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Joe Perlove Scholarship
成人大片 the award
To the student deemed the best journalist in the graduating year.
Joe Perlove was a Toronto Star sportswriter who covered horse racing and professional wrestling, or what he called the 鈥渞assles.鈥 In 1967, a year after his death, Conn Smythe donated $5,000 to this award fund from his winnings at the Queen鈥檚 Plate. Sportsman E. P. Taylor contributed an additional $1,000, adding to funds raised at a special dinner. Writing in the Toronto Sun, Jim Hunt remembered Perlove as 鈥渙ne of the most entertaining writers ever to work in this town,鈥 adding, 鈥淲restling gave him the chance to let his imagination run wild.鈥
Past Winners
| 2025 | Gabrielle McMann |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Patrick Pearson |
| 2023 | Oskar McCarson |
| 2022 | Trevor Popoff |
| 2021 | Akanksha Dhingra |
| 2020 | Sherina Harris |
| 2019 | Maggie Macintosh Declan Keogh |
| 2018 | Ilina Ghosh |
| 2017 | Justin Bellmore |
| 2016 | Steven Goetz |
| 2015 | Ethan Lou |
| 2014 | Mohamed Omar |
| 2013 | Vidya Kauri |