OUr Alums
Once a Yorkie, always a Yorkie
Attending York House School is a lifelong connection to every student, staff and alum who has donned green and gold. For close to 4,000 York House graduates across the world, the YHS Alum Office is a trusted resource to rekindle friendships, explore new opportunities, and give back to a new generation of Yorkies. Alum events are hosted throughout the year to bring our community together, including Alum Day in May, our Golden Alum Luncheon in September, and our carol service in December. These cherished traditions celebrate our shared history and strengthen the enduring bonds of the York House community.
Contact the School's Alum Office:
Ita Kane-Wilson
Associate Director, Alum Relations
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YHS Alum Association
A Letter From Connie Chan, President of the York House School Alum Association.
My name is Connie Chan, and I am thrilled to be the new President of the York House School Alum Association.
My family’s York House journey started in 1980 when my sister Carole Chan ’93 started kindergarten. After accompanying my mom to endless pick ups and drop offs at the school, I was eager to kick off my own YHS career when I finally made it to kindergarten in 1982 as a newly minted member of the YHS class of 1995.
For me, York House has been a family affair. My mom, Mei-ching (May) Chan volunteered extensively during our junior school years and eventually served on the board of governors.
As both my grandma and mom graduated from the same outstanding all-girls high school in their native Taiwan, by attending York House, the girls in my generation continued our family tradition of high quality and rigorous education for the girls in our family. I am pleased that we are passing the torch to my daughter Adele who is a member of the YHS Class of 2031.
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York House opened a myriad of opportunities for me to explore my interests both academic and otherwise. During my time in the senior school, I participated in volleyball, tennis, choir and drama alongside my academic work and was a member of the student executive in Grade 12. After graduating from York House and leaving Vancouver to, among other things, attend undergrad at Wellesley College and law school at the George Washington University Law School, I returned to Vancouver in 2004 to build my life and career which coincided with the return to Vancouver of many of my YHS friends. I am grateful that the friendships formed back in our days at YHS have held firm long past our YHS graduation date and evolved and grown as we navigate different stages of life.
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| ALUM ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE | |
| President | Connie Chan '95 |
| Vice President | Anna Baird '03 |
| Treasurer | Monica (Boytinck) Bell '89 |
| Secretary | Christine Tam '01 |
| Past President | Devon Taylor '02 |
| Directors at Large | Audrey Hui '97 Frances Levitt '00 Ishita (Kalia) Hayer '98 Whitney (Stanford) Starkey '98 |
| Honorary Executive | Margaret (Owen) Barbeau '54* Lisa Greczmiel '82 Pauline (Agnew) Hall '54 Diana (Cliff) Maughan '70 Sherry (Robson) Taylor '73* |
* Deceased