Salmon Arm High School Alumni
Salmon Arm, British Columbia (BC)
John Boom Obituary
John Boom attended Salmon Arm High School in Salmon Arm, BC. View the obituary, post a memory, or share a photo about John Boom.
| Graduation Year | Class of 1970 |
| Date of Passing | (unknown) |
| About | Was working as a marine biologist off the coast of Vancouver Island, fell overboard and drowned.. |
Ron Ron Rosmer '70 said:
John was very smart and hard working. In our final year, starting in the fall of 1969, a group of us formed an antipollution advocacy organization which was called :SCUM. It stood for: Society for the Control of Undesireable Mateials, or: Student Cleanup Movement.
As one of our main projects, we organized a "Clleanupathon" which entailed students from all schools in the Salmon Arm area going out and picking up litter. It was a great success, involving the whole community, which continued for a number of years thereafter. In the fall of 1970, we entered a float in the Salmon Arm fall fair parade, which won first price. (You can view it on my Youtube channel (Ron Rosmer), listed under the title: Salmon Arm fall fair parade, It consisted of an outhouse meant to represent Salmon Arm, with a characterture of Shuswap Lake, hinting that Salmon Arm should get a sewage treatment plant. After the parade, mayor Martin Budziak told me that council had voted to go ahead with the construction of the plant. This advocacy for a clean environment had such an influence on me that it motivated me to go into chemical engineering.