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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MAGAZINE
Spring 2005
MAAMATTERS
Also Inside:
Thank you
to our donors
Plan Plan the the best best
class class reunion ever!
Students
reach out to the
community
Monica and Dorothy share
activities and laughter

PHOTO: RON ELMY
TREASURER’S REPORT Dr. Steven Tishler (Class of 1990)
Unwavering support
Donations to the MAA continue to grow.
Dear Alumni,
The situation is now resolved, but we
were experiencing a problem with our
business reply envelopes in the last
fundraising letter, dated March 15,
2005. If your business reply envelope
was returned, please send it back in
the envelope inside this magazine or
in the original envelope. We apologize
for any inconvenience this problem
may have caused.
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IT
remains my great pleasure to
submit this year’s Treasurer’s
Report to the membership of
the Medical Alumni Association. This past
year has been relatively uneventful, allowing
us to quietly build our portfolio to the
benefit of our members and students.
For the year 2004, our rate of return
was 5.6 per cent on our entire investment
portfolio. While not spectacular, it remains
reflective of our conservative investment
philosophy. Our portfolio has performed
even better in 2005, to date.
Our alumni remain determined to
support the Medical Alumni Association.
In 2004, donations to our general fund
continued to increase; we received a total
of $358,000. Your donations continue
to sustain a wide range of activities as
well as office support.
We thank all alumni who responded
positively to our special appeal for donations
to the Ontario Student Opportunities
Trust Fund II. In the 2004 campaign, alumni
donated over $25,000 for matching to help
fulfil the MAA’s pledge over five years.
Our medical students remain affected
by large tuitions and the high costs of living
in Toronto. The MAA provided about
$189,000 in interest-free loans to students
in the 2003/04 fiscal year; this fiscal year
to date, we have provided $151,000.
As you know, we also provide student
support through prizes, bursaries, travel
grants, research and other scholarships,
as well as direct support to the Medical
Society. In the 2003/04 fiscal year,
our support was $244,000.
Although the MAA has always delighted
in helping our students, who are all future
alumni, we continue to expand the activities
of our alumni relations. We provided
over $90,000 for class reunions, the annual
graduation banquet and the alumni magazine,
an increase of almost 30 per cent
over the prior year. Of course, our office
and board remain dedicated to providing
assistance whenever needed.
While we continue to do more for our
students and alumni, there is always room
for improvement. It is our great hope that
we can meet the challenges of the future
with your help. As a charitable organization,
we depend on your generosity. We
are grateful to all who have contributed
over the past year. We are optimistic that
you might increase your support in the
coming year. The MAA looks forward to
donations from those who have not previously
contributed.
This will be my final Treasurer’s Report.
I will be taking a few years leave to help
with the raising of my young family. It has
been an honour working with the Medical
Alumni Association, with the executive
and especially with Ruth Gillings, whose
help has been invaluable to the organization.
I believe that the MAA remains in
strong financial health and should continue
to provide increasing assistance to our
students and alumni. ■

DEAN’S MESSAGE Dr. David Naylor (Class of 1978)
Finding time to make a difference
Our med students carry a sense of social responsibility into their future careers.
Conventional wisdom says, “If you
want something done, ask a
busy person.” It’s often individuals
with crammed schedules who are most
willing to take on new tasks and pursue
them with energy and commitment.
Whether or not this maxim holds
for the general population, it is certainly
accurate when applied to our undergraduate
MD students. Despite being fully
engaged in an intensive academic program,
many students still find time to contribute
to their communities in meaningful
ways. This issue of MAA Matters provides
a glimpse of some of the many student
activities that are making a difference in
Toronto, in Canada and around the world.
We select our students, in part, based
on their demonstrated commitment to
community because we believe it’s an
important predictor of success in medicine.
Given the demands of the program,
however, it would be unreasonable to
expect socially active students to continue
their level of involvement once enrolled in
medical school. Certainly time is a precious
commodity in our MD program.
Students have a heavy schedule of lectures,
seminars and small-group learning sessions.
They need time for clinics and labs,
and they need time to travel to teaching
sites across the city. Somehow, many of our
students still find the energy and hours to
raise money, advocate and serve on the
front lines of charitable organizations.
That they maintain these volunteer activities
leads me to believe that giving back is
more than a “resumé-building” strategy to
earn admission to a top medical school –
it’s hard-wired into these exceptional young
women and men.
Not only does their engagement reflect
well on their values and ideals, it also
reminds us of the extraordinary range of
talents they bring to the profession.
Fundraising performances such as Earth
Tones, Daffydil and Medstock showcases
their creativity, and creativity is an important
element in research and the clinical
practice of medicine.
Through the Office of Student Affairs
and the Centre for International Health we
actively encourage students to develop a
heightened awareness of social responsibility
at the local, national and international
levels. We also provide them with opportu-
Despite being fully engaged
in an intensive academic
program, many students still
find time to contribute
to their communities in
meaningful ways.
nities to engage in meaningful projects.
Our hope is that our students will
carry this sense of responsibility and caring
into their future careers, whether at the
bench or the bedside, and into a broader
engagement with the world as medically
qualified citizens. The generous contributions
of the donors listed in this issue
suggest that past generations of medical
students have indeed made social action
a lifelong habit. ■
Medical Alumni Association 3
PHOTO: LAURA ARSIÈ

moment
Our medical students are dedicated volunteers –
Making every
When med students feel compassion
in their hearts, they quickly
translate it into work for their
hands. They freely give of their skills and
their enthusiasm by volunteering at U of T,
across the city and around the world.
On campus, med students organize
blood donor clinics and the yearly Christmas
toy drive. At open houses, they greet
prospective students at the door and
answer questions about the program.
Through Daffydil, the annual showcase
of talent and tomfoolery,
med students have raised
money for the Canadian
Cancer Society since the
first production in 1912.
Across the city, student
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in spite of enormous curriculum demands.
volunteers tutor high-school students at risk
of failing or dropping out. To help homeless
adults, they serve dinners, clear tables
and wash dishes at Out of the Cold programs.
They volunteer as speakers with the
Healthy Sexuality Community Education
Program in high schools. And through the
International Health Program, they travel
the world to extend a helping hand.
And while the students volunteer, they
have a blast. One of life’s great paradoxes is
that you can’t help another person
without helping yourself.
Monica Choi and
Dorothy Reardon
enjoy playing
a board game.
count
Top-priority visits
Through the new Interdisciplinary Isolated
Senior Citizens Outreach (DISCO) program,
student volunteers reach out to
housebound seniors. This friendly visiting
initiative is the brainchild of Diana Alli,
student affairs co-ordinator for the Faculty
of Medicine, and second-year med student
Roberto Diaz. It’s sponsored by the Medical
Society, which the MAA helps fund.
At 23, Diaz already has bountiful experience
with seniors. In high school he
volunteered with Providence Centre, a
Toronto seniors’ residence. Diaz not only
entertained the residents by playing his
guitar, he conducted
bean-bag throws
PHOTO LEFT/TOP RIGHT: KEVIN KELLY

for the cognitively impaired, helped the
staff with clerical tasks and made sure that
those unable to feed themselves got dinner.
At U of T, through the first-year course
Determinants of Community Health,
Diaz and classmate Monica Choi visited
a woman who has her own health challenges,
and also helps manage her husband’s
chronic illness. Diaz and Choi
quickly realized how significant a friendly
visiting program could be in a senior’s life.
With Alli’s help, the students designed
the DISCO program and this year they
directed it.
DISCO is run in co-operation with
Central Neighbourhood House and Senior
Link, two organizations that provide
services to seniors in the downtown area.
It’s open to students in any of U of T’s
health-sciences programs. It has a total of
20 student volunteers from the medicine,
physiotherapy, radiation-science and occupational-therapy
streams. Once every two
weeks, the volunteers go in pairs to visit
seniors. Efforts are made to match a medical
student with a non-medical student.
“In our careers, it is important to work
in interdisciplinary teams,” says Diaz.
The program also gives future health-care
professionals a glimpse into the lives of
vulnerable seniors.
Choi visits Xenia, 84, who lives on her
Through Daffydil, med
students have raised money
for the Canadian Cancer
Society since the first
production in 1912.
own and has limited mobility. During the
visits, Choi and another student sit and
chat for two to three hours. “We never
run out of things to talk about,” says
Choi. Xenia is a former ballet teacher, and
Choi teaches ballet. “We talk about ballet
and opera and music,” says Choi. And
Xenia likes to hear about Choi’s grandmother,
who is 85.
Med student Roberto Diaz helped
establish a friendly visiting program
for housebound seniors.
Of course, every senior is unique. When
students visit Dorothy Reardon in downtown
Toronto, they play board games.
Everyone’s favourite: Snakes and Ladders.
How does a student fit visiting into
a schedule crammed with classes, studying,
exams and a part-time job? “I prioritize
and I consider visiting Xenia high-priority,”
says Choi. “She looks forward to
our visits and so do I. I don’t want to
let her down.”
Afghanistan or bust!
During the 2003-04 school year, students at
the Faculty of Medicine at the University of
The student group Books with Wings sent medical
books to Al-Beeruny University in Afghanistan.The
Canadian Armed Forces donated the transportation.
Manitoba in Winnipeg sent more than
1,700 used medical books to Kabul
Medical College Library in Afghanistan.
After years of conflict, part of Kabul’s existing
collection had been stained with mud.
Other books had bullet holes through
them. The donated books from medical
students and physicians across Canada were
desperately needed.
While the students
volunteer, they have a
blast. One of life’s great
paradoxes is that you
can’t help another person
without helping yourself.
Last year Claire Hirst and Shira Taylor,
both second-year medical students at U of T,
co-ordinated a medical-book drive in
Toronto. Taylor had visited Kabul,
Afghanistan, in the summer. While there,
she travelled three hours north to Al-Beeruny
University in Gul Bahar. Taylor found that,
after decades of war in the country, the
learning resources in the university’s Faculty
of Medicine were nearly nonexistent.
To help their peers at Al-Beeruny,
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PHOTO: STEVE BEHAL

