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Class of 1980 |
My fondest memory of P.C. is when we had a "sit-in" because the higher ups decided we didn't need "extra curricular" activities any more. I ended up spending the whole day in the vice-principals office all day and missing all the fun!
Also the music at lunch time over by the gym... when they played "sweet madame blue" i was late for class... tee hee. Glen Williams! That guy got me into so much trouble. we had a lot of fun, didn't we?
John Abbott College
Concordia University
Winning regional Basketball championship. Glory days.
K. Garebian - just kidding
Vanier College
Concordia University
Hanging out with friends
John Abbott College
Concordia University
Study, Study, Study, Learn everything you can now while your mind is still fresh. It will pay off big time in the future! Try everything once do it now what are you waiting for?! Really.
Great site glad to see it brings back oh so
many memories!
Dawson College
Concordia University
Everyone has their own perspective on life. Education, however, broadens that perspective, enables one to be more creative and allows one to find solutions to problems and arrive at conclusions they would have not otherwise arrived at without such an education. So there!
Wilbrecht: Auto Mechanics. Love the guy!
Went back to visit PCHS in 1998. Prior to that haven't been there since 1980. Brought back lots of good memories...quite refreshing. We must have a 25 year reunion in 2005! Lets get to work ya'll! Cheers!
John Abbott College
There are so many! Going to get a coffee from the machine, a bun with butter and then outside for a cigarette (sometimes freezing to death)! Sharing a very messy locker with Carol. The Pioneer raid - at least 60% were from PC and caught (not Andrea and I) plus so many more! The making of friends that turn out to be life long buddies.! That's the best!
Just have a blast! This is the best time of your life even if you don't think so now! Believe me, you will be thinking back and saying the same things we are! ENJOY!
Mr. Baldasare
Mr. Hausvater
John Abbott College
Hanging out with the great friends that were made in 79/80. Sneakin out for lunch, and smokin' in the cold!! The dance committee, the carnival committee, and every other committee you could sneak into!! And the "gang";... Sharon Murphy, Craig Belanger, Rick Martin, Caroline Belliveau, Mike Morrison, Mike Radford, Nathan Weinstein, Robert Straker,Lindsay Walker, Karen Crofton, Yves Wertz, Johanne Therrien, etc. etc. etc.!
Make the best friends you ever will while you're there. They will be the ones that will stick by your for life! Always aim for the straight and true - never pass up the chance to meet someone new. Never know what you're gonna learn from them! Remember, you can be one person in the whole world, or the whole world to one person. :o)
Mr. McDougall
Mrs. Ball
Mr. Baldassare
Such a cool idea! Great to catch up!
Algonquin College
Vanier College
Concordia University
University of Toronto
Lots of things! It was a great 4 years full of challenges and rewards. The girl's hockey team was the best! It's great that my three best friends at the time are still around!
Enjoy this special time and prepare well for what's ahead.
Marianopolis College
McGill University
Concordia University
Please indulge me with several:
- Playing high school hockey and soccer.
- Watching "The Smudges" (Jean Marier, Kevin O'Farrell, and ???) perform at Winter Carnival. Will there be a reunion tour?
- The oh-so-tight pants on many of the girls (I won't name names) whom I admired from afar.
- Joking around at the back of chemistry and physics class with Pierre Montcalm, Kevin O'Farrell, and Mike Hurtubise.
- Believe it or not, learning from some pretty decent teachers (no, my nose is no longer, or ever was, brown).
- Having a forehead that doesn't extend over my ears.
So many clichés, so little space. Nevertheless, here are some that have rung true with me:
- Don't worry if high school is not the best (choose one: 5_ 6_ 7_) years of your life, because there is life after high school. Anyway, why would you want to peak so early?
- It's better to be kind than to be right.
- Choose your friends and spouse(s!) wisely.
- Time doesn't heal all wounds, but love does.
- Be careful about what you wish for; you may get it.
- Seize the day (I don't know how to spell the Latin phrase "Car-pay Dee-um" from the movie "Dead Poets Society").
- Be passionate and have fun in all that you do.
- You only regret the things you didn't try.
- You only regret the people you didn't do.
- When you start to get grey hair, be thankful for the hair that you have!
Mrs. Young
Mizzzzz Toscano
Mrs. Ball
- Still love the Habs (even though these are now the very lean years, unlike the glory days of the 70's).
- Still like the Sens (even though they choked against the Leafs).
- Still hate the Leafs (always have, always will).
Thank you to the webmaster for giving me the opportunity to take some of my own advice.
John Abbott College
Vanier College
I remember all the fun we had all the time.. They were definitely the best times of our lives.
