Torch - Spring/Summer 2019

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The Hall of Distinction Recognition for graduates young and old

bring the total up to 125 in honour of Havergal’s 125th anniversary. Unlike the Old Girls Award, this honour is awarded posthumously as well as to the living, and given in recognition of a singular, noteworthy accomplishment. While the Hall of Distinction is a recognition, it is also a place. Special plaques in the hallway off the Rotunda at Havergal display composite photographs of the cohorts, along with the names and biographies of these special graduates. It is a place where students can go to be inspired and visitors can find out more about the success stories that originate from Havergal. Hall of Distinction members are peer- nominated and then voted in by a committee of Old Girls. Since the award is for a singular accomplishment rather than a lifetime body of work, younger Old Girls are also eligible for the recognition— this year’s youngest inductee is from the class of 2006 (Dasha Peregoudova, the taekwondo medallist).

Yet a final piece to the story of graduates at Havergal is one of its latest awards, the Hall of Distinction. Just a handful of examples from the latest list of inductees reveal the diversity of spheres in which graduates are making a mark: the first woman posted to Canada’s permanent mission to the United Nations. The first ethnic model to sign a multi-year contract with CoverGirl. The current Chief Medical Officer of Health for Toronto. Founder of Shedoesthecity. com, an online publication supporting Canadian women. Two-time Pan Am Championship gold recipient in taekwondo in 2006 and 2008. Established in 1994 by the Havergal Old Girls Association (HOGA), the Hall of Distinction was created to recognize Old Girls whose achievements in a range of fields, from business to science to sports to the arts to volunteerism, make them “stand apart from the ordinary.” Awarded every five years, 103 were named by 2014. This year, 22 were added to

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2019 Inductees

This year’s Hall of Distinction inductees were recognized at Havergal’s anniversary event at Roy Thomson Hall on Friday, May 3. It was a time of celebration to cheer for the success of these distinguished alumnae, as well as the continued stream of Grads to emerge from Havergal.

12  Lana Ogilvie 1986 13  Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri 1991 14  Dasha Peregoudova 2006 15  Cecily Cannan Selby 1943 16  Michelle Mehra Shouldice 1985 17  Michelle St. Jacques 1996 18  Tanya Taylor 2003 19  Jennifer Tory 1974 20  Eileen de Villa 1987 21  Catharine Bertram Walsh 1996 22  Margie Zeidler 1976

1  Jeannie Callum 1986 2  Earlaine Stewart Collins 1956 3  Shelly Dev 1994 4  Martha Merry Fell 1987 5  Susie Wright Gooderham 1974 6  Joanna Griffiths 2001 7  Alannah Campbell Kearns 1974 8  Gay Sellers Kroeger 1952 9  Sonia Armstrong Labatt 1956 10  Christiane Lemieux 1988 11  Jennifer McNeely 1998

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