Warren Mayo

Warren G. Mayo was born in Regina July 30, 1920 and completed his preliminary schooling there. In 1938 his family moved to Vancouver. A year later he joined the Sixth Field Company (Royal Canadian Engineers) in the Canadian Army and, after training in Eastern Canada, went overseas. He participated in the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944 and stayed in France until he was wounded the following October and had to have his leg amputated.

After his return to Canada with his English wife in March, 1945, he enrolled at UBC and completed the four years of his BA degree in mathematics and physics in only three years. He and his wife then went back to England, where he taught physics and mathematics at the Southeast Essex Technical College for seven years and the Staffordshire Technical College for two years before then returned to North Vancouver in 1957.

After a year of teacher training at UBC, Mr. Mayo taught at Sutherland, North Vancouver High School, Handsworth and Balmoral before he returned to North Van High in 1965 as vice-principal. He moved to Carson Graham as vice-principal in 1977 and retired from there in 1984.

Mr. Mayo served as president and geographical representative in the North Vancouver Teachers' Association; he was president of the War Amputations of Canada, Vancouver Branch, for two years and national director for three years; and he was also active in the Kinsmen Club.

He died very suddenly at his home in West Vancouver January 21, 1992.