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37,500 STUDENTS HAVE GRADUATED FROM QUEEN MARY SINCE 1914

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THE RED brick and grey-stone
facade of Queen Mary Community
School sits as solid and fixed into
the landscape as the North Shore
mountains which frame it from
behind.

By MICHAEL BECKER
News Reporter

Additions have been made over
the years, but approaching the
structure from the front, with
arm’s length gender separation
prominentiy etched into the
stonework announcing the Boys
entrance to the left and the Girls to
the right, it’s easy enough to time-
travel into a more regimented past.

The school is celebrating a 75th
anniversary this year.

The cornerstone for the school
was laid in November 1914. Van-

couver architect W.C.F. Gillam -

designed the schooi. Gillam also
had a hand in designing Ridgeway
Elementary School,
opened two years earlier in 1912.
North Shore Museum and Ar-
chives records show Quren Mary
School was built for the princely

_ sum of $115,000. Its reinforced .
concrete framework and brick ;
walls contain, among other mate- :

rials, 126 cubic yards of stone.
Students first attended class at
the new 16-room school August
23, 1915. The pupils were transfer-
red from Central School, located

at 4th and Chesterfield, which’ was —

converted to house city hall once

Queen Mary was opened for
classes.

North Vancouver City Mayor

Jack Loucks headed the school as

_ principal from 1971 to 1974. Said

’ Loucks: “I think it’s played an

which was_

important role in the city over the
years and [ have good memories of
the school. A lot of people have
gone through that school.’’

A lat of those people will be
returning May 23 to 27 to join in
on the planned birthday and re-
union fun. According to Queen
Mary School coordinator Ira Ap-
plebaum, all classrooms in pro-
gress during the week will be deck-
ed out in period garb and fixtures
and open for public viewing.

“Each decade from 1914 to the
present will be represented. The
kids and teachers wiil be dressed in
period costumes and we'll teach in
the old style — but certainly more
humanistically,’’ he said.

A giant message board will be
set up in front of the school’s of-
fice. Said Applebaum: “‘If you had
a buddy from 1928, you could
leave him a message and maybe
meet with him.”’

Registers listing students atten-
diag the school each year will be
available to be copied as graduate
mementos. A barbecue and dance
is planned for May 27. A large
wooden 75 will be mounted on the
school’s roof. Ink prints of the
school by artist Raymond Chow
will be on sale. School officials
hope to set up an alumni fund.
The Story of a Community, the
historical display chronicling the
education system in North Van-
couver will also be installed at the
school.

Organizers hope to draw more
than 1,000 people to the school
during the week. The school,
which now serves approximately
300 Kindergarten to Grade 7 stu-
dents, has graduated an estimated
37,500 students since opening.

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QUEEN MARY Community Schoo! principal Claus Speikermann rings in the boys through one door and the
girls through another at the historic North Vancouver schoul. The schoo! will be celebrating its 75th anniversary
May 23 to 27. Organizers hope to attract more than 1,000 people to take in the many special displays aad events

planned for the week.

Workshop explores herb gardening :

THERE JS still space available in a
workshop called Learn to Grow
Herbs, offered by North Shore
Continuing Education.

The workshop is tonight, May
10, from 7:30 to 10 p.m., at the

Lucas Centre, 2132 Hamilton
Ave., North Vancouver, and in-
structor Ann Siegel promises a
broad overview of many herbs and
how to grow them.

The following Wednesday, May

17, there will be a How to Use
Herbs workshop at the same place
and time.

Cost for each workshop is $10.
To register for either call 986-8888.

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