CLASS NOTES
News from Your Classmates
CLASS OF 1935
Dr. J. D. Galbraith, 96, is writing his
life story. At an early point in his career,
Dr. Galbraith served at a United Church
hospital in Bella Coola, B.C. The community
had a population of 1,100, and Dr.
Galbraith performed all medical and surgical
treatments. Appalled at the tuberculosis
problem among native peoples, he later
took on responsibility for TB management
in the Northwest Territories. In 1973 he
retired to Victoria. “I would be pleased to
hear from anyone who remembers me,”
he writes. Contact: 3688 Crestview Rd.,
Victoria, V8P 5C4 or (250) 477-8726.
CLASS OF 1940
Dr. Roderick C. Ross
was the Annual Named
Research Day Speaker
in the pathology department
at St. Michael’s
Hospital in 2003.
Contact: (416) 787-9142
or 60 Sylvan Valleyway,
Toronto, M5M 4M3.
CLASS OF 1945
Dr. Donald C. Ross continues to practise
child psychiatry in Windsor, Ont. “I
enjoy it and can’t think of anything else
I would rather be doing,” he writes.
Don recently welcomed his 20th grandchild,
a two-year-old girl adopted from
an orphanage in Kansk, Siberia. She’s
blooming, thanks to her enthusiastic
parents, Pediasure, siblings, cousins and
a Montessori nursery school. Contact:
drossmd31@aol.com.
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CLASS OF 1948
Dr. Max Sugar announces that the Dr.
Max Sugar Professorship in Infant, Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry was initiated in
May 2004 at Louisiana State University
Health Science Center in New Orleans.
Contact: msugar1@cox.net.
CLASS OF 1950
Dr. Samuel Hauer served as chief of surgery
at John Muir Memorial Hospital in the
San Francisco Bay area and then as director
of the Breast Cancer Center. Sam retired six
months ago and resides in Alamo, Calif.
Contact: bubbiebubs@aol.com.
CLASS OF 1955
Dr. Alice Briggs is practising clinical allergy
and internal medicine. She’s also active
in a parish support group, youth health
clinic and dog club, among other community
groups. Contact: abriggs@sympatico.ca.
Dr. Diane Johnson is
practising psychotherapy
part-time from home and
enjoying her three grandchildren.
In 2003 she
took a “great trip” to the
High Arctic. Contact:
(416) 424-4196 or 170
Bayview Heights Dr., Toronto, M4G 2Y8.
Dr. Irvine A. Korman has been involved
in lifestyle counselling since 1990. He
bought an organic farm in 1995 where he
now lives and practises. Irv is engaged in
soil research to produce organic and biodynamic
edible vegetation. Last year he
added a greenhouse. Contact: 18831
Warden Ave, RR1, Sharon, ON, L0G 1V0
or (905) 478-4654.
Dr. Edward Noble
retired in July 2004
from his cardiology
practice and from
teaching at Toronto
General Hospital.
“Now I have time to
look after myself,” he writes. Contact:
tednoble@sympatico.ca.
Dr. A. Murray Pace has retired. Contact:
pax.m@sympatico.ca.
Dr. Ian G. L. Van Praagh continues to
work full-time in private practice and as
the medical director of Planned Parenthood
Hudson Peconic Inc. in New York State.
Contact: flickavp@yahoo.com.
CLASS OF 1960
Dr. Edward J.
Istvan has been
semi-retired since
July 2002, assisting
only with
surgery. Ed is
enjoying his five
grandchildren
and lives in
Toronto.
Contact: chredi@sympatico.ca.
Dr. Harvey Socol of Fullerton, Calif.,
writes, “I am happily ‘retarded.’ We are
in Toronto most
of each summer,
but have lived
in California for
27 years.” Both
of Harvey’s sons
are now married.
Contact: ebsocol@aol.com.
CLASS OF 1961
Dr. James Allen is a professor of psychiatry
and behavioural sciences and the Rainbolt
Family Chair of Child-Adolescent

Psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma
Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City.
“Therapeutic Journey: Practice and Life”
by his late wife, Barbara, and himself
will be published this spring. Contact:
James-r-allen@ouhsc.edu.
Dr. Frank Bonser lives in Muncie, Ind.,
and retired in December 2003. Contact:
gbonser@comcast.net.
Dr. Richard Godron has retired as chief
of anesthesiology at a large hospital in
Munich, Germany. Contact: 089/521796.
CLASS OF 1965
Dr. Darcy Lawrence stepped down as
chief of medical imaging at Vancouver
Island Health Authority after 15 years of
service. Darcy still works four days a week.
Contact: darcylawrence@shaw.ca.
Dr. Ernest Michel, a palliative-care physician
at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto,
spent four weeks as a visiting fellow in the
adult psychosocial oncology department at
the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
The institute is affiliated with Harvard
University. Ernest is looking forward to the
class’ 40th-anniversary reunion in October
2005. Contact: emichel@mtsinai.on.ca.
Dr. Stephen Silverberg is now only doing
locum tenens. He is willing to go anywhere
in Canada. Contact: (705) 389-1118.
CLASS OF 1966
Dr. Larry Fremont
has three children,
two boys and one girl,
all married with five
children between them.
Dr. Fremont is looking
forward to becoming
the managing director of a multidisciplinary
enterprise. Contact: fremont416@yahoo.ca.
Dr. Vladimir Hachinski is a neurology
professor at the University of Western
Ontario in London and editor-in-chief
of Stroke. He is also president of the
International Society for Behavioral and
Cognitive Vascular Disorders. Recently
he received Spain’s first Stroke Research
Award. Contact:
vladimir.hachinski@lhsc.on.ca.
Dr. Stalin Hardin is enjoying his retirement.
Stalin retired from the Malaysian
Government Health Service in November
1996. He now sits on one corporate
board and three medicine-related charitable
boards. Stalin has two sons who are doctors
and a daughter who is an accountant/chemical
engineer. His first grandchild, Daniel,
was born on February 13, 2004. Contact:
No. 6, Jalan Bukit Hantu, 93200 Kuching,
Sarawak, Malaysia, 082-233846.
Dr. Margaret Kum Hung Tao is working
full-time at Etobicoke Medical Centre as a
Dr. John David Richardson of Dundas,
Ont., was pleased to receive the Paul
Harris Fellowship Award from the
Dundas Sunrise Rotary Club for his
volunteer work
in historical
medicine at
the Dundas
Historical
Museum and
Westfield
Heritage
Centre. He is
an 1870 medical
re-enactor
and developed
medical exhibits at various historical sites.
Contact: jd.richardson@sympatico.ca.
Above: Dr. Richardson in an 1870
historical re-enactor’s outfit.
CLASS NOTES
general practitioner. Marg has three children:
Tina is a psychiatrist, Felix is an
optometrist, and Jason went to Japan
in January to teach English. Contact:
(416) 251-5665.
CLASS OF 1970
Dr. Andy Belch and his wife, Barbara,
attended the multiple myeloma conference
in Sydney, Australia, in April. Their
daughter, Adrienne, will graduate from
law school at the University of Alberta
in Edmonton this June and is getting
married in August. Contact:
barbarabelch@shaw.ca.
Dr. Bill Evans became president
of the Juravinski Cancer Centre at
Hamilton Health Sciences in October
2004. Previously, Dr. Evans was the chief
medical officer at Cancer Care Ontario.
Bill will continue as the regional vicepresident
and senior medical adviser,
Cancer Care Ontario Southwest Region.
Dr. Arlette Lefebvre, since the class
reunion in 1995, has become a member
of the Order
of Ontario,
the Order of
Canada and
was inducted
into the Terry
Fox Hall of
Fame. For her
advocacy work,
Dr. Lefebvre
received the
Bloorview
Children’s Hospital Circle of Honour
Award and the Paul Steinhauer Advocacy
Award. As well, Arlette has published the
bookTaking Your Kids Online and just
joined a UN North American round table
on violence against children. Contact:
arlette.lefebvre@sickkids.ca.
Dr. Norm Schachar is a professor
of surgery (orthopedics) at the University
of Calgary and is the deputy head of
Medical Alumni Association 7

CLASS NOTES
the surgery department and chair of
the Office of Surgical Education.
Contact: nsschach@ucalgary.ca.
CLASS OF 1972
Dr. Eric Barker was named 2004
Physician of the Year for the Georgian
Region by the Ontario College of Family
Physicians. Eric has been a family physician
in Wiarton, Ont., for 30 years.
Contact: windburn@bmts.com.
CLASS OF 1975
Dr. David Cole has been on the faculty
of U of T since 1993 and has a variety
of clinical interests that centre on metabolic
genetics and its application to human
disease, particularly disorders of bone
and mineral metabolism. David is married
to Dr. Linda Stirk (McGill 1981), an
obstetrician/gynecologist at North York
General Hospital, and they delight in their
two children – Emily, 17, and Gregory, 12.
Dr. Cole’s father, the late Dr. Arthur Cole
(Class of 1943, July), was a professor of
pediatrics at U of T, and his grandfather,
the late Dr. Cooper Cole (Class of
1907), was a professor of therapeutics
and medicine.
Dr. Deirdre Cole owns a house in
Provence, France, on the outskirts
of Bedoin, a village 50 kilometres east
Volunteer career
advisers urgently needed
Remember the stress of choosing
a medical career? These days, the
decision is even harder because there
are so many more choices.The Office
of Student Affairs and the MAA have
identified an urgent need for alumni
to connect with our students as career
advisers.Training will be provided. For
more information, please contact Dr.
Anna Jarvis, the director of Student
Affairs, at anna.jarvis@utoronto.ca
or (416) 978-2713
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of Avignon. Deirdre is willing to rent
it out when she’s not there. Contact:
djcole@telus.net.
Dr. Kwok, left, with colleagues when he worked
at the Shaikh Khalifa Medical Center in Abu Dhabi.
They are all Canadian orthopedic surgeons.
CLASS OF 1976
Dr. Desmond C. Kwok has been an
orthopedic surgeon in the United Arab
Emirates for nearly four years. Currently,
he’s the senior orthopedic surgeon at
Dubai Bone and Joint Center. “Working
in a totally different culture is in itself
challenging,” he writes. Desmond and his
wife of 18 years, Earla, have two children
– Keely, 14, and Keaton, 9. Contact:
desmond.kwok@dbaj.ae.
CLASS OF 1990
Dr. Suan-Seh Foo was commissioned
to paint the official portraits of Fr.
James McConica, president of the
Pontifical Institute and past president
of the University of St. Michael’s College,
and Dr. Joseph Pope, a benefactor of
the Pontifical Institute and St. Michael’s
College. Fr. McConica’s portrait hangs
in the Canada Room at St. Michael’s
College; Dr. Pope’s portrait hangs
in his home.
CLASS OF 1995
Dr. Ruby Alvi and Dr. Ike Ahmed
were married a few days after they graduated.
They now have three sons. Ruby is
practising in Port Credit, Ont., and Ike
is practising in Credit Valley, Ont.
Contact: ruby.alvi@utoronto.ca and
ike.ahmed@utoronto.ca.
Dr. D’Arcy Little wears many hats. Dr.
Little is a lecturer at U of T, the director of
medical education and research at York
Community Services, the medical director
of CME Geriatrics and Aging, and a contributing
editor to A Patient’s Guide to
Medical Information. D’Arcy always makes
time for his starring role as Daddy to son
Alex, 2. He looks forward to the class’
10-year reunion. Contact:
darcy.little@sympatico.ca.
Dr. Julia Liu is an associate physician in
the division of gastroenterology at
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston
and an instructor at Harvard Medical
School. Julia and her husband have a
10-month-old baby. Contact:
jjliu@partners.org.
Dr. Janet
MacEachern
is a hematologist
at Grand
River Regional
Cancer Centre
in Kitchener,
Ont. Janet and her husband, Jon Buchanan,
have three children – Madeleine, 7,
Thomas, 4, and Olivia, 1. Contact:
janet.maceachern@grhosp.on.ca.
Dr. Michael Schweitzer had his first
book, The Curse of Garnel Ironheart,
published last year. Mike has now released
the second book of the fantasy trilogy,
The Ashes of Alladag. Both books are
available at Chapters and on
www.chapters.indigo.ca. ■

