UTSC Campaign Surpasses Goal
Some said it couldn't be done. But when Professor Kwong-loi Shun,
the principal and vice-president of the University of Toronto
at Scarborough, launched the first Faculty and Staff Campaign
at the Scarborough campus, he was confident that his colleagues
and co-workers would step up to his ambitious fundraising goal
of $100,000.
In fact, more than $130,000 was raised to support scholarships
and capital projects in five areas: the Centre for Neurobiology
of Stress, the Management Building, the Academic Resource Centre,
the Student Centre and arts initiatives such as the Doris McCarthy
Gallery and student exhibition space.
Lenard Whiting, a UTSC lecturer in the music program and
a choir director, made a $14,000 contribution to establish
the Lawrence B. Leverington Mentor Award. The
scholarship is named after Whiting's music teacher and mentor
– the former choir director at St. Alban's Anglican Cathedral
in Kenora, Ont., where Whiting was raised. "He was a brilliant
lounge entertainer and inspiring music teacher throughout his
entire career," says Whiting.
The award will support a student enrolled in the second, third
or fourth year of the visual and performing arts program at UTSC,
who has demonstrated outstanding musical ability in direction,
composition or performance.
*excerpt from The University of Toronto
Magazine Fall 2004
