The Root Fall 2024

THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE

FALL 2024

THE GOOD LIFE

ALUMNI IN FOOD AND DRINK

PRESIDENT’S REPORT

Aaron Dantowitz ’91

OUTGOING PRESIDENT, UTSAA

Avanti Ramachandran ʼ09

INCOMING PRESIDENT, UTSAA

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Becoming In her autobiography, Becoming, Michelle Obama touches on her formative experience as a student at Whitney M. Young High School, Chicago’s first “magnet school.” Her description of Whitney Young may sound vaguely familiar: located in downtown Chicago, a 90-minute commute from her home on the South Side, the school was a “temple for learning” where it was “safe to be smart.”

The school, which had an admissions test, was, in the former first lady’s words, intended as an “equal-opportunity nirvana,” meant to bring together high-performing students of all kinds. Michelle describes being exposed there to kids from more affluent parts of town, as well as classmates from neighbourhoods similar to hers, who “struggled with far more than I ever would.” She includes an anecdote about leaving on a school trip to Paris, which her parents insisted upon despite their financial constraints. The anecdote, in which she describes the sensation of the plane accelerating down the runway, doubles as a metaphor for how the opportunity to attend Whitney Young thrust her into a world she would not otherwise have experienced.

This aspect of Michelle’s high school journey will resonate with many of us, for whom UTS was a similar launching pad that, notwithstanding our financial limitations, was accessible.

Over the years, as circumstances have pushed up the cost of a UTS education, offering this kind of experience to everyone has become more challenging. Bolstering the UTS Bursary Program is a vital way to reverse this tide, and to maintain the school’s essential promise of merit-based opportunity. This aspiration is embedded in the UTS Strategic Plan, which vows to: “Ensure every student who should be at UTS can attend and participate fully, without financial barriers, through an enhanced bursary program.” It is also a way to promote an exposure to economic diversity, which benefits all students, as well as the alumni they will become. ■ Outgoing UTSAA President Aaron Dantowitz ’91 is pleased to pass the torch to his successor Avanti Ramachandran ’09, who is looking forward to taking on the role, and thanks Aaron for his example and years of service.

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PAST PRESIDENT

Avanti Ramachandran ’09

Aaron Dantowitz ’91

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VICE PRESIDENT

Aaron Chan ’94

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TREASURER

HONORARY VICE PRESIDENT

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HONORARY PRESIDENT

DIRECTORS

Xiang Han Max Bai ’16 Max.Bai@utschools.ca

Winnie Cheng ’11

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Geoffrey Hung ’93

Ian Lee ’87, P ’27 Ian.Lee@utschools.ca

Graham Mayeda ’92

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David Morgan ’63

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David.Morgan@utschools.ca

Jean Iu ’79

Jeremy Opolsky ’03

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Julia Pomerantz ’12

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Meg Proctor ’84

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Lily Quan ’87

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Jeremy.Opolsky@utschools.ca

UTS acknowledges we are situated on the traditional territory of many Indigenous nations including the Anishnabeg peoples – the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Chippewa – as well as the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, which is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We also acknowledge that the land is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit. We are grateful to honour this land through our dedication to learning and ongoing commitment to Truth and Reconciliation.

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THE ART OF SUSTENANCE And the importance of choosing your own path

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NEW TRADITIONS FOR AN OLD WORLD Crafting careers and community in wine, beer and cider making

REGULAR FEATURES UTS Board Report . . . . . . . . 4 Principal’s Report. . . . . . . . . 4 Giving Back. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 In School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Alumni News. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Donor Report . . . . . . . . . . . 30

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ON THE COVER

Martha Drake

Sarah Brownlee, Dewey Chang, Maude Chauvin, Dan Chen, Martha Drake, Kimberley Fehr, Fox Run Vineyards, Michael Hainsworth P ’24, Rémi Hermoso, Emma Jenkin ’03, S6 (grade 12) Leo - The Twig, Kara LysneParis, Dr. Sarah Richardson ’97, M4 (grade 10) Silver - The Twig.

UTS alumni in food and wine: (top) Melissa Fox-Revett ’82, Martin Heslop ’04, Kate Nowell-Smith ’90, Aldous Cheung ’03, Nicole Campbell ’05, Alison Broverman ’99; (bottom) David Currie ’72, Ann Kim ’01, Tommaso Magnotta ’96, Brent Klassen ’85, Peter Bell ’74 and Erica McOustra ’00.

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BACKGROUND PHOTO CREDIT: Sarah Brownlee.

Dishes from Richmond Station, where Aldous Cheung ’03 is executive chef.

ABOVE

House spirit runs high at our annual House Track Day at University of Toronto’s Varsity Stadium.

Photo: M4 (grade 10) Silver – The Twig.

CONTRIBUTORS

Peter Buzzi ’77, Aaron Dantowitz ’91, Martha Drake, Dr. Leanne Foster, Truc Nguyen ’01, Avanti Ramachandran ’09, Tony Storey ’71.

Published spring and fall, The Root is available to all alumni, parents and friends of UTS. The Root is also available at: www.utschools.ca/root. Contact us at alumni@utschools.ca or 416-978-3919 to update your address or to receive your copy electronically.

JOINT REPORT

Together, we can ignite the brightest minds This fall, UTS launched our new Strategic Plan, unveiling a bold mission that embodies the essence of our school:

We ignite the brightest minds to make a difference in the world.

Peter Buzzi ’77

Board Chair, UTS

Dr. Leanne Foster Principal, UTS

In typical UTS fashion, we set the bar high. The plan is a symbiosis of past and future, building on an extraordinary tradition of academic achievement since 1910 and the lasting impact of our esteemed alumni who have made such a difference in the world.

Our new strategy recognizes our students as architects of the future, and aims to develop their potential to lead in an era of unprecedented change.

We want our students to be more than ready to rise to the challenge: we want them to ask courageous questions, think critically and lead with purpose.

The new Strategic Plan is more than a series of goals; it’s our shared commitment to ensuring that we, as a community, further our tradition of excellence and inclusion at UTS. Our school belongs to everyone in our community. To create a truly impactful Strategic Plan, we engaged with our stakeholders as our compass to guide this process.

We listened to their ideas and thoughts on what UTS means to them and the direction we should take, consulting with staff, students and parents, and soliciting alumni for their input.

It was inspiring to hear our alumni community’s thoughts and ideas for our school.

This plan was created by our community, for our community.

Academic excellence grounds our mission, while the vibrant diversity of our community drives us toward unprecedented achievement. We envision a future where equity and inclusion transcend ideals to become living principles – integral to our curriculum, essential to our culture and evident in every human connection.

This bedrock commitment to diversity and anti-racist practice defines both our present identity and our highest aspirations.

As we go forward, our work will be guided by five pillars, propelled to greater heights by our affiliation with the University of Toronto:

Photo: Michael Hainsworth P ’24

• Leading in Learning • Inclusion by Design • Belonging and Wellness

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• Impact with Integrity • Better Together

You can view the new UTS strategic plan online at strategicplan.utschools.ca.

At UTS, we believe that true leadership is defined by empathy, integrity and a drive to effect positive change.

The achievements of our alumni stand as living proof.

They are trailblazers, driven by courage and a commitment to justice, consistently making an impact in their fields and communities. Our graduates don’t just make a difference – they shape a more just, equitable world.

We all have a role to play by living our values, embracing our community and upholding the excellence of this extraordinary institution. This strategy will guide UTS forward into an even better version of our school, where everyone feels a strong sense of belonging, and our impact makes a profound difference in the world in which we live.

This is the UTS legacy. ■

LIVING OUR LIVES STRATEGICALLY Walk into the UTS Main Office and you will now be greeted by a beautifully designed wall bearing our new mission statement: “We ignite the brightest minds to make a difference in the world.” The adjacent wall, the one you will see as you turn to enter the rest of the school, shares our new vision statement: “To advance our longstanding tradition of academic excellence as a global leader in education, including through our affiliation with the University of Toronto and our partnership with the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.”

These are the opening statements of our new UTS Strategic Plan (strategicplan.utschools.ca) which goes on to declare our enduring commitment to anti-racism, equity, diversity and inclusion – a commitment that is woven into everything that we do. Not only does our new Strategic Plan provide opportunities for you to get involved, your involvement is vital. We can only bring our Strategic Plan to life with the contributions and support of the full UTS community.

You may be wondering what this could mean for you in practical terms.

There are many ways you can help – here are just a few suggestions.

Do you know people who would be well served by a UTS education, especially those who have been historically underrepresented at the school? Please use your UTS pride and your connections to advocate for our school and introduce to them the possibility of UTS. You can also come back to UTS for a visit, a tour or an event, to see firsthand what UTS is like today. If an in-person visit is not possible, reach out to us for a conversation to deepen your understanding of how UTS is advancing our tradition of excellence in an environment where all students and staff can feel a sense of belonging.

Another essential way you can get involved is by giving your support to the UTS Bursary Fund. This year, we are providing $2.6 million in bursary support to 111 students, 32 of whom are fully covered for their tuition.

We are supporting more students than ever before, and yet, rising tuition costs mean a UTS education is still beyond the reach of many deserving young people. We are committed to making our school accessible and can only achieve this goal with your help.

As retiring Board Directors Meg Graham ’89, P ’27, Kath Hammond ’87, P ’20 and Pamela Wong ’98, P ’28, left their final UTS Board meeting, I overheard them commenting about how the new UTS Strategic Plan rung true to the school they know and love as alumnae and parents, and sharing their excitement about what it holds for our future. I hope you feel the same way and are motivated to help us live up to our commitment to our school today and into the future.

Martha Drake

Executive Director, Advancement

UTS 2024-25 Co-Captains Avi and Nathan.

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IN SCHOOL

UTS F2 student (grade 8) Yeab kicked off the 2nd Annual Brilliancy and Resiliency Black Student Conference last spring at St. Michael’s College School by sharing a powerful speech about what Black brilliance and resilience means to him, coming from his experiences as a student at UTS. “The crowd was blown away by his eloquence, humanity and wisdom,” says UTS Deputy Principal Dr. Kimberley Tavares, who accompanied the students along with Event Coordinator Paula Jack and English Teacher Nkechinyem Oduh. Yeab was one of 11 UTS students who attended, taking part in an inspiring morning of workshops about how to navigate challenges and find strength in identity as Black students.

The UTS Badminton team proved that great things happen when we lift each other up! Coach Kris Ewing spoke about the spirit of the team, noting that “they strategize together, support each other’s matches and do a terrific job of encouraging each other. The team’s collective leadership is the secret to the team’s success!” The momentum carried into the Varsity Badminton Team finals and our players came away as TDCAA 2024 League Champions!

(There are even more players involved than pictured here.)

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For over a quarter century, English Teacher David Cope and French Teacher Brigitte Amiot have touched the lives of hundreds of UTS students with their commitment and dedication.

“It is mind-boggling to think of all the changes that happened at UTS over our time here,” says David, “the increases to student population and tuition as UTS became an independent school, the inevitable evolution of staff, and the renovation of our historic home, just to name a few. Sometimes, those changes have been difficult, but I can honestly say it has been exciting and invigorating to be here through this part of the school’s history.”

Many will remember the lively Mme Amiot teaching French virtually (and dancing on the beach) in Greece, when the pandemic struck during March Break 2020 and she couldn’t return from her vacation.

UTS presented Brigitte and David with gifts to honour their 25-year milestones at the end of the school year. Brigitte is going on leave for a year, after which she plans to retire. David notes this is actually his 30th anniversary, as he first joined UTS as a student-teacher five years before he began teaching at the school.

In School

While UTS M3 (grade 9) History students were in Ottawa they made friends in high places, meeting with the Honourable Chrystia Freeland P ’19, ’23, ’27 (pictured centre in black), Canada’s deputy prime minister and minister of finance, as well as a proud UTS mom. After the visit, Teacher Vince Dannetta heard students in the elevator dreaming of their own possibilities and saying how inspired they were

by Chrystia’s personal story of how she became engaged in politics.

Their Ottawa trip is a culmination of three years of history studies at UTS. In three days, students performed a mock trial in the Federal Court of Appeal, visited the Canadian Museum of History where they learned from a tour focused on Indigenous peoples, visited the National Gallery of Canada, drove along Sussex Drive to see some of the embassies, toured the Canadian War Museum, and even made time for bowling. Vince says: “The trip was one of those moments that left me feeling a great deal of gratitude for what I do.”

The UTS Trivia Team reached for the top and found trivial supremacy, with a clean sweep of two national competitions for the second year in a row. At Consensus National Championship in Toronto they were neck and neck with Calgary’s Renert School, but rallied for a decisive victory of 410-315 to take the cup!

Four UTS alumni were also at the tournament: Kunaal Chandrashekar ’23, Serena Suleman ’23, Elijah Mandelbaum ’23 and Jenny Mao ’12. The following weekend, they did it again at the Reach for the Top championship in Ottawa, winning 470-290 over Renert, with trivia fan and UTS alumna Morgan Ring ’07 (also proofreader of The Root) cheering them on.

“I am so proud of all of our players, who were really in their finest form,” said UTS Teacher Jon Bitidis ’99, who co-coached the team with Bryan Levesque, the school’s human resources and community coordinator. Will the team defend their championships for a third year in a row? Stay tuned.

This school year, UTS enhanced our academic team to strengthen support for students. Two head of school roles were created: Royan Lee (left) joined as head of middle school (F1 to M3), and Coretta Sampson (right) joined as head of senior school (M4 to S6). Tigist Amdemichael (centre) became dean of academics.

“My vision is to support our students in using their gifts to make a difference,” says Tigist. “Our innovative programming will enrich their minds while nourishing their emotional and physical wellbeing.” She brings expertise from her role in developing teacher curriculum at York University and 20 years of progressive science education leadership at the Toronto District School Board. Both Royan and Coretta come from roles as Ministry of Education student achievement officers and previously served in the York Region District School Board: Royan as a curriculum consultant and coordinator and Coretta as a principal and vice principal.

They join Jennifer Pitt-Lainsbury, who took on the newly created role of vice principal of academic operations, Garry Kollins as vice principal of student life and Nancy Dawe as our dean of students. Together with UTS Principal Dr. Leanne Foster, Deputy Principal Dr. Kimberley Tavares, and new Head of Anti-racism, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and Outreach Nasreen Khan, the team will work to enhance inclusion for all UTS students.

For more UTS news and views, check out our website at utschools.ca.

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O D O G L I E FE H T This issue of The Root explores a path less‑travelled by UTS alumni, celebrating the careers and communities of 12 alumni making their mark in culinary and vinicultural arts and sciences, as well as restaurateurs, brewmasters and cider makers.

They transform sustenance into a fine art, and uphold historic traditions of wine, beer and cider making with sustainability as a bottom line. Their work embodies both art and science; chemistry lies at the heart of great food and wine. Often, their hospitality builds

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PHOTO: Sarah Brownlee, courtesy of Aldous Cheung ’03

communities of their own making.

THE ART OF SUSTENANCE Six UTS alumni on cultivating community, their creative lives as chefs and restaurateurs, and the importance of choosing your own path.

BY TRUC NGUYEN ’01

“It’s funny, the restaurant industry was not something I ever, ever fantasized about or thought about when I was in high school,” says Alison Broverman ’99, co-owner of Borrel, described as Toronto’s only Dutch-inspired ‘brown café.’

“I was in the school plays and … my fantasy dream was probably to be an actress, and that’s really what I would’ve told you I wanted to be back when I was in M4 (grade 10) or S5 (grade 11),” says Alison. “But having a restaurant, the surprising thing about it is that it feeds a similar creative urge – when we open every night, there is an element of putting on a show about it. I feel

different when I’m behind the bar than when I’m just in my normal day at my desk.”

