Chronicle 2017

CLASS OF 1981 ~ 35th Reunion

$ 124,466

CLASS OF 1981 CO-CURRICULAR FUND TOTAL AS AT MAY 31, 2017

The Class of 1981 celebrated its 35th Reunion last fall.

CLASS REPS: Mary Metcalf Muir and Kathie Morris Wood We’re BACK! We would like to take this opportunity to thank Robin Harris Porter for being our Class Rep for the last number of years and organizing a great 35th Reunion. Now for the news… Glenys Babcock is still president of Pragmora, an international conflict resolution organization which recently launched an international campaign for the freedom of young political prisoners in the DR Congo. Glenys just got a rescue pooch Mindo, who is ruling her life. Eleanore (Ellie) Ballentine reports that all is good in Montreal. She keeps the town painted with Barbara (Barbie) Eplett and is truly enjoying her coaching business, Ellie Ballentine - The Mindset Mentor; find her on Facebook or at ellieballentine.com. Her two sons 19 and 23 keep her in the 21st century. Andrea Dean LaForce was appointed CEO of Shirlaws

Group, a boutique global consultancy that finds her travelling a lot in the U.K. She is also a grandmother of four boys and a girl, ages 4 months to 6 years. Nannette Mady De Gaspe Beaubien launched her beauty brand in 2016, a wearable mask. It now sells all over the world and WWD and Vogue have named it the disrupter in the beauty industry. Annette’s oldest son is at NYU and her youngest son is in Grade 12 in Switzerland, so she and her husband are doing a little disrupting of their own. Lisa Thompson Freemantle is currently teaching Grade 4 and has co-authored four books and authored another. She has three amazing children: Valerie is at Queen’s doing her master’s, Alexander is finishing his degree at Columbia and Benjamin is at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Lisa is a director of an adult choir, which has raised more than $70,000 for HIV orphanages in South Africa. Charlotte Gregory is still practising law and teaching yoga and fitness in B.C. She got together with Judy Baggley Savage and Cathy Paterson . Judy filled her

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