David Moore
…Hello Everyone,
Thanks to John and all of you who have helped to collect these memories together into one place.
I think I managed to slip through four years of MRHS largely unnoticed, so I’m not surprised if not many of you remember me.
What I remember as my high point in high school was catching a pass in an exhibition game against Rosemount High my senior year. I had just made the cut on the football team. It was my only completed pass for the season—I didn’t get much air time—and I still remember the feeling I felt when Elaine Perowne turned to me seconds after I’d made it to the sidelines, (“DAVID! Good going!”)…and when, at our first reunion, Barry Schreiber in his thoughtful way said to me, (“That game against Rosemount…that was your best game, wasn’t it?”—now there’s someone I’d follow into battle).
Those moments went a long way to purge the awful memory of Mr. Messenger, suddenly noticing me sitting overlooked on the bench one grey fall afternoon just as the last play ended. (MOORE!!! What the…???”). He’d forgotten to play me all that game. (Such moments are the bit of grit around which one builds a pearl if one’s an oyster…or maybe they’re just grit.)
I’ve spent 8 of my subsequent years in Africa working first as volunteer, then field director for various volunteer-sending agencies like the YMCA, SUCO, and WUSC. For the past 15 I’ve managed a small charitable faith-based (Christian) technical mission building rural water supply systems in southwestern Uganda. ACTS also works with HIV/AIDS-impacted families and in establishing agricultural cooperatives for land-deprived widows (www.acts.ca). CIDA quaduples every donation to ACTS’ water projects, by the way… J
I’m now on Facebook…and you can find me there for more photos, mainly of ACTS people and projects.
During these years since high school I’ve married Pippa Tucker (from Toronto) and raised three beautiful children (Emily, Jessie, and Ben). I’m a believing Christian—that occurred in Africa in the mid-seventies—and have studied at Regent College in Vancouver (M.Div ’80). I’m active in St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Comox, teaching Sunday School classes and preaching the odd sermon.
I hang out on Hornby Island for as much of each summer as possible…caught a sighting of Ginny Tatem earlier this year and got to thinking about high school days. So here I am.
Thanks for any kind words you may have spoken to me or thoughts you may have thought about me during those uncertain four years at MRHS. I’m happy and moderately well-adjusted and living in Comox, BC, halfway up Vancouver Island. One of the most lovely spots on earth.
Warm regards,
David…