15880 7/25/06 3:22 PM Page 1 TRINITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE SUMMER 2006 VOLUME 43 NUMBER 3 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 P door) and so I pace the halls in my dressing gown. Every fall, Provost and Vice-Chancellor 2 TRINITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE 15880 7/25/06 3:22 PM Page 3 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 Class Notes News from classmates 28 20 near and far Contents Published three times a year by respects your privacy. We do not rent or sell our Calendar Trinity College, University of Toronto, mailing list. If you do not wish to receive the Things to see, hear 6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto, M5S 1H8 magazine, please contact us. 31 and do this Autumn Phone: (416) 978-2651 Fax: (416) 971-3193 Editor: Karen Hanley E-mail: [email protected] Editorial Coordinator: Jill Rooksby Trinity Past http://www.trinity.utoronto.ca Art Direction: Shelley Frayer/James Ireland How to Wear a Chair 32 Trinity is sent to 13,000 alumni, parents, friends Design Inc. By F. Michah Rynor and associates of the college. 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