WHEN NIXON MET MAO Margaret Macmillan Tells Another Superb Historical Tale
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16620 Trinity 1 11/17/06 2:39 PM Page 1 TRINITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE AUTUMN 2006 VOLUME 44 NUMBER 1 WHEN NIXON MET MAO Margaret MacMillan tells another superb historical tale POSITIVELY BOOKISH A gift to Trinity’s library helps ensure its future HOCKEY HEROES The Jennings Cup victors of 5T6 and 0T6 CENTRE FOR ETHICS A new intellectual enterprise settles in at Trinity Margaret MacMillan PLUS: DONORS’ REPORT 2005-06 T 1 11/15/06 6:03 PM Page 2 FromtheProvost Chacun à Son Goût From Unmuddling the Middle Ages to the Charcuterie Club, each student samples, and learns, from the wide Trinity buffet 3 provost, I find that I have to think about so students with an atmosphere in which they can learn and grow many diverse things – everything from fund- into maturity. Our John W. Graham Library offers many com- raising to the state of the buildings – that I fortable places to read and think, and its librarians are always AS sometimes forget why I am here in the first available to explain the mysteries of the computer catalogue. place, and that is, of course, for our students. Trinity College is its Our dining halls, common rooms and the Buttery are great students: our 1,700 or so undergraduates, and the approximately places for students to gather and chat, and often they get to 140 in Divinity. We used to teach more of them directly within meet our fellows and dons, who come from many of the Uni- our own faculty, in such areas as French, German, Classics and versity’s disciplines. There is also a wealth of student clubs, from English, but that came to an end in the 1970s, when all three of the venerable Lit – the oldest student debating society in the federated colleges found themselves in financial difficulties Canada – to the new Charcuterie Club, which promotes The and the university agreed to take over. Now we have only the Fac- Appreciation of Cured Meats among the Men and Women of ulty of Divinity left as a teaching department. College. All of these give students a chance to In the ensuing decades, we have recouped participate and to find their feet in the new some of what we lost of our academic mission. Trinity students, more world of university. Whether it’s tutoring high- We now have three interdisciplinary programs than those at school students or sponsoring a refugee stu- 4 based at Trinity: International Relations, Ethics, dent, our many volunteer activities help Society and Law, and Immunology. Many of any other college, take students to understand how important it is to the classes for these programs take place in our responsibility for give back to society. Trinity students, more classrooms, and our library has special collec- than those at any other college, also take tions to support them. While the programs are their own government responsibility for their own government and open to all U of T students, we find that stu- and activities for much of their own activities. This, I am dents who want to take them are inclined to convinced, is how it should be. enrol at Trinity. The College also has special I like to think we older members of the Col- first-year seminars in a variety of subjects, from Unmuddling lege are contributors in the process of helping students grow the Middle Ages to Putting Physics in Its Place. up. Often we see awkward teenagers turn into self-assured, self- Two years ago, we started a first-year program that we called confident, educated young people. As I think back over my Trinity One (not very original, I admit, and if you have any years here, I like to remember the painfully shy students I met suggestions for a new name, I would love to hear them). We in first year who became leading lights in the Trinity College take in about 50 students and divide them into two groups, one Dramatic Society, or who represented the University at debat- EWS with an international relations focus and the other with an ing tournaments and conferences around the world. Often our N ethics one. Each stream has two seminars per week, taught by graduates come back, or e-mail us to tell us what they are doing. AILY D 4 senior professors, and students also attend three lecture courses They are pretty impressive and astonishingly eclectic: the vol- EACH B during the year. I am teaching in the international relations unteer in Tibet, the young journalist who covered the tsunami ALM P / stream, and it has been a wonderful experience. The students in Indonesia, the Rhodes scholars at Oxford, the host of a pop- are bright, hard-working and interested, and because they are ular music program, the promising young novelist, the founder GATTUSO spending so much time learning together, they develop a of a new dot.com company – I could go on and on. We are so REER tremendous rapport. I only wish we could offer more places, proud of them all, and if we helped them at all on their way, G : but perhaps, one day, we will be able to. we’re grateful that we were able to. Not all learning takes place in the classroom, and here MARGARET MACMILLAN HOTOGRAPHY P I think Trinity still makes a great difference, by providing Provost and Vice-Chancellor 2 TRINITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE T 1 11/15/06 6:03 PM Page 3 n.b. College observations worth noting By Graham F. Scott 5 Appointment with History Margaret MacMillan portrays another pivotal world event – 10 this time Nixon’s fateful meeting with Mao in 1972 By John Allemang No Longer On the Fringe Canada has fully emerged 36 as an international force, says 16 John Kirton in his new book By Andrew Clark History Uncensored In a quest to make history interesting, Bob Bothwell has tack- 17 led the whole story of Canada. By Megan Easton 2005-06 Donors’ Report 19 Friend of the Library Hilary Nicholls finds nothing too much trouble if 36 it helps out. All the better if the cause is Trinity’s library 40 By Susan Lawrence Reflecting Well Thoughts on the university’s new Centre for Ethics at 40 Trinity College By Susan Pedwell The Puck Stops Here Glory came in 1956, but it was another 50 years before 44 Trinity again skated away with the Jennings Cup By Margaret Webb Class Notes 44 News from classmates Contents near and far 48 Published three times a year by Trinity College, tection of Privacy Act. 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Michah Rynor 52 Cover photo: Sandy Nicholson AUTUMN 2006 3 T 1 11/15/06 6:03 PM Page 4 Trinity College and St.Thomas’s Anglican Church Present THE 2007 LARKIN-STUART LECTURESLECTURES DAVID HALTON Faith and Politics: The Impact of the Religious Right on U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policy David Halton, who graduated from Trinity in 1962 with an Honours BA in History, recently retired from a 40-year broadcasting career with the CBC, which included stints as a correspondent in Paris, Moscow, London and Washington. He will comment on the effect the evangelical Christian movement has had on U.S. politics, a trend he followed closely during his 14 years as senior CBC Washington correspondent. Wednesday, March 7 and Thursday, March 8 at 8 p.m. Receptions to follow both nights in the Buttery George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place, Trinity College, University of Toronto Space is limited. Please call (416) 978-2651, or e-mail [email protected], to reserve a space. T 1 11/15/06 6:03 PM Page 5 OBSERVATIONSn. & DISTINCTIONSb. WORTH NOTING • BY GRAHAM F. SCOTT tongue and frees the mind The Strachan from petty objections, making We’ll Drink Stinger for the best kind of conversa- to That Kingwell, a semi-professional tion. Indeed, a stiff martini has PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR tippler, said that a signature been known to make even the Mark Kingwell’s new drink for Trinity College would most tightly wound person book, combining cultural have to “mix tradition with wax philosophical.” criticism, social history and innovation, and somehow Classic Cocktails is published by classic drink recipes, makes involve red and black.” McClelland & Stewart Ltd. for one heady mixture. For your refreshment, we suggest: Classic Cocktails: A Modern N 4 parts gin Shake expands on Kingwell’s N 1 part Lillet aperitif blanc A Little Fall popular column on drinks N 4 to 5 dashes Reading in Toro magazine, but it doesn’t Angostura Bitters TRINITY PEOPLE ARE A PROLIFIC stop there. Shake with cracked ice, bunch. Along with new books “The column has always strain into a chilled cocktail that came out this fall from been about the literary and glass, garnish with a twist of orange professors Bob Bothwell, cinematic associations of classic peel and a black olive.