Fall 2012 - University of Toronto Schools

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The UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE • FALL 2012
Nobel Laureates
John Polanyi and
Michael Spence
That’s Entertainment!
UTS grads shine brightly in
the entertainment industry.
Alumni News • Crawford and Hall of Fame Awards • Donor Report

Mark Your Calendars
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Urban Paintings by Don Boutros, Retired Faculty
Keys Gallery Opening Reception
Room 107a, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
UTS Admissions Open House
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. All alumni are welcome to drop by for a tour.
Annual Alumni Dinner
Reception: 5:30 p.m. Dinner: 7:00 p.m.
RSVP to www.utschools.ca/rsvp or 416-978-3919
November Branch Events
Hong Kong and Montreal. See p 27 for details.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Remembrance Day Service
Reception: 10:15 a.m. Service: 10:45 a.m.
Alumni luncheon following, hosted by Principal Rosemary Evans
RSVP to alumni@utschools.ca or 416-978-3919
Tuesday November 13, 2012
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and
the Hidden Power of Character
Paul Tough ’85 Canadian Book Launch and Discussion. 7:30 p.m.
Friday, November 23, 2012
Young Alumni Living in the US – Seminar and Café
Seminar: 12:35 p.m. Café: 1:15-2:15 p.m.
On Black Friday, alumni who are U.S. university students are invited to visit UTS.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Branching Out Alumni Panel on Scientific Careers
6:30 p.m. Details TBA.
See www.utschools.ca/alumni
Friday, December 14, 2012
Holiday Concert
Café Blanc: 5:00 p.m.; Concert: 6:30 p.m.
Contact: Judy Kay, jkay@utschools.ca or 416-978-6802
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Basketball 3-on-3 Tournament.
9:30 a.m.
RSVP to www.utschools.ca/rsvp or 416-978-3919
Visit the website regularly for updates: www.utschools.ca/alumni or call
416-978-3919
New
venue!
See page 21
for details.
UTSAA
Board of Directors
President
John B.A. Wilkinson ’78
John.Wilkinson@utschools.ca
Vice President
Mark Opashinov ’88
Mark.Opashinov@utschools.ca
Past President
Peter Neilson ’71
Peter.Neilson@utschools.ca
Treasurer
Bob Cumming ’65
Robert.Cumming@utschools.ca
Secretary
Nina Coutinho ’04
Nina.Coutinho@utschools.ca
Honorary President
Rosemary Evans
REvans@utschools.ca
Honorary
Vice-President
Heather Henricks
HHenricks@utschools.ca
Directors
Don Ainslie ’84
Donald.Ainslie@utschools.ca
Sharon Au ’08
Sharon.Au@utschools.ca
Jonathan Bitidis ’99
Jonathan.Bitidis@utschools.ca
Aaron Chan ’94
Aaron.Chan@utschools.ca
George V. Crawford ’72
George.Crawford@utschools.ca
Aaron Dantowitz ’91
Aaron.Dantowitz@utschools.ca
Robert Duncan ’95
Robert.Duncan@utschools.ca
Peter Frost ’63
Peter.Frost@utschools.ca
Penny Harbin ’78
Penny.Harbin@utschools.ca
Oliver Jerschow ’92
Oliver.Jerschow@utschools.ca
Jennifer Suess ’94
Jennifer.Suess@utschools.ca
Philip Weiner ’01
Philip.Weiner@utschools.ca

Contents
Mark Your Calendars 2
Bits & Pieces 4
President’s Report 8
Principal’s Report 9
UTS Board Report 10
Advancement Report 11
Annual Donor Report 31
On the cover: Nobel Laureates, alumni John Polanyi and
(inset) Michael Spence.
Photography: Cover – John Polanyi courtesy NSERC;
Michael Spence, courtesy Pioneer Investment.
Looking Back background: © iStockphoto.com/Peter
Zelei
Alumni Dinner ad background: © iStockphoto.com/
PaulMaguire
Our thanks to this issue’s contributors: Jenifer Aitken
’79, John Bowden ’48, James Campbell, Harry Chen ’14,
Nina Coutinho ’04, Martha Drake, Rosemary Evans, Peter
Frost ’63, John Hass ’83, Rebecca Henfrey ’14, Daniel
Henke Tarnow ’14, Jean Iu ’79, David Lang ’70, Bob
Lord ’58, Daniel Lovsted ’14, Jane Rimmer, Sandeep
Sanghera, Diana Shepherd ’80, Nick Smith ’63, Adam
Waitzer ’14, John Wilkinson ’78, and Carole Zamroutian.
Working Holiday
Science was not Nobel Laureate John Polanyi’s first
love – but over time, he came to be captivated by the
beauty of the subject matter. ............................12
Turning Complex into Simple
Nobel Laureate Michael Spence likes to take complex,
confusing economic phenomena and make them
seem simple. ........................................15
That’s Entertainment!
UTS has produced some shining stars in film, stage,
radio, and TV. Here’s a brief Who’s Who. ...................18
Alumni News
All the latest in the lives of your classmates, including
In Memorium and tributes to the lives of three
distinguished alumni. ..................................22
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Bits & Pieces
A Compendium of Noteworthy UTS Tidbits
New Vice Principal at UTS
Heather Henricks joined UTS as vice
principal in July 2012, replacing Rick
Parsons who moved on to become
principal of Sterling Hall School in
Toronto. Rick joined UTS in 2000,
serving as English teacher and English
department coordinator before
becoming vice principal in 2004. As the
parent of a UTS student, he will continue
to be a member of the UTS community.
Heather, who is currently working on
her Doctorate at OISE, was previously
VP at York Region District School
Board’s (YRDSB) Thornlea Secondary
School. Throughout her career she
has worked collaboratively to facilitate
changes in instruction and assessment
aimed at increasing student success and
has actively promoted social raising the
profile of equity issues. She is a member
of the York Region Athletic Association
Executive, is a former OFSAA Co-Chair,
and believes the power of athletics
can transform students’ lives. Heather
LEFT: Incoming VP Heather Henricks; RIGHT: Rick Parsons.
assumes the role of Honorary VP of the
UTS Alumni Association. n
UTS Teachers Provide
Professional Development
to Peers
Ask UTS students what makes their
school special and, chances are, they
will mention – among other things –
their remarkable teachers. However,
UTS students are not the only ones who
benefit from the talents and skills of
their teachers: our teachers are highlyregarded
professionals who contribute
to the enrichment and professional
development (PD) of their peers beyond
UTS. Here is a very small sampling of
recent endeavours.
Frequent conference presenters Charlie
Pullen and Janet Williamson (visual arts)
gave a workshop entitled “Demystifying
and Enabling Creativity” at the Ontario
Art Education Association’s conference
this fall. The workshop addressed the
idea that creativity is often considered to
be a gift of genetics or an elusive Muse
instead of a thinking process that can be
developed.
This spring, composer and music
teacher Ron Royer gave a lecturedemonstration
called “The Hollywood
Sound” for music teachers at the Harford
Technical High School in Bel Air, MD.
Ron has regularly given lectures on
teaching music through movies in
Ontario schools and at OISE. With
colleague Sarah Shugarman, Ron lead a
string workshop at York Memorial C.I.
in Toronto for students and teachers
as part of the Massey Hall and Roy
Thomson Hall program, “Share the
Music,” which supports music programs
for schools in need. This summer, Sarah
also taught string pedagogy seminars for
all OISE music Additional Qualification
(AQ) courses.
An OISE instructor and administrator
since 1990, Reg Hawes (history) currently
administers a website for teachers on
educational law. He says that, “Teaching
at UTS and OISE is a ‘win-win’ scenario.
OISE students value learning from an
instructor with ‘real-world’ classroom
experience, and keeping current with
the latest in educational practices helps
me bring new strategies and ideas to my
UTS students.” Mike Farley (geography)
gives presentations to teachers about
the use of computer simulations and
games in the curriculum – most recently
at the 2011 Games for Change Festival
in New York City (see http://mikefarley.
weebly.com). Vince Dannetta (history)
teaches at OISE and is a long-standing
Associate with the faculties of Queens,
Trent, and the University of Buffalo. He is
a former Director of the Civics Education
Network – a teachers’ organization for
which he has set-up conferences and
delivered workshops. Vince has also
consulted and helped draft a discussion
paper to the Ministry of Education and
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Nicola Townend with the UTS contingent to the Ontario High School German Contest; visiting principals from Chile; Shawn
Brooks in the UTS SMART classroom; Andrew Wilson introduces this year’s keynote speaker at the Ontario Philosophy Teachers’ Conference.
Training on civics education. Josh Fullan
(drama) masterminded the environmental
and urban design high school program
“Maximum City.” The winner of the J.W.
Ansley Award for Educational Research
from OSSTF, Maximum City is now being
shared broadly with other educators and
academics; see www.maximumcity.ca
for details.
Math and philosophy teacher Andrew
Wilson organizes the Ontario Philosophy
Teacher’s Association (OPTA) conference
for high school teachers, which is hosted
at UTS This year’s keynote was given by
John Ralston Saul and past speakers have
included UTS alumni Donald Ainslie ’84,
Tom Hurka ’71, Jennifer Nagel ’85, and
Wayne Sumner ’58.
UTS science teachers have also been
busy. Jennifer Pitt-Lainsbury (chemistry
and physics), Shawn Brooks (physics
and general science), Sarah Cescon
(chemistry), Anand Mehadevan (biology
and chemistry), Maria Niño-Soto
(biology), Meg O’Mahony (biology and
general science), Elizabeth Straszynski
(biology and general science), and
Marisca Vanderkamp (chemistry and
physics) have all taught in various
capacities at OISE. Jennifer and Shawn
have presented at the Science Teacher’s
Association of Ontario (STAO), and
Jennifer works closely with chemistry
professors across Canada in the creation
of the Canadian Chemistry Contest
exam. Shawn works with the Perimeter
Institute for Theoretical Physics’ teacher
network and is a volunteer with the
Ontario Association of Physics Teachers.
Elizabeth has been closely involved with
the Ontario Society of Environmental
Education for ten years – including a
term as president. Meg ran PD sessions
at various school boards last year
and worked collaboratively with the
GreenLearning Canada Foundation to
develop a Climate Change teaching
unit; and she also served on an STAO
Secondary Curriculum Committee.
Angela Vavitsas (chemistry) has taught
PD at various school boards using
biology and chemistry textbooks (for
grades 11 and 12) she co-authored for
Nelson Canada.
Nicola Townend (German) is president
of the Ontario Association of Teachers
of German, is on the Executive of the
Canadian Association of Teachers
of German, and is part of a blended
learning community (steered by the
Goethe-Institut Toronto). She has taught
at OISE and Niagara University, and has
given workshops on technology in the
language classroom.
Finally, on a trip arranged by
OISE/UofT to learn about Canadian
educational practices, 30 school
principals from Chile spent the day
at UTS last January. They spent time
in classrooms chatting with students,
watching lessons, and in discussion with
UTS faculty members. n
THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE
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UTS-Rotman “I-Think”
Summer Institute
This summer, UTS partnered with the
I-Think Initiative at the University
of Toronto’s Rotman School of
Management to deliver an intensive
Institute focussing on the solving of
complex problems through integrative
thinking. Based on research by Rotman
Dean Roger Martin into the way
highly successful leaders go about
making decisions, integrative thinking
involves the critical examination of the
conventional wisdom that forces us
into unpalatable either-or choices; it
also explores innovative ways to obtain
the benefits of multiple, seemingly
incompatible, solutions.
The I-Think Institute brought
together 21 students from grades 8 to
12 to first learn the tools of integrative
thinking and then to apply them to
the development of Ontario’s future
energy policy – exactly the sort of
complex problem that is very often
reduced to a lose-lose choice, in this
case between environmental health
and economic prosperity.
Instructors Nogah Kornberg (Rotman)
and Christopher Federico ’91 (UTS
teacher and alumnus) guided Institute
participants through system modelling,
brainstorming, design thinking, and
prototyping, and put them face-to-face
with leading scientists, entrepreneurs,
and social innovators in off-site visits
to MaRS Discovery District and cuttingedge
labs at UofT’s Edward S. Rogers, Sr.
Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering.
The program culminated in student
presentations in one of Rotman’s brandnew
state-of-the-art classrooms to a
panel of outside experts that included
Ashoka Canada Director and UTS
alumna Elisha Muskat ’01.
UTS is continuing its ongoing
partnership with I-Think to expand
integrative thinking across the
curriculum, and planning is already in
progress for next summer’s Institute. n
The UTS-Rotman “I-Think” Summer Institute proved challenging, creative and thought-provoking. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: a brainstorming activity; on a
field-trip to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UofT; analyzing and organizing; Rotman Dean Roger Martin addressing the participants.
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Discovery and camaraderie characterized the Pelican Falls–UTS exchange program.
Pelican Falls—UTS
Exchange Program
This spring, five UTS students and two
teachers participated in an exchange
with students and staff from Pelican
Falls First Nations High School, an
independent boarding school run by a
coalition of First Nations communities
in the Treaty 3 and Treaty 9 Territories
of Northern Ontario. Students and staff
from Pelican Falls spent four days with
us in Toronto as part of their Honour
Roll trip, and then two weeks later
we spent a week at their school in
Sioux Lookout.
The elementary school on the Lac
Seul Reserve – designed and built
by the community – was one of the
most beautiful we’d ever seen: bright
classrooms filled with light and happy
kids; hallways filled with examples of
student art and history projects; signage
in Oji-Cree, a visual example that this
generation of students is growing up
understanding their language.
Pelican Falls is a place filled with
remarkable athletes and artists and
musicians who had all clearly honed
their crafts after hundreds of hours of
dedicated practice. They welcomed
us warmly into their spaces, and the
students were open and excited about
sharing their lives and talents with
us – despite the fact that for many of
them life at Pelican Falls is hard. To
get an education, students have to live
far from their families within a strict
boarding-school environment with little
personal space or freedom. Despite
these obstacles, we also saw how
unconditionally supportive and inclusive
the students and staff are with each
other; this is how all schools should be
and feel.
We sat around dinner tables and talked
about all the same things students talk
about at UTS: about homework we don’t
want to do and courses that bore us;
about music we love and music we love
to hate; about relationship problems
and fights we have with friends and
family. These conversations were
special and important, enabling us to
build relationships and see that despite
so many differences, there is much
common ground.
We returned home to our families
and to UTS with hope that a just and
right relationship between First Nations
peoples and Canadians is possible. We
left inspired by the incredible work
that so many First Nations people and
communities are doing in the face of
incredible odds to re-build and heal their
communities; the future of First Nations
communities is in incredible hands.
There are four key people who we
have to thank for making this experience
possible: UTS principal Rosemary
Evans and Darryl Tinney (principal of
Pelican Falls First Nations High School),
whose support and vision made all of
this possible; the alumnus donor who
was willing to support this pilot project
and the future opportunities we hope
it will create; and Glen Whiskeychan,
Social Counsellor at Pelican Falls whose
generosity, good humour, and patience
helped us see more than we imagined
we could. n
– S5 students Harry Chen, Daniel Henke
Tarnow, Rebecca Henfrey, Daniel
Lovsted,and Adam Waitzer; UTS teachers
James Campbell and Sandeep Sanghera
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President’s Report
UTSAA is your Association
This year, plan to take advantage of opportunities to get involved with the UTS Alumni Association.
