Emmy Awards, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humour, and the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for lifetime artistic achievement.

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Dr. Cathleen Morawetz ship, the RV Farley Mowat of PHOTOGRAPHY Michael Moldaver (BA 1945 UC) the Sea Shepherd Conservation by Andrew Ballfour FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA Society. Supreme Court of Trailblazing mathematician Canada Cathleen Morawetz helped clear the path for female math scholars in the 1950s. Despite the lack of opportunity at the time, she completed a PhD and secured a tenured position at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. The Hon. Justice Michael Morawetz has published on a Moldaver (BA 1968 UC) variety of topics in applied math- Michael Moldaver is the most ematics, including viscosity, com- recent appointee to the Supreme pressible fluids, and transonic flows. She is the recipient of a Court of Canada. He began his Michael Ondaatje (BA 1965 UC) number of honours, including career practising criminal law and Poet, novelist, editor, and film- the National Medal of Science, joined the Queen’s Counsel in maker Michael Ondaatje is one the Outstanding Woman Scientist 1985. He served the Ontario Court of the most influential figures in Award, and the lifetime achieve- of Justice before being elevated to Canadian literature. As an author, ment award from the American the Court of Appeal in 1995 and he has published 13 collections of Mathematical Society. the Supreme Court in 2011. poetry and six novels, winning the Throughout his career he has Giller Prize, the Booker Prize, the played an active role in the legal Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, community as a teacher, speaker, the Prix Médicis, the Irish Times and member of the Criminal International Fiction Prize, and Lawyers’ Association and the the Governor General’s Award. Advocates’ Society. As a critic and editor, he has read and shaped numerous Canadian Dr. Mavor Moore (BA 1941 UC) authors. Ondaatje is perhaps best COMPANION OF THE ORDER OF CANADA known for his novel The English Arts icon Mavor Moore left an Patient, which was adapted into an indelible mark on the cultural Academy Award-winning film. landscape in Canada. He acted in and produced radio programs for the CBC and helped his mother, Charles Pachter (BA 1964 UC) theatre matriach Dora Mavor OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA Moore establish the New Play Leading contemporary Society. The author of more than artist Charles Pachter has been Dr. Farley Mowat (BA 1949 UC) 100 plays, documentaries, and described as the artist who created musicals, he taught theatre histo- OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA Canada’s modern mythology. His ry at York University and was the Writer and environmentalist signature representations of the first artist to chair the Canada Farley Mowat is one of Canada’s Canadian flag and the Queen with Council for the Arts. A founding most widely read authors. His moose have become pop icons of governor of the Stratford Festival affinity for nature and animals Canadian art. A painter, print- and the National Theatre School, permeates his dozens of novels, maker, sculptor, and designer, his Moore was recognized with which have been translated into works are displayed in public and several honorary doctorates, the more than 50 languages and are private collections around the Molson Prize, and the Governor credited with changing attitudes world. He holds three honorary General’s Award for lifetime towards conservation and abo- doctorates and has been recog- achievement in performing arts. riginal peoples. He has been hon- nized with the Queen’s Jubilee oured with the National Outdoor Medal, among other accolades. Book Award, a star on Canada’s 32 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE Walk of Fame, and a namesake UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2012 Alumni of Influence www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

Conference and then as a director of the IMF and the World Bank.

Dr. Joan Randall (BA 1949 UC) Community leader Joan Randall’s level of public involvement is exemplary. She has dedicated a great deal of time and energy to serving educational and arts Dr. Marilyn Powell (BA 1960 UC) institutions, including the Marilyn Powell is an award-win- University of Toronto and the ning writer, broadcaster, and pro- Royal Ontario Museum. Randall ducer, best known for her work on has been recognized with the CBC Radio’s acclaimed docu- Ontario Ministry of Citizenship mentary program Ideas. Her work and Culture’s Outstanding has been published in Saturday Helen Gardiner Phelan Achievement Award for Night, The Canadian Forum, and (BA 1940 UC) Volunteerism, as well as numer- Books in Canada. Her short stories MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA ous other awards and accolades. have appeared in Toronto Short Child actress, businesswoman, Stories and Aurora III. The winner Reuben Richman (BA 1956 UC) hospital leader, and philanthro- of several awards for her radio Olympian, attorney, and account- pist, Helen Gardiner Phelan left programming, Powell has also ant Reuben “Ruby” Richman is a a lasting impact. A director of taught at Sarah Lawrence College leading figure in the sport of bas- Scott’s Hospitality, Cara Holdings, in Bronxville, New York. ketball, both nationally and inter- and president of the Langar nationally. A former player and Foundation, she created two coach for the Canadian national chairs in women’s health, a drama basketball team, he has also held professorship, and the Helen leadership positions with a num- Gardiner Phelan Playhouse at ber of professional and amateur University College. Seeking sports organizations. One of the always to be a good example of founders of the World Masters women’s participation in public Games, Richman is also a member life, she chaired Women’s College of the Canadian Basketball Hall of Hospital and subsequently Fame and a recipient of the special Lyndhurst Hospital. achievement award of the Sports Federation of Canada. Wilfred Posluns (BCom 1955 UC) Business and community leader Dr. John Josiah Robinette Dr. Louis Rasminsky (BA 1928 UC) Wilfred Posluns was a dominant (BA 1926) COMPANION OF THE ORDER OF CANADA figure in the retail fashion COMPANION OF THE ORDER OF CANADA Educated at UC and the London industry in Canada. As the Lawyer John Josiah Robinette was School of Economics, Louis cofounder of Dylex, a $2-bililion perhaps the greatest Canadian Rasminsky worked for the League conglomerate of clothing facto- barrister of the twentieth century. of Nations through the 1930s and ries and chain stores, he was one During his 62-year career, he was then for the Bank of Canada, of the first retailers to realize the lead counsel for a number of high- ultimately as governor from 1961 potential of the suburban shop- profile clients and argued more until 1973, a period during which ping mall. He also helped raise cases before the Supreme Court of he deftly managed the nation’s $100 million for charity over Canada than any other lawyer. monetary policy. He played a his lifetime, and served on the Known for his skill and charm, he major role in the development boards of numerous healthcare was described as the best lawyer of the post-WWII international and Jewish organizations. the country had ever seen, and the monetary system, serving as chair standard against which all lawyers of the Drafting Committee of should be measured. the Articles of Agreement of the

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knack for explaining probability Dr. William Saywell (BA 1960 UC) concepts to expert and popular MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; audiences alike. He completed his MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PhD in mathematics at Harvard Higher education leader and University at the tender age of 24. scholar William Saywell is the A professor in the department of author of several books on statistics at U of T, he is often Chinese history and current called upon by the media for Chinese foreign and military commentary and to perform sta- affairs. The former president tistical analysis. He is the author of Simon Fraser University, he has of several books and articles on extensive experience managing probability, and he has been rec- relationships in Asia, and has ognized with numerous awards helped create business opportu- for his teaching and contributions nities for Canadians in China. to statistical research.

