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(General iHeetms C. EDUCATORS are taking their lumps nowadays. But there’s one shining excep-ion in North Van who’ll be lonored yet again this spring. Only the color of the hair nas changed, to a mane of vvhite. The features, the infinitely understanding eyes md the trim, fit-looking figure are exactly as .I recall hem 24 years ago when I Jropped by to discuss Jaughter Susan’s classroom narks. That figures, because 72-year-old James Inkster-- JAMES INKSTER ... the right company. remembered by countless former colleagues and students as a master teacher, a trusted and respected principal and a highly innovative school administrator--has every reason to be happy with his life’s work. A 42-year veteran of the B.C. school system, his early teaching career included a short stint in Nanaimo be- fore moving to the North Shore where he became principal of West Van Secondary in 1945, a post he held with distinction for the next 18 years. His rare talents were recognized in 1963 when he was named founding principal of North Van’s new Carson Graham School, the province’s first comprehensive secondary school. After bringing Car-son to its present envied standing, he climaxed his career as director of instruction in North Van School District, finally retiring in 1976. Along the way, to mark his contributions to Indian education, he was made an honorary chief of the Squamish Band in 1969. Four years later his overall educational achievements brought him the Ferguson Memorial Award from the B.C. Teachers Federation. And this May, along with six of his peers, he’ll receive-a further accolade--an honorary degree from UBC. The names of the six peers are probably the best measure of what B.C. thinks of Jimmy Inkster. Sharing the honors with him will be Pierre Berton, architect Arthur Erickson, the IWA’s Jack Munro, former Sun publisher Stuart Keate, computer math genius Prof. Robert Langlands and legendary Indian anthropologist Margaret Siwallace of the Bella Coola Tribe. You know a man by tWe company he keeps ... Date: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1985 Place: PAULINE JOHNSON SCHOOL LIBRARY T i me: 7:30 P.M. Our Speaker wi11 be: Mr. JAMES INKSTER (former Principal of West Vancouver Secondary School) WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE.