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Chateauguay High School
Alumni Newsletter
Third Edition June 2001
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Visit Our Website -
The address for our website is: www.chateauguayhigh.freeservers.com
Check out photos, contact page, memory page and other neat features. All suggestions are welcome and Erica is always working towards improving and
upgrading the website with fresh information. She is especially looking for
reunion photos, a Class of '65 graduation picture and class list, and feedback from the Questionnaire that she sent out recently. Please give us your feedback.
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Our Newsletter -
The aim of this newsletter is to keep classmates in contact with each other.
If you forward this newsletter to anyone, please let me know so I can add them to
my mailing list at hughes.123@sympatico.ca
Please note the change in email address.
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Where Are These Classmates? -
The ball seems to be really rolling now, and we are finding lost classmates. We are having
more success with the Class of '64 than with the Class of '63. If anyone has a class list
from the Class of '65 please send it to me and I will include it in the next Newsletter.
The following is list of people we still haven't heard from. Those with an asterisk(*) are
truly lost and we have no idea where they are.
Class of '63
Girls:
| Rona Adkins* | Betty Lobban* | Karen MacKay | Linda Mauthie* |
| Carol Normans* | Carolyn Purdy |
Guys:
| Bruce Appleton | Vince Brunet* | Stuart Cotton* | Rex Langman |
| Richard Moreau* | John O'Hanley | Jim Ross | Joachim Surich* |
| Anthony Thatcher* | Brian Wakelam* | Bob Whittal | Steve Watson |
Class of '64
Girls:
| Anne Black* | Evelyn Black* | Helga Buerk* | Louis Duff |
| Pat Georgian | Carol Harris | Connie Henley* | Lynne Houldsworth* |
| Gail King* | Sharon Komasaruk* | Judy Lalonde | Judy Potts* |
| Marilyn Bowen* | Laura Thompson* | Julie Drozda* | Julie Bourdon* |
Guys:
| Paul Best | Roy Friedlander | Kelvin Georgian* | Ross Grant |
| Glen Harrower | Eric Johnson | Gary Leschuk | John MacLean |
| Gary Patriquin* | Ian Reilly* | Nestor Royko | Neil Taylor* |
If you know the whereabouts of any of these people please contact:
Linda (Strike) Hughes at hughes.123@sympatico.ca or
Erica (Tester) Bent at ericabent@shaw.ca or contact them and tell them we are looking for them.
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Reunion Sites -
Classmates. com (Free to register - fee to email)
Gradfinder.com (Free register to get into the site - Fee for upgrades)
Planetalumni.com (Free to register to get into the site - Fee for upgrades)
Delphi.com/HSBillingsHigh (Message Board)
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Are You Interested in a Reunion? -
The anticipated date for the reunion is Victoria Day Weekend - 2002
This is the tentative lineup -
Saturday, May 18 - informal "meet and greet" - Alibi Pub
Sunday, May 19 - Golf for anyone interested
- Softball game / picnic
- Dinner - Rustik
Monday, May 20 - Brunch
What do you think? Any other suggestions?
My plans to go to Chateauguay had to be changed at the last minute so arrangements
have not been put in place yet. I have injured my knee and am hobbling along with a
cane, I am undergoing physiotherapy so as soon as I have that cleared up I will be off
to Chateauguay to see about getting things started.
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Did You Know? -
You can set up your own web page at www.freeservers.com. If you don't mind some advertising
at the top of the page, there is no cost involved.
If you have a web site or a homepage that you think may be of interest to your classmates,
please let me know and I will put the addresses in future editions of the Newsletter.
There is a reunion planned for July 7th, of this year, at 4 p.m., for all years of Chateauguay High/
H.S. Billings High. It will be in Mississauga at the P.K. Creek Bar & Grill. Contact
Erwin Ponepal at reunion2001_@hotmail.com for more information. Or log on at
http://www.expage.com/billings2001 reunion
On a sad note, I have learned of the following deaths over the years.
Kent Mitchell
Don Patterson
Brian Hurst
Cecil Simmons
Karen Winkler
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Bios - In their own words
Gail Roberts:
Well, we moved to Calif. in '64, as you may remember. I somehow fluked into the music
business and was head of PR for CBS Records (Columbia, and a bunch of other labels -
now called Sony) for a number of years. Traveled a lot, lots of tours and rock 'n roll.
Made a few bucks, bought a house, had a guy in the business too.
Then, Columbia downsized and a bunch of us were unceremoniously dumped.
I went to Hawaii and sat on a beach and contemplated my chubby navel. Came
back, approached a couple of acts and managers, opened a PR firm and here I am
still doing PR Did ten years with Diana Ross - everyone from Quincy Jones to
Billy Joel, to Ozzy Osbourne to....oh well....it wasn't bad. Did a year in Paris, six
months in London, a good few world tours - and now I'm tired. I still do PR and
only travel lightly.....the privilege of experience is that I don't have to schlep on the
road anymore...I can send someone! Or I turn it down - I just don't wanna tour anymore.
