NELSON HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1954

Ron GRAHAM

Family:

Met Lynn Goodall at UBC,  married 1962, separated 1981.
 

• Son Ron, age 40, PhD, wife, 3 children, research scientist for Applied Biosystems in San Francisco.
• Son Brent, age 36, MBA, wife, 2 children, Product Manager for Ballard Power Systems in Burnaby.
• Daughter Lori, age 31, husband, 2 children, stay-at-home Mom, Richmond.

Mother Lillian Graham died 2003 at age 97. Father Joe Graham died in 1973. Brother Weldon Graham died 1976.

Activities:

• Hanging out with my best buddies.
• Long Distance Bicycle Touring (1000 + kms )
• Computers, bridge, fitness, etc.

Education/Career

BASc Engineering Physics UBC 1959
PEng 1964 to present
IBM Canada Ltd. Marketing Division 1961 – 1992
Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal, Edmonton, Toronto
Systems Engineer, Marketing Rep, Marketing Manager, Marketing Rep Instructor, Country Manager Field Support, Business Practices Manager, Senior Project Manager

UBC, BCIT Building Envelope education 1994 - 1995
Building Envelope Professional (leaky condo engineer) 1995 – 2001

UBC First Year Arts 2003

Nelson Memories:
 

• Doug and I racing our Dad’s cars through the cemetery. He’s been my best friend for 54 years.
• Jake Loomer (great guy!) teaching a chem class with his fly undone.
• Mr. Peachy wacking Neil Horswill’s butt with a board in IA class.
• Skating parties at Taghum.
• Getting sick on beet wine with Scott, George and Doug.
• Smoking punkwood with the same guys.
• United Church Young Peoples Beach Parties.
• Mona Loomer’s awesome boyfriend (Eng Phys student, rower on the champion UBC Olympic team, Athlone Scholar, etc.)
• The rumored non-virgins club a couple of grades ahead of us.
• The last time I saw Georgie Wallace at a Xmas party 1956(?).
• Doug and I taking Maureen and Verna May to the Starlight theatre in my brother’s Model A roadster.
• Johnny Norris’ outrage at our marks for a drama club performance in Grand Forks. The reviewer did not understand our play. Sorry John, but none of us did!
• Eric’s private music lessons for select female students.
• The scandal surrounding Earl Warren, a local disc jockey/announcer, and a high school girl. He surfaced later in Toronto as a DJ/announcer.
• The Penticton V’s infamous Warwick brothers who chopped Earnie Gare and our Nelson Maple Leafs down with sticks and dirty play in 1954. The V’s went on to win the world’s championship.
• Gail Jerome, a lovely girl with cards stacked against her from the start.  Her grandmother, whom she lived with, died in a fire in an old hotel in Nelson on Latimer (?) about 1954. I understand Gail died in a fire in Victoria a few years later while taking nursing. I really like her.

WE ARE LATE IN THE 4’TH QUARTER OF LIFE. TIME TO DO THOSE THINGS YOU HAVE WANTED TO DO ALL YOUR LIFE BUT DID NOT HAVE THE GUTS!