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am uncertain of the exact year my father left Wilson and Kofoed and joined the staff of
Guaranty Trust as a real estate appraiser. I think that this was a salaried position or
possibly payment was made per appraisal. In any event income was more predictable.

Ruth Lake after 1956
The Loree family had established
themselves on Ruth Lake about 1956
and with them came two daughters,
Alixe who was two or three years old-
er, and Lesley her sister who was a
year younger than me. Lesley and I
became great friends over several
summers I spent at the lake prior to
starting UBC and joining the UNTD
program and was no longer available
in the summers. She later married
Keith Dunn and had two sons who be-
came good friends of our sons.
We were joined for part of each sum-
mer by the Smith girls, Jacquie and
Sandra. There was daily swimming
and long afternoons of card games on
one porch or another. Canasta with
Glenn Lockie, RWW, Phil Wilcox and Doug White many decks of cards became the
game of choice. Fitting into this little
group for varying periods of time was
Glenn Lockie, a nephew of Madelene
Parkin, and my old friend Phil Wilcox.
We would often attend the Friday
night movie in Forest Grove. Phil
would arrive across the lake from the
Loree place in his father’s old Interna-
tional truck. Both Phil and the truck
were unlicensed. We would then set
off for the “Grove” with Lesley Loree
(Dunn) and Jacquie Smith (Fenning).
This was a sort of date. I was at the
time, much to the annoyance, of Les-
ley, quite smitten by Jacquie. The the-
ater was the community hall and we
Jacquie Smith ca. 1957 sat on backless benches. The local na-
tive population sat on the left side and
the rest of the community on the right side. I have no recollection of the movies we saw
and doubt that there was much of a selection. After the movie Phil would drive us back
to the lake where there was a pause for some social interaction. Phil would then drive
home and the three of us who remained would take the boat back across the lake.