1953—54 George MacKay 1954—55 Joyce E. Easter 1955-56 George E. MacKay 1956—58 Lavenia McAvinn 1958-60 Mrs. Merle Cole 1960-61 Edna P. MacNeill

1961-63 Mary Picketts

1963-64 Dianne Denham Adams 1964-65 Laura Paynter 1965-66 Betty Jean Wigmore 1966-67 Laura Paynter

1967-68 Helen Champion 1968—71 Marion Cameron 1971—73 Mrs. Ralph Wigmore

The school inspector visited every school on the Island each year and these statements from their reports show that the quality of education at Clinton was consistently on a high level.

Teacher careful and diligent (1872-73); Miss Pickering de- serves much credit. Miss Cann makes an admirable assistait. Work done in both departments of this school is of a very high order. (1906-07) This school was called Harding’s Creek. In July, 1878 the name of the school was changed to Clinton.

Miss Ruth MacGregor is capable, energetic and is one of 011' best teachers. (1916-17)

Miss Carrie Easter is doing satisfactory work and is one of our best teachers. (1913-15)

Clinton. This school was graded during the year 1901-(2, Laura Duncan, principal; Katie Stewart, assistant. The work for the classes in both departments is very creditable.

The teacher for 1900-01 has done good work here. Clinton reverted from Graded to Primary rank in 1925.

In 1913-18 a second class teacher received $180 a year for her work. The district supplemented this by a small amount..There was no encouragement for a second class teacher to further his ,01‘ her education, as a first class teacher was required to teach in a first class school in order to receive first class pay, and there were very few first class schools on the Island, and very few, other jobs available requiring an education. As one man said, and maybe many thought, which sounded ridiculous then as it does today' “what’s the use of giving them an education anyway, they 0111}

get married in a few years.”

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