- Graduated with a Masters degree in Leadership from the University of Guelph.
- Kandy (Markewich) Hennenfent – She achieved her bachelor of Science first and then in 2003 her Master’s degree in Leadership.
- Hitchhiked across most of Canada in their late teens and then over 14 states in 4 months when they were 20-21.
- Ruth Dumonceau has lived in various places, including Toronto for 5 years and Montreal for just under 2 years. She has worked as a waitress, cook, house cleaner, and seamstress assistant, to name a few.
- Survived Cancer TWICE!!
- Arlene Huckabay: I can’t imagine how scary it would be the first time, but the second time, I would think even worse. Arlene says that for the second time, she was just mad. How dare it come back!!!
- Was a professional musician and played with 14 people from the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame.
- Dennis Fitzsimmons – he was a drummer. Apparrently his dad was an accomplished musician as well. Prior to that Dennis played with Yvonne and the Plainsmen at the Royal Hotel 6 nights a week. Of course we all remember that!!
- Started a children’s birthday bag supply business and her own secretarial/accounting company
- Cyndy Cameron – She is such an entrepreneur – I’ve never had an inkling to start my own company in my life.
- Cyndy was also a sleuth in finding classmates for us.
- Who tried to repeat Galileo’s motion theory in Italy in 1974 from the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
- Tim Metka – Galileo’s motion theory using gravity showed that an object with a specific weight, and mass would fall at the same rate of speed, as a similar object with a mass, and weight of over 10 times as great as the initial object.
- From the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Tim neglected to drop items that were identical, and settled for a goose feather from a pillow, and an apple.
- Naturally, his 17-year-old brain did not comprehend the differing nature of mass held by the feather vs the much heavier and differing mass of the apple.
- The feather gained altitude and blew away while the apple fell to the ground, splitting apart.
- Immediately, whistles sounded, and he was escorted down from the Leaning Tower of Pisa by two uniformed Pisa Poliziotti. This was followed by an extensive lecture in Italian, complete with unique finger-wagging that only people of Latin descent are capable of.
- He is now under the assumption that he may be the only dumbass Canadian from this graduating class that was thrown off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
- Was on Town Council for 24 years and then became the Mayor of the place he lives.
- Darcy Stefuik – he is the mayor of Gravelbourg.
- Was gifted a 1-year-old foster daughter for Xmas, which prompted a long-distance relationship for many years.
- Deb Gamble – She ended up visiting a community in Honduras where a school library was established. Since then, this classmate has been privileged to have had three additional foster daughters.
- She has also skydived four times, screaming like a banshee all the way down, and hikes mountains for fun. I’m just waiting for her next picture at the Base Camp of Mount Everest!
- Was a Regional Director for Freedom 55 Financial, and they haven’t felt like they’ve worked a day in their career.
- Brad Powe – he retired as a RD and kept his Financial Planning licences and says his career has been a lot of fun!
- Still plays hockey 4 x week, squash with Alan Myers, golf at the course in Ottawa and still runs a bit.
- He’s had way too much fun!!
- Lived in Alberta, Manitoba, and Ontario 3 times. Lived 4 times in Saskatchewan and has carried around a defibrillator for over 10 years?
- Elaine (Cumberland) Peltier – Her husband Dave was in the military, and back then, they moved you around a lot.
- Elaine has an implanted cardiac defibrillator in her chest. Scary moment on April 1, 2014 – her heart had started to flutter and was not sending signals to pump. Her husband did 40 min of CPR before the ambulance arrived, shocked her, and air ambulance to Winnipeg. After many tests, they implanted a defibrillator in case it happened again. They don’t know what caused it, and they could not find anything wrong with her heart.
- Has traveled the farthest – Brasília Brasil to Moose Jaw is 9,244km
- Peter Brochu – Has been manufacturing and exporting granite since 2006, developed LSF (Lightweight Steel Framing) Modular construction projects and still does a lot of consulting.