Those years, as bad as they seemed at times, certainly are the greatest years of our lives. Relax, enjoy, the hard work starts when you have kids of your own.
Mrs. Bell
Mr. Colbeck
Visiting this site is a blast from the past, and really a lot of fun. Keep up the good work.
Having met people at P.C. I still see and have keep in touch with since school, Kevin Nichol, Rick Desjardins, Tom Cloutier, and Dawna Stacey (Watson). Skipping school and hanging at the Residence. Dating the same guy and gaining a friend out of it, right DS. Our reunion of '95, starting at the Residence and ending on the speakers at Bourbon!
Enjoy your school days, a lot of memories you will later on in life cherish. This is where you will make life long friends.
Joe Gugliemi and Sam Bruzesse
Enjoy your life to the fullest as you never know what is around the corner!
Dawson College
Simon Fraser University
Being on student council and hanging around with the C.H.Y. Tuk gang.
Don't waste time thinking about the past. Don't worry about the future... All you can control is what you do today...
Jack Clemens
Skipping school toward the end of the year and getting the teachers not to mark me absent.
Make sure you study hard to ensure your future so as you can enjoy your life to the fullest.
Mr. MacDougall
Mr. Baldassare
If I had to do it all over again i would do a lot of things different.
John Abbott College
Concordia University
Truly the best of times - great bunch of people to grow up with. Windows would have been great!
Enjoy it, participate, and remember it is the springboard to your future.
Mr. McDougall
John Abbott College
O'Sullivan College
Lunches in the caf, Basketball road trips and all the laughs we had.
Have a great time but remember you are the one that holds your future in your hands. Enjoy each moment because it goes by so fast.
Mr. Wilkinson
Mr. McDougall
As hard as it is, keep in touch with the people you know in high school. These are going to be some of your greatest friends and some of your best memories!
Saint Mary's University
Chilling with friends/having SO much fun... Mr. Hemens' Physics class... Dances... Graduation... Drinking Baby Duck...
Find what makes you happy and do that!
Mr. Armstrong in Accounting.
John Abbott College
There are so many, how do you name just one?
Make the most of it, the memories will last a life time.
There were teachers there?
John Abbott College
McGill University
Hanging out with friends in the cafeteria, at the pool hall, or while having a hot chicken sandwich at the other cafeteria.
Enjoy it as much as you can but get the work done.
Ron Tondino
Alexander Hausvater
John Abbott College
Concordia University
Work hard, its worth it, but don't forget to have fun.
I'm a Dad!, with 5 month old Chloe. Back in the saddle after a long 10 year break from my horses, playing with the Toronto Polo Club, for last 5 years. Love to catch up with old friends.
John Abbott College
Concordia University
All the parties we use to go to in grade 11. All the pretty girls... of which I dated none! The Basketball team trips... LENNOXVILLE... AMOS....Yikes I still can't believe we survived those days.
Have fun, be yourself, work hard, play harder. Stop and think how lucky you are and enjoy life.
Mrs. Ball
Mr. Cato
Great website. I also agree we should plan the next reunion in Maui. Mike, you organize it.
John Abbott College
Concordia University
The GREAT friends I made, some are still my closest friends today, Diane Jodoin, Mike MacCormac, Rhonda Beck (but she's my cousin), Marijo Lamb. I have MANY really fond memories from PCHS but two that really STICK OUT are when my bathing suit top fell off in the fashion show and nearly getting kicked off the cheerleading team for "mooning" the bus in back of us (what do you expect when our team was named after a brand of condoms).
Enjoy life to the fullest, but be smart. Respect yourself and others because what you give out does come back to you. Do not harm and be your own person. Use whatever talents you have for greater purposes. Be appreciative and honest. Grow up but stay young. And very importantly, live while you're alive and sleep when you're dead!
Mr. Colbeck
Mr. Wilkinson
Mr. Baldasare
What a great idea, you're a genius.
John Abbott College
University of Ottawa
Concordia University
Lunch-time chats.
Set a goal and be motivated to completion. Life's a journey, not a destination. Enjoy each day of the journey. Keep smiling.
Mr. Colbeck
Mr. Tondino
Queen's University
Falling down a flight of stairs while admiring Charlie from afar... lots of laughs with all the girls... bowling with Donna... Y.B.F. Liz...
Who says being drunk under the table at a bar isn't a good place to meet your future spouse!
How did Gary Walsh become a prof... wasn't he stoned during every class?
John Abbott College
McGill University
My favourite times were hanging out with the guys... Robbie Hooper, Gary Walsh, Ted Ryan. We would play frisbee at lunch. I also have great memories of planning for the grad with Pat & Teresa Prendergast, Paula Neil, Liz Lynch.
