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Table Of COnTenTs fall 2014

LIONHeadmasterChristopher shannon (pre-U ’76)

Lion editorDawn Levy

Copy editorsJane MartinMiChaeL MasCittoLoUise MiLLs

arCHives, researCH & database managementJane MartinLoUise MiLLsaDrianna ZerebeCky

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ContributorsoLga assaLyanthony Fata ’84wenDy heLFenbaUMwayne LarsenDawn Levykirk LLanoJane MartinaMeLia sapUtoChristopher shannon (pre-U ’76)aDaM tUrner ’87

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02 Head lines / À la UnePhilanthropy Paves the Way /La philanthropie au service du développement

06 frOm THe Campaign CO-CHairsA ‘Standing Ovation’ to our incredible donors and volunteers for a successful Ambitious Minds Campaign

08 THe assaly arTs CenTre frOm sTarT TO finisH

A photo essay chronicling the evolution of the Assaly Arts Centre

12 lCC prOUdly Takes THe leed wiTH THe assaly arTs CenTre

Our newest facility lives up to global sustainability by virtue of function and construction

16 maTHemaTiCsMath has literally come out of the basement since opening the new centre

18 drama & mUsiCDrama and music reach new heights for performers and audiences alike

22 arTThere are no bounds to creativity in our new, bright space

26 THe sapUTO aUdiTOriUm

The impact on programme is unbelievable

30 lCC2009 CenTenary VisiOn & ambiTiOUs minds Campaign

Recognizing donors

35 Class aCTsArt & LCC: Two Klinkhoff family traditions

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38 branCHing OUTAlumni reunite in cities across North America and in the UK

41 repOrT TO dOnOrs

42 message frOm THe HeadmasTer & THe CHairman Of THe bOard Of gOVernOrs

A year marked by programme and facility enhancements

44 laying THe fOUndaTiOnQ & A with Gary Harper ’73

48 lCC parTners wiTH TreVOr williams kids fOUndaTiOn fOr new finanCial awards prOgramme

Making a difference

50 sUdden impaCTWhy annual giving should be on everyone’s to-do list

52 annUal giVing & CapiTal Campaign dOnOrs

58 THe reCOrdAchievements in academic & co-curricular programming for 2013–2014

64 ClassifiedsAlumni news

72 lCC & wOrld war iForging a school legacy

76 in memOriam

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philanthropy paves the way

La philanthropie au service du développement

by Chris shannon (pre-U ’76), headmaster Chris shannon (pre-U ’76), directeur d’école

this fall, i began my tenth year as head-master at LCC. after nearly a decade of service to the school, i am very proud of the many enhancements we have implemented at LCC during recent years. Underpinning all of our programme ini-tiatives have been significant changes to our campus and facilities.

J’entame, cet automne, ma dixième année à titre de directeur du Lower Canada College (LCC). après bientôt une décennie de service au Collège, je suis très fier des nombreuses améliora-tions que nous avons apportées à notre établissement au cours des dernières années. tous nos programmes d’action ont été fondés sur des changements significatifs au campus et aux installa-tions du LCC.

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These have been necessary to allow LCC to develop and focus on excellence as a mod-ern learning institution. Major upgrades are expensive and a generous spirit of philanthropy

has been the critical component in helping us realize our many facility goals. The opening of the incredible Assaly Arts Centre is a most recent example. In fact, a significant portion of this magazine is dedicated to illustrating how a community’s generosity has further elevated the quality of LCC programmes for the ulti-mate benefit of generations of LCC students to come.

Fundraising can be a very challenging part of a headmaster’s role. This is especially true in a province where average annual personal donations to schools and other non-profits lag behind the rest of the country — and significantly behind financial gifts made to

Ces changements étaient nécessaires pour permettre au Collège de se dévelop-per et de viser l’excellence en tant qu’établissement d’enseignement moderne. Les

travaux d’améliorations majeures coûtent cher et une généreuse philanthropie a joué un rôle essentiel dans la réalisation de plusieurs de nos projets d’installations. Notre nouveau et remar-quable Centre d’arts Assaly en est l’exemple le plus récent. En fait, une importante section de cette édition de notre magazine illustre la généreuse contribution de notre communauté dans les efforts visant à améliorer la qualité des programmes du LCC au profit des futures générations d’étudiants.

Les campagnes de financement peuvent s’avérer une tâche ardue parmi les respon-sabilités qui incombent à un directeur. C’est particulièrement le cas dans une province où la moyenne annuelle des dons de particuliers aux institutions d’enseignement ou aux orga-nismes à but non lucratif est inférieure à celle des autres provinces, et nettement moindre que celle des dons financiers accordés aux établissements scolaires par nos voisins du Sud. Toutefois, de mon point de vue, solliciter des dons n’a jamais représenté une démarche inappropriée ou délicate. L’éducation est une cause fort estimable et nos donateurs sont heureux d’investir dans le LCC et de nous aider dans notre quête de l’excellence. En effet, même dans les institutions bien établies, les besoins sont nombreux et les donateurs potentiels peuvent toujours être sensibilisés par un projet ou un programme porteur qu’ils considèrent comme intéressant ou stimulant. On peut alors interpréter leur don comme un geste philanthropique qui aidera à accroître et à approfondir l’apprentissage et le

“What greater gift can one offer than the support of young peoples’ educational opportunities?”

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schools by our American friends to the south. However, I have never taken the view that asking for a donation is somehow inappropriate or unsettling. Education is a very worthy cause, and our donors genuinely appreciate investing in LCC and helping us in our quest for excellence. Yes, even established schools have a long list of needs, and potential donors can always find a connection to a deserving project or programme that they find interesting or inspiring. Indeed, these can be regarded as noble endeavours, helping to augment and enrich learning and character development for a whole new generation of students. When a prospective donor makes a gift, the financial commitment is always deeply appreciated by the school.

On the topic of fundraising, I often tell people that fortunately we’re not in the busi-ness of selling cheap vacuum cleaners or some other disposable widget. Rather, we’re charged with the very important role of edu-cating and shaping young citizens. Educational

développement de toute une nouvelle géné-ration d’étudiants. C’est d’ailleurs pourquoi quand un bienfaiteur éventuel fait un don, l’ins-titution lui est profondément reconnaissante de son aide financière.

À propos des campagnes de financement, je dis souvent aux gens qu’heureusement, nous ne sommes pas une entreprise qui vend des aspirateurs bon marché ou d’autres gadgets jetables. Au contraire, nous sommes investis de la mission la plus importante qui soit : l’édu-cation et la formation de jeunes citoyens. La philanthropie éducative, c’est croire aux gens et aux programmes. Les ressources financières servent à augmenter le potentiel de soutien pour ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives en offrant aux étudiants des acquis extrascolaires significatifs. Que peut-il y avoir de plus pré-cieux, comme don, que le soutien aux possibili-tés de formation de la jeunesse ?

Je voudrais aussi remercier personnelle-ment les nombreux donateurs qui, depuis dix ans, ont contribué à des apports considérables en faveur de notre institution. Le Centre d’arts Assaly, l’Aréna Glenn J. Chamandy, l’Audito-rium Saputo et le Stade Saputo témoignent tous d’un remarquable leadership philanthro-pique. Au cours de la dernière décennie, l’ajout de ces importantes installations a considéra-blement contribué à améliorer le campus et les aménagements de notre collège, en facilitant

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philanthropy is about believing in people and programmes. Financial resources go to support potential and help to open doors of possibil-ity by providing students with meaningful life experiences. What greater gift can one offer than the support of young peoples’ educational opportunities?

I would like to extend my personal thanks to the many donors over the past decade who have made a significant difference at our school. We can all look to the Assaly Arts Centre, Glenn J. Chamandy Arena, Saputo Auditorium, and Saputo Field as products of outstanding philanthropic leadership. During the past decade these major facility additions have notably improved the quality of our school’s campus and facilities, which today provide the foundation for programme excel-lence throughout the curriculum. The Saper Scholarships and several LCC alumni class gifts for bursaries are also examples of impor-tant philanthropic support for our endowment that promote broader access to our school, learning excellence and student diversity. I am proud to say that each of these initiatives comes from a generous spirit of giving from within our LCC community.

Major gifts and every single annual fund cheque — regardless of size — combine to express the importance of giving and the spirit of philanthropy at LCC. Every donation sup-ports our constant focus on building a cohesive and sustainable learning community. If we truly value LCC’s core mission, we all need to be part of supporting the development and emergence of a stronger school well into the future. So please, donate if you can and realize that the physiological research is clear: you will actually feel better for doing so.

la poursuite de l’excellence à tous les niveaux du curriculum. Les bourses d’études Saper et d’autres dons des anciens étudiants du Collège pour créer des bourses d’études sont aussi des exemples d’un important soutien philanthro-pique à notre fondation qui œuvre en faveur d’un plus vaste accès à notre institution, pour un apprentissage de la plus haute qualité et pour la diversité de la clientèle étudiante. Je suis fier de dire que chacune de ces initiatives est due à un esprit de générosité au sein de notre communauté du LCC.

Les dons exceptionnels, auxquels s’ajoute tout chèque individuel, quel qu’en soit le montant, résument à eux seuls le réel esprit de partage et de philanthropie qui règne au LCC. Chaque don soutient notre constant effort pour bâtir une communauté d’apprentissage cohé-sive et durable. Si nous valorisons vraiment la mission fondamentale du LCC, nous nous devons tous de soutenir le développement et l’avènement d’une institution toujours plus forte, et ce, pour de longues années à venir. Alors, s’il vous plaît, donnez dans la mesure du possible et vous constaterez que les recherches en physiologie sont probantes : vous vous sentirez mieux de l’avoir fait.

« Que peut-il y avoir de plus précieux, comme don, que le soutien aux possibilités de formation de la jeunesse ? »

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Our sensational new Assaly Arts Centre is the culmination of a multi-phased project launched more than a decade ago. It began with a vision from our facilities committee and was brought

to life by a team of incredibly talented professionals. It unfolded in stages, beginning with the LCC100 Campaign and the construction of the Glenn J. Chamandy Arena. The demolition of our old outdoor rink in 2012 kick-started the Ambitious Minds Campaign, now just wrapping up.

The Ambitious Minds Campaign could not have been realized without the unwavering commitment of a core group of supporters whose leadership was exemplary. We are very grateful to the many donors and volunteers who helped make the campaign an unmitigated success. We have been amazed by the dedication, resources and energy that our volunteers put into this project, and inspired by the generosity of our key donors. The efforts of all these individuals has brought about real change in the daily lives of our students and to the learning that takes place in this new facility.

Since its recent opening, the Assaly Arts Centre is having an enormous impact on school programming.

A ‘StANdINg OvAtION’

The Saputo Auditorium has elevated our music and dramatic arts programmes and taken our student assemblies and confer-ences to new heights. The physical alignment of our science and math departments has afforded new opportunities for cross-curricular collaboration. The centrally-located art depart-ment has provided our budding artists with an inspiring setting in which to create and share their work. The Assaly Centre has very quickly become a major focal point for the school.

For many families, a gift to the Ambitious Minds Campaign was a heartfelt way to say thank you and to leave a legacy. And for the volunteers — tireless teams of parents, teachers, alumni, and staff — who helped this project come alive, it is truly a dream come true.

Capital campaigns are ambitious undertakings comparable in some ways to running a marathon. Thanks to the support and shared belief of so many in our community, we have suc-cessfully crossed the finish line; a gratifying feeling because we know that this achievement was not for ourselves alone. It will have long-lasting benefits for generations of LCC students.

Non Nobis Solum.Olga Assaly, Tony Fata ’84, and Amelia Saputo

tO Our incredible dOnOrs and vOlunteers fOr a successful ambitiOus minds campaign

FrOm tHe CAmpAIgN CO-CHAIrS:

Facilities Committee ChairsAdam Shine ’84Adam Turner ’87

Ambitious Minds Roar Gala ChairsMaureen David MikusRenee Pearl Sigler

VolunteersLinda AlexanianRandy Aziz ’77Philip Belec ’77Anne-Marie BoucherKimmy ChedelDonna Doherty FraserGeorgina Dovali de SieiraHeidi Drymer

Ross Fraser ’72Teresa FataMitch GarberGary Harper ’73Geoff Heward ’79Joanne HewardChris Ignacio BrombergSusan Kohlhoss LupranoNancy LevasseurDoug Lewin ’87Susan MarcovitchSandra MashaalAmin Noorani ’83Janice NaymarkEric Perlinger ’85Serge RivestDaniele RossyBrigitte RoyLara Scaff

Diana ScaliaMike Shatilla ’88Sherri StubinaEphie TagalakisMarc TellierIvan Velan ’61 Penny VelanJacqueline Wiltzer

Architects Brian BurrowsWilliam CheaShamim AlaeiLise Tremblay

ContractorLeo SoaresCelestino (Tino) Leone

Board ChairsDavid Arditi ’65Adam Turner ’87

Campaign ChairsAnthony Fata ’84Amelia SaputoOlga Assaly

Parent Committee Chairs Olga AssalyMarla Oringer

Alumni Committee ChairGeorge Tooley ’71

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the assaLy arts Centre

the assaly arts Centre was part of a long-range planning committee vision to complete our campus. the demolition of our historic rink, though bittersweet, and the relocation of our arena to the east side of royal avenue, cleared the way for the new centre.

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once we put the shovel in the ground, there was no turning back and the excitement began to build (no pun intended!). the project took approximately 14 months to complete.

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LCC proudLy takes the Leed

with the assaLy arts Centre

By Wayne Larsen, Media Consultant

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aLthoUgh it’s DiFFiCULt to iMagine how basiC briCks anD Mortar CoULD reFLeCt a sChooL’s Mission, LCC’s assaLy arts Centre —the newest FaCiLity in the sChooL’s CaMpUs DeveLopMent pLan — Lives Up to the proMise oF LeaDing by exaMpLe to proMote gLobaL sUstainabiLity, siMpLy by virtUe oF its FUnCtion anD ConstrUCtion.

“it’s not onLy For the environMent, bUt aLso For eDUCationaL pUrposes — to show oUr stUDents that what we’re Doing is a way to preserve the earth, anD that eventUaLLy, we’D Like theM to ContinUe to Do the saMe thing... ”

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Recently completed on the former site of the old covered rink and connected to the Main Building on Royal Avenue, the centre was designed

to be as environmentally friendly as feasible. Everything — from the recycling of soil and other materials removed during the initial excavation to the type of paint used in the finished classrooms and hallways — has been planned to reduce the building’s impact on the environment and honour the school’s commitment to sustainability as enshrined in its mission statement, strategic plan, and Go Green mission.

