Cambridge Society of Toronto

81^st Annual Boat Race Dinner at the Albany Club

The Cambridge Society of Toronto

Following the successful Fall Reception with the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alison Richard, members of the Cambridge Society of Toronto enjoyed a joint universities pub night with alumni from oxford and LSE at the end of November and the traditional Service of Nine Lessons and Carols at St. Anne’s Gladstone, whose previous Rector was a Cantabrigian.

On April 27^th, we organized the 81^st Annual Boat Race Dinner, which was a sold-out event with 130 graduates and their guests in attendance, a significant number for the first time. We watched a video of the Race and for the first time in four years were able to celebrate a Cambridge victory. The Toast to the University was proposed by the Honourable Frank Iacobucci, (St. John’s). Frank is a retired Supreme Court Justice who shared many reminiscences of his time in Cambridge during the 1960’s, including tutorials with a “ferocious pipe smoker”. Some of Frank’s friends from his time at Cambridge were in the audience. The response to the Toast was proposed by Ira Nishisato, partner in Commercial Litigation at the Toronto firm of Borden Ladner Gervais. Frank encouraged Ira to pursue his studies at Cambridge and for this reason and many others Ira told us that the University was delighted that Frank had proposed the Toast. Both Frank and Ira met their spouses while at Cambridge.

Left to right:

Birthe Jorgensen, (Clare Hall) Member of the Committee of the Cambridge Society of Toronto

Hon Frank Iacobucci, (St. John’s) speaker

David Baker, Birthe’s husband

Maggie Norman, (Newnham) Secretary, Cambridge Society of Toronto

Maria Cioni, (Girton) Author of “Spaghetti Western”