2003 Dave Banwell married Jenny Trevelyan on July 30, 2011 at Grace Church on the Hill followed by a reception at the Granite Club in Toronto.
Groomsmen included classmates: David Amadori, Daniel John, Luc Zoratto, Armen Khajetoorian, David Nudds. Other Old Boys in attendance included: Adam Parent ‘03, Steve Thompson ‘03, David Domingues ‘03, Collin Collins ‘03, Jordan Ross ‘03, Michael Tzimas ‘03, Adam Zoratto ‘05, Ryan Hiscox ‘03, Ryan Austin ‘02, Nathan Rothwell ‘02, Paul Etherington ‘95, Mark Etherington ‘92, Sean Etherington ‘94. David and Jenny live in New York City. Jordan Ross was on campus in February speaking with the grade 11 students about pursuing opportunities in the field of law. He is corporate legal counsel for Altus Group Limited in Toronto. Jordan lives in Toronto. Nathan Rothwell is vice-president of sales and marketing at CI Investments Inc. He was on campus in February speaking with the grade 11 students about pursuing a career in business. Nathan lives in Toronto.
Postcard from a
Grad
Duncan Giel ’05
After graduating from SAC in 2005, I attended Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) where I graduated with an honours BBA, majoring in accounting with a minor in economics. During my first year I realized how well SAC had prepared me academically for university. Some of my first and second year accounting and economics courses were a review of what I had learned at SAC. Another thing I took away from St. Andrew’s was great timemanagement skills. Academic demands, playing sports plus the Cadet requirement, and yes, Saturday classes, made me learn to manage my time effectively. This was very beneficial to me. In my third year at WLU, I worked at Manulife Financial part-time while taking a full load of courses. As a result, upon graduation, I was able to gain full-time employment and currently work in the finance department at Manulife Bank of Canada. I will be celebrating my five-year anniversary with the company in August. After graduating from WLU, I started to pursue my CMA designation and am currently in my final year and am expected to graduate this coming September. Since I left St. Andrew’s I have enjoyed travelling abroad, and over the past winter I spent a month exploring Australia’s East Coast and Outback with my older sister. I still come to Toronto regularly to see Mike Genin ‘05 and Braden King ‘05. Ryan Marek ‘05 and I both work at the same Manulife office in Waterloo. My advice for current students is to get involved in as many different aspects of SAC as you can. It’s not just what you learn in the classroom that is important, it’s the overall experience and learning how to keep all the balls in the air at the same time that counts.
2004 Ricky Reininger presented Photoshop demonstrations of his automotive design work to Steve Kimmerer’s Media Arts students this past December.
He is in his fourth year at Humber College in the Industrial Design program. Ricky’s forte is automotive design and he has become one of the top designers in Canada. He was recently invited to participate in the Ferrari Design Competition for the second year in a row as one of only two Canadians. He says it has taken him five years and thousands of hours to get as fast and proficient at drawing as he is. Ricky’s words of wisdom: “Don’t rest on your laurels: you’re only as good as your last submission, and don’t forget the 10,000 hour rule cited in Malcolm
Gladwell ‘s book Outliers.” This is the idea that it takes approximately 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to master a skill.
2005
Adam Zoratto works with Cintas Canada, a fortune 500 Company, as a business development representative. He has experienced a great amount of success with the company these past 10 months. He recently became part of their “President’s Club” this past quarter due to his sales success. Adam lives in Vaughan, Ont. The Andrean 49