“And what is that?” the officer asked, a little suspiciously.

“Oh,” said Artymowicz, eschewing all technical descriptions of his work. “I study how planets outside our solar system form.”

“Ah, you mean like Class M planets,” said the official, proudly recalling how the writers of Star Trek denoted Earth-like planets in the far reaches of the galaxy.

This accidental conjoining of the research interests of a scientist and the enthusiasm of a science-fiction fan would have been unlikely 20 years ago. At that time, no extra-solar planets of any sort had been discovered for Artymowicz or anyone else to study.

But in 1992, Penn State University astronomer Alexander Wolszczan published evidence of the first planet to be found outside our solar system – a distant, rocky orb circling a pulsar in the constellation of Virgo. Since then, “everything has changed,” says Debra Fischer, an astronomer at San Francisco State University and a recent guest of U of T’s department of astronomy and astrophysics. In October, Fischer delivered a public lecture at Convocation Hall on extra-solar planets as part of the department’s 100th anniversary celebrations. The study of these planets, she says, has grown from an intriguing diversion to one of the hottest fields in astronomy physics. “In the beginning, it was like stamp collecting,” she says. There was a planet here, and a planet there. But now astronomers are starting to compare our own solar system to other planetary systems and are being forced to rethink long-held theories of how stars and planets come into being. U of T researchers are among those trying to integrate these discoveries into a broader picture of stellar and planetary evolution. One day, the search for these distant celestial bodies may yield the Holy Grail of planetary astronomy – the discovery of another Earth.

Sci-fi books and movies would have us believe the galaxy is teeming with hundreds of humanoid civilizations inhabiting planets that look a lot like Earth. But the astronomical evidence to support this view is so far lacking. Almost all of the 150-plus extra-solar planets that scientists have detected are gas giants – hundreds of times bigger than Earth. Many of these immense planets hug their parent stars in tight orbits, completing a full circuit in just a few days. (Even Mercury, the speediest planet in our solar system, requires 88 days to orbit our parent star, the sun.) And while Earth and its siblings travel around the sun in near-circles, many of these newly discovered planets move in highly elliptical orbits. In the jargon of astronomy, they have “high orbital eccentricities.” The surface temperature on these planets is furnace-hot much of the time. Life almost certainly could not develop under these conditions.

Is it possible that other Earth-like planets exist, but have so far escaped our detection? The recent wave of discoveries certainly makes the existence of other Earths likely, says Artymowicz, but scientists don’t know how many smaller, rocky planets will be found in the galaxy. “I don’t think we’re at the point where we can reliably predict the number,” he says. “But there is no physical reason why terrestrial planets shouldn’t be there.”

If there is another Earth out there, astronomers are unlikely to see it just yet because of the techniques they use to detect planets. The radial velocity method, which has been used for several years, is biased toward finding large planets with tight orbits, says U of T astronomer Ray Jayawardhana. Through radial velocity, a scientist can infer the existence of a planet by observing its influence on the light of its parent star. Suppose we’re viewing a far-off star system from its edge, says Jayawardhana. An orbiting planet will spin toward us for part of its year and away from us for a similar amount of time. Its parent star will also move very slightly – tugged by its planet toward us and away from us in a regular cycle. This distinctive wobble causes subtle shifts in the light of the star. By observing the system for several orbital periods with a telescope and a spectrograph (which measures the intensity of light at different wavelengths), astronomers can pin down the distance of the planet from its sun, and estimate the planet’s mass. The radial velocity technique tends to locate large planets in close orbits because these planets cause their parent stars to wobble most. Finding smaller planets or planets moving in wider orbits is more challenging. Still, as astronomers refine the radial velocity method, they believe they’ll be able to spot planets only a few times larger than Earth (they’re already detecting objects the size of Uranus and Neptune, which are about 15 times as massive as Earth).

At the same time, astronomers are honing another planet-detection technique, the transit method. Consider once again that we’re observing a distant planetary system edge-on. Light from the star would seem to dim ever so slightly when a planet passed in front of it. If, for example, the planet completes an orbit every 10 days, we would have to watch the star for a month or two – noting a slight dimming of the star’s light on each pass of the planet – to be confident of the planet’s existence. The smaller the planet, the more powerful the telescope we would need to detect it.

Alien astronomers viewing our solar system edge-on could make a similar set of observations. “If you had a sensitive enough telescope, you would actually see the Earth transit the disc of the sun,” says Norman Murray, the associate director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at U of T. “And a year later you’d see it transit again – and you’d know it was a planet and not a bird or something flying over your telescope.”

The transit method is a promising detection technique; so far, astronomers using it have found about a half-dozen planets. Plans call for sophisticated orbiting telescopes (successors to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope) that will look for the periodic transits of many stars – possibly leading to the discovery of thousands of extra-solar planets in the coming decades, including, in all likelihood, some planets that resemble Earth.

In the meantime, Murray and the astrophysicist Matthew Holman of Harvard University have devised a way for astronomers to infer the existence of Earth-sized planets without actually seeing them transit their host stars. Their idea, published in the journal Science last winter, involves carefully timing the transits of huge planets the size of Jupiter. The key is gravity. In a system with a Jupiter-sized planet and a smaller Earth-sized planet, the smaller body will induce slight irregularities in the orbit of the larger body. (In a similar way, astronomers in the 19th and early 20th centuries were able to use irregularities in the orbit of Uranus to infer the existence of Neptune and Pluto.)

Think of our hypothetical alien astronomers dozens of light years away, watching our solar system. With powerful enough telescopes, they could detect transits of Jupiter against the sun. If these alien astronomers monitored Jupiter for several decades, they would notice that the time between successive transits was not exactly the same. They could use this discrepancy to infer the existence of at least one other planetary body. (They would likely presume the existence of Saturn, since its gravitational pull would have the greatest effect on Jupiter’s transit times.) If they had even more powerful telescopes, capable of detecting Earth’s transits, they would discover irregularities in our orbit, too. “Such astronomers would see variations in the times between transits in the order of 10 minutes, due primarily to the influence of Venus,” explains Murray.

Murray and Holman’s technique of scrutinizing transit times would allow astronomers to determine properties of the unseen planet that they can’t with radial velocity. The planet’s mass can be calculated, based on its effect on the orbit of the larger planet. Astronomers could also work out the size of the orbit as well as its eccentricity. And if astronomers are really lucky, and see both planets transit the host star, they can also calculate the sizes of the planets. If you know the size and the mass, you can determine density. “So you can immediately say whether the planets are terrestrial or gas,” says Murray. Terrestrial planets are where life is most likely to be found.

To comprehend these strange new worlds, we need to understand how these planets formed – a line of inquiry that Murray and several other U of T astronomers are actively pursuing. “A theory of planet formation would tell us, in principle, what fraction of stars, like our sun, harbour Earth-like planets,” Murray explains. It would also give astronomers a better idea of where to look for them, he says. But the extra-solar planets found so far are tough to explain using our existing theories.

The prevailing view is that a planetary system begins as a slowly spinning, immense ball of gas. The hot, central part becomes the star, while the material far from the core flattens and evolves into a Frisbee-shaped cloud of debris. This cloud – the proto-planetary accretion disc – is thought to exist for about 10 million years before dissipating, and provides the raw materials from which planets eventually form. The basic scenario is still believed valid; what is hotly debated are the details of the process.

One problem with the traditional model is that it implies that giant gas planets should form far from their parent stars. After all, this is where we find them in our solar system. But it’s not where we see gas giants in extra-solar planetary systems. “We had an understanding of how our system formed, how the Earth fits into the planetary system and how the conditions for life evolved in our solar system,” explains Artymowicz. “There was quite a shock when we discovered that other solar systems are different.”

Now, astronomers are trying to fine-tune the old model. At present, they’re torn between two competing scenarios. In the core-accretion model, planets are born when small chunks of rock, sand-grain-sized debris and dust collide within the disc. As the rocky core grows, its gravity draws in more dust and gas from its surroundings. If it’s large enough, over millions of years it will keep on gathering gas until it becomes a giant planet, like Jupiter. If it is smaller, it will become a rocky planet like Earth. A problem with this scenario is that the accretion process is too slow; giant gas planets may not have enough time to form. In a competing scenario, the disc-instability model, denser patches of gas and dust undergo a sudden collapse, causing one or more planets to form in a mere thousand years.

One U of T theorist, however, believes that gas giants can form according to the core-accretion model at a much faster rate than previously imagined. Roman Rafikov, recently from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, has been examining the competing models. The Astronomical Journal just published his argument that a giant planet orbiting a star at a distance equivalent to Neptune’s orbit in our solar system can form “on a time-scale of about 10 million years.”

While the question of how planets form may seem esoteric, it bears directly on the likelihood that other Earths exist, says Murray. The disc-instability model is neutral on the formation of terrestrial planets – they may or may not form. But the core-accretion model requires terrestrial planets to form. Under that model, gas giants are simply terrestrial planets that, over millions of years, continued to gather gas. In other words, if the core-accretion model is correct, Earth-like planets may be commonplace.

The search for another Earth will intensify over the next several years, with the launch of a new generation of space-based telescopes and the construction of immense new telescopes on the ground. Among the most ambitious ground-based projects is the proposed Thirty Metre Telescope, which, when completed by 2015, will be the world’s largest. U of T is one of 15 Canadian universities co-operating on the project, with backing from the National Research Council and several U.S. institutions. A number of U of T scientists are playing major roles in the project, including astronomers Ray Carlberg and Bob Abraham and physicist Pekka Sinervo, U of T’s dean of Arts and Science.

With these new telescopes, astronomers may make their most tantalizing finding yet: a terrestrial planet orbiting within the “Goldilocks zone” of its parent star (the narrow ring that is neither too hot nor too cold for life to evolve). But the diverse and ever-increasing trove of strange new worlds that scientists have already found has triggered a revolution in astronomy.

“It has been a tremendously exciting 10 years,” says Jayawardhana. “After centuries of people talking about it, we have finally found not one, not two, but more than 150 planets around other stars. It’s truly remarkable.”

Dan Falk is a Toronto science journalist and the author of Universe on a T-Shirt: The Quest for the Theory of Everything (Penguin Canada). Additional reporting by Stephen Strauss.

At the same time, astronomers are questioning the status of Pluto, long considered the outermost planet in our solar system. Recent discoveries of objects of a similar size, in orbits just as far from the sun, suggest that the number of planets in our solar system may not be nine, but 10 or more. Most of these new objects lie within a ring of rocky and icy debris known as the Kuiper Belt, which extends from the orbit of Neptune – a distance of 30 Astronomical Units (AU) from the sun – out to at least 100 AU. (One AU is the average distance from the Earth to the sun, or about 150 million kilometres.) Some astronomers argue that the discovery of these small, distant planet-like objects simply makes Pluto less unique. Others contend that these objects – including Pluto – don’t deserve the moniker of planet at all. They would include Pluto in a relatively new class of body within our solar system called “trans-Neptunian objects” or, simply, “planetary bodies.”

Scientists will investigate how planets form – “one of the most intriguing problems in modern astronomy and modern physics,” says Charles Dyer, an astronomy professor involved in setting up the program. UTSC has attracted two new faculty members: Pawel Artymowicz from Stockholm University and Julian Lowman from the University of Leeds in England, both experts in planetary physics. Dyer expects the program to be up and running in 2007, with two more astronomers joining soon after.

UTSC is a natural host for the planetary science program because the campus is already home to a vibrant department of physical and environmental sciences, says Dyer. Faculty specializing in chemistry, geology, physical geography and oceanography will be encouraged to apply their knowledge of Earth to other planets, he says. And the program’s astronomers will investigate both very distant worlds and the planets that make up our own solar system. “A planet is a planet, regardless of its location,” says Dyer.

But that is not our concern here.

Join us for a detour off the academic turnpike as we explore the unusual side roads of U of T.

We’ll make stops at the sentimental, the supernatural and the sanguinary (that’s bloody, literally) in celebration of the people and places that make the university a more fun and interesting place to be. Our list is not exhaustive, so if we’ve missed something, tell us. That’s something we are serious about.

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Every January, U of T’s engineering students blow off steam with a week-long celebration of high-concept goofiness known as Godiva Week. “It’s a whole second frosh week for engineers,” says Chris Anderson, co-chair of the engineers’ Blue and Gold Committee, which organizes the week’s events. Highlights of Godiva Week, which takes its name from Lady Godiva – one of several mascots claimed by engineering students – include the Mr. Blue and Gold Pageant and Godiva’s Crown, a women-only lumberjack contest.

One of the most eagerly anticipated events is the chariot race, a dash around King’s College Circle on jury-rigged sleighs. Each engineering discipline fields a “chariot” team with a helmeted rider and squad of pullers and pushers. Teams are encouraged to attack and dismantle other chariots during the race, so “defenders” are deployed to keep their sled in one piece. Crossing the finish line first doesn’t guarantee a win; by tradition, the declared winners are the team that bribes the judges most creatively. The week of gleeful mayhem is capped off by the more genteel Cannonball, the engineers’ annual semi-formal dance and dinner. Anderson says it’s “one of the times during the year when we actually dress up and look presentable.”

