Dec 19th, 2016, added the news of Guests of Honour for our 2017 reunion being our two fabulous Phys Ed teachers. Donna Clements and Pete Bulatovich
Dec 19th, 2016, added the 1971 accidental death of Mr. Rowland
Thomas Green, age 68, English , Mathematics, Social Studies, Annual
Club.
Dec 19th, 2016, added the 1981 death record of Mr. Roy B. Lobb,
, age 77, English, Radio-Drama Club
Dec 19th, 2016, Added to the InMemoriam page the photo and passing of Mr. John Garfield McKinley, our SD 23 music master.
Dec 18, 2016, Added to the InMemoriam page the photos and death dates of KHS teachers, Mr. Alan Scutt, Mr. Dave Webster, Mr. Raymond Wunderlich, Mr. Walter Green.
Dec18, 2016 Added to the InMemoriam page the photos and death dates of Miss Nancy Gale, Mr. Donald Wood, Mr. Charles Webb and Mr. Robert McClelland.
Dec 18th, 2016 discovered that KHS Golden Owls basketball player Gerry Robertson had died in 1977 at age 34 in Kelowna in a fatal car crash. Added his photo.
Dec 14, 2016, Discovered that the popular Kelowna teachers Kelly Slater (died 2001) and Pearl Slater (died 2012) had retired in Lantzville, Vancouver Island..
Nov 1, 2016, posted the news that Penny Winters likely ended up in New Zealand, as well as discovering that Gary Madison may have died in a plane crash at very early age.
Sept 21, 2016, recorded the passing of Kenny Kitsch, September 10th, 2016, age 72, Kelowna, BC
May 3, 2016, recorded the passing of Joe Stolz, died age 71, April 27th, 2016, Peachland, BC
March 18, 2016, bumped into Jimmy Lee this evening at the Community Theatre. ( 1955, grade 5 , Mrs Burbank's class)
February 28, 2016, phone calls to Atagi persons in BC indicate
that Alex Atagi is likely deceased.
Canada Voters list ( 1972-1974) indicates he was living in the
lower mainland. (wife= Janet)
Confirmed on March 1, 2016 by his daughter Tracy Atagi. He died
July 1, 2007.
December 27th, 2015, marked the early death of Wayne Eberle, died age 26 in a mining accident, Granisle, BC.
December 27, 2015, marked the death of David Bismeyer, born 1944, died 2001, buried Kelowna Cemetery
December 23, 2015, marked the passing of Charles A Bruce, (
1917-2011), principal of KSS and RSS.
December 12, 2015, marked the death of Neil Postle . died in his
home of a heart attack on December 10th, 2015
November 17, 2015, marked the passing of Mike Skubiak, April 17, 1943 - October 7, 2015, Kelowna, BC
October 11, 2015, marked the passing of Warren Dunaway, Jan 24th, 1944-Sept 22, 2015 in Campbell River, BC
August 2, 2015, marked the passing of "Patty" Patricia Vipond, (Dec 22, 1945- July 13, 2015)
June 24, 2015, marked the passing of Donald Sexsmith, died December, 2014
March 1, 2015, added the current contact information for Doug Perry( class of '61) and Louise (Wilson) Perry ( class of 63).
November 5th, updated the In Memoriam page with the passing of Peter Degenhardt, (Oct 31, 1942- Oct 4th, 2014, Vernon, BC)
July 8th, added Sharon ( Townsend) Klein to our alumni list. ( KSS class of 66)
July 7th, posted the 2013 Homecoming photos and the 2014 Homecoming photos to Google Picassa albums.
July 5th, 2014, posted the passing of our fav teacher. Harry Almond, age 98, died July 2nd, 2014 in Kelowna
March 17, 2014, located Eric Hayes alive and well and living in Victoria, BC
March 4, 2014, updated the In Memoriam page with the passing of Richard Wheeler, deceased Kelowna, BC, Feb 27, 2014
Oct 26, 2013, updated our In-Memoriam page with the details of the 1967 murder of KHS teacher David Alexander Webster and his wife Marlene Webster.