John Wilkinson, ’78
President, UTSAA
I’d like to take this opportunity to remind you
that the UTS Alumni Association (UTSAA) is your
Association, and that UTSAA is moving forward
on many fronts in order to make its activities
and events current, relevant, and engaging.
I encourage you to get involved and to take
advantage of UTSAA opportunities.
The UTSAA Board is here to provide leadership,
coordinate activities, assist Year Reps in their
all-important roles, and liaise with the school and
other stakeholders. Examples of ongoing Board
initiatives include:
• Continuing governance rejuvenation. We have
created new foundational documents including
a Mission Statement, a Vision Statement, and a
Statement of Organizational Values. These
seminal documents (posted at: www.utschools.
ca/alumni) are worthy of your review as they
guide UTSAA’s Board in all it does.
I want to thank the many alumni who,
year in and year out, support UTSAA.
• Recognizing the value and strength of the
Year Rep program and the need for ongoing
recognition and support of these invaluable
volunteers.
• Working for a more involved relationship with
other stakeholders, such as the UTS Board, the
The UTSAA Treasurer’s Report will now be published in the
spring edition of The Root; this change will allow for the
completion of the audit of the UTS financial statements with
year-end of June 30th. As outlined in last year’s Treasurer’s
Report, the operating expenses for UTSAA are accounted for in
the books of UTS and are subject to the audit process of UTS.
UTS Parents Association, the UTS Foundation,
and the University of Toronto.
• Developing a social media and online
communication strategy. In this context, the
UTSAA held its AGM in May in the school
library and simultaneously in a “virtual meeting
room.” By doing so, we were able to welcome
both in-person guests – including incoming
UTS vice principal Heather Henricks – and
virtual guests from as far away as Hong
Kong! The UTSAA extends special thanks
to Justin Tan ’93 for his expertise and the
use of his company’s (Blackboard) meeting
room software.
All of these efforts require hard work by
UTSAA’s Board. The directors not only spend
hours working on behalf of UTS and its alumni,
but I am also pleased to say that 100% of Board
members donated to the school last year.
Incidentally, the school’s engaging leader,
Principal Rosemary Evans, is a director. If you
have not yet had the opportunity to meet her,
I urge you to do so: she will instill in you great
confidence for the future of UTS!
Finally, I want to thank the many alumni who,
year in and year out, support the UTSAA. For
some of you, there are “in years” and “out years.”
Why not make this an “in year” by attending an
event (such as the Annual Alumni Dinner), calling
your Year Rep to touch base, making a donation,
or communicating with any UTSAA director about
a school-related issue or idea? Information about
UTSAA can be found here in The Root, or at
www.utschools.ca/alumni, or by calling the UTS
Office of Advancement at 416-978-3919.
With your support, UTSAA is able to provide
ongoing and crucial assistance to UTS, allowing
the school to continue its tradition as a remarkable
and unique institution that produces graduates
who are perfectly positioned to make a positive
difference in the world. n
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Principal’s Report
A Talent Incubator
A place where students receive exceptional opportunities for developing as leaders.
An alumnus recently described UTS as “an
exceptional talent incubator.” The record of
achievement of our alumni surely supports this
claim (see Martha Drake’s Advancement report for
details). Clearly, there is something unique at play
at the school.
Certainly one of the distinctive features of the
school is, and always has been, our rigorous
adherence to merit-based admission. This is
maintained today by our three-stage admission
process. The Secondary School Admission Test
(SSAT) taken by prospective applicants acts
as an initial “screening”. Following the SSAT,
applicants take UTS assessments in English
and in mathematics and present a portfolio of
successful achievements. Finally, they participate
in a Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) system. The
MMI was developed by McMaster Medical School
and, in January 2012, UTS was the first secondary
school to adopt it. During the MMI, students meet
with 10 interviewers, one for each question. As a
result, the interview process is less subject to bias
and acts as another measure by which we can
identify students of exceptional ability who have a
passion for learning.
A second aspect of the school’s uniqueness
is our ongoing commitment to financial access,
equity, and inclusion. This is evidenced by the
fact that UTS has always maintained a needsblind
admission process – a feature that results
in greater diversity in the student body. It also
necessitates the ongoing availability of bursary
assistance; currently, 20% of our students receive
financial support. Another example is our
recent partnership with the Centre for Urban
Schooling at OISE/UofT to conduct a review of
our Equity Framework (created in 2008). We are
now formulating a plan to enhance equity and
inclusion both for the present and in the future –
an ongoing pledge. Our goal is to ensure that
UTS provides an equitable school experience and
prepares students to understand and challenge the
instances of marginalization and oppression that
they may encounter in their lives. This strategic
direction supports the school’s vision, “to develop
socially responsible global citizens” and aligns
with the school’s long-standing role as a place
where students receive exceptional opportunities
for developing as leaders.
UTS was created as a laboratory for
developing excellence in education; this
element of our tradition is still clearly evident,
with examples too numerous to enumerate.
UTS teachers are continuously learning and
innovating as educators, providing unique
learning experiences – and enormous levels
of dedication – to our students. A visit to the
UTS Facebook site during any week serves
as a window into the school’s singular and
dynamic learning environment. Through unique
partnerships at the University of Toronto and
beyond, our students have opportunities to
engage with some of the research challenges
that are currently puzzling scholars, and to tackle
complex global problems.
This strategic direction supports the
school’s vision, “to develop socially
responsible global citizens.”
UTS’ recipe for generating exceptional talent is
not a secret: it is the synergy created by combining
capable students, innovative teachers, a dynamic
program that focuses on engaging students in
authentic inquiry and, of course, committed
alumni who reach across the generations to
support UTS students and recent graduates. n
Rosemary Evans
Principal, UTS
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UTS Board Report
UTS Financial Independence
Ensuring that UTS remains a centre of excellence accessible to talented young people.
Bob Lord ‘58
Board Chair, UTS
During a year marked by exceptional involvement
and engagement, the UTS Board of Directors has
focussed on a review of our strategic priorities,
revitalizing our affiliation with the University
of Toronto, ensuring our long-term financial
sustainability, and proactively exploring options
for a new site.
In reviewing Building the Future, the UTS
strategic plan launched in 2008, the Board of
Directors has established the following strategic
priorities for the next two years. We recognize this
as an ambitious undertaking but are confident that
with the support of our stakeholders we will make
significant progress toward achieving these goals:
1. Enhancing our transformative educational
program for the 21 st Century
2. Defining the UTS diploma for the future
3. Developing The Global Ideas Institute within
the school community and through our
partnerships
4. Ensuring equity and inclusion in the school
community , in our commitment to access, and
in our work with our partners
5. Developing a full school support model to
sustain the health and well-being of students
and staff
6. Refining our rigorous admission process and
finding a new school site.
7. Revitalizing our affiliation with the University of
Toronto
8. Clarifying and enhancing our communications,
marketing, and branding
The Affiliation Committee, led by UTS alumnus
and lawyer David Rounthwaite ’65, includes
Board members, alumni, and parents. During the
summer, committee members met with Professor
Scott Mabury, the new UofT vice president,
University Operations, who assumed responsibility
for liaising with UTS at the end of June. We briefed
Professor Mabury and indicated that our goal is
to work with the University over the next year to
reformulate the Affiliation Agreement (2006) that
defines our relationship with the University.
UTS has now achieved full financial
independence with a break-even budget. The
school has a small reserve fund of just under
$1 million accumulated from the transition
funding provided by UofT. We are striving to
control costs and moderate tuition increases
to remain accessible to students who meet our
rigorous admission standards. Thanks to the
prudent financial stewardship of funds held by
the UTS Foundation, bursary support is currently
available to 20% of our student body, a figure that
is among the highest in Canada.
Our Site Search Committee co-chairs – realestate
lawyer Peter Neilson ’71 and architect
Donald Schmitt ’70 – lead a dynamic committee
of alumni, parents, and teachers. The team has
refined specific site options – including surplus
public schools and joint development initiatives –
and is assessing them against our site priorities:
meeting our program needs, being financially
doable and sustainable, remaining accessible via
public transit for our students, and maintaining
proximity to the St. George campus. The team is
employing a financial modeling tool developed
by Board Director David Allan ’78 that allows us to
ascertain the cost implications for any given option
and the impact on future tuition and bursary
requirements. Feedback from UTS community
members who attended our recent forum will
definitely inform our work in the future.
In the coming months, we will continue to
pursue each of the initiatives described above. In
so doing, please rest assured that our motivation
is to ensure UTS continues to be a centre of
excellence, known for its unique and exceptional
program. At the same time, we are determined
to remain accessible to talented young people
regardless of their economic circumstances or
where they live in the GTA. n
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Advancement Report
UTS Alumni by the Numbers
Crunching the numbers reveals that generosity from members of the UTS community is widespread.
I’ve been thinking about numbers lately; it
happens every year when we put our annual
donor report together for the fall issue of The Root.
I’ve crunched the numbers and I’m pleased to
report that they support my theory that generosity
from members of the UTS community is, indeed,
widespread. In fact – with the exception of
campaign years – this past year, UTS alumni,
parents, students, staff, and friends exhibited
the highest rate of giving ever in the history of
UTS. Almost 20% of alumni made a donation to
UTS this year and, of the 724 donations received,
434 donors (or 70%) increased their donation
amounts. Our UTSAA Board, UTS Board, and
UTS Foundation Directors have led the charge
with their individual donations, and the UTS
community at large has come together to keep
UTS financially strong.
Interestingly, the percentage of alumni donors
is consistent with the number of students who
receive bursaries. This past year, approximately
20% of UTS students received financial aid with
an average bursary of $7,200. UTS has been able
to provide such a high level of support thanks to
the generosity of our donors. Some of the bursary
comes from the endowments held and stewarded
by the UTS foundation while other funds
come from the UTSAA Annual Fund and other
donations earmarked for immediate expenditure.
Your donations have helped keep UTS accessible
and they have directly impacted the lives of our
students. Our gratitude is profound, and on behalf
of UTS, I thank you.
With a nod to Lewis Lapham of Harper’s Index
fame, I would like to share some other numbers
about UTS alumni that have impressed me. This
list is by no means exhaustive and I invite you to
contact us with the notable alumni known to you.
2 Nobel Laureates
20 Rhodes Scholars
5 University Presidents
5 University Chancellors
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Working
Holiday
Science was not Nobel Laureate John Polanyi’s first love – but over time, he
came to be captivated by the beauty of the subject matter. In his words: “We are
obsessed by what we do, so it is a holiday to be permitted to do it.”
By Diana Shepherd ’80
John Charles Polanyi was born in 1929
Dr. of Hungarian parents in Berlin,
Germany; his father, scientist-philosopher
Michael Polanyi, had gone from Budapest to
work in Berlin – the world capital for science.
In 1933, Michael Polanyi resigned his post in
protest against Nazi legislation and moved his
laboratory to Manchester University. During
WWII, John’s parents sent him to Canada to avoid
the bombings; while in Canada, he attended UTS
from 1940 to 1943.
Professor John Polanyi at the Presidential Installation of David Naylor at UofT in 2005.
Courtesy: University of Toronto
“My foster-parents (who had picked me out
of a large pool of children coming to Toronto as
‘war guests’, in an arrangement with Manchester
University, where my father was a faculty
member) were determined that I go to UTS, which
they considered to be an outstanding school
scholastically – as I believe it to be,” Professor
Polanyi said during a recent interview with
The Root.
He was just 11 years old when he made that
trans-Atlantic trip in 1940; his older brother,
George, was serving in the British Army. “I was
accustomed to being packaged and sent off to
distant points, having just survived several years
at a boarding school in England,” he pointed
out. “This promised to be a change for the better,
replete with Mounties and grisly bears. The trip
by sea on board The Duchess of Richmond was
enlivened by the presence of about 100 English
kids. The thrill of wearing a life-jacket day and
night soon wore off (German U-boats were active,
hence the precaution). The smell of an oceanliner
– marine paint and stale food – remains
something I try to avoid.”
While in Toronto, John lived on Prince Arthur
Avenue with Dr. Malcolm Cameron and “his
charming physician wife Olive and their son
Donald,” he recalled. The Camerons’ two other
sons were in the Canadian army overseas, staying
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from time to time in Manchester with John’s
parents and brother, when George was on leave
from the Army. “Donald was rejected by UTS,
but got his own back by totally out-foxing me at
ice-hockey,” John said. “My foster parents took
pity and enrolled me in an Upper Canada cricket
team. The team won a trophy while I was in
hospital having a minor operation, so I sported an
impressive badge on my blazer.”
John’s first impressions of UTS were less than
stellar; fortunately, he was able to change his
opinion during his second and third years at
the school. “I had grown to expect little from
schools,” he explained. “Year one at UTS did not,
therefore, surprise me. We visitors (impostors,
since we had not sat for the entrance exam)
were put in a special class designated ‘O.B.’
for ‘Overseas Boys’, but better known as ‘B.O.’
Teachers with English connections kindly
volunteered or were volunteered to look after us.
The form master was Major Bramfitt. I have no
recollection what he taught, but recall the weight
of his hand! In the two subsequent years of my
Canadian sojourn I entered the mainstream of the
school (Forms Two and Three) where life was
easier. I dreamed my way through science (largely
descriptive), French and Latin, coming alive for
history where a teacher, primed with alcohol,
spoke convincingly of the disposition of armies
in ancient Rome.” When asked whether he had
a favourite teacher or subject at UTS, he replied:
“Science was taught with charm and enthusiasm.”
After three years in Canada, John returned
to England and attended Manchester Grammar
School, which he described as “a more rigorous
experience academically” in comparison to UTS.
“It was also deathly cold,” he remembered. In
high school, his interests were history, politics,
and science. “Since my older brother went on
to study history and politics at the university, I
decided that I would study chemistry. I never
felt ordained for a career in chemistry, and I
never abandoned my keen interest in history and
politics,” he wrote in an autobiography for UofT.
John entered Manchester University in 1946.
During his first year, his father Michael, a
professor in the chemistry department, was one of
his teachers. “I attended a full year of my father’s
first year chemistry lectures,” he said. “They were
a pleasure. The pleasure for him was that he was
forbidden to mark the exams.”
John wasn’t always convinced that science was
his true calling – some sources claimed that he
briefly considered a career as a poet. When asked
Receiving the 2007 NSERC Herzberg Gold Medal.
about this, he responded, “In my experience,
every young man tries his hand at poetry, and
even gets some specimens into print. I am no
exception. I never dreamt, however, of being
a poet. I was attracted to journalism and was
offered a job on something new called BBC-TV.
Instead I took the safer path of a Fellowship at the
National Research Council (NRC) labs in Ottawa
and then at Princeton.”
