Tuesday, December 9, 2014
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A Friend
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I became the Principal of the Bonanza School in March, 1986. I looked forward to the challenge of teaching in this school. I was the eleventh principal in a span of ten years. In my memory, many parents were anything but supportive to the staff and administration of the school: misbehaving and disruptive students protected tooth and nail by their equally disruptive parents. I wanted to make a difference there, not just as a teacher but as a community member. Friends and supporters were few and far between there in those days. George and his family were counted as my friends and supporters in the activities we created, a Back from the Future event studying pioneer skills, a Christmas Community Chorus and competitive writing projects among others. George was instrumental in the school yard renovation project at the school and it was to him I left the unspent funds when I left that jurisdiction in 1991. He was a good and loyal man, community member and father and to me, a friend. May he walk contentedly with his grandfathers.</p>
