Albert and Olive (Kunzli)
St. James |
"We both think this whole
thing is great and hope that it succeeds beyond expectations. We started
going (steady) on Oct. 29, 1955 and have been happily married for 42 years.
Just a note to show how much impact Feller had on our lives. The St James
family history with Feller is a very long one that goes back to Madame
Feller herself." |
Isabelle St James |
"I was at school
in 1955/56. I was with my sister, Gail St. James.
Some of the people I
would like to hear from are Bunny and Vera Stacey, David Carruthers,
Phyllis MacKenzie, Carol Boone." |
Denise Auclair (Whitehead) |
"I attended Feller
from 1955-1958 at which time I graduated. I worked there for 2 years
following graduation. I taught French and was a house mother for
the high school girls on the 4th floor." |
Louis Auclair |
"I attended Feller
from 1952 to 1959. Graduated in 1959 and was President of my graduating
class. We were 10 in that class. Wonderful experiences that
I will never forget in my life. Of course the Auclairs attending
Feller was not anything new. My great grandfather attended Feller
and was a student of Mme. Feller. Then my grandfather, grandmother,
my father, uncles, etc.,all attended.
I worked for The Grande
Ligne Mission in Montreal after graduation. I worked with the Rev.
H. C. Wilkinson who was the General Secretary-Treasurer of the mission.
I worked there for 3 1/2 years and then we [our family] moved to Southern
California. I must tell you that I missed Canada very much and still
do. I have remained a Canadian citizen after all these years.
I now
live in Flagstaff, Arizona
and like it better than Southern California. Flagstaff is a small town
at 7000 feet and I assure you that the air is clean and pure up here.
We have all four seasons here." |
Lucy Anex Pelly |
"You don't know me but
I am an ex-Feller graduate of 1956 - a little before your era I'm afraid.
I had joined the Classmate and found some old friends that I hadn't heard
of for years. Among them was Don Ferguson, whom I have been corresponding
for the last several weeks - and he, intern sent me the Feller website
that he had just discovered. I was so grateful, and past most of
the morning reeling in nostalgia while reading the news etc. It sure
brought back many memories. Oddly enough, during the past few weeks
have corresponded with Louis Auclair - which I'm sure you would remember,
and I will pass on this discovery and I'm sure thatyou will hear from him.
First of all, I must
congratulate you for the work you did on this web site. Alot of research
and work has gone into it. I have often thought of how nice it would
be to get together with some of these old classmates - and I see that you
are proposing a reunion. I think that it could be quite a success.
I understand that in 1963 or so, one had been organized, but not many people
showed up and it wasn't really very successful. Being in Vancouver,
I wasn't able to attend at the time - but certainly if one is to be organized
again - I would make every effort to attend.
You might have heard
of the name Anex - my father was minister for the Grande Ligne Mission
for over 40 years - so I am quite familiar with the whole Feller situation,
even during the war, and visited it just after the prisoners of war were
vacated - that I will never forget - and reading Frances Masseau's account
brought back many souvenirs. He was also on the board at Feller." |
Kathleen Oberg Germain |
"I attended Feller
from 1953 to 1957. I didn't graduate from Feller but I certainly did my
time. I think the website is great and reading all of it sure brings
back memories - not all of them bad!" |
Janet Clough |
I have just found
your web site through Andy McCullough, through Rick Lambert. This
is just great. It's great fun reading what others remember. I think
we all have stories, some good, some bad and some funny. Thanks for starting
this. |
Carol (Myers) Elliott |
I attended Feller
in 54, 55 and graduated in 56. I heard about your web site from Lucy (Anex)
Pelly (also Class of 56) and have had a wonderful time browsing through
it and reflecting on memories from long ago. You have done a fantastic
job and the web site is terrific! I hope you are successful in attracting
a great number of Feller alumni in order to have a reunion. |
Leslie Desmangles |
Through Louis Auclair
(Feller '59), I was guided to the Feller Website which brought back so
many memories. I am a Feller graduate of the class of 1960. I think I'm
right to say that in the entire history of the school, there were only
2 students from the Caribbean that ever attended Feller, and both came
from Haiti and were at Feller at the same time.
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Some of the most difficult
and yet some of the most cherished moments of my life were at Feller. I
was a foreign student while at Feller from 1956-60. Coming from Haiti
and being so far from my family ffor so long for the first time in
my life, I found in the Feller community a supportive family who gave me
the moral support that I needed to grow and mature both personally and
academically. Our education at Feller was not second-rate, by no means.
