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Pioneer WV
teacher dies

ANOTHER LINK with West
Vancouver's pioneer days
was broken April 24, by the
death of Ethel May Millard
who, with her parents, came
to Canada from Bir-
mingham, England, in May

Her funeral service was
held on Thursday, April 28,
in St. Stephen's, the large
congregation attesting to the

high esteem in which she was
held.

Videotape presentation to probe
problems of learning disabled

A SPECIAL VIDEOTAPE
presentation will be a
highlight of tonight's
(Wednesday, May 11)
general meeting of the North
Vancouver Association for
Children and Adults with
Learning Disabilities.

The meeting takes place in
the Curriculum Services
Centre, 135 West 12th St.,

North Van. beginning at 7:30
p.m.

Enutled “What do you do
with a kid like that?” the
presentation is a portrayal of
an il-year-old boy with a
learning disability and the
difficulties encountered.

Topics to be discussed at
the meeting will include: a
play for classrooms to create

understanding of the
learning disabled; selection
of professional advisors;
increased adult LD mem-
bership; protection of legal
and individual rights; and
formation of a parent
support group.

All interested parents and
educators, as well as regular
NVACLD members are
welcome to participate.

1911.

After arnving in Van-
couver and @pending a week
in the city, they decided that
Hollyburn was the beauty
spot of the west, and for-
thwith established a “home”
there by pitching a-tent at
22nd Street and = the
waterfront.

The following winter they
moved to a log house at 25th
St. and Haywood Ave.,
where skunks, bears and
raccoons were frequent
visitors. At this time there
were only six homes in West
Vancouver.

As a young child, Ethel
attended the first school in
the municipality. It was
ungraded, enroljed 21 pupils
and was located at 18 t.
and Marine Drive Phe
school also served ag a
Presbyterian Church.

In her adult life she had a
long and highly successful
career as a respected and
well-loved primary teacher
in the same school system.

Thirty-eight of her 40
years of teaching were spent
in West Vancouver. Her first
teaching year, 1919-1920,
was spent in ae_e small
ungraded school near
Cranbrook, her second year
in the gold mining town of
Surf Inlet on Princess Royal
Island. She then returned to
West Vancouver, teaching
two years at Whytechff, two
at Hollyburn School and
thirty-four at Pauline
Johnson School.

Ethel was a golfer, a keen
lawn bowler and © skilful
badminton player she
and a colleague. Mabel
Mache. winning the BC
doubles
champtonship

In 1959 her 38 years ot
devoted service to the
municipality was
acknowledged by the school
board, by her colleagues and
fmends. and by) grateful
parents and pupils at a very
large retirement gathering
held in Pauline Johnson
School

Her lifetime affiliation
with Se Stephens Anglican
Church began in 1911) when
some oof the first services
were held ino her parents
home She became a faithful
church member and a
Urcless worker, at vaneous
times serving as voluntary

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