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Wendy Cecil Vic’s New Chancellor p. 8

Focus on Philanthropy Annual Donor Report p. 13

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Making History by paul w. gooch Never at a loss for an arresting turn of phrase, Oscar Wilde once opined, “Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.” His quip takes aim at the “great man” view of history, according to which the determining shapers of civilizations and cultures are a few powerful (and usually male) individuals; but he also reminds us how complicated and difficult the business of writing history is.

Victoria University has a good deal of history to celebrate as we begin our 175th year this October. Our history is made, not by just anybody, but by that large community, spread over time and space, that is constituted by all members of Victoria. It is folly to characterize that history succinctly, but if I had only three words, they would be “historic,” “distinctive,” and “committed.”

“Historic,” first. Vic’s royal charter of 1836 places it among the oldest universities in Canada. The Maritimes saw earlier foundations, and McGill received its charter in 1821. King’s College, the predecessor of the University of Toronto, was founded in 1827, but did not admit students until 1842, the same year as Victoria. Age alone does not make very interesting history.

But it provides time for growth and distinctive achievement.

Next, “distinctive.” A couple of distinctions stand out.

Victoria—unlike some sister institutions—was adamant that there would be no test of religious belief for faculty or students.

In the early decades of encounter between Darwin and Genesis, Victoria’s leaders were unequivocally supportive of interpretative principles which respected truth found in science as well as in scripture. Victoria also claimed some important firsts in the education of women: Nellie Greenwood, for example, was the first woman to earn a bachelor’s degree in Ontario, graduating with a B.Sc. from Victoria in 1884—the same year that U of T first admitted women.

The third word, “committed,” refers to Vic’s educational mission. Although respect for science education was always present (Vic’s Faraday Hall in Cobourg, Ontario, was the first purposebuilt science building in Upper Canada), the hallmark of an education at Victoria has always been in the liberal arts, including theology. We have a disproportionate share of the “great names” of Canadian arts, culture and public life whose contributions have been built upon a solid education in the humane sciences.

Now in the 21st century, Victoria finds itself in changed circumstances. No longer does Vic educate primarily the reformed church sons and daughters of rural Ontario; our student body reflects the many stances towards religious and humanistic beliefs found in contemporary society. In this modern world, openness to diversity continues to serve both of our colleges well.

Where once our campus was local in its perspective, our horizons are now global.

In the midst of such changes, the one constant is the persistent value of a liberal education.

If there is one overriding lesson I have learned from the many histories of our alumni, it is the worth of a broad education; one that teaches appreciation for human history and values, that stretches the mind and fires the imagination and that hones thought and encourages debate.

These are our historic and enduring values.

Celebrating one’s history is not so much an act of self-congratulation as an occasion for selfreflection and resolution. With its rich inheritance of alumni, friends and resources, Victoria must repay the trust of the past by building for the future. We must become the very best place on this continent for liberal education in the humane sciences including theology. That is how we will continue to make history, not for the sake of “making history,” since anyone can do that, but for the welfare of civil society, here and wherever Vic people are to be found.

Continuing its strong history of women in education, Vic is pleased to welcome our new chancellor, Wendy Cecil Vic 7T1, and executive director of advancement, Deborah Scott.

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Autumn 2010 Volume XXXIX No. 1 Published under the authority of the Board of Regents of Victoria University in the University of Toronto.

Publisher: Deborah Scott, Executive Director of Advancement Editor: Alison (Massie) Broadworth Vic 9T7, Associate Director, Alumni Affairs and University Advancement Managing Editor: Jennifer Pugsley Vic 0T1, Communications Officer Copy Editor: Frank Collins Design: DDB Canada Cover: Wendy Cecil Vic 7T1 in front of Old Vic. Photography by Babak.

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$1.5 Million Gift for Emmanuel College Deer Park United Church Supports Music and Scholarship In a generous show of support for theological study, Toronto’s Deer Park United Church has donated $1.5 million to Victoria University’s Emmanuel College. The momentous gift provides crucial aid to two key areas of Emmanuel’s work by establishing the Deer Park Professorship in Church Music and the Deer Park Scholarship.

A personal connection to church music is at the heart of Deer Park’s decision to secure an enduring faculty presence for Emmanuel’s Master of Sacred Music program. “For decades now, Deer Park United has enjoyed an excellent Members of the congregation of Deer Park United Church at a reception at Victoria University in honour repertoire of beautiful liturgical music of the $1.5 million gift to Emmanuel College. under the leadership of William Wright Vic 6T1, Emm 6T4,” says Margaret Pillar, Deer Park’s gift is made possible through the recent sale of chair of the church’s board of trustees. “A gift that would help develop future leaders of music in the church was a natural one the church’s former location, the funds from which have been used to aid the operations and lives of agencies and partners for us to make.” supported by the church over the years. For Emmanuel, the It was also important to the congregation of Deer Park to gift is one of infinite value. see its gift foster a love of learning and theological education, “This is indeed a lasting legacy that will serve both church adds Pillar. “The scholarship takes that extra step by helping and academy for generations to come,” says Emmanuel College to attract doctoral students of the highest calibre to a future in principal Mark Toulouse.  teaching in the church.”

Bill Fennell: Teacher and Visionary Photography: (Opposite page) Peg McCarthy; Victoria Alumni Office, Don Bastian/Victoria University Archives

Faithful Scholar Influenced Generations of Students This past May, Victoria University marked the passing of William (Bill) Fennell Vic 3T9, Emm 4T2. A professor and principal emeritus of Emmanuel College, Fennell was a faithful scholar and wise administrator who shared himself generously with his Principal Bill Fennell in his Emmanuel community and the College office in 1972. university he loved.

Emmanuel College professor of homiletics Paul Wilson Vic 7T2, Emm 7T9 remembers Fennell as a caring and visionary principal.

“Professor Fennell devoted his time selflessly to students, faculty, the university and the church,” says Wilson.

“I loved him as a teacher.

He was a theologian who

respected the founding traditions of the College and influenced hundreds of students in their ability to articulate the faith clearly and passionately.”

Fennell joined the faculty of Victoria University in 1946, where he taught systematic theology at Emmanuel College for 35 years. He also served as the College’s principal from 1972 until his retirement in 1982, after which he rarely missed an opportunity to return to the campus for Vic and Emmanuel class reunions and university events.

Active in the ecumenical movement at home and abroad, Fennell was a longtime supporter of the World University Service of Canada. In 1960, he was elected to the WUSC’s international committee, helping the organization’s efforts to foster human development and global understanding through education and training. Fennell also chaired the committee that brought the Toronto School of Theology into existence in 1970.

Fennell’s accomplishments earned him many honorary degrees, including doctorates of divinity from the University of Winnipeg, the University of Trinity College, Knox College and Victoria University.  vic report autumn 2010

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Deborah Scott New Executive Director of Advancement Experience, Success and Commitment to Higher Education There was little time for Deborah Scott to settle into her role as Victoria University’s executive director of advancement this past May. Joining Vic directly from the University at Buffalo Law School, where she served as vice dean and director of development, Scott’s first few weeks involved a steady stream of meetings and reunion events with the alumni of Victoria College and Emmanuel College.

For the new senior administrator of the Office of Alumni Affairs and University Advancement, there could have been no better introduction to one of the most engaged alumni communities at the University of Toronto. Scott’s early days were a rewarding confirmation of the university and people she had admired as the parent of a Vic graduate. “I am thrilled to be joining such a distinguished institution as Victoria University,” she says.

“In searching for our new executive director of advancement, we were looking for someone who possessed the necessary experience and record of success in advancement, an outstanding commitment to higher education, a deep appreciation for students and alumni, and the ability to work in a complex system that includes two colleges federated with a large university,” says President Paul Gooch. “Deb embodies all these qualities.”

Scott held successive leadership roles during her 12-year tenure at UB Law. Notably, she helped close a transformational campaign that realized the endowments of two professorships, the establishment of six research fellowships, the creation of scholarships and awards, the construction of the first fully operational courtroom in a law school in the New executive director of advancement United States, a $1-million Deborah Scott. campus technology upgrade and a three-fold increase in funds raised annually.

Scott earned a BA in psychology from Queen’s University and pursued graduate studies at McMaster University. She succeeds Larry Davies, who retired in March 2010 after a long and distinguished career at Victoria University (see Vic Report, Winter 2010). 

2010 Keith Davey Forum on Public Affairs

Faith and Politics: Religion and the Secular State featuring

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Daniel Weinstock

American Political Philosopher and Contributing Editor of The New Republic

Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political Philosophy

Doors open at 4:45 p.m.

Reception to follow

Ahmet Kuru

moderated by

Isabel Bader Theatre 93 Charles St. W., Toronto

Scholar of Religion and Politics

Simone Chambers

Patrick Weil

Author and Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto

French Historian and Political Scientist

November 4, 2010 • 5 p.m.

Admission FREE www.vicu.utoronto.ca vic.alumni@utoronto.ca

The Keith Davey Forum on Public Affairs is named in honour of former senator Keith Davey Vic 4T9, in recognition of his contribution to public life. The forum is organized by Victoria University in partnership with the University of Toronto’s political science department and Association of Political Science Students.

Editor’s Note: Thank you to David Brown Vic 7T1 for bringing to the attention of Vic Report that his father, Kenneth C. Brown Vic 4T5, was named a Rhodes scholar in 1946. Kenneth received one of five special Canadian Forces Overseas Rhodes Scholarships, which were in addition to those awarded on a provincial basis that year. Vic Report was unaware of Kenneth’s Rhodes scholarship; consequently he was not listed with Vic’s other 13 scholars in the summer 2010 cover story.

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Vic Students to Teach in China Canada’s Future Teachers to Get International Experience Victoria University president Paul Gooch took a significant step forward in increasing undergraduate access to international experience this past April.

He travelled to China to establish an exchange program between Victoria University and Beijing Foreign Languages School for students in the Victoria College/OISE Concurrent Teacher Education Program. The agreement between the two schools grew out of the Isabel Crook Student Exchange established in 2009 by President Gooch with BFLS-affiliated Beijing Foreign Studies University. Educator and activist Isabel Crook Vic 3T6 is one of BFSU’s President Gooch (seated, second from left) was joined by Victoria College principal David Cook and Vic’s concurrent teacher education program coordinator Sheila Cook (seated, far right) in China to finalize the founding instructors. international exchange with Beijing Foreign Languages School.

The first students to participate in this study abroad opportunity travel to China in February, where they will gain valuable teaching develop a whole new perspective on Canada.” experience. They will complete a four-month internship Students taking part in the exchange will fulfill 12 hours at BFLS as well as take two courses in Chinese culture or of in-class instruction a week at BFLS, teaching at the language and a course in comparative literature. primary and secondary education levels. They will also receive “Our students will benefit from the exchange on a number a monthly stipend and accommodation as part of the of fronts,” says Sheila Cook, coordinator of the Victoria exchange program.

College/OISE Concurrent Teacher Education Program.

