For alumni and friends of Huron University College fall 2012

For alumni and friends of Huron University College
fall 2012
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Principal’s Corner –
Stephen McClatchie
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‘The great questions’ –
Mark Blagrave
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Alumna profile –
Sandra Datars Bere
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www.huronuc.ca
Faculty profile –
Mark Cole
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principal’s corner
Stephen McClatchie, Ph.D.
Sometimes administration is like time travel.
I am not simply referring to the mundane fact that on
a daily basis my team and I regularly work in a variety of
“years,” whether academic, fiscal, or calendar, or even across
multiple years within one of these frameworks (as when
we budget for the next fiscal year while preparing quarterly
reports for the current one as we are audited for the previous
one). No, I mean something at once simpler and perhaps
more profound.
One of my mentors used regularly to remind his executive
group that we who are privileged to work in universities
hold the institution in trust both for those who came before
us and those who will follow us. While, as Principal, this
responsibility is never far from my mind, I am perhaps
particularly conscious of it at present.
As you will read elsewhere in this issue, during 2013 we
will celebrate our sesquicentennial. There will be a full year of
special events—ceremonies and honours, lectures, parties—
in addition to the normal array of Huron doings, stretching
from Founder’s Day 2012 to Founder’s Day 2013. We hope
that you will find a way to get involved in Huron’s 150th
anniversary: come back and visit us; attend an event closer
to home; or reach out to a former classmate with whom you
have lost touch.
Obviously, an anniversary of this moment is an occasion
to look back, to remember our past, and to give thanks for
Huron University College and all that it has meant to so many
people over so many years. But it should not simply be an
occasion for self-congratulation. We do our predecessors no
honour if we do not leave our successors a healthy, viable, and
vibrant institution that is poised to have as much of an impact
on the future as it has had in the past.
To that end, as we begin our year of celebration, we
will also be launching a new vision for Huron—one that
recognizes our past, celebrates our present, and builds for our
future. My team and I have spent a lot of time over the past
months talking with our alumni, faculty, staff, and students
about their vision for the future. And while the new strategic
plan is still a work in progress as I write these words, I can
promise you that we will not be moving away from our
commitment to continue to provide our students with the
distinct advantages of the Huron experience: high standards,
an institutional emphasis on critical thinking, professors
strongly committed to teaching excellence, and a powerful
sense of belonging and connexion to the Huron community
of alumni, faculty, staff, and students.
For me, over the past year there has been an element
of time travel personally as well. It has been wonderful to
reconnect with old friends here in London. I have re-joined
the choir of St. John the Evangelist and was touched when
our chaplain, the Revd Canon Bill Cliff, arranged for many
of our friends from our days together at the Faculty of Music
as undergraduates to come and sing in an impromptu choir
for my installation Eucharist last October. It has been a real
privilege getting involved in the life of Huron during my
first year as Principal. It is always risky to mention specific
events for fear of giving offence, but particular highlights for
me included individual meetings with alumni and friends in
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Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Ottawa, and here in London;
acting as the quizmaster for the Huron History Society’s quiz
nights at Chaucer’s Pub; worshipping with our students in the
Daily Office in the Chapel; and holding monthly coffee hours
with students in the SAC. I look forward to these, and many
more, things during the year to come.
As always, I invite you to contact me at any time; my door,
whether the real door of my office, or the virtual one, as in
that to my e-mail inbox, is always open.
Stephen McClatchie, Ph.D.
[email protected] 519.438.7224 ext. 237
Galen Weston makes gift of
$500,000 to Huron
Huron University College appreciates the generosity
of Galen Weston for his gift of $500,000 to Huron to
support historical research and teaching.
$425,000 of Mr.
Weston’s gift will
establish The W.
Galen Weston Fund
for British History
to support the
teaching of British
history at Huron.
Galen Weston
In addition,
$75,000 of Mr. Weston’s gift supported the research,
writing and publication of Western historian Dr. Jonathan
Vance’s book “Maple Leaf Empire: Canada, Britain, and
Two World Wars.” The book reconstructs life on the British
From left: Galen Weston, Ken Andrews, Jonathan Vance, Principal
Stephen McClatchie.
home front and across battle lines for nearly a million
Canadians stationed in military camps across Britain,
waiting to be sent to the front lines for their chance at
valour and victory. These were defining moments in
Canadian history.
On September 27th, 2011, Mr. Weston, Executive
Chairman of George Weston Limited, hosted a reception
to launch the book, with attendees including Dr. Stephen
McClatchie, Ken Andrews, Huron Foundation trustee
Jim Carr, and Dr. Jonathan Vance. A Huron graduate,
Mr. Weston’s studies at Huron focussed on English and
drama.
Says Mr. Weston: “Through this gift, I am pleased to
play a small role in helping Canadians understand the
depth and breadth of the relationship between Canada
and Great Britain, and how that relationship evolved
during the crucial period of 1914 to 1945.”
Huron Foundation trustee Jim Carr (left) and wife Sheilah at the
reception hosted by Galen Weston.
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Beyond the great books to the
great questions
By Mark Blagrave,
PhD, Dean, Faculty
of Arts and Social
Science
With increasing calls
for accountability, and
widespread dismissals
of the “usefulness” of
the liberal arts, it is
important to remind
ourselves and others
that liberal arts students
are daily working on
challenges analogous to those they will face after graduation.
In places such as Huron, students build the storehouse
of analogies that will help them think more clearly and
find solutions more quickly. The liberal arts university is a
rehearsal for life; not an escape from it.
In April 2012, a group from Huron distributed a
questionnaire to one hundred business and not-for-profit
leaders, with a focus on London, Ontario. This was a followup to a campus community roundtable held almost two
years earlier, at which participants had identified the top
competencies they were looking for in a new employee. The
competencies were agreed to be: communications, teamwork,
an understanding of organizational structures, critical
thinking, and ethical behavior.
The 2012 questionnaire asked respondents, among other
things, to rate several core competencies according to
importance and frequency of use. Oral communication and
written communication each were judged “very important”
for 93% of respondents. Teamwork, problem solving, critical
thinking, ethical decision-making and analytical thinking
were each rated “very important” by 87% of respondents.
(Interestingly, computer skills were ranked as “very
important” by only 33% of respondents.) Eighty-seven percent
reported that proficient written communication was a daily
requirement in their line of work, and 80% reported that
effective oral communication was a daily need. Problem
solving, critical thinking and time management were all
reported to be called on daily by 73% of respondents,
while ethical decision-making and an understanding of
organizational structures were daily requirements for 40%
of respondents.
On 3 May 2012, Campus-Community Roundtable
II (“Liberal Arts for Life”), held at Huron, tested the
hypothesis that lines can be drawn quite specifically from
the competencies required in “real-life” work situations to
liberal arts course assignments and activities. The idea was to
map course assignments and activities to learning objectives,
and learning objectives to competencies, and competencies
to applications on the job. Participants, including business
and not-for-profit leaders, faculty members, and staff,
worked collaboratively in groups on a number of cases from
working life, developing lists of competencies required of an
individual in the situations described in the cases. These were
then matched to liberal arts course and program goals and
methods.
“We are able to refine how we use the liberal arts
to develop competencies and habits that will last
well beyond graduation and remain adaptable to
each new situation in which our graduates find
themselves over a lifetime.”
Seven clusters of related competencies emerged from the
discussion, and a brief account of several of them follows
here. Communication, including being able to “teach a
concept forward,” was at the centre of one cluster, with oral
presentations, written assignments of a variety of types,
debates, seminars, and creative assignments all identified as
means to that end. Another cluster revolved around empathy,
intercultural understanding, perspective, and analogy; and
role-playing, debate, study abroad, community-based
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learning, literary study, and the development of listening
skills were among the liberal arts course and classroom
pursuits identified as fostering these skills. Adaptability,
spontaneity, and self-confidence were agreed to be built
through oral presentations (both prepared and off-the-cuff),
community-based learning, opinion pieces, and debate.
The group was reminded that the research essay is far from
dead, as long as it is remembered that it may not be an end in
itself for undergraduate students. Rather, it can be designed,
and understood, to nurture broader problem-solving skills,
as students are encouraged to articulate a problem, identify
the information needed to address it, plan how to acquire that
information, consult others, carefully weigh and assess the
information, and, finally apply it to the problem.
Other means of building students’ problem-solving
capacities included collaborative exercises, think tanks,
experimentally based courses, and problem-based learning
approaches. Projects that require students to make a change
and/or a decision and instill the need to ask more questions
were agreed to be useful rehearsals for the taking of risks and
learning from failures ahead in later life.
The session was, of course, only the beginning, and we have
ongoing work to do in ensuring that our courses keep an eye
on the larger prize, and that we remind students constantly of
the purposes of their assignments and activities, both for the
short term and for the longer term.
We also need to remind the public, at every opportunity,
of the value of what we do in a place like Huron. Liberal arts
universities have to adapt to a new era. The “Great Books” are
no longer enough, and we must aim for The Great Questions,
through the Great Books and other means, in order to
continue to contribute. As the transfer of information and
content becomes easier and less dependent on the “teacher”
as repository of knowledge, we are freed to concentrate
more on how the information is manufactured and used,
and to explore its implications; and we are able to be more
intentional in course design, developing learning objectives
that go well beyond acquisition of information. We are able
to refine how we use the liberal arts to develop competencies
and habits that will last well beyond graduation and remain
adaptable to each new situation in which our graduates find
themselves over a lifetime.
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Q&A Alumna Profile:
Sandra Datars Bere ‘87
Sandra
Datars Bere
is President
of the Huron
Alumni
Association
and a
member
of Huron’s
Executive
Board. She
and her
husband
John and
their son
Caleb live in London, where she serves as Regional
Director at the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs
and Housing.
What is your first memory of Huron?
It was the first day of frosh week. Monday, September 5,
1983. I remember my parents brought me to Huron from
our farm in Huron County. There were so many frosh and
their parents on the lawn in between Hellmuth and O’Neil. I
vividly remember the Sophs (such as Vernon Fernandes, Gus
Meglis, Mary Morden, and the late Mike Pidzamecky) in their
red and white, yelling cheers and helping carry our stuff to
our rooms.
My parents stayed for a long time – so long that I think
I even eventually suggested that they could/should leave.
Reluctantly, they did, but as a parent now, I understand why
they wanted to stay. This was a new chapter in my life and
they wanted to be a part of it, if just for a few minutes.
What professor do you remember most and why?
Dr. Mark Cole. I met Dr. Cole and his colleagues Dr. Sansom,
Dr. Heapy and Professor Burd in first-year psychology
(a course that Miss Ridley “suggested” I take). When I went
on to major in psychology, Dr. Cole taught our second-year
lab course. It was during this course that I learned about
the importance of making a commitment to your work,
perseverance, and dedication. Additionally, thanks to Dr.
Cole, and a few early “bad” essays, I also learned how to write,
and it’s those skills that I have called upon many times during
my public service career.
What has been your most rewarding experience
at Huron?
I have been very privileged to have an almost 30-year
relationship with Huron. From student, to graduate, and now
a member of the Alumni and Executive Boards, I have had so
many experiences that have brought great joy and feelings of
fulfillment.
But I would suggest that my role as Alumni president has
provided me with the greatest reward. While it has allowed
me to extend my relationship with Huron, it has, more
importantly, allowed me to meet and work with so many
amazing Huron alumni, associates, and friends as well as
students, faculty, and staff who continue to make Huron an
extremely special place.
How does Huron help students prepare
for the future?
From the moment that a student arrives at Huron, he/she is
being prepared for the future. Through academic experiences,
extracurricular and community involvement, activities and
residence and chapel life, a Huron student is provided with
an expansive array of opportunities. And they are guided,
respectfully and supportively, through these challenges by
faculty and staff who want them to succeed.
That support also means learning and understanding what
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it means to be accountable for your inputs and outcomes.
Huron does a superb job at teaching this important skill to all
of its students because it is among one of the most important
and relevant skills that all graduates will need when they
move on into the future.
Why does Huron continue to have a special
place in your life?
It’s a place, not unlike the farm where I was raised, that I still
call home. With my current Alumni Board role, I often find
myself at Huron for meetings, convocations or other events. I
will admit that every time I pull into the parking lot at Huron,
I look towards Hellmuth, to the windows of the rooms where
I once lived. And I think (in addition to the fact that life was
so much easier then!!!) that this place is foundational for me.
What is your most marked characteristic?
I think, and I hope, it is my sense of humour and need for
fun. Life is too short not to have fun…and to laugh. I try
to make something funny out of every situation (and do it
appropriately!) I find it generally puts people at ease and helps
to move an issue forward.
What person do you most admire?
That’s easy – my parents. Hard working,
committed, dedicated, and funny!
Although now older (85 and 78), they
both continue to be active in their
communities, with our family, and in
employment opportunities. My mom still
works outside the home and my father
recently retired at 83. A strong work ethic
from more than 40 years of farming,
and despite having never attended postsecondary education themselves, they
were committed to ensuring in whatever
way possible that my siblings and I would
have the opportunities that they did not. I
will always be thankful to them for that.
What is your most treasured
possession?
Right now I would have to say it’s my
2002 Honda CRV. It was purchased new
in March, 2002, and in addition to being
the most reliable car I have ever owned,
it has helped “raise” our son and our two yellow Labrador
retrievers, been our constant companion on thousands of
trips to hockey arenas, soccer pitches and baseball diamonds,
and been my “work chariot” through several career
opportunities! While I realize with over 330,000 km on it, it
will soon have its swan song, I continue to proudly drive it
daily (sometimes a challenge as my husband enjoys it more
than his brand new VW).
Do you have a motto?
I don’t have a true motto, but I do believe strongly in two
major tenets – I believe that things happen for a reason.
I have seen and experienced vivid examples of this. I also
believe that you must live in the moment, and while I’m not
great at this (a curse of being able to remember the past), I
believe strongly that moving forward and embracing what’s in
store, is for the best.
What do you consider your greatest
achievement?
In partnership with my husband John, and with the support
of our extended families, I have had the privilege of raising a
child (our 15-year-old son, Caleb). This is by far my greatest
achievement.
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Faculty profile: Mark Cole
By Professor Mark Cole, Department of Psychology
I was born in London, Ontario, Canada. I obtained
a BA, an MA, and a PhD from the University of
Western Ontario. I was raised in an academic family:
my father had a PhD, and my mother an MSc, both in
Mathematics.
I have been happily married to the love of my life, Lori, for 45
years, and we have two wonderful children, Aaron and Josh.
I enjoy cycling, sailing, and bonsai cultivation. I am an avid
reader and great lover of books, art, and music, especially
opera.
As an undergraduate, I was fortunate enough to be accepted
into the University Reserve Officers Training Plan as an officer
cadet in the Royal Canadian Air Force, spending my summers
at various air bases and doing administration. On graduation
with my BA, I was granted a Queen’s Commission as a Pilot
Officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force and remained in the
reserves for 10 more years, a period that included my first five
years at Huron as an assistant professor of Psychology.
In 1991, a generous grant from the Wright family allowed
Huron to build a splendid set of Psychology Laboratories
as the new West Wing was being created. This complex
included a state-of-the-art animal laboratory, within which
walls I undertook a vigorous research program that yielded
some excellent scholarship, resulting in my promotion to full
professor in 2004.
In 2012, I was thrilled to learn that I had been awarded
the Huron Students’ Council Teaching Award, a wonderful
culmination to a career that began with an interest more in
teaching than in research.
When did you come to Huron, and what were
the circumstances?
A position came up in the Department of Psychology in 1972
when I was finishing my PhD at Western. I applied and was
offered the position. I also applied for and was offered a post
at Brockville Psychiatric Hospital as a Psychologist. When
I did the proverbial pros and cons list for the two positions,
only one thing favored Brockville: the salary was 45% higher.
I came to Huron and have never regretted the decision.
What have been your most rewarding
experiences at Huron?
What has proved most rewarding has been the collegial
atmosphere that prevails, not only among the faculty, but
also within the senior administration and support staff.
How have you changed since you have been
at Huron?
I came to Huron with a primary interest in teaching, but
over the ensuing 40 years, I have become more and more
involved in research, albeit not at the expense of teaching.
In truth, I believe that research informs teaching and vice
versa. Huron also gave me the opportunity to discover that I
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was a reasonably competent administrator as well, and I put
this to good use in my role as Chair of the Department of
Psychology for 26 of my 40 years at Huron, 28 if you count
two years as Acting Chair.
How does Huron help students prepare for
the future?
In Psychology we employ a sort of academic apprenticeship
model, engaging our students in increasingly-demanding
exercises of the very same activities that we, as professors
ourselves engage in. This involves asking the right
questions, designing the right research projects to answer
those questions, and then carrying out these projects, and
eventually reporting the results in an academically acceptable
form. I believe that by instilling those skills in our students,
we are preparing them well for whatever they decide to do
with the rest of their lives.
What is your favourite journey?
Do you have any unusual work habits or
superstitions?
I am not remotely superstitious, and if I have an odd work
habit, it is to leave projects partially finished while taking up
new ones.
What advice do you wish you had been given at
the beginning of your career?
I wish someone had told me to work really hard when I was
younger because, as I have discovered, it is not so easy to be
as productive later on in life!
If you were not a professor at Huron, what
would you most like to be?
Had I not been a professor in Psychology, I would have
wanted to be an architect. I have always been interested in
constructing things with my hands and architecture combines
construction with art, another passion of mine.
If a trip is implied, I am never happier than when I am hiking
and climbing in the Alps in Switzerland.
What is your greatest extravagance?
What historical figure do you most identify with
and why?
What is your motto?
I most admire Charles Darwin, because, from my perspective,
he changed the way we view the world and our origins, more
than any other scientist has done.
What do you consider the most overrated
virtue?
My most overrated virtue is…. I am not sure I have any
virtues and so how could they be overrated?
Describe your perfect day.
My perfect day would be hiking in the Alps while listening to
Wagner, especially the Ring Cycle.
What is the best book you have read lately?
The Library at Night, by Alberto Manguel.
What are you working on now?
I am currently continuing to pursue my interest in animal
cognition. The basic question of interest there is: are animal
minds anything like human minds, any differences being
merely quantitative? Or are animal minds and human minds
qualitatively different?
The Rolex watch I bought for myself a few years ago.
Drink deep of the Pyrrean Spring, or not at all. A little learning
is a dangerous thing.
What is your most marked characteristic?
“Tough but Fair”, and you can put that on my tombstone.
Mark Cole can be reached at [email protected]
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Graduation Address
Canadian author Lawrence Hill
On June 18, 2012 Canadian author Lawrence Hill
was awarded the Huron University College Medal of
Distinction at Huron’s Graduation Ceremony in the
Kingsmill Room.
This prestigious award is given by Huron to
distinguished individuals in recognition of their
exemplary lifetime contributions to scholarship, public
service and local community.
After receiving the Medal of Distinction, Mr. Hill
addressed the Class of 2012.
Excerpts from his address follow:
I am the beneficiary of a long relationship with Huron
University College. Twenty years ago, when my first novel was
published, Dr. Neil Brooks sent me a note and invited me to
come speak to his students.
At the time, I was unknown as a writer and would have
been lucky to receive two literary invitations a year. I made
some great connections at Huron and began friendships –
with Neil and his wife Claire and others in London – that have
lasted ever since.
Since then, Dr. Brooks and his colleagues at Huron have
invited me back repeatedly. It will be hard to top the Medal
of Distinction, but I must say that there is something very
satisfying about being a writer, and being invited to speak
to students. Part of it is self-interest. Writers know that if
students read them, then they are likely to be remembered
and re-read and discussed in the years to come. In my
experience, the books you read and adore as a student are
books you never forget. So what writer would not be delighted
to end up in the reading hands of a student?
As graduands, you must have so much on your minds! Will
you continue with further studies? Take a job? Travel? Become
volunteers? Go off to live somewhere else?
I hope you’re not counting on me to advise you on any of
this. The one thing you definitely don’t want is my advice
about things financial. Who ever invited a novelist into a
discussion about budgets, or generating wealth? Novelists live
most of their lives by the skin of their teeth. I’ve had a few
good years recently, and am fortunate that they came at a time
that my own children have been studying at university. But it’s
a simple fact that most writers – most artists of any stripe –
cannot hope to live comfortably for their entire working lives
on the basis of royalties alone.
I am the son of immigrant parents – a Black father and
White mother who came to Canada the day after they married
and became ardent and passionate new Canadians. Let me
tell you something about immigrant and Black parents. In
my personal experience and in talking to others in the same
situation, I can assure you that few self-respecting immigrants
to Canada want to see their son or daughter quit school and
become a novelist. They are looking for doctors, lawyers,
engineers and architects. They are desperate to see their own
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children transcend the socio-economic, political and racial
vicissitudes arising in their home countries. They want a
better life for their children.
Everybody loves a great book, a memorable film or a
seductive song. But no immigrant parent wants to see their
own child dedicate their life to writing that book, making that
film, or composing that song. No sir. Let somebody else do
that and please just become a dentist.
Well. The problem with that is that you have to find your
own way. You may choose to pursue passions that do not
align themselves perfectly with the urgings of your parents or
peers. In my case, although my undergraduate degree was in
economics, I was born to write. I was wired to express myself
creatively. I’ve been doing it since I was a child. Writing is the
only kind of work that has always excited every atom of my
mind and body. It’s a great privilege to have a passion, to wake
up every day with it, and to make it the central part of your
working life. There is, however, the small problem of making
a living.
The best advice I can give you in the way of finances is what
I would tell my own adult children: if you have a passion,
go for it. Go for it with everything you’ve got. But develop a
survival plan to go along with it. Figure out how you’re going
to make your living, and take care of yourself, in the years that
it takes you to become a saxophonist, painter, potter or poet.
Life isn’t really about the end result. In the end, we will all
face the same sad fate. Life is about the journey. So travel well.
Travel adventurously. Enjoy your travels, and as you move
through life try to sustain and feed the same wide-eyed joy
and fascination that you might feel when first setting foot in a
foreign land.
Travelling has been one of the very richest experiences
of my life. Dislocating myself – putting myself in new,
uncomfortable, challenging situations – has been richest of
all when I have travelled as a volunteer. A month or so ago, I
travelled not all that far, but into a whole new world. I went
as a volunteer to the Grand Valley Institution for Women,
in Kitchener-Waterloo. GVI, as it is known, is the only
prison for women offenders in Ontario. I entered the prison
as a supporter of a group called Book Clubs for Inmates. It
supplies books to prison inmates, and facilitates book club
discussions. I’ve done this several times, but it was my first
time visiting a women’s prison. I took along my 20-yearold daughter Caroline, who is a criminology student at the
University of Ottawa. What I found was an incredible thirst
for conversation and intellectual stimulation.
The women in the Grand Valley Institution could not be
more conscious of the fact that Canadians look down on
them, and that prison inmates fit snugly into one of the very
bottom rungs of our social hierarchy. But many were to be
locked up for many years, and bored out of their wits, and
dying to read and to talk and to let their minds travel to places
where they could be free. I have rarely felt more appreciated
– more loved by total strangers – than when Caroline and I
went to spend a couple of hours talking with these women.
That’s the thing about volunteer work. People love you for it.
And you end up receiving far more than you have given.
We need to advance the cause of literacy in our own
country and around the world, and remember the thirst and
the energy with which people such as the inmates in the
Grand Valley Institution for Women have come to devour the
written word. They read out of hunger. Out of need. Out of a
fundamental desire to expand their worlds, assert their own
humanity, and free their minds and bodies.
As a teen and in my early adult years, travelling to places
where I landed, lived and worked well outside my comfort
zone enriched me forever – emotionally, personally, and
creatively.
You, as graduands from Huron University College,
are on the cusp of great new adventures – professionally,
academically and personally.
I hope that you will find the time and passion to cultivate
community involvement, volunteer work, and travel outside
your own comfort zones. It will enrich your lives, and those of
the people around you, forever.
Congratulations today, and good luck tomorrow.
Thank you.
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AroundHuron
Dr. Alfred Chan
By Ken Andrews, Executive Director, University Advancement
Some 36 years ago, I climbed the steps of Huron
College for the first time. I had come to London from
Toronto to do graduate work in history at Western,
and unfortunately found myself living in a house
south of Oxford Street off Wharncliffe in which it
seemed O-week would never end. Maybe that’s
why there was no food – but lots of beer – in the
communal fridge.
My friend Michael Parke-Taylor had moved back to
London from Toronto and was living with his parents.
Michael’s father, The Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Parke-Taylor,
Dean of Theology at Huron, put me in touch with
Don Cox, who showed me a vacant room on Second
North. I grabbed it.
I was already feeling good about Huron. Climbing the front
steps, looking up at the steeple, entering the Chapel, admiring
the portraits of Principals in the Great Hall, bouncing on the
floors on the stacks in the Library, I felt right at home. My
first party was a memorable affair with theology students at
Seager Hall on the north side of the Huron campus.
And the food in the Refectory was plentiful, indeed tasty.
I remember pounding down the stairs in O’Neil along with
dozens of others, like a herd of elephants, five minutes before
dinner started in the Refectory (which, in 1994, became the
Food Court in a building of its own, while the Refectory
became a student lounge, now the SAC.)
The best lunches – at least for me – featured soup and
cheese dreams, with dollops of ice cream afterwards from the
ice cream freezer. Every second Thursday, a special dinner
was served from a front table with a massive ‘Baron of Beef ’
carved by one of Beaver Foods’ chefs, in full culinary regalia.
Huge bowls of salad (including macaroni) also adorned the
front table, along with baskets of buns, which were eaten,
of course.
