Life at Massey College
MasseyNews • 2010 –2011
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Jill Clark, Bursar
t has been a good year for the College as we settled down to learn the lessons of the economic crisis a couple of years ago. We have successfully dealt with the shortfall in bursary support to Junior Fellows by making sure we never again promise what we can’t deliver. We have turned around the timing, so we only spend funds received at the beginning of the year, and in 2011 we paid out a record of $250,000 in awards. The Visitors’ Challenge Campaign will soon reach a successful conclusion. In total, we raised $1,460,000 with only $230,300 receivable in current pledges. The Bursar’s Office now has excellent and continuous discussions with the Don of Hall and representatives of the House Committee to make sure there are no surprises in upcoming budgets, particularly as they relate to student fees. On the staffing front, Edith Lorayes retired last December after 20 years of loyal service as a member of our kitchen staff. We will miss her tasty salads, and wish her all the best in her retirement years. And a special thanks to two young Alumni who help us with the crucial summer rental program, Christopher MacDonald and Ankita Jauhari. They have established a system and service second to none on the campus. Their work was sustained during noisy construction at the looming Martin Prosperity Centre next door, and they even came up with a great scheme to provide “noise bursaries” to compensate loyal Junior Fellows who remained in residence during the very trying construction period. We remain grateful for the generous contributions from all members of the College community. As Senior Fellows know, our experiment with a dining/bar minimum did not work out and was something of an administrative nightmare. We have ended it and are returning this fall to a regular annual solicitation for support for the traditional Junior Fellow wine fund and other good causes. In that spirit, the Quadrangle Society of Massey College continues its wonderfully generous support, which each year now comes to more than $120,000 and allows the College to do so many things other institutions on the campus only dream of. Massey College is a very special place on the University of Toronto campus. It is a pleasure to be a part of the College in the Bursar’s Office, where we get tremendous service from the Bursar’s Assistant, Tembeka Ndlovu.
Keepsake from Christmas Gaudy 2010
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Keepsake designed by Brian Maloney, College Printer
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here was a nice conjunction in the Common Room last May. I had just got back from a trip to the United Kingdom, and I was trying to get through the deluge of mail and messages waiting for me when I realized I needed the fortitude of strong coffee. Out I went to the coffee trolley, only to be waylaid by Pippa, the two-year-old daughter of Junior Fellow James McKee and his wife, Alumna Amy Nugent. Pippa’s dad was in charge that day as her mom was dealing with her newborn sister at home. And there, over by the door to the front hall giving me a big “welcome home” smile was our venerable Senior Fellow, Professor Ursula Franklin, who turned 90 a few months ago. Ursula still has an office at Massey and is one of the most productive of our Senior Residents. Not for the first time, it struck me what an extraordinary place Massey College is, in this case because it is a kind of home for both two-year-olds and nonagenarians. Now brace yourself! We don’t just have one active member of our community in her nineties. We have at least eleven more, nine of whom will acknowledge their age and two of whom deny it emphatically, pointing out to me in no uncertain terms that their minds are still strong and their age is irrelevant and if I ever expose them by name I will be “court-martialled.” Let me celebrate those I am allowed to mention. In the Senior Fellowship, in addition to Professor Franklin, they are: Professors Francess Halpenny, Lou Siminovitch, and Ernest Sirluck; also, outside the professoriate, are benefactor David Campbell and Massey Foundation representative Vincent Tovell. In the Quadrangle Society, they are: Elunid MacMillan (mother of Senior Fellow Margaret MacMillan), Mary Godfrey, and Dorothy Dunlop. Among these “venerables,” we also celebrate Brenda Davies, widow of our Founding Master, who floats above all titles at Massey College. •
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Ian Gentles has just published a
biography of Oliver Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell: God’s Warrior and the English Revolution, with Palgrave Macmillan.
Stan Loten is a Distinguished
Research Professor, Carleton University. He retired in 1999 and lives in Ottawa with his wife, Roberta Stopps. He was recently named a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada . h sloten@sympatico.ca
James Nohrnberg is an
Emeritus Professor, English, University of Virginia, and lives in
and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you.
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All degrees awarded by the University of Toronto unless otherwise specified.
FALL 2010 Doctor of Philosophy
The Master’s Report
There’s going to be a sharp focus on nonagenarians in the months ahead thanks to our Honorary Senior Fellow and Chancellor of Cambridge University, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. We also hope he may be able to visit his Canadian graduate college some time during the Diamond Jubilee celebrations that will mark our 50th anniversary. My point here, though, is that Massey College’s unique role on the campus is to transcend the normal definitions of what constitutes an academic community. THE MASTER’S REPORT — page 4 ALUMNI
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Charlottesville. He was a prize winner for his poem, “William Blake to William Herschel: Verses on the Universe, upon the Discovery of the Planet Uranus,” at a literary contest held to celebrate the exhibition “From Classic to Romantic: British Art in an Age of Transition” held at the University of Virginia Art Museum. As well, the spring 2011 issue of Arthuriana was dedicated to him. h jcn@virginia.edu
Nowhere. Once described by Time magazine as “Canada’s most consistently controversial newspaper columnist... a tangier critic of complacency has rarely appeared in a Canadian newspaper,” he has received two honorary degrees of D. Litt, from the University of New Brunswick and the University of Saskatchewan. h drfoth@sympatico.ca
Stanislav Kirschbaum was
1965 Boy from Nowhere ________________
Allan Fotheringham
(Southam Fellow) is just about to publish his memoir, Boy From
recently named Chairman of the Department of International Studies at York University, Glendon College.
To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed.
Photography by Salim Bamakhrama
Report from the Bursar’s Office
Daniel Bader Alexa Bramall Katherine Edwards Laura Esmail Kathleen Galloway Kenneth Lee Noam Miller Andrea Paras Master of Arts Susan Bilynskyj Sara Elcombe Tyler Flatt John MacCormick Master of Engineering Taylor Martin Master of Science Andrew Bresnahan Wesley George
SPRING 2011 Doctor, honoris causa (Sorbonne) Natalie Zemon Davis Doctor of Laws, honoris causa (University of Toronto) Craig Kielburger Doctor of Laws, honoris causa (University of Western Ontario) Craig Kielburger Doctor of Laws, honoris causa (Law Society of Upper Canada) John McCamus Doctor of Laws, honoris causa (Law Society of Upper Canada) Robert Sharpe Doctor of Medicine Matthew Lincoln
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