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SPRING 2009 1
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WEATHERING THE STORM A forward outlook on the current economic climate
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FromtheProvostFromtheProvost
Financing our FutureLooking beyond the economic crisis means drawing on
our strengths of today and investing in tomorrow
was during the 1992 U.S. Presidential cam-
paign (when many of the upcoming class of ’13
were busy being born) that Bill Clinton coined
the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid.” His suc-
cessor, presiding in the eye of a storm (never the most elegant
position) and languishing in the wake of what has been widely
characterized as a U.S.-led global recession, left offi ce no doubt
thinking, “It’s the stupid economy.” And the latest incumbent,
encumbered with the follies and foibles of an inherited system,
has come to power on the back of a widespread popular belief
that, “The economy: it’s stupid.”
Indeed, this is a time marked by a bewil-
dering and dismaying lack of serious and in-
formed debate, a time when some have made
a profi t of doom, and others just seem to be
guessing haphazardly, with no great guiding
principles but the thought that one day some-
one will be vindicated. We have had plenty of
Keynes: now we need more folk to show they
are able. In these pages, we pay tribute to Trin-
ity alums making an impact in various areas of
the global fi nancial system. That some of our
own sit among the world’s movers and shakers offers hope that
economic order will be restored, possibly even improved.
The College has been sheltered to some extent from the wild
economic weather by a fi ne combination of smart and industri-
ous fi nancial and investment committees, working alongside a
campaign and development team dedicated to bringing money
in, and a bursarial- and buildings-management ethos that is fun-
damentally allergic to excess and waste.
Even so, we have been hit hard. Decisions both prudent
and painful continue to be made to ensure the College will sail
through the current storm unscathed and still afl oat even if to do
so means facing unpleasant cutbacks and unpalatable setbacks.
At the most basic level, for example, our endowments for schol-
arships and bursaries, awards that distinguish Trinity from other
colleges in Toronto and beyond, and are a mark of how remark-
able our students are, have been sadly depleted. Without further
injection of earmarked funds, the College will be less able than
we would wish to recognize and reward the great potential and
still greater achievements of our students. We are determined to
return to previous levels (and eventually exceed them!) when the
moment is right.
It is traditional in times of hardship to speak slightingly of
ivory towers, a biblical phrase fi rst found in the Song of Songs,
referring to the beautiful neck of Solomon’s beloved. Ivory tow-
ers are less loved these days, particularly by politicians, though
in biblical terms they were never in-
tended to be valued purely for them-
selves, but for the weight of wisdom
and fairness of prospect they sustain.
So it is with Trinity.
Ivory towers are a luxury soci-
ety must afford. Costly to build and
maintain, they nonetheless gain grace,
strength and prominence with age.
But if they decay or are destroyed,
they are hard to raise again. Allowing
such structures to crumble is a false
economy, for without spires to aspire to, and hallowed halls to
recall, and without the fellowship and shared growth and ex-
perience offered by the best universities, the world would be a
poorer, duller place indeed.
Straitened times call for straight talking and thinking, and we
trust you will fi nd both in this issue. But as always with Trinity
College, there is much more: the promise of a bright future and
the recollection of a glittering past, and the fi rm resolve to pro-
tect what we can and to build where we may. Whatever the woes
of the fi nancial world, that surely is the debt of responsibility we
owe our splendid students, in whose future we invest, and our
wonderful, loyal alums, who offer great returns, with an interest
rate that remains happily high.
ANDY ORCHARD
Provost and Vice-Chancellor
“Ivory towers are a luxury
society must afford.
Costly to build and
maintain, they nonetheless
gain grace, strength and
prominence with age”
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WEATHERING THE STORM
System ShiftMalcolm Knight rewires the
global fi nancial machineBy Julia Belluz
Barclay’s Has BiteAnd her name is Geri James
By Rick McGinnis
Firm FocusSacha Kapoor goes after his
dreams and lends his expertiseBy Kristine Culp
Vital LinkSharon Pel keeps
regulators in the loopBy Leah Stokes
The NegotiatorGraeme Clark represents
Canada at the world tableBy Liz Allemang
n.b.College observations worth noting
By Peter Josselyn
Trinity’s Vital OrganTransfusion needed!
By Judy Stoffman
Casual ConversationGetting to know Trinity’s
fellows and associates
Class NotesNews from classmates near and far
CalendarThings to see, hear and do
Trinity PastThe Case of the
Coloured Windows
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Skating to Victory
Trinity’s intramural hockey team skated to victory in the fall season, beat-
ing out Medicine with a 1-0 overtime win in the fi nals.
Team captain Andrew Kavanagh ’10 said it was great to win, but also nice
to see “a big gathering of fans” cheering them on. “It was really a team effort.
Each game we had a different player step up to the plate — a lot of teams
have only one or two guys to carry the load.”
Currently, 12 of the team’s 17 members are Trinity students; some colleges
don’t fi eld teams, so it’s common for students from other colleges to join up.
Kavanagh, vice-president of the Trinity College Athletic Association, has
played with the team for three years. The year before he joined, Trinity broke
a fi ve-decades-long losing streak, capturing the Jennings Cup for the fi rst time
since 1956. The team won again in 2007.
To toast the fall victory, Provost Andy Orchard hosted Kavanagh’s team on
March 12, just four days before the fi fth and fi nal regular winter season game
in the Division 1 Non-Contact league. (At press time, the team was in fi rst
place with two wins, two ties. The semi-fi nals were scheduled for March 23, and
the fi nals, March 27. See the next issue of Trinity for the results.)
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Smooth LandingJOHN IBBITSON ’78 WON THE
2008 Governor General’s
Award for children’s literature.
The Landing, which takes
place during the Depression,
is a coming-of-age story about
a 15-year-old boy named Ben.
Although not autobiographical,
the book is set in Gravenhurst,
Ont., Ibbitson’s hometown.
“I’ve wanted to write a book
about Muskoka my entire adult
life, and it was a joy to be able
to do it,” he said.
Ibbitson is currently the
Washington correspondent
for The Globe and Mail.
Wired to Get WirelessSTUDENTS CAN NOW SURF THE
Net while sitting in the Quad-
rangle, thanks to new wireless
access points that were installed
in a number of common areas
and classrooms last summer.
The upgrades are part of an
ongoing project to provide
wireless access throughout the
Trinity buildings.
Last summer’s initiative
is largely courtesy of student
funds set aside for special
projects. The senior student
governing body, the Trinity
College Meeting, allocated
$25,000 to the project. The
University of Toronto kicked
in $5,000 for the classroom
component. So far, almost
$22,000 has been spent.
Additional common rooms
will be provided with wireless
access this summer.
Talk the TalkTRINITY COLLEGE HOSTED
80 of the country’s top
debaters for the prestigious,
three-day Central Canadian
Debate Championships at
the end of February.
Tournament director and
second-year Trinity student
Jason Davis, noting that the
College is an ideal host, said,
“Students here naturally
engage in intellectual and
academic discourse. Debat-
ing is a formalized version of
the conversations we would
normally have.”
Trinity has argumenta-
tive roots: the Trinity College
Literary Institute (or The Lit),
a student government body
founded in 1854, regularly
runs in-house debates.
But over the past two years,
Trinity has become a force
to be reckoned with in the
competitive circuit.
“We’ve established a
reputation in a short period
of time. Hosting draws even
more attention and reinforces
our presence,” Davis said.
(As hosts, Trinity debaters
served as judges and staff, but
didn’t actually debate.)
Starting Feb. 27, 40 teams
of two from 12 schools com-
peted until there were only
two teams left for the fi nal
debate on March 1.
Seeley Hall brimmed with
excitement during the last
round, which pitted McGill
University against Hart
House. The question up for
debate was whether parents
in Quebec should be allowed
to decide if their children are
educated exclusively in Eng-
lish or in French.
In the end, Saro Setrakian
and Sophie Macintyre of
McGill nabbed the title and
the Léger Cup trophy.
“They were a stronger
team,” Davis conceded.
Granted and Graced
In recognition of their generosity to Trinity over the years, including
to the Strength to Strength campaign, the boardroom on the sec-
ond fl oor of Trinity College has been named the Douglas and Ruth
Grant Boardroom.
Doug ’59 and Ruth ’63 Grant in front
of the boardroom door.
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In spite of the home-team
upset, the Championship
exceeded expectations.
“When you have a room full
of debaters, people who have
their own opinions, you know
whether or not the crowd is
into it,” Davis said. “There was
a lot of banging on table tops.”
No greater indication of a suc-
cessful debate.
Model CitizenBEN BARRY ’05 IS THE FIRST
man to receive, at a ceremony
last November, a Governor
General’s Award in Com-
memoration of the Persons
Case. Given in the spirit and
memory of Canada’s Famous
Five, who won legal recogni-
tion for women in 1929, the
award honours individuals
who have made outstanding
contributions to promote the
equality of girls and women
in Canada.
For his part, Barry has been
challenging the way beauty
standards are presented by
the fashion industry and the
media since he was a teenager.
Founder and CEO of Ben
Barry Agency Inc., an interna-
tionally recognized modelling
consultancy, he was also a key
player in the Dove Campaign
for Real Beauty.
Currently a PhD candidate
at Cambridge University and
a visiting scholar at Harvard
Business School, Barry hopes
his research and efforts will
ultimately push modelling
agencies to use “real” models,
not just for altruistic reasons,
but because it benefi ts their
bottom line: his research
shows that women identify
more deeply with models who
closely resemble their own
physical image.
Barry was the guest speaker
at this year’s SpeakEasy, a
Trinity event geared to young
alumni, on Jan. 30.
Leading by ExampleSARAH YUN ’09 HAS A RÉSUMÉ
that reads as if she should
be leading a country. In due
time, perhaps.
The fourth-year English
and political science student
won this year’s Faculty of Arts
& Science Dean’s Student
Leadership Award, a dis-
tinction that recognizes her
involvement on-campus
and beyond, and includes a
$500 scholarship.
Declaring herself “humbled
and honoured,” by her win,
Yun said, “Students are doing
amazing things on this cam-
pus, and I feel truly blessed to
be a part of that.”
Part of that indeed. Yun is
chair of the student division
of the G8 Research Group
(G8RG), currently preparing
a team of students to travel to
Italy this July for the 2009 G8
Summit, and a team leader
with the Trinity branch of
Lawyers Feed the Hungry. In
the past she was also involved
Michael Row Your Boat Ashore, Hallelujah
There was a point when Michael Braithwaite ’09
doubted he would even make it to the National
Rowing Championship Regatta: his ride had bailed and
his accommodations had fallen through. But in the end,
he made it — and walked away a champ.
