Welcome to the Mount Royal High School Class of 59 Home Page



Main Entrance of the Mount Royal High School

This is the home page of the MRHS Class of 59 alumni association, which is open to everyone who graduated from Mount Royal High School in the Town of Mount Royal, Quebec, Canada in the year 1959. Unlike its intended readers, who are by now all sexagenarians (if they're lucky!), this page is still wet behind the ears, and will hopefully continue to grow in stature and wisdom as its readers inevitably do the opposite. The MRHS Class of 59 is also known by its official abbreviation, MRHS59.

The basic idea is that as we leave the hassle of bringing up children and going off to work behind us, we find ourselves with more time on our hands (and, for that matter, our feet and our left shoulder blades), and a growing curiosity as to what the people we grew up with have done with their lives. The purpose of this site is to help us satisfy that curiosity.

This site is designed to be as simple and intuitive as possible. It should work on all computers and in all browsers without needing any special "plugins" or downloads. This page is probably more restful to the eye if you do not let the browser take up the whole screen. (It's also easier to find other windows that way!) All of the pages on this site are also designed to be as fast as possible when downloaded over the old-fashioned dial-up connections which many of us are still making do with (perhaps hoping that we will soon inherit something faster from our children, as they move on to the next generation of super-galactic quantum communication equipment).

If the foregoing paragraph sounds like gibberish to you, help is at hand. Spend a few minutes studying the simple course mentioned in the first section below, and you will soon be impressing your children—and grandchildren —with your knowledge of computer terminology!

This site is free. You do not have to mortgage your house, become a "gold member", or even "sign on", in order to use this site. It is for all members of the MRHS Class of '59. And it will be as exactly as interesting as you help to make it.

Are you a Phantom Classmate?

Are you a 1959 graduate of MRHS, who is not on the Hearsay List? If you are, some of your classmates are at this moment busy trying to track you down. Even if you do not plan to come to the 50th reunion, please get in touch with the , so that we can cross you off the list, and spend our time locating other classmates who might dearly want to come, but who might be missed because we were trying to find you. Thanks!

Contents

For WWW Novices – crash course in Web surfing
Reunions – On-line and Off – getting together with your classmates
Discussion Forum – how to contribute
The 1959 MRHS Torch On-line – a goldmine for those of us who have lost our own copies
The 2009 Half Century Torch – is waiting for your contributions
Our Classes at MRHS – home page and seating plan for each class plus alphabetical list of all 1959 classmates
Our Teachers at MRHS – Information about some of our teachers at MRHS (sadly, often obituaries)
The Hearsay List – everyone we have any information about
List of Missing Classmates – everyone we still haven't located. View by class or all together.
Biographical Information – what your classmates would like to know about you
Contact Persons – volunteer to keep in touch with classmates who are not on-line.
Privacy – the proposed privacy policy for this site
Email Addresses – are wearing camouflage uniforms
Music – Musical activities at MRHS: Senior Band, Orchestra, Glee Club, and more
    Senior Band – Help us to identify band members.
    Glee Club – Help us to identify glee club singers.
    Orchestra – Help us to identify members of the orchestra.
Memory Lane – people, places and events that we remember
Alma Grossmutter – the primary schools that we attended before MRHS
Links – other sites of interest
MRHS59 Alumni Association – with an invitation to join
   – News from the 50th Reunion Planning Committee
   – 50th Reunion Entertainment Plans
Reporting Problems – please report any problems you may encounter on this site!
Webmaster – who is this shadowy character?

For WWW Novices

For those of you who have been lucky enough to get through your working lives without having to engage in daily battle with the mindless machines we call "computers", here is a crash course in surfing that will soon have you "buzzword-compliant" with your grandchildren. (Put the mouse pointer over the underlined words and push the (left) mouse button.)

Reunions – On-line and Off

So far the Class of '59 has had one official reunion, the 30th, in 1989. (Actually, it was the first reunion. But what else can you call a reunion that took place 30 years after we left the hallowed halls of our Alma Mater?)
 
Some of you have probably held smaller-scale reunions. you would like to tell your classmates about any reunion that you have taken part in (or any you are planning), send the information—and the photographs!—to the who will publish them here.
 
Here are some pictures from a mini-reunion held at Lake Memphramagog in 2002.
 
The Big One—50 Years in 2009!
Just think: it was half a century ago that we walked through the portals of MRHS for the last time and set off to seek our fortunes—which some of us still haven't found. The first task is to round up all of our classmates. So if your name is not on the Hearsay List, or if you know the whereabouts of another classmate who isn't, please contact the .
 
