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The Next Chapter FALL 2019 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MAGAZINE THE NEXT CHAPTER INCOMING PRINCIPAL MARKUS STOCK PREPARES TO TAKE THE HELM Please join us in celebrating the 2019 UC ALUMNI of INFLUENCE at the EIGHTH ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER AND GALA Wednesday, November 13, 2019 The Carlu 444 Yonge Street, Toronto Reception at 6 p.m. Dinner at 7 p.m. • Cocktail attire • Host bar Individual tickets $150 Table of 10 $1,250 Purchase tickets at my.alumni.utoronto.ca/aoi2019 For information, or if you would like to sponsor a student seat or table, please call (416) 978-2968. Please inform us if you require an accommodation in order to attend this event. Read more about this year’s honourees on page 26. 2 UC MAGAZINE KEYnote When Hesse says, “A magic dwells in each beginning,” he does not simply mean that it can be magical to start something new. Rather, this specific magic is of a fostering and nourishing kind; it is a charm or a spell. The poem recommends courage in taking new steps because the new and unexpected is often accompanied by this very means, a “magic” that helps along anybody taking a new step. It seems to me that the UC community is particularly good at casting such nourishing charms or spells, not the least due to its Please join us in celebrating the collaborative, inclusive and inviting spirit. New and established UC 2019 students, and even the occasional UC ALUMNI Seed9 Photography new principal, benefit immeasurably from this UC magic. I greatly look of INFLUENCE forward to stepping into my new role THE MAGIC OF protected by this charm. at the EIGHTH ANNUAL Although I’m a veteran U of T NEW BEGINNINGS professor and administrator, I am a AWARDS DINNER newcomer to UC, so I’m in listening and learning mode and will be for HESE PAST post-secondary institution, and I AND GALA a while. I will rely on the whole UC MONTHS will enjoy getting a sense of how this time of new beginnings feels, looks community to help me form a vision have been a going forward, one that is compelling whirlwind and sounds at UC — this year, doing Wednesday, so in-between my research leave enough to engage everyone, especially for me, and I students and alumni. don’t expect commitments, but full time in the November 13, 2019 things to slow down any time soon. years to come. I would like to invite all members of The Carlu I am still a couple of months away The advent of winter won’t dull the UC community to share with me your expectations and ideas, big and from my appointment as UC’s new the sense of magic I feel, because 444 Yonge Street, Toronto small, on how to keep UC the great principal, but I have already had this coming winter marks a new place it is, and how to add something many opportunities to meet and talk beginning for me in my new role as Reception at 6 p.m. to its quality or enhance its appeal. I to the college’s students, faculty, staff principal of UC. As a professor of am counting on all of you to support Dinner at 7 p.m. and alumni. I was simply blown away German literature, I feel particularly me in formulating new goals, building by the warm welcome I received, connected to the long tradition of on the successful, transformational • Cocktail attire and as I spend more and more time UC luminaries in my field, such as work of my predecessor. You may at UC, I begin to get a feeling for its Hermann Boeschenstein and Barker • Host bar reach me through uc.principal@ unique, congenial community spirit. Fairley. The latter’s memory is kept utoronto.ca. I look forward to hearing What a privilege to have been chosen alive through UC’s annual Barker from you and meeting you during my Individual tickets $150 to lead — in collaboration with all of Fairley Distinguished Visitor (see upcoming term. Table of 10 $1,250 you — this wonderful place for the story on page 18). This year, it is next couple of years! Purchase tickets at my.alumni.utoronto.ca/aoi2019 renowned documentary filmmaker “A magic dwells in each beginning,” Jennifer Baichwal, whose most wrote author Hermann Hesse in his recent film, Anthropocene, and a For information, or if you would like to sponsor a famous poem, ‘Steps.’ As I slowly related exhibition were showcased Markus Stock student seat or table, please call (416) 978-2968. move into my new role, it strikes me last fall at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Professor, Germanic Languages that during the fall, this magic has reminding us of the urgent and and Literatures Please inform us if you require an accommodation in special meaning for me. There’s real important need to reflect on the Incoming University College Principal order to attend this event. magic in that moment when students impact of human behaviour on Markus Stock begins his term as University return, beginning or continuing the foundations of life, locally and College’s 17th principal on Jan. 1, 2020. Principal their lives on campus, filled with globally. She will have valuable Donald Ainslie has graciously agreed to extend Read more about this year’s honourees on page 26. his term until Dec. 31, 2019 to bridge the gap expectations, hopes and aspirations. insights and knowledge to share between the original end of his term and the start Fall is such a very special time at any with all of us at UC. of Professor Stock’s tenure. UC MAGAZINE 3 TABLE of contents 10 13 18 Photo by Noah Weinzweig 22 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MAGAZINE PUBLISHER Larry Davies EDITORS Valerie Iancovich Elaine Smith MANAGING EDITOR Emily Sands 03 Keynote SPECIAL THANKS A message from the incoming principal Donald Ainslie Emily Kakouris 06 Calendar Lori MacIntyre Shakespeare, the 2019 Yvonne Palkowski elections, novels by Michael Markus Stock Ondaatje and Esi Edugyan — Ho K. Sung lots to savour in 2019-20 Mila Thirasack 08 Campaign Wrap-up ART DIRECTION + DESIGN UC’s Boundless campaign Amber Moon ended with a bang, thanks to contributions from across the CONTRIBUTING WRITERS college community Sharon Aschaiek Elizabeth Monier-Williams 10 Toward a Bright Future Kirk Sibbald As student needs change with Elaine Smith the times, student services must adapt in order to serve EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY them well Amanda Coffey 13 Family Tradition 24 FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY The ties to UC become stronger Thomas Bollman, Seed9 when more than one generation Marley Rosen of a family attends the college, Emily Sands as the Chaikofs and Rambihars Noah Weinzweig discovered PRINTING 18 A Frame of Mind Superior Printing Acclaimed documentary CORRESPONDENCE AND filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal UNDELIVERABLE COPIES TO: joins UC as the 2019 Barker University College Fairley Distinguished Visitor Office of Advancement 22 Taking Stock 15 King’s College Circle Professor Markus Stock is Toronto ON, Canada M5S 3H7 preparing to assume the post of University College Magazine is published UC principal in January and he’s seeking your input twice a year by the University College Advancement Office and is circulated to 26 Alumni of Influence 25,000 Alumni and friends of University Meet the outstanding UC College, University of Toronto. To update alumni who will be honoured at your address or to unsubscribe, send an the 2019 Alumni of Influence email to [email protected] celebration with your name and address or call (416) 978-2139 or toll-free 1 (800) 463-6048 PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT 34 Class Notes 40041311 36 Nota Bene 42 UCAA Update 43 In Memoriam UCCALENDAR SEP QAGGIQ ISUMA: GATHERING PLACE OPENING, GALLERY EXHIBITION Sept. 17, 2019 at 6 p.m. Exhibition runs Sept. 18 to NOV Nov. 30, 2019 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Presented in partnership with 2 ALUMNI OF INFLUENCE GALA Toronto Biennial of Art Nov. 13, 2019 at 6 p.m. U of T Art Centre Our eighth annual awards gala UC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OCT ANNUAL OPEN MEETING R.K. TEETZEL LECTURE IN in celebration of distinguished Sept. 19, 2019 at 6 p.m. ARCHITECTURE University College alumni Oct. 3, 2019 at 4:30 p.m. The Carlu Join your fellow alumni as 444 Yonge St., Toronto UCAA’s plans for the 2019-2020 Poker Faces, Private Spaces: A academic year are unveiled. 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