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THE MOVERS AND THE SHAKERS It is appropriate at this time to pay tribute to those people whose work made the whole May Day celebration possible. It is easy to say that the royal car was completely covered with paper flowers, but the job of getting it covered is a matter of plain hard work. The same applies to every aspect of May day - the parade, the races, the banquet, the ceremony in the park, the tree-planting, the May Queen's entourage, the May pole dancing. To the outsider, coming just to watch, the whole operation might seem smooth and effortless. But one could draw an analogy to a swan in water - the part above water moves with regal serenity, but the part below water has been working furiously. The May Pole dancing which moves with such complicated entwining of ribbons looks so easy only because it is so well rehearsed. For each pole there is a teacher or mother watching to see the culmination of her long hours of drilling With so many different activities and therefore so many different crews. May Day was in fact a true community enterprise. It is impossible to name and recognize all the volunteers whose work was so essential. But we can pay tribute to the movers and the shakers, the small group who acted as the May Day Committee, and who did all the planning and the organizing, and who had to find the volunteers to make their planning bear fruit. According to a clipping in the "North Shore News" of 4 June 1980, five people did the planning of the first May Day: Reeve J.B. Leyland, J.R. (Jimmy) Mitchell, Thomas Russell, Sibbie Small and Herald Douglas Leggatt. By the second May Day, Mr. Leggatt had dropped out but the other four remained as the bulwark of the May Day festivities. The presence and endorsement of the reeve was of course crucial. It meant that the resources of the community could be rallied behind the operations. Reeve Leyland lent further stature by a personal involvement in the ceremonies surrounding the queen. Jimmy Mitchell proved to be the Master of Ceremonies par excellence, keeping the program moving and filling in the gaps if needed. Sibbie Small became the Matron, supervising the arrangements for the queen's retinue for the entire day And Thomas Russell, as Chairman for the May day Committee became responsible for all the activities of the day, getting his reward in a role in the crowning. The i/ancouvcA School Band with leadens Jack Condon and and knXkoJi Vclamont, The yea^ mold 1933 ok a^teK The mubiilc dJjiectoK ^Kom 1931 to 1933 u)o^ AKthuK JoKdan. Clipping ^Kom the NoKth ShoKe Mem, 1961