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Students from Maimonides School sailing

Photograph depicts three teenage girls on a sailboat.
2 copies. Colour copy scanned. Written on the verso of the colour copy: "65% #3 P.23. June [30]/[88]. Maimonides school." Written on the recto of black & white copy: "During recent school cruise two Maimonides students with the Island Roamer in the backg[round] [...] [rest cut off].

Students from Maimonides School sailing

Photograph depicts two students in life jackets and rain coats on shore with the sailboat in the background.
2 copies. Colour copy scanned. Written on the verso of colour copy: "S/S P.23. June 23/88. Maimonides school." Written on the recto of black & white copy: "During recent school cruise two Maimonides students with the Island Roamer in the background (abov[e] [...] [rest cut off].

Howard Harowitz climbing a ladder

Photograph depicts Howard Harowitz climbing a ladder down a hatch, possibly on a navy ship or submarine.
Written on verso: "Howard Harowitz 12. 2 x 3 1/2. 60 %. 79183. Centre 2 cols.

Nancy Halpern

Oral interview with Nancy Halpern. Interviewed by Samantha Stokell for SLAIS Oral History class.

Nancy's father's family moved to Vancouver in 1906, when her father Norman Brown was less than six months old. She has stories of her own life in the Vancouver Jewish community and those of her grandparents and parents. She was involved in drama and theatre in the Vancouver and Spokane, WA areas, and worked as a librarian in Vancouver. She was also involved in creating the West Vancouver Jewish Community Association.

Nancy mentions her cousin's daughter, Barbara Liskov (née Huberman) from the States, a professor at MIT who was the first woman to graduate in Computer Science in the U.S., and who is a winner of the Turing Award.

Extra - Granville Bridge - course of construction

Photograph depicts construction progress of the Granville Bridge.

Low, upward angled shot of centre span of metal truss bridge with pin jointed girders; small section of right centre deck left to complete, with crane hovering above; warehouses and small water craft in small marina area below bridge.

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