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THE FIRST GRADUATING CLASS The first mention of secondary education iY\ School board minutes is to be found in the minutes of the meeting of 19 September 1916. A Mr. uell asked the board to pay the charges levied by the North Vancouver Board for the schooling of his daughter. Unsure of its position, The Board asked the Ministry of Edu-ation for a ruling and was told that it was indeed responsible. High School education was available to West Vancouver students but only to those who were prepared to travel - either by train to North Vancouver or by ferry to Vancouver. Not until September 1923 did West Vancouver open a high school of its own. Assuming that elementary school went only to grade 8, the new school would nave begun with two classes, those passing out of grade 8 into'9, and the ten or eleven grade 10 students brought back from North Vancouver and Vancouver. There are ten students in tne graduating picture in 1925 but one student had to drop out because of illness. What happened to the ten students over the years? This is what we have been able to discover: Pam Arcner A1 Ridley Tom Hadwin went into dentistry; moved to the States graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and from Carnegie Institute of Technology with degrees in Electrical Design; worKed for Westingnouse until 1932 and then for b.C. Electric until retirement. Married , had two boys, A life member of the Association of Professional Engineers. Retired to West Van. Alma Partington Daisy Brea ley single; for a time kept nouse for a cousin nursing home in Surrey. now in a Juliet Johnson Katniean Wenmoth Ernest Rhodes f^reda Garthorne enneth Blain graduated from U.B.C.; taught at Beaverly, outside Prince George from 1931 to 1935; on staff at Inglewood High School in 1940's, then in North Vancouver at Hamilton and Delbrook. Subject specialties ; French and Spanish. Now retired in West Vancouver. taught school in Vancouver; married Dr. Gerry O'Neill; now living in Vancouver. started school at Hollyburn the year it opened 1912; took grade 10 in North Vancouver; came back to graduate in grade 11 at Hollyburn; taught school; married Mr. Robinson living in West Vancouver. worked as a night clerk (?); "not todwell" over the years; believed deceased. came to the class from the States; married Dr. Harrison believed deceased.