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H I LLCREST H IG H SCHOOL CLASS ES OF 1 9 6 1 - 6 5

5050THTH REUNION REUNION

N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 0 V O L U M E 1 I S S U E 6

INSIDE:

2—Wayne Kay—the ‘Bad Boy’ of Benny’s 11B 3—People and Places in Wayne’s life 4—Angela Smiley’s Ode to Sir Winston Churchill—1965 5—Do you remember where you were on November 22, 1963 at 12:30? 6 & 7—Judy Dallimore—Hillcrest’s First Hawk Hall of Famer 8—Have you visited HHS’ Reunion Website yet? Reunion Crest 9—Remember these students? 10 & 11—Canada’s Original 2-man Skeleton Crew 12—Head Boy Peter Fallis 13—Head Girl Lynne Mundy 14—Lynne—the HHS Booster 15—The 1964 Valedictory Address 16 & 17— I can’t do the splits anymore@ 18-20—Sharon “Shag” McElroy 21—Obit for Nancy Powell 22 & 23—Bruce, Brian and Barry remembered 24—More on Peter Fallis

Hillcrest 50th Reunion Website: http://www.hillcrestottawa50th.ca

We chose them to lead us... Hillcrest’s second head boy and head girl for 1962-63 were two ‘impending’ graduates whose careers would encompass many fields—from teaching and special education to music, property development as well as health-related software development and sales. Head Girl Betty Lynne Mundy (now Bowes) would become an elemen-tary teacher after leaving Hillcrest and complete her career as a professor of Developmental Services at Algonquin College, with four years devoted to raising a daughter and a son in their early years. Today, she is a full-time carer for four of her six grandchildren. Head Boy Peter Allan Kent Fallis would dabble with a musical career as a founding member of The Staccatos before returning to high school and then on to university, Next came careers in land assembly, property management, as a restaurateur and now as an owner/CEO of TelASK Technologies Inc.

SEEN THE WEBSITE YET?

Have you seen the Hillcrest 50th Anniversary/Reunion website as yet?

At: http://www.hillcrestottawa50th.ca There are so many things that you can see there: “Remember Me”, where grads of all years plug in and let you know if they are attending the reunion and some even write a short memories piece on life since Hillcrest: under “News”, current and back issues of this monthly newsletter; (Continued on Page 8.)

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WAYNE KAY LOOKS BACK AT LIFE SINCE HILLCREST...

(Editor’s Note: In the September edition, Wayne’s name was mentioned by Surrey B.C. resident and former Hillcrester Patricia Irwin Uyeda in her memories piece with Sandy Shaw: My first real boyfriend (for six months) was Stuart Spence and we used to drive around with Wayne Kay and his girlfriend, Susan, in Wayne’s father’s car. We haven’t found Susan yet, but we did ‘find’ one of Wayne’s other girlfriends—Angela Smiley. (See Pages 3 and 4.) And now, Wayne’s memories@.)

Since graduation from Hillcrest, I have enjoyed a number of marketing, operations and sales assignments including more recently oversight of a client focused professional, staff augmentation service business within IBM Canada’s Public Sector which became their fastest growth area. Now retired, I have served as Director of Sales for IBM Business Consulting Services and prior to that Director of National Sales for PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting (PwCC). In the late 1990’s, I was fortunate to be the PwCC executive project manager and, subsequently, Chief Operating Officer of the PricewaterhouseCoopers company delivering global outsourcing solutions to Nortel Networks in 20 countries. Prior to that during the 1992 recession, I lead a company established to develop proven technology for a cleaner safer environment, public. That was hard work but we succeeded. Over the years, I have operated and managed computer technology marketing and sales organizations including those of Computel System Ltd, Datacrown and Crowntek Inc. Attending the Eastern Ontario Institute of Technology, School of Business in Ottawa, I was a member of the first graduating class of Algonquin College School of Business. I was a founding director of the Algonquin College Student Union; responsible for Business and Legal Affairs. In my first career, I received professional procurement training with the Sears management training program and, get this, I was transferred to the Montreal Fashion Centre and became a national fashion buyer @the boys in Hillcrest’s 11B would be proud of the fashion models, life was good. Now, several careers later my wife Vickie and I live in Tweed. ON @.where Elvis now lives, a rural community equidistant from Toronto and Ottawa. We have children and grandchildren and enjoy them all. However, it is now pay back time and I am pleased to be involved with several volunteer organizations. The party continues, life is good@.Thank you, Hillcrest! More importantly thanks to Mr. B. Bradley, who as principal set the tone and, influenced the culture of Hillcrest, certainly he did me. You see, as a student who lived on Tweed Ave, within one block of the school, I was late for school every morning. Mr. Bradley greeted me warmly and personally just about every morning while everyone else was in class. Needless to say, it was understood that I had a detention each day after school, except Friday, giving me the opportunity to get my homework done. Interestingly I was never late in business and continue to set my watch ahead so that I am on time. (Photos—Impact 64, below; at right– Wayne with wife, Vickie.)

KAY, DON WAYNE "Wayne" Quote: "Give me wine, woman and song, And an aspirin the next day." Aim.: Millionaire. Destination: Pick Pocket. Pet Peeve: Wondering what home work he has the night before.

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Tweed — Where Elvis Lives!

In 1989, the Ottawa branch of the Elvis Sighting Society declared Elvis was alive and well and living in Tweed. For several years after that, an ‘Elvis is Alive’ festival was held in July. More recently, Tweed and Elvis made the headlines when a reporter from the Toronto Sun came to investigate if there was truth to the rumours. The only evidence that remains now that Elvis may have ever been in the community is a very short road now called Elvis Lane — oddly enough not far from the proposed site of the Tweed Muskies stadium.

