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CERTIFICATE FOR 90TH BIRTHDAY 2009

Johan Bakker was born in Holland and raised on a farm. He took his teacher training while in the Dutch Army during Word War Two. He was able to study every night and was given a leave to finish his final examinations.

In 1950 Johan and his wife came to Canada with other family members. They entered Canada under a program that required them to work on a Canadian farm for a year. They were on a farm near Milverton and spent some time farming outside of Stratford. The Bakkers still enjoy regular trips to Stratford.
Johan's first Canadian teaching job was in Englehart, a location recommended by the Ministry of Education! Upon his arrival he was commandeered to teach singing at the school and serve as the church organist.  After five years, Johan and his family moved to Belleville where he served as the head of science for four years then they moved to Sarnia. Johan served as the head of science at SCITS. Johan's wife describes him as "positive and cheerful, an excellent woodworker" and says former students describe him as "strict and fair".
Their three children live in Ontario. Gerald is a medical doctor in Sudbury. The older girl taught in Burlington (Aldershot) and is a family studies teacher and their younger daughter of Mississauga is also a doctor. Johan himself has two degrees from Queens. 
In retirement, Johan, as a member of the RTO executive took many a photo at Christmas dinners. The Bakkers live in Sarnia and  are in the process of redecorating their sunny, sun room where they grow beautiful orchids.
Johan turned 90 in July

CERTIFICATE FOR 90TH BIRTHDAY 2009

Flo Wilkie was born on a farm between Port Hope and Coburg.  After business college, her first job was at Coburg General Hospital. She later worked at the Port Hope Royal Bank and managed the office of an electrical store and contracting business. She moved to Sarnia in 1956 with her husband, Lorne, and three children. Another was born in Sarnia.

Before coming to Sarnia Lorne was in the Air Force then worked in auto mechanics and carpentry. Lorne taught in the auto shop at Northern Collegiate then became the technical director as well as a guidance counsellor.
Lorne and Flo loved Sarnia and Lorne loved the guys with whom he worked. At school he was involved in timing for football games, in advising the interdenominational Christian club and in teaching night school. Flo was at home with young children until embarking on a twenty year real estate career. She credits Toast Mistresses as a 'stepping stone' for her career. While at  home she painted and played golf, a game that both she and Lorne played competitively. They were both involved in the Olivet Baptist Church.
For thirty five winters Flo has enjoyed her place in Florida. There she plays the piano in jam sessions and writes with a group of seventeen writers. She has written over three hundred short stories and has produced books of family stories and of Lorne's one liners.
Flo's son, Arn, has a Bed and Breakfast at Erieau while the two daughters, Janice and Christine, live in Sarnia.
In addition to making music, dancing, and writing she follows the stock market the old way, in the daily newspaper.
Flo turned 90 in July

CERTIFICATE FOR 90TH BIRTHDAY 2009
 
Laurena Carrothers was born in Watford and later attended London Teachers' College. Upon graduation a number of schools in her area were available but she chose SS 13 Plympton as her first school because it was the one closest to the lake. She and her family have enjoyed cottage life and camping on Lake Huron. 
SS13 was a one room country school with eight grades. Laurena stayed home with her two daughters before they started school then returned to teaching. She taught all grades but finished her career in grade one at Aberarder Central School. Primary Methods Courses were taught by Madge McKaig in Sarnia. Laurena enjoyed those courses and received her Primary Methods Certificate. She loved teaching which was never a chore for her.
She says, "It is rewarding if you love it. It is hard work but richly rewarding and so satisfying in grade one when a child learns to read. The face lights up and it lights up the school".
The Carrothers family home is in Camlachie where Laurena enjoyed riding horses.
She loves smell of the lilacs around the house and the view from her patio at Fairwinds where she resides at the moment. Laurena says in 90 years we have gone from "horse and buggy to man on the moon".
Laurena has enjoyed travels to Europe and Central America. On recent trip to Niagara Falls she experienced the rotating Skylon Tower and the Butterfly Sanctuary. She enjoys reading and following the activities of her seven grandchildren.
Laurena turned 90 in September

 

