Pearson College - Years 1, 2 and 3 - 25th Anniversary Reunion

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Please click on the link below to visit our brand new:
"Pearson Magic" Forum
...still under development, but already a great place to keep in touch with everyone!
(please also encourage your children to use it to stay in touch with their Pearson friends)
The Forum will take place of the message board below.

~ Pearson College Memories ~
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Pearson College Years 1-2-3 Message Board
This message board has been discontinued.
Please try to use the "Pearson Magic" Forum for your new messages
and let me know if you run into any problems. Thanks! -- Francine

Year: Year 3
Name: Carolina Martinez
Email: mcmartinezt@yahoo.com
Country: Florida,USA
AttendedReunion: Yes
Date: 01 Jul 2000

Message

Hi, everybody: Thanks for the grat times, its been a week of hard work ad yet, I can't stop thinking about our wonderful week. It meant a lot to me, after being lost, to see everyone again, especially to see how well everyone looks, WAY TO GO !!!! Wasn't it great to be a teenager again, but this time with some wisdom .....?!? I want to express my gratitude especially to the organizers, Juan for finding me, Isbel for tranporting me, the smokers for the laughs, and everybody for being so sweet. If anybody is in the area make sure to let me know, room is the one thing I have.

Year: Year 1
Name: Pete Hall
Email: petehall@compuserve.com
Country: England
AttendedReunion: Yes
Date: 30 Jun 2000

Message

Sal & I had a fantastic time. It was great to see you all and to meet some of the year 3 people. I know we plan to be there again in 2005. It goes without saying that if ever any of you find yourselves in England, there will always be somewhere for you to stay and sleep (physical space permitting). As we didn't fly out until the Sunday, we caught a news article in the Saturday Victoria paper (and also the Vancouver Sunday). Aparently a year 1 male graduate who prefers to remain anonymous, donated $10.4 million to the college - endowing 40 scholarships in perpetuity. My understanding is that the college is now only about $2.5 million short of achieving 100% full endowment on the scholarship fund. Way to go!

Who ever you are (and I'm sure we all have an idea) - what a fantastic gift to have given - you are truly a wonderful man

Year: Year 3
Name: Therese Turner-Huggins
Email: tturnerhuggins@imf.org
Country: US
AttendedReunion: Yes
Date: 26 Jun 2000

Message

Hello everyone, The reunion was such a blast that my body has decided to fall apart. I got a sore throat on Air Canada and now am truly stuffed up! Dennis and I had a super time! Thanks to everyone for being there and for the superb organization of all of the details. As Chisako noted, Pearson is a special place and we are blessed to have had the experience and now 25 years later to continue in the same spirit. It would be helpful if we made sure to contact folks who were unable to make it to spread the joy around. Unfortunately we are back at work, but the memories and thoughts will linger for a while. I hope to see some if not all of you in Washington or elsewhere. Take care & God Bless, Therese

Year: Year 1
Name: Chisako Furukawa-Hill, Dwight Hill
Email: dfchill@aol.com
Country: USA
AttendedReunion: Yes
Date: 25 Jun 2000

Message

Hi, everybody! We made it home! And I have to go back to WORK tomorrow!!! Many thanks to all those people who made this reunion a very special and well-organized one. Dwight & I had a great time. And, yes, we are already talking about the next reunion. I have attended all three reunions but this one really stands out. Maybe we have grown up and mellowed enough to be more open to each other. And this whole experience made me think that this Pearson experience and connection can be a real asset in both spiritual and practical ways by keeping this message board running. We might be able to assist each other at work as well as at play i.e. as in where to go, what to see all over in this very small planet.

Everybody, PLEASE stay in touch---we do have room, and as New York hotels are so expensive, please feel free to call on us to stay. Save that $300.00 hotel money and give it to the college!!

Year: Year 1
Name: Francine, George (Year -1) and Erica
Email: fran@fdale.com
Country: Farmingdale, NY -- USA
AttendedReunion: Yes
Date: 25 Jun 2000

Message

Hi Everybody!!

We made it back home with LOTS of GREAT memories!!!!

We had a wonderful time, and are already looking forward to keeping in touch with everyone until the 30 year reunion!

