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FALL/WINTER 2013
LION
Table Of Contents
Headmaster
Christopher Shannon
(Pre-U ’76)
fall/winter 2013
LION Editor
Dawn levy
Copy Editors
Jane Martin
Louise Mills
27 branching out
29 report to donors
Of
Open
ficially
The
Assaly Arts
Centre!
We’ll have more stories and pics
to share of the new Assaly Arts
Centre in our next issue, but we
could not resist sharing these
photos from our first couple of
days in this incredible facility.
Thank you to all of our donors!
Archives, Research
& Database Management
Jane Martin
Louise Mills
Adrianna Zerebecky
30 Message from the Headmaster
& the Chairman of the Board
of Governors
32 Harper Family Award
gratitude
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Making an LCC education
a reality
Translation
Veronica Schami
Contributors
Wendy Helfenbaum
Wayne Larsen
Dawn Levy
Kirk LLano
Jane Martin
Louise Mills
Elizabeth Neil-Blunden
Christopher Shannon
(Pre-U ’76)
Jasmin Uhthoff
02 Head Lines
Gratitude is the Best Attitude
04 dear lion
Reader feedback
06 Gratitude is the Best Attitude
Photo Credits
Christian Auclair
A. Victor Badian ’61
Anabela Cordeiro
Mark Griffiths ’67
Chris Henschel
LCC Archives
Dawn Levy
Christinne Muschi
Isabelle Paradis
MargarEt Roper
Gary Rush
This year's guidepost
for Junior School
12 21st Century Community Service
Students experience the
satisfaction of making a difference
16 The Linear relation between math & service
Connecting linear relations
to real-world problems
18 Recognizing Excellence
Non Nobis Solum Staff Award
service
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35 Tales of Non Nobis Solum
from LCC Alumni
42 Annual Giving & Capital
Campaign Donors
48 The Record
Achievements in Academic
& Co-curricular Programming
Student profile: Lola Flomen ’14
for 2012–2013
23 class acts
54 Alumni News
20 Combining Passion
with Purpose
Nicholas Allan ’11:
Overcoming Learning Disabilities
Mailing
Automatic Mailing
& Printing Inc.
Living Non Nobis Solum every day
60 in Memoriam
Non
Nobis
Solum
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Design
Origami
Communications design
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On the cover: L'arbre des mercis
by LCC Graphic Designer Kyle Williams
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LION Fall / Winter 2013
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Head Lines / À la Une
La
Gratitude
IS the Best Attitude
EST la meilleure attitude
By Chris Shannon (Pre-U ’76), Headmaster
Chris Shannon (Pre-U ’76), directeur d’école
We live in an age of want. Advertisers
perpetuate the myth that our lives will
improve by purchasing something new,
better or faster — the latest fashion or
trinket. They couldn’t be more mistaken.
Nous vivons à une époque où les
désirs sont au cœur des priorités. Les
publicitaires entretiennent d’ailleurs
le mythe selon lequel il est possible
d’enrichir notre vie en achetant tel ou
tel article nouveau, meilleur ou plus
rapide — tel ou tel objet ou accessoire
dernier cri. Mais ils ont tort.
B
eyond a certain point, wealth and
acquisition have the capacity to
actually complicate our lives, not
improve them. In reality, it is only
through service to others and
developing a genuine personal
sense of gratitude that our overall well-being
and happiness improves.
Some people believe that the grass is always
greener somewhere else. However, it is important
to be realistic. Experience has taught me that
collectively we are very blessed in this country.
Together we share a peaceful diverse society,
a high standard of living, and a strikingly beautiful country that is the envy of the world. As
Canadians, gratitude should ooze from our pores.
In schools we cannot assume that young
people have had enough experience to feel
a developed sense of fulfillment and
“Gratitude is not
only the greatest
of virtues,
but the parent
of all others.”
— Cicero, Roman
statesman
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A
partir d’un certain niveau, la
richesse et l’acquisition peuvent
même éventuellement rendre
notre vie plus compliquée, et
non plus belle. En fait, ce n’est
vraiment qu’en rendant service
aux autres et en éprouvant un authentique sentiment de gratitude que l’on peut se sentir mieux
et être plus heureux dans notre vie en général.
Certains s’imaginent que le gazon est toujours plus vert ailleurs. Mais soyons réalistes :
l’expérience m’a amené à constater qu’à titre
de collectivité, nous sommes chanceux d’habiter
dans un pays comme le nôtre. Ensemble, nous
vivons dans une société diversifiée et pacifique,
jouissons d’un niveau de vie élevé, et disposons
d’un territoire magnifique que le monde entier
nous envie. Dans un tel contexte, ne devrionsnous pas, Canadiens, respirer la gratitude?
Certes, les jeunes de nos écoles n’ont pas
acquis suffisamment d’expérience pour se sentir relativement épanoui et apprécier ce qu’ils
ont. C’est pourquoi nous aidons les enfants
et les adolescents en les amenant à réfléchir
et à apprendre par l’expérience. Cette année,
au niveau primaire, le thème à l’honneur est
La gratitude est la meilleure attitude. Les enseignants incitent les enfants à trouver du plaisir
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appreciation. So we help children and teens by
asking them to reflect and learn by experience.
In our Junior School, Gratitude is the Best Attitude
is this year’s theme. Teachers actively help children connect their happiness and sense of selfworth to simple things: being helpful, appreciation of supportive friends, realizing the benefits
of good health, a loving family, and a strong
learning community around them. A “Gratitude
Board” in our first floor corridor posts specific
thank yous to children for being helpful and
going out of their way for the benefit of others.
This allows them to feel good about their acts
of generosity and appreciate how acts of kindness are seen and felt by others. Older students
are actively engaged in service learning that
is critical to building character and developing
engaged citizens.
Psychologists remind us that giving and
offering thanks and appreciation really helps
us to cut through the clutter of our busy lives.
Constant comparison to some alternative self,
based on unattainable perfection can only lead
to frustration.
In this issue of the LION we explore our
school’s impressive culture of gratitude that
is a natural extension of our motto, Non Nobis
Solum. It’s a positive spirit that helps young
people find meaning in a complicated world.
Remember, even after graduation our alumni’s
commitment to community-building remains
strong. We should all be very grateful for that.
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«La gratitude n’est
pas seulement
la plus grande
des vertus, elle est aussi la
mère de toutes
les autres. »
— Cicéron,
philosophe romain
et à se sentir importants dans les gestes les plus
simples : rendre service, reconnaître les amis qui
nous offrent du soutien et prendre conscience
des bienfaits d’une bonne santé, d’une famille
aimante et de la communauté forte qui nous
encadre dans notre apprentissage. Dans le corridor du premier étage se trouve un « tableau
de gratitude » où sont affichés des messages de
remerciements aux enfants qui ont généreusement offert leur aide ou fait un effort particulier
pour rendre service à autrui. Ces messages suscitent en eux un sentiment de fierté par rapport
aux actes de générosité qu’ils accomplissent et
leur font réaliser comment leurs gestes de gentillesse sont perçus et sont reçus par les autres.
Les élèves plus âgés s’impliquent activement
dans l’apprentissage du service, qui est crucial
dans le façonnement de leur personnalité et
l’affermissement de leur désir de contribuer
à la société à titre de citoyens engagés.
Les psychologues nous le répètent : le
fait d’offrir et d’exprimer nos remerciements
et notre appréciation nous aide réellement à
sortir du chaos qui menace sans cesse nos vies
trépidantes. Il ne sert à rien de se comparer
constamment à un idéal fondé sur une perfection impossible à atteindre; cela ne peut que
nous amener à un sentiment de frustration.
Dans ce numéro de LION, nous mettons
en lumière l’impressionnante culture axée
sur la gratitude qu’entretient notre école, qui
répond à notre devise : Non Nobis Solum. Cet
état d’esprit positif aide les jeunes à donner
un sens au monde complexe dans lequel ils
vivent. Et ce n’est pas tout : même une fois
diplômés, nos anciens élèves renouvellent
leur engagement profond envers l’amélioration
de la communauté. Ne serait-ce que pour
cette réalisation, nous devrions tous être
très reconnaissants.
02LCC and Canada
Courage Learn
to Skate
03Service in Peru
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Photo by W. Stavert ’52
Letters
dear Lion
Please direct
your mail to:
After our call for feedback
in the Lion, we received many
interesting letters and emails.
Here, we share a few...
One More Voyage
by Sea for LCC
I have been reading…
“Uniforms & Seven Days at
Sea” (2013 Spring/Summer
LION, pp. 22–23) and note
that the school trip I was on
in July/August 1952 was not
mentioned. We sailed from
Montreal to Southampton
and picked up our bicycles
at the terminal. There were,
I think, eight students and
two masters, one of whom
was Mr. Howard.
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We cycled to
Bournemouth to visit with
the Fosberys, then on to
Salisbury, then Bath, and
Stratford-Upon-Avon. Then
by train to Chester and on to
the Lake District for two more
days of cycling. Then the train
to Edinburgh for two days of
sightseeing. Then we cycled
to Inverness, Scotland. I think
that took us at least three days,
up hill and down again. What
wind we had to endure.
Following a respite in
Inverness we took the train to
York, England to visit the West
Yorkshire Regiment for two
days, then on to London for
more sightseeing before sailing or flying back to Montreal.
All in all a very exciting trip.
— Charles Frosst ’53
Jane Martin,
LCC Archivist, responds:
Thank you, Charles! In
researching this article,
we did overlook this early
trip to Britain, which was
described as “Britain by
Boat and Bicycle” in the
1953 Lion Magazine.
Other students participating were Roger Brophy ’54,
Alan Hodgson ’54, Angus
MacDowell ’59, and Ian
Scobell ’54, along with
teachers Mr. Howard
and Mr. Hurst. Following publication
of “Uniforms & Seven Days
at Sea” William Stavert ’52
lent us a wonderful photograph, reproduced here,
of the student group who
made the first post-War trip
with Dr. Penton in 1950,
as described in the article.
Dawn Levy
Editor,
The LION
4090, avenue Royal
Montréal, Québec
H4A 2M5
[email protected]
Finally
“Tied Up”
I was reading the latest
issue of the LION and came
across the “Nearly Tied Up”
article (Spring/Summer
issue, p. 33). The article indicated that the tie in photo
#8 remained unidentified.
The tie in question, with the
red lion rampant with bar,
was the Grade 12 Senior
Year tie that was worn in
the 1980s. I still have mine
along with my striped
Junior School tie and the
Senior School tie
in photo #6.
When I started grade
7 during the 1980–1981
academic year, the wool
ties were standard across
all grades. The following
school year, LCC adopted
Keep Up the
Good Work!
the silk diagonal striped tie
with the initial motif for
grades 8–11, and the lion
rampant tie with bar for
grade 12 on a trial basis.
I think that we kept the
woolen Junior School tie just
in case a decision was made
to revert back to a uniform
look across all grades.
— Jules D’Isep ’85
Spring/Summer LION.
The tie in photo #8 (red
lion with bar) was the Pre-U
tie in 1995 when I was in
Pre-U. It was worn by the
Pre-U boys who had not
graduated from LCC. LCC
grads in Pre-U wore their
Old Boys tie, or the other
Pre-U tie as an option.
— Mike Shanahan ’94
I graduated from LCC grade
12 in 1985. Photo #8 is the
grade 12 tie. Students in
that year wore the tie with
blazers or sports coats of
their choosing. I even wore
this tie a few times after
graduation as it was a nice,
conservative looking tie.
— Chris Oh ’84 (Pre-U ’85)
Jane Martin,
LCC Archivist, responds:
The subject is now “all tied
up!” Thanks to Jules, Chris,
Mike and many others who
over the past months have
sent in their recollections
and been so helpful in identifying the 15 LCC ties in
the collection. Note we
are still seeking a donation
of the diagonally striped,
silk tie worn throughout
the Penton era.
I was just reading the update
on the mystery ties in the
above: Tie #8
Above left, L to R, standing:
Bernard Shapiro ’52, Currie
Durnford ’52, Lorne Bentley ’51,
John Heward ’52, Trevor
Caron ’51, Peter Lawes ’52.
Seated: Harold Shapiro ’52,
William McArthur ’52,
Mr. Malcolm Barclay, Emerson
Brooks ’51, Michael Hayes ’51.
Kneeling: William Stavert ’52
Above right: school’s founder,
Charles Sanderson Fosbery
I love reading the LCC
Lion, and seeing how the
school has expanded in so
many ways since my years
there. Keep up the good
work one and all!
(By the way, the “F.”
in my name is short for
“Fosbery.” My maternal
grandfather, Cyril Vincent
Fosbery, was the brother
of the school’s founder,
Charles Sanderson Fosbery.
I’m told that grandfather
also taught English and
history at the school.
I’m sure the two brothers
would have been extremely
proud of the school’s
accomplishments!)
— Donald I. F. Logan ’56
Thank you...
We welcome your
so much for your feedback!
magazine articles.
suggestions for future LION
tales from our alumni’s
We also really enjoy hearing
coming!
LCC experience. Keep them
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“
Cultivate the habit
of being grateful for every
good thing that comes to
you, and to give thanks
continuously. And because
all things have contributed
to your advancement, you
should include all things
in your gratitude.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“
Piglet noticed that
even though he had
a Very Small Heart, it
could hold a rather large
amount of Gratitude.”
“
Feeling
gratitude and not
expressing it is like
wrapping a present
and not giving it.”
— William Arthur Ward
(author)
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— A.A. Milne,
Winnie-the-Pooh
Junior School Students Learn that
Gratitude
is the Best
Attitude
By Wendy Helfenbaum, Media Consultant
What do these three inspirational quotes have in common?
They all relate to this year’s Junior School theme: Gratitude is
the Best Attitude. Each year’s theme helps guide LCC students and
is incorporated into their academic and daily lives. Sometimes, a
theme is so powerful, it even extends to their home lives as well.
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“
It’s not
just about being
grateful; it’s about
what this will
lead us to do.”
Last year,
grade 1 teacher
Kerry Ballard read
One Thousand Gifts:
A Dare to Live Fully Right
Where You Are, a book
by Ann Voskamp
that resonated
deeply.
L’arbre des mercis:
an apple tree
featuring one apple
representing each
student and teacher
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L’arbre
des
is
c
r
me
The book discusses ways to give thanks for the little things
in life. Ms. Ballard decided to post a list in the office she
shares with three other grade 1 and 2 teachers, where they
could write down things they were grateful for.
S
oon, other people would walk by, look at our list and start
adding things,” recalls Ms. Ballard. “Then, at the Junior
School staff meeting where we were trying to establish
a theme for this year, Julie Anne Lafleur, one of the
teachers who shares the office with us, suggested we do a theme
on gratitude, because we had already started this ball rolling.”
