Chronicle 2017

CLASS NEWS

CLASS OF 1948

CLASS REPS: Margaret (Margie) King Huycke, Patricia (Pat) Millidge Roberts and Charlene (Charlie) Smart Sibbit We had a very pleasant surprise at our Christmas luncheon. Diana Fishleigh Eaton , with whom we had lost contact for several years as she had been very ill, attended. She is looking well and enjoying life again. We were joined by Kittie McPhedran Fells, Nancy Stewart Russell, JoanWilkinson Hoolihan, Sheilagh Malley Scovell, Mary Graham Hogarth, Margaret (Margie) King Huycke, Patricia (Pat) Millidge Roberts and Alison Farmer Gibson . Nancy Stewart Russell ’s granddaughter Kelly participated in the Summer Olympics in Rio on the rugby team and won a bronze medal for Canada. Kelly lives and trains outside of Victoria, where she teaches at a rugby school. Kelly’s sister Jennifer teaches at Havergal. Virginia CLASS REPS: Elizabeth Scroggie Joy and Marion McTaggart Oliver This year’s news largely reflects on children and grandchildren. Lucy Szerstiuk Woodliffe has five children – one breeds and trains dogs and another is a town planner. Lucy is still doing bonsai. Amy Lawson Beament is about to embark on a cruise with her three daughters and her son from Calgary. Naomi Goldie Peters has a grandson at the University of Toronto. He is heading for California to see his brother become an Eagle Scout. Barb Hossie Hogarth in Thunder Bay has a grandson whose excitement is “clutter busting” (tightrope walking from mountain peak to mountain peak), while completing his PhD in neurology at McGill University. Anne McCordick McPherson spends time at their retreat in the south of France. She plans to go to Spain and Scotland this summer and is still writing. Natalie Hooke McMinn is very happy in her retirement home in Ottawa, where she has taken up painting using different media. Intrepid as ever, she drove from her cottage to attend a current events club meeting in CLASS OF 1950

Gooderham Pride still lives in Oakville and was in touch with Nora Cooper Prouse to keep up with family news. Nora and Frank will be late in leaving for their condo in Fort Lauderdale as they wanted to be with family for Frank’s 90th birthday. Jane Clarke Veit ’s daughter took her on a Rhine cruise to Budapest. Jane attended the Women’s March in San Francisco on the day of the presidential inauguration. Joan Wilkinson Hoolihan is on the move between her homes in Florida and Toronto (which is near her daughter). Charlene Smart Sibbit enjoys her apartment and still knits for the I.O.D.E. She has had heart problems, but still loves to hear from everyone in our year and passes on the news for the Chronicle . If this report has a few mistakes, it is because I broke my right arm and had to type this with my left finger! Toronto in October. She plans to make the trip again in April. Nancy Bunting Zimmerman has a 1-and-a-half-year-old great-grandchild named Henry. Di Durand McLeod has 13 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. I think that she wins this contest! Her family arranged a “for all to attend” concert at Turner Hall to hear Di’s favourite singers from England on her birthday. Elinor Hilborn Hewton is adjusting to her new condo in Oakville, near her daughter. She recently visited her 2-and-a-half-year-old grandson in Utah. Joanna Millar Dwinell keeps busy with Probis and is a keen gardener. She is still in her house and has four great-grandsons. Joyce Rowland McBurney spends summers at her cottage in Huntsville and enjoys visits from her sons and grandchildren. Her granddaughter was married at the cottage last summer. Mollyann Clappison Geiselman volunteers at the Gibson centre. Elizabeth Scroggie Joy ’s granddaughter Jasmine Joy 2017 is Ellen Knox house captain in her final year at Havergal. Colleen Henry Howard spends winters in Florida and summers at the Lake of Bays. She also has an apartment in Toronto. CLASS OF 1950 BURSARY TOTAL AS AT MAY 31, 2017 $ 43,851

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