One former resident told us that while she and her chum were ex- changing notes with their heads together, the teacher came up behind them and braided their hair into one big braid.

Our present school was opened in 1952 with an enrolment of thirty- four pupils. It was built back from the highway. The playground was en- larged and a fence put around it. The school has two classrooms, primary and senior, with a present enrolment of thirty-one pupils. It is well-equipped with chairs and moveable desks, maps, blackboards, library with 75 volumes, electric lights, automatic oil furnace, science cabinet, septic toilets, and a playroom in the basement. Last summer the Women’s Institute had a paved walk put in from the highway to the school door.

The school teachers came to play their part in the building of a new country. Lessons in tolerance, courtesy, obedience to authority, and kind- ness in our judgement of others are not always learned from books but more often from environment in which pupils work. The teachers of our district have always been friends to whom the pupils could go in time of distress or others when a word of advice was needed. Surely some of their names should be mentioned. Teachers in the second school included Mrs. Evelyn Simpson, Mrs. Bernard C. MacLellan, Mrs. Daniel Moran, Mrs. Jack Hen- nessey, Mrs. Aloysius Gaudet, Mrs. Peter MacLellan and Mrs. Thomas Tur- ner. Some of these teachers mentioned above came to our district to teach,

later married and remained here.

Principals in our present two-room school have been Mrs. Edward Pendergast, Bernadette MacPhee, and Sheila Dunphy. Miss Dunphy has been our teacher for four years. Primary teachers have been Roma Mac- Closkey, Mrs. John O’Connor, Mrs. Melvin MacDougall, Mrs. Phalen Hendri- chen, Anna MacAdam, Mrs. Paul Wisner, and Mrs. Irene Laughlin, Mrs. Laughlin is a former student at the school. *

Our district is proud of its rural school that has instructed its children from grades one to ten. Many of these have entered vocations such as marriage, religious life, medical and teaching professions. The biggest export of our community is brains. Over fifty years ago there were nearly twice as many families as today. Youth from these families left home for further education, for adventure, and for an easier life in larger centres. Residents of the district told us of youth being educated in our school, mak— ing fine contributions in professions and industries throughout Canada and United States.

The residents have all been willing to contribute whatever they could to the school. Most of the men of our community have had their turn as trustees. The present trustees are Rev. L. P. Callaghan, Russel Campbell, and Joe Cameron. The Secretary of Trustees, Bernard A. MacLellan, has held that position for twenty-th ree years.

We were able to get pictures of the three schools and some class pictures. We have these snaps in our original history. It proved interesting to us to compare the appearances and styles of pupils in early 1900’s with ours of today.

The little country school

That taught the golden rule,

ls fast disappearing from our country sides But proud are we that ours still abides.

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