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This Great Place by paul w. gooch Occasionally at a graduation ceremony I’ve remarked on the two distinct psychological states called up by one English word: pride. There is the puffed-up, self-aggrandizing mindset that the French refer to with the rather gruff orgeuil; and the healthy state of satisfaction with a task well done in the face of challenges—the more felicitous French fierté. Unsurprisingly, I recommend pride in accomplishments in the second sense, not the first, which is a moral failing and one of the seven deadly sins.

I thought of this when I recently learned that Ireland has for the last decade held an all-island, annual competition called “Pride of Place,” in which communities are recognized for having created civic pride and contributed to the well-being of local society. Awards are given for “initiatives which will have long-lasting and positive impacts,” such as “developing community centres, tackling social exclusion issues, establishing residents associations or providing childcare facilities.” Communities receiving such an award must experience that state of satisfaction for having brought about improvements for others, and be proud of their accomplishments. But the expression ‘pride of place’ also has a competitive ring about it. Achieving that means not just being happy that you’ve managed to meet your goal, but that you’ve also beaten out everybody else. You are occupying a place that no one else has won.

It doesn’t follow, of course, that those who make it to the top in a competition are thereby disdainful of the less successful, proud of themselves in the ugly sense. The temptation to think of oneself as better than others can be resisted, replaced with a sense of gratitude for one’s gifts. We rightly praise those who win competitions, not only because of their abilities, but because of the diligence, care and effort they’ve put into developing those skills.

I’ll get no argument about the claim that the classical sin of hubris, the vice of pride, has no place at Victoria or among our students and graduates. But I do want to propose that we all should feel a strong sense of pride of place at Vic, in the satisfaction sense and in the competitive sense as well. There’s place for both kinds of pride.

Vic seeks pride of place for undergraduate education among Canada’s universities.

It’s not easy to measure ranking among institutions, especially for a federated university so closely intertwined with the many strengths of the University of Toronto. Still, Vic can strive to provide the best of educations for our students, teaching and research from outstanding scholars, the most helpful student services, the most generous scholarships, the most welcoming spaces and inspiring programs for intellectual and social life.

We climb higher, not to look down on others, but to elevate the quality of education for all members of the Vic family.

In so far as we succeed in securing pride of place, every member of the Vic community should be able to experience personal pride in belonging to this place. That feeling will be complex. In part, there will be satisfaction that the institution is meeting the challenges of a highly competitive post-secondary system, a task that Vic is doing well. A sense of personal achievement will contribute to this sense of pride, too: if all forms of learning flourish here, the joy of discovery and the pleasure of mastering a problem will be sources of pride in accomplishment. In all this, for alumni and for our current members, there will come pride of association, for having one’s own sense of place in this great place that is Victoria.  2

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Winter 2014 Volume XLII No. 2 Published under the authority of the Board of Regents of Victoria University in the University of Toronto.

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Lisa Sherlock Appointed Chief Librarian Taking the Helm to Preserve and Promote Vic’s Collections Lisa Sherlock assumed the role of Victoria University’s chief librarian on September 1, 2013. An advisory committee, struck in accordance with the Board of Regents by-law, unanimously recommended the appointment. Sherlock’s first term will be until until June 30, 2018.

Sherlock holds a B.A. in English from York University, and an M.L.S. and M.A. from U of T. She joined the E.J. Pratt Library in 1993 and became head of Reader Services in 1999.

She has been especially engaged in working with faculty members to facilitate student use of the archives and special collections. As well, she chaired the web advisory committee that planned the library’s highly praised web page and steered the library’s extensive collections through a digitization project, allowing world-wide access to Vic’s collections.

“The first part of the academic year has gone well,” says Sherlock. “For that, I have to thank the excellent support of the library staff and as well, the goodwill and support I’ve received from everyone at Vic. We have digitization projects underway, a new pilot project involving collaboration between Pratt’s instructional librarians and Vic’s Writing Centre staff (with the help of the Registrar’s Office and the Principal’s Office) and some interesting new rare items acquired to augment the Library’s Special Collections including: a book hand-bound

by Virginia Woolf and inscribed to Clive Bell; 10 new posters to augment the existing Paris 1968 Poster Collection; and five Samuel Taylor Coleridge family letters. All in all, it has been an encouraging and exciting start to my term as chief librarian.”

Lisa Sherlock beside the E.J. Pratt Library in the Lester B. Pearson Garden for Peace and Understanding.

Sherlock has a passion for Vic’s collections and 20 years of experience in helping to bring the University’s library resources and collections to a wider audience. She is a natural successor to Professor Robert C. Brandeis, chief librarian since 1977, and will actively build collaborative relationships with researchers, faculty, students and other communities of interest, with the shared goal of enhancing, preserving and promoting Vic’s world‐renowned collections.

Victoria University Library, comprising E.J. Pratt Library and Emmanuel College Library, has over 300,000 volumes and internationally significant special collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives. 

RAISE A CHEER TO 100 YEARS! Photographs: (Opposite page) Peg McCarthy; Vic Alumni Office

THE BURWASH CENTENARY REUNION – THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2014 Relive old memories and catch up with friends.

Whether you lived in Burwash residences or ate in the dining hall, all are welcome!

5:30–6 p.m. Tours of the upper residences 6 p.m. Cash-bar reception in the Goldring Student Centre 7 p.m. Dinner prepared by Vic’s award-winning Chef Nathan Barratt in Burwash Hall Includes three-course meal and wine with main course.

$45 per person To register please contact the Vic Alumni Office 416-585-4500 or 1-888-262-9775 my.alumni.utoronto.ca/bw100 Tables of up to 18 people can be reserved.

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Maxwell Yalden Vic 5T2 Named 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award Winner Former Head of Canadian Human Rights Commission to be Honoured on April 14 It is hard to imagine that a teenaged Max Yalden, the future Official Languages (1977–1984) and Human Rights commissioner (1987–1996), did not bother to attend many of his first-year French lectures in 1948. He was not a francophone, but had decided he could get by without actually showing up. He did pass, for the record, but took a much greater interest in Honours Philosophy, and in his Maxwell Yalden’s 2009 publication final year, was awarded Transforming Rights: Reflections from the Front Lines.

U of T’s Gold Medal in Philosophy.

Yalden initially set out on a traditional academic path.