Beijing Foreign Languages School is one of China’s premier “Not only will they get to completely immerse themselves in schools for pre-university study in foreign languages. Since another culture and learn another language, the exchange 1959, the school has been providing elementary and high will help to prepare them for teaching in highly diverse school-level education under the leadership of Beijing Foreign environments. Also, in teaching Chinese students about the Studies University, China’s first institution specializing in English language and Canadian culture, our students will foreign language studies, founded in 1941. 

Photography: (Opposite page) Peg McCarthy; Beijing Foreign Languages School

2010 Distinguished Alumni Award

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Do you know a Victoria College graduate who has distinguished her or himself through extraordinary contribution to: • Society • Business • Politics

• Education • Culture • Religion

Nominate her or him today.

Visit www.vicu.utoronto.ca/alumni.

The Victoria College Distinguished Alumni Award is presented in recognition of a graduate’s recent or lifetime achievement.

The scope of her or his contribution may be at the local, national or international level.

Nominations for the Distinguished Alumni Award’s 2010 recipient must be received by Nov. 19, 2010.

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JOIN THE PROGRAM OF EVENTS Don’t miss out on any part of Victoria University’s 175th anniversary in 2010-2011. The 175th planning committees have been working on an exciting program of events inspired by Vic’s history.

END OF LIFE DECISIONS: ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVES

GRADUATES CHRISTMAS LUNCHEON

October 28, 2010 • Isabel Bader Theatre • 8 p.m.

December 4, 2010 • Old Vic • Noon

Join world-renowned bioethicist Abdulaziz Sachedina, the Frances Myers Ball Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, in his exploration of End of Life Decisions: Islamic Perspectives. In the last 10 years, Sachedina’s work has explored issues of social and political ethics, including interfaith and intrafaith relations, Islamic biomedical ethics and Islam and human rights. His lecture will be followed by a panel discussion involving eminent thinkers and scholars in the areas of moral theology, religion, philosophy and primary care research.

Join with alumni and friends to celebrate the holidays. Hear “The Object(s) of Christmas” with guest speaker, historian Adrienne Hood.

Noon, cash bar reception • 12:30 p.m., luncheon

FREE

February 27, 2011 Oscar Night Party! Come celebrate film, Vic filmmakers and the 10th anniversary of the Isabel Bader Theatre.

BOB REVUE RETROSPECTIVE AND 2010 BOB REVUE November 18, 2010 • Old Vic • 6 p.m.

Look back on the history of Canada’s longest running comedy revue at the Bob Revue Retrospective. Relearn the Subway Song and toast Robert “Bob” Beare and Vic’s days in Cobourg. The evening concludes with the opening night performance of the 2010 Bob Revue at the Isabel Bader Theatre. $30 per person

$25 per person

SAVE THE DATE January 19, 2011 Beyond Watchdog: Engaging Business for Change with World Wildlife Fund Canada president emeritus Monte Hummel Vic 6T9.

March 23, 2011 Pelham Edgar Lecture: An evening with celebrated author Margaret Atwood Vic 6T1.

STILL TO COME...

• Announcements about Vic’s thought-provoking educationthemed forum that explores the state of education today • Emmanuel College Alumni/ae Days 2011: May 11-12, 2011 • Victoria College Spring Reunion 2011: May 27-29, 2011 • Vic Family Day: June 11, 2011 • Fall 2011 events, including the closing celebrations from October 12-16, 2011 Visit www.vicu.utoronto.ca for the latest Vic 175 news.

Follow Vic and the 175th anniversary celebrations on Twitter and Facebook.

Visit www.vicu.utoronto.ca and start today.

CELEBRATION Vic: A People’s History A Picnic in the Park

Memories from Vic 2T7

Sometime early during my first term at Victoria College I got up my courage to ask a girl out for a picnic. She lived in Annesley Hall and we had met at one of the evening “hops.” I called for her one lovely sunny Sunday afternoon, equipped with a picnic basket that contained some nice food, napkins and a bottle of wine. We went to Queen’s Park, where I had already picked out a singularly stately oak as an appropriate setting. We had a pleasant time but then, suddenly, I saw this large pair of black boots in front of the blanket. Looking up, I discovered a policeman looking down on us. He asked us what we thought we were doing, and we both smiled up at him, saying that we were having a Sunday picnic.

At this point, I fear, this tale changes its tone…

Living in residence, we had to sign-out in the evening—even if it was just to go to the library—and sign-in before 10:30 p.m.

We were allowed one day a week to be out until 12:30 a.m. and one night a year to be out as late as 1:30 a.m.

Submitted by Vernon Brooks Vic 4T6

Four of us shared a room on the top floor of Oak Lawn, one of the Bloor Street residences. One of the girls was very reticent.

One night she went to bed early while the rest of us continued to talk. She started to talk in her sleep, so we started asking her questions, which she answered. We never mentioned anything about the evening as we were afraid she might have been pulling our leg.

Submitted by Beth Nicholson Vic 6T7 on behalf of Dorothy (Carver) Nicholson Vic 2T7

126 Years Apart In my great-great-great-grandmother Ann Eliza McClatchie’s autobiography, she writes: Hoarded earnings for more education and I resolved to accompany my brother Alfred to Cobourg, whither he was going to take an Arts course at Victoria College, and where I also expected to attend the same college…. Accordingly, we two started out together on the morning of Aug. 23, 1857, a distance of 250 miles. On the evening of the same day reached our destination in safety. Imagine my feelings of disappointment on being told that the Halls of Victoria College were closed to lady students.*

Want to read about how Vernon’s picnic turned out and how he survived the day or the rest of Anne’s story and what happened next to Ann McClatchie or more of Dorothy’s recollections of life at Vic in the 1920s?

Visit www.vicu.utoronto.ca where Vic: A People’s History is being written with every alumni story submitted.

Add your story to the collection. Send it to vic.alumni@utoronto.ca, by fax to 416-585-4594 or by mail to the Victoria Alumni Office at 73 Queen’s Park Cres., Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7.

Story submissions may be edited for use in displays and promotion of Vic’s 175th anniversary.

One hundred twenty-six years later, in 1983, I enrolled in Victoria University, not giving a second thought to the fact that, as a woman, I had the right to a higher education.

Submitted by Anne Adair Vic 8T7 * Editor’s Note: Women began taking lectures with the male students of Victoria College in the 1870s, and, in 1884, Nellie Greenwood became the first woman to complete an undergraduate degree in Ontario.

Calling All Artists And Photographers Vic is hosting two visual arts contests—one in art and one in photography— in honour of the 175th anniversary. Both are open to all Vic alumni, students, faculty and staff. Cash prizes will be awarded for first place. Deadline for entries is June 30, 2011. Visit www.vicu.utoronto.ca for contest rules.

NOT ONE TO STAND BACK VIC’S NEW CHANCELLOR WENDY CECIL

By Cynthia Macdonald

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endy Cecil broke new ground on October 13, 2010, when she was installed as Victoria University’s 13th—and first woman— chancellor.

Her commitment to not-for-profit causes started at the age of five and never stopped. Growing up in Willowdale, Ont., Cecil was the daughter of a travelling hardware salesman and a homemaker, both of whom were extremely active in the community. “Whether it was the horticultural society or the North York Home & School, my parents were always

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involved at the grassroots level, and they took my sister and me along to help. It was just a part of family life for us.”

Time spent delivering pamphlets and meeting new people would pay off. After graduating with a BA from Victoria College in 1971, Cecil embarked on a successful career in management and corporate public relations, and was among the first women to serve on a Canadian corporate board of directors.

She first worked for the Toronto Stock Exchange and rose to be vice-president of business development for natural

resources and investment giant Brascan Ltd. She is now chair and president of Brookmoor Enterprises Ltd. Alongside her success in business, Cecil has nurtured an equally strong dedication to public service. Her engagement with the community is legion: St. Michael’s Hospital, the Canadian Opera Company, the Canadian Stage Company, the Fraser Institute, the Olympic Trust, the YMCA, Branksome Hall and the Royal Ontario Museum, among others. The Government of Canada recognized Cecil’s invaluable

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contributions as a volunteer, presenting her with the 2009 Thérèse Casgrain Volunteer Award, in the category of lifetime commitment. “I’ve always been interested in organizations that prevent people from being totally isolated,” she says. The arts, education and healthcare all fall squarely into that category.

Cecil’s volunteer involvement with the University of Toronto stretches back to 1983, when she first became engaged in the university’s fundraising efforts through the Presidents’ Circle. In 1998, she was appointed a U of T governor, and

eventually served as chair of Governing Council from 1998 until 2002. Cecil says she has remained grateful to the university that educated her and treated her with exceptional kindness. The first in her family to attend a university, Cecil was almost forced to drop out in second year due to financial problems, but Victoria University’s bursar, Fred Stokes Vic 4T3, came through with a parcel of financial aid for her—something she has never forgotten. “I am keenly aware of how different my life would have been had I not gone to U of T,” she affirms, adding with excitement and pride that her son, Malcolm, and his wife, Kyra, currently fourth-year students, will become the second generation of her family to graduate from Vic. As chancellor, Cecil will be filling what she calls “very big shoes.” Her immediate predecessors— filmmaker Norman Jewison Vic 4T9 and former diplomat Ken Taylor Vic 5T7—both exhibited an amazing level of dedication.

Living not far from campus, she intends to be a frequent participant in both formal functions and student activities.

During her time in office, Cecil looks forward to fostering Vic’s tradition of nurturing “life skills,” which she believes to be a natural complement to academic excellence. “Even the small decisions we make and the actions we take on a daily basis, really do determine the shape of our future, both as an individual and as a country.”

“When you are on the Vic campus, people always hold the door for you,” she says. “It’s a tiny thing, but a huge indicator of the consideration and civility you find at Vic. It must be encouraged and treasured. I never wanted to be a person who just stands back and doesn’t do anything, and I know Vic has a history of producing graduates who feel the same way.” On a recent U of T alumni trip to Kenya, the chief purpose of which was to build a local school, Cecil noted that the majority of participants were Vic grads.

She wants to see that kind of commitment to national and international engagement in making the world a better place continue to be something that comes naturally to Vic graduates.

Cecil was instrumental in helping President Paul Gooch and his team

create Victoria’s Vic One program.

The successful and transformational initiative for first-year students, which launched in 2003, features multidisciplinary study within a personalized, small-class setting. As chancellor, she would like to see this informal, cohortbased approach applied outside the classroom as well, on a campus-wide level. Whether through fireside chats or arranged dinners at the homes of professors and community mentors, she believes that mentoring is essential for students to learn how best to apply their knowledge in the broader world after graduation. With many friends and colleagues who are experienced in diverse professions, Cecil’s ambition is to create a “pool of people” who will come and talk with students in an intimate and personal setting.

