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An alert reader took this photo of an interesting new plaque on our school’s wall. The proud traditions of Thomson Athletics are commemorated by this plaque that notes the original identity as Thomson Redmen (1959-2004) and subsequent re-birth as the Thomson Titans (2005-future). Click on the photo for a close-up view.

Five Schools to Close in Scarborough – New school planned for Rougeville; Thomson-Bendale high schools to merge in new building

As published in the Scarborough Mirror, Wednesday June 23, 2010

Schools in the TDSB to close within the next two years as a result of the ARC process include: Brooks Road Public School, Heron Park Junior Public School, Peter Secor Junior Public School, McCowan Road Junior Public School, Pringdale Gardens Junior Public School, Silverthorn Junior Public School, Arlington Middle School and Kent Senior Public School-Alpha II.

After nine months of debate and dissent, Scarborough families will be seeing some of the benefits of closing several schools.  During the Toronto District School Board’s (TDSB) general meting on Wednesday, June 23, the board finalized the closure of eight schools that were evaluated by Accommodation Review Committees (ARCs). Five of these school are in Scarborough.  To help soften the blow, trustees pledged almost $34 million in facility upgrades to the remaining schools in each Scarborough ARC and authorized the construction of two new schools as part of a five-year capital plan.  While TDSB chair Bruce Davis characterizes Scarborough as a “big winner” in the $397.5-million capital plan, local trustees feel it is just a case of a rapidly expanding area finally getting its due. Continue reading →

Members of Scarborough’s Bendale-Thomson school community are talking about the futures of five different schools

BY MOIRA MACDONALD – As published in the Toronto Sun, April 13, 2010:

Change can move at a glacial pace, which is probably what members of Scarborough’s Bendale-Thomson school community have figured out.

But even slow-moving is better than no moving, and it sounds like this week these folks are a step closer to something good.

More than two years ago people from this group — students, parents, ratepayers, principals, teachers, local politicians and other school staff — came together at one of those hackle-raising things called an “accommodation review committee” (what I often call a school closure process). Continue reading →

The big 50th anniversary celebration of May 2009 is now history, but we would like to leave its mark in some tangible visible form in the old school – or a “new” one, if plans continue in that direction.

The Alumni planning committee envisions a framed glass- or plexiglass-covered wall-mounted display, to complement the 25th anniversary framed autographs, perhaps near them in the upper hall at the top of the school’s front stairway. Continue reading →

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP – The official form for your 2009/10 DMT Alumni Association membership is now available for download (in PDF format) – Please print the form and mail it with your $10 payment today.

1 – The Souvenir Booklets are in the mail! For those who ordered booklets from our second printing, they were mailed out on Friday, July 24. They should arrive some time in the following week. We hope you enjoy having a second reunion as you browse through the pages. Let us know if your booklet doesn’t arrive in the next couple of weeks.

2 – The Alumni Committee are also planning to send out a special anniversary edition of Thomson Tradewinds, the Alumni Newsletter, with reports and especially photos from the big day, May 2. Usually the newsletter goes out only to paid-up members of the Alumni. However, we are hoping to expand the mailing this time to include anyone who ordered souvenirs or Embers tickets for the reunion. If you want to be sure of receiving a copy of this 8-page full-colour souvenir and you are not already an Alumni member, we invite you to join by filling in the membership form which is available on this web-site or attached to this message (depending on where you read it first) and following the instructions on the form.

We also invite any of you who have special photos from the reunion that you would like us to consider including in the newsletter to email them in jpg format to stanleyfarrow@rogers.com or to rdoi@toyota.ca. We want the newsletter to capture as much of the excitement as possible, so don’t be shy!