Braithwaite placed first in the Men’s Under 23
Single Skulls category in London, Ont., winning the
2,000-metre race with an eight-second lead. “I think
surprising is probably the best way to describe the
race,” he said.
In his fourth year of cognitive science and phi-
losophy, Braithwaite is president of the Trinity College
Athletic Association. He has been rowing for six years,
and has been on the Varsity team for four.
Ben Barry poses with
Governor General
Michaëlle Jean after
accepting his award.
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with the WUSC Refugee
Student Program, and was president of the English
Students’ Union, co-ordinator
of the Environmental Net-
working Fair, and a violin
soloist with Hart House
Chamber Strings, among
other accomplishments.
Yun’s post-summer plans
are still up in the air, but it’s no
surprise she has options. She
is eagerly awaiting responses
from master’s programs in
social policy for the 2009-2010
academic year, and plans to
apply to law school this fall for
the following year.
Reach Past the StarsTO MOST PEOPLE, HR8799 IS
just a series of letters and num-
bers. But to Bruce Macintosh
’88 it represents something
profoundly signifi cant: it’s the
name of the star marking the
spot where he and a team of
astronomers, led by Macintosh
and Christian Marois, discov-
ered three giant planets (fi ve to
10 times the mass of Jupiter)
outside of our solar system.
The star, which is 130 light
years away in the constellation
Pegasus, can be seen with
binoculars but not with the
naked eye. The planets, on
the other hand, can’t even be
spotted with a conventional
telescope because they are
obscured by starlight.
“Stars are very bright and
planets are very faint,” Macin-
tosh said. “For example, Jupiter
is one billion times darker
than the sun.”
Stationed in Hawaii,
Macintosh and his colleagues
used a highly specialized
telescope camera equipped
with a mirror that changes
its shape a thousand times
a second to correct for the
turbulence of the Earth’s
atmosphere. They started their
search by observing young
stars, looking for relatively
“new” planets that were still
molten and glowing. And they
lucked out. This is one of the
fi rst times photos have been
taken of extrasolar planetary
systems. (At the same time as
Macintosh and Marois made
their discovery, another team
announced an image of a planet
Books Round-up
A10th book by Rose Murray ’63 has hit shelves.
A Taste of Canada: A Culinary Journey shows
how distinctive Canadian cuisine can be, and how
the country’s land, climate and people shape it.
Martin Hunter ’55 has published a memoir
of his life up until age 24. Young Hunting includes
his years at Trinity, which he describes as a
“whacking good time in the afterglow of Evelyn
Waugh’s depictions of Oxford and Cambridge
in the 1920s.”
John Allore ’86 contributed a chapter to
Criminal Investigative Failures, which recounts the
unsolved murder of his sister, Theresa Allore, who
disappeared in November 1978.
T. A. Keenleyside ’62 has published a book
about his travel experiences. Missing The Bus,
Making The Connection: Tales and Tastes of Travel
spans more than 20 countries, including parts of
southeast Asia, where he served as a diplomat.
Complementing the stories are recipes assembled
by his wife, Dorothy (Pointing) ’62.
Arch Haslett ’63 fought a debilitating illness
and lived to write (and publish) a book about
it. Wing to Wing chronicles the personal and physi-
cal journey Haslett took to cope with his illness
and promote healing.
An infrared image of the
HR8799 planetary system taken
with the Keck telescope. The
three planets are labelled — b,
c and d — and their orbital
motion is shown. The central
pattern of coloured speckles is
light from the star scattered by
the telescope and Earth’s
atmosphere, like a “lens fl are”
in a camera.
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orbiting the star Fomalhaut, 25
light years away.)
With 2009 being the offi cial
Year of Astronomy, it’s the
perfect time for Macintosh
and his colleagues to build on
their discovery.
Macintosh, an astrophysi-
cist from Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory in Cali-
fornia, is leading a $20-million
joint Canadian-American
project striving to improve
the technology used to view
and photograph planets similar
to Jupiter.
“The Holy Grail is to fi nd
planets that are like Earth,” he
said, “though that’s 10 or 20
years away.” ■
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Terms of Service
The Rev. Andrea Budgey had
never set up a Facebook profi le,
but she recognized it as a great tool
for engaging with students. “I took
a deep breath and plunged in,” she
said, choosing for her profi le picture
a lovely image of stained glass hang-
ing in Trinity’s chapel.
Appointed for a fi ve-year term as
Trinity’s fourth Humphrys Chaplain,
Budgey replaces the Rev. Dr. Dana
Fisher, who fi nished a two-year term
at Trinity last August to become Rector of St. John the Evangelist Anglican
Church in downtown Ottawa.
Budgey has a long list of academic and professional accomplishments,
including a MMus (she plays the oboe, among other instruments, and is a
co-founder of the Sine Nomine Ensemble for Medieval Music), and a MA
in medieval studies, both from the University of Toronto, as well as a MDiv
from Trinity (’06). She was ordained priest last January, and worked as assis-
tant curate at Saint Simon-the-Apostle in Toronto until the end of 2008.
Excited about her return to Trinity in a brand new capacity, Budgey
said she plans to stay true to the role of the student-focused Humphrys
Chaplaincy, and hopes that while she serves both the religious and the
non-believers of Trinity and the whole of St. George campus, students will
guide her according to their needs.
“A lot of the people for whom I’m available are not Anglican, not Chris-
tian, and acutely skeptical,” she said, “and it doesn’t worry me. It’s still pos-
sible to have respectful and constructive conversations and be helpful.”
Budgey believes churches must pay attention to the environmental,
social and political issues young people value to keep them interested. “It’s
really important that a church engage in these issues and not dismiss them
as merely political.”
Since her offi cial start date on Jan. 5, Budgey has met with such groups as
the Trinity College Volunteer Society in hopes of collaborating on projects.
“It’s exciting to be part of people’s ethical development,” she said, “and how
they become involved in the world — their social identity.”
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When Erik Penz and Priya Suagh got engaged, they
had only one place in mind for their wedding:
Trinity College Chapel, with sunlight slanting in
through the stained glass windows and soaring
organ music to lift the soul.
Penz’s mother, Catherine (Adamson) Ruskin ’67, sang in Trin-
ity’s chapel choir as a student. She advocated for music that steered
clear of wedding clichés. The young couple chose Sir Hubert Par-
ry’s I was Glad for the procession, Charles-Marie Widor’s Toccata for the recessional, and, for Canadian content, Healey Willan’s
Christe, Redemptor omnium for the organ prelude.
“John Tuttle [Trinity’s Director of Music] had tremendous
patience in advising what music would be appropriate,” Penz
recalls, “and went above and beyond to hunt down sheet music
and pull together an incredible choir. After the wedding, many
people commented on how amazing the music was.”
As Trinity’s organist and choirmaster, the energetic Tuttle only
plays at the chapel’s weddings — there’s an average of 55 per year
— when he has time. (Outgoing Bevan Organ Scholar Christo-
pher Ku plays most of them.)
If the music sounded particularly fi ne on that day last November,
it is likely because the organ had recently been overhauled, thanks, in
part, to Cuban-born José Ordonez ’50. Ordonez, who had retired to
Florida after a long career as an educator, returned to Toronto every
summer to visit friends, staying in a room at the College. When he
died last year, he left a bequest to contribute to restoring the organ.
Built by Casavant Frères of Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., and
installed in the chapel in 1954, the instrument desperately needed
to have its 1,400 pipes replaced, or at least dismantled and cleaned.
More than half a century of organists playing it had taken a toll.
But sending the pipes back to Casavant Frères for cleaning, or
buying new ones, would have cost more money than was available
for the project, Tuttle says.
As luck would have it, he found out from local organ builder
Thomas Linken that Holy Trinity Church, next door to Toronto’s
Eaton Centre, was about to replace its organ (which had been
having mechanical troubles, but still worked) after inheriting one
from another institution.
“Some of its pipes were lovely,” Tuttle says of Holy Trinity’s organ.
“Some made by Casavant, some by Samuel Warren, a famous organ
builder from the 1800s.” They weren’t brand new, but they were a
huge improvement over the well-worn pipes on Trinity chapel’s organ.
And best of all, Holy Trinity was offering the pipes for free.
With new pipes in hand, there was still the labour issue to
solve: Who was going to install them? To complete the project
within the allotted budget, Tuttle and Linken decided to tackle
the swap themselves.
When you glance up to the choir loft from the nave, the 17 fat,
bronze-coloured pipes you see fronting the Trinity organ are only
for show; they emit no sound. The real music is produced behind
them — in the organ chamber, a small, cedar-lined room reached
via a catwalk — by a forest of narrow, upright pipes.
Tuttle and Linken spent much of last summer in that hot lit-
tle chamber, removing 1,200 of the dirty and damaged pipes and
replacing many of them with those from Holy Trinity. They also
vacuumed and washed the entire mechanism and the remaining
200 pipes. The enhanced tonal quality was worth the grunt work.
But further restoration is required. The organ’s console, slightly
larger than an upright piano and the instrument’s nerve centre, is
overdue for a mechanical system rebuild. Some pedal notes are
loose, making it diffi cult to play accurately.
Tuttle enumerates additional problems that could be addressed
if another “organ donor” came forward: “The keyboards and pedal-
board need to be refurbished so they have a consistent feel and don’t
clack; the combination action, which allows the organist to turn
stops on and off by pushing preset buttons, is unreliable.”
If existing parts could be replaced with modern electronic switches
and memories, the organ would perform even better than it did when
it was fi rst built. Tuttle would also like to see “a snappy little trumpet
stop” added “to play brides up the aisle,” making weddings at Trinity
even more exciting. He estimates it will cost between $100,000 and
$150,000 to complete all of the required work.
“If we raise more, we’d have the money to endow the instrument,
which is an integral part of worship here,” says Tuttle, who strives to
introduce his students to music of substance and imagination. “I tell
my students that trivial music leads the way to trivial faith.” ■
Vital OrganTRINITY’S
Post-surgery, the instrument is recovering, but still needs a transfusion
BY JUDY STOFFMAN
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After six years of piping out good tunes, Trinity
College’s Bevan Organ Scholar Christopher Ku
is leaving. And he’ll be missed. “He is not just
an excellent musician, but an excellent church
musician,” says John Tuttle, Trinity’s organist and
director of music.