After two years in residence and a year as Sub-Warden,
thanks to Don Cox, and marrying my wife Martha in the
Chapel, thanks to The Rev. Canon Dr. Douglas Leighton, I
volunteered for Huron and eventually served as President of
the Alumni Association and as a member of the Executive
Board, when I worked at London Life. I’ve been fortunate to
be Director of Alumni and Community Development, now
University Advancement, since 1998.
Then, as now, what has particular meaning for me is the
same as when I first walked through the doors in 1976. I
love the steeple that towers above Western Road; the sophs
including the Chaplain enthusiastically welcoming frosh to
Huron on Labour Day; the pomp and tradition of Founder’s
Day each December; and I’m so very proud of our two
daughters who graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Social
Science at Huron with degrees in English. As with all alumni,
their futures will be forever marked by their experience here.
As Miss Ridley said, “A liberal arts degree doesn’t train you
for anything; it prepares you for everything.” Our family
supports Huron through the library endowment we have
established.
Alumni ask me how Huron has changed over the years.
New classrooms have been added, of course. The Silcox
Memorial Library has expanded, and residences redesigned
and constructed. There are far more single rooms than when I
lived in O’Neil.
But at its core Huron remains the same, distinguished
by its abiding commitment to excellence in teaching,
with dedicated professors and small classes, in a personal,
engaging community environment. “Nurturing” and
“excellence” are words alumni often use, with good reason.
As the late Jim Cavanagh, Class of ’63 said, “The core of the
Huron experience hasn’t changed all that much when you
look at the yearbooks through the years. But the students’
haircuts certainly have.”
What has changed are a couple of things in particular. First,
Huron is far more mindful of how students can develop the
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critical thinking skills which a liberal arts education offers
to prepare for the future personally and professionally, and
exceptional work has been achieved in this regard (see the
article by Dean Mark Blagrave in this issue, for example.)
Media commentary on the value of a liberal arts education
can be, well, provocative. At the same time, Google said it
expects the majority of its 6,000 new hires this year will be
filled by people with degrees in the humanities or liberal arts.
Second, Huron is much more international and
multicultural now, as are all universities, reflecting the
changing society in which we live. Huron’s heritage and
traditions remain rooted in Christianity and the Anglican
Church in particular, and indeed this is celebrated every day.
While Huron has always attracted students and faculty from
across Canada and around the world, that trend has increased
here as elsewhere. At Huron, students can be true to their
roots while gaining understanding and confidence in how to
thrive in an increasingly pluralistic world. Huron prepares its
students well indeed.
Educate, Experience and Engagement. Watch for news on
Huron’s alumni reception at the National Club on March
21, 2013. The event will have a special focus on Huron’s
mentoring program for alumni and students, sponsored
by the Huron Alumni Association. This initiative will be
particularly attractive to young alumni.
The program will provide comprehensive support
for alumni who are
establishing and building
their careers, and for
senior students, to help
both groups explore
career paths, facilitate
career transitions, and
provide the opportunity
to network, learn, and
build relationships with
fellow alumni. Huron’s mentoring program accomplishes
this through one-on-one mentoring programs with senior
alumni, online support, and regular events. It’s an exciting
initiative, thanks to the work of members of Huron’s Alumni
Board including Davis Yoo (project manager), Derek Luksun
(special events), and Katherine Scarrow (communications).
This past year, Huron has been busily preparing for the
celebration of our 150th anniversary on December 2, 2013.
Founder’s Day is celebrated each year in honour of Bishop
Benjamin Cronyn, who founded Huron in 1863 as a
theological college to prepare students for ordained ministry.
Back then, Huron was located in “Rough Park” near Oxford
and Richmond streets in London, moving to its present
location in the early 1950s. In 1956, Huron began offering
arts programs leading to Bachelor of Arts degrees from
Western. Arts and social science students now constitute
the vast majority of our approximately 1,300 students, while
theology continues to thrive and prepare students for both
ordained and lay ministry.
In the year leading up to our sesquicentennial, as Principal
McClatchie notes in his column, we’ll be celebrating with a
series of events which we hope as many alumni and friends
as possible can be part of. A calendar of events appears
elsewhere in this issue.
If you happen to be in London, please drop by Huron and
sign the special 150th Anniversary Book in the University
New Learning
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Refurbished Great
Hall rendering
Advancement office. We’ll bring the book to Huron events
such as Homecoming and receptions in other cities for alumni
and friends to sign. You’ll also be able to send a greeting
online.
As part of Huron’s celebration, alumni and friends will also
receive, in 2013, a personal copy of Huron’s commemorative
150th anniversary booklet focused on 150 milestones in
Huron’s history – from academic to social to everything in
between.
Principal Stephen McClatchie will be formally launching
our anniversary celebration on Founder’s Day in 2012, with
special celebratory occasions to follow over the next year such
as Homecoming and other alumni events across Canada and
in the U.S., our Golf Tournament, a sesquicentennial lecture
series, and an academic conference from May 13-15 titled
The House that Isaac Built: The Architecture of Cultures and
Identities in Canada.
Watch e-Huron for more details. If you haven’t been
receiving Huron’s e-newsletter for alumni and friends, please
let Karen Otto in the University Advancement office know.
Her email is [email protected] or 519-438-7224 ext 368.
As we plan for our sesquicentennial, you’ll also be hearing
more about our Anniversary Campaign with its focus on
refurbishing the Great Hall to restore it to its former glory (it’s
looking rather tired lately), and building our new Learning
Commons in the Silcox Memorial Library.
The Learning Commons will extend the learning experience
for Huron students beyond the classroom by providing a new
and dedicated area in the Library for conversation, debate,
research, inquiry, improvement of writing and numeracy
skills, and collaboration among staff and students.
To be built on the north side of the Library, The Learning
Commons will be a large, open, comfortable space with study
tables and casual seating, multipurpose group study rooms,
a technology room, gathering places, and staff offices. This
is one more way in which Huron is dedicated to providing a
creative and engaging learning experience for its students as
they prepare for the future.
The learning experience at Huron, as every alumnus knows,
extends beyond the classroom, throughout the university.
Both the Great Hall and the Library contribute to this
experience and enhance Huron’s overall sense of community.
This anniversary project helps Huron do what it does best, as
a vibrant, engaged community of learning.
The Anniversary Campaign will also focus on building
support for the Huron-Lawson Chair in Pastoral Theology,
which focusses on helping prepare Huron theology students
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to be effective religious and social leaders, particularly in
the areas of communication and pastoral care in times
of crisis, grieving and need, in conflict resolution, and in
communication of faith in a post-modern world. For theology
students, pastoral theology is the touchstone for all ministry
and a skill essential to success in their chosen careers. Thanks to the generosity of The Lawson Foundation,
Huron has received a $1-million grant to support funding
of the Huron-Lawson Chair in Pastoral Theology. Moreover,
Huron will work to raise additional funds so that the
endowment has funding for the Chair in the amount of $2.5
million. The current value of the endowment is $852,931. We
hope alumni, friends and churches will generously support
this most worthy effort as we move forward, building on The
Lawson Foundation’s commitment.
Thank you to everyone who made a gift in honour and
memory of Miss Catharine Ridley, who passed away on
January 5, 2011. Gifts were directed to The Catharine Ridley
National Scholarship, which meant a lot to Catharine.
Memorial donations from 182 alumni and friends to date
have totalled $53,063, with the Ridley Scholarship Fund now
at $108,475 as of December 31, 2011. A Ridley endowment of
$500,000 will generate $20,000 per year, based on the current
payout, to support four renewable Ridley scholarships each
year; Huron currently subsidizes the scholarship.
If you wish to make a tax-receipted donation in memory of
Miss
ine
Cathar
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Rid
Miss Ridley, please contact me at the co-ordinates on page two
or make a donation online at www.huronuc.ca/ridley.
A list of donors can be found on the Huron website at
www.huronuc.ca in the Alumni and Friends section.
Our tribute to Miss Ridley appeared in our 2011 newsletter;
if you missed it please let me know and we’ll be pleased to
send you a copy.
This past June 30th, David Williamson retired from the
Department of Economics and Business after a distinguished
career at Huron spanning 45 years. Dr. Williamson, who
began as Lecturer, was awarded the status of Professor
Emeritus at Convocation on June 18. David and his wife
Gwen continue to live in London. Says Virginia Cobley, a
1966 Huron grad: “I have had the pleasure of being a friend
of David Williamson’s for approximately the same time as
he has spent at Huron. Over these years I have observed his
dedication to his job innumerable times, and as a Huron
graduate I have also had the opportunity to see him in the
classroom at Huron through promotional videos used for
recruiting. I was impressed by his relaxed, communicative,
and probing style of question and response, which inspired
his students to greater efforts. David Williamson has served
Huron University College very well, indeed.”
Trish Fulton, who served as Principal from 2010-11 and
1995-96, continues to serve on two not-for-profit boards,
specifically the WCA and Big Brothers Big Sisters of London.
This past summer Trish canoed down the Wind River in the
Yukon.
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David
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Ramona Lumpkin, Huron Principal from 2001-2010 and
now President and Vice-Chancellor of Mount Saint Vincent
University, has welcomed many members of the Huron
community to Halifax over the past year including Christine
Tsang, alumnae Sheetal Rawal and Laurel Mitchell, Kathryn
Schade, Bill Acres, Chaplain Bill Cliff, Foundation President
Rick Lucas and wife Lorraine Saab, and former Dean of
Theology Bishop John Chapman and wife Catherine. Says
Ramona: “It’s been wonderful to keep those connections
alive and to hear what exciting work continues to be done at
Huron.”
This past year David Bevan, former Principal of Huron
(1996-2001), returned to London, Ontario after serving
as head of Herstmonceux Castle, affiliated with Queen’s
University, in East Sussex, England. He will be honoured
in October when his portrait is unveiled in the Great Hall,
joining other former Principals, Huron founder Bishop
Benjamin Cronyn, and Miss Ridley. David can be reached at
[email protected].
Gary Owens, who retired in 2004 after a distinguished
career in the Department of History, wrote in May from his
home in County Cork, Ireland: “Spring has finally arrived
in Ireland after a wet, wet winter. I give the odd paper and
write the odd book review when I’m
asked, but otherwise I spend my days
Eddy
being magnificently unproductive. This
Smet
means walking my dog every day in some of Ireland’s prettiest
countryside and reading all the books and articles and
watching all the films I’ve missed. I’m sometimes seen sipping
the odd pint of Guinness as well.” Dr. Owens would be pleased to know that Guinness is also
now served at Huron’s “Beaver Dam,” the bar which Huron’s
Student Council has opened in the old refectory – now the
SAC – in exactly the same spot where Beaver Foods served
plates laden with mystery meat and cheese dreams, but not ice
cream, which of course was self-served.
Of the ‘four wise men’ from the Department of History,
Jack Blocker and Colin Read, both retired, live in London,
Ontario. Douglas Leighton continues to teach in the
department. Former math professor – and winner of numerous
teaching awards – Eddy Smet continues his retirement in
London and would be happy to hear from former students
at [email protected]. He continues to work on his comic
book collection.
Former Warden Don Cox and Sandi continue to live in
Grand Bend, Ontario. An Honorary Fellow of Huron, Don
continues to participate in alumni events and looks forward to
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seeing old friends. A member of the Class of ’62, Don
celebrated his 50th reunion year at Huron this year with
fellow classmates.
kevich
Kristina Stan
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and Nicol
Many of you have had the opportunity to know Kristina
Stankevich, who has been a member of the Advancement
office for the past six years. This past year Kristina was
promoted to Associate Director, and Karen Otto, who
joined Huron in 2009, continues as Development Assistant.
In September, Nicole Dorssers joined us as Co-ordinator,
Special Events. It is an honour and privilege to work with such
dedicated people such as Kristina, Karen and Nicole.
Thanks to Meg Pirie of Huron’s Communications and IT
department for her fine contributions to this issue.
As reported elsewhere in this issue, Huron finished first
out of 62 Canadian university institutions, as reported by
Maclean’s in its February 20, 2012 issue, in a survey of senior
students. Huron finished first in response to two questions:
If you could start over, would you go to the institution you
are now attending? And, How would you evaluate your entire
educational experience at this institution?
These are results in which alumni and friends can take
a great deal of pride. Thank you for your commitment to
keeping the Huron educational experience a special one and
helping make these results possible through your support of
Huron.
Recently a graduate came by for a visit to Huron and
remarked how impressive the Library wing looked, which was
added in 2003. “Huron must have been fortunate to receive a
big government grant for that,” he said.
In fact, as I mentioned to him, it was Huron alumni and
friends who made the library extension possible, thanks to
their generosity. The government played a role – matching the
funds which alumni donated – but in this, as in so many other
Huron programs and services, it is alumni and friends who
continue to make such a positive difference in the educational
experience which Huron can offer its students, helping them
make the most of their potential and keeping Huron strong
and the special place we know.
Working with alumni and friends in their support for
Huron and what is most important to them in the life and
work of Huron is incredibly rewarding. It’s always moving to
hear the stories from alumni of why they support Huron –
from wanting to ‘give back’ to help students just as they were
helped when they were students; to providing for students
in need, through bursaries, with the opportunity to attend
Huron; through scholarships to attract students to Huron;
to making sure that the Library – where so many hours were
spent – continues to serve the needs of Huron’s undergraduate
and theological student community. Huron alumni and
friends also support
other areas of the Huron
educational experience
of personal meaning and
importance to them.
Yes, government funding
for Huron – currently
35% of Huron’s budget –
is important. Ultimately,
Huron benefits and thrives
thanks to individuals
and organizations who,
through their outreach and
generosity, make a positive difference in the lives of others and
make Huron – and the world – a better place.
Universities such as Huron can thrive thanks to this
dedication. So much so that last year, Huron’s generous
supporters contributed almost $2.5 million to Huron and
its students, the most ever in one year. On behalf of Huron
students, thank you.
[email protected]
519-438-7224 ext. 271
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Ministry
beyond
Huron:
The Rev. Canon
Catherine Ascah,
The Rev. Grayhame
Bowcott and The
Rev. Meghan
(Nicholls) Evetts
Catherine, Grayhame and Meghan, who earned their
Master of Divinity degrees and are members of the
Classes of 2005, 2010 and 2009 respectively, share
their reflections on how their theological education
and experience at Huron has helped prepare them for
ministry in the Anglican Church.
Canon Ascah is Pastoral Vicar of Christ Church
Cathedral in the Diocese of Ottawa; Rev. Bowcott is
Rector of St. John’s-by-the-Lake Anglican Church in
Grand Bend, Ontario as well as Pastor of St. Anne’s
Mission Church in Port Franks, Ontario; and Rev.
Evetts is Rector of St. James Anglican Church in
Ingersoll, Ontario.
In their spare time, both Catherine and Meghan also
serve as Directors of the Huron University College
Alumni Association.
The Rev. Canon Catherine Ascah
There could be a motivational poster made: “Things
they don’t teach you in seminary.” Except at Huron,
they do.
Oh sure, they may not
actually teach you how
to catch a bat that’s flying
around the church, or how to
launder and iron the shirts of
23 choir boys in a university
residence in the pre-dawn
hours before their first ever
service at St. Paul’s Cathedral
London, England.
What Huron does
provide its students with is
a rock-solid, well-rounded
formational experience for parish ministry, and a network
of support, resources and contacts to help you with those
unexpected scenarios. Seminary is about more than abstract
theology. Huron teaches its students what it means to be in
community, think critically, and ask questions. It teaches its
students that sometimes, there are no answers to life’s most
challenging questions, and that it’s okay to say: “I don’t know
why…”
I have served in hospital chaplaincy, a multi-point rural
parish, a First Nations community, and a large, urban
Cathedral in the Nation’s Capital. Whether organizing a
festal liturgy with 700 people in attendance, celebrating the
Eucharist in a farm kitchen, being chaplain to adolescent
choir boys, accompanying a family through the grief of
suicide, chairing the annual vestry meeting, preaching on
challenging scripture, or doing dishes after a parish supper,
it’s all part of being a parish priest and a pastor. It doesn’t
matter where you find yourself. Even the bats and the parish
dinners span geography and demographics.
Life for the people of God is about the day-to-day grind
of employment and unemployment, the joy of new life, the
grief of loss, the wonderful mystery of the Divine, and the
fathomless depth of God’s grace. It is an awesome privilege
and responsibility to accompany them in that journey. When
God called me to be a servant of Christ as a priest in the
Church, Huron prepared me well.
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The Rev. Fr. Grayhame Bowcott
The Rev. Meghan (Nicholls) Evetts
The secret of success for growing churches these days
is found in the values of relationship building and
enabling others in faith and service.
Moving has become a regular occurrence for me as it
does for most parish priests. Since my ordination in
2009, I have served three parishes: one as a Deacon
and two as rector.
To truly grasp and appreciate these values, you need to
experience them first hand. It was during my five years at
Huron University College in both the Bachelor of Theology
and Master of Divinity degrees that I experienced these
values, which have transformed my personal ministry and the
ministry of the congregations where I serve.
For me, Huron was more than books and lectures. It was
a period of my life when I was mentored in faith by great
pastors, challenged in studies and knowledge by committed
professors, and enabled to reach for goals that I would have
never dreamed possible. More than anything else, I learned
that to bring out the best in someone, you need to invest
in them and care about them. This is how Huron enabled
me, and how, in return, I seek to enable others through my
ministry.
It was in this spirit that my congregation in Grand Bend
decided to create The St. John’s-by-the-Lake Church Bursary
at Huron to provide financial assistance for theological
students in order to enable them to achieve their greatest
potential. In addition, we have sponsored an award at
Huron recognizing Leadership in Youth Ministry, presented
to a student each year at convocation. In these ways, our
community takes great satisfaction in participating in Huron’s
enabling of future leaders in our Church.
This past November I
moved to Ingersoll, Ontario
to begin my ministry as
Rector of St. James Anglican
Church. I was eager to get
started, to get to know my
congregation, and likewise so
were they.
The buzz was all around
that there was a new
Anglican priest in town,
with everyone sharing what
they knew about me, and
curiously asking what they
didn’t. My favourite question
to answer, and to go into
great detail about, is of
course about where I went to
school. I answer with pride
and honour that Huron University College is where I received
my Master of Divinity degree. I go on to talk about how
Huron has helped shape me into the priest I am today.
As a priest, I have been privileged to walk with people
at many different stages of their lives. Through education,
worship, fellowship, and prayer, together we are able to live
out God’s grace and mercy. Each day I am blessed to be able
to serve in so many different ways. I am a part of some new
and exciting ministries both at St. James’ and in the wider
community, both of which help me to grow in my ministry
and to support the ongoing ministry of the church.
At Huron University College, I was able to receive the tools
I needed to serve as a priest. Huron is more than just an
academic institution. Both within and outside the classroom,
I gained priceless knowledge to equip me for life and for
parish ministry. There was always someone, a priest or
professor, helping me to learn all that is involved with being a
parish priest. I thank God for my time at Huron.
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surveyresults
Huron earns top marks in
Maclean’s and The Globe and Mail
Canadian University Report
Huron has earned high grades in student satisfaction
as reported in Maclean’s magazine and The Globe
and Mail.
In its February 20, 2012 edition, Maclean’s reported that
Huron finished first out of 62 Canadian universities in both of
the senior-year students’ categories reported:
“If you could start over, would you go to the institution you
are now attending?”; and
“How would you evaluate your entire educational
experience at this institution?”
Huron’s results were based on the National Survey of
Student Engagement (NSSE) survey in which 62 Canadian
universities participated.
“Our students continue to express great satisfaction
with the quality of education at Huron and its supportive
environment,” says Principal Stephen McClatchie. “We
appreciate their feedback as we continue to look for
further ways we can improve and enrich their university
experience.”
Huron also proved once again that “very small” is very
good in student satisfaction, based on results of the Globe
and Mail Canadian University Report, published on
October 25, 2011.
The Globe and Mail Canadian University Report
reflects the opinion of 33,000 current undergraduate
students at 60 Canadian universities, with results
grouped according to size of the institution. Huron
was in the Very Small category of universities with an
enrolment under 4,000 students.
Globe and
Mail
University
Report
2011:
Class size
Most satisfied
students
Quality of
teaching and
learning
Instr uctor’s
teaching style
Student-faculty
interaction
Campus
atmosphere, and
Recreation and
athletics.
A+
A
A
A
A
A
A
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The London and Windsor Community Chair in Islamic Studies
Two cousins, and the Huron and
Muslim communities of London,
Ontario
Adeeb Hassan and Hanny Hassan, both
cousins and leaders in London’s Muslim
community, remember Huron Principal John
Morden with great respect and affection.
Dr. Morden served as Huron’s 11th Principal
from 1962-1984, and regularly took Huron
students to the London Muslim Mosque on
Oxford Street as part of his World Religions
course.
“Dr.
Morden was a gentle, charming man,”
says Hanny. “He made it clear that
he wanted a multi-faith experience
for his students and for them to know religious expression in
mosques and synagogues.
“He would bring his class down from Huron, and the ladies
in the Mosque would make coffee and special sweets,” says
Hanny, a retired engineer. “There would be a tour of the
mosque, and students from the College would observe prayer.
Dr. Morden had a generous understanding of our traditions
and laid the seeds for so much of what has followed. It was
significant for us to have someone of his stature with us.”
More recently, Huron and the local Muslim community
in London have developed a closer relationship through
establishment of the London and Windsor Community Chair
in Islamic Studies at Huron, in the Faculty of Theology.
Made possible through the leadership of The Rev. Canon
Dr. Bill Danaher, Dean, Faculty of Theology, Huron’s
three most recent Principals – Drs. Lumpkin, Fulton and
McClatchie – and with the support of Huron’s governing
Executive Board, and members of the local London and
Windsor communities, the Chair’s inaugural incumbent is Dr.
Ingrid Mattson, a distinguished scholar born in Kitchener,
Ontario.
Dr. Mattson, who started at Huron on July 1, most
recently was professor at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut,
was elected first woman President of the Islamic Society
of North America, and has served in both the Bush and
Obama administrations as a consultant to the Department of
Homeland Security.
Adeeb Hassan
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For Adeeb Hassan, the Chair is also an outcome of Huron’s
relationship with the London Muslim Mosque, stretching
back to the 1960s.
“Dr. Morden and my father, who was a founder of the
Mosque, were very close,” Adeeb says. “In my own case, my
relationship with Dr. Morden was more like ‘father-son’. He
was a wonderful human being and so respectful of all people.
He was respectful of Islam and treated the community with
warmth and respect. When he retired as Principal of Huron,
I was honoured to present him with a copy of The Quran on
behalf of the Muslim community. It was an honour I shall
always treasure.”
Adeeb’s father Ahmed (or Albert, as he was known)
immigrated in 1923 to London, Ontario from a village in the
part of greater Syria now known as Lebanon, from which area
most of the original Muslim community in London came.
“My father then moved to Glencoe, a small town just west
of London, a town which he always referred to as his “home
town” and where he opened a lunch counter,” says Adeeb. “He
learned to play the bagpipes and became popular in the local
community, so much so that he was invited by a local church
to teach Sunday School. He was known as a spiritual man,
and because of his popularity he enjoyed good relations with
Miss Ridley with, from left:
the Christian
community.
Ahmed eventually served on town
Beverley Paterson
Wood ”’64,
Dr.
Charles
Jago
’65,
and
Ann
council while in Glencoe.
Kennedy Kedwell ’66 (far right).
“In those days,” Adeeb says, “there was no safety net or
support for immigrants as there is today. You worked hard
and you didn’t ask for anything. It didn’t matter who you were
or what country you were from. Immigrants to Canada in
that era worked hard and never complained; to the contrary
they were grateful for everything they had achieved.
“My father loved this country. I would often hear him say,
‘If heaven is better than Canada, it must be a wonderful place
indeed.’ ”
Ahmed eventually moved back to London to raise his
family with his wife Suhyla (Sue), who still lives in London.
He got to know Joe McManus, a London entrepreneur
who was a major fuel supplier and legendary automobile
dealership owner. “My father called him Uncle Joe,” Adeeb
says. It was out of that relationship that Ahmed founded
a fuel oil tank manufacturing business in London, Hassco
Industries, of which Adeeb is now President.
From the 1930s through the early ‘50s, the LebanonSyrian Benevolent Society in London served as a social club
for the small Christian and Muslim community from the
The Rev. Canon Dr. Bill
Danaher, Dean, Faculty of
Theology, and Dr. Ingrid
Mattson, inaugural London
and Windsor Community
Chair in Islamic Studies
Middle East in the city. New immigrants in the post-war
years formed the Canadian Muslim Benevolent Society to
promote a greater Muslim identity, and in 1957 Adeeb’s father
and Hanny’s father Hussein (Alex) established the London
Muslim Mosque on Oxford Street near Wharncliffe, the first
mosque to be established in Ontario and the second oldest
mosque in Canada. Then, it had 20 members. Today it has
grown to more than a thousand, and most Muslims in the
London area are Indo-Pakistani. After 25 years as Chair of the
Mosque’s Board of Directors, Adeeb recently stepped down
this past spring.
“The Mosque is the focal point for the religious and
social life of a large number of Muslims in London,” Adeeb
says. “We also spend a lot of time and effort to help the less
fortunate through our involvement with Mission Services and
Salvation Army, for example. We share the same culture as
other charities, and as Canadians we’re committed to helping
the community.”
A turning point in the Muslim community’s relationship
with the broader London community came in the immediate
aftermath of 9/11.
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“There was some fear of a possible backlash,” says Adeeb.
Threats were made, and the local Muslim leadership
reluctantly decided to close temporarily their school situated
next to the Mosque.
“Something I will never forget is how members of the
greater London community formed a human chain around
the school,” Adeeb says. “The school was able to stay open.”