The 50th Reunion Planning Committee is busy planning now. If you have any good ideas about when, where, and how long the reunion should be, or ideas for activities (perhaps you can sing, play an instrument, or pull rabbits out of a hat?), the time to get them in is now. Do we want to hold the reunion in Montreal and visit the Alma Mater? Or shall we charter the QE II for a week's cruise in the South Pacific? Send in your thoughts to the planning committee or to the , who will forward them to the committee.

Virtual Reunions
If we all contribute to this web site, it will become a virtual reunion, with the advantage that it is not confined to a few days in a particular place, but is on-going and you can come and go at your convenience wherever you happen to be. So get those contributions coming in! The more you contribute, the more interesting this page will be for everyone. The MRHS59 site will only be as good as you help to make it!

Discussion Forum

In its early days, this site had an open Discussion Forum (open means that anyone could contribute). This resulted in a ratio of more that 1000 spam postings to every genuine contribution. Since it was almost impossible to find the genuine postings amidst all the rubbish, and since removing the spam was a boring and time-consuming task, your webmaster has pulled the plug on this forum. R.I.P.

But that doesn't mean that you can't contribute to this site or discuss things with your classmates. On the contrary! Such contributions are positively encouraged. (If you listen carefully, you may be able to hear the Encouragement Elves whirring away inside your computer as you read these words.) How can you contribute?

     If you have any reminiscences that you think might interest all of us, send them to the who will post them in Memory Lane.
     If you want to share memories, or start a discussion, with former members of your particular class (11A, 11B, etc), send them to the who will post them in Our Classes at MRHS where each class has its own home page.
     You can contact individual classmates on the Hearsay List by email.
     You can supply the with contact information about yourself or some other classmate for inclusion on the Hearsay List.
     You can contribute a short bio bio about yourself, complete with pictures to let your classmates know what you have been up to during the past half century. For inspiration, you can follow a link from the Hearsay List to one of your classmates' bios.
     If you have any ideas that might make this a more exciting site for all of us, or have found something that doesn't work the way it should, please let the know about it!

The 1959 MRHS Torch On-line

The Torch for our graduation year is now available on-line. So far, the on-line version is limited to what you see in the list below—mainly the class pages (with everyone's favourite expressions, photos, etc). If there is enough interest, other pages will be added in the future. The way to demonstrate your interest is, for a start, to make sure that your contact information is on the Hearsay List. Then you can help to make the site more interesting for all of us by contributing a short bio about yourself to let your classmates know what you have been up to during the past half century. Your is at your service, ready and waiting to publish your information.

Incidently, don't be surprised if you find that you have a new "partner" in the column beside you in the on-line Torch. This is because the paper version used a per-page "column-first" presentation order that would be very inconvenient to use on a web page, which has no concept of page breaks. Instead, the on-line version uses a "row-first" presentation order throughout. If this sounds abstruse, don't worry about it. Just shake hands with your new partner!

Memorable Moments

This is a colection of 30 snapshots, spread over four pages of the Torch (pp 45-47), which will undoubtedly bring back fond memories for some people—for example the people who took the photographs. However, most of the pictures probably won't mean very much to most of us, even though we can sense that there is a tantalizingly good story lurking behind the cryptic captions, and would dearly like to have it explaned to us by one of the initiated.

If you know what caused Mr Herring such despair, why Dr Bucanan was dancing a Samba (or was it a Tango?), what "Les Miséables" were doing in MRHS, or can contribute any other information on any of the photographs, send it to the who will insert (non-libellous) contributions beneath the photographs. The more we all contribute, the more fun this page will be for all of us!

If you have any other memorable moments, in pictures or writing, that you would like to share with your classmates, please send them along. There are already pages for each of Our Classes at MRHS, designed for pictures and reminiscences chiefly of interest to a particular class. If you have material which would be of interest to all of us, the MRHS59 site is wide open. We can create new pages for whatever strikes our fancy. This site will be as interesting as we ourselves make it. So send in those contributions!

Copyright

The on-line version of the Torch is copyrighted. Why? To keep it out of the hands of grubby on-line swindlers. Some of you have already discovered that there are fraudsters out there who offer you "free memebership" of their "classmate" web sites in return for your email address and other personal data. But then when you try to get in touch with your classmates, you are told that you will have to fork up a pot of gold (become a "gold member"), before you can access the email addresses which your classmates were tricked into providing free of charge.

