TRINITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE summer 2011

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a gifted storyteller actor settles into her role

Plus: why needs a national energy strategy now & the return of the Vikings provost’smessage

Back to the Future The rest is yet to come

The end of the academic year brings a familiar rhythm that Ridley and others from whence our core has come through the never fails to delight and surprise. A new low-table appreciation years. I note only that there is space in those windows for other night for student leaders was a great addition to the usual round names to appear. Likewise, I find it charming that the program of recognition for incoming and outgoing Heads and Dons. for the other east windows in Strachan remains unfinished: The Divinity Convocation allowed us to salute our graduating while the Biblical Hebrew of David, the Ancient Greek of students and honour three people who themselves have hon- Sophocles, the Medieval German of Walther von der Vogel- oured the College by their superb achievements beyond these weide (spot the odd man out?), the Humanist Latin of Petrarch walls – namely, the Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes Div ’86, the Rev. and the English of Shakespeare may once have spanned the Canon John Hill and Steve Otto ’61. At Convocation at the world, there is still more, surely, to be written on these walls. University of , our own Malcolm Gladwell ’84 and Craig There is a stain on the ceiling that (I am told) testifies to an Kielberger ’07 received honorary degrees, and each delivered ancient food fight long forgotten. I pass over the portraits of my a Convocation address. In the same Janus-faced perspective, predecessors, happy in the knowledge that there is no room for reunion remains one of the events in the year I most look for- me among the great men and, so far, single woman on the walls; ward too, even if it looks back, because I get to see so many who some problems are best left to others, after all. Best of all to me still feel that this place gave them so much. is the blue strip running round the hall, crying out for inscrip- A similar sensitivity to past and present seizes us as we plan tion; I wonder what the next generation will write. I continue to for a major renovation, in the summer of 2012, of the kitchen cherish the notion that here at Trinity, the past is all around us, and Strachan Hall, places that for all of us symbolize the very ever subject to re-evaluation and renewal. heart of the College. The fireplace is suitably inflammatory, As I write this, I am appropriately troubled by an old theme: with its carving of the arms of provost Cosgrave (in Irish, the “All day in the one chair / From dream to dream and rhyme to name means “victorious”), of the College (the motto met’ agona rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / stephanos means “after the contest, the crown”) and of Gerald Vague memories, nothing but memories.” So says Yeats in his Larkin. Quite why the Larkin family adopted the motto oderint poem “Broken Dreams,” which once haunted my youth. But dum metuant (“let them hate as long as they fear”), an aphorism Trinity is about making dreams, not breaking them, so in what I that Caligula often quoted, is unknown, but in a place where guess passes for my maturity I choose to go rather with Tolkien’s both aspiration and achievement are valued, fear should give lighter and somewhat sunnier take when it comes to these walls way to respect, as the Latin verb allows. The east windows of and halls, and all those generations that have shared and continue Strachan Hall I similarly find both an inspiration and a standing to share moments here: “Beyond them is more than memory.” rebuke. In the Oriel Window stand the coats of arms of those institutions with which we have been historically affiliated, including Trinity Colleges at Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin, our federated confrères at Vic and St Mike’s, as well as University College (but not the itself!) ANDY ORCHARD and a whole host of schools such as UTS, TCS, UCC, Appleby, Provost and Vice-Chancellor

2 trinity alumni magazine trinitysummer 2011 Volume 48 Number 2 Features 8 Point of view Canada has no national strategy on energy, argues Alex Wood, an issue we’ve been ignoring at our peril

10 A foodie by trade It’s Chris Leggett’s job to care about what Canadians put in their bellies By Dana Lacey

12 From the twin towers to the Tea Party New York Times writer Kate Zernike has reported on America’s biggest news stories of the past decade By Rick McGinnis

14 Launching The Elder Edda Andy Orchard’s new translation of Viking poetry revives the raiders’ spirit By John Allemang

16 A story of her own Caterina Scorsone finds a way to give back to the world By cynthia macdonald Departments 4 Nota bene Dispatches from campus 16 24 Alumni at large Story arcs, dialogue and the magical muse Published three times a year by Trinity College, Editor: Lisa Paul; [email protected] By Tassie Cameron University of Toronto, 6 Hoskin Avenue, Editorial Co-ordinator: Jill Rooksby Toronto, M5S 1H8 Art Direction and Design: Fresh Art & Design Inc. Office of Development and Alumni Affairs Cover Photographer: Larsen & Talbert 26 Class notes Phone: 416-978-2651; Fax: 416-971-3193 Publications Mail Agreement 40010503 E-mail: [email protected] News from classmates [email protected] near and far Trinity is sent to 14,000 alumni, parents, friends and associates of the College. Trinity College complies with the Ontario Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. We 31 Calendar protect your personal information and do not rent Things to see, hear and do or sell our mailing list. If you do not wish to receive the magazine or wish in the coming months only to receive it electronically, please contact us.

summer 2011 3 notabene dispatches from Campus hy: ar n o sc h midt Ph otograp hy: Recent Trin grad Celia Schmidt worked in the College’s John W. Graham Library and the Trinity Archives. She is currently doing an internship at Library & Archives Canada. Historical Significance Celia Schmidt ’10 is spending her summer in the past. complemented by my time at LAC already.” One of four students selected to do a prestigious internship at Since starting the internship on May 18, she has participated Library & Archives Canada (LAC), Schmidt is working in Ottawa, in in record-keeping methodology training for the entire Society and the Government, Aboriginal, North and Transport (GANT) Section of Governance Branch, which “was extremely exciting as it is really at the Society and Governance Branch. “Basically, I work with govern- the forefront of the Canadian archival landscape.” She adds: “I have ment records,” she says by way of explanation. also been made responsible for handling the access to information During her undergrad years at Trinity, Schmidt worked as a requests that pertain to the Indian Residential Schools system and to student assistant in the John W. Graham Library and then in the the department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development.” Trinity Archives for almost two years. “I really owe all of this to While Schmidt is enjoying her work at LAC immensely, and Sylvia Lassam, Trinity’s Rolph-Bell Archivist, who inspired me relishing the opportunity to play tourist in the nation’s capital, she with her love of archives and who shared with me the wealth of says working at the Trinity Archives has left her with a “soft spot for knowledge she possesses.” smaller archives in which the archivist has the opportunity to encoun- Currently, Schmidt is pursuing a Master of Information in ter a greater breadth of records and to engage with them, as well as Archives and Records Management through the Faculty of Infor- with donors and users, in multiple respects, rather than contributing mation at U of T, a degree that she says “has been immeasurably a single part to the whole.”

4 trinity alumni magazine Snapshots of Reunion Creative Pursuits Trinity’s artistic side just keeps growing. The past few months saw students organize a slew of successful arts-focused events. There was a cabaret put on in early January, followed by the fifth annual Trinity art show – this year called If These Walls – in early March. In late March, there was a production of the musical Rent. Then, in April, this year’s edition of the Trinity University Review was launched, and the Trinity photography club held its first official annual member competition. Iris Liu took home the most firsts, also winning the inaugural Trinity Magazine Excellence in Photography Award, sponsored by the Office of Devel- opment and Alumni Affairs. This award was created to hy: s e co n d -ye ar stud en t I ris L iu Ph otograp hy: recognize a Trinity student who has shown remarkable Didn’t get a chance to make it to this year’s fabulous reunion? dedication to the pursuit of photography throughout the Or just want to look back at some highlights from the various school year, has produced a portfolio of high-quality events and parties? Check out our online photo gallery on the images spanning a range of styles and subject matter Trinity College homepage or on our Facebook page. If you think and preferably has done work for trinity magazine. you have some excellent shots worth sharing, post them on our We hope this will encourage more students to contribute Facebook page, or e-mail [email protected]; we may to the magazine and its new sister website. put up some of the photos we receive on the College website or on the new online edition of trinity magazine.

