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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen-Auburn, 2004-07-29, Page 42AUBURN - 150 YEARS OF HISTORY. PAGE 21. Classes of 1942 Students at #16 East Wawanosh (Toll's School), circa 1942 are, back row, from left: Bill Patterson, Dorothy McVittie Roberts (deceased) Roberta McVittie East (deceased), Frank Nesbit (deceased). Middle: Carmen Gwyn (deceased), Stewart Toll, Jewel McClinchey Plunkett, Joyce Taylor Gunter. Front: Lois Taylor Hallam, Vernon Nicholson, Helen Gynn Young, Norman McClincey and Ross Gwyn. (Photo courtesy of Amy MacCrostie) Continuation Auburn Continuation School students in 1933-34 were, back row, from left: Murray Rollinson, ,Iack Weir, Maurice Bean, Keith Arthur, Harold Asquith, George Straughan, Harold Reed, Stewart Ferguson. Back: Marjorie Arthur, Evelyn Plaetzer, teacher Miss Violet Sharpe, Margaret King, Beryl Wilson. (Photo courtesy of Maureen Bean) Walkerburn Club serving community for past 85 years School days Unidentified students pose outside a local one-room school. (Photo courtesy of Jean Plaetzer) At #16 The 1934 students at Toll's School, #16 East Wawanosh were, back row, from left: Eva Vincent March (deceased), Marjorie McVittie East, Margaret Vincent Brewer (deceased), Roy Bentley, Lloyd Johnston (deceased), Irene Stoll Clark (teacher), Stewart Ament, Helen Vincent McPhee (deceased). Middle: Eileen McClinchey Haggitt, Roberta McVittie East (deceased), Hazel Bentley Mladinick, Amy Toll MacCrostie, Marjorie Johnston Perdue (deceased), Marguerite Killough Smith, Dorothy McVittie Roberts (deceased), Margaret Nesbit Govier, Mary Nesbit Gray (deceased), Thelma Smith Jerke. Front: Bob McClinchey, Harold Killough, Howard Ament (deceased), Bill McClinchey and Eddie Nicholson. (Photo courtesy of Amy MacCrostie) More than 40 years have passed Students at Auburn Public School posed for the annual class picture in 1962. (Photo c:cibesy of Marjorie East) By Elyse DeBruyn Citizen staff While Auburn celebrates its 150th anniversary, members of the Walkerburn Club will commemorate 85 years of aiding community citizens in need. Created in 1919 to assist the Canadian Red Cross, the Walkerburn Club got it's name from the tiny hamlet known as Walkerburn, located on the Hullett- McKillop Road, east of the Baseline. Each month from January to June and September.. zo December, members take turns hosting club meetings, where they discuss fundraising ideas while creating beautiful quilts. Among the 11 members are co- presidents Deana Snell and Jacquie McKee, secretary . Betty Archambault and treasurer Bernice Norman. Snell and McKee are successors of Vera Penfound and Ethel Ball. Through the Children's Aid Society (CAS), the club was able to help send a child from CAS to summer camp and at Christmas time, they give a donation to help give a child a merry' Christmas. Christmas and birthday gifts are given to residents at Restview Nursing Home in Clinton, who don't have family members to share the holidays with. To lift their spirits around Christmas, club members arrive at the nursing home to sing carols. The club also donates to the Salvation Army. For the sixth year, the club has made and donated a quilt to a breast cancer project in Stratford, where it is then auctioned off. To aid. fire victims, members make quilts or a financial donation to ease the burden of what was lost in the fire. For 25 years, the club has supported a foster child from Korea. Although the Walkerburn Club will be marking 85 years, the big celebration will be in September when members and past members along with their families and neighbours, are invited to the Auburn Hall for a potluck din- ner.