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TRINITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE VOLUME 40 NUMBER 2 SUMMER 2003
PITY THE
POOR DOVE
The sad state of
peacemaking and
peacekeeping in
our times
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FromtheProvost
It is a year since I became Trinity’s 13th provost – and it
has been an exciting one. As always, Trinity students work
hard and study hard – and even find time to play a bit. We
have about 60 teams and almost as many societies and
clubs, from the venerable Trinity College Dramatic Society
to the newer James Bond Society. Our annual awards
ceremony reminded us yet again of the accomplishments
of our students. Our two Rhodes Scholars (see pages
Cover illustration
by Sandra Dionisi
24-25) are off to Oxford, while other students are going to Columbia, Princeton,
Cambridge, Cornell, or to medical, business or law schools. And some are going to
The College is a place where both students and faculty from all over the university
can meet and exchange ideas (and sometimes argue over them.) Our three College
programmes – International Relations (featured in this issue starting on page 8), Immunology, and Ethics, Society and Law – continue to attract students to Trinity. Enrolment
overall is up slightly, and, thanks to the double cohort, so are our entrance requirements,
which remain among the highest in the province. The Faculty of Divinity is flourishing under its new dean David Neelands, and there, too, enrolment continues to climb.
The College buildings grow older, though not always gracefully. I am pleased
to announce that, thanks to the generosity of the Bank of Montreal and class gifts
from the years 4T3, 5T2, 6T2, 6T7 and 7T7, we finally have repaired the portico
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over the front entrance.
Our finances remain a source of concern, but both the Board of Trustees and the
College administration are working on a plan to eliminate the deficit. We are going
to do this both by cutting costs and raising revenue. Our most important goal is to
make sure that Trinity continues to be a place where students and fellows feel they
have a home base in a big university and a big city.
Sincerely,
MARGARET MACMILLAN, Provost
College observations
worth noting
By Graham F. Scott
War & Peace
Three faculty examine
the dismal record of peace
efforts in our times
By Margaret MacMillan,
Robert Bothwell and
Wesley K. Wark
The Thread of History
Meet Michael Wilson,
Trinity’s 11th chancellor
By Brad Faught
Clever Young Things
Trinity’s star students
range from Rhodes Scholars
to virtuoso violinists
By Andrew Mills and
Graham F. Scott
Class Notes
News from classmates
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O B S E RVAT I O N S & D I S T I N C T I O N S W O R T H N O T I N G • B Y G R A H A M F. S C O T T
Elizabeth Abbott
F
or Elizabeth Abbott,
dean of women, it
seemed perfectly logical to
follow up her best-selling
A History of Celibacy with
a book about mistresses.
“After I wrote it,” she says,
“I realized mistresses were
another way women related
to men outside of marriage.”
Abbott, who published
A History of Mistresses this
spring, explains that the
new book is the second
in a series of three – the
third will be a history
of marriage.
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Raymond Pryke was in such
a hurry to start his new job
after finishing his final year in
1949 that he forgot to ask for
his diploma. Pryke came to
Trinity after the Second World
War on a grant from the
British government; after he
wrote his last exam, he left
right away to work for his
future father-in-law in El
Salvador without declaring
his intention to graduate. “I
assumed I would be sent the
degree in the mail,” he says.
The oversight doesn’t seem
to have hurt his career; Pryke
now owns a chain of weekly
newspapers and a real-estate
development business in California. “It didn’t really make
that much difference,” he said,
“except that I was upset that
I never got the degree.”
Through a special arrangement, U of T Chancellor
Henry N.R. Jackman conferred
a bachelor of arts degree on
Pryke in June, 54 years after he
left Trinity. “It’s more for my
own satisfaction than anything
else,” says Pryke. “It’ll hang in
my office, and people will come
by and say ‘Oh, you’re one of
those goddamn Canadians!’”
The Power
of the Atom
Atom Egoyan (8T2) is an officer of the Order of Canada, has
been on the jury at the Cannes
Atom Egoyan
film festival and was knighted
by France. But the internationally acclaimed director and
Trinity graduate – who delivered this year’s Larkin-Stuart
lecture on his experiences
making his most recent film
Ararat – says that the honorary
Doctor of Laws degree he
received from the University
A Polished Writer
F
orty-eight years and nine novels have transpired since
Austin Clarke came to Canada from Barbados to attend
Trinity College in 1955. He has long been one of Canada’s
most respected writers, but last autumn he claimed celebrity
status with the $25,000 Giller Prize for The Polished Hoe, a
Faulknerian evocation of oppression in the Caribbean. This
spring, also for The Polished Hoe, he was a co-winner of the
$20,000 English-language Trillium Prize. Clarke recently
told U of T Magazine that he remembers his Trinity years as
Austin Clarke
“devastatingly happy, sweetly snobbish and comforting.”
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High Infidelity
A Degree
of Separation
Churchill forever
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rinity’s Churchill Collection now ranks among the best
in the world after a donation of hundreds of items,
including rare editions of Winston Churchill’s works, documents, letters and memorabilia, from the collection of the late
F. Bartlett Watt. The acquisition was a joint gift of Lucienne
Watt, family friends Anne and Fred Stinson (4T5 and 4T4
respectively), and other members of the Churchill Society for
the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy.
“Before, it was a good collection. Now, it’s a great collection,” says Peter Russell, Trinity fellow emeritus and president
of the Churchill Society. The rarest item, says Russell, is an
early pamphlet containing six controversial speeches to the
House of Commons, in which Churchill argued against the
expansion of the permanent peacetime army. It is one of only
three known surviving copies of the pamphlet.
The materials will be available in the Saunderson Rare Books
Room of the John W. Graham Library. “It’s open to all scholars,
young and old,” says Russell. “Trinity should be proud.”
of Toronto this June has a
special importance for him.
“The event was a little more
emotional because I was cited
and hooded by a couple of
my old professors,” he says.
Franklyn Griffiths, professor
emeritus of political science,
gave the citation, and Trinity
fellow emeritus Richard Gregor
did the hooding. “It’s the most
significant honour I can imagine receiving,” says Egoyan.
The Music Man
When he was a student at
Trinity, John Lawson (4T8)
remembers giving “the odd
piano recital.” Since then, he
has been president and chairman of the board of the
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
and of the Corporation of
Massey Hall and Roy Thomson
Hall, as well as chair of the
successful U of T Faculty of
Music fundraising campaign.
For his continuing involvement in music and education
he received an honorary
Doctor of Laws degree from
the university in June. A close
friend of Trinity, Lawson is a
long-standing member of
Corporation and received an
Arbor Award for his efforts to
create choral scholarships at
the College. Of his work with
the Faculty of Music, he says
that he finds it “endlessly
rewarding – particularly listening to the students play.”
a Trinity fellow, is a renowned
theorist whose work has had a
tremendous impact on several
key fields of mathematics. The
academy counts more than
150 Nobel laureates among
its current members.
Academy Award?
A Defining
Moment
University Professor James
Arthur (6T6) of mathematics
has joined the ranks of the
American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, one of the most
prestigious scholarly academies
in the United States. Arthur,
“A revisionist take on a wellknown establishment” that
“significantly contributes to
our current understanding
of mid-nineteenth-century
Ontario.” That’s how the judges
summarized The Founding
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OBSERVATIONS AND DISTINCTIONS WORTH NOTING
Moment: Church, Society and
the Construction of Trinity
College, the story of how
Trinity was created, by Trinity
alumnus Bill Westfall (6T8).
The book won the Canadian
Historical Association’s Clio
Award for Ontario History this
spring. Copies ($30) are available at (416) 978-2651 or
[email protected]
Elizabeth Elbourne (8T5)
won the association's Wallace
K. Ferguson Prize for an
outstanding non-Canadian
historical study.
As Strong
as the Oak
Five graduates were recognized
last September for their dedication to Trinity with Arbor
Awards, given by the university
for outstanding volunteer
service by alumni. Anne
Greaves (6T0) and Joyce K.
Sowby (5T0) were cited for
their work with the Friends of
A Feisty, but
Divine, Faculty
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T
rinity’s Faculty of
Divinity is undergoing
a growth spurt, says Dean
David Neelands.
“Last year we had a 25-per
cent increase in enrolment,”
he says, referring to the 123
students now studying in the
faculty. It’s still a small program,
says Neelands, but a feisty one.
Of the five recipients of
Ontario Graduate Scholarships
in theology awarded last April,
two were Trinity students, an
impressive result considering
Members of the
Class of ’53 gather
on the steps of
St. Hilda’s College
the Library; the late Betty
Dashwood (5T2), primarily
for her work as a year rep; the
Rev. Canon Philip C. Hobson
(7T5), for his assistance to the
Divinity Associates; and James
F.S. Thomson (7T6), for his
legal expertise that helped
shape college statutes. Thomas
Symons (5T1) and William
(5T6) and Meredith Saunderson received the award for
their work on behalf of the
overall university.
Showered
with Grads
the faculty’s size. Doctoral candidates Martha Cunningham
and Terry DeForest received
the prestigious scholarship.
“Morale in faculty and
students is very high,” says
Neelands. “We’re pretty
energized.”
In May, Trinity College,
conjointly with the University
of Toronto, awarded honorary
Doctor of Sacred Letters
degrees to scholars and benefactors at the Faculty of Divinity
Convocation. They were:
• Alan Earp (4T8), dean of
men at Trinity from 1955 to
1964, and a former president
of Brock University in St.
Catharines, Ont.
• Roger Savory, Middle-Eastern
scholar and fellow emeritus
of Trinity College.
• Arthur and Susan Scace
(6T0 and 6T3, respectively),
for involvement with Trinity
Corporation and the Spirit
of Leadership campaign.
Front row: U of T chancellor emeritus Henry N.R. Jackman, Roger Savory,
Susan Scace, Trinity chancellor emeritus the Rt. Rev. John C. Bothwell. Back
row: Provost Margaret MacMillan, Alan Earp, Paul Stanwood, Arthur Scace
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A cool and rainy weekend did
not deter the festivities at this
year’s Spring Reunion, May
30-June 1, which honoured
classes ending in 3 or 8.
The Class of ’53 celebrated
with a dinner at St. Hilda’s
College, where traditional
golden spoons were presented
by Provost Margaret MacMillan
to alumni celebrating their
50th anniversary since graduation. The Class of ’63 organized a gala dinner and a
Sunday brunch. Meanwhile,
the Class of ’78 marked its 25th
anniversary with an evening
at the Duke of York pub.
On Saturday, 140 attended
the annual St. Hilda’s lunch,
and 110 alumni took advantage of a chance to return to
the classroom and hear lectures
by Dean of Arts Derek
Allen and professors Doug
Hutchinson and Marsha
Hewitt. Later, more than 350
alumni from as far away as
California and Spain gravitated
toward old classmates at a
reception in Strachan Hall.
A Growing-up
Experience
Ed Stock chose to make a
generous donation to Trinity
even though he didn’t actually
graduate here. “I flunked my
first year terribly,” he laughed
Arthur Scace was a Rhodes
Scholar of 1961.
• Paul Stanwood, who
addressed the graduating class,
a specialist in Renaissance
English literature and president of the International
Association of University
Professors of English.
recently, remembering his
two-and-a-half year stint as a
Trinity student from 1942 to
1945. At just 17, Stock says
that he simply wasn’t ready for
the university experience.
Then, when he got the call to
join the services, he left in
January 1945. Undeterred,
he completed a bachelor of
science degree after the war
at the University of Western
Ontario, followed by a master’s degree in administration
at Syracuse University, and
eventually became chief of
personnel and chief financial
officer at the National
Research Council. Stock says
his stay at Trinity was brief
but valuable. “Looking back,
I went from a boy to a man
during that time.”
By the Book
Student Jeremy Burman’s latest
project is an example of the
old adage “if you don’t ask,
you don’t get.” But he found
that you have to ask repeatedly
and vehemently. Burman
(0T4), who co-chaired the
Non-Residents’ Affairs Committee for 2002-2003, has
arranged to ship a thousand
textbooks to Mzuzu University
in Malawi, Africa. Working
with fellow Trinity students
Jordan Feilders (0T5), Craig
Kielburger (0T6) and Andrew
Macleod (0T5), and with
student-alumni committee
chair Ivan McFarlane (6T5),
Burman secured the textbooks
from publisher McGraw-Hill
Ryerson Limited, and the
means to ship them via Tippet
Richardson and Fract (Africa)
Limited. After many appeals
to politicians and various publishers failed, Roger Martin,
dean of the Joseph L. Rotman
School of Management,
helped to put Burman in touch
with the higher-education
division at McGraw-Hill,
Precious Medals
S
ilver and gold were in evidence at the Graduation Awards
Ceremony in June. Left to right: Angela Wong, The
Chancellor’s Gold Medal in Commerce; Geoffrey Janoscik,
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The Chancellor’s Silver Medal in Arts; (Provost MacMillan);
Meghan Roberts, UTAA Scholar; Linda Chu, The Chancellor’s Silver Medal in Science and The Governor General’s
Silver Medal; Sarah Fullerton, The Chancellor’s Gold
Medal in Arts. More than 100 students claimed awards.
which made a donation of
$50,000 worth of books.
