Chronicle 2018

CLASS NEWS

with Lea Hansen . Lyn daydreams of meeting up with other classmates and walking for an hour around the Havergal paths that the boarders walked every morning before breakfast. We’re in, Lyn! Anyone else? Judy Langmuir loves being a nutritional cleanse coach and advanced practitioner; she still runs, and sings with Jim in their basement recording studio. Both sons are in Toronto, as are three vivacious elders – 96, 90 and 89. Anne Menzel Larson visited Australia with Erling. They also celebrated Canada’s 150th by driving their camper van from their home on the West Coast to the Atlantic coast. She volunteers with a local charity. Wendy Horne Rutherford is enjoying retirement, grandchildren and travelling. Margo McDonald Ward (a supply teacher in Kingston) and her husband (an Anglican priest) celebrate their 40th anniversary in the summer. They have three children and three grandchildren. Jane Wilson is cruising around in her 33-year-old Pontiac Fiero! As for your two Class Reps, we’re enjoying the perks that go with “senior” status (particularly, three grandchildren each), while trying to ignore the pitfalls! Bhutan, Nepal and Borneo. This year, they are sailing from Argentina to Africa through the Antarctic. Her son Patrick is in investment banking and her daughter Caitlin teaches at Crofton House in Vancouver, while working on her M.Ed. neuroscience. Her first grandbaby Henry David was born in December and her son Aidan is in his third year of computer engineering at Queen’s. Judy Fletcher Ray is working three days a week in family practice and Alanna is a registered clinical counsellor. Lauren is the singer for her punk band and Michael is six months from having his bachelor of nursing science. He also competes and is a sponsored skateboarder. Louise Park MacMillan and her husband will be very busy with Ash’s two weddings in March and June and Charlotte’s in June. Harriet Peckham Binkley ’s daughter Clarissa sold her home in Edmonton and moved to San Francisco to open an office for a Canadian engineering consulting firm. Andrew is CEO of Opalux in Toronto. Greg retired last CLASS OF 1972 ARCHIVES ENDOWMENT TOTAL AS AT MAY 31, 2018 $ 55,500

Maui with Robert for the false missile alert in January was thankfully not “earth-shattering”! Laurie Hayhurst Cruess celebrated her 65th birthday in the Galapagos. By summer, she and Alan will have a “riotous posse” of eight grandchildren under five! Mimi Andresen Gray is teaching special education in Vermont and summering on Georgian Bay. She and Bob spent last Christmas in Seattle at their daughter’s place, with their son joining them from Alaska. Kathie Pickup Hughes enjoys bridge, courses, painting, playing sports and travelling to Victoria to visit her son and his family. Her daughter and her husband live in Toronto. Helena Kallin Johnson says that trying to keep up with a daughter who loves boarding, tree riding and speed is keeping her young! Heather Kitchen is executive producer for performing arts at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, with Eric and Tia (their black lab) joining her from San Francisco in the spring. She taught a semester of finance and one of fundraising for the University of Connecticut’s distance learning program. Lyn Howes Labenski went for a glorious winter walk through the Don Valley Trail CLASS REP: Márta Ecsedi Barb Baines is still golfing and consulting even though she “retired” six years ago. Di Crawford Gregg lives in Burlington and recently celebrated 40 years of marriage and business ownership. She stays fit with a daily run and plays and rolls down hills with her grandchildren! Nancy Goodwin Berry and Andre skied in Vail, Colorado. During this past summer’s wildfires, they were issued an evacuation order for three-and-a-half months. They had a full house for Christmas as children visited; Scott continues to do well in Fort McMurray and Adelle is in Victoria taking a full-time program in counselling with the goal of going to the University of Victoria for her B.Ed. Vickie Grant Calverley and her husband are enjoying semi-retirement. Vickie and her business partners sold a marketing agency built over 20 years. She now coaches CEOs of startup companies. Home base in the summer is Temagami. Winters have taken them to India, Myanmar, CLASS OF 1972 ~ 45th Reunion

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