The Root Fall 2021 - UTS Alumni Magazine

Root THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE

FALL 2021

HAL JACKMAN O.C. ’50 A LIFETIME SUPPORTING EDUCATIONAL, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL CAUSES

PRESIDENT’S REPORT

Aaron Dantowitz ’91 PRESIDENT, UTSAA

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Innovation and Interpersonal Connections One of the pandemic’s silver linings is the innovation it engendered in how we connect with one another. Lockdowns and stay-at-home orders have spurred institutions of all kinds to adapt and explore new ways of being in touch.

The UTS Alumni Association (UTSAA) is no exception. Fostering interpersonal connection is part of our raison d’être, built into our mission statement: “To support UTS and to help present and future alumni develop and sustain meaningful, lifelong connections to UTS, to each other and to the broader UTS community.” Over the past year and a half, we have had to modify how we pursue this goal, but with the help of the dedicated UTS Advancement staff, we have managed it with a fair amount of success.

For example, last fall, our marquee event, the annual alumni dinner, became a Virtual Alumni Reunion.

Far from dampening enthusiasm, the online celebration, together with three private class reunions, drew a handful more alumni than attended the previous year’s in-person dinner. This year’s edition of the event, also held virtually, carried on that success, and included participants from eight countries.

Indeed, technology has opened up the possibility for alumni around the province, the country, and the world to participate in events that would formerly have been limited, for practical reasons, to those living in the Greater Toronto Area. This past May, our virtual Trivia Night event drew over 100 alumni and their guests – the largest number ever – from across Canada and the U.S., and registrants from as far away as Brazil and the UK signed up for our virtual cocktail-making course in July. We also found ways to continue connecting with students at the school. We converted the popular in-person Don’s Den event, where student clubs make their case for grants from the Borthwick Fund, into pitches at our virtual board meetings. UTS Connect, our online networking platform, now has over 1,100 registered members, and many alumni have used it to make connections with one another over the past year.

We certainly look forward to the day when gathering in large groups is an option again. But even when that day comes, we hope to continue taking advantage of the lessons we have learned about virtual tools and the possibilities that they offer for developing and sustaining meaningful, lifelong connections.

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCHOOLS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 371 Bloor Street West, Room 121 Toronto, Ontario M5S 2R7

UTSAA BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT

TREASURER

HONORARY PRESIDENT

Aaron Dantowitz ’91

Aaron.Dantowitz@utschools.ca

Sara Son Hing ’97

Sara.Son.Hing@utschools.ca

Rosemary Evans

VICE PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

HONORARY VICE PRESIDENT

Laura Money ’81

Ian Speers ’98

Laura.Money@utschools.ca

Ian.Speers@utschools.ca

Jonathan Bitidis ’99

Adarsh Gupta ’12

REvans@utschools.ca

Garry Kollins

GKollins@utschools.ca

DIRECTORS

Phone: 416-978-3919 Fax: 416-971-2354

Jonathan.Bitidis@utschools.ca

Adarsh.Gupta@utschools.ca

Aaron Chan ’94

Geoffrey Hung ’93

E-mail: alumni@utschools.ca

Aaron.Chan@utschools.ca

Web: www.utschools.ca/alumni

David.Dodds@utschools.ca

Facebook: www.fb.com/utschools

Anne.Fleming@utschools.ca

Twitter and Instagram: @utschools

David Dodds ’73

Anne Fleming ’85 Peter Frost ’63

Peter.Frost@utschools.ca

If you would like to receive your copy of The Root electronically, please contact alumni@utschools.ca or 416-978-3919.

Geoffrey.Hung@utschools.ca

Peter Neilson ’71

Peter.Neilson@utschools.ca

Mark Opashinov ’88

Mark.Opashinov@utschools.ca

Bob Pampe ’63

Bob.Pampe@utschools.ca

Avanti Ramachandran ’09 Avanti.Ramachandran@utschools.ca

Morgan Ring ’07

Morgan.Ring@utschools.ca

Tim Sellers ’78

Tim.Sellers@utschools.ca

Jessica Ware ’95

Jessica.Ware@utschools.ca

CONTENTS 8

HAL JACKMAN IS MAKING HISTORY The legacy of the Honourable Henry Newton Rowell “Hal” Jackman O.C. ’50 at UTS and beyond.

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ALUMNI WHO CARE FOR THE MIND Featuring Dr. Kenny Handelman ’89, Adrianne Brewer ’83, Dr. Jonathan Lee ’02, and Dr. David Kreindler ’84.

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CONSTRUCTION CORNER AND UTS CO-CAPTAINS Our renewed school is nearly ready, but UTS Co‑Captains Emily Liu and Caleb Na still need furnishings and equipment before they return.

REGULAR FEATURES UTS Board Report . . . . . . . . 4

In School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Principal’s Report. . . . . . . . . 4

Alumni News. . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Giving Back. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Annual Donor Report . . . . 28

PUBLISHER

DESIGN

ON THE COVER

Martha Drake

PageWave Graphics Inc.

The Honourable Henry Newton Rowell “Hal” Jackman O.C. ’50 has spent a lifetime supporting educational, social and cultural causes.

MANAGING EDITOR AND STAFF WRITER

Kimberley Fehr EDITOR

Sumner & Lang

PHOTOGRAPHY

Martha Drake, Kimberley Fehr, Emma Jenkin ’03, Dahlia Katz, Kara Lysne-Paris, University of Toronto and University of Toronto Archives (Lisa Salulensky and Steve Frost)

PROOFREADER

PRINTER

Morgan Ring ’07

Colour Systems Inc.

ABOVE

The sleek white brick veneer outside the Withrow Auditorium creates a distinctive new facade for our school.

CONTRIBUTORS

Our thanks to this issue’s contributors: Luigi Cifa; Aaron Dantowitz ’91; John Della Serra; Martha Drake; Rosemary Evans; Jim Fleck C.C. ’49, P ’72; Nomi Morris '80; Karen Sumner and Warren Lang; Mardi Witzel ’82.

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.

UTS BOARD REPORT

Jim Fleck C.C. ’49, P ’72 Board Chair, UTS

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Rosemary Evans Principal, UTS

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We are so close, and every day my excitement grows. Soon our students will come home to the new UTS: more inspired than ever before. From the Huron Street threshold, they will look up to see the old intermingling seamlessly with the new, our illustrious history at one with our limitless future. They will see it in the way the historic red brick of the neoclassical facade complements the beautiful white brick veneer of the Huron stairwell, and that of the new Withrow Auditorium beyond.

They will enter between the stalwart columns of the Huron Street doors, pass the Jackman Theatre, and walk down a hall lined with shiny lockers in shades of UTS blue. A left turn brings them into the heart of the new school – the Fleck Atrium – where they will gather with friends on the staircase seating, illuminated by the skylight, to debate ideas and look around in awe at this amazing home we have built together as a community.

New state-of-the art facilities provide new possibilities for our students. For the first time in UTS history, the calibre of our students will be completely supported by the calibre of our facilities. In the Lang Innovation Lab, students will have the tools they need to transform their most ambitious dreams into reality. Freshly painted black walls in the Jackman Theatre are a blank slate, ready and waiting for the imaginations of our students to bring performances to life. Within the McIntyre Gymnasium, students will build teamwork and camaraderie through the power of sport.

Ultimately, our school is not the building, but the community it creates: the connections among students, and with teachers and alumni. As the building draws closer to completion, the possibilities are expanding infinitely for our students. But before they return, we have one more thing to accomplish – finishing the school from the inside out, with state-of-the-art equipment and furniture, to ensure everything is ready for them when they walk through the doors for the first time into our future.

If you share my excitement and have the capacity and inclination to help finish the job, my email is jimfleck@me.com.

UTS is a school on the cusp of a new future, guided by our intrinsic desire to make our school, this city, and even the world, a better place for everyone. As we prepare to welcome in the stunning new incarnation of UTS with our renewed building, we strive to bring our progressive vision to life, empowered by UTS Strategic Initiatives on equity, mental wellness, digital citizenship and more.

We are deeply driven. Our vision is a school community where everyone belongs, where there is no racism, and a culture free of sexual harassment, where we treat each other with respect and kindness, whether it be on social media or in real life.

Underscoring this vision is our firm commitment to care for the mental health and wellbeing of ourselves and each other, for there is no health without mental health. Within these pages, you will see how alumni far and wide, years after graduation, live the UTS mission of socially responsible citizenship with their dedication to helping others through their work in mental health.

Partnerships light our way. Collaborations with alumni like David Kreindler ’84, head of youth psychiatry at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, featured in this magazine, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Social Work and others, help us do better. For the second year in row, UTS received gold certification from OPHEA Healthy Schools for all that we do to further wellness in our school.

Our new home will lift us up, paving the way for the future we aspire to, thanks to our history of illustrious alumni, such as this year’s H.J. Crawford Award winner, Honourable Henry Newton Rowell “Hal” Jackman O.C. ’50, former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, who is also featured in this issue. His support as a UTS Founder led to creation of the Jackman Theatre in our renewed building, a place where generations of UTS students to come will have the opportunity, the space and the tremendous freedom to bring their dreams to life, to be brave and unfettered, and truly soar to the limits of their possibilities, and beyond.

REMEMBERING NORAH MAIER

BY GUEST WRITER NOMI MORRIS ’80

Dr. Norah Maier left an indelible mark on a generation of UTS students and on the school, passing away on June 26, 2021 at age 81. One of the school’s first three female teachers, she taught English from 1973 to 1995. An international leader in the education of gifted students, she played a vital role in the school’s transition to co-education, among many contributions that led to her being inducted into the UTS Hall of Fame in 2018.

In tributes that poured in after Norah’s death, alumni remembered her as an innovative educator who combined intellectual rigour with emotional passion. For the first generation of women graduates she served as a role model of confidence and accomplishment. “Norah said ‘Yes’ to experience, she said ‘Yes’ to ideas. She was open to everything,” said UTS Foundation Board member Vanessa Grant ’80.

Norah’s colleague, Art teacher Don Boutros, said she sought to “awaken something in each individual.” Others referred to her as a “force of nature” with a rare “lust for life.”

Born in Russian-controlled Ukraine in 1939, Norah immigrated to Toronto at age 10. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Toronto and a Master of Arts in Theatre from the University of British Columbia. She later did a PhD in Education at U of T, writing her dissertation on training teachers to educate gifted children. She was an author and editor of Teaching the Gifted: Challenging the Average, among other publications.

Early in her time at UTS, Norah directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which included student cast members who went on to careers in theatre.

Other UTS alumni who became writers and journalists cite her as a critical influence. “She insisted on her own kind of vitality and beauty and brilliance and it was utterly seductive and transformative – the way some people shift how you experience the world,” said novelist Catherine Bush ’79, who played Titania in that 1975 Shakespeare production.

Norah sat for five years on a key U of T academic council, advocating for the school at a time when the university was considering separating itself from UTS. She represented staff in the Alumni Association and suggested the idea of class reps for each graduating year. Outside UTS, she was a founder of the World Council on Gifted and Talented Children and sat on its executive for 12 years – four as president. In 1993, she brought the organization’s tenth world conference to Toronto.

After meeting Edward de Bono, who coined the term ‘lateral thinking,’ Norah created a Thinking course which ran at UTS for several years.

Norah spent 1995 to 2000 in Singapore, after its government invited her to raise that nation’s level of creative thinking. In her final two decades, she lived near Vienna and did charitable work in Europe. She became Lady Norah Maier after being invested as a Knight in the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta.

Norah’s husband Franz, a photojournalist, predeceased her in 2001. She leaves her niece and nephew, Irina and Nick Bobrow, and many alumni who will never forget her impact on their lives.

Martha Drake

Executive Director, Advancement

The Norah Maier Award for Creativity has been established at UTS to acknowledge Norah’s legacy to the school.

Donations may be made online at utschools.ca/ donate or by contacting david.haisell@utschools.ca.

Dr. Norah Maier with Nomi Morris ’80

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IN SCHOOL

When news broke about the remains of 215 missing children found at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, and unmarked graves at other former residential schools, the UTS Indigenous Solidarity Committee helped students understand the impacts of these atrocities.

On June 2, UTS Elder-in-Residence Cat Criger and the Committee shared their reflections, leading the school in three minutes and 35 seconds of silence. M4 (Grade 10) student Shreya Shah said: “All of our Land Acknowledgements will be meaningless unless each of us commits to ensuring that treaties are honoured and the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission are implemented.” Two days later, many students joined a virtual talking circle, hosted by the Committee and Cat.

The Class of 2021 celebrated Graduation day together but apart at the 5 Drive-In Theatre in Oakville. “This COVID year tested our resilience more than ever, teaching us that learning extends far beyond the classroom…” said Co-Valedictorian Elizabeth Zhu. “Learning is not about titrating a liquid perfectly or simply refining the derivative of a curve. It’s about experimenting…”

It was wonderful to see the grads cross the stage in their blue caps and gowns to receive their diplomas from Principal Rosemary Evans and Vice Principal Garth Chalmers.

“We don’t have the traditional send-off, it’s true,” said Co-Valedictorian Shuruthi Sivadas.

“We’ve been through so much together, and grown emotionally. What we’ve experienced over these years has ensured that we are leaving UTS as better people than when we came.”

He uses origami to teach abstract algebra. He made math a team sport. He leads students in the creation of the fRoot math puzzle magazine. And now UTS Mathematics and Computer Science teacher Adam Gregson has been named a 2021 René Descartes Medalist and will be inducted into the Society next year. He also earned the Mathematical Association of America’s Edyth May Sliffe Award for distinguished teaching.

Under Adam’s leadership, UTS has had several students on the Canadian International Math Olympiad Team, but the real success is how the Math Team has become more of a team, involving students from all grades with an equal gender balance. “We’re trying to make math more social, about getting together with your friends,” says Adam. “Our big success is that many more students are teaching each other and collaborating.”

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In School

It was a SHOW like never before. Due to the pandemic, SHOW 2021: ALL ABOARD became the first ever SHOW feature film.

The premise: “A less-than-fortunate cruise ship experience is turned upside down by a murder on board. Can these two unlikely partners find the culprit before the next life is claimed?” The Directors – S6 (Grade 12) students Chloe Kim and Riya Kumar, and S5 (Grade 11) Patricia Nova – started planning in August 2020, and filming began in March, supervised by French teacher Claude Guillemot, and with expertise from Visual Arts teacher Robin Michel. “One of the major hurdles was trying to figure out how to film while keeping socially distant,” says Riya.