Indeed, Principal Morden’s daughter Mary Vickers was one
of those on the line. “To get at the Mosque, you’ll need to go
through us,” she remembers people saying in response to the
threats.
The support of the local community did more than just
allow students to attend the school. It changed the way the
Muslim community thought about their place in London,
Adeeb says.
“We realized that we weren’t alone, that the larger
community would stand by us as well,” he says. “The response
of the London community was to provide an incentive for us
to be active and involved in the larger community.”
Adds another local Muslim leader, Dr. Hassan Mostafa,
President of the Islamic Centre of Southwest Ontario,
London’s other mosque, “We can be criticized sometimes for
not getting involved in the community, and criticized when
we do get involved. The way we look at it, Canada is our
home, and we want to play our part.”
As I have grown to know members of the local Muslim
community, I see them leading the same busy lives as
my other friends and colleagues. The people I’ve met are
working hard as business leaders, physicians, dentists,
faculty members, taking extra courses to better themselves,
volunteering, and chauffeuring their kids to soccer practice
at night. They’re busy living the Canadian dream, which they
want the same opportunity to share as everyone else.
Most recently, members of the local Muslim communities
primarily in London and Windsor – along with a number
of Christians – contributed a remarkable $1-million to help
establish the London and Windsor Community Chair in
Islamic Studies at Huron.
Dr. Stephen McClatchie, Principal
(left) and Rick Lucas, President,
Huron University College
Foundation, with Dr. Ingrid Mattson
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Dr. Hassan Mostafa
and his wife Rania
“The significance of the Chair is that it reflects the
growing confidence of the Muslim community,” says Hanny
Hassan. “Originally, some of the immigrants would talk
of making money and returning to Lebanon. Now, for us,
Canada is home, and for us the future includes being part
of the infrastructure of the community, not being insular.”
Says Mary Vickers: “This Chair is everything my father
would have wanted as Principal of Huron College. He
would be so proud.”
Last summer I attended a visitation for the late
grandfather of Dr. Nabil Sultan, a Muslim leader in London
who is a physician with London Health Sciences Centre
hospital. I talked with Nabil’s uncle, and talk turned to
how the world had changed since 9 /11. It has been a very
difficult time for many Muslims, he said, and added: “You
know, what makes it sad is that we all believe in the same
God. We should be able to get along.”
Whether one believes there are major or minor
differences between Christians and Muslims, or Jews, his
larger point remained. And universities such as Huron
have a major part to play in that regard, to promote
understanding, inquiry and critical thought. To stretch
minds.
The establishment of the London and Windsor
Community Chair in Islamic Studies is one more way
Huron makes that possible for its students. Situated in the
Faculty of Theology, the Chair will provide opportunities
for Christian students preparing for ministry to have a
better appreciation of one of the three pillars of Abrahamic
religions in the increasingly multicultural society in which
they serve, and provide opportunities for Huron and Western
students, both Muslim and non-Muslim, to better know the
traditions of Islamic literature, philosophy and history.
Moreover, the establishment of the Chair has larger
social consequences for London, for Ontario, and indeed
for Canada in nurturing positive community relations and
understanding.
For Adeeb Hassan and Hanny Hassan, their journey as
Canadians has come far, perhaps beyond what their fathers
would have dreamed possible. In 2011, Hanny was named a
Member of the Order of Canada. In June, 2012, Adeeb was
awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
While congratulating Hanny on his induction to the Order
of Canada, Adeeb reminded him: “We are living the dream,
the dream that our fathers had for establishing ourselves and
our community into the mainstream of Canadian society. We
are now living that dream.”
– by Ken Andrews
Dr. Nabil Sultan and
his wife Lama Hamam
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‘Best Books’
An ongoing feature on books which Huron
faculty and staff have identified as important,
informative and/or favourite books in their lives.
Geoff Read
Assistant Professor of History
The task of picking one’s favourite books is a daunting one,
especially when the taskmaster, in this case friend and coworker Ken Andrews, specifies that one’s choices should
“speak to you as a person and your interests.” That said, with
Ken’s instruction in mind, I’ve come up with three titles.
As a historian I appreciate historical fiction and one
historical novel I particularly admire is William Styron’s
Sophie’s Choice. Styron’s prose is beautiful; moreover, his
tale of a young Polish
mother forced to make the most horrific choice imaginable
by a particularly cruel Nazi official exposes the inhumanity
of the Nazis while also touching on a theme emphasized
by Holocaust survivor Primo Levi: that national socialism’s
“greatest crime”, to borrow Levi’s phrase, was that it forced its
victims to degrade themselves.
Levi asserted that unwilling or unable to compromise
themselves the best people perished quickly in the
concentration camps, and like Levi himself, who committed
suicide in 1987, Styron’s Sophie is overwhelmed by feelings of
guilt. Sophie’s Choice is a compelling though deeply unsettling
read.
I also read popular history – works of non-fiction that are
aimed at a popular audience. In recent years there have been
many excellent contributions by popular historians, but my
favourite is probably Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike Dash. This
book chronicles the wreck of a Dutch ship en route to the
Spice Islands in 1629. Stranded on a nearly lifeless atoll, some
of the passengers and crew mutinied and resorted to murder
and cannibalism in a scenario evocative of Lord of the Flies.
While Dash’s reconstruction of these ghastly events is
expert, the real strength of Batavia’s Graveyard lies in his
insightful explanation for the mutineers’ conduct, which he
roots in their antinomianism. Batavia’s Graveyard thus weaves
the strands of religious, cultural, and maritime history into a
compelling narrative.
Finally, there are many excellent academic histories that
I would recommend to a more general audience. One of
these is Paul Jankowski’s Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the
Republic of Virtue. On 6 February 1934, a mob rioted in
downtown Paris and stormed the National Assembly. Many
felt at the time that this represented an abortive fascist coup
against French democracy. The cause of the disturbance was
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the crowd’s anger at the case of a swindler of Russian-Jewish
origins, Alexander Stavisky, who had defrauded investors of
millions of francs. Stavisky’s case was heaven-sent for French
anti-Semites and became a cause-célèbre because he was
unwittingly abetted by his many contacts among the political
elite. Jankowski, through meticulous archival research,
chronicles Stavisky’s life and crimes and paints a textured
portrait of interwar Paris and French politics and society
along the way.
So there, I guess, are my three favourite books. Reflecting
on my choices, I’m left concerned by what they say “about
[me] as a person….” My obsessions appear to be history,
violence, fascism, and death. It could be I need to lighten up.
By The Revd Canon
Bill Cliff
Chaplain
To some degree, I read the same for pleasure as I do for
work. The same subjects come up again and again, and I
plow through them enjoying them whether they are works of
fiction or academic works on history. So at the risk of being
seen as all work and no play, here are a few of my current
favourites:
We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals by
Gillian Gill (Ballantine Books, New York 2009) is a fun book
for those who enjoy royal biography that also doubles as
history and in this case political commentary. I think that
the recent movie “Young Victoria” must have been based
upon it, or upon its research as it lights up a very human,
and very young Victoria trying to negotiate the politics of
being a Coburg, being the heir and being at the mercy of her
mother and the sinister Irish Sir John Conroy. In this volume,
we see a stubborn and strong willed Victoria struggle to be
free of her mother, and of her mother’s courtiers, only to find
herself pulled between Leopold of Belgium, Lord Melbourne
and ultimately Prince Albert. Its an excellent read and full on
interesting nuggets about court life in the time of William IV.
Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor by
Eamon Duffy (Yale University Press, London 2009) is also an
excellent book that seeks to re-examine many of the legends
and stories of the Reformation which saw the burning of
protestants in the newly reconciled Catholic England under
Mary Tudor. This book sets aside the polemics of Foxe’s Book
of Martyrs and examines the documentary evidence from the
trials of those who were put to death under Mary Tudor. It
is an excellent read with the right number of anecdotes and
stories to please
the amateur,
and enough
documentation
from state
papers to make
it a serious
academic work.
In the end,
Mary turns out
to be far less
bloody and
her ministers
far more
reckless
than history
has before
recorded.
Wolf
Hall by
Hilary
Mantel (Harper
Collins 2009) is an excellent book of historical
fiction. Winner of the Man Booker prize, it is the first in
a series of books detailing the life, rise and fall of Thomas
Cromwell, the blacksmith’s son who rose under Cardinal
Wolsey and then survived his fall, only to take his place as
Henry VIII’s great manager of state affairs. This book is well
researched and in it, we meet all the figures from the Tudor
dynasty that might interest us as we see the court of Henry
VIII ripped apart by his love for Anne Boleyn. Its sequel
has already been published (Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary
Mantel Harper Collins 2012) and I was amazed at how
sympathetic Thomas Cromwell was made to seem. His profile
remained just as slippery in the novels as his reputation in
history, but was an excellent summary of the contradictions
and contortions a courtier would suffer working for the great
men of the Tudor era. I am looking forward to reading the
next volume this summer.
The Revd Canon Bill Cliff is Chaplain of Huron University
College and Rector of The Collegiate Chapel of St. John the
Evangelist at Huron. Bill’s Master of Arts thesis was “The
Prayers of Elizabeth I.”
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Huronevents
Alumni, faculty and friends at Huron receptions
in Toronto, London, New York, Ottawa
and Vancouver
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faculty
Professor Paul Nesbitt-Larking
awarded two prestigious National
Research Grants
Congratulations
to Paul NesbittLarking, who has
been awarded two
grants from The
Social Sciences
and Humanities
Research Council of
Canada (SSHRC).
An award of $58,072 under the SSHRC Insight Grants
program will assist Professor Nesbitt-Larking and his research
students in a study of multiculturalism.
The title of the study is “The Construction of
Multiculturalisms.” Multiculturalism has become a
theoretically contested term as well as an object of political
controversy in Canada and beyond. The study will examine
the meanings attached to multiculturalism in Canada and
the UK in order to improve our social scientific knowledge
and understanding. It will also generate tools for policy-
Huron student among
‘Top 20
Under 20’
makers, community organizations, and citizens to enhance
communication and understanding as they work toward peace,
justice, and stability within our complex and diverse political
societies.
A second SSHRC award of $34,847 has been granted to
Professor Nesbitt-Larking under the Aid to Workshops and
Conferences budget. The fund has supported a highly successful
international conference on Islam and Democracy, which took
place at Huron and Western from March 23-25, 2012. Members
of the conference committee are now working on producing
a book and a website of the proceedings as well as further
community outreach in order to present some of the findings.
Together both grants will assist Professor Nesbitt-Larking
in his overall research agenda of analyzing the nature of
community mistrust, conflict, and division in a globalizing
world. The principal goal of his research is to investigate how
a politics of dialogue, mutual recognition, and care is able to
generate effective communication, modes of cooperation, and
social cohesion and thereby to overcome conflict and disunity
within and between political societies.
Paul Nesbitt-Larking joined the Department of Political Science at
Huron in 1992. He can be reached at [email protected].
For Huron student
Jaxson Khan,
engagement—in school,
in organizing, and in the
community-at-large—is
a word he takes seriously.
The second-year Global
Development student was
recently named one of the 2012 Top 20 Under 20, a national
competition based on essays and a panel interview. Awarded
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Former Principal’s great-grandson visits Huron
Dr.
John Miles, great-grandson of The Rev.
Richard Gooch Fowell, fifth Principal of
Huron College from 1885-1890,
visited Huron on April 17, 2012 from Canterbury, England.
Pictured here between Principal Stephen McClatchie
(right) and Ken Andrews, Executive Director, University
Advancement. Dr. Miles brought with him a diary prepared
by his aunt which included accounts of Rev. Fowell’s
principalship, including descriptions of local tension between
the evangelical and Anglo-Catholic wings of the Church in
the Diocese of Huron. Dr. Douglas Leighton and Chaplain
Bill Cliff also met with Dr. Miles.
The diary included a description of the Principal’s residence
at Rough Park, near Oxford and Richmond Streets in
London, where Huron was previously located until the early
1950s. “The Principal’s house was a noble residence, built in
English fashion,” the diary states, “including two drawing
rooms and a spacious residence. The residence also featured
three lawns: one where the students played tennis, a lawn
with handsome conifers in front of the house, and another
beyond dotted with flowering shrubs where humming birds
and little green canaries made their nests. Our own little
gardens bordered this lawn.”
Fr. Cliff later took Dr. Miles for a visit to the original site of
Huron, now an apartment complex but whose lawns perhaps
not inexplicably remain verdant green.
to young Canadians who demonstrate leadership in their
communities in a variety of areas, Jaxson’s work as the COO
of the Student Voice Initiative (SVI) is especially noteworthy.
SVI, a project Jaxson co-founded with Gorick Ng, is a
movement that works to provide opportunities to students
to become more involved in their education and behind-thescenes decision-making. “I think that every student deserves
a voice, because every student has an opinion,” he says.
“One of our primary objectives is to provide a mentorship
network to pass on the knowledge and skills of today’s top
young leaders onto the next wave of students.” He adds, “We
want to work with the top young leaders in Canada, and help
up-and-coming students replicate the success of these leaders
across the country.”
After his first year at Bader International Study Centre
(BISC) in Herstmonceaux, England, Jaxson is looking
forward to returning to Canada and starting his second year
at Huron.
Initially interested in Western University, a bit of research
led Jaxson to Huron. “Huron University College was very
appealing to me because of its smaller class sizes and closeknit group. I’m really looking forward to finally being on
campus, and am excited to be a part of the Huron-specific
Centre for Global Studies.” – By Meg Pirie
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“I chose Huron because I believe
in community.”
Alumni Profile: Neil Hetherington, 1995
For Huron graduate Neil Hetherington,
class of 1995, a liberal arts education
within a vibrant campus culture
provided the necessary foundation for
a rewarding career in the not-for-profit
sector.
Moreover, Neil’s undergraduate experience
was the catalyst for growth and self-discovery.
“Huron was a nurturing community that
changed me,” says Neil, who majored in
Political Science. “My faculty knew my name,
they knew challenges that I faced, and because
Huron is the community that it is, they cared
about whether I succeeded or not.”
After briefly working in the private sector,
Neil changed careers in 2000, becoming the youngest CEO
in Habitat for Humanity history. A long-time volunteer
for this NGO, taking the helm of this not-for-profit is, in
Neil’s words, “the best job in the world and I believe a
calling for me.”
While the hours are long and a ‘typical day’ is non-existent,
“I leap out of bed because I’m excited to have the opportunity
to serve at Habitat for Humanity. It’s been twelve years and
every day is just the most rich and rewarding experience,”
he says.
Neil’s day-to-day workings involve a breadth of skills that
range from developing and implementing the organization’s
vision and strategy, to relishing each opportunity to work
alongside a partner family, volunteer or colleague.
Along with the actual governance and financing logistics
required of a CEO, Neil also helps volunteers on build sites
in Toronto and abroad, doing hands-on jobs like hanging
drywall and installing windows.
The variety of this job and the cohesion between staff and
volunteers is not lost on Neil. With one family per week
moving into their Habitat for Humanity home in Toronto,
the larger picture is clear. “It’s wonderful to be part of a great
mission—a worldwide mission—and I have the opportunity
to work with the most phenomenal staff that I get to learn
from every day,” Neil says. “They’re inspiring.”
While he did not plan a route to CEO for Habitat for
Humanity Toronto, Neil says, “one thing you can strive for is
to surround yourself with wonderful people.”
The significance Neil places on relationships was
established at Huron. “New students should know that they’re
going into a community that cares about them, and with that
comes a responsibility that they care about others,” he says.
“Huron is a small community committed to academic
excellence, but academics are only one part of it. It was
three years of self-discovery, it was three years in pursuit
of a stronger academic base, but in the end, it was such a
formative period of my life. I’m really grateful for it.”
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“College is the place where you become
piercingly aware of your own individuality, your
own uniqueness – a place where you should
dream dreams and see visions.”
By The Rev. Dr. John Gordon Rowe
In 1998, Dr. Rowe, Dean of Arts from 1961-1966,
spoke to Huron alumni in London. Excerpts are
below.
U
niversity is a time for dreams. To paraphrase
the text from Holy Scripture, university is a
time when the young should dream dreams
and see visions. It’s part of the process of
becoming an adult, of taking oneself and, above all, one’s
possibilities seriously.
One of our greatest failings in North America is that we
do not treat ourselves and our possibilities with enough
imagination. We do not dream enough. Our visions are
generally stunted and limited.
College is the place where you should expand your
horizons and your experiences. College is the place where you
discover your own possibilities.
College is the place where you become piercingly aware of
your own individuality, your own uniqueness – a place where
you should dream dreams and see visions.
A college reunion should remind you of these facts about
your life at Huron in times past. And it is your memories
of things past which has drawn you home to Huron this
weekend.
In point of fact, you have come back seeking to renew
some of these memories. You wish to experience yet again
the excitement of learning something new. You want to
experience again the joy of finding about things which you
have never known first hand. There was joy and excitement in
the learning, and you want to feel these emotions again. Can
it be that you want to look up that favorite teacher? You know,
the one who without saying too much said things in class that
changed your life? I hope so. We all had at least one professor
who ever so subtly rearranged our values and our way of
looking at life.
Of course, there were other dimensions rather than just
the academic. There was that sense of wonder at a new
relationship. Perhaps it was friendship which you really
discovered here for the first time. The friendships you can
have in your late teens or early twenties are unique for their
intensity and profundity.
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However, a college reunion is more than a place where you
evoke happy memories. There is a serious side to a reunion
precisely because it was in college that you discovered your
individual self and possibilities. It was in college that you
took certain steps in developing yourself and realizing those
possibilities. And this is where the serious side of college
reunion comes in—you have come in effect to take stock at
how well you have done. Yes, you dreamed dreams and had
many visions, and then you decided to act upon these dreams.
You would turn these dreams into concrete reality.
How well have you done? To answer this question, you
have to make comparisons. When you greet your long-lost
friends, when you grasp the hands of your former associates
here in Huron College, you will inevitably begin to make
comparisons.
How have I done—with my dreams and visions? How far
have I come? How much further do I have to go, will I go?
The answers in the vast majority of cases will be good,
positive. You will find that at the least you have realized much
of your potential. Perhaps you will feel that you have taken
your place in society. Well done, and at this point the reunion
will become sacramental. By that word I mean something
which mediates life to you, which makes you feel invigorated,
encouraged and somehow profoundly reassured.
This is really what the original experiences at Huron did for
you. They too were sacramental.
I hope this reunion will live up to your expectations. Still,
your old relationships will be rather changed. Your memories
of what you learned and experienced will be somewhat
confused. They may have lost some of their original zip. The
dreams, the visions, have faded. Realities, once very intense,
have diminished. Hopes have dwindled. Perhaps I have not
done as well as I hoped to do, as I expected from myself.
Perhaps my hopes for personal happiness are now somewhat
dashed by present realities. This too is part of becoming an
adult, living in a real world and experiencing disappointment.
The truth surely is that nothing lasts, that all things pass, that
mortality hangs heavy upon us.
Perhaps the most important result of all this is that you
can embrace what I call transiency—the fact that life and
From left: Principal John Morden
(1962-1984), Archdeacon
Ken Bolton and Dr. John Rowe.
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everything in it is passing
by. I need not shun the
fact; I need rather to
embrace transiency.
We should rejoice and
accept the fact that we
are here today and gone
tomorrow. If you can
but accept transiency,
you will discover that
life is here right now.
You can leave past
and future safely
to themselves. You
can concentrate
on the present.
Now—not yesterday, not
tomorrow—is the day of salvation. At this very
moment, salvation may break in upon you.
Then there is our mortality. Oh yes, the day will come when
we shall sicken, wither, die and disappear. Yet let us embrace
our mortality. So what if your relationships are not as they
seemed to be years ago. So what if we have not done as well
as we thought we should. So our dreams have wilted, our
visions have faded. Accept your mortality. This is more, much
more than growing old gracefully and graciously. Accept your
own mortality, and you will find that mortality is the mercy
of eternity. How good and pleasant a thing it is that nothing
lasts, that there is therefore always room for something new.
One of the oldest images of life is that image of the journey.
We are, all of us, engaged in the journey of life. And one of
the rules of the road is that we do not linger too long at any
one point. It is good to return to Huron College but only for a
moment. The road of life awaits you with new responsibilities,
new joys, new dreams, and new visions.
Remember always that Huron College is only a way station
on the road that leads to eternity. In your reunion, clasp hands
with your fellow travellers, your companions on the journey.
In the Spirit, your life is theirs, their lives are yours. That is
what this reunion is really all about. But press forward on the
journey. Remember that every step towards heaven is heaven,
for He said I am the Way. Remember too that greater reunion
when parting shall be no more, when all will be arrival, not
departure, for we shall have met at the feet of Jesus Christ to
Whom be glory now and forever.
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time as a
faculty m
ember.
The Rev. Dr. John Gordon Rowe was a greatly respected and
well-known faculty member to Huron students. First hired by
Huron in 1956 as a Professor of Church History in the Faculty
of Theology, Dr. Rowe was also a Professor of History in the
Faculty of Arts. From 1961 – 1966, Dr. Rowe was Huron’s Dean
of Arts. In 1968, he became Dean of Arts at the University of
Western Ontario.
In 1970, Dr. Rowe received a Doctor of Divinity degree
(honoris causa) from Huron. He died in 2001 at age 75. Dr.
Rowe’s daughter, Mary, attended Huron and remains a faithful
friend of Huron.
In appreciation of Dr. Rowe’s years of service to Huron,
alumni and friends, in 1966, established The John Gordon Rowe
Prize in History, which is awarded to the student who achieves
the highest first-class standing in History 1801E. Contributions
to this are still gratefully received by the Huron University
College Foundation to increase the value of the award, which
is currently $275. For more information please contact Ken
Andrews, at the co-ordinates on page two.
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GRADUATION
“Four years learning valuable life lessons”
By:
Xiao Lin
Xiao Lin
is a Huron
student
pursuing a
dual degree
in Honors
Psychology
and Honors
Business
Administration through the Richard Ivey School of Business.
Xiao was a first-year representative on the Huron University
College Students’ Council, a co-chair of the first-year committee,
a member of the student advisory committee, an orientation
week Soph, a Huron tour guide, member of the Huron
Underground Dramatic Society, founder and captain of Huron
63ers softball team, and a resident Don. Xiao attended Huron’s
Arts & Social Science 2012 graduation dinner and addressed
students at the banquet.
A lot can change in three, four or five years. It’s a long time to
spend at one place. But at Huron, it can feel like no time at all.
Do you remember how you felt all those years ago – your first
summer transition session, when you first signed up for your
courses? For me, it was a foggy day in June, and I sat in awe of
how incredibly confusing Huron’s building layout was.
Three, four, five years. How are you going to remember your
time at Huron? How will you measure it?
Will you measure it by your Grade Point Average? By the
number of friends you’ve made? By the number of late nights
you endured, whether induced by essays, bars, or... no good
reason at all?
Maybe you’ll remember it by the number of times you were
asked by a main campus student what a Huron is. Or, by the
number of beaver calls you participated in. Or maybe by the
moments you shared with your main campus friends, and
thought to yourself... I’m a Western student too? Only... better.
Lucky to be a Huron student too. Proud to be a Huron student
too.
Maybe you know exactly what it is you’ll be doing for the
rest of your life, and you’re here to celebrate the launching
of that shuttle. Or maybe you have no clue and you’re both
nervous and excited about that future. And maybe, as you
continue to stare out into the future, you’re beginning to see the
light at the end of a very long tunnel.
We’ve all been through many tunnels. Who here has ever
fought through tough times in a relationship with a friend
because it was worth keeping alive? Who here has ever gone
through a day wondering what on earth you’re doing at
university? Who here has ever sacrificed sleep to study for an
exam or write an essay?
But remember the light at the end of those tunnels? When
we felt the warmth of a restored friendship? When we found an
opportunity that came out of a difficult time? When we stepped
outside after the exam was over, or let out a sigh of relief after
finishing three papers in two days?
How often have we stopped and taken a look inside that
tunnel? Sure, it’s dark inside and you just want to keep moving
towards that light, but if you give it a minute, your eyes adjust,
and what you see might surprise you with its beauty.
I’m talking about those nights you stayed up until 4 a.m.
talking with your new friends in residence. I’m talking about
those awkward moments when you introduced yourself to
a stranger, then realized you’d already met them, and they
even remembered your name. And you became good friends
anyways. I’m talking about those stressed-out hours you spent
trying to beat your high score on some ridiculous Facebook
game while you still had 1,000 words to go on your essay due in
three hours.
Before the night is through, I’d like you all to think about your
first day at university – move-in day for most of us. Picture it in
your head for a moment. I can still hear the sounds of the Sophs
yelling and the band playing on the front lawn. I remember the
way my heart pounded against my chest as I struggled to keep
a calm exterior. Struggled to convince myself I’d be all right.
Struggled to get my parents to just... leave.
And they did. And I couldn’t wait for university to start. Four
years have gone by now in a blur.
Four years spent making good friends. Four years spent
making terrible mistakes. And four years learning valuable life
lessons from those mistakes.
So why are we here tonight? To dress up and eat good food?
Yes.
Because our mistakes are behind us, our lessons are within us,
and our good friends will always be there for us.
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Huron in bloom
A quick glance around Huron’s campus
will reveal a blend of modern and historic
buildings set amidst verdant surroundings.
And while the lush greenery has the
appearance of having always ‘been here,’ the
people behind the green spaces that comprise
this campus have interesting stories to tell.
Helen Moore
The Stewart Moore Carolinian
Garden – seven years later
If you’ve walked around Huron’s campus lately, you’ve likely
seen the handiwork of Helen Moore, Class of ’62. Having
worked as a teacher and a social worker, Helen embodies
lifelong learning—she also holds Master of Social Work and
Master of Education degrees—but she is also an avid gardener.