Attending the Eastern Ontario Institute of Technology, School of Business in Ottawa, I was a member

One of Wayne’s girlfriends was Angela Smiley, seen here in an ‘Impact 65’ Yearbook photo of the Dance Committee with Angie at centre, left of Vic Peterson, and in the insert at right. Angie’s literary talents are displayed on Page 5 in a tribute to Winston Churchill.

People and Places in Wayne Kay’s life during / after Hillcrest

We don’t know where Angela or Susan are these days. But we do know who has her 1966 yearbook if she wants it back to get all of her old friends to auto-graph it again at the Reunion.

One of the “Bad Boys” of 11B, Wayne will surprise many of his former classmates with his career success as we have seen in his story on Page Two. A member of the Eddie Benoit’s original ‘all-boys’ class in 1961, Wayne is in the back row, second from the left between the late Ray Jewers and Bryan Gilbart.

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Angela Smiley’s “TRIBUTE TO A LION” (Editor’s Note:- One of Wayne’s girlfriends was Angela “Angie” Smiley, who was in 11F when Wayne finally graduated. Her girlfriend, Sharon McElroy, now Charboneau, who is featured on pages 20-22, reminded us of this ‘connection’; hence Angie’s contribution to Impact ‘64 on Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, 30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965.)

And so it was the Sunday in the hours of dawn, The lion ceased to roar, And took his place Above the heads of men. The light is gone From all our hearts And from his face, That like a beacon Through war and peace It shone, As hope for liberty, Good will among all men. They heard his words, Touched his hand, A gentle hand but one of steel That formed a fist To shake at defeat, to drive us forth, To save our land. And, in those hours of war and bloody mist He stood alone, he made us understand

Why we must fight Why we must fight and die for freedom’s kiss.

These were These were his finest hours, his greatest days

That invulnerable That invulnerable Titan of a man with the cigar

Stood like Stood like a sentinel, to keep the ways Of freedom clear, to smash that evil bar That clicked the path of victory’s rays. But now the lion is gone, we stand alone, Much stronger, defiant, courageous and as one, As one strong nation. And when the years have flown That name, that face, will shine as bright as any sun, The greatest, most human man our world has ever known.

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DO YOU REMEMBER WHERE YOU WERE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1963 AT 12:30?

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

May 29, 1917— November 22, 1963

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Judy Dallimore—Hillcrest’s First Hawk Hall of Famer

The greatest honour available to a Hillcrest student is that of being named to the “Hawk Hall of Fame”. At Hillcrest High School, this award was established in the 1966-67 school year and given for the first time to a well-deserving Judy Dallimore. (At right, Grade 10, 1962-63, Sr. Girls Basketball.) In May of 1961, Judy Dallimore appeared on the Ottawa high school Track and Field scene representing Ridgemont High School, at the third annual girls’ interscholastic track meet at Campbell Field. She carved six-tenths of a second from the 75-yard dash record when she covered the distance in 9.2 seconds, to win. Luckily for Hillcrest, Judy was one of the many students who trans-ferred to Hillcrest from Ridgemont in those first few years, and throughout her high school years, Judy participated in basketball, the G.A.A. Executive, the Track and Field Team, and the Girls’ Officials. In 1965, Judy, along with her sister Barb, Linda Tinker and Sharon Kearns, formed a relay team that placed second in Toronto. That same year Judy was on the Hillcrest Senior Girls’ Basketball team, which placed 2nd in the eastern division of the Ottawa City Championships. While Judy contributed a great deal to the athletic teams at Hillcrest, she also had made a name for herself throughout the city of Ottawa, Que-bec and Eastern Ontario and Canada, as a member of the Ottawa Track and Field Club, and the Uplands Harriers. She was named Ottawa Athlete of the Year (along with other famous Ottawans like Anne Heggveit, Bobby Smith, Elizabeth Manley, Ian Millar, Al Charron, etc.) in 1965 for her Track and Field achievements, and her name appears three times on the list of Canadian Championships Medalists for the 100- and 200-yard races in 1965 and 1967. To receive the Hillcrest “Hall of Fame” Award, the recipient must be known for success that goes beyond the “local” level in any chosen field of endeavour. A personable and amazing ‘all-round’ athlete both individually and as part of a team, Judy Dallimore was an excellent choice to launch Hillcrest High School’s “Hawk Hall of Fame”.

The Girls’ Relay Team to Toronto (1965) - Barb Dallimore Linda Tinker, Judy Dallimore, and Sharon Kearns. (Editor’s Note:- If any of our readers know where Judy and Barb are—and any other members of the 1965 Girls’ Track and Field Team are, the Grad Trackers for 1966-67 would probably appreciate being told so that they can be told about the Reunion. Also, we are aware that both Miss Ruth Coe and Shirley McFeeley have passed away since the photo on the next page was taken.)

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Track and field stars Judy and Barb Dallimore Two of the better known young track and field stars in the city are Judy and Barb Dallimore, Hillcrest High School students and members of the Uplands Harriers. Recently Judy (left) an ACT track winner two years ago, earned the Canadian open 50 yard spring blue ribbon at Hamilton. The

sisters (centre) checking for the latest in fashions, joined Uplands mates Donna Martell and Joan Fisher for a sparkling 440 relay second-place medal in 52.3 better than the meet record but behind the Detroit entry. Next major activity will be at the scholastic level in May and then will come

Further competition with Uplands, one of the big meets being the Eastern Canada age class at R.D. Campbell Stadium in July. Judy (right) wrestles with a Spanish lesson in keeping with her school studies.

Reprinted Courtesy of The Ottawa Citizen

The Dallimore sisters were part of the Girls’ Track and Field Team (pictured above) that scored several impressive victories in the past year (1964-65) ranging from a close second at the Ottawa High School Meet to first place at the Ottawa Valley Invitational Meet, and the Ontario Secondary School Meet in Hamilton, and included: (Back row, left to right) Judy Dunn, Barb Dallimore, Barb French, Linda Renault, Lindsay Campbell, Sharon Kearns, Pam Welch, and Ann Gray; (Front row left to right) Darlene Nelson, Shirley McFeeley (died in a car accident in 1989), Dawn Nelson, Mary Jane Zimmerman, Sue Dempsey, Linda Tinker, Judy Dallimore and Ruth Coe (d. 13/10/1965).

