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NATIONAL DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE
Happy 2005 to all our Friends!
We ended last year being involved with the meeting of the CMA with the Honorable Lisa Frulla, Minister of Canadian Heritage, concerning reviewing the finding for museums and heritage sites in the 2005 federal budget, pressing for a long overdue increase. We were also involved with the preparation [...]

WE HAVE GREAT NEWS!
We have a new National Director for CFFM! It is Jo Breyfogle, a part of our CFFM team for ten years and currently serving as our Nominations Chair on the Board. She will take over from me at our Annual Meeting in Québec City. For now, we are working together to ensure [...]

FLORA AGNEW
Flora was born in Lindsay, Ontario. Growing up in Toronto, she attended and graduated from the Bishop Strachan School. She must have acquitted herself very well as many years later she became the school’s first woman president of the Board of Trustees.
Flora tells me her first volunteer job was to load the ancient dishwasher [...]

MEET PEGGY EADES, OUR ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Peggy was born in London, England and raised in Finchley, north of London This explains the lovely soft English accent that greets you when she answers CFFM’s phone. Her family left London when the V-2s began appearing overhead.
Peggy and Geoffry were married in 1955 and emigrated to Canada two years [...]

INTRODUCING OUR PRESIDENT, DR. SEAN B. MURPHY
The delightful photograph accompanying this article, shows Sean Murphy seriously involved in his favourite hobby, sketching, with an appreciative audience supervising. Sketching is but one of Sean’s many talents and interests.
A graduate of Harvard and McGill, where he earned his Medical degree, Sean has had and continues to have [...]