Yasmine Ghandour, Director of Junior School, thinks this
year’s theme is a perfect fit to LCC’s motto. “When I first joined
the school seven years ago, something our headmaster said really
hit home: Whenever he talked to families, he’d say, ‘It’s one thing
to come from privileged homes, but it’s another to feel entitled’,”
says Ms. Ghandour. “When this theme was brought forward, we
thought: It’s one thing to bring out a sense of gratitude in children, but we want them to go one step beyond that and be active
with it. It’s not just about being grateful; it’s about what this will
lead us to do.”
Throughout the school year, the Junior School will showcase
campaigns that promote action, stemming from ideas suggested
by students. For October, a ‘We Scare Hunger’ campaign explored
being grateful about having food to eat while also collecting
non-perishable food items for Share the Warmth, as well as participation in an art competition through Action Against Hunger.
Winning drawings will be featured in a calendar and sold to raise
funds (see p. 10).
In November, a suggestion about being
grateful for friends was a great springboard to
launch an anti-bullying campaign. And during
every lunch hour, one student went to the
microphone in front of 280 students to tell
everyone what they’re grateful for.
LCC teachers are integrating the theme in
different ways. For example, Nadia Cardinal’s
grade 2 class has ‘L’arbre des mercis’ — an apple
tree featuring one apple representing each
student and teacher.
“There’s a pocket on each apple, and
students get little pieces of coloured paper,
on which they can write thank-you messages
to other students in their class,” explains
Ms. Cardinal. “Everyone is congratulated
or thanked for different actions: ‘Thank you
because you played with me at recess’ or
‘Thank you because you helped me put my
game away’. The children are so positive;
they really enjoy participating, and they find
all kinds of reasons — obvious ones and little
everyday ones that take place around us.”
Ms. Cardinal also writes positive messages
in students’ agendas, such as ‘Thank you for
your lovely smile in my class’.
“During Parent Teacher Night, I also
encouraged parents to write positive messages in their children’s agendas, so if a child
has done a good job on his homework, they
could write something about that,” she adds.
“We don’t just want to focus on things students
are not doing right, but also to share good
news and be supportive on a day-to-day basis.
Whether it’s a small thing or a big thing, we
really have to stop and appreciate it. That’s
how you learn how to be grateful, and I’m
finding it’s having a really positive impact, not
just on the students but also on the teachers.
It starts in our office, where we say thank you
for small and big things, and then it brings a
positive atmosphere to the class. I do the same
thing at home around the dinner table with my
husband and children, saying thank you for what
we have. So what we’re doing here is having
an impact everywhere.”
Grade 6 student and Head Girl Faye
Essaris ’19 agrees that this year’s theme carries
on at home — she also proudly sports a headband that says, ‘I Am Grateful’.
“The first time I heard the word gratitude,
I thought of being grateful for all that we have,
like having dinner at our table every day, since
in some other countries, they don’t always have
food and water,” she explains. “At our table
every night, we say thank you for our food,
and we also thank my dad for working so hard.”
Head Boy Andrew Fata ’19 believes it’s
important to think about gratitude in your dayto-day life.
“I think it’s a really good theme for this
year, considering that we’re more fortunate than
some other people,” he says. “This theme has
definitely sparked discussion at my house; we’re
saying grace more, and we’ve realized that we’re
lucky and more fortunate than other people.”
Actio
n
Against
er
Hung
“
Whether it’s a
small thing or a
big thing, we really
have to stop and
appreciate it.
An illustration by
a Junior School
student for the
Action Against
Hunger calendar
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“
It’s really
about being more
aware that these
actions are important
and can lead
to behavioural
change.”
“
We talk
about how gratitude
is not something
we’re born with — it’s
something that has
to be taught and
developed.”
Actio
n
Against
er
Hung
Four of our LCC
students won
the Action Against
Hunger Calendar
Art Contest
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Grade 6 students Eli Cytrynbaum ’19 and
Raymond Opolot ’19 created an innovative
way to keep the idea of gratitude front-andcentre in students’ minds.
“I came up with the idea of having a
gratitude journal for our homeroom class, and
Raymond thought every class should have
one,” says Eli. “If your teacher or someone else
sees you doing something good, you can write
it in your gratitude journal. Now we’re visiting
other classes to explain how it works.”
Eli has also used what he’s learned about
gratitude to teach his six-year-old nephew
to appreciate a nice home-cooked meal.
“I’m reminding him to be grateful because
I’m aware of it. It works,” he says proudly.
Raymond’s family grows lots of vegetables, and they pay it forward by donating fresh
produce to their neighbours.
It’s never too young to start teaching
children about gratitude, notes Ms. Ballard.
Her class created a Gratitude Web consisting
of all the things they’re thankful for, and they
are also encouraged to contribute notes to
the Give Gratitude Box.
The Junior School
Gratitude Wall
“We talk about how gratitude is not
something we’re born with — it’s something
that has to be taught and developed,” she
says. “I tell them that when a baby’s born, he
or she doesn’t understand what it means to be
grateful when Mommy feeds him or changes
a diaper. But as you grow, you recognize that
people do things for you, or you have opportunities that are very positive, and we’re lucky
these things happen. The grade 1 students
understand what gratitude means: recognizing
that you’re getting something that makes you
feel good, and being thankful for that.”
Outside Ms. Ghandour’s office, there’s a
Gratitude Wall along with coloured Gratitude
Coupons students can fill out and post.
“It’s really about being more aware that
these actions are important and can lead
to behavioural change,” says Ms. Ghandour.
Grade 6 teacher Belinda Rother was
pleasantly surprised and very moved with
her students’ behaviour when they welcomed
a visitor from a local Alzheimer’s group
in September.
“The compassion they showed for her
was extraordinary, and they were so sweet,”
she recalls. “They were on their very best
behaviour, so I decided to fill out a Gratitude
Coupon to thank them for that. During our
first Co-operative Council meetings, we sit
around a circle and air our differences. We’re
making a poster with four little pockets that
say: ‘I congratulate... I have a problem with...
Suggestions... and I’m thankful for...’. The
students will slip in whatever bits of mail they
want to, and at the following Co-operative
Council, we’ll empty the packets.”
Ms. Cardinal is already feeling the impact
that raising awareness regarding gratitude is
having on LCC students.
“I’m noticing how many students thank
me, young and old, and we’re trying to encourage this,” she says. “Saying thank you truly
gives pleasure to someone.”
What are you
grateful for?
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21 Century
st
Community
Service
Students experience
the satisfaction of
making a difference
By Wayne Larsen, Media Consultant
LCC has long prided itself on lending a
helping hand to neighbours and fellow
Canadians whenever needed. Today,
with so many charitable organizations
and causes to support, students at all
grade levels have more opportunities
than ever to live up to the venerated
school motto — Non Nobis Solum/Not
for Ourselves Alone — and experience
the gratification that comes from helping others.
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LCC at the Walk
for Friendship
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rom working with Alzheimer’s
patients to sorting cans at a
local food bank to raising money for cancer research, students
are finding more and more ways
to make a meaningful contribution, all thanks to LCC’s vibrant community
service programme.
“We take it very seriously, and our student
body knows that,” Outreach Coordinator
Gillian Shadley says of the multi-faceted programme. “In Quebec, community service
is not mandatory to graduate, but in Ontario
it is — and it is at LCC. If you don’t complete
your community service, you don’t receive a
leaving certificate from our school.”
But students say they would do it anyway,
as nothing beats the satisfaction that comes
from knowing you’re making a difference. “We
have a lot of privileges that others don’t,” says
grade 6 student Sarah Filgiano ’19. “It makes
me happy to know that what we’re doing is
helping to change people’s lives.”
“There are two components to the community service programme in the Junior
School,” says grade 4 English teacher and
Junior School Community Service Coordinator
Margaret Roper. “One is the field trips and
community service projects that we do at
every grade level from kindergarten through
grade 6. Each grade level has either a field
trip outside the school or they do community
service-related activities within the school.
The other component is the community service
leadership committee — a group of students in
grades 4, 5, and 6 who help within the school,
organizing drives and initiating activities.”
“We have a few drives each year,” says
grade 6 student Lily Galbraith ’19, who serves
on the committee. “We send food baskets off
to people who don’t have enough food, and we
have a Halloween candy drive. We also have
a toy drive for Christmas; if you have an extra
toy at home that hasn’t been used, you can
bring it in and put it in one of the boxes. Then
we organize them all and send them off.”
Teachers sometimes organize competitions
between classes to see who can collect the most
donations. “Last year the winning class got to
stay in and order pizza for lunch,” recalls grade
4 student Thibault-Louis Bertout ’21, who helps
create posters to publicize the drives.
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“It’s unbelievable
what the kids can do...”
“It’s unbelievable what the kids can do,”
Ms. Shadley says proudly of last year’s high
school house competition to collect for Share
the Warmth’s Christmas food drive. “The kids
came up with the strategy that the best way
was to collect money and then go shopping,
and this time they included household items
like dish soap and toilet paper. You can’t imagine how full our room was — three truckloads
for Share the Warmth!”
This year, the grade 4 field trip will be to
the Share the Warmth headquarters, where students will not only help sort the donations but
also see first-hand the results of all their work.
The spirit of competition is not restricted to
school-wide activities. At the grade 10 level, the
Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) inspires
students to take their volunteer work to a higher
level, inviting them to present their chosen charity or initiative in a competition for YPI grants
(some offered by the Toskan Casale Foundation
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and others established by LCC alumni). For Head
Girl Samantha Mashaal ’14, nearly four years of
volunteering at the Friendship Circle — an organization that helps children with special needs — led her to a YPI competition and a grant for a
programme she designed, which she describes
as a “mini world” in which the children are taught
basic economics.
From playing games with the children to
organizing activities and fundraising events,
Samantha says she has become so attached to
the Friendship Circle that she doesn’t see herself
giving up her work with them after she graduates
from LCC. “It becomes part of your life,” she says.
Some senior students are even creating their
own community service initiatives. When grade
10 student Erik Thijs ’15 found more than 100
golf balls in a lake near his home in Hudson a
few years ago, he began asking questions about
pollution. He contacted the mayor of Hudson
and was soon on his way to joining a conservation group. This led to speaking engagements
and an ongoing campaign to raise awareness
of environmental issues.
Erik’s younger brother, Matthias Thijs ’17,
was similarly inspired to start a community
service project of his own — an informal shinny
hockey tournament to help connect Hudson
youth with their neighbours from Oka, directly
across the Ottawa River. “I realized our two
communities were so close together, but we
really didn’t know much about each other,” he
says. While he admits it was at first daunting to
go over to Oka to hand out flyers advertising his
idea, the tournament took place last winter, and
he now hopes to make
it an annual event.
Grade 11 student
“We’re lucky
Lola Flomen ’14 is
to be part of
quick to credit LCC
a community
itself for encouraging
where a lot
and enabling students
of the parents
to carry out their
are already
community service
involved
projects. “Once I came
in service.”
to LCC, my vision of
community service
and what I wanted to
accomplish became
much easier,” says Lola, who at age 16, as
a Canadian Youth In Action award-winner,
is becoming known as one of Canada’s most
dedicated young philanthropists. “These
wonderful faculty members — and the
curriculum — supported my view. This school
does a really great job of taking kids who are
passionate and cultivating that passion, and that
really makes everything a lot easier.”
Ms. Shadley agrees, but adds that the spirit
of volunteerism is often instilled in students
long before they arrive at LCC. “As great as our
programme is, we have support from the majority of our families — and that’s very important,”
she says. “We’re lucky to be part of a community where a lot of the parents are already
involved in service.”
Taken together, LCC’s community service
programme and the students’ inherent passion
for philanthropy have created a win-win situation for both the young volunteers and those
they help. But many students feel their gratification is the greater reward. “We’re helping people
who don’t have a lot of things,” says grade 4
student Keira Zadeh ’21. “It makes me happy
to be doing that.”
“We’re helping
people who
don’t have a
lot of things.
It makes me
happy to be
doing that.”
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The Linear
Relation Between
Math &
Service
Mention linear relations and for many
students, eyes glaze over, especially if they’re
in grade 8. That’s why Middle School math
teacher June Saunders connects teaching
linear relations to a real world problem.
L to r: Andrew Zhang ’17,
Alex O'Brand ’14, Holly
Faria ’15, June Saunders
A few student-created
posters that were part
of this project
By Jasmin Uhthoff, Media Consultant
F
or the past four years, Ms. Saunders
has integrated community service
into her grade 8 math class. In teams,
students must choose a local nonprofit organization and then design a sales
activity that aims to raise $500 for that group.
They then use a mathematical formula to
calculate how many items need to be sold and
at what price to break even, and to reach their
fundraising goal. To persuade their classmates
to vote for their project, the students create a
poster and short video to market their goods.
After presentations and a class-wide vote,
the winning top three projects get turned into
reality. As Andrew Zhang ’17 explains: “By
using one simple rule to describe a line, we can
then use that line to tell us how much we need
to sell to reach, for example, $200 or $500.”
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When Ms. Saunders started the project,
the key was about giving back to the
community. “Outside of school, I am involved
in a lot of community organizations so I
wanted to find a way of incorporating that into
my classroom even though we do so much of it
at LCC. But the whole start to finish aspect was
also important. I wanted to create something
that they would learn about and then actually
go out in the real world and apply. Just to do it
on paper and then walk away from it does not
have the same effect.”
Holly Faria ’15 agrees, saying learning
math this way made it meaningful: “I will
always remember it and I probably wouldn’t if
it had just stayed a formula. It would have just
become another thing to memorize.”
“I know why Ms. Saunders implemented
this type of practical teaching; it helps you
remember what linear relations can do, it tugs
at your heart strings and it helps you learn
because you have two memories, not just the
one for math,” says Andrew. “By the end of
all the video presentations, I was heartbroken
to think how much humanity needs our help
in every way; and that’s just the organizations
in our city!”
Looking back on the project now,
Alex O’Brand ’14, says it boosted her confidence. “It shows you that when you’re young,
even in grade 8, you can raise money to make
a difference. In grade 8 you don’t think you
have that power. This project shows you that
you can do it!”
Holly had a similar experience. “This
project was a real eye-opener in terms of how
many charities are out there. It showed me that
you can contribute in more ways than one and
that even small actions can have a big impact.”
Four years into it, Ms. Saunders realizes
that the project has become so much more
than simply the math and community service
aspect. It requires students both to learn and
improve other skills like public speaking,
video creation, graphic design and the art of
persuasion. She also realizes she has created
her own rivalry: “My lectures now need to be
super dynamic to compete with the projects!”
