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The Myopia of Presentism by paul w. gooch Universities need multiple sets of eyes. One pair is trained on what’s behind, looking past the fog of received opinion into the past. Another set peers intently at current issues. Yet another set attempts to descry among the moving shadows of prediction the shape of things to come. The optical challenge for universities is to confront a metaphorical disease of extreme shortsightedness, called presentism, which is an inability to see past the tip of the nose. The term may not be familiar but there is indeed such a condition of mind, rather than literal sight. Though it hasn’t made it into the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the Oxford English Dictionary has spotted and captured presentism in this definition: “A bias towards the present or present-day attitudes, especially in the interpretation of history.” (Interestingly, for those still curious about the past, the first citation is from 1916.) You will recognize presentism as a pervasive condition, afflicting many aspects of our society. It manifests itself by an absorbing interest in what’s happening immediately, right now. It is fed by the urgent excitement of electronic media, bored by patient explanations, uncurious about different points of view, uncomprehending of subtle distinctions. Presentism finds no need to value the past, believing that the progress of civilization and science makes earlier human efforts redundant, quaint at best. In education, presentism wants universities to teach, and students to study, only ‘relevant’ subjects, those that will ‘pay off’ in as little time as possible. In politics, it may in fact manage to think ahead a little, three or four years—but mainly to develop strategies to win the next election. The myopia of presentism is usually spoken of in relation to the past, but it can also infect attitudes towards the future. If you assume that the past is not your concern, you might well slip into the view that the future isn’t your problem either. Science has mitigated many human miseries: why not believe that it will simply continue its march of progress? This attitude is exacerbated when it marries with individualism: presentism then focuses not only on today, but also on nothing but the circumstances of one’s own individual life. That attitude won’t do, however. The future is impacted by our decisions, our actions or inactions. Science can’t solve problems unless those solutions are implemented—and on issues such as climate change, implementation requires social action (because the efforts of a few can be negated by the many), legislation (because self-interest will prevail if there are no penalties), and education (because consequences are not immediately obvious). Universities have to challenge presentism in its many forms, both among its members and in the societies to which they belong. Research and teaching must be directed, not just to our day, but to the future, to the welfare of generations yet unborn. Researchers such as Katharine Hayhoe understand this well (see page 8). So do our many donors, whose contributions to our endowment insure that there will be resources in the years to come for successive generations of Vic students. Our Board and its committees have policies that enshrine the principle of intergenerational equity, so that the support we offer current students will not erode support for those yet to come—nor will we short-change the present for the sake of the future. Victoria University does not have literal sets of eyes. But it does have vision, shared by its past and current members, a vision that looks beyond the present to imagine a better world to come.  2

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Autumn 2014 Volume XLIII No. 1 Published under the authority of the Board of Regents of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. Publisher: Larry Davies, Executive Director, Alumni Affairs and Advancement Executive Editor: Alison (Massie) Broadworth Vic 9T7, Director, Alumni Affairs and Advancement Editor: Jennifer Little Vic 9T5, Manager, Marketing and Communications Managing Editor: Liz Taylor, Communications Officer Copy Editor: Frank Collins Design: Randall Van Gerwen Cover: Katharine Hayhoe Vic 9T4. Photograph by Babak. Vic Report is sent to all alumni, faculty, associates and friends of Victoria University. Published three times a year; circulation 24,000; ISSN 0315-5072. Publications Mail Agreement No. 40741521 Send letters and undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Vic Report c/o The Victoria Alumni Office 150 Charles Street West Toronto ON M5S 1K9 Tel: 416-585-4500 Toll-free: 1-888-262-9775 Fax: 416-585-4594 E-mail: vic.report@utoronto.ca Website: www.vicu.utoronto.ca Do we have your correct address? Please send your updated address, phone number and e-mail address to the Victoria Alumni Office. Please notify us if the graduate named in the address is deceased (enclose obituary or equivalent) and we will remove his/her name from the mailing list. Victoria University respects your privacy and does not rent, trade or sell its mailing lists.

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Margaret Chambers Vic 3T8 Matching Funds Available for New Annual Fund Supporters Margaret Chambers was a great friend of the staff in the Victoria Alumni Office. They always appreciated her kind words of praise and gratitude following the events she attended. Proud to be one of the few women to have graduated with a BA in mathematics in 1938, she went on to become a successful financial executive. As an actuary for over 25 years with The Co-operators, Chambers knew the value of a wise investment. She was a loyal supporter of the Annual Fund and thanks to her generous bequest to Victoria University, matching funds are available to double the impact of your new Annual Fund donation, increasing the University’s capacity to recognize and invest in Vic’s outstanding students.

A Win for Vic, a Loss for the Jays On August 5, 100 recent alumni enjoyed a beautiful night at the Rogers Centre, watching the Blue Jays take on the Orioles. The dome was open and the tickets were a real steal—great seats right in the hot corner. It was the first game of an important series but, in the end, Toronto lost 9 to 3. No amount of Vic or mascot spirit could have saved this game . . . or the season, for that matter!

To discuss donation opportunities at Vic, please contact Ruth-Ann MacIntyre: Telephone: 416-585-4526 Toll-free: 1-888-262-9775 E-mail: r.macintyre@utoronto.ca

REV UP YOUR DeLOREAN Photographs: (Opposite page) Peg McCarthy; Victoria Alumni Office, Jeff Picka Vic 8T9

THE 80s PUB IS AROUND THE CORNER!

Wow, I like need to take a chill pill. My gnarly, neon Swatch says it’s time to motor, big time. Gotta wrap up this game of Pac-Man, finish my Tab and get to the 80s Pub. I am like totally wearing these parachute pants with my striped leg warmers. Just can’t decide between my Tretorns and my jellies. Wonder if anyone else will be wearing their Vuarnets at night. Tonight is going to be totally tubular. Don’t freak out. The 80s Pub will be, like, awesome. Be there or be square. And don’t peg your jeans too tightly. You might want to do the Worm.

NOVEMBER 15 IN OLD VIC AT 7 P.M. $30 per person, includes admission, refreshments and a drink ticket. Cash bar. Register at my.alumni.utoronto.ca/80spub

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Another Successful Year for the AVC Paul Haynes’ Three-Year Term Comes to a Close As part of the Spring Reunion festivities, Paul Haynes Vic 9T9, president of the Alumni of Victoria College (AVC), delivered his final president’s report. In addition to welcoming the AVC’s new president, Anita (Gower) Kapustin Vic 9T5, the report included highlights of the past year, showcasing the many ways in which alumni remain active at Vic. The AVC is active in the Vic community, including being present during Orientation Week. The AVC hosted an alumnistudent social to welcome incoming students and participated in the Men’s and Women’s Traditional Ceremonies. Later in fall 2013, the annual Keith Davey Forum on Public Affairs welcomed over 400 students, faculty, staff and alumni to campus with a panel discussion entitled “Drone Warfare: Justice, Strategy and Technology.” In December, alumni and friends also participated in the Graduates Christmas Luncheon at which Principal Angela Esterhammer Vic 8T3 delivered her talk “Improvising Poetry on the Nineteenth-Century Stage.” Throughout the school year the AVC participated in alumnistudent programs, including Life After Vic and Forging our Futures. Several members of the AVC participated as speakers for these programs, which were very well received by students.

AVC Slate of Officers for 2014–2015 Past President: Paul Haynes 9T9 President: Anita (Gower) Kapustin 9T5 Alison (Massie) Broadworth 9T7 Astrid-Maria Ciarallo Vic 0T8 Kayley Collum 0T7 Kathryn Cumming 7T4 Diane Dyer 6T2 Cynthia (Lovett) Elson 6T5 Patrick Lui, Student Koray Salih 0T0 Lisa Taillefer 9T5 Jennifer Wells, Secretary

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2014 Distinguished Alumni Award

Vic One Plenary Lecture Series

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Weekly Event Open to Alumni

Do you know a Victoria College alumna/us who is distinguished for her or his extraordinary contribution to: • Society • Business • Politics

• Education • Culture • Religion

Nominate her or him today at www.vic.utoronto.ca/ alumni and select Distinguished Alumni Award from the web page’s listing. The Victoria College Distinguished Alumni Award, created by the Alumni of Victoria College Executive, is presented in recognition of a graduate’s recent or lifetime achievements. The scope of her or his contribution may be at the local, national or international level. Applications must be received by November 30, 2014.

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Haynes also commented that time was spent working on strategic planning and thanked everyone who contributed to the new Vic Spring Reunion Scholarship that resulted in a scholarship valued at $24,700, once matching funds were included. 

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The first Vic One plenary of the fall term took place on September 17 with the annual Keith Davey Forum on Public Affairs. Entitled “Class of 2018: The Prospects for this Generation in an Unequal World,” the discussion focused on the question of inequality and its potential solutions. University of Ottawa’s Miles Corak (middle) was joined on stage by Clark University’s Jeffrey Arnett (left). Rodney Haddow (right), undergraduate director of the Department of Political Science at U of T, moderated the informal debate. Alumni and friends are invited back to school every Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. for Vic One plenary sessions. For details and a list of speakers visit uoft.me/2hA.

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Everything Old is Green Again Back Field Re-vitalization Project Vic is proud of its physical campus and a very dedicated team works hard to maintain it. Our back field, however, had seen better days. Despite annual sodding, watering, and backroom deals with the weatherman, it was too far gone. In an effort to protect this unique asset, Vic took advantage of the summer months and had the field completely revitalized for Vic and the U of T community. The first step involved a complete re-grading of the land to prevent unwelcome ice hazards which formed every winter. The field was suitably crowned and sloped as part of the grading process. An infiltration trench was dug as part of the drainage system. The pre-existing soil was salvageable and thus not doomed to a landfill. Thanks to Mother Nature, the soil sits above 12 feet of sand, which makes for good and natural drainage. Farewell, spring mud baths. The design components of the field complement two other important features installed as part of the Goldring Student Centre project. During periods of heavy rainfall, the new Margaret Addison driveway will assist in quickly absorbing the extra moisture because of its porous base. All surface water ultimately drains into the large cistern buried under the new courtyard. Water that would normally have found its way into Toronto’s storm sewers is now handled in an environmentally responsible way. Modern turf management and responsible watering practices will be in play for the renewed field. The turf that has been selected can re-generate throughout the season.

In light of Vic’s southern Ontario location, the best varieties of Kentucky Bluegrass have been planted—a fescue grass with a medium-coarse blade that resists winterkill, tolerates shade and recuperates well from drought. Throughout the year, some activities will be restricted at certain times based on the state of the turf. The administration and students are working together to develop guidelines for the use of the field. No trees were removed or damaged during the field re-vitalization project. Every large tree was incorporated into the new design and additional trees were planted to increase the tree canopy. Other soft plantings have been added to the field’s perimeter to make for a beautiful improvement. 