School of Hard Knocks
Students in Professor Rick Halpern’s American Studies seminar “Hellhound on my Trail: Living the Blues in the Mississippi Delta, 1890-1945,” don’t spend all their time with their nose in a book – they learn the history of the Deep South by listening to such blues greats as Muddy Waters, Ma Rainey, Robert Johnson and Howlin’ Wolf.

“Most blues songs aren’t about historic events,” says Halpern, the Bissell-Heyd-Associates Chair in American Studies. “They’re more about love gone wrong.” But Halpern wanted to approach blues songs as texts that would help his students understand African-American history in the segregated south in the real voices of the people who lived it. His students have required readings each week, but they also have required listening. “The blues can be used to capture the voices of many black southerners who don’t appear in the history books,” says Halpern, who is also director of the Centre for the Study of the United States and the American Studies program at U of T.

Students often find a particular artist or song that resonates with them. “I got really attached to the Skip James song, ‘Hard-Time Killing Floor Blues,’” says Erin Mandzak, a fourth-year history and political science student. “It expressed the despair of the blues, and for me was the clearest link between African-American life under segregation and blues music.”

Dance Me Inside
If you dream of dancing like Fred Astaire but have the feet of Fred Flintstone, U of T’s Only Human Dance Collective is there for you. “Everyone’s really nice and welcoming,” says Kelly Stewart (BEd 2000), who has been with the collective for most of the time since its start in 1999. “It’s very inclusive.”

The collective, which doesn’t hold auditions for company pieces and is open to all members of the U of T community, stages a popular annual spring show at the Isabel Bader Theatre featuring more than a hundred dancers and a range of styles – from African and Indian to jazz and hip-hop. The all-comers philosophy usually means a few toes twang rather than twinkle, but the enthusiasm of the show is infectious. “It’s amazing,” says Stewart. “I just feel lucky to be a part of it.”

It’s Only a Paper Moon, Hanging Over a Cardboard Sea…Actors don’t get more two-dimensional than this. U of T’s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library is home to one of the world’s largest collections of toy theatres, the Desmond Seaton Reid Juvenile Drama Collection. Totalling about 6,000 pieces, the collection consists of printed sheets designed to be coloured, cut out and mounted on card. Sets of the sheets were bought for Victorian children who assembled them to make tiny cardboard stages, scenery, backdrops and actors.

“This really is a record of performance in the 19th century,” says Fisher Library director Richard Landon, explaining that the most elaborate sets were exact scale replicas of real productions and their actors, and sometimes included costume changes. Many were packaged with an abridged, half-hour script so children could perform the play at home. “It was the kind of thing you’d buy as a Christmas gift because it seemed like an improving activity for children,” says Landon. “But no child has that kind of concentration. It’s the model train syndrome – you buy it for your kid but end up doing it yourself.”

Life on Mars?
“There are students who come to this course wanting to know if the pyramids are evidence of aliens visiting Earth,” says Professor Chris Matzner, who teaches the U of T astronomy course “Life on Other Worlds,” “but we try to get students to take a scientific view.” That means bringing the discussion back down to Earth, by focusing on how life developed on our own planet, and what that indicates about how life might form elsewhere. “Although you’re always left with the same unanswered question,” says Matzner, of whether or not extraterrestrial life exists, “what’s surprising is how much we do know.” Biologists, for instance, have found life flourishing in some of the Earth’s harshest environments, and since the early 1990s astronomers have discovered more than 150 planets outside our solar system. Matzner says that while we’re not likely to find life on other worlds anytime soon, “these recent discoveries have really increased the level of interest in astrobiology.”

Gaudy, but Never Tacky
“Ghosts are alive and well at Massey,” says John Fraser, master of the U of T graduate college. But the red-letter day for Massey’s scholarly spectres isn’t Halloween; it’s the college’s annual Christmas Gaudy, a night of food, drink, song and storytelling to mark the end of the fall term. Massey has so many phantoms because its founding master, Canadian literary giant Robertson Davies, was constantly inventing new ones. Each year he concocted a ghost story, usually featuring the spirit of an ancient scholar – Gutenberg, Aristotle or Newton – haunting a Massey student or faculty member. Fraser’s style is different. “I never tell ghost stories because I won’t put myself up against Robertson Davies in that department,” he says. Instead, Fraser, a former editor of Saturday Night, narrates from the perspective of animals in and around the college – ducks, rats, raccoons – to create what he calls “bedtime stories suitable for adult ears.”

Rope Charmers
Forget everything you think you know about skipping rope. The four members of U of T’s competitive jump-rope team, the Varsity Ropers, appear to defy gravity as they run, jump and flip through the air to perform such acrobatic manoeuvres as the Transient Extended Neck Wrap or the Suburban Hemisphere. “If it uses ropes, we do it,” says team member Lindsay Williamson, who counts the Two-Footed Double Frog among her specialties. Last year the U of T team ranked first at the Ontario championships, and third nationally. Although the Ropers have proved their competitive mettle, they’ve begun organizing a recreational program for beginners. “It’s an excellent cardiovascular workout, and it’s fun,” says Williamson.

Bells of the Ball
U of T’s prized carillon in Soldiers’ Tower can be heard all over campus, so most listeners never get close enough to see that the real show is how the 51-bell instrument is played. The bells range in size from 23 pounds to four tons and are controlled by a six-foot-wide keyboard of wooden levers. Performers get quite a workout, explains Michael Hart, U of T’s official carillonneur. “It’s physically demanding. Because the clappers all vary in weight, you have to adjust the pressure you use on each key.” During carillon concerts, a staple of many U of T summer evenings, a closed-circuit TV was set up, Hart says, “so people on the ground could have a view of what we do.”

Cake and Ice Cream (and Chicken and Sardines and…)
As cakes go, it’s not exactly worth fighting for. But Trinity College’s annual Cake Fight has nothing to do with eating.

“The female head of first year makes the most disgusting cake possible,” explains Ashutosh Jha, one of Trinity’s co-heads of college. “This year the cake was made with chicken, cake mix, leftover food and pork chops. But we check for food allergies first.” In a throwback to Trinity’s sex-segregated days, the college’s first-year men must retrieve the revolting dessert from the quad through the east gate in under a minute, while the second-year men try to block their path. “It’s kind of a rivalry,” says Jha.”It brings the first years together.” Last September, the frosh retrieved the cake in 38 seconds, which Jha says is “a decent result.”

The Doctor Will Feed You Now
For a cookbook written by people who are supposed to look after our health, it sure contains a lot of brownie recipes. Eating Well: Favourite Recipes from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine contains 80 recipes submitted by med students, faculty, staff and alumni, including three for brownies. Marilyn Heng, who is in the third year of her medical degree, edited the inaugural edition last year. “I’d say I tested half the recipes,” she says, adding that she was a particular fan of a pasta recipe from a classmate’s grandmother and a South African dessert called melktart.

The cookbook includes recipes from some of U of T’s most notable medical researchers, such as Dr. Tak Mak (who contributed an Italian-Chinese chicken stir-fry) and Dr. Catherine Whiteside (a cheeseburger casserole). U of T’s new president, Dr. David Naylor, provided a recipe for vegetarian stuffed peppers that he used to make while he was a student at Oxford University. “I tested that one out,” Heng says. “It was really good.” Proceeds from the sale of the $10 book support a senior citizens’ outreach program.

Deliciously Diabolical
The gruesome tale of Diabolos and Reznikoff, the stonemasons who fought to the death in the hallways of the half-built University College, is well known to U of T students and alumni. But the legend isn’t all that remains: two gargoyles at the west end of the main UC building are reputed to be likenesses of the feuding colleagues, forever grimacing each other.

For years, a popular UC café has kept Diabolos’s name alive, while Reznikoff lingered in obscurity. But in September 2005, a new café called – you guessed it – Reznikoff’s opened on the ground floor of Morrison Hall, UC’s new residence on St. George Street. Now the rivalry goes on, albeit in a friendlier and more delicious form.

The Lies of the Land
The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! Or so you’d think from looking at a Red-scare map of Europe published in Time magazine in 1952. But to the students in Professor James Retallack’s first-year seminar course, “Telling Lies with Maps,” the picture isn’t so simple.

Retallack, who teaches at the Munk Centre for International Studies, wants his students to think critically about the maps they see in books, on the wall or on TV.

“We try to run the gamut,” he says, “from the good elements of graphical display to the bad and the ugly. We look at spy maps, satellite maps, maps in advertisements, maps in literature and fiction…” The list goes on. “Map projections tell interesting and nuanced stories,” he says.

Aces High
When Clayton Babcock was a student at the University of Toronto at Mississauga in the late 1970s, he was one of a notorious group of students called “the loungers.”

Babcock and his fellow loungers didn’t take much about university seriously – except their card games. They played Hearts, mostly, and a game of their own invention called Doughnut. “There was a little gambling going on,” says Babcock, “a nickel here, a nickel there.” The only hitch: individual loungers would sometimes forget their cards. “Then it dawned on us that we could just jump up on the radiator, punch out the ceiling tile and keep the cards up there.”

Babcock isn’t a lounger anymore (he graduated with a BSc in biology in 1981), but while visiting UTM a few years ago, he checked out his old haunt and couldn’t resist a peek above the ceiling. “There was our deck of cards!” he says. Babcock adds there may still be one or two decks stashed in the ceiling, should any current students care to restart the tradition. Texas Hold’em anyone?

The Plot Thickens
“It looks pretty small,” says Caroline Xia, surveying the community garden in front of the Students’ Administrative Council building on Hart House Circle, “but we really pack the vegetables in.” Xia is the founder of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group Equity Gardeners, the volunteer group that tends the small plot of land and encourages anyone to harvest what they’d like from it. This year’s harvest included lettuce, beets, Swiss chard, four kinds of mint, beans, kale, oregano, chives and even two small bushes growing hot peppers. “It produces a humongous amount of food,” says Xia. “People are constantly harvesting.” The garden is pesticide-free, and the group provides most of its own compost and even some of its own seeds, sprouting them on the third floor of SAC over the winter. “We make a point of planting vegetables that grow quickly and are super producers,” says Xia. Regularly during spring, summer and fall, the volunteers harvest a crop to donate to The Scott Mission, and they’re planning an expansion next summer so they can grow more. “We just grow vegetables and people can harvest them,” says Xia with a shrug. “It’s a pretty simple concept.”

Bert and Eerie
Many students call Hart House a favourite haunt, but a former caretaker of the building seems to really mean it. Bert (last name unknown) handled custodial duties at Hart House for several years in the 1960s, until he died suddenly on his way to work. It seems he came in that day anyway and never left. “My own experience with the ghost was five or six years ago,” says Hart House Theatre manager Paul Templin. Working late one winter night, Templin decided to sleep in his office and asked the security guards not to wake him. “Sometime during the night, the door swung open and hit my cot. The door is glass-paned, so I could see there was someone standing behind it. Then the door closed again.” Templin got up to investigate and found that the room was full of smoke, the result of an electrical fire in an adjacent wall. He gathered with Hart House’s overnight staff on the sidewalk outside, and asked if anyone had been to his office; no one had. “All I saw that night was a silhouette of a person,” says Templin, but he is convinced Bert roused him to the danger. “I’d say that he saved my life.”

Wood Is Thicker Than Water
The ornate gryphon coiled on top of the banister in the east stairway of University College once disappeared from its perch.

During a university-wide blood drive in the 1950s, UC students had the worst participation rate at U of T. To punish the college, a group of engineering students barricaded the stairwell with the gryphon, sawed the creature from the banister and took it away. According to George Mastoras, vice-president of the UC Literary and Athletic Society, the engineers later sent UC students a message: if they wanted their beloved gryphon back, they would have to donate more blood to the drive than any other college. Which they did. “So it’s literally been paid for with the blood of UC students,” Mastoras observes. To this day, the gryphon is an academic totem for UC students, who rub it for luck on their way to exams.

Some have said much the same of Abella – the Supreme Court judge who everyone seems to know as “Rosie.”

The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Abella (BA 1967 UC) graduated from the University of Toronto Law School in 1970 and was called to the bar in 1972. She practised law for four years. In 1976, at the age of 29 and while pregnant with her second child, Abella became the youngest Canadian – and first Jewish woman – to be named to the bench. It was a groundbreaking achievement, but Abella describes it as mostly a case of good timing. “This was [Ontario Attorney General] Roy McMurtry deciding, in the wake of International Women’s Year, that there weren’t enough women judges,” she says. “I would like to be able to tell you that out of a field of a hundred thousand he chose me. But to be honest, there wasn’t a whole lot of choice.”

Abella soon became known among her colleagues for her ebullience and deep commitment to human rights. She sat for five years on the Ontario Human Rights Commission, participated in an inquiry into the conduct of the Nova Scotia judges involved in the wrongful murder conviction of Mi’kmaq youth Donald Marshall Jr., and chaired a provincial study on access to legal services by people with disabilities. “I had a chance to be part of the evolutionary changes in the law regarding women and minorities and persons with disabilities,” says Abella. “Did I consciously get involved with those things? Yes, I did. I believe that the law is related to justice.”

