Tim is still a professor of computer science at McGill, working on database programming languages. He has managed to reduce his administrative and committee load, and so spends fall and winter giving graduate and undergraduate courses, and the whole year supervising M.Sc. and Ph.D. candidates and doing his own learning and writing.
For the past 13 years, Mary Ann has worked as the art teacher for the Montreal Oral School for the Deaf after a somewhat circuitous career path. She finally overcame her addiction to the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia, receiving her Diploma in Art Ed. in 1992 (following a B.F.A in 1983). Every September, she still feels a little twinge.
Tim and Mary Ann stayed in the ICS until it eventually disbanded. We then sang in the choir of the Royal Victoria Hospital, known as Urgence Chanter (!), for about eight years. After a musical lull, we became involved, occasionally, in the Occasional Choir in Georgeville in the Eastern Townships. Tim is also singing with the Yellow Door Choir in Montreal for the second year.
We have two great kids, Andrea, 24, who has recently graduated from the McGill School of Architecture and Patrick, 22, who is in his last year of biology also at McGill. The genes came through - Andrea is a dancer and Patrick is a musician. We have had some wonderful moments going to their choral concerts (Andrea in the McGill choir and Patrick in the Vanier Choir and the St. Lawrence Choir).
In 1987 after a sabbatical half-year in Glasgow, we looked for mountains, glens and lochs nearer home and so came to Georgeville (weekends) on Lake Memphremagog. In winter, Georgeville has some 30 kilometers of cross-county ski trails, and swimming, hiking and looking after gardens and fruit crops in summer. We are always pleased to show it off to visiting friends.