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GENERAL MEETING A General Meeting of the West Vancouver Museum and Historical Society v/as held on Thursday, May 25th, 1989 at Pauline Johnson School. Tne headline in The Province newspaper the following day, read: FLAMES GP^AB GLORY. Well, not quite all of it. Seventy-four members and guests, not glued to the TV sets, squeezed into the Music Room to hear Tom Sewell address them on "The Chain of Events which occurred at Horseshoe Bay over the Years" while the whirr of a rented video camera in the hands of our o\>7n D. W. Griffith (David Wilson) recorded our "Birth of a Notion". Never mind that at times the zoom feature distorted the focus. We can only get better at this. The business part of the meeting was chaired by Hugh P. F. Addison filling in for President Jack Leyland who was delayed at an earlier function. First on the agenda was information on the move to Cedardale Elementary School and a request for vehicular and manpower assistance. Georgie Wilson gave a membership report, welcomed new members and made Icnown that the Telephone Committee, consisting of 11 members under Chairman Pat McCrady, had been resurrected. Jim MacCarthy, Chairman of the Acquisitions Committee, spoke on the objectives of his committee and the need to expand and raise the level of the acquisitions program. He referred to a grass-is-always-greener comment by Archivist Laura Coles, and that is that we tend to regard other people’s material as being so important, we fail to see the value of our own. Hugh Johnston announced the dates and times of Olga Ruskin’s "Our Neighbours" TV program with Georgie Wilson as guest, talking on her recollections of early May Day Celebrations. Hugh also reported on the Ferry Office Building renovation. The building is now insulated, wired, ’alarmed' and ’sprinklered’, that is - secure, and with an opening target date of July 1st. All of the wall space has been set aside for the Society’s 13 glass display cases, 10 or 11 of which at $100.00 a piece, had already been sponsored. There will be a donor plaque at the bottom of each display case. Laureen Jones reported that work was progressing well on the display panels and with Laureen doing a great deal of the vzork herself, we can expect a first rate outcome. Hugh Johnston announced another "Ramble in the Woods" (back by popular demand) again tracking down the old Shield’s logging operation, the expedition to take place on Saturday, June 17th at 10:00 a.m. Hugh promised an easier climb than last year’s, the strategy being to start at the higher end and work do\\zn i.e., "going in from idiere we came out". Hugh Addison interjected with a question, "Who was that gazelle on last year’s assault, sjjrinting 10 strides ahead of everybody and setting an almost impossible pace?" ’Oh," replied Hugh J., "that was Lucy Smith (our former secretary) just back from Nepal!" The next to last item on the agenda was the Gertrude Lawson house which was "more a matter of information than discussion since the house had been sold and further action was in the hands of Council". There were questions from the floor and President Jack Leyland, who had arrived by this time, suggested that since our letters to Council had been effective in saving the Ferry Office building, people should again write Municipal Hall and express their wishes. The final business of the evening was a short report from Laureen Jones on Port Day ’89 and Community Day and the information that she had enough volunteers to man the displays.