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Giving Back to the Community They Called Home

Photographs: (Opposite page) Horst Herget; Victoria Alumni Office

Joan and Donald Dique Support the Vic Student Experience Donald C. Dique Vic 5T1 had fond memories of living in North House while he was a student at Vic. Not only did he form friendships here, Vic is where he met his wife Eleanor Joan Turner Vic 5T0. After graduation, he kept in touch with his former house mates and was actively involved in the organization of North House reunions. Donald and Joan were, for many years, generous donors. Don spoke to his family about his hope to leave a bequest to Vic to commemorate the time he spent there and the lifelong relationships he enjoyed as a result. After he passed away in 2011, Joan decided that she wanted to do more. She wanted to honour her husband’s wishes, but she

also felt a desire to see the gift in action and put to use. With a generous donation to Vic’s Ideas for the World program, the Diques’ funding has helped ensure the long-term future of this co-curricular program. To date, over 75 faculty members and 400 students have participated in this engaging series, which covers broad and challenging topics covering history, philosophy, literature, politics, media, economics, the environment and theatre. At the same time, Joan made an additional gift—matched with capital provided from The Mary Isabel (Park) Hodgkinson Fund—to establish The Donald and Joan Dique Scholarship. It will be awarded to Victoria College students achieving excellence in the course of their studies, with preference given to students living in, or associated with, North House. This year, Chancellor’s Council recognized Joan’s commitment to Vic by granting her permanent membership. It is with sadness that the Victoria community learned of Joan’s passing on September 23, 2014.  vic report autumn 2014

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The Northrop Frye Centre Circa 2014 A Message from Professor Robert Davidson It is my great pleasure to introduce the Vic community to the new Northrop Frye Centre. Now that the semester has begun, activities at the centre will begin to heat up. By the time that you read this, we will have had our inaugural Northrop Frye Centre lecture, “The Force of Fiction,” by William Egginton, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University, as well as a talk on De Chirico and the crime novel by Ara H. Merjian of New York University in our Occasional Lectures Series. Books by B.W. Powe and Vic’s Rita Leistner will have been launched and I hope that we will have gathered to discuss some of our colleagues’ ongoing research. One of the primary goals of the Northrop Frye Centre is to promote and facilitate undergraduate research at Victoria College. To this end, we have appointed three stellar, doctoral students to serve as the first group of Northrop Frye Doctoral Fellows. Joanne Leow, Colin Rose and Morgan Vanek stand ready to mentor students from Vic’s various programs and address any research or methodology questions that they may have. We are committed to making it easier for faculty to run Research Opportunity Program courses which allow students to work directly on research endeavours, and we are eager to know what kind of support we can provide in order to facilitate the offering of this valuable research opportunity, and others, to our undergraduates. The second prong of the Northrop Frye Centre trident is the one that has already been the most visible in the form of the activities that I have listed above. We will continue to be active in bringing exciting and provocative speakers to campus, providing a venue for the celebration of research and teaching, and organizing events that draw on the interests of the Victoria community. Preliminary planning for an international and interdisciplinary conference on “collecting” in the spring of 2016 has already begun and we hope to have a call for papers and a roster of keynote speakers out soon. I encourage all

PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH ANNOUNCEMENT Professor Paul Gooch will complete his final term as president of Victoria University on June 30, 2015. The University Review Committee has completed its work and the Review Report is on the Vic website at www.vicu.utoronto.ca. In accordance with the by-laws of Victoria University, an advisory committee has been struck to undertake the recommendation of a new president of Victoria University to the Board of Regents.

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members of Vic’s extended family to keep an eye on our on-line “Events” page and come out to Northrop Frye Centresponsored activities. The third objective that I have for the Northrop Frye Centre is to promote the exchange of ideas among the Fellows and staff at Vic. Although we work side by side with great scholars and thinkers, unless we happen to coincide at a conference or some external function, we rarely get to actually hear each other’s work. I’m hoping to change that by providing time and space for us to sit down and listen to works in progress or hear the communication of polished ideas. The Spanish tertulia, an informal gathering to talk about ideas, is definitely a practice that would fit well in the elegant and comfortable spaces afforded us at Vic. The ongoing organization and development of the Northrop Frye Centre “circa 2014” would not be possible without the insights of Principal Angela Esterhammer Vic 8T3, the members of our advisory board, and both Maureen Peng and Jamie Quadros who have carved out time and energy to help make things begin so smoothly. It is also my pleasure to welcome Alexandra Varela to Vic as the assistant to the director and as a member of the Victoria College events staff. When I first arrived at Vic in 2002, I was excited to not only join the University of Toronto but also to become a Fellow at Vic. The College has treated me extremely well over the years and it is now an immense honour and privilege to have been named the director of the new Northrop Frye Centre. Once past the hurdle of tenure, professors often find themselves attracted to opportunities to help build things. In my case, I’ve been lucky to be able to contribute through research and service to the growth of Catalan studies in North America as well as to publishing in Hispanism via UTP’s Toronto Iberic book series. With the Northrop Frye Centre, though, I’m excited to have the chance to contribute back to the Vic community on a larger and more interdisciplinary stage. I look forward to working with everyone here and encourage you to share any ideas you may have for the Northrop Frye Centre’s future. 

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Devlin Fernandes: Casting a Wide Net

Photographs: (Opposite page) Victoria Alumni Office; Christa Simmonds

Devlin Fernandes Vic 0T4 is a living testament to A.B.B. Moore’s proclamation that “education must take place in a community.” Currently living in Prince Rupert, on the north coast of British Columbia, Fernandes works as a manager of programs at Ecotrust Canada, a charity and enterprising non-profit whose purpose is to advance the conservation economy. When she started in 2010, she focused on coordinating and facilitating dialogue on how to support sustainable, community-based fisheries. The role has since grown to include bringing together community leaders and organizations to foster collaboration, cooperation and solutionbuilding for local fisheries. She looks back on her experience at Vic as an influence on her current work. “Vic fostered a culture of engagement and being active in the community, and that stayed with me.” Fernandes, like most of Vic’s population, was a commuter student and needed to look beyond residence and the classroom to find her place. “Getting involved with VUSAC (Victoria University Students’ Administrative Council), specifically, the Special Projects Commission, made me realize the importance of student empowerment, place and governance.” Under Fernandes’ leadership as Special Projects Commissioner from 2002–2003, VUSAC passed a referendum that increased the levy that supported new projects, particularly those that would benefit student life. “It was a privilege to be so involved—we were able to set criteria, review applications and determine which projects would set precedents for current and future Vic students.” One of those projects was to commit capital support for costs of the future Goldring Student Centre—a space that Fernandes and her peers would never experience as students. “It was important to us that we continue Vic’s legacy of generosity. A space like the Goldring Student Centre marks the difference between four years of classes and a life-changing experience.”

After graduation, Fernandes volunteered with different organizations in Toronto and travelled to Haida Gwaii, Vancouver Island and Alberta to work in silviculture camps. She returned to Toronto to pursue a master’s degree in forest conservation at U of T in 2005. “After visiting and working in communities whose livelihoods were based on natural resources, but who had little control over how those resources were used—and received few benefits from the harvesting of them—I knew I wanted to become more engaged,” she says. In 2006, she moved to B.C. and worked with the North Coast Forest District in Prince Rupert and then in the Aboriginal Affairs Branch in Victoria. In 2010, she settled in Prince Rupert to work with Ecotrust Canada, hoping to effect change on a more local level. Fernandes is now looking to grow stewardship capacity with local and First Nations’ fisheries programs, although the scope of her work is wide. She spends much of her time supporting community-based fisheries, including designing governance systems, such as licencing banks to maintain access in communities, exploring and testing social finance mechanisms to support small-boat fleets, and providing information and planning support for economically viable, socially beneficial, and sustainable fisheries. She has been building and implementing electronic monitoring and seafood traceability with ThisFish, a program that aims to provide individuals with information on the seafood they eat: who caught it, when, where and how. She’s also exploring alternative forestry and fisheries business models for First Nations. For many people on the coast, fishing provides more than just an income: “It’s a way of life and part of their culture—one in which they have participated for generations. It’s my job to describe both the tangible and intangible values that fishing provides to communities and to balance financial goals with environmental and social values.” Recent projects include everything from meeting with locals and hearing their personal stories of how fishing affects their daily lives, to helping fishermen navigate federal governmental requirements so they are able to pursue sustainable livelihoods. And while she uses this knowledge to further the causes of Ecotrust Canada, she believes that the transfer is mutual: “I’ve learned so much about how culturally and environmentally rich Prince Rupert is—its land, waters, and people. I feel privileged that I am constantly learning and have found a role where I am building capacity in communities.” It is clear that Fernandes’ work means much more to her than merely a wage, it is her passion. She is both a champion for the environment and a shining example of Vic alumni continuing their education and making a difference in communities around the world. 

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KATHARINE HAYHOE VIC 9T4

CONNECTING VALUES

DECISIONS By Ivor Tossell Vic 0T2

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efore Katharine Hayhoe was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, before she appeared on televisions across America, before she became a pioneering voice in the evangelical movement to take a stand for the science of climate change, she was an undergraduate at Victoria College, fresh out of her first year, manning the observatory atop the McLennan building. And she was mad. It was the early 1990s, and the big, new HMV music store on Yonge Street had just installed a rotating spotlight on 8

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its roof. Hayhoe had been hired to study stars whose brightness fluctuates. This was all well and good, except that every time the HMV spotlight beam would pass above the observatory, her readings would go haywire. “Finally, after about a week of it, I’d had it. So I called them,” she says. She put on the most official voice that an undergraduate could muster, and declared, “This is the Department of Astronomy at the University of Toronto! We’re trying to observe variable stars, and your spotlight is ruining

our observations.” And she issued an instruction: “On a cloudy night you can circle it all you like. But if it’s not a cloudy night, fix it in position and do not move it.” HMV did exactly as it was told. Katharine Hayhoe knows a thing or two about persuasion. Twenty-plus years later, at a diner in Parkdale, Hayhoe can’t stop laughing as she retells the story. In fact, it’s rare for her to stop laughing at all: She has the kind of focused ebullience that might make you suspect it’s put on for

