FRATERNAL FROLLIES AT QUEEN’S • MEET MATT BARBER, SINGER/SONGWRITER REVIEWplus VOL. 4, ISSUE 4, 2009 And congratulations to... We present the Honourable Mentions in our Snap Judgments’09 photo contest PREFER YOUR NEWS IN A DIGITAL FORMAT? Subscribe to the electronic editions of Alumni Review and ReviewPlus It’s free. It’s easy. Send an e-mail note to [email protected] ■ ■ ■ CONTENTS RP3 ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT – ‘80s CLEAN, LEAN, AND BEAUTIFUL She once weighed 200 lbs. Not now. Tosca Reno, Volume 4, Issue #4, 2009 Artsci’83, has transformed herself into a svelte cover girl and fitness guru, and now she’s keen to share her se- ReviewPlus, the crets with others. digital supplement of the Queen’s Alumni Review magazine, RP4 SNAP JUDGMENTS’09 is produced four times annually AND CONGRATULATIONS TO ... and is posted on-line in February, May, August, We present the honorable mentions in each category of and November. our 2009 Snap Judgments ’09 photo contest. EDITOR RP9 ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT – ‘80s Ken Cuthbertson, Arts’74, Law’83 [email protected] LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE KEEPING IN TOUCH NOTES EDITOR Diagnosed with a rare and often fatal lung disease, Andrea Gunn, MPA’07 Catherine Lawrence, Artsci’80, reacted the way she al- [email protected] ways does when facing adversity – she fought back ... ART DIRECTOR RP3 and laughed while doing it. PUBLISHING KENNEDY ROBERT OF COURTESY PHOTO Larry Harris, Creative Services, Marketing and Communications RP10 FEATURE REPORT EDITORIAL INTERN FRATERNAL FOLLIES Brianna Willets Fraternities and sororities are a notable element of student life at many North CIRCULATION AND BUSINESS MANAGER American colleges and universities, but not at Queen’s. However, as Review [email protected] Editor Ken Cuthbertson reports, it hasn’t always been that way. DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS Ellie Sadinsky RP15 ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT – ‘80s Opinions expressed in this e-zine are not She’s nothing if not adaptable. Elizabeth Gage, Artsci’82, has been an actress, necessarily those of Queen’s University an advertising writer, designer, a marketer, and a business builder. or of the Queen’s University Alumni Association. These days, she’s an award-wining Internet guru, working in a medium Please address correspondence, inquiries, she knew nothing about during her student days at Queen’s. and comments to [email protected]. RP16 ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT – ‘90s For advertising inquiries, Fresh off a musical tour Down Under and now working on his fifth CD, criti- address e-mails to [email protected] cally acclaimed pop singer-songwriter Matthew Barber, Artsci’97, finds him- self in a newly mellow mood. RP10 And don’t forget to check out the Winter edition of Q-Pod, the Alumni Review podcast. Music, feature interviews and your chance to win a valuable prize by answering our trivia question. Visit www.alumnireview.ca for all the details. COVER PHOTO: This charming photo by Karen Daigle, Artsci/PHE’07, capturing a playful mo- ment between her five year old cousins, ring bearer and flower girl at a recent QUEEN’S ARCHIVES PHOTO wedding, was one of the Honourable Mentions in out Snap Judgments 2009 photo contest. ISSUE 4, 2009 • QUEEN’S ALUMNI REVIEW RP2 ■ ■ ■ ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT – ‘80s Clean, lean, and beautiful She once weighed 200 lbs. Not now. Tosca Reno, Artsci’83, has transformed herself into a svelte cover girl and fitness guru, and now she’s keen to share her secrets with others. BY GEORGIE BINKS, ARTSCI’75 or Tosca (Van Diepen) Reno, Artsci’83, singing about “oil Fthighs” was as close as she got to worrying about body fat dur- ing her student days at Queen’s. These days, it’s a very different story. Tosca has turned her personal transformation from everyday housewife to fitness maven into a successful business making the Mississauga, Ontario-based grad one of the Canada’s top female fitness mavens. The once-200-pound Biology major now graces magazine and book covers with a body that rivals those of most women aged half of her 50 years. Tosca admits that getting in shape wasn’t just about looking better. She wanted to tap into her own potential. “I’d been making the lives of my kids and husband my priority and had ignored my own life,” she explains. All that began to change for Tosca about 10 years ago. She accepted a challenge to compete in a body-building competition. “When I picked up the weights and started ‘Eating Clean,’ that’s when I experienced the biggest change,” she says. Instead of following someone else’s nutritional plan, Tosca developed her own regimen, one that was based on what body builders were doing. “Body- builders practise an extreme version of eating clean, which is a kind of