TheAndreanFall 2010 Volume 54 Number 2

William ScoularOne dramatic reason

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Fall 2010, Volume 54, Number 2Published bySt. Andrew’s College for Old Boys, parents and friends of the School.editorKim SillcoxAssistANt editorsJim McGillivray, Nicholas Weedon ‘02

editoriAl CommitteeEdna Collins, Scott Hayter, Sue Hayter, Steve Kimmerer, Scott Lewis and Michael Paluch Art direCtioN ANd desigNFresh Art & Design Inc.telePhoNe905.727.3178

FAx905.841.6911e-mAiloldboys@sac.on.caadmission@sac.on.catheandrean@sac.on.caWebsitewww.sac.on.caFront cover: Head of Drama, William Scoular,

directs cast members on the set of A Chorus Line in Ketchum Auditorium; Photo by Geoff Georgeback cover: Students at Carol Service 2009; Photo by Stephen Kimmerer

Features

10 The Play’s Not the Only Thing By JIM MCGIllIVRAY

16 Pride & Commitment By JIM MCGIllIVRAY

22 Jerome Biroo excerpts from his book

24 Crossing the Rubicon By pAul (BeefY) eSSOn ’53

26 SASSAW 2010 By MARK SeRVICe

28 Old Boy Profiles By JIM MCGIllIVRAY

1 View from the Top 2 community News 6 association News 33 annual report 57 old Boys’ News69 obituaries 72 From the Editor

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This year’s Prefects were responsible for identifying the theme for the current academic year: Brotherhood: Greater than Self. I am pleased with their choice, as I believe the word “Brotherhood” truly encapsulates the co-operation, unity and support all Andreans offer one another on a daily basis. I would like to suggest that there are perhaps three Bs, three foundational pieces that make this School so special: boys, boarding and brotherhood. The St. Andrew’s experience revolves around these three words and ensures that St. Andrew’s College continues to thrive as not an ordinary place.

As you may know, or will shortly read in this issue’s cover story, we recently launched a series of videos – one main video and seven vignettes – on our new website and on YouTube, which clearly demonstrate to the world what it feels like to be an Andrean. William Scoular’s vision, coupled with his extensive professional experience as a director and his unwavering passion for St. Andrew’s, has resulted, in my opinion, in one of the most compelling school videos ever created. In September, I had the pleasure of previewing the videos for each of our constituent groups: Faculty & Staff, new boys and their parents, current students and parents, and, of course, Old Boys. One of the highlights of this public launch was a private viewing for a large group of Old Boys during the Toronto Interna-tional Film Festival. As you can imagine, it was a very emotional evening.

The videos serve as an outstanding complement to our new website and as an invaluable marketing tool for attracting prospective students from near and far. Today’s students belong to the YouTube generation. Many will make their own decision to select an independent school, which is why we have created such an interactive and social me-dia-driven website. Future marketing efforts will continue to integrate social media tools, including Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, student blogs and video. Ultimately, however, our best source of marketing comes from you – our Old Boys,

from current and past parents and from current and past Faculty and Staff. It is one thing to watch a video and explore photos and testimonials on a website. It is an entirely different experience to hear about the life of an Andrean firsthand.

Thank you to all members of our community for their guidance in the strategic planning process. This initiative began last February through online feedback and engage-ment surveys. We were very pleased with the results, as 89% of parents indicated having a high or very high level of satisfaction with St. Andrew’s. Work on the strategic plan has continued for the past 10 months through a series of meetings with a variety of focus groups and through discus-sions with all constituent groups associated with the School. The strategic plan, which will chart the course for the next five years, will be published in January 2011.

I would like to conclude by recognizing two very impor-tant people who helped guide me through my first year as Headmaster. Both were scheduled to retire from St. Andrew’s in June 2009. Thankfully, both agreed to extend their time at the School to help me through my first year. I could not have asked for a better mentor than former Board Chair, Jeff Chisholm. Jeff’s vision, insight, availabil-ity, experience and wonderful sense of humour allowed me to grow as a leader. I feel extremely fortunate that Michael Sifton ’79 agreed to take over from Jeff as Board Chair earlier this year. Michael and I have already spent a great deal of time together and I could not be happier with his appointment.

Finally, I would like to publicly thank my Executive Assistant, Gayle Petri. Gayle was also scheduled to retire in June 2009 after 20 years working at St. Andrew’s. Gayle graciously agreed to postpone her retirement to support me through the transition period. She will retire officially in March 2011. Gayle Petri epitomizes the word “professional” in every sense. I will miss her dearly. KEVIN MCHENRY, HEADMASTER

I am Surrounded by Great People

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communityNewsCArolyN biltoNa French teacher in the Upper School, and her husband Joe welcomed their first daughter, Zoe Anne, on Saturday, August 21. Carolyn is on maternity leave until September 2011. JohN ClemeNtsis back as the organist for morn-ing Chapel service. John joined the faculty in 1976 and was Head of Music before retiring from St. Andrew’s in 2002. We are confident he will add some excitement to Chapel services in preparation for the Carol Service on December 3rd! NiCk dAymarried Claire Kelly on July 31, 2010 in Ottawa. Nick is a French teacher in the Upper School and Varsity Soccer Coach, and Claire is the Director of the Upper School at Appleby College in Oakville. Nick and Claire are living in Macdonald House, where Nick is Assistant Housemaster, and they plan to move to their house in Caledon next summer. sue hAyterhas assumed the role of Upper School Teacher-Librarian in ad-dition to her role as the School’s Archivist. Sue is working with the Upper School faculty to foster a culture of reading, research and academic integrity. Sue comes to the role with her Doctorate in Library and Information Science and many years as a university level teacher, and school and public librarian.

Jim mCgilliVrAy,SAC’s Piping Director and a lead-ing figure in piping education world-wide, played “Amazing Grace” on the season premiere of “CSI” in September. While Jim did not actually appear on the show, his melodious sounds were recognizable to many Andreans. A year ago, his brother-in-law (a re-cording engineer) submitted some of Jim’s recordings to a Hollywood company that provides sound files for TV and movies. Apparently, the producers of CSI couldn’t resist this Celtic favourite, performed so powerfully by SAC’s very own Double Gold Medallist! The spot had Jim’s Amazing Grace dubbed over a funeral scene on the show. Of course, this being a crime show, at the end of the scene the casket explodes! Jim’s tongue-in-cheek friends emailed him right away to ask if he was okay. mAriA PilieCiis now the School’s Library Ser-vices Co-ordinator, responsible for the day-to-day operations of Tow-ers Library, including cataloguing, circulation and book acquisitions. Maria started at SAC in 1992 and continues to ensure that the Towers Library is maintained as a well-appointed space in which to read, research and study.

briAN rAAFlAubhas retired from Appleby College where he served as Curriculum Chair of Mathematics and Com-puter Science since leaving SAC in 1990. He has joined his wife, Dr. Catherine Raaflaub, Head of

rAmesh Arimarried Mathy Maruthappu in Sri Lanka on August 27, 2010. Ramesh is the Webmaster at SAC. He and his bride will be living in Scarborough, ON.

miChAel CArrolla science teacher in the Upper School and Varsity Football Coach, mar-ried Sarah Nicole Purcell on July 24th in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mike and Sarah are living in Sifton House where Mike is Assistant Housemaster.

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School of Morgan Park Academy, along with their daughters in Chicago. Their youngest, Madeline, will be starting Grade 10 at MPA this fall. ClAudiA rose-doNAhoehas assumed the roles of Middle School Teacher-Librarian, and Writing Centre Coordinator; she is also teaching three sections of Upper School English. In her role as Middle School Librarian, she will work with Middle School faculty to ensure that students have a rich reading program, are introduced to basic research and

documentation methods, and have an opportunity to use library resources to enhance their learn-ing. As Writing Centre Coordina-tor, Claudia will ensure that boys in both Middle School and Upper School are afforded opportunities to have their writing critiqued, either by their peers or by one of the Writing Centre coaches.

miChAel roy ’85 was promoted in November to the position of Director of Admission, Marketing and Business Develop-ment. As Director of Admission for the past seven years, he and

his Admission team have pro-duced a full school with a diverse population. Michael has been responsible for managing the financial aid process, re-enrolment and agent portfolios. He has also managed the promotional budget and played a key role in develop-ing the overall marketing and advertising strategy for the School. In this new role, one of his main responsibilities will be to serve as a liaison between the Admission and Advancement departments. Having previously worked in SAC’s Advancement Office from

1996-2003, Michael will look to develop further synergies between these two key administrative areas. He will actively engage with local and international business leaders for the purpose of student intake and philanthropic interests, and foster local and international business partnerships. Michael will work with all constituent groups to develop a comprehen-sive enrolment strategy, with a particular focus on boarding. He will also aggressively investigate potential new markets for SAC and help lead the development of a comprehensive marketing and public relations strategy. Art WeNkhas written a series of mystery novellas, New Quarter Note Tales, about Axel Crochet, peripatetic musicologist and reluctant detec-tive, set in Québec. Art taught math at SAC from 1989-2006 and is now a psychotherapist with Wilson Counselling Associates in Toronto.

WhitNey elliott ANd seAN ludWigwere married on July 24, 2010 in the Memorial Chapel. Alex Seto ‘13 was the bagpiper for the ceremony. Whitney, a French and geography teacher in the Middle School, and Sean, Course Director for the McE-wen Leadership Program in the Upper School, met on their first day of work in September 2006 and were brought together by their shared passion for sports, travelling and St. Andrew’s College. They currently live on campus and enjoy being part of the Andrean community.

We are always on the lookout for SAC items:

• Pins, pennants and programs • Team photos

• Caps, crests and clothing • Playbills, programs

and photographs of School plays and musicals

• School Christmas cards • Badges, books and balls

• Cups and trophies • Other SAC memorabilia

If you have items of interest, please contact Sue Hayter:

905-727-3178 ext. 281 or sue.hayter@sac.on.ca

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community News Sports update

The Saints Cricket squad put the finishing touches on a dream season last spring with a remarkable display of batting power and efficiency, crushing a decade-old league record of 197 runs in the

championship match against Trinity College School. The win left the team in sole possession of first place, undefeated throughout league play, for their 2nd League Championship in three years. After making quick work of UCC a week earlier, our captains and coaches wanted to ensure we won the toss and started the game off batting, so our team could enjoy the full 35 overs offered, and enjoy it we did. TCS really had no answers for our attack, as team captain, Nikhil Bhardwaj ’13, spent a full three hours running between wickets and providing a clinic of textbook groundstrokes and hooks to finish with a stunning 72 total, more than the entire opposi-tion’s effort. He was ably supported by Saaz Vastani ’11, who stayed the course, rocketing to a personal best 41 runs not out. Previously, Kent Leslie ’10 sent volleys to all corners with 22 valuable runs before being bowled out. As overs elapsed, St. Andrew’s had yielded 7 of a possible 10 wickets, and was only inches away from topping 200 runs, a score that would make any professional team proud in a one day match.

The Saints didn’t enter the field to bowl until nearly four hours after the start of the game. The stifling weather seemed to have taken its toll on the early effectiveness of our bowling, until Junaid Hussain ’11 made a huge bare-handed catch 80 yards into the outfield, stopping the “Aussie” with only 11 runs tallied, and igniting our troops into “full pressure” mode. TCS fought bravely, lasting 18 overs before their last (10th) wicket fell, shortly before 8:00 p.m., as the shadows from towering boundary bordering

deciduous trees crept ever closer to the center wicket – dismissed all out for a respectable, but far-short-of-target, 50.

Having lost to this same team (168-76) less than a month earlier in preseason exhibition play, it was most satisfying to end the campaign with this hammer-blow turn-of-the-tables. Congratulations to all the boys for their fine Andrean effort throughout the season. Camaraderie, respect and joyous team excitement were at an all-time high. After starting the term with only five players, it was both exhilarating and most-promising to finish with 20 ever-keen athletes on this special squad. The only regret is the fact that the season came to an end all too soon.DAVID KYLE

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u14 Rugby Wins CISAAu14 rugby team: Front l-r: Douglas Jones ‘16, Dylan Van eeden ‘16, ben Thompson ‘15, alex bowlin ‘14, Joseph Shields ‘15, Sebastian Weinberg ‘14, ben Harrison ‘15, Pablo Galvan ‘14, ayyden almadi ‘15, alfredo Solloa ‘15, alonso Sanchez ‘15, Jack bahen ‘15middle l-r: Fraser Sopik ‘15, John Polemidiotis ‘15, andrew mackin ‘15, min Ji ‘15, Nicholas Pacheco ‘14, alejandro Pelaez ‘15, David Flores ‘14, Imanol arozarend ‘14, alfonso Celis ’15, rodrigo Hajj Slim ‘14,

roberto Chedraui ‘14, Fernando acuna ‘14, Diego Gunter ‘14, Coach Danielle richer

back l-r: Coach adam Kowaltschuk, edward essue ‘14, Harvey Tao ‘16, luis menendez ‘14, michael mardini ‘14, bruno buitano ‘14, Scott elliott ‘14, Callum Green ‘14, Diego Castillo ‘14, Nav Cheema ‘14, amirali Hassani ‘15, Coach Courtenay Shrimpton

missing: Cayne lander ‘16, Nathan lee ‘16

2nd place CisAA finishers included:

1st & U16 Badminton1st Lacrosse1st Baseball

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deCember 20103 Carol service Yorkminster Park Baptist Church 1585 Yonge Street, Toronto at 7:00 p.m. To view a video this year’s Carol Service online: www.sac.on.ca/live16 toronto reception

mAy 20111 Church Parade in Aurora3 headmaster’s Parade Old Boy luncheon at SAC6 50th reunion for Class of 1961 and prior For more information contact sharen.turner@sac.on.ca7 Cadet inspection Plan to arrive at SAC by 1:00 p.m.12 Calgary reception11 middle school Arts Night11-13 FoCus Festival of the Arts18 middle school music Night

FebruAry 20113 kingston Pub Night4 montreal Pub Night

APril 201116 red & White gala – Not An ordinary Place The Terrace Banquet Hall in Vaughan

For sports schedules, other special events and news of the College, please visit our website at: www.sac.on.ca

Old Boys – please register online on our Alumni Directory and receive monthly newsletters!

JuNe 201116 middle school Prize day17 upper school Prize day21 sAC Association golf tournament Silver Lakes Golf Club To book your foursome contact nicholas.weedon@sac.on.ca 24 manhattan open golf day Class of 1970, 1979 and friends of the late Charlie Edwards ‘70 12:00 p.m. please call 905-727-4002

mArCh 20113-4 st. Andrew’s Festival of the Arts (sAFA) 4 Cadets in Concert To order tickets, please email jane.bedard@sac.on.ca Box Office Phone: 905.727.3178 ext. 434

JANuAry 201114-16 28th Annual macPherson hockey tournament Aurora Community Centre15 sAC old boys Family day & dinner St. Andrew’s College Basketball, Squash, Family Swim & Dinner For tickets and information contact sharen.turner@sac.on.ca15 old boys’ hockey games (an Over 40 and Under 40 game) Aurora Community Centre Contact nicholas.weedon@sac.on.ca29 sAC Admission open house 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

AdmissioN For 2011-2012For more information concerning admission to St. Andrew’s,

please contact our Admission Office at 905.727.3178 ext. 303 or

toll-free at 1.877.378.1899.

community News Event Highlights

old boy Soccer Game oct. 23, 2010 Standing (l-r) Jon Price ‘98, Chris Snyder ‘94, Christian Hirt ‘95, ed Ham ‘95, Paul etherington ‘95, Sinclair bean ‘05, Jim Dennis ‘92, Jason Perrier ‘98, mark etherington ‘92, allan bean ‘03, adam brander ‘02, roger Kim ‘02, Jeff Ginou ‘02. Kneeling (l-r) ryan bryce ‘05, Scott armstrong ‘92, andrew Weedon ‘98, Carl milroy ‘92, mike Duder ‘73, Jed Dadson ‘95, brook Dyson ‘98, Nick Weedon ‘02

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associationNewsAnd the Winners Are…Old Boys Association Golf tournament 2010

The rain did not keep the 144 Old Boys and fathers of current and past students from showing up to enjoy a day of golf and support a worthy cause last June. This year, the proceeds raised from the tour-

nament went to support the newly established Old Boys’ Bursary. Hosted at the four-star championship course Silver Lakes Golf & Country Club in Holland Landing, the day was an enjoyable one. Unlike last year, there

was no need to impose “retrogression” to determine a winner, as there was an outright winning foursome. The “brothers” foursome of Luc ‘03 and Adam Zoratto ‘05 and Jordan ‘03 and Paul Ross ‘06 shot an unbelievable 11-under par (61) to capture the coveted Jim Hamilton Trophy. Other notables included “Closest to the Hole” winners Carr Hatch ‘68, Matt Mitchell ‘03, Richard Colton ‘04, Matt Wolfenden ‘07, and “Longest Drive” winner Max Stiss.

A new addition to the day saw grade 10 student Jake Sterio ‘12, compete against tournament partici-pants in a contest called “Can you out-drive the 10th grader?” A very cool, calm and collected Jake

allowed only eight participants to out-drive him. On behalf of the SAC Old Boys’ Association, we would like to extend

a special thanks to SAC past parents Harold MacDonald and John Durst, owners of Silver Lakes Golf & Country Club, as well as Tournament Coordinator Todd Sloan, for hosting a great tournament. NICHOLAS WEEDON ‘02

thANk you to our golF tourNAmeNt sPoNsors

Course host Silver Lakes Golf & Country Club – Harold MacDonald & John Durstgiveaway sponsor Highland Chevrolet Cadillac – Cliff Sifton ‘77hole-in-one sponsors Highland Chevrolet Cadillac – Cliff Sifton ‘77SAC Admission

specialty sponsors Molson Canada – Graydon Stock ‘02Lifespring Physiotherapy – Ron O’Haretournament organizer Todd Sloantrophy Keith Davis – David & Monica Burling

golF tourNAmeNt tee sPoNsors

Caldwell Securities Michael Richardson ’00C.I.B.C. Wood Gundy Geoff Pennal ’94The Etherington Generations Mark Etherington ’92 & Paul Etherington ’95GMP Richardson Jim Dennis ’92Parkers Cleaners Ltd. Joe Morin

Roto-Static Gord Birkett ’01Smith, Sykes, Leeper & Tunstall LLPGeorge & Brad SmithTD Insurance Meloche Monnex Jorge CardelusWilson Niblett Chevrolet Gord Wilson ’72 & John Wilson ’85Velvet Rope Productions Darcy Montgomery ‘92

(l-r) Paul ross ‘06, luc Zoratto ‘03, Jordan ross ‘03, (old boy officer, Nicholas Weedon ‘02), adam Zoratto ‘05 captured first place

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uK Old Boys Dinner – Oct. 29, 2010

Halloween pub night in Calgary

Fourteen Old Boys from the Classes of 1963 to 2004 enjoyed an evening of storytelling, exaggerations, humour and fel-lowship at the annual Halloween Pub Night October 27th in

Calgary. Ken Cameron ‘88 brought along a copy of his recently published collection of plays, Harvest and Other Plays, coming soon to the SAC Library. We remembered the late Gordon Kelly ‘52, who enjoyed many similar evenings with us in the past. Gordon passed away earlier in October (his obituary is on page 70). We drank to Joel Ford’s ‘03 birthday, as Joel is currently ‘exiled’ to Singapore where he promises to organize an Old Boys pub night.

This year the best story award went to the Class of 1969 as told by George Leitch ‘69, who shared his story of the class prank of that year – an event which was all too well covered up and which definitely should not be forgotten! In order to find out more about that – you will have to come to next year’s Pub Night!

Huge Thanks to Jan Mathews ‘96 and Dave Charlebois ‘03 for their assistance in ensuring another successful Pub Night!

The third annual SAC Calgary Reception will take place on Thursday, May 12th at 4:30pm at the Calgary Petroleum Club and will be hosted by Jim Herder ‘64, retired Director of Advancement and Nick Weedon ‘02, Old Boy Officer in the Advancement Office. Wives and parents are all welcome to join us!MIKE GARDNER ’77

Rob Mcewen speaks at Grade 12 Dinner

Rob McEwen ’69, Chairman and CEO of US Gold and Lexam Explora-tions, spoke to the Class of 2010 and their parents at the second annual Grad Dinner held last June on the eve of Prize Day. He

reminisced about his time at St. Andrew’s and told the boys that limitations are only in their mind – that they can do anything. Rob encouraged them to go out and sample the ‘smorgas-bord of life’ and try different things. He talked of the importance of seeing the world and left them with these encouraging words, “The job market is going to be good for you … if you make your boss look good – you will be re-warded. Be persistent and curious.”

Rob’s commitment to sup-porting leadership education was realized by St. Andrew’s in 2007 when he endowed a chair in Leadership Studies. The McEwen Leadership Program is designed to incorporate leadership principles into a variety of business disciplines, while providing experiential learning opportunities for students through all grade levels in the Upper School.

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Front l-r: Conrad bona ‘87, bart Sommerville ‘93, Hugh long ‘97middle l-r: ron Kopas ‘90, David Gist ‘60, John morgan ‘86, Jason Campbell ‘88, michael Zheng ‘10, marcus Yang ‘90, Headmaster Kevin mcHenry, Kurt alfrey ‘94 back l-r: mark landry ‘98, andrew Wilson ‘96, michael Craig ‘01, Scott mcDonald ‘86, Drew Hickey ‘85, executive Direc-tor of advancement Scott Hayter, bob Isserstedt ‘60

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ON October 23, 2010, several SAC Old Boys living in New Brunswick & Mike Edwards ‘79 (from nearby Maine) came together with some of their spouses or other family

members to celebrate the return of New Brunswick native Geoff Smith and his wife Ginny. We met at the York Sunbury Museum (a historic building built around 1841 as part of the Officers Barricks) in Fredericton. We were greeted with the piping of internationally recognized and Fredericton native Andy Rogers. Don Fleming ‘66 led us in the Latin Grace. Whether you gradu-ated in the 60’s or the 90’s or in between – there are threads of stories and personalities that you could share in and fond memories to reminisce about. We intend to get together again in the next twelve months – if you are interested in joining us, please drop an email to ian.howey@nbpcd.com or contact the SAC Advancement Office.IAN HOWEY ‘87

The tournament is put on each year in memory of the late Charlie Edwards ’70. Friends and classmates, including his brother Mike ’79, gather each year to remember Charlie and to add to the endowed

bursary fund in his name at St. Andrew’s. Thank you to everyone who was able to attend this year’s event – we hope to see you again next year at the 13th Annual Manhattan Open on Friday, June 24th, 2011!

l-r (Standing): Geoff Smith, Ginny Smith, Peter Haines ’63, Susan Howey, Don Fleming ’66, lesley Fleming, betty lou Craig, John Craig ’71, Ian Howey ’87. l-r (Seated): mike edwards ’79, John l’aventure ’60, alex Pirie, Peter Pirie ’69. missing from the photo: Kevin ’86 & Kelly mcWhirter (who had to leave early)

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Sixteen Old Boys participate in Inaugural Mentorship event

IN October, the Advancement Office hosted a Mentor-ship Event for the graduating class of 2011. The event, brought forth at an Old Boys’ Association meeting last

spring by David Amadori ‘03, functioned somewhat like speed dating. In small groups of two or three, students rotated from table to table speaking with an Old Boy for seven minutes. In to-tal, the students met with five Old Boys for a total of 35 minutes, getting a Coles Notes’ version of seven different career options ranging from medicine to finance to environmental studies.

