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60s

DAN (DANNY) HEFFERNAN ’61 and his wife are officially retired. Their daughter is on tenure track at the University of Michigan having graduated from the University of Chicago (PhD) and Harvard (BA). The family has lived in San Francisco for 40 years and spends most summers at their second home in Pézenas, France, where Dan enjoys biking through the small towns. He plays golf, loves to cook, and occasionally writes short stories. (Photo below)

DAN (DANNY) HEFFERNAN ’61

WALTER MARKHAM ’62 and a group of alumni have gathered each winter to go skiing, usually in the Canadian Rockies. (Photo below)

TAKEN DURING THEIR WEEK TOGETHER AT SILVER STAR SKI RESORT NEAR VERNON, BC. (LEFT TO RIGHT): JOE ROBB ’62, GORDON VIBERG ’62, WALLY MARKHAM ’62, BOB GALES ’63 AND RICK GALES ’66

MIKE ROSS ’65 (PRE-U ’66) learned about Instagram and Twitter from his daughter. She took his photo and posted: “This is my dad. He hopes he will get five likes. He said that is famous enough for him.” The post went viral and after three days, there were hundreds of thousands of likes and over 10 million views! (Photo below)

MIKE ROSS ’65 (PRE-U ’66)

PETER HALL ’66 finished 2021 ranking second in the Soling World Rankings for sailing. He shared news about his three children. Krista Hall (Pre-U ’02) and Dominic Nero live in the district of Squamish and have two daughters. Nicholas Hall ’04 (Pre-U ’05) and Heather Clark delivered the Hall family’s third granddaughter, Perry, born January 25, 2021. William Hall ’08 (Pre-U ’09) and Hélène Osterman ’12 were married May 21. Many of the guests were from the LCC family. (Photo below)

(LEFT TO RIGHT): NICHOLAS HALL ’04, CHARLIE ALLAN ’08 (PRE-U ’09), ALIX FARAGGI ’12, WILLIAM HALL ’08 (PRE-U ’09), HÉLÈNE OSTERMAN ’12, HEATHER MYATT, KEVIN COOK ’08 (PRE-U ’09), PHIL MONGEAU

70s

KENNETH HAGUE ’70 travelled to Corsica to celebrate his daughter’s marriage and the arrival of his first grandchild. (Photo below)

KENNETH IN BONIFACIO WITH THE 12TH CENTURY CITADEL IN THE BACKGROUND

DAVID DALY ’75 (PRE-U ’76) went back to university after a long career in energy economics to improve his understanding of music, his lifelong passion. In 2021, he graduated from the University of Calgary with a BA (Music) with first class honours. He recently completed the first year of his MA (Musicology) at the University of Calgary and will focus on a thesis involving Canadian opera. (Photo below)

DAVID DALY ’75 (PRE-U ’76)

TERRANCE MOCKLER ’75 graduated with a master’s degree in journalism from Harvard University on May 26, 2022. (Photo below)

IN FRONT OF THE WIDENER LIBRARY IN TERCENTENARY THEATRE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

80s

FRANK VALENTA ’81 is now living in Istria, Croatia where he has taken a role as special advisor to the ministries of economy and regional development. He is always happy to hear from alumni passing through western Croatia.

PHILIP MOSCOVITCH ’84 has been named editor of Write, the quarterly magazine of the Writers’ Union of Canada. He also recently made his crime fiction debut with a western revenge tale appearing in the anthology Jacked, edited by Vern Smith and published by Run Amok Books. Philip is currently in production on the fourth season of D’innombrables voyages, a podcast on immigrants and their stories, which he produces for the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. Seasons 1–3 are now available through Radio-Canada’s OHdio portal, as well as all major podcast platforms.

