Chronicle 2020

CLASS NEWS

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CLASS OF 1967

CLASS OF 1967 ENDOWMENT TOTAL AS AT MAY 31, 2020

CLASS REP: Jane Stevens Westlake As the 2020 Class News Tips want us to shine a light on parts of our lives we might consider “less relevant,” but which are actually very important, these thoughts couldn’t be more completely underscored by the COVID-19 virus pandemic. The freedom to come and go with family and friends, travel and access excellent health care all answer what really matters to us all. Here is what you have shared. Candice Carlisle Cassils had been looking forward to a choir singing concert in April but was concerned as the seriousness of COVID-19 escalates. Candice’s child Cassils, an LGBT artist, travels a lot and notes they wear plastic gloves on the plane, just as she wears mitts on the metro. Karen Glassow lives on the Niagara Parkway looking out over the Niagara River; it is a beautiful spot. Her 29-year-old daughter is married, lives in Sweden and is in a doctoral program at the University of Gutenberg. Karen visits annually and they spent Christmas together in Mexico. Janet Hatley wrote that all is well in Sydney with fires out for the moment due to the much-needed rain and cooler weather. She and her husband had a 17-week holiday starting in Hawaii and ending in Istanbul, including a six-week stay in Canada visiting family and friends. A few days were spent at Hope Thomson Haynes ’s summer home on Lake Joseph with Jane Hall Bousfield, Jude Mills Hatley, Liz Langstaff Ord, Diana (Deedi) Ward and Gail (Lydia) Spencer . Janet also spent time with Cathy Rigg Cushing and Elizabeth (Lee) Thorp . All are well. Charmaine Jones and Linda hosted a great family reunion week at their island home. Their daughter (from B.C.) and son (from AUS) were able to come along with the five little grands. Charmaine’s sisters, their children, Linda’s one sister and her partner joined too. Charmaine and Linda went birdwatching in their travel trailer along the coast of Texas and up the Rio Grande with a destination of the Odyssey 20th reunion world bike trip 2000 group in Kingsland, Texas. Linda Leader Lownds lost her husky Shawnee in July and tried to do life without a dog. She survived the winter by dog-sitting and walking, but now has her own 10-year-old retired sled dog, Hola, a lovely dog who enjoys howling and seems to have embraced her new life. Sonia Stratton Ryerson and Paul planned to

drive across Canada this summer, heading up to the Yukon after a visit with daughter Lindsay in Edmonton and then returning via Haida Gwaii and the sunshine coast in B.C. Andrea Young Bernier and her husband have enjoyed a good year in terms of health and family. They holiday in Spain and the Canaries until late March, a great escape from winter in Ottawa. When Andrea submitted news in early March, she commented that travelling during the time of COVID-19 is “somewhat stressful, even if in theory, we are not in any danger.” How circumstances escalated in only a few weeks! Jane Stevens Westlake is very glad to have taken a family Caribbean holiday in November of 2019 when a cruise could be enjoyed without concern. She is now in self-isolation, and her cherished routine of volunteering at Sunnybrook and celebrating family, friends and two granddaughters is temporarily suspended. Many of us will remember Dianne Easton McIntyre from Miss Holmes’s Grade 1 class. Dianne sadly passed away in late 2019. Candice Carlise Cassils, Candy Craig Holmes and Sue Counsell (Siri Dharma Khalsa) related memories of Di’s joie de vivre and love of all things equestrian. She was a classmate, mother, grandmother and highly-skilled rider. We are going to miss her.

DEATHS Dianne Easton McIntyre

Linda Leader Lownds 1967 with her retired sled dog, Hola.

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