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the cameras, of which there seem to be more and more in her life, until you meet her in person and discover that it never really stops. It’s a trait that’s helped make her one of the most unique voices in the fight to spread the word about climate change. Now a professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, her work in modeling the way global climate change will affect specific regions has led to gamechanging legislation, and collaborations with researchers and industrialists around the world. But what’s even more remarkable about Hayhoe’s career is the niche she’s carved out for herself as an ambassador for science in a culture whose dogma views science as inherently suspect— a Canadian who has found success preaching the gospel of climate change in the powerful, Republicandominated, evangelical Christianity of the American south. Today, Katharine Hayhoe is becoming more and more visible. The nod from Time—which came in the form of a tribute written by actor Don Cheadle—is just the latest highprofile appearance. Before that, she was featured in the Showtime series Years of Living Dangerously, which sent celebrity hosts fanning out across America as interviewers, meeting climate-change scientists at the forefront of research. Cheadle was her interviewer. But if Hayhoe has attracted attention for one thing, it’s the fact that she’s a “climate-change evangelist,” in the most literal sense. She was raised by teachers in Toronto who had previously been missionaries in Colombia and her husband is senior pastor at their Texas church and an academic in his own right. Hayhoe had already graduated from U of T and the University of Illinois, and had made a name for herself as a climate scientist, when she followed her husband to an academic posting at Texas Tech where she discovered herself in a different world. “Moving to Texas, I kind of knew that people there didn’t really think climate change was real. So I was definitely concerned,” she says. Within a couple of months of arriving in a new city, and a new congregation, she received her first

invitation to speak with a women’s group. The group, she recalls, wasn’t hostile, but they were curious; they had heard a lot of conf licting information. No wonder: Religion and politics go hand-in-hand in America. “In the States, if the Republican Party says something, then that is almost a statement of faith for your church,” she says. In America, climate change has become a wedge issue that, depending on your political affiliation, is either a defining challenge of our times, or a hoax perpetuated by scientists, eager to reap some hazily defined reward. Hayhoe’s audience is not just getting doctrinal climate-change information from the pulpit, but is being targeted with misinformation by right-leaning media outlets. After being peppered with questions about climate change, Hayhoe went back, researched more, and when she received her next invitation, tried to incorporate those questions into her presentation, iterating the talk. Soon, word-of-mouth spread. One invitation led to another, small groups becoming large religiousschool crowds. “It just started snowballing,” she says. “Ninety per cent of the people in the room thought climate change was a complete hoax. But they were willing to hear me out because they heard somebody else say, ‘I heard her, and she’s good, and she didn’t bring a blow-up doll of Al Gore with her.’” How do you evangelize climate change to congregations who have been persuaded it’s the enemy’s work? It helps to share a footing in the same faith, and speaking respectfully is important. Moreover, Hayhoe’s approach comes down to linking science to her own Christian values. Facts, she says, are all well and good, but it’s values that inspire people to act. “You have a moral responsibility to tell people,” she says, “especially if the people who are being affected are the people who are poor or vulnerable and don’t have the resources. They’re the exact people that Christians are supposed to care for.” And then, there are some arguments she just doesn’t touch. Hayhoe is not a Bible literalist. Her view of the universe pictures God as a framer of the elegant laws of physics, rather than one who

created the earth 6,000 years ago. “My dad is a science educator and a Christian, so I grew up with the Big Bang Theory, cosmology, whatever. It was really a shocker, having to run into the whole six days thing,” she says. “But, here’s the beauty of it: to agree on climate change, we don’t have to agree that the world is any more than about 300 years old. So I just skip the whole issue.” Hayhoe grew up in an Italian enclave in northwestern Etobicoke, and science was always a part of Hayhoe’s world. Her father was a science teacher with the Toronto District School Board and one of her earliest memories was being taken to the park at age four, set down on a blanket with a pair of binoculars, and taught to spot galaxies. The family were also members of the Plymouth Brethren, an 1800’s offshoot of the Anglican church—“one of these radical, we’re-not-going-to-go-by-allyour-rules, we’re-going-to-look-at-thereal-Bible-ourselves churches.” Science and faith were never at odds in Hayhoe’s family. “Science is how you understand and appreciate the world around you. My dad is of the opinion that if you understand it, you appreciate it more,” she says. “It’s not enough to look at a rainbow, you have to understand how the rainbow occurs to really, properly appreciate it.” The other constant in her youth was education. Her mother took one day off a week from raising her children, who would go to stay with their grandmother— and of all the things to do on that one day off, she would take the TTC downtown, and head straight for Victoria College, where she would enroll in one course after another. As a child, Hayhoe found herself in line at Northrop Frye Hall with her mother, waiting to file her registration papers. The registrar looked down at her and said, “You must be our youngest student.” “I thought, ‘Not yet, but one day I’m going to be.’” After spending her teen years moving back and forth from Colombia, where her father was by this point serving as the director of a school as well as working with the local church, she applied to U of T and chose Victoria—it was where her family went. (There was also the vic report autumn 2014

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small fact that she had been having too much fun in Colombia to get her correspondence-course Ontario Academic Credits in time, and U of T was the only school that gave her a conditional acceptance.) There followed an elective course that shaped her career. Hayhoe’s first love was astronomy—she graduated with a degree in astronomy and physics—but, almost on a whim, she picked up a third-year course in climate change. This was where she discovered that climate science is rooted in physics, not chemistry. It involves things like calculating the reflection and refraction of energy as it passes through layers of the atmosphere, or modeling the dynamics of fluid on a rotating sphere (in this case, the Earth—the biggest rotating sphere we have on hand). One of the challenges with climate science is in taking global estimates, and working out what they mean for local areas. After all, nobody lives at a global level: Everyone lives somewhere, and the effects of climate change vary wildly from one place to the next. On the Gulf

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Coast, it means flooding. In California, it means lack of snowpack and shortages of freshwater. In Toronto, it means heavy rainfall washing out roads and overwhelming aging infrastructure that wasn’t built to handle it. This became Hayhoe’s specialty: devising methods that would allow her to scale down global models to yield local projections. After graduating from Vic and moving to the University of Illinois for her master’s degree—she would later complete her PhD in 12 months flat— Hayhoe started working with experts in specific fields who could use her local climate data to inform their own models. For instance, livestock experts know exactly what effect a degree or two difference in temperature has on the amount of milk cows produce. If Hayhoe’s models predicted a rise of a degree or two in local temperatures, they could start examining next steps. Build better enclosures? Breed more hardy cows? Similarly, rapid transit organizations know that heat makes their rails expand and warp when they exceed a specific temperature, and want to know how often they’ll have to shut down their systems. Hayhoe’s regional modeling can help explain it. In the early 2000s, an organization called the Union of Concerned Scientists—“funny name—‘concerned scientists,’” Hayhoe chuckles, midtale—brought her to California where she convened with experts in a whole spectrum of disciplines, from winter tourism to wine crops, to do one of the first comprehensive studies on just what climate change would do to the State. “For the first time, as far as I know, in any assessment of climate change impacts, we actually qualified what would happen if we continued on our current path compared to what would happen if we reduced our emissions,” she says. The study led to an executive order from the governor that demanded reduced emissions targets, and when Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the bill into law, her fellow scientists were standing in a semi-circle behind him. Hayhoe is busy these days. At Texas Tech, she was granted tenure in the Department of Political Science, which was looking for a greater connection

with the “science” part of its name. On top of raising her son, teaching and speaking, she’s published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, is the director of the Texas Tech’s Climate Science Center, a collaborator with national research networks, and the founder of ATMOS Research, her own consultancy. She’s only 42. Today, she’s trying to limit her speaking engagements to groups that wouldn’t hear the message from anyone else—places that only an evangelist could go. In the end, science and faith didn’t prove as incompatible as they might seem. In the midst of a burgeoning academic career, Hayhoe and her husband co-authored a book, A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions, which was published in 2009. It was something of a coming-out for her: Hayhoe had spent years talking about science to the public, but for the first time, she was declaring herself a Christian to her peers in science. The reaction she got came as a surprise. Scientists, Hayhoe says, are actually a far less agnostic lot than you might suspect. “I thought my colleagues would have more trouble than they did. They’ve been uniformly accepting and encouraging,” she says. If anything, she receives more push-back from the more fundamentalist edges of the Christian community. Hayhoe is at pains not to be a doomand-gloom messenger, and is bent on keeping her message upbeat. For all that, as the interview ends, there’s a flash of the urgency that animated the 20-year old telling HMV to pipe down. This is a real problem, and we need to act—and science can’t get us there alone. “Science can tell us that the climate is changing,” she says. “Science can tell us why the climate is changing. Science can tell us, if we make a decision, this is what the outcome will be. But making decisions depends on our values—and that’s why it’s so important to connect our values.”  Ivor Tossell is a writer and columnist in Toronto— and, once upon a time, the editor-in-chief of The Strand. He is a regular contributor to The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, and other publications across Canada and the United States, writing on politics, cities and business.

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Ron Brown Vic 6T6 has released his 21st publication, Top 125 Unusual Things to See in Ontario. Other titles include Back Roads of Ontario, Ontario’s Ghost Town Heritage and Rails Across Ontario. Brown works as a travel writer and tour director for a major Ontario tour company. He is a member of the Travel Media Association of Canada, and is past chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada. William (Bill) Conklin Vic 6T7 has written Statelessness: The Enigma of the International Community (Oxford: Hart, 2014). Conklin is a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor and was recently elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

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John Crawford Vic 5T6, Emm 6T3 and wife Margaret celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on July 6, 2013. Fred Dawkins Vic 6T7, partner at the Creative Destruction Lab of the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, has written Family Entrepreneur—Easier Said Than Done, to be published in November by Dundurn Press. It is the second book in The Entrepreneurial Edge series.

*T he Mulock Cup was the oldest trophy for organized football in North America and was the oldest sporting trophy in Canada. Donated by Sir William Mulock in 1894 to reward the champion intramural football team, Victoria first won the Mulock in 1909 but managed just 15 more victories in the following 48 years. Then something happened. Starting with the ’58 season Vic went on a roll and won it the next 11 years in a row . . . the ultimate manifestation of dominance! Vic lost the cup in 1969 but won it again in 1970 and 1971.

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Wayne Fraser Emm 7T2 and his wife Eleanor Johnston Vic 7T2 attended the American Literature Association conference in Washington, D.C., in May, 2014. Fraser was part of a Hemingway Society panel discussion on Ernest Hemingway and his relationship with the American government. The title of his paper was “‘I believe in the Cuban people’s cause:’ Hemingway’s Politics in Yuri Paporov’s Hemingway en Cuba.” Fraser and Johnston are co-authors of the novel Hemingway’s Island (Hearth Publications). Gerald Hallowell Vic 6T5 has won the 2014 Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing for his book The August Gales: The Tragic Loss of Fishing Schooners in the North Atlantic, 1926 and 1927 (Nimbus Publishing). Maria Holt Vic 8T7, University of Westminster, has published Women and Conf lict in the Middle East: Palestinian Refugees and the Response to Violence, published by I.B. Tauris. Paul Illidge Vic 7T4 has written The Bleaks: A Memoir, published in October by Toronto’s ECW Press. It is the true story of the events in the author’s life following a police drug-squad raid on his house and the subsequent arrest of him and his sons.