Staff Stories Trinity welcomed Helen She came to Trinity from the Yarish on April 4 as the new U of T, where she worked for human resources officer and 10 years in the Department of secretary of the Corporation. Surgery, as well as in the role of academic human resources co-ordination in the Dean’s Office at the Faculty of Medi- cine. “I’m impressed with the support and engagement of the alumnae in events, committees and as members on various boards,” she says. Yarish takes the place of Jill

Willard, who recently retired Dear, an illustration by Pamela Majocha; as published in the hy: L isa S akul en sk y Ph otograp hy: from the College. Trinity University Review, in Volume CXXIII

summer 2011 5 notabene Dispatches from campus

The Key to Belonging Nearly 75 per cent of Trinity College students live off campus. Engaging such a large group of people can be a daunting task, but the 2010/11 co-heads of the Non-Resident Affairs Committee (NRAC) approached their role with a goal. Haley Turnbull ’11 and Jonathan Scott ’12 were on a mission to remove barriers preventing non-res students from participating as fully as possible in College life and set out to revolutionize the non- res experience, particularly in the areas of social networking, meals and student spaces. First they integrated Facebook, Twitter and trinlife.org – ultimately creating a network of 600 students – and set up a system for sending out weekly calendar updates. “Before, you had to search for what was happening at the College,” says Scott. “Now all you have to do is open your computer or check your phone.” And there was no shortage of NRAC-organized events to fill that calendar, from cooking demos to parties. At one thematic high-table dinner the NRAC held during the week of the premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows last November, more than 300 diners participated, including students and staff and children left homeless after Toronto’s devastating Wellesley Street fire. Many Trin students arrived in costume to entertain the children. both for practicality and identifying as a Trin student.” The importance of food and how it cultivates a sense of community Having a dedicated space in which to congregate also helps to foster inspired Turnbull and Scott to secure each non-res student 15 free that sense of identification and belonging, and to that end, Turnbull and meals per school year, and to offer NRAC-subsidized meal plans for Scott helped convert the NRAC office into a common room with a TV, Strachan Hall and Melinda Seaman Dining Hall. “We knocked $10 computer, video games and snacks. A daily crew of 30 students relaxed off the price of each meal plan!” Scott says. in the new space between classes. They also maintained a relationship with Trinity bursar Geoff “I think we made a lot of changes that will help students, and Seaborn to provide external keys to the student heads of College and I’m really excited to see so many people running for the positions of to non-res students as needed. “A key gives you a sense of belonging,” heads of Non-Residents next year. It means that going forward we’ll Turnbull says. “Making sure students can get into the College – and have legs of sustainability and great new ideas to integrate non-res more importantly, get out through the gates after hours – is essential, students into Trin life,” Scott says.

Trinity Does Digital For those of you who missed the memo in the May e-trin newsletter, trinity magazine is now on- line! And we don’t just mean the pdf we put up on the College website when we publish the print edition, but as its very own website: magazine.trinity.utoronto.ca. The online edition includes all of the same great departments, alumni profiles and College news – and yes, you will continue to receive the magazine in print form unless you opt out and go paperless – but now you will be able to comment on a story or send us a note directly, plus access online-only news stories, features and photos. It also has quick links to our social-media tools; stay connected to the College and fellow alumni by liking our Facebook page, Trinity Col- lege Alumni, and following us on Twitter @Trinity_Collge.

6 trinity alumni magazine The Darn-dest Thing Third-year Trinity student Pathways and Partnerships Christian Siroyt, who was co-editor of this year’s Trinity University Review, models a 100-year-old College sweater, still in perfect condition. Originally owned by

William Stanley Watson ’18, aul the sweater was a gift to the Trinity College Archives from Watson’s daughter, Dody

Evans, just before Christmas. L isa P Ph otograp hy: Left to right: Sonia Arana, Jonthan Scott and Azrah Manji.

On June 14, two members of the 2010/11 communities graduate from high school and Non-Resident Affairs Committee (NRAC), successfully transition into post-secondary event co-ordinator Azrah Manji ’11 and education or training, by removing systemic co-head Jonathan Scott ’12, presented a barriers to education through providing $600 cheque to Sonia Arana, volunteer leadership, expertise and a community- co-ordinator at the Pathways to Educa- based program proven to lower dropout tion Program in Toronto’s Regent Park. The rates.“These students are future NRACs in a NRAC raised the funds at a Halloween party sense,” says Scott, who notes that they may back in October. Pathways is a charitable well choose to attend a Toronto university so

hy: I ris L iu Ph otograp hy: organization that helps youth in low-income they can save money by living at home.

Divine Acknowledgement At this year’s Divinity Con- Rev. Canon John W. B. Hill The Rev. Canon John W. have been to the preservation vocation, held May 10, the received a Doctor of Divinity, B. Hill was honoured in and continuing development College conferred honorary and Stephen Otto received a recognition of a long career of the Fort York National degrees on three high-profile Doctor of Sacred Letters. of intellectual and pastoral Historic Site. community leaders. The Rev. The Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes work as a priest and ecu- Dr. Brent Hawkes and the MDiv ’86 (DMin ’01) was menical theologian. He is honoured for being a tireless also a pioneer in promoting champion for equality and the catechumenal ministry in Survey Time! one of Canada’s leading gay- Toronto and all of Canada. rights activists. In 2001, he Stephen Otto ’61 was Don’t forget to keep an eye out for an alumni survey, performed the first-ever same- honoured for his exemplary which we’ll be sending out sex wedding ceremonies in the heritage conservation work via e-mail soon. We would country, which the City Clerk and his extraordinary devo- really love your feedback, refused to register. The cases tion to community service so please take a few hy: L isa S akul en sk y Ph otograp hy: went to court and set a prec- and advancing projects that minutes to fill it out. Left to right: the Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes, Dean of Divinity David Neelands and edent with a landmark ruling reflect public interest. Some of the Rev. Canon John W.B. Hill. that legalized gay marriages. his most recent contributions

summer 2011 7 point of view Canada has no national strategy on energy, argues Alex Wood, an issue we’ve been ignoring at our peril

One of the realities – good or bad – of a point of reference that is all about the land further than speeches made by Prime being Canadian is that we are insulated of abundant, almost limitless, resources. Minister Stephen Harper during suc- from the outside world. We may be an In our politics, where it matters most, cessive trips to the Far East, telling audi- immigrant and trading nation, but our it is an article of faith that being a com- ences in China and South Korea that their vast geography and continental outlook modity economy is what Canada does economic development could be fuelled create a screen between us and what is best. That feeling rests on a simple piece by commodities provided by Canada. happening in most of the world on many of economic theory: any nation’s compar- Speaking to the Korean National Assembly issues that should matter to us. Our ative advantage lies in what it can provide in 2009, he said, “Canada has the energy … recent federal election campaign stands at a cheaper price than another country Korea needs to fuel future growth.” as a clear example of how little we actually can offer. Given how much land, water, And we do, of course. But as a coun- discuss and debate the big issues shaping minerals and energy we have, our com- terpoint, consider that South Korea – in the world outside our borders. parative advantage in the global economy response to the global economic meltdown That isolation is nowhere more pro- would seem to lie quite squarely in exploit- of 2008-09 – announced a stimulus package nounced than on the matter of energy, ing those resources to the utmost. that devoted 87 per cent of its substantial and what is happening globally in the Certainly, the story of our economy resources to the development of emerg- long-term transition to a low-carbon over the past decade has given that view ing renewable-energy technologies such energy system. We are, quite simply, some credibility. We have derived sub- as solar photovoltaics and battery storage. standing on the sidelines while the great- stantial economic benefits from the global South Korea, in other words, is betting on est transformation in the global economy boom in commodities driven by explosive an economic future in which the energy of the past few centuries is underway. growth from emerging markets, particu- that we would like to sell it is something it We have come a long way from larly in energy. The investments, employ- may not need (or certainly need less of). economic historian Harold Innis’s oft- ment, government revenues and wealth This ambition, shared by many others that repeated invocation of a biblical verse to created by the energy boom are real, and we see as markets for our energy, is one that describe Canadians as “hewers of wood and Canadians have benefitted from them. we do not seem to factor into our decision- drawers of water.” We have built a modern Our public policy supports and encour- making. For Canada, a reliance on energy and diversified economy that affords us ages a continued focus on energy as a and commodities to drive future economic one of the highest standards of living in the driver of economic growth for Canada. prosperity involves risks that are not ade- world. But we still have, deep in our culture, For proof of that, one need look no quately understood or debated.