As soon as we are settled back into our daily routines (unpacking, catching up with laundry, email, work and also catching up with sleep since we didn't do much of it this past week!!) we will start working on posting pictures and updating these webpages so we can all share our wonderful memories of this past week!

If anyone has pictures that we can post, please email them to me, so I can add them too!

We love you ALL -- and we hope you all had a nice trip home too!

Love,
Francine, George, and Erica.

PS: On our trip back home, George and Erica kept talking about how they are looking forward to "OUR" 30 year Reunion -- Isn't it absolutely great that even our family members now feel that they are also a part of our wonderful Pearson Family?!!!

~ Posts below were made prior to the 25^thReunion ~

Year: Year 1
Name: Francine Rangel
Email: Fran@fdale.com
Country: USA
Attending: Yes
Date: 16 Jun 2000

Message

I just finished uploading a couple of pictures (see Pearson College Memories - Rudy is in one of the pictures!) -- I'm planning on taking lots more at the Reunion and later posting them here.
I'm very excited about arriving at Pearson with my family tomorrow! I can hardly wait to see everyone!!
I should go try to pack now... some things never change: I still leave everything for the last minute!!!
Love,
Fran

PS: don't forget to check the "What to bring" page!!

Year: Year 1
Name: Horst Kowalewski
Email: Die.Kowas@t-online.de
Country: Germany
Attending: Yes
Date: 15 Jun 2000

Message

The problems at work have been sorted out. After figthing the chaos at the travel the tickets finally arrived. So tomorrow my wife Gerlinde and I will be off to Canada. I'm sure the reunion is gonna be great. See you on Saturday!!

Year: Year 3
Name: Mats Rönne
Email: saltis99@hotmail.com
Country: Sweden
Attending: Yes
Date: 13 Jun 2000

Message

Hi,

Yes, we are coming (we = me, wife Maria and sons Marcus (10) and Adam (soon 9). Spent parts of the w/e digging out some of my old LPs and put together some cassettes of "PC 70s collection" - certainly brought out some fond memories!

We will be flying into Seattle on the 14th and then take a leisurely drive up to Victoria for the 17th. If anyone else has similar plans, feel free to get in touch.

Very much looking forward to next week!

All the best/Mats

Year: Year 3
Name: Sarah Blackwell
Email: seblackwell@hotmail.com
Country: USA
Attending: Yes
Date: 13 Jun 2000

Message

Hi

The reunion is almost here! Excitement is certainly running high in my household. My daughter is almost as excited as I am!

One of the activities planned for the older children is a trivia hunt. All the trivia questions will relate to when we were at the College. The children will be given lists of questions and asked to find the answers by talking with grads. The efforts to remember events that some of our classmates clearly do remember should prove to be entertaining! The game is also a way to help the children learn the names of adults and vice versa.

I need some help though. I've got lots of questions that can be answered by Years 2 and 3 and relate to 1976-1978. I've got no trivia questions for 1974-1976. Please help by spending a couple of minutes generating a trivia question. As a general rule, please apply the following criteria:

1. The answer should be known by a reasonable number of graduates. 2. The question and answer are suitable for the ears of children...

Send questions to me at my e-mail address. Thanks for your help. See you in a few days.

Sarah

Year: Year 1
Name: Shigeyuki Aoki
Email: Shigeyuki.Aoki@jp.sony.com
Country: Japan
Attending: No
Date: 10 Jun 2000

Message

Hello. How are you my friends?

Sorry that I could not participate in this memorable PC re-Union in spite of my strong desire to attend. Therefore, please allow me to send a letter to mention what PC education was to me and to update about my life.

Pearson College education had taught me how beautiful our life could be if the will existed among us to make it happen. The experience was possible because you were ( and are ) beautiful people and I thank you all for it.

In addition to the learning we received, I want to thank our teachers for having us think about international understanding because even though there may be no clear answer to it, keep thinking about it enabled me to judge social events in wider perspective, and avoided myself being content with easy stereo typed answers.

After Pearson College, I graduated from University of Toronto with the degree of the Bachelor of Applied Science ( Industrial Engineering), and entered Sony Corp in 1980. Since then, I have been mainly working in the field of international marketing for such products as Office Automation, Laser Disk Players and Videoconference Systems.

