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Friends Fill Three Vacancies on Bob Allsopp and Rollo Myers, both founders of the Friends of Fort York, have retired from the Board after a dozen years of exemplary service. Bob has made a rich contribution, particularly in the critical area of site planning. With Cathy Nasmith, he authored Fort York: Setting It Right, a landmark study in creating the visibility and dignity that Fort York deserves. As a partner in the firm of duToit Allsopp Hillier, he has advised both the City and neighbouring landowners on the development of the Garrison Common landscape and Public Realm. Our compadre Rollo, the Volunteer Extraordinary, is credited for inspiring the establishment of the Friends in 1994 by rousing the troops to the dangers inherent in the Official Plan then being proposed. Recently he has been the brains behind the pattern we use for carparking during summer events to maximize the revenue from that activity, which supports the Fort York Guard. Also retiring at this time is Marc Kemerer who was the key player in our appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board in 2002. In their places, the Board has appointed the following persons to serve as directors until the next Annual Meeting when, like other directors, they must be elected by the membership if they are to continue.
Board gained along the way with the Kidney Foundation, Royal Ontario Museum, Addiction Research Foundation and four radio stations. Environmental issues, nature photography and creative writing take some of his spare time. Philip Goldsmith is familiar with Fort York from his role as the architect for stabilization work on the Officers’ Quarters in the early 1990s and for the reconstruction of the Blue Barracks in 2001-03. As well, he was a member of the working group who produced Fort York: Adding New Buildings. A principal in Goldsmith, Borgal & Company, Architects, he has enjoyed a large practice marked by significant commissions like the restoration of the Oliver Mowat house on Jarvis Street for the National Ballet School and North Toronto Railway Station for the LCBO. Phil has always found time to serve as a member of the boards of organizations in the heritage field, including the Ontario Heritage Foundation, Ontario Historical Society and Canadian Association of Professional Heritage Consultants. Allan Wilson has been a management consultant to advanced-technology companies for more than two decades, for the last dozen years at the head of a practice that bears his name, but before that with Evans Research and Woods Gordon. Related to his work, he has been active in several associations within the technology industry, taught at Seneca College, and published books and articles. Writing was his first career: as a journalist for five years he had bylines in the Winnipeg Free Press, Vancouver Sun, London Free Press and Toronto Star. His degrees, an Honours BA in philosophy and an MBA, were both taken at the University of Western Ontario.
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