This newsletter from the Harbord Club provides updates on activities of the club and museum. It highlights notable Harbord alumni who served in World Wars I and II, including David Binder who had a successful career at Statistics Canada. It also lists the names of Harbord veterans who died during World War I along the Western Front, noting their locations and dates of death when known. The museum volunteers have been researching service records and oral histories of veterans to add to the club's website.

1. THE HARBORDITE
Harbord Club Newsletter
Inside this issue:
Editorial 2
Museum
Musings
3
David Binder -
A Notable
Harbordite
5
Harbord Vets &
Western Front
6
Dr. David Was-
ser
9
A Lost Harbord
Soldier remem-
bered
10
2nd Lieutenant
Irving Basil
Rieder
11

2. Greetings!
Fellow Harbordites! :D
I’d like to welcome you to
warmer Spring weather and
hopefully an amazing Sum-
mer after the long ice, snow
and wet “Winter”!
Another school year is com-
ing to an end! The students
are beginning their summer
vacation!
This is also a time when the
Harbord Club meets for the
last time before the summer
holidays. The Remember-
ance Day ceremony, fund-
raising efforts, selection of
our 120th Award winner are
in the works.
As an editor of this newslet-
ter, I cannot stress enough
how much we look forward
and are excited to receive
an email, with information to
be shared in the Harbordite!
On a personal note, this is
the year that my third and
youngest daughter will grad-
uate from Harbord. I am so
proud to be a Harbord par-
ent times 3 and a Har-
bordite myself!
I’ve been a Harbord parent
since 2004, spanning 11
years! It has definitely
been a very positive experi-
ence. Having my children
walk the same (well renovat-
ed) halls that I walk through
in the 70s! It not only
brings back memories
for me, but also creates
many new positive experi-
ences also. I feel truly
blessed that my girls were
able to have such great high
school experiences attend-
ing the same Collegiate that
I attended. I hope that
some day they will join the
Harbord Club and help out
as well!
Cheers for now! Off to have a
wonderful dinner with my Har-
bord Club team. Have a Safe
and Great Summer!
- Ben
Onward Harbord!
Editorial: Message from Co-Editors
- Belinda Medeiros-Felix (‘81) & Ben Lee (‘78)
We invite you to submit any ideas, thoughts
and tell us what you are up to these
days; after all, without you, where would
we be? Send an email to harbordcelebra-
tion@live.ca and we will post it in the next
Harbordite.
Our email list for alumni is continuing to
grow (primarily by word of mouth). We
would like to reach many more. It would be
greatly appreciated if you could let other
Harbordites know that they too can get on
our email list and begin to receive their
newsletter. Don’t forget to visit har-
bordclub.com to see and write on our excit-
ing blog.
Submit all articles and info to be published
in next Harbordite to
harbordcelebration@live.ca
and remember to check us out on Facebook-
Harbord C.I. grads/alumni

3. The volunteers are now do-
ing the same for all those
who gave their lives in the
First World War. This pro-
ject is to be completed, we
hope, by Remembrance Day,
November 11th
2014.
The technical “wizardry” of
engineering the voice re-
cording and list of the Vet-
erans’ names and effecting
the connection between the
individual name and photo
and voice recording is being
masterminded by Sheldon
Hua (HCI 2007) who is our
website designer. We are
also working with Sheldon in
upgrading the Harbord Club
website. It will have more
information, be easier to
navigate and more current.
During the past year we re-
ceived inquiries about Har-
bordites who served in both
World Wars.
The most important from an
historical point of view is Lt.
Harold Tutzer Cohen – a “A
lost Harbord soldier remem-
bered”. (There is an article
about him elsewhere in this
Harbordite.) Suffice to
say, that his name will be
added to “Our Soldier” mon-
ument and his photo will be
installed in the First World
War section of our Hall of
Memories as part of this
year’s Remembrance Day
service.
In our Hall of Memories (2nd
World War section) we have a
photo of Captain Irving B
Reider. We do not have any
military service records as he
served in the United States
Air Force. He cuts a very
dashing figure. He even has a
niece living in Toronto. Connie
Cherba of Dubuque Iowa ,
U.S.A., was doing research on
a friend’s brother when she
came across Captain Reider
and his connection to HCI.
She contacted us and we sent
her his photo. The article she
has written about his last
flight is also in this Har-
bordite. Also in this Har-
bordite on page 11, you will
find an article by Lydia Wong,
one of the Museum volun-
teers, being the words she
recorded about Captain
Reider in our oral history pro-
ject.
When preparing and dedicat-
ing our Second World War
Monument in 2007 we were
made aware of a name missing
from our records, that of
Sub-Lieutenant Robert John
Orok of the Royal Canadian
Navy. We were told that he
had gone to night school at
Harbord. This did not mean
that the person was a Har-
bord alumnus. Further inves-
tigation indicated that Robert
Orok had had to leave Har-
bord after Grade Ten to work
in order to help out his family.
He attended night school
Museum Musings – Syd Moscoe
My eleventh year working
with student volunteers is
now coming to a close.
We will be saying goodbye to
Vivian Martin, Pascale Wal-
ters, Lydia Wong and Julia
Lam, all who are graduating
from Harbord this year. In
addition to Museum volun-
teering, Julia Lam was the
student representative to the
Harbord Club Board of Direc-
tors.
Together with Mr. Daniel Le-
blanc, teacher advisor, a
great deal has been accom-
plished. Assisting in addition
to the above volunteers, we
had Ben Heywood-McLeod
and, during the first part of
the school year, Kira Knight
and Cameron McGlade Bou-
chard.
The volunteers reviewed the
Armed Forces Service rec-
ords of those who gave their
lives in the Second World
War. They then prepared an
oral history of each person.
Each oral history was then
read into the computer and
will be attached to the photo-
graph of the named person
and all will be posted on the
Harbord Club website under
the tab “Veterans” – Second
World War. You may recall
that last year the volunteers
scanned in the photos of all
veterans as displayed in the
“Hall of Memories”.

