Class of 1951
Class of 1951 bursary total as at August, 2024 | $107,168
Mary Crawford Lloyd is enjoying Exeter Villa in London. Elizabeth Ogden Meyers is at Timberwalk Retirement Community in Kanata, involved in many activities there and enjoying nine great grandchildren, Marjorie Cowan Fish is living at Bethany Courts in Unionville and enjoying singing with their choir. Anne Mackersy Hull recently moved to Delmanor Northtown in North York. Mary Uren Dame is living with family in London. Adrienne Armour Taylor lives at home in Barrie, still enjoying bridge and golf.
Joan Kalthoff Burt lives in Creemore keeping busy with seven great-grandchildren. Marilyn Gilbert Anderson lives in Guelph enjoying her two great-grandsons. Elisabeth Marani Bacque lives in a heritage house in Peterborough, has great-grandchildren (two in New Brunswick and two in Peterborough). Elisabeth had news from Mary Vickers who is still living in her home in Vancouver.
Margaret Ainslie Tuer recently ended a four year term as an elder at Rosedale Presbyterian Church, and looks forward to summer at Paugh Lake with family including a great-grandson. Catherine Clarke Cameron lives in the same apartment building on Yonge Street as Molly Davis Endress and enjoys two great-grandchildren. Jane Lamport Day lives in her Rosedale home and looks forward to summer with family at her Muskoka cottage. Heather McPherson Ballon is still in her home in Toronto with family close by. Jean Martin Lawrence is at Belmont House in Toronto and looks forward to hearing news from any classmates missed.
Class of 1952
Doreen Seigman Murray seems to be the only really active member. She is playing in pickleball tournaments and cross-country skiing when there is snow in Muskoka. Shirley Miller has moved from Miami to Naples and is enjoying life on the west coast. Lee Kilbourn Lockwood has sold her house in Toronto and is moving into a condominium where several Old Girls and former Havergal parents live. What a small world! Mary Deacon Kent is a decade representative for Tanamakoon Camp which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.
Class of 1953
Class of 1953 bursary total as at August, 2024 | $154,360
Judy Francis Hunter is well, with lots of travelling. Barb Owen Pauli attends theatre with her daughter and is enjoying her grandkids. Anne Aitken Baker looked younger than ever in January and is well. Diana Porritt Greer is still in the home in Erin. Cynthia Joan Wight Rossano sent the following news, “Havergal continues to hold a huge part of my heart, and I’m indebted to her. Ken and I count our blessings; we’ve lived in the same house in Boston for sixty + years – a banker, and a writer/editor at Harvard – and our generations of offspring are superlative! Love to all ’53 classmates.
Catharine Blackie Ross is enjoying living in her home after forty years. Her five children are all very busy. She took a cruise to Alaska with her son and a Caribbean cruise with her three daughters. Then a Florida holiday with her other son. The cottage is her favourite place. She sends her best wishes to all. Jill Bartlett Colley is a new great-grandmother. Nancy Turville Bongard enjoys living in her townhouse in Niagara-on-the-Lake and welcomes visitors.
Class of 1954
Class of 1954 bursary total as at August, 2024 | $38,131
Penny Lash Lorimer sends greetings from Vancouver where she enjoys condo-living. Anne Coleman reports from Victoria that she does Tai Chi, daily walks, book clubs and enjoys quality time with family and friends. Patricia (Patty) Gooderham Morgenstern remains active, snowshoeing and hiking with a seniors group in Canmore. She will travel to England to see her granddaughter at Cambridge and then go to London where she will visit Flavia Grant Duff Ormond who has published her autobiography entitled “Stepping Stones, A Life of Art and Adventure.” Jill Kerruish Strickland is recovering from a broken hip. She enjoys activities provided by her seniors residence. A family reunion took place in October and later her two sons visited Havergal as part of their family research, sending her photos which brought back happy memories.
Both Susan Radley Fraser and Elizabeth (Bet) Stanbury Curry spent their winter in Florida. Susan trains and exhibits her poodles, enjoyed an Alaskan cruise and plans another to South America. In Florida, Bet is involved in exercise classes, a local film festival and attended a Blue Jays game. At her Stoney Lake home she reads, does jigsaw puzzles, welcomes folks back to her rental cottage and observes the ever-changing world of nature. Joan Burns Addison spends time in Grand Cayman each winter, reading on the beach and welcoming friends. Frances (Fran) Bond McElroy enjoys country living but spent much of this year recovering from a broken hip. Earlier, she and her husband had returned to their favourite haunts in the Rockies – Lake Louise and Emerald Lake.
Margaret Brown Don spent the Christmas season with her brother in Uptergrove and her sister near Hamilton. Sally Bryden McCulloch lives in Bath, awaits a new hip and looks forward each year to time at her Muskoka cottage. Jane Bredin Currie has moved to a retirement home in Cambridge with her daughter. Both are thoroughly enjoying their new surroundings. Jane is kept busy with family events and visits and welcomed her fifth great-grandchild.
Class of 1955
Class of 1955 bursary total as at August, 2024 | $69,329
Grace Spendlove Inglis and husband are slowing down but carrying on with the country garden and last year they went to Germany with the Magnolia Society and to North Wales with family. Susan Beveridge Spratt will be coming to Toronto in May for her 65th Nursing anniversary at the University of Toronto. At home in Calgary she visits some of her eleven grandchildren and paints with pastels. Sheila Bowyer Burgard keeps up with the boarders and has been in touch with Hanna Bing-Zaremba Mens in Germany, Nina Hamer in Mexico, Tanya MacLennan White in Florida, and Ann Goodrich Reynolds who is busy playing bridge and exercising among other activities.