June 10, 2013, marked the passing of KHS school teacher George Alexander Hillian, died June 5, 2013
Dec 12, 2012, spoke with Drew Kitsch. he says Kenny Kitch is in Kelowna. 250-788-6055
October 30, 2012.. added Audrey Krassman to our list of deceased students. (16 Feb 1999 in Calgary, AB)
August 22, Here are some great photos from Maxine (Purdy) Chouinard. click here.. and even more here from the lake cruise...
August 22, added to the Photo Album page, the photos sent in by Chris (Neumayer) Blower.
August 13, added the text of the address to our 50th reunion by Wayne Marsden, our KHS class of 1962 valedictorian. View and read on our web front page.
August 7, added the dates of the tragic 1967 deaths of our rowing coach and math and physics teacher Dave Webster and his wife Barbara Webster to the In- Memoriam page.
August 5th, Wow .. what a party.. The banquet photos are now available on the Photo Album page now.
August 4th, 3 pm, The 2012 Reunion is now in full swing and the event photos are allready available for your viewing pleasure from the current Photo Album page.. enjoy..
August 3, added newly discovered graduation photos for the Immaculata class of 1962 to the Current Address page.
July 30, added the large scale Immaculata graduating class photo today.. Thanks to Mary Hallisey Durose...
July 22, added four photos of Kelowna's own rocker Mr. Bruce Bissell and his "Kels" to the Nostalgia Photo page.
July 20, added the large scale KHS graduating class photo (158 grad photos).
July 15, added some nice photos to our Nostalgia Photo page as received from Bill Thompson today. Thanks Willy..
July 11, Two more of our classmates have found their way into our group recently.. Benny and Judy Bounds are now living in Gray Creek, BC ( Kootenay Lake area) and Marina (Swart) Watson is living in Pitt Meadows, BC. A big welcome for sure.. We have been looking for you for a while.
June 23, added the excellent 1958 photo of the Kelowna Midget All-Star hockey team to the Nostalgia Photo page.. Lots of familiar faces here...
June 22, added the fine photo of Kelowna's own "Shadracks" to the Nostalgia Photo page.. photo supplied by drummer boy Warren Dunaway.
June 21, added more photos to the Nostalgia Photo page. including the rocking 60's band of "The Pacers",also a photo of the strangely somber house party in the Anderson basement, one of Valerie Deacon contemplating a skinny dip in Okanagan Lake and a photo of the lovely Meldy Hewer on a Honda Super Cub, the "biker babe" of Immaculata..
June 12, added reminder that the Saturday boat cruise leaves the dock at the foot of Bernard Ave at 11 am sharp.. dont be late.. We can start loading any time after 10 am... loading at 10:30 would be perfect...
June 10, posted the Bill Bonner virtual speech to the graduating classes of 2012 to our front page.
June 4, posted the great 1962 photos from Immaculata High School to the Nostalgia Photo pageof the web site.. Thank you Mary (Hallisey) Durose.
June 4, posted SOLD OUT to the Ok Lake Cruise and also SOLD OUT for the Aug 4th Reunion Banquet at the Kelowna Golf and Country Club.. still a few spots left for the Friday evening meet and greet at the Eldorado, however.
May 31, added to the photos in the Nostalgia Photo section.
May 30, added a new section to display nostalgia photos from the1950's and the 1960's. see them here
May 29, sent out another batch of emails to everyone inicating that the 2012 reunion is getting close to selling out all the events.
May 29, added a very nice photo of the Intermediate 4's rowing team of the Kelowna Rowing Club, ca 1962. (rowers: Ed Slater, Jim Anderson, Hans Garsch and Roger Pickering.) See the Nostalgia section of the School Group Photos page
May 24, sent out another "snail mail" reminder that the reunion is coming up soon and tickets are getting in short supply.
May 25, added to the "In Memoriam" page the death records of Mr. John Wunderlich, Mr. Hal Odlum, Miss Elsie Jane Burbank, Nancy Gale, Mr. Ev Greenaway and Mrs Mary Deacon.
May 25, added the classic 1950s photos of Queen Elizabeth to our front page.
May 25, added to our "In Memoriam Page" the newspaper article from 1964 covering the death of Miss Nancy Gale, a KSS teacher for 37 years, retiring in 1967.
May 25, added full name list of Mr Greenaway's 1956 grade 6 class of Central Elementary School to our School Photo Album page.
