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Shall We Romance? Trinity couples who stepped out of the classroom and into love A LOVE QUADRANGLE? We madly, deeply need a new quad WHO WAS ST. HILDA? And why she matters STRACHAN HALL REVISITED Philippe and Gillian Garneau The memories linger on 15880 7/25/06 3:22 PM Page 2

FromtheProvost

Life at the Lodge From Pizza with the Provost to cake fights and cannons, living at the college is never dull

hen people complain to me about commuting, I during Freshman Orientation, I hear strains of songs under my win- keep quiet. Because I live in the Provost’s Lodge, my dow, rude ones about Trinity and retaliations about other colleges. trip to work is about 30 yards. I don’t worry about I now know that the engineering students will come with the Lady W snow, sleet, traffic jams, or the subway. And I live in Godiva Band about 2 a.m. and that they will fire their small, but an extraordinary house in the middle of the university. very loud, cannon. I still jump out of bed when it happens, though. For those of you who have never seen the Lodge, imagine a Living on the campus also reminds me what a big, interesting cross between a Scottish baronial hall and a posh embassy, filled and varied university we inhabit. When high school students tell with interesting pictures and some lovely furniture, mostly cour- me that they are put off by the size of U of T, I point out that Trin- tesy of Gerald Larkin, one of our great benefactors of the past. ity is the same size as a small Canadian university, but it gives them We use the Lodge a lot for entertaining: receptions, musical a huge range of possibilities, whether in courses, in people they will evenings, dinners, lunches, and teas. Among my favourite are the meet, or in student activities. Beyond the University, lies the city evenings to which I invite an eminent Canadian, of Toronto. From Trinity, I and the students can usually a Trinity graduate, to come and meet some ‘My job is to walk to three museums and the Art Gallery of of our students. We eat pizza and then have a ses- look out for Trinity, Ontario. The new opera house is three subway sion in the living room, where our speakers talk stops away, and two of the best movie houses in about how they got to do whatever it is they do – and living in the Toronto are less than 10 minutes’ walk. from acting to banking. The evenings – known, I Lodge has helped me I have grown accustomed to the life of the city regret to say, as Pizza with the Provost – give stu- as it washes around the Lodge. The marathons dents a chance to meet people from all walks of life, understand that’ down University Avenue. The Santa Claus parade. and our alumni and friends, a chance to see how Demonstrations outside the Legislature. Readings outstanding our students are. Over the past years, we have hosted and publishers’ booths at Books on the Street. The giant movie Roy McMurtry, Marc Garneau and Ruth Grier, to name a few. screen on the back campus for Flicks on the Field. Queen’s Park has When I became Provost, I sensed that it was very important that an event almost every weekend: recently a Legalize Cannabis rally I move into the Lodge. Living over the shop, so to speak, has given on Saturday was followed by an Ontario Police Memorial on Sun- me an intimate knowledge of the College, of its rhythms and of its day. Think of the scheduling mistake that could have had spaced- strong community. I hear the music from the Chapel as the choir out hippies competing for space with officers in neat uniforms. practises. In the autumn and then again after Christmas, the whole After four years of living at Trinity, I have grown used to it all. campus suddenly wakes up and the students pour in. I have I have also realized what an asset the college system is both to those learned that there are noisy times during the term – Thursday is who are members of it and to the University as a whole. As a col- the big party night – and quieter ones as the pressures of assign- lege, we can provide a level of care and support that helps students ments build up. I have seen how much work the Trinity staff do: to avoid becoming another of those dreary statistics – the drop- Our dons and Dean of Students are on call 24 hours a day when outs. On the whole the University realizes the importance of our

EWS students have problems. The Registrar’s office has a constant stream role and is grateful for what we add to the education of its students. N of students who come for help in negotiating the often confusing Sometimes it finds Trinity a small and stubborn institution, AILY

D 2 world of the University. Down the hall, the Bursar’s office helps to insisting, as it does, on its own way of doing things. And some- EACH

B sort out finances. The engineers and maintenance workers keep times, we find the University big and careless, like an elephant ALM P

/ our buildings repaired and clean. shifting from foot to foot without noticing the little creatures I have been around for all the College’s celebrations: the Christ- below it. That sort of tension and mutual irritation is natural, and

GATTUSO mas Carol Service, Guy Fawkes Night, the Conversat Ball, the most of the time we both realize how much we need each other

REER cake fight. I must confess I could do without the false fire alarms, and how important it is that we work together. My job, of course, : G usually in the middle of the night. The Provost has to set a good is to look out for Trinity, and living in the Lodge has helped me example (in any case a loud bell rings right outside my bedroom to understand that. MARGARET MACMILLAN, HOTOGRAPHY

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n.b. College observations 5 worth noting By Graham F. Scott

Strachan Hall Revisited 10 The old hall still evokes memories. But its lustre has faded By Brad Faught 10 Lessons in Love A study of five 14 couples who found their match at Trinity By Susan Lawrence

Quid Pro Quad Once an anonymous 20 donor’s gift revitalizes Trinity’s quad, this hidden space may not be able to keep its charms hidden much longer By John Allemang

In Memoriam: The End of an Era 23 14 Janice Lindsay and David Macfarlane During Howard Buchner’s tenure as Trinity’s dean of divinity, there wasn’t much that did not change in the Anglican Church of Canada

Who Was St. Hilda? Christian educator, head of 24 a co-ed monastery, advisor to kings and princes, patroness of poets – and a role model for us all By Brad Faught

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gave raves to all three shows, while attendance boomed The Show with sold-out houses for two Must Go On performances of Trainspotting. THE TRINITY COLLEGE DRA- “We’ve done some really matic Society enjoyed such a challenging projects,” said wealth of talent this year that Sharon Reid, part-time theatre two outstanding students – manager of Trinity’s George Luke Stark and Janet Guo – Ignatieff Theatre for the past shared the Robert and 12 years, who also designs Dorothea Painter Award in lighting for professional the- Drama, given annually to a stu- atre and teaches drama and dent who has made an extraor- theatre history at the Univer- dinary contribution to theatre sity of Toronto at Scarbor- at Trinity College. “It was an ough. “And such technically absolutely fantastic year,” said demanding shows would not Stark, who, like Guo, is a presi- Janet Guo and Luke Stark, dent emeritus of the TCDS. co-winners of this year’s This year’s productions Painter Award in Drama included burlesquing beagles (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown), drunken monsters (The Tempest), and potty- mouthed heroin addicts A potty-mouthed Alex Champlin as Renton (Trainspotting). The Varsity in the TCDS production of Trainspotting Making the Fisher’s own vision for the spiritual life of the tual beings having a human experience.’” students, and also for the entire Anglican com- Fisher’s own experience encompasses a variety

Pastoral Scene P munity on U of T’s St. George campus, is to bring of pastoral positions: she received her Master HOTOGRAPHY he Rev. Dr.Dana Fisher became Trinity Col- together people of different religions – or no reli- of Divinity degree from Trinity in 1981 and was lege’s third Humphrys Chaplain on July 1. gion – to address their collective spiritual needs. ordained later that year; she served as a parish

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“I really enjoy the work of pastoring,” Fisher said “I think because Canada is a multicultural and priest in a number of Ontario dioceses; attained INA D

shortly after the announcement of her appoint- multireligious country, we have an extraordinary her Doctor of Ministry,again at Trinity,in 1994, and RAGICEVIC ment.“But what really excites me is working with opportunity to show the world how people from began teaching at Trinity in 1996. She will continue,

young people about things spiritual.And I’m excited different faiths can speak to each other,” she said. as chaplain, to teach in the Faculty of Divinity. , C that courses on international relations happen here “As [French theologian and philosopher] Pierre “I’m excited because I feel the energy of the AMELIA

at Trinity.I’m really looking forward to working with Teilhard de Chardin observed,‘We are not human students who are here to learn, as I was 28 years L INTA young people who have a vision for their world.” beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiri- ago. So it’s kind of a full circle.”

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have been possible without the dedication of the students.” Cora Liu, Peter Neelands Reid spends hundreds of and Colin Chamberlain were hours teaching Trinity students the Chancellor’s Gold Medal – some through the Ontario winners in science, commerce Work Study Program, others and arts, respectively, at the who volunteer – the ins and Graduation Awards Ceremony outs of lighting, sound, set in June.They are pictured, construction, rigging and spe- left to right, with Provost cial effects. The theatre also Margaret MacMillan benefits from the advice of Paul Stoesser, technical director and sound system, Reid said, award-winners, Stark gradu- for High Achievement in Eng- of U of T’s Graduate Centre adding that alumni and the col- ated in June, and Guo will fol- lish, also has dramatic aspira- for the Study of Drama. lege also contributed their sup- low in November. “I’m hoping tions. “But if I’m going to be About seven years ago, as port. Over the next five years there are more theatre-related involved in the arts, I want to part of the Spirit of Leadership the theatre saw the addition of jobs for me in the future, but make sure I’m doing it in a way capital campaign, Trinity’s stu- new seats, curtains, stage floor, we’ll see,” said Guo. Stark, who that affects people strongly,” dent leadership came up with carpets, an expanded lobby, a was named a College Scholar he said. “I believe in the arts as $30,000, about a third of the coat closet, a projection screen and won a Provost Delworth a force for education, entertain- money needed for some major and an accessible washroom. Graduation Scholarship and a ment and the inspiration of upgrades to the theatre’s lighting As for this year’s Painter George Gray Falle Scholarship wonder, all at the same time.”

