Old Boys News
1996
Alex Wood
participated in the German championship of handicapped golfers in August for the fourth consecutive year. The tournament took place at Golfclub Abenberg, near Nuremburg. His father, Andrew Wood ‘60, again assisted as caddie. It proved a great team, as Alex finished first in his category!
1997
Drew Ripley
has been appointed director of business for Canada’s Twisted Five, the country’s first national competitive balloon-twisting team. The team consists of five professional balloon artists who build structures and scenes for competitions and conferences. This spring, Drew participated with his team at the 2016 World Balloon Festival in New Orleans, earning a bronze for technical difficulty and colour in the medium-sized sculpture competition category. It was the first time an organized Canadian team has been represented at the competition. Drew’s company, Drew Ripley Entertainment, is based in Kitchener, Ont.
1998
Douglas Mac Con
married Erin Farrell August 9, 2015 in St. John’s, Nfld. There was a good contingent of SAC boys in attendance including 1998 classmates Jon Price, Brook Dyson, Christopher Fusco, Max Woods, and Jason Perrier. This summer, the couple welcomed daughter Bridget Jeane, born July 30. Douglas is a litigation lawyer at Miller Thomson LLP in Toronto.
(l-r) Christopher Fusco, Brook Dyson, Max Woods, and Jason Perrier hoist groom Douglas Mac Con 40 FALL 2016
The company was established in 1967, has two locations in Hong Kong, and deals in luxury diamond and gem-set jewellery.
1995 Mike Young was a volunteer judge at the Fulford Debate Championships at SAC in April. He and his wife, Diane, have a two-year-old daughter, August, and live in Toronto. Michael manages the classroom technologies and IT field services teams at the University of Toronto, Mississauga Campus and was accepted into Queen’s University MBA program starting this fall.
1998 John Lowes joined BMO Financial Group as deputy chief compliance officer in the compliance risk program office in Toronto. John and his wife, Susie, welcomed their second child, William, on May 30, a baby brother for Charlotte, 3.
1999 George Brown and his wife, Julie, welcomed their second child, Midori Harper, on December 26, 2014. Older brother, Colton, is excited to have
a younger sister. George continues to work for RBC Wealth Management as an investment advisor in Toronto, where he and his family live.
1999 Alan Lau is an associate professor in the department of electrical engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He and his research team are responsible for breaking the world record for fastest optical communications for data centres, increasing the existing speed 24-fold and reducing the existing cost by a quarter. This technology breakthrough will enable Google, Facebook, and YouTube to provide augmented reality and virtual reality anywhere and anytime, as well as new forms of communications that we can’t even imagine at the moment. Alan’s achievement comes as no surprise to teacher Jon Butcher, who remembers Alan as the only SAC student to have ever made the final 20 for selection to the Canadian Physics Olympiad team.
1999 Dan Near moved back to Canada in March after nearly 10 years with the NHL in New York City, most recently as the league’s senior director of consumer products licensing. He is currently the head of adidas Hockey. In May, Dan spoke at SAC’s First Hockey banquet. In March, he received the “5 to Watch” award from George Brown College’s Centre