Following the small-group discussions, the graduating class gathered in the Donald Davis Theatre for a less serious presentation on “All the Aspects of University Life Your Mother Does Not Want You to Know About” given by two recent graduates, Christian Julien ‘10 and Adam Nickerson ‘10, who are both studying at the University of Toronto.

The Advancement Team looks forward to building on this event in the future. Thank you to all of the Old Boys listed below for participating in this inaugural Mentorship Event:

Ray Osborne ‘64Peter Love ‘67George Hathaway ‘70Sandy Munro ‘70Michael Hogg ‘72Michael Elliot ‘82Homer Frank ‘82

Michael Lem ‘83Michael Hiscox ‘90Marcus Gillam ‘93Abram Choi ‘97Aladdin Diakun ‘02Giancarlo Trimarchi ‘02David Amadori ‘03

Christian Julien ‘10Adam Nickerson ‘10

(from l-r) back row: mike edwards ’79, Cliff Carr ’70, bill albino ’70, George edwards ’79, John “The Champ” Percival ’70 and Don macKay ’70; second row: Gary West, former SaC staff member, rob Dilworth ’70, Doug Gamble, bill Cathers ’79, David Grass ’70 and Scott Hayter, execu-tive Director of advancement; front row: ryan bryce ’05, Kevin mcHenry, Headmaster, rob Hepburn ’79, eric Schneider ’70, Sandy munro ’70, Darryl Kittle and Trevor Kittle pictured at the 12th annual manhattan open Golf Tournament held at muskoka Highlands Golf links (owned by Don macKay ’70). according to Don, “after 11 years of coveting the Charlie open Trophy, John Percival shot the lights out – and by retrogression (this is something that happened to his eyes in an earlier life I think) won the over-all tournament.”

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The Play’s Not the Only Thing

IF you’re part of the SAC family, you will have no doubt experienced the indelible imprint William Scoular has made on the life and history of the School, and on the Dramatic Arts in particular, since he began his tenure

at the School in 1987. But you may not know how active our premier Drama Master has been in the world of commercial film. This came to the fore during the summer of 2009, when Will was asked by Headmaster Kevin McHenry to create a promotional video that would be capable of rocking the staid world of independent school promotion.

From September 2009 until May 2010 “Hurricane Scoular” whirled through our classrooms, hallways and campus. Day-to-day activities around the School were com-mandeered on short notice by Director Will and his crew, and students and faculty were asked to act as naturally as possible for the camera while very unusual activity went on all around them.

The results: one premier video and seven powerful vignettes that in 17 wordless minutes depict the distinctly extraordinary nature of St. Andrew’s College.

“The whole thing was Kevin’s idea,” Will recounts. “Like Headmasters every-where, he was concerned that in the current credit crisis, independent schools face declining numbers. Kevin wanted something that would give St. Andrew’s an advantage. He felt strongly that the right sort of video would be an essential world-wide marketing tool in the YouTube world we compete in and help SAC stand out from the pack.”

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From day one the project took a distinct turn, with Will’s almost immedi-ate decision that the film would contain no dialogue, no narrator, no testimonials. “Right from the get-go, when there was discussion about who should narrate, I thought, no, we don’t want an Old Boy to narrate (as was done in 2002 with the FOCUS DVD narrated by Kiefer Sutherland ’86), or some old cadaver saying what a great place this was, or anything like that. We’re marketing to kids who spend their lives on the internet. They don’t watch lectures on YouTube.”

“The average person is exposed to more than 3,000 messages a day. For the SAC message to matter, I felt it had to cut through the clutter and elicit an emotional response from our target audience. I literally wanted to raise the hair on the back of our viewers’ necks. The video, I felt, had to not just show, but evoke what it feels like to be a boy here; what it feels like to be in the

Cadet Corps or on 1st Hockey or at Prize Day. I wanted viewers to be able to feel that excite-ment just before the curtain goes up on the fall play, or just before the team heads out onto the ice from the dress-ing room for the Friday

night MacPherson game. That was the controlling idea from the start. I always find I only need one idea, and if it’s the right idea, it’ll see me through.”

Having a single idea and seeing it through is not new to Will. Born in Glasgow, he emigrated

with his family to Hamilton, Ontario, when he was a young child, where he grew up in a family of nine. In high school, he told a guidance counsel-lor who asked about his future plans that his idea was to go to Oxford. The counsellor laughed. “Nobody from this school goes to Oxford!” she proclaimed. Will’s response: “Just watch me.”

He studied English for three years at Oxford. In his second year he had another idea: he would mount a play, specifically The Importance of Being Earnest, which, as he notes was Ox-ford. He spent all the money he had, and some that he didn’t, on sets and

costumes. “I persuaded a famous West End actress, Dame Joan Hawtrey, to play Lady Bracknell, and got the best actors in the university to play the other key roles. Well, the thing was a smash hit. It sold out. Sir John Gielgud came one night and praised it so highly it transferred to London, and in fairly quick order I went from being the poorest student at Oxford to prob-ably one of the richest. Now, that was a good trick, wasn’t it?”

Of course, anyone who has seen Will’s St. Andrew’s productions could have no doubt about the singular power of his vision and the strength of what-ever idea he has chosen to run through the core of a show. The major trait of these high school productions is that they look nothing like high school productions, so it stands to reason that his school promotional video would not be typical fare.

“The entire piece was only meant to be three minutes,” Will explains. “Then one day we were shooting hockey and getting some terrific shots, and I thought about how much of this would be left on the cutting room floor. That’s when I got the idea of a series of videos in addition to the main film, where boys or parents could focus for a minute or two on very specific aspects of life here. The main video would then be a distillation of the

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most powerful shots from each vignette.”Filming was intense: 7 days, 16

hours a day (“Par for the course”). At the end of each day, Will would watch it all on his Mac laptop. He would check everything against his daily shot list and make sure he had everything he’d planned to get. “The video had been sto-ryboarded beforehand,” he notes, “so I always had my overall structure. I knew where I was starting and where I was ending and basically how I was going to get from one to the other. Nothing can be left to chance. You map out every shot, and, if you can afford it, you get an extra cameraman and send that person off to get other images that you can’t plan for.”

“When we shot hockey, we absolutely had to have a shot of our guys scoring a goal, so I had to put one cameraman behind the opposing net until that hap-pened, even if it took the whole game. Fortunately, the goal came quickly and I was able to let him wander off and shoot whatever he wanted. He was a great shooter and got some interesting stuff.”

“Out of random shooting like that, you can sometimes get a few little surprises, and you might use one of

those instead of, or in addition to what you planned. But the key is knowing the overall structure from beginning to end so you can plan the necessary shots, because once the event or opportunity has passed, you can’t get them.”

For a guy known for directing plays, Will clearly has a good handle on film. In fact, his film

credits are nearly as impressive as his theatre successes.

“Well, yes, I have done some film,” he says, in typically understated fash-ion. That would include The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton, a 2003 CTV production for which he also adapted the screenplay from the book A Ques-tion of Guilt, which he co-wrote with mentor Vivian Green. He shot a short film for the 2002 Olympics in Sydney. Various TV commercials and some music videos round out the mix. Cur-rent projects in the works include two feature films: Northbound, which he had written for Canadian icon Gordon Pinsent, and which he will direct next year, and An Empty Sleeve, based on Alexander Waugh’s book, The House of

Wittgenstein: A Family at War.Clearly, the logistics of produc-

ing film were not new to Will, and his contacts in the industry were key to the project’s success. It was apparent to anyone involved in a shot that his flex-ible and committed team was comfort-able with Will’s style and were willing to go the extra mile for him.

Many shots had to be set up and staged, though fewer than he ex-pected. “I shot a lot of things on green screen where you stage the action and then can fill in the background later,” he explains. “That’s a very safe way to shoot, but it’s hugely expensive in post-production. We ended up using only one green-screen scene, the vol-leyball sequence, but that alone took 30 hours to edit.”

This kind of editing time speaks volumes about ‘post-production,’ which is a seemingly endless process of sitting in front of large, high-defini-tion computer screens painstakingly ordering material, splicing scenes together and synchronizing music.

This is perhaps the most challeng-ing but creative part of the filmmaking

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process. “Of course, you could have someone else edit, but I always do my own editing because it’s a crucial step in realizing the original vision. The editing suite is literally and figura-

tively where the film gets made.” Music is an important part of any

film, but especially films with no spo-ken words. Here again, Will’s place in the industry played a huge role as he

was able to engage sev-eral renowned Canadian composers, Kurt Swing-hammer and John Doerr among them, to create original music for nearly the whole series accord-ing to directions Will provided about what he wanted to evoke in each segment. The end result is powerful and ... well, evocative.

The productions also benefited from the skills of Alex Boothby ’92, who is a premier visual effects artist with Tech-nicolour International in Toronto, and who donated his time to the project. “Alex is extraor-

dinarily gifted. He’s the best in the business – and nice with it,” remarked Scoular. “We were very fortunate to have him and the other members of my very talented team on board.” In fact, Will’s professional connections, and his own skilled time and efforts allowed the videos to be produced for a fraction of the real cost – far under a budget that would have been prohibitive to the School.

The films were finished on schedule in early June (“I work in the theatre, so I’m used to deadlines”) and the first to see the finished product was Headmaster Kevin McHenry. “My first impression was one of immense pride for the School,” said Kevin of his first viewing. “It was actually a very emotional experience for me. Will was able to capture the entire SAC experi-ence in just over four minutes, which is an astonishing feat. Everything in the films is original. He has created something we can be proud of for years. I was very, very impressed.”

The films were launched to the

A graduate of Oxford University where he read English at Lincoln College, William Scoular is a stage director, writer and filmmaker.

Selected world and national premieres include: Alan Bennett’s Waiting for the Telegram, Playing Sandwiches and A Cream Cracker Under the Settee (with Elizabeth Shep-herd and Graham Harley), Ed Graczyk’s My Time Ain’t Long: The Jimmy Rogers Story (with Keith Carradine and John Goodman), Ian Heggie’s Politics in the Park, Mark Owen’s Landscape With Pigeons (with Elizabeth Shepherd), Howard Korder’s Fun, Nina in the Morning, Naomi in the Livingroom (with Barbara Chilcott) and The Book of Leviticus Show by Christopher Durang, Gardner McKay’s Seamarks (with Mau-

rice Good and Elizabeth Shepherd), Henry David Hwang’s Trying to Find Chinatown, John Bishop’s Cabin 12, The Outing by Sina Queyras (with Doris Petrie), Answering Bell, God and Hockey and Survival Box by Ashlin Halfnight.

Selected other theatre credits include: Gardner McKay’s Toyer (with Alice Krige and Al Weaver) in London’s West End, the World Stage production of Samuel Beckett’s Footfalls (with Elizabeth Shepherd and Jenny Phipps), the West End production of Steven Berkoff’s Berkoff’s Women (with Linda Marlowe), Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Lee McDougall’s High Life, Stephen Belber’s Tape, You Can’t Take It With You, Woman in a Monkey Cage, Charley’s Aunt, A Walk in the Woods, West Side Story, Cabaret, Oliver!, Kiss Me Kate, Side by Side by Sondheim (with Andree Bernard), Spring Awakening, The Importance of Being Earnest (with Dame Joan Hawtrey and Lionel Hamilton) Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Henry V and Hamlet.

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CheCk out Will sCoulAr’s Videos on the School’s new website at www.sac.on.ca or on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/StAndrews1899 and share the link with your friends.

In addition to numerous music videos and commercials, Scoular’s work in film includes Passage to Sydney, a profile of British equestrian champion Emile Fauree, and the award winning CTV movie The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton (with Alice Krige, Jessica Pare and Brendan Fletcher).

He is the author of Not An Ordinary Place, Secret Agent: The Life of Harry Somers, and co-author (with Viv-ian Green) of the Canadian bestseller A Question of Guilt.

Upcoming projects include: the UK revival of Pal Joey in London’s West End, a new stage musical adaptation of the award-winning film Hear My Song (also West End); the feature film Northbound (starring Gordon Pinsent); a biography of Vivian Green, the renowned Oxford historian and acknowledged original of John le Carre’s master spy, George Smiley; and An Empty Sleeve (a feature film currently in development based on Alexander Waugh’s acclaimed book The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War).

Andrean community over the course of a week in September: at the year’s first faculty meeting; New Family Orientation Day; a special preview for Parents; the opening School assem-bly; and a private Old Boy gathering during the Toronto International Film Festival. On Monday, September 13th, the videos made their public debut on the new school website and on YouTube, to acclaim by all.

Not a single change was requested from Will’s finished version that Kevin saw first.

And so the school year started, and the man who began his teaching career with five

years at Pickering College and one at Upper Canada in the early 1980s before coming to St. Andrew’s, was back in the classroom in the profes-sion he considers to be an anchor to his rich artistic life. “I love teaching,” he says, “but more than that it keeps me on my toes.”

Will’s directing gigs are frequent,

presented to Will by his agent, Jean Diamond, who took him on as a client more than 30 years ago during his Oxford directing debut. Will is one of only two Canadians ever to di-rect in London’s West End, and he’ll return there next year to direct two productions: Hear My Song, a musi-cal version of the 1991 film of the same name, and the UK revival of Pal Joey, starring Broadway legend Betty Buckley. He tries to plan engagements outside the school year, but theatre can be unforgiving in this respect. Fortunately, the St. Andrew’s com-munity recognizes the long-term value of lending its star artist-in-residence to major world-class productions as opportunities arise.

While theatre continues to be Will Scoular’s first love, he looks back on the films of 2009/10 as a highlight of his St. Andrew’s career. “It turned out to be one of the richest experiences I’ve ever had here,” he recalls. “It was lots of fun and, actually, quite inspiring to be able

to record the extraordinary accom-plishments of our students in all their various endeavours, and to witness the work of my colleagues going way beyond the call of duty to ensure that our students get the most out of their time here. Everyone on the staff is so smart and talented these days. Lucky for me I squeaked in when I did. Nowadays I wouldn’t stand a chance of being hired!”

“I hope these videos help spread the word that St. Andrew’s College is a world-class institution, and a remark-able community – remarkable for its beauty, its intimacy and its achievement of excellence. I hope, too, that they’ll remind members of the Andrean com-munity just how fortunate we all are to belong to such a place.” JIM MCGILLIVRAY

Watch in 2011 for a second edition of Will’s exemplary and eminently readable history of St. Andrew’s, Not an Ordinary Place, first published in 1998.

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Few realize the ties between St. Andrew’s College and the liberation of Holland from Nazi Germany in 1945, but during the first

week in May 2010, 22 members of the Pipes & Drums and five staff took a trip through history by participating in the celebrations of the 65th anniversary of Liberation Week in The Netherlands.

During the spring of 1945, the Cana-dian First Army drove the faltering Ger-man army from Holland, which had been overrun in four short days early in 1940. Among the many Canadian regiments seeing action was the 48th Highlanders of Canada. On May 5, 1945, after threat-ening to flood the country by blowing up many of the dykes (much of Holland is reclaimed land lying below sea level), the Germans agreed to withdraw if the Canadians would cease pursuit. This was “Liberation Day,” and the Dutch have celebrated the entire week every year since. Major celebrations are funded by the Dutch government every five years.

Canadian veterans are nothing short of heroes to the Dutch. Canadians were their liberators, and Canadian flags nearly outnumber Dutch flags during Liberation week. This year was the 65th anniversary of these celebrations, and through both good research and good fortune, the St. Andrew’s College Pipes & Drums were given a rare op-portunity to join in.

May 4 was the Dutch Remembrance Day, and the Pipes & Drums joined a contingent of Canadian students and Dutch citizens on a ‘Silent March’ through the streets of Apeldoorn, which in 1945 was the centre of fighting. Following a Divine Service in a local church, the band led the congrega-tion to a memorial cenotaph, where the Mayor and other dignitaries laid wreaths to honour those who fell during the Nazi occupation.

It was here that the emotional impact of the week became apparent. Since

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most of the May 4 service was conducted in Dutch, it was more of a contempla-tive time for Canadians, who actually made up most of the congregation. The service was punctuated by several organ interludes. During the first of these, it dawned on those present after a few seconds that the organist was actually playing a very subdued ver-sion of the Canadian national anthem. There may have been some confusion among the Canadians about whether this actually was “O Canada” or a Dutch hymn that had adapted the same melody. However, as the tune progressed, the words of the anthem could be heard swelling gently among the Canadians present. The tune ended, but the organist immediately rolled into a sec-ond time through the piece, this time with increased volume and a more stately fla-vour. The visitors responded en masse, and within a few seconds, all Canadians rose spontaneously to their feet, proudly singing the anthem in response to the Dutch tribute. A third time through the piece followed, and the voices continued unabated. It

was an unexpected and moving moment, and not all eyes in the church were dry by the end, as the appreciation of the people of Holland became palpable to the descendants of their liberators.

liberAtioN dAy iN WANgeNiNgeNThe treaty ending the Canadian advance was signed in the town of Wangeningen in 1945, and on Wednes-day, May 5, the band participated in the parade of their lives, as 100,000 spectators lined the winding 80-minute

parade route through town.Citizens crowded the route, some-

times 30 deep, as the band performed along with dozens of other bands from around the world to cheers, applause and flag-waving from the appreciative crowd. Bands included civilian pipe bands from Canada and the British Isles, as well as professional military brass and reed bands, such as the Royal Marines. The boys got to meet and speak with members of the 48th Highlanders of Holland, a Dutch tribute band that honours the Pipes & Drums of the 48th Highlanders of Canada.

Never before had these young pip-ers and drummers experienced such attention and adulation. Dressed in full Highland dress with feather bonnets, scarlet jackets, spats and tartan plaids, they received endless cheers and ap-plause, and were targets of thousands of cameras, including those of a large group of band parents who saw the tour as a great opportunity for a memorable Holland experience.

By this time, the boys had nearly recovered from jet lag incurred on the Sunday night trip, but the busy schedule still made for many nodding heads on the bus during travel time to and from the Harskemp Military Barracks, where the band was housed.

APeldoorN, WilP ANd VoorstThe band’s fifth day in Holland was its third performing day, and a busy day it was: breakfast at 7:00 a.m., then dressed and on the bus by 8:45 for a trip to the Apeldoorn City Hall, where they played a choreographed marching performance for a civic gathering of Canadian veter-ans hosted by the Mayor of Apeldoorn.

Then it was on to a small country church in the town of Wilp, on the Ijssel River, where the Canadians had crossed on their way to Apeldoorn in 1945. A plaque at the church commemorates Col. Donald MacKenzie, the 48th Lieu-tenant Colonel killed at age 30, along

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with 20 other members of the regiment during the advance to Apeldoorn. Five remaining 48th veterans had made the trip and were honoured in a memorial service. The band performed on the lawn outside the church while the veter-ans and congregation moved outside to lay a wreath honouring the late Colonel and the battle. It was a touching moment for all. The band closed the proceedings with “Highland Laddie,” the regimental march of the 48th Highlanders, and the stooped but proud veterans of the fight-ing in Apeldoorn snapped to attention and saluted upon hearing ‘their’ tune.

The bus then took the band and the vets to Twello to view the small monu-ment on the river where the crossing took place. An interesting bus trip it was, as the vets could be overheard sharing remembrances of the battle with each other. “All this countryside was covered with smoke,” said one.

“All these farmhouses were ablaze because the Germans set them on fire as they retreated!”

From here, the bus full of bands-men, veterans and the mayor of Voorst, proceeded to a reception for the vets at nearby Voorst, where the band played another performance for the vets and all those in attendance, including many Canadians.

By this point in the week, the already cohesive band began to really understand their mission. They began to exhibit a level of pride and commit-ment that simply can’t be taught at a band practice. Seeing some of the great professional military bands rehearsing at the barracks, and seeing with what respect and reverence the people of Holland paid homage to Canadians, the boys showed more pride in the uniform and its myriad of details than ever be-fore. They became a self-sufficient unit

in terms of discipline, each keeping the other in line, and each helping the other to make sure the band could hold its own among far more experienced units and be a source of pride to ‘our’ very personable group of 48th veterans.

holteN CANAdiAN WAr CemeteryWhile not as spectacular as the big liberation parade, the fourth performing day was a different kind of highlight.

The band visited the Canadian War Cemetery near Holten, where 1,800 Canadian war dead are buried, includ-ing 20 members of the 48th Highlanders of Canada. The streets of Holten were lined with banners and posters show-ing a red maple leaf encircled in the heart in red, white and blue (Holland’s colours) above the words “We’ll never forget.” Such tributes to Canada ap-peared around every corner during the seven-day trip.

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On an overcast but comfortable day, the band was joined by the 48th veterans, their families and friends, as well as Dutch students who make it their duty to maintain the large and impeccably-kept cemetery.

The Pipes & Drums sounded full and vibrant as they played several numbers in the cemetery, while the 200 or so visitors in attendance walked the rows and read inscriptions on head-stones. A brief service of remembrance was followed by a moment’s silence, broken in the traditional fashion by the lament, “Flowers of the Forest,” played by the entire band. The informal ser-vice closed as it opened, with veterans at attention, while the band played the Regimental march, “Highland Laddie.”

Twenty boys in the band were then each given a rose which they laid on the graves of the 20 fallen 48th Highland-ers, and then the whole band posed with the vets for a memorable photo in front of the cemetery’s main monument. The boys were quite overwhelmed as each

of the 200-300 visitors and tourists in attendance seemed to find a camera, vying for their own shot of the spectacu-lar scene. Finally, the band formed two honour lines and played “Scotland the Brave” and “The Black Bear,” while the tearful vets exited between the lines and made their way to their bus. For most, if not all, of these old warriors, this will be their final farewell to the resting place of their comrades and the scenes of their last battles.

Over the past decades, many St. An-drew’s students and pipers have visited Canadian war cemeteries in Belgium and France, but this was the first time the entire Pipes & Drums had per-formed in such a setting with actual 48th Highlanders’ veterans in atten-dance. The front rank of pipers carried drone banners presented to the 48th Highlanders’ Pipes & Drums during 50th anniversary celebrations in 1995 and loaned to the boys for this occasion.

The effect was stirring, and the thanks offered by the veterans after

the service clearly demonstrated their appreciation.

The verdant, tiered Holten cemetery is often regarded as the most beautiful of the Canadian War Cemeteries in Eu-rope. The sight of the scarlets, the sound of the pipes and drums on this dreary day, and the presence of the veterans are memories that will long reside with the boys. All in attendance (including their teachers) were struck by the reverence with which these teenagers each laid a rose on the graves of boys who 65 years ago were only a couple of years older than they were. These young men will not see war the same way again.

the Ve dAy PArAde: APeldoorNThe tour closed in fine fashion with the band parading through Apeldoorn on Sunday, May 9 for the 65th Vic-tory in Europe Day parade. Though a shorter march, the crowd was almost certainly larger than the 100,000 in Wangeningen on Wednesday. There are no barriers on the wide Apeldoorn downtown avenues, so the crowd moved in from the sides, leaving a corridor barely big enough for a band five across to wind through. Canadian flags were everywhere and lots of “Thank-you Boys!” signs from the locals recalled the 1945 Canadian miracle.

