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Extending Her Legacy From Alum Walkway to Alum Donor Wall

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Extending Her Legacy From Alum Walkway to Alum Donor Wall

2/3/2025

A person with short dark hair and glasses smiles while wearing a gray blazer and floral top. The background is filled with green foliage.

Hubie YU’08 has extended her legacy at Branksome Hall. Her name is engraved on a paver, on the Alum Walkway behind the Athletics & Wellness Centre, opened in 2015. And that’s why it was meaningful to her to also be part of the Alum Donor Wall, a highly visible installation in iCAST celebrating our generous alums.

“It felt like a natural way to extend my impact,” says Yu, a past treasurer of the Branksome Hall Alumnae Association and a Tech and Privacy Lawyer at Arc'teryx in Toronto. “I also like that it's an accessible donation level, to broaden participation as much as possible.”

Large green letters "BH" are displayed on a gray brick wall. The surface in front of the wall is pale, and a white handrail runs diagonally across the lower part of the image.
The Alum Donor Wall will feature 300 generous alum donors' names.

“Shaped in a five-foot-tall BH, 300 alum names will greet visitors as they enter from the overpass connecting the Athletics & Wellness Centre (AWC) to iCAST. The memorable installation will be a fixture in students’ memories, celebrated by everyone who visits iCAST—today and long into the future.

“Branksome is a big part of who I am today, " says Yu, who arrived at the school from Hong Kong in Grade 8. “It was my first school in Canada and we were the first International Baccalaureate cohort there, so it means a lot to me; I’m very happy to contribute.”

Learn more about the Alum Donor Wall.

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Land Acknowledgement
We wish to acknowledge this land on which Branksome operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Wendat, the Seneca and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work and go to school on this land.*


*The Land Acknowledgement may evolve as we honour our commitment to Truth and Reconciliation in partnership with Indigenous communities.

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