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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 2009-03-12, Page 21The Morris-Turnberry HistoryBook Committee is collecting familyand community stories for a newcompilation scheduled for publicationin 2011. Present and former residents ofMorris-Turnberry are encouraged todrop off photographs and/or stories at the Morris-Turnberry Township office for inclusion in the history book. The history team was at Bluevale Community Hall on March 11 from for those interested in sharing their photographs. Some of the research, like the property histories done for Morris- Turnberry, will be available for those interested in the results of the project to date. Come meet the co-editors, Jenny Versteeg and Jodi Jerome. Memories of SS #7 Morris were submitted by Dorothy Thornton to the Morris-Turnberry History Book Committee. “Before I was six years old, a neighbour girl going to school at S S No. 7 Morris, took me to visit the school one day. It was my introduction to what I would do most of my life. I came home delighted with great stories about the school – the building, desks, seats books, chalkand paints and all the children andgames we played. I truly thought myparents had never seen a school and Imust tell them about it. I learned latermy father had gone to the StoneSchool when he was young.In March 1923, I started to school in Junior Primer. March was the usual time for beginners. Nelson Higgins who farmed on the 3rd line of Morris was also our teacher. He brought his two little daughters, Dorothy and Ferrol with him and they became friends of mine. Mr. Higgins liked to have a nap after lunch in his big chair. He asked Ferrol and me to watch the clock and waken him at one o’clock. Then we could ring the bell. If we went out to play we came in every minute to check the clock because having the bell to ring was an honour above everything. In the Junior Primer class with me were Mae Coulter, Helen Edgar, Mary Scott and Bernard Thomas who all lived near the school. Those were happy and carefree years. We played ball and had races down the school yard from the wire fence to the road fence. We made up games with ourown rules, which we changed to suitourselves. On rainy days we played inthe other room in the school. Weclimbed the wood piles and slid downon the loose blocks.In September we practisedmarching for Belgrave School Fair. Imagine the regimentation of all the pupils marching in unison and why it would matter. Each school in both Morris and East Wawanosh participated. We wore costumes and carried a banner after lining up. Great crowds of parents and family attended. Exhibits were in the church basements and the hall. Everyone was excited to visit after the parade to see if they got prizes and how much money they would get later. The Christmas Concert was the best time of all. We learned recitations and sang choruses with a squeaky old organ leading the song. The girls performed a drill dressed in beautiful tissue paper dresses and the boys performed like tramps. I had the role of the old lady in the Gingerbread Boy and used the teacher's desk to make the dough and to cook him and all the other characters. What marvelswe did perform. We all kneeled in aspecial kind of twilight that camefrom gas lanterns that needed moreoxygen pumped in as we sang carolsand looked at the baby Jesus. It wasthe time just before the bells jingledand we knew Santa was coming in from that room after he had put his reindeer in Coulter’s barn near by. That was why we never saw them orknew just where Santa disappeared toafter the tree was unloaded. Themiracles of childhood.”Stories can also be dropped off atthe Morris-Turnberry Municipalbuilding at 41342 Morris Road,mailed to The Municipality of Morris-Turnberry at RR 4, Brussels ON, N0G 1H0. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2009. PAGE 21. 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