education figure

WILLIAM ‘Bill’ Lucas
was a radiant light that
illuminated North
Shore school rooms for
almost 20 years.

On October 4 that light
was extinguished.

From 1954, when he
began on the North Shore as

: assistant municipal inspector
. Of schools for both North
: and West Vancouver, until

his retirement in 1974, the
former superintendent of
schools for District 44 navi-
gated a steady, far-sighted
course through rapidly

7 van

W.E. ‘Bill’ Lucas

assistant superintendents for
District 44, worked under
Lucas as a teacher and a
principal for almost 15
years. The former superin-
téndent’s death, says Carlile,
is a loss to both education in
the district and to the North
Vancouver community as a
whole.

“I would say his most
outstanding qualities as a
superintendent were those of
planaing,’’ Carlile says.‘‘He
was a great planner in a time
when North ‘Vancouver was
adding almost one secondary
school and two elementary

schools per year to the
district’s education system.
AS a person, below what
sometimes appeared to be a
gruff exterior, was a ge-
nuinely first-class guy."

Lucas, according to
Carlile, was people-oriented
and, more specifically, kid-
oriented.

“He lived his job. He
pursued anything and
everything that was for the
betterment of North Van-
couver schools.’’

Lucas, who feaves a wife
and two daughters, was 77
when he died.

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“He was,”’ according to
former West Vancouver
mayor Peter Jones, who
worked with Lucas as a
school trustee throughout
the 60s, ‘‘fantastic. One of
the people who made a real
impression in my life, some-
body 1 really learned a lot
from.”’

Jones described Lucas as
an unassuming man who got |

, things done: “He quietly
j moved North Vancouver in-
Xx ‘ to the lead in many arcas
. when the district was grow-
ing at an incredible rate.’’
_ Pointing to Carson
’ Graham Secondary School,
fos) which opened in 1964, as an
a a example of Lucas’s intuitive

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