MEMORIES - THE WHEELS ARE ROLLING NORTH

The year is 1969 and Ken has just graduated from Roosevelt High School in Portland, Oregon. He had chosen the University of Victoria to complete a degree in Math and Science. We were moving to Vernon where we had purchased a small property for our retirement home. He was able to take his first year of studies in Science & Math at the Okanagan Regional College. Continuing with your request Mr. Super Grandchild for more information about your father, it does get especially interesting for you when you arrive on Planet Earth in 1979.

He met your mother during his final year at the University of Victoria. They met at a church event held during the Christmas season. He graduated in 1973 on the same day as their wedding. The day before graduation I received a phone call from one of the university officials saying your Dad was slated to receive the Gold Medal in Science and Arts as the top student but had not registered himself on the list as being able to attend the graduation. I called your Dad and he said they could mail it to him. “We can’t proceed with our event without the star of our show, tell him he has to be there,” the university official replied. They were able to postpone the wedding ceremony for a few hours. He had already been negotiating for a position with a large firm in Calgary and was soon moved there. Meanwhile, packages of cookies and other sweets that had been coming to him from a high school friend in Portland had to be cancelled.

He told us later there were other graduates that he felt were equally qualified to receive the Gold Medal and our brother-in-law, George, replied, “But you were the one who received it.”