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ARC News ARC’s Bi-Monthly Newsletter • Volume 3, Issue 5 • August 2012 Celebrating our 2011-2012 Retirees n total, 181 individuals are retiring from U of T in 2011-2012. When The Bulletin was a paper publication, the issue at the end of June each year I always featured a spread of that year’s retirees. Now that only electronic newsletters are issued, a video format has been adopted for honouring retiring faculty and staff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaJfLtXGqww&feature=youtu.be Produced by Strategic Communications’ Anjum Nayyar (Internal Communica tio ns Correspondent) and John Guatto (Graphic Designer), the video was posted on June 27th by universitytoronto. A still from the video is shown at left. U of T celebrated its 2011-2012 retirees on June 26th. Vice- President, Human Resources & Equity, Angela Hildyard welcomed the ‘Class of 2011- 2012’ and thanked the group for their commitment and contribution to the University. David Peterson, in one of his last official duties as Chancellor, presented honorees with certificates. Access the article and the link to a complete list of 2011-2012 retirees at: http://www.hrandequity.utoronto.ca/about-hr-equity/news/news/news2012/co2r.htm. COMING EVENTS → Friday, September 21, 1:30-3:30pm: Meet The Artist Sewell Russell, Hot Shot Photos art exhibit. All are welcome! Please RSVP online at: http://www.faculty.utoronto.ca/arc/events/RSVP_Meet_The_Artist_21sept12.htm → Thursday, October 4, 12noon-2pm: New Retiree Welcome lunch with keynote speaker Jean Edward Smith, John Marshall Professor of Political Science, Marshall University. Invitatio ns will be issued to recently retired faculty, librarians and senior administrators; RSVP will be requested. IN THIS ISSUE: MoMA Century of the Child ...........................................................................2 Knox College Summer Program ....................................................................3 Senior’s Research Project: Call for Participants ..........................................3 In Memoriam ..................................................................................................4 The Last Harvest: Paintings by Rabindranath Tagore .................................4 U of T’s Senior College a Model to Emulate .................................................5 Senior College ...............................................................................................6 Ontario Regional CURAC Conference Planned.............................................7 www.faculty.utoronto.ca/arc ARC News Aug12 Page 2 of 8 MoMA Century of the Child: Growing By Design 1900-2000 July 29–November 5, 2012 The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor ork in architecture of Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, RCA (Former Dean and Professor at U of T’s Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design) is W included in the exhibition “Century of the Child” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which opened in July 2012. Pictured above, the nursery school and playground on the “toît terrace” of the Unité´d'Hab ita tio n in Marseille was designed by Blanche Lemco van Ginkel in the atelier of LeCorbusier. About the show MoMA’s ambitious survey of 20th century design for children is the first large-scale overview of the modernist preoccupation with children and childhood as a paradigm for progressive design thinking. The exhibition will bring together areas underrepresented in design history and often considered separately, including school architecture, clothing, playgrounds, toys and games, children’s hospitals and safety equipment, nurseries, furniture, and books. www.faculty.utoronto.ca/arc ARC News Aug12 Page 3 of 8 Knox College Summer Program Two week-long program sessions featuring two 1-1/2 hour lectures daily are offered. The day begins with a 9:00am lecture followed by a ½ hour break. The second lecture begins at 11:00am. Lunch at 12:30pm is optional. Program for the week of August 13-17: • The War on Cancer: The Present and Future of Cancer Medicine. Lecturer: Dr. Emma Ito and Fellow Researchers. • Filming Literature. Lecturer Ian Balfour. Program for the week of August 20-24: • Dante and the Christian Imagination. Lecturer: Domenico Pietropaolo. • Northrop Frye: Einstein of the Verbal Universe. Lecturer: Nicholas Willia m Graham For more information, contact Eleanor Burke, Coordinator, at 416-946-8425 or 416-978- 4500, email: [email protected]. Register Online at https://www.netdirectories.com/~knox/oler1.cgi All participants will be provided with a Senior’s Research laptop computer which they may keep Project: Call for when the study is completed providing they attended at least 27 of the 30 Participants sessions. Training will be available for Are