Abella’s passion for human rights stems from her family history. In her chambers, she calls my attention to a photo of the American troop ship SS General Stuart Heintzelman, which ferried her family from Bremerhaven, Germany, to Canada. Jacob and Fanny Silberman landed at Pier 21 in Halifax with their daughters, Rosalie and Toni, and Fanny’s mother, on May 30, 1950. Abella studies the image. “I remember being nauseous,” she says. Later, in Toronto: a new home and a new language. “What I really remember is being desperate to play with the kids. They wouldn’t play with me at first because I spoke German.”

She pulls a book down from a shelf and spreads open the pages before me: a little girl at the front of a train – a pigtailed pixie with a shy smile. Not quite four years old, she’s instantly recognizable as Abella. “We travelled by train from Stuttgart [Germany] to Bremerhaven,” she says, pointing out in the photo the metal badge attached to her clothes. “That was my tag. It was so we wouldn’t get lost. We were packed in like baggage.”

Hanging on the wall is also a framed certificate – her father’s law degree, worn and yellowed beneath the glass. Jacob Silberman won a scholarship to study law at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland; he was one of only four Jews permitted entry under quotas. He had been born in 1910 in the Polish shtetl of Sienno to a bookseller and his wife. In Krakow, he earned money tutoring. In the mid-1930s, while visiting the city of Ostrowiecz, he met Fanny Krongold. Fanny was the daughter of a wealthy factory owner. She had a good head for business and was running her father’s operations while still in her early 20s. The two soon fell in love. “My mother felt like she had found the Holy Grail,” Abella says.

Jacob and Fanny married on September 3, 1939, shortly after Jacob graduated from law school but not before Nazi Germany invaded Poland. They were separated for most of the war, and shunted off to labour and concentration camps. Their son, Julius, died at Treblinka; he was just two and a half. The couple lost parents and siblings. Later, at a displaced persons camp in Stuttgart, they began rebuilding their lives. Abella was born at the camp on July 1, 1946. Her sister, Toni, arrived two years later. Abella remembers her childhood as happy, and says she’s amazed by her parents’ and grandmother’s resilience and optimism. “With everyone and everything they lost – and they lost so much – they still came out of that experience so nurturing, so determined that my sister and I would feel no fear,” says Abella.

American officials in Stuttgart asked Jacob to participate in establishing legal services for displaced persons. He was heartened “by just how wonderful it was to be able to discover that justice was possible after what he had been through,” says Abella. Until his death, just one month before her graduation from law school, Jacob and Abella shared a unique bond. “I always felt there was a man who encouraged me to believe there was nothing I couldn’t do. And who loved his children so profoundly that it created a kind of protective shield against the world.

“He started treating me as an equal from the time I was 12 or 13,” Abella says. “It wasn’t conscious on either of our parts, I think. But I always knew that somebody I admired was both loving and respectful. For your intellectual confidence there’s nothing better.” The familial shield was fortified by her mother, says Abella, whom she credits for teaching her about generosity and courage. “To this day, my mother has never complained or asked for anything,” says Abella. “It was all about giving.”

During their first few months in Canada, the Silberman family lived on the third floor of a house on Oxford Street in Toronto’s Kensington Market. Prohibited by citizenship restrictions from practising law, Jacob was desperate to find work. He landed a factory job, but found the work difficult. A few weeks later, on a whim, he approached the Continental Life Insurance Company, located in the Tip Top Tailors building at Spadina and College. That day Jacob became an insurance salesman. The family moved into a house at Oakwood and St. Clair, and Fanny worked in the home office. The couple never looked back.

Abella describes her life at home with her parents as blissful, but structured. The television remained off from Monday to Friday. Weekdays consisted of school, homework and two hours of piano practice. The girls competed at the Kiwanis Festival every February and took their Conservatory exams every June. Accomplished pianists, they performed both together and separately, and even played Massey Hall. Abella earned the designation of Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto and still enjoys playing George Gershwin, Irving Berlin and Cole Porter songs, particularly when she’s stressed. “The more pressure I feel I’m under, the more I find myself playing love songs from that era,” she says.

Reading was Abella’s indulgence. Every Friday after school, the sisters visited the public library at Dufferin and St. Clair, where Abella returned the three books she had borrowed the week before and checked out three more. “Every. Single. Friday,” she says. “It was a ritual.” At the age of nine, Abella read a novel that she says changed her life: Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. “It’s all about a man and the most extraordinary injustice – the price he has to pay for stealing a loaf of bread. I can’t tell you why, but the book shook me to the core,” she says. “Reading Les Mis was the moment when being a lawyer wasn’t something I wanted to do because my parents thought it was a good thing. It turned into something I wanted to do so that people would be protected from those kinds of injustices.”

Abella attended Oakwood Collegiate in Grade 9 and Bathurst Heights Secondary School from Grade 10 to 13. She recalls having plenty of friends and says they didn’t care about clothes or hairstyles. “I didn’t know how to dress properly. I didn’t know what to wear.” She rarely dated.

However, she identified her future husband the first time she laid eyes on him. It was in her second year at U of T, in the basement of University College. She was helping organize an international teach-in. Rosie was in charge of hospitality; Irving Abella, a PhD candidate in Canadian history, was co-ordinating the seminars. Six years older than Rosie, Irving had just returned from working on his master’s degree in history at the University of California, Berkeley. “I thought he was so smart and so funny and so different from people I knew my own age. I was mesmerized by him,” she says. “But he was utterly disinterested in me.”

Abella went straight home and told her parents that she had met the man she wanted to marry. She didn’t speak to Irving again for three months. When she did, she asked him where he studied, and he told her the B storey of the stacks at Sigmund Samuel Library – so that’s where she studied for the next two years, in the carrel behind his. She repeatedly asked him out. He repeatedly declined until finally, she says, he ran out of excuses. “I was entirely driven by the fact that I thought he was incredible,” Abella says. They were married in Toronto on December 8, 1968, just two days before she was scheduled to write an exam in international law.

A hard-working student all through elementary and high school, Abella says that her years at U of T were when the “rest of me caught up – the social me.” It was during this time that Abella became aware of her full potential. “Even though there were only five women at the U of T Law School, I never felt for a moment that this was something I should not be doing. That says a lot about U of T. I came out of there thinking that there was nothing I couldn’t do.” Abella is the first female U of T graduate to have been appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada.

In the mid-1970s, Irving and Rosie had two sons, Jacob and Zachary. The demands of home and work were challenging, but Irving arranged his academic life so he could be home when the boys returned from school. As a lawyer and a judge, Abella had a gruelling schedule, but she came home for dinner every evening and together she and Irving would tuck their children into bed, before she headed back downtown to the office.

For several years, Irving’s salary as a history professor paid for a housekeeper. “That was a luxury,” says Abella. “In those days, journalists always wanted to do stories about how I was able to balance being a judge and being a wife and being a mother. But I would always say, ‘You are going after the wrong woman. I can afford help. Go after the women who are really struggling and still raising wonderful children.’” Today, Abella’s sons are both successful lawyers. Jacob (LLB 1998), 32, works in the Privy Council Office in Ottawa, and Zachary, 29, worked for the past three years on the Toronto computer leasing inquiry.

Early in her career, Abella began seeing how important the law is to helping people get justice. “I saw how I could use it in an active way to help my clients. It was the needs of my clients I was responding to,” Abella says. “I saw the way the law treated women. I saw the way the world treated women, and it took my breath away. That was when I developed the perception that there was much about the world that had been operating unfairly, because I hadn’t experienced unfairness myself.”

Abella is probably best known for her role as the sole commissioner on the Royal Commission on Equality in Employment. The federal government created the commission in 1983 to seek remedies for workplace discrimination against women, aboriginal peoples, people with disabilities and visible minorities. In her report to Ottawa the following year, Abella coined the concept and the term “employment equity,” which is sometimes described as the Canadian alternative to affirmative action. “Equality in the American context and everywhere else in the world had always been an Aristotelian concept: You treat likes alike,” she explains. “In the royal commission report was a notion of equality that acknowledges differences, and requires people to take them into account.” In other words, Abella recognized that the identical treatment of individuals may result in inequality. “Treating everyone alike means that the person in a wheelchair has the same right to work, but you’re not required to do anything to get him or her into the building,” she says. “If you don’t acknowledge differences you can’t create equality.”

Abella later played an important role in another equality issue – the rights of gay couples. In 1998, while serving on the Ontario Court of Appeal, she wrote a landmark ruling that extended survivor benefits to same-sex partners. The case involved two members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. The women asked the union to extend the definition of “spouse” under its pension plan. The union agreed, but Revenue Canada refused to accept the extension for the federal Income Tax Act. In her decision, Abella wrote that the definition of “spouse” in the act violated the equality provision of the charter. “Bold and inspired,” is how U of T law professor Carol Rogerson describes Abella’s ruling. “It predicted the future course of the law.”

Abella has strong views on a range of issues, but says her role as a judge requires her to put the law above personal considerations. “The judicial function is a public trust,” she says. “You have to make sure that, as a judge, you take into account the evidence you are hearing, the public interest, the history of the issue and the principle at stake, and weigh all of this with a result that has integrity. You have to be open to the possibility that your preconceptions may be wrong or, at the least, that they can be changed by the evidence in front of you.”

Despite her long track record as a jurist, the case that Abella holds dearest is one in which she was not directly involved. In 1989, the Supreme Court of Canada overturned a statute that prohibited non-citizens from practising law. It was the same kind of law that had prevented Abella’s father from practising law in Ontario almost four decades earlier. In their reasoning, the Supreme Court judges drew on Abella’s definition of equality. It was the court’s first decision under the equality section of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. “At that moment,” says Abella, “I could have ended my career very happily.”

Donna Bailey Nurse is a freelance writer in Toronto.

$50,000,000 or more
The R. Samuel McLaughlin Foundation

$25,000,000 to $49,999,999
Ted and Loretta Rogers

$10,000,000 to $24,999,999
John and Margaret Bahen
The Dan Family and Leslie and Anna Dan
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Jeffrey S. Skoll
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Isabel and Alfred Bader
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Terrence Donnelly
Stephan R. Lewar
Phyllis and Bill Waters
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Conrad M. Black/Hollinger Inc.
Reginald A. Blyth
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Rudolph Peter Bratty
Andrea and Charles Bronfman
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Lloyd and Kay Chapman
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Roy Foss
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Warren and Barbara Goldring
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Frank and Helen Morneau
James and Sheila Mossman
Mary Mounfield
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Christopher Ondaatje
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Eugene V. Polistuk
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Norman and Marian Robertson
Barrie Rose and Family
Jacob Rosenstadt
William and Meredith Saunderson
Arthur R. A. and Susan Scace
Lionel and Carol Schipper
Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman
John Patrick and Marjorie Sheridan
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J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff
Robert C. Simmonds
Beverley and Thomas Simpson
Ernest Bamford Smith
Sorbara Family – Sam Sorbara, The Sam Sorbara Charitable Foundation, Edward Sorbara, Gregory Sorbara, Joseph Sorbara and Marcella Tanzola
Gladys Sparks
A. Michael and Monica Spence
Ralph Gordon Stanton
Arthur Gordon Stollery
Joey and Toby Tanenbaum
Mark M. Tanz
Drew Thompson
Mary Lillian Keep Trimmer
Albert W. Walker
F. Michael Walsh
John H. Watson
John B. Withrow
Rose Wolfe
Gregory Wolfond
Altera Corporation
Alzheimer Society of Ontario
Archdiocese of Toronto
Associated Medical Services, Inc.
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AstraZeneca Canada Inc.
The Atkinson Charitable Foundation
Aventis Pasteur Limited
BMO Financial Group
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The Law Foundation of Ontario
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Massey College
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Microsoft Canada Co.
Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation of Toronto
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$5,000,000 to $9,999,999
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$1,000,000 to $4,999,999
Roma Auerback
Harry V. Brill
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Margaret and Jim Fleck
W. Bernard and Sharon Herman
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$100,000 to $999,999
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William F. Francis
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William and Elizabeth Star
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Bert Wasmund
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Li Shun Xing
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Intel Corporation
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The Henry White Kinnear Foundation
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The Albert and Temmy Latner Family Foundation
The Lawson Foundation
The Lupina Foundation
The Maytree Foundation
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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MDS Inc.
Medical Alumni Association, University of Toronto
Medicine Class of 2005
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Merck Frosst Canada Ltd.
Microsoft Canada Co.
The Minto Foundation
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PCL Constructors Canada Inc.
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The Purpleville Foundation
RCGA Foundation
The Salamander Foundation
SMH Department of Ophthalmology
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Sun Microsystems Inc.
Toronto Centre for Lesbian and Gay Studies
Toronto Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital Imaging Consultants
University of Toronto Schools’ Alumni Association
UofT Medical Class of 2004
Annie Wong Art Foundation