4. when he was working. So,
his name was found just in
time and added to the me-
morial before it was erect-
ed.
But we overlooked obtaining
his photo. Recently we re-
ceived a visit from Dr. M.
Stubbs, a nephew of Robert
Orok’s sister. He will be
providing a photo of Sub-
Lieutenant Orok for installa-
tion in our Hall of Memories.
Mack Topplin, formally
known as Flt. Lt. Marshall
Topplin, served in the Royal
Canadian Air Force in the
Second World War as a nav-
igator. He went overseas in
November 1942. He was
listed as missing on March
24/25 1944 on his 24th
Op-
erational Flight.
The plane crashed in Germa-
ny near the border with Hol-
land. He was one of four
survivors and became a pris-
oner of war being repatriat-
ed to the United Kingdom on
May 19, 1945 and returned
to live in Toronto.
In January this year we re-
ceived an email from Martin
Kosters who lives in Legden,
Germany, the village near
where Topplin’s plane
crashed and where the four
survivors had bailed out.
Mr. Kosters is researching
the history of his hometown
including through the Sec-
ond World War. He has a
fascinating story, together
with photos, regarding the
flight path of the plane and
of the surviving crew mem-
bers. We received the sto-
ry in the German language
and it is presently being
translated. When complet-
ed, we will put it on the web
for all to read.
We certainly had a busy
school year in the Harbord
Club Museum.
We are now working on the
program for the Remem-
brance Day service to be
held on Tuesday November
11, 2014.
Keep tuned.
Museum Musings – Continued...

5. One of our notable Har-
bordites, David Binder,
passed away last year at only
62 years of age. His wife of
over 40 years, Marilyn Bind-
er, sent us several emails in
which we were able to share
some of his story with you
all.
David Binder was in the grad-
uating class of 1967. David
was one of Harbord’s success
stories. He worked at Sta-
tistics Canada, where he had
risen to the position of Di-
rector General of the Meth-
odology Branch. He was well
known internationally and had
an impact on the practices of
Official Statistics interna-
tionally. David was awarded
the Queen Elizabeth II Dia-
mond Jubilee Medal posthu-
mously in December of 2012.
After graduating Magna Cum
Laude from Harbord in
1967, David went on to the
University of Toronto where
he graduated from the Math,
Physics, Chemistry program
for a Bachelor of Science
degree. He later graduated
from Imperial College, Uni-
versity of London , England
with a PhD in Mathematics:
Statistics.
He worked at Statistics Can-
ada, where he had risen to
become a Director. For sev-
eral months before his re-
tirement, David was the Sen-
ior Advisor to the Assistant
Chief Statistician of Canada.
He was very active in the
Statistical Society of Canada
and was honoured with two
prestigious awards from
them.
He was well known interna-
tionally and had an impact on
the practices of Official
Statistics internationally.
He was a Fellow of the
American Statistical Society,
an elected member of the
International Statistical In-
stitute, and a member of the
Royal Statistical Society. A
write-up on David’s profes-
sional career can be found on
the Statistical Society of
Canada’s website:
http://www.ssc.ca/about/dav
id_binder_1949_2012
David Binder, a notable Harbordite