Star Students
Nine Trinity students of the
Class of 2003 were honoured
with Gordon Cressy Student
Leadership Awards in April.
The Cressy Awards recognize
graduating students for
outstanding extracurricular
involvement. Congratulations
to: Mavis Chen, Andrew
Crabtree, Peter Josselyn, Tanya
Magnus, Andrew Morgan,
Andrew Oakden, Michelle
Rhodes, Meghan Roberts
and Zinta Zommers.
St. Hilda’s
High Points
Tanya Magnus (0T3), a
student of Egyptology and a
former head of St. Hilda’s and
its athletic association, was
this year’s winner of the St.
Hilda’s College Alumnae Association (SHCAA) Exhibition
Award, presented for academic
and personal achievement by
a woman in her final year.
Thanks to the generosity of
alumnae during Sesquicentennial year (2001-02), the
endowment fund for the
award more than doubled,
making a prize of close to
$1,000 available to Tanya
and future recipients.
Betty Dashwood (5T2)
died in April shortly after
being selected to receive the
SHCAA Long-Service Award,
given annually to alumnae
who graduated more than
50 years ago and who have
made a visible contribution
to college life. Betty was a
dynamic and energetic volunteer, involved in the Book Sale
and the Friends of Library,
Take a Note
T
he Friends of the
Library sell a glorious selection of note
cards, like ‘O, be joyful!’
above, depicting illustrated works from the
John W. Graham Library
special collections. A
popular card showing the
Trinity College building
has also been reissued.
Eight, 10 or 12 cards,
depending on subject,
cost $10. Proceeds
support library services
and acquisitions. (416)
978-2653 or friends@
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and a dedicated year rep who
always ensured a strong Class
of ’52 turnout at reunions.
Credit
Where It’s Due
The following alumni and
friends were listed incorrectly
in the 2001-02 donors’ report
published in January: Alan C.
& Pamela Bowen (6T9) should
have been acknowledged as
Provost Committee members;
Mary & Robert Thomas
(6T4) should have been listed
as Trinity Circle members; and
former provost Robert Painter
and Dorothea Painter should
have been recognized as
Heritage Donors.
Graham F. Scott (0T4) writes
for many campus publications.
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From the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, to Canada’s failed peacekeeping efforts
since the Second World War, to the futile UN effort to avert a war in Iraq,
three faculty from Trinity’s International Relations Programme examine the
dismal record of peace efforts in our times
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too challenges orthodox opinion. “Canadians have
been sold on multilateralism and the United Nations,
but we have not looked at how those UN missions have
actually worked out.” Listing numerous cases in which
Canadian peacekeeping efforts failed, he says the UN
was always “Paradise Postponed,” and that helps explain
why the United States pushed it aside in March and
“bullied into Iraq.” But while the UN may be flawed,
he says there is little opportunity without it for Canada
to exert influence in foreign affairs and on the U.S.
Prof. Wark’s lecture, “On the Road to Baghdad,”
considers the consequences of unilateral action and
the new U.S. doctrine of pre-emption. After the
terrorist attacks of 2001, U.S. government and military strategists argued that anticipatory action was
justified in the face of terrorism and hostile states
possessing nuclear and chemical weapons. The danger
of the new doctrine, Wark argues, lies in the potential
misuse of “preventive war.” “What restraints now
exist to affect U.S. action?” he asks. Iraq – in which
the U.S. failed to convince the world of the rightness
of its actions, yet achieved military success all the
same – “cannot be a sustaining pattern in the future.”
ILLUSTRATION: SANDRA DIONISI
lumni had an opportunity in April to
sample Trinity’s International Relations
Programme during this year’s Alumni
Lecture Series on “Peacekeeping and
Peacemaking.” The series featured
three of the program’s key faculty, Provost Margaret
MacMillan, Prof. Robert Bothwell, director of the
program, and Prof. Wesley K. Wark.
Provost MacMillan, whose book Paris 1919: Six
Months that Changed the World has topped best-selling
lists in the U.S., Canada and the UK, challenges the
orthodox belief that the Paris peace accord was a
botched effort that led inexorably to World War II.
Her lecture, “Making Peace is Harder than Making
War,” offers uncanny parallels between the 1919 conference and the situation the United States now faces
in establishing peace in the Middle East. “If we want
peace [now],” she says, “we must remember that it’s
expensive, tedious and time-consuming. You cannot
make peace overnight.”
Prof. Bothwell echoes that theme in his lecture,
“Adventures in the Peace Trade,” which takes a hard
look at Canada’s peacekeeping missions since 1945. He
Making Peace is Harder
Than Waging War
The Paris Peace Conference of 1919
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aking Peace is Harder than Waging War” because the Paris Peace Conference has had a very bad
sounds like something President George press. It is blamed for imposing punitive terms on
W. Bush might have said recently, but Germany that led to Hitler’s rise to power and started
French prime minister Georges Clemenceau said it in the Second World War, for creating new nations such
1919. He meant it to be paradoxical and provocative, but as Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia that did not last, and
it had an important kernel of truth. It’s hard for nations for leaving unworkable countries in the Middle East.
at war to think about the ensuing peace when they’re
The great economist John Maynard Keynes, who was
concentrating on victory. The end of the First World in Paris as adviser to the British Treasury, depicted the
War, which came sooner than the Allies had expected, Allied leaders as selfish, shortsighted, vindictive and
left them unprepared for the next stage. The Paris Peace greedy. In The Economic Consequences of the Peace, pubConference of 1919 has remained controversial ever since. lished in the autumn of 1919, he maintained that the
The Allies’ initial decision to meet in Paris to draw Allies were sowing the seeds of disaster in Europe, but
up a common set of peace terms for
I would argue against that view. It’s too
the defeated nations – Germany, and its
easy to say that the peace settlements
allies, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the
of 1919 caused the Second World War
Ottoman Empire – turned out to be
or that the peacemakers should have
more complicated and time-consuming
seen ahead 20 years. Historians should
than anticipated, and final agreement
try to understand what people had to
wasn’t reached until May 1919. By then
work with at the time, and what their
the last thing they wanted was to re-open
alternatives really were.
“It’s surprising
difficult questions by sitting down with
To begin with, the peacemakers were
the Germans to hammer out a mutually
the peacemakers dealing with a fluent and turbulent
acceptable deal, as had happened in oldworld. The First World War had been a
did as good
style peace conferences. So they simply
shattering experience, especially for
a job in Europe
summoned the Germans to Paris and
European society: 20 million were dead.
as they did”
presented them with the terms.
France and Belgium were physically
The Paris Peace Conference was different from ear- devastated. Old institutions had been shaken or destroyed.
lier ones in other respects, too. It was unprecedented for Austria-Hungary, that huge multi-national empire stretchso many of the world’s most powerful people – includ- ing from today’s Poland in the north to the Balkans in
ing President Woodrow Wilson of the United States, the south, had fallen to pieces. Following its revolution
British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and most of 1917, Russia was now in a civil war whose outcome
of his cabinet, French Prime Minister Georges was unclear, and its subject peoples were trying to seize
Clemenceau and his cabinet – to be together in one city their independence. Germany had become a republic
for six months, where, along with the prime minister and, it appeared, it might follow Russia’s path to more
and foreign minister of Italy, the prime ministers of revolution. Hungary would have a communist revoluCanada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, tion in the spring of 1919. All over Europe, there were
Queen Marie of Rumania, and many more, they met strikes and demonstrations. The peacemakers felt that
formally and informally to discuss all sorts of issues. One they were working on the edge of a volcano.
outcome of such concentrated power was that individThere was revolutionary fervour of another kind
uals and nations – new and established – came forward to deal with: ethnic nationalism. The peacemakers
with petitions and demands on a range of issues.
faced demands from all over Europe but also from the
From January to June 1919, the world had some- Middle East, where the Kurds, Arabs and Turks were
thing close to a government in Paris. We will never see starting to organize themselves. Ethnic nationalism got
anything like that again. It is inconceivable that world a tremendous boost from Woodrow Wilson, whose vision
leaders could spare the time. Perhaps it’s just as well, for a new world order included “self-determination,”
but in central Europe particularly, drawing boundaries
that would satisfy everyone was impossible. The
peacemakers tried hard, but when new borders were
drawn, about a third of central Europe’s population
were minorities within their countries.
They also had the task of trying to satisfy the tremendous expectations raised by a costly and dreadful war.
Public opinion was now a very real factor in international relations, and the publics of the Allied nations
wanted to make Germany, itself relatively unscathed,
pay reparations. Public opinion is often contradictory,
though. There was also pressure on the peacemakers to
make a better world. Wilson, in particular, personified
that hope. (Clemenceau said that when he met with
Wilson and Lloyd George, he sometimes felt as though
he was sitting between Jesus Christ and Napoleon.)
Wilson’s vision was for a better and fairer world, where
there would be no more war and where nations would
gather together in a league to enforce peace. It is easy
to understand why this was so attractive in 1919 – and
is still today. It is sometimes asserted, wrongly, that
only the United States wanted this new order. Many
Europeans longed for it passionately. But the peacemakers also knew they had to look out for their own
national interests and concerns.
The French perspective was quite straightforward.
Since Germany had declared war on France in 1914,
Germany should pay. But France also wanted to make
sure Germany would not threaten it again. Germany,
though defeated, was still intact, its infrastructure still
in place. Almost none of the war had been fought on
German soil. The German population was bigger than
the French population, and would continue to grow.
Although some French wanted to destroy Germany, in
the end, they settled for a military occupation of the
Rhineland, and a guarantee that Britain and the United
States would come to France’s aid if it were attacked by
Germany. (The guarantee never materialized after the
United States Senate rejected it.)
The British, by contrast, were less interested in the
continent – apart from ensuring there was a stabilizing
balance of power – than in their empire, which in 1919
was about to grow significantly. The British dominions
of South Africa, New Zealand and Australia had snapped
up bits of the German empire in Africa and the South
Pacific, and Britain was about to lay hands on a large
part of the Arab Middle East. So the British had much
of the territory they wanted before the Peace Conference opened. The German naval threat had also been
disposed of, with the surrender of the German navy
and the dispersal of its submarine fleet.
The United States, like Britain, took a high moral
tone in Paris. Wilson said repeatedly that the United
States had not entered the war for any material purpose
but to build a better world. But in reality, some in the
Diplomatic
Mission
Trinity’s International Relations
Programme aims to educate students for
the rapidly changing world
BY MARGARET WEBB
“The idea from the beginning was to put history to
work to explain current affairs,” says Professor Robert
Bothwell, director of the 27-year-old International
Relations Programme, one of three interdisciplinary
programs at Trinity College.
Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, that mission
has become more relevant than ever. In the past two
years, Trinity’s IR program (for undergraduates)
and the Centre for International Studies (for graduate students), both located at the Munk Centre
for International Studies, have hosted an unprecedented number of seminars, guest panels and roundtable luncheons.
For the 250 undergraduates in International Relations, the revolving door of guests has offered a rare
opportunity to hear in-depth analysis of our rapidly
changing world – and to speak directly with leading
academics, analysts, diplomats and journalists.
The current state of world affairs has created
tremendous demand for individuals with the sort of
education the IR program offers. With core courses
in economics, political science and history, and usually a second and third language under their belt, IR
alumni have taken up key positions in the field. Trinity’s influence even extends into the highest foreign
affairs office in the country: Canada’s current foreign
affairs minister, Bill Graham, is a Trinity alumnus
who earned his BA in 1961 and later obtained a law
degree at U of T in 1964 (see page 16).
Bothwell, who has headed the program since
1996, says it remains focused on undergraduate education, with the goal to create a lively and engaged
fourth year of study. “Lloyd Axworthy [a former
minister of foreign affairs] was here recently,” he says,
“and he had a really good discussion of the kind that
makes you proud to be teaching these excellent
kids. He went away shaking his head, impressed.
The students are where we make our impact.”
For more on the International Relations Programme, please see www.trinity.utoronto.ca, under
Faculty of Arts.
Margaret Webb is a Toronto freelancer.
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American delegation, including Wilson himself, thought
the time had come for the United States to supplant the
British Empire in the world’s markets. The United States
also wanted to get back the money it had loaned to the
British, who in turn had been lending to the Italians,
French and Russians. Pressured by the United States,
Britain pressured its allies, giving the French yet another
reason for wanting reparations from Germany.
