> c g C/l ^ rn H C 1 ^ H 3 C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S A N D HAPPY 80th BIRTHDAY ECS This year marks the eightieth consecutive year that Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School has offered a scholarly education to young women in Montreal. In these changing times it is important for our School Community to be reminded of the stability which institutions such as ECS give to our city. To celebrate this great achievement Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School had a three day 80th Birthday Party during the first weekend in November 1989 culminating in the official opening of the new 12,000 square-foot building extension. The annual Founders' Day service took place on Thursday, November 2. Mrs. Jean Stavert Welsford, Class of 1914 and present when the original school opened in 1909, came to give the students a real sense of tradition and continuity. The audience heard the finalists in the Old Girls' Public Speaking Contest and Miss Maysie MacSporran, Class of 1922, Teacher from 1933-39, and Headmistress from 1940-61, was guest speaker. On Friday afternoon the gymnasium was transformed into a garden, complete with rose arbour, for the Time-Warp bazaar organized by Grade Ten and tea was served to parents, company members, hoard members, old girls, past parents and friends of the School. Members of the Junior and Senior Choirs and the School Band performed for the guests. There was a Fashion Show which featured costumes from eight decades. The proceeds from the sale of baked goods and crafts went to the Penny Cole Foundation for Research in Leukemia, the Raptor Centre and Operation Eyesight. A record number of Old Girls, including several from out of town, representing seven decades, attended a cocktail buffet given by the Old Girls' Association at the new Canadian Centre for Architecture on Friday night. On Saturday, approximately 750 students, parents, old girls, and friends came to have lunch and to drink a toast to the 'new' school. Tours were given by the girls and a video of the history of ECS was screened. At 2:00 p.m. the Official Opening Ceremony began. Chairman of the Board, Mrs. Cynthia Cundill '64, spoke about the traditions which are such an intrinsic part of our fabric. A birthday cake, made in the school's image (see cover), was cut by Mrs. Sara Peck Colby '65, President of the Old Girls' Association, Deborah Vineberg, Head Girl, and Ashley Govan, the youngest student who is the daughter of an old girl, (daughter of Mrs. Catherine Reardon Govan '68). Co-Chairman, with Mrs. Victoria Webster Hodgson '58, of the Challenge For Excellence Building Campaign, Mr. Sam Pollock gave a short address thanking the many people who contributed to the great success of the building campaign. At last, after she and Mr. Pollock had cut the enormous green ribbon which surrounded the whole school, Mrs. Hodgson declared the new building officially open. Honoured guests on the platform were: Mrs. Fripp, Headmistress, Mrs. Cundill, Chairman of the Board, Mr. Anderson, Architect, Mrs. Colby, Head of the Old Girls' Association, Mrs. Emmerson, Vice-principal and Director of the Junior School, Mme. Gorry, Vice-principal and Director of the Senior School, Mrs. Hodgson, Co-Chairman of the Building Campaign, Mrs. Johnson, Former Chairman of the Board, Mr. Pilot, Chairman of the Building Committee, Mr. Pollock, Co-Chairman of the Building Campaign, and Mr. Webster, Architectural Liaison. Miss MacSporran '22, Mrs. Fripp, and Mrs. Welsford '14 2 ECS OLD GIRLS SPONSOR AN EVENING AT THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3,1989 Over one hundred and twenty Old Girls (see list below) and helped with the arrangements for the evening. Mr. Gerald members of the ECS Staff were welcomed by Sara Peck Colby Valiquette of the CCA gave a brief insight into how the Centre '65 in the beautifully panelled theatre of the newly opened came to be a reality, thanks to Phyllis Lambert and architect Peter Canadian Centre for Architecture. Everyone was brought up to Rose. date on the ways in which the Old Girls are involved in the The party then moved into the stately Shaughnessy House present school. Barbara Roberton Reeves '51, who is retiring as wing where a delicious buffet was served as the guests wandered Treasurer after over fifteen years, was presented with a bouquet around some of the exhibits. The evening ended with an 80th of flowers. Incoming treasurer is Christine Walker Bagnall '67. Birthday Cake complete with the ECS crest and a loud rendition Special thanks were given to Carolyn Marler Shilton '63 who of Happy Birthday. '22 Maysie MacSporran '71 Shirley Fee Hunt '23 Blossom Harding Caron '71 Susan Harrington ' 2 3 L o i s G a r t h '71 Micki Fuller Morton '23 Audrey Fitzgerald Robarts '73 Cynthia Price '27 