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Editorial 
by Angus Cross |
Notification Alert:
Due to recent budget cuts and the rising cost of electricity, gas, oil, as well as current market conditions, the Light at the End of the Tunnel has been turned off.
Things are not really quite that bad at chamblycounty.com but recent declines in new memberships and renewals have led to some concern. Rather than ask the Board of Directors to renegotiate the deal we struck back in July of 2005 with regard to funding for the website and newsletter. We have commenced selling advertising on our site.
In a recent mass email sent to 1,600 non-members the following occured:
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only 37.7% read the email
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due to the email being blocked or the unnotified change of address 15.4% have to now be considered lost contacts
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one of the links in the email was to Join the Association. Only 4 people clicked on the link and to date none have joined.
As we get ever closer to Reunion 2010 our emphasis must shift to finding the missing and encouraging new found alumni to not only attend the reunion but to join our association.
Angus
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Keeping the Connection
 by Warren Mackenzie - Photo Editor
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Now here's a happy group of alumni who met recently in Colorado.
Do you have any recent 'getting together' photos we can help you share with fellow alumni? Please send them in with a short photo caption.
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| Alumni Photo of the Month |
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| Who's Who |
Who's this CCHS grad starlet who was admired by all these well known personalities?
To nominate a candidate for the WHO'S WHO directory
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| Alumni Association News |
An Alumni Association Board meeting followed by a Reunion 2010 meeting was held on March 18th.
The Alumni Memorial Garden and fund raising to support this noble effort was much discussed.
Alumni Association Secretary/VP Harvey Carter reports: I know all of you have heard the stories and promises about the proposed additions to old Chambly County High School for a couple of years now. Well, I'm here to confirm that the work has actually begun - and I've got pictures to prove it. The expected completion date for the inside portion of the new facilities is September 2009, with some of the exterior work carrying on until November. Barring any unexpected delays, students will start off the 2009-2010 year with a new double gymnasium, library, combination cafeteria/auditorium and green space.
This is how it looked when things got underway on February 25, 2009.
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The Reunion 2010 Schedule of Events is almost complete. Member Surveys are being analyzed to ensure we haven't forgotten anything. Scheduling, locations, and individual event pricing have been carefully scrutinized. Based on the lessons the committee learned from Reunion 2005 we believe we have come up with an exciting schedule. Check the schedule of events
If you have not as yet done so please take a few moments and complete the survey by clicking on the link underlined below.
Volunteers will be needed for a variety of tasks associated with the reunion. If you wish to assist, please contact -
Jack Anderson - Co-Chair |
| New Profiles added to Class Lists |
  
John Waymann C'80 Brock Cummings C'76 Sandi Bernards (Findlay) C'62
Add your Profile
(Using Public Uploader)
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Saint Lambert - Photo of the Month |
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Please send your photos, with a short caption, via email or contact Warren Mackenzie for snail mail instructions:
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| People want to know |
Not only the reunion committee but your classmates want to know if you plan to attend Reunion 2010. In the near future we plan to add a column to your class list indicating those people who "plan to attend"
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| School News |
| The Chambly Academy construction Project has finally begun. Follow the project with photos and captions by Harvey Carter C'60 Chambly Academy Construction |
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Class Contacts |
We are still seeking people to act as Class Contacts for their class year. If interested, and for further details, please contact Daniel Thompson
1950 - 1952: Warren Mackenzie
1953: Bill Brown and Sheila Kerr
1954-1957: Warren Mackenzie
1958: John Ernst
1959 - 1960 Angus Cross
1961:
1962: Carol Keating
1963:
1964:
1965: Larry Llewellyn
1966:
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1968: John Dalrymple
1969: Catherine Paquet
1970: Will Arnold
1971: Missy Harrison
1972: Brian Perron
1973: Brian Pond
1974: Gordon Croucher
1975: Dale Simmons
1976: Laura Prince
1977 : Nancy Whyte
1978 : John Sader
1979 : Peter Thibaudault
1980 : Anne Marie Gloutney
1981: Sandy Searle
1982: Barry Keeler
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1984: Pamela Storr
1985: Simon Carson
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1988:
1989: Ann Zakaib
1990: Helen Chanfat
1991:
1992: Natalie Anne Beauchamp
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Chambly Academy 2000 to 2008:
* Names that are not bolded have been asked to serve but as yet have not totally committed.