“It’s not only for the environment, but also for educational purposes — to show our students that what we’re doing is a way to preserve the Earth, and that eventually, we’d like them to continue to do the same thing,” says Nicole Simard-Laurin, LCC’s Assistant Head of Finance and Administration, who worked closely on the project from the planning stages through to its completion. Mrs. Simard-Laurin is especially proud of the fact that the Assaly Arts Centre was conceived with the intention of receiving Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification for its wide range of features aimed at reducing waste, energy consumption, and pollution. Under the LEED system, construction projects are scored out of a possible 70 points according to how many requirements they meet in six categories: Sustainable Sites, Water Efficiency, Energy & Atmosphere, Materials & Resources, Indoor Environmental Quality, and Innovation & Design Process. Once the points are added

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up, projects are rated Certified (26–32 points), Silver (33–38 points), Gold (39–51 points), or Platinum (52–69 points).

From the outset, the entire project has been an investment in sustainability. The ball got rolling in 2009 with a community-wide fundraising campaign, and LCC’s commitment to protecting the environment remained a high priority throughout the planning and construction stages. “The cost of this building was funded entirely by donations, and we’re very proud of that,” Mrs. Simard-Laurin says, adding that the building was named in honour of the Assaly family, who was especially committed to the purpose of the facility and pursuing LEED certification.

Many of the centre’s eco-friendly features — including a geo-thermal system which involves a series of wells dug deep into the ground to provide naturally cool air in summer and warm air in winter — are sure to save LCC a considerable amount of money over the long term through lower energy costs. It is noteworthy that during construction there are no cost advantages by going with a LEED-certified project. There are no prizes or cash initiatives offered through government subsidies. “We’re doing it simply because we feel we need to do it,” says Mrs. Simard-Laurin.

Lyse Tremblay of Eco-Architecture Inc., who has extensive experience in designing LEED-certified buildings, teamed with architect Brian Burrows of the Architex Group, who designed the building. Because LEED buildings are still relatively new to Montreal, much of Ms. Tremblay’s time was spent advising the

contractor on how to proceed according to LEED requirements.

Ms. Tremblay is proud of the fact that, thanks to the installation of low-flow appliances, the level of water reduction in the building is 46 percent higher than the LEED baseline, which in turn is higher than most other buildings. “We also have a white roof to reflect the heat from the sun, and that has proven effective in reducing the ‘heat island’ effect,” she says. “It has been demonstrated in other areas of Montreal that dark roofs raise the surrounding temperature considerably, so the white reflective roof would therefore reduce the need for air conditioning.”

From the installation of bike racks to encourage year-round cycling, to planned recharging stations in the parking lot to encourage the use of hybrid cars, Ms. Tremblay points out that the exterior of the building is just as environmentally friendly as the interior. Even the reduction of light pollution was addressed in the design. “Inside, all the light fixtures are installed so that the main way they shine their light remains inside; they won’t shine out onto adjacent properties. The exterior lighting is limited to lighting only the site, not beyond the site and into the neighbours’ yards.”

The official LEED certification for the new building is expected to be announced this fall. Mrs. Simard-Laurin believes the Assaly Arts Centre’s many eco-friendly features and orientation toward sustainability will earn it a high score. “I’m pretty confident that we are assured a silver rating,” she says. Then she adds with a smile, “But of course gold would be very nice.”

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thanks to the new assaly arts centre, math students have literally come out of the basement and into a centrally-located, bright, and spacious area adjacent to the science wing. classroom sizes are uniform and the opportunities for collaborative projects with the neighbouring visual arts, music, and science departments abound!

“Our new math wing is beautiful, filled with natural light, and complete with state-of-the-art technologies to facilitate teaching and learning.”

— liz Cohene, math teacher

“The math department is very lucky to have such a wonderful new facility, with modern looking classrooms, fully equipped with projectors and SmartBoards, as well as excellent acoustics and views, which make for an exciting learning environment. Students and staff alike are in awe of the new classrooms. The new wing has contributed to the excitement about math for everyone!” 

— Chris george, math teacher

“The new math wing is a breath of fresh air for the students. They are a lot more engaged and in a much better frame of mind. The overall impact has been huge; students are coming in ready to learn and they take full advantage of the tutorials in the naturally-lit math classrooms.”

— doug neal, senior school director

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“The new math wing makes the classrooms warmer. There are large windows, which help cut down on math anxiety often experienced by students. The rooms we had before were in the basement, making it darker and less inviting. But now, we can work in sun-light, and the full wall of white boards allows us to visually build and connect long ideas together better than before.”

—todd Hirtle, math department Head

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Having dedicated classrooms, rehearsal areas, and a modern performance space that showcase our students’ efforts in music and drama have further augmented our academic and co-curricular programmes. in the new saputo auditorium, audiences enjoy enhanced acoustics and sightlines when taking in school performances like Café Cabaret, the Junior school musical, and our biannual music concerts. now, our students have an appropriate space to prepare for these mainstays in our school calendar, and teachers have the resources needed to help bring out the best in our students.

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we are exceptionally lucky to have the black box theatre. it allows students to understand how to use ’space’ as part of the creative process; it opens up the possibility to expand the learning experience.” — natasha Hart, arts department Head

Drama instruction in the black box theatre

the senior school players perform John Cariani's Almost, Maine the Middle

school players perform John Louis stevenson's Treasure Island

Listening to band performances and watching plays in the new auditorium is a phenomenal experience. the acoustics are exceptional—and the sightlines unhindered. our musicians and thespians finally have a facility that appropriately showcases their talent.” — mark salkeld,assistant Head academics & student life

the performing arts programme allows students to experience theatre and acting through theory and application. they learn how to interact with an audience and explore new characters. the new assaly arts Centre, the saputo auditorium, and the black box theatre help us take it that much further.” — natasha Hart, arts department Head

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the acoustics in the new auditorium really showcase the abilities of our young musicians.” — guy Cox, music teacher the band

sounds better than ever in the saputo auditorium

the staging of the Junior school players' musical, The Sound of Music, was especially appropriate this year.

there are multiple benefits to performing in the new saputo auditorium: visually it adds a more professional ambience and helps motivate the students. also, the students and i are able to hear the ensemble better; it helps our ability to teach and their ability to learn by correcting flaws in the performance. it’s a fantastic resource.” — scott Cheyne, music teacher

in the new auditorium, the ambiance and the stage make our performances that much better. our audience can feel part of the show and the students can really put on great productions.” — James angelopoulos,Junior school music teacher & director of the annual Junior school musical

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soMe worDs aboUt oUr “iMpressions” oF the new arts wing...

the dedicated Middle and senior school art rooms have already provided the needed space to further diversify and store student art projects. the gallery is a colourful, public space used to showcase student work for the community’s enjoyment, including refashionista creations and works from our school-wide annual art show. with the art department in proximity to the auditorium, prop and set design have been brought to a whole new level.

a centre for inspiration and visual stimulation, there are no bounds to student creativity in the spacious, naturally-lit art classrooms in the assaly arts centre.

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“the new facilities offer an outstanding environment for producing art. the gallery space showcased a beautiful display of art created by students of all ages at our end-of-year art show in June 2014. it is a very exciting addition to our school.”

— sylvia tracy, Junior school art teacher

“passion; that’s the one word that comes to mind when i think about the students’ involvement in the visual arts. students love it and it shows through their work. these new facilities are the icing on the cake!”

— Carol loeb, senior school art teacher

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“the middle school art room is an oasis for teaching art to our grade 7 and 8 students.”

— Jeff sykes, middle school art teacher

“the students have access to this wonderful purpose-built art room with all these great tools to complete more serious projects to show their talents. their reactions to the new facilities have been overwhelmingly positive. they take pride in their work and in being part of the programme.”

— Carol loeb, senior school art teacher

“the new art gallery is the perfect space to showcase our annual middle school collaborative art project. it’s such a luxury to have a space that does justice to our students’ work.”

— Jeff sykes, middle school art teacher

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visUaLLy stUnning—with inCreDibLe aCoUstiCs, aMaZing site Lines, anD CoMFortabLe seating —the sapUto aUDitoriUM Makes aLL the DiFFerenCe. weekLy asseMbLies, ConFerenCes, Debating, anD DraMatiC anD MUsiCaL proDUCtions now take pLaCe in a sUitabLe venUe. LCC stUDents have a MagniFiCent spaCe to CULtivate LeaDership anD ConFiDenCe, share iDeas, anD CeLebrate aChieveMents. the aUDitoriUM is a big part oF stUDent LiFe in the new Centre.

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“there are MULtipLe beneFits to perForMing in the new sapUto aUDitoriUM: visUaLLy it aDDs a More proFessionaL aMbienCe anD heLps Motivate the stUDents. aLso, the stUDents anD i are abLe to hear the enseMbLe better; it heLps oUr abiLity to teaCh anD their abiLity to Learn by CorreCting FLaws in the perForManCe. it’s a FantastiC resoUrCe.”

— scott Cheyne, music teacher

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“The new Assaly Arts Centre has proven the perfect venue for student conferences, such as the annual Destiny Quebec Global Issues Conference that LCC recently hosted. For the first time in the history of this conference, we have had a venue in the new Saputo Auditorium where our keynote address was clearly audible to an audience of over 500 students, and the audiovisual presentation easy to see. Some of our speakers from universities around Canada commented that the Assaly Arts Centre is a better facility than the ones they normally use.”

— patrick peotto, assistant Head–advancement

& dQgiC faculty Coordinator

“The Saputo Auditorium opens up a myriad of opportunities for student leaders. Weekly assemblies now occur in a state-of-the-art facility, where students can deliver their message to a comfortably seated audience that can see and hear everything perfectly. ”

— mark salkeld, assistant Head –academics & student life

“The debating club had the chance to show off the Assaly Arts Centre and Saputo Auditorium for the Annual Quebec Debating Championships last February. Over 80 debaters from across the province and 40 volunteer judges were in attendance and were amazed by the wonderful venue. The A/V equipment and acoustics were first rate, and the facility made the logistics of hosting a large event very easy to manage.”

— Chris george, debating Coach

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Leaders’ Society $1M +

the assaly Familyglenn & amal Chamandybarry ’46 & patricia saperamelia & Lino saputo Jr. Foundation

Founders’ Society Platinum $500K–$999,999

azrieli perez Familiesaldo, Diane, David ’87, Doug ’90 & Daniela bensadounMitchell & anne-Marie garberMaryse & ralph ’77 Levythe Molson FoundationLa Fondation Carmie & Joey saputothe stroll Familyr. howard webster Foundation

Founders’ Society Gold $250K–$499,999

anonymousthe black FamilyMichael g. Fisch ’79Johnny Frassetti & elena borsellinothe harper Familykaryn & andrew Lassnerpower Corporation of Canadabrian & alida rossy Family FoundationDiana & sam scaliaeric t. webster Foundationthe winterstern Family

Founders’ Society Silver $100K–$249,999

altapex Construction CorporationJean & Cynthia aucoinFondation J. armand bombardierthe Divco Foundationtony ’84 & teresa Fata

the hill Family — in Memory of Morgan hillalan Macintosh & Manon boudreauvirginia Mylesrobert & Marla oringerDr. paolo renzi & suzanne CrawfordLarry & Cookie rossy Family Foundationgerry & peggy shapiroMarc p. tellierandrée & paul tellierthe turner Familyivan ’61 & penny velanvelan inc.

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we would like to thank all of the donors who have pledged gifts to the lCC 2009 Centenary vision and ambitious minds Campaigns. below are the names of the generous donors as they will appear on our donor wall that will be on display in the assaly arts Centre. all donors will be recognized on our website.

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Headmaster's Society $50K–$99,999

David ’65 & peggy arditiJames allan & elaine beaudoinrichard brotto & Zorina alithe bucci FamilyC. F. g. heward investment Management Ltd.kimmy Chedelthe Cukier, Mindel, gauthier & roza Families in memory of wanda & Jacob Cukierbrian Cytrynbaum & Claudia burkegregory David ’85philippe ’77 & nannette de gaspé beaubienDr. L. Di battista & r. salvaggiopaul & Christine Filgiano, Matthew ’14 & sarah ’19Debra Margles & pino Forgioneross Fraser ’72 & Donna Dohertybruce ’64 & beverly Jenkinssassoon & evelyn khazzamDeep khosla ’87saveli kotz & Catrina tirongoulding ’57 & elizabeth Lambert

peter Lashchuk & Josée Zambitobenoit & Lynda LauzéDanny & susan LavyCorine & Miles Leutnerthe McFarlane-hall Familygordon ’74 & Janet nixonbasil papachristidis ’61bill & olga papanastasiousuzanne paquinthe paterson Foundationserge & Marie rivestadam shine ’84 & brigitte roygeorge ’71 & Janet tooleysteve & ephie tsatas

Chairman’s Society Platinum$25K–$49,999

philip ’77 & anna belecFred brettschneider ’82peter a. Charton ’82steven & susan CummingsJordan ’87 & amanda DermerLewis Dobrin & rosalie JukierLindsay F. eberts ’61stuart & Figi elmanJohn essaris & Maria svourenosDavid Flomen & eden polansky-FlomenMichael gaul & Lucia Carpineta

Louis gendron & Liana guizzettithe godber Familypeter goldbergscott Jones ’82bobby Julien ’85Doug ’87 & brina LewinDavid p. Martin ’91 & Laurence DuguayJanet & beny Masellarichard Mashaal ’82Jessie & Frank Minicucciedmond M. Monaghan ’82 bill & sally MorrisJanice naymark & stephen hamilton ’78Michael & Michaeleen o’ConnorDavid & Carmela owen & FamilyDario pietrantonio & antonella argentoa. M. (toni) sacconaghi, Jr. ’82tina shapiro & brad steinmetzrichard D. stephenson ’82steve vaccaro & Josee argentopeter ’70 & kim wallaceMerle wertheimer & sam hornsteinMark & Jacqueline wiltzerFrancine & robert wiseman

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Chairman’s Society Gold$15K–$24,999