Desmond Jagger-Parsons Emm 0T7, chair of KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, headed the Philippine Learning Tour, a KAIROS-sponsored tour including delegations of Canadian Churches, CUPE, Canadian Mining Watch and Idle No More representatives. Travelling in Manila and the Zamboangan peninsula of Mindanao, the tour focused on allegations of human rights abuses, displacement of indigenous people and environmental concerns arising from Canadian mining interests. For more information about the tour, its findings and its partners, see www.kairoscanada.org. Grace Ji-Sun Kim Vic 9T2 has written Contemplations from the Heart, published by Wipf and Stock. It contains theological and spiritual reflections on family and community and is intended to help readers see spirituality in daily life, exploring current issues in relation to the church. She has also written Theological Ref lections on “Gangnam

Style”—A Racial, Sexual, and Cultural Critique, co-written with Joe Cheah and published by Palgrave Macmillan, the authors analyze the American response to the popularity of Gangnam style. From both historical and theological perspectives, the authors tackle the pressing issues concerning racial stereotypes, racialized bodies, hegemonic masculinity and mimicry. Michael Leach Vic 9T9 is attending Oxford University’s Hertford College to continue his post-graduate education in socio-legal studies. Bruce Meyer Vic 8T0 has published two books: Time of the Last Goal: Why Hockey is Our Game (Black Moss Press); and a second edition of We Wasn’t Pals: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the First World War (Exile Editions). Time of the Last Goal is a celebration of Canada’s national pastime in poetry, short fiction, and essays as well as a cultural study. The new edition of We Wasn’t Pals is co-edited with Barry Callaghan, with an afterword by Margaret Atwood Vic 6T1.

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Five members of the Victoria University community have been recognized with an Arbor Award. The awards were created by U of T to recognize outstanding volunteer service and have been awarded annually since 1989. This year’s winners are Paul Haynes Vic 9T9, Marian Hebb Vic 6T1, Paul Huyer Vic 8T1, Dale Skinner Emm 0T3, Neil Tenney Vic 7T4 and Kate Thomas Vic 0T1.

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Kenneth Radu Vic 7T0 has written Butterf ly in Amber set in Montreal and Russia, published by DC Books. The novel comes only one year after Earthbound, his latest book of short stories.

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send us your news: vic.report@utoronto.ca John Riley Vic 7T3 received the 2013 Fred Landon Award for his book The Once and Future Great Lakes Country: An Ecological History, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. The award recognizes the best book on local or regional history in Ontario published in the last three years.

MARRIAGES

Earle G. Leslie Emm 5T6, in Halifax, N.S., January 17, 2014.

Katherine (Schmidt) Altbaum Vic 0T8 married Peter Altbaum on September 2, 2013 in Toronto.

E. June (Mead) Long Vic 5T0, in Manistee, MI, December 28, 2013.

Jessica (Lewis) Bunn Vic 0T9 married Duane Bunn on June 21, 2014. Jane McGaughey Vic 0T3 married Thomas Walker on May 24, 2014 in Kingston, Ontario.

BIRTHS To Katherine (Schmidt) Altbaum Vic 0T8 and Peter Altbaum, a son, Shlomo Eitan, on July 15, 2014 in Toronto.

A watercolour portrait by Jeff Sprang Vic 7T7 of the 2014 Team Canada goalie, Carey Price, has been added to the Hockey Hall of Fame’s art collection. The Carey Price painting is a companion piece to the Sidney Crosby portrait reported in the Summer issue of Vic Report. Brian Tennyson Vic 6T2 has written Canada’s Great War: How Canada Helped Save the British Empire and Became a North American Nation (New York: Rowman and Littlefield). It describes Canada’s role in the war and how that experience not only advanced Canada’s transition to full autonomy but changed its relationship with Britain and the U.S. Paul S. Wilson Vic 7T2, Emm 7T9, professor of homiletics at Emmanuel College, has written Preaching as Poetry: Beauty, Goodness and Truth in Every Sermon. Part of the Artistry of Preaching Series, the book is available for purchase through www.AbingdonPress.com.

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IN MEMORIAM David R. Allan Emm 6T1, in Oakville, Ont., February 4, 2014.

Mary M. (Middleton) McCartney Vic 4T7, in Adrian, MI, November 13, 2013. Jean H. (Lennox) McFall Vic 4T0, in Toronto, June 19, 2014. Alfred L. Nelson Vic 5T0, in Medicine Hat, Alta., July 27, 2014. Kathleen Elizabeth (Vice) Robbins Vic 4T8, in Sooke, B.C., July 24, 2014. Marjorea K. (Gordon) Roblin Vic 5T4, in Markham, Ont., August 7, 2014. John E. Speers Vic 4T5, in Barrie, Ont., March 29, 2012.

Gloria A. (Rubel) Bennett Vic 5T0, in St. Catharines, Ont., December 7, 2013.

Peter M. Stokreef Vic 8T3, in The Azores, July 28, 2014. Donations in memory of Peter M. Stokreef can be made at http://my.alumni.utoronto.ca/ peterstokreef. All gifts will be matched by Victoria College through the Isabel (Park) Hodgkinson Vic 4T3 Fund.

Ronald Albert Boorne, in Sackville, N.B., June 14, 2014.

Roger B. Truemner Vic 5T0, in Grand Bend, Ont., June 25, 2014.

Margaret A. (Silvester) Cooke Vic 6T9, in Brunswick, ME, February 23, 2014.

Margaret C. (Eaton) Waddington Vic 4T2, in Bracebridge, Ont., June 9, 2014.

Eleanor Joan (Turner) Dique Vic 5T0, in Toronto, Ont., September 23, 2014.

Grace A. (Smith) Wardlaw Vic 4T6, in Simcoe, Ont., August 25, 2012.

William B. Glenesk Vic 5T0, Emm 5T2, in Yorkshire, U.K., May 18, 2014.

Janet M. Wardlaw Vic 4T6, in Guelph, Ont., January 17, 2014.

Ruth J. (Mustard) Hare Vic 5T0, in Mount Desert, ME, January 25, 2014.

Jonathan S. Wardlaw Vic 8T1, in Newmarket, Ont., July 9, 2014.

Kirsti H. (Mottonen) Bates Vic 4T8, in Waterloo, Ont.

An award has been created in memory of Karen Virag Vic 8T1 by the Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC). The Karen Virag Award will acknowledge an individual or organization’s successful efforts to raise the profile of editing in the community. Karen’s own outreach to raise the profile of editing included her long-standing participation as EAC’s representative on the Cultural Human Resources Council and her frequent appearances on CBC Radio as one half of the dynamic Grammar Gals duo, with Virginia Durksen. Karen also travelled widely and was a lover of languages and fluent in many. She respected the power of the written word and was a published author across different genres. For 16 years, Karen was the supervising editor of publications for the Alberta Teachers’ Association. She was also a book reviewer for the Edmonton Journal, a writer for The Tomato, taught courses in grammar, and edited fiction and non-fiction works.

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Imagination Unbound Support Continues to Grow by larry davies, executive director of alumni affairs and advancement Every year we take this opportunity in Vic Report to thank our generous alumni and friends. Thanks to the contributions of 1,885 donors, Vic received $5,372,208 in 2013–2014. We are now moving towards completion of Vic’s $60-million Imagination Unbound campaign, a partner in U of T’s Boundless campaign. Contributions come in all forms, from scholarship and student-life support, to Annual Fund donations. Every gift can be put towards something of value. Throughout this year’s report, you will read about some of the ways supporters of the Annual Fund have made a difference to the campus. Perhaps the next time you stroll through our beautiful quad, look around and see how your donations support everything from the installation of bike racks to the purchase of plants for Vic’s flowerbeds. Our donors make all these things— and more—possible.

chancellor’s council/ presidents’ circle $5,000 or more 1946 F. David Hoeniger  V C. Douglas Jay  V 1947 Freda M. Eickmeyer  V Dorothy Fetterly* 1949 Norman Jewison  V Anne H. (Templeton) Nethercott  V 1950 E. Joan (Turner) Dique*  V 1951 Molly (Patterson) and Bill Macdonald 1952 Graeme and Phyllis Ferguson  V Richard Iorweth Thorman  V 1954 Anne Weldon Tait  V 1956 Larry Lundy and Elizabeth (Langford) Julian  V 1957 Alastair McD and Jennifer Murray  V 1960 Paul D. Warner  V 1963 Bob Wong  V 1965 Gregory Baker 1966 John and Thea Patterson John and Josie Watson  V 1968 Frank and Patricia Mills W. David Wilson  V 1971 Wendy M. Cecil  V David Eugene Clark  V 1972 Ann E. Wilson and J. Robert S. Prichard  V 1974 Jane C. Freed  V J.A. (Sandy) McIntyre Margaret and Andrew Stephens  V 1975 John E. Engeland  V 1977 Lynne V. Freed 1978 John C. Field  V 1980 Timothy G.M. Hadwen Bill McFarland 1981 Blake Goldring  V Paul and Judith Huyer  V

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Brian and Colleen Johnston  V 1985 R. Greg McKnight  V 1999 Lawrence and Sharen Ho  V 2000 John* and Gail MacNaughton  V 2002 Coral and William Martin  V 2006 Eva Kushner  V Friends, Faculty and Corporations Paul Bouissac  V Robert C. Brandeis  V Browns Corner United Church Canadian Dawn Foundation Friends of Victoria University Library and Victoria College Book Sale  V Paul W. Gooch and Pauline Thompson 6T3  V Catherine E. Heron  V The Islamic Institute of Toronto Jackman Foundation  V Heather, Kate and Elizabeth Jackson  V The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation  V Moez Kassam  V Bruce S. Kovner Carolyn I. McEwen Ann Robson St. Andrew’s United Church James John Thomson Wayne C. Vance Vancouver Foundation  V Victoria Women’s Association  V The W. Garfield Weston Foundation $2,500 – $4,999 1949 Ruth (Hunt) Clarke  V Margaret Jean (Fraser) Kitchen 1956 D. Carl Anderson  V

This donor report recognizes everyone who contributed $100 or more to Victoria College or Emmanuel College between May 1, 2013 and April 30, 2014. Only gifts to Victoria College or Emmanuel College are included. While all donations are appreciated, space limitations preclude the listing of all donors. For the full donor listing, please visit the Alumni & Giving pages of www.vicu.utoronto.ca. An asterisk (*) following a name indicates that the donor has passed away subsequent to making his or her donation. Victoria also thanks anonymous donors. 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 call the Victoria Alumni Office at 416-585-4500, toll-free at 1-888-262-9775 or e-mail vic.alumni@utoronto.ca.

