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Cover story

4 The Art of Debate: The Power of PersuasionUCC’s current crop of debaters is emerging as a pow-erhouse on the national stage. Plus as the Old Boys featured here illustrate, debating furnishes you with some of the great life skills — the ability to persuade and lead, whatever your calling.

Features

11 Bald AmbitionHe’s losing hair, but not sleep. Meet Andrew Musselman ’99, who’s spinning minor traumas into comedic gold.

14 New Era for UCC GovernanceThe Board of Governors takes stock and offers up a new governance report with some welcome surprises.

15 Springboard to the Future They’re UCC parents, former boarders and faculty. They value education. And they want to give the gift of opportunity to those with the talents but not the means to attend UCC. Here are their stories.

21 Annual Report 2010 A wrap-up of the past year plus 2009–10 financials.

In every issue

12 Change MakersJohn Stackhouse ’81 is the Globe & Mail’s new editor-in-chief. In an Internet age, he is reinventing the daily paper — in print and online.

26 UCC TodayFounder’s Dinner packed the house with a keynote from UCC granddad Brian Mulroney; students do us proud; check out our vibrant YouTube channel.

31 Ask an Old BoyChris O’Neill ’91 is the new managing director of Google Canada. He looks into his crystal ball and gives a few hints about the future of cyberspace.

32 Remember WhenPress censorship is in the news as regimes fall. Look back 150 years or so and UCC principals have engaged in a few crackdowns themselves.

33 Comings & GoingsChanges to UCC faculty and staff.

34 MilestonesMarriages, births and passings.

37 Class Notes

38 Upcoming Events

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T he reputation of our UCC debaters, as a powerhouse on the national stage, has been gathering momentum over the past half decade. As you’ll read in our cover story,

we’re exceedingly proud of their work, not just as debating superstars but as ambassadors for the College. Their true mis-sion is to promote the value of measured perspective and the quest for common ground, as among the most potent persua-sion and leadership tactics, whatever your career or life path.

And our debaters aren’t the only UCC community members gathering momentum in their field. In newsrooms there’s an old joke that, when dreaming up story ideas, three examples equal one trend. As you’ll see in this issue, we have a wealth of examples from which to form this very happy generalization: The 2010–11 school year is shaping up as a year of bar-raising momentum at the College, all around.

From exhilarating sports achievements to prominent Old Boys issuing shout-outs to their UCC roots when quoted in the national and global press, the College is on quite a roll these days.

Let us first salute our sports teams. November 10 was a day unprecedented in College memory, with three CISAA varsity championship finals on the schedule. Incredibly, our varsity football team took the game, 40–34 in a high-drama overtime showdown against rival St. Andrew’s College. Our varsity volleyball team took silver against St. Michael’s Col-lege and our varsity soccer team claimed its seventh straight CISAA championship in a hard-won 2–0 game against Appleby College. Unbelievable.

Just to raise the school-spirit bar even higher in 2011, the Blue Army was born. The brainchild of two IB2 students, Creativity Steward “General” Chris Griffiths and Connor Taylor briefed the Upper School Assembly on the Army’s first mission, codename “Silent Night,” which was to unfold at the Winterfest varsity basketball game against St. Andrews College, Jan. 21.

It was an unnerving tactic. Usually, boisterous UCC fans cheer player introductions and good plays. That night, the 300-strong UCC crowd was silent — until the 10th point as they’d been briefed in Assembly. With UCC up 7–2, FY student Oneil Halstead scored a three pointer and the crowd erupted. By all accounts, UCC’s 52–44 victory can be attributed in some measure to the Blue Army’s “assault.” To see the fans’ explosion go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaBEIlpcmOA at the 2:07 mark.)

Momentum is also part of the package when it comes to our parent community’s contributions towards our goal to increase needs-based scholarships. As you’ll see in “Spring-board to the Future” on p. 15, our parents have every hope that improving access for amazing students, regardless of background, will elevate the UCC experience for all. These community members are taking the lead, spreading the word and ensuring the value of nurturing talent, regardless of means, becomes increasingly popular as the Campaign for UCC continues to gather speed.

And finally, the momentum behind UCC’s excellent repu-tation on the world stage is a result of, in no small measure, the acknowledgement you give to your roots when you’re singled out in the media.

For example, John Stackhouse ’81, the Globe & Mail’s new editor-in-chief, is the subject of our “Change Makers” feature in this issue. He credits UCC with unlocking his love of words with an initial foray into short-story writing. And from the Wall Street Journal to the Globe and Mail to many web news sources internationally, we collect clippings in which you credit UCC for furnishing the underpinnings of your varied successes.

Thanks. We appreciate it. Let’s keep that ball rolling.

Andrea AsterEditor

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Letters Meet the parents

Your dad is Chair of the UCC Board of Governors. Do you know what he does?Campbell: NoCharlie: Basically, he oversees the UCC community.How do you spend time with your dad?Campbell: We play a lot of sports like mini-sticks [ball hockey]. Charlie: Well, we like to tease him a lot. We do a lot of activity stuff, like skiing, tennis, football. What does your dad care deeply about?Campbell: BusinessCharlie: He cares a lot about helping people. For example, he’s on the board of Sanctuary, a Toronto organization to help homeless people. What’s something a lot of people don’t know about your dad?Campbell: He jokes around a lot.Charlie: He likes to have a good time.What’s his favourite television show and movie?Campbell and Charlie: Modern Family; Meet the ParentsAre you and your dad friends on Facebook?Campbell and Charlie: YesDoes he help you with your homework?Campbell: He helps me with math.Charlie: I don’t see the point, really. I’m very independent about my studying, but if he did, I’d ask him to help me with French. He’s good at it.

Is he strict?Campbell: He makes us turn off the television at 8 p.m. but we don’t have many other rules.Charlie: I have to be home when I’m supposed to, but not much else. We’re pretty well-behaved. What’s your dad proud of you about?Campbell: I qualified for a ski race at Georgian Peaks. I didn’t want to do it. I didn’t feel comfortable. But my dad was proud that I tried something I was scared to do. Charlie: He was proud of how I did on my December exams. I worked hard and was organized.What are you proud of your dad about?Campbell: He spends a lot of time with us. Charlie: Yes, some dads are away a lot. He really tries to connect with us. I’m also proud that he followed his heart by taking the job here as Board Chair. Our grandfather also went here. UCC is a big part of our dad’s life.What would your dad do if you told him you were transferring to Crescent?Campbell: He’d be mad.Charlie: My uncle went there; it’s a good school. I’d really get a rise out of him if I told him I was going to Harvard. He went to Princeton and thinks it’s better.

New Board Chair Andy Burgess has two sons at the College, Campbell in Form 5 and Charlie in Foundation Year. Let’s get to know their dad.

Andy Burgess ’83 is UCC’s new Board Chair The Board of Governors of Upper Canada College is pleased to announce its unanimous decision to accept the nomination of Andy Burgess ’83, to the position of chair, as of January 2011.

A respected leader in both the UCC and business communities, Burgess brings to his new role a clear long-term vision and a great passion for his alma mater. He has been a member of the UCC Board since 2006 and vice-chair of the Board since 2009.

Burgess currently heads his own investment company and was, most recently, CEO and co-founder (along with Gord Gibson ’83) of Somerset Entertainment, a producer and distributor of audio entertainment. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the MBA Program at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He and his wife, Beth, have a daughter, Sarah, and two sons, (Charlie ’13 and Campbell ’18). His father, Campbell Burgess ’41, was also a UCC graduate.

(l–r) Campbell and Charlie Burgess answer a few questions about their dad.

On the move at 90 and still reading Old Times I’ve just moved from Connecticut to Texas and I’m happy Old Times has come with me. You have done a won-derful job of following my addresses and, at 89, I’m now here to stay.

I have many clear memories of my Prep years. Latin has been long forgotten (of course I now know how valuable those lessons were), and cricket was not a game I could

handle. But I got through it all and am a better man for it. Keep up your splendid editorial product and, as you put

the next issue to bed, remember it will be read by a man enrolled in UCC almost 90 years ago!— Hamilton Wilson ’40

Remembering ‘Miss B’ Your story about Ms. Barbara Barrow in the summer/fall 2010 issue (“Boys of Barrow”), together with the Internet video

(www.barbarabarrowfoundation.com), brought back a flood of memories, all of them most rewarding.

Unlike Hugh Smythe ’44, who remarked in his reminiscence of Ms. Barrow that he’d not had any athletic misadventures, I was not so fortunate. In my final year, I was wounded on the football field and again while playing hockey at Maple Leaf Gardens with Hugh, my good friend. As a consequence of these injuries, which resulted in the loss of my right kidney, I spent many hours of the spring term with Miss. B and Dr. McTavish in her infirmary, just down the hall from my father’s classroom.

As the son of a UCC teacher, and an Old Boy, I am especially aware of the value of the foundation set up by Ms. Barrow. Thanks to the editor of Old Times and those who created this excellent video, recognizing the place Ms. Barrow had in the many boys’ lives and the contribution she made to the College. — Peter Bremner ’45

Peter is Hugh Bremner’s son. Hugh taught math at the Upper School (1929–67). He died in 1982 and Bremner’s House (the most recent to be created) was named in his memory in 1983.

The editorial staff of Old Times welcome your letters, however we reserve the right to edit them because of space restrictions. Please write to: [email protected] or send mail to: Old Times, Upper Canada College, 200 Lonsdale Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4V 1W6

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MEET THE CHANGE MAKERS

Ancient alien writings? Spy-worthy encrypted messages? If you flip through this issue of Old Times, you may be scratching your heads over these cryptic square blocks.

Originally developed in Japan for tracking parts in vehicle manufacturing, QR or Quick Response codes, are two-dimensional barcodes that can directly take you to a contact number, email or, in most cases, a Website, to provide you with more information about a place, event or a product.

Gaining popularity in North America, the codes are moving into the mainstream in places such as product

labels, billboards, newspapers and buildings, inviting passers-by to pull out their mobile phones and uncover the encoded information.

In this issue of Old Times, you’ll be directly linked to spe-cific online registration sites. To access the code, users need a mobile phone equipped with a camera and to download a QR reader application, which is freely available online for most devices. Once the software is loaded, just point and click, and the mobile phone will either display the text or ask for per-mission to launch a browser to display the specific website.

Just don’t scan and drive.

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J ust how good are UCC debaters? Take it from the director of the upcoming 2011 Canadian National Debate Championships.

“UCC probably has more good debaters at any grade level than any other school in the country,” says Brian Casey, coach of the Sacred Heart College team in Halifax.

Perhaps, a half decade ago, UCC debaters were perceived, by some grumblers, as a brigade of “resume polishers,” says Casey.

“That belief is long gone,” he says. “A UCC debater can beat almost anyone in the country.”

Welcome to a new era in which UCC’s debaters are prov-ing themselves as powerhouse players on the national circuit — at once acting as fantastic ambassadors for a sport that val-ues humility and sportsmanship over hubris — and develop-ing the lifelong leadership skills the College aims to instill, wherever one’s life journey goes.

A quick skim of the “Milestones” sidebar on p. 7 illustrates just how often we win. Indeed, College debaters dominate the top slots at national and provincial positions, the accolades shared among many players. And while UCC goes up against fellow high school students at tournaments, they also benefit from Debate Club exhibition rounds, going head to head with, for example most recently, members of the Univer-sity of Toronto’s Hart House Debate Union.

It’s not easy stuff. Consider this. Could you stand on stage before a packed house and argue in support of child labour?

“Child labour is an old chestnut in debating,” says UCC debating coach and science teacher Michael Muir, “because it sounds so radical.” An amateur’s mistake, when arguing an “impossible” position, is to assume the premise is inherently evil, explains Muir. Rule One of Debate Club is to identify the stakeholders. How is the child cared for? How much is she working? What’s the family’s plight? The child’s age?

“Sure, it looks like your opponent has the moral high ground, but the challenge is to wedge your way in, to allow something that’s on the surface distasteful to be, at core, acceptable,” says Muir.

The secret is an ability to put oneself in another’s shoes. Sometimes cut-throat competitive impulses aside, the debat-ing program is also the perfect Petri dish in which to cultivate all the character traits the College’s International Baccalaure-ate (IB) program aims to instill, such as open-mindedness and a respect for a multiplicity of viewpoints.

And that’s why its devotees rave that it’s incredible train-ing ground for any career, but more importantly, for any life.

For example, an anecdote from a now infamous debating-tournament moment illustrates the necessity of developing that trait in life, says Muir (with the caveat that UCC debaters have also had their share of not-so glorious moments on the hot seat!)

Flash back two years to the Queen’s University High

School Debating Tournament, Branksome Hall debaters were arguing against the carbon tax, UCC for it. The girls sug-gested the tax would unfairly penalize low-income workers driving to their jobs. The UCC debaters pounced. Think again. Low-income city workers would more likely use public transit, not cars, and so would be unaffected by the tax.

“Ultimately we’re teaching kids to have a realistic vision of the world, despite the privileges they might enjoy,” says Muir. “Our debaters took the opportunity to make a very powerful point.”

People think the obvious careers for debaters are in the arts — law or politics or business school, says Muir, and students do head that way. But it’s more about what hap-pens after that. “The ultimate goal of debating is to persuade

people to believe you whatever you’re doing,” he says. “Also, one of UCC’s mandates is to produce leaders and you can’t lead if you can’t persuade someone of your point of view.”

Indeed, UCC debating fits into the College’s overarching imperative to promote a fluency in current affairs, says Katherine Ridout, assistant head of guidance at the Upper School. Engage-ment in debating is a tool in the arsenal which includes the annual World Affairs Conference and Model Parliament, all student-led symposia

which ignite debate about global affairs and give students a sense of global citizenship, also a key curricular mandate.

It seems to be working.“UCC debaters are terrifically knowledgeable: they seem

able to debate comfortably on a wide range of topics, demon-strating knowledge of economics, politics and international relations,” says Casey.

Likewise the character-building opportunities are not to be underestimated. Much as athletics provides opportuni-ties to show grace under pressure and in victory, so too does debating, as Casey witnesses.

“[In a particular debate] I saw UCC had easily beaten their opponents, but they did so with good manners and were able to destroy the arguments without ridiculing the other debat-ers,” he says. “That requires a certain judgment and maturity which is not always found in high school boys.”

And that’s the value of debating beyond the Assembly or university stage. Rather than stridently defending a position to the death, regardless of your audience, the goal is to figure out something everyone can agree on and argue from a common ground, rather than trying to steamroll or stonewall an oppo-nent. Still, it takes a seasoned arguer to figure that out.

“Debating has strengthened my abilities to reason, persuade and identify common ground,” says Debate Club president Aly Kassim-Lakha whose ambition is to become a world-renowned entrepreneur. With the powers of persuasion he’s already shored up, the world is most certainly his oyster.

By Andrea Aster

Feature Story

UCC’s debaters have emerged as a powerhouse team on the national stage — not inspiring fear — but camaraderie and respect. They’re also developing lifelong leader-ship skills. After all, you can’t lead if you can’t persuade someone of your point of view.

THE ART OF…

“Devotees rave that debating is

incredible training ground for any

career, but more importantly, for

any life.”

‘REV UP’ YOUR POWERS OF PERSUASION

(l–r) UCC debaters Kaleem Hawa ’11 and Aly Kassim-Lakha ’11 hone their skills.


1858 marked the formation of the Debating Society, as reported in College Times. In 1859 the Boarding House Debating Society was formed. From 1871–73 the Debating Society met 43 times. Topics included: Does wealth exert more influence than knowledge? Is man more revengeful than woman? Is the independence of Canada desirable? In 1911 there was an “uproarious” debate concerning whether women should be given the vote. Supporters were “forced to adopt their side against their innermost convictions.” The unfortunates on the supportive side

had to be chosen by lot! In 1948 the Fulford Debating League was founded for independent schools in Ontario. UCC, always a strong contender, dominated the league in 1968, 1970, 1979 and from 1984–92. Recent debating coaches have included former principal Richard Sadleir (1961–62); Howard Lacey (1964–73); Nigel Barber (1974–75); David Matthews (1971–73); Ross Morrow (House Debating 1976–94); Marshall Webb (1976–86); Paul Illidge (1981); Keith Fleming (1983–98); Michael Muir (2004–present)

Watch our debaters in action online: Perhaps the only televised debate you’ve seen is political candidates aiming to score points and win voters. Well it’s time to see our budding leaders display their powers of persua-sion. They’re an inspiration to brush up on your own presentation skills, whether you’re running for office — or just trying to convince your wife she’ll love that new action movie.

This is a recent exhibition debate at an Upper School Assembly to promote special guest David Frum, former White House speech writer, at the UCC-hosted, 28th World Affairs Conference. The topic was the invasion of North Korea: www.ucc.on.ca/northkoreadebate

Focus on UCC debaters Nothing’s more intimidating than a championship debate team on a roll. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at two of UCC’s secret weapons…

Caleb Guthrie ’11CAREER GOALS Chemistry or physicsHOW WILL DEBATING HELP YOU GET THERE? No matter where you go, an ability to advocate for yourself and your opinions is an incredibly useful skill.QUALITIES OF A GREAT DEBATER? You need a wide range of interests, especially in foreign affairs and economics, also an ability to fully agree with whatever side you are assigned. Finally, you must be able to punish your opponents’ mistakes!BIGGEST MISCONCEPTION ABOUT DEBATERS? That we only attack the weak points of our opponents’ case. There are few things more harshly punished by judges than not attempting to deal with a good point. Even if it’s indisputably brilliant, and would likely convince anyone who heard it, you must make a serious effort to rebut it.

