Chronicle 2017

CLASS NEWS

Three times a year, Willo Murby Heesom visits her friend Malcolm’s lovely French farmhouse in Bergerac and will head to Majorca again this summer. Janet McLeod loves the warmth of Barbados ‒ swimming and doing karaoke ‒ but misses harmonizing with Willo! Lynn Robinette Mekinda enjoys writing classes and hopes to write about her humorous experiences as an innkeeper for 20 years – fun! She is also taking courses on the history of Islamic architecture and on Irish literature at U of T, plans to visit family in New Orleans and has rented a home in Croatia for September. In between, she visits Patricia (Pat) Hutchison Taylor, Carol Pielsticker Lavoie and Sally Armstrong Carson . A busy gal! Lynn Snelgrove Creelman lives with her daughter in California. Constance (Connie) Pratt , now settled in The Millwood Retirement Home, enjoys visits from perky Elizabeth (Betsy) Bell Perkin , who fills her in on classmates’ news. Last August, Roberta (Bobs) Ongley and Ron visited Jill Cumberland Trennum ’s cottage. The next day, Susan Harris Sniderman and her husband Paul arrived with Christie Cohrs McKechnie and Bill. More laughter and sharing memories of 69 years! Until next year: may our lifelong friendships continue to flourish and make us smile.

prevails: “good friends are like quilts ‒ they age with you, but they never lose their warmth.” That’s us! Never-aging Jane Musgrave Sainsbury (like her mum, who is now 105!) has returned from babysitting for a month in California and is now off to France. She’ll spend a weekend with her sister Judy at a retreat in Taizé, near Lyon, and will then live with a French family for a month while returning to school to brush up on her French. Bravo! Later, she’ll meet sisters Judy and Meme in Amsterdam for a boat cruise to see the tulips. Last November, Leith Drury went to Belize and spent a week on a catamaran visiting offshore islands, scuba diving and snorkelling in crystal-clear waters, plus having an occasional grand meal in a quiet, hidden-away resort. Wow! Sarah (Sally) Taylor was in Rome last October for an interesting art tour and stopped in Paris and London to see friends. In January, she travelled to New Zealand and enjoyed beautiful scenery as she drove from North Island to Mt. Cook. Susan Davis Conacher celebrated Brian’s 75th birthday in Prague before going on a beautiful river cruise down the Danube. Christie Cohrs McKechnie sold her insurance brokerage to her daughter Amy and will retire in July. Christie and Bill will divide their time between a Toronto condo and their 140-year-old Victorian home in Waterford (where her great-grandparents lived). Christiewill celebrate her 75th birthday with family on Jekyll Island in Georgia.

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CLASS OF 1962 ENDOWMENT TOTAL AS AT MAY 31, 2017

CLASS REPS: Janet Cox Lumbers, Mary Davis Nelles and Nancy Lash Robinson First, a reminder to save the date: September 23, 2017 is Celebration Saturday and our 55th Reunion. We will send details later, but do hope that you will make plans to attend and catch up. Those of you who attended our 50th Reunion will remember what a fun weekend it was. A few of us were able to make lunch last fall at The Miller, so here’s some news from that group. Pat Andreae Hornsby lives in Prince Edward County and travels to Bermuda. Her daughter is living in Nanaimo, B.C. and both sons live in Toronto, where Pat also has a

condo. Susan (Sue) Ross Shone writes that she and her husband Peter took a fabulous four-week road trip last summer to Winnipeg and Saskatoon to visit their daughter, and then onto Regina, through North Dakota and Green Bay to Michigan State University, where Sue did postgraduate studies. They rented a house in Venice, Florida for three months this winter, where they enjoyed visits from their two daughters. Jean Griffiths has been busy over the years – she spent six years on the Art Centre Board at U of T and was a docent for 14 years at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. She is the recipient of U of T’s Arbor Award for excellence in

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