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Reunion Website@.http://www.hillcrestottawa50th.ca (Continued from Page 1.)

• under “IMPACT”, a list of all the DVDs of all the Yearbooks that you can purchase on-line; • under “On-line Purchases”, if you haven’t visited this page, you’ve missed out on the Special

Super “Early Bird Event and Ticket Sales and Prices” for all of the events for the three day celebration, so now prices are a little higher than they were for the past few months;

• under “Volunteer”, a whole list of roles needed to be filled before and during the anniversary / reunion, including a need for the most challenging yet rewarding role of all—searching for grads;

• under “Guestbook”, a place where you can leave your name and comments and leave a message for someone to contact you;

• under “Memorials”, a list of all known grads who have passed away since 1961, some with obituaries and all have space for you to add a tribute (Each month, we will publish an obituary or a story about some of our fellow grads or classmates who attended between 1961 and 1965 who have passed away.);

• under “Famous Hawks”, a list of famous graduates in the sporting, broadcasting and music domains, who have achieved national if not international recognition;

• under “Message Board” where you can post messages on a number of forums; • under “Photo Albums”, where you can look at pictures from the 60s through to the 90s in slide-

show format; • under “Calendar of Events”, where you can get a complete breakdown of the three-day itinerary; • got questions? Try the “FAQ” page; • want to donate—whether you are going to the reunion or not, try the “Donations” page; • want to contact the three people organizing the reunion, go to “Contact Us” and

you can also find the names of other members of the Anniversary / Reunion Committee; • if you are travelling from afar and need accommodation, go to “Travellers” in order to see

what hotels are available and offer discount rates for Hillcrest reunion attendees; • the reunion organizers are keen on knowing how you heard about the website,

so let them know via “Poll Page”; • And, if you need to plan things out over the long-term, there is a “Calendar” page

for you to block out things each and every month from now until the reunion; • if you get lost, there is even a “Site Map” to help you through the website; and, • last but not least, if you want to get really involved in the reunion, there is an “Events Participation”

page where you can sign up for a host of activities. WE HOPE AND WANT TO SEE YOU THERE ON MAY 13 TO 15, 2011!

New crest created to celebrate the 50th Anniversary/ Reunion

A new logo for the anniversary / reunion has been created by Leah (Chambers) Tackman, the daughter of '66 & '68 alumni Brenda Lemoine and Jim Chambers. It incorporates the school’s crest with blue Hawk wings emanating from, with the wing tips in red and gold— the two other Hillcrest colours— and cites the dates of the school’s existence in the Lamp of learning. Well done, Leah. Our congratulations!

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Michael Donald MacDonell—Class of 1961-62: Lived in London and Metz, France for a year in 1965 and 1966. Went back to Grade 13 in Metz at Lycee General Navereau. Went back to Toronto in December,1966. Worked at Physician's Services until the summer of 1969. Moved to BC in 1970. Went to SFU until 1974 - got a BA with a Commerce Major. Then moved to Victoria and got a Masters in Public Administration in 1981. Worked for the Liquor Distribution Branch part time while attending both. Got married in 1976 in Courtenay, separated in 2002. Moved to Fort St. James in 1985 and worked for the Ministry of Forests as a Corporate Services Manager. Worked in Victoria with the Ministry of Forests on the then new financial management system from 1998 until 1999. Got a position with the Ministry of Attorney General in Nanaimo for a year. Retired from the Ministry of Forests in 2001. Worked in Courtenay for a year and then packed it in. I am an avid lawn bowler and have been bowling since 1983. (Mike lives in Courtenay, BC.)

REMEMBER THESE STUDENTS?

Pam (Jones) Mitchell, of Nepean, Ontario, recalls: I have wonderful memories of our Friday night parties at each other's homes - Leslie Pink, Leslie Camm, Marsha

Newton, Richard Clynick, Norman Kelk, Brian McLean, and lots of others - we had great fun - our parties quite often had themes and Leslie Pink was the "pro" at that - decorations were wonderful! I also remember our great "Dress Up Days" at school - it was our time to get out our Sunday best (not all of us had large wardrobes at that time) and dress up for the day - I really think it helped in our work ethic as well - as I grew older and later on in our married lives, I worked from home with a home-based business - I always "dressed" for the office - never working in my PJ's or "grubs" - In the working world I believe "you dress the part, you work the part". I am really looking forward to the reunion and catching up with everybody. Thanks to your great newsletters and e-mails, I have managed to make contact (after 50 years!!!) with Marsha Newton, Leslie Pink

and Sandi Steele. On the other hand I have always had contact with Sue Wilson (now living in Toronto) and Marg Beaumont (now living in Barrie). Our hair may be grey, we may be collecting CPP and OAS, but the memories are great!

Donna Jean Macdonald (Ritchie) Ostrander Fulfilling the destiny proclaimed for her in Impact 64, Donna achieved much success as a competitive Highland Dancer, then for over 30 years as the director of a dance school in Ottawa. Her travels as a judge and examiner of Highland Dancing have taken her across Canada, the United States and to Scotland and South Africa to adjudi-cate. Donna was the director and choreographer of the Anabarrach Highland Dancers, a Scottish performing group appearing twice in the 1980s at the world-famous Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Currently, she continues her involvement with Highland Dancing as an Independent Member and Historian of ScotDance Canada, the national governing body of Highland Dancing in Canada. A graduate of Ottawa Teachers’ College, Donna taught primary grades until the birth of her son, Jamie Ritchie, also a graduate of Hillcrest and now the Pipe Major of the Ottawa Police Services Pipe Band. Life now sees Donna splitting her time between Ottawa and Europe where she works with her husband, Gil Ostrander, in the creation of training programs for an international franchise organization offering people skills training in the areas of management, sales, service and personal growth.