Patricia adds, “Everything we did was intensely collaborative.

From the planning to filming to editing, there wasn’t an instant where we weren’t brainstorming together or giving each other heaps of feedback.” The world premiere debuted June 18 on YouTube to rave reviews.

After a semifinals debate on whether the west should abandon the proliferation of democracy as a foreign policy objective, the team of S6 (Grade 12) Sarenna McKellar and M4 (Grade 10) Alyssa Li reached the national finals. The topic: whether 100 percent of university admissions should be based on a lottery system. They argued the pressure of getting into a top university often puts detrimental stress on students, and stratifies the quality of education because top schools get the most resources.

The result: Sarenna placed first and Alyssa sixth, and together they became the Canadian Debate National Champions!

“This was the perfect way to recognize all of the hard work Ms. Sagalina Doré and Kieran (Kreidié-Akazaki ’17) put into coaching us,” says Sarenna. She has passed on everything she has learned to Alyssa, who loves how debate “promotes openmindedness as you view the world from many different lenses.”

It takes a team to win an Envirothon, with everyone bringing different expertise to the table. In the top row from left to right, Science teacher Elizabeth Straszynski was coach of the S5 (Grade 11) team featuring wildlife expert Catherine Liu, and soils expert Luckya Xia. In the bottom row, Sharon Chen brought forestry expertise, Risha Reddy focused on nature-based climate change solutions for the provincial competition, and water resources management for the international competition, and Vanessa Fan covered aquatics. Together, they won the 2021 Ontario Envirothon, hosted by Forests Ontario. It was almost a UTS sweep with our teams in three of the top four places.

In the summer, they became experts on the Nebraska environment to finish eighth at the National Conservation Foundation Envirothon, and win the forestry eco station section.

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

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HAL JACKMAN IS MAKING HISTORY — EVEN IF HE DOESN’T THINK SO THE UTS ALUMNUS HAS SPENT A LIFETIME SUPPORTING EDUCATIONAL, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL CAUSES

By Karen Sumner

Photo credit: Courtesy of the University of Toronto; photographer Lisa Salulensky

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he Honourable Henry Newton Rowell “Hal” Jackman O.C. ’50 does not expect to be remembered. He is also aware of the irony of holding that view, given that his name is recognized in many places to acknowledge his generous advocacy and financial support. At the University of Toronto, there’s the Jackman Humanities Institute, Jackman Humanities Building, and Jackman Law Building. There’s also the Rowell Jackman Hall student residence, a building that Hal always felt such a part of because the gift was instigated by his mother, Mary Rowell Jackman.

On noon-hour walks across Queen’s Park as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, he would often take the opportunity to linger at the plaque outside the building commemorating her name.

Soon, he will also have official recognition at UTS, and faculty and students will be able to enjoy dramatic productions and other activities in the new Jackman Theatre.

If there’s one certainty about Hal – woven throughout his time as Chief Executive Officer of E-L Financial Corporation, 25th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, and 30th Chancellor of the University of Toronto, among other appointments and positions – it’s that he is a dedicated patron of the arts and education. In addition to U of T and UTS, he has given generously to Hal Jackman in 2016 at the opening of the Jackman Law Building at the University of Toronto.

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OPPOSITE PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: ➊ Hal (pictured left) played the rebel Hotspur in the UTS production of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1. ➋: His grad write‑up in the 1950 Twig. ➌: Hal in the UTS Cadet Corps (front row left). ➍: Hal in Grade 11 at UTS (middle back row).

the Canadian Opera Company and the National Ballet, and the Hal Jackman Foundation funds cultural organizations, creative communities, and scholarship in the humanities. His lifelong patronage earned him the title of Officer of the Order of Canada in 2000, and he has been awarded nine honorary doctorates.

But don’t confuse official acts of recognition with earning a lasting place in people’s hearts and minds.

“I would like to be remembered by my family, of course,” says Hal. “But not for giving. The important part is doing it. Maybe naming opportunities attract some donors, but what matters is that institutions that need the funds get the funds. The people at the top make ridiculous amounts of money. They could spend it all on yachts, but much better that those who are able to do something positive with their means take action and actually do it.”

Raised in a family committed to public service, Hal has been taking action his whole life. His UTS alumnus father, Harry Jackman O.C. ’18, was a Member of Parliament and founded the Winston Churchill Medal for the Art of Communication at UTS. His mother, Mary Rowell Jackman, was a devoted philanthropist. Acts of service and giving were baked into the family culture, and Hal can’t imagine doing anything better with his time and money than supporting causes close to his heart in a city he loves dearly.

PORTRAIT OF THE BENEFACTOR AS A YOUNG MAN Hal’s lasting affection for UTS sprung into being soon after he arrived for his final two years of high school.

“When it came to academics and school spirit, there was no comparison with my previous school,” he says. “I had never seen students so enthusiastic about learning and about activities like sports and theatre. I remember when our hockey team played other schools at Maple Leaf Gardens, all of us came out to watch and cheer.

The stands for the other team were almost empty.

I wasn’t an athlete myself, but I loved the sense of connection and camaraderie I felt everywhere in the school.”

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Rather than distinguishing himself on the ice or field, Hal found his place in the theatre. In one memorable UTS production of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, he played the rebel Hotspur, who is killed by Prince Hall before he ascends the throne. During the duelling scene on the stage, Hal was in fact accidentally stabbed but carried on. Once the curtain fell, he was ferried to emergency to tend to what was quite a serious wound. Having taken theatre to heart, the budding actor understood that regardless of his own situation, the show must go on.

Hal’s fondest memories of UTS are of his times on the stage, so it is perhaps no surprise that when he became one of the first UTS Founders through the Building the Future campaign, his gift was directed to the theatre. It is also fitting that he became so actively engaged in the efforts to renew the affiliation between UTS and U of T, given his close ties to both schools.

“Hal saw the partnership between UTS and the university as critical,” says Board Chair Jim Fleck C.C. ’49, P ’72 , who worked alongside Hal and Principal Rosemary Evans on the renewed agreement. “As a former Chancellor, Hal brought a lot of credibility to the process, and he was instrumental in establishing the same structure of relationship with U of T that the federated colleges have.”

Adds Jim, “I would also say that his love for the university showed in every conversation. He wasn’t just trying to get a ‘win’ for UTS, though he is a devoted supporter. He believes that every level of education is important and that U of T and UTS have much to give to and learn from each other.

He acted on behalf of both schools out of a deep commitment to education and genuine sense of a mutually beneficial relationship.”

Rosemary agrees that Hal is “completely devoted” to the University of Toronto and adds that his energy and enthusiasm were an inspiration to everyone involved in the affiliation agreement.

“He always saw UTS as an integral part of the university community,” she says. “It was important to him that we maintain our traditional home on the U of T campus at 371 Bloor Street while also redeveloping the site, since it looked in many ways like his school in the 1950s and even his father’s school in the 1910s. Hal helped lead the campaign for that redevelopment as well, and now it’s kind of wonderful that the old gym, which held no draw for him as a young man, has been redesigned as a state-of-the-art theatre.”

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Photo credit: Courtesy of the University of Toronto; photographer Lisa Salulensky

Hal Jackman retired as the University of Toronto’s 30th Chancellor in 2003 after six years’ service.

THE SHOWS CONTINUE TO GO ON Hal carried his love of the theatre with him to university, where he was involved in productions at Hart House while earning his bachelor of arts degree from Victoria College in 1953 and bachelor of law degree from the Faculty of Law in 1956.

Though he was destined for a career in business, he immersed himself in the theatre community and continued to advocate for the arts and humanities.

“The humanities make you think,” says Hal. “Philosophy, history, and literature are very important subjects for developing the mind and

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helping us understand the world. What you need in business, which is where I was before I retired, is the ability to think and understand complexity.

I would suggest anyone interested in business or law study the humanities.”

In fact, Hal’s wife, Maruja Duncan Jackman, was a professor in the humanities and all five of his children hold post-graduate degrees in the humanities. This is a family that lives both its philanthropic and educational values.

While Hal went on to attend the London School of Economics and then immerse himself in the business world, he continued to support the arts through his leadership on various boards, such as the Canadian Opera Company, Ballet

Opera House, Ontario Arts Council, Stratford Foundation, and Art Gallery of Ontario, among many others. And during his term from 1991 to 1997, he established The Lieutenant Governor’s Awards for the Arts, which dispersed over $2.5 million to 84 arts organizations across the province.

And of course, he never forgot either of his Canadian alma maters. He loved serving as Chancellor of the University of Toronto, once telling U of T Magazine that Hal, the individual, is not at all important while the role of chancellor very much is, especially at events like convocation. Looking back with the advantage of age and experience, he has also admitted that his appreciation for the university’s academic programming has only grown stronger with time, having devoted much of his youthful focus and energy to the theatre rather than his studies.

To show his appreciation, Hal made two $15 million gifts to the Jackman Humanities Institute – the largest donations ever to the humanities at a Canadian university. Then in 2012, he donated $11 million to support the Faculty of Law’s plans for a new building. In total, his giving to U of T has exceeded $56 million, including $2 million to Victoria College for the Vic One Program and $500,000 to the Centre for Medieval Studies’ Dictionary of Old English.

through significant lifetime achievements, the school is bestowing Hal with its highest honour, the H.J. Crawford Award. Whatever Hal’s views of his legacy, there is no doubt that his generous support of UTS, the humanities, arts, and social causes has shaped Canadian society for the better.

“I don’t know if philanthropists are remembered for their giving,” says Jim Fleck. “But I do know that those who shape history and culture deserve a lasting place in our minds and our records. Hal’s support of education and the arts has impacted many, many people’s lives. And his role in securing our relationship with the University of Toronto is a significant historical event that the school will never forget.” ■

Hal Jackman proved instrumental to negotiating our school's renewed affiliation agreement with the University of Toronto, and is pictured here (top left) on December 15, 2015, the day the agreement was signed, along with Diamond Schmitt principal and co-founder Don Schmitt C.M. ’70, and front row left to right: UTS Board Vice Chair John Duffy ’81, P ’17, ’21, UTS Principal Rosemary Evans, and UTS Board Chair Jim Fleck C.C. ’49, P ’72.

A SENSE OF BELONGING LASTS A LIFETIME Hal has also maintained close lifelong ties with UTS as an advocate, donor, and volunteer.

“UTS helped form me as a person,” he says.

“I believe we had the greatest teachers in the city. I know education has changed a lot since I attended, but I can say for a fact that the academic standards were a big change for me. A positive change. As was the sense of community and how welcome I felt in the theatre.”

Hal ascribes much of what is great about UTS to its relationship with U of T and believes that many of the eminent universities around the world have affiliated high schools. In his view, the excellence flows both ways.

This year, to recognize his many contributions to the advancement of UTS and to greater society THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE

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Has the COVID-19 pandemic brought on a mental health crisis? If so, how can we help ourselves, each other and, perhaps most importantly, the young people in our lives weather this difficult time and emerge with greater internal strength?

ALUMNI WHO CARE FOR THE MIND

BY KAREN SUMNER

These four UTS alumni making a difference in the field of mental health have some answers to those questions as well as advice for building the resilience required to rebound from adversity.

HINT: it starts with simple ways to take better care of ourselves and each other.

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HELP OTHERS FEEL SEEN AND HEARD: KENNY HANDELMAN ’89 Author of Attention Difference Disorder and founder of The Centre for Integrative Mental Health While he works with patients with a wide range of psychiatric disorders, Dr. Kenny Handelman ’89 has become an international expert on attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Throughout his career, he had always felt a connection with young people with ADHD. Then, at age 40, he was diagnosed with ADHD himself, which perhaps explains that intuitive affinity.

“I was not diagnosed as a teenager,” he says.

“If you get good grades at school and don’t show hyperactivity, ADHD can be easy to miss. And when I received my medical training, the idea of adult ADHD was foreign. While anxiety, depression, or substance use is often seen in adults, there was little consideration of the role ADHD might play in those and other conditions. The same is still true for children and adolescents. Sometimes secondary conditions are more evident.”

Kenny shares this story within the context of our current pandemic, which he calls a “tsunami from a mental health perspective.” Young people with ADHD – diagnosed or otherwise – can have tremendous difficulty with online learning and over the course of a single year shift from being “good” to “at-risk” learners. With the return to in-class instruction, some of these kids will be behind both academically and socially, having lost the opportunity to strengthen their self-regulation skills in a typical school year.

Add in the possible financial or emotional stresses felt by parents, and Kenny predicts we will see a steady rise in mental health challenges in young people over the next few years. He is already seeing increased anxiety, depression, and eating disorders, combined with an overall shortage of mental health professionals and with emergency rooms unable to take in all patients who arrive specifically for psychiatric reasons.

In addition to providing that much-needed psychiatric support, Kenny counsels young people and their families about how to take care of themselves and each other.

“The fundamentals are critical,” he says. “That means regular sleep on a schedule, exercise of any kind, quality nutrition, limited screen time once learning and other responsibilities are taken care of, and an extra effort on the part of parents to maintain social ties and get the family outside playing games at the park or enjoying nature.

I also teach my patients about journalling and mindfulness. Slowing down and understanding what is happening inside us is essential when learning how to manage stress and build mental wellness.”

One message he has for parents and teachers: “Check in. Ask explicitly how your child or student is doing. Show interest, care, and compassion. People navigate difficult situations better when they feel seen and heard. And then they will offer that same interest and compassion to others. That builds connection and community, which makes a real difference in our lives and which we especially need in these uneasy times.”

EMPATHY IS THE FOUNDATION OF RESILIENCE: ADRIANNE BREWER ’83 Private practice counselling psychologist in London, England with an integrative therapeutic approach In the last year and a half, Adrianne Brewer ’83 has noticed a demographic shift in her referrals: they skew younger, with more and more patients arriving in their twenties. What she calls “a feeling of crisis” is higher amongst all her patients, and in particular the younger set, possibly owing to

more limited life experience and less-developed coping skills.

“With the absence of social contact and community, particularly in schools, I am seeing diminished resilience in young people,” she says. “They haven’t yet learned how to live with extended screen time in a healthy way. Plus, existing in a COVID bubble and relying more on social media to connect with the world has created a narrower, more distorted view of reality, THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE

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without those typical daily living experiences that help us stay grounded. I’ve seen an erosion of confidence and a greater tendency to believe negative messaging.”

Adrianne points out that in the absence of a rich and varied lived experience, our thoughts become our reality. And as we are forced to live more inside our heads, we are more likely to seek unhealthy distractions – such as alcohol and drug use – to relieve the pressure of our own perceptions.

