Summer of 2021

Hi Hutch:

Thank you for your emails regarding the Mt. View summer social. I will pass it this year. I am 93 and if you hear of any former Mt. View students around my age, I would love to be in touch with them. I hope you have a good turnout and have an enjoyable time.

Lillian Bailey. Graduated in 1945.

250-477-6657.

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My wife Midge (nee Whyte) and I are each graduates of Mount View in the mid sixties. We left the Island in 1968. We have lived in Prince George and Ocean Park before moving to the Okanagan. We have lived in Vernon for the last forty-seven years.

Midge was born in Victoria and went to Colquitz and Mount View. I only spent a year and a half in Mount View after moving from Vancouver.

Unfortunately, we are not able to attend your Summer Social. Please pass on our best wishes to the attendees. Feel free to share our email address to anyone who may remember Midge or I and might like to say hi.

Stay safe and healthy.

Lew Rossner

oia169.lv@gmail.com

Cathy & Mark Devins
Thank you so much for keeping us in the loop of Mt View Grad happenings. Appreciate the long hours & work that has gone into these events & updates.

Sending our regrets from Kelowna.

Enjoy the event & may our paths cross in the near future.

Live - Laugh - Love

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Sylvia Stilling

Thanks for the update but we will be out of town then, but still in our health zone!

Our own 60th reunion of 1962, we hope to have next year.

Have fun️

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Richard Brown

Not much chance of us travelling to Victoria for a while. I sent the date to my sister who lives in James Bay. We have had lockdowns in Nova Scotia and just last week were able to get to the cottage.

As you might have guessed from the photos, we are at the cottage--the first time this year.

Mai came in April and then there was a lockdown with no travel between counties, which was very depressing for her.

She has been about 3 times in the last week-to check on the boats, cut the grass, pick rhubarb, etc

Today was 35 oC so baking hot. I went into the ocean up to my knees but it was VERY cold.

We sat and watched the birds. Woodpecker came and went but only 3 hummingbirds were seen and then flitted around without landing at the feeder.

I brought NO work, just my cameras and some magazines to read.

Our first "weekend" away since Oct or so. Had smoked salmon and salad and drank wine. The full Nova Scotia cottage experience.

Cheers Richard

Joann Gabriel

Won't be able to make it on July 12th. Celebration on July 11th of the sale of our United Church and celebration of !00th Anniversary of church.

Hope the Reunion turns out well!

Take care

Joann

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Margaret Dowd
Thanks for the notice. It would be nice, but I DO NOT go into Victoria any more. I refuse. I don't like the green bike lanes and no parking - Marg

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Hennie Aikman
I”m alive and well. Henny Grootendorst, now Hennie Aikman living in Comox. Grad of 1969 at Mt. View.

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Shania Reed

I have put the date in my calendar. Thanks for all that you and the volunteers will be doing to facilitate this social. Here’s/cheers to living our best lives! Continue in good health....

Shania

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Kathy (Gurton) Swangard

I am assuming that this invitation is open to all grads of all years. If that is not correct, please let me know.

As a grad of 1971 this would mark the 50th anniversary of our grad year.

Is anything special being planned? or should the 1971 grads try to pull something together this year or even next year, using COVID as an excuse to delay?

As I have a disabled spouse, attending these reunions has become difficult and my connection with my fellow high school grads is currently zero.

However, at our 20th reunion, I worked with Ann Gummer, Winnie Krimmer and Anna Marie Bown on a full weekend of activities and, with help from my husband, we produced a spin-off of our yearbook, The Scribe, called the Postscript.

As fewer and fewer people seem keen to volunteer, I am not sure what is possible or what kind of activity might be planned, other than the reception invitation you sent.

Please let me know if anything more is planned.

On another note, are you still boating? Unfortunately, due to my husband's health, we had to sell our boat a year ago (Beneteau 40) and we miss her a lot. She was definitely part of the family, taking us safely around the Mediterranean for 5 years, down the coast of Africa, across the Atlantic and Caribbean, to Florida where we trucked her home. Moving back to the Island (now in Nanoose Bay) allowed us to enjoy the boat, 5 minutes from the house, which was a big difference from the Mainland, with a 90 minute drive to False Creek from the Fraser Valley. We are both still members of False Creek YC as well as Schooner Cove YC, active with the Bluewater Cruising Association and Council of BC Yacht Clubs/BC Marine Parks Forever Society. So you can see we have not given up boating in our hearts! Hope you are well and still able to enjoy the water...

Regards