Chronicle 2017

CLASS NEWS

loves to travel to Mexico and spends her summers at the cottage. Penny Lash Lorimer plans an April move to a high-rise condo in Vancouver; Don lives in a seniors’ residence nearby. Betty Stanbury Curry lost Don in March. She has moved to her cottage, continues to enjoy the gym, delivers Meals on Wheels, plays the flute and travels. In September, she cycled in Belgium with Fran and others on a bike-barge trip. Sally Bryden McCulloch is involved with the Bath Heritage Society, which is sponsoring a Tall Ships event complete with a gunboat war at dusk. She spends summers in Muskoka. Joan Burns Addison plans a cruise around the Outer Hebrides in September. A highlight of the year for Patricia Gooderham Morgenstern was a trip to China, where her husband received an honorary

professorship at Zhejiang University in Hanazhou. The cherry blossoms were spectacular! Jane Bredin Currie is enjoying the convenience of apartment living, is excited about the upcoming marriage of her first grandchild and enjoyed another wonderful stay with Joan in Grand Cayman. Diana Pennington welcomed a call from Jane Gunn Warner and reported that she was still “alive and kicking.” Elizabeth Conway Adamson keeps busy with her family, her cottage, bridge and exercise. We also welcomed notes from Shirley Proctor Lewis and Margaret Brown Cheney Don .

DEATHS Brenda Duggan Charters Stephanie (Stephie) Folt Corbet

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CLASS REPS: Jane Dalton Avery, Diane Drewry Elder and Fiona McHaffie McGaw This is the year many of us will turn 80. When we sang 40 Years On , old age seemed a long way off. It is 62 years since we last sang those words in our green tunics at Havergal. Last summer, I visited Fran Tregunno Sobrian in Omeemee, the birthplace of Lady Eaton and also where Scott and Neil Young lived for many years. CBC filmed a program called Still Standing from there in September 2016 and presented a very amusing show at the end of the filming at the local Coronation Hall. Further down the road in Bellville, I visited Elizabeth Burnett Rolston and admired her creativity in weaving, knitting, sewing and costume- making for the local theatre. A girl with many talents. This year, I will do some more visiting to find news! I did not know that Trish Beatty , living back in Toronto, was a poet until she sent me her published works. I so enjoyed them that I sent them on to Lindsay Stewart Morgan , knowing that she would enjoy reading them too. Keep passing them on, Lindsay. Sue Bicknell Leslie still teaches occasionally in Orillia public schools and at her church on PD days. She continues to play badminton and tennis. Anne Hamilton Smith is still active as secretary of the Montreal Skating Club. She went

to Newfoundland for the Skate Canada AGM, then toured the beautiful province. I hope to get there soon. Nina Hamer still lives in Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City. She keeps in contact with Trish Beatty, Sheila Bowyer Burgard (who lives in London) and Tanya MacLennan White (in Vermont). Jean Crowther Long has moved to central Toronto, where there is a cluster of classmates near St. Clair and Yonge. Nancy (Nette) White Thoman was playing tennis at the Badminton and Racquet Club early in the morning of February 14th when a fire started at the club. Thinking that it was only a smoky fireplace, she went on to a lecture but later learned that a six-alarm blaze had burned much of the building. This has not stopped her activity with tennis and bridge, as members have been welcomed at other clubs until the facility is rebuilt. Diane Drewry Elder and her husband John travelled to India, then went on a cruise to the Middle East through the Suez Canal, and to Cappadocia and Turkey. They are currently in Florida with Elizabeth (Betty) Armitage Lawson and her husband. Fiona McHaffie McGaw is on a painting holiday to San Miguel de Allende with a group of painters from across Canada.

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