GARY & ANNIE SANTINI

Celebrating their 10th Anniversary with a cruise! A guy with no regrets and not much to say for himself, Gary lives in Burnaby with wife, Annie, has 2 daughters and 2 grandchildren. He hasn't retired, he has "become unemployable," (was it something you said?) He was happiest "building and running my business." (Actually, we know that Gary was twice awarded Builder of the Year in B.C. for Park Lane Homes, an international company and largest single family builder in Western Canada.) He has no extravagances, "I'm very close." From his Jayo years, he remembers, "sports and pretty girls" and his greatest achievement has been "living to 68." (After all those sports and girls, that is quite an achievement.) Gary has travelled extensively, but particularly enjoyed Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran and India. He would like to be remembered as a teacher and a mentor.."

JOHN SAWATSKY-Class 6

John Sawatsky John currently lives in Richmond and sums up his past 50 years this way: "I taught school for 31 years, married Irene in 1956 and buried her in 1980; together we had 4 daughters I married Susan in 1982; she has 2 daughters. Four of our girls are married and have given us 8 grandchildren. Since retiring we have travelled, worked as volunteers in Kenya helping children go to school. We are involved in church work, seniors' housing and volunteer boards." In thinking about when he was happiest John said: "This is a hard one. I feel life has had many challenges but also many blessings. But mostly God has been good to me." Another traveller, John reports his big extravagance to have been a trip last year to Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Turkey. He would like to be remembered as a "faithful and loving husband, good father and fair teacher." John's plans for the future are uncertain since his wife is now suffering with incurable cancer. We wish you both all the best John.

HART SCARROW-Class 7

Hart Scarrow* Now retired after teaching biology at Killarney for 32 years, Hart & wife Bev live in Richmond. They have 3 daughters and 3 grandchildren, two of whom also attend Killarney. The Scarrows are great travellers, enjoy cruising and travel by car, and have visited ever state in the U.S. at least once and crossed Canada at least 3 times. (And that�s a lot of gas.)

MARGARET SCHMIDT-Class 7

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RAY SCHMIDT-Class 2

Ray Schmidt Another golfer, Ray lives in Sardis with wife, Eleanor. His favourite destination is Hawaii, "nothing beats it," and for the future he plans to "live, love, be happy, play golf." His greatest achievement is "living until now and breaking par." (We suspect he favours the last one.) Ray's memories of Jayo include graduating, cutting class (what, Ray?), playing pool & soccer and he regrets "never winning the lotto." (Don't we all.) He would like to be remembered as a caring husband and father (and a great golfer?) and his motto is "live for today and be happy." Ray's last 50 years? "46 years ago I married Eleanor. We have 3 children and 4 grandchildren�all very smart and healthy, I had a 33 year career with the Vancouver Fire Dept, 7 years of retirement, just puttering around home, some travelling, and (wait for it) playing a lot of golf."

ELEANOR SCHRANK-Class 6

Eleanor Schrank (Stanbridge) Eleanor describes her last 50 years like this: "Married young and still married to the same guy; we had a successful trucking business and sold out in 1972. We have three children, The next generation is off to a good start with our oldest granddaughter graduating in December as a chiropractor." (Do we sense a proud grandma there?) Eleanor and hubby, Stan, live in Port Alberni and she reports that they travel to Mexico every winter by motor-home with stop-overs in Reno, Las Vegas and Orange County. Her favourite memories of Jayo include sports and Home Ec classes with Mrs. Cowan. Asked about the future, Eleanor says that "at this age (she) is just happy to have good health and enjoy each day and keep travelling." She considers her greatest achievement being able to retire early and has no regrets. A favourite journey was "a trip in 1974 to Great Britain with my huysband, sister, brother-in-law and our mother and being able to visit where our mother was b orn and raised." She would like to be remembered "lovingly" and her motto is: "Learn from your mistakes and move forward."

GERRY SHEANH-Class 4

Gerry is married to Jo-Anne and has 3 sons and 1 grandaughter. He is a battalion and assistant firechief who likes fishing and travelling. He say the most embarrassing moments were "too numerous to mention", but one of us remembers him at a sock hop emerging from the cloakroom in the "new gym" covered with lipstick.(Thought we'd forget did you Gerry, practising your soon to be acquired fireman skill with advanced MTM resucitation.) (Bill Griffiths remembers you scoring a try in a practice session and losing your shorts in front of a gaggle of fair young maidens, who demurely looked away! - yeh!)In thinking about his favourite memories, Gerry liste teams he had played on, great teachers and "the very many people I started school with in grade 1 and finished with in grade 12 - which doesn't happen often today." Besides 3sons who turned out "very well", Gerry claims that his proudest achievement has been 39 years with the same wife, "a modern miracle on my job." Mr. Reed was the most unforgettable person for Gerry: "the very best teacherI had...a 4 year love/hate relationship, that for me at least ended in great respect."

