The Senior Members Committee of Hart House presents an annual series of alumni-student dinners for an intimate group of Hart House members who are alumni, students, faculty, and staff.
Overview
Each dinner features a guest speaker who discuss a broad range of areas from business, politics, education and the arts. A question and answer session will follow the speaker's presentation.
The dinners include a meet the speaker reception with hors d’oeuvres, and a superb meal based around a theme inspired by the evening's topic accompanied by selected wines.
Tickets may be purchased in series of 3 or 6, or individually.
The 2019-2020 series features:
- October 16, 2019: Catherine Gildiner: author of "Too Close to the Falls" will discuss her new non-fiction book “Good Morning Monster”.
- November 6, 2019: Tim Stewart, teacher and army piper “Toronto’s Fighting 75th in the Great War 1915–1919: A Prehistory of the Toronto Scottish Regiment”
- December 11, 2019: Professor Shauna Brail, Director, Urban Studies Program at Innis College “Ride-Hailing: Transforming Urban Mobility”
- January 22, 2020: Ann and Ross Stuart, Stratford Stage Manager “A Brief History of the Hart House Theatre”
- February 12, 2020: Professor Geoffrey Hinton, Professor emeritus and Google fellow “What is a thought?”
- March 18, 2020: John Monahan, Hart House Warden since 2015 “100 years of Hart House at UofT”
Guest Speaker
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Timothy J. Stewart
Hight School Teacher and Author
Timothy J. Stewart has been a teacher of high school history for over twenty-five years. He served fifteen years as an army piper in the Primary Reserve.
Stewart is the co-author of Proud to Be Your Colonel-in-Chief (2003). His articles include “Canadian Pipers at War, 1914–1918,” in Canadian Military History, and “A Padre at Amiens 1918” and “Canadians in Siberia, 1918–19,” for the Garrison (army newspaper in Ontario).
Toronto’s Fighting 75th evokes the spirit and consequences of Toronto at war. It tells the story of urban professionals, university graduates, labourers and the unemployed who fought alongside the British in 1915 to 1921.
This book was created out of exhaustive research, drawn from archival sources, diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, and interviews, and has created a lasting record of the sacrifice of Toronto’s Fighting 75th in the Great War.