After her husband Stewart Moore passed away in 1997,
Helen developed twelve projects to honour and celebrate
Stewart’s life, including, at Huron, The Stewart Moore
Carolinian Garden, the Stewart Moore Bursary, and The
Stewart Moore Study Room in the Silcox Memorial Library.
While the planning for the memorial garden was in its early
stages, Helen became increasingly interested in Carolinian
gardening after taking a course at the University of Windsor,
subsequently planting a garden in 2002. The Carolinian
region of Ontario extends from Windsor to Toronto. “It’s one
quarter of one per cent of Canada’s land mass, and there are
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more species of plants and animals in this area than there are
anywhere else in Canada,” Helen says.
When the garden was first planted in 2003, Helen says, “it
really didn’t do anything for the first year but has gradually
grown into the space it was given.”
This is an understatement. The garden, originally grass
surrounding the Huron University College entrance sign by
the O’Neil-Ridley residence, is now full of raucous colours
and lush foliage – welcome sights in spring and summer.
For Helen, gardening is a gratifying activity with handson rewards. “I enjoy the work, the exercise and the physical
component, and it’s so exciting to see the results of the work,”
she says.
Along with the ongoing upkeep of the Stewart Moore
Carolinian Garden, Helen’s substantial work since 2003 has
focussed on controlling garlic mustard on campus, an invasive
plant that, once established, can overtake native plant species.
“What I think is perhaps as important as any gardening I’ve
done at Huron is my work pulling up and digging out garlic
mustard,” she says. “This is year eight that I’ve been doing
this and I’ve made a total of about 68 trips to Huron, so it’s
become a big part of my life.”
The Winder Garden gets a facelift
For Rebecca Barr and Gideon Bell, gardening became a way
for the Huron University College Students’ Council (HUCSC)
to leave a lasting gift for Huron students, staff, and faculty.
Friends and family of Steven Winder, a former Huron student
who passed away in 1991, contributed over $8,000 to the
initial garden. More recently, one garden has been restored
thanks to Helen Moore.
“Our objective was to provide a place for the Huron
community to relax and read during their time here,” Rebecca
says, adding that while “there are many things that the
HUCSC provides for students, this garden is something that
can be accessed by absolutely anyone on campus.”
Building on the dedication and work that Helen Moore had
earlier provided in restoring the garden, both students found
themselves constantly learning. Although Rebecca admits
that while Gideon had a greater interest in gardening when
the project began, the process was a collaborative one, with
an overarching goal of keeping the garden as Carolinian as
possible, making use of native varieties of plants that would
thrive in this setting.
“We had a rough outline drawn of how we wanted the
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garden to be,” Rebecca says, “but
for the most part Gideon and I
continuously bounced ideas off of each
other about what we thought should
be the next step. The path changed
shape a few times, but we were always
talking out the possibilities as we went
along.”
The number of hours dedicated
to this joint effort varied widely,
depending on the stage the garden
occupied. “Anywhere from two hours
to as much as 15 hours a week were
spent physically working on the
garden as well as researching products
and prices,” Rebecca says. However,
when the planting began, “I was at
the school watering between three and
five times a week throughout June
and July.”
And while the vision for this space
was a shared one, the labour was
communal and became, quite literally,
a family affair. An avid landscaper and
gardener, Rebecca’s father offered sage
advice and a helping hand.
“My father loves gardening and
landscaping, and without a lot of his
knowledge this project would have
been a lot different,” she says.
“I realized I had learned a lot from
my father over the years that I was able
to put to use.”
“By the end, investing all of that
time and effort meant that we got
just that much more out of the
experience. The support we got from
administration and some students
who saw it was awesome.”
– Article and photos by Meg Pirie
The Winder Garden.
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ALUMNICAREERS
Extending liberal arts in
the community – Halifax
Humanities 101
By: Mary Lu Roffey Redden MA, BA (Hons) in
Philosophy, 1976; Director, Halifax Humanities 101
Like many baby boomers who were teens in the
idealistic late 60’s, I went to university with no specific
career goals, but with a deep desire to read great
books, think great thoughts, and discuss both with
wise teachers and other keen students.
Huron College turned out to be a great
fit for me because my wide-eyed idealism
needed to be disciplined and subjected to
rigorous scrutiny. As a philosophy major,
I learned, under the guidance of JeanPierre Schachter and Tony Willing, to
be a more focused thinker and careful writer, and I continue
to be thankful for the ways in which they challenged me and
taught me.
But of course, as a Philosophy major, I was often asked
by more practical friends what I was going to “do” with my
education. What point was a degree in something so “useless”
as philosophy?
This question about the value of a liberal arts degree has
become even more pressing for students and teachers now,
as higher education becomes increasingly expensive and the
need to graduate with employable skills becomes urgent.
But who among us, who had the privilege of a good
Humanities education, doesn’t look back with some longing
at that wonderful time of reading, writing, and discussion
about ideas and books? Undergraduate life can seem, from
the vantage point of mid-life worries about family, career,
aging parents, and mortgages, to have been a golden time of
freedom, exploration, and intellectual growth. The value of
liberal arts
study was
Mary Lu Roffey
Redden ’76
precisely that:
freedom to
think, try out
ideas, discuss
books and
theories late
into the night,
and even to
contend with
challenging
concepts that
may have
unsettled our
traditional
ways of
thought.
For far
too many
intelligent and
thoughtful people in Canada however, that opportunity and
freedom to read important works of literature and philosophy
under the guidance of skilled teachers, is out of reach. If
you are disabled, or a single parent on social assistance, or
someone living with mental or physical health difficulties,
then both the cost and the stresses of university education may
make enrollment next to impossible.
However, a sort of “alternative university” movement has
taken hold in Canada and has become both my employment
and my passion for the past five years. After years of both
university and community college teaching and a long hiatus
as a ‘stay-at-home mom’, I was hired five years ago to be the
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director of Halifax Humanities 101, one
of 10 programs in Canada that work with
local universities to bring post-secondary
level Humanities education to adults
living below the poverty line. Our focus
in Halifax is a “Great Books” curriculum,
taking students from the ancient world of
Homer, Plato and Virgil right through time
to contemporary Canadian authors like
Alice Munro, Charles Taylor and George
Elliott Clarke.
Halifax Humanities 101 and our sister
programs make top quality, university
level Humanities education accessible by
removing all financial barriers to study for
our students. Books and reading material
are provided free of charge, no tuition is
required, and we all provide bus tickets and
childcare subsidies to students who require
these to attend class. In most programs,
the professors volunteer their time. (In
Halifax we are blessed with a roster of
over 60 professors from seven different
institutions.) We ask of students only that
they have a good reading ability, a strong
desire to learn, and the willingness to take
on a formidable intellectual challenge in
the midst of already difficult lives.
Halifax Humanities has just begun its
seventh year of operation, and we have
a new class of 24 very keen students. I
know that some will be gone before we reach the end of our
eight months together. Some will succumb to the serious
depression that deepens and worsens in the dark, gray months
of a Maritime winter. Others may find themselves in upheaval
because of substandard housing. We will lose a few students
who had overestimated their newly found sobriety and have
had a relapse. Some of the single parents may find that the
stress of raising children on an inadequate income makes the
level of study and reading we require too difficult to do.
But we know now, after six years of running this program,
that for those who make it to the end of the eight-month
curriculum, life will never be the same. When the world looks
at you and sees only your external circumstances – material
poverty, disability, and life on social assistance – finding a
place where you know you will be welcomed as an intelligent
and engaged student is transforming. As one of our recent
graduates said in a year-end reflection: “Poverty and/or
disability can easily rob a person of their dignity, and worst of
all, the ability to hope, dream and aspire to be more than you
are. Halifax Humanities provides an opportunity to gain all this
back to people who need it the most. What a marvelous thing!”
Being director of Halifax Humanities 101 and making it
possible for those who feel shunted to the margins of society,
to experience that joy of learning that I experienced so many
years ago at Huron, strikes me as a fairly good use of my
“useless” degree in Philosophy.
For those wishing to learn more about the Halifax Humanities
program, visit www.halifaxhumanities101.ca.
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Huron alumni publish memoir
on twinship: Lauren and Alison
Knight’s Mirror Mirror
Sitting down
with Lauren and
Alison Knight
(Class of ’08) is
an unforgettable
experience.
True, they are
mirror image
twins. Yes, they
often finish each
other’s sentences.
But, most
importantly, they
are sensitive,
thoughtful
individuals who share an unbreakable bond and a
self-deprecating sense of humour.
This bond, along with their struggles with mental health
issues, is discussed at length in their self-published memoir
Mirror Mirror, released in late 2011. As Huron alumni, Lauren
and Alison also discuss their time at Huron in their coauthored work. Their five years at Huron were not always easy,
but it was also a time that allowed them to explore intellectual
passions and meet fellow students.
In their words, “Huron just attracts really good people. So
many people we met were so intelligent and open-minded,”
Lauren says. “In our book we talk about some people we
encountered who don’t fit this description, but in general, the
people who study and teach here are a testament to Huron’s
reputation and standards.”
Acting on a recommendation from a guidance counselor,
Alison and Lauren visited Huron unexpectedly one afternoon.
While the two did not have a tour scheduled, they had the
good fortune of meeting now-retired professor Dr. Eddy Smet,
who showed the Knights around Huron’s campus. “It was a
really great first impression,” Alison says.
Initial welcomes aside, “we liked the idea of being part of
familiar surroundings,” Lauren adds. “And I know this is a
standard answer, but we really did feel like a name and not a
number.”
Small class sizes and access to professors came with unique
challenges. Alison observes that both she and Lauren felt
“more pressure because you are more than a number. But,
it’s a good pressure. There’s an extra emphasis on work ethic
and ensuring that your work meets high standards, so there is
added pressure.”
“I was grateful for our experience,” she concludes.
While at Huron, both Lauren and Alison pursued English
and History, along with a minor in French. “We’ve always had
a passion for English, which was our favourite subject since
high school,” Alison says. Without missing a beat, the twins
emphatically comment in unison, “We love to write. We love
to read.”
Coupled with a shared love of literature is an interest in
history. Fascinated by the two world wars since childhood,
this topic was the focus of Alison and Lauren’s Masters
Dissertations in History at Western University. While they
found their year-long MA and work as teaching assistants
rewarding, the completion of their graduate degrees felt like a
vacuum, leaving a void that was difficult to fill.
In reality, this was a blessing in disguise. Back home in
Kingsville, Ontario, a daily routine was established that
saw the twins writing down thoughts and goals for their
future. This exercise turned into a cathartic writing project
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that blossomed into a collectively written memoir—Mirror,
Mirror—that details their bond as twins and their shared
struggles.
Says Alison, “As we started writing it became more of a look
back at our teenage years and beyond. Initially, we just wanted
to describe where we were at this current stage, but to do that
we needed context.”
After sending a draft to Dr. Neil Brooks, Huron’s acting
Associate Dean of Arts and Social Sciences, Alison and
Lauren found encouragement in Dr. Brooks’ feedback.
Nevertheless, the two are quick to point out that while they
are not ‘experts’ in mental health issues, their book will
hopefully provide solace to individuals who find themselves
dealing with depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder.
“All that we can offer are our story and our experiences. We
wish that we could help other people with their issues and
maybe in some way sharing our experiences will help them,”
Lauren says.
She adds: “I hope that maybe it’s something—it’s so much
a part of us and our twinship—that in a way comes naturally.
We’ve always been answering people’s questions about our
relationship, so
A self-portrait of Lauren and Alison Knight.
talking about this
isn’t difficult for us.”
Lauren and Alison
have entertained
eventually moving
to Toronto where
their brother
and a number
of cousins live.
This locale would
offer additional
opportunities for
their writing,
editing, and art (they compose pieces commissioned through
their website). The added benefit is a larger population. “We
feel we would blend in a little more,” Alison says, adding that
“there are so many different people there.”
Wherever their shared journey leads, both agree that
“if people ask us about Huron, we only have positive things
to say.”
Huron Library Awarded Special Collection
The Silcox Memorial Library has been
awarded a collection of major texts in the
field of science and religion. The award
was received through a competitive grant
program of the Cambridge University-based
International Society for Science & Religion,
ISSR.
“We are very excited to have received this award
Pamela
and anticipate that the collection will be of great
MacKay,
value to researchers and students in a variety of
Chief
Librarian
disciplines,” says Pamela MacKay, Chief Librarian.
As described by the ISSR, the collection
consists of 250 titles that are “representative of the
most important authors and treat the vast range of interdisciplinary subject matter at the highest level of quality and
scholarship. Selected through rigorous peer review, these titles reflect no ideological or religious bias and are drawn from
many faith traditions as well as authors with vigorously naturalistic perspectives.”
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Students
Adam Fearnall:
Huron student elected President
of Western Students’ Council
Adam Fearnall, a fourth-year Political Science
student at Huron who graduated this past June,
has been elected president of Western University’s
University Students’ Council (USC) for the 2012-13
academic year.
Adam previously was president of the Huron University
College Students’ Council. Following a hard-fought
campaign, Adam reflected on the election process and how
his Huron roots provided support.
“My time here provided a place to figure out what I was
interested in and to form some close relationships with
people,” Adam says. “These were the people during the
campaign who told me if I didn’t sound like myself. It gave
me grounding.”
“Friends were also there to tell me when I was getting
a little too involved and pull me back. The importance of
maintaining perspective came up a lot during the campaign
and I tried to hammer away at that every day.”
The next year as USC President will be undoubtedly busy
for Adam, but he looks forward to overseeing a large student
body, and how the USC can play a role focused more on
connecting students to services on campus and in London.
“It’s not about us turning individual students into a
particular person, but just ensuring they have support from
us,” he says. “At the end of the day, I don’t care if students
know who I am, I just want them to have a good campus
experience.”
While his plans after university are not yet solidified, Adam
was recently accepted to the political management Master’s
program at Carlton University.
“You learn how to manage political campaigns and develop
communications strategies. I’d love to speech write,” he says.
“That’s maybe one possibility. But I’ve also had some thoughts
about taking one more history credit to complete my second
teachable for teacher’s college.”
– By Meg Pirie
PHOTO: Adam Fearnall learns he is the new USC President for 2012-2013.
Picture by Nyssa Kuwahara.
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Favourite
Huron Places
Thanks to the following alumni for sharing reflections
on their favourite places at Huron.
Louis Weatherhead, Class of ’72
The SAC was always a good place to go to pick up a drink or
snack to give a boost during the late night cram sessions, or
just to sit and hang out and chat before crashing.
I recall several occasions where, after a snowball fight or
such, we would gather in the SAC and someone would bring
in a stereo system and we would have an impromptu party.
Always seemed to be a good social point for all.
David Balfour, Class of ’70
Jim Rooney was excellent teaching Business 20, and Burd/
Munn likewise with Psych 20, and of course Catharine Ridley.
I made a lot of good friends, some of whom I am still in
contact with.
I was on Second North, O’Neil Residence. My two favourite
spots were the parking lot and the room where we got mail.
The parking lot was where I spent a lot of time trying to coax
my 6-volt 1951 Studebaker to life and ditto for my 63 VW…
so it must have been my favourite. Fortunately, both cars died
in the cold of that winter and my mother let me have her twoyear-old Oldsmobile 98 convertible for the duration. Amazing
how that helped my popularity with the girls!
The mail room I counted on for five letters a week from my
then-girlfriend who lived in Hamilton – obviously no e-mail
or cell phones in that era!
The Ven. Harvey Southcott,
Class of ’50
Bishop W.T. Hallam retired from the West and came to
the Diocese of Huron and to the College to be Professor of
Apologetics and Practical Theology. He started a class in
senior Homelectics for our graduating group.
The nine of us walked from the College over to
St. John the Evangelist Church nearby.
We sat in the back pew and we were asked to
comment on the student’s sermon if we chose.
Not much was said. The Bishop then remarked to
the “preacher”, “Mr. – ----, you spoke very well,
but your sermon could be compared to a railroad
train. You could have stopped your remarks at
several of the train stations along the way!”
Bishop Hallam was a very special person. I
remember our New Testament classes when
he lectured on St. John’s Gospel without notes,
talking from the Greek text in his hand. He
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shared with Bishop Luxton at our ordination as deacons on
May 18th, 1950.
Mary Ellen (Kedwell) Wigle,
Class of ’76
It may seem an odd choice, but my favourite spot for special
memories at Huron is the courtyard lawn behind O’Neil
Residence, and the valley below. This is where many happy
times began for me in the fall of 1973!
My first memories recall the fun of Orientation week –
the mandatory visit to Kangaroo Kourt and the resulting
obstacle course through the mud pit, as well as the final night’s
frosh get-together and bonfire in the valley where life-long
friendships were established.
I remember long, weekend hikes on warm, fall afternoons
down the hill, beside the stream and through the forest in
all its autumn glory – a welcome break from studying!
Or, stealing refectory trays so we could toboggan down the
hill on cold winter evenings, I recall the way our hoots and
hollers echoed in the darkness and the feeling of icy spray on
your cheeks.
But my fondest memories are of one day in late June, 1985
when I stood alone in the warm, summer rain on that lawn. It
was early morning and I was asking and praying to God that
the rain would stop and the sun reappear before the festivities
of my wedding day began. My prayers were answered and our special day went off
without a hitch – including the chapel service, a receiving
line, reception and photo op – all on the lawn overlooking
the valley – and, a catered dinner in the Refectory followed
by dancing in the SAC. Twenty six years later, happily, we are
still together!
In recent years, my family has marked the passing of
both my parents with services of celebration in the chapel
at Huron. So, all of these hallowed grounds hold very
precious memories for me. But the lawn overlooking the
valley symbolizes both the heady days of my youth and the
reflective, peaceful moments of my adult years and beyond.
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matureStudents
Reflecting on the
undergraduate journey
On Monday, June 18, Huron University College held
its annual Celebration of Graduands in the Kingsmill
Room. While for many the journey to university is
one that follows directly from high school, for three
mature graduates, it was the path less travelled that
led to Huron.
That couldn’t be truer for three mature alumni, Edna
Blomqvist, Maya Clarke and Kathy Spitzig-Mazur, who
collectively received The Nelson Vigilanti Mature Students’
Award, awarded to a graduating
mature student(s) in recognition
of a successful effort to balance
family, education, career and
personal development goals.
The award is made possible
thanks to the generosity of
Sharon McKillop, Director of
Housing and Student Life and
herself a former mature student
and Huron alumna, class of
2002. The award was established
in memory of Sharon’s
grandfather.
“Both of my daughters graduated with BA’s in History from
Huron,” she says. “Also, I worked at the Huron library for 11
years prior to enrolling in classes fulltime.”
While pursuing her BA in History, Edna took her course
load seriously, making academic responsibilities her top
priority. This immersion was aided, however, by the fact that
she found the course content to be consistently engaging. “My
courses were exciting to me; I thrive on classroom discussion
and debate,” she says.
For this recent alumna, the willingness to actively
participate in lectures and tutorials is essential to a well-
Edna Blomqvist,
BA History
For Edna Blomqvist, pursuing
an undergraduate degree as a
mature student marked a new
adventure in lifelong learning.
Luckily, Huron University
College was a familiar place.
The 2012 Nelson Vigilanti Mature Students’ Award receipients. From left: Edna Blomqvist, BA History, Maya Clarke
BA Honors Specialization Globalization Studies and extreme right, Kathy Mazur-Spitzig, BA Globalization Studies
(With Distinction). Sharon McKillop, second from right, established the award in honour of her grandfather.
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rounded university experience. Edna’s advice to other
mature students is this: “Forget your age—especially if you
are as “mature” as I am—and throw yourself into the class
discussions on an equal basis with the other students.” “My favourite thing about being a Huron student was its
size,” she says. “It was a comfortable community, with all of
the advantages of Western University, as well as small classes
and easy access to professors. For someone going back to
school after years away,” she adds, “Huron is a “soft landing,”
with what seems to be an increasing number of mature
students to compare notes with.”
Maya Clarke, BA Honors
Specialization Globalization Studies
After hearing about Huron through a friend pursuing a
Masters in Divinity, Maya Clarke made an appointment with
academic counsellor Debbie Chadwick. With a background
in international development work, Debbie recommended
Maya try Global Studies. The hunch proved correct: it was a
perfect fit.
Once here, Maya found a classroom environment that
was “always exciting and conducive to learning.” The small
classes also provided a sense of community and were, from
this alumna’s perspective, “friendlier and less intimidating,
especially for a mature student. At Huron I never felt out of
place. I always felt a sense of belonging and really looked
forward to my classes.”
While enrolled full-time as an undergraduate, Maya also
worked full-time. Balancing these competing commitments
was challenging, but she offers this succinct piece of advice
when it comes to academics: “Try not to procrastinate – start
the research and the essays early, go to the Writing Centre,
and make sure to go meet your professors during their office
hours.”
On a broader scope, Maya also highlights that learning
can happen at any point in one’s life. “Never think you’re too
old to be in university, and try not to worry about applying
everything you learn to a career or job,” she says. Rather,
“pursue what you are most interested in and engage with the
learning process. I discovered I had a passion for all kinds
of topics just by allowing myself to be exposed to the global
world around me.”
Kathy Mazur-Spitzig, BA
Globalization Studies (With
Distinction)
For Huron Admissions Coordinator Kathy Mazur-Spitzig,
the journey as an undergraduate began 16 years ago. She
managed to balance work, home life, and academics by
pursuing a course or two each year, an approach that enabled
her to select those courses that truly attracted her.
“Being able to pick courses and really focus my energies on
that course was great. People always say, ‘Well, you had thisthis-and-this going on,’ and it’s true, I did; but there weren’t
multiple courses competing for my energy. I liked it better
that way. It wasn’t as stressful.”
While it’s evident that studying and working full-time at
Huron required ample time management, Kathy encourages
students to make the most of the resources available to
them. “My experience with the different campuses was
amazing. Western is this collective of different bodies; it’s an
opportunity,” she says. “These institutions and departments
have different specializations, so why not take advantage of all
of it?”
“We talk so much about the value and role of a liberal
arts degree, and I say every September to the schools in
London that it really can take you anywhere. And now I’m
experiencing that,” she says, highlighting that for her, the
process “was about learning, gaining different perspectives,
and making myself well-rounded. My degree really has
provided internal value.”
Identifying “just one favourite thing” proves difficult, but
being able to engage with professors and receive detailed
feedback on writing was a highlight. “Initially I was not a
strong writer but I did notice my writing improve during this
process.” In fact, this improvement was vast. In Kathy’s final
course of university, her professor nominated her final paper
for an award. “That was a great feeling. It shows my interest in
this topic, but it shows my journey academically, too.”
Being able to share her convocation with her husband and
two daughters was particularly special. “My girls were there
on graduation day and they got to see me walk across the
stage in my gown,” she says. “They were able to see they were
part of this, too, and for me, that was really profound. And
then we went to Dairy Queen and had ice cream afterwards,
which is even better,” she laughs.
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ClassNotes
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1950-1969
Congratulations to Paul Smith ’61 and
Sara (Willis) Smith ’61 who celebrated
their fiftieth wedding anniversary on June
23, 2012. The two met and planned their
future together in Huron’s Silcox Memorial
Library. In appreciation of what Huron has
meant in their lives, the Smiths established
The Paul and Sara (nee Willis) Smith
Library Fund. Paul and Sara are the parents
of Huron graduates Colin Smith ’93 and
Andy Smith ’94.
Dr. Ian Newbould ’64 has been appointed
Interim Provost at the University of Mary
Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The
appointment is for the 2012 – 2013 school
year. Ian is married to Carla (Vandergrift)
Newbould ’66.
David Taylor ’65 and his wife Ann are the
proud grandparents of Isla Frances Taylor
Horrox, born August 14, 2011.
Paul Beeston ’67 and his wife Kaye are the
proud grandparents of Lucy McGill Falconer,
born January 20, 2012, sister for Max. Lucy
is also the niece of Dave Beeston ’01.
Jim Carr ’67 and his wife Sheilah are the
proud grandparents of Grace Allison Carr,
born January 2012.
Congratulations to Douglas Derry ’68
who was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II
Diamond Jubilee Medal.
Stan Taylor ’68 is a freelance science
interviewer, workshop presenter and
writer who has a monthly astronomy column
in the Uxbridge COSMOS
(www.uxbridgecosmos.ca). Stan is in his
11th year with Scientists in School, after
retiring from teaching for 23 years in Toronto.
Who’sWhere
Col. (Retd) Pat Crandell ’70
Vice President, Intelligence and Security Programs, Parisien Research Corporation,
Ottawa, Ontario
Michael Medline ’84
President, The Forzani Group Ltd., Calgary, Alberta
Lesley Stakiw ’92
Chief Financial Officer, Visit Newport Beach, Newport Beach, California
Dan Bowman ’95
Territory Manager, Veeam Software, Toronto, Ontario
Mike Hirshfeld ’95
Vice President, Sales, Aston Martin Financial, Toronto, Ontario
John (Jay) Nash ’96
Vice President, Portfolio Manager / Investment Advisor, National Communication – National
Bank Financial, London, Ontario
Tony Irwin ’97
Director of Government Relations, National Money Mart Company, Toronto, Ontario
Chris Dangerfield ’98
Vice President, Finance, House & Home Media, Toronto, Ontario
Jon Webster ’00
Senior Director, Business Development, GridGain Systems, Waterbury, Connecticut
Amanda de Vogel ’03
Director, Service & Customer Experience, Sales & Service, Scotiabank, Toronto, Ontario
Leith Coghlin ’06,
Finance Manager, Mercedes-Benz London, London, Ontario
Mark Barrese ’07
Coordinator, Premium Service, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, Toronto, Ontario
Dylan Davie ’10
Sales & Editorial Rep, Pearson Canada Higher Education, Don Mills, Ontario
Yasmeen Tonnos ’11
Sales & Marketing Director, Margaritaville Café – Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls, Ontario
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1970-1979
The Rt. Rev. Robert F. Bennett ’71 and
’74 and his wife, Kathie, are the proud
grandparents of McKenzie Grace, born
September 30, 2011, sister for Natalie.
