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separate community in 1912, but it
wasn’t until 1923 that it decided to
provide its own high-school educa-
tion for the children in the area.

High school was available
earlier, but the students seeking it
had to take the train to North
Vancouver or the ferry to Van-
couver.

The high-school program, when
offered, did not at first justify a
building of ‘its own, but was of-
fered from: two rooms in the
Hollyburn Schoo! building on 13th
Street.

The high school did, however,
have its own principal, Mr. Fred
Patterson, who presided over a
staff of one other: teacher, Miss
E.J. Maycock. :

The elementary schoo! at the
time included Grade 8; the high
school started at Grade 9, and
ended at Grade 11 -—- one could
graduate with ‘‘junior matricula-
tion’’ after 11 years of schooling.

The first graduation class had its
class picture taken in June 1925.

The picture,’ with that of suc-

ceeding graduating classes, can be
seen today in the main hallway of
the Inglewood building, built as
the high school in 1927, phased out
as a result of declining enrolment
in 1978, and now the West Van-

WEST VANCOUVER became a .

couver Historical Society held a
special meeting in the building to
remind its members of the pic-
tures. Three of the 10 members of
that first class attended, having
remained in, or come back to,
West Vancouver during the in-
tervening years.

One of them was Daisy Brealy.
Her connection with West Van-
couver began when her father was
appointed elementary principal —
he was to exert a strong influence
on a tapidly growing school
system.

After. graduation from UBC,
Daisy herself became a teacher,
teaching French and Spanish in the
West Vancouver High School dur-
ing the 1940s, before moving on to
North Vancouver schools. She
retired to the family home in West
Vancouver.

Tom Hadwin went on to get
degrees in electrical engineering
from both the University of Pitt-
sburgh and the Carnegie Institute
of Technology.

He was to work for
Westinghouse and for B.C. Hydro
before retiring to West Vancouver.

Kathleen Wenmoth has a double
“first’’. She was a student in the
first. elementary school built in
West Vancouver, Hollyburn, as

: couver YMCA building. See Grad
we : THREE MEMBERS of the first graduating class of West Vancouver, (J to r) Daisy Brealy, ‘fom Hadwin and in May 1983, the West Van- Page 5
, \ j Kathleen Wenmoth Robinson, were reunited in 1983. Here they are shown with a photograph of the rest of
_ : their 1925 grad class. ee ee oo. eset ens
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