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MPP Peter Milczyn December 31, 2014 e-News Update

The following message is from MPP Peter Milczyn’s office” A Year of Building Opportunity Dear Residents of Etobicoke-Lakeshore, Recently, the Ontario Legislature rose for our holiday break, giving your elected representatives the chance to return to their ridings, attend community events, meet constituents and spend some quality time with our loved ones. The end of […]

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The Meaning of Human Existence (2014)

I’ve been reading books about the 1950s and 1960s. 1959 Among them is: 1959: The Year that Changed Everything (2009). Chapter 20, “Seeing the Invisible,” concerns the work of the photographer Robert Frank, with a focus on the latter’s The Americans (2008). Frank Kaplan, the author of 1959, has a Ph.D. from MIT in political […]

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If you are an MCHS 60s grad, you are cordially invited to add your name to the MCHS 60s Reunion database

We are now working on the planning for the music, playlist, and entertainment details for the Malcolm Campbell High School 60s Reunion and Celebration of the 60s that will take place at Old Mill Toronto on Oct. 17, 2015. Any person who attended MCHS at any point in the 1960s – including students who graduated […]

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Veronica Foster the Bren Gun Girl was a non-smoker, except on the occasion of a wartime NFB photo shoot

Old Mill Toronto has a close connection with military history. By way of example, I recently learned, on a CBC The Current broadcast, that Veronica Foster – also known as Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl during the Second World War – performed as a musician at Old Mill Toronto during the postwar years. Despite the […]

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Mindfulness stands in contrast to mindlessness

An Oct. 22, 2014 New York Times article is entitled: “What if age is nothing but a mind-set?” The article describes an experiment in which a group of subjects in their senior years, who had graduated from high school many decades earlier, were provided an intensive array of sensory cues – such as music from the 1950s, […]

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Graeme Decarie taught grades 7 to 11 for six years. Loved it. Then went back to school for his MA at Acadia & PhD (History) at Queen’s

I’ve posted a couple of previous posts about Graeme Decarie, whom I last met in person over 50 years ago: Graeme Decarie mentions that Mr. Hanna was principal of a high school way up the Ottawa River Graeme Decarie (teacher at Malcolm Campbell High School) recalls Raimbault Creek, the stream that ran through Cartierville in the […]

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To register for the MCHS 60s Reunion, please mail a cheque – payable to MCHS 2015 – to Diana Redden in Langley, B.C.

The reunion takes place on Oct. 17, 2015 reunion at Old Mill, Toronto by the Humber River. MCHS 2015 database Diana Redden of Langley, B.C. and Howard Hight, who lives near Boston, have created a reunion database. The MCHS 2015 database will serve as the registration form. If you wish to add your name to the […]