8 trinity alumni magazine The most important To be fair, there has been some discus- have any clear supply. markets into which we sion of the short-term dangers to Canada’s Europe, being dependent economic interests that come from an over- on natural gas from Russia sell our energy are all heated Canadian loonie and the stresses that and oil from the Middle taking steps to lessen creates on the rest of the economy. There is East, has its own concerns even acknowledgement of the risks to any over energy security, and their dependence on economy that is tied to commodity boom- also sees climate change as those very commodities. and-bust cycles. No one knows those risks a strategic challenge. Some better, after all, than Alberta’s energy sector, of the same concerns drive which went through a severe contraction policy in places like China And we have when world oil prices bottomed out in the (with air pollution thrown no plan B 1980s and 1990s. But aside from voices like in for good measure) and Peter Lougheed’s (who obviously learned India, with both needing new that lesson the hard way), these concerns sources of non-polluting energy to do not translate into a strong public call to meet the demands of their exploding examine the speed and scale of develop- middle classes. ment of our fossil-fuel energy sector. As with the U.S., many countries are But the real risk, as the South Korea looking for new areas of growth in their example is meant to demonstrate, is that economies, and seeing new energy tech- private investment in energy technology the basic assumptions we make about nologies, services and infrastructure as key and infrastructure, or any kind of coherent the nature of global energy markets are drivers of future prosperity. Many of these approach to policies that have a bearing on changing, and not in a way that will ulti- countries have followed the South Korean these issues, from fiscal policy to regula- mately be to our benefit. Energy markets model and invested substantial public tory approvals. are being shaped by different forces that resources in a wide range of clean energy Without a strategy, we miss opportu- we ignore at our peril. technologies and in the infrastructure that nities to leverage our substantial advan- In the U.S., President Barak Obama is will see those technologies applied. tages in energy engineering, financing calling for an end to U.S. dependence on The clear implication is that most of the and innovation into a long-term plan for foreign oil. But that call (made by almost energy-importing countries of the world how all forms of energy will meet today’s all U.S. presidents going back to Ronald are beginning to understand that their long- and tomorrow’s needs, both domestically Reagan) has been sharpened after 9/11 by term prosperity will depend on the ability to and internationally. Without a strategy, the knowledge that U.S. wealth is being control their energy future, based on energy we will find it difficult to ensure that all transferred (through payment for oil sources and technologies that they control. of our energy resources – renewable and imports) to countries the U.S. considers In other words, the most important markets non-renewable – contribute to our long- inimical to its security interests. into which we sell our energy are all taking term sustainable prosperity. Even more immediate are the economic steps to lessen their dependence on those Energy – where it comes from and how security concerns that come from the very commodities. And we have no plan B. we produce it – will shape the world we sense that oil has “peaked” (meaning that Canada, at a very basic level, has no live in tomorrow. Canada’s natural endow- global supply can no longer feed global strategic perspective on energy. Our fed- ments give it a huge advantage on energy, demand) and that oil prices will continue eral-provincial management of energy but our public policy is locked into a ver- to rise. On top of that, the dire unemploy- resources means we have all kinds of con- sion of the world that is growing outdated. ment numbers and remaining structural flicting interests that translate into policy Canada faces choices that we haven’t challenges in the U.S. economy make the paralysis. The political history of measures begun to understand, much less discuss. need for new sources of economic growth such as Pierre Trudeau’s National Energy Our federal election was an opportunity to all the more pressing. Program or Stéphane Dion’s Green Shift do so, but it is an opportunity we missed. All of this takes the U.S. to a place means that certain critical topics are ver- We cannot afford to miss many others. where there is a very strong rationale for boten in our political debates. the diversification of energy sources away Without a national strategy on energy, Alex Wood ’88 is currently the senior director, from fossil fuels. Some of that diversifica- we lack a focused understanding of what Policy and Markets at Sustainable Prosperity, tion will be geographic, and Canada is our national priorities should be in rela- a green economy think-tank based at the already benefitting from that. But more of tion to energy and the role that low-carbon University of Ottawa. He has spent the past that diversification in the long term will energy plays in the overall picture. We do 18 years working at the intersection of envi- come in the form of new technologies and not have a proper framework through ronment/economy issues, in the private, non- energy services, of which Canada does not which to consider the role of public vs. profit and public sectors.

summer 2011 9 a foodie by trade It’s Chris Leggett’s job to care about what Canadians put in their bellies

By Dana Lacey

Ever wonder what goes on during the industry lobbyists to schoolchildren to (His co-worker oversees meat and live- stretch of time between a policy proposal policy wonks to decision-makers, from stock.) “[Our office is] the mouthpiece,” he and the prime minister’s sign-off? Federal both sides of the border. Every group says. It is also a facilitator: “Once Ottawa employees like Chris Leggett ’87, a coun- brings a unique perspective, which he decides what needs to be done, we help sellor for Agriculture and Agri-Food then puts in front of important eyes at decide what tools are needed to advocate Canada (AAFC), are tasked with keeping the AAFC and the U.S. Department of on behalf of Canadian interests.” the Canadian government informed so it Agriculture, predominantly to advance Because Canada and the U.S. are struc- can make intelligent decisions. Canadian agriculture and commercial turally different, his job presents unique It’s a big job. In 2009, two-way agriculture interests in the U.S. market. challenges. “In Canada, the provinces have trade between Canada and the U.S. was He is also responsible for understanding a much stronger role in agriculture than nearly $33 billion, or 8.2 per cent of Canada’s and communicating general agriculture states do in the U.S.” Tackling such chal- gross domestic product, and the industry policy, and monitoring and reporting on lenges is part of why he likes his work. employs more than two million people. anything that may impact U.S.-Canadian Leggett calls his career path “acciden- Stationed at the Canadian Embassy agriculture trade. For Leggett, that in- tal.” For his BA, he studied general arts in Washington, D.C., Leggett meets with cludes trade in all plant products, such with a focus on French linguistics and everyone from farmers to lawyers to as grains, oilseeds, fruits and vegetables. classic civilization at Trinity, then went

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“This Act is the most significant update of U.S. food safety law since 1938, and has the potential to have important impacts at the border.” Origin Labelling (COOL) requirements. Up for renewal in 2012, the Farm Bill, the finer points of which are still being combed through by the U.S. House and Senate Agriculture Committees, will establish agriculture policy in the U.S. for the next five years. The U.S. Food and Drug Administra- tion’s FSMA, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama in January, is focused on preventing food-borne illness in the U.S. by adopting a preventive rather than a reactive approach to food safety. It is intended to beef up safety requirements for food grown or produced in the U.S., Canada and overseas, in part making producers and processors responsible for the safety of the food they provide. “This Act is the most significant update of U.S. food safety law since 1938, and has the potential to have important impacts at the border,” Leggett points out. Then there’s COOL, currently being deliberated by the World Trade Organiza- tion, which seeks to mandate new labelling requirements for produce. The specifics of all three proposals are still up in the air, with decisions expected by the fall, but there is no doubt Canadian farmers and consumers will see more transparency in food production. Such big-picture – often controversial issues – are important to Leggett, but it’s the smaller, more specific projects that get most of his attention – and interest. He loves talking to Canadian and American farmers and following issues such as Canadian “[The Food Safety Modernization Act] is the most hydrangea growers fighting for unblocked significant update of U.S. food safety law since 1938, and access to plants they grew from imported seedlings, or a cross-border agreement over has the potential to have important impacts at the border” what constitutes organic food, a topic that really resonates with Leggett. Trade cannot on to earn a law degree at the University law background is helpful for understanding discriminate based on method of produc- of Western Ontario. He met his wife, who the ever-evolving legal framework propping tion, such as whether an item is organic was then a legal assistant, while working up the agriculture industry. or conventionally grown. “From a trade as an articling student. Agriculture may not appear glamor- perspective, an apple is an apple.” His extended family lives in Ontario, and ous on the surface, but “ag policy” has That’s still the case, but it hasn’t pre- he visits when he can, which isn’t often. (His an impact on each and every Canadian vented the Canadian government from two young sons, David and Daniel, have and the food they put in their bellies. At pushing for equal standards that apply lived longer in the U.S. than anywhere else, the moment, Leggett is paying very close to organic produce on both sides of the but they still consider Canada home. So attention to three major things: the Farm border. “All parties recognize the impor- does Leggett, though he admits that “during Bill, the Food Safety Modernization Act tance of organic trade to the Canadian hy: st e p hen voss p h otograp hy: winter, I miss Canada less.”) It turns out his (FSMA) and the mandatory Country of agriculture sector,” Leggett says.

summer 2011 11 from the twin towers to the tea party New York Times writer Kate Zernike has reported on America’s biggest news stories of the past decade

