Category: Inductees

Bobby Hales was born in Avonlea, SK in 1934.  He moved to the West Coast when he was 15 years old and continued his music studies graduating from Westlake College of Music, Hollywood.  Following his graduation in 1957 Bobby became a Vancouver resident trumpet player, composer, arranger and conductor.  He formed a big band in…
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Irving (Allen) Guttman was born in Chatham, Ontario October 27 1928. After studies 1941-6 at Strathcona Academy in Montreal he attended the RCMT 1947-52. He was an assistant to Herman Geiger-Torel 1949-54 at the Opera Festival (COC). He made his directing debut in May of 1953 in Cornwall, Ont, with Menotti’s The Consul, for which…
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Norm Grohmann, long-time local TV personality began his career in radio at CHWK Chilliwack in 1954 but moved to Vancouver’s CKWX in 1957. Not long after, he moved to CKNW and stayed at that station for over 30 years. In the seventies Norm was remembered for his part of CBC Vancouver’s Dr. Bundolo’s Pandemonium Medecine Show and…
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Bruce Greenwood was born on Aug. 12, 1956, in Noranda, Quebec. His family regularly relocated to pursue his father’s academic appointments and spent years in Princeton, NJ and Bethesda, MD, before returning to Canada when Bruce was 11 years old. He graduated from high school in Zurich and spent three years at UBC while appearing in school and regional…
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John Gray is an award-winning author, screenwriter, composer and performer for stage, tv, film, radio and print. He is best known for the seven musicals which he wrote and composed, and for his two seasons as a satirist on CBC Television’s The Journal. Billy Bishop Goes To War, written in 1978, appeared on Broadway, at the…
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