Hands-on math
bringing math
to life: Selling
hotdogs to raise
money for their
chosen charity
A student-created
promotional
poster: a required
component
of the linear
relations project
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Non Nobis Solum
Staff Award
Recognizing
Excellence
As a community LCC is blessed with a rich history,
wonderful facilities, and dynamic academic and cocurricular programming. But what makes us — and
in particular our students — very fortunate is the care,
commitment and professionalism of our faculty and
staff. Collectively, they are true difference-makers.
W
e wanted our faculty and staff to know how much
we appreciate their commitment to excellence so we
made this a central component of our staff recognition
programme at the school. In 2010 the school established the Non
Nobis Solum Staff Award, a bi-annual, peer-nominated award recognizing individual employees for having gone above and beyond
the call of duty to meet the needs of the organization. The award,
which is a one-ounce, gold-leaf coin provided by a generous
donor, is personally presented to the award recipients (one faculty
and one staff member) by the headmaster at a special closing
event for professional staff.
Here’s a snapshot of our first three award recipients (note
that there was no staff award in our inaugural year), including
some excerpts from each of their nominations:
Rob Tipney
Elizabeth Stark
Recipient: June 2013
A long-standing member of our
faculty who began his career
at LCC as a Phys. Ed. teacher.
in 1980, Rob moved through the
ranks and is currently the
Middle School Director.
“Rob puts the kids first ALWAYS!”
“Rob is always willing to step up and
offer a helping hand to anyone in
need and maintains a professional yet
warm demeanour with staff, alumni,
parents and students.”
Sylvia Tracy
A 25+ year Junior School
art teacher.
“Sylvia has always demonstrated
her belief in Non Nobis Solum. From
giving up her free time to let children
work in her classroom on projects, to
dedicating her March Break vacation
to bring a group of students to the
Dominican Republic to help build
a school, no act is too great. She
is always the first to organize ways
to cheer up colleagues who are ill
or having a difficult time.”
“Sylvia is the most selfless person I
know. She is always looking out for
others before herself. She is the first
to offer help when someone is going
through a difficult time. She goes
the extra mile. She is truly a very
special person.”
Front office secretary
since 2007 and one of the first
faces that visitors see when
they walk into the school.
“I have never witnessed Libby
to demonstrate anything less than
professional, pleasant and helpful
behaviour. She is completely and
extraordinarily committed to excellent
service both within and outside
the scope of her usual duties
and responsibilities.”
“I really appreciate her support from
the first day I met her until now as she
has always made me feel welcome”.
Congratulations
to all three of these
well-deserving recipients!
L to R Rob Tipney,
Libby Stark, Sylvia Tracy,
and Headmaster
Christopher Shannon
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A member of the YPI
winning team & recipient
of the Me to We Youth
in Action Award
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Lola Flomen ’14
Combining Passion
with Purpose
By Jane Martin, LCC Archivist
“I’ve never sought
credit for what I do
because I’m doing
what I like doing.”
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As LCC students increasingly become involved in a full spectrum
of community service and global outreach opportunities, some
of the most inspired and dedicated individuals among them are
starting to receive high-level recognition for their achievements.
A shining example is grade 11 student Lola Flomen ’14, who
calls philanthropy “her passion” since the age of nine.
A
n intensely-focused and motivated young woman who has actively
pursued a life of helping others through projects in places as
close to home as NDG and as far away as a remote villages in
Africa or Southeast Asia, Lola was the recent recipient of the Canadian
Living 9th annual “Me to We” Award for Youth in Action (13–17) to honour
Canadians who have done outstanding service work at home and abroad.
She received her award on September 20 at a special event in Toronto in
front of 20,000 students and educators, and in the presence of such distinguished presenters as Col. Chris Hadfield and Martin Luther King III.
Lola intends to donate her $5,000 prize to help
build a school in Sierra Leone through Free
the Children’s “Adopt a Village” programme.
She says she’s pleased by the recognition but
stresses, “I’ve never sought credit for what I do
because I’m doing what I like doing.”
Her interest in service to others less fortunate was sparked long ago by a television programme that led her to ask her parents for help
in sponsoring an impoverished child in Malawi.
“I grew up in a lovely home and my parents
really instilled the importance of giving back
to others.” By age 12, she was volunteering
her time with local organizations such as the
Friendship Circle, where she engaged special
needs children in weekend activities. She cut
14 inches off her hair for Locks of Love and
organized a garage sale to benefit the Montreal
Children’s Hospital. Later she co-founded
En famille, a programme at the Jewish General
Hospital dedicated to providing support and
resources for young families living with cancer.
“My parents
really
instilled
the
importance
of giving
back to
others.”
Entering LCC in grade 7, she quickly adopted
the school’s Non Nobis Solum motto as her own.
She worked with children from the Mackay
Centre and volunteered with Santropol Roulant,
where she learned she enjoyed the personal
contact involved in community work.
This local community work only served
to stimulate Lola’s increasing dedication to
making a difference in people’s lives. In the
past few years, she has extended her involvements to include an astonishing series of service trips overseas, generally under the aegis of
various North American service organizations,
working at the grassroots level. Last year, she
went to South Africa for 25 days, volunteering
with a local group that grows medicinal crops
for people who cannot afford patent medicine
for AIDS. She also helped build a crèche school
and worked with endangered children at a safe
house in Cape Town. Later, she worked with
other groups of young volunteers on LCC service trips building homes and schools, and was
involved with water sanitation projects in Costa
Rica and the Dominican Republic.
These experiences helping others were
capped this past summer by trips to Thailand
and Kenya that Lola says were “truly humbling”.
In late June she joined a group of 21 other
young North Americans for hands-on work with
special needs and deprived children in schools
in Thailand. Despite the language barrier, she
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ACTs
SSALC
CLASS
“to make a
difference, you
have to work on
a bigger scale.”
said the personal connections made with
the children resulted in a profound learning
experience. Other ventures included helping
to build a community kitchen in a remote
village, where her group used hand tools and
carried bags of cement up a steep hill on their
backs. Returning to Montreal “to do my laundry” in a one-day stopover, Lola left for Kenya
and another initiative, helping build the foundation of a school in a small village, and interacting with students at another school where she
practiced newly-learned phrases in Swahili.
Passionate and articulate when discussing
her experiences, Lola seems mature beyond
her years. She admits that recent experiences
have opened her eyes to some unexpected and
uncomfortable realities, and left her stunned
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by the difficulty of lives so different from our
own in Canada. “Everywhere I go I know that
people are benefiting from my help, but I’m
benefiting from them, their stories and their
differing world views. I really want to make
that my life.”
Although Lola admits the appeal to her
of “being a foot soldier; working hands-on in
all these countries”, she says she has come to
realize that “to make a difference, you have to
work on a bigger scale.” That realization might
lead her to a future career in some aspect of
international relations where she could exert
greater influence in bringing about change
for improving people’s lives.
Whatever future awaits, Lola has begun
making her mark in her chosen area of interest. All “Me to We” award recipients were
featured in the October 2013 issue of Canadian
Living in collaboration with the Huffington Post.
The magazine has sponsored the award since
2005, when it was founded by Craig and Marc
Kielburger, well-known humanitarians and
activists for the rights of children.
ACTs
Nicholas Allan ’11
Overcoming Learning Disabilities
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Nicholas Allan ’11
Student Success
begins with
Extraordinary
LEADers
Up until he started kindergarten, Nick Allan ’11
didn’t have much to say. In fact, he rarely
uttered a word. His older brothers — Charlie ’08
(Pre-U ’09) and Simon ’09 — spoke for him.
And although he had highly developed motor
skills and could tie his shoes by age four, Nick
struggled with language and social skills.
“Some of my grade 1 and 2 teachers told
my mother that I should leave LCC and seek
special help, but she wanted me to succeed,
and she knew I just needed the right kind of
help,” recalls Nick.
Enter Judy Shenker, a talented educator
with decades of experience. With unwavering
support from Nick’s mother, Elaine Beaudoin,
and several other parents, Mrs. Shenker
established a unique initiative at LCC to help
support students with different learning styles:
the Learning Enrichment and Development
Program (LEAD).
“When Nick was in grade 3, he was a
very bright kid who learned differently, and
his mother clearly understood that having
a learning disability was not an indication
of Nick’s intelligence,” recalls Mrs. Shenker.
“Nick was determined to succeed at our
school, and his mother really advocated
for him to get this programme started.”
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“When kids are
reading out loud,
you can help them
with decoding,
because you can
hear the types of
mistakes they’re
making.”
LEAD helps students with diagnosed
learning differences develop strategies for
their individual learning needs. Mrs. Shenker
began working one-on-one with Nick and four
other students.
“We started off in a little room, and Mrs.
Shenker followed me from class to class. Soon,
other students in the school with learning
disabilities joined us, and we slowly grew
the programme from there,” says Nick.
Because the LEAD approach was very
new, no one was certain how or if it would
help these children.
“I knew these kids would be successful, but
I also knew that I wasn’t going to be able to prove
that to everyone – the kids would prove it to
them. And that’s exactly what happened,” says
Mrs. Shenker. “Once the programme began, more
students came out of the woodwork, as I would
have predicted, because research shows that
10–15% of any population has learning disabilities. From the day I met Nick, you could see he
was very intellectually curious. He wasn’t keen on
learning to read or write, but he wanted to learn
stuff, and had an incredible memory.”
Most of the core strategies the LEAD team
uses with its students involve explicit instructions,
hands-on learning and multi-sensory approaches
to writing and math, explains Mrs. Shenker.
“In many schools, writing is assigned and
assessed, but not necessarily taught, so I started
teaching my kids a programme called Step Up
to Writing, which uses colours — the easiest
thing to remember — to teach the kids about
text structure and the writing process,” she says,
adding that the method was so successful that
other Junior School teachers adopted it for their
own classes.
“When kids are reading out loud, you can
help them with decoding, because you can hear
the types of mistakes they’re making. But writing is much more invisible and harder to teach;
you can’t hear the writing process that goes on
inside their heads,” says Mrs. Shenker.
“I have the kids read out loud when they’re
editing, so they’re hearing it. They use a plan
that’s very visible, like bubble mapping or
webbing, so they can see how their ideas are
connected to each other. Another trick is for
spelling; we have them not just copy the words,
but say them out loud as they’re learning.”
For some students, multiplication tables are
very difficult to memorize, adds Mrs. Shenker.
“Kids who have a very weak rote memory
capacity are just not going to learn that way, so
we’ve turned every number into a visual picture:
eight is a snowman, three is a tree. That aids the
rote memory, makes the numbers much more
concrete, and gives them a hook to pull it out
of their long-term memory.”
The LEAD team also helps parents who
suspect that their child might have a learning
difference, as well as working directly with
grade 7 students on executive functioning
skills. Also, the LEAD centre assists students
who need special accommodations for exams.
Today, LCC’s LEAD centre services about 24%
of the total school population.
“I knew these kids
would be successful,
but I also knew that
I wasn’t going to be
able to prove that
to everyone...”
When Nick was in grade 7, Mrs. Shenker
witnessed a breakthrough.
“He jumped four grade levels in one year
in reading,” she recalls. “I will never forget in
grade 8, going to the book fair with him, as I
always had, to help him choose books that were
high-interest but low-level readability. He went
to the grade 8 table, not to a younger table. Nick
viewed himself as a reader. That was a defining
moment for both of us.”
Nick adds that his confidence soared.
“I was very successful. Eventually, I proved
to the teachers that said I didn’t belong that
I was more than capable,” says Nick.
Students like Nick helped make Mrs.
Shenker and other teachers better, she says.
“I honestly believe that these kids can
learn — I’ve never met a student in my 39 years
of experience who doesn’t want to be successful.
It’s our responsibility to find out how they learn.
As we go through the journey and try to find different strategies for them, we learn so much.”
Learning specialist Lise Huppler interned
at LCC after graduating university in 2008. She
began working with Nick when he was in grade
9. He was her very first student.
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Branching Out
“Nick couldn’t be integrated into a French
class because he still couldn’t read and write
in French,” recalls Mrs. Huppler, who began
teaching Nick basic reading, then grammar.
“We were working toward passing the French
exam at the end of grade 10, which was going
to be quite a feat; we had to get him to the
point where he had to write an essay and
answer complicated reading comprehension
questions. The thing that was so rewarding
about working with Nick is that we started
from zero and over the course of two years,
got him through everything. For a student with
quite severe dyslexia to be able to read and
write in French that quickly was fantastic.
We learned so much from each other.”
Nick is only now realizing how valuable
his time at LCC was.
“Last year, it just clicked; I understood
how much everyone did for me. I wouldn’t
have been able to get into engineering, or to
graduate high school, if not for my teachers,”
he says.
“By grade 8, I was reading at a normal
level, and I also developed my own skills for science-based reading. I read very differently when
I’m reading a science textbook versus a novel.
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“Nick is really
our poster child;
he has paved the
way for many
other kids,..."
Judy Shenker,
Nicholas Allan
and Lise Huppler
For a novel, I have to say every word in my head
and I’m kind of slow, but when I’m reading a
science textbook, I’m scanning and looking for
what’s important. This way, I can get through
things very fast. Working for five hours was
never something I could do before. Now, I catch
myself doing physics for six hours straight.”
Nick works out physics and math problems
on a whiteboard while standing up. In fact, he
does all his work standing up or moving around.
“Nick is really our poster child; he has paved
the way for many other kids, and he certainly
proved to all of our teachers that kids like him
with learning disabilities can be successful with
the right type of support,” says Mrs. Shenker.
Nick, who is currently studying mechanical engineering at Concordia University, now
pays it forward by volunteering in LCC’s LEAD
programme. He supports, mentors and encourages students facing similar challenges to the
ones he overcame.
“I’ve seen students who have the same difficulties be shy or scared about it, and I’m tutoring
a kid right now who was terrified about his peers
knowing he’s different,” says Nick. “Most kids
knew I was a little different — I had extra time for
tests, I’d leave during class — but it doesn’t mean
I’m not as smart as anyone else.”
Nick’s gratitude towards his support team
is sometimes overwhelming, he adds.
“I owe everything to them — to my mother,
to Mrs. Shenker and Mrs. Huppler. These are
the people that believed in me, pushed for
me and fought for me,” says Nick, who hopes
to complete his Bachelors in Mechanical
Engineering and then get a Masters either in
Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering.
“Now I have to fight for myself, and it’s my
job to succeed. It’s no longer on their shoulders; it’s on me, now. And I want to give it to
them as a present. I want to show them that
everything they’ve given me, I can give back
by succeeding.”
