Homecoming highlights
This year, Homecoming moved from September to October and the later date seems to have been a success: record numbers of graduates, family and friends came back to McGill from across Canada, the U.S. and Europe. In all, 60 classes celebrated, and the Macdonald Class of '59 took the Honour Shield recog-nizing best class participation for that campus. The "Lunch et livres" event at the University bookstore, inaugurated at last year's Homecoming, is proving to be a favourite among graduates, who gave very favourable reviews to guest authors Nathalie Cooke, Margaret Somerville, DCL'78, and William Watson, BA'73.
At the James McGill Dinner, new chancellor Richard Pound, BCom'62, BCL'67, transported the audience back to the 1940s with a memorable speech peppered with trivia of the day: some graduates have even asked for a transcript of Pound's words. Slightly more scandalous but drawing guffaws for his biting jokes about Viagra, menopause and aging, was Leacock Luncheon lecturer Ian Brown of CBC Radio fame. The new director of the McGill School of Environment, Peter Brown, spoke to a crowd of over 200 at the Macdonald Luncheon, and nature tours of the campus were popular once again -- even some townies made the trip out to Ste. Anne de Bellevue to explore McGill's wilder campus. As always, McGill News paparazzi were out capturing the highlights and here are a few of those fine moments.
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Author, Author
left to right: Joan Howes, BCom'49, BSW'50, John Howes, BEng'48, MEng'61, Rita Malone and Joe Malone, BCom'49, DipMan'69, enjoyed hearing from McGill authors. Inset: McGill economics professor William Watson, author of Globalization and the Meaning of Canadian Life, was a featured reader at this year's popular "Lunch et livres" event.
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Tree tour
left to right: Kathleen Davis, Richard Davis, BSc(Agr)'69, Marlyn O'Connor, BSc(Agr)'69, and Joey O'Connor take in the fall colours on the Macdonald campus.
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Redmen Spear the Lancers 
This year's Homecoming game pitted the McGill Redmen against the University of Windsor Lancers, who were defeated 47-15.
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Snakes Alive
Macdonald Ecomuseum staff member Cynthia Chesmer (left) shows off a slithery friend to Valerie Bryan, BSc(PT)'84, and her children Andrea and Bryan Pellerin.
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Such a Face
Gavin Ross, former Executive Director of the Graduates' Society (now the Alumni Association), takes one on the cheek from Evelyn Case, BCom'39, at the Leacock Luncheon.
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Head Table Hoot
CBC Radio host and Leacock lecturer Ian Brown shares a pre-meal giggle with Alma Mater Fund chair Marie Giguère, BCL'75.
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New Student Digs Dean of Students Rosalie Jukier, BCL'83, LLB'83, tours the new William and Mary Brown Student Services Building, and is joined by Students' Society president Andrew Tischler, BA'00 (second from left), and former presidents Mark Luz, BA'95, LLB'00 (left), and Duncan Reid, BA'00.
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The Hallowed Hall
Former director of women's athletics Dorothy Nichol, BSc(PE)'49, and David Fleiszer, BSc'69, MDCM'73, MSc'79, a football hero in his student days, get a kick out of being named to the McGill Sports Hall of Fame.
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All in the family
Engineering Class of '39 grad Evan Jones (seated, centre) and his family made up three generations of McGill graduates at the James McGill Dinner. Back row from left: son-in-law Lindsay Terreau, BSc'65, grandchildren Owen Terreau, BSc'98, and Sheila Terreau, BA'00. Front row: daughter Mary Terreau and son Richard Jones, BEng'73.
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