David A. Rosenberg (BA 1983 UC) Investors and the media alike Dr. Mark Rowswell (BA 1988 UC) consistently look to economist MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA David A. Rosenberg for insightful Entertainer and cultural ambas- financial forecasting. Currently sador Mark Rowswell has built the chief economist and strategist bridges between Canada and at Gluskin Sheff + Associates, he China. Widely known in China was formerly a leading economist by his stage name Dashan, he for Merill-Lynch. Rosenberg has rose to fame as a TV host profi- been named Economist of the cient in Chinese. He is the first Year by Fortune Magazine and foreigner to have been formally most accurate forecaster by accepted as a performer of xiang- MSNBC. He is the author of the sheng, a form of traditional influential economics newsletter Chinese comedy. Currently Breakfast With Dave. Canada’s Goodwill Ambassador to China, Rowswell was also Paul Shaffer (BA 1971 UC) Canada’s commissioner general OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA for Expo 2010 in Shanghai, and Band leader and television person- a torch-bearer for the 2008 ality Paul Shaffer is the musical Olympic Games in Beijing. director of The Late Show With David Letterman. A sociology grad- Dr. Douglas Salmon (BA 1951 UC) uate, he began his career directing Pioneering physician and scholar and playing piano in musicals, Douglas Salmon was the first then became a band member on black surgeon in Canada. The Saturday Night Live. Shaffer has orphaned son of Jamaican immi- released two solo albums and grants, his resourcefulness and recorded with a wide variety of self-reliance drove him to fulfill artists such as B.B. King, Diana his childhood dream of becoming Ross, Yoko Ono, Cher, and Brian a doctor. His medical career was Wilson. He makes frequent cameo spent at Centenary Hospital in appearances in films, and has Scarborough where he was ele- served as the spokesperson for Prof. Jeffrey S. Rosenthal vated to chief of general surgery, Epilepsy Canada since 2002. (BSc 1988 UC) the first black person in Canada FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA to hold such a position. Also an Statistician and best-selling accomplished pianist, upon being author Jeffrey Rosenthal has a denied entry to performance halls he led successful protests against 34 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE racial discrimination. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2012 Alumni of Influence www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

The Rev. Dr. Wilfred Cantwell Smith (BA 1938 UC) OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA Religious historian Wilfred Cantwell Smith was an early and influential proponent of interfaith dialogue. An expert in oriental languages, he founded the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University and the depart- ment of comparative religion at Dalhousie. He was best known for arguing that the term religion, before the seventeenth century, meant a quality of piety common among faithful from various Dr. Frank Shuster (BA 1939 UC) Dr. Mary Alice Stuart (BA 1949 UC) traditions, and that its modern OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; definition as a set of beliefs arose Comedian Frank Shuster was one MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF ONTARIO from conceptual slippage. half of the iconic Canadian come- Community titan Mary Alice dy duo Wayne and Shuster. Along Stuart was a driving force in edu- PHOTOGRAPHY Charles Perry Stacey with UC classmate Johnny Wayne, cation, healthcare, business, and Courtesy of he developed their trademark the arts. She fulfilled important The Toronto Star brand of satirical, literate slap- roles in various public and private stick. The pair performed skits on organizations, and notably served CBC Radio throughout the 1940s as chair of Canada’s first-ever $100 and gained international renown million-plus fundraising cam- through guest appearances on paign. Stuart was the first woman television in the 1950s, notably on president of the Canadian Club of The Ed Sullivan Show and the BBC. Toronto, the founding chair of the As the straight man to Wayne’s board of Jazz.FM91.1, and a direc- funny man, Shuster was the rela- tor of the Bank of Montreal and of tively serious member of the duo. S.C. Johnson and Son, Canada.

Arnold Smith (BA c.1930 UC) Kay Worthington (BA 1983 UC) OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; Two-time Olympic gold medalist MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF THE Dr. Charles Perry Stacey Kay Worthington is an example COMPANIONS OF HONOUR (BA 1927 UC) of perseverance and dedication. Arnold Smith was the first ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE; As a student at UC, she trained secretary-general of the OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; for the Canadian national rowing Commonwealth. A Rhodes FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA team while studying international scholar, he held diplomatic Colonel Charles Perry Stacey relations. She attended three appointments in the United was the official historian of the Olympic Games, striking gold States, England, and Cambodia. Canadian army during WWII. in the women’s four and eight in He served as Canadian ambas- He studied at Oxford and Barcelona in 1992. After her com- sador to Egypt and the USSR, the Princeton, where he taught petitive athletic career, she latter during the height of the briefly before the war. An exhaus- became a trader in Manhattan Cold War. He was also instru- tive researcher and elegant stylist, and served as the director of the mental in the development of he authored four volumes on Princeton rowing association. the Commonwealth flag. WWII and contributed much to the study of controversial opera- tions such as the Dieppe Raid and Operation Spring. A pioneer in Canada’s military history, he taught at the University of UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 35 Toronto from 1959 to 1975. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALL 2012 Alumni of Influence www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