How do we help ourselves and each other to adopt a wider perspective and build healthy coping skills? For one, having a skeptical attitude toward the “truth” of our own thinking and the images we see around us can create some distance from negative thoughts.

“At the heart of a resilient mindset lies a balanced and realistic understanding of our own strengths and capabilities as well as the information we take in,” she says. “Patients tell me they feel their problems are too big for them.

Teaching resilience involves guiding them to see themselves and their internal resources clearly

while also helping them develop their skills even further.”

Adrianne advises adopting a compassionate lens toward ourselves and others. Whatever kindness we would show to a friend in need we should also show to ourselves. She finds that in times of stress, her patients are overly critical and negative toward themselves, which only further undermines their ability to hold realistic views. In families and schools, parents and teachers can model empathy for young people.

“Giving and receiving empathy builds resilience,” she says. “It creates clarity in how we see ourselves, whereas the negative critical voice creates distortions and undercuts confidence. In a place like UTS, it’s important to recognize that high-achieving students don’t necessarily have inner toughness built on strong self-esteem and self-worth. Those qualities are the foundation of resilience, and they develop well within an internal and external environment marked by empathy, compassion, and warm-hearted acceptance of ourselves and others.”

A HOPEFUL AND HUMBLING FIELD: JONATHAN LEE ’02 Outpatient child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist working in Fullerton, California Since his introduction to child psychiatry in medical school, Dr. Jonathan Lee ’02 has been a passionate advocate for young people. In this “hopeful and humbling field,” he feels a sense of responsibility to elevate the voices of those often marginalized in society, with children among that group.

A staff psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto before accepting a position at UCLA and then transitioning to outpatient work, Jonathan sees a lot of people with generalized anxiety disorder in his practice.

And while he has observed a greater severity in symptoms since the arrival of the pandemic, that trend has been coupled with a greater openness and willingness to talk about mental health issues.

“With limited social contact, the use of masks and lockdowns, anxiety has grown while also becoming harder to relieve,” says Jonathan.

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experience. More of us are sharing our struggles, which is legitimizing the whole idea of seeking mental health support.”

Like other professionals, Jonathan views positive, supportive relationships as critical for building internal resourcefulness and overcoming adversity. In addition, he teaches the skills of dialectical behaviour therapy to his patients.

Dialectical behaviour therapy holds two tensions in balance: self-acceptance and change. On one hand, it’s important to have our experiences validated. On the other, we can make positive changes to feel better and more in control of our lives. Those changes come from practicing the core skills of this therapy: mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and emotion, with each skill broken down into individual steps that help patients gradually overcome unhealthy thought patterns and behaviours.

“Dialectical behaviour therapy skills work for everyone,” says Jonathan. “They can be taught to children and adolescents, used at home and in schools. With a wider cultural focus on mental health now and some of the stigma ebbing, we have an opportunity to go beyond talking about

it and toward teaching useful skills. Not only does every person have a story and deserve to feel worthy of being seen and heard; every person can be taught practical ways to find greater emotional and social wellness.”

Despite the additional stresses that the pandemic has introduced into our lives, Jonathan feels hopeful that families, schools, and other

communities are viewing mental health as worthy of time and attention.

“We have the knowledge and the tools to help young people cope in healthy ways with their internal struggles as well as external challenges, like conflict with friends or exam season or a divorce in the family. The next step is to take intentional action.”

UTS MENTAL WELLNESS EFFORTS ARE “IMPRESSIVE”: DAVID KREINDLER ’84 Head of youth psychiatry at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and UTS consultant on mental health Some of the strongest and most significant relationships that young people develop are with their teachers, and yet there has been minimal training offered in teacher’s college on mental health. Dr. David Kreindler ’84 calls this a paradox, given how well-placed educators are to respond to students who are struggling with their mental health and direct students to relevant resources.

David is careful to distinguish between mental health and mental illness. The first is like physical fitness, which can be improved through changes in the environment and in habits. The second is more like a broken bone, which is a diagnosable condition and often requires medical intervention to effectively treat.

“In general, students and their families can do a lot to promote good mental health, starting with positive relationships and a good home

environment,” says David. “Some other basics are getting adequate amounts of sleep, a reasonable diet, getting some exercise, trying to reduce those stresses that we can control, and having others to talk to about what’s upsetting.”

David has noted that, similar to other schools that emphasize academic achievement, some students at UTS struggle with balancing academic excellence and mental health. “Some students were able to get in to UTS because of a perfectionistic streak. But as work gets harder over time, it gets harder to do as well as they’ve been used to. Some students have more success than others at dealing with this change. Similarly, while stressing about doing well can be helpful motivating students to get work done, excessive stress can be a problem.”

Finding healthy ways of thinking about school and of coping with stress are important tools for maintaining good mental health in an environment like that at UTS. “The addition of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic over the past 20 months has resulted in even further stress, including limited opportunities to spend time with friends, the challenges of virtual learning, disrupted schedules, and decreased opportunities for physical exercise.” With a return to a more normal school year this fall, educators and parents as well as students may need time to adjust. For example, students will need time to adjust to the changes in routines, expectations, and the changes in types of assignments and evaluations.

David has been extremely impressed by the steps taken at UTS in recent years to support student mental health, such as providing full-time social worker support, hiring a school nurse, actively supporting student discussions around mental health, and ongoing efforts to incorporate mental wellness into the day-to-day life of the school. “It’s very, very different than 30 years ago!” ■

Before school began this fall, Dr. David Kreindler '84 and Dr. Marshall Korenblum, the Medical Director of SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health, gave expert advice to UTS staff in a professional development session on Prioritizing Student Mental Health and Wellness at UTS.

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CONSTRUCTION CORNER Brick by brick, we are building the future. White brick veneer outside the Withrow Auditorium ➊ ties together with the historic limestone to create an inspiring and distinctive facade for our school that melds the new seamlessly with the old.

With students expected to return before the end of the year, it’s beginning to look a lot like the school we always dreamed we could be, one where every aspiration our students have is matched by the calibre of our facilities.

Students will be inspired as they behold the restored heritage facade ➋ and the Huron doors, the new main entrance of our school.

They will be able to create mesmerizing productions with the blank slate provided by the new Jackman Theatre ➌, a versatile performance venue as adaptable as their imaginations. In the new UTS Athletics Centre ➍, with the McIntyre Gymnasium through the window on the right, students will learn fitness for life and teamwork, in a spirit of healthy competition.

Upstairs, the possibilities for science experimentation abound in our renewed state-of-the-art science labs ➎, and classrooms like this one ➏ with UTS Principal Rosemary Evans are nearly ready for students to return. As we near the end of construction, it’s coming down to those vital finishing touches – the furniture and equipment that will complete our renewed building, creating a school that inspires UTS students for generations to come. ■

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READY TO MAKE THEIR MARK! Emily Liu and Caleb Na left our historic school building for 30 Humbert in 2018 as burgeoning M3 (Grade 9) students. Soon, they will be returning as 2021-22 Co-Captains, ready to lead our school into the future, finally coming home to the place where they made their first UTS friends, had their first UTS science class, and created so many other amazing memories.

“It’s going to be so incredible,” says Caleb. “I’m just really looking forward to being able to revisit those places and make new memories now that we’re four years older.” He’s also looking forward to all the potential meeting spaces at our new school that will bring the UTS student community closer together, whether it be the learning stairs in the Fleck Atrium, meeting tables in the library, or beanbag chairs in the S6 Commons gathering space for senior students.

Emily is also excited about the difference space (and new furniture) will make when working with lab partners on science experiments. “There’s nothing I admire more than a gorgeous lab.” She also expecting to up her games – she plays tennis, volleyball, and track – with all the specialized training equipment in new Ridley Fitness Centre and the expanse of the McIntyre Gymnasium’s double gym.

Both Emily and Caleb are eager to see all the innovation UTS students will create with high-tech tools like the laser cutter and the bank of 3D printers that will be available to students in the Lang Innovation Lab. Caleb recalls admiring all the models, paintings, and murals on display at the old school from students who graduated 20 years ago or more. “A lot of students are looking forward to leaving their mark on the new school in a similar way and making this renewed school their own.”

Most of all, Emily can’t wait for first time (after COVID) that all UTS students will be able to gather together in the new 700-seat Withrow Auditorium and cheer for all that we have accomplished together!

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Caleb and Emily are ready to return to 371 Bloor Street West, but the school is not quite ready for them. Support is still needed to fund state-of-the-art equipment and furniture in time for their return.

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

There are plenty of ways to stay in touch! www.utsconnect.ca alumni@utschools.ca @utschools @utschools / @rosemary_evans @utschools

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS Monica Biringer ’78

has been appointed a Judge of the Tax Court of Canada.

A partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, she most recently served as Co‑Chair of Osler’s National Tax Group. Monica joined UTS among the very first girls admitted to the school, and since then has given back generously to the school, helping lead the First Girls Initiative, as a Co-Chair of the Building the Future Campaign, and // Research published by

Dr. Elizabeth C. Turner ’83 describes what may be the oldest fossil evidence of animal life reported to date. The microscopic sponge-like structures from the Northwest Territories’ Mackenzie Mountains are approximately 890 million years old, several hundred million years older than what had previously been discovered. Elizabeth is an Earth Sciences (geology) professor at Laurentian University in Sudbury. The controversial findings were published in the journal Nature and featured in the global media. She is also the recipient of the 2020 Howard Street Robinson Medal in Precambrian Geology from the Geological Association of Canada. Here she is pictured working on Nunavut’s Baffin Island.

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as a former Chair of the UTSAA Board of Directors. Madame Justice Biringer is also a recipient of the H.J. Crawford Award.

Amazing news about Jill Presser ’87, P ’17, ’21 – make that

Madame Justice Presser – she has been appointed a Judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario. Principal lawyer at Presser Barristers in Toronto, her work focuses on appellate criminal defence, mental health, artificial intelligence, and more.

Paid sick days, variants, an equitable and impactful vaccine rollout, and more: Dr. Darrell Tan ’94, an infectious diseases physician and clinician-scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital was featured on CTV News in the spring about mitigating COVID-19 transmission. Darrell also secured a $1-million Canadian Institutes of Health Research COVID-19 grant for clinical drug trials, which will look at whether HIV drug Kaletra could be useful against the virus.

Ezra Moos ’20 is pursuing his dream to

play college basketball at the University of Chicago. He says: “I would not be pursuing this dream without all of the help from peers, friends, teachers, and coaches at UTS. I am forever thankful for my time at UTS.”

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// Six UTS alumni were involved at all levels to create a thing of beauty: Opera Atelier’s tour-de-force film, Handel the Resurrection, which was released this spring.

Ballerinas Rebecca Moranis ’16 (on the right of this image, second from the front of the photo) and Cynthia Smithers ’06 (first left in the front row) danced and wielded swords. The fight sequence in this picture was created by Fight Director Jennifer Parr ’79 and the Conductor/Musical Director for the piece was David Fallis ’73, P ’02 . Behind the scenes, UTSAA Board Members Laura Money ’81 and Mark Opashinov ’88 sit on the Opera Atelier Board. So many UTS alumni coming together to result in a majestic work of art.

Photo by Bruce Zinger; Costumes by Michael Legouffe; Sets by Gerard Gauci; Make-up designed by Barbara Szablowski

Susan Opler ’79, P ’14 was on CBC

News this April as her role as Toronto’s Ombudsman was given the power

by Toronto City Council to review police procedures and programs. “This is a groundbreaking step in independent, local police accountability on behalf of the people of Toronto,” she told CBC. In July, she retired after five years in the role.

With her business Grape Witches, Nicole Campbell ’05 and co-owner Krysta Oben created a decolonized and natural wine boutique accessible to women, and are also working to ensure Black, Indigenous, and people of colour can become sommeliers through a scholarship program. They were recently featured on CBC News.

Photo by Arden Wray ’07

Chair of the UTS Board of Directors and the Building the Future Campaign Jim Fleck C.C. ’49, P ’72 was featured in the Director Journal. The article highlighted his expansive business career and his many leadership roles including founding president of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, past chair of Business / Arts, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canadian Museum of History, and Canadian War Museum, former director of the Banff Centre and Harbourfront Centre, and Institute of Corporate Directors Fellow. “I get things done,” he says. That’s for sure!

The Brood X cicadas were coming and UTSAA Board Director and entomologist Jessica Ware ’95 as assistant curator in invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History became a media darling, appearing on various news spots. On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, she did her best to enlighten the Uninformed Correspondent, Bootsie Plunkett, about these cicadas and other bugs with a hilarious visit to the American Museum of Natural History.

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Lawyer Jeff Carolin ’00

represented the Black teenage victims in the ‘Neptune Four’ case in Toronto, where two police officers were found guilty of misconduct for accosting the teens in 2011, and sentenced to a combined 15 days without pay, which he called inadequate. “I don’t think it’s serious enough to actually deter this kind of conduct in the future,” he told CBC News in May. He and his clients were also disappointed by the finding that there was insufficient evidence to demonstrate racial profiling.

Simu Liu ’07 told Variety Magazine the Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is “truly going to change the world.” The movie we were all waiting for was welcomed with rave reviews at its world premiere August 16 in Los Angeles, with the full release in the US and Canada in September. He opened up to Maclean’s and Star Cineplex Magazine about his THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE

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about the challenge many teenagers faced in securing summer work opportunities: “It’s been super difficult because a lot of the places hiring were looking for a university summer that runs May to August. A lot of the things that are open to teenagers aren’t necessarily going to operate.”

The Triple-Layer X-STATIC® Mask, produced by Xenia Chen ’10 and her company Threads, was featured as one of the top wellness products in 2021 on Cityline. Read more about her business transformation into masks in the Fall 2020 issue of The Root.

Dr. Ron Ellis Q.C. ’52 was recognized for

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role in Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the importance of representation on the big screen and beyond.

“It was pretty incredible seeing my action figure and realizing as I held that figure in my hand just how few people who look like me have ever had that opportunity,” he says. “And how many kids who were like me growing up, who were deprived of being able to play with those figures and seeing themselves represented. [...] It’s incredible.”

his exceptional career achievements and contributions to his communities with a Law Society Medal in 2020, for his work as a leader in administrative law, teacher and mentor, adjudicator, and tribunal administrator. He has spoken and written extensively about administrative justice systems.

