The Root - Fall 2012

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The UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE • FALL 2012

Nobel Laureates John Polanyi and Michael Spence That’s Entertainment!

UTS grads shine brightly in the entertainment industry.

Alumni News • Crawford and Hall of Fame Awards • Donor Report

UTSAA

Mark Your Calendars

Board of Directors

Thursday, October 11, 2012

President

Urban Paintings by Don Boutros, Retired Faculty

John B.A. Wilkinson ’78

Keys Gallery Opening Reception Room 107a, 7:00 p.m.

John.Wilkinson@utschools.ca

Vice President Mark Opashinov ’88

Saturday, October 13, 2012

UTS Admissions Open House 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. All alumni are welcome to drop by for a tour.

Annual Alumni Dinner Reception: 5:30 p.m. Dinner: 7:00 p.m.

RSVP to www.utschools.ca/rsvp or 416-978-3919

Mark.Opashinov@utschools.ca

New venue!

See page 21 for details.

Past President Peter Neilson ’71 Peter.Neilson@utschools.ca

Treasurer Bob Cumming ’65 Robert.Cumming@utschools.ca

November Branch Events Hong Kong and Montreal. See p 27 for details.

Secretary Nina Coutinho ’04 Nina.Coutinho@utschools.ca

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Remembrance Day Service Reception: 10:15 a.m. Service: 10:45 a.m.

Alumni luncheon following, hosted by Principal Rosemary Evans RSVP to alumni@utschools.ca or 416-978-3919 Tuesday November 13, 2012

Honorary President Rosemary Evans REvans@utschools.ca

Honorary Vice-President Heather Henricks HHenricks@utschools.ca

How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

Directors

Paul Tough ’85 Canadian Book Launch and Discussion. 7:30 p.m.

Donald.Ainslie@utschools.ca

Friday, November 23, 2012

Young Alumni Living in the US – Seminar and Café Seminar: 12:35 p.m. Café: 1:15-2:15 p.m.

On Black Friday, alumni who are U.S. university students are invited to visit UTS. Thursday, November 29, 2012

Branching Out Alumni Panel on Scientific Careers 6:30 p.m. Details TBA. See www.utschools.ca/alumni Friday, December 14, 2012

Holiday Concert Café Blanc: 5:00 p.m.; Concert: 6:30 p.m.

Contact: Judy Kay, jkay@utschools.ca or 416-978-6802 Saturday, February 9, 2013

Basketball 3-on-3 Tournament.

9:30 a.m.

RSVP to www.utschools.ca/rsvp or 416-978-3919 Visit the website regularly for updates: www.utschools.ca/alumni or call 416-978-3919

Don Ainslie ’84 Sharon Au ’08 Sharon.Au@utschools.ca

Jonathan Bitidis ’99 Jonathan.Bitidis@utschools.ca

Aaron Chan ’94 Aaron.Chan@utschools.ca

George V. Crawford ’72 George.Crawford@utschools.ca

Aaron Dantowitz ’91 Aaron.Dantowitz@utschools.ca

Robert Duncan ’95 Robert.Duncan@utschools.ca

Peter Frost ’63 Peter.Frost@utschools.ca

Penny Harbin ’78 Penny.Harbin@utschools.ca

Oliver Jerschow ’92 Oliver.Jerschow@utschools.ca

Jennifer Suess ’94 Jennifer.Suess@utschools.ca

Philip Weiner ’01 Philip.Weiner@utschools.ca

Contents Mark Your Calendars

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Bits & Pieces

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President’s Report

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Principal’s Report

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UTS Board Report

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Advancement Report

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Annual Donor Report

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On the cover: Nobel Laureates, alumni John Polanyi and (inset) Michael Spence.

Photography: Cover – John Polanyi courtesy NSERC; Michael Spence, courtesy Pioneer Investment.

Looking Back background: © iStockphoto.com/Peter Zelei Alumni Dinner ad background: © iStockphoto.com/ PaulMaguire Our thanks to this issue’s contributors: Jenifer Aitken ’79, John Bowden ’48, James Campbell, Harry Chen ’14, Nina Coutinho ’04, Martha Drake, Rosemary Evans, Peter Frost ’63, John Hass ’83, Rebecca Henfrey ’14, Daniel Henke Tarnow ’14, Jean Iu ’79, David Lang ’70, Bob Lord ’58, Daniel Lovsted ’14, Jane Rimmer, Sandeep Sanghera, Diana Shepherd ’80, Nick Smith ’63, Adam Waitzer ’14, John Wilkinson ’78, and Carole Zamroutian.

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Working Holiday Science was not Nobel Laureate John Polanyi’s first love – but over time, he came to be captivated by the beauty of the subject matter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Turning Complex into Simple Nobel Laureate Michael Spence likes to take complex, confusing economic phenomena and make them seem simple. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

That’s Entertainment!

UTS has produced some shining stars in film, stage, radio, and TV. Here’s a brief Who’s Who. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Alumni News All the latest in the lives of your classmates, including In Memorium and tributes to the lives of three distinguished alumni. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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Bits & Pieces A Compendium of Noteworthy UTS Tidbits

New Vice Principal at UTS Heather Henricks joined UTS as vice principal in July 2012, replacing Rick Parsons who moved on to become

principal of Sterling Hall School in Toronto. Rick joined UTS in 2000, serving as English teacher and English department coordinator before becoming vice principal in 2004. As the parent of a UTS student, he will continue to be a member of the UTS community.

Heather, who is currently working on her Doctorate at OISE, was previously VP at York Region District School Board’s (YRDSB) Thornlea Secondary School. Throughout her career she has worked collaboratively to facilitate changes in instruction and assessment aimed at increasing student success and has actively promoted social raising the profile of equity issues. She is a member of the York Region Athletic Association Executive, is a former OFSAA Co-Chair, and believes the power of athletics can transform students’ lives. Heather

assumes the role of Honorary VP of the UTS Alumni Association. n

UTS Teachers Provide Professional Development to Peers Ask UTS students what makes their school special and, chances are, they will mention – among other things – their remarkable teachers. However, UTS students are not the only ones who benefit from the talents and skills of their teachers: our teachers are highlyregarded professionals who contribute to the enrichment and professional development (PD) of their peers beyond UTS. Here is a very small sampling of recent endeavours.

Frequent conference presenters Charlie Pullen and Janet Williamson (visual arts) gave a workshop entitled “Demystifying and Enabling Creativity” at the Ontario Art Education Association’s conference this fall. The workshop addressed the idea that creativity is often considered to

LEFT: Incoming VP Heather Henricks; RIGHT: Rick Parsons.

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be a gift of genetics or an elusive Muse instead of a thinking process that can be developed.

This spring, composer and music teacher Ron Royer gave a lecturedemonstration called “The Hollywood Sound” for music teachers at the Harford Technical High School in Bel Air, MD. Ron has regularly given lectures on teaching music through movies in Ontario schools and at OISE. With colleague Sarah Shugarman, Ron lead a string workshop at York Memorial C.I. in Toronto for students and teachers as part of the Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall program, “Share the Music,” which supports music programs for schools in need. This summer, Sarah also taught string pedagogy seminars for all OISE music Additional Qualification (AQ) courses.

An OISE instructor and administrator since 1990, Reg Hawes (history) currently administers a website for teachers on educational law. He says that, “Teaching at UTS and OISE is a ‘win-win’ scenario.

OISE students value learning from an instructor with ‘real-world’ classroom experience, and keeping current with the latest in educational practices helps me bring new strategies and ideas to my UTS students.” Mike Farley (geography) gives presentations to teachers about the use of computer simulations and games in the curriculum – most recently at the 2011 Games for Change Festival in New York City (see http://mikefarley. weebly.com). Vince Dannetta (history) teaches at OISE and is a long-standing Associate with the faculties of Queens, Trent, and the University of Buffalo. He is a former Director of the Civics Education Network – a teachers’ organization for which he has set-up conferences and delivered workshops. Vince has also consulted and helped draft a discussion paper to the Ministry of Education and

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Nicola Townend with the UTS contingent to the Ontario High School German Contest; visiting principals from Chile; Shawn Brooks in the UTS SMART classroom; Andrew Wilson introduces this year’s keynote speaker at the Ontario Philosophy Teachers’ Conference.

Training on civics education. Josh Fullan (drama) masterminded the environmental and urban design high school program “Maximum City.” The winner of the J.W. Ansley Award for Educational Research from OSSTF, Maximum City is now being shared broadly with other educators and academics; see www.maximumcity.ca for details.

Math and philosophy teacher Andrew Wilson organizes the Ontario Philosophy Teacher’s Association (OPTA) conference for high school teachers, which is hosted at UTS This year’s keynote was given by John Ralston Saul and past speakers have included UTS alumni Donald Ainslie ’84, Tom Hurka ’71, Jennifer Nagel ’85, and Wayne Sumner ’58.

UTS science teachers have also been busy. Jennifer Pitt-Lainsbury (chemistry and physics), Shawn Brooks (physics and general science), Sarah Cescon (chemistry), Anand Mehadevan (biology and chemistry), Maria Niño-Soto

(biology), Meg O’Mahony (biology and general science), Elizabeth Straszynski (biology and general science), and Marisca Vanderkamp (chemistry and physics) have all taught in various capacities at OISE. Jennifer and Shawn have presented at the Science Teacher’s Association of Ontario (STAO), and Jennifer works closely with chemistry professors across Canada in the creation of the Canadian Chemistry Contest exam. Shawn works with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics’ teacher network and is a volunteer with the Ontario Association of Physics Teachers.

Elizabeth has been closely involved with the Ontario Society of Environmental Education for ten years – including a term as president. Meg ran PD sessions at various school boards last year and worked collaboratively with the GreenLearning Canada Foundation to develop a Climate Change teaching unit; and she also served on an STAO

Secondary Curriculum Committee.

Angela Vavitsas (chemistry) has taught

PD at various school boards using biology and chemistry textbooks (for grades 11 and 12) she co-authored for Nelson Canada.

Nicola Townend (German) is president of the Ontario Association of Teachers of German, is on the Executive of the Canadian Association of Teachers of German, and is part of a blended learning community (steered by the Goethe-Institut Toronto). She has taught at OISE and Niagara University, and has given workshops on technology in the language classroom.

Finally, on a trip arranged by OISE/UofT to learn about Canadian educational practices, 30 school principals from Chile spent the day at UTS last January. They spent time in classrooms chatting with students, watching lessons, and in discussion with UTS faculty members. n THE UTS ALUMNI M AGAZINE

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UTS-Rotman “I-Think” Summer Institute This summer, UTS partnered with the I-Think Initiative at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management to deliver an intensive Institute focussing on the solving of complex problems through integrative thinking. Based on research by Rotman Dean Roger Martin into the way highly successful leaders go about making decisions, integrative thinking involves the critical examination of the conventional wisdom that forces us into unpalatable either-or choices; it also explores innovative ways to obtain the benefits of multiple, seemingly

incompatible, solutions.

The I-Think Institute brought together 21 students from grades 8 to 12 to first learn the tools of integrative thinking and then to apply them to the development of Ontario’s future energy policy – exactly the sort of complex problem that is very often reduced to a lose-lose choice, in this case between environmental health and economic prosperity.

Instructors Nogah Kornberg (Rotman) and Christopher Federico ’91 (UTS teacher and alumnus) guided Institute participants through system modelling, brainstorming, design thinking, and prototyping, and put them face-to-face

with leading scientists, entrepreneurs, and social innovators in off-site visits to MaRS Discovery District and cuttingedge labs at UofT’s Edward S. Rogers, Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

The program culminated in student presentations in one of Rotman’s brandnew state-of-the-art classrooms to a panel of outside experts that included Ashoka Canada Director and UTS alumna Elisha Muskat ’01.

UTS is continuing its ongoing partnership with I-Think to expand integrative thinking across the curriculum, and planning is already in progress for next summer’s Institute. n

The UTS-Rotman “I-Think” Summer Institute proved challenging, creative and thought-provoking. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: a brainstorming activity; on a field-trip to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UofT; analyzing and organizing; Rotman Dean Roger Martin addressing the participants.

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Discovery and camaraderie characterized the Pelican Falls–UTS exchange program.

Pelican Falls—UTS Exchange Program This spring, five UTS students and two teachers participated in an exchange with students and staff from Pelican Falls First Nations High School, an independent boarding school run by a coalition of First Nations communities in the Treaty 3 and Treaty 9 Territories of Northern Ontario. Students and staff from Pelican Falls spent four days with us in Toronto as part of their Honour Roll trip, and then two weeks later we spent a week at their school in Sioux Lookout.

The elementary school on the Lac Seul Reserve – designed and built by the community – was one of the most beautiful we’d ever seen: bright classrooms filled with light and happy kids; hallways filled with examples of student art and history projects; signage in Oji-Cree, a visual example that this generation of students is growing up understanding their language.

Pelican Falls is a place filled with remarkable athletes and artists and musicians who had all clearly honed

their crafts after hundreds of hours of dedicated practice. They welcomed us warmly into their spaces, and the students were open and excited about sharing their lives and talents with us – despite the fact that for many of them life at Pelican Falls is hard. To get an education, students have to live far from their families within a strict boarding-school environment with little personal space or freedom. Despite these obstacles, we also saw how unconditionally supportive and inclusive the students and staff are with each other; this is how all schools should be and feel.

We sat around dinner tables and talked about all the same things students talk about at UTS: about homework we don’t want to do and courses that bore us; about music we love and music we love to hate; about relationship problems and fights we have with friends and family. These conversations were special and important, enabling us to build relationships and see that despite so many differences, there is much common ground.

We returned home to our families and to UTS with hope that a just and right relationship between First Nations peoples and Canadians is possible. We left inspired by the incredible work that so many First Nations people and communities are doing in the face of incredible odds to re-build and heal their communities; the future of First Nations communities is in incredible hands.

