serving overseas.

The Institute turned its attention once again to contributing to the local school after the war. Ruby Chisholm took over the secretarial position from Adelaide in 1948 and the Institute had 14 members. The Institute was instrumental in having the school expanded to accomo date a junior and a senior class room. The Institute replaced the old double desks with the single desks, paid for the installation of chemical toilets, and purchased a piano, cupboards, special maps, library books, a duplicator, tables, teaching aids, playground equipment, and bicycle racks.

Women’s Institute 1951: Taken at Arthur and Winnie Dawson’s home. Back left: Frances Ives Roberts, Belle MacFadyen Dixon, Winnie Muttart Dawson, T. Arthur Dawson, Annie Peake Dawson, Ruby Carter Chisholm. Front: Bertha Cutcliffe Call- beck, Ethel Leard Thomson. Frances Roberts collection.

The Women’s Institute was responsible for the introduction of music into the school curriculum. They hired and paid Professor WilliamJones to instruct the pupils in music before the Department of Education took over this responsibility. The Institute always paid the annual music festival membership fee and the entrance fees for the school choruses. The Institute supported the Red Cross swimming program. For many years Blanche Cairns, Glen Thomson, and Ione Wood were the representatives on the planning committee for the South Shore Area and lessons were held each summer first at Tryon

105