Jacky alloul & nathalie assoulinerandy ’77 & Lynn azizguy r. Casgrainnorman hacker & susana araujoallan a. hodgson ’54Maurice F.L. Jaques ’50Loren Litwin & suzanne reisler-LitwinConstantine Los ’57Mr. & Mrs. eric h. Molsongeoffrey e. Molson ’87vincent Musacchiotim powell ’61heather avrith & william rosenbergMr. & Mrs. richard shafterChristopher (pre-U ’76) & hilary shannonCraig shannon & kristin Foss-shannonsandra shawCharlene & reg weiserDiane & Maks wulkan

Governors’ Society Platinum$10K–$14,999

hamad J. althani & bouchra hammadiestate of the late Frederick Forbes angus ’54bachir azbatya. victor badian ’61sylvie beauregard & Michel boucherbrian burrowsMichael butler ’61Compass group CanadaDavid b. Cottingham (pre-U ’76)ronald ’66, beverley, gregory ’03 & stephen ’06 brahm Cramer ’85eric ’76 & Josée Dedekamthe elefant Familyaldo Furfaro & Linda tucciatim gardiner ’78David garfinkle ’77ted ’87 & stephanie kalilrobert Lewin ’96Jeffrey ’61 & nancy Marshallross Mcgregor ’65pierre ’78 & Mélanie Mcguireandrew Mikus & Maureen DavidDouglas Millowitz ’87origamiMichael & yolanda pageross & selena & Joseph & heather paperman

the peotto Familyrobert ’64 & Maryse percyhy & Lea polanskyrev. John h. w. rhys ’35ken ’77 & Lori shaw in honour of the late ian b. shawMaria & Denis singletonDaniel steinberg & elana Munchikneil a. sternthal ’85J. robert swidlerDr. Jean-Marc troquet & Dr. Cynthia godboutthe estate of John w. wallace ’46Josephine pressacco & renaud whittomhoward & Linda wisemanxueping yuan

Governors’ Society Gold$5K–$9,999

alliancebernsteinsamuel altman & nathalie Cookebobby anderson ’56albert & gail benhaimrobert & susan bergerthe brière FamilyChris ignacio & Craig brombergChris bryant ’61

william bukowski & nina howeUrey Chan ’77 & Carole engw. robert Courey M. D. ’61David r. Flam ’87paul Fournier ’61Max & Lara Francischiellothe galbraith FamilyChristopher ’83 & Margarita gardinerernest ’61 & belle grivakisMark F. harland ’87Denys heward ’64rebecca Lee & karsten howesLissy katesJohn kearns ’72David Laidley ’63Louis ’87 & erika LudwickJudson Majdell ’87

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Martin bettsDaniel blunden & elizabeth neil-blundengreg boyd & Carolyne roykenneth Covo ’73, Jaysen ’94 & Carrie Cristofaroron & tami DimentbergDr. José Dominguez & Maria DarhaLinda & stan gendronDavid gold & Francine poplawLillian goldJohn ’90 & rocky goldsmiththe hopper FamilyJohn irwin ’61george & katalin kepesDavid a. Latter ’74ian Le Lievre ’49Mark Lorenzetti & susanna accurso

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Mr. & Mrs. D. Mayoffbrent McCain ’87James & Linda MeltzerFrank ’70 & brigitte Motteramin noorani ’83andrew ’05 & amanda ’07 palombarogeorge ’87 & rachelle papppeter prescott ’71gloria & howard richmanpaul rolian ’61ian rose ’63Jean stutsmanrob tipneyCorey velan ’93 & kristine Jones (pre-U ’93)Mark & rhonda waxmanarthur J. wechsler ’82yisheng Zhang & pei wang

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Matthew Marchand ’87paul r. Marchand ’58alan Marcovitz & gail adelsontom Mckeown ’77brett & Jeannie MillerJustin M. Molson ’86John nixon ’72Luigi & nadia pallottabarry pascalLucie Des parois & Daniel perraultMartin b. salomon ’82Leanne & David ’87 schwartzpeter selnar ’63robert e. shatilla ’61antonio sieira & georgina Dovali sieiranicole simard-LaurinDavid ’90 & Mia souaidtim stewart ’61hugh b. thompson ’61James tooley ’61David L. torreyDr. Caroline reinhold & Dr. elric winterDavid wood

Benefactors’ Society$2.5K–$4,999

heather adelsonJon arklay ’86Christian & Lucy auclairthe belhadfa Familyronald benjamin ’75steve benjamin ’76

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The family’s longstanding presence

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in Montreal.alan Klinkhoff ’70 can’t help but chuckle whenever he recalls a certain chartered bus trip he took to Ottawa as a 12 year-old LCC student back in 1965. At one point he slipped away from his classmates and made his way to the apartment of A.Y. Jackson, the venerated Group of Seven landscape painter. The elderly artist graciously showed Alan around his studio and some of his latest work, including maple leaf sketches for a new Canadian flag the government was proposing at the time.

But it wasn’t entirely a social call. Young Alan was delivering a $450 cheque to Jackson on behalf of his father, Montreal art dealer Walter Klinkhoff, and when he climbed back onto the LCC bus a few hours later, he was carrying three carefully wrapped Jackson paintings for the family gallery.

For Alan Klinkhoff ’70 and elder brother Eric ’66, meeting famous artists and viewing their work was all part of growing up in the family business. Through their parents they got to know a veritable Who’s Who of the 20th century Canadian art canon — from Jackson’s fellow Group of Seven members Arthur Lismer and Edwin Holgate to Robert Pilot and Jean-Paul Riopelle. While studying at LCC, the young Klinkhoffs would help their parents after school by delivering paintings, hanging canvases for exhibitions, and checking coats and emptying ashtrays during vernissages. With all that experi-ence, and a passion for art instilled in them by their parents, the brothers naturally gravitated into the business after they graduated.

The family’s longstanding presence on the local art scene dates back to post-war Europe, when Walter Klinkhoff returned to his native Vienna after spending the war years in Montreal. While in Scotland, he proposed to future wife Gertrude on the condition that she accompany him back to Montreal. They arrived in 1948 and Walter began selling inex-

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pensive paintings by his friends and relatives in Europe out of their Snowdon duplex — and sometimes door-to-door from his car — as a sideline while working as an engineer at Canadian Liquid Air. They eventually opened a small gallery on Union Avenue downtown, and later moved to Sherbrooke Street. “My grandfa-ther, as a skier and alpinist, loved the Canadian landscape, a passion he shared with mem-bers of the Group of Seven,” says Jonathan Klinkhoff ’00. “His familiarity with European art movements gave him a tremendous apprecia-tion for works by the Canadian Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, and we became known for having a genuine expertise in the work and markets of many of these artists.”

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the decades — so much so that patriarch Walter would barely recognize the way his sons and grandsons sell art today. “In the old days, there was only the typewriter, telephone and front window,” says Jonathan. “Montreal had countless Canadian corporate head offices, all the banks, greater wealth. Art collectors would come into the gallery to make purchases while the older collectors would come in, sit on the couch, and discuss how to sell works of art.” Now, he says, most of their business is done using e-mail — a quicker and more efficient process whereby clients can view any num-ber of works without having to come into the gallery, or even be in Montreal for that matter. “About 90 per cent of first contacts with buyers or sellers are made via email. Today, works of art can be shipped with express services for next-day delivery, and it is just as efficient to sell a work in Vancouver as it is in Montreal.” Rather tellingly, he adds, the majority of our most important private transactions occur without the buyer or seller ever entering the gallery.

The technology and the resulting increase in customer traffic recently prompted the family to branch out their operation, with Eric now running his own gallery in the original loca-tion on Sherbrooke Street between Stanley and Drummond, while Alan and Jonathan have opened a brand new space a few blocks west in “Gallery Row” near the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Joining them in this new venture are Alan’s wife, Helen, and their youngest son Craig.

Another longstanding Klinkhoff family tradition has been LCC, where Walter and

Gertrude sent his sons and where Alan’s children — Jonathan ’00, Craig ’06, Virginia ’02, and Caroline (Pre-U ’05) — were also educated. “My interest in art was more in drawing when I was at LCC, but I was not especially good at it,” Jonathan admits, although he recalls being taught by talented teachers such as Ian Griffiths ’71 and Jeff Sykes. But even before LCC, he recalls being groomed for the art busi-ness by his grandparents at a very early age; they would cover the signature on a painting in their breakfast room and ask him to identify the artist.

Jonathan believes the visual arts have a bright future at LCC, especially with the completion of the Assaly Arts Centre, which the Klinkhoffs recently visited. “The Arts Centre was a revelation,” he says. “I was deeply impressed by the technology and tools that LCC students have access to. The facilities are outstanding, and I imagine the opportuni-ties equally so.”

Back at the new gallery, Alan can regale visitors with first-hand anecdotes of legend-ary Quebec artists such as Louis Muhlstock, Philip Surrey and Jean Paul Lemieux, while maintaining close professional relationships with contemporary figures such as John Little, Claude A. Simard, Chantal Jean, and Laurie Campbell — some of the artists whom he believes are having an impact on the direction of Canadian art.

Still, Alan maintains that of all the artists the gallery has represented over the years, the most interesting is A.Y. Jackson, whose draw-ings of a new Canadian flag proposal he never forgot. “Dr. Jackson’s designs weren’t accepted for the flag,” he says, but then adds that about 40 years later he saw those same sketches enshrined in the former Canadian Museum of Civilization — stirring up fond memories of that long-ago day in Ottawa when he went AWOL from the LCC bus.

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Over 200 alumni from the classes of 2004–2013 returned to LCC for Pub Night, our largest, annual alumni event.  

Winterfest Alumni Hockey tournament

January 17–19, 2014It was intense hockey action as eight teams competed in this year’s tournament. Alumni gathered from across the continent for a weekend of fun and camaraderie. A Senior Hockey GMAA game vs. Loyola was added to this year’s Friday night schedule, and close to 100 alumni enjoyed the game from the stands and the Saputo Lounge overlooking the ice. Congratulations to David Arditi ’65, former Chairman of the Board of Governors, who was this year’s recipient of the G.B. Maughan ’59 Memorial Award, in recognition of his commitment to LCC and alumni hockey. 

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02 WINTERFEST THE WOOD-BARRETT DIVISION CHAMPIONS – THE ALL BLACKS

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PINKERTON ’05, ALExANDRA MAzzELLA ’04, STEFAN zEBROWSKI- RUBIN ’03, MADELEINE BALLARD ’06, ALExANDRA ACHKAR ’06 AND LAUREN CARSLEy ’06

04 LONDON (L TO R) CLASS OF 1986:

DAVID KIPPEN, JOHN KOUFALITAKIS, DEREK yATES, CHRIS PILOT AND GARVIN BROWN.

05 NEW yORK (L TO R) FRED BRETTSCHNEIDER ’82, MARK KORNBLUTH ’82, DOUG WATERSTON ’82, RICHARD STEPHENSON ’82 AND TONI SACCONAGHI ’82

London, englandMarch 18, 2014

Over 40 people gathered at the Royal Ocean and Racing Club for a reception and dinner generously hosted by Basil Papachristidis ’61. Alumni from 1943 to 2010 attended, including John Koufalitakis ’86 from Greece and four of his classmates. 

New york CityApril 10, 2014

Our annual event was held at the Harvard Club, courtesy of Jodi Krakower ’03, a member of the board of the U.S. Friends of LCC Inc. Other board members in attendance included Doug Millowitz ’87 (president), Michael Fisch ’79, Tim Gardiner ’78, and Toni Sacconaghi ’82. 

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LCC alumni returned to the recently renamed Canadian Museum of History for a reception and dinner. One of our most senior Old Boys, René Péron ’38, attended, accompanied by his son Pierre ’65. Close to 40 alumni came out to the event. It was wonderful to see stalwarts like Walter Mingie ’43, Rob Birks ’56, and Graham Wells ’61; along with young alums like Ron Havas ’06, Marie-Louise Létourneau-Capretti ’05, and her brother Francesco ’10.   

torontoMay 14, 2014

The Montreal Canadians provided the theme of this year’s Toronto event, which took place at the Rosewater Room. Over 80 people watched on television as Nos Glorieux defeated the Boston Bruins in game 7 of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Habs owner Geoff Molson ’87 enjoyed

a photo of transplanted Montrealers assembled in Toronto for the game and texted back GO HABS GO! from the TD Bank Garden in Boston. 

rob Nihon ’92 memorial 3-on-3 basketball tournament

May 24, 2014In late May, the winning team consisting of Kyle Desmarais ’05, Bobby Mikelberg ’05, Anthony Nastas ’05, and Morgan Tajfel ’07 claimed the title at the annual tournament named in memory of a passionate alumni basketball supporter. Greg Nihon ’93, the late Rob’s brother, came in from the Bahamas and presented the championship trophy to the winners. 

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07 TORONTO (L TO R) GEORGE WHITTy ’99, JUSTIN JAKUBIAK ’97, CHRIS TOOLEy ’04 AND MEGAN HARPER ’07

08 TORONTO MICHAEL BUTLER ’61, ALEx ARDITI ’06 AND EMMA NICHOLL ‘06

09 TORONTO (L TO R) EVAN PERLMAN ’06, MICHAEL APRIL ’06, JEREMy zUCKERMAN ’06 AND LINDA GENDRON (FORMER STAFF)

10 ROB NIHON ’92 MEMORIAL 3 ON 3 BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

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02 LOS ANGELES (L TO R) ROBERT WALSH ’79 AND zACHARy GRIERSON ’93

03 SAN FRANCISCO (L TO R) JAMES PHILLS ’77, HEADMASTER CHRISTOPHER SHANNON (PRE-U ’76) AND DANNy HEFFERNAN ’61

04 SAN FRANCISCO (L TO R) TyLER COBBETT ’76 AND STEVEN BENJAMIN ’76

05 VANCOUVER (L TO R) LEAH SHANNON (PRE-U ’06), JOHN ELLIS ’32 AND HIS SON ROBERT ’67

06 VANCOUVER (L TO R) LINDSAy EBERTS ’61 AND PETER WEBSTER ’60

Los AngelesJune 8, 2014

Dr. Stuart Gold ’76 and his wife Sara hosted LCC at their home again this year for our event. Alumni were treated to a feast on a beautiful day. The Salomons had a reunion at the event also as Marshal ’81, Martin ’82, and Bobby ’88 all attended (no… they are not brothers!).   

