A School with Heart - Lower Canada College

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Table Of Contents
fall/winter 2012
LION Editor
Dawn levy
34Message from the Headmaster
& the Chairman of the Board
of Governors
LOWER CANADA COLLEGE
Copy Editors
Jane Martin
Louise Mills
36Leonard & Olga Assaly
CONGRATULATES
Generosity helps build community
On-Line
Isabelle Paradis
while preparing students
Teaching
at LCC
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for the “Stage of Life”
Archives, Research
& Database Management
Jane Martin
Louise Mills
Adrianna Zerebecky
39 Olga’s Way
Courage and determination
to make dreams a reality
Table Of Contents
Translation
SPRING/SUMMER 2012
Veronica Schami
02 Head Lines
A school with heart
Leonard
& Olga
Assaly
04 Gotcha! Catch me Doing
Something Good
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It’s simply good to be good
40Annual Giving & Capital
Campaign Donors
43U.S. friends of
Lower Canada College, Inc.
Mailing
Automatic Mailing
& Printing Inc.
The rewards of teaching are
endless for Middle School teachers
LCC alumni share stories of their
most memorable teachers
22 LCC Robotics:
It’s All About Teamwork
ALUMNA
HEADMASTER
24 Tie-ing it All Together
Madeleine Ballard ’06
(Pre-U ’07)
Christopher Shannon
(Pre-U ’76)
26 Class Acts
Rhodes Scholar-Elect,
Class of 2013
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee
Medal Recipient
www.lcc.ca/
madeleineballard
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cshannon
The history of the LCC school tie
Alumni of all ages are taking
Non Nobis Solum to heart,
making meaningful contributions
to a variety of causes worldwide
31 Branching Out
Alumni activities on the West Coast
and at LIONfest
33Report to Donors
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Contributors
David Arditi ‘65
Lois Carson
Wendy Helfenbaum
Wayne Larsen
Kirk LLano
Jane Martin
Christopher Shannon
(Pre-U ’76)
Photo Credits
Christian Auclair
Olivia Auclair
A. Victor Badian ’61
LCC Archives
Dawn Levy
Lindsay Muciy
Christinne Muschi
Isabelle Paradis
08 Middle School Teachers
On the Front Lines
of Adolescent Change
14 Teaching at LCC
Headmaster
Christopher Shannon
(Pre-U ’76)
One of our best kept secrets!
48 The Record
Achievements in academic
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Head Lines / À la Une
Une école
au grand
cœur
A School
with
Heart
By Chris Shannon (Pre-U ’76)
Christopher Shannon (Pre-U ’76)
A few years ago at a national conference
of Canadian school heads and board
chairs, a compelling speaker talked
passionately about his recent research.
Il y a quelques années, un conférencier
fort apprécié a offert, devant un auditoire
réunissant des directeurs d’écoles et de
commissions scolaires de l’ensemble du
Canada, un discours passionné sur le fruit
de ses récentes recherches.
He
had just finished interviewing
several CEOs of America’s
top Fortune 500 companies.
The powerful leaders were
asked to define the one key quality each one
sought in an outstanding potential employee.
The most common response was “empathy.”
Interview after interview, the researcher learned
that the old “soft skills” had become the new
“essential skills” of the 21st century. Emotional
intelligence has taken on new meaning, especially
as both immigration and globalization compel
us to regularly interact with people from a broad
range of cultures and backgrounds.
For a long time, LCC has understood that
learning means more than simply the acquisition of facts, and does not stop at the classroom
door. Indeed, “the fullest development of mind,
body and heart” is at the core of our mission.
Today more than ever, LCC is a school with an
emphasis on matters related to the heart and
the development of empathy. True empathy
requires one to consider the feelings of another
and identify with them.
Caring, kindness, compassion, enthusiasm — these are all important qualities of emotional intelligence that stem from a developed
sense of empathy. To appeal to today’s student,
it is often best to connect with the heart first. This
promotes dialogue around understanding the
experiences of others, so that students can learn
to identify with people whose life experiences are
quite different from their own.
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“It’s only when you
hitch your wagon
to something larger
than yourself that
you will realize your
full potential.”
venait de terminer une série
d’entretiens avec plusieurs PDG des
plus grandes sociétés de Fortune 500
des États-Unis. Il a demandé à ces puissants dirigeants de définir la qualité primordiale
qu’ils recherchaient chez un futur employé qui se
distinguera des autres. La réponse qu’il a obtenue
le plus fréquemment a été l’empathie. Au fil des
entrevues, le chercheur a découvert que les compétences auparavant qualifiées de « générales »
ou « non techniques » étaient devenues les nouvelles compétences « essentielles » du 21e siècle.
L’intelligence émotionnelle a pris une nouvelle
dimension, plus particulièrement en cette ère où
l’immigration et la mondialisation nous amènent
à interagir régulièrement avec des gens provenant
de cultures et de contextes divers.
Le LCC a compris, il y a longtemps déjà,
que l’apprentissage va au-delà d’une simple
acquisition de faits, et qu’il ne s’arrête pas à la
porte de la classe. En effet, nous avons placé
« le plein développement intellectuel, physique et
humain » au cœur de notre mission. Aujourd’hui
plus que jamais, le LCC est un établissement
d’enseignement qui met l’accent sur tout ce qui
a trait aux sentiments humains et sur le développement de l’empathie. L’empathie authentique
implique que l’on tienne compte des sentiments
de l’autre et que l’on s’y identifie.
La sollicitude, la gentillesse, la compassion,
l’enthousiasme — voilà des qualités importantes
Perhaps this explains a host of developments
in recent years at LCC: significant student involvement in the arts, service learning and engaging
international experiences. Each of these domains
touches the heart and moves the soul, making
learning more interesting, relevant and meaningful. As American President Barack Obama told
graduates at Northwestern University in Chicago,
“It’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you will realize
your full potential.”
After the horrible earthquake that rocked
Haiti two years ago, our students’ natural
response was to act immediately, and thousands
of dollars were raised. In fact, actively supporting social causes, large and small, are part of our
school ethos. In recent years, our staff has also
raised significant funds for student bursaries by
performing musicals for student/parent audiences. Parents and alumni have also shown big hearts
with philanthropy directed at our school and
children. Many have generously supported our
program and capital needs, especially the LCC100
Campaign and now the Ambitious Minds – Global
Leadership Campaign.
Our students, teachers and extended school
community have demonstrated a strong commitment to caring and empathy. They are proactive
and reach out to improve our school, our local
community and a host of international causes.
Welcome to Non Nobis Solum for the 21st century!
« Ce n’est que lorsque
l’on accroche son
wagon à quelque
chose de plus grand
que soi que l’on
réalise son plein
potentiel. »
qui font partie de l’intelligence émotionnelle
et qui découlent d’un sentiment d’empathie
épanoui. Aujourd’hui, pour capter l’intérêt
des élèves, il est souvent préférable de nouer
d’abord des liens avec leur cœur. C’est un moyen
d’établir un dialogue favorisant la compréhension des expériences vécues par autrui, le but
étant que les élèves apprennent à s’identifier
à des gens dont le vécu est différent du leur.
Cela explique peut-être de nombreux changements que l’on observe depuis les dernières
années au LCC : une participation accrue d’élèves
aux initiatives artistiques, à l’apprentissage
du service et aux expériences internationales.
Chacune de ces activités touche le cœur et inspire
l’esprit, ce qui rend l’apprentissage plus intéressant, pertinent et significatif. Comme le Président
américain Barack Obama l’exprimait devant
les finissants de la Northwestern University de
Chicago : « Ce n’est que lorsque l’on accroche son
wagon à quelque chose de plus grand que soi que
l’on réalise son plein potentiel. »
À la suite de l’effroyable séisme qui a secoué
Haïti il y a deux ans, la réaction naturelle de
nos élèves a été d’agir immédiatement, et des
milliers de dollars ont alors été recueillis. En
fait, le soutien actif de causes sociales, quelle
que soit leur envergure, fait partie intégrante
de la philosophie de notre école. Au cours des
dernières années, notre personnel a également
recueilli des fonds pour les bourses étudiantes
en présentant des comédies musicales à un
auditoire composé d’élèves et de parents.
Parents et anciens élèves ont également manifesté leur générosité en contribuant aux projets
de philanthropie destinés à notre école et aux
enfants. Plusieurs ont soutenu généreusement
notre programme et nos besoins en capitaux,
plus particulièrement dans le cadre de la campagne LCC100 et, actuellement, de la campagne
Ambitious Minds – Global Leadership.
Nos élèves, nos enseignants et notre
communauté scolaire élargie font preuve
d’un profond engagement envers la sollicitude
et l’empathie. Ils se montrent proactifs et
s’efforcent d’améliorer notre école, notre
communauté locale ainsi qu’une multitude de
causes internationales. Bienvenue au Non Nobis
Solum version 21e siècle !
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We want to capture
the spontaneity
of goodwill rather
than doing it for
a reward. It’s all
about being helpful
without being asked.”
By Wayne Larsen, Media Consultant
It used to be that whenever a student
heard a teacher utter that dreaded
word, it meant trouble — and usually a
trip to the principal’s office. But while
LCC’s Junior School teachers are saying
“Gotcha!” and sending students to the
principal’s office a lot more often this
year, the word has taken on a whole
new meaning.
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t’s all part of “Catch Me Doing Something
Good / Sois témoin de mes bonnes
actions,” the theme for the 2012 – 2013
school year that instills good citizenship
and responsibility in the young students by
encouraging them to do good deeds as part of
their everyday lives. From simple things like
picking up a discarded wrapper from the floor
to acts of generosity such as helping a younger
student during lunch period, students from
kindergarten to grade 6 are learning that it’s
easy to be helpful and that their voluntary good
deeds aren’t going unnoticed.
“At LCC we’ve always prided ourselves
on positive reinforcement,” says math teacher
Shoshana Weinberger, who has sent many
conscientious students to Junior School
Director Yasmine Ghandour’s office since
“Catch Me Doing Something Good” began
this year. Once at the office, the student has
their good deed logged in the special Gotcha
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Book by Mme Ghandour, and they sign their
name to it. There is no prize for getting your
name and details of your good deed entered in
the Gotcha Book, nor is there any reward for
the student with the most citations. Instead,
students are rewarded with the satisfaction of
knowing they have done something positive.
“We want to capture the spontaneity
of goodwill rather than doing it for a reward,”
says Mme Ghandour. “It’s all about being
helpful without being asked.”
The Junior School adopts a different
theme each year — previous themes have
included “Help Others; Discover Yourself ” and
“It’s All About Character” — and this one has
caught on with students in a big way. Some
are so eager to have their name entered in the
Gotcha Book that they have come forward and
boasted to a teacher about something they had
done. “But that’s not how it works,” says grade
3 French teacher Nathalie Simard. “I have to
tell them, ‘No, you can’t come and tell me you
want to be in the Gotcha Book — I have to
catch you doing something good.’”
“I’m very proud of the seven times I’ve
made it into the Gotcha Book,” says grade 4
student Justin Lewin ’20, whose good deeds
include helping in the dining room at lunchtime. “One time I saw one of the chefs drop
some food on the floor, so I helped him clean
it up,” he says.
“It has seeped
through to the
households; parents
are writing to tell me
what their children
did, and they get into
the book as well.”
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Every year, our Junior School music teacher James
Angelopoulos — also affectionately known as “Mr. A” — composes original music and writes bilingual lyrics for
a song that reflects the theme of the year for our
youngest group of students.
“It’s just good
be
good.”
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For nine-year-old Justin, the theme “Catch
Me Doing Something Good” is important to all
students because it helps to build their character. “It shows that I can be a very good leader,”
he says with confidence.
“It’s true — the Gotcha Book really
encourages you,” says 11-year-old Alexandra
Bromberg ’18, who is in grade 6. She has also
been “caught” and sent to the principal’s office
several times for such “offenses” as picking up
and handing in to Mme Ghandour a coupon
she found on the dining hall floor.
Grade 6 teacher Belinda Rother, who is
credited with coming up with the initial idea
for “Catch Me Doing Something Good” last
spring, is pleased with the way it has caught on
with the students. “We’re always preaching to
the kids — don’t do this, don’t do that — so we
wanted to catch them on a daily basis doing
something good, something right, something
nice for others,” she says.
A typical example of a “Gotcha!” moment,
she says, occurred during a recent lunch period
when a boy who sits at the table she supervises
came over to his little sister and wiped her
mouth with a napkin. On another occasion, a
boy took it upon himself to help the lunchroom
waiters by piling up empty dishes.
For seven-year-old Tyler Stern ’22, helping
others is something that should come naturally.
He has already been sent to Mme Ghandour’s
office five times to sign the Gotcha Book, and
he sees many of his grade 2 classmates getting
recognized for good deeds of their own. While
he doesn’t think the older students are any less
conscientious, he believes the younger ones
have a built-in advantage when it comes to
being spotted doing the right thing. “I guess it’s
because we have a lot of teachers supervising
us, so we get ‘caught’ a lot more often,” he says.
The lunchtime buddy system has proven
to be a goldmine for “Gotcha!” situations.
“In the dining room the kids have buddies — a kid in kindergarten will buddy up with a kid
in grade 6,” says Ms. Weinberger. “We had
a new student in grade 1, and on the first day
she came to school she didn’t know where
to sit, so one student volunteered to be her
buddy, which meant he would have two
buddies... Gotcha!”
Tyler is quick to point out that his most
memorable “Gotcha” moment came during a
recent lunch period on a day when the grade
5 classes were away on a field trip. He noticed
that a younger student’s grade 5 buddy was
absent, so he took it upon himself to go over
and bring the young student to his table.
Many students are taking “Catch Me
Doing Something Good” beyond school hours
and incorporating it into their daily lives at
home and on weekends. “It has seeped through
to the households; parents are writing to tell
me what their children did, and they get into
the book as well,” Mme Ghandour says with
pride, citing one example of a girl who was
inspired by a public service television advertisement and insisted her family sponsor an
impoverished child in Africa. “She kept rewinding (the commercial) until she got the phone
number right, and then she got out all of her
tooth fairy money to help sponsor the child.”
Teachers agree that this year’s theme
has succeeded beyond their expectations. No
less than 320 good deeds were logged in Mme
Ghandour’s Gotcha Book from September
through December 1, which means the goal
of reaching 1,000 “Gotchas” by the end of
the year is by no means out of reach.
And for their part, the students are determined to keep getting “caught” to make sure
that magic number is reached in June — or
maybe even earlier. “If we keep up the way
we’re going, we can definitely reach that goal,”
Alexandra says confidently.
In the meantime, the overall message continues to get through, loud and clear. “You’re
not supposed to just do something good when
a teacher’s there,” says Tyler. “You’re supposed to do something good all the time — not
just to get into the Gotcha Book. Because it
doesn’t matter if you don’t get into the Gotcha
Book. It’s just good to be good.”
Watch the Junior
School Choir sing
“Catch Me Doing
Something Good”
Here are the lyrics to the song
that support this fabulous initiative:
CATCH ME DOING SOMETHING GOOD
SOIS TÉMOIN DE MES ACTIONS
Catch me doing something good,
Catch me doing something right, make it a habit,
Doing good each single day,
When at school, at home, at work or play.
Catch me doing something nice,
Sounds to me like good advice, why not just try it,
Doing good, it just makes sense,
Together with my family and friends. Let’s start with,
R E S P E C T respect to one another,
This way there are no regrets,
Adding kindness is also very cool,
from now on every game we play,
We’ll follow each and every rule and,
Don’t forget responsibility and there is also,
Caring and there’s honesty,
We are leaders, we are LCC,
The future’s bright cause we’ll do right for our community.
Catch me doing something good,
Catch me doing something right, make it a habit,
Doing good each single day,
When at school, at home, at work or play.
Sois témoin de mes actions,
Vois comment chaque jour tu peux aider ton prochain,
Un peu d’imagination,
C’est tout ce qu’il faut pour propager le bien.
Amorçons l’opération,
Trouve la raison qui changera le monde,
Que de réalisations,
Et ainsi la bonté sera féconde, let’s start with,
R E S P E C T respect to one another,
This way there are no regrets,
Adding kindness is also very cool, from
Now on every game we play,
We’ll follow each and every rule and,
Don’t forget responsibility and there is also,
Caring and there’s honesty,
We are leaders, we are LCC,
The future’s bright cause we’ll do right for our community.
Sois témoin de mes actions,
Vois comment chaque jour tu peux aider ton prochain,
Un peu d’imagination,
C’est tout ce qu’il faut pour propager le bien.
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Middle School Teachers
On the Front Lines
of Adolescent Change
By Lois Carson, Media Consultant
“It helps to have a small ego and a great
sense of humour in this job.” Said with a
smile, the words are from Middle School
Director Rob Tipney, who oversees the
school division where LCC students literally change from children to adolescents
in the space of two years. Both Rob and
the teachers who work with him agree
that Middle School is a time of high energy
levels, when students swing between the
desire for independence and the need for
guidance from the adults in their lives.