By Rick McGinnis Most people remember what they were doing on September “When I started out there was no Google, no Blackberries. All 11, 2001, but Kate Zernike ’90 had a ringside seat, at a place the technological advances have made it possible for me to work where news turns into history: the newsroom of The New York remotely, so that if I’m on the road I can work from home a couple Times. She had been working there for just over a year when the of days a week and see my kids.” Trade Towers were hit, and now, looking back at those days on When Zernike returned from her second maternity leave, in 2009, the eve of the 10-year anniversary, she is left with a memory of her editor suggested she take over a recently vacated beat covering the certain feeling that “the world had changed permanently.” conservative politics. It was in the wake of the election of President “Writing about the hijackers Barack Obama, a dispiriting and their movements after it time for U.S. Republicans. What happened felt like you were un- Zernike didn’t count on was ravelling this plot, this conspir- getting another ringside seat, acy,” Zernike recalls over the this time at the birth of the Tea phone from her desk at The Party movement and the unex- Times headquarters in New pected resurgence of a populist York. “You had a sense that call for fiscal austerity. She end- something had changed in ed up writing a book, Boiling the long term, but in the mo- Mad: Inside Tea Party America, ment you were reporting the based on her Times coverage, big story of the day, which you and is certain that she witnessed had done before. It might not a game-changing moment in have been as big as this, but American politics. the things you do are just the “I have been covering poli- same. You call people and try tics for more than five years, so to convince them to tell you perhaps I shouldn’t confess that things that you think no one I’m not that crazy about cover- else knows.” ing politics,” she says. “I’d much Zernike and nine of her rather be out in the country do- Times colleagues shared the ing stories than in Washington 2002 Pulitzer prize for ex- or on a campaign plane. I’ve planatory reporting for their “I’ve always said that covering this always said that covering this 9/11 coverage – a heady mile- country can be as fascinating as country can be as fascinating as stone for someone who, just covering any foreign country – a decade earlier, was cutting covering any foreign country – it’s a big place, and there are her teeth in the journalism it’s a big place, and there are lots lots of opportunities for trans- business at The Newspaper, lation, even though we might U of T’s scrappy independent of opportunities for translation, speak the same language. The weekly. It was the beginning even though we might speak Tea Party was perfect, because of an exhilarating ride. it allowed me to get out there Armed with a BA in history the same language” and explain to people what was and English and her Newspaper happening, what was motivat- experience, Zernike went to the Columbia School of Journalism. ing this enormously passionate group of people, at a time when Having been raised in the U.S. by a Dutch father and a Canadian there was a lot of misinformation on both sides.” mother (Barbara Backus Zernike ’54), she had the gift of dual citi- Now that the mid-term elections are over in the U.S., the Tea zenship, but she arrived in the media marketplace at a rough time: Party story has largely moved to Washington. But when we a spike in newsprint prices had severely cut back hiring. She took spoke, Zernike was continuing to write stories about how the an internship – which turned into a job – at the Patriot-Ledger in Tea Party was affecting politics outside the Capitol. She was also Quincy, Mass., right after graduating. That led to an offer, three happy to have the time again to write non-political stories. And years later, from The Boston Globe. Her coverage of education then, when Osama bin Laden was captured in early May, The

y z e r n ik issues for The Globe attracted the attention of The Times, which Times published the obituary she had written for him 10 years lured her to New York in 2000. ago on a front page devoted entirely to his death. “The attacks The business has shifted wildly in the past 20 years, but Zernike now seem so long ago that reading it was like reading some- says changes in technology have been mostly positive, especially one else’s work,” she says. “But seeing that historic front page

hy: Harr p h otograp hy: for journalists, such as herself, who are trying to raise families. reminded me how many amazing opportunities I have had.”

summer 2011 13 launching the elder edda Andy Orchard’s new translation of Viking poetry revives the raiders’ spirit

By John Allemang

Trinity didn’t officially turn into a Viking college when Andy dieval age, and includes a cast of larger-than-life characters who Orchard became provost. But since when did Vikings need to do manage to make our own world seem very, very subdued. anything officially? “It’s an extraordinary text,” Orchard says, and it’s hard not to Orchard launched a hugely popular Trinity course called agree – ordinariness is hard to find in poems where giant-slaying Raiders, Traders and Invaders, gives persuasive talks at Spring is an everyday event, stream-of-consciousness pronouncements Reunion on such themes as Liking Vikings and never hesitates to of gods and elves sit side by side with heroic-age advice on over- point out the persistence of Viking culture in modern life, whether drinking and the narrative spans the dramatic distance from crea- it’s the latest Hollywood blockbuster about Thor, a Wagnerian tion to doomsday. homage at the opera house or merely the mention of a day of the The manuscript of The Elder Edda was written in Iceland week that can have its linguistic lineage traced back to Valhalla. around 1270; Edda is a slightly mysterious word meaning some- “The Norse gods and heroes are still around today,” he says thing like “a compilation of traditional poetry,” while Elder is an over morning coffee in his book-lined office, speaking with the indication that, as the provost observes in his introduction, “the sureness and enthusiasm of a man who has played a big part in book contains authentic echoes of an age already aged when the keeping the tradition alive. words were written down.” With the recent publication of The Elder Edda: A Book of Viking That distant, mythological strain of The Elder Edda was un- Lore, Orchard has further advanced the raiders’ all-conquering doubtedly part of its appeal to devotees like J.R.R. Tolkien and cause. This new volume in the Penguin Classics series features his C.S. Lewis, who happily populated their throwback literary crea- brisk translation of some of the most energetic poetry of the me- tions with elves and dwarves. “Yes, there is a strain of romanticism

14 trinity alumni magazine here,” says Orchard. “This is a different world, a faraway world. much, be careful who you sleep with. These are values we don’t But there is still something relevant and important about it.” necessarily associate with the Vikings.” launching the elder edda That relevance is most strongly felt in Iceland, where the The provost’s associations with the Vikings go back a long way. battered, paperback-sized 90-page manuscript with its cramped, At the age of 11, sitting on a beach in France, he read a book titled crowded handwriting is honoured as one of the wonders of Myths of the Norsemen and immediately decided that he would the literary world. To mark the publication of his translation, someday make his way to Iceland. Just before he went off to Orchard made a pilgrimage to see the original in Reykjavík and Cambridge to study Classics, he was lucky enough to win a was reminded of the iconic status it holds in the tiny country travelling scholarship that carried a wonderfully eccentric that has long inspired his intellectual passions. requirement: he had to go away to a place with mountains that For many centuries, he noted, the manuscript was in exile, pre- wasn’t connected with his university program. served in the Danish royal library as a gift from an Icelandic bishop Disappear. Let your mind wander. Go away to find yourself. to his Danish overlord. It made its return to Iceland only 40 years “I wish we had something like this at Trinity,” he says pointedly. ago aboard a Danish ship that So Iceland it was. He lived travelled with a military escort on ancient farms where the – a plane being deemed too hay was collected and tied by risky – and was cheered into hand, slept in the same caves Reykjavík harbour by an enor- where Iceland’s outlaws eked mous crowd of admirers. It’s out their wilderness exile, hard to imagine a Canadian toured around the saga sites literary document that could with his one-man tent and command anywhere near the discovered that the gritty same amount of excitement Viking spirit was still very and adoration. much alive. “Icelanders are very con- “A lot of the poetry is about nected with this material,” being alone in a foreign land, Orchard says. “They learn it in about wandering around, the schools, and every home about the kind of hospitality has a copy of these poems. you can expect. Most of all it’s And even bearing in mind the recent economic crash, you go into about interactions with other people.” shops and you still see books on business tips from Vikings.” He stops, grabs a copy of The Elder Edda and begins reading, There aren’t a lot of useful business tips inThe Elder Edda as such first in rhythmic, alliterative Norse and then in his translation: – at least not at first glance. Budding entrepreneurs who dip into the “Young was I once and I travelled alone: opening poem, titled “VÖluspá,” will find a prophecy of the world’s it turned out I’d wandered astray; destruction by fire and ice, with chilling images of the end: I thought myself rich when another I found: “The sun turns black, land sinks into sea; mankind is mankind’s delight.” the bright stars scatter from the sky. “In other words,” Orchard says, connecting the poem’s ancient Flame flickers up against the world-tree; wisdom both to his youthful travels and the hoped-for journeys fire flies high against heaven itself.” of his Trinity students, “you need people. It’s good to have the Yet side by side with that mystic vision is a poem titled courage to travel, it’s good to see how you stand up against the “Hávamál,” a sort of survival guide to the prickly nuances of day- world, and then it’s good to sit down in the pub, drink some beer to-day Viking etiquette. – but not too much beer – and have a chat with your mates.” “One must go on and not stay a guest Those particular Viking qualities have been a constant in for ever in just one place: Andy Orchard’s life and career and have deeply influenced his a loved one is loathed if he lingers too long Trinity style. A man who describes his younger self as a “terrible” in someone else’s hall.” student – “two of my supervisors refused to supervise me” – he Getting it right was very important in the shame culture of this has always had a deep appreciation for intellectual self-reliance, pagan world, Orchard says. The violent, often mean-spirited gods for exploration beyond the classroom and for the liberating didn’t offer much help or guidance, and you were only as good as possibilities of easygoing conversation. the reputation you made for yourself. The raiding, invading side of the wide-ranging Norsemen may “It’s all about human relations, about how you act when you’re get most of the attention. But there’s another Viking value the in someone else’s home or country, about travelling alone, often provost has personified in combining his College duties with the unarmed, and exercising caution and moderation and finding out unrelenting challenges of poetic translation. “Multi-tasking,” he who your true friends are. Don’t talk too much, don’t drink too notes, “is very much a Viking thing.”

