Note: also have Seabus 1st day certificate, will update this archive upon finding
Note: there is a chance i wasn’t actually on these rides…
Tag Archives: young time
Certificate: Graduation, Adult High School (Alpine School District, Utah), 1988
In the event you doubt my credentials, I present prestigious documentation for your perusal… Hey, I can’t seem to find the certificates for the invitation to the ceremony (which I did not attend), so a blurry snapshot will have to do for now as evidence.
Noting I have more to say about this and how I left high school a couple weeks into “senior year” and in rolled at Utah Technical College, later Utah Valley Community College, later several other name changes… and took an assortment of classes about photography, ceramics, mountaineering, anthropology and creative writing.
As it goes, attending this then-little college with an interesting eclectic mix of ages, interests, attitudes etc. was a fantastic decision. More to say another time, perhaps when I add the actual certificate and other related materials.
Artifacts (youngtime): Chief Scout’s Award – evidence / letters, photos, certificate – 1983
In Canadian Scouts, the highest accolade one can achieve is the Chief Scout’s Award. Requires a whole load of badges and tasks and whatnot – sorta like the US Eagle Scout i suppose.
Anyhow, as it goes, most Scouts earn this on their way out and onto Ventures (the next age bracket group) but diligent as i am, earned at a young age (was told youngest ever but no way to verify) and attended the ceremony (requiring special permission apparently) along with older brother Bob and pal Brad Coleman.
What follows are artifacts and evidence from the event and award.
Report Card: Grade 7, Prince Charles Elementary / Surrey, 1982-83
See also: Class Photos, vol. 2 – Prince Charles Elementary, 5-6 + extras
Report Card: Grade 6, Prince Charles Elementary / Surrey, 1981-82
See also: Class Photos, vol. 2 – Prince Charles Elementary, 5-6 + extras
Report Card: Grade 5, Prince Charles Elementary / Surrey, 1980-81
See also: Class Photos, vol. 2 – Prince Charles Elementary, 5-6 + extras
Artifacts (youngtime): Dave making words, ca 1980
Report Card: Grade 4, Harold Bishop & Prince Charles Elementary / Surrey, 1979-80
Changed schools from Harold Bishop to Prince Charles when family moved…
Artifacts (youngtime): Drawings of pigs and farms (and a buffalo), ca 197x
Fascinated by pigs of all kinds from a young age, i made scrapbook, drawing, plans for ownership, and learned the names and habits of everykind of swine from peccaries, to warthogs, to javelina. My sports-teams are always named after pigs (street hockey and fantasy sports to be more accurate) and i invented characters including “Super Pig” with appropriate uniform. I also raised a family of guinea pigs (until devoured by a ruthless opossum). Evidence of these other projects are scattered elsewhere, whereas in this post, i share various sketches of pigs, farms and a buffalo – made when 7 years old.
Continue reading Artifacts (youngtime): Drawings of pigs and farms (and a buffalo), ca 197x
Report Card: Grade 3, Harold Bishop Elementary / Surrey, 1978-79
See also: Class Photos, vol. 1 – Harold Bishop Elementary, K-4
Artifacts (youngtime): Guildford (Surrey, BC) Pals and Gangs, 197x
Note: after moving from Lansing, Michigan to Surrey, BC in 1974/5, we lived on 154th St. in Guilford area on a dirt road with a rented house which backed into a whole bunch of forest. I attended Harold Bishop elementary school before moving to Whalley (95 ave.) in middle for Grade 4.
In the nearby woods, my friend Chris Goodman and I found a huge stash of lumber (also note in there was a few burnt out old houses in a field across from us) we salvage things and made large dangerous tree houses. I recall we played wide-games in the forest as well as epic street hockey games at the dead end by a new doctor’s office.
This area was quickly developed with a big new library and a massive mall. The building still exist though the house is long gone, the roads paved etc. etc.
This was around the time I did the Pig Express newsletter and wrangled up various gangs of “good kids” for activities and what not. Realizing now this was *important* because there was a lot of dangerous characters around the neighbourhood including the one who shall not be named.
Report Card: Grade 2, Harold Bishop Elementary / Surrey, 1977-78
See also: Class Photos, vol. 1 – Harold Bishop Elementary, K-4