The boys were a long time getting back onto the bus as the locals passing by on their way home from the huge parade insisted on having photos with them in uniform. They felt like rock stars, but they behaved like soldiers.

And thus a trip through the history books ended as 22 dedicated Cadet musicians “felt dawn and saw sunset glow” for a week amidst tributes to the long-remembered heroism of their countrymen. They came away with a part of history in their hearts, with a love of country, and with a respect for the sacrifice of others that simply cannot be imparted in a classroom. JIM MCGILLIVRAY

The Pipes & Drums pause with the 48th Highlanders’ veterans after the remembrance Day ceremony at Holten Canadian War Cemetery.

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The SAC Annual Fund appeal was

mailed recently. Please return your

donation card by mail or visit

www.sac.on.ca/online-giving.asp

Thank you for your ongoing support!

It is something special, something unique and something to belong to.

It is the Andrean Brotherhood.No matter where they are or how they got there, Old Boys of St. Andrew’s are formidably linked together. Today’s students, and youngest members of our brotherhood, make us proud of our School and proud to give back.

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Jerome BirooStudent Writes Book About Coping with the loss of a parent

Prefect Jerome Biroo ‘11 published

a book in August about coming to

terms with the death of his mother

six years ago. St. Andrew’s hosted

his official book launch on Octo-

ber 14th in the Memorial Chapel

where Jerome introduced his book

Chances: A Teen Reshapes his Life

after the Death of a Parent, first

to the Upper School students and

then to the Middle School students,

parents, special guests and members

of the media.

Following the event, Jerome

signed copies of his book and

took questions from the media in

the Staunton Gallery. Copies of

Chances are available for $20 in

the Campus Shop. Jerome is

donating 10% of all proceeds to

the Canadian Cancer Society.

The following is an excerpt

from the last chapter entitled,

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Immediately following the event,

Jerome joined his public speaking

coach, David Kyle, and fellow SAC

debaters, Justin Moryto ’12 and

Sam Finan ’12, for a trip to Ottawa,

where he competed in the 2010

International Independent Schools

Public Speaking Competition (IISPSC)

at Ashbury College. He placed 9th

overall out of more than 160 gifted

competitors, 2nd overall among all

Ontario students, and 6th overall

within the large Canadian presence,

which included nearly as many British

Columbia schools as Ontario entrants,

as well as schools from Alberta and

Manitoba. Jerome and six other Ca-

nadians (five girls and one boy) have

earned the privilege of representing

Canada at next year’s World Public

Speaking Championships in Australia!

Jerome BirooMy father once told me that life was like the ocean. Usually, the

water is still and easy to swim through. In fact, wading your way through the gentle waters can be enjoyable and relax-ing. Yet, there will be times where the water will not be as

calm as you had expected. Every now and then, the water will be rough and difficult to swim through. When you fight to swim against the current, you will feel a great deal of fear and begin to worry about sinking beneath the waves around you. However, if you decide to calm down, avoid fear, and work through the rough waters, you’ll find that you’re able to stay afloat. Instead of spending your energy panicking and doubting yourself, you’ll be able to continue swimming with confidence and peacefully return to shore.

In many ways, this analogy effectively describes our lives as a whole, regardless of who we are and what experiences we will face. All of us will experience difficult times, and grieving the loss of a loved one is certainly a time of adversity. However, if we try to fight or deny what has happened in life, we risk letting ourselves be drowned by our problems. Instead, we should strive to accept the rough times, and swim through them with confidence. This is exactly what this book is aimed at trying to help you achieve. Although this may just be a collection of pages and ink, the reality is that each chapter was devoted to guiding you toward peace during a difficult time. By exploring ideas like acceptance, hope and perseverance, you will have taken the first steps to becoming a person of hope and inspiration. After all that you have endured, the truth is that all it takes is some guidance and courage to pull yourself out of the rough waters of life. However, despite how simple and sensible this truth may seem, I must admit I have only come to accept it recently. While it makes sense to ap-proach a problem with honesty, this idea was lost to me after my mother died. At the time, I told myself that overcoming adversity would be impossible, and I couldn’t find the courage to actually confront my problems. Instead, I chose to spend five years of my life running from them.

For more information on Jerome’s book, please visit his website at www.jeromebiroo.com.

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Crossing the Rubicon A Story of Boys Standing up for their Rights

IN the spring of 1952, Vincent Massey, Class of 1906, had just been installed as the

first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada. Her Majesty Queen Eliza-beth II was three months into her reign as Queen of England. The Korean War was still being fought, and the Canadian Men’s hockey team had just won gold at the Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway.

Meanwhile, at St. Andrew’s campus, a popular topic of conversation among the students was food. And not because it was tasty; according to some, “it was inedible … we lived on bread and milk.” Many Old Boys recollect that meals often consisted of ‘mystery meat,’ over-cooked vegetables, powdered eggs and cold cuts, often referred to as a ‘poor man’s diet’. The students com-plained to whoever would listen, and eventually, they persuaded the Ladies Guild to launch an investigation. The outcome: the food was perfectly fine for them to eat.

Exasperated, the boys decided to launch a protest, which was orga-nized by a few strong characters and communicated via word of mouth. A handful of boys, however, chose not to participate: no-one from Macdon-ald House (Lower School) took part, as they were too young, and athletes played their scheduled games. Never-theless, just before dinner one spring

evening in 1952, 100 students in #1 dress lined up by platoon on the lower fields.

The students decided to march up to the Headmaster’s House and demand an audience. March they did, straight up to the Quad, where they stood at ease, while one brave soul knocked on Headmaster Ketchum’s door. Upon opening the door and seeing 100 boys in formation, the Headmaster leapt to the ground skipping over all five front steps. He demanded to know what the boys thought they were doing.

“We are here to protest the inedible food, sir,” said student spokesman Paul (Beefy) Esson ’53. “No one believes us, yet the food for the Masters’ table is dif-ferent from ours.” When the Headmaster asked who had organized this protest, all 100 boys stepped forward in unison.

At this point, the Headmaster selected 10 boys he thought might be responsible. The 10 were called into his office one-by-one that evening. Dr. Ketchum soon realized that the scheme had been organized primarily by two students: Beefy Esson ’53 and

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Crossing the Rubicon A Story of Boys Standing up for their Rights

his roommate, the late Andy Crosbie ’53. Dr. Ketchum called both boys in and told them that he would be phon-ing their parents to inform them of their son’s expulsion.

The two boys informed the Head-master that they had already phoned their parents that evening, and that their parents supported this protest, as the boys had been complaining to them about the food for months. Knowing that the boys had their parents’ support, the Headmaster agreed to launch a second investigation. He discovered that of the

food prepared in the dining hall, only 10% was of good quality, the rest was sold out the back door or the money was used to purchase lower quality food to be served to the boys. Further inquiry revealed that the money saved was being appropriated by certain kitchen staff. Why hadn’t this been revealed after the Ladies Guild’s investigation? Perhaps the investigation had been announced in advance, giving kitchen staff ample time to prepare a fine meal on that particular day.

On that fateful day, SAC students bravely confronted authority. “We knew we were being had and weren’t going to take it anymore,” explained Beefy. Like Julius Caesar’s decision to cross the Rubicon, the students’ decision to protest was a risky course of action. While Headmaster Ketchum and his Administration were not happy, they perhaps respected the peaceful and diplomatic process the students fol-lowed to ensure their voices were heard.

According to Beefy, “Every Master knew the food was inferior, and since virtually the entire Upper School was united on this protest, they felt they had to do something.”

The food was indisputably better the following year. Story told by Paul (Beefy) Esson ’53 As recalled by several other members of the Class of ’52 and ’53

dining at st. Andrew’s todayNutritious Fare served dailyGrace Wyvill, Manager of Food Services, and her very talented dining staff have completely revolutionized the nutritional content and culinary offerings at St. An-drew’s since her arrival in 2007. Students are now offered a wide range of cuisine choices. Breakfast includes a choice of hot or cold cereals, farm fresh eggs, fresh fruit and assorted fruit muffins. Lunch and dinner offerings typically include a choice of pasta, meat or fish dish, vegetarian selection, fresh soup, freshly steamed vegetables, fruit salad, and an impressive salad bar. SAC is a recipient of the York Regional Eat Smart Award in recognition of its high standards in food safety and nutritional offerings. This province-wide program is in partnership with the Canadian Cancer Society and the Heart & Stroke Foundation.

“The food at St. Andrew’s offers a wide variety of meals from different cultures and backgrounds,” explains Head Prefect Chris Adams-McGavin ’11. “The most appealing aspect is all the choice available beyond the specific meal being served, whether it is the salad bar, sandwiches, soup, or fruit, there are always options. This is my first year experiencing breakfast and dinner every day, and this is up to the same standard as lunch. A new personal favorite is Wednesday’s ‘theme night’ dinner. On top of all this, all the options are healthy and lead to a balanced diet.”

Other nutritional changes include: a school-wide ‘no pop’ rule; Macdonald House students are not permitted to order fast food from Monday to Thursday inclusive. Instead, a healthy evening snack, known as ‘Mac Snack’, is in place from Monday through Thursday to offer our young, growing, adolescent students nutritious options after study (8:30 – 9:00 pm) in the Great Hall.

“Every Master knew the food was inferior, and since virtually the entire Upper School was united on this protest, they felt they had to do something.”

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“Our trip to Namibia was not just a remarkable experience; it was not just a way for us to work and improve the lives of students there. It was a trip where we learned more about ourselves than we ever could at home; it was a trip where we learned to be ourselves.” AustiN AlmAdi ’12

“I know that I helped make life a bit bet-ter in a place where there is little hope, but I’m also grateful as the children I worked with have forever changed me.” ChristoPher ho ’11

Community serviceDuring a five-day community service project at the Fransfontein Primary School in rural Namibia, the St. Andrew’s group painted and renovated six classroom blocks. They also had time to play games with the children during recess and after school each day, as well as to distribute a large quantity of donated clothing, school supplies, toys, and dental kits that were pro-vided by the boys and their parents.

SASSAW 2010namibia, Botswana and ZambiaBy MARK SeRVICe

For three weeks this past August, 20 students, two Old

Boy chaperones, and three teachers travelled to Namibia,

Botswana and Zambia for the 8th Annual St. Andrew’s

Society for Service Around the World (SASSAW) trip. Each

SASSAW trip has three distinct components: a community

service project, a Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expedition,

and a cultural tour.

“It has been four years since my time at St. Andrew’s. After leaving the School, for what I thought would be the last time, I forgot what it meant to be an Andrean. Being with the boys and the teachers as an Old Boy chaperone on this trip remind-ed me of how tight the SAC community is and how important it has been for me.”tyler muNro ’06

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“The Namibia trip was one of the highlights of my time at SAC thus far. The most memorable experience for me was the hike across difficult terrain in the Kalahari Desert, and being surrounded by a herd of el-ephants one night at our campsite.” steVeN sirboVAN ’11

duke of edinburgh’s Award expeditionThe second leg of the adventure involved a four-day hiking expedition in the Kala-hari Desert. Over the first three days, the boys spent a great deal of time learning how to use a map and compass to navigate in the desert, and they practiced planning and prepping for an expedition. This was in preparation for a 24 km chal-lenge trek they completed entirely on their own on the fourth day of the adven-ture. On the third afternoon, the boys were given a map and 24 grid references, as well as a short briefing. After that, it was up to them to plan their entire solo trek. After choosing a group leader, the boys divided into teams including navigation, first aid, water, lunch prep and breakfast teams, and they got down to work plan-ning their journey.

“Namibia was really life changing. At the end of the community service week I had an old paint-stained shirt that I no longer needed or wanted, so I gave it to one of the kids. As I did, I saw his eyes light up; he put it on and ran around showing it off to everyone. Seeing how happy that boy was over an old shirt made me realize how lucky I am to live in Canada and to go to such a great school. It makes you think about how much we take for granted.” VikrAm kAhloN ’11

“This experience truly opened my eyes to a place about which I had no previous knowl-edge. Experiencing a variety of different cultures and working as part of a cohesive group allowed me to gain a new apprecia-tion for the world around me, and I can say with confidence that it changed my life.” riChArd oCChiPiNti ’11

safari: Namibia to zambiaFor the final leg of the journey, the group embarked on a safari through Namibia, Botswana and into Zambia. Highlights included a sunset boat cruise on the Chobe River, seeing a leopard during a morning game drive in Chobe National Park, white water rafting on the Zambezi River, and viewing the spectacular Victoria Falls.

Zambian side of Victoria Falls

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profile Scott Jolliffe ‘69

You might expect that an Old Boy who served as both Head Prefect and Commanding Officer of the #142 Highland Cadet Corps might be destined for a position of leadership. But Scott Jolliffe ’69 has outdone even himself in this respect. In 2008, Scott was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gowling, Lafleur, Henderson LLP, the largest law firm in Canada. Gowlings employs 725 lawyers and a support staff of more than 1,200 in seven offices in Canada, the UK and Russia. The firm specializes in business law, litigation and intellectual property (patent, trademark, copyright, industrial design, technology and trade secrets).

This choice of careers may seem like a departure for a student who attended the University of Toronto to study chemical engineering. However, as Scott recounts, it was the St. Andrew’s network that encouraged this fortuitous leap. “My roommate all through St. Andrew’s was Gordon Henderson ’69, who has gone on to great success as a TV producer,” Scott recalls: “I did a lot of theatre at SAC [he won the Mainprize Theatre Arts Award in his graduating year] and was teetering between studying Drama at York University or Chemical Engineering at U of T.”

“Gordon’s father, also Gordon, convinced me that combin-ing a scientific degree with law might make for a successful marriage of disciplines. And of course, my father, (the late) Ross Jolliffe ’42, who was from a fairly strict and traditional background, much preferred to see his son pursue a career in engineering or law rather than acting.”

Mr. Henderson hired Scott as a summer student at the Ottawa firm in 1975 and as a full-time associate lawyer in intellectual property in 1978. The die was cast, and Scott never looked back, moving to Toronto when the firm opened an office there in 1980 and becoming its managing partner in 1996. The 2008 appointment to CEO was, in fact, a change of title rather than of responsibilities. He has been at the helm for 14 years.

Scott says that it is the combination of technology and law that holds appeal for him, and that the field has grown expo-nentially since he began in the 1980s. “With the tremendous growth in computers and technology in the latter part of the 20th century, a nearly new discipline has evolved in law,” he says. “Intellectual property – ideas and concepts – these are

the bricks and mortar of much of the business world today.”The firm’s move to Russia started when the old Soviet

regime was still in place, and today the Moscow office is one of the top three intellectual property law firms in Russia, employ-ing 20 lawyers, all but one of whom are Russian. The firm also has an office in London, England, specializing in power genera-tion and nuclear energy. (Scott notes that former SAC Board Chair Brian Armstrong ’61, now at Bruce Nuclear in south-ern Ontario, is a Gowlings alumnus.) Another office in China may be on the near horizon as well.

Needless to say, the demands of such a position leave Scott limited time outside of the profession, though he and wife Robynn travel quite a bit, and Scott makes a determined point of walking 85 minutes to and from the office in downtown Toronto each day. The couple has two grown children. JIM MCGILLIVRAY

At the Helm in a Burgeoning Legal Field

Scott (left) with his brother eric ’76, York regional Police Chief and a member of the SaC board of Directors since 2006(below) Scott and wife robynn hike in Glencoe, in the Scottish Highlands

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profile Tony Wong ‘70

When Tony Wong ’70 graduated from Waterloo Lutheran University (now Wilfrid Laurier) with a degree in Economics in 1973 and entered the somewhat impersonal world of corporate bank-ing, little did he realize that eventually he would spend his life in what he now calls one of the most ‘personal’ businesses there is: tailoring.

“I’m very fortunate to have very high-profile peo-ple come to me for suits,” he notes. “We have diplo-mats, politicians and celebrities coming in for fittings, including, for example, CTV News anchor Lloyd Robertson, who ended up putting me on Canadian TV. These are the kinds of people you’re lucky if you can get a 15-minute appointment with, but I spend an hour with them measuring them and chatting with them while engaged in a very intimate activity.

“It’s quite remarkable what you discuss with people during that very private time while they are dressing and undressing for you. I know it sounds funny, but I love to talk, and you can create quite a remarkable relationship in that time.”

Tailoring was most certainly in Tony’s blood from the start in his Hong Kong home. His father was a tailor and importer of English suiting fabric, but after university in Ontario, Tony joined the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and then moved to Confederation Life. Those corporations kept him busy until 1979, when his dad persuaded him to come back and join the family business. This lasted for a year before he went out and started his own garment enterprise.

Business was good and he secured contracts from airline companies and the U.S. Navy, while still doing more per-sonal work with a clientele that included U.S. Senators and Congressmen. During this time he also became involved in an outdoor furniture business with his sister in China. “This was quite different from the garment business,” he says. “We went from a staff of 15 to 1,200 in a year. We might have a $1.6 million contract for a single chair, which is quite differ-ent from making one suit for one person.” Unfortunately, the Chinese industrial boom of the 1980s created a glut of low-quality competition and they decided to sell that enterprise.

By this time, Tony had taken over his father’s business and tailoring became his life.

“There were some difficult times back then,” he recalls. “But honestly, the St. Andrew’s credo of “Quit ye like men, be strong” really served me well. I learned a fighting, never-say-die spirit during my SAC years that has never left me, and that has helped me get through a lot.”

Today, Tony has four significant women in his life – his wife Mary and their two grown daughters, and his mother, who sent him to SAC – in Hong Kong, the gateway to China. Tony sees more and more Canadians and SAC families visiting China, and he is happy to hear from any and all at wmfss@biznetvigator.net.

“The St. Andrew’s network is a fantastic network” he says. “I get visits now from younger Andreans, the children of people I went to school with. Sure, I get some business out of it, but what I really enjoy is the talk. I’m proud to be a part of that community, and I really enjoy those visits. Right back to my early days with Judge Ferguson, my legal guardian who helped me at SAC and who instilled so many Canadian values in me. Those years never leave you.”JIM MCGILLIVRAY

Tony and lloyd robertson of CTV News

Creating Personal Ties in a Very Intimate Business

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profile Steve dengler ‘87 & Beric Farmer ‘87

In 1993, Beric Farmer ’87 and Steve Dengler ’87, joined forces to start a business. They weren’t sure what this busi-ness would be, but away they went. Shortly thereafter, they put a simple currency conversion program (what we’d now call an ‘App’) onto their website as a way to demonstrate to potential consulting clients how websites can be dynamic rather than just provide static information. Little did they know that more than a decade later, based on that simple pro-gram, they would be heading the most popular currency site on the Internet – and one of the busiest websites in the world – with the most convenient and most inexpensive currency payment service in the world of finance. Many readers have probably used XE.com simply to convert from one currency to another. But they also allow you to make payments in a foreign currency or transfer money between bank accounts held in different currencies. It’s easy to set up, and very convenient for those making payments internationally.

Beric and Steve met in grade 9 at St. Andrew’s and have been fast friends ever since. This friendship, plus their per-severance and “eyes-wide-open” policy has been a winning combination ever since their XE.com conversion site hit the Internet. They have grown surely and steadily, though, they admit, cautiously. That caution has been fortuitous, keeping them afloat during the dot-com crash of 2000 when many good firms like theirs went under.

Talkative, personable and enthusiastic about what they do, their story is best told through their own words, with excerpts from a two-and-a-half hour interview conducted in October 2010.On the birth of XE.comSTEVE: In 1995, ’96, ’97, the Internet was starting to reach critical mass. We were doing websites for some people at the time, but everyone was just using a static page: one page of information, then another page of information. We wanted to show people that these pages could actually do something. We thought: maybe a currency converter. So we made one, put it up, and right away it started getting used. We were Netscape affiliate partners back when Netscape was a big deal. We got onto their “What’s Cool” list. From that point on we started experiencing tremendous growth.

On the quiet popularity of the site:STEVE: Everybody out there who needs to know about currency knows our site, but I don’t think there is an appreciation that practically everyone else also knows the site. You might use it, and Fred and Bill might use it, but you’re not all aware that you all use it. We’re now solid near a rank of 355 globally, which means there are only 354 sites on the Internet that get used more than we do.

On the keys to the growth of XE.comSTEVE: Really, what was important was just the ability to get in and get involved and stay involved, because we simply didn’t have a business model. We used to joke that one day our company would be nothing but currency services. Pretty soon that became less and less of a joke until one day that’s the way it was. That progression from nothing to everything happened from 1993 to maybe 2000. Seven years, that’s a long time. Really, it’s all about what they call entrepreneurial spirit. Not any one particular skill – just staying in the game, keeping your eyes open and making yourself useful.BERIC: I don’t think I would have thought of it in these terms back then, but more just a desire to succeed. You decide to start this business, so, first, it means you’re willing to work hard. Second, you care about doing a good job, and, third, you keep your eyes open. You look, and you realize when something is not working. You realize when something might be a good opportunity. One huge part of it was the decision to get involved in the Internet, which was just becoming commercialized. That part of things ended up exploding very rapidly. It was a very forgiving industry to be in at that time, because you could make mistakes and still grow and succeed.

Currency Giant XE.com Built on Friendship, Perseverance

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On protecting the XE.com market shareBERIC: We have people who come to our site because they have known about us for 15 years. It’s hard for a competitor to overcome that habit alone. The way Internet businesses gain an audience now is to advertise, and it would probably cost millions and millions of dollars to try and develop an audience of our size from scratch.... There are larger players who could make a dent in what we have though. So part of what we are trying to do is to build up our community – a very large group of people who use our site all the time. You have to build that from scratch. You can’t just buy that community. On the role of their friendship in building a successful businessSTEVE: People say, “Oh, luck doesn’t play a role in busi-ness strategy.” Luck doesn’t play the only role in business, but it’s in there. I mean, you turn left instead of right, you meet a person or you don’t meet a person. But it takes a lot more than luck. First of all: the friendship between me and Beric. Our friendship has been in many ways the cornerstone

of the business, just because you always know that no matter how bad something gets – and things have gotten pretty bad over the years – you know you have someone who is going to be there. They’re going to be honest with you; they’re going to be supportive. Or conversely, if you’re making a mistake, they’re not going to be afraid to say, “I don’t think this is what we should be doing.” Over the lifetime of the business, that’s an incredibly positive factor that can’t be replicated by just taking two strangers and starting a business together. On the importance of remaining independent in growing the businessSTEVE: We were looking one day at the business – at this point it was just the two of us, right? We had two guys and we had the world’s largest currency website. We used to joke, “At what other point in history could two guys have the biggest anything?” Even the world’s biggest ball of string would take at least a dozen people to roll, right? Beric came in and said, “Look at the money we’re making. We could just go home

and collect cheques.” Funny thing was, it wasn’t too long after that – around 2000 – that the bottom just dropped out of the market. We were very lucky because we never had any outside financing or anything like that. We were completely bootstrapped and organically grown. Nobody was hovering over us saying, “No, no, I need profitability two quarters or three quarters from now!” So when the bottom fell out of the market we hadn’t grown to rely on that money to pay investors. Other companies had. When the crash came, lots of other good companies were gone.On turning a small company into a big companyBERIC: For years we didn’t have to manage people. When you’re a small company, everybody knows what’s happen-ing, so you don’t have to make any intentional effort to make sure that’s the case. Everybody just knows. As you grow, you start realizing, “I can’t take that for granted anymore. I actually have to make an effort to ensure that everyone understands what’s going on, what we’re trying to achieve, make sure everyone is on the same page.” You have to start consciously ensuring that important things are communicat-ed, and realize that while it’s great to have more resources to get things done, continuing to develop the business now requires paying attention to the people side of things within your company.On maintaining balance when you run a booming businessBERIC: It’s very good that I got married and had a family. It keeps me from just working all the time, because I easily could. When I get my teeth into a problem I tend to be very tenacious and just hammer away at it until it’s solved. But when you have kids and a wife, there’s something else in your life that is very rewarding and enjoyable. Plus, you realize that you have a role to play and you have to be there. And so, at the end of the work day, you’re much more likely to say, “Okay, it’s time to go home.” If I were single, I think I’d work much longer days than I do. And I’m not sure that would be good for me.

