ALUMNI NEWS BRIAN PURDY ’56 and the MEDIAIMAGE Communications Group have received awards for the Laura Secord TV PSA entitled “COURAGE” including the Ava Digital Awards 2014 Platinum Award, Worldfest International Awards 2014 GOLD Award and the HERMES Creative Awards 2014 GOLD Award. In addition, MEDIAIMAGE Communications Group has been awarded their 2014 PLATINUM Award for Grimsby’s 200th anniversary re-enactment video from the War of 1812 entitled: “Engagement at the Forty” in the category of Video/Event. From 2012 to 2014, Canada marks the bicentennial of the War of 1812, a defining moment in our country’s history. Many events have occurred and are occurring across the country, including those organized by PC Alumnus Brian Purdy ’56, President of MEDIAIMAGE Communications Group. Brian has made it his mission to further student discussion on the outcome of the War of 1812, and it was debated at the prestigious Hart House High School Debate Tournament (see page 12). MONTY BOURKE ’68 has run away from retirement and accepted the position of Director of Corrections for the Government of the Northwest Territories, based in Yellowknife. He also welcomed his second grandson in May, Hunt Fraser Freeland Ballantyne Bourke, born in Whitehorse, Yukon.
RON VEITCH ’69 wrote to Charles Boyd: “We decided to retire and found everything we were looking for in town called Ridgetown. It’s a wonderful, friendly community and a campus of the University of Guelph lends some life to the town. An hour to my hometown of Windsor and less than that to London, provides us with some larger centres when we feel the need. We spent November in Sarasota and will be leaving at the end of January for a month in Italy. We have rented an apartment in Lucca and we’ll live like Italians and day trip out to Pisa and Florence and other Tuscan delights. You will remember my lifelong interest in art (helped along in the early days by Al Jewell) so I will be in my element.”
SCOTT FABRES ’86, GLENN STANT ’87 AND JEFF GRAHAM ’86 caught up in Toronto in 2013 when the Fabres family vacationed in Toronto. Scott Fabres resides in Trinidad.
CHUCK BARTON ’70 visited Pickering College in the spring with his son Charles and his friend.
DOUG WOLTERS ’88 launched his new website www.photod.ca for his photography business, Doug Wolters Photography Studio. Check it out! CONGRATULATIONS, CLASS OF 1989, ON YOUR 25TH ANNIVERSARY! THOMAS KIM ’89 is living in Toronto with his wife, Cristina and their three children, Sophie (age 12), Skylar (age 11), Syrus (age 2). Thomas owns and works at K.T. Web Printing since 2003. They print newspapers, magazines and flyers.
NICO SCHUHLE ’77 reconnected with Pickering College and met up with Charles Boyd this past Spring for dinner.
JAMES BROWN ’69: James had a wonderful visit to Tanzania in February - March 2014 on a medical mission and met with ADAM CAMENZULLI ’04 and put Adam in touch with a manufacturer to help him achieve his goal of replacing kerosene lanterns with solar lamps in remote villages. James continues to be very involved in the Sir John A celebration, and with Boys and Girls Clubs.
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OSMAN KITCHELL ’85 welcomed a son, Casper.
PAOLO KERNAHAN ’89 is an executive film producer, writer and host with Idiom Productions which explores and highlights the beautiful and relatively unexplored country of Trinidad and Tobago. Idiom Productions has two videos available through Amazon, The Road Less Travelled and Bush Diary. Check out his company online at www.idiomtv.com or on their Facebook page, Idiom Productions.