Dr. Margaret Visser (BA 1970 UC) Prof. Leonard Waverman PHOTOGRAPHY Dr. Rose Wolfe by (BA 1964 UC) Award-winning writer and broad- Lisa Sakulensky caster Margaret Visser’s chosen Economist and higher education subject matter is the history, leader Leonard Waverman is an anthropology, and mythology expert in the productivity impact of everyday life. Her best-selling of telecommunications. The for- books, including Much Depends mer chair of the London Business on Dinner and The Gift of Thanks, School, he is currently Dean of the have been translated into six Haskayne School of Business at languages. She appears frequently the University of Calgary, where on radio and television, and has he has introduced a focus on ethi- lectured extensively in Canada. cal leadership, entrepreneurship, She has taught Greek and Latin at and energy. Waverman has also York University, and delivered the been named one of the 50 most Massey Lectures in 2002. influential leaders in the telecom- munications industry by Global Dr. Rose Wolfe (BA 1938 UC) Telecoms Magazine. Dr. Patrick Watson (BA 1951 UC) MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA; COMPANION OF THE ORDER OF CANADA MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF ONTARIO For more than five decades, University administrator, social Patrick Watson has played a key worker, and philanthropist Rose role in the development of Wolfe has worked tirelessly to Canadian television, as producer improve public life. The founding then host of several ground- president of Canadian Jewish News, breaking public affairs pro- she is a dynamic presence on the grams. Best known for pushing boards of numerous healthcare, the boundaries as host of This religious, and cultural organiza- Hour Has Seven Days, Watson is tions. Wolfe is the former chancel- also a prolific author, actor, and lor of the University of Toronto, outspoken commentator. He where she established a chair in is the former chair of the CBC Holocaust studies as well as schol- and has been recognized by arships for aboriginal students. many for his innovative and substantive contributions to Elwy Yost (BA 1948 UC) television journalism. Johnny Wayne (BA 1940 UC) MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA Legendary comedian Johnny Television personality Elwy Yost Wayne is remembered as the mad- was best known as the avuncular cap half of the iconic Canadian host of TVO’s Saturday Night at the comedy duo Wayne and Shuster. Movies, of which he hosted more Along with classmate and fellow than 1000 episodes over 25 years. UC Follies alum Frank Shuster He studied sociology at UC, and (BA 1939 UC), he is credited with with a classmate made a movie founding the great Canadian tra- called In Between, one of the first dition in sketch comedy. Their independent films in Canada. signature, literate slapstick style A classic cinema enthusiast, he of comedy provided the basis for interviewed several movie stars an enormously successful career for television and was the author on radio, stage, and television of four books about film. which lasted nearly five decades.

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AUTHOR MAGINE THAT YOU’RE AT WORK. Bullying has, of course, been going on forever— Jennifer McIntyre YOU’RE LOOKING AT A SPREADSHEET, there is more than a grain of truth in the saying, OR PUTTING A PRESENTATION “Children can be so cruel.” But in the past decade TOGETHER. or so, the reach of that cruelty has been extended exponentially, thanks to the Internet. SUDDENLY A WAD OF PAPER HITS YOU IN THE HEAD. Says Mercer, “In my day, if someone was being bullied, at least at the end of the day, at home, they “FAGGOT!” HISSES A VOICE CLOSE BY. were in a safe place. Well, those safe places don’t IT’S THAT GUY FROM ACCOUNTS PAYABLE, exist any more because a lot of the bullying is THE ONE WHO SPITS IN YOUR LUNCH. happening on a ‘cyber’ level.”

YOU TELL YOUR BOSS, BUT SHE’S NO HELP. Bullies can now follow their victims home via LATER THAT DAY, THE BULLY TELLS YOU THAT instant messaging, email, and social media such HE AND HIS PALS FROM DESIGN ARE GOING as Facebook and Twitter. Kids can—and do—set TO WAIT FOR YOU IN THE STAFF PARKING LOT up hate websites or run vicious online polls AFTER WORK AND BEAT YOUR HEAD IN. (“Is Margaret a slut? Yes/No?”) about their targets, sometimes with tragic results. Sound unbelievable? Certainly in a Canadian work- place today it would be. But it’s an ongoing reality After the suicides of Ontario students Jamie Hubley for thousands of school-age kids across the country, and Shaquille Wisdom (in 2011 and 2007, respec- who spend their days being terrorized, taunted, tively), both of whom had been targeted by anti-gay threatened, and shunned by their peers—their bullies, Mercer, who is gay himself, broadcast two “coworkers,” if you will—simply for being forceful anti-bullying “rants” on his weekly show, “different” in any way. The Mercer Report.

Canadian comedian and political satirist Rick As well-received and powerful as his words Mercer agrees. “Most of us go to work, and if any were, however, Mercer feels strongly that the individual was wandering around the workplace, most persuasive solutions will ultimately come walking up to someone and saying “Hey, you from young people themselves—in the form of fuckin’ fag!” and spitting on them… and gay–straight alliances (GSAs) in high schools, punching them, the police would be called. and of student-led anti-bullying initiatives. They’d be charged.”

“But high school is like this bizarre social experi- ment where that’s allowed to go on.” He laughs incredulously. “The only other place you see that type of behaviour is in fictionalized versions of prison! School is one of the few places where you’re forced to be with people you don’t want to be with on a daily basis.” UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 39 REPORT FALL 2012 Bullying www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

“I DON’T KNOW IF [BULLYING] WILL EVER COMPLETELY GO AWAY...”

“Kids are using their equity for good, more now than when I was in school,” he says, “and I think there’s an obligation on [us as adults] to support “My concern is for LGBTQ kids because of my those organizations because I think that’s where work,” says Cossman, whose research focuses on the solutions are going to be. Adults can talk the law and sexuality. “But there really is no place about [bullying] and government can legislate where that line stops and ‘the other kids who are about it and schools can administer it, but at the different’ starts. I think it’s just kids who are end of the day it’s going to be up to the young different [who get bullied].” people themselves.” “I think we have an obligation to kids who are University of Toronto law professor and Director different to do something about this, and maybe of UC’s Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual in some ways make [school] more like a workplace Diversity Studies, Brenda Cossman, emphatically where this sort of stuff is unacceptable.” agrees. She credits student activism as the impetus behind the passage of Ontario’s Bill 13 in “We have achieved equality for [gay and lesbian] June, which clears the way for GSAs in that grownups now,” says Cossman. “But in high province’s high schools and puts the onus school it is still no safer to come out. In the work- squarely on principals to intervene in cases place, name-calling and pushing would not be of bullying and harassment. accepted. In high school, though, it’s still Lord of the Flies in there!” “This [legislation] bubbled up from kids trying to organize gay–straight alliances, who University College student Brock Hessel can attest had the audacity to stand up and say ‘We’re to this—and to the power of young people helping going to do this!’, when all the adults around each other out. Now an anti-bullying activist him- them, all the authority figures, were saying self, the shy, funny 26-year-old was bullied merci- ‘don’t,’” says Cossman. lessly during his high school years not long ago in small-town Strathroy, Ontario. “It amazes me that what was a grassroots, ‘from- the-ground-up’ struggle is now being affirmed “I was bullied because I was gay,” he recalls. by legislation. These kids now have the heft of “People would call me fag and those kinds of legislation behind them.” names—before I knew I was queer myself.”