McKenzie is a second cousin to Kate
(Boyle) Fraser ’02.
Douglas Cunningham ’73 and Katherine
(Kit) Kleiser ’72 were married on
September 10, 2011 in Toronto. Doug was
the 1973 head student. The two are also
the proud grandparents of William Michael
Cunningham, born December 30, 2011.
Congratulations to Denise Korpan ’77
who was appointed a justice of the Ontario
Superior Court of Justice, Family Division
in London, Ontario. Denise is the sister of
Karen (Korpan) McCluskey ’87.
1980-1989
The Rev. Canon Bill Thomas ’80 was
awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond
Jubilee Medal in Ottawa on June 3, 2012,
acknowledging his contributions over the
last three decades to Naval Veterans in
Canada, the Canadian Naval Memorial
Trust, the Friends of HMCS Haida, and for
bringing credit to Canada in his pioneering
work with the International Association of
Conference Center Administrators, and the
Interim Ministry Network.
Beverly Behan ’81, a best-selling business
author, published 1812 in Niagara: A
Screenplay. Her book, Great Companies
Deserve Great Boards: A CEO’s Guide to
the Boardroom, has also been named
one of the top five business books for
2011 according to Books and Briefcase,
a downtown Toronto bookstore catering to
business professionals.
Bob Puffer ’82. From Bob’s obituary,
“Bob left us on June 26, 2007. Sadly,
after five long years he was found on
Georgian Bay, near Killarney Ontario on
Sunday, July 8, 2012.” Bob was a brother
to John Puffer ’80.
The Rev. Susan Baldwin ’86, above, off
the south-west coast of Australia sports her
Huron shirt. Susan, formerly of the Faculty
of Theology, lives in Darfield, New Zealand
where she serves as Vicar in the Parish
of Malvern. She is married to The Rev.
Phil Baldwin ’00, who also worked in the
Faculty of Theology.
Congratulations to Peter White ’87,
President and CEO of The London Economic
Development Corporation (LEDC). The
LEDC received top honours in Marketing
and Workforce Development at The Ontario
Economic Development Awards on February
2nd. The LEDC “Tomorrow in London” video
ranked number one in provincial Marketing
Using Multimedia category. The video was
designed to demonstrate the global reach
of innovations and products made in
London. The LEDC also gained recognition
in the Workforce Development category
for “The London Middlesex Immigrant
Employment Council”, a collaborative
initiative formed to address the importance
of integrating international talent to keep
pace with an aging workforce.
1990-1999
Congratulations to Erika Beatty ’90 who
received a John Hobday Award in Arts
Management. Erika will receive $10,000 to
research cutting-edge music production in
other countries with the goal of exploring
how digital and emerging technologies can
be used to capture and communicate the
beauty and intensity of the performing arts
to Canadian and international audiences.
Matthew Bassett ’93 and his wife, Carolyn,
are the proud parents of John Lawrence
Bassett, born March 5, 2012, brother for
Dagney. John is cousin to Victoria BassettWalker ’85, Deborah (Bassett) Drysdale
’92, Stephanie (Bassett) Allan ’93 and
Jennifer (Bassett) Sievert ’96.
Steve Hardy ’93 and his wife, Cindy, are
the proud parents of Jason Thomas Hardy,
born October 4, 2011, brother for Connor
and Sloane. Steve, a Managing Partner at
TVG Partners in New York City, is President
of The Huron University College Foundation
U.S.A.
Patrick Rodmell ’89 and his wife, Suzy,
are the proud parents of James Michael
Rodmell and Scott Patrick Rodmell, born
November 14, 2011, brothers for Michael.
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A special congratulations
Congratulations to Principal Stephen McClatchie and Peter Groom
on the occasion of their marriage, on July 27, 2012.
With the very best wishes of the Huron community!
Friends of Huron
Congratulations to Jamie Caskey who received the Law Society Medal on May 23
at a ceremony at Osgoode Hall. Jamie is one of nine lawyers from across Ontario
who were honoured by the Law Society of Upper Canada for distinguished service
and achievement in the legal profession. Jamie is married to Janet Caskey, former
Executive Board Chair. He and Janet are also the parents of Andrea Caskey ’86,
Susan Caskey ’87 and Jane Caskey ’91.
Dr. Elizabeth Revell, former member of Huron’s Department of English, continues to
live in England and has moved to a residential home. Dr. Revell can be reached at:
The Fairfield Residential Home, 115 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6LA, U.K.
Congratulations to Sheldon Aaron, Adeeb Hassan, Hanny Hassan, Faisal Joseph,
Fred Kingsmill, Janet Stewart and Jim Thompson who were awarded the Queen
Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
honours Canadians who have made a significant contribution to a particular
province, territory, region or community within Canada.
Ian Jeffreys ’93 and his wife, Kim, are
the proud parents of Madeleine Debra
Jeffreys, born October 23, 2011, a sister
for Spencer and Sydney. Ian is a member
of the Huron University College Executive
Board.
Mike Schaab ’95 lives in Vancouver
with his wife Meredith and their three
children, Benjamin, Thomas and Sarah.
Mike has been Vice-President, Portfolio
Manager Private Clients with Leith Wheeler
Investment Counsel since June, 2011
(www.leithwheeler.com). With his father
Charles (Huron Class of ’66), Mike
established The Schaab Family Entrance
Bursary at Huron in order to provide
students with the ability to attend Huron
based on family income and thereby
ensure financial means isn’t a barrier to a
university education.
Grant Beggs ’96 and his partner David
Garcia are proud to announce the birth
of Georgina Helena Beggs-Garcia, born
September 22, 2011. Georgina is the
grandchild of Dr. Don Beggs ’67 and Jane
(Cameron) Beggs ’66, a niece to Todd
Beggs ’90, a great niece to Nancy (Beggs)
Luckock ’70 and David Luckock ’69, and
a second cousin to Jordan Luckock ’00.
Grant was also recently named President
of Marketing – Global Brand Marketing and
Product Development at Mattel Inc. in El
Segundo, California.
Karina Roman ’96 and her husband Kevin
Godsman are proud to announce the birth
of Molly Abigail Godsman, born April 30,
2012, sister for Sophie.
Congratulations to Mel (Melissa) Brown
’97, one of 13 teachers across Canada
who reached the finals of Canadian
Family magazine’s 2012 Great Teacher
Awards. Mel, who teaches core French at
Talbot Trail Public School in Windsor, was
nominated by a colleague for embodying “all
characteristics of teaching excellence.”
Congratulations to John Cullis ’97 who
has been named a 2011 ‘40 Under Forty
Illinois Attorney to Watch’. The honour, by
The Law Bulletin Publishing Co. in its annual
40 Under Forty issue, identified John as
among the “most talented young attorneys
working in Illinois.” John, a partner at Neal
Gerber Eisenberg in Chicago, co-chairs the
firm’s cross-border practice group and is a
member of its intellectual property practice
group. Married to Andrea Tutkaluk ’99,
John also serves as a Director of the Huron
University College Foundation U.S.A.
Chris McCreery ’98 has been appointed
to the Board of Trustees of the Canadian
Museum of Civilization.
Duane Lee ’97 and Heather Barnes ’00
are the proud parents of Spencer Elliott Lee,
born February 2, 2012, brother for Meredith.
Spencer is also a great nephew to John
Leitch ’77.
Rev’d Karen Nelles ’99 and her husband
Jim are the proud grandparents of Carter
James Eaves, born June 1, 2012, brother for
Kalen.
Dr. Aaron Taylor ’99 was recently awarded
tenure and promoted to Associate Professor
at the University of Lethbridge in the school’s
Department of New Media.
2000+
Brian Bastable ’00 and his wife Angela
Murphy are the proud parents of Aubrey
Mary Bastable, born July 20, 2012. Aubrey
is a niece to Sarah (Bastable) Spence ’97.
Kevin Heffernan ’00 and his wife Lauren
are the proud parents of Grace Elizabeth,
born March 29, 2012.
David Skok ’01 won the Nieman Fellowship
at Harvard University. He is the first
Canadian online journalist to win the
prestigious year-long fellowship.
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Britt Grant ’02 and his wife, Jinny, were
married in Busan, South Korea, in October
2011. Britt is the son of Gayle Grant and the
late Barry Grant ’66 and is the brother of
Tucker Grant ’00 and Morgan Grant ’05.
In Memoriam
Jo Ann Silcox ’02 and her husband Jim
are the proud grandparents of Gabriel Rhys
Silcox, born November 5, 2011, brother for
Ava.
Laura Carter-Munns ’02, September 17, 2012
Miranda (Feeney) Haynes ’03 and her
husband Graeme are the proud parents of
Keira Madelyn Haynes, born December 13,
2011.
Brian Harper ’81, August 5, 2012
David Catzman ’04 and his wife Alyssa are
the proud parents of Matthew Ryder Catzman,
born December 1, 2011.
Peter Geigen-Miller ’65, May 13, 2012
Lateef Nurmohamed ’04 married Annabelle
Gardere on November 11, 2011 in
Scottsdale, Arizona. Lateef is the brother of
Samir Nurmohamed ’08.
Amanda Parker ’04 and current Huron
theology student Jonathon Forbes were
married on March 3, 2012.
Jill (Spigelman) Ritter ’04 and her husband
Jonathan are the proud parents of Kyle
Abraham Ritter, born July 22, 2011.
Joanna Magee ’05 has been appointed
Corporate Communications Officer at
Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. She
also became engaged to her fiancé, Michael,
this past summer with a wedding date set for
the fall of 2012.
Allison Knight ’06 and Lauren Knight ’06
have co-written a memoir titled Mirror Mirror:
Two Bodies, One Soul which details the twins’
relationship and the ups and downs of being
a twin. (See story on page 44)
Henria Stephens ’06 is currently working on
a Law degree at the University of Leicester in
Leicester, England.
The Rev’d Chris Kelly ’07 and his wife, Dr.
Emily Kelly, are the proud parents of Miriam
Eleanor June Kelly, born June 27, 2012, sister
for Joseph.
The Rev. Meghan Nicholls ’09 and current
Huron Theology student, Chris Evetts, were
married on August 24, 2012.
Linda (Paterson) Douglas ’64, August 20, 2012
John Tamblyn ’69, August 7, 2012
The Rev. Bill Rowles ’54, June 10, 2012
Barry Duncan ’59, June 6, 2012
The Rev. Canon Lewis Dixon ’64, March 27, 2012
The Ven. Ken Conyard ’57, February 23, 2012
The Rev. Dr. Robert Giuliano, former faculty member, Faculty of Theology,
January 22, 2012
The Rt. Rev. Dr. G. Russell Hatton, Dean, Faculty of Theology (1990 –
1997), January, 2012
The Rev. Stephen Demitroff ’84 and ‘81, December 28, 2011
The Rev. Peter Hill ’65, December 25, 2011
Nancy Ecclestone, Friend of the College and past Executive Board member,
December 19, 2011
Richard ‘Dick’ Langley ’62, December 10, 2011
J. Kent Sedgwick ’64, December 6, 2011
The Rev’d Tim Hill ’73 and ‘70, November 29, 2011
Don Howes ’71, November 27, 2011
Paul Donkersley ’68, November 17, 2011
The Rev. Lloyd Cracknell ‘62, October 31, 2011
The Rev. Steve Burns ’77, October 30, 2011
The Rev. George Cox ’72, October 29, 2011
Joseph Barletta ’64, October 24, 2011
Dr. William W. Judd, Friend of the College, October 19, 2011
Ian Cant ’62, September 14, 2011
The Rev. Roy Dungey ’68, November 20, 2010
Paul Richardson ’85, November 3, 2010
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in tribute
Remembering The
Rev. Arthur Brewer
’59 and ’62
By John Snelgrove ’61, parishioner at Trinity Anglican
Church, Cambridge
Arthur, or Father
Arthur, or just
plain Art as he was
variously known,
was a man of
seemingly serious
countenance that
masked a delicious
sense of humour!
His sensitivity to the
human condition
allowed him to fulfill
The Rev. Arthur
one of his ordination
Brewer ’59
promises, “to be a
and ’62
faithful pastor to all
whom you are called
to serve”. Art recognized his Church was a living, evolving
entity and was not fearful of change, yet was always mindful
of its long and predominantly proud tradition. He loved steam
trains, doing cross word puzzles, reading books, especially
mysteries, and embraced the computer. He enjoyed the theatre
and the symphony and was a patron of both.
Arthur was born in Guelph, Ontario on August 29, 1932
and moved to Galt – now Cambridge, Ontario – with his
family when he was 10 years old. Upon his high school
graduation, Arthur worked with a printing firm for six years.
With the encouragement of his parish priest and the support
of his family, he came to realize the Holy Spirit was leading
him to that place he dreamed of, but never thought possible.
Arthur received his Licentiate of Theology from Huron
College in 1962. He was ordained Deacon on May 23, 1962
and began his parish ministry as Assistant Curate at St.
John the Evangelist Church in Ottawa. The early years of his
ministry were in several rural parishes within the Ottawa
Diocese; the latter years were in parishes in the City of
Ottawa. Upon retiring, Art returned to Cambridge to be with
his sister and her family.
While enjoying his ‘retirement’ years in Cambridge, Arthur
did interim ministry in several parishes in the Diocese of
Huron and served as clergy substitute within Waterloo
Deanery. 2002 marked the beginning of his work at Trinity
Anglican Church in Cambridge. From beginning as the
priest-in-charge, to conducting Thursday morning services in
the Chapel, to leading Good Friday services beginning with
Stations of the Cross, Father Arthur’s contribution to Trinity
was valued by all.
Many also relied on him as a wise, practical-minded and
invaluable personal counselor. He was almost always present
at Church functions where parishioners sought him out; it
was here that Arthur’s sense of humour and insights into the
human condition would show themselves most favourably.
Reverend Arthur had been a strong supporter of Huron
University College for many years. A frequent participant in
Theological Convocations and other Huron events, he created
The Reverend Arthur G. Brewer Bursary Fund to assist
theology students. In addition, he funded a learning alcove in
the Library, identified by a small brass plate.
Arthur passed away peacefully on Saturday, July 16, 2011
in his 79th year to the dismay of all who knew him. We had
thought he would go on forever.
Remembering
Archdeacon Ken
Conyard ’57
By Tim Conyard and Sue Johnston (son and daughter of
Ken Conyard)
Ken was born in May, 1931 in Stratford, Ontario to Henry
and Amy Conyard. He was the fifth of seven children, and as a
young boy Ken could not wait to go to school. Ken wanted to
learn to read.
Ken graduated from high school with scholarships which
helped him obtain his Bachelor and Master Degrees in
Classical Studies from Western. He then went to Huron
College where he obtained his Bachelor of Theology Degree
in 1957.
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Ken’s ministry
from 1958 to 1999
was centred in the
communities of
Uniondale, Sarnia,
New Hamburg,
Kitchener,
London,
Cambridge (Galt)
and Brantford. It
was in Uniondale
at a union
community
church where he
Archdeacon
Ken Conyard ’57
met his wife Joan.
They were happily
married for more than 50 years and had four children and
nine grandchildren, in whose lives they were very involved
and of whom they were very proud.
Ken was very supportive of education and of disabled
services. He was Chair of the Board at Renison College at
the University of Waterloo and President of the Cambridge
Association for the mentally challenged. Ken was also a longtime member of the Rotary Club.
Golf, bridge, theatre, reading and travel were some of
Ken’s hobbies. Later in his career, Ken and Joan would
travel annually to the Carolinas to golf. They also had some
memorable trips to Israel, Oberammergau, Europe, South
America and Australia. Ken enjoyed his retirement in Sauble
Beach.
Ken was a calm, kind person with a wonderful sense of
humour, and had a supportive and encouraging manner with
people. He believed that you should always treat others as you
would want to be treated. He also said you should “smile” and
see what happens.
Ken was always a strong supporter of Huron University
College over the years. The Archdeacon Ken Conyard Bursary
Fund has been established in his name to provide financial
assistance to theology students in need as they prepare for
ministry. It would please Ken to know that he is helping others
to further their education in the ministry.
Ken passed away February 23, 2012 in his 81st year. He
will be greatly missed but fondly remembered by family and
friends.
Remembering The
Rev. Canon Lewis
Dixon ’65
By: Mary Lou (Dixon) Anderson ’72
(daughter of Lew Dixon)
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012, Lew went home to be with his
Maker. Born in 1922 on a snowy morning in rural Walter’s
Falls, Ontario, Lew was the second of Ernest and Barbara
Dixon’s six children. Lew had many passions in life but
foremost were his beloved wife, Norma, and his children,
Mary Lou ’72 (married to Kenneth Anderson ’69, ’72) and
Kevin ’87 (married to Diane Sorrell). Lew’s grandchildren,
Hilary Dencev and Richard Anderson were blessed to have
a long, full and close relationship with their grandfather. The
addition of great-grandchildren, Sophia
and Imogen Dencev
Lilly and John Kedwell
and Alexander and Audrey Anderson, added to the richness
of his last few years.
After his childhood
The Rev. Canon
on the farm, Lew
Lewis Dixon ’65
joined the RCAF in
1942 and served in
England until the end
of the Second World
War. He continued
with the Air Force
until 1953. During
subsequent years
he worked in the
construction business
before resuming
formal studies in
the Seager Hall
Program at Huron
College – a program
initiated by Bishop George Luxton specifically targeting ‘older’
postulants for ordination who did not have post-secondary
education. Following ordination to the diaconate in 1964
and the priesthood in 1965, he was assistant at New St. Paul’s
(Woodstock), rector at Church of the Redeemer (Highgate)
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and Church of the Advent (Ridgetown), and for seventeen
years, rector of St. James (Roseland) in Windsor.
Lew was hard-working, resourceful and positive, and
always remained down to earth at heart. During their many
retirement years, he and Norma were blessed with the good
health that allowed them to travel widely, spend summers
with family at the cottage on Georgian Bay, and enjoy many
winters with friends in Mexico. At age 85, Lew still loved
going for early morning swims at the cottage; at age 86, he
walked the Great Wall of China; and at 87, danced with
Norma during their grand sixtieth wedding festivities. In
January of this year, family and friends gathered with Lew for
his ninetieth birthday celebrations!
Lew counted his blessings and contributed to the
community through his involvement with the church and
his relationships with family and friends. Lew had a long,
full and good life. Through the Huron University College
Foundation, the Canon Lewis Dixon Memorial Bursary has
been established to support to studies of theological students.
Remembering The
Rev. Peter A. Hill ’65
By Dan Hill ’85 (son of Peter Hill)
Peter made the world a better place everyday he was in it.
As an Anglican minister, schoolteacher, headmaster, coach,
drama producer, volunteer paramedic, boat driver, marina
owner and mechanic, Peter touched many lives. He leaves a
legacy that is truly humbling.
Peter graduated from Huron with a Bachelor of Theology
degree in 1965. His father Archdeacon F. Allen Hill (LTh
1935 and Honorary Doctorate of Divinity, 1976) and eldest
son Dan (B.A. 1985) were also Huron graduates. His time in
London coincided with the arrival of his first two sons. As a
student he held jobs at Silverwood’s Dairy and Brewer’s Retail
to support his new family. Peter remembered his time at
Huron with great fondness, especially his first term in O’Neil
residence.
Peter was comfortable in his own skin and confident in his
moral compass. He always greeted everybody with a friendly
hello and made you feel that you mattered. He was never
cynical and abhorred phoniness, pretense and politicking.
He never let
formality get
The Rev. Peter
A. Hill ‘65
in the way of
what really
counted. He
always saw
the best in
us, especially
when we
couldn’t. He
knew the
small things
mattered
and were the
foundation
of something
much bigger.
Peter marched to his own beat as both an innovator and
visionary. He was not afraid to challenge the status-quo and
ruffle a few feathers.
As a school chaplain, he was able to engage disinterested
students in chapel and life by turning his sermons into
dramatic performances, the height of which was the day he
road his motorcycle through the chapel at Trinity College
School.
In his parish on St. Joseph’s Island, Peter started a 12-mile
Good Friday walk. It was hardly a somber affair but a chance
to build a community and have some fun. The World Religion
program he pioneered at Central Algoma Secondary School
in the mid-seventies ultimately became part of current
provincial curriculum.
Peter’s career included Ontario-based parishes in Thunder
Bay, St. Joseph Island and Windermere. He also served as an
educator at St. Joseph Island High School and Central Algoma
Secondary School, and was an educator/chaplain at Trinity
College School in Port Hope, Queen Margaret’s School in
Duncan, BC and Royal St. George’s College in Toronto.
When news of his failing health began to circulate this past
fall, the outpouring from former students, parishioners and
colleagues was simply overwhelming. Peter was somewhat
embarrassed by all of this. He truly lived his life one day at a
time, helping others and being the voice of calm and reason.
Peter Hill passed away at home in Muskoka surrounded
by his family on Christmas Day 2011 after a short battle with
colon cancer.
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Celebrating Huron:
th
150 anniversary events
Huron celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2013 with a series of celebrations
as follows leading up to Founder’s Day on December 2, 2013.
Sesquicentennial Lecture Series – Free public
lectures in the Kingsmill Room at Huron by
some of today’s most innovative and creative
thinkers.
November 15, 2012 – Dr. Helen Mayberg,
Emory University School of Medicine
Lecture Topic: Rethinking Depression and its Treatment:
Insights from Studies of Deep Brain Stimulation
Dr. Helen Mayberg is a world-renowned neuroscientist
and pioneer in the use of Deep Brain Stimulation in
patients with treatment-resistant major depression.
March 7, 2013 – Mark Kingwell,
University of Toronto
One of Canada’s leading cultural and political theorists,
Kingwell is the author of 17 books and has published
essays and reviews in more than 50 academic and popular
publications.
September 19, 2013 – Thomas Homer-Dixon,
University of Waterloo
Thomas Homer-Dixon is one of Canada’s foremost public
intellectuals and an expert on the intricate links between
society, technology, and nature.
Academic Conference May 13-15, 2013 –
“The House that Isaac Built: The Architecture
of Cultures and Identities in Canada”
With the career of Huron’s first principal Isaac Hellmuth
serving as the inspiration, the conference seeks fresh
perspectives on the intellectual, social, and political
context of Huron’s founding, and the cultural landscape
that Hellmuth’s work helped to shape. Alumni are
encouraged to attend and re-connect with their favourite
professors at a reception on the eve of the conference.
Visit the website at: www.huronuc.ca/conference150
Other Planned Activities
Other activities include an Archival Exhibit, an Historic
Bus and Walking Tour, a 150th Community Choir,
Volunteer Hours in support of Huron, a commissioned
art piece, and a commemorative 150th anniversary
publication. For more information on the above events,
please visit www.huronuc.ca.
In addition, Huron’s 150th website will be launched
on November 30, 2012 and include historic vignettes,
memories from members of the Huron community,
a historic timeline and important event information.
Watch for information also on upcoming alumni events and receptions in Canada and the U.S.
as we celebrate Huron’s 150th anniversary.
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Huron
Key Facts
2011-12
Each year Huron reports on key measures
of student life and financial results as well
as recognition of our donors and volunteers.
Many thanks to everyone who contributes in
many ways to ensuring Huron provides a firstclass educational experience for its students.
Huron University College
Revenue and Expense Summary
Fiscal Year Ending April 30, 2012
Sources of revenue
nTuition............................46%
n Government
grants..............................35%
n Other...............................10%
n Net residence,
conference
and parking
revenue.............................5%
n Foundation
transfer..............................4%
Expenses
n Faculties..........................55%
n Scholarships
and bursaries....................7%
Total revenue: $20,630,008
n Support areas.................38%
Total expenses: $17,220,769 and Depreciation of
$1,043,658 = $18,264,427
Operational Surplus: $2,365,581
Arts and Social Science students
Theology students
1,313 83.3% 83% 5.7/7
Total number Average
of students
entering grade
(Full-Time
Equivalent):
Percentage
of first and
second-year
classes with
60 or fewer
students
Student
assessment
of teaching
effectiveness
36
Total number
of students
(Full-Time
Equivalent):
5.9/7
Student
assessment
of teaching
effectiveness
Academic Year ending April 30, 2012
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thank you!
OurVolunteers
Names of board and committee members below are as of July 1, 2012.
HURON UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE EXECUTIVE
BOARD
HURON UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE
CORPORATION
Honorary Lifetime
Members
HONORARY
FELLOWS
Sheldon Aaron
The Ven. Ken Anderson
Chair
Includes Members of the
Executive Board
Canon Stephen Adams, Q.C.