CLASSES OF
1930 TO 1939
John Bickle
Cameron Gray
Louis Lams
Bernard Laski
Louis Lester
Maurice Morris
The Late Alan Rice
Elspie Shaver
Charles Sheard
The Late W. John Wilson
CLASSES OF
1940 TO 1949
Crawford Anglin
John Armstrong
Robert Armstrong
William Arnup
John Bailey
Hugh Barber*
Robert Bell
Edward Best
Mary Black-Brenneman*
Margaret Bogoch
Walter Bonney
Margaret Brander
Frederick Brason
Elizabeth Bridgman
Wilbert Brien
Thomas Brown*
Fredrick Button
Douglas Campbell
Doreen Caplin
Gordon Caudwell*
William Clarke*
Frederick Clinckett
Saul Cohen
Alan Conn
John Connolly
Peter Crassweller
Elsie Crawford
John Crawford
Katherine Cross
Leonard Davies
Ambrose (Jack) Denne*
Doris Denne*
Natalie Dyer
Eric Elliot*
L. Jean Erb
Emmanuel Farber
Joseph Fineberg
The Late Donald Finlayson
Harold Fireman
Murray Flock
Norman Found
Donald Fraser
John Gardiner*
William Geisler
Margaret Gentles
Donald Gibson
William Graham
Norman Green
Harvey Gurian
George Harvey
Gordon Hawks
Barbara Hazlett
John Hazlett
Benjamin Henry
John Heron
David Howard*
Robert Jeffs
Harold Kalant*
John Kilgour
Laverne Kindree
R. Selby Kneeshaw
Oscar Kofman
Joseph Kyle
John Laidlaw*
Ronald Lamont-Havers
James Lanskail
John Laughton
William Lindsay*
James Little
Lewis Little
Lloyd Little
Wallace Lotto
Bernard Ludwig
John MacLean
John Maus
John McBirnie
Dermot McCarthy*
Ross McCendie
The Late William McGanity*
Mary McKim-Mackenzie
Barclay McKone
Marjorie Moore
George Moss
Frank Newland
Stephen O’Brien
Wallace Parliament
Fraser Parrott
William Paul
Lois Pearce*
Frederick Pearson
Edgar Peer
Joseph Peller*
Kenneth Phillips
Clifford Preece
John Ridge
L. Isobel Rigg
Paul Roberts
John Robinson
Donald Ross*
Roderick Ross, 4T0*
Roderick Ross, 4T8
Zelda Rothbart-Fox
Irving Rother
Robert Salter
William Sedgwick
Robert Sheppard
Morris Shusterman*
Henry Shykoff
Robert Slater
Harry Smith
James Smith
The Late George Snell
Shena Sourkes
John St. John
Taylor Statten
THANKS TO OUR DONORS
Above &beyond
The Medical Alumni Association is privileged to have
an enthusiastic membership. The following pages list the
hundreds of alumni who donated $100 or more in 2004.
Your donation helps students who, like you, are committed to
easing disease and suffering. On behalf of each and every student,
thank you for helping to realize a treasured dream.
Every donor does his or her best to further the work of the
MAA.When a recent graduate with a new baby donates $100, we
realize that the donation required planning and sacrifice. Thank
you. For the alumna with children in university, your finances are
already stretched.Thank you for extending your generosity to the
MAA. One alumnus, Dr.Victor Kurdyak (Class of 1960), recently
showed his belief in the work of the MAA by donating the proceeds
from the sale of his cottage to the Ontario Student
Opportunities Trust Fund II for matching. This donation created
the Dr. Ruth Kurdyak (6T0) Memorial Medical Alumni Association
Student Assistance Fund which in 2006 – and every year thereafter
– will provide $1,500 to each of up to 15 students in financial
need. Thank you Dr. Kurdyak.
The MAA manages unique programs that broaden the
student experience, that put bursaries into the hands of those
who need financial assistance and that help alumni stay connected.
None of this would be possible without your generosity.
What a difference you’re making!
At the annual MAA Convocation Banquet,
alumni can catch up with med-school friends.
Albert Steiner
Donald Stewart
Frances Stewart
Harold Stewart
John Stewart
John Stitt
George Stock
John Strathearn
Irvin Strathman
John Toogood
George Trusler
Earle Varty
David Wasser
Neil Watters
Bruce Wells
M. Patricia White*
Edward Wilford
Angus Wilson
Donald Wilson
James Wishart
John Yoshioka
Mabel Young*
CLASSES OF
1950 TO 1959
Ruth Alison
Douglas Alton
Kenneth Asselstine
Bernard Awerbuck
Michael Baida
William Bailey
Donald Barr
The Late Elizabeth Barr
James Bassingthwaighte
Theodore Bayley*
E. Geoffrey Beatty
Lindsay Belch
Barbara Berner
Jack Birnbaum
Charles Blazic
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PHOTO: BILL BOLYCHUK, UT PRESS

Donald Boyer
Thomas Briant
James Bricker
Alice Briggs
Irvin Broder
Douglas Brodie
Donald Brown
William Brummitt
Bruce Buchanan
Kenneth Butler*
Robert Carlisle
Ronald Chaikoff
Hugh Chambers
Brian Coggins
Aldo Colantonio
James Colquhoun
Garson Conn
Donald Cowan
Robert Creighton
Audrey Crocker*
Jane Cruickshank
Gordon Dale
George Davis
Ruth Davis
George De Veber
Grant Eckert
Gerald Edelist*
Richard Edwards
Abraham Eisen
John Evans
James Fallis
Leslie Fine
Samuel Fine
John Finn
Marjorie Fish
William Francis
Gordon Fyffe
Dorothy Gauld*
Barnett Giblon
Edward Gibson
John Gibson*
Joseph Gilmour
Gerald Goldberg
Charles Gonsalves
Duncan Gordon
Gordon Gray
Joseph Greenberg
Paul Greenhow
Irving Grosfield
Carole-Ann Guzman
Irene Hain
David Haldenby
Harry Hall
James Hall*
Wilbur Harris*
Donald Harrison
Gerald Hart
Hubert Higgins
F. Marguerite Hill*
Paul Hoaken
Jack Holtzman
Gordon Horne*
Scharley-May Horne*
Robert Hunter
Peter Huschilt
Francis Invidiata
Patricia Irwin
Ross Irwin
Diane Johnson
10 University of Toronto • Spring 2005
Gerald Jones
Martin Kazdan
Hubert Keenleyside*
Irwin Keltz
Norman Kerbel*
Robert Kilborn
Harry Kleiman
Graydon Knupp
Martin Kosoy
Dorothea Kulis*
Robert Lane
Bernard Langer*
Gerald Lansky
Hugh Lawrence
Richard Lee
Thomas Lennox
Harvey Lewis*
Beverly Lewis-Harris
William Little
Abraham Lofchy
James Loudon
Chris Loukras
John Lowden
Ahti Lundquist*
Duncan MacDonald
James MacIntosh
Bruce Macpherson
Earl Mahoney
Milton Margulies
Cyril Marks
John Marlow
John Martin
Edward Masson
Hisashi Matsusaki
William Matthews
William McAdam
D. Dale McCarthy
Donald McCorvie
Rebecca McDermot
Thomas McKee
James McPhee
Marvin Miller
Frederick Moffat
Herbert Moher*
Harvey Moldofsky
Donald Montgomery
John Moran
George Morrison
Philip Morton
Kenneth Mustard
Joseph Naiman
Ryoichi Nishikawa
Margaret Norman
George Novotny*
Elizabeth Oliver-Malone
Thomas Patterson
Donald Paul
Beverley Pearson-Murphy*
David Pelton
G.Allan Pengelly
Reginald Perkin
Frank Thomas Porter
Michael Porter
Jack Posnikoff
Leonard Raizin
John Redford
Marvin Reingold
William Reynolds
John Robinson
Making a
Mitsuko Sada
Hugh Rose
Gerald Rosen*
Irving Rosen
Harold Rotman
Roy Rowsell
Robert Ruderman
Leon Rudnick
Francis Rundle
Kenneth Sakamoto
Sarah Saunders
Arthur Scott
David Scott
C. Harvey Shaul
The Late John Shepherd
Donald Shier
Bernard Silverman
Michael Simurda
Joseph Sladen
Allen Smith
Donald Smith
David Sowby
Margaret Spence
Manuel Spivak
Malcolm Stalker
John Stewart
Allan Stocks
Albert Strickler
The Late Lynette Sutherland
Philbin Tackoor*
Hugh Thomson
Joan Thomson
Robert Thomson
George Thow
Marvin Tile
Rudolph Toews
James Topp
William Trusler
Allan Tucker
R. Edward Turner
Murray Tyber*
Stanley Venis
Benjamin Walker*
Thomas Walker
Sydney Wax
Victor Weinberg
Donald Welsh
Howard Wernick
William Whittaker*
Ruth Wiens
E. Douglas Wigle
Gordon Williams
Douglas Wilson
CLASSES OF
1960 TO 1969
Jordan Achiume
Gillian Allen
Robert Allin
Robert Apps
Harvey Armstrong
Richard Austin*
George Awais
Karen Baer
Henry Bahmann
Robert Baker
Mary Bedford-Jones*
Michael Bell
Peter Bentz
Stanley Bernstein
Keith Boughton
Iivi Campbell*
Thomas Campbell
Med students learn how to cook inexpensively in a project
sponsored by the Medical Society, which the MAA helps fund.
Douglas Chenoweth
Victor Chiu
Philip Chubb
William Cohoon
Allan Connolly
Gerald Cooney
Perry Cooper
Peter Cordy
Thomas Corkum
Ronald Crago*
Vinton Crawford
Karen Cronin
Edward Davies
Richard Davies
Stanley Debow
Helen Demshar
Christine Derzko
Jacob Dick*
Francis Dicum
Joan Dixon
Gordon Donsky
Sheila Doyle
Allan Dyer
Edward English
Jerome Epstein*
Bruce Evans
Inara Ezers
Joseph Falletta
Fredrick Feldman
Shim Felsen
Ronald Filderman
Bernard Fogel
Paul Forrest
Robert Forward
Arnis Freiberg
Lynn From
Robert Gibb*
Charles Gold
Sidney Gold
Ronald Graham
Richard Grosch*
Allan Gross
Lawrence Grossman
Arthur Gryfe
Vladimir Hachinski
Linda Hadley-Piscopo
Edward Hambley
Brian Hands
John Hilditch
Robert Hilliard
John Holbrook
Jane Hosdil
James Houston
Edward Istvan
Ivan Jackson
Robert Joynt
Otto Kahn
Dagnija Kalnins
Alan Kamitakahara
Brenda Kane
Shirley Kellam
John Kempston
Sylvia Kennedy
Jay Keystone*
William King
John Kirby
Gunter Koch*
Elizabeth Kocmur
Peter Kopplin
Victor Kurdyak
Robert Lamont
Howard Langer
D’Arcy Lawrence
H. Lavina Lickley
Irving Lipton
Charles Listgarten
Stanley Litch
E. Irene Llovera
Stanley Lofsky
Joseph MacInnis*
Stuart MacLeod
Mary MacRae
Gary Magee
David Manace
Joseph Marshall
Paul Martin
Lionel Mausberg
Brian McGrath
John McLean*
James Mergelas
Norman Mesaglio
David Mitchell
Baldev Mohindra
Liliana Monti*
Nicholas Moore
Nathan Morrow
John Murnaghan
John Murray
Martin Myers
Grant Nadon