A lesbian and mother to two young daughters, (“I had no idea!” he laughs ironically. “In a way, Cossman’s particular focus is on providing safe they actually helped me!”) spaces for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and “ques- tioning”, or LGBTQ, kids, whose suicide rate is Hessel dropped out of school at 16 and moved in many times the national average. with family friends in Toronto, where he enrolled in the Triangle Program, an alternative high school for at-risk LGBTQ kids. He struggled with

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depression and drug addiction but with the help of addiction counselling and some determined According to Statistics Canada: teachers at Triangle, made his way back into mainstream education. Hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation doubled in 2008, and increased by another He now spends time back in the “trenches” of York 18% in 2009. Region high schools as part of an outreach group 74% of hate crimes motivated by sexual called YouthSpeak, talking directly to kids about orientation are violent, with 63% resulting bullying and its collateral damage—addiction, self- in injury to the victim. harm, suicide, and mental health issues. The peak age of those accused of hate crimes Like Cossman and Mercer, Hessel too is encour- in Canada is 17 to 18; educational facilities rank aged by the changes he’s seen even in the few years second among offence locations. since he himself was in high school.

“I think there’s a lot more awareness of bullying and its effects,” he says. “I don’t want to make over- generalizations—I think in some schools it’s just the same stuff I was dealing with. But for instance, I spoke at [a high school] in this small town and it was awesome. This kid came up to me and said ‘I’m gay and I’m out and I have friends!’ And I was real- ly surprised—and really happy.”

“I don’t know if [bullying] will ever completely go away, though,” says Hessel. “There’s always going to be some kind of hierarchy. It might become a little bit more subtle but I think it will always be there in some capacity.”

“But every time I leave [a speaking engagement], I feel like I’ve actually done something, like all the shit I went through was actually worth it.”

“I feel like I’m actually giving back, and maybe in some way helping to stop the cycle.”

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AUTHOR Yvonne Palkowski

ACTOR-TURNED-DIRECTOR SARAH POLLEY HAS COME A LONG WAY SINCE HER TURN AS THE CHILD STAR OF CBC’S ROAD TO AVONLEA. SHE HAS APPEARED IN FILMS BY SOME OF THE MOST RESPECTED DIRECTORS IN THE BUSINESS—ATOM EGOYAN, DAVID CRONENBERG (BA 1967 UC), AND WIM WENDERS, AMONG OTHERS. A DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER IN HER OWN RIGHT, SHE HAS EARNED ACCLAIM WITH THE OSCAR-NOMINATED AWAY FROM HER (2006) AND THIS SUMMER’S TAKE THIS WALTZ. AS THIS YEAR’S BARKER FAIRLEY DISTINGUISHED VISITOR IN CANADIAN STUDIES, POLLEY IS AVAILABLE TO UC STUDENTS FOR ADVICE ON ALL FORMS OF WRITING. SHE SPOKE WITH UC MAGAZINE EDITOR YVONNE PALKOWSKI.

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AS SOMEONE WHO DIDN’T GO TO UNIVERSITY, IT SEEMS LIKE THE MOST

What is it like to have worked with some of the greatest directors in film? How has the experience informed your work as a director?

I feel I’ve been really privileged to have such an amazing ad hoc film school. Most filmmakers don’t get the opportunity to watch other filmmakers work. As I began making short films in my early twenties, I was able to watch many different directors work in completely different genres and styles. It was a great way of figuring out what worked for me and what didn’t in my own work. Atom Egoyan and Wim Wenders were huge influ- ences on me. They are both incredibly rigorous, organized, and prepared. It leads to an incredibly calm, focused environment which I’ve tried to emulate on my own sets. Atom has also been a constant mentor to me, advising me on drafts of scripts and various cuts of my films.

How do you choose your roles as an actor?

I think I used to choose roles based almost exclusively on the screenplay. Now that I under- stand more about the process, I make the deci- sion almost entirely on who the director is. It’s been interesting to learn over the years that a great script means nothing if it’s not in the hands of a great director. On the other hand, I’ve occa- sionally seen directors take mediocre scripts and turn them into great films. It’s interesting how important the director’s hand is.

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EXTRAVAGANTLY LUCKY THING IN THE WORLD TO GET TO SPEND YEARS READING AND LEARNING.

How does screenwriting compare to acting Everyone in the world lives in a specific place, and directing? What was your experience so it feels closer to home to see a story set in a screenwriting Take This Waltz? specific place rather than a generic one. I think it allows the universality of the human themes Screenwriting allows for so much more reflection to come to the surface more easily than when and solitude. I think it’s my favourite part of the we try to make ourselves seem generically process because everything is still possible and North American. not mitigated by the exigencies of production. I find it to be a joyful process as well as agonizingly What advice do you give students as artist-in- lonely. It is so magical, later, to have dozens of residence at University College? extremely talented people make those ideas you’ve had alone in a quiet room become tangible I’m not sure how much advice I have. I’m excited and real. Take This Waltz was written very instinc- to have conversations and learn about what they tually and quickly. I then spent a long time figuring are doing. I never had a university education and out what it was that I had written and trying to I’m so thrilled to be spending time here. I did the make sense and a structure out of it. academic bridging program last summer, which was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had and There is a strong Canadian element to the films made me certain that I wanted to go back to you make: Away From Her is based on a short school. I was hoping to return this year in some story by Alice Munro, Take This Waltz is set in capacity, so I was elated to get the offer to spend Toronto, and your next project is an adaptation time at University College. I guess my only advice of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace. Why is it is to get everything you can from your years in important for you to tell Canadian stories? University and enjoy it. From the outside, as someone who didn’t go to University, it seems I think I identify strongly with where I’m from. like the most extravagantly lucky thing in the I also think art is most interesting when it is world to get to spend years reading and learning. specific. I get a lot of questions about why I make my films “so Canadian” but those questions only What would be your career if you come from other Canadians. When filmmakers weren’t in film? from other countries set their films clearly in the places they are from it seems natural to them and I know I’d like to write. I’d like to think I could they don’t question it. I think Canadians have write something outside the medium of film. Time become so used to trying to disguise themselves will tell I guess. I’d love to major in Canadian as Americans in films that it seems like a real history and be an academic. I’d also like to be a statement to not do that. It’s a political statement lot more politically active than I have been of late. just to be ourselves! I think when a story is set And I’d love to teach drama in an elementary clearly in a specific place, it allows people in school. These are my long-term pipe dreams. other places to relate to it more as opposed to less—which is the assumption behind trying to pretend we are not specifically Canadian. UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 45 PERSPECTIVES FALL 2012 Beyond the Border www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

On December 7, 2011, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and US President Barack Obama announced Beyond the Border: A Shared Vision for Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness Action Plan. The sweeping, new deal has been lauded by some for increasing border security and promoting bilateral trade. Others have expressed concern that such bene- fits will come at the expense of personal freedom and privacy. Still others remain unaware of the agreement or under- informed. UC Magazine looked to homegrown experts—faculty, alumni, and students—for insight into the plan.

