May Brown
- Vancouver
![Click on image for full-size version](/web/20061229023443im_/http://www.protocol.gov.bc.ca/protocol/prgs/obc/1993/1993_MBrown_sm.jpg) May
Brown has been and continues to be the role model for community
involvement. Her contributions over the years in teaching, physical
education, sports and public service are a matter of record to British
Columbia.
Starting in
the field of parks and recreation, while raising her family, she
worked with young people in training and coaching athletic teams.
In 1972, she
won election to the Vancouver Parks and Recreation Board and in
1976 to Vancouver City Council. On that Council, May Brown took
the initiative and provided leadership on many, many boards and
committees.
Several other
organizations benefited from her involvement: she served on the
Minister's Sport and Recreation Advisory Council, the U.B.C. Athletic
Council, the National Advisory Council on Fitness and Amateur Sport,
the Boards of the Vancouver Symphony and of St. Paul's Hospital
...the list goes on.
The Victoria
Commonwealth Games Society recognized her talents early on, for
May Brown in now vice chair of its Board. Here she has won the respect
of her fellow Board members through her no-nonsense attention to
central issues and through her ready willingness to find solutions.
As an appropriate
postscript, it needs to be added that May Brown became a Member
of the Order of Canada in 1986.
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