“When I was in university, I wouldn’t have minded having someone to talk to about my future,” she says. “Someone of experience, who would push me to consider the different paths I might explore by giving me just a few guideposts along the way. Without that, you sometimes feel like a piece of flotsam in the ocean, and you can be intimidated by the opportunities that await you.” This is more true now than ever before, with a greatly expanded campus and many new Canadian students who, like Cecil, are the first in their families to attend university. As a former commuter who spent extremely long hours on campus, she sees the upcoming Goldring Student Centre as a superior innovation. “It will give all our students, including our commuters, a welcome place where they can feel at home and be part of campus life.”

Cecil aims to be a chancellor who acts not only as the ceremonial head of Victoria University, but also as a worthy proponent of its supportive, communityminded traditions. “I recently received an e-mail from a Vic classmate,” she muses. “He said, ‘I hope you won’t see this [appointment] as a reward for things you’ve done in the past, but as an opportunity to work even harder.’

I told him, that’s exactly how I feel— and I promise to act on it!”  Cynthia Macdonald, a 1986 University of Toronto graduate, is a writer in Toronto. vic report autumn 2010

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Careers, Authors, Honours Rosalind Cartwright Vic 4T5 has published The Twenty-Four Hour Mind: The Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives (Oxford University Press). Cartwright, a sleep scientist, brings together decades of research into the bizarre sleep disorders known as parasomnias to propose a new theory of how the human mind works consistently throughout waking and sleeping hours.

Hilary Davidson Vic 9T4 has published her first novel, The Damage Done (St. Martin’s Press). The Damage Done is the first of a two-book deal and the start of a new mystery series.

Caryn Douglas Vic 8T1 and Carolyn Whitney-Brown Vic 8T3 are co-recipients of the 2010 McGeachy Senior Scholarship.

The scholarship is awarded annually by The United Church of Canada to develop leaders with discernment and direction to inspire the church toward creative and faithful mission.

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Under the leadership of Gideon Forman Vic 8T7, executive director, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment recently won a public service award from conservation group Ontario Nature.

Judy Goldring Vic 8T7 is co-chair of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s 2010 Toronto Ride for Research. This is her second year serving as co-chair of the Toronto ride, which raised over $2.7 million for diabetes research in 2009.

Linda Haldenby-Thorogood Vic 7T8 recently completed a M.Ed. at Brock University. She is working as the director of programs and community development for the Ontario Victim Services Secretariat, a division of the Ministry of the Attorney General.

Karin Helmstaedt Vic 9T0 was inducted into the University of Toronto’s Sports Hall of Fame on May 27, 2010, in recognition of her accomplishments in swimming.

William Hewitt Vic 6T3 has been named a co-recipient of the 2010 Frank S. Capon Distinguished Service Award. Presented annually by Financial Executives International Canada, the award seeks to identify and reward an FEI Canada member who has had a significant impact on FEI Canada over

Save the Date Graduates Christmas Lunch Saturday, December 4, 2010

the years through promotion of the FEI Canada brand in the marketplace, delivery of programs to the membership and participation in chapter or national committees.

Christopher Hopkins Vic 8T5 was appointed chief financial officer of U.S. Silver Corporation on June 29, 2010.

Marni Jackson Vic 6T8 has published her third book, Home Free: The Myth of The Empty Nest (Thomas Allen & Son).

A family memoir, Home Free explores how the desire to “close the gap” between parents and their children has made growing up more complicated.

Kenneth Lopata Vic 0T4 has been named the first William Wiley Distinguished Post-Doctoral Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.

John Mighton Vic 7T8, award-winning playwright and founder of Junior Undiscovered Mathematical Prodigies, was named an officer of the Order of Canada on June 30, 2010.

Philip Mulder Vic 8T9 was recently named an honorary fellow of Engineers Canada, in recognition of his communications and public relations contributions toward raising the public profile of professional engineers and the engineering profession in Canada.

Join with alumni and friends to celebrate the holidays. Hear “The Object(s) of Christmas” with guest speaker historian Adrienne Hood.

12 noon • Cash bar reception 12:30 p.m. luncheon Alumni Hall, Old Vic $25 per person 416-585-4500 vic.alumni@utoronto.ca www.vicu.utoronto.ca/alumni

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More than 350 alumni and friends came back to the Vic campus to take part in Spring Reunion this year, which ran from May 28 to May 30. Over the three days, graduates from 1935 to 1985, with class years ending in 0 or 5, were reacquainted with old haunts and caught up with friends and former classmates. Seen here (top to bottom) are alumni from the classes of Vic 6T0, 5T0 and 8T5.

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Alan Rodgman Vic 4T9 and colleague Thomas Perfetti recently received the 2010 Coresta Prize for their book The Chemical Components of Tobacco and Tobacco Smoke at the Coresta Conference in Edinburgh. The prize is presented in recognition of their extensive work documenting the literature on the chemical composition of tobacco and tobacco smoke.

Marriages

In Memoriam

Adam John Borovilos Vic 0T5 and Veronika Sergyeyeva married on June 26, 2010, in Toronto.

Brian Aitken Vic 6T4, Emm 6T7, in Sudbury, Ont., Aug. 23, 2010.

Reem Ismail Vic 0T4 and Rani Saadeh married on Aug. 7, 2010, in Toronto.

Betty (Goslett) Treleaven Vic 4T9 and W.H. “Trev” Treleaven celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on May 20, 2010.

Herbert Schutz Vic 5T9 recently published Mystic Nuns and Lyric Poets in Medieval Society: The Literary View of Medieval Culture in Central Europe, 900-1300 and The Medieval Empire in Central Europe: Dynastic Continuity in the Post-Carolingian Frankish Realm, 900-1300.

Gordon F. Cheesbrough Vic 7T4, in Toronto, June 23, 2010.

William O. Fennell Vic 3T9, Emm 4T2, professor and principal emeritus of Emmanuel College, in Toronto, May 25, 2010 (see page 3).

Births To Alexa (Borovilos) Aivaliotis Vic 0T4 and Chris Aivaliotis, a daughter, Sophia Anastasia, on July 29, 2010, in Toronto.

To Trische Kell Vic 8T6 and John Rasmussen, a son, Alexander John, on Sept. 26, 2009, in Ottawa. A brother for Zachary and grandson of the late George S. Kell Vic 5T5.

Barbara Wickens Vic 7T6 is the coauthor of the recently published Now What? A Practical Guide to Dealing with Aging, Illness and Dying (Novalis Publications).

Karen E. Ballentine Vic 8T6, in New York, July 23, 2010.

To Rosemary Newman Vic 9T0, member of Victoria University’s Board of Regents, and Amin Murji, twins, Ariana Alexandria and Miles Marcus, on June 14, 2010, in Hamilton, Ont. A granddaughter and grandson for Richard Newman Vic 5T7 and Florence (Emerson) Newman Vic 5T7.

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The Philanthropy of Vic Alumni and Friends by deborah j. scott It is a great pleasure to be the new executive director of advancement at Victoria University. After spending the last 30 years living near Buffalo, N.Y., it is personally gratifying to come “back to my roots” in southern Ontario.

I would be remiss if I did not tip my cap to my predecessor, Larry Davies, who devoted much of his career to building an outstanding alumni and advancement program here at Vic. I am fortunate indeed to join the highly skilled and professional team that Larry developed over the years.

If I could sum up my impression of Vic so far, I would say, “Great things lie ahead for this institution.” Victoria University has a president who is a true visionary and an outstanding leader. President Gooch envisions Vic as leading the way in transforming undergraduate education in Canada. Several pieces of his plan are already in place and demonstrate what can be done to give students a full appreciation of all the possibilities of an excellent university experience.

“…the loyal support of alumni…have transformed the Vic campus and the lives of the Vic community.”

Vic also has the loyalty, commitment and generosity of so many of its alumni. Despite the continued difficulties of the economy, 2,380 alumni contributed $4,191,584 in 2009-2010.

These gifts are a clear sign that Vic students will continue to benefit from the advantages of being a member of the Vic community: from a sustainable scholarship and bursary fund and support of student services to the care of campus buildings

1836 After six years of planning, Victoria University, then called Upper Canada Academy, opens in Cobourg, Ont. George B. Spencer donates the four acres of land on which the school is built and an estimated 2,000 donors contribute a total of £1,272. A number of sizable farms, varying in cash value, are also given.

and maintenance of academic resources, to name a few of the many ways the student experience has been enhanced by these contributions. This is a testament to Victoria’s quality, reputation and ability to endure over time.

This donor report recognizes everyone who contributed $100 or more to Victoria College or Emmanuel College between May 1, 2009, and April 30, 2010. Only gifts to Victoria College or Emmanuel College are included. An asterisk (*) following a name indicates that the donor has passed away subsequent to making his or her donation. I also wish to thank those donors who have chosen to remain anonymous. Every effort has been made to list names accurately. If your name has been omitted or displayed incorrectly, or if you wish to change your preferred recognition name in university publications, please notify the Victoria Alumni Office at 416-585-4500, toll-free: 1-888-262-9775 or vic.alumni@utoronto.ca. While all gifts are appreciated, space limitations preclude the listing of all donors. For the complete donor report, I encourage you to visit www.vicu.utoronto.ca/alumni.

As Vic enters its 175th anniversary year, it behooves us to celebrate the impact that Vic and its graduates have had both locally and globally.

With that commemorative spirit in mind, this year’s donor report honours the loyal support of alumni in 2009-2010 and reflects on the acts of philanthropy of the last 175 years that have transformed the Vic campus and the lives of the Vic community. I hope the pictorial account that appears throughout this report will give you, as it did me, a sense of the tremendous impact that has resulted from 175 years of giving.

1892

1896 Hart A. Massey passes away and bequeaths $200,000 to Victoria, $50,000 of which is to go towards a residence for women students.

“There can be no more suitable time for all [Victoria’s] friends to rally around her... rendering her their united support by giving her that aid which will place her on a proper basis,” said Hart A. Massey at the opening of Victoria’s new building in Toronto (early rendering of Old Vic seen here). He makes a gift of $40,000, providing an endowment for the College’s theological department.

Massey attended three sessions at Victoria College from 1842 to 1845.