Words of Wisdom
Courtesy: NSERC
Professor John Polanyi, when pressed, offered two pieces of
advice for the UTS class of 2013:
“I am put in mind of both by the book I am reading; the 1864
novel by Anthony Trollope called Can You Forgive Her? I’ll explain
the title in a moment. But first I note the advice to be found on
page 140 (of my Penguin edition). It is probably superfluous to
a UTS graduate, but I endorse it anyway: ‘It is of moment to a
young person when entering life to decide whether he shall
make hats or shoes,’ Trollope remarks, ‘but not half the moment
that will be that other decision, whether he shall make good
shoes or bad.’ I have done my feeble best to make good shoes,
but am confident that I would have been equally fulfilled had I
attempted to make good hats.”
The second piece of advice John offered is implicit in the title
of Trollope’s novel; Can You Forgive Her? “The dreadful sin you are
asked to forgive… is the affront that the heroine makes to society
by breaking off her engagement to be married. What, then, is my
advice? It is that you consider the possibility that the world may
change. You might even wish to change it yourself.”
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John Polanyi in his office at UofT. “We are obsessed by what we do, so it is a holiday
to be permitted to do it.”
After completing his Ph.D. in 1952, “Chance,
and a lucrative Fellowship ($3,000 per annum)”
enticed John back to Canada to do postdoctoral
research at NRC in Ottawa.
In his autobiography on UofT’s website (www.
utoronto.ca/jpolanyi), John confessed that the
study of science was initially a disappointment
to him. “In the laboratory I found that it was
necessary to follow procedures that had not been
fully explained (if, indeed, the explanations were
Awards
1962: The Marlow Medal of the Faraday Society
1965: The Centenary Medal of the British
Chemical Society
1965: The Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences
1967: The Noranda Award of the Chemical
Institute of Canada
1974: Officer of the Order of Canada; in 1979,
he was promoted to Companion.
1977: The Henry Marshall Tory Medal of the
Royal Society of Canada
1982: The Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Courtesy: University of Toronto archives
known) in order to obtain the ‘right’ result. Out of
curiosity I would vary the method from that given
in the laboratory manual, with the consequence
that I routinely got the ‘wrong’ result. All this was
symptomatic of the fact that I lacked the discipline
to learn, or at any rate to learn with any degree
of pleasure, the large number of rules that one
must master before one can play the game of
science.” Without great enthusiasm, he persisted
through years of training; gradually, he came to
be “captivated and engrossed by the beauty of the
subject matter and the thrill of the challenge that
it offered.”
He acknowledged that: “This is a peculiar story
for a scientist to give of the birth of his interest in
his subject. It happens to be my story, and may
serve to illustrate that in the choice of a career, as
in other major decisions, a lifelong commitment
need not start with a love affair.”
In 1956, he became a lecturer at UofT; he was
promoted to assistant professor in 1957, associate
professor in 1960, and full professor in 1962. In
1974, he was named University Professor.
In 1986, cited by the Royal Swedish Academy
of Sciences for “contributions concerning the
dynamics of chemical elementary processes,”
John won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his
work in chemical kinetics – a prize he shared with
Dudley Herschbach of Harvard University and
Yuan Lee of the University of California, Berkeley.
The years have not diminished his enthusiasm for
scientific inquiry. “Work has continued without a
break in the lab,” he told The Root at the end of
August. “We are obsessed by what we do, so it is a
holiday to be permitted to do it.”
His Nobel medal – on display at UofT’s Massey
College, where he is a Senior Fellow – is one of
many honours John has received over the years. n
1986: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1988: The Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize
1989: The Royal Medal of the Royal Society of
London
1992: The John C. Polanyi Lecture Award of the
Canadian Society for Chemistry
2007: The Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold
Medal for Science and Engineering
2010: Faraday Lectureship Prize Winner from
the Royal Society of Chemistry
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Turning
Complex
into
Simple
Courtesy: Pioneer Investments
Nobel Laureate Michael Spence ’62 likes to take complex, confusing economic phenomena and, by
identifying the main structural features, make them seem simple. The Root’s Editor, Diana Shepherd ’80,
spoke with him recently about attending UTS, Princeton, Oxford, and Harvard – and winning the Nobel
Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001.
DS
MS
Although your parents lived in Ottawa in 1943, you
were born in Montclair, NJ. How did that come about?
My father was Canadian and my mother was an
American. When the war came, my father joined the
Wartime Prices and Trades Board. They had to work closely
with the Americans, so my father was going back and forth
from Ottawa to Washington. My mother came along on one
of the trips when she was about eight-and-a-half months
pregnant; she stopped off to visit friends in New Jersey, and
that’s where I was born. She never admitted it, but I think she
did it on purpose.
DS
In 1950, your family moved to a farm outside
Toronto where you went to school in a two-room
schoolhouse. Do you have any memories of those rural
schooldays?
We lived on a 320-acre farm in Maple for two years.
MS It was a wonderful experience. My brother Randy
[William Randall Spence ’63] and I attended a school with two
classrooms – one for Grades One to Four and the other for
Grades Five to Eight – and one teacher for the whole shootin’
match. I don’t think it would have been a super place to be
educated up through Grade Eight, but for Grades One and
Two, it seemed to work and was fun.
DS
Your family moved to Toronto in the early ’50s, and
you entered UTS in Grade 7 in 1955. What were your
first impressions of UTS? Did you have a favourite teacher
or subject?
I loved the school from the moment I got there. The
MS teachers were terrific. They maintained discipline and
they taught effectively. I was playing hockey outside of the
school until Grade Eight, playing 70-80 games a year in a team
sponsored by the Chicago Blackhawks. UTS Athletic Director
Jack Life called me in and told me that if I didn’t quit, he’d have
me kicked out of the school. He was bluffing, but I quit the team.
I had a wonderful, wonderful experience at UTS in multiple
dimensions: intellectually, in sports, with people…
I had many favourite teachers. On the athletic side, a lot
of us were very close to Don Fawcett. And I played hockey
for Bruce MacLean – I missed his hundredth birthday party
last year, which was a shame. We had a hilariously funny
and talented science teacher, Fred Speed, who was a bit
absent‐minded. One year, he posted the final exam by mistake
on the bulletin board and a bunch of us had to go and take
it down before anyone took the exam! But he was a terrific
teacher... The teaching at UTS was really fabulous in terms
of engaging students. Of course, there was a terrific group
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Receiving an Honorary Degree from U of T in 2000. LEFT-RIGHT: David
Galloway ’62, then-Principal of UTS, Linda Newnham, Michael Spence and
then-Chancellor, University of Toronto, Hal Jackman ’50
of students at the school, and we learned a lot from each
other as well.
What did being elected UTS School Captain in 1962
DS mean to you?
Personally, it was a very rewarding experience, and
MS a surprise. It brought me closer to a wider range of
people in the school; if you play football or hockey, you end
up hanging out with your teammates for much of the school
year – and there’s an awful lot of interesting people outside of
those groups. It was nice when my brother Randy was elected
School Captain the year after me.
After graduation, you attended Princeton,
DS graduating with a BA in philosophy in 1966. What
attracted you to Princeton – and to the study of philosophy?
In those days, the natural thing for people who were
MS doing well academically was to go to UofT. It was
and is excellent, but at that time it had the old British structure,
which meant that you had to specialize right away. My parents
and I talked with UTS headmaster Brock McMurray, and I
ended up at Princeton largely because it had the American
Liberal Arts structure. Philosophy was my undergraduate major,
but I never intended to make it a career.
A Canadian Rhodes Scholar, you received your BA/
DS MA in Mathematics from Magdalen College, Oxford
in 1968. Can you tell us a little about it?
I loved Oxford. I started out in philosophy, politics,
MS and economics; then switched to economics; then
switched again to mathematics. My advisors were very tolerant
of this. I also played hockey for Oxford – that was hilarious!
There were a great group of Canadians and Americans on the
team. Cambridge was good; David Johnson [current Governor
General] played for them, and he was a great hockey player.
The other teams in England had kind of forgotten how to play
hockey after learning from us during the war.
You received your Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard
DS in 1972. “What was it like to attend an American
institution during the Vietnam War years?”
MS
It was a really interesting and
disorienting time: I walked through
picket lines to get to class; the University was
shut down at one point; somebody related to
my first wife was hauled out of a building and
arrested. Underneath the Vietnam War issue, there
was a massive social change underway. Young
people were rejecting aspects of their society
they thought were unacceptable, including post
World War II ideas of gender and equality. We
all assumed that we were throwing off chains
and that it would be a freer, easier world, but
we completely misunderstood the complexity
of creating new models: how you live, how you
work, how you integrate family with working life, etc. The
Junior and Senior classes at Harvard and Radcliffe were in the
eye of the hurricane; they became revolutionaries in their own
minds and some got lost when the world gradually drifted back
to a new normal. They tried to live as if that time-frame were
going to be a permanent state of affairs. But of course, social
and other revolutions are never permanent conditions: they
happen, cause change, and then people go back to figuring out
how to live, work, be happy, and spiritually rewarded. So we
had a mini lost-generation: people who were disaffected from
the old society but also disaffected from the new one.
You have said that you have had two careers: first
DS as teacher and scholar and then in academic
administration. You joined New York University Leonard
N. Stern School of Business as a professor of economics
in September 2010; you are a senior fellow at the Hoover
Institution and the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of
Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford
University. Is this a return to a “first love” – teaching?
The academic administration part lasted 15 years,
MS starting in 1984 when the president of Harvard asked
me to be the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Then I
became Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business in
California (from 1990 to 1999). I enjoyed both jobs and learned
a lot, but I think 15 years was enough. We now live in Milan,
so we’re not able to get to the West Coast much, but coming
over to New York in the fall seems to work. It has been nice
to be able to settle in one place and teach for part of the year:
sharing whatever I’ve managed to learn with students and
colleagues about emerging economies.
What was it like to win the Nobel Prize in Economics?
DS
MS
It’s been an amazing and unanticipated part of my life
for 11 years now. My predecessor at Harvard told me
that if I took the job [as Dean], I’d never win the Nobel Prize.
I believed him, but then again I thought I probably wouldn’t
receive the Nobel Prize anyway. So I made the choice and
took the job – I didn’t stay in teaching and research and I gave
up thinking about the Nobel Prize permanently. Turns out he
was wrong.
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Winning the Nobel changes your life, no question about
it. 2001 was the hundredth anniversary of the Nobel Prize, and
for the Centennial, they invited all Nobel laureates in all five
fields who were still alive to come back. It was an amazing
gathering. One of the Nobel requirements is that you come to
Stockholm and give a lecture to your peers; in this year, all the
Nobel economists were there. Sitting in the front row were Paul
Samuelson, Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, Bob Fogel, Robert
Solow, and many more – all the “gods” of the profession I’d
chosen – and I thought: “This is the scariest thing I’ve ever
done in my life!” Your life changes because you become way
more visible than you’ve ever been or thought you would be.
Is there a dividing line between your life pre- and
DS post-Nobel?
It’s hard to know what the counter-factual would
MS have been – what would have happened if – because
you never get to run the experiment. I stopped being an
academic administrator and set out to have a rewarding life
in some combination of business, investing, and academia.
Then the Nobel Prize came along out of the blue. I probably
would have done the same things (emerging economies, the
global economy etc.), but the Nobel made it easier to get
started. It’s a label you carry with you for the rest of your life,
and it gives you credibility – even when it shouldn’t. One of
my friends who had previously won the Nobel sat me down
and said “People are going to ask you a whole lot of questions
on subjects you know absolutely nothing about. The most
important thing you have to learn is to say ‘I don’t know’.”
Aside from winning the Nobel Prize, can you describe
DS some career highlights — accomplishments that give
you the greatest personal or professional satisfaction?
Receiving the John Bates Clark Medal was a pretty
MS big highlight as well. The research I did for my Ph.D.
thesis and right after – work for which I eventually won the
Nobel – was very rewarding. There was a moment when I
realized that the work might actually be quite important in the
construct of economic theory. What I really like to do is to take
a situation in the world that looks complex and confusing –
like you’re seeing it through a fog – and stare at it, digest it, and
try to make it seem simple. If you can make it seem simple,
then you can explain it to other people and it will seem simple
to them, too.
If you could give one piece of advice to the UTS Class
DS of 2013, what would it be?
My advice would be that there’s a reasonably
MS decent chance that you’re going to live in a global
economy, and it’s worth taking the time to understand who
those 6.5 billion people are: where they are in life, how they
live, how that’s changing over time. I’d urge them to learn
other languages. This is a tool for accomplishing Item One:
make yourself as comfortable and knowledgeable as possible
about vast amounts of the world as you can. Not because
you necessarily want to live or work outside Canada, but
because you need to know what’s going on out there. People
who live and work in Toronto or New York who don’t have
a clue what’s going on in South Africa or Western China or
Jakarta have huge blind spots. In the old days, you might
have thought, “That’s interesting, but it doesn’t have much
to do with me.” Now it does. That’s why I wrote The Next
Convergence [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011]. By the middle
of this century, the world will be a place in which the vast
majority lives in pretty comfortable, advanced circumstances. I
wanted to explain how we got there, from the post-war world
in which 15% lived in advanced countries, and then to answer
the question: “What problems do we have to solve in the next
50 years for this whole thing to work?”
You said one, but I’ll sneak in a second: find something
that you love to do – that motivates you to get up in the
morning – and just do that. You’ll be the happiest that way.
Don’t worry much about income or wealth or status or fame.
Those things take care of themselves and don’t matter as much
as loving the work you do.
Is there anything else you’d like to share with the
DS UTS community?
Well, I’d like to say thank you. UTS was and is a
MS wonderful, liberating place: it gives you the feeling
that there are a whole lot of interesting things you could
do, and that you really can do them. It’s more than the very
high quality of the education – important as that was and is
in empowering us – UTS gave me a sense of freedom and
opportunity for which I’ve always been grateful. n
NOTE: this article features excerpts from the original interview.
To read it in full, go to www.utschools.ca/alumni.
At a Pionner Investments Colloquia Series panel discussion: LEFT-RIGHT:
Robert Merton, Nobel Laureate 1997, Michael Spence, and Eric Maskin,
Nobel Laureate 2007.
Courtesy: Pioneer Investments
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That’s
UTS alumni are a talented bunch, making many important
contributions to science, politics, economics, medicine,
law, and academics. UTS has also produced some shining
stars in film, stage, radio, and TV. Here’s a brief Who’s Who;
to learn more about their accomplishments, go to
www.utschools.ca/alumni
Entertainment!
Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg) ’18
Melvyn entered Form 4C at UTS in 1913 when he was 12 years
old. He had a long theatre, film, and television career as a lead
player, stretching from his 1930 Broadway role in Tonight or
Never until just before his death in 1982. Melvyn won Academy
Awards for Hud (1963) and Being There (1979), and was
nominated for a third for I Never Sang for my Father (1970).
George Douglas (George Lamar Hesselberg) ’19
Melvyn’s kid brother George entered Form 3B in 1913 when
he was 11 years old. George’s film and TV niche was Westerns/
Action and and Sci-Fi/Horror.
(James) Mavor Moore ’36
Mavor was a librettist, composer, actor, director, producer,
author, academic, and administrator who wrote more than
100 works for stage, radio, television and film. He began
playwriting at 12, and by 15, he was acting regularly on radio.