David Naiberg
difference
James Nelson
John Newall
Donald Niece
Arnold Noyek
Marvin Nussbaum
Richard Ogilvie
Jerry Omelon
John Osborn*
Priit Pallopson
James Panabaker
Charles Pearce
Melvyn Petersiel
Terry Picton
John Platt
David Preston
Kenneth Pritzker
William Prost
Stewart Pugsley
Stephen Redfern
Juri Reial
Steven Richie
Michael Robinette
Andrew Royko
Baiba Rozkalns
John Rundle
George Rungi
Edward Rusiewicz*
Barry Salsberg
Ralph Scandiffio
Peter Schmalfuss
Jon Schonblom
Gerald Seligman
Yehudi Shields
Ernest Smith
Vivien Smith*
Charles Snelling*
Robert Snihura
Marja Soots
Phyllis Spier
Stanley Spier
Brian Steele*
Bernard Stein
Grant Stewart
Donald Sutherland
Margaret Tao
Bryce Taylor
Saul Taylor
Paul Teague
Aloysius Teglas
Bruce Thomas
Allan Toguri
Constance Townsend
Myron Troster
John Turner
Lary Turner
Martin Unger
Glen Van Loon
Otto Veidlinger
Bryn Waern
John Wait
Marvin Waxman
Michael Weatherhead
Peter Webster
Howard Weinberg
Arthur Weinstein
Michael Weinstock*
William Weiser*
Neville Weston
Walter Weston
Robert Williams
Peter Wyshynski
Thomas Yates*
Irving Zelcer
Ronald Zuker
CLASSES OF
1970 TO 1979
The Class of 1979
Asiru Abu-Bakare
Paul Adam
Peter Adamson
Krystyna Alimurka
Carolyn Allan
Janice Andreyko*
William Appell
Denis Bailey
Eric Barker
Gary Barrs
Allan Bellack
Thanks for
the memories
The following individuals
donated historic equipment,
books, photos, Daffydil
programs and other mementos
to the MAA Archives.
Dr. John Bailey
Barbara Bain
Donald Barr
Dr. Nick Cuberovic
Dr. James Galbraith
Dr. Larry Hardy
Dr. Victor Kurdyak
Dr. David Posen
Dr. John Robinson
Don Rogers
Dr. Howard Stein
Barbara Truck
Dr. John Yoshioka
Steven Bilyk
Jan Blachut
Paul Blusys*
Thomas Bluthardt
Jana Boyce
John Bradley
Christopher Brand
Robin Brooks-Hill
Miriam Buchstein
Ronald Burkes
Timothy Burns*
Patrick Butler
Arthur Cain
Robert Carlen*
June Carroll
Donna Cescon*
Mel Cescon*
Alex Chan
John Chan
Kwok Chan
Hing Chen
Gregory Cheng
Hiu-Chung Cheng*
Emily Chew
Robert Chisholm
Doo-Sang Cho
John Chu Ho Tam
Wilfred Chung
Joanne Cohen
Charles Cruise
William Davies
Jacqueline Davis
Dorrit de Demeter
James Deutsch
Surender Dhiman
Robert Doherty*
Robert Duggan
Sheila Dunn
Robin Eccles
David Etlin
William Evans
Barbara Fallis
Sheldon Fine
Pietro Flora
John Floras*
Kan Fung
Anthony Fyles
W. Derek George
Michael Gildiner
Morton Goldbach*
Gordon Goldenson*
John Goode
Stuart Goodman*
Theodore Gould
Robert Greco
Michael Green
Rudy Greene
Keith Greenway
Ann Grise
Ronald Grossman
John Grynoch
Michael Guinness*
Madhulika Gupta
Flavio Habal
Michael Haiduk
Larry Hancock
Sam Handelsman*
Gordon Harrigan
Jeremy Hatch
Patrick Heffernan
Michael Henry
Gillian Hicks
Anthony Hii
June Hill
Judith Holdsworth
Rosanna Honig
Bent Hougesen
Anthony Hui
Hilary Hui*
Gilbert Hurwitz
Robert Hyland*
Christopher Ibey
Margaret Ibey
Elizabeth Irvine
Abdel-Raouf Ismail
Peter Izso
Robert Johnson
Helen Karsai
Martin Kates*
Magdi Kayal
Barbara Kee
Peter Keefe
Donna Keystone
Charles King
Albert Kirshen
Alexander Klein
Irvin Klinghofer
Jouni Kraft
Stephen Kraft
Esther Krigstein-Dostrovsky
John Kristensen
Walter Kucharczyk
Denis Kulesha
Alice Lai*
Carol Lee
Kan Lee
Lap-Cheung Lee*
Victor Lee
Sydney Librach
Peter Liu*
Yuen Liu
Michael Lo
Konstantin Loewig
William Lucas
Charles Lynde
Helen Lynn
Elliott Lyons
Oscar Mandel
Pirjo Manninen
Sharon Marcovitz*
Douglas Margison
Ray Martin
Stephen Martin
Andrew Maykut
Irene McGhee
David McGillivray
Richard McLean*
Patricia McNama
Terence McQuiston
Anna Millers
Gary Morningstar
Donald Munnings
Robert Myers
James Nasmith
David Naylor
Peter Noble
Claire Nunes-Vaz
Sidney Nusinowitz
James Ooi
Andrew Osuszek
Howard Ovens
Dror Paley
Brian Phillips
Lesley Pinder
Peeter Poldre
Brian Power
Howard Price
William Price
Val Rachlis
Louisa Ramone*
Paul Ranalli
Henrietta Rappaport*
Richard Reddick
Anthony Reid
David Reid
Joseph Ricci
Timothy Richardson*
Richard Rinn
Frank Rosenberg
Sherryn Roth
Richard Russek
Edward Russell
Jana Saksun
David Samra
THANKS TO OUR DONORS
Brian Schwartz
Richard Seppala
Elizabeth Shane
Anne Shepherd
Judith Shindman
David Silverberg
T. Michelle Simmonds
Louise Sims
Vahe Sivaciyan
Kenneth Sniderman
William Squires
John Srigley
John Stephen
Janet Still
Martin Strauss
Juan Subirana
Benedykt Syposz
Thomas Tam
Chu Tan
Richard Tannerya
Lorne Tarshis
Jerome Teitel
Martin Tepper
Victoria Thompson
I. E. Henry Tiedje
Jane Toyota
Nancy Tozer
Harriet Train
Mary Trotter*
John Ying Choi Tsang
Tommy Tung
Lorne Umemoto*
Mary Vearncombe
Pamela Velos*
Robert Veselis
Jobst Von Heymann
Helen Vosu
Elfriede Waitschies
Robert Wald
David Walker
Rudolf Weitemeyer
Juliet White
Catharine Whiteside
Jerry Wilk
David Wilson
Jean-Victor Wittenberg
Alice Wong
Patrick Wong
William Wong
Hing-Tung Wu
Sing Wu
Bernita Young
Charlene Young
Peter Zalan
Shery Zener
Robert Ziedenberg
CLASSES OF
1980 TO 1989
Mark Accardo
Sandeep Aggarwal
Vandana Ahluwalia
Jonathan Angel
Janice Armstrong
Susan Babensee
Mary Ann Badali
Norma Baker
Lisa Ballinger*
Susan Belo
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Peter Bergsagel
Alexa Bertagnolli
Hugo Bertozzi
Catherine Birt
Alice Bluemke
Risa Bordman
Brad Bowins
Cindy Boyack
Neil Brass
Karen Brown
Bruce Cameron
Savitri Chaddah
Benjamin Chan
Davy Cheng
Martin Chepesiuk
Chi-Yiu Cheung
Anthony Chin
Simon Chiu
David Clow*
Sandra Cockfield
Carolyn Cooke
Steven Cooper
Denise Coulas
Myron Cybulsky
Beverley Davis
Karen Dechert
Timothy Devlin
Janet Dickhout
Corinne Dixon
Ian Dobson
Stuart Dyment
Peter Eddenden
Neil Edwards
Stanley Feinberg
Michael Ford
Christopher Forrest
Vito Forte
Esti Friedman
Richard Friedman
Leo Fung
Steven Gallinger
John Giannoccaro
Louis Giavedoni*
Leonard Ginsberg
Jeannette Goguen
Stephen Gorlick
Ellen Gough
Ann Griffin
Donato Gugliotta
Eddie Gutman
Arvad Hamlet
Mark Hanson*
Alexander Hartman
David Hawkins
Brenda Hayakawa
Peter Hayashida
Philip Hebert
Brian Higgins
Gail Hirano
Holger Hirte
Much appreciated!
Marika Hohol
Collin Hong
Alexandra Howlett
Elliot Hudes
Bethel Hurowitz
Erik Hurowitz
Dennis Izukawa
Nigel Jagan*
Frances Jamieson
12 University of Toronto • Spring 2005
Godfrey Jansz
Joan Jeu
David Jordan
Roman Jovey
Sean Keenan
Nzeera Ketter*
Matthew Kim
David Knox
Nitsa Kohut
Claudia Korwan
Peter Kunashko
Rose Kung
Andy Lam
Gabor Lantos
Justin Lee
Ngar-Lin Leung
Tin-Chung Leung
Wai Leung
Jackson Lin
Jeffrey Lipsitz*
Fei Liu
John Lu*
David Lynch-Salamon
Charlene Lyndon
Vincenzo Maida
Drue Mandel
Thomas Marotta
Frederick Matzinger
Steven McCabe
Carolyn McLean
Donna McRitchie
Steven Melemis
Sandra Mergler
Kathleen Michalski
Marcus Michell
Donald Miettinen
John Minardi*
Gary Morrow
David Mowbray
Ashok Mukherjee
John Murnaghan
Domenic Nasso*
Thomas Nevill
Bo-Yee Ngan*
Jane Nixon
Michael Nowak*
Paul Oh
Gordon Okawara
Teddi Orenstein
Michael Padonou
Sophia Pantazi
Christina Paulaitis
Stephen Pearce
Monica Pearl
Howard Petroff
Bharat Pithadia
Wendy Pullan
Thomas Quigg
Myra Rapoport*
James Rogers
Michael Rooney
Murray Rosenbaum
Jay Rosenfield*
Lea Rossiter
Terence Sakamoto*
David Salonen*
Alexandra Schepansky
Martin Schreiber
Sandra Seigel
William Simmons
Victoria Siu
Orest Sochaniwskyj
Lorne Sokol
Janet Strome
Peter Stroz
Tom Suhadolc*
Patrick Sullivan*
Edison Susman
Anthony Tang
Lisa Thain
Scott Tigert
Margaret Tutert
Eric Uhlig
Robert Urback
Tony Vettese
Ellen Warner*
Cheryl Waters
Anne Watt
Hedy Weinroth
Joel Weinstein
David Wheler
Peter White
Tanya-Gay Williams
Alice Wong
Clement Wong
Wan Wong
Ian Woolfson
Doreen Yee
Lauren Yee*
Joel Yellin
Bohdan Yemchuk
Daniel Yim
Berwin Yip
Tsui-Chun Yip
Jennifer Young
Chi Sing Yu
CLASSES OF
1990 TO 1999
Viola Antao*
Nancy Austin
Gholam-Abbas Azadian*
Charanjit Bageria*
Brian Banwell*
Todd Bastianon
Charles Bell*
Kelvin Bernard
Elazar Bienenstock*
Anthony Bier
Rajiv Bindlish*
Sean Blaine
Janet Bodley*
Christopher Booth
Peter Bray*
Branimir Brcic
Adrian Brown*
C. Elizabeth Brown
Jason Burstein
Susan Campbell*
Benny Chang
Wendell Chen
Andy Cheok*
Colleen Cheung
Aaron Chiu*
Norman Chu*
Samantha Cogan
Teofilo Corpus*
Barbara Crawford
Nora Cullen*
Antonia De Figueiredo*
Karen De Freitas
Wayne Deitel*
Christine Diekmeyer
Diane Diorio*
Chaminda Dissanayake
Simone Douglas*
Choan E*
Dalia Eino
Mohammed Elahi*
Barbara Erdelyi
Suan-Seh Foo
Sandro Galea*
Julie Gallagher
Satyajit Ganguli*
Carol Geller
Sergio Giancola
Graham Gibb
Paul Goobie
David Gordon
Peter Grant
Rolf Gronas
Paul Grosso
Judy Hagshi
Susan Harder*
Lori Hasulo
Susan Hegge*
Ted Hunter*
Angelo Iocca
Gregory Ip
Rakesh Jetly
Rajnee (Sony) Jolly
Ronny Kafiluddi
Moira Kapral
Saleem Kassam
Nancy Kazarian
Michael Kiang*
Joanne Kirby
Waitak Kong
Allan Kopyto
Chrisostomos Kouroukis
Kannan Krishnar
Catherine Kurosu
Richard Kvas
Paul Lai*
Desmond Lam*
Sonya Lee
Kevin Leung
Riva Levitan
D’Arcy Little
Vivian Liu
Ronnie Lo*
Hugh Mackay
Laura MacKinnon
Phillip Mah
Michael Maurice
Jennifer McCabe
Stewart McCallum
Stuart McCluskey*
Lisa McMurray*
David McVinnie
Shirley Sit
Lillian Siu
Sean Sleeth
Julia Smith
Andrew Sommerville
Sheila Souliere*
Matthew Stanbrook
THANKS TO OUR DONORS
Karen Stel
Catherine Streutker*
Anne-Marie Sykes
Lisa Tannock*
Steven Tishler
Simon Treissman
Scott Tsai
Willis Tsai
John Tsihlias
Deborah Van Vliet*
Michael Ward
Roman Wasylyk
Jeff Weissberger
Julie Williams
Wendy Williams*
Tracy Wilson
Wendy Wilson*
Albert Wong
David Wong
Kenneth Yuen
Natasha Zajc*
CLASSES OF
2000 TO 2003
William Andrade
Gillian Antoniadis
Alison Baker*
Grant Chen
Ghassan Dally
David Kaplan
Tariq Kassum
Jeffrey Kwong
Sabrina Lee
Jason Shack
Scott Walsh
Winnie Wong
OTHER SUPPORTERS
The Benjamin Foundation
Paul Chumak (In memory
of Ruth Kurdyak, 6T0)
Gertrude “Gittie” Gollish
(In memory of Irvin (Kelly)
Gollish, 5T7)
Pam Gollish (In memory of
Irvin (Kelly) Gollish, 5T7)
Sarah Markens (In memory
of Isaac (Jack) Markens, 4T8)
Mr. & Mrs. Larry Mobley (In
honour of Bernie Langer, 5T6)
The Harold Vincent Rice
Estate (3T6)
Roseanne Spiar and family
(In memory of Isaac (Jack)
Markens, 4T8)
Dr. Rosemary Spier (British
Commonwealth, 1967)
Inez Vale (In memory of
Bruce Vale, 3T8)
Amy Wallbridge (In memory
of Peter Wallbridge, 5T2)
* Donated to the Ontario Student
Opportunity Trust Fund II
If we left off or included your
name in error, our apologies.
Please report the error to the
MAA office at (416) 978-0991.