2011: Metro Regionals Competition, Kaleem Hawa ’11 and Mohammed Niaz ’12 place first. UCC wins “Best School” award and Hawa is top speaker.2010: Ali Jutha and Scott Kilian-Clark ’10 win Queen’s National Debating Tournament against fellow UCC students Caleb Guthrie ’11 and Hawa. Kilian-Clark is named top speaker. (This fiercesome foursome represent the top two of 74 teams in Canada, and the third such tournament win for UCC in four years); Aly Kassim-Lakha and Cole Bricker ’11 place first at the Ontario Provincial Championship; At the McGill University Tournament, Hawa and Guthrie are semi-finalists; Cole Bricker and Harris Kaufman ’10 win the University of Toronto Hart House Debate Tournament.2009: Kaleem Hawa and Caleb Guthrie are the quarter-finalist

team at the McGill University Tournament, with Guthrie placing second of 216 debaters and Hawa placing third. Hawa and Guthrie are the Junior Finalist Team at the Hart House (University of Toronto) Tournament.2008: Calvin Rosemond ’08 and Joe Bricker ’08 win the Queen’s University High School Debating Tournament for the second time. 2007: Rosemond and Bricker beat out 62 teams at the Queen’s University High School Debating Tournament, losing only one debate in the first six rounds.2006: Rosemond and Bricker win the North American Debating Championship [now the Oxford Cup] in Montreal, one of five teams from Ontario and 32 teams in competition from across North America.

The Art of Persuasion

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Kaleem Hawa ’11 CAREER GOALS Law or medicine — or something else entirelyHOW WILL DEBATING HELP YOU GET THERE? Debating has helped me better articulate myself and speak more confidently in public — integral skills no matter the job. I have the utmost admiration for UCC debating; I’ll never fear the business meeting or stumble on the big presentation. To win, you’re forced to adopt view-points that you wouldn’t necessarily hold. That opens your eyes to the numerous stances people can have on an issue and often leads to greater empathy and understanding for people — something crucial for success in life. QUALITIES OF A GREAT DEBATER? My debating partner specializes in sarcastic wit while I have mastered the art of overstatement (just kidding). In reality, it’s my ability to think on my feet. BIGGEST MISCONCEPTION ABOUT DEBATERS? That we’re all arrogant and outspoken characters that have nothing better to do then argue about the foreign policies of autocratic regimes across the world. In reality, while we won’t shy away from an argument, we don’t necessarily look to start any either.

Milestones Great moments in recent UCC debate history

19891972(l–r) Hugh Innes and Gordon Davis (both ’72) celebrate their Fulford Cup victory. Daniel Steiner and John Pottow (both ’89) have some fun debating the resolution

on the blackboard: People with hairy eyebrows should be castrated!



Prominent UCC debaters Arthur McKee Rankin 1857, U.S. repertory theatre pioneer and actor Michael Ignatieff ’65, Liberal party leader Peter Rekai ’71, prominent immigration and business lawyer; recently authored a study on Canadian and U.S. immigration issues for noted Canadian policy think-tank the C.D. Howe Institute Hugh Innes ’72, president, York Invest-ment Strategies; formerly executive vice-president, KPMG Investment AdvisorsBlake Woodside ’75, director of the To-ronto General Hospital’s in-patient eating disorders program; psychiatry professor at the University of TorontoPeter Dalglish ’76, founder of the Street Kids International, a non-profit for street youth worldwide; senior adviser for the United Nations in Afghanistan, managing a skills training program for 310,000 war-afflicted youthLarry Grafstein ’78, managing director, U.S. co-head of mergers and acquisitions at investment banking firm Rothschild in New York; member of UCC Principal’s Ad-visory Council and UCC Board of TrusteesPeter Singer ’78, prominent bioethicist; director at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Net-work and University of Toronto; professor of medicine at the University of TorontoRocco Rossi ’81, former Toronto mayoral candidate, running for Ontario Conservative Party as a member of Provincial ParliamentShafiq Qaadri ’82, member of Provincial Parliament for Etobicoke North; family physician and public healthcare advo-cate; author of The Testosterone Factor: A Practical Guide to Improving Vitality and Virility NaturallyChristopher Carnegie ’87, winner of World Finals, English Speaking Union – Inter-national Public Speaking Competition, London, U.K. (1987); Hon. Assistant Private Secretary & Extra Equerry to Their Royal Highnesses The Earl & Countess of Wessex; Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (the Queen’s personal Order of Knighthood for service to the Royal Family)Theo Caldwell ’91, winner of several Fulford Cups at UCC; author, journalist, financial adviser

Who did we miss? How did UCC debating shape your life? Please email the editor at [email protected] and we’ll be sure to share your replies in an upcoming issue.

Even after 20 years at the University of Oxford, Timothy Endicott is still discov-ering its magical crannies and gardens. That’s not surprising considering Balliol College, where he has been a Fellow in Law since 1999, was founded in the 13th century. Lured by its wizard-y atmosphere, many of the Hogwarts School scenes in the Harry Potter movies were filmed on location at the legendary campus.

“It’s an enchanting place,” says Endicott, who was appointed Oxford’s first-ever dean of law in 2007, “something you don’t always notice when you’re late for a meeting.”

Marshall Webb, Endicott’s debating coach at UCC, remembers the kernels of the character traits that set Endicott on his path to the academic stratosphere. “He was a serious student — a real inquiring mind,” says Webb. “He was low key, but motivated.”

Indeed, speaking on the phone from Oxford, Endicott’s low-key manner belies his prestigious posting. After studying Classics and linguistics at Harvard and Oxford, he studied law at the University of Toronto and practised as a litigation lawyer in that city, before pursuing a DPhil in legal philosophy in Oxford.

Now, as a professor of legal philosophy, his expertise is in jurisprudence and both constitutional and administrative law. In addition to his research, much of his work as dean is to recruit international faculty and staff. It’s an incredibly interna-tional student body, he says, and a full half of the legal academics on campus are from overseas.

Endicott speaks with sharp wit about his days as a UCC debater in Grades 9 and 10. As in the legal profession itself, he emphasises that there is a definite element of showmanship when appealing to an audience, be it jury or judges.

“There’s a certain aspect of performance to debating,” he says. “Your challenge is to express your ideas in a way that both entertains and persuades an audience.”

As well, debating and law both require a certain objectivity, he says. Even if one is dispassionate about a topic, passion must be summoned. “In a way debating is phoney and artificial in the sense that, at 9:30 a.m., you might be told you have to agree to the seal hunt or agree that Quebec has a right to secede, and you have an hour to prepare and then argue passionately on the topic.”

Clearly, the debating skills Endicott gathered at UCC have served him well in the legal profession. “Debating is like law; you have to make the strongest case for whatever interest you’re defending.” However, both are a challenge.

“There is no formula,” he says. “There’s no alternative to thinking carefully and not dismissively — and the more exposure to someone else’s point of view the better.”

From his perch at Oxford, with an eagle’s eye view of an exceedingly inter-national community of students and faculty, Endicott is still discovering what is always the central tenet of debating:

“It’s especially true for lawyers, but anyone from any walk of life can benefit from opening oneself to another’s viewpoint; it’s a central academic skill.”

Legal EagleAs the University of Oxford’s first-ever dean of law, Timothy Endicott ’79 knows the value of a persuasive argument

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Bald Ambition

A part from speaking in public, impotence and defusing a nuclear bomb that has only nine seconds left on its timer, there are few situations that produce as much

anxiety among men as losing one’s hair. Fear of having too few follicles (“phalacrophobia” by the way) is a big one — and a not-at-all laughing matter for many guys who avoid reality — with comb-overs, Propecia or baseball caps.

One exception is actor/writer Andrew Musselman ’99, who recently took on the touchy subject with a comedy sketch. Filmed at UCC during the winter break, the short video is set up at a support group for victims of male pattern baldness, in the vein of Alcoholics Anonymous.

“I’m not totally comfortable with the idea of going bald,” says Musselman, noting with a laugh that he and Adam O’Byrne ’97, who appears in the sketch, are both a little thin on top. “But it’s like we’re teasing ourselves for having those reactions,” he adds. “Good comedy gets close to the truth. And the more honest it is, the funnier it gets.”

The sketch was one of the first to go online when peepholetheatre.com launched in February, looking to drum up attention and business for Musselman and writing partner Jeff Copeland. Their comedy website features the Peephole Theatre Players. It includes seven original videos intended to be a pilot for a sketch comedy series. The goal is to find a broadcasting partner and, ideally, create something like the much-beloved Kids in the Hall. The Internet has become the new vehicle for talent spotting, says Musselman.

Those who recruit comedy writers used to do their talent-spotting in stand-up clubs, but no more.

“The first place they go is online,” says Musselman, making a strong web presence essential. They hope the site will help get them spotted. “We’d love to have a hobby that funds itself,” he says.

In the meantime, he pays the bills with day jobs, including bartending and supply teaching at UCC. Their material covers everything from political satire to a faux holiday special “where I’m in full drag, doing a Dan Aykroyd/Julia Child thing,” he says.

He notes that writing offers more creative control than his first love, acting. “Being an actor you’re really at the mercy of other people,” he says. “I like acting but I got to the point that I wanted more control of my own destiny. With writing I feel I can build more of a career.”

That said, Musselman — “Moose” to former teachers and classmates — is a proven dramatic actor. His one-man, 20-character performance in the 2008 play Catalpa drew raves from the press, and he has popped up on TV series including Flashpoint, jPod and The Jon Dore Television Show.

It all started back in Grade 11, when Musselman eschewed football in favor of the “incredibly ambitious” Little Theatre where he came under the wings of mentors Colin Lowndes and Dale Churchward. His first role? Polonius in a little thing called Hamlet. Next came turns in the equally imposing Faustus and Othello. “Plays that 17- and 18 year-olds have no business messing around in,” he laughs, “but you learn so much from doing that.”

“That kind of ambition and demand for excellence was a big part of my development,” says Musselman, who later went on to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. “There’s something so social about the Little Theatre, camaraderie. It’s in sports too but I found it in theatre.”

Even back then Musselman displayed “a mastery of extremely challenging roles” says Churchward. Another instructor, Derek Poon, remembers his crusading, “culture changing” term as Head Steward and leader of the Community Life Taskforce.

Musselman and the CLT brought the difficult topics of “bullying, harassment, homophobia, racism, sexism and other forms of inappropriate behavior into the light,” says Poon, making students and Old Boys “better citizens of the world.”

He was, Poon adds, “one of the most influential students of my time.”

Musselman says that’s very flattering, but downplays his youthful “roaring from the pulpit.” It was in some ways, like an acting job, he says.

“I look back on that and I think: It was youth… But how nice of UCC to have indulged me.”

Sean Davidson writes about comedy for Toronto’s Eye Weekly.

Hoping to be talent-scouted for his comedy writing, Andrew Musselman ’99 launches a website of his troupe’s work. (The next Kids in the Hall? Why not?)

By Sean Davidson

(l-r) Andrew Musselman ’99, Matthew Olver and Adam O’Byrne ’97 examine the evidence.


On January 5, 2011, UCC bid farewell to one of its most extraordinary friends. In the 98th year of his remarkable life, Willis McLeese passed away, leaving wife Adelaide, son Rob ’71 and grandsons Stephen ’03, Geoffrey ’03 and Paul ’01.

From his Second World War service in the navy, to his legendary and lucrative careers in refrigeration and power, to the resort community he built at Cobble Beach, Ont., McLeese made the most of every moment. But of all the lessons McLeese gleaned from his decades of achievement, this was most pronounced: The power to persuade is essential to success.

His philanthropic efforts were vast and various, from giv-ing financial aid for less-privileged students to attend UCC, to providing the opportunity for physically challenged youth to experience horseback riding through the Georgian Riding Association for Challenged Equestrians (GRACE) in Owen Sound. But the cause to which McLeese was most devoted was helping young people learn the craft of persuasive speaking.

He donated time, money, and energy to this effort for 40 years, particularly in support of UCC and the Canadian Student Debating Federation (CSDF). He endowed the Willis S. McLeese Chair in Canadian Debating, based at UCC and working with the CSDF, to bring young people across the country into this activity.

McLeese believed that students who develop the skills and confidence to speak publicly and advocate positions are well-equipped for the contest of life. CSDF Founder Tom Lawson recounts how, in 1971, he telephoned McLeese, whom he did not know, and asked him to fly to Edmonton to debate the merits of the free market in an open public broadcast in front of 70 Canadian teenagers: “You’ll do it,” Lawson told him, “if you love kids.”

Not only did Mr. McLeese accept the invitation and bring the house down with his performance, but he signed on as treasurer of the nascent coalition. McLeese’s commitment and

business acumen proved invaluable.As a result of McLeese’s support, says Lawson, “Countless

thousands of great young Canadians have participated in formal, structured debate at both junior and senior levels in district, provincial, national, North American and world competition.”

“Debating is a way to extend your influence,” McLeese was fond of saying, often adding, “Canada will always need great leaders.” He understood and evinced that being a leader does not require your name on a ballot. Leaders come in all sorts, in every profession. What they share is the power to convince and inspire. He insisted that student debaters argue every resolution from both sides, believing this would teach young people respect and tolerance for each other.

McLeese knew that whatever future careers students might pursue, someday they would have to answer questions like: What makes you different? Why should we do it your way? Why should I buy what you are offering? So much of life, and success, is about selling ideas. From Clarence Darrow to Don Cherry, if you can make a case, you can make a living. For McLeese, debating was practical education at its best.

It was a supreme and undeserved compliment when Mr. McLeese asked me to take up the Chair that bears his name. Working with, and learning from, a man of his character and stature was one of the great privileges of my life. Together, we were able to bring students from UCC and across Canada to the famed Munk Debates in Toronto, introducing them to luminaries, getting them newspaper coverage and making it possible for them to debate live on the radio. We facili-tated tournaments and workshops for hundreds of students from every background, as well as tutorials for teachers and coaches, enabling schools to create and develop their own debating programs.

Beginning in 2011, the McLeese Prize in Debating will be pre-sented to the graduating UCC student who best exemplifies Mr. McLeese’s ideals of skill in the activity, tolerance and leadership. He was particularly enthusiastic about our latest venture, the McLeese Online Debating program. Hosted by mcleesedebate.com, this unique function will allow any student with web access to participate in teacher-moderated debates from anywhere in Canada. This undertaking appealed to Mr. McLeese straight away, as he understood that many schools and regions lack the funds or the infrastructure to allow kids to participate in debating.

His copious experiences were animated by his personal motto, “Dum Spiro, Spero” — Latin for “While I breathe, I hope.” The McLeese Debating crest, which combines the McLeese family coat of arms with symbols of UCC and the CSDF, bears these words. By his example, and through his tremendous generosity, Willis McLeese offered hope to count-less young Canadians. What a magnificent legacy he leaves.

Willis McLeese 1913–2011 Theo Caldwell ’91 says farewell to Canada’s greatest supporter of student debating. The founder of the UCC-based, national debating program McLeese Debating helped thousands of high school students find their voice.

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A s editor-in-chief of the Globe and Mail, John Stack-house ’81 says many people make the assumption he’s in the trenches of the newsroom — crafting new story

angles, editing copy and signing off on the front page. While Stackhouse, whose own reporting for the Globe has won several National Newspaper Awards, does dip into the news discussion two or three times a day, he spends most of his energy on busi-ness challenges. The most pressing among them: navigating the country’s most venerable newspaper in a digital age.

For years now, we’ve heard that the newspaper industry is on life support, struggling to remain relevant among readers who may be as likely to get their news from Facebook. No doubt it is a daunting time for newspapers — and Stackhouse has taken on the challenge with characteristic get-your-hands-dirty (or, in this case, inky) gusto. “I was aware coming into this position that it wasn’t to carry on business as usual,” says the 48-year-old, who was promoted to the editorship in May 2009. “And I didn’t want to do that.”

He certainly hasn’t. He led a dramatic redesign of the Globe, which now boasts colour on every page as well as more photos. Walk into Stackhouse’s office, and that’s one of the first things you’ll notice, photos capturing everything from civil unrest to a sleeping polar bear, snapped by Globe photographers.

Though Stackhouse has had a way with words ever since writing short stories at UCC, he also loves photography. “We’ve tried to amplify photos both in the paper and on the website,” he says.

The print content, meanwhile, aims to bring to Canadians what he calls a “daily pause,” to help them make sense of world events. The overall vision is of “an exceptional newspa-per that holds its own in a digital world,” he says. “It is very much produced for the digital citizen who has access to every other channel but still sees value in that pause.”

And the Globe continues to invest in those “other” chan-nels; the website, mobile and an iPad app. “It doesn’t matter to me if someone reads the Globe on Facebook, Twitter or the newspaper,” he explains of the cross-platform strategy.

Indeed, for all the technological change that has trans-formed the media industry, Stackhouse says journalism at its core remains about the pursuit of truth. He has epitomized that lofty goal throughout his career, using the printed word to question authority and challenge conventional wisdom.

He lived on the streets of Toronto for an award-winning series that painted a more complete picture of homelessness. As part of his investigative reporting into the Bre-X scandal, also for the Globe, he rented a boat to visit the mining site. And he spent eight years as the Globe’s development issues reporter in New Delhi.

“When I was overseas, I had to learn to be in a conflict zone in the morning, sit in someone’s hut in the afternoon and then interview a head of government in their palatial home in

the evening,” he says. “You have to be able to adjust to different situations, but understand that it is still about the same pursuit of discovery.”

He first realized his love for truth-seeking while studying com-merce and business at Queen’s University. In between classes, he worked for the school paper, and in his final year became editor-in-chief. “With each passing year, I realized I was enjoying working on the student paper more than I was enjoying going to class.”

Still, he says it was his time at UCC that ultimately pre-pared him for the challenges he’d face as a reporter and then editor, including for the national, foreign and Report on Busi-ness sections of the Globe.

“UCC was a very competitive school, which can be uplift-ing at times but can also be demoralizing,” says Stackhouse, whose father was a professor and Anglican priest and his mother a public school teacher. “I didn’t appreciate what I gained from it until I was gone, but that learning environment very much prepared me for a competitive world and for work-ing with diverse groups of people on complex challenges.”

He also made some lifelong friends, including former McHugh’s housemates Peter Dotsikas ’81, a criminal lawyer and partner at Dotsikas Hawtin, and Rocco Rossi ’81, provin-cial Conservative candidate. Neither is surprised Stackhouse became one of the country’s most respected news leaders.

“He always seemed to be a good observer of things around him, which I think comes with being a quiet guy at times,” says Dotsikas, who recalls they played under-16 football together.

“He was a quiet guy, always reading a book, but he was also a good person to have at a party,” adds Rossi. “I’ve become an enormous admirer of his courage and intellectual honesty.”

No doubt that courage has served him well in an industry with more competition than ever before.

“We are up against finding and unearthing information from governments, companies and institutions who don’t want to see it published, he says. “We’re competing with all sorts of people who five years ago didn’t exist.”

