A long goodbye

Don co-wrote three songs, including the title track, for Optimistic, the new album by 10-times Grammy winner and Manhattan Transfer alumnus Janis Siegel. He also contributed keyboards and arrangements. 

Crashbox, the most recent album by Don’s long-running Monkey House project, debuted at number one on the iTunes Jazz chart, the fourth of his albums to do so.

Wendy has retired as president and CEO of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (RFU) in North Chicago, Illinois. RFU’s Board of Trustees has unanimously voted to confer upon her the title of President Emerita.

Her decision concludes a remarkable career of nearly 45 years at RFU, where she has served as a faculty member, department chair, dean, vice-president, provost and as the university’s first woman president since 2019.

She is a recognized leader in health professions education reform, playing a major role in transforming RFU into a national model for inter-professional health sciences education rooted in collaboration and community impact.

Wendy is a distinguished fellow of the National Academies of Practice and a diplomate of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She served as a visiting professor at the Mayo Clinic, on two committees of the National Academy of Medicine, and as a member of the boards of the Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County and Lake County Partners.

Donna would like to share that this group has had an annual reunion since their graduation from Queen’s in 1967–69. They are seven couples who are still alive and married! Photographer Nancy “U of T" kindly took their picture when they were gathered together in Spencerville, Ont., at Sheila and Barry Fawcett's farm Sept. 16–18, 2025. Front row (L–R): Sheila Fawcett (Artsci’68, MEd’93), David Baldock (Artsci’67), Bob Zacour (Artsci’66, PHE’67), Donna, Bonnie Zacour, and Barry Fawcett (Sc’67, Ed’70). Back row (L–R): Bruce McNeely (Artsci’67), Jamie Johnston (Artsci’68, MA’69), Joy Johnston, Bobby Rathbun (Med’69), Roger Rathbun (Artsci’68), Maureen McCay (Artsci’67) and Gord McCay (Sc’67, Law’70).

Interdisciplinary artist Dr. Jill Price continues her research into UN/making as a creative act within her current exhibition, From There to Here: Walking for Tomorrow, which will be shown at the Art Gallery of Mississauga in May of 2026. For the exhibition, Price used detritus collected from a year of walking and cleaning beaches to create a multi-media installation of sound, video, assemblage, museological display, and text-based art. The intent of the exhibit is to draw attention to the variety of trash that threatens living bodies of land and water. The exhibition was shown at the MacLaren Art Centre, June-October 2025, located in Barrie, Ont. 

An image taken of the exhibition From There to Here: Walking for Tomorrow at the MacLaren Art Centre, 2025. Jill Price acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council.