Kinkora Regional High School
(Author’s Collection)

Table 11:5, P.E.I. Junior Drama Festival Winners, 1949-53”

Best Drama: “The Tangled Web”
Best Actor:
Cast:

Simeon Farmer

Simeon Farmer Carmen Smith
Florence McKenna Jean Callaghan
Best Drama: “The Pampered Darling”

Best Actress: Elaine Cash

Cast:

Catherine McMahon
Phyllis Cairns

Leslie Smith

Lorne Richards

Louis McIver

Isabel Blacquiere

Elaine Cash

Ella McNeil

Richard Johnston

Charles Smith

Corine Duffy
Best Drama: (Tie win) “The Shock of His Life”
Cast:

Jeanette Johnston
Richard Johnston

Charles Smith
Florence Lawless
Ernest Brennan

Rosemary McQuaid

In the first six years of competing in the P.E.I. Music
Festival Kinkora students won 45 awards in the top three
categories. Table 11:6 names the individual winners.

 

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Table 11:6, Kinkora Winners in P.E.I. Music Festivals, 1953-5939

Vocal soloists: Piano soloists:

Joseph Connick
Catherine Duffy
Elizabeth Duffy

Dorothy Morris

Joseph Connick“
Gloria Doucette“
David Farmer“
Mona Jay

John McMahon“
Martina McMahon
Marsha Perry"

Myrtle Perry

Tap Dancers:
Bernadette Power‘ Eileen Blanchard
Cedric Richards
Winston Roberts

* Indicates wins in two or more festival years

Marsha Perry

The majority of students in the Kinkora area got their
chance to compete in the P.E.I. music festivals in one of
several boys and girls choirs at the junior and senior levels.
In each festival between 1953 and 1959 at least two of
Kinkora’s choirs brought home first place awards. But their
most prestigious award came in 1967 when St. Malachy’s
Girls’ Choir was invited by the Canadian Music Educators’
Association to perform in a centennial concert in London,
Ontario, as part of the Canadian centennial celebrations
of 1967. The praise heaped upon the singers, their direc—
tor, Sister Mary Jude (Joan Doyle) C.S.M., and their piano
accompanist, Sister Bethany Marie Doyle, C.S.M. are still
proudly retold around Kinkora. The story of their journey
to Ontario and back, as written by their director, recounts
that experience.40