Alison, who studied theatre and worked as a writer and arts critic for a number of years, never planned on becoming a restaurateur. “For us, it really came organically out of something that my partner and I were doing for fun,” she says.

The dinner parties she was hosting for friends with her now-husband Justin Go, a Dutch Canadian, became so popular that they eventually evolved into pop-up events across Toronto and, by late 2017, a permanent café in the city’s East End. “The first dinner party started as a joke, but then our friends loved it and kept asking, when are you having the Dutch Food Party again?” recalls Alison.

Alison works full-time outside of the restaurant, while handling the administrative duties, working front of house and creating the weekly cocktail specials. Seven years on, the work continues to be fun and fulfilling.

“I’m really proud of the sense of community that we’ve been able to build,” says Alison, adding that “there’s a real pleasure in welcoming people to the space and curating an evening for them that is about the food and drink.”

Another UTS alumna, Melissa Fox-Revett ’82 , also found herself in the industry after helping her husband Richard Fox-Revett, a trained chef, open The Monkey Bar more than 27 years ago.

A practicing tax lawyer at the time, she wrote the business plan, negotiated the contracts and leases, and did other administrative work for the North Toronto eatery.

Alison Broverman ’99 runs Borrel on Toronto’s East Side with her husband, Justin Go.

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PHOTO: Sarah Brownlee

“Then eventually, when I stopped being a lawyer, I opened my own restaurant called Boho on Roncesvalles, and I sold that after five years,” says Melissa. When the new owners stopped operations, she returned and reopened it as Blue Plate. After four years, she sold it to work full time with her husband.

These days, the clientele at The Monkey Bar includes friends and acquaintances from many eras of her life.

“I have old colleagues from law firms that I worked at, old customers from my restaurant on Roncesvalles, all kinds of UTS people that go.

It’s very cool,” she says, adding that the Class of 1981 held an alumni dinner at the restaurant a few years ago.

Melissa credits her time at UTS for teaching her important lessons that apply to both her career as a lawyer and her work as a restaurateur now.

“The amount of homework that we did, the amount of preparation that we had to do, that helped me like crazy when I got to university and then to law school. But even in the restaurant business… you have to adapt, you have to change, you have to look at things differently,” says Melissa, noting that she learned to practice lateral thinking and “think differently” as a student at the school.

Dedicated teachers like former principal and mathematics teacher Al Fleming ’54 made a lasting impression on Melissa. “He was very influential in my education even though I was bad at math, because he wouldn’t give up on you,” says

ABOVE: Melissa FoxRevett ’82 and her husband Richard run The Monkey Bar, which has been open for more than 27 years.

BELOW: Aldous Cheung ’03 pivoted from academia to executive chef at Richmond Station in downtown Toronto.

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Melissa. “If you didn’t understand, he’d be like, ‘Okay, I see you’re confused. Come to my office tomorrow at 8 a.m. We’ll go through it again.’”

Like Alison, Melissa never expected to become a restaurateur. As an alumna who notes that “most” of her friends are other UTS grads, there was some adjustment for Melissa going from law – “I think becoming a lawyer was an extension of being a UTS person, right?” – to hospitality, and she recalls being questioned on that choice on occasion. “One of the downsides of a non-traditional UTS-type career, is that when people find out what you do, that you have a non‑traditional career, they’re like, ‘Why?’” The thing is, says Melissa, as tough as the job can be – “You’re constantly on your feet, you’re constantly having to think things through, puzzle out things, come up with new ideas, satisfy everybody,” notes Melissa. “It’s an incredible job; it’s a great life. And it’s fun in the sense that if you’re doing it right, which hopefully you are, you’re making people happy.”

A career pivot also brought Aldous Cheung ’03 into the world of hospitality.

Currently the executive chef at Toronto’s Richmond Station, Aldous studied political science for almost a decade before deciding to pivot to a career in food. “Gradually, growing up, I became more and more interested in food, and interest became a passion, and then when my original plan wasn’t really working out, I had to reset and think about what motivates me in life,” says Aldous.

He entered the culinary management program at George Brown, and soon started working parttime and pursuing an externship at the critically acclaimed, now-defunct restaurant, Nota Bene.

“It’s, on the one hand, been very challenging.

You start off as a junior cook…and it’s a pretty tough environment, at least the way I came up, and it’s a very physical job and so on,” recalls Aldous.

“But at the same time, it’s very rewarding.”

More than 10 years on, his passion for food and cooking have not waned.

“I fell in love with hospitality,” says Aldous. “I was already in love with cooking, but working in restaurants, you learn that your job is to cook, but the act of cooking is in service of somebody having an awesome time…and ultimately it’s about them going home happy and wanting to come back and try your place again.”

In his current role, Aldous oversees the menu, runs the kitchen, orders food and products, and manages hiring and scheduling on the kitchen side

PHOTO: Rémi Hermoso

at the award-winning restaurant in downtown Toronto. “What we do at Richmond Station is try to find the best ingredients and present them in a way that makes sense with the right amount and right level of technique that it deserves,” he explains.

When asked about how the restaurant industry has changed over the past few years, Aldous mentions recent efforts to “improve the quality of life” for everyone who works at Richmond Station, such as a four-day work week for most kitchen employees and the elimination of tipping altogether. In 2020, Richmond Station became a hospitality-included restaurant to address the pay gap between front and back of house employees.

“I think our own culture in the restaurant has changed in the time I’ve been there – again, in the right direction – in terms of how we treat each other, how we talk to each other, the way that colleagues interact with each other and so on,” he adds.

Martin Heslop ’04 was also similarly focused on community, and creating a space that “feels warm and welcoming and accessible” when he opened Resonance Café in Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood in 2012.

“We really wanted to present a place that was just accessible, interesting, high quality, but also based on a principle of creating the least harm possible, whether it was to our employees or to the supply chains that we were using,” says Martin.

At the time, Martin was studying jazz and physics at McGill University and working as a jazz

bassist. He wanted to open a venue where peers could find the same opportunity for growth that he himself did “from playing at these small, intimate venues in the city as a young musician.” Martin adds that he learned how to play bass at UTS, and the school is where he experienced “all of this enthusiasm about learning about and spreading the joy of playing jazz music.”

He found a business partner who was interested in doing the same thing, and a business plan was created for what would become Resonance, a vegan café that doubled as a creative music space in the evenings.

“It was a young person’s wild experiment,” says Martin, who handled everything from preparing the food to setting up the sound, doing the stage design, booking artists, managing budgets and more.

Yet, despite the co-founders not having any professional training in cooking or much experience in hospitality, Resonance stayed open for nearly a decade before closing during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“What we wanted to do was provide a community space that served the people who work there, the artists and the local public,” explains Martin, now working as a lawyer in Toronto. “It was a real challenge and it was maybe arrogant of us to think that we could do it at that age and stage in our lives. At the end of the day though, I think we did provide a benefit to the community for the 10 years that we were there.”

LEFT: Resonance Café in Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood.

RIGHT: Martin Heslop ’04 in the recording studio this year, with the Andrés Vial Trio.

“ It’s an incredible job; it’s a great life.”

– MELISSA FOXREVETT ’82

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PHOTO: Maude Chauvin

ABOVE: Ann Kim ’01 (centre) with the team at Donna’s restaurant, which includes business partners and chefs Jed Smith (left) and Peter Jensen (right), who is also Ann’s spouse.

BELOW: David Currie ’72 has operated French restaurant Le Paradis on Bedford Road for nearly 38 years.

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Creating community is also important to Ann Kim ’01 , co-owner of Donna’s, an all-day restaurant in Toronto’s West End with a New Canadian focus.

Ann started part-time as a counter server/ barista at the Bloor Street Diner as a student at UTS and fell in love with the hospitality industry. “I always had one or two jobs on the side while studying, and that included cafés, smaller familyrun establishments, larger establishments, some bars,” says Ann, who continued working in restaurants after graduation.

“I realized towards the end [of UTS] that maybe I wasn’t cut out for academia and really love this other industry that I was already working in that spoke to my sense of always having to be physically busy,” explains Ann. She met her now-husband, Peter Jensen, a chef, while working at Momofuku in Toronto. After becoming parents, they decided to open Donna’s in 2018 with another Momofuku alum, seeking better work-life balance, more control over their career paths and the ability “to choose the people that we spend our days with at work,” says Ann. Ann and Peter also live near the restaurant, and being a part of the community around their

business is very important to the couple. “Donna’s is a bit of a hub as well as a restaurant,” says Ann. “We often have people just coming in to say hi or stopping by for a quick chat while they’re on their way to work or wherever they’re going.”

At Donna’s, Ann now handles the admin work, supports front of house and manages the wine list. And after more than two decades, she’s still passionate about working in hospitality.

“It is something that I always loved from when I first started, and everyone would always say, ‘You’re going to love it in your twenties, and eventually you’re going to get so sick of it with the way guests will treat you, or just feeling like you aren’t reaching your full potential in life,’” says Ann. “I have to say that I’m surprised that I still really, really love it…it’s something that I really still have a passion for and enjoy doing every day.”

UTS alum, David Currie ’72 , also became a restaurateur after working in hospitality at a young age.

“There were a couple of people from a year or two before me [at UTS] who were working at a steakhouse when I was a teenager,” recalls David. They helped him get a job there as a university student, and the experience would launch a successful career in restaurants that continues today.

David worked as a waiter, a bartender and a cook, then studied wine in Europe before returning to Toronto and opening a restaurant, Panache, in the eighties with a business partner.

Panache was a hit – “We were open for a month and we were on the back page of the Star,” David recalls – and he would go on to open Le Paradis, a French restaurant that remains a Toronto staple after almost 38 years.

Although David says that he never thought he would want a career in the restaurant business, there were some early signs that this would be the right path. “My mother was always a keen foodie” who would pack lunches with “canner lobsters from Dominion, or steak tartare,” recalls David.

As a former UTS classmate once quipped, “We could have predicted David would go into restaurants, because he would bring steak tartare for lunch.”

These alumni are a testament to both the art of sustenance and the joy of hospitality, proving that the restaurant industry can have a profound impact on the lives of others, in the comfort they create and the community they share. ■

NEW TRADITIONS FOR AN OLD WORLD Crafting careers and community in wine, beer and cider making

BY KIMBERLEY FEHR

What was a young man who was “rabidly motivated” to become a winemaker to do, living in Toronto circa the 1980s? At the time, there were no winemaking degree programs outside of California and France, and Peter Bell ’74 couldn’t picture himself in the tribe of Toronto wine industry salespeople.

He reached out to his friend and fellow alumnus John Allemang ’70, who wrote a wine column for The Globe and Mail. John connected Peter with Bordeaux’s Château d’Angludet and Peter and his wife, Joanna Purdy, picked grapes there before travelling the world. While in Australia, Peter learned about a degree program in wine science.

Moving his young family to Wagga Wagga, Australia was a sacrifice and a financial challenge, but all of the science Peter recalls paying little attention to at UTS became meaningful at Charles Sturt University, when applied to winemaking.

“I believe in the power of random encounters as a way of generating one’s life experiences,” he says.

While Peter was winemaking in New Zealand after graduation, he found himself chatting with an industry peer who mentioned New York State’s Finger Lakes region as being poised to make some of the best rieslings in America. “You should go there,” his colleague advised.

Peter took on the role of head winemaker at Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery. He didn’t know much about rieslings, but honed his craft through trial by fire and amassed the awards to prove it.

Five years later, he moved up the road to Fox Run Vineyards, where the golden era of his winemaking

career began, with Peter overseeing rieslings and pinot noirs and a wide range of red and white table wines from sweet to dry, sparkling to fortified, including his personal favourite, tawny port wine.

When Peter arrived, the Finger Lakes enjoyed far less renown as a wine region than it does today.

Seeing a need to foster a collaborative atmosphere, he organized bi-monthly formal tasting sessions with his fellow winemakers. “That established a spirit of subsumed egos, and sharing our vulnerabilities based on the idea that we can all learn from each other. It took a bit of persuading, but winery owners became comfortable with that model.”

Over the next decade, the Finger Lakes became established as one of the best riesling regions in Photos courtesy of Fox Run Vineyards

THE MAKING OF A WINE REGION: PETER BELL ’74

ABOVE: Peter Bell ’74 speaking in Fox Run Vineyards tasting room.

LEFT: Peter Bell during the 2021 harvest at Fox Run Vineyards in the Finger Lakes wine region.

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the world. “Winemakers learned from each other how to grow and work with the grape better,” Peter says. “There were a lot of meetings, seminars, tastings and brainstorming sessions. That’s where that spirit of conviviality and community comes in.

We couldn’t have done that if everybody had been working alone, looking after their own interests.”

“ Being a winemaker, you find yourself among peers whose existence is crucial to your own existence.” – PETER BELL ’74 The Finger Lakes is now considered the most important U.S. wine region east of the Mississippi.

Peter worked at Fox Run for 27 years until his semi-retirement in 2022. In 2008, the winery was lauded as one of the Top 100 Wineries in the World by Wine and Spirits magazine. Wine Industry Advisor named Peter Bell one of Wine’s Most Inspiring People in 2023, quoting a colleague who called him “a gentle titan in the Finger Lakes.” Another winemaker wrote that Peter was “arguably, THE most influential Finger Lakes winemaker, ever,” nominating Peter for the Jim Finkle Industry Award, which he won.

Over the years, Peter also mentored many young winemakers, taught at Cornell University, tutored Master of Wine candidates and lectured throughout the world.

“My days left me with a sense of exhilaration,” he says. “I got to jump out of bed every morning, go to work and make great wine. I became part of a movement forged with a spirit of collaboration rather than competition. Being a winemaker, you find yourself among peers whose existence is crucial to your own existence. That sounds metaphysical, but that’s how connected, supportive and interactive we are. We work as a region, and we tend to have no secrets.”

Now Peter consults for various Northeast wineries and continues at Fox Run working on his tawny port, which takes eight years to make. “I’m making wines now that will be sold when I’m in my mid-seventies. There’s a very longitudinal aspect to that, which is perfect.”

Recently, Peter attended his 50th UTS reunion.

“Most of my classmates are either physicians, engineers or businesspeople. I’m the odd one out in terms of career choice, but it worked out very well for me.”

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A FASCINATION WITH FERMENTATION: KATE NOWELL-SMITH ’90 Kate Nowell-Smith ’90 finished her art history and philosophy degree at McGill University, thinking she would follow the typical UTS track of becoming a lawyer or professor, and really not wanting to. “It took a lot of strength to not go that route.”

Instead, she attended cooking school in New York City while deciding which academic path to pursue, and became a food writer, and recipe tester for Saveur.

Captivated by wine classes at cooking school, and knowing she would be settling in Northern California, one of the greatest winemaking regions of the world, she determined to become a winemaker.

When her children started school, she started as a winery cellar worker, running up and down ladders, scrubbing tanks, stirring the lees in the barrels and more. She went back to school at the University of California, Davis for chemistry classes and a winemaker certificate, and now works in Sonoma County as an associate winemaker for Brick and Mortar winery, where she makes primarily sparkling wines. She also works for its affiliate, Healdsburg Custom Crush, which produces wine for 10 other wineries, and she writes for wine publications including Decanter and Jancis Robinson.

Kate Nowell-Smith ’90 at Sei Querce Vineyards in Sonoma County, California with Tyler Klick, vineyard manager and owner of Redwood Empire Vineyard Management.

A hands-on winemaker, she specializes in lowintervention wines and regenerative farming, and her day begins before dawn.

“The more you do in the vineyard, the less you have to do with the wine,” she says. “If you can pick fruit that’s pristine and delicious, then the wine will require relatively little input in the cellar.”

