Chronicle 2020

CLASS NEWS

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CLASS OF 1962

CLASS OF 1962 ENDOWMENT TOTAL AS AT MAY 31, 2020

CLASS REPS: Janet Cox Lumbers and Mary Davis No news was submitted this year! Please contact your Class Reps or the Old Girls office at 416.483.3519 ext. 4706 or oldgirls@havergal.on.ca to let us know what you’ve been up to.

DEATHS Nancy Lash Robinson

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CLASS OF 1963

CLASS OF 1963 ENDOWMENT TOTAL AS AT MAY 31, 2020

CLASS REPS: Caroline Pack-Beresford Clarke and Luba Frastacky Class news reminds me of those old-time newsreels that ended with a spinning globe and the motto “We cover the world”! Margaret Fisher Galbraith and her husband took a cruise to Norway last September, visiting the small town where her great-great-grandfather was born. At the same time, Pat Blachford was on a trip through the Northwest Passage. For the first time, golf has fallen by the wayside and woodworking is to the “fore.” Before the fires, Nancy Robinson spent six weeks in Australia and last fall took a hiking trip with Anne Austin and two long-term friends. Barb Jeffery Stimers roamed from Oregon to Montana; her favourite campsite being at the foot of Mount Adams in a meadow with elk grazing between them and the snow-capped mountain. She spent Christmas with her son’s family in D.C. and enjoyed playing softball with the grandchildren. After 13 years as a volunteer at the Odette Cancer Centre at Sunnybrook, Honor Garland Nivin wanted to treat herself to a luxury train trip out of Edinburgh, which includes afternoon tea on the Royal Yacht Brittania! She planned to return on the Queen Mary II and to spend this summer in Nova Scotia. Jackie Cogan Smith took a hiking/yoga trip to northern Costa Rica and enjoyed being near the volcanoes, but especially the Pacific beaches. Marilynne Carr Nowell and husband Bob took a rainy but fun cruise to Alaska and hoped to be in Palm Springs this spring and Ottawa this summer. Caroline Pack-Beresford (Peebs) Clarke was late in

answering my blast email because she and Mike had just returned from the Galapagos. She and Mike invited Luba Frastacky to the Henley Royal Regatta, where the erstwhile recreational rower sat in her long gowns with Mike’s old crew in the stands. Luba was invited to speak at the opening of an exhibition on her maternal family in Bratislava the week after Henley. Despite not having spoken Slovak in 15 years, she was able to thank the curator for giving her back part of her family. He showed her where her grandparents lived after the Nazis’ arrival and the buildings where they lived during and after the war. In other news, Barb Key Lea and her husband are celebrating their 50 th wedding anniversary by going to Wiltshire to view the crop circles created in fields of grain and a bit of hiking and painting. Carroll Wistow Willer still sends items from her home to auction and enjoys visits from family and friends. She and brother David visited their brother Brian in California, and for the first time since 1966, the siblings appeared on a Christmas card together. Last winter, Cathy Fauquier broke her fibula, and Gail Taylor Hamilton broke her arm. Sherry Taylor Drew is still painting beautiful koi fish for the bridge cards she sells to support a school for autistic children. She has been working with Sarah Pape 1990, Karen Magee Pape ’s daughter, on Karen’s foundation and would encourage her classmates to support the cause. Visit canadahelps.org/en/charities/pape-family foundation/ to learn more or to contribute. And don’t forget the Archives and Class fund!

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