February 3, 2010 |
| Committee Meeting March 9th |
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There will be a CCI 100 Reunion Committee meeting on Tuesday, March 9th at 7 pm in the CCI Library. Everyone is welcome.
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February 1, 2010 |
| Lyle Phillips fondly remembers Central years |
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Lyle Phillips is looking forward to attending the 100th anniversary reunion of Central Collegiate being held in July. - Rebecca Lawrence photograph
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29 Jan 2010
REBECCA LAWRENCE - MOOSE JAW TIMES-HERALD
Central Collegiate will hold its 100th year reunion in July. In a series on former graduates, the Times-Herald spoke to lawyer Lyle Phillips.
Phillips, 81, who lives in Moose Jaw with his wife Joanne, graduated from Central Collegiate in 1946.
“It was a nice place to go to school,” he remembered fondly. “I had lots of friends. There was lots of sports. I was best in maths and science,” he said.
“There always seemed to be lots to do. On Friday afternoons they had a little program every couple of months. They would have different things like people performing an instrument. They called them LITS.”
After graduating, Phillips went on a hockey scholarship to the University of Michigan to study engineering.
“But engineering and I did not get along,” Phillips said. “So then I went to Assumption College in Windsor, now the University of Windsor, for three years and I took my bachelor of arts with a major in business administration.
“Then, after that, I went to the University of Saskatchewan and got my law degree,” he said.
“Then I came back to Moose Jaw and articled with my father who was a lawyer and I have been practising ever since.
“I followed in my father’s footsteps and I had no intention of that when I first started university,” Phillips recalled.
Phillips had his own law firm for awhile but in 1970, the Phillips Law Firm amalgamated with the Dubinsky Law Firm.
In 1975 Phillips worked for Fairford Industries Ltd. as a lawyer and head of finance. The company manufactured steel buildings.
In 1985 he went back into practice, opening the Lyle Phillips Law Office, first above the Royal Bank and then on Stadacona Street until July 2008. He then became associated with Chow McLeod on High Street West.
“I do not really want to retire,” he said.
Phillip’s daughter Debbie Cowan is the co-chairwoman for the Central Collegiate reunion. His son David, who lives in Calgary, is also planning to attend.
“I ’m looking forward to the reunion,” he said. “I think it will be fun. I do not know right now if many of my class are going.”
Registrations are still being accepted.
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January 7, 2010 |
| Lloyd Probert plans to attend Central Reunion with his children and sister |
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Lloyd Probert as a child before attending school at Central Collegiate, left, in this submitted photograph. At right, Lloyd Probert looks over an album of family photographs. He will be attending the CCI centennial reunion this summer.
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22 Dec 2009
REBECCA LAWRENCE - MOOSE JAW TIMES-HERALD
Central Collegiate will holds it 100th year reunion in July 2010. In our series on former graduates, the Times-Herald spoke to former Moose Jaw opthamologist Lloyd Probert. Probert, who lives in Moose Jaw with his wife Coralie, graduated from Central Collegiate in 1939.
His father Frank Probert was an optometrist and ran F.B. Probert, next to the Capitol Theatre on Main Street.
Probert, 88, is looking forward to the Central reunion — which will be a family affair. Five of Probert’s six children also went to Central as did his sister, now Sylvia Farley, and they are all planning to attend the reunion. “I suppose there will be quite a few friends there although I do not think there are many who are still in Moose Jaw,” he said.
Probert said his best subjects were chemistry and physics. “I enjoyed sports at Central,” Probert said. “They were a good bunch of people there.” After graduating, he went to the University of Saskatchewan to study medicine. He graduated just as the Second World War was ending and got out of the army in 1945.
Probert then spent three years working in Craik before going to Toronto to study ophthalmology to become an eye specialist. He came back to Moose in 1952 and did not retire until 1997. Probert said he has enjoyed living in Moose Jaw. “It’s not too big. I’m still sort of an old farm boy, although I never lived on a farm,” he said.
“I lived in town and walked to school. We lived up on North Hill.”
Probert is good friends with Lyle Phillips who will also be attending the reunion. But he said it was after graduating that they became friends. “We were friends after he finished law school but not at Central because he was three or four years behind. You usually did not associate with the younger ones.”
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Rebecca Lawrence can be reached at 691-1258
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December 22, 2009 |
| Christmas Card Lane |
Nothing says Christmas in Moose Jaw like the cards along Christmas Card Lane (aka Langdon Crescent). Of course, CCI 100 is there to wish everyone the best of the season.
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December 4, 2009 |
| Central grad looks back to '41 |
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27 Nov 2009
REBECCA LAWRENCE - MOOSE JAW TIMES-HERALD
Central Collegiate will mark its 100th year in July 2010 [ July 8-11, 2010 ] with a birthday party and reunion. In the first of our profiles on former graduates, the TimesHerald spoke to Moose Jaw resident Marion Tolley.
For Marion Tolley, school was an opportunity she grasped with both hands and she knew she was lucky to be learning.
Tolley, then Marion Affleck, attended Central Collegiate and graduated in June 1941, but it was only thanks to the Rotary Club’s charitable donations that she was able to pay the fees.
“I was so thankful to be able to go to school,” she said. “As far as I can remember, it cost $12 or $15 to register and my family could not afford it.
“I did not find out for about 40 years who had paid it. It was the Rotary Club of the day. It was when the drought and the Depression were still on,” she said.
Tolley, now 86, was 18 the June she graduated, but she said there was no fancy party like students have these days. “I think we just had something in the school auditorium, but we did not have fancy outfits or a dance or anything,” she said.
Tolley said she was a good student and willing to learn. “I was always happy to learn and I was an avid reader. It was so interesting to be encouraged by your family and the teachers challenged you,” she said. It was reading and writing that Tolley enjoyed the most but she also did well at math. “I was also an artist and I had a natural ability to draw and paint and I did cartooning. I used to copy Disney characters,” she said. “ We were really fortunate to have excellent teachers at Central.”
