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Throwback: Tsawwassen's new high school (PHOTOS)

Let's go back in time and check out the inaugural year of South Delta Senior Secondary in the 1973/74 school year.........
Sandor Gyarmati
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Most of the 250 students from South Delta Senior Secondary’s first graduation class took part in a ceremony in the school’s theatre in October 1974.Delta Optimist file

Let's go back in time and check out the inaugural year of South Delta Senior Secondary in the 1973/74 school year.........

 

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Custodian Gordie Allen puts the finishing touches on the new South Delta Senior Secondary just days before it opened in September 1973.

 

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1974 SDSS graduate Bob Paterson won a $100 Delta Teachers’ Association scholarship. He’s pictured at the ceremony with vice-principal Crawford Vogler.

 

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Sun Devils player Bruce Jackson (42) drives for two points against Lord Byng during the SDSS basketball team’s inaugural season in 1973.

 

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The first student registration took place at the new South Delta Senior Secondary in late August 1973.

 

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South Delta Senior Secondary student Scott Fleming presents principal Gordon Rogers a commemorative plaque during a year-end celebration in June 1974, thanking the staff for the school’s successful first year.