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AUTHOR Emily Gilbert

PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AND DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY DIRECTOR, CANADIAN STUDIES

THE OBJECTIVE OF BEYOND THE BORDER is to create a security perimeter around Canada and the United States that will relieve some of the pressure on the inter- nal border. This involves working collaboratively on security measures, dealing with security threats before they arrive to North America, and building resilience to security events.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has described Beyond the Border as the most important step forward in Canada-US cooperation since the North American Free Trade Agreement. Business leaders have largely been enthusiastic about the investment in infrastructure, cargo-screening initiatives, and regulatory coordination.

Policy institutes and privacy commissioners, however, have raised concerns about more exten- sive cross-border information-sharing. A proposed integrated entry-and-exit register would enable more multiparty monitoring of travelers. Multiple concerns have been raised regarding data collec- tion, opportunities for redress and appeal, and appropriate regulatory frameworks to maintain privacy. Others are worried that this will require that Canada record biometric data, such as finger- prints and iris scans, of all its visitors, as is already done in the US.

Very little attention has been directed to the changes in cross-border law enforcement that are formalized in the agreement. Beyond the Border calls for the expansion of cross-border law enforcement whereby designated police and border agents are authorized to enforce the law on either side of the border, while under the supervision and direction of authorities from the host country.

A pilot project in maritime cross-border law enforcement is already underway. In 2009, a framework agreement for the Shiprider program (officially known as Integrated Cross-Border Maritime Law Enforcement Operations) was signed between Canada and the US. Shiprider enables vessels on shared waterways and seaways to be jointly crewed by designated RCMP officers and the US Coast Guard. As of June, 2012, Canada has passed legislation that bestows desig- nated US police officers and border agents with the same authority as an RCMP officer.

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The Beyond the Border plan sets out to regularize the Shiprider initiative and to expand its mandate HOW FAR onto land crossings. It proposes creating Next- Generation (NxtGen) initiatives that are designed DOES A to facilitate cross-border intelligence and informa- tion-sharing at and between land borders. NxtGen will also, like Shiprider, authorize designated offi- PURSUIT cers to enforce the law on either side of the border. EXTEND These new forms of security cooperation raise pressing questions. When does a cross- OVER border initiative start and end? How far does a pursuit extend over water, land, and in the air? Who has the authority to makes these decisions? WATER, Who is responsible if something goes wrong? What mechanisms for redress, if any, will be put in place? LAND, AND Addressing these questions head on is especially important in that the new initiatives do not just IN THE involve border agencies, but also draw together Public Safety Canada and the US Department of AIR? Homeland Security. Cross-border law enforcement is thus being brought under the purview of national security, even though the majority of Given the implications around cross-border law- illegal activities at the border are criminal activities enforcement it is worrying that there has been so such as smuggling. It remains to be seen whether little public debate about these new initiatives. For the full incorporation of national security agencies a long time the government sought to keep discus- will change the mandate of border agents, and sions regarding the bilateral negotiations quiet, to whether the full arm of national security will be avoid probing questions from privacy commission- used to apprehend cigarette smugglers. Other ers and human rights agencies. This secrecy, how- issues to be addressed are how information will be ever, only adds fuel to the suspicion regarding the gathered as part of these maneuvers, how privacy new initiatives. More open and transparent debate will be maintained, and what oversight regarding regarding border security needs to take place. privacy and human rights will be put into place. Unfortunately, the rhetoric of national security helps to quash any such discussion. The shift towards cross-border law-enforcement promises to dramatically reshape our understand- ing of policing, border security, and territorial AUTHORS Chelsea Bin Han, Osadolor Eribo, sovereignty. It raises thorny challenges regarding and Ian Sutcliffe human rights provisions, legal authority, and CANADIAN STUDIES STUDENTS accountability, which will all need to be worked out in the coming months. Unfortunately, clarity on these matters will likely only ensue in the wake Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, priority areas of an unfortunate incident where the problems of in border security have shifted, from drug and cross-border jurisdiction are thrown into relief. weapons smuggling and unauthorized immigration, to counter-terrorism and national security. This has, What is already abundantly clear, however, is that in turn, resulted in the emergence of new border the move towards cross-border law enforcement technologies and innovations to track and secure does not mean a reduction in security costs, as the movement of individuals across the border. many the proponents of Beyond the Border proclaim. Rather, it will require more personnel, more train- New border policies were outlined as early as ing, more infrastructure, and more expense. Beyond December 2001, just months after the 9/11 attacks, the Border is thus about more securitization, not less. when Canada and the United States signed the Smart Border accord. The agreement facilitated bilateral trade, commerce, and mobility through technological innovations and risk management practices. Pre-clearance programs such as Fast and

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PERSPECTIVES FALL 2012 Beyond the Border www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni Secure Trade (FAST) and NEXUS allow registered ^ participants who are deemed to be of minimal security risk to move more quickly across the bor- der in designated lanes. FAST is designed to ease traffic congestion by working with the private sector Pamela Kanter (BA 1974 UC) to facilitate border crossings by commercial vehi- Manager, US and European Union cles, while the NEXUS program grants expedited International Trade Branch passage to low-risk travelers and elite citizens. Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation Beyond the Border extends these pre-clearance pro- www.ontarioexports.com grams. The new agreement also goes further with respect to bilateral collaboration by calling for One of the main objectives of the Beyond the increased sharing of information, such as the biog- Border agreement is to increase North American economic competitiveness by aligning customs raphical data of everyone entering or exiting either procedures, expanding pre-inspection and pre- country. Many Canadians are reasonably concerned clearance programs, and developing cross-border about the implications of this security strategy for infrastructure and technology. their privacy and personal freedom. Others have complained that the agreement is another example Canada-US trade is crucial to the Ontario economy. of American interests being imposed on Canada. The NAFTA framework, geographic proximity, mar- ket size, and similar business environments make We decided to gauge the public’s knowledge the United States the natural first export market for and opinion of the sweeping changes to border small- and medium-sized companies across a wide practices that have been implemented over the range of business sectors, and a critical market for revenue expansion. The USA absorbs 77% of past decade. We traveled to the Canada-US border Ontario’s domestic exports worldwide, and at Niagara Falls to survey individuals about their Ontario’s exports to the USA have grown in each wait times at the border, whether they had been of the past two years. subjected to security searches, whether they supported the use of biometrics for identification, The International Trade Branch of the Ontario and whether they were aware of the recent Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation Canada-US border agreement. provides customized assistance to Ontario compa- nies seeking to export their products and profes- The biggest challenge that we faced was finding sional services to key markets worldwide. Services a place to distribute the questionnaire. Staff at range from exporter skills development and market seminars to sector-specific business partnering, tourism offices and chain stores notably would not trade missions, and in-market advocacy. Seminars grant us permission to conduct the survey on their on NAFTA and US customs documentation provide premises. We opted to set up in the public space on Ontario manufacturers with practical, hands-on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and managed information to help them to understand the cus- to survey over 100 people. toms documentation requirements of US Customs and Border Protection in order to clear goods into What became abundantly clear is that the vast the United States. majority of people are not informed about bilateral border agreements between Canada and the The Beyond the Border plan presents a new United States. Also, while there has been increasing set of policies and practices for business to observe in order to facilitate their cross-border securitization at the border in the last decade, trade. Ontario business seeking export success the responses to our survey suggest that the pub- in the USA and other international markets are lic is not engaged in the changes that are taking encouraged to consult the International Trade place, even though there is concern about some Branch for more information. of the initiatives.