Kielburger’s Graduation Present G8 and raig Kielburger was named winner of the World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child in April at a Feeling Great Cceremony in Mariefred, Sweden. Often called the “Children’s Nobel Prize,” the WCPRC is awarded annu- TRINITY STUDENTS VANESSA ally to people who have made extraordinary contributions to the rights of children worldwide. Kielburger is Corlazzoli and Wynne founder of Free The Children, a global youth-driven charity that advocates for children’s rights around the world. Lawrence were the 2005 The WCPRC is worth $40,000 (US), and the winner is chosen by a jury of children from around the world. Catherwood Scholars. The Kielburger’s prize was presented by Queen Silvia of Sweden (“I don’t think anyone could ever get used to meet- scholarships are awarded each ing royalty,” he said). fall to students beginning their Kielburger graduated from Trinity in June with a degree in Peace and Conflict Studies, winning the University fourth undergraduate year of Toronto Alumni Association John H. Moss Scholarship, U of T’s most prestigious award for undergraduates. who demonstrate extraordi- And even though the World’s Chil- nary academic achievement dren’s Prize is the culmination of Craig Kielburger with, left to right, Mary Smart in Trinity’s International more than a decade of work for the of Sierra Leone, Queen Silvia of Sweden, and Kimberley Relations program and an rights of children in the developing Plews, a Free The Children associate interest in the G8 countries. world, he is still looking ahead. “There are a lot of great “My long-term plans include grad- alumni who have received the ERGE B uate studies and then working in the Catherwood scholarship, and LIN field of international conflict mediation,

ANADA Children is still going strong.There is Petersburg, Russia in July. “But , C much work to be done in rural China, INTA it’s what the award stands for L Sri Lanka, Kenya, India and Sierra that means the most to me. It’s

AMELIA Leone. I see future generations of about community, education, : C youth taking on this challenge and suc- and about giving students the ceeding beyond our wildest dreams.” opportunity to seek out new HOTOGRAPHY

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as student chair of the G8 which recognizes outstanding Research Group at the Munk extracurricular involvement Centre for International Stud- and academic achievement. ies over the past year and will In addition, she was named a Mark Rendall and graduate next year. Provost’s Scholar and also col- Graham Greene in The Simon Lawrence, who graduated lected the Chancellor’s Silver Jackson Story in June as a Provost’s Scholar, Medal in Arts and the Douglas also winning a London Good- Bond Symons Prize in Philos- enough Scholarship and the ophy at Trinity’s Student Spirit Bears in the Air seems that the endangered white kermode bear is multi- Klaus Goldschlag Scholarship Awards ceremony in June. plying – but unfortunately only in the movies and on TV. in International Relations, She will begin an MPhil in IT The apparent proliferation is the work of two Trinity alumni will pursue a master’s degree in Court who have taken their 10-year fight to save the endangered bear human rights at the London to the big screen. Salimah Ebrahim ’03 and Simon Jackson, co- School of Economics and founders of the Spirit Bear Youth Coalition, which advocates on Political Science in the fall. behalf of the rare white “spirit bear” found only in British Colum- She says she took a huge bia, are deep into the production process of an animated feature course load this year, and film about a spirit bear cub who goes on a journey of discovery the Catherwood scholarship with his friends in the rainforest. allowed her not to have to “Casting [for voices] will begin soon,” said Ebrahim, who is work on the side. It will also chair of the SBYC.“Storyboards have already been drawn up, and enable her to do volunteer I think it’s going to be a spectacular story.” She said it was too work this summer in Mexico, development studies this early to reveal the finer points of the plot, but that it was going to where she will be working fall at Oxford’s St. Antony’s be “a coming-of-age story. I like to think of it as a cross between with a non-governmental College, where she will focus The Lion King and Finding Nemo.” organization in Oaxaca called on global health issues. But In June Canadians had a chance to see the spirit bear on the Bridge to Community Health. before that, her Mackenzie King small screen, when CTV aired The Simon Jackson Story, a TV movie scholarship is allowing her to starring Ed Begley Jr.,Mark Rendall and Graham Greene, based spend the summer volunteer- loosely on Jackson’s teenaged crusade to save the kermode bear. Stress-Busters ing for a non-governmental How loosely? “This is TV,and of course it has been dramatized,” “I WAS ELATED WHEN I FIRST organization in Kenya. was Jackson’s wry observation. heard,” said Erin Court, who What’s more, Ebrahim was tagged “one of 25 young Canadi- graduated in June and collected ans who are changing the world” and was featured along with the a Mackenzie King Travelling Out for a Win Spirit Bear Youth Coalition on a CBC Make Some Noise docu- Scholarship, as well as an BEING SINGLED OUT FOR mentary in late June. Oxford University Clarendon recognition was just fine for award, which will help cover Trinity student Suzy Yim, one P her tuition and college fees at of two recipients of the first-ever two years and ran its women’s Book Collecting Contest. HOTOGRAPHY Oxford. She was excited about LGBTOUT (Lesbians, Gays, group in addition to her That enthusiasm won him

the recognition, of course, but Bisexuals & Transgendered research into HIV among gay $500 worth of books from : M also because these awards are an of the University of Toronto) men and within Toronto’s black Penguin Canada for his collec- ARK R enormous help in relieving the awards in April. The $1,000 female community. She used tion on medieval art history ENDALL financial burden of her post- scholarship is awarded for out- the scholarship to pay for a trip and illuminated manuscripts. AND

graduate education. “They have standing community work and to Thailand to do HIV research. Entrants were required to sub- G really helped alleviate that activism in the Lesbian, Gay, mit an annotated bibliography RAHAM G

stress,” she says. Bisexual, Transgendered, and of up to 40 volumes to the REENE Court is also Trinity’s newest Queer (LGBTQ) community. contest judges, who judged Hitting the Books , C

University of Toronto Alumni Yim, who graduated in June “I’VE ALWAYS BEEN AN AVID each collection on its intellec- OURTESY Association scholar. The UTAA in zoology, psychology and book collector,” said Nick Her- tual coherence (not its rarity, OF

scholars are finalists for the environmental science, was on man, the first-ever winner of the monetary value or condition). CTV John. H. Moss Scholarship, the executive of LGBTOUT for St. Michael’s College Student Herman will be starting a

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PhD in fine art history and of three scientists being con- grandstand, an artificial field archaeology at the Institute sidered for the medal. Cook’s surface, an eight-lane running of Fine Arts at New York Heads Up research is in complexity track and change rooms. Trinity students elected University in the fall. theory, studying the funda- Scheduled for a late-August new heads of college mental limits of computers completion is the new Uni- in April, choosing the and determining whether versity of Toronto Centre students who will lead a problem is soluble by for Ethics located at Trinity Excellent Prof the way for 2006-2007. PROFESSOR AND TRINITY contemporary or future College. Four classrooms and • Heads of College: Fellow Stephen Cook, of the computing methods. several offices on the second Alexander Collis, Department of Computer floor of the Larkin Building Jenny Danahy Science, has won a prestigious are being converted to provide • Heads of Arts: Ken Award of Excellence from facilities for the centre. One of Mazurek, Elena Soboleva Men at Work the Natural TWO CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS the centre’s aims is to enhance • Heads of Divinity: Aaron Sciences and in and around Trinity College the growing Trinity College Orear,Marion Thompson Engineering are well underway this summer. Ethics, Society & Law Program. • Heads of Non-Resident Research Directly to the north, the for- Affairs: Aaron Christoff, Council of mer Varsity Stadium site is dot- Tiffany McKenzie Canada ted with bulldozers preparing Hail Associates Cook (NSERC), phase one of the Varsity Centre, Well Met and was a 2005 finalist for the science award. “Complete the new athletics facility on the SIX U OF T FACULTY MEMBERS Gerhard Herzberg Canada surprise and delight” was how downtown campus, scheduled were appointed Trinity College Gold Medal for Science and Cook described his reaction to be completed in November associates this spring. They are: Engineering, Canada’s top to the news that he was one 2006, with a new 5,000-seat Deirdre Baker, English; Jane

Getting the Fourth Degree he Rev. Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan received Tan honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Trin- ity College at the Faculty of Divinity Convocation in May,bringing her total haul of Trinity degrees to four: she already counts a Bachelor of Arts (1971), a Mas- ter of Divinity (1975),and a Master of Theology (1987) from Trinity among her academic achievements. “It’s actually my second doctorate,” she said in an interview shortly before the ceremony,explain- The Rev. Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan, Provost Margaret MacMillan, ing that the first came from the Montreal Diocesan Chancellor Michael Wilson and the Hon. John W. Morden Theological College.“But this one is special because it’s from Trinity, where I graduated.” to be in dialogue across traditions and beliefs, to be a microcosm of the This latest honour was in recognition of Barnett-Cowan’s contribution to household of all God’s people,” she said.“I hope that those who will be … the church, from her time as a parish priest in Nova Scotia, Quebec and Man- going on to various ministries in church and society will take up the challenge itoba, to her service as director of faith, worship and ministry for the Anglican of going out beyond your own comfortable communities, to find out what Church of Canada.The Most. Rev. Michael Peers (BA ’59, DD ’78), former God is doing in the lives of those who don’t look or think the same as you.” primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, who cited Barnett-Cowan before Also recognized was the Hon. John.W.Morden ’56, who received an hon- she gave her keynote address to the graduating divinity students, particularly orary Doctor of Sacred Letters degree for his leadership in the Ontario judi- INTA L praised her work on ecumenical relations: she has been active in mediating ciary. In the course of 25 years devoted to the Ontario Rules Committee,

AMELIA the sometimes fractious differences of opinion in the Anglican Communion, he changed the way cases are conducted in court, bringing in new rules for : C serving on the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations. disclosure and procedural time requirements. He was also cited for his Reflecting her broad view of ministry,Barnett-Cowan told the graduands: involvement in the Presbyterian Church and as a former member of the HOTOGRAPHY

P “What an opportunity you have had here to find wisdom in unexpected ways, board of trustees of the Toronto School of Theology.

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Gaskell, Ontario Institute for /($9( $ Studies in Education/UT; Cressy Award James Booth, Alberto Martin /(*$&< 72 and Jennifer Gommerman, Winners Immunology; and Siobhan Trinity produced a dozen Stevenson, Faculty of Infor- new Cressy Award win- 75,1,7< mation Studies. ners in March, selected Margot Lettner, an for outstanding contri- 2//(*( adjunct professor of politics butions to student life. & and government at Ryerson Congratulations to: University, and Theresa Kiera Chion, Erin Court, Moritz, a writing instructor Sarah Greene, Jennifer 3UHSDUH DZLOOWRHQVXUH\RXUHVWDWHSODQVDUH at Woodsworth College, were Hassum, Jennifer Hood, IXOILOOHGLQFOXGLQJ\RXUOHJDF\WR7ULQLW\ also appointed associates. Matthew Johnston, Craig Kielburger,Ian Kim, Wynne Lawrence,Yumi 'HFLGH LI\RXZDQW\RXUJLIWWRVXSSRUWWKH Noble Farewell Numata, Luke Stark, FROOHJHDVDZKROHRUDVSHFLILFSXUSRVHVXFKDV and Shazeen Suleman. DVFKRODUVKLSRUEXUVDU\ DR. WILLIS NOBLE, MUSIC director of the Trinity College $UUDQJH IRU\RXUJLIWWREHDVSHFLILFGROODU Chapel since Noble is also well known DPRXQWRUDSHUFHQWDJHRIWKHDVVHWVLQ\RXUZLOO 1997, left to Trinity’s divinity students, Trinity in who took his mandatory &RQVLGHU GRQDWLQJDVVHWVRWKHUWKDQFDVKVXFK June. During courses in church music, the DVVWRFNVERQGVPXWXDOIXQGVWHUPGHSRVLWV his nine years study of hymns, and a course UHDOHVWDWHDUWRUMHZHOOHU\ at Trinity, called “Principles and Prac- Noble he was espe- tices of Worship.” 'HVLJQDWH 7ULQLW\&ROOHJHDVDEHQHILFLDU\RI cially pleased to witness the \RXU556355,) tremendous growth of both the chapel choir and the Garnering a 1DPH 7ULQLW\&ROOHJHDVWKHEHQHILFLDU\RID Faculty of Divinity. Guggenheim QHZDQH[LVWLQJRUDSDLGXSOLIHLQVXUDQFH “We’ve maintained a chapel TWO TRINITY ALUMNI WERE SROLF\ choir of 26 and built up a con- recently awarded prestigious tingency of choral scholars,” Guggenheim Fellowships: (VWDEOLVK DFKDULWDEOHUHPDLQGHUWUXVWZLWK Noble said, referring to the Timothy Brook ’73, professor 7ULQLW\&ROOHJHDVEHQHILFLDU\ choir singers who receive schol- of Chinese history at the arships to pay for voice lessons. University of British Colum- 3XUFKDVH DFKDULWDEOHJLIWDQQXLW\WKURXJK “We started in my first year bia, and Thomas Hurka ’75, 7ULQLW\&ROOHJH with eight choral scholars, and who is the Chancellor Henry that has grown to 14 this year. N.R. Jackman Distinguished 5HPHPEHU \RXUORYHGRQHVDQGIULHQGVZLWK So there has been a very strong Chair in Philosophical PHPRULDOJLIWVWR7ULQLW\&ROOHJH choir for these past nine years.” Studies at U of T. ■ &RQWDFW $QDOHH6WHLQ3ODQQHG*LYLQJ2IILFHU IRUPRUHLQIRUPDWLRQDW RU We Stand Corrected DQDOHHVWHLQ#XWRURQWRFD In the last issue of Trinity, we stated that the Canadian Supreme Court decided the 1929 Persons’ Case, recognizing women as well 75,1,7<&2//(*( as men as “persons.” In fact, it was the British Privy Council that 8QLYHUVLW\RI7RURQWR made the decision, overturning an earlier ruling to the contrary +RVNLQ$YH7RURQWR2106+ ZZZWULQLW\XWRURQWRFD by the Supreme Court. Any feminist worth his salt knows this.