There are four key people who we have to thank for making this experience possible: UTS principal Rosemary Evans and Darryl Tinney (principal of Pelican Falls First Nations High School), whose support and vision made all of this possible; the alumnus donor who was willing to support this pilot project and the future opportunities we hope it will create; and Glen Whiskeychan, Social Counsellor at Pelican Falls whose generosity, good humour, and patience helped us see more than we imagined we could. n – S5 students Harry Chen, Daniel Henke Tarnow, Rebecca Henfrey, Daniel Lovsted,and Adam Waitzer; UTS teachers James Campbell and Sandeep Sanghera THE UTS ALUMNI M AGAZINE

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President’s Report

UTSAA is your Association This year, plan to take advantage of opportunities to get involved with the UTS Alumni Association.

John Wilkinson, ’78 President, UTSAA

I’d like to take this opportunity to remind you that the UTS Alumni Association (UTSAA) is your Association, and that UTSAA is moving forward on many fronts in order to make its activities and events current, relevant, and engaging.

I encourage you to get involved and to take advantage of UTSAA opportunities.

The UTSAA Board is here to provide leadership, coordinate activities, assist Year Reps in their all-important roles, and liaise with the school and other stakeholders. Examples of ongoing Board initiatives include: • Continuing governance rejuvenation. We have created new foundational documents including a Mission Statement, a Vision Statement, and a Statement of Organizational Values. These seminal documents (posted at: www.utschools. ca/alumni) are worthy of your review as they guide UTSAA’s Board in all it does.

I want to thank the many alumni who, year in and year out, support UTSAA. • Recognizing the value and strength of the Year Rep program and the need for ongoing recognition and support of these invaluable volunteers.

• Working for a more involved relationship with other stakeholders, such as the UTS Board, the

The UTSAA Treasurer’s Report will now be published in the spring edition of The Root; this change will allow for the completion of the audit of the UTS financial statements with year-end of June 30th. As outlined in last year’s Treasurer’s Report, the operating expenses for UTSAA are accounted for in the books of UTS and are subject to the audit process of UTS.

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UTS Parents Association, the UTS Foundation, and the University of Toronto.

• Developing a social media and online communication strategy. In this context, the UTSAA held its AGM in May in the school library and simultaneously in a “virtual meeting room.” By doing so, we were able to welcome both in-person guests – including incoming UTS vice principal Heather Henricks – and virtual guests from as far away as Hong Kong! The UTSAA extends special thanks to Justin Tan ’93 for his expertise and the use of his company’s (Blackboard) meeting room software.

All of these efforts require hard work by UTSAA’s Board. The directors not only spend hours working on behalf of UTS and its alumni, but I am also pleased to say that 100% of Board members donated to the school last year.

Incidentally, the school’s engaging leader, Principal Rosemary Evans, is a director. If you have not yet had the opportunity to meet her, I urge you to do so: she will instill in you great confidence for the future of UTS! Finally, I want to thank the many alumni who, year in and year out, support the UTSAA. For some of you, there are “in years” and “out years.”

Why not make this an “in year” by attending an event (such as the Annual Alumni Dinner), calling your Year Rep to touch base, making a donation, or communicating with any UTSAA director about a school-related issue or idea? Information about UTSAA can be found here in The Root, or at www.utschools.ca/alumni, or by calling the UTS Office of Advancement at 416-978-3919.

With your support, UTSAA is able to provide ongoing and crucial assistance to UTS, allowing the school to continue its tradition as a remarkable and unique institution that produces graduates who are perfectly positioned to make a positive difference in the world. n

Principal’s Report

A Talent Incubator A place where students receive exceptional opportunities for developing as leaders.

An alumnus recently described UTS as “an exceptional talent incubator.” The record of achievement of our alumni surely supports this claim (see Martha Drake’s Advancement report for details). Clearly, there is something unique at play at the school.

Certainly one of the distinctive features of the school is, and always has been, our rigorous adherence to merit-based admission. This is maintained today by our three-stage admission process. The Secondary School Admission Test (SSAT) taken by prospective applicants acts as an initial “screening”. Following the SSAT, applicants take UTS assessments in English and in mathematics and present a portfolio of successful achievements. Finally, they participate in a Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) system. The MMI was developed by McMaster Medical School and, in January 2012, UTS was the first secondary school to adopt it. During the MMI, students meet with 10 interviewers, one for each question. As a result, the interview process is less subject to bias and acts as another measure by which we can identify students of exceptional ability who have a passion for learning.

A second aspect of the school’s uniqueness is our ongoing commitment to financial access, equity, and inclusion. This is evidenced by the fact that UTS has always maintained a needsblind admission process – a feature that results in greater diversity in the student body. It also necessitates the ongoing availability of bursary assistance; currently, 20% of our students receive financial support. Another example is our recent partnership with the Centre for Urban Schooling at OISE/UofT to conduct a review of our Equity Framework (created in 2008). We are now formulating a plan to enhance equity and inclusion both for the present and in the future – an ongoing pledge. Our goal is to ensure that

UTS provides an equitable school experience and prepares students to understand and challenge the instances of marginalization and oppression that they may encounter in their lives. This strategic direction supports the school’s vision, “to develop socially responsible global citizens” and aligns with the school’s long-standing role as a place where students receive exceptional opportunities for developing as leaders.

UTS was created as a laboratory for developing excellence in education; this element of our tradition is still clearly evident, with examples too numerous to enumerate.

UTS teachers are continuously learning and innovating as educators, providing unique learning experiences – and enormous levels of dedication – to our students. A visit to the UTS Facebook site during any week serves as a window into the school’s singular and dynamic learning environment. Through unique partnerships at the University of Toronto and beyond, our students have opportunities to engage with some of the research challenges that are currently puzzling scholars, and to tackle complex global problems.

Rosemary Evans Principal, UTS

This strategic direction supports the school’s vision, “to develop socially responsible global citizens.”

UTS’ recipe for generating exceptional talent is not a secret: it is the synergy created by combining capable students, innovative teachers, a dynamic program that focuses on engaging students in authentic inquiry and, of course, committed alumni who reach across the generations to support UTS students and recent graduates. n

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UTS Board Report

UTS Financial Independence Ensuring that UTS remains a centre of excellence accessible to talented young people.

Bob Lord ‘58 Board Chair, UTS

During a year marked by exceptional involvement and engagement, the UTS Board of Directors has focussed on a review of our strategic priorities, revitalizing our affiliation with the University of Toronto, ensuring our long-term financial sustainability, and proactively exploring options for a new site.

In reviewing Building the Future, the UTS strategic plan launched in 2008, the Board of Directors has established the following strategic priorities for the next two years. We recognize this as an ambitious undertaking but are confident that with the support of our stakeholders we will make significant progress toward achieving these goals: 1. Enhancing our transformative educational program for the 21st Century 2. Defining the UTS diploma for the future 3. Developing The Global Ideas Institute within the school community and through our partnerships 4. Ensuring equity and inclusion in the school community , in our commitment to access, and in our work with our partners 5. Developing a full school support model to sustain the health and well-being of students and staff 6. Refining our rigorous admission process and finding a new school site.

7. Revitalizing our affiliation with the University of Toronto 8. Clarifying and enhancing our communications, marketing, and branding The Affiliation Committee, led by UTS alumnus and lawyer David Rounthwaite ’65, includes Board members, alumni, and parents. During the summer, committee members met with Professor Scott Mabury, the new UofT vice president, University Operations, who assumed responsibility for liaising with UTS at the end of June. We briefed Professor Mabury and indicated that our goal is

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to work with the University over the next year to reformulate the Affiliation Agreement (2006) that defines our relationship with the University.

UTS has now achieved full financial independence with a break-even budget. The school has a small reserve fund of just under $1 million accumulated from the transition funding provided by UofT. We are striving to control costs and moderate tuition increases to remain accessible to students who meet our rigorous admission standards. Thanks to the prudent financial stewardship of funds held by the UTS Foundation, bursary support is currently available to 20% of our student body, a figure that is among the highest in Canada.

Our Site Search Committee co-chairs – realestate lawyer Peter Neilson ’71 and architect Donald Schmitt ’70 – lead a dynamic committee of alumni, parents, and teachers. The team has refined specific site options – including surplus public schools and joint development initiatives – and is assessing them against our site priorities: meeting our program needs, being financially doable and sustainable, remaining accessible via public transit for our students, and maintaining proximity to the St. George campus. The team is employing a financial modeling tool developed

by Board Director David Allan ’78 that allows us to ascertain the cost implications for any given option and the impact on future tuition and bursary requirements. Feedback from UTS community members who attended our recent forum will definitely inform our work in the future.

In the coming months, we will continue to pursue each of the initiatives described above. In so doing, please rest assured that our motivation is to ensure UTS continues to be a centre of excellence, known for its unique and exceptional program. At the same time, we are determined to remain accessible to talented young people regardless of their economic circumstances or where they live in the GTA. n

Advancement Report

UTS Alumni by the Numbers Crunching the numbers reveals that generosity from members of the UTS community is widespread.

I’ve been thinking about numbers lately; it happens every year when we put our annual donor report together for the fall issue of The Root.

I’ve crunched the numbers and I’m pleased to report that they support my theory that generosity from members of the UTS community is, indeed, widespread. In fact – with the exception of campaign years – this past year, UTS alumni, parents, students, staff, and friends exhibited the highest rate of giving ever in the history of UTS. Almost 20% of alumni made a donation to UTS this year and, of the 724 donations received, 434 donors (or 70%) increased their donation amounts. Our UTSAA Board, UTS Board, and UTS Foundation Directors have led the charge with their individual donations, and the UTS community at large has come together to keep UTS financially strong.

Interestingly, the percentage of alumni donors is consistent with the number of students who receive bursaries. This past year, approximately 20% of UTS students received financial aid with an average bursary of $7,200. UTS has been able to provide such a high level of support thanks to the generosity of our donors. Some of the bursary comes from the endowments held and stewarded by the UTS foundation while other funds come from the UTSAA Annual Fund and other donations earmarked for immediate expenditure.

Your donations have helped keep UTS accessible and they have directly impacted the lives of our

students. Our gratitude is profound, and on behalf of UTS, I thank you.

With a nod to Lewis Lapham of Harper’s Index fame, I would like to share some other numbers about UTS alumni that have impressed me. This list is by no means exhaustive and I invite you to contact us with the notable alumni known to you.

2 Nobel Laureates 20 Rhodes Scholars 5 University Presidents 5 University Chancellors 1 Lieutenant Governor of Ontario 30 Recipients of the Order of Canada 8 Recipients of the Order of Ontario 12 Prince of Wales Scholars 26 Recipients of the Governor General’s Academic Medal 4 Recipients of the Governor General’s Award 9 Recipients of the Mayor of the City of Toronto Trophy 65 Recipients of the University of Toronto Arbor Award 52 Living World War II Veterans 1 Olympic Order 11 Olympians 1 Discoverer of a star 3 Ambassadors 2 Oscar/Emmy award Recipients 1000s who have made significant contributions to the world in myriad ways. n

Celebrating 13 years!

Exhibiting in the Gallery this spring:

“Urban Paintings”

by Don Boutros, Retired Faculty

The Keys Gallery is located in Room 107A at UTS. If you would like to exhibit, contact Liv Mapué ’04 at Olivia mapue@knilstudio. com or Johanna Pokorny at johanna.pokorny@gmail.com for further information.

Martha Drake Executive Director, Advancement

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Working Holiday Science was not Nobel Laureate John Polanyi’s first love – but over time, he came to be captivated by the beauty of the subject matter. In his words: “We are obsessed by what we do, so it is a holiday to be permitted to do it.”

By Diana Shepherd ’80

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John Charles Polanyi was born in 1929

Courtesy: University of Toronto

of Hungarian parents in Berlin, Germany; his father, scientist-philosopher Michael Polanyi, had gone from Budapest to work in Berlin – the world capital for science.

In 1933, Michael Polanyi resigned his post in protest against Nazi legislation and moved his laboratory to Manchester University. During WWII, John’s parents sent him to Canada to avoid the bombings; while in Canada, he attended UTS from 1940 to 1943.

Professor John Polanyi at the Presidential Installation of David Naylor at UofT in 2005.

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“My foster-parents (who had picked me out of a large pool of children coming to Toronto as ‘war guests’, in an arrangement with Manchester University, where my father was a faculty member) were determined that I go to UTS, which they considered to be an outstanding school scholastically – as I believe it to be,” Professor Polanyi said during a recent interview with The Root.

He was just 11 years old when he made that trans-Atlantic trip in 1940; his older brother, George, was serving in the British Army. “I was accustomed to being packaged and sent off to distant points, having just survived several years at a boarding school in England,” he pointed out. “This promised to be a change for the better, replete with Mounties and grisly bears. The trip by sea on board The Duchess of Richmond was enlivened by the presence of about 100 English kids. The thrill of wearing a life-jacket day and night soon wore off (German U-boats were active, hence the precaution). The smell of an oceanliner – marine paint and stale food – remains something I try to avoid.”

While in Toronto, John lived on Prince Arthur Avenue with Dr. Malcolm Cameron and “his charming physician wife Olive and their son Donald,” he recalled. The Camerons’ two other sons were in the Canadian army overseas, staying

from time to time in Manchester with John’s parents and brother, when George was on leave from the Army. “Donald was rejected by UTS, but got his own back by totally out-foxing me at ice-hockey,” John said. “My foster parents took pity and enrolled me in an Upper Canada cricket team. The team won a trophy while I was in hospital having a minor operation, so I sported an impressive badge on my blazer.”

John’s first impressions of UTS were less than stellar; fortunately, he was able to change his opinion during his second and third years at the school. “I had grown to expect little from schools,” he explained. “Year one at UTS did not, therefore, surprise me. We visitors (impostors, since we had not sat for the entrance exam) were put in a special class designated ‘O.B.’ for ‘Overseas Boys’, but better known as ‘B.O.’ Teachers with English connections kindly volunteered or were volunteered to look after us.

The form master was Major Bramfitt. I have no recollection what he taught, but recall the weight of his hand! In the two subsequent years of my Canadian sojourn I entered the mainstream of the school (Forms Two and Three) where life was easier. I dreamed my way through science (largely descriptive), French and Latin, coming alive for history where a teacher, primed with alcohol, spoke convincingly of the disposition of armies in ancient Rome.” When asked whether he had a favourite teacher or subject at UTS, he replied: “Science was taught with charm and enthusiasm.”