Thanks to a travelling scholarship from Vic, and a French government fellowship, he pursued graduate studies in France, while teaching English part time as an assistant in a Paris lycée. Throughout this adventure he was joined by his wife, Janice (Shaw) Vic 5T2. Janice already had a love of foreign languages (and later became a professor of linguistics) but it was not until this point that Max’s interest in language, and French in particular, began to bloom.

Yalden returned to North America in 1953 to complete an M.A. and Ph.D. (1956) in philosophy at the University of Michigan, with a thesis that explored the influence of language on perception and thought. Looking forward to what he thought would be his future in the academic world, he accepted a fellowship at Harvard—a move that would guarantee a professorship, good pay and a respectable future.

By chance, a friend mentioned in passing that there was an annual examination for the Canadian foreign service, of which Yalden had only a vague idea at the time. He suggested Yalden have a go at it. “This comment made me think back to my days at Vic,” he says. “I was taking a political science class with a friend from St. Mike’s. He had mentioned the foreign service where his father was an ambassador. These thoughts aroused my curiosity, so I wrote the exam.”

Yalden was soon called for an interview and later received a job offer. “Quite frankly, I was in a quandary. I couldn’t imagine myself teaching for the rest of my days; but it was a big change to contemplate, and a difficult decision to make.

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should take. In the end, we think we chose the right one.”

In 1956 Yalden officially left academe to enter public service. “I could have never imagined, as an undergraduate at Vic, the career that might have awaited me,” he says.

Postings included Moscow, Geneva, Paris, ambassador to Belgium and Luxemburg, as well as various stints in Ottawa and other capitals.

By 1967, Yalden had become a special advisor to the under-secretary of state for External Affairs. Two years later, he moved on from the foreign service to the Department of the Secretary of State (now Heritage Canada), where he was responsible, most significantly, for Canada’s official language programs, as assistant under-secretary of state.

In 1973 Prime Minister Trudeau appointed him deputy minister of communications. His career continued to flourish when he was appointed commissioner of Official Languages in 1977, where he served as the auditor of the government’s performance in the implementation of federal language rights policies, and acted as a spokesperson on language rights.

In 1987, following his posting to Belgium, a new challenge presented itself when he was appointed chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. He was responsible for the implementation of human rights legislation and for ensuring even-handed treatment of individual cases before the commission. Again, Yalden acted as spokesperson and critic, working tirelessly as a proponent for anti-discrimination measures and minority rights.

In 1996 he was elected a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, and was re-elected in 2000.

He also served as an adjunct professor at Carleton and Ottawa universities.

As the architect of many fundamentally Canadian policies, Yalden is calm in his discussion of the successes and the failures. “My work in human and language rights taught me to be fair and just. You cannot get emotional. There is a job to be done, and you have to get on with it.” 

Distinguished Alumni Award Dinner Honouring Max Yalden C.C., Vic 5T2 April 14, 2014 Senior Common Room, 6:30 p.m., cash-bar reception Private Dining Room, 7 p.m., $50 per person Register online at my.alumni.utoronto.ca/daa2013 Register at vic.alumni@utoronto.ca or call (416) 585-4500 or 1-888-262-9775.

CAMPAIGN NEARS GOAL

ENHANCING OPPORTUNITIES FOR TOMORROW’S STUDENTS Thanks to Imagination Unbound, Victoria University is providing the means to transform undergraduate and theological education. Donors have supported Imagination Unbound through many avenues: establishing bursaries and scholarships; supporting capital projects; or donating to the Annual Fund. Vic’s supporters are determined to ensure the institution’s goal of providing every student with an education that is personal, enriched by international experience and exposure, and enhanced by a wealth of activities beyond the classroom.

The $60-million campaign was launched in April 2012 and has reached 96 per cent of its target. To date, over 6,000 donors have supported Imagination Unbound. Won’t you join us, too?

Remembering a Role Model

Photographs: (Opposite page) Courtesy University of Toronto Press; Victoria University Archives, Vic Alumni Office

John Watson Vic 6T6 Honours Jeff Maybee Vic 6T5 John Watson and Richard “Jeffery” Maybee first met playing hockey in the York Township minor hockey program at age 10.

In short order, the two became fast friends. They both entered Vic in the early 1960s and after graduation, Maybee began a teaching career, while Watson entered the world of investment management. Despite their different professional interests, their friendship flourished for decades until Maybee’s untimely passing in 2009.

To honour his friend, Watson established The Richard Jeffery Maybee Memorial Scholarship with a gift of $250,000, matched by Victoria’s Isabel (Park) Hodgkinson Fund, to create a $500,000 endowment. “Jeff had a wonderfully inquisitive nature. He had a love of learning and a natural ability to be an excellent teacher,” says Watson. “He was a role model for his family, friends and the students he taught. He lived

(from left to right) President Paul Gooch; Larry Davies, executive director of Alumni Affairs and Advancement; Kendra Maybee, Jeff’s wife; Jim Dadson, family friend; Amy Kikuchi, Vic student; John and Josie Watson; and Principal Angela Esterhammer Vic 8T3 gathered to celebrate the creation of the Maybee Scholarship.

life to the fullest and had a tremendous influence upon those who knew him.”

Maybee taught history and classics at Markham District High School for the entire 33 years of his teaching career and was greatly admired by the staff and students alike. Upon his retirement in 1999, he served as a popular, respected and passionate gallery docent at the Royal Ontario Museum where Jeff Maybee Vic 6T5 he derived great joy from sharing his knowledge with the public, especially children. In honour of his career and the value he placed on education, the Maybee Scholarship will be awarded to students with an overall A standing, with preference given to students whose studies in the humanities and social sciences arise out of the Western classical tradition.

This is not the first time Watson has supported the University. He is especially interested in supporting young people and, to this end, has created a scholarship in his mother’s name at Vic (The Kathleen Watson Scholarship), one in his own name for international study, and, at the Rotman School of Management, an entrance scholarship in the name of his father, Gordon M. Watson, as well as the John H. Watson Chair in Value Investing. Watson’s generosity also extends to volunteerism at the University: he serves on Victoria’s Investment Committee of the Board of Regents and is a member of Rotman’s Value Investing Advisory Board.

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THE STUDY LOUNGE Homework with a View With its large windows, exposed brick and quiet atmosphere, the Study Lounge on the Goldring Student Centre’s second floor is fast becoming a favourite with students.

To recognize the support of Alice Dong 7T1 and Bob Wong Vic 6T3 for their $50,000 gift to the Goldring Student Centre, a plaque displaying their names has been put up outside the Study Lounge.