The perceived power of the peacemakers at the Paris
Peace conference to influence events was actually
limited. Their armies were shrinking, and war-weary
soldiers just wanted to go home. Disrupted or nonexistent transportation networks made many trouble
spots in central Europe or the Middle East difficult
to reach. And too often, discussion among the big
four – Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Wilson, and Italy’s
Orlando – about how to stop a new flare-up of hostilities ended with the realization that they could do
little beyond sending a warning by telegram.
Given the limitations, it’s not surprising that the
peace settlements were disappointing. Satisfying all the
pent-up expectations would have been impossible.
In fact, it’s surprising the peacemakers did as good a
job in Europe as they did. On the other hand, they
could have done better in the Middle East. Britain and
France simply divided up the Arab world to suit themselves – and the Middle East and the Western world
are still paying the price. If there are lessons to be
learned from the Paris Peace Conference, it is in these
areas, which have come back to haunt us.
During the War, the British and the French quietly
arranged to carve up the Arab territories of a rapidly
Adventures in
the Peace Trade
Canada’s foreign policy since 1945
BY ROBERT BOTHWELL
At
the heart of any discussion of Canadian foreign policy is the notion of peacekeeping. In
the late-20th century, the worthy goal of
keeping the peace seemed to dominate the very conception of Canadian foreign policy. Unfortunately, the record
shows that the reality fell far short of the aspiration.
Canada’s first military “peacekeeping” missions,
shortly after the end of the Second World War, were
undertaken under United Nations auspices and authorized under Chapter Six of the UN Charter, which
allowed the UN to deploy personnel to supervise tense
or infirm borders. The two most dangerous – and persistent – instances in the late 1940s flowed from the
break-up of the British Empire in Palestine and India.
Small numbers of Canadian observers arrived to supervise uneasy truces in the Middle East between Israel
and its Arab neighbours in 1948, and in Kashmir
between India and Pakistan in 1949. The United
Nations Truce Supervisory Organization (UNTSO) in
the Middle East and the United Nations Military
Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP)
are still there, more than 50 years later, testimony to
the intractable conflicts they were supposed to control.
In the 1940s and 1950s Canada had a well-organized military with the capacity for distant service, and
it seemed natural that Canada, as a prominent member
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of the British Commonwealth, should have a role in
policing what was, after all, an imperial legacy. In 1948
and after, neither of the great protagonists in the Cold
War, the United States or the Soviet Union, was interested in taking a direct role in these conflicts. And from
the Canadian point of view, it was better that the
U.S. and the other senior members of the Western
alliance remain focused on the main struggle with the
Soviet Union.
The Canadian government devoted a great deal of
care to the United Nations. Canadian ministers faithfully attended United Nations sessions in New York,
and in some years the various external affairs ministers
spent as much time in Manhattan as in Ottawa. But
the UN was always Paradise Postponed, frozen into
near total immobility by the rivalry between the Soviet
Union and its satellites and the United States and its
allies, and further handicapped by its habit of seeking
consensus, which produced a political system that sought
and usually achieved the lowest common denominator. Paralyzed in its ability to secure the peace, the UN
was also bypassed, if not ignored, by the creation of
alliances like NATO.
The great questions of war and peace in the Cold
War, those that might bring the United States and the
Soviet Union into direct confrontation, were resolved
disappearing Ottoman Empire. They also promised
certain Arabs that revolting against the Ottoman
Empire would win them independent Arab states – a
deal that was incompatible with the one the British and
French were doing with each other. A third proposition, embodied in the Balfour Declaration, promised
a Jewish homeland in Palestine to the Zionist Movement. These promises, critically examined, clearly did
not mesh. What the British, in particular, did in the
Middle East would have fearful consequences – including, of course, the creation of Iraq.
After some horse-trading with the French, the
British got the three provinces of the Ottoman Empire
that became Iraq: Mosul in the north (because they
suspected oil was there); the province around Baghdad
in the middle, and the province around Basra in the
south. Neither they nor the French worried about the
Saudi peninsula because they didn’t think there was
anything there worth bothering with – which I’ve
always thought served them right.
The creation of Iraq in 1921 threw together ethnically and religiously diverse peoples with no national
history and little in common. The idea that this created
country, lacking the fundamental underpinnings of a
state, could be ruled indirectly, on the cheap, with an
Arab prince not from Iraq installed as King, spelled
problems right from the beginning. Iraq has been
a problem ever since – for its neighbours and, more
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recently, for the world.
Provost MacMillan’s full lecture will be broadcast on
Ideas, CBC Radio One, Monday, Oct. 6 at 9:05 p.m.
for the most part outside the United
But the ICC did not work out as
Nations. Down to 1960 the main
planned, and the results were prolonged
negotiations took place in the forum of
and complicated. The Canadians and the
the “Big Four” (the United States, the
Poles quarrelled, probably inevitably. More
USSR, Britain and France) or in consurprisingly, at least to Canadians at the
ferences the “Big Four” dominated,
time, the Canadians and Indians quarrelled
such as the Geneva conference that
too, sometimes bitterly. The diplomats
formally ended the first Indochina War
quarrelled with their military staffs – in all
“The 21st
in 1954. The impetus to end that war
three delegations. Canadian and Indian
century has
derived from the defeat of France’s
aspirations for Indochina were not, it
not
been
colonial army in its South-East Asian
turned out, easily or obviously reconcilable.
colony by Communist insurgents. But
And failure to agree on basic objectives
encouraging
the main Communist powers, the
brought the commission’s ability to cope
for the
Soviet Union and China, pressured the
with even small questions to a standstill.
international
insurgents not to claim the full fruits
The renewal of violence and then outsystem”
of their victory, but to delay them for
right war in Vietnam in 1959-60 should
a few years pending the departure of
have signalled the failure of the ICC.
the French and the establishment of an elected and Instead, it limped along, handicapped further as the
almost certainly Communist government in the main Communist and anti-Communist sides sought to use it
successor state to Indochina, Vietnam.
as a forum for propaganda. Concluding that more harm
To supervise this political contrivance, the Geneva would come from winding up the commission than
conference appointed an international commission. In allowing it to linger on, Canada reduced its commission
reality, there were three international commissions called staff and hunkered down to await the end of the war.
the International Commissions for Supervision and
When the United States, the chief sustenance of
Control (universally, if confusingly, abbreviated as ICC), the South Vietnamese government, withdrew in early
with three powers (the same three powers) on each. 1973, Canada became a member of a new international
Three was a magic number because it was both small and peacekeeping commission, this time called the Interodd (a tie vote was impossible), and, indeed, the results national Commission for Control and Supervision.
of the Indochinese commissions were also small and odd. This time, the Canadian government had learned from
The members of the commission were India, a experience. The external affairs minister of the day,
regional power with local as well as universal aspirations; Mitchell Sharp, had watched the old ICC from his
Poland, representing the Communist bloc; and Canada, senior bureaucrat’s perch in Ottawa, and he well underrepresenting the West. The Canadian government stood just how useless it had been. At the same time,
accepted the assignment with surprise and some reluc- he knew that it was important to supervise American
tance, but the arrangement, with India and Canada disengagement from Vietnam, so he imposed strict
forming the majority, seemed workable.
conditions on Canadian membership in the new ICCS,
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most notably that if the Commission showed signs of
stalling, Canada would quit.
The chief Canadian representative to the new commission was instructed to talk loudly of its failures,
allowing public opinion to acclimatize to Canada’s
imminent departure. The two sides to the Vietnamese
conflict quickly demonstrated irreconcilable hostility,
while the Americans removed themselves from the
scene. With the Americans gone, Canada was, this time,
out of Vietnam after only six months.
War put an untimely end to other peacekeeping commitments, like the United Nations Emergency Force in
the Sinai, formed in the wake of the Anglo-French-Israeli
invasion of Egypt in the fall of 1956. Canada made a
visible and useful contribution to ending the invasion and
substituting a UN force for the invaders, and thenexternal affairs minister Lester B. Pearson won a Nobel
Peace Prize for his efforts. Canadians basked in the good
opinion of the world and contributed heavily to the
resulting UN force. But Pearson had not got all he wanted
and in particular had not succeeded in putting UNEF
above the sovereign jurisdiction of its host country, Egypt.
Time passed, and the Middle East conflict was not
solved. UNEF was, it was true, regarded as a symbol of
peace, but when Arab governments concluded that it
was time for war, UNEF was given its marching orders
by the Egyptian government in May 1967. Pearson
tried to save the force, effectively asking the UN to defy
Egypt, which the UN refused to do. His efforts earned
Canada pride of place on the departure agenda, probably
saving Canadian lives in the process.
The 1967 episode, like the earlier Indochinese experience, emphasized the degree to which UN or other
peacekeeping missions depended on the consent and
co-operation of local combatants. Lacking any supranational authority, peacekeepers could only count on
good will to achieve their objectives. At least in the ICC
and the UNEF, peacekeepers had not become hostages:
that distinction was reserved for a later generation of
Canadian intervenors.
The end of the Cold War seemed to promise a new
beginning for the international system, so long frozen
in an attitude of permanent confrontation between the
great powers. No country was more optimistic than
Canada, although Canadian enthusiasm for peacekeeping coincided with a determination to cut budgets and
On the Road
to Baghdad
Pre-emption and the future of war in the 21st century
B Y W E S L E Y K . WA R K
S
ince September 11, 2001, we all share a sense of
living at a crossroads of history. Although we are
in only the third year of our new century, we have
already witnessed history’s most devastating terrorist
attack and two wars fought in its aftermath, the most
recent on television.
Images abound. One that may come to define the
Iraq war was the CNN scene of a sandstorm that
enveloped U.S. forces shortly after the onset of the
ground war in Iraq. The sky was filled with a bloodorange haze; the environment was hot, uncomfortable,
dangerous. We may be lost. The road ahead is unclear.
Where are we? We are on the road to Baghdad, with the
words of an anonymous Marine sergeant echoing
alarmingly in our heads – “the closer we get to Baghdad,
the crazier it gets.”
Our road to Baghdad is, of course, not the Marine
sergeant’s. Instead, I want to find the trail that leads us
to a new century’s new strategic doctrine, a doctrine of
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pre-emption, whose realities and possibilities will shape
our lives for the foreseeable future.
It began with a cry in the wilderness seven years ago.
In 1996, two prominent conservative thinkers, William
Kristol and Robert Kagan, decided to launch an appeal
for new thinking about U.S. strategy. In an article in the
journal Foreign Affairs, they proudly proclaimed the
United States as a world hegemon and argued that it
must start acting as one. The key ingredients would be
military supremacy, achieved through increased defence
spending, and what they called “moral confidence,”
which embodied two things: the need to educate U.S.
citizens in the responsibilities of world power; and the
necessity to actively “promote” American principles of
governance abroad, in some instances through regime
change. Kristol and Kagan challenged the principles of
one of America’s founding fathers, John Quincy Adams,
who argued that the U.S. had no business going abroad
“in search of monsters to destroy.” Kristol and Kagan’s
PHOTOGRAPHY: LAURA ARSIÈ
reduce the armed forces. That fact alone made Canada’s
contribution to international peacekeeping in the 1990s
less than decisive. Canada could not, by itself, give enough
in the way of troops or support to make the difference
between the success or failure of a mission.
That also proved true of many other countries during the 1990s. After the collapse of Yugoslavia, European and Canadian peacekeeping troops in the Balkans
were too few to be decisive – or even safe. Canadian
troops were bombarded by Croats and taken hostage by
Serbs. The indelible image of that peacekeeping enterprise, transmitted by television all over the world, was
of a Canadian captain tied to a tree by the Bosnian Serbs,
helpless in the face of barbarity.
Similarly, United Nations peacekeeping expeditions
to Somalia and Rwanda, both of which included Canadians, ended badly. The forces on the ground, and the
UN itself, failed to prevent chaos in Somalia and genocide in Rwanda.
Only the former Yugoslavia achieved any resolution
at the end of the 20th century, and that was in the
aftermath of an American decision to, in parody of the
’60s song, “give war a chance.” American aid to Croatia
allowed the Croats to defeat the local Serb insurgents,
while NATO aerial bombardment intimidated the Serbs
of Bosnia. The result was a patched-up peace achieved
at American insistence and under American auspices.
There were other, happier interventions, in Cambodia
and East Timor. In East Timor, Canada’s role seemed
mainly fuelled by a quest for publicity – a determination not to be left out rather than to make a serious
difference to the outcome.