SID SHEARD-Class 7

Sid Sheard Another inveterate golfer (is it a disease?), Sid lives and loves the game. He even lives on a fairway of Beach Grove Golf Club along with wife, Joan, who also golfs (just as well). Sid represented Canada this June in the World Jaguar Golf Championship (won by Germany) at Gleneagles, Scotland and realized a lifetime dream by playing St. Andrews and 7 other courses in Britain. He has been a member of Vancouver Golf Club for 32 years and says that his handicap seems to go up every year and is now a 6. Sid also reminds us that besides playing baseball and rugby, he was on the J.O. golf team. Between he and Joan they have 5 children, 11 grandchildren and one great-grandson. Still a working man, Sid continues his chiropractic practice, roughly half time, and �is still loving it.� He is also still on the Canucks� medical staff as team chiropractor. He and Joan spend time in Palm Springs (is it the golf?) and at their summer place in Mill Bay. Sid is currently writing a book called, �Bad Back, Good Golf.� (or �Bad Back, Good Income?�)

FRED SIGURDJONSSON-Class 6

Fred Sigurjonsson is single and works for the City of North Vancouver in the engineering department. Fred says he has not kept in touch with anyone since high school.

BOB SIMONS-Class 7

Bob lives in Calgary.

BRUCE SINCLAIR-Class 7

Bruce lives in Prince Rupert and although he attended the 25th, we haven't heard from him thus far for the 40th.

GERMAL SINGH-Class 7

Germal is deceased.

BETTY SKEA-Class 2

Married to Fred McNaughton, Betty has 4 children and 2 grandchildren. She is a retired nurse who plays the piano and organ for Seniors and loves gardening and "lots of travel." She remembers roller skating at the Trianon and Miss Montgomery and Miss Adams. She feels that her family is her greatest accomplishment.

DELMA SLADE-Class 2

Delma Slade (Kopp) All that we have managed to learn about Delma is that she and hubby, Ben, live in London, Ontario and winter in Sarasota, Florida.

JACQUELINE SMITH-Class 7

Jackie whose married name is Watt, lives in North Vancouver.

GRETA SODERBERG-Class 4

Greta Soderberg (Lee) Still living in South Van, Greta retired from nursing after 35 years on the job. A born traveller, Greta�s most memorable trip was the first time she went to Sweden to visit her parents� homeland and to meet her many relatives there. Her memories of Jayo include the barn dances and sports day��probably because we always won.� She regrets not continuing with her education and becoming a doctor instead of a nurse. (But the choices were so limited in those days, Greta.) She summed up her last 50 years this way: �Graduated from nursing at V.G.H. Soon after I married my high school sweetheart, Frank and we had 2 children (a son and a daughter). We were very happy and all went well for years until Frank became ill. Since that time I have been on my own. The children have grown up, married, and I am now a proud grandmother of one little boy.� Greta�s motto is �Keep smiling.�

Walter-circa 1985

Doctor Walter Sorge-1999

Although he has received little recognition in Canada, (isn't that just like us?) Walter has earned an international reputation for his art, particularly in Paris and the U.S.A. He received an MA. in Art from U.C.L.A. in 1955 and a Doctorate in Art Education from Columbia University. He retired two years ago from Eastern Illinois University as an Art Professor and now lives in Jeffersontown, Kentucky. Walter claims that he was happiest in "1950 - 1955 while working on my university degrees in Southern Calif." His big extravagance is antique automobiles and his favourite journey, a year spent in China. Walter says he plans to continue painting, exhibiting and travelling and he would like to be remembered "as an artist." Always a modest man, Walter claims as his greatest achievement having "killed two rattlesnakes before the age of 19." His motto is: "try to do the best I can at all times," and of his last 50 years he says: "I started out being interested in art and have never changed directions. It really is the only thing I can do." (We like to think that it all started with those wonderful posters Walter produced at John Oliver.) Walter revealed to the webmaster in a 'phone conversation on October 4th/99 that he has recently retired and will shortly be moving into a new home and studio he is having built in Louisville, Kentucky. Obviously this does not mean true retirement, but rather a shift in orientation for Walter. His teaching days are probably over, but surely his creative works are merely moving from one genre to another. Known as he is in the art world as the phenomenal "one man artist showman" we can only expect more and greater achievements from this gifted personage. We are immensely proud of Walter as one of our fellow grads.

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WEBMASTER'S favorites from Walter's "100 Watercolors China"

DOUG SPARK-Class 2

After living in Rossland and Bowen Island, Doug has returned to Vancouver to the house his parents lived in when he went to school. He is married to Torveig and has one son. He works as a plumber and pipefitter for the Vancouver School Board and enjoys tennis and badminton.

SHIRLEY SPENCE-Class 31

Shirley Spence (Mathisen) A woman of few (very few) words, Shirley reports that she and husband, John, live in Lynden, Wash, where Shirley claims she is happiest. Her favourite journey was to Grand Cayman and Jamaica in 1966. Her greatest achievement, a happy marriage and her greatest regret is that she didn't buy Microsoft in the '80s. (You�ve got a lot of company there Shirley.)

