The Citizen, 2012-05-24, Page 17THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012. PAGE 17. Forty-six years after its closure,
students from SS1 Morris Township
School will be gathering to
remember their time at the old one-
room schoolhouse.
On June 30 former students of the
retired schoolhouse will gather at
Blyth’s Lions Park to recall and
reminisce their days as students.
“The event is open to everyone
who attended the school,” organizer
Helen Hummel said.
The event has taken a couple years
to start according to Hummel’s
partner in the project Carol
Gross.
“A couple years ago Helen and I
were talking about people that we
went to school with there and we
remembered that we hadn’t spoken
to some of them since we left the
school,” she said. “We decided that
we wanted to see these people so we
figured we would plan a reunion.”
Gross said that they had wanted to
do the reunion for the 45th
anniversary but hadn’t realized ithad arrived so soon. They said theydidn’t want to wait until the 50th infour years so they planned it for this
year.
“We formed a committee from
people we knew and we just started
digging,” Hummel said. “We’ve
been digging and digging to try and
find old students and families. A lot
of them stuck around here but a lot
of them have moved to other places
as well.”
Gross said the event has garnered
a good response so far and that they
have a lot of people contacted from
the local area and some from further
afield as well including past students
from Kitchener, Waterloo, London,
Hamilton, Windsor and St. Thomas.
“We’re getting in touch with
people however we can,” Hummel
explained. “Sometime we have to go
through family members to find
more elderly individuals.”
The two said that they are also
finding that a lot of the students are
deceased including those their own
Morris school reunion coming in June
Reunion ready
Helen Hummel, left, and Carol Gross are ready for the reunion of their alma mater: SS1 Morris
Township School. The pair have worked hard organizing a reunion to be held on June 30 at
Blyth Lions Park to find out how their former classmates, neighbours and friends are faring.
(Denny Scott photo)
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