Vancouver nurse Winnie Cheng ’11

was featured in the cover story of the Sunday New York Times in June, “The Cost of Being an ‘Interchangeable Asian.’” She told the Times about how she has repeatedly been referred to by the name of another hospital worker of Asian descent, and how a physician she had worked with for years had called her by the wrong name.

“You can see how that accumulates over a lifetime of work,” Cheng told the Times. “Four years in, they don’t know my name.”

Data scientist/ journalist Edward Tian ’18 earned a Toronto Star byline as a contributor to an article about the misinformation movement.

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essay entitled, “Troublesome Teenagers: Developing an Experimental Paradigm to Quantify Socially Mediated Alcohol Consumption in Juvenile Mus musculus.”

Established in 1791, this award’s previous recipients include philosophers, novelists, and historians.

Martine Duffy ’17

was awarded the John Golden Prize for Playwriting, given to a graduating student of the Dramatic Writing Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Jay McGregor ’20

won the Best Alumni Story award from Interactive Schools for his “In Conversation” video series, produced on behalf of our school, in which he interviewed members of the UTS community about the importance of the arts and humanities.

LITERARY Kudos to Kevin Keystone ’03 for winning a Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism from the American Jewish Press Association for his series in the Jewish Independent on his hike through the West Bank, Palestine. He also started a master’s in Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School this fall, and is engaged to be married to his fiancé, Aaron Sanderson!

Taylor ShirtliffHinds ’17 won the

Harvard University Bowdoin Prize for Undergraduate Essay in the Natural Sciences for her

Human activity means that birds are disappearing at an alarming rate.

Flight from Grace: A Cultural History of Humans and Birds, a new book by Richard Pope ’60, asks the perplexing question of why we damage the environment?

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// Robert Mackle, who taught geography and other subjects at UTS from 1988 until 2011, and whose spouse Kate Tiley was a UTS French teacher for 25 years and sadly passed away in 2018, curated an exhibit called Afterlife in the Crucible Gallery this summer, which he co-owns in Powell River, BC. The exhibit features the work of those who have gone too soon, including paintings and drawings by Kate.

Rev. Dr. Ross Bartlett ’75 has just

published Gathered for Preaching: A Sourcebook for Lay Leaders and Clergy with the United Church Bookstore.

Ross is the United Church Formation Director at the Atlantic School of Theology. His previous books include: On Holy Ground: You and Your Faith Story (Wipf and Stock, 2017) and Speaking Church: A New Vision for the Sub/Urban Church (Wipf and Stock, 2019).

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PINK PANEL Several alumni attended a virtual panel hosted by UTS Parents’ Association for the International Day of Pink, discussing how parents can support their children who identify as LGBTQ2SI+ or who are allies of this community. Panelists included Donald Ainslie ’84, former principal at University of Toronto’s University College and a University of Toronto philosophy professor; Jessica Ware ’95, assistant curator in invertebrate zoology at the American

Museum of Natural History; Syrus Marcus Ware, artist, activist and scholar, a CLA assistant professor in the School of the Arts at McMaster University, and also identical twins with Jessica Ware; Ali Greey, a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto; and UTS Day of Pink Committee members Cameron Miranda-Radbord ’21 and Catherine Wachter, UTS teacher and guidance counsellor and founder of Pink Day at our school. Another panel was hosted by students.

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Claire Peng ’12 shared her experiences in the fashion design world with Charlie Pullen’s M4 (Grade 10) Visual Arts class,

presenting her portfolio and discussing experimentation during her MA Fashion at Central Saint Martins and in her current work at Burberry. This is a picture of her designs.

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

Contact Rebecca Broderick for more details: rebecca.broderick@utschools.ca.

Share your news with The Root by emailing alumni@utschools.ca.

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H.J. CRAWFORD AWARD

HALL OF FAME

The H.J. Crawford Award honours and pays tribute to an individual who has contributed to the advancement of UTS through commitment, dedication, and volunteerism.

The award also recognizes those who have contributed to our greater society through significant lifetime achievements. The Honourable Henry N.R. “Hal” Jackman O.C., O Ont ’50, a UTS Founder and former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, is an exemplary citizen within both categories.

Hal is a dedicated member of the UTS community who played a critical role in securing the survival of UTS through the renewed affiliation with the University of Toronto. He met with key members of the University of Toronto leadership to advocate for UTS. He has been a steadfast volunteer in all three of our major fundraising campaigns, as Honorary Co-Chair of the Building the Future campaign, and as a member of the Campaign Advisory Board for the Building Opportunities campaign in the early 2000s and as a canvasser for the Preserving the Opportunity campaign in the mid-1990s.

Beyond his volunteerism and advocacy, Hal helped secure our future through his generous philanthropy to UTS, including his gift as a UTS Founder to the Building the Future campaign.

Hal’s contributions to our greater society are undeniable, including his service as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Chancellor of the University of Toronto, and as chairman of the boards for many prominent Canadian corporations. His philanthropy is one of his defining features, and his contributions to academics, the arts, and healthcare and social causes have forever shaped our community for the better.

Read more about Hal in the cover story on page 8.

UTS has a long-standing history of Olympic glory hailing back to the first-ever Winter Olympic Games in Chamonix in 1924, when the Class of 1920’s Duncan Brown Munro – they called him Dunc – led the Canadian hockey team to Olympic gold, obliterating the competition 110 to 3 over the course of the event. He scored 18 goals!

In this Olympic year, we honour the UTS tradition of excellence in sport by inducting UTS Olympians into the Hall of Fame. Over the course of our history, there were 18 UTS Olympians, and several gold medal winners.

Congratulations to UTS Olympians who have accepted this honour.

Seven alumni were on the golden hockey team in St. Moritz in 1928, which won in a complete shut out, captained by the Class of 1921’s John Porter.

The team included the Class of 1920’s Herbert “Bert” Plaxton and his brother, the Class of 1923’s Hugh Plaxton, plus their cousin, the Class of 1921’s Roger Plaxton; the Class of 1920’s Ross Taylor; the Sullivan brothers, the Class of 1919’s Frank Sullivan and the Class of 1920’s Joe Sullivan.

Figure skater Charlie Snelling ’56 competed in the 1956 and 1964 Winter Olympics.

Brian Herbinson ’49 took bronze in equestrian eventing in the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, and competed again in 1960.

Thomas Gayford ’46 struck team show jumping gold in Mexico City’s 1968 Summer Olympics, after competing in the 1952 and 1960 Olympics.

Joe Stulac played on the Canadian men’s basketball team for the 1964 Summer Olympics, before becoming a UTS Physical Education teacher.

George Gross Jr. ’70 became a twotime Olympian in water polo, playing at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics.

Geza Tatrallyay ’67 learned to fence as a Grade 7 student at UTS and took it all the way to the Montreal 1976 Summer Olympics in épée fencing.

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Three-time Olympian Laurie Graham C.M. ’78 reigned as Canada’s top female downhill skier for over a decade, racing at the 1980, 1984, and 1988 Winter Olympics and winning six World Cup victories.

Douglas Hamilton ’76 rowed to bronze in the Quadruple Sculls at Los Angeles 1984 Olympics, and competed again in the 1988 Summer Games.

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Paul Davis ’76 sailed to bronze for Norway in the Soling Class at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.

From the mountaintops to the rink to the open water and beyond, UTS athletes shine. Their Olympic legacy in the Hall of Fame will serve as inspiration for the next generations of UTS students, who have a fire in their eyes and Olympic dreams in their hearts.

REUNIONS Connecting a continent: six alumni from across Continental Europe, ranging from the Class of 1968 to 2019, gathered virtually in May with UTS Board Chair, Jim Fleck C.C. ’49, P ’72 , Principal Rosemary Evans, and Martha Drake, Executive Director, Advancement. They shared updates on their lives and what brought them to Europe, and discussed pandemic life and vaccines.

UTS Alumni Association Trivia Night.

staff attended Where there’s a Will: Your Guide to Estate Planning. This informative and inspiring session, sponsored by the UTS Office of Advancement was led by Michael Rosen from Borden Ladner Gervais, the law firm for UTS, and helped attendees take next steps in making their estate plans.

Mayor John Tory O Ont ’72 spoke at

The Pacific Northwest Branch Event, also in May, brought together 10 alumni from across B.C. – and one from California – ranging from the Class of 1960 to 2011 in a virtual gathering with Jim Fleck C.C. ’49, P ’72 , Principal Rosemary Evans and Martha Drake, Executive Director, Advancement.

Nearly 40 members of the Class of 1971 gathered on Zoom in June to celebrate an incredible 50th anniversary of their graduation from UTS, sharing stories and updating classmates on their lives beyond UTS. Peter Jarrett ’71 organized and facilitated this virtual class reunion!

EVENTS Where there’s a will, there’s a way! In April, 85 alumni, parents, and UTS

the Building the Future Speaker Series in May about the importance of community engagement, sharing great insights about how we can all take part in improving our city. He answered questions from UTS School Captains Aliana Niezova ’21 , Jaden Lo ’21 , Caleb Na ’22 , and Emily Liu ’22 . Nearly 200 members of the UTS community watched the live event.

was hosted by Jon Bitidis ’99, UTSAA Director and UTS Acting Head of Admissions. The Check Your Head team, made up of members of the Classes of 1985 and 1987, came second, and third was Reach ’17, made up of members of the Class of 2017.

From the classic whiskey sour to the modern blood orange bourbon sour, the UTSAA Cocktail Class and Social was a hit in July, with hosts Adrian Lee ’07 and Eric Petersiel ’89 sharing the art of cocktail making and how to build a basic but brilliant bar with 23 UTS alumni ranging from the Class of 1956 to the Class of 2018.

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ADVANCEMENT BABY! UTS Alumni Advancement Officer Rebecca Harrison (on leave) and her husband, Stephen, welcomed beautiful baby Isaiah St. John Harrison Colella on Friday, August 13. For those unfamiliar with that old English name, St. John is pronounced sin-jin. Mother and baby are doing well!

IN MEMORIAM

REV. MICHAEL HICKS ’45 1928-2021 How to describe a life well lived?

One option is to borrow details from the choices, passions, and pathways of Michael Hicks. Michael was one of those people with an additive life:

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more was indeed better. So rather than decide between civil servant and clergyman, for example, he was both.

When opportunities to teach at university presented themselves, he became a professor of political science at one school and public administration at another.

Add to that his marriage to Barbara Findlay, and he also took on the roles of husband and father to three daughters – Jennifer, Margaret and Sarah – and, later, grandfather to seven grandchildren: Mark, Carolyn, Meredith, Santiago, Juan, Oscar, and Ben. A few minutes spent with Michael would also reveal his talent (and affection) for storytelling and his love of music, Canadian art, and the outdoors. It may be true that no one can “have it all.” But Michael had something close.

He lost an eye in a hockey game at UTS when he was 12 or 13, but instead of being a setback it became a defining moment in his life. After graduating from UTS in 1945, Michael studied at University of Toronto’s Trinity College for his bachelor and master of arts degrees. He worked at the Treasury Board of Canada in Ottawa before deciding to seek ordination as an Anglican minister and earning his master of divinity degree at General Episcopal Seminary in New York City.

After marrying Barbara and moving to Winnipeg, Michael was a chaplain at the University of Manitoba and also taught political science.

When the family moved to Ottawa, Michael taught at Carleton University while working as a public servant and serving in several Anglican churches.

Two dominant themes throughout Michael’s expansive, energetic, and generous life were evident at this and every stage: his commitment to public service and his faith in God. When he wasn’t tending to his parishioners, students, and children or fulfilling his duties as a public servant, Michael enjoyed listening to classical music, joining in choral singing and sharing stories. He also made time for his old UTS friends and visited the

school on several occasions: for an alumni dinner, “Baldy Boys” luncheon, Centennial Homecoming and Dinner, and Remembrance Day service. He also attended Ottawa Branch events.

Michael is remembered with love by the large cast of characters in his life, from his wife Barbara and extended family to his many friends, colleagues, students, and parish members.

DICK SADLEIR ’47 1929-2021 Of the many sides of Dick Sadleir – his passion for the arts, enthusiasm for the outdoors, heartfelt dedication to friends and colleagues – his commitment to education may be his best known. After attending UTS and the University of Toronto, Dick launched a lifelong career as an educator and leader, starting as an English and math teacher at Upper Canada College (UCC). He then earned his master of arts from the University of Cambridge and returned to UCC as an English teacher before joining UTS classmates Tom Symons C.C., O Ont, FRSC ’47 and John Leishman ’47 in the planning, development and founding of Trent University, which opened in 1964.

Dick believed deeply in the new university that, in Tom’s words, was “a pretty pronounced departure from the current trend in higher education in Canada and still more in the United States.” The three UTS colleagues shared a vision of a university that belonged to the community, ought to be accessible to all, and would immerse students in a culture of understanding and inclusion.

At Trent, Dick served as the first Master of Peter Robinson College, Dean of Men, Head of the English Department, Vice President, and Vice-Chancellor, and Acting President in 1968 and 1971.

He was also responsible for selecting the green and white school colours that continue to represent Trent today.

Ever passionate about the development of young people, Dick returned to UCC

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in 1975 to become its fifteenth Principal, serving until 1988. “Our community remembers Mr. Sadleir for his steadfast commitment to fostering educational excellence, as well as the joy he took from his interactions with students, faculty and staff,” says current Principal Sam McKinney. Dick’s family says that he was “happiest in the Common Room talking with fellow teachers and in the halls talking with students.”

After leaving UCC, Dick became the Director of the Lycée Canadien en France in St. Jean, Cap Ferrat, where he and his wife Joan lived for three years, enjoying the Mediterranean. Dick also continued to enjoy the arts, in particular music and theatre, and shared his passion with children Tom, Mary, and Kate and grandchildren Michael, Tess, Peter, Harry, and Francis.

In his later years, Dick also maintained close ties with UTS, attending several Remembrance Day services, the Alumni Dinner in 2007, Donor Appreciation Tea in 2011, and Year Rep Reception in 2013.

He had been a UTS Year Rep himself as well as a Preserving the Opportunity campaign canvasser.

Dick died peacefully in February 2021 and is dearly missed by his family, friends, former colleagues, and countless students who have fond memories of his caring and attentive manner.

ROGER GARTON CRAWFORD ’50 1931–2021 Roger Crawford described his time at UTS as “the best academic years that

I ever experienced.” Two years at North Toronto Collegiate had convinced him the two were not for each other, and after writing the UTS entrance exams in 1947, he entered Grade 11. Roger considered his attendance at UTS a turning point in his life, and noted in particular the honour of being invited to play the Last Post and Reveille at the Remembrance Day service on November 11, 1949.

