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CLASS REPS: Janet Cox Lumbers, Mary Davis Nelles
and Nancy Lash Robinson
First, a reminder to save the date: September 23, 2017 is
Celebration Saturday and our 55th Reunion. We will send
details later, but do hope that you will make plans to attend
and catch up. Those of you who attended our 50th Reunion
will remember what a fun weekend it was. A few of us were
able to make lunch last fall at The Miller, so here’s some
news from that group.
Pat Andreae Hornsby
lives in Prince Edward County
and travels to Bermuda. Her daughter is living in Nanaimo,
B.C. and both sons live in Toronto, where Pat also has a
condo.
Susan (Sue) Ross Shone
writes that she and her
husband Peter took a fabulous four-week road trip last
summer to Winnipeg and Saskatoon to visit their daughter,
and then onto Regina, through North Dakota and Green Bay
to Michigan State University, where Sue did postgraduate
studies. They rented a house in Venice, Florida for three
months this winter, where they enjoyed visits from their two
daughters.
Jean Griffiths
has been busy over the years – she spent
six years on the Art Centre Board at U of T and was a docent
for 14 years at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. She
is the recipient of U of T’s Arbor Award for excellence in
CLASS OF 1962
CLASS OF 1962 ENDOWMENT
TOTAL AS AT MAY 31, 2017
$
12,188
CLASS NEWS
prevails: “good friends are like quilts ‒ they age with you,
but they never lose their warmth.” That’s us!
Never-aging
Jane Musgrave Sainsbury
(like her
mum, who is now 105!) has returned from babysitting
for a month in California and is now off to France. She’ll
spend a weekend with her sister Judy at a retreat in
Taizé, near Lyon, and will then live with a French family
for a month while returning to school to brush up on her
French. Bravo! Later, she’ll meet sisters Judy and Meme
in Amsterdam for a boat cruise to see the tulips.
Last November,
Leith Drury
went to Belize and spent
a week on a catamaran visiting offshore islands, scuba
diving and snorkelling in crystal-clear waters, plus having
an occasional grand meal in a quiet, hidden-away resort.
Wow!
Sarah (Sally) Taylor
was in Rome last October for
an interesting art tour and stopped in Paris and London to
see friends. In January, she travelled to New Zealand and
enjoyed beautiful scenery as she drove from North Island
to Mt. Cook.
Susan Davis Conacher
celebrated Brian’s
75th birthday in Prague before going on a beautiful river
cruise down the Danube.
Christie Cohrs McKechnie
sold her insurance
brokerage to her daughter Amy and will retire in July.
Christie and Bill will divide their time between a Toronto
condo and their 140-year-old Victorian home in Waterford
(where her great-grandparents lived). Christiewill celebrate
her 75th birthday with family on Jekyll Island in Georgia.
Three times a year,
Willo Murby Heesom
visits her
friend Malcolm’s lovely French farmhouse in Bergerac
and will head to Majorca again this summer.
Janet
McLeod
loves the warmth of Barbados ‒ swimming and
doing karaoke ‒ but misses harmonizing with Willo!
Lynn Robinette Mekinda
enjoys writing classes and
hopes to write about her humorous experiences as an
innkeeper for 20 years – fun! She is also taking courses on
the history of Islamic architecture and on Irish literature
at U of T, plans to visit family in New Orleans and has
rented a home in Croatia for September. In between, she
visits
Patricia (Pat) Hutchison Taylor, Carol Pielsticker
Lavoie
and
Sally Armstrong Carson
. A busy gal!
Lynn Snelgrove Creelman
lives with her daughter
in California.
Constance (Connie) Pratt
, now settled
in The Millwood Retirement Home, enjoys visits from
perky
Elizabeth (Betsy) Bell Perkin
, who fills her in on
classmates’ news. Last August,
Roberta (Bobs) Ongley
and Ron visited
Jill Cumberland Trennum
’s cottage. The
next day,
Susan Harris Sniderman
and her husband Paul
arrived with
Christie Cohrs McKechnie
and Bill. More
laughter and sharing memories of 69 years! Until next
year: may our lifelong friendships continue to flourish and
make us smile.
DEATHS
Sassy Waddell