Report on Meeting Feb.23, 2011 and UPDATE

Meeting was held Feb.23, 2011 at Denny's on Broadway at Birch. There were 10 attendees. Raymond Chow presented a drawing of a consideration for a plaque/monument...profile of students (1girl 1boy) made of re-bar (rather than bronze statues) holding book...companioned with plaque showing King Ed history. Well done, now we need a few more suggestions. There were 3 sub committees formed...1/ 7 persons to check with authorities (hopital, City,school board,etc) to obtain approval and assistance. 2/ 5 persons to obtain ideas, develop drawings of plaque/monument to present to authorities. 3/ 2 persons to arrange social events for the committee. UPDATE...IMPORTANT...only yesterday we were advd by Nick Milkovich (a KEHS
grad and an architect) that there is an opportunity to apply for a commemorative plaque marking Vancouver's 125th Anniversary..deadline is today...we will submit it and then it will be voted on (against many interesting offerings) starting tomorrow until April 5 "11....so pls go to www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/projects/placesthatmatter.html There will be 125 plaques designed, created and placed by the Vancouver Heritage Foundation so pls VOTE...ask your friends, enemies, family, co -workers to go to site and place a vote so that we can take advantage of this wonderful opportunity. Thanks

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Following names are the committee members so far:

Jim Greenwood (1955 grad)
Red Robinson (1955 grad)
Ken Leong (1955 grad)
Bernice (Kurtz) Dorfman (1955 grad)
Bill Lee (1955 grad)
Marilyn (Sayles) Krygier (1955 grad)
Ron Docherty (1956 grad)
Bill Turpin (1956 grad)
Ina (Finlayson) McLay (1956 grad)
Raymond Chow (1959 grad)
Phil Sunderland (1960 grad)
Sharon (Bradley) Revel (1960 grad)
Sylvia (Shori) Mahal (1961 grad)

If anyone feels they can contribute to this committee in any way to help us with ideas for a design of a commemorative plaque or momument or ?....pls contact us c/o Sharon 604-739-3848 or leave a comment on blog.

WELCOME

Welcome to my unofficial blog site of the King Edward High School (Vancouver) Commemorative Committee. Check updates on progress in obtaining some sort of plaque/monument to commemorate this wonderful school that would have been 100 years old last year (2010) had it not burned down in 1972. The last graduating class was 1962, then it was an adult education facility for 10years.

The first meeting of the Committee was Nov.10 2010...since then we have had meetings on Dec.1, 2011 and Jan.19, 2011.