Caring for vineyards is a year-round pursuit.

In January and February, critical pruning decisions must be made. Come March she walks the vineyard rows looking for budbreak – the first sign of dormant vines coming to life. Then she’ll begin removing buds and later in the growing season the vines will be trained and canopy management begins.

“Our forebears had it right,” says Kate. “Get rid of the chemicals if possible and get back to the natural cycles of the vineyard.” Organic and biodynamic vineyards have a lot of life all around, she says – insects buzzing, birds singing, grasses growing and a variety of legumes fixing the nitrogen in the soil around the vines and improving nutrient uptake.

As the grapes ripen, she monitors the Brix level for sugar in the fruit, as well the pH and total acidity. “You’re looking for that balance in the berry,” she says. “You want phenological ripeness, which refers to the signs of ripening on the vine – do the seeds and stems look good, does the fruit taste right?”

Kate’s fascination with fermentation began as a child in King City, Ont., helping her father make beer and wine in their basement. As a winemaker, she enjoys both the science and the art of winemaking. “The organic chemistry involves bacteria and yeast, and it’s our job to put them in

an environment where they can do their best work.

Wine is always on the move and you can only control it so much.”

And then, there are moments when the process feels largely out of one’s control, such as when devastating wildfires hit Sonoma County in 2017 and 2020. Her wineries have lost power, she’s been evacuated, and through it all she and other winemakers have become experts in dealing with the most insidious threat – the smoke that blows in with the wind, permeating the grapes, irrevocably changing the taste and potentially destroying an entire season.

“ The more you do in the vineyard, the less you have to do with the wine.”

– KATE NOWELL-SMITH ’90 In the Wallbridge fire of 2020 it came down to: “We pick today or we lose everything.” In one day, they brought in nine different lots that typically would have been harvested over weeks. “Ultimately nature dictates what we have to do. We can mobilize quickly and get stuff done. I love that.”

Kate has risen up in a male-dominated industry – in California, only 14 per cent of lead winemakers are women, according to Women Winemakers (Santa Clara University). Part of her success is the highly tuned organizational skills she first developed at UTS as president of Southern Ontario Model United Nations Assembly. “‘Plan the work, work the plan’ is every good winemaker’s motto,” she says. “UTS ingrained excellence into us, and at the end of the day, that is what I pursue as a winemaker.”

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Brent Klassen ’85 during harvest season at Heartwood Farm and Cidery in Erin, Ont.

REGENERATION: BRENT KLASSEN ’85 Everything that is and everything that happens at Heartwood Farm and Cidery comes back to one sole, circular purpose: regeneration.

Soil is their best asset and its health is their ultimate bottom line, says Brent Klassen ’85, who cares for the 42-acre farm with his wife Val Steinmann, their son Kieran and his son’s friend Matt Steinman (not related to Val).

Incorporating livestock is one of the principles of regenerative farming and they raise cows, pigs, sheep, chickens and bees. Having living roots in the soil at all times is another – in their orchard they grow apples, maple trees and other types of fruit and nuts.

“It’s such a remarkable thing – you plant a stick in the ground and a couple years later you’ve got food you can eat.”

– BRENT KLASSEN ’85 “We live in a time of climate change, ecological collapse and the massive reduction of biodiversity that can seem pretty bleak,” says Brent, who is vice president of the Ecological Farmers’ Association of Ontario. “This farm, with its regenerative practices and the idea of building local economies on the fruits of the farm, is a response to that, not only in terms of remediating the landscape, but also in creating community.”

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Heartwood has been home for more than 20 years. At first, Brent led a dual life: Toronto marketing agency executive by day and what he calls “agri-nerd” by night. Around 2010, he became “existentially enchanted” with fruit tree horticulture. “It’s such a remarkable thing – you plant a stick in the ground and a couple years later you’ve got food you can eat.”

Brent left marketing to work full-time on the farm and build a cidery in 2016, with the philosophy that the cider should be as close to the fruit on the branch as it can possibly be, and a lot less sweet than typical commercial ciders.

Heartwood’s whimsically branded ciders include the likes of Raspy Poet, an aromatic bone-dry raspberry, and Eve Goes Badass, a sparkling cider named for their delightful matriarch pig, Eve. The badass comes from their farm-grown ghost and cayenne peppers, the spice offset by Heartwood honey.

A small farm can’t make a go of it on food production alone, Brent says. Along with products such as cider, a non-alcoholic fruit beverage called Sparkle, maple syrup, honey and more, Heartwood also offers the gift of experiences: from a tasting room and farm tours, to overnight farm stays, retreats and events.

“We talk about being in relationship to place and land, which is so important in this era of climate change, and you can’t do that without land,” he says. “We become a proxy for the four or five million people who live within an hour’s drive and don’t have an acreage. Our mission is providing significant and meaningful ways for people to relate to land, building community and connecting people in a time of growing isolation.

This is our response to what we perceive to be the hazards that we live with in this time.”

As part of this connection, Heartwood gets involved in community events: this June, Heartwood hosted members of Indigenous communities on the Credit River Waterwalk ceremony.

In the summer, the farm hosted a forum on regenerative finance. “We’re looking at novel ways of getting money and resources to people who are regenerating the landscape,” Brent says.

“We’re very involved in those kinds of broader conversations that take place at a higher level than just cider production or farming.”

Recently, they applied circularity principles to Heartwood’s production systems, cutting ingredient waste by about eight percent, and dramatically reducing their processing waste, after Production Manager Matt Steinman graduated from the Circular Leadership Program at the Ivey Business School at Western University.

In ways like these, Brent believes a small farm can make a difference and says UTS fortified him for this life: “UTS cultivated my individuality and integrity. It taught me that you are the author of your own life story, so write what you want to write. That traces back to my time at UTS and the remarkable people I went to school with.”

BUILDING A NATIONAL BRAND: TOMMASO MAGNOTTA ’96 For 20 years, Magnotta Winery had been planning for an LCBO strike in Ontario, and every time it was called off at the eleventh hour, until this summer, when the strike lasted two weeks.

“We were very well prepared,” says Tommaso Magnotta ’96, the president of Magnotta, the third-largest winery in Canada, as well as a brewery, a distillery and purveyor of beer and wine-making supplies. “Our 14 retail stores became much busier. But our wholesale business through the LCBO went from good to zero. So there were positive impacts on the retail and negative on wholesale that added up to a slight net‑positive.”

Tommaso’s hectic day-to-day involves liaising with industry stakeholders and dealing with the complex and changing regulations that govern

Tommaso Magnotta ’96 cherishes his memories of the Music program at UTS, where he had the opportunity to conduct “tremendously talented” student musicians in playing his original composition for Music Night and the Twig Tape, with the support of music teacher John Fautley.

Ontario alcohol sales, as well as overseeing the leadership in other aspects of the business such as finance, marketing, operations and sales.

“ To survive in the hyper-competitive marketplace, we have to be insanely efficient.” – TOMMASO MAGNOTTA ’96 “To survive in the hyper-competitive marketplace, we have to be insanely efficient,” he says. “Our winery has more equipment and technology than much larger wineries in places like Italy. Our grapes in Ontario are among the highest-priced globally by a large margin. In many other wine-producing regions in the world, their governments subsidize their exports. The net result is that Ontario wineries face high costs and low prices and need to be at the top of their game to compete.”

Tommaso, who has served as president since 2019, grew up alongside the business. His late father Gabe and his mother, Rossana Magnotta, started a small winery in 1990, adding a brewery in 1996 and a distillery in 1997. Over the years, Tommaso worked in all aspects of the enterprise, from the retail stores to the production line to the lab as well as human resources, marketing and finance.

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Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Schulich School of Business at York University. “The engineering problemsolving mindset, where someone really endeavours to understand how things work, has a broad applicability married with industry knowledge that allows me to be effective at Magnotta regardless of what comes our way.”

When there’s time, Tommaso enjoys forays into product development, trying innovative things with wine, beer and spirits. This summer, the winery launched the new Ugly Duck red and white wine blends, in an innovative recyclable bright yellow paper bottle that tackles one of the greatest climate change challenges facing the wine industry today: the massive carbon footprint of glass bottles. The new paper bottle is five times lighter than glass, cutting the carbon footprint by up to 84 per cent and eliminating breakage.

Another challenge the winery has taken on is Lyme disease. “With climate change and more ticks in Ontario than ever before, Lyme disease is very topical, and affecting the health of many Canadians,” says Tommaso. Rosanna established the G. Magnotta Foundation and a research lab at the University of Guelph in memory of Gabe, who passed away from the disease, with the aim of changing how the disease is tested for and treated in Canada.

“It’s nice to be in a situation as a family business where we aren’t driven by quarterly targets and Mom and I have the opportunity to focus on what we care about and what’s good for the business,” he says. Magnotta went public in 1997 but became private again in 2013 when Rossana negotiated a deal to bring it back fully into the family. Looking ahead, the goal is to make Magnotta a national brand. “Plant vines today, and it takes four years before you get a full crop,” says Tommaso. “Major equipment investments can also take five or more years before they start paying back. We can have a long-term perspective, which is really what the wine industry is about.”

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Erica McOustra ’00 says Steam Whistle Brewing feels like her place.

Head Brewmaster Erica McOustra ’00, attends her favourite meeting: taste panel, where her team samples brews to gauge their progress.

With more than 18 years as a brewmaker, Erica’s palate is fine-tuned to the slightest nuances in taste.

A Toronto institution, Steam Whistle Brewing, with the motto “Do one thing, really, really well,” makes only one iconic beer, a pilsner, adhering to the Bavarian Purity Law which states the only pure and essential ingredients that can be used in beer are barley, hops, water and yeast.

The same motto could apply to Erica’s career, which started by home-brewing with housemates while studying math at the University of Guelph.

When the home brewing company offered her a job, she put university on hold, thinking, “This is something I’m really passionate about and you don’t get a lot of opportunities in your life to follow your passion. I think I should go for it.”

She loved it all: the camaraderie, the science, the manual labour, and how rewarding it was at the end of the day to have a beer with congenial colleagues knowing she helped make it.

“There was so much to learn,” she says. “It spoke to so many aspects of my life that inspired me, exploring flavours, developing your palate and understanding the technical relationship between ingredients, process and the final product.

Chemistry, biochemistry and biology were not my strong suits at UTS but suddenly with a real-life application, I was hooked.”

She travelled to the old world in 2008 to enhance her technical skills with a six-month certificate at the VLB Beer Institute in Berlin, Germany.

When she returned, she worked for Magnotta Brewery, crossing paths with Tommaso, and then moved on to Amsterdam Brewing, where she met her husband Iain McOustra, now the head brewmaster there.

She joined Steam Whistle in 2010, thinking after making only pilsner for a few years, she would move on but, she says, “When I joined, it really felt like my place. And it turns out you can always learn more about pilsner and deepen your understanding. We’re always tweaking and improving.” In her time there, they’ve changed every raw ingredient and refined processes for sustainability. They used to use Caledon spring water, with two large trucks delivering water every day, when it turned out the softer municipal water in their Etobicoke facility, which they treat on-site, was perfect for pilsner. Their hops still come from Europe, but since Canada produces some of the best barley in the world, they use local barley.

“We can really impact sustainability by understanding the agronomics of all of the inputs,” says Erica, “working with our suppliers and vendors to ensure that they’re employing sustainable practices.”

Erica, who became head brewmaster in 2020, is also constantly re-examining Steam Whistle’s water usage to recapture water and energy.

“Brewing is energy-intensive because first you heat the beer to cook it. Then you cool it down and have to maintain that temperature through the exothermic reaction of fermentation. Recapturing water increases our yields and decreases our footprint. It’s not just about the bottom line for Steam Whistle, but the industry as a whole.”

As a woman breaking ground in a maledominated profession, she used to brush off sexist comments. “Brewing is genderless. I felt that any energy I gave to that was energy away from my craft. I’m just one of the crew, but in recent years I’ve come to appreciate it’s not about me.

It’s about everyone else and breaking barriers for people who might be more marginalized than I am.”

In 2022, Steam Whistle acquired Beau’s Brewing, and Erica got the best of both worlds, continuing to refine the pilsner she loves while branching out into lagers, ales and IPAs. “I always knew that I wanted to continue learning forever,” says Erica. “But you have to

want to learn. As soon as I found beer, I wanted to read every biochemistry textbook I could get my hands on.”

NATURAL WINE FOR EVERYONE: NICOLE CAMPBELL ’05 One very late night, wine importer Nicole Campbell ’05 and her friend Krysta Oben, a sommelier, had a revelation: they could be Grape Witches, forging their path on their terms, with the type of the wine they are most passionate about: natural wines.

“ We’ve worked really hard to create a space that is inclusive – it’s a huge core value for us.”

– NICOLE CAMPBELL ’05 “Natural wine is wine how it used to be made,” says Nicole, “before industrialization made wine at a huge scale: machine-harvested, sprayed with herbicides and pesticides, and transformed in production with as many as 60 additives in a bottle. Compare this to a wine made lovingly by a person in a place, using handpicked grapes grown organically, and the yeast that exists in the environment for natural fermentation.”

Nicole Campbell ’05 visiting the Piedmont wine region in northwestern Italy, searching for new and exciting natural wines.

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The patio at Grape Witches bottle shop and bar on Dundas Street West.

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Natural wine has a lot in common with the slow food movement, Nicole says, looking at how the food is produced and creating choices that are better for the environment and have a positive social impact (and the wines taste much better, too).

Grape Witches began throwing hundreds of parties to showcase exciting natural wines. They did it all: from soirees at the back of a friend’s pizza restaurant to wine pairing takeovers at iconic restaurants like Taste of China to ‘Try & Buy’ tasting events, cracking open scores of rare bottles not available in the LCBO. They even held a 500-person wine cruise – now an annual twonight event that sells out instantly every year.

In 2020, Grape Witches put down roots, leasing a storefront on Dundas Street West as an event space and launching Grape Witch Imports, a natural wine agency importing great wine from around the world. Then, the pandemic hit and they pivoted to a bottle shop, a Wine Club and a lot of Zoom tastings. Later, they opened a back

patio and a bar. Now with a team of 16, they are opening a shop and bar in the new Waterworks Food Hall downtown. Their tagline says it all: natural wine for everyone.

They mean everyone. Even before they opened their first store, they had created a scholarship for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour entering the profession. Since then, they have given out over $35,000 in flexible grants applied to formal or informal wine education, such as a travel grant to work a harvest overseas.

They aim to not only hire people of diverse backgrounds and gender identities, but also to ensure they feel welcome and set up for success.

Similarly, their clientele began as mainly white women. “Now if you look on our patio, it’s as diverse as the population of Toronto.

We’ve worked really hard to create a space that is inclusive – it’s a huge core value for us,” says Nicole.

When she was at UTS, her father owned a restaurant and a wine agency, but after UTS she embarked on an academic path, studying psychology and history at Queen’s University.

Taking a year off academia, she ended up making wines around the world and never looked back.

As an importer, she builds relationships with natural wine producers around the world, such as southeastern Chile’s Itata Valley. With vines dating back to the 1550s and the Spanish colonists, she says, “The Itata Valley has some of the most special, old vines in the world, but until a few years ago, their wines were impossible to find, and really undervalued. Farmers were barely making a living while European producers commanded more money for less-exciting wines. We’re excited to champion some of those underdog makers, who offer incredible value with a story to tell.”

Grape Witches also works with wineries from Eastern Europe, in places like Slovenia and Slovakia as well the former Soviet republic of Georgia, home to the first known evidence of wine production in the world.

