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1959
Vincent Prager ’59 has established his mother’s summer home in St. Andrew’s, New Brunswick as an art gallery to display the paintings and collections of his mother, Eva Prager, a well-known Canadian portrait painter, as well as Vincent’s grandfather, Joseph Oppenheimer (1876-1961), who started the German school of impressionism. Eva Prager had been married to Sir James Dunn and, after his death, to Lord Beaverbrook. Vincent, who is still a law partner in the Montreal office of Denton’s, acquired the large home after the death of his mother in 1994, and maintains a smaller property next door as a vacation residence.
1972
Roswell James ’72 is establishing a website called Enablers.ca, a “one-stop shop for information on living with a wide range of diseases and disabilities.” Roswell, who has lived with epilepsy and associated health conditions all his life, said the focus of his site is on understanding and surmounting disability. “If you understand your disability, you can overcome it,” he says. “We’ve listed almost 500 common disabilities we need to build, from autism to schizophrenia. It's a huge job. I need about five people to get it done and I want them all to be people with disabilities because they’ll have personal
Derek Bradeen ’91 (left) and Paul Dery-Goldberg ’95 have been playing rugby against each other for years whenever their clubs have been in the same division. Derek plays scrum-half for the Brome Lake Ducks RFC and Paul now plays Fly-Half for the Town of Mont-Royal RFC. They have both been active in their clubs for years, and Paul is currently the President of TMRRFC. As of last September they were undefeated in Division 2 and moving up to Division 1 this year. ”We both started playing rugby at SHS,” Paul says, ”and Derek and I have had great talks over beers at our clubhouse after games, reminiscing about Peter Govan practices and our days at Selwyn.” Photo by Serge Ghattas ’85. understanding of the issues,” James said. “In a year's time, I want this to be a national entity that doctors tell their patients about.”
1979
In April 2014, Arnold Lazare ’79 was promoted to the position of Director of Community Protection for the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake. As an instructor with the Ecole Nationale des Pompiers du Quebec, he has been training firefighters, firefighter officers and firefighter instructors for the Cree Nation Government and neighboring departments of the Kahnawake Fire Brigade. His son Ethan graduated this
past June in the class of 2014.
1980
Clive Spiegel ’80 just completed and published the second edition of his best-selling textbook Psychiatry Test Preparation And Review Manual. It rapidly became the second-best selling textbook in neuroscience for Elsevier Medical Publishing when it first appeared in 2007.
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