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02 03
04
01Boston (L to R)
Alexandra Bier ’97,
Robert Ravinsky ’02
and Michael Mee ’02
02Boston (L to R) Peter
Kent ’72, Christopher
Legg ’83 and Kirk LLano
(Director of
Development and
Alumni Engagement)
03Alumni Golf
Tournament 2013
04Vancouver (L to R)
Headmaster Chris
Shannon (Pre-U ’76),
Laura Harper ’01,
Bryanna Thiel ’03,
Trevor Burnett ’07,
David Caplan ’03
Nevenka Webster,
John Ellis ’32 and
Peter Webster ’60
John Ellis ’32 (our
oldest Alumnus in
attendance) with
Reilly O’Connor ’10
(the most recent
graduate in
attendance)
Boston Reunion
October 22 , 2013
Our Boston event was held on Tuesday,
October 22 at the Back Bay Social Club.
Over 20 alumni joined Alumni Ambassador
Victor Badian ’61 and Director of Alumni
Engagement Kirk LLano for a reception and
dinner. It’s always special when alumni from
the 50s right up to 2007 come together and
share memories of the school.
LCC LION Classic
Golf Tournament
June 2013
LCC returned to the links this spring with its
golf tournament to raise funds for student
bursaries. Almost 100 golfers joined us at the
beautiful Summerlea Golf and Country Club
on what was perhaps the nicest day in the
month of June! Special thanks to all of our
sponsors, especially tournament sponsor
Ralph Levy ’77.
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Vancouver Reunion
June 13, 2013
Our annual Vancouver event was held on
June 13, 2013 at the Jericho Tennis Club.
Over 40 guests enjoyed a wonderful reception
and dinner overlooking the water on English
Bay. Thanks to Tim Hayman ’65 for arranging
this lovely venue for us. Save the date for these
upcoming alumni reunions:
London, England – Tuesday, March 18
NYC – Thursday, April 10
Ottawa – Thursday, May 1 (TBC)
Toronto – Wednesday, May 14
LA/SF/Vancouver – Sunday to Friday,
June 8–13 (exact dates TBC)
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report
to donors
07
08
10
LIONfest
September 27 – 28, 2013
LIONfest 2013 was held on September 27 – 28
and was a wonderful event with great highlights.
Led by Andy Shatilla ’63, thirty members of the
50th reunion class returned to Royal Avenue
to join more than 200 others for the dinner on
the Friday evening. We also had more alumnae
in attendance at our annual homecoming than
at any previous LIONfest, led by ladies who
came in for the 10th reunion of the Class of
2003 from as far as Western Canada, Toronto,
and NYC.
2012–2013
09
11
12
Special thanks to all of the class agents
who make this gathering so special every year
by rallying their classmates to attend.
We could not have hoped for better
weather for the Saturday alumni soccer
tournament which included more than 60
alumni playing with, and against, the Senior
Boys Soccer team. The old guys — or veteran
players — showed that experience does matter
as they won the friendly round robin event.
The date for LIONfest 2014 is September
19 – 20, so all graduates from classes with years
ending in “4” or “9” will be reuniting next fall
on campus with many other alumni. 07(L to R) Corey Velan ’93,
Kristina Velan ’03, Penny
Velan, Ivan Velan ’61
and Rob Velan ’88
Annual Giving allows LCC to
embrace progress and change
in ways that further enhance our
school’s tradition of excellence.
08Members of the
Class of ’88
09Members of the Class
of ’03 with Linda
Gendron (former
Assistant HeadStudent Life)
10Members of
the Class of ’98
11Members of
the Class of ’63
12Alumni Soccer
Tournament 2013
Donations to the Annual Giving
programme are applied in areas
that impact our students directly:
facilities, active learning experiences,
innovation and financial awards.
Thank you for expressing your
belief in the continued success
of our students and school.
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Message from the
&
Headmaster
the Chairman of the
Board of Governors
01
The 2012 – 2013 school year was defined by four key elements: outstanding student leadership in grade 11,
a strong commitment to meaningful
faculty growth, acceptance as an IB
World School, and a very successful
capital campaign.
01
Sabrina Aberman ’13,
Max Wiltzer ’13,
and Headmaster
Christopher
Shannon
02
George Toooley ’71,
Ralph Levy ’77
and Headmaster
Christopher
Shannon
03
Adam Turner ’87,
David Arditi ’65
and Headmaster
Christopher
Shannon
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G
rade 11 leaders set the tone for the
school, and this had impact on the
student experience at all levels.
This year student leadership was impressive
and motivated students at younger levels to
perform their best. The trickle-down effect
on daily activities at the Senior, Middle and
Junior School levels was palpable and positive.
Special leadership qualities were particularly
evident in community-oriented initiatives
such as the December food drive, the YPI
programme and the national Movember
fundraiser for prostate cancer research,
to name a few.
An area of special focus was our
formal accreditation as an IB World School
(International Baccalaureate) in preparation
for the start of the IB Diploma Programme
(IBDP) in September 2013. This achievement
required us to complete a rigorous three-year
application process and training of more
than 20 faculty members. Approximately 50
students are now registered in the two-year
Diploma Programme, which integrates well
with our school ethos and desire to further
enhance global learning opportunities. The
IB Programme will extend into Pre-U/Grade
12 in 2014–2015. It will surely strengthen
the attractiveness of the grade 12 option for
students across Montreal, as graduates will
be able to gain direct access to universities
worldwide, including Quebec.
Our commitment to faculty professional
growth continued to support the adoption
of innovative teaching methods at all levels.
We will take this a step further in 2013–2014
with the establishment of a new Professional
Learning Community (PLC) model, wherein
teachers will be given more opportunities to
collaborate at an even deeper level in several
morning seminars to be held throughout the
year. Teachers remain the key difference-makers
in the lives of students and their capacity to
work in teams is critical. We thank them for
their commitment to continuous improvement
in both formal teaching methodologies and
enhancement of the quality of our rich
co-curricular programmes.
Our Ambitious Minds Capital Campaign
presented a bold vision of campus
development and modernization. Our
extended community responded with an
impressive level of interest and philanthropic
support, raising an unprecedented $11.5
million. Throughout the year we witnessed the
ongoing construction of the Assaly Arts Centre
on the site of the old rink. This new building
provides modern facilities for programmes in
music, art, drama, mathematics and student
leadership. Until recently, many of our arts
programmes have been housed in adapted
rather than dedicated facilities. The qualitative
improvement makes a significant difference
for both teachers and students. Special thanks
are extended to campaign Co-Chairs Amelia
Saputo and Anthony Fata ’84 for their hard
work and dedication. Also deserving of thanks
are the many parent and alumni volunteers
who have helped us reach this goal.
It has been a pleasure to work closely
with our Board of Governors this year. They
are a group of men and women committed to
enhancing programme and facility excellence
at our school. Together we have addressed a
host of interesting and challenging issues in
2012–2013. We are proud to say that with the
Board’s support and guidance, the school has
solid enrolment, excellent programmes and
a strong fiscal standing.
The LCC student experience continues
to be defined by opportunities and initiative.
A review of our Record of Achievement
provides strong insights into the LCC of
today: an environment where exceptional
opportunities, a culture of excellence, a strong
sense of joy and community, and abundant
resources combine to help our students
discover all that they can be.
The LCC Board
of Governors
2012–2013
Chairman
David H. Arditi ’65
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We do not rest on our laurels at LCC.
Congratulations to members of the Classes of
2013 for their growth and dedication as young
leaders. They have set the bar high and we are
certain there will be a vibrant and engaged
response by those who follow and who already
possess truly ambitious minds.
Members
Olga Assaly
Randy Aziz ’77
Phil Belec ’77
Anne-Marie Boucher
Donna Doherty-Fraser
Doug Lewin ’87
Janice Naymark
Amin Noorani ’83
Amelia Saputo
Adam Shine ’84
Marc P. Tellier
Adam Turner ’87
Priscilla Whitehead
Non Nobis Solum,
Christopher Shannon (Pre-U ’76)
Headmaster
David H. Arditi ’65
Chairman, Board of Governors
Thank You
David Arditi ’65
Welcome
Adam Turner ’87
Perhaps one of the best models of selfless
leadership at LCC comes from David Arditi ’65,
who after five years as chairman and an
exceptional 16 years of service, departs from
our Board of Governors. We offer our sincere
thanks to David for his special dedication
to excellence in education and to his school.
Adam Turner ’87 was also very busy this
year, chairing the Facilities Committee of the
Board, which has overseen the construction
process of the Assaly Arts Centre. He began
his term as board chairman in the fall. We
are certainly very fortunate to have such
dedicated leadership at the board level.
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“Growing up, I had never
Creating Opportunities
for Deserving Students
thought LCC was an option for
me, but thanks to the Harper
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Harper Family Award
One family’s 75-year history at LCC
has become even more memorable,
thanks to a gift that continues to give.
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More than a
75-year
history
with LCC
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alph Harper ’47’s multi-generational
involvement with LCC began when
he attended the school in the 1940s,
and continues to thrive today, 12 years after
his death. Mr. Harper was Chairman of the
Board of Governors from 1979 to 1981, and
Chairman of Commitment LCC, the capital
campaign from 1982–1986.
Mr. Harper and his wife Christine sent
their five sons — Gary ’73, Jaime ’75,
Jeffrey ’75, David ’80 and Scott ’84 — to LCC.
“For Ralph, LCC was a place that gave him
a wonderful experience growing up,” explains
Mrs. Harper. “When our boys came along, we
decided it would be good for them, too, and our
granddaughter Laura was one of the first girls
to attend. Ralph was always very involved in
school committees; he enjoyed the people he
worked with there. He also participated in many
other community fundraisers, and was very
active in our church. He was a giving person.”
For her part, Mrs. Harper rarely missed
any of her sons’ hockey or basketball games.
“Gary became board chairman just before
Ralph died, so it was really nice for him to
see his son get there,” recalls Mrs. Harper.
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Family Award, it was the most
incredible experience for me.”
Gary also led the campaign for the arena and
currently chairs the LCC Foundation. His four
children — Laura ’01, Michael ’02, Jamie ’04,
and Megan ’07 — are also LCC alumni.
When Ralph Harper passed away in
August 2001, Christine Harper and her sons
brainstormed about how best to honour the
patriarch of the family.
“People wanted to give something in his
name, so we thought: Why not set up some
kind of scholarship award in his name for the
school,” she recalls. “We talked about the kinds
of things that Ralph would’ve wanted, and we
all agreed that he was much more interested in
students who were all-round, ones who could
genuinely contribute to the school and be
active there.”
The Harper Family Award was born thanks
to a generous endowment from the Harper
family and their friends in memory of Ralph
Harper. The needs-based award — which has a
value of at least 50% tuition — is given to a student entering grade 7 and continues through to
the student’s final year of school. The Harpers
wanted students receiving this award to not
only have excellent grades, but also possess
strong athletic, leadership and service-based
abilities.
Two students who have now gone on to
graduate say that the Harper Family Award
literally changed their lives.
As the Harper Family Award’s first recipient, Leah Humes ’10 had many expectations
to fulfill, which she did handily. Leah, a star athlete from Beaconsfield who played soccer and
basketball and ran track, had excellent grades.
“Growing up, I had never thought LCC
was an option for me, but thanks to the Harper
Family Award, it was the most incredible
experience for me,” says Leah. “It was a whole
new environment, and I was very nervous — I
wasn’t used to a private school setting or being
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in the city, but the opportunities the school
gave me were amazing. LCC really encouraged me and gave me the confidence to apply
to prep schools in the U.S. Without LCC,
I would never be where I am today.”
“I thought it was lovely that the first
recipient should be a girl,” adds Mrs. Harper.
“Leah’s a wonderful young woman and a tremendous athlete who has done very well.”
Leah, who is currently studying at Bates
College in Lewiston, ME, still keeps in touch
with Mrs. Harper; they have had lunch together a few times, and Leah writes regularly.
“I played basketball with her granddaughter Megan at LCC for two years, and
Mrs. Harper was often at the games, so I got
to know her well,” explains Leah. “I think
her family has been incredibly generous;
Mrs. Harper is opening up so many doors for
young students and allowing them not only
to take advantage of all the opportunities LCC
provides, but also to take on new challenges
in the world and really have confidence that
they can do whatever they set their hearts
and minds to.”
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Mrs. harper with
Leah Humes ’10
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Three generations
of Harpers with
Leah Humes ’10
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Leah Humes ’10
on student
exchange in India
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“I know that Ralph
would’ve been
just thrilled to see
these students
thriving, and he
would have been
very grateful that
Mark Michaels ’13 grew up on the West
Island, and started skating at an early age.
He longed to play hockey for an elite school.
One of his coaches, LCC alumnus Corey
Krakower ’04, was in touch with LCC’s Director
of Development and Alumni Engagement
Kirk LLano.
“They needed a strong goalie and Corey
said he had a great one,” recalls Mark. “They
talked to my parents, who called me into their
room one night and said, ‘How would you like
to try to go to LCC?’ I honestly couldn’t wait;
I tried so hard to get in. I left Lindsay Place
during the day for my interview — I was the
only kid wearing a suit, because I wanted to
look nice. We could not have been happier
when we learned that I had been accepted.”
When Mark began studying at LCC that
fall, he quickly became known as a towering
presence between the goal posts of the school’s
hockey team.
“Once I got to LCC, everyone helped me
so much and just being there opened so many
doors for me,” he recalls. “The work was harder, but the teachers helped and cared so much
about me that it made it easier to do. They took
he was able to
have done something like this.”
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In the fall we asked alumni to share how
they lived Non Nobis Solum in their daily lives.
To our delight, we had a tremendous response.
the time to make sure I succeeded. The hockey
team had all heard about the new goalie coming
in, and right away, I just started making friends.
To this day, all the friends I made those first
few days in hockey are still my best friends that
I talk to every day.”
Mark notes that the Harper Family Award
is invaluable to students like him whose families would not have been able to send their
children to private school.
“The award enabled me to come here,
learn the work ethic and value of the school’s
traditions, and it especially helped build me up
for college sports,” says Mark. “I wrote to Mrs.
Harper a few times to thank her for this opportunity, because it really did change my life.”
Mark currently attends Holderness School
in Plymouth, NH, and he’s hoping to get into
Boston College or Notre Dame on a combined
athletic and academic scholarship.
There are currently two LCC students who
hold the Harper Family Award. Mrs. Harper
says her husband would have enjoyed watching
Leah, Mark and other award recipients succeed.
“I know that Ralph would’ve been just
thrilled to see these students thriving, and he
would have been very grateful that he was
able to have done something like this,” says
Mrs. Harper. “He always felt the school was a
great influence on him, on our sons and on our
grandchildren. If you have the ability to help,
why wouldn’t you?”
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Mark Michaels ’13
What follows are excerpts from the
exceptional stories that we received.
To all who contributed, “Thank You!”
Tales
of
from LCC Alumni
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Gary Harper ’73 with his mother
Christine at the announcement
of the Harper Family Award.
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“It was only
later in life
that I realized
the inherent
obligation
of education
captured so
eloquently
in the school
motto.”
I have lived in Dayton, Ohio for some 15 years.