Wine can be intimidating, she says, and they aim to give people wine experiences that are really moving. As for the wine industry, she hopes the traditional Eurocentric view will change. “As we continue to work towards decolonizing wine, we have to question the idea of what grapes and regions are ‘best,’ shift the way we talk about tasting notes and question how we approach teaching wine. We will continue to do that while creating joy and bringing people together.” ■

ALUMNI NEWS

Notes on the milestones and achievements in the lives of our alumni.

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The Globe and Mail’s Architourist celebrated the architectural legacy and career of John Shaw ’50, who retired as principal from CS&P Architects nearly two decades ago. “While it takes talent to design a house for a discerning client, it takes an altogether different skill set to design a building for, well, everybody,” wrote columnist Dave LeBlanc of the Mimico Centennial Library, saying the building works as well as today as it did when it first opened in November 1966.

From schools and libraries to a post office, multi-unit housing and more, Dave wrote that “one is still dumbstruck by the quality, variety and human scale of the work.”

CS&P Architects principal Peter Ortved ’67 was quoted in the article, describing John’s strength in client relations. Under John’s leadership, the firm also fostered an inclusive culture.

“I’m proudest of all in the way we treated people,” John told the The Globe and Mail. “We had a record of people leaving for better offers and coming back.”

Congratulations to Tony Storey ’71 for earning the 10-year Ontario Volunteer Service Award this year. The former director of alumni affairs for Trent University, Tony continued to volunteer for the university after he retired, proving

// “Alligator Pie, Alligator Pie, / If I don’t get some I think I’m gonna die!” It’s been 50 years since iconic Canadian poet, teacher, editor and critic Dennis Lee O.C. ’57, P ’84 wrote the children’s poetry book called Alligator Pie in an effort to introduce “zing, bounce, vitality into traditional kids’ poetry.” Today, The Walrus magazine calls it “a landmark of Canadian literature.” The magazine ran a story by Brooke Clarke this spring celebrating his accomplishment: “How Dennis Lee Cooked Up Alligator Pie.” Subhead: “How one man’s war against what he called ‘pious versicles’ led to an enduring work of children’s literature.” Dennis’ career has earned multiple accolades, including the Governor General’s Award in 1972 for his poetry, Civil Elegies and Other Poems. He was also the co‑founder of House of Anansi Press, Toronto’s first Poet Laureate in 2001 and composer of the theme song for Fraggle Rock, a 1980s television show, and many other songs.

that his work was not just a career but a calling. Pictured left with PeterboroughKawartha MPP Dave Smith.

David Morley C.M. ’73 received an honorary degree of doctor of laws from Carleton University this June “in recognition of a lifetime of humanitarian and international development work and the advancement of children’s rights nationally and globally.” David, who recently retired from his role of CEO of Unicef Canada, was honoured for his 45-year career, including his work at Unicef, Save the Children Canada and Médecins sans Frontières Canada. He currently teaches at the Master of Global Affairs program at University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

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Alumni News

// Naomi Boyd ’17 began by exploring their family’s multi-generational history in this place now known as Toronto, and the broader Jewish and Queer communities that have grown here and shaped their own identity. The result was their participatory, textile-based mapping project, Blood, Water & Bathurst Street, an 18-metre long wool scroll which won a DesignTO Best in Festival Award earlier this year and was displayed at Stackt Market. “Beyond interpersonal relations, I have sought to establish further connection and understanding of/with the lands and waters that have shaped these territories.

Many Indigenous Peoples have dwelled, gathered and journeyed through these lands for millennia, yet their stories and ongoing presence have been largely erased from public memory here in the city alongside drastic resurfacing and colonial development of the land,” they wrote on their website. The project navigates an active relationship to land, exploring the histories, communities and journeys that have shaped the lands surrounding Bathurst Street from the shoreline of Niigani-Gichigami (Lake Ontario) up to Steeles Avenue, the City of Toronto’s northern boundary. One metre of fabric represents one kilometre, serving as a community-sourced historical document, with growing contributions from visitors that show the street as a confluence of multiple diasporic communities, including those of Chinese, Korean, Afro‑Caribbean and Filipino descent.

Bill Robson ’77, P ’06, ’08, ’09, in

his role as president and CEO of C.D. Howe Institute, appeared as one of the pundits on TVO’s The Agenda this spring, discussing the Ontario budget for 2024, along with NDP MPP Catherine Fife, Liberal MPP Stephanie Bowman and Green Party MPP Mike Schreiner.

Pictured left.

The University of British Columbia celebrated the distinguished legal career of Mary Ainslie, K.C., ’83 with the 2024 Alumni Award of Distinction from the Peter A. Allard School of Law. A senior lawyer at the BC Prosecution Service, Mary argues regularly in the BC Court of Appeal, and has also appeared numerous times in the Supreme Court 22

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of Canada. For decades, she has been a resource counsel for trial prosecutors throughout the province on matters related to vulnerable and child witnesses and has given back to the community at the UBC Law faculty by teaching courses and coaching competitive moots. Upon receiving the award, Mary said: “It seems unreal as I still feel like a law student, not a distinguished alum!”

Pictured at the awards ceremony with her brother, incoming UTS Board Director Don Ainslie ’84.

Dr. Sarah Richardson ’97

witnessed close calls at a Danforth and Woodbine area intersection and became concerned for the safety of neighbourhood children, so she and her neighbours staged an “art intervention,” which was featured on CBC Radio’s Metro Morning.

They added a giant fluorescent yellow spiralling circle to the intersection and “STOP” in big yellow letters. “One just never knows when the Oakcrest artists

PHOTO: Dr. Sarah Richardson ’97

Alumni News

// Samaa Kazerouni ’14 and Ajay Shah ’14 became friends as S6 (grade 12) students, when they had four out of five periods together on A days. “We had a lot of time to get to know each other with our schedules so closely aligned – we always thank the Guidance team for making our relationship happen,” says Samaa. They became partners for the Indian dance that Ajay was choreographing for SHOW, had their first date at Famoso on Bloor and quickly became a couple, attending UTS Prom together. “We’ve had a relationship filled with adventure since then, including years of long distance and lots of travel.” In October 2022, Ajay proposed to Samaa through a day‑long amazing race across Toronto, which included a stop at UTS. The couple was greeted by vice principals Garry Kollins and Garth Chalmers, and Samaa had to serve a volleyball (she played varsity volleyball at UTS) to get her next clue for the race, which finished at Polson Pier, where Ajay proposed.

In May, the couple had a beautiful, multi-day, interfaith wedding in Toronto surrounded by family and friends who flew in from all over the world. Ten of their Class of 2014 classmates attended, with Arkady Arkangarodsky, Daniel Henke Tarnow, Ki-Sang Yi and George Radner giving speeches. In addition, Samaa’s sister Layla Kazerouni ’20 was the maid of honour, and her best friend Alison Xie ’20 also came.

In October, Samaa and Ajay celebrated the eleventh anniversary of their first date!

collective will strike again!” she says.

“But for now the intersection is much safer even though our yellow spiral is sadly gone – new crossing lines are there now and working beautifully!”

After spending almost a decade working in capital markets, Lillian Rowlatt ’97 cofounded a business delivering locallymade, artisanal foods from Japan to customers around the world.

The company, Kokoro Care Packages, helps to support regional farmers and producers in a country where many centuries-old traditions face the real threat of disappearing due to a shrinking and aging population. The company was recently sold to a Japanese corporation which will help expand its global customer base, while supporting more local communities. Lillian is staying on as CEO and encourages everyone to turn their ideas into reality as the rewards are often greater than one can imagine!

Dr. Luke Stark ’02 , an assistant

professor at Western University’s Faculty of Information and Media Studies, has joined the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program for 2024-2026 as one

of 10 emerging research leaders at the Canadian-based global research organization that seeks to address humanity’s most pressing challenges.

He is part of the Future Flourishing Program, looking at how to create a better world for all life on our planet through his research, which explores the history and contemporary effects of AI designed to interact with humans.

Family medical resident Dr. Han Yan ’09 wrote an opinion piece for the Toronto Star in September, called: “Why I decided to ‘step down’ from neurosurgery and choose family medicine.” In the piece, she recalled meeting a family physician during UTS careers class who told her that: “Even if AI takes over all aspects of medicine, patients will always need to talk to their doctor and feel that someone – a physical other person sitting in front of them – is on their side.” While she appreciated the prestige of neuroscience, family medicine

became a calling. “There is a unique fulfilment that comes from being part of someone’s life story over years, decades or generations. More than any other specialty, family medicine allows for the care of the individual from cradle to coffin,” Han wrote.

The Outsiders musical, choreographed by the Kuperman brothers, Rick ’07 and Jeff Kuperman ’08, in their Broadway debut, won the 2024 Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical, an adaptation based on The Outsiders novel by S.E. Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film, received 12 nominations in total, including one for best choreography. Prior to the Broadway opening, they appeared on CBC Radio’s Q with Tom Power talking about their early life training in dance and martial arts and “tricking,” which is a mix of martial arts, gymnastics and parkour. They also discussed working together and how they brought the musical to life, especially the dramatic rumble scene in which the show’s rival gangs, the Greasers and the Socs, finally go head-to-head. Jeff said, “By the end of it, everyone is covered in blood and mud and rain and sweat and tears and you can’t tell who the Greasers are and who the Socs are. Just a pile of dirty, muddy hired boys lying in the mud – defeated.” Read more about them in the THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE

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and Charlie Pullen used Henry’s work as inspiration for an F2 (grade 8) Creature Design challenge!

LITERARY NEWS Celebrated author Lawrence Hill C.M. ’75 was

section about the New York Branch Event on page 27. Jeff pictured centre and Rick right.

In 2017, Claire Hunter ’17 went on a UTS school trip to Italy. This year, she returned to Udine, Italy and once again stayed with her exchange partner Francesco and his family for a few days. She wrote to her teacher, Vince Dannetta, “It was so amazing to reconnect with him after six years!

We are so grateful for the exchange experience that you organized, which has given both of us a lifelong friendship!

Thank you so much for this.” Udine is the hometown of former UTS Latin and Classics teacher Eugene Di Sante, who started the UTS Borderlands program, which included the exchange to Udine.

Macleans magazine named Edward Tian ’18 sixth on its annual power list for education this year “for making sure AI isn’t doing kids’ homework for them.” His 24

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GPTZero app, co-founded with Alex Cui ’16, which took off like wildfire last year when he was a senior at Princeton, distinguishes AI content from human content. Now they are on a mission to “preserve what’s human” with their 15-person company, as we reach the tipping point of an AI revolution. Edward was in good company on the list, along with premiers, a federal minister and leaders in the education field.

While Henry (Hank) Sharpe ’19 was at UTS, he constantly drew dinosaurs, culminating in his S6 (grade 12) Visual Arts exhibit featuring his reconstructions and models. Henry hasn’t stopped!

His current work in paleontology and art is so fascinating that CBC’s The Nature of Things had him as a guest expert on paleo art, teaching the reporters how to create a dinosaur drawing based off a skeleton of the Canadian Velociraptor. “It’s tough to figure out what colour dinosaurs were. But predators are typically more drab-coloured because they want the camouflage,” he says on the show.

UTS Visual Arts Teachers Robin Michel

named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the country’s most prestigious body of independent scholars, researchers and creatives at the forefront of intellectual leadership. They cited his “exceptional contributions to Canadian literature, to the dramatization and celebration of Black culture and history, and his profound engagements in social justice.”

The author of 11 books and a University of Guelph professor, Lawrence was quoted on the University of Guelph website saying: “I have spent four decades mapping questions of migration, survival, identity, love and the search for home in my fiction and creative non-fiction and am thoroughly delighted to see this work – as well as my commitment to teaching at the University of Guelph – honoured by the Royal Society of Canada.”

Congratulations to Alexis StefanovichThomson ’85 on

publishing his first novel, The Road to Heaven, a Patrick Bird Mystery.

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Patrick Bird is a police academy dropout turned private eye whose specialty is tracking down wayward spouses in divorce cases, who takes on a case of a missing daughter from a wealthy family. The setting is Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood, circa 1965. The Toronto Star called it “a stylish throwback to hard-boiled crime thrillers of the classic era, with an engaging and entertaining protagonist at its heart.” Alexis is also the winner of the 2023 Crime Writers of Canada Best Crime Novella Award.

Coming this December: University of California Press plans to publish a new book

by Andrew Campana ’07

titled Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at Media’s Edge. The book examines how Japanese poets in different eras connected to the new media of their time, from cinema

of the 1920s to disability rights activists in the age of mass media, all the way up to augmented reality in the present. An assistant professor of Asian Studies at Cornell University, Andrew has also had his translations of Japanese poets recently published in Monkey magazine.

ALUMNI ENCOUNTERS Hope is an answer for our challenging times. UTS students S5 (grade 11) Maya, S5 Ryan and S6 (grade 12) Mitsuko premiered their compositions at the Songs of Hope, an event with the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO). Our students performed alongside an impressive list of PhD composition students and professional composers, including Shreya Jha ’16, to a packed room at Heliconian Hall. Former UTS music teacher Ronald Royer, a conductor with Scarborough Philharmonic, premiered his SPO commission and conducted at the event.

During the intermission, Kumiko Murasugi ’78 introduced herself as a UTS alumna from the first class of girls to graduate from UTS. Currently a linguistics professor at Carleton University, she also studies voice with one of the featured singers, and came to see her perform. “It was a delightful surprise to discover that some of the songs had been composed by UTS students, and a pleasure to then meet and congratulate these talented young composers on their creative and moving pieces!” she says.

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Last spring, Dr. Carson Schutz ’85 (right) delivered a full set of musical scores to Mark Laidman, then director of music, of a song composed by himself and fellow student Brent Klassen ’85 (featured in the cover story of this issue of The Root). The song was called Monday Afternoon in the Middle of Nowhere, and featured on the first-ever volume of the Twig Tape!

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Pictured second from left with UTS Music Teacher Sarah Shugarman (left), and students Ryan and Maya.

UTS alumni on staff: Emma Jenkin ’03, Charline Wan ’12, Thomas Nachshen ’16

on his retirement after 18 years of service as a UTS Health and Physical Education teacher, and French Teacher Mme Brigitte Amiot on reaching 25 years of service and her retirement. (See Mme Amiot on page 6.)

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REUNIONS The Class of 1955 reunion took place at the Donalda Club Toronto in August.

Class Captain Julian Porter gave a rousing speech and everyone shared fond memories about their former teachers and UTS experiences.

The Class of 1961 finally had a chance to hold their 60th reunion after many postponements due to COVID. Twenty-one alumni came in person and almost as many others emailed their best wishes. Bill Hodgson came from Australia and Dave Ward flew in from Victoria, B.C. Doug Adamson reports that they enjoyed lively conversation

over a light lunch buffet, as many of them had not seen each other since their 55th anniversary in 2016 and were so happy to get together again.

How fitting – 50 members of the Class of 1974 celebrated their 50th anniversary of graduation in June with a cocktail reception and dinner hosted

by Greg Deacon ’74 at UTS in the Multi‑Purpose Room and Fleck Atrium!

This was the first reunion dinner to be held in this space and was attended by retired principal Al Fleming ’54, retired Art teacher Don Boutros, UTS Principal Dr. Leanne Foster and Executive Director, Advancement,

Martha Drake. Leanne and UTS Co‑Captains Archie and Iris gave celebratory remarks!

The weather was ideal, the atmosphere was relaxing and the company perfect!

A group of retired UTS staff gathered for the Retired Staff Luncheon at the Toronto Cricket Club in June, including former principal Rosemary Evans.

EVENTS UTSAA HOCKEY MATCH

Their eyes were on the net and their hearts were in the game! Wonderful camaraderie ensued at the annual UTSAA Hockey Match this spring, with 29 alumni chasing the puck and glory at University of Toronto’s Varsity Stadium.

