Chronicle 2020

The Class of 1959 celebrated its 60th Reunion last fall. Back row: Ann Osler Malcolmson, Kathleen Bourke Bell, Nancy Sewell Lorimer, Alice Payne, Judy Labatt Stewart, Chip Thun Karasin. Middle row: Penny Anne Stride Davidson, Christine Coutts Clement, Marianne Currie Steffan, Marilyn Metcalfe White, Sandra Gordon Steen, Mary Jean Borden Potter, Beverly Bruce Hargraft. Front row: Stephanie Stevenson Hutcheson, Ann Galley, Anita Krische Von Graffen, Wendy Salmond Quarry, Tannis Clarkson. Not pictured: Judy Cory Mangoff, Virginia Evans Walker, Dorianne Galloway Lackey, Patricia Hamilton Winter, Melissa Hart DeGeer, Carolyn Purden Anthony, Mary Pratt, Susan Small Morton.

board of the Rekai Centres in Toronto. Mary Jean Borden Potter keeps busy with family visits, golf, aquafit, gardening and bridge, while Nancy Lorriman Siemms spends time in Hilton Head, Muskoka and with her 11 grandchildren. Suzanne Mayberry McCollum had a family Christmas in the Berkshires with her 10 grandchildren. She still plays golf and teaches an exercise class. Wendy Langs Johnson continues to enjoy winters in Florida but returned to New England to spend Christmas with her family. What an active group of Stoneagers! The sad news of Boni McDowell Townsend ’s passing from ALS reached us in June 2019. After graduating from Sick Kids Hospital, Boni moved to British Columbia, where she became an environmental leader and herb farmer. Her three children created a website, love-for-boni.ca, in her honour and mentioned that Boni spoke often and fondly of Havergal. Our thoughts are with Judy Labatt Stewart and Marilyn McLean Sneller , whose husbands passed away recently.

by a family visit to Costa Rica. England in late summer is a regular fixture on Pat’s calendar. Marilyn Metcalfe White has hardly been home with trips to Bermuda, Greece, St Lucia, Iceland, the U.K. and a journey on the Rocky Mountaineer. Marilyn’s granddaughter Mathilda is a Grade 10 boarder at Havergal. Marilyn now joins Mary Jean as a three-generation Havergal family. Judy Cowan Ackerley writes from Vancouver Island that she still returns to the family cottage in northern Ontario every summer and will visit family in England and Amsterdam. A cruise around the Canary Islands gave Christine Coutts Clement a break from her research at U of T’s astronomy department. Christine was one of 12 Old Girls honoured in dramatic monologues at Havergal’s 125th Celebration Concert at Roy Thomson Hall. Speaking of honours, The Alberta Professional Engineers and Geologists Association, in celebration of their 100th anniversary, prepared a publication that featured a member for each year. Alice Payne was the 1961 selection (discoverapega.ca/stories/the-unstoppable-alice-payne-p geo). Carolyn Purden Anthony still enjoys serving on the

DEATHS Boni McDowell Townsend

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