95TH BIRTHDAY CERTIFICATE  2008

Louise Sperling was born in Kitchener, the old city of Berlin to her ancestors. Louise’s husband taught music in Sarnia while Louise cared for their two sons and their home. Louise’s son Doug lives in the States and her son Jim carries on the musical tradition as organist in their church. Both Jim and his wife are retired teachers. Besides attending church with Jim, Louise walks outdoors is weather permits. She describes Sarnia as a "good place to be". As one coming from "inland Kitchener sitting to the water front" was always a pleasure. Rosewood she says is a good quiet place to live with good meals without the work of planning and cleaning, with exercises and with just enough entertainment.
Louise turned 95 in December


 

90TH BIRTHDAY CERTIFICATE  2008

Frances Saunders was born and raised in Cardinal Ontario near the St. Lawrence but 2009 the marks fifty years since she and her teacher husband arrived in Sarnia. He had taught in Walkerton, Parry Sound and Pickering before coming to Sarnia. He served at Collegiate Institute and Technical School as vice principal. Frances worked as a bookkeeper. Upon arriving in Sarnia they had to live in their unfinished new home past Murphy Road while construction continued. At that time sewers and other services were not available in their new area and life in Sarnia seemed rustic. Today Frances enjoys her beautiful river view at The-Residence-On-the-St. Clair.
Frances turned 90 in December

 

90TH BIRTHDAY CERTIFICATE  2009

GRETA LEMBKE

Nine year old Greta, an Austrian by birth, arrived in Preston, Canada with her mother.  They joined her father who worked in a furniture factory. Greta's first teaching job was in Arcall, a country school with twenty-seven students in all grades. Greta  had never been on  a farm before in her life.  After teaching for seven years, she married and spent seven years  with her three children.  She spent most of her teaching career in Windsor where she served as Federation president in 1970. She retired to the family home with a view of Lake Huron and during the first year of retirement returned to her home town in Austria.  After fifty years she was surprised that former classmates recognized her. 
She had lost all contacts because World War II intervened. 
Greta's family lives near  the lake in Lambton and in the LaSalle-Windsor area.  Greta spends her time at the North Lambton Rest Home and enjoys visiting family members. She has a daughter who is a retiree from teaching, too.
Greta turned 90 in February

 

90TH BIRTHDAY CERTIFICATE  2009

BRUNELLA ADSIT

We are four years late celebrating Brunella's 90th birthday.  She was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1915 to Canadian school teacher parents.  She attended teachers' college in North Bay and received her B.A. in Sudbury.
Brunella's first five years of teaching were spent in Mattawa, a beautiful place which provided a wonderful wilderness experience for  a city girl. She also taught in Feronia, in Sudbury and in North Bay while following her husband's career as a Lutheran Minister. Brunella had three children.  Brunella's daughter who lives in the northern part of Lambton has a doctorate in music.  Brunella herself was involved in music programs at school and church.  After retirement Brunella lived in Daytona Beach before moving to Spruce Grove Care Centre in Strathroy.  She shares her room with the resident cat who chose Brunell's room over all the others to call "home".
Brunella turned 94 in
March

90TH BIRTHDAY CERTIFICATE  2009

Muriel Leckie  grew up in Moore Township and has lived in Lambton County all her life.  After attending SCITS and then graduating from teachers' college in 1942, Muriel taught for three years in a one room school with thirty-three students in eight grades. She married and spent about twelve years at home with four children.  Muriel returned to teaching and taught grades one and two for about twenty-five years at Bluewater until it closed, Oakwood until it closed and finally at King George until she retired.  Muriel's advice to new retirees is to volunteer.  She enjoyed fifteen years volunteering for cancer and heart charities and for her church.  Her skill as a pianist have been useful in church and in school. She and her husband enjoy their home in Sarnia and are fortunate to have all their children living in southern Ontario.  One son lives in their former home which has housed four generation of Leckies.
Muriel turned 90 in April

95TH BIRTHDAY CERTIFICATE  2008

Norma Minielly was born in Herschel Saskatchewan near Rosetown.
She, her parents, and her brother lived  in a ten foot square "little house on the prairie". The family later ran a grocery store in Kurrimuir, Alberta and the children were able to attend school. Norma's father eventually owned  the Toronto Asphalt Roofing  Company and the family settled in Toronto after a brief stay in the Brantford area.
During the Depression Norma  attended teachers'college in an old house in downtown Toronto. The place was crowded with students including lots of men without work. Most of Norma's teaching career was spent at Toronto's Humbercrest in Baby Point. She then married and moved to Reeces Corners. She currently lives at Fiddick's Retirement Home in Petrolia.

