harbordite issue 69

THE HARBORDITE

Harbord Club Newsletter

Covers thru the Years!

Inside this issue:

Editorial 2

Museum Musings

4

Myer Cohen, a Hero & Harbordite

6

Harbord Wordsearch!

8

Commencement 10

Grads Gives Thanks

16

Awards Assem-bly Photos

35

Hope you all have had a won-derfully enjoyable Summer and Autumn and that you have all kept well and healthy since we last con-nected in the Spring!

September brought with it the start of a brand new school year, and as I en-tered the hallowed halls of our fine school, I saw many a new face eager to start their high school career here at Harbord C.I. and the familiar yet more mature faces of our returning stu-dents, busy planning the year ahead! At our Welcome Back BBQ, within the first three weeks of school, it was already evident that Harbord’s reputation for ex-ceptional school spirit would be proudly upheld!

September also saw the re-turn of our Harbord Club monthly meetings. It was nice to be back after a sum-mer hiatus! We welcomed Principal Meade to our first meeting and let him in on what we do and why we do it. By the meeting’s end, sever-al items on our ‘to-do’ list had been accomplished, in-cluding finalizing our deci-sion for Harbord’s first 120thScholarship Award win-ner. Both Syd Moscoe and I had the pleasure of present-ing the award to graduate

Julia Bamber at Commence-ment on October 25th.

As an editor of this newslet-ter, I cannot stress enough how much we encourage and are excited by an email, let-ter or package from our al-um, addressed to the Har-bord Club! We cherish the bond that we have with our Harbordite readers and ap-preciate it when you send us your stories, so that we may, in turn, share them with others in the Harbordite. We truly depend on your communication, news and stories to keep the newslet-ter thriving! I’d like to in-vite you to submit your ideas and thoughts to us! It does not need to take up too much of your time. Just send us a note to let us know how you are and what you are up to these days! We’d love to hear about your ca-reer, travels, recent gather-ings and/or celebrations. Once received, it will be my pleasure to add it to the Harbordite!

I was happy to hear that there has been recent inter-est& inquiries into our school’s museum! The Har-bord Museum continues to be a showroom and source of pride for generations of Harbord students, past, pre-sent and future. People vis-

iting the school are always intrigued to learn that we have such a well-maintained collection of our school’s unique history displayed. For those who have never been to see the museum, we encourage you to pop by for a visit! Our ever-growing archival collection includes valuable records of facts, anecdotes, biographies and books along with treasured photographs, artefacts and trophies. Our most recent addition has been our brand new beautiful Harbord Club 120th Anniversary trophy. We love our Museum and find it only appropriate that our monthly executive meet-ings be held there; a remind-er of Harbord’s long stand-ing school spirit and history!

As the eventful year of 2013 comes to a close, I’d like to take a moment to thank you, our readers, for your continued support and welcome you all to sit back and read this issue of the Harbordite with an air of nostalgia, as you reminisce through the good ‘ol days at HCI. I’d also like to wish you all the best for the Holi-day Season!

With much good cheer from us, your editors, and the rest of the Harbord Club Directors- Here’s to a fabu-

Editorial: Message from Co-Editors

- Belinda Medeiros-Felix (‘81) & Ben Lee (‘78)

Editorial: Continued...

lous 2014!

-Belinda

Photo above left:

Harbord Staff and Club Director Belinda Medeiros-Felix, Mr. Molinario (son of alum Julius) & Harbord Club’s Director Syd Moscoe at the Harbord Remembrance Day Assembly on November 11, 2013.

Photo above right: WWI soldier statue outside Harbord C.I.

Remembrance Day Assembly at Harbord C.I.

Museum Musings.

We welcome Cameron McGlade Bouchard, Ben Heywood McLeod and Kiera Knight , all Grade 10 stu-dents and Julia Lam, Grade 12, as the newest members of the Harbord Club Muse-um Volunteers.

They have taken over after the graduation from H.C.I. of India Annamanthadoo, Rachel Fabbri and Claire Shenstone Harris. India, Ra-chel, and Claire , as well as being dedicated Museum vol-unteers for three years , had stellar careers as out-standing students, school activity volunteers, and award and scholarship win-ners while at Harbord. All three won entrance scholar-ships to their respective universities. India also served as the student rep-resentative to the Harbord Club. Julia Lam is this year’s student representative.

Once again, as he has for the last few years, Mr. Dan-iel Leblanc, History and Math, has served as the teacher advisor to the Har-bord Club Museum Volun-teers.

