The Root - Fall 2019

Root THE UTS ALUMNI MAGAZINE

FALL 2019

LAWRENCE HILL ’75

Author headlines inaugural BTF Speaker Series

PRESIDENT'S REPORT

Mark Opashinov ’88 PRESIDENT, UTSAA

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Let’s be Generous to a Fault In the Fall of 1982, I entered University of Toronto Schools to a raucous scene as students, new and experienced, were excitedly anticipating the start of the new school year. Now, almost four decades later, I often find myself walking past 371 Bloor Street West. It is rare when I do not take a moment to remember those first days, when I could only imagine where life would take me.

As an alumnus and president of the UTSAA, I am thrilled to see the progress that is being made to our school and for what it portends for future generations of UTS students and alumni. None of this progress would have been possible were it not for your generosity. Please take a few minutes to read the UTS Donor Report in this issue of The Root. These are the alumni, parents, staff and friends who view the kind of education offered at UTS as being so vital that they have decided to give to the best of their abilities. That generosity of spirit deserves our unreserved gratitude.

The Building the Future campaign is now in its final stretch. I am confident that we will find that extra reserve of energy to meet our goal. At the time of this writing, we are within $4.3 million of reaching our $60 million goal. I appreciate that this will be the most challenging part of our campaign. At the same time, I know that I have no reason to worry – UTS alumni have never had an issue meeting goals. That is what led us to UTS in the first place. With our collective commitment to the school, I know we are in good shape.

But I am also aware that $4.3 million is no small sum, and it will take a concerted effort by all of us to reach that goal.

As you will read elsewhere in this issue of The Root, Jim Fleck C.C. ’49 P ’72, UTS Board Chair, recently issued a challenge I would very much like to see us all take on, to the extent that we are each able. Jim asked us to consider increasing our previous donations and pledges by 25 per cent. If we are able to do so, we will reach – and surpass – our goal well ahead of schedule.

If you have had the opportunity to visit 371 Bloor for yourself recently, you have seen the transformative power of generosity. Scaffolding has gone up, and the work has started in earnest. The future Athletic Centre, Atrium, library and auditorium is currently a deep hole in the ground but by the end of the year, the digging will end and construction will begin. This is the moment we have been anticipating for years, when our plans, our hopes and our promises will be fulfilled. I am as excited by this as almost any major event in my near 40-year association with UTS. I have always been proud of UTS. First as a student, then as an alumnus, now as your UTSAA president and Building the Future campaign donor. I am even prouder to know that, in some ways, my most significant contributions to UTS came long after I graduated. I have happily accepted Jim’s challenge and hope that you will consider doing so as well.

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCHOOLS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 371 Bloor Street West, Room 121 Toronto, Ontario M5S 2R7

UTSAA BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT

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HONORARY PRESIDENT

Mark Opashinov ’88

Tina Bates ’88, P ’22

Rosemary Evans

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Laura Money ’81

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Aaron Dantowitz ’91

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Nancy Dawe

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Jonathan Bitidis ’99

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Aaron Chan ’94

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David.Dodds@utschools.ca

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Anne Fleming ’85, P ’17

David Dodds ’73

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Peter Frost ’63

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Sara Son Hing ’97

sara.son.hing@utschools.ca

Oliver Jerschow ’92

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Peter Neilson ’71

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Bob Pampe ’63

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Morgan Ring ’07

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Tim Sellers ’78

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Ian Speers ’98

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CONTENTS 8 LAWRENCE HILL Award-winning author Lawrence Hill ’75 reflects on UTS, race and the search for home.

14 RISING TO THE CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE UTS alumni lend their expertise to the climate change battle.

18 CONSTRUCTION CORNER Renewed 371 Bloor taking shape as construction progresses toward September 2021.

REGULAR FEATURES UTS Board Report . . . . . . . . 4

Alumni News. . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Advancement Report . . . . . 4

Mark Your Calendars. . . . . 23

Principal’s Report. . . . . . . . . 5

Annual Donor Report . . . . 26

In School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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Lawrence Hill ’75

MANAGING EDITOR AND STAFF WRITER

Matt Semansky & James Harrison EDITOR

Sumner & Lang PROOFREADER

Morgan Ring ’07

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L-R: Erika Javornik and Willa Manella share an exciting scientific discovery at UTS. CONTRIBUTORS

Our thanks to this issue’s contributors: Karen Sumner, Warren Lang, Dr. Paul Moore, Martha Drake, Matt Semansky, Rosemary Evans, Jim Fleck C.C. ’49, P ’72, Mark Opashinov ’88, Elizabeth Bush ’91, Camille Li ’92, Kai Chan ’93, Gavin Pitchford ’76, Chelsea Horvath ’85, Matthew Lie-Paehlke ’98

Published spring and fall, The Root is available to all alumni, parents and friends of UTS. The Root is also available at: www.utschools.ca/root. Contact us at alumni@utschools.ca or 416-978-3919 to update your address or to receive your copy electronically.

UTS BOARD REPORT

Jim Fleck C.C. ’49, P ’72 Board Chair, UTS

ADVANCEMENT REPORT

Martha Drake

Executive Director, Advancement

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As I write this, the Building the Future campaign has raised $55.7 million, or about 92 per cent of our $60-million goal. I believe it’s worth celebrating what we’ve done in just two years since the official launch of the campaign to renew and revitalize our unique school. We have seen tremendous participation from staff, enthusiastic initiatives from parents, phenomenal support from our alumni and even contributions from students. We also welcomed our 17th Founder – a designation given for gifts of $1 million or more. I couldn’t be more proud of the collective generosity and commitment from every corner of our community. We truly could not have come this far without you.

But we are not done yet.

Having been a part of many fundraising campaigns over the years, I am familiar with the way enthusiasm and momentum can ebb and flow. Although we are now only $4.3 million away from our goal, I know from experience that completing the last few kilometres to the finish line can be the most challenging part of the campaign marathon.

However, I am convinced that the UTS community will meet that challenge. I believe that the passion we all have for this school – which is home to some of our most cherished memories, has shaped so many of our local, national and global leaders, and prepared us so well for our own futures – will keep the momentum going strong for the Building the Future campaign. I believe we all want to provide the remarkable students at UTS the best possible educational environment for decades to come.

From the beginning of the campaign, I’ve urged donors to “give ‘til it feels good.”

I’m encouraging those who have already made a gift to think of how good it will feel to give just a little bit more. I recently increased my own contribution by 25 per cent, and if everyone who has made a gift – of any size – is able to make the same commitment, we will achieve our goal and then some.

The Building the Future campaign, like any fundraising project, is a long-distance race. Let’s finish it together.

Last June, our faithful leader, Jim Fleck C.C., issued a challenge to the entire UTS community. As a graduate of the Class of 1949, parent of an alumnus, Chair of the UTS Board of Directors, Chair of the Project Steering Committee and Chair of the Building the Future campaign, Jim has a unique perspective on UTS and certainly a vested interest in the success of our school’s future.

Jim began his message by thanking us for everything that we have done towards the transformation of our UTS building. To put his gratitude into concrete terms, I wish to share that to date, 1,200 of us have made 3,536 donations which total $55.7 million towards our $60 million goal. Our collective support as a community is stunning, and I wish to express my gratitude to each and every one of you who jumped in to participate in this important campaign. After all, this effort is not just about the refurbishment of our physical plant; rather, it’s about continuation of our beloved school, as an affiliate of the University of Toronto, and at our home site at 371 Bloor Street West.

On to Jim’s challenge – Jim boldly stated that he is increasing his campaign contribution by 25 per cent and invited those of us who are able to join him to increase our own pledges. Jim’s experience in many major fundraising campaigns has taught him that the last stretch of a campaign is often the most challenging and declared that failure was not an option.

I have decided to accept Jim’s challenge to increase my commitment to the Building the Future campaign, because this school is too important for us to fall short. We are so close, with 93 per cent of our campaign goal achieved. One of my favourite campaign factoids is that over $3 million has been donated by those who have given less than $1,000. This serves to prove that it is about all of us coming together to do what we can for UTS. Please consider Jim’s challenge and join us. As our campaign slogan says, “This is the time!”

UTS STAFF MODEL MEANINGFUL ACTION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE The UTS Strategic Plan has as its purpose that UTS graduates will “love learning, take initiative and innovate as socially responsible global citizens.” It is important that students see role models for this lofty purpose and UTS staff are stepping up.

In April 2019, Environment and Climate Change Canada published Canada’s Changing Climate Report, which concluded that Canada’s climate is warming twice as fast as the global average. The report concluded that provincial curricula across Canada are inadequate for preparing students to understand the climate change crisis. Seth identifies the following as the six essential concepts which students must learn about climate change:

Rosemary Evans Principal, UTS

• Climate basics • Temperatures are warming • Climate change is mainly caused by humans • There is significant scientific consensus about climate change • Climate change is bad • We can mitigate climate change.

At UTS, our staff are examining and strengthening the school’s curricula and striving to be role models for our students by taking personal action to mitigate climate change.

The staff committee presentation stated, “The average Canadian currently emits approximately 15 tonnes of carbon per year. It has been estimated that the global average for carbon emissions per capita would have to drop to 2.1 tonnes to stay within a threshold 1.5 degree increase in global average temperature.”

UTS staff can undertake “three of the highest-impact personal actions and strive to reduce our collective carbon footprint for all school-related activities” through the following proposal: • order vegetarian options for all UTS staff events by default – other food requests (such as meat-based, vegan, gluten-free, etc…) can be made by request • minimize our school-related flights by replacing flights, when possible, with motor coaches • use more local events or video-conferences for professional learning.

I think of the words of Katherine Sorbey, a Mi’Kmaq Elder, teacher, poet and storyteller. She said “we absolutely must recognize here in Canada, as well as in the international community, the negative health and lifestyle impacts of climate change and act immediately to ameliorate these impacts in the interests of all peoples and our environment.”

As a whole school, we're looking forward to a year of continuing education about and action against climate change. We hope you join us in your own way in this important undertaking.

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In School

IN SCHOOL

For the sixth year, UTS represented Ontario as provincial Envirothon champions. Team members took the challenge to learn, synthesize and present information about the natural world, and earned the top prize in the highly competitive Ontario field. As a result, the team had the opportunity to travel to North Carolina this summer and take on the world at the International Envirothon competition. UTS placed in the top 25 teams.

Every UTS Graduation is a special occasion, but for the Class of 2019, this year’s ceremony was truly historic. The latest UTS alumni are the first to complete their final year at the school’s QueenOssington location, the temporary space where UTS is based during construction at 371 Bloor Street West. As senior students, the members of this graduating class demonstrated leadership and a positive spirit that eased the transition to 30 Humbert Street for the entire UTS community. Congratulations to the Class of 2019 for everything they accomplished at UTS – and everything they will achieve in the future.

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UTS students continued to shine in athletic competition during the 2018–19 academic year, including several standout performances at Ontario Federation of Student Athletic Associations (OFSAA) competitions. For the second consecutive year, the Varsity Girls Volleyball team earned a provincial silver medal. The Varsity Badminton squad enjoyed a five-banner season, winning Toronto Catholic District Athletic Association (TDCAA) tournament titles at the Bantam, Junior, Senior and Overall levels, as well as the League Championship, before earning fourth-place honours at OFSAA. In Wrestling, team captain Jessica Link (S6/Grade 12) finished sixth in a field of 32 competitors. UTS athletes also reached the podium at the OFSAA Track and Field championships. In all, it was a year of remarkable results – and remarkable fun – for UTS athletes.

In School

April was an exceptional month for student-led initiatives at UTS. In addition to the school’s annual Day of Pink celebrations, for which students took to the streets of the Queen-Ossington neighbourhood to show their support for the LGBTQ2+ community, the second edition of the Girls In Tech Conference brought young women from across Toronto to share their love of and aptitude for technology. Meanwhile, S6/ Grade 12 student Lian Lambert created the first-ever Rediscover UTS week, which invited students to engage in conversations about mental health, common challenges, the activities of student clubs and more.

UTS students have a strong track record at international STEM competitions, but 2019 was one of the most impressive years yet. In July, Howard Halim (S6/Grade 12) and David Tang (S5/Grade 11) comprised one-third of Team Canada and won silver and bronze medals, respectively, at the International Mathematical Olympiad in England, marking the first time two UTS students competed in the same IMO since 2007. Also in July, Eric Shen (M4/Grade 10) travelled to Israel for the International Physics Olympiad and three students – Raymond Lin (S6/Grade 12) and Andrew Marin and Jason Xiong (S5/ Grade 11) – competed for Canada’s bronzewinning team at the International Young Physicists’ Tournament in Poland. With Jerry Wang (S5 Grade 11) participating in the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics in Hungary in August, and Anna Krokhine (S5/Grade 11) visiting Ukraine for the European Girls Mathematical Olympiad in April, UTS students made a name for themselves on the global stage.

For more UTS news and views, check out our website at utschools.ca.

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As the author of influential and internationally acclaimed novels such as The Book of Negroes (HarperCollins, 2007) and The Illegal (HarperCollins, 2015), LAWRENCE HILL ’75 is one of the brightest literary lights in UTS history. But his written work – which will soon include a new novel about AfricanAmerican soldiers from the Southern U.S. sent to Northern Canada to build the Alaska Highway – only partially accounts for the impact he has made around the world.

Prior to inaugurating the BTF Speaker Series in October, Lawrence discussed his life, his books, his volunteer work and his time at UTS with The Root magazine.

BY MATT SEMANSKY

When and how did you become aware of and interested in UTS? In Grade 8, I heard about UTS from friends, who decided to take the exam. I was a competitive kid and thought that I would take the exam, but that I would never get in or attend the school. I just wanted to see how I would do on the exam.

I came to take the exams, perhaps in the spring of 1971, after running a road race in High Park.

I showed up in my track stuff, armed with pens and pencils, and was struck by all the boys who were getting encouraged and coached by their parents as they moved toward the exam room. It seemed like a very serious place and a very white one too. But I was psyched and wanted to take that test! Later, when I received the offer of admission from the school, I was stunned and wondered if UTS had made a mistake. I told my parents that the game was up, and that I didn’t really want to attend. My father wasn’t having any of it. He said I had to go for one year, and that afterwards I could decide if I would continue. As you know, I attended and stayed!

What were your first impressions of the school as a student?

The school did have its downsides, but many of the students and teachers stimulated and challenged me to become a better thinker, a better writer and a more engaged global citizen, and I enjoyed running track and cross-country, and wrestling for the school as well. I also loved being part of school council and ended up serving as School Captain in my final year.

You attended during a transitional time at UTS. What was it like to be a student during this period?

UTS had two serious liabilities when I began to attend in 1971: there were no girls and very few students of colour. I missed both, very much. I personally do not believe that it is such a good thing for boys, generally, to study alone. I feel that most boys benefit from a co-educational environment and that a co-educational school would be far more stimulating and challenging intellectually, artistically and on all other fronts.

OPPOSITE: Lawrence Hill ’75 in Valencia, Spain in 2019.

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there and was warmly encouraged by many of the teachers. Some of my most significant and supportive teachers were Ken Prentice (Latin), Nora Maier (English), Don Gutteridge (English, and Principal), Lynda Duckworth (geography) and William Stickland (French and Spanish).

