23 ~ Wednesday, June 18, 1988 - North Shore News

SPORTS

NORTH. VAN RUNNER

Jerome statue unveiled —

THE MEMORY of North Van-
* couver runner Harry Jerome. was
‘honored recently when‘a statue of
him was* unveiled at Hallelujah
Point in Stanley Park, .
‘Created. by North . Vancouver
sculptor Jack Harman, the nine-
foot bronze statue is the first of a
Canadian and the ‘first of an
athlete erected in the park... |
“ Harman's work is also the first
‘by a Canadian.to be erected in”
Stanley Park.
Other of Harman’s . sculpture
works inchide the family grouping
‘at Vancouver Pacifie Press
“building, .and. the: Bannister and
Landy statue at Exhibition Park.
~ A graduate of North. Vancouver
‘}., Senior High in 1989, Jerome at age
*- 49 -set. his first of six long-standing
world-record times in= the 100.
metre dash. - :
Retiring from sports in. 1968,
_ Jerome moved to Ottawa and
. worked. with the’ federal gov-
-ernmment’s Ministry of Sport
establishing ..national! sports pro-.
" grams...
Returning to Vancouver, «: he |
“created the Premier Sports Awards’
Progtam, «still “in use. in B.C, Los .
. elementary ‘schools and familiar 19 rc a Te “Photo submitted ©.
_thousands of young students, |” °
In December of 1982, Jerome . HARRY. JEROME. ..statue. honors memory : of record-setting North
died suddenly’ at the age of A2. _ i Vancouver runner. : wee : oS — .

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