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STRACHAN HALL REVISITED The old hall still evokes memories. But its lustre has faded BY BRAD FAUGHT

most accounts, John Strachan, sometime that this work will be undertaken as a result of Trinity’s bishop of Toronto, was a vigorous but upcoming endowment campaign, but in the interim, a rather stern Anglican churchman – unwel- modest beginning will be made this summer with the BY coming, even. Not so the college he built, restoration of the hall’s dining tables that provide seating where his main memorial, Strachan Hall, is one of its most for more than 200 students. Current Trinity students have welcoming spaces. It has formed the western side of Trin- made a substantial pledge in support of this project. ity’s quadrangle ever since its celebrated opening in 1941 Strachan Hall is a vital part of the modern history of during the throes of the Second World War, and has pro- Trinity College – and the name Gerald Larkin is insepara- vided meals, fellowship, ceremony and celebration – as well ble from that history. The longtime chairman of the Salada as periods of quietude – for generations of students and fac- Tea Company Ltd., Larkin had an equally lasting relation- ulty. But having functioned as the epicentre of college life ship with Trinity, from his appointment to Corporation for 65 years, it is now in need of restoration. The hope is in 1920 until his death 41 years later, during which time P HOTOGRAPHY : W AYNE E ARDLEY

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STUDENTS WEAR GOWNS AT LATE DINNER AND, IN A REAL ATTEMPT TO BUILD COMMUNITY, DINE TOGETHER ACCORDING TO YEAR

he gave some $2 million to the college. A further of the war, together with only a small endowment, $6 million in the form of a bequest following his had stalled completion. But in the spring of 1940, death in 1961 made him the greatest single bene- under the leadership of Provost F.H. Cosgrave and factor in the college’s history. thanks to Larkin’s financial generosity, a contract was The bond Larkin formed with the college was signed with the Pigott Construction Company of all the more remarkable considering that he wasn’t Hamilton. A year and a half and about $440,000 a graduate of Trinity – or of any other university, later (a figure that included Welch and Whitaker for that matter. As former bursar George Shepherd Houses and Henderson Tower, which were erected ’48 once remarked, “He just simply fell in love at the same time) Strachan Hall opened, on Sep- with Trinity.” tember 11, 1941, in time for the fall academic term. While the reasons for Larkin’s generosity have On Sept. 20, the occasion was marked by a grand never really been explained, the evidence of it is every- banquet attended by alumni, faculty, various college where. From various student residences, to the chapel, and university worthies, and Albert Matthews, to the Senior Common Room, there is scarcely a Ontario’s lieutenant-governor at the time. (Only corner of Trinity untouched by Larkin’s philan- male attendees were invited, and the cost was a thropic hand, but Strachan Hall is the one example The hall, named after decidedly economical $1.) of his largesse that resonates for most people. Bishop Strachan, above, Designed by Toronto architects Allan George For the 16 years following Trinity’s move north opened in 1941 with and Walter Moorhouse and constructed of Indi- to U of T’s St. George campus from its original loca- a grand banquet. ana limestone, Strachan Hall has the look of a tion on Queen Street West, the college functioned Only males were invited, Tudor banqueting hall. But while the haunches of without a dedicated dining hall. Although it was one and the cost was a venison, goblets of mead and lashings of suet pud- of the key pieces of the architectural plan for Trinity, decidedly economical $1 ding associated with Elizabethan banquets are the privations of the Depression and the exigencies nowhere in evidence, the conviviality has never been ARDLEY E AYNE ; W RCHIVES A RINITY T OF OURTESY : C HOTOGRAPHY P

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“EVERYONE WHO SEES STRACHAN HALL FOR THE FIRST TIME, SAYS, ‘HARRY POTTER!’ – AND IT IS AN EXTRAORDINARY SPACE”

absent, especially during the reg- one morning near the end of ularly held college dinners and winter term, spring sunshine was the more elaborately staged high pouring in through the six stained tables. There’s ample scope for glass windows that adorn the east all such occasions: the hall is wall. Breakfast was almost over. 40 feet wide and 96 feet long, Clusters of students freshly freed with an impressively pitched roof from final exams lingered over secured by trusses and hammer heaping bowls of cereal and beams made of British Columbia steaming cups of coffee. Looking cedar. The tables and chairs, the on, I was reminded of a scene planked floor, the massive fire- depicted early in Brideshead Revis- place located midway along the ited, Evelyn Waugh’s nostalgic west wall, the portraits of emi- evocation of Oxford undergrad- nent Trinitarians, mostly former uate life. Waugh’s protagonist, provosts, hanging serenely above the chatter and clat- Charles Ryder, has decided to have Sunday morning ter of students dining below, create a setting seldom Above, limestone breakfast at a teashop on Broad Street. There, he encountered in the post-1960s university world. And begins to take the finds other students casually reading the newspapers reinforcing the traditional atmosphere is the require- form of a Tudor-style while wearing bedroom slippers. He concludes: “I ment that students wear gowns at late dinner and, in banqueting hall; ate my scrambled eggs and bitter marmalade with a real attempt to build community, dine together below, Gerald Larkin, the zest which in youth follows a restless night.” The according to year. left, wearing hat, at a Trinity version of this breakfast ritual may have In a room that contains many grand features, ceremony in 1953 lacked the bedroom slippers, but the oxymoronic such as the massive oriel window in the northeast wonder of student life – pressured leisure – was corner, perhaps the grandest of a reminder of just how lovely all is the enormous tapestry that college life can be when centred dominates the north wall and upon the common experience provides a backdrop for the high of dining together. table. Woven some 400 years Trinity’s provost, Margaret ago in what is now Belgium, it MacMillan ’66, who has one provides a stunning rendition more year of a five-year term to in wool and silk of the arrival complete before taking up the of the mythic African Queen wardenship of St. Antony’s Col- of Sheba at the court of King lege in Oxford, knows better than Solomon (1 Kings:10). Looking most what Strachan Hall evokes, on – with approval, one suspects and what it means to Trinity: – from his portrait to the right, “Everyone who sees Strachan is Bishop Strachan himself. Hall for the first time says, ‘Harry P Over the six-and-a-half decades Potter!’ – and it is an extraordi- HOTOGRAPHY that Strachan Hall has been at the heart of Trinity life, there has nary space,” she says, noting that the communal meals that take

indeed been much to gaze upon. One of the first major events to take place there, along with the celebrations of festivals such as Thanks- : C place in the hall – appropriately, given Trinity’s history – was in 1943, giving and Christmas, are key in making Trinity a community. OURTESY

when the General Synod of what was then called the Church of Eng- If physical spaces are a repository for the individual memories of OF T

land in Canada met here in session. During the early years the hall all those who have come through their doors, it follows that dining RINITY was a venue for concerts and served as the summertime annex of the halls, with their heavy traffic and constant use, hold more memo- A Earle Grey Players, who staged Canada’s first Shakespearean festival ries than most: they are places where private thoughts and collective RCHIVES

in the quad. Throughout its history, Strachan Hall has also played memories mingle. And just as certain distinct aromas – lavender, : P1566; P1574/0007 host to the Faculty of Divinity’s annual convocation. for instance, or freshly mown hay – can trigger nostalgia, so too can The importance of Strachan Hall to the life and community of the rooms occupied during life’s significant passages create lasting Trinity College cannot be overestimated, and this is manifested in memories. It’s what Strachan Hall has excelled at for 65 years. ■ ways both large and small. When I dropped by for a few moments Brad Faught is a Toronto historian and writer.

SUMMER 2006 13 15880 7/25/06 3:23 PM Page 14 LESSONSin LOVE A study of five couples who found their match at Trinity BY SUSAN LAWRENCE 15880 7/28/06 10:15 AM Page 15

rinity students in the late 1980s may remember later married, it seems that Provost Painter may have the last laugh. Provost Robert Painter’s Orientation addresses, when Gillian and Philippe Garneau are just one of many couples over he’d tell first-year students that if they glanced to the years who met at Trinity and later married. Some experienced their left and their right, the chances were good that instant attraction. Some had an interest that grew into love only they might be looking at their future spouse. Some after graduation. One amazing couple reconnected 38 years later Tof them might have welcomed the thought eagerly, while others to form a loving union that remains vital in their 80s. might have dismissed it as a tad melodramatic, or even laughable. We talked with several couples to ask them what role the college But considering the number of couples who have met at Trinity and played in shaping their relationship.