So far, the 21st century has not been encouraging for
the international system. Multinational, multilateral
peacekeeping and its main sponsor, the United Nations,
have come under great and critical scrutiny. The American war in Iraq was almost a parody of a multinational
enterprise, as the Americans cajoled or bought support
from an improbable and disparate crew of countries,
with only one serious ally, Great Britain. But in the
aftermath of the Iraqi war, the international system may
well be forced to come to grips with the myths and
evasions that have grown up around peacekeeping over
the past 60 years. Peacekeeping as it has been practised
is overdue for critical examination, and with it, Canada’s
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conception of its foreign policy.
retort was simply: “Why not?”
which no distinction would be made
The Kristol and Kagan article was,
“between the terrorists who committed
in its time, nothing more than a straw
these acts and those who harbour them.”
in the wind. John Quincy Adams
Nine days later, in an address to a joint
seemed the safer bet. Then along came
session of Congress, the U.S. president
September 11. The surprise, the visceral
revealed the first stirrings of a sense of
shock, the terrible loss of life, the
strategic mission that went beyond the
economic toll, the sense of vulnerabildefeat of a terrorist group and its sponsors
“We need to
ity, were of such magnitude that there
and embraced a grand new design for
look further
was no question that the United States
democratization – the “advance of human
and wonder
would have to take forceful action.
freedom.”
But action also required a rationale, a
The campaign in Afghanistan followed
where the road
strategic doctrine. Superpowers are not
on October 7. It was, as U.S. Secretary of
leads after
punch-drunk fighters, reeling then
Defense Donald Rumsfeld would write,
Baghdad”
lashing out. September 11 was to be
an extraordinary campaign in which the
the missing catalyst that would force the United States forces of the 19th century met those of the 21st:
to fundamentally rethink its post-Cold War strategy.
soldiers on horseback leading cavalry charges, but also
As Bob Woodward’s Washington Post account of guiding precision bomb attacks on enemy targets.
the Bush presidency in the months after September 11 Rumsfeld doubted that the Afghan campaign would
made clear, the Al Qaeda attack occurred within a offer many tactical lessons for wars of the future (he
strategic vacuum. There was no scripted U.S. response, didn’t advise buying saddles!), but he did believe that it
no clear doctrine at the outset to frame the new secu- held strategic lessons. “Defending against terrorism and
rity – or insecurity – environment, or to establish other emerging threats,” he stated, “requires that we
longer-term goals for any counter-action.
take the war to the enemy. The best – and, in some
President Bush’s first statement to the nation, deliv- cases, the only – defence is a good offence.”
ered on the evening of September 11, inadvertently reinWhile Rumsfeld’s Pentagon was mulling over the
forced this impression. But the first steps on the road to lessons of the brief campaign in Afghanistan, the
Baghdad were also taken that night, when Bush declared president was also looking ahead as the year 2002
the U.S. to be engaged in a war against terrorism in dawned. George W. Bush’s State of the Union address
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of January 29, 2002, will undoubtedly go down in
history for its famous reference — partly inspired by
Canadian David Frum, temporarily employed as a
White House speech-writer — to an “axis of evil.”
More important was the President’s more expansive
definition, post-Afghanistan, of a war on terrorism.
Bush pledged ongoing action against terrorists and
their infrastructure. But he added a second mission.
“We must,” he said, “prevent the terrorists and regimes
who seek chemical, biological or nuclear weapons from
threatening the United States and the world.” Among
the “axis of evil” nations listed in the speech (North
Korea, Iran, Iraq), Iraq came in for the most attention.
Dealing with the threat posed by such states was not
just a mission, but a Mission. What Kristol and Kagan
had called for back in 1996 – “moral confidence” – had
suddenly appeared at the very heart of U.S. strategy.
Bush told the nation that “history has called America
and our allies to action, and it is both our responsibility
and our privilege to fight freedom’s fight.”
By mid-September 2002, in the midst of an uneasy
anniversary, a new U.S. outlook on the world had
coalesced. It took shape in a major paper by the White
House, entitled “National Security Strategy of the United
States of America.” The National Security Strategy
document drew from many of the Bush administration’s public pronouncements since September 11.
Though much of the document was benign, it was
wide-ranging in its calls for new initiatives in economic
policy and international diplomacy. But its most controversial element was the affirmation of a doctrine of
pre-emption.
In supporting a pre-emptive option, the strategy
document argued that long-established doctrines of
containment and deterrence no longer sufficed against
what it called “rogue states” and terrorists. It tackled
the legal argument head-on by admitting that international law condoned pre-emption by states only when
faced with an imminent threat. The strategy document
argued that the notion of imminent threat would have
to be adapted in the face of the great danger posed by
weapons of mass destruction in the hands of terrorists
or terroristic states. Anticipatory action, it argued,
would be justified “even if uncertainty remains as to the
time and place of the enemy’s attack.”
In plainer language, the strategy document gave the
United States a potential free hand to launch not just
pre-emptive, but in reality preventive, war against a
threat that it feared might develop at some unspecified
point in the future. The wisdom of conventional international law lay in its restraint on the misuse of the
doctrine of self-defence. The danger of the new doctrine of pre-emption lay in the opposite direction.
The National Security Strategy paper did have an
argument of sorts against those who feared it meant
a return to a Hobbesian world of competition and
A Man for the Times
agenda ever since. During the past year and a half,
Graham has faced a dysfunctional United Nations Security Council, the war in Iraq and a chill in Canada-U.S.
relations. Still, he charted a historic course in Canadian
foreign policy – by supporting the United Nations against
the U.S.-led Iraq war – and still managed to initiate a
major coast-to-coast review of Canadian foreign policy.
What’s more, he has earned a reputation on the world
stage as a conciliator and bridge-builder. “What’s striking
is that he’s made no miscues or false steps,” says Prof. John
Kirton of Trinity’s International Relations Programme and
director of the university’s G8 research group.
Graham recently spoke with Trinity magazine about
his tumultuous first 18 months in office: “Foreign policy
issues usually represent 20 per cent of cabinet time, but
that’s probably been 50 per cent since Christmas,” he
says. “When you look at the pillars of society (prosperity, security and cultural values), today security is the
first pillar. Security has subsumed a lot of other issues.”
Still, Graham admits that Canadians have “extraordinarily diverse” views on what Canada’s role should be on
the world stage. “The East Coast is still very Europeoriented, while Ontario and Quebec are more aligned
Bill Graham’s journey into international
issues began at Trinity and ended in the highest
foreign-affairs office in the country
BY MARGARET WEBB
The appointment of Bill Graham (6T1) as minister of
foreign affairs in January 2002 was hailed as one of the
most inspiring since Lester B. Pearson took over the
external affairs portfolio in 1948. Graham’s CV – former
professor of international law at U of T and former director of the Centre for International Studies (now the hub
of the Munk Centre for International Studies) – suggests
that he has been preparing for the job since his days as a
Trinity undergraduate, when he spent a summer driving
a Land Rover through the world’s current hot spots, with
camping stopovers in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Member of Parliament for Toronto CentreRosedale took up the office just four months after 9/11,
and foreign policy concerns have dominated the national
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violence. Pre-emptive war could work as a strategy if
the intelligence was right, if there was a common threat
assessment that removed the stigma of purely self-interested action, and if such wars could be fought quickly
and at relatively low cost.
The National Security Strategy helped codify the
thinking that took the United States and its allies down
the road to Baghdad. After Iraq, we need to look further afield and wonder where the road leads after
Baghdad. Remembering the Marine sergeant, we have
to ask: does it get crazier still?
One eminent U.S. diplomatic historian, John Gaddis,
argues that what we are seeing in the new U.S. strategic doctrine is a return to Wilsonian idealism – an
effort to make the world, in Woodrow Wilson’s phrase,
“safe for democracy.” The only difficulty with this
argument is that the chosen weapon for democratization is the threat or use of overwhelming military
force – pre-emptive war. There are no comforting historical parallels here, for never in its history, prior to
the Iraq campaign, has the United States resorted to
pre-emptive war.
The only time it came close was in 1962, during the
Cuban Missile crisis, when President John F. Kennedy
had to choose between a military option (to remove
Soviet nuclear weapons from Cuba) and diplomacy
(backed by threats and a blockade of Cuba). In 1962, the
diplomatic option was successful, but the world in 1962
was very different from the world today. The constraints
on the use of force that existed in a Cold War context in
1962 are gone, along with the strategic credos of the
Cold War, among them deterrence and containment.
What limits and restraints now exist to affect US
action, post-Iraq? Where does the road lead after
Baghdad? It’s hard to know. The globalized and stealthy
phenomenon of terrorism has in turn induced an ambitious, globalized project for counter-terror that makes
no distinctions between terrorist groups, terrorist
regimes, and weapons of terror in unreliable or unsavoury
hands. The United States is seized by a mission to
destroy all three.
This ultimate goal is laudable. The world would
be, if not “safe,” at least “safer” for democracy if such
scourges could be eradicated. But they are not the only
scourges out there, and the effectiveness of the means
chosen to eradicate them, especially the resort to hegemonic military action, is the great unknown.
Much will depend on the extent that America’s sense
of mission, its moral confidence in the rightness of its
actions, can be universalized. In its first test, over Iraq,
the U.S. failed to convince the world, but went on to
achieve rapid military success in any case. This cannot
be the sustaining pattern for the future. Either the
world will have to come, out of conviction, to the
United States, or the United States will have to come,
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with the U.S.; the west looks to Asia,
and of course the North has its northern preoccupations.” But, he says, there
is a striking commonality across the
country, and recognition of the importance of multilateral institutions. “People recognize that the lesson from Iraq
is that they’re not working well, and to
transform them is a hell of a challenge.”
According to Kirton, Graham
should be considered a key player in
initiating changes to international
multilateral institutions. “At the G8
foreign ministers’ meeting in Whistler last year, every
time you saw him he was trying to bring France and the
U.S. together on issues of strategic defence and reconstruction in Afghanistan. Bill finds the middle way.”
Indeed, Kirton believes a Graham initiative, pushing for the further advancement of North America and
the Americas across a wide variety of policy fields, may
yet prove to be “a high-level solution” to current U.S.Canada tensions. Graham served as founding president
of the Inter-Parliamentary Forum of the Americas while
chairing the standing committee on
foreign affairs and international trade
before becoming foreign minister.
“On the 10th anniversary of
NAFTA, every country in the Americas, except Cuba, is democratic,” says
Kirton, “but it’s very precarious. Many
democracies are brand new. Legislators
need external support. The parliamentary group is proving central to promoting democracy in the Americas.”
Judging by his performance while
an academic, there is reason to be optimistic that Graham can deliver on his promises. When
he took over as director of the Centre for International
Studies in 1986, it faced budget cutbacks and imminent
death, yet in two years he steered it into the international spotlight when Canada hosted the G7 Summit
in Toronto (in part on the U of T campus) in 1988.
Graham proposed a year-long program “to educate the
world on the G7 and G8,” says Kirton. That, among
other moves, established U of T as the pre-eminent
centre for G7 and G8 research in the world.
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History
Since John Beverley Robinson, a mix of
statesmen, churchmen and jurists has filled
the chancellor’s role. This fall, Michael Wilson
is installed as Trinity’s top official
BY BRAD FAUGHT
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he Hon. Michael Holcombe Wilson (BCom 1959,
DSL Hon. 1994) first arrived at Trinity College as a
fresh-faced 17-year-old in September 1955. Now, in
September of this year, he’s coming back, this time
as the 11th chancellor in Trinity’s 151-year history. In
becoming the college’s highest-ranking volunteer officer, Wilson is
joining a long line of distinguished predecessors that begins with
Sir John Beverley Robinson (1791-1863) and spans the chancellorships of nine others: a mix of statesmen, churchmen and jurists.
Robinson, like Wilson a prominent Anglican layperson and
sometime politician, had a highly influential judicial and political
career in Upper Canada. As a child, he moved from Lower Canada
to Kingston when his father was appointed surveyor general of
the vast woods and reserves of Upper Canada – not a job for the
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Brad Faught is a Toronto historian and writer.
An abridged version of chancellor emeritus John C. Bothwell’s
remarks at his farewell reception in May:
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here are, in the Trinity family today, some members
who fear that our college is ignoring its Christian roots;
and others who want to see these roots ignored. For by
law we are a secular university, and in practice we are a multiethnic, multi-religious reflection of Canadian reality.
At the present time, however, the future of all humanity
is threatened by the growth of fanaticism and fundamentalism
both religious and secular. Provost MacMillan alluded to
this at the conclusion of her recent book, when she asked,
“How can the irrational passions of nationalism and religion
be contained?”
Well to me, Trinity College stands for a liberality of mind
and civility of spirit that point towards an answer. The continuing presence of our Faculty of Divinity, our chapel and our
chaplain mean that secularity and spirituality confront each
other constantly here. And while that may feel uncomfortable
sometimes, I believe it is a great boon to us all.
Our founder Bishop John Strachan was wrong about some
things, but he was correct, surely, in insisting that religion and
education – in every field – need each other. Thus the interface
of religion and secularity is particularly explicit at Trinity. And
in my view it is essential in helping all of us to view life wholistically and realistically.