summer 2011 15 a storyBy cynthia macdonald

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macdonald photography by larsen&talbert o f h e r o w n Caterina Scorsone finds a way to give back to the world ach week on medical drama Private Practice, she “I had applied and been accepted, but I was trying to decide if I is – a charismatic, Harvard- should move to Los Angeles and pursue acting instead. Ed said trained neurosurgeon who is as flawed as she is to me, ‘If you have the desire to go to university, go, because this brilliant. But in real life, the actor who plays her will still be here! [University] will set up the rest of your life, graduated from Trinity. And although Caterina your outlook.’ And it was absolutely the best advice I could have Scorsone came extremely close to attending med- been given.” ical school herself, she realized years ago that she Scorsone’s intellectual leanings were fostered by her parents, would much rather play a doctor than be one. “I was really just both socially minded academics. The serious example they set interested in the pathos,” she says, laughing. initially turned her off acting as a career choice. “I suppose I was The 29-year-old rising star grew up close to the University of in a moral quandary about it. I wanted to give back to the world, Toronto’s St. George campus, the middle of five children. Acting and I thought at the time that meant building orphanages, or has pretty much always been a part of her life: at the age of eight, working in a soup kitchen, or mending relations between nations. she was selected as a regular on Mr. I hadn’t yet decided that storytell- Dressup, which she describes as a “I hadn’t yet decided that ing and the arts were valuable jobs. really positive experience. “As a kid There are so many negative stereo- actor, to luck into something where storytelling types associated with the industry; there are puppets, as opposed to I think I bought into some of those, being in a horror movie! But acting and the arts were and devalued what I was doing.” didn’t become a focus or passion A tip from another Trinity student of mine until I was about 15 or 16. valuable jobs. led Scorsone to the literary studies That’s when I really knew this was a program, which she says was “mind- job that grown-ups did.” There are so many blowing.” She dove passionately Blessed with the trifecta of brains, into the Western canon, reading confidence and beauty, Scorsone negative her way through the avant-garde, was so in demand as a teen actor stereotypes postmodern theory and linguistics it’s a wonder she ever finished high (with a little philosophy and reli- school, let alone university. Enrolled associated with the industry” gion thrown in for good measure). at North York’s Cardinal Carter “I realized that humans are unique Academy for the Arts, Scorsone ultimately had to register in what in their capacity for self-reflection, and that self-reflection is was virtually a one-on-one tutoring program to accommodate her accomplished through storytelling. Yes, somebody does need to growing celebrity; during this time she appeared regularly before feed and clothe people – but giving people back their stories is an the camera, including a recurring role on the series Goosebumps. equally generous and important thing to do.” Her peers in the acting community started to take notice. “I Scorsone also relished Trinity’s extracurricular activities; she had the true pleasure of working with Caterina during a series participated in the Lit and developed an active social life. For called Power Play, in which we played father and daughter,” actor someone who had pretty much grown up on film sets, the nor- Michael Riley noted in an e-mail. “In my opinion, there are two mality was a welcome change. “It was the first time I’d taken the critical ingredients in being a consummate performer in this opportunity to be surrounded by kids my own age. I was like, ‘Oh, medium: the one being sheer work ethic and an unflagging desire wow! I’m a college student!’” Her friends included fellow Trin grad to ‘tell the truth,’ and the second being the innate talent and ability (and fellow book-lover), novelist Sheila Heti, whose recently pub- to execute that truth with economy and elegance. Caterina Scor- lished How Should a Person Be? Scorsone is “very excited to crack sone possesses both of these qualities, in abundance.” open. I still love reading,” she says, “and although bookstores are Around this time, Scorsone also shot a movie called The Third disappearing at the same rate as honeybees in this country, I’m Miracle with veteran star Ed Harris. “That was a critical moment always working my way through at least one to three books.” for me in terms of my relationship to Trinity College,” she recalls. Toward the end of her degree, Scorsone got her first big break,

18 trinity alumni magazine SUMMER 2011 19 dashing neurosurgeon (or “McDreamy,” as he is commonly known). When Rhimes began search- ing for an actor to play the small part of McDreamy’s sister, Amelia Shepherd, actor-director suggested Scorsone; the two had worked together 10 years earlier. “It’s great to see that people remember and think of you later,” Scorsone says modestly, “if you do a good job, and you’re nice!” “Nice” is not the first word you would use to describe Amelia. Rambunctious, voracious and whip-smart are more likely. “But she’s got a golden heart, and she tells it like it is, even if it’s not always pretty,” says Scorsone of her character. Amelia is also arrestingly lovely, with a combination of black hair and blue eyes shared by her TV brother, Dempsey. “We totally look like we could be related,” Scorsone says. “Our hair, our skin tone – they’re quite similar.” But Scorsone spends the bulk of her Amelia time as a weekly regular in the ensemble cast of spinoff show Private Practice, which is set in sunny California as opposed to the rainy Seattle of Grey’s, The girl who once worried on which she has appeared only once so far. With some medical experience under about giving back is doing just that, her belt, the actor doesn’t find it too diffi- in ways than she cult to convincingly play a neurosurgeon. more interesting She’s in good company in that regard. could ever have imagined “One of our executive producers was a trauma surgeon for 12 years,” Scorsone says. “And all of the background per- starring for three seasons as a psychic FBI agent on a series called formers in our operating rooms are real-life O.R. nurses. We Missing. The juggling of books and scripts that she was forced also have a chart for every episode, detailing medical terminol- into at this time sounds utterly exhausting, and she admits ogy and correct pronunciation.” it was. In fact, it burnt her out. At that point, medical school Asked what she does in her spare time, Scorsone admits that is started to look appealing. a rare commodity, as she shoots for almost 10 months of the year. Not having any sciences under her belt, Scorsone diligently Still, she’s an intrepid traveller, and can often be found exploring attended a U of T “mini med-school” lecture series for young people places such as Borneo, Poland or Bolivia with her husband, musi- interested in a career in health care. She became seriously interested cian Rob Giles of the L.A. pop-rock band The Rescues. in midwifery, and even trained to be a midwife’s assistant. But in the And Toronto? “I come back whenever I can,” she says, add- midst of helping out with home births at 4 a.m. – “It’s a very time- ing that there are plenty of expats south of the border to stave off intensive kind of job” – she was still tempted by the idea of making a homesickness. “Los Angeles is one of those places where, more go of it in Hollywood. So she finally decided to move there and start often than not, people are from somewhere else, so you find that all over again. And that’s when entered her life. a lot of people are virtual orphans in this giant city. Part of mak- Rhimes is the creator and executive producer of Grey’s Anatomy, ing this life livable is building a community that can serve as your quite possibly the soapiest, sexiest medical show ever made. Its family when you’re not with your own.” Clearly, the girl who once extraordinary appeal (seven seasons and counting) is largely due worried about giving back is doing just that, in ways more inter- to its impossibly attractive cast, including as the esting than she could ever have imagined.

20 trinity alumni magazine hy: ABC/R a n d y Holm e s p h otograp hy: On Private Practice, Caterina Scorsone plays vixen surgeon Amelia Shepherd. Brazen beauty and delicious flaws aside, Dr. Christopher Honey says, “Her character is very plausible.” check the o.r. A real surgeon dissects medical dramas

Medical dramas wouldn’t be half as hot without the steamy TM: Are you a fan of medical dramas? scenes, but in a real O.R., flirting between co-workers isn’t quite as CH: It is the last thing in the world I want to see on TV. I don’t prevalent as TV suggests, says Dr. Christopher Honey ’84, a neuro- want to see my work when I am at home, and any inaccuracy surgeon at Vancouver General Hospital. is very distracting. Before I entered medicine, however, I very Honey, who is also an associate professor of neurosurgery at the much enjoyed Saint Elsewhere and M.A.S.H. University of British Columbia, divides his time between operating, meeting new patients to decide if surgery can help them, monitor- TM: How accurate are the O.R. scenes on Private Practice? ing post-op patients and conducting clinical research or teaching/ CH: Not accurate because of time. Our surgeries are typically lecturing. Over the past decade, he has introduced 10 new opera- very long, an average of six to eight hours. tions to the province of B.C., authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and trained neurosurgeons from every continent. TM: And the actors make operating look so easy … He talks to trinity magazine about Private Practice, sexy surgeon CH: It’s difficult to convey the real-life challenge of operating under Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone), the state of Canadian the microscope near the brain stem. A TV audience does not have health care and more. an emotional investment in how a “patient” does; they are inter- ested to see what happens, good or bad. The ramifications of a TM: Why did you pick this career path? mistake made during this type of surgery – which could cause a CH: I knew in Grade 6 that I wanted to be a brain surgeon. Noth- devastating stroke or death – are catastrophic for patients and their ing else has ever interested me. families. They haunt the surgeon for life, not just for an episode.