GILLIAN & PHILIPPE GARNEAU

was “animal attraction,” says Philippe Garneau (’80), who to Gillian as “she who makes everything happen.” Gillian, in addi- ITtransferred to study English literature at Trinity in his third tion to dancing professionally during the ’80s with the Dance year after visiting one of his brothers who was the French don at the Theatre Workshop and the Robert Desrosiers company – not college. He remembers “very vividly” his first sight of Gillian McMur- to mention raising three children – was president of St. Hilda’s ray in the porter’s lodge during Orientation. “She was tall and beau- College Alumnae Association, chair of St. Hilda’s board of trustees, tiful and poised, and she walked like a ballerina – she still does,” he and begins serving on Trinity’s board of trustees this fall. says. “If you put a champagne flute on her head, she wouldn’t spill a And we owe it all to Trinity,” says Philippe, with a touch of drop.” Gillian (’80), who was head of third year, welcomed him with mock melodrama. a smile and called him Philippe (not the anglicized Philip), which impressed him. The Garneaus, opposite, still Gillian remembers their meeting with dancing. Left, at the Saints Ball as similar intensity. She knew everyone in students; below, their wedding in the small Trinity community, so a new- the Trinity chapel in 1984 comer stood out, especially one who was six-foot-five and good-looking. Their first evening out was with a group to see the opera Rigoletto at the O’Keefe (now the Hummingbird) Cen- tre. Gillian slipped going downstairs at the Museum subway entrance and bounced down three steps on her behind. Later the same evening, she caught her heel in a grating and it broke off. But “with a sore bum and a broken shoe, she soldiered on,” says Philippe, laughing at the memory. Later she asked him to the Saints dance, and then “we were more or less going out from then on.” Philippe became a familiar fixture at St. Hilda’s, often staying over in Gillian’s room. After graduation, they travelled in Europe for two and a half months, spending a month of that in Greece. “Nine weeks together on a slim budget is going to either bring you together or tear you apart,” says Philippe. It clearly brought them closer. When they returned, they began living together. They were married May 26, 1984, in the Trinity chapel. “There was no question the wedding would be at Trinity,” says Philippe, because Gillian’s RSIÈ A father was an Anglican chaplain who went to Trinity and met AURA Gillian’s mother, then a nurse in training, through mutual friends ) L there. Although Philippe says he’s “not religious at all,” the seren- PPOSITE ity and familiarity of the chapel made it the right spot for them. : (O Twenty-two years and three children later, the Garneaus still talk enthusiastically about each other. Philippe, who is HOTOGRAPHY

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JANICE LINDSAY & DAVID MACFARLANE

hey met at an Orientation Trade at a Yonge Street club. Tsherry party in the quad in Eventually Lindsay, who is now a their first year, in September 1971. noted colour and interior design “I was intrigued that Janice had a expert, moved into the commu- little book she’d take out if you nal house on Major Street that used a word she didn’t know, and Macfarlane was sharing with she’d write in it,” says author and other Trinity grads, although she journalist David Macfarlane, in was careful to make sure that, like the family room of their dramati- Virginia Woolf, she had a room cally decorated Victorian Annex of her own. home. Lindsay remembers him Their step onto the stage of approaching and saying, “Hello. I marriage had its own drama. “He suppose you’re going to write that didn’t even ask me,” says Lindsay, down too, are you?” “It wasn’t love who felt nonetheless that it was at first sight,” she says dryly. It was “in the air.” When they dropped more that “our paths kept cross- in to visit his parents before going ing,” and they had mutual Trinity to Stratford, he just announced, friends. One time, they were out with others in a group and, Lind- “Oh, by the way, I’m marrying Janice.” say recalls, “I talked more to him than to my date.” “His mom and I burst into tears,” recalls Lindsay. “Then we After they graduated in 1975, she with an art history degree, went off to the theatre.” They were married in her hometown of he with a general degree mostly in English lit, she led a nomadic Stratford on October 24, 1981. Macfarlane may not score high on life as a theatre designer living in New York, Toronto and Stratford, the romance scale for his “proposal,” but “the important thing is, while he worked at Westinghouse in Hamilton to fund travels in the marriage stuck,” says Lindsay. “It will be 25 years in October.” Europe and his budding career as a writer. They reconnected She wants to assure their two children not to worry if they don’t when Macfarlane invited her “out of the blue” to come from Strat- have the “big relationship” at university. “There might be someone ford, where she was then located, to hear the rock band Rough right there that you’ll connect with later.” As she did.

Macfarlane and Lindsay, three decades post-Trinity and, left, covered in confetti in 1981

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JAMIE & JOHN GOODWIN

hey’re retired, but there’s nothing remotely retiring about Tthe Goodwins. John (’57) gives Jamie (’58) an affection- ate gesture, pushing the air with both hands to hurry her toward the dining room of their downtown Toronto condo. On the elegant table, with a foggy view of Casa Loma in the distance, they’ve gathered a lush pile of finely framed family photos reflecting 50 years of shared life. Jamie (whose roommate at St. Hilda’s so disliked her real name, Mary K. – for Kathleen – that she decided to call her Jamie, a moniker that stuck) remembers John as the coach of her women’s hockey team. John remembers with a gleam in his eye how Jamie’s presence on the cheerleading team drew him “like a bee to honey.” Their involvement in university sports clearly presaged a lifetime of healthy enjoyment of physical activity. Both are still active downhill skiers (something they did with their three kids when they were young) and avid walkers who enjoy exploring London, England (where one son lives) on foot. Jamie can still get into her St. Hilda’s blazer, its sleeves ringed with badges. They remember going together to Trinity’s Conver- sat ball; in the photo, Jamie wears a stunning strapless brocade dress that would look completely appropriate on a contemporary bride. They remember going with friends on Wednesday nights after the library closed to the Park Plaza Hotel where they’d listen to musicians such as Peter Appleyard. In early 1959, John took Jamie to dinner at the Benvenuto restaurant, where he gave her an emerald engagement ring that she still proudly shows off. They were married on a beautiful summer day, August 1, 1959, at Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa (Jamie’s hometown). “We were so innocent,” says Jamie with a smile. The next month, Jamie began teaching kindergarten, enabling John to study for his law degree. “I put you through Osgoode,” she reminds him fondly. Outside of his law practice with Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, John has served on Trinity’s board of trustees, chaired the major gifts committee and done a lot of fundraising. He has also done extensive volunteer work for St. Clement’s, Eglinton, the United Way and Big Sisters of Toronto, was president of the North Toronto Historical Society, and for 13 years was the legal officer (Chancel- lor of the Arctic) to the bishop of the Anglican Church in Frobisher Bay (now Iqaluit). This May, they holidayed in France, Belgium and London and travelled by train for the first time instead of by car. The plan was that, “I’ll get to see everything,” says John. And you can bet they P

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JANE & STEPHEN SMITH

were in first year together, in the same English class,” (who’s now in investment management) joined the law firm of “WEsays Jane Smith (’61), recalling when she and McCarthy Tétrault. They started their family early. “I had four Stephen (’60) met, almost 50 years ago. They went to the Conver- children by the time I was 30,” Jane says matter-of-factly, pointing sat ball in the fall of ’58. For Jane, who was majoring in art and out that it was the norm then. They now have 10 grandchildren, archaeology, the attraction was “almost instant.” His interests were one of them at Trinity with a second due to start there in the fall. much more mature than those of most 19-year-olds, she says. An Music continues to be a strong bond for the couple. Jane is chair English major, he played the violin and was “the only person of the board for the Toronto Summer Music Academy and Festi- I knew who had his own symphony tickets.” He was also a “vora- val, which helps launch young musicians on the threshold of cious reader,” she says, and still is. professional careers. Both have been on the dean’s committee at Stephen, who earned a three-year degree, was in his first year of the Faculty of Music, where they have helped raise close to $17 mil- law school when Jane, then in her final year, began making noises lion for the university. Recently, they headed off to New York, about post-grad study abroad, possibly in Paris or London. What where they saw four operas in three days. Their love of travel takes turned them from steady dating toward marriage? “It was really my them to many places. “There’s not a city in the world where I don’t father,” says Jane. “He said, ‘I think you should marry Stephen and have former students,” says Jane. support him, and I’ll help [financially].’” Stephen’s parents also If music is the food of life, as Shakespeare said, these two helped out. So they were married at Trinity Chapel on June 17, Trinity grads are surely doing their part to help many students step 1961, on a day when the temperature was 94°F and the ushers up to the banquet table. (three of them Trinity friends) sweated in heavy wool morning suits. Jane became an art history teacher (she retired in 2004 after 43 years at the National Ballet School). Stephen

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PHYLLIS GROSSKURTH & ROBERT MCMULLAN

came from England to study political science and history HEat Trinity in 1941. “My mother didn’t want her little Bobby to be bombed,” says McMullan in a plummy English accent. She came to study English lang and lit in 1942. “I had a huge crush on him,” confesses Grosskurth (née Langstaff), who remembers inviting him to a Christmas party that year. She was attracted to him because he was taking history. He found her “extremely attractive, extremely intelligent, and great fun,” but life took them in different directions for nearly four decades. He went off to war overseas and married back in England afterward. She married a Canadian naval officer. Both raised families of three children. “Bob kept popping up in my life,” Grosskurth says, “but never at the right moment.” One time they reconnected – shortly before she married her second husband, Mavor Moore. McMullan also remarried. The research for many of Grosskurth’s acclaimed biographies (of Freud, Melanie Klein, and Havelock Ellis) took her to England often. When her award-winning book on Klein was published in 1986, McMullan sent an enthusiastic fan letter to her c/o Saturday Night, in which he had read a review. To their surprise, they found they were both living in the London area, so recon- nection was fairly easy. When he came to her door to pick her up on his motorbike (he was 57, she 56), she remembers thinking, “This is the guy for me.” Phyllis, newly graduated in 1946. She had just had a bungled mastectomy for breast can- Robert in 1943 in army duds. Below, in 2002, a mutual “joy in cer, but that didn’t matter to McMullan one bit. “He was human love and connection” wonderful,” says Grosskurth. When she returned to Canada two years later, he came with her and established himself as the executive director of Abbeyfield Homes, which provides supported housing for the elderly in small family-like dwellings (see page 28). In June 1986, they were married at the Maryle- bone Registry Office in London. Since Grosskurth’s stroke nearly four years ago, their colourful Cabbagetown home has acquired a main-floor washroom (where the English Hymnal sits beside Eats, Shoots & Leaves) and a stair- glider. Grosskurth’s left hand lies curled and immobile, but she gives a firm handshake with her right hand. “I can’t walk, I can’t garden, I can’t cook,” she says. “I can’t do anything…except read very big books.” She picks up the one she’s currently reading, Tony Judt’s Postwar. Thank goodness I love reading.” She confesses, while “Dear Heart” is refilling her drink, that she misses teaching. “I loved the interaction in the classroom,” she says, reflecting on her 25 years at the University of Toronto’s University College. But they travel widely, using a wheelchair. “Life is still worthwhile,” Grosskurth says. “I want to be around for as long as possible.” Many of her daily pleasures in life may be gone now, but what remains are her passion for research and reading, an undimmed curiosity about the world, and joy in human love and connection. The seeds for all this were sown more than 60 years ago at Trinity, and they’re still yielding fruit. ■

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QUID PRO

Once an anonymous donor’s A good quadrangle is like a well-kept secret. • If you know the his- Quadtory of academic architecture, you could look at Trinity’s rather gift revitalizes Trinity’s quad, solemn façade and guess there’s something more relaxed and this hidden space may not playful going on within its limestone walls. The English university traditions that guided both the college and the University in be able to keep its charms their formative years pretty well demanded that higher education hidden much longer have a four-sided quadrangle at its heart. An old model, maybe, for the idea of the university, hidden away, undisturbed and con- BY JOHN ALLEMANG templative, but still a perfect symbol for what goes on here – a INTA L Cracked, uneven asphalt, central garbage cans