Norma turned 90 in September

CERTIFICATE FOR 90TH BIRTHDAY 2008
 
Mildred Campbell was raised in London township.  She attended Clandeboye school in "horse and buggy days"  although she often walked to high school in Lucan.  She remembers whispered stories of the 1880 Donnelly times in Lucan and is currently reading about the period.
 
During the depression she was hired to teach in the Kilmartin area near Glencoe.  After five year of teaching she married and raised five children. Later Mildred returned to teaching and spent fifteen years at Centennial school near Petrolia. All of her children live in the Lambton area.  She and her son still live on the farm first settled by Campbells in 1843. Both of Mildred's daughters are retired teachers.

Mildred turned 90 in July

CERTIFICATE FOR 90TH BIRTHDAY 2008
Helen Farrar is a Sarnia native who performed in Sarnia's first music festival.  Her forty years teaching career began in 1937 in her home town with the princely salary of  $4.25 per day.  She accompanied every musical activity from choirs to rhythm bands.  When she married she had to resign however that September an extra teacher was required and Helen became the first married female teacher in Sarnia.  That restriction was soon forgotten because of teacher shortages during the war.  In 1954 kindergarten was introduced and Helen was one of the first kindergarten teachers in Sarnia and she found that job to be really fun. She finished her career after nine years of teaching special reading skills.
Helen's advice is "wear something bright on a down day"  and "keep active".  She follows her own advice. She served as president of the Women Teachers Federation, taught kindergarten methodology at summer school and has been a member of the Sarnia Golf and Curling Club for fifty-two years.  Although she no longer curls she does walk for a half hour every day, has volunteered at the hospital cancer clinic for almost thirty years and has sung in St. George's choir since the age of fifteen.
Helen has a son who lives in Sarnia.
Helen turned 90 in May

CERTIFICATE FOR 90TH BIRTHDAY 2007
 
Vera Nicolson was born and raised in the St. Thomas area.  Her first teaching job was in a two room rural school between Union and Sparta, then she taught in St. Thomas.  When Vera returned to teaching, that time in London, she was the first Protestant teacher in London's Catholic system.  She enjoyed the career she had chosen as a young child and she loved her grade fours.  
Vera taught until 1975 when she moved to Sarnia to be with her husband who was a manager for Mueller Brass.  After 1975 Vera avoided winter by living in Grand Bend and Florida until she recently moved to Country Manor in Thedford.
Vera who loves to dance was once told by a golf instructor "she would make a better rumba dancer than a golfer".  In fact she met her husband at a dance hall in Grand Bend.

Vera's turned 90 in October

CERTIFICATE FOR 90TH BIRTHDAY 2008
 
Margaret Kuenzig and her husband, John,  were originally from Guelph and attended the same school.  After spending two years in Sault Ste. Marie the Kuenzigs moved to Sarnia.  John taught shop at SCITS and St. Clair.  Margaret and John raised five children and NOT a teacher among them.  However all three of the daughters work in school systems and a grandson teaches English in Korea.
 
Margaret cares for her yard and her home of fifty-five years where the children "still know where the cookies are".  Jigsaw puzzles provide a winter activity.
 
Margaret's advice is,  "Enjoy what you are doing....makes life interesting."

Margaret turned 90 in April

CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION FOR 90TH BIRTHDAY
 
Dorothy Hunt was born and raised in Manitoba and followed her teacher husband through his military and teaching careers in Manitoba and Ontario  before retiring in Sarnia.   Dorothy raised their two daughters and did lots of  4-H volunteer work.  Although Dorothy is not a qualified teacher she did begin the teaching of home economics in one of the communities in which she lived.  Today Dorothy enjoys living in the same community as her daughter, Rita, and her family.  Rita is also a member of RTO.  Dorothy is on call when skating costumes are needed by one of her three granddaughters.

