Kemptville College Alumni

Sod Turning For Kemptville College Alumni Historical Building

The Kemptville College Alumni has turned the sod for the Kemptville College Alumni Historical Building. The sod turning took place Saturday, August 25th, at the Lombardy Agricultural Fair Grounds near Smiths Falls.Our yearly alumni reunion is held at the same location. Over 70 people attended the Sod Turning and then 175 attended the reunion banquet that evening.

Fund raising started after the building was approved last August and donations to the building fund are greatly appreciated. Financial contributors will receive a charitable receipt and names will be displayed in the new building and on our web page www.kcalumni.ca

As an alumnus, business or organization supported by Kemptville grads, we hope that you will support our building by sending your cheque to; Kim Link, Treasurer, 12261 Link Road, Winchester ON K0C 2K0.

Memorabilia that you have from your time at Kemptville can also be displayed in the building. Contact our President: Audrey Baker, a.bakercl@hotmail.com .

The official opening of the Kemptville College Alumni Historical Building will take place at our 2019 Reunion on Saturday, August 24th, 2019 at the Lombardy Agricultural Society Fairgrounds.

The Kemptville College Alumni appreciates your ongoing support.

Summer is the time to reunite with friends…

In Merrickville last Friday, Audrey (Grant) Baker ’70 had a great lunch with
gals she went to school with. Two of these friends have connections to
Kemptville College. Terri ( Fox ) Reid ’70 married to Jim Reid ’69. Rhona
Munro is married to Bruce ’70 and pictured as well are Linda Fournier and
Joan MacIntyre.

Anderson Links – Year ’69 Mini-Reunion

Year ’69 had a “mini reunion” at Anderson Links Golf Course recently. This came about when Bev ( Paterson) McBurney came to Orleans to visit her grandchildren. Bev, who lives in Hickson (near Stratford) , retired after 28 years with the board of education. Joining her were L to R Kim (Keene) Link, Barb (Brownlee) Sproule,

Isabel (Blair) Kinnear, Donna (Armstrong) Koeniger, Bev, Shirley (Beech) Foster, Stephanie Hill-Nicholls.

All gals now retired, enjoy time with grandchildren.

Kemptville College Alumni wants to maintain ownership of all class pictures

The Kemptville College Alumni and North Grenville are disputing the ownership of many items from the College’s history. All class pictures are on the list. As board members of the Alumni of Kemptville College, we are asking our members to support and sign this petition and to include the year you graduated. The petition gives permission for your picture which is part of a class picture to be displayed at our historical building and not with North Grenville. The historical building is being built at the Lombardy Agricultural Fair Grounds.

Please sign the petition by clicking the link below:

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/kemptville-college-alumni-wants-to-maintain?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=email

2019 Scholarship Application Available

Are you a Kemptville Grad? Do you have a relative that in a agriculture or foods related program? If the answer to both of those questions was YES, you should be encouraging that relative to get an early start at their scholarship application for the 2019 edition of the KCA Scholarship.

Form available here.

The deadline for applications is January 31, 2019 (please note that this date was amended following an April 2018 board meeting). APPLICANT MUST BE ENTERING THEIR SECOND YEAR OF STUDIES IN A FOOD OR AGRICULTURE RELATED PROGRAM AT AN ACCREDITED COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY IN SEPTEMBER 2018.

Calling All Canes!

We have been informed that for some years, the Royal Presidents were presented with canes.

Their name and year was engraved on the cane and given to them to thank them for the work accomplished at College Royal weekend.

Here is a picture of Dwight Karren ( on the left ) presenting the Royal President’s cane to Tom Fahey, President of the ‘72 Royal.

The next picture shows the cane which is engraved with the name and date.

Do you know someone else that got a cane or did you get a cane yourself? If so please send a picture to the webmaster, bethmweir@gmail.com .

If you have a cane and would like to donate it to the new Alumni Historical Building, we will display it with your name and info.