San FranciscoJune 9, 2014

LCC returned to the Stanford Park Hotel for its reception and dinner in early June. 

vancouverJune 11, 2014

After over a decade at other venues, LCC hosted this annual event at the Arbutus Club. Over 40 people attended and we are thankful to Peter Webster ’60 for assisting with the arrangements. LCC’s oldest living Old Boy, John Ellis ’32, amazed everyone with his wit and thoughtful questions just one month after celebrating his 99th birthday! We will have a special centenary to celebrate next June.

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2013–2014Annual Giving allows LCC to embrace progress and change in ways that further enhance our school’s tradition of excellence.

Donations to the Annual Giving programme are applied in areas that impact our students directly: facilities, active learning experiences, innovation, and financial awards. Thank you for expressing your belief in the continued success of our students and school.

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message from the

heaDMaster & the ChairMan oF the boarD oF governors

the 2013–2014 school year was marked by notable facility and programme enhancements. after receiving extraor-dinary philanthropic support from our school community, we brought our $12+ million ambitious Minds Capital Campaign to a close and opened won-derful new facilities in the assaly arts Centre. we also introduced the ib Diploma programme (ibDp) curriculum into grade 11 and established faculty pLC mornings to support collaboration for programme enhancement.

The Assaly Arts Centre includes a host of new facilities: a 540-seat auditorium and performing arts hall, classrooms and studios for drama, art, music and mathematics, a new stu-dent centre, and an art gallery. The progressive transition into these spaces in November and

January was uplifting for our whole commu-nity. As the year wound down, we also began the installation of a new synthetic turf facility on our southern field space. We are thrilled to be able to enhance student safety while gaining five to seven more weeks of field access with the opening of this multi-season outdoor facil-ity in the fall.

Nearly 50 grade 11 students completed the first year of the two-year International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP). With a strong international focus, the IBDP stresses 21st century teaching approaches. This worked well with our existing school learning ethos and desire to broaden students’ global perspectives. The IB Programme will extend into Pre-U/Grade 12 in 2014–2015. Already, students from across Montreal and outside of Canada have shown great interest. Next year IB students in Pre-U will be able to gain direct access to universities across the world, includ-ing Quebec. This has contributed to strong enrolment in Pre-U for 2014–2015.

International educational research con-tinues to show that the best way to enhance programmes and student achievement is to give teachers more time to collaborate. We did that this year through the establishment of a new Professional Learning Community (PLC) model where teachers were given more opportuni-

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ties to collaborate at an even deeper level in several morning seminars throughout the year embedded into our school calendar. Teachers expressed appreciation to work more closely and more deeply. The outcome has been a host of enhancements and innovations in academic programmes from K through to Pre-U.

Student engagement was impressive this year at all levels. The genuine desire to learn, grow, and develop as young people remains a strength of our student body. Special leader-ship qualities were particularly evident in a host of community-oriented initiatives, which were marked by thousands of service hours and significant funds raised for community causes.

It has been a pleasure to work closely with our Board of Governors. They are a dedicated group of volunteers, committed to excel-lence in all aspects of school life. Together, we addressed a host of interesting and challenging issues in 2013–2014. We are proud to say that with the board’s support and guidance, the school has very strong enrolment, excellent programmes, and a strong fiscal standing.

The LCC student experience continues to be defined by a breadth of striking oppor-tunities and a focus on being a school with a human face where students feel a genuine sense of belonging and attachment. Our Record of Achievements (see. p. 58) provides interesting

tHe lCC board of governors 2013–2014

ChairmanAdam Turner ’87

MembersOlga Assaly Randy Aziz ’77 Philip Belec ’77 Anne-Marie Boucher Donna Doherty Fraser Geoffrey Heward ’79 Doug Lewin ’87 Janice Naymark Amin Noorani ’83 Adam Shine ’84 Marc P. Tellier Priscilla Whitehead

insights into our school and its many strengths and unique attributes. Our personal thanks to all who have actively contributed to making LCC such a vibrant community. Our work together is for the welfare of young people who are creative, ambitious, and teaming with potential. Together, we should be proud of this rich educational community.

Congratulations to members of the class of 2014 for their many achievements this year and over several years as they progressed through our ranks. We wish them well as they undertake new challenges and opportunities. As their foundations were forged here, we hope to remain in close contact as they join a vibrant and active alumni community all around the world.

Non Nobis Solum,

Christopher Shannon (pre-U ’76)Headmaster

Adam turner ’87Chairman, Board of Governors

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Laying the FoUnDationQ & a with gary harper ’73

gary Harper ’73, the chairman of the lcc foundation, has very deep ties to lcc, as does his family. gary was former board chairman, chairman of the alumni association, and chairman of the lcc100 campaign responsible for the construction of the glenn J. chamandy arena, and was very involved in creating the assaly arts centre. gary’s father ralph ’47 was also chairman of the board, and led the campaign to build the Junior school. gary’s four brothers are all lcc alums, as are gary’s four chil-dren (laura ’01, michael ’02, Jamie ’04 and megan ’07).

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“if we have a deserving student who meets all the criteria, that student should be admitted. so now the onus is on us to go out and get the cornerstone funds to support that.”

Q tell us about the Foundation’s role here at LCC.a The Foundation was created in 1992 when Paul Marchand ’58 was chairman of the Board. It was established to steward funds held in reserve to support the school. For years, the Foundation basically served one purpose: it invested the funds, stewarded them and then provided a disbursement to the school. Over time, the Foundation became much more formal and professional—it created a disburse-ment policy, which currently requires that five percent of its assets be disbursed on an annual basis. All monies disbursed to LCC are used for financial assistance. Our goal is to ensure that as many deserving students as possible with financial need can attend the school. The annual grant does not support the school’s opera-tions per se; that is an important point. The Foundation has built up an endowment that is presently valued at about $10.5 million.

Q Now that the school has successfully completed three campaigns involving bricks and mortar, where does the Foundation’s role fit in?a Today, we’re very proud that the campus is complete. In all of our major projects—the Junior School in 1985, the Webster Learning Activity Centre in 2000, the Glenn J. Chamandy Arena in 2008, and the Assaly Arts Centre in 2014, endowment was always a com-ponent of the campaign. The challenge with endowment, and raising funds for endowment when you have bricks and mortar to maintain and bills to pay, is that endowment seems to always come at the bottom of the priority list.

There’s another important component to an LCC education, however, and that is

diversity within the student body. On an annual basis, the school budget is north of $1 million per year in financial assistance. I’ve always believed that this institution should be acces-sible to students who qualify for entrance in all aspects except for financial.

We have done an excellent job communi-cating this, and now we’re victims of our own success. People are coming and saying, ‘I want to come to the school, I have a very talented child, and I need 80% support.’ If we have a deserving student who meets all the criteria, that student should be admitted. So now the onus is on us to go out and get the cornerstone funds to support that. To do this, we need a re-energized Foundation focused on raising money for accessibility.

Q Now that the campus is complete, do you think it will be more difficult to get people excited about building up endowment?a It isn’t a harder sell, but it does have to be communicated. It doesn’t resonate with everyone, just like building a hockey arena doesn’t resonate with everyone. But I do believe the idea of accessibility, of enhancing the experience of individuals, and making LCC a more diverse institution for the betterment of all does resonate. You’re not just trying to raise money to build endowment. It’s all of these components combined that enhance the educational experience of the children that are here, and alumni want that diversity.

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Q What’s the plan, and where are you at with this new mandate?a There are three prongs to our approach: We’ve reorganized the Foundation into a variety of areas, one of which is financial—overseeing financial statements and things like that; the investment committee, which stewards the funds; we have a fundraising/planned giving committee; and a stewardship and communications committee. What’s new for the Foundation is to actively go out and solicit funds for endowment. The Foundation board believes that alumni care deeply about the long-term sustainability of the school. A big part of that concern is ensuring access and diversity, and we intend to actively ask alumni to support this.

Q How will the Foundation accomplish this?a We will work with the Advancement team to make a strong case for how a gift to the endowment impacts the lives of all students at the school. We will ask everyone who will listen to give to the endowment. And we will also ramp up our efforts to solicit legacy gifts, especially from alumni.

The Foundation has an important role to play in asking for donations now and for planned gifts that will bolster the endowment in the future. We’ve had some of the wealthi-est Montrealers come to our school, and we’ve had some of the wealthiest Montrealers serve on our Board and our Foundation Board. But most have never left a legacy gift to LCC. I think the reason for that is simply that no one ever asked them. In most cases, people aren’t sitting in their homes saying, ‘Who else can

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“I’d love to be able to tell people right now that any student who applies and who meets all the requirements except for financial ability will be accepted, but we can’t do that yet. ”

I give money to this year?’ So part of this effort is to be top of mind, and part of it is to indicate that LCC is not a needy institution, but it is a very deserving one.

I know from alumni surveys that acces-sibility to LCC and supporting endowment is extremely important to our graduates. It’s a mes-sage that we have to communicate to alumni and to other donors—parents, grandparents—in our community. We’ve brought on new individuals to the Board to help begin that process.

Q tell me about the re-launch of the Fosbery Society.a Dr. Charles S. Fosbery was the founder and original head of school and his history was, in my opinion, unique in independent education in North America. He owned this school and then gave it to the graduates upon his retirement. His was the first ‘legacy gift’, which created a unique situation where the graduates and members of a corporation own the school. The original Fosbery Society was formed in the 1970s to recognize significant donors to the school. We’re reconstituting the Fosbery Society in recognition of individuals who have made a planned legacy gift to the school.

Many people believe their LCC experience molded them for the success they’ve had in life. This is an opportunity for alumni—and others— to make a legacy gift. We’ll publish a list of mem-bers, similar to McGill’s 1864 Society. We want to highlight and recognize the generosity and loyalty of those who have made a provision in their estate planning to support LCC.

Q What is the Foundation’s ultimate goal?a The Foundation currently grants approxi-mately $450,000–$500,000 per year to the school for financial assistance. Our first goal is to increase the annual support level to $1 mil-lion to completely cover the total financial aid budget. To achieve this, at a disbursement rate of 5% of the market value of the endowment, the Foundation must build the endowed funds we manage to $20 million.

The Foundation would like to grow the endowment to a level whereby every dollar granted by LCC to a deserving student comes from the assets of the Foundation. Right now, less than half of financial assistance actually comes from the Foundation; we need to change that. We also want to make more people aware of the increased amount of assistance available so that many more students apply with the dream of receiving an LCC education.

I’d love to be able to tell people right now that any student who applies and who meets all the requirements except for financial ability will be accepted, but we can’t do that yet. We have financial requests that far exceed what the school can possibly do. Would I like to see a $20 million endowment by 2020? Yes. And I’d like to see it be even more.

For further information about the LCC Foundation contact kllano@lcc.ca.

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“I dIdn’t have the opportunIty

to go to LCC, but we’re now

provIdIng that ChanCe to our LoCaL kIds, an

opportunIty to heLp them

suCCeed In LIfe.”

by wendy Helfenbaum, Media Consultant

LCC pArtNerS WItH trevOr WILLIAmSKIdS FOUNdAtIONFOr NeW FINANCIAL AWArdS prOgrAmme

a non-profit organization that provides pro-grammes that integrate academics with sports to give young people the self-confidence to make smart life choices. TWKF is helping LCC identify students in different communities who merit an LCC education but who may not have the financial means to attend the school.

“Diversity is one of the pillars of our strategic plan. People want our school to be more reflec-tive of the community that’s out there,” he says. “We wanted to partner with a community orga-nization that could identify children who they thought had leadership potential, a supportive family, and who they believed could make

First-rate educational opportunities for young, exceptional students and athletes are often tied to an ability to pay for them. That’s why LCC has

embarked on an exciting new partnership with the Trevor Williams Kids Foundation (TWKF),

Selected students entering grade 7 who meet the school’s admission requirements will receive financial awards to pay for or help offset the cost of tuition and other expenses. The awards are funded by donors who are determined to make a difference, explains Mr. Peotto, Assistant Head of Advancement, noting that LCC currently provides about $1 million in financial aid each year to deserving students. “We have some very generous donors who have given money to the school, and many of them have realized that they had an experi-ence at LCC that changed their lives,” says Mr. Peotto. “Some of them had anonymous bene-factors who provided an opportunity — paid their fees — that they wouldn’t have been able to afford, and now they want to do the same.”

Having a diverse student body that includes students from different socio-econom-ic and ethnic backgrounds enriches the entire school environment, adds Mr. Peotto.

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For more information about the trevor Williams Kids Foundation, visit www.twkf.com

children Samantha ’10 (Pre-U ’11) and David ’11 (Pre-U ’12) are LCC alumni.

“LCC wants to diversify its student body, and we’re looking to give our kids opportuni-ties they wouldn’t otherwise have, so this is a perfect fit,” says Sheri.

“In the past, when LCC brought in can-didates for financial awards, the school didn’t know the whole student — the family back-ground, the dynamics in the home — so they really needed an organization that can say, ‘This is a kid who has the potential, but not necessar-ily the means’. That was the link that brought us together.”

Trevor believes that all children should have the opportunity to learn from each other’s differences, and says he feels very honoured to be involved with this initiative, which the school hopes to continue annually.

“For a mother or father wanting to provide this kind of education for their kids, but who

well in the community, so we can provide LCC with kids who will succeed.”

LCC has supported Trevor’s founda-tion over the past few years in several ways, including providing facilities for Hoop Fest, an annual fundraiser, notes Sheri Elefant, the Foundation’s Vice-President and Director of Development. Her husband Steven ’79 and two

can’t financially do it, this is tremendous. Having this opportunity to help a teenager get an education at such a great institution makes me feel like I’m living out my dreams through these kids. I didn’t have the opportunity to go to LCC, but we’re now providing that chance to our local kids, an opportunity to help them succeed in life.”

a difference in the lives of our other students as well as eventually give back to their community.”

Trevor Williams grew up in the Little Burgundy sector of Montreal and received a basketball scholarship to an American university with the opportunity to play for the Canadian Olympic Team. When Trevor returned to Montreal 22 years ago, he felt compelled to help youth in his community. He founded the Trevor Williams All-Star Basketball Academy summer camp with childhood friend Dean Smith. In 2002, Trevor took his vision to a new level by launch-ing his foundation.

“Through our summer basketball camp, we’ve formed relationships with the kids in the community, and we’ve developed a real knowl-edge about them and their parents,” explains Trevor. “We know who’s doing well in school, who’s doing well athletically and who’s doing

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why annual giving should be on everyone’s ‘to-Do’ list

by wendy Helfenbaum, Media Consultant

While tuition covers a portion of LCC programmes, the school relies on a steady stream of annual giving to support all the wonderful extra initiatives.