Several friends and family members came out to cheer the players on.

UTSAA Golf Tournament

Eight foursomes hit the links at Richmond Hill Golf Club in June for a fun day of friendly play. Vice Principal of Student Life Garry Kollins, former vice principal Garth Chalmers

Class of 1955 and spouses: (front table from left) Jim Domm, David Howse, Jean Domm, Harold Atwood, Leonore Atwood and Bill Hunter; (back table from left) John Gardner, Julian Porter, Bill Taylor, Tom Sanderson, Pauline Adams and Lesley Sanderson.

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Retired Staff Luncheon: (back row) Ann Unger, Frank Mustoe, John Wardle, Judy Kay, Ron Wakelin, Don Boutros, Ornella Barrett, Ana Maria Pereira-Castillo, John Fautley, Ron Royer; (front row) Carole Bernicchia-Freeman, Rosemary Evans, Paul Moore and Maria Collier.

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and Science Teacher Alan Kraguljac joined alumni players out on the green.

Although rain and thunder drove the final foursomes off the course, a great time was had by all. In the clubhouse, Dr. Leanne Foster and Martha Drake came for the post-game celebration.

BRANCHING OUT UTS hosted several Branching Out discussions in the spring where alumni shared advice on university and career life with students. Media Mokhtarnia ’21 gave S6 (grade 12) students ideas about how to manage their personal finances at university.

M4 (grade 10) students took part in a variety of alumni career panels, learning from the extensive experience of our alumni. Emily Antze ’02, Luke Stark ’02 and Isabella Chiu ’13 spoke about having studied the humanities in university and their subsequent career paths. Laura Christensen ’09, Grant Oyston ’09 and Emma Clarke ’13 shared their experience studying at the University of Guelph, Carleton and Acadia universities, and King’s College respectively, all atypical Canadian universities for UTS students. Gregory Ho ’17, Elizabeth Mendez Berry ’95 and Ryhna Thompson ’93 spoke about their careers in sports and the arts. UTSAA Director Hana Dhanji ’05, Raphaela Neihausen ’95 and Shanna Shi ’11 discussed career transitions.

BRANCH EVENTS NEW YORK CITY

A record number of alumni – 40! – came out for the New York Branch Event at a Times Square restaurant in April, where they had the opportunity to meet new UTS Principal Dr. Leanne Foster and visit with Martha Drake, executive director, advancement.

UTSAA Director Max Bai ’16 spoke at the reception. After the event, some of the alumni joined UTS students on the annual Expressive Arts New York City trip to see The Outsiders musical, choreographed by our own

UTSAA Hockey Match

UTSAA Golf Tournament

New York City Branch Event

Kuperman Brothers, Rick ’07 and Jeff ’08 in their Broadway debut.

Following the performance, the Kupermans hosted a special talkback just for UTS students and alumni!

See Alumni News on page 23 for more about the Kupermans.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2025

UTS on Bay Street networking event Torys LLP, 79 Wellington St W #3300 5:30 to 7 p.m.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2025

Interested in joining the Branching Out program to mentor senior UTS students?

Contact Rebecca Harrison for more details: Rebecca.Harrison@utschools.ca.

Stage 2 Interviews Help select the next UTS cohort!

8 a.m. to early afternoon Volunteer form to come via email.

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OTTAWA

Over 40 guests including 39 alumni and one UTS parent, ranging from the Class of 1954 to 2018, attended a cocktail reception at the Rideau Club. The event was hosted by UTS Board Chair Peter Buzzi ’77, Dr. Leanne Foster and Martha Drake.

IN MEMORIAM

RALPH BARFORD C.M. ’46 1929 – 2024 Ralph Barford is remembered as one of Canada’s most distinguished executives, a corporate leader whose generosity created opportunities for many of his fellow Canadians, including those at UTS. After purchasing General Steel Wares (GSW), he transformed the company into the largest appliance maker in Canada.

For decades he served as president of Valleydene Corporation, a family-run holding company with a majority interest in GSW, as well as overseeing warehouse facilities, oil and gas businesses, and a real-estate investment portfolio.

A sought-after and highly regarded board director, Ralph had a sphere of influence that impacted some of North America’s most important corporations.

His impact was also felt deeply in the public service, where he served on University of Toronto’s Governing Council in the early 1970s, advocating for UTS to become co-educational. He also served on the Victoria University Board of Regents, and as chair at Western’s Ivey School of Business. For Harvard, he led 28

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an initiative to enable a geographically and culturally diverse group of Canadians to attend the business school.

Ralph has always been there for UTS. He was there to provide bursary support in the 1990s when UTS lost provincial funding, and in 2010 created the first UTS bursary for Indigenous students in the name of his best friend, Charles Catto ’46. Ralph is also a UTS Founder, who was there to break ground at the renewed school and whose legacy continues through support from the Ralph M. Barford Foundation.

Named a Member of the Order of Canada, Ralph also received an honorary law degree from Western University, an Alumni Achievement Award from Harvard Business School, where he obtained his MBA, and an Arbor Award from the University of Toronto.

His first entrepreneurial success was founding the National Merchandising Corporation in Boston in 1954, which grew to have sales of $7 million before he sold it to partners in 1960.

Returning to Toronto with his family, he purchased the manufacturer Beatty Brothers, and later GSW, paving the way for his future as a revered Canadian corporate leader.

A lifelong learner, Ralph nurtured enduring friendships, including some from his UTS days. He loved golf, painting and travel, visiting almost every country in the world (except for six).

Predeceased by his wife, Elizabeth

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“Stevie” Barford, he lives on in the memories of six children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as well as his loving partner, Marilynn Jo Hitchens, and her descendants.

J. FERGUS KYLE ’48 1929 – 2024 The aviation dreams of J. Fergus (Ferg) Kyle took flight when he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force while studying engineering at McGill University.

And fly he did: from Havards to Vampires, Sabres to T-33s, Expeditors to the Otter, rising through the ranks to become lieutenant-colonel and commanding officer of the City of Westmount 401 Squadron before retiring from the Air Force Reserve in 1972.

During this time, Ferg also became a pilot for Trans Canada Airlines (Air Canada) in 1955, flying DC3s, North Stars, Super Constellations, Vanguards, Viscounts, DC9s, DC8s and his favourite, the L1011 Tristar. His early airline career often took him to London, U.K., where he met Jenny, who would become his wife of 59 years. They lived in Ste. Marguerite and Rosemère in Quebec, and then embarked on the big move to “chase the flying” which led them to Burlington, Ontario, where he lived the rest of his life, retiring from Air Canada in 1989.

Along the way they raised three children and took up many pursuits.

An avid Ham Radio enthusiast, Ferg joined the Burlington Amateur Radio Club where he took part in many emergency preparedness exercises with local agencies. Ferg lent his aviation knowledge and skill to various projects at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ont., including flying the Yale. In retirement, Ferg built a Europa mono wheel airplane in his house where he pursued his many other hobbies. A talented sketch artist,

he took after his father James (Fergus), who was a political cartoonist for The Globe and Mail and other newspapers in Toronto.

Ferg was predeceased in 2021 by the love of his life, Jenny, and his daughter Elizabeth in 2014. He leaves behind two sons, and five grandchildren.

Though he flew to great heights, he never forgot his UTS community, attending many UTS events including the grand reopening of UTS in 2022 and the 70th anniversary reunion of the Class of 1948 , as well as giving his generous support to our school.

PETER COWPERTHWAITE GODSOE O.C., OONT ’56 1938 – 2023 Peter Godsoe began his career as a teller at the Bank of Nova Scotia and rose to become its chief executive officer, renowned for progressive, visionary leadership over his 40-year career.

As chairman and CEO, he shepherded the bank to become the second-largest in Canada, with acquisitions of both National Trust and Montreal Trust, while leading the bank’s expansion into Mexico and other countries.

Long before it was fashionable, he championed equity, overseeing the appointment of the first woman as the bank’s executive vice president. Under his leadership, Scotiabank began to allow benefit coverage for same-sex partners. He began his reign as CEO in 1993 by appointing an independent task force to find out why so few women held upper management positions.

His impact extended beyond the bank across Canada, to multiple corporate boards such as Barrick Gold, Rogers Communications and Fairmont and non-profits such as Mt. Sinai Hospital, Canadian Opera Company and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He also served

four years as chancellor of the University of Western Ontario.

In honour of his corporate legacy and legendary generosity, Peter was awarded the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario and the Order of Jamaica, and bestowed with honorary degrees from Concordia, Dalhousie, King’s College and Western universities.

At UTS, Peter forged strong friendships, including becoming lifelong friends with others in the UTS Class of 1956. While Peter was still a UTS student, he met the love of his life and future wife, Shelagh.

After UTS, Peter studied math and physics at the University of Toronto and later went on to complete his MBA at Harvard University.

Peter cherished time with his children and could often be found taking his grandchildren for ice cream. He and Shelagh were married for 60 years and visited over 100 countries together.

Peter leaves his wife, three children and five grandchildren and remains revered in the Canadian business sector for his inclusive mindset and transformative impact on one of our country’s largest banks. Peter’s memory lives on at UTS at the Fleck Atrium’s Learning Stairs, which bear the recognition of Peter and Shelagh’s generosity to the school. ■

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To designate UTS in your will or as a designation for memorial gifts, please contact Martha Drake, Executive Director, Advancement.

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ANNUAL DONOR REPORT In this report, we acknowledge donations made from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024.

We make every effort to ensure the accuracy of information. If you find an error or wish to have your name recognized differently, please contact the Office of Advancement: call 416‑978-3919 or email alumni@utschools.ca.

UTS is an extraordinary school and my first year as principal was full of wonder, in awe of our students, their sheer enthusiasm and love of learning. At UTS, our new mission is to ignite the brightest minds to make a difference in the world. Your generosity is vital in bringing this mission to life. Thank you to the 963 alumni, parents, staff, students and friends who collectively donated over $4.5 million dollars last year to support UTS students. Of that, $1.1 million went to support the UTS Bursary Fund, making a UTS education possible for many students who otherwise might not have been able to attend. I also wish to thank the UTS Arbor Society members for their foresight and commitment in planning your legacy gifts to the school.

You are living proof that our community is truly our greatest strength. With your support, we will strive to foster a greater culture of inclusion, while upholding the long-standing tradition of academic excellence that makes such a difference in the lives of our students at UTS and beyond.

– UTS Principal Dr. Leanne Foster

★ Donors who have given for ten or more consecutive years Donors who have given between five and nine consecutive years ♥ Monthly Donors

THE DOUBLE BLUE & WHITE CIRCLE Our thanks to the members of the UTS community who contributed $5,000 or more.

This recognition circle honours and celebrates the school’s colours and spirit and these generous donors.

Steven & Gita Alizadeh P ’15, ’17, ’20, ’22

Sheldon Szeto & Flora Chen P ’21, ’23, ’26

Estate of Glenna Marlene Fry

Xiang Han Max Bai ’16

Priscilla Chong P ’98

Estate of W Christopher Ballyn ’51

Deborah Danis

Ajay Garg and Tian Zhou P ’23

Zain Bhamjee & Iram Bhatti P ’20 Christopher Burton ’90 Peter L. Buzzi ’77 Matthew Chapman & Danielle Paterson P ’24 30

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Peter A. Ewens ’79 Ian Ferguson ’73 Firefly Foundation Fleck Family Foundation James Fleck C.C. ’49, P ’72 Christopher Francis ’81

Grenadier Foundation P. Diane Hamilton ’85 The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation

Robert W. Hoke ’66 Janet M. Hunter Robert P. Jacob ’60, P ’88, ’90 Robert & Charlie Janson P ’29 C. Stuart Kent ’79

Andre ’77 & Jocelyn Hidi

Matthew Kronby ’81

Frederick Hixon & Melinda Rogers-Hixon P ’25

J. David ’70 & Sally Lang P ’99

Annual Donor Report

Estate of Balfour Le Gresley P ’77 Nicholas Le Pan ’69 Brian Livingston ’72 Loch Tay Foundation Robert ’58 and Patricia Lord Antony T. F. Lundy ’79 & Janet M. Looker Tom MacMillan ’67, GP ’29 Roger Martin ’73 & Virginia Martin, P ’99, ’01, ’03, ’05 Dena McCallum ’82 Susan McCloy Bernie McGarva ’72, P ’03 J. A. (Sandy) McIntyre ’71

Alisha Rani

Hussain Shorish

William Redrupp ’54

Mark Shuper ’88

Bob Reeves & Carolyn Blaine P ’27

William W. Stinson ’51

Timothy H. Mitchell ’82

Donald Schmitt C.M. ’70 & Cheryl Atkinson

David H. Morgan ’63

John N. Shaw ’50

John Adair & Jennifer Stulberg ’97, P ’25, ’27, ’29 B & B Hamilton Fund, Toronto Foundation

Pamela Y. W. Wong ’98 & Gabriel Woo, P ’28 John Wu & Yin Mei Wong P ’28 Graham J. Yost ’76 Anonymous (4)

THE 1910 CLUB Our thanks to the members of the UTS community who contributed between $1,910 and $4,999. This recognition honours and celebrates the year the school was founded and these generous donors.

Dr. Jan Ahuja ’68 Marianne Anderson P ’17

William Chow & Anita Lo P ’26

Philip Arrowsmith ’48

James S. Coatsworth ’69

Kristina Bates ’88 & Harris Davidson, P ’22

William J. Corcoran ’51

David Colbert ’81

Elizabeth Herz-MacInnis ’82 Graeme Hibberd ’74 Anthony Hollenberg ’79 The Jha Family Xiaoyi Ji & Chen Qu P ’27

Marcel Behr ’81

Jim Cornell ’64

R. Brendan Bissell ’89 and Heidi Clark, P ’22, ’24

Ronald Davies

Navin Joneja & Gemma Joneja P ’24, ’29

Douglas Davis ’58 & Janet Davis, P ’87

Carrie (Fung) Ku ’85

J. Nicholas Boland ’79 John Bowden ’48 & Lois Bowden, P ’79 Michael Broadhurst ’88 & Victoria Shen ’93

Kevin Davis ’87 Margaret Graham ’89 & Andre D’Elia, P ’27 Martha Drake Rupert ’83 & Holly Duchesne, P ’25, ’30

Gordon E. Legge ’67 Bowen Lew & Susan Song P ’27 Zhen Lin & Yi Liu P ’25 Peter MacEwen ’65

Jimmy Mui & Amelia Ng P ’22 O’Neil Léger Family Foundation Jeremy Opolsky ’03 Kim R. Persky ’80 Joshua Phillips ’79 Maolin Ren & Qing Chen P ’24 Michaele M. Robertson & Barry Wansbrough David Rounthwaite ’65, P ’01 Hon. William J. Saunderson FCA ’52 & Meredith Saunderson

