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Celebrating the Right Brain Snail-Mail Gossip • a 21St-Century Safari • the Donors’ Report trinityTRINITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE FALL 2009 celebrating the right brain snail-mail gossip • a 21st-century safari • the donors’ report revTrinity_fall'09.indd 1 10/6/09 5:11:45 PM provost’smessage Learned and Beautiful Trinity has always been about more than setting and surpassing academic expectations The start of the school year is always exciting and exhausting: ecstasy that accompany academic endeavour, and the final line new faces appear, old faces reappear, and the College looks its of the College song celebrates the attainments of the women of best after a summer of repair and refurbishment. The new back St. Hilda’s as doctae atque bellae (learned and beautiful). Both field is a wonderful new asset that I hope will be heavily used, and make it clear that here, scholarship alone is not enough. the quad, now wireless, has in recent weeks seen students loung- Even if our Aberdeen-born founder seems suitably stern ing and labouring. The official opening of the green roof on in his portraits, John Strachan was not immune to relaxation. Cartwright Hall, largely funded by the generosity of the Scotch blood, after all, flowed in his veins, sometimes in ap- class of ’58, takes place this month, and the re-roofing of the parently undiluted quantities. At one point, the Bishop, having Larkin Building to accommodate solar panels, primarily been told that one of his clergy was too fond of the bottle, is funded by students, is well underway. Frosh week was by all said to have replied: “Tut, tut: That is a most extravagant way accounts a great success, and at Matriculation we welcomed to buy whisky; I always buy mine by the barrel.” (Presumably the incoming class of ’13, and honoured three of our own: the same barrel he appears to be wearing in the painting that Donald Macdonald, Margaret MacMillan, and Richard Alway. hangs in the hall that bears his name.) Strachan’s poetry is Dr. Alway, president of St. Michael’s for 18 years, gave an mostly eye-watering stuff, but it has its charms – A Song for the inspiring address and offered a wonderful vision of the impor- Curling Club is among his less toe-curling efforts. tance of U of T’s individual colleges. This month, we commemorate three decades of the George Trinity (like St. Mike’s, like Vic) is rightly proud of its inde- Ignatieff Theatre, with many student-organized events, includ- pendence and its association with Canada’s greatest university ing: a revival of that old Trinity favourite Saints Alive; talks and (measure it how you will), as well as with the wider community receptions for luminaries of the TCDS past and present; and of the GTA, and so it was wonderful to have present a distin- workshops on stage combat, accents, direction and production, guished trinity of chancellors: David Peterson, Roy McMurtry, and stage-management. There is also an installation of posters and Bill Graham, from U of T, York University and Trinity re- from past productions now on permanent display in the JCR. spectively (the last two are Trinity alumni), as well as two former And Theatre Month coincides with the premiere of a satirical U of T presidents: George Connell and Rob Prichard (also both play written, directed and produced by some of our older alums. Trinity alumni), to demonstrate to the incoming class the calibre In case things get too lively and carefree, however, there will be and interconnectedness of the family they are joining. (By the a production of No Exit (translated from Sartre’s Huis clos), the way, if you want to see how God and Mammon intersect, go on source of the notion that “Hell is other people.” the Divinity boat cruise!) Sartre may have had a point, but at Trinity, where we celebrate Trinity has never been about simply setting and surpassing the perspective that there is more to life than study alone, it is academic expectations; our whole history is one in which extra- perhaps appropriate to make the more pithy point that “Hell is and co-curricular activities have always played a great part, as doing nothing else.” this issue, which has had a facelift of its own, seeks to illustrate. The College motto, Met’agona stephanos (after the contest, the ANDY ORCHARD crown), neatly summarizes the twin aspects of agony and Provost and Vice-Chancellor 2 TRINITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE trinity FALL 2009 VOLUME 46 NUMBER 2 Features DonorS’ Report 12 Renaissance women Igniting an interest in visual 2008-2009 31 arts on campus BY KRIStiNE CULP 14 In the business of books The Upjohns are bound by a love of the written word BY LIZ ALLEMANG 17 Lively letters Before there were tweets … BY CHARLOTTE MCWILLIAM 20 The elephant who stepped on a land mine Victims of Sri Lanka’s civil war BY RANDY BOYAGODA 28 Words and pictures An assortment of original works by talented Trinity grads