Today, XE.com operates with 20 employees in a Newmarket office that is doubling its floor space in anticipation of things to come. The company is in hiring mode as new possibilities in the global marketplace bloom.

Steve lives in Woodbridge, about 35 minutes away, with his wife and two sons, ages 6 and 3. Beric lives in Newmar-ket with his wife, a son 11 and a daughter 8.

Their new business cards call them “The World’s Favourite Currency Site,” and include seven words Beric and Steve have heard more than any other: “I use your site all the time!”

To read the entire interview with Steve Dengler and Beric Farmer, and to learn more about the fascinating ascension of XE.com, go to www.sac.on.ca JIM MCGILLIVRAY

People say, “Oh, luck doesn’t play a role in

business strategy.” Luck doesn’t play the only role in business, but it’s in there.

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Contents36 Message from the Chairman, Board of Directors

37 Message from the Chairman, SAC Foundation

38 Headmaster’s Prize Day Speech

41 Kent Leslie ’10 Valedictory Remarks

42 How is SAC Funded?

43 Foundation Statement of Operations

44 Summary of Endowed Funds

45 Memorial Awards

47 Donor Listings

53 SAC Charitable Giving

54 Parents Guild

55 New Appointments

56 Board of Directors & Foundation Trustees

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“St. Andrew’s College is a place like no other. It is a place where

anything is possible, whether it be on the

sports field, in the classroom, or on the dra-

matic stage. It is a place that unites all who

strive for excellence. But most importantly,

it is a brotherhood that unites

us all regardless of our ethnic background,

social status or educational prowess.

As Andreans, we stand proud.

proud of who we are today and who we

aspire to be in the future.”Arun partridge ’11, prefect, pipe Major, 1st Soccer, Captain 1st nordic Skiing

As I write this note, I am struck by the significance

of this new role in which I find myself. I am truly

honoured and humbled by the confidence my fel-

low directors have shown in electing me to chair

the Board of this great institution. I thank them

for their confidence and will do my best to ensure

their experience on the Board is worthwhile, en-

gaging and enjoyable.

All members of the Andrean community owe

a debt of gratitude to Jeff Chisholm for his fine

leadership over the past five years. With Jeff’s

steady hand on the tiller, the School has been

able to navigate through this generation’s worst

economic conditions. Today, the School has a

masterful leadership team, enjoys the largest

enrollment in its history, is financially strong with

its targeted 15% reserve,

is backstopped by a

growing Foundation, and

enjoys a high approval

rating from students and

parents. Jeff, thank you

for all you have done for

St. Andrew’s College.

Speaking of leadership,

we are blessed to have Kevin McHenry lead our

School. In his first year, along with his wife Karan,

Kevin has been a tireless promoter, travelling the

world connecting with Old Boys, parents and

prospective parents. This is required more today

than at any time in the past, as the competi-

tion for students from the rapidly growing list

of independent schools intensifies. As Kevin has

embraced this activity, he has maintained all his

other responsibilities including getting to know his

students. This has made for a very full schedule.

Many great things are happening at our

School; however, we need to be mindful of poten-

tial dark clouds on the horizon. With the increas-

ing number of competitive schools, the challeng-

ing economic times demanding solid evidence of

SAC’s value proposition, and the evolving parent

perspective of no longer sending their sons away

to school, we need to be diligent in our strategic

planning to ensure our future success.

For the past year, the Board and Leadership

Team have been engaged in the strategic plan-

ning process. To those who have provided input

through our forums and questionnaires, I thank

you. Our objective is to approve our 2011-2016

Strategic Plan in the first quarter of 2011.

What I can tell you from the input we have

received so far is that our mission of devoting

ourselves to ‘the development of the complete

man, the well-rounded citizen’ is as valid today

as ever. It is clear we need to maintain our

traditions of being a boys’ school, of continuing

the Cadet program, and of ensuring regular

chapel. You will hear more about the strategic

plan in the near future.

You may be aware that we are reviewing our

facilities and gauging the potential support for

a Campus Master Plan II initiative. This is taking

place in order to address our 98% classroom

utilization challenge, the lack of space for all

students and faculty to gather in one location,

as well as the lack of quality space for music,

drama, engineering/robotics, dining, and the

need for a state-of-the-art artificial sports field

and track facility. With our programs being

recognized among the very best, it is time for

us to determine how to upgrade our facilities

to continue to be the best. Stay tuned for more

information in early 2011.

In closing, I would like to thank all parents and

Old Boys for your support of our School. Your

interest, dedication, time and financial support

encourage our fine Faculty and Staff to be the

very best they can be for the benefit of our

students. The notion of an Andrean brotherhood

is definitely alive and well.

Michael G. Sifton ’79

Chairman, Board of Directors

MeSSAge fRoM the ChAIRMAn BoARd of dIReCtoRS

Many great things are happening

at our School; however we need

to be mindful of potential dark

clouds on the horizon.

36 Winter 2010

The St. Andrew’s College Foundation receives

donations of all types given to the School. Dona-

tions designated to support endowed scholarships,

bursaries, prizes and awards are transferred to its

Endowed Funds. These monies are invested and

the proceeds are transferred to the School annually.

The Foundation transfers all other donations to the

College to support designated needs and capital

projects. During the year ended June 30, 2010, the

Foundation transferred $630,372 from the Endowed

Funds to the School for scholarships and bursaries,

and $265,364 for other designated needs.

As at June 30, 2010, the Foundation had

$21.3 million in Endowed Funds under administra-

tion. Each year, an amount equal to 4.5% of

the market value of these Funds (based on a three-

year rolling average) is transferred to the School to

support scholarships, bursaries and other endowed

awards. During the last three years, the Founda-

tion has transferred in excess of $2.4 million to the

School for scholarships and bursaries.

The Trustees of the Foundation are responsible

for the oversight of the Endowed Funds, which are

professionally managed by Jarislowsky Fraser Ltd. The

Funds have recovered from the significant downturn

in the market in 2008 and 2009 so that at June

30, 2010, the Fund balances, net of additions and

transfers to the School, totalled $21.3 million. This

compares with $20.2 million as of June 30, 2009.

Looking forward, the Trustees of the Foundation

anticipate the generosity of its donors and prudent

investment of the monies it receives will enable the

College to increase the level of support for scholar-

ships and bursaries, and contribute to a successful

campaign to raise capital for the next phase of the

Campus Master Plan.

John rook ’64

Chairman, SAC Foundation

We welcome John as the new Chairman of the SAC

Foundation. He has served as a Trustee since 1997.

MeSSAge fRoM the ChAIRMAn SAC foundAtIon

during the last three years, the

foundation has transferred in

excess of $2.4 million to the School

for scholarships and bursaries.

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I would like to wish a very warm welcome to

all for this, the 111th Prize Day ceremony at St.

Andrew’s College. Regardless of the distance you

have travelled to be here … it is wonderful to

have you with us at this special celebration of the

Andrean community.

As displayed by the many banners on the drive-

way to the campus, the theme for this school year

is Pride. Today is the celebration that displays how

proud we are as Andreans.

This has been an exhilarating year for me, my

wife Karan and our three children. I would like to

thank the members of our graduating class for

setting such a positive tone for the school year.

On a daily basis, these 99 students have brought

enthusiasm, commitment and a sense of pride

to all areas of school life. In particular, thanks to

Head Prefect, Kent Leslie

’10, Deputy Head Prefect,

James Mildon ’10, and

the other eight Prefects

for their tremendous

leadership over the past

10 months. They have set

the bar extremely high

for the incoming Prefects,

but I’m confident that this

group will be up to the challenge.

The Class of 2010 is a special collection of

young men who are both tight-knit and very

loyal to their school. Academically, this class has

excelled. The latest report from our University

Counselling Office indicates that our grads have

won more than $1,000,000 in scholarship offers

to universities in Canada, the United States and

around the world.

The average number of university offers per

student is 4.4. Sixty percent of the class will attend

university in Ontario, with The University of West-

ern Ontario leading the charge. Fourteen boys will

attend UWO next year; next is Queen’s with a total

of 10 students. Twelve percent will attend out-of-

province schools, and almost 20% of the class will

attend university in the United States. The remain-

ing students will attend university overseas.

In keeping with this very positive theme, I

would like to take this opportunity to report

briefly on the recent Parent Satisfaction and

Engagement Survey that ended in April. I would

like to thank everyone who participated. From

the preliminary results, the 2010 survey indicated

that 89% of parents have a high or very high level

of satisfaction with St. Andrew’s. This is a 5%

increase from the last survey conducted in 2007.

There were huge increases in satisfaction in

a number of areas, including the dining hall – I

was hoping this would be the case, as we have

doubled our per-meal cost in the dining hall.

Obviously, this has been money well spent.

I do want to share one other statistic that I

found quite interesting … 98% of parents said

that their sons enjoy going to school. This is great

news, but that figure is hard even for me to be-

lieve! I would love to take all of the credit for this,

but I know that it’s because of the people sitting

behind me. The 2009-2010 school year would not

have been as successful without the support of a

number of individuals and groups.

Thank you to the Board of Directors for their

diligence and wisdom in many critical areas of

school governance. When I was officially named

Headmaster, one of the first things that I did was

go to the current Chair of the Board, Mr. Jeffrey

Chisholm, to ask him to stay on as Chair for an

additional year. Mr. Chisholm had already com-

pleted his term as Chair, but he agreed to remain

for my first year as Head. I have been extremely

fortunate to have had such an experienced,

intelligent and caring individual to support me

throughout this school year. Mr. Chisholm was al-

ways accessible to me. He is an extremely humble

individual and has been an absolutely wonderful

mentor, confidant and friend to me this year. I

would like you to join me in thanking Jeff for his

service to St. Andrew’s College as Chair of the

Board of Directors for the past five years.

I am extremely pleased by the selection of

Michael Sifton ’79 as the new Board Chair.

heAdMASteR’S 2010 pRIze dAy SpeeCh

the Class of 2010 is a special

collection of young men who

are both tight-knit and very

loyal to their school.

This is an exerpt from the

speech given by Headmaster

Kevin McHenry, at the 2010

Prize Day event.

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(Above) Headmaster Kevin McHenry presents the Headmaster’s Art Award to James Byun ‘10 (Gold), John C. Lee ‘10 (Silver), and Tony Yoon ‘10 (Bronze). Since 2001, the School has selected outstanding student art to become part of its per-manent collection. From this year forward, SAC will proudly display three pieces of art work from each graduating class.

(Left) Chair of the Board Michael Sifton ‘79 presents the Governor General’s Medal to Andrew Pitkin ’10, the graduating student with the highest standing for university entrance. Andrew’s final average was 97.7%. This pres-tigious award recog-nizes academic excellence among secondary school graduates across Canada.

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Michael is a graduate of St. Andrew’s, having at-

tended from 1972-79. He has served as a member

of the Board for the past 12 years. I have had the

opportunity to get to know Michael much better

during the past few years and I am thrilled that

he has accepted the position as Chair of the SAC

Board of Directors. [Michael will be profiled in the

spring 2011 Andrean]

It is my belief that St. Andrew’s has assembled

one of the most experienced and visionary Leader-

ship Teams of any school in Canada. Thank you

to this tremendous group for your support and

counsel. Also, thanks to our wonderfully dedicated

faculty. It is the faculty who are on the front lines

day in and day out. Their commitment to your sons

and to this institution is second-to-none. Thank

you, also, to the outstanding Administrative staff,

Maintenance department, Grounds, Food Services,

and Housekeeping for their commitment to excel-

lence. Finally, a special thank you to my Executive

Assistant, Gayle Petri, who

has guided me through my

first year.

A couple of weeks ago,

Karan and I were happy

to host more than 130

volunteers at our home in

appreciation of their collec-

tive efforts this year. Thank

you to the Parents Guild

Executive under the very capable leadership of Ludi

Grant. Ludi’s diverse skill set and friendly personal-

ity have made her an ideal President this year. The

Guild seems to be involved in everything at SAC,

including playing a key role in last night’s wonder-

ful Grad Dinner. Thanks to this very large group for

their unwavering support of St. Andrew’s.

I would like to make special mention of SAC’s

Head of Visual Arts, Tino Paolini. Today marks the

end of Tino’s 30th year at St. Andrew’s. I’m hoping

that he will be here for another 30 years!

I would like to end my first Prize Day address

by sharing the words of one of our graduating

students. Three days ago, I received a letter from a

young man who has been an outstanding citizen

as a boarding student for the past four years. He

does, however, fly beneath the radar in many ways.

He is quiet, unassuming and humble. I felt a strong

sense of pride for St. Andrew’s College as I read

the following letter:

To the Class of 2010, I cannot think of better

words with which to send you on your way. Hold

on dearly to the opportunities and experiences

St. Andrew’s has given to you. May your journey

in life to be the complete man, the well-rounded

citizen, be a little easier because you are fortunate

enough to call yourself an Andrean. As you exit the

front gates this afternoon – something will have

changed – you will be an Old Boy. Congratulations

to each and every one of you. Please be sure to

keep in touch with your school! Thank you.

KEVIN MCHENRY

As you exit the front gates

this afternoon – something

will have changed – you will

be an old Boy.

Dear Mr. McHenry,

This year sees the culmination of my

four years at St. Andrew’s College. Over

this time I have grown into a completely

different person. The things I have experi-

enced and learned here are irreplaceable.

What St. Andrew’s is to me, is a place

in which people of many different races,

cultures and personalities can develop

together. This melting pot of attributes is

what separates Andreans from other

high school students.

Every student is involved in something

outside of class, and it is this atmosphere

that drives people to be outgoing. It is

the norm to stay late after school, and it

is odd if you don’t.

This school is truly great. The facilities

are excellent and the community is ideal

for fostering good traits. But the most

important thing I will take from this school

is the close friends I have made. They

have had more influence on me than all

of my experiences combined. I have

found if you want to be somebody, you

should seek out those who represent

themselves in a similar way.

Thank you for helping support me

through my final year at St. Andrew’s.

I know I can make a difference in the

world. This place sets you up for changing

people’s lives, and I intend to do just that.

John Cherian ’10

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I speak today on behalf of the Class of 2010, a

great group of guys through and through. For

us, today can best be described as contradictory,

very bittersweet. We’re happy to be leaving for

the summer, sad to be leaving our friends; excited

to be leaving high school to head to University,

sad to be leaving St. Andrew’s College; excited

to be meeting girls, sad to be leaving the boys. It

is ironic that after seven years of the SAC experi-

ence, it is on this final day that I truly understand.

The journey we complete today was certainly

not a solo voyage. We have each had those spe-

cial people throughout our time here who have

helped us to reach this point. Our friends, our

teachers, our advisors, and most importantly,

I believe, our families.

To my family, I say: thank you. A very, very,

sincere thank you for all the time and support,

and all the money. It will never be paid back.

It just wouldn’t be possible to pay you back for

everything you have given me, and what makes

it special is that you don’t expect me to. I hope.

A question often asked and pondered by

many parents is, “What makes SAC so special,

what is the SAC experience?” Maybe one of my

St. Andrew’s memories will help to explain. On

the day I received my Prefectship, after I walked to

the front of the Chapel to receive my badge and

pin from the previous Head Prefect, he said to me,

“Kent, take care of my second home.” SAC is a

second home. It’s more than sports fields, more

than classrooms, and more than residences. It’s

more than just a school. All of these graduates

are more than just teammates, classmates and

roommates. They are more than just friends. They

are family. That is the SAC experience. That is the

brotherhood.

We realize how fortunate we are to have

had the opportunity to attend and graduate

from St. Andrew’s, and we realize the responsibil-

ity that goes with this privilege. I believe that

St. Andrew’s has prepared us well to be good

men in society, to be leaders. Every day the world

cries out for good leadership. We must take up

the challenge. For all of us, a day will come that

we will look back on this amazing place and

understand the impact it has had on our lives

and on our ability to impart positive change

and leadership on the world around us.

To my fellow graduates, thank you for

making the tough days bearable and the

great days even brighter. The obstacles we

overcame, we overcame together. If I can

thank St. Andrew’s College for one thing,

and only one thing, it’s for bringing together

such an amazing group of guys. The old

adage, “your friends shape who you become”

is something I hope is true because for seven

years I have been surrounded by a group of

people who exemplify what it means to be

friends and Andreans. I will miss you all. I

know we will keep all of the wonderful

memories we have of St. Andrew’s in our

hearts as we embark on the next phase of

our lives. Of all the accolades and prizes to

be won today, the one I am most proud of,

the one I truly care about, is the ability to call

myself a member of the Class of 2010. You

have made that so special to me. Thank you.

Kent leSlIe ’10 VAledICtoRy ReMARKS

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how IS SAC funded?

SAC Revenues 2009-10 SAC Expenses 2009-10

44%

Financial Aid

Food Services

Buildings, Grounds &

Maintenance

Administration, Admission &

Advancement Academic Expenses

STATeMeNT oF oPerATioNS

The breakdown of expenses and revenues is shown

in graphical format below.

For our internal purposes and for the purpose of

setting tuition fees, the Board does not budget for

depreciation and amortization of deferred capital

contributions. Instead of doing this, we include a

$600,000 transfer to Capital.

SAC reVeNUeS 2009-10

Tuition revenues are comprised of $18.7 Million in

Tuition fees and $2.5 Million in other mandatory

student fees.

Ancillary revenue is comprised of interest income,

housing rentals, summer program revenue, campus

shop revenue and rental of facilities. Our interest

income has been declining because of poor interest

rates, and although our summer program revenue is

up from previous years, we are still anticipating that

it will improve again for the coming year as our own

day camp registrations grew in 2010.

Transfers from the Foundation for operational

purposes (net of capital gifts) were $1,451,696.

Approximately $900,000 of this amount came

from the Endowment with the balance from

annual gifts.

SAC exPeNSeS 2009-10

The expense chart below depicts expenses based

on a functional division. Salaries and wages repre-

sent approximately 60% of our total budget but

are included within the functional areas.

Food services costs include meal allowances,

special functions, catering, cleaning supplies,

dishes, etc. Actual food costs account for ap-

proximately 50% ($1.15 Million) of the total Food

Services expenditures.

Building, Grounds and Maintenance costs have

actually declined in the past year, primarily due to

reduced utility costs (in particular natural gas) partly

attributable to a mild winter.

Other Administrative costs account for the

balance and are roughly equally divided between

Administration, Admission and Advancement.

The audit for St. Andrew’s

College was conducted in

August 2010 by Smith Sykes

Leeper and Tunstall for the

year ending June 30, 2010.

Ancillary Revenue

Tuition Revenue

90%

6% 4%19%

18%

11%8%

Donations

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Year ended June 30 2010

REVENUE

Donations 1,993,163

Interest & Dividends 673,874

Realized (Loss) on sale of Investments

(231,217)

Total revenue $2,435,820

DISTRIBUTIONS

Scholarships & Bursaries $893,742

School’s Priority Needs & Designated Gifts

Unrestricted Donations 354,094

Designated Donations 262,658

Gifts in Kind 29,216

$645,968

Capital Projects (CMP & Major renovations)

$397,871

Total Distributed to St. Andrew’s College

$1,937,581

OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS

Investment & Custody Fees 112,033

Planned Giving Expense 133,726

$245,759

Total Distributions $2,183,340

Excess of revenue over expenses for the year

252,481

Fund Balances Beginning of Year

20,541,357

Unrealized Gain on Investments

757,871

Fund Balance end of Year $21,551,709

SAC foundAtIon StAteMent of opeRAtIonS 2009-10

Annual Giving

Scholarships, Bursaries & Awards

Endowment

Capital Projects

Investment & Planned Giving

Expenses

Current Parents

Old Boys

Directors & Trustees

Other

Donations

Distributions

Donations by Constituency

60% 29%

11%

Capital

11%

14% 42%

33%

45%

13%

7%

35%

School’s Priority Needs & Designated Operating Items

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Thank you to the generations of Andreans who

cared so much for the School and its mission that

they have passionately supported endowed scholar-

ships, bursaries and awards. These sponsors have

guaranteed the very best in education for students

they will never know. The Directors and Trustees,

along with the Headmaster and his staff, are truly

grateful for this high level of commitment and

trust in the School and its future.

In addition to gifts made to already established

endowed scholarships, bursaries and awards,

we are proud to announce the establishment

of several new awards during the 2009-2010

academic year.

The edward roberts Prize in Politics has been

endowed by edward M. roberts, Class of 1957,

to recognize outstanding achievement in the study

of politics. Mr. Roberts has spent his life in the public

and political arena. He

was Lieutenant Governor

of Newfoundland and

Labrador from 2002 to

2008. Memorial University

awarded him an Honorary

Doctorate of Laws in 2003,

and he subsequently earned the Degree of Master

of Arts in Newfoundland History there, in 2006. He

is a Member of the Order of Canada, and of the

Order of Newfoundland and Labrador. This award

was presented for the very first time at Prize Day,

June 18, 2010.

The Steven r. Creber Memorial Trophy

Steven Creber ’90 was undeniably a leader. As a

Prefect, a Major in the Cadet Corps, and a recipi-

ent of the prestigious Macdonald Medal, he led by

example. He played 1st Football, Hockey and Rugby,

and was named Most Valuable Player on the 1990

Saints First Hockey team; truly the complete man, the

well-rounded Andrean. Steven remained loyal to

St. Andrew’s College and became an outstanding vol-

unteer and financial supporter. With Steven’s passing

in October of 2009, we lost a good friend and a true

Andrean. the Steven r. Creber Memorial trophy

was named in his honour. Listed on page 46 are the

names of Steven’s family and friends who made gifts

to help create this award. If you wish to contribute to

the Memorial Trophy in Steven’s name, you may do

so by contacting the Advancement Office.

The Gordon Marshall Cadet Leadership Award

Gord Marshall proudly graduated from St. Andrew’s

College with the Class of 1984. During his seven

years at SAC, he served as a Prefect, member of 1st

Soccer, MVP 1st Hockey and 1st Rugby. He spent an

exchange term at Fettes College in Scotland, earned

the Best Lower School Cadet Award, and was a

Cadet Captain in his graduating year. In honour of

Gord’s many contributions to the SAC Cadet Corps,

the Gordon Marshall Cadet Leadership Award

was established in his memory. This award will be pre-

sented at the Annual Cadet Inspection to the gradu-

ating Staff Cadet who has demonstrated outstanding

leadership for the Cadets under his command. Listed

on page 46 are the names of the many friends who

supported this award.

We are very grateful to those Andreans who include

planned gifts to St. Andrew’s College in their estates.