summer 2011 21 TM: What about all that TV romance and sex? TM: What would you throw into the script if you were writing CH: My wife is a Trinity grad. We met, fell in love and married Private Practice? there, and she will be reading this, so I can definitively say that CH: There are a few operations that still seem miraculous to me there is absolutely no romance or sex in a real surgeon’s life while even after 20 years: thalamotomy for tremors, chordotomy for on duty. To be honest, there is no cancer pain and microvascular tolerance for this in the workplace. decompression for trigeminal Bawdy jokes are only of historical sig- neuralgia. If a storyline followed nificance. The pendulum has swung a patient through any of these very far toward political correctness – procedures from the patient’s even the Bard would have been writ- perspective, I think it would be ten up in an “incident report” for his fascinating for the viewer. comments about the opposite sex. TM: Talk about some progress TM: Are your relationships with you have seen in your field. your colleagues as intense as CH: We are beginning to under- those on Private Practice? stand the brain pathways for CH: The only time I spend with other depression and mania. Neuro- neurosurgeons is when I am lectur- surgery has a dark past when ing or attending a meeting. On a daily dealing with psychiatric issues, basis, I work almost exclusively with but there is a current renaissance the O.R. and ward nurses who look in this area, where an increased after my patients, and my fellows understanding of depression who are learning the operations we is being met with an increased perform. I enjoy working with these accuracy of neurosurgery under people because they are thought- the guidance of a more rigorous ful, intelligent and share a common ethical framework. commitment to our patients – not because they are glamorous, compli- TM: All TV drama aside, what cated or deliciously flawed. is the current state of Canadian health care? TM: Does Caterina portray a very Dr. Christopher Honey, a neurosurgeon at Vancouver General CH: The big dilemma facing convincing neurosurgeon? countries with universal health CH: I think her character is very plau- “A TV audience care is that the government can- sible. Many different personalities are not afford it. Governments try compatible with a surgical career. does not have an to reduce costs by imposing arti- emotional investment ficial barriers to accessing care TM: What do you think of the — for example, availability of Amelia character overall? in how a ‘patient’ does; necessary imaging prior to sur- CH: I think she’s a great role model gery, or the number of primary- for young girls who enjoy science. they are interested care physicians — and hope the It’s quite rare to be a female neuro- public will tolerate the increased surgeon in Canada. For example, to see what happens, wait times. Governments inter- we have none in British Columbia, good or bad” ested in re-election are ill-suited although we currently have two in our to make difficult or long-term training program. The gender bias decisions. For example, can we is turning, however, and in the past four years I have trained two afford expensive chemotherapeutic agents that extend life by a female fellows – not an oxymoron; fellows are fully qualified few months? Funding programs to keep people healthy is politi- neurosurgeons who do an extra year of training to learn a series cally unpopular because it costs money now, and will only save of operations typically not yet available in their own institution. money for a future government. The current Canadian silo mentality, where the minister of health and the finance minister TM: Would you ever want to be an actor? have separate, short-term agendas, cannot produce the sweep- CH: No. I understand that there is a lot of waiting around between ing changes that are needed before the health-care demand out- takes, and that time inefficiency would grate on me. strips our supply.

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Name Card number Address Expiry date City Name on card Province Postal Signature Photography: Christina Gapic , and it airs Rookie Rookie Blue I I run a TV show – a cop of show, all executive the of one I’m episodes, write I about everything Trinity had to offer me, me, had to offer Trinity everything about with some degree of enthusiasm. And I the way.) time along had a fantastic things. It’s called on Global and ABC, nights on Thursday cops, rookie five about It’s summer. in the try- job, the on years few first their working ing to balance life and love and friendship the learning while syndrome imposter and craziest job on the planet. I co-created it in June aired in and season 2009 the first 2010. The second season premiered on June 16 of this year. If you missed it, you global.com. at online it even watch can I the arc – design season who producers, gets kissed, who gets killed. I talk to real- life cops and listen to their life I stories. I read collect the take notes, newspapers, characters and moments and dialogue like some kind of magpie. I hyperactive fig- to writers amazing with brilliant, work and when to happen going what’s out ure going to write who’s those I stories. help locations, and wardrobe, and casting, with and editing, and music, and design, set and about actors to talk I everything. about just (and yes, we do actually their motivation use the word “motivation”). I go to and eat set,cubes of cheese, and I talk to very about directors what stressed-out scenes story. the damaging without cut we could I think and long what people about hard what – p.m. 10 or 9 at watch to want would - heat beeror a open cracking they are time ing up their Chinese food, leftover what do they want to they before live through watch the news, how much laughter or

in the world” “I have the best job large I have the best job in the world. And (All of which I did, by the way. Not Turn down the music. Crawl into bed. bed. into Crawl the down music. Turn if it sounds like fourth-year university, I’m here to tell you it is like fourth-year university. Frighteningly so. clothes, Cafeteria grubby colleagues, brilliant food, sickening amounts of laughter as and and thrilling as far It’s deadlines. many too challenging and as chaotic and as mind- bending as doing an honours degree in in with filma English, minor – complete with preparing a debate for the Lit, co- chairing the Saints Ball and directing a the TCDS. for play just tried I but – all at not well, necessarily Remember that you’re having the Remember time that you’re of life. your

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es Your stori voices, your “creative” types, “creative” all clutching coffee like You laptops. on tapping and lifeblood it’s soon but bit, a for gossip you it, easeinto you’re arguing about stories. Character arcs. Life lessons, dialogue, primal point of emotions, view. camera Themes and angles. better than Grammar. fighting about punctuation Nothing time – for except a now it’s greasy lunch on a cafeteria plate. More pen-throwing passionate, arguments about human nature, fuelled by mac and cheese and limp salad-bar fare. Escape airless room a to attend rehearsal. Pull out a calendar and ponder how you can possibly meet coat, a on Put deadlines. impossible your go outside, look at the light. Cross your fingers that it doesn’t rain. Kiss home. Go your boyfriend, pretend to have a life for an hour or two. Eat leftovers – cold. Openyour piles your of computer, research – stretch your tired fingers out across the keyboard – and pray for the muses to land on your shoulder. But if they you don’t, fall back on what you’ve been taught: thesis, antithesis, synthesis. Listen to a magnificent piece of music. Develop an argument, decide on your point of view and then sit until you’ve it. of the out hell written Wake Wake up already and early, runyou’re - ning late. Yank on old jeans, Converse, - feel you’re if balm lip some apply maybe books, papers, Gather inspired. really ing every- shove pen; favourite your research, door. the out fly and bag tote a into thing Five minutes behind – you are eternally five minutes behind you – bomb a into grungy room full of equally grungy

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Story arcs, dialogue and the magical muse magical the and dialogue arcs, Story alumni n m en t o ne/ barbara col e provid e d b y en t rtai Ph otograp hy: The second season of Rookie Blue premiered June 16. The show follows five rookie cops in their first few years on the job as they try to balance life and love and imposter syndrome.

heartbreak or reality do they really want to about who’s going to hold her tight while – my imagination – is as awake and as see tonight, what emotional dilemma they she falls asleep. And then she does. open and as receptive and as boggled as will relate to, what will make them really We take a deep, grateful breath together. it was when I was a 21-year-old Trinity feel something, what kind of music will We talk about how awesome she is, and student living off-campus with a group of break their hearts …. what lies ahead of us tomorrow. Sometimes dear, brilliant friends — going to parties, And then I go home and join forces we bitch and moan, but more often than going to classes, listening to music, think- with my beloved boyfriend. And together, not, we look up at the stars and thank God ing about paint colours and clothes and we feed our amazing two-year-old daugh- that we are who we are, and that we get to do novels and plays and poetry and life and ter, Sadie Grace. We talk about how deli- what we do. Frankly, we get to play for a liv- death and family and love and people. cious broccoli is. We put pasta rings on ing – and we’re both very grateful for it. But now I get to write about it. That’s her chubby little fingers and we coerce And then we keep going. We head off what I do for a living. her into chewing them off. We give her a to different rooms, and we open our com- And that’s why – for me – it’s the best bath, and we read her books, and we talk puters, and we do what we do. Until we job in the world. about what sounds a sheep makes (baaa, can’t do it any more. in case you’ve forgotten), and we look up Maybe that sounds kind of boring. And Tassie Cameron ’91 is executive producer at the butterflies dancing above her crib maybe it is. But here’s the thing: on Global/ABC’s series Rookie Blue. You can when we put her to bed, and we fight Right now? Doing this job? My mind follow her on Twitter @tassiecameron.

summer 2011 25 classnotes News from classmates near and far

shows how new under- father, the only German Jew book it! ground thermal technology known to have flown bombers – a Canadian invention – against his own country in the In Wide Openings, Paul will let companies extract Royal Air Force in the Second Conway ’65 takes Yeats’s up to one trillion barrels of presumption about the mad- synthetic crude oil from deeper ness of mist and snow as com- deposits, with little damage mon Knorthern Knowledge, to the environment. instinctively grasped by Settlement, a new novel by Trin grad Anne Birch, imagines what happens when Apply, MacLaren recounts the the lives of two Toronto families details of his varied life and intersect in 1836 in high career with wit and charm. society’s stuffy parlours. As spring arrives, Sam Jarvis Mary F. Williamson ’55 and Anna Jameson cast off has co-edited Just a Larger World War. It took 18 years of Family: Letters of Marie research to piece together the Williamson from the Canadian story of his father’s secret life, home front, 1940 to 1944. and Stevens made many incred- Her mother, Marie Williamson, ible discoveries along the way. Canadians and others with wrote weekly to the mother of comparable latitudinal two British evacuees who lived Dr. Niamh O’Laoghaire ’82 attitudes. This chapbook wrote the main essay for the explores the extent to which recently published The nebulanivorous madness can University College Collection: be enlarged by forces both Great Art for a Great University. natural and otherwise. The book documents the more than 600 objects in the UC col- In Black Bonanza, Alastair their winter clothing, and con- Sweeny ’68 explores how the ventions, to head off into the Athabasca sands came to be north woods, to Manitoulin discovered and developed, and Island and points in between.