TOP: A young Lawrence Hill ’75 (far right) while volunteering with Crossroads International in Niger in 1979.

BOTTOM: The author worked with a midwife named Aminata – a name shared by his Book of Negroes protagonist – in Mali in 1989.

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So I felt it was a fabulous thing for the school that girls began to attend in Levels 1 and 2 (Grades 7 and 8) when I was entering my second-last year. It was too late for me to benefit personally from their presence, but it was a wonderful step for the school and I supported the change wholeheartedly.

How did UTS influence your life and career paths?

A significant number of the UTS students in the early 1970s planned to pursue careers in the professions: law, engineering, architecture, medicine, and so on. I had no interest in that sort of future, and in the school I performed at merely an average level in the maths and sciences.

Languages and writing excited me, however. I knew from well before my first year at UTS that I wanted to become a writer, and I was writing actively before I joined the school community.

However, I kept writing intensely during my years

I knew from well before my first year at UTS that I wanted to become a writer, and I was writing actively before I joined the school community.

You were a journalist for several years.

What inspired you to make the leap to fiction?

Journalism was only meant to be a stopgap measure. A way of earning a salary and gaining some professional writing experience after finishing my undergraduate studies. I loved working for The Globe and Mail and the Winnipeg Free Press, but by the time I was 27 I worried that I was getting old and had better quit my job and move into full-time writing before it was too late.

So I quit my post as Parliamentary Bureau Chief of the Winnipeg Free Press and moved to Spain.

I stayed there just over a year and wrote around the clock. I wrote a dozen stories and felt ready to begin my first novel. I returned to Canada, but there was no looking back: I would do whatever I could to keep writing and to forge a career in publishing.

How did you maintain your confidence and perseverance in these early years?

The perseverance seemed to come easily, but I can’t say that I teemed with confidence. However, it was what I wanted to do with my life, so I just kept writing and showing my work to writers, agents and publishers and hoping that doors would

eventually open. Making a living, raising children and finding time to write was a big challenge.

My first wife and I had three children. I decided to become a freelance speechwriter. It was less taxing than journalism, and I could drop in and out of the working market depending on my creative and financial needs. So for about 15 years, until the books finally began to sell, I wrote speeches for politicians (most of whom would never get my vote) and for senior bureaucrats in the Ontario government. I didn’t feel good about the paid work, but it helped develop my sense of voice, as a novelist. Writing speeches for politicians will do that for you, because one of the most important tasks is to write in the voice of the person who will deliver the speech.

Your career took a significant leap with The Book of Negroes. How did the impact of that book affect you?

I never had to write another speech! The Book of Negroes allowed me to focus on writing. I had been living by the skin of my teeth for some years and wondering how I would possibly be able to help my children financially when they went off to university. The book took off just as my eldest, Geneviève, was about to begin postsecondary

studies, so I felt extremely fortunate to be able to assist her and our four other children as they left home and began to study at universities around the country.

Your books exhibit a wide range of tones and styles. How and why do you avoid stylistic repetition?

I was attracted to a playful, vibrant narrative embracing multiple points of view in my first novel, Some Great Thing. And I used humour to explore painful things in it and in my second novel, Any Known Blood. But when I began to write The Book of Negroes, the humour and the multiple points of view flew out the window, and I found myself digging deep to write a long, sad but hopefully uplifting novel about an 18th century African woman and her physical and emotional resilience in the face of the most horrid insults to her humanity. The story did not present itself to me as funny, so I had to find other ways to engage the reader. After The Book of Negroes, I returned to a more effervescent, provocative, imaginative narrative with The Illegal. I try not to worry too much about what style I am embracing, but rather to develop the voice and narrative that serves my story.

L-R: Lawrence Hill ’75 with (L-R) daughter Caroline Hill, thenGovernor-General David Johnston, wife Miranda Hill and daughter Beatrice Freedman at Rideau Hall in 2017.

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What makes fiction an effective forum for exploring these topics?

I love journalism and well as scholarly and historical works, and have great respect for them, and could never have written my own books without standing on the shoulders of reporters, essays, scholars and others. However,

Photo courtesy of Lawrence Hill

LEFT: The author addressing members of the Vuntut Gwichin First Nation in Old Crow, Yukon in 2018. RIGHT: Lawrence Hill ’75 outside the house where he resided for three months in Dawson City, Yukon in 2018.

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there is something about the imaginary world – individuals’ crisscrossing paths of striving, conflict and drama – that can excite and engage a reader.

Who can fail to be moved by momentous personal struggle? Will she ever make it back home, or will she die trying? When you set such struggles against rich and fascinating political, social, racial, contemporary or historical backdrops, you have the possibility of drawing the reader into personal details and grand themes.

You have been an active member of the literary community as a teacher and volunteer. Why is this work important to you?

Editors and established writers have helped me so much on my own artistic and publishing journeys, and I find it satisfying to pass along their kindness by encouraging others. I want to be the best writer I can be, but it’s about much more than my own steps as an artist. A huge part of pleasure in life is watching other people develop and seeing their talents bloom. It feels good to be part of an artistic community and to add to its pulsing life.

Photo by Miranda Hill

You grew up in a household led by prominent civil rights activists and black historians, and this translates into so much of your work in terms of thematic focus on identity, history and injustice. What keeps you returning to these themes?

Identity, migration, loss, enslavement, freedom, racism, injustice, love, perseverance and the search for home: there is more than enough material in there to swim around for a lifetime of writing.

Other writers, too, grab hold of their obsessions and explore them, hopefully in various and unique ways, in book after book. I don’t feel limited by the themes that excite me. On the contrary, they open up my heart and help me be more imaginative and compassionate in dreaming up stories.

You are also a long-time advocate on behalf of marginalized people in Canada and around the world. What motivates you to give your time to volunteering and activism?

I do it because it feels great and liberating to engage with people and support them in ambitions that have nothing to do with myself. It is hard to imagine a person returning from a few months or a year of volunteerism and saying, “I wish I hadn’t done that.” Most people I’ve met who have done volunteer work – whether it is in their back yard, somewhere else their own country or overseas – have felt profoundly enriched by the experience.

It feels good to be part of an artistic community and to add to its pulsing life.

Your relationship with Crossroads International spans at least 40 years, and you’re an Honorary Patron with the organization. What interests you about Crossroads?

I was drawn to Crossroads International, which is a non-religious, non-profit NGO that works to support grassroots community economic development projects serving girls and women in sub-Saharan Africa, because I thought that volunteering overseas would be a rich experience.

I also felt a great hunger – after growing up in the predominantly white suburb of Don Mills – to connect with African people and to assert and define my own sense of blackness.

Book Clubs for Inmates is another volunteer passion. Can you describe the work you’ve done with this organization?

My role has been minor. I have visited various book clubs in federal penitentiaries in Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia to meet with prisoners who were reading and discussing my books. Some people seem to want

to take an unendingly punitive approach toward prisoners. But my feeling is that if you have any hope of rehabilitation and of seeing former prisoners reintegrate successfully into society, you have to look them in the eyes, acknowledge their humanity, and provide opportunities for incarcerated people to grow, reflect, learn, and to acquire skills, confidence and education.

Most recently, you’ve designed a memoirwriting course. What inspired this creation?

I have become involved as a volunteer with Walls to Bridges, which is run out of Wilfrid Laurier University and provides opportunities for university professors to teach courses inside prisons. Traditional university students and incarcerated people take the courses together, and the hope is that learning flows in many directions.

I’m a professor of creative writing at the University of Guelph, where I teach undergraduate workshops in memoir writing and fiction writing. This fall, through Walls to Bridges, I will teach a third-year undergraduate memoir writing workshop at the Grand Valley Institution for Women, which is a federal penitentiary in Kitchener, ON. There is currently much discussion about equity and inclusion, but simultaneously a ferocious backlash to creating a more equitable society. As an author, educator and an activist, how does this environment affect your work?

The rise of xenophobia, racism, Islamaphobia, sexism, homophobia and a hatred of migrants – embraced by certain political leaders who encourage such attitudes to take deeper roots in society – make me even more determined to do my own bit as an artist, professor and public intellectual to advance values of justice, equity, human rights and decency.

You are an Honorary Campaign Co-Chair for the Building the Future campaign.

Why is it important to support this project?

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Rising to the Climate Change Challenge UTS ALUMNI WORK TOWARD A HEALTHIER PL ANET.

M which is to keep the global temperature

eeting the central aim of the Paris Agreement,

Elizabeth Bush ’81, a member of the Canadian delegation at the 50th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in August 2019.

rise to well below two degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, requires a broad commitment at all levels of society. UTS graduates are doing their part as global citizens to tackle the challenge of climate change.

As scientists, educators, business leaders and activists, the six alumni profiled below come at the climate emergency from diverse perspectives. They also illustrate the power that each of us has to alter a dangerous course set by human activity.

Elizabeth Bush ’81 COMMUNICATES SCIENCE THAT INFORMS GOVERNMENT POLICY Elizabeth Bush knew that she and her colleagues at Environment and Climate Change Canada had done their jobs well when the House of Commons voted this past June to declare a national climate emergency. While no crisis is good news, it was a moment of recognition for 14

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the work Elizabeth does as a science advisor and for the effort she and her colleagues put into the Canada’s Changing Climate Report (CCCR), which tells Canadians how Canada’s climate has already changed and what changes might occur in the future.

With one graduate degree in biology and another in environmental studies, Elizabeth is well positioned to understand science information and communicate it clearly to inform the development of policy.

“It’s fascinating to me that the science is always evolving,” she says. “And it’s rewarding to be involved in advancing other people’s understanding of the research. For example, I was glad to have been on the team that got greenhouse gases listed as ‘CEPA-toxic,’ which then gave our federal government the authority to regulate these gases under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. That kind of work is satisfying, even though the situation itself is serious.”

Indeed, the messages in the CCCR that Elizabeth led development of and partly authored are, in the main, dire. Warming in Canada is, on average, about double the magnitude of global warming. In the Arctic, it’s nearly three times the global rate. These patterns will roughly continue in the future. With our oceans becoming warmer, more acidic and less oxygenated, the health of our marine ecosystems is threatened. Sea ice, snow cover and ice on land are also declining, permafrost is thawing, coastal flooding is expected to increase, and some weather extremes will continue to intensify. These are some stark facts for Canadians.

“Canada is part of a global climate system,” explains Elizabeth. “Worldwide emissions are creating amplified warming here. We can only stop global warming by reducing carbon emissions worldwide to net zero and substantially reducing other greenhouse gas emissions. To hold global warming to well below two degrees Celsius after the mid-century, as in the Paris Agreement, we need to do this soon.”

Earth illustration: © iStockphoto.com/saemilee

BY K AREN SUMNER

Is Elizabeth hopeful? “Well, I’m not despairing.

That’s not productive. I focus on what I can do personally to make a difference and on working toward effective climate policy.”

Camille Li ‘92 CREATES CLIMATE PROJECTIONS BASED ON LARGE-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS It’s not easy work, but it involves a lot of physics, which is one reason Camille Li loves it. Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Bergen and the Global Climate Research Leader at the Bjerkness Centre for Climate Research (BCCR), Camille has established a career in Norway partly because there is greater funding for climate science in Europe than in North America.

“Bergen is the birthplace of modern meteorology, which is basically using computer models to predict weather,” she says. “So scientifically, it’s amazing to work here. Plus, Norway is an interesting place: it’s one of the world’s largest exporters of oil but also a global leader in domestic clean energy. Its oil profits fund its environmental efforts, while its oil activities contribute to climate change.”

Despite this contradiction – or perhaps because of it – Norway has become a leader in climate science. The BCCR is one of the largest climate research institutions in Europe, with over 200 researchers from 37 countries, and has provided the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with simulations on climate developments.

This is precisely the work that Camille does.

“I look at observational data of what has happened in the past and what is happening now, as well as model data, to determine the likelihood of future climate changes under various emission scenarios for greenhouse gases. There’s a lot of

uncertainty because the atmosphere is a chaotic system, making it hard to predict specific outcomes for specific regions. Our current global warming of 1 degree Celsius doesn’t always speak loudly to people, because it doesn’t say what’s happening where they live.”

That’s what Camille wants to tackle next: more accurate regionally-based information. Such projections would help countries to develop the policies they need to protect their environment and their citizens.

“The more specific we can be, the better.

Reducing uncertainties in regional projections is the next big challenge.”

Kai Chan ’93 MAKES IT EASIER FOR ALL OF US TO BE ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE “My primary role is to frame climate change as a much broader problem of a frontier economy in which we view our natural world as an unlimited resource and pollution as a minor side effect,” says Kai Chan, Professor at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia (UBC). “We have engineered our economies to be unsustainable, and we need an alliance between climate change communities and biodiversity communities to find solutions.”

Kai leads the Connecting Human and Natural Systems (CHANS) Lab at UBC, which conducts analysis and modelling of social-ecological systems. He is also co-founder of CoSphere, a soon-to-be-launched “community of small-planet heroes.” CoSphere has a citizen side, offering nonpartisan, science-based analysis of policy, and a consumer side, offering concrete interventions in the economy that will safeguard the environment.

“You can’t really simplify the problem of climate change, because any one problem is connected to a complex web of issues. For example, increased flooding is caused in part by land use change, deforestation, and wetlands being paved over as cities expand. Add in more extreme weather events, warmer air that carries and dumps more water, and rapid snow and ice melting, and there’s nowhere for the water to go. This is a multifaceted issue that requires collaboration to address.”

ABOVE: Kai Chan ’93.

LEFT: Camille Li ’92, with Ola Elvestuen, Minister of Climate and Environment of Norway, at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in Bergen.

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ABOVE: Gavin Pitchford ’76. BOTTOM RIGHT: Celesa Horvath ’85.

Despite that complexity, Kai believes it is possible to simplify solutions at the citizen level.

Canadians have said that they want to take action, but they don’t always know how.

“There is so much information out there – the cognitive load of navigating through it toward a more sustainable practice is too high. CoSphere makes it simpler to mitigate our impact on the environment. I believe it should be both easy and enjoyable to live in a more sustainable way.”

Gavin Pitchford ’76 CONNECTS LEADERS ACROSS SECTORS TO COLLABORATE FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE How do you get Canada’s leaders in industry, finance, energy, academia and government to make meaningful connections across their diverse fields and collaborate on climate change solutions? If you’re Gavin Pitchford, CEO and Founder of Delta Management, you establish the Clean50 Summit and Clean50 Awards. With Delta already positioned as a leading search firm for sustainability and clean tech professionals, Gavin was well placed to build a community of leaders who have advanced sustainability, clean tech and clean capitalism in Canada.

“Nine years ago, we noticed there was a lack of cross-sectoral conversations,” he says. “And yet, we all recognize that there is a clear and present need for immediate action and for cross-sectoral collaboration when it comes to climate change.

The Clean50 initiative is designed to bring together and recognize Canada’s leaders in sustainability and bridge the gaps between sectors. The format makes it possible to build collaborations that will move us closer to a sustainable future.”

The Clean50 Summit uses a workshop structure, putting Clean50 Award recipients in different small groups over the course of the day with different problems to solve. The active, hands-on, team-based approach is designed to build trust and relationships between participants.

