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20 Years of Pancake Breakfasts for United Way AlerThe neewsl etteFr of the Lislgara Alummni Associmation am Volume XXIX • 2 nd Issue • Fall 2014 20 Years of Pancake Breakfasts for United Way Nina Acharya still is the object of many students’ curiosity and attracted much attention. n 1995, Lisgar ran its first ever In addition to a reverence for tradi - United Way Pancake Breakfast, tion, Lisgar students also recognize the raising around $700. This importance of progress, and it is this Iyear, on November 14, some 330 balance between the old and the new Lisgar students, parents, staff, and spe - that we sought to capture in this year’s cial guests raised over $2,000 for peo - breakfast. Social media plays a much ple in need around Ottawa. bigger role now than it did in 1995, Although Lisgar and its Students’ and our event was advertised to stu - Council have changed considerably in dents on Facebook, Instagram, and the past twenty years, the Pancake Twitter. Last year’s breakfast actually Breakfast remains remarkably true to saw the development of a hashtag, original form. The Executive Council #PB2K13, which allowed social media still braves the 4 AM wake-up call, and users to easily group all posts related eager students still pile into the cafete - PUTTING VIPs TO WORK: Colleen Mooney (Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa), Helene Slater (United to the breakfast. Our performers also ria for pancakes and sausages. In fact, Way), Jennifer McKenzie (School Board trustee), and Paul Dewar (Member of Parliament) help out. reflected a wide variety of genres, from this breakfast is one of the most antici - Way Representative, and guest speaker those posts?” I would like to thank the classical piano, to classic rock, to pated events of the year. Colleen Mooney, the Executive Alumni Association for renewing this Disney, to rap. The Pancake Breakfast also contin - Director of the Boys and Girls Club of appreciation for the past Lisgar’s 20th Annual United Way ues to generate interest in our commu - Ottawa, were also in attendance. In order to celebrate this occasion Pancake Breakfast was a success in nity, attracting guests from the School Unfortunately, Mayor Watson had to in Lisgar history, the Goodwill terms of the funds raised and also the Board, City Hall, Queen’s Park, and cancel due to a scheduling conflict. Committee decided to add a new enthusiasm seen amongst the atten - Parliament Hill. The 1995 breakfast Many other prominent figures, includ - attraction to this year’s breakfast: a dees. We look forward to many more was attended by then Mayor Jacquelin ing the Prime Minster, the Premier, grand prize of a trip to the fifth floor! years filled with the same tradition and Holzman, and by Nancy Cooper, Max and the Governor General all congrat - When I first approached Principal innovation that Lisgar students so Keeping, and the Ottawa Rough Riders. ulated Lisgar on the 20th anniversary McMahon with the idea, he laughed, admirably strive to achieve. This year, students saw many familiar of the Pancake Breakfast and the devo - saying it did not seem like a very [Editor’s note: Nina Acharya is faces serving them pancakes, including tion to community service it reflects. “grand” prize to him. He proposed Director of the Goodwill Committee MP Paul Dewar, MPP Yasir Naqvi, City Lisgar students are very proud of adding in a trip to the roof, and with of Lisgar’s Students’ Council, and the Councillor David Chernushenko, the tradition associated with the school that our idea took off—the fifth floor organizer of the breakfast.] ■ School Board trustee Jennifer and as such we incorporated many McKenzie, and Superintendent of aspects of this into our raffle prizes. Instruction and Learning Susan The Alumni Association generously Macdonald. Helene Slater, a United donated two sesquicentennial history books, which were the objects of much Alere Flammam lunchtime discussion, as well as a beautiful limited edition Babelowsky Lisgar print. Both were among the first Inside prizes to be collected at the raffle Members’ Forum 2 table, at which students had stopped by In Memoriam 3 throughout the morning to flip through Lisgar Archives 4 the pages of the book. In the days Interview with Charles Hill 5 since, a variety of facts have been float - Farewell to Erik Spicer 6 ing through the student body, with Downtown Lockdown 6 questions such as “did you know the cafeteria used to be the gym, even with EARLY MORNING: Students set alarm clocks for 4 AM to have pancakes ready for over 300 attendees. Members’ Forum tact him or her. If enough of you are Members’ Forum interested in getting together after so 175th Anniversary Reunion Louise Siew (1970) e-mailed: I really Lisgar in 