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special place reserved for thinking, wonder- ing and tossing the odd Frisbee. Still, I think that most people hurtling classwards along Hoskin Avenue, or letting their eyes wander for a second in the rush- hour crush, don’t know what’s going on inside. Even from the pathways of Philoso- pher’s Walk, moving at a more Aristotelian pace, you’re given only a brief, tantalizing glimpse of the green lawn, sundial pillar (invari- ably minus sundial) and raised balustrade shielding Strachan Hall’s coffee-drinkers’ terrace before they disappear from sight. And while I wouldn’t say the iron gate and battle- ments of Henderson Tower look forbidding, they weren’t exactly designed to be welcoming (as first-year students who’ve tried to force LEGEND 1. Gothic Filligree their way through during the cake fight know 2. Stone Path too well). Quadrangles trace their roots back 3. Stone Terrace The winning concept features a gothic tracery pattern spanning to medieval ideas of self-defence and survival, 4. Sundial the quad and a large stone terrace at the north end 5. Sculpture after all, as much as they do to the formal 6. New Stair quiet of monastic cloisters. 7. Bench diverting through this space for the instant uplift that comes But in a world where the look-at-me qual- 8.Annuals whenever I pass through the tower into that bright secret gar- ities of blockbuster architecture equate with 9. Shrubs with den. I’m not overly nostalgic toward my university years in Hedge Border genius, the quad’s hidden restraint offers an 10. Bicycle Hoops the early ’70s, an age of social realism if ever there was one, alternative idea of beauty for those who care 11. Sod Tree Circle and even at the time the cake fight left me cold, but this is to find it. And now, with the decision to 12. Light the one place where the past can work its special effects. renew the quad in a bold design of patterned The anonymous donor must share that powerful feeling. grass and stone described as gothic tracery, the hidden space might But unlike my rose-tinted admiration, this friend of the quad has not be able to keep its charms hidden much longer. Thanks to an been able to visualize its pressing needs as well as its lasting pleasures. anonymous donor who has pledged $250,000 toward the remak- Sitting on a bench at the quad’s asphalted centre one afternoon ing of the quad, a project that could be started as early as May of recently, I asked Lindsay Dale-Harris (Trinity ’69), the chair of the 2007 once matching funds have been raised, this ever-evolving Provost’s Quadrangle Committee and an urban planner with Bous- landscape is about to take a fascinating new turn. fields Inc., to help me see what wasn’t quite right. With clear-eyed Roaming through the city over the years since I first saw the enthusiasm, she rapidly itemized where work was needed if the quad Trinity quad – 1964, Grade 7, the Dean’s son’s birthday party, just was to keep living up to our expectations. That missing sundial, of months after the quad was finally enclosed – I often find myself course (removed to the Bursar’s office, I heard, so it wouldn’t keep

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see it as a being stolen, or otherwise dishonoured). The garbage I Still, with the opportunity presented by the cans that never should be dominating the quad’s for- medieval knot donor’s offer, and the chance to rethink a space that mal centre (where pavement has replaced a former garden. I think has been piecemeal in its development, it became flower bed). Cigarette butts in a brown rainwater hard to justify the quad’s current status. Pat Hanson slurry. Benches at odd angles that make it nearly it will bring a the architect who partnered with landscape architect impossible to talk face-to-face with undergraduate very peaceful, Diana Gerrard in gh3’s winning design, describes the intimacy. Cracked, uneven asphalt everywhere. Grass renewal as “a chance to declutter and reorganize, to in poor shape and moss growing in damp spots. A contemplative reinstate the sense of a quadrangle.” The gh3 team “not terribly attractive” perimeter path. feel to the believed there was too much asphalt criss-crossing, “It’s really quite messy,” she said, and at this point quadrangle which is natural enough if you stop and think about I had to agree. “We want something more beautiful the quad’s asymmetries, its many slightly off-line, and remarkable for the college, a quad that can reflect Lindsay Dale-Harris heavily trafficked entrances and exits. Their solution Trinity’s history and at the same time look forward.” ” has been to establish a clearer perimeter path around The quad’s collective “We” starts with the highly the outer edge of the quad, for those with enough of credentialed 10-person committee that Provost Mar- the old Oxonian spirit to take the long route round. garet MacMillan assembled in December and by now, But since this is the real world of Trinity, Hanson after an architectural competition and a series of meet- and Gerrard had to take account of the endemic urge ings between January and May, encompasses pretty to cut across the quad and balance it with a desire to well anyone who could be identified as a stakeholder create something new and interesting and beautiful – as well as the Toronto architectural firm gh3 that came and then, at a more basic level, find a way to make the up with the winning design. Not all of us are going to quad more appealing throughout the academic year, agree on what makes a quad beautiful, and I got the not just in the lush months of the summer vacation. impression from the committee’s student representative Steve Some of this will be accomplished through reorganization of the Pomedli (’06), who was passing through the quad as I chatted with space, providing more hard surfaces and seating at the sunnier north Dale-Harris, that there had been some resistance to forward-looking end. But it’s the gothic-tracery patterning that’s the biggest departure visions on the student side – “Basically they’d like to retain the sta- from the status quo – 20 adjoining squares, each measuring seven tus quo, ” he said. Meaning lots of plain-and-simple grass, for Fris- metres by seven metres, with broad bands of walkable stone enclos- bees, sunbathing, smooching, wrestling, whatever. ing a stylized grass X – actually the Greek letter chi, the first letter in I had to suppress the aging leftie’s “back-in-my-day” outbursts – Christ and thus both a striking decorative form, by traditional lawn when it comes to quads, the status quo is rarely bad. I went from standards, and an iconographic allusion to Trinity’s history. Trinity to Oxford in 1974, and it was like going to quad heaven. My “What I like about it,” says the Provost, “is that it’s imaginative, 17th-century college, Wadham, otherwise a hotbed of political dis- elegant and reflects the college’s heritage – this is something to be sent, prided itself on a perfect square of ancient lawn that unlike proud of.” The bad news for budding Hulk Hogans is that the Trinity’s laissez-faire approach, was not to be touched under any cir- design is not wrestling-friendly, although Trinity students who want cumstances except by the gardener’s tender mower and roller. Show- to explore their rowdy side have access to the college’s back playing ing deference to the grass that we would never give to any human, field. Still, for those of us who have long enjoyed the Trinity quad we crossed the quad by walking all the way around it. In return, we and would also like to see the college take the odd architectural risk, got a passageway with presence, a four-cornered open space that the new look represents an intriguing departure from the status quo could silence noisy tourists and inspire awe in seen-it-all students. – even if Lindsay Dale-Harris denies that it’s all that radical. “I see To be fair to Trinity’s less awestruck quad-users, Wadham also it as a medieval knot garden,” she says. “I think it will bring a very had an easier-going back quad where you’d come across a woman peaceful, contemplative feel to the quadrangle.” breast-feeding her child on the lawn as the college duck waddled by, If all goes according to plan, work will be completed by late and a smaller third quad where the turf was torn up by a non-stop fall 2007 – part of the legacy of the Provost, who by then soccer game and the wall of Europe’s first purpose-built music room will have begun her new post as Warden of St. Antony’s College served as one of the goals. Trinity’s single quad, by default, has to try in Oxford. to be all things to all people – professors, staff, alumni and the gen- Which, sad to say, does not have a proper quad. ■ eral public, as well as the live-in population who consider it home. John Allemang ’74 is The Globe and Mail’s ‘Book a Day’ columnist.

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IN MEMORIAM The End of an Era During Howard Buchner’s tenure as Trinity’s dean of divinity, there wasn’t much that did not change in the Anglican Church of Canada

The following is from the homily given June 2 in Trinity College Chapel for Canon Howard W. Buchner by the Rt. Rev. Victoria Matthews, Bishop of Edmonton. Bishop Matthews (BA 1976, ThM 1987) became the first woman Anglican bishop in Canada in 1994. Canon Buchner (LTh 1947, DD Hon. 1991), who died May 27 at the age of 84, was a priest of the Diocese of Edmonton. He was Trinity’s Dean of Divinity from 1961 to 1983. Although Bishop Matthews did not take Canon Buchner’s classes as a Trinity student and was his bishop only canonically, she says: “He taught me many things.”

… That the old has passed away for Howard Buchner does not part of John 10, the Good Shepherd Gospel, to be proclaimed. change the present for those of us who mourn his death. It isn’t There are some people who so clearly know who they are and that it wasn’t merciful and timely, but rather that those of us who where they are meant to be. They seem so at home where God mourn him have an enormous sense of loss and bereavement. It calls them that they are able to spend incredible energy focused is the end of an era. upon the care of others. In so many ways they seem not only to It isn’t that we never had the opportunity to thank him or live out but actually to inhabit the summary of the Law: to love acknowledge his extraordinary gifts and contribution to the God with heart, mind, soul and strength; and to love one’s Church. We did and we thank Trinity College for those opportu- neighbour as oneself. nities. One can, after all, hardly miss the fact that from coast to coast Howard was no hired hand who sees the wolf coming and there are parish priests, chaplains and teachers who owe their for- flees for safety. Quite the opposite. Yet at the same time, no one mation to this wise, humble and gracious pastor, teacher and Dean would ever suggest that Father Buchner thought he was the Good of Divinity. However, our thanks are rightly owed to Almighty Shepherd. He knew he was not. Father Buchner was the servant God who anointed His servant with the gifts necessary for leading of the only begotten Son of God; he was one of the baptized; and Trinity Divinity through the most unset- From coast to coast there are he was a minister of the priesthood of Jesus tled years in Canada’s living memory. Christ, the Shepherd of our souls. That is From 1961 to 1983 there wasn’t parish priests, chaplains and why we have come here today to praise much that didn’t change in the Anglican teachers who owe their formation and thank the God and Father of us all; Church of Canada, but somehow the to this…gracious pastor, who in His great mercy and loving kind- ecclesiastical tsunami was held at bay at ness has gathered into the arms of the Trinity College’s Faculty of Divinity, and teacher and Dean of Divinity Good Shepherd a sheep of His own fold, year after year competent, faithful and creative Trinity Divinity a lamb of His own flock, a sinner of His own redeeming, and a graduates were ordained deacons and priests“ for dioceses across member of the glorious company of the saints in light…. this country and beyond. To this day it is not difficult, for only I close with a few sentences from a sermon by John Donne: the very best reasons, to identify a Trinity Divinity graduate “The light” of Glory is such a light as that our Schoolmen dare from those “Bucho” years…. not say confidently that every beam of it is not all of it … God gave Whether in the Diocese of Edmonton, where the ministry of me the light of nature when I quickened in my mother’s womb by St. Faith’s Mission based in Edson was the stuff of legend, or as receiving a reasonable soul. And God gave me the light of faith a loving, caring and very attentive member of his extended fam- when I quickened in my second mother’s womb, the Church, by ily, or as a close friend and deeply respected colleague in the Dio- receiving my baptism. But in my third day, when my mortality cese of Toronto, or here at Trinity; whatever the circumstances, shall put on immortality, he shall give me the light of glory, by one knew Howard to be an incredibly centred person, amazingly which I shall see himself. To this light of glory the light of honour able to draw upon inner resources in order to be totally present is but a glow-worm; the majesty itself but a twilight; the cherubims P and attentive to the matter at hand…. and seraphims are but candles… And if I cannot tell what to call HOTOGRAPHY So when we come together like this to offer thanks to God both this light … what shall I call that which I shall see by it, the essence

for the extraordinary life and ministry, in Christ, of Howard Buch- of God himself? And yet there is something else… I shall not only : C ner, and for God’s care and nurture, love of and delight in Howard, ‘see God face to face’, but I shall know him and ‘know’ him, even AMELIA