At UTS, he expanded his theatrical range to play Falstaff
and Macbeth in school productions. In 1948, he began the
infamous satirical revue, Spring Thaw, which ran annually until
1971. Mavor served as CBC Television’s first chief producer
(1950–1954) and executive producer for television at the
United Nations (1955–1960).
Stephen Stohn ’66, Garrick Hagon ’58, Jack Roe ’72. ABOVE: Melvyn Douglas with Greta Garbo in Ninotchka.
Gordon Sheppard ’54
Gordon wrote, produced, and directed award-winning films,
public affairs programs, and documentaries – including
The Most (1962), an examination of Hugh Hefner and
Playboy Enterprises, and the feature film Eliza’s Horoscope
(1975). Gordon Sheppard or the Art of Dying Well premiered
at Le Festival International du Film sur l’Art in 2011; this
documentary film, shot during the last 18 months of Gordon’s
life, is “an inspiring, courageous and harrowing examination
of an artist’s life by looking at a close-up of his death.”
Peter Pearson ’57
A director, producer, and screenwriter, Peter’s movies and
television dramas have received 19 Canadian Film Awards –
more than any other Canadian director – and a slew of
ACTRA awards. After graduating, Peter determined that he
“wanted no career where I would ever again wear blue blazers
and grey flannels. In my dotage, I now run a film club –
www.cinemagique.ca.”
Garrick Hagon ’58
Starting at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Alec Guiness’s
Richard III, Garrick has played English and North American
roles in many films (including Star Wars Episode IV: A New
Hope), on stage, radio, and
TV (including the Doctor Who
series in 1972 and 2012). “No
doubt plays at UTS (Twelve
Angry Men, The Mikado,
and others) spurred me on,”
he noted. “We had a great
English teacher, Ron McMaster,
who directed the plays and
encouraged us all, though he
was always cautious about the
possibility of making a living in
the ‘business’.”
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Erik Fitz ’81, Graham Yost ’76, Rick Marin ’80, RIGHT (L-R): Elizabeth Radshaw (Hot Docs); Lisa Valencia-Svensson ’86, director Maria Teresa Larrain, and
Sarah Jane Flynn (Shaw Media).
(John) Stephen Stohn ’66
Stephen has been involved in the music and TV side of the
entertainment industry since 1975. The president of Epitome
Pictures, he is executive producer of Degrassi: The Next
Generation and Instant Star. Stephen was executive producer
of the telecast of The Juno Awards for almost 20 years
(ending in 2009); during that period, he was a director and
then chair of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and
Sciences. He was also Chair of MusiCounts, a charity that,
among other things, distributes musical instruments to schools
in need. Stephen’s most recent project is the TV series The
L.A. Complex.
Jack Roe ’72
Jack’s career has taken him through stints as an on-air disc
jockey, phone-in show host, public affairs program host,
program director of two radio stations with the CHUM Group,
news director for two radio stations for the CHUM Group,
associate producer of radio drama with the BBC, weekly
correspondent for CBC Radio (Ontario Morning show,
Radio 1), and news anchor for 680 News in Toronto. He also
has a parallel career as an award-winning stage actor. “My
education at UTS was in many ways responsible for the career
I now enjoy – especially the teachings of Don Gutteridge, who
taught English during my tenure,” he said.
Graham Yost ’76
Graham knew from the age of 18 that he wanted to be
a filmmaker. His father, Elwy Yost, hosted a weekly film
show on TVO. “In our family, everything was about movies
and books,” he said. His feature film credits include Speed
(1994), Broken Arrow (1996), Hard Rain (1998), Mission
to Mars (2000), and The Last Castle (2001). As a producer,
Graham won Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for the HBO
miniseries From the Earth to the Moon; he also garnered an
Emmy nomination for writing the episode “Apollo One”. He
wrote two episodes of the Golden Globe and Emmy Awardwinning
miniseries Band of Brothers, and he won an Emmy
Award for the epic miniseries The Pacific. Graham is currently
executive producer and writer on Justified, a series based on
a character created by crime novelist Elmore Leonard. On
June 1, Graham visited UTS to address drama and American
History students. He also sat down for an interview with
Root Editor Diana Shepherd ’80; you can read this online at
www.utschools.ca/alumni.
Steven Westren ’77
Steven is a Toronto-based TV and movie writer, director, and
producer. He has been nominated for four Gemini Awards,
winning twice (for Fakers in 2011 and My Friend Rabbit in
2009). Fakers follows three teenagers from a prestigious private
school; the trio become drawn into a dangerous underworld
where both cops and criminals are out to get them. Steve has
written for more than 20 TV series, including Almost Naked
Animals, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot about That!, Dragon,
and The Zack Files. He directed the movie The Man in my
Microwave (1996) and the TV series Internet Slutts.
Rick Marin ’80
Rick has written for TV – the screenplay of his memoir Cad:
Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor – as well as produced two
plays in Los Angeles – Neighorhood Watch and The One That
Got Away. “I’ve always been a writer, first a journalist – at
Harper’s, Newsweek, and The New York Times – before
moving to Los Angeles,” he explained. “I credit UTS with
nurturing my love of the written word, with a shout out to
Nora Maier for taking it to another level.”
Eric Fitz ’81
Eric is a location sound recordist for drama and documentary
productions. Career highlights include: “the grueling four-day
trek across the Nunavut winter tundra, surviving on frozen fish
and seal meat; the challenging months we spent in Rwanda
filming Shake Hands with the Devil; the glorious spring I
spent in Europe shooting in the factories of companies like
Braun, Playmobil, and Baccarat; or the night we survived on a
capsized boat floating in the Philippine Sea!” Eric has recently
started his sixth season of Murdoch Mysteries.
Brian Hamilton ’82
Brian is a managing partner in Omnifilm Entertainment,
focusing on documentary and dramatic TV series. He started
out as a documentary editor and then filmmaker, and is now
focussing primarily on scripted TV series. Current projects
include Arctic Air, which had a record-breaking premiere
recently on CBC, and Ice Pilots, a top-rated documentary series.
“The well-rounded education I received at UTS prepared me
well,” he said. “Film/TV project ideas can be drawn from any
area of study, from science to politics to literary arts, so having
an appreciation and understanding of a variety of academic
topics has been very valuable.”
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The Kuperman brothers – Ricky ’07 and Jeff ’08; James Cheng ’88.
Dave Auster ’86
Dave has managed or produced live theatre since 1991 – from
Peter Pan to Inherit the Wind to Spamalot. This spring, he
moved from New York to Ontario to become the producer of
the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. “I have occasionally had the
extraordinary experience of meeting a person who has created
work that I have studied,” he said. “For example, I had the
good fortune to work on Broadway productions of several of
Tom Stoppard’s plays, and I could never be in a room with him
without remembering the first time we were assigned to read
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at UTS.”
Lisa Valencia-Svensson (Lisa Swenson) ’86
Lisa has been producing documentaries in Toronto since 2005.
Her first feature-length documentary, Herman’s House, had its
Canadian premiere at Hot Docs in Toronto in May 2012. “It’s
a hard industry to survive in, and I am very much a minority
as a woman of colour, a lesbian, and a politically progressive
person,” she said. “There is a great need for a wider range of
viewpoints and perspectives in our media, because only once
people truly understand other people’s realities do they start to
feel committed to work for a more just and equitable world.”
Ben Carlson ’87
Ben has appeared on stages throughout Canada and the US.
He spent 12 seasons at the Shaw Festival and he is currently in
his fifth season at Stratford, playing “Benedick” in Much Ado
about Nothing and “Captain Fluellen” in Henry V. Ben has also
worked in film and TV; credits include The Firm, Rookie Blue,
Warehouse 13, Grey Gardens, Angela’s Eyes, and Slings and
Arrows. In 2001, he received the Dora Mavor Moore Award for
The Doll House; in 2007, he won the Joseph Jefferson Award for
his portrayal of the title role in Hamlet.
James Cheng ’88
James has been involved in the entertainment (sketch-comedy)
industry since 2006. As a result of his comedic stage work, he
was chosen to play a lead role in a short romantic-comedy, The
Magic Charm, which premieres at the Reel Asian Film Festival
in November 2012. UTS played a role in his career choice: “Our
Grade 13 English class with Nora Maier incorporated readings
of plays and text – something that allowed me to explore
the written word in a live format. Also, the UTS improv club
fostered creativity and leadership outside the classroom.
Raph Nogal
Alycia Rossiter ’89
Alycia found her niche producing reality competition shows
when ABC enlisted her to work on their hit, The Bachelor.
“Now, I run the show and its spin-offs: The Bachelorette and
Bachelor Pad – from casting to shooting around the world
to producing the edit,” she said. “I was always a sucker for
romance and travel; now, it’s how I make my living.” She
credits UTS with helping her to believe that she was smart.
“Hollywood is cut-throat and to get attention you have to be
good looking or smart, or if you’re lucky, both. Connections
are great, but you are nothing in this town if you don’t have
drive or if you don’t believe in yourself.”
Tosan Lee ’92
Tosan is CEO and co-founder of All TV: a Korean TV specialty
service broadcasting across Canada. He co-founded All TV
with his father and brother in 2000 and launched the service
in 2001. Although he said that UTS didn’t play a specific role
in his decision to go into broadcast media, he regards his UTS
education as the “foundation for critical thinking that helps in
all stages.”
Tim Lindsay ’04
Tim is a sound designer and technician for live theatre. “It
was something I was fascinated by from a very young age,
but working on UTS Stage Crew and particularly on our
Grad Project (with Jon Bright, Alyssa Mackenzie, and Kat
Sandler to produce a new musical they co-wrote) certainly
encouraged me to take the plunge and turn pro,” he said.
“It was through the encouragement of great arts teachers at
UTS that I found the will to follow my passion. It’s not the
most lucrative career financially, but I’m very happy to be
living my dream!”
Ricky Kuperman ’07 and Jeff Kuperman ’08
Brothers Ricky and Jeff work in the theatre, dance, and film
industries – their work often combines all three of these
disciplines. “UTS helped to cultivate a spirit of exploration
and of risk – whether it was by giving the students control of
a full theatrical production or offering courses with inspiring
teachers that pushed students artistically. Because so many
students were excelling in so many diverse artistic disciplines,
UTS made it seem like pursuing a career in the arts was a
viable and important option.” The brothers’ first short film, In
a Moment, has screened internationally at festivals across the
United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, and Europe.
“We’re excited now to begin work on our next commission,
the creation of a new dance-theater piece about Stravinsky’s
The Rite of Spring.” n
Editor’s Note: This article was compiled and excerpted from
responses to our request for submissions. Are we missing
anyone? If so, please let us know so we can add them to the
full‐length article on our website at www.utschools.ca/alumni!
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Fourth Annual H.J. Crawford Award
Announcement
UTS is pleased to announce that the fourth Annual H.J. Crawford Award will
be presented to H. Donald “Don” Gutteridge.
Don, who was appointed in 1972, served as
headmaster (though he quickly updated his title to
principal) for 10 years. His profound dedication to
educational ideals, his easy rapport with students, and
his forward-thinking vision of what UTS should and
could be brought changes that were transformative.
During his tenure, the school became co-ed and
he pressed for the inclusion of women on the UTS
faculty; grade 13 was eliminated; the curriculum
was modernized; music and the arts found their
rightful place at the school; and the first bursary
fundraising program was launched. Following his UTS career, Don moved on
to OCE and OISE/UT where he helped develop many facets of the Ontario
school curriculum.
Don has been a stalwart supporter of UTS for 50 years; his commitment
to the school has been unwavering, and he has continued to promote the
best interests of UTS within the University of Toronto and beyond. UTS is
delighted to be able to honour Don with this award.
The H.J. Crawford Award, named for UTS’ first headmaster, recognizes
the significant contribution to UTS made by an individual or group through
commitment, dedication, and volunteerism, or contributions to greater society
through other significant lifetime achievements.
Be sure to attend the UTSAA Annual Alumni Dinner to celebrate the
presentation of this prestigious award to our revered retired principal. Reserve
now at 416-978-3919 or www.utschools.ca/rsvp. n
UTS Hall Of Fame Induction Announcement
UTS and the UTS Alumni Association are proud to announce the 2012
inductees into the UTS Hall of Fame.
Two retired faculty members, Ornella Barrett and
Ron Wakelin, have been selected for their superlative
contributions to coaching and for their commitment
to health and physical education at UTS. Over their
long teaching and coaching careers at UTS, these
dedicated and highly motivated teachers promoted
an environment of sound ethics, fair play, and equal
opportunities, and they challenged our athletes to
achieve their full potential. Ornella and Ron provided
advice, support, feedback, and progressive and
accessible development paths to student athletes,
assistant coaches, and team managers of all abilities. Under their watch, UTS
saw the attainment of many district and provincial titles.
During the early 1990s, the girls’ field hockey team clinched the Toronto
Secondary School Women’s Athletic Association championships four times
in five years, ensuring a berth at the Ontario Federation of Secondary School
Athletic Associations Championships (OFSAA) in each of those winning years.
Members of the 1991–2 and 1992–3 teams will be inducted into the UTS Hall
of Fame at the UTSAA Annual Alumni Dinner on Saturday, October 13, 2012.
Help celebrate the accomplishments of these UTS former staff and alumni:
reserve now at 416-978-3919 or www.utschools.ca/rsvp. n
Don’t miss the
Annual
Alumni
Dinner
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Brennan Hall
at St. Michael’s College University
81 St. Mary Street
5:30 Reception • 7:00 Dinner
All alumni are welcome – especially
those celebrating anniversary years:
1932 • 1937 • 1942 • 1947
1952 • 1957 • 1962 • 1967
1972 • 1977 • 1982 • 1987
1992 • 1997 • 2002 • 2007
As part of our dinner program, the
4th H.J. Crawford Award will be
presented and the UTS Hall of Fame
inductees will be honoured.
New this year! From 10 am – 2 pm,
visit the school and meet staff
and students during the UTS
Open House.
RESERVE NOW!
www.utschools.ca/rsvp
or call 416-978-3919
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Alumni News
Notes on The Interesting Lives and Outstanding Achievements of Our Alumni
Don Borthwick ’54 has retired from the
Board of the UTS Alumni Association
(UTSAA) after almost 20 years of service.
Don has been a Director since 1993,
serving as UTSAA President from 1995
to 1999. In 1999, Don became Executive
Director of the Alumni Association. He
was also Director of the UTS Office
of Development and Alumni Affairs
(now the UTS Office of Advancement)
until June 2007. At the UTSAA Annual
General Meeting on May 30, 2012,
UTSAA President John Wilkinson ’78 and
UTS Executive Director Martha Drake
acknowledged Don’s long-term service
to the UTSAA and presented Don with a
gift that will benefit UTS students directly:
the UTSAA grant to student activities
will now be known as the “H. Donald
Borthwick Student Activities Fund”.