You Over 55? Are You those who are not computer friendly. Experienc ing Some Diffic ulty Testing will be carried out prior to the Remembering, Paying Attention, start of the study and repeated at the mid Solving Problems, Thinking Quickly or point and again after completion of the Flexibly? study. If you can answer YES to any of these Swansea Town Hall questions, you may be interested in 95 Lavinia Ave. being part of a research project which Toronto, ON M6S 3H9 may arrest or improve this natural cognitive decline. Roy Hintsa - MBSR mindfulness Dr. Norman Farb - Rotman Research Thirty-four volunteers are needed in 2 Institute testing groups A24 and B10. Group A will meet Doug Nettleton- Canadian Tai Chi Monday, Wednesday and Friday Academy afternoons at Swansea Town Hall from Christopher Mayell - Computers 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. for 10 weeks starting Brain Training - Lumosity October 1, 2012. Included will be tai chi, Coherence - Heart Math mindfulness practice and computer activities. Group B will work If you wish to participate, contact Roy independently at home on computer Hintsa at (905) 851-5853 or activities and a regular walking routine. [email protected].. Groups will be chosen by lottery. www.faculty.utoronto.ca/arc ARC News August12 Page 4 of 8 In Memoriam and Joe had approached McMichael, but due to renovations and an impending July 9, 2012 Trevor Anthony Gray, change of directors, the request had been Associate Professor, Neurologist, turned down. Last December, Joe Founder and Director of the Multiple approached the McMichael again and Sclerosis Clinic, St. Michael's Hospital was able to speak with the new Executive Director, Victoria Dickenson. July 4, 2012 Rodney White, Professor Fortunately, she was aware of the Emeritus, Department of Geography School of the Environment Tagore / Group of Seven connection and with Joe’s help managed something of a Details are posted on the ARC website: miracle in cutting through the http://www.faculty.utoronto.ca/arc/In_M bureaucracy and practicalities to bring emoriam.htm. the exhibit up from Chicago. The Last Harvest: Our Visit Our tour of the exhibit began at Paintings by 11:00am under the guidance of Rabindranath curator Chris Flynn. From his instructive review of the Tagore paintings, we learned that the submitted by Joe title The Last Harvest referred to Whitney the fact that Tagore began his Some Background serious painting when he was n June 21, a already seventy years old and group of some continued until his death at twenty-three eighty, producing over 2,000 O canvases. Many of these Senior College Fellows, friends and associates originated as “doodles” scribbled visited the McMichael in the margins of poems and Gallery at Kleinburg to view paintings other literary works and later by Rabindranath Tagore, the 1913 Nobel transformed into full-scale paintings. Prize winner for Literature. Kathleen O’Connell, along with her late husband, Joe, were instrumental in persuading the Indian Government to send the exhibition to Canada after it had been shown in Europe, New York and Chicago in commemoration of Tagore’s 150th birthday anniversary. After much negotiation with Santiniketan University (founded by Tagore) and the Indian Government, it was agreed that the Pike Ruth Gregor, Sandy Indian Ministry of Culture would We also learned of the important sponsor the exhibit in Canada. influence that Tagore had on the Group Another formidable task was to find a of Seven, especially on Fred Varley and venue to display the work in Canada. Lawren Harris who, in attempting to Initially, a few years before, Kathleen incorporate theosophical philosophy into www.faculty.utoronto.ca/arc ARC News August 12 Page 5 of 8 their paintings, were greatly encouraged school at Santiniketan and presentation when Tagore visited them in Canada in of the Nobel Laureate in Stockholm. 1929. Varley’s portrait of Mrs. E (1921) We want to express our deep thanks to was described as an attempt to Kathleen O’Connell for her assistance in incorporate Eastern philosophy into a making our visit possible and for western representation of a woman – in drawing up a very fine programme for fact, Varley’s muse. the day. After a delightful lunch in SEVEN, the http://mcmichael.com/exhibitions/tagore Gallery’s restaurant, we assembled for a /info.cfm talk by Katerina Atanassova, Chief Curator of the McMichael Gallery and author of F.H. Varley. We were much indebted to Katerina, who had interrupted her research leave in Montreal to participate in our visit. She dedicated her presentation to the memory of the late Joseph O’Connell who had worked so tirelessly to bring the Tagore exhibit to McMichael. Katerina elaborated on the “Tagorean” influence on the Group of Seven, and particularly on Fred Varley and his portraits of, and relationship with,