Roy MacLaren ’91 with the Williamsons during (Doctor Sacred Letters ) – the war. The letters brim with student of literature and details of domestic life, food history, sailor, diplomat, shortages and rationing, businessman, politician schooling and church-going and cabinet minister – in wartime Toronto. lection, and is designed to make has led a good life, and an them a living and accessible interesting one, sometimes Marc Stevens ’80 recently cultural resource for students, as a witness, often as an actor. published Escape, Evasion and scholars and the general public In The Fundamental Things Revenge, a biography of his across the country and beyond.

26 trinity alumni magazine Matthew J. M. Coomber beguiling character of the universities since the 1950s, into a general life, continues Div ’05 is the editor of the country. Each chapter concludes and mentored now-famous on his ninth career, as an recently published Bible and with an original recipe pre- writers including Mordecai author-publisher, while still Justice: Ancient Texts, Modern pared by his wife, Dorothy Richler and Jane Urquhart. pursuing his eighth, as a Challenges, a selection of papers Keenleyside ’62, exposing storyteller under the banner compiled from the proceedings the reader to distant corners 1950s of Voyageur Storytelling in of the 2008 Conference on Bible and distinct cuisines of Canada. Austin Clarkson ’53 Northern Bruce Peninsula. He and Justice at the University of recently published a report called and his wife, Leslie, will per- Gina Mohammed ’81 has My Mind a Beautiful Thing: form their 10th season of sup- created The Canadian NTFP Imagination, Art, Creativity in per concerts this summer. Business Companion: Ideas, Elementary Education, which Techniques and Resources is based on a program called 1970s Exploring Creativity in Depth. Joy Kennedy ’71 is working Clarkson has been directing the as the program co-ordinator program for schoolchildren for Poverty, Wealth and since 2002. Ecological Justice for The John Goodwin ’57 received United Church of Canada. the Chartered Director designa- She also chairs the Canadian tion from the Directors College Council of Churches (a joint venture of McMaster Commission on Justice and Sheffield that explore the various University and the Conference Peace and represents the ways in which the Bible might for Small Businesses in Non- Board of Canada, which deliv- church and the Canadian effectively confront an array Timber Forest Products & ers an accredited corporate ecumenical family on the of human rights, poverty and Services. This handbook on director development program), World Council of Churches’ environmental concerns. CD – for business owners, on April 5. Goodwin serves as a Climate Change working group, researchers, consultants and director of the OMERS (one of participating in UN climate In Roaming the Big Land: economic developers – is Canada’s largest pension plans) change conferences. Her Flavours of Canada, T. A. an essential reference guide Administration Corporation. passion is ecological and Keenleyside ’62 wrestles for microenterprises and climate justice and its impact with the enduring issue of other small businesses in 1960s on the future of her three-year- our national identity, and Canada’s emerging Adrienne Clarkson ’60 old grandson and of grand- captures in a personal way non-timber forest sector. was honoured with the 2011 children worldwide. the extraordinarily diverse and Lifetime Achievement Award Philinda Masters ’71 by the Association of Chinese is currently working as a news Canadian Entrepreneurs. consultant editor, doing The Award recognizes outstand- thesis editing and coaching, 1940s ing citizens whose business, among other things. Prior to Elizabeth Hillman humanitarian, and/or philan- this, she had spent some 20 Waterston ’44, a researcher, thropic activities have years editing a women’s writer and expert on Canadian enhanced the development studies journal, Resources writers, received an Order of of the Chinese-Canadian for Feminist Research, at Ontario in January. She has business community. OISE, and serving as fostered the study of Canadian Paul Conway ’65, having president of the research literature in high schools and parlayed a general arts degree officers’ union there.

summer 2011 27 classnotes News from classmates near and far

Barb Gray Coyle ’72 Angie (Kouvelas) Grundy ’93, of directors of the Association Award for Feature Reporting co-organized the launch of and Kenneth Windrim ’94. of American Medical Colleges from the Radio Television Dancing Kites, a CD of chil- The Very Rev. Clarke (AAMC) on Nov. 29, 2010, for a Digital News Association. The dren’s music, to raise funds for French Div ’99, former rector two-year term. He recently com- award honours excellence in the Stephen Lewis Foundation. of Trinity Episcopal Church in pleted his residency and is now electronic journalism. She undertook the project Watertown, N.Y., is now serving a fellow in child and adolescent with Karen Bays, wife of Geoff as rector of the Church of the psychiatry at the Center. Dunkley ’72, and the Ottawa- Holy Family in Chapel Hill, N.C. Nathan Crooks ’06 births based Grammas to Ambuyas, accepted a reporting position one of over 250 groups of 2000s with Bloomberg News last fall Allyson Kilbrai ’95 Canadian grandmothers striving Geoff Janoscik ’03 won the in Caracas, Venezuela, after and Manuel Lesiour: to turn the tide on HIV/AIDS Ontario PC nomination for the four years of living in Santiago, a daughter, Johanna in sub-Saharan Africa for the riding of Mississauga South Chile. While working for Sharron Annick, Feb. 28 Stephen Lewis Foundation. (where he was born, raised and Bloomberg in Chile, he had in Tours, France, a Andrew McRae ’74 has currently lives). He will be the opportunity to cover some sister for Samuel. retired this year from many running in the October 6 major breaking news stories, Quain and Kattia years of service at the CRTC. provincial election. including the astounding res- Buchanan: a daughter, Dr. Javeed Sukhera ’03, cue of the 33 miners at the Quiana, April 17 in Toronto. 1980s a fellow in psychiatry at the San José mine. Quain is Trinity’s cleaning su- Susan Bissell ’87, chief of University of Rochester Medical Justine Lewkowicz ’06 pervisor in the building the child protection section and Center, was named to the board won a 2011 Edward R. Murrow services department. associate director of the Program division of UNICEF, was recently named as an Does anyone remember J. Campbell McInnes? Adjunct Professor at Barnard J. Campbell McInnes, an acclaimed English baritone, made his debut in College in . She is 1899 and became famous for his interpretations of Bach and Brahms. teaching an undergrad, multidis- He married Angela Mackail – who later became well known as author ciplinary class called Rethinking Angela Thirkell – and they had two sons, Graham and Colin, who Child Protection from a Rights also became authors. Perspective, which relates di- McInnes and Mackail divorced in a very public, litigious way in 1917, rectly to her work. due to his heavy drinking and infidelity. Mackail moved to Australia, and McInnes moved to Canada in 1919, where he taught elocution and singing 1990s at Trinity, Wycliffe and elsewhere. He also arranged recitals and concerts, James Phillips ’93 threw a including his “Tuesday Nine O’Clocks,” which featured little-known vocal 40th birthday celebration for and chamber music. Graham McInnis described his search for and himself in Toronto on Feb. 12. reconciliation with his father in a 1967 book called Finding a Father. In attendance were Margaret The organ at Wycliffe is dedicated to McInnes’s memory, and Vaughan (Shotton) Meynell ’56, Williams wrote a tribute to his outstanding voice when he died. The Trinity Hugh Craig ’90, Andrew College Archives has a 1944 program from a “Lecture recital in Strachan Hall McFarlane ’93, Craig on the traditional songs of the people” featuring J. Campbell McInnes with Steeves ’93, Robert ’93 Louis Crerar at the piano, but that’s about it as far as J.C. memorabilia go. If and Katherine (Payton) anyone has any memories of him, please contact the Rolph-Bell Archivist, Klosa ’93, Michael ’93 and Sylvia Lassam, at [email protected].