Enjoy, relax and but plan ahead because time just flies.
John Abbott College
Hanging out with Pat, Gary, Ted, Pedro, George and Ben. Amazing frisbee games. Soccer team.
Do what you want to do, seek the inner rim.
MacDougall
Cato
Lasalle College
Concordia University
Stay in school as long as you can; seems long at the time, but you will realize once it is behind you that it was done in no time at all.
College Mother House
Student Council meetings in the office with Sam. Pep, Little Joe, Tuk, John and Tony. The friendships I made then and have maintained since, especially Terry Girouard. They say if you make one truly pure friend in life who is always there for you then you are blessed and so I am. The best memories are activities like the Carnivals, school dances, variety shows.
What seems like the end of the world in high school will mean very little in years to come. You will change and so will the people around you. Always keep an open mind and believe in the power of change. You never know who is coming back into your life down the road so just try to be nice to everyone. Do your best even when you don't feel like it.
Mrs. Ball
Mr. Guglielmi
Mrs. Isler
This is such a great idea. Hope everyone is doing well.
I'd tell ya if I could remember that far back!
If anyone remembers me, let me know.
Going onto the French side and seeing everything in reverse.
Ask for windows.
Dennis Cato
John Abbott College
Vanier College
Concordia University
The ski team and racing ("sort of"?)
Ms. Toscano
Mr. Bean
n/a
Attended college in Sudbury
Hanging with the lunchtime gang in the cafeteria.
We were all in french immersion and used to discuss everything from teachers to girls to tv programs and of course music.The gang included:
Mark Stachiew,Pierre Chackal,Steve Morris,Walter Taciani,Steve Flowers and Steve Saulnier.Most will remember me as "tippy toes"due to my disability I used to and still walk on my toes.
stay in school it'll be worth it in the end.
Mr Watson
Unfortunately besides being known as tippy toes.I
also was absent frequently due to various medical
problems.The good news is I've been in great health since high school.I have spent the last 27 years competing in the paralympic games for the physically disabled in track and have travelled all over the world.I also participate in road races and do everything from 5k to full marathons.
As far as work,I worked briefly in Radio in northern ontario and for the last 20 years have been working with mentally handicapped individuals
in Sudbury,ontario.I also left PCHS in November 1979 and moved to Ontario.
The very first day of 1980 as I sat in the audience of assembly, I noticed this beautiful tiny young woman and realized that this was a childhood friend of mine i have known since I was 2 but had lost touch with. I was so happy to see Sandy Stacey again and we stayed good friends since then.
Stay in school and study hard then when your ready to go out into the world and work etc... do your best you possibly can and don't forget to have some fun too.
John Abbott College
McGill University
University of Windsor
Playing for the hockey team.
Emily Carr College of Art + Design
University of Calgary (Fine Arts)
Lunch
Focus, graduate, be kind to one another.
Baldissaro
Many.... bun with coleslaw for lunch!, HH, wreaking havoc by the lockers....
Suck the province (and your parents) for all the education you can get!
Wilbrecht
Kahn (come on man!)
Having just traveled to the Middle East, our problems here are minuscule compared to theirs.... Enjoy life!
Mohawk College
Mr. Colbeck
John Abbott College
Hanging out with friends. Going to parties. Football. Being a cast member in Jesus Christ Superstar. Having lots of laughs.
LEARN. LISTEN. ASK. You are responsible for your education. Don’t let fear, self-doubt or judgement prevent you from doing what you want to. Find your own path. Be empathetic, kind and don’t waste your time doing nothing.
To all the teachers. Thank you. I should have listened, participated and asked you more questions.
Thank you to whoever put this together.
Where did time go?
Concordia University
Everything and everyone!
Keep on rock'n!
McDougall
Baldini
Baldessare
I also play keyboards and drums.
John Abbott College
Concordia University
Not getting caught... Smoking, making out, spitting, leaving school, cutting class, not doing homework, not doing assignments.
I actually turned out a little better than this all sounds, but back then not getting caught seemed so very important. Is there any truth to the rumour that there is a 25th year class reunion in Maui ? I'm in.
Kudos to whomever put this site together...
L. Pereira
E. Olenocin
Mr. Wilbur
Vanier College
McGill University
The first time I ever skipped a class - and got caught!! (grade 8, Mr. Garbe -ugh!); learned that all I needed was a gold pass to get out of class - so much easier than having to go to Mr. Barrett's office!
When I think about all the time I spent with a phone book and a phone (not even a portable one!) trying to locate all the '80 grads for our '95 reunion - if only we had all this web and e-mail stuff! This is a great idea - especially for whoever wants to organize our 25th reunion! Anyone interested?