It is our opinion that some of the changes to border security benefit travelers, while others may have dire consequences. Clouding these initiatives in secrecy does a disservice to the public in both scenarios. We hope that more public attention will turn to these initiatives so that Canadians become better informed about the changes taking place, and better positioned to participate in the shaping of border policies. UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 49 CAMPUS FALL 2012 On My iPod www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni On My iPod

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01. KEELY NUGENT (BA 2007 UC) ADVERTISING PROFESSIONAL

"Electric Light Orchestra is probably my favorite group of all time. Not a lot of people my age know about them, but Jeff Lynne is a musical 02. JOHN MARSHALL genius. I've been a longtime fan of Spoon, too. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Over the summer I really enjoyed Miami Horror DEPARTMENT FOR THE and Yeasayer because they're great summer STUDY OF RELIGION bands. I believe that music influences mood, VICE-PRINCIPAL, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE so I wanted my summer music to be fun and befitting of road trips and days at the beach.” “My music falls into two cate- gories: driving and housework, and office work. Category one these days is Eric Clapton, Cream, The Band, Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, or podcasts like Wire Tap or The Age of Persuasion. Category two is Sigur Rós, Zero7, Mozart, Beethoven (but it sometimes feels blasphemous to use classi- cal music as background).”

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03. JUSTIN STRUSS FOURTH-YEAR STUDENT IN HEALTH STUDIES

“Alanis Morrisette’s angry rock helps me vent my frustrations. She has helped me through many stressful times at U of T! When I'm in more of a cheer- ful, relaxed mood I like to lis- ten to alternative tunes by The Bird and The Bee or The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Sometimes I'm in the mood for classical, other times folk music, but whether I'm driving to school or taking a break from homework, my iPod keeps me sane.

04. PHOTOGRAPHER CAITLIN BURGESS (BA 2007 UC) 2—3 MUSICIAN AND EVENT PLANNER Christopher Dew

“I love a good, solid harmony and The Civil Wars have insane voices that blend together so well. Their song Poison and Wine is beautiful. And as corny as it sounds, Mumford & Sons makes my soul happy. I saw them live in Toronto recently and it was one of the best concerts I've attended in a long time. They are constantly playing on my iPod.” 3 UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 51 CLASS NOTES FALL 2012 News from Alumni www.uc.utoronto.ca/alumni

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NEWS FROM CLASSMATES NEAR AND FAR

DAVID AUSTER (BA 1990 UC) IMAGE 01. joined the Stratford Shakespeare UC Lit alumni point to their Festival as producer. names as recorded on the JCR wall at Exploration geologist Dr. the Lit Reunion on KEITH June 2, 2012. BARRON (BSc 1995 UC) was appointed to the advisory board L-R: of Firestone Ventures Inc. Caitlin Burgess Mark Graham Jessica Parker Kristina Minnella Joel Crocker Cherry Wang Arman Hamidian Dishan Wjesinghe Shaun Alphonso Maheesha Ranasinghe Keenan Dixon Scott Dalen Benjamin Dionne Kate Wilkes Paulo Bennencourt

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IRENE CHANG BRITT (BA 1984 CHARLOTTE FIELDEN (BA 1955 UC) was appointed by Campbell UC) has published her Soup Company to the roles of eleventh book, The Story of President, Pepperidge Farm and Marly Mansion (CFM Books), Senior Vice-President, Global the sequel to her first mystery Baking and Snacking. novel, The Wolves of Positano.

JEILAH CHAN (BSc 2000 UC) ANNE GOLDEN (BA 1962 UC), JEAN RAE BAXTER (BA 1955 was made partner in public policy expert and UC) has published her sixth Bennett Jones. former CEO of the Conference book, Freedom Bound (Ronsdale Board of Canada, has been Press, 2011), an historical novel TD Bank President ED CLARK appointed Distinguished for young adults set during the (BA 1969 UC) was named to Visiting Scholar and Special American Revolutionary War. Barron’s 2012 list of the best 30 Advisor at Ryerson University. CEOs on the planet. He also Historian MICHAEL BLISS (BA received an honourary doctorate THE HONOURABLE ROBERT 1962 UC) was appointed to from U of T this spring. F. GOLDSTEIN, a former lawyer the board of trustees of the with Public Prosecution Service Canadian Museum of of Canada, was appointed a Civilization Corporation. judge of the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto.