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chancellor’s council/ presidents’ circle $5,000 or more 1936 Doris M. (Chisholm) McBean 1938 Margaret G. Chambers V 1946 C. Douglas and Ruth (Crooker) Jay V 1947 Freda M. Eickmeyer V

Dorrine Robertson Macnab

Alastair McKinnon 1949 Isabel (Overton) and Alfred Bader V

Norman Jewison V 1950 Patricia L. Pearson Hannah

Patricia and Alan Marchment V

Pauline and Newton Reed V

J. Michael G. Scott* V 1952 Graeme and Phyllis Ferguson V

Richard Iorweth Thorman V 1953 The Hon. Henry N. R. Jackman

Ralph Scane V 1954 Anne Weldon Tait 1957 Kenneth W. Inkster V

Alastair McD and Jennifer Murray 1959 David P. Silcox and Linda Intaschi V 1960 Paul D. Warner 1961 Murray A. Corlett V

Alexandra F. Johnston V 1963 W. Robert and Gail Farquharson

William E. Hewitt 1964 Jean (Reilly) O’Grady V 1966 John H. Watson

Edward B. White 1968 Frank and Patricia Mills

Elizabeth (Eastlake) Vosburgh V 1971 Wendy M. Cecil V 1972 Terence R. CollinsWilliams

David M. Gilmour 1974 Gordon F. Cheesbrough*

J. A. (Sandy) McIntyre

Margaret and Andrew Stephens V 1975 Larry F. Chapman 1977 Marnie Kinsley V 1978 John C. Field V

Sharon L. Todd 2000 Katherine Corlett V 2002 Coral and William Martin $2,500 – $4,999 1936 MacFeeters Family V 1937 Marion I. Miller 1938 Arthur C. Dayfoot V 1939 William O.* and Jean (Birkenshaw) Fennell V 1940 Doris (Brown) Stokes V 1944 Gwendolyn S. Young 1945 Ruth L. Brown 1946 Mary E. Vandewater*

1903

1948 Isabella (Alexander) Troop V 1949 Ruth (Hunt) Clarke V

Marion (Irwin) O’Donnell V

Daphne Brooke O’Sullivan 1950 Robert C. Dowsett V

R. Alison (Jeffries) Hall V 1953 Larry Lundy and Elizabeth (Langford) Julian V 1954 Ronald J. L. and Shirley (Couke) Cornfield 1956 Donald West Stevenson V 1957 Nancy Bailey-Bligh

Joyce A. McLean V 1958 David Bernhardt V

Stanley Nelson Farrow V

Edward D. Hill

Frances Bond McElroy V 1962 James M. Babcock

Robert E. Lord V 1964 Peter L. Mitchelson

Lois E. Scott

Leonard A. Wilkinson V 1966 Marvi and John Ricker

Peter and Joan Wyatt V 1968 Jean Griffiths

James M. Parks V 1973 I. Christopher Carter 1974 Marilyn (Ferguson) Adamson

Stephen R. Coxford

Marilyn J. Legge 1984 Sonia A. Baxendale 1986 Janet Wong

1992 Kelly Battle 1993 Mark L. Pathy 2004 Roy Ambury Stuart 2007 Robert McGavin 2008 Peter A. Armstrong $1,827 – $2,499 1940 T. H. Glynn Michael V 1943 Ruth M. Bentley V 1947 David W. Pretty V 1950 Robert and Jacquelin Trimble V 1951 Lois (Sutherland) Fleming V

Donald G. Lawson 1953 Thora B. Edwards V 1954 Edgar F. File V 1959 Anne E. (Foote) Liphardt V 1960 Carol Diane Nunn V 1961 Thomas G. Bastedo V 1963 Ronald G. Macdonald 1968 Mary L. Rankine 1970 Gillian (Smiley) and Kenneth Bartlett V 1972 Terence Dalgleish V 1975 Richard and Sue (Hanbidge) Harris V

Roger C. Hutchinson V

Charles A. Webster V 1981 Paul and Judith Huyer V 2001 Stephanie A. Corbet V

1910

1933 Ruth D. Hebb V 1941 Alexander D. Mackay V 1943 Ruth Bolt V 1945 E. Marion (Cooper) Brancaccio V 1945 Muriel C. (Brown) Milne V 1946 William C. Wonders V 1947 Paul M. Deighton V

Millicent E. Naito

Douglas T. Sloan V

Helen (McConkey) Thomson 1948 H. E. Buzz Neal

S. M. Parkhouse V 1949 Ethel (Upton) Lapp V

Dorothy J. Madge V

Heather McCallum V 1950 M. Lorne Bell V

Dorothy A. (Ross) Geiger

Charles Rathé V

Anna J. Rundle

Douglas P. Thomas

Bernice Ujjainwalla 1951 Walter Buleychuk V

Robert W. Worthy V 1952 R. William Andrew 1953 Donna I. Bell

A. Phelps and Judy (McGill) Bell V

1913 Burwash Hall, made possible by donor Chester D. Massey (son of Hart), opens.

At the time of its construction, there is nothing comparable to Burwash Hall in Canada—in design and structure, and for the inclusion of a dining hall.

Victoria University’s Birge-Carnegie Library is completed and the library collection moves from its “cramped” quarters in Alumni Hall at Old Vic. Birge-Carnegie is made possible through the joint generosity of U.S. industrialist Andrew Carnegie and Cyrus A. Birge, a former medical student at Victoria and the founder of the Steel Company of Canada (later Stelco Inc.). The architecture of Birge-Carnegie set the pattern for several later buildings at the University.

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$1,000 – $1,826

V 5 years or more of consecutive giving to Victoria V 10 years or more of consecutive giving to Victoria

Annesley Hall, the first residence building purpose-built for women in the British Commonwealth, opens. The Victoria Women’s Association, which formed in 1897, provides for the building’s furnishings.

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Wallace and Elizabeth McLeod V

Nancy (Jamieson) and Walter Pridham V 1954 Dick Cousland V 1955 D. R. (Rundle) Toller 1956 Paul C. Harris V

Barbara E. (Schultz) Phelps V 1957 Patricia J. Hughes V 1959 Gwen M. Farrow V

Garfield and Janet (Macrae) MacInnis V

Nancy Claire Salter

Robert A. Taylor 1960 Robert and Marilyn (Daly) Beamish 1962 Philip and Mary McDougall Maude V 1963 Bob Wong V 1964 MacGregor David Sinclair V 1966 Harold Dixon Bridge V

Lorraine I. Carthew

Barbara J. McGregor V

Carolyn Jean (Werry) Sinclair V 1967 Harvey Botting 1968 Solomon A. Nigosian V 1969 Jodi S. White 1970 D. Eleanor Westney 1971 David Eugene Clark V 1972 Marlene C. Auspitz V

Garth M. Girvan V

Victor and Brenda Kruklis 1973 Shirley Hoy

Nancy J. (Adams) Ruhnke

1975 William Friend 1979 Mary Beth Currie

Alison M. Schofield 1980 Jane Field and H. Dore

Greer Anne Wenh-In Ng V

Kim Shannon and Ho Sung

Jeffrey C. Shin V 1983 John D. Grant V 1984 Mary C Fowke

Gary S. Love V 1985 Ali Rezaizadeh 1987 Benjamin Chan V

Yvonne Y W Tsang 2000 John and Gail MacNaughton V

Sarah Anne Williams 2001 Sarah K. Hirschorn

Jennifer Elizabeth Pugsley 2002 Natalie Treboute 2003 Kelly Park 2008 Astrid-Maria Ciarallo

cornerstone circle $500 – $999 1936 George N. Watson 1944 Edgar B. Thomson V 1945 Charles W. Brown

Shirley A. Darrach-Pearse V

Barbara (Jones) Michasiw V 1946 Vernon and Nancy Brooks

Paul H. Morris V

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1947 Helen Dunlop V

Betty McCamus

Jean I. Parkhouse

Jean M. Reeve V 1948 James H. Clarke* V

George W. Edmonds

Isobel (Morgan) Mentall

Helen E. and John D. Pearse V 1949 Richard B. Batten

Fred C. Farr V

Albert H. Fast V

Mary (Pearson) and C. Roy Horney V

G. Beverley Johnston

Alan Rodgman V

Agnes (Johnston) Ruhl V

Cecily Stone

Ellen J. Timbrell

Margaret R. Zavitz 1950 Gwen M. Davenport

Thomas H. Inglis V

Mary E. Robertson

Margaret S. Veall V

Arthur Waters V 1951 Malcolm S. Archibald V

Harris J. and Ann (Blain) Bixler

Donald C. Dique V

Hugh E. Zimmerman 1952 H. Bernice (Copson) Bell V 1952 Joan Black

Jean Gordon Campbell V

Charles Elliott V

Sheila Frances Robertson

1953 Donald W. Hall V

Roy E. Schatz V

William Tynkaluk 1954 Ronald J. L. and Shirley Cornfield V

David A. Creighton

Eleanor L. Ellins V

Diana M. Schatz V 1955 John Becker and Gwenne Becker

Margaret A. Pinkerton V

Sheila K. Seymour 1956 Catherine Young Bates

Kenneth Brian Burnham V

Martha A. Dynna V

Joanne (Langdon) Morris V

R. Bruce Scott

Lars H. Thompson

John Roy and Catherine Inez Edith Wilson V 1957 Elaine (Barrett) Billings V

R. James Elder

R. Alan Harris

G. Edmund King

Roger MacQueen

Thomas Patrick McQuillan V

Richard and Florence (Emerson) Newman V

A. Bruce Stevenson 1958 Cameron D. E. Tolton

Patricia Warner 1959 Patricia E. Legate

Dougald McDermid

J. Clair Peacock V

1960 David A. Lemmon V

Pamela (Matthews) and Thomas McPherson

George M. Walker 1961 Alan and Judy (Caldecott) Fleming

Elaine M. (Westheuser) Godwin

Judy A. Hunter V

Roy Shoji Oiye V 1962 Carol F. Danbrook

Peter J. George and Allison Barrett

Freda D. Wilson V 1964 Murray and Susan Armitage Foundation

Carolyn B. Bowker

Allan H. T. Crosbie

Eleanor I. Currie 1965 Margaret (Duffett) and John Coleman V

Nancy (Caldecott) Sutherland 1966 Clifford Allan Ottaway

William D. G. Rose V

Mary L. Tigert V

Peter G. F. Young V 1967 Peter M Ennals

N. Jane Pepino

Virginia R. Robeson 1969 Ronald George Bull

Dawn C. Maruno V

Marlene (Solomcoe) Robinson 1970 Joseph W Bolla

Peter G. Kyle

Pamela McCallum

1929 Victoria University launches a campaign to raise $1.5 million for the building of Emmanuel College, additional men’s and women’s residences and a chapel for Victoria and Emmanuel Colleges. The onset of the depression forces the campaign to halt one-third fulfilled, but Vic is able to proceed with Emmanuel College’s building (seen here) and the lower houses of Burwash Hall, all of which open in 1931.

Mrs. E.R. Wood donates her home, Wymilwood, to Victoria to be used as a social centre for women students. Lady Flavelle, a friend of Wood, donates the funds to remodel and furnish the residence.

The original Wymilwood is now the Faculty of Law’s Falconer Hall.

