10 - Friday, February 19, 198 - North Strore News Ridgeway school principal dies RIDGEWAY LLEMENTARY School principal Andy Neuman died suddenly Tuesday morning after collapsing in) the school's staff roon) just before the morning school bell rang. He was 46. The popular principal was talk- ing with Ridgeway staff when he complained of feeling dizzy and collapsed suddenly at approa- imately 8:50 a.m., the victim of an apparent massive heart attack. ANDY NEUMAN The attending paramedic crew found Neuman in ventricular fibrillation (chaotic beating of heart) at the scene. Said Tim Jones, North Van- couver unit chief of the Provincial Ambulance Service: ‘We were right on top of the call and every possible means was taken to restart the heart, but the attempts were unsuccessful.’’ Ridgeway acting ‘vice-principal Bernice Wells said, ‘‘We're still in shock.’* Wells described Neuman as ‘a man with a ovision. He was an educator par excellence. He was concerned with his staff, concern- ed with students, but he was also very much concerned with the world at large, world peace, world understanding.’ Neuman, Wells said, was vitally interested in broadening the horizons of his students to take in the world as a whole, not just their immediate surroundings. To that end, he co-authored his Universal Curriculum, which pres- ents education from a global point of view, peoples of all nations as brothers and the Earth as an in- valuable natural resource. “He did some really innovative things,"’ District 44 School Super- intendent Dr. Leo Marshall said Wednesday. Neuman is survived by his two daughters, Tammy and Kathleen, and his wife Maurcen, who was appointed as Queensbury Elemen- tary's principal last Christmas. He began his career in North Vancouver's School District 44 in 1962 as a teacher at Capilano Elementary, and taught at Carisbrooke and Westview elementary schools before his ap- pointment as vice-principal of Capilano in 1968. His first post as principal was at Lynn Valley Elementary in 1971. Neuman took over as Ridgeway’s principal in 1980. “He turned the school around,’’ parent Doneen Goff said. “When you went to him with a problem he listened and did something about it, he didn't just pat you on the shoulder and send you away. He made you proud to be part of the school." WVD petition questioned | A NORTH Vancouver District res- ident opposed to future subdivi- sions on upper Mahon Avenue says residents who signed a peti- tion supporting the plan were not aware of ‘‘the dangers of such a proposal."’ ‘We should maintain the char- acter of the area, not try to erode it,’’ Keith Collier of 495 West Windsor said at a public hearing into future subdivisions between 3348 and 3440 Mahon Ave. Collier said that Mahon residents who signed a petition favoring further subdivisions didn’t know that the plan included the rezoning of two blocks. “We should find out what they knew before we consider the peti- tion,’’ he added. But Gerry Kelly of 3348 Mahon, who presented the petition to council, said the people who signed knew what was at issue. “The people who live on Mahon can read and understand,"’ Kelly told the hearing. Some residents on Mahon cur- rently own 80-foot lots. The sub- divison would allow them to split the lots into 33-foot lots. Kelly said six owners of small lots on Mahon have supported the proposal and five of the large lots. Dave Randall of 3440 Mahon said he supports the proposal and has applied to subdivide his prop- erty into two 40-foot lots. ‘The design will be nice. No one asked us to put up Vancouver specials,’” Margaret Plum of 3480 Mahon said she is also in favor of 33-foot lots. *‘There is no reason not to split them,’’ she said. But Collier insists that the pro- posal is for profit only and that the residents will suffer, “Why must we fight to preserve what we have?’ Collier asked. THE CORPORATION OF THE DISTRICT OF WEST VANCOUVER NOTICE OF ROAD CLOSURES Storm Sewer Installation 6300/6400 Blocks of Marine Drive 1988, February 24 (for approximately four weeks) 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 PM. We apologize for any inconvenience and ask for your cooperation with traffic control personnel _ J.D. Pollitt Manager, Public Works “ont the NORTH SHORE is