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Mark Allison
k
Pola
Matt
Grades 7 & 8 Geography & History
Mark has been teaching for 15 years. Formerly
a Junior School teacher, he has taught Middle
School for six years.
LCC’s Middle School, consisting of
grades 7 and 8, was established as a separate entity from Senior School — with
dedicated staff, its own space, assemblies
and lunch hour — in 1995. Today there are
some 180 students in Middle School,
approximately 90 in each grade.
Teachers dedicated to this particular age
group play a special role in laying the
foundation to ensure that students are
academically, emotionally and socially
prepared for the challenges of Senior
School and beyond.
Here, several Middle School teachers
share their thoughts on their special role:
ipney
Rob T
“What gets me
out of bed every
morning is knowing
that I’m going to
be in a room where
students are willing
to put any effort
into any project
I give them.”
Grades 7 & 8 English
Alexandra started teaching three years ago,
when she joined LCC's Middle School staff.
She is an LCC alumna who graduated in 2004.
What makes teaching at the
Middle School level unique?
The fact that this is the time when students
go from being dependent to independent. It
develops their character and who they are as
individuals. I’m letting them see what they’re
capable of on their own.
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What are the rewards of teaching
at this level?
What gets me out of bed every morning is
knowing that I’m going to be in a room where
students are willing to put any effort into any
project I give them and that they are excited
to do it, and that they give it their all and that
they try every day. Even when it is difficult
for them, they still keep going and that makes
me love my job.
What are your most memorable
Middle School moments?
The students say and do so many different
things — it puts a smile on your face every day.
What they come up with is probably still going
to surprise me 20 years from now and make
me see that I was privileged to teach them.
Alexandra Mazzella ’04
Why do you like to teach at this level?
I am comfortable with Middle School students.
They still have that glow about them that says,
“Yes, I get to do this and I’m going to do a
great job at it.” I like to show them that they
are capable of doing anything they put their
minds to.
What are the challenges associated
with teaching at this level?
The biggest challenge is to get students to
notice and understand their style of learning.
It’s helping them get organized and develop
a work ethic — a solid base to get them through
Senior School.
Matt Polak
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ella ’04 (right
Alexandra Mazz
Grades 7, 8 & 9 History, Grade 9 Ethics
Matt started teaching nine years ago, when he
joined the LCC teaching staff.
It’s a lot of fun. The students come in to class
in the morning and they are ready to go.
They’re not at that point where they’re “too
cool for school.” School is still cool and it’s
awesome to be excited and enthusiastic and
happy. Teaching my subjects makes me pretty
much of a storyteller. I get to captivate kids
through stories. I love my job.
What makes teaching at this level unique?
Middle School provides a safe place for students. A safe place to make mistakes, to try
different things, to fall and get up and know
that they’re building skills for later in life.
They are encouraged to take risks and
to understand that it’s part of the process
to get to where they need to be.
“The rewards
are endless. Just
seeing them grow
into young adults
and citizens of
the world...”
What is unique about teaching at this level?
Middle School strikes a balance between the
freedom to fail and the guidance we provide.
We understand and are in tune with the changes
that the students go through. Students who have
come back to see us tell us it’s the time in their
school life that they had the most connection
with their teachers.
What are the challenges associated
with teaching at this level?
It’s the wide range of where the students are
intellectually. They all get where they need to
be. I have to tailor my lessons to hit the wide
range of their intellects.
at this level?
The rewards are endless. Just seeing them
grow into young adults and citizens of the
world and knowing that you play a role in influencing them in their lives — as they do in ours.
It’s the whole experience. Starting at the beginning of grade 7 when we go on a trip to Camp
Nominingue and culminating two years later
with History Night. It’s seeing how far they
have come — from being those shy grade 7
kids to grade 8 extroverts.
Middle School is not just curriculum-driven.
It’s also about developing character. We invest
in helping students become good people. They
are still in awe of you a bit. They look up to you.
Especially when you’ve forged a good relationship.
They are willing to show you they want to try
and change. That’s the magic of Middle School.
What are the challenges of teaching
at this level?
Sometimes we have to be the figure that helps
a parent give the student some space to become
more independent.
“At the end of
every school year,
I need to express to
the grade 8 class
that it’s not easy
to let them go.”
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What qualities are needed to teach
at this level?
We’re good at not taking ourselves too seriously,
having fun with the kids, making connections at
their level. They feel free to get to know us. And
Rob Tipney is a great leader. He’s very supportive
of us and of the kids. He gives them a chance
to shine and grow.
At the end of every school year, I need to
express to the grade 8 class that it’s not easy to
let them go. We have invested time and energy
and care and we’re not going to have that day-today with them anymore. It’s like the “empty nest
syndrome.” It’s a special moment handing them
off, knowing that they’ve tried very hard and
we’ve tried very hard and it’s going to be OK.
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(L to R) Middle school
teachers June Saunders,
PJ Tremblay, Mark Allison,
and Matt Polak
“Kids at this
age want to learn;
they‘re curious
about what’s going
on in the world.”
An LCC Memoir Like No Other:
The Bugle
Sounded
One Note
at this level?
In our society, it’s almost accepted for people
to say they hate math and are no good at it.
In my small way, I try to change that by helping
students develop a number sense, or numeracy.
In the last few years, I’ve realized the impact
I have on my students. When I meet former
students in their 20s or 30s, and they start
sharing stories of “do you remember when?,”
I see that I did have an impact. I’m almost
taken aback by it. It’s humbling.
June Saunders
Grades 7 & 8 Math
June has been teaching for 22 years,
15 at LCC and seven in Middle School.
The students still have their “Eureka!” moments.
They still get excited about what we do in the
classroom and I love that energy. They’re naive,
egocentric, fun to work with, trying to be
adults and still wanting to be hugged. They’re
developing their personalities.
What makes teaching at this level unique?
Where they are in their development. When
I taught in the older grades, it took a lot to stir
them up. At this level, I have the flexibility to
be creative in my teaching with projects (like
building a catapult and a straw bale house in
the grade 8 enriched program). I don’t have
to stick to the lesson plan exactly every day.
We still get the curriculum done but at the same
time I hold their interest.
What is the role of a Middle School teacher?
We wear many hats. Most of us are advisors
as well as teachers. We play a parental role, a
friendship role and a teacher role. Sometimes
you have to be the enforcer of the rules. And
sometimes you’re someone to share a laugh with.
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Jeff Sykes
june Sau
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Grades 7 & 8 English & Art
Jeff has been teaching 20 years, 19 years
in LCC Middle School.
The students are old enough to discuss some
interesting issues, like intolerance and racism, and yet they’re still young enough to be
wide-eyed and optimistic and open. Kids at this
age want to learn; they‘re curious about what’s
going on in the world. And I like that.
“The students
still have their
“Eureka!” moments.
They still get
excited about
what we do in the
classroom and I
love that energy.”
What are the challenges of teaching
at this level?
Grade 7 is the biggest entry point into LCC,
so the students come from a lot of backgrounds and their ability levels and maturity
levels are very different. You have to be aware
of each child’s background and special needs.
To do it well is challenging.
Jeff Sykes
What is the role of the Middle School
teacher?
My grade 7 teacher was my idol. He found a
balance between being an authority figure and
being approachable. He was an adult you could
talk to about things that confused you in life.
I decided if I was going to be a teacher, I wanted
to be like that. As a Middle School teacher,
you’re an advisor, officially and unofficially.
That’s the appeal for me.
at this level?
The feeling that maybe you’re making a difference. When a parent says, “My child loves your
class” or when students come back and say,
“Remember when we talked about…” I like
to think I’m having a positive influence.
What is your most memorable
Middle School moment?
The first Middle School closing ceremonies
we had were memorable. We used to be part
of the closing ceremonies of the Senior School.
But when we had our own ceremony, our own
speeches, our own prize-giving… that was
the moment I felt we really had become
a separate school.
Have you read LCC’s latest “best seller?” We’re referring
to Denys Heward ’64’s memoir The Bugle Sounded One
Note, in which our retired history teacher offers a rollicking
account of LCC spanning six decades.
Illustrated with more than 40 photographs, the book is filled with
insightful, frequently hilarious anecdotes about Denys’ days as
a student with unrecognized learning disabilities, and his lengthy
tenure as one of the school’s most memorable teachers.
Here’s what alumni are saying about Denys Hewards’ The Bugle
Sounded One Note:
“… it was not only an excellent memoir of our days as students,
but covered some very interesting observations about how we learn
and communicate.”
— Peter Selnar ’63
“I just finished Denys Heward’s book and loved the many anecdotes
and some of the priceless pictures in it as well.”
— Andrew Wyllie ’90
The price is $25 and every
penny goes directly to
supporting bursaries for
deserving students who might
not otherwise be able to
afford an LCC education.
To order your copy,
contact the LCC Store
([email protected], or call
514-486-7009).
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Teaching
LCC alumni share stories of
their most memorable teachers
at LCC
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mong the stimulating teachers under
whom I was privileged to study was
Hugh MacLennan who taught us
Latin, a subject which I somehow
believe was not his favourite, and from which
he would on occasion stray to evoke the interest
of the entire class by outlining the similarities
between the battle techniques used in ancient
times with those of our day. Fascinating, to put
it mildly.
More interesting still was his habit, when
monitoring the periodic evaluation exams he
gave us, of turning his chair around to face the
blackboard rather than the class. On every such
occasion he would mention something or other
about our all being completely trustworthy as
young gentlemen, before sitting down to immerse
himself in reading a book. In my view, this was
a singularly endearing quality in that it proved
that even the most hallowed of those whom I
admired could be subject at times to some error
of judgment, and more important still, it provided
me with an opportunity to get a passing mark.
One cannot help but admire Hugh
MacLennan’s countless achievements, which
in many ways were supplemented by the very
caring manner with which he treated others,
including those with whom one would normally
be inclined to be somewhat annoyed or resentful.
My own strong impression was formed
following a mid-term exam in which I couldn’t
answer a single question and handed in my paper
showing only the date, form number, and my
name. Some three days after the exam, when the
results were posted on a board outside our classroom, someone yelled out “Hey Perodeau, what
happened to you, you only got 20%?”
Completely flabbergasted at being accorded 20% for nothing, I went looking for Mr.
MacLennan and finding him alone in a classroom I inquired about the 20% mark he’d given
me. He asked if I thought I merited a higher
mark and when I replied “NO” and that I’d not
answered a single question, he scratched the
back of his neck in thought and then said “oh
yes now I remember, I gave you that for neatness.” And as it turned out, ‘twas the highest
mark I ever got in Latin.
— Alan Perodeau ’42
“Strong body;
strong mind.”
At the end of my second year, Robert Speirs
suggested that I should contribute to the LCC
Magazine. I replied, all too boldly, “only if I am
the editor.” Rather than smack me down, he
agreed. I went on to write for ISIS, the Oxford
University newspaper and then a number
of magazines on television. This led to my
lifelong career in the BBC Television Service.
— William Cave ’43
I was in a public school and doing very poorly.
I then broke my arm. My parents were sure I
would fail, so in March they enrolled me at LCC.
If anything, my marks at LCC got even worse.
My parents asked Mr. Lane, the assistant
headmaster, to tutor me. We spent 10 weeks
after school going through the basics. At the
end of that time my marks had skyrocketed,
I was enjoying school and never again had any
problems with academic work. I don’t know
how Mr. Lane did it, but it was a miracle!
I was lucky to have many great teachers.
One of them was Hugh MacLennan. He was
in the process of writing Barometer Rising.
He was a truly great teacher and taught me
the joy of curiosity and the courage and ability
to consider questions in the broadest terms.
He also believed in the ancient Greek precept
“Strong body; strong mind.” He was an outstanding role model.
— Julien Hutchison ’47
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02 Major Gibb
03 Ned Heney
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Headmaster Stephen Penton had a profound
influence on me as a schoolboy and as an adult,
which I have come to appreciate more as I have
grown older... He broached no nonsense from
students, but he was always unfailingly fair and
approachable. Caning was permissible in those
days but Mr. Penton (later Dr. Penton) found the
task distasteful. Although the headmaster had
an unfortunate stammer (think of the recent
movie The King’s Speech), no boy ever giggled
as might be expected. Dr. Penton was too much
admired for that.
Dr. Penton upheld the values espoused
by “The Boss,” Dr. Fosbery. I was part of a
group of a dozen LCC students who travelled
to England in the summer of 1955 with
Dr. Penton as our guide. We met Dr. Fosbery
in Bournemouth at his home.
When Dr. Penton retired, he published his
history of Lower Canada College, Non Nobis
Solum, and I was pleased to help in the marketing, sales and distribution of the book throughout Canada. I now saw a different side of the
once formidable headmaster: affable, relaxed,
eager to see his book in shop windows and a
superb teller of school stories, some of which
never made it into his book. Dr. Penton was a fine man of outstanding
character who relished his job, loved the school
and acted as a model to generations of young
boys, who, if they followed his example, would
become proud Old Boys of an extraordinary
institution that continues to grow and flourish.
I feel fortunate that our paths crossed so long
ago when I was an impressionable school
boy. I’m a better man for it.
— Colin Campbell ’56
Major Gibb, or “Gibby,” taught us gymnastics
and also did classroom sessions on health.
I recall him lecturing one day on the perils of
smoking (this was around 1960: boy, was he
ahead of his time!). He said, “If I can convince
just one of you not to take up smoking cigarettes, these classes will have all been worthwhile.” I guess they were worthwhile because
I became that student. Knowing what we do
now about the effects of tobacco, it may be that
Gibby saved the last third-to-half of my life.
— Ian Cook ’63
It was Mr. Heneys’ grade 8 geography class
that gave me some new skills that have served
me well my entire life. I entered LCC in grade 3
from a public school. I had not yet been taught
cursive writing, let alone to use a fountain pen!
For the next five years, I struggled to write legibly and without getting ink all over my hands,
often unsuccessfully. Mr. Heney taught us how
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to print, legibly and consistently. He gave us
printing exercise after exercise, forcing us to use
this new skill. By the end of the year, my writing/printing had evolved dramatically. To this
day, I am so grateful for what he taught me that
year. A seemingly simple thing, but immeasurably valuable. Thank you, Mr. Heney.
— Terry Rapoch ’64
I’ll never forget the image of diminutive Irish
math teacher Tom Wright telling us the story
of “Mister Pythagoras” while intermittently
flinging large hunks of chalk at the heads
of the inattentive.
— Colin Sutherland ’72
I am a concert pianist but also a writer, and
I know I would not be this second without the
invaluable training I received from Bob Veysey.
He instilled a love of English language and
literature in me, a respect for its rules, a fascination with its potential for cogent self-expression
and a passion to excel in its usage. I owe him
a deep debt! We didn’t like him that much, but
somehow that didn’t matter. What he...“made”
us learn, that’s what mattered...
The most valuable thing I learned at LCC:
Don’t give up, do give your all, and do so with
intelligence. This last phrase I add because of
Mr. Gibb, our gym teacher. I thought I was a
pretty good softball pitcher, could whip the ball
pretty accurately and consistently over
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the plate, but was giving up lots of hits. My
pitches were too juicy, and I wasn’t even aware
of it. I’ll never forget Mr. Gibb telling that me if
I just put a bit of a spin on the ball, things would
improve. I tried it and struck out the next three.
— Alan Fraser ’72
I feel privileged to have had a superior French
language education at LCC. All my French
teachers excelled, but Jean-Marie Rochette’s
humour and idealism made a strong impression on me. Who can forget his playing of the
German version of “Charlie Brown” (Charlie
Brown, das ist ein clown) in the French lab? And
his standing head unbowed at Christmas service
at St. Columba’s was an object lesson for me of
respectful dissent and a window into the Quiet
Revolution.
I use lessons learned from Bob Veysey
daily in my work life: how to write (and fold!)
a business letter, the proper forms of address,
and — “Words Are Important!” Mr. Vesey also
demonstrated strength and skill in dealing with
the rude antics we boys would get up to in class.
Some teachers would lose it, but not Bob!
If two words could sum up LCC teachers,
I would offer these: dedication and purpose.
“The true path of manhood, by former
footsteps trod” was not just a song but a goal.
— David M. Camp, ’74
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Senior School English Department Head
Bob Veysey taught me that literature mattered — that poetry, drama and fiction not only
illuminated other worlds, they were essential
to a rich, reflective and profound appreciation of one’s own life. French teacher Georges
Plamondon inspired a love of the French
language, a love for theatre, and demonstrated
how great teachers can be both rigorous and
kind — the latter
a much undervalued virtue.
— Jeffrey Harper ’75
Every teacher contributed to my development.
From Headmaster Geoff Merrill’s sense of
humour handling human reproduction, to Bob
Veysey’s passion for English, to Tom Wright’s
bringing geometry to life through stories of
“Old Euc,” to Dave Wood’s charismatic leadership on the football field.
