February 15th 2014
Dear Fellow Classmates,
Just
76 days away from the reunion weekend. I did say in the last newsletter
we would have a confirmation from to fill out but we are still working
out some
of the fine details so it will have to wait.
We do know now that Maytime Melodies starts at 7:30 on May 2nd and that a block of tickets is being held for us until April 17th. .
Tickets are $10. We are not positive yet on the process to purchase
them. We do know that Carolyn Born Kennedy, Ruth Rosen Levkoe, and Janet
Macdonald Bowler are working hard on “Memory Mingle “, the event
before at the school. Remember to send in your old
pictures (in jpeg format) from your time at NTCI to Ruth at ruthleahlevkoe@yahoo.ca . We
have not set the starting
time yet. For those not going to Maytime Melodies the after concert
party starts before the concert at Bill Humber’s house a very short walk
away from the school. Then the mingling continues at Doug Gammage’s
house mid Saturday afternoon on Hillhurst Blvd
( where four of us lived on are coming) followed by going out for
dinner at some local restaurants to be determined . The only events we
will be asking people to commit to ( hough would like a rough idea of
other numbers) is Memory Mingle and maybe Maytime
Melodies if the process is not to buy your ticket directly. When you
have such a good time at Memory Mingle you’ll want to come over to
Bill’s. We have a lot of people who are travelling long distances to
come so would ask you local Torontonians to please
try and attend as many events as you can if possible.
Hopefully
all of you have visited that fantastic blog that Bill Schabas has set
up and is running from London England. The blog contains some pictures
of
the school’s 100th reunion as well as all the bios, grad
pictures, newsletters and the up to date data database of who we have
found and their email addresses. We continually find new people who are
excited about coming so let us keep trying to
find people. And if anyone wants to write about or has the eulogy or
obituary of any classmate who has passed away I would add that
information as a bio as I have done for 4 classmates so
far. Unfortunately and I am not sure why but some of you have not
received all of the newsletters. And others have come late to the
database. So the blog is an excellent way to catch up and to stay
current. On the blog you can sign up to be notified of new
postings. And please make comments. I am surprised that
there have been no comments on the photos from the 100th anniversary on the fact everyone looks the same as they did in high school.
As
the blog is technically open to the world you can tell friends and
relatives about it I am sure they are anxious to know what became of
your classmates. But
if you are concerned about information you have written about yourself
or letting the world know your e mail address please “sanitize” (
to quote Alex “Sandy” Sellers our tech and privacy guru) your bio.
I would remind you as per the 6th Newsletter we have a special rate for staying at the Best Western down the street from the school.
I
apologize for some spelling mistakes and typos that have appeared in
the newsletters (especially for people’s names) but I don’t always
catch them and my
budget for a proof reader is not much so please bare with me .
- Laurie