Many students are discovering this tranquil space and happily choosing it over the bigger libraries. They study here to enjoy the view and the natural light—a wonderful stimulant for the mind.

The couple has shown commitment to Vic and U of T for many years through financial support and volunteer roles.

“Spaces such as the Study Lounge are what help make the Vic campus such a unique and desirable space,” says Dong. “From the perspective of a past U of T governor, a positive student experience is definitely enhanced by such spaces. Bob and I are pleased to be able to support Vic and U of T.” “We are very happy to know that this particular part of the Goldring Student Centre is valued by students,” says Wong.

“As graduates ourselves, we can appreciate the need for smaller, friendly study spaces. This is a busy campus, and students need tranquil places where they can reflect and pursue their studies. The Goldring Student Centre with its inviting Study Lounge and other facilities will enhance and enrich the student experience. Good space is integral to student success.”

Dong graduated from the Faculty of Medicine and, as an occupational medical physician, specializes in disability management and rehabilitation. She is currently a medical consultant to RBC Insurance. She sat on U of T’s Governing

Council and various Governing Council committees from 2002 to 2009 and vice-chair from 2009 to 2011.

Dong has served on the board of Women’s College Hospital and is past chair of the Ontario Medical Association’s committee on work and health, is former chair of Bob Wong Vic 6T3 and Alice Dong 7T1 the Canadian Board of Occupation and Environmental Medicine and is currently a member of the board of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board.

Wong is currently vice-chairman and senior portfolio manager at Leon Frazer and Associates. He is the winner of the 2012 Victoria College Distinguished Alumni Award (see Winter 2013 issue) and has served Victoria University in numerous capacities including: member of the Board of Regents (2000 to 2007); President’s Advisory Board for Vic One (2003 to 2005); Board of Regents’ Investment Committee (2011 to present). He entered politics in 1987 when he was elected MPP to the Toronto riding of Fort York and, in short order, was appointed Ontario’s Minister of Energy in Premier David Peterson’s government.

This appointment made Wong the first cabinet minister in Canada of Chinese descent. He was also a founding director of Canada’s first multilingual television station, OMNI, and has served on many charitable boards. 

FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY Robert Brandeis Honoured with New Scholarship Robert Brandeis recently retired from his role as chief librarian at Victoria University (see Autumn 2013 issue). To recognize his years of dedicated service to the libraries of Victoria, the Friends of the Library helped establish the Dr. Robert C. Brandeis Scholarship and donated a lead gift of $25,000 from this year’s book sale’s revenues. This award will be given to students with high standing in the humanities, with preference to students of English. Donations are welcome and will be matched by the Isabel (Park) Hodgkinson Fund.

“It was such a pleasure for the Friends of the Library to establish a scholarship (including private donations) in Bob’s name,” says Lin Taylor Vic 6T0, co-chair. “We wanted to honour his 36-year career as Victoria University’s chief librarian and to thank him for his years of generous, handson support for the Friends and our annual book sale.”

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Brandeis’s vision has made Victoria University Library an internationally recognized centre for scholarly research, as well as a warm and inviting space in which students can work towards academic success.

“I am very touched and grateful that the Friends of Victoria University Library have so generously contributed to a scholarship in my name,” says Brandeis. “I have worked with the Friends for many years, and they and the book sale have assisted Vic students via Library support, other scholarships, bursaries, and now a scholarship honouring my retirement. I look forward to continuing my volunteer association with the Friends.”

Brandeis helped create and foster the Friends of the Library group. Its dedicated volunteers have raised over $1.5 million to support the Library and the University through the annual book sale. 

FOR THE LOVE OF MUSIC AND FAMILY Creating a Scholarship for Noreen (Moorhouse) Clark Vic 4T2 Noreen (Moorhouse) Clark’s father, Walter Moorhouse, was senior stick in 1911. She and her three siblings all graduated from Vic in the 1930s and 1940s. Her children, David and Nora, graduated from Vic in 1971 and 1973, respectively. And as recently as 2002, David’s daughter-in-law became the fourth generation of the Moorhouse-Clark family to graduate from Vic. To honour their family’s close connection to Vic, Noreen, David and Nora Clark have established The Noreen (Moorhouse) Clark Scholarship through a gift of $25,000, doubled in value thanks to the Isabel (Park) Hodgkinson Fund. The scholarship is to be awarded to Vic students, with preference given to students enrolled in a music program.

“Both music and Vic have always been important to my mother,” says David Clark. “She is very proud of her service to the Board of Regents, Senate and the Alumni Association.

Vic is a true tradition for my family—it is how I became involved at the board level for 14 years. Not once did it feel like work. I enjoyed it immensely and was proud to take ‘my turn’ and give back to the community that helped shape my family.”

Noreen’s BA in music afforded her the chance to pursue her love of piano and church organ. She was inspired by one professor in particular, the renowned organist, choir master and composer, Healey Willan. Willan taught at U of T and

the Royal Conservatory of Music. He composed more than 800 works and was best known for his sacred music compositions. “My mother was thrilled to perform the first public performance of a Willan composition while she was still a student at Vic,” says David. “My sister and I hope that the students who benefit from this scholarship will find equal inspiration during their undergraduate studies.

Noreen (Moorhouse) Clark Vic 4T2 “We are delighted to recognize our mother’s devotion to music through this scholarship. Furthermore, we are proud of what Vic has accomplished throughout the past 20 years under the steady leadership of presidents Roseann Runte and Paul Gooch. Vic has been transformed thanks to wonderful improvements to its campus and the creation of unique programs. My entire family is happy to see that, especially my mother.” 

Scholarship to Encourage Students from Wild Rose Country

Photographs: (Opposite page) Vic Alumni Office; Courtesy David Clark, Courtesy James Thomson

The Pioneering Spirit of Helen (McConkey) Thomson Vic 4T7 At a time when few people journeyed across the country for pleasure, and even fewer did so for school, Helen (McConkey) Thomson 4T7 was something of a pioneer when she embarked by train from Calgary to Toronto in the early 1940s.

That journey—one few women of her generation would have undertaken—is testament to Thomson’s adventurous and determined spirit.

Thomson made a bequest to the University of Toronto.