$25,000 to $99,999
Rona Abramovitch and Jonathan Freedman
Peter Allen
Scott Anderson
Bram and Bluma Appel
Darrell R. Avram
James Cameron Baillie
Edward L. Baker
Ralph M. Barford
Jack Barkin
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R. M. Bennett
David R. Bloom
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Jimmy Y. C. Lee
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Donald H. H. MacKenzie
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Leighton W. McCarthy
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John L. McLaughlin
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Harold J. Murphy
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John Nixon
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Peter O’Hagan
Mariel P. O’Neill-Karch and Pierre Karch
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Nora Post
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C. K. and Gayatri Prahalad
Jonas J. Prince
Bruce R. Pynn
Vivek Rao
Donald B. Redfern
James A. Rendall
Elena Riabenko
Marvi and John Ricker
Joseph H. Robertson
John A. Rogers
Barrie Rose and Family
Donald Ross
Michael, Sheila and Jonathan Royce
Edward Rygiel
Sean D. Sadler
William and Meredith Saunderson
Louis Savlov
Arthur R. A. and Susan Scace
Beverly and Fred Schaeffer
Lionel and Carol Schipper
Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman
Wes Scott
Gail Ferriss Sheard
Frances Silverman
Kenneth Carless Smith and Laura C. Fujino
Sam Sniderman
Joseph Sommerfreund
Joseph D. M. Sorbara
Mickey and Annette Convey Spillane
Ruth K. Stedman
Mary Alice and Alexander K. Stuart
Joey and Toby Tanenbaum
Martin Teplitsky
Karel and Yoka terBrugge
Ellen J. Timbrell
Harriet E. C. Tunmer
Carolyn Tuohy and The Walter and Mary Tuohy Foundation
Theodore O. van der Veen
G. Patrick H. Vernon
John A. and Barbara Vivash
James P. Waddell
Olwen Walker
Mary-Margaret Webb
Pamela G. Whelan
H. Brian and Patricia R. White
Jack Whiteside
Andrew and Lisa Wu
S. Adrian Yaffe
Ronald H. Yamada
Bill and Janet Young
Rosemary Zigrossi
Daniel Zuzak
Abbott Laboratories Limited
Academy for Lifelong Learning
Alcon Canada Inc.
Alcon Research Limited
Allergan Inc.
ALTANA Pharma Inc.
Alumni Association of Woodsworth College
Amgen Canada Inc.
Anur Investments Ltd.
Architectural School Products Limited
Associated Medical Services, Inc.
Association for Korea and Canada Cultural Exchange
Avana Capital Corporation
Bank of Montreal
Basilian Fathers of USMC
Bayer Inc.
Bazaar & Novelty
BDO Dunwoody LLP
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation of Toronto
Buddhist Education Foundation for Canada
C. L. Burton Trusts
CAE Inc.
The Canada Council
Canadian Coalition for Good Governance
Canadian Federation of University Women, Scarborough
Canadian-German Festival
The Chao Chow Association of Ontario Canada
Jeffrey Cook Charitable Foundation
Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall
Dalton Chemical Laboratories Incorporated
Dare Foods Ltd.
Diamond and Schmitt Architects Incorporated
Earhart Foundation
Effem Foods Ltd.
Eli Lilly Canada Inc.
Enwave Energy Corporation
ERCO Worldwide
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
The Federation of Engineering and Scientific Associations
Frederick G. Gardiner Trust
GlaxoSmithKline
Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc.
Goodman and Carr LLP
Roscoe Reid Graham
The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation
The Heinrichs Foundation
H. J. Heinz Company of Canada Limited
Hospital for Sick Children – Department of Diagnostic Imaging
C. D. Howe Memorial Foundation
Adrian and Reta Hudson Fund at the Toronto Community Foundation
International Association for Energy Economics
The Ireland Fund of Canada
Janssen-Ortho Inc.
Jarislowsky Foundation
Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto
The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation
Kraft Canada Inc.
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
Lang Michener LLP
LG Electronics Canada, Inc.
Walter Lorenz Surgical Inc.
M&M Meat Shops Ltd.
M1 Capital Corporation
Managerial Design Corporation
Maple Leaf Foods Inc.
The McLean Foundation
Mead Johnson Nutritionals
Meds 9T9
Medtronic of Canada Ltd.
George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation
Microsoft Corporation
The Kenneth M. Molson Foundation
Salus Mundi Foundation
Munich Reinsurance Company
Noranda Inc. and Falconbridge Ltd.
Novopharm Limited
O & Y Foundation for Better Communities
Ontario Association of Orthodontists
Orafti Group
Ortho Biotech
Pfizer Canada Incorporated
POGO Events
Quaker Tropicana Gatorade Canada Inc.
The Redemptorists
Rohm and Haas Canada Incorporated
The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation
Senior Alumni University of Toronto
Mon Sheong Foundation
Shoppers Drug Mart
Shouldice Designer Stone
Siemens Canada Limited
Sodexho Canada
St. George’s Society of Toronto
St. Michael’s Imaging Consultants
State Farm Group
Straumann Canada Ltd.
Students’ Administrative Council of the U of T
Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre
Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre – Department of Medical Imaging
Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre – Division of Urology
Széchenyi Society Inc.
The Lawrence and Judith Tanenbaum Family Charitable Foundation
TD Bank Financial Group
Tembec Inc.
The Toronto Star
The William and Nancy Turner Foundation
University College Literary Society
University of Toronto – Chemistry Club
University of Toronto – Hart House
University of Toronto Alumni Association
University of Toronto Engineering Society
University of Toronto Foundation
University of Toronto Schools Parents’ Association
Urban Strategies Inc.
Vancouver Foundation
Vicon Motion Systems
The Wardens of Camp One
Eric T. Webster Foundation
The H. W. Wilson Foundation
Woodsworth College Students’ Association
Yamanouchi USA Foundation
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William and Haide Aide
Virginia and Oktay Aksan
Derek Allen
Douglas Allen
Richard M. H. Alway
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Joseph J. Barnicke
Roger and Janet Beck
John Beckwith
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Jalynn Bennett
John and Diana Bennett
Earl R. Bogoch
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Harvey Botting
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David G. Broadhurst
Lisa and Allan Brown
David Brown
Gloria Buckley
Walter and Danuta Buczynski
Alice and Grant Burton
Brendan Calder
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Paul H. Carson
Mary J. Case
Mark Cattral
David K. T. Chau
Steven Chepa
Frances and Edmund Clark
Stephen R. Clarke and Elizabeth Black
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Christine M. Clement
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Murray A. and Katherine Corlett
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Thomas Di Giacomo
Cora Donely
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David R. Grant
George K. Greason
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Paul D. Greig
Terry and Ruth Grier
Penny and Allan Gross
Beverly Hendry Hain
Robert and Tracy Hain
Fred C. Hallden
Mary C. Ham
Harold P. Hands
Gerald G. Hatch
Sandra J. Hausman
Toni and Robin Healey
William L. B. Heath
Harcus C. Hennigar
Angela Hildyard
Phyllis Saunders Holmes
S. M. Irwin
Edward J. R. Jackman
Peter E. S. Jewett and Robin A. Campbell
Michael R. Johnston
Gary M. Jones
Jennifer Lambert Jones
Frank Kalamut
Harold Kalant
Ian F. T. Kennedy
William S. Kennedy
Ruth Kerbel
Shafique Keshavjee
Bruce Kidd
Hal A. Koblin
The Honourable E. Leo Kolber
Sui Wong and N. K. Kong
Ubby Krakauer
Ellen A. Larsen
Laurie and Richard Lederman
Young Woo Lee
Wey Leong
K. K. Leung
John Leyerle and Patricia Eberle
Richard Liss
Terry Litovitz
David Locker
John R. MacInnis
Margaret B. Mackay
Catherine Y. MacKinnon
Don MacMillan
Margaret O. MacMillan
Vincenzo Maida
Janet Marsh
John Marshall
Roger Martin and Nancy Lang
Lesia and William Maxwell
John C. and Margaret Stanley Maynard
Jean C. L. McArthur
Heather McCallum
Bob and Nancy McConachie
David McCready
Ian D. Mcgilvray
John and Aileen McGrath
Rosemarie McGuire
Michael D. McKee
Mark McLean
Kathleen McMorrow
James M. McMullen
Carole Messier-Mirkopoulos
Murray R. Metcalfe
Jeremy Charles Millard
Guy W. Mills
Jan and Ben Monaghan
Roger D. Moore
Frances Moran
Oskar Morawetz
Norman J. and Nerina Murray
Robert Nam
David Noble
Cristina Oke
Brian and Anneliese O’Malley
Desmond and Pamela O’Rorke
Simon Ortiz
Michael Jackson Paine
Norm Paterson
Teresa Patullo-Bosa
Todd P. Penner
John R. S. Pepperell
Paul J. and Patricia R. Phoenix
Andrew Pierre
Gordon Poole
Borden C. Purcell
Thomas Rahilly and Jean Fraser
David M. Rayside
Ruth Redelmeier
Donald and Nita Reed
Michael Jan Reedijk
Marie A. Restivo
Richard K. Reznick
Douglas Richards
Gerrard P. Rocchi
Carol Rodgers
David S. Rootman
Lorne Rotstein
Ori Rotstein
Andrew J. and Lucia Rubaszek
Raymond R. Sackler
Reza Satchu
Emil Schemitsch
Shauna L. Sexsmith
Barbara Shum and Manos Vourkoutiotis
Julie C. Silver
Meredith and Malcolm Silver
Marita Simbul Lezon
Henry Slaby
Gordon R. and Margaret J. Slemon
Stephen and Jane Smith
Edward and Marisa Sorbara
Volker Stein
Duncan J. Stewart
John David Stewart
Bert and Barbara Stitt
Lilly Offenbach Strauss
Berul and Edith Sugarman
Nancy Sullivan
Neil Annie Sumner
The Tanny Family
Joseph and Marcella Tanzola
Allan S. Tauber
Bryce Taylor
Ian and Kathleen Taylor
James M. Tory
Ann E. Tottenham
Christina Ching Tsao
Edward T. Unger
David R. Urbach
Tom and Lisa Waddell
C. Ann Wainwright
Conrad and Rosemary Walker
H. M. Walton
Peter Warrian
Derek John Watchorn
Alex R. Waugh
John Wedge and Patty Rigby
Mark Weisdorf and Lorraine Bell
Lenard Whiting
Lorne T. Wickerson
Doreen M. Williams
Michael H. Wilson
Desmond and Eva Wong
Jason Wong
William Wing-Bill Wong
Donald J. Wright
John and Betty Youson
Advanced Medical Optics (AMO)
Amos Family Trust
Associates of University of Toronto at Mississauga
Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students at the University of Toronto
The Jane Austen Society of North America – Toronto Chapter
Aventis Pharma Inc.
Avenue Travel Limited
Baker & McKenzie
Basilian Fathers of St. Basil’s Parish
Begonia Fund at the Toronto Community Foundation
The Benjamin Foundation
BIO150Y Teaching Team
Bregman Ventures Inc.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Group
Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation of Canada
The Cakery
Canadian Foundation for the Advancement of Orthodontics
Canadian Institute of Steel Construction
Canadian Opera Volunteer Committee
Canadian Sugar Institute
Canadian-Polish Congress
Centre For International Governance Innovation
CIBC
Citytv, Division of CHUM Limited
Collins & Aikman Plastics Ltd.
The Counselling Foundation of Canada
Dainippon Pharmaceutical Company Limited
Dairy Farmers of Canada
N. M. Davis Corporation Limited
Davis Orthodontics
DelZotto, Zorzi LLP
Eastman Kodak Company
Edwards Charitable Foundation
The Duke Ellington Society Chapter 40
Raymond Farquharson Trust
Federation of Chinese Canadian Professionals (Ontario) Education Foundation
FirstService Corporation
Foundation for Support of the Korean Studies at the University of Toronto
Fringe Jazz Toronto
Fujisawa Canada Inc.
Percy R. Gardiner Foundation
The Lionel Gelber Foundation
General Mills Canada Inc.
Graduate Architecture Landscape & Design Student Union
Greater Toronto Sewer and Watermain Contractors Association
The Guitar Society of Toronto
Hari’s Database Analysis and Consulting Ltd.
HATCH
Haynes-Connell Foundation
Health Research Foundation
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario
Hoffmann-La Roche Limited
Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
Irish Canadian Aid & Cultural Society of Toronto
Katedra Foundation
Kellogg Canada Inc.
Koch Foundation Inc.
Lederman Family Foundation
Lifeline Systems Canada, Inc.
Loblaw Companies Limited
Longboat Roadrunners
Manulife Financial
McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited
The McLaughlin Scholarship Trust Fund
Mercer Human Resource Consulting
MGP Ingredients Inc.
Miller Thomson
F. K. Morrow Foundation
National Life of Canada
Nestlé Canada Incorporated
Richard John Newman Charitable Foundation
The Norfinch Group Inc.
Northwater Capital Management Inc.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc.
Ontario I.O.O.F. Memorial Research Committee
Ontario Professional Engineers – Foundation for Education
Pathology Associates SMH
Persian Heritage Foundation
Posluns Family Foundation
Rose Family Fund at the Toronto Community Foundation
Janet Rosenberg & Associates Landscape Architects Inc.
The Ryckman Trust
Saint Elizabeth Health Care
Sanofi-Synthelabo Canada Inc.
W. P. Scott Charitable Foundation
Sensor Chem International Corporation
Subak Family Foundation
Taiwan Entrepreneur Society Taipei/Toronto
TELUS Mobility
Tilzen Holdings Limited
The Toronto Orthodontic Club
Unilever Canada Limited
Van Berkom and Associates Inc.
Victoria Women’s Association
Villa Leonardo Gambin
The W. Garfield Weston Foundation
Whitehots Inc.
The Barbara & Harvey Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation
Wyeth Consumer Healthcare Inc.
The John Zdunic Charitable Foundation
Zonta Club of Toronto

