Robert Victor Harms, born September the 9th, 1940, in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada. I was born modest, but it wore off. I have lived in Chilliwack, B.C. Canada since the flood. Not Noah's flood - the flood of 1948. I attended Chilliwack Senior High. I graduated in 1958, in 1959 and finally in 1960 with, among other things, a major in Art. Then I went on to the University of British Columbia where I earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Psychology in 1967, which made it possible for Canada to celebrate two remarkable events in one year - its Centennial and my university graduation. During this period, I completed some pre-architectural and Art Design courses. Occasionally I was on the Dean's list. In 1969, I completed a Master's Degree in School Administration and graduated at the top of my class. Not bad for a dyslexic who was considered retarded in first grade and was able to be in three graduation classes in high school.

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With all that wonderful education, I was able to teach high school Art and English. I even taught Sociology 100 for Douglas College and Psychology 100 for U.B.C. and night school Art to adults. During this time I also got involved in professional wrestling as the Magnificent Mennonite. Mennonites are usually pacifist. I was too - with an artistic twist: I believed it was fundamentally all right to pass a fist in any direction you have to. With some regret on my mother's part, all my humbleness was completely destroyed in the ring. I became known as Canada's Handsomest Athlete, not just another pretty face, but an athlete with a body that women desired and men feared. My teaching career and my athletic career competed for a while. At one point, I was a rat in training, officially known as "Vice Principal". At the time I had three bad habits: smoking cigars, drinking coffee and teaching school. I gave them all up and went into the night club business. My cabaret, "The Blue Unicorn", was successful and I made other property investments which have allowed me to be an artist that is his own patron. I currently live in a three-story house with wife who is my inspiration, in a home on Hope River Road, which has a sign over the front door: Harmony House. If you have read to this point, you probably are sure that if you looked in a picture dictionary, my photo would appear beside the word "arrogance". Well, in the story of your life, isn't image everything? Home | Artist | Email | Links | Purchase To view the entire site content go to our Index Page All poems, text, quotations, and Art work found on this site are the copyright of Robert Harms and all rights are reserved 2000 and may not be reproduced without permission, which may possibly be obtained by Email