Whether these gifts are life insurance policies, be-

quests, or gifts of property, all are beneficial to the

continued strength and stability of the School.

A Bequest for the Charles U. Haywood

Scholarship Fund

In 1992, Ruth Chisnell, daughter of the late

Charles U. haywood, SAC 1904-1907, estab-

lished a scholarship fund at St. Andrew’s College

in his name. Initially Mrs. Chisnell donated funds

to purchase books for the library, but after careful

consideration chose to set up a scholarship fund.

This scholarship was specifically established to

support a student with proficiency in writing skills

and the use of the English language.

The St. Andrew’s College Foundation has recently

received a very generous bequest from the estates

of Ruth and John Chisnell to fully fund the scholar-

ship that is presented each year in Mr. Haywood’s

memory. Their love of St. Andrew’s College and trust

in our mission led them to plan for the future of the

School by including a gift in their will.

SuMMARy of endowed fundS

thank you to the generations

of Andreans who cared so much

for the School and its mission.

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Michael Adamson ‘44

Gordon Alexander ‘53

Bill Andrews ‘53

Joyce Barrass

Richard Bates ‘72

Bob Bechtel ‘58

Peter Bedard ‘83

Barry Black ‘56

John Brown ‘69

Graham Brunke ‘68

Michael Burns ‘56

George Butterfield

Ian Carlsen ‘78

Dave Cathers ‘66

John Cathers ‘54

John Clarry

Edna Collins

Chip Comstock ‘56

Jock Coulson ‘59

Hugh Coulson ‘59

George Cumming ‘67

George Dangerfield ‘66

Wilf Dinnick ‘57

Jan Doherty

David Dunlap ‘56

Jim Dunn ‘59

Jaime Dunton ‘50

Graham Dutton ‘54

Pat Eagar ‘61

Jim Empey ‘73

Woody Fisher ‘52

Sally Frith

Marc Germain ‘78

Peter Gordon ‘53

Bill Graham ‘53

Doug Grant ‘54

Herb Gregory ‘62

George Guy ‘51

Tony Guzman ‘54

Susan Hally

Ian Haryett ‘62

George Hathaway ‘70

Garth Hazlett ‘53

Mike Heath-Eves ‘60

Jim ’64 & Gail Herder

Tom Hickey ‘60

John Hill ‘57

Fred & Doreen Hiltz

John Hodges ‘74

Richard Holbrook ‘63

Andy Holliday ‘57

Harold Hough ‘62

Derek & Bettyne Inglis

Carl Ingwalson, Jr. ‘61

Jim Irwin ‘78

‘J.S.’ Jackson ‘69

George Jackson ‘81

Robert Jones ‘67

Craig & Mary Louise Kamcke

Robbie Keith ‘56

Peter Ketchum ‘56

David Kitchen ‘56

Andy Knox ‘64

Bill Lawrence ‘49

John Letts ‘59

Tim Macdonald ‘67

Marie-Madeleine

Macfarlane

Jim McClocklin ‘66

John McCrea ‘55

Gail McIntyre

Peter McLean ‘51

Roy McMurtry ‘50

Bill McNeil ‘66

Sheila Milne

John Mueller ‘57

Joyce Mulock

Sandy Munro ‘70

Coulter Osborne ‘52

Michael Perley ‘65

Ian Purdie ‘55

Larry Roberts ‘65

Sidney Robinson

Basil Rodomar ‘51

Dan Routledge ‘61

J.L.G. Shelley

Bob Simpson ‘54

Bill Skinner ‘47

Chris Smith ‘51

Walter Somerville ‘54

Tony Stapells ‘50

George Tejada ‘57

David & Mary Timms

David Trent ‘50

Martin Twiss ‘82

Deolinda Viana

Reinhilde Walwyn

Gary & Wilma West

Rob Wilkie ‘72

Ken Willoughby ‘55

Andrew Wood ‘60

Michael Wood ‘56

Douglas Worling ‘50

Jim Wyse ‘57

Peter Young ‘50

The Stan Macfarlane Scholarship Fund was created

at the request of the Classes of 1956 and 1957

when they celebrated the 50th anniversary of

their graduation year. It is an ongoing tribute to

Stan Macfarlane’s outstanding contribution to

St. Andrew’s students over his 35 year teaching

career at the School (1947-82), and was dedicated

to him on his 90th birthday in November 2006.

Continuing to honour his memory and preserve his

legacy, many more have contributed to this fund

since his passing in July 2010 (his obituary appears

on page 69).

If you would like to add your name to this

growing list of donors, please send your gift to the

SAC Foundation at: 15800 Yonge Street, Aurora,

ON L4G 3H7, or donate online specifying “The Stan

Macfarlane Scholarship” at www.sac.on.ca.

Stan and Marie-Madeleine Macfarlane in Towers Library, May 2006.

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The Creber Family attended the winter Athletic Assembly to present for the first time, The Steven r. Creber Memorial Trophy to Mark Belvedere ‘10, the Most Valuable Player and co-captain on the 1st Hockey Team. From l to r are Steve’s sister Dawn o’Dwyer, his mother roberta, Mark Belvedere ‘10, his father ross and brother-in-law Dan o’Dwyer.

The Gord Marshall Cadet Leadership Award was presented for the first

time to Conor Sheridan ‘10 at the annual Cadet

inspection last May by Gord’s brother Ken ‘81. it is a silver quaich brought

over from Scotland by Gord’s father Tom.

the SteVen CReBeR MeMoRIAl tRophy

the goRdon MARShAll CAdet leAdeRShIp AwARd

Donna Armstrong

R. David ’60 &

Pat Armstrong

Patrice Bansa ’90 &

Andrea Carvalho

Al & Mary Bergeron

Jim Boyle

Catherine Broughton

Frank Butters &

Bari-Lynne Butters

Keith & Sandy Caldwell

Ross & Roberta Creber

Garry & Carolyn Dickinson

Garry Ford

A. B. Gerrard

Shirley Hardy

Lucille Hazell

Jim ’64 & Gail Herder

Robert Katic ’90

Carol Matson

Jack & Barbara Millar

James & Violet Moore

David & Bev Mothersill

Nicola Palframan

John Peaker

G. Scott ’90 &

Andrea Pearson

Donald Price ’90 &

Alba Valetta

Margaret Shiner

Thomas Arkell ’84

Paul ’79 & Jane Bedard

Peter Bedard ’83 &

Jane Kravchenko

Ken Chitolie

Robin ’84 & Paula Comfort

Mark ‘84 &

Stacey Ellerbeck

David ’84 &

Melissa Faulkner

William Glover

Max ’84 & Shelagh Gundy

Henry & Anne-Heide

Hundertmark

David ’83 Isaacson

George Jackson ‘81

David ’81 &

Diana Lawrence

Joseph Little

Stefano Lizzola ’84

Martin MacDonald ’84

Ken ’81 & Sana Marshall

Thomas & Margot Marshall

Michael ’84 &

Christina Maura

Robert Nourse ’84

Justin O’Connell ’84

Ralph ’84 & Melanie

Rossdeutscher

Warren ’81 &

Catherine Stoddart

Margaret Strachan

David Wilson ’84

Philip ’84 &

Jennifer Wood

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1932A. Scott Montgomery

1934 William A. Neal

1935Richard J. Boxerthe late Peter C. Rea

1938James A. O’Brian

1940David P. FlemmingWilliam J. Shields

1941John R.M. Kilpatrick

1942Edward M. BallonRev. C. Graham CotterKeith C. Pilley

1943Edward H. CrawfordAlexander G. HydeR. McLeod Lightbourn

1944T. Michael AdamsonRev. Charles W. EddisF. Murray HallJohn M. Lowndes Q.C.

1945Roy E. EddyGarrison Rapmund

1946Ernest C. FreyFrederick A. McKenzieR.A.F. MontgomeryLiam S. O’BrianAnthony E. Weldon

1947Thomas B. ChipmanAllan N.W. ShaverDonald C. ShawWilliam P. Skinner

1948W. David HendersonJoseph J. NoldRobert T. PutnamFrank M. RolphIan S. Wishart

1949William C. LawrenceDavid W. Wilson

1950Richard J. ClavellW. Farrell HydeR. Roy McMurtryThomas M. MunnJoseph G. PatersonRichard L. ReadTony StapellsDavid G. TrentJ. Christopher C.

WansbroughDouglas G. Worling

1951George H. GuyS. Warren RitchieWilliam P. Somers

1952John S. AuldM. Malcolm FisherGordon D. Kelly

B. Anthony KingGerald E. OmsteadCoulter A. OsborneRoger Strand

1953Gordon J. AlexanderMichael P. DunnPaul D. EssonWilliam D. GrahamGarth E. HazlettIan D. IsbesterJames M. MylreaDavid L. ReaDerek J.S. Shenstone

1954Robert H. BradshawJohn D. CathersW. Graham Dutton Q.C.J. Douglas GrantFrederick T. LeslieMichael A. MannAlbert E. MatthewsRobert D. MorrisonJames A. MunroWalter A. SomervilleRobert G. Wade

1955Gonzalo Gutierrez U.John C. McCreaIan A. Purdie

D. Gordon M. Robertson

1956Barry J. BlackWilliam H. ComstockDavid M. DunlapRobert F. KeithPeter A. KetchumW. Ross ReucasselJohn M. SwindenReilley D. TapleyKirk ThompsonBruce W. ThomsonJ. Michael P. Wood

1957G. Malcolm DarrochJames R. GuyJohn M. HillAndrew H. HollidayJohn H. HoughDavid B. McLeanAndrew D. MilneJohn C. MuellerEdward M. RobertsJames W. WyseBill H. Yuill

1958the late Cassius BeldenJames G. GodsmanR. Thomas OrrJames P. Stronach

P. Douglas Turner Q.C.

1959John D. BuchananW. Adam ClatsoffJames E. DunnAnthony S. FellFrank Metcalf Q.C.Donald M. Rogers

The Class of 1960 Group at the 50th reunion Dinner on April 30, 2010

l-r: John L’Aventure, Les Filotas, execu-tive Director of Advancement Scott Hayter, Kirk Gard-ner, robert Metcal-fe, rupert Dobbin, John Morse, Chris “Chips” Campbell, Andrew Wood, Da-vid Armstrong, Tom Hickey, Chris Brand, Hugh robinette, David Gist, David Stamper, Gord Stonehouse, Mike Heath-eaves, ron Walker, Bob isser-stedt, Allan Wilson, Headmaster Kevin McHenry.

ANNuAL GIVING

FOR THE YEAR

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Robert B. RussellWilliam F. SnyderAlfred G. Wirth

1960R. David ArmstrongKirk GardnerMichael J. Heath-EvesThomas A. HickeyRobert R. MacLeodJohn L. MorseDavid R. StamperGordon S. StonehouseAndrew D. Wood

1961Brian G. Armstrong Ronald V. BeldenCarl F. Ingwalson, Jr.D. Ronald F. ReaW. Michael RotheryDan Routledge

1962 Herbert T. Gregory J. Terrence Joyce Douglas K. McMullen Michael B. Sommerville

1963Gage E. Love Jr.

1964Jim HerderRaymond J. OsborneJohn D. PennalJohn F. Rook William E. WestfallRobert C. WilliamsJohn R. Zurbrigg

1965Robert B. EmersonLaurence J. HendersonDouglas C. McKeenW. Gregory PritchardHubert G. PritchardRaymond S. Pyfrom

1966Lawrence A. BolandW. Graham ButlerDavid P. CathersJames P. McClocklinWilliam H. McNeilDouglas A. SimmondsJames de P. Wright

1967Michael G. BarrettRobert C. Kilgour Jr.Peter F. LoveTimothy I. MacdonaldA. Fraser McTavishJ. Murray Shields

1968Guy M. BakerPeter C. BatesGraham F. BrunkeJohn F. Housser

1969David A. BlanchardBarry A. BrackleyJohn H. BrownJames D. GearJames M. JacksonR. Scott JolliffeGeorge M. LeitchMichael B. Manchee

Robert R. McEwen

1970George D. HathawayJeffrey D. HayesS. Brian A. LevettDonald J. MacKayC. Philip MancheeC. Alexander F. MunroJohn R. PercivalRobert E. PritchardPeter F. ThompsonA. Norman WilkieJohn J. Wood

1971Gordon C. DobbinWilliam M. HaustPaul H. MorónEdward D. RuseJohn L. Walden

1972Richard C. BatesWilliam BoydDayna J. BroadfootChesley F. CrosbieDennis J. DalyGordon D. HawkeMichael F. HoggRobin J. Wilkie

1973Timothy P. BolandPeter R. CalverleyRaymond H. LeungIan Tait

1974Paul D. HuttonD. Randall KlineC. James McTavish Douglas M. PickardT. Stuart RutherfordRobert P. Topping

1975David J. DurantAndrew J. KilpatrickStephen T. MancheeG. Richard Mann

1976Michael A. EarleCraig D. FarrowGary M. LawrenceGregory W. MiklasPaul R. SeayMatthew L. Shinkle

1977William C. HoustonBrian R. MitchellJohn E. OmsteadMyles H. PritchardClifford M. SiftonScott L. Sillcox

oLD BoYS WiTH THeir SoNS

Left (l-r): Jonathan Harris ‘92, Alex Harris ‘11, Harrison Kane ‘10, Kelsey Boland ‘12, Douglas Kane ‘73, Lawrence Boland ‘66, John Hawke ‘10, Gordon Hawke ‘72, Brett Wilson ‘10, Gor-don Wilson ‘72, Scott rowntree ‘79, Conner rowntree ‘13, Dylan Hussey ‘12, Thomas Hussey ‘85, Michael Sifton ‘12, Michael Sifton ‘79, Christopher Houston ‘12, Bill Hous-ton ‘77, C.J. Sifton ‘13, Cliff Sifton ‘77, rodger Leslie ‘82, Brennan Leslie ‘11.

Bottom (l-r): Aidan Calverley ‘15, Peter Calverley ‘73, Luke Sifton ‘14, Derek Sifton ‘85, Derek Sifton ‘16, Alfredo Solloa Garcia ‘83, Alfredo Solloa Camara ‘15

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1978Ian M. CarlsenP. Andrew DaltonSteven G. DeNurePhilip J. HendersonBrian D. MiklasJohn D. Stewart

1979Stephen G. BagworthAndrew A. BeckwithPaul E. BedardStephen M. DewisMichael M. EdwardsRobert C. FawcettJoseph W. HeitJohn F. MortimerJeffrey W. RichmondMichael G. SiftonBarton N. Wong

1980 K.Y. Michael Chau Douglas Crawford Murray A. Hyde Robert J. Minialoff David C. Plaxton H. Glenn Stanley-Paul John C. Stevenson

1981Christopher P. BallKirk W. BrownGeorge M. JacksonDavid C. LawrenceRichard A. PetersScott H. SmithPaul E. StanboroughJ. Warren StoddartF. Guy Wigston

1982Paul E. BerrevoetsMichael G. A. ElliottJ. Rodger LeslieDavid G. Merkel

1983Peter BedardJohn F. CouplandDavid S. IsaacsonStewart R. KiffStephen J. SuarezJ.R. Kingsley Ward

1984Thomas R. ArkellJonathan Barker

Lawrence P. BiriczRobert M. CaldwellRobin J. ComfortMark A. EllerbeckDavid G. FaulknerMax A. GundyChristian L. JeppesenStefano LizzolaMartin C. MacDonaldDavid J. MahrMichael J. Maura Jr.Robert E. NourseJustin M. O’ConnellJ.S. Struan RobertsonRalph H. RossdeutscherN. Peter SmithDavid A. WilsonPhilip S. Wood

1985W. David CampbellDuncan N. Jackman

Shawn D. OmsteadJason T. PuglieseMichael D. RoyDerek A. Sifton

1986James E. Austin Jr.Gregory S. DunlapJohn R. MorganStephen G. PitelTimothy W. Watson

1987Timothy P. CallaghanMichael P. Chen-YoungJean-Paul G. HoffmanIan G. Howey

1988Michael C. BrewerOliver D. HerbstChristopher C. HindDuff J. McDonald

Paul M. MorganMichael J. PalettaRobert S. PollockAnthony H. ReidRobert D. SkinnerKenneth Wong

1989Hugh J. BartonRoderick D. BoothbyDavid P. BradfieldJason K. BullenJason C. CallenderSteven M. CathcartMark D. EllingerBradley J. HarrisonWilliam Hill Jr.Christopher P. KellyBrian W. LedsonDavid A. MasonJonathan A. MorganMichael H. O’Connor

Derek G. PlaxtonDirk H. RadekeRobert K. VogelMichael Weider

1990James C. BartonTrevor R. FullerRobert P. KaticRonald D. KopasJoseph D. MorinJohn W. MorrisCory S. OliverG. Scott PearsonDonald C. Price

1991James A. BiggarSimon A. CormanIan M. DavidsonJamie R. InglisJames E. Morgan

1992F. W. Will BijlJames W. DennisMark K. EtheringtonJonathan A. GinouIan C. MichaelCarl R. MilroyBrent J. RiopelleMark A. ShillumStuart M. Smith

1993Jhad J. FriesenMarcus GillamJason P. LaMarche-HunderupRobert A. LeckeyJames F. MenloveJayson J. MulcockJames A. NicholsNathaniel J. SmeenkBarton C. SommervillePeter A. Wardell

1994Otto F. SchuemerAlfredo Villegas-Camil

1995Ojus AjmeraPaul S. EtheringtonAnthony M. FarrC. Christopher L. FosterChristopher S. GafoorJeffrey L. LewisAlexander P. Wood

1996Santiago BaronaDavid M. Dunlap Jr.Martin C. LandryJustin K. LindquistEdward C. MercerGraham B. MunroDavid C. ParentBrian P. Wills

1997Carey L. ChowMichael G. FoyGraeme W. Martin

1998James P. TaylorBenjamin Wood

1999Russell J. FraserMark D. Gooderham

Mathieu MallettePaul F. O’HeaBen M. RogersDaniel A. WellsLeslie K. Wong

2000Tejus AjmeraBenjamin J. CraigBoris KholodovIain D. Myrans

2001Gordon A. BirkettJonathan ChengR. Michael CraigMatthew B. Fullerton

2002Randall H. BlomAdam D. BranderAladdin DiakunKevin T. FullertonJeffrey V. GinouRichard G. GoldharJames P. HealeyRyan P. KellyPeter G. McClellandNicholas J. Weedon

2003David F. BanwellAllan L. BeanHugh P. DowellCampbell D. GordonMichael A. Tzimas

2004Michael R.P. AdamsonAndrew S. Carnovale

2005Ryan A. BryceRyan A. LutherRobert J. Mackay

2007Michael A. FedorovCameron M. HealyNicholas M. J. Lee

2009Alexander R. Culp

2013Bilaal Rajan

ANNuAL GIVING

FOR THE YEAR

ENDED JuNE 30, 2010

“hopefully one day I can make

as valuable a contribution to

someone else’s life and dreams

as you have made to mine.”

– grade 12 Student

the AndreAn 49

Rajiv & Mamta Agarwal Luis Miguel Aguirre Cristiani

& Santa Colorado SolisMoo Young Ahn & WonJo LeeWilliam & Donna AllisonMohammed Alotaibi &

Nabiha AlroogiAlain & Kim AmarPeter & Brigitte AndersonAyokunnu Are &

Emiko YoshidaJorge Arozarena &

Maritere MarquezVali Ashoori & Mitra VakiliJason & Kelly AtkinsChin Lun Au & Suet

Chun LeungHenry Au & Angela SunBong Ki Baek &

Seung Jin HanStuart & Kate BahenKeith Barber & Diane PurserPaul & Mary BarkerJeffrey & Annabel BeggAsha Bhardwaj Nick & Catherine BiaseSandra Bicknell Michael & Patricia Virc BlairThomas Bogdanow & Inge

Michaelsen-BogdanowLawrence ’66 &

Yvonne BolandPaul BredaPaul & Mala BrindleyGeorge & Janice BrownDavid & Karen BrownBruce & Lorraine BuchanPeter ’73 & Vickie CalverleyRick & Sylvia CannonDouglas & Margarete CarrJoseph & Brenda CarterAlfonso Celis & Lilia EnecoizKin Chung Chan &

Daphne LaiPerry & Kelley ChappellXin Cheng & Xiang ZhouJohn Cherian O-Ryong Cho &

Hye-Ryun KangYoung Ho Cho & Hee

Nam ChungSam & Erika CoetzerEric Cook & Kathleen Casey

Bradley & Beverly Lynn Coverdale

John & Maria CummingCarlos & Paula De SequeiraPaul & Carrie DentonAndrew & Anne DuninMichael & Cathy DurisinJohn & Jane EvansYu Feng Fang & Liu HongMichael & May FangAmedeo & Erminia FattoreBrian & Mary Jayne FeeleyMichael & Lisa FerrasIgor & Oksana FilipenkoSam & Reem FinanDon Finlay Abu & Shevli FirozGeorge & Leslie FoegeleSandy & Nina ForteDavid & Veronica GalajdaNick & Josy GalloRichard & Julie Glen

Corey Goldman & Judi BarnesJohn & Iwona GordonGregory & Cindy GovedarisGuery Goyo & Loretta Fantin Ludi & Russ GrantSpencer & Sacha GreenDaniel & Maria GuizzettiAndrew & Marianne GuizzettiEmma Guizzetti Breda Daniel Hajj & Vanessa Slim

de HajjLaura Hammer Bentley Hammer Michael & Kim WilkinsonDavid & Jayne HarveyBarry Hasler &

Deanna WoottonMohamad Hassani &

Diana Korn-HassaniGordon ’72 & Jane HawkeMark & Cynthia Healy

Greg & Susan HergottFiliberto Herrera &

Aida GarciaOssie Hinds & Anne LaRocqueWilliam Houston ’77 &

Teresa MorneauJavid Iqbal & Farzana HussainBruno & Betty IaboniAlex & Iryna IvanchenkoDean & Kelly IwaiSeon Ik Jin & Myung

Yeon HwangDavid & Louise JoinerDouglas & Christine JonesCurtis Joseph Paul & Tejinder KahlonJangan Kang Arun & Anjela KCJohn & Annette KeenleysideShu Wing Andy Keung &

Pau Siu MeiChris & Erica Kim

Yu Sung Kim Hye-Lyun & June-Mo KimPil Su Kim & Kyung Sun JungJieun Kim & Sanghyun JiDae Hee & Kyung Min KimStephen & Pauline KimmererJonathan & Catherine

KnowlesSpiro Kontos Andy Lai & Lilian LooSze Lui Lai & Chi Mei YeungNeo & Helen LakkotrypisPatrick & Sondi LanceHyuk Yong Lee &

Youngmee ChoiKam-Ting Lee &

Mei-Yuk TsangSang Woong Lee & Young

Hwa ChoiHojae Lee & Jinok ChoRodger ’82 & Marion Leslie

Kwong Hung Carman & Sau Wan Li

Wenyan Lin & Huifang ZhaoFrank & Lorna LippaMykola Lisin Raul Lopez & Leonor de LopezCharles & Fong LumZhi Min Luo & Jin Fen HuKevin MacDonald & Susan KellyRobert & LiAnne MacFarlaneKeith MacKenzie &

Janice FischerPaul Mackin Krzysztof & Jadwiga

MackowiakCharles & Terri MacLeanKam Ming Mak & Connie ChuRobert McGavin & Kerry AdamsArnold McMillan & Jacqueline

Buckley-McMillanTed & Barbara McNabDavid ’82 & Sanysa MerkelGordon Meuser Christopher Mildon &

Ruth HeavenDerrick & Hélène MilneBruce & Nancy MoodyChangsoo Moon & Eunha KimNagy & Rhonda MoustafaDoug & Barbara MunroRaza & Afsaneh NasserMohsin & Uzma NathaniMark & Susan NiceKenneth & Viola NickersonStephen & Sandra NoxonRory & Karen O’ConnorTimothy & Ann O’ConnorStephen & Lynda O’NeillLeslie Omstead George & Wendy PalmieriAndrew Pang & Sio Wai ChoiJunghyun Park & Jung Lim LeeMichael Partridge &

Sudha RajagopalGuo Hui Peng &

Yan Fang JiangJohn & Valerie PetrachekRoy & Betty PhilbertMichael & Heather Ann PilmerGeorge & Liliana PolemidiotisJohn & Barbara PollockDavid Porter & Robin HarrisJason ’85 & Beth Pugliese

Joe & Enza PullaGregory & Christine ReidScott & Kim RitchieAnthony & Mary Jo RomaninRichard & Karen RuddockSurrinder & Neelam SahotaNorman Sandham &

Hilary LaidlawBarbara Schwarze Do Yeon Seo & Yeong Suk KimRodney & Sandra SheridanGregory & Anne ShieldsAbuali & Mehejeben ShroffEddy Si & Jocelyn

Cochingyan Lee-SiClifford ’77 & Terra SiftonDerek ’85 & Sheila SiftonMichael ’79 & Julie SiftonBrian & Vija SirbovanSteven & Pamela SmithGeorgios Sotiropoulos &

Helen MichalakakouScott & Vicki StaffordScott & Judy StirlingDavid Su & Anita HuangBrian & Anne SuttonJames & Cindy TamYiu Wah Tam & Yuk Han LoEmiko Tanabe Gilbert Tang & Ching CheungSen Tao & Xuan ChenGary Townsend &

Yvonne WoloszczukAndrew & Janine TurnerEjaz & Salima VastaniAi-Rui Wang & Ai-Zhu ChenHao Wang & Lihong XuBarry & Judy WardBrian & Mary WhitelawMichael & Margaret

Sousa WittPo Chun & Yin Ching WongRoland Wong & May HoVincent Wong & Christine MaEric & Dianne WongTony Wong & Gidget LunChee Tim & Siu Ki WuStanley Yan & Mo Yin LauMin Yu & Weihong FuJian Biao Yuan & Yan SunWilliam & Lynda ZacharukKevin & Sally ZhangHuichun Zhang & Subo Li

CuRRent pARentS

“St. Andrew’s College is a band

of brothers and family that

grows with every passing year.”