No teacher felt more like a big brother and
mentor than Doug MacLean, on the basketball
court or in geography. He inspired a curiosity
in me for geology, navigation, coaching and
mentorship. — Tyler Cobbett ’76
What shaped my life the most at LCC was that
all of my teachers were excellent. They had
high expectations of us as students and especially as young people developing character. It was also clear that they cared about us
and our development… I remember how Mr.
Dixon kept me on the soccer team for my work
ethic, not necessarily for my skills. That taught
me the value of perseverance. I remember
how Mr. MacLean taught us about the world
through geography. I was so impressed by his
slides of the western U.S. that I ended up living there. And my first job out of college was
designing a hub and spoke system for air cargo
companies, which of course relied on a strong
knowledge of geography.
— Steve Benjamin ’76
Mr. Wright, teaching geometry, introduced
me to a book by Euclid that opened the doors
to math. Where would I be without math? I
wouldn’t even have the change in my pockets.
John Hale ’76, Steve Benjamin ’76 and I
discussed a possible scenario for a composition after an English class with Mr. Laurie
Hart and sure enough, low and behold, a man
with a large nose, a brobdingnagian snout,
featured in all three of our compositions.
(”Brobdingnagian” is from the book Gulliver’s
Travels, which we studied.)
The most valuable thing I learned from an
LCC teacher was from Victor Badian, when he
sent me home to get my LCC tie which I had
forgot to put on. The tie is the most important
accoutrement in my wardrobe.
01 Doug MacLean
02 laurie hart
03 Victor Badian
04 coach dave wood
05 Georges Plamondon
06 headmaster
geoff Merrill
07 ron Dixon
08 Coach Trevor Smith
09 Barry Armstrong
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8strive to win,
but win with class
— Robert M. Friedberg ’76
It was 1976 and I was drafted from the Bantam
Basketball team for one game to play on the
(one year older) Junior team, which was without a point guard due to injury. Having already
scored 17 points early in the 2nd half, I was
feeling pretty good about myself, only to nail
another basket with a Kareem Abdul Jabbarlike sky hook (the 5’ 10” version thereof) to
reach 19 points. While running back to play
“D,” I celebrated with a raised arm and a loud
“Kareeeeeeeeeeem.” I was pumped. One more
basket or free throw and I would have my first
20-point game, and even better, that personal
milestone would be reached while playing
against older boys. The whistle blew for a foul
and Coach Trevor Smith called for timeout. Trevor sat me down on the bench, made
it clear that my behaviour did not represent
his or LCC ideals, and also made it clear that
I was not going to relinquish that seat for the
remainder of the game (which I didn’t). I don’t
know if I ever did score 20 points in a game
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Of all the teachers and professors I have had
throughout my life, none have had as profound
an impact on me as Barry Armstrong. As a
teacher, Barry had a knack for making learning
fun. His great sense of humour and animated
lectures always kept my attention and interest. He clearly loved physics and loved to
teach it and his passion for teaching us came
through in every class.
I can remember him asking the class, as
he tossed a ball in the air, what happens at the
highest point in the toss when the ball stops
moving. When a student incorrectly responded that gravity goes to zero, Barry started
leaping off the floor repeatedly (and coming
back down to earth) to prove the point that no,
gravity was still alive and well!
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at LCC; what seemed important at the time
has now faded into insignificance. But Trevor’s
lesson has not faded one bit: “strive to win, but
win with class.”
— Aled Edwards ’78
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and over again to make sure the features and
products we’re releasing are the absolute best
experience we can create. It always reminds
me of stepping through those hand-written
programs and being absolutely certain they
were going to work when I got to the computer. What I create needs to be beautiful, fun,
and useful. I still love those bells and whistles,
but won’t forget the punch cards.
— Jeffrey Traer Bernstein ’96
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stretched the limit of his patience. He called up
two students to the stage (our class was held
in an auditorium), while scribbling furiously on
some loose sheets of paper. He handed both
students a page, told them to stand on opposite
ends of the room, and hold up their papers so
the rest of the class could see them clearly. On
one, a bold “A.” On the other, the word “LOT.”
He instructed us to burn this image into our
minds, because he never again wanted to see
those two words spelled as one in our lamen-
dedication &
inspiration
— Timon LeDain ’81
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01 John Pichovich
02 Joy Batsis
03 Ron Patterson
04 John Bower
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Mr. John Pichovich was a gentleman of the
computing old school. On our first day of
computer science, in grade 7, he produced a
punch card and explained how he had learned
to write programs. You only had one chance
to get it right because there was only one
computer everyone had to share and it took a
long time to punch those cards. He told us we
had to write our programs on paper first, check
them rigorously, and only when we were absolutely sure the program did what we wanted it
to, could we enter it into the computer. So we
did it, even though there were enough cutting
edge computers for everyone and you could
just sit down at one whenever you wanted.
He assigned us math problems and
algorithms and would stop by our computers
to see how we were doing. When he came to
check on me, inevitably my computer would be
emitting a series of beeps and bloops from a
musical program I had written or shapes would
be whizzing around on screen from some sort
of visual program I had written. He used to tell
me over and over again not to spend my time
on “bells and whistles” and focus on solving
the problems he had given us.
Working as a designer at Apple, I’ve
learned to check what we’re working on over
Mrs. Batsis will forever have a special place in
my heart. She started off as my grade 6 teacher but her influence would extend far beyond
the walls of our classroom. For someone who
has a horrible memory, I remember this like it
was yesterday... At the time, my parents were
divorcing and there was a lot happening at
home. One day, Mrs. Batsis noticed I was going
through a rough time and pulled me aside to
talk. At that age, I don’t think talking about our
problems was something we did; it certainly
wasn’t something I was taught at home where
I was brought up on strict Chinese values.
Nonetheless, it was just so easy to open up and
talk to her. Out of concern, Mrs. Batsis took
the time to contact my parents and even went
as far as to make a few suggestions that would
forever change the dynamics at home. For that,
I am eternally grateful. — Sen Wong ’97
I’ll never forget my grade 9 English classes with
Ron Patterson. Aside from always throwing in
witty, cynical jokes (which evoked laughter in a
few sarcasm-inclined students and left the rest
bewildered), he knew how to make a lesson
memorable. One day, after handing a batch of
corrected essays back to us, it seemed we had
table compositions. Ever. And I tell you, to this
day, every time I notice the misspelling “a lot,”
I am transported right back to that lesson, to
those two words floating, separately, in that
dimly lit auditorium. Thank you, Mr. P., for making us linguistically superior human beings.
— Alex Clermont ’01
Entering LCC in grade 7 (2002), I was initiated
by great teachers and their quirks… My English
teacher was Mr. John Bower, a throwback to
the conservative faculty that ruled LCC in years
past. The first time he walked through the door
he boomed “Did no one ever teach you to
stand up when a teacher enters the classroom!?”
We hadn’t, but we did so every class thereafter.
We also called him “Sir.” … The most influential moment for me
occurred during a parent teacher interview. I
scored mediocrely on an assignment Mr. Bower
said I could have easily aced. The problem, or
not problem as he pointed out, was that I gave
an answer that was too far out of the box. Mr.
Bower told my parents and me that he’d prefer
I explore this alternative approach than regurgitate the norm, despite the consequences.
I’ve done so in most aspects of my life
to this day, and I’ve got a great story to show
for it. Thank you, Mr. Bower.
— Trevor Burnett ’07
My Memories of
Dr. Charles S. Fosbery
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s the oldest active alumnus of LCC, it is a pleasure to think
back about the best years of my life some 85 years ago and
the wonderful teachers (then called masters) who moulded
my thinking.
While there were several great masters who flash into my mind,
undoubtedly the number one has to be Dr. Fosbery, who taught us
Scripture. It is not because of that subject that I selected him, but
because of his myriad superior qualities which laid the foundation
for a truly outstanding private school. Readers, I am sure, realize he
was the founder and longtime first headmaster of LCC.
Dr. Fosbery, known to all and sundry as “The Boss,” chose Non
Nobis Solum as the motto for the school, but his first choice had been
“Manners Maketh Man.” He found, however, that this latter motto was
already used by a well-known British public school. Perhaps it’s just
as well, since our school is now coeducational!
I have never admired a person more than The Boss.
He was a stickler for discipline, fair play, honesty and the
importance of transparency at all times. Those traits he emphasized
as being essential to success. He was also a humanitarian with a
twinkle in his eye and a sincere interest in everyone’s well-being.
There are reams to be written about him as one of the world’s
greats, but space does not permit. To quote in part from Dr. Stephen
Penton’s excellent history of LCC, Non Nobis Solum, which mentions
the early days: “The years covered in this chapter were indeed the
school’s legendary Golden Age. They might also be called “the Prime
of The Boss” for it was his personality that dominated the whole school.
He was his own accountant, bookkeeper, secretary and banker. He kept
the records and sometimes on weekends stoked the fires! He was here,
there and wherever he was, that was a centre of activity.”
The fact that LCC is now over 100 years on Royal Avenue, and
stronger than ever, emphasizes the prescience of The Boss, and of
course his successors, who have built on the great foundation he left
behind him.
— John Ellis ’32
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LCC Robotics:
It’s All
About
Teamwork
By Wayne Larsen, Media Consultant
From designing intricate machine parts
to brainstorming competition strategies, a handful of LCC high school students are currently hard at work on a
project that is quickly becoming a winter tradition — building a home-made
robot for entry in the Canadian Robotics
Challenge (CRC).
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ince early November, physics teacher
Chris Olive has been coordinating
LCC’s entry in the regional tournament,
which has teams from secondary schools and
CEGEPs in the Greater Montreal area each
design and build their own robot to compete
in the CRC skills contest in February. The LCC
team is one of about 28 teams expected to participate in the three-day event, which will be
held in Laval this year.
“This will be our eighth year competing
in the tournament, but it’s a new experience
every year,” says Mr. Olive, who coaches the
team. The CRC provides schools with a set of
specifications and guidelines each fall, which
gives teams only a few months to build a
remote-control robot that will most effectively
carry out the task dreamed up by CRC organizers. This year, for instance, the robots will be
scooping up balls from the playing surface and
tossing them at targets.
“You can’t really plan too much in advance
because you don’t know what the challenge
is going to be for the next year,” Mr. Olive says.
This can be frustrating for the students, who
eagerly anticipate the big day when the new
competition and guidelines are announced.
Once that happens, the students get started
on the project, gathering parts and discussing
preliminary strategies.
Mr. Olive points out that the CRC provides
students with a valuable hands-on educational
experience, as they must build their robot
entirely on their own. “It’s a fantastic program,
because I’m not allowed to build anything on
the robot — not even turn a screw,” he says.
Before long the team becomes a tightlyknit group of friends, working together toward
a common goal after school, and sometimes
even on weekends. Because it’s all done
outside of school hours, students have to fit
the robotics project into their already busy
schedules. “It can be hectic, and it’s a lot of
work, but it’s awesome,” says grade 10 student
Nicholas Dumoulin ’14, who is also on the
football team.
Each school’s entry in the CRC entails
much more than just building a robot. The
project also includes a student-built website
and a five-minute bilingual video, both of
which are presented at a student-designed
kiosk at the tournament. “All these things
together are supposed to reflect the theme
the team has chosen,” Mr. Olive says. “The
degree of integration is something the judges
definitely look for.”
Last year, the LCC team built its theme
around a medieval combat arena, complete
with foam swords for students to play with.
This year, they have decided on a theme of
Minecraft, the popular computer game — which
means the kiosk will be decorated with a number of multi-coloured cubes.
“The website serves to have some journalistic material in there so there’s something
about the school, the nature of the competition, and of course some of the experiences
the kids have had while building the robot,”
Mr. Olive says. “The video is also a lot of fun.
We have a number of students with a good level of skill at video-making, and some students
who are also pretty good at acting. That part
of it has been very good over the years.”
Mr. Olive points out that this multi-disciplinary approach to the robotics competition allows
greater access for a wider range of student talent.
“It’s meant to include kids who wouldn’t necessarily be interested in building a robot themselves,” he says. “Organizers want us to bring
other things to the competition that would bring
in more people — not just robotics ‘geeks’.”
From robot-builders and website designers
to video makers and kiosk decorators, the spirit
of camaraderie among the students is tangible
as they work together in preparation for the big
event. That spirit even extends beyond the individual school teams once they arrive at the tournament and all the students finally get a chance
to see what the other teams have produced.
“When you get to the competition, everyone’s
really excited about what they’ve been doing,”
says grade 9 student Melanie Butt ’15, who got
into robotics at the suggestion of her sister. “You
talk to the teams from other schools — ‘What did
you do for this? Can you help us with this?’ — it’s
a really big team thing.”
Mr. Olive points out that although the
roster of CRC competitors consists mainly of
high-school teams, a few CEGEP teams are also
included. “That keeps the standards very high,”
he says with pride. “And yes, we certainly did
beat a number of CEGEPs last year!”
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Can you
identify?
Senior School
(current tie)
Can you
identify?
Middle School
(current tie)
Can you
identify?
1930s rayon knit
(unoffical tie)
Junior School
“zipper” model,
grades 1–3
(current tie)
Can you
identify?
1950s prefects tie
Can you
identify?
Can you
identify?
1970s
woollen tie
Tie-ing
Alumni
(current tie)
Can you
identify?
It All Together
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2009 Centenary tie
By Jane Martin, LCC Archivist
rom LCC’s earliest days, our students have always
worn neckties and jackets to school. The colours
and patterns might have varied considerably — as
shown in old photos — but the students were
dressed according to the norms of the day. A distinctive
school tie, worn with the now-familiar navy blazer, became
the uniform in the 1950s, and a number of variations have
appeared over the years. In particular, the LCC necktie has
gone through many transformations.
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Thanks to alumni donors from different eras, our LCC
Archives now has a wonderful collection of authentic school
ties — ranging from slippery rayon knits from the 1930s, to
“homespun” wool stripes from the 1970s, to today’s classic
silk and synthetic blends, featuring the lion motif. It’s amazing
how the style of something so simple as a necktie can reflect
changing tastes. Some of the ties were worn by students at
different levels, some only by prefects (a long-gone institution),
and others by alumni. What “ties” them all together is the use
of school colours — whether blue, burgundy or grey.
Do we have a complete collection? Maybe not…
and that’s where we need your input. Do you have an old
LCC tie, tucked away somewhere in a drawer or attic,
that is different from the ones shown in the photographs?
If so, it would be wonderful to add it to the LCC collection.
Here’s the promise: every donor of an official
LCC tie in a style not already shown here, and in
reasonably good condition, will be awarded a prize.
Even if you don’t have an actual tie to offer, we
would like to learn more about the ones displayed.
Can you provide any of the missing identities? Or maybe you
have a particular memory or anecdote related to this subject?
And one further question: What is the tie shown on the
book jacket reproduced here from Dr. Penton’s history of
the school, Non Nobis Solum? Was it actually a regulation
LCC tie? There’s none like it in the collection.
You can email your responses to Jane Martin ([email protected]).
We look forward to some interesting feedback, and hopefully
one or more prize-worthy ties!
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ACTs
SALC
Dave Seely ’53
Fundraiser
Extraordinaire
They call him the “Million Dollar Man.”
This summer, Norfolk General Hospital
Foundation in Simcoe, ON presented
Dave Seely ’53 with a huge facsimile
of a million-dollar bill in recognition
of his 17 years of fundraising for the
foundation.
CLASS
ACTs
By Lois Carson, Media Consultant
LCC alumni of all ages are taking
Non Nobis Solum to heart, making
meaningful contributions to a variety
of causes worldwide.
D
Seely
’53
Klinkoff
Robins
’06
’06
Mignault
Harper
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’07
’78
ave has more than earned the title.
For over four decades he has been
raising funds for worthy causes. “The
LCC motto Non Nobis Solum has inspired me
all my life,” he says.
In the 1960s, when he worked as superintendent of production planning at Stelco in
Hamilton, Dave began volunteering for the
Canadian Cancer Society. “My two aunts had
died of breast cancer,” he explains. In two
years, Dave, as residential lead canvasser for
the Hamilton unit, had increased the amount
raised from $40,000 to $200,000.
Later, he took on the roles of vice-president
and president of the society’s metro Hamilton
unit and then became involved in the Ontario
division. His formula for fundraising was so
successful that his expertise was sought by his
counterparts in the American Cancer Society.
When Dave moved to Simcoe in 1989, it
didn’t take long for him to acquire a reputation
for fundraising there as well. The church he
attended needed $95,000 for a new roof, and
asked Dave to head a campaign. Within six
months he had helped raise what they thought
would take three years.
Soon he was involved with the Norfolk
Hospital Foundation as both a member of its
board and organizer of an annual golf tournament. He developed a new tournament format,
attracted big name sponsors and multiplied
Dave Seely ’53 is the
“Million Dollar Man”
to not only the Norfolk
General Hospital
Foundation but also
to his wife, Joyce Brennan,
three children and eight
grandchildren.