I hope, therefore, that the college will always encourage the
dialogue between faith and secular learning. And, grounded in
our Anglican/Christian tradition, that we will reach out in this
way to all of the world’s great belief systems, both religious and
secular. In these anxious and confusing times, it is not only the
world of our own beliefs, but of all the beliefs of the world, that
must concern us. Thank God, then, for the “grounded openness” that prevails at Trinity College.
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faint-hearted. For the young John Beverley, the move west proved
momentous, too. From the ages of eight to 16, he was under the
tutelage of the Rev. John Strachan, who was then embarking on
a storied career in the Church of England in Upper Canada.
A relationship of mutual respect ensued, the culmination of
which was Robinson’s appointment as Trinity’s first chancellor
in 1853. The two men were staunch Tories and members of the
elite Family Compact that governed the affairs of the colony.
And while the Family Compact has long since faded away,
the Tories – and, in their
modern form, the Progressive Conservatives – provide
the thread of history that
leads from Robinson to
Michael Wilson.
Announced as the successor to the Rt. Rev. John C.
Bothwell as Trinity’s chancellor in May, Wilson served
14 years as a federal Progressive Conservative MP, the
last nine, until 1993, as a
senior member of the cabinet of prime minister Brian
Sir John Beverley Robinson
Mulroney. Those years, especially the almost seven he spent as minister of finance, were enormously stimulating. In that portfolio, “everything that moves
comes across your desk,” he recalls.
These days, as chair and CEO of UBS Global Asset Management (Canada) Co., he is kept busy overseeing relationships
with some of the largest pension funds in Canada, but he has
always made time for charitable activities, ranging from mental
health to neuroscience to membership in Trinity’s Spirit of
Leadership Campaign Cabinet from 1997 to 2000.
His memories of his time as a student at Trinity are many
and fond, he says. He played football for four years and in 1957
was a member of the college team that won the intramural
Mulock Cup. “That championship,” he remarks with a laugh,
“only seems to come once every 25 years [the next one wasn’t
until 1982], so I’m looking forward to celebrating another as
chancellor in 2007.” He also wrote for the college newspaper,
the Salterrae, and became quite proficient at ping-pong in
the Buttery.
The main tasks of Trinity’s chancellor are presiding over the
annual Faculty of Divinity convocation ceremonies and the
twice-yearly Corporation meetings, but Wilson is also looking
forward to “really getting to know the alumni, students, staff
and faculty in doing things that will draw me into the life of the
College.” He will start doing that following his formal installation in September for a four-year term. “It’s important to give
something back,” he says of his selection as chancellor.
Sir John Beverley Robinson, as an earnest voice from the
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Victorian past, surely would agree.
Chancellor emeritus John C. Bothwell
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Trinity students never fail to
impress. Then there are those who
just don’t know when to quit
Clever
Young
Things
As
children, they were impossibly precocious,
picking up the violin as a tot, or, barely
into puberty, deciding to save the bears,
the apes, the children – indeed, the world. Nothing seemed too
huge for them, be it opening a modelling agency, writing a children’s book, or tackling an operatic aria. Two of them set their
sights on the Rhodes Scholarship and came up with the prize.
(Only two Rhodes Scholarships are awarded in Ontario each year.)
• They are as impressive a bunch of students as Trinity has ever seen,
and they are profiled here by two outstanding student writers. • It
would all be too outrageous, if it didn’t do the Old School so proud.
BY ANDREW MILLS & GRAHAM F. SCOT T
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Catherine Manoukian
Different
Strokes
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“I actually worked into the early
hours to finish a paper the night before
my Toronto Symphony Orchestra
debut in 2000”
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here’s a kind of
insanity in the
moment of being
on stage,” says violinist
Catherine Manoukian (0T4).
“It’s a kind of strange high that
you get. I’m completely
hooked.”
The daughter of two musicians, Catherine appeared set
from the time she gave up
crayons to become a professional violinist. At 12, she
played Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra, her
orchestral debut.
The Toronto native has since
shot to international classicalmusic stardom and is in high
demand as a soloist with
some of the finest orchestras
and chamber music groups
in Europe, Asia and North
America. This summer she
played in Japan with the Tokyo
Philharmonic and Osaka
New Century orchestras.
Having completed her
musical studies under the late
Dorothy Delay at New York’s
Juilliard School of Music
while still a high school student
at York Mills Collegiate,
Catherine, now 22, is pursuing
a specialist degree in history
with a major in philosophy;
she has a particular interest in
aesthetics and the 19th-century
history of Germany and Austria.
Asked how she manages to
practise four or five hours
every day while maintaining
excellent marks, she says she
relies on the classic student
tactic of caffeine and allnighters. “I actually worked
into the early hours to finish a
paper the night before my
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
debut in 2000.” – A.M.
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Simon Jackson
“Bear Boy” Meets “Grandma”
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hey hobnob with celebrities and
scold governments. But Simon
Jackson (0T5) and Salimah
Ebrahim (0T3) say those things are secondary to their true goal.
“It’s all about the bear,” says Jackson.
Jackson founded the Spirit Bear Youth
Coalition eight years ago to save the spirit
bear, an endangered white subspecies of
the black bear unique to British Columbia.
Since then, the SBYC has become an
international organization, with a network
of five million young people in 47 countries. The group counts Ralph Nader,
Jane Goodall and the Backstreet Boys
among its celebrity supporters.
At 21, Ebrahim, who graduated in
June with a double major in international
relations and Middle Eastern history, is the
organization’s oldest member. “Grandma
Moses,” she laughs, rolling her eyes.
The pair, who attended the same West
Vancouver high school, met at a North
Shore Youth Parliament gathering in
North Vancouver. The SBYC grew out of
that meeting, and ever since, the duo –
along with others, such as Trinity students
Adela Matejcek (0T5) and Nina Bast
(0T4) – has been making presentations
to schools, meeting with the logging companies that endanger the bear’s rainforest
habitat, and pressuring the B.C. government to protect the animals.
“People resist caring because they’re
disenfranchised. We show them they can
make a difference,” says Jackson, adding
that a moratorium on logging and development in the spirit bear’s habitat has just
been extended until June 30, 2004.
Jackson, currently working on a
political science major, says he’s considering journalism as a career, but is still
weighing his options. Ebrahim also has
her eye on journalism, because it “seems
to be the most powerful means of making
a difference.”
– G.F.S.
“People resist caring because they’re disenfranchised.
We show them they can make a difference”
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etween writing essays on
political science, ethics,
philosophy and law, Matt
Napier (0T4) managed to find
time, starting Christmas 2000,
to pen a best-selling children’s
book, Z is for Zamboni: A
Hockey Alphabet.
“It takes a lot to get kids
reading,” says Napier. The
appeal of his book, he says, is
that “it’s fun, informative, and
it’s written about something
most kids – at least Canadian
kids – will want to read about.”
Napier is well known around
Trinity, having been an associate
editor of Salterrae, the student
newspaper, in 2001-02, and
starting in September, he will
be a head of the Non-Residents
Affairs Committee (NRAC).
Still, the publication last fall of
Z is for Zamboni by Michiganbased Sleeping Bear Press was
a surprise to many.
“Hockey is just something
that comes naturally to me,” he
explains. “It’s been such a part
of my life.” Part of that influence
was Napier’s father, Mark, who
played in the NHL for 10 years,
with teams including the
Montreal Canadiens and the
Edmonton Oilers.
Parents, teachers, and kids have
embraced the book enthusiastically. During the winter holiday
season last year, he was kept busy
doing book signings and readings.
One mother came up to him,
carrying a book that was almost
in tatters, and said, “I bought
this book for my son two months
ago, and he hasn’t put it down.”
Napier has agreed to write
another hockey-themed book for
Sleeping Bear Press, but though
it’s a great hobby, he says, “I’ve
never really thought of it as
a career.” – G.F.S.
into action that will benefit the world.
With his brother Marc, he founded
Leaders Today which provides leadership training and operates trips for
youth interested in volunteering in the
developing world.
About to enter the second year of a
specialist degree in peace and conflict
studies with a triple minor in psychology, French and politics, this fall he will
also be promoting his third book, Take
More Action!, a guide for young people
wanting to become socially involved.
“Young people are thought of as
adults in waiting, but as young people
we can’t wait,” he says, summing up
his philosophy on youth. “We have to
be willing to take on the challenge of
being global citizens...it’s about finding
your passion and then actually making
things happen.”
– A.M.
PHOTOGRAPHY: STEVE BEHAL
“It’s a good business model.
Advertisers want diverse
models because it comes down
to their bottom line”
M
odelling agent Ben Barry
(0T5) has always operated
on the policy that you don’t
have to wait until you’re grown up to
do great things.
At 14, he went to bat for a friend
who had spent $3,000 on modelling
school only to find that she couldn’t
get work. Ben sent her photos to
magazine editors, and within weeks
he had landed her a job. It was not
long before he opened the ben barry
agency inc., which he ran out of
Ottawa while attending high school.
These days, Ben, 21, who is studying management, political science and
– not surprisingly – women’s studies, is
trying to use his agency to change the
face of the fashion industry. “Our goal
is to make fashion inclusive,” he says.
“We say that models don’t all have to
be tall, blonde, Caucasian women with
34-24-34 measurements.” The agency,
which now includes a Toronto branch
opened in June 2002, promotes the idea
of “real”-looking models who represent
what society really looks like.
Diversity of race, age and body type
is what Ben’s agency offers in the 200
some models on its roster. Ben Barry
models make from $90 an hour to
$100,000 a day (in the case of one
model and MTV VJ). They strut the
catwalks of Paris and New York; they
pose in advertising campaigns for some
of the world’s most noticeable companies (Nike, Max Factor) and they
have appeared on the covers of numerous magazines (Elm Street, Seventeen,
Flare and Fashion).
“It’s not only a socially responsible
way to run a business, but also a good
business model,” he says. “Advertisers
want diverse models because it comes
down to their bottom line.” – A.M.
Ben Barry
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If
there were one word to
describe two-time Nobel
Peace Prize nominee and
Trinity student Craig Kielburger
(0T6), it would be “passionate.”
When he was 12, his passion for
children in distress came to the fore, and
he founded Free the Children, an international children’s advocacy network.
Since then – he is now 20 – the network
has built more than 350 schools, distributed medical and school supplies in
developing countries and led advocacy
campaigns aimed at protecting exploited
and sexually abused children. It is for
his work with Free the Children that
Kielburger was nominated for a Nobel
Peace Prize in both 2001 and 2002.
Most recently, he has begun helping
young people find their own passions
and teaching them how to focus them
Model Student?
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Life is Hard
and Then You Diva
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eah Gordon (0T4) isn’t a diva
– yet – but it’s something
she has thought a lot about.
“Being a diva simply means you’ve
got it all together as a singer,” says
the 22-year-old soprano. “Being a
prima donna, though, means insisting the attention is on you. I definitely don’t want to be that way.”
Leah, who will begin her fourth
year at U of T’s Faculty of Music
this September, has already attended
faculty master classes with legendary
diva Marilyn Horne and with
British early-music soprano Emma
Kirkby. As the only undergraduate
to be chosen to attend such coveted
classes, she is distinguishing herself
among the handful of sopranos
in the program. She is also the lead
soprano at Trinity St. Paul’s United
Church in Toronto and is a former
choral scholar in the Trinity
Chapel choir.
For as long as she can remember,
she has wanted to sing. “It’s the
most natural thing humans do,”
she says. It was a private voice
teacher who urged her to apply to
the performance program at U of T,
widely thought to be the most
challenging in Canada. She was
offered a place in the program on
the spot during the audition.
For the moment, Leah is concentrating on recital, oratorio and
early music. Although planning
an operatic career, she is in no
rush. “Opera requires a lot of life
experience that you give back to
your audience,” she says, and that
includes heartbreak, sadness or
death. “Unfortunately – or fortunately – I haven’t experienced all
those yet.”
– A.M.
Andrew Mills (0T3) graduated in
June in history, Near and Middle
Eastern civilizations and English and
is heading for the master’s program in
journalism at Columbia University.
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Ontario’s 2003
Rhodes Scholars
Thom Ringer and
Zinta Zommers
The Good Life
“I
had political ambitions when I
was three years old,” jokes Thom
Ringer (0T3), one of Trinity
College’s newest Rhodes Scholars. Those
ambitions will come one step closer to
realization this October when Ringer
begins graduate work at Balliol College
in Oxford University.
In June, he earned an Honours BA
with a double major in English and
Ethics, Society and Law, a practical combination for a young man who knows
that communicating ideas is the first
task of the political mind.
While at Trinity, he was intrigued specifically by the philosophical implications of
“the good life” – a concept that Plato pondered more than 2,500 years ago – and how
education can contribute to it. “I wanted
to think about what that means socially
and politically,” he says. “Education can
be such an equalizing force in society.”
