Wesley Gallant 1968-1969 James Baglole 1969-1970 Lawson Gray 1970 Paul Arsenault 1970-1971 Keith Paugh 1971-1972 Orville Willis 1972-1973 Marvin MacDonald 1973-1974 Ron Turner 1974-1975 Don Yuill 1975-1976 Gerald Shaw 1976-1977 George Bernard 1977-1978 Gordon Rodgerson 1978-1979 Charles Adams 1979-1981 Gary Johnson 1981-1983 Allan Sharpe 1983-1984 Jack O' Brien 1984 Winston Gallant 1984-1985 Clair Sweet 1985-1986 Paul Arsenault 1986-1987 Don Yuill 1987-1989 Layton Shaw 1989-1991 Eugene Shaw 1991-1992 MAPLE HOUSE INC . "The highlight of the year was the official opening of Maple House Occupational Centre on November 14, 1970 by Brig. W.W. Reid , Deputy Minister of Welfare for the P.E.I. Government ." - an excerpt from the minutes of the annual meeting of the O'Leary Branch of the P.E.I. Division of the Canadian Association of the Mentally Handicapped. O'Leary was the second community in P.E.I , to provide educa¬ tional services for persons with a mental handicap at the school level and the vocational level. Lloyd and Velda Matthews , O 'Leary, parents of Gary, a young boy with Downs Syndrome, together with public health nurses, Mrs. Margaret Ellis , O'Leary and Miss Louise Gillis , Charlottetown , attend¬ ed several parent meetings in Charlottetown before contacting par¬ ents with mentally handicapped children in the O'Leary district. On November 16, 1956, Lloyd and Velda held a meeting in their home which was to become the foundation for the organizational meeting on March 4, 1957, of the West Prince Association for Retarded Children - believed to be the first rural association for the mentally 151