After UTS, Roger attended the University of Toronto in engineering.

During his first year, somewhat more emphasis was put on football games and the Sigma Chi fraternity than his schoolwork, and not surprisingly he failed calculus, turning his P. Eng into a five-year degree. In 1952, Rog began dating Denyse Hall. They married in 1958, celebrating 61 wonderful years until her passing in 2019.

Roger loved engineering, speaking often of his summer stints at Des Joachims, the Department of Highways, and Ontario Hydro. His professional career was spent with Duncan Hopper & Associates and the Ministry of the Environment, and later he consulted with IPEX. Roger was an active volunteer with the Centre for Advancement of Trenchless Technology at the University of Waterloo, where an award is named in his honour.

Roger considered UTS a formative part of his life and was thrilled to see his daughter Mardi attend the school.

He was a true gentleman and will be greatly missed.

– Mardi Witzel ’82

What will you do?

Barnet (Barney) Kussner ’82 FEBRUARY 14, 2021

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

• 416-946-0097 • mdrake@utschools.ca

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ANNUAL DONOR REPORT

To the 1,200+ alumni, parents, staff, students and friends who collectively donated an astounding $4.4 million dollars this year to support UTS students – thank you! These pages celebrate your generosity and honour Arbor Society members who have shown their dedication with a planned gift. In this report we acknowledge donations made from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021 – and recognize, with appreciation, your commitment to the future of our school.

I also extend my thanks to donors who have been members of the Principal’s Circle over the past ten years since its inception and upon its retirement. Your generosity has been and is greatly appreciated! In this report we are excited to introduce the Double Blue & White Circle to honour and celebrate the school colours and spirit and those members of our community who have contributed $5,000 or more.

— Rosemary Evans, Principal

This report recognizes gifts to UTS for the period from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021. 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.

★ Donors who have given for ten or more consecutive years Donors who have given between five and nine consecutive years ♥ Monthly Donors Principal Circle Donors who have given between $1,000 and $1,909

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

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

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

Rikesh Bhogal & Rimmy Kaur P ’21

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

David Allan ’78

Bill Blundell O.C. ’45

Priscilla Chong P’ 98

John Bowden ’48 & Lois Bowden, P ’79

Andrew Clarke P ’17

Peter A. Ewens ’79

Lynda Corkum

Firefly Foundation

Douglas Bradley & Mary Killoran P ’01, ’08

Todd & Jennifer Davidson P ’17, ’21

James Fleck C.C. ’49, P ’72

Peter L. Buzzi ’77

Ronald Davies ’70

Margaret Catto P ’82

David & Urve Earthy P ’99

Marianne Anderson P ’17 Frederick & May Au P ’08 Charles Baillie, Jr., O.C. & Marilyn Baillie, P ’85 Estate of Charles Derek Stewart Bate ’44 David K. Bernhardt ’54 28

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Anne Fleming ’85 & Michael Piaskoski P ’17 David ’62 & Judy Galloway

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John Gardner ’55 & Encarnita Gardner, P ’83

Chyang & Gloria Lee P ’87, ’91, GP ’22, ’23, ’24

Peter O.C. ’56 & Shelagh Godsoe

David Leith & Jacqueline Spayne P ’11

Vanessa Grant ’80 & Philip Street

Brian Livingston ’72

James H. Grout ’74 Larry Guo & Brenda Liu P ’24 B & B Hamilton Fund at Toronto Foundation

Robert ’58 & Patricia Lord Stephens B. Lowden ’56 Emily Luk ’11 Paul Marks David McCarthy ’77 Helen McCartney P ’84

Katherine Hammond ’87 & Richard Nathanson ’87, P ’20

Emily R. McComb ’94

The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation

J.A. (Sandy) McIntyre ’71

Robert W. Hoke ’66 Victor Holysh ’76 James Hum & Cindy Park P ’21 Janet M. Hunter The Honourable Henry N. R. Jackman O.C. ’50

Bernie McGarva ’72, P ’03 W.O. Chris Miller Q.C. ’43 & Mary Anne Miller, P ’82

John ’78 and Susie Rose

Jason Tam ’95

Jimmy Mui & Amelia Ng P ’22

Estate of Kenneth Rotenberg ’40

Gregory G. Turnbull ’73

Mark Noskiewicz ’77

Hon. William J. Saunderson FCA ’52 & Meredith Saunderson

UTS Alumni Association

O’Neil Léger Family Foundation

Timothy Turnbull ’74 UTS Parents Association

Susan M. Scace

Sanjai Vohra & Sulia Vohra P ’20, ’24

Donald Schmitt ’70

Doug Ward C.M. ’57

Hedy & Tim ’78 Sellers

The Jha Family

Susan E. Opler ’79 & Paul F. Monahan P ’14 & Will Monahan ’14

Harrison F. Keenan ’94

Robert Pampe, M.D. ’63

Mark Shuper ’88

The Henry White Kinnear Foundation

Ripal Patel & Kruti Patel P ’25

A. Michael Spence ’62

Peter & Joanne Willson P ’21

John Jackson ’74

Paul Kennedy ’62 C. Stuart Kent ’79 Kenneth Kirsh ’78 Carrie Ku (Fung) ’85 Ron Lalonde & Jane Humphreys P ’06

James Penturn ’77 & Kathleen Crook P ’07 Mark & Peri Peters P ’16, ’19

Catherine & Bohdan Stasiw P ’23 William Stinson ’51 Earl Stuart ’83

Balfour Le Gresley P ’77

Stephen Raymond & Natasha Vandenhoven P ’16, ’19

The LeGresley Family Foundation

William Redrup P ’54

Allan Sutherland ’44

Donald & Nita Reed P ’92

Andras Z. Szandtner ’62

Susan (Black) Lawson ’78

John Adair & Jennifer Stulberg ’97, P ’25, ’27

David H. Wishart ’46 Michael & Muriel Wissell P ’14 Pamela Y. W. Wong ’98 Mark Yarranton & Patricia Foran P ’13 Anonymous (8)

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.

Kristina Bates ’88 & Harris Davidson, P ’22

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

Edward Etchells ’81 & Wendy Hatch, P ’12

Christian Bergmann ’21

James S. Coatsworth ’69

Rosemary Evans

Leif Bergsagel ’77

William J. Corcoran ’51

Philip Arrowsmith ’48

Zain Bhamjee & Iram Bhatti P ’20

Kenneth Culver ’53

Athletic Edge Sports Medicine

John Bowden ’48 & Lois Bowden, P ’79

Douglas Davis ’58 & Janet Davis, P ’87

David Baskin & Joan Garson P ’04, ’07

Jessica Carn ’94

Gregory P. Deacon ’74

Jeremy Celliers ’81

Martha Drake

Bram Abramson ’92 Donald C. Ainslie ’84 Derek Allen ’65 Robert Armstrong ’65

Paul T. Fisher ’64 G. Alan Fleming ’54 Tom Friedland ’81 Sherry A. Glied ’78 John M. Goodings ’54 Jim & Katherine Gracie P ’09, ’12, ’15 THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE

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Margaret Graham ’89, P ’27

Katherine & Paul Manley ’61

Barbara Ritchie P ’80

David S. Grant ’72

Jon ’82 & Robin Martin ’82

Sara Gray ’90 & Jeffrey Jaskolka ’93, P ’24

Robert Martin ’74

John S. Rogers ’66 & Sherrill M. Rogers

Andre ’77 & Jocelyn Hidi

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

Anthony Hollenberg ’79

Audrey & Leslie Marton ’78

Oliver Jerschow ’92 Peter Kelk ’65

Tom McCurdy & Rosamund Woodhouse P ’06

Susan Kitchell P ’01

Sarah McDonald ’87

The Kuperman Family

Lily McGregor

J. Fergus Kyle ’48

Donald McMaster ’62

Nicholas Le Pan ’69

Kosta Michalopoulos ’84

Iris Leung ’98

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

John N. Shaw ’50 Peter & Jackie Shaw P ’17, ’19 Mark Silverberg & Ayala Revah P ’24 Nicholas Smith ’63 James M. Spence ’58, P ’88 Nancy Steinhauer P ’21 David G. Stinson ’70

Robert Vokes & Jane Edwards P ’24 Robert Waddell ’57 David Walker ’84 Christopher Watson ’92 Matthew Weatherbie ’63 Robert S. Weiss ’62 John Wilkinson ’78 Huai Dong Xu & Yu Qin Mou P ’25

Elizabeth Straszynski & Chris Wilson

Rick Yeung and Serena Lai P ’23, ’25

Tao Sun & Julia Zhang P ’26

Chiu & Elaine Yip P ’18, ’23

Michael Nemeth

Krishan Suntharalingam & Ananthi Kalvalairajan P ’24, ’27

Yanfeng Zhang & Hong Liu P ’25

Stuart J. Nicholson ’92

Kate Uchendu P ’19

Christian Bergmann ’21

David Potter ’86

C. Ann Unger

Saul Mandelbaum & Melissa Nutik P ’23, ’26

Lane Prentice ’63

Peter van den Bergh ’76

William Burnfield & Harry Wiebe P ’23, ’24

Alisha Rani

C. Robert Vernon ’61

Anonymous (21)

1940-1947

David H. Wishart ’46 ★

Philip Arrowsmith ★

1949-1950

$268,444 Estate of Kenneth Rotenberg ’40

Anonymous ’46 ★

John A. Bowden P ’79 ★

$1,107,800

Douglas Kent ’47, P ’73, ’79, ’82

Meredith Coates

James D. Fleck C.C. ’49, P ’72 ★

Pericles Lewis ’86 Qiang Lin & Bing Xia P ’23 Grant Lum ’85 Bin Luo & Xiaomei Li P ’23 Wayne Maddever ’68 Chuck Magwood ’61

W.O. Chris Miller Q.C. ’43 & Mary Anne Miller, P ’82 Estate of C. Derek Bate ’44, P ’71, ’73, ’75, GP ’16 ★ Allan Sutherland ’44

David H. Morgan ’63 Bruce Moyle ’60

Donald ’47 & Lorraine Lawson Tracy Lloyd ’47 ★ Richard Lorie ’47

William Hanley Estate of Michael William Kerr Ireland J. Fergus Kyle ★ Reginald L. Perkin

Bill Blundell O.C. ’45 ★ Charles Diltz ’46

$13,125

The Late John G. C. Pinkerton

P. Kingsley Smith ’46

Hugh Anson-Cartwright

John W. Thomson

Bruce Bone ’46

★

1948

Richard D. Tafel ’49 Gilbert “Bud” Alexander ’50 Thomas E. Armstrong ’50 The Late Roger G. Crawford ’50, P ’82 ★ The Honourable Henry N. R. Jackman O.C. ’50 Jack Moorfield ’50 John N. Shaw ’50 ★

1951 $10,340 William J. Corcoran ’51 ★ William Cumming ’51 J. Alexander Lowden ’51 ★ Peter H. Russell O.C. ’51 ♥ ★ William W. Stinson ’51 ★ Guy W. Upjohn ’51 30

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“I am very thankful that you helped me get to UTS. I appreciate you helping me get closer to my future. I cannot explain how grateful I am.”

Richard Farr Garrick Hagon

John Coleman & Margaret Coleman ★

Bruce E. Houser ★

John Geale William R. Hodgson

Terence Keenleyside Robert & Patricia Lord ★

— F1 (GRADE 7) STUDENT, WHO RECEIVED SUPPORT FROM THE BURSARY PROGRAM

James R. Mills

★

John Gardner & Encarnita Gardner P ’83 ★

$19,654 The Late Ronald Garlick ’52

William Hunter

Leslie Lawrence ’52

Anthony Morrison ★

Hon. William J. Saunderson FCA ’52 & Meredith Saunderson ★

H. Thomas Sanderson

John Laskin

William P. Lett ’53 ★ Alan E. Morson ’53, P ’79 ★ William E. Rogan ’53 ★ Robert E. Saunders ’53 ★ David Wainwright ’53

Lynn & Skip Sigel Anonymous

$125,736 David K. Bernhardt ★ W. G. Black, C.A. ★

Doug Brewer ★

$110,564 Dr. Paul B. Cavers Gerald Dickinson John L. Duerdoth ★ David M. Flint ★

John S. Elder G. Alan Fleming ♥ ★ John M. Goodings James Lowden James MacDougall D. Keith Millar ★ John D. Murray ★ Desmond O’Rorke William Redrupp John S. Rodway, M.D.

Ryan Kidd Stephens B. Lowden Peter F. Stanley ★

1957 $8,620 Robert Darling ♥

★

Robert A. Gardner ★ James Graham Ian Rutherford John Sayers Robert Waddell ★ J. Douglas Ward C.M. ★

John H. Wait ★ Gabriel Warren

Douglas I. Brawley

George E. Whyte Q.C.

George Carrick ★ Arthur Charlesworth

1955 $10,671 Harold Atwood ★

Chuck Magwood

Barry N. Wilson ★

Katherine & Paul Manley ♥ ★

★

Douglas McCutcheon David G. Payne

1959 $4,150 Donald G. Bell ♥ ★

Michael Schwartz

Alexander Furness

James Sissons

Dr. James E. Shaw ★

★

Michael Tinkler

Ian A. Shaw

C. Robert Vernon

John & Madelyn Sloane P ’86 ★

David M. Ward ♥

Jim Stronach ★

Anonymous

John R. Wright

Ian C. Sturdee ★

1962

Tibor A. Szandtner

$26,601 John Fauquier

1960 $4,500 Stephen Goudge

Geoffrey French

Bruce Moyle ’60

John Hetherington

Peter C. Nicoll ’60 ★

Paul Kennedy

David & Judy Galloway

Malcolm Nourse ’60

★

Kirby Keyser

Richard Pope ’60

Donald A. Laing ★

Paul Wilson ’60

David Legge

Anonymous

Peter W. C. Markle Donald McMaster ★

1961

David S. Milne ★

$20,271 Donald Campbell

Gord Park Michael A. Peterman ★

1958 $40,534 Charles Baillie, Jr. O.C. & Marilyn Baillie P ’85

Gordon R. Sellery

Peter B. MacKinnon

Leonard Sumner

W. L. Mackenzie King

1956

Peter C. Godsoe O.C. ★

1954

H. Don Borthwick

★

John MacFarlane C.M.

