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March 2003 West Vancouver Historical Society Page 5 WEST VANCOUVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEXT GENERAL MEETING WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26,2003 at 7:00 pm At the Seniors' Activity Centre, 695- 21st Street, West Vancouver Speaker - Laura Miller Topic - The Role Of An Archives In Society DATE OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING-WEDNESDAY, MAY 21ST, 2003 If you wish to propsed a member for service on the board, please contact the office with this information before the AGM + + + + + + + + + Reverberations From The Fall Quiz: Here are the answers, and more. (Cont.from page 4) 1930 Wingett Irish was bora Eraest Jcimes Wingett Irish, and was the son of Mr. and Mr. E. Irish of 1461 Haywood Avenue. (Your Quizmaster deliered the "Province" there). In May of 1940 he received the degree of Master of Arts at U.B.C., majoring in Economic Geology. His thesis was on "The Mineralogy of Some of the Gold Mines of British Columbia". Earlier, in the 30-31 school year, Mr. Irish returned to Inglewood and took the Special Commercial Course. 1931 Grace Thompson and Rupert Harrison both graduated from W.V.H.S. in 1931. They were married at West Vancouver United Church in late summer of 1939. The Rev. William Vance performed the ceremony, Mrs. A.J. Addy was the soloist, while bridal music was provided by Mrs. G.M. Sheffield. Miss Gertrude Thompson was her sister's maid of honor, while Miss Margaret Reid acted as bridesmaid, and Miss Betty Anne Thompson acted as flower girl. Mr. James Eraest Harrison supported his brother, and ushers were Mr. Ted Hayward, Mr. Charles Baldwin, Mr Douglas Clarke and Mr. Hillis Wright. 1932 Josephine Leyland was the top graduate in her class, and for her achievement was awarded a ten-dollar gold piece by the Duncan Lawson Chapter of the I.O.D.E., together with the Parent-Teacher prize. A decade after graduation she married Mr. John Munro Gunn, a U.B.C. graduate. Seven decades after her graduation, working on a project that's still uncompleted, I phoned her "out of the blue" to ask what the initials of her fellow graduates stood for. (Three of the W.V.H.S. composites do not disclose Christian names). In very short order she provided me with most of them. 1933 John Kendrick (age 16) won a governor-general's silver medal for his 1933 matriculation standing. His average was 86.3% - a mere 0.7 below the provincial leader. Also, he starred (along with Dick Lester) on the school rugby team, which was coached by Mr. Jimmy Sinclair. On April 9, 1942, as Sub-Lieutenant J.S. Kendrick, he left home for Halifax. One of his more pleasant war-time tasks was, at the wedding of Joan Thompson and Ian Rush in 1944, to give the bride in marriage. 1934 May 11, 1944 (West Van News item): "Naval Headquarters have announced that Lieutenant Richard K. Lester, R.C.N.V.R., son of Major A.M. Lester, M.C., is to be given command of a new corvette soon to be commissioned. Educated at the schools here, graduating in 1934, he for- merly commanded "H.M.C.S. Port Hope” and was men- tioned in dispatches for "courage, resolution, and devotion to duty in action against enemy submarines." Earlier, Dick was a star rugby and soccer player; much later, he was an active participant on the Vancouver Symphony Board. 1935 Cranbrook-bora Dave Brown, younger brother of ex- Reeve Tom Brown, was a regular at the Brown and Munton store in the 'forties. Dave had a wide fund of musical knowledge, which was helpful to those previewing and buying records at the store. He once remarked that the cousin of Vincent d'Indy ("Variations of a French Mountain Air") was a resident of West Vancouver. 1936 A bright light in the Girls' auxiliary to the Barbarians Rugby Club was one of the school's outstanding graduates, Patricia Wallace, a consistent honours student. Not too long after graduation, she gained journalistic fame in Van- couver for her long-running Vancouver Daily Province column "Urban Album". Until war's end the "Province" enjoyed the largest circulation of all three Vancouver dailies, thanks in large measure to the likes of Wallace, Walter and Butterfield. 1937 Elaine Kissick, who, during part of the war was on the staff of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board in Ottawa, married twice-wounded Alan Fraser (a 1942 U.B.C. greduate), R.C.E., in 1942. In June of 1933, both Elaine and Alan finished their elementary schooling at Hollybum; both were recommended to High School. Elaine was from a very community-minded family. Her mother, Mrs. G.W. Kissick, was vice-president of the Townswoment's Guild and the Lady Laurier Club. 1938 Kathleen (Bernard) Sinclair. In West Van High's first annual fellow-student Dorothy Chappell wrote the following of the future Mrs. Sinclair. 'Tall and slim, and fair efface, Bobbed brown hair and girlish grace Her name is Doris, but you see By no one is she called by that name. So ends the strain of my refrain." At school Kathleen was popularly known as "Bubbles", (the name shown under her graduation photo in the school is "B. Bernard"). On November 2, 1940, she married James Sinclair at St. Stephen's Church, with the Reverend F.A. Ramsay officiating. (Ed Note: Space does not permit completion of the list. The years from 1939-49 will appear in the next issue).