6. Harbord Vets & Western Front
Miles Langstaff, M.C.
4 April 1917-Sgt.
Douglas G. Mitchell
19April1916 -Sgt.
Wm. T. Crummy, M.M.
20April1917-Lt.
Johm F. McLaren
23 April 1917-Lt.
Cecil V. Perry--we
have in our Museum 2
letters Hw wrote
home.
Arras- 29August 1918-
Robert J.D. Conklin
21 June 1918- Lt.
Col. Armour A. Miller
Valenciennes-7 November
1918-Clifford C. Rogers
Cambrai-
19September1918-Lt. Wm.
Proudfoot-also at Ypres,
Somme,
Passchendaele,Hill 70
2October1918-
Lt. Lloyd B. Kyles
11October 1918-
Capt Arthur J. Duncan
30September-Cpl
Harold G. McConnell
9 July 1918-Fl.
Lt.C.Victor Hewson-Royal
Air Force-scouting raid
over Cambrai
The Student museum volun-
teers are now working on
the records on those who
served and died in the First
World War. Some of the
information we do not now
have may become available
as we read through their
service records and will be
corrected accordingly.
The Harbord C.I. Hall of
Memories was dedicated by
Sir General Arthur Currie
on November 11, 1932.
The following is a list of
names of Harbord's vets
who gave their lives along
the path you are following.
(There will be some with no
location and some with no
date.)
Loos-en-Gohelle-22 Sept
1918 - Capt Robert Home
Lens-9 Sept 1918 - Wilfred
Macklem
Lt. John Leonard-13
June 1918
Vimy-9Sept1918-Lt.
Charles D. Hewson
20April1917- Lt.
Frdk.J. Scott
9April1917 - Fl.Lt.
Charles Morrison
1March1917 -Major
Somme-1October 1916-Lt. col
Wm.D.Allan,D.S.O.,from wounds
at Langemarck &Somme
no date-Norman
Wheadon,M.M.
21March 1918-Lt.
John C. Necombe-also at Arras,
Hill 70
1September1918-Capt.
Brian M. London- wounded at
Hindecourt
15September 1916
26October 1916-Lt.
George T. Davidson
Amiens-11August 1918-Norman
C. Gayle
22August1918-
Lawrence B. Ramsay-Honoured
at Harbord's Remebrance Day
service-November 11,2012 with
an aunt present who ws born
after his death. In our Museum
we have a copy of his last let-
ter home as well as
excerpts from his diary written
in the trenches.
Combles-Lt Robert G.Hamilton-
Sept.21,1918
Courcellette-25November1916-
Lt.B.H.Acton Burrows
15Sep1916-Major
Wm.H.McLaren
Cite St. Pierre-24March1918-
Raymond Henderson

7. the present staff and stu-
dent we appreciate all you
are doing. The few words
you can say at each of the
stops along your way is one
way of remembering these
gallant veterans.
I hope when you return that
you will have an opportunity
to share some of what you
are experiencing with our
Harbord students.
Keep up the good work.
Syd Moscoe
President pro tem-Harbord
Club
Museum Director
Onward Harbord!
Harbord Vets & Western Front ...
Zilleberce-2June1916-
Alfred McAllister
2June 1916-
Stuart Hough
Kemmell Hill-17April1918-
Lt. F.H.Langstone
St. Julien-30April1915-
Capt. H.Gerald Muntz
Mt. Sorell-13June1916-
Eric. G.Jones
Le Te Pore-18June1918- Lt.
John Howard
Avion-8June1917-Wm. H.
Moffatt
Hill 70-31July1917-Harold
Worthingto
Bomlon Wood-
27September1918-Major
James P. Crawford
The Paive-20August1918-Lt.
James. A Garvie, M.C.-also
at Passchendaele & Vimy
Bapaume-9October1918-
Sgt. Guy Garrett
Bailleul-G. Gordon Galloway-
10 February 1916-Graduated
Harbord 1911 as Prince of
Wales Scholarship recipient-
highest award available in On-
tario-his sister
Louise, also a Harbord
grad,taught at Harbord from
1921 until 1945 established an
award at Harbord in 1918 in
his honour for highest Grade
13 mathematics student . One
of early winners was Leon Lep-
pard who went on to be known
as the father of modern ra-
dar-he had been seconded to
the Britsh forces from the Ca-
nadian Forces in the WWII.
He was also a Prince of Wales
scholar
Forest of Saissons-18
July1915--Lt Harley Smith-
Royal Air Force-alsoSous Of-
ficer #rd Battalion French
Foriegn Legio, recipient of
Croix de Guerre withBronze,
Silver and Gold Stars,and cit-
ed for Medaille militaire.
The following have no known
location for their death:
Lt Geoffrey Taylor-24 April
1915
Capt. W.M. Carlton Monk-20
February 1916
Norman E. Patton-2 June 1916
Capt Lou D. Anderson-no date
Flt Lt. Geroge R. s. flemong-
17April1917-Royal Naval Ser-
vice-shot down returning for
air raid over Frieburg
On behalf of the Alumni, and

