Monthly Archives: July 2003

BILL BRERETON

BILL BRERETON I attended Robert H. Smith elementary and River Heights Junior High before Kelvin. I then went to U. of Manitoba and graduated in Mechanical Engineering. I attended the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, where I received a … Continue reading

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SUSAN BELL (HUMPHRIES)

SUSAN BELL (HUMPHRIES) Greetings and best wishes to all my Queenston and Kelvin classmates. So it seems I must catch you up on 40 years in the life of Susan Humphreys! After Grades 5 and 6 at Queenston School (which … Continue reading

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JUDY BEAMISH

JUDY BEAMISH Hi everyone ñ Iím sorry I canít make it to the reunion ñ I really would love to be there but choosing between it and my sonís graduation wasnít much of a choice. After Kelvin, I took a … Continue reading

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ANN McKENZIE

ANN McKENZIE After graduating from Kelvin in 1969, I started my B.A. at U. of Winnipeg.  The following year, Marilyn Sedun and I worked and traveled in Europe for 8 months. My longtime interest in travel had begun! While I … Continue reading

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JIM HILLMAN

JIM HILLMAN After my glory years at Queenston I attended River Heights, then Kelvin. Week-ends were spent avoiding girls (too shy) by playing drums in garage bands. A year and a half at the University of Manitoba in Arts (I … Continue reading

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JIM ALWARD

JIM ALWARD Nearly everyone has two lives: in my case teaching and a life after teaching I enjoyed my 37 years of teaching (24 in Kelvin) but in 1988 I had to adjust to my second life. I began by … Continue reading

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JONNY ALLEN

JONNY ALLEN After a varied university career (Arts/Science and a year of Dentistry, law school at University of Western Ontario and an LLM at LSE), I articled and practiced briefly in Toronto. I followed that up with a stint at … Continue reading

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YAEL BROTMAN (BREITMAN)

YAEL BROTMAN (BREITMAN) I am a professional artist living in Toronto.  But it took me a while to figure out that that was what I wanted to do.  After high school I did an honours English degree at the U … Continue reading

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PLACE-ORIENTED BLOGS

You may have noticed that I (sometimes unfairly) group blogs in my blogroll into artistic, business/scientific, environmental, news, and political categories, with Salon blogs listed separately because…well, because they’re my community. Recently I’ve discovered another type of blog that is … Continue reading

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THE FIVE ENEMIES OF INNOVATION

Much has been written about the competitive and social importance of business innovation, but a close look at the companies credited as being America’s most innovative would indicate there’s more talk about innovation than action. This article suggests there are … Continue reading

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