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31 - Sunday, January 29, 1989 - North Shore News

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SIGHTS, SOUNDS
OF THE PAST

THERE ARE many little
stories told within The Story
of a Community, a modular
exhibit featuring some of the
sights and sounds of local
school classrooms of the
past and present.

Now nearing completion at the
North Vancouver School District's
Curriculum Centre, the ‘‘Expo’’
quality display will open in Park
Royal south, Feb. 20, where it will
remain for two weeks. ~

The Story of a Community
display will enable viewers to walk
into a classroom of the 1900s, out-
fitted with a pot-bellied stove,
wooden desks and authentic
readers and other learning materi-
als.
Participants can then carry on
through the nine other modules,
representing classrooms of each
subsequent decade, ending with a
futuristic classroom of the 1990s.

The voices of some of the teach-

ess who worked on the North
Shore (such as Molly Nye and
science teacher Creelman) will
be heard reminiscing, intertwined
with bits of popular music from
each period.
“Sound is an integral part of the
display,’’ says school trustee Anne
Macdonald, chairman of the
school district’s community rela-
tions committee.

Black and white photographs
adorn the interior walls, along with
all sorts of memorabilia, from
sports day ribbons to paper angel
wings from some Christmas con-
cert long forgotten. The last name
of a North Shore resident has been
whited out on a2 report card on

display that describes the Jad as ©

consistently ‘‘sleepy’’ in class.

NEWS phote Milla Walsefield

NE OF the stories within the Story of a Community is told by this gas

y North Shore Museum Director Bill Baker. In the 1940s,

were issued to every person in the Lower Mainiand, in-

North Vascouver stedents and teachers pictured in the

. The display portrays the history of education in North
Vascouver end will be coming to Park Royal and Capilano mails.

One of the mini classrooms is a
kindergarten, another a general
science lab of the 50s, while the
°30s geography classroom is com-
plete with the day’s exam hidden
and waiting under the roll-away
map.

“It’s going to be a long journey
for some,”’ mused artistic director
David Newman, pointing out some
of the little stories that can be
found within the Story of a Com-
munity.

For instance, those who went to

school in the war years will be in-
terested in the tale told in clippings
and documents of a former stu-
dent, ‘‘missing in action’’ and then
discovered later.

The exterior walls will add to the
overall picture by depicting
changes in education. Former
North Vancouver students should
be drawn to the 150 foot display of
class photographs, where they can
seek out their own pictures — and
perhaps meet an old classmate or
two doing the same thing.

Another exterior display will
document the history of North
Vancouver in general, focusing on
those industries, businesses and
service clubs that have contributed
to the growth of the community
through the years.

“*They were all part of the mak-
ing of this community,’’ says
Macdonald, who is the daughter of
former local school principal W.
R. (Mickey) McDougall.

Raised and educated on the
North Shore, Macdonald has
shown even more than her cus-
tomary enthusiasm for this pro-
ject, which is being put together by
the school district in cooperation
with the North Shore Museum and
Archives.

Coordinated by artistic director

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A SILADE

Bill MacDonald, North Vancouver
secondary students are working on
displays of the clothing children
wore to school through the de-
cades.

The co-producers of the display
are Tom Fox and Ed Collins, with
the help of David Newman,
formerly of the National Film
Board, and his assistant Leonara
Dunse.

Others involved in this year-long
project include: production man-
ager Les Szabados, archives liaison
Bill Baker, artifacts coordinator
Blair Greenwood, music coor-
dinator Rick Robson, sports coor-
dinator Len Corben, construction
coordinator Ed Bodrar and
Retired Teachers liaison Peter
Moffat.

Other advisors include: Jan
McEown, Victor Elderton,
Howard Thompson, Bjorn
Hilstad, Angela Chan, Dave
Henderson, Anton Kolstee.

The display will remain at Park
Royal for two weeks, moving to
Capilano Mall, March 2, for
another two weeks.

Anyone interested in helping to
staff the display for a few shifts,
should contact Bob Brown at
987-2441.

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