Extending a
helping hand
CLASSES OF
1940 TO 1949
John F. Bailey
George Campion
CLASSES OF
1950 TO 1959
Gordon Baker
The Late William Clark
William Coates
Edwin Gaviller
Dallas Grogan
Herbert Haberman
J. Milne Harvey
Richard Hector
George Lau
W. Ross Prince
Donald Ranney
Robert Roe
Edgar Singer
Rudolph Toews
Robert Watson
E. George Woodward
CLASSES OF
1960 TO 1969
Wayne Auyeung
William Baldwin
Donald Carom
Peter Clarke
Norman Flett
Jerry Graner
Allan Gross
Donald Henderson
Christina Hill
Alan Kruger
Robert Lamont
Robert Lester
Melvyn Petersiel
David Posen
Ronald Sears
June Thomson
CLASSES OF
1970 TO 1979
J. Byron Alldred
Marshall Barkin
Robert Barkwell
Joseph Blankier
Maarten Bokhout
Izzie Boxen
Glenn Cameron
Joseph Castrodale
Donald Cole
John Frank
The MAA thanks the following alumni and supporters who
gave to the Ontario Medical Student Bursary Fund in 2004.
Sumit Gupta (Class of 2005) on an International Health
placement at a World Health Organization centre in
Nairobi, Kenya.
William Geddie
Ron Greenwood
Richard Gruneir
R.Andrew Hackett
Gregory Healey
Diana Heath
David Hodgkiss
Patricia Houston
Eric Ireland
Elizabeth Johnston
Klara Klein
Max Kleinman
Barry Kurtzer
Normand Laperriere
Your gift helped
Walter Lauf
Michael Leung
Richard Mah
Hugh McGowan
Karen McIntosh
M. Elizabeth McLeod
Wendy Meschino
Mark Minden
Beverly Morningstar
Charles Murphy
Edward Najgebauer
Jack Newman
Jeffrey Nisker
Robert Panabaker
David Parratt
James Pfaff
Martin Richmond
Efraim Samuel
David Saslove
Solly Sax
G. Daniel Schachter
Kenneth Schelberg
Violet Shadd
Murray Treloar
Felix Tyndel
William Wong
Barbara Yaffe
Adela Yeung
Vytas Zulys
CLASSES OF
1980 TO 1989
Oleh Antonyshyn
Leonard Avruch
Mark Azzopardi
Peter Azzopardi
C. Maria Bacchus
Joseph Bailey
Kathryn Bailey
Susan Benzaquen
Steven Berdock
Melanie Binnington
Marilena Biscotti
Jane Bruce
Alberto Cannitelli
Seshadri Chari
Tsai Chen
Claire Coire
Kerry Connelly
Marilyn Crabtree
Thomas Crocker
Michael Crump
Michael Cusimano
Karen Cybulski
Al-karim Damji
Michael Dan
Ian Darcel
Leonard Eisen
Mary Elliott
Barry Ellis
Lisa Fettes
Christopher Francis
Patrick Gallagher
Caroline Graham
Mark Greenberg
Trudy Hall
James Henry
Peter Hodes
George Holzapfel
Barbara Howe
Jane Howell
Rhiannon Hughes
Craig Irish
Elizabeth Jeney
Margaret Jury
Marc Kravis
Nicholas Krayacich
Hans Kreder
Marion Kreder
Chiu-Ying Lee
Nicholas Leyland
Joyce Lock
Laurence Malo
Katharina Manassis
Patricia Marchuk
Leora Marcovitz
Pamela Mark
Rui Martins
Caterina Mastrogiacomo
Robert Maunder
Tonino Mazzulli
Bruce Menchions
Robert Merotto
Lorna Minz
Bernardine Murphy
Miriam Myers
Jerry Naiberg
Gary Newton
Bo-Yee Ngan
Maureen Pennington
Anne Phillips
Wayne Potashner
Sparrow Rabideau
Jan Raczycki
David Reimer
Andre Rivet
Martin Samosh
Robert Schlosser
Suzan Schneeweiss
Andre Schuh
Shawn Seit
Michael Selucky
Gavin Semelhago
Whun Shin
Elizabeth Shoemaker
Barry Simon
Peter Singer
Jeffrey Sloan
John Stimac
Timothy Tatzel
Heather Tick
Ronald Toews
Nancy Trimble
THANKS TO OUR DONORS
D. Elizabeth Tullis
Robert Urback
Rudolf Van Der Sluis
Jacqueline Van Hees
Ronald Vanhoof
Raymond Viola
Heather Volkert-O’Brien
Peter Voore
Nancy Wellington
George Wong
James Wright
Daniel Yim
Wingko Yung
Ari Zaretsky
Susan Zeldin
Ines Zepic
CLASSES OF
1990 TO 1999
Richard Allen
Sandra Arnold
Charanjit Bageria
Kenny Berger
Ira Bernstein
Gillian Booth
Robert Bristow
Teresa Bruni
John Campbell
Alberto Castiglione
Hanif Charania
Douglas Cherepacha
Robert Chu
Deanna Colpitts
Alethea Correa
Laura Dawson
Linda Douville
Steven Emon
Martin Friedlich
Satyajit Ganguli
Andrew Grant
Margaret Grant
Brenda Hardie
Wai Ming Amy Ho
Nelson King
David Lindsay
Michelle Long
Patrick Luke
Nella Mauceri
Mitesh Mehta
Jaydeep Moro
Darlene Newnham
Janos Pataki
Luigi Pedretti
Richard Pittini
Adrian Priesol
Valerie Rapson
Leonora Regenstreif
Lise Robillard
Sonia Sabir
Rachelle Sender
Carol Silverstein
Shirley Sit
Allan Skanes
Suzanne Strasberg
Karim Taher
OTHER SUPPORTER
Dr. Lynn Noseworthy
(Memorial, 1979)
Medical Alumni Association 13

