Kathleen Taylor

The vice president of the Lord Elgin Hotel is a friend of mine, a prodigious reader of every journal going and he passes down his Maclean's cast-off magazines down to me.  I stuff them into my computer bag, and they make great reading on airplanes and when I am travelling.  I have left issues of Maclean's on two continents, in the pockets of three airlines, and in the Caribbean, where import duties make a magazine go for $13 a copy, they are eagerly snapped up as window to the outside world, and the land of the North.

So I was idly flipping through the November 5 issue of Maclean's and it had an insert titled:  "Portraits in Leadership 2012" presented by Canadian Business and the Ted Rogers Leadership Center @ Ryerson University.  In amongst the cognoscenti of Canadian business, I come across the picture of one Kathleen Taylor, the President and CEO of the Four Seasons Hotel chain.

OCHS alumni will know her as the vibrant Kathy Taylor who was a year behind me and participated in almost every student endeavour imaginable from being the judge at Kangaroo court to Student Council president.
In the above picture, Kathy is pictured third down the line graduating from OCHS (incidentally that is my sister at the head of the line).

So good on you Kathleen.  Congratulations on your achievements and may your successes continue for many years to come.

Sister Conrad & Kathy Taylor

Sister Conrad talks to an unidentified person, while in the background, Kathy Taylor rehearses her lines. As the student council president, she will make an announcement. The big white machine in the background is the public address system. The year was 1976.

Photo Montage -- Kangaroo Court

I can't remember why this photo montage was created, but it was of kangaroo court and student initiations. In the top part we have teachers, left to right: Richard Wierfeldt (partially hidden), Bill Langley, Pat O'Brien, Jack Macchione, Sister Mary Jane Trimble, (unknown), and then Father Gary Harrison. In the bottom half of kangaroo court, I can only identify Joe Fitzpatrick, Kathy Taylor (the judge), Danny Cannon (paint on face) and Chuck Fairhart.

Student Council 1973

Back Row: Elsa Lack, Debbie Gagnon, Kathy Taylor, Danny O'Neill, Judy McLinton, Marylee O'Neill

Middle Row: Diane Ciosk, Connor Seaver, John Manley, Gloria Murrant

Front: Don Hamlyn, Joe Neal

Athletic Association 1973

Back Row: Joan Duignan, Brian Noonan, Joe Neal, Cathy Taylor

Front Row: Paul Bowen, Mary Fairhart

My Sister Teresa

My sister Teresa was two years behind me at OCHS. This is a pic of her graduation in the gym. Behind her is Susan Knapp (married to Dan Clancy), and behind Susan is Kathy Taylor. (thanks Dan Clancy for the additional names)

Behind Kathy Taylor is Marylee O'Neill.