Feller was a small community in an isolated town. We lived with our teachers
and had their undivided attention. Few high school students can make that
claim.
Leslie G. Desmangles '60,
Ph.D |
Elizabeth Rolleston |
Hi from Elizabeth Rolleston. I attended Feller from
1955 and graduated in 1960. I roomed my first year and if my memory
serves me right, the second year also, with a Kathleen Germain. Her
years attending make it seem as though it is she. I'll try to contact
her. She was a hot ticket! She was, I believe, involved in
some of the pranks, putting pennies under the light bulbs to blow out the
hall lights. Kathleen and I won the room prize - a trip to St. John
( oops, St. Jean) monthly. We worked awfully hard to get out of Feller
for an afternoon. I met my husband, David Parkinson, who was a couple
of years behind me and attended Feller for one year and a partial year
and left after an altercation with Mr. Johnson. David and I divorced
in 1987 and in 1994, after his divorce and retirement, Bill Reid (another
1960 graduate) and (former boyfriend of Kathy Ferguson) came to live with
me. He presently runs a second-hand collectibles store and also sells
second hand videos and cassettes and c.d.'s. He has two daughters
who live in Stratford Connecticut where he had been living for many years.
I have three children, a son and two daughters, all married and my two
daughters each have two children. So I am a Granny. All live
nearby and I see them frequently.After the divorce, I went to college and
got a bachelor's degree in nursing. I work in a nursing home in Brattleboro,
VT though Bill and I live in Greenfield, MA. We are planning to buy
a computer soon, but at present, I am using my son and daughter-in -law's
access to the internet to send this note and I am going to try to contact
Kathleen Germain. Leslie Desmangles called me to tell me about this
website. It sure brings back a lot of memories. Any messages
for Bill or I may be sent to this E. Mail address. My daughter-in-law will
fax them to us. I have kept in touch with Marilyn Auclair who was
my roommate for three years, and with Susie Chapman with whom I roomed
for the senior year. I have an address for Brooke Bodo and mail I
have sent to him has never been returned to me, but I haven't had a reply
for years. Visited with him and his wife and two children in the
70's when he was living in Kitchener, Ontario and we were in Cambridge,
Ontario. If John Bloxham ever logs on to this site, please contact
me. Thanks. I lost your address. This is a great idea - our
love/hate relationship with this particular alma mater flourishes.
I remember an incident in our senior year in the balcony room. Someone
brought us (Marilyn, Susie and I) a small bottle of rum and some cigarettes.
None of us smoked at the time. We decided to have a cigarette and
a drink. Susie and I went outside, and Marilyn decided she was going
to have her cigarette inside in bed. Well, our house mother, Denise
Auclair, investigated and caught us. We were all very worried, but perhaps
because Marilyn was her cousin, she spared us a report - or maybe it was
just because she was so young and so close to us in age. Thanks Denise.
I will try to remember other incidents and write about them. I had
forgotten about the paper chase!!! I do remember the reasoning about
why there was a rule that there would be no holding hands. Remember
Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson as such great compassionate people. |
Sue Chapman |
Hi there. I heard from an old friend today, Liz Rolleston, thanks to
you! I am from the class of '60. My maiden
name if Sue Chapman. I went to feller for 9 yrs. there are
many people that I have likely forgotten, but I would just love to hear
from old friends.
Jim and I have been married almost 37 yrs. We have
two lovely daughters. We are fortunate also to have a wonderfull
grandson. When Jim retired iin 1990 we decided to move to the
Maritimes. Here we are in Prince Edward Island. Check out our
website www3.pei.sympatico.ca/captains.lodge |
Doreen McFadden
nee Granary |
I am writing to ask to have my name added to the list with email address
and to the list of people found. I think a reunion would be great.
My years at Feller were from 1949-1954. What great years they were.
I am still in touch with the person I considered my best friend through
out my years at Feller (even if it is only every 5-10 years) and a friend
that I became very close to after our Feller days and who has been there
with me through thick and thin. I will be in touch with them soon
and hope to have their names added to the list in the near future. I am
going to try and find people I did know while at Feller. It would
be so nice to see them once again. I will try and write again
in the near future with a few stories. Thank you
for getting this web page started. |
Dear Rick Relger,
As a recent browser I was astonished to find your Feller work on the
web. As a writer I've tried to avoid the browsing addiction, but was delighted
to have allowed myself the luxury this afternoon. I admit I tapped out
'Feller Institute' with little hope of a result. So much for pessimism.