It is a community that has suffered significantly
from the exodus of manufacturing jobs. Since
2000, I have been engaged with various federal, state and local organizations, businesses
and academic institutions looking at ways to
reposition and revive this region’s economy.
I have also worked abroad, supporting mission activities with the Lutheran Church in
Tanzania, having made several trips there to
work with partner congregations. I also travelled to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
to help residents rebuild their homes, and their
lives. I cannot say I thought of doing such
things during my time at LCC, but as I said, my
understanding of the school motto, of “paying
forward” the gift of education only became real
for me long after the last Founder’s Day.
— Terry Rapoch ’64
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I think most LCC graduates may be far too
modest to suggest themselves as examples of
Non Nobis Solum in action, however, I recently
spent a few years directing the development
of the Fraser Institute for Eastern Canada.
Every year the Fraser Institute honours
a great Canadian for their philanthropy, business acumen, success and leadership in
free markets. The honour is in the name of
T. Patrick Boyle, an LCC Old Boy and founder
of the Institute. Pat Boyle was born in England
in 1918, and immigrated to Canada in 1927. Though his family was poor, he attended Lower
Canada College and Westmount High School. He was Non Nobis Solum personified:
charitable, committed to his community and
fellow Canadians to the degree that he set the
stage for a national think-tank that has honoured people like the Right Honourable Brian
Mulroney, Nancy Southern, Ned Goodman,
Margaret Thatcher and many, many more
who have recognized Pat’s contribution.
— Tom McCarten ’69
The school motto has forever been a guidepost for me and was very much heralded by
Dr. Penton as a cornerstone of belief to be
followed by every boy (at the time). I have just
finished 46 years of practicing law and have
embarked on a new career where I can play
an important role in influencing the gifts of
several foundations who will over time distribute $100,000,000 or more to good causes
in medicine, education and the arts.
— Paul Marchand ’58
Dr. Paul Kavanagh’s Operation Veteran project, which provides meals to Canadian veterans, earned him the Minister of Veteran’s
Affairs Commendation. Almost 4,500 complimentary meals have now been served to veterans at the Canadian War Museum. In addition,
educational programmes are being created
which are available to schools via the Internet.
— Dr. Paul Kavanagh ’70
A while ago, an elderly gentleman drew on his
First Nation culture to give me the most thoughtful compliment I have ever received: “You must
have had good parents.” Well, yes, I did, but I was
also privileged to have been part of LCC for four
years. From time to time, being able to share the
LCC motto — and the soul of the words themselves — has provided our children a broader context within which to grow into the generous and
responsible people they have become, understanding it’s about more than small communities — it’s
about commitment to an ideal!
— Peter Kingsmill ’61
Dr. Paul Kavanagh
As a teacher, I joined the board of directors
of the Family Resource Centre, an organization on the West Island that teaches social and
study skills to students. There are programmes
to assist families and educators with children
who have social and learning disabilities. I am
very proud of the organization, our projects
and success in the community.
— Samantha Vandzura ’05
My education was crucial to my life and career
as a biomedical scientist. The value of instilling
good general knowledge and a strong social
ethos was shared by my parents and LCC (with
special mention of “the Boss” C.S. Fosbery,
V.C. Wansbrough, and S. Penton). I am not sure
that the school motto was all that important to
me at the time. However, it has worked out that
I later did a few things of some account, which
brought me the good fortune to be honoured
by the award of an OC (the motto of that
Order is remarkably similar in intent to that of
the school). So I have joined honourably with
a number of Old Boys of LCC in that juxtaposition of mottos.
— Robert G.E. Murray ’35
While raising our family, my wife and I contributed time volunteering for our children’s
schools. In 1977–1978 I was chairman of the
Central Parent’s Committee of the Protestant
School Board of Greater Montreal. Later we
volunteered for Brownies, Junior Achievement,
and a number of community, social and business organizations. We both volunteer at the
Williamstown Fair, for which I was a director
for 25 years and president from 1996–1998.
As an LCC class rep, I organized both our
25th and 50th reunions at the school. I was
involved with the foundation and was chairman
of the board of the Cornwall General Hospital.
We continue to work with the Aultsville Theatre,
Meals-on-Wheels and our local church.
— Jay Woollven ’60
“ The school
motto has
forever
been a
guidepost
for me”
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Melanie Duhamel
To me,
Non Nobis
Solum
means
“Not For
Humanity
Alone.”
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To me, Non Nobis Solum means “Not For
Humanity Alone.” I have strived to minimize
my environmental impact and set an example
through my everyday life choices, such as
not owning a car and walking to work, as
well as by volunteering, writing letters to
politicians, and supporting various nongovernmental organizations. My career in
environmental research, consulting, and now
research project management in BioZone
at the University of Toronto (www.biozone.
utoronto.ca) has focused quite literally on
cleaning up humanity’s messes — remediating
contaminated sites — as well as developing
new bio-based clean technologies. I recently
established an undergraduate environmental
engineering scholarship at the University of
Toronto to help others pursue this personally
satisfying career path.
—Melanie Duhamel ’95
Since its inception in 2011, I have been the
executive director of Gran Fondo NJ — New
Jersey’s premiere endurance cycling event.
The event has grown from 800 riders in its
inaugural year to 2,000 this year. One of the guiding principles of Gran
Fondo NJ is “To give back to our community.” The event directly supports local charities (The
Seeing Eye, Homeless Solutions, Grow it Green
Morristown, and Sustainable Morristown) and
we encourage both local and national charities
to use the event as a fundraising platform. We
are strong believers in applying the principles
of sustainability and are just as proud of our
accomplishment in generating over $400,000
of charitable contributions over three years.
We feel that we could not do one without
the other: In other words, Non Nobis Solum.
—Bill Ruddick ’71
For me the best example of Non Nobis Solum
was Dr. Penton himself. We all made fun of various teachers, but Dr. Penton had such integrity
it was from him we knew what Non Nobis Solum
was all about. I remember my very first volunteer job, encouraged by a teacher at LCC. It was
to serve juice in the afternoon at the Montreal
Rehabilitation Institute in the children’s ward.
It terrified me as I met many young people
without limbs, victims of the drug Thalidomide.
I soon discovered, as I learned their names,
they were just like me. Non Nobis Solum was no
longer just about my volunteering to serve, it
was also about listening and learning far more
than I could on my own.
Later in life I joined the Rotary Club
whose motto is “Service Above Self.” It seemed
natural to me by then that I was called to serve.
I remember helping to raise funds to buy a new
trailer for Father John and Le Bon Dieu dans la
Rue. We were so happy to be successful in that
fundraising.
—The Venerable Ralph Leavitt ’66
Rector of Holy Trinity Church, Ste. Agathe
des Monts, Archdeacon of St. Andrew’s
After graduation I set up Disada Productions,
a company doing animation and live-action
films. We donated artwork for various fundraising campaigns. Especially popular was artwork
from Canada's first syndicated comic strip. Our
main company charity became Deborah Sims'
organization that granted wishes to severely
ill children. We participated in wishes and
donated a portion of event sales to them.
When we moved to Ottawa we continued
to assist fundraising efforts of charities and
have made Fire Prevention Canada our charity
focus. We have produced four international
award-winning animated films for them and are
currently producing another. I recently organized the national launch of Fire Prevention
Week across Canada. Under the patronage of
the Governor General of Canada it brought
government, industry and the fire community
to Ottawa for the festivities.
—Peter Adamakos ’63
I am actively involved in the community
leadership programme, Leadership Fairfax Inc.
LFI’s mission is to “Educate, prepare, inspire
and connect leaders to serve and strengthen
our community.” An alumnus of the 2004 LFI
Signature Class, I have served on the board
of directors, chaired the programme committee, and created a Leadership Briefings series
where we bring in thought leaders to speak to
alumni about leadership.
I currently lead annually an “open space”
session for the Emerging Leadership class and
facilitate individual team process debriefs that
form part of the programme for the Signature
class (i.e., more seasoned leaders). The potential for continuing service here extends well
into my eventual retirement.
—Ian Cook ’63
Matthew Robins ’06 and I have been running
Hockey Without Borders (see LION, Fall/Winter
2012, p. 28): a non-profit organization that sends
volunteer hockey coaches to under-resourced
hockey communities.
We have two updates about our organization that directly involve LCC:
In July, we partnered with a club in Bulgaria
that had asked us to organize a programme and
volunteer at a hockey camp in the capital city,
Sofia. The camp ended up being run entirely by
LCC alumni including myself, Matthew Robins ’06,
Andrew Burnett ’04, and Ken Covo ’73.
In August, we hosted four young players
from Serbia in Montreal for an extraordinary
cultural experience in addition to a hockey
camp. At the end of their stay, we celebrated
the occasion with the International Youth
Hockey Festival, which took place on August 10
at the LCC Glenn J. Chamandy Arena.
—Craig Klinkhoff ’06
Undoubtedly my years at LCC instilled in me
the conviction that education is one of the
principle glues that holds our world together
in a reasonably sane manner and produces
the majority of our global leaders.
As a convocation founder, ex-member
of senate and general admirer of Simon
Fraser University (SFU), whose shaky start
has materialized into a top flight, world class
institution, I have pondered how I could best
help deserving students at SFU who represent
potential leaders.
Consequently, after much deliberation I
decided the way to encourage very intelligent
postgrads would be to offer cash incentives to
help defray the cost of the MBA course at SFU
where such students have enroled to round
off their academic qualifications and often
work experience.
Therefore I established an endowment
fund that provides four or five $10,000
scholarships annually. It seems to be well
received after several years running and
incidentally I have specified postgrads in the
MBA course as they usually have a clear idea
of what they wish to do in life.
—A. John Ellis ’32
O.C., LL.D (Hon), O.R.S.
“ education
is one
of the
principle
glues that
holds our
world
together...”
Craig Klinkhoff
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Brian Lucas
“I had the
pleasure of
attending
LCC from
1945 until
1950. Those
five years
were to
become the
foundation
of not
only my
education,
but of
my life!”
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I was fortunate to attend LCC and Cornell
University. I decided early on that I would look
for ways to support education. For the past
14 years I have been a Trustee of Hillbrook
School, a JK-8 school for 315 children in
Los Gatos, CA, where both of my children
attended. For the past seven years I have been
Board Chair. I did this partly out of gratitude
for the outstanding education our children
received and also to demonstrate to our
children that it is important to leave a place
better than you found it. During my service
I have often thought about Non Nobis Solum.
Concurrently with my service at
Hillbrook I have also been vice-chair of
the Entrepreneurship @ Cornell Alumni
Council. In that role I also spent one year as
Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Cornell. I was
fortunate to come from an entrepreneurial
family, but recognize that most don’t. My
taking on this role allowed me to share
experiences and insight with smart motivated
young people who would not have easy access
to the type of knowledge I have gained as
an entrepreneur. I continue to make at least
annual trips to Cornell to guest lecture and
mentor students.
—Steve Benjamin ’76
“Le Tour of Hope” helps raise contributions
to support children with cancer and their
families. This is an organization that is close
to my heart. I have offered my services for the
last six years as a support driver. I have cycled
an occasional 130 to 170-kilometre leg when
required if a cyclist was willing to take my
place behind a van wheel.
—Brian Lucas ’52
I had the pleasure (although at times it did not
seem so) of attending LCC from 1945 (Lower 1 — Miss Hutchinson) until 1950 (Mrs. Hodgson).
Those five years were to become the foundation
of not only my education, but of my life!
I was one of those relatively rare people
who seemed to be born knowing what I wanted
my life’s work to be. Quite simply, I wanted to
work on the technical side of radio broadcasting. After graduating from Ryerson’s Radio and
Television Arts course, I went to work for CBC
Radio in Toronto. Over the years I had the pleasure of doing the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
broadcasts, working on several Royal Tours
(1964 and 1967), and working on the Olympic
Games in Mexico and the Pan-Am Games in
Winnipeg in 1967.
I retired in 1994 (due to downsizing), and
have been doing volunteer work with Accessible
Media Incorporated. There I read timely information from current periodicals for the benefit
of those who are vision-restricted, or in other
ways unable to read the printed word. I have
been doing this for some 17 years now, and
enjoy it thoroughly.
—Donald I. F. Logan ’56
“ There are
always
challenges
out there,
needs to
be filled,
hands to
be held.”
What has a very old alumnus been doing in a
Non Nobis Solum vein when it seems that it takes
twice as long to do half as much as one once
did? There are always challenges out there,
needs to be filled, hands to be held.
Helping several family associations
in Canada and the U.S. garner family data,
genealogical and other, in order to perpetuate
pride in our common heritage, has been
fulfilling. Participating actively in such
endeavours can use up as much, if not more,
than one could wish of one’s time and energy.
In parallel to the above I have been trying,
as much as distance and health will allow, to
help repair ancient and not so ancient pipe
organs in my native province de Québec.
Cumulated data, historical and technical is then
turned over to a dedicated library in Ottawa for
the enjoyment and enlightenment of present
and future generations interested in this one
aspect of our common musical heritage.
The past inhabits the present, influences
the future.
PS: The Perron (Peron/Perron/Péron)
Association motto is Toujours en marche.
—René Péron ’38
David van der Walde ’76
My company, Aust & Hachmann (Canada) Ltd, is engaged
in the import and distribution of vanilla beans and vanilla
bean by-products on a global level. Our primary source is
Madagascar, one of the poorest and most disenfranchised
countries on the planet.
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e are always looking for ways to give back to the vanilla communities of the Northeast Coast of Madagascar as we are benefiting
greatly from their hard work that is the farming and curing of vanilla. Two
small NGOs that we favour are Cala (Antalaha Leprosy Relief Committee
and MDF (The Madagascar Development Fund). Incredibly, leprosy still
exists in Madagascar and the families of the affected are usually isolated
from their villages due to a misunderstanding of the disease.
Cala supports a village that takes in the families from remote villages
affected by this disease as well as abandoned children. The village has its
own primary school, outdoor lavatories, and self-sustaining agricultural
programme. Treatment for leprosy or any other sicknesses is provided
as well. The population has grown to over 300 from less than 50 in the
past 15 years giving a second chance to families and children who would
otherwise be isolated and have virtually no chance at all. We have been
a major sponsor of Cala for the past 12 years.
The MDF is an organization run by the former British Ambassador
to Madagascar. They are engaged in fundraising for micro projects,
which are initiated throughout the country. The four main areas of
sponsorship are primary education, clean water, sanitation and basic
medical assistance. For as little as $10,000 the MDF can build a
primary school in a remote area of Madagascar where none existed
prior, or a small clinic where vaccinations can be given, or women can
give birth in hygienic conditions.
As beautiful and friendly as Madagascar is, the government is
very ineffective when it comes to providing its citizens with the most
rudimentary services. We are sponsoring a project that will see four
public lavatories with park space for children along a stretch of beach
in Sambava that has enormous tourist value.