– old Boy, Class of 2005

50 Winter 2010

Ramesh AriJane BedardRandi BermanTrevor BiasiCarolyn BiltonRyan A. Bryce ’05Mark R. BurtonMichael ChadseySandi ChassonEdna CollinsRobert CostanzoSabrina D’AngeloDavid DawsonNicholas DayMichele DerwinWhitney ElliottDon Finlay

David GalajdaGary GodkinKlaus GrieseTeri GrovesLen GurrMichael J. HansonSue HayterScott HayterJamie R. Inglis ’91David JoinerMarke JonesDavid JosselynStephen KimmererMargaret KirkbySherrill KnightDavid KyleJulie Lamb

Scott LewisSean LudwigFelisha MartinBrian McCueJames McGillivrayKevin McHenryBeth McKayDolly Moffat-LynchWendy MuratoffClaudio NumaMichael PaluchTino PaoliniAnn PerrierRobert PerrierGayle PetriMaria PilieciCarrie Praught

Terry PrezensMelissa RamonKeith RamonGregory ReidJohn RichardsonDanielle RicherBruce RoffeyClaudia Rose-DonahoeMichael D. Roy ’85Steven D. RushKen RyanSalwa SaeedWilliam ScoularMark ServiceGregory P. ShieldsCourtenay ShrimptonKim Sillcox

Rebecca StauntonDavid D. StewartNatascia StewartJoanne StockStuart SwanMelissa TackaberryAmanda ThorneSharen J.S. TurnerJohn L. Walden ’71John WalshNicholas J. Weedon ’02Julie M. WilsonRena Wiseman

fACulty & StAff

Gordon ’53 & Donna Alexander

Malcolm & Carolyn ArchibaldBrian ’61 & Heather

ArmstrongDavid ’60 & Pat ArmstrongStephen ’79 &

Linda BagworthGuy & Lydel BartonRobert Bauer & Sandy PullinRobert & Anne BedardRobert ’54 & Soledad

BradshawPatrick & Marilyn CallaghanPeter ’73 & Vickie CalverleyRobert & Lucy CamargoJohn Cathers ’54 &

Delia McLeodSik Cho Chan & Sui Yin ChanDaniel Chicoine & Barbara EgliJeffrey & Mary Ellen ChisholmGillian & Basil ClarkEdward Crawford ’43Ross & Roberta CreberAndrew ’78 & Julie DaltonDavid Dunlap ’56J. Stefan & Anne DupreDeborah & Margaret

Eaton-KentLarry Fedorov & Nancy Farrer

C. William & Karen FosterChris & Barbara FullertonDuncan Gordon Herbert ’62 &

Patti GregoryJames & Carmel HealeyJim ’64 & Gail HerderFiliberto Herrera &

Aida GarciaThomas Hickey ’60John ’57 & Jill Hill Fred & Doreen HiltzThomas & Mary HockinGlenn & Carol HoffmanMichael ’72 & Marion HoggGilbert Howey Eli & Sylvia HusseyW. Farrell ’50 &

Marguerite HydeKevin & Heather JenkinsArun & Anjela KCPeter ’56 & Susannah

KetchumJohn ’41 & Jean KilpatrickWilliam ’49 &

Jean LawrenceVernon & Gabriele LeeGeorge & Dawn LeggettFrederick ’54 &

Donna Leslie

Marcel Lessard Brian ’70 & Louise LevettSylvain & Michelle LordJohn & Irene LoweScott & Ann LutherHarold & Shelley MacDonaldCharles & Terri MacLeanJames & Gladys MacPhersonJeanne Manchee Stephen Manchee ’75Thomas & Margot MarshallGary & Jane MartinIan & Barbara McClellandJames ’66 & Susan

McClocklinPatrick & Teresa McGrathBeth McKay Neil & Leslie McLeanRoy ’50 & Ria McMurtryJohn & Linda McNallyGordon Meuser Dusan & Anne MiklasScott Montgomery ’32Edward & Maria MorgisThomas ’50 & Sandra MunnSandy ’70 & Lynn MunroDonna Munro Thomas Murphy & Geri SmithJohn & Nancy NearAnthony & Rosemary Nichols

Gerry & Marsha NuddsStephen & Lynda O’NeillAnna O’Rourke Donald Oliver Jake ’52 & Marilyn OmsteadLeslie Omstead Thomas ’58 & Connie OrrJohn ’64 &

Mary Ellen PennalRon & Gail PerowneRobert & Ann PerrierDavid Pidduck & Bonnie BestSam & Maria PilieciKeith ’42 & Margaret PilleyJames & Patricia RankinSandra Rea David Rea ’53Gordon Robertson ’55 &

Jane RobertsonDonald Rogers ’59Frank ’48 &

Katherine RolphJohn ’64 & Beverley RookWilliam Shields ’40Nancy Simpson &

Graham SmithWilliam ’47 &

Connie SkinnerLarry & Leesa SmithBruce & Jackie Somerville

Michael Sommerville ’62 George & Lynne SteevesVolker & Oksana SteinBasil & Helen StevensonKenneth & Davetta StockDan & Joanne StockRichard & Nancy StonemanJohn & Julie SymmesIan ’73 & Catherine TaitReilley Tapley ’56 J. Gordon TaylorHelen-Claire Tingling G. Kingsley & Adele WardBeverley Westcott Marjory Wilkie David & June WilliamsJohn & Lynne WillsRon & Cynthia WilsonDavid ’49 & Terry WilsonIan Wishart ’48Philip & Betsy WolfendenBarton ’79 & Wai Wai LeeJ. Michael P. ’56 &

Suzanne WoodAndrew ’60 & Ingrid Wood

pASt pARentS

ANNuAL GIVING

FOR THE YEAR

ENDED JuNE 30, 2010

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Les & Elaine AndrewDonna Armstrong Joyce Barrass Al & Mary BergeronJim Boyle Catherine Broughton Harold Browne George & Martha ButterfieldFrank Butters &

Bari-Lynne ButtersKeith & Sandy CaldwellKen Chitolie Marlene Clarke John Clarry John Couse Cecil Crosier Garry & Carolyn Dickinson

Leslie Ewing Lesley Featherstonhaugh &

David MartinSabina Feeley Nadine Foerster Garry Ford A. B. Gerrard William Glover Betty Hamilton Shirley Hardy Roy Harvey Lucille Hazell Vivienne Hill Dawn Holdinga Henry Hundertmark &

Anne-Heide HundertmarkJoshua Kearley

James Keenleyside M. A. Lander Dong- Gul Lee Joseph Little Jim Lyle Marie-Madeleine Macfarlane Donald Manchester Carol Matson Nancy McCowan Brad McMullen Jadwiss Meckoniniek Jack & Barbara MillarAllison Mol James & Violet MooreDavid & Bev MothersillJohn Newman Nicola Palframan

Virginia Pang Ruth Patterson John Peaker Irene Purser Epifania Quimson Katherine Roffey Dampier Anthony Rolph Rena Romanin J.L.G. Shelley Norma Sheridan Gloria Sherrard Margaret Shiner Jeanne Sloane Debra Smith Gladys Smith John & Mary StirlingMargaret Strachan

P.S. Sun Arlene Tanashi Robert Teichert Deolinda Viana D. Whitfield & J. WhitfieldJames Wood & Mary WoodMonica Yang

T. Michael Adamson ’44Marlene AshRobert P. BedardPaul E. Bedard ’79Shawn DunfordA. Dennis HemmingsJim Herder ’64Fred & Doreen HiltzThomas A. Hockin

Craig T. KamckeJames MainprizeJeffrey McGeeLisa PicernoSandra L. ScottWilliam P. Skinner ’47Geoffrey & Ginny SmithBruce SomervilleTed Staunton

Howard S. TetlockDavid TimmsMarinus C. Van DykHugh WarburtonGary WestDavid G. WhiteheadDouglas G. Worling ’50

gRAndpARentS & fRIendS

foRMeR fACulty & StAff

APPS Transport Group Brown’s Fine Food Services Inc. Chemline Plastics Limited Cintas CorporationCowan Insurance GroupCSI Leasing Dalton Engineering &

Construction Ltd.Diamond Groundkeeping

Services Ltd. Don Russell Drugs Ltd. Frank Cowan Company

Limited FRISBEG. A. Birkett Enterprises Inc.

Gwillimbury Investments Limited

Health Source Plus Hempen Jewellers Ltd. J.D. Strachan Construction

Limited JP Morgan Chase & Co.Larry Wilson ContractingLedson Holding Inc. The Manchee FoundationMerit Travel Group Inc. N.S. Smith Real Estate Ltd. Paliare Roland Rosenberg

Rothstein LLP R. Howard Webster Foundation

Shaw Windows & Doors Ltd.Smith, Sykes, Leeper &

Tunstall LLPSt. Andrew’s College

Association Telus Communications Co.The Catherine & Maxwell

Meighen Foundation The Dunin FoundationThe Harold A. Kopas Family

FoundationThe Jilla & Robert Williams

Foundation The Leslie Peter FoundationVancouver Foundation

CoRpoRAtIonS/foundAtIonS

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SAC ChARItABle gIVIngLast March, John Morgan ’86, then President

of the SAC Foundation UK/EU Chapter, together

with ron Kopas ’90 and Conrad Bona ’87, set

out with the Advancement Office to create a UK

tax-effective conduit for giving to St. Andrew’s

College. One of the outcomes of this is the

establishment of UK Endowment Fund. This fund

will reside with the SAC Foundation and will, over

time, fund one or more SAC boarding students.

At the 29th November 2010 annual dinner of the

UK/EU branch of the SAC Old Boys Association, to

kick-start the fundraising, Ron and Conrad chal-

lenged their fellow Andreans to donate to the UK

Fund by generously agreeing to match donations

made in order to reach the first funding goal. Not

only do they want to launch this fund to finan-

cially support boys to attend SAC, but they also

wish to challenge other SAC Old Boys Association

chapters to follow their lead and create their own

endowment funds.

Below are excerpts from the statement of intent

from the application to the UK Fund for Charities:

The true measure of ‘red + white’ spirit is that the

ties and brotherhood that are formed as a student

do not end at graduation. Old Boys retain a bond

that spans both generations and continents. The

School’s Foundation (formed in 1962; CAN reg.

charity 1967) fosters this relationship on many levels.

It maintains a channel of communications via the

SAC website, social networks and the bi-annual

magazine, The Andrean. A live presence is also

maintained through 10 active Alumni Chapters

worldwide. Of the latter, the UK/ EU Chapter in

London represents one city amongst such diverse

locales as Hong Kong, New York, Mexico and the

West Indies. This serves a mutual interest: Andreans

benefit from local contact and fellowship, and the

School extends its outreach globally.

The Foundation’s overarching mission is to sup-

port the School financially. This effort is vital to the

School’s continued success because, as an indepen-

dent school, it receives no state funding. Instead,

all costs are covered by tuition fees, some ancillary

revenue generation, and from the generous support

of its benefactors.

The UK Fund for Charities (UKFC) has ac-

cepted the SAC Foundation’s application for

membership to its International Program. This

arrangement allows UK residents (payers of

domestic income tax) to make donations to the

SAC Foundation. UKFC, as a local charity, acts

as an enabling organization for other charities

deemed to provide ’public benefit’ in the UK and

abroad. In practice, the difference is that you

(the donor) will now be able to claim back the

amount donated to the foundation as tax relief

on your annual UK Tax Return. While that should

not be the incentive for giving, it does reach par-

ity with donations you could make to other UK

registered charities.

This initiative is intended to enable members of

the UK Chapter to make charitable donations to

St. Andrew’s College’s Foundation. It is in recogni-

tion of some of our chapter members’ desire to

“give something back to the school” that laid the

foundations from which they have made successful

careers. All of this will support the SAC Foundation’s

priorities for expanding and maintaining its scholar-

ship and bursary program, while also being open to

any other charitable projects you may have in mind.

As of November 2010, Jason Campbell ’88 has

taken over as President of the SAC Foundation UK/

EU chapter. To learn more about the SAC Founda-

tion UK/EU Chapter, including its “Three Tiers of

Giving” initiative, please visit: www.sac.on.ca/sup-

port-sac/make-a-gift and click on “UK Old Boys.”

UK/EU Chapter Charitable

Giving Status and the

UK Endowment Fund

l-r Kurt Alfrey ‘94, John Morgan ‘86, Jason Campbell ‘88, Scott McDonald ‘86 at the recent old Boys UK Chapter Dinner

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reD AND WHiTe 2010 “UNDer THe TUSCAN SUN” GALAThe 38th annual Red & White Gala “Under the

Tuscan Sun” was held on Saturday, April 17th at

the Terrace Banquet Hall in Vaughan. Close to 400

guests enjoyed the wonderful dinner, danced to

the Nu-Rhythm band and bid on numerous silent

and live auction items, contributing to a terrifically

successful “friend-raiser” and fundraiser for

St. Andrew’s College.

The Gala is the largest annual fundraiser for

the Parents Guild, raising over $115,000 this

year. These funds will support scholarships, the

endowment fund, bursaries and grants for

clubs and activities.

Many exciting new features were introduced at

the Gala this year. Touchstone Resort provided tasty

hors d’oeuvres during the cocktail reception and

30.50 Wine Imports hosted a wine tasting station,

allowing guests to sample the upgraded wine avail-

able for purchase.

SAC students dressed in kilts greeted guests.

Others dressed as gondoliers sold “diamond” ring

packages for the opportunity to win an exquisite

diamond necklace, $1000 in cash or a Swiss Army

Watch engraved with the SAC logo. Still others

entertained the capacity crowd with their jazz

ensemble and guests were drawn to their seats

by the sound of bagpipes and drums.

The live auction received an introduction that

brought tears to many an eye as six Prefects sang

“Brotherhood of Man” as the “Day in the Life”

video told the story of life at St. Andrew’s.

The evening was a success in every way due

entirely to the enthusiasm, commitment and energy

of the many volunteers, donors and sponsors. More

than 80 moms and dads provided hundreds of

hours of their time and talent, as did staff, faculty

and students. Community members donated more

than 200 items to the silent auction and live auction

tables, and the many sponsors generously showed

their support of St. Andrew’s .

Thank you to all our guests for joining us “Un-

der the Tuscan Sun” and for supporting SAC and

our sons. We look forward to seeing you at the

‘Not an Ordinary Place’ Gala on April 16, 2011!

TERRI MACLEAN, GALA CHAIR AND

DIANE PURSER, GALA VICE-CHAIR

Parents Guild executive members l-r: Margarete

Carr, President, Terri MacLean, Vice

President, Diane Purser, Gala Chair and Ludi

Grant, Past President at last April’s red & White.

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Thank you to david rea ’53 (1982-2010),

Andrew dalton ’78 (2005-2010) and

Ted Parent (1998-2010) for their ongoing

dedication and outstanding years of service

on the St. Andrew’s Board of Directors.

new AppoIntMentSBoARd MeMBeRS

Peter Anderson is the Executive Vice President of CI Financial, a Canadian asset

management firm, with $64 billion in assets under management. He is also a Direc-

tor of CI Financial (CIX-T), a publicly traded company on the TSX. Prior to his current

role, Peter was President and CEO of CI Investments, a wholly owned subsidiary of

CI Financial. He held previous executive positions at ScotiaMcLeod and the Bank of

Nova Scotia. Prior to joining the Board of Directors, Peter served as a Trustee of the

SAC Foundation for three years. He is married to Brigitte, the Interguild Chair of the

St. Andrew’s Parents Guild. They live in Unionville with their two sons, Michael ’09,

a second year student at The University of Western Ontario, and david ’13. Peter

holds a B.BA. from the University of New Brunswick.

Scott Cole ’80 is President of Cole Engineering Group Ltd., a Markham-based con-

sulting engineering firm which provides public and private sector clients with a com-

prehensive range of engineering services. Cole Engineering has grown to more than

150 employees and was named one of the Top 50 Best Managed Companies in the

GTA regardless of size for 2010. He has held executive positions in both the Toronto

Construction Association and the York Chapter of BILD, is a member of the Profes-

sional Engineers of Ontario, and has his designation as a Consulting Engineer. Active

in his community, he holds a seat on the Board of Crime Stoppers York Region and

sits on the Advisory Round Table of York University. Scott holds a B.A.Sc. from Queen’s

University and lives in Aurora. He is the brother of Brett ’80 and uncle of ryan ’09.

Bob Williams ‘64 began his career with Scotia Capital’s predecessor firm, McLeod

Young Weir in 1967. He joined the Equity Capital Markets group during the late

1980s before his promotion to department Co-Head in 1995 and to department

Head in 1997. Bob assumed the role of Vice Chairman, Equity Capital Markets for

Scotia Capital in 2007, a position he held until retiring October 31, 2009. Among his

many achievements, Bob was pivotal to the development of the income trust market

in Canada from its origins in the 1980s. Bob was also a key player in the evolution of

the retail structured product market for over 25 years. Prior to his appointment to the

Board of Directors, he served on the SAC Foundation Board of Trustees from 1995-

2010, and chaired it for the past seven years. In retirement, Bob remains active in the

financial community and lives in Toronto with his wife Jilla.

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BoARd of dIReCtoRS

foundAtIon tRuSteeS

Michael G. Sifton ‘79, B.Comm.

ChairmanJames C. MacPherson, BA,

LL.B., LL.m.

Vice-ChairmanBeth A. McKay, BA, C.m.A.

Secretary to the BoardPeter Anderson, B.BA.

Board Member

Margarete Carr, B.Comm., C.A.

President, Parents GuildScott Cole ‘80, P.Eng., B.A.SC.

Board MemberSabrina D’Angelo, BA, B.Ed.

FacultyMark K. Etherington ‘92, BA

Board MemberWilliam D.L. Graham ‘53

Board Member

Jamie R. Inglis ‘90, B.SC., m.SC.

FacultyD. Eric Jolliffe ‘76, BA Cmm3

Board MemberKevin R. McHenry, B.BA.(HonS.),

B.Ed., m.Ed.

HeadmasterC.A.F. Sandy Munro ‘70, BA

Board Member

Nancy A. Near, R.n.

Board MemberDonald M. Rogers ‘59

Board MemberJohn F. Rook ‘64, BA, LL.B.

Chair, SAC FoundationMaritta Rothwell, BA, B.Ed.

Board MemberStuart M.C. Smith ‘92, BA (HonS.)

President of the SAC Old

Boys AssociationDan G. Stock, BA

Board MemberJulie I. Symmes, R.n.

Board MemberRobert C. Williams ‘64

Board MemberG. Kingsley Ward, BA,

B.Comm., F.C.A.

Board Member

John F. Rook ‘64, ChairmanDavid L. Rea ‘53

Past-ChairmanJ. Scott W. Hayter, PresidentEdna J. Collins, SecretaryAnthony S. Fell ‘59, Trustee

John F. Housser ‘68, TrusteeIan C. Michael ‘92, TrusteeAlfred G. Wirth ‘59, TrusteeJohn J. Wood ‘70, TrusteeW.H. (Bill) Yuill ‘57, Trustee

Ex-Officio Members Michael G. Sifton ‘79,

Chairman, SAC Board of Directors

Stuart Smith ‘92, President, SAC Old Boys Association

Kevin R. McHenry, Headmaster, St. Andrew’s College

new AppoIntMentSfoundAtIon tRuSteeS

ian Michael ’92 is a partner in the Business Law Group at McCarthy Tétrault in Toronto. He has a general

corporate and securities practice with a focus on public mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. Ian

provides ongoing advice on securities law, corporate law and corporate governance matters to public and

private companies in a variety of industries, including consumer goods manufacturing, aviation and invest-

ment management. At St. Andrew’s, he was the recipient of the Macdonald Medal and a national medallist

cross-country skier, having competed extensively for St. Andrew’s and the Ontario Ski Team. He earned his

undergraduate and law degrees at Queen’s University and now lives in Toronto with his wife Sarah Facey,

their three-year-old daughter, Hadley, and one-year-old son, Fergus. The Michael Family, comprised of Ian,

his parents Kathy and Paul, and brothers david ’94 and Andrew ’96, have endowed a history prize at SAC

in honour of their grandmother. The award is presented annually on Prize Day.

Jeff ChisholmOn behalf of the entire St. Andrew’s commu-

nity, we would like to offer a heartfelt thank

you to Jeff Chisholm for his unwavering

leadership and superb guidance during his

five years as Chairman of the Board of

Directors. As the father of two Andreans,

Matthew ’98 and Brian ’00, Jeff served

his term with great dedication.