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“Some remarkable collaborations have come out of this – new relationships that carry on after the Summit and new initiatives between and within organizations.”

On Earth Day, one hundred Clean50 honourees published an open letter in The Globe and Mail urging Canadians to make climate the top priority in upcoming elections. This was the largest group from diverse industries and occupations to come together in this way, and it made news across Canada.

“The Clean50 provides a structure that genuinely connects these leaders,” says Gavin.

“They are more powerful and more effective at driving necessary change by knowing each other and working together.”

Celesa Horvath ’85 and Don Schmitt ’70 are amongst past Clean50 Honourees. UTS itself won a 2013 Clean50 Top Project Award for the Maximum City summer program.

Celesa Horvath ’85 HELPS CORPORATE CLIENTS ADOPT RESPONSIBLE AND SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES Celesa Horvath just wrapped up a project that has been her entire focus for the past two years.

Its aim: to move more goods by rail and fewer by long-haul trucking, potentially leading to a 75 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions related to the movement of goods.

“Helping clients with these kinds of projects is how I contribute to more sustainable development in Canada,” she says. “My goal is for client

projects to have fewer negative environmental outcomes.”

Over her three-decade career as a consultant, with the last 15 years as owner and principal of Ventus Development Services, Celesa has been involved in projects in Canada and around the world for clients in the energy, mining, infrastructure, transportation and government sectors. She helps companies understand and navigate the environmental assessment and review processes. What does the law require?

What scientific studies are needed? What community studies?

“Many of my clients want to do things differently. They want better and cleaner outcomes. I help with crafting sustainable corporate policies and strategies, and I help with implementation.”

At this stage in her career, Celesa works more with renewable energy projects and less with oil and gas: “I have the luxury of choice, and I exercise it.” But her focus is not entirely on government and corporations. A self-described urban refugee, Celesa moved from Toronto to a small rural community and adopts sustainable practices on a personal scale.

“I want all of us to think in a more collaborative and holistic way about our role and impact. Before we look to corporations to make change, let’s look at our own life choices. Our environment is a reflection of our individual decisions. My hope is that we use our power and focus less on past decisions and more on future options.”

Matthew Lie-Paehlke ’98 EMPOWERS INDIVIDUALS TO BECOME ADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE SOLUTIONS Matthew Lie-Paehlke wants to know if you’ve taken the pledge – specifically, the climate pledge.

A PhD student in urban planning at the University of Toronto with a focus on climate organizing, Matt is the founder of Climate Pledge Collective, an open-ended, decentralized movement to reduce our collective carbon consumption.

The climate pledge sheet offered by the Collective makes taking action simple. Under the categories of food, home efficiency, consumer goods, daily transport, air travel and civics, the sheet lists about 45 lifestyle changes (such as taking public transit, limiting meat consumption and switching to green natural gas) that benefit

the environment. Each item earns a different point score based on its impact.

In addition, the pledgee is asked to choose a sponsor to help them stay on track.

“I call this a tiny climate organization,” says Matt. “It basically started with my own choices, like living without a car and giving up flying. I really believe in the role of the individual and the influence we have on our friends, family and colleagues. I wanted to offer a way for people to design their own pathway to a low-carbon future and work at the neighbourhood level too.”

As one of its projects, the Collective offers a how-to for organizing a climate picnic, where small groups get together, make climate organizing visible, and plan for future actions. It has also run climate crisis subway ads and encourages simple activities like “ALLemailsALL,” which entails sending a personal message about climate change to everyone in your address book.

“We know there is no single solution to climate change. It requires engagement at every level and scale. We’re working at the grassroots level to encourage people to take action in the ways that best fit their lives.” ■

Matthew Lie-Paehlke ’98

UTS Takes Action In one example of sustainability education at UTS, M3/Grade 9 geography students work throughout the year to prepare for a cli­ mate change conference. They are responsible for understanding an individual province’s or territory’s current climate change risk and proposing a plan to mitigate that risk, which they then present at a First Ministers’ Meeting.

“The entire course is framed around this project,” says geogra­ phy teacher Katherine Joyce ’06. “We want students to under­ stand the complexity of climate change. Can their solutions actu­ ally work? Can they acquire the tools and resources they need?

They learn a lot about government policy development and how to advocate for change.”

Teachers in science and civics make cross-curricular connec­ tions throughout the year to deepen and extend student learning.

“The feedback is really positive,” says Katherine. “Students feel better informed and more capable of leading change by the end of the year.”

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CONSTRUCTION CORNER

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ast December, UTS celebrated the beginning of construction on a revitalized building with a Groundbreaking Ceremony that united the school community. Since that memorable moment, it has been remarkable to see the progress that has been made towards the transformation of UTS into a learning facility that can further harness the talent and potential of our students.

As of publication, many of the early stages of construction have been completed. Among the highlights are the demolition of the University of Toronto-owned building at 713 Spadina Road to create a wider laneway for vehicles at the building’s west entrance, the removal of the south staircase on the Huron side of 371 Bloor – which revealed several animated characters painted on the inner walls – and the reconstruction of the HuronWashington parkette playground on the southwest side of that intersection.

Several other elements of the construction project are well underway. For example, cleaning and restoration of the Huron-facing heritage side has been completed and has continued on the Bloor-facing section of the building. Perhaps most clear from a site walk-around is the excavation and foundation work taking place in the southwest

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corner – where new additions such as a doublegym will one day be situated.

Progress is also visible on the inside of the building, where the east wing has been cordoned off for construction. Much of the abatement work has been completed, and early steps have been taken on the installation of new mechanical and plumbing systems.

It is truly amazing what has happened on the 371 Bloor construction site in less than a year.

With the project still on schedule, it is even more amazing to imagine what the historic home of UTS will look like when the school community returns in September 2021. ■

ALUMNI NEWS

Notes on the milestones and achievements in the lives of our alumni.

There are plenty of ways to stay in touch! www.utsconnect.ca alumni@utschools.ca @utschools @utschools / @rosemary_evans @utschools

Don Schmitt O.C. ’70

Donald Schmitt C.M. ’70 is the latest UTS

alumnus to be named a member of the Order of Canada. Don, who is Principal at the internationally renowned firm Diamond Schmitt Architects (DSAI), was recognized for the leadership and innovation he has brought to the profession.

Known for his design brilliance and his vision for sustainable development, Don’s projects have included the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, the National Arts Centre and the Senate Building of Canada.

Within the UTS community, Don is perhaps best known for his exciting design for a revitalized school building at 371 Bloor Street West. Already a central figure in the future of UTS, Don has now been recognized with one of the top civilian honours in Canada.

More than three decades ago, Miguel Bruned came to Toronto and to UTS as part of an exchange program with Kenny Handelman ’89 that sent the latter to Miguel’s home country of Spain. The exchange was the beginning of a lifelong friendship between the two. “It was a great life experience, living in a new country and learning a language through immersion,” Kenny says. “I was very fortunate to be partnered up with Miguel and his warm and welcoming family.”

This year, Miguel’s daughter Elena will visit the school as part of her own exchange program – a remarkable example of a UTS connection spanning oceans, cultures and generations.

Thinking back to his own time spent at UTS, Miguel is confident that his daughter will benefit in the same ways he

Kenny Handelman ’89 (left) and Miguel Bruned

did. “I am certain that the experience will be great, and I am very happy that she will have the chance to enjoy the kind of opportunity I had.”

// As one of the stars of the CBC sitcom Kim’s Convenience, Simu Liu ’07 is one of Canada’s most successful thespians.

And now, he’s a certified superhero. Over the summer, Marvel Studios announced that Simu would be the titular star of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

The film will mark the debut of Marvel’s first Chinese superhero and first film with an Asian actor in the leading role. As Shang-Chi, Simu will not only reach a massive milestone in his own career and make Canada proud, he’ll also make history for arguably the most influential studio in Hollywood.

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also be a member of its Executive and International Trade Committees.

Toronto Mayor John Tory ’72 (left) with classmate Jack Roe ’72

Anne Smith of the Ontario Squash Hall of Fame (left) with inductee Peter Frost ’63

When Jack Roe ’72 announced his retirement from a 45-year broadcasting career, a certain well-known classmate made sure to share in the celebration.

In April, His Worship Toronto Mayor John Tory ’72 came by the 680 News studio to give his best to Jack, a news anchor for the station, on behalf of City Council. In his illustrious career, Jack also spent time as a talk show host, program director, news director and correspondent. Although his broadcasting days are behind him, Jack – who is also an accomplished stage actor – will continue to teach Communications at Peterborough’s Fleming College.

events, and strengthened the relationship between Canadian and American squash organizations. Peter has spent the last 25 years as a successful youth coach.

Peter Frost ’63 is a 2019 inductee into the Ontario Squash Hall of Fame. Peter was inducted in the Builder category in recognition of the influential role he has played in the development of the game in Canada and beyond. As a member of the Squash Ontario Board of Directors, he served as Vice President and then President and played a key role in the development of legislation that mandated eye protection for junior-age players – a regulation that was adopted

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PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS Jessica Ware ’95

Photo by Lawrence Lerner

has earned one of the highest honours given by the United States government to researchers in STEM fields. As the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), Jessica was recognized for demonstrating both significant potential and significant leadership in the early phase of her independent research career. Her laboratory, the Rutgers Universitybased Jessica L. Ware Lab, examines the relationship between insect species and the role of evolution in the diversification and development of their behaviour.

Online privacy is a hot button issue in the 21st century, and Ian Goldberg ’91 is one of the leading researchers in the field. A professor at the University of Waterloo’s Cheriton School of Computer Science, Ian was recently named a Canada Research Chair in Privacy Enhancing Technologies. The prestigious honour includes $1.4-million in funding over a seven-year period from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

This past spring was awards season for Rick Kuperman ’07 and Jeff Kuperman ’08. The brothers won the top prize for

Outstanding Choreography at the Lucille Lortel Awards, a program that recognizes excellence in off-Broadway productions.

The duo was also nominated in the Outstanding Choreography category at the Drama Desk Awards. Both programs recognized Rick and Jeff for their work on the New York production Alice

By Heart.

Benjamin Lin ’95 has been elected to

new leadership positions at the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario.

Dr. Lin will serve as Vice President for the organization in 2019–20, as well as Chair of its Finance, Property and Administration Committee. He will

Jeff Kuperman ’08 (left) and Ricky Kuperman ’07

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Sunil Johal ’94

has joined the City of Toronto to lead its economic development team.

Sunil spent the previous seven years as Policy Director at the Mowat Centre, an independent think tank based at the University of Toronto.

Having advised governments in Canada and abroad about regulatory issues, including the impact of technology, Sunil says he will now work towards “attracting investment, generating inclusive growth and making Toronto a more dynamic place to work and live.”

LITERARY NEWS Hilary Davidson ’90

has released a new novel, One Small Sacrifice (Thomas & Mercer, 2019), to rave reviews. A police procedural centred on a strong female detective, the book is the latest work of fiction from Hilary, the prolific, award-winning author of the Lily Moore mystery series and much more, including 18 nonfiction books.

of the Cold War. The Final Act (Princeton University Press, 2018) explores the negotiations that led to the Helsinki Final Act and the ultimate impact of the 1975 accord signed by 35 European and North American leaders. Helsinki played a critical role in opening the door for the former Soviet Union to embrace liberal democratic ideals, and Michael’s research in multiple countries and languages shines a light on the geopolitical circumstances and influential players that brought about the agreement.

Terry Keenleyside ’58

uses the backdrops of Toronto and Ontario’s cottage country for his new novel about the shifting foundations of friendship. All The Way (Borealis Press, 2019) focuses on friendships that endure for 60 years, through conflicts ranging from the professional to the personal, with an entertaining blend of drama and humour.

With her debut The Changeling of Fenlen Forest (Great Plains, 2019), Katherine Magyarody ’06 has joined the ranks of UTS alumni novelists. A young adult-oriented book in the fantasy genre, Changeling follows a young girl

deeper into a forest land full of surprises, secrets and challenges.

Katherine, a mentor in the UTS Branching Out program, is proud of her first novel – but the book is not the only recent debut in the Magyarody family, which also includes Nora Magyarody ’04. Katherine and her partner Iliya Sigal also welcomed their son, Aaron, last November.

REUNIONS The Class of 1955 and their spouses got together in April for a night of great food and great company at Le Paradis restaurant in Toronto. Ten alumni were in attendance, and the classmates have already begun to plan another reunion to celebrate their 65th anniversary of UTS graduation in 2020.

“The bar was dark and the people were dingy,” says Jamie Coatsworth ’69, affectionately, of the reunion he and his classmates held at Toronto’s Quail & Firkin pub in May. It was the first of two planned events to mark the 50th anniversary of the Class of 1969 this year, including the Annual Alumni Dinner in November.

University of North Carolina professor Michael Morgan ’97 has published a

compelling, in-depth account of one of the most important diplomatic milestones

Interested in joining the Branching Out program to mentor senior UTS students?

Contact Rebecca Harrison for more details: rebecca.harrison@utschools.ca.

Members of the Class of 1969 strum a tune.

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Don Borthwick ’54

CRAWFORD AWARD H. Donald Borthwick ’54 is the winner of the H.J. Crawford Award for 2019.

Named after the first headmaster of the school, the honour is given annually in recognition of individuals who have contributed to the advancement of UTS and the broader community.

As a student at UTS, Don was a star athlete and leader. Dedicated to UTS, he joined the Alumni Board in 1993 and served as President from 1995 to 1999. He then took on the critically important role of Executive Director of the UTS Alumni Association until 2008. From his days as a student leader through to his work as the Executive Director of UTSAA, Don always has the good of the school and of alumni in mind and has always gone the extra mile for the UTS community.

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HALL OF FAME

HEARTWOOD AWARDS

The 2019 inductees into the UTS Hall of Fame have demonstrated a lifelong commitment to advancing education and fostering a love of learning. Each has served in a prestigious leadership role as the president of a Canadian university.

This year’s Hall of Fame inductees are: James Cassels ’73, President, University of Victoria; John Evans ’46, President Emeritus, University of Toronto; Peter George C.M. ’58 , President Emeritus, McMaster University; Terence Grier ’53, President Emeritus, Ryerson University; Peter Stoicheff ’74, President, University of Saskatchewan, and Thomas Symons C.C. ’47, Founding President, Trent University.

Created in 2016 to celebrate members of the UTS community who make a difference at the school through their volunteer actions, the Heartwood Award for Volunteer Service has been given to 23 individuals this year.

The 2019 recipients are:

as a Campaign Cabinet member of the Building the Future campaign.

Dr. Julie Hwang ’06

Julie has been a dedicated UTS volunteer for the past four years. As an assistant coach for the Girls Soccer team, Julie has devoted her skills, knowledge and passion to our student-athletes.

Dr. George A. Fierheller ’51

George is a devoted UTS volunteer, having served on all three major fundraising campaigns for UTS. From the mid-1990s to 2003, George volunteered for both the Preserving the Opportunity campaign to establish the UTS bursary fund and the Building Opportunities campaign, and he is currently serving

Dr. David Kreindler ’84

David’s devotion to, and promotion of, mental health and wellness within the UTS community is truly outstanding.

David has volunteered as a speaker at events with students and staff, providing valuable resources to our community to improve and maintain mental well-being.