Paul Chandler Harris  V 1959 David P. Silcox and Linda Intaschi  V Rosalyn E. Stephens 1960 Carol Diane Nunn  V 1961 Alexandra F. Johnston  V 1962 James M. Babcock  V Robert E. Lord  V Stan and Mary Neal 1964 Jean (Reilly) O’Grady  V 1966 Marvi and John Ricker 1967 Harvey Botting  V 1968 Elizabeth (Eastlake) Vosburgh  V 1970 Sandra Forbes and Stephen Grant Valerie A. and Brian Story  V 1972 Joan D. Catterson  V Terence Dalgleish  V 1974 David L. Farrington  V Carole Linton MacFarquhar 1976 Bruce E. Couchman 1978 Mark S. Evans 1989 Robert T. Pemberton 1994 Ellen Redcliffe Friends, Faculty and Corporations BMO Financial Group  V Clara Carletti James P. Carley and Ann M. Hutchison Class of 5T3 Victoria College Dorothy and Keith Davey  V Larry Davies  V Martha Drake  V Hal Jackman Foundation  V Indusflow Systems Inc. Sandra L. Irving Elena M. Lemeneva Mark Toulouse  V John Yoshioka

$1,827 – $2,499 1943 Charles F. Scott 1948 Buzz Neal  V 1950 Robert C. Dowsett  V Robert* and Jacquelin Trimble  V 1951 Donald G. Lawson  V 1953 Nancy (Jamieson) and Walter Pridham  V 1954 J. Douglas Ross  V 1957 Kenneth W. Inkster  V 1959 Anne E. (Foote) Liphardt  V Janet (Macrae) MacInnis  V Robert A. Taylor  V 1961 Thomas G. Bastedo  V Murray A. Corlett  V 1962 L. Diane Dyer  V Philip Maude  V 1964 MacGregor David Sinclair  V 1966 Carolyn Jean (Werry) Sinclair  V 1968 James M. Parks  V Peter and Mary Lou Rankine  V 1970 Gillian (Smiley) and Kenneth Bartlett  V 1972 Garth M. Girvan  V 1975 Richard and Sue (Hanbidge) Harris  V 1983 Angela Esterhammer 2001 Stephanie A. Corbet  V Friends, Faculty and Corporations Salvatore Brancaccio  V Katherine Dalziel Vivien and Ray deSouza Larry and Colleen Kurtz  V Kenneth R. Thompson  V

J. Michael and Naomi Tomczak  V Lipson Tsang Anne Urbancic  V Wellington Square United Church

principal’s circle $1,000 – $1,826 1940 Jean Findlay T.H. Glynn Michael  V Doris (Brown) Stokes*  V 1944 Edgar B. Thomson  V 1945 Muriel C. Milne  V 1948 Jean (Birkenshaw) Fennell  V Edward J. Glover  V 1949 Ethel (Upton) Lapp  V Dorothy J. Madge  V Patricia (Mills) Shield  V 1950 M. Lorne Bell  V Donald B. Dodds  V Alan Marchment  V Barbara McEwen  V Charles Rathé  V Pauline and Newton Reed  V Bernice Ujjainwalla  V 1951 Mary (Kerr) Alford Lois (Sutherland) Fleming  V Robert W. Worthy  V 1953 A. Phelps and Judy (McGill) Bell  V Thora B. Edwards  V Larry Lundy and Elizabeth (Langford) Julian  V 1954 Dick Cousland  V 1956 Kenneth Brian Burnham  V Barbara E. (Schultz) Phelps  V

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1957 Nancy Bailey-Bligh  V Patricia J. Hughes Terence P. Scully 1958 David Bernhardt  V C.T. Craig Kamcke  V 1959 Gwen M. Farrow  V 1960 Robert and Marilyn (Daly) Beamish 1962 Helen L. Goggin Daniel Nathanson 1965 Jeffrey M. Heath 1966 Harold Dixon Bridge  V Frank A. Fraser  V Barbara J. McGregor  V 1970 Keith and Pamela McCallum  V 1971 Maureen R. Kaukinen  V 1972 Robert J. and Nancy E. Kincaide  V 1973 Shirley Hoy  V Nancy J. Ruhnke  V 1974 Margot T. Hallman 1975 William Friend Roger and Moira Hutchinson  V Charles A. Webster  V Reet Wiseman 1977 Susan V. Hewitt 1979 Milan Rupic Alison M. Schofield  V 1980 Jeffrey C. Shin  V 1982 Lenna M. Bradburn Jean A. Cumming 1983 John D. Grant  V Sharon Gregory and Andrew Mitrovica Peter and Joan Wyatt  V 1984 Gary S. Love  V 1986 Agnes N. Mark 1987 Benjamin Chan  V Yvonne Y.W. Tsang 1989 Lisa M. Khoo 1991 Edward Truant 1997 Alison (Massie) Broadworth  V 2000 Katherine Corlett  V 2001 Jennifer Elizabeth Pugsley  V 2007 Gabrielle Chan Anne Osler Meredith Hepburn Stephen Garchun Kwong 2008 Emily Ann Ratsep Friends, Faculty and Corporations Aurion Capital Management Inc.

David A. Blostein and Kerry Dean  V Paul E. Bush Marcel Danesi William Edwards  V Nevin Reda El-Tahry Doris Galbraith  V Arlene Ide Arthur Kennedy Patrick and Jane Kierans  V John E. Kozub Wing Fat Law Marsh & McLennan Companies  V Malcolm G. Musgrove Richard Walter Partington Stephen Riggins  V B.J. Romans  V Patricia Romans  V Wendy Setterington and Gerald Swinkin Victoria M. Stuart Gordon Thompson R. Paul Thompson  V The United Church of Canada Foundation Judy Watt-Watson

cornerstone circle $500 – $999 1936 MacFeeters Family  V 1940 Ruth Louise Maxine (Smith) Lonergan  V 1943 Ruth M. Bentley Ruth Bolt  V 1944 Mary Keyes  V Elizabeth G. Lenehan  V 1945 Rosalind Cartwright  V Barbara (Jones) Michasiw  V Pauline M. Scott  V 1946 Paul H. Morris  V 1947 Ruth E. Balmer  V Paul M. Deighton  V 1948 George W. Edmonds  V Dorothy M. (Flannery) Horwood  V S.M. Parkhouse  V Elizabeth F. (Purdie) Pepper  V Jennie I. (Ballantyne) Wildridge 1949 Frederick Manson Daphne Brooke O’Sullivan Ellen J. Timbrell  V 1950 R. Alison Hall  V

1951 Rosemary A. (Willard) Ambrose  V Malcolm S. Archibald  V 1952 Jean Gordon Campbell*  V Charles Elliott  V Sheila Frances Robertson  V Maxwell and Janice Yalden  V 1953 Anne G. Burnett  V Roy E. Schatz  V William Tynkaluk  V 1954 Donald A. Burwash Ronald J.L. and Shirley Cornfield  V Diana M. Schatz  V Nancy G. Thomson 1955 Arnold T. Bailey  V Suzanne Cousland  V Margaret A. Pinkerton  V Sheila K. Seymour  V D.R. (Rundle) Toller  V 1956 Raymond G. Carl  V Martha A. Dynna  V Joanne (Langdon) Morris  V Donald C. Morton  V Beverley Rhodes Ross Robins and Doreen (Johnson) Robins R. Bruce Scott  V Lars H. Thompson  V John Roy and Catherine Inez Edith Wilson  V 1957 R. Alan Harris  V G. Edmund King  V Joan Lumsden Jacquelyn E.F. Mayer Richard and Florence (Emerson) Newman  V Ronald G. Ostic  V 1958 Olga McKellar  V Alan and Louise Redway  V Cameron D.E. Tolton  V 1959 Dougald McDermid  V J. Clair Peacock  V 1960 Pamela (Matthews) McPherson and Thomas McPherson  V Ruth Matisko 1961 Elaine M. (Westheuser) Godwin  V Judy A. Hunter  V 1962 M. Margaret Fisher  V Peter J. George and Allison Barrett  V

Freda D. Wilson 1963 John Clipsham  V William S. and Carol Danbrook William E. Hewitt Mary McDougall Maude  V Marion Adams  V 1964 Murray and Susan Armitage Foundation  V Carolyn B. Bowker  V 1965 Ian Morrison Nancy (Caldecott) Sutherland  V 1966 E. Ann Rae William D.G. Rose  V Eleanor L. Smith Byron B. Yates  V 1967 Peter M. Ennals  V Linda E. MacRae  V N. Jane Pepino  V Virginia R. Robeson 1968 Peter Bennett  V Grant E. Lewis  V 1969 Marlene (Solomcoe) Robinson 1970 Peter G. Kyle  V Jana S.L. Nilsson 1971 David C.G. Brown  V Christine M.A. Deja 1972 Marlene Auspitz  V Robert J. Dawson  V William J.H. Ostrander  V 1973 Barbara D. Forsyth C. Michael Harpur  V Stuart F. Wason 1974 Margaret E. Devitt  V David Allan Harris  V David J. Watt 1975 Melanie C.W. Campbell Deborah and Douglas Herridge  V 1976 Stephen Bowman and Elizabeth Koester  V John D. Denisavitch  V 1977 Brenda M. Bloberg Holz  V Stephen A. MacLachlan 1979 Emily F. Braun  V Mary Beth Currie  V Garfield R. Mitchell  V Joy L. Rosen 1980 Ian Currie  V Jane Field and H. Dore  V Greer Anne Wenh-In Ng  V Mary L. Spalding

1981 Susan (Allan) Gillmeister  V A. Alix McEwen David L. Swail  V 1982 Robert Farquharson  V Lorne E. Farr  V 1983 Andrew J. Graham John Sotirakos David A. Barker  V 1985 Ali Rezaizadeh Amanda Walton  V 1989 Alison M. Tasker 1990 S.A.A. Kabir Ahmed 1991 Tara Somerville  V 1992 Jane A. Langford 2007 Townsend Haines  V Friends, Faculty and Corporations Bell Canada Employee Giving Program James C. Douglas Aubrey G.S. and Winnifred E. Edworthy James Forster IBM Canada Limited David and Julia Keeling  V Marilyn E. King Angelina Yan Shun Lam K. Lillico Manulife Financial D. Jean Orpwood Helen M. Ostovich Warren Rapoport RBC Employee Volunteer Program Mohamed R. Shaffee  V South West Presbyterial Catherine A. Steele Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation Earle and Iris Toppings George and Fern Wardlaw David S. Wright  V

scarlet and gold circle $100 – $499 1935 Dorothy I.M. Black  V Helen S. Wadge  V 1938 L. Eveleigh Smith  V Florence H. Walker 1939 Melba F. Munholland  V 1940 E. Patricia Andrews Isobel M. Cork  V 1941 Lois Bobier Enid M. Ewart  V Betty I. McLean  V

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GETTING SOME WORK DONE Even a grand dame needs a lift, from time to time. Especially when, like Old Vic, you’ve been around since 1890. This summer, the iconic building was under wraps in preparation for the winds and snows of the upcoming seasons. In an effort to make the building more airtight, all of the window ledges have been replaced, thanks to support from the Annual Fund. The ledges had been in a bad state of repair and some glazing needed to be replaced—another tricky venture in a historic building. To replace such glass, but still remain “original,” the replacement glass must have been fired within five years of the original—an amazing example of re-use! The installation of Douglas-fir ledges and repaired glazing will allow for a solid 50 years of wear, tear and day-dreaming.