The Rev. Susan Baldwin
Grant Barker
Dr. David Bevan
Janet Caskey
Prof. William Blissett
Keith Gibbons
Wendy Carrière
The Rt. Rev. Bruce H.W. Howe
The Rt. Rev. Dr. John Chapman
Chris Jones Harris
Dr. George E. Connell
Ann Kennedy Kedwell
Donald T. Cox
The Hon. Madam Justice Lynne
Leitch
Dr. Paul Davenport
Don Letton
Vice-Chair
Karen Wilkinson
(Chair, Governance Committee)
(Chair, Nominating Committee)
Members
Jeff Aarssen
Andrew Aziz
Kate Baldwin
Michelle Baldwin
(Chair, Campus & Community
Affairs Committee)
Chair
The Rt. Rev. Robert F. Bennett
Members
W. Alfred Apps
Aaron Atcheson
Jane Caskey
The Very Rev. Dr. Terrance
Dance
Carl DeLuca
Allan Donald
John Leitch
W. Darcy McKeough, O.C.
Rose Dotten
The Most Rev. Percival
O’Driscoll
Canon Lindsey Elwood
Marion Orser
Deborah Homuth
Sandra Datars Bere
John Porter
Peter Kedwell
Tim Duncanson
(Past Chair)
The Rt. Rev. Morse Robinson
The Rev. Victor KruegerKischak
Suart F. Smith
The Most Rev. Terence Finlay
Michelle Mannering
Ian Jeffreys
(Chair, Finance & Audit
Committee)
Richard McLaren
Lesley Cornelius
(Chair, Development
Committee)
Faisal Joseph
Jeff Low
Rick Lucas
Helen Moore
Victoria Mouck
Canon Paul Rathbone
Richard Senechal
Mary Townshend
The Ven. Peter Townshend
David Turner
The Rev. Canon Kim Van Allen
The Very Rev. Peter Wall
Peter White
Janet Stewart, Q.C.
Keith Sumner
John Thorpe
The Rt. Rev. C. Bob Townshend
Beverley Paterson Wood
James Frazer
Dr. Charles J. Jago
Dr. Ramona Lumpkin
Dr. Aruna Mathur
Dr. Peter Mercer
Michael Sheridan
Roni Srdic
Jean Titus
Dr. Mary J. Wright
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HURON UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE
FOUNDATION
huron ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION
President
HURON UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE
FOUNDATION U.S.A.
President
Sandra Datars Bere
President
Directors:
Steve Hardy
Directors
The Rev. Canon Catherine
Ascah
John A. Cullis
Dan Amadori
Jeff Baryshnik
The Rt. Rev. Robert F. Bennett
David M. Hughes
Amanda deVogel
James E. Carr
Jon M. F. Webster
The Most Rev. Percival
O’Driscoll
The Rev. Meghan (Nicholls)
Evetts
Michael J. Whiteside
Jane Parker
Jennifer Grant
Rea Godbold
HOMECOMING 2011
Ann Kennedy Kedwell
Kelly Hansen
(Chair, Investment Committee)
1961
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
Derek Luksun
Linn (Jervis) Kingston
Christine Burns
Katherine Scarrow
John Snelgrove
Dr. John Thorp
Peter Theophilos
1966
Gail Varey
Ann Kennedy Kedwell
Michael Varpio
Erwin Schneider
Yola Ventresca
Barb Langs (Smith)
Paul Williams
John Smith
Beverley Paterson Wood
1971
Davis Yoo
Peter Fullerton
Past Presidents
Mary Mundle
Beverley Paterson Wood
Wendy Twigge (Mitchinson)
Kelly Hansen
1981
Ann Kennedy Kedwell
Paul Johnston
Michael Ewald
Rebecca L. McTaggart
Ken Andrews
Paul Williams
Richard Lucas
(Chair, Nominating Committee)
Peter Fullerton
(Chair, Audit Committee)
John Leitch
Brian McGorman
John Middlebro’
Lana Phair-Sutherland
Doug Raymond
Robert A. Rubinoff
William R. Stewart
Keith Sumner
Peter Theophilos
James G. Thompson
Mary Thomson
Steve Wilson
Past Presidents
W. Darcy McKeough, O.C.
Stuart Smith
Rob Fear
ANNUAL FUND
Christine Burns
Lesley Cornelius
Sandra Datars Bere
Tim Duncanson
Don Letton
Rick Lucas
Dr. Nina Reid-Maroney
Linda Crossley-Hauch
The Most Rev. Terry Finlay
INVESTMENT
COMMITTEE
COMMUNITY
MEMBERS
Gail Varey
Thank you to the many alumni and friends who volunteer
The Very Rev. Terry Dance
to keep Huron the special place they know. Volunteering
Andrew Mitchell
Erwin Schneider
Fred Negus
Michael Schaab
Charles Pielsticker
James Daly
provides rewarding opportunities for individuals in many
ways. If you are interested in volunteering or would like
more information about the various opportunities for
volunteers at Huron, please contact:
Ken Andrews
Executive Director, University Advancement
Executive Director, Huron University College Foundation
[email protected]
Phone (519) 438-7224 ext. 271
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thank you!
YourGenerosity:
Huron alumni and friends showed their support for Huron with donations totalling
$2,467,733 in the 2011 calendar year. Thank you!
Through your generosity, you help ensure that Huron remains a first-class community of
learning, distinguished by its commitment to students through small classes and teaching
excellence in a personal, engaging environment.
Donations were directed to the following areas:
33%
Scholarships and bursaries for
Arts and Social Science students:
Scholarships recognize and reward students for outstanding academic
achievement. Donations were made to both the General Scholarship
Fund to provide scholarships to first-year students and to named
scholarships and prizes in the form of capital funds (endowments) from
which 4% of the market value is distributed to those receiving the awards.
Bursaries provide financial assistance to students in need based on
family income. Thirty per cent of Huron students qualify for this financial
assistance based on Government of Ontario guidelines. Currently, Huron
is able to meet only 30% of the financial need for which students qualify.
Support for bursaries can make a significant difference in a student’s
ability to attend Huron.
2%
Silcox Memorial
Library
Donations to Huron’s Library provide
Huron with the resources to maintain
and enhance its first-class collection
through the acquisition of new books,
periodicals and electronic databases
focused on the needs of Huron students
and their course work.
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8% 50%
5%
2%
Unrestricted donations
Unrestricted gifts were made for Huron to direct to
areas of priority need.
Other
Gifts in 2011 also included the following:
XX Support of Huron students who perform community
volunteer service
XX Lecture Series including The Douglas and Margaret
Derry Interdisciplinary Lecture and The Chander
Jain Lecture Series
XX Financial assistance for Huron students studying
abroad for credit towards their degree at Huron
XX Support of Huron’s Community-Based Learning
program, in which students are placed with a
community organization or business as part of their
program of study. Students learn ‘by doing’ in many
ways, and in this case acquire a more sophisticated
understanding of the communities in which they live.
XX Support for career counselling programs at Huron,
and
XX Faculty research
Support for Theology
students and the Chapel:
Support includes contributions to:
XX bursaries to provide financial assistance for
theology students in need
XX development of new programs to attract and meet
the needs of Huron theology students as they
prepare for ministry
XX The Huron-Lawson Chair in Pastoral Theology
XX Chaplain student ministry and ongoing
improvements to The Collegiate Chapel of St. John
the Evangelist; and
XX The London and Windsor Community Chair in
Islamic Studies.
Facilities
Donations helped fund improvements to a number of
facilities at Huron including residences, classrooms and
the Silcox Memorial Library.
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thank you!
2011Donors
Huron University College thanks the following graduates, associates, parents, friends,
religious institutions, faculty and staff, corporations and foundations for their commitment
to Huron. The list below applies to donations received in the calendar year 2011.
Those who have given $250 or more are listed immediately below in the donor club
listings, while all donors are listed on the pages which follow by their relationship to Huron
University College (e.g. alumni, parents, friends, etc.)
To all our donors – many thanks! Your generosity to Huron ensures it remains a first-class
community of learning distinguished by its commitment to teaching excellence with small
classes and in a personal, engaging environment.
Huron Circle
$400,000+
W. Galen Weston
$300,000+
Rev’d Grace Schaefer
London Muslim Mosque
$100,000+
Frank Holmes
$50,000+
Dr. Wadea Tarhuni
Dr. Fouad Tayfour
$25,000+
City of London
Dr. Said Osman
$10,000+
Amany & Hesham Abdelsayed
Imran Ahmed
The Anglican Foundation
of Canada
Paul Beeston
CIBC
Dr. Jalal Daher
Timothy A. R. Duncanson
Dr. Issa El-Cheikh
Dr. Sameer Elsayed
Dr. Barry Emara &
Dr. Rasha Stino
Dr. Wael Haddara, MD, FRCPC
David & Afeefe Hassan
Faisal Joseph
Hiesam & Rima Kadri
Iyman Meddoui
David G. Merkle
Hassan Mostafa
Fine Motors of London
– Mohamed Omar
Marion Orser
Doug Raymond
Dr. Faisal Rehman
Royal Bank of Canada
Robert A. Rubinoff
Scotiabank
Dr. Osman A. Tarabain,
MD, FRCPC
TD Insurance Meloche
Monnex
James & Beverly Thompson
Mary J. Wright
$5,000+
Dr. Mohammad Alomari
Andrew W. Aziz & Betsy Harvie
James E. Carr
Harry & Marg Coumans
The Rev. Canon Dr. William J.
& Mrs. Claire B. Danaher
Diocese of Nova Scotia and
Prince Edward Island
Allan Donald
Mohammed Elkassem
Lynne & Jordan Elliott
Robert Fear
Fiera Sceptre Inc.
John Finlay
Rea Godbold
Rassan (Ghassan) Jafar
Chris Jones Harris &
Ron Harris – Jones
Packaging Inc.
Dr. & Mrs. AbdelRahman Lawendy
Lerners LLP
London Life
Richard Lucas
Mary Lupton
McCormick Canada
Paul Miller
Dr. Afzal Mohammed
Zahid Sardar Medicine
Professional Corporation
Michael Schaab
Major The Rev. George
W. Scharf & Mrs.
Anastasia Scharf
Hisham Slim
W. Gerald Strongman
Dr. Ali Tassi
Gillian Walmsley
Dr. Fasahat Wasty
Foundation Council $2,500+
W. Alfred Apps
Douglas & Margaret Derry
Ernst & Young LLP
Doug Forbes
Ron & Hedy Frisch
Trish Fulton & Paul Cocker
Laurie A. Goldbach
Robert Hegele, M.D.
Dr. Omar Ibdah
Ann Kennedy Kedwell
John & Lynne Leitch
A. Benson Lorriman
Joyce & Darcy McKeough
Majid Niaz
Pirie Foundation
John & Jackie Porter
Dr. David J. Ross
St. John the Evangelist
Anglican Church, London
Beverley Paterson Wood
Executive Board
Society $1,000 +
Jeff & Sally Aarssen
Muhammad Aboelfotoh
Bill Acres
Chancellor Canon Stephen
N. Adams Q.C.
William Ahadi
Dr. Tareef Alaama
Dr. Bassel & Mrs.
Daula Al-Farra
Dan & Barbara Amadori
Ken & Martha Andrews
Anglican Church Women,
Diocese of Huron
The Rev. Canon
Catherine M. Ascah
Kate Baldwin
Brent Barootes
Amy & Jeff Baryshnik
Jeremy Brasseur
Brotherhood of
Anglican Churchmen,
Diocese of Huron
Lee Buffin
Christine Longman Burns
Wendy & René Carrière
Church of the Holy
Saviour, Waterloo
The Revd Canon
William G. Cliff
Virginia M. Cobley
David Conter
Col. (Retd) P.D.R. (Pat) &
Mrs. Joanna Crandell
Sandra Datars Bere
Carl J. A. DeLuca
Randy Dietrich
Rose J. Dotten
Yehia Dean Elkholy
Bruce W. Etherington
Peter Fullerton
Keith & Cathy Gibbons
The Glynn Family
Fred & Joanne Groch
H. & N. Roofing &
Sheet Metal Ltd.
Michael Hamilton
Kelly & Colleen
Hansen & Family
Katie Taylor & Neil Harris
Hanny Hassan
Caleb Hayhoe
Kevin Higgins
Dr. Mohammed Hussain
Dr. Zafar & Mrs. Inge Hussain
Irish Benevolent Society
Charles Jago
Raj K. Jain
Hussein Khalaff
Medicine Corp.
T. Fred Kingsmill
Irene Lee
Don & Sandra Letton
John & Marie-Luise Lister
London Greenscapes
JSA MacDonald
Joyce (Allan) & Jim McAlpine
Stephen McClatchie
& Peter Groom
Prof. Richard H. McLaren
Dr. Donald Melady &
Rowley Mossop
Michael & Debra Menear
Helen E. Moore
Dr. Mohamed A. Moussa
Mary E. A. Mundle
Mary F. Murty
Linda & Malcolm Nourse
James Sutherland & Lana
Phair-Sutherland
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Marie & Michael Pope
Ann Robertson-Seigel
Wes & Dr. Helena Robinson
Mary W. Rowe
Sajan Sadhwani, CMA
William A. G. Simpson
Ian & Sophie Skaith
Jane & Stuart Smith
St. John’s-by-the-Lake
Anglican Church,
Grand Bend
St. Mark’s by-the-Lake
Anglican Church, Tecumseh
Janet E. Stewart Q.C.
William R. (Bill) Stewart
Nawaz & Nadia Tahir
Liz & Matt Tedford
Mary Thomson
Wendy & John Thorpe
Robert J. Tolmie
Jim & Pam Townsend
Marius & Alexa Veresezan
Karen (Firth) Wilkinson
& Bill Wilkinson
Steve & Ruth Wilson & family
Principal’s Circle $500+
David Adam
Cathy & Brent Anderson
David W. Anderson
Dr. David Barnard
Gary Barnes
Grant E. Beggs
William A. Belanger
BFI Canada Inc.
William G. Bickle
John Black & Eve Rubenzahl
Mark Blagrave
Professor William Blissett
BMO Financial Group
D A Bonis
Martha Burd
Captain (Ret.) James
A. Burton
Peter Calvert
Marilyn & Douglas Cannon
James & Janet Caskey
Stephen G. Caudwell
CIBC Asset Management
Janet Clark
Susan Clarke
CMA, The Society
of Management
Accountants of Ontario
John Brian Colburn
Compudata Systems London
William B. Connor
Dr. W. H. Coons
Don & Sandi Cox
Corinne & Simon Davies
Enrico & Rosa De Pasquale
Shelley Des Cotes (Taylor ‘69)
Deuce Design
Maribeth Ditchfield
Bill & Betty Duffield
George Efthymiadis
Dr. Abdusalam Elalem
Dr. Maher M. El-Masri
Jun Fang & Lifang He
Violet Farr
Peter & Anne Farrell
Fidelity Investments
Canada ULC
John F. Flindall
Ken Fong
Meg Fox, PhD
Gail Fox
Richard & Jennifer Gannon
Jim Gilbert
Dean & Lorna Gordon
Tracy & Greg Guatto
Ron & Sally Hahn
Hayman Construction Inc.
Bob & Anne Hayman
Greg & Beth Hazlitt
The Rev. Harvey G. Henderson
Heather Holden
The Rt. Rev. Bruce H. W. Howe
John Howitt
David Hughes
Bruce & Janice Hynds
IA Clarington Investments Inc.
Darryl & Jan Iwai
Ian & Kim Jeffreys
Andrew Jones & Linda Gee
KPMG LLP
Olli Lauren
Douglas Leighton
Prof. & Mrs. J. Clark Leith
Riccardo Leofanti
The Rev. Greg Little
Christie Love Thomas
Barbara J. Lubell
Tom & Anne Ludlow
William R. Lupton
M. Elizabeth McKinlay Fund
W. Allan MacEwen
Reay & Lynda Mackay
Mackenzie Financial
Corporation
Ian Mair
The Marketing Department
William C. McConnell
Keith McEachern
Brian & Sandy McGorman
McKellar Structured
Settlements Inc.,
John P. Rousseau
Sharon McKillop
Sue McNamara
Barry Mitchelson
David & Peggy Morgan
Fred J. Negus
Dr. David Nicolle
Clare & Mary Pace
Richard Packowski
Rob & Diana Parsons
Terry & Susan Peach
The Rt. Rev. & Mrs. J. Peck
Matt Picken
Michael & Sandra Prior
Nestor Prisco
Bradley Radin
Dr. Faisal Raja
Douglas Richmond
Ricoh Canada Inc.
Mark Riley
Jim Rooney
Bryan J. Rose
Dr. Roderick C. Ross
Darren G. Rough
Daniel Russell
Dr. John & Beverley Scarrow
ScotiaFunds, Randy
Warrington
ScotiaMcLeod, Kelly
Hansen ‘85
James & Mary Anne Simpson
Shelley & Robert Siskind
Catherine Smith-Muir
Geoff & Jill Spidle
St. George’s Anglican
Church, London
St. James’ Anglican
Church, Fairmount
Nancy & Keith Sumner
Syncrude
Glenna & Richard Talbot
Pam & Mark TarBush
Ann Marie & Peter Theophilos
Dr. Valsa Thomas
The Rev. Canon Bill
& Jette Thomas
Murray Tipping
Betty Townshend
Todd & Stacey Townshend
Adam Turner
Michael Varpio &
Tasha Wasyliniuk
Venn-Mitchell Family
Mary (Morden) Vickers
Mark V. C. Virgin
Dr. John & Mrs. Ann
(Morden) Walker
Wasylko Architect Inc.
Dr. Alexander Waugh
Michael Whiteside
Darlene Whitfield
The Williamson Group,
Don Williamson ‘94
Nancy (Dey) Wright
Hua Laura Wu
Dean’s Circle $250+
Bruce Anthony
Aon Reed Stenhouse
Callie Archer
Tiffany & Aaron Atcheson
Joan & Gordon Baker
Allen & Jane Baldwin
David Banwell
Antony Barton
Nino C. Basacco
David & Rose Beatty
Rev. Canon Don &
Barbara Beatty
Bev Behan
Mark Behrman
Dr. & Mrs. Ian Bell
The Rt. Rev. Robert F. Bennett
Sally Bennett
Henry Berg
Best Western Lamplighter
Inn & Conference Centre
Ron & Elaine Billings
David Blair
Leonard P. Bosschart
Phil & Ann Bowman
Adam Branscombe
James Brooks
Paul & Jennifer Brouwer
Norman L. Brown
Michael & Shauneen Bruder
Ross & Rhonda Bryson
Michael Burns ‘90
Joan Carmichael
Dr. Patrick Carter
Debra & Gordon Casperd
Professor Jean G.
Castel, O.C., Q.C.
Rev’d Judy Castle
James Chaffe
Alfred Chan
Judy J. Chang, Esq.
Winston & Diana Cherry
Lori & Mark Cole
The Ven. Ken & Joan Conyard
Lesley & Michael Cornelius
Robert Coulter
Jim Cressy
Paul & Bonnie de Merlis
Catherine Monkman De Witte
Stephen Dent &
Janet MacLaren
David & Gretchen Dervish
Dr. & Mrs. David Dewar
Peter H. Doig, CFA
Linda (Paterson) Douglas
James A. Drummond
Bob & Caroline Duncanson
Christina (Carscadden)
Eaton ‘89
Elizabeth Efthymiadis
FloorSource Inc.
Dr. John A. Foreman
Robert & Betty Foster
Dan Fraleigh
Brad Fraser
Douglas G. Fraser
General Electric Canada
Clare Gordon
The Ven Dr. William V. &
Margaret Graham
Thomas Granger
The Ven. D. Ian Grant &
Mrs. Carol Grant
Kathy & Cliff Grasdahl
Heather Greenfield
James E. Grundy, C.A.
Barry & Stephanie Hall
Mary Pratt Harlan
Bill & Judy Haust
Douglas Hawe
Dr. Phil Hayman
Neil C. Hetherington
Honey Design, Marketing
& Communications
John G. Howes
Peter & Amy Howick
Alan Inkster
Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Jacobs
Michael C. Jerry
Dave Johnson & Alysha
Johnson (nee Valenti)
Paul Johnston
Gregory H. Kasparian
Peter R. Kedwell
The Rev. Robert B. Kennedy
Mary Kilner (Crump)
The Rev. Canon Tom &
Mrs. Linn Kingston
M. E. Kirk
Peggy Klementowicz
Glen Koehn
The KPMG Foundation
Scott A. Lamb
Carol & Colan Lancaster
Captain (Ret’d) Ellis
B. Landale C.D.
Tim Langs
Jeff & Barb Lanys
David G. Leeson
LeMar Dentistry Professional
Corporation
Ronald K. Lewis
Andrew & Lory Lillie
Trish Loat
Canon David & Arlene
(Cary) Long
Ramona Lumpkin
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Sean Lundy
Pamela MacIntyre
Stuart Macrae
Kathy & Mark Magee
Malone Electric
Don R. Maloney
Dr. Barbara Mann
Michael Martin
Amber Matthews
Tammy McBane
Katherine McCracken
Christopher P. McCreery, PhD
Lori McDonald
David McLennan
Linda J. McMullen
John H.E. Middlebro’
Middlesex Appliance Limited
The Ven. Peter Millen
Denny Miller
Canon Bill Millman
Andrew & Heather Mitchell
Robyn Kyle Molyneau
Thomas W. Moore
National Bank of Canada
Paul Nesbitt-Larking
The Rev’d Meghan K. Nicholls
Rick Nugent
Sheila Walmark O’Connor
The Most Rev. Percival
R. O’Driscoll
Steven & Carol Officer
Old St. Paul’s Anglican
Church, Woodstock
Tara Olivo-Moore
Ontario Parking Systems Ltd.
Leonard & Lynne
(Stevens) Owen
Beth Piszel Park
Rev. Rosemarie Payne
Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Peacock
David & Mary Jane Pettingill
The Rev’d Canon
David Pickett
Sandra & Edward Poolton
The Rev. Di Pratt
Proable Hardware
Specialties Inc.
Pro-Tech Mechanical
Services Ltd.
David Rae
Paul Rathbone
Nina Reid-Maroney
Dr. Donald & Mrs.
Jean Robinson
Dr. & Mrs. John A. Roe
Lisanne Lockyer Rogers
Bill & Ann Rudd
John Ruffilli
Eric Santor & Gefen
Bar-On Santor
John Sass
Mitchell Say
Mary Anne Toomath Seppala
Robert Shanks
Richard Shapero
The Ven. Dr. Gordon
J. Simmons
Eddy Smet
Graham Smyth
Spriet Associates,
Engineers & Architects
Cecile & David Steinberg
Sterling Marking Products Inc.
Stinson Security
Services Limited
Ray Stokes
Russell & Sonja Stuart
John Douglas Sullivan
Patti L. Tasko
Steve & Mary Anne Thomas
Ana & John Thompson
Wayne & Carolyn Townsend
The Ven. Peter T. Townshend
Mark D. Trinnear
The Ven. Kim Van Allen
Gail A. Varey
Alice-Mae & Peter Varpio
Yola Hamzo Ventresca &
Roberto Ventresca
Drs. Tony & Mary Lou Vernon
Dr. J. L. Walker
Bill Walker
Douglas & Wilma Wall
W. Waluchow
George & Margaret Wannan
Kevin & Sandra Wark
Judith Watson
Glenn & Denise Weir
John A. Whaley Q.C.
G. Stephenson Wheatley
Paul L. Williams
Robert Williams
Jean I. Wilson
Winmar
Ted & Andrea Witzel
Joseph & Linda Wooden
The Ven. Gordon &
Leslie Worden
Brenda Wylie
Davis Yoo
ALUMNI CLASS LISTINGS
Thank you to the following
alumni and associates who
supported Huron in 2011.
Faculty of Theology
Classes before 1950
The Rev. Canon E.
Lloyd Lake ‘48
The Ven. Harvey F.
Southcott ‘48
Classes of 1950-1959
Bishop J. C. Fricker ‘52
Lawrence Robertson ‘52
Murray Tipping ‘54
Jack Bielby ‘55
Archdeacon Cyril Ladds ‘55
Canon John M. Bonnard ‘56
The Ven. Ken Conyard ‘57
Canon Bill Millman ‘57
The Rt. Rev. Jack P. Peck ‘57
The Ven. Peter Millen ‘58
Rev Canon William Rainey ‘58
The Ven. Archie Skirving ‘58
The Rev. Dr. A. Frank
Thompson ‘58
Robert Foster ‘59
Rev. William J. Hutton ‘59
Archdeacon Peter
B. Moore ‘59
Canon Peter J. Smith ‘59
Classes of 1960-1969
Ray Bray ‘60
Ray Stokes ‘60
The Rev. Thomas D.
Wilding ‘60
The Most Rev. Terence
E. Finlay ‘62
John F. Flindall ‘62
The Rev. Herb Horsey ‘62
Rev. Canon Don Beatty ‘63
The Ven Dr. William
V. Graham ‘63
The Rev. Clifford P. Tremills ‘63
The Rev. Canon Lewis
S. Dixon ‘64
The Rev. H. Robert Hayne ‘64
The Rev. Canon Tom
Kingston ‘64
The Rev. Robert B.
Kennedy ‘65
Rev. Canon Derwyn
S. Shea ‘66
Canon David Long ‘68
The Rev. Canon Paul Carr ‘69
Classes of 1970-1979
Fr. David J. Norton ‘70
The Ven. Gordon Worden ‘71
The Rt. Rev. Robert
F. Bennett ‘74
Vina M. Otis ‘75
The Ven. Dr. Gordon
J. Simmons ‘75
The Rt. Rev. Terrance
Dance ‘76
The Rev. Dr. Virginia
C. Lane ‘76
Fr. William Foote ‘77
Major The Rev. George
W. Scharf ‘77
Dr. Douglas Leighton ‘79
Valerie Kenyon ‘09
The Rev’d Meghan
K. Nicholls ‘09
Classes of 1980-1989
Chris Ambidge ‘80
The Rev. Dr. Peter C.
Baldwin ‘80
The Rev. Canon Dr. John
E. Course, Jr. ‘80
The Rev. Canon Bill
Thomas ‘80
The Ven. Peter T.
Townshend ‘80
The Venerable Christopher
Dunn ‘81
Gary Boyes ‘82
The Rev’d Bruce Genge ‘82
The Rev. Harvey G.
Henderson ‘82
Rev. Stephen Demitroff ‘84
Rev. Rosemarie Payne ‘84
Rev. Mary McDowell Wood ‘86
Canon Sharon McCormick ‘88
The Rev. Canon H.
