kits at 100: the vancouver school at the heart of a neighbourhood in constant change - digital presentation

Theresa cotton scroll, which was turned out through a scrapbook about her school clippings on 1940.
"It's weird to think it really happened here," said Kitsilano's 12 th grade middle school student . ".
"In this school, in this neighborhood for these reasons.
"This is the history that you can really relate to," said her friend Sam Kerr . ".
For a century, the school has been the center of a community that is constantly reinventing itself, no different from the rapidly growing cities around it.
From the Everglades on the edge of the First Nation's village to the rough-hewed working-
Class area, hippie paradise, immigrant enclave, land of yoga millionaire.
But at North xilano high school, everything in the past is still there.
Ran principal Ranjit Bains has worked in other public schools in Vancouver, but she was hit a bit when she arrived at Kits.
"What I noticed right away is pride," Bains said this week . ".
"Not all schools have a strong sense of pride and alumni culture.
From my experience, this is unique. ”Not every B. C.
Since 1988, Kits Brumwell, a kit teacher, said the school is still standing and singing school songs at every rally.
The kit has always been "a place to get excited about your school," he said ".
1954: Graduates from the main entrance of Kitsilano Middle School.
The Vancouver School Board reviewed the beginning of the school year a decade ago, when a new administrator attended his first kit conference.
"At the end everyone stood up and sang the old song, the walls were shaking and the place disappeared," Brumwell said . ".
"All I remember is that I looked at him and his mouth was open and he said, 'What is that? '?
I just said, welcome to Kits.
Most of the graduates interviewed for the story volunteered that they still knew 1936 of all the words.
Wrote a hymn "Hail Kitsilano"
When will you raise your fist and shout, "Ah! Rah! Rah!
All these "rah" seem a bit strange to those who don't take the initiative.
People who have attended other schools sometimes ask why 84-year-old Steve Rai (Steve Rai), now the deputy director of the Vancouver Police Department, spoke to his high school after more than 30 years of graduation
Rai says his wife sometimes asks him, "Why are you so passionate about Kitsilano?
I went to high school too, you know.
He told her that she would understand if she had come from him.
The school will hold a centennial celebration on May 12.
Due to limited capacity for construction, people are encouraged to register online at www. kits100.
Org, or call 604 713-8961.
The welcoming ceremony includes the Vancouver Police Orchestra and 1940.
The style of cotton and Kerr swings and jive dance shows.
Bains said she was surprised by the number of families with Kits students for generations. (
The families include the Vancouver Sun reporter, his sister, father, aunt, uncleand cousins. )
Kitsilano is also a family member of one of the school's most famous graduates.
Actor Ryan Reynolds (class of ’94)
In an interview with the Vancouver Sun this week, I said: "I like to be in Kits.
. . . . . . My grandmother also went to school.
The last time I checked, her graduation photo was still hanging on the wall and gave me a furry eye because the math score did not improve.
"As early as the beginning of Kitsilano High School in 1917, the community around it had a history of more than ten years, from Sheikh hatasanno, A village born in Xwayxway is now a village in Stanley Park.
The centennial celebration next month includes a Musqueam Heritage Room at the school, paying tribute to the school's location in the unincorporated traditional territory of the Musqueam country. October 28, 1943.
On August, Jack hataslano and his wife, Mary, were painted next to his portrait by Charles Scott, director of the Vancouver School of Art.
Scott presented the portrait to Kitsilano Middle School in the auditorium-the gift was accepted by principal James Gordon. .
Although the kit has a modern reputation as a stylish and expensive block, it has a blue-
Most of its history is collar-style, providing space for work
Class families, including many immigrants.
The first Sikh temple in Vancouver opened in kit form in 1908.
Before the nearby West Broadway became the center of the Greek community, immigrants from Greece turned their homes into kits.
One of the early Greek pioneers was the family of George Dimitri atans, a diver who represented Canada at the age of 15 for 1936 Berlin Olympicsyear-
Old bag students
A key part of next month's centennial event combines 2018 technologies and 1940 artifacts, forging the bonds of the present and the past in the high corridor of the kit.
Bloomwell's social studies students undertake a project to study the story of KIT students who traveled abroad during World War II but never came back.
For the "kit fall" project, students produced digital presentations about young people who sacrificed their lives during the war, investigating their subjects through government and military archives, Kit Yearbook, scrapbooks and letters for newspapers
Helen crelman, then librarian, launched a writing campaign during the war.
Erik Butterfield, a 12 th grade toolkit student and Seaforth Highland student, will be present in May 12 to help participants participate in the multimedia program.
When people press the name of the soldier of World War II on the touch screen, it will launch a multimedia demo, show them photos of young soldiers, the wartime letters they wrote, The Sun about them and the location on the digital map of their families in their 1940 s.
"I think there's a lot to do with those people (soldiers)
"Said Butterfield, 17.
"It was probably me at that time.