No guy now (s ** t). Lost both my parents in the last ten years....rough. Live in a
little place in an area called Toluca Lake. I'm within a couple of miles of Warner
Bros., Universal, NBC, Disney Studios.....so all is very close and industry convenient.
I'm going back to Toronto and Montreal for Canadian thanksgiving in Oct. I have a
couple cousins to see. I keep in touch with Erica Tester and Pam Emberly via email
and Priscilla Zizian checks in once a year or so....saw her a few years ago.
You can visit my web page at www.GailRobertsPR.com
Wayne Dombroski:
On February 19th just past, I woke up with Bell's Palsy - a complete facial paralysis
on one side which took three months to correct itself. The next day I received a letter
reminding me that 2003 would be my 40th high school reunion - this is NOT a great
way to start off any week! Since Erica & Linda instigated this 'memory bender'
I thought it only right to begin thirty-eight years ago remembering a hay ride date
with Erica who was paying more attention to Frank Scott than me, and having a
crush on Linda without a clue what to do about it (duh) - should have known then
life wasn't going to be easy.
Miscellaneous administration jobs paid for nine months in Europe, back home
and more work raised enough to run away to Australia for a year, back home,
married within three months and moved to Vancouver eight months later (1972).
Did the work thing till BC's economy collapsed in the late '80's and put me out of work,
started a small wholesale giftware business and went into retail (not the brightest
thing I ever did), separated from my wife in 1990 after 18 years (she's now my best
friend) and moved to Washington State for nine years. ( Whew !)
In 1999 returned to BC with my new singer/songwriter love of 5 years JON
(that's right JON, not Joan or Jane, but JON - ya gotta figure Erica & Linda
are partly responsible for this - grin!) and our boy Bayley - relax, he's four legged.
While neither rich nor famous (yet) my life has been anything but mundane and is
perhaps the reason there's a sign over my desk that says 'GET IN, SIT DOWN,
SHUT UP & HANG ON '! In addition to the giftware business, JON and I also
have a music recording studio from which we released his first solo album in 1999
and you can hear it at www.johewado.com (song #1 on the album was actually
written for me which I would never have imagined in 1963).
We have taken license in renaming this year ' 2001 - a jonwayne odyssey '
(a la Stanley Kubrick) as I write my book for Oprah's book club and together
we work at getting JON onto the music charts, and as I write this there are some
potentially exciting things happening!
It may take till 2003, but I am determined to figure out what ' IT ' is !
(Rent the movie City Slickers and let me know if you have the answer).
My best to you all. Wayne
Donna (Smeall) Vissac
After high school, I worked for the Bell Telephone for a few years. I
married at age 20 and moved to northern New Jersey. My husband, John, and I
will be married 35 years this fall and have 2 grown sons. My husband works
as a graphic artist in New York City and I work as a school secretary for the
local public school in the town where we live. Now that our children are
grown, we like to spend as much time as work allows to travel.
Wayde L.Scott
After graduation I moved with my family to Toronto, briefly, and then on to Edmonton,
Alberta, closer to my family roots. I was born in Regina Saskatchewan. I started
working in construction for a short period and then joined the Bank of Montreal at
the age of 19 years, where I could put my education to work. I stayed in Edmonton
for a couple of years and then moved on my own back to Montreal where I met, and
married, a French Canadian - Micheline Verdier, who also worked for the Bank. We
have been married thirty-three years now.
I attended McGill University continuing education evening courses for a number of
years to get a degree in banking. I progressed up through the ranks over a 31 year
career in the bank to Senior Commercial Credit Management and retired at 50 in 1995.
My wife retired in 1999, but continues to be active for a few days a week in the Bank and
social/administrative work at a Jesuit retreat nearby. I occupy myself with maintaining
the house, and the RV and reading and writing. My wife and I adopted a son in 1971.
Alexander is 30. We have all integrated fully into Quebec society. Mine and my wife's
hobby is RVing in our 31 foot RV Mobile Home. We have traveled all over Canada
and much of the north western and north eastern and south eastern United States.
Our favourite trips were to New Orleans, Louisiana and of course Banff and
Jasper, Alberta.
We have resided in our home in Pierrefonds QC. for 28 years now.
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Would you like your bio to appear in a future issue of the Newsletter? It can be as long or
as short, personal or impersonal, as you want to make it - get creative. Send it to me.
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Give Us Your Input -
If there is anything you would like to see in this newsletter, maybe you have a special
anniversary or just want to let everyone know how you're doing, please let us know.
Don't forget about Erica's questionnaire, instead of filling in answers maybe you could
just send some memories about school life and teachers. SEND PICTURES.
Email:
Linda at hughes.123@sympatico.ca - or
Erica at ericabent@shaw.ca
Looking forward to hearing from you.