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1943 Helen R. Gray Audrey M. Hilliard Edithe K. Lewis  V Agnes E. Masters  V Edith J. Reid 1944 Mary (Hopkins) MacKay 1945 Mildred S. Barrie  V Ruth L. Brown Richard Jeanes  V 1946 Thurza (Swinnerton) Dawkins  V Marion L. Gordon M. Rowena McLellan Doris E. Pearce  V 1947 Agnes Beckett Dorothy J. Cooke  V Lorine E. Danahy Betsie (Ewing) Gerber  V Colleen O. Gildner  V Elizabeth Matthews Jean E. Moore  V Gordon G. Pickell  V Mary Patricia Raymond  V Elizabeth G. Rogers  V Louella M. Sturdy G.L. Toombs Barry F. Townley* 1948 Mary E. Cook  V Wilma J. Friend Norma E. Hayman Mary Frances and Keith Hendrick Edward T. Hill  V Kenneth E. Howie John M. and Elizabeth A. Kerr Mary W. Laurence  V Joan McDonald  V Donald R. Milne Helen E. and John D. Pearse  V Margaret J. Riches  V Mary E. (Schweitzer) Pleasance  V J. Douglas Snedden  V D. Graham Tipple  V William E. Toye  V Norma M. Warren  V A. Ruth Watt 1949 Jean I. Aceti  V Muriel E. and John F. Anderson Richard B. Batten Jeanne Beck Peter Bremner Eleanor M. David  V Marjorie L. Ewing  V Onalee J. and Donald Eric Gage  V

James C. Gardner  V Jean E. Gray  V Thora J. Harvey  V Beth Thomson Lerbinger R. Warden McKimm Gordon McLellan George and Ethelwyn Speers  V Margaret E. Stafford  V Cecily Stone  V Anna M. Strike  V James A. Taylor A.E. John Thompson Bruce W. Whitehouse  V Leonard G Wilson  V 1950 Henry J. Bradley Jean S. Dalziel  V C. Isobel Davey  V Elizbeth (Coulter) Dodds  V Alan F. Gregory John L. Harvey  V Beth Holt  V Elizabeth A. Johnson Margaret Ann Lorimer  V Jessie MacLeod Thomas A. Milburn  V Margaret W. Page Verna Maud Reid Helen B. Sing  V Betty Mary Tudor  V J. Ralph A. Turner 1951 Joyce L. Beare Rogers  V B. Lucille Bell Bruce Charles Bone  V J.E. Bowler Aileen A.C. Bowyer  V Eva C. Davidson  V Paul and Carol Dilks Dorothy (Adams) Forbes  V R. Don Harlock  V J. Douglas Head  V Agnes Gillies Hendry Barbara Anne Holt  V Richard V. Howson  V Margaret I.J. Jackson  V Nathan H. Mair Bruce H. Weppler  V Josephine A. Willsie 1952 Robert S. Anglin Sylvia H. Backshall  V Janet K. Burnie Jean E. Cawkwell Donald E. Erling Helen K. Fisher Ardath M. Francis  V Joan D.M. Gullen

Kenneth and Mary Lund  V Jean Mary MacTavish Donald D. Mooney  V Lorne R. O’Neill  V Margaret H. Parker Barbara R. Reid  V Elizabeth Rochester  V Mary E. Sarjeant  V Keith L. Sumner  V Dorothy I. Wilson  V 1953 H.A. Batstone  V Ann D. Clifford Gordon B. Coll Donald W. Hall  V L. Joyce Howlett Fred F. Langford Douglas G. MacLeod Wallace and Elizabeth (Stapells) McLeod  V Duggan Melhuish Allen E. Robinson  V C. Shirley J. Sims and C. Glenna J. Sims-Bonk Margaret L. Waddington  V W. Douglas Waite 1954 Jeanine C. Avigdor Ronald J.L. and Shirley (Couke) Cornfield  V Donald J. Donahue George H. Gregg  V Olga T. Griffin  V Bruce and Donna Mackey  V C. Maureen Moorfield  V Elizabeth Myles  V Caryl J. Peterson  V Joan F. Compton Pond Marjorea K. Roblin  V L. Jean Stewart Jocelyn D. Stratton James A. Thomson Ed Tossell Barbara Walker 1955 John Becker and Gwenne Becker  V Patricia A. Green  V Geoffrey D. Johnston Marion Laurena Kirkwood  V Sandra E. Langman  V Ria J. McMurtry and Roy McMurtry  V J. Peter Mitchell and Olga Mracek Mitchell Mary E. Polak  V R. Allison Roach  V Allan T. and Joan Shaw  V Patricia V. Simpson  V

Pauline M. Sprague Margaret Stoicheff Nora R. Wilson  V 1956 Diana G. Ardron  V Joan M. Breukelman  V Barbara A. Burbidge  V Eleanor J. Burton  V John Crawford  V Donna E. Digby Ronald B. Glenesk Gilbert E. Howey Frederick G. Howlett Lois I. Jempson  V Gordon Neil MacKinnon  V Doug and Jackie (Wickware) Philp Shirley Ann Shortt Frank Shuttleworth  V Donald West Stevenson  V Barry J. Truscott V. Marilyn Turner  V Mary Janet van den Bergh Gerald E. Wiley Jean Wright 1957 Elaine (Barrett) Billings  V K. Allan Cuzen  V R. James Elder William and Margaret R. Johnston John D. Lane  V Patricia A. Lane  V Joyce A. McLean Margaret Munday Paul Newman Elizabeth H. Pearce Patricia Rodgers  V A. Louise Rolston  V Robert E. Saunders  V J. Jeremy Van-Lane  V Richard Verity  V 1958 Sheila K. Babb Margaret Baily  V Elizabeth M. Bream Douglas G. Brewer  V Joan Burrows John A. Cameron Carol Dilks Lucille V. Dray Stanley Nelson Farrow  V Helen Virginia Finley  V Gerry and Georgia Helleiner  V M. Gordon Hueston  V Donald A. Johns  V Hilary Kay Kaler Barbara (Meisner) Kohl Elizabeth D. Lawson

Victor G. Lotto  V Dorothea Manson William and Elizabeth Metcalfe Barbara C. Robinson R. Gary Seagrave  V Elda Virginia Thomas Patricia Warner 1959 Jean M. Bailey Phyllis M. O’Brien Donald Bell Murray Binsted Bruce S. Brewer Elizabeth J. Chambers  V Daryl L. Cook David MacMurchy Cullen  V Marjorie Marilyn Devine  V Heather (Currie) and Donald A. Elliott Hugh Gemmell  V Don and Mimi Gillies  V Donald Grant Patricia E. Grant Jill Guertin Laurence Hebb  V Donna M. Heyland John D. Humphreys Ivan L. Hurlbut C. Frederick Johnston Judith N. and J. Bruce Langstaff Patricia Ruth Leach Patricia E. Legate J. Clark Leith Barbara A. Manrique  V Rhoda M.S. Melinyshyn James Douglas Sharples  V Janet E. Sheridan  V Ronald B. Turner  V M.H. Vandenbroucke 1960 Marilyn R. BrewerPatterson  V R.A. Francis  V B. John Hunter Donald E. Inkpen John Lazier  V J. Annette Lindsay Donald Charles Matheson Murray A. McBride Mary-Ellen McColl Nancy H. Murphy  V Dan Norman  V H.K. Plant Derek W. Quin Mary C. Redekop  V

BEAUTIFUL CAMPUS BLOOMS Snapped amongst a hearty bed of Victoria Blue salvia, a busy bee takes advantage of this rich source of nectar. Commonly referred to as mealy-cup sage, the aromatic flowers on this plant are valuable for attracting native bees, as well as bumblebees, honeybees, butterflies and even hummingbirds. Victoria’s campus is a horticultural hotbed consisting primarily of native species. Indigenous plants are advantageous for the environment for several reasons. Not only are they better suited to the local climate, but they often require less fertilizer and are more often found to be both disease and pest resistant. They also provide wildlife with both a food source and shelter, helping to preserve naturally occurring ecosystems.

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CORE VALUES

Photographs: (Opposite page) Victoria Alumni Office; Victoria Alumni Office

The Burwash kitchen nourishes the body and soul of the Vic community. Chef Nathan and his team strive to keep waste to a minimum—composting whenever possible and buying Ontario-grown produce. Apples and pears are available throughout the year from the Niagara Fruit Growers Association. October is the height of canning season when they preserve locally grown and fresh vegetables for the winter months. Cucumbers and zucchini play triple duty as they can be used for relish, pickles and tartar sauce. Niagara-grown scorpion, scotch bonnet and habanero peppers are made into hot sauce for an autumnal wing night. Using local ingredients inspires creativity and the immediate use of ingredients at the peak of freshness. To cap off a meal, Burwash’s ice cream is made in Etobicoke, and its cheese is from Ontario.

