HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1980-06-18, Page 43REMEMBER WHEN? -- Some area residents still have class fthotos of early days at Exeter High School. This is the form
class of 1936.37. Fourth row; Bob Keys, Art Fields, Wally Fahner, Fred Baynham, Si Simmons, Bartle Motz, Wes Ryckman,
Lloyd Guenther, Gerald Glenn and Max Harness. Third. row; Teacher Alma Brown, Carl Oestricher, Gordon Kleinfeldt, Dick
Quance, Marion Elliot, Philippa Harness, Jean Grieves, Gretta Webber, Beryl McFalls, Hazel Hern, Ann Morgan, Shirley
Duncan, Alma Borland, Second row: Jean Jones, ?, ?,Catherine Armstrong, Marie Buswell, Alma Skinner, Alta Harvey,
Lorrinae Atkinson, ?.,Margaret Alison, Helen Selves, ean Brock, Front: Murray Moore, Jack Kestle, 1-1,!! ,y Parsons, Jack
Minors, Donald Kestle Art Pfaff, Ivan Prout
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CLASS PHOTOS — The practice of taking class photos has been one of the more constant elements at the local high school.
This form II class of 1936-37 features many area residents. Back row, from the left: Bob Southcott, Bob Turnbull, Richard
Stanbury, Eld rid Simmons, Jack Kestle, Lorne Kleinstiver, Leonard Harvey, Restemeyer, Gerald Lawson. Third row: Patricia
Russell, Eileen Andrew, ?, Irene Kydd, Helen Buswell, Grace Beckler, Shirley Young, Ada Gaiser. Second row: Thelma
Hockey, Burma Morlock, Eunice Oestricker, Audrey Powe, Hazel Jones, ?, Jean Appleton, Margaret Clarke, Helen Morgan,
Labelle Sims. Front: Gerald England, Cliff Hicks, Stan Frayne, Frank Hicks, Fred Luxton, Stan Hicks, Ross Skinner.
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tain the outhouses and see to
the proper lighting, beating
and ventilation of the rooms.
The modern era for the
high school should probably
date from. 1920 when E.J.
Wethey was enagaged as
Principal. He came to
Exeter from the army where
he had served as a sergeant-
major during the war. He
held a masters degree from
the University of Toronto in
mathematics.
His starting salary in 1920
was 12,200, The high school
that year had 116 pupils and 3
teachers, H.M. Millar,
Margaret Ross and Annie
Dorrance. "E.J." was
Principal until 1942 and
taught until 1944 when he
returned after 45 years of
teaching.
The first Commencement
was held in January, 1922.
The diplomas would have
been the Junior
ma ticulation. The top
scholar was Emalie Hogarth
who gave the validictory.
In the 1920's the high
school and the public school
were in the same building
and were administered by
the Exeter Board of
Education. Mr. F.W.
Gladnian was chairman
during the early 1920's,
The Board members in-
cluded Canon A.A. Trumper,
R.N. Creech, E.M. Dignan,
J.G. Stanbury, J.S. Harvey
and James Grieve. Miss
Kate MacFaul was
Secretary Treasurer. There
was much talk of improving
school facilities throughout
the 1920s and 1930s. The High
School had six rooms plus a
science room. There was no
assembly room, gymnasium
or even an inside toilet.
There was a long public
debate over the need for a
"sanitary lavitory" to
replace the "that moral and
physical abomination - the
outdoor toilet."
However, no changes were
made in the physical
facilities available for
education until the arena
was opened in 1938. That
building provided a gym-
nasium for school use. In
1939 a new building was
erected; this structure is the
central part of the present
Exeter Public School,
So as the 1940s began, the
Exeter High School with
about 125 pupils and five
teachers used three
buildings; the old 1875
school; the new 1939 building
which housed a manual
.training room, and a house
hold science room, and the
arena gymnasium. Pupils
moved from building to
building.
During these years prior to
1940 there were other high
school departments in what
is now the S.H. area Hensall
and Zurich had high school
departments which offered
from two to four yearsof high
school..
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Mort4.obominution
Long public debate
over .outdoor toilet