Each fall, thousands of alumni make the annual migration to campus for Homecoming. The trip can be long and arduous for those furthest away 카지노 게임 컬렉션 14 to 16 hours by plane and another two-and-a-half by train. That, you might think, is the ultimate expression of Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s dedication.
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Mr. Dibblee, then a forestry worker with aspirations of higher education, recalls it was a fine day when he set out, having enrolled in a summer semester at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s.
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From there he caught a Canadian National Railway train to the railway hub of Cochrane 카지노 게임 컬렉션 but still some 730 kilometres north of Toronto.
So, he switched to Ontario Northland Railway heading south from Moosonee. The train took him overnight to Toronto, arriving 카지노 게임 컬렉션exactly 24 hours after the start of (my) journey.카지노 게임 컬렉션
And still hours away from Kingston.
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Allan Dibblee celebrating with friends at the British American Hotel, in Kingston.
On a late afternoon train ride to Kingston, Mr. Dibblee met 30 teachers headed to summer school at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s.
카지노 게임 컬렉션I was an object of curiosity when I told them I was a forestry worker seeking an education,카지노 게임 컬렉션 he says.
Once in Kingston, he found a room at Berry House, one of the co-ops founded by engineering students just a few years before, and began a summer of learning and socializing, including 카지노 게임 컬렉션dances at Ban Righ 카지노 게임 컬렉션 trips to Wolfe Island and Gananoque, and off-campus summer theatre at The Princess Hotel.카지노 게임 컬렉션
It was a time he says he will always remember 카지노 게임 컬렉션 and a story familiar to his family members who also became alumni: son Tom Dibblee, Ed카지노 게임 컬렉션87; daughter-in-law Sharon (Kehoe) Dibblee, Artsci/PHE카지노 게임 컬렉션83, Ed카지노 게임 컬렉션84; and four grandchildren as well.
It카지노 게임 컬렉션s a connection that all goes back to a sunny Saturday in 1947, when Allan Dibblee set foot on the boat that put him on course to Kingston, and a tricolour destiny that카지노 게임 컬렉션s a source of pride for his entire family.
카지노 게임 컬렉션The campus was busy all summer and with exams in August, it was all over,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Mr. Dibblee says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션But the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s bug had bitten, and I became a true Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s man and as a result of the summer school experience, those days are forever in my memory.
카지노 게임 컬렉션That trip 카지노 게임 컬렉션 was one to remember.카지노 게임 컬렉션