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Sheer ice — sheer terror

By Greg Wilson, Citizen Staff Writer, Reprinted Courtesy of The Ottawa Citizen, Thursday, March 11, 1982, Page 17

The German television commentator shook his head in disbelief, turned to the cameras and announced the birth of the Craziest Canucks, wackier and gutsier than even Canada’s whiz-kids of down-hill skiing fame. The lanky American athlete sporting the U.S. team crest threw up his hands and said with obvious incredulity: “Those two guys have got to be nuts.”

The recipients of those and other questionable international accolades delivered on a Swiss mountainside recently are Ottawa-area businessmen Bill Brown and Peter Fallis (pictured at left and on the following page), two any-thing-for-a-laugh types who decided over too many beers one night in mid-December to anoint themselves as Canada’s newest national team. The name of their game is bob-skeleton racing, a bone-bashing sport dedicated to plunging head-first at

Day after painful day for almost a week, the two Crazied Canucks clattered down that rough blue-ice track with Rocky-style determination, bashing from wall to wall like a pair of misguided bowling balls hitting the gutter, attracting as much awe, interest and admiration from the crowds as any of the hometown Swiss favourites. 100 kilometres an hour or more down the most perilous bobsled runs in the world on a contraption that looks like a heavyweight version of a child’s sleigh — a metre-long slab of steel on metal runners, no protective casing, no mechanical steering, no brakes and no guarantee at all that what does down will survive to go up again. Only slight movements of the head to alter wind

resistance and equally minute movements of the shoulders keep the sleds under control and riders (arms back and nose down in what is appropriately called the ‘Kamikaze’ position) from becoming human battering rams in the high-speed ice chutes. The world championships in jet-set St. Moritz, Switzerland, were only nine weeks away when the daring duo from Canada’s capital decided the Maple Leaf should not be absent from such an important international sports gathering. Besides, if a move afoot to have skeleton racing included in the 1988 Olympics in Calgary were successful (it was last an event in 1948), Fallis and Brown figured they could be right in there carrying the torch for Canada. The 35-year-old Fallis, manager of the Mont Cascades ski area north of Ottawa, and Brown, 39, a developer at the same resort, would have no problem raising the few thousand dollars each from their own bank accounts to attend the international championships in Switzerland. Both had some sliding experience on the low-speed Cresta run at their resort. But there was one rather major hitch. While racers from most of the other competing countries had been training with hundreds of runs a year, the first time either Brown of Fallis had been on a skeleton sled was earlier that same December day they formed the least-known national team, and that was only a cautious attempt from halfway down the bobsled course at Lake Placid, N.Y. (Continued on Page 11.)

Peter Fallis and Nico Baracchi

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Day after painful day for almost a week,

It seemed like a good idea at the timeF..(Continued from Page 10.)

Nonetheless, that was one more time than any other Canadian they could remember making them the only logical candidates to represent all of Canada at the world finals. Well, It seemed like a good ideal at the time. Nine weeks later, there was the bearded Fallis rocketing face-first like a human torpedo down the treacherous St. Moritz course, bits of fibreglass crash helmet disintegrating as his head crunched along the rough ice walls at speeds well in excess of that allowed for cars on the Queensway. Nor was it much of a last laugh when Brown crashed during his final practice run, and moments later discovered part of severed thumb dangling in his glove. Bob Storey, head of bobsledding for the Canadian Amateur Bobsled and Luge Association, said “because we don’t have a (bobsled) track in Canada, we’ll pretty well endorse anyone (for skeleton racing) - well short of someone with no experience at all.” “Going down a bobsled run like that really isn’t all that difficult—if you’re the sort of person interested in that kind of thing.” Day after painful day for almost a week, the two Crazied Canucks clattered down the rough blue-ice track with Rocky-style determination, bashing from wall to wall like a pair of misguided bowling balls hitting the gutter, attracting as much awe, interest and admiration from the crown as any of the hometown Swiss favourites. Brown, distinctly the faster of the Canadian pair, just wanted to beat the American and British teams (he came close before his accident). All Fallis wanted to do was live through the last race. The entry of Bill Brown and Peter Fallis into a bob-skeleton race at St. Moritz, Switzerland, was a boon for organizers. International rules require eight teams for a world championship and Canada, in the form of Brown and Fallis, was the magic eighth. Swiss team member Gianni Bibbia, who had injured his back earlier in the season, loaned Brown his sled and volunteered as fulltime coach, walking the course with the two Canadians showing them the precise points to “steer” in and out of each of the 17 deadly corners along the one-mile run. One of the British racers being nudged in the time-trials by Brown even offered to help adjust the runners on the Canadian’s sled to make them faster. The last of four agonizing days of practice over, Fallis slumped over a beer in the plush bar of St. Moritz’s Albana Hotel, comparing bruises with his fellow competitors while Brown discussed running the finals with a cast covering the thumb sewn back on that morning. “The G-force is so damn strong when you whip through those corners that it slams your head, shoulders and just about everything else into the ice,” Fallis said, half-bragging his battle scars included a pair of smashed goggles and a helmet with all the paint scraped off the chin and forehead.” Austrian champion Gerd Elsaesser passed through the hotel bar carrying his sled runners in one (Continued on Page 24.)

Then 35-year-old Peter Fallis, Manager of the Mont Cascades Ski Area, north of Ottawa, (in photo at left at the Bridge Corner [#11] at St. Moritz as seen on the map at right) after the skeleton run at the Worlds at St. Moritz: “The G-force is so damn strong when you whip through those corners that it slams your head, shoulders and just about everything else into the ice,” Fallis said, half-bragging, his battle scars included a pair of smashed goggles and a helmet with all the paint scraped off the chin and forehead.” The Citizen, Thursday, March 11, 1982, Page 17

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Hillcrest Head Boy — 1962-63

PETER ALLAN KENT FALLIS I was elected head boy of Hillcrest in 1962 on the strength of the final words of my brief campaign speech: “The eyes of the world are on Ottawa, and the eyes of Ottawa are on Hillcrest” and, “Don’t let yourself become part of the .001 percent”. These passages were, of course, direct quotes from speeches of Principal B.L. Bradley to the student body over the school public address system. The “.001 percent” referred to an imaginary group of “ne’re-do-wells” that I was dangerously close to joining.