She also left funds to Victoria College for an admission scholarship—a $25,000 gift that was matched by Victoria’s Isabel Hodgkinson Fund, resulting in a $50,000 endowment. The Helen Margaret (McConkey) Thomson Scholarship will be awarded annually to a student from Alberta with the highest average of all admitted students from that province.

Thomson herself never benefitted from a scholarship. “Her family could afford to send her to Vic,” recalls her son, James Thomson,

“but they couldn’t afford to bring her home every year. When she left for Vic, she had to say goodbye to Calgary for the next three to four years.” When her friends and classmates returned home for Christmas and summer holidays, Helen travelled around Ontario, working at various places, including a Muskoka resort, fruit orchard and architectural firm.

She returned to Alberta following graduation in 1947, but she maintained her ties with Victoria. “She was very proud of her education and of Vic and so, naturally, wanted to participate in alumni events, especially those that took place in Alberta,” says James. She married in 1957 and every few years made a trip to Toronto for reunion events and to visit friends.

“Her friends were very important to her,” says James, “they were life-long. She was good at keeping in touch with people.”

James describes his mother as both a ‘city and country’ girl: “She was very social, very elegant. She loved going to the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the ballet, and travelled the world in the 1950s . . . but she had the country in her heart.”

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resident Paul Gooch views Victoria University and its spaces as a metaphor for both the physical manifestation of human life and its intellectual dimension.

“Vic is a bit like our own lives,” says Gooch.

“There’s continuity, but also change and constant renewal.” The University’s continually evolving physical landscape and academic programs combine to provide a very special sense of place that is unique to Vic. “There are places in the world, like Vic, that call something out of you,” says Gooch.

“You are a different person because you’ve been in that place.”

Vic’s unique spaces and places have played a direct role in creating lasting friendships and relationships for generations.

Alumni Stephen Lister Vic 8T2 and Margaret (Molly) Rundle Vic 8T5 are just one example of this. The two met in the Vic Pub in 1982 and have remained a strong part of the Vic community ever since.

Lister saw her “talking to a fellow from my Gate House residence and thought, ‘I have to rescue her.’” They danced together for the rest of the night, then talked until 2 a.m. “Since I had a heavy course load in the sciences with a goal of studying medicine, I studied a lot,” says Rundle. “I am glad that my roommate dragged me to that first pub of the year after the Christmas break.”

“We saw each other every night for the next two weeks,” they say, “then realized that if we were going to pass, we’d better limit it to one or two nights per week. We talked every day on the phone for the next three years.” Now married close to 30 years, they have both stayed involved with Vic. He has served on the Board if Regents and currently sits on the Committee for the Endowment and Pension Fund while she currently serves on the Campus Life committee.

“Vic is special,” said Lister. “It feels like a small village in the middle of a big city— where you are always running into people you know.”

OF PLACE Stephen Lister Vic 8T2, Molly Rundle Vic 8T5 and Jelena Savic, VUSAC president.

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During the past year, Victoria University was transformed, thanks to the completion of the new Goldring Student Centre, the striking $23-million building and renovation project funded by students, faculty and alumni alike.

The official opening for the building took place in September, but staff and students began moving in at the end of April.

Lister is thrilled by the new Goldring Student Centre, noting that the building is “a wonderful example of serviceminded Vic alumni giving back to the community.”

“The Goldring Student Centre has kept the feel, flavour and openness of the old building, despite the development of an incredible new space enveloping it.

With their inspired gift, the Goldrings have set a great example and raised the bar high for all alumni.”

The centre, a three-storey stone and glass marvel designed by Torontobased architectural firm Moriyama and

The Goldring Student Centre at night.

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Teshima, offers the Vic community a variety of spaces, including the Cat’s Eye Pub, Ned’s Café, offices for the dean of students, the alumni affairs and advancement team, the Board of Regents committee room (funded by present and past Regents), a lounge for commuter students, funded by Alastair Murray Vic 5T7 and his wife, Jenny, the Wendy Marion Cecil Atrium, funded

by Chancellor Wendy M. Cecil Vic 7T1, and the student union offices and areas in which students can read and relax. “It knits all of our constituencies together; they are beautifully integrated in the building,” says Larry Davies, executive director of alumni affairs and advancement, who, along with his staff, was among the first to take possession of offices in the Goldring Student Centre.

“There is crossover between students, alumni, faculty and staff, and there are also members of the local community who come in for lunch.” Davies especially likes the opportunity to interact with

Vic students. “It’s a way to find out not only what is going on with the students in a more direct way, it’s a chance for us to tell them what we do. There’s more back and forth,” he says.

For Alison (Massie) Broadworth Vic 9T7, director of alumni affairs and advancement, the new centre—created by renovating and expanding the old Wymilwood building—is a reminder of Vic’s continuity. “I like seeing the history and the progress, how the University has changed,” she says.

“The new building fits into and respects the existing architecture. There is care taken to make sure it fits with Vic while providing the things students need today.” She also considers the newest campus building an extension of the Vic commitment to embrace everyone who enters. “There’s a welcoming atmosphere here,” says Broadworth. “The Goldring Student Centre is a physical reminder that Vic wants the student experience to be personal and inclusive.”

Photographs: (Opposite page) Horst Herget

Students gather in the Reading Garden.

Jelena Savic, a graduating student majoring in human biology and philosophy, was drawn to Vic because of its Old World feeling that “ties the historical with future potential.” As president of the Victoria University Students’ Administrative Council (VUSAC), Savic appreciates the opportunities the new centre offers Vic students. “It’s like history in the making,” she says. “We’re the first group of students here, so we actually get to shape the space: you change it and it changes you back. The freedom to make the space grow with you is pretty cool. It puts everyone in the same space.

Physically, it’s a community.”

It’s a community that also includes alumni as valued members. Paul Huyer Vic 8T1 who chairs the Board of Regents, is delighted that the Board has a dedicated meeting space there.

“The Goldring Student Centre is a hub of activity all day,” he says. “I find other alumni dropping in, and I’ve seen people there I never expected to see on campus.

It’s a centre for student activity on campus with clubs and governance, and it tries to connect commuter students

with the campus and give them a sense of community. The Wendy Marion Cecil Atrium is a great place to sit, chat and have those interactions outside the classroom that are so important.”

Of course, the Goldring Student Centre is only the newest jewel in Vic’s already impressive crown. The Vic campus sparkles with a variety of architectural styles, from Victorian to modern, all working in harmony to create a place that fosters student enthusiasm and inquiry.

