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WEDDING CORNER
Joan Hedley and John Townsend
Courtesy of the Trinity College Archives, this edition of Wedding Corner is from 1928.
The Hedley – Townsend wedding, pictured left, was announced in 1928 edition of the Trinity University Review, 1928:
Hedley — Townsend — In the College Chapel [now Seeley Hall], on May 15, 1928. Joan Alison, daughter of the Revd. Charles W. Hedley (1892), M.A., to John William Durand, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Townsend, the Revd. A.W. Mackenzie, M.A., of Lakefield, uncle of the bride, officiating, assisted by the father of the bride and by the Revd. the Provost [Francis H. Cosgrave].
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NEWS
Mary Louise Riley ’48 (pictured left) is an active hip hop dancer and skater in and around Santa Rosa California. She dances eight solo recitals or small concerts a year in California’s Santa Rosa, Petaluma and Sebastopol areas.
Rosemary Whealy Clewes ’58 read from her new poetry book, The Woman who Went to the Moon at the Stratford Music Festival in August. The event took place under the Luke Jerram installation called Museum of the Moon, on the Tom Patterson Island.
Alice Major ’71, received the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta 2017 Distinguished Artist Award during a ceremony at the Banff Centre. The award is the province’s most prestigious recognition for accomplishment in the arts. She is also delivering the 2018 Anne Szumigalski Lecture at the Canadian Writers Summit in Toronto. This annual lecture, sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets, has previously been given by poets including Margaret Atwood, George Elliott Clarke and Anne Carson.
Francine McKenzie ’89, was appointed Chair of History at Western University in 2016.
Michael Szonyi ’89, was appointed Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University in January 2018. Michael is also the Director of the Fairbanks Institute for Chinese Research at Harvard University.
Heather McMaster Ewing ’10 received a masters of public health degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. For her thesis, Heather analyzed the knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions of Brazilians with regard to Tuberculosis and stigma.
BIRTHS
Miranda (Plant) Byers ’08 and Todd Byers: A son, William David Edward Byers, June 8 in New York. A nephew for Tristan Plant ’06, Titania (Plant) ’11 and Jason Woodfine ’12; a grandson for Dorothy (Todd) ’77 and Ted ’79 Byers and for David ’77 and Patti (Brownridge) ’76 Plant; and a great nephew for Doug Brownridge ’78.
DEATHS
Bennett: Grace (Relyea) ’53. February 5 in Parksville, Vancouver Island, British Colombia.
Burfield: Gary ’60. March 26 in Toronto.
Carter: George Ethelbert ’45. June 7 in Toronto.
Daniel: Ian ’56. May 3 in Toronto.
Giffen: J. Peter ’59. June 14 in Kitchener, Ontario.
Ivory: James Angus ’56. May 14 in Tockenham, Wiltshire, UK. Husband of the late Nancy (Park) ’56
Kostandoff: Louis. March 8 in Barrie, Ontario. Father of Carolyn Kostandoff ’81 and of Mark Kostandoff ’83.
La Casse: Margaret Helen (Hughes) ’64. August 17 in Gatineau, Quebec.
Lewis, Beverly (Butler) ’55. August 19 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mother of Janet Lewis ’81, aunt of Kathleen (Flynn) Corrigan ’80 and Kevin Flynn ’82 (Div.), and sister of the late Barbara (Butler) Flynn ’49.
McCallum: Joan (Bowers) ’49. May 7 in Ottawa.
McFarlane: Harriet. July 25 in Toronto. Wife of Ivan McFarlane ’65, mother of Michael Szonyi ’89 and mother-in-law of Francine McKenzie ’89.
Otto: Stephen ’61. April 22 in Toronto.
Scott: Janet Patricia (Davidson) ’69. February 26 in Toronto.
Bell: Eleanor Mary Sheldon ’45. August 18 in Toronto.
Stuart: Peter Bowman ’47. April 12 in Gravenhurst, Ontario.
Thompson: Elaine (Hunt) ’52. April 12 in Parry Sound, Ontario. Wife of Frank Thompson ’52.
Traynor: Gillian (Greig) ’63. June 11 in Ottawa. Wife of Timothy Traynor ’63.
Sutherland: Alison Laura Millicent (Armour) ’68. April 10. Mother of the late Malcolm Patrick Sutherland ’08.
Correction: In the Spring issue of Trinity magazine, we omitted the name of J. Michael Treadwell in the obituary for David Thomson.
Thomson: David ‘ 50. Jan. 22 in Toronto. Father of Naomi Hunter ’82 and J. Michael Treadwell ’64, grandfather of Christopher Treadwell ’99.
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