In addition, David has served as a mentor in our Branching Out mentoring program and has participated in our admissions interviews.

James C. McCartney ’56, P ’84

An active volunteer with UTS for over 20 years, Jim served as a Director for the UTS Alumni Association and in the UTS Parents’ Association as a

2019 recipients of the Heartwood Awards.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2

UTSAA Annual Alumni Dinner Join the members of the UTSAA for the annual alumni dinner at the Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel from 5:30 to 9 pm.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7

The Annual Remembrance Day Assembly Annual Remembrance Day assembly will take place on Thursday, November 7 at the temporary 30 Humbert Street location of UTS. Join the UTS community in paying tribute to Canada’s veterans.

To RSVP to any of these events, go to www. utschools.ca/rsvp or contact alumni@ utschools.ca. For further information, please call 416-978-3919.

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Grade Representative. Jim was part of the volunteer team that created the original affiliation agreement with the University of Toronto to secure our future.

He currently volunteers as a Building the Future Campaign Cabinet member and continues to work tirelessly to inspire others to give back to the school.

Helen Sava P ’18, ’20

Helen’s volunteerism as a UTS parent has spanned several years. During her tenure as Chair of the UTS Parents’ Association, Helen created and spearheaded the Summer Experiential Program (formerly the UTS Internship Program), in which M4 and S5 students gain valuable work experience with members of the parent and alumni community. This unique program engaged parents and alumni in a new form of volunteerism and created an exceptional opportunity for students to learn and grow. Helen also served as a Parent Challenge Champion in the Spring of 2018.

Parent Challenge Champions

By engaging fellow parents to support our students and our future through participation in the Building the Future campaign, our 19 Champions led an increase in parent giving of over 250 per cent and inspired 218 first-time gifts from families. We are grateful to Gita Alizadeh, Fiona Cai, Ellen Chao, Flora Chen, Nita Chen, Ruilei Chen, Katherine Clark, Jenny Gao, Samira Gillani, Albina Huang, Colette Léger, Qing Li, Jessica Monk, Sarah Moosavi, Helen Sava, Bill Tang, Alice Xia, Ming Xiong and Maggie Zhang for their enthusiasm and leadership.

IN MEMORIAM

DARCY TURNER DINGLE 1938–2019 Peacefully, in his 82nd year, Darcy Turner Dingle ’56 of Huntsville, Ontario, died of cancer at Algonquin

Grace Hospice on May 30, 2019.

Darcy was born in Toronto to Darcy ’24 and Isabel (Turner) Dingle in 1938, attending Bedford Park Public School, then UTS. He studied Engineering Physics at the University of Toronto, then felt the calling to ministry through the United Church of Canada, receiving a Bachelor of Divinity from Harvard University. During his time at Harvard, he became involved with the Civil Rights Movement in the southern United States.

He eventually felt a calling to return to teaching, first in Newmarket and then at UTS, this time as a teacher of physics.

“The last of the UTS students to be hired at his old school by [UTS Principal] Mr. MacMurray, Darcy Dingle ’56 . . . learned his high school physics from Derek Bate, who learned his from George Cline. In carrying on this reliable continuum of teaching, Mr. Dingle allowed into his classes a new breeze of informality, thereby delighting and rewarding the students. To explain harmonic vibrations, Mr. Dingle turned beyond the textbook and the chalkboard to the strings of the guitar. His students could relate.

They felt freshly enlightened, which was always Mr. Dingle’s point . . . .”

– Excerpt from University of Toronto Schools 1910–2010 by Jack Batten In 1978, at the behest of UTS Principal Don Gutteridge, Darcy started

publication of the Cuspidor. In the early 1980s, Darcy took over the F1 and F2 Winter program previously under Bill Simons and Joe Stulac. Darcy moved the program to Camp Tawingo, where it ran for 20 years. Some of his out-ofschool interests included astronomy, birdwatching and sailing, especially at the family cottage in the Muskoka region.

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Club and the Muskoka Music Men barbershop quartet.

He is survived by his beloved wife Carol Rhodes (Reynolds), daughter Trish (Wendell), stepson Jim, brother James ’60 and many granddaughters, nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by daughter Eleanor Rae Dingle.

– Paul Moore NORM FOX 1929–2019 Norman Dekin Fox ’48

passed away peacefully in his 90th year on July 14, 2019. Norm was part of the UTS fraternity for over 75 years, as a student, alumni, teacher, coach, mentor, parent and supporter. As a student at UTS, Norm had the honour of serving as School Captain and UTS Athlete of the Year in his graduating year for his accomplishments and leadership both on and off the ice.

He went on to complete a Bachelor of Commerce at University of Toronto before deciding to pursue his passion for teaching. In 1968, he was extremely pleased to be offered a teaching position at his alma mater. Norm excelled as a math teacher, administrator, coach, chaperone and mentor over his twenty-three years of teaching at UTS. He believed in broadening students’ perspectives and shared with them his love of travel. During school breaks, accompanied by his wife Mary, he would travel the world with students, leaving them with unforgettable experiences and memories.

During his teaching career at UTS, Norm was involved in and helped implement some of the most dramatic changes in the school’s history including the relaxation of the dress code, elimination of Grade 13, and admission of female students in 1973. Norm was an enthusiastic and compassionate teacher who dedicated countless hours to his work, which he never considered a job.

He inspired, guided and nurtured his students to be the best they could be.

Since his retirement from UTS in

1991, Norm continued to be a dedicated supporter of the school. He was a member of a small group from the Class of 1948 who have been strong supporters of the Alumni Association and active participants in Alumni events. Norm loved to golf and, at the age of 77, was the winner of the Hargraft trophy for low gross at the annual UTS Alumni golf tournament.

Norm left behind a legacy that will live on through his family, friends and students. He will be deeply missed by all whose lives he touched.

– John Fox MATTHEW SHULMAN 1969–2019 All who knew Matthew Shulman ’87 were deeply saddened by his suicide on March 22, 2019.

A vibrant intellectual, he buzzed with excitement in conversation and keen analysis punctuated with wry humour. At the piano, his fingers flew over the keys, head bent in concentration, smiling at the joy of playing.

Matthew was part of a group of students which included his brother, Nicholas ’90, who helped each other learn to code at UTS. He continued on his own at Harvard University, studying physics and chemistry, graduating Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1991.

Despite never taking a course in computer science, he worked at Microsoft and Google before taking early retirement in 2014.

The invention of IntelliSense, Matthew’s most impressive programming patent, began while visiting his sister Laura, President of Integrated Statistics.

“Matt needed a programming project in Visual Basic (VB). My client needed a program to measure the speed and location of marine mammals, like dolphins. Once he started, Matt realized VB needed statement completion.”

Friend and co-inventor David Sobeski, former Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of The Walt Disney Company, continues the story. “We were

working on VB. Matt was working on the compiler when he tells me he has the symbol table and a lot of data which we can use to predict what people should type next. In a weekend, he and Martin Cibulka created a prototype. Then we created what nerds call statement completion but marketing named IntelliSense. We showed Bill Gates.

He was floored. Matt fundamentally changed how developers wrote code.”

“It’s so extraordinary that I remember the very first time I saw it,” explains Shane Miskin ’87, Owner/Head of Product, CampBrain. “It’s hard to overstate the impact of Matthew’s invention. Without exaggeration, it makes millions of programmers the world over faster and more accurate, every day, hundreds of times a day.”

For all his professional accomplishments, it is Matthew’s gentle and caring presence that is most missed.

His generous compassion and love for all those in his orbit was a gift to experience.

While his ability to engage with life waned in the years before his death, our memories of his wonderful qualities have not dimmed. Matthew is deeply missed.

– Sonnia H. Kim ’87

If you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of suicide or self-harm, please reach out. Volunteers are available 24/7 to help. https://www.torontodistresscentre.com/ 416-408-HELP (4357)

What will you do?

To designate UTS in your will or as a designation for memorial gifts, please contact Martha Drake, Executive Director, Advancement.

416-946-0097 mdrake@utschools.ca

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ANNUAL DONOR REPORT

There is a simple aphorism I favour: the greatest journey begins with the first step. When we launched the Building the Future campaign, we certainly imagined that one day we would reach our goal. Now that it is within sight, that first step seems all the more momentous and we could not be more delighted. We have been so fortunate to have overwhelming buy-in from all of our stakeholders, from Class and Parent Challenges to the First Girls Initiative, staff, and a number of other community partners who recognize the value of UTS. The generosity you have shown has confirmed what we believed when we launched this campaign – that UTS offers something wonderful, something worth investing in. Our community has reaffirmed once again that UTS offers a value above and beyond providing quality education, as an institution that adds value to all of our communities.

This 2019 donor report tells the stories of 1,200 donors who have provided more than $15 million to our community this fiscal year. This includes members of the Arbor Society, who have made deferred gifts to support future generations of UTS students. On their behalf, I offer you my humble thanks.

Rosemary Evans, Principal

THE 1910 CLUB Our thanks to the members of the UTS community who contributed $1,910 or more. This recognition honours and celebrates the year the school was founded and these generous donors.

Nicole V. Agnew ’95 Rustam Ahmed & Vanessa Leung, P ’24 Mary Ainslie ’83 Steven ’77 & Gita Alizadeh, P ’15, ’17, ’20, ’22 David Allan ’78 Gregory Ambrose ’89 Marianne Anderson & Andrew Clarke, P ’17 Preet Aulakh & Nandi Bhatia, P ’19 26

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Graham & Carolyn Badun, P ’19

Donald G. Bell ’59

Richard J. G. Boxer ’67

Charles Baillie, Jr., O.C. ’58, P ’85

Leif Bergsagel ’77

Winsome S. Brown ’90

David K. Bernhardt ’54

William Burnfield & Harry Wiebe, P ’23, ’24

Paul L. Barnicke ’71 Gordon M. Barratt ’49 David Baskin & Joan Garson, P ’04, ’07 C. Derek S. Bate ’44, P ’71, ’73, ’75, GP ’16 Heidi Bates, P ’85, ’88, GP ’22 Kristina Bates ’88 & Harris Davidson, P ’22

Vinny & Jagmohan Bhathal, P ’19

Christopher Burton ’90

Monica Biringer ’78

Peter L. Buzzi ’77

William R. C. Blundell, O.C. ’45

John Carruthers ’53

Karla Bobadilla ’89 Robert G. Boeckner, GP ’18

Michael Ling & Karen Chan ’91, P’ 22, ’24

Chris Boland ’73

Voon Loong Chan & Penny Chan, P ’93

John ’48 & Lois Bowden, P ’79

Wally Chiu & Sarah Chow, P ’15

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Felicia Y. Chiu ’96

Ron Lalonde & Jane Humphreys, P ’06

Robert McCulloch ’68

Priscilla Chong P’ 98

Kun Joo Han & Jungah Park, P ’20

Vinca Chow ’03

Hugh Hanson ’53

William J. Corcoran ’51

Melanie Hare ’84

Paul Lam & Verna Ng, P ’14, ’18

Collin M. Craig ’64

Keith Harradence & Susan Ormiston, P ’15

Titan Research Group Supply – Rob R McGregor, P ’18, ’20

Andrey V. Cybulsky ’74 Peter K. Czegledy ’82 Douglas A. C. Davis ’58 & Janet Davis, P ’87

Louise Harris ’06 Andre Hidi ’77 & Jocelyn Hidi

Susan (Black) Lawson ’78 Donald Lawson ’47 & Lorraine Lawson

James McKellar & Clelia Iori, P ’21

The Le Gresley Family Foundation

The McLean Foundation

Christine Deja Wendy Deng, P ’21

Robert W. Hoke ’66

Anthony Lee ’86

Martha Drake

Ursula Holland ’89

Lynda S. Duckworth

Ramsay Holmes ’60

Chyang & Gloria Lee, P ’87, ’91, GP ’ 22, ’24

Arthur D. Elliott ’58

Nicholas Le Pan ’69

David Leith & Jacqueline Spayne, P ’11

Gay Evans, P ’78, ’75

J. Desmond Horan ’45 & Lois Horan

Rosemary Evans

Neil Horner ’98

Jillian Lewis ’80

Henry ’86 & Albina Huang, P ’19 & Cameron LinharesHuang ’19

Christopher Li & Melissa Tai, P ’16 & ’19

Zhigang Huang and I Hsuan Chen, P ’22

Robert E. Logan ’49 & Luella R. Logan

Peter A. Ewens ’79 Jingping Fan & Susan Wang, P ’19 Albert Fell ’48 Fraser Fell, C.M. ’46, P ’73

Sandy McIntyre ’71

Balfour Le Gresley, P ’77

Karim Hirji & Riyana BabulHirji, P ’18

Victor Holysh ’76

Bernie McGarva ’72, P ’03

Iris Leung ’98

Donald Livingstone ’73

Donald McMaster ’62 Kosta Michalopoulos ’84 Alan Mills ’55 Noella Milne Laura Money ’81 & Marcus Macrae, P ’22 Estate of William R. Hammond Montgomery Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation David and Julie Moos, P ’20 David H. Morgan ’63 Andrew Munn ’80

John & Michelle Hull, P ’16

Robert E. Lord ’58

Neuberger Berman

Kelly Fergusson ’80

Oakt & Theresa Hum, P ’93

Stephens B. Lowden ’56

Newton Foundation

James Fleck C.C. ’49, P ’72

Janet M. Hunter

Anne Fleming ’85 & Michael Piaskoski, P ’17

James Lowden ’54

IBM Canada Limited Richard S. Ingram ’61

Antony T. F. Lundy ’79 & Janet Looker

Nasir Noormohamed & Tazmin Merali, P ’09, ’10, ’14

The Honourable Henry N. R. Jackman, O.C. ’50

Bin Luo & Xiaomei Li, P ’23 Grant Lum ’85

Alexander Furness ’59

The Henry N.R.Jackman Foundation

Jennifer Luong ’06 & Christopher Yau ’06

Simon Gittins ’93

Scott & Amy Jackson, P ’20

James I. MacDougall ’54

O’Neil Leger Family Foundation

Sherry A. Glied ’78

Robert P. Jacob ’60, P ’88

Peter MacEwen ’65

Shannon O’Neill ’19

Neil & Natasha Glossop, P ’18

The Jha Family

Government of Ontario

Zhaohui Jia & Hongying Zhang, P ’24

Estate of W. Bruce MacLean Tom MacMillan ’67

Jason Jones ’91

Anand Mahadevan

G. Alan Fleming ’54 The Late Norman D. Fox ’48 & Mary Fox, P ’75

Peter O.C. ’56 & Shelagh Godsoe

Mark Noskiewicz ’77 Malcolm Nourse ’60 Roman Olijnyk & Elaine Lehto, P ’10

Mark Opashinov ’88

John R.V. Kelk ’63

Katherine & Paul Manley ’61

Susan E. Opler ’79 & Paul F. Monahan, P ’14 & Will Monahan ’14

Paul Kennedy ’62

Manulife Financial

Niels Ortved ’63

C. Stuart Kent ’79

Paul Marks

Otsason Family

Jocelyn Kinnear ’93

Robert Martin ’74

Ijay Palansky ’90

Kenneth Kirsh ’78

Robin ’82 & Jon Martin ’82

Robert Pampe, M.D. ’63

Susan Kitchell, P ’01 Dennis & Wincy Ko, P ’22

Suzanne ’84 & Michael Martin ’84, P ’11, ’15

Wen Tang Pan & Jenny Gao, P ’19

Donald Gutteridge & Anne Millar

Michael Ko & Regina Ko, P ’24

Leslie ’76 & Audrey Marton ’78

Alan B. Perkin ’57

Dale Gray, P ’04

James Kofman ’74

B & B Hamilton Fund at Toronto Foundation

Carrie Ku (Fung) ’85

David McCarthy ’77

Barnet Kussner ’82

James C. McCartney ’56, P ’84 Feng Qiu, P ’21

Jessica R. Goldberg ’90 Jim & Katherine Gracie, P ’09, ’12, ’15 Vanessa Grant ’80 David S. Grant ’72 James H. Grout ’74 Larry Guo & Brenda Liu, P ’24