Last June, the Class of 1979 celebrated
its 25th anniversary with a golf tourney,
bike ride, elegant dance, alumni
yearbook and an endless flow of wine and
good cheer. Preparations started almost a
year before when Dr. Charles Lefkowitz
picked up the phone and asked the MAA
for support.
The MAA helps organize about 12
class reunions every
year. From its database,
it can provide a
contact list of your
classmates and will
send out two mailings
to your class at
no charge. If you
plan to host a CME
in Toronto, the MAA
can book a lecture
hall and lounge in U of T’s Medical
Sciences Building, and provide information
on catering for the break and audiovisual
support.
Some classes use a website to help spread
information about their reunion. The Class
14 University of Toronto • Spring 2005
The ultimate class reunion
Pondering a class reunion? The MAA can help!
It was blue skies all the way for the Class of
1979 bike ride along Lake Ontario’s shoreline.
Once a fun-loving classmate,
always a fun-loving classmate.
of 1980’s reunion page gives hotel information
and allows classmates to register
online. Check www.metaconference.com/
Med8T0/index.html.
Ready, set, party
The Class of 1979 kicked off its reunion
with a CME, followed bright and early the
next morning with 25 classmates heading
off for a bike ride.
Meanwhile, other
classmates played 18
holes at the Angus
Glen Golf Club in
Markham, Ont. Later,
the class gathered for a
dinner-dance at the
elegant Windows
room atop the Four
Seasons Hotel. With
140 guests, the banquet hall was filled to
capacity; yet even more friends and family
squeezed in for cocktails after dinner.
A legacy of the reunion is the Class
of 1979’s own 32-page yearbook. This
keepsake not only contains photographs
from the weekend reunion, it has each
class member’s graduation photo alongside
a current photo. Compared to the shinyfaced
graduates, the photos taken after 25
years of practising medicine reveal more
wrinkles and less hair, but not many other
differences. “It was remarkable to see the
same person across a time span of 25 years
and realize that most had really changed
very little,” says Dr. Charles Lefkowitz,
who created the yearbook. However,
some seem to have blossomed with age.
Each member of the class was asked
to write a few lines about his or her life.
“Haven’t been to rehab, no plastic surgery
and don’t need Viagra, yet,” writes Dr.
Ronnie Peck. “Our house is run by a small
terrier,” admits Dr. Anne Engell. “Medical
call 1 in 2 is a walk in the park compared
Dr. Anne Engell
Dr. Bruce Lubelsky
to parenthood,” says Dr. Bruce Lubelsky.
Although there is no charge for the
services of the MAA, many classes choose
to make a donation to the MAA for contributing
to the success of their reunion.
For information and help in planning
your class reunion, contact the MAA office
at (416) 978-0990. ■

THE CLASS OF 1935 will be among
the honoured guests at the MAA
Convocation Banquet in the Great Hall,
Hart House, on June 7, 2005, in celebration
of its 70th anniversary. The class is also
invited to the Pre-Convocation Ceremony
on June 8 in Convocation Hall, followed
by the Dean’s Luncheon in the Medical
Sciences Building. If you can attend,
phone Ruth Gillings in the MAA office
at (416) 978-0991.
THE CLASS OF 1940, in celebration
of its 65th anniversary, will be among the
honoured guests at the MAA Convocation
Banquet in the Great Hall, Hart House,
on June 7, 2005. The class is also invited to
the Pre-Convocation Ceremony on June 8
in Convocation Hall, followed by the
Dean’s Luncheon in the Medical
Sciences Building. If there are enough
able participants, the class will hold a
reception at 6:30 and a dinner at 7:15 at
U of T’s Faculty Club on the evening of
June 8. For more information, contact Ruth
Gillings in the MAA office at (416) 978-0991.
THE CLASS OF 1945 will be among
the honoured guests at the MAA
Convocation Banquet in the Great Hall,
Hart House, on June 7, 2005, in celebration
of its 60th anniversary. It’s also invited to
the Pre-Convocation Ceremony on June 8
in Convocation Hall, followed by the
Dean’s Luncheon in the Medical Sciences
Building. On the evening of June 8, the
class is holding a reception at 6 and a
dinner at 7:30 at U of T’s Faculty Club.
For more information, contact Dr. Bill
Lindsay at wmlinds@aol.com or (416)
922-2079.
THE CLASS OF 1946 will hold a 59thanniversary
luncheon on May 28, 2005, at
the Granite Club in Toronto. For more
information, write Dr. Bette Stephenson at
60 Forest Ridge Rd., Richmond Hill, ON,
L4E 3L8.
THE CLASS OF 1947 will hold a
58th-anniversary luncheon on June 10,
2005, at McLean House in Toronto.
Inspired by the camaraderie of the class’
luncheon in June 2004, the class is also
planning a 60th-anniversary celebration in
2007. For more information, contact Dr.
Patricia White at 30 Dale Ave., Toronto,
M4W 1K5 or pnpwhite@sympatico.ca.
THE CLASS OF 1950 will hold its
55th-anniversary dinner on June 10, 2005,
at the Toronto Hunt Club, 1355 Kingston
Rd. The reception begins at 6 p.m. and
the dinner at 7 p.m. On June 8, the class is
invited to the Pre-Convocation Ceremony
in Convocation Hall, followed by the
Dean’s Luncheon in the Medical Sciences
Building. For more information, contact
Dr. Don McConachie at (519) 376-0144
or dbmcconachie@hotmail.com.
THE CLASS OF 1955 will be among
the honoured guests at the MAA
Convocation Banquet in the Great Hall,
Hart House, on June 7, 2005, in celebration
of its 50th anniversary. It’s also invited
to the Pre-Convocation Ceremony on June
8 in Convocation Hall, followed by the
Dean’s Luncheon in the Medical Sciences
Building. The class is holding a cocktail
reception at U of T’s Faculty Club on June
6 from 7 to 10 p.m. For more information,
contact Dr. Bob Ehrlich at (416) 481-5323
or rehrlich@sympatico.ca.
CLASS REUNIONS
Your Presence is Requested
THE CLASS OF 1960 will hold a
45th-anniversary reunion from June 17
to 19, 2005. On Friday evening from 6 to
9 there will be a “Meet ’n Greet” in the
Paris Suite of Sutton Place Hotel, Toronto.
On Saturday there will be a CME in the
Medical Sciences Building from 9 a.m. to
noon. That evening there will be a gala
dinner at Massey College’s Ondaatje Dining
Room; the reception begins at 6 and the
dinner at 7. On Sunday at 8:30 a.m. there
will be an informal brunch in the Sutton
Place Hotel restaurant. For more information,
contact Dr. Vic Kurdyak at vic.kurdyak@utoronto.ca
or (416) 237-0146.
THE CLASS OF 1965 has scheduled
a 40th-anniversary reunion from October
22 to 23, 2005, at Hotel Intercontinental
in Toronto. The reunion will include
a gala dinner on Saturday evening, a
CME and a Sunday-morning brunch.
For more information, contact Dr. Mel
Petersiel at petersiel@sympatico.ca or
(416) 492-7700.
THE CLASS OF 1970 will celebrate
its 35th anniversary from June 3 to 4,
2005. On Friday there will be an “at
home” drop-in at Sheraton Centre Hotel,
Toronto. On Saturday there will be a
CME from 9 a.m. to noon in the Medical
Sciences Building. That evening there
will be a gala reception and dinner at
Sheraton Centre Hotel; the reception
begins at 6 and dinner is at 7. For more
information, contact Dr. Tim Allen at
tim.allen@mfa.ulaval.ca.
THE CLASS OF 1995 will celebrate
its 10th anniversary from June 11 to 12,
2005. On Saturday there will be a CME
from 1 to 4:30 p.m. in the Medical
Sciences Building and a gala dinner in the
Willard Ballroom at Hotel Intercontinental,
220 Bloor St. W. On Sunday there will
be a family barbecue in a Toronto park.
For more information, contact Dr. Lori
Hasulo at lhasulo@rogers.com or (519)
826-9656. ■
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ILLUSTRATION: JOSÉE MASSE