1990, I would never have many years, we’ll start planning the appreciated the article on Mr. thought I would be working in medi - weekend. Of course, you are welcome Planning for the 175th, in 2018, Roebuck in your last issue. He was cine in French in New Brunswick. That to help us with the reunion planning. is just getting underway! Please one of my favourite teachers and I was being said, I will be changing jobs to And be honest—some of you may join us in Lisgar’s Library at 7 PM sad to hear of his passing. I never become a full-time emergency room need a bit of excitement like a reunion on Monday, April 20 if you’d like knew he was a submariner. doctor this fall, but am proud to say to liven up your retirement! to become involved. You can also that I will be one of the very few here reach out at [email protected] to Christopher Jorna (1989) posted on in Fredericton that can provide fluent Allison Perch (1993) contacted us let us know you’d like to help! our Facebook page: This year is the service in both official languages. with an update via Facebook: I have 25th Anniversary of the graduation of been married for 19 years, and my the class of 1989—last batch of the Bruce Thom (1968) e-mailed: I husband and I have seven children. I during his studies at Carleton ’80s! Is anyone organizing any events noticed in the 2014 Spring issue of the moved to Wedgeport, NS, in 1999. We University’s School of Architecture. around this? Elizabeth MacIntosh Hale newsletter that John Roebuck had lost our home in a fire in February of The couple lives in Hafnarfjörður did a great job a few years ago getting died. He was a real free spirit and 2013. I currently reside in Yarmouth, with their two teenage children. folks together for the 20th reunion of added an immensely important NS, and am a stay-at-home mom. the class of ’90. dynamic to the Lisgar music program. Jeffrey Weiner (1969) wrote: Please He was an inspiration to all of us Lawrence Erwin (1941) wrote: find enclosed a donation to the library Dr. Yogi Sehgal (1990) wrote: I read struggling sax players and he also took Enclosed is a copy of the obituary of in memory of my mother, Miriam with interest of the retirement of Mr. the time to get to know us as individu - my life-long friend Lloyd A. Barrett. Weiner (Katz, 1939), who passed Derry and it reminded me of all the als. Always fondly remembered. The obituary was published in the away from cancer on November 12, wonderful French teachers I had at Times Colonist in Victoria, BC—the 2013, at the age of 92. Lisgar. Thanks to their enthusiasm Douglas Burns (1952) e-mailed: As a newspaper for which he worked prior during my years at Lisgar, I actually life member, I am always interested to to his retirement. Ian Brodie (1991) is an Associate became fully fluent. After 12 years in receive the newsletter and catch up on Professor of Folklore at Cape Breton several remote communities, includ - events involving former Lisgarites, Alice Olivia Clarke (1988) has a University, where he has been teach - ing ten amazing years in the communi - particularly those of my era. I present - critically lauded supporting part in ing since 2005. He is married, with ty of Sioux Lookout in Northwestern ly live in Pointe Claire, QC, and have the Sundance Festival film Land Ho! one child. He has recently published Ontario, my wife Lynne and I decided since university. However, my sisters The film is a roadtrip movie about a book, A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to move to Fredericton, NB. For the are still in Ottawa: Alison Scott (Burns, two former brothers-in-law travel - to Stand-Up Comedy . past four years I have been working as 1954) and Margaret Dempsey (Burns, ling through Iceland and meeting a a family physician at the Centre de 1949). I also visit my long time closest wide array of life-changing charac - D’Arcy McNamara (teacher 1966- Santé Noreen-Richard. My wife and I friend David Owen (1952). ters along the way. Clarke plays one 72) wrote : What prompted me to have two sons, Ori (2) and Kéo (4 of those transformative people, write is Bob Hursti’s article on John months). When I graduated from Doug Jones, Bill Shore, and Bill Nadine, a bank manager who stud - Roebuck in your latest issue. I spent Hines (all 1965) wrote: Some of us ied photography and followed her the summer of 1969 travelling the UK Editor who graduated in 1965 would like to own dreams to Iceland. Alice moved with John and, yes, playing lots of golf. Avi Caplan organize a reunion in Ottawa in May to Iceland in 1993, following her I remember someone in Northern Contributors or June of 2015 to commemorate our Icelandic husband, whom she met Ireland asking me if John was my Nina Acharya 50th anniversary.
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