Adjusting myself to the competitive nature of company life was a bit difficult at the beginning, but I learned to live with it positively. In the past 20 years, there was such an happy experience as seeing Barcelona Olympic Games with free entrance pass as a product support engineer. Now I live with my wife Keiko at Ebina city near Tokyo in Japan.

I am afraid that I have not devoted myself to social activity so much as I wanted. However, I believe that working at best of my ability to produce value added service is the best way to express my love toward our society.

Currently, I am involved with direct marketing project via internet to achieve direct communication with our customers. This job allows me to learn a lot about internet ( or virtual )world which is advancing as fast as it was never before, and changing our lifestyle quickly. 50 million cellular phones have already been registered today in Japan and 10% of the phones can be connected to internet.

I am hoping that this networked society will create a new global economy for all people living on the earth, and expand the opportunity of those young people receiving international education.

In Japan, there is a proverb saying g Home town is a place to ponder about from distance.h For me, Pearson College is such a place as it is my second home town. I am always welcome to see our UWC friends and glad if I can be of any help. See you around!

Best Regards, Shigeyuki Aoki

Year: Year 3
Name: Juan Posada
Email: jfposada@cable.net.co
Country: Colombia
Attending: Yes
Date: 08 Jun 2000

Message

We are looking forward to arrive on Sunday at the college with my wife Pilar and our 2 daughters. It´s going to be a lot of fun, so I hope to see all of you there.

Year: Year 2
Name: Kathy Sainty
Email: kathryn.sainty@courts.gov.bc.ca
Country: Canada
Attending: Yes
Date: 06 Jun 2000

Message

Hi all.

I am really looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion shortly. I will be playing golf on the 21st and would like to have a whole bunch of people playing. I understand that it will be a "Texas Scramble" format (each foursome hits from the best person's shot) so even if you are not a good golfer (I'm not) or if you are still a beginner, you should really think about playing. It should be lots of fun and even lousy golfers can win the special prises (if there are any!).

Kathy

Year: Year 3
Name: Brigitte Ratz
Email: gast@concept-net.de
Country: Germany
Attending: Maybe
Date: 05 Jun 2000

Message

is it still possible to join the reunion on a short-term basis and are there still places of accomodation in the college left? I write these lines from a Net-Cafe because I have neither Email address nor fax address! If you could send me a reply to these lines, please send it to the above mentioned "borrowed" Email address and make it recognizable by naming it "Pearson College Reunion"! Greetings to everybody, Brigitte

Year: Year 1
Name: Chisako Furukawa
Email: dfchill@aol.com or cfurukawahill@dkb.com
Country: USA
Attending: Yes
Date: 04 Jun 2000

Message

Hi, everybody! My husband, Dwight & I are coming to the reunion. We'll be arriving at the college around the dinner time on June 18. Really looking forward to seeing you all.

Love, Chisako

Year: Year 2
Name: Mark Senn
Email: marksenn@home.com
Country: Canada
Attending: Yes
Date: 02 Jun 2000

Message

I have made a reservation for 5 foursomes to play golf at the Olympic View Golf Course, just outside Victoria. The reservations are for June 21, 2000 and start around 2:00pm. Including the cost of club rentals and the purchase of half a dozen golf balls I estimate the cost of the round to be C$75. Can you start letting me know if you would like to play as I need to estimate if I have too many tee off times.

Year: Year 3
Name: Carolina Martinez
Email: mcmartinezt@netscape.net
Country: USA
Attending: Yes
Date: 30 May 2000

Message

Hi!!! Looking forward to seeing everybody, very excited about it. I'll be arriving in Seattle at midnight the 16th, is anyone going to be in the area? Does anyone know if there is a shuttle from the airpot to the ferry? Any helpful information is welcome, thanks.

Year: Year 2
Name: Andreas B. Eberstein
Email: Eberstein.Andreas@t-online.de
Country: Germany
Attending: Yes
Date: 15 May 2000

Message

So. It's final. Our fourth (fifth kid) boy, Maximilian, was born on Mai 5th, so there shouldn't be any problem that Maximilian will attend with his mother and me. We will be flying into Vancouver on June 13 and will stay until June 26.

