Sunday, May 26, 1991 - North Shore News

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A MAJOR veid will be left in
the music program at Windsor
Secondary school at the end of
this school year when veteran
music teacher Dave Henderson
retires and moves on to the
good life on Vancouver Island.

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Windsor music
teacher retiring

AFTER NEARLY 30 years of teaching music to North
Vancouver students, Dave Henderson is putting down his

baton.

The Windsor Secondary school
music teacher, and the first music
teacher in North Vancouver is
retiring at the end of this school
year.

Henderson, who turns $5 in Ju-
ly, first came to Sutherland Sec-
ondary school in 1962 after then-
principal Harold Loucks decided
he wanted a school band.

“Harold Loucks recruited me
from Surrey where | was teaching.
There were no school bands in
North Vancouver at that time and
we only had 18 students in the
music program,”’ says Henderson.
““Today we have about 350.”'

And, says Henderson, times and

conditions were a lot different
back then from what they are to-
day.

‘We had our first band classes
held under the stage by the change
rooms. The schoo! tock out a
loan of $750 to start a band,
which is something the school
board did not know if they
wanted to do.”

Henderson says the music pro-
grams in North Vancouver schoois
soon began to take off. After
Sutherland started its music pro-
gram, Argyle Secondary school
follawed, and Upper Lynn was
the first elementary school to
adopt a music program in the

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

district.

“Music was in all the schools,
but it wasn’t nearly as organized
as it is today. Funding for the
music programs in North Van-
couver has always been good, but
when I first started I could buy a
whole musical score for $10,
which was a lot of moncy back
then,’’ Henderson says.

Today it is not uncommon for
him to spend up to $85 for a
musical score.

Henderson says music programs
in North Vancouver are suffering
because of the time constraints
place on music teachers.

Because they cannot take time
out of their academic classes to
teach music classes, most teachers
have to hold those classes at 7:30
in the morning.

But those long hours have not
affected the quality of the music
programs in the district.

“YT think North Vancouver is
blessed with an incredible music
program,’’ Henderson says.
“Most of the schoo! bands will be
involved with the B.C. Festival of

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