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it isn’t difficult to understand why those crafting this liturgy chose as also I am known.”–Victoria Matthews, Bishop of Edmonton INTA

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WhoWas St.Hilda Christian educator, head of a co-ed monastery, advisor to kings and princes, patroness of poets – and a role model for us all

ritain, formerly known as Albion, is an island in the ocean, lying towards the ‘‘ northwest at a considerable distance from the coasts of Germany, Gaul, and Spain, which together form the greater part of Europe.” So begins Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (AD 731), effectively the only source Bof information extant on St. Hilda, a towering figure in the history of British Christianity and, of course, the saint from whom Trinity’s former women’s residence (which became co-educational just this past academic year of 2005-06) takes its name. Bede, or BY BRAD the Venerable Bede as he was known from not long after his FAUGHT death in 735, gave voice to an emergent nation. St. Hilda, or Hild as she was called originally, was one of those? who had helped build it, in Bede’s estimation, and because of that he chose

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to include her life story in his magisterial history. She from the Humber River to the Firth of Forth, was a wild was a hero to him, and more than 1,300 years after her and bloody place. St. Hilda’s early life was peripatetic death the story of St. Hilda remains a compelling and cruelly marked by assassination: her father, one. Real heroes, it seems, never lose their currency. Hereric, was poisoned by a family rival. As a conse- In 614, when Hilda was born, her Northum- quence, she was taken in by King Edwin and lived brian birthplace was ruled by the pagan King at court. Christianity was inexorably on the move Edwin, her great-uncle. Two hundred years after in this period, and in 627 Hilda, along with the Rome’s abandonment of its westernmost province, king and his nobles, was baptized by Paulinus, first “England” was more or less divided into seven king- bishop of York. Thus began her religious life, but active doms, the so-called Heptarchy. Northumberland would Christian service did not begin until some time later, later emerge as one of the three strongest king- when St. Aidan, bishop of Lindisfarne, per- doms of the Heptarchy, but in the late eighth suaded her to take monastic vows. In 649 century the invasion of the Vikings destroyed Hilda herself Hilda became abbess of the religious house at it, launching two centuries of Danish-based acquired a Hartlepool, and eight years after that, in 657, violence. Before the arrival of the Vikings, she obtained a piece of land at what was then however, as Bede records, Northumberland reputation for both called Streaneshalch (renamed Whitby by the was the centre of a Christian renaissance. marauding Danes) and upon it established a Regional settlements, such as Jarrow, Lindis- generosity and wisdom, monastery of an uncommon sort: it housed farne and, most importantly to St. Hilda, and her advice both men and women. Whitby, sponsored a cultural revival at the So-called double monasteries had developed intersection of Roman and Celtic Christian- was sought from the fourth century and were based on the ity, which had an impact as far away as Charle- idea of cenobitic (communal) monasticism, magne’s court at Aachen, located in modern- “not only [by] ordinary practised especially in the West. Normally such day Germany. folk, but kings monasteries were under the rule of a woman Despite the civilizing effects brought on by superior, and while living quarters were strictly the spread of Christianity, the Kingdom of and princes” segregated, the principle of commonality was Northumberland, which at its height stretched otherwise maintained. Hilda’s double monastery

A Feast Fit for St. Hilda oyalty sought St. Hilda’s advice; yet, she also held concern for ordinary R folk. All Trinity alumnae, regal or otherwise, will have a chance to raise a glass to our patroness at the first Feast of St. Hilda. Join us for a festive evening featuring the Rt. Rev. Ann E. Tottenham, who will educate us on the life of St. Hilda. Your ears will be delighted by period music performed by Sine Nomine, and your taste buds, by a delicious feast – an event for all the senses. Medieval dress encouraged.

Feast of St. Hilda Local hot spot Zazou will be the Monday, November 13, 2006 gathering place for St. Hildians for Cocktails: 5.30 p.m. an informal evening of fun and Dinner: 6.30 p.m. conversation. Join us for drinks and Cartwright Hall, St. Hilda’s College, hors d’oeuvres and share your experi- 44 Devonshire Place, Toronto ences with alumnae of all ages. Please call (416) 978-2651, or e-mail [email protected] to pur- Spring Reunion chase tickets ($25 per person). Further St. Hilda’s Luncheon information: Julia Paris, (416) 978- Saturday, June 2, 2007, noon to 2 p.m. 2707; [email protected]. Melinda Seaman Hall,

INTA St. Hilda’s College. L Other Upcoming St. Hilda’s Events Guest speaker at our annual Spring

AMELIA A Soirée at Zazou Reunion luncheon will be the Hon. St. Hilda’s College went co-ed in 2005, but its : C Wednesday, February 28, 2007, 6 p.m. Ruth Grier ’58, former MPP and spirit hasn’t altered. This year it will be the scene Zazou Lounge, 315 King St. W., Toronto minister of the environment. of the first Trinity Feast of St. Hilda HOTOGRAPHY P

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at Whitby rapidly became well known, partly because of its desegre- gated nature and partly owing to its egalitarianism. As Bede recounts: “After the example of the primitive Church, no one there was rich, Reinventing no one was needy, for everything was held in common, and nothing St. Hilda’s Alumnae was considered to be anyone’s personal property.” lumni associations can be somnambulant things, Hilda herself acquired a reputation for both generosity and wis- A rousing themselves only when enlivened by dom, and her advice was sought “not only [by] ordinary folk, but a particularly strong president or organizing committee. kings and princes,” says Bede. The leaders of the Church also Luckily, the St. Hilda’s College Alumnae Association, sought her out, and in 664 she hosted the Council of Whitby, founded in 1897 and currently boasting 7,000 members, which determined that the “English” Church would henceforth is a group of women that has always been powered follow the Roman rather than the Celtic rite (though Hilda herself by a strong sense of itself and its traditions. Spurred supported the Celtic side in the debate). to reinvent itself last year by the integration of Meanwhile, her prowess as a teacher attracted a steady number Trinity’s residences, the SHCAA has adopted a new of young men and women, five of the former later becoming bish- set of guiding principles for its communal life: to reflect ops. Hilda also became the patroness of Caedmon, a cowherd on the wisdom and strength of St. Hilda; maintain an the monastic estate who developed into a poet of great distinction, intellectual component; and have fun in the process. merging Bible stories with Old English. According to the admir- As outgoing president Phoebe Wright ’81 says, one of ing Bede, when commanded by God to “sing about the creation of the central aspirations of the SHCAA is to be “a strong, all things,” he promptly and miraculously did so! engaged community that provides a lifelong connection St. Hilda’s legacy to the early English Church was profound. She with Trinity College.” Kicking off this new mandate and her poet protégé, Caedmon (also later beatified), are thought to will be the association’s first Feast of St. Hilda in have died during the same year, 680. Centuries later, her systematic November (see the list of upcoming events on page 26). inclusiveness, civilized ways and practical wisdom resonate strongly When your patroness has offered inspiration to in a society where inclusiveness especially is celebrated. It’s not hard women (and men) for well over a millennium, to imagine that the recent decision to desegregate the St. Hilda’s engaging alumnae for a lifetime should not be College residence might just have been inspired from above. ■ a problem. – Brad Faught Brad Faught is a Toronto historian and writer.

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’94, whose rowing career included a novel, Other Losses, sold more than HONOURS place on the “eights” team that won 200,000 copies worldwide. ’45 Bob McMullan won the 2006 a silver medal at the 1996 Olympics. ’53, LT ’57, STB ’62, DD Hon. Royal Patron’s Award from Abbey- Also honoured was the U of T 1979- ’68 John Frame and Barbara (But- field International for outstanding 1980 champion women’s swimming ters) Frame are celebrating their service to Abbeyfield in Canada. and diving team. Of the 21 women 50th anniversary. After marrying Devised in 1956 in London, on the team, five were Trinity on Sept. 8, 1956 in Trinity College England, the Abbeyfield sheltered- women: Shirley Brown ’80, Eliza- Chapel, they moved west and raised USIC

M housing concept provides sup- beth Burke-Gaffney ’80, Barb three daughters while John served

UCH ported housing for lonely older (Cappa) Perrone ’82, Stephanie in the Anglican Church as priest M

OF people in family-sized households, (Jaremko) Kimmerer ’82, and and deacon in Burns Lake, B.C.; where they have their own rooms Beatrice Winsborrow ’83. bishop of the Diocese of Yukon;

OURTESY furnished with personal belongings. and dean of Christ Church Cathe- C The houses are run on a not-for- NEWS dral in Victoria, B.C., before retir- UNG S profit basis by local, volunteer- ing to Courtenay, B.C. in 1996. led Abbeyfield societies. ANNAH 1950s

: H ’52 James Bacque’s new novel, Our 1960s Six Trinity graduates were inducted Fathers’ War, follows five separate love ’62 Richard Blackburn retired into U of T’s Sports Hall of Fame in stories against the dramatic backdrop Newlyweds Barbara and in June 2005 from the University HOTOGRAPHY

P June, including Emma Robinson of the Second World War. His last John Frame in 1956 of Toronto’s Department of Near

Sung Out Loud Theron, the Black Eyed Peas, up at Trinity, where she took a major Coldplay,” she muses, rattling off a in English, and a minor in both His- Hannah Sung, unphased by celebrity, has managed to list of shining stars of the moment. tory and Women’s Studies. It was the make a bit of noise on the pop-culture scene herself “It’s kind of a fun party trick, but instruction she received in Women’s some of the interviews that I Studies that she says has most influ- “Celebrity doesn’t phase me in personally find most satisfying are enced her career.“I am forever the least,” says Hannah Sung, outside of that realm.” grateful for the critical and analytical MuchMusic video jockey and One of the most compelling – skills it gave me,” she says.“They’re Trinity alumna (’00).“In fact, “a big one for me,” Sung says – was the skills I use in my job every day, I think it’s why I’m able to do with Stephen Lewis, the UN Special and they’re the skills I’ll continue to my job, because I don’t really Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa.“He use in life in general. It has kind of care if someone is famous.” is a hero of mine, although he hates shaped who I’ve become.” That unflappable attitude being called a hero. But he is. He’s But Sung didn’t spend all her has made Sung a popular person- a Canadian hero and an international time in the classroom, thinking criti- ality on the CHUM television music hero. So it was really inspiring to cally. “I was a typical Trinity student channel, where she hosts one of its hear what he had to say. He’s a very in that I threw myself into everything flagship shows, The NewMusic, and honest individual, and passionate and for the first few years,” she says.“I was is a pop culture reporter knowledgeable.” They had another on The Lit for three years,I ran the for MuchNews. And connection as well: Lewis’s son, Solid Gold Dancers, I was in a couple she meets a lot of CBC journalist Avi Lewis, got his of plays, I was editor of the Trinity celebrities:“I’ve inter- start at The NewMusic. Review,I was editor of Salterrae. And viewed Bono, Johnny Sung grew up in Scarborough, I was definitely a regular pub-goer.” Depp, the Rolling where she was, in her words,“an After graduating in 2000, Sung Stones, Charlize overachiever.” Naturally, she ended concentrated on freelance writing for