Dmitry Brusilovsky & Svetlana Bogouslavski P ’27

David Earthy P ’99

Salim Maherali & Shabin Nanji P ’29

Cade Foundation

Estate of Natalie Kuzmich

Robert Martin ’74

Jeff Singer ’76 & Maureen Whitley

Cameron Advertising Displays

Edward Etchells ’81 & Wendy Hatch, P ’12

Suzanne ’84 & Michael ’84 Martin, P ’11, ’15

Gary S. A. Solway ’76 & Jeilah Chan, P ’26

Michael Ling & Karen Chan ’91, P ’22, ’24

Anne Fleming ’85 & Michael Piaskoski, P ’17

Sean Mason & Christine Wong P ’25

David G. Stinson ’70

Kwong Chan & Tina Louie P ’28

Leanne Foster & Dan Hill

Andrew McElheran & Kristina McElheran P ’29

Elizabeth Straszynski & Chris Wilson Jonathan Talmi ’09

Philipp Frei & Cynthia Eldridge P ’28

Donald McMaster ’62

David Wainwright ’53

Dezhong Chen & Xuping Zhang P ’27

Tom Friedland ’81

Alan Mills ’55

Jeffrey Gans ’91

David & Alla Weintraub P ’18, ’24

Victoria Shen ’93

David S. Grant ’72

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Bing Chen & Yehua Su P ’27

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John Wilkinson ’78 Paul Wright ’70 Chunlei Wu & Yaling Yin P ’25 Mark Yarranton & Patricia Foran P ’13 Song Yin and Wen Yan P ’29 Zhaosheng Zhang & Wei Wei P ’28 Yanfeng Zhang & Hong Liu P ’25 Anthony Zhao & Sabrina Tao P ’29 Anonymous (4)

ALUMNI 1946-1949

1953

James Domm

1958

$568,960 Bruce Bone ’46

$6,521 Kenneth Culver ★

John Gardner P ’83 ★ David Howse

$13,920 Douglas I. Brawley

David H. Wishart ’46

William P. Lett ★

William Hunter ★

Douglas Davis P ’87 ★

Anonymous ’46

James C. Mainprize

C. Anthony Keith

Arthur D. Elliott ★

Douglas Kent ’47, P ’73, ’79, ’82 ★

Alan E. Morson P ’79 ★

Robert K. Metcalf

Richard Farr ★

William E. Rogan ★

Alan Mills

Stephen Glogowski

Philip Arrowsmith ’48

Robert E. Saunders ★

Anthony Morrison ★

Garrick Hagon

John A. Bowden ’48, P ’79 ★

David Wainwright

H. Thomas Sanderson ♥ ★

Bruce E. Houser

William Hanley ’48 John W. Thomson ’48 Rev. Dr. Ian Wishart ’48 James Fleck C.C. ’49, P ’72 ★ Richard D. Tafel ’49 ★

1950-1952 $2,362,573 Gilbert “Bud” Alexander ’50 Jack Moorfield ’50 John Shaw ’50 ★ William J. Corcoran ’51 ★ Estate of W. Christopher Ballyn ’51 Peter H. Russell C.C. ’51 ♥ ★

Douglas R. Wilson ★

1954 $9,125 David K. Bernhardt

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William G. Leggett

$2,755 Gerald Dickinson

Robert and Patricia Lord ★ James R. Mills ★

John L. Duerdoth ★

Kit Moore

David M. Flint ★

David Ouchterlony ♥ ★

H. Don Borthwick ★

R. E. Graham

James M. Spence P ’88

John M. Goodings ★

Ryan Kidd ★

Peter Strachan

James Lowden

Stephens B. Lowden

Richard Walker

James MacDougall

John V. Snell

Barry N. Wilson ★

D. Keith Millar ★

Charles F. T. Snelling

Anonymous

John D. Murray ★

Peter F. Stanley ★

William Redrupp ★

1959-1960

Gordon R. Sellery ★

1957

John H. Wait Gabriel Warren ★

$2,620 Robert Darling ♥ ★

George E. Whyte, Q.C.

Michael Locke

W. L. Mackenzie King ’59

John Sayers

Robert McMurtry C.M. ’59

1955

David Scroggie

Ian A. Shaw ’59

$8,375 Harold Atwood ★

Richard Stren

Ian M. Thompson ’59

Robert Waddell ★

Robert P. Jacob ’60, P ’88, ’90

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1956

W. G. Black, C.A.

William W. Stinson ’51 ★ Hon. William J. Saunderson FCA ’52 & Meredith Saunderson ★

Terence Keenleyside

$10,157 Donald G. Bell ’59 ♥ ★ Alexander Furness ’59

Annual Donor Report

J. Paul Mills ’60

David H. Morgan

Bruce Deacon

John Halpenny ’69

Bruce Moyle ’60

Niels Ortved

Richard N. Donaldson ♥ ★

Frederick R. E. Heath ’69 ★

Peter C. Nicoll ’60 ★

Robert Pampe, M.D. ★

John J. L. Hunter ★

Robert J. Herman ’69 ★

Malcolm Nourse ’60 ★

J. Fraser Wilson

Gordon E. Legge

Ingemar Korjus ’69

Douglas Rutherford ’60

Anonymous ♥ ★

Tom MacMillan GP ’29

Nicholas D. Le Pan ’69

Bruce Miller

1964

Nicholas Le Pan ’69 ♥ ★

W. Scott Morgan ♥ ★

$4,716 William Barclay

Peter C. Ortved ★

Bruce McDougall ’69

J. David Beattie P ’00, ’02 ♥

Geza Tatrallyay

R. Dale Taylor ’60

1961 $7,436 John & Margaret Coleman ★ David J. Holdsworth ★ Jon R. Johnson Peter B. MacKinnon Chuck Magwood Katherine & Paul Manley ♥ ★

Ronald G. Chapman Jim Cornell ★ Collin M. Craig ★ William R. Jones ♥ ★ Jeffrey R. Rose P ’03 ★

David G. Payne

Peter Snell ♥ ★

Michael Schwartz

George & Judith Swift ★

James E. Shaw ★

Joe Vaughan ★

Michael Tinkler

Anonymous

1962 $19,252 John Fauquier Geoffrey French David & Judy Galloway John Hetherington Kirby Keyser Donald A. Laing David Legge Donald McMaster David S. Milne ★ Gord Park Michael A. Peterman

1968-1969 $24,912 Dr. Jan Ahuja ’68 Paul Burke ’68 John Collins ’68

Anonymous ’69

1970 $111,021 Ronald Davies Doug Donald ★ Ray Kinoshita Brian D. Koffman

R. Jamieson Halfnight ’68

J. David Lang P ’99

Wayne Maddever ’68

Rolland Leader

James A. Russell ’68

Tim Rance

John Bohnen ’69 ★ William J. Bowden ’69

D. Kenneth Roberts P ’00, ’04

James Chaplin ’69

Donald Schmitt

James S. Coatsworth ’69 ★

David G. Stinson ★

Michael Disney ’69

David Sutherland

Donald Hayes ’65 & Sandra Hayes

Stephen C. Farris ’69 ★

Thomas Taylor

David Gibson ’69

Paul Wright

David Hetherington ’65

Eric Haldenby ’69

Anonymous

C. Robert Vernon David M. Ward

Jeffrey Simpson O.C.

1965-1966 $27,256 Robert A. Cumming ’65 ★ Leland J. Davies ’65

Robert Hustwitt ’65 Peter MacEwen ’65 ★ Anthony J. Reid ’65 David Rounthwaite ’65, P ’01 ★ Anonymous ’65 Robert W. Hoke ’66 William A. MacKay ’66 ★

Andras Z. Szandtner

John S. Rogers ’66 & Sherrill M. Rogers ★

A. Michael Spence

Jeffrey R. Stutz

Bryce Taylor C.M. Robert S. Weiss ★

1967

Anonymous ★

$20,097 David Amos

1963

Donald Ball

$53,674 Terry Bates ♥

Peter Best

J. Stuart Donn

Richard J. G. Boxer ★

James Fowell ★

Bruce Couchman

Peter H. Frost ★

Michael R. Curtis ★

George B. Boddington ★

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1971

Ray Imai Richard Kennedy

Roger Martin P ’99, ’01, ’03, ’05

Nicholas Stark

$63,909 Derek A. Bate P ’16

Anonymous ★

Anonymous

Brian Livingston

Richard Morrow

Paul Brace P ’12 ★

Bernie McGarva P ’03 ★

Miles Obradovich

Bruce Chapman

Howard Scrimgeour ★

David Plant

1975-1976

Christopher D. Woodbury ★

Jaak Reichmann Walter Vogl ★

$25,345 I. Ross Bartlett ’75 ♥ ★

William A. Fallis P ’15 Alan S. Fisher John Floras

1973

William Wilkins ♥ ★

Graeme C. Bate, P.Eng. ’75

Richard Hill ♥ ★

Robert Zimmerman ★

Thomas M. Hurka

$25,433 Ian Barnett

Martin A. Chepesiuk ’75, P ’10 ★

J. Peter Jarrett

John Bate

Sandy McIntyre

J. Christopher Boland

1974

Glen Morris ★

Alexander Rae-Grant ’75 Gregory Sokoloff ’75

Jeffrey Boxer

$10,292 Donald Bunt

Warren G. Ralph ★

Geoffrey Clayton

Andrey V. Cybulsky ★

Myron Cybulsky ’76 ★

Adrian Shubert ♥ ★

Paul Clifford

Terence Davison

Donald Gordon ’76 ♥ ★

Tony Storey ♥ ★

David Dick

James H. Grout ★

John Gould ’76

David R. Dodds (5Y) ★

Gerhardt Hauer ’76 Gavin Pitchford ’76

David G. Crookston ’76

1972

David Fallis P ’02 ★

Thomas Halpenny, P.Eng, CED, LEED

$20,838 B. Timothy Craine

Ian Ferguson

Graeme Hibberd

Vincent Santamaura ’76 ★

James Haldenby

Thomas Klein

Robert L.H. Fowler

Alvin Iu ♥ ★

Robert Martin ★

Jeff Singer ’76 & Maureen Whitley

David S. Grant ★

John G. Kivlichan ★

Jonathan Rubes

Robert G. Hull

Nicol MacNicol

Jack Sloggett

Gary S. A. Solway ’76, P ’26 D. Grant Vingoe ’76 Martin Weigelin ’76 Graham J. Yost ’76 ★ Anonymous ’76 Anonymous ’76 ★

1977 $36,829 Steven Alizadeh P ’15, ’17, ’20, ’22 ★ Peter L. Buzzi Andre & Jocelyn Hidi ★ Geoffrey Kwitko Stephen O. Marshall David McCarthy

1978 $8,850 David Allan ♥ ★ Deborah Berlyne Irene Cybulsky Sherry A. Glied ★ PHOTO: Dewey Chang

Daniel Gordon

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John Moffet Rodney Northey Donald Redelmeier P ’12, ’15 Timothy Sellers ★ John Wilkinson ★ Anonymous

1979 $255,545 J. Nicholas Boland Brian Eden ♥ Peter A. Ewens ★ Lisa Gordon ♥ Andrew Hainsworth Anthony Hollenberg Jean C. Iu ♥ C. Stuart Kent ★ K.C. Laird Laundy Antony T. F. Lundy & Janet M. Looker ★ James MacFarlane Susan E. Opler P ’14 Joshua S. Phillips Paul Eisen

1983

Chandragupta Sooran

$8,643 Andrew P. Alberti ★

Edward Etchells P ’12 Christopher Francis

$3,843 Robin Bloomfield

1985

Paul Bird

Tom Friedland ★

John A. Hass ♥ ★

Peter Bowen & Alison Bowen ★

Bruce Grant ♥ Robert Keedwell

Kevin G. Crowston

Matthew Kronby

1980

Christine Dowson Vanessa Grant & Philip Street ★ Dr. Sheldon Green ★ Bernie Gropper ★ Rick Marin ★ Ian McCuaig Nomi Morris ★ Andrew Munn ★ Kim R. Persky

1981

Ping Lin Laura Money P ’22 Jeffrey J. Nankivell Andre Schmid Eugene Siklos Anonymous

1982 $14,630 Ben Chan ★ Brian Denega

Stephen Kilburn

$53,459 Ian R. Brodie

Karen M. Mandel ★

Sarah Cannell ’85 ♥

C. Elizabeth Stefan

Isi Caulder ♥ ★

Jill Strapp

Anne Fleming P ’17 ★

Earl Stuart

Elizabeth Herz-MacInnis ★

Andrew Tremayne

Carrie (Fung) Ku ★

Elizabeth Turner ★

Grant Lum ★ Carson Schutze

1984

Paul Tough

$8,263 Donald C. Ainslie ♥ ★

Adrian M. Yip

Scott Anderson

1986

Marion Dove ★ Geoffrey Hall

$6,395 Tracy A. Betel ♥

Felicia Knaul P ’15

Wendy Drukier Paul Fieguth & Betty Pries

$29,045 Debra Bailey

Elizabeth Herz-MacInnis Lisa Jeffrey ♥ ★

Suzanne & Michael Martin P ’11, ’15 ♥ ★

Marcel Behr ♥

Jon & Robin Martin ★

Cameron A. Matthew

Eleanor Latta

Elizabeth Bush

Dena McCallum

Kosta Michalopoulos ★

Pericles Lewis

Suzanne Campbell

Timothy H. Mitchell

Rebecca E. Nagel

Arpita Maiti

Sandra Flow

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Victoria Shen Jason E. Shron ♥ ★ Rapido Trains Inc ♥ ★ Scott A. Thompson ♥ Cindy Wan ♥ ★ Pauline Wong Veronica C. Yeung ★ Anonymous (3)

1994-1995 $5,093 Aaron Chan ’94 ★ Adam Chapnick ’94 ★ Catherine Cheung ’94 Jennifer Couzin ’94 Mark D. Phillips P ’24

Michol Hoffman

Aaron Dantowitz ♥ ★

Darlene Prosser

Mark Opashinov ★

Christopher Federico

Jacquelyn Sloane Siklos

Mark Shuper

Jeffrey Gans

David S. Weiss P ’21

Rajesh & Parinita Gokhale

Julie Williams

1989

Mark Ho

Anonymous

$8,817 R. Brendan Bissell P ’22, ’24

Jennie E. Jung

1987 $9,830 Katherine Basi Caroline Cathcart Vee Na Chong Julia Cochrane ♥ ★ Kevin Davis ★ Lisa Freeman P ’27 Michael Gans Katherine Hammond & Richard Nathanson P ’20 ★ Ian Lee ’87, P ’27 Elissa A. McBride ’87 Gundars E. Roze Cari Whyne ’87 & James Pringle, P ’24 ★ Thomas Wilk ’87

Margaret Graham P ’27 ★ Kenneth Handelman ★ Ursula Holland Katherine Klosa Molly E. McCarron David Shaw Anonymous

1990 $9,618 Asheesh Advani & Helen Rosenfeld

Michael Leckie Elizabeth (Allan) Wilson

1992 $3,400 Sayeed Karim Abdulla ★ Bram Abramson

Rachel Spitzer ’94 ★ Darrell Tan ’94, P ’29 Laura Weinrib ’94 Rashaad Bhyat ’95 Benjamin Lin ’95 Raphaela Neihausen ’95 Robin Rix ’95 Jason Tam ’95 Jessica Ware ’95 ♥ Jeremy Weinrib ’95 Anonymous ’95

1996-1997

Lia Copeland

$34,740 Derek Chiang ’96

Oliver Jerschow

Felicia Y. Chiu ’96 ★

Anna Lim

Sarah Cooper-Weber ’96

Graham Mayeda ♥

Paul Karanicolas ’96, P ’24, ’28

Mark Tucker

Amanda Ross-White ♥ ★

Christopher Burton

1993

Warren Shih ’96

Hilary Davidson

$7,299 Kai Chan ♥ ★

Emma Frow ’97

Jacob Eliosoff

Emily McKernan ’97 & James Fireman

Jessica R. Goldberg P ’27 Lennox Huang Sara Gray P ’24 Heather Kirkby ♥

Nora Flood Geoffrey Hung ♥ ★ Alex Hutchinson ♥ ★

Jeffrey Hall-Martin ’97

Michael Morgan ’97 ♥ ★ Michael Shenkman ’97 ★

1988

Henry J.P. White

$25,410 Jennifer Andersen Koppe ♥ ★

Anonymous

Kristina Bates P ’22 ★

Rapido Trains ♥ ★

Michael Broadhurst

$8,140 Karen Chan P ’22, ’24 ★

Ian Richler ♥

$10,335 Clarence Cheng ’98 ★

Sujit Choudhry P ’23, ’26

Sandra Chong ♥ ★

Samuel Robinson

Neil Horner ’98

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Jeffrey Jaskolka P ’24 Jocelyn Kinnear