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helpin
the amounts raised many times over. This
past year alone, the tournament took in some
$240,000.
When asked what he gets out of fundraising activities, Dave replies, “Pleasure. I enjoy
seeing the money used for a good purpose.
And I learned a long time ago that if someone
turns you down, it’s not personal.”
Recalling his LCC days, Dave singles out
former coach Dave Wood as a role model. “He
had a big impact on my life. What impressed me
were his ethics and his straightforward honesty.
He taught us how to win and lose gracefully,”
says the former LCC football player. He also
mentions former Headmaster Stephen Penton
who, he says, was “an inspirational person.”
This coming spring it will be 60 years
since Dave graduated from LCC. He maintains
his ties with the school, attending as many
alumni events as he can. And he continues to
admire Dave Wood. “He has been a fabulous
ambassador for the school,” concludes Dave.
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A GameChanging
Experience
Craig Klinkhoff ’06 and Matthew Robins ’06
are sharing their passion for the sport
of hockey with the rest of the world.
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hrough Hockey Sans Frontières (Hockey
Without Borders), the two former classmates have seen first-hand the positive
impact a Canadian coach can have on struggling hockey programs in other countries.
Sending coaches abroad to promote the
growth of hockey in parts of the world not able
to fund the sport is what the non-profit organization they joined last year is all about.
Craig and Matt travelled to Ankara, Turkey
last July to run a hockey clinic for men and
women aged 18–23. “We had little idea what
to expect,” says Craig. “But everything fell into
place. They were so excited for us to be there
and to share our hockey knowledge. We became
friends immediately.”
Earlier in the year, Matthew spent four
months in Subotica, Serbia, coaching 2 to
18-year-olds on an outdoor rink every day from
7:30 am to midnight. “It was the most incredible
experience I’ve ever had,” he says. “They have
a great passion for the sport and are working to
cultivate a hockey community, but are underresourced. They had two coaches for 200 kids.
To put that in perspective, we are five coaches for
14 players on the team I coach in Westmount.”
Craig and Matthew feel that their Hockey
Without Borders experience has enabled them
to see the sport in its “purest form” where
young people play simply for the love of the
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Jim Mignault ’78
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engagin
Craig Klinkhoff ’06
& Matthew Robins ’06
Matthew Robins, Kaan
Budak (Head Coach Polis
Akademisi, ANkara) and
Craig Klinkoff
sport. “Since coming home, my own love for
the game has only grown and makes me want
to find positive ways to assist hockey communities all over the world,” says Matthew.
“A lot of our experience with hockey emanated from LCC,” says Craig. Both say some
of their fondest memories are of playing on the
Grade 5-6 Hockey team coached by current
Athletics Director Chris Viau. “What LCC does
very well is create a sense of community,”
adds Matthew. “It teaches you to find ways to
share your passion and use it to help others.”
Both Craig and Matthew appreciate the
response they have received from the LCC
alumni community, some who have provided
behind-the-scenes support and others, such as
Angus Tasker ’03, who is headed to Sarajevo
as a coach. “We want to continue to reach out
to current and former students.”
In January, Craig and Matthew will travel
to 10 countries where they plan to build new
relationships and establish opportunities
to share Canadian hockey knowledge with
a growing number of young players.
To learn more about Hockey Sans Frontières
visit: www.hockeywithoutborders.org.
Invested
in his
Community
There’s a popular saying that fits Jim
Mignault ’78 to a T: “If you need something done, ask a busy person.”
(Top Left) Jim Mignault
with hockey great
Jean BÉliveau
J
im, executive financial consultant with
Investors Group in London, ON devotes
his time to causes that include Canadian
Diabetes Association, ALS, St. Joseph’s
Hospital Foundation, Children’s Safety Village,
Memorial Cup Hockey, Parkinson Society,
Sunshine Dreams for Kids, YMCA, Kidney
Foundation — and the list goes on.
In recognition of his extraordinary dedication to the community, Investors Group this
year presented Jim with the prestigious oncein-a-lifetime Herbert H. Carnegie Award for
Community Service.
Jim has two very good reasons his community service commitment: his daughters.
“My wife Denise and I want to set a good
example for them,” he says. “We want them
to realize the importance of giving back.”
Jim’s first foray into fundraising was at
LCC. While on student council he chaired a
school bazaar and skate-a-thon for the Montreal
Children’s Hospital and Juvenile Diabetes.
“It has just grown from there,” he says.
For Jim, who has Type 1 diabetes, the
Canadian Diabetes Association is a cause
close to his heart. Since moving to London
in 1994, he has been instrumental in raising
over $1 million for diabetes research through
the Flame of Hope Golf Classic. He has also
been involved, since 2005, with St. Joseph’s
g
reachin
Hospital, where he is a patient; and on their
Foundation Board, where Jim chaired and
served on several committees and participates
in the annual Tribute Dinner that raises more
than $250,000 annually. This fundraising has a
profound impact in the care of patients, teaching new health care professionals and supporting world-class research.
Another favourite cause of Jim’s is
Children’s Safety Village. “I read about plans
to build the village which would teach children
about many aspects of safety and thought it
was an excellent idea. My regional director
and I attended a meeting about the project
where, to his surprise, I said we would contribute $100,000! We raised it over four years
at a charity golf event.” For Jim, a highlight of
organizing these golf tournaments was meeting
former hockey greats Yvan Cournoyer, Henri
Richard, Frank Mahovlich, Gordie Howe and,
in particular, his hero, Jean Béliveau. “People
ask me how I got them to come to the event.
I just asked them!”
Jim has maintained his love of hockey,
which he played at LCC. In 2005, he joined the
host organizing committee for the Memorial
Cup and chaired the Golf Classic which raised
more than $50,000 for Parkwood Hospital’s
Veterans Care Program.
Jim and Denise continue to be among
London’s busiest – and most involved – citizens.
“I believe members of the public have to come
forward to support their communities,” sums up
Jim. “And we just love giving back.”
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caring
Branching Out
Megan Harper ’07
Finds Her
Calling on
African Trip
Megan Harper ’07 took a trip in June
that changed her life. She might never
have ended up in Kenya, volunteering
with Free the Children, if she had not
been a student at LCC.
W
hen Megan was in grade 11, as
Athletics Head for Grad Pride,
she attended a Canadian Student
Leadership Conference where Craig Kielburger
of Free the Children was a speaker. He inspired
her with his account of the organization he
founded at age 12, which educates, empowers
and engages youth to make a change in the
world. “I was blown away and wanted to get
involved somehow,” says Megan.
“I told my parents I wanted to go to
Africa,” she adds, “but they felt I should wait
until I was older.” Megan never lost her desire
to take that trip. After completing her studies at St. Francis Xavier University, she was
on her way to help build a school in Kenya’s
Maasai Mara.
“The experience gave me a completely
different perspective on life,” says Megan. “It
made me appreciate what we take for granted:
a roof over our heads, a bed, a blanket, clean
water from the tap.”
For Megan, participating in a water walk
was an unforgettable part of the experience.
“Mothers and daughters travel 3-10 km a day
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to get water for their family,” she explains.
“We helped them fill and carry 50-lb jugs of
water back to their home. It really hit me how
fortunate I was when the mommas asked us
how many water walks we do in Canada.”
The trip also helped her realize what is
important in life. “Even though the people I
met had so little in regards to tangible objects,
they knew what was important: family, friends
and community. They were so much happier
than many Canadians. It made me realize we
should be learning from them.”
Two weeks after returning from Kenya,
Megan applied to work at the Free the
Children headquarters in Toronto, where
she is now an educational programming
coordinator. She works with educators in
Saskatchewan to provide resources that help
raise youth awareness of local and global
issues, such as poverty and exploitation,
and to set up fundraising campaigns.
“Educators and students love the story of
how Free the Children got started and the idea
of children helping children to make a change
in the world,” says Megan.
“At LCC I had great teachers who paved
the way for me. Now I feel I’ve come full circle.
It’s my turn to help other educators create a
spark in a student, just like my teachers at LCC
did for me.”
02 03
04
05 06
01(L to R) Marshall
Salomon ’81 and Julie
Salomon, Martin
Salomon ’82 and
Headmaster Chris
Shannon (Pre-U ’76)
02(L to R) Dr. Stuart
Gold ’76 and Sara Gold
03(L to R) Sanaz Harland,
James Keyton ’90, Greg
Harland ’91 and Philip
Harland ’88
04(L to R) Peter
Webster ’60, Paul
Keyton ’56 and Tim
Hayman ’65
05Alumni Soccer
Tournament 2012
06(L to R) Peter
Webster ’60, John
Ellis ’32 and
Headmaster Chris
Shannon (Pre-U ’76)
West Coast Tour
June 2012
LCC visited the West Coast in June 2012
with stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco,
and Vancouver:
Dr. Stuart ’76 and Sara Gold hosted a beautiful,
late afternoon Sunday reception at their home
in Rolling Hills Estate (just south of L.A.).
In San Francisco, our event was at the
MacArthur Park Restaurant in Palo Alto where
close to 30 alumni joined us for a cocktail
reception and dinner.
Thanks to Tim Hayman ’65, our Vancouver
reception and dinner was held at the
picturesque Jericho Tennis Club overlooking
English Bay and the North Shore mountains.
Over 40 people attended, and we were
thrilled to welcome our most senior alumnus
to the event (as usual!), Mr. John Ellis ’32!
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Branching Out
report
to donors
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03
04
01(L to R) Mitchell
Benjamin ’80, Steven
Benjamin ’76, Craig
Ostrin ’06 and Scott
Ostrin ’11
02(L to R) Jenny Burdon ’02,
Darin Kouli ’02, Sophie
Splawinski ’02 and
Rabiya Lallani ’02
03(L to R) Joe Robb ’62,
Douglas Druick ’62
and Gordon Viberg ’62
04(L to R) Jessica
Winterstern ’04,
Melissa Leiter ’03, Erin
O’Neil ’04, Kristina
Velan ’03, Jacqueline
Hopmeyer ’03, Zoe
Lawson ’03
05Members of Class
of ’62
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Annual Giving allows LCC to
embrace progress and change
in ways that further enhance our
school’s tradition of excellence.
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LIONfest 2012
September 28 – 29, 2012
LCC’s annual homecoming event was held
on Friday and Saturday, September 28–29.
Over 230 alumni and guests attended the dinner
on Friday evening at which we recognized
our reunion classes.
Thanks to the hard work of Bob Marshall and
his classmates Brian Rossy, Gordon Viberg,
Wally Markham and Joe Robb, the 50th reunion
class of 1962 had a tremendous turnout with
over 70% of the members of the class in attendance. Kudos go to the 10th reunion class of
2002 for their incredible turnout: they were just
shy of 50 attendees for their year!
2011–2012
On October 29, we held a special lunch reception for the class of 1962 and the 60th reunion
class of 1952 (thanks go to Don Morrell for
his work with this group!). As well, more than
50 people participated in the now-traditional
alumni soccer tournament. Happily, there were
no injuries and a great time was had by all!
Donations to the Annual Giving
program 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
The culture of a school is mirrored in the
actions and spirit of its broader learning
community. We are very proud of LCC
and all that has been achieved during
the 2011 – 2012 academic year.
W
hat we see is a community that
is positive, energetic and outgoing. From kindergarten to Pre-U,
engagement defines the LCC student experience. Together, faculty, staff, parents, and
alumni have all contributed in meaningful ways
to significant student success during this past
academic year.
It is important to note that our broader
societal mirror in the past year has reflected
significant change and challenge. The Occupy
Montreal movement during the fall
of 2011 and more than 100 days of
post-secondary student protests on
the streets of our city in the spring
indicated that there are significant
socio-economic forces at play all
around us. One way or another, our
graduates will surely be asked to
directly address similarly difficult
issues in the near future. These
social movements remind us of the
importance of core skills that we
teach and reinforce on a regular basis: criticalthinking, creativity, teaming, bilingualism, and
development of a personal foundation based
on a love of life-long learning and respect for
diversity. These are timeless attributes that will
help to define our students as young leaders
who are prepared to embrace life and grapple
with the realities of increasing complexity.
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We do not take success for granted at
LCC. Whether it is the integration of the latest
research or technology into teaching methodologies, application of fiscal prudence, new
methods of student recruitment, connecting
better with parents or alumni, fundraising, or
community relations — in all areas of school
operations, we strive to improve on a constant
basis. It is this ethos of continuous improvement that energizes and renews and helps us
maintain a leadership position among schools
in Montreal and Canada.
Our strategic plan, “Our Sustainable Future:
2008 – 2013,” has continued to help frame key
priorities and goals. However, we must highlight our decision to pursue certification
as an IB Diploma Programme (International
Baccalaureate) granting school for grade 11
and Pre-U starting in September 2013. The
certification requires an internationally recognized curriculum of the highest standard,
which will allow our qualified graduates to go
Academic and cocurricular innovations,
prudent fiscal
management, and the
care and commitment
of a talented faculty
and staff are at the
heart of the wonderful
year we have enjoyed.
directly from LCC to Quebec universities for
the first time in over 40 years. It also strongly
supports our ethos of developing young citizens with a solid global perspective.
Our Board of Governors has worked
tirelessly to support the development and
implementation of the finest programs and
facilities. In particular, we have teamed
together to support our Ambitious Minds
Campaign, leading toward the construction
of a much-needed Learning Commons where
our old rink once stood. This year, plans were
drawn and redrawn to assure maximum value
and utility. Through the generous philanthropy
of our whole community, in October 2012
we broke ground and began construction of
a modern, LEED-standard facility (Leadership
in Energy and Environmental design).
The building will house a modern 544-seat
auditorium, with facilities for music, drama,
art and mathematics. In addition, we will see
a new student centre and facilities to support
a wide range of leadership and co-curricular
activities. In terms of bricks and mortar, the
Leonard and Olga Assaly Learning Commons
will be the last significant piece of the puzzle
in the modernization and development
of LCC’s campus and plant.
With the retirement this year of a number
of dedicated faculty and staff, we bid farewell
to some important members of the LCC
The LCC Board
of Governors
2011 – 2012
family who have been deeply committed
to developing young minds and inspiring
engaged citizens. We would like to offer our
personal thanks to each one of them for having
such a strong impact on our students. Their
dedication and positive influence have also
benefitted our younger professionals, whom
they have guided and mentored in all corners
of the school. All of our teachers will continue
to aim high and be important difference-makers in the lives of our students.
We remain affirmed by the importance of
our work at LCC and the impressive potential
of our students. Academic and co-curricular
innovations, prudent fiscal management, and
the care and commitment of a talented faculty
and staff are at the heart of the wonderful
year we have enjoyed — making us confident
and ready for the challenges ahead.
Chairman
David H. Arditi ’65
Members
Olga Assaly
Randy Aziz ’77
Philip Belec ’77
Anne-Marie Boucher
Chris Bromberg
Donna Doherty-Fraser
Doug Lewin ’87
Janice Naymark
Amin Norani ’83
Amelia Saputo
Adam Shine ’84
Marc P. Tellier
Adam Turner ’87
Non Nobis Solum,
Christopher Shannon (Pre-U ’76)
Headmaster
David H. Arditi ’65
Chairman, Board of Governors
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LEONARD
& OLGA ASSALY
To see more of the
Leonard & Olga Assaly
Learning Commons
in development, flip to
the inside back cover.
By Wendy Helfenbaum, Media Consultant
It’s easy to open a cheque book.
However, it takes a special kind of
commitment to fully immerse oneself
into a school community the way that
Olga and Leonard Assaly continue to
do. Over the past 13 years, the Assalys
have demonstrated an unwavering
desire to help LCC reach its fullest
potential as a world-class institution,
while inspiring others to do the same.
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wo of the couple’s three children – Andrew ’06, and Laurie ’08 – are
LCC alumni, while their youngest son
Jeremy ’14 is currently in grade 10.
“LCC was never just a building that our
kids went to; it has been an extension of our
family,” says Leonard.
“People think that because LCC is a
private school, it doesn't need help, but that’s
simply not true,” adds Olga, whose involvement at LCC began shortly after her two eldest
children started attending the school.
At the time, Olga was working as a supervisor at Dollarama, where Leonard is a senior
vice-president. When the Chair of the LCC
Store committee called to ask if she would be
willing to help out, Olga leapt at the chance.
“I’m a hands-on person, and I had a lot
of ideas: being a retailer, I can visualize how to
organize and display things,” says Olga, whose
talents were a natural fit for the committee.
Generosity helps
build community
while preparing students
for the ‘Stage of Life’
Before long, Olga came up with the idea
to simplify parents’ back-to-school shopping
sprees by pre-packaging school supplies.
“I wanted this plan to take off so badly
that I kept working on it by telephone even
when I went on vacation,” recalls Olga. “From
there, the Store just took over most of my time,
and I enjoyed every minute there; I called it
‘my baby’.”