WAYS OF GIVING
Taking stock of your options
A gift of stocks is a tax-smart way of supporting the MAA.
You can decrease your capital gains tax
by 50 per cent with a gift of stocks
or securities to the MAA. Gifts of
publicly traded stocks or securities are among
the fastest-growing ways of making a charitable
donation in Canada. The reason for this
growth is simple: transferring securities
directly to a charity, instead of donating the
proceeds from selling the securities, reduces
your capital gains taxes by half.
Here’s how it works. Let’s say you
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$15,000 in stocks. Should you sell your
shares in a publicly listed corporation and
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CLASS OF 1931
Dr. Archie FINE, at the age of 97, on
March 9, 2004. Dr. Fine was certified with
the American Board of Radiology. Archie
is missed by his wife Thea and three children.
He was predeceased by his wife Ann.
CLASS OF 1934
Dr. Jesse G. KESHIN, at
the age of 97, on Dec. 14,
2003, in Miami. Since 1973,
he lived in Hallandale, Fla.
Dr. Keshin enjoyed a 40-year career as a
clinical urologist, professor and researcher.
Dr. Archibald Cameron WILSON, at the
age of 96, on Oct. 20, 2004. Soon after
graduating, Dr. Wilson moved to West
Hartford, Conn. When he retired in 1972
he was vice-president and senior medical
director of Connecticut General Life
Insurance. Predeceased in 1998 by his wife
of 58 years, Elizabeth, Archie is missed by
their two sons and granddaughter, Samantha.
CLASS OF 1936
Dr. Murray D. LEWIS, at the age of 92,
on Nov. 17, 2003. Dr. Lewis was certified
with the American Board of Psychiatry
and Neurology.
Dr. Walter Albert SCOTT, at the age
of 91, on Jan. 29, 2005. Dr. Scott had a
general surgery practice in Guelph, Ont.,
from 1946 to 1970, was the coroner for
Wellington County for 16 years and performed
pilot examinations for the Ministry
of Transportation for 49 years. He retired
in 1995. Predeceased by his wife, Miriam,
in 1983 and his son David in 2004, Walter
is missed by sons Drs. Robert Scott and
William Scott and five grandchildren.
CLASS OF 1937
Dr. Morris GLASSMAN, on Jan. 8,
2005, in Toronto. Predeceased by his wife,
Sybil, Morrie is missed by two children
and two grandchildren.
Dr. Alan Doner RICE, in his 93rd year,
on Jan. 25, 2005, in Burlington, Ont.
Predeceased by his wife, Jean, and his son
Ronald, Alan is missed by four sons, 11
grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
Dr. Rice practised in the Welland area for
46 years and was the plant physician for
Atlas Steels and General Tire and Rubber.
Dr. Alexander Budge SINCLAIR, at the
age of 90, on June 14, 2004. Dr. Sinclair
was a urologist and emeritus staff member
of Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria.
Dr. W. John WILSON, at
the age of 91, on Feb. 5,
2005, in Uxbridge, Ont.
John is proudly remembered
by his wife, Marion, two
sons and two granddaughters. After graduating,
John joined his father, Dr. John P.
Wilson, in his practice in Richmond Hill,
Ont. Later, “Dr. John” was on staff at
the Hospital for Sick Children and had a
pediatric practice in Toronto. In 1967, he
became chief of pediatrics at Scarborough
Centenary Hospital, retiring in 1984.
CLASS OF 1938
Dr. James Hamilton BAILLIE, in his
93rd year, on Oct. 16, 2004, in Ville de
Lac Brome, Que. Pete is missed by his two
children and two grandchildren. Dr.
Baillie was the medical director of Bell
Canada until retiring in 1977. Pete was
married to Mary for 65 years.
CLASS OF 1940
Dr. Israel STRASHIN, on April 12, 2004,
in Toronto. Dr. Strashin co-founded the
Albany Medical Clinic in Toronto in 1946.
Israel is missed by his wife of 55 years, Lila,
two children and five grandchildren.
CLASS OF 1941
Dr. John Albert CORSON, in his
90th year, on Oct. 21, 2004, in
Scarborough, Ont. For over 35 years,
Dr. Corson served as a family physician
in Scarborough. John was predeceased
by his wife of 53 years, Mary. He is sadly
missed by his son, John.
IN MEMORIAM
Lives Well Lived
Dr. Alice Ethel Whiteside
GRAY, in her 90th year, on
Jan. 31, 2005, in Toronto.
Predeceased by her husband
Barry, Alice’s memory is cherished
by their three daughters, Dr. Laurel
Gray, Meg Gray and Dr. Dale Gray. She is
also missed by her husband Jim Hamilton
and their two daughters. Dr. Gray was a
professor at U of T and the Director of
Laboratories at Women’s College Hospital
from 1952 until retiring in 1980.
CLASS OF 1943 (January)
Dr. John Bernard BENSON, on Dec. 9,
2004, in Cobourg, Ont.
Dr. David Samuel ERNST, at the age
of 85, on Dec. 24, 2004. Predeceased
by his wife, Catharan, David is missed
by four children.
CLASS OF 1943 (July)
Dr. Arthur W. BEAIRSTO, in his 86th
year, on Dec. 6, 2004, in Toronto. Bill is
lovingly remembered by his wife of 60
years, Helen, seven children and 16 grandchildren.
Dr. Beairsto worked until the
last month of his life.
Dr. Arthur Renwick Cooper COLE,
in his 85th year, on March 1, 2005,
in Toronto. He is missed by his wife,
Anne, four children, including Dr.
David Cole (Class of 1975), and nine
grandchildren. Dr. Cole served at the
Hospital for Sick Children for more
than 30 years and with U of T.
Dr. John Alexander VIRTUE, in
his 85th year, on Dec. 2, 2004, in
Burlington, Ont. Predeceased by his
wife of 43 years, Dorothy, John is missed
by five children, 15 grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren. John married
Marcella in 1991 and is lovingly remembered
by three stepchildren. Dr. Virtue
was an ear, nose and throat surgeon
and the chief of the otolaryngology
department at St. Joseph’s Hospital
in Hamilton.
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IN MEMORIAM
CLASS OF 1944
Dr. Talmage E. HUNT, at the age of 83,
on Sept. 9, 2004. Dr. Hunt was an examiner
RCP&S(C) in physical medicine and
rehabilitation; the director of the Geriatric
Assessments and Treatment Centre at
Mount St. Joseph Hospital in Vancouver;
and the medical director of the Canadian
Arthritis & Rheumatism Society,
Saskatchewan Division. Tal is missed
by his wife, Ruby, and three children.
Dr. Paul M. KAUFMAN, at the age of
83, on May 20, 2004. Dr. Kaufman served
in diagnostic radiology at the St. Clair-
Dufferin Medical Centre in Toronto.
CLASS OF 1945
Dr. Lionel GLASSMAN, at the age of
83, on Nov. 14, 2004. Dr. Glassman
was certified with the American Board
of Anesthesiology.
Dr. Julius HABER, at the age of 91,
on Aug. 4, 2004, in Toronto.
Dr. Julius Donald SMITH, on July 3,
2004. Dr. Smith served as a surgeon.
Julius is sadly missed by his wife, Ann,
five children and 11 grandchildren.
CLASS OF 1946
Dr. Donald Moss
FINLAYSON, in his 82nd
year, on Jan. 26, 2005, in
Toronto. Don is missed by
his wife, Anna, five children, eight grandchildren
and one great-grandson. Dr.
Finlayson served in internal medicine at
Toronto General Hospital, St. Michael’s
Hospital and North York General Hospital.
He was also an assistant professor at U of T.
Dr. William J. McGANITY, at the age of
82, on Feb. 10, 2005, in Galveston, Tex.
Dr. Charles Alexander Frederic MOES,
at the age of 83, on Nov. 7, 2004, in
Toronto. Fred is missed by his wife,
Barbara, three children and four grandchildren.
In the early 1950s, Dr. Moes joined
the radiology department at the Hospital
18 University of Toronto • Spring 2005
for Sick Children, working in cardiac radiology
until retiring 10 years ago. He was a
professor emeritus at U of T.
CLASS OF 1947
Dr. James Henry DAVIES, in his 81st
year, on Dec. 21, 2004, in Toronto. James
is missed by his wife, Lois, four children
and eight grandchildren.
Dr. John E. FENN, in his 83rd year, on
Feb. 27, 2005, in Toronto. He is missed
by his wife, Josephine, four children and
11 grandchildren. Dr. Fenn was an obstetrician/gynecologist
and authored numerous
articles on pulsed electromagnetic therapy.
Dr. Fenn owned and operated the first
licenced private hospital in Toronto,
the Institute of Traumatic, Plastic and
Restorative Surgery. For several years,
he donated his professional services around
the world. Condolences may be left at
www.mem.com.
CLASS OF 1948
Dr. Manual Mervin LASKIN, at the
age of 79, on April 23, 2004. A general
surgeon, Dr. Laskin was an assistant
clinical professor at the University of
Alberta in Edmonton.
CLASS OF 1949
Dr. Joseph T. CAMPOLONGO, at the
age of 78, on July 11, 2004, in Guelph,
Ont. Dr. Campolongo served at St. Joseph’s
Hospital and Guelph General Hospital.
Dr. Bernard COWITZ, at the age of
78, on Dec. 2, 2004, in Bala Cynwyd,
Pa. Dr. Cowitz was certified with the
American Board of Psychiatry and
Neurology. He’s missed by his wife,
Elizabeth, five children and two granddaughters,
Nina and Emma.
Dr. George Ernest Douglas SNELL,
on Oct. 21, 2004, in Toronto. Douglas
is missed by his wife, Alanna, five children
and four grandchildren. Dr. Snell was
an associate professor at U of T. For 42
years, he was an ear, nose and throat
surgeon at Toronto General Hospital.
Dr. Roderick Duignan
TURNER, on Oct. 10,
2004, in Pacific Palisades,
Calif. He is missed by his
wife of 56 years, Nancy,
three children and seven grandchildren. In
1950, Dr. Turner did a urology residency
at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital and
went on house-calls in the evenings at the
homes of Paramount Studios’ movie stars.
“Doc Hollywood” later taught urology at
UCLA. A pioneer in cystoscopic techniques,
he retired in 1992 but continued
to teach at UCLA for a few years.
CLASS OF 1950
Rev. Dr. John Frederick Hudson
STEWART, on March 10, 2005, in
Brockville, Ont. Dr. Stewart was a priest,
surgeon, missionary and teacher. He is
missed by his wife, Leona, two children
and five grandchildren.
CLASS OF 1952
Dr. William Norman CLARK, on Oct. 11,
2004. Norm is missed by his wife, Isabelle,
five children and 13 grandchildren. Dr.
Clark enjoyed a 50-year career in medicine,
specializing in pediatrics and psychiatry.
He served at North York General Hospital
for 30 years, retiring in 2002.
Dr. Robert Blair MITCHELL, on Oct. 22,
2004, in Markham, Ont. A family physician
in Stouffville, Ont., for more than 20 years,
Dr. Mitchell was chair of the Canadian
Pension Commission and a founding director
of Markham-Stouffville Hospital.
CLASS OF 1953
Dr. Elizabeth Beatrice Shepherd BARR,
in her 76th year, on Dec. 5,
2004, in Collingwood, Ont.
She is missed by her husband,
Dr. Don Barr (Class of
1953), five children, nine