An aspiring rock musician, I was spending most of my free time at band practice and too much of the rest honing my snooker skills at Billings Bridge pool hall. (See photo of ‘The Staccatos’ at left.) I have many fond memories of my grade 12 class and of the teachers that guided us through. (Honorary mention: Mr. Benoit R.I.P.)

I consider myself one lucky fellow.

In 1963, I enrolled in pre-science at Ottawa U but dropped out at Christmas because the band was often on the road and classes were getting in the way of my music career. By 1965, I had finally seen the light and returned to Brookfield to complete Grade 13. Next, I moved on to Carleton University and graduated with a

commerce degree in 1970. After graduation, I was recruited by the National Capital Commission and worked for three years in its long range planning division. I resigned from the NCC in 1973 and began what turned out to be a life-long career in real estate. Throughout 1974 and 75, I worked in land assembly and acquisitions for a successful Ottawa developer. In 1976, I began working exclusively for a German Baron who was investing heavily In the region. In 1978, he purchased Mont Cascades Ski Area and for the next several

years I enjoyed expanding and managing the area. (Continued on Page 24.)

Peter Fallis (top right) with Vern Craig, Rick Belanger and Brian Rading.

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Hillcrest Head Girl — 1962-63

BETTY LYNNE MUNDY BOWES Right after Grade Thirteen, I went to Ottawa Teachers' College for one year, won the H. MacLean Award there, and got hired immediately by CFB Ottawa South. I taught Grades 4 and 5 at Elizabeth Park school on the air base at Uplands (Wendy Lauder and Vic Peterson later taught there as well!), worked on my B.A. from Carleton, got married in 1968, and then stopped teaching in 1972 to have a family (one girl, one boy). When I decided to go back four years later, I was re-hired for one year at Uplands part-time, teaching four-year-old Kindergarten. We then moved to Metcalfe, just south of Ottawa, where I worked at the Metcalfe Co-operative Nursery School for a few years, and started taking Early Childhood Education courses at night. After leaving MCNS, I went to work at the John Butler School in Vanier, which provided programming for 32 children, ages 2-18, who had multiple disabilities. I left JBS (and coincidentally, my first husband) in 1984, and worked for the next 20 years as a professor at Algonquin College, teaching in the Developmental Services Worker Program, where I was awarded the Laurent Isabelle Award in 1999 for Teaching Excellence. In 2004, I retired early to provide childcare for my first grandchild, but continued to work part-time for the College for a few more years in the development of their Graduate Certificate Program in Autism and Behavioural Sciences. Now my days are busily occupied caring for four of my six grandchildren.

Education has played a major role in Lynne Mundy’s lifeFfrom her first teaching position at Queen Elizabeth School at CFB Uplands (bottom left) to working for the Ottawa-Carleton Association for Persons with Develop-mental Disabilities (top left) to being a professor in the Developmental Services Worker Program at Algonquian College (top right) to being a home-based carer for four of her six grand-children (bottom right). And what work day would not be complete without a box of ‘After Eight’, her favourite chocolates, as Lynne, School Supervisor, works on a budget at John Butler School (above).

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As you may have seen in the September edition of the Reunion Newsletter, Lynne (second from left in both photos) was one of Hillcrest’s cheer-leaders during 1963-64 — a role which typified her school boosterism. Forty-six years later, she may not be able to do the splits but is still capable of singing the Hillcrest song and calling out the school yells. (See pages 16-17.)

Literateur, raconteur and assistant editor of Impact 62, HHS’s first newspaper, and then Impact 63 and 64, the school’s first two yearbooks, Lynne (front row, third from right) assisted schoolmate Wendy Lauder Cartwright, the school’s publica-tions editor during those first three years. (Front row, centre.)

School governance was another area of interest to Lynne, as she was not only Head Girl (1962-63) but a member of the school’s “Board of Control” (photo at left, front row, first left) and Student Council. The Board of Control met often during the school year to discuss matters of importance to the student body and to prepare agendas for the Students’ Council meetings. Lynne was the Student Representa-tive on the BoC and is seen sitting beside her sister, Donna. (front row, second from left.)

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Editor’s Note:- Lynne Mundy, now Bowes, was perhaps one of the most active students in Hillcrest during its early years as we have witnessed in previous editions. An original “booster”, Lynne has maintained her interest and participation in Hillcrest matters over the years as she is now the Secretary of the Hillcrest 50th Anniversary / Reunion Committee as well as assists in editing this monthly newsletter, researching and writing for it, too.

Lynne Bowes—2010

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I can’t do the splits anymore...so@. By Lynne Mundy Bowes Hillcrest, the public secondary school I attended during the 1960’s in Elmvale Acres, Ottawa (like several other high schools built around that time) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this coming spring, and I am planning on attending most, if not all, of the scheduled events. Although I am pretty well a “homebody” these days and almost-exclusively-family-oriented since retiring a few years ago to provide grandchild-care, when I got that reunion e-mail a few months ago, I decided to get involved. There was a 25th anniversary a while back, but my life was in full swing then, and I was otherwise occupied as I approached my 40’s @ I was teaching at a local college, had terminated a first marriage, was raising two teen-agers and almost missed hearing about that reunion. At the last moment, I collected my year-younger sister, and we attended the Saturday evening dance, saw a few familiar student and teacher faces, and generally enjoyed the occasion, but because we rushed into it, I didn’t really feel I had made the most of the occasion. I felt a little depressed.