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and the June Callwood Award of Surrey Place Centre 2012, both for her contributions to the field of developmental disabilities. IMAGE 02. (L-R): John, Carol, and Maire Percy. Cardiologist VIVIAN RAMBIHAR Each member in this family of U of T (BSc 1972 UC) was named professors has been among the Top 25 Canadian honoured with an Immigrants of 2012. He is a award recently. pioneer in the research of IMAGE 03. heart disease and diabetes Father and daugh- in immigrants of South Asian ter cardiologists Vivian and Sherryn 02. origin. His daughter SHERRYN Rambihar Geologist and financial analyst at Queen’s University. Her ninth RAMBIHAR (BSc 2001 UC) is JOE HAMILTON (BSc 1985 UC) book, Why Have Children? The also a cardiologist. has been appointed CEO of Ethical Debate, was published by Malbex Resources. MIT Press in March. Comedian MARK ROWSWELL (BA 1988 UC), otherwise known BRIAN KERZNER (BCom 1983 Award-winning author ERNA by his Chinese stage name, UC), the founder and president PARIS (BA 1960 UC) was recog- Dashan, was appointed Canada’s of Rocky Mountain Chocolate nized with the Canada World Goodwill Ambassador to China. Factory, was appointed as a Peace Award from the World director of Prism Resources Inc. Federalist Movement. DARRELL SHERMAN (BCom 1984 UC) founded a forensic DAVID LEITH (BA 1981 UC) was Associate professor of English accounting practice, ADS appointed to the board of Yellow CAROL PERCY (BA UC 1985) Forensics Inc. Media Inc. was a 2011 recipient of the Ontario Confederation of Former Export Development Retired Federal Court of Appeal University Faculty Associations Canada CEO ERIC SIEGEL (BA judge ALLEN LINDEN (BA 1956 Teaching Award, for excellence 1975 UC) was appointed to the UC) received the 2011 Mundell in university teaching. board of SNC-Lavalin. Medal for legal writing. Professor emeritus of astronomy Lawyer JOHN SYPNOWICH (BA Fiat CEO SERGIO MARCHIONNE and astrophysics JOHN PERCY 1987 UC) was appointed Vice- (1978 UC) was named to (BSc UC 1962) was the recipient President, Legal and Corporate Barron’s 2012 list of the best of the inaugural Qilak Award Secretary of The CSL Group. 30 CEOs on the planet. of the Canadian Astronomical Society, for his contributions MELONY WARD (BA 1990 UC) JEFFREY OLIN (BCom 1983 to astronomy outreach and was appointed executive UC), cofounder of Vision communication. publisher of Azure, the Capital Corp., was appointed Toronto-based contemporary chairman of the board of direc- Professor emeritus of physiology international architectural tors of Edleun Group Inc. MAIRE (ROBERTSON) PERCY and design magazine. (BSc UC 1962) received the CHRISTINE OVERALL (BA 1971 Award of Excellence of the Send your news to UC) is a professor of philosophy Ontario Association on [email protected]. Developmental Disabilities 2011,

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In Memoriam

1930s Mr. Duncan Green (BA 1949 UC) Mrs . Frances (Rotstein) Basen (BA 1938 UC) of Toronto, ON; May 13, 2012 of Toronto, ON; Jan. 31, 2012 Mrs. Margaret (Robins) Hart (BA 1946 UC) Mrs. Catherine G. (Matthews) Cooper (BA 1939 UC) of Toronto, ON; Feb. 16, 2012 of Toronto, ON; Dec. 31, 2011 Dr. F. Marguerite (Peggy) Hill (BA 1940 UC) Mr. Frederick R. Cosford (BA 1938 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jan. 15, 2012 of Varna, ON; Apr. 27, 2011 Mrs. Dorothy J. (Northwood) Hodgson (BA 1942 UC) Mrs. Madeleine P. Cummins Meyer (BA 1936 UC) of Ottawa, ON; May 23, 2012 of Washington, DC; Mar. 11, 2012 Mr. George D. Holder (BA 1944 UC) Mrs. E. Marie (Hearn) Jarvis (BA 1939 UC) of Sault Ste. Marie, ON; Jan. 17, 2012 of Millbrook, ON; Feb 4, 2012 Mr. Nelson S. Kuhn (1946 UC) Ms. Louisa (West) Keith (BA 1934 UC) of Etobicoke, ON; May 20, 2012 of Toronto, ON; Apr. 12, 2011 Mr. Robert M. Madill (BCom 1949 UC) Miss Alice Moulton (BA 1934 UC) of Toronto, ON; May 1, 2012 of Toronto, ON; Jan. 25, 2012 Mrs. Mary V. (Harding) McCullam (BA 1940 UC) Mrs. Sadye (Blumenthal) Shapiro (BA 1931 UC) of Toronto, ON; 2011 Toronto, ON; Jan. 8, 2012 Mrs. Audrey S. (MacFarlane) McDonald (BA 1943 UC) Mr. Cecil Morris Bernstei Shnier (1934 UC) of Ottawa, ON; May 21, 2012 of Emerson, MB; Apr. 26, 2012 Mrs. Lulu M. (Kent) Miller (BA 1946 UC) Mrs. Helen W. Taylor (BA 1936 UC) of Peterborough, ON; Apr. 8, 2012 of Kingston, ON; Oct. 22, 2011 Mrs. Darwina (Faessler) Moore (1945 UC) The Hon. Douglas C. Thomas (BA 1933 UC) of Toronto, ON; Apr. 24, 2012 of Bracebridge, ON; Feb. 4, 2012 Mr. Harold B. Nashman (BA 1949 UC) of Toronto, ON; Dec. 31, 2011 1940s Mr. Samuel Nichols (1947 UC) Mr. Norman Altstedter (BA 1941 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jan. 16, 2012 of Greenport, NY; Dec. 21, 2011 Mr. Sollie Raibmon (1947 UC) Mr. John W. Bell (BA 1948 UC) of Downsview, ON; May 22, 2012 of Don Mills, ON; Jan. 24, 2012 Miss Dorothy Robb (BA 1941 UC) Dr. Donald M. Britton (BA 1946 UC) of Collingwood, ON; Feb. 17, 2012 of Guelph, ON; May 18, 2012 Ms. Margaret Mary Roddick (1946 UC) Mr. Robert P. Cameron (BA 1943 UC) of Don Mills, ON of Ottawa, ON; Mar. 12, 2012 Dr. E. June Rogers (MA 1947 UC) Mr. William N. Cornwall (BA 1944 UC) of Ottawa, ON; Mar. 12, 2012 of Meaford, ON; May 8, 2011 Mr. Monty M. Simmonds (BA 1946 UC) Mr. Alan G. Detweiler (BA 1949 UC) of Toronto, ON; Oct. 6, 2011 of Toronto, ON; Feb. 25, 2012 Mr. Lawrence S. Solway (1948 UC) Mr. Leonard Dolgoy (BA 1949 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jan. 9, 2012 of Millfall, ON; Nov. 22, 2011 Mrs. Eleanor J. (Warwick) Statten (BA 1941 UC) Mr. James Russell Domina (1947 UC) of Toronto, ON; May 1, 2012 of Toronto, ON; Jan. 14, 2012 Mr. Harold C. Swallow (BA 1944 UC) Mr. David L. Dworkin (BA 1947 UC) of Vineland, ON; July 23, 2011 of Calgary, AB; Oct. 28, 2011 Mrs. Colleen Thibaudeau (BA 1948 UC) Mrs. Betty I. (Anderson) Ellis (BA 1947 UC) of London, ON; Feb. 6, 2012 of Ottawa, ON; Jan. 16, 2012 Mrs. Helen J. (Gordon) Venables (1945 UC) Mr. Leonard Feigman (BA 1947 UC) of Rockcliffe, ON; May 7, 2012 of Toronto, ON; Apr. 27, 2012 Dr. Jean (Rowe) Wadds (BA 1940 UC) Mrs. Mary Flagler (BA 1942 UC) of Prescott, ON; Nov. 25, 2011 of Calgary, AB; Dec. 13, 2011 Mrs. Ruth (Parkinson) Wagg (BA 1946 UC) Mrs. Susan D. (Goulding) Fletcher (1944 UC) of Nepean, ON; Mar. 1, 2012 of Beeton, ON; Jan. 5, 2012 Mrs. F. Joyce (Simpson) Weekes (BA 1940 UC) Mr. Donald M. Fortune (BA 1947 UC) of Willowdale, ON; May 8, 2012 of Willowdale, ON; Jan. 10, 2012 Dr. Jack M. Weinberg (BA 1940 UC) Mrs. Freda (Jessel) Freeman (BA 1946 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jan. 8, 2012 of Toronto, ON; Jan. 25, 2012 Mrs. Catharine S. (Williams) Yeomans (BA 1947 UC) Mr. Klaus Goldschlag (BA 1944 UC) of Toronto, ON; Apr. 10, 2012 of Toronto, ON; Jan. 30, 2012

