Chronicle 2019

CLASS NEWS

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CLASS OF 1980 ENDOWMENT TOTAL AS AT MAY 31, 2019

CLASS REPS: Sandra Meyrick and Pamela Grogan- Taylor Susan (Sue) Gibson took her son, 16, skiing in Vail and is in Toronto every month visiting her mom at Belmont House. She has lived in London, U.K. for 17 years and travels to East Africa as a board member of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the Obama Leaders in Africa and the African Leadership University (ALU). This spring she will teach NGO management, social business and team building at ALU. A young female Syrian doctor refugee was living with them for six months and gave her son cooking lessons – a talent Sue never developed! Sue Vernon Pellerin ’s daughter helped with NGO events last spring, so they visited when Sue travelled from Paris. Jennifer Normand Wilmer and her husband divide their loyalties among Canada, Hong Kong and Thailand. Her daughter will graduate from Western in political science and international relations in April. Her son is at the University of San Diego, studying engineering. Her mom is still going strong at 95 years old, and she is grateful to her sister, who lives in Toronto and takes on the responsibilities of her care. She knows many of our friends are at the same stage with their parents – an amazing generation! Serena Keshavjee enjoyed a summer

She and her son, 18, travelled to New Zealand for the U21 World Long Range Target Rifle Championships, where he took home a silver medal (see photo). Janet has started competing and is also winning awards. Dominique Payn

Mackenzie is still living in Wilmington, N.C., working as a bilingual translator and fuelling her creative side. Take a look at her beautiful horse drawing (see photo). Her husband Ian is retired, and both their sons live in Wilmington. Adrian Elliott is working on a house project in the Creemore area. Her eldest daughter, 19, is in her second year at Queen’s, and her youngest, 15, is in a split Grade10/11 class at BSS. They are expecting puppy number two this spring! Margo White-Secord volunteers in the adult mental health unit at Southlake Regional Health Centre, coaches clients through the Christians Against Poverty program, helps at a community kitchen and volunteers at church. Her eldest child will graduate from Queen’s with a major in English. Her middle son is at Fleming College studying carpentry, and her youngest is in Grade 12, waiting patiently for university acceptances for computer science. Martha Heighington reports that her news is “life in transition”! One of her three kids has graduated and is working, two are at university, and her career is on pause – for this year, anyway! Pam Grogan-Taylor had a great visit with Heather Ritchie Walton , who is building a new house in Toronto. Heather is excited to move back this summer after many years in Dallas, TX. Sandra Meyrick and I have enjoyed visits together in Calgary, Banff and most recently at Toronto General Hospital where my Dad has been hospitalized. We are both looking forward to seeing you at our 40-year Reunion. The date will be announced by Havergal early next year.

research trip at the University of Cambridge, biking everywhere (see photo). Catherine Allman and her daughter Nora Allman Roberts joined Ellen Bateman at Tales of an Urban Indian , a play on a bus in Barrie (see photo). Jacquie Labatt- Randle and her family created the Labatt Family Network for Research on

the Biology of Depression at the University of Toronto, dedicated to studying the biological causes of depression rather than focusing on new treatments. Janet Beale has been living in Australia for 28 years.

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