pioneer member of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Action, honorary director of the Ottawa Community Chest for his years of service to United Way and honorary president of the Civil Service Mutual Benefit Society. In 1952, Mr. Peters introduced the Credit Union movement, on a parochial basis, to the Ottawa area.

Mr. Peters received Coronation Medals from King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II for his distinguished service to Canada, and was made a Knight of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Pius XII for his service as director of the Marion Congress.

Francis Peters died in Ottawa on December 23, 1990. His life was truly distinguished, for he worked tirelessly in his career and community. He has touched many lives because of his energetic and unselfish ways, and for these reasons he will forever remain in the hearts of many people.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR MARION LORETTA REID Lieutenant Governor Marion Loretta

Reid was born on January 4, 1929 in North Rustico. She is the daughter of Michael . Doyle and Loretta Whelan and is the fifth in a family of eight children.

Her Honour worked very hard in her early years doing household chores and assisting on the farm. Her father was a farmer and was also involved in the fox rais- ng industry; while her mother was involved n housekeeping and community projects. .\ , After 1938, when the National park opened, Th? Honourable. her mother became one of the pioneer

Mano" [New Red tourist operators on the Island.

Mrs. Reid received her early education at the English School in North Rustico. At the age of twelve, she entered Stella Maris where she completed grades eight to ten. At the young age of fifteen, she enrolled in Prince of Wales College. She completed grades eleven and twelve and returned in 1946, for an additional year to obtain her teaching certificate. During her scholastic career, Mrs. Reid was awarded the John H. Bell and Lord Strathcona prizes and two scholarships for academic excel- lence.

Mrs. Reid's first teaching position was in a one-room school in Hope River. Her class consisted of twenty—seven students with a curricu-

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