“The three main areas in which this fund has the most impact are our academics, our bursaries and our co-curric-ulars,” explains Advancement Officer Ross Aitken. “Support for programmes — which really help our students achieve their full potential — is needed.”

For example, LCC offers a number of special arts programmes supported by annual giving, including the Café Cabaret, the Junior School musical and the grade 11 student-directed plays.

“In academics, we do a Grade 9 CSI simulation, where we bring in experts to help the students understand how forensic science and the real world is connected to their own science courses,” adds Mr. Peotto.

“This is no longer a world where teachers stand at the front of a room delivering curriculum, and kids spit it back. You have to give children co-operative learning situations and critical thinking situations, such as the CSI science fair. All of these things outside our regular curriculum are sup-ported through the annual giving fund.”

SUddeN ImpACt

One-on-one musical instruction. Youth in philanthropy programme. crime scene investigation simulations in science class. these are just a few of the enriched experiences supported by the annual giving pro-gramme at lcc.

U nlike capital campaigns, which are time-limited initia-tives put in place to raise funds for specific projects — such as our Glenn J. Chamandy Arena or our new

Assaly Arts Centre — annual giving is ongoing, and the school depends upon generous donors in our community to be able to offer top-notch programmes complementing its curriculum.

“If your objective in a capital campaign is to build a new building that will add to the educational experience of people’s children, it’s very clear what the giving is all about,” says Patrick Peotto, Assistant Head of Advancement.

“With annual giving, it’s a little bit harder for our par-ents to see how that’s going to have a direct impact on their children. However, beyond offering a curriculum that provides the required basics leading to higher education, we believe in a holistic education: in engaging children in activities both within and outside the classroom that enrich their preparation for overall success in later life.

“We’ve got a lot of wonderful people working here — creative and ambitious teachers who want to do special assessment activities to make them memorable for the kids – and our role, in part, is to provide the resources that will help feed that creativity and make that experience one for the 21st century.”

Mr. Aitken notes that the vast majority of the members of the LCC community support worthy organizations in the Montreal area.

“We’re encouraging members of our community to look at the school as one of the organizations that they can support. We’d like them to give strong consideration to helping maintain the school’s role in forming the citizens that will be the members of the community that they’re living in,” he says.

“Not everybody has the capacity to make a $100,000 gift, but if you’re able to give a $4,000 gift annually, that’s the same as having that money endowed. Think of it this way: a $100 donation might support two days of a child attending LCC on a bursary. What if, in those two days, an idea strikes that child, who says, ‘I want to study medicine’, and that child goes on to become a heart surgeon or an oncologist who saves lives. To me that’s what it’s about.”

Headmaster Christopher Shannon (Pre-U ’76) often speaks about allowing students to explore their passion. This concept is a cornerstone to an LCC education, adds Mr. Aitken.

“Children are not going to be excellent in every area, but when a student finds something they’re passionate about, we have to give them the opportunity to go as far as they can with that.”

LCC has also set a standard of education that is truly global, adds Mr. Peotto, by being a member of the Canadian Accredited Independent Schools, an associate member of the U.S.-based National Association of Independent Schools, and a member of the International Round Square Schools. To continue offering these programmes and more, LCC has launched its ABC campaign (Academics, Bursaries & Co-curriculars) to help promote annual giving and its many advantages.

LCC’s primary goal is a first-rate education, notes Mr. Peotto, who has been in education for 24 years — as a teacher, a coach, a conference liaison, and an administrator.

“However, without support from annual giving cam-paigns, you can’t do the extra things that develop different kinds of skills in students — whether it’s getting them engaged in a case study, getting them to really understand things beyond the theoretical level, or getting them to organize a conference and communicate with potential speakers.”

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annual giving & Capital Campaign Donors

Centenary Vision Leaders $100,000+

anonymous (2)altapex project Management inc.the assaly FamilyMaryse & ralph Levy ’77La Fondation amelia & Lino saputo Jr.La Fondation Carmie & Joey saputo

$50,000 – $99,999

aldo, Diane, David ’87, Doug ’90 & Daniela bensadounJohnny Frassetti & elena borsellinoMitchell & anne-Marie garberkaryn & andrew Lassnerr. howard webster Foundation

the donors listed have made either an annual gift or a capital campaign contribution to lcc between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014. We extend our deep appreciation for their support and philanthropy. Non Nobis Solum.

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$10,000 – $49,999

anonymous (2)James allan & elaine beaudoinDavid ’65 & peggy arditiMichael bucci & valerie gagnékimmy Chedelallan & sharyn Cytrynbaumbrian Cytrynbaum & Claudia burkethe Divco Foundationpaul & Christine Filgiano, Matthew ’14 & sarah ’19David Flomen & eden polansky- FlomenFraser Furniture inc.norman hacker & susana araujoChristine harperhamnett hill ’61in memory of Morgan hill, from the hill Familysaveli kotz & Catrina tironDanny & susan LavyMichael & Michaeleen o’Connororigamirobert & Marla oringerbill & olga papanastasiousuzanne paquinbrian rossy ’62barry saper ’46Diana & sam scaliathe stroll Familybeverly & nabil tabet

Corine & Miles LeutnerDavid p. Martin ’91 & Laurence DuguayJanet & beny Masellaneil Morrison ’81Madeleine paquinbarry pascalvictor & elizabeth patrickDario pietrantonio & antonella argentoserge & Marie rivestbruce robertson ’83william rosenberg & heather avrithgerry & peggy shapiroa. bruce torrey ’81steve vaccaro & Josee argento

Council of 1909$3,000 – $4,999

anonymous Jacky alloul & nathalie assoulinebrian burrowsross Mcgregor ’65Michael & Carmela Mindelkeyvan nassiry & sophie beugnotMr. & Mrs. richard shafterChristopher (pre-U ’76) & hilary shannontim stewart ’61Jean-Marc & Cynthia troquetthe weinerman FamilyMark & Jacqueline wiltzeryisheng Zhang & pei wang

Marc p. telliersteve & ephie tsatasthe turner Familyivan ’61 & penny velanthe estate of John w. wallace ’46eric t. webster Foundationpeter webster ’60the winterstern FamilyFrancine & robert wiseman

Council of 1961$5,000 – $9,999

Carlos ’82 & Lindsey artolabachir azbatyrandy ’77 & Lynn azizphilip ’77 & anna belecgarvin brown ’86C.F.g. heward investment Management Ltd.Urey Chan ’77 & Carole engsteven & susan CummingsDr. L. Di battista & r. salvaggioLindsay eberts ’61stuart & Figi elmanthe ergina FamilyJohn essaris & Maria svourenostony ’84 & teresa Fataross Fraser ’72 & Donna DohertyLouis gendron & Liana guizzettigary ’73 & Dawn harperChillion F. g. heward ’49

LCC is the reason I am where I am today. It is the

reason why I am on the Dean’s List as a varsity football and baseball scholarship athlete. And the LCC bursary fund is the only reason why I

had the opportunity to attend the school. So I have donated every year since

graduating because I recognize that the financial aid

granted by the LCC Foundation changes

people’s lives in a transformational way.

— Michael Fitzsimmons ’09 (Junior at Union

College)

Headmaster’s Society$1,500 – $2,999

anonymous (2)David altersam altman & nathalie Cookea. victor badian ’61patrick beauger & Marie-Josée neveusteve benjamin ’76Laurent bensemana & shoula Cohenvivianne bentleyMichel boucher & sylvie beauregard thomas & emily Cannellronald ’66, beverley, gregory ’03 & stephen ’06 CoureyLeora & Mattie Cukierin Memory of wanda Cukierrony & Mimi Cukierpaul Cutler & suzanne CostomDavid Delnick & tamara haverron & tami Dimentbergandrew h. Dinsmore ’81hong Dong & Fang Liuthe elefant FamilyMitchell Fersten & Jody shugarCarl Frymel & June ortenbergteresita FuentesDavid garfinkle ’77Martin glynn ’68Jordana & Mitchell greenspoon

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to be recognizedin the 2014–2015donor report, please make your donation by June 30, 2015.

stephen hamilton ’78 & Janice naymarkJaime harper ’75andrew hayes ’82glenn holland & sylvie trudeauClifford isenberg & elana gruensteinMaurice F. L. Jaques ’50steven kader & Deborah voronoffMatthew kerner & Carol Chahinearie koifman & arianne abermanpaul korne & Michelle Dayagieric & renee LadenheimDavid h. Laidley ’63yves eric Laliberte & elisa bertuccigoulding Lambert ’57Jonathan Lang & Justine schnappsteven Lingard ’71Constantine Los ’57

Celso Louro & Cara Mersonnicholas F. Martire ’93James & Linda Meltzer Danny & Marie andrée MindelFrank & Jessie Minicuccigeoffrey Molson ’87brian Monk & patricia DufresneCarolyn LeCraw neysmithMichael & yolanda page Mladen palaic ’81 & geraldine ChaseLuigi & nadia pallotaJoseph & heather paperman ross & selena papermanthe peotto Familyrichard poirier & valêrie DesmaraisMatthew price- gallagher & Courtenay Funstonronald roza & ali Mindel

Javier san Juan & Connie Lipovsek- alboreserik schiller & suzanna CousinsCharles scriver ’47Jeffrey shane & Jean wuadam shine ’84 & brigitte royariel shlien & isabelle perez-shlienDenis & Maria singletonandrew smith & annie Cormierthomas skyDavid ’90 & Mia souaidscott stacey & Lynda Mcgregor staceyDaniel steinberg & elana Munchiknicolas topiol & shamira kleinJason turnbull & Magda Fahmy

patrick varin & ivone boutrospeter wallace ’70graham wells ’61nicholas & emilie whitleysean & peggy williamselric winter & Caroline reinholdhoward & Linda wiseman

Chairman’s Society$750 – $1,499

anonymous (2)senator w. David angus ’54Carmen r. artolabrett barakett ’83ronald benjamin ’75harry J. F. bloomfield Q. C. ’61Craig bromberg & Christiansen ignacio

The “Staff-for-Student Fund” was established by LCC

staff to help the families of students

on financial aid to afford essential

school supplies or to be able to pay

to attend events like CAIS soccer

tournaments in other Canadian

cities.

An annual gift of $250 can help

to support the attendance of one grade 7 student at

Camp Nominingue.

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Dr. Lancelot a. brownChris bryant ’61Michael butler ’61w. robert Courey M. D. ’61Jaysen ’94 & Carrie Cristofaroterry Curran ’78robert de Fougerolles ’57Charles Dillingham ’61John ellis ’32brian Fetherstonhaugh ’74David r. Flam ’87paul Fournier ’61Max & Lara Francischiellothe galbraith FamilyDavid a. gardiner ’81andrew n. garner ’88harley greenspoon ’90Mark harland ’87Denys heward ’64Julien hutchinson ’47the israel Familybruce Jenkins ’64John kearns ’72robert Lewin ’96Louis ’87 & erika LudwickJudson Majdell ’87Matthew ’87 & Liz Marchandpaul Marchand ’58Lorne Matalon ’72Mr. & Mrs. D. MayoffJohn robert LLoyd Mcboyle ’71sylvain Melochepeter & Micki Mortonthe Late peter Mustard ’35wendy & thomas Mylesamin noorani ’83

rick ’63 & bonnie patteeron pattersonDaniel perrault & Lucie Des paroisJames a. phills Jr. ’77paul rolian ’61ian rose ’63robert e. shatilla ’61nicole simard-Laurinrob tipneyDavid L. torreyJaswant Ubhi & Judith robinsonCorey velan ’93 & kristine Jones (pre-U ’93)shane velan ’90 & Jill gascoDavid woodDavid wright ’61weiping Zhu & Jihong huang

Founder’s Society$250 – $749

anonymous (8)ross a. aitkenbarry armstrongChristian auclair & Lucia De petrilloDon bartlett ’73Christin bartoloMitchell benjamin ’80Clayton & Cheryl bertoiaMartin bettsbrian bloom & randi MorrisDaniel blunden & elizabeth neil- blundenpierre boucher

stan ’74 & elaine browmanrob brown ’95william bukowski & nina howethe Cai Familyellen Capeeric h. Caron ’84trevor h. Caron ’51John b. Carrique ’87tim Churchill-smith ’73Jamie Clark ’57edward (ted) Cleather ’47Michael Dashstephen Dinsmore & elizabeth Mylesphilip Dobrin ’03Louis Donolo ’53Julian Falutz ’72 & ariane Marelliterrill Fancott ’56alistair M. Fraser ’57tim gardiner ’78Christopher ’83 & Margarita gardinerrobert w. gardner ’61william D. gibb ’52peter goldbergneal gordon ’78kevin gross ’72Chris guthrie ’80peter hall ’66gregory hall ’87David halpenny ’70bruce harper ’53David hebditch ’54Daniel heffernan ’61geoffrey heward ’79richard C. hodgson ’51bradley horwood ’59ghislain houle & katherine Moxnessphilip & Judy JohnstonJeffrey kafka ’71

ted kalil ’87paul kavanagh ’70paul keyton ’56patrick & Jane kieranseric klinkhoff ’66Julie anne Lafleurpierre Lafond ’47peter Lazenby ’47ian F. Le Lievre ’49stephen LeeDoug ’87 & brina LewinJohn Lillie ’52kirk LLanoDonald Logan ’56Matheos Los ’60David Ludmer ’84Julie ManseauDavid Mckee ’59John Mckercher ’54Malcolm McLeod ’57Fred s. Mcrobie ’59Douglas Millowitz ’87andrew Mittag ’77Duncan Moodie ’71brian Moorer. sheldon Morgan ’73paul Morton ’93gordon nixon ’74amanda palombaro ’07andrew palombaro ’05tom pam ’59Mark pascal ’92george pereira & valentina aguiarDavid perlman ’95bart reilly ’59paolo renzi & suzanne Crawfordroger J. reynoldsenza ricciglenn rioux ’73 & elisabeth kalbfusshillel rosen & Liane Feldman

It has always been important for LCC to be one of the organizations I

support; because of the experience and memories I have

from being a student. Now that three of my children attend the school, I also

support LCC so that I can help provide them with an even better educational experience than

I enjoyed.