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1971 George W. Bell

Mary (Ballachey) Hobbs

Mary Louise Work 1972 David Davidson

Robert J. Dawson 1973 C. Michael Harpur V 1974 Margaret E. Devitt V

David Allan Harris V 1975 Deborah (Hearst) and Dough Herridge 1976 Stephen W. Bowman V

John D. Denisavitch

Larry W. Marshall 1978 Virginia E. Arnott

Nancy K. (Railton) Dorrington 1979 Emily F. Braun

Carolyn V. E. Hitchman

Garfield R Mitchell 1980 Ian Currie 1981 Brian K Johnston V

Grace Ann Westcott 1982 Robert Farquharson 1983 Elaine Ishibashi and Keith Smithers V

John Sotirakos 1984 B. Lynne Golding

Valerie Scane V 1992 Jane A. Langford 1993 Laura Elizabeth (Gareth) Anagnostakos 1995 Laura Roberta Shaw 1997 Alison (Massie) Broadworth V 1999 Constance Ruth Boldt

purple and gold circle, scarlet and gold circle $100 – $499 1927 Dorothy E. (Carver) Nicholson V 1932 Jane (Brien) Bateman V 1935 Helen S. Wadge V 1936 Elizabeth Anglin 1937 William D. Howison 1938 Mildred I. (Lloyd) Brockie V

L. Eveleigh Smith V

Florence H. (Lugsdin) Walker V 1939 Genevieve F. Carder V

Melba F. Munholland V 1940 E. Patricia Andrews

C. Lenore (Wilson) Baker

Philip D. Carman V

Isobel M. Cork V

Jean Findlay

Ruth Louise Maxine (Smith) Lonergan

Lois T. (Bradley) Lynd

Jean (Lennox) McFall V

John F. G. Morris

Donald G. Ray V

Dorothy E. A. Robertson

David Woodsworth V 1941 Lois Bobier

K. Royal Buscombe

Enid M. Ewart V

Donald Ewing

Arthur M. Fox*

Margaret Eagleson Gould

Anne H. Jones

1940-1949

Betty I. McLean V 1942 Melville H. Anderson V

Noreen M. Clark V

Jean S. (Walwin) Collins

Yvonne L. Froud V

Alan E. Roffey V 1943 Jeanie C. (Sweet) and Rodger S. Bishop

Barbara E. Cass

John R. Coleman

Harold F. Cunningham

Helen R. Gray

Ruth E. Gregory

M. Isabel Hodgkinson

Edithe K. (McGeachy) Lewis V

Agnes E. Masters V

Pauline A. Potts

Dorothy M. Valliant V

J. Robert Watt V

Isobel R. Waugh 1944 M. Isabell Asselstine V

Dorothy F. Blair

Goldwin French V

Isobel R. Henderson

J. T. Horricks

W. Geoffrey Julian V

Mary Keyes V

Elizabeth G. (Ross) Lenehan V

Arthur N. Murch

Dorothy (Rock) Parish

M. Jewitt Parr V

Barton and Orpha Teasdale V 1945 Mildred S. Barrie V

M. Eleanor (Hammond) Broadus

Kenneth Charles and Ruth Brown

Rosalind Cartwright

Ellen J. Clayson

Jean M. (Nicholls) Dunn

Richard Jeanes

Margaret M. Knittl

Nina M. McFarland

M. Barbara Rooke V

Pauline M. Scott V 1946 Eleanor C. Breuls

Thurza (Swinnerton) Dawkins V

Margaret A. (Fawcett) Parker

Mary E. Robinson V

John A. Schell

Grace A. Wardlaw

Janet M. Wardlaw 1947 Ruth E. Balmer V

Mary Louise (Naylor) Black

Adrian and Margaret Brook V

William Carmichael V

Dorothy J. Cooke

Lorine E. Danahy

Betsie (Ewing) Gerber V

Colleen O. Gildner V

Mary Hintzman

W. Gordon Hume

E. Margaret Jackman V

Shirley S. Mann

Robert L. Marwick

Shirley J. McAndless

1952 Following the transfer of the original Wymilwood to U of T, a new Wymilwood is built at 150 Charles St. W. (the laying of the cornerstone ceremony seen here). Much of the success of Wymilwood’s creation can be attributed to Clara Flavelle McEachren (descendent of Lady Flavelle), chair of the women’s building committee.

Responding to the increase in tuition fees (from $40 in 1924 to $150 in 1939), Vic sees an increase in alumni and friends support for scholarship and bursaries. In 1940, $2,653 is distributed among deserving students based on need; in 1949, $6,480 is distributed.

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Jean E. (Duncan) Moore V

Jack Pearse

Gordon G. Pickell

Mary Patricia Raymond

A. Douglas and M. Helen Small V

Charles A. Tipp

John B. Vickery V 1948 Carol E. (Dick) Calvert

Paul Chester* V

James F. Cole

Mary E. Cook V

Robert H. Crawford V

Doris J. (Black) Davidson V

Wilma J. Friend

Gwendolyn J. Gardner V

Edward J. Glover

Edward T. Hill V

William Arliss Hoag*

Marion (Zoellner) Johnston V

Ralph E. King V

Mary W. Laurence V

Joan (Peck) McDonald V

Stanley McNeill

Donald R. Milne

Kenneth L. Morrison

Elizabeth F. (Purdie) Pepper

Mary E. (Schweitzer) Pleasance

Shirley E. Pollard

William W. Reid

Margaret J. Riches V

M. June Sabiston

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J. Douglas Snedden Dorothy I. Stirling D. Graham Tipple V William E. Toye V Norma M. Warren Lorne H. Watson* A. Ruth Watt V Jennie I. (Ballantyne) Wildridge V

Kenneth F. Wormald V 1949 Jean I. Aceti

Jeanne Beck

C. Marie Brickenden

John L. Cummins

Keith and Dorothy Davey V

Eleanor M. David V

Marjorie L. Ewing V

Barbara A. Fulford

Onalee J. and Donald Eric Gage

James C. Gardner V

Jean E. Gray

Thora J. Harvey V

Helen W. Inglis

M. Margaret Irvine V

Edward J. Kersey

Frederick Manson

Margaret E. McLean

Gordon and Claire McLellan V

John S. Morgan* V

Anne H. Nethercott

Helen J. (Anderson) Nighswander

William D. Powrie

John F. Ronald

Patricia (Mills) Shield V

Margaret E. Stafford V

Anna M. Strike

James A. Taylor

A. E. John Thompson V

Dawn W. Wanless V

Bruce W. Whitehouse V

Leonard G. Wilson

Isabel C. Young 1950 Florence E. Anderson

G. William Bahen

George S. Barkley

M. Patricia Boe

E. Beryl (Sanderson) Brazier

M. Elizabeth Chapman V

James Cruise

C. Isobel Davey

Harry M. Denning V

Donald B. Dodds V

Elizbeth (Coulter) Dodds V

Michael H. Finnell

Douglas G. Gardner

Harold Goss

Alan F. Gregory V

Barbara M. (Harris) Hardy*

John L. Harvey V

John C. and Nettie I. J. Hoffman V

Beth Holt V

Margaret Ann Lorimer V

John P. MacGregor V

Carlton L. Mateer

Thomas A. Milburn V

Donald B. Montgomery

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1951

Joan M. Neilson V Robert Donald Ralph Helen B. Sing V Jean Sonnenfeld A. Alan H. Strike Betty Mary Tudor Mary I. Alford Rosemary A. (Willard) Ambrose V Bruce Charles Bone V Aileen A. C. (Fritz) Bowyer V Joan F. Brent V Charles R. Catto W. Charles Dean V W. Thomas Delworth and Pamela Osler Delworth A. Paul Dilks and Carol Dilks Dorothy I. Forbes V Peggy (Locke) Fry G. Ellen Hall V Joyce E. Hall J. Douglas Head V Gerald L. Hill Barbara Anne Holt V Richard V. Howson V Margaret I. J. (Malcolm) Jackson John and Inna MacDougall V Florence E. Anderson V Ivan R. Pike V M. Samuel Tokiwa Bruce H. Weppler V Joan I. Williams Josephine A. Willsie

1952

Mildred A. Alexander V H. Bruce Brown Jean E. Cawkwell V G. Bernice Clark Helen K. Fisher V Ardath M. Francis V Margaret L. Huckle Walter W. Kuz V Arthur J. Lepper V Kenneth and Mary (Harvey) Lund V

Mary P. Mallory

E. Elizabeth Matheson

Carol F. McDermott

Donald D. Mooney V

Margaret H. Parker

Barbara R. Reid V

Elizabeth Rochester

Mary E. Sarjeant V

Valerie M. Sharpe V

Donald R. Stoll

John Sturgess

Keith L. Sumner V

Dorothy I. Wilson V

Maxwell and Janice Yalden 1953 Herbert A. Batstone V

Anne G. Burnett V

Virginia Cresswell-Jones

John A. Good V

Wm Dennis Harper V

L. Joyce Howlett

Stanley E. Hunt V

Marion G. Langford Malcolm D. MacKinnon V Wallace and Elizabeth McLeod V

Melvin Moyer

Hugh L. Nugent V

John G. Reid

Allen E. Robinson V

C. Shirley J. Sims and C. Glenna J. Sims-Bonk

Margaret L. Waddington

W. Douglas Waite V 1954 Jeanine C. Avigdor

Diana Bacon

Philip B. Cooke

Patricia A. Doney

George H. Gregg

Olga T. Griffin V

Dennis and Sandra Lane

Rosemary Ludvigsen

Nancy J. (Bennett) Lyons V

Bruce and Donna Mackey V

Elizabeth Myles V

Caryl J. Peterson

Marjorea K. Roblin V

L. Jean Stewart V 1955 Arnold T. Bailey V

Suzanne Cousland

C. Joan (Haggert) Ellis

James Gaskin V

Patricia A. Green V

V 5 years or more of consecutive giving to Victoria V 10 years or more of consecutive giving to Victoria

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1975 – 1977

The Victoria College Chapel is remodeled and redecorated, largely due to the efforts of Vic’s music club, which used the space for rehearsals and meetings. For 10 years, music club members (as students and then as alumni) contributed towards a renovation fund that would see a brightness and sense of spaciousness restored to the chapel.

Bill Wheler Vic 4T1 joins Victoria University in 1975 as its first director of external relations and development. At the end of the 1976-1977 academic year, Vic’s annual fundraising efforts raise more than $100,000 for the first time.

Vic’s annual fund campaign (launched in 1952) raises over $35,000 for bursaries, alumni fund scholarships and library books, and other university projects. More than 2,400 alumni in the York, Halton and Peel region receive phone calls from former classmates explaining the needs of the College.