Heather Kellerhals-Stewart has a farm on Quadra Island, in the B.C. Gulf islands and is coming to Stratford and Toronto for a short visit. She will just miss Fiona McHaffie McGaw who is heading out west to B.C. at the same time. Lindsay Stewart Morgan and her daughter visited her son in Belgrade, Serbia and toured beautiful scenery of Croatia. This spring she will be moving into a retirement facility just five blocks from where she now is in Kingston—same phone number and email address.
Barbara Graham Carter wrote about her vivid memory of trying to play a piano piece for the school assembly on the second day of class in 1950 (so very long ago!). Her passion at present is duplicate bridge which she plays in person and online several times a week. Nancy White Thoman now needs a walker to get around because of knee and foot problems.
Betty Armitage Lawson has stopped playing tennis and golf but swims and walks. Where they live now at Bloor Street in Toronto is very convenient for theatres, concert halls and restaurants as well as various shops. She hopes to see a good turnout at our big 70th Havergal reunion in 2025. Jean heard from Susan Scroggie Metcalf with whom she had a good chat. Sue and Rob had a great trip to B.C. last year despite both getting COVID; they are keeping busy like the rest of us and will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary this year.
Class of 1956
Class of 1956 bursary total as at August, 2024 | $9,521
Libby Wade Abbott walked in her Probus group’s fashion show, showing her elegance even with a walker. Earlaine Stewart Collins has 22 adopted Godchildren. Barbara Goodwin-Zeibots recently visited family in Australia. Penny Rennie Harris’s son discovered his club had wheelchair curling and squash, and he competed in the Canadian Championships. Coincidentally, Lynn Beament Tuer and Barbara Tren Morris were volunteers at the club. Susan Hamilton Sisam has eight grandchildren in Australia and a new baby grandchild.
Class of 1958
Class of 1958 bursary total as at August, 2024 | $14,078
We were invited to share our 65th celebration with the annual luncheon for the “senior” old girls’ years. In attendance were: Di Hume Ward, Ann Tottenham, Catherine Thompson Brackley, Judy Musgrave Burgess and Joan Graham Neely from Calgary, Cynthia (Tinks) Thun Willauer from Connecticut. Sylvia Swinden Milne and Judy Kinsey Falusi were prevented at the last moment by illness from joining us. Most memorably, Dr. Frances Harley Urtasun came from Edmonton to receive the Havergal Old Girls Lifetime Achievement Award. In her acceptance speech, Fran gave a fascinating account of her career and her pioneering medical and community work in Alberta. It was a joyful gathering full of laughter, reminiscences, and delight in seeing each other again.
Cynthia (Tinks) Thun, is pulling together a memoir of her early family life through grade 7. She has many photos to supplement her effort. She removes invasive plants from her property and plants native ones. For Judy Musgrave Burgess: Monday and Thursday are coffee days with different groups she goes to gym classes with. Every few weeks she has a lengthy telephone call with girls she used to nurse with. Excitement has included a trip to Mexico with extended family, and a cruise with her sisters.
Judy Kinsey Falus enjoyed a holiday in Montego Bay and is planning a cruise through the Panama Canal and back again. Beverley Crowder Hendershot writes, “Terry is doing OK. He is still taking treatment for CIDP. I’m sharing a dog with my granddaughter, Sophia, which keeps me very busy. I get her whenever Soph and Eleanor travel (which is often). I do some painting occasionally. Hope all is well with you. Thanks for keeping in touch. It’s nice to hear about everyone.”
Sue Coon Pike lives in a retirement residence in Ottawa where she leads a Memoir Writing Class. She tries to travel to the San Diego area to visit her kids and grandkids at least once a year. Sylvia Swinden Cousins has been battling cancer and is now in remission. We pray for her well being. Di Hume Ward was in Calgary for her granddaughter’s wedding. She remains busy in the community with projects and loves painting. She sells some.
Class of 1959
Class of 1959 bursary total as at august, 2024 | $143,849
It was a pleasure to be in the school last September for the Golden Reflections luncheon. Tannis Clarkson, Christine Coutts Clement, Beverly Bruce Hargraft, Nancy Sewell Lorimer, Mary Jean Borden Potter, Sandra Gordon Steen and Patricia Hamilton Winter all attended. Anita Krische von Graffen was in our thoughts. Anita always supported Havergal events and we were honoured to have her daughter and granddaughter, Monika Cornthwaite and Tahlia Cornthwaite Class of 2025, join us for lunch. We look forward to this September as we celebrate the 65th anniversary of our graduation.
Mary Jean Borden Potter’s grandchildren visit from abroad. She is involved with the Royal Conservatory of Music and plays bridge in person and online. Hopefully in September we can see each other again at our planned get together on the 28th – save that date!
Alice Payne visited Yellowknife, celebrating the opening of the Yellowknife Historical Association. Among other historical items is a tribute to prospectors, including her father, Tom Payne. His story is included, with the claim posts from the Rycon claims he staked. These were right in the middle of the Con Mine. Now the two gold mines are closed, the head frames are gone, and the diamond mines are out in the barrens northeast of Yellowknife. No more tarpaper shacks, her old house is gone, and the town has 20,000 people instead of 2000!
Carolyn Purden Anthony and her husband moved to Victoria, BC to be closer to their three children and six grandchildren. She is volunteering long distance with the Rekai Centres in Toronto and the Brantford Potters Guild, and her pottery wheel is back in action. Beverly Bruce Hargraft travelled to Muscat, Oman for the World Association of Floral Artists (WAFA) Flower Show. She has been elected to the board of the WAFA representing Canada.
Alice Payne Folinsbee with a “geology crony” standing in an arch in the Ice Castle when they attended the opening of the Yellowknife Historical Museum in March 2024.
