Chronicle 2019

CLASS NEWS

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CLASS OF 1982 BURSARY TOTAL AS AT MAY 31, 2019

CLASS REPS: Joanne Hyde Gooding and Diane King MacNicol Audrey Carr was sworn in as an immigration judge within the U.S. Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review. Congratulations, Audrey! Robin Green won the clinician-scientist award from Brain Injury Canada and was elected as member-at-large to the International Neuropsychological Society. She also received grants and funds that enabled her to launch the Telerehab Centre for Acquired Brain Injury, which delivers clinical care to patients across Ontario. Annette Buchman Mincer ’s husband Mark finished and sold a student housing development and announced that he had no intention of being in Toronto for the winter. He and Annette have rented a place in Florida. He is a snowbird down south, volunteering at a pet therapy program with their Husky/wolf Ace, and Annette is just a snowflake – going back and forth! Freedom 55?? Their eldest and youngest daughters were married eight weeks apart, on September 15th and November 17th. Now three of their four children are married, and they can’t wait to be like Kim Ward Grossman and be a grandparent! Elizabeth Wright , her husband Michael, sons Zachary and Nicholas and cats Kafka and Sam are renovating their country home in Caledon. They spent a couple of weeks in Austria at a detox spa. Next is Iceland for Elizabeth’s birthday in April. Zachary, 20, is working in a nearby restaurant and Nicholas, 19, is snowboarding in B.C. and will return in May to the family business, Bauhaus Fine Windows and Doors. They are currently celebrating 30 years in business. Lisa Grogan Green continues to lead and fundraise for the Go Green Youth Centre, which provides free sports and recreational programming to immigrant youth in Thorncliffe Park and Flemingdon Park. If you would like to help, please check out her website at www.gogreenyouthcentre.ca or contact her at lisagg@rogers.com.

Megan McCord is immersed in life in the wild west. With two children at university (Shannon at Beaton University in Melbourne, Australia and Liam at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C.), most of her time is devoted to owning and operating a luxury, backcountry cat ski lodge. Check it out at www.selkirksnowcatskiing.com. Sandra Farwell has moved “part-time” to Bentonville, Arkansas where she heads up global supplier leverage and private brands for Walmart International. She and her husband Keith enjoy travelling to all the countries Walmart is in (they just got back from Japan and India), which helps offset the empty nest at home! Dinnie Hogarth Baker and Lanny Dawson Thorne reunited on the west coast after over 30 years of snail mail and e-mail! They spent three days giggling and sharing memories at Lanny’s home on Gabriola Island, B.C. Those Old Girl friendships really are bonds firm and true! Dinnie hopped on a seaplane to meet Joanne Hyde Gooding and to reunite with their Queen’s friends in the mountains of Whistler. Good times! Barb Reid Tilka has had quite a year with extreme highs and lows. She lost her mother to cancer on February 25th, 2018, after a very short battle. It was wonderful to see Lisa Grogan Green and Carole Matear Nagamatsu at the celebration of life in Brockville. A nice high, despite all the sadness, is that her youngest graduated from college after just four years, so she officially has both out of school! Cynthia Willemsen got a job counselling for the Cree youth and young adults in the James Bay area and is working at Covenant House, where she teaches mindfulness and meditation and yoga. She also runs a busy private psychotherapy practice in Toronto.

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