Then and Now Reunions

Story appeared in the 2013 issue of QMS Connections Magazine.

BY LEANNE SCHULTZ, OPERATIONS & HR MANAGER

Class of 1963 50 year reunion

The graduating class of ’63 met on Old Girls’ Weekend this past May to celebrate 50 years since their graduation from QMS. Sitting together at the Alumnae Dinner, the ladies regaled the younger graduating class of 2013 with tales of their adventures at the school. As a legacy gift, members of the class generously donated to the QMS Archives Project.

Class Photo from 1961-62 (Grade 11 picture)

BACK ROW: Jinty Taylor (Jones), Barb Graham (Slater), Glynis Lawrence (Violini), Janet Witton, Ann Preston (Morris) Marcie Baxter (Shovlin), Annetta Nurcombe (McKenzie), Ginny Laird (Kurpel), Heather McPherson (Mercia – first name)

MIDDLE ROW: Gay Calvert (Frederick), Gail Taylor (Boynton), Sandra Stephenson (Phillips), Gayle Sager (Garrett), Suzanne Delaute (Allan), Susan Comber (Ebsworth)

FRONT ROW: Helen Haynes, Ann White (Muir), Dona Boardman (McKenzie), Ceri Newman, Jennifer Thomson, Rosalind Coleman, Mary Hole (Martin)

MISSING from class photo: Lea Burburuz

Reunion photo.

FRONT ROW. Helen Haynes, Liz Sinclair (Lea Boris), Claudia Cole, Keri Roderick (Newman) our Gr. 11 form mistress, Jen-nifer Thomson, Roz Coleman (Simmons)

MIDDLE ROW: Gay Calvert (Frederick), Sandra Stevenson (Phillips), Sue Delaute (Allan), Olwyn Southworth (Anderson)

BACK ROW: Glynis Lawrence (Violini), Janet Witton, Ann Preston (Morris), Heather (Marcia) McPherson, Mary Hole (Martin)

Missing from reunion photo: Susan Comber (Ebsworth), Jinty Taylor (Jones), Gail Taylor (Boynton), Ann White (Muir), Barb Graham (Slater)

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Class of 1988 25 year reunion

On Old Girls’ Weekend, the class of ‘88 met to commemorate 25 years since their graduation from QMS. Prefect Nicole Macdonald (Bond) hosted her classmates for an afternoon of memories and laughter. At the Alumnae Dinner, Ms. Bond spoke for her entire class when she shared how special the school was for her, and how it made her into the person she is today.

Class Photo from 1987-88 (Grade 12 picture)

BACK ROW: Kaya Wiggens, Julie Sklar, Rita Mayer, Deborah Kempling, Kelly Graham MIDDLE ROW: Ruth Lee, Moira Brown, Nicole MacDonald, Bryoni Miller, Michelle Honkanen, Lianne Lefsrud, Faria Sheik, Annika Lofstrand, Susan Hatch, Beverly Hinman, Etta Weissenmayer, Brenda Wanjaarsveld, Anne Starreveld, Colleen Patrick

FRONT ROW: Hilda Him, Phillipa Bate, Renee Wilson, Danielle Wilson, Nicole Barnard, Tara Benham, Kim Ip, Nadine Gallant

MISSING FROM PHOTO: Elizabeth Abercrombie

Reunion photo.

BACK ROW: Deborah Kempling, Brenda Vanjaarsveld, Nielane Thompson, Karen Jenner, Tara Benham, Nicole Macdonald, Danielle Wilson, Rita Mayer

FRONT ROW: Elizabeth Abercrombie, Kaya Wiggens, Annika Lofstrand, Lianne Lefsrud