Still, while enjoying an increase in print circulation, the Globe has seen incredible growth of its online properties. To date, the Globe has two paid online offerings: GlobeinvestorGOLD.com and Globe2Go e-paper, and there may be more to come.

“The challenge is to determine what content people will pay for,” he says. “It is hard to make a case for general news because it is so ubiquitous. But there is specialized content that may have greater value and can be packaged in different ways and different platforms.”

So yes — Stackhouse knows it is a daunting time in the history of the newspaper. But it is also a moment of incredible opportunity. “While the world is fretting about the future of newspapers, I’ve never once had a doubt about the future of the Globe,” he says. “It represents the best of Canadian journalism.”

The same could be said of John Stackhouse.

John Stackhouse

By Chris Daniels

Technical change has transformed journalism but, at core, it’s still about the pursuit of one thing — truth.

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to the future

New era for UCC governance

C orporate governance in the private sector has never been more of a hot-button topic. It made sense, there-fore, that the College’s Board of Governors wanted

to ensure that UCC’s governance practices be subjected to a vigorous review.

Now completed, those practices have been called “as thorough” as any to be found in any Canadian organization, according to Rotman School of Management governance expert Richard Powers, who acted as consultant on the review.

“We wanted to ensure we are ‘best-in-class,’ not just within the non-profit sector, but as compared against both the public and for-profit sectors as well,” explains Board and Governance Committee member Peter MacGowan ’77

The review served to heighten both the profile of, and community knowledge about, the Board of Governors. Indeed, based on the community response and conversation around the recently completed Governance Review, it’s abun-dantly clear that the College community cares deeply about issues affecting the College’s future direction — and about the important role the Board plays in those decisions.

As well, a secondary reason for the review is historical prec-edent. “UCC has a history of looking at governance on a regular basis, and the last formal examination took place in 2002,” explains MacGowan. “It made sense to have another review.”

The committee spent most of 2010 reaching out to the broader UCC community. It held two town hall meetings and heard from past chairs, principals, heads of parents’ organiza-tions, the College’s Executive Committee, faculty and admin-istration. It also studied governance practices at three other boys’ schools — in Canada, the U.S. and England.

“The key things we learned,” says current Board chair Andy Burgess ’83, who was vice-chair at the time and headed the review process, “is that the College community doesn’t know enough about who sits on the Board, what it does and how it makes decisions. The good news, though, is that these issues can be easily addressed through increased transpar-ency, better communication and other measures, so we are seen less as a ‘black box.’”

One of those measures, of particular interest to alumni, is the committee’s suggestion that the College establish a new position to hear and act upon concerns expressed by any UCC community member. The function of this new director of community relations is to be a “facilitator for the resolution of a broad range of issues,” says MacGowan, who is responsible for implementing all the recommendations as head of the Board’s Governance and Nominating Committee.

He adds that the director of community relations is not intended to be an ombudsperson, nor will he or she have the power to resolve problems. Instead, the position will exist “to ensure there is an avenue for people to raise issues and provide a clear sense that the concern has been listened to and will be addressed.”

Overall, the 10-person committee endorsed most of the Board’s existing practices, while aiming to evolve within the area of “visibility, transparency and communication.” Explains MacGowan: “The Board’s benchmarks of success include doing a great job of reaching out to the community for effec-tive consultation and ensuring that people have a complete understanding of the Board’s governance function.”

In short, that function is as the College’s ultimate author-ity. Specifically, the Board is responsible for the College’s vision, strategic plan and financial health.

Good governance is critical, Burgess explains. “We reach our goals when Board decision-making is done well,” he says, “and we want to ensure that continues into the future.”

Meanwhile, the Governance Report, adopted by the Board in January, also strongly endorsed the current practice of recruiting new members in a transparent process for their “skills, experi-ence and demonstrated dedication to the College.”

MacGowan, who is also responsible for Board recruit-ment efforts, stresses that membership is open to women and to men who are not Old Boys. “Attracting the very best students, regardless of their financial ability to attend, is what we want. And hand-in-hand with a diverse student body is the need for a diverse Board of Governors.

“As we expand beyond our traditional communities, we want our new communities represented on the Board.”

For his part, Burgess says one of the most gratifying aspects of the review came towards the end of the year-long process. In one of its last meetings, Powers turned to Burgess and said, “I know of no other organization, corporate or not-for-profit, that has undertaken such a thorough review of its governance process.”

Adds Burgess: “That certainly gave us the confidence that we are going in the right direction.”

To view the full report online: ucc.on.ca/GovernanceReview

It’s no stretch to say Marco Cianflone ’09 was one of the star students in his year, the kind of student his peers will remem-ber forever. He was varsity rugby captain and varsity football co-captain, despite never having played before. In his final year he was Head Steward and president of the Student Activity Council. Montreal raised, from a family of modest means, he now studies economic and liberal arts at Harvard.

Cianflone remembers his experience at UCC as “almost surreal, because I realize how fortunate I was to be here.” One day he says, “I hope to be in a position where I can provide ambitious and talented students from financial backgrounds similar to my own the opportunity of a lifetime as UCC has done for me.”

Considering the critical competition UCC now faces in attracting the most remarkable boys from all backgrounds, we are inspired to think ahead. You are about to read stories about a community coming together to make the impossible possible. UCC is driven by a common goal, to attract the best students from Canada and around the world, regardless of background.

As Cianflone’s experience illustrates, drawing in these outstanding students elevates the College experience for all. A commitment to increased financial aid does not mean simply

increasing the diversity of the student body for its own sake. Rather, by broadening our applicant pool, we will be raising the bar on the calibre of our student body, enriching the student experience for all.

At the ground level, that means more intellectually stimu-lating classroom discussion, more impressive artistic perfor-mance and more competitive sports teams. As well, an added benefit is that pooling students from a broader range of backgrounds broadens debate in the classroom.

“An increased commitment to financial aid allows UCC to stand above its peer institutions in its ability to recruit talent, today and for the next 100 years,” says Struan Robertson, UCC’s executive director of recruitment and admissions. “Certainly there are examples of UCC having lost a potential star pupil to a school that could offer a more competitive financial-assistance program.”

Our community is being asked to come together to ensure our future legacy of leadership. A vigorous needs-based scholar-ship program is the key to that common goal. Currently, only six per cent of UCC boys benefit from scholarship support, compared to 40 per cent of students at great peer schools with well-entrenched traditions of student aid. Yes, it’s an ambitious goal: UCC aims to offer need-based scholarships to 20 per cent, or 220 boys, within the next three to four years.

Talent is everywhere — and a healthy financial aid cushion will enable us to recruit it. The following community leaders and benefactors are proudly pointing the way to our school’s new legacy. Here are their stories:

By Michael Benedict

After a year-long review, a new governance report ushers in an era of improved community relations and transparency

by Lisa Boyes

Springboard

Who gives to UCC’s ambitious campaign to ensure 20 per cent of our students receive needs-based scholarships by 2015 — and why, exactly? Meet our visonary donors.

Board Chair Andy Burgess ’83 with Board and Governance Committee member Peter MacGowan ’77 aimed to ensure UCC’s governance was “best in class.”

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Susan Guichon has high standards — for herself as a UCC volunteer, for her three sons and for those who will benefit from her family’s $200,000 financial-aid gift.

The two Guichon boys discovered the best of themselves at UCC, and their parents, Susan and Gregory Guichon, expect that third son David, now in IB1, will do the same. That’s why they want to do the best they can for UCC, through the Guichon Foundation Scholarship, established in 2010.

Her belief that UCC is “not a good school, but a great school” also inspires Guichon’s own enormous volunteer commitment and her and husband Gregory’s financial com-mitment to their sons’ alma mater. Her senior roles on UCC parent organizations, boards and councils, at social and sporting events, capped by her international alumni trips as a school ambassador, exemplify the passion that her boys have also discovered and brought to their education and their lives.

“Our sons Michael ’03 and Ryan ’06 were driven to achieve individual goals at UCC,” says Susan Guichon. “They found the drive to do that; they found it here. They became very passionate through sport, which translated into working extremely hard across their whole IB program at the College.”

The Guichons believe their sons have been well prepared to go on to further study, work and life as a result of their UCC experiences. Michael is now an investment analyst in New York City. Ryan is completing a double major in Econom-ics and Spanish at Queen’s University.

In turn, through their $200,000 donation to the College’s student scholarship campaign, they want their sons’ alma mater to create a new legacy of opportunity for boys of varied means and backgrounds.

“The biggest benefits,” says Guichon, “will be to foster more

diversity and breadth of aptitudes and talent at the school. I have always had a great experience as a volunteer at UCC.”

During son David’s years at the college, the greatest shift in UCC culture will see a wider range of boys, with their apti-tudes and talents, brought into the social and academic mix. Guichon has also seen how parents have increasingly been invited to become partners in the life of the school. “I am very proud of UCC for taking on this major student scholar-ship campaign, and I will continue to work as a parent in partnership with the College.”

The Guichon Foundation Scholarship will be successively allocated, over five-year periods, to an outstanding student with financial need.

Meet the Star Volunteer

Much of what I gained at UCC has set me on the path to becoming who I am today. I owe a large part of that to Mr. Watt. I hope one day I can give someone a gift as meaningful as he has given me.”

— Matthew Kupfer ’06, Browning Watt Scholarship recipient

With a $100,000 gift, prominent doctors Monique and George Christakis aim to “raise the calibre of the school.”

Monique and George Christakis, a radiologist and cardiologist, respectively, are the calibre of people who might have gone to independent schools in their youth, if their families had the means to send them.

Now, they are providing that opportunity to their son Theodore, Grade 7, and also to talented boys whose families need some level of financial support for their sons to attend the College.

“It’s about who’s got talent, no matter their background,” says Monique Christakis.

The Christakis family has supported the College regularly over the past eight years, giving to the Horizons

community-service program, the College Priority Fund and the UCC Scholarship Fund. In January they established the $100,000 Christakis Family Scholarship in perpetuity.

As volunteers, the Christakis’s also co-chair UCC’s Council of 1829, which recognizes the school’s leading benefactors. Their son has attended UCC since the introduction of kinder-garten. He is an excellent student and active in the College band, and on the volleyball and swim teams.

“Theodore loves the whole package,” says his mother. “For us, UCC offers all-encompassing value — in its teachers, programs, facilities, and in the College guidance counsellors’ direct connections to reputable post-secondary institutions. Ivy League schools actually come to UCC to recruit.”

UCC has become a tradition for the extended Christakis family, as well. The couple’s two nephews, Theodore ’02 and Panos ’03 study medicine at Yale University.

In terms of the College’s own future, the Christakis family believes UCC is going in the right direction with more subsi-dized places for excellent boys who need the support. “When such students go to UCC,” says Monique, “they raise the level of the school for everyone.”

Meet the Parents

Springboard to the future

I am proud to say I am a member of the Harvard Class of 2013. I know that my life may not have gone in this direction had I not the opportunity to attend Upper Canada College.

— Marco Cianflone ’09 received the Arthur Gleber Scholarship, the Alan S. Harris Bursary, the Eric Egerton Ryerson Scholarship in Cana-dian History, the Gould Family Bursary, the Lio-nel M. Gleber Bursary, the Paul Phelan Scholar-ship, the Robert Watson Gouinlock Bursary and the William Stanley Goulding Scholarship.

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Me, a UCC boy? A renewed commitment to increasing UCC’s financial-aid resources ushers in a new era of high-calibre applicants.

Who is a UCC boy? He’s the student of the year and committed to community service. But his parents come to a UCC Open House, shake their heads and turn away when they hear about fees.

“This is only one example of the kinds of boys we have to turn away,” says David Shaw, a senior admissions coun-

sellor and Advancement associate.“We have exceptional young guys at UCC,”

he adds. “And we have always had financial support for some students, but at a very minimal level. We have now strongly shifted our degree of focus, so that we can open our doors to a wider array of remarkable boys.”

As a teacher and admissions counsellor Shaw sees this challenge, and UCC boys, from all sides. A family’s gratitude for financial aid may not be sufficient rationale for its exis-tence, but Shaw argues, providing that support is, actually, “positively selfish.”

Boys from affluent families are motivated students, too, but boys given an opportunity that they never dreamed would be within their grasp are also virtually guaranteed investments, in Shaw’s experience. They fully justify the considerable operational costs that go into providing competitive, high-calibre education.

But even so, less than the top five percent of Canadian families, gauged by socio-economic status, can even consider a UCC education for their sons. That is a very narrow slice of the remarkable.”

The counsellor and teacher is quick to add that UCC’s ambitious student-endowment plan is not targeted to providing 100 per cent of the student support that families may need.

“Our biggest thrust will be on middle-class and even upper-middle class families who need some level of subsidy to send their terrific boys to UCC. The only bar we’re lowering is the cost bar.”

Meet the Math Teacher Ties that bind span families and classmates alike. That’s why Kenneth Lo, one of Asia’s top business- men, is donating $250,000 to a community he considers family.

“The alumni of UCC become like a family, and family mem-bers help each other. That’s the way it should be.” Kenneth Lo, founder and chairman of the Crystal Group in Hong Kong, one of Asia’s top five garment manufacturers, sees himself as part of that extended family.

His son Howard’s ’97 experiences as a boarding student, along with his evaluation of UCC as a high-calibre educational institution offering the International Baccalaureate, caused Kenneth Lo to establish the endowed Kenneth Lo Family Scholarship in 1994 for hard-working and talented students, day or boarding, with financial need. He recently made a $250,000 donation to it.

Howard himself was an excellent student, also involved on the UCC badminton team and in computer and science clubs. He won the Silver Community Service pin and, after gradua-tion, continued his studies at the University of Toronto, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce in 2001. Howard is now a senior manager in the family business.

His father has taken note of many facets of UCC, as a fond parent might: the effort put into student recruitment and alumni outreach internationally; the professionalism of Col-lege staff; and the approach to critical thinking and innova-tion, coupled with a caring and loving environment provided to boarding students.

“Our family business has some 35,000 employees in eight locations,” says Lo. “Performance is something we must always be aware of, and I see what UCC is striving for in encouraging boys to become independent thinkers and leaders.”

As a parent, volunteer and donor, Lo himself demon-strates the kind of leadership, generosity and wisdom that expresses itself simply and directly:

“I don’t give my children advice unless they ask for it. But for UCC, I think we who can should help the school. School fees alone can’t support UCC and its students into the future.”

Meet the Businessman


There is no doubt in my mind that attend-ing UCC has opened up a whole new set of doors and has greatly brightened my future as well as changed my life.

— Sanjay Zimmerman ’11 has received the Agnes Yuen Scholarship, the Beatty and Kerr Scholarship, the Blanche S. Scruton Scholarship, the Brian Weightman Memorial Scholarship, the R. Howard Webster Quebec Scholarship and the Joseph S. Stauffer Foundation Trust Scholarship.

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William Wong ’82 knows how to invest — based on experience, educated risk and a willingness to change direction when necessary.

Wong operates three successful businesses in his native Hong Kong, two in financial investments. He is also manag-ing director of the family’s international export business, the Edward Wong Garment Company. He was a top boarding student at UCC with particular achievements in math and chemistry, squash and tennis and went on to earn an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Wong is unstinting in committing his time, effort and intelligence to his goals. He credits his parents and UCC for launching his future.

“Without my parents,” says Wong, “my life would not be what it is. You grow up when you leave home. At UCC I learned that this is my life to take care of, and to live it my way.”

A new leadership gift to fund boarding scholarships for future UCC students, from which he will see no direct return, is a worthwhile investment in Wong’s eyes. Previously, he had established the endowed Edward C. M. Wong Scholar-ship Fund in his father’s honour, now allocated to boarding students.

“Highly capable and deserving students, along with a scholarship selection process that is proper and correct, will benefit the coming generations and our society,” says Wong.

He sees young people in Hong Kong intelligent enough to go on to excellent schools, but who have had to go to work early, compromising what they could achieve and contribute.

“Tuition, boarding fees, donations — these are all invest-ments we make that are better than keeping our money in the bank,” he says.

Wong has twin daughters, aged seven, and a nine-year-old son. Would Wong send his own son to board in Upper School? “That would be my preference,” he replies, “as long he dem-onstrates the academic ability to attend!”

David Morgenstern ’90 helped establish two needs-based scholarships to assure future boarders the rewards of geographically diverse brotherhood.

Where does an Old Boy from Alberta call home after a decade of national and international study, work and travel? Why, a residence only blocks from the UCC clock tower.

David Morgenstern ’90 has come full circle, and his strong sense of geography has informed both his original move to board at UCC, and now his and his classmates’ decision to support not one, but two endowed student scholarships for

boarding students at their alma mater.“My parents wanted me to have a pan-Canadian point of

view, beginning by living and studying in Toronto,” says Mor-genstern, now a partner in the management consulting firm Accenture. The geographical diversity of the UCC student body and the connections the boys in his cohort made across their country have compelled Morgenstern and Craig King ’89 to establish the Alberta Scholarship Fund to attract outstand-ing boys of more limited means from Western Canada to UCC.

Remembering his days at Wedd’s with “50 other broth-ers, a family in one house, the good and the bad of living with brothers, and all the opportunities it presented” has also inspired Morgenstern and Mark Hayman ’89 to establish the Michael Miller Scholarship Fund, in honour of the retired UCC teacher and house master who looked after three decades worth of boys. This scholarship will enable boys nationally and internationally to receive additional financial support to board at UCC.

“To offer the best education possible for outstanding boys,” says Morgenstern, “we require our UCC community to step up to the student endowment campaign. And we need our Old Boys to rally to promote the school and assist in targeting top students, both day and boarding, as worthy beneficiaries.” The Alberta Scholar-ship Fund and the Michael Miller Scholarship Fund are seeking further donations from the UCC community.

Where would an Old Boy from Alberta send his two sons, Will and Mat-thew, now only five and three, to school? Why, UCC. Though Morgenstern the world traveller may have moved away from the neighbourhood by then, his home away from home in Wedd’s will always remain close to his heart.