These fraudsters try to charge you even more for additional "sevices" such as letting you plan reuniouns with your classmates through their web site. Nothing would suit them better than to be able to hijack an on-line yearbook and force you to become a "platinum" or "diamond" member in order to access it. Well they can't. The on-line version of the 1959 MRHS Torch is copyright. And the copyright gives you all permission to use it, copy it and give it away to anyone who wants it, under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Note that if you do copy these files, the terms of the license require you to copy the license as well, and to make it available along with the files to anyone who wants to copy the files from you. A copy of the GFDL is included here. (This is just our interpretation of the GFDL. The only legally binding document is the English text of the GFDL itself.)

Format

The on-line version of the Torch is in HTML format, which means that the page for the largest class is about 200 KB, including 34 photos (in jpeg format). By comparison, if the Torch pages had been scanned in as jpeg images, the same class (three Torch pages) would occupy 6 MB, which is 30 times as big! (And would take you 30 times as long to download!)

What about PDF format? Well, not only would it have resulted in huge files, that would have taken a long time to download, but once on your computer, it would have taken an even longer time for Adobe's Acrobat Reader to show you the list of all its software patents, designed to entertain you as it starts up and formats the pages. What is more, this would happen every time you wanted to look at them—even if you saved them on your computer. But the most important reason for not using PDF is that proprietary formats (formats owned by companies) are entirely contrary to the basic principle of the WWW— the openness that has made it great.

The 1959 MRHS Torch In Your Pocket

Due to the compact form of the on-line versison of the Torch (see above), the files will fit easily into the memory of a modern mobile phone. If you would like a zip file of the on-line Torch, send a short bio about yourself to the who will sent you a zip file by email. By sending your bio in a case of champagne—or better yet, a crate of Fairmont bagels, frozen straight from the oven and sent by UPS overnight service to Sweden (where your webmaster lives)—you can ensure that your request will receive expeditious treatment.

Corrections

It is inevitable, when transferring such a large body of highly formatted text to another medium, that errors will creep in. It is also probable that there were errors in the original text. Add to that the fact that the only copy of the Torch available to your Webmaster was a borrowed one full of signatures, which often confused—and sometimes completely stymied— the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) equipment used in the operation, and it becomes highly likely that many of you will discover annoying errors in your Torch entries. If so, do not dispair. Instead, send in your corrections to the . If you bribe him by sending along a short bio about yourself the corrections will be made as soon as possible. Otherwise they will be done "when convenient".

Perhaps in the exhilaration of graduation (I didn't say intoxication.), a few of you signed your names right across your photographs. This has not always had the effect of enhancing your appearance. If you are one of the people affected, or the friend of someone so affected, (or, for that matter, a complete stranger to the unfortunate person), you are welcome to scan in a non-autographed page from your own Torch if you should happen to have such a page, and send it to the Webmaster, who will use it to replace the offending photograph. The method described above for speeding up delivery of zip files is applicable in this case as well.

The Half Century Torch of 2009

Wouldn't it be fun to have an updated Torch, where we could see what our classmates have been doing during the past half century? Well, this is your chance to make it happen. It all depends on you!

Just write a simple email, with a paragraph or two about what you have been up to since leaving the hallowed halls, attach a photograph, and send it to the MRHS59 , who will do the rest. It doesn't need to take you more than a few minutes. You can always add to your bio and send in more photos later. The important thing is to get started now.

The object is to produce The Half Century Torch of 2009 as a CD in time for our 50th reunion in 2009. But this requires that you all start sending in your bios today, for two reasons. In the first place, because sheer logistics will make it impossible for your poor old webmaster to produce a CD in time if the bios all arrive just before our reunion. In the second place, because there is no telling when your webmaster may shuffle off his mortal coil. Even before that event—something that the Bard forgot to take into consideration—the coil might get so run down, that it is no longer capable of powering the activities required of a webmaster.

So sit down now and write your bio! The Biographical Information section contains some hints to help you get started. You can read the bios that your classmates have sent in so far on the Hearsay List.

If anyone out there, whose coil is in good shape, feels up to up to the task of acting as back-up webmaster for this site, please get in touch with the current . This site should not be dependent on the mortality of any individual. Especially not one as mortal as your current webmaster!

R.I.P.

Reference was made above to the mortal coils, which keep our internal clockwork ticking over. Although they all come with life-time guarantees, the fine print is that so far there is no internationally agreed-upon standard length for a life-time. Most of us by this point have been forced to face up to the fact that our coils are wearing out. For some of us, they already have.