After three years in Canada, John returned to England and attended Manchester Grammar School, which he described as “a more rigorous experience academically” in comparison to UTS. “It was also deathly cold,” he remembered. In high school, his interests were history, politics, and science. “Since my older brother went on to study history and politics at the university, I decided that I would study chemistry. I never felt ordained for a career in chemistry, and I never abandoned my keen interest in history and politics,” he wrote in an autobiography for UofT. John entered Manchester University in 1946.

During his first year, his father Michael, a professor in the chemistry department, was one of his teachers. “I attended a full year of my father’s first year chemistry lectures,” he said. “They were a pleasure. The pleasure for him was that he was forbidden to mark the exams.”

John wasn’t always convinced that science was his true calling – some sources claimed that he briefly considered a career as a poet. When asked

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Receiving the 2007 NSERC Herzberg Gold Medal.

about this, he responded, “In my experience, every young man tries his hand at poetry, and even gets some specimens into print. I am no exception. I never dreamt, however, of being a poet. I was attracted to journalism and was offered a job on something new called BBC-TV. Instead I took the safer path of a Fellowship at the National Research Council (NRC) labs in Ottawa and then at Princeton.”

Words of Wisdom Professor John Polanyi, when pressed, offered two pieces of advice for the UTS class of 2013: “I am put in mind of both by the book I am reading; the 1864 novel by Anthony Trollope called Can You Forgive Her? I’ll explain the title in a moment. But first I note the advice to be found on page 140 (of my Penguin edition). It is probably superfluous to a UTS graduate, but I endorse it anyway: ‘It is of moment to a young person when entering life to decide whether he shall make hats or shoes,’ Trollope remarks, ‘but not half the moment that will be that other decision, whether he shall make good shoes or bad.’ I have done my feeble best to make good shoes, but am confident that I would have been equally fulfilled had I attempted to make good hats.”

The second piece of advice John offered is implicit in the title of Trollope’s novel; Can You Forgive Her? “The dreadful sin you are asked to forgive… is the affront that the heroine makes to society by breaking off her engagement to be married. What, then, is my advice? It is that you consider the possibility that the world may change. You might even wish to change it yourself.”

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John Polanyi in his office at UofT. “We are obsessed by what we do, so it is a holiday to be permitted to do it.”

After completing his Ph.D. in 1952, “Chance, and a lucrative Fellowship ($3,000 per annum)” enticed John back to Canada to do postdoctoral research at NRC in Ottawa.

In his autobiography on UofT’s website (www. utoronto.ca/jpolanyi), John confessed that the study of science was initially a disappointment to him. “In the laboratory I found that it was necessary to follow procedures that had not been fully explained (if, indeed, the explanations were

known) in order to obtain the ‘right’ result. Out of curiosity I would vary the method from that given in the laboratory manual, with the consequence that I routinely got the ‘wrong’ result. All this was symptomatic of the fact that I lacked the discipline to learn, or at any rate to learn with any degree of pleasure, the large number of rules that one must master before one can play the game of science.” Without great enthusiasm, he persisted through years of training; gradually, he came to be “captivated and engrossed by the beauty of the subject matter and the thrill of the challenge that it offered.”

He acknowledged that: “This is a peculiar story for a scientist to give of the birth of his interest in his subject. It happens to be my story, and may serve to illustrate that in the choice of a career, as in other major decisions, a lifelong commitment need not start with a love affair.”

In 1956, he became a lecturer at UofT; he was promoted to assistant professor in 1957, associate professor in 1960, and full professor in 1962. In 1974, he was named University Professor.

In 1986, cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for “contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes,” John won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in chemical kinetics – a prize he shared with Dudley Herschbach of Harvard University and Yuan Lee of the University of California, Berkeley.

The years have not diminished his enthusiasm for scientific inquiry. “Work has continued without a break in the lab,” he told The Root at the end of August. “We are obsessed by what we do, so it is a holiday to be permitted to do it.”

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Awards 1962: The Marlow Medal of the Faraday Society 1965: The Centenary Medal of the British Chemical Society 1965: The Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences 1967: The Noranda Award of the Chemical Institute of Canada 1974: Officer of the Order of Canada; in 1979, he was promoted to Companion.

1977: The Henry Marshall Tory Medal of the Royal Society of Canada 1982: The Wolf Prize in Chemistry

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1986: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988: The Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize 1989: The Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London 1992: The John C. Polanyi Lecture Award of the Canadian Society for Chemistry 2007: The Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering 2010: Faraday Lectureship Prize Winner from the Royal Society of Chemistry

Turning Complex into Simple

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Nobel Laureate Michael Spence ’62 likes to take complex, confusing economic phenomena and, by identifying the main structural features, make them seem simple. The Root’s Editor, Diana Shepherd ’80, spoke with him recently about attending UTS, Princeton, Oxford, and Harvard – and winning the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001.

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Although your parents lived in Ottawa in 1943, you were born in Montclair, NJ. How did that come about?

My father was Canadian and my mother was an American. When the war came, my father joined the Wartime Prices and Trades Board. They had to work closely with the Americans, so my father was going back and forth from Ottawa to Washington. My mother came along on one of the trips when she was about eight-and-a-half months pregnant; she stopped off to visit friends in New Jersey, and that’s where I was born. She never admitted it, but I think she did it on purpose.

In 1950, your family moved to a farm outside Toronto where you went to school in a two-room schoolhouse. Do you have any memories of those rural schooldays?

We lived on a 320-acre farm in Maple for two years.

It was a wonderful experience. My brother Randy [William Randall Spence ’63] and I attended a school with two classrooms – one for Grades One to Four and the other for Grades Five to Eight – and one teacher for the whole shootin’ match. I don’t think it would have been a super place to be educated up through Grade Eight, but for Grades One and Two, it seemed to work and was fun.

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Your family moved to Toronto in the early ’50s, and you entered UTS in Grade 7 in 1955.What were your first impressions of UTS? Did you have a favourite teacher or subject?

I loved the school from the moment I got there. The teachers were terrific. They maintained discipline and they taught effectively. I was playing hockey outside of the school until Grade Eight, playing 70-80 games a year in a team sponsored by the Chicago Blackhawks. UTS Athletic Director Jack Life called me in and told me that if I didn’t quit, he’d have me kicked out of the school. He was bluffing, but I quit the team.

I had a wonderful, wonderful experience at UTS in multiple dimensions: intellectually, in sports, with people…

I had many favourite teachers. On the athletic side, a lot of us were very close to Don Fawcett. And I played hockey for Bruce MacLean – I missed his hundredth birthday party last year, which was a shame. We had a hilariously funny and talented science teacher, Fred Speed, who was a bit absent‑minded. One year, he posted the final exam by mistake on the bulletin board and a bunch of us had to go and take it down before anyone took the exam! But he was a terrific teacher... The teaching at UTS was really fabulous in terms of engaging students. Of course, there was a terrific group

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Receiving an Honorary Degree from U of T in 2000. LEFT-RIGHT: David Galloway ’62, then-Principal of UTS, Linda Newnham, Michael Spence and then-Chancellor, University of Toronto, Hal Jackman ’50

of students at the school, and we learned a lot from each other as well.

What did being elected UTS School Captain in 1962 mean to you?

Personally, it was a very rewarding experience, and a surprise. It brought me closer to a wider range of people in the school; if you play football or hockey, you end up hanging out with your teammates for much of the school year – and there’s an awful lot of interesting people outside of those groups. It was nice when my brother Randy was elected School Captain the year after me.

After graduation, you attended Princeton, graduating with a BA in philosophy in 1966.What attracted you to Princeton – and to the study of philosophy?

In those days, the natural thing for people who were doing well academically was to go to UofT. It was and is excellent, but at that time it had the old British structure, which meant that you had to specialize right away. My parents and I talked with UTS headmaster Brock McMurray, and I ended up at Princeton largely because it had the American Liberal Arts structure. Philosophy was my undergraduate major, but I never intended to make it a career.

A Canadian Rhodes Scholar, you received your BA/ MA in Mathematics from Magdalen College, Oxford in 1968. Can you tell us a little about it?

I loved Oxford. I started out in philosophy, politics, and economics; then switched to economics; then switched again to mathematics. My advisors were very tolerant of this. I also played hockey for Oxford – that was hilarious!

There were a great group of Canadians and Americans on the team. Cambridge was good; David Johnson [current Governor General] played for them, and he was a great hockey player.

The other teams in England had kind of forgotten how to play hockey after learning from us during the war.

You received your Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard in 1972.“What was it like to attend an American institution during the Vietnam War years?”

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It was a really interesting and disorienting time: I walked through picket lines to get to class; the University was shut down at one point; somebody related to my first wife was hauled out of a building and arrested. Underneath the Vietnam War issue, there was a massive social change underway. Young people were rejecting aspects of their society they thought were unacceptable, including post World War II ideas of gender and equality. We all assumed that we were throwing off chains and that it would be a freer, easier world, but we completely misunderstood the complexity of creating new models: how you live, how you work, how you integrate family with working life, etc. The Junior and Senior classes at Harvard and Radcliffe were in the eye of the hurricane; they became revolutionaries in their own minds and some got lost when the world gradually drifted back to a new normal. They tried to live as if that time-frame were going to be a permanent state of affairs. But of course, social and other revolutions are never permanent conditions: they happen, cause change, and then people go back to figuring out how to live, work, be happy, and spiritually rewarded. So we had a mini lost-generation: people who were disaffected from the old society but also disaffected from the new one.

You have said that you have had two careers: first as teacher and scholar and then in academic administration.You joined New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business as a professor of economics in September 2010; you are a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Is this a return to a “first love” – teaching?

The academic administration part lasted 15 years, starting in 1984 when the president of Harvard asked me to be the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Then I became Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business in California (from 1990 to 1999). I enjoyed both jobs and learned a lot, but I think 15 years was enough. We now live in Milan, so we’re not able to get to the West Coast much, but coming over to New York in the fall seems to work. It has been nice to be able to settle in one place and teach for part of the year: sharing whatever I’ve managed to learn with students and colleagues about emerging economies.

What was it like to win the Nobel Prize in Economics?

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It’s been an amazing and unanticipated part of my life for 11 years now. My predecessor at Harvard told me that if I took the job [as Dean], I’d never win the Nobel Prize.

I believed him, but then again I thought I probably wouldn’t receive the Nobel Prize anyway. So I made the choice and took the job – I didn’t stay in teaching and research and I gave up thinking about the Nobel Prize permanently. Turns out he was wrong.

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who live and work in Toronto or New York who don’t have a clue what’s going on in South Africa or Western China or Jakarta have huge blind spots. In the old days, you might have thought, “That’s interesting, but it doesn’t have much to do with me.” Now it does. That’s why I wrote The Next Convergence [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011]. By the middle of this century, the world will be a place in which the vast majority lives in pretty comfortable, advanced circumstances. I wanted to explain how we got there, from the post-war world in which 15% lived in advanced countries, and then to answer the question: “What problems do we have to solve in the next 50 years for this whole thing to work?”

You said one, but I’ll sneak in a second: find something that you love to do – that motivates you to get up in the morning – and just do that. You’ll be the happiest that way.

Don’t worry much about income or wealth or status or fame.

Those things take care of themselves and don’t matter as much as loving the work you do.

Is there anything else you’d like to share with the UTS community?

Well, I’d like to say thank you. UTS was and is a wonderful, liberating place: it gives you the feeling that there are a whole lot of interesting things you could do, and that you really can do them. It’s more than the very high quality of the education – important as that was and is in empowering us – UTS gave me a sense of freedom and opportunity for which I’ve always been grateful. n

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NOTE: this article features excerpts from the original interview.

To read it in full, go to www.utschools.ca/alumni.

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Winning the Nobel changes your life, no question about it. 2001 was the hundredth anniversary of the Nobel Prize, and for the Centennial, they invited all Nobel laureates in all five fields who were still alive to come back. It was an amazing gathering. One of the Nobel requirements is that you come to Stockholm and give a lecture to your peers; in this year, all the Nobel economists were there. Sitting in the front row were Paul Samuelson, Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, Bob Fogel, Robert Solow, and many more – all the “gods” of the profession I’d chosen – and I thought: “This is the scariest thing I’ve ever done in my life!” Your life changes because you become way more visible than you’ve ever been or thought you would be.

Is there a dividing line between your life pre- and post-Nobel?

It’s hard to know what the counter-factual would have been – what would have happened if – because you never get to run the experiment. I stopped being an academic administrator and set out to have a rewarding life in some combination of business, investing, and academia.

Then the Nobel Prize came along out of the blue. I probably would have done the same things (emerging economies, the global economy etc.), but the Nobel made it easier to get started. It’s a label you carry with you for the rest of your life, and it gives you credibility – even when it shouldn’t. One of my friends who had previously won the Nobel sat me down and said “People are going to ask you a whole lot of questions on subjects you know absolutely nothing about. The most important thing you have to learn is to say ‘I don’t know’.”

Aside from winning the Nobel Prize, can you describe some career highlights — accomplishments that give you the greatest personal or professional satisfaction?

Receiving the John Bates Clark Medal was a pretty big highlight as well. The research I did for my Ph.D. thesis and right after – work for which I eventually won the Nobel – was very rewarding. There was a moment when I realized that the work might actually be quite important in the construct of economic theory. What I really like to do is to take a situation in the world that looks complex and confusing – like you’re seeing it through a fog – and stare at it, digest it, and try to make it seem simple. If you can make it seem simple, then you can explain it to other people and it will seem simple to them, too.

If you could give one piece of advice to the UTS Class of 2013, what would it be?

My advice would be that there’s a reasonably decent chance that you’re going to live in a global economy, and it’s worth taking the time to understand who those 6.5 billion people are: where they are in life, how they live, how that’s changing over time. I’d urge them to learn other languages. This is a tool for accomplishing Item One: make yourself as comfortable and knowledgeable as possible about vast amounts of the world as you can. Not because you necessarily want to live or work outside Canada, but because you need to know what’s going on out there. People

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At a Pionner Investments Colloquia Series panel discussion: LEFT-RIGHT: Robert Merton, Nobel Laureate 1997, Michael Spence, and Eric Maskin, Nobel Laureate 2007.