8. Harbord Vets & Western Front ...

9. Dr. David Wasser.
Here is a photo of Dr David
Wasser in his new Harbord
sweatshirt. David lives in
Saratoga Springs NY, where he
practised psychiatry until his
retirement.
Family members and colleagues
joined David for a birthday
lunch at The Saratoga
National Golf Club.
David has very fond memories
of his years at HCI and gave a
rousing cheer to his old
Alma Mater in thanks for the
education he received, especially
for sparking an
interest in music.
David is heavily involved as a
supporter of the music scene in
Saratoga Springs,
particularly SPAC and the Sara-
toga Chamber Players.
After graduation from Harbord,
David went on to study medicine
at UofT. He is the
proud recipient of the UofT
Chancellor's Medals for his
60th and 65th year of
graduation.
He can be reached at
davidawass@aol.com.

10. A Lost Harbord Soldier Remembered:
Lt. Myer Tutzer Cohen M.C.
A LOST HARBORD SOLDIER
REMEMBERED
By Syd Moscoe
Lieutenant Myer Tutzer Co-
hen, M.C.
His name is missing from Har-
bord Collegiate’s list of those
who served and gave their
lives in the First World War.
According to the “Happy
Ghosts of Harbord”, over 500
students and staff served in
the First World War , but on-
ly about 480 names have been
located.
Last fall we received an email
from Mr. Earl Chapman , his-
torian of The Black Watch,
today’s name for the Royal
Highland Regiment, inquiring
about Lt. Cohen and if we
could confirm that he had
been a Harbord alumnus. Nei-
ther the Harbord Club nor
the TDSB had records going
back that far.
Mr. Chapman then sent us a
copy of an article from the
Toronto Star dated Novem-
ber 17, 1917 reporting on Lt.
Cohen’s death in the battle of
Passchendaele on November
3, 1917. He was awarded the
Military Cross for gallantry on
October 19, 1917. The article
went on to state that he had
been educated at Harbord
Collegiate. He and his family lived
at 558 Huron Street, well within
Harbord’s catchment area. The
award was accepted by his fa-
ther, Moses Mark Cohen, at Gov-
ernment House in Toronto on
April 19, 1918.
I quote now directly from Mr.
.Chapman’s email to me:
“Myer’a service is commemorated
in the Church of St. Andrew and
St. Paul in Montreal, the Regi-
mental Church of The Black
Watch of Canada. The church
features a magnificent memorial
window, said to be one of the fin-
est in Canada, which was dedicat-
ed to the 42nd Battalion (one of
the three battalions raised for
service with the Royal Highland-
ers). In the window, above the
head of David, the Warrior
King, is a six pointed Star of Da-
vid inserted in honour of Lieuten-
ant Cohen-a tribute to the ‘
memory of a gallant young Jew
who, in sharing the high and chiv-
alrous traditions of a proud and
great Regiment , gave all he had
for Canada’”.
As Lt. Cohen’s name is not on our
First World War monument, “Our
Soldier” , your Harbord Club has
undertaken to have the appropri-
ate bronze plaque with his name
created and have it affixed to
the monument. It is intended
that the plaque be unveiled and
dedicated on Remembrance Day,
Tuesday November 11, 2014.
If we have any alumni out
there who would like to
assist us by making a do-
nation, please see page 14.
The Student Activity
Council and the Key Club
have offered to assist in
raising funds to cover the
cost of the plaque. We
would like to extend our
gratitude to the Class of
2014 Prom attendees who
have contributed $1 of
each ticket sold for a to-
tal of $208 towards the
plaque.
It is hoped that at this
ceremony we will have in
attendance a representa-
tive from The Black
Watch as well as from Lt.
Cohen’s extended family.
Please save the day and
time so that you can be
present for this very spe-
cial occasion.