Ray deSouza, Victoria University bursar, oversees Vic’s physical space, a duty he takes very seriously. The campus has a new master plan as well as a recently commissioned facilities condition index which will provide us with a snapshot of the state of the campus buildings and an understanding of the infrastructure resources that will be needed during the next 20 to 25 years.

“Many of our buildings were built for a different time, and their infrastructure, architectural and mechanical systems are old,” deSouza says. “Accessibility needs to be considered, too.” He is also exploring ways to ensure that wireless digital access

is available to students when and where they need it. “Only five years ago, we had to provide students with computing platforms,” he says. “Now, we just need to provide the infrastructure so they can access content on any device they choose and from wherever they are.”

For deSouza, the new Goldring Student Centre offers Vic another way to meet one of its greatest challenges: bringing commuter students to the campus if their classes are held elsewhere. “They may not come to Vic if there aren’t other things to bring them here,” he says. We’re trying to make the entire campus inclusive for commuter students. We want to make every space welcoming for them. There are more

Ray deSouza MY FAVOURITE SPOT ON THE VIC CAMPUS The Vic College Quad is an absolutely amazing place to me. You can see a microcosm of what happens on campus: residences, the theatre, the library and the dining hall.

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Jelena Savic, VUSAC president, leads an informal meeting in the Goldring Student Centre.

of them than there are residents, so we need to have places where they can lounge, relax and wait for a ride.”

Including a dedicated commuter student lounge, complete with lockers and a kitchen, has been a step in that direction.

Savic, the VUSAC president, knows first-hand how important it is to entice students to the Vic campus. Her own courses take place on the other side of campus, a long walk away. “All my courses pulled me back to the other side of campus and, until now, there was no incentive to come here,” she says.

As a result of her experiences, VUSAC is working with student groups to make the campus a place where students are eager to spend their free time. “We hold a pancake breakfast every Wednesday in the Cat’s Eye Pub,” says Savic, “and a lot of activities are tailored specially for commuter students by starting earlier.”

Victoria University takes its goals of being welcoming and inclusive seriously, and Emmanuel College is contributing to this mission. The elegant neo-Gothic edifice that houses the Emmanuel College chapel is also home to a new dedicated prayer space and ablution facilities for the Muslim community. The United Churchaffiliated College has also upgraded its classroom and casual furniture to enhance student comfort. “Emmanuel has always had a deep interest in interfaith engagement and dialogue,” says Mark Toulouse, who, as principal, has overseen the introduction of a Muslim studies program at Emmanuel. “The provision of a dedicated prayer space recognizes, alongside our critical analysis of religion, the importance of the “lived experience” of religion. It’s the only Muslim prayer room on this side of campus, and it’s used regularly.” He is also proud of the

This painting welcomes visitors to the new prayer room and ablution facilities at Emmanuel College.

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refurbishment of classroom and casual spaces during the year, including Wi-Fi access throughout. “We’ve upgraded our physical space pretty significantly,” he says, noting that there were classrooms that previously had rather small desks dating back to the 1930s, uncomfortable for today’s taller students.

Mark Toulouse MY FAVOURITE SPOT ON THE VIC CAMPUS I really enjoy our library; it’s the finest space on campus. It has an old Cambridge-type feel with its gorgeous leaded windows, spiral staircase and balcony overlooking the lower space. The light is tremendous.

Lisa Sherlock MY FAVOURITE SPOT ON THE VIC CAMPUS

Photographs: (Opposite page) Vic Alumni Office

The Lester B. Pearson Garden for Peace and Understanding. When you are in the library, you can see the garden through the window.

It’s nice that the outdoors can be brought indoors.

One campus space that continues to draw students, as it has throughout the years, is the E.J. Pratt Library.

Although the exterior of the 1961 edifice is austere, the interior, renovated in 2001, is described as “welcoming” by the chief librarian, Lisa Sherlock. Its physical space provides a place to nurture the intellectual aspects of life at Vic, as well as a social setting. “We try to have both structured study chairs and more comfortable leather seating for people to study and socialize,” says Sherlock.

There is a lounge where eating and chatting are de rigueur, as well as a main reading room where, Sherlock says, “quiet study is the norm.”

During the 2012–2013 academic year, both students and faculty took advantage of all of the services in the library, participating in a series of information literacy and course-specific instructional sessions that drew more than a third of the college’s undergraduate population.

Librarians at Pratt and Emmanuel taught 77 sessions, a 60 per cent increase from the previous year, and had many individual research consultation sessions, often following in-class presentations.

The library is also home to a number of special collections, among them the works of Virginia Woolf, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and a William Blake scholarly archive that are readily available, in true vic report winter 2014

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Vic egalitarian tradition, to both students and scholars. “The whole environment gives a sense of accessibility without the austerity usually associated with rare book collections,” says Sherlock. This past year, the Blake archive welcomed 88 new items, including a unique Blake print, “The Lamb,” from Songs of Innocence and of Experience, and a scarce print from his Dante.

Indeed, sharing the life of the mind was the reason Victoria University was created, and is Vic’s special character.

Angela Esterhammer MY FAVOURITE SPOT ON THE VIC CAMPUS The sculpture of Northrop Frye has certainly become my special spot. It’s a wonderful material reminder of his enduring legacy and continuing intellectual presence at Victoria College.

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Although some of the subjects and methods have changed with the times, inquiry has been a common thread throughout Vic’s existence.

Angela Esterhammer Vic 8T3, principal of Victoria College, speaks enthusiastically about how the College is continually striving to maximize the use of its unique campus through programming such as the popular Vic One program. “It is a great opportunity for students to educate their imaginations,” says Esterhammer. The program celebrated its 10th anniversary during the past academic year and now includes six streams. The small class size and inter-disciplinary nature foster “a sense of community and allow for relationship building,” says Esterhammer.

“It’s also challenging; you can’t hide in a crowd. You learn to develop the confidence to express your ideas.” Firstyear Victoria College students who don’t participate in Vic One are required to take another seminar course. Vic offers a wide array of small seminars such as

the diverse Vic One Hundred courses in which students can experience “personal interaction and dynamic discussion in small-class formats.”

Esterhammer notes that no discussion of space and place would be complete without mention of Material Culture, a unique program offered at Vic. “It is the study of objects in the widest sense: archaeological artifacts or everyday objects with cultural value and the way we interact with them,” Esterhammer says. “It combines history, anthropology, archaeology, museum studies, art and other disciplines, and the only undergraduate program in Canada is at Vic. We’ve put lots of emphasis on growing the program.”