Peter Strachan

Anonymous

C. Anthony Keith

Kenneth Culver ’53 ★

Douglas R. Wilson ’53

★

★

Jon R. Johnson

Kit Moore ★ James M. Spence P ’88

1952-53

David J. Holdsworth David Jefferson

Douglas & Janet Davis P ’87 ★ Arthur D. Elliott

“ I am very grateful for the support you’re providing me, where I have learned the most about my interests and have created my fondest memories – now all online!

Thank you very much for the support!”

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“ I thank you sincerely for your generosity – I am grateful for the opportunity that you have given me. UTS has helped me become stronger both academically and emotionally and allowed me to pursue my passions. You are helping me become the person I was meant to be.”

Timothy J. Richardson

Andras Z. Szandtner

David Rogers

Bryce Taylor C.M.

Jeffrey R. Rose & Sandra Black P ’03

Allan G. Toguri Robert S. Weiss ★ Anonymous ★

1963 $21,350 John T. Bates ♥ Peter Currer P ’23 J. Stuart Donn David Fisher James Fowell ★ Peter H. Frost ★ Gregor McGregor David H. Morgan Niels Ortved Robert Pampe, M.D. ★ Lane Prentice Nicholas Ruddock Nicholas Smith Matthew Weatherbie Anonymous Anonymous ♥ ★

1964 $9,508 J. David Beattie P ’00, ’02 ♥ Jim Cornell Collin M. Craig ★ Paul T. Fisher William R. Jones ★ Ian Mason Thomas Ouchterlony Terry Peterman 32

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John B. Deacon

William A. MacKay ★

Timothy Draimin

John S. Rogers & Sherrill M. Rogers ★

Stephen C. Farris ★

Dave Sanderson

Frederick R. E. Heath

Anonymous

Robert J. Herman ★

David Gordon White Anonymous

Donald Ball

Anonymous

Peter Best George B. Boddington ★

Peter Snell ♥ ★ George & Judith Swift ★ Joe Vaughan

★

Bruce McDougall

$10,363 David Amos

Richard J. G. Boxer

Daniel Gautreau ♥

Nicholas Le Pan ♥ ★

1967

— M4 (GRADE 10) STUDENT, WHO RECEIVED SUPPORT FROM THE BURSARY PROGRAM

A. Michael Spence

Robert W. Hoke

★

1970

Cuthbert Coatsworth

$214,885 Ronald Davies

Michael R. Curtis

Doug Donald ★

Richard N. Donaldson ♥

Ray Kinoshita

Michael Gillies ★

Brian D. Koffman

Ian Gilmour

J. David Lang P ’99

Greg Gulyas

Rolland Leader

$17,961 Derek Allen

John J. L. Hunter ★

Donald MacKenzie

Gordon E. Legge

Peter Martin

Robert Armstrong

Tom MacMillan ★

Douglas E. McIntyre

D.A. Jonathan Boulton

Bruce McKelvey

Robert A. Cumming ★

Bruce Miller

D. Kenneth Roberts P ’00, ’04

Leland J. Davies

W. Scott Morgan ★

Donald Schmitt

Guy Dobson

Peter C. Ortved ★

David G. Stinson ★

John Goddard

Jeffrey Simpson O.C.

Paul Wright

John Gray

Geza Tatrallyay

Kim Jarvi & Jessie Wang P ’21

James Hayes ★

R. Peter Weedon

Anonymous (2)

David Hetherington

Richard Williams

1965

1971

Christopher D. Hicks

$361,981 Derek A. Bate P ’16

Robert Hustwitt

1968

Peter Kelk

$7,710 Jan Ahuja

Paul Brace P ’12 ★

John Collins

Alan S. Fisher

R. Jamieson Halfnight

John Floras

J. Wayne W. Jones

Richard Hill ♥ ★

Richard Lay

Thomas M. Hurka

Wayne Maddever ♥

J.A. (Sandy) McIntyre ★

James A. Russell

William O. Menzel

Murray Treloar

Glen Morris

1969

Timothy Owen

$8,818 John Bohnen ★

Warren G. Ralph ★

William J. Bowden

R.D. Roy Stewart

James S. Coatsworth ★

Tony Storey ♥ ★

Karl E. Lyon Peter MacEwen Jamie Paterson Anthony J. Reid David Rounthwaite P ’01 Christopher Sinton Gabriel Somjen Jeffrey R. Stutz ★ David Tong

1966 $22,123 Tim Halderson & Christine Halderson

★

Peter G. Neilson

★

Adrian Shubert ♥ ★

Annual Donor Report

1972

Timothy Turnbull ★

$24,029 B. Timothy Craine

Anonymous

★

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

Robert Sladek

Peter van den Bergh ’76

Anonymous

Eric Tatrallyay

Robert L.H. Fowler

1975-1976

Graham J. Yost ’76

David S. Grant ★

Anonymous ’76

1978

Robert G. Hull

$18,255 I. Ross Bartlett ’75 ♥

Anonymous

Ray Imai

Graeme C. Bate, P.Eng.’75

$52,082 David Allan ♥ ★

Richard Kennedy

John Cartwright ’75

1977

Deborah Berlyne

Brian Livingston

Martin A. Chepesiuk ’75, P ’10 ★

$96,560 Steven & Gita Alizadeh P ’15, ’17, ’20, ’22 ★

Irene Cybulsky ★

Bernie McGarva P ’03 ★

Kenneth J. McBey ’75 ★

★

Sherry A. Glied

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye ’75 ♥

Leif Bergsagel

James Robert Goodwin & Kathryn Slocum

Peter L. Buzzi

Daniel Gordon

Alec Clute ’76

James Ian Fairbanks

Penelope A. Harbin ★

David G. Crookston ’76

Stanley Floras

Kenneth Kirsh ★

Myron Cybulsky ’76 ★

Andre & Jocelyn Hidi ★

Susan (Black) Lawson

Donald Gordon ’76 ♥ ★

Geoffrey Kwitko

Audrey Marton

Victor Holysh ’76

Laurie McLean

Leslie C. Marton ’76 ★

The LeGresley Family Foundation

John Moffet

Gavin Pitchford ’76

David McCarthy, Jr. ♥ ★

Ann Pennington

J. Christopher Boland

Vincent Santamaura ’76 ★

Mark Noskiewicz

John A. Rose

Mr. Jeffrey Douglas Graham Boxer

Jeff Singer ’76 & Maureen Whitley

James Penturn & Kathleen Crook P ’07

Timothy Sellers ★

Howard Scrimgeour ★ Alan Spence John H. Tory Christopher D. Woodbury ★ Robert Wright

1973 $27,407 John Bate

★

John Wilkinson ★

David Dick David R. Dodds (5Y) David Fallis P ’02 Alvin Iu ♥

★

John G. Kivlichan

★

Edward S. Sennett Gregory G. Turnbull ★ Walter Vogl ★ William Wilkins ♥ ★ Robert Zimmerman

★

1974 $30,580 Paul Babyn Peter Bell Lucian Brenner Donald Bunt Andrey V. Cybulsky

★

Gregory P. Deacon ♥ ★ James H. Grout John Jackson Robert Martin Jack Sloggett Nicholas Stark

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John Crockett Marion Dove Nicholas G. Evans Melanie Hare ♥ Felicia M. Knaul David Kreindler ♥

★

Suzanne Martin P ’11, ’15 ♥ ★ Michael Martin P ’11, ’15 ♥ ★ Cameron A. Matthew ★ Patrick McPhee ♥ Kosta Michalopoulos ’84 ★ Rebecca E. Nagel Meg Proctor Jennifer Pullen 1984 Chandragupta Sooran David Walker, CFA

1985 $96,665 Isi Caulder ♥ ★

1979

Eric Kert ★

$315,553 John Burns ★

Jillian Lewis

Robert Dmytryshyn P ’15 ’18

Abba Lustgarten

Kate Fillion P ’16

Brian Eden ♥ ★

Rick Marin

Leah Gryfe

Peter A. Ewens ★

Nomi Morris

Lisa Jeffrey ♥ ★

Anne Fleming & Michael Piaskoski P ’17

Lisa Gordon ♥ ★

Andrew Munn

Jon Martin

P. Diane Hamilton ★

Anthony Hollenberg

Christine Wilson

Robin Martin

Carrie Ku (Fung) ★

Jean C. Iu ♥ ★

Timothy H. Mitchell

Grant Lum ★

C. Stuart Kent ★

1981

Mardi Witzel

James MacFarlane

$12,412 Marcel Behr ♥

Anonymous

Jennifer Nagel & Sergio Tenenbaum P ’21

Susan E. Opler & Paul F. Monahan P ’14

★

Jill Copeland & Bill Parish P ’20, ’22

Carson Schutze ★

Jeremy Celliers

1983

Paul Tough

Joshua S. Phillips

Edward E. Etchells P ’12

Susan Robertson ♥

Derek Feltham

$9,525 Mary Ainslie

Anonymous

Anonymous

Tom Friedland ★

Carolyn Beeton

Bruce Grant ♥

Robin Bloomfield

Amalia Jimenez

John A. Hass ★

$19,350 Andrew P. Alberti ★

Barbara Liu

Kathryn Jones

$12,999 Tracy A. Betel ♥

Jeffrey J. Nankivell

Karen Landmann ♥

David Bourne ’86

Paul Bird

1980

Adrian M. Yip

★

1986

Sudha Rajagopal

Karen M. Mandel ★

Wendy Drukier

Peter & Alison Bowen ★

William Robertson

C. Elizabeth Stefan

Sarah Bradshaw

Andre Schmid

Earl Stuart ★

Paul Fieguth ’86 & Betty Pries

Carolyn Ellis ♥

Martin Schreiber P ’15

Andrew Tremayne

Sandra Flow

David Evans

Anonymous

Elizabeth Turner ★

Eleanor Latta ♥ Pericles Lewis

Dana Gladstone

1982

1984

Sheldon Green ★

$8,015 Benjamin T. Chan

$16,569 Donald C. Ainslie ♥ ★

Bernie Gropper ★

Peter K. Czegledy

Vanessa Grant & Philip Street ★

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Scott Anderson

Mark D. Phillips & Esther Benzie P ’24 David Potter Julie Williams

Annual Donor Report

Jason Tam ’95

Ian Worland & Caroline Richardson

Andrew Brack

Samuel Robinson

Kevin J.K. Chan

Jason E. Shron ♥

Anonymous

Hilary Davidson

Rapido Trains Inc ♥

1987

Jessica R. Goldberg P ’27

Scott A. Thompson ♥

Sara Gray P ’24

Cindy Wan ♥ ★

Michael Scott & Mara Greene P ’22

David Wolf ♥

$19,580 Katherine Basi Julia Cochrane ♥ ★ Kevin Davis

★

Jessica Ware ’95 ♥

★ ★

Justin Tan

Felicia Chiu ’96

★

Amanda Ross-White ’96 ♥ ★

1997

Veronica C. Yeung ★ Anonymous (2)

$36,673 Emma Frow

Ronald Dicke

1991

Lisa Freeman P ’27 William Gibson

$8,277 Rebecca Caldwell ♥ Michael Ling & Karen Chan P ’22, ’24

$24,475 Jessica Carn ♥

Michael Morgan ♥ ★

Katherine Hammond P ’20 ★ Sascha Hastings

Sandra Chong ♥ ★

Aaron Chan ★

Linda Oh

Elissa A. McBride

Aaron Dantowitz ♥ ★

Adam Chapnick ★

Michael Shenkman

Sarah McDonald

Jordan Feld, M.D.

Catherine Cheung

Saraswati Son Hing

Richard Nathanson P ’20 ★

Jeffrey Gans

Jennifer Couzin

Gundars E. Roze

Jennie E. Jung

Raymond C. Fung

John Adair & Jennifer Stulberg P ’25, ’27

Cari Whyne & James Pringle P ’24

Roland Lee

Jennifer Hayward

Anonymous

Warren Lee & Sarah Ramage Lee P ’22, ’23, ’24

Andrea Iaboni ♥

Anonymous

Ruth Lim

Emily R. McComb

1988-1989

Elizabeth (Allan) Wilson

Rachel Spitzer ★

$23,035 Jennifer Andersen Koppe ’88 ♥ ★

Anonymous Anonymous (2)

1995-1996

Judy Kwok ’98 ★

Kristina Bates ’88, P ’22

1992

$11,902 Rashaad Bhyat ’95

$15,857 Sayeed Karim Abdulla ★

Noah Charney ’95

Eric Sherkin ’98

Diana Drappel ’95

Ian Speers ’98 ★

Mark Shuper ’88

Bram Abramson

Daniel Horner ’95

Pamela Y. W. Wong ’98 ♥

Anonymous ’88

Oliver Jerschow ★

Caroline Jageman ’95

Linus Yung ’98 ♥

Dubravka Cunningham ’89 ♥

Anna Lim

Robin Rix ’95

Anonymous ’98

Graham Mayeda ♥

Margaret Graham ’89, P ’27 ★

Ilya Shapiro ’95

Stuart J. Nicholson

Karyn Sullivan ’95

Jonathan Bitidis ’99 ♥ ★

Mark Tucker

Denise Tam ’95

Yan Kiu Chan ’99

Thomas Wilk

Michol Hoffman ’88 Mark Opashinov ’88

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Kenneth Handelman ’89 Ursula Holland ’89 Naomi Hume ’89 David Shaw ’89 E. Monica Uddin ’89 Carmen Young & John Bifolchi P ’24 Anonymous Anonymous

1990 $7,004 Asheesh Advani & Helen Rosenfeld

Geoffrey Gittins Jeffrey Hall-Martin

1994

Veena Mosur ★

Harrison F. Keenan

1998-1999 $21,704 Laura Bogomolny ’98 Clarence Cheng ’98 ★

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Anonymous ’98

Christopher Watson Anonymous (2)

1993 $12,946 Kai Chan ♥ ★ Sarah Dryden-Peterson Geoffrey Hung ♥ ★ Alex Hutchinson ♥ ★ Jeffrey Jaskolka P ’24 Jocelyn Kinnear T. Justin Lou Ian Richler ♥

“ I thank you sincerely for your generosity – I am grateful for the opportunity that you have given me. UTS has helped me become stronger both academically and emotionally and allowed me to pursue my passions. You are helping me become the person I was meant to be.”

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“ I would not be where I am now without your help, and for this, I am deeply thankful. With your help I am able to participate in many of the extracurricular activities that I am fond of and receive support from exceptional teachers… this privilege has facilitated my journey of self-discovery.”