Albert Greer ’55 has retired from his
post as artistic director – which he has
held since 1977 – of The Cellar Singers,
a renowned mixed-voice choir based
in Simcoe County and Muskoka. Greer
came to the Cellar Singers with a wealth
of experience from his time as conductor
of the Bathurst Heights Secondary
School Choir, North York Chorus, North
York Teachers’ Choir, and Ontario
Youth Choir as well as his reputation
as an outstanding tenor soloist. Former
classmate Jim Domm ’55 points out that
Albert “started his vocal career as a lead
in the UTS Gilbert and Sullivan operetta
HMS Pinafore in 1953.” During Albert’s
tenure, the Cellar Singers developed
an excellent reputation for its annual
concert season, performing many works
from the classical choral repertoire.
Highlights of Greer’s leadership included
a concert tour of England in 1990 and
a European tour including Prague,
Budapest, and Vienna in 1999. Greer
will continue to serve as organist and
choir‐master of St. James Anglican
Church, Orillia.
Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune
(McGill-Queen’s) written by former
UTS teacher Rod Stewart and his wife
Sharon Stewart, made The Globe and
Mail’s list of top 100 books of 2011
for non-fiction.
Windscape, a project for the 2012
Luminato Festival, was created by
Windscape at the 2012 Luminato Festival
Diamond Schmitt Architects – of which
Don Schmitt ’70 is a principal – in
conjunction with artist Mitchell F. Chan.
The installation inspired The Globe
and Mail’s Martin Knelman to write:
“Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a
windsock, which by day looks like an
oversized carrot in flight but at night
takes on endless colours and plays
choreographed stunts to take us on
flights of fancy with musical partners.”
The installation transformed Toronto
Left: Don Borthwick ’54. Centre: Albert Greer ’55. Right: Former UTS teacher, Rod Stewart and wife Sharon Stewart.
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ALUMNI NEWS
downtown’s David Pecaut Square into a
welcoming hub for the festival.
Nick Stark ’74 and Bill Robson ’77 are
both graduates of the 36th Toronto
ICD-Rotman Directors Education
Program (DEP). Jointly developed by
the Institute of Corporate Directors and
UofT’s Rotman School of Management,
DEP helps participants to clarify
their governance mission and fully
exercise their leadership potential as
board directors.
David Frum ’78 is
the author of seven
books, including
most recently his
first novel, Patriots
(CreateSpace, May
2012), a political
satire about life in
Washington that
The Economist
described as “excellent political satire –
and, for those in the know, bears more
than a passing resemblance to reality.”
David is a CNN contributor and also a
contributing editor at Newsweek and The
Daily Beast.
Last fall, awardwinning
cooking
instructor, food
historian, and former
chef, Michael Krondl
’78, published a
new book Sweet
Invention: A History
of Dessert (Chicago
Review Press, 2011).
The book combines copious research
and skilled narrative in a journey
through the history of dessert. Italian and
Chinese translations are scheduled to be
published in late 2012.
Richard Marin
’80, author of
the bestselling
memoir Cad:
Confessions of a
Toxic Bachelor
(Hyperion, 2004),
recently published
a Kindle Single
entitled Keep Swinging “which chronicles
the rookie season of an indoorsy TV
writer raising two alpha boys whose
life turns around when he gets off the
sidelines, puts on a jersey that’s three
sizes too big and throws himself into the
world of kids sports.” (For more on Rick,
see “That’s Entertainment!” on page 19.)
Root editor Diana Shepherd ’80 recently
served as a judge for the 30th Annual
Western Magazine Awards, selecting the
winner of the Gold Award for Best
Article. The Western Magazine Awards
Foundation (WMAF) honours and
celebrates editorial excellence in Western
Canadian magazine writing, photography,
illustration, and art direction. “During my
career as a magazine writer and editor,
I have entered articles and publications
into industry competitions,” she says,
“but this is the first time I’ve ever been
on the other side of the table. It was an
eye-opening experience!” The awards
ceremony took place in Vancouver on
June 15, 2012.
Kim Lee Kho ’81 is painting away madly
to prepare for an exhibition at the
Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art Gallery
in Guelph (September 15-October 15);
for more information, call the gallery at
519-821-9068.
There are lots of great ways to stay in touch!
The Alumni E-Directory – sign-up at:
www.utschools.ca/alumni/emaildirectory.aspx
Facebook:
Click the Facebook link on the UTS homepage:
www.utschools.ca
On the web:
www.utschools.ca/alumni
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Make sure we have your current email address!
Send contact info updates to: alumni@utschools.ca
Warm up your winter mornings
with a cup of your favourite brew
in a UTS mug!
$10
To see the complete
range of UTS
merchandise and to
place your order, go to:
www.utschools.ca/merchandise
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ALUMNI NEWS
In September 2011, UofT professor Dr.
Martin Schreiber ’81 was named one of
Ontario’s most outstanding university
teachers by the Ontario Confederation of
University Faculty Associations (OCUFA).
“Professor Schreiber is recognized
by his colleagues as ‘an exceptional
teacher, and a cornerstone’ of UofT’s
Undergraduate Medical Education
program,” said Judith Poe, chair of the
Teaching Award selection and past
award recipient. “This, coupled with
his commitment to promoting studentcentred
learning make him a natural
choice for an OCUFA Teaching Award.”
A nephrologist at St. Michael’s Hospital,
Martin is the recipient of 41 teaching
awards, including the Dean A. Chute
(Silver Shovel) award, the University
of Toronto President’s Teaching
award, and St. Michael’s Hospital
Department of Medicine Outstanding
Postgraduate Teaching award. “It has
been my great privilege to be able to
spend time helping medical students
and postgraduate trainees learn about
medicine, both at the University of
Toronto and at St. Michael’s Hospital,”
he said.
Sheila Miller ’82, who holds Bachelor’s
and Master’s degrees in music, teaches
yoga, mindfulness meditation, singing,
and piano in Toronto.
Meredith
Hawkins ’84,
professor of
medicine and
director of the
Global Diabetes
Initiative at
Albert Einstein
College of
Medicine of
Yeshiva University in New York City,
is the recipient of the Outstanding
Investigator Award – the American
Federation for Medical Research’s
(AFMR) highest honour for medical
research. The prestigious prize is given
annually to one exceptional investigator
aged 45 or younger for excellence in
biomedical research. Meredith was
selected for her diabetes research, which
examines the liver’s role in glucose
regulation and production, and how
elevated fatty acids contribute to insulin
resistance and inflammation in humans
with glucose intolerance or obesity.
“Dr. Hawkins is an innovative clinical
scientist, committed mentor, prolific
member of our Diabetes Research
Center, and an international force
through her leadership of Einstein’s
Global Diabetes Initiative,” said Harry
Shamoon, M.D., director of the Einstein-
Montefiore Institute for Clinical and
Translational Research and one of her
former research mentors. “This is welldeserved
recognition.” Meredith is a
previous recipient of AFMR’s Junior
Physician-Investigator Award. She is also
an attending physician in endocrinology
at Montefiore Medical Center, the
University Hospital for Albert Einstein
College of Medicine.
Further to the announcement in the last
issue of The Root letting us know about
the arrival of Serena Lauren Falconer
Wilson, daughter of Elizabeth (Allan)
Wilson ’91 and David Wilson, Elizabeth
writes: “Serena’s maternal greatgrandfathers
both attended UTS, and
we were pleased to locate photographs
of James Gilbert Falconer ’19 and
Blandford Meredith Eliot Allan ’27, along
with a photo of our lovely Serena.”
Allie Binnie ’93 and Pedro Castelo
Branco are pleased to announce the
birth of their son Tiago Corneil Binnie
Castelo Branco in Toronto on March 20,
2012. Tiago, brother of big sister Sofia,
weighed in at 3.3 kilos. Also celebrating
are grandparents Alice and Antonio in
Portugal and Susan and Ian in Toronto.
The Poplack family has had much to
celebrate recently. On March 7, Jonathan
’89 and his wife Dr. Heather Thomson,
welcomed a daughter, Thea Maude;
and just a few weeks later, on March 27,
Jonathan’s brother Mitch ’94 and his wife
Rachel welcomed Myles Maxwell. Myles
joins big sister Hannah.
Myles and Hannah Poplack
In August, 2011, former Trinity College
student, Mike Morgan ’97, was appointed
the first-ever Raymond Pryke Chair
and director of the Margaret MacMillan
Trinity One program – one of the
University of Toronto’s most prestigious
and competitive first-year programs.
In July 2012, he took up a position as
assistant professor of history at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. He writes: ”My wife, Molly Worthen,
James Gilbert Falconer ’19, Blandford Meredith Eliot Allan ’27, and Serena, daughter of Elizabeth
(Allan) Wilson ’91
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who’s also
a history
professor, was
offered a job
at UNC earlier
this year. UNC
subsequently
offered me a
position too. I
loved my job at
UofT (I had a UTSer in one of my classes
this past year, and a number of UTSers
have done extremely well in the Trinity
One program over the last few years!),
but since it’s rare to find two academic
jobs at the same institution, we made the
difficult decision to leave Toronto. We’re
excited about the new challenges ahead
in Chapel Hill and plan to stay connected
to Toronto while we’re down there.”
A launch party was held in June 2012 for
“Premieres”, the first album from violinist
Conrad Chow ’99. The CD, which is
generating excitement in both Canada
and the US, features Conrad performing
with Sinfonia Toronto, conducted by
UTS music teacher Ron Royer; tracks
include premiere recordings of music by
renowned Oscar Nominee and Emmy
Award-winning L.A. film composer
Jonathon Lee ’02
Bruce Broughton, and works by Ron and
another Canadian composer, Kevin Lau.
In April 2012, Farah Mohamed
interviewed Elisha Muskat ’01 for the
“Giving” column in The Globe and
Mail. Elisha is executive director of
Ashoka Canada – a global association of
individuals with 2,000 fellows worldwide
who have system-changing ideas to
solve some of the world’s most urgent
social problems. Elisha was introduced
to Ashoka when she researched the
organization as part of her MBA at the
Schulich School of Business, from which
she graduated in 2008. [In the article,
Elisha cites John Mighton as one of her
heroes. For more on this, see Branching
Out on page 27.]
Jonathan Lee ’02 recently competed in
Bravo’s TV series, Way Off Broadway.
The show follows 21 Canadians who face
their fears to live their dream in Sarina
Condello’s production of The Wizard of
Oz. When he is not singing and playing
guitar, Jon is occupied with completing
the requirements of his psychiatry
residency training at the University of
Toronto and doing research at the Centre
for Addiction and Mental Health in
transcranial magnetic stimulation. He has
been a tenor in the University of Toronto
Gospel Choir for four years.
Want to hear original pieces by UTS students
and alumni or recall the day when you or your classmate
wrote a song for the Twig Tape? Presenting:
uTunes
the UTS student-run online music repository
For a digital version of every Twig Tape since 1985,
go to http://utunes.utschools.ca or click the uTunes button
on the UTS homepage: www.utschools.ca
The new CD by Conrad Chow ’99.
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ALUMNI NEWS
Chava Schwebel ’04 graduated UofT
Law this past spring and will be joining
Paul Weiss’ corporate practice group in
New York in September 2012. Chava
also provided updates for her siblings,
Paula ’99 and Aaron ’06. Paula recently
finished her Ph.D. in philosophy at the
University of Toronto (2011); she spent
2012 as a Post-Doctoral researcher at
the University of Antwerp, Belgium,
and she will be taking up a fellowship
(2012-2015) at the University of Potsdam,
Germany and the University of Chicago.
Aaron just finished his Masters in Violin
Performance at Indiana University and
will be an apprentice with the National
Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa this
year; he is also a substitute violinist for
the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Shereen Ladha ’06 was a member of the
dance troupe “Broken Dance”, which
made it to the finals on the TV show
Canada’s Got Talent this year.
Sima Atri ’08 and Salvator Cusimano ’08
were featured in a recent UofT Magazine
article entitled “In Pursuit of Justice” – a
reflection on their travels last summer to
Northern Uganda to conduct research
related to the involvement of children in
conflict and its consequences for peacebuilding
and transitional justice efforts.
Sima and Salvator were interested in the
question of justice for the massive human
rights violations that have occurred:
in particular the forced abduction of
children pressed in to service with the
rebels or the army. They interviewed
more than 700 individuals across
Northern Uganda and presented a report
of their analysis and recommendations to
three UN agencies. Sima says, “Traveling
abroad to work on an independent
project was an incredibly rewarding
experience,” says Sima, who hopes that
their findings “will also help actors on
the ground learn how to address a set of
complicated issues more effectively.”
Noam Bierstone ’08 is a founding
member of the percussion quartet
Architek, which performed at Gallery
345 in Toronto on June 6, 2012. The
Montréal-based group focuses on the
presentation of avant-garde art music,
and experimental and electroacoustic
works. Architek is also dedicated to the
creation of new works by Canadian
composers. The innovative quartet
recently was a featured ensemble in
the “Journées de la culture” in Montréal
and also worked with Vinko Globokar
at The Music Gallery in Toronto. The
four members met as students at McGill
University and have since received
favourable reviews from audiences and
musicians alike. Noam won Grand Prize
LEFT: Shereen Ladha ’06. RIGHT: Sima Atri ’08 and Salvator Cusimano ’08 and friends in
Northern Uganda.
at the 2009 Canadian Music Competition,
as well as Third Prize and the Domaine
Forget Prize at the 2009 OSM Standard
Life Competition. He made his soloist
debut with the Orchestre Métropolitain
in 2011 and, in December 2011, he
performed at the Thierry De Mey live@
CIRMMT concert in the presence of the
composer. Noam holds a Bachelor’s
degree in performance from McGill
University and will continue studies
this fall at the Conservatoire de Paris,
pursuing a Master’s degree.
A new book of
poetry, Begin
With the End in
Mind (Arbeiter
Ring Publishing,
2012), by Emma
Healey ’09, has
been described as:
“Residing on the
border between
poetry and prose.” Her poems explore
relationships and experiences as they
are distilled through encounters with
such diverse elements as “the CBC,
chain bookstores, the contents of a
kitchen, or the expanse of a whole
city.” Emma is a creative writing major
at Concordia University. Her fiction has
appeared in Joyland, Broken Pencil,
Cellstories, Can’tLit, and Gulch. She is
also the founder and editor-in-chief of
The Incongruous Quarterly, an online
literary magazine “devoted to publishing
unpublishable literature.”
Congratulations Class
of 2012
Our graduating students were offered
$1.7 million in university scholarships
this year! UTSAA Director, Professor
Donald Ainslie ’84, stopped by the
school in June to congratulate them
and to welcome them to the ranks of
UTS alumni. In addition to sharing
information about the UTSAA, his
reflections on what being a UTS alumnus
means to him resonated with the group.
The UTSAA looks forward to hosting the
graduates of 2012 at a banquet in their
honour in November.
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Left: Don Ainslie ’84. Centre Left: John Mighton. Centre right: John Allmang ’70. Right: Wen Chan ’95.
News from the Branching
Out Mentoring Program
The Branching Out Mentoring Program
has set a new record! 36 alumni ranging
from ’76 through ’07 have been paired
with students now in S6.
