Chronicle 2018

CLASS NEWS

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CLASS OF 1980 ENDOWMENT TOTAL AS AT MAY 31, 2018

CLASS REPS: Sandra Meyrick and Pamela Grogan Taylor Janet Beale joined the board of the Council on the Ageing (COTA) for New South Wales, Australia. COTA is “an organization for peak policy development, advocacy and representation of older Australians aged 50+.” Plus she’s a baroness. Janet Reid launched an adaptive learning program for radiology, hoping to replace the “same old, same old” in radiology education. She and Andrew love watching their adult children and their partners “move through this troubled world with purpose.” Jennifer Normand Wilmer travels with her husband, skis, sails and plays tennis. She also volunteers with an elephant sanctuary in northern Thailand. Both kids are launched and at university. “The experience of realizing that they are adult, independent (mostly), intelligent and lovely people has been amazing!” Serena Keshavjee is actively engaged with the art scene in Winnipeg. She is currently researching a book about the science and aesthetics of ghost photographs and planning a research trip to Cambridge, U.K. She makes her teenage boys help her navigate emojis, so her students think that she is cool! Heather Ritchie Walton is running, watching sports, and sorting family photos and memorabilia. She is a dedicated weekly volunteer at Frisco (Texas) Family Services in the food pantry. Her new summer endeavour: American Red Cross Emergency Response Team, assisting victims of Hurricane Harvey, which hit Houston. Sue-Ann Lewis went to Hot Docs Festival in Toronto last year with Joan Greey Evans . They went to a screening of Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World . It’s a music documentary about the little-known Native American

influence on rock and roll, directed, produced and written by Catherine Bainbridge Webb . It’s an excellent doc and it went on to win the Hot Docs Audience Award and the Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary. They were thrilled for Catherine and had a chance to say hello after the Q and A. Susan Gibson is still in London and has found a niche hosting events for NGOs which she supports. Several include Canadian content, such as the Thomson Reuters Foundation (tackling modern-day slavery) and General Roméo Dallaire’s child soldier initiative. The International Rescue Committee (for refugees) keeps her busy and last spring, she hosted a Sudanese refugee for eight weeks… which was a good, albeit sobering experience. Margot White Secord continues to see herself as a “stay-at-home” mom. Her daughter is on an exchange program in England (University of Manchester), while her two sons are in high school, playing soccer. She volunteers at Southlake Hospital and at a church. Pam Grogan Taylor visits her son in Oxford, catches some rays in Palm Springs and returns to see her family in Toronto. With Calgary Newcomers’ Club, she snowshoes and cross-country skis weekly in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. Karen Johnson says that she is a terrible spectator, so her kids are ski racing while she coaches other kids – it gets her on the hill, but gives her two teenagers space. She gets to Toronto to visit and help her aging parents. She is always in need of advice regarding Toronto resources for this stage of life. Carol Coxon covers the north half of Vancouver Island for child psychiatry, so she is very busy! Both of her boys will be at Queen’s U as of September.

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