— S5 (GRADE 11) STUDENT, WHO RECEIVED SUPPORT FROM THE BURSARY PROGRAM

2003-2004

Avanti Ramachandran ’09

$5,014 Allison Chow ’03 ♥ ★

Lisa Hui ’10

Emma Jenkin ’03 ♥

2011-2020

Jeremy Opolsky ’03 ♥

$16,965 Emily Luk ’11

Andrea Tsang ’03 Nina Coutinho ’04 ♥

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Adam Martin ’11 ♥

Darnel Leader ’04 ♥

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Alexander Fung ’12

Pavle Levkovic ’04 Olivia Padiernos-Mapué ’04 ♥ Bernadette Pang ’04 Hayley A. Silberg ’04 ♥ Anonymous ’04 ♥

Daron Earthy ’99 ♥ ★ Andrea Roberts ’99 Anand Srinivasan ’99 Albert K. Tang ’99 Anonymous ’99

Mitchell Wong ’05 ♥

Diana Chisholm Skrzydlo ’01

2007-2010

Emily Stover ’01 Lea Epstein ’02 ♥ Stephen B. Glinert ’02 Liang Hong ’02 ♥

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$2,943 Martin Ho ’07 ♥

Adarsh Gupta ’12 Julia Pomerantz ’12 William Tang ’12 Isabella Chiu ’13 ♥ Jannis Mei ’13 Emma Miloff ’15 William P. Monahan ’14 Clodagh Peters ’16 Bridget Peters ’19

Ricky Kuperman ’07

Ezra Moos ’20

Morgan Ring ’07 ♥

Christian Bergmann ’21

Stephen Kwong ’02

2001-2002

Ian Li ’08

Daniel Sheppard ’02

Soman Panigrahi ’08

Future Alumni

$6,988

Samuel Siah ’02

Eleanor Vaughan ’08

Daniel Grushcow ’22

Ian Bradley ’01

Luke Stark ’02 ♥ ★

Jeremy Zung ’08 ♥

Emily Yu ’23

Alexander Gorka ’01

Julian Tam ’02

Jenny Gu ’09

Richard Bai ’23

PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS OF CURRENT STUDENTS Ian Arellano P ’25 Sanjay Arora & Ruby Singh P ’26 Rehman & Durr-e-Shawar Atique P ’25 Anuj Bhatia & Parul Agarwal P ’25 Daniel Blumberger & Simone Vigod P ’25 Pablo Caballero & Melania Lopez Videla P ’23 Matthew Chapman & Danielle Paterson P ’24 Sheldon Szeto & Flora Chen P ’21, ’23, ’26 Yijun Chen & Yao Fu P ’25 ♥ Hua Cheng and Ying Zhang P ’22

Radu Craiu & Lei Sun P ’22, ’25

Boris & Hanna Gernega P ’26

Junhua Huang & Mingmin Zhu P ’24

Zhen Yu Deng & Mable Shi P ’26 ♥

David Gladish & Eva Gladish P ’22

Zhigang Huang & I Hsuan Chen P ’22, ’27

Bashir Dhalwani and Gulzar Karmali P ’23

Jessica R. Goldberg 1990 & James d’Ombrain P ’27

Morgan Hui & Maggie Tian P ’26

Rupert 1983 & Holly Duchesne P ’25

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

Patrick Hyland P ’26

Mazyar Fallah & Heather Jordan P ’23

Kun Gu & Wenge Zhang P ’25

Jin Fan & Li Zhao P ’23 Ramin R. Farnood & Ning Yan P ’21, ’23 James and Anne Feehely P ’23

Larry Guo & Brenda Liu P ’24 Jingyi Hao & Nan Liu P ’26 Neng Hau & Ellen Pan P ’22

Rudy & Flora Ip P ’24 Chris Javornik & Linda Weber P ’22 Zhaohui Jia & Hongying Zhang P ’24 Xiaomin Jiao & Xiaona Zhu P ’26 Jin Family

Lisa Freeman 1987 & Ray Forzley P ’27

Sasan HosseiniMoghaddam & Nazanin Aghel P ’23 ♥

Mark & Sharon Friedberg P ’22

Cindy Hsu P ’24

Dan Kang P ’23, ’25

Benjamin Jung & Vivian Ching P ’26

Scott Cheng & Fiona Cai P ’21, ’24

Minyi Fu & Min Mao P ’26

Hai Huang & Zhifen Jiao P ’24

Eddie and Michelle Keung P ’17, ’22

Poney Chiang & Yuan Kong P ’22

Garros Fung & Livia Lau P ’24

Jintong Huang & Li Yao P ’26

Yaariv Khaykin & Yana Shamiss P ’24

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Robert Korunovski & Ooi Chee Chooi P ’26

Jimmy Mui & Amelia Ng P ’22 ♥

Patrick & Susan Spence P ’23

Henry Tam & Liona Lai P ’18, ’26

David & Jane Kruse P ’22

Sumit Oberai & Marcia Mclean P ’23

Bill Tang & Wen Xu P ’23

Enoch Lai & Joanna Tsang P ’22

Simon Palmer & Hua Lin P ’25

Catherine & Bohdan Stasiw P ’23

Andrew Leung and Wan Wu P ’23

Li Pang & Hui Li P ’25

Chun Li & Xiumei Jia P ’25 Kan Li & Iris Zhu P ’25 Zhen Li & Yun Ling Zhao P ’22 BaoWei Lian & Jennifer (Ruihong) Chen P ’23 Jie Lian & Xiaoyun Wu P ’24 Paul Liang & Pauline Lin P ’23 Qiang Lin & Bing Xia P ’23 Bo Liu & Ting Liu P ’22 En Liu & Lucy Song P ’25 ♥ Fang Liu P ’25 Lenny Liu & Xianghong Wang P ’12, ’25 Leonid Livak & Ann Komaromi P ’23 Jinsong Lu & Jianmei Zhao P ’26 Bin Luo & Xiaomei Li P ’23 Jon MacCall & Grace Sanchez MacCall P ’25 Nelson Mah & Bonnie Li P ’22 Saul Mandelbaum & Melissa Nutik P ’23, ’26 Sean Mason & Christine Wong P ’25 Sam Mathi P ’18, ’20, ’22 ♥ Avnish Mehta & Nisha D’Mello P ’25, ’26 Alec Melkonian & Krista Semotiuk P ’24

Chandra Papneja & Sugandha Papneja P ’22 Neal Parekh & Ramona Mahtani P ’26 Manish Patel & Maya Patel P ’26 Ripal Patel & Kruti Patel P ’25

Matt Syme & Liz Thorpe P ’24 ♥

Besufekad Tesfaye & Adey Worku P ’23 Sudhir Thuppale & Vinaya Kadekuzhi P ’26 Gan Tian & Wen Zhang P ’24

Christy Bain & Ross Petersmeyer P ’25 Mark D. Phillips ’86 & Esther Benzie P ’24 Austin Pinto & Ruxandra Pinto P ’23 Dan and Liliana Poru P ’23 Zhongren Qiu & Lianying Xu P ’26 Bob Reeves & Carolyn Blaine P ’27 Maolin Ren & Qing Chen P ’24 Elke Rubach P ’25 Seyed Hadi Sadat Toussi & Mersedeh Arbab P ’26 ♥ Sandipan Saha & Rebecca Saha P ’21, ’23 Dave Seglins & Bay Ryley P ’24 Michael Seguin & Naela Jinha P ’25 Dipesh Shah & Falguni Bhatt P ’25 Yonghong Shi P ’23

Ren Mika P ’22

Joseph Siahou & Emma Hunt P ’26

Nicanor Cesar Bruno Montoya & Melinda Montoya P ’23

Krishan Suntharalingam & Ananthi Kalvalairajan P ’24, ’27

Frank Pei and Joanna Lin P ’22

Hongjun Shou & Yanting Li P ’24

Halima Mohammadu P ’25

Tao Sun & Julia Zhang P ’26

Michael Tanglao & Kathleen Niccols P ’22

Stan Pearl & Anne Christy GP ’21, ’23

Derek Menezes & Rita Sachdeva P ’23, ’26 Ivan Mo & Ming Xiong P ’23

Mitch Steinman & Laura Hans P ’25

Michael Tang & Cindy Fong P ’24 ♥

Mark Silverberg & Ayala Revah P ’24 Jackie Song P ’24 MengXue Song & Li Mei Liu P ’25 THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE

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Sheng Yang & Lixiang Xu P ’24 Song Yang & Xin Liu P ’25 Yuming Yang & Li Jin P ’25 Yiping Ye & Enyu Wang P ’23 Rick Yeung and Serena Lai P ’23, ’25 Chiu & Elaine Yip P ’18, ’23 Sze Wo Yu & Jing Wang P ’23 Hao Zhang & Xiwen Hou P ’26 Jessica Zhang P ’26 Yanfeng Zhang & Hong Liu P ’25 Ye Zhang & Hua Ge P ’26 Yi Zhang & Ye Ding P ’24

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

Zhongwei Wang & Xing Hua Zheng P ’12, ’23

Fei Xing & Maggie Weiping Xu P ’25

Alberts Vitols & Maria Thorburn P ’22

Roger Wei & Carol Zhang P ’24

Heng Xu & Mei Chen P ’26

Bing Wang & Zheng Yao P ’26

Stephen Weng P ’25

Jian Wang & Nan Weng P ’24 Jiqin Wang & Guangming Huang P ’26 Xun Wang & Hongxia Zhang P ’18, ’26

Cari Whyne ’87 & James Pringle, P ’24 Peter and Joanne Willson P ’21

Huai Dong Xu & Yu Qin Mou P ’25 Huaxia Xu & Ling Zhang P ’25 Xiaoning Xu and Wuying Peng P ’23, ’25

Bill Wu & Julie Wu P ’26 ♥

Chao Yang & He Cao P ’22, ’25

Jian Xiao & Grace Xu P ’22

Jiang Ming Yang & Ping Zhang P ’26

Roger Zheng & Sharon Xu P ’17, ’23 Leo Zhong & Cathy Luo P ’26 Kevin Zhou & Maggie Peng P ’20, ’24 Anonymous (184) anonymous (9) Anonymous (23) Anonymous ♥ Anonymous (4) Anonymous ♥ Anonymous ★

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

Zain Bhamjee & Iram Bhatti P ’20

Andrew Clarke P ’17

Rikesh Bhogal & Rimmy Kaur P ’21

Geoff Anderson & Lisa Priest P ’21 Marianne Anderson P ’17

Ian & Susan Binnie P ’93, GP ’24

Frederick & May Au P ’08

Robert G. Boeckner GP ’18

Kailash Bahadur & Maria Miller P ’02

Alma Brace P ’71, GP ’12

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Douglas Bradley & Mary Killoran P ’01, ’08

Margaret Catto P ’82

Constance Crosby ’16

Paul & Loretta Chan P ’98 ★

Todd & Jennifer Davidson P ’17, ’21

Phillip Chan & Lilian Chan P ’78, ’82

Ivan Davis & Kapka Davis P ’15

Iyang Chen & Pi-Hui Grace Lee P ’12

Noor Dewji P ’08, ’11

Wang Dong & Xuan Chen P ’12, ’21

Yuping Ding and Zhen Ye P ’20

Raymond & Lai-Yin Cheng P ’02

Chris D’Iorio & Lise Fournier P ’20

Anthony Brown & Catherine Sim P ’18

Parent of Derek Chiang ’96 and Michelle Chiang ’00 ★

Robert Dmytryshyn 1982 & Natalie Lehkyj P ’15 ’18

Ian Carlin P ’14

Priscilla Chong P’ 98

David & Urve Earthy P ’99

Consuelo Castillo P ’92

The Christoffersen Family

Anne Ellis P ’10, ’14

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Robert and Betty Farquharson P ’10 ★

Tiger Hu & Michelle Liu P ’20

James McKellar & Clelia Iori P ’21

Philip Sohm & Janet Stanton P ’02

Myran Faust & Julianna Ahn P ’18, ’21

James Hum & Cindy Park P ’21

David and Julie Moos P ’20

Victor Song & Vicky Chen P ’20

Fiala Family

George & Anne Hume P ’89

Barbara Morgan, P ’97

James Standen & Irene Tashiro P ’21

Anne Fleming ’85 & Michael Piaskoski P ’17 Alexander & Lucy Forcina P ’15 ♥

Brian Hwang & Janie Shin P ’14 A. Jerschow P ’92

Jennie Frow P ’97, ’01

Susan Kitchell P ’01

Martin Geffen & Cathy Mallove P ’10

Marie Knaul P ’84

Stephen & Anne Georgas P ’03, ’06

Nestor & Catharine Kostyniuk P ’02

Neil & Natasha Glossop P ’18

Maria & Tibor Kokai P ’02

Regine & Alex Kuperman P ’07, ’08 Ron Lalonde & Jane Humphreys P ’06

John & Debra Goshulak P ’07

Balfour Le Gresley P ’77

Revenna Sudheendra Guluru & Suchetha Sudheendra Hosaholalu Ranganath P ’21 Satish & Jany Gungabeesoon P ’13 Tong Hahn & D. Smith P ’16 ♥ Janet Hammond P ’87, ’91 Katherine Hammond ’87 & Richard Nathanson ’87, P ’20 The Jha Family Susan E. Opler ’79 & Paul F. Monahan, P ’14 Lianne Tile & Andrew Howard P ’15, ’17

Martin & Sylvia Nathanson P ’85, ’87, GP ’20 Steve O’Neil & Colette Leger P ’15, ’18

Nancy Epstein & David Goldbloom O.C., P ’05 ★

Jim & Katherine Gracie P ’09, ’12, ’15

Kayambu & Ramalakshmi Muthuramu P ’08

Chyang & Gloria Lee P ’87, ’91, GP ’22, ’23, ’24 David Leith & Jacqueline Spayne P ’11

Mark van Zanden & Rachel Talbot P ’21

James Penturn & Kathleen Crook P ’07 Mark & Peri Peters P ’16, ’19 John Pfeffer & Josee Piche P ’19

Donald and Nita Reed P ’92 ★

James & Margo Longwell P ’15

Barbara Ritchie P ’80 ★

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

Kate Uchendu P ’19

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

Michael Lo & Christine Chan P ’18

Julian & Simona Marin P ’18, ’20

Steven & Xiao Ping Tso P ’94 UTS Korean Parents Association

Zhu Liu & Karen Chen P ’19

Richard Maier & Daniela Duriavig P ’13, ’16

Marshall Swadron P ’13, ’15, ’20

Gary & Marney Opolsky P ’03, ’09

Stephen Raymond & Natasha Vandenhoven P ’16, ’19

Team TopLynn P ’21

Nancy Steinhauer P ’21 ♥

Bruce Rowat P ’89, ’95 Howard Schneider & Aliye Keskin-Schneider P ’09, ’13 Martin Schreiber ’81, P ’15 Peter & Jackie Shaw P ’17, ’19

