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CLASS REPS: Jane Dalton Avery, Diane Drewry
Elder and Fiona McHaffie McGaw
This is the year many of us will turn 80. When we sang
40
Years On
, old age seemed a long way off. It is 62 years since
we last sang those words in our green tunics at Havergal.
Last summer, I visited
Fran Tregunno Sobrian
in
Omeemee, the birthplace of Lady Eaton and also where
Scott and Neil Young lived for many years. CBC filmed a
program called
Still Standing
from there in September
2016 and presented a very amusing show at the end of the
filming at the local Coronation Hall. Further down the road
in Bellville, I visited
Elizabeth Burnett Rolston
and admired
her creativity in weaving, knitting, sewing and costume-
making for the local theatre. A girl with many talents. This
year, I will do some more visiting to find news!
I did not know that
Trish Beatty
, living back in Toronto,
was a poet until she sent me her published works. I so
enjoyed them that I sent them on to
Lindsay Stewart
Morgan
, knowing that she would enjoy reading them too.
Keep passing them on, Lindsay.
Sue Bicknell Leslie
still teaches occasionally in Orillia
public schools and at her church on PD days. She continues
to play badminton and tennis.
Anne Hamilton Smith
is still
active as secretary of the Montreal Skating Club. She went
to Newfoundland for the Skate Canada AGM, then toured
the beautiful province. I hope to get there soon.
Nina Hamer
still lives in Cuernavaca, south of Mexico
City. She keeps in contact with Trish Beatty,
Sheila Bowyer
Burgard
(who lives in London) and
Tanya MacLennan
White
(in Vermont).
Jean Crowther Long
has moved to
central Toronto, where there is a cluster of classmates near
St. Clair and Yonge.
Nancy (Nette) White Thoman
was playing tennis at
the Badminton and Racquet Club early in the morning of
February 14th when a fire started at the club. Thinking that
it was only a smoky fireplace, she went on to a lecture but
later learned that a six-alarm blaze had burned much of the
building. This has not stopped her activity with tennis and
bridge, as members have been welcomed at other clubs
until the facility is rebuilt.
Diane Drewry Elder
and her husband John travelled
to India, then went on a cruise to the Middle East through
the Suez Canal, and to Cappadocia and Turkey. They are
currently in Florida with
Elizabeth (Betty) Armitage
Lawson
and her husband.
Fiona McHaffie McGaw
is on
a painting holiday to San Miguel de Allende with a group of
painters from across Canada.
CLASS OF 1955
CLASS OF 1955 ENDOWMENT
TOTAL AS AT MAY 31, 2017
$
41,300
CLASS NEWS
loves to travel to Mexico and spends her summers at
the cottage.
Penny Lash Lorimer
plans an April move
to a high-rise condo in Vancouver; Don lives in a seniors’
residence nearby.
Betty Stanbury Curry
lost Don in
March. She has moved to her cottage, continues to enjoy
the gym, delivers Meals on Wheels, plays the flute and
travels. In September, she cycled in Belgium with Fran and
others on a bike-barge trip.
Sally Bryden McCulloch
is involved with the Bath
Heritage Society, which is sponsoring a Tall Ships event
complete with a gunboat war at dusk. She spends
summers in Muskoka.
Joan Burns Addison
plans a cruise
around the Outer Hebrides in September. A highlight of
the year for
Patricia Gooderham Morgenstern
was a
trip to China, where her husband received an honorary
professorship at Zhejiang University in Hanazhou. The
cherry blossoms were spectacular!
Jane Bredin Currie
is enjoying the convenience of
apartment living, is excited about the upcoming marriage
of her first grandchild and enjoyed another wonderful stay
with Joan in Grand Cayman.
Diana Pennington
welcomed
a call from Jane Gunn Warner and reported that she was
still “alive and kicking.”
Elizabeth Conway Adamson
keeps busy with her family, her cottage, bridge and
exercise. We also welcomed notes from
Shirley Proctor
Lewis
and
Margaret Brown Cheney Don
.
DEATHS
Brenda Duggan Charters
Stephanie (Stephie) Folt Corbet