Chronicle 2017

CLASS NEWS

CLASS OF 1933

CLASS OF 1936

DEATHS Barbara Shenstone Fleury Dowie 1933

Mary Ellis Cox is living at Christie Gardens and enjoying her friends and family.

CLASS OF 1940 Bet Corbett , a veteran of the Second World War, was awarded the Bletchley Park Commemorative Badge for her efforts decoding the enemy’s communications in the Pacific Theatre. Bet was a member of the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS or Wrens) and worked in CLASS OF 1943 Anne Phillips Myers still lives in Melbourne, Australia. The last time she travelled was in 2015 when she went to visit some friends in the U.K. and their grandchildren, along with her own godchildren. Since then, she has toured around Britain and travelled to Israel, Cyprus and Malta. Today, Anne occupies herself with U3A, the theatre and her family. CLASS REPS: Jane Carter MacDonald and Joyce Rous Sowby Once again, your Class of 1946 representative Joyce Rous Sowby has to apologize for falling behind on her annual reporting. I must keep you all up to date on what our old friends have been doing. My first bit of information will be about our 70th Reunion, to which we were all invited. It was carefully planned by Jane Carter MacDonald and Jeannie Austin Regan for Saturday, October 1, 2016 at their senior citizens’ home, Claremont, in a small dining room which easily held the eight people who turned up – Virginia Robertson Macdonald , Charlotte Keens Graham , Jane Carter MacDonald, Jeannie Austin Regan, Joyce Rous Sowby, Mary Bennett Mordy and her daughter Caroline, who served as a chauffeur her mother. CLASS OF 1946 ~ 70th Reunion

an outstation at Gordon Head as a wire telegraphist, trained in the Kana and Japanese codes. The decoders could anticipate imminent attacks on Allied ships and it was said that the work which they did “shortened the Pacific war, the Japanese war, by two years.”

She is now fully retired from medicine but, fortunately, can still drive. Nena Sedgwick Marsden enjoys her home in Sutton and remains active with the Georgina Pioneer Village which she helped to found. Marcia Lamont Scott sends her best wishes to the Class of 1943 and wishes you good health and happiness for the year ahead.

The eighth I can’t remember, but it was good to see those who were able to come, and I hope that we will be able to attract more classmates next year. Please give it a try! Our second newsworthy item is, alas, a sad one. 2016 and 2017 have been two years of deaths of our Class of 1946 classmates. Those we have heard about (some have already been reported to you) are Elizabeth Ketchum , Cynthia Dean Robertson , Ann Cameron and Fay Wood . I would appreciate hearing of any other news. Best wishes to you all, from your 1946 Class Reps, Janie and Joyce.

DEATHS Ann Cameron Elizabeth Ketchum

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