send us your news: vic.report@utoronto.ca Tom Sherwood Emm 7T6 has written Listening to The Echo. It is a report based on statements from 722 young adults across Canada. Themes include young adults who grew up in the United Church, the environment, gender and sexuality, multiple religious practices and spirituality. Sherwood is a volunteer minister with Faith and Arts Ottawa, and First United Church, and continues to teach and supervise graduate students at Carleton University in Ottawa. He can be contacted at tom.sherwood@carleton.ca and his book can be purchased through Friesen Press. Jeff Sprang Vic 7T7 held an exhibition of works in Toronto at the Onyx Building this September: “Cohen, Drake, Downie & Frye—This is not a law firm” was a solo exhibition of portraits by the artist featuring Canadian icons in the music, sports and entertainment fields. New work included portraits of musicians Drake, Gord Downie, Leonard Cohen, Buffy Sainte-Marie and television personality Traci Melchor. All proceeds from this exhibition supported the literacy development charity One World Schoolhouse Foundation.
Sheelagh Whittaker Vic 7T0 has published her second book and first novel, Evaline: A Feminist’s Tale (Departure Bay, 2016). The story chronicles the impact of the 1960s women’s liberation movement on the life of Evaline Sadlier. Sadlier juggles career, family, id, ego and tragedy with the belief that a woman can have what she wants and that it is all a matter of choice, not compromise. This past August, Philip Ziegler Vic 9T1, Emm 9T6, 0T2 was promoted to a personal chair at the University of Aberdeen as professor of Christian dogmatics. He has been awarded the Alan Richardson Fellowship at the University of Durham for its 2017 Epiphany term and has been made a senior fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. In addition, he has edited Eternal God, Eternal Life: Theological Investigations into the Concept of Immortality (T&T Clark/ Bloomsbury, 2016). He has also co-edited Christ, Church and World: New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics (T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2016).
Marriages Tara Wells Vic 0T9, married Ryan James Quigley, on July 9, 2016, in Toronto. Sarah Devonshire Vic 0T9 was a bridesmaid and Tara’s sister Kimberly, who resided at Vic as an undergrad, was maid of honour.
Births
Photograph: (Opposite page) Horst Herget
To Jane McGaughey Vic 0T3 and Thomas Walker, a son, Eric Wilhelm Horatio, on April 2, 2016, in Montreal. Sprang provided Victoria with a limited print edition of the Frye portrait. The prints (26.5” x 20.5”) are signed and numbered and available for $100 each (plus tax). Proceeds will provide bursary assistance for Vic students in the Northrop Frye Stream of Vic One. Please contact the Victoria Alumni Office at 416-585-4500, 1-888-262-9775, or vic.alumni@utoronto.ca
To Victoria (Klosek) Rodrigues Vic 0T4 and Christopher Rodrigues, a son, Marcus Christopher, December 22, 2015, in Oakville, Ont., a brother for Alexandria Victoria.
In Memoriam John T. Birkenshaw Vic 5T0, class executive social director and winner of both sticks, in Toronto, August 23, 2016.
milestones Aileen C. (Fritz) Bowyer Vic 5T1, in Mississauga, Ont., May 20, 2016. E. Jane Braiden Vic 6T6, in Owen Sound, Ont., August 15, 2016. Kenneth C. Brown Vic 4T5, in Ottawa, June 24, 2016. Kenneth G. Brown Vic 4T5, in Oakville, Ont., September 15, 2016. Lawrence Tin Shing Cheng Vic 8T6, in Hong Kong, September 19, 2015. Stephanie A. Corbet Vic 0T1, in Toronto, August 27, 2016, past AVC executive member. Joan L. Dancy Vic 5T2, in Toronto, June 29, 2016, member of the permanent class executive. A. Paul Dilks Vic 5T1, in Toronto, July 10, 2016, member of the permanent class executive. F. Bryson Farrill Vic 5T1, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, March 29, 2016. James F. Gould Vic 6T8, in Ottawa, May 29, 2016. Helen K. (Rodd) Gray Vic 4T3, in North Vancouver, B.C., June 13, 2016. Bruce H. Grose Vic 5T1, in Toronto, July 2016. G. Ellen (Hamilton) Hall Vic 5T1, in Lindsay, Ont., July 2, 2016. Thora J. (Pond) Harvey Vic 4T9, in Woodstock, Ont., June 17, 2016. Margaret E. (Ehnes) Moir Vic 4T9, in Toronto, July 29, 2016. To make a donation in honour of Margaret, please contact the Victoria Alumni Office at 416-585-4500, toll-free at 1-888-262-9775 or visit uoft.me/supportvic. Gerald P. Rowe Vic 6T4, in Mississauga, Ont., December 13, 2015. Patricia V. Simpson Vic 5T5, in Burlington, Ont., July 16, 2016. Ethel D. (Brydon) Sivell Vic 4T8, in Meaford, Ont., June 16, 2016. Edith E. (Harper) Springer Vic 6T4, in Kitchener, Ont., July 1, 2016. Margaret E. (Smith) Veall Vic 5T0, in Niagara Falls, Ont., August 7, 2016.
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