A few weeks back, I was at the local Blockbuster Video Store seeking some distraction for the evening. I would have loved to just sit and write, but after 7:00PM my energy level seems to fade and I need some escapism (and chocolate). I know, I could do some yoga and re-energize, but...
Scanning the movie rows, there was a subtle movement on my right, someone else doing the same thing. I glanced up sneaking a peak and quickly looked back at the selections -lest I be construed as peering a little too long at the wrong merchandise- but then it hit me- I knew that face -a familair face from highschool. Anne Wells, a graduate of Chateuaguay High (pre HSB). See her below from the1969 Year Book.
You might recall the math teacher - Mr. Wells (ex Military). Great teacher! Well, Anne is his daughter. You might recall her sister Jacquie, (whom I shall never forget, but let's not go there now. Perhaps some time I'll recall the night of the party...I met Lyda Young there! I digress as usual.)
Anne lives with her husband Kevin (Grad 1968) and son just a few streets over from us. As it turns out, my son and hers are great friends. Anne is now the head of a translation department for an Insurance Company.
They are a fine family.
"Hmm let's click on their high school pictures below to see what they thought they might be doing in the future!" I'm not sure what Kevin does, but my son thinks his buddy's dad is in computer programming "...or something like that."
Some of the people we might recall who graduated in Anne's year were:
Carol Wares, Barbara Ann Wells, Karen J.McConnell (no relation to me as far as I know), Valery Mumford (Molly), Arthur Preston, Shirley Ascroft, Pierre Filion, Dale Kiperchuk, Pat Kobernick, Bob Marsh -who reminded us all of John Lennon, the inimitable and mysterious Shannon McManus, the late Blake Jennings, Ray Mcleod, the late Russel McKoy, Shirley Bulmer, Bev Jones, Carla Klop, the King twins- Carren and Carrol, Larry Busch and of course Darlene Hodge (Doll), Peter McHardy, Brent Timms, Amelia Agnew, Mitch Morrison and Randy Phillips (Sports writer in the Gazette these days..wonder what his thoughts on Tigre are) ...just to name a few.
Going back to the year before, when Kevin graduated, another set of names putting a unique spin to the times:
Consider...Chateauguay High still had a grade 12 in that year -1968.
It was the year after expo. I was only about 12 or 13! I think that was the last year of grade XII, their pictures were set aside from the Grade 11 graduates in the same Yearbook...correct me if I'm wrong.
Some of those in Grade 12 were:
Anne Russell, Ron Jaieson, Dave Beauchamp, Bruce Poirier, Bob Morrison, Tom Burkhardst, Susan Nussey, Mike St.Louis, George Eldridge and Judy Layzell, again only a few.
Some of the grads from garde 11 that year were:
Darlene Hilton, David Holt, Andrew Hooper, Mike Horrocks, Joyce Horton, Ceryl Johnstone -who later married H.Gordon Green, Donna Jobber, Stephen Legassic, Doug Lilly -wasn't he in the Sundowners? Margie and Peter Maclean, Marcus Martin, Murray Millett, Bruce Maybury, Pat O'Brien, Wayne Oliver,Margaret Vella, Bob Waterson (who used to live down the steet but I believe may be now in USA), Francis and Marie Kavenaughe, Jane Kennedy, Dave Kiperchuk, Keith McDowell, the late Fred Sailer, Ken Schillgallies, Eddy Smeall (from West End), Dieter Stamm, Lorraine Scott again only a few.
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