— Kristine Velan (Pre-U '93)

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Daniel rosenfeld & susan abramowitzstephen sadler ’56Mark salkeldD. timothy sanderson ’81gillian shadleyCraig & kristin shannonandrew shatilla ’63eric shatilla ’67tom shingler ’93peter r. slaughter ’68gordon smith ’53Dr. guy Louis st-arneault ’81neil a. sternthal ’85neale tomkinson ’70george ’71 & Janet tooleyJames tooley ’61sylvia tracyrob velan ’88 & Claire petcherkristina a. g. velan ’03Max viens

alison wearingw. J. (bill) westaway ’51David winship ’49Lorne wiseman & gale yanofskyJay woollven ’60

Blue, Grey, Red Society$100 - $249

anonymous (10)Frithjof akerblom ’58gordon ’77 & yully allanbobby anderson ’56James & barbara angelopoulosryan artola ’13themistocles (tim) assimes ’87 & irene vassilopoulosDeborah ayreeric badalament ’91Dane baily ’68Devon baily ’97warren baldwin ’68

Michael bishop ’75richard a. bolton ’56pierre boulanger ’59ron burke ’76tom burpee ’55robert, Jeanne & Francesca Calabreseangela Cattlephil Cavadias ’87Mona Chidiacstephen Cook ’80 & Dorothy williamsMatthew Côté ’99Leigh Cruess ’74peter Darling ’54norman Davis ’47andrew D. Dawson ’81James a.b. evans ’58shawn Faguy ’93tom Foody ’82Mr. & Mrs. Claude h. germainvictor C. goldbloom ’39, CC, oQ, MDalan gordon ’44robert gordon ’55

roland greenbank ’42the hon. a. Derek guthrie ’53Claus hamann ’68peter hannen ’52richard harris ’85David w. hay ’74alain hébertLewis w. hersey ’46peter holt ’81Dave howard ’81ross howard ’64Lawrence & Lois hutchisonbrian Jacobs & Charleen schurmanMark Johnson & nicole keeflerpeter Johnson ’57andrew kennedy ’81peter kent ’55LCC staff hockey LeagueMichael Lang ’72Fraser Laschinger ’64John Laschinger ’59Michael Laurie ’66

Revenue from tuition fees covers approximately 85%

of the school’s annual operating

expenditures. Government grants,

revenues from rentals and annual

giving make up the additional 15% needed to support our programmes.

The average size of a student bursary

is $10,000—of which $5,000 would be supported from

the Endowment Fund, $1,000 from proceeds from the school store, and $4,000 by annual

giving.

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thomas shaw- stiffel ’74Marc sheflerJudith shenkernicholas sinclair ’94erol sinmaz ’01trevor smithChristopher spencer ’82brad steinmetz & tina shapiropeter stuart ’60nels sultan ’81Jeff sykesthomas trenholme ’61Jonathan trent & kathryn xistrisMichael tricot ’94al vandenbussche & Dawn LevyChristian viauJohn vlahogiannistony wain ’60orla wallaceDouglas waterston ’82philip webster ’63David whittemore ’80peter wilkins ’51kevin v. williams ’85ronald wyer ’46

Since graduating in 1985, I continue

to support the school every year in gratitude for the

LCC friends, teachers and values I have benefitted from

in so many ways. It was a foundational experience, and it is with great pleasure

that I give back to the school every year.

— Neil Sternthal '85

nathalie LemelinJohn Louson ’59James p. Lynge ’61Felipe Macia ’84simon Madore ’91william Mcarthur ’52andrew McCall ’81hammy McClymont ’61wilson McLean ’58arthur McMurrich ’64hugh Millar ’56walter Mingie ’43shaun Morehouseh. Frank Morrison ’55gilles & Debbie Mosserigrant Murray ’49robert Murray ’35bina nobileMichele owenhugh penton ’59alan perodeau ’42gordon peters ’60Fred pinard ’45Jesse prupas ’95Douglas raicek ’03Michael J. rowen (pre-U ’79)Maxine rupertadam schlesinger ’97bernard shapiro ’52

peter D. yuile ’56adrianna Zerebeckynicholas Zigayer ’81

Lion’s Prideup to $100

Anonymous (5)John archerJohn archer ’44robert bassett ’44David blunt ’52guillaume boisset ’87David bradwell ’70bill & elaine brookstaylor Carlin ’54Michael Coughlin ’99andrew Cruess ’78stephen David ’06John Dawson ’52Jeffrey Dinsmore ’76Jack Donaghy ’51John Durley ’54gordon & roz elkinDavid Fairbairn ’55Michael Fitzsimmons ’09Michel Fortier ’56samara Fox ’04John Fry ’47

bonnie & steve gertsmanedward hague ’49D. ross harvey ’63Michael hayes ’51vanessa horobjowskyshannon howes ’00John hugill ’58gus & Joan karryssara Lande ’05stephen b. Lande ’02Dr. Maurice Levitan ’72Michael Marks ’66David McCall ’50storrs McCall ’47karen MichaudDon Morrell ’52ron pam ’64rené péron ’38aren prupas ’98ivan ralston ’63Lawrence schrier ’73andrew shapiro ’05guy sigouinemmanuel soretbruce stavert ’57Christopher tooley ’04Maciek wleklinski ’69Michael younie ’83

giving is a privilege. and it's not just about writing a cheque. when you give to lCC, you are not simply supporting excellence; you are making a tangible difference in somebody's life.— Kirk LLano, Director of Development & Alumni Engagement

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the recordachievements in academic & co-curricular programming for 2013–2014

ACADEMICS

debating and public Speaking• Loyola Junior Tournament,

September – 2nd place speaker• Marianopolis Debating Tournament,

October – finalists• Junior Debate Tournament, The Study,

November – 1st place team• Carleton University Debate Tournament,

November – semi-finalists• Carleton University Debate Tournament,

November – quarter-finalists• Senior Debate Tournament, Royal West,

December – 1st place team• Senior Debate Tournament, Royal West,

December – 1st place speaker• Queen’s University National Debating

Tournament, January • Junior Tournament, Kells,

January – 1st place speaker• Junior Tournament, Kells,

January – 1st place team• Junior Tournament, Kells,

January – 2nd place team• Junior Tournament, Kells,

January – 3rd place team• University of Ottawa Debate Tournament,

March – top junior team

• University of Ottawa Debate Tournament, March – junior team finalists

• University of Ottawa Debate Tournament, March – semi-finalists

• McGill Spring Debating Extravaganza, March • Donahoe Cup Debating Tournament,

Halifax, April – quarter-finalists• Junior National Debating Championships,

Toronto, April – top Quebec team• Senior National Debating

Championships,Winnipeg, April – 2nd place team

• QAIS Junior Public Speaking – honourable mention

• QAIS Intermediate Public Speaking • QAIS Senior Public Speaking

english• LCC Reads Programme (9th annual)

Entire school read Caught in the Crossfire by Alan Gibbons. Mr. Gibbons presented at LCC in October

• QAIS Public Speaking Competitions English students represented LCC in all competitions

• The Wire Students publish eight issues of the student newspaper

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• LCC Literary Magazine Students publish several issues

• Middle School PROUD Students publish three issues of the new student newsletter

• Poetry Contest Grade 8 student’s poem selected for publica-tion in A Celebration of Poets, published by Creative Communication

• Poetry workshops Montreal poet Jason Selman ran workshops in several Middle and Senior School English classes.

modern Languages• Reinstated the “Langue d'enseignement”

course in grades 7 and 8 to replace the accéléré programme. The current grade 8 students wrote the MELS end of cycle 1 exam in May and achieved a class average of 85%

• Students from grades 7 through 11 took part in the “QAIS Art Oratoire” Contest

• The department organized the “Dictée PGL” event from kindergarten to grade 8 raising $2,402 through this initiative

• Students from grades 9 through 12 took part in the “Voix de la poésie” national contest – 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place and regional finalist

• Four participants travelled to Quebec City to participate in the “Parlement des jeunes” event, which is held solely in French

• Grade 10 and 11 students from “Le Droit” took part in several conferences with judges and lawyers. They visited a law firm and participated in two mock trials at the Montreal courthouse

• Grade 8 students participated in “Expérience Théâtre”, a two-day initiative in August. These days were filled with work-shops offered by professional stage actors about voice, positioning, listening, etc. The grade 8 class attended a performance, “Le murmure du coquelicot” at Théâtre du Nouveau-Monde at the end of September. Students presented their plays during a two half-day festival at the end of term one

• Taken several initiatives to make all the members of our community (students, teach-ers, parents) aware of issues related to digital citizenship: Information literacy, health and safety, communication and awareness

• Established a partnership with Dr. Thierry Karsenti (Canada Research Chair for Technology Integration in Education) from Université de Montréal for a research project assessing the impact and use of iPads at the secondary level

mathematics• Canadian National Mathematics League

(CNML) Grades 7 and 8 teams scores are both first in Quebec

• Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge• American Mathematics Competition (AMC)

Grade 12 participant scored in the top 5% in North America

• University of Waterloo Sponsored Contests Canadian Intermediate Mathematics – Zone Runner-Up Team Canadian Senior Mathematics – Provincial Runner-Up Team Fryer – Team Score 1st in Province Galois – Team Score 1st in Province Gauss, Pascal, Cayley, Fermat, Hypatia, Euclid

• Solisterra Twenty-one grade 8 enriched mathematics students assembled and launched an 80-foot windmill and built a straw-bale chicken coop in Kazabazua, QC while learning about sustain-able energy

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Science• Schools on Board – ArcticNet Inc.

A student in the enriched grade 10 science programme was selected through an applica-tion and presentation process and will board the Amundsen 2014 Field Program on September 23 for a two-week tour of the Northwest Passage.

• Robotics competition Students won Website Design, Online Journalism and placed 2nd overall at the CRC competition

• Grade 9 Crime Scene Investigations (CSI)

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Art• Visual Arts

Students participated in the Art Club, creation of set and props for the Senior School Play and the grade 11 play, provided artwork for the Café Caberet, Pre-U Graduation and Founder’s Day receptions, participated on Student Fine Art Committee, and the Refashionista Show

• Arts Week Art trivia, music sessions, Café Cabaret, short film festival, face painting, An Evening at the Oscars assembly

• Green Art Show Thematically-based art exhibition of student art from kindergarten to grade 12 held in the Scalia Family Art Gallery and the entire first floor of the Assaly Arts Centre

• 5th Annual Middle School Mural “The LCC Forest” representing independence and unity

• Refashionista Show Junior and Senior School students created and performed their 3rd green-themed fashion show in support of environmental awareness

• Drama• Senior School Play: Almost, Maine

Students donated $1,000 proceeds to Overture with the Arts

• Grade 11 Play: Peter Pan and Wendy Students donated $637 proceeds to Make-A-Wish-Foundation

• Grade 9 One-Act Plays: Speed Date, Oh What A Tangled Web and And Then There Was One

• Middle School Play: Treasure Island• Junior School Musical: The Sound of Music• Pre-U Play: It’s Not You, It’s Me

Students donated $1,000 for Save a Child’s Heart

music• Concerts & Performances

Assemblies, LCC Family BBQ, Assaly Arts Centre Opening, Staff Appreciation Brunch, Café Cabaret, Winter Holiday Concert & Spring Concert

• Grade 8 Band Students travelled to Ottawa to perform at the Capitol Region Music Festival and were awarded a Silver Standard

• Senior Concert Band Students travelled to Ottawa to perform at the Capitol Region Music Festival and were awarded a Gold Standard

• Senior Concert Band Performance Tour Students travelled to Boston and performed in two public concerts

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Athletics• LCC won 11 City Championships represent-

ing the second highest total of champion-ships won in a year in the school’s history

• Athletes from grade 4 through Pre-University took part in 50 teams this year, involving over 750 spots in 21 sports.

• GMAA Champions Volleyball (Juvenile Girls), Volleyball (Bantam Girls), Tennis (Bantam Girls), Tennis (Midget Girls), Tennis (Bantam Boys), Tennis (Midget Boys), Indoor Track (Bantam Boys), Indoor Track (Bantam Girls), Track and Field (Bantam Boys), Track and Field (Bantam Girls), Rugby 7’s (Midget Boys)

• GMAA Finalists Flag Football (Bantam Girls), Flag Football (Juvenile Girls)

• LCC was awarded the Sportsmanship Banner by the GMAA for the most sportsmanlike school

• LCC hosted 11 tournaments that included over 100 teams and 1000 athletes

Community Leadership• Community service initiatives

Senior and Middle School students volunteered 12,852 hours of service to organizations both in Montreal and abroad, raising over $70,000 for local, national and international charities

• Me to We Youth in Action Award Grade 11 student recognized nationally for making a difference in communities, at home and abroad

• Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal Grade 10 student awarded medal in recognition of his environmental work with water conserva-tion and golf ball/course pollution

• Fundraising for Share the Warmth Senior School students collected almost 12,000 pounds of food for Share the Warmth Christmas baskets

• Duke of Edinburgh programme 34 Gold Awards, 68 Silver Awards, 69 Bronze Awards

• Duke of Edinburgh Recognition Grade 11 student published on the Duke of Edinburgh website

• Annual Terry Fox Run Raised over $20,000

• Toskan Foundation’s Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Grade 10 students donate a total of $12,000 to Starlight Foundation, Friends of Mental Health, Women’s Aware, JEM Workshop and VOBOC while volunteering and learning about the role of philanthropy in our society

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• Movember Grade 11 and Pre-U students raised over $21,000 in support of the Movember initiative

• Junior School theme “Gratitude is the Best Attitude” Students focused on developing a sense of thankfulness towards the various aspects of their lives, and also to pay it forward and be active members of their community

• We Scare Hunger Campaign Junior School students collect money and food for charities

• Canada Courage Learn to Skate Students volunteered in this unique skating programme, which LCC hosted and coordi-nated with Philip E. Layton School/(Montreal Association for the Blind). The primary goal of the programme was to offer a completely new experience on ice for sight-impaired novice level skaters

• Pre-U students raised over $1,200 to sponsor four children through the Foster Parents Plan

• The Staff For Students Fund Junior School music teacher, James Angelopoulos and Iryna Gris performed a concert in April in the Saputo Auditorium, raising $840

• CAIS Middle School Leadership Conference Five Middle Students attended a national leadership conference at Camp Onondaga in Minden, Ontario.

