The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Sadly COVID interfered with classes holding their landmark reunions in 2020 and 2021. Gathering together was unsafe and no tours of the hospital were possible. Some got together via Zoom. Beverley Robertson, Cl’ Sept 1960, has sent along her Class… Read moreCongratulations to the Class of Sept ’60 on their 60th
This year’s impact report begins with opening words from Erin Vandeven, Associate Chief of Nursing who points out that the work of nurses has been ‘invisible’ for hundreds of years. But the COVID pandemic has raised our profile and has… Read more2021 Our Alumnae Endowment Fund – Making a Difference: Impact Report
As we know the COVID 19 pandemic put an end to celebrating in person in September 2020. Joan Clare reports that when the celebratory luncheon that the RN Council at the hospital had planned for them was cancelled, several groups… Read moreCongratulations to the Class of 1970 on their 50th Anniversary
Thousands greeted Queen Elizabeth, then Princess Elizabeth, and the Duke of Edinburgh as they arrived in Canada at Malton (now Pearson) Airport in the Fall of 1951. Their five week tour would take them West to Vancouver Island and East… Read more(Cl’48) Lillian – A Princess Visits!
APRIL 17, 1927 – NOVEMBER 1, 2021 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Lillian Chalmers on November 1, 2022 at the age of 94. Lillian is predeceased by her husband Thomas Junior Chalmers in 1978, her parents… Read more2021 Lillian (Calberry) Chalmers Cl’48
SUSAN ELIZABETH DEW (née Purdy), R.N. September 30, 1939 – September 30, 2021 I left this planet for uncharted territory today, with the hope of finding peace, to be pain-free without pills, and be able to breathe unattached to tubes,… Read more2021 Susan Elizabeth (Purdy) Dew Cl‘60F
STEIN, MARIA ROSPOND Peacefully at Michael Garron Hospital on September 25, 2021 in her 97th year, after a remarkable life: the “Iron Lady”, born to Rospond and Szponder, near Krakow, Poland, child prodigy, gifts of voice and intellect, robbed of… Read more2021 Maria Rospond Stein Cl‘59S
JEAN GAY EVANS Died peacefully at home on June 15, 2021. Born March 18, 1930, in Quebec City, the daughter of Willa Florence Blanche Price and John Grant Glassco. She was predeceased by her sister June Moore, and brothers Dick… Read more2021 Jean Gay (Glassco) Evans Cl’52
DIANA GRAEME WHYTE (Nan) (nee Farncomb) February 13, 1929 – March 7, 2021 Peacefully at home at The Claremont, in Toronto, surrounded by love. Beloved wife to the late M. Peter Whyte, and much loved mother of Peter (Donna Lingeman)… Read more2021 Diana Graeme (Nan)(Farncomb) Whyte Cl’52
Irma died on March 11, 2020. Her love of adventure and travel started when she immigrated to Canada from the Netherlands in 1954 at the age of two, settling in Ontario. She continued to pursue an adventurous life by becoming… Read more2020 Irma Seelen Cl’73