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  • Selfie of Jim Fraser and Rossana Raffo.

    1960s

    Jim Fraser and Rossana Raffo

    鈥 Arts鈥61

    Winter 2021

    Jim and Rossana spent July until September on the Lake Champlain islands in northern Vermont; seven months in Lima (Miraflores), Peru, from November through May; and two months (coming and going) on Fripp Island, South Carolina. Jim has been retired since 2015 after 48 years teaching Spanish and coaching hockey, cross country, and track at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio.

  • 1950s

    Venetia Elliott Crawford

    鈥 Artsci鈥59

    Winter 2021

    Venetia is still president of the Pontiac Archives in Shawville, Que. Her son, Allan Crawford, owns Canadian Wilderness Adventures in Whistler, B.C. Her daughter teaches in Blackburn Hamlet, outside Ottawa; she is married to Scott Collins and has two children, Sage, and Riley. Sage is helping Venetia write about prehistoric stone structures found in Venetia鈥檚 neighbourhood.

  • 2020s

    Sherin Varghese

    鈥 MBA'21

    Fall 2021

    Congratulations to Sherin, who married her lovely wife in Dubai, UAE., on July 3rd, 2021. Due to the pandemic, they could not have a lot of people join them. However, they were grateful to have close family and friends join them on their special day.

    A special shout-out to Sherin鈥檚 MBA team and cohort, who sent video messages for their special day.

    Additionally, Sherin has started her new role at TD as a Graduate Leadership Program (GLP) manager. In Sherin鈥檚 own words, 鈥2021 has been an exciting and blessed year so far.鈥

  • 2020s

    Emma Wilson

    鈥 Artsci'19, MSc'21

    Fall 2021

    Emma, Artsci'19, MSc'21, is very excited to announce that the women鈥檚 health research project that she started during her graduate studies at Queen鈥檚 University is being published. Her paper, 鈥淜nowledge and Use of Cannabis in Pregnancy: An Ontario Public Health Needs Assessment,鈥 will be available in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada very soon. She feels she could not have done it without the support of the incredible staff of the MSc program in anatomical science and Dr. Graeme Smith and Jessica Pudwell at KHSC.

  • 2020s

    Mason Kohn

    鈥 Artsci

    Fall 2021

    Mason is enrolled in the Single J.D. program at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law.

  • 2020s

    Jennifer Kennedy

    鈥 MBA'20

    Fall 2021

    Jennifer has moved with Absorb Software Inc. to Tampa, Fla., to expand her team (to more than triple its size) and has opened up a new office downtown.