Olga chaired the store committee for the
next eight years. Then, after leaving her fulltime job at Dollarama, Olga happily became
more and more involved in school activities.
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“Music has always
been part of my
soul and part of
01
who I am, and I
think kids should
be exposed to
more and more
music. I guess
that was my
real connection
to Mr. A. and
to this project.”
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(L to r) the assaly family:
laurie ’08, Olga, Leonard,
Andrew ’06, and Jeremy ’14
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Leonard assaly, olga
assaly, and Ambitious
Minds Global Leadership
Campaign Co-Chairs,
Amelia Saputo, and
Anthony Fata ’84
“LCC became my new job, basically.
I became Chair of the Parents’ Association
and I was also chairing events and galas; I
pretty much lived here,” she says with a laugh.
“Volunteering, for me, is so rewarding, and
I’m very fortunate that I’m able to do it. Now
I’m on the Board and I love that, too.”
Although he was very proud and supportive that his wife was spending much of her
time at LCC, Leonard admits that other than
meeting his children’s teachers, LCC was not
a big part of his own daily life. But everything
changed when he attended his first Junior
School musical, Guys & Dolls.
“That night, I was meeting Olga’s
LCC family, and I was simply blown away
by the talent, and so impressed with the
teachers — particularly ‘Mr. A.’, James
Angelopoulos,” recalls Leonard.
“Here I was, sitting in the dining room,
where the air-conditioning wasn’t working,
and I was hot and uncomfortable. If you sat
more than five rows back, you could barely
hear the kids, and yet their talent was shining
through everything.”
After watching the play, Leonard wanted
to see how the show came together behind the
scenes. Having played the cornet in his own
school band, as well as mastering the electric
guitar as a teenager, Leonard understood and
appreciated some of the challenges required
to put together a successful production.
“Mr. A. showed me where he taught and
I found out what it would cost to get a new
facility. I then became obsessed with the idea,”
says Leonard. “Music has always been part of
my soul and part of who I am, and I think kids
should be exposed to more and more music.
I guess that was my real connection to Mr. A.
and to this project. At that time, Dollarama
wasn’t the success it is now, and I didn’t have
much funds, but I wanted to contribute.”
In February 2004, the Assalys made a substantial pledge to create a Junior School music
room, which now bears their name.
Yet each time Leonard attended a show
over the next few years, he wondered how
much better the children would sound in
the right venue.
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“If you can get up
onstage successfully,
you’ll be that much
more successful in
the world.”
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The Leonard and olga
assaly learning commons
groundbreaking event
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Leonard and olga
celebrated 25 years
of marriage in the fall
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“I kept saying to myself, ‘This school could
really use a large auditorium’ (we already had
the small one across the street),” he recalls.
“I remember someone telling me what a radical idea this was — LCC’s lineage is that of an
athletic, math and science-oriented school; the
arts didn’t fit really that image. I started thinking about how math is art. I’m in the computer
business, and there are always formulas and
numbers flying in and out of my head. To me,
it’s very musical; there’s a very strong connection between science and music. When I heard
about LCC’s vision to build an auditorium
where the old rink was, I was really excited.
I said, ‘I’m in. Let’s make it happen.’”
And make it happen they have. Since
Leonard and Olga had recently created a
family foundation, they felt they now had the
means to fund a major project: the Global
Leadership Campaign to construct the
Learning Commons, which would house a
state-of-the-art auditorium. The Assalys not
only kick-started the campaign in November
2006, they doubled their donation last fall,
which amounted to the single largest individual
donation in LCC history.
Leonard’s passion for the forthcoming
auditorium is palpable.
“Getting up onstage is what you’re going
to do in the future: If you can get up onstage
successfully, you’ll be that much more successful in the world,” emphasizes Leonard. “For
LCC to be one of the best schools in Canada,
it has to have a serious stage to showcase its
children and guest speakers. To me, this project
was a no-brainer: It was the offering of a venue
that prepares you for the stage of life.”
The Assalys recently celebrated a different
stage of life: In October, surrounded by close
family, the couple celebrated their 25th wedding
anniversary by renewing their vows on the
beach in Barbados, where they had spent part
of their honeymoon.
Today, the couple hopes that their longterm commitment to LCC will inspire other
parents to become more involved. Leonard
notes that sometimes, a shift in perspective
can make all the difference.
“Why do we give? It’s a question of
viewpoint: I think some parents walk into this
school and see the headmaster, the teachers,
the support staff, and all the people that make
this amazing machine run, as employees: they
see people that they paid to take care of their
kids. When I walk into this school, I see partners,” he explains.
“I was taught that you can learn something
from everybody. At LCC, we’re all tied together
in the same endeavour, and if I can contribute
to what they’re doing for me and for my children, I will. It’s internal to me.”
The Leonard and Olga Learning Commons
building, for which ground was broken on
October 16, is slated to open in the fall of 2013.
That means the Assalys will likely see their
youngest son Jeremy graduate in the building
named in their honour, a fitting legacy to the
couple’s tireless efforts.
Olga’s
Way
Courage &
determination
to make
dreams a reality
By Wendy Helfenbaum, Media Consultant
Ask Leonard Assaly to describe his wife Olga
in one word, and he doesn’t hesitate.
E
nergy. She’s always going on to the next step; sitting
is never an option,” he says.
Olga has become a legend in the halls at LCC.
Everything she has had a hand in — from her assistance with
transforming the operations of the former second-hand
uniform exchange into a beautiful, successful school store to
staging glittering galas — has been achieved through dedication and incredible efficiency.
“When I have something on my mind, I want to make it
happen. If I dream it, I make it happen,” says Olga, who has
long considered LCC her home away from home.
When Olga was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006,
once again, sitting wasn’t an option. She not only fulfilled her
many volunteer commitments at LCC while undergoing cancer
treatment, but she also managed to become one of the largest fundraisers for Montreal’s Weekend to End Breast Cancer.
“I think giving back is one of the most important things
in life. Being selfish is easy: think about yourself, close your
eyes and don’t look around you. But so many people out there
need help,” says Olga, who currently mentors cancer patients.
“When I got sick, the support from the school was unbelievable. Whenever I came here, I knew I wasn’t going to be
pitied. Every ‘how are you doing’ was always on a positive note.
Every single teacher called me. That made me feel so good.”
Last year, Olga appeared on Ted Talk to share her
experiences, and also found time to author a book,
The Joy of Cancer: A Journey of Self-Discovery, which
was published in November. Olga says she shared her
personal story to help others facing serious illnesses.
“I want them to read it and say, ‘Maybe if I start
thinking about my cancer in a different way, I’ll be strong
enough to deal with this, and my outcome could be so
different,’” she explains. “When I had cancer, I had a mission:
to get over it. I could have said: ‘I’m going to sit and wait:
Wait for my next appointment, wait for this, wait for that.’
But what for? My cancer was there, so I might as well try
and beat this and live to my fullest. It was not my time
to go, and so I keep living. I’m proud that I’m following what
I really want to do in life, with all my heart.”
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inspirin
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Annual Giving &
Capital Campaign Donors
Centenary
Vision Leaders
$100,000 +
Anonymous
The Assaly Family
Maryse & Ralph Levy ’77
The Molson
Foundation
Amelia & Lino Saputo Jr.
Foundation
La Fondation Carmie
& Joey Saputo
The Stroll Family
R. Howard Webster Foundation
$50,000 –
$99,999
Aldo, Diane, David ’87,
Doug ’90 & Daniela Bensadoun
Mitchell & Anne-Marie
Garber
Karyn & Andrew
Lassner
Brian & Alida Rossy
Family Foundation
Andrée & Paul M.
Tellier
$10,000 –
$49,999
James Allan &
Elaine Beaudoin
Ambitious Minds Roar
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Richard Brotto &
Zorina Ali
Michael Bucci &
Valerie Gagné
Kimmy Chedel
Michel Cohen &
Lina Iarocci
Brian Cytrynbaum
& Claudia Burke
Lindsay Eberts ’61
David Flomen &
Eden PolanskyFlomen
Michael Gaul &
Lucia Carpineta
Christine Harper &
Family
C.F.G. Heward
Investment
Management
Hamnett Hill ’61
Sassoon & Evelyn
Khazzam
Deep Khosla ’87
Peter Lashchuk &
Josée Zambito
Jeffrey Marshall ’61
Michael Mikelberg
& Sherry LugerMikelberg
Michael & Michaeleen
O’Connor
Oringer Family
Foundation
Bill & Olga
Papanastasiou
Suzanne R. Paquin
Hyman & Lea
Polansky
1907-1909
LCC founder
and first
headmaster
Dr. Charles Fosbery
was the school’s
pioneering major
benefactor.
In 1907–1909,
he used $5,000
of his own
money, as well as
sold bonds
to supporters,
to purchase land
on Royal Avenue
and build the
school. The school
flourished, and
all bonds were
redeemed by 1929.
Paolo Renzi & Suzanne
Crawford
Peggy and
Gerry Shapiro
Beverly & Nabil Tabet
Marc P. Tellier
Steve & Ephie Tsatas
Eric T. Webster
Peter W. Webster ’60
Xueping Yuan
Council of 1961
$5,000 – $9,999
Albert & Gail
Benhaim
Chris Bryant ’61
Michael Butler ’61
Luigi Di Battista &
Rosie Salvaggio
The Ergina Family
Tony ’84 & Teresa
Fata
Ross Fraser ’72 &
Donna Doherty
Louis Gendron &
Liana Guizzetti
Ernest Grivakis ’61
Norman Hacker &
Susana Araujo
Sam Hornstein &
Merle Wertheimer
Goulding Lambert ’57
Miles & Corine
Leutner
Doug ’87 & Brina
Lewin
Constantine Los ’57
Brett & Jeannie
Miller
David & Carmela
Owen & Family
William Rosenberg
& Heather Avrith
Barry Saper ’46
Adam Shine ’84 &
Brigitte Roy
Adam ’87 &
Catherine Turner
The Turner Family
Mark & Jacqueline
Wiltzer
Robert & Francine
Wiseman
After
Before
Barclay House
Kindergarten
Renovation
We would like to thank recent donors
to the Annual Giving Campaign and
the New Parents Fund. Your support
Council of 1909
$3,000 – $4,999
goes a long way to realizing refurbish-
Anonymous (2)
Jordan ’87 &
Amanda Dermer
Jose Dominguez &
Maria Darha
Michael G. Fisch ’79
Johnny Frassetti &
Elena Borsellino
Alan C. Frosst ’55
Aldo Furfaro &
Linda Tuccia
Peter Goldberg
Nicholas F. Martire ’93
Joey Mastrogiuseppe
& Lisa Wolofsky
Douglas Mayoff &
Cynthis SobcuffMayoff
The McFarlane-Hall
Family
Kim & Lucy McInnes
safe and welcoming learning environ-
ment projects across our campus, and
your generosity helps to maintain a
ment for our students — your children!
Thank you!
Before
After
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The Peotto Family
Dario Pietrantonio
& Antonella Argento
J. Robert Swidler
Renaud Whittom &
Josephine Pressacco
Headmaster’s
Society
$1,500 – $2,999
Anonymous (7)
Randy ’77 & Lynn Aziz
A. Victor Badian ’61
Marta Bachetti
The Belhadfa Family
Steve Benjamin ’76
J. Douglas & Betsy B.
Blackburn
Michael T. & Deborah
Boychuk
Greg Boyd &
Carolyne Roy
Craig Bromberg &
Chris Ignacio
Guy R. Casgrain
Giorgio Damiani &
Raimonda Gambino
Pino & Tina Di Ioia
Lionel & Karen
Dubrofsky
Jean Dumas &
Christine Abbott
Rob Ellicott & Maria
Della Posta
Rob Fetherstonhaugh
Lillian Gold
John ’90 & Rocky
Goldsmith
Robert (Squee)
Gordon ’55
Stephen Hamilton ’78
& Janice Naymark
Daniel Heffernan ’61
Darryl Hicks &
Natasha Groulx
Jong-Un Hong &
Soon-Jin Lee
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1912-1950s
An example
of LCC’s many
early private
benefactors
was Montreal’s
Caverhill family,
who in 1912 provided funding for
the first of several
expansions to
our Royal Avenue
playing fields. In
the mid-1950s,
a significant
donation from
Miss Marjorie
Caverhill, along
with others,
helped build the
school’s first
covered outdoor
hockey rink.
Timothy & Lynn
Houghton
Maurice F.L. Jaques ’50
Fred Jarrah &
Sandra Albornoz
Ted ’87 & Stephanie
Kalil
George & Katalin
Kepes
Paul Kirkconnell ’75
Saveli Kotz & Catrina
Tiron
Laurie & Suzie Litwin
Matthew Marchand ’87
Paul R. Marchand ’58
Beny & Janet Masella
Menashi Mashaal &
Jennifer Abdulezer
Michael M. Mashaal ’78
& Marla Cohen
Sandra McGill
Danny J. Mindel
& Marie
Andrée Gauthier
Pierre & Heather
Monaghan
Joseph & Heather
Paperman
Ross & Selena
Paperman
Ciro Ragno & Daniela
Forlini
Colin Ryan &
Alexandra Ferrier
Ryan
Salvatore Scalia &
Diana Ferrara
Steven & Randee
Schneidman
Charles Scriver ’47
Christopher (Pre-U ’76)
& Hilary Shannon
Craig Shannon &
Kristin FossShannon
Sandra Shaw
Tina Shapiro &
Brad Steinmetz
Denis & Mary
Singleton
Daniel Steinberg &
Elana Munchik
Ronny Steinberg &
Lisa Adelstein
Hugh B. Thompson ’61
James Tooley ’61
Daniel Turner ’80 &
Laurie Moss
Lina Weiss
Maks & Diane Wulkan
Xiangbin Xue &
Yi Zheng
Chairman’s
Society
$750 – $1,499
Anonymous (5)
Darren Albert &
Orit Cohen
John Archer
David ’65 & Peggy
Arditi
Tom Atsaidis
Bachir Azbaty
Joseph Belli &
Antonella Paventi
Ronald Benjamin ’75
Martin Betts
Russell D. Blumer ’87
William Bukowski &
Nina Howe
Alan S. Canavan ’39
Trevor H. Caron ’51
Peter A. Charton ’82
David Collier &
Chantal Corriveau
Robert Courey ’61
Jaysen ’94 &
Carrie Cristofaro
Antonio &
Claudia D’Amico
Robert
de Fougerolles ’57
Louis Donolo ’53
Rikki Kadri ’99
Paul Fournier ’61
Max & Lara
Francischiello
Stan & Linda Gendron
Martin Glynn ’68
Stuart Gold ’76
Jaime Harper ’75
The Harper Family
Rick Harrop ’51
Chillion F. G. Heward ’49
Allan Hodgson ’54
Richard C. Hodgson ’51
Julien Hutchinson ’47
John Irwin ’61
Peter J. Irwin ’50
Bruce Jenkins ’64
Eric Klinkhoff ’66
Robert Lewin ’96
Stanley & Elise Lewin
Matheos Los ’60
David Ludmer ’84
The Ludwick Family
Lorne Matalon ’72
John McBoyle ’71
James W. McKee, Jr. ’39
Ron ’70, France,
Catherine & Fred ’07
McRobie
Andrew Mittag ’77
Geoffrey Molson ’87
Justin M. Molson ’86
Carolyn LeCraw
Neysmith
Tony & Micheline Papa
David & Barbie Pearl
A.M. (Toni)
Sacconaghi, Jr. ’82
Marshall Salomon ’81
Eric ’67 & Candi Shatilla
Nicole Simard-Laurin
David L. Torrey
Gary Wagner &
Kathleen MaherWagner
David W. Wood
Jay A. Wright ’76
U.S. Friends
of Lower
canada
college, Inc.
One of Our
Best Kept Secrets!
By Kirk LLano, Director of Development and Alumni Engagement
It’s likely that most alumni reading this
article don’t know that an organization
called “U.S. Friends” even exists. And
that goes for alumni living in the United
States too! So the purpose of writing
about this special branch of our overall
development program is two-fold: to
create awareness as well as to recognize the volunteers that oversee it.
U
.S. Friends of Lower Canada College Inc.
is a private 501(c)3 charitable organization, recognized by the U. S. Internal
Revenue Service. This entity was officially incorporated on December 9, 1996, and its first three
directors named were, Demetrios Xistris ’77,
Tim Gardiner ’78, and Colin Rolph ’77.
The inception of U.S. Friends was significant
in that it created an opportunity for alumni to
donate monies to either the school or the LCC
Foundation (the endowment fund for financial
assistance) and receive a charitable gift receipt
for tax purposes in the United States.
The first president of the board of directors of U.S. Friends was Demetrios Xistris ’77,
a lawyer residing in New York City. Under his
guidance, the board grew to 10 members and
impressive donations were contributed. It is
always genuinely appreciated when alumni
volunteer for their alma mater, but I don’t
believe anyone (including Demetrios!) expect-
ed that he would remain in this role for over
10 years. On June 14, 2010, the torch was
passed to Doug Millowitz ’87 (photo right), an
investment banker for UBS in New York City.
