Life at Massey College
After some time in the government and at Cornell, Dalhousie, and York, he was asked in 1963 by Robertson Davies to open a library at Massey, where he then served as librarian, archivist, curator, and printer until 1975, when he left us to become the second Davidson Professor of Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. The excellence of our collections testify to his expertise and devotion. In addition to his administrative duties, he taught, in his role as Professor of English, bibliography to graduate students. At Massey he established, along with friends in publishing, the graphic arts, and the printing trades, the Massey College Press as an extensive museum and archive for nineteenth-century printing and as a specialized facility for teaching printing and bibliography. Throughout his career at Massey and at Mount Allison, Douglas continued to publish distinguished poetry. He was nominated in 1980 for the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry for High Marsh Road, and received the Carlo Betocchi International Poetry Prize in 2005 (the first non-Italian to do so) for the same work. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1976 and subsequently received honorary degrees from Saint Mary’s, Dalhousie, and the University of New Brunswick. In 1983, he spent a year as Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where his inaugural lecture was called “Something Still to Find,” a title that can stand as a sign for the way he led his life as a scholar and as a poet. It would, however, fail to emphasize his warmth and his kindness as a teacher, a colleague, and a friend. Despite his fugitive heart, he was devoted to Massey College, and we will remember him through a scholarship established in his name. We are very fortunate to have had him here. 40
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From the 60s from page 35
Where else could you have been collared coming in late to lunch (with Dave Trott) by Lionel Massey and taken over to join Vincent Massey, the Visitor himself, former Premier Leslie Frost, then U of T President Claude Bissell, and then Education Minister Bill Davis discussing how Ontario had been overwhelmed by student numbers after the War and should have planned better for it. And then there were the tennis games. The entire Davies family delighted many a Junior Fellow with them. I recall a morning doubles tennis match with Brenda, Miranda, and Jennifer. I showed up in Alpine attire, including a pair of tattered black hiking pants. I thought I played nicely with them, and so it seemed did they. Only half way through was it necessary for them to discretely let me know that my fly was wide open! Perhaps the best memory is of the older Junior Fellows of the time. They so kindly shared their experience of graduate work and life. Eric Rump, Derek Breach, and Ken Windsor provided most gentle, wise counsel and great wit. And Tom Surridge was my closest friend through Massey. I will never forget his incisiveness about life and his passion for it. The Upper Library sums up my Massey experience. There I encountered in 1963 the first issue of the The New York Review of Books, which has nourished me through the years ever since. And there, in 1964, I first saw my future and, alas, now late wife, the wondrous Janet Slone, at a meeting of the Graduate History Club. (I am forever grateful to you, Mike Horn, for introducing us.) Dale Taylor did his B.A. at York University, his M.A. in Political Science at U of T, and doctoral work at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He was a Junior Fellow from 1963 to 1965. A retired civil servant, he was an economist with both the Federal and Ontario governments. He is now an economic development consultant, and is completing two works of historical fiction. Dale lives in Richmond Hill, Ontario. He has one son and two grandsons. h daletaylor@rogers.com
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fter reporting to us last year that she had completed her edition of the correspondence of W. B. Yeats and his wife, George, for Oxford University Press, Professor Saddlemyer is very pleased to announce that the 624-page work is now published. She travelled to Dublin last March for its European launch and, while there, gave a lecture at the National Library of Ireland. This was followed by the volume’s North American launch in May in New York, where she delivered two lectures on the subject. (Full bibliographical information on this and her other publications this past year appear on page 32.) Professor Saddlemyer continues her long-time connection with the Shaw Festival Theatre, Niagaraon-the-Lake, where she is a Corresponding Scholar, Academy of the Shaw Festival Theatre Board. In addition, she wrote a program essay for Lennox Robinson’s Drama at Inish, which was performed at this world-renowned festival, and she is on the Board and the Advisory Committee of the Council of the International Shaw Society. She also serves on various committees of the Royal Society. Professor Saddlemyer continues her involvement as one of the General Editors of the Cornell Yeats and of the Selected Irish Plays series. This series is published by Colin Smythe, where the Master Emerita serves as a member of the Publishing Board, as she still does with Hedgerow Press, in British Columbia. As well, she remains an Editorial Board member of The Correspondence of Bernard Shaw, Irish Studies Review, and the Shaw Annual; and a member of the Advisory Boards of the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, the Irish University Review, and Studi irlandesi.
New non-resident Junior Fellow Saeed Selvam signs up to tutor in the Massey College Student Tutoring and Mentoring Program. Now enrolled as a Masters in Public Policy student at the U of T School of Public Policy and Governance, Saeed was himself part of College program in its earliest days, and was tutored and mentored by Alumni Patrick Byrne and Olivier Sorin. Now approaching its tenth anniversary, the tutoring program pairs Junior Fellows with high school students who show promise despite poor academic showing because of language and other problems.
From the 80s
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Connie showing me that the original of my favourite A.Y. Jackson painting was hanging at St. Hilda’s next door, in view from the street, so I could walk by and have a peek every time I felt homesick for southern Alberta. Mark bringing me into his unique circumstance and warm home life as the Master’s son, plus pronouncing it “chee-hoo-a-hoo-a” dog in one of our marathon Trivial Pursuit games. Charlie having contests with me at supper over who would get stuck with the little brown buns or whose tapioca pudding could stay upside-down in its dish the longest. My fellow night owl Sheldon competing with me to see who could make breakfast the least number of times in the year, and insisting that I do the ordering at very late brunch at The Bagel just so he could start his day laughing. All those Massey conversations late into the night. Thank you, my friends. Cathie Foote was a resident Junior Fellow between 1983 and 1985 while pursuing her Ph.D. in Social Work at the University of Toronto. She then returned home to Calgary, working for the next 13 years as a therapist, researcher, and university teacher in the field of death and grief, in particular with families who have lost a child. For the past 13 years, Cathie has served the Calgary Waldorf School in many roles, currently as the School Administrator. Her husband Arthur Frank is about to retire as a Professor of Sociology (University of Calgary); her daughter, Kate Foote Frank, just graduated from the Toronto Waldorf School,has just headed off on a gap year before moving to Halifax to attend the University of King’s College.
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Inducted into Engineering Hall of Distinction–––––––––––––––––––– Lloyd McCoomb is one of six new inductees into the University of Toronto Engineering Alumni Hall of Distinction. He is President and CEO of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority.
self-employed musician, teacher, and actress. She lives in North Vancouver. Following her performance in Don Mowatt’s play Weeping Muse, Broken Lyre, commissioned by the Vancouver Chopin Society to commemorate the bicentennial of the birth of composer-pianist Frédéric Chopin, she and Don Mowatt took the work to Poland, where they represented Canada at the Symposium of International Chopin Societies held in Warsaw. They were also invited to attend the 16th International Chopin Piano Competition in that city. h carolyn_r_finlay@hotmail.com
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