Sally Diane White Robert Wolfe 1961 Donald S. Affleck J. Douglas Bryden  V Lynda Bryden Margaret A.J. Cameron  V John R. Carbert John V. Conroy David L. Crane Frank Friesen  V Robert Douglas Getty Ann L. Haag Marian Dingman Hebb  V Janet Louise Hinchley A. David Kneeshaw Dorothy Landells  V Helen (Truscott) Mitchell  V Edward M. Moskal Ian Ramdial John A. Sallmen  V Dorothea A. Sprung  V Michael G. Thorley  V John Traill Marilyn Y. White William Wright  V 1962 Charles P. Beaton Margaret E. Bird  V Elizabeth J. Black  V Jean-Marc and Stephanie L. Charron Beverley A. Edgecombe  V Kerry K. Johnston James Ralph Mills William Lee Morningstar Shelagh M.J. Roberts  V Brian C. Westlake  V Robert M. Wilson Glen D. Wright 1963 M. Dianne Bird  V Elizabeth J. Bliss  V Al Brereton  V Catherine M. Davison Joachim and Gail Doehler  V Helen G. Hamilton R. Gerald Hobbs Donald E. Jeffreys  V William and Catharine Lord  V Mary Jane Miller J. Barry Riddell  V John C. StewartRobertson William R. Townsley  V 1964 Bernice May Ellen Bain James A. Burnett

Catherine K. and Peter B. Canham  V Linda J. Clarke  V Eleanor I. Currie  V Janette M. MacDonald  V Geoffrey O. Fitzpatrick  V Elizabeth A. Gerrie and David Yeung  V F. Ruth Zaryski Jackson Benjamin Johnson  V Pamelia E. Lock  V Eva Z.L. Lypka Peter R. McMullin Bruce A. Moyle Marion Pierce Edward F. Radke Judith A. Ramsay  V Joan M. Rayner Marilyn B. Shepherd Bruce Taylor  V Douglas Ward  V Judy and Larry Ward Leonard A. Wilkinson April Y. Yamaoka 1965 Sandra E. Clarke Paul R. Dempsey  V Judith and Peter Drake  V Leslie David Foreman*  V David J. Holdsworth  V John A. and Lorna Hutchinson  V David I. Macleod  V Richard H. Moffat  V Carl W. Mollins Wilfried Neidhardt  V Donald Waterfall  V Marilyn G. Young 1966 Doris A. Arnold John M. Baty  V Jennifer H. Code Eileen Conway James R. Dadson Patricia E. Fenton Robert K. Graham  V Janet D. Jacobson Donald Laing Edda Marika Madvark W. Ronald and Maureen McCallum  V C. Marilyn McCowan  V Marjorie J. Smith Paul Reginald Stott  V Mary L. Tigert  V Peter G.F. Young  V 1967 Jeremy E.B. Adamson Carole A. Brenner  V Wallace J. Brown

Donald W. Carter Barbara A. Cooper Katherine L. Ennis  V Elizabeth A. Graham Ronald T. Hunt Brian D. Keys  V Andrew Lawless  V Camille J. Lipsett D. Brian and Camille Lipsett Marci C. McDonald Katherine A. McTavish Marie L. Pyper 1968 Lynn D. Bennett  V Brian R. Bouckley Ian B. Buttars  V M. Ann Dewees Michael N. Durisin  V Michael Eben  V Barbara A. English John and Lynne Glenney  V James Gregory  V John D. Gregory  V Barbara R. Healey  V Patricia Kathleen Higgins  V John A. Miller  V James D. Reynolds Susan E.R. Rumsey Lynn and Ray Smith Janet E. Webber  V Catherine Williams  V 1969 J. Edwin F. Bryan  V Kennedy J.L. Coles Gertrude I.E. Dean Elspeth M. Deir  V Calvert L. Francis  V Mel and Carmen Greif  V Donald A. Jackson D. George MacIntosh Anne R. McWhir Joan H. Miles Penelope D. Richardson S. Peter Tsatsanis 1970 R. Michael Benton  V Aris Birze  V Richard D. Cooke J. Roger Giroux  V Janet and Donald Karn Wendy A. Leaney Donald V. Macdougall Sheila (Fallis) Robinson Margot Young  V 1971 David and Heather Bichan G. Graham Brown

David P Chesney D. Michael Fertile  V G.H. Harder C.G. James Hewitt  V Norma M. MacIntyre  V Michael A. Orr John G. Richardson  V Elizabeth J. Shilton Gary and Louise Sugar 1972 Bruce A. Avery  V Mary Ann Evans A. Beth Moore  V Sandra D. Pett  V Mahendra H. Shah Patricia Young 1973 Vincent D. Alfano  V Bronwyn R. Best  V Susanne Busse Marilyn R. Christensen Panagiotis Grouios Mary M. Hethey Robert M. Jackson  V Susan (Morawetz) Latremoille Heather MacDougall Clinton Mooney  V Donald A. Sharpe Robert G. Sheath Ellen Elizabeth Simpson-Maissan 1974 Elisabeth B.A. Braun Deborah L. Card Barbara E. French  V Christopher John Hains  V Carol L. Hancock Robert E. Keast A.J. Maissan K.D. Casey McKibbon  V Bryan J. Smith Dianne E. Spencer Carole Anne Whelan John D. Withrow 1975 Murray A. Cruickshank R. William Dunn  V L. Jane FeatherstonFerch  V M. Noel James  V Jennifer Anne Johnson Harry Manning  V E. McRae Mary A. Spencer  V 1976 John W. Barrett

David G. Cowper-Smith  V Raymond A.K. Cox David A. Dennis Lesley Evans  V Ronald R. Holden  V Robin M.A. MacKie  V John B. Mayberry Jane P. Morris  V Gary W. Newhouse Cleve Sheffield 1977 John C. Adams  V Kathleen Sheffield Anderson R. Edward Black Michael J. Donnan Michael J.-P. Fattori Gordon D. Fulton  V Constance J. Green  V Catherine W. Hellyer Patricia A. Jackson Donald K. Johnston Allan J. Saunders Marie A. Vaillant 1978 Donna M. Burton  V Gregory Deighton Jeffrey Gollob  V David W Gomme Diane K.J. Oki  V Cheryl A. Rhodes  V M. Joan Smart Heinz-Michael A. Voelker Michele M.S. Ward 1979 Heather and Paul Conolly-Mingay  V Robert Hanna  V Carolyn V.E. Hitchman 1980 David G. Burgess Rodney M. Engeland  V James C. Gill Barbara Laing-Hiseler  V Laura L. Lalonde Quintin E. Lang Andrew Tymoszewicz Clive Veroni 1981 Susan E. Gunton Michael J. Hall  V Susan Evelyn (Broadbent) Hogan Adele L. Jackson Zwimpfer David W. Johnson Shane A. Kelford

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

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FIDDLING WITH THE ROOF Nobody likes to replace his or her roof. It’s messy and it’s expensive. Now imagine if your house were a National Historic Site of Canada, such as Annesley Hall. Over the summer, the British Commonwealth’s very first purpose-built residence for women had its roof replaced. Thanks to Annual Fund support, Vic was able to maintain the integrity of this historic building while, at the same time, improving its energy efficiency. For the first time in Annesley’s history, insulation was put under the roofing material— slate, in this case. Slate roofs last 80 to 100 years and thus significantly reduce landfill use over the decades.

Debra Loughlin Gillian Moorecroft Steven H. Paikin  V Paula L. Quigley Cynthia E. Scott Tamara (Morris) Smith  V 1982 Elizabeth M. Anderson Brian E.G. Clarke Christopher Glowienka M. Shelley Grieve Stephen J. Lautens Elizabeth S. Marmura  V Martha A. Mingay Margaret A. Reid  V Barbara A. Spottiswood Kimberly Ann Turner 1983 Gillian M. Cummings Munro J. Ferguson  V Peter G. Guy Kent Ing Alexandra L. Jenkins Ian G. Johnston David Kotler  V Carole McAfee-Wallace Mark Scarrow Pamela Smalley Hamish Stewart  V David Stinson K. Jane Watt  V Douglas Wright  V 1984 David F. Barrows  V Susan E. Billington  V Carole J. Garron Hillary J. Geller B. Lynne Golding  V Deborah M. Hart Janet E. Heisey Alison M. Kelford Smith Carolyn J. McBean Deborah A. Peacock Valerie Scane  V Norman P. Seurukas  V Nada Tijanic 1985 Christine L. Comi Kathleen McCallum  V John A. McIntosh  V John E. McLeod  V Keith L. Pang M. Domenico Volza  V Jeff J. Wilker  V 1986 Taras W. Ciomyk  V Martin Hubbes Michael T. Karapita Ross Leckie  V Morag I. McMurray Hisako Narimatsu Robert J. Saffrey  V

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1987 Michelle D. DesRosiers Nancy E. Hardy  V Paul N. Reed Robert and Wendy Sider Claudio Tarulli Susanne E. VanderLugt Ian Willson 1988 Martine A. Celej  V Ernest P. Chan Steven Elder  V Michael L. Humpage Tina Krinis  V Jinan A. Kubursi Iria Statiris  V 1989 William E. McDowell  V Brian E. McLaren John T. Seki 1990 Sharon Willa Moore Cooke Janice E. Franklin John F. Tweddle 1991 Bradley T. and Sarah L. Morrison  V William E. Steadman  V Christine I. (McLachlin) Watkins 1992 Ping Ying Chung  V 1993 Marc Johnstone and Kristene Steed Christina M. Von Gemmingen 1994 Laura E. Bliss C.M. Swire Chin Young-Joon Rhee  V Michael David Scott Angela Stoddart Omri Tintpulver 1995 K. Elizabeth Agnew Nelsona Constance Dundas  V Jennifer Little Philip W. Locke  V Linda K. Petrides Photios Frank Sakellariou Laura Roberta Shaw  V 1996 John E. Lang Susan Ho-Jung Lee 1997 Don Lang  V Elizabeth Sangster 1998 Kyong-Ja Choi Cho Nadine Gopaul Moe Tabesh 1999 George Allan James Malcolm Finlay  V Kent Douglas James Garrett  V 2000 Judith Campbell  V Heather A. Scott 2001 Fiona Chang

A. Marie Harvey Adelia (Moura) Marchese Nora E. Vedress 2002 Kristina J. Campbell  V Arvin Gopaul Mary Lee Laing  V 2003 Liv Caroline Capozzi Michelle Elizabeth Harshman Kathleen Anne and Charles Ian Mack Olivier Kevin Sorin Zhao’an Zhang 2004 Michael Andrew Glenney Erin Ashley McDonald  V 2005 Heather McLean Shu Ho Jason Wong 2006 Linda Tung-Prangley  V 2007 Sheila Campbell Kayley Collum  V Brian La  V Karen Marks 2008 Wanda Dayle Burse Elizabeth Diamantopoulos Alexandra Horsky Debra P. McGill 2009 William A. Blaikie Stanley R. Bunston  V Leslie Hills  V 2012 Jeffrey Bacon 2013 Lyn Gaetz Patricia Robinson Sheryl Spencer Sandra M. Watson Greaves Friends, Faculty and Corporations A. Millard George Funeral Home Ltd. Mahmoud Issa Abdullah Al-Haj Phyllis and Matthew Airhart Dorothy Amos  V Andrew J. Graham Professional Corporation Alan Arthur Basil R. Baeta The Bank of New York Mellon Community Partnership  V Susan M. Barker Marisa Barlas  V Deborah J. Bates Jennifer A. Bates Shirley J. Bates J. David Beattie Brenda R. Ben Helen Best Ann Black  V Ellen and Murray Blankstein  V