If you are the friend of a classmate who has passed away, please contribute a bio as a tribute to your friend. It would be sad, indeed, if his or her entry in The Half Century Torch of 2009 consisted of the single word "deceased".
Alphabetical List — Class of '59

Our Classes at MRHS

ClassStudents
11A34
11B33
11C33
11D30
11E28
11F31
10L15
Total204
If you have any photos of your class, stories about your teacher, or other memories you would like to share with your classmates, you can send them directly to the for inclusion on the "Reminiscences" page, which is, in effect, a home page for your particular class. If you have any reminiscences that might interest the whole Class of '59, not just your immediate class, send them to the Webmaster for inclusion in Memory Lane. Personal reminiscences can be included in your biography.

The class that ends up with the most interesting page will win a free trip to Bali for all members of the class—or else an honourable mention on the MRHS Class of 59 Home Page, at the discretion of the Webmaster.

Our Teachers at MRHS

The Hearsay List

The same links to classmates' email addresses, Torch entries, and bios are available from all the (relevant) lists on this site, such as the alphabetical, and the various class lists. In the early days of this site, when the number of active '59ers was small, it was convenient to have us all on a single list. For this purpose, the Hearsay List was created, and for several years, much of the information on the list was just what its name implies. Although is now hoped that the information is accurate, and the number of active classmates has grown considerably, the list and its name have been retained, since they are both well established.

The Missing List

As an aid in tracking down classmates, there is now a list of missing classmates which can be viewed by individual class, or all together.

Biographical Information

Each of you is invited to submit a short biography consisting of:
  1. A resumé of what you have been up to since 1959
  2. One or more photos
  3. A link to your home page (if you have one)
  4. Any personal anecdotes that you think might interest your classmates

The Webmaster can allocate a maximum of 100 KB to each biography without incurring any additional expense. That should be more than enough for the listed items. Anyone wishing to make more information available, can do so by supplying a link to his or her home page.

For the time being, the bios will be linked to from the various lists. Later on, they will form the basis for The Half Century Torch of 2009.

Bio Formats

You don't need to worry about formatting your bio. Your webmaster will be happy to do this for you. Just sent the info in an ordinary email. If you're not computer-savvy yourself, ask one of your grandchildren to help you scan in a few photos and send them along as attachments to your email.

Please do not send your bio in PDF format. (Why not? See remarks on the Torch Format.) Other proprietary formats, such as Word, DreamWeaver, etc, generally produce web files many times larger than they need to be, which would soon fill up your allotted 100 KB. The preferred method is just to write a few paragraphs in an ordinary email and leave the formatting to your webmaster. However, if you are an old hand at writing HTML pages, by all means send one in, and your webmaster will do his best to fit it in with a minimum of alteration.

Crib Sheet

Here are some hints, which might help you to get started—and to keep going!.

As an example, here is your Webmaster's biography, which consumes less than 60 KB of disk space, including three photographs.

Contact Persons

It has already become apparent that some of our classmates do not have email, and may have little or no experience in using the Web. It is therefore very important, if we are going to be able to organize a class reunion, that some of you agree to act as contact persons for classmates you know of, who are not on line.

If you know the whereabouts of such a classmate, and are willing to act as contact person, please advise the . For the time being, the names of contact persons will be placed in the Comments column of the Hearsay List.

Privacy

One of the fascinating facts which frequent users of the Web become aware of, is that denizens of the Web prioritize privacy in inverse proportion to the likelyhood that anyone would be interested in their personal details.

On the Web you will find home pages (some more "official" than others) for:

The only information that is usually withheld from these home pages is telephone numbers and street addresses, and it is suggested that this information also be withheld from the biographies on this site.

If you have any comments about the privacy policy outlined in this and some of the previous sections, send them to the , who will post them here. Who knows? We may get a lively discussion going on the subject! In the meantime, the Webmaster will assume that he has been given carte blanche to reveal all the juicy tidbits which come to his attention.

Email Addresses

All email addresses on this site are stored in a camouflaged form. This has been done in order to conceal them from spammers, whose automatic Web crawlers comb Web sites, looking for email addresses. They usually pick up any string with an embedded @ symbol, such as this one: newyork@fbi.gov. (Spammers who pick up the foregoing email address will end up sending their junk mail to the New York office of the FBI).

