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abroad, a program which is the vision of Paul Gooch, President, Victoria College, and a former member of the UTS Interim Board. Nico Swaan ’58 visited UTS in June for the first time in 15 years on a trip from his home in the Netherlands. His extensive tour of the building, conducted by Vice-Principal Rick Parsons, brought back many memories. Thomas Jefferson ’64 is presently Visiting Professor, the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, teaching operations and management to MBAs. Recently, he was Visiting Professor, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. While there, he visited Harran, once home to Abraham (of the Bible) and the location
In 1259, the Mongols came to Harran and destroyed the University, leaving only the astronomical tower. of the first university in the world. “A 13th Century lesson in history which is relevant to today’s conflicts in the region.”
Richard Lay ’68 recalls his days at Yale and Guelph completing his engineering degree and racing with their ski teams, before long ago becoming coach and technical director for Southern Ontario for Cross Country Canada. Today, he takes great pride in his
Archie Campbell
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The Honourable Mr. Justice Campbell, UTS ’60, was a judge’s judge with genuine compassion.
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renowned and highly respected judge on the Supreme Court of Ontario, Archie is fondly remembered for his devotion, skill and compassion, as well as his sense of legal history. He loved being a judge, sitting on the Bench until a few weeks before his death this past April and for delivering three reserved judgments from the hospital just six days before his passing. Having spent seven years at UTS for grades 7 to 13, Archie served as the popular Prefect of Lewis House, a delegate to the Model U.N., and as a member of the TWIG staff, Public Affairs Club and the Literary Society. At Trinity College, Uof T, he studied history and modern languages, and worked at Frontier College in the summers teaching English and literacy in logging and hydro camps in Northern Ontario. A graduate of Osgoode Law School, he received his LLB [1967] and LLM [1973]. Throughout his life,
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Archie’s defining quality was his genuine compassion for everyone, no matter their rank or status. Archie was best known for heading the investigation into the Ontario SARS outbreak and the police investigation of Paul Bernardo. He provided many well-articulated recommendations to improve health-care facilities, the medical community and the government. His judicial experience ran the gamut in civil and criminal law, from Deputy Attorney General of Ontario [1983-86] to director of Parkdale Community Legal Services [1977-78] on a one-year sabbatical. He lectured at Uof T Law School, Queen’s Faculty of Law and at UWO and served as Honourary President of the Osgoode Law School Alumni Association [1995-2001]. Posthumously, he received the Doctor of Laws degree awarded by the Law Society of Upper Canada
in 2007 in recognition of his distinguished legal career. In his speech at the 2007 Convocation of the Admission to the Bar of Ontario, Douglas C. Hunt, Q.C., noted that Chief Justice Winkler had described Archie as “A lawyer’s lawyer, a judge’s judge and a character’s character.” Roy McMurtry, Ontario’s Chief Justice and a friend for over 50 years, said, “We’ve lost one of our most able judges in the country.... He had a gargantuan appetite for enjoying life in all its dimensions.” He loved to canoe in Algonquin Park and recite “The Cremation of Dan McGee” and “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” by the campfire. He is survived by his wife Julie, two children, James who is on staff at UTS, and Sarah, his sister, Jennifer, stepchildren and grandchildren, and his former wife, Judy. Don Borthwick ’54