Meet the Boarders


Balance Sheet

As at June 30 2010 2009 $ $Assets Current

Cash and cash equivalents 8,567,034 24,234,387

Accounts receivable 362,717 282,557

Other 275,941 315,743

Total current assets 9,205,692 24,832,687Investments 20,184,957 994,827

Capital assets, net 40,111,833 42,416,188

69,502,482 68,243,702

Liabilities and Net AssetsCurrent

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 4,971,069 4,498,987

Unearned revenue 13,033,984 13,361,373

Deferred summer program revenue 2,036,095 1,998,642

Due to The Upper Canada College Foundation 27,093 32,210

Total current liabilities 20,068,241 19,891,212Deferred capital contributions 28,215,430 28,774,402

Other deferred contributions 553,588 612,430

Accrued post-employment benefits 4,571,094 4,628,394

Total liabilities 53,408,353 53,905,438Contingent liabilities

Net assets 16,094,129 14,337,264 69,502,482 68,243,702

Statement of Operations and Changes in Net Assets

Year Ended June 30 2010 2009 $ $Revenue Fees 33,498,175 32,290,305

Summer programs and other operations 5,038,038 4,366,192

Food services 1,328,328 1,245,746

Investment income 229,637 513,298

Unrestricted donations 486,478 238,264

Donations designated for specific purposes 2,330,543 2,155,568

Amortization of deferred capital contributions 1,770,481 1,727,815

44,681,680 42,537,188

ExpensesAcademic and extracurricular activities 23,091,513 21,562,900

Facilities operating and maintenance 4,479,321 4,393,261

General and administrative 4,846,485 4,904,037

Summer programs and other operations 2,632,344 2,107,770

Boarding and meals 3,412,785 3,249,440

Financial aid 1,500,771 1,455,150

Amortization of capital assets 2,680,608 2,717,544

42,643,827 40,390,102

Excess of revenue over expenses before the following 2,037,853 2,147,086

Non-pension post-employment benefits expense (280,988) (364,361)

Excess of revenue over expenses for the year 1,756,865 1,782,725

Net assets, beginning of year 14,337,264 12,554,539

Net assets, end of year 16,094,129 14,337,264

Upper Canada College Financial Statements

UCC AnnualReport 2009–10

I f one word could describe the atmosphere at UCC in 2009–10 it’s Momentum. It was a high-achievement year on so many fronts, and our classes, halls and sports fields

buzzed with the exuberance of boys setting and achieving goals they’ll remember forever.

Students settled into a successful new divisional struc-ture and made headlines for their unique talents; momentum for our boarding renewal campaign snowballed; and on the governance front we said good-bye to Board Chair Michael MacMillan and welcomed Andy Burgess. (Get to know him in the article, p. 3.)

Additionally, of particular mention was the culmination

of the Board’s 16-month review process of the boarding pro-gram, the goal of which is to ensure our program can evolve and stand among world-class peer institutions for generations to come.

Our Advancement Department is fortunate to have raised $10 million in 2009–10 owing to the wonderful generosity of our Old Boys, parents and community members, the vast majority of which will go towards funding of needs-based schol-arships as part of the Campaign for UCC. (See article, p. 15)

For complete lists of volunteers and donors please visit ucc.on.ca/annualreport2010

A year of momentum and achievement


Contributions to the UCC Foundation and the College

Where the Gifts Were Directed

For the year ending June 30, 2010

$2,477,957.96 Total to the College

$3,841,471.09 Total to the Foundation

Total Giving to the College by Constituency$6,319,429.05

$1,074,274.34Corporations

$1,156,144.01 Parents, Parents of Alumni, Grandparents, Grandparents of Alumni

$151,448.19 Governors

$1,073,922.66Old Boys

$6,550.16Other

$1,352,892.00Foundations

$1,488,019.42Estates

$16,178.27Current & Former Faculty & Staff

$3,501,471.58 Endowed Student Financial Assistance

Contributions to the UCC Foundation$3,841,471.09

$54,069.54 Endowed Prizes

$11,167.52 General Endowment

$222,046.48 Endowed Programs

$52,715.97 Other

$1,585,959.63 Facilities & Programs

Contributions to the College$2,477,957.96

$214,802.16 Expendable Scholarships & Bursaries

$190,607.36 Other

$486,588.81 College Priority Fund

Balance Sheet

As at June 30 2010 2009 $ $Assets Cash and cash equivalents 2,114,277 1,304,704

Investments, at market value 44,730,730 41,005,958

Due from Upper Canada College 27,093 32,210

46,872,100 42,342,872

Liabilities and Fund BalancesLiabilities

Accrued charges 21,172 20,477

Total liabilities 21,172 20,477

Fund Balances

General Fund 6,259,391 6,198,329

Restricted Fund 6,249,916 6,200,502

Endowment Fund 34,341,621 29,923,564

Total fund balances 46,850,928 42,322,395 46,872,100 42,342,872

Statement of Revenue and Expenses and Changes in Fund Balances

Year Ended June 30 2010 2009 $ $Revenue Donations and bequests 3,845,740 1,547,688

Investment income (loss) 2,516,189 (4,675,800)

Transfers from Upper Canada College 92,677 82,846

6,454,606 (3,045,266)

ExpensesAnnual grant to Upper Canada College 1,830,550 1,858,231

Administrative and general 95,523 81,456

1,926,073 1,939,687

Excess (deficiency) of revenue over expenses for the year 4,528,533 (4,984,953)Fund balances, beginning of year 42,322,395 47,307,348

Fund balances, end of year 46,850,928 42,322,395

The Upper Canada College Foundation Financial Statements

2009-102004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09

$46,872

$40,789 $42,283

$48,746 $47,337

$42,343

(in thousands)

The EndowmentThank you to our donors for their generous support of the UCC Endowment.

The Annual Report 2010 and a complete listing of UCC volunteers anddonors are available online. Please visitwww.ucc.on.ca/AnnualReport2010

2005-2006New commitments: $8,190

Receipted gifts: $4,620

2006-2007New commitments: $9,406


2007-2008 New commitments: $7,097


2008-2009 New commitments: $7,949


2009-2010 (Current) New commitments: $10,027


Total Giving to the College by Fiscal Year (in millions)


By ParticipationNon-Reunion YearClass of Participation

1929 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50%

1934 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39%

1945. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35%

1933. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33%

1936. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31%

1943. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28%

Reunion YearClass of Participation

1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39%

1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31%

1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30%

1974 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27%

1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19%

2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16%

Old Boy ‘Best-in-Class’ Participation

By Dollars RaisedNon-Reunion YearClass of Amount Raised

1951 . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,001,460

1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$787,367

1943 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$414,186

1957 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$341,325

1932 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$303,371

1946 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$290,250

Reunion YearClass of Amount Raised

1969 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$235,759

1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$26,683

1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$21,594

1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$18,192

1974 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$16,529

1960 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,750

By ParticipationPreparatory SchoolGrade Participation

Grade 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43%

Grade 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38%

Grade 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31%

Upper SchoolGrade Participation

IB2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53%

Foundation Year . . . . . . . . . . . 33%

IB1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29%

Overall (Prep & Upper) Grade Participation

IB2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54%

Grade 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43%

Grade 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38%

Parent ‘Best-in-Class’ Participation

By Dollars RaisedPreparatory SchoolGrade Amount Raised

SK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$682,250

Grade 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . .$66,565

Grade 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . .$17,369

Upper SchoolGrade Amount Raised

IB2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$326,973

IB1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$181,601

Year 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$151,526

Overall (Prep & Upper)Grade Amount Raised

SK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$682,250

IB2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$326,973

IB1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$181,601

For the year ending June 30, 2010

Total Giving to the College By Type of Gift$6,319,429.05

Total Donors By Type of Gift1,012

$949,099.02Annual Fund

967Annual Fund

32Major Gifts

4Planned Gifts

9Other

$3,535,552.59Major Gifts

$1,777,390.21Planned Gifts

$57,387.23Other

Platinum Sponsor

Upper Canada College is proud to acknowledge the sponsors of the 2011 annual Founder’s Dinner featuring keynote speaker, the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney. On behalf of the Dinner Chairman, Adam Markwell ’92, we would like to thank you for making this event an extraordinary success.

Gold Sponsors

Jim Pottow ’83 and Brendan Caldwell ’87

Lincoln Caylor ’87 andMelissa Nixon

Silver Sponsors

Fred Bruun ’94 Barry Segal

FOUNDER’S DINNER SPONSORS.A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR

t h a n k s !

Thank you to our community of alumni, parents, faculty, staff, students and friends for your

support and generosity. Your commitment of volunteer time and donations continues to make

a difference to our school and students. The Annual Report 2010 and a complete listing of

UCC volunteers and donors are available online. Please visit www.ucc.on.ca/AnnualReport2010

THINK AHEADwww.ucc.on.ca/AnnualReport2010


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Founder’s Dinner 2011 was a sell-out evening, memorable for its high-power guests and celebration of community spirit‘Do what’s right, not just popular,’ urges former prime minster Brian Mulroney

T here were emotional moments — and an especially cute moment at Founder’s Dinner, Feb. 16. Keynote speaker the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney was delighted to

see his grandson, Form 1 student Lewis Lapham, take the stage to say Grace.

“A round of applause,” said Master of Ceremonies Greg MacMillan ’87, before suggesting a second for good measure, for the scene-stealing young leader in training who was seen trailing his famous granddad at the VIP reception at Grant House, earlier in the evening.

And an especially emotional moment came when Martha Shaw choked up after her acceptance speech for the John D. Stevenson Award, UCC’s highest honour for service. “UCC has

been a part of my family’s entire life” said the mother of four Old Boys, David ’98, Kip ’99, Stephen ’01 and Nick ’09. She also mentioned a formidable list of Old Boy relatives including her grandfather William Shirriff 1895, brother Bill Shirriff ’69 and father David ’40.

But it was former prime minister Brian Mulroney who held the audience in his palm; it was a master class in speechmak-ing. After an introduction from dear friend, former finance minister and past Founder’s Dinner keynote Michael Wilson ’55, Mulroney warmed up the crowd up with funny anecdotes about international leaders before getting to the serious topic of “leadership and its consequences.”

Today’s political leaders are too often driven by popularity polls and short term victories, he said. That willingness to do what is unpopular in the short term — that willingness to do the “hard, right thing” is what separates leaders from the well-intentioned.

“Just because it’s popular doesn’t make it right,” he said. Surely a life lesson for all, not just budding politicians.

Video coverage: www.ucc.on.ca/foundersdinner2011

IB2 student earns two of North America’s most prestigious scholarships

IB2 student Allen Champagne has been awarded the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship in Canada. As a Loran Scholar of the Garfield Weston Foundation, he will receive free tuition to any Canadian university plus living stipend. He also received the Morehead-Cain Scholarship from UNC Chapel Hill, the oldest, most prestigious merit scholarship program in the U.S.

Champagne was recognized for excellence in academics, athletics and community service. He is top of his class aca-demically, captained the varsity football team to the CISAA championship and is Head of Seaton House.

“I just felt like the world was opening its doors to me,” says Champagne. He plans to study biology and possibly attend medical school while playing college football.

“Allen is a great student and is well-respected by his peers,” says Katherine Ridout, assistant head of the Upper School, Guidance. “He has the potential to do anything. In my 18 years at UCC, I can’t remember a more impressive young man.”

UCC’s last Loran Scholar, François Cadieux ’05, attended the University of Toronto and is completing a PhD in aero-space engineering.

– Aaron Doupe

IB2 student wins major New York-based creative writing contest

Famed author Sylvia Plath began her rise after winning this renowned writing competition in 1947. Now, IB2 student Jesse Shulman, can count himself among a select group of 47 young writers to have won a place in the anthology Best Teen Writing 2010. More than 60,000 students entered the contest, administered by the New York-based Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards. Shulman is the only Canadian entrant among the winners.

“A friend at the Toronto French School told me about the contest just a week before the deadline,” says Shulman. His 3,000-word short story is about factory farming. He counts New York writer Jonathan Safran Foer among his favourites, though hadn’t read the vegetarian author’s recent Eating Animals before he wrote his award-winning story.

Recent editions of the prestigious anthology have been foreworded by Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, a UCC boys’ favourite, says Shulman, and Nobel Prize–winner Elie Wiesel, whose book Night is part of UCC’s English curriculum. Shulman also credits his English teacher Rachel Metalin for introducing him to Toni Morrison’s Beloved, another favourite.

Shulman is applying to Oxford University for English. His application is also boosted by another essay contest win. He won the Historica-Dominion Institute’s “Great Canadian Essay” contest with a piece on the shifting definition of Canadian identity. The Toronto-based non-profit promotes an appreciation of national history. Shulman received the award from former Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean as part of the Governor General’s Awards, in Ottawa Nov. 19.

Shulman started writing in a disciplined way two years ago: “I decided to write one poem or short story a week in order to improve.” That he has.

As ‘Wii’ characters lost in the wrong video game, Form 1 students write and perform their own play

When six-year-old boys get together to write a play, what’s the one thing it’s got to have? If you said a fight scene, you’re right.

No one’s more intimate with the minds of budding playwrights than Form 1 teacher Jennifer Harper. Having worked with her class on a storytelling unit since December, the young theatre troupe debuted its 20-minute original play, Feb. 4, in Weston Hall.

“I’m trying to teach them the different parts of a story — char-acter, setting, climax,” she says. Though it’s an ambitious project, they were keen to write their own play. A weeklong series of

IB2 student Allen Champagne was featured in the Toronto Star, Feb. 26, for his achievements at UCC and beyond.

Jesse Shulman, IB2, is following in the footsteps of famed author Sylva Plath.

The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney and wife Mila

John Stevenson ’47 and John Stevenson Award winner Martha Shaw

Roly Watt ’62, John Thompson ’60 and Richard Wernham

Ben and Jessica Mulroney

UCC Association president John Cape ’87

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney and former finance minister Michael Wilson ’55

Lewis Lapham ’22 and Master of Ceremonies Greg MacMillan ’87

The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney and Dinner chairman Adam Markwell ’92

Loudon Owen ’76 and UCC governor Ken Tanenbaum

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dress rehearsals helped the actors conquer any stage fright.“They’re boys, so there has to be a fight scene, but I

wouldn’t allow that, so they danced to the song “Kung Fu Fighting” instead,” says Harper.

The boys play characters from Nintendo’s Wii videogames. They’re lost in the wrong game, though eventually they go back to their rightful environments and, of course, live happily ever after.

World-famous cellist (and UCC parent) Ofra Harnoy captivates student assembly

Upper School students have had their share of impressive speakers at morning assembly. And Ofra Harnoy is a strong contender for this year’s most captivating guest. (View our YouTube channel for a video of her complete performance.) She played for Upper School students, Jan. 17

One of the world’s most accomplished classical musicians, Harnoy is a UCC parent. Her son, Year 1 student David Cash, is an accomplished violinist who played beautifully following his mother’s performance — after taking off his UCC blazer to loosen up.

Labelled a child prodigy, a term she hated, Harnoy held a cello for the first time at age 6 and made her Carnegie Hall debut at 17. The Israeli-born Harnoy had amateur musician parents. Her father played violin and her mother, piano. They introduced young Harnoy to the cello so they could have a trio.

Clearly, they got more than they bargained for.With an Order of Canada, five JUNO awards and 40 solo

albums to her credit, Harnoy plays without music and with her eyes closed.

“I see music more clearly with my eyes closed,” she told the students. “My cello is an extension of my body.” Harnoy played one piece, “Hungarian Rhapsody” by David Popper. It was breathtaking to watch and all were aware they were in the

presence of greatness, as evidenced by the standing ovation.Dean of Students Evan Williams had sent an e-mail to

students prior to the performance, reminding them to be “attentive and gracious.” Judging from their appreciative and hushed energy, it would have been impossible for them to receive the musician otherwise.

During a Q&A after the performance, a student asked her how she practises.

“Hard work and dedication are all part of the culture of your school,” she said. “Hours of mindless practice are use-less; I prefer focused, concentrated practice. To work out the ‘bugs’ in a piece, nothing beats repetition. I practise slowly, many times, until I become one with the music, and I’m no longer looking at dots on the page.”

Flash mob adds joy to Festive Marketplace

Nothing beats dancing for expressing joy. So, visitors to Festive Marketplace, Dec. 3, were tickled to see a spontaneous “flash mob,” comprised of students and school-wide staff, even Mary Power (!), bust some moves to the tune of Glee’s “Deck the Roof” as the clock struck 12:45 p.m. (View the video on our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/uppercanadacollege)

“I was inspired by an episode of the sitcom Modern Fam-ily [in which a flash mob appeared], and encouraged by my husband, Upper School French teacher and senior house adviser to Wedd’s, Carl Beaudoin,” says Prep Drama Head Laurie Fraser.

Thanks to the leadership of IB2 students Chris Griffiths and Patrick Firth, who rallied the troops, the group spent two weeks learning the choreography and rehearsing. (Griffiths was unable to attend the actual dance; he had an interview with Cambridge University!)

On the big day, the music started loudly, then a few people began dancing, and then more joined in until the gym was encircled by dancers.

“It appears to be spontaneous, but then audience mem-bers quickly realized a large group of people had been in on it,” says Fraser. “The boys totally ran with the idea. They tweaked the choreography I offered — and made it a truly joyful and spirited event.”

UCC student places third in major Chinese proficiency contest in China

IB1 student Neil MacAlasdair’s team has earned third place in the Chinese Bridge’s Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign Secondary School Students, Oct. 14. This was a huge achievement considering there were 120 competitors on 40 teams from 35 different countries.

UCC parent Ofra Harnoy, world-class cellist, performed with son, Year 1 student David Cash, at the Upper School assembly, Jan. 17.

He joined two other high school students from Montreal in Chongquing, China on the award-winning team. Previously, in April he competed in the first round of competition in Toronto, and won first place for the Chinese knowledge test and third place overall.

“Neil works hard and loves the language,” says Chinese teacher Jane Li who has taught him since Year 2, “plus he has a half-Chinese background.”

The contest had four interesting rounds. Students intro-duced their countries in Mandarin by giving a short speech and having some kind of theatrical performance. The second round was a game-show like competition, where teams were tested on their knowledge of Chinese culture and history. The third was a theatrical performance that the contestants rehearsed at a high school in Chongqing. The final test was to buy things in a real supermarket.

“The highlight of the experience was being able to represent Canada in an international competition,” says MacAlasdair. “Being able to communicate with people from all over the world in not only Mandarin and English, but also in French, was really eye-opening.”