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UTS alumni are a talented bunch, making many important contributions to science, politics, economics, medicine, law, and academics. UTS has also produced some shining stars in film, stage, radio, and TV. Here’s a brief Who’s Who; to learn more about their accomplishments, go to www.utschools.ca/alumni

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Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg) ’18

Gordon Sheppard ’54

Melvyn entered Form 4C at UTS in 1913 when he was 12 years old. He had a long theatre, film, and television career as a lead player, stretching from his 1930 Broadway role in Tonight or Never until just before his death in 1982. Melvyn won Academy Awards for Hud (1963) and Being There (1979), and was nominated for a third for I Never Sang for my Father (1970).

Gordon wrote, produced, and directed award-winning films, public affairs programs, and documentaries – including The Most (1962), an examination of Hugh Hefner and Playboy Enterprises, and the feature film Eliza’s Horoscope (1975). Gordon Sheppard or the Art of Dying Well premiered at Le Festival International du Film sur l’Art in 2011; this documentary film, shot during the last 18 months of Gordon’s life, is “an inspiring, courageous and harrowing examination of an artist’s life by looking at a close-up of his death.”

George Douglas (George Lamar Hesselberg) ’19 Melvyn’s kid brother George entered Form 3B in 1913 when he was 11 years old. George’s film and TV niche was Westerns/ Action and and Sci-Fi/Horror.

(James) Mavor Moore ’36 Mavor was a librettist, composer, actor, director, producer, author, academic, and administrator who wrote more than 100 works for stage, radio, television and film. He began playwriting at 12, and by 15, he was acting regularly on radio.

At UTS, he expanded his theatrical range to play Falstaff and Macbeth in school productions. In 1948, he began the infamous satirical revue, Spring Thaw, which ran annually until 1971. Mavor served as CBC Television’s first chief producer (1950–1954) and executive producer for television at the United Nations (1955–1960).

Peter Pearson ’57 A director, producer, and screenwriter, Peter’s movies and television dramas have received 19 Canadian Film Awards – more than any other Canadian director – and a slew of ACTRA awards. After graduating, Peter determined that he “wanted no career where I would ever again wear blue blazers and grey flannels. In my dotage, I now run a film club – www.cinemagique.ca.”

Garrick Hagon ’58

Starting at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Alec Guiness’s Richard III, Garrick has played English and North American roles in many films (including Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope), on stage, radio, and TV (including the Doctor Who series in 1972 and 2012). “No doubt plays at UTS (Twelve Angry Men, The Mikado, and others) spurred me on,” he noted. “We had a great English teacher, Ron McMaster, who directed the plays and encouraged us all, though he was always cautious about the possibility of making a living in Stephen Stohn ’66, Garrick Hagon ’58, Jack Roe ’72. ABOVE: Melvyn Douglas with Greta Garbo in Ninotchka. the ‘business’.”

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Erik Fitz ’81, Graham Yost ’76, Rick Marin ’80, RIGHT (L-R): Elizabeth Radshaw (Hot Docs); Lisa Valencia-Svensson ’86, director Maria Teresa Larrain, and Sarah Jane Flynn (Shaw Media).

(John) Stephen Stohn ’66

Steven Westren ’77

Stephen has been involved in the music and TV side of the entertainment industry since 1975. The president of Epitome Pictures, he is executive producer of Degrassi: The Next Generation and Instant Star. Stephen was executive producer of the telecast of The Juno Awards for almost 20 years (ending in 2009); during that period, he was a director and then chair of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He was also Chair of MusiCounts, a charity that, among other things, distributes musical instruments to schools in need. Stephen’s most recent project is the TV series The L.A. Complex.

Steven is a Toronto-based TV and movie writer, director, and producer. He has been nominated for four Gemini Awards, winning twice (for Fakers in 2011 and My Friend Rabbit in 2009). Fakers follows three teenagers from a prestigious private school; the trio become drawn into a dangerous underworld where both cops and criminals are out to get them. Steve has written for more than 20 TV series, including Almost Naked Animals, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot about That!, Dragon, and The Zack Files. He directed the movie The Man in my Microwave (1996) and the TV series Internet Slutts.

Jack Roe ’72

Rick has written for TV – the screenplay of his memoir Cad: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor – as well as produced two plays in Los Angeles – Neighorhood Watch and The One That Got Away. “I’ve always been a writer, first a journalist – at Harper’s, Newsweek, and The New York Times – before moving to Los Angeles,” he explained. “I credit UTS with nurturing my love of the written word, with a shout out to Nora Maier for taking it to another level.”

Jack’s career has taken him through stints as an on-air disc jockey, phone-in show host, public affairs program host, program director of two radio stations with the CHUM Group, news director for two radio stations for the CHUM Group, associate producer of radio drama with the BBC, weekly correspondent for CBC Radio (Ontario Morning show, Radio 1), and news anchor for 680 News in Toronto. He also has a parallel career as an award-winning stage actor. “My education at UTS was in many ways responsible for the career I now enjoy – especially the teachings of Don Gutteridge, who taught English during my tenure,” he said.

Graham Yost ’76 Graham knew from the age of 18 that he wanted to be a filmmaker. His father, Elwy Yost, hosted a weekly film show on TVO. “In our family, everything was about movies and books,” he said. His feature film credits include Speed (1994), Broken Arrow (1996), Hard Rain (1998), Mission to Mars (2000), and The Last Castle (2001). As a producer, Graham won Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon; he also garnered an Emmy nomination for writing the episode “Apollo One”. He wrote two episodes of the Golden Globe and Emmy Awardwinning miniseries Band of Brothers, and he won an Emmy Award for the epic miniseries The Pacific. Graham is currently executive producer and writer on Justified, a series based on a character created by crime novelist Elmore Leonard. On June 1, Graham visited UTS to address drama and American History students. He also sat down for an interview with Root Editor Diana Shepherd ’80; you can read this online at www.utschools.ca/alumni.

Rick Marin ’80

Eric Fitz ’81 Eric is a location sound recordist for drama and documentary productions. Career highlights include: “the grueling four-day trek across the Nunavut winter tundra, surviving on frozen fish and seal meat; the challenging months we spent in Rwanda filming Shake Hands with the Devil; the glorious spring I spent in Europe shooting in the factories of companies like Braun, Playmobil, and Baccarat; or the night we survived on a capsized boat floating in the Philippine Sea!” Eric has recently started his sixth season of Murdoch Mysteries.

Brian Hamilton ’82 Brian is a managing partner in Omnifilm Entertainment, focusing on documentary and dramatic TV series. He started out as a documentary editor and then filmmaker, and is now focussing primarily on scripted TV series. Current projects include Arctic Air, which had a record-breaking premiere recently on CBC, and Ice Pilots, a top-rated documentary series.

“The well-rounded education I received at UTS prepared me well,” he said. “Film/TV project ideas can be drawn from any area of study, from science to politics to literary arts, so having an appreciation and understanding of a variety of academic topics has been very valuable.”

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The Kuperman brothers – Ricky ’07 and Jeff ’08; James Cheng ’88.

Dave Auster ’86 Dave has managed or produced live theatre since 1991 – from Peter Pan to Inherit the Wind to Spamalot. This spring, he moved from New York to Ontario to become the producer of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. “I have occasionally had the extraordinary experience of meeting a person who has created work that I have studied,” he said. “For example, I had the good fortune to work on Broadway productions of several of Tom Stoppard’s plays, and I could never be in a room with him without remembering the first time we were assigned to read Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at UTS.”

Alycia Rossiter ’89 Alycia found her niche producing reality competition shows when ABC enlisted her to work on their hit, The Bachelor.

“Now, I run the show and its spin-offs: The Bachelorette and Bachelor Pad – from casting to shooting around the world to producing the edit,” she said. “I was always a sucker for romance and travel; now, it’s how I make my living.” She credits UTS with helping her to believe that she was smart.

“Hollywood is cut-throat and to get attention you have to be good looking or smart, or if you’re lucky, both. Connections are great, but you are nothing in this town if you don’t have drive or if you don’t believe in yourself.”

Tosan Lee ’92 Tosan is CEO and co-founder of All TV: a Korean TV specialty service broadcasting across Canada. He co-founded All TV with his father and brother in 2000 and launched the service in 2001. Although he said that UTS didn’t play a specific role in his decision to go into broadcast media, he regards his UTS education as the “foundation for critical thinking that helps in all stages.”

Lisa Valencia-Svensson (Lisa Swenson) ’86

Tim Lindsay ’04

Lisa has been producing documentaries in Toronto since 2005.

Her first feature-length documentary, Herman’s House, had its Canadian premiere at Hot Docs in Toronto in May 2012. “It’s a hard industry to survive in, and I am very much a minority as a woman of colour, a lesbian, and a politically progressive person,” she said. “There is a great need for a wider range of viewpoints and perspectives in our media, because only once people truly understand other people’s realities do they start to feel committed to work for a more just and equitable world.”

Tim is a sound designer and technician for live theatre. “It was something I was fascinated by from a very young age, but working on UTS Stage Crew and particularly on our Grad Project (with Jon Bright, Alyssa Mackenzie, and Kat Sandler to produce a new musical they co-wrote) certainly encouraged me to take the plunge and turn pro,” he said.

“It was through the encouragement of great arts teachers at UTS that I found the will to follow my passion. It’s not the most lucrative career financially, but I’m very happy to be living my dream!”

Ben Carlson ’87 Ben has appeared on stages throughout Canada and the US. He spent 12 seasons at the Shaw Festival and he is currently in his fifth season at Stratford, playing “Benedick” in Much Ado about Nothing and “Captain Fluellen” in Henry V. Ben has also worked in film and TV; credits include The Firm, Rookie Blue, Warehouse 13, Grey Gardens, Angela’s Eyes, and Slings and Arrows. In 2001, he received the Dora Mavor Moore Award for The Doll House; in 2007, he won the Joseph Jefferson Award for his portrayal of the title role in Hamlet.

James Cheng ’88 James has been involved in the entertainment (sketch-comedy) industry since 2006. As a result of his comedic stage work, he was chosen to play a lead role in a short romantic-comedy, The Magic Charm, which premieres at the Reel Asian Film Festival in November 2012. UTS played a role in his career choice: “Our Grade 13 English class with Nora Maier incorporated readings of plays and text – something that allowed me to explore the written word in a live format. Also, the UTS improv club fostered creativity and leadership outside the classroom.

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Ricky Kuperman ’07 and Jeff Kuperman ’08 Brothers Ricky and Jeff work in the theatre, dance, and film industries – their work often combines all three of these disciplines. “UTS helped to cultivate a spirit of exploration and of risk – whether it was by giving the students control of a full theatrical production or offering courses with inspiring teachers that pushed students artistically. Because so many students were excelling in so many diverse artistic disciplines, UTS made it seem like pursuing a career in the arts was a viable and important option.” The brothers’ first short film, In a Moment, has screened internationally at festivals across the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, and Europe.

“We’re excited now to begin work on our next commission, the creation of a new dance-theater piece about Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.” n Editor’s Note: This article was compiled and excerpted from responses to our request for submissions. Are we missing anyone? If so, please let us know so we can add them to the full‑length article on our website at www.utschools.ca/alumni!

Fourth Annual H.J. Crawford Award Announcement UTS is pleased to announce that the fourth Annual H.J. Crawford Award will be presented to H. Donald “Don” Gutteridge.

Don, who was appointed in 1972, served as headmaster (though he quickly updated his title to principal) for 10 years. His profound dedication to educational ideals, his easy rapport with students, and his forward-thinking vision of what UTS should and could be brought changes that were transformative.

During his tenure, the school became co-ed and he pressed for the inclusion of women on the UTS faculty; grade 13 was eliminated; the curriculum was modernized; music and the arts found their rightful place at the school; and the first bursary fundraising program was launched. Following his UTS career, Don moved on to OCE and OISE/UT where he helped develop many facets of the Ontario school curriculum.

Don has been a stalwart supporter of UTS for 50 years; his commitment to the school has been unwavering, and he has continued to promote the best interests of UTS within the University of Toronto and beyond. UTS is delighted to be able to honour Don with this award.

The H.J. Crawford Award, named for UTS’ first headmaster, recognizes the significant contribution to UTS made by an individual or group through commitment, dedication, and volunteerism, or contributions to greater society through other significant lifetime achievements.

Be sure to attend the UTSAA Annual Alumni Dinner to celebrate the presentation of this prestigious award to our revered retired principal. Reserve now at 416-978-3919 or www.utschools.ca/rsvp. n

UTS Hall Of Fame Induction Announcement UTS and the UTS Alumni Association are proud to announce the 2012 inductees into the UTS Hall of Fame.

Two retired faculty members, Ornella Barrett and Ron Wakelin, have been selected for their superlative contributions to coaching and for their commitment to health and physical education at UTS. Over their long teaching and coaching careers at UTS, these dedicated and highly motivated teachers promoted an environment of sound ethics, fair play, and equal opportunities, and they challenged our athletes to achieve their full potential. Ornella and Ron provided advice, support, feedback, and progressive and accessible development paths to student athletes, assistant coaches, and team managers of all abilities. Under their watch, UTS saw the attainment of many district and provincial titles.

During the early 1990s, the girls’ field hockey team clinched the Toronto Secondary School Women’s Athletic Association championships four times in five years, ensuring a berth at the Ontario Federation of Secondary School Athletic Associations Championships (OFSAA) in each of those winning years.

Members of the 1991–2 and 1992–3 teams will be inducted into the UTS Hall of Fame at the UTSAA Annual Alumni Dinner on Saturday, October 13, 2012.

Help celebrate the accomplishments of these UTS former staff and alumni: reserve now at 416-978-3919 or www.utschools.ca/rsvp. n

Don’t miss the

Annual Alumni Dinner Saturday, October 13, 2012 Brennan Hall at St. Michael’s College University 81 St. Mary Street 5:30 Reception • 7:00 Dinner All alumni are welcome – especially those celebrating anniversary years:

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As part of our dinner program, the 4th H.J. Crawford Award will be presented and the UTS Hall of Fame inductees will be honoured.

