Jim Tomkins (CHSB 1957-1964)

Called by Mr Murch ‘Canada” throughout the first and second form it is not surprising that I returned here. After completing my degree at the University of Sussex as the first Cicestrian to gain entry there I returned to Ontario for graduate work and began my career in education. My 43 years in the classroom were spent mostly in and around Brantford Ontario but did include two years at the Internationale Schule Hamburg and one at Newport High School on the Isle of Wight. Since retiring in 2012 my time has been spent travelling, walking, sometimes on a golf course, and writing poetry and prose some of which has been published.

My wife of 46 years, Barbara, basks in her relatively new role as grandmother and delights in painting (watercolours mostly). She spent 34 years in the classroom with elementary students. Our daughter, Christy, is an associate professor at Mount Royal University and Chief Operating Officer of a health promotion company in Calgary, Alberta. My son Andrew, from my Chichester days, is an Anglican priest in Manchester. I am still in contact with some contemporaries, Tony Lanaway in particular. I return to the UK occasionally to visit friends but am very happy to be here in Canada. Perhaps I will return next October for the 90th-anniversary celebration. It I found these recently.

 

 

They were taken at the 1992 50th anniversary

of the founding of the Rugby Club. Tony Lanaway will be able to identify the suspects.would be fun to see some ‘old’ faces.