Stephen Perry ’70 Kim R. Persky ’80 Mark & Peri Peters, P ’16, ’19

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Qiang Shen & Yuefang He, P ’20

Allan G. Toguri ’62

Matthew Weatherbie ’63

Murray E. Treloar ’68

Ran Wei ’06

William Redrupp ’54

Hongjun Shou & Yanting Li, P ’24

George Trusler ’44

Donald & Nita Reed, P ’92

Nicholas Smith ’63

Gregory G. Turnbull ’73

Alexandru & Michaela Weiner, P ’01

Barbara Ritchie, P ’80

Andrew G. Spence ’88

Timothy Turnbull ’74

David Weishuhn ’75

William ’77 & Helen Robson, P ’06, ’08, ’09

Nicholas Stark ’74

Shuzo Ueno, P ’99

Robert S. Weiss ’62

Stephen Raymond & Natasha Vandenhoven, P ’16, ’19

John S. Rodway ’54

Catherine & Bohdan Stasiw, P ’23

Ann C. Unger Guy W. Upjohn ’51

The Henry White Kinnear Foundation John Wilkinson ’78

John A. Rose ’78 & Susie Rose

William Stinson ’51

UTS Alumni Association

David G. Stinson ’70

UTS Parents Association

Kenneth Rotenberg ’40

Ian G. Stock ’77, P ’09

Laura Vallis ’98

Peter and Joanne Willson, P ’21

Ilana Rubel ’90

Tony Storey ’71

Chris Van Loan & Jessica Monk, P ’20

Donald K. Wilson ’59

Richard H. Sadleir ’47

Allan Sutherland ’44

Glen Sanderson

George Swift ’64

Hon. William J. Saunderson ’52

Sheldon Szeto & Flora Chen, P ’21, ’23

Arthur R. Scace, C.M. ’56

Jason Tam ’95

Edward Waitzer ’72, P ’02, ’14 & Waitzer Family Fund at Toronto Foundation

Hedy & Tim ’78 Sellers

John W. Thomson ’48

David Walker ’84

The Family of Christina Shao ’21

Marian L. Thomson

Eric Walsh ’90

Wayne D. Thornbrough ’62

Ian A. Shaw ’59

Rongqing Tian & Baomei Shi, P ’18

Jun Hao Wang & Xiao Xing Zheng, P ’15, ’20

John N. Shaw ’50

Mark van Zanden & Rachel Talbot, P ’21

Doug Ward C.M. ’57

David H. Wishart ’46 Michael & Muriel Wissell, P ’14 Pamela Y. W. Wong ’98 Robert J. Wright, Q.C. ’51 Roger Zheng & Sharon Xu, P ’17, ’23 Yan Zheng & Lily Han, P ’21 Anonymous (17)

PRINCIPAL’S CIRCLE Our thanks to the members of the UTS community who contributed between $1,000 and $1,909.

Ajay Agrawal & Gina Buonaguro, P ’23 Donald C. Ainslie ’84

Kai Chan ’93 Paul & Loretta Chan, P ’98

Todd & Jennifer Davidson, P ’17, ’21

James Fisher ’60 Thomas A. Friedland ’81

Derek Allen ’65

Matthew Chapman & Danielle Paterson, P ’24

Kevin Davis ’87

Donald K. Avery ’49

Clarence Cheng ’98

Kathy Dimas

Rachel Barney ’83 Paul Bartha ’82 & Patricia Bartha ’82 Marcel Behr ’81

Scott Cheng & Fiona Cai, P ’21, ’24

Chris & Lise D’Iorio Fournier, P ’20

Felicia Y. Chiu ’96

Paul Druckman ’55

Gerald Chung & April Dmytro & Lesya Berbeka, P ’21 Chung, P ’04, ’09

Michael Bichan ’99 Bruce Bone ’46 Paul Brace '71, P '12

J. Alan Gibson ’59 David Gladish and Eva Gladish, P ’22 John M. Goodings ’54

Brian Eden ’79

John & Nancy Gossling, P ’18, ’20, ’23, ’25

Alec Clute ’76

Janice Fairweather

Margaret Graham ’89

David Fallis ’73, P ’02

Sheldon Green ’80

Leslie Coleman ’44

Ramin R. Farnood and Ning Yan, P ’21, ’23

Jill Copeland ’85 & Bill Parish, P ’20 ’22

Anthony Brown & Catherine Sim, P ’18

Jim Cornell ’64

Eugen Bulboaca & Gabriela Mateescu

Kenneth Culver ’53

Glen Campbell ’76

Myron Cybulsky ’76

Jessica Carn ’94

Makeda Daley

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David & Urve Earthy, P ’99

John R. Gardner ’55

James S. Coatsworth ’69

Ian K. Bradley ’01

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Gregory Deacon ’74

Sandra Flow ’86

Myran Faust & Julianna Ahn, P ’18, ’21

H. Donald Guthrie ’46 Penelope A. Harbin ’78

James and Anne Feehely, P ’23

R. Allan Hart ’55 & Georgia Hart

The Late David Fenwick ’49

Frederick R. E. Heath ’69

Ian Ferguson ’73

Christopher D. Hicks ’65

Aaron Dantowitz ’91

Paul Fieguth ’86 & Betty Pries

Zulfikar Hirji & Ruba Kana’an, P ’20

Robert Darling ’57

Alan S. Fisher ’71

Eugene Ho ’88

David G. Crookston ’76

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Michol Hoffman ’88 David J. Holdsworth ’61 John Holt ’59 Liang Hong ’02 Sasan HosseiniMoghaddam & Nazanin Aghel, P ’23 Bruce E. Houser ’58 Junhua Huang & Mingmin Zhu, P ’24 William Hunter ’55 John Hurlburt ’52 Alvin C. Iu ’73 Martin Jerry ’55 Oliver Jerschow ’92 Linda Ann Jewell Kathryn Jones ’83 Jennie E. Jung ’91 Judith Kay Harrison F. Keenan ’94 W. L. Mackenzie King ’59 Maria & Tibor Kokai, P ’02 Judith Kramer ’86 David Kreindler ’84 David & Jane Kruse, P ’22 Robert Labbett ’53 Donald A. Laing ’62 J. Alan Landsberg ’56 Rolland Leader ’70

Thomas Magyarody & Christa Jeney, P ’04, ’06

Gavin Pitchford ’76

Peter W. C. Markle ’62

Jennifer Pullen ’84

Volker & Vandra Masemann, P ’89, ’90, ’95, ’02

Rapido Trains

Graham Mayeda ’92 Thomas F. McIlwraith ’59 & Duane C. McIlwraith Bruce McKelvey ’67 William McMaster ’72 Chris Medwell ’76

Jonathan Poplack ’89

Stephen F. Reed ’92 David Reese & Amanda Cook-Reese, P ’19

Krishan Suntharalingam, P ’24 Paul Szaszkiewicz & Peggy Theodore, P ’19 William H. Taylor ’55 Ian M. Thompson ’59 Yu Yang Tian ’12

David Rounthwaite ’65, P ’01

E. Monica Uddin ’89

James A. Russell ’68

Chae Ho Lee & Yunejin Cho, P ’19, ’20

H. Thomas Sanderson ’55

Walter Vogl ’73

Jannis Mei ’13

Howard Schneider & Aliye Keskin-Schneider, P ’09, ’13

Timothy H. Mitchell ’82

Michael Schwartz ’61

Richard Walker ’58

Darren Mo ’11

D. Malcolm Seath ’58

David Ward ’59

Ivan Mo & Ming Xiong, P ’23

Ilya Shapiro ’95

John Weaver ’48

Kit Moore ’58

Michael Shenkman ’97

George E. Whyte, Q.C. ’54

W. Scott Morgan ’67

Jason E. Shron ’93

Douglas Wilson ’53

Pericles Lewis ’86

Bruce Moyle ’60

Lynn & Skip Sigel ’55

Mardi Witzel ’82

Zhen Li & Yun Ling Zhao, P ’22

Jimmy Mui & Amelia Ng, P ’22

Robert Sladek ’77

Ian Worland ’86 & Caroline Richardson

Benjamin Lin ’95

Benjamin Na & Donna Lee, P ’22

Terence S. W. Lee ’59 Raymond Lee Brian Lee ’06 Gordon E. Legge ’67 David Legge ’62 Robert & Patricia Levy, P ’10, ’13, ’15

Qiang Lin & Bing Xia, P ’23 Shujie Lin and Jingjing Chen, P ’19 James & Margo Longwell, P ’15

Peter G. Neilson ’71 Sumit Oberai & Marcia Mclean, P ’23 Clare Pace

John ’59 & Madelyn Sloane, P ’86 Michael V. Spence ’48 Peter F. Stanley ’56 Frank and Adrienne Staudohar, P ’21

Robert Waddell ’57

John R. Wright ’61 Mark Yarranton & Patricia Foran, P ’13 Chiu & Elaine Yip, P ’18, ’23 Graham J. Yost ’76

Nancy Steinhauer, P ’21

Joanne Yu ’93

T. Justin Lou ’93

Gladys Page, P ’79

R.D. Roy Stewart ’71

Matthew Yu ’07

Mary Lynch

Stan Pearl GP ’21, ’23 Douglas G. Peter ’58

Elizabeth Straszynski & Chris Wilson

Carole Zamroutian

David J. MacMillan ’72 Robert MacMillan ’69

Joshua Phillips ’79

Earl Stuart ’83

Anonymous (6)

Robert Zimmerman ’73

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This report recognizes gifts to UTS for the period July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019. We make every effort to ensure the accuracy of information. If you find an error or wish to have your name recognized differently, please contact the Office of Advancement: call 416-978-3919 or email alumni@utschools.ca.

★ Donors who have given for ten or more consecutive years Donors who have given between five and nine consecutive years ♥ Monthly donors

1938–1945

1949–1950

J. Alexander Lowden ’51 ★

Total: $1,113,775 William Angus ’49

William W. Stinson ’51 ★

Donald Avery ’49

Guy W. Upjohn ’51 ★

Total: $103,035 John A. Rhind ’38, P ’68, ★

Douglas Kent ’47, P ’73, ’79, ’82

Peter H. Russell, O.C. ’51 ★ ♥

Kenneth Rotenberg ’40

Donald ’47 & Lorraine Lawson

J. B. Seaborn, C.M. ’41

Tracy Lloyd ’47 ★

Gordon Barratt ’49 ★

Robert J. Wright, Q.C. ’51

C. Derek S. Bate ’44, P ’71, ’73, ’75, GP ’16 ★

Richard ’47 & Joan Sadleir ★

Richard Clee ’49

Anonymous ’51

The Late David Fenwick ’49

Ronald Garlick ’52

James Fleck C.C., P ’72 ★

Gordon G. Goodfellow ’52 ★ John Hurlburt ’52

Leslie Coleman ’44 Allan Sutherland ’44

1948

George Trusler ’44

Total: $55,156

Robert E. Logan ’49 & Luella R. Logan

William R. C. Blundell, O.C. ’45 ★

Philip Arrowsmith ★

Richard D. Tafel ’49 ★

John A. Bowden, P ’79 ★

Anonymous ’49

Michael K. Hicks ’45

Meredith Coates

Gilbert Alexander ’50 ★

J. Desmond Horan ’45 & Lois Horan

Albert Fell ★

Roger G. Crawford ’50, P ’82 ★

1946–1947 Total: $17,983 Bruce Bone ’46 ★ Fraser Fell, C.M. ’46, P ’73

The Late Norman Fox, P ’75 ★ William Hanley ★ Michael K. Ireland ★ Reginald L. Perkin Michael V. Spence

The Honourable Henry N. R. Jackman, O.C. ’50 John Shaw ’50 ★

1951–1952

John W. Thomson ★

Total: $56,240 David Barker ’51

David G. Watson ’46 ★

John Weaver

William J. Corcoran ’51 ★

David H. Wishart ’46 ★

Rev. Dr. Ian Wishart

The Late H. Donald Guthrie ’46 ★

Bill Cumming ’51

William J. Saunderson ’52 ★ Anonymous ’52

1953 Total: $12,218 John Carruthers Kenneth Culver ★ Hugh Hanson Robert Labbett William P. Lett ★ James C. Mainprize ★ Alan E. Morson, P ’79 ★ William E. Rogan ★ Robert E. Saunders Douglas R. Wilson ★

1954 Total: $42,700 David K. Bernhardt ★ W. G. Black, C.A. H. Donald Borthwick ★ Douglas Brewer G. Alan Fleming ★ ♥ John M. Goodings ★ James Lowden James MacDougall ♥ D. Keith Millar ★ John D. Murray ★ J. Richard Parsons William Redrupp ★ John S. Rodway ★ Gordon R. Sellery ★ John H. Wait ★ 30

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Gabriel I. Warren George E. Whyte, Q.C.