“It’s been a wonderful experience,” says
Ku, who appreciated working closely with di-
vinity students, knowing they’ll take what they
learned about music at Trinity back to their
own communities.
Ku’s original three-year term was extended
twice, fi rst for a year and then for two more
years. “We bent the rules a little bit,” Tuttle says.
The Bevan Organ Scholarship is a wonderful
opportunity for an undergraduate music student
to gain valuable experience working as a church
musician, “but with a safety net,” Tuttle says.
The Scholar’s primary responsibilities are
assisting the head organist and playing at the
various services divinity students attend as
part of their studies.
While at Trinity, Ku was also working toward
his master’s in musicology at the University of
Toronto. Having now completed that, he has
applied to various PhD programs, hoping to focus
his research on the way that church music shifted
in the 16th century as Latin was phased out in
favour of English.
As for fi nding Ku’s replacement, Tuttle says
there are already a number of candidates; the
search has begun in U of T’s faculty of music. Look
for an announcement in the next issue of Trinity.
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For months now, Canadian news
media have spouted doom and
gloom about the economy — and
with good reason. On only one
other occasion since the Second
World War have the major eco-
nomic powers of the world con-
currently slid into a recession.
In the past six months, the Bank
of Canada slashed its benchmark
rate to a 50-year low, Statistics
Canada reported the first trade
deficit in 30 years, and the Harp-
er government tabled its federal
budget, confirming a deficit will
ensue, and thus evoking a collec-
tive sigh from its voting public.
But even as domestic and in-
ternational economies fall apart,
there are people who are trying
to hold things together, striv-
ing to ensure this sort of thing
doesn’t happen again, helping to
shape the future of finance. In
the following pages, we profile a
selection of such people. Catch
a glimmer of their optimism as you
read their stories.
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Malcolm Knight rewires the global fi nancial machine
IN the slick, artwork-laden offi ces of Deutsche
Bank in London’s Financial District, you can
hardly tell that the city has been ravaged by
what is known in these parts as “the credit crunch.” High
heels and polished shoes clack across the expansive lobby
as eager bankers rush to work before 8 a.m.
On my way to meet the recently appointed non-execu-
tive vice-chairman of the bank, Malcolm Knight, the fi rst
sign of the global fi nancial crisis comes in the way of eleva-
tor chatter between two employees.
“The tube was extra stuffed full of people,” complains one.
“Yah, I think they might be cutting back on services now,”
conjectures the other.
On Knight’s fl oor (he is based in New York but works
from here when in London), staff members swirl carts with
bankers’ breakfasts — fresh fruit, bread, yogurt and cof-
fee — about the offi ce. Knight shows up an hour late for
our meeting, as a result of some confusion about his sched-
ule, he says, but apologizes so profusely it is hard to hold a
grudge. “I am really, really sorry,” he says. “It is not okay.”
The Canadian economist, who has worked in many
of the world’s fi nancial capitals, is disarmingly humble;
at the bank he’s known for his genial charm. The pres-
sure he is currently facing — to establish Deutsche
Bank’s global policy for engaging in dialogue on fi nancial
system reform, and the reform of fi nancial regulation in
this credit-crunch climate — hardly shows.
It could be because Knight has had to deal with simi-
lar pressures and similarly chaotic political and economic
environments before. In nearly 25 years at the Interna-
tional Monetary Fund (IMF), he worked his way up to
director of departments that focused on monetary issues
in the Middle East and Central Asia.
While a war was raging in Afghanistan in the late-
1980s, Knight negotiated and managed the implementa-
tion of IMF’s US$1.1-billion macroeconomic adjustment
program for neighbouring Pakistan. “Trying to make
good economic policies in those sorts of conditions really
requires you to think outside of the box,” he says.
From 1999 to 2003, as senior deputy governor, or sec-
ond-in-command, of the Bank of Canada, Knight found
himself in charge of operations when the fi nancial world
was briefl y thrown into turmoil with the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks.
Then most recently, starting in 2003, he was the gen-
eral manager and CEO of the Basel-based Bank for Inter-
national Settlements, which serves as the bank for central
banks with assets of more than $550 billion. In that role,
he was credited with fostering co-operation among central
bankers and fi nancial regulators around the world, while
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also making the BIS a forum in which public offi cials in
charge of monetary policy could interact.
Knight’s fi ve-year contract with BIS was set to expire
last March, but ended up being extended to June of this
year, when he would have been obliged to retire anyway
in accordance with the company’s compulsory retirement
age of 65. “I wasn’t too interested in retiring,” says Knight,
who turns 65 on April 11. Not to mention, he adds, that
“we’re in the midst of a fi nancial crisis.”
Instead, Knight left BIS almost six months early to
secure his current post at Deutsche Bank. “These offers
just don’t come up all the time,” he says.
Knight made his move from Basel to New York to join
DB on Oct. 6, 2008, which was the beginning of one of
the worst weeks ever in the fi nancial markets. (It was just
after Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy and just before
actions were taken to inject capital into the banks in Europe
and the U.S.)
In his new role, Knight gets
to tackle what he considers to
be the most interesting issue in
the political and economic scene
right now: “How to deal with the
present financial crisis and how
to restructure the architecture of
international fi nance to make the
system work better.” He identi-
fies the weaknesses that led to
this crisis as an opportunity for
positive change. “We don’t have
a theory about how to go for-
ward,” he admits. “There isn’t
a very clear road map, but it’s
essential to clarify that over the
next six months.”
Clarifi cation is Knight’s job. As a global wholesale bank,
DB has a vested interest in a well-regulated and stable global
fi nancial system. “We should engage in dialogue on what
constitutes better regulation and supervision of the fi nan-
cial system, and on what the banks themselves need to do
to clean up their act, as it were,” he says.
The fi rst time Knight witnessed the effects of an eco-
nomic crisis was in the late-1950s in his hometown of
Amherstburg, in southwestern Ontario; he saw many resi-
dents of the town, which then had a population of about
4,000, suffer long-term unemployment as a result of the
North American recession. He was intrigued as to what
could have caused such adversity.
In 1963, Knight went to Toronto to study political sci-
ence and economics at Trinity College (from which he
also received an Honorary Doctorate in 2006). “When I
got to Trinity, I found very quickly that it really expanded
my horizons,” he refl ects. “It was a small college, a bit like
living in a small town, but the people I met had a much
broader education and view of what was going on in the
world than I did. And I rapidly caught their fascination
with world affairs, with political issues, with writing about
those issues.”
Four years later, having graduated from Trinity, Knight
left Canada to complete a master’s (and eventually a PhD)
in economics at the London School of Economics and
Political Science (LSE). It was the late-1960s, and students
all over Europe had their eyes on social revolution. Knight
remembers the LSE as “a hot-bed of agitation against the
[Vietnam] War.” “You had a lot of political ferment —
ideas about how society should be organized, and whether
the U.S. policy of containment of
communism really made sense.”
Knight likens that political fer-
ment to the current questioning of
what happened with the fi nancial
system. “Was it greed, ineffec-
tive risk management, ineffective
supervision? Were there problems
in the way monetary and fi scal pol-
icies were being implemented?”
He makes it clear that the weak-
nesses of the fi nancial system can-
not be addressed without engag-
ing the private sector in dialogue,
which is partly why the opportu-
nity at Deustsche Bank was one he
could not refuse.
Knight’s work at DB is mostly in an advisory capacity (to
governments, central banks, fi nancial supervisory agencies
and academics), to put forth fi nancial system reform while
promoting global fi nancial stability. “It’s time to step back
and look at the fi nancial system in a measured and objective
way,” he says. Knight believes markets must be regulated,
and regulators and supervisors have to ensure that fi nancial
institutions stop taking the sorts of risks that could cause
the fi nancial system to collapse again.
Working with DB, Knight gets to travel to London
often from his home in the U.S., where he and his wife
raised two of their three daughters (the third was raised
between the U.S., Switzerland and Canada), which has
“We should engage in dialogue on what constitutes
better regulation and supervision of the fi nancial
system, and on what the banks themselves need to do to clean up their act,
as it were”
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the added bonus of allowing him to return to LsE as a vis-iting professor in finance; that the DB position afforded him a chance to be back at his alma mater helped seal his decision, Knight says.
This isn’t the first time Knight has worked at a univer-sity, however. He has always kept one finger in the aca-demic pie, having previously held posts in the economics departments at the University of Toronto and the LsE, and as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University school of Advanced international studies. He has fre-quently written about the economy for academic journals, and he was also an author on a monograph on the Cana-dian economy, developed for university students.
What does the expert think about Canada’s place in this current financial crisis?
“This is probably going to be a very serious and prolonged global recession,” he says. But he also notes that the banks in Canada are well-capitalized, and haven’t been as deeply involved in the risky lending associated with real estate.
“My hunch is that the Canadian economy is bet-ter placed to weather this crisis than the economies of most other countries. And the reason is that for over a decade, the Canadian economy has had good fiscal policy and good monetary policy, and it is a stable economic- policy environment.” n
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Fresh out of Trinity with a degree in commerce and geog-
raphy, and a minor in economics, Geri James started
her career with a posting she plucked off the job board
at the University of Toronto’s student employment centre. It
was 1984 — “not a great year for jobs,” she recalls — and at
the time she had no idea it would prove such a good fi t.
“I was hired by a firm whose
focus was pension plans and invest-
ments,” James says, “and that has
been my whole career. I’ve changed
jobs a few times, but always stayed
in the investing/pension area.”
There have been startling shifts
in the investment area of the fi nan-
cial sector in the past 20 years, but
James, now a principal at Barclay’s
Global Investors Bay Street outpost,
is still frustrated by one fact that
has hardly changed — the relative
scarcity of women in the industry.
In 2004, women made up only 19
per cent of CFA charterholders, she
points out. In 2008, only 20 per cent
of those awarded the CFA chartership were women — the
number barely increased over that four-year period.
“One of the things that appealed to me about Barclay’s
was that our Global CEO was a woman and the person
who hired me was a woman,” James says. (Both positions
are now occupied by men.)
As a sort of personal mission, she makes a point of
challenging the status quo. “I like to promote women in
the investment industry — there still aren’t many and I’m
not really sure why,” she wonders aloud.
