By Land and By Air 
     
    
   
   
    
     When I was in Summerside I volunteered to 
     
     complete my second tour of OPS, as I had about four to 
     
     six trips on the second tour, due to the short shift from 
     
     points to trips and then back again. Many more events 
     
     occurred during my days in the RCAF but memory has its 
     
     drawbacks, as well as advantages, as many of the things 
     
     better forgotten have long passed into thoughts. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VETERANS’ MATRICULATION SCHOOL 
     
    
   
   
    
     I was at the race track in Charlottetown, when 
     
     it was announced that the war was over. When I was 
     
     discharged a week later, like a thousand other veterans, I 
     
     had no job. What was I to do? I worked around home but 
     
     that was not very financially helpful. One day my father 
     
     told me that the Superintendent of Education, Dr. Lloyd 
     
     Shaw, had driven down to Little Sands, informing me that 
     
     there was a teaching job in Halifax, and there was to be a 
     
     meeting the next morning in Sackville, New Brunswick. 
     
     The only way to get there was by air. The job would be 
     
     teaching in a Veterans’ Matriculation School, established to 
     
     enable veterans to resume high school studies, which had 
     
     been interrupted by the war. 
     
    

    
     The Dean of the Technical School in Halifax 
     
     was doing the interview, and when I walked into the 
     
     room, he said, ”I was asking Dr. Steele what kind of a 
     
     student you were, and he said you were one of his best 
     
     students in Prince of Wales College.” I always had a kind 
     
     feeling for Dr. Steele (the Principal of P.W.C.) for such a 
     
     recommendation. 
     
    

    
     The Dean said, ”I know you myself - you were the 
     
     student in Technical School that made all the 100 marks in 
     
     the final exam." I had seven one hundreds, and one 89. 
     
    
   
   
    
     MG