1955 Total: $18,925 Harold Atwood ★ Bruce Brewer Lorne K. Brown Barry Cutler Paul Druckman John R. Gardner ★ W. Gary Goldthorpe R. Allan Hart & Georgia Hart William Hunter ★ Martin Jerry ★ Howard D. Kitchen Alan Mills Anthony Morrison ★ Ronald Raisman H. Thomas Sanderson ★ Lynn & Skip Sigel William H. Taylor Anonymous

David W. Kerr

1959

James Fisher

Alan B. Perkin

Ramsay Holmes

Ian Rutherford

Total: $35,050 Donald G. Bell ★ ♥

John Sayers

Brian Coleman

Neill McRae

Richard Stren Robert Waddell ★

1956

J. Douglas Ward, C.M. ★

Total: $288,093 Peter Brieger, P ’92

1958

Alexander Furness J. Alan Gibson John Holt George Howse William Hudgins W. L. Mackenzie King ★

Gerald Dickinson

Total: $71,264 Charles Baillie, Jr., O.C., P ’85

The Late Darcy Dingle ★

George M. Carrick ★

Thomas F. McIlwraith

David M. Flint ★

Douglas A. C. Davis, P ’87 ★

Ian A. Shaw

Peter C. Godsoe, O.C. ★

Arthur D. Elliott

Ryan Kidd ★

Stephen Glogowski

John & Madelyn Sloane, P ’86 ★

J. Alan Landsberg

Brian Hayes

Stephens B. Lowden ★

Bruce E. Houser ★

James C. McCartney, P ’84 ★

Terence Keenleyside

Dr. Paul B. Cavers

Arthur R. Scace, C.M. ★ Peter F. Stanley The Late Douglas Towers

1957

William G. Leggett Robert E. Lord ★ Kit Moore ★ David Ouchterlony Douglas G. Peter ★ Donald W. Rutherford

Terence S. W. Lee ♥

Robert P. Jacob, P ’88 ★ Bruce Moyle Peter C. Nicoll ★ Malcolm Nourse ★ Douglas Rutherford R. Dale Taylor Marshall Judd Tory Robert J. Tweedy ★ Paul Wilson Anonymous ★ Anonymous

James P. Stronach ★ Ian C. Sturdee ★

1961

Tibor A. Szandtner

Total: $2,327,554

Ian M. Thompson

John C. Coleman

David Ward

David J. Holdsworth ★

Donald K. Wilson

Richard S. Ingram

Anonymous

Jon R. Johnson

1960

Katherine & Paul

Peter B. MacKinnon ★ Manley ★ ♥

Total: $11,670 The Late Robert M. Culbert ★

D. Malcolm Seath

Total: $46,531 David Beasley

Peter Strachan

Robert Boyce

Michael Schwartz

Robert Darling ★ ♥

D. Nico Swaan

Alfred C. W. Davis

James E. Shaw ★

Robert A. Gardner ★

Richard H. Walker

James Dingle

David M. Ward ♥

James Graham

Barry N. Wilson

Jock Ferguson

John R. Wright

Douglas McCutcheon

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Murray Treloar ’68 Anonymous ’68 John Bohnen ’69 James S. Coatsworth ’69 John B. Deacon ’69 Stephen C. Farris ’69 H Frederick R. E. Heath ’69 H Robert J. Herman ’69 H Nicholas Le Pan ’69 H Robert MacMillan ’69 Anonymous ’69

1970 Total: $10,498 Ronald Davies Douglas Donald H Ray Kinoshita

H Rolland Leader Douglas E. McIntyre

1962

Niels Ortved H

Total: $78,127

Robert Pampe, M.D. H

S. Bruce Blain ’66

Stephen Perry

H

Lane Prentice

Robert W. Hoke ’66

David G. Stinson H

Paul Kennedy

Nicholas Smith H

William A. MacKay ’66

Anonymous

Kirby Keyser

Matthew Weatherbie

John S. Rogers ’66 H

Donald A. Laing H

J. Fraser Wilson

Dave Sanderson ’66

David Legge

Anonymous H

Peter W. C. Markle

Anonymous (2)

1967

Donald McMaster H David S. Milne H

Total: $183,995 David Amos

1964–1966

Donald Ball

Michael A. Peterman

Total: $34,829 J. David Beattie ’64, P ’00, ’02

Wayne D. Thornbrough H

Jim Cornell ’64

Bruce Couchman

Allan G. Toguri H

Collin M. Craig ’64 H

Michael Curtis H

W. Douglas Newman Gord Park

’03

Robert S. Weiss H Anonymous H

Peter Snell ’64 H

Anonymous

George Swift ’64 H

George B. Boddington Richard J. G. Boxer H

1971 Total: $3,280,466 Paul L. Barnicke H Paul Brace P '12 H Alan S. Fisher Richard Hill H Thomas M. Hurka Sandy McIntyre H William O. Menzel Glen Morris Peter G. Neilson H

Richard N. Donaldson

Timothy Owen

John J. L. Hunter H

Warren G. Ralph Adrian Shubert

Derek ’65 & Margaret Allen

Gordon E. Legge

R.D. Roy Stewart H

1963

Robert A. Cumming ’65 H

Tom MacMillan

Tony Storey H

Total: $118,080 Lawrence DeRocher

John Gray ’65

Bruce McKelvey

James Hayes ’65 H

Bruce Miller

1972

James Fowell H

David Hetherington ’65

W. Scott Morgan H

Peter H. Frost H

Christopher D. Hicks ’65

Total: $25,978 David S. Grant H

Frank Hall

Robert W. Hustwitt ’65

1968–1969

David J. MacMillan

Nelson Hogg

Karl E. Lyon ’65

Bernie McGarva, P ’03 H

John R.V. Kelk H

Peter MacEwen ’65

Total: $23,337 J. Wayne W. Jones ’68 Robert McCulloch ’68

Bruce Sanders

James A. Russell ’68

Howard Scrimgeour H

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David Rounthwaite ’65, P ’01

William McMaster

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Edward Waitzer, P ’02, ’14

1976

Robert Sladek

Timothy Sellers ★

Christopher D. Woodbury ★

Total: $15,927 Glen Campbell

Ian G. Stock, P ’09

John Wilkinson ★

Robert Wright

Eric Tatrallyay

Anonymous ★

Alec Clute ★

Sandy Tse

Anonymous

David G. Crookston

1973

Myron Cybulsky ★

Total: $54,996 J. Christopher Boland

Donald Gordon

Donald Clarke David R. Dodds (5Y) David Fallis, P ’02 Ian Ferguson Alvin Iu ★ ♥ John G. Kivlichan ★ Donald Livingstone Richard Outerbridge Edward S. Sennett John Sweet Gregory G. Turnbull Walter Vogl ★ William Wilkins ★ ♥ Robert Zimmerman ★

♥

Victor Holysh Leslie C. Marton Chris Medwell Gavin Pitchford Vincent J. Santamaura ★

Anonymous

1979 1978 Total: $87,840 David Allan ★ ♥ Deborah Berlyne Monica Biringer ★ Steven Craig

Jeff Singer '76 &

Irene Cybulsky

Maureen Whittley

Susan Dance

Gary S. A. Solway ★ Graham J. Yost ★ Anonymous

Timothy Evans Sherry A. Glied Daniel Gordon Penelope A. Harbin ★

1977

Kenneth Kirsh ★

Total: $217,029 Steven & Gita Alizadeh,

Susan (Black) Lawson

P ’15, ’17, ’20, ’22 ★

Peter A. Ewens Lisa Gordon ♥ Andrew H.K. Hainsworth Brian Imrie Jean C. Iu ★ ♥ C. Stuart Kent ★ Antony T. F. Lundy & Janet Looker James MacFarlane Susan E. Opler & Paul F. Monahan, P ’14 Joshua S. Phillips

Audrey Marton

Kevin Smith Daphne Woolf

Leif Bergsagel

Laurie McLean

Total: $167,391 Donald Bunt

Peter L. Buzzi ★

Christina Medland, P ’10

Andre Hidi ★

Donald Redelmeier ’78 &

Andrey V. Cybulsky ★

David Le Gresley

Terence Davison

David McCarthy, Jr. ♥

Gregory P. Deacon ♥

Mark Noskiewicz

Miriam Shuchman, P ’12, ’15 ★ Susan Reece-Eidlitz

James H. Grout

William & Helen Robson,

John A. Rose ’78 & Susie

P ’06, ’08, ’09

Brian Eden ♥

Allison MacDuffee

1974

James E. Kofman

Total: $858,696 John Burns

1980 Total: $65,395 Andrew P. Alberti ★ Peter Bowen ★ Kevin G. Crowston

Rose

Robert Martin Nicholas Stark Timothy Turnbull Anonymous Anonymous ★

1975 Total: $7,600 Paul M. Anglin I. Ross Bartlett ♥ Martin A. Chepesiuk, P ’10 Lawrence Hill, C.M. Kenneth J. McBey ★ David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye ♥ David Weishuhn Anonymous 33

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Christine Dowson H Carolyn Ellis

Eugene N. Siklos

David Evans

John A. Hass

Chandragupta Sooran H

Kathryn Jones

David Walker, CFA H

Karen Landmann

Kelly Fergusson

1982

Karen M. Mandel H

Vanessa Grant H

Total: $13,785 Paul Bartha & Patricia Bartha

Debra Smith

Sheldon Green H Bernie Gropper H Eric Kert H Jillian Lewis Rick Marin Nomi Morris H Andrew Munn H Kim R. Persky Margaret Wheatstone Christine Wilson

Benjamin Chan H Peter K. Czegledy H Robert Dmytryshyn ’82 & Natalie Lehkyj, P ’15 ’18

C. Elizabeth Stefan Earl Stuart H Elizabeth Turner

Jill Copeland ’85 & Bill Parish, P ’20 ’22

Diane Hamilton

1984

Carrie Ku (Fung) H

Total: $17,426 Donald C. Ainslie H

Marina Jimenez

Grant Lum H

Scott Anderson

Barnet Kussner

James Markson

Marion Dove

Carson Schutze H

Jon Martin

Nicholas G. Evans

Adrian M. Yip

Melissa Fox-Revett

H

Total: $14,440 Marcel Behr

Susan Hainsworth

Mardi Witzel

Melanie Hare

Justin Bur

Anonymous (2) David Kreindler

Elizabeth Bush

1983

Kerstin Lack

H

Timothy H. Mitchell

Suzanne E. Campbell

Isi Caulder

Anne Fleming ’85 & Michael Piaskoski, P ’17

Jean Wang

Robin Martin

1981

1985 Total: $73,258

Suzanne Martin, P ’11, ’15

1986 Total: $21,207 Tracy A. Betel Joanne Carter Wendy Drukier Paul Fieguth & Betty Pries

Total: $9,128 Mary Ainslie

Michael Martin, P ’11, ’15 H

Sandra Flow

Bruce Grant

Carolyn Anglin

Cameron A. Matthew H

Henry & Albina Huang, P ’19

Thomas Hicks

Rachel Barney

Patrick McPhee

Judith Kramer

Barbara Liu

Robin Bloomfield

Kosta Michalopoulos H

Eleanor Latta

Laura Money ’81 & Marcus Macrae, P ’22

Christopher P. Bogart

Rebecca Netley

Anthony Lee

Adrianne Brewer

Jennifer Pullen

Pericles Lewis

Thomas A. Friedland H

H

Jennifer May Mark D. Phillips & Esther Benzie, P ’24 Jacquelyn Sloane Siklos Ian Worland & Caroline Richardson

1987 Total: $16,948 John R. Caldwell Julia Cochrane Kevin Davis H Douglas Davis Katherine Hammond, P ’20 Monique Mackenzie Elissa A. McBride Richard Nathanson, P ’20 Thomas Wilk Anonymous H 34

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1988 Total: $13,960 Jennifer Andersen Koppe ★ ♥ Kristina Bates ’88 & Harris Davidson, P ’22 David Fenton Michael Gallop Eugene Ho Michol Hoffman Hilary Jacob Mark Opashinov Andrew G. Spence Cecilia Sun

1989 Total: $14,525 Gregory Ambrose Karla Bobadilla Cara Bogusz Dubravka Cunningham ♥ Lesleigh Cushing ♥ Barbara Fleisig Margaret Graham ★ Kenneth Handelman Ursula Holland

Henry J.P. White ♥

1991–1992 Total: $14,590 Karen Chan ’91 & Michael Ling, P’ 22, ’24

Kai Chan ★ ♥

1994

Sarah Dryden-Peterson

Total: $6,612 Jessica Carn ♥

Simon Gittins Baldwin Hum Geoffrey Hung ★ ♥

Aaron Chan ★ Adam Chapnick ★ Catherine Cheung

Sandra Chong ’91 ★ ♥

Alex Hutchinson ★ ♥

Aaron Dantowitz ’91 ★ ♥

Jeffrey Jaskolka, P ’24 ★

Andrea Iaboni ♥

Molly E. McCarron

Audrey M. Fried ’91, P ’19, ’22

Jocelyn Kinnear

Michael Jaskolka

E. Monica Uddin

Anand Ghanekar ’91

Anonymous

Jason Jones ’91

Anonymous

1990

Naomi Hume Katherine Klosa

Total: $25,767 Asheesh Advani & Helen Rosenfeld Winsome S. Brown Christopher Burton ★

T. Justin Lou

Harrison F. Keenan

Husein Moloo

Ian C. Mitchell

Jennie E. Jung ’91

Thuy-Linh Nguyen

Rachel Spitzer ★

Warren Lee ’91 & Sylvia Quant, P ’22, ’24

Ian Richler ♥

Roland Lee ’91

Jason E. Shron ★ ♥

Ruth Lim ’91 Alexander Wolfson ’91 Anonymous ’91 (2)

Richard Roze Rapido Trains Inc ♥

Benjamin Lin

Ryhna Thompson ♥

Hilary Masemann Raphaela Neihausen

Lia R. Copeland ’92

Cindy W. Wan ♥

Hilary Davidson

Oliver Jerschow ’92 ★

Jessica R. Goldberg

David Wolf ♥

Margaret Julian ’92

Sara Gray, P ’24 ★

Pauline Wong

Graham Mayeda ’92 ♥

Anuradha Iyer ♥

Stephen F. Reed ’92

Eric Walsh

1993 Total: $18,174 Roberta Ayles-Jackson

1995

Scott A. Thompson

Philip A. Curry

Ilana Rubel

Anonymous

Total: $37,605 Nicole V. Agnew

Kevin J.K. Chan

Kate P. Nowell-Smith

Darrell Tan

Justin W. Tan

Sayeed Karim Abdulla ’92 ★

Ijay Palansky

Raymond C. Fung

Veronica C. Yeung Joanne Yu

Robin Rix ★ Patrick A. Robinson Ilya Shapiro ★ Jason Tam Calum Tsang

Ranjith Zachariah

Jeremy Weinrib

Anonymous (3)

Fen Yik

Anonymous ♥

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Morgan Ring ’07 ♥ Lyndon Shopsowitz ’07 Matthew Yu ’07

2008–2011 Total: $7,542 Amy Chow ’08 George Weekes ’08 Jeremy Zung ’08 ♥ Anonymous ’08 Judith Ma ’09 Rahim Noormohamed ’09 Jonathan Talmi ’09 Wilson Wai ’09 Natalie Geffen ’10 Lisa Hui ’10 Ali Noormohamed ’10 Connie Yu ’10 Adam Martin ’11 ♥

