Fall - Stanstead College

alumni newsClass NotesJosh. Torrey is a centre for the San JoseSharks and donated a signed jersey andstick to display at Border Fest.1972Sheldon Caplan attended the reunion inMontreal this past Spring and enjoyedmeeting up with his former classmates.Sheldon will be refereeing this winter forHockey Quebec as well as travelling toChina. Sheldon is in the reusable bagbusiness and is one of the largestimporters of custom-made eco-friendlybags in North America. For more informationvisit his website www.envirousablebags.com.Sheldon plans to attendthis years Homecoming celebration onSeptember 26.1975Brian John Abbas owns a seafood exportcompany in Indonesia. He also collectsland snails and sea shells as a hobby. Infact he has discovered a number of newspecies of snail, including Hemiplecta abbasiand Amphibromous (Syndromus) abbasi whichare named after him.1977In early August, Tom MacKay droppedby campus on his bicycle. It was his firsttime on campus in 30 years. He lives inToronto.1979While speaking at this year’s Baccalaureate,Allen Chastanet met up with old pals JeffKnowles and Phil Huckins (1981).Akiko (Fujimoto)Watanabe (1993) writes:After graduating fromQueen’s with a BA inEconomics, I entered Yale’sEconomics PhD programand graduated from there in2004. It was there that I metmy husband, MasahiroWatanabe, who was my Akiko in London.classmate throughout my time there. (Wegot married in April 2006). He was a studentat the Yale School of Managementwith a concentration in Finance, so thatcontributed to my decision to pursueFinance as my major field as well. He isseven years older than I am and hadworked as a banker in Japan before comingto the U.S. to obtain his MBA fromChicago followed by the Yale PhD program.I am grateful to have someone whoguides me in many ways. He graduatedfrom Yale in 2003 and began teaching atthe business school at Rice University inHouston, Texas. He has just joined me atthe University of Alberta Business Schoolas a tenured associate professor; I havebeen an assistant professor of finance herefor the past fiveyears. We havejust started to settleourselves here,but I am glad thatwe can start livingtogether afterbeing apart forsix years.My sisterKikuko (1996) studied Hotel Managementat University of Guelph and met her husbandthere; his name is Travis and he isfrom Kingston. They lived in Japan andworked with my father for several years,and then came back to Canada to work invarious restaurants and hotels in Banff,Kikuko with her mother Sachiyo and daughterMio.Whistler and Victoria. They got married inSalt Spring Island, B.C a couple of yearsbefore I did. They now have three girls:Anna (almost 4 years old), Mio (2 yearsold), and Eli (1 month old). They are planningto go back to Kingston soon to beclose to Travis’s family.Taira (1995) went back to Japan a coupleof years after Stanstead and trained tobecome a professional chef specializing intraditional Japanese cuisine in Tokyo. Heworked with my father for several years.Last time I spoke with him, he told me thathe was thinking of going back to school toobtain a Food Management degree. Helives in our hometown of Matsumoto.Manabu (1997) graduated from La SalleCollege in Montreal and now works as aninterior designer in Yokohama, a city nearTokyo.Our cousin Kyohei Yoshiike (2002),who attended Stanstead for six years,works as a realtor in Matsumoto. I heardfrom his mother that he is working hardand has been the best salesperson in hiscompany for several years now. My mothersaid Manabu and Kyohei are well connectedwith Stanstead graduates in Japan.10