If you want to send an email to one of your classmates, click on the symbol beside his or her name on one of the lists, for example the Hearsay List. When you click on the envelope, SpamSpoofer will appear and invite you to copy and paste the name of your classmate. Once you have done so, an email will automatically be created for you, with the "To" and "From" lines already filled in. In addition, the tag "MRHS59:" will be placed at the beginning of the subject line. This tag may help your classmate to recognize your email as non-spam.

If there is no symbol beside a name, that classmate has yet to be located or has no (known) email address. If you manage to get in touch with him or her, please ask him or her (May the inventor of Political Correctness be boiled in oil!.) to contact the Webmaster.

If this sounds confusing, please consider reading through the crash course in surfing. It will save you time and grief in the long run.

However, despite the above precautions, everyone with an email address has to learn to live with junk mail. You will find some helpful hints for dealing with junk mail in the aforementioned crash course.

Music

The man who made it all possible, Director of Music, Dr Harrison Jones, better known as "Doc Jones".

1959
The Senior Band
The Glee Club
The Orchestra
See if you can identify any of the players or singers!

The Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Gondoliers, May 14–15, 1959

1958
The 1958 Senior Band
The 1958 Orchestra
The 1958 Intermediate Band
Photos from the 1958 MRHS Torch

Musical Memories
Do you have any pictures of the rich music life at MRHS that you'd like to share with your classmates? Dig around in the attic!

Contributions received, to be published soon:

Memory Lane

Dr Buchanan's French Book
The Graduation Dance was the last time a lot of us saw each other. If you have any memories—or photoghaphs—which you would like to share with your classmates, of the dance itself, the parties associated with it, or the sunrise the following morning, send them to the for inclusion on the Grad Dance page. At the very least, send in the name of the person you attended the dance with, for inclusion on the partner list!

One of the most colourful and best-loved characters in the whole Town of Mount Royal was MRHS's Director of Music, Dr Harrison Jones, better known as "Doc Jones".

A brilliant pedagogue, dedicated mentor, and co-author of the French textbook we all used, was Dr Donald Buchanan.

One of the most unforgettable characters at MRHS during its Golden Age (when we were there, of course) was "Newfie" (later Dr) Arthur Scammell, author of "The Squid Jiggin' Ground".

The Great Fire of January 4th, 1957.

Do you remember what was on the Hit Parade during our school days? Test your memory with this Doo-Wop Quiz. Send in your answers. There are fabulous prizes to be won!

Do you remember when ... ? Here are some pictures of things that were around when we were in high school—and even before!

Please help us to build up this section by sending your recollections of notable people and events to the .

Alma Grossmutter

The Latin purists amongst you are probably squirming in your seats and shouting "Ignoramus, id est Alma Avia! Alma Avia!", or words to that effect. But for the rest of us, Alma Grossmutter is probably as good a name as any for the primary school we attended before our Alma Mater, MRHS.

The pages for the schools listed below will open in a separate window. If you click on more than one school, the window will try to hide itself behind other windows. In that case, just count to 10 and then say "Ready or not, here I come." When you've found it, say "You're it!"

As far as your Webmaster is aware (which is not very far these days), these are the primary schools most of us attended:

You can contribute to these primary school pages in the same way as explained above in the section "Our Classes at MRHS" with respect to the class pages, by sending your material to the . Official Web site of l'École Secondaire Mont-Royal (as the Mount Royal High School is now known), who were kind enough to give us permission to use the photograph at the top of this page. The last time your webmaster checked out this site, there was a great picture of MRHS, taken from the playing field, on their front page. Unfortunately (for those of us who have not had the opportunity to practice our French since leaving MRHS) this site is in French only.

There were protests when the school board decided that they were going to close down TMRH. (Actually, what they did was kick out the English students and use the school to the catch some of the overflow from nearby French schools. So they didn't actually close it. :- ) The protests were captured on camera by CFCF news, and the report has been made available on Utube. Thanks to Rick Fisher for spotting this one.

Official Web site of The Town of Mount Royal

If you ever get depressed, and need something to take your mind off your worldly problems, sit back and watch the horn maestro perform for a few minutes, instead of taking that overdose of sleeping pills. But don't do it in the middle of the night, or you'll wake the house up with your helpless paroxisms of laughter!

It is a truth, not often told, that the main reason the world's computers are constantly being plagued by viruses and worms, is the fatally flawed design of Microsoft's software. This is a link to a seminal paper, "CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly", written by seven of the world's top computer security experts, with the subtitle "How the Dominance of Microsoft's Products Poses a Risk to Security". One of the authors was immediately sacked from his company, which depends on Microsoft for some of its business. The paper is written for computer-savvy readers, but it contains an excellent non-technical "executive summary".

