Obituaries
A reasonable estimate of the total number of first year students entering Morgan Secondary in 1948 and 1949 is 520 - our database currently has 447 names, so there are more than 70 for whom we don't even have a name.
Of the 448, we don't know the whereabouts of 202, giving us 245 that we have 'tracked down'. Of those, we know that 63 have died. Sadly, if the same ratio holds, 26%, some 52 of the 202 may also now be dead, or around 134 of the original 520 who went into 1st year in '48 and '49.
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 have copies of published obituaries or death notices, a link is provided. 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 (63).
(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 ...)
Dorothy Alexander
Jean Alexander
Fraser Allan
Ernest Archibald
Jean Blacklaws Southam
Richard Booth
Audrey Buchan
Catherine Bunch
Thomas Campbell
Dorothy Christie Milne
Ian Clark
James Crocket
Robert Docherty
Donald Dorward
Anne Duncan
Sandy Duncan
Margaret Finlayson
Bill Fleming
Hilda Ford
Dave Garland
Innes Gillan
Keir Gordon
David Guild
Elizabeth Haldane
Gordon Harley
Pat Hebenton
Douglas Hepburn
Alison Hill
Sheila Hunt
Betty Isabella
Margaret Kiddie
Barbara Lawson
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Jack Lindsay
Tom Maclachlan
Eddie McBride
John McBride
Murray McIntyre
James McLaughlin
Jim McLaughlin
William McLean
Willie McNab
Angus McNaughton
Dave Meechie
Helen Meechie
Duncan Moir
Alan Mowat
Margaret Muir
A Bruce Ogilvie
Morris Parr
Edward Peddie
Ian Ritchie
Ronnie Ritchie
Islay Robertson
Gordon Rollo
Elizabeth Ross
Ian Stevenson
Ronnie Stewart
June Sturrock
Jim Thomson
Margaret Urquhart
Ken Will
Hector Williams
Nora Williamson Miller
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Teachers.
(Alpha by Last Name)
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