In the meantime, his own education
has received a big boost from the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. The application
process, he says, was an education in
itself: “The personal statement was really
hard; it’s difficult to speak from the heart
to a group of complete strangers. When
I was forced to boil it down to a 500word statement – ‘what do you want to
do?’ – that was really valuable.”
Equally valuable, says Ringer, has been
his involvement in athletics, which in
2001 took him to the World Duathlon
Championship in Italy. “Athletics is what
I do to stay sane,” he says. “Doing a sport
is a good life lesson – there’s always someone faster or better than you.”
As for career goals, he doesn’t have any
definite plans yet. “I want to write and
think and teach,” he says. “I like to think
I’m pretty good at them on good days.”
– G.F.S.
PHOTOGRAPHY: JEWEL RANDOLPH
“Most people would call me a primate person.
They’re so similar to humans…. By studying them,
you can learn what it means to be human.”
ost people would object
to being called a “primate
person,” but not Zinta
Zommers (0T3). She has been interested in great apes and primates since
Grade 7. Now 24, she has finished her
degree in biology and environmental
studies and will be leaving for Oxford
University on the prestigious Rhodes
Scholarship this fall.
“Most people would call me a
primate person,” she laughs. “It’s
something I’ve always been passionate
about. They’re so similar to humans….
By studying them, you can learn
what it means to be human.”
Saving the apes is just the first
step to saving whole ecosystems, she
says. “One of the greatest challenges
facing my generation is the loss of
biodiversity. We have to balance the
needs of humans with the needs
of other species.”
Zommers’ fascination with the
environment has already taken her
around the world: to India and
Cameroon, and to Indonesia where
she tracked the movement of orangutans. This summer she is doing an
internship with the United Nations
Environment Program at the EROS
centre in South Dakota, helping to
collect and study data on behalf of
NASA to monitor global changes in
the environment and populations.
After studying international development at Oxford then completing a
doctorate, she hopes to work at
preserving fragile environments
and the species that live there.
Her interview with the selection
committee for the Rhodes was complicated by a nasty case of laryngitis.
“I said I won because they couldn’t
hear my answers,” she jokes, displaying the modesty that seems to be
an unofficial requirement for the
– G.F.S.
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Graham F. Scott is entering the fourth
year of an arts program and is a prolific
contributor to campus publications.
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ClassNotes
N E W S F R O M C L A S S M AT E S N E A R & F A R • C O M P I L E D B Y C AT H E R I N E B U T L E R
HONOURS
In May, Queen’s University
conferred an honorary Doctor
of Divinity degree on Joanne
McWilliam, professor emeritus of religion at the University of Toronto, and cited her
as a pioneer among women in
the study of theology. She was
the first ordained woman to
be tenured in the Faculty of
Divinity at Trinity College and
the first woman to be elected
president of the American
Theological Society.
Professor David Turner, a
Trinity fellow, gave the Foundation Lecture in Indigenous
Religion at Punjabi University
last December, which inaugurated a new program of
studies on the indigenous
religions of India.
Gary Mousseau, co-inventor
of the BlackBerry, son-in-law
of Sheila and William Wilson
’56, husband of Margaret
Wilson Mousseau ’84, brother-
A Jubilant Year
The Queen’s Golden Jubilee
Medal, marking the 50th
year of Elizabeth II’s reign,
was awarded last year to
individuals who had made a
significant contribution to
their community or to their
fellow Canadians. The
following alumni were
among those honoured:
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in-law of Christopher Ruffo
’91, is the co-recipient of this
year’s Preston Manning Principal Award for Innovation.
NEWS
The rector of St. Alban’s
Cathedral in Kenora, Ont. is
the Very Rev. S. Hugh Matheson, son of the Rev. Canon
John E. Matheson, Div ’57,
and great-grandson of Dr.
Elizabeth B. Matheson, M.D.
Trinity 1898.
at the Ecole Polytéchnique
Fédérale de Lausanne.
studies at the Canadian Forces
College in Toronto.
1950’s
1970’s
’51 Donna J. Haley has
retired as a judge of the Superior Court of Ontario after
21 years on the bench.
’55 Martin Hunter created the
K.M. Hunter Artists Awards
in honour of his father.
’70 Alex Scheel retired as head
of moderns at Unionville High
School. He developed the
school’s curriculum to include
French, German, Spanish,
Mandarin, Latin and ESL.
’75 The Rev. Deborah
(Nelson) Kraft was ordained
to the priesthood in May 2002
and is serving in the parish of
West Thunder Bay. She is the
mother of John Kraft ’02, Paul
Kraft ’04, and Laura Kraft ’05.
’76 Lynne Pepall is a full
professor of economics at Tufts
University in Massachusetts.
’76 Geraldine V. Whelan, who
writes in Ireland under the
name of O.R. Melling,
launched the compendium
edition of The Chronicles of
Faerie last October in Toronto.
’79 William (Sandy) Beeman
works for the United Nations
in Geneva. He is information
manager at UNAIDS,
the Joint United Nations
Programme on HIV/AIDS.
’79 Dr. Barbara Stubbs is
an assistant professor in the
department of family and
community medicine at the
University of Toronto.
’79 Misty Ingraham is the
inaugural International
Baccalaureate Language A1
teacher in Halton County. She
and her husband Bill Sharpe
run a French bistro.
1960’s
’41 Elizabeth L. (Dunbar)
Rooke and Frank E. Rooke
’42 of Barrie, Ont. celebrated
their 60th anniversary last
December in Toronto.
’46 Prof. Donald A.S. Fraser
received an honorary Doctor
of Science degree from the
University of Toronto in June
2002. While on leave from
U of T’s department of statistics
he was a visiting professor in
the mathematics department
’67 Malcolm Knight, former
senior deputy governor of the
Bank of Canada, has accepted
a position as general manager
of the Bank for International
Settlements in Switzerland.
’68 The Ven. E. J. Morgan
retired at the end of May as
rector of St. Paul’s Church in
Charlottetown and Archdeacon of Prince Edward Island.
’69 Col. Deborah Davis
retired last November from
the Canadian Forces after
32 years of service, most
recently as director of strategic
’46 A.G. (Sandy) McKay
is president of the Master
Print and Drawing
Society (AGO).
’47 Joan (Morton) Ashcroft
works in St. Catharines,
Ont. with schoolchildren,
women in crisis and homeless
youth, and with PALS
(Preserve Agricultural
Lands Society).
’49 David Stanley is a past
president of the Canadian
National Institute for the
Blind and now chairman
emeritus.
Ed Badovinac is past chair
of the Good Neighbours’
Club, a Toronto drop-in
centre that offers a safe place
for elderly men who live
on the street.
1940’s
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1980’s
’81 Dr. Gina Mohammed lives
in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. and
has published Catnip and
Kerosene Grass – What Plants
Teach Us About Life, a collection
of inspirational reflections.
’81 Anne-Marie (Hourigan)
Shaw has been appointed a
judge on the Ontario Court
of Justice. She presides in
Newmarket, Ont.
’82 Brian Brophey is using
his legal training in the investigations and resolutions
department of the Ontario
College of Pharmacists.
’82 Louise Smith is executive
director of strategic planning
for the Manitoba Department
of Energy, Science and
Technology.
’83 Leon Litvack has been
promoted to Reader in
Victorian Studies at Queen’s
University in Belfast.
’84 (Div) The Ven. Richard
Wayne Carney was appointed
Archdeacon of Killaloe &
Clonfert, Church of Ireland.
’85 (Div) The Rev. Deborah
Vaughan has written Angels
Help Us: Discovering Divine
Guidance. She runs a centre
that hosts inspirational
workshops.
’86 Andy Kirkpatrick has
joined Foothills Hospital and
the University of Calgary as a
clinical assistant professor of
surgery. He and his wife Rosa
Chun had their first child in
October 2002.
’88 (Div) The Rev. Dr. JaeJung Lee chaired the electoral
campaign for Roh Moo-hyun,
president of South Korea.
’89 Philippa Sheppard teaches
English at University College
Dublin. She lives in Dublin
with her husband Kenneth
Oppel ’89, who is working on
a new children’s novel, and
their two children.
1990’s
’90 Amin Jaffer’s second
book, Luxury Goods from
India (London: Victoria and
Albert Museum), was published by Abrams in 2002.
’91 Matthew Lister has
accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in the
physics department of Purdue
University, starting this fall.
’91 Tom Morrison is the
Ontario regional manager
for CIBC Aboriginal Banking,
responsible for securing loans
for Aboriginal businesses
within Ontario.
’91 Tom Popyk, formerly a
television reporter for the
WIC network/BCTV, works
as a free-lance journalist.
Now returned from Jordan
and Iraq, he is planning new
overseas projects.
’91 Gavin Marshall, master
cheesemaker and Samoan
massage therapist, has opened
a bed and breakfast in
(far-out) Manitoba.
’91 Elizabeth Allingham
Nicholson and her husband
Richard are living in Leicester,
England, where she works
as a barrister.
’92 Matthew Heeney was
appointed clinical director
of the pediatric sickle cell
program at The Children’s
Hospital in Boston. He is
also an instructor in pediatrics
at Harvard Medical School
and part of the consulting staff
at the Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute in Boston. He and
his wife Pauline live in
Newton, MA.
’93 Sara Jamieson received
her PhD from Queen’s
University last October and
will take up a fellowship in
September in the department
of English at the University
of Alberta in Edmonton.
’94 & ’96 (Div) Jason Dearborn won a seat last October
in the Saskatchewan legislature
representing the Kindersley
constituency. Jason, his wife
April and their sons Blake and
Spencer farm near Eatonia,
Saskatchewan.
’95 Lachlin MacKinnon
works as special advisor to Her
Excellency the Governor General Adrienne Clarkson ’60.
’96 Christopher Brittain
was awarded the Governor
General’s Gold Medal when
he earned his PhD last fall
at the St. Michael’s College
convocation.
’96 Philippa Gates received
her PhD in film and visual
culture last year and is now an
assistant professor at Wilfrid
Laurier University.
’96 Nin Leung received her
designation as a qualified
technician (breath samples)
last September.
’96 While studying law last
year at U of T, Graham
Mayeda was awarded a prize
for outstanding achievement
in a moot.
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’96 Daniel Wong studied at
Harvard University last year
for his MPH degree.
’96 After completing his MBA
at McGill, Vik Chopra entered
a post-graduate interactive
multimedia program last year.
’98 The Rev. Susan Hutchinson was appointed incumbent
in the Greater Parish of Gaspé
last August.
2000’s
’00 (MDiv) The Rev. Kevin
Bothwell, son of the Rev. Dr.
William Bothwell (’44, MDiv
’47) and nephew of the Rt.
Rev. John Bothwell (’48,
MDiv ’52, DDiv Hon. ’72),
chancellor emeritus, is the rector of St. James the Apostle
Church in Guelph, Ont.
’00 Captain Andrew Duncan
is serving with Canada’s contingent in Bosnia, responsible
for running the Canadian
camp in the town of Bihac.
He expects to return to
Canada in October.
’00 Karrie Wolfe did a
co-op placement for her law
degree in Iqaluit last fall,
working for the Nunavut
Court of Justice.
’02 Simon Bailey studied last
year at the London School of
Economics on a Royal Bank
London Goodenough Association of Canada scholarship.
’92 Caroline Kim to Jordan
Fremont on July 28, 2001
in Toronto.
’95 Carrie Davidson,
daughter of Janice (Kellam)
Davidson and the late Peers
Davidson, both ’68, and
Michael Chong (Class of ’94)
were married at St. John’s
Anglican Church in Elora,
Ont., on Oct. 26, 2002,
with many Trinity friends
in attendance.
’95 Allyson Kilbrai to Stéphane
Dutto at l’Eglise Notre Dame
d’Espérance in Cannes, France
on June 29, 2002.
’98 Shannah Rose Elizabeth
Davison to Matthew William
Ring, Sept. 21, 2002, in
Orangeville, Ont. Shannah is
the daughter of Paul and Gail
(Hazlehurst ’66) Davison.
’99 Marc Bhalla to Andrea
Meyer on Aug. 2, 2002 in
Toronto. Those in attendance
included Shahid Ahmad ’00,
Matt Darlington ’01, Anil
Hamphol ’02, Paul Johnston
’00, Nersi Makki ’01, Nicolas
Todd ’00, Emily Head ’99,
Suzanne Wexler ’00 and
Otto Hauser ’99.
2000’s
’03 Megan Lush to Christopher Jull on Aug. 10, 2002 in
the Trinity College Chapel.
BIRTHS
MARRIAGES
1970’s
’72 Kathryn Lowther to Kenneth Runquist, July 27, 2001
in Calgary.
1990’s
’91 Julia Grossman to David
Robbins, Oct. 13, 2002 in
Vancouver.
