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AT WEST VAN HIGH

They’re reaching for the top

By OLGA RUSKIN

Which foot is the lucky
one on a rabbit? Who is
Charles Marquis de
Beauharnois? Chances are
you probably don't know
that the answers are the left
foot of the rabbit and the
Governor of New France
1726-46. But chances are
that West Vancouver
Secondary’s crack ‘Reach
for the Top’ team does.
‘Reach for the Top’ is a
popular CBC-TV high school
quiz show which started out
on radio about 20 years ago
and involves. a

zone,
provincial and national
championship.

Team members Maria

Balz, Jim Chesko, Graham
Croft and John Whyte with
alternate Don Bobert are
reaching for the top having
won the Lower Mainland
zone finals which gives them
a spot in the B.C. finals to be
taped in Victoria starting
March 24. The taped show

will be aired sometime in
April on CBC-TV.

Coach Barry Lindahl,
social studies teacher.
describes the students as “a
great bunch of kids. They're
really a team” and feels they
will do well. To prepare for
their quiz challenges the
team assimilates the con-
tents of 15 or 20 trivia books.
“They have

amazing
memories” comments
Liadahl. “They answer

questions no one. should
know.”

The team meets al noon-
hours once a week to go
through one of the books but
three weeks before a show
they meet every day. Team
members also take books
home to study and each one
becomes an expert in one
field such as art or science.
They also have occasional
practices with the school’s
French ‘Reach for the Top’
team (the program is called
Genie En Herbe) coached by
Martha Veerman.

Immediately before the
show the team goes through
a mini-game to get md of
their nervousness. Vice-
Principal David Barker who
coached the team for five
years, points out that ap-
pearing on the show helps
students who are in music
and theatre feel confident in
front of an audience and
camera, as well as providing
intellectual challenge.
Vancouver Playhouse ac-
tress Pam Koropatnick is a
former West Van Secondary
‘Reach for the Top’ member.

“It’s the only game where
academic students can
compete,” comments
Barker. “The purpose is to
have fun and that’s how we
have approached it.”

For winning the Lower
Mainland zone final the
team received $300 which
goes into an ongoing
scholarship and if they win
the finals it’s $500.

Team member John
Whyte, however, on one of

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Principal John Williams
points out that academic
honors are not new to West
Van Secondary = students.
Craig Lyle won first place
and Jane Farquharson
second place in the 1981
Commonwealth Essay
Contest for B.C. Jane's essay
went on to take second place
for all the Commonwealth.
In the 1981 Provincial
scholarship results West Van
students received the
greatest number of
scholarships of all the three
West Van high schools.

West Van Secondary
“caters to all aspects of
students” explains Williams
because the school also has
industrial shops, a theater
and a sports program. Last
fall Anita Botnen spent three
weeks in Russia as part of
the Canadian Gym Team
competing in the World
Championship.

And what with a
Shakespeare course, along
with Spanish and German
hopefully being added to the
curriculum next year, watch
for those West Van
Secondary ‘whiz kids’
reaching the top again.

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