June 3-4, 2022 – 55th Reunion

Covid-19 isn't the same concern that it was for the last two years, so our classmates are getting out to see each other again. This year people flew in from Vancouver and Los Angeles as well as taking the train from Montreal. The celebration was marred by health problems, having lost three classmates already in 2022 (Ron Arends, Ado Vaher and Jim Fenwick). On the positive side, Doug Stephens joined us on the same day that he got out of the hospital, and Gup is right back golfing after his radiation treatments ended this past week.

The Golf

It doesn’t get any better. Even with red tees for all and some decent weather, the scores are heading north. Jim Allen recaptured the trophy with a net 68, and you can see him here being presented with the trophy by last year’s winner, Phil Baldwin. Gup carded the low gross with an 89, which is all the more amazing, considering his health issues.

Each year it gets harder to organize this crew, with failing memories, health complaints, and spatial disorientation (getting lost). We originally booked for 17 golfers, teed off with 13, and only 10 made it to the Duchess of Markham. Lynch swears he drove through Markham twice and couldn’t find it. Hey Dave, have you heard about this new app called Google Maps?

The golf pics follow. If you don’t care, scroll drown to the Class Dinner pics.

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The Class Dinner

We had our quinquennial dinner at the Thornhill Club—this is where Bagel golfs now, since he was asked to leave Sleepy Hollow! The room was perfect and not a discouraging word about the food or service. Great to see all of our old friends, their spouses and significant others. Doug gave us a rousing, rambling rendition of “Do you remember when?” with his speech. Good thing we didn’t let him start it before the food line opened … that sucker lasted nearly 30 minutes! After dessert we were ready to reminisce for hours but had to shut it down so the staff could clean up and go home.

Dinner pics follow. (Have you googled the word “quinquennial” yet?)

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