My name is Arthur Massé (will try for the accent later...and
got it!). I graduated in /49 - the first class to graduate after the school
reopened - and subsequently have spent most of my life in theatre under
the name Paul Massie (the name-change was NOT my idea and was never made
legal). Now I write full-time, occasionally performing some of what
I write.
Oddly enough the most frequently performed work is a series of sketches
that derive from childhood memories of ladies up and down Grande Ligne.
These images would not let me go until I wrote them out (totally fictionalized
I hasten to add) and this afternoon, just before the browse, I was printing
out the piece for a performance in Atlanta in October. Odd, but good.
There we are then. I could not resist sending this off.
Good luck with further endeavors.
Best wishes, Arthur Massé
Dear Rick, Post e-mail address by all means.
Reminiscences will take longer. Do you realize I was brought
up in the parsonage up on the hill? My father was Grande Ligne minister
for years - he was also appointed principal after the war but illness forced
him to resign. Don't really know why I decided to go to Feller to
finish off high school - just in the blood I guess. Do you know the
Massé connections to
the school? Here we go: great grandmother, cook; grandfather, Dr. Godfrey
Massé, principal; great uncle, Arthur Massé, principal; my
father, Emile Massé, teacher, then Grande Ligne minister, then appointed
principal, later minister again; my mother, Helen Dickinson, teacher -
my parents met as teachers; my aunt, Alice Massé, teacher; my uncle,
Frank Stanton, teacher; and on down to me, student.
Didn't mean to give you a potted family history but that cemetery behind
the school is home to generations of us, and right now I'm plowing through
an enormous box of family letters dating back to 1895. It's a treasure
trove but I haven't a clue yet what's to be done with them all - they haven't
told me as yet.
Enough enough.
Good hearing from you so quickly.
Best wishes, Arthur/Paul Massé/Massie |
Hello Rick I appreciate the work that you have done on the Feller page
I was just informed of it by Tony Feist.
I graduated in 1967 I was president of the student council, a prefect,
played hockey, and basketball. I enjoyed Feller College very much. My years
there where probably the most informative of my life I actually met my
wife through the girlfriend of a fellow Feller student. Please feel free
to post my email address on the allumni page.Definitely interested in a
school reunion. thank you for your effort
Mike Desjardins (Bear)
ps. I have two copies of the L'Echo from 1965 and 1967
if you are interested in them. Let me know. |
DEAR RICK,
I AM ONE OF THE LAST GROUP OF STUDENTS TO GRADUATE FROM FELLER(66/67).
I THINK THE IDEA OF A REUNION AND THIS WEBSITE IS GREAT FUN,AND,I HAVE
TO ADD,PROBABLY QUITE EMOTIONAL FOR SOME - FOR WHATEVER REASON.
AFTER ALL,FELLER WAS A `SPECIAL`PLACE IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE.GREAT MEMORIES,I
GUESS,FOR SOME - BE IT TRAPSING THROUGH COWPATTIED FIELDS TO CLIMB THE
RADIO TOWER ,RAIDING THE KITCHEN,OVER THE ROOF TO THE GIRLS` SIDE,OR OFF
THE QUARRY FOR SOME FUN AND\OR FROLIC.,OR WEARING THE CADET UNIFORM FOR
WEEKS AT A TIME AS A PUNISHMENT FOR MISCHIEF OR FOOLING AROUND ( WHICH
WAS USUALLY THE CASE FOR ME)...AND THOSE SUITS WERE ITCHY,NOT TO MENTION
THE FACT I WAS ONE OF THE WAITERS FOR HEAD TABLE!!!GOING TO ST BLAISE TO
GET HOT CROSS
BUNS FROM THE BAKERY THERE,CHASING THE COWS TO SOUR THE MILK,SUNDAY
MORNING INSPECTION,SUNDAY NIGHT SUPPER OF SOUP,CHEDDER CHEESE,AND HORSEBALLS(PLUMS)
FOR DESERT - AND SOOOO MUCH MORE. I AM SURE EVERYONE HAS THESE KINDS,AND
MORE,OF MEMORIES.
IT WOULD BE FUN TO SEE SOME OF THE `OLD`FACES AGAIN AND CATCH UP,ALTHOUGH
IT MIGHT BE KIND OF SCARY.MOST OF US ARE IN THE 50+ CLUB BY NOW.STILL IT
WOULD BE FUN,AND FUNNY.
IT WOULD BE NICE TO HEAR FROM SOME OF OF MY EX-FELLER FRIENDS.
TONY FEIST |