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Campus Notes
Festive Tea
15 December, 1999
L-R: Mary Egan ‘49, Rev Frank Mallon, CSB ‘29, Albert Mallon ‘41, Kathleen Bennett ‘40,
Sr Jeanne Cover, IBVM, Fr. Patrick Gorman, CSB ‘39, Anita Dennis ‘37
Photo: Eva Wong
L-R: Barbara Boyle, Sr. Jeanne Cover, IBVM, and
Evelyn Collins
Photo: Eva Wong
Santa Claus Parade
21 November, 1999
Front Row L-R: Sheila Reid, Brigid Callaghan,
Kieran Callaghan, and Liam Callaghan
Back Row L-R: Ginny (Mohan) Reid ‘81, Debbie
Reid ‘89, Cathy (Reid) Callaghan ‘80, and
Eamonn Callaghan
Photo: Eva Wong
L-R: Anita Dennis ‘37, Monica Walsh ‘38, and Sr.
Marion Norman, IBVM ‘39
Photo: Eva Wong
L-R: John ‘79, Anna-Marie, Julia(3),
and Tara Ann (1) Raferty
Photo: Eva Wong
Celtic Studies
At a reception in Charbonnel Lounge in
November 1999, Oxford University Press
launched Tales of the Elders of Ireland in its
“Oxford World Classics” series. Tales is a new
translation and edition (with introduction,
notes, and commentary) by Celtic Studies
Professor Ann Dooley and UofT Professor
Harry Roe of Acallamh na Senorach, the
great collection of Celtic medieval tales. In
the December 3, 1999 issue of TLS, Irish
poet Paul Muldoon picked Tales of the Elders
as his second choice for the book of the year
(his first choice being Seamus Heaney’s
translation of Beowolf.)
Front Row, L-R: Rev. Stephen G. Dunn, CP, Most Rev Attila
Mikloshazy, SJ, Bishop of Hungarian Emigrants, Dr Dora de
Pédery-Hunt, Rev M Owen Lee, CSB ‘53, Rev James McConica,
CSB, Praeses of PIMS, and Sister Mechtilde T O’Mara, CSJ ‘56
Back Row, L-R: Rev Brian Hogan, CSB, Dean of Theology, The
Hon Henry Jackman, Chancellor of UofT, His Eminence Aloysius
Cardinal Ambrozic, Chancellor of USMC, and Dr Richard Alway,
‘62 President of USMC
Photo: Steve Frost
Faculty of Theology
Wilma Scherloski is the newly appointed
Facilitator of Lay Spiritual Formation.
Wilma brings to her new position in the
Faculty broad educational experience,
including service as a high school Principal
and as the former Superintendent of
Education for the Hamilton/Wentworth
Roman Catholic School Board. She was
recently honoured at the annual meeting of
Women in Educational Administration in
Ontario with the Helen Horn Leadership
Award in recognition of her “outstanding
leadership in the education community of
the Province of Ontario.”
At the St. Michael’s Convocation on
November 27, 1999, Cardinal Aloysius
Ambrozic, Chancellor of the University of St.
Michael’s, conferred honourary degrees on
the Most Rev Attila Miklósházy, SJ, Bishop of
Hungarian Emigrants around the world and
former Acting Dean of Theology at St.
Michael’s, Rev M Owen Lee, CSB ’53, Professor
Emeritus of Classics and internationally
renowned opera commentator, and Dr Dora
de Pédery-Hunt, Canadian sculptor, and
designer of coins and medals. Degrees,
diplomas, and certificates were also
conferred upon sixty-seven successful
candidates from St. Michael’s Faculty of
Theology and the Division of Continuing
Education.