Point Grey Secondary School
49°14′13″N 123°09′11″W / 49.237°N 123.153°W
| Point Grey Secondary School | |
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 Front of Building | |
| Address | |
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5350 East Boulevard , , Canada | |
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| School type | Secondary school |
| Motto | "Honor Ante Honores" (Honour Before Fame) |
| Founded | 1929 as Junior High |
| School board | School District 39 Vancouver |
| Superintendent | G. Little |
| Area trustee | D. Turner[1] |
| School number | 03939012 |
| Principal | Nick Akrap |
| Grades | 8-12 |
| Enrollment | 1202[2] |
| Language | English |
| Area | Kerrisdale |
| Colour(s) | Blue and Grey |
| Mascot | Grey Hounds |
| Team name | Point Grey Hounds |
| Public transit access |  R4 41st Avenue RapidBus 16, 41, 480 |
| Website | www |
Point Grey Secondary School is a public secondary school in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was built in 1929.[3] It was designed in the Collegiate Gothic style by Townley & Matheson.[3] It is on Heritage Vancouver Society’s Top 10 most-endangered sites list for 2015.[3] The school is at risk of being damaged by an earthquake.
The Fraser Institute gives the school a ranking of 52 out of 289 schools for 2013–2104.[4]
Notable alumni
[change | change source]- Gil Bellows, actor
- Bruce Allen, music manager and radio commentator
- Geoff Berner, musician
- Joely Collins, actress
- Simon Collins, musician
- Jessi Cruickshank, actress, MTV Canada host
- Alicia Dara, singer-songwriter
- Robert Davidson, artist
- Carol Baird Ellan, Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of British Columbia (2000–2005)
- Nathan Fielder, comedian
- Evan Goldberg, comedian, scriptwriter
- Mark Hildreth, actor, musician
- Bryce Hodgson, actor
- Tegan Moss, actress
- Jesse Moss, actor
- Stephen Owen, Liberal MP, VP of External and Legal Affairs for UBC
- Stuart Parker, politician, environmentalist
- Doreen Patterson Reitsma, sailor
- Seth Rogen, actor, comedian, writer (did not graduate)
- Arn Saba (later Katherine Collins), cartoonist and writer
- Scott Sampson, renowned vertebrate paleontologist; host of the PBS kids show "Dinosaur Train"
- Jaime Stein, broadcaster
- Cynthia Stevenson, actress
- Michael Turner, author of Hard Core Logo, Company Town, American Whiskey Bar. Founding Member of the Hard Rock Miners.
- Erin Wall, opera singer
- Kris Wu (吴亦凡), actor and singer in China.
- Adrian Dix, BC MLA for Vancouver-Kingsway
- Barton Lui, Olympic speed skater and Hong Kong flag bearer at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Sammy Strong, actor, voice artist
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Point Grey Secondary School.
- ↑ "Official trustee appointed | Vancouver School Board". Archived from the original on 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
- ↑ "Ready Reference March 2008" (PDF). Vsb.ba.ca. Retrieved 30 July 2018.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Naoibh O’Connor (1 May 2015). "Point Grey school tops Heritage Vancouver endangered sites list". Vancouver Courier/Glacier Community Media. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ↑ "Report Card for Point Grey Secondary". The Fraser Institute. Archived from the original on 4 May 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