Sanjai Vohra & Sulia Vohra P ’20, ’24 Robert Vokes & Jane Edwards, P ’24 Alexandru & Michaela Weiner P ’01 ★ Michael & Muriel Wissell P ’14 Jane Withey P ’11, ’14 S.K. & P.N. Wong P ’06 Victor & Helen Wong P ’05 Yan Qing Wu and Xiu Ping Han P ’21 Mark Yarranton & Patricia Foran P ’13 Quan-Gen Zhou & Hui Song P ’09, ’16 John & Ping Zhu P ’21 Anonymous (50) Anonymous (2) ♥

Helen McCartney P ’84

Geoff & Carol ShirtliffHinds P ’16, ’17, ’20

Tom McCurdy & Rosamund Woodhouse P ’06

John ’59 & Madelyn Sloane, P ’86

Anonymous

Lynda S. Duckworth

H. Donald Gutteridge & M. Anne Millar ★

Anonymous (5) Anonymous ★

CURRENT & FORMER STAFF Prof. David W. Alexander

Sarah Cescon ♥

Gillian Bartlett

Garth Chalmers ♥

Carole BernicchiaFreeman

Jean Collins

Rosemary Evans ♥ ★

Linda Coopman

Kimberley Fehr

Jonathan Bitidis ’99 ♥ ★

Makeda Daley ♥

Marc Brims ♥

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Carolyn Ellis ’80 ♥

Rebecca Harrison & Stephen Colella ♥ Sean Hayto ♥

G.Alan Fleming ’54 ♥ ★

Emma Jenkin '03

Nancy Dawe ♥

Cresencia Fong

Judith Kay ♥

Shawn Brooks ♥

Michael Didier ♥

Sherly Geronimo ♥

Jennifer Kelly

Adam Brown ♥

Rose Dotten ♥ ★

Adam Gregson ♥

Jeff Kennedy ♥

Chris J. Carswell ♥

Martha Drake ♥ ★

Claude Guillemot ♥

Rob Kennedy ♥

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Virginia Ki ♥

Forough Shafiei

Ping Kong Lai & Shiu Ling Lai

Sarah Shugarman ♥

Dan & Diane Lang ★

Elizabeth Straszynski & Chris Wilson ♥

Raymond Lee ♥

Nicola Townend ♥

Rebecca Levere ♥

C. Ann Unger ★

Kara Lysne-Paris

Justin Williams ♥

Julie Martin ♥

Janet Williamson ♥

Mary McBride Lily McGregor ♥ ★

Carole (Geddes) Zamroutian ♥ ★

Rick & Sarah Parsons P ’16, ’19

Anonymous ♥

Stan Pearl GP ’21, ’23

Anonymous ♥ ★

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Anonymous ♥

Jennifer Pitt-Lainsbury ♥

Anonymous (2) ♥

Marie-Claire Recurt ★

Anonymous ★

Libby Reeves ♥

Anonymous (5)

FRIENDS OF UTS Athletic Edge Sports Medicine Estate of Charles Derek Stewart Bate Brookfield Asset Management Inc. Kirby Chown Lynda Corkum Christine Deja # Ninh Do Leesa Fawcett

The Peter & Shelagh Godsoe Family Foundation

Dr. Benjamin Lin Dentistry Professional Corporation

Susan M. Scace

Wei Liu

Google Inc.

Godyne Sibay

Loch Tay Foundation ★

Grenadier Foundation

Birgit Siber

Manulife Financial

Switch VFX & Animation

B & B Hamilton Fund at Toronto Foundation ★

Paul Marks

TakingITGlobal

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Blake Toplis

The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation

Michael Nemeth

Susan Scace

UTS Alumni Association ★ UTS Parents Association ★

Simone Henville

Government of Ontario

Janet M. Hunter

Annamie Paul

IBM Canada Limited ★

Alisha Rani

The Henry White Kinnear Foundation

Frances Webb

Tim & Janet Kennish

Rapido Trains ♥

Gary Xiao

Taylor Fawcett

Edward Kerwin

Rogers Communications

Anonymous (23)

Firefly Foundation

William Kim

Sandra Rosch

Anonymous (2)

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 $230,000 which provides approximately $10,000 annually in financial aid to current UTS students. This year, many of the gifts in honour of graduating students were directed to our Building Fund and to the COVID-19 Emergency Bursary Fund. We thank our families for giving the gift of a UTS education through donations totaling over $42,000!

CLASS OF 2021 Dmytro & Lesya Berbeka P ’21 in honour of Veronika Berbeka ’21 Paul & Adriana Bergmann P ’21 in honour of Christian Bergmann ’21

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Rikesh Bhogal & Rimmy

Wang Dong & Xuan Chen

Zhenzhou Chen and Yun

Kaur P ’21 in honour of

P ’12, ’21 in honour of

Zhang P ’21 in honour of

Jaden Bhogal ’21

Amanda Chen ’21

Zirui Chen ’21

Paul Chang & Betty Tseng

Tao Chen and Feng

Scott Cheng & Fiona Cai

P ’19, ’21 in honour of

Liu P ’21 in honour of

P ’21, ’24 in honour of

Lauren Chang ’21

Charleston Chen ’21

Justin Cheng ’21

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Kyoungkuen Chung & Sungmin Park P ’19, ’21 in honour of Ian Chung ’21 Todd & Jennifer Davidson P ’17, ’21 in honour of Peter Davidson ’21 Rosemary Evans in honour of the Class of 2021 Ramin R. Farnood & Ning Yan P ’21, ’23 in honour of Ayleen Farnood ’21 Myran Faust & Julianna Ahn P ’18, ’21 in honour of Nicholas Faust ’21 Thomas Fiala & Katherine Clark P ’18, ’21 in honour of Sophie Fiala ’21 Gnanamoorthy Sengodan & Kiruthiga Angappan P ’21, ’23 in honour of Sabarish Gnanamoorthy ’21 Henky & Roslinda Halim P ’19, ’21 in honour of Halley Halim ’21 Bing Han & Zhe Yang P ’18, ’21 in honour of Joanna Han ’21 Kim Jarvi ’70 & Jessie Wang, P ’21 in honour of David Jarvi ’21 Sunmo Kim & Meehyun Kang P ’21 in honour of Chloe Kim ’21 Zaiyi Liao & Jiemin Liu P ’21 in honour of Cathy Liao ’21 Perry & Julie-Ann Lo P ’21 in honour of Jaden Lo ’21 Yi Li Long & Linda Chen P ’21 in honour of Christopher Long ’21 Team TopLynn P ’21 in honour of Sophie Lynn ’21 Beijing Lu & Cheng Ma P ’21 in honour of Andrea Ma ’21 Patrick Mazurek and Jennifer Griffiths P ’21 in honour of Samuel Mazurek ’21 James McKellar & Clelia Iori P ’21 in honour of Sarenna McKellar ’21 James Hum & Cindy Park P ’21 in honour of Joshua Park-Hum ’21 Farhad Pirouzmand & Marjan Jariani P ’16, ’21

in honour of Naveed Pirouzmand ’21 John and Franca Pizzonia P ’21 in honour of Christina Pizzonia ’21 Geoff Anderson & Lisa Priest P ’21 in honour of Phoebe Priest ’21 Partha Mohanram and Pallavi Ram P ’21 in honour of Anirudh RamMohanram ’21 Sandipan & Rebecca Saha P ’21, ’23 in honour of Asha Saha ’21

Jeffrey Shen & Maggie Zhang P ’21 in honour of Eric Shen ’21 Ankesh & Natalya Siddhantakar P ’21 in honour of Rhea Siddhantakar ’21

Sudheendra Hosaholalu Ranganath P ’21 in honour of Suraj Sudheendra ’21 Sheldon Szeto & Flora Chen P ’21, ’23, ’26 in honour of William Szeto ’21

James Standen & Irene Tashiro P ’21 in honour of Madeleine Standen ’21

Mark van Zanden & Rachel Talbot P ’21 in honour of Everett van Zanden ’21

Frank & Adrienne Staudohar P ’21 in honour of Stefania Staudohar ’21

Wing Lok Wan & Winnie Chu P ’21 in honour of Emily Wan ’21

Revenna Sudheendra Guluru & Suchetha

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“ New co-curricular spaces will help the Gender Equity Committee foster a sense of belonging for all UTS students.”

“ I can’t wait for the new Jackman Theatre. We can act and dance and sing!”

— F2 (GRADE 8) JULIA

— S5 (GRADE 11) SEB, GENDER EQUITY COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE MEMBER

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“ With all the new equipment, we’ll be able to perform complex experiments.

And do better on competitions!”

“ I can’t wait to play volleyball in the new extended double gym – the McIntyre Gymnasium.”

— S6 (GRADE 11) SHUYU

— M4 (GRADE 10) JOHN

Peter & Joanne Willson P ’21 in honour of Zackary Willson ’21 Yan Qing Wu & Xiu Ping Han P ’21 in honour of Jenny Wu ’21 Bin Yin & Yunzi Zheng P ’21 in honour of Jessica Yin ’21 Tao Yuan & Chun Liu P ’21 in honour of Kevin Yuan ’21

Shunli Zhang & Libo Wang P ’21 in honour of Jennifer Zhang ’21

John & Ping Zhu P ’21 in honour of Elizabeth Zhu ’21

Liang Zhao & Melinda Lee P ’21 in honour of Martin Zhao ’21

Qing Zou & Yunong Xia P ’21 in honour of Jimmy Zou ’21

Yan Zheng & Lily Han P ’21 in honour of Peter Zheng ’21

Anonymous parents (13) in honour of their graduating children

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

IN HONOUR OF: Carolyn Bawden ’20

Nina McCurdy ’06 Jay McGregor ’20

IN MEMORY OF: Blanca Abramson P ’92, ’94

Don Boutros

Mike Sandor Nemeth

Stanley Armstrong ’69

Class of 1965

Grace Parish ’20

C. Derek Bate ’44, P ’71, ’73, ’75, GP ’16

Class of 1967 Class of 2013 Jocelyn Cheng ’02 Makeda Daley Rosemary Evans G. Alan Fleming ’54 Victoria Forcina ’15 Theo Forzley ’27 Libby Grant Jonathan Gregory ’06

Stan Pearl GP ’21, ’23 James Qiu ’26 David Rounthwaite ’65 Claire Shaw ’19 Elizabeth Shaw ’17 Eden Silverberg ’24 Maria Sloggett P ’74 Vincent Song ’20 Sam Swadron ’20

Kenny Huang ’24

Stephen Tang ’24

Sara Hwang ’14

Chisom Uchendu

Jeff Kennedy

Kristine Uchendu ’19

Daniel Lian ’23

John M. McCulloch ’67 Ronald J. McMaster Karen O’Connor ’81 Stephen A. Otto C.M. ’57

Emile Bruneau

Warren MacKay Page ’79

Douglas Carter ’70

Lewis Perkin

Anthony Chan ’98

Kenneth E. Prentice

Thomas P. Corkum Rian Dewji ’08

Dr. J.Douglas ’51 & Patricia Robertson, P ’79, ’81

Kenneth DeWolf ’58

W. Stewart Rogers ’33

Gordon Elliot ’62

Sam Roweis ’90

Jack B. Ellis ’54

Arthur Scace C.M. ’56

Donald Glendinning ’68

Nicole Stef ’16

Shawn Gollish ’77 Seymour Hoffman P ’88

William Stickland Margaret Stover P ’01

UTS Teachers and Staff

Lillian Binns and Bezaleel Hylton

Kate Tiley

Isabella Liu

Charline Wan ’12

Connie MacDougall

Robert Tweedy ’60

Chloe Lo ’18

Clement Wan ’15

Harry C. Maynard

Horst Vogl P ’73

Bronwen McCurdy

Michael Peiwen Wei ’24

James McCartney ’56, P ’84

Ethan Wissell ’14

THE UTS ARBOR SOCIETY FOR PLANNED GIVING UTS would like to thank the following individuals who have declared their intention to include UTS in their charitable giving plans. We also thank all those who wish to remain anonymous.

D. Kenneth Roberts ’70 P ’00, ’04

Thomas H. B. Symons C.C. ’47

Christopher (Bill) Ballyn ’51

Michaele M. Robertson, Former Principal

Murray E. Treloar ’68

Arthur C. Hewitt ’49

Lois & John Bowden ’48, P ’79

Robert W. Hoke ’66

John N. Shaw ’50

Walter Vogl ’73

David J. Holdsworth ’61

David Sherman ’75

Anonymous (20)

Paul Brace ’71, P ’12

Robert E. Lord ’58

Peter L. Buzzi ’77

James I. MacDougall ’54

Benjamin T. B. Chan ’82

Bernie McGarva ’72, P ’03

Class Member ’84 James S. Coatsworth ’69

James A. (Sandy) McIntyre ’71

Gillian (Davidson) Davies ’87

David Morgan ’63

Matthew Dryer ’68

J. Timothy Morgan ’87

Lynda S. Duckworth, Former Teacher

John D. Murray ’54

Scott Baker, Former Teacher

H. Donald Gutteridge, Former Principal, & M. Anne Millar

Donald K. Avery ’49

James Fleck C.C. ’49, P ’72 G. Alan Fleming ’54, Former Principal John R.D. Fowell ’60 Stephen Gauer ’70

Mark Opashinov ’88 Stan Pearl GP ’21, ’23, Former Principal Stephen Raymond & Natasha Vandenhoven P ’16, ’19

Gregory G. Turnbull ’73

UTS gratefully acknowledges the following legacy gifts from members of the UTS community received between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021: Estate of C. Derek S. Bate ’44, P ’71, ’73, ’75, GP ’16 Estate of Michael Kerr Ireland ’48 Estate of Ruth Edwina Stephen P ’67

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

THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE

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LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD

THEN (1939)

THEN (1965)

THEN (2017)

In the 1965 Twig, the editors pointed out, tongue-in-cheek, that nothing much had changed at UTS since 1939, with a selection of then and now photos that included the library. Many years later, in 2017, the picture was not all that different. But now we are looking forward to something completely transformed, when students return to our renewed building: a new UTS library, with sliding stacks, a wall of windows and an inspiring, beautiful space for students to learn and grow.

AND SOON TO BE NOW! (2022)