New this year! From 10 am – 2 pm, visit the school and meet staff and students during the UTS Open House.

RESERVE NOW! www.utschools.ca/rsvp or call 416-978-3919

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Alumni News

Notes on The Interesting Lives and Outstanding Achievements of Our Alumni

Don Borthwick ’54 has retired from the

Board of the UTS Alumni Association (UTSAA) after almost 20 years of service.

Don has been a Director since 1993, serving as UTSAA President from 1995 to 1999. In 1999, Don became Executive Director of the Alumni Association. He was also Director of the UTS Office of Development and Alumni Affairs (now the UTS Office of Advancement) until June 2007. At the UTSAA Annual General Meeting on May 30, 2012, UTSAA President John Wilkinson ’78 and UTS Executive Director Martha Drake acknowledged Don’s long-term service to the UTSAA and presented Don with a gift that will benefit UTS students directly: the UTSAA grant to student activities will now be known as the “H. Donald Borthwick Student Activities Fund”.

Albert Greer ’55 has retired from his

post as artistic director – which he has held since 1977 – of The Cellar Singers, a renowned mixed-voice choir based in Simcoe County and Muskoka. Greer came to the Cellar Singers with a wealth of experience from his time as conductor of the Bathurst Heights Secondary

School Choir, North York Chorus, North York Teachers’ Choir, and Ontario Youth Choir as well as his reputation as an outstanding tenor soloist. Former classmate Jim Domm ’55 points out that Albert “started his vocal career as a lead in the UTS Gilbert and Sullivan operetta HMS Pinafore in 1953.” During Albert’s tenure, the Cellar Singers developed an excellent reputation for its annual concert season, performing many works from the classical choral repertoire.

Highlights of Greer’s leadership included a concert tour of England in 1990 and a European tour including Prague, Budapest, and Vienna in 1999. Greer will continue to serve as organist and choir‑master of St. James Anglican Church, Orillia.

Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune (McGill-Queen’s) written by former UTS teacher Rod Stewart and his wife Sharon Stewart, made The Globe and Mail’s list of top 100 books of 2011 for non-fiction.

Windscape, a project for the 2012 Luminato Festival, was created by

Windscape at the 2012 Luminato Festival

Diamond Schmitt Architects – of which Don Schmitt ’70 is a principal – in conjunction with artist Mitchell F. Chan.

The installation inspired The Globe and Mail’s Martin Knelman to write: “Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a windsock, which by day looks like an oversized carrot in flight but at night takes on endless colours and plays choreographed stunts to take us on flights of fancy with musical partners.”

The installation transformed Toronto

Left: Don Borthwick ’54. Centre: Albert Greer ’55. Right: Former UTS teacher, Rod Stewart and wife Sharon Stewart.

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downtown’s David Pecaut Square into a welcoming hub for the festival.

Nick Stark ’74 and Bill Robson ’77 are both graduates of the 36th Toronto ICD-Rotman Directors Education Program (DEP). Jointly developed by the Institute of Corporate Directors and UofT’s Rotman School of Management, DEP helps participants to clarify their governance mission and fully exercise their leadership potential as board directors.

David Frum ’78 is

the author of seven books, including most recently his first novel, Patriots (CreateSpace, May 2012), a political satire about life in Washington that The Economist described as “excellent political satire – and, for those in the know, bears more than a passing resemblance to reality.”

David is a CNN contributor and also a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast.

Last fall, awardwinning cooking instructor, food historian, and former chef, Michael Krondl ’78, published a new book Sweet Invention: A History of Dessert (Chicago Review Press, 2011).

The book combines copious research and skilled narrative in a journey through the history of dessert. Italian and Chinese translations are scheduled to be published in late 2012.

Richard Marin ’80, author of

the bestselling memoir Cad: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor (Hyperion, 2004), recently published a Kindle Single entitled Keep Swinging “which chronicles the rookie season of an indoorsy TV writer raising two alpha boys whose life turns around when he gets off the

There are lots of great ways to stay in touch!

The Alumni E-Directory – sign-up at:

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sidelines, puts on a jersey that’s three sizes too big and throws himself into the world of kids sports.” (For more on Rick, see “That’s Entertainment!” on page 19.)

Root editor Diana Shepherd ’80 recently served as a judge for the 30th Annual Western Magazine Awards, selecting the winner of the Gold Award for Best Article. The Western Magazine Awards Foundation (WMAF) honours and celebrates editorial excellence in Western Canadian magazine writing, photography, illustration, and art direction. “During my career as a magazine writer and editor, I have entered articles and publications into industry competitions,” she says, “but this is the first time I’ve ever been on the other side of the table. It was an eye-opening experience!” The awards ceremony took place in Vancouver on June 15, 2012.

Kim Lee Kho ’81 is painting away madly to prepare for an exhibition at the Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art Gallery in Guelph (September 15-October 15); for more information, call the gallery at 519-821-9068.

Warm up your winter mornings with a cup of your favourite brew in a UTS mug!

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ALUMNI NEWS In September 2011, UofT professor Dr. Martin Schreiber ’81 was named one of Ontario’s most outstanding university teachers by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA).

“Professor Schreiber is recognized by his colleagues as ‘an exceptional teacher, and a cornerstone’ of UofT’s Undergraduate Medical Education program,” said Judith Poe, chair of the Teaching Award selection and past award recipient. “This, coupled with his commitment to promoting studentcentred learning make him a natural choice for an OCUFA Teaching Award.”

A nephrologist at St. Michael’s Hospital, Martin is the recipient of 41 teaching awards, including the Dean A. Chute (Silver Shovel) award, the University of Toronto President’s Teaching award, and St. Michael’s Hospital Department of Medicine Outstanding Postgraduate Teaching award. “It has been my great privilege to be able to spend time helping medical students and postgraduate trainees learn about medicine, both at the University of Toronto and at St. Michael’s Hospital,” he said.

Sheila Miller ’82, who holds Bachelor’s

and Master’s degrees in music, teaches yoga, mindfulness meditation, singing, and piano in Toronto.

Meredith Hawkins ’84,

professor of medicine and director of the Global Diabetes Initiative at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York City, is the recipient of the Outstanding Investigator Award – the American Federation for Medical Research’s (AFMR) highest honour for medical research. The prestigious prize is given annually to one exceptional investigator aged 45 or younger for excellence in biomedical research. Meredith was 24

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selected for her diabetes research, which examines the liver’s role in glucose regulation and production, and how elevated fatty acids contribute to insulin resistance and inflammation in humans with glucose intolerance or obesity.

“Dr. Hawkins is an innovative clinical scientist, committed mentor, prolific member of our Diabetes Research Center, and an international force through her leadership of Einstein’s Global Diabetes Initiative,” said Harry Shamoon, M.D., director of the EinsteinMontefiore Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and one of her former research mentors. “This is welldeserved recognition.” Meredith is a previous recipient of AFMR’s Junior Physician-Investigator Award. She is also an attending physician in endocrinology at Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Further to the announcement in the last issue of The Root letting us know about the arrival of Serena Lauren Falconer Wilson, daughter of Elizabeth (Allan) Wilson ’91 and David Wilson, Elizabeth writes: “Serena’s maternal greatgrandfathers both attended UTS, and we were pleased to locate photographs of James Gilbert Falconer ’19 and Blandford Meredith Eliot Allan ’27, along with a photo of our lovely Serena.”

Allie Binnie ’93 and Pedro Castelo Branco are pleased to announce the birth of their son Tiago Corneil Binnie Castelo Branco in Toronto on March 20, 2012. Tiago, brother of big sister Sofia,

weighed in at 3.3 kilos. Also celebrating are grandparents Alice and Antonio in Portugal and Susan and Ian in Toronto.

The Poplack family has had much to celebrate recently. On March 7, Jonathan ’89 and his wife Dr. Heather Thomson, welcomed a daughter, Thea Maude; and just a few weeks later, on March 27, Jonathan’s brother Mitch ’94 and his wife Rachel welcomed Myles Maxwell. Myles joins big sister Hannah.

Myles and Hannah Poplack

In August, 2011, former Trinity College student, Mike Morgan ’97, was appointed the first-ever Raymond Pryke Chair and director of the Margaret MacMillan Trinity One program – one of the University of Toronto’s most prestigious and competitive first-year programs.

In July 2012, he took up a position as assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He writes: ”My wife, Molly Worthen,

James Gilbert Falconer ’19, Blandford Meredith Eliot Allan ’27, and Serena, daughter of Elizabeth (Allan) Wilson ’91

who’s also a history professor, was offered a job at UNC earlier this year. UNC subsequently offered me a position too. I loved my job at UofT (I had a UTSer in one of my classes this past year, and a number of UTSers have done extremely well in the Trinity One program over the last few years!), but since it’s rare to find two academic jobs at the same institution, we made the difficult decision to leave Toronto. We’re excited about the new challenges ahead in Chapel Hill and plan to stay connected to Toronto while we’re down there.”

A launch party was held in June 2012 for “Premieres”, the first album from violinist Conrad Chow ’99. The CD, which is generating excitement in both Canada and the US, features Conrad performing with Sinfonia Toronto, conducted by UTS music teacher Ron Royer; tracks include premiere recordings of music by renowned Oscar Nominee and Emmy Award-winning L.A. film composer

Jonathon Lee ’02

Bruce Broughton, and works by Ron and another Canadian composer, Kevin Lau.

heroes. For more on this, see Branching Out on page 27.]

In April 2012, Farah Mohamed interviewed Elisha Muskat ’01 for the “Giving” column in The Globe and Mail. Elisha is executive director of Ashoka Canada – a global association of individuals with 2,000 fellows worldwide who have system-changing ideas to solve some of the world’s most urgent social problems. Elisha was introduced to Ashoka when she researched the organization as part of her MBA at the Schulich School of Business, from which she graduated in 2008. [In the article, Elisha cites John Mighton as one of her

Jonathan Lee ’02 recently competed in

Bravo’s TV series, Way Off Broadway.

The show follows 21 Canadians who face their fears to live their dream in Sarina Condello’s production of The Wizard of Oz. When he is not singing and playing guitar, Jon is occupied with completing the requirements of his psychiatry residency training at the University of Toronto and doing research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in transcranial magnetic stimulation. He has been a tenor in the University of Toronto Gospel Choir for four years.

Want to hear original pieces by UTS students and alumni or recall the day when you or your classmate wrote a song for the Twig Tape? Presenting:

uTunes

the UTS student-run online music repository For a digital version of every Twig Tape since 1985, go to http://utunes.utschools.ca or click the uTunes button on the UTS homepage: www.utschools.ca

The new CD by Conrad Chow ’99.

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ALUMNI NEWS Chava Schwebel ’04 graduated UofT Law this past spring and will be joining Paul Weiss’ corporate practice group in New York in September 2012. Chava also provided updates for her siblings, Paula ’99 and Aaron ’06. Paula recently finished her Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Toronto (2011); she spent 2012 as a Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and she will be taking up a fellowship (2012-2015) at the University of Potsdam, Germany and the University of Chicago.

Aaron just finished his Masters in Violin Performance at Indiana University and will be an apprentice with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa this year; he is also a substitute violinist for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Shereen Ladha ’06 was a member of the dance troupe “Broken Dance”, which made it to the finals on the TV show Canada’s Got Talent this year.

Sima Atri ’08 and Salvator Cusimano ’08

were featured in a recent UofT Magazine article entitled “In Pursuit of Justice” – a reflection on their travels last summer to Northern Uganda to conduct research related to the involvement of children in conflict and its consequences for peacebuilding and transitional justice efforts.

Sima and Salvator were interested in the

question of justice for the massive human rights violations that have occurred: in particular the forced abduction of children pressed in to service with the rebels or the army. They interviewed more than 700 individuals across Northern Uganda and presented a report of their analysis and recommendations to three UN agencies. Sima says, “Traveling abroad to work on an independent project was an incredibly rewarding experience,” says Sima, who hopes that their findings “will also help actors on the ground learn how to address a set of complicated issues more effectively.”

Noam Bierstone ’08 is a founding

member of the percussion quartet Architek, which performed at Gallery 345 in Toronto on June 6, 2012. The Montréal-based group focuses on the presentation of avant-garde art music, and experimental and electroacoustic works. Architek is also dedicated to the creation of new works by Canadian composers. The innovative quartet recently was a featured ensemble in the “Journées de la culture” in Montréal and also worked with Vinko Globokar at The Music Gallery in Toronto. The four members met as students at McGill University and have since received favourable reviews from audiences and musicians alike. Noam won Grand Prize

at the 2009 Canadian Music Competition, as well as Third Prize and the Domaine Forget Prize at the 2009 OSM Standard Life Competition. He made his soloist debut with the Orchestre Métropolitain in 2011 and, in December 2011, he performed at the Thierry De Mey live@ CIRMMT concert in the presence of the composer. Noam holds a Bachelor’s degree in performance from McGill University and will continue studies this fall at the Conservatoire de Paris, pursuing a Master’s degree.

A new book of poetry, Begin With the End in Mind (Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2012), by Emma Healey ’09, has been described as: “Residing on the border between poetry and prose.” Her poems explore relationships and experiences as they are distilled through encounters with such diverse elements as “the CBC, chain bookstores, the contents of a kitchen, or the expanse of a whole city.” Emma is a creative writing major at Concordia University. Her fiction has appeared in Joyland, Broken Pencil, Cellstories, Can’tLit, and Gulch. She is also the founder and editor-in-chief of The Incongruous Quarterly, an online literary magazine “devoted to publishing unpublishable literature.”

Congratulations Class of 2012

LEFT: Shereen Ladha ’06. RIGHT: Sima Atri ’08 and Salvator Cusimano ’08 and friends in Northern Uganda.

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Our graduating students were offered $1.7 million in university scholarships this year! UTSAA Director, Professor Donald Ainslie ’84, stopped by the school in June to congratulate them and to welcome them to the ranks of UTS alumni. In addition to sharing information about the UTSAA, his reflections on what being a UTS alumnus means to him resonated with the group.

The UTSAA looks forward to hosting the graduates of 2012 at a banquet in their honour in November.

Left: Don Ainslie ’84. Centre Left: John Mighton. Centre right: John Allmang ’70. Right: Wen Chan ’95.

