1939-1940 Annalea MacDonald Taylor Weeks. 1940-1941 Everett Howatt Jr. 1941-1941 Helena Keough Green, August 15-December 31. 1942-1942 Jessie Leard Craig, January 1-June 30. 1942-1943 Kathleen McDonald .13 There was a change at the North Tryon School in 1943. Grades 1 to 7 continued in the home school while Grades 8 to 10 were taken by horse and van to the Tryon Consolidated school. The van was driven by Les Edwards, Roy Mabey , Keith Thomas , and finally by student Verna Wood . Verna, like the previous drivers, provided her own horse and van. She stabled the horse in the Baptist Church horse shed, and the district paid her $100.00 annually for the service. North Tryon School Van: Left: Helen Howatt Carr , Elaine Chisholm MacKenzie, Dorothy MacKeeman , Kathleen Inman Witt , Ruth Thomson Cutcliffe , Margaret Dawson Schurman , Garth Wood . Verna Wood Slysz driver and photographer. Verna Slysz collection. The first music teacher employed at the North Tryon school was Professor William Arthur Jones, assisted by his wife, Hope Ives , in the fall of 1948. They instructed the children in elocution and singing. Everyone worked very hard to make a success of the Music Festival, which Professor Jones and Hope organized. The Festival was held for three years in Summerside before it was combined with the larger Music Festival. The North Tryon students frequently returned from the Music festivals with trophies for their performances. Professor Jones is remembered as the teacher who used a tuning fork instead of a piano. Irene Easton of Borden, Phyllis Newman of New Haven , and Jennie Craig of Middleton, also taught music in North Tryon . A rhythm band was part of the elementary curriculum for several years, and before the piano was purchased by 141