Going forward this year, we have a number of projects ahead of us. Cameron , Ben

and Julia were instrumental in creating and carrying out the program for Harbord’s Remembrance Day Service. Julius Molinaro , HCI 1936, honored as our veteran for his Second World War ser-vice. This Harbordite has a separate article about Jul-ius. It does bear repeating that he, along with Ken Pren-tice, and Willie Zimmerman were the original founders of the Harbord Club, the Harbord Charitable Founda-tion and The Harbordite. Julius was editor of The Harbordite for many years.

During the past summer, with the active assistance of Mr. Leblanc, we were able to obtain the Canadian military records of those Har-bordites who gave their lives in both World Wars. Our project is to write a biog-raphy of each and post it on the Harbord Club website to be accompanied with the photo of each from our Hall of Memories which the vol-unteers scanned in last year . Following this , it is our hope, to create a book con-taining all this information so it will be available to the public visiting Harbord.

The Museum , has in the past few months, received old year books, school ath-letic clothing, crests and awards , all of which we have

received with thanks and will be further referred to in a separate Museum newsletter so as to give them their proper due.

We have received many in-quires about the availability of copies of Harbord Re-views/Year Books for past years. We do have some ex-tras for some years between the early 1980’s and mid 2000’s but it is hit and miss. The Museum has copies for all the years the Harbord Review was published and

they can be viewed at the Museum. For those who would like a complete photo-copy of a year book , there would be a cost for photo-copying and mailing . An esti-mate can be given when an enquiry is received.

We recently received a re-quest from a correspondent

Museum Musings – Syd Moscoe

in Dubuque, Iowa , for a pho-to of Lt. Irving Reider, HCI 1934, who gave his life in the Second World War while serving in the United States Army air Corps .His military records are not available in Canada. This correspondent will complete his biography and provide us with a copy for our Book of Memories. The correspondent asked our help in trying to locate a rel-ative of his , Sheila Ginzler Kieran , a writer, believed to be living in the Toronto area. If this name is known to you or you know of her wherea-bouts , we would appreciate her contacting us. It is our hope to honour Lt. Reider in our 2014 Remembrance Day service.

We were also contacted by a researcher doing work re-garding the Black Watch Regiment asking for infor-mation about Lt. Meyer Tut-zer Cohen, who gave his life in the First World War and received the Military Cross posthumously. The Toronto Star of Novem-ber 16 , 1917 re-ported his death and that he had been educat-ed at

Harbord Collegiate. His name does not appear on our rec-ords to date. He was the third child of Moses Mark Cohen and lived at 558 Huron Street in or about the year 1915. If in fact he had at-tended Harbord, and we would like more evidence, then his name would have to be added to the First World War Honour Roll of Service as well as to our monument “Our Soldier”. Lt. Myer.T. Cohen has been honoured with a Star of David in a me-morial window in the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul in Montreal being the Regimen-tal Church of The Black Watch. This is in tribute to the “memory of a gallant young Jew who, in sharing the high and chivalrous tra-ditions of a proud and great Regiment, gave all he had for Canada”.

We would appreciate any help in trying to establish that Lt. Myer T. Cohen had in fact attended Harbord Colle-giate.

The Museum volunteers are also working on a project to highlight the musical life at Harbord ,from the Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, the or-chestra and choir recordings to the Harbordites who made their mark on the Canadian and world music stage.

To that end we could use

help in transferring from 33rpm to CD the Harbord Orchestra and the Harbord choir recordings. Is there anyone out there who can help us in this endeavour?

On a personal note, I am pleased to report that I am entering my 11th year as your Museum curator. It never ceases to amaze me that af-ter all these years I continue to discover new items in our Museum.

- Syd Moscoe

Museum Musings – Continued...

Museum Musings – Continued...

Lieut. Myer Cohen, 1984 - 1917, Canadian

War Hero, and a Harbordite

formerly of Hanover, Ger-many. He attended Holy Blossom Synagogue on Bathurst Street.

Myer enlisted in the 77th Wentworth Regiment as a

The following is an excerpt taken from an email sent to the Harbord Club from Mr. Earl Chapman, an Historian

At The Black Watch (RHR) of Canada, based in Mon-treal.

Myer Tutzer Cohen attend-ed the Harbord Collegiate Institute, his attendance at Harbord was noted in the Toronto Daily Star on 16th of November 1917 un-der the byline "Lieut. Cohen Killed." I have attached a copy. I

have also attached a photo of Myer.

