Just wondering about everyones HS!!
High School: The Bishop Strachan School (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) website:
www.bss.on.ca
Our nickname: BSS
Colours: Burgundy and Grey (our uniform colours)
I believe our mascot is a bobcat, but I'm not sure. We didn't really have mascots like public schools did. There was a time when we were The Bears too, I think. They used to sell uniformed teddy bears in the school shop. The senior school (Grade 7-high school graduation) was divided into 8 "houses" (there are now 12) and each house would have its own mascot and colours (it's sort of like being in a sorority, I guess. We'd intiate all new girls at the first house meeting). Outside of inter-school sports, there are interhouse sports and competitions, including philanthropy. The house system is a British thing.
My high school graduating class had 80-something people (Class of 1998)
Famous Old Girls: Mostly Canadian celebs: Valerie Pringle, a Canadian media celebrity, Margaret Wente (writer for The Globe and Mail), Leah Pinsent (actress and daughter of Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent). That's all I can think of right now.
Actor Brendan Fraser is an alum of the boys' school next door, Upper Canada College (now that school graduated (or did not graduate) many important people who influenced Canada, including Canada's media mongul, Ted Rogers, who is an alumnus of the Beta Omega (University of Toronto) chapter of Sigma Chi) Conrad Black also attended the school for a short time.
OK....enough name dropping!!!!!