To that end, James helped launch a women’s network at
BGI. She has also mentored women formally and informally,
and she took part in a program spon-
sored by Women in Capital Markets
that took her into high schools to advise
girls thinking of a career in fi nance.
Last November, James celebrated
her 10-year anniversary with Bar-
clay’s. (She wears the watch she
received to mark the occasion proudly
— “Isn’t it pretty?” she asks, pulling
up her sleeve.) Two months prior to
that, she had made a change within
the fi rm, which coincidentally coin-
cided with the steepest free-fall of
the global fi nancial markets in years,
making it seem, in retrospect, almost
a risky move. After fi ve years working
with iShares, Barclay’s retail brand of
exchange-traded funds, James moved back to the institu-
tional side of the business where she began.
Given the state of the economy, her return to institu-
tional investing was hardly tranquil. She had her hands
full helping hefty clients such as pension funds steer their
way through seemingly non-stop crises, including the
“It’s actually been exciting to be part of it. I know that sounds bad, but it’s been exciting to see what you can achieve in a bad
environment; that you can make a difference and you can help. I guess I’ve looked
on the positive side”
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And her name is Geri James
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failure of fi rms like Bear Stearns, and the fallout from Ber-
nard Madoff ’s massive Ponzi scheme.
“All of a sudden clients wanted to know, ‘What are my
assets right now? What’s my exposure to Bear Stearns, to
Lehman, to all those various fi rms?’ And the latest was
Madoff. How do we help them not panic?”
James points out that Barclay’s was lucky because it
didn’t have exposure to many of the failing fi rms. “We
didn’t have Madoff, we got out of Bear Stearns early, saw
Lehman coming. In fact, our sister company, Barclay’s
Capital, ended up buying Lehman. It was a huge gain for
us as a fi rm because we were able to grow into an area we
wanted to by buying assets at a discount.”
In February, James made yet another in-house move when
she was promoted to director, business management. “In this
new role, I will still spend part of my time with some of our
institutional clients, helping them with investment strategy,”
she says, “but I will take on broader business-management
responsibilities, including oversight of our legal, compliance,
fi nance and accounting groups in Canada.”
Trying times to be managing anything in the invest-
ment world, to be sure, but James says she enjoys the chal-
lenge, especially after the illusions and overconfi dence of
the boom years. “It’s actually been exciting to be part of it.
I know that sounds bad, but it’s been exciting to see what
you can achieve in a bad environment; that you can make
a difference and you can help. I guess I’ve looked on the
positive side.” ■
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Firm Focus
You might come across Sacha Kapoor in the But-
tery, helping a student with an economics ques-
tion. You might see him studying at St. Hilda’s
Residence, the door to his room open to visitors. Or you
might meet him in Strachan Hall as he shares a high table
dinner with peers and professors.
Kapoor, 32, is an academic don at Trinity. A Univer-
sity of Toronto doctoral student in economics, he lives in
residence and is available to undergraduates as a personal
tutor in economics, math and statistics. He and the other
10 academic dons are an invaluable resource for Trinity
students, who can tap the dons’ expertise in everything
from art history to physics. “My door is always open to
the students here,” Kapoor says.
And students appreciate this marvellous resource:
“Sacha is my residence-fl oor don,” says Alec Hughes, a
second-year student in the mathematics and physics spe-
cialist program. “He has been extremely helpful to me this
year in providing academic advice, helping me fi nd a sum-
mer position in physics, and just giving perspective on
university life in general.”
Kapoor says working as a don is both interesting and
rewarding. He enjoys engaging with the students, whom
he describes as bright, ambitious, good-natured and “good
Trinity’s academic dons are one of our
best investments in our students. We’re
the only college at the University of
Toronto to offer such a program, which
has grad-school or professional-faculty
students, and experts in their respective
fi elds assisting undergrad students making
the transition from high school. Dons
ensure they don’t fall through the cracks
as they navigate the wider, and at times
seemingly overwhelming, U of T campus.
Academic dons live at the College
and are available to Trinity students, both
resident and non-resident, every hour
of every day. They offer one-on-one and
group tutoring, as well as personal and
academic counselling. For both current
and future students, having the support
of older, experienced scholars is an
invaluable resource.
The Strength to Strength Campaign
set out to raise $3 million to endow the
Academic Dons Program, so that Trinity’s
students will continue to be able to take
advantage of this superior and unique
program. We’re still working toward
that goal — contributions are always
welcomed and appreciated.
THE 2008-09 ACADEMIC DONS
Emre Gonlugur – art history
Sacha Kapoor – economics
Andrew Crabtree - English
Sean Lafferty – history
Vanessa Peters – social sciences
Navindra Persaud – life sciences
and chemistry
Yoav Farkash – life sciences
Nicholas Riegel – philosophy
Arjun Tremblay – political science
Patricia Greve – political science and
international relations
Ozgur Gurel – political theory
IT WILL DON ON YOU
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human beings.” He values the rich, cross-disciplinary inter-action with the other Trinity dons. And he says tutoring gives him the chance to become more effective at commu-nicating economic themes. “it contributes to my develop-ment — i’ll be a better teacher, a better researcher.”
But Kapoor emphasizes that his primary role is to be there for Trinity students, who have the advantage of not being forced to compete with other U of T students for a tutor’s time. “They can simply book a meeting with one of us,” he says. “students at other colleges have to hire tutors to get the same type of access.” And that can cost more than $40 per hour.
Although he is clearly thriving in the university setting, Kapoor’s own academic path wasn’t always so clear. grow-ing up in Brampton, Ont., where his family settled after emigrating from india in the 1970s, Kapoor knew his par-ents expected their two sons to become educated profes-sionals. still, after two years at Queens, he quit university.
He then spent a few years doing everything from fac-tory work to bartending, jobs that he says prompted him to start “asking economic questions.” When eventually he returned to Queens to finish his undergrad, his aca-demic career took off. He did his master’s at U of T, and is currently in his fourth year of doctoral research, which focuses on internal workplace organization.
Expecting to complete his phD next year and then pursue a career in academia, Kapoor will face a job market currently in the doldrums, since many universities have imposed hiring freezes. The economic downturn will last a couple of years, Kapoor speculates, but he’s not entirely pessimistic: “These periods of recovery are not always bad,” he says. “Firms are forced to become more efficient.” And people and organizations are resilient and creative in the face of adversity, he adds. That kind of outlook may be among the most valuable benefits Kapoor provides to the students he works with. n
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Regulation, traditionally a dreaded term, is sud-
denly hip again. For Sharon Pel ’79, this comes
as little surprise. As senior vice-president of Legal
and Business Affairs for TMX Group, part of Pel’s job is to
sit across the table from regulators. And since mid-2008,
when the current fi nancial crisis
accelerated, she’s been pulling
up her chair even closer.
“Our advice is being sought
from various government depart-
ments on how to address the cri-
sis,” says Pel, 52. In the current
economic climate, she supports
regulatory reform and trans-
parent trading, so it’s a point of
pride for her that one of TMX
Group’s core business strategies
has always been the latter. “If it’s
on the Toronto Stock Exchange
you know what it is, you can see
it, and you know how it trades,”
she says.
Pel is the third child in a family
of four children, born and raised
in Toronto by Dutch parents. For
her fi rst round of post-secondary education, she opted to stay
in her hometown, and live at home. “I was sure I wanted to
go to the University of Toronto, and I wanted a small college
with high academic standards where there would be a sense
of community,” she says. “My choice was Trinity.”
Her career path, on the other hand, wasn’t quite so deci-
sive. “I went to Trinity thinking I was going to be an arche-
ologist. Isn’t that funny?” Instead, the experience of work-
ing a summer job in the labour relations department of Air
Canada inspired her to become a
labour lawyer.
“Once I got to law school,
though, I saw all the possible
paths and found I really liked
corporate and securities law,” she
says. “Corporate law is about tak-
ing problems and solving them.”
After getting her LLB from the
University of Ottawa in 1982, Pel
articled at Tory Tory DesLauriers
& Binnington (Torys LLP) until
the fall of 1983, when she took
the bar admission course. She was
called to the bar a year later, and
returned to Torys as an associ-
ate lawyer shortly after. She was
made a partner in 1990. During
her 21-year stint with the firm,
Pel focused primarily on mergers,
securities transactions and corporate fi nance.
This expertise was in fact what led to her current posi-
tion with TMX Group. In 2002, still with Torys, Pel helped
TMX Group do a corporate reorganization, and she put
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together its initial public offering (IPO) transaction. A year
later, the company asked her to come on board as its gen-
eral counsel. “I had worked closely with the senior execu-
tives over the many months of the IPO and I liked them,”
she says, refl ecting on why she accepted the offer.
Pel’s job has “six main buckets,” as she calls them,
including litigation, managing contracts and governance.
But one of her most important roles is dealing with securi-
ties regulators in both Canada and the U.S. “The TSX’s
main regulatory body is the Ontario Securities Commis-
sion (OSC), so we’re required to operate our business in
a particular fashion,” she says. “When we want to make
changes [which could mean making acquisitions or gen-
erating new products in-house], we need to speak to the
OSC and other regulators so they’re aware of what we’re
doing, and seek approval when necessary — I’m the legal
adviser behind a lot of this stuff.”
The biggest adjustments in making the jump from
Torys to TMX Group, Pel says, were having a boss (“in
private practice you are essentially self-employed”), and
dealing with one rather than multiple clients (“though
you still have to deal with competing demands for your
time in both environments”).
Luckily, she has mastered the art of balancing her time,
even in her personal life. When she’s not being Mom to
her 15-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son, whom she
calls her “life’s greatest work and achievement,” she packs
in travelling, reading, gardening and sports.
More than six years after starting at TMX Group, Pel
continues to fi nd her job highly rewarding. “The business
is fascinating, and right now [fi nance is] in a period of
dramatic change, both domestically and globally. I love a
good challenge.”
Since she helped take it public, TMX Group — which
up until June of last year was called TSX Group Inc. — has
undergone a period of rapid growth. In 2008 alone, the
company acquired the Montreal Exchange (this merger
was what prompted the name change from TSX to TMX),
and increased its stake in the Boston Options Exchange
Group to a majority position.
As a result of the fi nancial crisis, Pel says TMX Group
fi nds companies doing fewer IPOs as there is less avail-
able capital to invest, and she notes there has been high
volatility. “It’s a lack of predictability that makes people
nervous,” Pel says. Though, as she wisely points out: “Lots
of people make money from volatility in the markets.”