Victoria’s unique position on campus enhances the program. “Victoria College is the perfect location for it, because we are surrounded by museums, galleries and neighbourhoods where cultural and ethnic identities manifest themselves in material culture,” she says, referring to the nearby Gardiner,

Kelley Castle MY FAVOURITE SPOT ON THE VIC CAMPUS The Wendy Marion Cecil Atrium in the Goldring Student Centre. I see students read, eat lunch and lounge around there, and it’s right in the heart of things. A nice hub has been created and the architecture is beautiful.

Photographs: (Opposite page) Diana Tyszko; Vic Alumni Office

Students chat with Professor Marcel Danesi in the Wendy Marion Cecil Atrium.

Bata Shoe and Royal Ontario museums, as well as neighbouring areas such as the downtown core, Cabbagetown, Chinatown and Yorkville.

Other small-sized Vic course offerings also allow the University to carve out a unique place for itself in the intellectual world, says dean of students, Kelley Castle. Ideas for the World is a non-credit series of mini-courses she has created that “blends social interaction with academic reflection and community awareness,” she emphasizes. “We must make our students curious and ready for the world, and we must make sure they understand it in complex ways,” says Castle, noting that the Ideas for the World courses demonstrate that successful co-curricular offerings can be related to students’ other academic experiences.

One of the courses, Humanities for Humanity, brings together financially challenged people in the community directly to Vic’s campus where they participate in a 12-week lecture series and group discussion facilitated by undergraduate student mentors. These community members step onto a university campus for the first time

and are positively affected by the experience. “Education should not be conducted in an ivory tower,” says Castle. “We attempt to create more avenues for Victoria University students to engage with the world around them.”

These varied intellectual and social activities combine at Victoria University to form a rich life around its students.

“We are surrounded by a city that absolutely buzzes with activity,” says President Gooch, “but when you come onto this campus, the noise recedes into the background. You can have a quiet place to study and converse; you can listen and be heard. People treasure the opportunities this space affords.” The quiet also allows the voices of Vic alumni to be heard, whether their names adorn the donor wall in the new Goldring Student Centre or grace the streams of the Vic One program, where pioneering graduates such as physician Augusta Stowe-Gullen Vic 1883 and filmmaker Norman Jewison Vic 4T9 are celebrated.

“We are using them as inspiration for current concerns and ideas,” says Gooch, referring to alumni who give the Vic One streams their names. “We want

to keep alive the passions of these men and women, passions that define Vic and its place in Canadian society. We want to create conditions where the next generation can find their voices and learn to express themselves and their ideas.”

Susan McDonald, as registrar, helps to ensure that the University retains its unique character. To do so, Victoria needs not only exceptional faculty, but innovative staff, to help Vic’s accomplished students thrive. She oversees an advising staff that works with students to help them navigate what she calls a “complex experience.” “All of our students know they can come to us for support and advice, both academic

Susan McDonald MY FAVOURITE SPOT ON THE VIC CAMPUS I probably have the nicest view on campus from the west side of Northrop Frye Hall. It overlooks the quad and the view of the beautiful space and grounds sustain me every day.

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Paul Huyer MY FAVOURITE SPOT ON THE VIC CAMPUS

Judy and Paul Huyer Vic 8T1

The A.B.B. Moore Foyer of Old Vic. It’s like walking back in time.

They used to have photos of old graduating classes there and periodically, I’d go back and find my mother’s class from the 1950s.

and personal,” says McDonald. “We try to help them focus on future goals.”

Thanks to the efforts of her staff, along with faculty, alumni and the students themselves, their futures look bright.

She and her team distributed 878 scholarships, with 27 per cent of Vic students receiving an award. Such generous financial reward allows more students to experience Vic to the fullest by reducing the need to work during the school year. “I’ve been here for 20 years,” she says. “Now, more than ever, Vic is a destination college. Students know that if they come to Vic and work hard, they will be rewarded.” In 2012–2013, Victoria College distributed more awards and a larger total dollar value than ever before in its history: almost $2 million, including bursaries,” says McDonald.

“Vic alumni have contributed greatly to our ability to support our students.”

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Paul Huyer, chair of the Board of Regents, is also proud of the calibre of students who attend Victoria University.

“We continue to attract high quality students to the programs Vic offers,” he says. “I see a thirst for knowledge and a lot of creativity. They carry themselves well and show pride in Vic. It’s amazing and very inspiring.”

In fact, he and his wife were so impressed that they have established the Judy and Paul Huyer Scholarship, to assist two undergraduates each year, thus helping Victoria College fulfill its commitment to provide $1,000 in-course merit awards to A students. “That’s where the need is greatest because of the guarantee and the incredible quality of our students,” he says, “and thanks to a bequest from Isabel (Park) Hodgkinson Vic 4T3, our endowed fund will be matched. We get a real sense of satisfaction out of it. Recipients of awards often write to the donors and tell about the difference it made for them, so it’s a wonderful way to connect to today’s students.” He says that, in return, students are eager to connect with alumni, especially younger alumni,

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something the board is working to foster.

“They want to understand the paths alumni have taken, especially because this is a liberal arts college; we’re not training people for professions,” Huyer says. “It can be a bit of a zigzag route to a career, so they are eager to hear the stories of young alumni.”

“The place which is Victoria University does inspire students with its history and its values,” says Gooch.

“They want to live up to the challenges those who came before them met and mastered. And having found their place in the Vic community, they will find with confidence their place in the world.” 

PAUL GOOCH MY FAVOURITE SPOT ON THE VIC CAMPUS I do love my office. It looks out onto the Bader Theatre, Emmanuel College and Northrop Frye sitting here in the cold. People can’t walk by without sitting beside him or taking photos.

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Careers, Authors, Honours

and Conductor Morris Russell of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Visit symphronica.com.

Joan (Bond) Barrett Vic 5T5 is co-editor of Extraordinary Lives: Inspiring Women of Peel, written and published by the Canadian Federation of University Women Mississauga.

Proceeds go to the CFUW Charitable Trust for fellowships for Canadian women. Order through www.cfuwmississauga.ca/books.

The Equality of Believers: Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa (University of Virginia Press, 2012), by Richard Elphick Vic 6T4 was a finalist, earning “honorary mention” for the Melville J. Herskovits Award. This award is given by the African Studies Association for the best scholarly book on Africa (in any field) published in English in the preceding year.