1991

T. Justin Lou

Jennifer Stulberg ’97, P ’25, ’27, ’29

1998-1999

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Joyce Poon ’98

Susie Chisholm

Pamela Y. W. Wong ’98, P ’28 ♥ ★

Emma Jenkin

Linus Yung ’98 ♥

Imola MacPhee

Anonymous ’98 Kristin Ali ’99 & Alex Wall ’99 Jonathan Bitidis ’99 & Daron Earthy ’99 ♥ ★

Justin M. Ma Britain Martin James McGarva Jeremy Opolsky ♥ ★ Adam Rose

Brenton Huffman ’99

Simon So

Andrea Roberts ’99

Karen Arcot

Anand Srinivasan ’99

Brendan Brady

James Steele ’99 Mark Varma ’99

2000-2002 $5,143 Justin S. Han ’00 Sabrina Bandali ’01 ♥ Emily Stover ’01 & Alexander Gorka ’01

2004-2008 $3,027 Olivia Padiernos-Mapué ’04 ♥ Anonymous ’04 ♥ ★

PHOTO: Martha Drake

Albert K. Tang ’99 ★

Hana Dhanji ’05 Mitchell Wong ’05 ♥ Ljiljana Stanic ’06 Christopher Yau ’06 & Jennifer Luong ’06

Jonathan Talmi ’09

Morgan Ring ’07

Ellen Bennett ’10

Lea Epstein ’02 ♥

Lyndon Shopsowitz ’07

Samir Kulkarni ’10

Tammy Ho ’02 ♥

Raman Srivastava ’07

Adam Martin ’11 ♥ ★

Liang Hong ’02 ♥ ★

Andrew Chan ’08

C. Luke Stark ’02 ♥ ★

Jeremy Zung ’08 ♥

Henry Chen ’12

$5,987 Christopher Chu ’14

Alexander Fung ’12

Michelle Lam ’14

2003

2009-2013

Adarsh Gupta ’12

Hannah Frenk Knaul ’15

$7,706 Yvonne Chang

$5,550 Melanie Dorval ’09

Andrew Chau

Lauren Friedman ’09

Julia Pomerantz ’12

Arielle Cheifetz

Vivek Kesarwani ’09

Isabella Chiu ’13 ♥

Clara Chow

Ana Komparic ’09

Natasha Tang ’13

Jennifer Chow C.A.

Avanti Ramachandran ’09

Diana Chisholm Skrzydlo ’01

Zhi Jia ’12 Katherine Lawrence ’12

GOLD DONORS: GR ADS OF THE LAST DECADE

Xiang Han Max Bai ’16 Anonymous ’16 Michael Lam ’18 Andrew Cheng ’22 Richard Bai ’23

PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS OF CURRENT STUDENTS Ajay Agrawal & Gina Buonaguro P ’23, ’28

Nathaniel Baum-Snow & Elnaz Alipour P ’28

Mark Bui & Melody Nguyen P ’28, ’29, ’30

Dezhong Chen & Xuping Zhang P ’27 ♥

Robert Alilovic & Odessa Gill P ’29

William Binnie & Erin Binnie P ’24

Michael Ling & Karen Chan ’91, P ’22, ’24

Sheldon Szeto & Flora Chen P ’21, ’23, ’26 ★

Azza Azza & Nkiru Azza P ’28

R. Brendan Bissell ’89 & Heidi Clark, P ’22, ’24

Kwong Chan & Tina Louie P ’28

Jia Chen & Qian Dou P ’28

Moussa Blimpo & Berthyle Fortunat-Blimpo P ’29

Matthew Chapman & Danielle Paterson P ’24

Dmitry Brusilovsky& Svetlana Bogouslavski P ’27

Amer Chaudhry & Farah Tabassum P ’25

Sonia Bahl P ’27 Lixian Bao & Liang Liang P ’29 ♥ Alphonse Barikage & Zahra Mohamed P ’25

Bing Chen & Yehua Su P ’27

Lizhen Chen & Zhang Meng Yang P ’30 Xin Chen & Wei Cheng P ’25 Hua Cheng & Ying Zhang P ’22, ’29 THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE

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Samuel Cheng & Bi Ni P ’24 Scott Cheng & Fiona Cai P ’21, ’24 Eric Chong & Yingyi Cui P ’29 Sujit Choudhry ’88 & Ira Parghi, P ’23, ’26 William Chow & Anita Lo P ’26 Gerald Choy & Betty Hum P ’24 Michael & Ann Chung P ’20, ’24, ’25 Jiang Cui & Le Zheng P ’27 Vincent de Grandpré & Sandra Nishikawa P ’26 Margaret Graham ’89 & Andre D’Elia, P ’27 ★ Zhen Yu Deng & Mable Shi, P ’26 ♥ Richard Derham & Qing Li P ’22, ’26 Shen Du & Jie Li P ’29 Rupert ’83 & Holly Duchesne, P ’25, ’30

Russell Field & Carolyn Snider P ’29

Jingyi Hao & Ellen Liu P ’26 Jian He & Jinghua Shen

Ray Kong & Irene Bauer P ’24

Daniel Firka & Susan Doniz P ’28

Bernd Henseler & Shaliza Ali-Henseler P ’30

Robert Korunovski & Ooi Chee Chooi P ’26

Lisa Freeman ’87 & Ray Forzley, P ’27

Rahim Hirji & Rahima Hirji P ’26

Kenneth Kuang & Joyce Tan P ’29

Philipp Frei & Cynthia Eldridge P ’28

Frederick Hixon & Melinda Rogers-Hixon P ’25

Aimin Lang & Ying Liu P ’26

Xiaodong Fu & Farong Chen P ’24

Tanjim Hossain & Migiwa Tanaka P ’29

Garros Fung & Livia Lau P ’24

Shuangzeng Hu & Yusheng Zhao P ’28

Alimran Gangani & Khairunissa Gangani P ’27, ’29

Tao Huang & Yanzhen Li P ’29 ♥

Charles Geng & Vicky Chai P ’27 Boris & Hanna Gernega P ’26 ♥ Amit Goel & Sumita Goel P ’27, ’29 Jessica R. Goldberg ’90 & James d’Ombrain, P ’27 Seth Goren P ’28

Annette Dudek P ’29

John & Nancy Gossling P ’18, ’20, ’23, ’25 ★

Eddy Fan & Christine Soong P ’29

Shengxi Gou & Fengqin Wang P ’30

Yi An Fan & Huiru Yang P ’28

Kun Gu & Wenge Zhang P ’25

Ning Fang & Jin Meng P ’30 ♥

Zhijun Gu & Pengli Chen P ’26

Christopher Fernandes & Anne Smith P ’29

Larry Guo & Brenda Liu P ’24

Zhigang Huang & I. Hsuan Chen P ’22, ’27 Robert Janson & Charlie Janson P ’29 Jeffrey Jaskolka ’93 & Sara Gray ’90, P ’24 Chris Javornik & Linda Weber P ’22, ’24

Scott Lau & Shenmin Yang P ’30 Colin Lee & Tara Cheng P ’29 Ian Lee ’87, P ’27 Jun Sun Lee & Yu Liu P ’29 Bowen Lew & Susan Song P ’27 ChangChun Li & Qing Li P ’26, ’30 Jiayan Li & Baohua Shen P ’25 Kan Li & Iris Zhu P ’25 Kevin Li & Yan Liu P ’29

Xiaoyi Ji & Chen Qu P ’27

Victor Li P ’29

Minghao Jiang & Mingyan Yang P ’29

Xin Li & Hui Wang P ’27

Navin Joneja & Gemma Joneja P ’24, ’29

Jie Lian & Xiaoyun Wu P ’24

Paul Karanicolas ’96 & Emelyn Bartlett P ’24, ’28 Ramandeep Khattra & Ravinder Khattra P ’24, ’28 Karim Khawaja & Farzana Karim Khawaja P ’27 Jun Kong & JingYu Xu P ’27

Yongle Li & Yuewen Yi P ’27 Ben Liang & Min Dong P ’28 Zhaongzang Lin & Yan Yan Lai P ’29 Zhen Lin & Yi Liu P ’25 Phillip Lipscy & Rie Kijima P ’27 En Liu & Lucy Song P ’25 Weidong Liu & Michelle Yu P ’27 Xing Hua Liu & Yanping Chen P ’25, ’27 Jinsong Lu & Mei Zhao P ’26 Bin Luan & Shelley Xie P ’29 Thomas Lundon & Thu Hong Ngo P ’27 Miller Luo & Maggie Lan P ’26 ♥ Vincent Lynch & Valerie Waters P ’27 Chenghua Ma & Fang Liu P ’26 Jon MacCall & Grace Sanchez MacCall P ’25 Salim Maherali & Shabin Nanji P ’29

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Gary Margolis & Shirley Margolis P ’26 Emil Markow & Kristin Li P ’24 Nikolay Martynov & Aleksandra Prusova P ’24 ♥ Sean Mason & Christine Wong P ’25 Andrew McElheran & Kristina McElheran P ’29 ♥ Alec Melkonian & Krista Semotiuk P ’24 Derek Menezes & Rita Sachdeva P ’23, ’26 Jian Meng & Fei Jia P ’29 Dezhi Ming & Jing Liu P ’25 Ivan Mo & Ming Xiong P ’23, P ’25 Richard Moen & Martha Moen P ’28 Chuannan Mu & Fan Zhang P ’29 Prashanth Mulukutla & Anu Kashyap P ’29

Bob Reeves & Carolyn Blaine P ’27

Ian Suttie & Julie Brough P ’27

Marc Weiner & Roxanne Degen P ’29

Michael Ni & Becky Li P ’27

Junyan Ren & Kaixia Ma P ’28

Matt Syme & Liz Thorpe P ’24 ♥

David & Alla Weintraub P ’18, ’24

Maolin Ren & Qing Chen P ’24

Darrell Tan ’94 & Mark Duwyn, P ’29

Jianghong Wen & Jing Zhang P ’27

Asgar Rishu & Gousia Dhhar P ’28

Esther Tang P ’26

Ryan White & Cheesan Chew P ’28

Daniel Omoto & Janice Wong P ’29 Nelson Ong & Joy Sun P ’28 Randy Pang & Jun Li P ’26 Andreas Park & Ekaterina Malinova P ’28 Jai Parkash & Mamta Dhankhar P ’20, ’26 Manish Patel & Maya Patel P ’26 Peter Doucet & Marina Kim P ’25 Chris Phillips & Sarah Notton P ’29 ♥ Cari Whyne ’87 & James Pringle, P ’24 ★ Mark D. Phillips ’86 & Esther Benzie, P ’24 Alex Prokoudine & Alexandra Aranovsky P ’29

David Ross & Liat Radcliffe Ross P ’29

Michael Tang & Cindy Fong P ’24 Besufekad Tesfaye & Adey Worku P ’23, ’28

Wellington Wong & Min Sun P ’25

Hui Tian & Wenli Liu P ’26

Grant Worden & Eleanor Colledge P ’23, ’25

Paul Satura & Carol Chiu P ’27, ’30

Marten van Kerkwijk & Yanqin Wu P ’22, ’25

Chunlei Wu & Yaling Yin P ’25

Olga Sergieieva P ’29

Roberto Velasquez & Myrna Apil P ’28

Pamela Y. W. Wong ’98 & Gabriel Woo, P ’28 ♥ ★

Jian Wang & Nan Weng P ’24

Gang Wu & Annie Wang P ’16, ’24

Jin Hu Wang & Tian Hui Shi P ’28

John Wu & Yin Mei Wong P ’28

Jiqin Wang & Guangming Huang P ’26

Penggao Wu & Wendy Xiong P ’26

Tao Wang & Min Wang P ’25

Bill Wu & Julie Wu P ’26 ♥

Sophia Zhang Family ’27

Dennis Xu & Cecilia Zhu P ’27

Seyed Hadi Sadat Toussi & Mercedeh Arbab P ’26 ♥

Dipesh Shah & Falguni Bhatt P ’25 Rajneesh & Alicia Sharma P ’29 Gary S. A. Solway ’76 & Jeilah Chan, P ’26 Victor Song & Vicky Chen P ’20, ’28 John Adair & Jennifer Stulberg ’97, P ’25, ’27, ’29

Michael & Connie Pun P ’23, ’26, ’28

Alexander Sukhonos & Ping Guo P ’25

Xun Wang & Hongxia Zhang P ’18, ’26

Ji Qi & Minyi Tang P ’25

Hui Sun & Ying Jiang P ’29

Abhay Raman & Preeti Raman P ’25

Donny Surtani & Nilima Gulrajani P ’29

Yunfu Wang & Qian He P ’28 Gang Wei & Kui Ren P ’28

Zhan Wu & Guoli Li P ’25

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Shintaro Yamabe P ’27

Pu Zhang P ’29

Chao Yang & He Cao P ’22, ’25

Rong Zhang & Qing Li P ’23, ’27

Frank Yang & Jenny Zheng P ’28

Tao Zhang & Xin Liu P ’25

Jiang Ming Yang & Ping Zhang P ’26, ’28 Sheng Yang & Lixiang Xu P ’24 Minlei Ye P ’29 Rick Yeung & Serena Lai P ’23, ’25 Robert & Amy Yeung P ’29 Song Yin & Wen Yan P ’29 Tao Yong & Tina Xu P ’27 ♥ Jian Yu & Yuefang Ni P ’27 Qiang Yuan & Yanyan Zhang P ’25

PHOTO: Dewey Chang

Ivan Yuen & Camilla Wong P ’27 Zhaosheng Zhang & Wei Wei P ’28 Hao Zhang & Xiwen Hou P ’26 Jessica Zhang P ’26

Tim Zhang & Kathy Zhou P ’27 Yanfeng Zhang & Hong Liu P ’25 Anthony Zhao & Sabrina Tao P ’29 Fan Zhao & Wey Yin P ’27 Feng Zhao & Chen Liang P ’28 Allen Zhou & Xin Raina Zhao P ’26 Chen Zhou & Yun Ding P ’27 Qiang Zhu & Susan Yin P ’25 Alan Zhuang & Tracy Cui P ’27 Johnny Zuo & Rita Zhang P ’28 Anonymous ♥ Anonymous (8)

PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS OF ALUMNI Peter & Elizabeth Alberti P ’80, ’82, ’86

Douglas Bradley & Mary Killoran P ’01, ’08

Steven ’77 & Gita Alizadeh, P ’15, ’17, ’20, ’22

Consuelo Castillo P ’92

William A. Fallis ’71 & Johann Cooper, P ’15

Paul & Loretta Chan P ’98 ★

Jin Fan & Li Zhao P ’23

Phillip Chan & Lilian Chan P ’78, ’82

Jim Fleck C.C. ’49, P ’72 ★

Marianne Anderson P ’17 ★ Kailash Bahadur & Maria Miller P ’02 Derek A. Bate ’71 & Elizabeth Beeler, P ’16 Kristina Bates ’88 & Harris Davidson, P ’22 ★ Margaret Bawden P ’20 J. David Beattie ’64, P ’00, ’02 ♥ Zain Bhamjee & Iram Bhatti P ’20 Ian & Susan Binnie P ’93, GP ’24 Robert G. Boeckner GP ’18 John Bowden ’48 & Lois Bowden, P ’79 ★ Paul Brace ’71, P ’12 ★ 40