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Maryse &
Ralph ’77 Levy
The Stroll Family
Andrée & Paul Tellier
$10,000 – $49,999
Annual Giving &
Capital Campaign Donors
Giving is a privilege. And it’s not
just about writing a cheque.
When you give to LCC, you are
not simply supporting excellence;
you are making a tangible
difference in somebody’s life.
–Kirk LLano, Director of Development and Alumni Engagement
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Centenary
Vision Leaders
$100,000 +
Anonymous (2)
The Assaly Family
Compass Group Inc.
Michael G. Fisch ’79
Alan MacIntosh &
Manon Boudreau
Virginia Myles
La Fondation Amelia
& Lino Saputo Jr.
La Fondation Carmie
& Joey Saputo
$50,000 – $99,999
Anonymous (2)
Aldo, Diane, David ’87,
Doug ’90 &
Daniela Bensadoun
Mitchell &
Anne-Marie Garber
Johnny Frassetti &
Elena Borsellino
Pino Forgione &
Debra J. Margles
Karyn &
Andrew Lassner
Anonymous (2)
James Allan &
Elaine Beaudoin
Hamad J. Althani &
Bouchra Hammadi
David ’65 &
Peggy Arditi
Renée BigonesseTellier
Richard Brotto &
Zorina Ali
Michael Bucci &
Valerie Gagné
Kimmy Chedel
Lindsay Eberts ’61
David Flomen & Eden
Polansky-Flomen
Michael Gaul &
Lucia Carpineta
Norman Hacker &
Susana Araujo
Christine Harper &
Family
Hamnett Hill ’61
Sassoon &
Evelyn Khazzam
Deep Khosla ’87
Saveli Kotz &
Catrina Tiron
Peter Lashchuk &
Josée Zambito
The Lavy Family
Andrew &
Maureen Mikus
Sally & Bill Morris
Michael & Michaeleen
O’Connor
The Oringer Family
Basil Papachristidis ’61
Bill & Olga
Papanastasiou
Suzanne Paquin
The Renzi/Crawford
Family
The late Reverend
Howard Rhys ’35
Brian Rossy ’62
Adam Shine ’84 &
Brigitte Roy
Marc P. Tellier
Steve & Ephie Tsatas
Adam ’87 &
Catherine Turner
Ivan ’61 &
Penny Velan
Eric T. Webster
Foundation
Peter Webster ’60
Diane & Maks Wulkan
Council of 1961
$5,000 – $9,999
Anonymous (3)
Philip ’77 &
Anna Belec
Guy R. Casgrain
C.F.G. Heward
Investment
Management Ltd.
Sandra Cohen
Susan &
Steven Cummings
Dr. Luigi Di Battista &
Rosie Salvaggio
The Ergina Family
Tony ’84 &
Teresa Fata
Ross Fraser ’72 &
Donna Doherty
Louis Gendron &
Liana Guizzetti
Rohan Gulrajani ’97
Gary ’73 &
Dawn Harper
I have always felt
great pride in our
school and especially
the friendships
that I made while a
student there. That
pride was confirmed
during the weekend
of September 27–28,
2013, when 30
members of our
graduating class
of 1963 made the
effort to come
together at the
school to celebrate
our 50th anniversary.
It’s pretty cool
when a bunch of 67
year olds suddenly
start laughing and
carrying on as if they
were still in Walter
McBroom’s class.
It’s the friendships
and memories that
we have that make
giving to LCC each
year such a pleasure.
— Andy Shatilla ’63
Sam Hornstein &
Merle Wertheimer
Karsten Howes &
Rebecca Lee
Goulding Lambert ’57
Corine &
Miles Leutner
Doug ’87 &
Brina Lewin
Constantine Los ’57
Alan Marcovitz &
Gail Adelson
David P. Martin ’91 &
Laurence Duguay
Tom McKeown ’77
Janice Naymark & Stephen Hamilton ’78
John Nixon ’72
Dario Pietrantonio
& Antonella Argento
Serge & Marie Rivest
William Rosenberg &
Heather Avrith
Peter Selnar ’63
Steve Vaccaro &
Josee Argento
Peter ’70 &
Kim Wallace
Francine &
Robert Wiseman
Council of 1909
$3,000 – $4,999
Anonymous
Jacky Alloul &
Nathalie Assouline
Bachir Azbaty
Randy ’77 & Lynn Aziz
Jose Dominguez &
Maria Darha
Peter Goldberg
David A. Latter ’74
Ross McGregor ’65
Douglas Millowitz ’87
Richard & Joanna
Shafter
Tim Stewart ’61
Michael &
Catherine Weber
Mark &
Jacqueline Wiltzer
David Wood
Headmaster’s
Society
$1,500 – $2,999
Anonymous
Heather Adelson
Sam Altman &
Nathalie Cooke
Sam & Vita Assaf
A. Victor Badian ’61
Dr. Hans & Tanja Beck
Joseph Belli &
Antonella Paventi
Steve Benjamin ’76
Michel Boucher &
Sylvie Beauregard
Michael Butler ’61
Cesare Della Santina
& Rosa Rizza
Ron & Tami
Dimentberg
Peter Dlouhy &
Kim Drummond
The Elefant Family
Figi & Stuart Elman
Mark & Caroline
Fletcher
Aldo Furfaro
Christopher ’83 &
Margarita Gardiner
David Garfinkle ’77
David Gold &
Franceen Poplaw
John ’90 &
Rocky Goldsmith
Ghislain Houle &
Katherine Moxness
Peyman Jabbari &
Marilena Cortellessa
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Maurice F.L. Jaques ’50
Ryan Elliott Jones &
Natalie Cesari Zaidan (Pre-U ’93)
Rikki Kadri ’99
Lissy Kates
J. Derek Kehoe ’77
David Kippen ’86
Julie Lafrance
Ray &
Angelika Lalonde
Giussepe Lazzara &
Anna Vannicola
Robert Lewin ’96
Steven Lingard ’71
Laurie & Suzie Litwin
Frank &
Jessie Minicucci
Geoffrey Molson ’87
Michael Page &
Yolanda Fuda
Luigi Pallota &
Nadia Iannella
Joseph &
Heather Paperman
Ross &
Selena Paperman
The Peotto Family
Peter Prescott ’71
Howard Richman &
Gloria Beitchman
Brian Salpeter &
Heather Abrahams
Salvatore Scalia &
Diana Ferrara
Charles Scriver ’47
Christopher (Pre-U ’76)
& Hilary Shannon
Craig Shannon &
Kristin FossShannon
Bernard Shapiro ’52
Harold T. Shapiro ’52
Mary &
Denis Singleton
J. Robert Swidler
Hugh B. Thompson ’61
Jean-Marc &
Cynthia Troquet
Bill Vasilakopoulos
& Chrysoula
Kostopoulos
Haiguang Wang
Mark & Rhonda
Waxman
LCC has provided
me and my two
sons—Ben ’10 and
PJ ’12—with an
amazing education
and lifelong
friendships. Giving
LCC my time and
financial support
is not only a family
commitment but also
a pleasure. Today
I continue to receive
the benefits of
being involved and
connected
to the school both
personally and
professionally.
— Philip Belec ’77
Renaud Whittom &
Josephine
Pressacco
Elric Winter &
Caroline Reinhold
Howard & Linda
Wiseman
Dan Zagury &
Sarah Mashaal
Yisheng Zhang &
Pei Wang
Chairman’s
Society
$750 – $1,499
Anonymous
Michael Aronovici
Brett E. Barakett ’83
Ronald Benjamin ’75
Martin Betts
Gregory &
Carolyne Boyd
Craig Bromberg &
Christiansen
Ignacio
Dr. Lancelot A. Brown
Chris Bryant ’61
The Cai Family
Alan Canavan ’39
Edward (Ted)
Cleather ’47
Robert Courey ’61
Leora & Mattie Cukier
Paul & Christine
Filgiano
David R. Flam ’87
Paul Fournier ’61
Max & Lara
Francischiello
Derek Galbraith &
Linda Alexanian
Martin Glynn ’68
Robert Goldenberg &
Liette Tanguay
Peter Hall ’66
Scott ’81 & Leslie
Hardiman
Denys Heward ’64
Julien Hutchinson ’47
John Irwin ’61
David Itzkovitz
Philip Jangl
Bruce Jenkins ’64
To be recognized
in the 2013–2014
donor report, please
make your donation
by June 30, 2014.
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The Katsanis Family
John Kearns ’72
George & Katalin
Kepes
David H. Laidley ’63
Ian F. Le Lievre ’49
The Ludwick Family
Judson Majdell ’87
Lorne Matalon ’72
Brett & Jeannie Miller
Justin M. Molson ’86
Amin Noorani ’83
Ian Rose ’63
Leanne & David
Schwartz ’87
Gerry &
Peggy Shapiro
Robert E. Shatilla ’61
Antonio Sieira &
Georgina Dovali
Sieira
Nicole Simard-Laurin
Tom Stephens ’61
Marc Theriault &
Geneviève Bouthillier
Rob Tipney
David Winship ’49
Ernest ’71 &
Caroline Wong
Founder’s
Society
$250 – $749
Anonymous (5)
Ross A. Aitken
Bobby Anderson ’56
James & Barbara
Angelopoulos
Jon Arklay ’86
Michael Attas ’69
Christian Auclair &
Lucia De Petrillo
Emilio Audi ’10
Christin Bartolo
Walter Baslyk &
Suzanne Colet
Marc J. Belliveau ’76
Kevin Bianchini ’04
J. Douglas &
Betsy Blackburn
Daniel Blunden &
Elizabeth NeilBlunden
Allan Bonner ’71
Pierre Boucher &
Michèle Charest
Sebastian
Cardarelli ’89
Derek Caron ’56
Chaussures Tony Inc.
Haya Chetrit
Jamie Clark ’57
Nicola Colombo &
Teresa Spadorcia
Gilbert Cook ’32
Joseph & Diane
Cristofaro
Jaysen Cristofaro ’94
Joseph & Diane
Cristofaro
Peter J. Cullen ’71
The Desgagnés Family
Domenic Di Girolamo &
Lori Storfer
Reid Drury ’73
John Ellis ’32
Terrill Fancott ’56
Sherban T.
Frangulescu ’88
Daniel Gabbay ’96
Kevin Gross ’72
John C. Gubany ’81
David Halpenny ’70
Claus Hamann ’68
Mark Harland ’87
Bruce Harper ’53
Duncan Harvie ’69
David Hebditch ’54
Geoffrey Heward ’79
John M. Hofer ’68
Dave Howard ’81
Claudia & Albert Israel
Martin Jenkins ’71
Jeffrey Kafka ’71
Ted ’87 &
Stephanie Kalil
Derek Kent ’87
Paul Keyton ’56
Julie Anne Lafleur
Pierre Lafond ’47
Stephen Lee
James Le Lievre ’84
LCC Staff Hockey
League
Mario & Louise
Levasseur
John Lillie ’52
Kirk LLano
Donald Logan ’56
Felipe Macia ’84
Julie Manseau
Lois & Lorne Mayers
John Robert LLoyd
McBoyle ’71
Lyle McCoy ’71
David McKee ’59
John McKercher ’54
Malcolm McLeod ’57
Fred S. McRobie ’59
Gildardo Michel Garcia ’86
Craig Miller ’70
Duncan Moodie ’71
Brian Moore
Ronald & Jill Moroz
William Newell ’98
Gabriel Palombaro &
Filomena Lucia
Mark Pascal ’92
Rick ’63 & Bonnie
Pattee
David Perlman ’95
Daniel Perrault &
Lucie Des Parois
Bart Reilly ’59
Roger J. Reynolds
Paul Rolian ’61
If I think back at
my various levels
of education—grade
school, high school,
undergraduate and
post-graduate—my
high school years
at LCC clearly
stand out as having
been the most
influential. By
supporting the
LCC Foundation,
we can hopefully
make a difference
by ensuring that
the cost of an LCC
education is not a
barrier to students
who might otherwise
not be able to attend.
Afterall, LCC should
be, as a wise man
once said, “not for
ourselves alone.”
— Ted Kalil ’87
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An LCC education
exemplifies the
concept of learning
both in and beyond
the classroom.
My years at LCC
provided me with the
platform to not only
successfully transition
into post-secondary
education, but also
to develop the skill
set and the drive to
build a meaningful
career. As a child
of a family that
benefited from LCC’s
scholarship and
financial assistance
programmes, I feel
fortunate to now be
in a position to “pay
it forward.” I firmly
believe that every
donation counts, no
matter how large or
small, when it comes
to investing in the
bright futures
of our youth.