Dorothy turned 90 in March

 

CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION FOR 95TH BIRTHDAY
 
Marjorie Bain was born and educated in Manitoba. After her first year at the University of Manitoba she moved with her parents to Victoria. 
In 1964 when her own children were older Marjorie was planning to help out at a school for children with special needs.   However, she ended up as the principal of the school after taking teacher training at summer school.  In 1969 she became an employee of the Lambton County Board of Education when the board assumed responsibility for the school.
In retirement Marjorie says, "Duplicate bridge keeps me going.  It is competitive."  This month Marjorie is looking forward to a move to Springmarsh Place where someone else will carry groceries and do the cooking.
Marjorie turned 95 in October
 

CERTIFICATE FOR 90TH BIRTHDAY 2009

Gert Stark was born in Victoria where she lived until the age of four. Gert's dad was a university professor and the family moved progressively westward to South Dakota and then New York state with his work.  Later the family moved to Dutton where the family moved where Gert's mother had family.  In Dutton Gert finished high school. She then attended London Teachers' College in 1939-40. She  and seven classmates who lived in the same boarding house became life long friends.

Gert's first school was the 4th of Enniskillen where she met her future husband, Bert. Gert taught in several small schools and retired from Queen Elizabeth School in Petrolia where she had taught grades five and six on rotary.  She also organized the first library in the school.
Gert and her sister, a nurse, each have two daughters who graduated as nurses.
In retirement Gert and Bert lived for some years at Johnson's Harbour just south of Tobermory and spent some winters in Arizona before returning to Petrolia. Two vacations she especially enjoyed were an inside passage trip to Alaska and a holiday to the Yucatan Pennisula to see the Mayan ruins. Gert now resides at Twin Lakes Terrace.
Gert turned 90 in July

CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION FOR 95TH BIRTHDAY
 
Albert East started teaching in the Oil Springs Continuation School  and then taught in Ravenswood where he walked a mile to pick up his cheque.  At the time his yearly salary was $650.   He then taught at Point Edward and Devine Street before serving as an air force officer in WWII.   During the war he was posted in Manitoba, New Brunswick, Scotland as well as England.  At the end of the war he worked in Air Force Headquarters in London. 
After his return to Canada in a Liberation bomber Albert taught at London Road School,  Devine Street, SCITS and Northern.  He retired as the head of guidance at SCITS.  Albert's son, Jim, a teacher too; taught at St. Clair and Northern.
Albert's advice for RTO members is, "LIVE LONG and KEEP MOVING".
Albert turned 95 in October 2007

CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION FOR 90TH BIRTHDAY

Jean Evans grew up on a farm on Highway 21 between Forest and Ravenswood in Bosanquet. Those were the days of walking or riding in a buggy or a cutter with a horse. After attending rural elementary school Jean boarded in Forest with a maiden lady. For one dollar a week each lady provided room for four or five girls who shared beds and the baskets of food that they brought from home each week. They had great times together and became long time friends. Next Jean was off to Normal School in London and paid $4.50 a week for room and board and $5.00 if she stayed in London over the week-end. With her dad’s social ways and his "pull" Jean landed a job at #7 Bosanquet , a one room rural school with a wood stove and green wood.
Jean’s teaching career included other schools in Bosanquet-Forest area, Sarnia’s Devine and High Park and well as North York’s Downsview. She was one of the lucky ones whose home did not float away in the heavy rains when Hurricane Hazel hit North York.
Recently, Jean moved into Twin Lakes Terrace and looks forward to visits from her daughter who lives in British Columbia and her granddaughters and great grandchildren who live in Muskoka.
Jean turned 90 in September, 2007

CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION FOR 90TH BIRTHDAY
Evelyn Ball
An early childhood education course and unpaid  work as a Sunday School teacher, as a Girl Guide leader and as a volunteer in a classroom for children with mental and physical challenges lead to a teaching career for Evelyn Ball.
After three summers at teachers college Evelyn was a  teacher and she never regretted a day of her chosen career. 
She says, "I taught at New Hope School and loved every minute of it."  She felt really great about everyday.  The children were eager to learn.
Evelyn who was raised in Hamilton and Toronto now enjoys Sarnia as well as cottage life with her husband.  Their two daughters became teachers.  One lives in Ottawa and the other in Arviat where she is  Secondary School Program Coordinator Grade 7-12 for Nunavut Department of Education.
Evelyn turned 90 in Auguast 2007

CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION FOR 90TH BIRTHDAY 2009

n 1919 Edna Steadman was born in Calgary. She was raised further north in Alberta. Her parents decided to return to Ontario when she was 19.  Edna had graduated from high school with grade 12 in Alberta but returned to high school for grade 13 at Strathroy Collegiate. Other young people had summer jobs in tobacco fields but Edna's mother would not let her do that work! She went to teachers' college in London and began teaching in a one room school in Middlesex.

In later years Edna taught at Centennial School south east of Petrolia. She remembers "that new thing" - kindergarten. She enjoyed teaching, especially phonetics, to junior classes of grades 3 to 5. She and her husband, Tom, raised their children on a farm between Petrolia and Wyoming. Tom served as county warden.
In retirement, Edna has enjoyed travelling. Two memorable trips were a country tour of farms across the province and a trip to the islands of Vancouver and Queen Charlotte.
Currently, Edna lives at Maple City Residence in Chatham where her daughter worked. 
Edna turned 90 in May

CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION FOR 95TH BIRTHDAY

Katharine McEachern was raised near Glencoe in Mosa Township of Middlesex. She attended London Normal School in 1930-1 before beginning her teaching career with three years at SS#6 in Brooke Township and two years in SS#9 of Brooke Township. After raising five children including three teachers, Katharine returned to teaching, this time at Brooke Central as a grade one teacher then as the librarian. Katharine says 1976-7 was her last year of teaching and her best. She worked half time at Brooke and half time at Watford, and meeting new people was the best. Recently Katharine moved to Brookeside Retirement Living in Watford.

As well as playing Scrabble and reading, she enjoys visiting with her children, her 11 grand children and her 15 great grand children. Katharine’s daughter , Alice Jones, also worked for the Lambton Kent Board and a granddaughter continues in teaching profession at Johnston
Katharine turned 95 in May 2007


 

CERTIFICATE FOR 95TH BIRTHDAY 2009

Grace MacDonald was born in Coutright.  As the oldest child she took over helping her younger siblings when their parents were killed in an accident.  She says, "You do what you have to do."

She started teaching for the princely sum of $500 a year. The students  had had three teachers who could not handle them before Grace came along.  At nineteen she saw the funny side of things and just laughed along with the kids.
She met a  Lambton County guy in Niagara Falls and married a tease like her father. Grace is still laughing and teasing at Fiddicks Nursing Home in Petrolia where she now lives.
Until recently Grace was involved in her church in Brigden and hopes she helped younger people take over that work.
"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone."  So as Grace does, "Keep laughing!"
Grace turned 95 in February


 

CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION FOR 95TH BIRTHDAY

Jean Dunn was born and raised in the Swan River area of Manitoba. She attended Winnipeg Normal School in 1929 and taught throughout the depression in rural schools and later in a village school with six teachers. Then she decided to try something exciting and moved to Mandaumin Ontario. After doing housework in Detroit and working in her husband’s family grocery in Mandaumin she returned to teaching. Two of her position were in Errol Road and Johnston schools.
Jean’s advice for retirement is , “Don’t be afraid to move to a retirement residence, keep active and if you have a chance to do something, do it!” Jean takes her own advice. She is an active bridge player. She has enjoyed top flight spectator curling in Sarnia and Hamilton this winter. Today she lives at Fairwinds and enjoys visits from her daughter who lives in Meaford.
Jean turned 95 in March 2007