- Actually – another classmate has been farther at 9,632.55 km – Vaughn Clark
- Has 30 cows, a huge garden (about 1500 hills of potatoes last year), and 6 deep freezers full
- Bruce Farrer – Lives at Qu’Appelle (still on the farm.) They have many fruit trees and so many vegetables to freeze. He says the deep freezers are full of…..something??
- Worked at the same job for 61 years – 21 of those years was part-time.
- When Bruce Farrer had his first day at Riverview, he boarded at a place close to 12th Ave on Coteau St W. He walked to the school and went to the office. Mrs Little looked at him and said, “I’m sorry—the students don’t come until tomorrow,” to which he said, “I’m the new teacher.” The teachers were supposed to meet that day.
- He says now, after being in the classroom for 62 years when he goes into a new school, he suspects they think he has wandered away from the nursing home.
- Another interesting story about Mr. Farrer is that in one of the last classes for a Grade 12 class, he brought a bunch of ties to school and taught every kid how to tie a tie. He said most of those kids wore that tie for the rest of the day—(of course, it was with a tee shirt and jeans—they didn’t care).
- Everyone knows about the Documentary filmed in Spain about The Farrer Method. The film has won many awards. Mr. Farrer had classes write about where they saw themselves in 20 years. After 20 years, Mr. Farrer found as many of these students as he could and gave them their letters.
- Flew with the snowbirds for one year in 1982
- Paul Mckeen—He was a Technician with the Snowbirds at the time, so he flew with the team to maintain and fix the jets when they had a problem!
- I wouldn’t want to be in the Jet when it had a problem!!!
- Who lives among the pirates of the Caribbean?
- Janice Deyotte—Janice lived in Kelowna, BC, for years, worked in the tourism industry, and traveled to many fantastic locations throughout the world.
- Tourism in Canada is ruled by the cold weather and she is allergic to the cold,😜 She figured to choose a property in Jamaica after exploring other options like Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica…
- She bought her property in 1994 and built a full solar energy system. She’s on the edge of the Caribbean Sea, with crashing waves and incredible fishing, and she planted every fruit tree: almond, mango, papaya, avocado, coconut, pineapple, guava, cashew, Star fruit, and breadfruit.
- She shares her life with seven rescue dogs – they are a very good security team.
- Loves to Waterslide
- Janice (New) Johnson – I love this – an activity that was liked in younger years is still a favorite. There was a question on the radio the other days about fun activities that we still love to do and we should keep on doing!!
- Unfortunately for Janice, most places removed all of their water slides except for the ones in hotels.
- While golfing had a score on one hole 500 x more rare than a hole in one (6 million vs 12000 to 1 according to Wiki). The shot is called an albatross
- Dwain Teed – he scored an albatross with work buddies on one hole at Pheasant Back in Stettler AB… it was a 2 on a par 5… he never saw it go in – but he still scored a 106 that round…. Lol
- Has flown in the Good Year Blimp
- Cathie (Smart) Wilk – She was also able to go to the Indy 500 and Churchill Downs and bet on horses while drinking Mint Juleps, with everything paid for as a perk. She also went to the Virgin Islands on a sailboat – she had to pay for that one!!!
- Has Rappelled off the Armories Building in Calgary, competing in their 2nd Urban Adventure Race.
- Donna (Mowrey) Dahlman – consider it a 6-hour Amazing Race. It was called the Bell City Chase (and they had these competitions in some of the major centres across Canada.) Donna competed for the first time in Calgary and in Regina the next year. Donna is afraid of heights – so she went straight down the building as fast as she could – her feet never even hit the wall.
- Who is a German Indian?
- Dwain Teed – His mother was born and raised on a reserve (Peguis) and she was in the residential school system in Birtles MB. Dwain was born in Germany. He has full status and was born in the Black Forest area (Baden Baden).