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1948iAN WishArt

The Rev. Ian Wishart ‘48, former Padre of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, is pictured above at the war memorial in St. John’s, NL fol-lowing commemorative services last July to remember the members of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment who died in the battle of Beaumont Hamel, France, on July 1st, 1916. Ian received a Doctor of Divinity (honoris causa) degree from Knox College in Toronto last May and recently published a book: Common Order, A Canadian Book of Services of Worship. He lives in St. John’s, NL.

1949dAVid WilsoN(seen below in his father’s chair) visited the campus with his wife,

Terry, and sister, Judy, and her husband, Lloyd. David and Terry were visiting Judy and Lloyd for the Thanksgiving weekend and de-cided to stop by and see the many changes to the campus. David and Terry live in Florida for the summer months and in North Carolina for the winter months.

1955keN Willoughbyand his wife Shirley visited with Gonzalo ‘55 and Carmen Gutierrez in Barcelona in September. They en-

joyed reminiscing about their time at St. Andrew’s and about old friends. Ken and Shirley have been married for 53 years and have three sons, five grandchildren and one great grandson. They live in London, ON.

1956JohN sWiNdeNwas recently appointed Director of Infrastructure Ontario,

the provincial govern-ment agency respon-sible for procurement and management of large capital projects and for the financing of smaller municipal projects. He and his wife Helen live in Loretto, ON.

WilliAm CrANeand his wife maria started a foundation for abused and mistreated children between the ages of 3 and 16 in 1988 on a farm one hour outside of bogota, Colombia. the Foundation of the holy Cross (Fundacion de la santa Cruz) receives hundreds of applications every year for children in desperate need of help. it has developed a new project called “New World homes” in the small village of san Francisco aimed at creating foster homes for these children. each home is headed by a foster ‘mother’ and aided by a foster ‘aunt’ who work together in the comprehensive development of 15 children. the children go to public school and get work experience on the 14-acre farm. there are presently three of these homes already functioning, with the goal of creating a fourth home, a Joint house, additional farm activities and assorted shops to offer the children work experience in other areas. gonzalo gutierrez ‘55 and his wife Carmen recently visited William and maria in Colombia.

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1960Chris AllWorthand his wife Carolyn visited SAC in early June. Chris was unable to attend the 50th reunion last spring for the Class of 1960. During his visit, the School presented him with his 50th tie to commemorate the occasion. In the mid-1960s, Chris was a music Master at SAC and then continued his career for more than 35 years as a church musician, 20 of them as Director of Music for the Atlantic School of Theology. Chris and his family live in Halifax.

1963bryAN WAllerson of Old Boy Robert Waller ‘32, retired from his position as a Master in Chambers for the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta in 2009, but he occasionally returns to work on an ad hoc basis. Although he has sold his cattle herd, Bryan continues to farm in the Okotoks region outside Calgary. When he was no longer able to vault over a four-board corral fence, he knew it was time to get out of the cattle business.

1968Peter bAtesis General Manager of The Sign Man Co., Ltd. in Nassau, Bahamas. The company recently celebrated its 20th year in business and Peter writes that “all is well and life is good.” He and his wife Kate live in Nassau.

1970JeFF hAyeswrites that after spending the past 30 years in the investment industry, he has founded Canadian Energy Partners where he serves as Managing Partner. Although it is a Texas-based company, it invests primarily in Alberta’s heavy oil sands, as well as in conven-tional oil and gas in Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatch-ewan. Jeff is enjoying this new role and the opportunity to visit Calgary and Toronto many times throughout the year. He was back on campus in September to attend his 40-year reunion and ran in the Columbus Marathon on October 17th. Life is very good indeed, and he invites any and all Andreans to visit and stay at his family’s horse property when traveling through Cincinnati, OH.

1972gordoN hAWkeis enjoying semi-retired life in Toronto and continues to do some consulting and serve on a few cor-porate and not-for-profit boards. His son John ‘10 graduated from SAC last spring and is attending Bishop’s University.

doug WilloCkis President & CEO of Polar Star Mining Corporation, an emerging exploration company with a focus on building value in Chile through discovery and development. The company has approximately 258,000 hectares of mineral claims prospective for gold and copper in Chile. In September,

CArlos kePkeand his wife marleen visited the campus in october for the first

time in over 10 years as part of their travels around North America. they toured the new and old parts of the school and enjoyed lunch

in the great hall. Carlos and marleen live in houston, texas.

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Pedro mArtiNwas back on campus in september to drop off his son Andres ‘12 for his first year at sAC. Andres represents the fourth generation Andrean in the martin family, following in the steps of his father, grandfather Pedro ‘47, and great

grandfather Pedro ‘10. Pedro and Andres delivered a special gift to the Class of 1954 Archives when they were both here in september – Andres’ great

grandfather Pedro’s red st. Andrew’s blazer. Andres’ grandfather, Pedro ‘47, is alive and well in mexico City, and he looks forward to returning to

st. Andrew’s in June to attend Andres’ first Prize day. Pedro ‘74 is a private venture investor and has an estate planning firm located in bermuda. he

lives with his wife magala in monterrey along with their son Pedro, who attended Proctor Academy in New hampshire, and daughter magala,

who will be attending boarding school next year.

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Polar Star announced results from its current diamond drill program at its 100% owned Montezuma Project. Doug continues to call Toronto home.

1973rAymoNd leuNgwas recently appointed an Adjunct Professor for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technol-ogy. He continues to serve as CEO of C&L Holdings and to live in Hong Kong.

1974Clyde urQuhArtvisited the School in June after a long absence. Clyde enjoyed seeing both the new buildings and the old familiar surroundings as well as having lunch in the Great Hall. He lives in St. Mary’s, Georgia.

1976gAry lAWreNCeand his wife Soon Ok’s daughter, Jennifer, graduated from Havergal College last spring and is a fresh-man at Yale University this fall where she will play hockey for the Women’s team.

1981PAul stANboroughwas recently promoted to Senior Vice President, Call Center Opera-tions with HSBC’s Credit Card and Retail Services business. He and his family moved to Wilmington, Delaware in July. Paul and Eliza-

beth’s oldest son, Ben ‘12, entered SAC in grade 11 this September.

1984miChAel kooPmANNtook on a new assignment last April as Regional Sales Director, Central Europe with Emptoris, Inc. – a leading U.S. provider of strategic supply and enterprise contract management solutions. Prior to joining Emptoris, Mike took some time off to focus on his family. Mike, his wife Stephanie, and two year-old son Frederik, live in Frankfurt, Germany and invite old classmates to drop by for a visit.

1985briAN thomsoNlives in Rapperswil, Switzerland and is Chairman and CEO of Hardcastle Trading, a company he founded in 1999. He is married to Sabine and they have two young children, Leonardo and Saphira. Brian and his family enjoy return-ing to their cottage in Georgian Bay each summer.

1986tim WAtsoNjoined Bank of America Merrill Lynch in September 2010 as Head of the Canadian Energy & Power Investment Banking Group, based in Calgary.

1987tim CAllAghANand his wife Lea welcomed a daughter, Kate, on May 22, 2010, a sister to Will (4) and Matthew

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dArriCk thomsoNspoke at an upper school assembly in october with his colleague and new wife, lek Chailert, Founder and director of elephant Nature Park, a sanctu-ary in thailand dedicated to rehabilitating abused and neglected elephants. darrick and lek were in ontario for a week in october to visit with family and were married on october 9, 2010. this was a stopover in between meeting with secretary of state hillary Clinton in Washington, d.C. and with Camilla Parker bowles, duchess of Cornwall, in london, england to discuss their cause. darrick has worked at the sanctuary for the past two years and is the director/editor of the elephants’ Voice magazine.

lArry dillvisited friends and family in ontario this past summer, and included a trip to campus. larry also enjoyed dinner with classmates hosted by tom & michele mcNally. larry has been living and working in Princeville on the north shore of kauai for the past 20 years, where he and his wife lori have raised two sons and two daughters. larry manages a small utility company. Andreans visiting hawaii are welcome to stop by and say ‘aloha’!

(l-r) Classmates tom mcNally, scott byberg, scott Cole, larry and doug Crawford.

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(3). He is a Marketing Systems Consultant for Vale (formerly Vale Inco), the world’s second largest nickel mining company, and he works out of the company’s head office in Toronto. Tim lives with his family in Oakville, ON. PAul mANtroPand wife Andrea welcomed their second child, Clayton, on May 14, 2010. Clayton is a younger brother to sister Stella. Paul recently completed a large mural for St. Andrew’s College, celebrat-ing the historical evolution of a new student into a ‘complete man and well-rounded citizen.’ It is part of the new archival display on the first floor of Dunlap Hall, a must-see the next time you’re on campus! Paul and his family live in Collingwood, ON.

1988blAir AgAris Senior Director of U.S. Business Development for PC 350, a manufacturer of pre-finished aluminum doors and window framing for commercial interiors. Blair’s father founded the com-pany more than 35 years ago as the first re-usable, non-progressive moveable office wall system in Canada. The company’s success continues to grow, and it now celebrates a new LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified product line. He and his oldest sister remain focused on flexible design and answering the needs of the indus-try. Blair is in his first year with PC 350 and remains extremely optimistic about its future.

1989mike o’CoNNoris a Project Engineer working for Bombardier on driverless public transit projects, including jobs in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Sao Paolo, Brazil. Mike, his wife and their daughter live in Kingston, ON.

1990Alex steiNis Assistant Coach for the Lau-sanne Hockey Club in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is in his ninth season at the professional level and has coached numerous teams in Europe, the U.S., and Canada. Alex has the unique opportunity of coaching with former NHLer John Van Boxmeer.

1991blAir mCPhersoNand wife, Karen, along with sons, Lynch and Briggs, happily announced the arrival of Callie (Calista Sylvie Gale) on June 24, 2010 in London, England, a sixth grandchild for John and Gail Patterson, and a tenth grandchild for Don and Gayle McPherson. shirAz mottiArmarried Isa DiIorio on June 29, 2010 and the two welcomed a baby girl, Neva Marie, on Septem-ber 18. Shiraz is the winemaker for Malivoire Wine, and he lives with his family in Beamsville, ON.

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shANe mANNiNgmet his wife kristyn at a friend’s wedding in toronto in 2006, and they have been happily married since march

28, 2009. his best man was robert katic ‘90. shane and kristyn had a little boy, deagan rory James manning, on

march 30, 2010. they live in redondo beach, CA where shane is involved in engineering consulting.

PAtriCe bANsA

and his wife Andrea welcomed their first son

and third child, tristan matthias, on July 28,

2010. tristan is a younger brother to bianca (6) and

serena (3). Patrice and his family live in oakville, oN.

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ViNCeNt WoNgvisited the campus in July with his wife Karen and daughter Madison. Vincent is an Investment Banker with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Hong Kong, where he lives with his family.

1992dArreN kAtiCand his wife Millie welcomed a daughter, Petra Fallon, on August 8, 2009. Darren has lived in California since graduating from the Univer-sity of Southern California in 1996. He and his family call Hermosa Beach home and have frequent visits with Shane Manning ‘90 and Andy Kawai ‘92.

iAN miChAeland his wife Sarah welcomed son Fergus on October 15, 2009, a brother for Hadley (3). Ian is a new addition to the SAC Board of Trust-ees, and is profiled on page 56. toby reidhas had numerous adventures since graduation, from starting out as a young stockbroker, to becom-

ing a certified avalanche guide, to launching a multi-million dollar e-commerce channel, to now lead-ing his own company. The biggest opportunity has been the business he founded in 2006: SOLEGEAR Bioplastics Inc. The company makes plastics from plants – 100% natural, high performance, biodegradable plastics. For four years, with the help of the Univeristy of British Colum-bia and the National Research Council of Canada, they have been developing the technology behind engineered bioplastics, and in June, they announced their launch. Global BC TV picked up their story the same day, as did local Vancouver media. Solegear Bioplastics has since received four awards: three were awarded at the BC Innova-tion Council’s 10th annual awards ceremony in September for New Ventures, Economic Impact and Sustainability; the first time ever that the jury has awarded three prizes to one company. Solegear was also recently recognized by Frost & Sullivan, one of the world’s leading market research firms, with the 2010 New Product Innovation of the Year Award in Biopolymers.

seAN rAlPhand his family were proud to be Canadian as they watched the st. Andrew’s Pipes & drums band march in the Ve day anniversary celebration parade in Wageningen, Netherlands on may 5th; they also attended the parade on may 9th in Apeldoorn (see story on page 16). sean is senior legal Counsel for shell international and lives with his family in the hague, Netherlands.

1991

mArk etheriNgtoNand his brothers Paul ‘95 and sean ‘94 were the recipients of the 2009 Queen’s university Alumni humanitarian of the year Award for their efforts with motionball. the brothers created motionball with a mandate to introduce the next generation of donors, sponsors and supporters to the special olympics, and since 2002 it has donated in excess of $1,850,000 to special olympics Canada and introduced tens of thousands of new people to the movement. the focus is to ensure that giving back, getting involved in the community, and making a difference can be fun. they have hosted five annual events in toronto, two in Vancouver, two in Calgary, one in halifax, one in ottawa and an innaugural event in montreal beginning in 2011. motionball is a 100% volunteer organization and, according to mark, it could not have achieved such success without the support of all the volunteers and, in particular, their fantastic board and Council which includes three other old boys: darcy mont-gomery ‘92, derek bulas ‘95 and stuart smith ‘92.

1992

Vincent Wongwith madison and Karen

(l-r) mark ’92 and his wife katie, Andrea and sean etherington ’94, and Nycki and Paul etherington ’95

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stuArt smithand his wife Kimberly welcomed Jordyn Alexa Smith on June 15, 2010, a little sister to Zachary (2). Stuart is President of the Old Boys Association and lives and works in Toronto.

1995dArreN mCNAirand his wife Danielle proudly announce the birth of their third child, Jake Ryan, on October 1, 2010. Jake is also welcomed by brother James, 4 and sister Farrah, 2. The family lives in Kleinburg, Ontario.

1996ANdreW WilsoN

and wife Leigh welcomed their first child Hunter Andrew on June 20th, 2009. The happy family lives in London, England.

1997roN hoand gang attended a Hong Kong Rugby Sevens’ game last spring.

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JAsoN Worrymarried kei Arita on April 21, 2009 in st. lucia. old boys in attendance included brothers kevin ‘89 and michael ‘92, as well as Jeff lewis ‘95 and geoff White ‘92. the couple lives in Palo Alto, California.

JeFF slighthAmand wife stacia, along with daughter Callie, welcomed Avery Walter slightham on sept. 6, 2010. Jeff and his family live in toronto.

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1997JoNAthAN hui

married Joyce Chang on march 20th, 2010. the ceremony was held in a garden setting at the

home of Jonathan’s family in shek o, hong kong. old boys in attendance included: best man ronald ho ‘97, Jonathan’s roommate from grade 7 at sAC, with Jonathan’s brother, Justin hui ‘96 and benja-min kwok ‘97 as the groomsmen. other old boys

who joined the celebrations included kevin siu ‘97, duane gafoor ‘97, Andrew Cheung ‘95, eric lo ‘93, gerald li ‘97 and edwin lo ‘98. Jonathan also changed careers after six years in the advertising/

brand consulting field. in 2006, Jonathan left his position as Account director at eight Partnership, a hong kong-based brand strategy and commu-nications company, to look after his family’s real estate investment and management businesses.

(l-r) ron ‘97, Karl lippe ‘96 and Justin Hui ‘96

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Ron and Justin ’96 both live in Hong Kong with their respective families and Karl ’96 stopped by during a business trip.

1998ANtoNio riVA PAlACio l.joined the firm Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle in July and continues to practice international law and international arbitration. Antonio lives outside of Mexico City in Cuernavaca.

1999miChAel Choi

married Aimee Park in Toronto on May 23, 2008. James Lee ‘00 and Brian Lee ‘01 were his Best Men. Michael is an Educational Consultant representing international boarding students and is working with St. Andrew’s College as a parent and student liaison. “I cannot believe that I am back at SAC. It feels like going back home,” says Michael. He and Aimee live in Toronto.

JAmie mACPhersoNhas been hired as a full-time faculty member in the Middle School teach-ing history and English. He is coach-ing U16 Football and is an Assistant

Coach for 1st Hockey. Jamie is an outstanding addition to the faculty and is well-respected as a teacher, coach, colleague and mentor. Chris WAkeFieldis living in Langley, BC with his wife Jennifer. They coach ringette at the national level and Jennifer plays centre and is Captain of Team Canada. Chris works for Tim Hortons as the Regional Marketing Manager for British Columbia and the Yukon.

2000iAiN myrANshas accepted a new job serving as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Minister of Research and Innova-tion at Queen’s Park. Iain has served as a Senior Planner and Project Manager for the Toronto-based urban policy think-tank, the Canadian Urban Institute, since 2006. He lives in Toronto. iAiN rogershas begun a Cornell-Queen’s Executive MBA and expects to graduate in 2012. Iain currently lives and works in Vancouver, BC.

sAmmy rothWellmarried Melissa in Halifax on May 22, 2010. The happy couple live in Bagot, Manitoba.

2001JoshuA kelsoNand his wife Helen welcomed the arrival of their first child, a daugh-ter, named Penelope Jane on July 13. They live in Newmarket, ON.

1998brook dysoNmarried Carrie hoto on June 12, 2010 in delhi, oN. old boys in atten-dance included: Peter dyson ‘99, Jon Price ‘98, Chris Fusco ‘98, doug mac Con ‘98, max Woods ‘98 and richard lai ‘98. brook and Carrie live in burlington, ontario.

AdAm o’meArAmarried mari kushino on may 2, 2010 in Victoria, b.C. Jeff ovens ‘01 was among the guests in attendance. the couple honeymooned in hawaii and have made their home in Victoria. Adam works in the recreation industry and has recently competed in several ironman competitions in Penticton.

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2002miChAel FAuldscompleted his first season as offensive coordinator for the York University Lions men’s football team. Michael is the all-time lead-ing passer in Canadian Univeristy football history with 10,811 passing yards. The former two-time Yates Cup MVP and OUA MVP hopes to instill his winning attitude in a York football team that has underachieved over the last number of seasons. JohN kNuttoNpassed the Florida State Bar and was sworn in as an attorney on September 24th. He is the Assistant State Attorney for the State Attorney’s Office – Ninth Judicial Circuit (Orange County and Osceola County) and has been arguing motions, negotiating plea bargains, and doing arraignments. John writes that he is learning a great deal while having lots of fun living in Orlando, 20 minutes from all the big theme parks – Seaworld, Universal Studios and Disney!

2003miChAel bottomleyand classmate, David Nudds, are the proud new owners of a premier fine cheese and food shop in Toronto. The Village Cheesemonger officially launched on April 24th and Michael and David have been overwhelmed by the response of both friends and family, as well as the local community. NiCholAs CAroNis working toward his PhD in Neuroscience, with a focus on Huntington’s disease research, at McMaster University. merVyN FrAmespoke at the Annual Cadet Church Parade in Aurora on Sunday, April 18, 2010. Mervyn addressed the Cadet Corps as an Old Boy and as political staff member working in the Office of the Minister of Na-tional Defence. He spoke about his years at St. Andrew’s and fondly remembered his school as being steeped in tradition, including the Cadet Corps. Mervyn lives in Ottawa.

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2002NiCk WeedoN

married his high school sweetheart, Ashley hogue, in Newmarket on June 26, 2010. the reception was held on campus in the great hall

with numerous old boys and friends in attendance. Nick and Ashley are living in their new home in Aurora with their dog tessa.

oliVer rAdley-smithleft his position at Plm group to join digital edge services

as an Account manager. he lives in toronto.

JeFF giNou is working as Production manager at Art Printing, his fam-

ily’s printing company that his grandfather started in 1932. the business supplies placemats and trayliners to fast food restaurants such as tim hortons, burger king and harveys.

Jeff keeps the presses running. he lives in toronto.

John Knutton at his swearing in ceremony

back row (l-r) ryan kelly ‘02, Peter mcClelland ‘02, bob Perrier, James gideon ‘02, d.J. bennett ‘02, scott hayter, scott sillcox ‘77 middle row (l-r) Anne Perrier,

Nick tsioros ‘88, Andrew malloy ‘98, ryan bryce ‘05, mark service Front row (l-r) giancarlo trimarchi ‘02, travis beatty ‘98, Nick, Ashley, Andrew Weedon ‘98,

Jason Perrier ‘98, marshall starkman ‘89

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miChAel tzimAsbecame a fully qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) on September 14, 2010. Mike works for Deloitte in Toronto.

2004simoN lAugraduated in May 2010 with a BSc Pharmacy degree from the University of Toronto. After completing an internship with Shoppers Drug Mart, Simon is pursuing a career in both com-munity and hospital pharmacy.

2005ryAN buCCigraduated from St. Francis Xavier University last spring with a BA and dual major in History and Political Science. He coached at the SAC Summer Camp last summer and was then hired as a Resident Don in Flavelle House. Ryan is assistant coaching 1st Volleyball, U16 Bas-ketball and 1st Baseball this year.

seAN diNsmorecontinued to play junior hockey in Ontario after graduating from SAC. He attended an NHL draft camp in Boston in 2006 and signed a pro contract for a team in Finland where he studied international business

and marketing at Savonia University. After extensive knee surgery, he returned to Ontario and decided to pursue his commercial helicopter

license in 2008. He is now licensed to fly rotary aircrafts. He began a leasing business, Hald Vertical Inc., before graduating from the Essential

Sean and his girlfriend Jenna with his helicopter

tristAN beNsoNmarried heather Victoria Pirrie on August 21, 2010 in the sAC memorial Chapel. the wedding party included classmates Andrew macdonald, Justin Au and kyle Jackson. tristan’s sister Ashleigh was a bridesmaid, brother ethan ‘12 played the pipes, and brother evan read a lesson. tristan and heather are living in mount Albert, oN.

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Helicopters Flight Training Program and is working on increasing the fleet over the next two years. By day, Sean is a Branch Director for Crownhill Packaging, one of the largest privately-owned packaging companies in Ontario. In late 2009, he purchased a 46-acre horse and small produce (mainly garlic and soya beans) farm in Clarksburg, near where he grew up. The farm, coach-ing girls’ hockey, teaching power skating, and the bagpipes take up most of his time. Sean stays in con-tact with his first roommate, Brett Galbraith ’05 in Barrie and Pat McBane ‘05, who lives in Sudbury.

JordAN ekershas taken on the role of National Program Coordinator for LoyaltyOne – AIR MILES for Social Change. In this role, he will facilitate partnering with government agencies, energy utilities, transit service providers, and non-governmental organiza-tions (NGOs) to leverage the value of AIR MILES reward miles and the program’s reach into more than 10 million Canadian households to create incentives for energy conser-vation, public transit, waste reduc-tion and other sustainable choices to shift the attitudes and behaviours of Canadians in favour of healthy living and the environment. Jordan is living and working in Toronto.

robert mACkAywas a fifth-year quarterback with the Concordia Stingers and received a bursary in recognition of his athletic excellence from the Montreal Alouettes at a pre-game ceremony at Molson Stadium earlier in the season. He was one of seven Quebec university football players to be recognized. Rob was a 2009

Quebec conference all-star. With 2739 yards passing and 18 TDs he set two Quebec University Football League single season records. He led the QUFL in TDs, passing yards, completions, attempts and yards per game (342.4). His 2739 yards was second best in the CIS last year.

bAsim mirzAgraduated from Acadia University in 2009 with a double major in Economics and Business. He now works as a Business Associate for ScotiaMcLeod at their head office in Toronto. Basim is also a Busi-ness Development Executive for Catalyst Canada Market Expansion, a company that helps businesses overseas expand into Canada. More than a year ago, he started basim.ca, where he regularly posts original video lessons and articles focussed on business development solutions. Basim also serves on the Old Boys Association for St. Andrew’s.