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1970’s
’79 Denyse Wilson and
Michael Zeitlin ’79: a son,
Daniel, July 14 in Vancouver.
1980’s
’82 Louise Smith ’82 and
Hussein Dostmohamed: a
son, Joseph, Nov. 17, 2002
in Winnipeg.
’84 Louise (Dightam) Simos
and Dorian Simos, both ’84:
a son, Keldan Dimitrios,
March 10, 2002 in Toronto.
’84 Kecia (Singh) Leach and
Ian Leach ’84: a son: James
Roderick Stratton, Feb. 16
in London, Ont.
’87 Marie Josée Fuchs and
William R. Watson ’87: a son,
Pierre Williiam, Dec. 18,
2002, in London, England.
’88 Nathalie Beck ’88 and
Brian Slatter: a daughter,
Valerie Chantal in Oakville.
’88 Adriana and Benito
Rossiti ’88: a daughter,
Caterina, March 28 in Brazil.
1990’s
’90 Diane Mendes de Franca
and Kevin Goldthorp, both
’90: twins, Julia Grace and
Marc Vincent, March 28,
2002 in London, Ont.
’90 Cecelia (Neudoerffer)
Cienska ’90 and Jan Cienska
’88: a daughter, Sophie
Luise Julia, July 21, 2002 in
Washington, D.C. A granddaughter for Norma (Barrett)
Neudoerffer ’61.
’90 Anne (Priscus) Fair
and Kevin Fair: a son, James
Robert, July 11, 2002. A
grandson for Barbara (Graydon) Priscus ’62 and nephew
for Virginia Priscus ’92.
’90 Valérie Pronovost and
Charles Morgan ’91: a daughter, Magalie Aude, April 3,
in Montreal.
’90 Tracy Sell-Peters and
Matthew Sell: a daughter
Amelia Frances, Nov. 4, 2002
in England.
’91 Sara Allan ’91 and Clive
Cook: twins, Max HansGeorge and Sadie Charlotte
Allan , June 14, 2002, in
New York City.
’91 Valerie (Floyd) Harvey ’91
and Wylie Harvey: a son,
Colton Ivan, Oct. 17, 2002
in Mississauga, Ont.
’91 Elizabeth Allingham
Nicholson and Richard
Nicholson: a son, Marcus
Ewart, June 17, 2002, in
Birmingham, England.
’91 Alexandra Hersak ’91
and Rubsun Ho: a daughter,
Sophie Victoria, Sept. 26,
2002, in Toronto.
’92 Kelly Baxter Golding ’92
and Paul Golding ’91: a son,
James Edward Asten, Dec. 7,
2002 in Toronto.
’92 Robyn Kalda ’92 and
David Lasby ’91: a daughter,
Madeline, Dec. 9, 2001
in Toronto.
’93 Angie (Kouvelas) Grundy
and Michael Grundy ’93: a
daughter, Catherine Emily,
Oct. 9, 2002, in Toronto.
’97 Jasothai (Duraisingam)
Nareshkumar ’97 and
Nareshkumar Thirunavukarasu: a daughter, Mehana
Archita, Aug. 26, 2002,
in North York, Ont.
’97 Heather (Gay) Hoffman
’97 and Gene Hoffman: a
daughter, Ella Jane, March 16,
2002 in Palo Alto, California.
’97 Lumumba and Luul
Wolde-Gabriel: a son, Caleb.
’99 Andrea and Marc
Bhalla ’99: a daughter, Nadia
Suzanne, Feb. 14 2002 in
Toronto. Among Nadia's
aunts and uncles are Tara
Meyer (’99) and Aaron
Thompson (’99), and her
godmother is Elena
Guzina ’01.
2000’s
’00 Kristine and Sean
Howard ’00: a son, Trystan
James, April 29, 2003.
A Stroke of Luck
for Canadian Lit
It
was a stroke of luck for Canadian literature that Prof. Malcolm Ross came in
contact with a student called Jack McClelland
(4T6) at the University of Toronto.
Ross, who died in Halifax last November,
persuaded McClelland, who had joined his
family’s publishing firm McClelland & Stewart, to publish the New Canadian Library.
The first two volumes appeared in 1958.
The paperback series, which Ross edited
for more than 20 years, made it possible
for professors to teach Canadian students
the literature of their own country and for
PHOTOGRAPHY: TRINITY ARCHIVES P1004/0009/MILNE STUDIOS
D E AT H S
Adamson: Kit “Catherine”
MacDonald (Hyndman) ’57,
Feb. 22, in Toronto.
Ambrose: Steven Howard
’36, Sept. 17, 2002, in
Guelph, Ont.
Andrew: Jean Elizabeth (Perry)
’45, May 17 in Toronto.
Badham: Petra ’46, May 30,
2002, in Sussex, England.
Baird: Lawrence Edward,
father of Maureen Baird ’77.
Berlis: Norman ’37, May 10
in Surrey, England.
Blackwell: The Rev. Robert
John “Bob” ’50, July 20,
2002, in Burlington, Ont.
Boese: Harry R. ’61, May 7
in Brooklin, Ont.
Boake: Anne Louise Haggerty,
Nov. 8, 2002, in Montreal,
grandmother of Armour Boake.
Bohme: Gretchen K. ’36,
Oct. 4, 2002, in Toronto,
cousin of Margaret (Paine)
Hutchison ’41.
Bolton: Eileen, Jan. 13 in
Nanaimo, B.C., wife of the
Rev. David C. Bolton ’60.
Bryers: Mary (Williams) ’31,
May 23 in Victoria, B.C.
Bunting: Solon ’74, July 2,
2002, husband of Catherine
(Wilkinson) Bunting ’77.
Butler: Marion (Ashton) ’35,
June 11 in Vineland, Ont.,
sister-in-law of the late Alice
Butler ’35 and grandmother
of Catherine Butler ’03.
Butterfield: Dudley St.
George, March 20 in Bermuda,
father of George Butterfield
’61 and father-in-law of
Martha Butterfield ’63.
Cain: Thomas Henry, Feb.
18 in Dundas, Ont., father
of Patrick ’91.
Cartwright: Madge ’37,
Feb. 3 in Toronto, former
Trinity librarian.
Cates: Margaret Helen ’35,
Sept. 21, 2002, in Toronto.
Clappison: June Pauline
(Henry) ’41, April 25 in
Toronto, mother of John
Clappison ’69.
Clarke: Mary Elizabeth, April
23 in Toronto, sister of the
late Rev. Canon David R.L.
Clarke ’35.
Cochrane: Jeannette J. (Rees)
’62, April 17, 2002, in Toronto.
Coughlan, Daniel W.F. ’37,
Dec. 15, 2002.
Corbett: Alice Gallagher,
April 6 in Toronto, spouse of
Canadian writers to gain a wide audience
that had previously been untapped. In the
1950s, books by Canadian authors were
hard to find, available only in expensive
hardcover or relegated to a few copies
in libraries.
Ross, who taught English from 1962
to 1968 at U of T and was dean of arts at
Trinity College from 1965 to 1968, was born
in Fredericton, where he earned his BA at
the University of New Brunswick. He completed a master’s degree at the University
of Toronto in 1934, followed by a doctorate
at Cornell University, specializing in the
poet John Milton.
the late Paul D. Corbett ’38.
Crashley: Lt. Col. J. Douglas
C.M. ’43, March 27 in
Nassau, Bahamas.
Currelly, Eleanore E. (Betty),
Jan. 4 in Port Hope, Ont.,
wife of the late John C.N.
Curelly ’38.
Dalton: Helen Jane (FrenchCowan), Sept. 29, 2002,
in Toronto.
Dashwood: Elizabeth (Betty)
Rose Miriam ’52, April 6 in
Toronto, former spouse of John
Dashwood ’52, and mother of
Geoffrey Dashwood ’82.
Delaney: The Rev. Lloyd, Dec.
10, 2002 in Midland, Ont.
Derbecker: John Leonard,
March 29 in Toronto, father
of Elizabeth Derbecker ’89.
Dinsmore: Gwendolyne Irene,
May 11 in Oshawa, Ont., wife
of Stephen Dinsmore ’70.
Doe: L.A. Earlston, May 31,
2002, in Ottawa, husband of
Elizabeth Doe ’40.
Ecclestone: John Howard, on
Jan. 4 in Toronto, father of
Mary Catherine Ecclestone ’73.
Edison: Margaret
(McCulloch) ’34, March 23
in Peterborough, Ont.
Fitzpatrick: Mary-Lou
(Clipperton) ’48, March 11.
Fraser: Sally Mae (Millar),
Dec. 9, 2002, in Toronto, wife
of Dr. Donald Fraser ’42.
Gibson: Colin David, Q.C.
’45, on July 3, 2002, in
Ancaster, Ont.
Gotlieb: Rebecca, on Jan. 28
in Toronto, sister of Prof.
Marc Gotlieb.
Grant: Gwendolyn (Irwin)
’41, on Sept. 1, 2002.
Gray: David G. ’61, April 9
in Florida.
Grenfell: D. Paul ’58,
March 23 in Toronto.
Grills: Joan Stuart (Mackersy)
’51, June 5 in Victoria, B.C.,
former spouse of the late R.
Michael Grills ’51.
Gwynne-Timothy: Barbara,
May 14 in Shelburne, Ont.,
wife of K. Gordon R.
Gwynne-Timothy ’49 and
mother of the Rev. Heather
Stacey ’76.
Hallpike, Clement ’48, Sept.
2, 2002, in Peterborough, Ont.
Hillery: Robert H. ’63, Jan.
21 in Mississauga, Ont.
Holtby: Eva M. (Schury) ’63,
Feb. 15 in Tuscon, Arizona.
Howard: Barbara Lynn
(Dawson) ’45, April 17.
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ClassNotes
A Master at
Being Playful
Dr.
John (Jack) Lennox
Wright (’36, DSL
Hon. 1980) died last
September at his home in
Peterborough, Ont.
During his lifetime, Wright
was recognized for his outstanding contribution as an educator. He began Royal St.
George’s College, a private boy’s school, in Toronto in 1964
with a handful of staff from St. Andrew’s College, Aurora,
Ont., where he had been head of the junior school. From an
original body of 60 students, the school now has an enrolment
of more than 400 and ranks among the most respected in
Jaques: Matilda Elizabeth
Wallace ’39, wife of the late
William Spence Jaques ’37,
Jan. 27 in Neenah, Wisconsin.
Jennings: Margaret “Peggy”,
Jan. 22 in Bracebridge, Ont.,
wife of the late Rev. Bruce
Jennings, sister of Kathleen
Gibb ’32 and mother of
Jill James ’55.
Jones: The Rt. Rev. Walter
’90 DD, in a skiing accident
March 22 in Flagstaff Arizona,
former bishop of Rupert’s
Land diocese and of South
Dakota 1970-1983.
Johnson: Dorothy ’44,
Nov.15, 2002.
Kazan: Rudy E., on Jan. 18
in Scarborough, husband
of Ruth Kazan and father
of Tami Kazan ’82.
Krever: Therese Toby
(Miller), on Oct. 8, 2002,
mother of Rick Krever ’75.
Lafferty: James Dawson
“Mike”, ’49, Div ’52, on July
25, 2002, in Hamilton, Ont.
Livingston: Charles Burton,
April 12 in Toronto, brother
of William R. Livingston ’44.
Lonergan: William John ’43,
Nov. 3, 2002, in Toronto,
uncle of Timothy Cain ’91.
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Lovekin: Eric Richard “Dick”
’49, May 15, 2002, in
Newcastle, Ont.
Lowther: Anne Margaret,
Dec. 21, 2001, in Edmonton,
Alberta, mother of Phyllis
Lowther Smith ’68 and
Kathryn Lowther ’72.
Lundy: Lewis Dawes ’56,
June 19, 2002 in Toronto.
MacDonald: Naomi
(O’Grady) ’45, Aug. 24,
2002, in Toronto.
Mackie: Joseph James “Jim”,
March 31 in Almonte, Ont.,
half-uncle of Prof. George
Mackie ’67.
Macklin: Lois Elaine (Leach),
Feb. 5 in Stratford, Ont.,
mother of Ian F. Leach ’84.
McLaughlin: Ann (Sprowl)
’50, Sept. 23, 2002 in
Bracebridge, Ont., mother of
Mary (McLaughlin) Cook ’75
and Susan (McLaughlin)
Charters ’76.
McClelland: Donald Gray ’43,
Jan. 25 in Richmond Hill, Ont.
Meanchoff: Evda Gloria, Oct.
7, 2002, in Toronto, motherin-law of Alexis Meanchoff.
Meltzer: Amy Wane, April 25
in New York, wife of Peter D.
Meltzer ’73.
Canada. Among his students were Ontario Chief Justice
the Hon. R. Roy McMurtry (5T4) and former federal cabinet
minister John Crosbie.