LANCE STANDFIELD-Class 2

Lance Stanfield Lance lives in Burnaby with wife Rosemay and has 5 children and 5 grandchildren. He took early retirement from Sears and now sings with a seniors� choir and plays on a seniors� baseball team (great to hear that, Lance). The Stanfields have a trailer in which the like to travel and camp in �different� places, such as Fort St. James. But, they also plan a trip to Hawaii with a son and his family this winter. Lance tells us that he transferred from So. Burnaby, where he had been taking typing, to J.O. in grade 10. To his surprise and embarrassment at J.O. he found that he was the only male in an all-female class. �But I stuck it through and have used it,� and he feels somewhat smug when he sees his own sons struggling along on two fingers.

MARGUERITE STANLOW-Class 5

Marguerite recently returned home to Vancouver from Ontario. Welcome back Marguerite.

MARSHALL STASHYN-Class 5

Marshall Stashyn Marsh describes his last 50 years thus: "Until 1956 I was with a bank and then a manufacturing company in Vancouver when I joined Bechtel, a San Francisco based engineering/construction company and was promptly transferred to project offices in B.C. & Alberta. While in Calgary in 1958 I met a nurse from Sarnia and we were married in 1960; we started our family with twin girls in 1960 (always a fast worker, eh Marsh). I was transferred to San Francisco, then to New York, to Houston and back to San Francisco in 1970. Our final major move was to Kuwait (his favourite journey) from 1975 to '78 and then back to the San Francisco area which is now our permanent home. I retired in 1993. P.S. We would do it all over again� it has been, IS, a great life!" Marsh and wife, Muriel, have 4 children and 7 grandchildren and he is happiest right where he is today near grandchildren and long time friends. He also adds that "the climate is great." (Do you have to rub it in?) Computers and electronic gadgets seem to have captured his heart and he plans to continue playing with them as well as gardening, woodworking, golfing and motorhoming (is this now a verb?). Like many of us Marsh is proudest of "raising 4 great children, especially in this day and age, who we feel have turned out to be healthy, well-educated, law-abiding, happily married and now with children of their own." In thinking about J.O. Marsh remembers, "the excitement of the annual sports meet and the rivalry with South Burnaby and also being in the orchestra with our great music director, Sherwood Robson. He regrets "not physically attending U.B.C. and instead taking extension courses through U of T," and would like to be remembered as "being a good, fair-minded and happy husband, father and friend as well as 'boss' while in the work force. His motto? "Enjoy life! We are not on this earth forever." (Amen.)

TOMMY STERLING-Class 5

Tommy Sterling When not soaking up the sun in Palm Desert, where they are building a new home, Tom and wife, Alex, spend their time tending their 2 acres of garden on Bowen Is. Married for a second time, Tom has 2 children and 2 grandchildren. He describes himself as �fat - I waddle onto the tennis court,� (but, hey, he�s still playing!). A former importer of hardware and sporting goods which he then sold to stores throughout the province, Tommy claims to have gotten out of the business just in time as the big retailers like Home Hardware were moving in.

BARBARA STITCHELL-Class 31

Shirley Stitchell (Baker)* Shirley trained as a medical unit clerk and at the age of 50 passed her unit course with a 3.5 G.P.A. (Congratulations, Shirley!) Besides working as a statistical clerk, Shirley enjoys crocheting, knitting and sewing and especially remembers Miss Large, her Spanish teacher, because she "helped tremendously." *(1990)

MARY LOU STRANDQUIST-Class 5

Mary Lu Strandquist (MacKenzie) After 35 years in Ontario Mary Lu and husband Elwood now live in Kelowna; they have 3 sons and 4 grandchildren � her greatest achievement. Mary Lu says she was happiest in "northwestern Ontario when the kids were small." Her favourite journey? "to the Highlands of Scotland." Regrets? "spending 35 years in Ontario instead of B.C." Mary Lu would like to be remembered as "a caring good-natured person." Her motto is "rise above it with humour," and for the rest of her life she plans to "try to expand my horizons." (Atta girl, keep on truckin'.) Mary Lu describes her last 50 years this way: "After high school I entered nursing at V.G.H.. I then worked at various hospitals ending up in Northern Ontario where I worked as general duty and home care nurse until my retirement in 1990. I married and we raised 3 sons. We were busy with various organizations and outdoor activities We were glad to leave the cold when we retired.."

OCASIA SURCON-Class 6

Olasia Surcon (Blair)* � unable to contact The last we heard�10 years ago�Olasia was married to Jim Blair and was living in Nanaimo. She is no longer at her former address.

TED SWEICA-Class 4

Ted lives in Chilliwack, B.C. He originally said he would attend the 50th reunion, but he never registered so we guess he doesn't love us after all!

GARY SYMONDS-Class 6

Dr. Gary lives in Las Vegas, and although he plans to attend the reunion, we did not receive his biographical data in time for this publication. We do know that he is married and will be staying at the Bayshore. Gary write:"I was thinking of dyeing my hair for the occasion, but I have decided to turn up gray, after all."(Somehow we think you'll have company, Gary - although the 'baldies' never even think of a dye job!)