1996–1997

Eric Tang

Liang Hong ’02 ★ ♥

Total: $18,032 Derek Chiang ’96

Laura Vallis

Allan Kostyniuk ’02

Pamela Y. W. Wong

C. Luke Stark ’02 ★ ♥

Felicia Chiu ’96 ★

2012–2014

Adrienne Wong

Amanda Martyn ’96

Pamela Y. Wong

Jonathan McPhedranWaitzer ’02

Total: $18,610 Alexander Fung ’12

Amanda Ross-White ’96 ★ ♥

Linus Yung ♥

Karen Arcot ’03

Tsz Chun Kwok ’12

Vinca Chow ’03

Yu Yang Tian ’12

1999–2001

Allison Chow ’03 ♥

Isabella Chiu ’13

Total: $4,363 Michael Bichan ’99

Emma Jenkin ’03 ♥

Olivia D. Maier ’13

Jeong-Bum Lee ’03

Jannis Mei ’13

Jessica Gunderson ’97

Jonathan Bitidis ’99

Jeremy Opolsky ’03 ♥

Yael Boyd ’14

Jeffrey Hall-Martin ’97

Daron Earthy ’99 ♥

Nina Coutinho ’04 ♥

Daniel Henke Tarnow ’14

Michael D. Morgan ’97 ♥

Brenton Huffman ’99

Darnel Leader ’04 ♥

Warren Shih ’96 Barton Egnal ’97 Emma Frow ’97

Veena Mosur ’97

♥

David Kuperman ’99

Hayley A. Silberg ’04

Michael Shenkman ’97 ★

Albert K. Tang ’99

Anonymous ’04

Saraswati Son Hing ’97

Mark Varma ’99

Anonymous ’97

Adrienne Liang ’00

Darren Mo ’11

William P. Monahan ’14 ♥

♥

Ilya Motamedi ’14 Karim Noormohamed ’14 Emily Rea ’14

2005–2007

Adam Waitzer ’14

Simon Cheng & Jennifer Morawetz ’00

Total: $14,383 Jane Church ’05

Ki-Sang Yi ’14

Anonymous ’00

Mitchell Wong ’05 ♥ Anonymous ’05

2015–2019

Ian Bradley ’01

Clarence Cheng

Brian Kitchell ’01

Jaclyn Chiang ’06

Total: $6,203 Emma Howard ’15

Neil Horner

Diana Chisholm Skrzydlo ’01

Louise Harris ’06

Cameron Martin ’15

Judy Kwok ★

Andrea Wang ’01

J. Cameron Howieson ’06

Emma Miloff ’15

Anonymous ’01

Brian Lee ’06

Jack Williams ’15

Jennifer Luong ’06

Anonymous ’15

2002–2004

Ran Wei ’06

Anonymous ’16 (2)

Total: $12,775 Jocelyn Cheng ’02

Christopher Yau ’06

Michael Lam ’18

Martin Ho ’07 ♥

Edward Tian ’18

1998 Total: $15,707 Rebekah Balagtas ★

Sharon Lee ♥ Iris Leung Noel Semple Eric Sherkin Ian Speers 36

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Anonymous ’18 Cameron Linhares-Huang ’19

PARENTS & GR ANDPARENTS OF CURRENT STUDENTS Ajay Agrawal & Gina Buonaguro, P ’23 Rustam Ahmed & Vanessa Leung, P ’24 Riichiro Akazaki & Amanda Kreidié-Akazaki, P ’17, ’20

Kristina Bates ’88 & Harris Davidson, P ’22

Larry Guo & Brenda Liu, P ’24

UTS Korean Parents Association

Todd & Jennifer Davidson, P ’17, ’21

Kun Joo Han & Jungah Park, P ’20

Dennis & Wincy Ko, P ’22

Kapila & Olga de Lanerolle, P ’20

Zulfikar Hirji & Ruba Kana’an, P ’20

Richard Derham & Qing Li, P ’22

Sasan HosseiniMoghaddam & Nazanin Aghel, P ’23 ♥

Chris & Lise D’Iorio Fournier, P ’20 ♥ Sean Egan & Catherine Wilson, P ’20 Ramin R. Farnood and Ning Yan, P ’21, ’23

Steven ’77 & Gita Alizadeh, P ’15, ’17, ’20, ’22 ★

Myran Faust & Julianna Ahn, P ’18, ’21

Harun Nida & Berna Gulmisal Aricibasi, P ’20

James and Anne Feehely, P ’23

Richard Bai 2023

Fiala Family

Levon Barker & Karen Cassie, P ’20

Audrey M. Fried ’91, P ’19, ’22

Heidi Bates, P ’85, ’88, GP ’22

Michael & Natania Friesen, P ’20

Margaret Bawden, P ’20

Junbiao Fu & Grace Liu, P ’21

Dmytro Berbeka & Lesya Berbeka, P ’21 ♥ Zain Bhamjee and Iram Bhatti, P ’20 Ian & Susan Binnie, P ’93, GP ’24 Eugen Bulboaca and Gabriela Mateescu William Burnfield & Harry Wiebe, P ’23, ’24

Xiaodong Fu & Farong Chen, P ’24 David Gladish and Eva Gladish, P ’22

Davy Hu & Lin Mu, P ’20 Zhigang Huang and I Hsuan Chen, P ’22 Junhua Huang & Mingmin Zhu, P ’24 Hai Huang & Zhifen Jiao, P ’24 Sen Huo & Zhenjuan Liu, P ’24 Scott & Amy Jackson, P ’20 Jeffrey Jaskolka ’93 & Sara Gray ’90, P ’24 ★ Chris Javornik & Linda Weber, P ’22 The Jha Family Zhaohui Jia & Hongying Zhang, P ’24 Helen Jin, P ’23

Waldemar Goleszny & Estella Tong, P ’19, ’23

Juha Kemppi and Angela De Luca, P ’20

John & Nancy Gossling, P ’18, ’20, ’23, ’25

Dennis & Sook Hee Kim, P ’20

Michael Ko & Regina Ko, P ’24 Ethan Kohn & Gillian Roberts, P ’20 David & Jane Kruse, P ’22 John Kwong & Pauline Cheung Sam & Wendy Lau, P ’20 Chyang & Gloria Lee, P ’87, ’91, GP ’ 22, ’24 Warren Lee ’91 & Sylvia Quant, P ’22, ’24 Haijun Li & Li Mi, P ’20, ’22 Grant Li and Linda Li, P ’20 Feng Li & Yingchun Han, P ’20 Qiang Lin & Bing Xia, P ’23 Karen Chan ’91 & Michael Ling, P ’22, ’24 Bin Luo & Xiaomei Li, P ’23 Laura Money ’81 & Marcus Macrae, P ’22 Erdinc Makul & Juan Liu, P ’22 Saul Mandelbaum & Melissa Nutik, P ’23 Julian & Simona Marin, P ’18, ’20 Emil Markow, P ’24

Yue Cao & Jiayi Song, P ’24 Paul Chang & Betty Tseng, P ’19, ’21 Matthew Chapman & Danielle Paterson, P ’24 Wang Dong & Xuan Chen, P ’12, ’21 Leo Chen & Susie Wang, P ’23 Scott Cheng & Fiona Cai, P ’21, ’24 Andrew Chow & Yvonne Ho, P ’18, ’20 Michael & Ann Chung, P ’20, ’24, ’25 Christopher Coates and Katherine Romanov, P ’20 Meng Cui & Shuyan Liu, P ’24 37

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Andrew & Yu-Hsiang Marmash, P ’20

Horatiu & Bianca Petrut, P ’17, ’24

Krishan Suntharalingam, P ’24

Sam Mathi, P ’18, ’20, ’22 ♥

Mark Phillips ’86 & Esther Benzie, P ’24

Sheldon Szeto & Flora Chen, P ’21, ’23 ♥

Anu & Shalini Rastogi, P ’20, ’23

Flora J. Chen

Titan Research Group Supply – Rob R McGregor, P ’18, ’20 ♥ James McKellar & Clelia Iori, P ’21

Ali Razavi & Kathy Mastali, P ’20

Ivan Mo & Ming Xiong, P ’23

Ian Richmond & Danielle LiChong, P ’16, ’18, ’20

David and Julie Moos, P ’20 Jimmy Mui & Amelia Ng, P ’22 ♥ Benjamin Na & Donna Lee, P ’22 Katherine Hammond ’87 & Richard Nathanson ’87, P ’ 20 Martin & Sylvia Nathanson, P ’85, ’87, GP ’20 Lucian & Larisa Neagu, P ’20

Michael Tang & Cindy Fong, P ’24 ♥

Sophia Wong, P ’24 Michelle Hu & Peter Wu, P ’23 Weixi Xing & Liya Yang, P ’21 Xiaoning Xu and Wuying Peng, P ’23, ’25

James Taylor, P ’23

Chao Yang & He Cao, P ’22, ’25

Mark & Helen Sava, P ’18, ’20

Walter Tholen & Jane Cleve, P ’20

Zhinong Shang and Xiaohui Liao, P ’23

Gan Tian & Wen Zhang, P ’24

The Family of Christina Shao ’21

Xiaohui Yu & Yanping Jia, P ’22

Dawna Treibicz, P ’20

Yi Zhang & Ye Ding, P ’24

UTS Korean Parents Association

Liang Zhang and Guannan Ma, P ’22

Chris Van Loan & Jessica Monk, P ’20

Jie Zhao & Hua Cui, P ’20

Eli Shem-Tov & Phyllis Heller, P ’20 Qiang Shen & Yuefang He, P ’20

Mark van Zanden & Rachel Talbot, P ’21

Hongjun Shou & Yanting Li, P ’24

Sumit Oberai & Marcia Mclean, P ’23

Jimmy & Vivian Situ, P ’20

Wing Lok Wan & Winnie Chu, P ’21

Victor Song & Vicky Chen, P ’20

Jun Hao Wang & Xiao Xing Zheng, P ’15, ’20

Catherine & Bohdan Stasiw, P ’23

Jian Wang & Nan Weng, P ’24

Stan Pearl GP ’21, ’23 ★

Frank and Adrienne Staudohar, P ’21

Guiming Wang & Huaizhao Liao, P ’20

York & Nancy Pei, P ’17 & ’20

Nancy Steinhauer, P ’21 ♥

Xiaoyun Wang, P ’24

Mark & Peri Peters, P ’16, ’19

Pavlo Sugolov and Inna Golodniuk, P ’20

Roger Wei & Carol Zhang, P ’24

Jai Parkash & Mamta Dhankhar, P ’20

Peter and Joanne Willson, P ’21

Michael Tanglao & Kathleen Niccols, P ’22

Gabriela Nova, P ’22

Jill Copeland ’85 & Bill Parish, P ’20 ’22

Laurence & Wendy Weizel

Chiu & Elaine Yip, P ’18, ’23

Roger Zheng & Sharon Xu, P ’17, ’23 Yan Zheng & Lily Han, P ’21 Qing Zou and Yunong Xia, P ’21 Anonymous (20) Anonymous Anonymous ♥

PARENTS & GR ANDPARENTS OF ALUMNI Peter & Elizabeth Alberti, P ’80, ’82, ’86 Marianne Anderson & Andrew Clarke, P ’17 Preet Aulakh & Nandi Bhatia, P ’19 Graham & Carolyn Badun, P ’19 David Baskin & Joan Garson, P ’04, ’07 Heidi Bates, P ’85, ’88, GP ’22 Ronald Beiner & Rebecca Kingston, P ’19 Vinny & Jagmohan Bhathal, P ’19 Ian & Susan Binnie, P ’93, GP ’24 Robert G. Boeckner GP ’18 Alma Brace, P ’71, GP ’12 Douglas Bradley & Mary Killoran, P ’01, ’08

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Anthony Brown & Catherine Sim, P ’18 Nicholas Bugiel & Kathy Edgar, P ’13 Valentin & Camelia Burtea, P ’15 Ian Carlin, P ’14 Michael Carter & Linda Carter, P ’86 Voon Loong Chan & Penny Chan, P ’93 Paul & Loretta Chan, P ’98 Jing Chen & Jane Liu, P ’14 Wally Chiu & Sarah Chow, P ’15 Priscilla Chong P’ 98 Gerald Chung & April Chung, P ’04, ’09 Peter and Jennifer Church, P ’05 Stewart & Carmel Crampton, P ’96, ’98 Stanley & Phyllis Dantowitz, P ’91

Satish & Jany Gungabeesoon, P ’13

Jack Leong & Jessica Li, P ’19

Steve O’Neil & Colette Leger, P ’15, ’18

Tong Hahn & D. Smith, P ’16

Robert & Patricia Levy, P ’10, ’13, ’15

Shannon O’Neill ’19

Ellen Drevnig, P ’07

James Hamilton & Dale Gray, P ’04

Xiaowen Duan & Yue Dai, P ’16

Keith Harradence & Susan Ormiston, P ’15

David & Urve Earthy, P ’99

Judith Hashmall, P ’92

Mark & Claudia Eichhorn, P ’17

Jen Hassan, P ’10

Wendy Deng, P ’21

Karim Hirji & Riyana BabulHirji, P ’18

Christopher Li & Melissa Tai, P ’16 & ’19

Juri Otsason & Bernadine Morris, P ’12 Gladys Page, P ’79

Shujie Lin and Jingjing Chen, P ’19

Wen Tang Pan & Jenny Gao, P ’19

Jianming Liu & Maggie Xu, P ’15

Mark & Peri Peters, P ’16, ’19

Wendy Liu, P ’17, ’19

John Pfeffer & Josee Piche, P ’19

Lianne Tile & Andrew Howard, P ’15, ’17

Michael Lo & Christine Chan, P ’18

Feng Qiu, P ’21

Jingping Fan & Susan Wang, P ’19

John & Michelle Hull, P ’16 Oakt & Theresa Hum, P ’93

James & Margo Longwell, P ’15

Robert and Betty Farquharson, P ’10

George & Anne Hume, P ’89

Thomas Magyarody & Christa Jeney, P ’04, ’06

David Farrant & Liliane Diaz, P ’14

Julian Ivanov & Michaela Tudor, P ’17 Anton Jerschow, P ’92

Volker & Vandra Masemann, P ’89, ’90, ’95 & ’02

Susan Kitchell, P ’01

Barbara Morgan, P ’97

Maria & Tibor Kokai, P ’02

Sara Mrosovsky, P ’94, ’96

Ron Lalonde & Jane Humphreys, P ’06

Kayambu & Ramalakshmi Muthuramu, P ’08

Paul Lam & Verna Ng, P ’14, ’18

Martin & Sylvia Nathanson, P ’85, ’87, GP ’20

Balfour Le Gresley, P ’77

Nasir Noormohamed & Tazmin Merali, P ’09, ’10, ’14

Sherali & Roshan Esmail, P ’04, ’07, ’10 Gay Evans, P ’78, ’75

Joshua Fogel & Joan Judge, P ’19 Michael Ford & Hilary Marsden, P ’19 Jennie Frow, P ’97, ’01 Stephen & Anne Georgas, P ’03, ’06 Neil & Natasha Glossop, P ’18 Nancy Epstein & David Goldbloom O.C., P ’05

Chyang & Gloria Lee, P ’87, ’91, GP ’ 22, ’24

Jim & Katherine Gracie, P ’09, ’12, ’15

David Leith & Jacqueline Spayne, P ’11

Michael O’Brien & Jennifer O’Brien, P ’19 Olijnyk Family

Tomas & Alicia Quejada, P ’02 Dejan & Djurdjica Ratkov, P ’16 Stephen Raymond & Natasha Vandenhoven, P ’16, ’19 Donald and Nita Reed, P ’92 David Reese & Amanda Cook-Reese, P ’19 Barbara Ritchie, P ’80 Bruce Rowat, P ’89, ’95 Howard Schneider & Aliye Keskin-Schneider, P ’09, ’13 Peter & Jackie Shaw, P ’17, ’19 Stephen Sibalis & Anne Ellis, P ’10, ’14 39

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Rose Dotten ★ ♥

Michaele M. Robertson & Barry Wansbrough ★

Martha Drake ★ ♥

Ronald Royer

Lynda S. Duckworth

Amy Schindler ★

Rosemary Evans

Forough Shafiee

Kathy Dimas

♥

Michael Farley ♥

Negar Shayan

Josh Fullan

Sarah Shugarman

Daniel N. Genesee ♥

Janice Sirna

Sherly Geronimo ♥

Elizabeth Smyth

Adam Gregson ♥

Julie Stoyka

Walter Guerra ♥

Elizabeth Straszynski & Chris Wilson ♥

Claude Guillemot ♥ H. Donald Gutteridge & M. Anne Millar ★

Philip Sohm & Janet Stanton, P ’02 Cyrus Sundar Singh & Vanessa Laufer, P ’19 Paul Szaszkiewicz & Peggy Theodore, P ’19 Eero Tamm, P ’84 Rongqing Tian & Baomei Shi, P ’18

Anonymous (12) Anonymous (5)

CURRENT & FOR MER STAFF Brigitte Amiot Nandita Bajaj ♥ Gillian Bartlett

The Late David L. Torrey GP ’17

Carole Bernicchia-Freeman

Banh Tran and Samantha Cho, P ’19

Marc Brims ♥

Shuzo Ueno, P ’99

Adam Brown ♥

Alexandru & Michaela Weiner, P ’01

Chris J. Carswell

Chris Winter & Nancy Palardy, P ’19

Jeff Bernstein

Rebecca Harrison & Stephen Colella ♥

Mark Timmins ♥

Sean Hayto

Ann C. Unger ★

Nicola Townend ♥

♥

Jennifer Howell ♥

Marisca Vanderkamp

Serguei Ianine

Mary Vecchio

Monica J.

