Ramona Lumpkin, PhD Principal, Huron University College 2001 ...

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‘i can assure you that Huron
will both inspire you and prepare
you well’
Andrew Aziz ’83 talks with first-year students
First-Year Convocation speaker Andrew Aziz, second from right, with students at the Principal’s barbecue during last year’s orientation week festivities.
From left: Jake Simon, aka Goose, Bonnie Clydesdale, aka Prime Rib, and Adam Gawn, aka Starburst, far right.
Andrew Aziz is one of Canada’s leading capital markets lawyers, working in Toronto
at Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt LLP. He graduated from Huron in 1983 with a liberal
arts degree and from the University of Western Ontario in 1986 with a law degree.
While at Huron, Andrew majored in French, was elected President of the Huron
Student Council and was also selected as Head Don. To this day, Andrew continues his
association with the College as a member of the College’s Executive Board and member
of Huron’s Capital Campaign leadership team. At 2009’s First-Year Convocation
Ceremony in Orientation Week, he spoke to frosh in the Kingsmill Room.
By Andrew Aziz, ’83
Although you may not be sure what you
want to do with your education,
I can assure you that one at Huron will
both inspire you and prepare you well.
When I got here that first week in
1980, I was very nervous because I
really wasn’t all that outgoing and
I didn’t know what to expect, and I
was really excited because university