Brian Zelley:  

As I look back to those school days in Nanaimo, there were many interesting moments from Elementary School to my Grade 13 year 1966/1967. We all have stories to tell that cover a wide range of topics from those early years to junior hight to the many happenings at the NANAIMO DISTRICT SECONDARY SCHOOL and then those days in University - for me that was UBC - between 1968 and 1972. Then the many decades from the Seventies to the here & now which changes every day. One of the suggestion was how do we want former classmates to remember us. Each of us have different experiences with the many others that touched our lives from the school years and beyond. Concerning how others remember me, well there were many experiences - and the best we can hope for is that others will remember us in a positive light. Beyone graduation in 1965: Worked for one year at the Bank of Montreal in Nanaimo and Campbell River, then returned to NDSS 1966/1967 to complete Grade 13. In 1967/68, I took a year to train in Vancouver to engage in amateur boxing tournaments in Vancouver, Tacoma, Portrland and Seattle as a member of the Vancouver Firefighters. Between 1968/1972, I attended the University of British Columbia for a B. Comm then articled to become a Chartered Accountant in Victoria. Over the decades, I have served on various local or provincial boards including a term as a school trustee in Greater Victoria. In 1971, I was a co-founder of the Nanaimo Boxing Club, and in 1974 I began to help with the re-building of the ...Expand for more