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| The Hunt for Missing Alumni |
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All leads are checked so please help in the hunt for your brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, friends, who attended CCHS, but still remain on our Missing List
Editor
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New Life Member: Sandra Gillians C'79
CCHS's Member-Find-a-Missing Contest -
Any member who submits the names and addresses of 20 people on our Missing List will receive Life Membership in the association, OR, if already a Life Member, Passport for 1 to Reunion 2010. (Prizes courtesy of Angus Cross)
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| Announcements
Births, deaths, marriages, appointments, retirements,, awards |
Nothing received since March newsletter.
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| Your comments |
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Hope you're doing well since the surgery. Believe me I know what its
like after going through what I did; the removal of a blood clot in my
leg and then finding out I had diabetes too. Well as you may know I
have been blind since birth due to premature retinopathy which means basically that too much oxygen from the incubator causes burning and destruction of the optic nerve. In those days they really didn't know why or how to control it. Anyway, picture this, keeping in mind that I'm high as a kite on morphine at the time; four doctors two nurses and my wife are in the room and the head guy Doctor Hitchie says, well Marc we have some bad news for you; you know about the clot in your leg, well you also have diabetes. Then the five second pause followed by my response: well docs, at least I won't go blind! Well that broke the ice and the whole room cracked up. One of the doctors does stand-up in his spare time to relieve the tension and he told me it was perfect timing and that I should consider stand-up. I told him it was just luck.
Subsequent to that though each time he was the one doing the rounds he expected a joke or something smart ass or humorous from me--kept me on my toes that's for sure.
Anyway after coming out of hospital the first time I had to go back a week later as the wound in my groin had reopened and they gave me a wound vac for five weeks.
The second time I was in the hospital from June 15 to July 4 and Maureen had to find us a new place to live and pack because we had given our notice in April before I went into hospital May 26 the first time. So now when people talk about surgery I really do have a feeling for how tough it is!
The last time I was in hospital before this was the day of President Kennedy's funeral to get my tonsils out!
Anyway what I really wanted to do was to touch base and thank you for putting me in touch with Maggie Carruthers; we phone each other
occasionally now and exchange email on a regular basis! Also I was
going to mention to you that if you don't mind, can you go to the CNIB's or Montreal Association for the Blind's website and check out details on how to make things compliant with screen readers for the blind. Since not all the radio buttons are labelled on your survey you posted as a link in the newsletter and I've been having difficulty in trying to complete it! Thanks in advance, do stay in touch and best of luck to you in the future!
Marc Baillargeon C'74
I don't think the Snow Bird picture in the latest CCHS Alumni Newsletter is appropriate, especially if you are hoping to attract younger grads to the membership. Nowadays, pictures like that are considered cheap, tacky, sexist and entirely unnecessary.
Is that the kind of tone you want associated with the Newsletter? If I had not already joined and were considering a membership, I would be turned right off.
Brock Cummings
Class'76
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| Saint Lambert salutes the 50th anniversary of the St. Lawrence Seaway |
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Saint-Lambert, March 26, 2009 - The City of Saint-Lambert is proud to underscore the 50th anniversary of the St. Lawrence Seaway, whose Saint-Lambert lock has formed part of our local landscape since the lock was built.
"I am pleased to join in the 50th anniversary celebrations of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Its construction in the 1950s completely changed not only navigation on the river, but also the face and future of the City of Saint-Lambert. We are proud to be part of the history of this great engineering marvel, regarded as a model of cooperation between Canada and the United States. On behalf of Saint-Lambert's City Council, I wish the St. Lawrence Seaway continuing success in its activities, and to offer my sincere congratulations to the St. Lawrence Seaway Management
Corporation and its American counterpart, the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation," emphasized Mayor Sean Finn.
The St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation held an official opening ceremony marking the start of the Seaway's 2009 navigation season at 10:30 a.m. on March 31, at the Saint-Lambert lock.
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| Alum to alum - Business Classified |
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The chamblycounty.com website is now open for advertisers to offer varied goods and services on an alum to alumni basis. If interested in learning more please contact Angus Cross
We are pleased to introduce to our members our first advertiser, John Waymann C'74. Please take a look at what he has to offer by checking the Alum to alumni Directory |
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