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Remembering the Great War trinityTRINITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 remembering the great war Plus: Reunion 2014 • Introducing our new Provost provost’smessage A season of change Honouring the past and looking boldly to the future It is spring (at last!) at Trinity. Just the other day I was heart- Rather than writing multiple-choice exams, these students ened to find a snowdrop in my garden. By the time you read this will be nurtured and coached to develop not only their critical the campus will be in full bud and bloom. thinking but the writing that will help them to communicate This spring brings with it exciting changes for the College. We those thoughts. Creative writing may seem a counterintuitive recently announced that Mayo Moran, Dean of the Faculty of Law, skill for a scientist, but it is an essential one. The world will lis- will become Trinity’s 15th Provost. Dean Moran and I are already ten to those scientists who lead not only in their research, but working together to ensure a smooth transition for everyone, and I who can convey that research through persuasive argument. am utterly confident that Trinity will be in good hands. As with the existing Trinity One streams, we will be bringing in Our new Provost will be supported by a team of some of the today’s leading thinkers on the sciences side, in some cases, build- finest educators and administrators I’ve had the honour to work ing bridges across streams in areas of common interest — global health, for example — and helping us to turn out the well-rounded Trinity graduates who will truly make a dif- “ It is difficult to convey how exciting it is to see ference in the world. I will be teaching a second-year the Trinity One science programs come to life.” course to this new cohort of Trinity One students in fall 2015. But before that, I’ll be taking a long-overdue with. My heartfelt thanks go to each member of the Trinity sabbatical to reconnect with my immunological research roots, team who has made my time as Interim Provost such a pleasure. spending four months in Cambridge, U.K., four months in Mel- For my part, I am proud to have played a part in many initia- bourne, Australia, and four months in Sao Paolo, Brazil. My tives during my tenure in the provost’s office. Chief among them wife and I are calling it “our year without snow.” is the successful launch of the Bill Graham Centre for Contem- I will be sorry to miss the First World War commemorative porary International History (BGCCIH). The Centre has already event being held in July by the BGCCIH at Varsity Stadium. NG proven itself to be a vital link between Trinity and U of T, particu- My own family, like yours, was touched by the events of 1914. I NDY K larly for our International Relations program, and the calibre of My grandfather, Jack Cook, was one of the first members of the A Y: Y: speakers and the depth of conversations that are happening at the Royal Flying Corps (the predecessor of the Royal Air Force). He PH A BGCCIH are rightfully gaining global attention. enlisted in Scotland at the age of 15 by changing his birthdate. R OTOG H I am perhaps most excited about the launch this September of We, along with the rest of the Trinity family, remember his con- P our Trinity One science streams. When I was recruited as Trin- tributions, and those of so many others. ity’s Dean of Arts, I noted what to me was a significant gap in Until September 2015, all my best. our programming. After two years of planning, it is difficult to convey how thrilling it is to see the science programs come to life. Rather than sitting in typical first-year classes of 1,500 stu- dents, 50 science students (who will be chosen from the more than 200 applicants to the program so far) will have the oppor- tunity to work one-on-one with their professors, in one of two DR. MICHAEL RATCLIFFE streams: biomedical health, and health science and society. Interim Provost 2 TRINITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE trinitySPRING 2014 VOLUME 51 NUMBER 1 Features 8 Up close & personal Authors Michael Ignatieff and 18 Graeme Smith visit Trinity One BY JOHN DUNCAN 12 The next chapter Mayo Moran to be Trinity’s 15th Provost BY JENNIFER MATTHEWS 14 Reunion 2014 Reminiscing and investing in the College’s future BY CYNTHIA MACDONALD 18 Trinity remembers Looking back as we mark the 100th anniversary of the start of The Great War BY HALEY CULLINGHAM Armistice Day, November 11, 1918: When word reached the Trinity campus that The Great War VES was over, students rented this truck and drove ARCHI all over Toronto in celebration. TY COLLEGE I N TRI TESY OF Departments R OU C 4 Nota bene OTO Dispatches from campus PH 26 Alumni at