Stuart Pike ‘88
The Rev’d Canon David
Pickett ‘89
The Very Rev. Peter Wall ‘89
Classes of 2010 +
The Rev’d Andreas Thiel ‘10
Adam C. Bahm ‘11
Sue Boddaert ‘11
Ernest H. Buffett ‘11
Steve Duncan ‘11
The Rev. Carrie Irwin ‘11
The Rev. Laura Lightfoot ‘11
Marjorie Reid ‘11
John Thompson ‘11
The Rev. Margaret Walker ‘11
Classes of 1990-1999
The Rev. Di Pratt ‘90
The Revd Canon
William G. Cliff ‘92
Todd Townshend ‘92
Rev’d Judy Castle ‘93
Bernice Santor ‘93
The Rev. Canon Gaye
F. Whippey ‘93
Rev. Jack Beedle ‘95
Marion Orser ‘97
The Ven. Kim Van Allen
(Heckendorn) ‘97
Tom J. Dobie ‘99
Rev. Margaret Greenhow
(McFadyen) ‘99
Classes of 2000-2009
The Rev. Joan Stiles ‘02
The Revd Canon Nancy
Adams ‘03
The Rev’d Robert Lemon ‘04
The Rev. Greg Little ‘04
Rev. Yvonne Summerfield
(Waring) ‘04
The Rev. Canon Catherine
M. Ascah ‘05
The Rev. Karine Farmer ‘07
Marjorie Reid ‘07
Rev’d Grace Schaefer ‘08
The Revd Canon
William G. Cliff ‘09
The Rev’d Meghan K. Evetts
Faculty of Arts and
Social Science
Classes before 1956
W. H. N. Hull ‘51
Eric Caulfield ‘54
Bruce Squires ‘54
Donald M. Fraser ‘55
Class of 1957
Rev. William J. Hutton
Archdeacon Peter B. Moore
Class of 1958
Merv Courtney
Robert G. Farrell
Douglas Hammar
The Rev. James A. Kiddell
The Rev. Thomas D. Wilding
Class of 1959
Ron Billings
D A Bonis
Harry Carter
The Most Rev. Terence
E. Finlay
William W. Plunkett
Andrew Pressburger
John Sass
Class of 1960
Rev. Canon Don Beatty
John F. Flindall
The Ven. Lyman N. Harding
Donald M. Henderson, Q.C.
A. Benson Lorriman
Michael Martin
Robert D. McIntyre Q.C.
Clare Pace
Mary Pace (Griffith)
David Pettingill
Mary Jane Pettingill
(McEachern)
George R. Powell
J. Robb Reynolds
David Steinberg
Patricia Thompson (Joselyn)
The Rev. Clifford P. Tremills
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Ken Turnbull
Paul Waring
Frances J. Wensley (Jowsey)
Class of 1961
John Finlay
Peter Hancock
The Rev. H. Robert Hayne
Gregory H. Kasparian
Linn Kingston (Jervis)
The Rev. Canon Tom Kingston
Irene Lee (Wong)
Morley Lemon
Doug Moulton
Michael Prior
Damaris Robinson
(Hansman)
John Snelgrove
Mary Thomson (Kennedy)
John A. Whaley Q.C.
Class of 1962
Allen Baldwin
Christine Longman Burns
Peter T. Cowley
Don Cox
Paul W. Dick P.C. Q.C.
Don Dorst
Thomas Granger
Michael Hamilton
Doug Love
Lynn McLeod (Harris)
Denny Miller
Helen E. Moore (Klassen)
Leonard Owen
Lynne (Stevens) Owen
Nancy Hungerford Titley
Mary Lou Tremills (Barnes)
W. Galen Weston
The Hon. Mr. Justice
John deP. Wright
Class of 1963
Bruce Anthony
G. Ben Bailey
William A. Belanger
John D. Beynon
Alberta Booth
Bob Canham
Lawrence S. Cumming
Mary Pratt Harlan
Glen Heximer
Barry Kedwell
Caroline E. Lentz (White)
David Lindsay
John D. McCamus
Donald G. McFarlane
Linda J. McMullen
Henry D. R. Nelles
Malcolm Nourse
Terence Peet
Ted Petter
Nestor Prisco
W. Gerald Strongman
Alice-Mae Varpio (Clarke)
Peter Varpio
Connie (Reid) Webster
Rev. Robert M. Wills
Class of 1964
Jane Baldwin (Dalton)
William G. Bickle
Marianne Bainard Buchanan
Lee Buffin
Captain (Ret.) James
A. Burton
Margaret Carver (Rae)
John Brian Colburn
William B. Connor
Linda (Paterson) Douglas
Paul Goldstein
Gavin Hall
David G. Leeson
Eric W. Luce
Barry Mitchelson
Dr. Ian Newbould
Sheila Walmark O’Connor
Joan Scott (Armstrong)
J. Kent Sedgwick
Dr. Alexander Waugh
Beverley Paterson Wood
Nancy (Dey) Wright
Class of 1965
David Adam
Gary W. Batstone
Robert Coulter
Joy Croke (Curtis)
Bruce W. Etherington
Ron Hahn
Sally Hahn (Mockridge)
Barry Hall
Charles Jago
Captain (Ret’d) Ellis
B. Landale C.D.
John Lister
Canon David Long
John McIntyre
Hugh McLaughlin
John H.E. Middlebro’
M. A. Smith (Ainslie)
Ronald Smith
Graham Smyth
Class of 1966
Chancellor Canon Stephen
N. Adams Q.C.
David Beatty
Rose Beatty (Sadowey)
Robert F. Bothwell
Susan Clarke (Taylor)
Virginia M. Cobley
Dianne Cook
Ross Desjardine
Andrew Dinsmore
Jim Gilbert
Ann Kennedy Kedwell
Jim Lawrason
Arlene (Cary) Long
Pamela MacIntyre (Randall)
Carla Newbould (Vandergrift)
Donald Partington
Carole Reid Reilly
Lydia Reinhard (Ivanischenko)
Ross Wright
Class of 1967
George Abolins
Callie Archer
Gary Barnes
Paul Beeston
Pat Bobiy (Marshall)
Norman L. Brown
James E. Carr
Elise Feightner (Jenkins)
Ken Fong
Robert K. Glass
Joanne Glithero (Tidey)
The Hon. Mr. Justice
Steve Glithero
Gerry Goldberg
Cairn L. Huff (nee Gibson)
Ronald K. Lewis
Paul Macklin
Lillian Newbery
Fr. David J. Norton
Linda Nourse (McCreery)
Pamela Robinson (Stein)
William Robinson
Mary Anne Toomath Seppala
James Simpson
George Slightham
Denny (Park) Starritt
Class of 1968
Forbes Aird
Collin M. Craig
Jim Dent
Judith Dent (Shapley)
Douglas Derry
Mary Louise Doig (Truss)
Rea Godbold
Mike Goddard
John G. Howes
Mary Kilner (Crump)
Sheila Kirshenblatt
Tim Langs
Jill Lawford (Tremaine)
JSA MacDonald
Stuart Macrae
Jim McAlpine
Joyce (Allan) McAlpine
Prof. Richard H. McLaren
Norman McMullen, KStG
Paul Miller
Peggy Morgan (Keefe)
Lloyd W. Preston
Ann Robertson-Seigel
(Hossack)
Jim Rooney
Judy (Smith) Ross
Elizabeth Walden (Nicholls)
Elaine Wright (Pearce)
Class of 1969
Catharine Aird (Braun)
David Banwell
Susan Borden (Dunster)
Peter Calvert
Janice (Reichheld) Chisholm
Rick Couch
Shelley Des Cotes (Taylor)
Rose J. Dotten (Henkenhaf)
Susan M. Foard
Peter R. Kedwell
Richard Lucas
Steven Officer
Edward Poolton
Ian Skaith
Gail A. Varey (Hubbard)
Denise Weir (Kendall)
Glenn Weir
Robert Williams
Steve Wilson
Grant M. Wright
Class of 1970
Nino C. Basacco
Col. (Retd) P.D.R.
(Pat) Crandell
Jim Hartley
Beth Hazlitt (Roder)
Greg Hazlitt
Dr. Shirley A. Huchcroft
Janet E. Kennedy
Joanne MacPherson (Shaw)
David McRae
The Rev. Canon Kate
Merriman
Sandra Poolton (Shail)
Bonnie Symons
Gail Thompson (Pidgeon)
Stewart Thornley
Joy Walker (Tanner)
Leslie Worden (MacEachern)
Class of 1971
W. Guy Asher
Peter Barley
The Rt. Rev. Robert F. Bennett
Linda Carroll (McClure)
David Corey
Joanna Crandell (Scott)
James A. Drummond
Joan Duckloe (MacDonald)
Peter Fullerton
Joanne Groch (Snelgrove)
Alan Inkster
Gary Kay
Dr. Timothy J. King
Trish Loat (Burn)
Michael C. McMillan
Molly McRae (Mckittrick)
Mary E. A. Mundle
Carol Officer (Lavis)
Richard Packowski
Harry Watson
G. Stephenson Wheatley
Jean I. Wilson (Wallis)
The Ven. Gordon Worden
Class of 1972
Sally Bennett
Joan Carmichael
Jim Cressy
Maribeth Ditchfield
Douglas G. Fraser
Tom Ludlow
David Morgan
Don Park
D’Arcy Robert
Beverley Robinson
Bob Schram
The Ven. Dr. Gordon
J. Simmons
Marion R. Thompson
Dr. Louis E. Weatherhead
Class of 1973
Janice Andreae (Durrant)
Jennifer Carter (Carmichael)
Heather (Gaston) d’Albenas
Robert d’Albenas
The Rt. Rev. Terrance Dance
Marsha DeFore
Sandra Gartshore (Arnold)
Lynne Gibbons
Michael W. Good
Marion (Murchie) Michinsky
Terry Peach
A. Louise Stafford
(Rutishauser)
Class of 1974
Dan Amadori
Henry Berg
Susan Blocker (Smith)
Doug Forbes
Richard Levick
Susan (Moir) Marett
Nancy S. Martin
Elaine C. Mercer (Bramham)
Susan Peach (Roemmele)
Gay Slinger (Stewart)
Class of 1975
Barbara Amadori (Gibbs)
Ymko Boersma
Donna Bristow (Powers)
Mary Anne Dowding (Almost)
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Bill Haust
Judy Haust (Betteridge)
Heather (Annett) MacNeil
Dr. Barbara Mann
Anne M. Mansell (Fuller)
Mark TarBush
Mark D. Trinnear
Class of 1976
The Rev. Dr. Peter C. Baldwin
Janet Clark
Bonnie de Merlis (Hefler)
Bill Harris
Dave Hutchison
Barry Keefe
W. Allan MacEwen
Ruth S. MacLeod
Bob MacNeil
Cydna B. Mercer (Carmichael)
Ngaire M. Wadman (Lowndes)
W. Waluchow
Class of 1977
Debra Casperd (Lehman)
Gordon Casperd
Carol Cluff (Vandewater)
Catherine Monkman De Witte
Donald M. Fraser
Heather Greenfield
Jean Harris (Conn)
Bruce Hynds
Alice Irving (Clark)
Robert Lee
John R. Leitch
Terry (Geddes) MacDonald
Dianne (Taylor) McIntosh
Fred J. Negus
Gary Raycraft
Mark Riley
The Ven. Peter T. Townshend
Barbara Warnock (Wellwood)
Jay Waters
Rhonda Wright
Class of 1978
Paul de Merlis
Bob Duncanson
The Venerable
Christopher Dunn
G. Cynthia Fekken
Cindy Fisher
Warren Garrett
Carolyn Gray
Townsend Haines
Laurie D. (Hunter) Hawkins
Frank Holmes
Nancy Luno
E. Lance Newman
John Ruffilli
Peter Toller
James S. Weary
Class of 1979
W. Alfred Apps
Tisha Beaton
Randy Dietrich
Ian Hoare
Perry Jeffery
Ann Keeling
Keith McEachern
Cheryl Sproul (Webster)
Steven Sylvester
John Thorpe
Dale A. Van Allen
Susan Walker (Schmitz)
Karen (Firth) Wilkinson
Paul L. Williams
Brenda Wylie
Class of 1980
Jeff Aarssen
Christine (Andrews) Adams
Ken Andrews
M. Lynn Ardiel (Hudson)
Janet Cobban
Allan Donald
Fran Gray (Force)
Vince Gray
Ann MacLeod
Philip Parsons
John Puffer
Douglas Richmond
Patti L. Tasko
Maureen C. Vandenberghe
Sandra Wark (Wilde)
Class of 1981
Bev Behan
Rev. Stephen Demitroff
Katharine (Coyle) Diotallevi
Lisa Favell (Escaf)
David E. C. Green
Lynn J. Hunt
Derek W. M. Johnson
Paul Johnston
Rebecca McTaggart
Dr. Donald Melady
Joanne Melady (Roks)
Rev. Rosemarie Payne
Bill Walker
Kevin Wark
William Wells
Class of 1982
Dr. Bill Acres
Peter Allemang
Dr. John D. Cole
Dan Fraleigh
Pam (Trinnear) Genge
Olli Lauren
Kym Wolfe (Mills)
Class of 1983
Andrew W. Aziz
Brent Barootes
Ian Mair
Prof. Jean L. Manore
Katherine McCracken
David McLennan
Gay Reynolds
Dr. J. L. Walker
Katharine Wishart (Howe)
Class of 1984
Robert Arrabito
Margaret Capes
Sally M. Carlton (Boaz)
Jordan Elliott
Heather Holden (Thomson)
Canon Sharon McCormick
Wes Robinson
Andrea Witzel (Hill)
Class of 1985
Susan Farrow-Hutcheson
Mary Fernandes (Morden)
Vernon Fernandes
James E. Grundy, C.A.
Kelly Hansen
Caleb Hayhoe
Heather Jack
Michael C. Jerry
Valerie Kristoff (Thomas)
Doug Raymond
Laura A. Ross (McGregor)
Glenna Talbot (Good)
Class of 1986
Leonard P. Bosschart
Susan Harrison Carter
Andrea J. Caskey
Sandi Cox
Joan L. Epp (nee Dick)
Peter Farrell
Carol-Ann Glasscock
(McMillan)
Kevin Heckendorn
John Hempstead
Margaret Anne Knowles
(Ffolliott)
The Rev. Dr. Norman Knowles
Jon Martin
The Rev’d Canon
David Pickett
David Rae
Richard Talbot
Mark V. C. Virgin
James Ziegel
Class of 1987
Lesley Burland Prong
James Chaffe
Sandra Datars Bere
Gail Fox (Stitt)
Kathryn Fryer
Kevin Higgins
The Ven. Vicars E. Hodge
William Jack
Dr. Eric Mullins
Class of 1988
Anne Forsyth Farrell
Colan Lancaster
Ian B. Mauchan
Lori McDonald
Beth Piszel Park
Dr. Ganesh Persaud
Michael Pope
Joan (Bonner) Wettlaufer
Craig Ellis
Jill (Moroz) Ellis
Douglas Hawe
David Hughes
Elizabeth (Cook) Laube
Riccardo Leofanti
Keitha McClocklin (Mackay)
Sue McNamara
Robyn Kyle Molyneau
Thomas W. Moore
Tara Neate (Donaldson)
Claudette Pennesi
Adam Turner
Michael Whiteside
Class of 1989
John Black
Dr. Patrick Carter
Sue Dent (Fielding)
Peter H. Doig, CFA
Christina (Carscadden) Eaton
Sabine S. Findlay (Keasberry)
Jennifer E. Grant
Ingrid Healy (Petursson)
Stefan Kekko
Lindsay Pratt
Lisanne Lockyer Rogers
Daniel Russell
Kathryn I. Schade
Robert J. Tolmie
Class of 1993
Kent Crosland
Robert Fear
Brad Fraser
Paul G. Griffiths, III
Ian Jeffreys
Scott A. Lamb
Barbara J. Lubell
Allyson F. Mitchell
Darren G. Rough
Matt Tedford
Gillian Walmsley
Class of 1990
Antony Barton
Michael Burns
Adam Crerar
Timothy A. R. Duncanson
Greg Guatto
Tracy Guatto (Paul)
Sean Lundy
Colin G. Millar
Bradley Radin
Helen Wilding Cook
Class of 1991
The Rev. Canon
Catherine M. Ascah
Carl J. A. DeLuca
John Howitt
Lara Kudryk-Traska
Brian McGorman
Linda A. Mountford (Kolbert)
Marion Orser
Julia O’Shea VanSpall
Diana Parsons (Colquhoun)
Rob Parsons
Geoff Spidle
Catherine J. Wilding
Class of 1992
David W. Anderson
Rev. Jack Beedle
Lex Chapman
Class of 1994
Tiffany Atcheson (Godfree)
Judy J. Chang, Esq.
Richard Gannon
Andrew Mitchell
Heather Mitchell (Daniel)
Tara Olivo-Moore
Catherine Smith-Muir
Peter Theophilos
Michael Varpio
Don Williamson
Deidre Yelle (Lipton)
Graham Yin
Class of 1995
Aaron Atcheson
Dr. David Dewar
Jennifer Gannon (Gibson)
Laurie A. Goldbach
Neil C. Hetherington
Dean Kneider
C. Leigh MacDonald
(Hamilton)
James E. Morgan
Sabrina Pennesi
Steven A. Prisco
C. Scott Rattee
Eric Santor
Michael Schaab
Davis Yoo
Class of 1996
Grant E. Beggs
David Dervish
Jamie Koumanakos
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Jay Nash
Chris Yelle
Tasha Varpio (Wasyliniuk)
Class of 1997
Mel Brown
Dave Johnson
Matt Picken
Class of 1998
Adam Branscombe
Christopher P. McCreery, PhD
Paula A. Pincombe
Geoffrey A. R. Pollock
Ryan Rodrigues
Class of 1999
Roberta (Marocco) Ajmera
Stacey Flowers
Sandi Loponen (Burgess)
Richard Shapero
William A. G. Simpson
Ira J. Udaskin
Class of 2000
Jeremy Brasseur
Amy Bridle
Mary Elizabeth
(Simmons) Carroll
Dr. Lindsay Davis
Alysha Johnson (nee Valenti)
Bryan J. Rose
Class of 2001
James Brooks
Michael J. Greb
Kimberley McGill (Crawford)
Dr. Lisa H. Szainwald
Class of 2002
Jeff Baryshnik
Patrick Brown
Sharon McKillop (Robertson)
Michael Rattner
Yola Hamzo Ventresca
Class of 2003
Amanda N. de Vogel
Christie Love Thomas
Tracy Lutz
Sajan Sadhwani, CMA
Eric N. Silber
Kristi Soomer
Class of 2004
Pete Etherington
Lateef Nurmohamed
John Douglas Sullivan
Roxanna M. R. Thompson
Class of 2005
Andrew Middleton
Jordan Nahmias
Jonathan Paul
Katherine A. Scarrow
Class of 2006
David Allan
Liane Fisher
Ann Webber (Holding)
Robyn Weintraub
Class of 2007
Ian Andrew
Claire Andrews
Larissa Burns (England)
Tara E. Hayes
Wes Johnson
Christin E. Sprague
Class of 2008
Amber Matthews
Samir Nurmohamed
Eric Pardu
Brent Wiancko
Zac Zehr
Class of 2009
Kimberlee Havens
Class of 2010
Louise Andrews
Dylan Davie
Jonathan England
Douglas E. Hunt
Bradley Libin
Class of 2011
Hayley Edwards
Marc Strongman
CHURCHES
Diocese of Huron
(by Deanery)
Brough
St. John the Evangelist
Anglican Church, London
Delaware
St. James Westminster
Anglican Church, London
Essex
St. Mark’s by-the-Lake
Anglican Church, Tecumseh
Huron
St. John’s-by-the-Lake
Anglican Church,
Grand Bend
Medway
St. George’s Anglican
Church, London
Oxford
Old St. Paul’s Anglican
Church, Woodstock
St. John’s Anglican
Church, Eastwood
Saugeens
St. James’ Anglican
Church, Fairmount
Waterloo
Church of the Holy
Saviour, Waterloo
Trinity Anglican Church, Galt
Anglican Church Women
Diocese of Huron
St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
Brotherhood of
Anglican Churchmen
Diocese of Huron
Other
Calvary United
Church, London
Chapel of the Resurrection
Catholic Church, London
Diocese of Huron
Diocese of Nova Scotia and
Prince Edward Island
MOSQUES
London Muslim Mosque
PARENTS OF CURRENT
HURON STUDENTS
Shawn & Donna Bank
Toby & Howard Barth
Mark Behrman
Ross & Rhonda Bryson
Marilyn & Douglas Cannon
Shaun Hunter & Blair Carbert
The Cartwright Family
Donald & Rosemary Coons
Peter Coward & Josee
Lachance
Jim & Johanne Crimmins
Robert & Heather
(Gaston) d’Albenas
Mr. & Mrs. Davies
Enrico & Rosa De Pasquale
Michael & Eileen Denny
Mr. & Mrs. Durante
Mr. & Mrs. Farber
Peter & Anne Farrell
Bruce & Barb Fearnall
Jill Fenaughty
Tom & Monthiya Ferguson
Norman Findlay & Gail
Misiunas Findlay
Mr. & Mrs. Gingrich
The Glynn Family
James Gosnell
Ronda & Cary Green
Chris Hale & LeVern
Robertson
Katie Taylor & Neil Harris
Kevin Heckendorn
Kevin Herring &
Jeannie Lauzon
Robert & Julia Holmes
Ke-Bin Hou & Hua Yang
Peter & Amy Howick
Mr. & Mrs. B. Iaboni
Carrie Irwin
Darryl & Jan Iwai
Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Jacobs
Perry Jeffery
Andrew Jones & Linda Gee
Paul & Dorothy Kenny
Doug & Valerie Kenyon
Jeff & Barb Lanys
Don R. Maloney
Mr. & Mrs. Mamalyga
Curtis & Nancy Murdick
Clayton & Catherine Nixey
Benjamin Osher &
Elaine Ceifet
Tom Patrick
James & Karen Phillips
The Rev’d Canon
David Pickett
Gary & Cheryl Raycraft
David Read
Bengt & Deborah
Schumacher
Judy & David Schwartz
Robert Shanks
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Silverberg
Ali & Eman Tobah
Randy & Janice Topp
Jaroslav & Dasa Ulbrych
Frank & Jannet Van Westerop
Mary (Morden) Vickers
Chris & Ingrid Waclawik
Judith Watson
Karen (Firth) Wilkinson
& Bill Wilkinson
Katharine Wishart
FRIENDS
Amany & Hesham Abdelsayed
Muhammad Aboelfotoh
Mr. & Mrs. Morton Abramson
William Ahadi
Imran Ahmed
Dr. Tareef Alaama
Dr. Bassel & Mrs.
Daula Al-Farra
Dr. Mohammad Alomari
Joan & Gordon Baker
Kate Baldwin
Dr. David Barnard
William L. Barnett
Lyon & Joan Barnum
Rev. Jack & Diane Beedle
Dr. & Mrs. Ian Bell
Professor William Blissett
Jack & Susan Blocker
Phil & Ann Bowman
Paul & Jennifer Brouwer
Steven & Dorie Brouwer
His Honour Judge John
S. Brownlee
Michael & Shauneen Bruder
Lt. Col. Jeff Cairns
Jean Capes
Margaret Capes &
Kathryn Bullon
Dr. Euan & Mrs. Jane Carlisle
Wendy & René Carrière
Dr. & Mrs. S. Edwin Carroll
Doreen & Harry Carter
James & Janet Caskey
Professor Jean G.
Castel, O.C., Q.C.
Stephen G. Caudwell
Winston & Diana Cherry
Janet Cluett
Dr. Charles & Mrs.
Diana Coates
Deridor Collier
Lesley & Michael Cornelius
Charles W. Crow
Dr. Jalal Daher
The Rt. Rev. Terrance &
Mrs. Diane Dance
Monty & Sue Dent
Jan Devereux
B. Dorris
Bill & Betty Duffield
Peggy Dykes-Page
Elizabeth Efthymiadis
George Efthymiadis
Dr. Abdusalam Elalem
Dr. Issa El-Cheikh
Mohammed Elkassem
Yehia Dean Elkholy
Dr. Maher M. El-Masri
Dr. Sameer Elsayed
Violet Farr
Elise & John Feightner
Karen Fenwick
Calvert Fisher
Margaret & Donald Ford
Dr. John A. Foreman
Meg Fox, PhD
Mary & Robert Fraser
Ron & Hedy Frisch
Trish Fulton & Paul Cocker
Jamie Gallacher
Keith & Cathy Gibbons
Carol-Ann & Kip Glasscock
Rosylin & Gerold Goldlist
The Ven. D. Ian Grant &
Mrs. Carol Grant
Dorinda Greenway (Dinnie)
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Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Griffiths, III
Bonnie & Jay Haaland
Dr. Wael Haddara, MD, FRCPC
Tom & Raven Haffie
The Rev. Dr. Douglas J. Hall
Samantha Hammoud
Hanny Hassan
David & Afeefe Hassan
George & Helen Hayman
Bob & Anne Hayman
Dr. Phil Hayman
The Rev. H. Robert
& Barb Hayne
Robert Hegele, M.D.
Catherine Himelfarb
James Hodgson
The Rt. Rev. Bruce H. W. Howe
Pamela Humber
Huron University College
Faculty Association
Dr. Mohammed Hussain
Dr. Zafar & Mrs. Inge Hussain
Dr. Omar Ibdah
Irish Benevolent Society
Margaret Irwin Kobes
Rassan (Ghassan) Jafar
Raj K. Jain
Laurie James
Debra Jefferson &
Carmen Aiello
Elaine Bowe Johnson
Faisal Joseph
Hiesam & Rima Kadri
Elizabeth Kaulback
Barry & Sallie Kedwell
John & Lilly Kedwell
Hussein Khalaff
Medicine Corp.