"The high military history of the kit is full of Lloyd Williams stories (class of ’39), a high-
When he was a teenager, he joined the Navy's school football and rugby star. 75 years later, shortly before his death, he was commended by the French Legion of Honor for his presence in D-Day in Normandy
2015: Kitz gladard Lloyd Williams is a World War II vet whose medals include the Medal of Honor awarded by the French government.
Another veterinarian in World War II, Ralph (Hunk)
Henderson graduated from the kit in his 1930 s and became a multi-person
The sports star of UBC, who served as a director of the Meraloma sports club next door to kit, helped launch B. C. Lions.
On September 1941, UBC's student newspaper, Ubyssey, published an article about pilot Henderson --
Described as "one of the greatest basketball, football and rugby players ever wearing blue and gold jerseys, this is a reference to the color of the UBC school and it happens that Kits athletes wear the same color
Before heading to Europe to serve the Royal Canadian Air Force, he was a student.
According to Ubyssey, "Henny" has been identified as a prisoner of war.
His plane was shot down and he was caught by the Germans.
Henderson was a prisoner of war for three years.
After the war, he returned to UBC to finish his studies, and in January 1946, as a member of the first basketball team after the UBC Thunderbird War, he helped beat the visiting Harlem global basketball team.
The post-war years of peace and hippie scenes 1940 and 50 are "idyllic times," recalls Jack Lee, 54.
Before Li became the first Chinese
Vancouver Sun's Canadian staff reporter, when he covered sports for the school's award KHS Life, he had the "first experience of news"
He recalled the winning paper this week. 1950.
The main entrance of Kitsilano middle school faces north towards the Tenth Avenue.
The Vancouver School Board "my first sentence is:" King Ed bikixino 5-
"Football is 0," said Li.
"Of course, I am the goalkeeper.
"Lee's good friend and classmate, Roy Peterson, also gained some early experience in KHS life 47 years ago as an editor of The Vancouver Sun cartoonist, and in 1998, the seventh record of his death in 2013 was still frustrating.
Two friends had some good time at Kits, including two lunches --
Louis Armstrong's one-hour concert in the school auditorium
1951 and 1952 stars.
2004: On 1952, classmates Jack Lee and Roy Petersen found an undisclosed tape of the Louis Armstrong concert in the kixino school auditorium.
"Applause is deafening," Li recalled.
"We pushed nud to each other and said, 'Is this true?
The rock band hadn't joined at the time, and Louis Armstrong was a big problem.
According to Jerry Kruz himself, he was not an avid scholar when he joined the kit in the 1960 s.
By the age of 16, he had almost stopped attending classes and was busy running one of the first psychedelic dance halls in North America on his way not far from school.
The year Kruz was supposed to graduate from Kits, he played his venue with the grateful deceased on the 4 th and Arbutus, thinking afterwards.
Cruz recalled that an emerging anti-cultural scene developed around post-event ideas, adding: "The entire Fourth Avenue, we are all trying to make this issue a Haite Street in San FranciscoAnd we did!
"This is the epicenter," Cruz said . "
"The whole drug incident happened in the kit at the time, and that's why the principal, the mayor and everyone were freaking out.
When Mary McLin (class of ’63)
Showed up at the beginning of her grade 10 and she had a great wayI-spent-my-summer-vacation story.
14-8 monthsyear-oldMcIlwaine (
Mary Stewart)
Swim for Canada at 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.
Shortly after returning to Vancouver, she attended a meeting to prepare for the high school swimming competition.
To McLean's shock, her PE teacher organized a parade to welcome her home from the Olympics.
1939: Photo of a high school class by Loma McKenzie.
McKenzie is still a symbol of Kits, where she has taught sports for more than 30 years.
McIlwaine recalled this week that Kitsilano Secondary "I didn't expect anyone to notice that I was gone . ".
"But the students came in and shouted slogans, holding a sign that said," welcome Mary back ".
"Physical Education teacher Loma McKenzie organized a surprising celebration for McLean, who used to be, and still remains, the iconic figure of kit, who graduated in 1939, then teach there from 1947 to 1982.
Her 2016 obituary of the Vancouver Sun says she is "a true patriot.
"Kit has a tradition of reverence and tenacitybut-
A fair physical education teacher, a name that is suddenly visible in the knowledge of the school.
Many people, including McKenzie, Bob Ummera and Stan Lawson, are former KIT students who have been back there for decades to teach, not only in the classroom, but also through voluntary provision
Catherine Hyde (class of ’83)
I remember how the PE teacher "taught me how to push myself, be aggressive on the pitch, have a competitive spirit", all of which certainly helped me after many years.
Heddle called herself a "mediocre athlete while I was at Kits" and she became the first to win three Olympic gold medals with her rowing partner, Marnie mcby
Bruce Arthur recalled that the kit of the 1990 s was a hybrid of the co-existing "tribes (class of ’92)
The Toronto Star sports columnist, a former Canadian sports writer of the year, has played basketball and starred in musicals at Kits.
