the North Tryon Women’s Institute, the school choirs had their final rehearsals at Bertha Callbeck and Florence Dixon’s houses.

Teachers in North Tryon after 1943 were:

1943-1944 Blanche MacDougall MacKenzie. (See Appendix B)

1944-1947 Louise Cairns Noonan.

1947-1947 Jessie Leard Craig.

1948—1948 Muriel Boulter MacKay, followed by

Lila Burke Gamble.

1948—1949 Christine Sherren.

19491950 Gorden McKenzie.”

A second classroom was added to the existing building in 1949 to is» "six

North Tryon School Class 1961-62: Top left: Donnie Cairns, Marlene O’Brien Thomas, Carl Dixon, Donnie Craig, Annie Marie Dawson Smith, Sandra Howatt Petitpas, Don- alda Wood Perry, Elaine Cairns Potts, JoAnn Wood MacDonald, Jo Anne Mitchell Carruthers, Charles Dawson, Kay Dixon McDowell, Lester Craig, Ian Quigley, Lyn Dawson MacDonald, Donna Dixon House, Judy Dawsonjohnson, George Mitchell, Howard Quigley, Dawn Thomson MacFadyen,_on Dawson McKenna, Marion Craig Harris, Vaughan Inman, Debbie Thomas McIvor, Neva Quigley Gray, Grant Thomas, Brian Gamble, Ray Dawson, Debbie Howatt Carr, Grace Cairns Tennina, Nancy Thom- son MacFadyen, Chris Gamble, Leslie Thomas, Linda Thomson Smith, Douglas Thomson, Virny Quigley Muise, Erith Craig McLellan. Lillian Dawson collection.

accommodate the increasing number of pupils. A cloak room, an entrance, two chemical toilets, and electricity were part of the addition. Classes were held in the Sheldon Dixon house while the renovations were being done at the school. The desks and blackboards were temporarily located in what was to be the dining and living rooms of the Dixon house.

The teachers after 1950 were:

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