we today. CLASS SHRIMP Fae Collins = Mooney (fourth trom lett) sits up straight in her Grade 5 class photo in 1955, At extreme left is her classmate and friend Judy Mathias. In the bottom row {second from right} is Joe Mathias, who taday is chief of the Squamish Nation and spokesman for the B.C. First Nations Summit. My friend, the princess Fae Collins Mooney writes in this space every two weeks. WENT TO school with a princess. To me she was everything a princess should be. She had poise and dignity, she was regal, she was proud of her heritage and respected it. valuing what cach can offer to the other. There is so much to be gained. How | admired her. So much so that even today I can see her face, ber proud and graccful movements, as if she . were here before me. Her name was Judy Mathias. She had a brother, Joc. He was -- in. my elementary school class - toa, ; ‘T grew up in a_ subdivision called Norgate Park that bordered on the Capilano Indian Reserve _ {as it was known then). We all attended Norgate Elementary School, And because, » ina sense, we grew up side by ‘side, I was privileged to be ex- . posed to her culture; ker heritage ‘was part of my education. L remember being taught native ~ art in grade three or four, and ex- ploring -the meaning of the characters we tried to draw and colour. Through the medium of art 1-learned. more, and retained more, than I ever did in Social ’ Studies. Our backgrounds were different, and she . Was a real live princess, ‘but. otherwise we were just two little girls with commen.concerns and similar dreams. And what an indelible impres- sion a live performance had: I re- member a very special day when Judy and Joe and their whole family, in traditional dress, danced traditional dances before the whole school. ~ And ob! how they danced. With strengih, with pride, with zeal. It was an unforgettable experience, ‘increasing my awe for my friend. But I never thought of us as being. different in the sense of them-and-us. *: Our backgrounds were dif - ferent, and she was a real live princess, but otherwise we were just two little girls with common concerns and similar dreams. A few years later we moved. I never saw her again, Joe’s name often appears in the news these days, as Chicf of the Squamish Nation and it is at such times-that I think of my girlhood friend, 1 wonder how she is and what ‘she is doing. And I wonder if she ‘might remember me, just an or- ' dinary little friend from so many > years ago. The. only thing outstanding “> about me in those days was the fact that I was always the shortest one in the class, Not poised. Not regal. Not the stuff a princess is made of. “T feel privileged to have lived on the fringe of her world. I hope she is happy and fulfilled and ber “> life has been good. _.- Because of her I learned at a young and impressionable age to -. tespect a culture different than . mine, and value a heritage rich ‘and unique and special. Her ex- ample has Icft a fasting impres- sion on me. Someday I hope I can thank her ~ for the pilt she has given me. I'd ‘Jike to think we could be friends “again. A lot has happened since those days of innocence and naivete, It oe saddens me to think that such a . friendship may not be as Possible [hope that all of us can con- tinue ‘to live together as neigh- > pours, even friends, respecting what ds different between us, and The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, Septembar 28, 1994 - B3 T.D.C.S.S. CHOICES | 42-3218 Eby St, Terrace,B.C 635-7863 “HERE BY CHOICE | FAE COLLINS MOONEY a ‘SERVICES OFFERED TO THE MENTALLY CHALLENGED - 7 Philosophy: That all people ‘regardless of their handicap have the right to dignity. 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