News from the Branching Out Mentoring Program The Branching Out Mentoring Program has set a new record! 36 alumni ranging from ’76 through ’07 have been paired with students now in S6.

On May 7, we were privileged to welcome John Mighton (father of alumna Chloe Mighton ’10) to speak to the group. John is an Ashoka Fellow, a winner of the 2005 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, and the inventor of JUMP (Junior Undiscovered Mathematical Prodigies) – a not-forprofit program that enhances kids’ math skills. Ashoka is a global organization that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs. Elisha Muskat ’01 (mentor this year to Sarah Liu ’13 and last year to Min Jo ’12), the executive director of Ashoka Canada, was on-hand to introduce John. He shared some powerful messages – including how he overcame his failures in creative writing and mathematics to become a successful playwright and to earn a doctorate in mathematics. He stressed that open-mindedness, innovation, and experimentation are the keys to success.

Alumni are invited to an Alumni Panel on Scientific Careers on Thursday, November 29 at 6:30 p.m. Check your email newsletters for further details. Be sure to send updated email address info to alumni@utschools.ca.

We need you! A new group of students will be applying to Branching Out in February, 2013. Alumni from the late ’80s to the mid-2000s are urged to consider volunteering for this worthwhile program.

Please contact the Office of Advancement at 416-978-3919 or alumni@utschools.ca.

Branch Events Vancouver On March 29 2012, Martha Drake (Executive Director, Advancement) and Rafe Angell ’83 hosted a Vancouver Branch Event at Milestones Yaletown.

A great time was had by the 18 alumni ranging from the Class of ’45 to the Class of ’08. Rafe has been appointed the “B.C. Rep” and has started a Facebook group for alumni living in B.C. Upcoming Events Hong Kong: UTSAA Director Phil Weiner ’01 is planning to host a Branch Event

Vancouver Branch event. L-R: Mary Ainslie ’83, Kevin Keystone ’03, David Ingram ’58, Des Horan ’45, John Hunter ’67, Martha Drake, Suzanne McBeath ’93, Ian Worland ’86, Rafe Angell ’83, Charlie Snelling ’56, John Caldwell ’87, Baldwin Hum ’93, Doug Carter ’70, David Sutherland ’70, Rein Vasara ’58, Alex Hart ’70, Paul Wright ’70.

on November 3, 2012. Alumni in the Far East, contact alumni@utschools. ca or 416-978-3919 to update your information. Invitations will be emailed and updates will be posted on Facebook (www.fb.com/utschools) as well as on the UTS website (www.utschools.ca/ alumni).

Montreal: Friday, November 10, 2012 Principal Rosemary Evans will host a reception for Montreal-area alumni.

(Details to be sent out by email invitation.) Contact alumni@utschools. ca or 416-978-3919 to update your information.

Alumni Visitors In April, S6 (Grade 12) Writer’s Craft students were treated to some illuminating insights when journalist John Allemang ’70 shared practical tips and advice. He suggested students read George Orwell’s essay, Politics and English Language, and emphasized the importance of “making yourself an expert in something.” He mentioned the potency of simple words and pointed out that readers find real-life chronicles fascinating. RIM engineer Wen Chan ’95 visited the S6 Computer Science class.

He shared his belief that engineers both understand and master the world around us, and that they are driven to make things better. Wen holds that self-esteem, intuition, creativity, and testing wild ideas are the important characteristics of engineers. He advised students to keep their options open and not to overlook the trades. Wen’s Branching Out mentee, Allan Luk ’13, thanked Wen on behalf of the class.

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In Memoriam Remembering the Lives and Achievements of our Alumni

James Davidson Lang ’47 1928 –2012 James (Jim) Lang ’47 passed away on May 19, 2012. What can you say about a man’s life in 250 words or less? That nice guys, like Jim, don’t always finish last. That he lived for more than 83 years despite his fondness for alcohol, television, and golf. That his loyalty, dependability, and strong moral compass left a lot of people, including a wife, two sons, five grandchildren (including Lindsay Lang ’00), and seven great grandchildren mourning his passing.

Jim was a popular classmate, better known for his athletic prowess than for his academics. That may be why he decided to leave UofT after his first year to begin work as a salesman in the family business, Lang Brothers’ Specialty. His brother, Gord, also joined the business after completing university. They worked closely with their dad until his death in 1959. They developed two divisions: Samson Dominion, which manufactured electrical appliances; and Connecticut Chemicals (now CCL Industries). By the end of the 1960s, it is likely that every home in Canada contained at least one of their products.

In the early 1970s, Jim decided to sell his stake in the company. He had purchased a country property north of the city a few years earlier and agriculture had started to consume more of his time and passion. Along with his sons, David ’70 and John, he developed a prominent purebred cattle operation called JL Farms. By the late 1980s, they

Condolences are extended to the families of these alumni who passed away recently.

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Benson T. Rogers ’30

William Francis ’48

February 27, 2012

June 3, 2012

H. Murdo MacKinnon ’34

William Henderson ’49

July 8, 2012

February 3, 2012

Charles Wilson ’36

George Gibson ’50

March 24, 2012

September 11, 2011

Thomas Brown ’37

David Shiels ’52

July 15, 2012

May 2, 2012

Lyman Henderson ’39

Robert McCleary ’53

June 22, 2012

February 10, 2012

Walter R. Henson ’43

Robert Wilkinson ’57

April 14, 2012

February 7, 2012

Richard M. Wilson ’45

Duncan A. Baillie ’60

March 31, 2012

April 18, 2012

James D. Lang ’46

Paul R. Davidson ’66

May 19, 2012

June 15, 2012

M. Peter Whyte ’46

Shaun Gollish ’77

March 4, 2012

May 22, 2012

John Finlay ’47

Leslie Dunlop ’79

October 17, 2010

April 18, 2012

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were considered among the top breeders of Simmental cattle in North America.

How can you sum up a life in five words? He was a good man.

– David Lang ’70, Jim’s son

William Francis ’48 1930–2012 71 years ago, 11 year-old William (Bill) Francis made his way to UTS. Bill was a good student and participated in extra-curricular functions ranging from president of Literary Society to manager of the senior basketball team, with many activities in between. He graduated in 1948 with two university scholarships and moved on to Medicine at UofT where he joined Theta Delta Chi Fraternity.

A new hospital, York Finch, opened in 1971 and Bill was Chief of Obstetrics & Gynaecology on opening day. Over his 30 years, he delivered 8,000 babies (267 per year). There, Bill conceived of the “Awesome Golf Tournament” which is now a major fundraiser for the Humber River Regional Hospital. He was known as Dr. Awesome – a term that so typifies Bill’s character. Through his active years in practice, he was totally committed to excellence and was highly regarded by his peers. He continued contact with the Hospital right up until mid-May of this year.

Bill’s vivacious nature was a reflection of the love and affection he had with Leona (Bunny) during their 32 years of marriage. Bill was always there for his friends and performed many kind acts in a very quiet way. If it were a medical issue, he would lean on one of his connections to get resolution. If it were a non-medical issue, he would lend an ear and help to connect with resources to solve the problem. He epitomized what friends are all about: being there to help friends in need.

– John Bowden ’48

Leslie Jane Dunlop ’79 1962–2012 Leslie Dunlop ’79 passed away on April 18, 2012 after a courageous battle with cancer. Leslie arrived at UTS with the first intake of girls in 1973. She earned a B.A. in 1983 from Trinity College, UofT, and an LL.B. in 1986 from the UofT Faculty of Law. Leslie spent the early years of her career at McMillan Binch and then Faskens where she developed her expertise in intellectual property. She was corporate counsel at Quaker Oats for eight years. In 2001, she became vice president and corporate counsel at Bioniche Life Sciences. Leslie thrived in the complex, fast-paced environment of a small biotech firm, tackling each challenge with the combination of wit, intelligence, and integrity that earned her the respect and love of friends and colleagues.

Leslie’s life-long love of the arts, particularly music, was nurtured at UTS. Jean Iu ’79 recalls: “Leslie was a quiet soul with deep feelings… In music, she found her voice and her passion.

Fortunately for Leslie, [music teacher] John Fautley arrived at UTS in ’74; he brought life and excitement to the UTS music program and Leslie was a beneficiary. As an accomplished clarinet player, Leslie played in the concert band.

Music remained a passion throughout Leslie’s life – a passion she shared with her daughter, Zoe. Leslie generously gave her time and talent as a member of the boards of Loyalist College, Albert College, and UTS. She served on the first UTS Board of Directors, established in 2004, and devoted herself passionately to strengthening the school.

Leslie is sadly missed by daughter Zoe, mother Frances, husband Harvie Brydon, sister Alex, and many relatives and friends.

– Jenifer Aitken ’79 and Jean Iu ’79

TOP: A small but enthusiastic group of alumni from the Class of ’92 met at the school on Saturday, August 11 to reminisce and meet each other’s family members. Out-of-towners from Vancouver, Waterloo, Virginia, and Maryland attended. Former staff members Scott Baker, Frank Mustoe, and Mary (Vecchio) McCrae dropped by to extend their anniversary congratulations. bottom: In recognition of the 337 Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps’ historic ties to UTS, its Annual Ceremonial Parade returned to Varsity Arena on June 9, 2012 for the first time in more than 40 years. Alumni, former Cadets, veterans, students, and staff were invited to attend. The Corps’ Captain, Warren Ralph ’71,was in attendance, and Principal Rosemary Evans was on hand when a special presentation was made to UTS. A special tribute was also paid to alumni veterans.

Make a difference today for tomorrow’s students...

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TOP LEFT: The Brothers Lowden (Steve ’56, Jim ’54, Sandy ’51) at the Golf Tournament; TOP RIGHT: Michael Gillies ’67, champion golfer. BOTTOM: together on the ice, the UTSAA hockey game participants.

17th Annual UTSAA Alumni Golf Tournament Our 17th annual golf tournament took place on a sunny June 19,, 2012 at St. Andrews Valley in Aurora. The proceedings – which included an update on the school site situation from Martha Drake (Executive Director, Advancement) and UTS Board member David Allan ’78 – were enjoyed by all.

Michael Gillies ’67 clinched the “Hargraft Trophy for Champion Golfer” for the first time. The “Low Net Trophy” went to Peter Frost ’63. Dave Lang ’70 and Peter Frost ’63 shared the “President’s Trophy”, and Bob Tweedy ’60 won the “Don Borthwick Legends Trophy” nipping our legendary Don by one shot.

The “Dave Jolley Memorial Trophy” for best ball by class was won for the second time by the class of ’70’s Bob Jacob, Paul Wilson, and Bob Tweedy. Doug Rankin ’78 won the long drive contest, 30

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and Dave Decker ’70 nabbed the shortest drive challenge. Finally, the “Don Kerr [’39] Trophy” for most honest golfer was awarded again to Henry Noble ’55.

Our thanks to our sponsors, House of Kangaroo, for their continued support, and to Carole Zamroutian, Alumni Affairs Officer, who, along with Martha Drake, joined in the post-round festivities.

Here’s hoping to see you next June at our 18th tournament!

– Peter Frost ’63 and Nick Smith ’63

UTSAA Hockey Game 2012 An alumni hockey game, organized

by Peter Frost ’63, John Hass ’83, UTS Athletic Director Jeff Kennedy, and Alumni Affairs Officer Carole Zamroutian, was held on March 30, 2012 at Varsity Arena. Players – including 13 players from the class of 1978 – spanned more than 50 years! The Martins

made it a family affair with Jon ’82, Mike ’84, and Mike’s sons Adam ’11 and star goalie Cameron ’15, while alumna (mom & spouse) Suzanne ’84 cheered from the stands. UTS Board Members (Andre Hidi ’77 and David Allan ’78) and UTSAA Board Members (Peter Frost ’63 and George Crawford ’72 – who cheered along his son, Stephen ’07) also attended the game. Principal Rosemary Evans dropped the puck and the “Old Boys” (the Class of ’82 and older, coached by Al Fleming ’54 and Norm Fox ’48) battled the “Young Guys” (Class of ’83 and younger, coached by Jeff Kennedy). UTS Health and Physical Education teacher Mitch Chuvalo manned the penalty box.

The game was close but the Old Boys prevailed winning 9–5. A post-game celebration at The Duke of York was enjoyed by players and spectators alike.

See you on the ice in 2013!

– By John Hass ’83

Annual Donor Report Thank you. Your generous support is much appreciated!

As a community, you have been very generous! Your donations have made an impact in many areas, including financial aid, classroom and athletic equipment, capital improvements, and student projects. Your support helps to ensure that UTS is able to offer the outstanding education and financial accessibility that have been such important parts of the UTS experience for many years. Thank you to all the individual donors and also to all the groups who gave as a class to UTS. – Rosemary Evans, Principal This report recognizes gifts to the UTSAA Annual Fund and other UTS projects for the period July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012.

Donors who have given for five consecutive years ♥ Monthly Donors

1930–1937

1939-1940

Total: $2,190 Benson T. Rogers ’30 A. Gillean MacKinnon ’32 Richard J. Boxer ’36 Geoffrey M.C. Dale ’36 Ralph L. Hennessy ’36 Ian A. MacKenzie ’36 Thomas C. Brown ’37 John G. W. McIntyre ’37

Total: $550 Robert G. Dale ’39 Peter A. Hertzberg ’39 Ernest C. Goggio ’40 James O. Sebert ’40

1941 Total: $835 David Y. Anderson Walter E. Bell, Q.C. Grant N. Boyd Kenneth C. Brown Richard W. Jeanes W.H. Frere Kennedy ♥ G. Jarvis Lyons J. B. Seaborn, C.M.

1938 Total: $1,350 John H. C. Clarry, Q.C. W. T. Erskine Duncan Donald Fraser John C. Laidlaw John A. Rhind William A. Sheppard, Q.C.

Principal’s Circle Our thanks to the members of the UTS community who contributed $1,000 or more.