Website of the MRHS Class of 1958 maintained by Laurie Rogers.

If you know of any other sites, which you think might be of interest to your classmates, please drop a line to the .

MRHS Class of 59 Alumni Association

Although the MRHS59 web site has been around since 2003, with our 50th reunion fast approaching, the few of us who have been active felt that it would be a good idea to have a formal body to take on the responsibility of organizing reunions, maintaining contact lists, and owning the on-line Torch, etc. Accordingly, the founding meeting of the MRHS Class of 59 Alumni Association was held at Lake Memphramagog, Quebec, on the 5th of August 2005.

At that meeting, we elected the following executive.
    President     Claudia Bierman     11C    
Vice President Betty Jost 11A
Treasurer Merideth Webster (née Evans) 11E
Secretary Ann MacNaughton (née Chislett) 11A
Webmaster Monty (Donald) MacLean 11B

       
Claudia Betty Merideth Ann Monty/Don

We also decided to do our bit for the envrionment, and cut down on unnecessary wear and tear on the alphabet, by officially approving the abbreviation MRHS59 for our association.

The most important item on the minutes from the founding meeting is this point:
    "that any and all graduates of Mount Royal High School, year of 59, are eligible and are encouraged to join"    

So there you go. Consider yourself encouraged! How do you go about becoming a member? It couldn't be simpler. Just submit a short autobiography to bring your classmates up to date on the important events in your life since 1959. It doesn't need to be more complicated than a single paragraph in an email with an attached photograph. Say 15 minutes in all. See the section Biographical Information for a few tips.

For any of you who might find being boiled oil a less fearsome prospect than putting pen to paper—or fingers to keyboard—there is an alternative. Just tape your name carefully onto a bottle of 1982 Ch Mouton-Rothschild Bordeaux and send it by UPS to the webmaster. Upon receipt of it, your webmaster will fake a bio for you.

Note that you are encouraged, not just to join, but to become an active member! This is your association and it's wide open for good ideas. Would you like to start a discussion group dedicated to solving the World's intractable problems? Or trisecting an angle using only ruler and compasses? Perhaps you are a bird watcher, and would like to get in touch with other bird watchers amongst your classmates? Start a committee! Become its chairman. Send details to the

The 50th Reunion Planning Committee has a news page, where you can read about the current state of planning for our 50th Reunion, and the Entertainment Subcommittee is looking for good ideas. Can you sing, dance or pull elephants out of a hat?

    

Reporting Problems

It is inevitable, as a Web site changes over time, that sooner or later you will get zapped with the Famous 404 error message ("The page cannot be found"). When this happens, please, please, drop everything else and send an email to the . If possible, please copy the URL in the Address Bar at the top of your Browser window and paste it into your email. If you aren't sure how to do this, please at least try to include a short description of the page you were on and/or the page you were trying to get to.

Don't hesitate to write and tell your webmaster what a hopeless speller he is, or about anything that irritates you, or doesn't work as expected, or about anything that you think could improve our web site.

The Webmaster will not be able to fix things unless you tell him what is broken!

Webmaster

This name conjures up visions of a burly figure, stripped to the waist, with a whip in one hand, and a net in the other, which he uses to ensnarl unruly denizens of the Web. But nothing could be further from the truth. This site is maintained by a white-haired, walking skeleton (well, mostly sitting these days), who would have trouble ensnarling a peanut-butter sandwich, if it were lying outstretched on the plate in front of him.

If you have any helpful suggestions or comments (or unhelpful complaints) about this site, the person to send them to is . In fact, you don't even need to have any suggestions, comments or complaints. Just write and say hello!

When you write, ensure that your subject line contains the string "MRHS59". Otherwise, there is a very real danger that your email will get filtered out along with all the junk mail I receive. If you click on the link to me above—or on any of the links to the Webmaster—this will automatically be placed on the subject line.

Note that the job of the Webmaster is primarily to make your contributions available to your classmates. This site will only be as interesting and as useful as you help to make it. So keep those contributions coming in!

The current Webmaster is as subject to the frailties of the flesh as everyone else. In fact, probably even more so. If anyone out there feels that he (or she!) would be able, and willing, to act as back-up Webmaster (Webms?) and to step in and take over if/when the incumbent is no longer capable of carrying out his duties please get in touch! The survival of this site should not be dependent upon the survival of one mortal.