Having recently had my 64th birthday, I find myself trying to reach back in my mind to remember significant details about those high school days. Although I can hardly recall doing so, I kept a diary (a gift on my 15th birthday) for the three years (1961-64) that I attended Hillcrest, and as I read through the pages (is this awful childish handwriting really mine?) some memories return. The diary was one of those five-year versions, allowing only two lines to write about each day, as each page was used for the same date for all five years, so I have tiny snippets of my thoughts about my classmates, teachers and family, and quite frankly, as I read through them, I am horrified. “1962 - Friday “Tonight we had five phone calls from boys – one after 12:00 a.m. that was a telegram asking us bowling from Tom and Paul. Are we in trouble!!”

Now I’m really depressed. Maybe I should go to this 50th anniversary just to apologize to everyone (who remembers me or even just may have passed me in the hall) for being such an empty-headed, self-centered, immature dolt (or for being 15). I thought I was brighter and deeper. Still depressed. I know I don’t have to go to the reunion @ it’s probably not the ‘cool’ thing to do. I went on the internet, to find out why people might and might not want to go to their reunions. Those few people who said they would go said it was to brag, see how fat and old the cheerleaders and jocks turned out, and reassure themselves that everyone else had a miserable life too. That was depressing. I was surprised at how vitriolic many bloggers are about their alma maters, claiming to be high school nobodies who were bullied or ignored. It seems more people disliked their high school years than liked them. Some said classmates who had mistreated them made a point of apologiz-ing at the reunion for their inappropriate behaviour. One alumnus said that when the organizing committee sent a letter asking him if he’d like to make a donation toward the reunion fund, he taped a penny to his response and mailed it in. A while ago, I met one former Hillcrest student at Tim Horton’s and excitedly asked him if he’d heard about the upcoming reunion. “How many of those people are in your life now?” he asked. “None”, I admitted. “Then what’s the point?” he smiled. That depressed me. (Continued on Page 19.)

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@ Should I still attend my high school’s 50th anniversary/reunion? (Continued from Page 18.) Some internet folk say that with Facebook (FB) available now, reunions are unnecessary. Others claim that people who go to reunions have lives that peaked at age 16, and are just hoping to recapture their glory days. Still others state that they would rather spend $100 on a rock concert or on a visit to Canada’s Wonderland with their family or friends – certainly not on watching a bunch of strangers who didn’t care about them then, and don’t care now, get drunk. One critic wrote that the people on the organizing committee (yikes! me?) want to bully or guilt people into coming to the high school reunion, just so they’ll get more people paying the ticket entrance and recoup more of their costs. (Well, duh @ but still, the school will be 50 years old @ that’s a little bit special @ we could do nothing, I guess). Depressing. At any rate, I am determined to experience every aspect of this upcoming anniversary @ I want to create new memories. I want to enhance and enrich and revive my old memories (bad, good or indifferent), and give them some depth, colour and perspective. Perhaps because I am now entering the third (and final) “semester” of my life, I feel a tinge of urgency @ this is it @ this is my last kick at the can – even if it’s just for a week-end, I want to go back to that time of open-ended opportunities with those who knew me then.

Maybe I can affect (my) history just a little bit. I know the event will be video-taped, and I will buy the DVD. I want to look and re-look at the school, the people and the events of the 1960’s with the focus and world-view that time and life have given me in 2011. I want to make eye contact with people I rushed past back then, really look at them and maybe say “hi” and discover tiny unique ‘somethings’ about them that I missed when we were at school together. We shared a space and time when our characters were in their formative years @ we have the potential to connect in that same space so much more adeptly now.

Most of my teachers have been “promoted to glory”, but if even one of them is there (like Harvey Davey @fell in the gravy @ he told me he got taunted with that @ I think it was the same day he made me write out “A gum-chewing girl and a cud-chewing cow @etc.” one hundred times in Study Hall) I’d like to somehow let him or her know that I now value the contribution en-thusiastic teachers can make to the lives of teenagers whose brains are not yet fully in control. I believe we unknowingly absorbed and formed values from those we spent time with every day for years.

I know there is life after high school, just like I know there is life after cancer. I’ve been living it, and it’s been fine. I’m really not depressed @ I’m wrinkled, wizened and weathered, but surpris-ingly optimistic. I’ve recently connected (on the internet) with quite a few of my fellow Hillcrest alumni. We’re all looking forward to dancing to the music that will be playing next May – the food and the pictures will be great, and in my excitement, I bought my tickets weeks ago @ who knows – reunions may become a thing of the past. (Sounds redundant, doesn’t it?) Maybe I’ll make a new old friend next May. (That’s one more than I’d make at a rock concert!) I’m still working on that guy from Tim Horton’s.

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(Editor’s Note:- Sharon “Shag” McElroy Charboneau completed her Grade 12 at Hillcrest in 1965. Sharon began working in personnel recruitment in Ottawa before moving to Vancouver in 1971. She continued working in the personnel field before returning to school in 1975 at BCIT and becoming the first female student president. Born on the same day but one year later as yours truly—November 6, Sharon has many of the traits bestowed upon Scorpios—traits that have led her to breaking with gender role tradi-tion ahead of society in general as you will read...) Hillcrest was not my favourite place to be. I didn't want to transfer to Hillcrest from Ridgemont where my friends were. I began making new friends; however attending classes and assignments remained low on my list of pri-orities. Mr. Bradley was a wonderful principal. I was a brat, skipping classes, not writing exams. He would laugh when I got sent to his office and arrange creative detentions for me. Science was a challenge: he took pity and "passed" me in Chemistry and Physics by combining my grades. Otherwise, I could still be trying to graduate from Hillcrest!!!! I wasn't active in student activities when I was in high school, so in 1976, as I was completing my first year at BCIT, I opted to run for student president: a chal-lenge which would result in me becoming the first female student president of BCIT in 1976-77. I actively lobbied both the provincial and federal governments for funding to build the badly needed student residence. This project had been pursued by several previous presidents: it was very satisfying for me to receive the telegram confirming the funding was granted. This accomplishment led to my being recruited by Simon Fraser University to become their Personnel Recruiter; from there I relocated to Banff, to become Assistant Director of Personnel at The Banff Centre; then into Calgary to join the Four Seasons Hotel as Director of Personnel. By 1986, I was ready for a change of pace and missing Vancouver. I decided to return to school to complete my degree and SFU was an obvious choice for me. I had enjoyed working there, and liked their approach to teach-ing. Becoming a student again was a major change in my lifestyle; however it was one of the best decisions I

64/65 GRADS — WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

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With husband, Dane, on his 60th birthday at a friend’s house in Napa, CA.