What has the impact really been on
Lower Canada College? The numbers
speak for themselves. Since inception, over
$3,150,000 US has been donated via U.S.
Friends to either the school or the LCC
Foundation. More than 750 individual gifts
have been received from almost 400 different
donors. Two of the five largest donors in the
history of LCC made their gifts through U.S.
Friends: the end result of these specific gifts
was a variety of scholarships that support
deserving students.
Today, there are LCC alumni living in at
least 37 different states and in Washington,
D.C., with the largest concentration residing in
New York (102), California (71), Massachusetts
(55), and Florida (37). LCC has addresses for
nearly 500 alumni in the United States — a really
impressive number.
Philanthropy by friends of the school dates
back to LCC’s founding in 1909. U.S. Friends
of Lower Canada College Inc. has become
part of this long-standing tradition and is
a pillar of strength in the life of our school.
We are incredibly grateful to the donors
and volunteers who ensure that this legacy
continues in the spirit of Non Nobis Solum.
ting
suppor
Directors
(1996 – 2012)
Doug Millowitz ’87,
President
Steven Benjamin ’76
Tim Gardiner ’78
Mark Harland ’87
Paul Kirkconnell ’75*
Jodi Krakower ’03
Fred McRobie ’59
Gil Michel-Garcia ’86*
Colin Rolph ’77*
Antonio “Toni”
Sacconaghi ’82
Stan Vincelli ’63*
Demetrios Xistris ’77*
* former Directors
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Founder’s
Society
$250 – $749
Anonymous (9)
Ross A. Aitken
James & Barbara
Angelopoulos
Jon Arklay ’86
Barry E. Armstrong
Geoffrey T. Ashby ’85
Christian & Lucy
Auclair
Bank of America
Brett & Patricia
Barakett Foundation
Don Bartlett ’73
Chaussures Tony Inc.
Christin Bartolo
Christopher Barton ’69
Philip ’77 & Anna
Belec
Patrick & Susan
Benaroche
Mitchell Benjamin ’80
Philip Bolton ’93
Pierre Boucher &
Michèle-Charest
Robert Brown ’95
Lorne Cairns &
Jennie Rhee
Brian Campbell ’58
Bruce Campbell ’49
Michael & Ellen Cape
Derek Caron ’56
Eric Caron ’84
Jamie Clark ’57
Edward (Ted)
Cleather ’47
Tyler Cobbett ’76
Jay Cornforth ’83
Terry Curran ’78
Rick & Kristine Daigle
Ruth Dash
Eric Dedekam ’76
Ron & Tami
Dimentberg
Philip Dobrin ’03
Gordon & Roz Elkin
John Ellis ’32
Terrill Fancott ’56
Jae Marie Ferdinand
Brian
Fetherstonhaugh ’74
Graham Findlay ’71
Kent Fisher ’79
Alfonso & Kathryn
Fiumidinisi
Alistair M. Fraser ’57
Victor C. Goldbloom ’39
Henry & Judith
Goldrich
Leslie Goldsmith ’73
John Gordon
Neal Gordon ’78
Gavin Grant ’85
Chris Guthrie ’80 &
Liz Wigmore
Kenneth C. Hague ’45
Claus Hamann ’68
Gregory P. Hannon
(Pre-U ’73)
Mark F. Harland ’87
Bruce Harper ’53
Andrew Hayes ’82
David Hebditch ’54
Denys Heward ’64
John M. Hofer ’68
Dr. Peter J. Hopper ’74
Bradley Horwood ’59
The Israel Family
Zygmunt & Bogusia
Jablonski
Katherine JohnsonBurke
Denis Jotcham ’35
Geoff Kalil ’92
Paul Keyton ’56
Julie-Anne Lafleur
David H. Laidley ’63
David A. Latter ’74
LCC Staff Hockey
League
Ian F. Le Lievre ’49
Stephen Lee
Steven Lingard ’71
Kirk & Nancy LLano
Donald Logan ’56
Robert Luxenberg
Ian & Margaret Mair
Julie Manseau
Paul W. Martin ’83
Lorne & Lois Mayers
Brent McCain ’87
David McKee ’59
John McKercher ’54
Malcolm McLeod ’57
Blair McRobie ’57
Marc Missonnier &
Virginian Anderson
Duncan Moodie ’71
Brian Moore
R. Sheldon Morgan ’73
David & Anne Morris
Elizabeth Neil & Daniel Blunden
John Nixon ’72
Amin Noorani ’83
Andrew Palombaro ’05
Amanda
Palombaro ’07
Tom Pam ’59
Rick Pattee ’63
David Perlman ’95
Daniel Perrault &
Lucie Des Parois
M. Bart Reilly ’59
1938
Our playing fields
on the east side
of Royal Avenue
were expanded
in 1938 through
a donation of
the Old Boys
Association,
whose gift enabled
the purchase of
land adjacent to
the Monkland
Tennis Club.
To be recognized
in the 2012–2013
donor report, please
make your donation
by June 30, 2013.
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Glenn Rioux ’73 &
Elisabeth Kalbfuss
Jaime Roberton ’49
Paul Rolian ’61
Hillel Rosen &
Liane Feldman
Stephen Sadler ’56
The Safi Family
Mark Salkeld
Anton & Sally
Schlemm
Bernard Shapiro ’52
Andrew Shatilla ’63
Neil Shaw ’46
Roger Shorey ’59
Jonathan Sigler &
Kathleen Myron
Ronald & Rita Singer
Peter R. Slaughter ’68
Gordon Smith ’53
Christine Smith
Kurt & Valerie
Sorschak
Benjamin Sternthal ’87
Tony Straessle ’50
Patrick Telio ’85
Rob Tipney
Sarah Tobias
Neale Tomkinson ’70
Sylvia Tracy
Michael Tricot ’94
Corey Velan ’93 &
Kristine Jones
(Pre-U ’93)
Max Viens
Alison Wearing
Bill Westaway ’51
David Whittemore ’80
Earle Wight ’50
Geoffrey Wilson ’75
David Winship ’49
Elric Winter &
Caroline Reinhold
Lorne Wiseman &
Gale Yanofsky
Peter D. Yuile ’56
Gary Zentner ’82
Blue, Grey, Red
Society
$100 – $249
Anonymous (11)
Bruce Aitken ’95
Robert Anderson ’56
W. David Angus ’54
Deborah Ayre
Bev & Dane ’68 Baily
Warren Baldwin ’68
Rochelle Barr
Brett Baynham
Craig Bekins &
Katherine Velan
Clayton Bertoia
Steven Blostein ’78
Richard A. Bolton ’56
David A. Bonyun ’54
Mikhael Bornstein ’85
Pierre Boulanger ’59
James Brooks
Stanley Browman ’74
Gerald Burke ’58
Ron Burke ’76
Thomas R. Burpee ’55
John F. Butterworth ’42
Janet Campbell
John B. Carrique ’87
William Cave ’43
Mark Coakley ’95
Robert E. & Joyce
Cornforth
Robert Côté &
Diane Shamie
Leigh Cruess ’74
Rony & Mimi Cukier
Cinzia D’Angelo
Peter Darling ’54
Raymond Davis ’43
Lawrence A. Davis ’49
Norman Davis ’47
John Dawson ’52
Michael ’88 &
Patricia Dermer
& Family
Douglas W. Druick ’62
Edith Drummond
Hal & Monika
Dumbrille
Monsieur Felix &
Mr. Norton Cookies
Shawn Faguy ’93
Julian Falutz ’72 &
Ariane Marelli
Daniel Florian ’92 &
Marissa Teolis
Tom Foody ’82
Duncan C. Fraser ’46
Dan Friedberg ’78
Charles Frosst ’53
Daniel Gabbay ’96
Claude Germain ’84
Derek Goodson ’76
Alan Gordon ’44
Gabriel Granatstein ’98
Roland Greenbank ’42
John C. Gubany ’81
Derek Guthrie ’53
Edward Hague ’49
Alain Hébert
Stan & Linda Heisler
William Hingston ’62
Peter Holt ’81
Vanessa Horobjowsky
Dave Howard ’81
Ross Howard ’64
Shannon Howes ’00
Dawne N. Hutchison
Lawrence & Lois
Hutchison
Michael J. Irwin ’56
Robert & Carolyn
Isakson
Robert Ivanier ’84
Richard G. Jackson ’61
Philip & Judy
Johnston
Shane Joseph
Andrew Jurczynski ’67
John & Caroline
Kalaydjian
Ilias Kaperonis &
Anna Colarusso
Peter Kent ’55
Sarah Kingsley
The John A.
Thomas BursAry
John A. Thomas ’81, who passed
away in 1986, was recently honoured
in a unique way by LCC Old Boy and
former teacher, Greg Hill (Pre-U ’65).
R Greg Hill (pre-u ’65), denys heward ’64
and Peter Kaufman ’87
In memory of his former student, Greg notified the school that he has bequeathed a
sum from his estate to the LCC Foundation to
eventually establish a bursary in John’s name
to go to a student who could not otherwise
attend LCC without the financial assistance:
Truly a remarkable act and a wonderful
legacy in John’s name. Greg also hopes that
this might inspire others to consider the
opportunities afforded to LCC students
by the gesture of planned giving.
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1958
Recognizing
the need for
new science
classrooms and
laboratories, the
Board launched
a $100,000 campaign in 1958 that
culminated in the
opening of the
Baillie Science
Wing the following
year. Funds were
raised through
the generosity of
Old Boys, parents,
and friends of
the school.
1962
The Old Boys
Association started
a $250,000 campaign in 1962 that
provided funds
for a Junior School
Gym, as well
as new Junior
locker rooms and
accommodations
for increased
enrollment in the
Senior School.
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Pierre Lafond ’47
David Lank ’55
Michael Laurie ’66
Peter Lazenby ’47
Christopher Legg ’83
Nathalie Lemelin
Marjorie Leslie
Dawn Levy
Bill Little ’66
Simon Madore ’91
Michael Marks ’66
William McArthur ’52
David McCall ’50
Lauren McCann
Scott McEvoy ’80
Wilson McLean ’58
Arthur McMurrich ’64
Abe & Mavis Miller
Walter D. Mingie ’43
Shaun Morehouse
Robert C. Morgan ’49
Ronald & Jill Moroz
Don Morrell ’52
Robert Morrissey ’07
David Morton
Robert Murray ’35
Mike Nahoum
Douglas Neal
David Nichol ’49
Jeffrey Nisker
Bina Nobile & Franco
Bruni
Jaroslav Novak &
Dana LaskovaNovak
Robert Percy ’64
Alan Perodeau ’42
René Péron ’38
Ian Perowne ’69
Erik Peterson
Fred Pinard ’45
Jean Power
Hugh Pratley ’42
Jesse Prupas ’95
Robert Raymond ’56
William Redpath ’75
Roger J. Reynolds
Howard Rhys ’35
Donna Robertson
Charles Robertson ’59
Shira Ronn ’96
Caitlin Rose ’99
Michael Rowen
(Pre-U ’79)
Maxine Rupert
Gillian Shadley
Frank & Tania Shamy
Thomas Shaw-Stiffel ’74
Marc Shefler
Judith Shenker
Sacha Singh ’98
Erol Sinmaz ’01
Trevor W. Smith
Laurence & Leesa
Smith
Norman Southward ’83
Christopher Spencer ’82
William Stavert ’52
David & Luisa Stephen
Tom Stephens ’61
Neil A. Sternthal ’85
Peter Stuart ’60
Nels Sultan ’81
William L. Taylor ’37
Bob Tsoukalas &
Eleni Koumoutsakis
Rob Velan ’88 &
Claire Petcher
Shane Velan ’90 &
Jill Gasco
Christian Viau
John Vlahogiannis &
Melinda Cochrane
Marco Vocisano ’80
Charles Wain ’60
John W. Wallace ’46
Orla Wallace
Lynn A. Watters ’34
Philip Webster ’63
Peter Wilkins ’51
Kevin Williams ’85
Adrianna Zerebecky
John S. Zielinski
Nicholas Zigayer ’81
Lion’s Pride
up to $100
Anonymous (12)
Sandra Afeyan ’04
Philip Aitkens ’78
Greg & Nina Ames
John Archer ’44
Michael Bailey
Heather Baily (Pre-U ’95)
Devon Baily ’97
Madeleine Ballard ’06
Robert & Louise Barron
Robert Bassett ’44
Martha Belanger
Alan & Katrina Best
Bob Bloodgood &
Marlene Robinson
Hy & Joan Bloom
David Blunt ’52
J. Birks Bovaird ’64
David Bradwell ’70
Benoit Brière &
Jennifer Roman
F. Taylor Carlin ’54
Drew Cavell ’01
Ryan Cavell ’95
Ken Charlton &
Queena Chou
Chris A. Chenoweth ’71
Stephen Choi ’94
Ian Cook ’63
Joseph Cox &
Johanne Loranger
Leora & Mattie Cukier
James A. Cuttle ’42
Allan & Sharyn
Cytrynbaum
Jeffrey Dinsmore ’76
Jack Donaghy ’51
John Durley ’54
Fred & Rita Essner
Cathy Fagan
David Fairbairn ’55
Michael
Fitzsimmons ’09
Michel Fortier ’56
Samara Fox ’04
The donors listed have
made gifts to LCC
between July 1, 2011
and June 30, 2012.
We extend our deep
appreciation for their
support and philanthropy.
Non Nobis Solum
1992
In December
1992, Lorne
Webster ’45 was
named first chairman of the Lower
Canada College
Foundation, the
new body responsible for administering the school’s
endowment fund.
“Since graduating in 1985 I continue to
support the school every year in gratitude
for the LCC friends, teachers and values
I have benefitted from in so many ways.
It was a foundational experience and
it is with great pleasure that I give back
to the school every year.”
– Neil Sternthal ’85
Drazen Gardilcic &
Priscilla Whitehead
Robert Gardner ’54
Peter Graham &
Heidi Drymer
J. Douglas Hall ’70 &
Christine Laberge
Anne Harkin
D. Ross Harvey ’63
Michael Hayes ’51
Edward P. Hoffer ’60
John Hugill ’58
Robert & Kirstie Jagoe
Peter & Ruth Kahn
Boris Kaykov & Olga
Kaikova-Andreyeva
Jeffrey & Elizabeth
Kolovsky
Sara Lande ’05
Stephen B. Lande ’02
Malcolm Loucks ’65
Vito & Susan Luprano
Ian Macfarlane ’45
Patricia MacGeachy
Alan & Manon MacIntosh
Michael Mast & Rosie
Burno
Vasilios Mavritsakis
& Peggy
Katsiroumbas
Andrew McCall ’81
Karen Michaud
Hugh Millar ’56
Gareth A. Moore ’70
James Morison ’45
H. Frank Morrison ’55
Grant Murray ’49
Cameron Nelson ’90
Ron Pam ’64
Hugh Penton ’59
Chelsey Pinchuk ’99
Peter Politis &
Helen Barbagianis
Jean-Louis Pozza &
Gloria Odorizzi Pozza
Ivan Ralston ’63
Stephane Rivard &
Catherine Gregory
Andy Robertson ’59
Andrew G.
Robertson ’76
Murray Robinson ’39
Chris Roe & Imogen
Brian
Neil ’87 & Daniele
Rossy
Nicholas Rossy ’05
Harry Schiff ’04
Lawrence Schrier ’73
Richard & Joanna
Shafter
Mark Shalhoub &
Lori McPhee
Georgina & Antonio
Sieira
Guy Sigouin
David & Ingrid Sinyor
Emmanuel Soret
Derek Stanger ’82
Bruce Stavert ’57
Charles Taite &
Roberta Strulovitch
Jan Thijs & Julia
Schroeder
Theodore &
Katherine Thrasher
Jean-Marc Troquet &
Cynthia Godbout
Maria Varvarikos
Bill Vasilakopoulos &
Chrysoula
Kostopoulos
Leonard & Dorothy
Waxman
John Wilson ’51
Michael Younie ’83
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La classe de droit de 11e année a participé à
un concours d’écriture de mémo pour la Cour
d’appel de l’Ontario intitulé le « défi de la
Charte ». Le OJEN Charter Challenge Team
(Ontario Justice Education Network), Réseau
ontarien d’éducation juridique a sélectionné
les élèves de droit. Ils ont été récompensés
par une troisième place.
Pour la première année, les élèves du deuxième
cycle du secondaire sont invités à participer
au concours national de poésie organisé par
Les voix de la poésie / Poetry in voice.