Departments 4 Nota bene College observations worth noting BY JULIA LECONTE 27 Alumni at large The impossible can happen BY JOHN IBBITSON 48 Casual conversations Barry Graham Deirdre Baker 50 Class notes News from classmates Published three times a year by Trinity College, Editor: Lisa Paul University of Toronto, 6 Hoskin Avenue, Editorial Co-ordinator: Jill Rooksby near and far Toronto, M5S 1H8 Art Direction and Design: Fresh Art & Design Inc. Phone: (416) 978-2651; Fax: (416) 971-3193 Cover illustration: Gary Taxali E-mail: [email protected] Publications Mail Agreement 40010503 55 Calendar http://www.trinity.utoronto.ca Trinity is sent to 13,000 alumni, parents, friends Things to see, hear and do and associates of the College. Trinity College complies with the Ontario Freedom 56 Trinity past of Information and protection of Privacy Act. We protect your personal information and do not rent Who dunnit? or sell our mailing list. If you do not wish to receive the magazine, please BY JILL ROOKSBY contact us. notabene OBSERvatiONS & DISTINCTIONS WORTH NOTING Lawyer, Activist, Artist The Witness – a painting from Juricevic’s recent exhibition. For her legal and humanitarian achievements, Diana Juricevic ’01 has not prevented her from pursuing her artistic ambitions. was profiled last year in Chatelaine’s “80 Canadian Women to In addition to having been exhibited at the Law Society for Watch” series – and if you visited The Elaine Fleck Gallery last Upper Canada and the University of Toronto, Juricevic’s portraits month, you would have seen “How the Light Gets In,” a moving reside in private collections around the world. Says the artist of her exhibition of her paintings. recent show: “Inspired by my time overseas, these paintings are Juricevic may be an international criminal lawyer (currently split- my way of breathing a little oxygen into the artistic soul.” The ting her time between Toronto and The Hague), the acting director exhibition included works such as a portrait installation that pays of the International Human Rights Program at U of T’s Faculty of tribute to nine women who died in Vancouver, and a playful study Law, and a senior resident at Massey College, but her busy schedule on laughter and love and friendship. 4 TRINITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE Award Winners Casual Chats, Members of the extended Trinity community were among those recently honoured with three prestigious U of T awards. Important Ideas The Arbor Awards are given to volunteers who demonstrate exceptional personal service to the university. This year’s Trin winners are: The Rev. Bruce Barnett-Cowan ’75; Carolyn Kearns ’72; Stuart Waugh ’89; Dr. Atom Egoyan ’82; David Oxtoby ’83; Dr. Peter Russell ’55; and Maureen Simpson ’74. The Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards are given to current students to recognize extracurricular contributions. This year’s Trin winners are: David Bowden, Pratima Arapakota, Ashley McKenzie, Stephanie Nishi, Jiwoon Tina Park, Sadia Rafiquddin, Macy Siu, Sarah Yun and M. Colum Grove-White. Grove-White also won a Student Award of Excellence, and he is a recipient of the prestigious John H. Moss Scholarship. UN Envoy Reading week is usually a time for scholars to catch up on lagging The Hon. Bill Graham ’61 has no shortage of assignments or break away from schoolwork altogether. But for friends in high places, and he’s drawing on his con- some students in Trinity’s International Relations program, nections for Conversations with the Chancellor – a new the weeklong break in February was no doubt the highlight of series of informal discussions between Graham and the their IR studies to date. world’s movers and shakers. Led by their instructor, Erin Mooney ’93, a visiting lecturer in A former minister of Foreign Affairs and former the IR program, students from the fourth-year seminar course leader of the Official Opposition, Graham announced Protecting People in Peril: The Emerging International Regime and in 2007 that he would not be running for office again. Canada’s Role, and a few other select students travelled to the Instead, the Liberal politico became Chancellor, the United Nations headquarters in New York City. There they had highest-ranking volunteer officer at Trinity. And now, audiences with senior officials, including top advisers to the UN he’s pulling from his roster of political contacts to Secretary General. present interactive, thought-provoking conversations on Mooney’s class was awarded funds for the trip after winning the critical issues of the day for the College community. U of T’s pilot International Course Module competition, admin- The series kicked off on March 23 at the George istered by the Dean of Arts and Science. Ignatieff Theatre, where Graham talked to retired General Rick Hillier, the former chief of the Defence Staff, about Canada’s mission in Afghanistan and about our country’s foreign policy.
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