Wright never forgot his roots at Trinity College and his
alma mater remained a beloved touchstone of his life. He was
a member of the Corporation of Trinity College from 1958
to 1994 and subsequently an honorary member. As a student
he was an on-field musician at U of T football games when
the stadium was still made of wood. Years later, he would joke
with his children that he “played for the Varsity Blues …
along with 16 other members of the brass band.”
His parting message to family, friends and colleagues
includes two sayings that became as familiar as his pipe and
wry smile: “Manners Maketh Men” and “Have a Care!”
– Michah Rynor
Merrick: William Bowen ’40,
April 3, 2001.
Moeser: Ruth Alice Griffin
(Timmie) ’34, June 18, 2002
in Toronto.
Miyamoto: Taye, March 25 in
Hamilton, Ont., mother-inlaw of Penelope Miyamoto ’77.
Mulock: Thomas H. ’50,
September 12, 2002, in
London, England.
Nash: Reginald W., May 6
in Scarborough, father of the
Rev. Canon Byron Nash ’70.
Nicol: Nora Frances ’42,
April 23 in Kingston, Ont.
Noble: Ruth Doreen, April 16
in Toronto, mother of Willis
Noble, organist and director of
music of Trinity, and sister of
the late Rev. Arthur Chapman.
North: Katharine H. “Kay”
’34, Aug. 20, 2002.
Oakden: Robert Gordon,
April 14, 2002, in Toronto,
father of David Oakden ’69
and Catherine Oakden ’79,
and grandfather of Andrew
Oakden ’03.
Orr: Edith Hilda ’45, March
2 in St. Catharines, Ont.,
mother of Bill Orr ’73.
Parekh: Heather (Noble) ’66,
Jan. 24 in Toronto.
Payson: Susannah Noble
(Adams) ’42, on Dec. 4,
2002, in Stouffville, Ont.,
former spouse of the late
Edward Pulker ’40 and
mother of Allan Pulker ’69.
Perdue: The Rev. Canon
Richard Keth ’31, May 22 in
Toronto, husband of the late
Evelyn (Billesdon) Perdue ’36.
Phillips: Dodie (Kernohan),
April 3 in Parry Sound, Ont.,
sister-in-law of Carolyn
(Campbell) Kernohan ’69.
Powell: Francis Clement ’19,
Jan. 3 in Toronto.
Pratt: Margaret Audrey,
Aug. 18 in Toronto, mother
of Terry Pratt ’65 and the late
Sharon (Pratt) Purton ’61.
Price: Barbara Joyce ’48, June
12, 2002 in Guelph, Ont., wife
of the late Rev. Canon Ralph
Emerson Price, sister-in-law of
Mary Price Stephens ’37, and
mother of Elizabeth Price ’74.
Ragg: Marion Elizabeth C.,
Nov. 17, 2002, in Victoria,
B.C., wife of Canon H.I.G.
(Ben) Ragg ’50.
Ragg: The Rt. Rev. T.
David B. ’47, July 1, 2002, in
Victoria, B.C., brother of
Canon H.I.G. (Ben) Ragg ’50.
PHOTOGRAPHY: TRINITY ARCHIVES P1543/0020/BRIAN PEL
Reed: G.W.T. (William), Q.C.
’40, on March 15 in Toronto.
Rhynas: John (Jack) Kerr, April
14 in North York, brother-inlaw of Thelma Rhynas, former
Trinity staff member.
Richards: Joanna Armour ’46,
Jan. 21 in Sydney, Australia.
Richmond: Alfred George,
Q.C. ’53, July 13, 2002,
in Orangeville, Ont.
Robinson: The Rt. Rev.
William J., July 9, 2002, in
Kingston, Ont., husband of
Isobel (Morton) Robinson ’41.
Rocksborough-Smith: Selwyn
“Rocky” ’36, Oct. 19, 2002,
in Vancouver, B.C.
Rodway: Ernest Cameron, Jan.
10 in Hamilton, Ont., husband
of Dorothy Rodway ’35.
Rye: The Rev. Canon John
Hanington Brooke ’58,
Aug. 22, 2002.
Sage: William Algie ’48, Dec.
28, 2002, in Toronto.
Schiff: Harold Irvin, March
31 in Cuba, father of J.
Michael Schiff ’76.
Scovil: The Rev. Canon G.C.
’40, Jan. 10 in London, Ont.
Sculthorpe: Alice King
(Schultz), Nov. 6, 2002, in
Peterborough, Ont., wife
of Robert John Wickett
Sculthorpe ’47.
Skene-Melvin: Ann Patricia
(Rothery), April 9 in
Toronto, wife of David
Skene-Melvin ’60.
Sparkhall: Ruth (MacKay),
wife of the late William
Sparkhall ’40.
Spragge: Godfrey L. ’52, May
4 in Kingston, Ont., brother
of Elizabeth Watson ’49.
Staite: Philip Edward, March 1
in Toronto, husband of
Margaret (Alexander) Staite ’46.
Steele: Catherine Irene ’32,
April 18 in Toronto.
Stewart: Margaret Douglas
’30, Aug. 4, 2002, in Barrie.
Strickland: Edith Edgeworth
’38, April 29 in Orillia, Ont.
Symons: Katharine Patricia
’35, in June 2002 in Toronto.
Thompson: Vere, Dec. 2,
2002, in Ottawa, mother of
Pam (Thompson) Charron ’61
van der Jagt: Jan W.F., March
31, father of Dr. Richard
H.C. van der Jagt ’78.
van der Veen: Frank, on Nov.
26, 2002, in St. Thomas, Ont.,
father of Ina van der Veen ’74.
Van Rijn: Mary, April 30
in Vancouver, mother of
Theo Van Rijn ’68.
Vernon: Hugh Harcourt ’54,
April 18 in Toronto, husband
of Shirley Vernon, brother of
Rosemary (Vernon) Moorhead
’59, G. Patrick H. Vernon ’49
and John A.H. Vernon ’61.
Vincent: Annette ’38,
July 20, 2002.
Walmsley: Dr. Joseph Frederick Sutherland, Jan. 20, in
London, Ont., father of
Peter Walmsley ’81.
Warden: John G. (Jack) ’36,
Dec. 14, 2002 in Spain.
Westfall: Sonya Anita Schlee,
Dec. 16, 2002, in Florida,
mother of Bill Westfall ’68.
Williams: Laura “Joyce” ’32,
on March 20 in Toronto.
Wilson: John M. ’57, May 2,
father of David Wilson ’91,
brother of Elizabeth G.
Wilson ’59 and former spouse
of Sheila Grange ’58.
Woods: Margaret Grace
(Stedman) ’44, March 26,
2002, in Sevenoaks, England.
Zubkavich: Steve ’62, Jan. 6
in Parry Sound, Ont.
In the last edition of Trinity,
Carol Koester, mother of James
Koester ’84, was misidentified.
An Openness
that Transcended
Religion
Christianity –
“Myincluding
my sense
of Christian ministry – has
commanded that I be open
to learn from other faiths,”
said Prof. Willard Oxtoby
in The Meaning of Other
Faiths (1983).
Prof. Oxtoby, one of the
world’s foremost scholars of
comparative religion and
founding director of the University of Toronto Centre for
the Study of Religion, died in March at the age of 69.
Oxtoby was born in Kentfield, California in 1933.
His father, a teacher at a Presbyterian seminary, had him
memorize the 23rd Psalm in Hebrew at the age of five,
so it was not surprising that his life would be devoted
to religious study. After earning a bachelor’s degree in
philosophy at Stanford University, he completed master’s
and doctoral degrees at Princeton University, specializing
in pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions. That led him to
Jerusalem in the late 1950s, where he was part of the
team that studied the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Later, he returned again to studies, this time at
Harvard University, where he turned his attention to
Zoroastrianism. He taught at Yale University for five years
before accepting a full professorship in 1971 at Trinity
College, which he called home until he retired in 1999.
He was perhaps best known professionally for the two
introductory volumes he edited: World Religions: Western
Traditions and World Religions: Eastern Traditions. But to
his many Trinity admirers, said Derek Allen, dean of arts,
he will be remembered “as a man of warmth, wit and
openness to others.”
We would like to hear from you.
If you have a personal or family update for your classmates,
send it to us and we’ll consider it for publication in Trinity
magazine. Address changes and e-mail addresses are welcome,
too. Please send your information to Office of Convocation
(Development and Alumni Affairs), 6 Hoskin Avenue,
Toronto, Ont. M5S 1H8; fax, (416) 971-3193; or e-mail
[email protected]
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Calendar
T H I N G S
SEPTEMB ER
Tuesday, Sept. 16. Friends of
the Library Annual Meeting.
Prof. Andrea Most on “We
Know We Belong to the Land:
Theatricality and Assimilation
in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s
Oklahoma!” Combination
Room, 7.30 for 8 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 25. City
Sculpture School and Studio
Tour. An opportunity to tour
the studio in action, 345
Bloor St. E. Limited to 20
people; please call (416)
978-2651 to reserve, or e-mail
[email protected]
Friday, Sept. 26. Trinity
College Institute for Church
and Society Teach-in on
Peace and War. Combination
Room, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Information: (416) 978-2133;
[email protected]
OCTOBER
Saturday, Oct. 4. Workshop
with the Rev. John Bell,
musical director of the Iona
Community. Seeley Hall
and Trinity Chapel, 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Information: (416)
978-3611; wnoble@trinity.
utoronto.ca
T O
S E E ,
H E A R
Wednesday, Oct. 22. Learn to
Draw Workshop. Instruction
in line, shape and tone with
artist Janet Hunter 6T4. $15.
Limited to 15 people; please
call (416) 978-2651 to reserve.
Friday, Oct. 24 - Tuesday,
Oct. 28. Friends of the
Library Book Sale, Seeley
Hall. Opening night, 6 to 10
p.m., admission $3; Saturday,
10 a.m. to 8 p.m; Sunday,
noon to 8 p.m.; Monday and
Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Information: (416) 978-6750;
[email protected]
Saturday, Oct. 25. John Wesley Anniversary Celebration,
Trinity College Chapel, 8 p.m.
Information: (416) 978-2133.
Sunday, Oct. 26. Hallowe’en
Party. Wear a costume and
come prepared for crafts and
treats and a special presentation by Mad Science. $5 per
person for children, parents,
grandparents and friends. The
Buttery, 2 to 4 p.m. To reserve:
(416) 978-2651 or juliaparis@
trinity.utoronto.ca
Tuesday, Oct. 28. Faculty
of Divinity Lecture: Dermaid
MacCulloch, Oxford University, on “Who was Thomas
Cranmer?” Trinity College
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T H I S
Chapel, 7.30 p.m. Eucharist,
with college choir, precedes
at 5.15 p.m. Information:
(416) 978-2133; rachelr@
trinity.utoronto.ca
Wednesday, Oct. 29. Corporation Annual Meeting. George
Ignatieff Theatre, 4 p.m. Please
note change of date and time.
Information: (416) 946-7611;
[email protected]
Thursday, Oct. 30. Trinity
Night at the Opera. Opera
Atelier’s Iphigénie en Tauride
by Gluck. Elgin Theatre,
189 Yonge St., Toronto, 7.30
p.m. The story of Iphigénie,
daughter of Agamemnon,
abandoned on the island of
Tauride during the Trojan War.
Tickets: $48. Please purchase
tickets early: (416) 978-2707 or
[email protected].
NOVEMBER
Friday, Nov. 7. Provost’s
Committee Dinner for
donors of $1,000 or more.
Reception, Seeley Hall, 7 p.m.
Dinner, Strachan Hall, 8 p.m.
Tickets are $50 per person.
Information: (416) 978-0407;
[email protected]
Sunday, Nov. 9. In Full
Voice, an organ-refurbishment
A U T U M N
benefit concert featuring the
Trinity College Chapel Choir
and music of Vivaldi, Haydn,
Rachmaninoff and Trinity
student composers and musicians. Trinity College Chapel,
3 p.m. Tickets at the door:
$10 ($5 for students). Information: (416) 978-3611;
[email protected]
Tuesday, Nov. 18. The History
of Mistresses: Dean of Women
Elizabeth Abbott on the subject
of her latest book. St. Hilda’s
College, Rigby Room, 8 p.m.
Information: (416) 978-2651;
[email protected]
Thursday, Nov. 20. Taste
the Wines of Australia with
LCBO consultant Julie
Douglass. Combination Room,
7.30 p.m. $25 (reservation
and payment required in
advance): (416) 978-2707;
[email protected]
Sunday, Nov. 30. Advent
Carol Service, Trinity College
Chapel, 5 p.m.
Coming in March
Vernal Vernissage, Trinity’s
art sale. To participate as an
artist or contribute an item or
service to the silent auction:
(416) 978-2707 or juliaparis@
trinity.utoronto.ca
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