Torch - Spring/Summer 2019

1972 The first Carol Service (The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols) was held in the Assembly Hall. The annual tradition continues to this day, now held at St. Paul’s Bloor Street, where it has been since 2009.

1991 Established by FWA Hewitt in me of his mother, the Hewitt Cup is awarded annually to the winner of Bishop Strachan (BSS) and Haverg Hockey Day game. Hockey games between girls’ schools were menti in the Ludemus as early as 1955!

1981 The first edition of The Torch was sent to the community as a newsletter.

1981 Computer science was introduced to the Junior School in 1981. Programs were child-oriented but academic and were selected

1975 The first father-daughter dinner took place, which lives on as the Father Daughter Dance for Upper School students.

with the knowledge that university is a goal for all students.

1993 The Lisa Hardie Woodland in memory of Havergal stu who died tragically in an a Rica in the summer of 199

1976 The school’s Founders’ Day is established in honour of the laying of the cornerstone of the Avenue Road location on April 23, 1926. This event inspired Principal Mary Dennys to innagurate Founders’ Day 50 years later, in 1976, as a time for the whole school to meet, think about 1894 and give thanks for the heritage into which they had entered.

1983 Part of the school’s 90th anniversary was celebrating Carols with Havergal College in Roy Thomson Hall, an event that was repeated in December 1993 for the 100th year celebrations. The harpist is Mariko Anraku, then an extremely talented Grade 9 student who returned for the 1993 concert.