11. A Lost Harbord Soldier Remembered:
Lt. Myer Tutzer Cohen M.C. Continued...
2nd Lieutenant Irving Basil Reider (1923-44)
By Lydia Wong
Irving Basil Reider was born
in Canada on May 7th
1916, the
youngest of three children
and the only son of Eva and
Samuel Schulman. When his
father passed away in 1923,
Irving took on his step-
father’s name Reider.
He graduated from Harbord
Collegiate Institute in 1934
where he had been an avid
swimmer. He then continued
his education as a mechanical
engineering student at the
University of Toronto –one of
the few engineering schools
that would admit Jews. During
these years, Irving sold
dresses on Spadina Avenue as
a means of support for his
widowed mother.
In March of 1943, Irving en-
listed in the United States
Army Air Corps in Queens,
New York and was awarded
his aerial navigator’s wing in
April of 1944.
The same year, he also re-
ceived his 2nd
lieutenant’s
commission at Selman Field,
Monroe, Louisiana which was
the largest navigation train-
ing school in the Army Air
Force training command. Af-
ter his training, Irving was
sent overseas to Italy.
He later served as the navi-
gator of a plane called Lady
Irene that was attached to
the 885th
Bombardment
Squadron. This squadron en-
gaged in special operation
missions, flying into parts of
Occupied Europe including
occupied France, Fascist It-
aly, and Yugoslavia.
On October 4th
1944, Lady
Irene left the base in
southern Italy on a secret
operational mission into
northern Italy. At first, no
contact was made with the
aircraft as planes operating
in the squadron often kept
radios silenced until after
leaving the target area.
However, when attempts
were made to contact the
aircraft after it was ex-
pected to have completed
its mission, there was no re-
ply. An hour after Lady Ire-
ne was due, air and sea res-
cue units began to search
for the aircraft but to no
avail.

12. 2nd Lieutenant Irving Basil Reider (1923-44)
By Lydia Wong Continued...
It was eventually assumed
that Lady Irene had either
been shot down, or had
crashed into a mountain. The
entire crew of ten as well as
three Italian agents were re-
ported missing in action.
Irving’s sister and brother-in-
law were soon notified via tel-
egram of Irving’s passing.
They delivered the message
to Irving’s mother and all
were heart-broken at the
news.
A few witnesses who were in
the area testified that they
had seen the aircraft crash in
a mountain some 35 kilome-
ters north of Bergamo in
northern Italy. They remem-
ber burying twelve to four-
teen bodies found around the
crash site.
Eventually, the remains of
those onboard Lady Irene
were exhumed and returned
to the United States where
they were buried in a common
grave in the Jefferson Bar-
racks National Cemetery in
St. Louis, Missouri on January
16th
1950.

13. Why a Harbord Club?
#1. To establish and maintain a sense of common
identity among former students and teachers of
the school
#2. To share news from Harbordites everywhere
#3. To provide funds for prizes, awards and
scholarships in all grades of the school
#4. To promote school spirit and pride in the stu-
dents through historical knowledge
#5. To collect, preserve and display the school's
historical photographs, papers and artefacts
#6. To assist in class reunions and annual home-
coming events
Contact us:
on Facebook - Harbord C.I. grads/alumni
via Email - harbordcelebration@live.ca
or - contact@harbordclub.com

14. Harbord Club Executive
President Emeritus - Murray Rubin -HCI-1950
President Pro-Tem - Syd Moscoe -HCI-1952
Harbordite Co-editors - Ben-1978 & Belinda-1981 - Staff
Director - Ben Lee -HCI-1978
Director - Sidney Ingham -HCI-1978
Director - Belinda Medeiros-Felix -HCI-1981 –Staff
Director - Vasan Persad HCI-1994 - Staff
Director - Diana Da Silva -HCI-2009
Director - Sierra Medeiros-Felix -HCI-2010
Director - Harvey Mandel -HCI-1964
Student Representative - Julia Lam - HCI-2014
Please donate to the Harbord Club.
Charitable receipts are only issued for donations of
$50.00 and over. All cheques of $50.00 and over for
which a charitable receipt is required should be made
payable to "Harbord Charitable Foundation" and on
the face of the cheque in the Memo line insert the
words "For the Harbord Club" .
For any amount less than $50.00 or if a receipt is not
required please make cheque payable to "Harbord
Club" Thank You.
Wishing Everyone a
Great Summer!