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Marking career and personal achievements, special milestones and the birth of future ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ alumni - Class Notes helps you stay in touch with former classmates, housemates, and faculty.

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  • 1980s

    Lawrence Palmer

    – Ed

    Fall 2021

    After graduating, Larry supply-taught welding for two years, and he then supply-taught computer programming for one year. He then became headmaster of electronics training at Herzing Institute and later became the engineering technologist for OMYA Canada outside Perth. He retired from there at 65.

  • 1980s

    Peter T. Howe

    – Com'85

    Fall 2021

    After 16 years in Europe leading three United World Colleges, Peter and his wife Sally have moved closer to home, with Peter taking up the headship of Somersfield Academy in Bermuda. They are looking forward to reconnecting with friends and family in Canada.

  • 1970s

    John T. Matthew

    – MDiv'75

    Fall 2021

    Dr. Rev. Mathew retired from his 45-year-long ordained pastoral ministry in the global church on June 30, 2020.

    His past works include fellowships and pastoral roles at Harvard and Princeton universities and a professorship at Laurentian University. He represented the church at the 100th anniversary of the Chicago Parliament of Religions in 1993, as well as several global ecumenical and interfaith gatherings, including the 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held in Busan, South Korea, in 2013.

    Rev. Dr. Mathew’s wife is Dr. Joyan Thomas, Kallyanaseril, Ayroor of Singapore, a graduate of Lady Hardinge Medical College, University of Delhi; their only son Bram, following his studies in Manchester, England, and Aberdeen, Scotland, is teaching in Toronto.

  • 1970s

    Rob Keith

    – Ed'71

    Fall 2021

    Rob moved to G.P. Vanier School in Calgary as principal in January 2020, and now works as a yacht skipper and Cruise and Learn instructor with Cooper Boating in Vancouver and Island Cruising in Sidney, B.C., as time allows.

  • 1970s

    Storme Blais

    – Ed'79

    Fall 2021

    Storme Blais (née Genge, which is her Facebook name) is enjoying her eighth year of retirement from Calgary Board of Education and winters in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, with Jim MacNichol, celebrating 21 years together. Facebook contacts are welcome.

  • 1970s

    Janey Slack and Tim Bates

    – Arts, Ed; Arts, Law

    Fall 2021

    Heather Bates (Artsci’01, PHE’02) and Trevor, Ian and Anne-Elizabeth, Lilianne, Hadley, Fern, Henry, and Mac wish to congratulate their parents and grandparents Janey Slack and Tim Bates on their 50th wedding anniversary. Tim and Janey met at Queen’s during a Frosh Week dance in September 1967 and were married on August 28th, 1971.