Chronicle 2019

CLASS NEWS

Elizabeth Podnieks , boutique manager Gillian Sneddon Lynch and Janet Scott , director, client solutions at Silver Sherpa. Mimi Ward , who got married in 2016, has set up her own company, Ward Land Economics Inc., and filmmaker Seanna McPherson is currently on the festival circuit with her film Once There Was a Winter , a feminist western shot in Dawson Creek, B.C. After twenty-five years in pediatric rehab, KaiaKasekamp Stahl has started a new venture, developing her jewelry line and online store. Michelle Koerner is now a student at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, taking a fellowship in journalism. After two years at the Chelsea College of Art, Kate Felstiner Lowe now has her MA and reports it was “a bonkers few years trying to work, write a dissertation and raise three teenagers.” Nancy Peterson is working to raise funds for the Florence Booth House in Toronto to build a new women’s shelter in 2021 with some help from writer Anne Langford Dotsikas , who is currently developing a web series. Karen Williams continues to model and pursue her quest to unpack “empowered aging” in an “illuminating and inspiring” project; she has been conversing with women ages 50 to 100 about their experiences in this regard. One of them could very well be Beth Morson , enjoying her family’s backyard hockey rink in Ottawa. Other passions explored: baking, for Mary Little ; carpentry, for Fiona Gilberry Spizzirri ; heights of glory, for Karen Wei , who climbed Kilimanjaro last year with her daughter Ally and continues her self-described midlife crisis over 10 years with “regular

multi-day staged races across deserts, etc.” Reunion spirit continues with invitations to visit our classmates around the world in Italy, Portugal, the U.K., the U.S. and Dubai.

The Class of 1983 boarder Christmas Reunion.

Members of the Class of 1983 take a trip to Nashville.

The Class of 1983 celebrate their 35th Reunion at Biagio.

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