Faallll 220101 4 + RReachineachin g fforor the SStata rs UC astronoomm eerr s 12 . WWhaha t Liiee s BBeneaenea th 18 . WWhehe re AArere They NNowow ? 24 . UUnivenive rssii ty CColleolle ge AAlulu mnnii of IInn fluuee nccee 2014 32 . uc.utoronto.ca/alumni — 2014 Honourees — Prof. Robin Armstrong (BA 1958 UC) Lawrence Cherney (BA 1969 UC) Dr. William J. Deadman (BA 1911 UC) Prof. Donald Forster (BA 1956 UC) Ronald Gould (BA 1955 UC) Prof. Warren Kirkendale (BA 1955 UC) John McKellar (BA 1955 UC) Sir William Mulock (BA 1863 UC) Erna Paris (BA 1960 UC) The Honourable Robert K. Rae (BA 1969 UC) Dr. Saul Rae (BA 1936 UC) Prof. Jeffrey Wong (BA 1959 UC) Prof. Frederick H. Zemans (BA 1960 UC) Prof. Joyce Zemans (BA 1962 UC) PLEASE JOIN US IN CELEBRATING DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ALUMNI AT THE THIRD ANNUAL UC ALUMNI OF INFLUENCE AWARDS DINNER AND GALA Thursday, November 6, 2014 The Great Hall, Hart House University of Toronto 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto Reception at 6:00 p.m. Dinner at 7:00 p.m. • Black tie optional • Host Bar • Kosher and vegetarian options available upon request Individual tickets $125 Table of 10 $1100 To purchase tickets, visit my.alumni.utoronto.ca/aoi14 or call (416) 978-2968 For accommodation in Toronto, please contact the InterContinental Hotel – Yorkville at (416) 960-5200 and quote code ME9 for a preferred rate by October 1 If you would like to sponsor a student seat or table, please call (416) 978-2968 CONTENTS FALL 2014 fFeatures eauc.uttoronto.cau/alumni res KEYNOTE 08. Principal's message CLASS NOTES 12. 18. 40. 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UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 0 5 CONTENTS FALL 2014 Contributors uc.utoronto.ca/alumni Contributors DAN FALK SHELDON GORDON YVONNE PALKOWSKI Like several of the scientists Like the late Dorothy Bennett, (BA 2004 UC) profiled in “Reaching for the the alumna whom he profiles Reporting on this summer’s Stars” (page 12), journalist Dan on page 28 (“Like Mother, Like archaeological excavation in Falk has been passionate about Daughter”), freelance writer University College’s Sir Daniel astronomy ever since he was Sheldon Gordon has a passion Wilson quadrangle (“What Lies a teenager gazing up at the for reading and is a stickler for Beneath,” page 18) was enough stars from his family’s summer correct grammar. (He does not, to make Yvonne Palkowski wish vacation spot in Nova Scotia’s however, share her aversion to she had majored in archaeology. Annapolis Valley. He is a regular mystery novels.) He’s deployed Indiana Jones fantasies aside, contributor to Ideas on CBC the English language during in her spare time Yvonne enjoys Radio One, and his latest book three decades in journalism, being active out of doors and, is The Science of Shakespeare: including stints with the Toronto conversely, sitting down at A New Look at the Playwright’s Star , the Financial Post and the home with a good book, typically Universe (Goose Lane, 2014). Globe and Mail . Born in a travelogue or biography. Winnipeg, he has lived and worked (and curled) in Montréal, Ottawa, and Toronto and reported from Japan, India, and Sri Lanka. He now devotes his free time to volunteering. 06 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE BRIEFLY FALL 2014 Editor’s Note uc.utoronto.ca/alumni Briefly AS YOU MAY KNOW, this spring UC Magazine , in conjunction with U of T Magazine , conducted a readership survey. The results were overwhelmingly Letters positive —80% of UC Magazine readers are satis - fied with the publication overall and 93% approve of its design. Credit for the latter goes to Noël Nanton, Creative Director of typotherapy, who is as humble as he is talented. Thank you, Noël, for making us look so good! In addition to telling us what we’re doing right, you also told us what changes and improvements you’d like to see. Topping the list was an electronic alternative to the paper magazine, so starting this fall we have introduced a digital edition of UC Magazine , delivered via email to the account we have on file for you. A significant number of readers told us they wish to receive both electronic I HAVE BEEN READING YOUR MAGAZINE WITH GREAT INTEREST ever since I graduated from University College and print versions, so you will continue to get the in 1953 and during that time, I've seen countless paper magazine unless you opt out using the link makeovers—usually when a new editor takes over. provided in the email. If you did not receive the But I must tell you that the appearance of your email and would like to opt into the digital edition latest spring issue is the brightest and most exciting or out of the paper version, please contact us. I have ever seen—bold new typography, brilliantly coloured pictures, and imaginative headlines. In terms of content, you said you wanted The dog pictures were worth the price of more stories about fellow alumni and University admission alone! College’s remarkable history—and we delivered. JACK HARTLINE (BA 1953 UC ) Flip to page 24 to meet some UC alumni just like you, and page 18 for some recently unearthed SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO [email protected] College relics . LETTERS MAY BE EDITED FOR CLARITY AND LENGTH. YVONNE PALKOWSKI (BA 2004 UC) UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 0 7 KEYNOTE FALL 2014 Principal's Message uc.utoronto.ca/alumni Keynote AUTHOR Donald Ainslie PHOTOGRAPHER Christopher Dew THIS PAST SUMMER, a group of students spent a few So I think a version of Moody-Adams’ argument for weeks in the northeast corner of the Sir Daniel the fundamental continuity in our practices, across Wilson quad conducting an archaeological dig. cultures and across history, might even apply to They were taking Professor Ted Banning’s ARH the College. We remain committed to offering 306Y Archaeological Field Methods , a course that students the opportunity to challenge themselves gives them the opportunity to learn how archaeo - intellectually and providing them with the skills logical research really happens – with dirty hands they will need to make a difference to the world. and sweaty clothes. But educational practices do change. Professor A phrase kept coming to mind as I watched the Banning, whose course was using the College as students unearth layer after layer of our College’s a research site this summer, is himself a UC alumnus history: “fieldwork in familiar places.” The philoso - (BA 1978 UC), as well as a College faculty member pher, Michelle Moody-Adams, used this phrase as and the Chair of the Department of Anthropology. the title of her important 1997 book, where she When he was a student here, his studies did argues against taking anthropological findings of not include digging up the College grounds, synchronic or diachronic cultural diversity as rea - though he did eventually have the opportunity sons for embracing moral relativism. By engaging in to join in off-site archaeological research as an what she calls a kind of fieldwork within academic undergraduate student. philosophy, she isolates its blind spots about the social sciences—as if they do not make significant He approached me about the possibility of using philosophical assumptions in the course of their the UC grounds as a teaching site because he investigations—and about our own practices of wanted students to have the opportunity to learn everyday moral reflection—as if academic in the most active way possible, by themselves par - theory were entirely isolated from public life. ticipating in archaeological research. And he knew Moody-Adams’ fieldwork, by “making the familiar that I believed that the College’s heritage should unfamiliar,” reminds us of the robustness of our be used in support of student learning, and not moral commitments and our capacity to make merely preserved as relics. As the fall 2013 issue moral progress. of the magazine explained, we plan to reinvigo - rate Canada’s most important academic building The fieldwork in a familiar place this summer by highlighting its significant architectural her - was a more literal kind of fieldwork, of course.