On May 7, we were privileged to
welcome John Mighton (father of
alumna Chloe Mighton ’10) to speak to
the group. John is an Ashoka Fellow, a
winner of the 2005 Governor General’s
Literary Award for Drama, and the
inventor of JUMP (Junior Undiscovered
Mathematical Prodigies) – a not-forprofit
program that enhances kids’ math
skills. Ashoka is a global organization
that identifies and invests in leading
social entrepreneurs. Elisha Muskat ’01
(mentor this year to Sarah Liu ’13 and
last year to Min Jo ’12), the executive
director of Ashoka Canada, was on-hand
to introduce John. He shared some
powerful messages – including how
he overcame his failures in creative
writing and mathematics to become
a successful playwright and to earn a
doctorate in mathematics. He stressed
that open-mindedness, innovation, and
experimentation are the keys to success.
Alumni are invited to an Alumni
Panel on Scientific Careers on Thursday,
November 29 at 6:30 p.m. Check your
email newsletters for further details. Be
sure to send updated email address info
to alumni@utschools.ca.
We need you! A new group of students
will be applying to Branching Out in
February, 2013. Alumni from the late ’80s
to the mid-2000s are urged to consider
volunteering for this worthwhile program.
Please contact the Office of Advancement
at 416-978-3919 or alumni@utschools.ca.
Branch Events
Vancouver
On March 29 2012, Martha Drake
(Executive Director, Advancement) and
Rafe Angell ’83 hosted a Vancouver
Branch Event at Milestones Yaletown.
A great time was had by the 18 alumni
ranging from the Class of ’45 to the Class
of ’08. Rafe has been appointed the “B.C.
Rep” and has started a Facebook group
for alumni living in B.C.
Upcoming Events
Hong Kong: UTSAA Director Phil Weiner
’01 is planning to host a Branch Event
Vancouver Branch event. L-R: Mary Ainslie ’83, Kevin Keystone ’03, David Ingram ’58, Des Horan ’45,
John Hunter ’67, Martha Drake, Suzanne McBeath ’93, Ian Worland ’86, Rafe Angell ’83, Charlie Snelling
’56, John Caldwell ’87, Baldwin Hum ’93, Doug Carter ’70, David Sutherland ’70, Rein Vasara ’58, Alex
Hart ’70, Paul Wright ’70.
on November 3, 2012. Alumni in the
Far East, contact alumni@utschools.
ca or 416-978-3919 to update your
information. Invitations will be emailed
and updates will be posted on Facebook
(www.fb.com/utschools) as well as
on the UTS website (www.utschools.ca/
alumni).
Montreal: Friday, November 10, 2012
Principal Rosemary Evans will host a
reception for Montreal-area alumni.
(Details to be sent out by email
invitation.) Contact alumni@utschools.
ca or 416-978-3919 to update your
information.
Alumni Visitors
In April, S6 (Grade 12) Writer’s
Craft students were treated to some
illuminating insights when journalist
John Allemang ’70 shared practical tips
and advice. He suggested students read
George Orwell’s essay, Politics and
English Language, and emphasized
the importance of “making yourself an
expert in something.” He mentioned the
potency of simple words and pointed
out that readers find real-life chronicles
fascinating. RIM engineer Wen Chan ’95
visited the S6 Computer Science class.
He shared his belief that engineers both
understand and master the world around
us, and that they are driven to make
things better. Wen holds that self-esteem,
intuition, creativity, and testing wild
ideas are the important characteristics of
engineers. He advised students to keep
their options open and not to overlook
the trades. Wen’s Branching Out mentee,
Allan Luk ’13, thanked Wen on behalf of
the class.
THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE
27

ALUMNI NEWS
In Memoriam
Remembering the Lives and
Achievements of our Alumni
James Davidson Lang ’47
1928 –2012
James (Jim)
Lang ’47 passed
away on May 19,
2012. What can
you say about
a man’s life in
250 words or
less? That nice
guys, like Jim,
don’t always finish last. That he lived for
more than 83 years despite his fondness
for alcohol, television, and golf. That his
loyalty, dependability, and strong moral
compass left a lot of people, including
a wife, two sons, five grandchildren
(including Lindsay Lang ’00), and
seven great grandchildren mourning
his passing.
Jim was a popular classmate, better
known for his athletic prowess than
for his academics. That may be why he
decided to leave UofT after his first year
to begin work as a salesman in the family
business, Lang Brothers’ Specialty. His
brother, Gord, also joined the business
after completing university. They worked
closely with their dad until his death in
1959. They developed two divisions:
Samson Dominion, which manufactured
electrical appliances; and Connecticut
Chemicals (now CCL Industries). By the
end of the 1960s, it is likely that every
home in Canada contained at least one
of their products.
In the early 1970s, Jim decided to
sell his stake in the company. He had
purchased a country property north
of the city a few years earlier and
agriculture had started to consume more
of his time and passion. Along with his
sons, David ’70 and John, he developed
a prominent purebred cattle operation
called JL Farms. By the late 1980s, they
Condolences are extended to the families of
these alumni who passed away recently.
Benson T. Rogers ’30
February 27, 2012
H. Murdo MacKinnon ’34
July 8, 2012
Charles Wilson ’36
March 24, 2012
Thomas Brown ’37
July 15, 2012
Lyman Henderson ’39
June 22, 2012
Walter R. Henson ’43
April 14, 2012
Richard M. Wilson ’45
March 31, 2012
James D. Lang ’46
May 19, 2012
M. Peter Whyte ’46
March 4, 2012
John Finlay ’47
October 17, 2010
William Francis ’48
June 3, 2012
William Henderson ’49
February 3, 2012
George Gibson ’50
September 11, 2011
David Shiels ’52
May 2, 2012
Robert McCleary ’53
February 10, 2012
Robert Wilkinson ’57
February 7, 2012
Duncan A. Baillie ’60
April 18, 2012
Paul R. Davidson ’66
June 15, 2012
Shaun Gollish ’77
May 22, 2012
Leslie Dunlop ’79
April 18, 2012
were considered among the top breeders
of Simmental cattle in North America.
How can you sum up a life in five
words? He was a good man.
– David Lang ’70, Jim’s son
William Francis ’48
1930–2012
71 years ago,
11 year-old
William (Bill)
Francis made
his way to UTS.
Bill was a good
student and
participated in
extra-curricular
functions ranging from president of
Literary Society to manager of the senior
basketball team, with many activities in
between. He graduated in 1948 with two
university scholarships and moved on to
Medicine at UofT where he joined Theta
Delta Chi Fraternity.
A new hospital, York Finch, opened in
1971 and Bill was Chief of Obstetrics &
Gynaecology on opening day. Over his
30 years, he delivered 8,000 babies (267
per year). There, Bill conceived of the
“Awesome Golf Tournament” which is
now a major fundraiser for the Humber
River Regional Hospital. He was known
as Dr. Awesome – a term that so typifies
Bill’s character. Through his active years
in practice, he was totally committed to
excellence and was highly regarded by
his peers. He continued contact with
the Hospital right up until mid-May of
this year.
Bill’s vivacious nature was a reflection
of the love and affection he had with
Leona (Bunny) during their 32 years of
marriage. Bill was always there for his
friends and performed many kind acts
in a very quiet way. If it were a medical
issue, he would lean on one of his
connections to get resolution. If it were a
non-medical issue, he would lend an ear
and help to connect with resources to
solve the problem. He epitomized what
friends are all about: being there to help
friends in need.
– John Bowden ’48
28 THE ROOT • FALL 2012

Leslie Jane Dunlop ’79
1962–2012
Leslie Dunlop
’79 passed
away on April
18, 2012 after
a courageous
battle with
cancer. Leslie
arrived at UTS
with the first
intake of girls in 1973. She earned a B.A.
in 1983 from Trinity College, UofT, and
an LL.B. in 1986 from the UofT Faculty
of Law. Leslie spent the early years of
her career at McMillan Binch and then
Faskens where she developed her
expertise in intellectual property. She
was corporate counsel at Quaker Oats
for eight years. In 2001, she became
vice president and corporate counsel at
Bioniche Life Sciences. Leslie thrived in
the complex, fast-paced environment
of a small biotech firm, tackling each
challenge with the combination of wit,
intelligence, and integrity that earned
her the respect and love of friends and
colleagues.
Leslie’s life-long love of the arts,
particularly music, was nurtured at UTS.
Jean Iu ’79 recalls: “Leslie was a quiet
soul with deep feelings… In music,
she found her voice and her passion.
Fortunately for Leslie, [music teacher]
John Fautley arrived at UTS in ’74;
he brought life and excitement to the
UTS music program and Leslie was a
beneficiary. As an accomplished clarinet
player, Leslie played in the concert band.
Music remained a passion throughout
Leslie’s life – a passion she shared with
her daughter, Zoe.
Leslie generously gave her time and
talent as a member of the boards of
Loyalist College, Albert College, and
UTS. She served on the first UTS Board
of Directors, established in 2004,
and devoted herself passionately to
strengthening the school.
Leslie is sadly missed by daughter Zoe,
mother Frances, husband Harvie Brydon,
sister Alex, and many relatives and friends.
– Jenifer Aitken ’79 and Jean Iu ’79
TOP: A small but enthusiastic group of alumni from the Class of ’92 met at the school on Saturday,
August 11 to reminisce and meet each other’s family members. Out-of-towners from Vancouver,
Waterloo, Virginia, and Maryland attended. Former staff members Scott Baker, Frank Mustoe, and
Mary (Vecchio) McCrae dropped by to extend their anniversary congratulations.
bottom: In recognition of the 337 Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps’ historic ties to UTS, its
Annual Ceremonial Parade returned to Varsity Arena on June 9, 2012 for the first time in more than
40 years. Alumni, former Cadets, veterans, students, and staff were invited to attend. The Corps’
Captain, Warren Ralph ’71,was in attendance, and Principal Rosemary Evans was on hand when a
special presentation was made to UTS. A special tribute was also paid to alumni veterans.
Make a difference today
for tomorrow’s students...
If you would like to designate
a specific bequest to UTS
or receive information on
planned giving, please contact:
Martha Drake, Executive
Director, Advancement
at 416-946-0097, or
mdrake@utschools.ca.
...and leave your mark
on UTS’ future!
THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE
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TOP LEFT: The Brothers Lowden (Steve ’56, Jim ’54, Sandy ’51) at the Golf Tournament; TOP RIGHT: Michael Gillies ’67, champion golfer. BOTTOM: together on
the ice, the UTSAA hockey game participants.
17 th Annual UTSAA
Alumni Golf Tournament
Our 17th annual golf tournament
took place on a sunny June 19,, 2012
at St. Andrews Valley in Aurora. The
proceedings – which included an
update on the school site situation
from Martha Drake (Executive Director,
Advancement) and UTS Board member
David Allan ’78 – were enjoyed by all.
Michael Gillies ’67 clinched the “Hargraft
Trophy for Champion Golfer” for the
first time. The “Low Net Trophy” went
to Peter Frost ’63. Dave Lang ’70 and
Peter Frost ’63 shared the “President’s
Trophy”, and Bob Tweedy ’60 won
the “Don Borthwick Legends Trophy”
nipping our legendary Don by one shot.
The “Dave Jolley Memorial Trophy” for
best ball by class was won for the second
time by the class of ’70’s Bob Jacob,
Paul Wilson, and Bob Tweedy. Doug
Rankin ’78 won the long drive contest,
and Dave Decker ’70 nabbed the shortest
drive challenge. Finally, the “Don Kerr
[’39] Trophy” for most honest golfer
was awarded again to Henry Noble ’55.
Our thanks to our sponsors, House of
Kangaroo, for their continued support,
and to Carole Zamroutian, Alumni Affairs
Officer, who, along with Martha Drake,
joined in the post-round festivities.
Here’s hoping to see you next June at
our 18th tournament!
– Peter Frost ’63 and Nick Smith ’63
UTSAA Hockey Game
2012
An alumni hockey game, organized
by Peter Frost ’63, John Hass ’83,
UTS Athletic Director Jeff Kennedy,
and Alumni Affairs Officer Carole
Zamroutian, was held on March 30, 2012
at Varsity Arena. Players – including
13 players from the class of 1978 –
spanned more than 50 years! The Martins
made it a family affair with Jon ’82,
Mike ’84, and Mike’s sons Adam ’11 and
star goalie Cameron ’15, while alumna
(mom & spouse) Suzanne ’84 cheered
from the stands. UTS Board Members
(Andre Hidi ’77 and David Allan ’78) and
UTSAA Board Members (Peter Frost ’63
and George Crawford ’72 – who cheered
along his son, Stephen ’07) also attended
the game. Principal Rosemary Evans
dropped the puck and the “Old Boys”
(the Class of ’82 and older, coached by
Al Fleming ’54 and Norm Fox ’48) battled
the “Young Guys” (Class of ’83 and
younger, coached by Jeff Kennedy). UTS
Health and Physical Education teacher
Mitch Chuvalo manned the penalty box.
The game was close but the Old Boys
prevailed winning 9–5. A post-game
celebration at The Duke of York was
enjoyed by players and spectators alike.
See you on the ice in 2013!
– By John Hass ’83
30 THE ROOT • FALL 2012

Annual Donor Report
Thank you. Your
generous support is
much appreciated!
As a community, you have been very generous! Your donations have made
an impact in many areas, including financial aid, classroom and athletic
equipment, capital improvements, and student projects. Your support helps
to ensure that UTS is able to offer the outstanding education and financial
accessibility that have been such important parts of the UTS experience
for many years. Thank you to all the individual donors and also to all the
groups who gave as a class to UTS.
– Rosemary Evans, Principal
This report recognizes gifts to the UTSAA Annual Fund and other UTS
projects for the period July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012.
Donors who have given for five consecutive years
♥ Monthly Donors
1930–1937
Total: $2,190
Benson T. Rogers ’30
A. Gillean MacKinnon ’32
Richard J. Boxer ’36
Geoffrey M.C. Dale ’36
Ralph L. Hennessy ’36
Ian A. MacKenzie ’36
Thomas C. Brown ’37
John G. W. McIntyre ’37
1938
Total: $1,350
John H. C. Clarry, Q.C.
W. T. Erskine Duncan
Donald Fraser
John C. Laidlaw
John A. Rhind
William A. Sheppard, Q.C.
1939-1940
Total: $550
Robert G. Dale ’39
Peter A. Hertzberg ’39
Ernest C. Goggio ’40
James O. Sebert ’40
1941
Total: $835
David Y. Anderson
Walter E. Bell, Q.C.
Grant N. Boyd
Kenneth C. Brown
Richard W. Jeanes
W.H. Frere Kennedy ♥
G. Jarvis Lyons
J. B. Seaborn, C.M.
Principal’s Circle
Our thanks to the members of the UTS community who contributed $1,000 or more.
David C. Allan ’78
Paul L. Barnicke ’71
Dan Berbecel ’08
Anthony Berger ’92
Monica E. Biringer ’78
William R. C. Blundell, O.C.
’45
J. Christopher Boland ’73
J. Nicholas Boland ’79
Michael F. Boland ’71
Bothwell-Accurate Co.