Margaret Rawlings Hart '74 Jill Hannaford Beaudin '28 Ruth Williams '74 Judy McKinnon Martin '29 Margaret Russel '77 Pamela Dinsmore '31 Margaret Sims Carsley '77 Laurie Gibbons '31 Dorothy King '77 Elice Tencer Minongue '31 Margaret Byers Lafleur '77 Rochelle Barr Mintz '31 Elizabeth Eberts Wade '77 Cynthia Skelton '32 Elizabeth Skinner '80 Laura Bry '33 Elizabeth Sims Bogert '80 Laurie Price '33 Mary Gregory Webster '80 Cynthia Tremble '33 Margaret Edgar Wood '81 Cynthia Carsley '36 Hazel Hastings Harrington '81 Caroline Ramsay '36 Catherine Skinner Spielman '83 NabanitaGiri '36 Ruth Stewart Traversy Nancy Skinner and Catherine Spielman '83 Sherrill McMaster '37 Anne Winslow-Spragg Byers '83 Sarah Smith '37 Joan Hastings Harrington '55 Nancy Black Turnbull '84 Virginia Nelles '37 Norma Garnham Rutter '55 Diane Angus Webster '85 Karianne Aarup '39 Virginia Dobson Cockfield '56 Thea Hartmans '85 Jane Burpee '39 Jean Bertram Gregory '56 Melody Caron Yates '85 Claire Fowles '39 Martha DuBose Moyle '57 Davena Davis '85 Caroline McRae '40 Nancy MacKay Doig '57 Susan Hart Travers '85 Nancy Ross '40 Peggy Angus MacDonald '58 Sandra Harrington '85 Sarah Sniderman '40 Anne Raynsford Stanley '58 Vicki Webster Hodgson ' 8 5 Ya n n i c k T h i r i a r '40 Ainslie Evans Stephen '58 Gail TolhurstJohnson '87 Alice Hogg '42 Joan Barclay Dmmmond '58 Susan Anglin Winn '87 Brenda Plant '42 Janet Campbell Hendery '61 Barbara Savage Pritchard '43 Catherine Ekers '60 Elizabeth Wirth Eleven members of the staff from ECS were '43 Betty Doehler Grothe '62 Elizabeth McLean Teryazos present including two Old Girls listed above. '44 Anne Soper Fisher '63 Linda McConnell Lens '44 Doreen Doherty Kane '63 Carolyn Marler Shilton '45 Joan Ross Geering '64 Cynthia Gordon Cundill '48 Sonja Reford Arnold-Forster '64 Kathy Mills McLeod '49 Sue Robinson Andrews '65 Lauretta Alexander '49 Elizabeth Nelson MacKenzie '65 Sara Peck Colby '50 Pam MacKay-Smith Price '65 Judith Lamplough Dingemans '51 Janet Aird Dimock '65 Joan Hannan Fletcher P '51 Barbara Roberton Reeves '66 Margot McDonald '52 Marguerite Coupey Barbir '66 Cornelia Arronet Nihon '52 JemmyJackson Betanzos '67 Christine Walker Bagnall '52 Susan Angus Walsh '68 Kathleen Hugessen '53 Carol Reaper Harrison '68 Elizabeth Morgan '53 Mary Wathen Keating '69 Alexandra Stewart Courtois '54 Ann Malcolm Tippett '69 Robin Drummond '54 Sally Chapman Webster '69 Nancy Fuller O'Connor '54 Josette Racine Jordan '70 Diane Chancer Deruchie '55 Robin Arbuckle Quinlan '70 Nancy Gurd Rochelle Mintz, Pam Dinsmore, Laurie Gibbons '55 Manon de Watteville Reford '71 Janet Saykaly Dussault 3 1989 ANNIVERSARY BAZAAR Antoitia Moquette serving tea in the Rose Garden BAZAAR COMMITTEE IN UNIFORMS OF THE DECADES Back: Laila Brabander, Emma Colby, Krista Martin, Jill Taylor, Cynthia Balaban, Heidi Gjertsen Front: Sarah Lenczner and Lisa Jacobsen JoAnne Fletcher modelling a J 960s School Uniform Pink Flamingoes donated by Grade ten receive their ECS tiesfrom Miss McDonald OLD GIRLS' PUBLIC SPEAKING CONTEST The Old Girls' Public Speaking Contest was held on Founders' Day, Thursday, November 2, 1989. The Intermediate winner was Lindsay Colby with runners up, Erin Kenny and Melissa McBride. The Senior winner was Clara McBride with runners up Vivianne Ivanier and Catherine Kalbfleisch. Jennifer Shaw and a Rose Arbour 4 E C S D E B A T E R S Our Juniors first competed recently in a tournament at L.C.C. We entered three MATHEMATICS teams in a field of 70 debaters. All six girls WIN — Cicely Leemhuis, Cizella Popradi, Alana Hirsh, Heather Sokoloff, Veronica PROVINCIAL TITLE Henderson and Seema Narikot — fin ished in the top fifteen. Furthermore, the The Quebec Association of Mathe team of Cicely and Cizella finished third matics Teachers held the annual Mathe matics Competition at Lower Canada overall. hyPaulFogel, Coach College in early November. Thirty teams from all over Quebec competed. Heather Birks, Kate Blomfield, and Athena Vouloumanos won a gold medal each for the ECS team which came in second to the LCC team (winners of the cup). On December 6th, organized as usual by Mr. Taylor, the sixth Annual Math Contest was held at ECS. Two hundred students from 25 schools participated and afterwards lemonade and donuts were served. Carrie Devine was the top ECS student. Earning the chance to represent Que bec at the national finals in Medicine Hat, Alberta, April 28 to May 5 were Deborah Sanchari Chakravarty Vineberg, left, and Sacha Johnston who won over seventeen schools and 30 teams at the high school provincial debat ing championships held recently at Selwyn House School. The Grade Ten team of Karen Ingleton and Sarah Lenczner finished 5th and 8th overall respectively. Deborah and Sarah have been invited to represent Quebec in the National Bilingual Debating Championship.