See you soon.

Andreas

Year: Year 2
Name: Dai Davies
Email: dai_davies@yahoo.com
Country: England
Attending: Yes
Date: 12 May 2000

Message

Sorry - got so carried away forgot to complete my email address !!

Year: Year 2
Name: Dai Davies
Email: dai_davies
Country: England
Attending: Yes
Date: 12 May 2000

Message

There is a BIG drive on to get people to attend the Reunion. To any one reading this who has not yet advised the College if they are attending/may be attending/or (unfortunately) can not attend PLEASE PLEASE do let the College know NOW !!!

I hope to see as many of you as possible

Year: Year 1
Name: Pete Hall
Email: petehall@compuserve.com
Country: England
Attending: Yes
Date: 12 May 2000

Message

Definately coming - tickets booked - registration faxed in - cleared it with the boss - flying out with Sal, my partner, on 12th June - plan to hang around Vancouver and the Island for a few days. Love to meet up with anyone in the week before.

Since the last one, my life has been turned around a bit. Split up with my wife, lost my job, went thru a really bad couple of years. Got another house, got a better job, met a new woman - life is better than ever.

The last 18 months or so I've ben doing loads of music, partying lots, bought a motorbike, and generally been enjoying the life of a teenager again.

Looking forwards to seeing you all.

Spoke to Lutz & Antonio - won't be coming - but both send their love to those that are.

See you all real soon

Pete

Year: Year 1
Name: Francine (yes, I'm posting again!)
Email: fran@fdale.com
Country: USA
Attending: Yes (?)
Date: 12 May 2000

Message

Well, I shouldn't say YES yet, but a definite, very positive MAYBE!!

Since my daughter will still be in school then, I had to clear it with her teacher... and I finally convinced her to want to go (at first she didn't want to miss school, and was making a big deal about "letting" me go by myself! Amazing what our kids will do to us, huh?)

...Now, all I have to do is try to find a good Air Fare and, if I do, I'll be on my way to Pearson next month -- with hubby and kid! I can't wait!!!!!

To each and every one of you that posted here: Thank you!! Hearing from you has really pushed me to want to go! I hope I will see you all soon!
-- Fran

PS1: I also hope those that can't make it will still post a message here. It was really nice hearing from Heather and Nopparat, even though they won't be able to make it to the Reunion.-- Thanks girls!

PS2: Nopparat, Matti, Meir, Pete, Mario -- You all forgot to tell us: Do you have a partner? kids??? Working???? Happy????? Tell us, please!!

Year: Year 1
Name: Nopparat Jittanupakorn
Email: jittan01@bkk3.loxinfo.co.th
Country: Bangkok, Thailand
Attending: No
Date: 11 May 2000

Message

Dear Friends,

Hi ! For a long time I never got any news from Pearson College due to my address change. It was ; therefore, so exciting to hear something about the College again, especially about the reunion. I met Prasithiporn ,our Year 2 colleage, in one of our alumni in Bangkok and he faxed me the news just last week.

I really love to go back to see the place and meet everyone again. However, as I learned about the reunion too late plus I will be going to India early June, it's not feasible for me to join the reunion this time.

Anyway, I would like to extend my best regards and wishes to everybody in the College, especially my Year 1 and Year 2 colleage. I miss many people and do hope to hear more about them.

Warmest regards, Nopparat

Year: Year 1
Name: Heather Milliken Snell
Email: hmilliken@snellmedical.com
Country: Montreal, Canada
Attending: No
Date: 05 May 2000

Message

I regaret I will be unable to attend the reunion. At the same time I would like to update the information in my KIT profile. Last month, Gordon and I celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary. We live a very active and enjoyable life in Montreal with our six children ranging in age from 7 to 13 ( four girls, two boys, no twins). In addition, we enjoy working together in our medical publishing business which gives us a lot of personal satisfaction. I want to wish everyone a great reunion celebration in June.