STEPHEN NICOLAIDIS ’84 is an assistant professor of surgery at Université de Montréal. He says he’s been to many schools, but his closest friends remain those from his LCC days. The best man at his wedding was Felipe Macia, and the ushers were Frank Bazos, Tom Shatilla and John Antonio. Other great friends are Michael Mechas, Dean Chan, Ron Dixon and Dennis Stevens. All are from the Class of ’84. (Photo below)

(LEFT TO RIGHT): FELIPE MACIA ’84, STEPHEN NICOLAIDIS ’84, RYAN GARBER ’17 (PRE-U ’18), DANIELA MACIA AND RACHEL NICOLAIDIS ’23

KENDALL BILLICK ’86 is excited to report that he has moved to Toronto. His spouse Katia and their children, Noa, Zoë ’19 (Pre-U ’20) and Zack ’17 have also made the leap. Kendall has accepted the position of clinician teacher at Toronto Western Hospital (UHN) and assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Toronto. Zoë is an honours student in her third year of art history at Queen’s University. Zack graduated McGill University in 2022 and is off to New York City to pursue a Master of Science in negotiation and conflict resolution at Columbia University.

TED KALIL ’87 (PRE-U ’88), a senior portfolio manager at RBC, was recently elected chair of the LCC Foundation. The Foundation oversees the school’s endowment funds and evaluates requests from the school for funds for student financial assistance. He also helps with fundraising, including planned giving. Additionally, this past June, he was re-elected to a second term as board chair at Nordiq Canada, the national sports organization responsible for the governance of Canadian cross-country skiing.

90s

CLAUDE FORTIER ’91 has joined the executive team at 360.Agency in Montreal as vice president, sales and business development. The agency is the leading digital marketing and advertising firm for the automotive industry in Canada, looking to revolutionize the way dealerships have been selling cars. (Photo below)

CLAUDE FORTIER ’91

NICOLAS BILLON ’95 and partner Christine Dow are proud to announce the birth of their baby girl, Emily Johanne, born April 6, 2022.

LAURA ROSSY ’96 (PRE-U ’97) lives in British Columbia where she has been working in the sport fishing industry since 2004, fishing for salmon, halibut, lingcod, prawns and dungeness crab. (Photo below)

LAURA HOLDING AN AVERAGE-SIZED CHINOOK SALMON (APPROXIMATELY 20 LBS.). SHE TRIES TO RELEASE THE LARGE TYEE SALMON (OVER 30 LBS.) TO KEEP THEM IN THE GENE POOL FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.

AMRICK BANSAL ’98, former member of the LCC Board of Governors and past president of the Alumni Association, married Dr. Lina Roy at the Manoir Richelieu in Charlevoix, QC, on September 5, 2021. (Photo below)

AMRICK BANSAL ’98

EMMA MCLAREN ’99 welcomed her first child, Wren Atlas Margaret, on May 25, 2021. Emma and her daughter live in Santa Cruz, California, where Emma continues to build and support businesses while living next to the beach, the redwoods and the ecosystem of the Monterey Bay. (Photo below)

EMMA MCLAREN ’99 AND WREN ATLAS MARGARET

2000s

FALYN KATZ ’00 and Lisa Katz welcomed their second child, Harrison Logan, in March 2022. (Photo below)

HARRISON LOGAN

MELISSA LEITER ’03 and her husband Adam welcomed Zachary in October 2021. His big brother, Andrew, couldn’t be more thrilled. (Photo below)

ZACHARY AND ANDREW

ROGER HILTON ’04 travelled to Kyiv in May as part of the GLOBSEC delegation along with a group of European parliamentarians. While in Ukraine, he led the delegation’s media content and interviewed Ukrainian parliamentarians, senior government officials, as well as the mayor of Kyiv. (Photo below)

INTERVIEW WITH MAYOR VITALI KLITSCHKO AT KYIV CITY COUNCIL/KYIVRADA

KRISTINA RIOUX ’06 and her husband Ilya welcomed their first child, Mila, in January 2022. They took the opportunity to travel the US west coast while on maternity/paternity leave. As a bonus, Kristina was promoted to vice president at Lazard. (Photo below)

HIKING THROUGH NEW MEXICO

BECKY ETINGIN ’09 and her husband Paul welcomed their first baby, Sonny Emmanuel, on July 4, 2022. (Photo below)

Sonny Emmanuel

WILLIAM LALONDE ’21 and his team at Shattuck-St. Mary’s School won a national championship for USHS Division 1 hockey after a successful 56-game season. (Photo below)

WILLIAM LALONDE ’21 and his team at Shattuck-St. Mary’s School