Everybody used to walk to school back then, even in winter. “ We used to share books a lot and even share clothes,” she said. “ We had a lot of elocution and spelling contests with the schools. “ We had quite a lot of music events although most of us could not afford real music lessons. “ We had a great teacher — an Irish man — and every year we had a special program called an Irish Night, and we all sang and danced,” she said.
After high school, Tolley attended the Davidson Business College, which was on the top floor of the Royal Bank on High Street.
She met her British husband, George Tolley in Moose Jaw where he was a transport driver for the Royal Air Force. They got married in 1943 and she travelled on a ship with other war brides to join him in England briefly before he was sent to Burma. Tolley worked for the Royal Canadian Air Force as a clerk in Worcester, U.K., and came back to Moose Jaw in 1946. She said many Moose Jaw girls married British servicemen and most of them returned to the city after the war.
Tolley, who has seven children, 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild, said she is not in touch with many old school friends. “ The war broke us up,” she said. “Some of them never came home because they were killed and some moved someplace else.
“ I am looking forward to the reunion and hoping some of the oldtimers will come back. It will be good to see some I have not seen for a while,” she said.
Rebecca Lawrence can be reached at 691-1258.
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November 5, 2009 |
| Robin Boadway to receive Order of Canada |
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Prof. Robin Boadway, with the department of economics at Queen's University, will receive the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian decoration.
- Michael Lea mlea@thewhig.com
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Among Elite Company
Posted By ROB TRIPP
Kingston Whig Standard
November 4, 2009
Robin Boadway [CCI Graduate Class of 1960 / Rhodes Scholar 1964] says he's humbled by the roster of accomplished Canadians with whom he'll rub shoulders tomorrow in Ottawa.
"It's really quite intimidating to be there with them," Boadway said yesterday.
There's legendary TV broadcaster Peter Mansbridge, noted philanthropist Stephen Jarislowsky and accomplished pro golfer Mike Weir.
Boadway, a 36-year veteran of Queen's University -- and one of the country's most sought after and respected public finance economists -- is tickled that he'll be at Rideau Hall alongside Weir to receive the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian decoration.
"He's a tremendous speaker for the sport," said Boadway, 66, who is clearly at the top of his game.
Boadway will be invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada. The honour recognizes his "significant impact" on public policy through more than three decades of research, writing and consulting on federal transfer payments and the federal equalization policy.
"I've been involved in researching this area, but also in the international context I've done a lot of work for international organizations and ... countries," Boadway said, "sort of looking at how to structure their fiscal systems, their federal systems, very much using Canada as a model.
"Canada actually has, contrary to what people might think, quite a model system of federal-provincial arrangements that is sometimes advocated in other countries."
This honour is different from Boadway's many academic achievements.
"It is one of the highest (honours)," he said, noting that it recognizes lasting contribution to society, rather than any singular achievement.
Boadway has consulted with officials in South Africa, Sweden, Japan and Iraq and with many international organizations, including the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
He's recently been to Dubai in the United Arab and Emirates and Cyprus, where public officials hope to learn from Canada's admired economic system of wealth redistribution and decentralization.
"It's got a lot of integrity," said Boadway, who concedes it might be fair to label him a prosletyzer who travels the globe preaching the value of Canada's system.
He concedes it's far from perfect and is often fraught with tensions and conflicts.
"We've always got this tension sort of running horizontally in Canada," said Boadway, who now considers himself an adoptive Old Stone of Kingston.
Born in Regina, Sask., he grew up in Moose Jaw and ended up studying at Royal Military College.
After a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, he found himself posted to Kingston while completing his military service. While at RMC in the economics department, he also completed a PhD thesis at Queen's. In 1973, he joined the university faculty.
He currently holds the David Chadwick Smith chair in economics, a newly created five-year position that honours the former principal for whom it is named.
Boadway has two sons and a Prince Edward Island-born wife, whose roots lure the family east for several months each year.
The Order of Canada investiture ceremony begins at 10 a.m. EDT, Thursday, November 5th.
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October 29, 2009 |
| Rumours... |
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It seems that there are rumours floating about that the CCI 100 Reunion has been cancelled due to lack of interest.
Nothing could be further from the truth. As you can see, we are alive and well.
We actually had to laugh when we heard this rumour... with the Comittee neck deep in planning meetings it sounds funny to hear something like this pop up in conversation.
To quote Mark Twain, "The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated".
Addendum: ... we have learned that there was confusion between the CCI Reunion in 2010 and the "Moose Jaw" Reunion that used to be held in Victoria every three years... and the "Moose Jaw" Reunion was cancelled due to lack of interest... but it had a really good run for many years.
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October 7, 2009 |
| Write 100 times...! |
The CCI 100 "Chalkboard" is back!
We took it away until we had more people sign onto the Alumni Page.
We'd love to give everyone their own space in their profiles but this will have to do... a big board for everyone. You can send greetings, ask questions, tell us about your day... whatever, but please keep it clean.
Click to take you to the Chalkboard.
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September 26, 2009 |
| New Grad Year Sort |
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Well, it took a while but everyone's profile (all 1900) has been changed to the new graduation year sort method. You can now choose your grad year (or any year) on the CCI Alumni page with a drop down menu and only that year will be listed.
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September 14, 2009 |
| Reunion Photobook Winners |
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We've had all three draws for the beautiful hardcover CCI 100 Reunion Photobooks.
... and the Winners are!:
Glennys Holliday (Hannah) - Class of 1969
Dave Phillips - Class of 1970
Julie Brundage - Class of 1971
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2010
Committee Mee...
January (1)