$5,000 to $9,999
Carol L. and Albert Abugov
Harry F. M. and Marian F. K. Ade
Gordon J. Alexander
Alan Alexandroff
Clive and Barbara Allen
Keith Allen
Kathleen and John Ancker
Cheryl M. Anderson
R. William Andrew
Bassel Annab
Wayne Antoniazzi
Aldo A. Anzil
Pasquale Arnone
Pasquale Arnone
Irene M. Ashby
Barbara Astman
Brad and Katherine Badeau
Richard A. Bain
John Bajc
John F. Bajc
R. Roy Baker
Daniel and Wendy Balena
Milton J. and Shirley Barry
The Honourable James K. Bartleman
Marion Bassett
Joel A. Baum
Robert and Eve Baxter
A. Phelps and Judy Bell
Bob Bell
Joseph Benmergui and Mindy M. Bullion
Rob Bicevskis
Jill E. Black
Lou A. Blahey
Ronald B. M. Blainey
Ian F. Blake
Jack Bloomberg
David A. Blostein
Anne Adela and Ray W. Bonnah
Carolyn and Neil Bornstein
John C. Bothwell
Justin C. Bowler
Katherine Anne Boyd
Margaret A. Brennan
M. L. Britt
William H. Broadhurst
Peter Brock
Elsa Broder
Irvin Broder
Leonard J. Brooks
Robert and Wendy Brown
Ken, Virginia and Bill Brown Walkerton
Robert L. Burton
Susan Busby
Patrick N. Byrne
Shirley Byrne
David J. Bythell
Joy D. Calkin
Margaret Cameron
Beverly Campbell
John Caravaggio
Mavis Cariou
Danielle F. Caron
Brian R. Carr
Kathy Chadder
Ray Chan
Wing C. Chan
Ying-Yu E. Chan
Bruce Chapman
Ravi S. Chari and Sharon E. Albers
Gregg Evans Charlton
Catherine R. Charlton Yocom
Marshall L. Chasin and Joanne Deluzio
The Cho Family
Norma Wendy Chou
Alexander Christ
David and Sandra Clandfield
Ruth Hunt Clarke
Margaret E. Cockshutt
Gordon Coleman
Tony and Elizabeth Comper
John T. Connor
W. Neville Conyers
Sydney and Florence Cooper and Family
Jill and Noel Cooter
Arnold Saturnino Cordeiro
Derek and Barbara Corneil
Evelyn and C. Graham Cotter
Thomas d’Aquino
Ardeshir and Renate Dastur
Donald E. Davey
Larry Davies
Michael De Bonis
Daniel Debow
James W. Delsaut
Katherine E. Dembroski
Tejinder Dhami
Prabhjot Singh Dhanoa
Mandeep S. Dhillon
Filomena Di Michele
Dina Dichek
Sarah C. Dickson
William B. Dingwall
Nick and Angela DiPietro
Harvey Dolman
Ann E. Donovan
Florence Drake
Peter D. Dungan
Eli Epstein and Laurie Bilger
Martin and Nancy Evans
Hope Fairley
Azim Fancy
F. Bryson Farrill
Robert A. Fear
Peter and Jean Ferguson
Archie Fine
Beata and Leo FitzPatrick
Shirley E. Forth
J. Peter Foster
Paul E. Foulds
Gray Fowler
Mark and Tressa Fox
Lou Frangian
Rivi M. Frankle
M. Constance Fraser
Vera Frenkel
A. Martin Friedberg
Jacob Friedberg
Steven and Marsha Gallinger
Bing Siang Gan and Pearl Langer
Helen Gardiner
Ann Garnett
Suzanne Gayn
Twyla G. Gibson
Vivek Goel
Martin and Susan Goldberg
Stephen Goldhar and Nancy Cohen
Murray Goldman
Paul W. Gooch and Pauline Thompson
Jack Goodman
Barry and Virginia Graham
Douglas and Ruth Grant
Al and Malka Green
Patrick and Freda Hart Green
Brian H. Greenspan
Jane N. S. C. Grier
John R. W. Grieve
V. Jean Griffiths
Robert N. Gryfe
H. Donald Guthrie
Tennys and J. Douglas Hanson
W. Jason Hanson
Madelyne Gaye Harnick
W. Peter Harris
James F. and Bonnie A. Hauser
Donall and Joyce Healy
John D. M. Helston
Robert W. Henry
Garrett Herman
Gordon W. Hilborn
Marie Hilgemier
Thomas G. Hill
W. Godfrey Hill
Katherine M. Hilton
Diane Hindman
Samuel J. Hirsch
Liz Hoffman
Warren R. Holder
John S. Holladay
Siim Holmberg
Janis D. Hoogstraten
Clay B. Horner
Lori A. Howard
John Hull
Sylvia L. Hunter
Raafat and Lobna Ibrahim
Roland Inniss
William H. Irwin
Rosamond Ivey
Frederic L. R. (Eric) Jackman
Alexander J. Jancar
Paul J. Jelec
David J. Jennings
Alan Joe
Alexandra F. Johnston
K. Wayne Johnston
Derek J. A. Jubb
Sidney M. Kadish
Antony and Hedy Kalamut
Robert P. Kaplan
Fred and May Karp
Marc Kealey
Neil J. Kernaghan
Edward P. D. and Ann Kerwin
Gregory M. Kiez
Elizabeth Kilbourn-Mackie and Richard Mackie
Clara Yang Kim
Sheila M. Kimberley
Kathleen King
A. B. Kingsmill
Stewart E. and Peggy Kingstone
Jack Kirk
Peter Klavora
Horace Krever
Abhaya V. Kulkarni
Phyllis Lambert
Byron G. Lane
Judith N. and J. Bruce Langstaff
Philip A. Lapp
Nai-Yuen Lee
Peter H. Leung
Gudrun E. P. Leutheusser
Wit Lewandowski
Oscar M. Lewisohn and Family
S. Lichtenstein and M. Stilwell
Kathy Lin
T. F. Lindsay
William H. Loewen
Norman Donald Long
Gerard Longval
Robert and Patricia Lord
Randy Luckham
Antony T. F. Lundy
L. Lundy and E. Julian
Anne E. Macdonald
Avon MacFarlane
Jean V. Macie
Robert W. MacKay
Hugh G. MacKinnon
Murdo and Elizabeth MacKinnon
Susan MacKinnon and G. Alexander Patterson
Helen MacRae
George M. G. Macri
Gerry Mahoney
Patricia and Alan Marchment
Shue Ning Mark
Colin Hal Marryatt
The Right Hon. Paul Martin
Eric Massicotte
Angela and Michael Mazza
John H. McAndrews
Robert J. McBroom
Peter and Sheila McCabe
J. Andrea McCart
Anne E. McConachie
Andrew McFarlane
Robert D. and Joan McKeracher
Carole G. McKiee
David J. and Patricia McKnight
E. Richard S. McLaughlin
Robin S. McLeod
Wallace and Elizabeth McLeod
Gail M. McQuillan
Dorothy McRobb
Esmail Merani
Ernest J. Miatello
Bernd Milkereit
Charles A. Miller
Frank G. Milligan
Murray A. Mogan
Kelly Monaghan
Carole R. Moore
Herbert and Cathleen Morawetz
John W. Morden
Daniel J. Murphy
Thomas R. Nettleton
Virginia R. and Robert Harold Newman
Gordon and Janet Nixon
Tom Nowers
James A. (Tim) and Mary A. O’Brien
Marion O’Donnell
Allen Offman
Marie K. Ogilvie-Stent
Jean O’Grady
Christopher James Oliveiro
Gloria Orwin
Jan Ottens
Kenneth T. Pace
Natanya Padachey
Emil Pai
Jocelyn Palm
Barbara D. Palmer
Barbara and Rene Papin
K. Erik Parnoja
Antonio Patullo
Peter Pekos
Jane S. Penney
Paul and Jacqueline Perron
Mim and Jack Pinkus
Farhad Pirouzmand
Irene Podolak
Ian Potter
Christine J. Prudham
The Quazi Family
Nader E. and Soheila G. Rastegar
Raymond M. and Anita Reilly
Edward Charles Relph
Roman Remenda
Murray Love and Susan Retallack
Marty and Ronnie Richman
Lionel and Helaine Robins
Francis X. Rocchi
Ted and Loretta Rogers
Jack Martin Rose
Elizabeth M. Rowlinson
Barry Rubin
Robert T. and Francine Ruggles
Mary Ryrie
Ramnik K. Sachania
Barry Sacks
Richard O. Sacks
Mohammad J. Sarwar
Hazlon N. Schepmyer
D. F. Daphne Schiff
Ken Schnell
Doreen and Robert Scolnick
Pavel Sectakof
Corrine Sellars
The Semchism Family
Berge N. Shalvardjian
Gerald Sheff and Shanitha Kachan
Ben Z. and Jean Shek
Charles and Ruth Sherkin
John Shnier
Steve Shuper
Tillie Shuster
Florence and Al Silver
Mark Silver
Ann M. Simard
Patricia Simpson
Ward E. M. Simpson
Joel Singer and Providenza Cancilla
Arthur Slutsky
John E. and Gayle Smallbridge
Derek A. Smith
Vera Yvonne Smith
Irene Mo-Kit So
Subhash Sodha
Peter H. Solomon
Kenneth Henry Stead
Margaret E. Stedman
Robert Steinberg
Yaron Sternbach
Marko Stevanovic
Ian and Christine Stewart
James D. Stewart
Brian Stowe
Meredith Strong
Harry Sutherland
Carol Swallow
Philip D. Symmonds
Judith Ann Teichman
John M. Templeton Jr.
Robin Tityk
Barbara K. Track
Olev Trass
Gwenn R. Trout
Sandra K. Upjohn
Taufik A. Valiante
Nzeera A. Virani
John Voss and June Li
F. Michael Walsh
Elizabeth Walter
Thomas Washer
David J. Watt
James W. Watt
Allan Howard Weinbaum
Tanny Wells
Richard Wernham and Julia West
David E. Wesson
Alan White
Glen Whyte
Blossom Wigdor
Noelle-Dominique Willems
Bernice Carolyn Willis
Bill Wilson
Peter A. Wilson
Thomas and Elizabeth Wilson
Florence and Mickey Winberg
Kyle Winters and Howard Rideout
Michael H. K. Wong
Ron Wootton
Tony W. Yu
Eberhard and Jane Zeidler
Adam Zimmerman
596493 Saskatchewan Ltd.
Joel Alleyne Inc.
The Alva Foundation
Anspor Construction Ltd.
Arts & Science Students’ Union
Basilian Fathers
BBT Development Inc.
The Boston Consulting Group
Bregman + Hamann Architects
Canadian Association of Chain Drug Stores
Canadian Auto Association (CAA)
Canadian Tire Foundation for Families
Cappola Foods Inc.
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
The Catholic Women’s League of Canada
Centerra Gold Inc.
Coulter’s Pharmacy
Wolodymyr George Danyliw Foundation
Datex-Ohmeda (Canada) Inc.
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Epilepsy Ontario
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
The FinAid Foundation
Franklin Templeton Investments
Gazzola Paving Limited
General Motors of Canada Limited
Gilbert’s Law Office
Glycaemic Index Testing Inc.
Charles and Marilyn Gold Family Foundation
Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
Pegi Lee Gross & Associates Inc.
B & B Hamilton Fund at the Toronto Community Foundation
Hariri Pontarini Architects
HMWR Toronto
Honda Canada Inc.
HooDoo Films
The Hospital for Sick Children
Hungarian Helicon Foundation (Ontario)
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario
International Life Sciences Institute – North American Branch
Julian Jacobs Architects
Kassel’s Pharmacy
Keen Engineering Co. Ltd.
Patrick and Barbara Keenan Foundation
The Killy Foundation
Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Later Life Learning
LBL Holdings Ltd.
Legal Aid Ontario
Leukemia Research Fund of Canada
Loblaws Properties Limited
London Road West United Church
Long & McQuade Musical Instruments
Heather L. Main Memorial Scholarship Fund
Manulife Bank of Canada
Maurice Cody Research Trust
McLean Budden Limited
Mennonite Historical Society of British Columbia
Microsoft Research Limited
Ministry of Natural Resources – Forests Division
Moffat Kinoshita Architects Inc.
Mount Sinai Hospital – Department of Medicine Research Fund
OMSW – 2002
Ontario Association of Architects
Ottawa Carleton Pharmacists’ Association
Our People Fund
Parkinson Society Canada (Peterborough Chapter)
Peel Pharmacist’s Association
Plan B Office
Power Corporation of Canada
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Priva Computers Inc.
Procter & Gamble Inc.
Quadrangle Architects Limited
Redwood Classics Apparel
Rotary Club of Mississauga – Airport
Rotary Club of Mississauga West
Sackville Recordings
Scarborough Campus Student Union
SciCan – Division of Lux and Zwingenberger
Christopher Shelton Scholarship Fund at the Toronto Community Foundation
Snell Medical Communication Inc.
Sobeys Pharmacy
Society of Urologic Surgeons of Ontario
The Sprott Foundation
St. Thomas’ Church, Toronto
Stantec Architecture Ltd.
The Samuel W. Stedman Foundation
Sun Life Financial
Teck Cominco
Teplitsky, Colson
Topax Export Packaging Systems
Toronto Professional Fire Fighter’s Association
Toronto Public Library Board
Toronto Star Fresh Air Fund
U of T Women’s Association
United Parcel Services Canada Ltd.
University of Toronto Faculty Association
UnumProvident Canada
Vanbots Construction Corporation
Van-Rob Stampings Inc.
Voorheis & Co. LLP
WB Family Foundation
Western Ontario Druggist Golf Association
Wireless Interactive Medicine Inc.
Xerox Research Centre of Canada
Corporate Matching Gifts
The University of Toronto thanks all companies who support their employees’ charitable giving to the university by matching their donations.
3M Canada
Accenture Inc.
ADC Telecommunications
AIM Funds Management Inc.
Albany International Corp.
Alcan
Amersham Biosciences
AstenJohnson
Bank of America
Bank of Montreal
BASF Corporation
Bell Canada
BMO Nesbitt Burns Incorporated
Boeing Company
CANAC
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited
Carrier Canada Limited
Celestica
CGC Inc.
ChevronTexaco
Chubb Insurance Company of Canada
CIT Group Inc.
CPI Corporation
CSX Corporation
DaimlerChrysler Canada Inc.
Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation
The Document Company – Xerox Corporation
Ernst & Young
Falconbridge Limited
Falconbridge Limited – Kidd Metallurgical Division
FM Global Foundation
Ford Matching Gift Program
Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company of Canada Limited
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
GE Canada
Goldman Sachs Educational Matching Gift Program
Harris Foundation
Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd.
Honeywell ASCa Inc.
IBM Canada Limited
ICI Canada Inc.
Inco Limited
Investors Group Inc.
Janssen-Ortho Inc.
Ketchum Canada Inc.
Kodak Canada Inc.
The KPMG Foundation
Kraft Canada Inc.
The Maritime Life Assurance Company
Meredith Corporation Foundation
Microsoft Corporation
Nexen Inc.
Nortel Networks Corporation
Otis Canada Incorporated
PCL Construction Group Inc.
Petro-Canada
Pfizer Canada Inc.
PPG Canada Inc.
Pratt & Whitney Canada
Procter & Gamble Inc.
RBC Dain Rauscher Foundation
Reuters Canada
Rothmans Bensons & Hedges Incorporated
Royal & Sun Alliance Company of Canada
State Farm Companies Foundation
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Sun Life Financial Matching Gift Program – 309A13
Suncor Energy Foundation
Talisman Energy Incorporated
The Toronto Star
Towers Perrin
TransCanada PipeLines Limited
Ultramar Ltd.
Warner Brothers Canada Inc.
Wells Fargo Foundation Employee Matching Gift Program
Wyeth-Ayerst Ltd.
Xerox Canada Inc. and Xerox Research Centre of Canada