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David Fallis ’73, P ’02 ★

Sid Feldman & Karen Weyman P ’13, ’17

Nancy Epstein & David Goldbloom O.C., P ’05 ★ Tong Hahn & D. Smith P ’16 ♥ ★ Katherine Hammond ’87 & Richard Nathanson ’87, P ’20 ★ Judith Hashmall P ’92

Anne Fleming ’85 & Michael Piaskoski, P ’17 ★

Michael Hogan & Martha Kurtz Hogan P ’17

Alexander & Lucy Forcina P ’15 ♥

Lianne Tile & Andrew Howard P ’15, ’17

Felicia Knaul ’84 & Julio Frenk P ’15

Tiger Hu & Michelle Liu P ’20 ★

Jennie Frow P ’97, ’01

George & Anne Hume P ’89

Stewart & Carmel Crampton P ’96, ’98

Ajay Garg and Tian Zhou P ’23

Brian Hwang & Janie Shin P ’14

Douglas Davis ’58 & Janet Davis, P ’87 ★

Martin Geffen & Cathy Mallove P ’10

Julian Ivanov & Michaela Tudor P ’17 ♥

Ivan Davis & Kapka Davis P ’15

Stephen Gittins & Linda Gittins P ’93, ’97

The Jha Family ★

Ellen Drevnig P ’07

Murray Gold & Helen Kersley P ’14

David Earthy P ’99

Robert P. Jacob ’60, P ’88, ’90 Susan Kitchell P ’01 ★

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Nestor & Catharine Kostyniuk P ’02

Volker & Vandra Masemann P ’89, ’90, ’95 & ’02

David & Jane Kruse P ’22

Bernie McGarva ’72, P ’03 ★

Regine & Alex Kuperman P ’07, ’08

Alex & Anka Meadu P ’01

Marnie Landon P ’12

Laura Money ’81 & Marcus Macrae, P ’22

Laura Lane

Alan E. Morson ’53, P ’79 ★

J. David ’70 & Sally Lang P ’99

Jimmy Mui & Amelia Ng, P ’22 ♥

Gladys Page P ’79 Wen Tang Pan & Jenny Gao P ’19

Geoff & Carol Shirtliff-Hinds P ’16, ’17, ’20 James M. Spence ’58, P ’88

Michael Phan & May Chow P ’15

Alberts Vitols & Maria Thorburn P ’22

Julie Prentice P ’16

Garry & Nancy Watson P ’92, GP ’16, ’19

Dejan & Djurdjica Ratkov P ’16

David S. Weiss ’86, P ’21 S.K. & P.N. Wong P ’06

Bill Liu & Winnie Liu P ’22

Kayambu & Ramalakshmi Muthuramu P ’08

Donald Redelmeier ’78 & Miriam Shuchman, P ’12, ’15

Zhu Liu & Karen Chen P ’19

Q. Nguyen P ’93

Ben Lu and Bo Jin P ’18, ’22 ♥ ★

Donald & Nita Reed P ’92 ★

Steve O’Neil & Colette Léger P ’15, ’18 ★

Richard & Jane Roberts P ’99, ’02, ’05

Quan-Gen Zhou & Hui Song P ’09, ’16

Menka Opashinov P ’88

Jeffrey R. Rose ’64 & Sandra Black, P ’03 ★

Anonymous (3)

Simon & Audrey Li P ’09

Roger Martin ’73 & Virginia Martin, P ’99, ’01, ’03, ’05 Michael R. Martin ’84 & Suzanne Martin ’84, P ’11, ’15 ♥ ★

Susan E. Opler ’79 & Paul F. Monahan, P ’14 Opolsky Family

Victor & Helen Wong P ’05 Mark Yarranton & Patricia Foran P ’13

Anonymous ♥

David Rounthwaite ’65 & Leith Hunter, P ’01 ★

Anonymous (2) ★

Elizabeth Straszynski & Chris Wilson ♥

Anonymous

CURRENT & FORMER STAFF Sarah Behl ♥

Kris Ewing ♥ ★

Rebecca Levere ♥ ★

Carole BernicchiaFreeman ★

Christopher Federico ’91

Kara Lysne-Paris ♥

Leanne Foster & Dan Hill ♥

Jonathan Bitidis ’99 ♥ ★

Julie Martin

Mary Hall

Lily McGregor ♥ ★

Chris J. Carswell ♥ ★

Rebecca Harrison & Stephen Colella

Jack Moorfield

Garth Chalmers ♥ ★

Anna Jalocha

H. Don Borthwick ’54 ★

Nancy Dawe

Emma Jenkin ’03

Michael Didier ♥ ★

Judith Kay ♥ ★

Kathy Dimas

Estate of Natalie Kuzmich

Rose Dotten ♥ ★

David Laurenson

Martha Drake ♥ ★ Lynda S. Duckworth ★

Estate of Balfour Le Gresley P ’77

Rosemary Evans ♥ ★

Raymond Lee ♥ ★

Margaret Pirk ★ Jennifer Pitt-Lainsbury ♥ ★ Marie-Claire Recurt ★

Kimberley Tavares ♥ C. Ann Unger ♥ ★ David S. Weiss ’86, P ’21 ♥ Janet Williamson ♥ Andrew Wilson Carole (Geddes) Zamroutian ★

Michaele M. Robertson & Barry Wansbrough

Adnan Zuberi

Ron & Kaye Royer

Anonymous

Sarah Shugarman ♥

Anonymous ♥

Elizabeth Smyth

Anonymous (2) ♥ ★

Anonymous

FRIENDS OF UTS Steven Appelbaum

Lori Endress

Cade Foundation

Estate of Glenna Marlene Fry Judith Field

Frances Clee

Firefly Foundation

Robert Cook

Margaret Freure

Tim & Vicky Coristine

Sarah Giacomelli

Mary Chris Cyr

Grenadier Foundation

Deborah Danis

Shane Harrison

Peter J. Doucet Law Barrister & Solicitor

The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation

PHOTO: S6 (grade 12) Leo - The Twig

Cameron Advertising Displays

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Annual Donor Report

Matthew Horan

Da Zhi Leio

Alisha Rani

Toronto Area Custom Ford

Janet M. Hunter

Sue Lemon

Rapido Trains ♥

Dealers Inc

Elizabeth Hurly

William Li

Rogers Communications

UTS Alumni Association ★

Hydro One

Richard Life

Carol Rolheiser

UTS Parents’ Association ★

IBM Canada Limited

Loch Tay Foundation

Smita Sarker

Farida Kafaei

Manulife Financial

Hussain Shorish

Rick Kollins

Susan McCloy

Walter Somerville

Kuperman Family Foundation

Memar Architects Inc

Sun Life Financial Switch VFX & Animation

Kvantsoft Inc.

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Travelers Canada

Anonymous

Margaret Lang

Government of Ontario

Toronto Foundation ★

Anonymous ★

Mary Jo Walker Whitehorse Liquidity Partners Inc Anonymous (4)

CELEBRATING OUR GRADUATING CLASS! Since 2007, parents of graduating students have celebrated their children’s graduation from UTS by making a gift to the Grad Class Bursary Fund in honour of their children. The Grad Class Bursary is endowed with over $240,000 providing financial aid to current UTS students. This year, many of the gifts in honour of graduating students were directed to our Top Up Bursary Fund and other school priorities. We thank our families for giving the gift of a UTS education through donations totaling nearly $30,000!

CLASS OF 2024 William & Erin Binnie P ’24 in honour of Charles Binnie ’24 R. Brendan Bissell ’89 & Heidi Clark, P ’22, ’24 in honour of Joseph Bissell ’24 Matthew Chapman & Danielle Paterson P ’24 in honour of Graham Chapman ’24

Gerald Choy & Betty Hum P ’24 in honour of Owen Choy ’24

Chris Javornik & Linda Weber P ’22, ’24 in honour of Anthony Javornik ’24

Michael & Ann Chung P ’20, ’24, ’25 in honour of Trinity Chung ’24

Navin Joneja & Gemma Joneja P ’24, ’29 in honour of Sabina Joneja ’24

Xiaodong Fu & Farong Chen P ’24 in honour of Jason Fu ’24

Paul Karanicolas ’96 & Emelyn Bartlett P ’24, ’28 in honour of Andrew Karanicolas ’24

Maolin Ren & Qing Chen P ’24 in honour of Jasmine Ren ’24

Ramandeep Khattra & Ravinder Khattra P ’24, ’28 in honour of Angad Khattra ’24

Philip Siller & Ellen Gutterman P ’24, ’27 in honour of Sarah Ann Siller ’24

Ray Kong & Irene Bauer P ’24 in honour of Julian Bauer-Kong ’24

Matt Syme & Liz Thorpe P ’24 in honour of Emma Syme ’24

Jie Lian & Xiaoyun Wu P ’24 in honour of Allen Lian ’24

Michael Tang & Cindy Fong P ’24 in honour of Stephen Tang ’24

Garros Fung & Livia Lau P ’24 in honour of Gianna Fung ’24

Samuel Cheng & Bi Ni P ’24 in honour of Aidan Cheng ’24

Larry Guo & Brenda Liu P ’24 in honour of Kevin Guo ’24

Scott Cheng & Fiona Cai P ’21, ’24 in honour of Stephanie Cheng ’24

Jeffrey Jaskolka ’93 & Sara Gray ’90, P ’24 in honour of Jacob Jaskolka ’24

Karen Chan ’91 & Michael Ling P ’22, ’24 in honour of Brandon Ling ’24 Emil Markow & Kristin Li P ’24 in honour of Olivia Markow ’24 Nikolay Martynov & Aleksandra Prusova P ’24 in honour of Alexander Martynov ’24 Alec Melkonian & Krista Semotiuk P ’24 in honour of Eleanora Melkonian ’24 42

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Mark D. Phillips ’86 & Esther Benzie, P ’24 in honour of Elizabeth Nicola Phillips ’24 Cari Whyne ’87 & James Pringle, P ’24 in honour of Noam Pringle ’24

Jian Wang & Nan Weng P ’24 in honour of Aiden Wang ’24 David & Alla Weintraub P ’18, ’24 in honour of Lauren Weintraub ’24 Gang Wu & Annie Wang P ’16, ’24 in honour of Violette Wu ’24 Sheng Yang & Lixiang Xu P ’24 in honour of Allen Yang ’24

Annual Donor Report

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

IN HONOUR OF: Bram Abramson ’92

Jo Mason ’96

Darren Abramson ’94

Ezra Moos ’20

Arnold Amber

Susan E. Opler ’79, P ’14

Xiang Han Bai ’16

Rick Parsons P ’16, ’19

Gillian Bartlett

Ana Maria Pereira-Castillo

Gloria Bitidis P ’99

Mia Richmond ’20

Elizabeth Buchanan

Natasha Richmond ’16

Peter Buzzi ’77

Nicole Richmond ’18

Garth Chalmers

Kieran Sharma ’14

Class of 2024

UTS Teachers & Staff

Aaron Dantowitz ’91

Susan Ware P ’95

Jaswir Dhanji P ’05

Erik Worden ’23

Rosemary Evans

Gloria Wu ’15

Jannis Mei ’13

Richard Clee ’49

M. Anne Millar

David Decker ’70

Alexander Mills ’48

John Duffy ’81, P ’17, ’21

Peter Neilson ’71

John Evans ’46, P ’75, ’78

Karen O’Connor ’81

Donald Fawcett ’50

Rein Otsason ’12

Peter Godsoe O.C., OOnt ’56

Clare Pace

Libby Grant

John Perrin ’81

H. Donald Gutteridge

Peter Pope ’64

Keva Garg ’23

Philippa M. Rounthwaite

Lisa Haberman

Peter Saunderson ’55

John Jacobi ’59

Gerald M. Shaw ’50

William Bennett ’53

Barnet Kussner ’82

Nicole Stef ’16

Danyal Bhyat

Natalie Kuzmich

Robert J. Sutherland ’37

Ping Kong Lai

Stewart Bull

Balfour Le Gresley

Warren Lee ’91, P ’22, ’23, ’24

Donald Bunt ’45

Peter Luhse ’78

Lindsey Cameron ’91

W. Bruce MacLean

G. Alan Fleming ’54 Shuli Jones ’18 Moshe Kats Leanne Foster John R. Gardner ’55 Barry Graham ’59, P ’89, ’92, GP ’27

IN MEMORY OF: Derek Allen ’65 Leopold Skorski and Janine Arthur

Stanley M. Pearl

Marika Tamm ’84 John Tapsell ’70 Kate Tiley

THE UTS ARBOR SOCIETY FOR LEGACY 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

G. Alan Fleming ’54, Former Principal

Mark Opashinov ’88

Carson Schutze ’85 John N. Shaw ’50

Lois & John Bowden ’48, P ’79

Stephen Gauer ’70

Stephen Raymond & Natasha vandenHoven P ’16, ’19

Robert W. Hoke ’66

William Redrupp ’54

Paul Brace ’71, P ’12

David J. Holdsworth ’61

Peter L. Buzzi ’77

Robert E. Lord ’58

D. Kenneth Roberts ’70, P ’00, ’04

Ben Chan ’82

Antony T.F. Lundy ’79

Class Member ’84

James I. MacDougall ’54

James S. Coatsworth ’69

Bernie McGarva ’72, P ’03

Gillian (Davidson) Davies ’87

James A. (Sandy) McIntyre ’71

Scott Baker, Former Teacher

Matthew Dryer ’68

John R.D. Fowell ’60

Lynda S. Duckworth, Former Teacher

David Morgan ’63

James Fleck C.C. ’49, P ’72

John D. Murray ’54

J. Timothy Morgan ’87

Michaele M. Robertson, Former Principal

David Sherman ’75 Murray E. Treloar ’68 Gregory G. Turnbull ’73 Walter Vogl ’73 Anonymous (19)

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

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LOOKING BACK While visiting UTS this fall, Tony Storey ’71 saw exhilarated F1 (grade 7) and S6 (grade 12) students disembarking the bus after experiential education at Camp Couchiching.

The sight brought him back more than a half a century to 1971, and his wonderful memories of the first-ever Experiential Education at UTS – the Grade 7 and Grade 13 weekend. Held at the family farm of fellow grade 12 student, Ian Rhind ’71 (also the home of Ian’s brother Sandy Rhind ’69 and father Jack Rhind ’38), the trip had flag football, frisbee toss, Latin singsong and a 6 a.m. wake-up call from physical education teacher Mr. Simons’ trumpet! Tony and his peers forged bonds that lasted a lifetime, both within his class and with the younger students.

The weekend worked so well Experiential Education became an ongoing part of the UTS program. Today, the theme is building connections – to each other and to the land – and all grades take part in fall and/or winter camps at Couchiching, Cedar Ridge, Wanakita and/or Kintail, with S5 and S6 students honing their leadership skills as counsellors for the F1s and F2s.

The program is about reaching, reflecting and relaxing together, says UTS Visual Arts Teacher Robin Michel, who has served as the UTS Outdoor Experiential Education Coordinator since 2018. In the fall, students typically try canoeing, kayaking, the high ropes course, orienteering, archery and swimming. Winter activities include snowshoeing, cross country skiing, broomball, skating and more. Ceremonies, like the camp opening and closing and the annual House sorting, as well as campfire time and group games, bring students closer together.

“Being in an outdoor setting, overnight with your entire grade, experiencing things that are very different from regular school life, fosters character, community and relationships,” says Robin.

Experiential Education Then and Now

1971 – Inaugural event at the Rhind family farm

Fall 2024 – F1 and S6 students at Camp Couchiching

PHOTO: S6 (grade 12) Leo - The Twig