RCI Valedictorians

Listed below are the individuals who were chosen by the peers to serve as Renfrew Collegiate Valedictorian for their respective graduating years.
Our goal is to provide graduation portraits of all RCI valedictorians where possible.
The column named "Post-RCI" indicates the institution where each individual studied the year immediately after their graduation year (not the institution they graduated from).
If you have more information or better quality images of any valedictorians, please contact Adam Noack at RCI at noacka@rcdsb.on.ca.
* Unable to locate valedictorians for the years between 1932 and 1953. There may have been a hiatus during the Great Depression and the Second World War.
** We are unsure if valedictorian was shared these years
*** Year that OAC was eliminated hence it was the “double cohort” year of graduation
Year
|
Name
|
Image
|
Post-RCI
|
1926
|
Margaret Anderson
|
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|
1927
|
Emma M. Collins
|
no photo available |
|
1928
|
Sara MacDonald
|
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|
1929
|
Nora Rousselle
|
no photo available |
|
1930
|
Charles Ireton
|
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Queen’s University
|
1931
|
John McNab
|
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|
1932
|
Jean Naismith
|
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Queen's University |
See * above
|
|
|
|
1953
|
Margaret Moore
|
no photo available |
|
1954
|
Mary Grace Russell
|
no photo available |
|
1955
|
Marlene Moore
|
no photo available |
|
1956
|
Sherril Edmunds
|
 |
|
1957
|
Gerald Eady
|
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|
1958
|
Elda McDermid
|
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|
1959
|
Marilyn Hawkins
|
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|
1960
|
Dan Stewart
|
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|
1961
|
Bonnie Ferguson
|
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|
1962
|
Ronald Blackwell
|
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|
1963
|
Leslie Bradley
|
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|
1964
|
Virginia Wurm
|
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|
1965
|
George Rouble
|
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University of Toronto
|
1966
|
Donna McPhail
|
 |
|
1967
|
Alfred Raaphorst
|
 |
University of Waterloo |
1968
|
Marianne McPhail
|
 |
|
1969
|
Roselyn Anderson
|
 |
Queen’s University
|
1970
|
Charlene McIntyre
|
no photo available |
|
1971
|
Beverly Stewart
|
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|
1972
|
Kathy Lindsay
|
 |
Queen’s University
|
1973
|
Thomas Stowe
|
no photo available |
|
1974
|
Paul Griese
|
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|
1975
|
Jennie Van Genderen
|
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|
1976
|
Patricia Heise
|
no photo available |
|
1977
|
Susan Peckover
|
no photo available |
|
1978
|
Catherine Hall
|
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|
1979
|
Peggy Wallace
|
no photo available |
|
1980
|
Lori-Ann Buzzell
|
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|
1981
|
Shirley Ferguson
|
no photo available |
|
1982
|
Joy Martin
|
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Carleton University
|
1983
|
Sherri Beattie
|
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|
1984**
|
Jane Jamieson
|
no photo available |
|
1984**
|
David Dick
|
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|
1985**
|
Donna Ferguson
|
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University of Ottawa
|
1985**
|
Brenda Griese
|
no photo available |
|
1986
|
Caryn Stitt
|
 |
University of Toronto
|
1987
|
Cheryl Pender
|
 |
Queen’s University
|
1988
|
Susan Stitt
|
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University of Toronto
|
1989
|
Brenda Ellis
|
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University of Western Ontario
|
1990
|
Russell Schick
|
 |
University of Waterloo |
1991
|
Stacey Brydges
|
 |
McMaster University
|
1992
|
Jacqueline Bennett
|
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Nipissing University
|
1993
|
Byron Brydges
|
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Carleton University
|
1994
|
Phil Schick
|
 |
|
1995
|
Danielle Polk
|
 |
Queen’s University
|
1996
|
Christopher Collins
|
 |
University of Waterloo
|
1997
|
Travis Burke
|
 |
University of Ottawa
|
1998
|
Heidi Collins
|
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|
1999
|
Margo Wilson
|
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|
2000
|
Kyle Hanniman
|
 |
St. Thomas University
|
2001
|
Thomas Hunt
|
 |
Queen’s University
|
2002
|
Natalie Aubert
|
 |
University of Ottawa
|
2003***
|
Brent Hanniman
|
 |
University of Toronto
|
2003***
|
Kip Mulvihill
|
 |
Brock University
|
2004
|
Sam deBruyn
|
 |
McGill University
|
2005
|
Jodie King
|
 |
Nipissing University
|
2006
|
Lauren Scott
|
 |
Queen’s University
|
2007
|
Sarah Penney
|
 |
McGill University
|
2008
|
Heather-Anne Robertson
|
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University of Western Ontario
|
2009
|
Keith MacDougall
|
 |
Queen’s University
|
2010
|
Adam McGregor
|
 |
Dalhousie University
|
2011
|
Mae Donohue
|
 |
Queen’s University
|
2012
|
Meghan Forgie
|
 |
Queen’s University
|
2013
|
Gracie Stewart
|
 |
Queen’s University
|
2014
|
Amanda Tubman
|
 |
University of Waterloo
|
2015
|
Auston Pierce
|
 |
Queen’s University
|
2016
|
Sage Melville
|
 |
Queen’s University
|
2017
|
Taylor Virgin
|
 |
University of Waterloo
|
2018
|
Camilo Sebastian
|
 |
Queen's University
|
2019
|
Cameron Hunter
|
 |
Ottawa University
|
2020
|
Maggie Scott
|
 |
Queen's University
|
2021
|
Hannah Hubert
|
 |
Ottawa University
|
2022
|
Shantica Kaseke
|
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Trent University
|
2023
|
Sam Buxton
|
 |
Trent University
|
2024
|
Derrick O'Grady
|
 |
Western University
|
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