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and Middle Eastern Civilizations Law Library, which celebrated 200 ’85 Michael Trent is the artistic 2005 in Toronto. after more than 40 years of teaching years of service to the bar and bench director of Toronto’s contemporary ’94 Charlotte Masemann and Erik and research. His book, Journey of Massachusetts in 2004. The dance company, Dancemakers, and de Vries: a son, Willem Arthur, to the Sublime Porte: The Arabic library is housed in the historic John of the Centre for Creation, a Nov. 28 in Ottawa. Memoir of a Sharifian Agent’s Adams Courthouse in downtown research and professional develop- ’95 Caroline Pitfield and Matthew Diplomatic Mission to the Ottoman Boston, which it shares with the ment centre for dance and related Ramsden: a son, Henry Michael, Imperial Court in the era of Suley- Supreme Judicial Court of Massa- art forms in Toronto. April 29 in Ottawa. man the Magnificent, was published chusetts and the Appeals Court. ’87 Laura Peters has recently ’95 Anthony W. Robertson and in late 2005 in Beirut and Germany ’78 Ian M. H. Joseph has become subject area reader for Isabelle S. Helal: twin girls, by Ergon Verlag, Würzburg. Prof. joined Paradigm Capital Inc. in English literature and creative writ- Émilie and Sophie, July 12, 2005 Blackburn and his wife, singer Toronto and is a member of its ing at Roehampton University in Montreal. Barbara Collier ’63, now live in executive committee. in London, England. MDiv ’03 The Rev. Kersi Bird and Stratford, Ont., where Barbara ’78 Douglas J. S. Younger recently John Bird: a son, Austin Kenneth, teaches voice. became a partner with Fraser 1990s Nov. 11 in Calgary. ’65 Susan Longmire had a one- Milner Casgrain LLP in Toronto. ’94 Sven Milelli has been Mark and Sarah Atkins: a daugh- woman show at the Horizons appointed a partner at McCarthy ter, Madeline Renata, May 25 Gallery in Paris, in June. The show 1980s Tétrault, Vancouver. in Toronto. Granddaughter of was a series of papier-mâché tableaux ’80 Doug Brownridge is senior vice- ’95 Anthony W. Robertson com- William B. Humphries ’66. based on Paris Plage, the summer president of brand marketing at pleted an MBA at the Hautes Etudes David Carlisle and Adrienne Park: festival of sand, palm trees and beach Intrawest, the world’s leading devel- Commerciales (HEC) in Montreal a son, Connor Hugh, May 16 in activities that takes place on the oper of mountain, beach, and golf in 2004 and is currently executive Oxford, Miss. Grandson of Joanne banks of the Seine every August. resorts, including Whistler Black- consultant with Kinderville private (Tovell) Guoba ’64. ’69 John H. Clappison has comb, host venue for the 2010 Win- schools in Quebec. Sara and Ian Charlton: a daughter, been appointed director to the ter Olympic Games, Tremblant and Lucy Isabel, March 22. Grand- boards of Sun Life Financial Inc. Blue Mountain in Canada, and a 2000s daughter of Joan Charlton ’60. and Cameco Corp. number of other resorts worldwide. ’02 Victoria Evans completed her Matt MacInnis and Bev Bateman: He and his wife, Jacquie, and family master’s degree in evolutionary a son, Spencer Matthew, May 17 1970s are enjoying living in Vancouver. psychology at the University of in Toronto. Grandson of William ’73 Catherine Smith is head of ’85 Kevyn Nightingale is director of Liverpool in 2004, then travelled in E. Bateman ’66 and Margaret membership services at the Social taxation at SF Partnership, Toronto. Europe, Canada, the Caribbean and Ann (Stewart) Bateman ’66. Africa before taking up residence in Catherine Porter and Graeme Perkinsfield, Ont. (near Penetan- Burt: a daughter, Lyla Julia, Toronto newspapers and magazines, chaos. I think everything about my guishene), where she works for Feb. 24. Granddaughter of did a few internships, and was host- experience at Trinity prepared me Parks Canada as a researcher/educa- Anthony E. Burt ’64 and grand- ing a radio show on CFRB, trying, as for my current job,” she says.“It tor focusing on species at risk. niece of David Burt ’72. she says,“to scrape together a changed my whole perspective on ’03 Duncan Selby has completed Andrew Fraser and Honor his MSc at McGill University and McLachlin: a son, Colin Ian James, career,” when, in November 2001, what I could accomplish in life, and is now working for Cosray Labora- May 21 in Toronto. Grandson MuchMusic held an open audition it was really a fun place to be. It tories in Deep River, Ont. of William B. Humphries ’66. looking for a new on-air host. Sung taught me how to be around peo- Jackie Garrow and Geoffrey went to the cattle call. ple in a really intense environment.” MARRIAGE Herrera: a daughter, Ana Nancy, “I was one of hundreds of Sung says she has learned a lot June 1 in Toronto. Granddaughter ’80 Doug Brownridge and of Jim Garrow ’66 and Nancy people who lined up for hours on in her four years at MuchMusic, Jacquie Uhlmann, Aug. 27, 2005 (Williams) Garrow ’65. Queen Street in the cold,” she both about herself and the indus- in Vancouver. Jennifer Little and Craig Kodama: says. She remembers getting there try, but she feels she is now a daughter, Lauren Emika Wagner around 10:30 in the morning, but approaching another transitional BIRTHS Kodama, April 23 in Toronto. she wasn’t auditioning until 6:30. time in her life. She is thinking Granddaughter of Peter M. Little ’66. “So I just waited – I didn’t even ahead to her next move – she just ’87 Laura Peters and Azzedine Andrea Meyer and Patrick Hill: Haddour: a son, Sami, March 21, a daughter, Helena Murielle, bring a book,” she laughs. After a doesn’t know yet what that will be. 2004 in London, England. April 13 in Ottawa. Granddaughter two-month screening process, She does concede that maybe ’91 Sharda Tarachandra and Roy of Jill (Reville) Hill ’62 and Sung got the job and took it’s time to look for work without Patterson: twin boys, Javin Roy John M. Hill ’61; and niece to the airwaves in February 2002. so many teenagers around all the and Ketan Sanjay, March 4, 2004 of Matthew Hill ’93. She credits her time at Trinity time.“You know you work at in Ottawa. Tori and David Newall: a daughter, for giving her the skills she needed MuchMusic when you’re in your ’93 Melissa Sergiades and Andre Callia Nixon Newall, May 20 in Moniz ’93: two sons, Kaelem Toronto. Granddaughter of Pamela to succeed in the high-pressure late 20s,” she says with a laugh, Alexander, July 23, 2004, and Devlin (Pennel) Newall ’63. world of MuchMusic, an environ- “and some days you feel old.” James, Feb. 3, both in Toronto. Jennifer Pitman and Robert ment she describes as “controlled – Graham F.Scott ’94 Leslie Cummins and Chris Hager: a daughter, Lilian Mburu: a son, Benedict, April 18, Pitman Hager, June 1 in New

