iHiftrt THE NEWS LETTER OF THE WEST VANCOUVER HISTCTRICAL SOCIETY Volume 1 Number 3 June 1983 GRAD PHOTO UP-DATING CONTEST At the last general meeting of the Society, former graduates of West Vancouver High School were asked to participate in a grad photo up-dating contest. On the hall walls of the Y.M.C.A. Building, once the Inglewood School, are the graduating pictures of all the classes from 1925 to 1956. Members present were asked to fill in a form for as many people as they could remember and about whose career they could supply some information. The form provided is as simple as possible. In the class of 1945, for example, your editor found the face of an old teaching colleague. It took less than three minutes to fill in the form and identify him as yet another West Van graduate who returned to school as a teacher. He is in fact still on the West Vancouver staff, serving as vice principal. His aunt was the first May Queen of West Vancouver, and his infant son is the fourth generation to live in West Vancouver. Do“find time to drop round to the Inglewood building and have a look at the pictures. If you know any of the individuals, fill out a form about them If you are a graduate, fill out a form for as many of your classmates as you have information. Do it soon as the contest will not run much longer. WILL THERE BE A FOURTH ANNUAL MEMORY CRUISE? The Third Annual Memory Cruise has come and gone. From every consideration but one, it was a great success. The weather was as close to perfect as one could wish. The temperature was warm but not hot. The sun was bright but not glaring. The air was clear and still, just enough wind to move the cloud of little boats that circled the Hollyburn as she waited off Navvy Jack Point for the passing of the Royal Hudson. It was, indeed, a day made for sailing. Being piped aboard by Mr. David Urquhart got the cruise off to a good start. As the Hollyburn left the wharf, the West Vancouver Senior Band launched into "Anchors Aweigh" from its stand on the open deck. The band was to entertain the passengers and the people on the shore at intervals throughout the whole trip. The availability of tea and coffee must have been appreciated as the oper-tors, all volunteers from Rotary, ran out of supplies before the ship ran out of cruise. The commentary was, once again, excellent. Mr. Rupert Harrison was not able to come on the cruise but, before he left on his holidays, he wrote down some notes on salient points, which Mr. Hugh Johnston read, with clarity and aplomb, at the appropriate moments. Mr. Johnston, incidentally, has been cited as "Rotarian of the Year" for the work that he has done as Director and Organizer of all three cruises to date.