Overall, she is optimistic: “It’s no good being a pessi-
mist. You’ve got to look forward, not backward.” She also
points out that the market correction was inevitable, if a
little surprising, considering the extent of the crisis that
has emerged. “It’s been a bit of a perfect storm of things
going wrong…Anyone who thought the upward swing
would continue unabated isn’t old enough to have seen a
market correction before.” ■
“It’s no good being a pessimist. You’ve got to look forward, not backward...It’s been a bit of a perfect storm of things going wrong…
Anyone who thought the upward swing would continue unabated isn’t old enough to have
seen a market correction before”
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While much of the world seems to be swept
up in Obamamania, Graeme Clark expresses
only restrained delight about his proximity
to the new American President.
“I’m trying not to get too attached. There’s a good
chance I’ll have moved before the end of Obama’s fi rst
term,” he says.
Of course, as Ambassador and Permanent Representa-
tive to the Organization of American States (OAS) and a
key player in Canada’s role in the upcoming Summit of
the Americas, Clark is used to discussing politics without
an overarching sense of partisanship.
Pressed about why he made the jump from English
and history student to diplomat, this Ottawa-born son
of a civil servant explains that his father “was also in the
Canadian Foreign Service.” Yet there’s nothing nepotistic
about his career path.
Clark spent most of his childhood in the cities where
his father was stationed: there were European stints
in Paris, Brussels and London, followed by a return to
Canada’s capital for several years. But while government
has dictated the majority of his (albeit briefl y inhabited)
hometowns, Clark did make one pivotal decision regard-
ing his geographic locale. After fi nishing high school, he
was eager to attend a post-secondary institution away
from home (which at that time was Ottawa), and chose
Trinity College at the University of Toronto.
“I probably should have gone to McGill,” he says (both
of his parents studied at the Montreal university), “but
Trinity was my contrarian’s decision.” He adds: “It was
really about the pull of Toronto in the 1970s — it was
glorious to be a student on campus then.”
What he remembers most fondly, aside from the College’s
striking Gothic architecture, is Trinity’s proximity to Hon-
est Ed’s emporium, which was the destination of choice for
bargain-bin canvas tennis shoes and freebie turkeys.
“It was the fact that I could walk there, or to Kens-
ington Market or the Manulife Centre to buy a bottle of
wine for a party on Saturday night,” he says. “For a guy
brought up in Ottawa, with its grey, bureaucratic build-
ings and culture dominated by politics, it was exposure to
this wonderfully multicultural existence.”
Move over Europe.
Still, after obtaining his degree at Trinity, Clark went back to England to do his graduate studies. While at
Oxford, he worked in French as a freelance journalist for
Radio-Canada and le Devoir, and graduated with a mas-
ter’s in literature in 1986. The following year he wrote the
Foreign Service exam.
“There was no trigger, no magic formula that led me
to the Foreign Service,” he says. “I jumped through dif-
ferent hoops. I considered going to law school. I certainly
disregarded being an academic — I didn’t take that path.
I was too impatient.”
Meanwhile, his Trinity friends and classmates herded
themselves into graduate programs, with most, he recalls,
staying in academia. “I guess I was the black sheep.”
At some point between Oxford and his fi rst job with
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the Foreign Service, Clark had developed an attraction to
Latin culture, in all of its expressions.
“Coming out of school, I barely knew Latin America. I
barely spoke Spanish,” he says.
His newfound passion for the culture, along with the
requisite professional skills, landed him his fi rst job, in
1989, with the Department of External Affairs and Inter-
national Trade at the Canadian Embassy in San José, Costa
Rica, covering Nicaragua, Panama and Honduras.
Following that, Clark had a slew of assignments at
headquarters in Ottawa — in the International Secu-
rity and Defence Relations Division; in the Offi ce of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs; and as a legislative assistant in
the Prime Minister’s Offi ce — before eventually getting
another placement south of the border.
In 1997, Clark was appointed as the Canadian Ambas-
sador to Peru and Bolivia. He recalls the experience with a
particular (diplomatic-like, if you will) partiality.
“I had four very happy years in Peru. It was deeply fas-
cinating, if troubled.”
Clark’s posting spanned the disintegration of then-
president Alberto Fujimori’s government in 2000.
“Part of my role was to work with the OAS to support
Peru through its political transition,” he says, noting how
the country fell apart along with the government of its
leader — who would later serve prison time for human
rights abuses — only to become what Clark now describes
as a “cultural and economic superstar.”
After his posting in Peru at the height of its tumult,
Clark’s 2006 move to his current post at the Canadian
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Mission to the OAS in steady Washington, D.C., might
seem comparatively fl at-line. He doesn’t fi nd it so at all.
“It’s an exciting place to be, and an exciting place to
be right now,” he says, adding that his assignment comes
with the perk of a much-coveted view.
“My offi ce looks out on to Pennsylvania Avenue and
the inauguration route.” (In January, he braved security
checkpoints and camped out in the embassy.)
As Washington welcomes change in the form of President
Barack Obama, Clark foresees a time of metamorphosis
for the world, and for the Western Hemisphere in
particular. And although he doesn’t articulate it as
such, Clark will in fact be integral to
that metamorphosis.
He describes his role — Canada’s
National Co-ordinator — at the
upcoming Fifth Summit of the Ameri-
cas in Trinidad and Tobago from April
17 to 19, as being one of the senior
government offi cials tasked with pre-
paring “the substantive aspects of the
Summit,” of which there are many,
and with “ensuring that it is a success
from [Canada’s] perspective.” The
pressure to do that mounts daily as
current economic and political reali-
ties sink in.
The Summit of the Americas is
one of only a few multilateral plat-
forms for negotiation in the world
— the only forum where democratically elected Heads of
State from 34 countries and governments of the Western
Hemisphere meet to discuss global issues and — the real
challenge — establish solutions.
Those solutions are then carried out by the OAS, which
seeks to strengthen democracy and promote human rights,
as well as tackle many of the problems shared by Western
nations, such as terrorism and — particularly relevant to
this Summit — poverty.
By the time this year’s gathering is underway, reps from
member countries will have conferred at least six times in
D.C., and gathered in various host countries.
With so much on the agenda, Clark says, reps spend
their time “at boardroom tables, rather than enjoying the
colour and culture.” The perks come in other forms, he
says: for example, witnessing developments come to frui-
tion as a result of the “occasionally onerous” multilateral
negotiation process.
“It’s not glamorous. It’s not for personal pleasure and
benefi t. [My friends] express a great sense of pity rather
than envy [of my position],” he says, though he makes
sure to add that in December he did have one opportunity
to get up early and swim while in El Salvador.
In representing Canada at the negotiating table, fi nding
common ground isn’t as diffi cult as operating in uncom-
mon languages, Clark says. Getting 34 nations to agree to a
shared goal or policy is tough; fi nding language that pleases
each of them is trickier still. Finding language that pleases
each of them and translates into their respective mother
tongues can be, at times, nearly impossible.
“There are days when you go back
and forth for hours making a case for
the inclusion or omission of an adverb
or an adjective,” he says.
But such tests have honed his nego-
tiation skills (which he says are “use-
ful” personally, although he denies
using this ability for dinnertime
bantering), and have allowed him to
build trusting relationships with other
member countries in the OAS.
“Sometimes you have to be tough,
but I prefer to work a little more qui-
etly. I might save conversations for the
corridor. It’s a non-hectoring style,”
he says. “One of the wonderful things
about being a Canadian is bringing a
value of consensus-building and com-
promise to the table. It’s the way we function as offi cials and
diplomats. It’s a refl ection of who we are as citizens. After
negotiating, these are people I can still have a coffee with at
the end of the day.”
Ever the diplomat, Clark isn’t giving much away about
the upcoming Summit’s agenda. But he points out that
there is only so much he can say.
Back in January, he said: “It’s clear the current eco-
nomic crisis will be on the agenda. But it’s really too early
to tell in what form or guise as we’re still three months
away. A lot can change in three months.”
With change being a defi ning attribute of the Foreign
Service, Clark surmises he’ll be in Washington just long
enough to receive a few visitors. (Friends have recently
expressed interest in the re-energized capital, he says.)
“Appointments are usually four years and then — who
knows? Picking up and moving is what’s wrenching about the job,” he says. “It’s also what’s so exciting.” ■
“One of the wonderful things about being
a Canadian is bringing a value of consensus-building and compromise
to the table”
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MARK STABILE ’95, TRINITY FELLOW SINCE 2002
There’s a whole group of people who are affi liated with, though not necessarily grads of,
Trinity College. The fellows and associates, whose expertise runs the gamut from theo-
retical physics to literature to immunology, include some of U of T’s fi nest faculty. Part
of Trinity’s wider intellectual community, they give talks and lectures at the College, contribute to
its wealth of cross-disciplinary resources, mingle with Trinity folk at high table and other College
events, and mentor students. In this new department, we will get to know them a little better, start-
ing with Mark Stabile and Michael Marrus. Look for more introductions in the issues that follow.
Casual ConversationGetting to know Trinity’s fellows and associates
Fellowship Musings:
“The thing that’s kinda fun is you get to
help with undergrad admissions. You read
through applications and give your com-
ments and ranking. I don’t know what they
do with them but presumably they take
them into account when they’re making
decisions. So you see all the new students
applying to Trin and try to convince your-
self they’re as bright and fun as the ones
who were there when you were there.”
Where you’ll fi nd him at U of T:
“Half of my life is I am the director of
the new School of Public Policy and Gov-
ernance at U of T. The other half of me
is a professor of economics at the Rotman
School of Management.”
What gets him up in the morning (besides
his four-month-old baby, Bruno):
“Part of what I work on is how we fund
our healthcare system. Most people
in Canada know our system is funded
largely publicly, and that it’s strapped for
cash. The government is fi nding it really
hard to do more without raising taxes —
everybody gets angry when you raise taxes.
So one project I’m working on is how to
increase the funding that goes into health-
care without raising taxes.”
As if that doesn’t keep him busy enough:
“The other part of what I do is the eco-
nomics of child health and development.
Specifi cally, right now I’m working on a
National Bureau of Economic Research
working paper, looking at whether the
money we spend to help the children of
low-income families, works. In particu-
lar, it considers whether child tax benefi ts
help these children have healthier lives and
improve their school performance.” (And,
he adds, the good news is, they do.)
