Chronicle 2017

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CLASS OF 1956 ~ 60th Reunion

MARY DENNYS BURSARY TOTAL AS AT MAY 31, 2017

The Class of 1956 celebrated its 60th Reunion last fall.

CLASS REP: Dorothy Vernon Macdonald Our class celebrated our 60th Reunion with a fine dinner at the Badminton and Racquet Club after the school cocktail party, graciously hosted by Sue Hamilton Sisam . Present were Libby Wade Abbott, Wendy Blair, Earlaine Stewart Collins, Anne Gibson, Barbara Goodwin-Zeibots, Leigh Chestnut Halls, Benita Haslett, AnnMcCullagh Hogarth, Sonia Armstrong Labatt, Dorothy Vernon Macdonald, Arlene Wardle Matheson, Barbara Trent Morris, Valerie Wilson Rhead, Carolyn Chinn Thompson, Lynne Beament Tuer and NancyWrongWallace , 17 in all, almost half of the 36 in our graduation photo. Sue looked at options and concluded that the club would be best. Thank you, Sue. In February, she was playing tennis on the morning the fire started that destroyed most of the old building. Thankfully, there were no deaths or serious injuries. Janet Gibb Reynolds was sorry to miss the reunion. Her grandson’s wedding was great and she and her husband are off to Scotland in May. Penny Rennie Harris and her husband’s travels included a wonderful boat trip on the Caledonian Canal in Scotland just at reunion time. Joan Branscombe Walter was particularly sorry to miss

this reunion, though this is always their chance to visit their grandsons, now 8 and 10, on their school break in California. She wrote from Boston that they will be having a travelling year for family – Shanghai and Tokyo, Guernsey in the Channel Islands, their usual Cape Cod summer, then Vancouver and Salt Spring Island and then California again. Barbara Morris joined her son John’s family for a spur- of-the-moment trip to Whistler and had a fine time. She visited Rosemary Laing Glynn when she was in Bermuda. Libby Wade Abbott has moved to a seniors’ apartment in Burlington; she can see the lake from her seventh-floor deck. She is delighted to have a new granddaughter. Anna Lou Little Paul visits her brother in Ingersoll. Valerie Wilson Rhead and her husband no longer winter in Texas, although they’ve kept the cottage there. Teaching bridge has helped them make new friends in Bracebridge, though the closing of the Nipissing College campus has meant the loss of the continuing education courses which they were enjoying. Nancy Wrong Wallace and her husband are off to Victoria. Our best wishes to all of our friends who are braving serious medical problems or caring for family members.

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