Myer Cohen was born in To-ronto on 21 December 1894, the 3rd of five chil-dren born to Moses Mark Cohen, formerly of Staten Island, New York. His mother was Anna Goslar,

lieutenant, and on 20

November 1915 he volunteered for overseas service with the newly-raised 129th (Wentworth) Battalion, Canadi-an Expeditionary Force. While

Lieut. Myer Cohen, continued...

in England, he

transferred over to the 42nd Battalion, one of three service battalions raised for overseas service by the 5th Regiment, Royal Highlanders of Canada (today's Black Watch of Canada).

He was awarded the Mili-tary Cross for gallantry on 19th of October 1917. Un-fortunately, his Military Cross was awarded posthu-mously, his grieving father accepting the award at Gov-ernment House in Toronto on 19th of April 1918. I have a copy of his official citation as published in the London Gazette and could send it along if you are in-terested. Myer lost his life on 3 November 1917 during the battle of Passchendaele.

Myer's service is commemo-rated in the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul in Mon-treal,

the Regimental Church of The Black Watch of Canada. The church features a mag-nificent memorial window, said to be one of the finest in Canada, which was dedi-cated to the 42nd Battalion. In the window, above the head of David, the Warrior King, is a six-pointed Star of David inserted in honour of Lieutenant Cohen - a tribute to the "memory of a

gallant young Jew who, in shar-ing the high and chivalrous traditions of a proud and great Regiment, gave all he had for Canada."

I do hope you can track down his attendance at Harbord and add his name to your Memorial Roll.

By the way, my research shows that 1,682 Jewish men served in the Canadian

Expeditionary Force during World War One. of which 98 were commissioned of-ficers.

Based on the book by Gerard Tulchinsky, Canada's Jews: A Peo-ple's Journey (Toronto, 2008), 123 died and 76 were deco-rated for acts of brav-ery.

Fun with Harbord Wordsearch!

Harbord's the Best School!

W V A K O I W S G E Y E A Y Y C L W A Y

U O Q N N N R A C R C T T W O A O P C T

E B R M I E W N R N A I S M A R J O A I

R C U L H R A A A V L D M E L R H S D L

P L I C D D T R R I E U U D N A D T E I

A A A T N W E C B D N T W A R O H S M B

S E R E S V A A O I H A E B T A H E I I

T C T T E U T R C D R A O R R I D C C S

R T I S N N J A T O T R R B A U O O E N

A E R T U E T L N W D E O B C N M N X O

W E U O E I R E A C O R S A O A S D C P

P V C N O L S S L I D M T U S R M A E S

O C A N I O H U H I C I O C T J D R L E

A E T M L O B T T I O O O N B R T Y L R

J R T D M S N E A N P T S K U W I O E E

Y T I L I B I S S E C C A Z H M G V N S

C E O R A N G E A N D B L A C K E I C P

R N O I T A R E P O O C A R E E R N E E

Y T E I C O S C I T A R C O M E D P T C

B E S C H O L A R S H I P S N U F E E T

Please enjoy this wordsearch entitled “Harbord's the Best School" inspired by the words of alum Murray Rubin at this year's Awards Ceremony!

ACADEMICEXCELLENCE

Wordbank

ACCESSIBILITY

ACCOUNTABILITY

ALUMNI ATHLETICS ATTENDANCE

AWARDS CAREER CLUBS

COMMUNICATION COOPERATION DEMOCRATICSOCIETY

EDUCATION FUN GRADUATION

HARBORDCLUB HARBORDITE HONESTY

MASCOT ONWARDHARBORD ORANGEANDBLACK

PARTNERSHIP PERSEVERANCE POSTSECONDARY

RESPECT RESPONSIBILITY REUNIONS

SCHOLARS SCHOLARSHIPS SOCIALJUSTICE

TEACHERS TIGER VIRTUSETDOCTRINA

WARVETERANS WORLDWARONESOLDIER WORLDWARTWOMONUMENT

Harbord C. I. 121st Annual

Commencement

October 25, 2013

2013 Scholarship and Awards Winners!

2013 Grad & Harbord Club Award Winner Gives Thanks!

2013 Grad & Harbord Club 120th Anniversary

Award Winner Gives Thanks! - Julia Bamber


India Annamanthadoo


- Jeremy Li


- Sadie McInnes

taken from ”The Flash ”- an E nglish class st uden t

newspa per, 1980 taken from ”The Flash”- a n

English class stu dent new spaper, 1980

Sadie is also the winner of these other Harbord Club Awards:

Maxwell Goldhar Award

Roberto Machado Award

Bright Penny Award

And a non-Harbord Club Award,

The Scace Loran Scholar Award, worth $80,000 for being the “All-around exceptional student”

Congratulations!


