Hundreds of Richmond High alumni from the last seven decades are expected to converge on Saturday at the school’s 90th birthday open house and celebration.
From noon to 6 p.m., alumni and teachers from as far back as the 1940s will be mixing with current students to check out memorabilia and wander the halls of what is now called Richmond Secondary.
And during the afternoon, the Richmond Senior Secondary Alumni Association has laid on a feast of food trucks outside and a whole host of entertainment inside, including student musical performances, in-class demonstrations and live theatre.
“It’s shaping up to be interesting, informative, and enjoyable, so we hope get out as many former students and teachers as we can,” said one of the association’s directors, John Montgomery, a grad of ’58.
“We’d also like to let people know that ($10) tickets will be available at the door.”
Guests are free to tour the school and campus and find their photo on the grad composites hanging on the walls.
Richmond High School clothing and memorabilia will also be on sale.
For decades, it was the only senior secondary school in the entire city, starting at the end of the 1926/27 school year as Bridgeport High School, at Bridgeport and Sexsmith roads.
The next school year, 1927/28, the new Richmond High School opened nearby at Cambie and Sexsmith roads in the north of the city.
In 1952/53, it moved to the current site at Minoru Boulevard, although it was called Foster Road at the time.
And there it stayed, until 2004, when it was re-built on the playing fields to produce the Richmond Secondary that we see today.