Janis (Read) Cox Vic 7T0 has published her first book, Tadeo Turtle. She is both the author and illustrator (in watercolour).

Tadeo Turtle longs to be different and, through adventure, he learns to accept how God has made him.

Includes children’s activities. Visit www.janiscox.com.

Peter Ennals Vic 6T7 has recently published Opening a Window to the West: the Foreign Concession at Kobe, Japan, 1868–1899 (University of Toronto Press, 2013). Ennals is professor emeritus of geography and environment at Mount Allison University. He is co-author of Homeplace: The Making of the Canadian Dwelling over Three Centuries, and has contributed to the Historical Atlas of Canada and the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. His latest book stems from a year spent as visiting professor of Canadian studies at Kwansei Gakuin University, 1986–1987.

Kate Crawford Emm 9T1 was the keynote speaker at the 121st Queen’s Annual Conference, held last October in Kingston. The theme was “How I have Changed my Mind about Preaching.”

Photograph: (Opposite page) Vic Alumni Office

Ron Davis Vic 7T8 fuses his passion for both jazz and classical music in his latest project, Symphronica. On the album, he and his trio join the Windsor Symphony Orchestra

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milestones Rob Fennell Emm 9T4 recently edited Intercultural Visions: Called to Be the Church (United Church Publishing House). This volume includes essays from a number of Emmanuel graduates including HyeRan Kim-Cragg Emm 0T6, Debora McMillan Emm 0T8, Professor Emerita Greer Anne Wenh-In Ng Emm 8T0, Hans-Martin Rumscheidt Emm 0T2 and Aruna Saroea-Alexander Emm 0T6. Each chapter explores a line from A New Creed and its significance in the United Church’s quest to become an intercultural church.

It is available through www.ucrdstore.ca.

Demeter Press has released a new book

by Marilyn Gear Pilling Vic 6T7. A collection of linked stories about mothers/ daughters/family called Her Mysteries, this is Gear Pilling’s third collection of short fiction. Her other five books are collections of poetry from Black Moss Press.

Judy Goldring Vic 8T8 was recognized for the second consecutive year as one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women Top 100.

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milestones Ernie Jardine Vic 6T8 has published Bird Song: Defined Decoded Described, his second book on identifying birds by their songs. Accompanying recordings of bird song and further information are available on his website, www. birdsongidentification. com, or contact him at birding@aol.com.

Brenda Marshall Vic 8T7 has recently published Adult Sibling Loss: Stories, Reflections, Ripples (Baywood Publishing Company, 2013), a book which explores the grief one experiences at the death of a sibling.

Garry McEachern Vic 5T8, Emm 6T1 has written his second local history book If Freedom Means as Much to You, Meaford and St. Vincent Township and the Two World Wars.

Bruce Meyer Vic 8T0 has written The Obsession Book of Timbuktu released through Black Moss Press. Through it Meyer tells the fool’s history not only of a fabled African city but of his own hometown, Barrie, Ontario.

John Millyard Vic 5T4 discovered, edited, and wrote the introduction to Fiddlers and Whores: The Frank and Revealing Memoirs of James Lowry, a Young Surgeon in Nelson’s Mediterranean Fleet 1797 to 1804 (Money Jar Publishing). The memoir, from the original hand-written journal never intended for publication, describes Lowry’s rugged life afloat and adventures ashore.

It is now available as an e-book.

Philip Mulder Vic 8T9 was recently elected an Honorary Fellow of Geoscientists Canada in recognition and appreciation of his dedicated and noteworthy service to the geoscience profession in Canada.

The honour acknowledges his decade of communicating with and about professional geoscientists (geologists and geophysicists) as the director of communications for the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta, the authority that regulates geoscience.

Lorretta Neebar Vic 0T0 was a project advisor for a newly created guide for parents and students. Under the First Generation Pilot Initiatives Fund, she developed an outreach program that taught parents of first generation students about post-secondary

options. The guide can be found at the OSCA website at www.osca.ca. Neebar is the associate registrar of admissions and recruitment at University of Toronto, Mississauga.

A song by two Emmanuel grads, John W. Oldham Emm 6T9 and the late Larry Marshall Emm 7T6, called May your Hearts Be Ever Merry was awarded second place out of 75 submissions in the Great Canadian Hymn Competition II and was sung in concert by the acclaimed Pax Christi Chorale on October 6, 2013 at Grace Church on the Hill in Toronto.

Oldham wrote the text and Marshall the music.

Ross Parke Vic 6T2, distinguished emeritus professor of psychology, University of California Riverside, has published Future Families: Diverse Forms, Rich Possibilities (Wiley Blackwell) which brings together interdisciplinary research on new family forms including singleparent families, same-gender parents, new reproductive technology-assisted families, immigrant families, crosscultural insights about family forms, and the implications of these issues for children’s social and emotional development. E-mail ross.parke@ucr.edu for more information.

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Luis Ramirez Vic 9T1 currently lives in Calgary but comes home to Brampton every year to participate in the Snow Bowl Cup: an annual football game that he has played in for the last 30 years.

Ramirez can be seen here, proudly sporting his Vic sweater, alongside friends he has known since attending high school at North Park Secondary School. The story of this frosty football tradition was picked up by both the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail in December.

John Riley Vic 7T3 has published The Once and Future Great Lakes Country—An Ecological History (McGillQueen’s University Press), a history of environment change in the Great Lakes region, looking as far back as the last ice age, and also reflecting on modern trajectories of change, many of them positive. Riley is senior science advisor at the Nature Conservancy of Canada. He has had careers as botanist, geologist, ecologist, and conservation professional with the Royal Ontario Museum, the Ontario Geological Survey and Ontario Nature. He lives in Mono, Ontario.

Edward Roberts Vic 6T0 has published How Newfoundlanders Got the Baby Bonus (Flanker Press 2013), a compilation of the 49, “Past Imperfect” columns, plus one unpublished column, which he wrote for The Compass, and other community newspapers in Newfoundland, about the history of Newfoundlanders.

Roberts has also edited and annotated My Fight For Newfoundland: A Memoir (Flanker Press, 2012) covering

the years between 1919 and 1977 of the life of political legend, Peter Cashin.

Roberts has been involved in public life in Newfoundland for more than 50 years as a journalist, lawyer and politician.