Manuela West ♥

Judith Kay

Justin Williams ♥

Jeff Kennedy ♥

Janet Williamson ♥

Rob Kennedy ♥

Andrew Wilson ♥

Virginia Ki ♥ Julie Klein

Carole (Geddes) Zamroutian ♥

Garrett Kollins ♥

Anonymous (5)

Mark Laidman

Anonymous (5) ♥

Dan & Diane Lang

Anonymous

Raymond Lee

Anonymous (5)

♥

Garth Chalmers

♥

FRIENDS OF UTS

♥

1804876 Ontario Limited

♥

Anne Avery James Avery

Andrew Masse

Laura Jane Avery

Maureen McCarthy

David Bates

Lily McGregor ★ ♥

Bonita Davidson

Ron Mintz

Michael & Muriel Wissell, P ’14

Simon Cheng

S.K. & P.N. Wong, P ’06

Richard Cook ♥

Takahiro & Tomoko Yamanaka, P ’18

David Cope ♥

Mark Yarranton & Patricia Foran, P ’13

Vince Dannetta

Stan Pearl GP ’21, ’23 ★

Li Zhao & Michelle Wang, P ’19

Dorothy Davis

Ana Maria Pereira-Castillo

Nancy Dawe ♥

Jennifer Pitt-Lainsbury

Eugene T. Di Sante

Marie-Claire Recurt ★

Michael Didier

Libby Reeves ♥

Jim Zhao & Weijing Yuan, P ’16, ’19 40

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Maria Collier

Makeda Daley

♥

♥

♥

James Lemoire

Julie Martin ♥

Sarah Cescon ♥

Mark Sunderland Julia Thompson ♥

Anand Mahadevan

♥

♥

Mary Hall

Rebecca Levere

Shawn Brooks ♥

Laura Sun

Estate of W.Bruce Maclean

Christine Deja

Estate of William R. Hammond Montgomery

Janice Fairweather Google Inc.

Paul Moore

Elena Gourlay

Clare Pace

Michael R. Graham & Nancy Elizabeth Graham

♥

B & B Hamilton Fund at Toronto Foundation The John Hamilton Cameron Clarry Alter Ego Trust

Annual Donor Report

Horst & Marion Herbstreit

Paul Marks

Rapido Trains

Janet M. Hunter

Biff & Sue Matthews

Rogers Communications

IBM Canada Limited

The McLean Foundation

Glen Sanderson

Interguild

Julia Medland

The Henry N.R.Jackman Foundation

Noella Milne

Linda Ann Jewell Jeffrey Kang Tim & Janet Kennish Mary Lynch Margaret O. MacMillan Manulife Financial

Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation

Birgit Siber Donald & Shirley Steele C. Elizabeth Stefan

Toronto Area Custom Ford Dealers Inc Margaret Tovell UTS Alumni Association UTS Parents Association Kemp Watson

Neuberger Berman

Nancy Sutherland

The Henry White Kinnear Foundation

Newton Foundation

Switch VFX & Animation

Government of Ontario

Andrea Williams

Symantec

Alice Yaciuk

Dianne Thomas

Anonymous

Marian L. Thomson

Anonymous (5)

OSSTF District 34-University of Toronto Schools

CELEBRATING OUR GRADUATING CLASS! Since 2007, parents of graduating students have celebrated their children’s graduation from UTS by making a gift to the Grad Class Bursary Fund in honour of their children. The Grad Class Bursary is endowed with over $230,000 which provides approximately $10,000 annually in financial aid to current UTS students. This year, many of the gifts in honour of graduating students were directed to our area of greatest need, the Building Fund. We thank our families for giving the gift of a UTS education through donations totaling almost $100,000!

CLASS OF 2019 Preet Aulakh & Nandi Bhatia, P ’19 in honour of Arif Aulakh 2019 Graham & Carolyn Badun, P ’19 in honour of Madeleine Badun 2019 Ronald Beiner & Rebecca Kingston, P ’19 in honour of Gabriel Beiner 2019

Michael Ford & Hilary Marsden, P ’19 in honour of Samantha Ford 2019

Sang Cheol Han & Mi Hye Kim, P ’19 in honour of Steven Han 2019

Chae Ho Lee & Yunejin Cho, P ’19, ’20 in honour of Sungmin Lee 2019

Audrey Fried ’91, P ’19, ’22 in honour of Ellie Grushcow 2019

Henry Huang 1986 & Albina Huang, P ’19 in honour of Cameron Linhares-Huang 2019

Dae Sung Lee & Seung Mi Choi, P ’19 in honour of Kevin Lee 2019

Waldemar Goleszny & Estella Tong, P ’19, ’23 in honour of Alexander Goleszny 2019

Rhonda Lambert, P ’19 in honour of Lian Lambert 2019

Henry Lee & Hani Kim, P ’19 in honour of John Lee 2019

Vinny & Jagmohan Bhathal, P ’19 in honour of Aekus Bhathal 2019 Paul Chang & Betty Tseng, P ’19, ’21 in honour of Kristen Chang 2019 David Choi & Suin Choi, P ’19 in honour of Michellie Choi 2019 Kyoungkuen Chung & Sungmin Park, P ’19, ’21 in honour of Janice Chung 2019 Rosemary Evans in honour of the Class of 2019 Jingping Fan & Susan Wang, P ’19 in honour of Catherine Fan 2019 Joshua Fogel & Joan Judge, P ’19 in honour of Avi Fogel 2019 41

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Jinwoo Lee & Yeongsook Kim, P ’19 in honour of Soo Yeon Lee 2019

Michael O’Brien & Jennifer O’Brien, P ’19 in honour of Patrick O’Brien 2019

Jack Leong & Jessica Li, P ’19 in honour of Sophia Leong 2019

George O’Neill & Shaolin Lu O’Neill, P ’19 in honour of Shannon O’Neill 2019

Christopher Li & Melissa Tai, P ’16 & ’19 in honour of Nicholas Li 2019

Wen Tang Pan & Jenny Gao, P ’19 in honour of Alisia Pan 2019

Shujie Lin & Jingjing Chen, P ’19 in honour of Raymond Lin 2019

Mark & Peri Peters, P ’16, ’19 in honour of Bridget Peters 2019

Peter Link & Johanne Lessard, P ’19 in honour of Jessica Link 2019

John Pfeffer & Josee Piche, P ’19 in honour of Sara Pfeffer 2019

Wendy Liu, P ’17, ’19 in honour of Henry Yu 2019

Stephen Raymond & Natasha Vandenhoven, P ’16, ’19 in honour of Karina Vandenhoven 2019

David Reese & Amanda Cook-Reese, P ’19 in honour of Dagny Reese 2019 Hemma Rumpl, P ’19 in honour of Anastasia Rumpl 2019 Senior VI Parents in honour of their Graduating Children Peter & Jackie Shaw, P ’17, ’19 in honour of Claire Shaw 2019 Cyrus Sundar Singh & Vanessa Laufer, P ’19 in honour of Saskia Laufer 2019

Paul Szaszkiewicz & Peggy Theodore, P ’19 in honour of Zoe Szaszkiewicz 2019 Banh Tran & Samantha Cho, P ’19 in honour of Ethan Tran 2019 Chris Winter & Nancy Palardy, P ’19 in honour of Aran Winter 2019 Jim Zhao & Weijing Yuan, P ’16, ’19 in honour of Allison Zhao 2019 Li Zhao & Michelle Wang, P ’19 in honour of David Zhao 2019 Anonymous (3) in honour of their Graduating Children

TRIBUTE GIFTS Thank you to everyone who gave in honour or in memory of dear friends and family.

IN HONOUR OF:

Cuebin Choi 2020

Don Gutteridge

Chuck Mayer 1953

Steven 1977 & Gita Alizadeh, P ’15, ’17, ’20, ’22

Class of 1957

Michelle Han 2020

Class of 2024

Professor Charles S. Mayer 1953

Donald K. Avery 1949

Dr. Robert Allan Hart 1955

Lia Copeland 1992

Liam Barker 2020

Juncheng (Jacky) He 2020

John B. Deacon 1969

Jacob Baskin 2004

Suzanne Hidi, P ’77

Francis Egan 2020

Rebecca Baskin 2007

Ruqayya Hirji 2018

Jeremy Eichhorn 2017

Veronika Berbeka 2021

Seymour Hoffman, P ’88

Jim Fleck 1949, P ’72

Don Boutros

Emma Howard 2015

Al Fleming 1954

Sebastian Brown 2018

Meredith Gladish 2022

Samantha Howard 2017

Loui & Mary Opashinov, P ’88

Joanne Carter 1986

William Hu 2020

Stan Pearl

Jessie Chen 2023

Inaugural Class of AP Capstone Graduates

Isabella Huang 2022

John S. Rodway 1954

Stephanie Cheng 2024

Lily McGregor

Henry Huang 1986, P ’19

F. David Rounthwaite 1965

Laura Chiu 2015

Kevin Guo 2024

Lillian Binns & Bezaleel Hylton

Tom Sanderson ’55

Sarenna Iori McKellar 2021

Archie Yuqi Shou 2024

Grace Ko 2024

Katherine Spence, P ’88

Alexander Levy 2013

Liz Stratton

Benjamin Levy 2015

Stephen Tang 2024

Samuel Levy 2010

Dale Taylor 1960

Michael Liu 2015

Edward J. Tian 2018

Chloe Lo 2018

Eric Tu 2021

C. S. Loo and S. Wong

Eva & Jamal Uddin, P ’89

Allison Lou

Ken Ueno 1999

Anand Mahadevan

Ann Unger

Deniz Makul 2022

UTS Teachers & Staff

Junwen Jenny Mao 2012

Yichuan Wang 2020

Suzanne Martin 1984

Daniel Wong

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THE ROOT | FALL 2019

Jessica Monk, P ’20 Patricia Launt & Rylie Moore Ezra Moos 2020 Michael Olijnyk 2010

Lyndon Shopsowitz 2007

Annual Donor Report

Brynne Yarranton 2013

Joseph Keller

Ashley Yip ’18 & Chloe Yip 2023

T.C. Kinnear 1928

Jessica Yu 2022 David Zhao 2019 Alex Zhuang 2020 Sharon Zillmer IN MEMORY OF:

Kenneth C Legge 1930 Andy Lockhart Chris Loukras 1949 The Luther Brothers John Lynch 1959 W. Bruce MacLean

Kenneth Ball 1937

Robert Laidlaw MacMillan 1934

Roger Beare 1963

Harry Maynard

David Bell 1969

Cheryl McCulloch

Ernest Black 1928 John Brace 1944

John Michael McCulloch 1967

Gary Canlett 1954

Ron McMaster

Douglas Carter 1970

Jody Ortved 1969

John Clarry 1938

Warren MacKay Page 1979

Karen Cossar 1982

Paul Patterson 1959

Robert Dowsett 1946

Chris Probert 1969

Gordon Elliot 1962

Peter Ridout 1944

Jack Ellis 1954

John Ringer 1969

Margaret Fleck, P ’72

Ruth E.K. Smith (Medwell) P ’76, ’78

Andrew Frow 2001

William Stewart Rogers 1933

Eric So 2001

Maria Luisa Gardner 1983

Sam Roweis 1990

Shaun Gollish 1977

Jack Rutherford 1929

Marika Tamm 1984

Roy & Joyce Grant, P ’80

Douglas E Sanders 1944

Don Sanderson 1943

Kate Tiley

Michael Shoemaker 1952

Margaret Rose Adair Turnbull

John Stewart 1928 John Archibald Thomson 1944

Sonya Van Veen 2001 Dr. Horst Vogl, P ’73 Alex Wilkens Terry Wills 1956 Susanna Wog

THE UTS ARBOR SOCIETY FOR PLANNED GIVING 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

Lynda Duckworth, Former Teacher

J. Timothy Morgan ’87 John D. Murray ’54

Michaele M. Robertson, Former Principal

James Fleck C.C. ’49, P ’72

Mark Opashinov ’88

John N. Shaw ’50

Christopher (Bill) Ballyn ’51

G. Alan Fleming ’54 Stephen Gauer ’70

Stan Pearl GP ’21, ’23, Former Principal

David Sherman 1975

Gordon M. Barratt ’49 C. Derek Bate ’44, P ’71, ’73, ’75, Former Teacher

H. Donald Gutteridge, Former Principal &

David K. Bernhardt ’54

M. Anne Millar

Lois & John Bowden ’48, P ’79

Arthur C. Hewitt ’49

Paul Brace ’71, P ’12

David J. Holdsworth ’61

Peter L. Buzzi ’77

Robert E. Lord ’58

Benjamin T. B. Chan ’82

James I. MacDougall ’54

Class Member ’84

Bernie McGarva ’72, P ’03

James S. Coatsworth ’69 Gillian (Davidson) Davies ’87

James A. (Sandy) McIntyre ’71

Matthew Dryer ’68

David Morgan ’63

Scott Baker, Former Teacher

Robert W. Hoke ’66

Stephen Raymond & Natasha Vandenhoven, P ’16, ’19 D. Kenneth Roberts ’70, P ’00, ’04

Thomas H. B. Symons, C.C. ’47 Murray E. Treloar ’68 Gregory G. Turnbull ’73 Walter Vogl ’73 Anonymous (19)

If you have made provisions for UTS in your will, or would like to receive information on planned giving, please contact Martha Drake, Executive Director, Advancement at mdrake@utschools.ca or 416-946-0097.

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LOOKING BACK

The renewal of a 109-year-old building is always certain to reveal hidden treasures, and sure enough, construction at 371 Bloor Street has unearthed some fascinating pieces of UTS history. When the south staircase near Huron Street was removed, several works of art, including cartoon characters and a mural of the UTS crest, emerged from behind the brick (top left, top right). Meanwhile, the removal of the UTS trophy case from the main lobby allowed for a glimpse of the original middle doorway to the John & Margaret Withrow Hall. Before there was a UTS auditorium, each of the three doors in this photo (right) led to a separate classroom.

As it turns out, building the future of UTS means taking a trip through the school’s history.