David C. Allan ’78 Paul L. Barnicke ’71 Dan Berbecel ’08 Anthony Berger ’92 Monica E. Biringer ’78 William R. C. Blundell, O.C. ’45 J. Christopher Boland ’73 J. Nicholas Boland ’79 Michael F. Boland ’71 Bothwell-Accurate Co. (2006) Limited John A. Bowden ’48 Michael Broadhurst ’88 Bruce E. Brown ’46 Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation Christopher Burton ’90 Peter L. Buzzi ’77 Gary F. Canlett ’54 Felicia Y. Chiu ’96 JC Clark Ltd. James S. Coatsworth ’69

Barry Cooper William J. Corcoran ’51 Andrew & Kathleen Dalglish Kevin E. Davis ’87 Robert C. Dowsett ’46 Martha Drake George W. Edmonds, Q.C. ’44 Denis R. Evans ’46 John R. Evans ’46 Rosemary Evans Richard A. Fairbanks ’74 Ruth D. Fairbanks James I. Fairbanks ’77 Peter Ferguson ’60 George A. Fierheller ’51 James ’49 & Margaret Fleck John J. Fox ’43 Thomas A. Friedland ’81 John B. Geale ’61 Gary & Sandra German Peter C. Godsoe ’56 K. Vanessa Grant ’80

B&B Hamilton Fund at the Toronto Community Foundation Dale E. Gray & James G. Hamilton Andre L. Hidi ’77 David J. Holdsworth ’61 Richard S. Ingram ’61 Alvin C. Iu ’73 Henry N. R. Jackman, O.C. ’50 Patrick Kaifosh ’06 Knightsgrange Foundation John I. Laskin ’61 Evelyn Kai-Li & Francis Li Robert E. Lord ’58 John H. Lynch ’59 W. Bruce MacLean Paul N. Manley ’61 Dena McCallum ’82 Bernard McGarva ’72 James A. McIntyre ’71 John G. W. McIntyre ’37

Daniel & Ingrid Mida Drs. Min & Chong Optometry Professional Corporation N. Andrew Munn ’80 Tazmin Merali & Nasir Noormohamed Susan E. Opler ’79 & Paul F. Monahan Bernadine Morris & Juri Otsason Pomerantz Family Elena & Marc Pope Kenneth Radcliffe ’44 Cedric E. Ritchie, O.C. David Rounthwaite ’65 William J. Saunderson ’52 Donald Schmitt ’70 D. Malcolm Seath ’58 James E. Shaw ’61 John N. Shaw ’50 Patricia Adams & Lawrence Solomon Paul & Theodora Soong

William W. Stinson ’51 George H. Stowe ’48 Andras Z. Szandtner ‘62 Estate of J. Stephen Tatrallyay ’75 John W. Thomson ’48 Tanya Lee & John Torrey Gregory Turnbull ’73 Vandewater Charitable Foundation at the Toronto Community Foundation Estate of Olwen Owen Walker David M. Ward ’61 John B. A. Wilkinson ’78 Douglas R. Wilson ’53 Robert J. Wright, Q.C. ’51 WWF-Canada Patricia Foran & Mark Yarranton Graham J. Yost ’76 Robert B. Zimmerman ’73 Anonymous (4)

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1942

Anonymous

Total: $650 William E. Gilday John E.A. McCamus Kenneth D. McRae A. Cal Wilson Anonymous

1947

1943 Total: $3,040 F. Geoffrey Adams John J. Fox James A. Low W.O. Chris Miller, Q.C. William R. Paul Joseph D. Sheard Anonymous

1944 Total: $6.932 David L. Bate C. Derek S. Bate Gordon S. Cameron Douglas R. Coutts George W. Edmonds, Q.C. G. Dean Gooderham Dr. F. Griffith Pearson Morton B. Pullan Kenneth Radcliffe George N. Soulis George A. Trusler Anonymous

1945 Total: $53,250 William R. C. Blundell, O.C. Donald G. Bunt Keith M. Gibson David S. Graham J. Desmond Horan Anonymous

1946 Total: $19,420 Bruce C. Bone Bruce E. Brown George H. Cuthbertson Robert C. Dowsett Denis R. Evans John R. Evans William A. Firstbrook H. Donald Guthrie, Q.C. James D. Lang Donald B. Montgomery James M. Tory, Q.C. David G. Watson Peter Webb, Q.C. 32

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Total: $2,183 William I. Copeland Michael A. Fair T. Douglas Kent Tracy H. Lloyd Thomas H. B. Symons Hugh E. Zimmerman Anonymous (2)

1948 Total: $9,550 Hugh Anson-Cartwright Philip L. Arrowsmith John A. Bowden Keith G. Dalglish Albert P. Fell Norman D. Fox William B. Hanley Michael K. Ireland J. Fergus Kyle Frederick F. Langford John G. C. Pinkerton George H. Stowe John W. Thomson Ian S. Wishart

1949 Total: $4,285 William H. Angus Gordon M. Barratt Richard M. Clee James & Margaret Fleck Robert E. Logan Chris Loukras Ian A. Stewart Richard D. Tafel

1950 Total: $3,075 Gilbert E. Alexander, Jr. Roger G. Crawford George A. De Veber Henry N. R. Jackman, O.C. David H. Lewis William J. McClelland William J. McIlroy John N. Shaw J. Frederick F. Weatherill Anonymous

1951 Total: $5,820 John Catto William J. Corcoran

John E. Crawford Peter Fairclough George A. Fierheller D. Ross Holden J. Alexander Lowden C. Michael McKeown, Q.C. David Spendlove William W. Stinson Allan Townshend Guy W. Upjohn James A. Wilkinson William E. Wilson Robert J. Wright, Q.C. Anonymous

1952 Total: $4,720 Gerald A. Crawford James D. Floyd E.A. Austin Fricker Gordon G. Goodfellow Peter J. Harris Richard S. Howe Leslie G. Lawrence R. Conrad Lister Jack F. McOuat Darrell B. Phillips William J. Saunderson

1953 Total: $3,380 Edward B. Cross Kenneth Culver Martin D. Gammack John W. Holland Robert Labbett William P. Lett James C. Mainprize Robert D. McCleary Alan E. Morson Gordon W. Perkin, O.C. Thomas Riley William E. Rogan Robert Saunders David O. Wainwright Hugh D. Wainwright Douglas R. Wilson

1954 Total: $5,025 David K. Bernhardt Ronald M. Bertram H. Donald Borthwick Douglas G. Brewer Gary F. Canlett James A. Cripps G. Alan Fleming Robert Gibson John M. Goodings

E. John Hambley Robert L. Joynt James R. Lowden D. Keith Millar John D. Murray Desmond M. O’Rorke J. Richard Parsons William R. Redrupp Gordon R. Sellery John H. Wait

1958

Total: $2,160 Harold L. Atwood David R. Brillinger John R. Gardner W. Gary Goldthorpe Albert Greer William T. Hunter Martin Jerry Howard D. Kitchen Robert K. Metcalf Anthony Morrison Ian M. Smith

Total: $8,170 George M. Carrick Douglas A. Davis Arthur D. Elliott Richard Farr Peter J. George Patrick T. Gray Bruce E. Houser William G. Leggett Robert E. Lord James R. Mills Kit Moore David P. Ouchterlony ♥ Douglas G. Peter J. Garnet & Susan Pink D. Malcolm Seath James M. Spence, Q.C. Joseph A. Starr J. Derek Taylor Rein C. Vasara Richard Walker William R. Weldon Barry N. Wilson

1956

1959

Total: $4,528 Paul B. Cavers Darcy T. Dingle Jon L. Duerdoth David M. Flint Joseph F. Gill Peter C. Godsoe, O.C. Ryan R. Kidd Stephens B. Lowden James C. McCartney, Q.C. Arthur R. Scace Peter D. Scott Peter F. Stanley Douglas I. Towers C. Murray Woodside

Total: $4,527 Donald G. Bell E. Bradley Brown Alexander A. Furness John K. Jacobi W. L. Mackenzie King Terence S. W. Lee John H. Lynch Roger A. Pretty Ian A. Shaw John A. Sloane James P. Stronach Ian C. Sturdee Tibor A. Szandtner Donald K. Wilson Robert J. Young

1955

1957 Total: $3,027 Murray A. Corlett Robert M. Culbert Robert G. Darling ♥ Robert A. Gardner James D. Graham James R. Grand Bruce M. Henderson Terence Johnson David W. Kerr Stephen A. Otto Alan B. Perkin John G. Sayers Donald Van Every J. Douglas Ward Class of 1957 Gift

1960 Total: $3,325 Peter Ferguson James & Mary Fisher John R.D. Fowell Robert P. Jacob Robert N. McRae J. Paul Mills Peter C. Nicoll R. Malcolm Nourse Douglas Rutherford Robert J. Tweedy

1961 Total: $33,304

Annual Donor report John B. Geale David J. Holdsworth Richard S. Ingram John I. Laskin Peter B. MacKinnon Paul N. Manley ♥ Donald Philpott Alexander D. Potts James E. Shaw James Sissons Michael Tinkler David M. Ward John R. Wright

1962 Total: $4,406 Gordon R. Elliot David A. Galloway Kirby M. Keyser Robert H. Kidd Donald A. Laing Peter W. C. Markle Donald A. McMaster David S. Milne W. Douglas Newman Michael A. Peterman Andras Z. Szandtner Bryce R. Taylor Wayne D. Thornbrough Allan G. Toguri Dean Tudor Robert S. Weiss Anonymous

1963 Total: $2,490 W. Paul Bates James E. G. Fowell Peter H. Frost Frank E. Hall Nelson G. Hogg John R. Kelk Robert D. Lightbody William N. F. Ortved J. Robert Pampe Lane K. Prentice J. Fraser Wilson Anonymous ♥

1964 Total: $1,601 James S. Cornell Collin M. Craig William R. Jones Michael F. Kimber David W. O. Rogers Jeffrey R. Rose Michael J. Ross

Peter W. Y. Snell ♥ George E. Swift J. Joseph Vaughan

David G. Stinson Paul Wright Anonymous

Gregory H. Knittl Timothy Turnbull Anonymous

Ann Louise M. Vehovec John S. Visosky John B. A. Wilkinson

1965-1966

1971

1975

1979

Total: $2,200 Robert A. Cumming ’65 James K. A. Hayes ’65 Peter G. Kelk ’65 Peter MacEwen ’65 Anthony J. Reid ’65 David Rounthwaite ’65 Jeffrey R. Stutz ’65 William A. MacKay ’66 John S. Rogers ’66

Total: $9,699 Paul L. Barnicke Derek A. Bate Michael F. Boland Paul Brace Peter G. de Buda John S. Floras Richard C. Hill ♥ Robert D. Hodgins Thomas M. Hurka J. Peter Jarrett James A. McIntyre William O. Menzel Peter G. Neilson ♥ Warren G. Ralph Adrian Shubert R.D. Roy Stewart Anthony Storey ♥ Class of 1971 Gift

Total: $11,400 Paul M. Anglin Graeme C. Bate Martin A. Chepesiuk Jonathan F. Lapp Kenneth J. McBey David M. Sherman Estate of J. Stephen Tatrallyay

Total: $3,360 J. Nicholas Boland John Burns Julie Gircys Andrew H.K. Hainsworth Jean C. Iu ♥ Susan E. Opler

1967 Total: $3,211 D. Peter Best George B. Boddington Richard J. Boxer Michael R. Curtis Peter C. Donat Joseph Fodor John J. L. Hunter, Q.C. Stephen H. Kauffman Gordon E. Legge Bruce R. Miller W. Scott Morgan Hugh W. Teasdale

1968-1969 Total: $3,624 John R. Collins ’68 John B. Lanaway ’68 Murray E. Treloar ’68 John Bohnen ‘69 William J. Bowden ’69 James S. Coatsworth ’69 John B. Deacon ’69 Stephen C. Farris ’69 Frederick R. E. Heath ’69 Robert J. Herman ’69 David White ’69 John D. Wright ’69 Anonymous ♥

1970 Total: $2,977 R. Ian Casson David A. Decker Douglas N. Donald Brian D. Koffman J. David Lang Peter H. Norman D. Kenneth Roberts Donald Schmitt

1972 Total: $2,525 George V. Crawford Robert L. Fowler David S. Grant Bernard McGarva Howard J. Scrimgeour Christopher D. Woodbury Robert Wright

1973 Total: $5,804 J. Christopher Boland Jeffrey Clayton David W. Fallis James C. Haldenby Alvin C. Iu ♥ John G. Kivlichan Miles Obradovich Dr. Jaak Reichmann John Sweet Gregory Turnbull Walter L. Vogl William W. Wilkins ♥ Robert B. Zimmerman

1974 Total: $2,646 Andrey V. Cybulsky Terence R. Davison Richard A. Fairbanks James H. Grout

1976 Total: $3,514 Peter M. Celliers Alistair K. Clute Myron I. Cybulsky Marko D. Duic Vincent J. Santamaura Jeffrey W. Singer Gary S. A. Solway Daniel P. Wright Graham J. Yost

1977 Total: $8,525 P. Timothy Birnie Peter L. Buzzi Robert B. Crewe James I. Fairbanks Andre L. Hidi David M. Le Gresley Stephen O. Marshall David R. McCarthy Anonymous

1978 Total: $13,274 David C. Allan Deborah Berlyne Monica E. Biringer Irene J. Cybulsky Sherry A. Glied Penelope A. Harbin Kenneth Kirsh Susan L. Lawson Dana Lewis-Orenstein Christina H. Medland Ann Pennington Douglas Rankin Donald A. Redelmeier Peeter H. Reichman John S. Robson John A. Rose Timothy Sellers

1980 Total: $4,323 Andrew P. Alberti Peter S. Bowen Sarah C. Bradshaw Kevin G. Crowston Christine E. Dowson David C. Evans K. Vanessa Grant Sheldon I. Green Bernard E. Gropper Daniel R. Houpt Eric Kert Abba Lustgarten Nomi Morris N. Andrew Munn James B. Sommerville Christine D. Wilson

1981 Total: $3,030 Sigita J. Bersenas-Balzekas Suzanne E. Campbell Jeremy Celliers Edward E. Etchells Lorna Finlay Christopher J. Francis Thomas A. Friedland Bruce M. Grant Thomas Hicks Alison J. Murray Sudhashree Rajagopal Hellen Spanjer Molly K. Whalen