Khan Ghulam Mohammad
T. Fred Kingsmill
M. E. Kirk
Peggy Klementowicz
Mr. & Mrs. Klepacki
Ray & Rosalind Knight
B. Knowles
Ana Krneta
Dr. & Mrs. AbdelRahman Lawendy
Prof. & Mrs. J. Clark Leith
LeMar Dentistry Professional
Corporation
Brian & Sharon Lessard
Don & Sandra Letton
Jean Lewington
Marilyn & John Lewington
Andrew & Lory Lillie
William & Wilma Lobbezoo
London Muslim Mosque
Ramona Lumpkin
Mary Lupton
Reay & Lynda Mackay
Dr. Shiraz Mawani
George & Susan McCaw
Parker & Marisa McClocklin
William C. McConnell
Joyce & Darcy McKeough
Kathleen E. McLachlan
Ellen & John McLeod
Iyman Meddoui
Michael & Debra Menear
Ulrich Menzefricke
David G. Merkle
Dr. Afzal Mohammed
Gail Moir
David & Marla Morrison
Hassan Mostafa
Dr. Mohamed A. Moussa
Dr. Eric & Mrs. Tina Mullins
Mary F. Murty
Robert & Margaret Nally
Majid Niaz
Dr. David Nicolle
Erik & Adelee Nielsen
Rick Nugent
The Most Rev. Percival
R. O’Driscoll
Fine Motors of London
– Mohamed Omar
Margaret & Terry Osbourne
Dr. Said Osman
Sandford Oswick & Laurie Kay
Ron & Cheryl Pancer
Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Peacock
Ted Peters
James Sutherland & Lana
Phair-Sutherland
Justin Pilon
John & Jackie Porter
Mark & Arlene Potashner
Dr. Faisal Raja
Paul Rathbone
Hugh Rawling
Dr. Faisal Rehman Medicine
Professional Corporation
Liz Rejman
Pegi Ridout
Charles & Jean Roberts
J. Robertson
Dr. Donald & Mrs.
Jean Robinson
Dr. & Mrs. John A. Roe
Dr. David J. Ross
Mary W. Rowe
Robert A. Rubinoff
Bill & Ann Rudd
Pamela & Tony Rudd
Dr. Moira S. Sansom
Zahid Sardar Medicine
Professional Corporation
Scott A. Saunders
Dr. John & Beverley Scarrow
Tim & Kristin Scholl
Mr. & Mrs. Seigel
David M. Sellick
Carl Shain
Shelley & Robert Siskind
Hisham Slim
Eddy Smet
Beth Smith
Russell D. Smith
Jane & Stuart Smith
Sidney & Elizabeth Smithson
The Rev’d Patricia Stansfield
Janet E. Stewart Q.C.
William R. (Bill) Stewart
Dr. Barry Emara &
Dr. Rasha Stino
Lt. Col. (Retd) James &
Mrs. Ruth Stokes
Russell & Sonja Stuart
Nancy & Keith Sumner
Nawaz & Nadia Tahir
Dr. Osman A. Tarabain,
MD, FRCPC
Dr. Wadea Tarhuni
Dr. Ali Tassi
Dr. Fouad Tayfour
Charitable Foundation
Steve & Mary Anne Thomas
Dr. Valsa Thomas
Gail & Neville Thompson
James & Beverly Thompson
Stewart & Nancy Thornley
Jim & Pam Townsend
Wayne & Carolyn Townsend
Betty Townshend
Venn-Mitchell Family
Marius & Alexa Veresezan
Drs. Tony & Mary Lou Vernon
Mary (Morden) Vickers
Roland Vishnu
Dr. John & Mrs. Ann
(Morden) Walker
Douglas & Wilma Wall
Ian M. Wallace &
Patricia M. Young
Annika Wang
George & Margaret Wannan
Dr. Fasahat Wasty
Wally P. Wasylenko
Darlene Whitfield
H. Bruce & Beatrijs Williams
Doug & Debbie Wilson
Sue Winder Craig
Joseph & Linda Wooden
Rev. Darrow W. Woods
Mary J. Wright
FACULTY & STAFF
Principal
Stephen McClatchie
(from July 1, 2011)
Trish Fulton
(to June 30, 2011)
Administration
Marianna Hambalek
Tammy McBane
Chaplain
The Revd Canon
William G. Cliff
Housing and Student Life
Sharon McKillop
Library
Dawn Easton-Merritt
Pamela MacKay
Bice Schmitz-DuMoulin
Christina Tuckerman
Office of the Registrar
Bonnie Crocker
University Advancement
Ken Andrews
Darlene Whitfield
Faculty of Arts and
Social Science
Mark Blagrave, Dean
Sawako Akai-Mori
David Blair
Neil Bradford
Neil Brooks
Alfred Chan
Mark Cole
David Conter
Jim Crimmins
Stephen D’Arcy
Corinne Davies
William R. Dawson
Jun Fang
Clare Gordon
Lifang He
Glen Koehn
Douglas Leighton
Paul Nesbitt-Larking
Arash Pourkia
Nina Reid-Maroney
Wendy Russell
Vicki Sweeney
Hua Laura Wu
Faculty of Theology
William J. Danaher, Jr., Dean
Bill Acres
Gary D. Badcock
William R. Lupton
Brad Morrison
Sandra Rice
Kathryn I. Schade
Daniel Smith
Todd Townshend
FOUNDATIONS
The Anglican Foundation
of Canada
M. Elizabeth McKinlay Fund
Pirie Foundation
CORPORATIONS
Aon Reed Stenhouse
Best Western Lamplighter
Inn & Conference Centre
BFI Canada Inc.
CIBC
CIBC Asset Management
City of London
CMA, The Society
of Management
Accountants of Ontario
Compudata Systems London
Deuce Design
Fidelity Investments
Canada ULC
Fiera Sceptre Inc.
FloorSource Inc.
H. & N. Roofing &
Sheet Metal Ltd.
Hayman Construction Inc.
Helix Courier Ltd.
Hobbs Welding & Boiler
Service (1990) Ltd.
Honey Design, Marketing
& Communications
larington Investments Inc.
In2Space Interior Solutions
Jones Packaging Inc.
KPMG LLP
Lerners LLP
London Greenscapes
London Life
Mackenzie Financial
Corporation
Malone Electric
The Marketing Department
McCormick Canada
McKellar Structured
Settlements Inc.
Middlesex Appliance Limited
National Bank of Canada
Ontario Parking Systems Ltd.
Pole & Kingham
Proable Hardware
Specialties Inc.
Pro-Tech Mechanical
Services Ltd.
Ricoh Canada Inc.
Royal Bank of Canada
Scotiabank
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MATCHING GIFTS
Gift Matching is an
arrangement through which,
when an employee makes
a financial gift to Huron
University College, the gift is
“matched” by the employer:
BMO Financial Group
Ernst & Young LLP
General Electric Canada
IBM Canada Ltd.
The KPMG Foundation
Syncrude
Vale
PLANNED GIFTS
Thank you to the following
members of the Huron
Heritage Society who have
made a planned gift to Huron,
such as remembering Huron
in their will or arranging for
a life insurance policy with
Huron as the beneficiary:
The Revd Canon
Nancy Adams
Chris Ambidge
Ken Andrews
Callie Archer
The Rev. Canon
Catherine M. Ascah
The Rev. Canon
Donald G. Axford
Gary Boyes
Christine Longman Burns
James E. Carr
Wendy Carrière
Fred Chenoweth
Archdeacon A. E.
(Mickey) Chovaz
Ronald Crawford
Douglas L. Flanders
The Rev. H. Robert Hayne
Ian Henderson ‘68
Ann Kennedy Kedwell
T. F. Kingsmill
J. D. Mackay
W. Darcy McKeough O.C.
Grant R. Monck
Mary E. A. Mundle
Brooke Nelles
Heather Park
Jay Parr
Noel Paterson
Michael B. Prior, PhD
William A. G. Simpson
Ian & Sophie Skaith
Janet E. Stewart
William R. (Bill) Stewart
The Rev. Canon Logan &
Gail (Hubbard ‘69) Varey
Roland Vishnu
Dr. Alexander R. Waugh
Paul Williams ‘79
Mary J. Wright
MEMORIAL GIFTS
Gifts in 2011 were
given in memory of the
following people:
Joe Andrews
Dr. Elizabeth Bieman
The Rev’d Arthur G.
Brewer ‘59, ‘61
Fred Burd
The Rev. Steve Burns ‘77
Lilly Kedwell
Elizabeth (Betty)
Grace Morden
Jamie Morden
The Ven. Dr. John G. Morden
Elsa Nylund
The Reverend Michael
Pidzamecky ‘85
Shawn Prendergast
J. Catharine Ridley
Kevin Ross
Alex Veresezan
Dr. John S. Winder
Maude Winder
1963
Top 35 Classes by Number of Donors
ScotiaFunds
ScotiaMcLeod, Kelly
Hansen ‘85
Sperling’s Church Supply
Spriet Associates,
Engineers & Architects
Sterling Marking Products Inc.
Stinson Security
Services Limited
Sutton Group Select Realty
Inc., Mary Thomson ‘61
& Heather Holden ‘84
TD Insurance Meloche
Monnex
Video Works London Inc.
Wasylko Architect Inc.
Westminster Glass
& Mirror Ltd.
The Williamson Group,
Don Williamson ‘94
Winmar
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1969
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Providing opportunities for Huron
students now and in the future –
The Phair Family Bursary
Huron University College is able to provide the world-class education
it does thanks to dedicated faculty, staff, alumni and friends
committed to student success.
When students come to Huron, it is important they not worry about financial
obstacles. The Phair Family Bursary Fund is one example of the generosity that
resides in the Huron community to help ease the financial burden.
Created by siblings Lana, Georgia, and Michael, The Phair Family Bursary
Fund was established to honour their father, George Carlton Phair, a long-time
supporter of Huron University College and the Diocese of Huron. Established
in 2009, the Bursary provides financial assistance for students in need from
Kent County in Ontario, where the family lived.
“My father loved education,” Lana says. While the Depression and World
War Two made it difficult for Mr. Phair to extend his formal education past
high school, “he never stopped taking courses and he never stopped studying,”
Lana says, “We all really admired that about him, and so this fund is very much
about honouring someone who had a lifelong love of learning.”
Lana, Georgia, and Michael all attended Western University in arts and social
sciences and later, business. The value of the liberal arts is indeed important to
the Phair family.
“I am of the opinion that you don’t go to university to get a job, you go to
get an education,” Lana says: “You go to open your mind up to many new and
exciting ideas and fields of study. The discipline learned as well as the breadth of
ideas add to your job skills throughout your life.”
Gifts of securities:
Supporting Huron
and Saving Taxes
Gift of securities to Huron University
College can help keep Huron a first-class
community of learning for its students
while saving you hundreds or thousands
of dollars in taxes.
As provided by the federal government’s
May, 2006 budget, donors pay no capital
gains tax on a gift of securities such as
stock or mutual funds to a registered
charity such as Huron University College.
This can mean substantial tax savings
particularly on securities which have
appreciated in value over time.
The following example shows how, if you
own securities and wish to donate them
to Huron, considerable tax savings are
possible.
Gift of securities to Huron
Market Value
$25,000
Original Purchase Price
$15,000
Capital Gain
$10,000
Tax Payable on Capital Gain
$0
Tax Credit from Gift
$11,250
Net Cost of Gift
$13,750
The above assumes a marginal tax rate of 45 per cent.
Making a gift of securities to Huron can be
easily arranged. For more information on
how to make this possible, please contact
Ken Andrews at the co-ordinates listed on
page two.
Additional information is available on the
Huron website at www.huronuc.on.ca/
securities
Visitors to this page can download forms
online to print and mail to the College
once the decision is made to make a gift
of securities.
The Phair family (from left to right:) Lana Phair-Sutherland, Michael Phair and Georgia Phair.
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Types of Endowment Funds you can establish
to support Huron and its students
Type
Amount
Description
Academic Chair
($2-million or more)
Provides salary and program support for a faculty position
Scholarship
($30,000 – $400,000
or more)
Attracts highly qualified students to Huron, recognizes academic
excellence, and assists in providing financial support for students as
they pursue their studies
Lectureships
($20,000 or more)
Supports program costs in specific courses and areas of study of
interest to the donor
Lecture series
($20,000 or more)
Supports guest speakers and lecturers in the form of honoraria and
travel expenses
The Library
($10,000 or more)
Supports the annual purchase of books, software and periodicals
each year
Campus Preservation
($10,000 or more)
Supports ongoing maintenance improvements to Huron facilities
such as classrooms, residences and public facilities such as the
Great Hall. Specific areas may be chosen
Bursary
($10,000 or more)
Provides financial assistance for students who qualify on the basis
of family income and need and who otherwise might not be able to
attend university
Community-Based Learning
($10,000 or more)
Supports the creation of opportunities for Huron students to combine
academic study with hands-on volunteer experience. As students
learn by doing, they acquire a broader understanding of the social,
economic, and political realities of the world in which they live.
International Study Fund
($10,000 or more)
Provides financial assistance for students to undertake a half-term
or full-term study abroad, contributing to accommodation and travel
expenses
The Collegiate Chapel of
St. John the Evangelist
($5,000 or more)
Supports the annual costs of Chaplain ministry and preserves the
integrity and beauty of the Huron Chapel
Faculty Development Fund
($5,000 or more)
Provides financial resources to support faculty in leading-edge research
projects in their fields of study and further enhance the profile of Huron
as a place of higher learning
Award or prize
($5,000 or more)
Recognizes achievement in a particular academic discipline or area of
Huron life. Can be established for students in the Faculty of Arts and
Social Science or the Faculty of Theology
For more information please contact Ken Andrews, Executive Director, Huron University College Foundation, at the co-ordinates listed on page 2.
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HuronFunds
Arts and Social
Science Funds
National Scholarships
The Paul Branscombe
Memorial Fund (3)
The Colonel Ibbotson Leonard
National Scholarship Fund
The Principal John Grant
Morden National
Scholarship
The Catharine Ridley
National Scholarship
The James R. Shuttleworth
Memorial Scholarship
Renewable Scholarships
The Duncanson Family
Scholarship in History
The Godsoe Family
Scholarship of Distinction
The Frank Holmes Academic
Athlete Scholarships
First-Year Scholarships
The Aaron Family Scholarship
of Distinction
The Alberta First-Year
Scholarship
The Mr. and Mrs. P.A.
DuMoulin First-Year
Scholarship
The Huron Alumni Association
150th Anniversary
Scholarship Fund
The Huron Entrance
Scholarship Fund
The Huron Faculty
Entrance Scholarship
The Huron University College
Foundation Trustee
Scholarship Fund
The Elizabeth and
Alexander McIntosh
First-Year Scholarship
Second-Year Scholarships
The Frank P. Leahy SecondYear Scholarship
The Scotiabank SecondYear Scholarship
Third-Year Scholarships
The BMO Financial
Group Scholarship
The John Cronyn ThirdYear Scholarship
The Frank P. Leahy ThirdYear Scholarship
Fourth-Year Scholarships
The Kevin M. Cunliffe
Memorial FourthYear Scholarship
The Dr. Charles and
Mary Jago Fourth-Year
Scholarship in History
The London Life Fourth-Year
Scholarship in Management
and Organizational Studies
The Dr. Don Melady and
Mr. Rowley Mossop
Diversity Scholarship
Special Scholarships
The Beggs Family Scholarship
The Great Minds Great
Hearts Scholarships
The Doris and Owen
Foster Scholarship
The Seanna and Nicole
Strongman Memorial
Scholarships
The John and Barbara Wood
Business 2257 Scholarship
Entrance Bursaries
The CIBC Entrance Bursary
The Imogene Apps
Entrance Bursary
The Barker Family
Entrance Bursary
The Gibbons Family
Entrance Bursary
The Joanne Groch Bursary
The Huron Entrance
Bursary Fund
The Ann Kennedy Kedwell
Entrance Bursary
McCormick Canada Club
House Entrance Bursary
The Schaab Family
Entrance Bursary
Bursaries
The Marion S. Brown
Memorial Bursary
The Avis Margaret Alberta
Cant Memorial Bursary
The Capes Memorial Bursary
The James E. Carr
Bursary Fund
The Classes of 20052012 Bursary Fund
The Classes of 20102017 Bursary Fund
The Diane Donaldson Bursary
The P. John Talbot Dykes
Memorial Bursary
The Huron University College
Staff Bursary Fund
The Irish Benevolent Society
Bursary in Honour of
George Mottram
The Katherine and John
Robert Klassen Bursary
The Irene Lee Bursary
Fund in appreciation of
Dr. John Henderson
The John and Marie-Luise
Lister Bursary Fund
The Margaret Lucas Bursary
The Judith McMurrich
Memorial Bursary
The Carol Micak
Lucas Bursary
The Andrew and Heather
Mitchell Bursary in Memory
of George Leslie Mitchell
The Barry Mitchelson Student
Leadership Bursary
The Stewart Moore Bursary
The Phair Family Bursary
The Robert and Evelyn
Porter Bursary
The Shawn Prendergast
Memorial Bursary Fund
The Raymond Family
Bursary Fund for Huron
County Students
The Kevin Ross Memorial
Bursary Fund
The Ian and Sophie
Skaith Scholarship
and Bursary Fund
The Alex Veresezan
Memorial Bursary Fund
The Maude and John
Winder Bursary
Hugh B. and Dorothy Rooney
International Travel Bursary
The Scotiabank Fund for
International Education
Nancy and Keith
Sumner Fund for
International Studies
Lectureships
The W. Galen Weston Fund
for British History
Lecture Funds
The Douglas and Margaret
Derry Interdisciplinary
Lectures
The Chander Jain Lecture
Series Endowment
Awards for Excellence
in Teaching
The John and Gail
MacNaughton Prize for
Excellence in Teaching
Community-Based
Learning Endowments
The Community-Based
Learning Fund
The Trish Fulton CommunityBased Learning Fund
The Dr. Kenneth W. Lemon
Fund for CommunityBased Learning
Willie Mae and William
H. Lumpkin Fund for
Community-Based Learning
Michael and Sandra Prior
Community-Based
Learning Fund
The E.M. Kennedy and
Mary Thomson Fund for
Community-Based Learning
Volunteer Service
Endowments
Karen Prieur Volunteer
Service Fund
Janet Stewart Volunteer
Service Fund
The Waugh Family Volunteer
Service Fund
International Study
Endowments
Patricia Boucher Memorial
International Exchange
Travel Grant
Faculty Research
Endowments
The Faculty Research
Project Fund
The Charles Nesbitt-Larking
Faculty Research Fund
The McGorman Family Faculty
Development Fund
The Mary J. Wright Research
Fund in Psychology
Awards Recognizing
Academic Achievement
The Caleb J. Hayhoe Jr. Award
for Gold Medal Students
French and Asian Studies
The Chinese Language Prize
The Leigh Clarke Prize
for French 2900
The Michael Klementowicz
and Yolande Chicoine
Klementowicz Prize
in French 1910
The Cornelia Maria van der
Wel Prize in French 2600
Global Studies
Roland Vishnu Award
in Global Studies
History
The Jack Blocker Prize
in U.S. History
The Gary Owens Prize
in British History
The John Gordon Rowe
Prize in History 1801E
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Mathematics
The Eddy Smet
Mathematics Prize
Philosophy
The Jamie Grant Morden
Prize in Religious
Studies 2130
The Mr. and Mrs. Benno
Schachter Memorial
Prize in Philosophy
The Walker Family
Memorial Award
Psychology
The Professor Frederick Walter
Burd Prize in Psychology
The Professor Mark R. Cole
Award in Experimental
Psychology
The Sabina Cole Memorial
Prize in Biopsychology
The Dr. Stephen Erdle Award
in Quantitative Psychology
The Dr. Nelson Heapy Award
in Social Psychology
The Dr. Moira Sansom
Award for Excellence in
Psychological Research
Awards Recognizing
Academic Achievement,
and/or Community
Leadership
The Richard Clarke
Leadership Fund
The Most Rev. Terence E. and
Alice Jean Finlay Award for
Community Leadership
The Sarah Ann Martin
Memorial Award
The Jordan Propas
Memorial Award
The Sharon Robertson
McKillop and Mary
Buckingham Smith
Residence and
Student Life Awards
The David H. M. Stewart
Memorial Award
The Nelson Viglianti Memorial
Mature Student Award
Theology Funds
Chairs
The Huron-Lawson Chair
in Pastoral Theology
The Clark and Mary
Wright Chair in New
Testament Theology
The London and Windsor
Community Chair in
Islamic Studies
Scholarships
The Brotherhood of Anglican
Churchmen Scholarship
in Old Testament Studies
The Huron Alumni Association
150th Anniversary
Scholarship Fund
The Huron University College
Entrance Scholarship
The John Morden
Theology Scholarship
The St. Mark’s by-the-Lake
Church Scholarship for
Christian Leadership
Bursaries supported
by Churches
St. George’s (London)
Anglican Church
Bursary Fund
St. John’s-by-the-Lake
Anglican Church Bursary
St. John the Divine
(Arva) Bursary Fund
St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Anglican Church Bursary
St. Michael and All Angels
50th Anniversary
Bursary Fund
St. Paul’s Cathedral Bursary
Bursaries supported
by Deaneries
The Deanery of Brant/
Norfolk Bursary
The Deanery of
Brough Bursary
The Deanery of
Delaware Bursary
The Deanery of Essex Bursary
The Deanery of Huron Bursary
The Deanery of Kent Bursary
The Deanery of
Lambton Bursary
The Deanery of
Medway Bursary
The Deanery of
Oxford Bursary
The Deanery of Perth Bursary
The Deanery of
Saugeens Bursary
The Deanery of
Waterloo Bursary
The Deanery of
Wellington Bursary
Bursaries supported
by Alumni, Friends
and Students
The Huron Theology
Bursary Fund
The Jane Acres Bursary Fund
for Mature Students
Chancellor Stephen N.
Adams Q.C. Bursary for
Theological Students
The Ken and Mary Lou
Anderson Bursary
The Bishop Hellmuth
Chapter IODE Bursary
The Rev’d Arthur G.
Brewer Bursary
The Brotherhood of Anglican
Churchmen Bursary
The Avis Margaret Alberta
Cant Memorial Bursary
The Wendy Carrière
Theological Bursary
The Benjamin Cheung
Theology Bursary
The Archdeacon A. E. (Mickey)
and Betty Chovaz Bursary
The Classes of 20052012 Bursary Fund
The Classes of 20102017 Bursary Fund
The Archdeacon Ken
Conyard Bursary Fund
The Diocese of Huron 150th
Anniversary Bursary
The Diocese of Huron
Church History Bursary
The Canon Lewis Dixon
Memorial Bursary
The Nicholas C.
Georgas Bursary
The Archdeacon Bill and
Ruth Gray Bursary
The Rt. Rev. Bruce H.W. and
E. Jane Howe Bursary
The Irish Benevolent Society
Bursary in Memory
of John B. Carson
The Rev. Charles L.
Langford Bursary
The Doris Langford Bursary
The Miggsie Lawson
Memorial Bursary
The Order of St.
Lazarus Bursary
The Marion Orser Bursary
The John and Christopher
Peck Bursary
The SJS Bursary in Theology
The Reverend Grace Schaefer
Memorial Bursary
The George and Anastasia
Scharf Bursary
The Robert K. Sheridan
Memorial Bursary Fund
The Jane and Stuart
Smith Bursary
The James and Beverly
Thompson Bursary
The Trivitt Memorial Bursary
for the Transcultural
Learning Program
The Rev. Dr. Alistair Weir
Theological Bursary
The Rev. Canon Ernest
Wells Bursary Fund
Awards
The Irish Benevolent
Society Prizes
The Very Rev. Leslie
B. Jenkins Prize in
Systematic Theology
The Rev. Dr. D. Jay Koyle
Prize in Liturgics
The Archbishop Michael Peers
Prize in Biblical Languages
St. John’s-by-the-Lake
Anglican Church Award
in Youth Ministry
Library Endowments
The Silcox Memorial Library
Endowment Fund
The Dan and Barbara
Amadori Library Fund
The Andrews Family
Library Fund
The Beeston Family
Library Fund
The Linda (Paterson)
Douglas Library Fund
The Jones Packaging
Inc. Library Fund
The Marion and Earl
Orser Library Fund
The Beverley Paterson
Wood Library Fund
The Jeffrey and Maureen
W. Singer Library Fund
The Paul and Sara (nee
Willis) Smith Library Fund
The Margaret Westgate
Library Fund
Campus Preservation
Endowments
The John Cronyn Family
Endowment
The Rose Dotten Spring
Flower Fund
The McKeough Maintenance
Endowment
The Kenneth C. Shain
Campus Preservation Fund
Chapel Endowments
The Huron Chapel
Ministry Fund
The Revd Canon Sidney and
Mary Lupton Chapel Fund
The Archdeacon Harry
St. Clair Hilchey and
Archdeacon Benjamin J.
Thorpe Chapel Fund
The Rev. Canon Logan and
Mrs. Gail (Hubbard ’69)
Varey Chapel Fund
Huron Alumni
Endowments
Huron Alumni Fund – 1950s
Huron Alumni Fund – 1960s
Huron Alumni Fund – 1970s
Huron Alumni Fund – 1980s
Huron Alumni Fund – 1990s
Huron Alumni Fund – 2000s
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