Chronicle 2020

Island University. Her passion for caregiving has led her to help people stay in their homes. She loved working in complex, long-term care and will pursue offering private home and personal care services in Gabriola Island, B.C., where she enjoys rural, island life. Virgina (Ginny) McKeown is empty-nesting in West Vancouver, B.C., with her husband Erik. They celebrated 25 years in May. Zoë is at UBC in sustainability, and Jack is at Ryerson in film. Ginny finished four years studying documentary filmmaking and photography and plans to teach. She remembers all the laughs we had back in the day and can’t wait for our 40th Reunion.

Annette Buchman-Mincer 1982 became a grandmother in 2019, with two more on the way.

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CLASS REPS: Anne Langford Dotsikas and Naomi Sedgwick Schafler Jane Morrison Collis and her husband Peter retired frompractising law in Bermuda andmoved, with their dogs and cats, back to Canada last year. She is somewhere between bemused and terrified at the prospect of being a grandmother in spring 2020. She is delighted with all the time she has been able to spend with her boarding school buddies over the last few years. She’s not sure getting older would be tolerable without them. After moving back home in recent years, Toronto is finally feeling like home again for Elizabeth (Liz) Fogler Levitt . She now plays bridge, hoping that learning this new language is a possibility. Empty-nesters Beth Morson and her husband Bob got a new puppy. Beth plays in two hockey leagues when not working as a doctor. She enjoys summers off at her cottage on Big Rideau Lake. Paisley Currah lives in Brooklyn, teaching at the City University of New York, and this year became editor emeritus of the journal he founded, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly . He and Karen Jewett met for lunch when he was in Canada last summer when his daughter Greta, age 10, was at camp. Also in N.Y.C., Karen Williams produced and presented “I AM” Conversations, a digital series for iam-themovement.com to celebrate and empower women over 40. Sheila McLenaghan , now in her 25th year with the PGA Tour in Ponte Vedra Beach,

Florida, is currently SVP of global meetings and corporate events. She is happilymarried to her husband Duke. Sheila returns to Canada occasionally to visit her Mom. Kaia Kasekamp Stahl has opened Anvil Jewellery in Toronto’s east end. Her company creates fine custom jewellery and features work by Canadian designers, including her own Studio K line. She is active on Instagram @anviljewellery. Pauline Chan-Thomas has two new job titles: videographer and video editor. Last summer, CTV Toronto had all its reporters learn how to shoot and edit their own footage. Despite a distinct lack of prior technical skills, Pauline loves being able to get home earlier and edit from her kitchen table. Your class reps are in transition mode. Naomi Sedgwick Schafler is keen to make a career move in the charitable sector, fulfill some travel-wish-list destinations and continue serving on four not-for-profit boards. Anne Langford Dotsikas continues to write daily, adjusting to the shift in gaze after losing two beloved men in her life in 2019 – her father and father-in-law. She is grateful as ever for a humour-filled marriage and two healthy daughters who are having their own grand adventures in the world. The last word goes to Patricia Kaczanowski Kazan, who is still a professor at York. Her Dad, a survivor of Bergen Belsen, turns 93 this year – the Nazis couldn’t keep him down! Her Mom still puts up with her Dad even though it’s been 50 years – she’s a trouper.

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