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The Friends Welcome Three New Directors At our Annual General Meeting on June 21 three new directors were elected to The Friends’ board: Ceta Ramkhalawansingh, Kyle Wyatt, and Peter Zimmerman. Before her retirement in 2010 Ceta worked for thirty years with the City of Toronto where she introduced groundbreaking human rights policies that made Toronto a social justice leader. Her notable interests have included chairing the LEARNXS Foundation and leading efforts to revitalize Grange Park near where she lives. Ceta has a BA and MA from the U of T; a graduate diploma in Child Studies; and has completed her residency requirement towards a PhD at OISE. Kyle Wyatt is managing editor of The Walrus magazine. He received his PhD from the U of T in 2011, and for five years before taught courses there in American, Canadian, and Indigenous literatures. Nebraska-born, Kyle is now a landed immigrant, able to apply for Canadian citizenship in two years. Maybe he can receive his certificate in one of the twice-yearly citizenship ceremonies held at Fort York!
Peter Zimmerman is Director of Development at Freed Developments; he was formerly with the Toronto Community Housing Corp. Peter has been involved in municipal housing policy and development for more than twenty years. A Registered Professional Planner, he has a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University. Re-elected as directors at the AGM were Nancy Baines, Geordie Beal, Matthew Blackett, Sid Calzavara, Harriet De Koven, Richard Dodds, Patricia Fleming, Joe Gill, Shawn Micallef, Marc Nufrio, Stephen Otto, Michael Peters, Elizabeth Quance, Ted Smolak, Andrew Stewart, George Waters, and Rob Zeidler. A motion was passed at the meeting recording thanks for the dedicated service given the The Friends by Meg Graham and Eva Macdonald who chose not to stand for re-election, and by Brian Maclean and Greg Kitscha who resigned for different reasons during the year.
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