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1950s 1960s Mr. Leonard A. Braithwaite (BCom 1950 UC) Mr. Jerry M. Applebaum (BA 1965 UC) of Etobicoke, ON; Mar. 28, 2012 of Toronto, ON; Dec. 26, 2011 Mr. Andrew Whitelaw Brink (BA 1955 UC) Mrs. Sharon L. (Herzog) Branton (BA 1966 UC) of Dundas, ON; Nov. 25, 2011 of Saint-Lambert, QC; Mar. 10, 2012 Mr. Mitchell Bros (BA 1954 UC) Mr. David H. Clemons (BCom 1964 UC) of Wasaga Beach, ON; Apr. 22, 2012 of St. George Brant, ON; Feb. 4, 2012 Mr. Frederick A. Dreyer (BA 1955 UC) Ms. Melinda E. Evans (BA 1966 UC) of London, ON; Jan. 20, 2012 of Scarborough, ON; Feb. 8 2012 Mrs. Janet B. (Auld) Dykeman (BA 1952 UC) Ms. Ruth Gelber (BA 1961 UC) of Newcastle, ON; May 12, 2012 of Toronto, ON; Oct. 16, 2011 Mr. Bernard F. J. Ellis (BA 1952 UC) Miss Linda M. Kennedy (BA 1961 UC) of Waterloo, ON of Hamilton, ON; Dec. 22, 2011 Mrs. Patricia A. (Murdoch) Fleming (BA 1952 UC) Ms. Mary M. King (BA 1968 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jan. 10, 2012 of Toronto, ON; Feb. 7, 2012 Prof. Richard Gregor (BA 1955 UC) Mr. Nelson W. Neff (BSc 1964 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jan. 25, 2012 of Fonthill, ON; Apr. 9, 2012 Mr. Timothy Alexander Grew (1958 UC) Dr. Jack J. Parlow (BA 1966 UC) of King City, ON; Jan. 15, 2012 of Toronto, ON; Apr. 26, 2012 Dr. Kari Grimstad (BA 1959 UC) Mr. Franklin W. Phillips (BA 1963 UC) of Rockwood, ON; May 24, 2012 of Willowdale, ON; Jan. 20, 2012 Mrs. Jean C. (Marsh) Hansen (BA 1953 UC) of Owen Sound, ON 1970s Mr. Strachan Heighington (BA 1950 UC) Mi ss Desiree A. Hopkinson (BA 1972 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jan. 9, 2012 of Toronto, ON; Mar. 9, 2012 Mr. George L Howse (BA 1951 UC) Mr. Frank M. Newland (BA 1979 UC) of Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON; Nov. 2011 of Aurora, ON; May 16, 2012 Dr. Ross Kilpatrick (BA 1957 UC) of Kingston, ON Notices of death published in this issue were received between Mrs. Jenny (Volpe) Klotz (BA 1950 UC) January 1 and June 30, 2012, and list the date of death and last of Willowdale, ON; Apr. 23, 2012 known residence where possible. Friends and family of the Mr. Roderick S. J. MacIntosh (BA 1950 UC) deceased can help by sending information to of Mississauga, ON; Apr. 5, 2012 [email protected]. Mr. J. Bruce Nicholson (BA 1958 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jan. 12, 2012 Erratum Mrs. Mary A Palmer (BA 1950 UC) Apolog ies to Jean C. Carrie (BA 1942 UC), who was erroneously of Orton, ON; Jan. 16, 2012 listed as deceased in “In Memoriam” (Spring 2012). UC Magazine Mr. Irwin W. Pasternak (BA 1950 UC) regrets the error. of Toronto, ON; May 28, 2012 Mrs. Mary Jane (Young) Rodgers (BA 1950 UC) of North York, ON Miss Patricia L. Sampson (BA 1959 UC) of Toronto, ON; Feb. 3, 2012 Ms. Sarka Spinkova (BA 1952 UC) of Toronto, ON; Mar. 8, 2012 Dr. David Taylor (BA 1955 UC) of North York, ON; Apr. 2, 2012 Mrs. Ann L. (Hutt) Vanstone (BA 1955 UC) of Haliburton, ON; May 24, 2012 Mr. Robert J. Varty (BCom 1951 UC) of Bracebridge, ON; Apr. 19, 2012 Mrs. Patricia A. (Cumine) Wardrop (BA 1954 UC) of Campbellford, ON; Jan. 30, 2012 Mrs. Betty M. R. Weaver (BA 1951 UC) of Hamilton, ON; Mar. 13, 2012 Mr. Wilbert H. Winchester (BA 1959 UC) of Port of Spain, Trinidad, Tobago; Feb. 8, 2008 Mrs. Janet D. Zimmerman (BA 1950 UC) of Toronto, ON; May 17, 2012

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