Year: Year 1
Name: Richard Yeo
Email: ryeo@ottawa.com
Country: Canada
Attending: Yes
Date: 01 May 2000

Message

Hi everyone. Just bought the tickets so I guess there's no turning back. Pat, Thomas, Katie and I will be attending the reunion. After all, I couldn't pass up the chance of giving Matti his second ever sailing lesson.

I hope to see as many of you there as possible.

Best wishes to all.

Year: Year 1
Name: Mario Masagão Neto
Email: conseg@tecepe.com.br
Country: Brazil
Attending: Maybe
Date: 27 Apr 2000

Message

Dear friends. If I can solve some small business problems I hope to attend the reunion and have a lot of fun. If your are not really sure to make it, post a message too. This may encourage some others that are in the same situation.

Hope to see you there
Mario

Year: Year 1
Name: Matti Joensuu
Email: matti@ms.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp
Country: Japan
Attending: Yes
Date: 01 Apr 2000

Message

Just got freed from prison, so sorry for the long silence - solitary confinement doesn't help communication skills. Now back at Japan TV running a budo- series. ( All that is BS ).Would like to take the second-ever sailing lesson from Richard Y., as the ocean became valuable inside the rock. So be there early.

Year: Year 2
Name: Andreas Eberstein
Email: Eberstein.Andreas@t-online.de
Country: Germany
Attending: Yes
Date: 31 Mar 2000

Message

So, the tickets are ordered. It is quite complicated to buy a ticket for an unborn child as one needs to know the name and sex. But now we booked and I am coming with my wife Magdalene and child #5 (probably born somewhere between May 20 and June 4).

So long, hope to see you all.

Andreas

Year: Year 1
Name: Mario (Meir) Ducach
Email: mariod@galil.org.il
Country: Israel
Attending: Yes
Date: 22 Mar 2000

Message

Hello everybody !

Cheers

Mario a.k.a. Meir

Year: Year 3
Name: Sophia
Email: selsharkawy@yahoo.com
Country: Egypt
Attending: Yes
Date: 20 Mar 2000

Message

Hi all! Great website... :) Hope as many ppl as possible can come. See u there!

Year: Year 1
Name: Pete Hall
Email: petehall@compuserve.com
Country: England
Attending: Yes
Date: 17 Mar 2000

Message

Hiya ppl Looking forward to it - cya all soon

Year: Year 2
Name: Andreas B. Eberstein
Email: Eberstein.Andreas@t-online.de
Country: Germany
Attending: Don't Know Yet
Date: 09 Mar 2000

Message

Hi,

we are trying hard to make it to the reunion, but kid # 5 is due. Hopefully it will be born early enough. So far the date has been moved from June 12 to June 8 then June 2 and now it's May 26. If it will be on that day I guess we will be able to make it.

We are not sure how many we will bring. For sure it would be #5, Johanna (2 years), Magdalene and myself. The two older once are still at school by that time.

So, we will see how things go. We will let you know.

Andreas

Year: Year 3
Name: Sarah
Email: seblackwell@hotmail.com
Country: USA
Attending: Yes
Date: 24 Feb 2000

Message

Great work on the website, Fran!

Jessi and I are planning on attending. We'll probably be flying into Seattle and persuade my youngest brother to pick us up from the airport and either drive us to Vancouver or to the Seattle ferry port. Really looking forward to seeing everyone.

"Spoke" with Sophia this evening and she's got time off from work and will be bringing her son Ahmed with her.

Year: Year 1
Name: Francine (Rangel)
Email: fran@fdale.com
Country: USA
Attending: Don't Know Yet
Date: 21 Feb 2000

Message

Hi Everybody! Welcome to our Reunion Message Board!

If anyone has any pictures (of Pearson College, you and/or your family) that you would like to share with the rest of us, please email them to me (fran@fdale.com) and I'll be happy to post them.

Not much happening on my end: I moved to New York in 1980, graduated from SUNY Stony Brook as a Mechanical Engineer, got married (to George) in 1984, had a daughter (Erica) in 1990, and after wearing many professional hats I now work at home (attempting to become a web developer).

My family and I are still trying to figure out if we will be able to attend the reunion
*fingers crossed*-- as soon as I find out, I'll be sure to post it.

I'm looking forward to hearing from others!

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