large Civil Disobedience Published three times a year by Trinity College, Editor: Jennifer Matthews BY AUDREY TOBIas ’47 and ’48 University of Toronto, 6 Hoskin Avenue, Managing Editor: Jill Rooksby Toronto, M5S 1H8 Art Direction and Design: Fresh Art & Design Inc. Office of Development and Alumni Affairs Cover Illustration: Katy Lemay 28 Class notes Phone: 416-978-2651; Fax: 416-971-3193 Charitable Registration 119269751RR0001 E-mail: [email protected] Publications Mail Agreement 40010503 News from classmates www.trinity.utoronto.ca We welcome your letters and inquiries at Trinity is sent to 14,000 alumni, parents, friends [email protected] near and far and associates of the College. Trinity College complies with the Ontario Freedom 31 Calendar of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. We 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. SPRING 2014 3 notabene DISPATCHES FROM CAMPUS R2P Remembers Rwandan Genocide - RWANDA. I The Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History (BGCCIH) in GAL I conjunction with The Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (CCR2P) - K R and Trinity’s International Relations program, marked the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide this spring with a campaign, “From the Rwandan Genocide to AL CENTE RI the Responsibility to Protect: Journey of Lessons Learned.” O M The campaign began with a full-day conference on March 29 featuring DE ME CI keynote speaker Dr. Jennifer Welsh, the UN Secretary-General’s representa- ENO G tive on R2P. Other highlights included a student panel discussion with Dr. S - IM Madeleine Albright (former U.S. Secretary of State) and Dr. Lloyd Axworthy T VIC (former Minister of Foreign Affairs for Canada), a film festival titled “Eyes on DE CI Genocide,” a publication project with the Canadian International Councils’ ENO G Opencanada.org called “Canadian Voices on R2P,” and an educational pro- S OF gram that involved outreach to 10 high schools in the Greater Toronto Area. PH A R The CCR2P is a non-profit organization focused on research, scholarship OTOG H and political promotion of the R2P principle (which refers to the responsibility , P D . of the international community to protect the people of sovereign states from H genocide or other mass tragedies when their own government is unwilling or JONES, P unable to do so). Based at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University M DA A of Toronto, which also jointly hosts the BGCCIH, the Centre’s focus is contem- Y: Y: PH porary international history and engaging undergraduates in the International A R Relations program through lectures, visiting professors, workshops and confer- OTOG H P ences. Tina Jiwon Park ’09 is the Centre’s executive director. Patrick Quinton-Brown receives John H. Moss Scholarship Fourth-year Trinity Inter- versity and eventually work for an organi- “We have a responsibility as the next national Relations student zation such as the United Nations or as a generation of scholars and activists and Patrick Quinton-Brown consultant for public sector agencies. commentators and writers. A lot of us was recently awarded the “If we are to uphold our promise to want to become foreign-service officers 2014 John H. Moss Schol- never again stand by in the face of mass and I suppose R2P is going to be one of arship in recognition of his achievement murder in the form of genocide, then our tasks in the future.” as an outstanding student leader. we must think seriously about the future The John H. Moss Scholarship, M A Quinton-Brown, co-founder and presi- of sovereignty and intervention,” says which is now classified as an Award WICKI dent of both the Student Voice Initiative Quinton-Brown. “With the support of of Excellence, was first awarded to a AN V and Syria Watch, has also been president the Moss Scholarship, I hope to invest my student in 1921 and recognizes Y: Y: PH A of the International Relations Society. In greatest energies in doing exactly that.” academic achievement, community R the future, he hopes to complete an MPhil As a panelist at the Albright R2P lecture involvement and overall enhancement OTOG H P in International Relations at Oxford Uni- (see story above), Quinton-Brown said, of the student experience. 4 TRINITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE In Memoriam: Archbishop Alumni Visits Over the winter months, alumni in John Charles Bothwell Vancouver and Ottawa were reunit- ed at events in January and March, Archbishop John Charles Bothwell, eighth bishop of Niagara, 13th Metropolitan respectively, hosted by members of (Archbishop) of Ontario, and 10th Chancellor of Trinity College, died January 28 in the Trinity Alumni Office.
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