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Templeton Secondary

August 10, 2020

(L) Francesco Aquilini, (C) Evelyn Lau, ( R) Bob Lenarduzzi   Francesco Aquilini (1960 – ) Francisco Aquilini was born and raised in Vancouver. After graduating from Templeton Secondary School, he went on to Simon Fraser University where he earned a degree in Business Administration. Later, he earned a Masters degree in Business [...]

University Hill Secondary

August 10, 2020

(L) Gordon Campbell, (C) Emi Nakamura, (R) Torrance Coombs   Gordon Campbell (1948 – ) Gordon Campbell was born and raised in Vancouver. He grew up in West Point Grey and attended University Hill Secondary School, where he was student council president. He earned a BA degree at Dartmouth College in the United States, which he attended [...]

Van Tech Secondary

August 10, 2020

(L) Greg Joy, (C) John Ferguson Sr., (R) Sam Sullivan (below) Milton Wong   Greg Joy (1956 – ) Greg Joy was born in Portland, Oregon in the United States to Canadian parents. He lived in Vancouver from age 9 to 17. At the 1976 Olympics held in Montreal, he won the silver medal in the high jump. This was the highest medal earned by [...]

Windermere Secondary

August 10, 2020

Raymond Louie Raymond Louie (1965 – ) Raymond Louie was born in Vancouver. After graduating from Windermere Secondary School, he studied at the BC Institute of Technology, but left before graduating. He became a National Representative for the Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers Union of Canada while working at the Pacific Newspaper [...]

City School – A History

June 14, 2020

CITY SCHOOL – A HISTORY by Sal Robinson   Beginnings In the latter half of the 1960s, with independent alternative schools on the increase, the Vancouver School District began offering differently structured programs at some elementary schools (“Major Works” classes in 1966) and in some secondary schools (“Integrated Programme” at [...]

Chapter Nine – The Nineties

April 23, 2020

 VSB personnel pose outside new Vancouver School Board building (1999) I. INTRODUCTION Setting the stage – An outline of major events in the World, Canada, British Columbia, and Vancouver.   A. THE WORLD          Clockwise from top left: Desert Storm battlefield, World Wide Web icon, Sarajevo (Boznia and Herzegovina), Rwanda [...]

Chapter Eight – The Eighties

April 14, 2020

      I. INTRODUCTION Setting the stage – An outline of major events in the World, Canada, British Columbia, and Vancouver. A. THE WORLD             It can be argued that the most transforming events of the 1980s were the invention of the personal computer and the                                [...]

THE HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL KERRISDALE SCHOOL

April 3, 2020

Kerrisdale School, 1925   THE HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL KERRISDALE SCHOOL                                                                                                                 by Oliver Matisz                                                          [...]
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