Kamala Harris, a disco-dancing teenager, yearned for a home in Canada
Extroverted American teenager
Kamala Harris, center, in a yearbook photo from 1981 with fellow graduates at Westmount High. Being an extroverted American teenager who had moved to Montreal from California at age 12, dreamed of becoming a lawyer and liked dancing to Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.
Best friend
Wanda Kagan, the best friend of Kamala Harris from high school, lived with the family of Harris for a time during a difficult period in her adolescence.
Graduation
In 1981, Kamala Harris graduated from Westmount High, one of the most diverse high schools in Montreal. The school was roughly 60 percent white and 40 percent, Black, in 1978 to 1981. It was founded in 1874.
Social butterfly
Hugh Kwok, who has built and repaired Porsches with his father for 40 years, remembers Harris as a social butterfly.
Super Six dance troupe
A collection of photographs from Wanda Kagan showing her with Kamala Harris, including when they were in the Super Six dance troupe.
Harris attended Black community dance parties and found sisterhood in an all-female dance troupe, Super Six, later Midnight Magic.
Pep Club
Harris, center on the right page, in 1981 with fellow members of the Pep Club, in her graduating year at Westmount High.
She was also active, performing in fashion shows, working on the yearbook, and part of the Pep Club, whose members yelled and sang at school events accompanied by a rabbit mascot, Purple Peter.
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