— Shannon SmithHowes ’00
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Hillel Rosen &
Liane Feldman
Stephen Sadler ’56
Mark Salkeld
Gillian Shadley
Andrew Shatilla ’63
Kenneth Shaw ’77 &
Lori Spence
Jonathan Sigler &
Kathy Myron
Peter R. Slaughter ’68
Gordon Smith ’53
Trevor Smith
Brad Steinmetz &
Tina Shapiro
Gary & Judy
Steinmetz
Neil A. Sternthal ’85
Alyssa Yufe &
Bobby Stoller
Peter Stuart ’60
Charles J. Taylor ’98
Sylvia Tracy
Corey Velan ’93 &
Kristine Jones
(Pre-U ’93)
Max Viens
Alison Wearing
Andrea & Neil
Wechsler ’83
Greg Weitzman &
Lisa Slawner
Bill Westaway ’51
David Whittemore ’80
Gale & Lorne
Wiseman
Blue, Grey, Red
Society
$100 – $249
Anonymous (7)
Ari Aronson ’87 &
Family
Doreen Assaly
Deborah Ayre
Dane Baily ’68
Warren Baldwin ’68
Adam Balinsky ’87
Peter H. Behrens ’71
Jeffrey Traer
Bernstein ’96
Bessner Gallay
Kreisman
Pierre Boulanger ’59
Edmund A. Cape ’67
Chris A. Chenoweth ’71
Geoffrey &
Kathi Cohen
Bill Cooke ’58
Matthew Côté ’99
Michael Coughlin ’99
Leigh Cruess ’74
Peter Darling ’54
Raymond Davis ’43
Norman Davis ’47
John Dingle ’80
Edith Drummond
Charles Frosst ’53
Bonnie &
Steve Gertsman
Michael, Sophia,
Joshua &
Shira Gertsman
William D. Gibb ’52
The Hon. A. Derek
Guthrie ’53
Nicholas Hall ’04
Peter Hannen ’52
W. Laurie C. Hart
Neil Ezra Hazan &
Ali Kirstein
Alain Hébert
Vanessa Horobjowsky
Ross Howard ’64
Michael J. Irwin ’56
Robert Ivanier ’84
Philip &
Judy Johnston
John &
Caroline Kalaydjian
Paul Kavanagh ’70
Peter Kent ’55
Shalik &
Leila Khouzam
Craig Klinkhoff ’06
Evan Krakower ’06
Monica, Peter &
Adam Krieger
John Laschinger ’59
Peter Lazenby ’47
Nathalie Lemelin
Haig Liberian ’06
Robert Maas
Simon Madore ’91
Anthony Maxwell ’57
The donors listed have made gifts
to LCC between July 1, 2012 and
June 30, 2013. We extend our deep
appreciation for their support and
philanthropy. Non Nobis Solum
William McArthur ’52
Scott McEvoy ’80
Mark McGregor ’92
Wilson McLean ’58
Betty McLean
Sylvain Meloche
Shaun Morehouse
Robert Morrissey ’07
Michael Neudorf ’07
Spencer Neudorf ’09
Bina Nobile
Allan Ostrega
Hugh Penton ’59
Alan Perodeau ’42
Gordon Peters ’60
Stephen Poplar
Enza Ricci
Maxine Rupert
Rhodie &
David Salzman
D. Timothy
Sanderson ’81
Sonia &
Daniel Schouela
Shari Segal
Livia ShaikovitzGoldenblatt
Marc Shefler
Judith Shenker
Tom Shingler ’93
Norman
Southward ’83
St. Mary’s Family
Medicine
Associates
Sherri & Jay Stubina
Jeff Sykes
Thijs Family
Susan & Peter Vamos
Al Vandenbussche &
Dawn Levy
Christian Viau
John Vlahogiannis &
Melinda Cochrane
Tony Wain ’60
Orla Wallace
Brian Weaverman &
Jennifer Levy
Peter Wilkins ’51
Kevin Williams ’85
Jessica
Winterstern ’04
Eric Wong ’01
John Wood ’71
Jay Woollven ’60
Peter D. Yuile ’56
Adrianna Zerebecky
Nicholas Zigayer ’81
Lion’s Pride
up to $100
Anonymous (8)
Robert Bassett ’44
Carole
Beauchamp
David Blunt ’52
Guillaume Boisset ’87
Richard A. Bolton ’56
Gerald Burke ’58 &
Katherine
Johnson-Burke
Danny Chazonoff &
Leslie Goldsmith
Stephen Choi ’94
Andrew Cruess ’78
Raymond David
Jeffrey Dinsmore ’76
Jack Donaghy ’51
John Durley ’54
Gordon & Roz Elkin
Fred & Rita Essner
Monsieur Félix &
Mr. Norton Cookies
Michael
Fitzsimmons ’09
Michel Fortier ’56
Samara Fox ’04
Billy Freedin
F.W. Woolworth — for those of you
old enough to
remember — made his
fortune from the five
and dime stores, which
he founded. He rightly
believed that high
volume in low cost
items beat low volume
in high cost items.
This principle applies
in charitable giving,
so when writing out
cheques for modest
amounts don’t worry
if the amount seems
low because you
are probably joining
myriad other likeminded donors who
will produce a grand
total. The important
thing is that your
donation shows faith
in the objective.
— John Ellis ’32
Stanley &
Linda Gendron
Phil & Keren Gertsman
Betty Gertsman
John Gordon
J. Douglas Hall ’70 &
Christine Laberge
Michael Hayes ’51
Shane Joseph
Geoff Kalil ’92
Sarah Kingsley
George B. Maughan ’87
Andrew McCall ’81
David McCall ’50
Karen Michaud
Grant Murray ’49
Frederick Oh ’80
Ron Pam ’64
Edith Patterson
René Péron ’38
Henry & Rhonda
Rosenblum
Harry Schiff ’04
Lawrence Schrier ’73
Guy Sigouin
Bruce Stavert ’57
Ingrid Stefancic
Karnon Suen ’95
Alexandra Tipper
Maciek Wleklinski ’69
Michael Younie ’83
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The Record
Achievements in Academic & Co-Curricular
Programming for 2012–2013
Academics
Debating and Public Speaking
• Stanstead Senior Tournament,
September – 2nd place team
• Trafalgar Junior Tournament,
September – 2nd place team
• CSDF National Seminar, Toronto,
October – top Quebec speaker
• Marianopolis Senior Debating Tournament,
October – 1st place
• Carleton University Tournament,
November – semi-finalists
• Carleton University Tournament,
November – quarter-finalists
• Queen’s University National Debating
Tournament, January – quarter-finalists
• ECS Junior Tournament,
February – tournament champions
• ECS Junior Tournament,
February – 3rd place team
• McGill Spring Debating Extravaganza,
March – junior champions
• McGill Spring Debating Extravaganza,
March – quarter-finalist
• Dawson College Senior Tournament,
April – champions
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• Donahoe Cup Debating Tournament,
Halifax, April – finalists
• Donahoe Cup Debating Tournament,
Halifax, April – champions
• Junior National Debating Championships,
Montreal, April
• QAIS Junior Public Speaking
• QAIS Intermediate Public Speaking
• QAIS Senior Public Speaking
Modern Languages
• The Modern Languages department launched
a new programme for grade 8 students,
called Théâtre 8e année. Students augmented
French written and oral expression, as well
as presentation and multi-media skills, while
working in teams on dramatic productions
• Students from grades 7, 9, 10 and 11 took
part in the QAIS Art Oratoire competition.
The Middle School final was organized and
hosted by LCC
• Students from Kindergarten through grade 8
participated in the annual Dictée PGL, raising
over $4,000 for this initiative
• Students from grade 9 through 11 took part
in the Voix de la poésie/Poetry in Voice national
contest for the second consecutive year
• In grade 10, students from Le Droit took
part in several conferences with judges
and lawyers. They visited a law firm and
participated in two mock trials at the
Montreal courthouse. Le Droit students
also took part in the Jeunes du monde
contest organized by Educaloi whereby
they pretended to be a lawyer and
submitted a brief about children’s rights
• For the first time in many years, LCC
offered a French Pre-University course
and enrolment was at an all-time high
• The school celebrated La semaine de la
Francophonie from March 19 to 22
Mathematics
• Canadian National Mathematics League
(CNML)
Grade 11 students finished with second highest
cumulative score in Quebec
• American Mathematics Competition (AMC)
Grade 10 participant received highest score
in Quebec
• University of Waterloo Sponsored Contests
Canadian Intermediate Mathematics,
Canadian Senior Mathematics
Gauss, Pascal, Cayley, Fermat, Fryer, Galois,
Hypatia, Euclid
• Canadian Senior Mathematics Contest
Zone Champion Winning Team
• Canadian Intermediate Mathematics Contest
Provincial Champion Winning Team
• Solisterra
21 grade 8 enriched mathematics students
assembled and launched an 80-foot windmill
and built a straw-bale chicken coop in
Kazabazua, QC, and 20 grade 9 & 10 math
students worked on a straw-bale shed and
a two-storey building, while learning about
sustainable energy
English
• LCC Reads Programme (8th annual)
Entire school read Little Princes by
Conor Grennan. Mr. Grennan presented
at LCC in November
• QAIS Public Speaking Competitions
English students represented LCC
in all competitions
• The Wire
Students published several issues
of the student newspaper
• LCC Literary Magazine
Students published two issues
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• GMAA Finalists
Tennis (Bantam Boys), Rugby (Juvenile Boys 15’s),
Rugby (Juvenile Boys 7’s), Flag Football (Midget
Girls), Tennis (Bantam Girls)
• 25 LCC teams earned the GMAA
Sportsmanship Award
• LCC hosted 11 tournaments that included
over 100 teams and 1000 athletes
Science
• Schools on Tundra – ArcticNet Inc.
Two grade 11 students participated with
students, scientists and researchers from across
Canada, in Churchill, MB to increase awareness
of issues related to climate change in Canada
• Robotics Competition
Students participated at the annual
CRC competition
• Grade 9 Crime Scene Investigations (CSI)
• Grade 10 students participated in the Power
of Women in Engineering Day at McGill
University in March
• Middle School students attended the All
Science Challenge Day at McGill University
Grade 7 team finished in 2nd place
CO-CURRICULARS
Art
• Arts Week
Improv, music sessions, Café Cabaret, short
film festival, face painting, blow-drying art,
French café
• Black and White Art Show
Thematically based art exhibition of student
art from kindergarten to grade 12
• 4th Annual Middle School Mural
“The LCC Tree”
• Pop Art Show
Junior and Senior School art exhibition
• Grade 6 Art Project with En Masse
Students created a collaborative black and
white mural as a legacy gift to the school
Drama
• Senior School play The Laramie Project
• Grade 11 play Check Please!
• Middle School play The Witches
• Junior School musical Alice in Wonderland
• Pre-U students, produced and directed
Hard Candy and raised money in support
of the Human Promise
• Expérience Théâtre
Students were introduced to the basics of
acting through a series of workshops offered
by professional French comedians
Music
• Concerts & Performances
Assemblies, LCC Family BBQ, Staff
Appreciation Brunch, Café Cabaret,
Winter Holiday Concert & Spring Concert
• Grade 8 Band
Students travelled to Ottawa to perform
at the Science and Technology Museum
and the Canada Space and Aviation Museum
• Senior Concert Band Performance Tour
Students travelled to New York and performed
in two public concerts
Community Leadership
• Community service initiatives
Senior and Middle School students volunteered
12,437 hours of service to organizations both
in Montreal and abroad, raising over $45,000
for local, national and international charities
• Me to We Youth in Action Award
Grade 10 student recognized nationally for
making a difference in communities, at home
and abroad
• Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medals
LCC Headmaster Christopher Shannon (Pre-U ’76)
was recognized for his leadership in raising
awareness about Canadian history in partnership
with the Vimy Foundation.
LCC school counsellor received recognition
for her leadership in encouraging students
to pursue the Duke of Edinburgh Young Canadian Challenge Awards Programme
• Fundraising for Share the Warmth
Senior School students collected over 12,000
pounds of food for Share the Warmth
Christmas baskets
• Duke of Edinburgh Programme
34 Gold Awards, 41 Silver Awards,
79 Bronze Awards
• Annual Terry Fox Run
Raised over $25,000
• Toskan Foundation’s Youth and Philanthropy
Initiative
Grade 10 students donated a total of $10,000
to Santropol Roulant, Friendship Circle and
JEM Workshop while volunteering and learning
about the role of philanthropy in our society
• Movember
Grade 11 students raised over $21,000 in
support of the Movember initiative, making
LCC the highest fundraising school in all
of Canada for this initative
• Dictée PGL
Kindergarten to grade 8 students raised over
$4,000 by writing a sponsored “dictée”
• Junior School theme “Catch Me Doing
Something Good”
Year-long initiative focused on bringing out
the best qualities in each student by capturing
their charitable deeds. 600 good deeds recorded
• Junior School Shoe Drive
Grade 2 students collect 240 pairs of shoes
for Soles4Souls
• Hockey Helps the Homeless (HHTH)
PeeWee Boys Hockey Team volunteered
in February in the HHTH initiative to help
Montreal’s homeless men, women and youth
Athletics
Athletes from grade 4 through Pre-U took part
in 50 teams this year, involving over 750 spots
in 21 sports with LCC teams winning 6 GMAA
championships, 10 tournaments, and 2 national finalists
• GMAA Championships
Hockey (Juvenile Boys), Indoor Track (Juvenile
Girls), Tennis (Juvenile Girls), Tennis (Midget
Boys), Track and Field (Midget Boys), Track
and Field (Juvenile Girls)
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• Canada Courage Learn to Skate
Students volunteered in this unique skating
programme, which LCC hosted and coordinated
with Philip E. Layton School/Montreal
Association for the Blind. The primary goal
of the programme was to offer a completely
new experience on ice for sight-impaired novice
level skaters
• Optometrists Without Borders
Grade 9 student initiative collected 89 pairs
of eyeglasses
• Pre-U students raised over $1,200 to sponsor
four children through the Foster Parents Plan
International
• Duke of Edinburgh Gold Trip
19 grade 11 students travelled to Las Palmas,
Peru to participate in a collaborative community
service project
• Participation in the International Round
Square Conference
7 students travelled to South Africa to participate
in the conference hosted by Penryn College
Students from 90 schools from around the world
attended the event
• Participation in the European Regional
Round Square Conference
5 students travelled to Denmark to attend
the conference at Herlufsholm Skole
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• Participation in the Regional Round Square
Conference of the Americas
5 students attended the conference at the Rothesay
Netherwood School in New Brunswick joining
students from around the world
• Participation in the Young Round Square
Conference
2 students attended the conference at the Chadwick
School in California
• Brick and Mortar Campaign
3 students travelled to the Dominican Republic
to help build a school
• Student Exchange Trips
Thailand, Australia, Tasmania, South Africa
and France
• Senior Concert Band Performance Tour
Students travelled to New York City
• Senior Hockey Trip
Senior Boys Hockey team travelled
to Scandinavia
Environmental Awareness
• 2013 Greenest Employer in Canada
Recognition for LCC’s efforts at integrating
sustainability, environmental awareness and action
into all facets of our environmental initiatives
• New Building Construction
The new Assaly Arts Centre is being built
with the intention of attaining LEED (Leadership
in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver
Certification level
• Jack Layton Award for Youth Action
in Sustainability
LCC teacher wins award based on her Solisterra
project with grade 8 enriched math students
• Development of the LCC Sustainability
Dashboard
With actual numerical data showing LCC’s
environmental impact, we are now poised
to evaluate the effectiveness of initiatives,
renovations and suppliers at changing our
sustainability footprint in meaningful and
significant ways
• Water Management
LCC reduced its water consumption by more
than 50% in two years
• Waste Management
With full composting of both kitchen waste
and leftovers from lunches and snacks, LCC
has shifted a significant portion of the waste
produced by our operations from landfill
to either recycling or composting
• Food Systems
LCC has been able to track the origin of
much of the food that ends up on the plates
of our students
• Curriculum Environmental Inventory
A comprehensive survey was completed that
will allow the mapping of environmental
and sustainability topics as students progress
from K-12
Miscellaneous
• Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award
LCC Duke of Ed Gold Award recipients
attended Ottawa reception and were recognized
by HRH Prince Edward
• LCC students attended Remembrance
Day ceremonies in Ottawa as part of the
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“Operation Veteran” initiative launched
by Dr. Paul Kavanagh ’70
Book Fair “Journey Into Books” enriched
the library with the addition of 442 new
books valued at $8,255
Encounter with Canada
Grade 11 student awarded participation in
one of Canada's largest and foremost youth
forums on citizenship, leadership and careerexploration activities in Ottawa
Participation in 2nd annual Dawson Model
UN Conference
Grade 11 student wins Best Delegate honours
Reach for the Top
Winners of the Provincial Championships and
participation in the National Championships
for the second consecutive year
Hosted the 14th annual LCC Destiny
Quebec Global Issues Conference
The theme of this year’s conference was “Power
Shifts: Is the Global Economy Rising in the East
and setting in the West.” The Right Honourable
Paul Martin was the keynote speaker
Tournoi d'échecs interscolaire at Collège
Jean de Brébeuf
Junior School students win the silver medal
Post-secondary
• Members of the Pre-University class
were offered entrance scholarships for
universities in Canada and United States
ranging from $500 to $94,000
• 50 Advanced Placement exams
were written
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alumnI news
Please keep your news coming!