Peter Blayney Bloordale United Church Deborah Bond Kenneth Harry Borris Andrew Brown Christopher J. Brown David Brown Leslie Buehner  V Centennial Japanese United Church Women  V Robert J. Chadwick J. Edward Chamberlin  V John and Vera Chau Jeffrey A. Citron Nora Clark John and Margaret Coleman Frank Collins The Co-operators Group Limited Brian Copeland Jane Couchman Robert Croxall Christopher George Cunningham Stanley Davies Patricia Dehaan Marie D’Iorio Nicholas Eben  V Jane E.A. Emery Victor P. Enns Clare Estlick Fairlawn Avenue United Church Women  V R.H. Farquharson  V Christopher W.W. Field Philip Francis Alison M.P. Girling and Paul Schabas Gangi Gopaul Lisa N. Guglietti Stephen Haas Sheik A.G. Hakh Bert S. Hall William F. Hall Gordon and Susan Harrison Diane Hill Linn Holness Colleen Horsley Irene Horsley Liisa M. Hunwicks Mary Iantorno Kristin Irish Mohammed A. Khan Agatha Kontogiannis and Don Viau

Lynne Koppeser Marie Korey Sajidah Kutty Dale H. Lastman Serena Lau J. Douglas Mackay Elizabeth A Marshall Lynda Marshall Jennifer McCann Susan McDonald Margaret McFadyen Kerry J. McGrath Douglas and Mrs. Catherine McIntosh Marcus J. Michell Louise Moorhouse  V Shelagh Morley Frances Nugent* David Oakleaf Leonard and Leah Park Joan McGahey Patten  V Nicolina Pianosi Helje Porre Lawrence K. Porter and Sheila Porter  V Edith Reese Karen Rodman Royal York Road United Church Martin Rumscheidt F. Michah Rynor  V Larry Schneider Bibi Seemangal Runjan Seth Yousuf Siddiqui Scott Spearn St. Andrew’s United Church Women Linda Sukk Elizabeth Templin Mary E. Thompson Donald Timmins Toronto Conference United Church Women Karen E. Trimble Trinity United Church Women  V Ian Walker Betty Ward  V Germaine Warkentin  V Mr. and Mrs. D. Watson Donald Whitaker* Karen Ruth Wishart Tommy Yuen Chris Zeichmann

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

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Victoria University Heritage Society Members Victoria University gratefully recognizes the following people who have declared their intention to include Victoria in their estate’s charitable giving plans.

Photographs: (Opposite page) Victoria Alumni Office

Phyllis D. Airhart E. Patricia Andrews 4T0 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 David K. Bernhardt 5T8 Dorothy I.M. Black 3T5 Diane Hoar Bond and David E. Bond 7T2 William R. Bowen and Sandra J. Gavinchuk 7T5 Michelle E. Brotherton and John Rumerfield Walter Buleychuk 5T1 Kenneth Brian Burnham 5T6 Eleanor J. Burton 5T6 Dan Camposano 8T3 Muriel M. Spurgeon Carder 6T9 Ben Chan 8T7 Lawrence R. Cohen 7T2 Annalijn Conklin 0T2 Dick Cousland 5T4 Marion (Chatterjee) Davies 5T5 Larry Davies Janet E. Davison 8T9

Robert C. Dowsett 5T0 Martha Drake L. Diane Dyer 6T2 Freda M. Eickmeyer Konrad Eisenbichler Lesley Evans 7T6 Jean (Birkenshaw) Fennell 4T8 Judy M. (Caldecott) Fleming 6T1 Douglas G. Gardner 5T0 Elaine (Westheuser) Godwin 6T1 Paul W. Gooch Fred K. Graham John Bryan Green 6T5 V. Jean Griffiths 6T8 Ruth F. (Andrew) Hammond 4T3 Patricia Lillian Hannah 5T0 Elaine M. (Hirtle) Hayden 5T4 Diana L. (Rieder) Heard 8T2 Robert Heard 8T3 Kim and Alex Heath 9T9 William E. Hewitt 6T3 Glenn and Debby (Petrie) Hickling 7T7 Nettie (Wilson) Hoffman 5T0 Beth Holt 5T0 Dorothy (Flannery) Horwood Gilbert E. Howey 5T6 Ian G.M. Howey Kenneth W. Inkster C. Douglas Jay 4T6, 5T0 Lynda L. Jenner 6T2 Alexandra F. Johnston 6T1

Craig T. Kamcke 5T8 Elinor M. Kelly 3T6 Patricia A. Kennedy 6T9 Renate Kozarov and Dennis Glasgow 8T7 F.H. Kim Krenz Eva Kushner Ethel (Upton) Lapp 4T9 Donald G. Lawson 5T1 Teza Layos Lwin 9T3 Janet G. (Macrae) MacInnis 5T9 Barbara (Beath) MacLennan 5T5 Linda E. MacRae 6T7 Helen (Miscevish) Mandarich 4T0 Keith and Pamela McCallum 7T0 Frances Bond McElroy 5T8 Joyce A. (Morley) McLean 5T7 Gordon and Claire McLellan 4T9 Jane Millgate Donald Rae Milne 4T8 Sharon Gregory and Andrew Mitrovica 8T3 Elizabeth (Holgate) Myles 5T4 Mary Neal 6T1 and Stan Neal 6T2 H.E. Buzz Neal 4T8 Joan M. Neilson 5T0 Anne (Templeton) Nethercott 4T9 Jean (Reilly) O’Grady 6T4 Maryleah (Bullock) Otto 4T9

W. Michael S. Philp 6T4 Eileen Prettyman 4T8 Walter and Nancy (Jamieson) Pridham 5T3 Phyllis M. (Pope) Purves 5T3 Mary E. Robertson 5T0 Patricia Romans Ann Saddlemyer G. Stephen Shantz 6T7 David P. Silcox 5T9 Shirley (Wilson) 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 William Tynkaluk 5T3 Elizabeth (Eastlake) Vosburgh 6T8 Germaine Warkentin 5T5 Arthur and Ruby Waters 4T6 Nora R. Wilson 5T5 Maria Hrycaiko Zaputovich 7T2 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 us at 416-585-4500, toll-free at 1-888-262-9775 or e-mail 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. Anne E. Bullman 5T8 Margaret G. Chambers 3T8 Mollie E. Christie 3T4 Margaret J. (Matheson) Davis 4T2 Catherine A. Fallis Fred C. Farr 4T9

Goldwin French 4T4 Mary Elizabeth (Morrison) Lambert 4T2 David W. Pretty 4T7 Ralph Scane 5T3 Ethelwyn B. Scott 4T7 Irene A. Uchida 4T6 Milton T. Wilson

Heritage Donor Spotlight

Where There’s a Will…

David W. Pretty Vic 4T7 was a long-time friend and supporter of Vic. He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree and then went on to earn a Master of Commerce from U of T in 1955. He was the chair of the Board of Regents from 1985–1989 and served as a member of the Board for many years. A loyal donor to the Annual Fund, several scholarships and the Goldring Student Centre, he also chose to establish The David W. Pretty Awards through his estate. These scholarships will be awarded to second- or third-year Victoria College students who are living in a Vic residence. The award is intended to cover half the residence fee with some assistance for tuition. An avid cottager and outdoorsman, he spent years as a leader with the Boy Scouts of Canada. He was also very actively involved with the Royal Life Saving Society of Canada, and earned every one of the society’s commonwealth honour awards.

Victoria University can be designated as a beneficiary in your will. Here’s an example of a suggested wording: I give and bequeath to the Board of Regents of Victoria University, Toronto, Ontario, the sum of $ or % of my estate. If you wish to designate a specific bequest (a scholarship, the library, etc.),please contact Sharon Gregory at 416-813-4050, toll free at 1-888-262-9775 or sharon.gregory@utoronto.ca.

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Victoria University and the War Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Great War (1914–1918)

Paul Huyer Vic 8T1, past chair, Board of Regents, and Karolina Dejnicka Vic 1T2, past vice-president internal, VUSAC, at the November 2011 unveiling of a display commemorating Thain MacDowell.

It was not, in the end, the war to end all wars. It was a war that changed nations forever and inf licted pain upon all of Canada’s communities, including Vic’s. To commemorate the centenary of the Great War’s beginning, the E.J. Pratt Library is hosting Victoria University and the War until December 12, 2014. The exhibit includes photographs, letters, medals and other material from the Victoria University Archives and Special Collections relating to war-time activities and correspondences of students, alumni and faculty, and the University’s recognition of their sacrifices. One of the Vic students highlighted is Captain Thain Wendell MacDowell (1890–1960) Vic 1915. Six of his medals are on display, including the Victoria Cross (dated 9–13 April 1917) and the Distinguished Service Order. Also on display, a small Bible given to Ross Malcolm Taylor by the Victoria College YMCA. He was Vic’s first student to enlist and its first casualty in January 1916. The E.J. Pratt Library will be open before and after the annual Graduates Christmas Luncheon on Saturday, December 6. See details below for this year’s discussion “En blanc et noir: Music and the Great War” with Eric Friesen. “ Before 1914, the earth had belonged to all . . . There were no permits, no visas, and it always gives me pleasure to astonish the young by telling them that before 1914 I travelled from Europe to India and America without a passport and without ever having seen one.” Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday

Alumni Calendar of Events ’TIS THE SEASON

Photograph: Victoria Alumni Office

December 6 Graduates Christmas Luncheon

“En blanc et noir: Music and the Great War” with Eric Friesen, Alumni Hall, Old Vic, 12 p.m. cash bar; 12:30 p.m. luncheon, $25 per person. Register online at my.alumni.utoronto.ca/Christmas or call 416-585-4500 or 1-888-262-9775.

November 26 VWA “Sharing, Healing and Learning in the Spirit of Shingwauk: Addressing the Legacy of Canada’s Residential Schools Policies” an illustrated talk with Don Jackson Vic 6T9, Alumni Hall, Old Vic, 2 p.m. January 22 Friends of Victoria University Library Carrington starring Emma Thompson, Alumni Hall, Old Vic, 7 p.m., r.s.v.p. to s.gough@utoronto.ca or call 416-585-4471, if attending.

January 28 VWA “Vic Now” with Susan McDonald, registrar; Kelley Castle, dean of students; Rowan DeBues, VUSAC president; and Lisa Sherlock, chief librarian, Alumni Hall, Old Vic, 2 p.m. Visit the Vic website for the most up-to-date event information and news at www.vicu.utoronto.ca. To subscribe to Vic’s e-newsletter, contact vic.alumni@utoronto.ca.