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News - Trinity College Alumni Affairs
Doctors Without Borders - David Halton, Malcolm Knight and Jae Joung Lee receive honorary degrees  Sept. 6, 2006 – “This is an honour which I never dreamed of achieving when I first stepped into these hallowed buildings,” said David Halton in his keynote address to first-year Trinity College students at the College’s matriculation ceremony on Sept. 6. Halton, who graduated in 1962 with an honours BA in History, recently retired from a 40-year broadcasting career with the CBC, which included stints as a correspondent in Paris, Moscow, and London. In his address, Halton stressed the importance of learning history. “The study of history proved enormously useful to me in my career as a journalist,” he said. “It taught me to guard against my own biases and opinions.... It taught me the constant need for skepticism to counter the distortions that often emanate from officialdom.” Malcolm D. Knight ’67, general manager of the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland since 2003, was honoured for his contributions to international finance. Knight began his career as an economist in the early 1970s as a professor at the University of Toronto and at the London School of Economics, but switched to policy research when he joined the International Monetary Fund in 1975. By 1998, he was one of three deputy directors heading the IMF’s relations with European countries. From 1999 to 2003, he served as senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada.  The Rev. Dr. Jae Joung Lee, who graduated with a Trinity College doctorate in theology in 1988, was honoured for his significant work in the Anglican Church of Korea. Lee served as Archdeacon of Seoul and later oversaw the conversion of Seoul's St. Michael’s Seminary into a full-fledged university, SungKongHoe University. He is currently senior vice-president of the National Unification Advisory Council, working for peacful reunification with North Korea. All three honorary graduates received the Doctor of Sacred Letters (honoris causa) from Trinity. John Tuttle Appointed Trinity's Organist and Director of Music  August 8, 2006 – “Trinity has always been a place where music echoes down the halls. It has a wonderful chapel with outstanding acoustics, and the music produced by its organ and choral scholars is part of its rich atmosphere,” said John Tuttle after his appointment as organist and music director of Trinity College on Aug. 1. “I couldn’t be happier to join Trinity and contribute to its long and important musical tradition.” Hooked on learning to play the organ from the time he was 15, Tuttle earned his bachelor’s degree in organ performance at the Curtis Institute in his hometown of Philadelphia. After coming to Canada in 1975, he became University of Toronto Organist in 1979. He is an adjunct associate professor at U of T’s Faculty of Music, where he has taught most of Trinity’s Organ Scholars over the past two and half decades.
For the past 25 years, he has also been conductor of the Hart House Chorus and also of the Exultate Chamber Singers, which he founded by bringing together a group of graduating university students who wanted to continue performing choral music at a high standard.
Adding Trinity to his range of professional addresses will enrich the College’s musical experience and broaden its musical influence across the university and beyond. Further, his position as organist and choirmaster at St. Thomas’s Anglican Church, which he has held since 1989, will foster choral connections between the two organizations, which already enjoy a special relationship.
“I believe there is a great potential for the Trinity Choir to set a high standard for choral and church music across the U of T campus,” he said, “and for the chapel music at Trinity to have a critical influence on the state of church music in Canada.”
In 2005, Trinity College bestowed the degree of Doctor of Sacred Letters (honoris causa) upon Tuttle in recognition of his contributions to organ and choral music at the university and in Canada.
A Matter of Degree: Alyson Barnett-Cowan and John Morden HonouredMay 9, 2006 - A canon who has dealt with some of the most fractious differences of opinion in the Anglican Communion was granted an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by Trinity College at the Faculty of Divinity Convocation on May 9.
The Trinity College Faculty of Divinity is the oldest centre for theological study in the Anglican Church of Canada and has nearly 1,000 alumni devoted to ministry, lay service and theological teaching and scholarship. It has helped educate more Anglican leaders than any other Anglican college in Canada, among them the past and current Primate, three of the five Anglican bishops in Toronto, and a number of academic heads of theological educational institutions. May 6, 2006 - On July 1, the Rev. Dr. Dana Fisher will assume her duties as the third Humphrys Chaplain at Trinity College in the University of Toronto.
After bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, Chaplain Fisher completed her Master of Divinity at Trinity in 1981 and was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Ottawa the same year. In 1994, she completed a Doctor of Ministry degree at Trinity. As well as being a parish priest, since 1996 she has taught courses at Trinity College in spiritual formation.
Chaplain Fisher’s interest in the spiritual nature of human beings takes her beyond the boundaries of Christianity to explore the spiritual beliefs of adherents to other faiths and of those who profess no commitment to organized religion.
The Humphrys Chaplaincy was created in 1995 as the result of a $1-million fund established by the Rev. Margaret (Humphrys) Fleck and Prof. James Fleck. At that time the position of chaplain was renamed "Humphrys Chaplain" in memory of Margaret's mother. As well as serving the College, the Humphrys Chaplain also ministers to the broader Anglican community of the University of Toronto’s St. George campus.
Prof. MacMillan is Trinity College’s 13th, and first woman, Provost. She was educated at the University of Toronto (Honours B.A. History, Trinity 1966) and at Oxford University (B.Phil in Politics and D.Phil). She taught at Ryerson University for 25 years, where she also served a term as chair of the History Department, before becoming Trinity’s provost in 2002. In the summer of 2007, after completing her five-year term at Trinity, she will become Warden of St.Antony’s College, Oxford. She will receive her insignia as Officer of the Order of Canada at a ceremony at Rideau Hall at a later date.
June 21, 2005 – Margaret MacMillan, Provost of Trinity College at the University of Toronto, will assume the post of Warden of St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, when her term at Trinity ends June 30, 2007. She will remain fully engaged as Provost until that date. Over the next two years, Provost MacMillan will continue the important work she has begun at Trinity, including the implementation of the Trinity One programme of small classes for first-year students, the integration of the residences, the conclusion of the Divinity Campaign to endow the position of the Dean of Divinity, and, in Fall 2006, launching and sustaining Trinity’s major $15-million capital campaign. Michael Wilson, Trinity’s chancellor and a former federal finance minister, commented: “We are extremely grateful to Margaret for all that she has done for Trinity and all that she will continue to do over the next two years until the end of her term. She is an extremely effective and congenial leader and colleague.” St Antony’s College, founded in 1950, specializes in international studies and is one of eight colleges at Oxford that admit only graduate students. It is the most international of Oxford’s colleges, both in its concentration on international studies and in the composition of its student body, with some 350 postgraduate students representing more than 50 countries. In the early 1970s Provost MacMillan was a student at St Antony’s, where she completed a D.Phil. in 1974 on the British in India. Upon her election as Warden, she commented: “I am extremely privileged and proud to be associated with such outstanding colleges. Both are lively and important centres of learning; both have a special interest in international relations; and both attract excellent students and fellows.” Prof. MacMillan has been the Provost of Trinity College since 2002. From 1975 until 2002 she was a member of the History Department at Ryerson University in Toronto and also served as chair of the Department. She is the author of a number of books, including Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World, which won the 2003 Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction. First published in the UK in 2001 as Peacemakers: the Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War, it won the Duff Cooper Prize, the PEN Hessell-Tiltman prize for history and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction. Prof. MacMillan is an authoritative commentator in the media on both history and current international affairs. The current Warden of St. Antony’s, Sir Marrack Goulding, said “ Professor MacMillan is an outstanding scholar and manager…. Her command of modern history and contemporary international relations make her an ideal head of this College.”
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April 18, 2006 – The World's Children Prize, also called the "Children's Nobel Prize," has been awarded to fourth-year Trinity student Craig Kielburger, 23. 
February 6, 2006 – Along with 55 other distinguished Canadians, Provost Margaret MacMillan has been appointed to the Order of Canada. The Provost, who was named an Officer of the Order, is the author of Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, which garnered awards at home and abroad. The book won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in the U.K. and the 2003 Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction and was included on the 2002 New York Times Editor’s Choice list.