What he took away from Trinity:
“On one of my fi rst couple of days there
the Provost had a dinner. He said, and
maybe he still does this: ‘Look to your
left, look to your right. Chances are you’ll
marry one of those two people.’ So you sort
of look to your left and to your right and
you laugh. And in this case, well, maybe
she wasn’t right next to me, but she wasn’t
too far down the table. It’s a bit ridiculous,
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Fellowship Musings:
“The model that we’re dealing with comes
from Oxford and Cambridge, where fellows
customarily lived in the college and were
part of the college community, taught there
and had a lot of their adult lives there. We
don’t. So what is the association? It is, in a
word, what you make of it.”
Where you’ll fi nd him at U of T:
“This semester I teach two courses: one at
the Law School, called Modern Political
Trials; and one in the Department of His-
tory, called Great Trials in History.”
What keeps him tied to his desk:
“I’m just fi nishing a book called Some Mea-sure of Justice, which examines the Holo-
caust-era restitution campaign of the 1990s.
It’s about the major issues that arose in the
U.S. having to do with Swiss banks, Ger-
man industry and insurance and art — the
story is, in large part, one of Holocaust
survivors and their families who used the
courts to seek restitution for wrongs done
during the Second World War.”
Some Measure of Justice is slated to be
published this November by the University
of Wisconsin Press. The book is partially a
product of a lecture series Marrus recently
gave at the University of Wisconsin, which
covered the same subject as his book.
Boiling his book down to a universal theme:
“I’m interested in the way the law deals
with historical wrongs — that’s a big sub-
ject, widespread in many regions of the
world. It’s a subject we’re occupied by here
in Canada, in particular with aboriginal
people and residential schools. The issue
is how does the law contend with wrongs
done, not in the immediate past, which
is what the law usually does, but wrongs
done in the distant past? And what’s the
point of that?”
Seeds of inspiration:
“I’ve been reading around this and study-
ing it for some time. It came up in my law
degree because you have to do a mini the-
sis, and mine was on apologies and justice
for historical wrongs.”
Where you’ll fi nd Marrus this May:
“In the spring I’ll be going to South Africa,
where I’ll be a visiting professor at the Uni-
versity of Cape Town, talking to law and
history students. They’re very interested
in justice for historic wrongs because of
apartheid, so my work is very relevant to
them, and theirs to me.”
On the Larkin-Stuart Lecture:
“It’s a big deal. I’ve spoken at Trinity in the
past, but I was honoured to be invited.”
Marrus delivered this year’s sold-out
Larkin-Stuart Lecture — Justice and Theatre: Great Moments in Great Trials —
on March 25 and 26. ■
MICHAEL MARRUS, TRINITY FELLOW SINCE 1987
“If each of us was
doing now what we
did when we went to
grad school, the world
would be a pretty dull
place. Far from forcing
us to stick to one theme
for our whole lives,
university encourages
us to explore”
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N E W S
1940sA biography of the Rt. Rev. James
Charles MacLeod Clarke ’45, The
Whistling Bishop by Emily-Jane Hills
Orford, documents the Anglican bishop’s life, primarily as a mission-
ary to the Inuit in Northern Canada
during the 1950s and early ’60s.
1950sWalter Pitman ’52 has published
Elmer Iseler: Choral Visionary.
Frank Thompson ’52 has pub-
lished India in Mind: A Memoir.
He lives with his wife, Elaine
(Hunt) ’52, near Nobel, Ont.
Philip and Diana (Burdock)
Weinstein ’57 recently celebrated
their 50th wedding anniversary.
Karleen Bradford ’59 has pub-
lished Dragonmaster.
1960sClive Thomson ’68 was appointed
professor and director of the School
of Languages and Literatures in the
College of Arts at the University of
Guelph last July. The appointment
follows 14 years at the University
of Western Ontario, where he was
chair of the Department of French
Studies and cross-appointed to the
Department of Psychiatry. He also
has an established private practice as
a psychoanalyst in Guelph, Ont.
Michael Ignatieff ’69 has been
named interim leader of the Liberal
Party of Canada and will likely
be elected its offi cial leader at the
party’s spring Leadership Conven-
tion. Ignatieff holds an honorary
doctorate from the College (1999).
His father, George, was Provost
from 1978 to 1982.
1970sPeter F. Love ’71 has been appointed,
by the Canadian Investments
Awards, to the 2008 jury for the
Green Company Award.
Alan Hibben ’75 has been ap-
pointed to the board of directors
of Pinetree Capital Ltd., and is a
member of its audit committee.
Rev. Michael Fleming ’76 was
installed as Canon at Christ
Church Cathedral at the synod
of the Diocese of Ottawa.
John Cruickshank ’76 became the
new publisher of the Toronto Star in
October of last year.
1980sRev. Robert Cross ’82 is retired
and living in Niagara-on-the-Lake,
Ont., where he is involved in
St. Mark’s Anglican Church, the
Rotary Club and the Caribbean
Workers Outreach Program.
Caroline Despard ’82 was named
the 2008 Family Physician of the
Year for the region of southwestern
Ontario, and was recognized with
a special award from the John
Howard Society for the work she
did with the Vietnamese Outreach
Program in London, Ont.
Karim H. Ismail ’82 has published
Keep Any Promise: A Blueprint for
Designing Your Future, a self-help
guide drawing on his extensive expe-
rience in setting and achieving goals.
Alanna Mitchell ’82, who was a
science and health reporter for The
Globe and Mail for 14 years, has
published her second book, Sea Sick:
the Hidden Crisis in the Global Ocean.
Andrea Wood ’83 has been appointed
head of media and entertainment law
at Bennett Jones LLP.
Very Rev. Michael Hawkins ’88
was elected Bishop of the Diocese of
Saskatchewan on Dec. 6 at a synod
held at St. Alban’s Cathedral in
Prince Albert, Sask.
Paul Paton ’88 recently moved
from Queen’s University in Kings-
ton, Ont., to the Pacifi c McGeorge
School of Law in Sacramento,
Calif., where he was appointed
associate professor and director of
the Ethics Across the Professions
Initiative. He obtained his doctorate
in law from Stanford in June of last
year, and was reappointed vice-chair
of the Canadian Bar Association’s
National Ethics and Professional
Issues Committee in August.
Karen Woodman ’88 is a senior
lecturer in Teachers of English
to Speakers of Other Languages
(TESOL), and course co-ordinator
for the Master of Education in
TESOL and Teaching English as a
Foreign Language (TEFL) in the
Faculty of Education at Queensland
University of Technology in Bris-
bane, Australia. She is also currently
chair of the Teacher Education
Interest Section for the international
TESOL organization.
1990sPatrick Cain ’91 is a web editor
at the Toronto Star. He produces a
weekly interactive map that looks at
various aspects of life — from im-
paired driving to school vaccination
rates — in the Toronto area.
Sean Morley ’92 was appointed
to the board of directors of the
Toronto Port Authority in Decem-
ber of last year.
Ian Bell ’92 is a federal Crown
prosecutor working in the courts at
Old City Hall in Toronto.
Kate Broer ’93 has been named
one of Lexpert’s Rising Stars in the
category of lawyers under 40.
Jean Jerome C. Baudry ’94 has
been appointed by the Canadian In-
vestments Awards to the 2008 jury
for the Green Company Award.
2000sAndrew Duncan ’00 was deployed
to Afghanistan from April to
November 2007 as the J2 Opera-
tions offi cer to the Joint Task Force
Commander, and was awarded
the General Campaign Star. Upon
his return, he was posted to the
Canadian Forces School of Military
Intelligence in Kingston, Ont., as
the Land Warfare Offi cer instructor.
Alex Waxman ’07 is currently
working for the United Nations
High Commission for Refugees
in New Delhi, India, specializing
in determining which Somali and
Burmese refugee cases fall within
the grounds of the International
Refugee Convention.
Jasmeet Sidhu ’10 and Sadia
Rafi quddin ’09 were listed as two
of Canada’s Top 100 Powerful
Women in 2008 by the Women’s
Executive Network — both in the
Future Leaders category.
Elizabeth Abbott’s book Sugar: A
Bittersweet History was one of two
runners-up for the 2008 Charles
Taylor Prize for literary non-fi ction.
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She was awarded a $2,000 honorar-
ium. Dr. Abbott was Trinity’s Dean
of Women from 1991 to 2004.
Peter Munk, a member of Trinity’s
Salterrae Society, and Steven Jaris-
lowsky, whose daughter Alexandra
is a Trinity grad (’91), were both
elevated to Companion of the
Order of Canada.
M A R R I A G E S
Ian R. J. Still ’92 and Julie A. Flynn:
Oct. 4, 2008, in Hamilton.
In attendance were Roland
Haage ’92, Don Booth ’93, Drew
Markham ’93, Mark Marshall ’94
and James Phillips ’93.
Peter Land ’93 and Britt Nyman:
Nov. 1, 2008, in Petersfi eld, Hants.,
England. In attendance were
Andrew McFarlane ’93 and Michael
Klosowski ’93.
Litza Smirnakis ’99 and Nick
Roustas: July 8, 2008, in Toronto.
Dr. William Aspy ’00 and Dr.
Laura Di Quinzio: Sept. 27, 2008,
in Halifax. In attendance were
Michael Jessop ’01, Hamish Mar-
shall ’00, Dr. Peter Mack ’00, Ian
Smith ’00, Robert “Beowulf” Addi-
nal ’00 and Andrew Duncan ’00.
B I RT H S
Michael Zeitlin ’79 and Denyse
Wilson: a son, Leo David Zeitlin,
Aug. 6, 2008, in Vancouver.
Catherine Parubets ’90 and
Alex Hazlitt: a daughter, Elizabeth
Catriona, Sept. 11, 2008, in
Cobourg, Ont.
Christie Sutherland ’92 and
Joseph Laposata: a son, Albert Mi-
chael, April 29, 2008, in Toronto.
Patrick Cain ’91 and Catharine
Tunnacliffe: a daughter, Margaret
Eleanor Tunnacliffe Cain, Dec. 2,
2008, in Toronto.
Kimberley (Barrett) ’93 and John
Korinek: a son, Jacob Henry Bar-
rett Korinek, Sept. 22, 2008,
in Toronto.
Charlotte E. Masemann ’94 and
Erik de Vries: a daughter, Anna
Claire Masemann de Vries, Aug. 20,
2008, in Ottawa.