- Michael Woloszyn

Mohamed


- Raihan Hussain


- Ariane Julien


- Andre Damata


- Julian Iacobelli


- Dora Petropoulos


- Veronica Allen

Mohamed


- Madeline Tedesco


- Allison Ariganello

Mohamed


- Elliott Gallagher-Doucette

2013 Grad & Harbord Club 120th Anniversary

Award Winner Gives Thanks! - Emily Brown Gibson


- Cole Barkman


- Tracy Lutete


- Cassia Monteiro

Photo Highlights from Awards Ceremony

November 2013

This page clockwise from Top:

1. Platform Party

2. Principal Vince Mead addresses the Grads

3. Dr. Persad announces Harbord Club Award win-ner Tristan Morris

4. Dr. Persad announces Harbord Club Award win-ner Mimi Santano

5. Murray Rubin of the

Harbord Charitable Foun-dation,

Clockwise from Top-Left:

Some of the 74 Harbord Club Scholarships presented to Award winning students:

1. Mr. Steele presents to Mei Hung. 2. Mr. Gacich presents to Ginger Howard. 3. Dr. Persad presents to Lydia Wong. 4. Dr. Persad presents to Victoria Lee. 5. Dr. Persad presents to Pasc ale Walters. 6. Mr. Gacich presents to Cleo Davies-Chalmers

Class of ‘52 - 60th Reunion Photos

To fellow Harbordites

The HCI class of 1952 60th Reunion photos are available on the Harbord Club website.

To view it click on the link below:

http://harbordclub.com/blog/2012/11/05/photos-harbord-reunion-at-the-donalda-club/



A Trip Back to High School

In last week’s column the fo-cus was fundraising for chari-ty and how this can present learning opportunities for students. To continue on this theme of philanthropy I will share my journey back to high school. And not undercover like in the classic Drew Barry-more film Never Been Kissed.

Last Friday I was invited to present The Corsage Project Community Award at the

Harbord Collegiate Institute 121st annual commencement. It was quite special to pre-sent one week after partici-pating in the Scotiabank Charity Challenge, as financial scholarships are one of the main allocations of the funds we raise. Our committee presented awards this same day at other TDSB high school convocations including Jarvis CI and West Humber CI to students engaged in im-proving their communities.

Sitting on the stage watching the students receive their awards and diplomas I was

hit by a wave of nostalgia. Although a graduate of YRDSB, I could not help but

reflect back to my own com-mencement. I was even tap-ping my foot along with the band as they played Skyfall”. I thank Mrs. Harvey for that,

Joanne Sallay’s weekly education column for the

Village Living Magazine re. Harbord C.I.

my former music teacher.

I often like to write about teachable moments for stu-dents. However, last Friday I experienced a teachable moment. It was incredible to see the philanthropy cen-tered on high school com-mencements. In addition to many non-profit awards from

organizations like The Cor-sage Project, I was amazed to see the number of alumni

scholarships, many in memory of family members who had once attended the school.

In this instance, Harbord is a school rich in history with a very active graduate net-work. Through the Harbord Club, alumni donate funds to-wards student scholarships

where winners are chosen by the teachers.

"Our grads remember where they were made who they are today; and they give back to

the school that made them great," explained Murray Ru-bin, alumni, speaking with

Principal Meade before com-mencement.

To highlight one of many unique stories, Ellen Cole, a proud Harbord alumna, was in

attendance. She was there

to present the Albert “Tubby” Cole Award in honour of her

late husband, a graduate from the class of 1945. When I asked Ellen her motivation,

she answered that this is something he would have liked. It was all too appropri-ate as Albert was a star ath-lete, and his scholarship is an-nually awarded to a male

student for athletic excel-lence. The perfect tribute to ensure his legacy lives on.

Donating funds for education-al scholarships is an important way to give back to the local community, and to help our students build their futures at the same time.

Ac-

cording to Principal Meade, “In a world where many teens have so much adversity to

overcome, graduation is a spe-cial time when the community

Please note the following omission from the last Harbordite:

Rodrigo Fuentes (Harbord's former principal) is now the Central Coordinating Principal of Continuing and International Education for TDSB.

Congratulations to the former Principal of

Harbord C.I., Mr. Rodrigo Fuentes

While reminiscing through past Harbordites and reading articles on the internet

about Harbord, I came across this gem. Check out this url:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeuOamOgA74

It dates back to about 1938 or 1939. An Operetta in our very own Harbord auditorium.

