HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-06-29, Page 75Lucknow's History...
•from page 22b
Had met grim death's untimely grave;
But four or five now tell the tale,
When Lucknow's sight was in a swail;
In cedar thick then hid the dear,
When wolf or Indian would appear.
The sidewalk now is to the door,
Where fox and bear had dwelt before,
With stores, the houses and hotel,
Where rich and poor in peace that dwell,
And happy are the habitant,
In comfort seem and all content,
While some here happy seem to be,
When nursing children on their knee.
As such is life where'er we go,
Of wisdom's way that never know,
Aspirant reaching out for fame,
Behind to leave a cherished name.
And some their day .spend writing rhyme,
With sense and reason seldom chime,
While others write for to amuse,
The latter class we must excuse.
While pleased to know that some agree,
With Lucknow's short, true history,
When death that calls us to embark,
Of footprints some may see the mark,
To those that come in after years,
May read of Lucknow's pioneers,
And of the life that some had led,
Who that in graves are lying dead.
And future days that of to pen,
Now leave the task to other men,
that children's children yet may see,
ucknow's cherished pedigree.
Lucknow school burns...
•from page llb
Enrollment increased until
in 1958 all eight rooms at the
school were being used and
h r
t e e were twodeg in r rte n
k a
classes. Lucknow ow t
u kn High
g
School could ou d not offer the
range g
a e of courses
at
Wingham
High h and the
g
Public School enrollment was
increasing to the point where
a moveo larger er
t a quarters
g
would be advantageous.
Lucknow
secondary Y
stud
-
ents were e e to take classes at
Wing High Hi h School and
the elementary � stu den
t
s
were to move to the Lucknow
High School building in the
fall of 1967.
Wingham was building uil ing a
new addition and requested
that the Lucknow students
continueonemyear
morein
Lucknow and the move was
postponed until the. fall of
1968. In January 1968 how-
ever,the Lucknow Public
Publ c
School burned to the ground.
The school burned on a
v nightprincipal
Monday d and rinci al
Stuart Collyer ye and his staff
found accommodation for the
classes and books in time for
school to begin the following
Monday. A sleet storm on
the Monday morning kept
the buses off the road and
thehil
c dren returned to
school on the Tuesday. They
had missed only five school
days.
The High School gave the
elementary students dents
two
rooms; the kindergarten
students attended school at
the Anglican ParishHall;
one
class held school at the libr-
aryand another two classes
were accommodated in the
Town
Hall auditorium.w
T
0
classes were lodged in the
Presbyterian Church base-
ment until after the winter
break, when two portables
had been built at the High
School for their use.
The elementary students
moved to Lucknow w Hig
School in the fall of 1968
when the high school stud-
ents began attending Wing -
ham
-
a High m Hi h School. Lucknow
was School one of the
few in theP rovince to have a
special education room, a
economics home room and a
U
shop. Students were bused
from Teeswater and Ripley
for Home Economics and
Shop courses.
In 1969 Gordon Cayley
was hired to teach shop,
direct t the
Lucknow School
Band and
to take theP osition
of vice-principal.
When the high school
students moved to Wingham
Mr. Collyer did not want to
see the band instruments,
which had belonged to a
former Lucknow citizens
band, taken out of the village
to be used at the Wingham
High School. He asked Elwin
Hall to act as bandmaster
and the band became the
Lucknow School Concert
Band with both elementary
and high school students as
well as former students as
members.
Mr. Cayley took over as
band director when Hall
moved away from the area in
1969.
In the fall of 1970, the
children moved out of their
schoolagainthe
once as
school was remodelled.
was
Kindergarten taught at
g g
the Anglican Parish Hall as it
had been following the fire
and grades 1, 2 and 3
attended class in the Town
Hall auditorium. The e remain-
'
'
d
er of
the students
were kept
P
at the school hQ of and
some
attended d class in the two
made available fol-
lowing
P n
lowing the fire.
A .
severe�n w
s o storm in
January
• of 197
1P revente
d
the rural
students from get-
ting
et -
g
tin home and the students
slept at the school. They
were tearing o
a the school
down
and rebuilding it around the
studentswho wo con in
t ued at-
tending class at the school.
On top of this confusion
came
the snowstorm which strand-
ed the students at the school
being apartaround
torn aro d
them.
The storm lasted the better
part of a week and two of the
rural students were stranded
in town for seven days before
the wether broke and it was
et
possible to get them home.
In October, 1971 the Luck -
now Central Public School
was officially opened at a
ceremony where Paul Hend-
erson, former LucknowP P u it
who played National Hockey
League hockey with the
Toronto Maple Leafs, was
guest speaker.
Stuart Collyer, who had
been appointed principal in
i ed in
1951,ret1977 and
r
Charles
Davies a
ss
u ed the e
position. Presently, d�clining
enrollment has seen the loss
of one staffP osition at the
school and one part time
teaching position has been
created.
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FROM MANAGEMENT & STAFF
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Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, June 29, 1983—Page 23b
Congratulations
to the
Village
of
Lucknow
on your
125th Anniversary
. Sam
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