May 22, 2012, added four more group class photos with signatures. ( All four of the grade 6 classes of 1955 at Central Elementary School, comprising those of Mr Maier, Mr Haskins, Mr. Greenaway and Mr Slaters's classes.)
May 18, 2012, added the image of the 1952 photo of the Glenmore Elementary School to the School Group Photo page.
May 17, 2012, added lots more student identification tags to Mr Glover's 1955 Grade 5 class.
May 16, 2012, added the signature images to the group class photos of all the grade 5 classes for 1955 in the Central Kelowna public school system which then allowed for many corrections to the spelling of classmates names.
May 15, added the 1997 obit for Mrs Mary Deacon,
May 15, located some new great photos of all our old school buildings and presented them on the website in the group class photo section. And a great find of the four teachers from Martin Avenue School in a group photo from 1955. Miss Brown, Mr Gable, Mrs McDougall and Mrs Forsythe.
May 15, Also located a group photo of all the teachers from the Glenn Avenue School dated 1955.
May 15, located Chris (MacDonald) Mackie here in Kelowna, tel 250-765-8595. (see her grade 9 photo on our Alumni Address page)
May 9, 2012, split the photo album into two sections, One for the Group Class Photos (1950-1962) and the other for more current photos.
May 7, 2012 , aded the 1954 class photo of Miss Minette's class of grade 4 students (Glen Avenue School) . courtesy Sydney Bulman-Fleming.
May 6, 2012, added the 1952 class photo of Miss Hartman's grade 2 class (Glen Avenue School) to the Photo Album page, courtesy of Sydney Bulman-Fleming
May 5, 2012, Shirley (Schmidt) and husband Dennis Clouston of Calmar Alberta win the "early bird" draw for two tickets to our Reunion2012 OK Lake Cruise and Lunch.
April 25, located Jim Hawthorne (wife Elaine) living in Vernon, BC, 250-545-9307
April 25, uploaded the 1956 photo of Kelly Slater's grade 6 class to the web site.. courtesy of Leona (Uhl) Johnston of Grand Forks, BC
April 25, located Jim Martin here in Kelowna and posted details on our alumni page..
April 24, discovered deceased April 29, 1963, age 20, Kamloops, BC, Ivor Theodore (Teddy) Soderberg, (see Martin Ave. grade 4 and 5 photos),
April 23, learned that missing person Lorraine (Marty) Morris alive and well in Hedgerley Village, Buckinghamshire, England, but with siblings still here in Kelowna.
April 21, mssing person Anita (Werger) Paul located in Pitt Meadows by Agnes (Redlich) Stuerle.
April 21, Gwen and James identified many of the students in
the 1953-1954 grade 4 class of Mrs. McDougall,
and also many students of Mr. Glover's 1954-1955 grade 5 class.
(but could use some assistance on that one)
April 20, added the 1953-1954 photo of Mrs McDougall's grade 4 class photo at the Martin Avenue Elementary School courtesy of Ian Angus
April 19th, located Gordon Basaraba right here in Kelowna.,
April 15, added the 1955- 1956 Mr. Haskin's class photo at Central Elementary School, courtesy Cheyenne (White) Zdralek
April 15, added the 1954- 1955 Mr. Glover's class photo at Central Elementary School, courtesy Cheyenne (White) Zdralek
April 15, added the 1955-1956 Mr. Maier's class photo at Central Elementary School, courtesy Heather Pittendrigh
April 15, added the 1954-1955 Mrs Burbank's class photo at Central Elementary School, courtesy Heather Pittendrigh
April 15, added the 1954-1955 Mr Gable's class photo at Martin Ave School, courtesy Heather Pittendrigh
April 9th, located Joe Stoltz here in West Kelowna.
April 7th, missing person Donald Neifer located in San Antonio, TX
April 5, 2012 , added the 1950- 1951 Miss Hite's grade 1 class photo from Graham Ave School
April 5, added the 1953- 1954 Mrs Forsyth's grade 4 class photo at Martin Ave School, courtesy Sydney Bulman-Fleming
April 5, added the 1954- 1955 McLarens' grade 5 class photo at Central Elementary School. courtesy Sydney Bulman-Fleming
April 5, added the 1955 -1956 Mr. Greenaway's grade 6 class photo t Central Elementary School. courtesy Sydney Bulman-Fleming