Kathryn (Andruchuk) ’95 and
Dean Hegan: a daughter, Gabriella
Sophie, June 22, 2008, in Calgary.
Jaimie (Clark) ’02 and Daniel
Atkins: a daughter, Katherine Joy,
Aug. 23, 2008, in Moose Jaw, Sask.
John and Nina (Wright) Atkinson:
a daughter, Bryn Elizabeth Wright
Atkinson, Nov. 4, 2008, in To-
ronto, granddaughter of Betty Anne
’60 and Hugh Anson-Cartwright.
Ryan and Michael Barnett-Cowan:
a daughter, Quinn Mary Grace,
Sept. 27, 2008, in Toronto, grand-
daughter of Alyson ’71 and Bruce
’75 Barnett-Cowan.
David and Karyn (McMahon)
Bradfi eld: a daughter, Gwen Elena,
Dec. 2, 2008, in Brooklyn, N.Y.,
granddaughter of Robert and Helen
(Pepall) Bradfi eld ’60 and grand-
niece of Winsor ’58 and Ruth
(Scott) ’60 Pepall.
Robert Creighton and Dearbhia
Lynch: a son, Finlay Cormac
Kevany Creighton, Sept. 2, 2008,
grandson of Donald and Moira ’63
(Davidson) Creighton.
Sheila (Creighton) and Richard
Band: a son, Quinlan Harry Robert
Band, Sept. 13, 2008, in Vancouver,
grandson of Donald and Moira ’63
(Davidson) Creighton.
Molly Finlay and Sam Robinson: a
daughter, Elle Mackenzie Robinson,
Dec. 5, 2008, in Toronto, grand-
daughter of Carol ’66 (Blyth) and
Bryan Finlay.
Jonathan and Valerie Greer: a
daughter, Julia Shaughnessy, Sept.
26, 2008, granddaughter of
William ’47 and Rina Greer.
Caitlin and Ted Burns: a son,
Edward Dillon Southwood, Nov.
19, 2008, in Palo Alto, Calif., great-
grandson of Philippa Jahn ’39 and
grandson of John ’68 and Penny
Pepperell.
John Philip Ferrar and Edit
Ketchum: a daughter, Ana Sofi a
Hungerford Ketchum, Aug. 23,
2008, in Bucharest, Romania,
granddaughter of Dr. J. Anthony
’69 and Mary Ketchum.
Bruce and Kathleen Langstaff:
twins, a son, James Kent, and a
daughter, Claire Lillian, Aug. 15,
2008, in Richmond Hill, Ont.,
grandchildren of J. Bruce ’63 and
Judy Langstaff.
Hugh and Margot Macdonnell:
a son, George Edward Chapman,
Aug. 8, 2008, in New Jersey, grand-
son of Patricia Macdonnell ’48.
Hope and Michael Nightingale/
Thomas: a son, Matthew, Oct.
9, 2008, in Toronto, grandson
of George ’54 and Geraldine ’55
Nightingale.
Christopher and Jessica Seed:
a daughter, Stella Violet Seys, Oct. 12,
2008, in Toronto, granddaughter of
Michael and Cara Peterman (Caro-
line Willmott) ’66 and great-niece
of Judy Willmott ’70.
Joe Sedgwick and Dimitra Paganos:
a daughter, Evyenia Sophia, Oct. 6,
2008, granddaughter of Patricia
Sedgwick ’56.
Katie Wilson and Reuben East:
a son, Gabriel Thomas Wilson-East,
Dec. 29, 2008, in Ottawa, grandson
of Tom ’62 and Elizabeth ’65 Wilson.
D E AT H S
Allen: Lorna Margeret, Aug. 3,
2008, in Windsor, Ont., mother of
Donald V. ’66 and mother-in-law of
Nancy ’65 (Riggs) Allen.
Ashton: Isabel, Sept. 4, 2008, in To-
ronto, mother of Roger Ashton ’70.
Askwith: Gordon Kingsford ’49,
Oct. 6, 2008, in Hamilton.
Baillie: Jean Elizabeth Margaret,
Dec. 4, 2008, in Beaverton, Ont.,
mother of James C. Baillie ’59.
Bain: Madeleine (Armour) ’45,
Oct. 8, 2008, in Toronto, grand-
mother of Thomas Kruger ’99.
Baker: Kelly Michael, Sept. 4,
2008, in Calgary, brother of
Katherine Baker-Ross ’05.
Bell-Irving: Robin ’45, Aug. 28,
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next three to fi ve years, and we encourage your
input into the development of a vision, mission,
objectives, directions and priority actions. To that
end, we would be grateful to hear your views.
Help shape the College’s future by fi lling out our
ONLINE SURVEY. All comments will be reviewed
by the Strategic Planning Committee and used to
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2008, in Vancouver, brother of the
late Peter Bell-Irving ’44.
Blagrave: Charles Nisbet Patrick
’49, Feb. 20 in Rothesay, N.B.
Brauch: Klaus A. ’73, May 2007
in Huntington Beach, Calif.
Brumlik: Joan (Newson) ’55,
Dec. 30, 2008, in Edmonton.
Boehm: Judith Ann, Sept. 29,
2008, in Toronto, mother-in-law
of Arden Boehm ’83.
Campbell: Colin Kydd, Sept. 9,
2008, in Hamilton, father of Ian
Campbell ’84.
Case: Jessie, Dec. 26, 2008, in
Burlington, Ont., sister of Joyce
Beverley ’39.
Clark: Brian Montgomery,
Sept. 10, 2008, in Toronto,
husband of Phoebe Wright ’81.
Clements: Pamela Dora, Oct. 17,
2008, in Port Hope, Ont., mother
of Simon Clements ’86.
Cloutier: Gerard H., Aug. 11,
2008, in Montreal, father of Anne
Cloutier ’91.
Cook: Jane Smith, Nov. 13, 2008,
in Toronto, mother of the late John
Cook ’61.
Cornforth: Stephen Harold ’61,
Oct. 17, 2008, in Toronto, father
of Ward B. Cornforth ’87.
Coyle: Francis Gordon ’48,
Nov. 17, 2008, in Toronto.
Crabtree: Alan Hanson, Oct. 18,
2008, in Toronto, brother of Peter
A. Crabtree ’55.
Crossey: Richard Edward, Oct. 28,
2008, in Toronto, grandfather of
Ethan Hoddes ’07.
Dale: Elinor Jessie Gordon,
Oct. 9, 2008, in Collingwood,
Ont., wife of Hugh Dale ’50 and
mother of Sarah Isbister ’71.
Deane: Dorothy Jane (Metcalf )
’35, Dec. 23, 2008, in Toronto.
Delamere: Diana (McMillan) ’56,
Sept. 3, 2008, in Toronto.
Disher: Irwin Scott, Sept. 22,
2008, in Montreal, father of Char-
lotte Disher ’77.
Dodds: Douglas ’78, Sept. 14,
2008, in Toronto, brother of David
R. Dodds ’77.
Donkin: William Reid Q.C. ’48,
Sept. 22, 2008, in Waterdown,
Ont., husband of the late Kate
Donkin ’48 and father of David
Donkin ’90.
Foster: Colin Edward, Nov. 10,
2008, in Vancouver, stepfather of
Martin Guest ’84.
Gartshore: John Alexander ’51,
Sept. 13, 2008, in Toronto.
Guthro: James Gregory, Nov. 11,
2008, in Toronto, father of Lisa
Guthro ’79.
Guest: Helen Nancy (McKnight)
’66, Nov. 18, 2008, in Toronto,
wife of John R. Guest ’67.
Hamilton: David Ashbury ’77,
Feb. 6 in St. Catharines, Ont.
Hardacre: Walter Oliver, Nov. 11,
2008, in Toronto, father of Nancy
Diane Stinson ’72 and Gordon
Hardacre ’66, and father-in-law of
Enid Hardacre ’65.
Harricks: Ruth Elenah, Oct. 3,
2008, in Toronto, mother of Paul
Harricks ’76 and sister-in-law of
Patricia Sedgwick ’56.
Hawkins: Murray Kennedy,
Oct. 1, 2008, in Toronto, father
of Meredith Ann Hawkins ’88.
Healy: Elsie Miriam Nish,
Feb. 14 in Toronto, mother
of Priscilla Healy ’65.
Henderson: Marjorie E. (Peat)
’66, Nov. 24, 2008, in Brecken-
ridge, Minn.
Herodek: Yoly Rose, Dec. 24,
2008, in Mississauga, Ont., mother
of Christine (Herodek) Old ’59.
Hill-Crawford: Pamela Frances,
Feb. 1 in San Diego, Calif., daugh-
ter of John Longfi eld ’53.
Holmes: Murray, Sept. 4, 2008, in
Toronto, father of Karen Holmes ’66
and grandfather of Valerie Eisen-
hauer ’96.
Holmes: Phyllis (Saunders) ’37,
Aug. 26, 2008, in Toronto, sister of
Beatrice Saunders ’40 and the late
Robert Saunders ’31, and aunt of
Janet (Hampson) Farrell ’75.
Hunter: Morris, Sept. 28, 2008, in
Orangeville, Ont., father-in-law of
John Cruickshank ’76.
Jarvis: Arthur Mountain ’44,
Oct. 29, 2008, in Toronto.
Johnson: Marie Lynn, Sept. 24,
TED ROGERS
Communications titan Edward (Ted) Samuel Rogers
died Dec. 2, 2008, of congestive heart failure at age
75, leaving an empire as complex as the man himself.
Rogers was exposed early to the path his life would
take. His father started radio station
CFRB (which was sold after Ted Rogers
Sr. died in 1939), and invented a radio
in which tubes replaced batteries, al-
lowing it to be plugged into the wall. At
Upper Canada College, a young Rogers
revealed his enterprising spirit early
by rigging up an antenna to screen TV
shows in his dorm room — defying the
private school’s rules — and charging
admission. After graduating from Trin-
ity College in 1957, he studied law at
U of T and worked briefl y at what is
now Torys LLP. He retained a lifelong connection with
the Tory family, but his fascination with gadgetry drew
him inexorably to his true passion.
Ted Rogers’ illustrious career began in radio. At
26 he used an inheritance to buy Toronto’s fi rst FM
station, CHFI. By 1967, he had secured his fi rst 300
cable-TV customers, and he spent the next 20 years
expanding his franchise.
