It looked like a Who’s Who of mining the other night at Toronto’s O’Keefe Centre, when ballerina Vanessa Harwood gave her final performance with the National Ballet of Canada.
Amongst the appreciative audience were such industry leaders as Fr aser Fell, chairman, and Henry Brehaut, president, of Dome Mines; Alfred Powis, chairman, Noranda Inc.; J. D. Fowler, president, Denison Mines; George Albino, chairman, Rio Algom; Peter Steen, chairman, International Corona Resources; Walter Curlook and Roy Aitken, executive vice-presidents, Inco Ltd; John Gillies, marketing vice-president, Falconbridge; Patrick Reid, executive director of the Ontario Mining Association, and David Peterson, Ontario premier and acting minister of northern development and mines.
As it happened, the event was being sponsored by Dome Mines, at leas t partly explaining the presence of so many of the industry’s senior executives. Beyond that, though, we comment on their ballet-going — not to emulate the social reporting of a Zena Cherry — but to make the point that mining men, too, have an interest in the cultural as well as the economic life of the nation. We think Dome deserves plaudits for its participation.
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