1982 Total: $2,560 Benjamin T. B. Chan Peter K. Czegledy Brian Denega Lisa C. Jeffrey ♥ Jon & Robin Martin Dena McCallum Anonymous (2)

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1983 Total: $1,500 Karen M. Mandel Laura Murray Earl Stuart Elizabeth Turner Daniel Yoon

1984 Total: $3,316 Donald C. Ainslie ♥ Nicholas G. Evans Edward A. Griffith ♥ David Kreindler Michael R. Martin Suzanne N. Martin Cameron A. Matthew Kosta Michalopoulos Chandragupta Sooran David J. Walker Anonymous (2)

1985 Total: $1,532 Isis E. H. Caulder Carrie Ku Kerstin Lack Grant Lum Carson T. Schutze Adrian M. Yip

1986 Total: $888 Tracy A. Betel David C. Bourne Mark D. Phillips Julie Williams

1987 Total: $2,536 John R. Caldwell Julia Cochrane ♥ Kevin E. Davis Sascha M. Hastings J. Timothy Morgan Jill R. Presser Cari M. Whyne Thomas Wilk

1988 Total: $2,420 Jennifer Andersen Koppe ♥ Michael Broadhurst James Cheng Sujit Choudhry Carmen Diges 34

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Eugene H. Ho Anonymous

1989 Total: $1,352 Michelle Alexander Margaret S. Graham Naomi Hume Michael Lower Eric Petersiel David M. Shaw Gregory R. Shron Anonymous

1990 Total: $ 3,750 Tanya Y. Bartucz Winsome S. Brown Christopher Burton Matthew G. Campbell Jason Fung Jessica R. Goldberg Sara H. Gray Lennox Huang Henry White

1991 Total: $2,088 Karen B. Chan Sandra A. Chong ♥ Aaron M. Dantowitz Jordan J. Feld Audrey M. Fried-Grushcow Jeffrey Gans Jason D. Jones Class of 1991 Gift

1992 Total: $1,750 Karim Abdulla Anthony Berger Lia Copeland Oliver M. Jerschow Anna Lim Christopher A. Watson

1993 Total: $2,540 Kai Ming Adam Chan Danielle I. Goldfarb Geoffrey R. Hung ♥ Alexander B. Hutchinson Jeffrey D. Jaskolka Jocelyn Kinnear T. Justin Lou Richard D. Roze Jason E. Shron ♥

Damian Tarnopolsky Scott A. Thompson Emily Wong Veronica C. Yeung

1994 Total: $1,574 Aaron L. Chan Adam Chapnick Brian Horgan Michael S. Jaskolka Harrison F. Keenan Rachel Spitzer Daniel E. Wang

1995 Total: $1,075 Nicole Agnew Rashaad Bhyat Robert Duncan Robin Rix Ilya Shapiro Jeremy Weinrib

1996 Total: $3,288 James A. Browne Felicia Y. Chiu Amanda A. Martyn Frank Min Ilan D. Muskat Emily Rix Amanda Ross-White ♥ Anonymous Class of 1996 Gift

1997 Total: $3,001 Jessica Gunderson Jeffrey Hall-Martin Michael D. Morgan ♥ Veena Mosur Michael Shenkman Anonymous

1998 Total: $1,251 Laura Bogomolny Clarence Cheng Judy S. Kwok Rebekah Wahba Anonymous

1999 Total: $945 Jonathan Bitidis

Meira Louis ♥ Jeffrey So Albert K. Tang

Carole (Geddes) Zamroutian ♥ Anonymous (2)

2001-2002

Parents

Total: $1,255 Ian K. Bradley ‘01 Philip P. Weiner ‘01 Jocelyn Cheng ‘02 Lea Epstein ‘02 Liang Hong ‘02 ♥ Anonymous (2)

Jennie Yi & John Bai Teddy Chien Andrew & Kathleen Dalglish Alison David & Bill Gore Andrew & Christine Guy Michelle & John Hull Hae-Young Kee & Yong-Baek Kim Daniel & Ingrid Mida Kathy Siminovitch & Michael Miloff Susan E. Opler ’79 & Paul F. Monahan Monica Caverson-Moranis & Stephen Moranis Cao-Minh & Hanh Nguyen Tazmin Merali & Nasir Noormohamed Patricia Adams & Lawrence Solomon Marshall Swadron Tanya Lee & John Torrey Patricia Foran & Mark Yarranton

2003 Total: $310 Allison Chow Kevin Keystone ♥ Johann Ly Justin Ma

2004-2009 Total: $2,685 Jonathan C. G. Bright ’04 ♥ Nina Coutinho ’04 ♥ Jessica D. Dorrance ’04 Mackenzie Tan ’05 Patrick Kaifosh ’06 Katherine Magyarody ’06 Eric Nicholson ’06 Jong Park ’07 Dan Berbecel ’08 Robert Bai ’09 Ana Komparic ’09

Current & Former Staff Garth Chalmers ♥ Jean Collins Dorothy Davis Rose Dotten ♥ Martha Drake ♥ Lynda Duckworth Fred Enzel ♥ Rosemary Evans ♥ H. Donald Gutteridge & M. Anne Miller Judith Kay Ping Kong Lai Rebecca Levere W. Bruce MacLean Anand Mahadevan ♥ Alec McCuaig Lily McGregor ♥ Paul Moore Rick & Sarah Parsons ♥ Marie-Claire Recurt Amy Schindler ♥ Ann Unger

Parents of Alumni Peter & Elizabeth Alberti Kailash & Maria Bahadur Robyn & Kevin Beattie David & Eileen Berger Mary Killoran & Douglas Bradley Consuelo Castillo Paul & Loretta Chan Alan & Jocelyn Chun Thane & Sylvia Crossley Nancy E. Epstein Aaron & Patricia Fenton Stephen & Anne Georgas Elena Gourlay Dale E. Gray & James G. Hamilton Susan Ormiston & Keith Harradence Kan Lee & Samuel Ip Shirley Chan & William Jeong Fred & Wendy Kaifosh Maria Kokai Czapar & Tibor Kokai Mario & Branka Komparic Catharine & Nestor Kostyniuk

Annual Donor report Jane Humphreys & Ron Lalonde Alan & Marti Latta James & Isabella Leung Fung & Binh Ly Dannie Lai & Man Yick Ma Christa Jeney & Thomas Magyarody Lou E. Mason Mary Anne Huggins & David McKeown Barbara A. Morgan Sara Shettleworth & Nicholas Mrosovsky Paul & Floree Muller Gary & Marney Opolsky Anthony & Elizabeth Parr Tomas & Alicia Quejada Donald & Nita Reed Cedric E. Ritchie, O.C. Richard & Jane Roberts Bruce & Maura Rowat Janet Stanton & Philip Sohm Paul & Theodora Soong John & Linda Unger Zulfikarali & Almas Verjee Clinton Wang Alexandru & Michaela Weiner Victor & Helen Wong Gloria Chung-Yu & Joseph Yu Anonymous (4)

Friends of UTS Erica Armstrong Mike & Jane Barber The Barber Family Bothwell-Accurate Co. (2006) Limited John & Julie Botsford Rob Brown Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation Duncan & Cecile Bull

Linda Campbell Stewart & Joan Marilyn Carter Karen Holmberg-Cash Ellen P. Chapnick Howard Cohen Gerald Connor Richard Conway David B. Cook Barry Cooper Robert & Grace Corcoran Allan Crawford Michael Cruickshank Robert J. Deluce George Deratnay John Digby Elizabeth Dixon Ruth D. Fairbanks John & Freda Finley Bob Fisher Russell Fleischer Joan Forrester Gary & Sandra German David & Diane Gilday Ruston & Lindy Goepel Donald & Jodie Gray Sheila Green Yung Hahn Glenn & Susan Hainey B&B Hamilton Fund at the Toronto Community Foundation Ann Wray Hampson The Hancocks Ken & Jane Harlock Douglas Heighington Gary & Ann Hill George & Lydia Holancin Wanda J. Hunter Geoffrey Hunter JC Clark Ltd. Barbara Jones Charlene Kalandyk Kevin Karst Eleanor Kerr

Jean Kitchen Knightsgrange Foundation John & Constance Langley Mike & Donna Lauber Jean Laundy Bob & Anne Lindsey Carlos Lopes Raymond Ludwin Team TopLynn Judy Macdonald Jacqueline Manji Manulife Financial Reg Marrison Kate Marshall John & Rosemary McIntosh Willson McTavish Joan M. Meek Gerry Merritt Mineola Men’s Hockey Peter & Frances Money Laetitia Murray Mary Neumann Ontario Power Generation The Osborne Group John & Gail Patterson Jeff Phillips Gary Blair & Earl Pinchuk Laura Pink Robin Porter Hubert Bonnet & Brent Reid Briony Reid Vincent Ricchio Elsa M. Roberts Rogers Family Rosedale Golf Club Mr. Bob Royle C. Peter Shirriff Jane Simpson Allison Sinclair Hugh W. Sloan, Jr. Kathy & Robin Smith Gordon & Laurie Squires Harriet Fear & David Taylor TELUS Communications Co.

Doug & Gail Todgham Elizabeth Tory Peter & Anne Trousdale William Turville Vandewater Charitable Foundation at the Toronto Community Foundation Estate of Olwen Owen Walker Sinead Walsh Charles & Ann Watson Colin & Barbara Watson Tom & Mary Watterson John & Maureen Webster Brian & Joyce Westlake Raymond & Muriel Whaley Scott White Sheila White Maclin Williams WWF-Canada Anonymous (8)

Graduating Class Bursary Project Class of 2012 Paul Brace ‘71 The Chan Family Kelly Ding Robert & Madelyn Elia Wendy V. Hatch & Edward E. Etchells ‘81 Drs. Min & Chong Optometry Professional Corporation Lilian Leung & Terence Chow Beverley Conner & Sydney Goldwater James & Katherine Gracie Abby Cheng & Hao Guan Don & Jeongmin Kim Lucky & Shyamali Lankage James & Sandra Lee Evelyn Kai-Li & Francis Li Bernadine Morris & Juri Otsason

The UTS Arbor Society for Planned Giving UTS would like to thank the following individuals who have declared their intention to include UTS in their charitable giving plans. We also thank all those who wish to remain anonymous.

Donald K. Avery ’49 Scott Baker, Former Teacher Gordon M. Barratt ‘49 C. Derek Bate ’44 Benjamin T. B. Chan ’82 James S. Coatsworth ’69 H. Stewart Dand ’43 Gillian (Davidson) Davies ’87

G. Alan Fleming ’54, Former Principal Stephen Gauer ’70 H. Donald Gutteridge, Former Principal, and M. Anne Millar Ralph L. Hennessy ’36 Arthur C. Hewitt ’49

Robert W. Hoke ’66 David J. Holdsworth ’61 Robert E. Lord ’58 James I. MacDougall ’54 W. Bruce MacLean, Former Teacher David Morgan ’63 J. Timothy Morgan ’87

John D. Murray ’54 Stephen A. Otto ’57 D. Kenneth Roberts ’70 Michaele M. Robertson, Former Principal John N. Shaw ’50 Murray E. Treloar ’68

If you have made a provision for UTS in your will, or would like to receive information on planned giving, please contact Martha Drake, Executive Director, Advancement at 416‑946‑0097 or mdrake@utschools.ca.

Gosia & Stan Pacyna Hongmei Li & Anbing Peng The Pomerantz Family Elena & Marc Pope Miriam Shuchman & Donald A. Redelmeier ‘78 Ewa & John Romanski Paul & Anthea Stern The Tang Family in honour of William Anonymous (6) Class of 2011 Camila Vaz & Jitendra Athayde Cindia Chau-Boon & Kevin Boon Wai Louie & John Chu Noor Dewji Jack & Angela Fong Jimmy & Aimee He & Family Kan Lee & Samuel Ip The Leith Family James & Isabella Leung Chau Ha & Man Ching Li Suzanne Martin ‘84 & Michael Martin ‘84 Nora Underwood & Tim Powis Paul & Janet Raboud Yun Oen & Yang Wang

Tribute Gifts Thank you to everyone who gave in honour or in memory of dear friends and family.

In Honour of: Bella Hahn ’16 Gerald Hill ’45 Mike Shenkman ’97 & Fleming Terrell In Memory of: Richard Boxer ’36 Karen Cossar ’82 Michael Elmarson ’87 William Francis ’48 Timothy A. Hunter ’59 John H. Macaulay ’45 John Malowney ’58 James W. McCutcheon ’54 Jody D. Ortved ’69 A. Gordon Stollery ’66 Lise Waxer ’83 H. Douglas Wilkins ’48 We make every effort to ensure the accuracy of information.

If you find an error or wish to have your name recognized differently, contact the Office of Advancement at 416-978-3919 or alumni@utschools.ca.

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Looking Back

Before there were computers and digital databases, there were index cards – and UTS had one for each student. From our archives, here are two such cards, for the brothers Hesselberg: Melvyn Edouard and George Lamar. Beginning in 1913, both boys attended UTS for a few years before moving to the US with their father, Eduoard Gregory (a classical concert pianist, composer, and teacher), and mother, Lena Priscilla.

Eduoard was appointed piano teacher and examiner at the Toronto Conservatory of Music (which was later renamed the Royal Conservatory of Music) in 1912; the family stayed in Toronto until 1918. The boys went on to become the movie actors Melvyn Douglas and George Douglas (taking the name of their maternal grandmother). Melvyn had an esteemed career as a dashing leading man (see “That’s 36

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Entertainment!” on page 18), while George played smaller roles – including the Sheriff in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.

They appeared together in My Own True Love (1949) – Melvyn in a starring role and George in a bit part. Melvyn served in the US army during WW2; “horrified” by anti-Semitism during a trip to Europe in 1931, he and his wife, Helen Gahagan Douglas, became outspoken anti-Fascists. Helen went on to become the third woman (and first Democratic woman) to be elected to Congress from California.

Further reading: A Full Life by Helen Gahagan Douglas (Doubleday, 1982).

See You at the Movies: The Autobiography of Melvyn Douglas

by Melvyn Douglas and Tom Arthur (University Press of America, 1986).