Additional MCHS 1962-63 yearbook photos. Limbo Contest. Beatniks.

I will be attempting to add one or two photos per day to the MCHS ’60s Reunion Facebook Group. I will try to keep track of the uploads through blog posts such as this one. On this page are two photos that I posted at the latter Group recently. Comments I don’t remember many high […]

Candid Camera pages at MCHS 1962-63 yearbook

Bretheren, I say to you! Regarding the photo on the right, Graeme Decarie wrote on December 28, 2014: I’ve been going through the MCHS yearbook once a day to dredge up memories that connect names to faces. With some, like Peter McAllister and Gordon Flowers and Dianne Fagg and you, I made the connection immediately. […]

Graeme Decarie has shared a recent photo of himself. We also discuss the crop tops topic.

I’m currently catching up on still photo and video projects, related to the MCHS 2015 Reunion. One of the projects concerns a recent photo of Graeme Decarie, and a photo from the MCHS 1962-63 yearbook that I had spoken about with Graeme some time ago. I will include the photo from the yearbook in a […]

Jane Jacobs contributed strongly to 1960s and 1970s intellectual currents

I recently came across a book, The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs (2012), that positions Jane Jacobs as among the most influential thinkers who contributed to the intellectual currents of the 1960s and 1970s – “along,” as the book notes (p.2), “with Thomas Kuhn, Ian McHarg, Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan, John Rawls, to name a […]

Kind words of encouragement are the currency of volunteer work

I’m pleased to share with you the following messages from the Malcolm Campbell High School Grads Facebook Page: Dana Michaels: you guys are doing great! Even though I don’t plan on attending I am enjoying reading the blogs and posts to the lead up. I graduated in ’70 or ’69? I have a bad back […]

Linking a favourite song to each of the MCHS Alumni and Teachers who have passed away

We have a very large number of comments so far at the following post: Remembering John W. Scott, Gok-Gee Wing, and other ’60s MCHS students who have passed away Bob Carswell, as noted in one of the comments at the above-noted post, has shared the following suggestion: Hey Jaan, Here is an idea For the […]

A well-organized Sledgehammer Ceremony was staged on April 6, 2015 at the Small Arms Building in Mississauga

I’ve been writing about the Small Arms Building at 1352 Lakeshore Road East, located at the foot of Dixie Road, for some years. Occasionally it’s called the Small Arms building and at other times it’s the Small Arms Building. I’ve switched to using the second of these spellings. Either spelling works fine. I like to be […]

Versions One and Two of Janet’s great post at our portal to the history of Cartierville School

At a previous post, we’ve shared some posts from Janet regarding Cartierville School. In order to bring attention to the post, and to have both versions of her post in one place, I’ve written the post that you are now reading. After Janet had sent her first post, she sent a second one because it […]