This film was shot in 16mm film by alum Israel Shopsowitz and sent to us courtesy of his daughter Karen. For identification purposes you can note the time indicated in the video for the scene and tell us their name. We'd like to publish info if we receive it.

- Belinda

Reminiscing… 1930s Operetta at Harbord

C.I. !

comes together to celebrate the successes of the teens and the community that supported them.”

To end on a school cheer, “Onward Habord, Onward Har-bord, On to victory!”

By Joanne Sallay

Teachers on Call Inc.

www.teachersoncall.ca

A special thanks to Joanne and this complete article can be found at http://villagelivingmagazine.ca/teach-me-tuesdays/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeuOamOgA74

http://villagelivingmagazine.ca/teach-me-tuesdays/

http://villagelivingmagazine.ca/teach-me-tuesdays/

The Onward Harbord Song!

Onward Harbord is Harbord C.I.'s official school song. It is sung along with the school band playing at the same time. Upon completion of the song, everyone yells out, "One more time!" The song begins once again, getting sung twice. The school song is sung after every assembly and special event. I know you haven’t forgotten the lyrics but here they are just the same:

Onward Harbord, Onward Harbord,

On to victory! The orange and black

are on the track, We pledge our loyalty.

Rah! Rah! Rah! With a Virtus et Doctrina We will reach our goal.

And yours will be eternally The spirit we uphold.

“Virtus et Doctrina Is our battle cry.

We shout and fight for the orange and black And the honour of

H.C.I. Sha-boom-Hey! Sha-boom-Hey!

Sha-boom-boom-bah! Hey Harbord! Hey Harbord!

Hey! Rah! Rah! Rah!

Yea Harbord! Fight! Fight! Fight!

Gr-r-reat!

Peter Miller, Treasurer of the Harbord Charitable Foundation, is pleased to announce that this year the Foundation paid out $7,760.00 in 74 scholastic awards at the Commencement exercises and the Awards Assembly. These are funds earned from money donated over the years by former students , teachers and friends of Harbord Collegiate establishing scholar-ships and awards.

The Harbord Charitable Foundation announces that its Annual General Meeting for pre-senting its Annual Report and election of Officers took place on Friday December 20, 2013 at 10.00 am in the Museum at Harbord Collegiate .

2013 Annual Meeting of the Harbord

Charitable Foundation

Harbord C. I. - Looking Forward To...

In this section, we highlight school events that are upcoming

~ Dec 19th - Holiday Assembly

~ Dec 21st to Jan 5th - Holiday Break

~ Feb 17th - Family Day

~ Mar 8th - 16th - March Break

~ Jun 7th - Last Day of Classes, Farewell Assembly, SAC BBQ

~ Jun 25th - PROM

Special Thanks to the Harbord Club from 120th

Anniversary Award recipient Julia Bamber

Why a Harbord Club?

#1. To establish and maintain a sense of common identity among former students and teachers of the school

#2. To share news from Harbordites everywhere

#3. To provide funds for prizes, awards and scholarships in all grades of the school

#4. To promote school spirit and pride in the stu-dents through historical knowledge

#5. To collect, preserve and display the school's historical photographs, papers and artefacts

#6. To assist in class reunions and annual home-coming events

Contact us:

on Facebook - Harbord C.I. grads/alumni

via Email - [email protected]

or - [email protected]

Harbord Club Executive

President Emeritus - Murray Rubin -HCI-1950

President Pro-Tem - Syd Moscoe -HCI-1952

Harbordite Co-editors - Ben-1978 & Belinda-1981 - Staff

Director - Ben Lee -HCI-1978

Director - Sidney Ingham -HCI-1978

Director - Belinda Medeiros-Felix -HCI-1981 –Staff

Director - Vasan Persad HCI-1994 - Staff

Director - Diana Da Silva -HCI-2009

Director - Sierra Medeiros-Felix -HCI-2010

Director - Harvey Mandel -HCI-1964

Student Representative - Julia Lam - HCI-2014

Please donate to the Harbord Club. Charitable receipts are only issued for donations of $50.00 and over. All cheques of $50.00 and over for which a charitable receipt is required should be made payable to "Harbord Charitable Foundation" and on the face of the cheque in the Memo line insert the words "For the Harbord Club" . For any amount less than $50.00 or if a receipt is not required please make cheque payable to "Harbord Club" Thank You.

Wishing Everyone the Best of the Holidays!

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