Resourceful and resilient, a risk-taker with a drive
that more than compensated for his physical frailties, he
built a communications empire — comprising cable TV,
radio and television stations, magazine publishing (he ac-
quired Maclean Hunter Ltd. in a $3-billion deal in 1994),
residential telephone services, and the country’s largest
wireless network — through relentless hard work and
an astute grasp of the labyrinthine
government and legal regulations af-
fecting each of its components. And
it made him the second wealthiest
Canadian, with a personal net worth
estimated at more than $7 billion.
In the last few years, his focus
was philanthropic, including: mul-
tiple donations to Trinity, some of
which went to support the John W.
Graham library, named in honour
of Roger’s stepfather and mentor,
John Graham ’34; the establishment
of the Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at U of T; and the Rogers School of Manage-
ment at Ryerson University.
His one big regret was that he was unable to ful-
fi ll a vow to his mother to buy back CFRB — some-
thing he was still trying to negotiate just before he died.
Ted Rogers is survived by his wife, Loretta, and their
four children, two of whom hold senior positions at RCI:
Edward is cable division president and Melinda is vice-
president, strategy and development.
30 T R I N I T Y A L U M N I M A G A Z I N E
2008, in Mount Forest, Ont.,
mother of Colin R. Johnson ’77.
Laidlaw: Nancy Burke, June 17,
2008, in Duncan, B.C., mother of
Hugh Laidlaw ’80 (Div.).
Lawer: Audrey Stella Russell,
Nov. 12, 2008, in Toronto, wife
of John V. Lawer ’51.
Lawes: Judith Anne, Jan. 4 in
Whitby, Ont., sister of Sheila ’68 and
sister-in-law of Michael ’68 Royce.
Lindsay: M. M. Elizabeth (Betty)
’40, Aug. 19, 2008, in Ottawa.
Lindvik: Gunnar Kristian ’50,
Feb. 3 in Oslo, Norway.
Longfi eld: Alan Paul, Dec. 10,
2008, in Whitby, Ont., brother of
John M. Longfi eld ’53.
MacCallum: Hugh Henry Reid
’51, July 18, 2008, in Toronto.
Mackie: Dorothy Caulfi eld,
Sept. 13, 2008, in Maple, Ont.,
mother of George Mackie ’67.
McCardle: James Joachim,
Aug. 29, 2008, in Ottawa, father
of Bennett E. McCardle ’74.
McGibbon: David Richard ’61,
Feb. 12 in Beaconsfi eld, Que.
McLean: John Dunbar, Nov. 14,
2008, in Oakville, Ont., husband of
the late Maud Jocelyn McLean ’46
and brother of Mary McLean ’46.
McLean: Maud Jocelyn (Hicks)
’46, Nov. 18, 2008, in Oakville,
Ont., wife of the late John Dunbar
McLean ’46 and sister of Michael
K. Hicks ’49.
McMinn: Joan, Nov. 8, 2008, in
Toronto, sister-in-law of Natalie
McMinn ’54.
Meertens: Anita, Dec. 12, 2008,
in London, Ont., grandmother of
Gemma Cox ’11.
Meynell: David Balfour, Oct. 5,
2008, in Toronto, husband of
Margaret (Shotton) Meynell ’56.
Mickleburgh: Brita Helena,
Dec. 2, 2008, in Newmarket, Ont.,
mother of Norma Mickleburgh ’72.
Mortimer: Charles Stuart MacIvor
’48, Sept. 18, 2008, in Toronto.
Moulton: Daisy Christina, Aug. 24,
2008, in Campbellford, Ont.,
grandmother of Keir Moulton ’01.
Neelands: Christine Martin,
Oct. 1, 2008, in Toronto, wife of
the late Donald Neelands ’38.
Norman: Jeffrey Alan ’51, Sept. 3,
2008, in Toronto.
Norman: Marilyn Jean, Oct. 7,
2008, in Kingston, Ont., sister-in-law
of William ’61 and Nancy Whitla.
Orford: Elizabeth Metcalf,
Nov. 11, 2008, in Toronto, sister
of Emily Goodman ’42 and aunt
of Roger H. Goodman ’76.
Pace: Alexander Murray, Feb. 12
in Oakville, Ont., grandson of
A. Murray Pace ’53.
Partridge: Helen Rosemary “Tibs”
(Annesley) ’41, Nov. 3, 2008, in
Toronto.
Penhorwood: William H.,
Sept. 16, 2008, in Toronto, father
of David Penhorwood ’77.
Plunkett: Edith Mary (Latter)
’35, Sept. 8, 2008, in Whitby, Ont.,
sister of Val Firstbrook ’42.
Pritchard: Doris Alice, Nov. 4,
2008, in Toronto, grandmother of
Carrie Lynde ’02.
Prokos: Chloe Eleanor Margaret,
Aug. 26, 2008, in Toronto, sister of
Frances Errington ’50.
Rahimi: Alexander E.R. ’87,
Feb. 15.
Ramsay: John Murray, Nov. 4,
2008, in Western Canada, husband
of Leah (Lowe) Ramsay ’45.
Roell: Kathleen Macdonald,
Aug. 2, 2008, in Toronto, sister of
D’Arcy K de B. Macdonald ’35.
Rose: Clayton Crawford, Sept. 16,
2008, in Collingwood, Ont., father
of David Rose ’76 and grandfather
of Colin Rose ’08.
Seaborn: Edward Arthur, Feb. 23
in Meaford, Ont., brother of J.
Blair ’45 and brother-in-law of
Carol ’48 Seaborn.
Sedgwick: Henry Francis Hugh,
Sept. 23, 2008, in Toronto, husband
of Patricia (Eckardt) Sedgwick ’56.
Sims: Henry A. ’37, Nov. 21,
2008, in Ottawa.
Sinclair: Eleanor Frances ’43,
Oct. 20, 2008, in Toronto.
Smye: Dorothy Jean, Jan. 3 in
Oakville, Ont., mother of Randy
(Ralph) J. Smye ’67.
Spragge: John C., December
2008, in Toronto, father of Suzanne
Spragge ’91.
Stanley: Mary Elizabeth, Nov. 25,
2008, in Toronto, wife of F. Gordon
Stanley ’48.
Stewart: Pauline, Nov. 2, 2008, in
London, Ont., sister of Ann Gal-
braith ’53 and sister-in-law of John
Galbraith ’51.
Strutt: James William, Nov. 8,
2008, husband of the late Audrey
Elizabeth Strutt ’50.
Taylor: Christopher Norman,
Aug. 18, 2008, in London,
England, brother of Robin Boys ’51.
Tomic: Joan (Ottewell) ’40,
January 2008 in Ferndale, Mich.
Tomlinson: Lillias, Nov. 13,
2008, in Toronto, aunt of Barbara
Thamer ’54 and George Tomlinson
Gunn ’65.
Vingoe: Joan Lilly Hope,
Sept. 16, 2008, in Toronto,
mother of D. Grant Vingoe ’80.
von Bredow: Mattias Wichard,
Sept. 6, 2008, in Beamsville, Ont.,
father of Astrid von dem Hagen
’70 and grandfather of Veronica
Kitchen ’01.
Walsh: Peter Desmond, Aug. 25,
2008, in Cowansville, Que., father
of Karen Walsh ’80.
Walmsley: Robert J. K. ’50,
Nov. 19, 2008, in Toronto, husband
of Ruth Walmsley ’50 and father of
Ann P. Walmsley ’78.
Weekes: Jennifer (Maynard) ’71,
Dec. 28, 2008, in Gravenhurst,
Ont., wife of Robert Weekes ’71
and sister-in-law of John ’66 and
Arlene ’66 Weekes.
Weynerowski: Witold Maciej ’59,
Feb. 17 in Chelsea, Que.
Wiles: Sydney Thomas, Dec. 27,
2008, in Mississauga, Ont., father
of Chris Wiles ’82.
Wilkie: Trevor Spragge Wilkie,
Oct. 13, 2008, in Niagara Falls,
Ont., grandfather of Miranda
Birch ’92.
Wood: John David Stephenson
’06, Nov. 30, 2008, in Toronto.
Woolverton: Mary Jarvis ’36,
Aug. 28, 2008, in Toronto.
Wolf: Maximillian Leopold,
Oct. 10, 2008, in Toronto, brother-
in-law of Anne M. Wolf ’49.
Wylie: Gladys Dobbie, Oct. 9,
2008, in Toronto, mother of Lynda
and mother-in-law of Michael
Thompson ’62, and grandmother
of Aaron Thompson ’99.
Young: David, Dec. 10, 2008,
in Oakville, Ont., brother of Marcia
Blundell ’60. ■
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The Case of the Coloured
Windows
TRINITY Past
When you think of the artwork at Trinity College, you
probably recollect the paintings and tapestries lining our
public spaces. There’s no doubt these are lovely, but the
stained glass punctuating Trinity’s stone walls is perhaps
the oldest, most impressive art on campus—and in some
ways, the most mysterious.
We know where most of the panes originated. Those in
Strachan Hall were produced by the late, revered stained-
glass artist Yvonne Williams and her colleagues. One made in
1941 displays 17 heraldic College and school coats of arms.
Trinity benefactor the late Gerald Larkin commissioned her
to produce fi ve other panels for the dining hall. The three
that were completed feature imposing, shadowy fi gures.
Williams was also instrumental in recovering fragments
from the windows in the chapel at Trinity’s original Queen
Street location, most of which were the work of well-known
Toronto fi rm McCausland & Co., and which she incorpo-
rated into panes in the current chapel. Some of the smallest
and most beautiful examples are the only pieces salvaged
from the central window of the old sanctuary: three angel
fi gures, now perched above the chapel’s eastern doorway.
Records reveal, too, the origin of the soaring panes
behind the High Altar. Commissioned in 1955 by the cha-
pel’s architect, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott from English firm
James Powell & Sons, the glass was carefully packed into
21 cases, along with the requisite metal bars and rods, and
shipped across the Atlantic.
But there are six pieces of stained glass in the College
for which the provenance, beyond a few details and a lot of
speculation, is a mystery. Donated by Constance Greening
Matthews in 1956, they are housed in the Lady Chapel and
the Provost’s Lodge, and thought to be European.
Whatever the origin of Trinity’s stained glass, however,
each piece cries out to be studied further, to have its unique
characteristics showcased, perhaps in future Trinity Past
columns…. – Jill Rooksby PH
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Pictured above: This bishop riding a horse is one of Trinity’s stained-glass
mysteries — it sits in the Provost’s Lodge.
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