Because their team finished in third place, MacAlasdair won a six-month scholarship to study Chinese in China from the Beijing-based Confucius Institute which promotes the Chinese language internationally. He will use it after he graduates, and then hopes to attend medical school.

The trip and contest were organized here by the Chinese Culture and Education Society of Canada (CCESC), in partnership with the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB).

UCC parents, along with Cisco Canada, fuel success of One-to-One Laptop Initiative

If you were in the College last summer, you may have seen workmen dismantling the ceilings and fiddling with cables and routers within.

Now in the first year’s rollout of the One-to-One Laptop Initiative — which provided each Upper School student with a MacBook Pro to use in-class and at home — this flurry of technology has had a profound human impact on our class-room community. It allows teachers the freedom to create innovative Internet-based curriculum opportunities, on a new, integrated school-wide wireless network.

UCC has two of its parents to thank for partnering with our IT department to make the wireless network dream a new and successful reality that has transformed the present and future technological capacity of the College.

Willa Black, mother of Harry ’11 and Louis ’16 and vice-president of corporate affairs at Cisco Canada and Nitin Kawale, parent of Neel ’12, Jai ’14 and Rohun ’18, and presi-dent of Cisco Canada, were instrumental in ensuring a dona-tion in kind from the network infrastructure provider. As well, they both made a financial contribution of their own. UCC was the benefactor of $800,000 of wireless infrastructure, reducing its expenditure on the laptop rollout by 80 per cent.

“Cisco Canada is delighted to support and partner with UCC in the evolution of their information technology strat-egy,” says Kawale. “Our goal is to explore secure network solutions that will not only enhance a student’s learning expe-rience, but also to provide the productivity and cost benefits that are made possible through IT adoption.”

Now, with secure network infrastructure in place, UCC has an excellent foundation upon which to build even greater access, scale and productivity, says Black.

Indeed, previously UCC had three segmented networks, at the Prep, at the Upper School and in the William Wilder Arena, explains Jim LaPlante, director of information technol-ogy. Now, we have a unified campus network.

“It has been a tremendous success — no calls to complain about speed or access,” he says. “We are on excellent foot-ing in our classrooms moving forward; faculty can access a host of web- and network-based content, confident there is enough bandwidth to support them.”

For example, in the Moderns Department, Year 1 French students downloaded pages from the French-language Asterix graphic novels and recorded the dialogue. Then they added sound effects and created a movie.

Overall, 738 boys have been issued their own laptops. “We thank Cisco for their tremendous support of this project,” says LaPlante.

Neil MacAlasdair, IB1, performs as part of a major Chinese proficiency contest in Chongquing.

UCC Today


Ask Chris O’Neill ’91 He’s the new managing director of Google Canada, formerly director of retail for Google’s U.S. operations. Chris lives in Toronto with wife Christina, Jack, 5, and Molly, 2.

Q: How do you think the Internet’s impact on our lives in the future will escalate?

A: Things are moving faster than ever. But before looking ahead, let’s look back a bit. Think back just two years. Who used Twitter then? How many people were on Facebook?

The changes are astounding. In 2008, 1.25 million people around the world were tweeting. Today, there are more than 100 million active tweeters.

In 2008, there were 300 million Facebook accounts. Now there are more than 500 million active users.

Or take YouTube. Two years ago, 13 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube every minute of the day. Now, it’s more than 35 hours per minute.

We are entering the fourth stage of the Internet revolu-tion. The first was the “learning-to-read” stage. That’s when we saw and absorbed information from the likes of Google and Yahoo. It was one way and passive.

The second stage involved using the Internet as a pur-chasing vehicle. Start-ups such as Amazon, eBay and Trav-elocity revolutionized how we bought and sold.

In the third stage, we began learning to use the Internet to communicate and to conduct two-way or multi-party con-versations. It is exemplified by Twitter, Google Talk, Facebook and YouTube, but also Skype. We are communicating in ways we could not imagine before.

For the present and future, the fourth stage will have a tremendous commercial impact. We’re moving from a monologue to dialogue. It’s not enough for a company to tell you that its product is worth buying. People fast forward now through TV commercials and turn to websites for customer comments and reviews.

In this latest stage, the Internet is undergoing other changes. For one thing, mobile device growth is exploding around the world. Five billion people have mobile phones, more than have access to toilets.

Second, the Internet is becoming more local, with tar-geted small business information. Sites like Groupon, Google Places and Yelp allow consumers to connect to local busi-nesses on the Web.

Third, the Internet is becoming more personal. Content is becoming customized to make it relevant to the individual user; one size no longer fits all. Informed choice is driving

purchasing decisions, and new businesses will start up to help consumers sort through all the available information, includ-ing product evaluations by friends and associates.

Together these changes will have a transformative impact. Especially when you consider that, in 10 years, five billion people will have Internet access, compared to 1.9 billion now, at speeds 500 times those currently available. We are speak-ing of a tectonic shift.

As someone who is directionally challenged, I look for-ward to never being lost, whether I am in the desert or on a subway. And we will never be bored; we will be able to stream all sorts of content to our mobile devices wherever we are.

In business, I expect at least two thirds of purchases will be made using a mobile device and at least half will be paid for using the same device. In health, it is easy to imagine a day when you are taken ill in a foreign country and can access all your medical records on your mobile. I also see things that computers do well, like storing tons of information, combining with things that humans do well, like make rational judg-ments. Why not cars that can drive themselves?

All that’s amazing, but I’m proudest when Google uses these new powers to do good. Like during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. We used Google Earth and Google Maps to locate homes in flood areas. Rescue teams were sent to these locations and lives were saved.

As long as we are not slaves to technology, the Internet a decade from now can continue to be a powerful force for good.

Need advice? Want help from an expert on an issue that’s puzzling you? We’ll track down an Old Boy who can answer. askan Old Boy

Control anger and cultivate compassion urges Barton Lecture speaker, His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche

“The world is a reflection of your mind; if you’re always angry, you’re not going to find the world a happy place.” So spoke this year’s Barton Lecture speaker, His Holiness Phakchok Rinpoche, Sept 13.

The charismatic and funny Tibetan Buddhist monk is the patron of a monastery and health clinic in Kathmandu, where UCC students went for a service trip last year, and returned this March Break. The annual Barton Lecture honours former UCC principal Eric Barton (1989-92), a strong advocate of community service.

Rinpoche spoke on a broad range of spiritual issues, from nurturing compassion, to having respect for elders and parents. An especially interesting comment came during a question session with the Upper School students, following his talk. One student asked if the monk thought local or inter-national community service work was a greater good.

“Neither,” he says. “The most important thing is to work on your mind, to reduce your anger and hatred. No work is of service until you have learned how to control the mind.”

To that end, he recommends five to 10 minutes of medita-tion a day, to start. He had students laughing with his irrever-ent and playful approach to developing virtue and compassion. To get a taste of the lecture’s message, please watch this video clip of the lecture on our YouTube channel at: www.youtube.com//uppercanadacollege

On Fear and HopeLast issue’s reprint of Principal Jim Power’s Assembly speech was so well-received, we offer readers another glimpse at what he talks to the boys about. This was delivered at Assembly, Jan. 4.

Like a lot of folks, I found myself intrigued by The King’s Speech, a film about his Royal Highness Albert Frederick Arthur George, otherwise known as the Duke of York, other-

wise known around the palace as Bertie, the man who would eventually come to be known as King George VI.

While the film doesn’t spend a lot of time examining the root cause of Bertie’s stuttering, it is suggested his impedi-ment was the result of his being mistreated as a child. Bertie’s father, George V, is remembered for saying, “I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to make sure that my children are afraid of me.”

For many in that era, fear was a normal part of the peda-gogy. I am sure George V did what he thought was best for his son; and while he needed to toughen his son up, he never envisioned this his young, stuttering boy might some day lead a vast empire.

The King’s Speech though, is about more than overcom-ing a speech impediment; it’s about hope overcoming fear. What changes Bertie, what helps him get through the agony of his stuttering, is a teacher who believes in him — even when he no longer believes in himself. Lionel, his speech ther-apist, achieves a breakthrough, in part by shrinking the social distance between student and teacher; he forges a first-name relationship with his patient, and that’s not so easy when the patient’s name is Albert Frederick Arthur George.

More than anything, though, Lionel gives Bertie a sense of the possible. A UCC colleague once told me that hope is the most powerful gift we educators can give to a student. She said, “A man figures out who he wants and needs to be through the hope of others.”

All of us have impediments, and stutters come in a variety of shapes, sizes and degrees of difficulty. You are surrounded by talented boys and what may surprise you is the number of them who quietly feel they are lacking in one area or another. My wish is that you not only find the hope you need, but that you recognize that you are a source of hope for one another.

You are a source of hope when you say “hello” to a guy you pass in the hallway, though you don’t know him all that well, or when you help someone who can’t find his backpack.

You are a source of hope in the classroom when you offer that pen to someone who has forgotten his or when you take the time to explain something to a classmate who might be lost or confused.

You are a source of hope whenever you offer a word of encouragement to someone who seems down. If we remem-ber George V’s quote about his children and fear, then we should also remember the late Christopher Reeve’s observa-tion: Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.

Be sure to check in with Jim Power at his blog, the PowerPoint: http://thepowerpoint.wordpress.com

UCC Today

By Michael Benedict

Chris O’Neill is the managing director of Google Canada.


Remember When...

The right to freedom of opinion, expression and infor-mation is not a luxury; it is an essential human right. Freedom of information implies the right to gather,

transmit and publish news anywhere and everywhere, and protects journalists from imprisonment.

Recent civilian uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya illustrate how governments choose to interfere with this right. In many instances, newspapers have been prevented from printing and journalists, even Canadian journalists, have been imprisoned.

So what do these global political upheavals have to do with UCC?

2011 marks the 154th anniversary of the first publication of College Times, the oldest, continuously running student publication in Canada. One might assume that a student venture of such longevity must have always had the support of the College administration. This is not the case. On two occasions, the principal tried to prevent its printing.

The first College Times was published in 1857 as a four-page broadsheet. Its founder was a 15-year-old-student named John Ross Robertson. He was active in rowing, cricket, and debating.

Robertson had a good head for business. He started the first College Times, printed 500 copies and sold each for three cents. The editorial content guaranteed customers. Robertson had an axe to grind and the first issue was contro-versial. (Unfortunately no copies of this issue have survived.) According to Robertson’s diaries from the J. Ross Robertson Collection in the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library, and from other sources of the period, we know the content of this inaugural issue.

In it, Robertson lambasted College authorities’ imminent decision to sell off some College land, a portion of the play-ing fields. Then he organized a protest whereby a petition was presented to the governor general, Sir Edmund Walker Head, whose own son attended UCC. Sir Walker Head proved sympathetic. The appeal was successful and the playground was preserved.

Principal Walter Stennett, however, took exception to Robertson’s impertinence and forbade the sale and distribu-tion of the paper on College grounds. He also insisted the school’s name be removed from the cover. This sensational censure had the immediate effect of ensuring the publica-tion’s success.

Robertson sold the newspaper at the gates and changed the name to The Monthly Times permanently. During the remainder of his time at school he was forbidden from selling the paper on College grounds.

Publication continued until Robertson left the school in 1860. No one stepped up to continue on, but Robertson went on to found the Toronto Evening Telegram in 1876.

Successors F.W. Kerr and Len Harston finally appeared in 1871 and started up College Times again under its original name. In 1873, College Times again invited criticism from Col-lege authorities. A satirical article entitled “An Afternoon with the Masters” drew the wrath of Principal George Cockburn. Mocking in tone, it was a fictitious report of a faculty meet-ing, poking fun at the masters. Another article with a similar satirical bent was proposed. Cockburn deftly squelched it. The paper was only published sporadically thereafter.

When College Times was revived again in the 1880s it was said in The Varsity, the University of Toronto student newspaper, that Principal John Milne Buchan “was more open to suggestion than Cockburn and suggestions can be made fearlessly.” The Varsity warmly applauded the principle of freedom of the press.

One can’t say that the College’s administration has always been entirely happy with the contents of College Times. However, since 1873, there is no recorded account of interfer-ence. It was published two or three times a year until 1962, at which time the annual yearbook took its name. In that time, no editors were imprisoned, nor publications banned. The right of the UCC students to publish College Times has been protected, and we are all proud of its long tradition.

Marian Spence, archivist emerita, with files from an article by Wayne Tompkins in the 1987 edition of the College’s Annual Report.

If you thought media censorship was only a favoured pastime in radical regimes, think again. Past UCC principals have pulled the plug on UCC’s own College Times on several occasions.

By Marian Spence

Comings & GoingsNew EmployeesJanice Bishop — manager, online communications, Advancement.Sarah Cheesbrough — campaign coordinator, Advancement.Diana Clementucci — receptionist, part-time, Prep.Serge Markarov — manager, research and Advancement services.Lindsay Tarvit — manager of alumni relations and Common Ties, Advancement.Josh Sutier — teaching assistant, science, Upper School (parental leave contract).Lin Ying — Mandarin teacher, part-time, Upper School.

Internal ChangesNorm Breton — teaching assistant, science, Upper School, on parental leave. Meg Davies — art teacher, Prep, on leave for 2011–12.Carly Ely — manager, donor relations, Advancement, moves to manager, donor relations and campaign operations.Amanda Guilfoyle — Kindergarten teacher, Prep, on leave for 2011–12.

Samantha Kerbel — co-ordinator, UCC Association, Advancement, returns from maternity leave.Allison Macrae — Math teacher and Year 1 Form Adviser, Upper School, on maternity leave from September 2011.Kathryn O’Brien — Form 5 teacher, teaching Primary Art until February 2012 (then on leave for balance of 2011–12).Nancy Preston — art teacher, Prep, on maternity leave until February 2012.

Moving OnDavid Gomez — Spanish teacher, Upper SchoolJill Alexander — Form 5 teacher, Prep.Theo Caldwell — McLeese Chair in Debating. (See article about Willis McLeese, p. 10.)Tammy MacDougall — co-ordinator, UCC Association, Advancement. Patricia McCann — co-ordinator, University Placement Office (as of July 2011).Leanne Mergales — manager, research and Advancement services.

Katie Sawatsky — Admissions administrative assistant, Upper SchoolLaryssa Tyson — manager, online communications, Advancement.Bonnie Wace — receptionist, part-time, Prep. Paul Winnell — Associate, Advancement. (See invitation to his farewell reception, p. 48).

BirthsParkinson — Craig Parkinson, Geography teacher, Upper School, and wife Danelle welcomed Talan Andrew, Jan 3, 2011. Paschalidis — Christos Paschalidis, History teacher, Upper School and wife Angela, welcomed a daughter, Polyxeni, Oct. 4, 2010.

The oldest surviv-ing copy of John Ross Robertson’s the Monthly Times (1858). Owing to opposition from Principal Walter Stennett, College Times took on this name and was sold outside school grounds. Robertson went on to found the Toronto Evening Telegram.

Be a recruitment ambassador!Do you know a great potential student you’d like us to meet? We travel worldwide to find out-standing boys. While we have an international network of recruitment professionals working with us, you, our Old Boys are our most valued community network. The recruitment of out-standing students elevates the College experience for all, in the classroom, on the sports field, in the art rooms and on the stage. Won’t you help us continue to maintain the calibre of our student body by attracting exceptional talent?

We travel the world to find great potential UCC boys. If you’d like to introduce a family to UCC, or host a meet and greet in your home or region, in Toronto or internationally, please contact Executive Director of Recruitment Struan Robertson at [email protected] or 416-488-1125, ext. 2220.


Milestones

MARRIAGESBrezina ’84 — on Septem-ber 25, 2010, in Cambridge, U.K., Ted Brezina to Biljana Jovanovska.Bunston ’99 — on May 29, 2010, in Toronto, Andrew Bun-ston to Gillian Wilkins. Carter ’98 — on August 28, 2010, in Norval, Ont., Mike Carter to Bailey Davis.

Cruz ’02 — on October 10, in Caba San Lucas, Mexico, Chris Cruz to Frances Pangilinan. Farr ’02 — on November 11, 2010, in Toronto, Josh Farr to Tessa Mancini. Garcia ’98— on August 1, 2010, in Toronto, Anthony Gardia to Dana Smith Healy ’91 — on June 19, 2010, in Toronto, Chris Healy to Jodi Gallagher.Hill ’98 — on September 18, 2010, in Toronto, Jeff Hill to Nancy Chew. Seltzer ’88 — in September 2010, in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif, Jeff Seltzer to Michele Reikes.Simpson ’94 — on September 17, 2010 in Toronto, Andrew Simpson to Jennifer Jewell.

BIRTHSAziz ’82 — a son, Andrew Alex-ander, on February 3, 2011, to Steve Aziz and Leslie Ghiz. Baldwin ’95 — a daughter, Alexia Tia McKinley, on June 11, 2010, to Fraser Baldwin and Julia McKinley.Burkett ’98 — a daughter, Natalie, to Chris and Ariel Burkett. Cape ’87 — a son, David, on September 19, 2010, to John and Franziska Cape.Cumming ’86 — a son, Peter Allan Charles, in December 2010, to Andrew Cumming and Shannon Price. Deschamps ’97 — a daughter, Zoë, on October 1, 2010, to Frederic Deschamps and Beth Robertson.

Elek ’99 — a son, Hugo James, September 29, 2010, to Matt and Sarah Elek.

Garcia ’95 — a daughter, Scarlet Dylan Delancey, on December 3, 2010, to Stefan Garcia and Sarah Garcia Jones.Gerber ’92 — a son, Christian Edward, on July 23, 2010, to Lukas Gerber and Susan Oliver.

Glionna ’00 — a daughter, Lillian Michelle, on November 14, 2010, to Joe and Maude Glionna.

Goldin ’96 — a son, William Henry “Liam,” on September 27, 2010, to Josh and Jessica Goldin.Guilfolye ’99 — a son, Connor Gerald, on November 29, 2010, to Blair and Anne Guilfolye.

Harvey ’90 — a daughter, Alessandra Rose, on Decem-ber 31, 2010, to Richard and Cristina Harvey.Hwang ’96 — a son, Matthew Yeh Kyung, on September 28, 2010, to Jason and Sooyoung Hwang.

James ’92 — a son, Kieran, in May 2010, to Mike James and Kathleen Martin.