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York. Granddaughter of Ruth of James A. Bradshaw ’53. Nancy (Magee) Donnelly ’44. April 26 in Toronto, mother (Dyment) Pitman ’53. Brian: Mary (McIlwraith) ’52, Dutchak: Dr. John Andrew, of Thomas Robert Iveson ’65. Sarah Richardson and Alexander May 20 in Montreal. March 26 in Mississauga, Ont., Johnson: Doris, June 3 in Younger: a daughter, Robin Lily Brown: the Rev. Douglas C. ’67, father-in-law of Arundhuti Brockville, Ont., sister of George O. Isabel, March 24. Grandson of May 5 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., (Sen) Dutchak, ’85. Shepherd ’48; aunt of Carol Shep- Prof. Douglas Richardson ’63. brother of Shirley Barry ’69 and Earle: Alice L., Dec.12 in Sechelt, herd ’95 and Anne Shepherd ’91. Justine Ridgely and Douglas brother-in-law of the Rev. Canon B.C., mother of Patricia (Earle) Johnston, Robert Harold ’59, Taylor: a son, Benjamin Munro Milton Barry ’69. Bays ’62 and grandmother of Oct. 19 in Hamilton, Ont. Ridgely Taylor, May 22 in Brown: Mariana C. (Paterson) ‘60. Jonathan Bays ’90. Juriansz: Reginald Frank, Edinburgh. Grandson of Elizabeth Dec.12 in Dundas, Ont., mother Edwards: M. R. Sidney (Jones) ’39, April 18 in Toronto, father of (Loach) Ridgely ’66. of Alison Brown ’90 and mother- March 15 in Aberdeen, Scotland. Russell Juriansz ’70. Sarah Thomson and Greg in-law of Alex Dick ’92. Elsey: Norman Frederic, May 5 Keeble: Gordon Frederic, May 4 Whatmough: a son, Noah Thomas, Browne: Kathleen Emma, April 10 in Edmonton, father of Dr. Brent in Toronto, father-in-law of Feb. 13. Grandson of Kathleen in Toronto, mother-in-law of the N. Elsey ’76. Catherine Rathbun ’67. Whatmough ’52. Rev. Penny Lewis MDiv ’88. Ewen: Donald George, April 17 Kergin: Suzanne (Speleers), Hugh Wilkins and Leanne Brownell: Gavin James ’52, in in Toronto, husband of Lillian April 29 in Toronto, mother Kaufman: a daughter, Aurora Ann, Hanover, Ont., husband of Joan (Browning) Ewen ’49. of Michael Kergin ’65. Dec. 8 in Toronto. A granddaugh- (Bartlett) Brownell ’45. Ferguson: Diana, April 2 in Kerry: Colin William, Dec. 3 ter for Barbara Wilkins ’51 and the Burgess: Donald McTaggart ’49, Toronto, wife of the Hon. Mr. in Nanaimo, B.C., father of Hon. H. Douglas Wilkins ’52. Feb.9 in Toronto, husband of Justice George Ferguson ’45. Mary Louise Kerry ’84. Audrey (Darby) Burgess ’48. Flynn: Barbara Alice (Butler) ’49, Kilbourn: Hilary Celia Radcliffe, DEATHS Butterfield-Rusconi: Joy, June 5 March 31 in Toronto, mother of Feb. 2 in Toronto, sister of Michael in India. Daughter of James Kathleen (Flynn) Corrigan ’89 and Kilbourn ’80, Phillipa Metelli ’73, Ashburner: Janet Louise (Robert- Butterfield ’49 and Sybil (Agnew) the Rev. Kevin Flynn ’82; sister of and Timothy Kilbourn ’78; daugh- son) ’41, March 27 in Calgary. Butterfield ’49. Beverley Lewis O’Connor ’55; ter of the Rev. Canon Elizabeth Baker: Marguerite Bancroft, Chan: Dr. Sau Ngai, May 4 aunt of Janet Lewis ’81. Kilbourn-Mackie ’48, ’78 (MDiv), April 18 in Toronto, mother of in Toronto, grandfather of Gibson: James MacAndrew ’61, ’01 (DD Hon.) and the late Jacqueline (Baker) Loach ’72. Dr. Vincent Chien ’91 and Dec. 9 in Barrie, Ont. William Kilbourn ’48; and aunt Banachowicz: Stanislaw, April 5 Dr. Karen Chien ’93. Gladney: Eva Maria, March 3 of Sebastien Metelli ’03. in Toronto, father of Robert Chrones: Jim, March 27 in in Toronto, mother of Dr. Henry Legge: Bruce Jarvis, Feb. 27 in Banachowicz ’82. Toronto, father of Dr. James Gladney ’60. Toronto, father of Dr. Elizabeth Bandeen: Betty, June 2 in P. Chrones ’84. Glennie: Donald Charles, March Legge ’73. London, Ont., sister-in-law of Clarke: The Rt. Rev. James 19 in Peterborough, Ont., father of Lewis: Frank Berwick ’49, April 19 Mona (Blair) Bandeen ’54. C. M. ’45 (DD Hon. ’81), David G. Glennie ’76 and father- in Niagara Falls, Ont., husband Bennett: William Gordon, April 28 in Toronto. in-law of Alison Glennie ’76. of Jeannette Lewis ’45. husband of Colleen Millikin ’90. Cornwall: Charlotte Elizabeth Grandy: James Frederick, Love: Ruth, May 14 in Toronto, Bethune: Norman William, (Emery) ’37, March 24 in Feb. 27 in Ottawa, father-in-law mother of Peter Love ’73 and May 15 in Toronto, husband of Vancouver, sister of the late of Meg Salter ’74. mother-in-law of Brigid Higgins ’78. Barbara (Bell) Bethune ’52. Kay (Emery) North ’34. Haddrath: Horst Paul, May 15 Lovell: Anthony Lockhart ’80, Blanchard: Wendy Ruth, Feb. 19 De Gosztonyi: Judith, Feb. 3 in Toronto, father of Oliver Feb. 13 in Toronto. in Toronto, wife of Deyril in Toronto, grandmother of Haddrath ’85. Lovering: Judith, March 31 in Blanchard ’81. Andrew Kriegler ’86. Harbron: Sheila Elizabeth (Lester) Toronto, sister of William J. Bradshaw: William Alexander, Donnelly: Dr. Murray Samuel, ’49, Dec. 3 in Toronto. Lovering ’57 and sister-in-law April 11 in Toronto, brother Feb. 1 in Winnipeg, husband of Hare: Marion Margaret (Stone) ’57, of Sandra G. Lovering ’59. April 21 in Toronto, wife of Michael Macfarlane, Dr. James Wallace ’42, J. Hare, fellow emeritus of Trinity; March 8 in Burlington, Ont. mother of Kimberly Hare ’82, Gre- MacMillan: Ross Alexander ’45, FROM HERE gory Hare ’84 and Melanie Hare ’88. May 5 in London, Ont. TO E-TRINITY Hilborn: Richard Cornell, MacNaughton: John David Feb. 21 in Kitchener, Ont., Francis, May 12 in Toronto, Keep in touch! brother of Dr. John Hilborn ’48. husband of Joy MacNaughton. e-trinity, our electronic newsletter,will Home: Frances (Glenton) ’33, Marsales: Elinor Jane keep you up to date on college news and May 29 in Toronto. (McLaughlin) ’42, Oct. 9 in events between issues of Trinity magazine. Howard: J.F. (Jake) ’49, June 3 West Flamborough, Ont. To subscribe, send us your e-mail in Woodbridge, Ont. Mathieson: Violet ’31, Jan.17 address at [email protected] Hutcheon: Dennis ’51, Feb. 20 in Napanee, Ont. Address update in Toronto. McConney: Anthony David, e-mail [email protected] or go Iu: Po Chiu, Feb. 6, father of March 29 in Mississauga, Ont., to www.alumni.utoronto.ca/address.htm Alvin Iu ’77 and Simon Iu ’80. father-in-law of Kimberley Iveson: Phyllis Edna (Hobbs), Anne McConney ’80.

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McLeod: Frances Ellen, Feb. 18 Padmos: Ruth Hazel, May 15 Schaffer, Kathleen: Dec. 2 in Tottenham: Charles John, in Southampton, Ont., sister of in Leamington, Ont., mother of Vancouver, grandmother of Feb. 1, father of the Rt. Rev. Ann Barbara Veyvara ’48. Dr. M. Andrew Padmos ’69 and Dr. Paul Fenje ’76. E. Tottenham ’62 and C. John Moffatt: W. Joan, March 28 in mother-in-law of J. K. Patricia Shuel: Reginald William, March Tottenham ’65. Toronto, sister of the late Rev. (Baldwin) Padmos ’68. 30 in Guelph, Ont., brother of the Walker: Tim C., Feb. 14 in Water- Canon Gerald E. Moffatt ’42 and Ralston: Thomas A. ’66, June 16, Rev. Canon James A. Shuel ’57. loo, Ont., son of Jim Walker ’63 and sister-in-law of Muriel Moffatt ’43. 2004 in Jackson, N.J. Sims: Alan G. ’53, March 16 Stephanie Kirkwood Walker ’65. Morrison: Irene Dorothy, March Reid: Jean Louise, April 27 in in Toronto, brother of Elizabeth Walsh: Hilary, May 8 in Toronto, 13 in Hamilton, Ont., mother-in- Toronto, mother-in-law of Dr. Faludi ’41. mother of Karina Walsh ’00. law of Dr. Gretchen Roedde ’74. Nancy Harris ’69. Stewart: Peter Beaufort, April 7 Ward: Stephen, April 10 in Mulqueen: Duke, Feb. 22 in Rodway: Dorothy Enid ’35, in Toronto, husband of Yolande Toronto, father of Tyler Ward ’08. Oakville, Ont., brother of Pamela Nov. 24 in Hamilton, Ont. (Powell) Stewart ’45. Zuppinger: Alexandra Catherine, Gibson ’51 and brother-in-law of Rutherford: Margaret Jean ’44, Sutherland: Harry ’51, May 17 in Toronto, daughter of J. Gordon Gibson ’50. Feb. 27 in Brockville, Ont. Feb. 14 in Toronto. Virginia (Aboud) Koury ’50. ■

CalendarCalendarTHINGS TO SEE, HEAR AND DO THIS AUTUMN

All events are free unless a fee grandparents and friends. The is specified, but please phone Buttery, 2-4 p.m. To reserve a COLLEGE DONORS (416) 978-2651, or e-mail us at space, please contact Julia Paris: Wednesday, Sept. 6. Fall Convo- Tuesday, Oct. 3. Salterrae Society [email protected] (416) 978-2707, or juliaparis@ cation. Parents of first-year students Dinner, honouring those whose life- to confirm time and location trinity.utoronto.ca will see their students matriculate. time giving to the college is $100,000 and to reserve a space. Honorary degrees will be bestowed or more. Tour of the new Four Sea- LECTURES upon David Halton for his clear sons Centre for the Performing Arts ART Thursday, Oct. 26. Keys Lecture. and comprehensive gathering of at 5 p.m. Reception and dinner at the Wednesday, Oct. 11. Queen Prof. Richard news over many years, the Rev. Dr. Toronto Club to follow at 6 p.m. Street Galleries. A guided tour (Dick) J. Bond, Jae Joung Lee for his efforts for of some of Toronto’s happening director of peace in Korea, and Malcom D. BOOK SALE galleries, followed by lunch at U of T’s Cana- Knight, for his work in interna- Friday, Oct. 20 to Tuesday, Oct. 24. the revamped Gladstone Hotel. dian Institute tional finance and central banking. Friends of the Library Annual Book $45 per person. Tour begins for Theoretical MacMillan Theatre, 7.30 p.m. Sale. Friday night opening, 6 to 10 10.30 a.m. Reservations: Julia Astrophysics, p.m.: admission $5. Saturday, 10 a.m. Paris, (416) 978-2707; will lecture on Thursday, Oct. 26. Annual to 8 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 8 p.m.; [email protected] Bond “The First Meeting of Corporation. Monday and Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 8 Light in the Universe and Cosmic George Ignatieff Theatre, p.m. No admission charge Saturday CONVIVIALITY Evolution.” Prof. Bond is best 4 p.m. (416) 946-7611; to Tuesday. Seeley Hall. To have book Monday, Nov. 13. First Annual known for his pioneering work [email protected] donations picked up or to help with Feast of St. Hilda. For details, on cosmic background radiation, the sale: (416) 978-6750; www. see page 26. To purchase tickets: the photon afterglow of the PARENTS trinity.utoronto.ca/library/booksale (416) 978-2651, or alumni@ Big Bang. He has used the cosmic Saturday, Oct. 14. Parents’ Day. trinity.utoronto.ca sound from the early universe Parents of first-year students are FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY to determine what the universe invited to the college for a lecture, Thursday, Sept. 28. Annual KIDS is made of (mostly dark matter followed by lunch with Provost General Meeting. Guest speaker Sunday, Oct. 29. Halloween and dark energy), its geometry, Margaret MacMillan. $20 per Melba Cuddy-Keane: “Global Party for Alumni with Children. and the origin and evolution person. Lecture, 10:30 a.m.; lunch, Consciousness in Children’s Litera- Crafts and refreshments; entertain- of cosmic structure. George 11:45 a.m. For details and to ture, 1890-1950.” Combination ment by “Mad Science.” $5 per Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire register: (416) 978-2651, or Room, 7.30 for 8 p.m. Member- person for children, parents, Place, 12 noon. [email protected] ship information: (416) 978-6750.

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TRINITYPast How to Wear a Chair

It isn’t just clothes that make the man or woman. No, there are other kinds of “skin” we can wrap around our mortal coil in order to make a good impression. Like chairs, for example. Try this, the Chancellor’s chair, on for size. Little is known of its past, other than it once resided in the original Trinity College on Queen Street West (circa 1877) before ending up in Seeley Hall. (It also appears in the background of the portrait of Trinity’s first provost, George Whitaker, in Strachan Hall.) Restored in 2004 by the art committee with the help of the Class of ’61, this chair does so much more than any tuxedo or ball gown to make one look distinguished. Whether you sit backbone-straight or lean slothlike on those venerable armrests, you give off the vibe that you could wrestle P Zeus himself to the ground. Trinity chancellors HOTOGRAPHY of the day, starting with Sir John Beverley : C

Robinson, have flexed their degree-granting AMELIA

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muscle, Zeuslike, from this seat of power. L INTA – F. Michah Rynor

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