Gifts-in-Kind
This list recognizes donors who have exclusively made gifts-in-kind to the University of Toronto.

Elizabeth Anne and Hugh Anson-Cartwright
Barbara Astman
David and Jane Gray Atkins
John Beckwith
Susan Berta
Henry B. M. Best
Edward T. Bird
Christine F. Bissell
G. Bisztray
Ronald L. Bloore
Harald Bohne
Paul A. R. Bouissac
Robert C. Brandeis
Thomas F. S. Brown
Walter J. Buczynski
Robert Cappell
Lorna Goodison and Ted Chamberlin
Chun Wei Choo
Leonard Cohen
Jody Colero
Evelyn Cotter
Donald B. Cross
Paul D. Cross
Robert B. Cross
Robert G. and Mary Dale
Horst Dantz
Dan Donovan
Florence Drake
James and Elizabeth Eayrs
Konrad Eisenbichler
Bernard Etkin
John Ezyk
Rudy W. Fearon
George Fetherling
Joy Fielding
John A. Foreman
Robert Fulford and Geraldine Sherman
Stephen G. Gilbert
Anne Marie-Christine Godlewska
Karol J. M. Godlewski
Marie-Christine Godlewski
Mark J. C. Godlewski
Paul Godlewski
Shelagh Goldschmidt
Sybil Goldstein
Greg Gormick
Ruth E. Gregory
Richard W. Griffiths
Phyllis Grosskurth
John E. Hare
Maureen I. F. Harris
John E. F. Hastings
Conrad E. Heidenreich
Mary Heimlich
W. Speed Hill
Michael Hirsh
David Hlynsky
Cynthia Hoekstra
Ernest Howard
Marshall J. L. Hryciuk
Colleen Hutton
Eric Hutton
Gary Hutton
Jim Hutton
Steven S. Janes
William Johnston
Brian M. Katchan
Talivaldis Kenins
Elizabeth Kilbourn-Mackie and Richard Mackie
Susan and Morris Klayman
Helen H. Knights
George Korey-Krzeczowski
Eva Kushner
Lila M. Laakso
Richard Landon and Marie Korey
Simon Langlois
Heather Lawson
W. H. Le Riche
Michael Levine andJohn Gilford Moore
Peter K. Lewin
R. Douglas Lloyd
Sara S. MacLean
Michael Maclear
Alberto Manguel
Oonah McFee
Brian D. McLoughlin
Farley Mernick
Michael and Jane Millgate
Albert Moritz
K. Mulhallen
Solomon A. Nigosian
Mariel P. O’Neill-Karch and Pierre Karch
Eric Ormsby
David M. Oxtoby
Susan E. Oxtoby
Brock Park
R. Brian Parker
Luana Maria Peters
Ronald G. Peters
Victor Peters
Jennifer Phillips
Margaret W. Phillips
Judith Pocock
John C. Polanyi
Dalia and Ginutis Procuta
Samuel A. Rea
John H. Reibetanz
Janet Richard
Stephen Riggins
Erika E. Ritter
Anne Ryckman
John and Carol Sabean
Antony Scherman
Thomas T. Schweitzer
Johanna Sedlmayer-Katz
David P. Silcox and Linda Intaschi
Judy A. Silver
Paul Skowronski
Josef V. Skvorecky
John G. Slater
Beverley Slopen
David Solway
Rosemary and J. Murray Speirs
Ralph Gordon Stanton
Mavis Stonefield
Kazimierz Stys
Rosemary Sullivan
Larry A. Swartz
Susan Coxeter Thomas
Myrtle Todd
Joyce Trimmer
Tamara Trojanowska
Millicent Tuck
F. Michael Walsh
John B. Warrener
F. Bartlett Watt
Tim Whiten
Thomas A. Wilson
David Young
Barna-Alper Productions Inc.
Blue Rodeo
Bookham Technologies
Brand Voice Inc.
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Celestica
Deluxe Toronto Ltd.
Frontline Solutions Ltd.
Locust International Inc.
Now Communications Inc.
Redwood Classics Apparel
Sakura Project/Sakura Committee
Sports Rehabilitation Institute
Wilson Sports Equipment Canada Inc.
Lasting Legacies
This list recognizes those gifts received by U of T through realized bequests, trusts or insurance.
Donald Sutherland Allan
Thomas Alley
Kevin W. Armstrong
Juliet May Askew
Mary E. Atkinson
William John Bennett
Wilfred Gordon Bigelow
Benjamin Herbert Birstein
William Brown Boyd
Elizabeth M. Boyle
Donald J. A. Bremner
Robert Bruce
C. L. Burton Trusts
Alice M. Buscombe
Robert William Bygrave
Margaret Carleton
Helen M. Carpenter
Samuel Castrilli
Athol Lillian Beatty Cherry
Norah P. Clark
Hilda Clayton
Donald E. Clune
J. E. Geraldine Conger
Kenneth B. Conn
Kathleen A. Cooke
Edith H. Cosens
J. Douglas Crashley
William Douglas Crone
Elsie F. Dickhout
Margaret M. Donnell
Thelma C. Dowding
Ian M. Drummond
Peter C. Durham
Sydney Dymond
Mary Margaret Edison
Germaine Francoise Efrain
Eugene R. Fairweather
Frances Eden Ferguson
John Charles Fields
Thomas A. Foster
Frederick Hume Foxton
Janet Agnes Fraser
Margaret Giffen
Jean Glasgow
Beatrice C. Glasier
Olive L. Gordon
Betty C. Graham
John Osborne Graham
Murray Greenbloom
Mary E. Hamilton
Marion Hanna
Helen D. Harrison
Sheryl Jane Hayman
Walter John Helm
Ruth Anna Holmboe
Patricia A. Humphreys-Vance
Bernard E. Hynes
Nancy Innis
Charles L. Janis
John Dalziel Johnson
Florence Jowsey
Karolina Jus
Oriana Kalant
Joan Ewart Keagey
Edward J. Kelman
David I. Ker
Charles Leo Labine
Michael Lawee
Donald W. Leonard
John F. Leonard
Reuben Wells Leonard
Margaret Jean Leppington
Anna B. Loftus
Alexander E. MacDonald
Ivy M. Maynier
J. Edgar McAllister
John Robertson McArthur
Rhoda Royce McArthur
In Memory of Marian Eleanor McBryde from William A.E. McBryde
Muriel G. McCuaig
Helen Jean McCutcheon
W. J. Kent McDonald
Pauline M. McGibbon
Lorne Douglas McGolrick
John Spence McIntosh
Sarah McLean
Sarah Grace Mead
John Meagher
Theophile James Meek
David Meltzer
Isabel Mendizabal
William C. Michell
Peter H. Miller
Arthur B. B. Moore
Hugh and Phyllis (Foreman) Moorhouse
John F. Morgan-Jones
Margaret I. Morris
Robina D. Morrison
James Leslie Morrow
Mary Mounfield
William K. Mounfield
Anne A. Muise
Violet B. Munns
Edward H. O’Keefe
Michael J. Oliver
Harvey Olnick
Tony Mark Omilanow
Ernst M. Oppenheimer
Janet Parr
H. G. Campbell Parsons
Florence G. Partridge
Jean E. Pierce
Aileen M. Piper
Mary Elizabeth Pitt
Dora Burke Playfair
Francis Clement Powell
Manuel E. Pusitz
William F. L. Rathman
J. H. Rattray M. C. Memorial Fund
Amy Beatrice Reed
Harold V. Rice
Dorothy G. Riddell
Norma Ruth Ridley
Clifton Graham Roberts
Dorothy Rutherford
Linda Darlene Sagar
Jane M. Schoonmaker
Rose Lynne Scott
Dee and Hank Selick
Colin R. Sellar
Robert Simkins
W. Lennox Smart
Carlton G. Smith
Gladys Sparks
Merrill Stafford
Catherine I. Steele
Mary Stephens
J. I. (Hud) Stewart
Stratton Trust
Gertrude Tackaberry
Howard Alan Tate
Georgia Muriel Taylor
J. Marie Taylor
Linda Lauren Timbs
Doris Trott
Marjorie L. Van Veen
Janet Elizabeth Waite
William James Walker
Dorothy Ward
Flora M. Ward
Stanley H. and Shirley A. Ward
Isabel C. Warne
Douglas G. Watson
Betty Irene West
Anne Louise White and Walter Edmund White
Dorothy Evelyn Willmot
Agnes E. Wood
Shirley Ann Yasuzawa

King’s College Circle Heritage Society
The King’s College Circle Heritage Society recognizes and honours those alumni and friends who have thoughtfully made a provision for the university through a future bequest, life insurance or trust gift.