International• Duke of Edinburgh Gold Trip

Twenty-eight grade 11 students travelled to Costa Rica to participate in a collaborative community service project

• Participation in the International Round Square Conference Six students travelled to Florida to participate in the conference hosted by St. Andrew’s School and attended by students from 90 schools from around the world

• Participation in the Regional Round Square Conference of the Americas Five students attended the conference hosted by St. Clements School and Bayview Glen School in Ontario, joining students from around the world

• Student exchange trips Thailand, Australia, South Africa, France, and Columbia

• China Seventeen students explored the metropolitan and rural areas of China during their March break. The main goal of this trip was to broaden our student’s knowledge of a culture that is significantly different from Canada

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environmental Awareness• 2014 Greenest Employer in Canada

2nd year of recognition for LCC’s efforts at inte-grating sustainability, environmental awareness and action into all facets of our environmental initiatives

• Green Recognition Awarded the Level 2 “Mise en oeuvre” of the ICI ON RECYCLE programme of Recyc-Québec, which recognizes innovation in the reduction, reuse, recycling and recovery of waste

• Earth Week Activities included: Anti-idling campaign, Cell Phone Drive for Canadian Mental Health Association, Greenhouse Initiative, Senior School Vegetarian Cook-off, Spring Cleaning on the Field, Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup

• New Building Construction The Assaly Arts Centre was built to LEED specifications (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). Level TBC

• Educational Greenhouse LCC purchased a small greenhouse that is to be used by the Green Team and the Junior School as an educational tool to give students hands-on experience with horticulture

miscellaneous• Book Fair “Bounce to the Beat of Books”

added 438 new books valued at $7,800• Model UN

Competed in three simulations this year. Approximately 20 students participated

• Reach for the Top Winners of the Provincial Championships and participated in the National Championships for the second time in a row

• Hosted the Global Issues Conference 2014 as part of the 15th annual LCC Destiny Quebec The theme of this year’s conference was “Globalization: Is it Going Too Far or Not Enough?” Mr. Paul Tellier, former Clerk of the Privy Council of Canada, C.E.O. of the CNR and Bombardier Inc. as well as Co-Chairman of the Canada-Japan Business Council and Chairman of the Conference Board of Canada was the keynote speaker

• Voix de la poésie Grade 11 student won 1st place and is a regional finalist

• LCC TV Senior School students produced four 15-minute episodes. Middle School students also produced three episodes

• Priory School Chess Tournament Junior School students won two gold, two silver, and three bronze medals

• Action Against Hunger Four Junior School students’ artwork was pub-lished in the World Children's Day Calendar

• Israel’s Weizman Institute Grade 12 student was one of seven Canadians chosen to spend a month at Israel's Weizmann Institute last summer, conducting research in neuroscience

• Ivey Case Competition Three IB Grade 11 Economics students travelled to London, Ontario to compete in the Richard Ivey School of Business High School Case Competition

post-secondary• Members of the Pre-University class were

offered entrance scholarships for universi-ties in Canada and United States ranging from $500 to $60,000

• A total of two scholarships from US universi-ties, and eight major and at least 20 entrance scholarships from Canadian universities were offered to our students

• Nine students graduated with High Honours (90% plus) and eleven with Honours (85% plus)

• Nineteen Advanced Placement exams written

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40sJohn Fry ’47’s book, A Mind at Sea, an intimate window into a vanished time when Canada was among the world’s great maritime coun-tries, was recently published. A book signing was held in Montreal on December 9 where among the LCC alumni who attended were dr. Charles Scriver ’47, Storrs mcCall ’47, and bill Stavert ’52. John worked for more that 40 years as a magazine editor at the Times Mirror Company and at the New York Times Company, retiring in 1999, and he cur-rently lives in Katonah, New York. www.johnfry.net(photo.01)

50srobert de Fougerolles ’57 writes: “In June, malcolm mcLeod ’57, robert ’57 and Lida de Fougerolles, Joan McLeod, and John Hutcheson ’57 had occa-

sion to learn the history of the Huguenots who com-prised 40% of the population of Canterbury at the time of Queen Elizabeth 1st. (photo.02)

pierre Coupey ’59 was recently given the 2013 Distinguished Artist Award for Painting and Literature from Funds for the Arts on the North Shore (FANS), a group that supports the arts and acknowledges artists living on Vancouver’s North

Shore who have achieved national and international recognition in their field.  His work is currently included in The And of the Land: Perspectives on Landscape by artists from BC. Pierre will also be having a solo show of large-scale work at Odon Wagner Contemporary in Toronto from November 6–23 (www.odonwagnergallery.com). LCC grads in the Toronto area are warmly invited to attend.

John Laschinger ’59 is currently the campaign director for Olivia Chow, mayoral candidate in Toronto.

60sMembers from the Class of ’62 enjoyed this year’s ski trip at Snowmass in the Aspen area in late February. For graduates from the Class of 1962 who

still ski and are interested in joining us next year, the trip will be at Park City, UT.(photo.03) L TO R robert MarshaLL, brian rossy, waLter MarkhaM, Joseph robb, george orban, anD gorDon viberg.

Fraser Laschinger ’64 writes: “In January, I became the president of the Grenville County Historical Society for a two-year term. I also joined the board of directors of the St. Lawrence Academy. Now, in my third year on the board of directors of the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival, I am chairing the fundraising campaign for 2014. In August, we will host the London-based Globe Theatre for their only Canadian performances of Hamlet during their two-year world tour.”

Julian Wise ’64, along with partner Athena Taddei, launched a new com-pany in March. WiseMouth Media was created to allow ordinary people a place

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go to Tuck, Dartmouth to complete his MBA in August and Will should find a job after the boys enjoy southern Europe this sum-mer. Will and I intend to compete hard for the Soling World Championships in Punta del Este, Uruguay in November.”

Colin (ed) rayment ’66 would like you to join him on a special battlefield tour of exclusive WW1 Canadian sites in April 2015 and celebrate the 100th anniversary of Canadians in WW1. For information contact Ed at erayment@me.com.

michael Attas ’69 writes: “After working for the feder-al government for 32 years, I’ve slipped into retirement, at least officially. My time as a scientist/civil servant was mostly spent doing radiochemical research at Atomic Energy of Canada’s Whiteshell Labs in Manitoba. This career interest was triggered by, of all things, a book prize from LCC: The Story of Atomic Energy by Laura Fermi, signed by Mr. G.H. Merrill in 1963! I’m looking forward to continuing activi-ties in science education, non-destructive analysis of art objects, artifacts, and documents, investigating the history of science in Canada, and playing with grandchildren.”

and community to express their extraordinary wisdom and stories with the world. www.wisemouthmedia.com

timothy denton ’66 writes: “My term as National Commissioner at the CRTC came to an end in July 2012. I had spent the last six months at the CRTC as Inquiry Officer into the state of 911 services in Canada. I have now returned to my practice of telecommunica-tions and Internet law and policy (www.tmdenton.com). I am still enjoying the property at North Hatley, where I play with tractors and chainsaws. I married Elisabeth Churcher in 2007 and we have settled into a new house in the Westboro section of Ottawa.”

peter Hall ’66 writes: “Nick ’04, Will ’08, and I had the privilege of listen-ing to Pope Francis giving blessings and messages of peace in ten languages to 70,000 young people in St Peter’s Square. Will and I finished second in the Soling Europeans in Quiberon, France just after I had the privilege to hand Will his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the John Molson School of Business. Will, Nick, and I drove to Paris, Munich, Lake Garda to sail, Florence for Renaissance masterpieces, and Rome for history (thanks vic badian ’61!). Now, back to Austria to race on Lake Attersee. Nick will

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Warren Clements ’69, after a career with The Globe and Mail, is in the third year of publishing humorous books under his imprint Nestlings Press (www.nestlingspress.com). His two latest publications are a collection of comic strips and a book about movies.

philip Habib ’69 writes: “PNH Solutions, format digital printing specialists for event marketing, retail marketing, and trade show design located in Dorval, QC and Mississauga, ON, was awarded the Accolades 2014 trophy in recognition as Company of the Year — Business to Business. The jury concluded that PNH distinguished itself for the outstanding quality of service offered to its clients and the efficiency of its operations.”(photo.01)

70sdr. david goldbloom ’70 was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada on July 1, 2014 for his national leadership as a mental health clinician, educator, and advocate, and for his involvement in a range of community endeavours.

Dr. Goldbloom is the son of dr. richard goldbloom ’41.

Andrew Smith ’79 has been named Managing Executive, President and CEO of NT Global Advisors, Inc., the Canadian asset manage-ment arm of Northern Trust. Andrew retains his former title as Chief Investment Officer, Client Solutions Group. He lives in Toronto with his wife Leslie Ann and in his spare time he enjoys travelling, sailing, and competing in marathons and triathlons. Andrew completed the Mont-Tremblant Ironman triathlon in August 2013 and his fourth Boston Marathon in 2012.(photo.02)

80smartin Salomon ’82 married Marita Cooke in Malibu, CA this June. Co-best men at the wedding were Arthur Wechsler ’82 and toni Sacconaghi ’82. Also attending the wedding were Neil Wechsler ’83 and marshal Salomon ’81. Martin has spent the last 14 years working for Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. as a Director in Equity Sales, having spent five years in New York and the last nine years in Los Angeles.

Kendall billick ’86 writes: “I have an active and grow-ing practice in dermatology and travel medicine. I am excited to say that my youngest, Zoe ’19, will start LCC in the fall and my middle child, Zack ’17, will continue at LCC, mov-ing into Senior School. I remember Junior School Director Paul Keyton would refer to these young students as ‘the little fish in the big pond’. I am proud to see my children wear Drummond jerseys!”

darren (doron) Kornbluth ’86 moved to Israel in 1991 and is married to dancer Sarah Tikvah Siegel. They have six children ranging from 7 to 15 years old. Doron is the author of a number of books including Raising Kids to LOVE Being Jewish and Cremation or Burial? A Jewish View. He speaks around the world, and is an inspirational licensed tour guide in Israel. He would love to re-establish con-nections with old friends. www.doronkornbluth.com or doronkornbluth@gmail.com

Sebastian Cardarelli ’89 is excited to see everyone for the Class of 1989’s 25th reunion at LIONfest

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ing good. Big sister seems to be adjusting and has been very gentle with him so far.”(photo.03)

90srob de Leeuw ’92 writes: “[We] just wrapped up principal photography on a Christmas movie where I play a friendly toy store owner in The Christmas Gamble. The reason this particular project is news-worthy to LCC is that I met Spencer malin ’03 who was working in the loca-tions department. Even though Spencer was in kindergarten when I gradu-ated, we were still able to reminisce about our school. Most of the same teachers that I had were still teach-ing when he went through, and it made me realize that even though LCC has grown and new facilities

have been built, at its core, the school is the same.” 

mark pascal ’92 writes: “2014 has been an exciting year for our family. We were blessed with a new addi-tion, our sweet little girl, Emma Grace. Shane ’26 and mason ’26 are now proud big brothers and are super excited to be going to their Daddy’s school! They will be starting kindergar-ten this fall at LCC.”(photo.04)

basel Al-Aghbar ’94 and his family recently re-located to Houston, TX in February after spending more than eight years in the Washington, DC area. Basel accepted a position with ExxonMobil Chemical,

as their Global Feedstock and Planning Manager for their Synthetics Global Business. The family is settling into their new sur-roundings, where every-thing is bigger and better in Texas! If any alumni are in the area, he encourages them to catch up with him.

vinit Soni ’94 moved to New York City and will be getting married in September 2014.

patrizia genoni ’96 writes: “I would like to announce the arrival of our daughter Larissa born May 24, 2014. Letizia has already mastered her new roll as big sister.”(photo.05)

in September. Meanwhile, he has taken on a second role working with One Tree Planted to combat global deforestation. Visit www.onetreeplanted.org

reid Cooper ’89 lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with his wife and two chil-dren. He is working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the University of Nottingham conducting research on the challenges faced by urban refugees. He has recently joined the Hash House Harriers for twice-weekly runs in the jungle. 

Alexander Singer ’89 writes: “Berto Eliezer, named after our maternal grandfathers, was born on May 12, 2014 weighing 7 lbs 5 oz, and apart from some minor medical issues that we’re now working through, everything is look-

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talia brott ’97 and Cliffert peschlow ‘00 were engaged on March 23, 2014. The wedding is planned for February 28, 2015 at Chateau Vaudreuil. Talia was hired as sales development manager for Silanis Technology, leaders in digital e-signatures.(photo.01)

pat dussault ’97 has been hired as a writer for the upcoming season of This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

Kirkland g. Shannon ’97 and his wife Tara had their first child, a boy named Zachary, in September 2013.

Sarah J. baker ’98 moved to Seattle, WA in the fall of 2010. She and her husband welcomed their first child, Megan Elizabeth Stevenson, on February 8. Sarah practiced U.S. Immigration Law with Wolfsdorf Rosenthal until May 2014.(photo.02)

Christopher pam ’98 married Alexandra Van Veeren on June 21, 2014 in Montreal.(photo.03)

Nadia Carpini ’99 and geoffrey Hughes ’99 wel-comed their daughter, Lily Grace Hughes on August 23, 2014. Big brother Jacob is very excited, as are grandparents Lorraine and glenn Hughes ’74 and LCC Junior School Teacher, Maria Carpini.(photo.04)

matthew Côté ’99 and his wife Mia are happy to announce the birth of Kelsey Alice on November 29, 2013, the newest mem-ber of the Côté family.

Claudia gorenko ’99  writes: “The past three years have been busy ones! I relocated from Timmins to Belleville in 2011 and then finally to Ottawa in January 2012 where I presently reside. In the past year, I completed a Masters in Public Health, specialized in Community Nutrition at the University of Toronto, married, and welcomed a beautiful baby girl, Claire MacDougall in January 2014!”(photo.05)

ben perlman ’99 and Jessica Sinyor are thrilled to announce the birth of their first child, Jacob Daniel Perlman. He was born on June 20, 2014, a few days before their 3rd wedding

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10oz. Our hearts are explod-ing with love for him and we feel so blessed to be this wonderful boy’s parents!”(photo.08)

Lauren Schreiber ’01 and Kevin Sasaki welcomed son Gideon Lee on January 19, 2014. The couple lives in Toronto and loves their new lives as parents to their sweet little guy.(photo.09)

raffi Afeyan ’02 earned his Ph.D. in Biological Engineering from Boston University. His dissertation was titled “A Synthetic Gene Network Architecture that Propagates”. Raffi is current-ly living in Boston and works at the Venture Labs division of Flagship Ventures.(photo.10)

maher (brian) bitar (pre-U ’02) and his wife Astrid call Washington, DC home. While completing law school, Maher joined

the US Department of State as a Foreign Affairs Officer in the Office of the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace. Maher currently serves as Director for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs on the National Security Council staff of the White House. Maher and Astrid look forward to welcoming a little one this fall.

