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ORCHARD GREETS NEW CROP
As Oscar Wilde said: "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
Andy Orchard conveyed a somewhat different take on that sentiment after being installed as Trinity's 14th Provost and Vice-Chancellor at the College's annual matriculation ceremony on September 5. "Go steady," he told the incoming class. "Find out who you are, and be that person."
Orchard is a highly regarded scholar of medieval Latin, Celtic and Norse and the former director of the Centre for Medieval Studies in the University of Toronto. No stranger to Trinity before assuming his new role, he served on Trinity's Senate and acted as the College's part-time Public Orator, which required him to address Convocation each year -- in fluent Latin.
"It really is both humbling and elating in equal parts to be standing here today," Provost Orchard said in his first official address to the college. "Colleges are places where folk can find each other and themselves... As you go on to be yourselves, this Provost at least will be proud if he can help somehow, and if we can walk part of that way together."
For a profile of Provost Orchard click here.
To read Provost Orchard's installation address click here.
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