28 trinity alumni magazine Foster: Nan Muriel TheR ev. Dr. Stephen deaths Redman (Ord) ’33, Oct. 18, Reynolds, Professor of 2010, in Toronto, mother of Theology at Trinity College Appleton: Douglas ’48, Susan Anne Foster Scott ’64, from 1995 until his death Jan. 28 in Oakville, Ont., hus- and sister of the late Violet (Ord) and senior associate priest at band of the late Joy (Winters) Cowell ’37 and Clara Ord ’39. the Church of the Redeemer Appleton ’45. Gibson: Alexander ’51, in Toronto, died March 12. Baylis: Felice (Nowers) ’38, Feb. 21 in Lakefield, Ont. Before taking up these posts, April 15, 2010, in Lakeland, Gillett: Jane ’77, Feb. 17 in he had served as a priest in a number of parishes Florida, sister of the late Anne Toronto, daughter of Ruth ’46 in eastern Newfoundland, Labrador and Toronto. Nowers ’40 and Elizabeth and Jack Gillett ’46, sister of Well regarded as a teacher and mentor in academ- (Nowers) Jackson ’50. Martha Pettit ’72 and Thomas ic research, he also served for a number of years Bolton: Elizabeth, March Gillette ’76, aunt of Clare as editor of McCausland’s Order of Divine Service. 17 in Toronto, wife of Greg Gillett ’10 and Brian Gillett ’08. But Reynolds was perhaps best known for his Bolton ’92 and daughter-in-law Griffin: George ’58, May 17 work in compiling For All the Saints: Prayers and of Norah Bolton ’59. in Woodstock, Ont. Readings for Saints’ Days, first published in 1994. Cobban: William, April 14 Hanna: Frances, Feb. 5 in in Toronto, brother of Joyce Brantford, Ont., wife of William Santamaura ’46, Marian B. Hanna ’58. Gravenhurst, Ont., husband Brockville, Ont., aunt of Cobban ’49 and the late Hodgson: John ’44, of the late Anne (Sprowl) James Spence. James Cobban ’51, uncle of Jan. 24 in Toronto, husband of McLaughlin ’50, father of Stewart: the Rev. Robert Anne Cobban ’85. Joan (Morris) Hodgson ’46. Mary (McLaughlin) Henry Div ’52, Feb. 17 in Coyle: Frank Robert ’43, Holley: John S., Feb. 28 in Cook ’75 and Susan (McLaugh- Belleville, Ont., father of Janet March 11 in Guelph, Ont. Toronto, husband of Marion lin) Charters ’76, and brother of Stewart ’82 and grandfather of Davies: Capt. Harold (Cosford) Holley ’47. the late Eleanor Marsales ’42. Madeline Stewart ’15. (Hal) Lindsay ’59, Feb. 15 Johnston: (Charles) Noonan: Daniel Edward Stinson: Anne Rainford in the Bahamas. Christopher ’58, Nov. 16, Div ’49, Jan. 18, 2010, in (Gooderham) ’45, Feb. 8 in Dawson: William F. ’52, 2010, in Ottawa, husband of Victoria, B.C. Toronto, wife of the late Fred May 16 in Halifax. Vivian (Ash) Johnston ’63. Nugent-Saumur: Jacque- Stinson ’44. Downey: Isabel Krantz-Hintzen: Ruth line, May 5 in Ottawa, wife of Surrey: the Rev. (Creeggan) ’38, Jan. 16 in Dorine ’51, Dec. 15, 2010, Geoffrey Nugent ’81. Peter J. ’51, Feb. 13 in Ottawa, wife of the late in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Patton: Christopher, Cedar Rapids, Ill. Edward Downey Div ’44, sister Machado: John B. ’46, Dec. Nov. 10, 2010, in Toronto, Tovell: Freeman, of the late Marian Walmsley ’27 31, 2010, in Wilmington, N. C. husband of Janice (Tyrwhitt) March 7 in Victoria, B.C., and the late Kathleen Mackie: Richard, April 28 in Patton ’50. father of Patricia Skahan ’69 Creeggan ’30, and aunt of Warminster, the U.K., husband Ritchie: Dr. Robert and Susan (Tovell) Moogk ’65, Burn Creeggan ’60. of Elizabeth Kilbourn-Mackie Charles ’45, April 9, 2010, father-in-law of Peter Moogk Eames: Muriel ’29, Feb. 25 ’48, (MDiv ’78, Hon. Doctor of and Margery Louise ’65, grandfather of Benjamin in Ancaster, Ont., one week Div ’01). (Scott), Dec. 23, 2010, in Moogk ’94. before her 103rd birthday, Matthews: Ellen ’66, St. Catharines, Ont., father and Young: David Miller, aunt of Jackie Brown ’47, April 2 in Toronto. mother of Charles Ritchie ’86. Feb. 28 in Alliston, ON, uncle and great-aunt of David ’76 McLaughlin: Frank Scott: Mary Christine of Cathy Phillips ’74 and Bill and Daniel ’76 Brown. Carrette, March 19 in (Spence) ’44, Nov. 3, 2010, in ’77 and Doug ’72 Young.

summer 2011 29 The Friends of the Library Trinity College send us your books

for the t h 36 annual book sale Oct. 22 to 24, 2011 Please note that this year’s opening night is on a Thursday!

Help with Pick-ups, sorting, packing, pricing, publicity, sale set-up, student liaison, sale take down

www.trinity.utoronto.ca/booksale 416-978-6750 [email protected] eventcalendar things to see, hear and do in the coming months

All events are free unless a fee Michael Bird ’84. MacMillan and Britain’s relations with Orchard and Jack Whiteside ’63, is specified, but please phone Theatre, Edward Johnson Build- Europe. Jasanoff will be speaking chairman of the Gerald Larkin us at 416-978-2651, or e-mail ing, 80 Queen’s Park, 7:30 p.m. about her recently published Society, will host the members [email protected] to book, Liberty’s Exiles: American of the society and their guests. confirm the time and location, Thursday, Oct. 27: Annual Loyalists and the Remaking of By invitation. Combination or to reserve a space. Meeting of Corporation the British Empire. At the end of Room, 11:30 a.m. For George Ignatieff Theatre, noon. the American Revolution, 60,000 information: 416-978-2707; For information, contact Americans loyal to the British [email protected]. family Helen Yarish: 416-946-7611; cause fled the U.S. and became [email protected]. refugees throughout the British Friday, Oct. 14: Provost’s Sunday, Oct. 30: Halloween Empire. Jasanoff offers the first Leadership Dinner Party for Children global history of the loyalist For donors of $1,000 or more. Wear a costume and come theatre exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, An evening of intellectual prepared for crafts, treats Sierra Leone, India and beyond. stimulation, alumni friendship and skits. $5 per person for Oct. 19, 20, 21 and 22: George Ignatieff Theatre, and a sumptuous buffet of children, parents, grandparents The Gentleman Caller 5 p.m. Reception to follow. international foods. Strachan and friends. The Buttery and the Martin Hunter ’55 and James To reserve: 416-946-3346. Hall, 7 p.m. By invitation. George Ignatieff Theatre, 2 to 4 Cunningham ’59 present a For information: 416-978-2707; p.m. To reserve: 416-978-2707; memory play about Tennessee [email protected] [email protected]. Williams, directed by David donors Ferry, and starring Bernard Friday, Nov. 25: Hopkins as Tennessee Thursday, Sept. 22: Salterrae Society Gala choral Williams. Hart House Theatre; Luncheon for the For donors who have given more performances begin at 8 p.m. Gerald Larkin Society than $100,000. Seeley Hall, music Tickets $35, available only For alumni and friends who 6:15 p.m. By invitation. For through Hart House. To have included Trinity College in information: 416-978-2707; Sunday, Dec. 4: Advent purchase: 416-978-8668. their estate plans. Provost Andy [email protected]. Lessons and Carols For information on Trinity Night, Trinity College Chapel Choir under Oct. 19: 416-978-2707; the direction of John Tuttle, [email protected]. organist and director of music. Trinity College Chapel, 4 p.m. lectures college Thursday, Nov. 3: Margaret MacMillan Lecture in Wednesday, Sept. 7: International Relations College Convocation and Maya Jasanoff, John L. Loeb Matriculation Ceremony associate professor of the social The College’s first-year students sciences, History Department, are signed in. Honorary degrees Harvard University, specializes will be conferred upon Guy in modern British and imperial Warner Upjohn ’55, Dr. John history, with a focus on colonial S. O’Brian ’66 and the Rt. Rev. South Asia, the British Atlantic

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A Gift for the Future … A Gift for Our Students Of the nearly $1 million in financial aid the College distributes each year, most comes from funds set up through bequests, such as The Hortense and Gervase Wasteneys Trust. Aliah El-houni is one recipient of a Trinity College admission scholarship supported by this trust.

“I was so lucky to be granted the scholarship! It allowed me to commit more of my time to extra-curricular activities, which not only enriched my year, but provided me with numerous leadership and learning experiences,” says El-houni.

To find out more about how you can set up a named scholarship or bursary through your will, please contact: Meghan Whitfield, assistant director, Annual & Leadership Giving Office of Development and Alumni Affairs 416-978-8251; [email protected]

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