Natanya Khazzam ’02 and Josh Khazzam ’94 and family-run company Heritage Home Fashions are launching GUND home textiles this fall. meghan rose ’02 joined the com-pany to help launch the brand. Products include hooded towels, crib sheets, swaddle blankets, and more. Here’s a pic of a hooded towel (showcased by Josh’s son Nathan). www.bringsoftnesshome.com(photo.11)

anniversary. Ben has been working on the institutional equity-trading desk at GMP Securities for over six years and was recently promoted to VP of trading. He also works alongside his brother, david perlman ’95.(photo.06)

2000sAdam Singfield ’00 recently started a new charitable initiative in Calgary similar in concept to Movember. It is called June Dresses (www.juned-resses.ca) and women wear a dress each day in June in support of the United Way.(photo.07)

 Sharon Hochfelder ’01 writes: “My husband Aaron and I are thrilled to announce the birth of our first child, our son Max Jacob Stern, born on June 15 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, weighing 6lbs

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She specifically works on the team that creates all TV, magazine, and digital advertising for F-150 and trucks for Ford of Canada.

patrick Smith ’07 completed his MBA at Dalhousie University this April after receiving a Bachelors in Commerce from McGill. He is now working as an analyst with Aon in downtown Toronto. Patrick writes: “It’s an excit-ing time in my life and I

hope to be at the next LCC alumni event in Toronto!”

misha Solomon ’08 grad-uated Summa Cum Laude from Columbia University and was also awarded the honour of Phi Beta Kappa at his graduation. The Phi Beta Kappa induction is awarded to students who have demonstrated both intellectual ambition and academic achievement. No more than 10% of the graduating class may be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, 2% in the fall, and 8% in the spring.

marcia mcCrudden ’10 writes: “In the true spirit of Non Nobis Solum, over 40 LCC alumni and staff, including the headmaster,

joined the Trevor Williams Kids Foundation for The Big Red 2014. The third annual fundraising event was held on February 7, 2014 for their anti-violence, anger management, and bullying preven-tion programme called the Chill Zone. Over 200 guests gathered to raise almost $30,000 for the

(L TO R) William Hall ’08, Jake Leibner ’04,

Nicholas Hall ’04, brett pedvis ’04, daniel

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Leah Shannon (pre-U ’06) was married on July 19, 2014 in PEI to Christopher Desvernine from San Francisco, CA.(photo.01) L TO R: Christopher shannon (pre-U ’76), hiLary shannon, Leah shannon (pre-U ’06), Chris Desvernine anD Matthew shannon ’07

megan Harper ’07 has transitioned from work-ing at a non-profit into the corporate world. She is cur-rently employed at The Blue Hive Canada, an advertising agency in Toronto whose client is Ford Automotive.

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LonDon, new york, or nDg... now you can buy your favourite items on-line from our lCC store!We have a great selection of sweatshirts, baseball caps, pens, water bottles and much more. be sure to check out our roots team jackets. all purchases are made by credit card on a secure line. It’s quite simple:

shop on-Line!

1 visit our on-line store at lcc.ca/shop

2 follow the prompts and select your favourite items

3the lcc store will ship your purchase to your selected destination

Jason Peagram Fund, which supports the pro-gramme. Following the loss of Jason ’05, his friends, and family came together to give back to the com-munity in a meaningful way.  For more information about The Big Red 2015, please visit www.twkf.com.”(photo.02)

 

Hailey Laxer ’11, after graduating from LCC, went on to become one of 20 TD Scholars for Community Leadership across Canada. This prestigious scholar-ship led her to our nation’s capital where she just com-pleted her year working as a page in the Canadian

House of Commons. There she served the Chamber and its Parliamentarian with enthusiasm and pro-fessionalism. During the fall 2014 semester, Hailey will be moving to Washington DC, where she will be studying as a Canada Fulbright Killam Fellow.(photo.03)

Connor macorin ’11 is in his second year at Queen's University and is majoring in Political Science. He is the marketing and events manager at the Tricolour Outlet which is operated by the Queen's University Alma Mater Society.

Zihan Cai ’14 has been working at Bangkok Express over the summer on Monkland Avenue. This September, she will be going to the University of Toronto, St. George campus, to study Environmental Science. She received a full scholarship.

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the cataclysm of the First World War, which began one hundred years ago this fall, disrupted millions of lives on both battlefield and homefront. The call to arms was answered in every corner of the

British Empire, including at LCC where more than 300 for-mer students saw military service between 1914 and 1918. By the war's end, every former member of the school's Corps of Cadets had gone overseas. The final human toll was staggering. Among Canada’s war dead (66,000 from a population of barely eight million) there were 31 LCC alumni who perished—most in the trenches or in flying forays along the Western Front. In some instances, several young men from the same small class at school never came home. Of those who did, we can only imagine the number who suffered from ongoing injuries or psychological dam-age. However, in tune with the pervading spirit of the era, our school publications recorded the loss of former students while expressing patriotic fervour and loyalty to the cause — a sentiment that remained steadfast up to and throughout the Second World War then yet to come.

Our founder and first headmaster, Dr. Charles Fosbery, remained in contact with many of his “Old Boys” during the First War, regularly sending letters, the school magazine, and packets of tobacco (much appreciated at the time). He ensured that news of former classmates was shared, often by printing their letters “From the Front” in the magazine. With few exceptions, the letters published were brief and uncomplaining: “Pitblado took a shot through the cap but is fine,” “the Canadians are well looked after,” " good luck in the coming hockey season and remember me to all the old masters.” There is no doubt that Dr. Fosbery’s influence helped forge the strong sense of solidarity that arose among those who survived, as well as strengthening lifelong bonds of loyalty to the school. It has not been that many decades since a photo gallery of alumni in WWI uniform graced the walls of our historic, oak-panelled Dining Room.

A century later, our school community’s last living witnesses to the conflicts of the Great War, or “war to end all wars” are no longer with us: among them, involved and well-remembered alumni and supporters such as the Hon. Brooke Claxton (1915), Gen. E.L.M. “Tommy” Burns (1915), Dr. Cyril J. “Flin” Flanagan (1916), and many oth-ers. However, an enduring symbol of the sacrifices of that war remains for all to see. The Memorial Gymnasium, conceived and built in 1921 by the newly-formed Old Boys Association, still stands in tribute to former classmates who had made the ultimate sacrifice.

Built with donations of money and professional expertise from the LCC community, the new gym was dedi-cated on February 17, 1922, a day that Dr. Fosbery called “the most glorious day in the history of the school.” The highlight of the ceremonies was the unveiling, by Governor General Baron Byng of Vimy, of a bronze memorial plaque inscribed with the honour roll of fallen alumni. This impres-sive piece was mounted inside the building’s entry on Royal Avenue, flanked by two smaller plaques recording the names of those who served. These cherished plaques con-tinue to hang in their original location in the Gymnasium, which on that day in 1922 became the setting for our school Remembrance Day ceremony that has taken place every year since 1919—an indelible part of our school tradition.

A year before the dedication, inspired by his Old Boys’ solidarity and initiative, Dr. Fosbery had pledged to leave the school to the Old Boys Associaton upon his even-tual retirement—a promise that was fulfilled in 1935. His outstanding gesture was followed by the formation of the forerunner to our present-day Alumni Association, and led to the creation of the LCC Foundation. Without question, the effects of the Great War and building of the Memorial Gym can be seen as a defining moment in the school’s his-tory, solidifying ideals of loyalty, service and philanthropy that govern our school community up to the present day.

THE (PERSON) WHO IS TO BE A GOOD CITIZEN, WHO WILL BE LOYAL TO HIS COUNTRY AND GIVE TRUE SERVICE TO HIS COMMUNITY,

IS NATURALLY MARKED BY LOYALTY TO HIS SCHOOL.

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We are at last taking our regular tours in the trenches… The other night we were relieved by the (Princess Pats regiment). I saw quite a number of old LCC boys. I was mighty glad… as I had quite a trying time having 12 casualties out of my platoon of 42… So far our battalion has been having a very easy time and now that we are really in it we are begin-ning to realize what we are up against.(Name not given, April 1916)

Thanking you for your kind gift, and remember me to all the old masters. I hope the school will do well in hockey this year.(A. m. mitchell, June 1916)

I was out on a listening post when (the Germans) started sending over some high explosive shells… I tell you the truth I could not explain my feelings all the time that I was there. I will be very pleased to get back to Canada again.(J. A. Jones, June 1916)

I’ve got a new job now instructing at the Canadian Corps training school and find the change from the trenches a very pleasant one… I am always running into chaps out here I went to school with. (J. d. macpherson, April 1917)

As the days go by, more and more of our school fellows, college friends and chums are killed and wounded. It hurts a great deal to see them go.(g. Stuart merrett, April 1917)

We have had some hard fighting on the Somme… I want to go back…not because I’m brave or because I have any love for the life or the country, but because I’m fed up with hospital and I would like to get back to my friends.(t. r. mcLagan, April 1917)

We have heaps and heaps of ammunition now and it keeps us busy firing it off every day and the people across the way seem to be running out. I hope they really will and very soon.(raymond Hebden, April 1917)

We expect to be over in France about two weeks from now. When I get there I will be able to tell you how it feels to hear a shell coming and not be able to see it.(gordon Clarke, April 1917)

Excerpted from letters in the LCC Magazine published between 1914 – 1918

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I am enjoying life at a very comfortable billet in Stockbridge about 68 miles from London… I hope the school has come out on top in Football and will get the Hockey and Track championships this year... Life in the R.F.C. (Flying Corps) is by no means a bad one… Everywhere I go I see evidences of LCC; more than once I’ve greeted a total stranger as an old friend on the grounds of our both knowing someone from LCC.(W. erskine buchan, 1917, was killed on march 9, 1918, photo above)

The realizations that the school life of every boy has a tremendous effect on his future… has been borne in on me… I am recovering from my wounds and hope to be in Montreal soon.(Hamilton Harrower, dec. 1918)

The hill back of me was a mass of flame each night, as a large quantity of French guns were concentrated there. We sat in a dug-out with our gas masks on for hours, each waiting his turn to go along the road which was swept by a continu-ous shell fire. I could see trees and mud going up in the air just a few yards from me.(S. H. Carsley, June 1917)

Things seem to be going on fairly well just now except that it is bitterly cold for flying around… which makes us all think of home.(gordon S. Harrower, June 1917)

I have been with the Flying Corps since August and am expecting to be sent to England for a course of instruction any day now… PeeWee (Halkett) Woods and I came home from leave together yesterday… he stayed to dinner and we had quite a chat over the school magazine… you can’t imagine how glad we are to see the magazine.(Allan m. mitchell, June 1917)

We certainly struck France at an exciting time and in the two and a half months I have been out I have seen a lot of scrapping. I met Don Baillie here the other day… he is still the same although he has been through so much.(d. W. Ambridge, dec. 1917)

Believe me, this is just about as exciting a game as I ever want to be in. Old football stunts come in rather handy sometimes dodging shells. I was more than pleased when I opened a letter and found in it a picture of the LCC Senior Champions.(Cyril Flanagan, dec. 1917)

It will be one of the most happy events in my life if I am fortunate enough to return and to walk up Royal Ave. again to pay you a visit.(Spencer Symonds, march 1918)

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of the following members of the LCC community:

Winifred garbisH

franK gilmOre

rOland a. “tOnY” truax ’37

fred J. flOud ’38

alan gOrdOn ’44

JOHn rObert gardner ’54

a. brett girvan ’56

micHael O. burpee ’58

gunnar sKJaevestad ’65

J. rOss rObinsOn ’68

stepHen K. vOsKO ’71

andreW d. elliOtt ’81

cHristOpHer a. sHatilla ’89

ricHard durrett ’93

Winifred Garbish on May 18, 2014 at the age of 88. Winifred was LCC Chef Dick de Grandpré’s right-hand assistant in the kitchen from 1976–1993.

Frank Gilmore on June 12, 2014 at the West Island Palliative Care Residence. He taught music and carpentry at Lower Canada College from 1952–1965.

Roland A. “Tony” Truax ’37 at the Lakeshore General Hospital on November 29, 2013. Tony was a WWII veteran (Sherbrooke Fusiliers) who saw significant action in Europe from 1941–1945, and most notably, landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.

Fred J. Floud ’38 on March 6, 2014 in Victoria, BC.

Alan Gordon ’44 in his 90th year at the Montreal Neuro Institute on August 2, 2014.

John Robert Gardner ’54 on August 24, 2014 at Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario.

A. Brett Girvan ’56 on January 1, 2014. He was the brother to Clive ’60.

Michael O. Burpee ’58 at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on January 23. He was brother to peter ’53 and thomas ’55.

Gunnar Skjaevestad ’65 on April 7, 2014.

J. Ross Robinson ’68 in Toronto, on August 31, 2014

Stephen K. Vosko ’71 in Houston, TX on August 17, 2013.

Andrew D. Elliott ’81 on January 20, 2014.

Christopher A. Shatilla ’89 on May 17, 2014 at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto. He was the son of Andrew ’63 and brother to Stephanie ’92. He leaves behind many relatives who were part of the LCC community.

Richard Durrett ’93 suddenly on June 17, 2014 in Wylie, TX. He was brother to rob ’94.

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post-secondary destinations

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university destinations

Dawson CollegeDe LaSalle Oaklands High School (Toronto)Jean de BrébeufJohn Abbott CollegeLaSalle CollegeLCC IBDP – 2LCC Pre-UniversityMarianopolis CollegeTrinity College School Vanier College

Acadia UniversityAmerican University of Sharjah (UAE)Bishop’s UniversityBoston UniversityBrigham Young University (Fall 2016)Carnegie Mellon UniversityDartmouth CollegeEmerson CollegeEugene Lang College – The New School Georgetown University

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New York University – Tisch School of the ArtsQueen’s UniversitySt. Francis Xavier UniversityUniversity of British Columbia University of British Columbia – OkanaganUniversity of ChicagoUniversity of Massachusetts – AmherstUniversity of MiamiUniversity of MichiganUniversity of OttawaUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity of Toronto

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