- Who can string in open tunings complimentary to each and with his right hand can pluck and strum to generate a cycle of harmonics that sounds like a harp?
- Don Knight – Don has 8 acoustic 6 strings, 2-12 strings, 3 mandolins, a ukelele, and a banjo that he strums with his right hand to do this.
- They set foot in all ten provinces in one calendar year.
- Dan Bracuk – He joined the Air Force shortly after finishing high school and in 1980 he was stationed at Canadian Forces Base Summerside in Prince Edward Island. That summer he took a road trip to Newfoundland, driving through New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
- In the fall of that year, he took a course at Canadian Forces Base Borden in Ontario. He drove there and went through Quebec. This course included visits to bases in Comox, British Columbia, and Cold Lake, Alberta. Travel to and from these places was by a military aircraft, which had a scheduled stop in Winnipeg, Manitoba. While in Cold Lake, they visited the air weapons range, part of which is in Saskatchewan. That’s the 10th province.
- In 1985, they quit oil and gas jobs, flew to Amsterdam, purchased a VW Westphalia and toured around Europe for most of that year.
- Gary Moore – he has had a few more Westphalias since then, and his wife says he goes before the van does. He was also involved with the team that sold and installed the e-mail internet infrastructure for shaw.ca.
- As a customer of Shaw – we need to talk!!!
- Which classmate has traveled to Australia, Italy, and New Zealand to play fastball in the World’s Masters Games
- Gloria (Sharp) Lawrence– When Alberta Crude, a team out of Sherwood Park, asked her if she would play with them at the 2009 World Masters Games in Sydney, Australia, she jumped at the chance. They won gold that year. She also had played with her Wainwright team, the Steelers, in Edmonton at the 2005 Games.
- In 2013, Alberta Crude went to the Masters Games in Torino, Italy. They placed 4th and did a lot of touring before the Games.
- In 2017 they played in Auckland, New Zealand. The Games are 9 days long. They won Gold again, this time in the 55+ division so only a few teams competing – but still a major accomplishment.
- Has had:
- 1 Degree
- 2 Wives
- 3 Children
- 4 Businesses (one over 20 years old)
- 5 Cities (lived in)
- Alan Myers –These were not all at the same time!!
- Businesses (one over 20 years old) – Commodity futures fund, magazine publisher, furniture store owner, and (current) digital marketing company since 2002. This guy is another entrepreneur
- Cities (lived in after Moose Jaw) – Edmonton, Estevan, Saskatoon, Kelowna, and Ottawa (currently).
- Was Operations Co-Ordinator for an oil ship loading terminal and an LPG plant in Libya on the Mediterranean for 25 years.
- Vaughan Clark – He said, “Don’t think the guidance counselor at Riverview suggested this path”.
- He currently lives in Wyoming for most of the year about 40 miles south of Jackson in a town called Star Valley Ranch. Spends the winter in Mesa, Arizona not very far from where Donna goes for the winter.
- Has been shot at multiple times, blown up, and kidnapped in Yemen, among other adventures
- Peter Yates – As a live-in Manager for an Oil Company, he was called as urgent help was needed in Yemen on a temporary basis for a Rig Move. He was told he needed to run some tools and be back in a week. Previous experience has led him to believe otherwise, and rightly so. Things went from bad to worse the moment he landed in Yemen. Peter has actually written about his experiences. This would be an action-packed hair raising movie
- Peter is currently living in Vietnam for the past 3 years.
- Coached a player in minor hockey who went undrafted yet went on to play 877 games and 15 years in the NHL with the Predators, Devils, Coyotes and Stars… the kid was Vern Fiddler.
- Dwain Teed – Dwain coached him in Edmonton.
- We tricked you by having 3 questions for Dwain, LOL
I’m sure we all have stories….
For those of us who don’t have quite as exciting of a life –
To quote Vaughn Clarke
Life is more about the friendships/relationships you make than the places you’ve been or things you have done.