foster children and six grandchildren.
Elizabeth was predeceased by their daughter
Janice. Elizabeth had a family practice
in Downsview, Ont., with her husband
and later served at Ryerson University’s
Health Centre.
Dr. Joseph Raymond MacDOUGAL,
at the age of 87, on Nov. 20, 2004 in
Kingston, Ont. Predeceased by his wife,
Eleanor, he is missed by four children
and nine grandchildren.
Dr. Graham William MAINPRIZE, at
the age of 82, on Aug. 16, 2004, in
Saskatoon. Dr. Mainprize served in family
medicine and was the district coroner for
Central Butte, Sask.
Dr. William Alexander McCULLOCH,
in his 83rd year, on Sept. 11, 2003.
Predeceased in 1995 by his wife of 52
years, Edna, Bill is missed by two sons and
two grandchildren. “Doc Bill” served at
Vancouver Island Tuberculosis and Chest
Clinic for 34 years.
Dr. Charles Walter MILBURN, at the
age of 76, on Nov. 28, 2004, in Toronto.
Dr. Milburn retired in 1999 after 45 years
of family practice in Etobicoke, Ont.
Chuck is missed by his wife, Pat, four children,
four grandchildren, three stepchildren
and two stepgrandchildren.
Dr. Stephen L. RUDNAI, at the age of 80,
on Jan. 15, 2005. Dr. Rudnai
practised anesthesiology in
Joliet, Ill., and Sarnia, Ont.,
before moving to New York in
1963. He was an attending
anesthesiologist at Northern Westchester
Medical Center in Mount Kisco, N.Y., for
23 years. In 1986 he retired and moved to
Grantham, N.H. Stephen is missed by two
children and four grandchildren.
CLASS OF 1954
Dr. Allan Abraham CHAPLAN, at the
age of 74, on Nov. 30, 2003. Dr. Chaplain
was certified with the American Board of
Psychiatry and Neurology.
CLASS OF 1956
Dr. Harold J. HOFFMAN, on Nov. 14,
2004. He is sadly missed by his wife,
JoAnn, three children and six grandchildren.
CLASS OF 1957
Dr. David Frank COHEN, at the age of
75, on Oct. 16, 2004, in Norfolk, Conn.
He was certified with the American Board
of Neurological Surgery.
CLASS OF 1959
Dr. Rebeka MOSCARELLO, at the age
of 72 years, on Feb. 11, 2005, in Toronto.
Reva is missed by her husband of 49 years,
Mario, two children and four grandchildren.
Dr. Moscarello was an assistant professor
at U of T and for 40 years was a
psychiatrist at Women’s College Hospital.
Dr. John Thomas SHEPHERD, at the
age of 70, on Nov. 19, 2004. He is
mourned by his wife, Norma, four children
and a granddaughter, Jacqueline. Dr.
Shepherd was an orthopedic surgeon in
Oakville and Burlington, Ont.
Dr. Lynette Elizabeth SUTHERLAND,
in her 88th year, on Feb. 16, 2005, in
Toronto. Lyn graduated when she was 42
years old, standing third in her class of 108.
Dr. Sutherland was a kidney researcher at
the Hospital for Sick Children, a lecturer at
U of T and in 1971 opened a practice in
Kirkfield, Ont., and later in Cameron, Ont.
Predeceased in 1988 by her husband of 50
years, Jim, and in 1975 by their son Robert,
Lyn is missed by seven children, 15 grandchildren,
three great-grandchildren and two
great-great-grandchildren.
CLASS OF 1960
Dr. Michael Chabanel BYRNES, on
his 70th birthday, Nov. 1, 2004. Mike
is lovingly remembered by his wife of 44
years, Patricia, and five children. Dr.
Byrnes practised in Parry Sound, Ont.,
the Clarke Institute in Toronto and for
32 years was a member of the psychiatric
Medical Alumni Association
staff at Scarborough Centenary Hospital.
He retired in 2000.
CLASS OF 1961
Dr. James Craig HUTCHISON, on June
14, 2003, in Yorktown, Ind.
Dr. Leslie Ernest SOPER, at the age of
69, on Jan. 14, 2005. Les is missed by his
wife of 36 years, Joanne, three children
and two grandchildren. Dr. Soper moved
to Las Vegas in 1968 to become its eighth
board-certified anesthesiologist. For 30
years he was president of Anesthesiology
Consultants Inc. In 1995, Dr. Soper
became chief of anesthesiology at the
Shepherd Eye Center.
CLASS OF 1962
Dr. George Y. TAKAHASHI, at the age
of 68, on Sept. 5, 2004. George is missed
by his wife, Elina, and daughter, Melanie.
Dr. Takahashi was a specialist in aviation
medicine. After retiring from Transport
Canada, he started a private practice as a
medical aviation examiner and consultant.
He was also secretary-general of the
International Academy of Aviation and
Space Medicine.
Continued on back cover
Dr. Wilfred Gordon BIGELOW, at
the age of 91, on March 27, 2005,
in Toronto. Known around the world
as the Father of Canadian Heart
Surgery, Dr. Bigelow (Class of 1938)
was the first person to
look inside a beating
human heart, a feat he
achieved by pioneering
hypothermia for use in
heart surgery. He also helped developed
the world’s first heart pacemaker
– a tabletop contraption that weighed
15 pounds. Predeceased by his wife of
almost 60 years, Ruth, Bill is missed
by their four children.
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Continued from page 19
CLASS OF 1965
Dr. Markian George TERSHAKOWEC,
at the age of 65, on Dec. 1, 2004, in
St. Catharines, Ont. Markian is missed
by his wife, Lynda, and two children. Dr.
Tershakowec specialized in plastic surgery
and practised in California and Ontario.
CLASS OF 1975
Dr. Ronald STERNBERG, on Nov. 8,
2004, in Toronto. “The Bear” is lovingly
remembered by his three children. He is
also missed by his brother Dr. Leonard
Sternberg (Class of 1971).
CLASS OF 1978
Dr. David Wing-Cheung CHAN, at the
age of 53, on June 10, 2004, in Toronto.
Dr. Chan practised in Sudbury, Ont., and
Continued from page 5
Taylor and Hirst formed the student group
Books with Wings. By collecting secondhand
medical textbooks, teaching models
and lab equipment for Al-Beeruny, the
group could fulfil its mission: to help students
become better health-care providers
in a society that desperately needs them.
Female physicians are especially needed.
In Afghanistan, many women are forbidden
from or are uncomfortable with being
examined by a male doctor, even during
pregnancy and childbirth. The country
has one of the highest maternal and
infant-mortality rates in the world. Under
the Taliban regime, women were not
allowed to go to school. Now, one-third
of Al Beeruny University’s medical students
are women.
To gather learning materials to send to
Afghanistan, Hirst and Taylor sent e-mails
to students, residents, physicians and hos-
Editor: Susan Pedwell
Contributors: Joanne Cole, Dr. Suan-Seh Foo,
Kerri Gillings, Ruth Gillings, Dr. Jay Keystone,
Dr. David Naylor, Dr. Tom Patterson,
Jennifer Peng, Dr. Steven Tishler, Nancy Walker
Cover Photo: Kevin Kelly
Design and Art Director:
Luisa De Vito/Ireland + Associates
was active in the Sudbury Chinese
Missionary Church, serving as a deacon.
He is sadly missed by his wife, Sau-Ching,
and two children.
CLASS OF 1980
Dr. Bruce Douglas BROOKS, in his
54th year, on Feb. 28, 2005. He is missed
by his wife of 28 years, Kelly, and two
sons. Dr. Brooks was an endocrinologist in
Markham, Ont., and for 12 years served as
the chief of medicine at Markham
Stouffville Hospital.
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pital libraries asking for used medical
books and learning resources. “Claire and
I worked into the nights,” says Taylor.
“We both lost a lot of sleep.”
Then in February, a team of more than
30 volunteers, largely medical students,
boxed the donations: 1,800 books, a slide
projector, pathology slides, a VCR, a TV,
stethoscopes, scrubs and medical models.
The Canadian Armed Forces donated the
transportation to Kabul where military personnel
received the books and equipment
and oversaw their transfer to Al-Beeruny.
Thanks to an ongoing commitment
by the undergraduate University of
Toronto International Health Program,
Taylor and Hirst’s work will continue
for years to come. To learn more about
or to donate to the project, e-mail
bookswithwings@yahoo.ca. Your message
will be returned in September. ■
Faculty of
Medicine
For more information, please contact
Ruth Gillings,
Room 3249,
Medical Sciences Building,
1 King’s College Circle,
Toronto, M5S 1A8
Tel.: (416) 978-0991
E-mail: medical.alumni@utoronto.ca
Website: http://maa.med.utoronto.ca
Medical Alumni Association
Medical Alumni Association
Board of Directors 2004-2005
Dr. David Naylor ((MD 1978)
Honorary President
Dr. Suan-Seh Foo (MD 1990)
President
Dr. Barney Giblon (MD 1957)
Vice-President
Dr. Jay Keystone (MD 1969)
Past President
Dr. Irv Lipton (MD 1962)
Secretary
Dr. Steven Tishler (MD 1990)
Treasurer
Dr.Victor Kurdyak (MD 1960)
Loan Officer
Ms. Ruth Gillings
Administrator/Manager
Members-at-Large
Dr. John Bradley (MD 1975)
Dr. Garson Conn (MD 1958)
Dr. Barbara Erdelyi (MD 1999)
Dr. Flavio Habal (MD 1977)
Dr. Lori Hasulo (MD 1995)
Dr. David Kaplan (MD 2001)
Dr. Peter Kopplin (MD 1963)
Dr. Martin Kosoy (MD 1959)
Dr. Lap-Cheung Lee (MD 1975)
Dr. Hoanh Khoi Nguyen (MD 1988)
Dr.Tom Patterson (MD 1956) Archivist
Dr.Winnie Tsui-Han Wong (MD 2003)
PAIRO Rep
Dr. Peter Wyshynski (MD 1961)
Tasleem Murji (Class of 2007)
President, Medical Society
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