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D. Ross Holden V Shirley Johnson Geoffrey D. Johnston Marion Laurena Kirkwood V

Sandra E. Langman

William P. Magee V

Ria J. McMurtry V

J. Peter and Olga Mracek Mitchell

Mary E. (Gibson) Polak V

Allan T. Shaw V

Patricia V. Simpson

Margaret Stoicheff V

R. K. Stokes

Nora R. Wilson

William E. Wilson V 1956 D. Carl Anderson V

Joan M. Breukelman V

Barbara A. Burbidge V

Eleanor J. Burton V

Raymond G. Carl V

Gordon Alexander Coyne V

John Crawford V

Colin Graham

Frederick G. Howlett V

Lois I. Jempson

Joan M. Lawson V

Margaret M. Lewis V

Gordon Neil MacKinnon V

Donald C. Morton V

Donald F. Pounsett

Patricia Reynolds

Beverley Rhodes

Shirley Ann Shortt

Frank Shuttleworth V. Marilyn Turner V Mary Janet van den Bergh V 1957 Donald G. M. Coxe

K. Allan Cuzen V

John D. Lane

Patricia (Pyne) Lane V

Vita Macins

Nadine M. Nowlan

Ronald G. Ostic V

Frederick Pamenter

Patricia Rodgers V

Robert E. Saunders

Helen E. Shepherd

Robert G. Stevenson

Richard Verity V 1958 Grace K. Arai

Margaret Baily

Douglas G. Brewer V

Helen Virginia Finley

Gerald and Georgia Helleiner V

M. Gordon Hueston

Michael B. Hutchison

Donald A. Johns V

C. T. Craig Kamcke V

Barbara (Meisner) Kohl V

Elizabeth D. Lawson V

Victor G. Lotto

Olga McKellar V

William and Elizabeth Metcalfe

Alan and Louise Redway V

Robert Remnant V

R. Gary Seagrave V

Donald R. Stadler V

Sheila Summerhays V

Margot Wojciechowski 1959 Phyllis M. O’Brien

Marina A. E. (Hahn) Bieler

James and Suzanne Bradshaw V

Elizabeth J. Chambers

Gilbert Y. Chu

Daryl L. Cook V

Lorne E. Creighton

David MacMurchy Cullen V

Marjorie Marilyn Devine V

David Gault

Hugh Gemmell V

Donald Grant

Patricia E. Grant

Frances K. Groen

Laurence Hebb

Donna M. Heyland V

John D. Humphreys

Beverley L. (Kidd) Judson

Evelyn M. (Rivaz) Kalff

C. Kaye Kleine-Ahlbrandt

Barbara Lawson

Patricia Ruth Leach

Barbara A. (Pinkham) Manrique V

Elaine Mason and Donald J. McVicar

Rhoda M. S. Melinyshyn

M. Jean Pardo V

Marian Jean Russell

James Douglas Sharples V

Ronald B. Turner V

M. H. Vandenbroucke

Bruce Wright 1960 Margaret Jane Barnum V

Douglas Bosomworth

Marilyn R. Brewer-Patterson

Thomas Charlton

Michael Cross

R. A. Francis V

Helen J. Hitchcock

Donald E. Inkpen

Thomas Gordon Jamieson

John Lazier

J. Annette Lindsay

L. Maureen Maguire

Donald Charles Matheson

James Maxwell V

Mary-Ellen McColl

Nancy H. Murphy V

Daniel and Marilyn Norman V

Derek W. Quin

Mary C. Redekop

David G. A. Rosevear

D. Gail Wallace

Sally Diane White

Norman L. Williams 1961 Peter T. Alexander

Douglas H. and Marylys Brown V

J. Douglas Bryden V

Margaret A. J. Cameron

Jane E. (Bastedo) Conner V

Thomas Coulston

Helenmaria L. M. (Steiger) Darker

Helen Eunice Devereux

Frank Friesen V

Marian Dingman Hebb V

Eileen T. Laker

Dorothy Landells V

Helen (Truscott) Mitchell V

Mary E. Neal V

Owen F. H. Smith

Dorothea A. Sprung V

Michael G. Thorley

Marilyn Y. (Ramasra) White

William Wright 1962 Janette H. (Lindsay) Johnston V

Joyce A. Ballagh

Elizabeth J. Black V

Jean-Marc and Stephanie L. Charron

Eileen E. Doner

L. Diane Dyer V

Beverley A. Edgecombe V

M. Margaret Fisher V

Lois M. Irvine

John A. McIntosh

James Ralph Mills

Stanley F. B. Neal

Lynda L. Newmarch

V 5 years or more of consecutive giving to Victoria V 10 years or more of consecutive giving to Victoria

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1990

Victoria University celebrates its sesquicentennial anniversary and launches the Renewing the Heritage campaign, raising funds to renovate Old Vic and Emmanuel College, renovate and expand student social and dining services, renovate the Annesley and Burwash residences and construct a new residential space. Vic’s apartmentstyle residence, Rowell Jackman Hall, is made possible by a gift from the Jackman Foundation, through the generosity of Mary (Rowell) Jackman Vic 2T5 (here at the building’s 1992 groundbreaking with sons Hal Jackman Vic 5T3 and Edward Jackman Vic 6T2). More than 1,750 grads and friends contribute to the $6 million campaign.

The Vic classes of 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1950, 1960 and 1965 raise more than $11,000 for their Spring Reunion gift for the restoration of “The Truth Shall Make You Free” inscription over the south entrance of Old Vic.

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Iliff L. Peck

John Rae V

Shelagh M. J. Roberts V

David Snow

James T. Watt

Brian C. Westlake V

Florence C. White V

Glen D. Wright

Toshio Yamamoto V 1963 Marion Adams

M. Dianne Bird V

Elizabeth J. Bliss

Al Brereton V

John Clipsham V

Catherine M. Davison

Marilyn R. (Houslander) Dippell

Kenneth Fisher

David G. Hobbs*

Helen Hopper

David M. Horman

Robert Lawson V

William D. Lord V

Audrey E. A. Matheson

Mary McDougall Maude V

Heather J. Millar

Mary Jane Miller

William C. Moore

Helen S. L. Reid

J. Barry Riddell V

William R. Townsley V

Lorna J. Whitty 1964 F. L. James Beal V

Catherine K. and Peter B. Canham

Linda J. Clarke V

Anthony Tudor Eyton Janette M. MacDonald V F. Douglas Freeland Elizabeth A. Gerrie and David Yeung

Mary Eleanor Gooley

Benjamin Johnson V

Dave and Jan Ledson

Pamelia E. Lock V

Linda E. Pella

Judith A. Ramsay

G Connie Sebris-Upenieks

Bruce Taylor V

Douglas Ward V

Lawrence A. Ward

George E. Waters 1965 Barbara R. Bogle

John T. Dunning Boone

Paul R. Dempsey V

Judith and Peter Drake

Cynthia Elson

Carol Finch V

Leslie David Foreman

Lynda A. H. (Hughes) Franklin V

John B. Green

John Hall V

David J. Holdsworth V

John A. Hutchinson V

David Macleod

Carl W. Mollins

Wilfried Neidhardt V

Robert Joel Rahn

Brian Ridley V

Phylip D. Tinning V

Donald Waterfall V

1966 Doris A. Arnold V

John M. Baty

John Beaton

Andrea V. Diplock

Robert K. Graham V

M. Louise Howe

Garry Kushner

W. Ronald and Maureen McCallum V

C. Marilyn McCowan V

Donald A. McMaster V

Roy A. Seel

Donald G. Smith

Eleanor L. Smith

Paul Reginald Stott

Susan J. (Simpson) Taylor

Helen I. Whidden V 1967 Helena M. Bastedo V

Gerald C. Bird

Carole A. (Peacock) Brenner V

Donald W. Carter

Katherine L. Ennis

Elizabeth A. (Bindon) Graham V

Joan E. Hart

Mervyn A. Lawless

Linda E. MacRae V

Katherine A. McTavish

Marie L. Pyper

Gordon R. Richards

Lawrence G. Young 1968 Lynn D. Bennett

Peter Bennett V

Ian B. Buttars

M. Ann (Taylor) Dewees

Michael N. Durisin

Michael Eben

Barbara A. English

John and Lynne Glenney

James Gregory V

John D. Gregory V

Patricia Kathleen Higgins

Phyllis L. Kurylo V

Wendy R. Lawrence V

Grant E. Lewis

Belle-Anne Luce

John A. Miller

Mary E. Morton

A. H. Harry Oussoren

Susan E. R. Rumsey

Lynn and Ray Smith

Janet E. Webber V

Catherine A. Williams

Mark V. H. Wilson 1969 Joanna Bechtold

J. Edwin F. Bryan

Janet E. Clark

Elspeth M. Deir

Dorothy M. Farr

Calvert L. Francis

John B. Geale

Mel and Carmen Greif

Lorna M. Harris

Gordon K. Harrison

Donald A. Jackson

Emrys R. Lloyd-Roberts

Joan H. Miles

Alice M. Robins

Catherine A. Scott

Charles F. Scott

Linda A. Seath

Susan E. Zaryski 1970 Carole A. Belgiorgio

R. Michael Benton

Aris Birze V

Lesley J. (Boorman) Friedmann

J. Roger Giroux V

Janet and Donald Karn

Wendy A. Leaney

Shirley H. Moebus

Jana S. L. (Ballantyne) Nilsson

Bruce Pritchard

Gerald S. Solursh

Valerie A. Story V

Susan E. Vogl Blakelock

Margot Young 1971 David and Heather (Reid) Bichan

D. Michael Fertile V

C. G. James Hewitt V

Carmen Holbrough

Robert James

Maureen R. Kaukinen

Norma M. MacIntyre

John G. Richardson V

R. Margaret Robertson

Alexander Sosna

Doreen Sproule 1972 Bruce A. Avery V

Joan D. Catterson V

Lawrence R. Cohen V

Thomas I. Elek

David J. Gilmour

Susan L. Helwig V

Bruce P. King

Michael C. Locke V

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1995

1997

The Friends of Victoria University Library, founded in 1991, hold the first Victoria College Book Sale and raise $12,450. In 2006, the book sale marks the raising of more than $1 million since its inception.

All funds support library initiatives.

Vic’s reunion executive establishes the Victoria Reunion Award to provide bursary support to students who are experiencing financial difficulty in their final year of study at Victoria College. As of 2010, reuniting classes have raised more than $200,000 for the award.

The Victoria Women’s Association celebrates its 100th anniversary by creating an endowed bursary fund, valued at more than $300,000 in 2010.

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David Martin William J. H. Ostrander Sandra D. Pett V Margaret E. Smith Patricia Young Scott K. Agur Vincent D. Alfano Caroline D. Arcuri Bronwyn R. Best V Susanne Busse V Barbara D. Forsyth Panagiotis Grouios Diane E. (Caughie) Hammond

Judith G. Hocking

Pauline J. Houlden V

Robert M. Jackson V

Heather MacDougall V

Clinton Mooney V

Donald A. Sharpe V

Ann Marie Sluga V

R. Peter Tomczak 1974 Wanda Zemler-Cizewski

David L. Farrington V

Jane C. Freed

Barbara E. French

Christopher John Hains V

Richard K. Kanaya

Francis O. E. G. McInerney

K. D. Casey McKibbon

Mary Nastis

Donald L. Richmond V

Rodney J. Russell

Lesley J. Simpson

Donald F. Thompson

Dianne E. Woods 1975 Melanie C. W. Campbell

R. William Dunn V

John E. Engeland V

L. Jane Featherston-Ferch

M. Noel James V

Harry Manning V

E. McRae

Linda I. Parsons

Karen J. Perry

Beverlee Ritchie

Mary A. Spencer V

Patricia A. Teterus V

Markku Tapio Virsunen 1976 Harold J. Alston

David G. Cowper-Smith

Raymond A. K. Cox V

David A. Dennis

Lesley Evans V

Leslie A. Gould

Diane J. Hill V

Ronald R. Holden

Robin M. A. MacKie V

Jane P. Morris

Gary W. Newhouse

Eleanor A. O’Flynn

Cleve Sheffield

Frederick M. Vettese

Robert D. Wardlaw

Martha J. Wilk 1977 John C. Adams V

Brenda M. Bloberg Holz

Michael J. Donnan

Gordon D. Fulton V

Constance J. Green

Ronald Harris

1997-2000 Alumni and friends contribute to Victoria’s Campaign for the Dedicated Mind, raising $38 million for residence and campus life needs, scholarships and bursaries and the renovation of the E.J. Pratt Library. As part of the campaign, George and Helen Vari establish a renewable scholarship for students planning a career in teaching (seen here with the 2009 Vari scholars).

