Life at Massey College
/...
Thank you, donors!
Reception at Queen’s Park to honour the Master’s new book
Robert van Pelt Adam Vaughan Joan Vanduzer Rudolph Vezer Robert Vipond Diane Walker Janet Walker Ken Walker Ian Wallace Helen Walsh Michael Walsh Charles Ward Germaine Warkentin Judith Watt-Watson Alex Waugh Cynthia Webb
On April 2, 2012, the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, the Honourable David C. Onley, and Mrs. Onley (second and third right) gave a special reception at Queen’s Park, in Toronto, in honour of Master John Fraser for the publication of his latest book, The Secret of the Crown. Nearly 130 Senior and Junior Fellows attended, along with Alumni and Quadranglers and College Officers.
Ian Webb Norman Webster Harriet Sis Bunting Weld Richard Wernham Julia West Grace Westcott Hilary Weston Bruce Westwood Pamela Wheaton Rodney White Susan White Blossom Wigdor Mary Williamson Elizabeth Wilson Lois Wilson Susan Wilson Richard Winter Eleanor Wittlin Rose Wolfe Judith Wolfson Janet Wright Morden Yolles Joan York Marion York Eric Young James Young Jacob Ziegel Adam Zimmerman
16
From the Lodging
continued from page 14
Jo had come to conduct the early morning Ash Wednesday service next day. During breaks in the social whirl, I might add, I prepared a talk for the Quadrangle Book Club, attended the first joint conference of the Canadian Pain Coalition and the Canadian Pain Society, and wrote an article on pain for Maclean’s (http://www2. macleans.ca/2012/03/15/the-latest-opium-war). Graham Abbey’s newly formed Groundling Theatre, where Jessie Fraser is putting in a great deal of her theatrical talents, rehearsed The Seven Ages of Man in the Lodging basement over several winter evenings. The entire cast dined in the house – everywhere in the house – before performing at the George Ignatieff Theatre. Martin Knelman of the Toronto Star described the show as “magical.” After hosting Massey lecturer Adam Gopnik in the fall, we left him in Clara’s good care when he returned last March to give the Larkin-Stuart Lectures (co-sponsored by Trinity College and St. Thomas’s Anglican Church). At that time we were in Ottawa for John to launch The Secret of the Crown, debate Senior Fellow Michael Bliss yet again on the monarchy before a crowd stacked with loyal Alum and Fraser friends, and host the Ottawa chapter of the Massey Alum Society. John’s book launch in Toronto drew a large crowd of his fans to the Quadrangle to enjoy a summer-like early April day filled with the strains of our favourite fiddler, Alum Christopher MacDonald. Bishop Barbel Potter of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany and Dr. Jan Love, United Methodist Dean of Theology in Atlanta, Georgia, came to celebrate Senior Fellow Lois Wilson’s 85th birthday symposium at Emmanuel College in midApril. Old friends tenor Ian Bostrich and pianist Julius
Drake, famous for playing four-hand piano with his sister at Clara’s baptism in London, stayed a few days to perform lieder at Koerner Hall, followed by a festive dinner that included a birthday cake and song for my sister, Quadrangler Joan MacCallum. “Oh! I forgot you were here,” I welcomed Senior Fellow and now former Senior Resident Michael Valpy one morning. He wasn’t the first guest I forgot was coming. Then there are the “John said I could come and stay” surprises at the front door: Alum Pierre Lairez, for example, who baked us a fine French pie. After John officiated at the public marriage vows of Alum Jacquie To and John Rabinovitch, we escaped in the late spring to our French retreat in Milhars, while Junior Fellow Julia Lockhart’s family stayed for graduation celebrations, and Junior Fellow Beth Elder moved in to help Clara look after Maddy as Clara frantically finished her Master’s of Urban Planning at Ryerson before decamping. This past spring meant travel for all the MacCallum Fraser girls (yours truly included). Kate spent nearly three months in her beloved Brazil, then returned to her work with the New Arrivals project, which opens up minds to the gifts of new Canadians. Jessie meanwhile was surviving a four-week Columbia Theatre School workshop in Saratoga, which followed commedia dell’arte work for a few days in New York. Then she was on to Halifax for more theatre workshops. Clara and I went walking in the Pays Basque in the western Pyrenees. Then she was off on a grand tour of Europe that ended at a swing-dance camp in Herräng, Sweden. Now it’s job hunting and the real world for her, leaving us an empty nest. Well, not really. No doubt, there’ll be more construction dust and many more interesting and delightful people coming to stay.
You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion,