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Mr. B.G. Holt, in his first year as principal, had reason to be pleased and proud. He had presided over a noteworthy event in the life of his school. But, imagine his embarrassment when he discovered that he had celebrated the 50th anniversary four years late! The year 1927 dates only the fact of Inglewood as a separate high school building - not the beginning of secondary education in West Vancouver. High School education actually began in 1923 when the School Board hired Principal Mr. Fred. J. Patterson and teacher Miss E. Maycock as staff and gave them two classrooms in Hollyburn School. The first junior matriculation class graduated in 1925. How did the late celebration of the 50th anniversary take place? One guesses that when preparations began in 1976, no one followed a basic tenet of historical research - accept nothing as fact until it has been corroborated from at least three sources! This is one of the drawbacks of oral history - it depends so much on the fallibility of human memory. No matter. The 50th anniversary held in the school's 54th year was great fun! THE THREE SOURCES OF THE PARABLE OF THE TREES or Andy, Bob and Jim At first glance, the casual viewer just might think that the familiar evergreens that framed the ferry office building for so many years had been trundled up 14th Street to Esquimalt on the back of a flat deck. Not so. The fact is that the Esquimalt trees and their planter, Andrew A. Reid, were mere strip-plings - the trees 6 feet, the planter somewhat shorter back in the twenties when Andy helped his* Dad, Robert Reid, Sr., uproot the trees from the hills above and relocate them in front of the family home at 1428 Esquimalt. The trees sat midway between the 3 foot wooden sidewalk and the gravel roadway, vJiich was much narrower then than the paved road of today. Interesting that someone saw fit to spare the Reid trees by protecting them with blacktop curbing. Too bad the same couldn't have been done with the landmark ferry office firs who started life as a clump of bushy-tailed upstarts when West Van was scarcely dry behind the ears. .................... ^ Esquimalt, looking east to 14th Street \mms Photo