NEWS
FRANKLYN J.C. GRIFFITHS, C.M. ’58
Professor Franklyn Griffiths has just been named a Member of the Order of Canada. His citation reads, “Franklyn Griffiths is one of Canada’s early scholars of Arctic international relations. Now professor emeritus and George Ignatieff Chair Emeritus of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto, he helped shape the West’s understanding of Soviet politics through his seminal writings on Russian affairs. He also played a prominent role in the formation of the Arctic Council, advocating direct Indigenous participation as a key tenet of circumpolar co-operation.” Congratulations!
BARRIE WILSON ’66
Professor Emeritus of Humanities/Religious Studies at York University, Barrie has become Vice-President of the Academy for Lifelong Learning in Toronto. The Academy for Lifelong Learning is a leader in adult education through peer-to-peer learning offering workshops, talks and walks for seniors who wish to remain fit intellectually and socially.
PETER ADAMSON ’69
Dr. Peter A. Adamson, OOnt, has been honoured with the Teasdale-Corti Award presented by The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) to acknowledge and celebrate a Canadian physician who has gone beyond the accepted norms of routine practice, which may include exposure to personal risk. Dr. Adamson began Face the Future Foundation in 1996 and has since organized and led 56 surgical missions to developing and war-torn countries.
THE REV. CANON KEVIN FLYNN ’82
The Rev. Canon Kevin Flynn (MDiv) has been appointed incumbent of la paroisse Saint-Bernard-de-Clairvaux, Ottawa. He is canon liturgist of the diocese of Ottawa.
BARBARA BOYD ’93
Barbara was part of a team featured in a video about the Princess Margaret Walk to Conquer Cancer in Toronto. She completed the walk as part of the “Leaside Sole Sisters” in honour of her neighbour, who passed away last year.
SALIM RAMJI ’91
Vanguard Group Inc. named BlackRock Inc. veteran Salim Ramji as its next chief executive officer, succeeding Tim Buckley and becoming the first outsider to lead the firm famed for revolutionizing investing with the index fund. Ramji worked at New York-based BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, for about a decade and was considered one of several potential successors to CEO Larry Fink before departing in January. As global head of iShares and index investments, he helped oversee a massive expansion of the firm’s ETF business which now manages about $3.7 trillion.
SARA MOJTEHEDZADEH ’08
Toronto Star reporter Sara Mojtehedzadeh has been awarded a 2024 Press Freedom Certificate of Merit from World Press Freedom Canada. Mojtehedzadeh, the Toronto Star’s work and wealth reporter, was recognized for her body of work, including the “Work Forced” series, reported with Star colleague Rachel Mendleson. The stories exposed the extent to which Ontario’s economy relies on exploited and sometimes illegally trafficked workers.
REYHANEH FALLAH-NORSHIRAVANI ’09
Offering further proof that Trinity connections are everywhere, Reyhaneh and Yulia Muravska ’08 had a happy reunion with their former Trinity College Provost, Margaret MacMillan, at the 2024 London Defence Conference.
POSTCARDS FROM REUNION
We asked for your updates at Spring Reunion 2024. Thank you for sharing! (P.S. We welcome your updates at any time…)
DIANA MOORE EDEN ’61
The past year has included lots of travel for me, including a catamaran cruise around the BVI in January, a week in Antigua in March, and an upcoming trip to Santorini and Crete next October. I write travel articles for Journeywoman.com, a travel website for the older female solo traveler. I’m still teaching at UNLV in Film Department and loving it. I am also writing my second book and going to an International Women Writing Guild workshop in Rhode Island in August to work on it. My health is good for an 84-year-old and I am enjoying all the good things that Las Vegas and its surrounding mountains and desert have to offer. Good friends here, too!
BRIAN HULL ’64
My wife, Terry, and I live in an old schoolhouse in a village outside Ottawa, where I last year completed a nine-year term as an Anglican Church warden. We recently returned from a wonderful tour of Madrid, which I had first visited over 50 years ago. In the forthcoming journal of the 2024 Conference for Global Transformation, I will have a “report from the field” article, entitled “Zweibrucken, Germany — an experience that keeps giving.” I have been attending the conference each year since 2020 via Zoom.
TIM LASH ’66
I have established a new charitable fund, The Rights of Nature (Canada), to help develop and communicate scientific and traditional knowledge about what nature requires to thrive. The fund is linked to community, policy and institutional actions, and to the ability of Canada’s laws, legal institutions and practice to entertain nature’s specific requirements as material in decisions.
HARLEY AUTY ’68
After more than 25 years of teaching at the elementary and secondary levels in Ontario, I retired to Kelowna, B.C. for several years. I have now returned to Ontario, settling in Ancaster, and am happy to renew my connection with Trinity.
HON. ROBERT REID ’74
I am two and a half years away from retirement from the Superior Court of Justice, after which I will be free to spend more time with my spouse, Margie Walker ’75 (whether she likes it or not!)
GREER ROBERTS ’74
A trip in April to the UK included attending our twin grandsons’ second birthday and a service at the historic St Aldates church in central Oxford. Then a book browse in the depths of Blackwells.
LIONEL SMITH ’86
I was appointed Downing Professor of the Laws of England at Cambridge in 2022.
RALUCA DAVID ’08
After becoming a Barrister and Solicitor in Ontario, I moved to France and am now opening my own law firm in contract and intellectual property law in Lyon.
BIRTHS
CAMERON JAMES MACDONALD ’09 and REYHANEH FALLAH-NORSHIRAVANI ’09 welcomed baby Jamshid Morrison Macdonald on December 11, 2023. The couple were married in London, U.K. in March 2022. Congratulations!
RYDER WHITTAKER HAWKINS ’15 and Lily Hui welcomed a daughter, Elizabeth, on January 31, 2023. Congratulations!
DEATHS
Our deepest condolences go to the families, friends and classmates of these members of the Trinity community.
DOBELL, Colin ’81
FOURNIER, Margaret M. ’42
GREENWOOD, David ’65
KAO, Dennis ’03
KETCHUM, Susannah D. ’61
ROLLASON, Peter ’62
SINCLAIR, Sonja Morawetz ’43
SOLANDT, Diana Ritchie ’65
SUHANIC, West ’82
WILTON, Ann ’74
YOUNG, John Maitland ’65
(for June issue of Living Trinity electronic newsletter; last published April 2024)