(2006) Limited
John A. Bowden ’48
Michael Broadhurst ’88
Bruce E. Brown ’46
Peter & Joanne Brown
Foundation
Christopher Burton ’90
Peter L. Buzzi ’77
Gary F. Canlett ’54
Felicia Y. Chiu ’96
JC Clark Ltd.
James S. Coatsworth ’69
Barry Cooper
William J. Corcoran ’51
Andrew & Kathleen Dalglish
Kevin E. Davis ’87
Robert C. Dowsett ’46
Martha Drake
George W. Edmonds, Q.C.
’44
Denis R. Evans ’46
John R. Evans ’46
Rosemary Evans
Richard A. Fairbanks ’74
Ruth D. Fairbanks
James I. Fairbanks ’77
Peter Ferguson ’60
George A. Fierheller ’51
James ’49 & Margaret Fleck
John J. Fox ’43
Thomas A. Friedland ’81
John B. Geale ’61
Gary & Sandra German
Peter C. Godsoe ’56
K. Vanessa Grant ’80
B&B Hamilton Fund at
the Toronto Community
Foundation
Dale E. Gray & James G.
Hamilton
Andre L. Hidi ’77
David J. Holdsworth ’61
Richard S. Ingram ’61
Alvin C. Iu ’73
Henry N. R. Jackman, O.C.
’50
Patrick Kaifosh ’06
Knightsgrange Foundation
John I. Laskin ’61
Evelyn Kai-Li & Francis Li
Robert E. Lord ’58
John H. Lynch ’59
W. Bruce MacLean
Paul N. Manley ’61
Dena McCallum ’82
Bernard McGarva ’72
James A. McIntyre ’71
John G. W. McIntyre ’37
Daniel & Ingrid Mida
Drs. Min & Chong Optometry
Professional Corporation
N. Andrew Munn ’80
Tazmin Merali & Nasir
Noormohamed
Susan E. Opler ’79 & Paul F.
Monahan
Bernadine Morris & Juri
Otsason
Pomerantz Family
Elena & Marc Pope
Kenneth Radcliffe ’44
Cedric E. Ritchie, O.C.
David Rounthwaite ’65
William J. Saunderson ’52
Donald Schmitt ’70
D. Malcolm Seath ’58
James E. Shaw ’61
John N. Shaw ’50
Patricia Adams & Lawrence
Solomon
Paul & Theodora Soong
William W. Stinson ’51
George H. Stowe ’48
Andras Z. Szandtner ‘62
Estate of J. Stephen
Tatrallyay ’75
John W. Thomson ’48
Tanya Lee & John Torrey
Gregory Turnbull ’73
Vandewater Charitable
Foundation at the Toronto
Community Foundation
Estate of Olwen Owen Walker
David M. Ward ’61
John B. A. Wilkinson ’78
Douglas R. Wilson ’53
Robert J. Wright, Q.C. ’51
WWF-Canada
Patricia Foran & Mark
Yarranton
Graham J. Yost ’76
Robert B. Zimmerman ’73
Anonymous (4)
THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE
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Annual donor report
1942
Total: $650
William E. Gilday
John E.A. McCamus
Kenneth D. McRae
A. Cal Wilson
Anonymous
1943
Total: $3,040
F. Geoffrey Adams
John J. Fox
James A. Low
W.O. Chris Miller, Q.C.
William R. Paul
Joseph D. Sheard
Anonymous
1944
Total: $6.932
David L. Bate
C. Derek S. Bate
Gordon S. Cameron
Douglas R. Coutts
George W. Edmonds, Q.C.
G. Dean Gooderham
Dr. F. Griffith Pearson
Morton B. Pullan
Kenneth Radcliffe
George N. Soulis
George A. Trusler
Anonymous
1945
Total: $53,250
William R. C. Blundell, O.C.
Donald G. Bunt
Keith M. Gibson
David S. Graham
J. Desmond Horan
Anonymous
1946
Total: $19,420
Bruce C. Bone
Bruce E. Brown
George H. Cuthbertson
Robert C. Dowsett
Denis R. Evans
John R. Evans
William A. Firstbrook
H. Donald Guthrie, Q.C.
James D. Lang
Donald B. Montgomery
James M. Tory, Q.C.
David G. Watson
Peter Webb, Q.C.
Anonymous
1947
Total: $2,183
William I. Copeland
Michael A. Fair
T. Douglas Kent
Tracy H. Lloyd
Thomas H. B. Symons
Hugh E. Zimmerman
Anonymous (2)
1948
Total: $9,550
Hugh Anson-Cartwright
Philip L. Arrowsmith
John A. Bowden
Keith G. Dalglish
Albert P. Fell
Norman D. Fox
William B. Hanley
Michael K. Ireland
J. Fergus Kyle
Frederick F. Langford
John G. C. Pinkerton
George H. Stowe
John W. Thomson
Ian S. Wishart
1949
Total: $4,285
William H. Angus
Gordon M. Barratt
Richard M. Clee
James & Margaret Fleck
Robert E. Logan
Chris Loukras
Ian A. Stewart
Richard D. Tafel
1950
Total: $3,075
Gilbert E. Alexander, Jr.
Roger G. Crawford
George A. De Veber
Henry N. R. Jackman, O.C.
David H. Lewis
William J. McClelland
William J. McIlroy
John N. Shaw
J. Frederick F. Weatherill
Anonymous
1951
Total: $5,820
John Catto
William J. Corcoran
John E. Crawford
Peter Fairclough
George A. Fierheller
D. Ross Holden
J. Alexander Lowden
C. Michael McKeown, Q.C.
David Spendlove
William W. Stinson
Allan Townshend
Guy W. Upjohn
James A. Wilkinson
William E. Wilson
Robert J. Wright, Q.C.
Anonymous
1952
Total: $4,720
Gerald A. Crawford
James D. Floyd
E.A. Austin Fricker
Gordon G. Goodfellow
Peter J. Harris
Richard S. Howe
Leslie G. Lawrence
R. Conrad Lister
Jack F. McOuat
Darrell B. Phillips
William J. Saunderson
1953
Total: $3,380
Edward B. Cross
Kenneth Culver
Martin D. Gammack
John W. Holland
Robert Labbett
William P. Lett
James C. Mainprize
Robert D. McCleary
Alan E. Morson
Gordon W. Perkin, O.C.
Thomas Riley
William E. Rogan
Robert Saunders
David O. Wainwright
Hugh D. Wainwright
Douglas R. Wilson
1954
Total: $5,025
David K. Bernhardt
Ronald M. Bertram
H. Donald Borthwick
Douglas G. Brewer
Gary F. Canlett
James A. Cripps
G. Alan Fleming
Robert Gibson
John M. Goodings
E. John Hambley
Robert L. Joynt
James R. Lowden
D. Keith Millar
John D. Murray
Desmond M. O’Rorke
J. Richard Parsons
William R. Redrupp
Gordon R. Sellery
John H. Wait
1955
Total: $2,160
Harold L. Atwood
David R. Brillinger
John R. Gardner
W. Gary Goldthorpe
Albert Greer
William T. Hunter
Martin Jerry
Howard D. Kitchen
Robert K. Metcalf
Anthony Morrison
Ian M. Smith
1956
Total: $4,528
Paul B. Cavers
Darcy T. Dingle
Jon L. Duerdoth
David M. Flint
Joseph F. Gill
Peter C. Godsoe, O.C.
Ryan R. Kidd
Stephens B. Lowden
James C. McCartney, Q.C.
Arthur R. Scace
Peter D. Scott
Peter F. Stanley
Douglas I. Towers
C. Murray Woodside
1957
Total: $3,027
Murray A. Corlett
Robert M. Culbert
Robert G. Darling ♥
Robert A. Gardner
James D. Graham
James R. Grand
Bruce M. Henderson
Terence Johnson
David W. Kerr
Stephen A. Otto
Alan B. Perkin
John G. Sayers
Donald Van Every
J. Douglas Ward
Class of 1957 Gift
1958
Total: $8,170
George M. Carrick
Douglas A. Davis
Arthur D. Elliott
Richard Farr
Peter J. George
Patrick T. Gray
Bruce E. Houser
William G. Leggett
Robert E. Lord
James R. Mills
Kit Moore
David P. Ouchterlony ♥
Douglas G. Peter
J. Garnet & Susan Pink
D. Malcolm Seath
James M. Spence, Q.C.
Joseph A. Starr
J. Derek Taylor
Rein C. Vasara
Richard Walker
William R. Weldon
Barry N. Wilson
1959
Total: $4,527
Donald G. Bell
E. Bradley Brown
Alexander A. Furness
John K. Jacobi
W. L. Mackenzie King
Terence S. W. Lee
John H. Lynch
Roger A. Pretty
Ian A. Shaw
John A. Sloane
James P. Stronach
Ian C. Sturdee
Tibor A. Szandtner
Donald K. Wilson
Robert J. Young
1960
Total: $3,325
Peter Ferguson
James & Mary Fisher
John R.D. Fowell
Robert P. Jacob
Robert N. McRae
J. Paul Mills
Peter C. Nicoll
R. Malcolm Nourse
Douglas Rutherford
Robert J. Tweedy
1961
Total: $33,304
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Annual Donor report
John B. Geale
David J. Holdsworth
Richard S. Ingram
John I. Laskin
Peter B. MacKinnon
Paul N. Manley ♥
Donald Philpott
Alexander D. Potts
James E. Shaw
James Sissons
Michael Tinkler
David M. Ward
John R. Wright
1962
Total: $4,406
Gordon R. Elliot
David A. Galloway
Kirby M. Keyser
Robert H. Kidd
Donald A. Laing
Peter W. C. Markle
Donald A. McMaster
David S. Milne
W. Douglas Newman
Michael A. Peterman
Andras Z. Szandtner
Bryce R. Taylor
Wayne D. Thornbrough
Allan G. Toguri
Dean Tudor
Robert S. Weiss
Anonymous
1963
Total: $2,490
W. Paul Bates
James E. G. Fowell
Peter H. Frost
Frank E. Hall
Nelson G. Hogg
John R. Kelk
Robert D. Lightbody
William N. F. Ortved
J. Robert Pampe
Lane K. Prentice
J. Fraser Wilson
Anonymous ♥
1964
Total: $1,601
James S. Cornell
Collin M. Craig
William R. Jones
Michael F. Kimber
David W. O. Rogers
Jeffrey R. Rose
Michael J. Ross
Peter W. Y. Snell ♥
George E. Swift
J. Joseph Vaughan
1965-1966
Total: $2,200
Robert A. Cumming ’65
James K. A. Hayes ’65
Peter G. Kelk ’65
Peter MacEwen ’65
Anthony J. Reid ’65
David Rounthwaite ’65
Jeffrey R. Stutz ’65
William A. MacKay ’66
John S. Rogers ’66
1967
Total: $3,211
D. Peter Best
George B. Boddington
Richard J. Boxer
Michael R. Curtis
Peter C. Donat
Joseph Fodor
John J. L. Hunter, Q.C.
