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Page 5 Shortly after our Open House, Tanis (Goldie) Lay-zell sent along a photo which we have reproduced here. Pictured outside the Gertrude Lawson House on a summer's day in 1951 are Mrs. Kathleen Hobson with her grandchildren, twins Tanis and Steve Goldie and Kathleen Hobson. Mrs. Hobson will be remembered as the proprietor of the long gone West Van Stationers Ltd. once located at 1543 Marine Drive (now part of the Safeway parking lot). The Society appreciates Mrs. Layzell's interest and thanks her for her note. "My mother, brother and I thoroughly enjoyed the G. Lawson ceremonies and tour of the home in which my grandmother lived. You have done a wonderful job. Pictures make it very special. You may keep this photo for the records or viewing. Hope you also are able to show the artwork Mom donated. We'll come by some time in the future to enjoy again. Sincerely, Tanis (Goldie) Layzell" it it it ir WHA'S LIKE US? The average Englishman in the home he calls his castle, slips into his national costume - a shabby raincoat - patented by a chemist Charles Mackintosh from Glasgow, Scotland. Enroute to his office he strides along the English lane, surfaced by John McAdam of Ayr. He drives an English car fitted with tyres invented by John Boyd Dunlop of Greghorn. At the office he receives mail bearing adhesive stamps invented by James Chalmers of Dundee. During the day he uses the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edin-burgh. At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicycle invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, blacksmith of Dumfries. He watches the news on T.V. an invention of John Logie Baird of Helensburgh and hears an item about the U.S. Navy, founded by John Paul Jones of Kirkbean. He has now been reminded too much of Scotland and in desperation he picks up the Bible, only to find that the first man mentioned in the good book is a Scot - King James VI - who authorised its translation. Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots. He could take a drink but the Scots make the best in the world. He could take a rifle and end it all but the breech-loading rifle was invented by Captain Patrick Ferguson of Pitfours. If he escaped death he could find himself on an operating table injected with penicillin, discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming of Darvel and given an anaesthetic, discovered by Sir James Young Simpson of Bathgate. Out of the anaesthetic he would find no comfort in learning that he was as safe as the' Bank of England, founded by William Paterson of Dumfries. Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a transfusion of guid Scottish blood which would entitle him to ask "WHA'S LIKE US?". .. Author Unknown