Kosa ’98 — a daughter, Charlotte Jane, on November 18, 2010, to James and Cindy Kosa. Lind ’97 — a daughter, James Elizabeth Anne, on January 8, 2011, to Jed A. Lind and Jes-sica de Ruiter.Logie ’78 — a daughter, Viv-ian, on April 24, 2009, to Sandy Logie and Tania Gasparini.Markwell ’92 — a daughter, Emily Margaret, on November 11, 2010, to Adam and Melanie Markwell.

Parkinson ’94 — a son, Talan Andrew, on January 3, 2011, to Craig and Danelle Parkinson. Patterson ’94 — a son, Axel Judson, on December 24, 2010, to James and Jenn Patterson.Perlmutter ’90 — a daughter, Molly, on April 20, 2010, to Craig and Margot Perlmutter.Perren ’98 — a son, Felix, on May 17, 2010, to Henry and Becca Perren. Shaw ’98 — on September 7, 2010, a son, Liam Alexander, to Dave and Dana Shaw.Smith ’89 — a son, Rephael, on July 11, 2010, to E. David and Elisheva Smith.Turnbull ’97 — a son, Blake Duncan, on November 4, 2010, to Blake and Melody Turnbull.

PASSINGSAddison ’49 — at King City, Ont., on February 23, 2010, John Hollings Addison.

Akesson ’52 — at Vancouver, on January 13, 2010, Thomas W.T. Akesson.Appel ’92 — at Santa Monica, Calif., on July 29, 2010, Jona-than B. Appel.Armstrong ’32 — at Toronto, on July 26, 2010, Herbert Paul Armstrong.Andrews ’61 — at Mississauga, Ont., on February 9, 2010, R. Gordon Andrews.Baldwin ’44 — at Toronto, on November 11, 2010, Lawrence Michael Baldwin, brother of John ’41 and Norman ’38.Beatty ’49 — at Courte-nay, B.C., on April 26, 2010. Michael Brown Beatty.Beckwith ’45 — at Toronto, in February 2010, Alan F. Beckwith.Chan ’92 — at Tampa, Fla., on December 19, 2010, Robert Raymond Chan.Cooper ’48 — at Bermuda, on February 28, 2011, Herbert “Bud” Morris Cooper.Dalton ’67 — at Sarasota, Fla., on December 9, 2010, J.W. David Dalton.Deeks ’64 — at Toronto, on November 6, 2009, Peter Deeks, husband of Wendy, son of Edward ’29, brother of John ’62 and James ’67.

Hadden ’48 — at Toronto, on February 27, 2011, Fred Hadden, father of Dave ’71.Hodgson ’39 — at Toronto, on January 24, 2011, John Murray Hodgson.Giles ’50 — at Toronto, on July 18, 2010, Derek (Derry) Giles.Gorrie ’38 — at Mississauga, Ont., on December 23, 2010, Harold Bruce Gorrie.Grant ’52 — at Shanty Bay, Ont., on February 2, 2010, Gordon Mackay Grant.Klein ’56 — at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. on August 26, 2010, Johnathan Frederick Klein, brother of George ’56 and uncle of George ’92 and Gregory ’89.Larkin ’42 — at Collingwood, Ont., on December 31, 2010, Lee W. Larkin, father of Jeffrey ’85.Lash ’33 — at Toronto, on September 10, 2010, Z.G.C. (Geoff) Lash.Leacock ’36 — at Victoria, B.C., on July 1, 2010, Peter Windsor Leacock.Little ’37 — at Uxbridge, Ont., on December 16, 2010, William Burton Little.

Lovering ’66 — at Toronto, on January 17, 2010, John S. Lovering. Lum ’07 — at Lake Louise, Alta., on February 20, 2011, in a tragic ski accident, Christo-pher Daniel Lum.Macaulay ’40 — at Toronto, on August 17, 2010, Robert William Macaulay.Mackie ’45 — at Edinburgh, Scotland, on October 14, 2010, Steven Gabriel Mackie.Machado ’43 — at Wilmington, N.C., on December 31, 2010, John Blair Machado.MacLean-Howard ’56 — at Burlington, Ont., on Septem-ber 23, 2010, Bruce MacLean-Howard.Maxwell-Hyslop ’50 — at Devon, U.K., on January 13, 2010, Sir Robert John Maxwell-Hyslop.McCulloch ’43 — at Toronto, on January 21, 2011, Dr. Ernest Armstrong McCulloch. Milne ’72 — at Cobourg, Ont. on February 13, 2011, Bruce Howard Milne.McLeese — at Meaford, Ont., on January 5, 2011, Willis S. McLeese (See article, p. 8)

Northgrave ’36 — at Toronto, in September 2010, Glen Allen Northgrave.Owen ’36 — at Toronto, on February 18, 2011, Trevor MacLean Owen.Owen ’41 — at Toronto, on November 10, 2010, Ivon MacLean Owen.Robinson ’44 — on May 24, 2010, Weymouth H. B. Robinson.Shirriff ’34 — at Toronto, on July 14, 2010, John F. Shirriff.Simpson ’43 — at Burlington, Ont. on July 22, 2010, J. Benja-min Simpson.Singer ’39 — at Richmond, Va, on July 24, 2010, Stuart Singer.Smith ’61 — at Toronto, on November 12, 2010, Russell Bradnee Smith.Thorne ’50 — at Sechelt, B.C., on September 15, 2010, Trevor Thorne.Turnbull ’39 — at Orillia, on January 16, 2011, Norman John Turnbull, brother of James ’42 and father of John ’66.Walker ’58 — at Bermuda, December 11, 2010, B.W. Jordy Walker.Winnington-Ball ’71 — at Newmarket, Ont., on Decem-ber 5, 2010, Geoffrey A.W. Winnington-Ball.

ERNEST MCCULLOCH ’43, STEM-CELL RESEARCH PIONEER, PASSES AWAY AT 85 The UCC flag flew at half-mast Jan. 24 for perennial Nobel Prize favourite, Ernest McCulloch ’43. The co-discoverer of stem-

cells passed away, age 85, Jan. 19. It was widely expected that he’d be nominated for the 2010 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Though household-name status forever eluded him, he was a hero in his field and his discovery spurred the most promising area of modern medical research.

His death came less than two weeks before the 50th anniver-sary celebration of the pioneering stem-cell research paper he

co-authored with lifelong academic partner James Till. Their work brought honours and recognition to the Ontario Cancer Institute, Princess Margaret Hospital, the University of Toronto and the University Health Network.

McCulloch and Till were made Officers of the Order of Canada in 1984 and inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2004. The next year, they won the Lasker Award, North America’s most prestigious medical prize.

Read a more complete story in our “Leaders & Legends” feature from the summer/fall 2009 issue of Old Times, p. 17, archived at ucc.on.ca under the Old Boys/Old Times tab.

(l-r) Old Boys celebrating Mike Carter’s wedding are James Carter ’94, Mike ’98 (third), Matt Linton ’98 (fifth) and Jeff Hill ’98 (sixth).


’42 John Hopkins University in Baltimore has established a Robert D. Jeffs Professorship in Paediatric Urology, a great tribute.

’52 Bruce Thomas, President

Forget Freedom 55. At 75 he co-founded a new law firm

Good lawyers never grow old.

They just find new partners.

That could be the motto of

Bruce Thomas, ’52, whose 50

years of legal practice were

celebrated in the Nov. 17 issue of Lawyers

Weekly. In 2008, age 75, he left a managing

partner position at Cassels Brock & Blackwell

LLP with six other lawyers to start Thomas

Gold Petting. The firm has since expanded to

17 lawyers. Onwards and upwards.

’58

’60John Thompson, chair of the TD Bank, received the “ICD Fellowship Award” recognizing his contributions to corporate governance.

Old Boys go the distance to attend U.K. Branch Dinner

They came from far and wide for UCC — so

hats off to them. The U.K. Branch dinner,

Nov. 27, was a great success, with 72 Old

Boys in attendance at the Royal Automobile

Club in Pall Mall. It was wonderful to con-

nect with Old Boys who travelled significant

distances to attend. Several students from St.

Andrew’s University in Scotland flew in, plus

Nicki Wagner ’06 and Reiner Rorig ’99 from

Germany, Jan Hesseling ’04 from Amsterdam

and Ross MacMillan ’00 who flew in from St.

Petersburg, Russia! It was also great to have

Ian Wookey ’74 in London visiting son Jonathan

’08, and John ’44 and Shelia Mowbray. Many

thanks to Branch President Jonathan Foster

’90 and RAC host David Ross ’98.

— Paul Winnell ’67

ClassnotesClass Notes are compiled by the College and Class Presidents or send news to [email protected] Please note that material submitted by Class Presidents may be edited. Next issue’s deadline is June 30, 2011. (See notice on p. 41)

(l-r) In attendance at the U.K. Branch dinner are David Ross ’98, Shelia and John Mowbray ’47, Roly Watt ’62 and Vice-Principal, Advancement, Innes van Nostrand ’82.

James Colebeck in Stratford, Ont. dreamed up a garbage can decorating competition for the city’s Civic Beautification and Environmental Awareness Committee. Here’s his own contribution, turning an eyesore into a work of art!

BE A MENTOR, YOU’LL CHANGE TWO LIVES.

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Mentoring lets you share your story and experiences with someone much like the person you were, not so long ago. It’s a leg up for a fresh aspirant. It’s a door-opener for a young man looking to get ahead. It also happens to make you feel great. Let the talking begin. Register as a UCC mentor at Common Ties today.

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’78 Alan Eaton, Class President

Henry Karpus met up with Peter Poole while on vacation in Banff and Lake Louise with wife Leanne and daughters Leah, 21, and Rebecca, 18. (They met in Giles Bryant’s music class in ’73.): “We enjoyed a wonderful meal and visit. Peter has really done it right — a spectacular and envi-ronmentally sustainable log cabin overlooking Banff — complete with a huge outdoor, wood-fired stone oven. Peter personally cooked us several incredible organic pizzas in the oven. BTW: the guy has no grey hair…”

Don Winspear and his wife Ellen will celebrate their 30th anniversary in June.

Doug Paterson spends time with son Reed at Balsam Lake, Ont.

After 14 years with Manulife, Ian Beverley joined Ontario Realty Corporation as a senior solicitor. At ORC, Ian is

involved with the development of the Pan Am Athletes’ Village. Andy Boukydis and his wife Vicki own The Soap Works, a small business specializing in natural and specialty soaps. They have two boys, Christopher and Matthew, at post-secondary school. Al Crosbie has “been in Seattle for the last 12 years and can’t wait to get out of here.” Brian Lawson is still in Toronto and has been with Brookfield Asset Management Inc. for the last 20, most recently as its chief financial officer. He is married with three children, includ-ing Tristan in Grade 6 at UCC. Doug Paterson has been restoring about 2,000 feet of 130-year-old, dry stone wall at the family place on Balsam Lake. David “Bubba” Smith is a vice-president at Zurich Canada in Toronto, specializing in construction bonding and an avid skier with his three daughters at Osler Bluff Ski Club or any mountain with deep powder snow. Jeff Tory has been in Montreal since 1987. He manages investments at Pembroke Management and survived the “Bear Market” of 2008–09. He continues to play a bit of soccer and squash, which keep old sports memories alive. Rob Van Veen was a senior wireless base-station hardware designer in Nortel in Ottawa. After Nortel’s demise, Erics-son purchased its wireless assets. Rob works with his new Swedish colleagues, integrating Nortel’s technical knowledge to deliver a hardware design to support the ever-increasing volume of wireless traffic through the next five years. Don Winspear is president of Crescent Research Inc., a full-service market research company in Dallas. He and Ellen will celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary this June. They share two sons; one is with the 82nd Airborne in Ft. Bragg, N.C. The younger is a third-year student at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Don also keeps busy with scuba diving, pho-tography, travel, astronomy, collecting wine and boating.

’80 Pete Nord, Class PresidentThe 30th reunion last fall was a great success; it was won-derful to see so many classmates. Andy Hogg has lived in Calgary since 1985, working in the oil and investment busi-ness. Now divorced, he is one year away from seeing his two beautiful daughters leave the nest. One is a successful balle-rina in the U.S. The other has grand plans for university, once she has taken a “gap year.” Andy was president and CEO of Rondo Petroleum until the company was sold last March. He is now gloriously unemployed, at least until the team decides to start their third company together. John Beale writes that after graduating from the University of Victoria he moved to Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur for 12 years as a marketing consul-tant, then to San Diego for 10 years in the wireless industry, then to Seattle, where he now works for a social enterprise building infrastructure in countries in sub-Saharan Africa. He has a wife and three kids. John LaPrairie completely changed track after 20 years in the corporate world. He traded in his Canali suits for Carhartt workwear, and followed a passion, opening a company called Home Project Partners, completing both small repair and construction projects, and larger renovations. An added bonus is that he weighs the same as he did in high school, and is in much better shape. He also teaches running clinics at the Running Room, has a fabulous wife Lauren and two sons, ages 8 and 12. They can

Classnotes’66 Doug Plummer, Class PresidentTim Stuart and his wife, Susan, own and operate two businesses in Toronto and spend winters in their Naples, Fla. home.

’70 George McNeillie and Allen Meredith, Class Presidents

Stuart Lazier (left) and George McNeillie unveil the Class of 1970’s 40th Reunion gift to the College. (Read Class Note below for full details.)

The Class of 1970 celebrated its 40th reunion last September. The reunion organizing committee consisted of: Paul Biggin, Roland Cardy, David Coatsworth, Tim Godfrey, David Howard, Joe Howard, Scott Irwin, Stuart Lazier, George McNeillie, Allen Meredith, David Scoon and Keith Townley. The Committee decided on a unique class gift, a carving of UCC’s arms by Donald Black, one of Canada’s foremost heraldic artists. The College’s arms were originally granted by London’s College of Arms in 1985, on a petition by Tony Ormsby ’44, and have been registered with the Cana-dian Heraldic Authority. (UCC received special permission from the Queen to incorporate the royal crown into its crest.) The College will display the arms over the main entrance to Laidlaw Hall. The carving represents a tangible symbol of what we hope will become our legacy, the Class of 1970 Scholarship Fund. To date, we have raised more than $42,000 and aim to increase that substantially. The reunion weekend started with a Friday evening reception hosted by Roland and Sandy Cardy at their lovely home. Special guests were former master Terence Bredin, our heraldic carver Don Black and his wife Ruthanne. Out-of towners included: Cam Anderson, Bob and Helen Belanger, Ewen Carruthers, Tim Coleman, Chris and Petra Cottier, Mark Dalton, John Duncanson, Havoc Franklin, Jay MacDonnell and Peter and Dyanne Szatmari. Locals attending were: Robin Adamson, Paul and Peggy Biggin, Peter and Valerie Brown, Roland and Sandy Cardy, Brad and Linda Conacher, Brian Foster, Tim and Barb Godfrey, Kings-ley Graham and Wendy World, David and Susan Howard, Gary Howsam, Scott and Heather Irwin, Brian and Jill Jones, Bob Kitchen, Stuart and Vicki Lazier, Bill and Janice Lambert, George and Joan McNeillie, Allen

Meredith, Steve and Susanne Miles, Charlie and Judy Murray, Mike Peterkin, Barry and Eileen Pettit, Keith and Susie Townley, David Scoon, David Thompson, “honorary” classmate Chris and Shelagh Taylor and Chris and Jan Woods. The Saturday night dinner saw a slightly smaller crew but with the welcome addition of Bob Jones and out-of-towner Mihail Murgoci. The class was sorry to learn of the death in December of Marie Dalton, mother of Mark and Brent ’71. She was a great supporter of UCC. Also, our condolences to Michael Levenston, whose father Gerald died in late December.

’73 Dundee Staunton, Class President David Bruce is a portfolio manager and director of financial services at ScotiaMcLeod in Toronto. Andrew Harvie is a partner in Teeblockers.com, which provides event services to more than 700 golf tournaments in Canada and the U.S. Andrew says his golf swing in still as bush league as ever, but the Teeblockers “Old Boy” preferred customer discount works perfectly. Charley Scrivener is director and head of the Packaged Loans Group, CIBC, where he’s a 33-year veteran. Charley and his team build and manage a $1.8-bil-lion portfolio of loans to franchises and professionals. Charley and Patricia were looking forward to the holiday season with their children and grandchildren. (There are four of the former and two of the latter, with twins on the way, so there are lots of potential crew members for the sail boat!). Charley is a weekly visitor to UCC by virtue of his Saturday morning tennis slot in the bubble; Taylor Teasdale is chief operat-ing officer of the Detroit Public Schools Foundation. He and his wife, Cathy, live in Royal Oak, Mich. Evan Thompson is co-founder (with business partner Diana Wiley) of Thompson, Wiley + Associates. The boutique firm provides marketing services for practice professionals including financial advisors and lawyers. He and his wife Deirdre live in Toronto.

’77 Kevin Clark & Jim Garner, Class Presidents

Peter MacGowan, UCC Governor and rower extraordinaire, destroyed the competition at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Cambridge, Mass., Oct 23–24. He missed the record for the Grand Master Singles Men’s category by about half a second (without a tail wind). Congratulations are definitely in order.


senior national editor at the Canadian Press, Canada’s national news service. Peter Adams now paints full-time and lives outside Creemore, Ont. He is represented by several galleries across Ontario. If you are watching sports on the Internet, you should know that Jay Howard works for JumpTV. Neil See-man and wife Sarit have two children. Son Davey (5) attends SK at UCC with Christopher (5), son of Shaun Francis. Here’s to the graduating class of 2023! Vik Rao’s son Jordan, in Grade 7 at the Prep, will enter the Upper School next year — which leaves Vik feeling very, very old. Christopher Fleck is a jazz and contemporary voice major at Vancouver Community Col-lege in “Vangroovy,” teaching meditation, energetic awareness and healing on the side. Tim Wilson works at Air Miles and lives in the Beaches with wife Alice and kids Sasha and Nicolas. Derek Sasveld lives in Washington, D.C. and is considering a move to NYC after a year of resisting opportunities there; Ken Tam lives in Malaysia, but is in China often to expand business in the Province of Sichaun. Also still playing a lot of golf!

’89 Jim Parkinson, Class PresidentJohn Pottow celebrated his 10th wedding anniversary last August with wife Reshma. They live in Ann Arbour, Mich. where John is a law professor.

