News About Vaughan

The hallowed halls of Vaughan Road Academy will soon be empty for good. Photo Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
The hallowed halls of Vaughan Road Academy will soon be empty for good. Photo Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
Click the link above to read alumnus Elizabeth Renzetti's feature story in The Globe and Mail's Saturday, May 27, 2017, T.O. section print edition


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A view of Vaughan Road Academy. (GOOGLE STREETVIEW)
A view of Vaughan Road Academy. (GOOGLE STREETVIEW)

"My old high school is closing down, but it’s not going quietly"

Click the link above to read Lorrie Goldstein's Toronto Sun, Sunday May 21, 2017 print edition column about Vaughan Road Academy at 91.


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Jack Parker, chair of Vaughan Road alumni association (left), Norma Meneguzzi Spall, chair of farewell tribute committee and Drew Barot, Grade 12 student at Vaughan Road Academy met with other alumni committee members to organize a farewell event happenin
Jack Parker, chair of Vaughan Road alumni association (left), Norma Meneguzzi Spall, chair of farewell tribute committee and Drew Barot, Grade 12 student at Vaughan Road Academy met with other alumni committee members to organize a farewell event happenin

Click here to read the story in InsideToronto.com April 20, 2017 edition about the farewell celebration.

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Click here to download and read The First 50 Years written by students and printed as an insert into the 1976 Acta Studentium for Vaughan Road Collegiate's 50th anniversary.

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Below you can view the CTV news item about Vaughan Road's 85th reunion in 2011.

Sadly, Don Harron died in 2015. For those of you who saw his last performance of Charlie Farquharson at the Old Mill as part of the 2011 reunion, wasn't it funny? R.I.P. Don.

 


Click here to read the Toronto Star article on Charlie Farquharson, aka the late Don Harron VR alumnus, who performed at the Vaughan Road 85th Reunion Sunday brunch in 2011.
 
Paging all Vaughan Road students
Paging all Vaughan Road students

Here's a fun piece about Vaughan Road's 75th reunion in 2001 that appeared in the Toronto Star on March 26, 2001. Click on the image to enlarge and read what they said about the 2001 reunion. [But don't go to that old url in the article, this is our new one that you're on, www.vralumni.com.]