John D. Acheson
Lillias Cringan Allward
Sheila A. Amys
Kristine Andersen
George Andrews
Dennis and Alice Bartels
Grace V. Becker
William R. Bowen and Sandra J. Gavinchuk
David Brownfield
Donald Burwash
William A. Campbell
Dan Camposano
K. C. Carruthers
George Cass
Alayne and Kenneth Christie
Brian Clough
Patricia A. Coleman
Ron Crawford
Margaret Jeannetta Davis
Jan and Jane de Koning
Dorothy M. Deane
William Andrew Dimma
Orville L. Drummond
Maria Dyck
Caroline Seidl Farrell-Burman
William O. Fennell and Jean Fennell
Teena Bogner and Ian Gaskel
V. K. Gilbert
Doug Green
Helen Gurney
Patricia Hannah
Rosemary C. Hazelton
J. Barrett Healy
Ruth Ellen Henstridge
Fay Hethrington Scholarship
Anna Alfreda Hillen
James D. Hosinec
Robert and Velma Howie
Audrey Hozack
George Conland Hunt
Marnie Hunt
Archibald and Helen Jones
David Keenleyside
Paul Keery
William and Hiroko Keith
Arthur P. Kennedy
Jodi and Michael Kimm
Barbara E. and Edwin S. Kirland
Peter Klavora
Albert Krakauer
Robert and Carolyn Lake
Michael and Joan Maloney
Mary H. Martin
Dipak and Pauline Mazumdar
Judith McErvel
Joseph Patrick McGee
Dorothy McRobb
William and Angela Moreau
Chastity Cheryl Pangilinan Nazareth
Paul C. S. C. Nazareth
Ann Oaks
Jean O’Grady
Nora Post
Angelina and Alex Prokich
Raymond S. G. Pryke
Nancy H. and Barry D. Reive
Lesley Riedstra and Rian Mitra
William J. Roberts
John D. Robinson
Allen Angus and Violet Rodgers
Peter A. Rogers
Paul G. Russell
Mary E. Sarjeant
Norma Dianne Schilke
Caroline Shawyer
Diane Lynn Silverman
Marjorie E. Simonds
Angela L. Smith
Hubert C. Soltan
Roger Spalding
Margaret E. Stedman
Janet Stubbs
Shirley Catherine Teolis
Victoria E. M. Thompson
Barbara K. Track
Carolanne G. Vair
Jean Vale
Lillian Veri
Victor and Sheila Vierin
Phyllis V. Walker
Paul and Valerie Walsh
Elizabeth A. Wells
Paula Carey and Nicholas Wemyss
Florence G. Wilkinson
Mary B. Willet
Frank W. Woods
Dianne L. Wydeven
Wendy Zufelt-Baxter

In Honour
The University of Toronto recognizes individuals who have had a gift made in their honour.

Ralph Abrams
William J. Aide
Jack L. Amos
Mary J. Ashley
David Balsillie
Sylvia Bashevkin
Robert M. Bateman
David and Marcia Beach
John Kim Bell
Robert M. Bennett
Mary Catherine Birgeneau
Norma Bliss
Jack Blumer
Kevin Bly
Sandford F. Borins
Keren Brathwaite
Ken Brown
Rorke B. Bryan
Norman E. Byrne
Arnold L. Cader
Hugh I. Calderwood
June Callwood
Providenza Cancilla
Margaret E. Casella
Josef R. C. Cermak
Debbie Chachra
Albert E. Chaiet
Lorne Chapnick
Marshall L. Chasin
Joan M. Cherry
Howard Cohen
Zane Cohen
Mary Cone Barrie
Heather J. Conolly
W. James Craig
Alister Cumming
Frank A. Cunningham
Ronald J. Daniels
Bryan P. Davies
Larry Davies
Elaine Davis
Jon S. and Lyne Dellandrea
Angela Desiderato
John G. Dimond
Kayla Erin Ditkofsky-Dubrofsky
Michael F. Dixon
Judith E. Donsky
Anthony N. Doob
Rebecca Eisen
Yona Eisenberg
Goran Enhorning
Arlene Faber
Dana Faber-Mansoor
Susan Flam
Martin L. Friedland
Libby Ruth Garshowitz
Barnett I. Giblon
Ella Gilbert
Robert T. E. Gillespie
Susan C. Girard
Peter C. Godsoe
Walter J. Hannah
Tennys J. M. Hanson
Frank Harmantas
Erwin E. Hart
Percy Edward Hart
Rosalie V. Hatt
Ilmar Heinsoo
Murray Herst
Roslyn Herst
Anne Holden
Ed Holm
Walter Homburger
Bob Hunter
Frank Iacobucci
Alexandra F. Johnston
Harvey Joress
Elizabeth Julian
Sidney M. Kadish
Antony Kalamut
Judith R. Kasman
Deborah Kates
Sharyl Kates
Clyde A. Keene
Molly Kelman
Ron Kimel
Eric Kirzner
Martin A. Klein
Andrea Kleinhandler
Rose Kung
Larry Kurtz
Dalai Lama
Saul Leszcz
Eleanor L. Levine
Sheila Levine
Ann Lewis
Robert and Jeanne Liss
Enrique J. B. Lopez De Mesa
Robert J. F. Madden
Dana Mansoor
Michael E. Marmura
Michael R. Marrus
The Right Hon. Paul E. P. Martin
Robert B. Mason
James K. McConica
Lynn McDonald
Lillian McGregor
Don Melady
Karen E. Melville
Brian Merrilees
Johanna L. Metcalf
David Mirvish
Edwin Mirvish
Harvey Moldofsky
Gary P. Mooney
Oskar Morawetz
Watson E. J. Morris
Raj Mosur
Mona Moull
Heather Munroe-Blum
J. Graham Nairn
Machelle Nathan
Alex Neuman
Phil Nimmons
Liora Shira Norwich
Roy Oglesby
Brian O’Riordan
Clifford L. Orwin
Rose M. Patten
Paul J. Perron
Audrey Perry
Eric S. Petersiel
Elaine Posluns
The Honourable Vivienne Poy
Larry W. Richards
J. W. Knox Ritchie
Ani Rock
Florence Rother
Roseann Runte
Ann C. Schenck
Ernest Schnell
Gerry W. Schwartz
Adel S. Sedra
Barry Seigel
Paula Seigel
Janina Seydegart
David M. Shaw
Benjamin Shime
Molly Shoichet
Bette Shulman
Rodney Slonim
Halina R. Solow
Ronald L. Soskolne
Michael Stein
George Street
Eva V. Swenson
Joseph M. Tanenbaum
Jason Tanny
Jean Tanny
Phil Tanny
Stephen Tanny
Kenneth D. Taylor
Laura E. Taylor
Thomas Tidwell
Carolyn J. Tuohy
The Right Hon. John N. Turner
Riki Turofsky
Molly Verrier
B. Elizabeth and Neil Vosburgh
Susan Wagman
Joseph E. Walsh
Phyllis and Bill Waters
Cicely Watson
Alexander R. Waugh
Rosie Waxman
Jonathan Weiner
Moss Weinstock
Noreen F. Westel
Isabel Wilkes
William Robert Wilson
B. Burton Winberg
Simon Woo
Elaine Zuckerman

In Memory
The University of Toronto recognizes individuals who have had a gift made in their memory.

Natasha Afrossimof
Fay J. Aldridge
John G. Anderson
Howard F. Andrews
Elaine Anisman
Louis Applebaum
Jim Arndt
Marija Aukstaite
Ethel W. Auster
Katherine G. Baker
Frank S. Ballinger
Andrea Banta
Frank Beals
Andre Leon Adolphe Bekerman
J. W. G. Belanger
David N. Bell
Morton D. Berg
A. Barbara Berger
Ann Bergman
Michael K. Berkowitz
Wilfred G. Bigelow
Gertrude Birkett
Nancy D. Blackburn
Anne Blonde
Allan Bloom
Robert L. Booth
Robert W. Bowcott
Carol J. Brehaut
John D. Breithaupt
Debra Brick
James Brown
Jim Brown
Jim Brown
Mildred Brown
Wilma M. Brown
Gerhard Brunzema
Ronald Bryden
Gertrude Anna Bucek
J. David F. Buller
Sharon Butler
Mary Buttimer
Leon C. Bynoe
Gina M. Caldarelli
Lee Calderwood
Charles Callender
Angus Cameron
James Cameron
Colin K. Campbell
George Scott Campbell
John Campbell
Lucio Cappola
Steven Cerny
Mark Y. Chan
Paul Chan
Colin Chase
Molly Chester
Julia C. Ching
Soo Jin Chong
Hetty C. H. Chu
Dorothy Isabeau Chubb
Samuel Chun
Samuel D. Clark
David Coffen
Carol Cohen
Frank Colantonio
Louis Cole
Rowland L. Collins
John A. Connelly
K. Jane Conway
Ruth Cooperstock
Edith Cory
John Bernard Coutu
George B. Craig
Eileen M. T. Crothers
Beulah Davies
Marnie de Kerckhove
Roger Eric Deane
Robert Deshman
Carol A. Dickson
Peter L. Dickson
Jieyun Doug
Roy A. Downing
Jeffrey Drdul
E. Paul Duffy
Margaret Duncan
J. Bruce Dunlop
Holly Durant Almeida
Jane A. Dustan
Reginald J. Dutrizac
M. Jean J. Eccles
Michael Eccles
Oscar Pelham Edgar
Mary R. F. Ella
Edith Ely
Peter Fantham
Ralph Vincent Farr
Robert W. Fear
Brian Feldman
Jacob Feldman
Lorand Fenyves
Tony Ferguson
G. Wallis Field
Helen M. Flannery
William Guy Flavelle
Armand Flint
Warren Forrester
C. Stephen Fox-Revett
Albert Francis
Estelle Frankel
Murray H. Freedman
Rosalind Freedman
Edmund Friedberg
Thomas L. Friedlich
David H. Friesen
Andrew Khamis Frow
Margaret S. Gairns
Pearl Gardner
Duncan L. Gellatly
Lily Gelman
George G. M. Giblin
P. James Giffen
Ella Gilbert
Howard Gilbert
Bob Gillespie
Albert E. Glazer
Albert Gnat
E. Ray Godfrey
Nicholas Goldschmidt
Lillie Gorman
Jack Gorrie
Choonilal K. Govind
Betty C. Graham
Jane Graham
J. Frederick H. Gray
George K. Greason
Joseph H. Greenspan
Sidney Greenwald
Michael Gregg
Barbara Grimson
Franciszka Grodecka
Anne Gross
Harold A. Gross
Giuseppe Guidoni
Davida Guttman
Joshua Richard Haglund
Douglas C. Haldenby
Robert Hale
Lorna Hall
Jane Elizabeth Ham
Margaret I. Hambly
Shannon L. Hamm
George Hammond
George Shearer Hammond
W. Arthur Hand
Madan Handa
Mae Harman
Diane Harris
John E. F. Hastings
Joan F. Hatch
James S. Hausman
Muriel E. Haynes
Sylvia Hayward
Richard J. Helmeste
Ellen Henderson
Charles E. Hendry
Daniel R. Herbert
Ena Herman
Sam Hershfield
Susan Hershfield-Verburg
Daniel G. Hill
Joseph B. Hinch
Helen S. Hogg
Anne Holden
Phyllis G. Holladay
Johannes M. Holmboe
Gail C. Horan
Alvin Hord
Walter Howard
C. D. Howe
F. Norman Hughes
John F. M. Hunter
Stan Hyman
Maria Iandoli
Robert J. Isaacs
Kenneth Iverson
Roy Ivor
Ethel Jackson
Enrique Jadad
R. Warren James
Corinne Jeffery
Robert Latham Jeffrey
Trayten Morgan Jensen
S. Grace Jermey
Hilda Jessel
Kingsley J. Joblin
Carol Johnson
Kimberley A. Johnson
Edward Johnston
Andrzej Jus
Oriana Kalant
Toomas Kalm
Selvarajah Kanagaratnam
Irwin E. Kates
Wendy M. Kates
Marta Kellett
David Kelman
Ralph Kennedy
Muriel A. C. Kent
Karen A. Kieser
David Boyd King
Robert Seth Kingsley
William G. Kingsmill
Lothar Klein
David Ronald Kobluk
Ernie Koehler
Moe Koffman
Dietmar Koslowski
Elise Kosower
Linda Kralik
Eric David Baker Krause
Colin Krivy
Shirley Krofchick
Marion V. G. Kuhns
Alan Kulan
Sheila M. Kurtz
Ruth Kutner
Christopher Michael Charles Laidlaw
Alan K. Laws
Sylvia Leach
Lawson Leake
Ernest Lebovits
Esther K. W. Lee
Wolf-Dietrich Leers
Lieba Lesk
Louis Lesk
Gabriel Leung
Hans Leutheusser
Anne Levant
Moses Levine
Daniel Lewis
Blanche Lieberman
William Line
Maurice W. Lister
Terry Litovitz
Harry Oliver Lloyd
Dorothy E. MacAulay
Hans Christian R. Mahlstedt
Hugh Mahoney
Jack Mahoney
Salim Majdalany
Grace Mak
Gordon R. Mansfield
Pamela M. Manson-Smith
Raymond J. T. Marling
James-Paul Marois
Lois Marshall
Peter A. J. Marshall
Estelle Mayzel
Harry P. Mayzel
Christina M. McCall
Leighton Goldie McCarthy
Tom F. McFeat
Kevin C. McIntosh
Marion McLean Slone
Marjorie McLeod
David C. McMaster
Elaine McMullen
Peter E. M. McQuillan
June McVean
John Meagher
Libardo (Lee) J. Melendez
Kim Miller
N. Esther Mitchell
Margaret Gertrude Moffat
A. B. B. Moore
Manuel Moreira
Clara Morris
Donald Morrison
Robina D. Morrison
Clive B. Mortimer
Ian Moss
C. Elizabeth Mustard
Esther Myers
S. R. Leroy Newman
David W. Nicholls
Madeline Nourse
Sharney Novack
Jack Nyman
Leslie P. Nyman
Mary O’Brien
Walter A. O’Grady
John F. O’Malley
Stephen Oneschuk
Stan T. Orlowski
John L. Orr
Earl H. Orser
Stanley L. Osborne
Dennis O’Shea
Marvin Ostofsky
Thomas Luther Panton
Frederick R. Papsin
Nancy Park
Benoit Patry
Glen Patterson
Peter T. Patterson
Geoffrey B. Payzant
Jean M. Pearson
Marjorie E. Perham
Bram Perzow
Peter Pint
Joe Pleimer
Kathryn J. Poole
Tibor Prince
Eva Propper
Saeed Quazi
Norman D. Ralston
Margarita (Rita) Reed
Olive-Jane Reynolds
George Richards
John Richmond
Rosemary Roberts
Bertha Amanda Robertson
Dorothy Hill Robertson
Florence Rosberg
Albert Rose
Leonard J. Russell
Linda Darlene Sagar
Reva Samuels Jacobson
Robert Sangster
Angeline Santo
Priyabrata Sarkar
Alan Schaos
Alexandra Semeniuk
Faye Settler
S. S. Seydegart
Irene Shapiro
Randy Shapiro
Burnis F. Shaver
Christopher James Shelton
Murray Shenkman
Gerald Sheppard
Cecil Sheps
Rose Shifman
Samuel Silverberg
Helen Simmie Godden
Adelaide Sinclair
Jean Sinclair
Ross M. Skinner
Andrew Sklepowich
Orrin Skolnick
John A. D. Slemin
Ronald Morton Smith
M. Claire Snetsinger
Samuel Israel Soifer
William Solsberg
Daniel Stainton
Philip T. Stanbury
Bryan Wayne Statt
Ronald Sternberg
Walter Douglas Stewart
Jean M. Stirling
Marion S. Stone
John M. Stransman
Maurice Stren
Phil Strosberg
Belinda Sugarman Orling
Kenneth H. Sullivan
Wilma Swain
Mary Swit Diamond
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Aron Avraham Tanny
William Tanton
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Colleen Tate
Allan Tennen
Jack Teplitsky
Edwin Alexander terBrugge
James Thompson
Richard J. Thompson
Christine Thomson
Dorothy Thomson
Rose Tobin
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James Toguri
Mary Prudence Tracy
Albert Traviss
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Raymond P. Tripp
David Trott
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B. J. Vincent
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Seymour H. Vosko
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Walter Walter
Dora E. Wattie
Fred Weinberg
Frederick Weinberg
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Sharon Wells
Freda Wetston
Harold T. Whalen
Murray D. Willer
Russell F. Willis
David Willison
M. Jean Wilson
George A. Wishart
Robert Barry Wishart
Rosemarie Wolfe
Avi Wollner
Jean E. Woodsworth
Peter Wotherspoon
Raymond J. Yakasovich
Johnny Kar Lok Yip
Edie F. Yolles
May A. Yoshida
Gleb Zekulin
Angela Zigrossi