The Record
Achievements in Academic & Co-Curricular
Programming for 2011–2012
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Debating and Public Speaking
• Loyola Debating Tournament,
September – 3rd place team
• Dawson College Tournament,
October – 1st place team
• Dawson College Tournament,
October – 3rd place team
• Kuper Academy Debating Tournament,
November – 3rd place team
• Oxford Cup Debating Tournament,
Toronto, November
• Marianopolis Debating Tournament,
January – finalists
• Queen’s University National Debating
Tournament, February – semi-finalists
• Quebec Provincial Debating Championships,
February – 2nd place team
• Donahoe Cup Debating Tournament,
Halifax, April – quarter-finalists
• Senior National Debating Championships,
Montreal, April – co-host
• Junior National Debating Championships,
Montreal, April
• QAIS Junior Public Speaking
• QAIS Intermediate Public Speaking
• QAIS Senior Public Speaking
English
• LCC Reads Program (7th annual)
Entire school reads The Heart Specialist by
Claire Holden Rothman. Ms. Rothman, along
with Dr. Ariane Marelli (Director of the MAUDE
Cardiology Unit at the MGH, LCC parent)
presented at LCC in November
Langues Modernes
Les élèves ont préparé le concours d’art oratoire lors de leur cours de français. Les textes
des élèves reflétaient le fruit d’une vision
personnelle et d’un jugement critique. Nous
félicitons les finalistes de LCC : Albert Etingen,
7e année, David Elbaz, 8e, Solomon Azrielli,
9e année, Annie Dahan, 10e année et Emily
Tiberi 11e année.
Mathematics
• Canadian National Mathematics League
(CNML)
Grade 11 students finished with second highest
cumulative score in Quebec
• American Mathematics Competition (AMC)
Grade 8 & 10 participants 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
Grade 11 & 12 team places first in our zone
• Canadian Intermediate Mathematics Contest
Grade 9 & 10 team places first in Quebec
• Solisterra
Grade 8 enriched mathematics students built a
gazebo, shed and straw bale house in Kazabazua,
QC and learned about sustainable energy
ARTS
Art
• Arts Week
Improv, Music Sessions, Café Cabaret,
Short Film Festival, Caricatures, French Café
• Painting a New World
Students paint murals that raise over $2,000
for the non-profit group “Painting a New World”
and a local charity. The Senior School mural,
Saving Coastal Waterways, won the gold
medal for a second year. The Middle School
mural, The Palette, won the bronze medal
• 3rd Annual Middle School Mural
“The LCC Totem”
• Pop Art show
Junior and Senior School art exhibition
• Ambitious Minds Roar Gala
Artwork produced by all levels of the school
were featured at the Ambitious Minds Roar Gala
exhibition. Junior School designs and artwork
were auctioned and raised $3,730 for the
Student Bursary Fund
• Refashionista Show
Junior School students create and perform their
2nd green-themed fashion show in support of the
LCC trip to the Dominican Republic in March
to help build a school
« La magie de la poésie » a été une des
activités organisées par les enseignantes
d’espagnol pour amener les élèves de 7e année
à découvrir la poésie : en récitant de grands
poèmes de la génération du 27 (Federico
García Lorca, Rafael Alberti).
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Drama
• Senior School play Departures and Arrivals
• Grade 11 play Red vs. the Wolf
• Middle School play All I Really Need To Know
I Learned By Being In A Bad Play
• Junior School musical Aladdin Jr.
• Pre-U students, produced and directed a
version of The Revolting Teenagers and raised
money in support of the Vivo Fund of the
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the JGH
• Devised Theatre Creation
Grade 10 students formed small theatre companies, using group writing and collaboration
to create a workshop performance of an
original work
• Staff for Students
Staff produced and performed the musical
Fiddler on the Roof and raised $12,000
for the Staff for Students Fund
Music
• Concerts & Performances
Assemblies, Ambitious Minds Roar Gala Café
Cabaret, Winter Holiday Concert & Spring
Concert
• Senior Concert Band Performance Tour
41 students travelled to Italy and performed
in Rome and Milan to standing ovations
• Grade 8 Band
Competed in Ottawa at MusicFest Canada
and performed at the Canada Space
and Aviation Museum
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Science
• Schools on Board – ArcticNet Inc.
Grade 11 student participated with students
from across Canada, scientists and researchers on board the CCGS Amundsen to study the
effects of climate change in the Canadian Artic
• Robotics Competition
Students participated at the CRC competition
• Grade 9 Crime Scene Investigations (CSI)
• Grade 7 and 8 students attended the All
Science Challenge at McGill University
• TD Discovery Day
Grade 11 enriched physics and chemistry
students interested in pursuing careers in health
sciences, attended seminars presented by doctors
and researchers at the Montreal Neurological
Institute
Athletics
• Athletes from grade 4 through Pre-university
took part in 50 teams this year, involving
over 750 spots in 17 sports with LCC teams
winning 10 National, QAIS and GMAA
championships, 6 tournaments, and finishing
second or third in several areas.
• National Champions
Soccer (U15 Girls), Soccer (Senior Girls)
• QAIS Champions
Basketball (Bantam Girls)
• GMAA Champions
Tennis (Midget Girls), Rugby (Juvenile Boys 7’s),
Indoor Track (Midget Girls), Tennis (Midget
Boys), Outdoor Track (Midget Boys), Outdoor
Track (Midget Girls), Tennis (Bantam Boys)
Swimming (Individual medals – 3 gold, 1 silver
and 1 bronze)
• GMAA Finalists
Soccer (Juvenile Boys 15’s), Rugby (Midget
Boys), Rugby (Bantam Boys 7’s & 10’s), Flag
Football (Juvenile Girls), Tennis (Midget Girls)
• Provincial Finalists
Hockey (Juvenile Boys)
• All grade 11 students received their CPR/
AED Certification
Community Leadership
• Community service initiatives
Senior and Middle School students volunteered
12,350 hours of service to organizations both in
Montreal and abroad, raising close to $45,000
for local, national and international charities
• Book Sale
Students raise $2,125 for Somalia
• Fundraising for Share the Warmth
Senior School students collected over 100 boxes
of food for Share the Warmth Christmas baskets
• Duke of Edinburgh program
30 Gold Awards, 48 Silver Awards,
74 Bronze Awards
• Annual Terry Fox Run
Raised over $27,000
• Toskan Foundation’s Youth and Philanthropy
Initiative
Grade 10 students donate a total of $11,000
to Le Centre de Répit Philou, Generations
Foundation, Enfants-Retour and La Maison du
Partage d’Youville while volunteering and learning about the role of philanthropy in our society
• Junior School theme “Help Others; Discover
Yourself ”
Students reflected on the six IDEALS
of the Round Square organization
• Hockey Helps the Homeless
Senior Boys Hockey Team won the HHTH Cup
in February while raising over $7,000
for Montreal’s homeless men, women and youth
• Stride to Succeed – Skating Program
Students volunteered in this unique skating
program, which LCC hosted and coordinated
with Philip Layton/ (Montreal Association for
the Blind) and St. George’s schools. The primary
goal of the Stride to Succeed program was
to offer a completely new experience on ice
for sight impaired novice level skaters
• Pre-U students raised over $1,315 to sponsor
four children through the Foster Parents Plan
International
• Participation in the International Round
Square Conference
6 students travelled to England in October
to attend the conference at Wellington College.
Opened by her Majesty The Queen, and attended by the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of York
and HM King Constantine of the Hellenes and
Queen Anne Marie, the conference was attended
by students from 90 schools from around
the world
• Duke of Edinburgh Gold Trip
21 students travelled to Las Palmas, Peru
• Brick and Mortar Campaign
4 students travelled to the Dominican Republic
to help build a school
• Student Exchange trips
Thailand, Australia and France
• Grade 11 students volunteered in Peru
as part of the Duke of Ed Gold Trip
Students participate in a collaborative
community service project
• Senior Concert Band Performance Tour
41 students travelled to Italy
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Environmental Awareness
• Environmental Dashboard
LCC has started a pioneering effort to accumulate data on the consumption, utilization and
waste production of the school’s operations.
The final goal of this on-going project is to have
a dashboard on the LCC website and around the
school that shows the impact a student traveling
through LCC for one year makes on the planet
by virtue of the resources used by the school
on their behalf
• Green Coalition
1st annual Green Coalition of students from
Montreal schools to exchange environmental
ideas was held at LCC in October
• The solar hot water heating system for the
arena has been installed and is currently providing pre-heating to the hot water systems
of the building. Data is being accumulated
and will be used in the 2012 – 2013 school
year in the grade 10 science curriculum
• A follow-up commuter survey was completed during Earth Week and will be analyzed
over the summer to compare with the results
from 2007
Miscellaneous
• LCC students attend Remembrance Day
ceremonies in Ottawa as part of the
“Operation Veteran” initiative launched
by Dr. Paul Kavanagh ’70
• Book Fair “J’aime Lire! Et Vous” enriches
the library with the addition of 413 new
books valued at $8,190.83
• Participation in two Model UN Conferences
• Reach for the Top
Winners of the Provincial Championships and
participation in the National Championships
for the first time
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LCC Foundation
• Hosted the 4th Canadian Youth Forum
on Climate Change in the Arctic as part
of the 13th annual LCC Destiny of Quebec
Conference
In collaboration with the University of
Manitoba, McGill University, Centre for Earth
Observation, ArcticNet Inc. and Schools on
Board. Theme of this year’s conference was
“Treading on Thin Ice” and Canada’s Research
Chair in Arctic System Science, Dr. David
Barber, was the keynote speaker
• Participation in the Young Round Square
of the Americas Conference
Lakefield College, Ontario
• Canspell Spelling Bee
Junior school student chosen as one of 50
regional finalists for The Gazette’s Regional Bee
• Finalsite’s Break the Brick video contest
Senior students win first place honours
of the Critic’s Choice Award
Thursday, October 4, 2012 marked
a change in leadership as Goulding
Lambert ’57 retired as chairman
of the LCC Foundation.
Goulding assumed the role in 2003, providing invaluable experience and counsel to
the Foundation through a fluctuating global
economy. During his tenure, LCC created a
number of new financial awards, including
the Saper Family Scholarships and the firstever award for a student with aptitude in the
performing arts, the Lieselotte (Lisa) Levy
Scholarship.
The new chairman is no stranger to LCC.
Gary Harper ’73 is the acting head of the
Investment Committee of the Foundation, but is
probably better known as the former Chairman
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 written
LCC
Archivist
Jane Martin
tends the
collection.
R Gary harper ’73
R Goulding Lambert ’57
of the Board of Governors of the school
(2001 – 2004) and the Chairman of the LCC100
Centenary Vision Capital Campaign that led
to the construction of the Glenn J. Chamandy
Arena. A parent of four LCC graduates, Gary
has followed in the path of his late father,
Ralph ’47, himself a past Board and Capital
Campaign Chairman.
On behalf of all of the students who have
had the opportunity to attend LCC by receiving
financial assistance, we say THANK YOU to
Goulding for his commitment to the school and
for embodying the spirit of Non Nobis Solum.
New Home
for Our Top
Athletic Awards
The school’s most prestigious
athletic awards are now on
permanent display in a beautiful
new, solid-birch trophy case,
recently installed in the Webster
Learning Activity Centre next to
the Athletic Director’s office.
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alumnI news
In 1996 he founded the
Ramana Retreat Center in
New Mexico, which was
voted best retreat center
of the year by the New
Mexican. He now lives
in Maui, HI.
(Photo.03) 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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Peter Kent ’55 has written
Inventing Academic Freedom:
The 1968 Strax Affair at
the University of New
Brunswick, which has been
published in the last year
by Formac Publishing.
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John Fry ’47 writes:
“I’m the president of
the International Skiing
History Association, which
publishes an entertaining
bimonthly magazine,
Skiing Heritage. It’s about
the history of the sport
that many LCC grads enjoy.
To subscribe, go to
www.skiinghistory.org.
I was a member of LCC’s
outstanding ski team in
the 1940s.”
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Pierre Lafond ’47
writes: “The 2012 harvest
in the prestigious Santa
Rita Hills District of Santa
Barbara, CA was very
successful. Santa Barbara
Winery and Lafond Winery
have been represented
by Rogers & Company
in Toronto for the past
25 years.”
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Tony Maxwell ’57 writes:
“Since 2000 our LCC ski
group has gotten together
every late-February for
a ski week out West.
The membership of the
‘Grey Panters’ has not
been entirely consistent
from year-to-year, but the
attached photo, taken a
couple of year ago, shows
(left to right) Charlie Colby,
Tim Peters ’57, Gord
Peters ’60, Jim Laing ’60,
Warren Laing ’57 and
Tony Maxwell ’57.”
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Malcolm McLeod ’57
writes “I am presently
counsel in the Montreal
office of the law firm
Norton Rose Canada
(formerly Ogilvy Renault)
where I have worked
since my admission to
the Quebec Bar in 1965.
In October, I was one of
a group of 57 Canadian
lawyers who had been in
practice for more than 40
years, who were named
to receive a Zenith Award.
Other recipients included L. Yves Fortier (former
Canadian ambassador and
permanent representative
to the United Nations),
David Johnston (Governor
General of Canada), and
Beverley McLachlin (Chief
Justice of the Supreme
Court of Canada).”
Peter Mellen ’57 recently published Ultimate
Happiness: Chasing It,
Finding It, Living It.
It is available through
amazon.com. Peter is the
author of three books about
art, including The Group
of Seven, a best-seller in
Canada, and Landmarks of
Canadian Art, Book of the
Year in 1979. During the
1980s he was on staff at
the Kripalu Center of Yoga
and Health in Lenox, MA.
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Pierre Coupey ’59’s
book One More Once was
published in August 2012.
The collection includes
poems, fiction, recollections, photography and
visual art by 60 contributors. The Vancouver Art
Gallery has also acquired
two of Pierre’s paintings
for its permanent collection
of contemporary Canadian
art. Visit www.coupey.ca
for more information on
upcoming exhibitions.
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Peter Webster ’60 was
awarded The Queen
Elizabeth II Diamond
Jubilee Medal, which “honours significant contributions and achievements by
Canadians.”
Harry Bloomfield ’61
and wife Nancy received
in August 2012 The Queen
Elizabeth II Diamond
Jubilee Medal for Public
Service from Governor
General David Johnson
in recognition of “dedicated
service to your peers,
to your community and
to Canada.”
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David Cobbett ’62 writes:
“I received my B.A. from
McGill in 1966, then took
a year of law at Laval
but decided it looked too
much like work! I went
into the investment business in 1968 and joined
MacDougall, MacDougall
& MacTier Inc. in 1991,
and I have no intention to
retire soon. My wife Linda
and I have lived in an old
house in Hudson, QC since
1974. An active sailor, I’ve
campaigned my 24 foot
J-24 ’High Strung’ around
Eastern Canada and the
US for many years. I function as chief judge at the
Hudson Yacht Club and
outside regattas.”
Peter Adamakos ’63
writes: “Disada Productions
celebrated its 40th anniversary as a live-action
and animation studio. It
was recently featured on
the unusual Shotgun Show.
Check out YouTube for
Disada profiles and past
productions.”
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John Harding ’64 and
his wife Michèle were
awarded the John Stokes
Award for Restoration by the
Architectural Conservancy of
Ontario. As the 2012 winners
of this award, the ACO gave
tribute to their hard work
in renovating and reviving
the former doctor’s surgery
and preserving a part of
Prescott’s history.
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Bruce Jenkins ’64 was
appointed by the Canadian
Public Accountability Board
(CPAB) in September to its
board of directors. Bruce
retired as the deputy chief
executive of Deloitte &
Touche (Canada) in 2009.
Fraser Laschinger ’64
writes: “This year I
embarked on a new part-time
career, running the Sandy Hill
Cemetery in Prescott, ON as
a volunteer. I was appointed
as chairman of the board of
trustees by the town council
of Prescott.”
Terry Rapoch ’64 lives
with his family in Dayton,
OH and is president of
the Wright State Applied
Research Corporation,
a non-profit corporation researching human performance and health care.
He is completing a Masters
in Engineering in innovation and entrepreneurship
at Wright State University,
supporting workforce devel-
opment programs in the
Dayton region and occasionally teaching broadcast
technology at Centerville
High School.
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Alex Cullen ’68 is currently the Parliamentary
Assistant to NDP MP Mike
Sullivan, having worked
as his campaign manager
in the last federal election.
Alex is enjoying watching
the NDP morph into the
‘government-in-waiting.’
Last summer Alex completed the IRONMAN Lake
Placid triathlon at age 60.
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Tom McCarten ’69
writes: “The Fraser Institute
honours Canadians across
the country every year with
the T. Patrick Boyle Award,
which is named after the
founder of the institute, an
old boy of LCC. Patrick
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 in Montreal.”
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Wade Davis ’70, anthropologist, ethno botanist and
explorer-in-residence at the
National Geographic Society
(NGS), was the 2012 recipient
of the UK’s top prize for nonfiction, the Samuel Johnson
Award, for his book, Into
the Silence: The Great War,
Mallory and the Conquest of
Everest. The NGS has named
Wade one of the ’Explorers
for the Millennium’ and he
is the recipient of numerous
awards. Wade is the author
of 15 books.