dep- rivation,” she says. “When I realized how powerful the eating-clean diet was, I thought I’d make it a mainstream way of eating and include more healthy foods.” In fact, she has labeled her diet and lifestyle “Eat-Clean”. Says Tosca, “The backbone of the Eat-Clean lifestyle involves eating lean protein and complex carbohydrates. It’s the answer to the question, ‘What do I eat and when?’” She has a booming business based around her various Eat-Clean ventures. With a number of Eat-Clean books to her credit, including one for men, an- other for families and kids, and a workout book, as well as a cookbook, Tosca works as a motivational speaker, talking to corporate functions, service groups, and campus audiences. In fact, she spoke at Queen’s last spring. A regular PHOTO COURTESY OF ROBERT KENNEDY PUBLISHING KENNEDY ROBERT OF COURTESY PHOTO columnist for Oxygen magazine (published by her husband Robert Kennedy), At age 50, Tosca Reno can boast of she has also appears regularly on such shows as the American entertainment show having a physique rivaling many Extra and The Doctors, and she conducts personal consultations through her web women half her age. site. (http://www.toscareno.com/index.html) The future holds a new book deal with Harlequin that will see Tosca write an inspirational health and wellness book, an update of her Eat-Clean book, and three Instead of following new television shows that are in the planning stages. She is also scheduled to return to campus on May 9, 2010, for a speaking engagement, an event she’s looking for- someone else’s ward to since she has a soft spot in her heart for Queen’s, especially now that her nutritional plan, Tosca daughters (by a previous marriage) Kiersten Corradetti, Artsci’10, and Kelsey Lynn developed her own Corradetti, BFA’13, are students here now. regimen, based on Tosca says her Eat- Clean plan gives people the chance to enjoy their lives with- out food controlling them. ”It isn’t about looking good,” she says. “It’s really about what body builders getting your health back, which in turn gives you your full human potential. My were doing. goal is to change the way North Americans eat, one mouthful at a time.” B ISSUE 4, 2009 • QUEEN’S ALUMNI REVIEW RP3 ■ ■ ■ SNAP JUDGMENTS ’09 And congratulations to ... Our four-person panel of judges has sifted through the hundreds of en- tries we received for our 2009 Snap Judgments photo contest. Our Grand Prize winner and the winning entries in each of our four categories ap- pear in the Fall print edition of the Alumni Review. Here we present the honorable mentions in each category. CATEGORY: PEOPLE Eric Webb, Sc’02, Ed’03, Kingston, ON “Drops of Joy” “My six-year-old niece, Amber, at the water pad of the Kingston Family Fun World.” Janice Frame, Department of Oncology, Queen’s University “Iceman” “Looking through a sheet of ice picked up from the shore at Karen Daigle, Artsci/PHE’07, Lemoine’s Point, Lake Ontario” Toronto, ON “Luc and Nicole” “My five-year-old cousins as ring bearer and flower girl” ISSUE 4, 2009 • QUEEN’S ALUMNI REVIEW RP4 CATEGORY: PLACES Dr. John Geddes, Department of Family Medicine, Queen’s University “Wolfe Island ferry at dawn” John was up at sunrise one November morning to catch this photo of the Wolfe Island ferry as it cut its way through the Lake Ontario mist. Jill Rooney, Artsci’99, Ed’01, Kingston, ON “Beautiful Bruges” Jill captured this evocative image while on bike ride along the river from Bruges to Damme Adrian Brett, School of Regional Planning, Queen’s University “Tree in Macdonald Park” Adrian captured this image of a solitary tree along the shoreline of Macdonald Park in Kingston, ON, looking east toward Wolfe Island ISSUE 4, 2009 • QUEEN’S ALUMNI REVIEW RP5 CATEGORY: FLORA AND FAUNA Kelly Reid, Artsci’08, Point-Claire, QC “Arrival of Spring” Red tulips mark the arrival of spring’s abundant wonders in Canada’s capital region. Peter Au, Sc’89, Richmond Hill, ON “Gibraltar Monkeys” Up on the Gibraltar Rock, the monkeys are enjoying the view, too. Prof. Philip Jessop, Chemistry Department, Queen’s University “Heron at Sunset” A great blue heron in the Cataraqui River at McLean’s Trails Park, Kingston, ON ISSUE 4, 2009 • QUEEN’S ALUMNI REVIEW RP6 CATEGORY: DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION Mary Danielle Carswell, Artsci’04, Toronto, ON “Carter House” “The image of the house was originally a digital photo, which I turned into a digital sketch. The surrounding leaves were scanned and turned into a digital image.” Prof. Edward Zamble, Emeritus Professor (Psychology), Toronto, ON “Aspiration (Sic Itur ad Astra)” The ladders were on the side of a building in downtown Toronto. “But somehow, I saw them as climbing into the sky. It took several Diane Eastham, Arsci’74, Ed’75, attempts, but eventually I hit upon the idea Waterloo, ON of a field o stars in the background.” Prof.