Obituaries
A reasonable estimate of the total number of first year students entering Morgan Secondary in 1948 and 1949, based on class photos, is 520; in addition, in class photos for 2nd year on, there are 43 names missing - a total of 563 individuals. Our database now has 532 names, so there are about 30 for whom we don't yet have a name.
Of those named in the database, we don't know the whereabouts of 281, giving us 251 that we have 'tracked down'. Of those, we know that 69 have died. Sadly, if the same ratio holds, 27%, some 86 of the remaining 312 may also now be dead, or around 155 deaths from the estimated 563.
Sometimes we don't find out about the loss of friends from schooldays for months or years - this page is our attempt to address this.
The table below gives the names of those schoolmates (and a few teachers) who have died, based on the information that has been provided to us from numerous sources. These are almost all from the '48 and '49 classes, but include a few names of younger students for a varety of reasons - played on school teams, attended Forestry Camp etc.
If you have names to add, please let us know by email to hmcgrory@zing-net.ca - even better if there are names that shouldn't be on the list ...
Where we were able to find copies of published obituaries or death notices, links are provided to these; if not, a photograph, clipped from class photos, has been addded. The quality of many of these headshots is not very good, but the best we could do from the source, and all are, at worst, recognisable.
If anyone would like to provide us with a tribute to a friend, we'll be happy to publish it. (The Morgan Academy Former Pupils' Association web site also publishes tributes to teachers and pupils from other years.)
Friends who are gone (69).
(Alpha by Last Name)
(In the table,  indicates recent deaths or recently received information about previous deaths, while  refers to addition of, or revison to text or photographs. Women have been listed by their birth surnames, as we knew them then ...)
Teachers.
(Alpha by Last Name)
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