’90 Ian Kennish, Class PresidentCraig Perlmutter and wife Margot, welcomed their second child (Molly) last April, joining her older brother, Nate (3). Craig was unable to attend 20th Reunion Weekend as he was hosting Camp Tamakwa’s 75th anniversary Alumni Weekend, which he now runs with his wife. Aaron Unger is married to Donna and has two kids, Lindsay (6) and Ryan (3), and is at Dundee Capital Markets in Toronto as a managing director in the Equity Capital Markets group. Allan Buitendag con-tinues to lead PricewaterhouseCooper’s Canadian insurance consulting practice and splits his time between Melbourne, Australia and Toronto.

’91 Marcello Cabezas & Tobin Davis, Class PresidentsJohn Booth joined TD Securities as a managing director in the mining investment banking group. He lives in Toronto with wife Jessica and daughter Chloe. Marcello Cabezas is an “experience producer” in the live event, theatre, film, television, and culinary worlds. Last year he was an honor-able mention for the National Post’s “Worthy 30” and one of Eye Weekly’s “Make it Happen” people as part of their “Power People” issue. On the philanthropic side, he continues as a co-founder of POV Film Program, empowering marginal youth to learn and work in the film business, as well as with Artbound in partnership with Free the Children, building arts

be found at the family skate most Sundays. Sandy MacLean continues to enjoy the challenges and opportunities of running his own business in an “off” economy. He lives in Louisville, Ky. with his wife, composer Sara Buchanan MacLean, and his two sons John Sandford Fleming MacLean III, a sophomore at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore; and Stuart James Ellison MacLean, who is in his final year in high school where he captains the du Pont Manual varsity lacrosse team.

John LaPraire teaches half-marathon clinics at the Running Room. He has run 37 of them!

’82 Ted Gacich, Class PresidentCraig Cohon is recently divorced, has two great kids and lives in London on a barge on the River Thames. His business is focused on Russia and Ukraine where he owns 25 per cent of the Cirque du Soleil franchise.

’86 John Andersen & Neel Hira, Class PresidentsAndrew Cumming and Shannon Price welcomed their first son, Peter Allan Charles in December. Rumour has it that UCC hockey scouts have already expressed interest in the new Cumming, following Dad and uncle Matt, in the family tradition of suiting up for the blue and white. They must be in need of a bruiser. Colin Furness is the director of research and knowledge development at Infonaut Inc., a firm develop-ing GIS-based software to track and combat the spread of infectious diseases in both communities and hospitals. Colin has completed his PhD at UofT’s Faculty of Information Stud-ies where he also teaches a graduate course in knowledge media design. His two-year-old son consumes the balance of his waking hours. Cam Bryce is in the process of convert-ing his home to run on solar power. Iain MacKinnon and his wife Leanne had their fourth child, Callum, last March. Iain occasionally takes time out from expanding his family by engaging himself in a successful career in the legal profession. He is currently with the firm ChitizPathak LLP.

’87 John Cape, Class PresidentJohn and Franziska Cape welcomed David, their first son and third child, in September. John is the new president of UCC’s Association Council and will serve on the Board of Governors. John has co-founded Tailor Medical Corporation (www.tailormedical.com), a new executive health care clinic

in the Bay Adelaide Centre. Drew Allen opened Allen and Co. LLP (www.allencollp.com), a new corporate law firm in Toronto, catering to business clients. Drew and his wife Susan have been busy taking their three children Matthew (8), Mer-edith (5) and Wesley (4) to triathlon events and will attend Ironman Coeur d’Alene in Idaho in June 2011.

’88 Will Lambert, Class PresidentDavid Anderson was recently seen sea kayaking at the north end of Baffin Island, hiking the high-altitude volcano rainfor-ests of Rwanda in support of Mountain Gorilla conservation, trekking up and down Kilimanjaro, and supporting commu-nity development efforts with Free the Children in Kenya’s Masai Mara. Business-wise, David was named to Directorship’s “People to Watch” list in the U.S. for his thought leadership in corporate governance, through his international advisory firm. He recently completed his MBA. Also completing his MBA is Andrew Peters, who attended the University of Toronto. Will Andrew, recently recognized as a “Top 40 under 40” for his role in securing the athletic wear license for the 2010 Vancou-ver Winter Olympics, runs marathons in Washington, Toronto and NYC. He recently completed the Muskoka Half Ironman. Wherever he travels for work, he brings his sneakers: “You can tell what a place is like by running early in the morning.” Dr. Ben Bradshaw, an associate geography professor at the University of Guelph, would probably agree. Andrew Car-ragher lives in Park City, Utah and enjoys life out there with his wife Carolyn and three girls aged 9, 6 and 4. He requests that anyone visiting the area please give him a ring. Sloan Dinning relocated to Sydney, Australia two years ago with his wife Kathleen and works in financial services marketing. He’s taking advantage of the good weather and trying to bring his golf handicap back down to earth. Kenneth Tan is trying to figure out how to sustainably house and provide employment opportunities for 30,000 Chinese in Sichuan Province: “Sage advice and assistance are welcome!” He has also discovered that [Terence] Bredin’s observations about the hoi polloi remain intact in the new century, except that misinformation flows much faster; yet people still see what they want to see. In the meanwhile, golf is good for the soul. And now to Europe, Mike McKee got over 100 Canucks together for the first ever Terry Fox Run in Paris. It started at Place du Canada and ended at The Great Canadian Pub. He mentioned Angus McMur-try and family stopped by and left rugby balls for his kids! Jeremy Chan is recently engaged to Agnieszka Chromicz, and is scheming on how to extract her from New York. He also owns and operates the Jonah Group, a software consultancy in Toronto. Jeff Seltzer and Michele Reikes were married in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. last September. Dylan Yolles ’87 joined the celebrations. Jeff heads up Highpoint Capital, an investment firm for U.S. commercial real estate. Dave Marcus is the president/founder of AyA Kitchens & Baths, in its 10th year with 28 locations across Canada. He collaborated with Toronto’s Design Agency for a radical new kitchen design concept launched in January. After spending most of last year displaced by a neighbour’s house fire, James McCarten, wife Lisa, and kids Claire (12) and Lucas (8) are safely back in the bosom of their newly renovated home. James is currently

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try. In addition, if any of his dad’s students want to get in touch with him, he is still alive and kicking in Muskoka. Alex Vesely has completed his training as an anesthesiologist and is practising in Vancouver. Paul Todgham has returned to San Francisco and works at Ross Stores. He is excited to be traveling less and able to spend more time with son Patrick. Andrew Weston is with the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan in Toronto. He is married with two kids, Abby (2) and Claire (4 months). Charles Park served three years in the Korean army and works for LG Electronics. He is married and has a daughter. Fraser Baldwin, wife Julia and daughter Alexia Tia are in Vancouver.

’96 Brandon Alexandroff, Class President

Ryan Cameron is in London, U.K. with Impax Asset Man-agement. He has joined Jonathan Foster ’90 as co-president of the UCC Association in the U.K.

’97 John Medland, Class PresidentAndrew Uys married Theresa McArthur this past summer. He received the Pearson Award when he graduated from Ryerson’s publishing program earlier this year. He publishes his print and online comics (www.uysfaber.com) and is the web services manager at Paradise Comics. Preston McIn-tosh continues to battle pirates on the high seas with the Standing NATO Maritime Group. Recent deployments include the Gulf of Aden and the Horn of Africa. Curt MacKenzie is in Vancouver and welcomed his first son, Owen. He is lucky to have had six months of paternity leave as his wife finishes her PhD. Owen dressed as Zorro for Halloween. It’s worth

the trip to Facebook to check out the photos (moustache and all). Alex Singh made the jump to in-house counsel at Westface Capital where he helps invigorate Canadian capital markets. Wilmot Li works for Adobe in computer graph-ics research in the Creative Technologies Lab. (That said, he still can’t tell me why my PDF won’t download properly.) Wilmot and fiancée Mira live in San Francisco and will tie the knot soon. Andrew Turnbull and Melody welcomed their second child, Blake, this past fall. Sloane is excited to be a big sister. The Turnbulls are happy to be back in Toronto. Julian Taylor has continued his music career as a solo artist after the break-up of the band Staggered Crossing. Julian recently sold a record label he started. Adam Brueckner is engaged to Elaine Biddiss and will marry in July. Rob Peake prac-tises intellectual property litigation, primarily in copyright and trademark law, with Gowlings in Ottawa. Ben Mandell bought a house in Toronto and he and wife Caroline were expecting their first child, a girl. Kevin Wong also bought a house in Toronto and continues to build out Nulogy, a soft-ware company. John Medland and Jenny were expecting their third child in March.

’98 Jeff Hill, Class PresidentJeff Hill married Nancy Chew on September 18 in Toronto surrounded by many Old Boys and UCC staff. They were desperately looking forward to a March honeymoon in Spain. Dave Shaw and wife Dana welcomed son, Liam Alexander, born last September. Dave is the new director of business and sport development for UFC Canada. Mike Carter married Bailey Davis in a farm wedding at Norval last August and they were expecting their first child. Mike continues to develop his business, First Green Energy. Henry Perren and his wife Becca are proud to announce the birth of their first son, Felix. Anthony and Dana Garcia were married in August in Toronto. Chris Burkett and wife Ariel are happily married with seven-month-old daughter Natalie. Chris recently joined the Ministry of the Attorney General as an assistant Crown prosecutor. James Kosa and his wife recently welcomed their second child. Daniel Tkaczuk was playing hockey in Austria. He launched his new company iHockeyTrainer LTD, a personal training, online hockey school to help aspiring players learn from the pros and improve their skills.

’99 David Anderson and Elliot Morris, Class PresidentsAndrew Bunston was married to Gillian Wilkins last May in Toronto. He is still at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP as an associ-ate in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. Cortney Shier was expecting a baby in February and is finishing his family medicine residency. Qasim Daya became a principal at Fovere Capital Management where he manages a private mortgage fund for commercial real estate. He reports it’s great to be out of the big corporate environment and back into a more entrepreneurial role. Lee Kane and family are heading to Beijing for a four-year posting at the Canadian Embassy. He will continue as a trade commissioner on the Canada-China relationship. Paul Ross helped launch the Canadian branch of Generation Rwanda (www.generationrwanda.org), where he is a trustee. The opening

schools in developing countries. Scott Cattran lives in Colo-rado with wife Karen and two amazing kiddos Zoe (4) and Max (10 months). They make trips to the mountains regularly for world-class snowboarding, golfing and hiking. He’s a vice-president and director of infrastructure at Woolpert. The divi-sion is a $20-million business consisting of 125 professional engineers, information technologists and scientists focusing on sustainable solutions for the nation’s critical infrastructure. He hopes to see as many Old Boys as possible for our 20th reunion in September. Matt Freeman lives in B.C. with his partner, their son and his two stepdaughters. Andrew Guil-foyle is in north Toronto with wife Cheryl and their three young boys. Their eldest, Jack, just started SK at the Prep. It’s a very strange (but great) experience to walk back in those halls. He is looking forward to catching up at the fall reunion. Tyler Hodgson is a lawyer at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto, specializing in criminal defence, especially in relation to white-collar crime. He spent three years in Dubai, working for the Dubai Financial Services Authority and then as chief legal officer for a subsidiary of Dubai Holdings, the private holding company of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Michael Hungerford lives in Vancouver with his wife and two children. He is the principal at Hungerford Properties, a private equity fund for real estate focused on Western Canada. Tom Laurie is a musician and composer in NYC, with wife Laure and daughter Maia. Alfred Leung has called Hong Kong home since the handover in 1997 and has since married beautiful Henrietta, and was blessed with twins, Alston and Halle last year. He is with GE Capital Asia, where he invests in distressed opportunities. He is an avid enthusiast and student of contemporary arts, wines and traditional Chinese medicine. Jason Lewis works in govern-ment finance in the debt capital markets group at National Bank Financial, is happily married to Stephanie and has two children, Callum (8) and Evelyn (5). Andrew MacDonald is the general manager at Eva’s Phoenix in Toronto, integrating housing, employment, and social enterprise for homeless and at-risk youth to achieve healthy, productive and self-sufficient lives. He has two little ones. Gigi Realini owns Partners Film Inc. He moved into a 7,000 sq.-ft. space in the Distillery and celebrated his fourth successful year in business. He received a 2010 Academy Award credit as an executive producer on the winning short film, The New Tenants, directed by Joachim Back. His kids are Dano (9), Casey (6) and Bryce (5). He is still married and in love with best friend Carrie. Chris Ritchie has spent the last 11 years in Europe, most recently in Switzerland where he was the European sales and marketing director for SABMiller. He just moved to Vietnam where he is managing director for its operations there. His wife and two children are enjoying their latest adventure, and were expecting their third baby in January. Maurice Siu is a psychiatrist specializing in law and mental health and addictions. He and Aprille are the proud parents of two sons, Austin (20 months) and Logan (3 months). Robert Statton owns a gym and multi-disciplinary wellness clinic where he works as a chiropractor in Barrie. He loves skiing, snowboard-ing and cottages and is the proud father of Simon (3). Tom Westin and wife Amy have two beautiful daughters, Sienna

(3) and Violet (9 months). Tom continues to compose and produce music for TV and film in Toronto at his production company, Grayson Matthews.

’92 Adam Markwell, Class PresidentRobert Cunjak was recently promoted to managing direc-tor at Bain Capital. He and wife Susan still reside in Newton, Mass. With three children, Liam, Caitlin and Killian, and he is still patiently waiting for the Leafs to win a Stanley Cup. Rob is president of the UCC Association in New England. Thom Damstra got engaged in Salzburg, Austria to his long-time girlfriend Nataly Koschii. To propose, he secured a wonderful locale that included castles and a private concert for the two of them. He got down on bended leg, she accepted and they are ecstatic. The wedding was planned for either Europe or Canada this year. Jamie Deans and wife Erin were prepping their son Hudson for the arrival of a sibling in the spring. Patrick Fejér and wife Kai recently designed and began construction on a home in Forest Hill Village. Patrick recently got involved with the school, bringing his father’s UCC Hungarian Scholar-ship Fund back to life. Donations large and small are graciously accepted in Bela Fejér’s memory. Eldest son Jack is in his second year at the Prep and Indie was applying for acceptance in SK. The Fejérs were skiing at Hidden Valley, out of the family cot-tage on Lake Rosseau, and wanted to join up with any other UCC alums who would be there. Mike James and his family live on the coast near Halifax and welcomed their third child, Kieran. Mike’s research continues to focus on the biology and conserva-tion of endangered leatherback sea turtles. Suresh John can be seen in a drinking and driving campaign for the LCBO with an inflatable elephant, and appears on CBC’s InSecurity. Adam Muller left Goldman Sachs this past summer after seven years, and has started a long/short equity hedge fund in New York. Mauro Nunez is in Lake Charles, La., working as a commercial diver in the Gulf of Mexico and spends his winters skiing in his hometown of Whistler B.C. Matt Shoom-Kirsch is the general manager over at TAXI 2 advertising.

’94 James Patterson, Class PresidentAshlin Halfnight is a teacher at a private school in N.Y. By coincidence, one of his student’s dad is an Old Boy.

’95 Jeff Goldenberg, Class PresidentSean Littlejohn has traveled 33 countries, writing, photo-graphing and filming. He was recently nominated for a Much-Music Video Award for his music-video writing and directing work. He completed a series of commercials featuring Canada’s Next Top Model, for which he was director and co-writer. He sold the rights to his first feature film, which looks back on his UCC days and is to be shot on location in Toronto. He works with a division of Avion Films called Fever Films, which also represents the legendary David Steinberg, direc-tor of many episodes of Seinfeld, Friends and Curb Your Enthusiasm. He lives just outside Vancouver. Sean and his fiancée spend downtime enjoying the wilderness with their dog, Brooklyn, this comes from growing up with his father, Bruce, a teacher at the College for over 30 years. He would love to hear from any Old Boys out west or in the film indus-

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Hot N.Y. taquería makes novel use of Nolita garage

Dario Wolos gave up a finance career to open a Mexican-beach style tacos stand. Operating from a Volkswagen parked in a garage, Tacombi is the talk of New York, with a sophisticated menu devised by chef and Food Network per-sonality Aarón Sánchez. Wolos originated the concept as a UCC boarder. “My parents sent me from Mexico and I missed the food.” He is seek-ing investors to open a Toronto branch.


pursuing his MBA in the full-time program at the Kellogg School of Management after two years in private equity at Madison Dearborn Partners. Nitin Walia lives and works in NYC eagerly waiting for Chris Cruz to roll into town. Adam Wexler is in the MBA program at the Schulich School of Business. He specializes in marketing and strategic manage-ment and will graduate in April. Trevor Young is still with the Canadian Forces Army Intelligence branch and is also working on a master’s in Global Affairs through the Munk Centre at UofT. Wally Hertha relocated back to Toronto and is happy to see snow. Adrian Cook is at McGill finishing his MBA. Adam Dawson has moved to London to do his MBA at the London School of Economics. Kevin Lee is in New York doing his medical residency.

’03 Chan Sethi & Mike Annecchini, Class Presidents

Attending the third annual Michael Jurist Tennis Memorial at A-Day, Sept. 24 were (l-r) Kenneth Ng ’03, Rohan Karunakaran ’03, his parents Vesna Nowell-Jurist and Paul Jurist, Todd Sisley and Ben Sinclair ’04.

Mike Annecchini was a semester away from completing his master’s in Sports Business at New York University and spent the fall working at Madison Square Garden. Farther afield, Tibor Barna is teaching English in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet-nam. Whenever he has the time to get out of town, he’s out in the country on his old Honda Benly and otherwise exploring Southeast Asia. Over in Paris, Matt Campbell is a reporter for Bloomberg, covering technology and media. Be sure to drop him a line if you’re in town, since Old Boys (Jorge Pri-eto Davo excepted) are a bit thin on the ground there. Yale Fox is in New York, DJing on nights and working on a new album. He was recently awarded a 2011 TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) Fellowship Award, making him one of the youngest recipients of all time. He’ll be presenting his research on the evolutionary basis for music and some other interesting ideas at TED’s annual conference in Long Beach, Calif. Kelvin Palm is a signal operator in the CF Reserves and, at the time of this writing, was hoping the Rid-ers would win the Grey Cup (sorry, Kelvin). Geordie King has successfully staged two joint venture partnerships with his consulting firm. He’s making a short film to be entered into a film festival. After more than three years with RBC in Lon-don, Christopher Kololian joined Liberum Capital to help establish a dedicated mining and metals corporate finance team in its London office. Chan Sethi is meandering through

law school in Toronto and will be back in New York in May for a summer at Davis Polk and Wardwell. Pat Corrigan is in his last year at Simon Fraser getting his biology degree. He plans to work in the environmental health field in Vancouver. Pat took last year off school to travel Europe and visit family. Taylor Morassutti continues to work in the finance and acquisitions group at Cresford Developments, a condominium developer in Toronto.

