Roger Timms:
CLASS OF 1957
Glengary Elementary SchoolClass of 1957
Calgary, AB
Viscount Bennett High SchoolClass of 1964
Calgary, AB
Blakelock High SchoolClass of 1963
Oakville, ON
Sunalta SchoolClass of 1959
Calgary, AB
Roger's Story
Classmates keeps asking me to pay to find out who has made a "profile" visit. As I am unwilling to do that, let me suggest an easy way to contact me for anyone who wishes. I own the domaine timms.ca The easiest way to contact me is to use roger at timms.ca
As I have just marked my 75th birthday and mandatory retirement, I thought that I would add a note to my profile. I was born and raised in Calgary. My first school was Glengarry Elementary School where I attended from kindergarten to the end of grade six. I do remember a few names from there. I alternated between getting in trouble and getting the strap for such things as throwing rocks at the gym windows and turning the ink in the inkwells green by putting in staples, and having some teachers successfully redirecting my energy.
We lived in the catchment area for Sunalta Junior High School, so that is where I went next. I still maintain a friendship with a classmate from there: Bruce Coggan. I had mixed experiences there as well. I got the strap again, this time for a stink-bomb during assembly. I learned that confronting someone who had stolen something from you – the streamers from my bike handlebar ends – could work out well.
lnstead of finishing at Sunalta and then going on Viscount Bennett, because my dad was transferred to Toronto when Texaco Canada consolidated, I attended Blakelock H.S. in Oakville, from ‘59 to ’63. I wish that I could say that I maintain connections with the many people who became my friends. The only communicate with one person from those days: Katherine (Kit) Gallagher. She was the president of the students’ council and I was the V.P. For whatever reason(s), I did very well academically at Blakelock. And I no longer got the strap.
When we returned to Calgary in 1963, provincial educational politics was such that I was required to attend Viscount Bennett for grade 12 even though I had already completed the same grade in Ontario. Several courses had the identical text book and curriculum! However, my year at Viscount Bennett led to many friendships and good memories which are still with me today. And I was allowed to play football again. We lost to St. Mary’s in the city final.
After graduating high school, I went on to university at what was then UAC, enrolling in pre-law. Frankly, I was a bi...Expand for more
t of a dilatant while at university, taking as few courses as possible in my major. Due to odd circumstances that some may recall, I was elected president of the Students’ Union in 1966, which derailed my plans to attend U of A in Edmonton that fall. While some might disagree, that was probably for the better. While on Council, I met my future wife, Kathleen Flanagan. We have now been married for over 52 years. During my tenure and while Herbert Armstrong was president of the University, it became U of C. And that year, we turned the sod for the Students’ Union Building. My wife and I still maintain connections with people from those years, although sadly some have passed. Unlike Joe Morris, from Viscount Bennett, I was not a football star.
In the summer of 1967, there was an exodus of graduates from Calgary to Toronto. We, Helen Buckley, Doug Proctor, and many others, would get together regularly to share stories and a beer. While almost everyone went for the jobs, I went to law school at U of T. Almost everyone went somewhere else after a few years, but some stayed in the area and we occasionally see one another. I had every intention of returning to Calgary to article and to live, but fate said otherwise. I started my law career in Toronto. In 1981, I received the first of my three judicial appointments, as a Family Law Commissioner on the then Supreme Court of Ontario. In 1991, I was appointed as a Judge of the Family Division of the Provincial Court of Ontario. Then in 1997, I was appointed to the Family Division of the Superior Court of Ontario. I have just retired from that.
We have lived in the City of Toronto, in the country on an acreage north of Oshawa, and have recently moved back to Toronto. We have three children, one of whom lives in Ireland. We have five grandchildren, two of whom live in Ireland. Except for these past few months as Covid 19 rages throughout the world, we try to travel as much as we can. We hope to do that again – perhaps next year.
I bike and do Pilates for exercise. Gardening and golf add to that. We read a lot, go to plays, and enjoy the symphony. The those latter two are on hold for the moment.
I had plans to start a new career as a private mediator once retired, but again that is on hold for the moment.
Stay well and safe everyone.
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