Senators

OYL Senators assist the OYL Executive Board by providing advice and assisting with fundraising efforts. The Executive Board may appoint up to 10 Senators each year.  All past OYL Presidents are honourary Senators.

Presidents of the OYL

1973 — Kathy Robinson

1973 — Alexis Rothschild

1974 — Joe Thornley

1975 — Gerry Meloche

1976 — Howard Brown

1977 — Steve D’Agostino

1977 — Vasco De Sousa

1978 — Michael Nisker

1979 — Mary Jane McIntyre

1982 — Peter Donolo

1982 — Barry Appleton

1983 — Rob Deutschmann

1985 — Dave Gene

1985 — Sean May

1986 — Lynn Kok

1987 — Mike Komlen

1989 — Nick Masciantonio

1990 — Steve Chambers

1992 — Chris Phillips

1993 — Ferd Longo

1995 — Frank Carnevale

1996 — Zahra Shariff

1997 — Jesse Davidson

2000 — Sonya Catalano

2002 — Laura Miller

2004 — Andrew Teliszewsky

2007 — Jacob Mksyartinian

2009 — Jonathan Tsao

2011 — Samantha Smitiuch

2012 — Kevin Leung

2013 — Michelle Johnston

2014 — Najva Amin

2017 — Alana Kiteley

2018 — Ian Hall

2020 — Francesca Cesario

2021 — Huzaif Qaisar

OYL Honourary Senators (by year of induction)

2000

Jamie Besner
Michael Binetti

2001

Sheldon Bell

2002

Elie Azar
Byron Allin
Vince Gasparro
James Shields
Earl Provost

2003

Joe Hornec

2004

Charlie Angelakos
Deb Matthews
Terrie O’Leary
Greg Sorbara
Don Guy
Karl Littler

2005

Chris Bentley
Navdeep Bains
Stephen Chiang
Mike Crawley
Ruby Dhalla
Jim Goetz
Myra Leffler
James Scognack
Paddy Torsney
Marva Wisdom

2006

Eric Davis
Paul Lehmann
Laura Pacey
Wendy Wright
Dave Pretlove

2007

John Michael Poon
Ruby Latif
Mark Holland
Jordan Penic
Jason Cherniak
Tyler Banham
Meredith Caplan
Bardish Chagger
Jason Easton
Rob Jamieson

2008

Andrew Block
Ben Chin
Alexis Levine
Quito Maggi
Michelle Oliel
Robyn Cassidy
Delia Greco
Shawn Kerr
Eileen Shuchat
Judi Longfield
Anetta Jewell
Jacqueline Alderton
Charles Bird
Jeffrey Copenance
Monty Bertin

2010

Omar Yar Khan
Brian Clow
David Caplan
Kate Julien
John Lennard
Kevin Spafford
Chris Drew
Hon. Dwight D. Duncan
Mary Kancer
Mathieu Pierre Dagonas

2011

Hon. Sophia Aggelonitis
Rob Oliphant
Ashley De Souza
Zac Spicer
Tom Allison
Milton Chan
Kyle Mitchell

2012

Hon. John McCallum
Minister Charles Sousa
Damien O’Brien
Grahame Rivers
Leo Lehman
Denise Lam
Christina Cindric
Jonny Wypych
Brian Whitmore
Keith Torrie

2013

Minister Michael Coteau
Chad Walsh
Jay Telegdi
Keerthana Kamalavasan
Leah van Houten
Rachael Matheson
Sean Torrie
Theresa Lubowitz
Tiffany Gooch
Wesley Cohen

 2014

Former Premier Dalton McGuinty
Premier Kathleen Wynne
Minister Yasir Naqvi
Minister Steven Del Duca
Patricia Sorbara
Harpreet Hansra
Eric Pegolo
Justin Tetreault
Nikki Holland
David Hehn

2016

Yvan Baker
Tahiya Bakht
Sarah Magee
Elyse Banham
Mark Sholdice
Karim Bardeesy
Kaisha Thompson
Elizabeth Davidson
Vince Borg
Niloo Boroun



2018

John Fraser
Brian Johns
Frank Tersigni
Jonathan Scott
Asquith Allen Jr.
Han Dong
Mike McNeice
Cole Davidson
Li Koo
Abbas Baig