Chronicle 2020

CLASS NEWS

Along with her many volunteer jobs and day trips, Di Davies had a busy year travelling to Victoria last summer and Cleveland at the end of last August for a family wedding, to Edmonton and Jasper Park Lodge at Thanksgiving and Iceland in November. Joey Bell Brown travelled to Puerto Vallarta with a beading group, to Ecuador and Galapagos with Elizabeth Ross Peter 1962 and to Acadia University for her 55th reunion. She began project 75 with the purchase of property on Lake Muskoka and the sale of her cottages on Lake Joseph, and Jane Watson helped plan a surprise 75th birthday celebration in early January.

Margaret Cowan Slamen is the caregiver for her husband and has recently undergone cataract surgery. Judy Shapley Dent and her husband are in Woodstock, even though their family remains in Toronto. Her two eldest granddaughters have graduated from Havergal and continue their studies in Halifax and St Andrews, Scotland. Judi Trevett Shields missed our reunion but was hiking in Dorset, England and Normandy, France and visiting a Van Gogh exhibit in Paris.

DEATHS Shirley Hawkins

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CLASS OF 1965

CLASS OF 1965/1966 BURSARY TOTAL AS AT MAY 31, 2020

CLASS REPS: Ann Woodrooffe Ferguson and Susan Sheen Remember - this year is our 55th Reunion! Due to COVID-19, Reunion Weekend has been shifted to May 29 and 30, 2021. It looks as if we will have a reception at the school on the Saturday afternoon and then a catered dinner at the home of Cass Campbell Kernohan . We’ll keep you posted about plans. Not much news came in this year. We hope that means you’re all waiting to see each other at the reunion and catch up on news then. We suspect that everyone is busy travelling, volunteering, visiting and spending time with grandchildren, family and friends – when not required to physically distance from them. We think especially of our classmates who had health challenges this past year and those who have lost loved ones. Virginia (Ginny) Evans wrote that she is “still ticking along.” Donna Morris Clarke had a similar comment: “nothing newsworthy but still here!” Ann Woodrooffe Ferguson celebrated 20 years of volunteering at the Oakville Wellspring Cancer Support Centre. She and Blair travelled to Tasmania last November. Kirby Chown travels to Italy every year and is gradually learning to speak Italian. She had a knee replacement. Vicky Osler Baxter is a volunteer driver for blood pressure clinics and for the distribution of Good Food boxes. She enjoys collecting eggs from her laying hens and is an active member of the Anglican Church in Bobcaygeon. Vivien Ludlow published a wonderful children’s book, Everybody likes Al , and reports that all 50 copies have been sold.

With her husband, Eleanor (Ele) Johnson Kyle still spends spring, summer and fall in Kenora and winters in Florida. Ele and Susan Dunster Borden paid a visit to Havergal in February last year and enjoyed a trip down memory lane roaming the halls. She had four more good visits with Susan before she died from cancer last August. Our condolences go out to Susan’s family. Susan Sheen is still fostering puppies for the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides. In November, puppy #9 arrived – Mars, a red poodle. Gobi, puppy #8, is doing specialized training in Oakville in the autism assistance program. He’s allowed home on long weekends if he’s doing well enough at school! Susan helped with Marcelle De Freitas’s funeral in Toronto at the beginning of July. Some of us had Miss De Freitas as our Grade 9 homeroom teacher in the small room with the dumbwaiter near the old cafeteria, and many of us were in her sewing and Spanish classes. You may not know that Miss De Freitas received the highest marks in the high school graduating class on her native island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean. The reward was a full scholarship to study at a university in England, but it was 1939 and there were rumblings of war, so she came instead to Montreal and did her studies at McGill. Afterwards, she came to Toronto and spent her whole long teaching career at Havergal.

See you all at the Reunion in May!

DEATHS Susan Dunster Borden

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