Dr. Kathryn Campbell Challoner ’70 on how she narrowly escaped a war zone in Liberia—and her return to help during the Ebola epidemic… Continue Reading
Alumni at large: Returning to ground zero
Category Archives: Past Issues
Photographic memory: Trinity Escapades
Jim Neilson recalls the ’76 Trinity Escapades. Although none of the players went on to pursue a career in professional sports, it is generally agreed that the Escapades experience helped to forge strength and character for life in the wider world. … Continue Reading
Class notes
Nancy Park ’55 and Angus Ivory ’56 were one of the first couples married in the Trinity College Chapel on October 26, 1956.… Continue Reading
Book it
ELIZABETH ABBOTT (FORMER DEAN OF WOMEN) Dogs and Underdogs: Finding happiness at the end of a leash (Viking). When her beloved dog Tommy was left behind in Haiti, Abbott set out on a journey that took her from the concrete cells of an American prison to Toronto’s Mt. Sinai Hospital …… Continue Reading
Provost’s letter
Provost Mayo Moran on developing the whole person, the student experience, and what’s next for Trinity.… Continue Reading
Retro-spective
The first thing John Tory did as Mayor of Toronto was to order that the curtains in his office be kept open. His elusive predecessor, Rob Ford, preferred them closed.The result is that when I arrive to chat with him, we both stare wistfully at the City Hall skating rink and talk about his dream of driving the Zamboni—which is not exactly the future I would have predicted for him when we were young.… Continue Reading
Chilling discovery
The story of the Franklin Expedition is a haunting reminder of nature’s brute power: a moment in time when the naval might of the British Empire was cruelly overwhelmed by the forces of ice, snow and wind. In 1845, two ships carrying 129 sailors set sail from England in an effort to chart a passage that could facilitate travel from England to the Pacific Ocean. But neither the HMS Erebus nor the HMS Terror, ever made it. … Continue Reading