2006AdriAN bruNorecently graduated from York University with a B.Sc. in Psychology and has been working at the Centre for Ad-diction & Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto doing research in psychiatry for the last three years. He began his first year at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University in August 2010. Jesse CoheNgraduated last spring from the Uni-versity of Toronto (on the Dean’s list) with a BA in Political Science and History and a minor in Writing & Rhetoric. He worked as Program Director at Camp Katonim for the summer and is living in Toronto.

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bANg liANg zhAograduated from the university of michigan with a bA last may.

his commencement ceremony involved a special guest speaker, President barack obama. bang returned to hong kong shortly after graduation where he began working as a Project officer

for the hong kong human resources exchange Center.

ryAN bryCegraduated from Queen’s university with a b.Comm. in

spring 2009 and was coaching a york simcoe express AAA hockey team while looking for the perfect job. that job found him last march when he was approached about

joining the sAC Advancement team as the Annual Fund and Planned giving officer (a maternity leave replacement).

ryan is enjoying being back on campus and is a wonderful addition to the Alumni and Advancement office.

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deAN hAmANNgraduated from Queen’s University with a BFA (Hons). He plans to travel throughout Europe this spring before focusing on his master’s degree.

Vello keelmANNgraduated from University College London in 2009 with a BA (Hons) in Economics and Business with East European Studies. Since then he has been at the University of Oxford completing a M.Phil. in Russian and East European Stud-ies, specializing in the economies of that region. In July, Vello was awarded a Gold level Duke of Ed-inburgh Award presented by Prince Philip at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto (see photo on page 68). AdAm lAiNgreceived his MA in International Relations from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and has returned to Jamaica to work in the family business with his parents and sister. Classmate Chris Simp-son visited Adam in the UK during his graduation from St. Andrew’s. Adam said it was very special to share his graduation with a friend and Old Boy. toNy lAuobtained his BBA degree from York University’s Schulich School of Busi-ness last spring and is staying on to pursue his MBA in Finance this fall. dAVid lutherworks for GWL Realty Advisors as a consultant under their property management division “Vertica Resident Services.” He is adjudicat-ing muti-residential and commer-cial leases on behalf of the Great West Life in the uptown Bayview

Village area of Toronto. David and his partner Chelsey Shaw have been living together for three years with their Golden Retriever Rylie. David began studying at Ryerson University in September, concurrent with his work for GWL. kArl mCCArtNeyfinished a solid season with the Saint Mary’s University Huskies in 2009 and, despite not being invited to the CFL’s Evaluation Camp, he fully expected to be picked at the May 2, 2010 CFL Draft. While surfing the internet at home in the Bahamas, Karl read an article by a respected CFL analyst who referenced Karl’s future in football. Karl was stunned to read the following line: “Once a prized recruit, he [Karl] is now done with football.” However, thankfully for Karl, the Calgary Stampeders de-cided to do some research of their own. They got in touch with Karl, who assured them that he was still very interested in playing, and to prove it, he paid his own way to a football camp in Florida where he was put through two days of drills. The tape of those drills was sent to Calgary, and the Stampeders liked what they saw enough to pick him in the fifth round, 37th overall – a selection they hope can turn into one of the steals of the draft.

Chris simPsoNis in his last year at the university of Victoria studying Philosophy and human Psychology. last summer he backpacked through the uk for two months and was lucky enough to attend Adam laing’s ‘06 graduation ceremony from the university of st. Andrews before meeting up with tyler munro ‘06 and mark service in the middle east for an expedition through egypt, Jordan and turkey. the three continued on to Namibia to chaperone the sAC outreach trip for three weeks in August.

AlexANder tANggraduated from tufts university in spring 2010 with a degree in electrical engineering. he is working for an architectural firm in boston, Vanderweil engineers. Alex enjoys living in boston and has stayed in contact with other Andreans studying in and around boston, including timothy Wong ‘08 at boston university, sean lee ‘08 at risd, Jesen tanadi ‘06 at risd and ryan thom ‘07 at tufts. he was back on campus for a visit last summer.

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(l-r) Chris, marnie mcroberts and tyler munro ‘06

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2007JustiN NozukAwas a musical guest on the “Late Show with David Letterman” in April. He and his band are on a European tour this fall. ryAN thomis in his fourth year at Tufts major-ing in Economics and plays on the NCAA D-III Men’s Ice Hockey Team. Last summer, he worked at Fidelity Investments in Boston as an Equity Trader. Ryan recently accepted a job as an analyst in the M&A Advisory Group at Berenson & Company, a New York investment bank. He will start after he graduates next spring.

2008miChAel Choiis in his third year studying Biomedi-cal Engineering at John Hopkins University in Maryland. He is activiely involved in an advanced drug delivery research lab in the University’s Medical School. miChAel del zottorepresented Canada at the Inter-national Ice Hockey Federation World Hockey Championship in Germany last May. Michael finished a successful rookie season with the NHL’s New York Rangers. He ap-peared in 80 games and recorded nine goals and 37 points.

2009ryAN bessewas named one of McGill Uni-versity’s Athletes of the Week for the period ending Oct. 10, 2010 for Men’s Varsity Lacrosse. Ryan racked up 16 goals and added a half-dozen assists in six games at the Ross-Victory Cup senior championship in October, where he earned all-tournament honours. The 19-year-old sophomore, majoring in Economics, scored at least one marker in each contest and registered back-to-back five-goal games against Abbotsford and Toronto, respectively. A.J. mAssoNwas named to the America East All-Rookie Team as a short-stick midfielder for the University of

Vermont Men’s Lacrosse team last May. Masson scored six goals and added an assist for seven points. His 44 ground balls ranked third best on the team.

2010toNy Chovisited St. Andrew’s in October as a Student Ambassador for Swarthmore College in Pennsylva-nia where he is in his first year. He is involved in several international groups there, including I20 – a group that helps new students get settled on campus and SMORE – the Swarthmore Multicultural Outreach Recruitment Effort. Tony is really enjoying the academically challenging and friendly atmo-sphere Swarthmore has to offer.

ChristiAN kiellerreceived his gold level duke of edin-burgh Award from Prince Philip at a

ceremony in toronto this summer. this was an interesting day as the power

went out in the entire downtown core just as the award’s ceremony

began. Christian and Vello were on the fourth floor with major brian

mcCue, and Queen elizabeth was on the 16th floor preparing for the state

dinner that evening! Christian is at the university of Western ontario

studying urban development with a minor in geography.

(right) Christian and Vello keelmann ‘06

receiving their awards from Prince Philip at the

royal york hotel in toronto on July 5, 2010.

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Upon Stan’s retirement from St. Andrew’s in 1982, Headmaster Bob Bedard honoured him as follows, “The image of Mr. Stan Macfarlane is painted in different hues. Here is your bon vivant, your gour-

met par excellence, partner in travel and crime with Dick Gibb, an A.J. Foyt in a red jeep, a linguist of charm and expertise, lovable Silver Fox and fearless man of the slopes, warmed and welcomed more than any other master on this staff, soldier of fortune and fortunate soldier, housemaster de jour and friend of all in all ways. Since 1947 this school has been touched in so many ways by the gentle charm and the unflagging dedication of Stan Macfarlane. We shall always remain deep in his debt.”

Stan Macfarlane passed away peacefully on July 30, 2010 at the age of 93 at his home in Toronto. He received his schooling in Toronto, graduating from the University of To-ronto in 1939 and the OCE in 1940. Stan enlisted in 1940 with the 48th Highlanders of Canada and served with the regiment in the UK, Sicily, Italy and Holland, finishing his army career in 1945 as Staff Captain at Cdn. Army Headquarters in Apel-doorn, Holland. After graduate stud-ies at the University of Paris, he was appointed Head of Modern Languag-es at St. Andrew’s College in 1947 where he remained until 1982, during which time, along with his colleague and best friend, the late Richard C. Gibb, he organized and conducted student summer bicycle tours through Europe. One year after his retirement from SAC, he was appointed Direc-tor of Studies for the new Canadian Pre-University Programme at Kuala

Lumpur, Malaysia, a post he held until his retirement in 1992. He and Marie remained active in retirement, maintaining their friendships by continuing their travels, including jungle river trips in Borneo, retracing the route of his march through Sicily in 1943 with his children in 1997, and frequent visits to see his grandchildren in Vancouver. Stan is survived by his beloved wife, Marie-Madeleine (nee Porion) and his cherished

children, Ian (Jane Creed), Chris-tophe, Nathalie and Stephanie (Bran-don King), two grandchildren Conor and Eoin, and his many relatives in Canada and in France. All who knew him will forever remember him for his sense of adventure and joie de vivre!

“God has taken a distinguished and honorable man to permanently live in heaven … I would not be sur-prised if Stan, with God’s permission, has started to give language lessons to all newcomers.” Alonso Soules ’52

On the occasion of Stan’s 90th birthday, a group of Old Boys established The Stan Macfarlane Scholarship, an award designated to support a student with a talent and interest in languages, especially French or Spanish. Stan was deeply honoured by the establishment of this endowed fund, and he and Ma-rie personally supported the award for several years. In Stan’s memory, many more Andreans and friends have made contributions to this scholarship. Their names are listed on page 45. Should you wish to make a donation to this endowment fund in Stan’s memory, please contact the Advancement Office at St. Andrew’s College at 905-727-3178, or donate online at www.sac.on.ca/support-sac/onlinegiving.aspx

Tribute to a Legend

John Stanley (Stan) Macfarlanenov. 16, 1916 – July 30, 2010

SAC Master 1947-1982

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1945AllAN beAttie Allan Leslie Beattie passed away on May 23, 2010 at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. He attended St. Andrew’s from 1944-1945 and played 1st Hockey. Allan went on to graduate with a BA from the University of Toronto’s Trinity College and later received his law degree from Osgoode Hall. A Member of both the Order of Canada (1993) and the Order of Ontario (1998), Allan was a pillar of his community and worked for many years as Queen’s Counsel for Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt. He applied his extensive legal and business experience to a vast array of philanthropic and volunteer endeavors. Allan is held in high esteem for his deep commitment to the Timothy Eaton Memorial Church and the many educational, cultural and health care organiza-tions he supported, most notably Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Chil-dren. He leaves his wife Sally (nee Litch), his four daughters Elizabeth (James Greenshields), Mary Plath, Barbara (Frank Aiello) and Leslie (David Prescott), seven grandchil-dren, and four step-daughters: Lisa, Laura, Amelia and Anna and their families. Allan was prede-ceased by his brothers Robert ‘47 and Donald ‘47 and first wife Beth (nee Tremayne).

1946JohN sAylorJohn Wesley Saylor passed away on December 30, 2009 at his home in Trenton, ON. John loved his four years (1942-46) at St. Andrew’s, where he was a member of the Little Big Four Championship Football team in

1945 and a top marksman; he also set the 50yd Freestyle record that stood for decades. After graduating from the University of Toronto, John joined his father in the family hardware business in Trenton. Under his leadership, the business became a successful Home Hardware and he continued to work there into his 70s. John and his wife Shirley enjoyed their family life: their three children Ian Wesley, Karen (Saylor-Ray) and Scott and their four grandchildren. They also enjoyed travel and read-ing. John’s brother Randy ‘63 is a retired high school Principal and living in Toronto.

1949doNAld mClAughliNDonald (Don) Christie McLaughlin passed away at his home in Ithaca, NY on August 3, 2010. He attended St. Andrew’s from 1942-49, where he was a Prefect and received numerous honours and prizes for academic achievement. Don went on to graduate from Cornell University in 1953. He was a realtor in the Ithaca area for many years and later worked at the Ithaca YMCA. Don loved to golf and was an avid reader, often reading a book a day. Born in Toronto, he was a son of the late Donald R. ‘12 and Janet J. Wilkins McLaughlin, and grandson of the late John J. McLaughlin, founder of Canada Dry. Don is survived by his wife, Sharon Prezioso McLaughlin; his children: Chris, Margo Klose and Mimi Fersen; step-sons, Michael and Andrew Consalvi; and nine grandchildren.

1952gordoN kellyGordon Douglas Kelly passed away on October 9, 2010 in Calgary after a year-long battle with cancer. He attended St. Andrew’s from 1945-46 and then from 1950-52 and played 1st Football. Gordon graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Mechani-cal Engineering and also received an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He spent his professional life working in the oil industry and as a business management consultant in a variety of industries. Gordon recently published a book entitled The Oil Sands: Canada’s Path to Clean Energy?. He is sur-vived by his wife of 48 years Jane, his daughter Susan of Vancouver and son Douglas of Denver, CO.

1952george lANg

George William Lang passed away on March 1, 2010 at York Central Hospital in Richmond Hill. He attended St. Andrew’s from 1948-52 and was a member of the Review staff. George worked in the Accounts Payable department at Sun Oil Company’s head office in Toronto for nearly 25 years – retiring in 1981. He had a passion for build-ing steam engines and spent a lot

of his time at the family cottage on Lake Rosseau with SAC classmates John Scotland and the late Horace Jones. George leaves his wife Myrtle (nee Peacock), sons William (Treni) and Steven (Tobey), five grandchil-dren and one step-grandson.

1956JohN CoPelANdJohn L. Copeland passed away at his home in Elmvale, ON on October 19, 2009. He attended St. Andrew’s from 1951-56 and played 1st Soccer, served as a Chapel Boy, and as a Corporal in Cadets. John went on to attend the University of Toronto and worked in Forestry and Forest Conservation for Copeland Milling Ltd., Langford Marine and a variety of other ventures. He was the former husband of Janet Copeland; brother of Elizabeth (Richard) Howe; father of Jennifer, Martha (Bill) Oughtred, Cameron (Elspeth) and Anastasia Wheeler; grandfather of four; close compan-ion of Dorcena Nixon; and colourful character and friend to many.

1956sANdy riChArdsoNThomas (Sandy) Richardson passed away at Princess Gardens in Pe-terborough, ON on April 28, 2010. He attended St. Andrew’s from 1951-56 where he was a Prefect, Head Librarian, a Major in Cadets, and a member of the Review staff. Sandy was a history teacher in Peterborough and is survived by his sisters Susan Merry and Elizabeth Peachell, his nieces Susan Bow-man, Judy Merry and Lisa Jezar, and his nephews David Merry and Christopher McClure. Sandy’s late father, George A. Richardson ‘31 attended SAC from 1920-29.

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1960gordoN stoNehouse Gordon Stanley Stonehouse passed away on September 4, 2010 as a result of an accident. He attended St. Andrew’s from 1957-60 and went on to attend Dalhousie University. Gordon was a keen lover of horses, sailing and dogs. He leaves behind his loving partner Paul Chamberlain of 28 years, and his siblings, Frances Vi-tali, Marjorie (Stewart) Montgom-ery, Audrey Bauman Stonehouse, and Nancy (Charles) King. Gordon will be sadly missed by his nieces, nephews and many friends.

1961Arthur kAyserArthur Edmund Kayser died on May 26, 2010 in Toronto. He at-tended St. Andrew’s from 1957-61 and went on to graduate from The University of Western Ontario in 1965 with a degree in Econom-ics. Art was touched by his close friends, especially the St. Andrew’s College Old Boys who met twice a year and kept up-to-date with their activities, wives and families. He leaves his best friend and companion Ellen Thompson and is fondly remembered by his children Jody (Jeff), Leslie (John), Bobbi (Bill), James (Faiza) and their mother Joanne, his four grandchildren, his sisters: Barb (John), Marion (Stephen), and three nieces.

1963hArold lAthroPHarold (Hal) Doran Lathrop passed away on January 3, 2010. He attended St. Andrew’s from 1956-63 and was a Chapel Boy and a costume designer for the plays.

He went on to study Fine Arts at Mount Allison University. He is mourned by his siblings: Margot (Mike) Brebner of Mississauga, ON; John ‘63 (Lori) Lathrop of Up-per LeHave, NS; Ned ‘67 (Diane) Lathrop of Ottawa; and Anna (Nancy) Lathrop of Ridgeville, ON. Hal will be missed by his many nieces and nephews, as well as their spouses.

1975keViN brilliNger

Kevin Bruce Brillinger passed away on November 25, 2008 at his home in Willowdale, ON. He at-tended St. Andrew’s from 1970-73 and played 1st Hockey in his last year. Kevin made a lasting contribu-tion to Mister Transmission during his 30 years in the family business and was a member of the AF & AM – Richmond Masonic Lodge #23, Rameses Shriners, and the Royal Order of Jesters Court 83. He was the beloved husband of Cindy Weiner for 24 years and a loving father to Cale and Marlee. He also leaves behind his mother, Gayle Brillinger of Newmarket, and his siblings Marc ‘76 (Jen), Chris, Tina (Randy) and Anne (Dave). Kevin is missed and lovingly remembered by his family and friends.

betty loVeElizabeth (Betty) Love died on March 22, 2010 in her 92nd year. She was the daughter of Sir Ellsworth Flavelle and the beloved wife of the late Gage Love, Chair of the St. Andrew’s Board of Governors from 1972-79 and a Trustee of the Foundation from 1966-82. Betty served three terms as President of the Ladies Guild, from 1958-60 and from 1962-63, and her generosity of spirit extended to the charities she supported, many of which were environmental organizations her sons championed. She is dearly missed by her four sons Gage ‘63, David ‘65, Peter ‘67 and Geoff ‘69 and their families, including her twelve grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and great nephew Andrew Flavelle Martin ‘01.

lorrAiNe WilkesLorraine Jacqueline Wilkes (nee Delorme) passed away on July 5, 2010 in her 69th year after a val-iant battle with cancer. When Jim Herder ‘64 asked her if she would like the job of team photographer, as the mother of two Andreans, Lorraine was able to combine her passion for St. Andrew’s with her love of photography. For the past 24 years, she steadfastly captured every team photo each term. Today, many of the varsity team photos on display on the main floor of the

Bedard Athletic Centre are hers. According to Jim, “Lorraine’s atten-tion to detail, her professionalism, her patience, and her exacting standards provided the absolute best on every shot, of every team, every time.” She is dearly missed by her husband Barry, children Tracey (Peter), Robert ‘87 (Eileen) and Warren ‘88 (Liana), sisters Delores (Lloyd) and Linda (David), and five grandchildren.

doNNy WoodsDonald Woods passed away in September 2010. He worked as a dishwasher in the Dining Hall and lived in the West Annex from 1964 until 2004, when he retired. Many may remember seeing him riding his little scooter with the Canadian flag around campus. His family held Donny’s memorial service at St. Andrew’s in Novem-ber since he had spent most of his life on campus.

Past copies of The Andrean and The Review

are available online at archives.sac.on.ca.

This is a work in progress – so keep checking for

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From the Editor – The Transition-up year

TThis year, St. Andrew’s has launched an exciting new board-ing program geared specifically for the grade 12 graduating students. The Transition-UP year is part of SAC’s extensive ‘Residential Life Curriculum’ and focuses on University Preparation (UP), offering boarding students a range of basic life skills and activities that will help to ease their transition to university. Activities are intended to further en-rich the lives of these students in five categories: Enhanced Study Skills; Residential Programming Activities; Uni-versity Counselling; Health & Wellness and Life Skills; and Athlete Training Program.

“This is a unique opportunity for SAC students to become better prepared for university in all aspects of school life dur-ing their graduation year,” says Director of Residential Life David Galajda. “They need this experience to pave the road to independence.”

St. Andrew’s is proud of its history as a boarding school and believes these additional offerings will only strengthen existing programs. Time and time again, we have heard from our graduates how well SAC taught them to balance their time and activities to allow them to get the most from their experiences as a student, actor, athlete, campus tour guide, or club participant.

The Transition-UP year program augments SAC’s exist-ing Residential Life Curriculum and offers boarding students additional tools to help build their confidence and maturity levels; valuable qualities that promote success. By breaking down the offerings into five main categories, the students are able to realize and prioritize their individual goals.

The Enhanced Study Skills program now has Duty Masters (faculty members on study duty in the residence that night) available in the library of each boarding house from 9:00-10:00 p.m. four nights a week. For example, if a grade 12 student living in Memorial requires help in Chemistry, he will be allowed to sign-out with his Duty Master to walk over to Sifton House to meet with the Duty Master who happens to teach Chemistry. Peer tutoring (offered by grade 11 and 12 scholars) is also available Mondays through Thursdays dur-ing study time from 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. in the Flavelle House Library. Amanda Thorne, Academic Support Co-ordinator, offers 30-minute sessions on time management, test anxiety and perfectionism to each Upper School residence, and Bob Perrier, Head of Math, continues to offer his wonderful Math Den for extra help every night after study in the Memorial House Library. This is in addition to the Math Centre program held in conjunction with the Writing Centre held in Towers Library after school and offered by our savvy University of Waterloo Co-op students.

The Residential Programming component focuses on House leadership opportunities (Floor Captain, House Captain and Head of House duties), as well as club pro-grams and interhouse competitions. St. Andrew’s students do not sit idle in their rooms, rather they are constantly on the go. For the second year running, there is a full-time Resident Don responsible for developing programming for Upper School students Mondays through Thursdays after study. Whether it be a pickup volleyball game, a snack and comedy night, or an ultimate frisbee interhouse competition at the nearby sports dome in Aurora, there is always some-thing to do for fun.

At this time of year, university acceptances weigh heav-ily on all grade 12 students’ minds. While our students start meeting with members of the University Counselling Office in their grade 11 year, their meetings become more frequent during their final year. Director of University Counselling, Stuart Swan, and his staff now offer special evening sessions about ‘How to Prepare Personal Statements’ and ‘Choosing the Right University’, as well as weekend SAT and ACT Prep Courses. Advanced Placement (AP) Prep courses are also offered in the spring prior to exams.

Teaching Health & Wellness and Life Skills is some-thing SAC tries to incorporate as a core value throughout the boys’ experience. But, as they prepare for life beyond the gates, the importance of learning about such everyday issues as money management, stress management, addiction, nutri-tion, importance of sleep and how to prepare simple meals becomes more pertinent. A special grade 12 Speaker Series also offers students the opportunity to meet with Old Boys to learn more about career options and the value of mentoring and networking.

Involvement in sports is a given at St. Andrew’s and the Athletic Training Program serves to further strengthen and train our boys for a lifetime of good conditioning skills. Students may select from Monday night Tae Kwon Do classes, Tuesday night Yoga classes, swimming and weight training and conditioning, as well as assorted elite sports camps. Instructors are either current faculty members or outside experts in their fields.

There is no shortage of extra-help offerings, university tips, healthy advice or fun and games to be found day and night in boarding through the Transition-UP Year Program! If you are a grade 10 or 11 day student thinking about university, consider spending your final year in boarding. For more information, please contact the Admission Office at 905.727.3178 x303 or David Galajda, Director of Residential Life at david.galajda@sac.on.ca KIM SILLCOX

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