Stephen H. Kauffman
Gordon E. Legge
Bruce R. Miller
W. Scott Morgan
Hugh W. Teasdale
1968-1969
Total: $3,624
John R. Collins ’68
John B. Lanaway ’68
Murray E. Treloar ’68
John Bohnen ‘69
William J. Bowden ’69
James S. Coatsworth ’69
John B. Deacon ’69
Stephen C. Farris ’69
Frederick R. E. Heath ’69
Robert J. Herman ’69
David White ’69
John D. Wright ’69
Anonymous ♥
1970
Total: $2,977
R. Ian Casson
David A. Decker
Douglas N. Donald
Brian D. Koffman
J. David Lang
Peter H. Norman
D. Kenneth Roberts
Donald Schmitt
David G. Stinson
Paul Wright
Anonymous
1971
Total: $9,699
Paul L. Barnicke
Derek A. Bate
Michael F. Boland
Paul Brace
Peter G. de Buda
John S. Floras
Richard C. Hill ♥
Robert D. Hodgins
Thomas M. Hurka
J. Peter Jarrett
James A. McIntyre
William O. Menzel
Peter G. Neilson ♥
Warren G. Ralph
Adrian Shubert
R.D. Roy Stewart
Anthony Storey ♥
Class of 1971 Gift
1972
Total: $2,525
George V. Crawford
Robert L. Fowler
David S. Grant
Bernard McGarva
Howard J. Scrimgeour
Christopher D. Woodbury
Robert Wright
1973
Total: $5,804
J. Christopher Boland
Jeffrey Clayton
David W. Fallis
James C. Haldenby
Alvin C. Iu ♥
John G. Kivlichan
Miles Obradovich
Dr. Jaak Reichmann
John Sweet
Gregory Turnbull
Walter L. Vogl
William W. Wilkins ♥
Robert B. Zimmerman
1974
Total: $2,646
Andrey V. Cybulsky
Terence R. Davison
Richard A. Fairbanks
James H. Grout
Gregory H. Knittl
Timothy Turnbull
Anonymous
1975
Total: $11,400
Paul M. Anglin
Graeme C. Bate
Martin A. Chepesiuk
Jonathan F. Lapp
Kenneth J. McBey
David M. Sherman
Estate of J. Stephen Tatrallyay
1976
Total: $3,514
Peter M. Celliers
Alistair K. Clute
Myron I. Cybulsky
Marko D. Duic
Vincent J. Santamaura
Jeffrey W. Singer
Gary S. A. Solway
Daniel P. Wright
Graham J. Yost
1977
Total: $8,525
P. Timothy Birnie
Peter L. Buzzi
Robert B. Crewe
James I. Fairbanks
Andre L. Hidi
David M. Le Gresley
Stephen O. Marshall
David R. McCarthy
Anonymous
1978
Total: $13,274
David C. Allan
Deborah Berlyne
Monica E. Biringer
Irene J. Cybulsky
Sherry A. Glied
Penelope A. Harbin
Kenneth Kirsh
Susan L. Lawson
Dana Lewis-Orenstein
Christina H. Medland
Ann Pennington
Douglas Rankin
Donald A. Redelmeier
Peeter H. Reichman
John S. Robson
John A. Rose
Timothy Sellers
Ann Louise M. Vehovec
John S. Visosky
John B. A. Wilkinson
1979
Total: $3,360
J. Nicholas Boland
John Burns
Julie Gircys
Andrew H.K. Hainsworth
Jean C. Iu ♥
Susan E. Opler
1980
Total: $4,323
Andrew P. Alberti
Peter S. Bowen
Sarah C. Bradshaw
Kevin G. Crowston
Christine E. Dowson
David C. Evans
K. Vanessa Grant
Sheldon I. Green
Bernard E. Gropper
Daniel R. Houpt
Eric Kert
Abba Lustgarten
Nomi Morris
N. Andrew Munn
James B. Sommerville
Christine D. Wilson
1981
Total: $3,030
Sigita J. Bersenas-Balzekas
Suzanne E. Campbell
Jeremy Celliers
Edward E. Etchells
Lorna Finlay
Christopher J. Francis
Thomas A. Friedland
Bruce M. Grant
Thomas Hicks
Alison J. Murray
Sudhashree Rajagopal
Hellen Spanjer
Molly K. Whalen
1982
Total: $2,560
Benjamin T. B. Chan
Peter K. Czegledy
Brian Denega
Lisa C. Jeffrey ♥
Jon & Robin Martin
Dena McCallum
Anonymous (2)
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Annual donor report
1983
Total: $1,500
Karen M. Mandel
Laura Murray
Earl Stuart
Elizabeth Turner
Daniel Yoon
1984
Total: $3,316
Donald C. Ainslie ♥
Nicholas G. Evans
Edward A. Griffith ♥
David Kreindler
Michael R. Martin
Suzanne N. Martin
Cameron A. Matthew
Kosta Michalopoulos
Chandragupta Sooran
David J. Walker
Anonymous (2)
1985
Total: $1,532
Isis E. H. Caulder
Carrie Ku
Kerstin Lack
Grant Lum
Carson T. Schutze
Adrian M. Yip
1986
Total: $888
Tracy A. Betel
David C. Bourne
Mark D. Phillips
Julie Williams
1987
Total: $2,536
John R. Caldwell
Julia Cochrane ♥
Kevin E. Davis
Sascha M. Hastings
J. Timothy Morgan
Jill R. Presser
Cari M. Whyne
Thomas Wilk
1988
Total: $2,420
Jennifer Andersen Koppe ♥
Michael Broadhurst
James Cheng
Sujit Choudhry
Carmen Diges
Eugene H. Ho
Anonymous
1989
Total: $1,352
Michelle Alexander
Margaret S. Graham
Naomi Hume
Michael Lower
Eric Petersiel
David M. Shaw
Gregory R. Shron
Anonymous
1990
Total: $ 3,750
Tanya Y. Bartucz
Winsome S. Brown
Christopher Burton
Matthew G. Campbell
Jason Fung
Jessica R. Goldberg
Sara H. Gray
Lennox Huang
Henry White
1991
Total: $2,088
Karen B. Chan
Sandra A. Chong ♥
Aaron M. Dantowitz
Jordan J. Feld
Audrey M. Fried-Grushcow
Jeffrey Gans
Jason D. Jones
Class of 1991 Gift
1992
Total: $1,750
Karim Abdulla
Anthony Berger
Lia Copeland
Oliver M. Jerschow
Anna Lim
Christopher A. Watson
1993
Total: $2,540
Kai Ming Adam Chan
Danielle I. Goldfarb
Geoffrey R. Hung ♥
Alexander B. Hutchinson
Jeffrey D. Jaskolka
Jocelyn Kinnear
T. Justin Lou
Richard D. Roze
Jason E. Shron ♥
Damian Tarnopolsky
Scott A. Thompson
Emily Wong
Veronica C. Yeung
1994
Total: $1,574
Aaron L. Chan
Adam Chapnick
Brian Horgan
Michael S. Jaskolka
Harrison F. Keenan
Rachel Spitzer
Daniel E. Wang
1995
Total: $1,075
Nicole Agnew
Rashaad Bhyat
Robert Duncan
Robin Rix
Ilya Shapiro
Jeremy Weinrib
1996
Total: $3,288
James A. Browne
Felicia Y. Chiu
Amanda A. Martyn
Frank Min
Ilan D. Muskat
Emily Rix
Amanda Ross-White ♥
Anonymous
Class of 1996 Gift
1997
Total: $3,001
Jessica Gunderson
Jeffrey Hall-Martin
Michael D. Morgan ♥
Veena Mosur
Michael Shenkman
Anonymous
1998
Total: $1,251
Laura Bogomolny
Clarence Cheng
Judy S. Kwok
Rebekah Wahba
Anonymous
1999
Total: $945
Jonathan Bitidis
Meira Louis ♥
Jeffrey So
Albert K. Tang
2001-2002
Total: $1,255
Ian K. Bradley ‘01
Philip P. Weiner ‘01
Jocelyn Cheng ‘02
Lea Epstein ‘02
Liang Hong ‘02 ♥
Anonymous (2)
2003
Total: $310
Allison Chow
Kevin Keystone ♥
Johann Ly
Justin Ma
2004-2009
Total: $2,685
Jonathan C. G. Bright ’04 ♥
Nina Coutinho ’04 ♥
Jessica D. Dorrance ’04
Mackenzie Tan ’05
Patrick Kaifosh ’06
Katherine Magyarody ’06
Eric Nicholson ’06
Jong Park ’07
Dan Berbecel ’08
Robert Bai ’09
Ana Komparic ’09
Current &
Former Staff
Garth Chalmers ♥
Jean Collins
Dorothy Davis
Rose Dotten ♥
Martha Drake ♥
Lynda Duckworth
Fred Enzel ♥
Rosemary Evans ♥
H. Donald Gutteridge &
M. Anne Miller
Judith Kay
Ping Kong Lai
Rebecca Levere
W. Bruce MacLean
Anand Mahadevan ♥
Alec McCuaig
Lily McGregor ♥
Paul Moore
Rick & Sarah Parsons ♥
Marie-Claire Recurt
Amy Schindler ♥
Ann Unger
Carole (Geddes)
Zamroutian ♥
Anonymous (2)
Parents
Jennie Yi & John Bai
Teddy Chien
Andrew & Kathleen Dalglish
Alison David & Bill Gore
Andrew & Christine Guy
Michelle & John Hull
Hae-Young Kee & Yong-Baek
Kim
Daniel & Ingrid Mida
Kathy Siminovitch & Michael
Miloff
Susan E. Opler ’79 & Paul F.
Monahan
Monica Caverson-Moranis &
Stephen Moranis
Cao-Minh & Hanh Nguyen
Tazmin Merali & Nasir
Noormohamed
Patricia Adams & Lawrence
Solomon
Marshall Swadron
Tanya Lee & John Torrey
Patricia Foran & Mark
Yarranton
Parents of
Alumni
Peter & Elizabeth Alberti
Kailash & Maria Bahadur
Robyn & Kevin Beattie
David & Eileen Berger
Mary Killoran & Douglas
Bradley
Consuelo Castillo
Paul & Loretta Chan
Alan & Jocelyn Chun
Thane & Sylvia Crossley
Nancy E. Epstein
Aaron & Patricia Fenton
Stephen & Anne Georgas
Elena Gourlay
Dale E. Gray & James G.
Hamilton
Susan Ormiston & Keith
Harradence
Kan Lee & Samuel Ip
Shirley Chan & William Jeong
Fred & Wendy Kaifosh
Maria Kokai Czapar & Tibor
Kokai
Mario & Branka Komparic
Catharine & Nestor Kostyniuk
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Annual Donor report
Jane Humphreys & Ron
Lalonde
Alan & Marti Latta
James & Isabella Leung
Fung & Binh Ly
Dannie Lai & Man Yick Ma
Christa Jeney & Thomas
Magyarody
Lou E. Mason
Mary Anne Huggins & David
McKeown
Barbara A. Morgan
Sara Shettleworth & Nicholas
Mrosovsky
Paul & Floree Muller
Gary & Marney Opolsky
Anthony & Elizabeth Parr
Tomas & Alicia Quejada
Donald & Nita Reed
Cedric E. Ritchie, O.C.
Richard & Jane Roberts
Bruce & Maura Rowat
Janet Stanton & Philip Sohm
Paul & Theodora Soong
John & Linda Unger
Zulfikarali & Almas Verjee
Clinton Wang
Alexandru & Michaela Weiner
Victor & Helen Wong
Gloria Chung-Yu & Joseph Yu
Anonymous (4)
Friends of UTS
Erica Armstrong
Mike & Jane Barber
The Barber Family
Bothwell-Accurate Co. (2006)
Limited
John & Julie Botsford
Rob Brown
Peter & Joanne Brown
Foundation
Duncan & Cecile Bull
Linda Campbell
Stewart & Joan Marilyn Carter
Karen Holmberg-Cash
Ellen P. Chapnick
Howard Cohen
Gerald Connor
Richard Conway
David B. Cook
Barry Cooper
Robert & Grace Corcoran
Allan Crawford
Michael Cruickshank
Robert J. Deluce
George Deratnay
John Digby
Elizabeth Dixon
Ruth D. Fairbanks
John & Freda Finley
Bob Fisher
Russell Fleischer
Joan Forrester
Gary & Sandra German
David & Diane Gilday
Ruston & Lindy Goepel
Donald & Jodie Gray
Sheila Green
Yung Hahn
Glenn & Susan Hainey
B&B Hamilton Fund at
the Toronto Community
Foundation
Ann Wray Hampson
The Hancocks
Ken & Jane Harlock
Douglas Heighington
Gary & Ann Hill
George & Lydia Holancin
Wanda J. Hunter
Geoffrey Hunter
JC Clark Ltd.
Barbara Jones
Charlene Kalandyk
Kevin Karst
Eleanor Kerr
Jean Kitchen
Knightsgrange Foundation
John & Constance Langley
Mike & Donna Lauber
Jean Laundy
Bob & Anne Lindsey
Carlos Lopes
Raymond Ludwin
Team TopLynn
Judy Macdonald
Jacqueline Manji
Manulife Financial
Reg Marrison
Kate Marshall
John & Rosemary McIntosh
Willson McTavish
Joan M. Meek
Gerry Merritt
Mineola Men’s Hockey
Peter & Frances Money
Laetitia Murray
Mary Neumann
Ontario Power Generation
The Osborne Group
John & Gail Patterson
Jeff Phillips
Gary Blair & Earl Pinchuk
Laura Pink
Robin Porter
Hubert Bonnet & Brent Reid
Briony Reid
Vincent Ricchio
Elsa M. Roberts
Rogers Family
Rosedale Golf Club
Mr. Bob Royle
C. Peter Shirriff
Jane Simpson
Allison Sinclair
Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
Kathy & Robin Smith
Gordon & Laurie Squires
Harriet Fear & David Taylor
TELUS Communications Co.
The UTS Arbor Society for Planned Giving
Doug & Gail Todgham
Elizabeth Tory
Peter & Anne Trousdale
William Turville
Vandewater Charitable
Foundation at the Toronto
Community Foundation
Estate of Olwen Owen Walker
Sinead Walsh
Charles & Ann Watson
Colin & Barbara Watson
Tom & Mary Watterson
John & Maureen Webster
Brian & Joyce Westlake
Raymond & Muriel Whaley
Scott White
Sheila White
Maclin Williams
WWF-Canada
Anonymous (8)
Graduating Class
Bursary Project
Class of 2012
Paul Brace ‘71
The Chan Family
Kelly Ding
Robert & Madelyn Elia
Wendy V. Hatch & Edward E.
Etchells ‘81
Drs. Min & Chong Optometry
Professional Corporation
Lilian Leung & Terence Chow
Beverley Conner & Sydney
Goldwater
James & Katherine Gracie
Abby Cheng & Hao Guan
Don & Jeongmin Kim
Lucky & Shyamali Lankage
James & Sandra Lee
Evelyn Kai-Li & Francis Li
Bernadine Morris & Juri
Otsason
UTS would like to thank the following individuals who have declared their intention to include UTS in their charitable giving
plans. We also thank all those who wish to remain anonymous.
Donald K. Avery ’49
Scott Baker, Former Teacher
Gordon M. Barratt ‘49
C. Derek Bate ’44
Benjamin T. B. Chan ’82
James S. Coatsworth ’69
H. Stewart Dand ’43
Gillian (Davidson) Davies ’87
G. Alan Fleming ’54, Former
Principal
Stephen Gauer ’70
H. Donald Gutteridge,
Former Principal, and
M. Anne Millar
Ralph L. Hennessy ’36
Arthur C. Hewitt ’49
Robert W. Hoke ’66
David J. Holdsworth ’61
Robert E. Lord ’58
James I. MacDougall ’54
W. Bruce MacLean, Former
Teacher
David Morgan ’63
J. Timothy Morgan ’87
John D. Murray ’54
Stephen A. Otto ’57
D. Kenneth Roberts ’70
Michaele M. Robertson,
Former Principal
John N. Shaw ’50
Murray E. Treloar ’68
If you have made a provision for UTS in your will, or would like to receive information on planned giving, please contact
Martha Drake, Executive Director, Advancement at 416‐946‐0097 or mdrake@utschools.ca.
Gosia & Stan Pacyna
Hongmei Li & Anbing Peng
The Pomerantz Family
Elena & Marc Pope
Miriam Shuchman & Donald A.
Redelmeier ‘78
Ewa & John Romanski
Paul & Anthea Stern
The Tang Family in honour of
William
Anonymous (6)
Class of 2011
Camila Vaz & Jitendra Athayde
Cindia Chau-Boon & Kevin
Boon
Wai Louie & John Chu
Noor Dewji
Jack & Angela Fong
Jimmy & Aimee He & Family
Kan Lee & Samuel Ip
The Leith Family
James & Isabella Leung
Chau Ha & Man Ching Li
Suzanne Martin ‘84 & Michael
Martin ‘84
Nora Underwood & Tim Powis
Paul & Janet Raboud
Yun Oen & Yang Wang
Tribute Gifts
Thank you to everyone who
gave in honour or in memory
of dear friends and family.
In Honour of:
Bella Hahn ’16
Gerald Hill ’45
Mike Shenkman ’97 & Fleming
Terrell
In Memory of:
Richard Boxer ’36
Karen Cossar ’82
Michael Elmarson ’87
William Francis ’48
Timothy A. Hunter ’59
John H. Macaulay ’45
John Malowney ’58
James W. McCutcheon ’54
Jody D. Ortved ’69
A. Gordon Stollery ’66
Lise Waxer ’83
H. Douglas Wilkins ’48
We make every effort to ensure
the accuracy of information.
If you find an error or wish to
have your name recognized
differently, contact the Office of
Advancement at 416-978-3919
or alumni@utschools.ca.
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Looking Back
Before there were computers and digital databases, there were
index cards – and UTS had one for each student. From our
archives, here are two such cards, for the brothers Hesselberg:
Melvyn Edouard and George Lamar. Beginning in 1913,
both boys attended UTS for a few years before moving to
the US with their father, Eduoard Gregory (a classical concert
pianist, composer, and teacher), and mother, Lena Priscilla.
Eduoard was appointed piano teacher and examiner at the
Toronto Conservatory of Music (which was later renamed
the Royal Conservatory of Music) in 1912; the family stayed
in Toronto until 1918. The boys went on to become the
movie actors Melvyn Douglas and George Douglas (taking
the name of their maternal grandmother). Melvyn had an
esteemed career as a dashing leading man (see “That’s
Entertainment!” on page 18), while George played smaller
roles – including the Sheriff in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
They appeared together in My Own True Love (1949) – Melvyn
in a starring role and George in a bit part. Melvyn served in
the US army during WW2; “horrified” by anti-Semitism during
a trip to Europe in 1931, he and his wife, Helen Gahagan
Douglas, became outspoken anti-Fascists. Helen went on to
become the third woman (and first Democratic woman) to be
elected to Congress from California.
Further reading:
A Full Life by Helen Gahagan Douglas (Doubleday, 1982).
See You at the Movies: The Autobiography of Melvyn Douglas
by Melvyn Douglas and Tom Arthur (University Press of
America, 1986).
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