The Campaign for the Dedicated Mind’s 1,000 donors have their names engraved on a bronze rail overlooking the newly created Lester B. Pearson Garden for Peace and Understanding.

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William C. Howes

Patricia A. Jackson

Donald K. Johnston

Stephen A. MacLachlan

Thomas W. McCullough

William E. Steadman V

Astrid L.Taim

Marie A. Vaillant

Adam J. Wadon

Dorothy M. White 1978 D. Kim Deighton

David Fallis and Alison MacKay V

David P. Finley

Jeffrey Gollob V

Michael A. Greason

Gregory W. Hall

Robert K. Lapp

Diane K. J. Oki V

Kevin A. O’Neill

George Renfrey

Cheryl A. Rhodes

Michele M. S. (Jones) Ward 1979 Heather and Pau Conolly-Mingay V

Silvia (Carbone) Devlin

Robert Hanna

Michael E. Owen

Graydon W. Paulin

Joy L. Rosen

Flora M. Wardlaw 1980 Boudina Braches

David G. Burgess V

Sara J. Comerford

Randolph W. Cousins and Anne E. Condie V

Helen N. Elmer

Mary Ellen Heller

Shelly Jamieson

Barbara Laing-Hiseler

Laura L. Lalonde

Marie C. Roche

Charlotte R. Rose

Geoffrey W. H. Vernon 1981 David Allan

Hilda F. Buisman

Paul K. Clarry

Steve J. Craig

Jonathan Cutmore

Tony Fiorino

Susan E. Gunton

Susan Evelyn (Broadbent) Hogan

Adele L. Jackson Zwimpfer

Graham D. Layne

Marcia S. Mahood

Steven H. Paikin

Cynthia E. (Vokes) Scott

D. Alan Smith V

Tamara (Morris) Smith V

David E. Stanley

David L. Swail 1982 Kenneth C. Bahen

Lenna M. Bradburn

Douglas H. Brown V

Douglas C. Cornett

Alison Leighton David

Lorne E. Farr V

Stephen J. Lautens

Elizabeth S. Marmura

Margaret A. Reid V

Kimberly Ann Turner

Elizabeth A. Yanow 1983 Dan Camposano V

Munro J. Ferguson V

Katherine A. (Horton) Ives V

David Kotler

Kelly Miller

Lisa M. Miettinen

Peter A. Sprukulis

Hamish Stewart V

K. Jane Watt

Douglas Wright 1984 David F. Barrows V

Dwayne H. Benjamin

Marilyn C. Dunnill

Hillary J. Geller

Janet E. Heisey

Alison M. Kelford Smith

Colin A. Kemp-Jackson

Carolyn J. McBean

Cynthia G. Morton

Scott C. Northey

Deborah A. Peacock

Carol A. K. Preston

Julie A. Richards

Mark D. Rollins

Norman P. Seurukas

Neil Smith

Elizabeth Stinson

Richard P. Strangway 1985 David A. Barker V

Christine L. Comi

Monica Hofmann

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Cynthia and Brian Langille

R. Greg McKnight V

John E. McLeod V

Amanda Walton

Jeff J. Wilker 1986 Taras W. Ciomyk V

Ross Leckie

Morag I. McMurray

Robert J. Saffrey 1987 Paul A. Brundage V

Nils F. N. Clarke

Micheal J. Cyrwus

Nancy E. Hardy V

Brenda S. Miles

Marian Ollila V

Robert A. Sider

Ian Willson 1988 Teri S. Aboud

Steven Elder

Wai K. Fung

Joan McCalmont

Lillian and John Perigoe

J. Anthony Skuce

Iria Statiris 1989 Janet E. Davison

Paul Fraser Thompson 1990 Rachel K. Baker

Janice E. Franklin 1991 Beatrice L. Arnill

Jason R. Farris

Sascha Hastings

George M. John

Bradley T. Morrison V

Christine I. (McLachlin) Watkins V

1992 Ping Ying Chung

Connie E. Fennell

Ellen Grace McIntosh-Green

J. Matthew Wood 1993 Anita (Grigal) Gaide

Kate L. Harkness

Marc Johnstone and Kristene Steed V

Robbin Elyssa Tourangeau 1994 Chien M. Chin

Marilyn J. Leuty V

Young-Joon Rhee V

Nicole M. Nolan

Angela Stoddart 1995 Nelsona Constance Dundas V

Anita L. Gower

Philip W. Locke V 1996 Anne L. Simmonds

Leeor Z. Sommer 1997 Carolyn R. Kopeechuk

Don Lang

Elizabeth Sangster

Diane E. (Dubé) Slater 1998 Kyong-Ja Choi Cho 1999 James Malcolm Finlay

Kent Douglas James Garrett V 2000 Judith Campbell V

Francesco Triolo 2001 Alexandra J. Bates-Toth

Fiona Chang

Jonathan G. Davies

Izabella Gabowicz

Akil A. Sadikali

2002 Kristina J. Campbell

Mary Lee Laing V 2003 Scott Edmond Jahnke

Raadei Kugarajah

Kathleen Anne and Charles Ian Mack V

Robert Stephen Isaac Mercer V

Jonathan Richards Midgley 2004 Catherine Dorna

Dale Estey V

Erin Ashley McDonald

Kevin G. Tam

Gregory P. Vermeulen

Mary Elizabeth Wilson 2006 Rahul Bhat

Linda Ka Yan Tung 2007 Kayley Collum

Townsend Haines

Brian La 2008 Zinzi DeSilva 2009 Leslie Hills

faculty, friends and corporations $5,000 and more Alumni of Victoria College Nora Aufreiter and Lawrence Pentland Evelyn D. Bayefsky Margaret A. Bennett Robert C. Brandeis V Burgundy Asset Management Ltd. Clara Carletti

Marina Carletti Deer Park United Church Friends of Victoria University Library and Victoria College Book Sale V Paul W. Gooch and Pauline Thompson V Hustler Young Men’s Bible Class Jackman Foundation V The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation V Eva Kushner V Paola Mayer Albert Moritz D. Jean Orpwood Ann Robson Lorne S. Shields Cathy Sinclair Gordon Thompson University of Toronto – Division of University Advancement Vancouver Foundation V Victoria Women’s Association V $2,500 – $4,999 Robert D. Baldwin David A. Blostein and Kerry Dean Larry Davies V Susan McDonald Jean J Shilton

$1,827 – $2,499 Kenneth R. Thompson Catherine E. Heron James M. Estes V Patricia Romans V Toronto South Presbyterial United Church Women Larry and Colleen Kurtz V $1,000 – $1,826 Paul Bouissac V Marcel Danesi V Robert A. Davidson Konrad Eisenbichler V Catherine A. Fallis V Doris Galbraith V Michael B. Hanrahan Peter D. Harris V John Hepburn Isles Foundation Incorporated Bernadette Ku Marsh & McLennan Companies John Muston

V 5 years or more of consecutive giving to Victoria V 10 years or more of consecutive giving to Victoria

2001 Alfred Bader, in honour of his wife, Isabel (Overton) Bader Vic 4T9, donates $6 million to create Vic’s 500-seat Isabel Bader Theatre. The state-of-the-art facility for student drama and music performances opens in 2001.

Nicholas Terpstra V J. Michael and Naomi Tomczak Mark Toulouse Anne Urbancic Wellington Square United Church Roy Wolfe

2004 Victoria University receives its largest bequest to date, over $4 million in addition to a producing oil well in Weyburn, Sask., from Mary Mounfield Vic 4T4.

James Morrow Vic 6T3 bequeaths $2.56 million in support of general purpose in-course scholarships and awards for study abroad.

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Helen M. Ostovich The Procter & Gamble Fund Stephen Riggins V Rio Tinto Alcan B. J. Romans V Geoffrey Leonard Stagg* The Toronto Star University of Toronto-Records of Early English Drama Germaine Warkentin V Stephen Dale Williamson David S. Wright $500 – $999 Andrew J. Graham Professional Corporation Elizabeth Anne and Hugh Anson-Cartwright Sarah M. Anson-Cartwright The Bank of New York Mellon Community Partnership Marisa Barlas David P. Barrett Josiah Blackmore William R. Bowen and Sandra J. Gavinchuk TD Bank Financial Group Sandra M. Cockfield Jane Couchman Suzanne DePoe Martha Drake V William Edwards V Emmanuel College Alumni Association and Emmanuel College Christopher W. W. Field Peter D. Goddard

Aida Graff Fred K. Graham M. Elizabeth Martin W. Andrew Oliver Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Olga L. Pugliese V Manuela Scarci Jan Shuckard R. Paul Thompson United Way of York Region Jean de Verteuil $100 – $499 Phyllis D. and Mr. Matthew Airhart Lois Allen Dorothy Amos Muriel E. Anderson Ruth Publow Armstrong Jean A. Ballinger V BMO Financial Group V Wendy Bannerman Beach United Church Women W. T. Beckett V Andrew Beelik Gerald E. Bentley Jr. and Elizabeth B. Bentley Helen Best Ann Black William A. Blaikie Ellen and Murray Blankstein V BMO Employee Charitable Foundation Patti and Dave Bonde Kenneth Harry Borris Horatio Bot

2006

Elva P. Bote Marc-Andre Brault Garry and Sonia Brody Elizabeth Brouckman Leslie Buehner Mr. & Mrs. J. Carfagnini Ben Cataudella Centennial Japanese United Church Women Lorna Goodison and Ted Chamberlin Louis Charpentier Vera and John Chau Frank Collins M. Sheila Cook Christopher George Cunningham Marie D’Iorio Neil H. Dobbs and Susan Girard Neil A. Donnelly Anne M. Langford and Peter Dotsikas Dufferin Peel Presbyterial V Eshrat Sayani and Peter Dungan Nicholas Eben Lesley Elliott R. H. Farquharson Rivi M. Frankle Sally P. Garner Carolyn Guertin H. Donald Guthrie David Hallman Ann M. Hatch Marilyn J. Hawkrigg Adrienne Hood

Ian G. M. Howey Humbercrest United Church Women V Glyn Huxter Margaret M. Imrie V Betty J. Isbister Patrick Kierans Martin L. King Michael Laine V Ralph E. Lean George Earl Leard Lawrence D. Lederman Joseph Leinwand Monique Léon Odilia T. Lewis K. Lillico Lynne Magnusson Christopher Markou Maria M. V. Marujo Jennifer McCann Malcolm J. McKechnie Brian Merrilees Ministry of Children and Youth Services – Toronto Region Elias Ramirez Miramontez Louise Moorhouse Beverley M. Morgan Marguerite Noble Michelle M. B. Osborne Larry and Jean O’Toole Lawrence K. Porter David and Angela Prediger Alice Rathé

V 5 years or more of consecutive giving to Victoria V 10 years or more of consecutive giving to Victoria

2006

Emmanuel College receives $1.5 million from Jane Brushey Martin Emm 0T2 and her husband Geoff Martin (seen here, centre), creating the Jane and Geoffrey Martin Chair in Church and Community. The gift is the first of its kind for an academic teaching and research chair at Victoria University.