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IN SHARON’S CASE—IN SECHELT, B.C@.

Sharon’s West Coast lifestyle includes taking to the Straits of Georgia and the Pacific Ocean in outrigger canoes—a form of transport Sharon loves using in her leisure time.

ever made. I was a late bloomer re: education and was now ready to pursue my interest in the law by switching my major to Criminology. Being a lawyer was my initial goal; however with my background in Personnel, I knew that my age and gender were against me reaching that goal. Instead I created a niche of my own, using my knowledge of criminal law in human resources with the Attorney General minis-try. Subsequently, I became certified in ‘Conflict Resolution’ as a Mediator and Negotiator at the Justice Institute of BC. Subsequently, I joined the Ministry of Labour, conducting investigations and resolving complaints concerning employment standards, human rights and labour relations matters.

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I remember her (Nancy Powell) being upset when I deliberately flunked Grade 10 and she was going onto Grade 11 without me.

************************************************************************************************************************ Married in 1995, my husband, Dane (See photo, page 18, bottom left) and I enjoy travelling. We honey-mooned in France and haven't stopped travelling since. When he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in January 2000, I opted for early retirement and we decided to move from the Vancouver area to the quieter, rural Sunshine Coast in 2002, near Roberts Creek where he proposed to me when walking on the beach there. Following the move to the Coast, a career change was in order - something less stressful, more creative, using my love of design and colour. I completed home staging training with the ‘Staging Diva’ of Toronto; then Real Estate Staging and Re-Design with PRES (Professional Real Estate Stager) in 2008-9, and opened my own business for the first time. (Continued on Page 20.)

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...ENJOYING LIFE TO THE HILT! (Continued from Page 19.) ‘UPSTAGING YOUR HOMES’ is my staging and re-design business (www.upstagingyourhomes.com), as well as a retail boutique ‘Ooh La La!’ When not travelling, staging, or minding the store, I take full advantage of living on the Coast gardening with my pussy cats and paddling outrigger canoe. Thinking of the re-union, brings up faces and names of friends from those days — Angela “Angie” Smiley. I’d love to know where Angie is now? Lynn Fairweather? Brian (Soup) Campbell? Ted Miller? The parties and dances were fun. Loved to dance, especially with good jivers, like Bob McGrath. My close friend in those days was Nancy Powell. I remember her being upset when I deliberately flunked Grade 10 and she was going onto Grade 11 without me. She was a sweetheart.

We used to ski together at Camp Fortune and enjoyed their summer cottage at Meech Lake. We kept in touch when she went to Toronto to attend nursing school and I was at her wedding in Toronto when she married Barry Malcolm, a doctor. Unfortunately, we lost touch over the years. And then I saw her death notice in ‘The Globe and Mail’ a year and a half ago: another victim of cancer and a major loss to all who knew her. (See Page 21.) I didn't have much interest in attending the re-union until I was contacted by Graham and started discuss-ing everyone from the past. Now I think I will be making arrangements to be in Ottawa in May 2011.

Nancy Elizabeth Malcolm, (at right) known to us as Nancy Powell in Mr. Meloche’s 11D class in 1962-63, (photo at top left in the obituary), went on to complete Grade 12 at Hillcrest before embarking on a career in nursing that would see her rise to become the CEO of the Women’s College Hospital in Toronto. Seen in an official WDH Foundation photo, this is how Nancy is remembered by many of her friends and professional acquaintances prior to her valiant and courageous battle with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia in 2008-09. With the late Queen Mother being a patron of the WC Hospital’s Foundation, Nancy Malcolm (at left in London) was invited to attend the funeral held in London for Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon on April 10, 2002.

Sharon McElroy as ‘Eliza Doolittle’ singing “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” during Showcase 66 with Tommy Hamelin and Dan Showalter.

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NANCY ELIZABETH MALCOLM (nee POWELL)

September 9, 1946 -- April 19, 2009 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Nancy, in her 62nd year, after a valiant and courageous battle with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. Beloved wife, friend and lover of Dr. Barry Malcolm, eldest daughter of Jean C. Powell, and predeceased by her father Dr. A. Bailey Powell; loving, devoted mother of daughters Heather and Elspeth; 'big' sister to Barbara (Rob) Taylor, Penny (Bob) Pashby, Wendy (Sean) Hayes and Judi Powell (her stem cell and lymphocyte donor); sister-in-law of Ken and Terry Malcolm, Carl and Susan Jarvis; niece of aunt Mary Williams (Toronto) and aunt Aggie Davis (Victoria). Nancy will also be missed by her many cousins, nieces and nephews, grand nieces and nephews. Nancy's many friends and colleagues were a source of continued support throughout her life's journey. Nancy graduated from the Atkinson School of Nursing (Toronto Western Hospital) in 1968, Ottawa University in 1970, and McMaster University in 1982. She was a nursing Educator at TWH, Ryerson, and George Brown College, then went to Women's College Hospital as a research coordinator. She held many senior/executive positions at WCH culminating in the position of CEO. She will be remembered for her tenacity and humility, for putting others first, and her leadership skills. She was an ardent team player, who had an engaging personality, and a sense of humour. She was devoted to the patients, physicians, staff and volunteers at Women's College which was her passion and professional commitment for the future of health-care for women and their families. The family wishes to acknowledge the excellent, compassionate patient and family care provided by the Medical, Nursing (14A, 14B, 15A, 18B) and Support Staff at Princess Margaret Hospital. A very special thank you goes to Dr. Hans Messner, and the transplant 'team'; and, Dr. Wendy Brown, Nancy's family physician. At Nancy's request, a private funeral was held in the HUMPHREY FUNERAL HOME -- A.W. MILES CHAPEL, Toronto on Thursday, April 23, 2009 followed by interment at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, to continue the quest for a cure for leukemia and stem cell research, and the continued improvement in the care of women and their families, donations made to: Bone Marrow Transplant Fund, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue, Toronto M5G 2M9 or Nancy Malcolm Education Awards, Women's College Hospital Foundation, 790 Bay Street, Suite 415, Box 52, Toronto M5G 1N8 in Nancy's memory would be appreciated. Condolences and memories may be forwarded through www.humphreymiles.com . "In the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years." Abraham Lincoln