He served as a member of the House Assembly for 23 years and as lieutenant governor of Newfoundland and Labrador from 2002 to 2008. He has long been passionately interested in the history of Newfoundland.

Ray Robertson Vic 9T3, author of eight previous books, has published his seventh novel, I Was There the Night He Died (Biblioasis).

Judy (Ewing) Steed Vic 6T5, journalist and former Atkinson Fellow, has developed a guided practice to reduce stress and enhance mindfulness.

She presented a six-week program, Light Up Your Life And Your Brain! at Ryerson University’s Life Institute starting in January 2014. It is focused on self-directed brain plasticity.

Janet Stobie Emm 8T9 has written her fifth book, Fireweed. Woven throughout this mystery story of the challenges of adolescent relationships, is a series of practical, common-sense strategies for dealing with grief. To learn more about this publication and Stobie’s other books, please visit www.janetstobie.com or e-mail revjanetstobie@gmail.com.

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In Memoriam Vivian J. (Sotnikow) Apps Vic 6T3, in Orangeville, Ont., November 7, 2013.

Robert V. Ashforth Vic 5T3, in Victoria, B.C., July 26, 2013.

Jane M. Burnham Vic 6T3, in Lindsay, Ont., September 7, 2013.

Margaret G. Chambers Vic 3T8, in Toronto, October 13, 2013.

Dorothy E. (Rudolph) Crawford Vic 3T2, in Tillsonburg, Ont., February 2, 2013.

Mary Ellen (Scott) Fenwick Vic 4T4, in Toronto, September 10, 2013.

Emilie E. (Garner) Graff Vic 3T1, in Stratford, Ont., November 16, 2013.

Aileen W. Hadden Vic 6T1, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., August 3, 2013.

Audrey I. (Boe) Marples Vic 4T2, in Toronto, September 22, 2013.

Louise Nault-Gallant Emm 0T0, in Brampton, Ont., April 27, 2012.

Douglass R. Peterson Vic 5T1, in Toronto, November 29, 2013.

David W.P. Pretty Vic 4T7, in Toronto, January 6, 2014, chair of the Board of Regents from 1985 to 1989.

Frances A. Rafelton Vic 7T5, in Toronto, December 7, 2012.

Marriages

Eric A. Read Emm 5T5, in Nanton, Alta., October 19, 2013.

Erica Rosenfield Vic 0T9 married Nedko Petkov Vic 0T9 on September 22, 2013 in Toronto.

John “Jack” T. Rutherford Vic 5T3, in Toronto, October 28, 2013.

Erin (Kent) Tutte Vic 0T8 married Andrew Tutte on September 7, 2013 in Oshawa, Ont.

Births To Victoria (Klosek) Rodrigues Vic 0T4 and Christopher Rodrigues, a daughter, Alexandria, on November 7, 2013 in Oakville, Ont. To James Ryu Vic 0T4 and Melanie DeSouza Vic 0T4, a daughter, Madeline Saejin, on September 3, 2013 in Toronto.

James Hilton Turner Vic 4T0, in New Wilmington, PA, October 2, 2013.

Michael I. Valiquet Vic 5T8, in Ottawa, January 27, 2012.

Karen Virag Vic 8T1, in Edmonton, Alta., January 11, 2014. Gifts in memory of Karen can be designated to Victoria College.

J. Harding Vowles Vic 4T6, Emm 5T0, in Toronto, January 3, 2014.

George E. Waters Vic 6T4, in Brampton, Ont., December 3, 2013.

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Celebrate a Century of Burwash Hall on May 29 Vic continues to celebrate 100 years of Burwash Hall. The countdown is officially on for the Burwash Centenary Banquet on Thursday, May 29 (see page 3). Help us usher in the next century of Burwash memories and fill the Hall. In the meantime, see if you can answer these five trivia questions about this campus landmark. If you carefully read the last Vic Report cover story “If Gargoyles Could Talk,” you shouldn’t have a problem! [answers below] 1. Burwash Hall construction began in 1909 and was designed by which Torontobased architectural firm?

2. The hall and its residences were built, largely through a philanthropic gift from whom?

3. During WWI, Burwash housed the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Canadian Air Force. What hangs in Burwash Hall to commemorate this service?

4. Burwash Hall was originally built to feed and house how many men on campus?

5. Today, Burwash Hall prepares how many meals per day for students and faculty?

1. Sproatt and Rolph 2. Chester D. Massey and the Massey Family Estate 3. a wooden propeller 4. 350 5. 1400–1600

Alumni Calendar of Events March 26 VWA “The ‘Helper’s High’: Evidence and Anecdotes on How Generosity Leads to a Happier and Healthier Life” with Larry Davies, executive director, Alumni Affairs and Advancement, Alumni Hall, Old Vic, 2 p.m.

reception, Private Dining Room, 7 p.m., $50 per person, register online at my.alumni.utoronto.ca/daa2013, or call (416) 585-4500 or 1-888-262-9775.

April 14 Distinguished Alumni Award Dinner Honouring Max Yalden Vic 5T2 (see page 4), Senior Common Room, Burwash Hall, 6:30 p.m., cash-bar

May 29 Burwash Centenary Reunion Raise a cheer to 100 years! Join us for a 5:30 p.m. tour of the upper residences, 6 p.m. reception, Goldring Student Centre,

Photograph: Vic Alumni Office

March 26 Friends of Victoria University Library Annual F. David Hoeniger Lecture, “The History of the Bicycle through the Lens of the Camera” with Lorne Shields, Alumni Hall, Old Vic, 7 p.m., r.s.v.p. to s.gough@utoronto.ca or (416) 585-4471.

April 16 VWA Annual Luncheon “Behind the Podium at Sotheby’s” with David Silcox Vic 5T9, former president, Sotheby’s Canada, Bader Theatre, 11:45 a.m., $28 per person. Advance registration and payment required

by April 9. The annual general meeting follows. Visit www.vicu.utoronto.ca/ alumni/VWA for details.

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and 7 p.m. dinner in Burwash Dining Hall, $45 per person. Register at my.alumni. utoronto.ca/bw100. See page 3 for details.

May 29–June 1 Spring Reunion Come back to Vic for the weekend!

Celebrating the Honoured Years 3T9, 4T4, 4T9, 5T4, 5T9, 6T4, 6T9, 7T4, 7T9, 8T4, 8T9. Visit www.vicu.utoronto.ca/ alumni/springreunion for details.

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