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Melvin McLeod ’69
is editor-in-chief of the
Shambhala Sun, the largest circulation Buddhist
magazine in the English
language, and editor of The
Best Buddhist Writing annual
anthologies. After a career
as a CBC television journalist and producer, and
In October, Dr. Paul
Kavanagh ’70 and his wife
Trudy were each awarded
The Queen Elizabeth II
Diamond Jubilee Medal at a
ceremony in Montreal at Le
Régiment de Maisonneuve.
The medal recognizes
their incredible work with
Operation Veteran. Later in
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a sojourn in India, he moved
to Halifax in 1983 to continue his practice and study
of Vajrayana Buddhism.
Melvin attended the National
Defence College of Canada
in 1985. He is married to
feminist law advocate Pam
Rubin and they have a
16-year-old daughter, Pearl.
He would love to hear from
old friends and classmates
and is easy to reach at
[email protected].
the month, Paul was honoured with a full fellowship
by the American College of
Dentists at a special event in
San Francisco.
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Peter Behrens ’71 is a
2012–2013 writer-in-residence
at the Netherlands Institute for
Advanced Study in Wassenaar,
The Hague, NL. His collection
of short stories, Traveling Light,
will be out in the summer
of 2013.
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Alan Fraser ’72 published
his third book in June 2012,
All Thumbs: Well-Coordinated
Piano Technique. Fraser
continues to espouse Craft
of Piano Method at his Alan
Fraser Piano Institutes,
which now take place in
several venues on two continents at various times of the
year. Alan and his partner
Iryna Saygina enjoyed meeting old classmates at his
40th reunion.
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Peter Dash ’74 is working
in Miami and Barbados on
his second novel, a follow-up
to Zurabia, now available at
Chapters and Indigo stores
in Ottawa, Montreal and
Toronto
Marc Belliveau ’76 rocked
out again in October with his
law band, Project 501, at the
7th Annual March of Dimes
Canada (MODC) Rock For
Dimes fundraiser. In all,
$33,000 was raised.
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Rob Bradeen ’76 is a
career financial services
executive, most recently at
Fairlane Asset Management
in Toronto. He enjoys
golf, wine and travel. He
is married to Karen and
they just celebrated their
25th anniversary. They
have two children, Stephen
and Lauren. Some fond
LCC memories include the
football field, hockey rink,
teammates, classmates,
passionate teachers and
great coaches.
Tyler Cobbett ’76 is
delighted to announce his
marriage to Sherilyn Stolz
on October 7, 2012 in Palo
Alto, CA. The photo is
from their honeymoon
in Thailand.
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Richard Groome ’76
accepted a position with
Urban Barns Foods as a
director and president.
Urban Barns Foods grows
green leafy vegetables
indoors using LED lights
and is moving forward from
several years of research
and development activities
to full commercial production. The company expects
to build its first commercial
facility in the Montreal area
in the next few months.
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Bruce Hill ’76 has been
nominated to a three-year
term as a Director of the
McGill Alumni Association.
He also manages the Eastern
Ontario operations of
the Kidney Foundation
of Canada.
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David Angell ’81 and his
family have just moved to
Nairobi where he is the High
Commissioner to Kenya with
concurrent accreditation
to Rwanda, Uganda and as
Permanent Representative
to the UN agencies in
Nairobi. Three additional
accreditations in the region
will follow.
The late Daniel Artola ’81
was honoured on October 4,
2012 at a special ceremony
held at the University of
Ottawa Faculty of Law. Dan’s
partners and colleagues at
Norton Rose Canada have
established the Daniel A.
Artola Intellectual Property
Award recognizing the outstanding achievement of the
student receiving the highest
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mark in Dan’s favourite topic,
intellectual property litigation. Dan’s wife Virginia, his
sons Ryan ’13 and Eric ’15,
his mother Carmen and his
brother Carlos ’82 were all
in attendance.
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Robert Rosenthal ’83
married Angela DeTie in
2010 and together they
have four children, Brittney,
Chad, Samantha, and Tessa. Professionally, he continues
to serve as the partner in
charge of his office’s labour
and employment group,
and was included in The
Best Lawyers in America
for 2012 and 2013.
Stewart (Beef) Fleming ’85
was appointed in January
2012 as president and
chief executive officer of
Canadian Paper Connection
Inc. (CPC) where he was
previously chief financial officer. CPC is one of
Canada’s largest, privately
held paper companies distributing products to more
than 45 countries around
the world.
Jon Arklay ‘86 has
been named Senior VicePresident, Bell Media
Agency and Brand
Strategy. In his new role,
he will be charged with
overseeing the design, promotion, brand strategy and
media buying services for all
of the Bell Media assets. Jon
lives in Toronto with his wife
Teresa, 13-year-old daughter
Charlotte and 11-year-old
son Justin.
Peter Sampson ’86’s
firm, Peter Sampson
Architecture Studio, was
shortlisted by the Winnipeg
Art Gallery (WAG) from
a list of 64 international
firms for the design of its
new Inuit Art and Learning
Centre (IALC). The Centre
will house the WAG’s
celebrated collection of
contemporary Inuit art,
the largest of its kind in the
world, and the Studio Art
and Learning programs.
Brent McCain ’87 writes:
“After 11 years overseas in
Paris, Singapore and Tokyo,
I have returned to North
America. I accepted a glob-
al commercial operations
lead role for an upcoming
product launch with Sanofi
based in Bridgewater, NJ. I
have been here since midJune with my family and
we are very happy to be
back. Hopefully I can catch
up with some old friends at
NYC area alumni events.”
Sebastian Cardarelli ’89
joined RBC’s Dominion
Securities as an investment
advisor, where he is building
a book of clients. He recently played in the LIONFest
2012 alumni soccer tournament, losing soundly in all
three matches!
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Todd van der Heyden ’90
writes: “Montreal’s CJAD
Talk Radio has expanded
my weekly radio show.
I’ll now be hosting every
Saturday from 12 – 3 pm.
Meanwhile, I continue to
anchor nationwide for CTV
News Channel weekday
afternoons 2 – 5 pm, based
in Toronto.”
Adrian Wills ’90 is a multi
award-winning Montreal
filmmaker. His most recent
film is Touch the Sky, a
fly-on-the-wall documentary in collaboration with
NASA following the founder
of Cirque du Soleil, Guy
Laliberté, and his trip to the
International Space Station
in 2009. From the thrill
of watching sparks as we
re-enter the atmosphere,
to floating through the
confines of the ISS as seen
by the “Guy Cam,” viewers live his risks and are
touched by his encounters
with the astronauts and
cosmonauts that make up
the global space community. What emerges is an
unprecedented insight into
the world of space travel.
Robert de Leeuw ’92
writes: “I just finished
a movie called Pride of
Lions. This is the first
movie where I played
‘the bad guy.’ Normally
I am ‘the nice guy,’ or
‘the funny guy.’” (Photo.03)
Gregory Nihon ’93 and
Stephanie Nihon are the
proud parents of Adriana
Everly Grace Nihon, who
was born on July 7, 2012.
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Corey Velan ’93 writes:
“After spending a decade
building desktop antivirus products that were
white labeled and resold
by companies such as
Bell, Verizon, Rogers, and
Virgin UK, I co-founded
“FixMeStick” to build
the simplest product for
non-technical consumers
to remove malware from
infected PCs. The company
and product launched in
May 2011 to rave reviews
from PC Magazine and the
Globe and Mail. Jackson
Wightman ’93 was the PR
agent for the launch. Corey’s
product can be found at
www.FixMeStick.com.
year-old big sister Abby is
thrilled with the addition
of Nelly to the family.
program, and the film’s
script won the Tribeca 2012
Creative Promise Award for
Narrative. Prospector Films
is a Montreal-based film
production company specializing in documentaries,
fiction features and short
films and focuses on developing stories with strong
points of view by talented
writers and directors from
around Canada.
(Photo.05)
Heather Baily (Pre-U ’95)
and Paul Besaw welcomed
a baby boy, Jamie on June
14. Big brother Josh is very
excited! Heather’s brother
Devon ’98 had a son Blake
exactly three weeks later
on July 5. His big brother
is Jackson.
John Christou ’95, founder of Prospector Films,
produced his first feature
film, Rhymes for Young
Ghouls, which was shot in
Montreal. Release is slated
for fall 2013. His film was
the only Canadian project
selected to participate in
the 2012 Tribeca All Access
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Marc Gorenko ’96 has
added a new member to the
family: a baby boy named
Zack, born September 28,
2012 and weighing in at
9lbs 14oz.
(Photo.06)
Laura Rossy ’96 continues to run the best fishing lodge on the remote
and rugged West Coast
of Haida Gwaii, formerly
known as the Queen
Charlotte Islands. Her biggest catch this season was
a 152-pound salmon shark.
(Photo.07)
07
Matt Aronson ’95 and
Jennifer Gold welcomed
their second daughter,
Penelope Sandra Aronson
into the world on
September 12, 2012. Two-
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Matthew Gorelik ’97
writes: “After being married
two years this November,
we are proud to announce
the birth of our daughter
Charlotte Hailey Gorelik,
born on October 15, 2012.
She is the sweetest little girl!”
(Photo.01)
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Jason Yearow ’97, an
up and coming comedian,
has his own production
company, the Village Idiot
Productions. Jason has
been performing recently
in venues from Halifax to
Toronto. Hopeful next stops
with his “dark side” material are the Montreal Fringe
Festival and Zoofest.
Jon Bier ’98 started his
own PR agency about two
years ago, Industry Fiend,
www.industryfiend.com,
which focuses on typically
male dominated niche market industries and consumers. A licensed attorney,
Jon resides in Brooklyn, NY
and proudly serves as an
Auxiliary NYPD officer
in his spare time.
(Photo.02)
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Sen Wong ’98 writes:
“After making the decision
to go back to school a few
years ago, I finally graduated from John Molson
School of Business with a
marketing degree. I also left
Apple to pursue a career
in graphic designing and
marketing and launched
my own company in the
spring, ROYALTRI. We do
everything from logos, business cards, websites and
marketing strategies.
Melissa Batchoun ’99
and Ramzy Wahhab
welcomed a son, Joseph,
into their family on
November 23. Their little
girl Emma is almost two.
Alex Karen ’99 writes: “I am in my 5th year
of teaching at Lasalle
Community Comprehensive
High School where last
spring a colleague and
I brought ten grade 10
students to Ecuador and
the Galapagos Islands on
a humanitarian trip under
the umbrella of ‘Me to We’
and ‘Free the Children.’
As a group we raised over
$40,000 in five months to
help finance the trip, during
which we travelled to the
Chimborazo region of the
Andes to help build a school
for underprivileged kids.”
(Photo.03)
Michael Moreyne ’99
has launched Zense, a
new social media consulting company. Based in
Montreal and Chicago, it
offers social media solutions for in house training,
guidance and outsourcing.
Jamie Uson ’99 is leaving
CIBC and will be joining the
corporate finance group at
National Bank as a director.
2000s
Shannon L. Howes ’00
completed her Masters of
Education in the theory
and policy studies of higher
education at OISE (Ontario
Institute for Studies in
Education) at the University
of Toronto in June 2012.
Wilder Weir ’00 is an
executive producer for
Paddling Bryans, a show
he created for the Travel
+ Escape channel. The
show is now in its second
season. Wilder hopes you’ll
all tune in. Paddling Bryans
airs nationally Monday’s
at 10 pm.
(Photo.04)
Alex Clermont ’01
obtained her professional
scuba certification as
a PADI DiveMaster
through work with an
NGO Marine Conservation
project in the Bahamas.
She then became an Israeli
citizen and has been living on a kibbutz on the
Mediterranean shore,
learning Hebrew and
acclimatizing to life in the
Middle East. She has just
begun a Master of Arts
degree in Environmental
Studies at Tel Aviv
University, and reports she
has eaten enough hummus
to last a lifetime.
Dr. Roberto Tutino ’01
was recently engaged
to Dr. Pamela An in
Toronto with his close
LCC friends in attendance.
Professionally, Dr. Tutino
received his MD from
McMaster University
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in 2008. He is currently chief
resident of the Division of
Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery in Toronto. In July,
Dr. Tutino will be commencing
his clinical fellowships in
Brachial Plexus and Hand in
Paris, and Aesthetic Surgery
in Melbourne.
05 From left to right: Massimo
Tutino ’98, Mary Tutino,
Dr. Conall Francoeur ’01,
Armen Terziyan, Firas Sedki ’01,
Dr. Roberto Tutino ’01,
Dr. Pamela AN, Drew Cavell ’01.
(Photo.05)
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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. All purchases are made
by credit card on a secure line.
It’s quite simple:
1
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
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Classifieds
03 Kristina Velan ’03 with Conlin McCabe, who won a silver medal in the
men’s eights rowing at London 2012
David Kandestin ’02
recently graduated from
law school at McGill
(dual B.C.L., LL.B. degree
program), and is moving
to Vancouver to start his
articles in September 2013
at a national firm.
Stephen Lande ’02
received his MBA from the
University of Michigan in
April 2012 and is now an
associate in RBC Capital
Markets’ Automotive
Investment Banking Group
in NYC. He also became
engaged, with the wedding
to take place in New York
in February 2013
Kristina Velan ’03
writes: “Before returning
to Montreal in September
2012, I capped off three
exciting years in London,
with a stint at the London
2012 Olympic Games. I left
my job at the Daily Mail
to volunteer as a brand
communications officer for
the Canadian Olympic
Committee (COC). Based
out of Canada Olympic
House in Trafalgar Square,
I took photos and produced written content for the
COC website. I covered VIP
visits to Canada Olympic
House (which included
Prince Harry, Boris Johnson,
Kim Cattrall, and Debbie
Travis) and also interviewed
Canadian medal winners and their families and
friends. I was working with
Derek L. Kent ’87, who
is the Canadian Olympic
Committee’s chief marketing officer. It was one of the
most demanding, fun, and
rewarding experiences
of my life.”
(Photo.03) Samara Fox ’04 was a
summer associate in the
Boston and New York law
offices of the firm Ropes
and Gray. Ropes and Gray
has granted her a fellowship to work in asylum and
immigration law upon her
expected graduation from
Harvard Law School in May
2013. Samara is simultaneously pursuing her Master’s
degree in Public Health,
playing women’s rugby for
Harvard and taking undergrad courses in biology and
chemistry to enable her to
study medicine one day.
Become a Fan!
It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing
of the following members of the LCC community:
Erik Wang ’4 9
Jeffr ey G ordon M arshall ’6 1
C hristoph er A . C h enoweth ’7 1
Val erie W elburn
H ilda Walmsl ey
Erik Wang ’49 died peacefully
in Ottawa on November 14,
2012, aged 80. He had a long
diplomatic career with the
Canadian Foreign Service.
Jeffrey Gordon Marshall ’61
passed away on November 26,
2012. Jeffrey established the
Marshall Scholarship Fund in
1979, which is given each year
to an LCC student with the
highest-grade average returning
to Pre-University. Jeffrey was
a member of the LCC Board of
Governors from 1978 – 1981.
Christopher A. Chenoweth ’71
passed away October 10, 2012,
at 57. He is predeceased
by brothers Richard ’68 and
David ’65. He will be deeply
missed by surviving brothers
Brian ’71 and John ’72.
Valerie Welburn, a former,
long-time LCC staff member in
the Advancement Department
(1994 – 2005), passed away at
the Barrie Memorial Hospital in
Ormstown, QC on December 8,
2011 at the age of 61 years.
Hilda Walmsley, former LCC
assistant librarian and school
secretary, passed away at the
age of 99 on September 13,
2012. She worked at the school
for 25 years, from 1959 – 1984.
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College Destinations
Jean de Brébeuf
John Abbott College
LCC Pre-University
Marianopolis College
St. Paul’s School
University of Ottawa
Vanier College
Pre-University Bishop’s University
Class of 2012 Carleton University
University Destinations
Parsons The New School for Design
Queen’s University
Colgate University
St. Francis Xavier University
Dalhousie University
St. Lawrence University
Duke University
St. Louis University
Emory University
Syracuse University
Fashion Institute of
University of British Columbia
Technology (FIT)
University of California San Diego
Florida Atlantic University University of Miami
McGill University
University of Pennsylvania
Mount Allison University
University of Toronto
New York University
University of Toronto Scarborough
Northwestern University
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Students ﬁrst • L’élève avant tout
‘the fullest development of mind, body and
heart’ is at the core of our mission. Today
more than ever, LCC is a school with an
emphasis on matters related to the heart
and the development of empathy.”
« ... nous avons placé “ le plein développement intellectuel, physique et humain ” au
cœur de notre mission. Aujourd’hui plus
que jamais, le LCC est un établissement
d’enseignement qui met l’accent sur tout
ce qui a trait aux sentiments humains et
sur le développement de l’empathie. »
— Christopher Shannon, Headmaster (Pre-U ’76)
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A School with Heart - Lower Canada College

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