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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.