"Not everyone likes high school and not everyone likes to go to the kit.
That's the truth, "said Arthur.
"But you have different tribes and you still feel like you're part of something.
One thing that Western society is doing very badly is making people feel like they are part of something bigger.
. . . . . . But maybe the kit is good at this?
Deputy director of VPD Rai says the PE teachers are tough
On his way to becoming one of Vancouver's top police officers, love lessons have been with him.
"They are tough on us," he said . "
"It builds a little strength and character for later.
Rai recalls cheating in their physical education classes when he and his basketball team-mates tried to take part of the trip by taking 10 buses.
Unfortunately, Rai and his friends, their famous PE teacher Bob Umemura (class of ’60)
He usually gives his students 10-
Before running all the people down, start running first, get smart, run in front and hide in the bushes.
"Just as the bus rolled up, he jumped out of the Bush and nailed us up.
"Not only do we have to run the rest of the distance, he also asked us to run again after school," Rai said . ".
"They are able to cultivate some resilience in us because they are able to do something with us that you may not be able to do in today's world.
It's like let's run 10 k and do it again after school, so you basically run 20 k a day.
That kind of thing.
"The kit has a" very eclectic combination ", recalls Rai, including the full George puyle
Time teachers and Vancouver city councillors, who have children like Rai interested in civil politics.
"It's almost like when it's in her 50 s, the feeling of being around, and the high school is part of the neighborhood," Rai said . ".
"This is a real 'Happy Day' environment.
Last quarter
Century and future if kit has a "happy day environment" then in the last quarter --
Century, the answer to Arnold's Drive-
At Nat's New York pizza shop.
Nat's is a leisure restaurant near the school, run by cousin Franco (class of ’82)and Natalino (Nat)Bastone (class of ’78)
He is a nearby father who provides food for professional athletes and Hollywood stars, both before and after they are big. Franco Bastone (r)
With Jonathan Porto, manager of Nat's New York pizzeria.
Since its opening in 1992, the pizzeria has been a popular destination for Kitsilano middle school students, including actors Ryan Reynolds and Joshua Jackson.
Nick Procaylo/PNGNat points out that Ryan Reynolds and Joshua Jackson are two regulars for Nat to "never forget where they came from" after becoming a movie star.
Actress Ryan Reynolds, who graduated in 1994, took photos of the Kitsilano Middle School yearbook.
See Notes/Direction/PNGIn 1998, when Jackson starred in Dawson's Creek, one of the hottest shows on TV, and was reported by teen magazine, he took them to the Nat's house for a photo meal.
Title: "Part of Heaven: for Dawson's" The Creek star, "there's nothing better than hanging out with his friends at a local pizzeria.
"In 2015, when Reynolds returned to Vancouver as one of Hollywood's biggest stars and starred in the title character of the local filming of Deadpool, the superhero movie needed 32 pizzas as props
Pizza can be purchased anywhere.
But Reynolds made sure they were from Nat's.
As bathstone told the province at the time, "This is a big change for small businesses.
He wants us to do business.
He's thinking about us. it's a good thing for me.
"Reynolds lives in New York now, but" always "goes back to the old neighborhood," he said in an email this week.
"The community always feels like this --focused.
"It feels like it's embracing the surrounding environment, which is the center of a eclectic, diverse community," says Reynolds . ".
"I like Greek restaurants and shops on Broadway.
When I went, I felt like I was part of these families. I still do.
Photo of the yearbook by actor Ryan Reynolds and fellow students at Kitsilano Middle School.
PNG "This neighborhood has obviously changed a lot.
. . . . . . Like most communities, kits are much more expensive these days.
But I like the integrity of the character.
"There are not as many Greek delicatessens and pubs on Broadway as before.
The Broadway Bakery, run by the family of Renault high school's old partner, Peter zebinos, is closed, and the bakery is known for its spanakopita.
But in the hearts of many Greeks, including zebeinos, who still live there, there is still a special location in the neighborhood.
"I will never leave," said zebinos . ".
"I told my wife before we got married.
I will never leave
"As the tavernas approaches Broadway, the changes in Kits High unfold in the air, and the school is rebuilding and adapting to a shiny new building that blends the old Gothic castle --like facade.
New and old.
Bands and drama shows, which have been rising recently, are no longer performing in the old auditorium where Louis Armstrong blew his horn, but in a new state --of-
Art facilities.
Another era ended with the end of the school year. class of ’76)
This is the best time in the iconic suite student traditionturned-PE-
Teacher, ready to retire.
More than one Taylor.
There are still several school-recorded athletes whose children's parents (
Elite athletes too)
Go to school at school and be a teacher there for more than 30 years.
In sports, theater, clubs, communities, most of the value of the school is outside the classroom, Mr. Taylor said.
"When I was here, I got a lot from this school.
I hope the same is true for these children . "
"We are trying to keep it alive.
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