Send your photos and updates to Kirk LLano, Director
of Development and Alumni Engagement ([email protected]).
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40s
Pierre Lafond ’47 opened
a new dress shop in Los
Olivos, CA, 45 miles north
of Santa Barbara in the
centre of wine country
and has signed a longterm lease for his stores
in Montecito, CA. The
centre includes dress shops,
housewares, a market and
restaurant. He says the
vineyard harvest has been
spectacular.
50s
David Nicholson ’50 and
his wife Diana started the
weekly Wednesday Night
Salon in 1982. Initially, a
small gathering of friends
from the investment community and economists
explored economic trends
and business issues in
Canada. The Salon’s scope
has expanded to global
topics and an international
network with practical and
public policy expertise
ranging from aerospace to
zoology. In February 2013,
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Rt. Rev. Bevan Carrique ’62
has been appointed Grand
Chaplain of The Grand
Lodge of Canada in Ontario.
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60s
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David was awarded the
Queen Elizabeth II
Diamond Jubilee Medal.
“… Undoubtedly his greatest and most important
achievement… the salon has
developed a reputation as the
place to be for dialogue and
discussion.” Find out more at
www.dianaswednesday.com
(Photo.01)
Thomas R. Burpee ’55
recently wrote about
a wonderful gesture
involving two alumni
of the school. With the
closing of Sedbergh
School in Montebello,
QC a few years ago, it
became necessary for the
Sedbergh Foundation to
dissolve. The Foundation
board of directors, chaired
by Tom, disbursed the
remaining funds to various
organizations, one of
which was Montreal’s Dans
la rue. In a ceremony that
took place in May 2013,
Tom presented a cheque
for $50,000 to Peter
Cullen ’71, chairman
of Dans la rue.
Anthony Hancock ’61
has recently published a
novel, Adelphos, based
on the experiences of
a final-year Montreal
university student during
the winter of 1962 – 1963.
It contains flashbacks to
the student’s earlier school
life, including time spent
at a boys’ school in the
Montreal suburbs. Anthony
can be contacted at
[email protected]
and his book is available
in electronic format
on Amazon.
(Photo.02)
Douglas Druick ’62 was
among 164 influential artists,
scientists, scholars, authors,
and institutional leaders
who were inducted into the
American Academy of Arts
and Sciences at a ceremony
in Cambridge in October.
The current membership
includes more than 300
Nobel laureates, some 100
Pulitzer Prize winners,
and many of the world’s
most celebrated artists
and performers.
(Photo.03)
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place in the Agira Canadian
War Cemetery in Sicily.
(Photo.04)
Peter ’66 and son Will ’08
Hall came a close second
in the Soling World
Championships in Hungary
in September, after winning
the 2012 Worlds. Peter is
ranked first in the world in
the Soling class of sailboats.
Alex Cullen ’68 received
a Queen’s Diamond
Jubilee Medal in March
2013 in recognition of his
years of public service
as a school board trustee,
city councillor, regional
councillor and MPP.
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70s
Peter Dash ’74 is
starting a consultancy
in 2014. It will support
the internationalization
efforts of governments,
businesses and individuals
in English language and
cross-cultural training,
issue and image strategic
management, financial
protection and travel
advisory services. He has
worked 17 years abroad in
Austria, Azerbaijan, China,
Germany, South Korea,
Russia, Saudi Arabia and
Qatar. Info: [email protected]
Mervon Mehta ’76,
the Royal Conservatory’s
executive director of performing arts, is responsible
for the programming at
Koerner Hall, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary
this season. The beautiful
recital hall has become an
integral part of Toronto’s
cultural life. Read more at
www.thewholenote.com
(Photo.06)
Steve Benjamin ’76
writes: “The big news in our
family is that our daughter
Megan was married on
September 21, 2013 to
Michael Guimarin. It was
a spectacular event held
at the Calistoga Ranch
in Napa Valley, CA.”
(Photo.07)
L to R: Mitchell Benjamin ’80,
Steven Benjamin ’76, Megan
Benjamin, Michael Guimarin,
Ronald Benjamin ’75, Gary
Benjamin ’73
(Photo.05)
Peter E. Akerblom ’63
(of Italy) and Frithjof
Akerblom ’58 (of BC)
supported Operation
Husky 2013 to remember
the sacrifice of our fallen
Canadian soldiers in the
Battle of Sicily in WWII.
Together they sponsored
a marker for Sapper Charles
Edward Collins in his resting
Tom McCarten ’69 and
Daly McCarten’s daughter,
Emma, began her new
course of study at Queen’s
this fall after graduating
from St. Clement’s School
in Toronto. Her older sister
Lindsay (McGill 2007)
and her family are thrilled
for her.
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Darrell Petit ’77 is the
proud father of a baby boy,
Nile Taki Petit-Darling. His
oldest boy Kai is four years
old and a loyal Red Sox
fan. His wife Naomi Darling
is the Five Colleges assistant professor of sustainable design, teaching at
Hampshire College, Mt.
Holyoke, and University of
Massachusetts — Amherst.
Darrell’s work can be seen
at www.darrellpetit.com.
(Photo.01)
Stephen Hamilton ’78 was
appointed a Judge of the
Superior Court of Quebec
after more than 20 years with
Stikeman Elliott in Montreal.
He is married to Janice
Naymark, who is a member of
the LCC Board of Governors,
and they have three children,
Andrew ’13, Michael ’16
and William ’19.
(Photo.02)
Peter Lynch-Staunton ’79
writes: “My wife, Deirdre
Ensink, and I are pleased to
announce that our son, Jack
Mark Hill Lynch-Staunton,
was born on August 16, 2013.”
80s
Dr. Antonin (Tony) de
Fougerolles ’82 has moved
to Belgium where he is chief
scientific officer of ABLYNX
nv. Ablynx is focused on the
discovery and development
of Nanobodies®, a novel
class of antibody-derived
therapeutic proteins based
on single-domain antibody
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fragments, for a range of
serious human diseases
including inflammation,
hematology, oncology and
pulmonary disease. He and
his family live in Waterloo
near Brussels.
90s
Olivier Roy ’90
completed the New York
City Marathon and raised
close to $8,000 to benefit
the Crohn’s & Colitis
Foundation of Canada
through the generous
support of his friends
(including many LCC
classmates). He is looking
forward to beating both his
race time and fundraising
goal in the London
Marathon in April 2015.
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Mark Kornbluth ’82 joined
Navigant as managing director,
business technology lead
in NYC.
Chris Spencer ’82 writes:
“After ten years with HSBC
Securities, most recently
as vice-president and head
of securities trading, I have
joined HSBC Global Asset
Management as an investment
counselor in their private
investment management
division. My wife Carolina
Azcona and I have lived in
Oakville for 11 years. Our
son Cole is in grade 12, and
daughter Mika is a sophomore
at Boston University.”
Justin Salomon ’86 accepted
a new job in January 2013,
moving from Montreal to
Toronto to join the commercial real estate arm at First
National Financial’s headquarters. As senior analyst,
commercial mortgages, Justin
provides mortgage-lending
solutions to multi-residential
and commercial property
owners across Canada.
(Photo.04)
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Richard P. Cohen ’93
was married to Katherine
in Hawaii on May 24, 2013.
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Shop
On-Line!
(Photo.05)
Owen Rees ’94 and
Jocelyn Russell are
delighted to announce
the arrival of Fiona Louise
Russell-Rees, born on
October 13, 2013 in Ottawa.
Nicolas Billon ’95
was awarded the 2013
Governor General’s Literary
Award — Drama for his book
Fault Lines: Three Plays.
David Perlman ’95
writes: “I just wanted to
let everyone know that my
wife Shana gave birth to
our third BOY, Alexander
James Perlman on
September 21, 2013. Older
brothers Jayden (5) and
Ethan (3) can’t get enough
and fight over who can
hold the baby. They are
taking well to the new
recruit. Mom and Dad are
doing well and learning
about how to play zone
defense from wise friends
and family who bravely
made the jump to being
outnumbered as parents.”
(Photo.06)
Patrick W. Dussault ’97
co-wrote the Jay Baruchel
& Seth Meyers galas at
the summer 2013 Just For
Laughs Festival (including
a sketch featuring fellow
alumnus and Montreal
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Canadiens owner, Geoff
Molson ’87). He also
co-wrote and produced
a JFL special for CityTV
called “The Montreal
Experience” and capped
off his summer by being
named television & new
media creator at Just
For Laughs.
London, New York, or NDG...
Now you can buy your favourite
items on-line from our LCC Store!
We have a great selection of sweatshirts, baseball caps, pens, water
bottles and much more. Be sure to check out our new Roots team jackets.
All purchases are made by credit card on a secure line. It’s quite simple:
(Photo.03)
Ernst van de Weert ’87
has started a new position
as company secretary of
the Heineken Group, the
international brewer from
the Netherlands.
Stewart Yaxley ’92 is
living on the shores of the
Richelieu River with his
wife and two daughters. He’s busy rebuilding an
old ’89 Porsche 944.
LCC was well represented
at the ceremony with
the following classmates
attending: Zachary
Grierson, David
Bouskill, Sean Sutcliffe,
Nicholas Martire, Shawn
Faguy, Nick Dauchez,
Dave Fraenkel, Peter
Schwartz, Greg Nihon,
and Matthew Feldman.
Richie’s brother, Jordy ’91,
was there too, of course!
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Visit our on-line
store at
lcc.ca/shop
2
Follow the
prompts and
select your
favourite items
3
The LCC Store will
ship your purchase
to your selected
destination
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having deferred her start as a
junior associate at Ropes and
Gray in the Corporate Health
Division until the fall of 2014.
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Michel Shamy ’98 writes:
“I have recently moved to
Ottawa, where I have joined
the Ottawa Hospital as a
neurologist and researcher.
Also, on August 10, 2013,
Dr. Claire Dyason and I were
married in Toronto. We had
a beautiful day, surrounded
by family and friends. Alex
Boyne ’98 was an usher.”
(Photo.01)
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Mark Webster ’98 writes:
“My wife and I welcomed
Elliot Robert Webster into
our family on Labour Day
2012! Shortly after his
arrival, I was transferred
from Edmonton to San
Francisco to work at Shell's
Martinez Refinery in an
engineering role. Feel free
to get in touch if you're in
the Bay Area: mark.william.
[email protected].”
(Photo.02)
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04
Christopher Magnone ’99,
along with his marketing
director-wife, and business
partner, were selected to
appear on CBC’s “Dragons’
Den” this fall. The pitch for
their coconut water brand,
Thirsty Buddha, received
four offers and delighted
the dragons’ palates;
however the episode ended
without a deal.
contemporary art galleries
with locations in Zurich and
New York, and soon to be
expanding to Somerset,
England and Los Angeles.
I recently transitioned to
work more closely with
publications, and my role
and responsibilities
continue to evolve in a
very dynamic, visually
stimulating workplace."
(Photo.03)
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Samara D. Fox ’04
is a legal fellow in the
immigration unit of Greater
Boston Legal Services,
Carlo Genoni ’00 writes:
“My wife Rachelle and I are
happy to announce to the
LCC family the birth of our
son, Nicolai John Marco
Genoni, born a healthy 8
lbs. on October 2, 2013.
Mother and son are doing
great and I'm a very happy
and proud father.”
Stefan ZebrowskiRubin '03 writes: "For the
past year and a half I have
been working at Hauser
& Wirth in London in
the research department.
Hauser & Wirth is one
of the world's leading
Matthew Schryver ’11
sustained a concussion while
competing on one of LCC’s
athletics teams. This opened
his eyes to the dangers of
concussion-related injuries
and on his own initiative,
Matthew set out on a quest.
He wanted to know about
the provincial and national
legislation in place dealing
with return-to-play and
concussion-related injuries.
He assembled an incredible
team of experts including Dr.
Scott Delaney of the McGill
Tara Litvack ’05 writes:
“I have been selected to be the
Shaw Festival music directing
intern for the 2014 season. It’s
a huge honour and has been
a wonderful result of a lot of
hard work. It means I get to
work alongside Paul Sportelli,
their resident music director
of 15 years, for eight months
and ultimately conduct some
performances of the mainstage show as well as stage
my own independent project.”
David Wagner ’11
is in his first year at the
U.S. Air Force Academy
in Colorado Springs working
on his undergrad in aeroastro engineering. His sister
Caroline ’07 is attending
MIT in the graduate
mechanical engineering
faculty. Her twin Julia ’07
is at Washington University
of St. Louis in her second
year of medical school.
Concussion Clinic. This in turn
has led to Bill 496, a framework
for the protection and well
being of young athletes, being
introduced in the Quebec
National Assembly by Kathleen
Weil, Liberal MNA for NotreDame-de-Grâce.
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It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing
of the following members of the LCC community:
Peter P. Mustard ’35
Michael Ellwood ’41
Michael Hastings ’97
Peter P. Mustard ’35 died peacefully
on October 21, 2013 in the Veterans’ wing
of Sunnybrook Hospital after a long illness.
He was the son of former, long-time faculty
member Vernon R. Mustard.
Grade 11
Class of 2013
Post-Secondary
Destinations
Champlain College
Pre-University
Choate Rosemary Hall
Class of 2013
Dawson College
University
Green Mountain Valley
Destinations
Holderness School
Hotchkiss School
IMG Academy
John Abbott College
Kent School
Lakefield College School
LCC Pre-University
Marionopolis College
Neuchâtel Junior College
Phillips Andover Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy
Trinity College School
Vanier College
Babson College
Brandeis University
Brown University
(for Fall 2014)
Carleton University
Dalhousie University
Duke University (2)
Elon University
McMaster University
Middlebury College
New York University (2)
Northwestern University
Pacific Rim College
Princeton University
Queen’s University
Ryerson University
The George Washington
University
Tulane University
University of British Columbia
University of Chicago
University of Michigan
University of Toronto
University of Victoria
Valencia College
Washington and Lee University
Yeshiva University – New York
Michael Ellwood ’41 passed away
in Montreal on December 2, 2013.
Michael Hastings ’97 passed away in a car
crash on June 18, 2013 in Los Angeles.
He leaves behind his brothers Jonathan ’93
and Jeff ’99.
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