Gordon Dirks:  

My darling wife, Joy, and I are looking forward to chillin' again on the beach in Hawaii for a couple of weeks in late September and early October (2023) and then celebrating 52 wonderful years together. (Oct 9/71). It was on the same Hawaii beach some years back that I came across a Classmate's email from George DuWors. So although I had vowed to never social network on-line, I decided it was time to join the profile bandwagon for the sake of the WMCI class of 61-65. Here's the Coles notes life story...flunked out of first year at U of S (but had loads of fun spending Pierre Trudeau's $1,000 student loan) and then got serious, over time completing 2yr education certificate, B.Ed., post-graduate diploma, followed by Masters in Education, with a pinch of doctoral studies in theology. Vocationally, life has been a joy-filled, eclectic journey, serving in senior executive and public service roles in politics/government, education, ministry, and business forums. Presently I'm engaged in doing organizational and fund-raising consulting. Two married sons and three grandchildren. Avid reader in a variety of disciplines - recent biographies included Da Vinci, Augustine, and the most recent on Martin Luther King, Jr. Hair is thinning with mousy grey taking the lead. Serious health scare at age 29 - near fatal case of Crohn's disease. Happily married to Joy, a retired Citizenship Court Judge, Together we waved good bye to Calgary after 25 years (before that 6 in Edmonton, 24 in Regina and rural SK, and my first 19 in Saskatoon), and in the middle of the Covid pandemic relocated to White Rock, the beautiful little "City by the Sea" on BC's west coast, 5 minutes from the US border. We enjoy visiting with our family in Kamloops, and in Kitsilano where our little red-haired, blue-eyed 18 months old granddaughte...Expand for more