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THOSE WHO HAVE LEFT US Bruce Alexander Fraser

Bruce graduated from Hillcrest in 1964. He subsequently attended Carleton University, the University of Toronto, and Queen’s University. He earned his PhD in anatomy in 1978, and taught at Cambridge University in England, the University of Hiroshima in Japan, and in Uganda. He did research work at Charing Cross Hospital in London, England, and ended his career at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Bruce spent time in the navy reserve and was an expert marksman with a rifle, winning many awards. He died of multiple sclerosis in October, 1992.

In Impact ‘64, it was said that he was "Not very serious, not over gay, but a real nice guy in his own quiet way." Aim: Join the navy. Destination: Pearl Diver. We remem-ber him from 11B in 1961-62 and are happy that he achieved his goal in life before it ended so prematurely.

MITCHELL, Brian Munroe

Accidently at Terrace, British Colum–

bia, on Tuesday, December 30, 1975,

Brian Mitchell, of Ottawa, in his 30th year’ beloved husband of Janet Ford;

and son of Roy and Jean Mitchell of

709 Colson Avenue; dear brother of Debbie; grandson of Mrs. Christopher

Mitchell. Upon arrival in Ottawa, will

rest at Veitch Draper Ltd, 203 Bank St., Service in Chapel, Monday, January 5

at 2 p.m. Interment Pinecrest Cemetery

Brian Mitchell

Reprinted from The Ottawa Citizen—Friday, January 2, 1976

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Barry Hopkins 1945—2003

Barry graduated from Hillcrest 1967 - but was only there the one year and had been a Ridgemont student.

He was the band road manager for the Staccatos because many of them were Ridgemont students.

He worked as a chemical engineer all over the world - one of his big-gest projects was Chief concrete engineer on the Yellow River dam project in China.

He was living in Newfoundland, when diagnosed with a brain tumour.

Barry left behind his wife, Lorraine, (Boots to us), daughter Candice and son Craig, sister Carol Hopkins (9N and 10N) and three brothers.

THOSE WHO HAVE LEFT US

HILLCREST GUITAR CLUB

(Left to right) Mr. Glover, Ken Bridgeman, Dave Luxton, Barry Hopkins, Lenore Defoe, Joan Lindsay; (sitting at front) Klaus Schoelberger

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Sheer ice—sheer terror @. (Continued from Page 11.)

hand and a metal grinder in the other, sporting the grin of a competitor who knew something the others didn’t. Brown leaned forward and told a reporter in a whisper: “Elsaesser told us we could gain a full second by polishing the runners which, of course, we don’t do because (a) we don’t know how, and (b) I’m not sure we’d want to go much faster down that course.” The final morning of the world championships, Brown, in too much agony to race, Fallis sat in the bathtub at 6 a.m. studying a map of the course pasted to the wall over the soapdish. “I made the mistake yesterday of watching some of the others run the course after I had finished. It was the first time I’d been a spectator. Worst thing I ever did. It was terrifying.” Five hours later, Fallis was alive and euphoric. Canada’s self-appointed national team hadn’t come last. Fallis had edged out one of the Americans and on his last run was less than 10 seconds behind winner Elsaesser. Champagne flowed straight from bottle to mouth as autograph-seekers rushed forward for a penned souvenir of perhaps the most bizarre international sports team ever assembled. The racing announcer signalled the end of the world championships and give the nod to a repeat– performance at Lake Placid next year. Battered and bruised, the two Craziest Canuck just smiled and said they wouldn’t miss it for any-thing. (Reprinted courtesy of The Ottawa Citizen Archives.)

Head Boy 1962-63—Peter FallisF.(Continued from Page 12.) In 1983, I left the ski business (Mont Cascades; photo below, top row, left.) and formed my own real estate development company. Between 1984 and 1987, I assembled land, developed and sold a high-rise condominium project on the Hull side of the river across from Parliament Hill named Port de Plaisance. (Photo below, top row, centre.) In 1988, I teamed up with an experienced restaurateur and over the next decade developed and operated several restaurants in Ottawa, some of which were: • Ritz Pizzeria (We restored a historic carriage maker’s shop on Clarence St.) (Below, right.) • Canal Ritz (Canal at 5th Ave.) (Below, lower row, left.) • Maplelawn Café (We restored an 1830’s Georgian mansion.) (Below, lower row, centre.) By 1999, I had left the restaurant businesses and started lookingfor opportunities in high tech. I teamed up in 2003 with a young computer engineer and founded a medical software company named TelASK Technologies, where I serve as CEO today. (Below, lower row, right.) I am married to a wonderful woman, Linda Dicaire. We live in Ottawa. Our daughter, Shalta, graduated from Queens two years ago and now lives and works in Toronto. I consider myself one lucky fellow.