’04 Greg Lowman & Dave Reisman, Class PresidentsJames Alofs completed his MBA at the Schulich Scool of Business and after interning at Walmart China in Shen-zhen, is at Procter and Gamble Canada in marketing on the Pampers brand. Brooker Belcourt lives in SoHo, NYC with Hudson Sullivan. His job has become slightly more relaxed and he has begun to enjoy some of the perks of NYC living. Michael Bienstock is completing a master’s of Teaching at Griffith University on the sunny Gold Coast of Australia. Alex Bishop is in his second year at Queen’s Law. This past sum-mer he worked for the Legal Group at BMO Capital Markets. Wai Choy is finishing his second year at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and will be a summer associate at the law firm of Proskauer Rose LLP in New York this sum-mer. Wai is also working on a feature film script. Matt Cowie is still at AGF and is close to a final decision on where to do his MBA next year. Daniel Faria is in second year at Columbia Law School and will work for O’Melveny & Myers LLP in L.A. for the summer. Jeremy Frank is at Bain and Company in Toronto and hopes to go back to school. Alex Frechette is still doin’ his thing at Oakley Canada. Matt Herndorff returned to Toronto after two years in Paris — and still doesn’t know why he came back. Chris Horkins is finishing his last year of law school at Queen’s after spend-ing a term on exchange in the Netherlands. He will come home to article at a Toronto law firm in August. Pete Irwin continues his dream of working in the sales department of the family toy company, encountering new challenges every day in the ever-changing world of toys. AJ Jamani works on Handsome Clothing with Christian Rice. Most recently they expanded with HNDSM, their first jewelry collection. Andrew Kirkpatrick remains within BMO Financial Group’s anti-money laundering financial intelligence unit. AK would like to give a special shout-out to the Cubs! Go Blues Go. Pranay Krishen spent the past year working and travel-ling in the Middle East (based out of Jordan). Recently, he established a sustainability consulting firm and is in northern India for a three-month project. Derrick Leung is still at Goldman Sachs in New York. He also found time to go back to school and teach a lecture on infrastructure investing at Princeton. Greg Lowman is a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. at the Financial Services Roundtable. He plays for the Canadian Embassy’s hockey team. Kevin Maggisano is in third year of the University of Western Ontario’s medicine program. He is a rotating clerk. Rob Mathers taught skiing in Collingwood this winter. If you’re in the area, let him know and take a few runs. Conor McBroom is in Toronto at Slate Properties, a private equity real estate and asset management company. Geoff Mcleod splits his time between Bay Street,

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Matt King ’99 crowned captain of Cambridge rugby team

Matthew Guinness-King ’99 (left) is the new captain of the prestigious Cambridge University Blues Rugby team. He developed his rugby prow-ess at UCC, where he remains one of the College’s most celebrated athletes.

“This is an enormous honour for Matt. I remem-ber him as a phenomenal athlete with an even greater work ethic,” says Dave Shaw, King’s former rugby coach at UCC.

King is an accomplished player who has excelled at many levels, leading up to his varsity position with the Blues. He has 15 International Caps for the full Canadian Senior Men’s Rugby Team and he was a member, also captain, of the Canadian Senior Men’s 7’s team and was named Player of the Year in 2005. Read the full story under the news section on the home page at ucc.on.ca

at the MaRS Center in September was attended by a good group of UCC alumni. The organization raises funds for college tuition, housing, health care and business and language courses for about 150 students. David Gale started his own financial planning practice with IG in Toronto and would love to hear from his schoolmates: [email protected]. Blair Guilfoyle became a dad for the first time. Connor Gerald arrived November 29. Blair looks forward to getting Connor out on the squash court, soccer/rugby pitch and golf course soon.

’02 Phil D’Abreu & Matt Hontscharuk, Class Presidents

Andrew Binkley is a lawyer at Ropes and Gray LLP in Bos-ton. Between jobs, he spent three months traveling in the fall. Highlights included leading a two-week canoe trip in Ontario, surfing in South Carolina, diving in Australia and hiking in New Zealand. John Blickstead is developing a pilot for NBC and has written the screenplay for a live-action version of Disney’s animated film Mulan, set to start filming this year. Carl Cheung finished dental school this past May and is in Seattle as an associate. Chris Cruz got married to Frances Pangilinan Oct.10 and had fellow Wedd’s grad, Adrian de Valois-Franklin as his best man. He moved from Santa

Attending the Budapest Branch Reception, Aug. 30 at the Gresham Palace Hotel, were Gyorgy Dobak ’02, Paul Winnell ’67 and Charlie Makk ’02.

Monica, Calif. to NYC, leaving Oaktree Capital Management for a start-up private equity and distressed investing fund, Searchlight Capital Partners. Philip D’Abreu still lives in London, U.K. and works for KKR. If there, drop him a line at [email protected]. Adam Dawson is studying for his MBA at the London Business School. Adrian de Valois-Franklin moved back to Toronto to help build the private equity strategy for the $130-billion CPP Investment Board. He spent the past four years in San Francisco with Accel-KKR and Goldman Sachs. He is excited to reconnect with the UCC community in Canada. Salim Dhirani graduated from med school at Western and is doing a two-year residency in family medicine at UofT, based at the Scarborough Hospital. Josh Farr was accepted into Scotiabank’s Global Risk Manage-ment Associate Program, where he will spend the next year and a half with its industry-leading risk management arm. On Nov.11, Josh married Tessa in a small ceremony in Toronto. They are thoroughly enjoying every minute of married life. He continues to co-manage Charlie’s FreeWheels, a chari-table organization he co-founded to empower and mentor underprivileged youth in Toronto’s Regent Park community. The charity was named after late Old Boy, Charles Prin-sep, and honours his many passions and interests through philanthropic initiatives (www.charliesfreewheels.ca). Adam Freedman practises corporate law with Torys LLP in Toronto. Karim Gillani works for Research In Motion (mak-ers of BlackBerry) in San Francisco, looking at early-stage start-ups for investment and acquisition. Kobi Gulersen is at MacLaren McCann in Toronto and continues to chair the Young Alumni Advisory Committee at UCC. Sam Ken-nedy studies industrial design at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto. Simon Leith is at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. J.P. Mackay recently travelled to China where he visited Beijing, Xian and Shanghai. He is pursuing an MBA at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the Uni-versity of Western Ontario. Ali Merali is in his first year of a two-year master’s program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Morgon Mills works with skills development at Memorial University, and recently won the Newfoundland and Labrador provincial chess title. Ryan Morris contin-ues to work on his investment partnership, Meson Capital Partners, in New York. Peter Roberts develops athletes and helps people get super strong at the gym he opened up last year, CrossFit Quantum. Alexander Sherrington is


Jeff Chen is finishing his last year at the Richard Ivey School of Business. Aris Economopoulos is finishing his last year at the Richard Ivey School of Business. Clarence Tso gradu-ated from the University of Pennsylvania with a business and engineering degree and works for Microsoft in Seattle. Jona-than Jeong works for a marketing firm in New York. Nick Chan graduated from the University of Western Ontario and works at Ernst and Young. Arthur Soong graduated from Western, travelled around Asia and works at KPMG in the audit practice. Kent and Keith Wong work at KPMG Hong Kong. Aaron Leung graduated from Western and is pursuing his master’s at the University of British Columbia. He also decided to start a family with his girlfriend, Andrea Cheng, and their Golden Retriever, Taylor Cheng-Leung. Nikhil Daljeet is finishing his studies at the University of Western Ontario. Sanders Lazier travelled the world. Aamer Javed is at PricewaterhouseCoopers, as is Tom Lace. Jonathan To is at KPMG in forensic accounting. Hussein Kapasi graduated from McGill University and joined KPMG Singa-pore. If in Singapore drop him an email at [email protected]. Matt Ball graduated from the Richard Ivey School of Business and is a corporate strategy consultant at Accenture. Jon Tam is at UofT faculty of law. Shamp Belliveau has joined his dad’s accounting company in Bridgewater, N.S. and is working towards his CA designation. Joe Tobias is doing a one-year service fellowship at the psychiatry department of the Montefiore Medical Centre in the Bronx.

’07 Alain Bartleman & Justin Danto-Clancy, Class PresidentsJohn Yim is in his fourth year of a double degree in math and business at Waterloo and Wilfred Laurier. In 2010, David Kepes represented Queen’s University at the Model UN held at McGill, garnering “Most Outstanding Delegate,” and in Feb-ruary he won “Honourable Mention for Outstanding Perfor-

mance” at Princeton. Last summer, David was in a program in Brussels studying the European Union after which he worked as a fully-accredited journalist. He is now published in 65 dif-ferent countries and was looking forward to finishing his last year at Queen’s in philosophy.

’08 Calum Mew & David Marshall, Class PresidentsAdam Jutha is at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill fulfilling his pre-med requirements. He is also a resident adviser, teaching assistant for an international studies course, and director of the Health Policy Centre of UNC’s Roosevelt Institute.

’09 Nick Lombardo and Karim PabaniKarim Pabani is at Dalhousie University studying com-merce. He is also in a co-op program and headed into the business world for a four-month internship in January. Most notably, Dalhousie has restarted its football team program after 34 years of absence in the Atlantic Football League, and Karim is a kicker and punter. Though they had a strong season, the team lost in the finals to the University of New Brunswick. Marco Cianflone was wrapping up his third semester at Harvard after backpacking through Singapore, Malaysia, Bali and Thailand. He will declare a special con-centration in the economics of media, and is looking for a summer job in NYC. Colm Kenny is in second year at the University of Western Ontario after working hard last summer on the trading floor of GMP Securities in Toronto. He has revitalized his volleyball career, plays on the junior varsity team and hopes to soon move up to the varsity program. He plans to attend the Richard Ivey School of Business next fall to pursue an honours degree in business administration. Nick Moritsugu transferred to McGill this year.

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the books, the golf course and the hockey rink, where he is keeping the dream alive with ’08 classmates at Wednesday night men’s league for the Cubs. Mike Milne is in his second year at UofT law and will work for Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt LLP this summer. Jason Morris bought and moved into his first house and wishes he had waited until Rob Ford was elected mayor — stupid land transfer tax! David Pepall is an analyst at Standard and Poor’s in Toronto. John Pezim is a commercial real estate adviser at Newmark Knight Frank Devencore, Canada’s leading corporate-tenant advisory firm. Dave Phelan got engaged in June and moved to New York with fiancée Kelly. They’ll marry in July in Toronto. Doug Reid works at First National Financial in the commercial ser-vicing department and was preparing to write the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) level two exam. Dave Reisman is at Livia Capital Management, a boutique private equity shop in Toronto. In his spare time he laces them up for the Cubs, the Class of ’04 hockey team. James Ricci joined the family business, the Roy Foss Automotive Group. He is also enrolled in a part-time automotive management certification program in Washington D.C. and continues to manage his car detailing and cosmetics business (Autospa.com). Stephen Robinson is an engineer for D.E. Shaw & Co. in NYC, developing trading solutions. Jared Ross is playing with the Reading Royals of the East Coast Hockey League. Abhi Sethi continues to be humbled in second year at Queen’s medicine. Dave Spencer is working at TD as an investment adviser. Alex Tapscott is riding the wave of a commodities bull market and loving every minute of it. He lives in a new/old loft and spends quality time with family and friends. Jeff Taylor left the Guggenheim and is in New York at LaPlaca Cohen — a strategic market-ing, advertising and design firm that helps arts organizations better connect and communicate with their audiences. Max Torokvei is a precious metals analyst at Dynamic Mutual Funds and writing level three of the CFA in June.

’06 Arthur Soong, Class President

Rob ’03 and Matthew ’06 Yelavich sport vintage UCC sweaters at Association Day, Sept. 26.

Reid Pauly graduated with honours from Cornell University after placing third at the U.S. Rowing National Champion-ships. He works on nuclear weapons policy at a think-tank

in Washington, D.C. Richard Martin is in Toronto after four months of backpacking in Southeast Asia with Sanders Lazier and Felix Cornehl. He works at PricewaterhouseC-oopers and is studying for his CA exams. Jason Young is pursuing his Master’s degree in biology. Jamie Clark graduated from St. Andrew’s back in June with a degree in management and played 1st team soccer and lacrosse. Mat-thew Kupfer is pursuing a master’s of journalism at Carleton University. He is looking forward to a summer internship at CBC Radio’s “As it Happens.” Kevin Barford graduated from McGill in the spring and celebrated by spending the summer golfing and travelling through Europe. He’s now in Toronto with Rio Novo Gold Inc., a gold producer with properties in Brazil, and looks forward to spending the next year in the mining industry. Ricardo Lee is an operations analyst at Xerox as an Operations Analyst and is working towards his CMA. Simon Choy started a company that helps charities and is trying to make it work. Mark Phelan finished his Hon-ours Business Administration degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business. He travelled in Asia, Europe and Australia and planned to spend winter in Whistler before going back to school to earn a master’s in International Management. Charles Lee graduated from McGill with a BCom and joined Pricewaterhouse Coopers Hong Kong in January. Dom Owen finished his last exams at McGill. Simon Sostmann went back to Germany to conclude his medical studies. Henry Lau is studying his master’s in Operation Research at Columbia.

Classnotes

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2011

Thursday, April 14 Branch Reception in Vancouver 7 p.m., Terminal City Club

Spring Arts Festival 5:15–9:30 p.m., Upper School

Friday, April 15 Branch Reception in San Francisco 7 p.m., Home of Michael and Hazel Kawaja

Sunday, April 17 Branch Reception in Los Angeles 3 p.m., Jonathan Beach Club, Santa Monica

Wednesday, April 27 “Seniors” Reunion Dinner 6 p.m, Main Foyer and Upper Dining Hall

Sunday, May 15 Spring Open House at Norval 1–3 p.m.

Wednesday, May 18 Reception for the College’s Volunteers 6:30 p.m., Garden at Grant House

Tuesday, May 24 Grandparents’ & Special Friends’ Day 1 p.m. Grade 6-7, Prep

Tuesday, May 24 Leaving Class Ceremonies 4 p.m., Hewitt Athletic Centre

Wednesday, May 25 New Parent Reception 5 p.m., Student Centre

Sunday, May 29 Spring Sports Day 11 a.m

Wednesday, June 1 Young Alumni “Boys Night Out” 7 p.m, Malaparte, TIFF Bell Lightbox

Tuesday, June 7 Common Ties Fifth Annual Finance LunchNet noon, Scotia Plaza

Wednesday, June 8 Grandparents’ & Special Friends’ Day 1 p.m., SK-Grade 5, Prep

Monday, June 13 78th Annual Joe Cressy Memorial Golf Tournament Brampton Golf Club

Upcoming Events

Bid farewell to Paul Winnell

Use our facilities

Join us for a reception for Paul Winnell, June 23, 7–9 p.m. After more than 20 years at UCC, he embarks on a new chapter called “Retirement.” (More details to come.) Paul has touched the lives of many Old Boys, parents and UCC friends. Everyone has a Paul Winnell story and we would love to hear yours (or just your good wishes)! Send a letter to Event Manager Maria Karakoulas or to [email protected]

If you wish to organize a sport not currently available, please contact Samantha Kerbel in the Association Office ([email protected]). Be sure to book well in advance.

BasketballMondays: 6:30–9 p.m. (until June 13)Hewitt Athletic Centre; in Old Gym (June 20-Aug. 29)

SoccerTuesdays: 6:30–9 p.m. (all year)The Oval (weather permitting)

Ball HockeySaturday: noon–5 p.m. (April-Oct.)

Touch FootballSundays: 10 a.m.–noon (Sept.-first snow fall) Lord’s Field

Shinny HockeyWednesdays: 8:30–9:30 p.m. (until April 27) William Wilder Arena & Sports Complex

Summer Shinny HockeyWednesdays: 6–7 p.m. (May 4-Aug. 31)William Wilder Arena & Sports Complex

Family Pleasure SkatingSundays: 2:30–4:30 p.m. (until May 15)William Wilder Arena & Sports Complex

LacrosseWednesdays: 6:30–9 p.m. (July and Aug.) New Field

TennisSaturdays: noon–5 p.m. (late June-Aug)Outdoor Courts

Touch FootballSundays: 10 a.m.–noon (late June-Aug.)Lord’s Field

Only you can complete this picture.

TOMORROWS ARE BUILT TODAY. SUPPORT THE FUTURE NOW.

Help complete the picture and support the future now. Go to www.ucc.on.ca/MakeaGift or call 416-488-1125, ext. 2000.

The cornerstone of UCC’s vision for the future is student financial aid. It ensures UCC continues to attract the very best and most deserving students, enabling them to develop into the leaders and change-makers of tomorrow.

UCC Annual Fund

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Make a gift now!

Stay connected For more information, please contact the Association Office at 416-484-8629 or e-mail at [email protected]. Register online for UCC Association events at www.ucc.on.ca in the Community Section.

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Where’s Wally?

Spot Wally in the crowd of former classmates and friends at Reunion 2011September 30th - Reunion Golf Tournament and Class EventsOctober 1st - Association Day and Reunion Dinner

HONOURED CLASSES: 1962, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006. Mark your calendars today.

For more information or to get involved, contact Lindsay Tarvit at [email protected] or 416-488-1125 ext. 3357.

Answer: (a) J. Wallace ‘81 (e) S. Wall ‘01 L to R: (b) A. Soong ‘06 (c) J. Andersen ‘86 (d) D. Webb ‘76 (f) B. Alexandroff ‘96 (g) D. Mills ‘62 (h) D. Plummer ‘66

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g.h.

e.f.

b.c.

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