John Abbott College
Military 1981 to 1988
Friends, parties.
Craig, Nina, Robbert, Anne Marie, Diane
Get a job with a pension
To long ago to remember
John Abbott College
Bishop's University
Concordia University
There are so many Montrealers in Ontario, maybe the next reunion should be in Toronto!
Vanier College
McGill University
There are many; the back plaza, the rugby team, all the different crowds I hung out with, but by far what sticks in my mind most was the Smudges that I did with Jean and Shawn (I still can't believe that people took us seriously).
Chose a career that you will enjoy. Don't go after glory or money. If you don't like what you're doing, you'll still be miserable no matter how much money you're making.
Steve Lummis
Steve Gales
Mr. Plastino
Mr. Baldassare
Concordia University
Your time is limited. Don't waste it living someone else's life. Have the courage to follow your heart and your intuition. Best wishes for a most interesting and exciting expedition into the future.
Mr. Guglielmi
Mr. Bruzzese
John Abbott College
Graduation, lol.
Don't take it too seriously and participate in as many things that you can!
Mrs. Gibson
Northwest Community College
University of British Columbia
Don't worry about whether the choices you make are right, as long as YOU are making the choices.
Vanier College
Concordia University
High school graduation at the Chateau Champlain.
Mr. Coachiardi (sp?)
Visit classmates.com and add yourself to their list.
Marianopolis College
McGill University
"Fearsome Foursome"
S. Lummis
W. McDougall
John Abbott College
Playing football for the Trojans and scoring 4 touchdowns in 1 game. The year end track meet in Montmagny outside of Quebec City. I remember we all got drunk the first night and one of our guys woke up sleepwalking and was pissing on someone while they were crashed out in their sleeping bags. Man, was that guy upset!
RELAX!... It's not nearly as bad as you think.
Cato
Weinberg
Gale
University of Toronto
Laughing, laughing and more laughing... Friendships that have lasted a lifetime... Dances... French typing class???... Grad night, 5:00am on the mountain... oh and did I mention the laughing?
High school years are great, university is a blast - get there!
Mr. Baldassare
Smoking outside with my buddies, but can now gladly state have been smoke free since.
Work hard, get good grades, and marry well!
All of them
John Abbott College
McGill University
Everyday was a great memory for me. The daily check for food in Anne-Marie's braces; The constant arguing at Rhonda and Carol's locker are just a few. The wonderful life long friends I made and that I still have.
Enjoy every minute of every day! Live your life to the fullest. PARTY!
Mr. Tondino
Vanier College
Concordia University
Talking with friends in the cafeteria in the mornings
Had a major crush on Sarah Kirby but was way too shy to act on it. lol
Concordia University
My fondest memories of attending P.C. were Snow days, Holidays and the days I was sick. Other fond memories were when I'd find out a girl liked me. Also it was a big rush to play in the variety show and have Mr. Miller ask us to play an encore. Unfortunately we only knew the 3 songs.
Respect one another. Believe in yourself. Don't let fear of failure stop you from achieving your goals.
If anyone knows of Tom Vacic's whereabouts. Last time I talked to him he was living in San Diego.
I was first at St. Bernard Elementary School, then St. Thomas high and PCHS.
John Abbott College
Concordia University
My daughter Ashley will be going there in 2 years and I can already hear some of the teachers saying "Oh My God, not another Van den Ende!"
Dawson College
University of Calgary
Queen's University
University of Waterloo
Getting those gold passes which allowed us to go to the "library" ...
Get paid to do something you enjoy
Steve Lummis
Boom Boom Baldini
University of Florida (Undergrad)
Catholic University of America (Grad School)
I only went to PCHS for one year (8th grade), as my parents moved us to Fort Lauderdale in 1977, but I would have graduated with y'all in 1980... It was a huge school and it definitely needed some more walls, doors, and windows... the 'open plan' school just doesn't work.
Fondest Memory: hanging out on the plaza and thinking we were real cool. Seeing Kathy Scully's notebook etched with 'Kiss' and 'Bay City Roller' imagery all the time... Keeping up with Pat Pendergast's boyfriends... and having weak knees for Ricky Desjardins.
Be persistent and goal oriented... don't do drugs and be focused... Get as much education as you can and wait a long time to get married or have kids.
Mrs. Isler
Mr. Bean (from St. Thomas - 7th grade English)
I knew I wanted to be an Architect after a drafting class in 7th grade (1976) at St. Thomas....I became one in 1989! Life is great and if y'all ever visit South Florida, give me a call (954 491 6999). I look better now at 37 than I did at 13!