Our strength is our students. Exceedingly bright and diverse, they draw on the breadth of ambitions in this country. Our faculty are outstanding. They produce more publications and are cited more often in academic literature than the faculty of most universities in North America. Our dedicated staff support a superb environment for faculty and students.

Now, after years in which Ontario lagged in funding post-secondary education, the provincial government has made a remarkable $6.2-billion, five-year commitment to universities and colleges. In fact, all three levels of government are promoting innovation as a vital part of our culture. This innovation agenda holds huge promise for future generations, provided that we support fundamental research more generously and preserve the essential role of the humanities and social sciences.

Without a balance of disciplines, we cannot address the many challenges facing humankind – from the global crises of HIV/AIDS and environmental degradation to widespread sectarian strife. Our students need the broadest education we can give them for the simple reason that today’s challenges are also their inheritance from us.

U of T remains fully committed to admitting the best and brightest students, regardless of their personal or financial circumstances. Fifty per cent of our undergraduates report a total family income of less than $50,000. We spend $150 million in university-derived funds each year on student support. And we are working hard to open U of T to all students who deserve to be with us, but who have felt excluded or unwelcome, or who need a second chance at university. Counted in the latter group must be new Canadians who bring their dreams and skills to Toronto, Scarborough and Mississauga more often than anywhere else in Canada.

Once here, every student – undergraduate and graduate – deserves an experience worthy of a great institution. Unfortunately, chronic underfunding has taken a toll. Today, our student-to-faculty ratio is 34 to one – about 50 per cent higher than the average for our peer institutions in the United States. The McGuinty government’s investment in post-secondary education should help us begin to correct this imbalance.

We can do more. Enhancing the student experience is the University of Toronto’s number one priority, and all divisions are working hard on four fronts. First, our university is big and sometimes overwhelming for new students. We will create more intimate neighbourhoods, in partnership with our excellent colleges and federated universities. We will find more ways to encourage small-group learning. And we will enhance student activity spaces for our large population of commuting students.

Second, we are reducing our reliance on traditional classroom instruction. Through partnerships with businesses and community agencies, and the generosity of countless alumni who serve as student mentors, we are creating more opportunities for students to learn through hands-on experiences.

Third, we will provide more recognition and support for great teaching. This includes the establishment of the first U of T-wide teaching awards and supportive coaching to enhance teaching performance.

Finally, we will offer more opportunities for our undergraduate students to do research and share in the excitement of creating new knowledge. This is a huge comparative advantage for our university, given the research productivity of our faculty.

The University of Toronto has a storied past and a present made vibrant by 70,000 students, 11,000 faculty and staff, and more than 400,000 former students living all over the world. U of T truly embodies the enduring alchemy of higher education and its transformative potential for students and society. With your help, we can continue to nurture the great minds of tomorrow, and, together with our extraordinary students, imagine a great future.

A vast number of interesting activities occur at U of T outside of the laboratory or lecture hall, and it’s a particular challenge of this university to entice the three out of four students who commute to class to take advantage of them. The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), an annual assessment of student opinions at 400 universities in North America, found last year that 60 per cent of U of T’s commuter students spend no time at all on co-curricular activities. This is the case even though U of T boasts more than 300 student clubs and the largest varsity and intramural sports program in Canada.

The breadth of clubs and activities available to students here is truly staggering. Some, as The Varsity editor Graham F. Scott discovered while researching a feature story about U of T’s “oddball charms,” are a little out of the ordinary. The competitive jump-rope team and the Ontario Public Interest Research Group Equity Gardeners, who maintain an organic garden outside the Students’ Administrative Council building, are just two examples. So it’s curious that, with such a wide variety of campus clubs to choose from, so many students decide not to stick around after class.

Supreme Court of Canada judge Rosalie Silberman Abella attended U of T in the 1960s. She says social events and co-curricular activities played almost as important a role in her education – and in making her aware of the full range of life’s opportunities – as her classes. She played the piano for the University College Follies, an annual variety show, and had personal contact with several of her professors. Far fewer students attended U of T at that time, of course. The campus “felt very manageable,” Abella says. “It was an exuberant environment. Everything was possible.”

What the senior administration is proposing now for U of T is nothing short of a revolution in how the university interacts with students. In his installation address in early November, President David Naylor emphasized the importance of providing greater contact between professors and students. Professor Naylor noted that, more than a century ago, university officials believed that no honours class in arts should exceed 12 students. Today, the biggest single class at U of T has an enrolment of 1,527 students. There are six other classes with more than 1,000 students.

For students, one huge class out of five isn’t necessarily a problem, especially if your professor is an excellent teacher. But the university wants to ensure that every student also has the opportunity for more personalized instruction. In the language of business, one might say U of T is now fully focused on creating a better “customer experience” – one that instils in every student the idea that “everything is possible.”

If you remember your high school biology class, you know that human DNA is made up of molecules called nucleotides – about 2.85 billion of them – arranged in a double helix configuration. Only some sections of the double helix contain genes, which serve as “instructions” for the creation of proteins. (These proteins form an essential part of all living organisms.)

Now imagine a cluster of miniature electronic probes, each containing about 60 nucleotides. Called micro-arrays, these clusters can track down the segments of DNA that hold our genetic instructions and distinguish them from the long stretches of filler DNA in between.

To the uninitiated, all this sounds very sci-fi. To U of T molecular biology professor Timothy Hughes, it’s life as usual in the lab. In collaboration with Brendan Frey, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, Hughes’s research team has spent the past three years using micro-arrays in mouse DNA to hunt for its genes.

Hughes’s team fed the nucleotide sequences collected from the micro-arrays into a spreadsheet, seeking to detect meaningful patterns. That’s where Frey came in. “We developed a computer algorithm to distinguish patterns suggesting true genes from more random patterns,” explains Frey.

Crunch crunch crunch, went the numbers, yielding the startling result: “It turns out there are few, if any, protein-coding genes remaining to be discovered,” says Hughes. “This flies in the face of research that predicted several-fold more genes than the currently known ones.” Published in Nature Genetics, the results also confirmed that genes that have starring roles in some tissues may play second fiddle – or remain silent – in others. “There’s clearly a relationship between the function of a tissue and the genes that get expressed in that tissue,” says Hughes.

Frey says the work closes a chapter in genomic research, but leaves open the question: with only 20,000 to 25,000 genes in the human genome, where on Earth does all the human diversity come from? The upturned noses, grumpy dispositions or aptitude for chess?

Frey’s ongoing research might well solve this mystery. “My colleagues and I have now started an even more exhaustive project, with more probes,” he says. Funded by Genome Canada, the $22-million project compares gene expression in healthy and diseased tissue. “We’re targeting common and complex diseases, such as heart disease and cancer, in hopes of discovering many discrepancies.”

The project has already unearthed startling new evidence for gene variation. “We already knew that the same DNA sequence could be read in different ways, resulting in different proteins as end products,” Frey explains. “What we’ve done is to map these different ‘readings’ throughout the genome.” As it turns out, “a single gene can yield up to thousands of different proteins.” This phenomenon helps explain how so few genes can spawn so much biological diversity, including, possibly, those upturned noses.

The long-range impact? “If we can pinpoint the gene differences in diseased tissue, we can work toward correcting these differences,” says Frey. For example: “Once we identify the genes that get over-expressed in cancer, we could develop drugs to inactivate those genes.”

Students have traditionally learned some skills by practising on each other and on mannequins. But these approaches have drawbacks. You can’t intubate a fellow student and mannequins can’t experience a sudden fall in blood pressure or a racing heartbeat.

Enter the “SIM” family. Earlier this year, U of T’s nursing faculty purchased five “high-fidelity,” computer-operated mannequins – four adults and one baby – that can breathe, talk, and exhibit a heartbeat and pulse.

These “simulation patients” occupy beds in a million-dollar, state-of-the-art clinical lab in the faculty’s new building at 155 College Street. They are used to help train more than 300 nursing undergrads, as well as to provide advanced instruction for master’s students and nurse practitioners.

Nursing students receive more than 1,500 hours of clinical training during their two-year program, but the range of skills they can perform in a hospital is limited by their patients’ actual medical needs. Here, students practice such vital skills as defibrillation before facing a real-life emergency. Cameras and microphones installed on the ceiling record the simulations, which can be played back for instructional purposes. “It’s a real confidence-builder,” says Sandra Devlin-Cop, director of clinical education for the Faculty of Nursing.

Students can test their knowledge, if not their needle-giving skills, on a computer using video simulation software. Hundreds of realistic patient scenarios are available. As the patient’s symptoms change, the computer asks the student to type in the appropriate action and afterward assesses his or her performance.

Prefabricated wounds allow students to practise stitches and dressings. Instructors can also inject fluid into the SIMs’ lungs or mix “blood” in their “urine.” In all, the synthetic patients can replicate 90 per cent of the critical-care conditions nurses will encounter.

Like real patients, the SIMs can talk. During a simulation, instructors can prompt them to say “That hurts!” “I feel dizzy” or, worse, “I feel like I’m going to die.” The SIMs can also cough, retch and tell an overly attentive student to “Go away!”

Because the lab can simulate almost any clinical situation, students trained at the facility will be better prepared for hospital work, says Devlin-Cop. “And, ultimately, that should mean better care for patients,” she says.

In his new book, Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities, U of T prof and ace statistician Jeffrey S. Rosenthal gives us the mathematical tools to assess life’s odds – whether it’s winning the lotto, being involved in an airplane crash, beating the house at cards or – of course – getting zonked by lightning. He also provides a hefty dose of reality through the “Probability Perspective,” offering real-life examples for comparison – what those odds actually translate into.

You know the chances of winning the 6/49 aren’t good, don’t you? But don’t let us ruin your day. We’ll let Rosenthal do that for you, in this Struck by Lightning excerpt:

“A typical commercial lottery might involve selecting six different numbers between 1 and 49. If your six numbers match those selected, you win (or share) the big jackpot. For such a lottery, the probability is about one chance in 14 million. This is an extremely small probability. To put it in context, you are over 1,000 times more likely to die in a car crash within the year. In fact, you are more likely to die in a car crash on your way to the store to buy your lottery ticket than you are to win the jackpot. Indeed, if you bought one ticket a week, on average, you would win the jackpot less than once every 250,000 years. When picking seven numbers between 1 and 47 [for 7/47], the probability is one chance in 63 million. It may be true that someone is going to win the lottery jackpot this week, but let me assure you: that someone will not be you.”