April 15 & 16 2005, Van Tech Reunion Over $17,000 raised for the School. Thank you to everyone who attended and supported the reunion!
Dinner Dance with the Nighttrain Revue at the school April 1st 2006. Watch for more info
Official School Website
Check out some photos of the Event!
Anyone with digital images of the Van-tech reunion on the Friday or Saturday nights is urged to contact the webmaster Cam Hutchins at Camsfam@shaw.ca
Front Row: Connie Metcalfe, Chuck Cliff, Val Hutton
Back Row: Ron McRae, Wayne Webb
Early in 1962 the band broke up over a difference of opinion as to what kind of music they should be playing rock and roll versus rhythm and blues.
Shortly thereafter Cliff received a call from a band called the Motions which was also a band made up of tech people (Bill Hallett,Bill Wheeler, Ron Johnson and Doug Cuthbert).
Cliff joined the band with a promise from the guys that they would change their format to rhythm and blues.Shortly thereafter former tech grads Larry Volen, Bill Keyes and vocalist Sy Risby were added and the rest is history.
The band continues to play with many of the originals still part of the band.
The band has grown to Canada’s largest ever self contained 19 piece rhythm and blues show.
The vocal lineup reads like the anthology of Vancouver rhythm and blues with Harry Walker formerly of the hi-fives, Sy Risby an original, Kentish Steele formerly of the Shantelles Miss Suzanne an original,Hans Staymer formerly of the R&b Allstars, Lovena Fox star of the musical Evita, Billy Dixon an original from 1964 and the Soul Inspirations background singers Ronny Jordan and Katherine Cliff and Candice Gibson both daughters of band leader Chuck Cliff and female vocalist Miss Suzanne. The band has played many totally sold out venues of up to 30,000 people.