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2007 Annual support for Vic athletes is significantly expanded with a bequest of $600,000 from William Webster Vic 6T3.

Blake Goldring Vic 8T1 and Judy Goldring Vic 8T7 make an inspiring gift of $4 million to create the Goldring Student Centre, a renovation and expansion of Wymilwood that will transform student life at Victoria University. Fundraising continues for this new addition to the campus.

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Magdalene Redekop Michele Rizoli William Robins Royal York Road United Church Hans-Martin Rumscheidt Allen D. Russell F. Michah Rynor V. Martyn Sadler Judy Schrumm Geoffrey B. Seaborn Calvin Seerveld South West Presbyterial St. Andrew’s United Church St. Paul’s United Church Women V St. Andrews United UCW Shawn St. Michael L. Faye Stephenson Paul Stevens Jean Stewart Stikeman Elliott Gerald S. Swinkin Toronto West Presbyterial UCW Jacqueline A. Trimble Trinity United Church Women V United Church Women Ian Walker Mr. and Mrs. D. Watson Donald Whitaker Donald R. Wilson V Timothy Woodrow

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Victoria University Heritage Donors Throughout its history, alumni, faculty, staff and friends have contributed to the vibrancy of student life at Victoria University by remembering Vic in their wills. In 1992, the Victoria Heritage Donor Society was founded to honour those who have made provisions for Victoria through a planned gift. Society benefits include invitations to special Vic and University of Toronto campus events as well as recognition in annual donor listings. Victoria University recognizes with gratitude the following individuals who have declared their intention to include Victoria in their estate’s charitable giving plans: Phyllis D. Airhart Ruth M. (Manning) Alexander 5T0 E. Patricia Andrews 4T0 Wm. John and Barbara Armstrong 8T2 Doris A. (Jessinghouse) Arnold 6T6 Jeanine C. (MacDonald) Avigdor 5T4 G. William Bahen 5T0 Gillian (Smiley) Bartlett 7T0 Kenneth R. Bartlett 7T1 John Baty 6T6 Phelps Bell 5T3 Bernice and Claude Bell 5T2 Ruth M. Bentley 4T3 David K. Bernhardt 5T8 Dorothy I. M. Black 3T5 William R. Bowen and Sandra J. Gavinchuk Kenneth Brian Burnham 5T6 Eleanor J. Burton 5T6 Dan Camposano 8T3 Margaret G. Chambers 3T8 Ben Chan 8T7 Dick Cousland 5T4 Gwen Davenport 5T0 Larry Davies Marion (Chatterjee) Davies 5T5 Margaret J. Davis 4T2 Robert C. Dowsett 5T0 Martha Drake

Peggy Duhig 4T7 L. Diane Dyer 6T2 Freda M. Eickmeyer 4T7 Konrad Eisenbichler Lesley Evans 7T6 Jean (Birkenshaw) Fennell 4T8 Judy M. (Caldecott) Fleming 6T1 Goldwin French 4T4 Douglas G. Gardner 5T0 Elaine (Westheuser) Godwin 6T1 Paul W. Gooch Fred Kimball Graham John Bryan Green 6T5 Wilfrid P. Gregory 3T3 V. Jean Griffiths 6T8 Ruth F. (Andrew) Hammond 4T3 Patricia Lillian Hannah 5T0 Barbara M. (Harris) Hardy 5T0 Elaine M. (Hirtle) Hayden 5T4 Diana L. (Rieder) Heard 8T2 Robert Heard 8T3 Kim and Alex Heath 9T9 Glenn and Debby (Petrie) Hickling 7T7 R. M. Hill 4T4 John C. Hoffman 5T4 Beth Holt 5T0 Gwendolyn Neal Hopper 4T3 Dorothy (Flannery) Horwood 4T8

Gilbert E. Howey 5T6 Ian G. M. Howey Kenneth W. Inkster 5T7 J. Ruth Jackson 5T0 C. Douglas Jay 4T6, 5T0 Ruth H. (Crooker) Jay 4T5 Lynda L. Jenner 6T2 Alexandra F. Johnston 6T1 Craig T. Kamcke 5T8 Patricia Kennedy 6T9 F. H. Kim Krenz Eva Kushner Ethel (Upton) Lapp 4T9 Donald G. Lawson 5T1 Janet G. (Macrae) MacInnis 5T9 Murdo MacKinnon 3T8 Barbara (Beath) MacLennan 5T5 Linda E. MacRae 6T7 Helen (Miscevich) Mandarich 4T0 Larry W. Marshall 7T6 Frances Bond McElroy 5T8 Joyce A. (Morley) McLean 5T7 Gordon and Clair McLellan 4T9 Douglas Graham McTaggart Jane Millgate Sharon Gregory and Andrew Mitrovica 8T3 Elizabeth (Holgate) Myles 5T4 H.E. Buzz Neal 4T8

Mary Neal 6T1 and Stan Neal 6T2 Joan M. Neilson 5T0 Anne (Templeton) Nethercott 4T9 Paul W. Newman 5T7 Jean (Reilly) O’Grady 6T4 Maryleah (Bulloch) Otto 4T9 W. Michael S. Philp 6T4 David W. Pretty 4T7 Eileen Prettyman 4T8 Nancy (Jamieson) Pridham 5T3 Walter Pridham 5T3 Phyllis M. (Pope) Purves 5T3 Ann Saddlemyer Louise Schryver 3T6 C. Anderson Silber Shirley Sims 5T3 Miriam Anne Skey 5T9 Lilly (Offenbach) Strauss Nancy (Caldecott) Sutherland 6T5 Mary Elizabeth (Teskey) Sykes 4T7 Anne Weldon Tait 5T4 Brian Tennyson 6T2 Pauline A. Thompson 6T3 Irene A. Uchida 4T6 Elizabeth (Eastlake) Vosburgh 6T8 Germaine Warkentin Margaret W. Warner 3T9 Arthur and Ruby Waters 5T0

Dorothy (Joblin) Westney 3T9 Nora R. Wilson 5T5 Paula (Mitas) Zoubek 6T2 All those who wish to remain anonymous.

If you included Victoria in your will but do not see your name listed above, please contact the Victoria Alumni Office at 416-585-4500, toll-free: 1-888-262-9775 or vic.alumni@utoronto.ca.

The Board of Regents gratefully acknowledges the thoughtful bequests of the following Vic alumni and friends whose gifts were received in the past year: Dorothy J. Ball Vic 3T6 R. Alfred Best Vic 3T7 John F. Flinn Vic 4T2 Ruth (Hawkins) Ford Vic 3T4 Grace L. Irwin Vic 2T9 Mary O. Miller Love Vic 4T1 Marjorie (Deans) Misener Vic 4T4 Helen M. Woodliffe Vic 5T6

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Victoria University celebrates the opening of the Norman Jewison Archive at E.J. Pratt Library. The Jewison archive (display seen here) joins a prestigious collection, which includes the works of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, started by Mary (Rowell) Jackman Vic 2T5; E.J. Pratt’s manuscript and papers, contributed by Viola (Whitney) Pratt Vic 1913; and more than 2,500 items relating to the life and times of William Blake, donated by G.E. Bentley Jr. and his wife, Elizabeth B. Bentley.

Victoria University completes its 2009-2010 year having raised $4,191,584, including a $1.5 million gift from Deer Park United Church for a professorship in church music and an advanced degree scholarship at Emmanuel College (see page 3).

Photography: Pages 13-23 courtesy Victoria Alumni Office and Victoria University Archives: File photo; 1991.161/P377; 1976.001/P3938; 1991.161/P0405; 1994.104/P0003; 1991.161/P0462; 1987.050/P0038; 1991.161/P0551; 1991.161/P1050; 1987.052/P0062; 1992.031/P0038; 1991.161/P0691; Vic Report Vol. XXI, No.2; Vic Report Vol. XIX, No. 1; File Photo; Vic Report Vol. XXIX, No.2; File Photo; Vic Report Vol. XXXV, No.2; File Photo; File Photo; File Photo.

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Reading Garden Unveiled The fencing and construction equipment that surrounded the entrance to E.J. Pratt Library over the summer was removed in September to reveal the addition of a reading garden. Wooden benches now dot the west side of the walkway leading to the library, all placed beneath a trellis made of Douglas fir. The reading garden is among several enhancements to the library’s landscape: steps have been removed from the walkway’s front and a ramp has been recast, improving the building’s accessibility; the walkway has been expanded to provide more bicycle parking; and the surrounding green space has been refreshed with a variety of shrubs, groundcovers and perennials. The reading garden and the other new features were made possible, in part, with support from the Friends of Victoria University Library.

Alumni Calendar of Events October 27 VWA “The International Political Scene” delivered by David Wright, Kenneth and Patricia Taylor Distinguished Professor of Foreign Affairs. Alumni Hall, Old Vic, 2 p.m.

November 4 Keith Davey Forum on Public Affairs “Faith and Politics: Religion and the Secular State.” Isabel Bader Theatre, 5 p.m. FREE (see page 4).

November 17 VWA “Memorable Mosaics in the GTA and Beyond” delivered by Olga Pugliese, U of T professor of Italian and Renaissance studies. Alumni Hall, Old Vic, 2 p.m.

November 21 Vic Chorus Fall Concert An afternoon of classical choral works. Victoria College Chapel, Old Vic, 4:30 p.m.

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December 6 Friends of Victoria University Library Christmas carols and stories around the fireplace. Private Dining Room, Burwash Hall, 7 p.m.

January 12 VWA “Vic Now” delivered by dean of students Kelley Castle, VUSAC president Akash Goel and Board of Regents chair Paul Huyer Vic 8T1. Alumni Hall, Old Vic, 2 p.m.

February 16 VWA “Seeking Ethical Neutrality in Health-Care Choices” an illustrated talk with William Harvey, U of T professor emeritus of philosophy. Alumni Hall, Old Vic, 2 p.m.

To subscribe to Vic’s e-newsletter, contact vic.alumni@utoronto.ca.

See pages 6 and 7 for news of Vic’s 175th anniversary program of events.

Visit www.vicu.utoronto.ca for the latest event details and announcements.