CERTIFICATE FOR 95TH BIRTHDAY 2008

The Clarks were Scottish settlers from the Isle of Mull, who when they had to leave Walpole Island, chose a farm with a beautiful river setting where Marjorie and her son still have homes.
Marjorie Clark continues to have the pleasure of the river view and enjoys bird watching with her cat and digital photography.
Marjorie has a daughter and two grandchildren. The grandson is currently living in an English castle while attending university.
Marjorie was raised in Corunna in a red brick home near the fire hall and attended SCITS with Grace MacDonald who celebrates a special birthday in this month. The students who took the bus into Sarnia had a nine hour day in the city. Marjorie has many stories of their adventures including touring of downtown churches, checking out the view of Corunna from the roof of SCITS and testing apricot pies and the smoke stacks on the boats in Sarnia Harbour.
Marjorie’s teaching stories are recorded in Chalk, Challenge and Change, a book produced by RWTO. She completed her teaching career with ten years in Wallaceburg.
Marjorie turned 95 in December

CERTICATE OF RECOGNITION FOR 90TH BIRTHDAY

Grace Newell was born in Chatham and raised in St. Catharines. When she graduated from Queens she was unable to teach because married women were not hired. Only later when teachers were scarce were jobs offered to married women. When the Newells arrived in Sarnia in 1945 Mr. Newell’s teaching salary was $1400. Of that they spent $840 to rent part of a house near SCITS. Housing was difficult to find because many people were moving into Sarnia which ended at London Road and East Street.
Grace raised their four children and did volunteer work at the Crippled Children’s Treatment Centre (now Pathways). This lead to supply teaching in classrooms of children with special needs. Grace continues to enjoy
her teacher contacts at the RTO luncheons.
Her words of advice are “live one day at a time and do the best you can”.
Grace turned 90 on January 10, 2007

CERTICATE OF RECOGNITION FOR 90TH BIRTHDAY

Margaret Wellington grew up in the Ilderton area and rode to school in a horse drawn buggy. After Continuation school she attended grade 13 and Normal School in London. She began her teaching career with five years
in a rural school SS4 Bosanquet and taught there again later for five years. After her marriage she spent some time at home.
Margaret taught in Ravenswood until it closed . There she taught forty-two pupils in eight grades. Recently a cairn was placed on the former school site and Margaret was honoured at the ceremony. After the closure of Ravenswood Margaret commuted to Locheil School to teach a group of special girls. Peter Tait was the principal at the time. In 1972 Margaret retired to the family farm with orchards where she took on the role of tractor driver. Her advice is “to try to keep busy”. She takes this advise to heart and crochets about twelve afghans a year. Today she and both her children live in the Forest area.
Margaret Wellington January 22, 2007

 

 


 

Poinsettias have been delivered to the shut-in members of our district.
Check the list.                  Pictures from some visits.

 


 

Birthday cards sent to people in their 80's and 90's

Brunella Adsit, Marie Aicken, Carolyn Arnold, Marie Arthurs, Marie Bailey, Marjorie Bain, Evelyn Ball, John Bakker, June Bannister, Robert Bell (assoc.), Jeanne Bergeron, Charlotte Berry, Pauline Bourassa, Howard Brawn, Mildred Campbell, Laurena Carrothers,  Isabell Carter, Helen Cassidy, Jean Cheeseman, Bruce Clark,  Marjorie Clark, Joan Colbert, Margaret Core, Orma Crawford, Jock Cunningham, Eval Dalrymple, Bill Danylchuk, Edith Davie, Ujjal Deol, Lois Dixon, Marion Douey, Jean Dunn, Mait Edgar.  Jean Evans, Helen Farrar, Phyllis Ferguson, Euclide Forgues, Harold Freele, Emily Gaborko, William Gilchrist, Mark Gorth, Dick Graham, Robert Griffin, Jocelyn Griffiths (assoc.),  Marjorie Hands, Priscilla Harkins, Dorothy Harrison, Ruth Haughey, Catherine Hefferman, Irene Hill, Joseph Hill, Joan Hinch, Gladys Holbrook, Gwen Hopper, Dorothy Hunt, Virginia Hunt, Nancy Jaques, Phyllis Johnston, Georgina Jones, Robert Julian, Gladys Kells, Joyce Kelly, Leah Kelly, Glen Kina (assoc.), Margaret Kuenzik (assoc.), Marion Lachapelle, Terrance Laird (assoc.), Gladys Lang,  Muriel Leckie, Fred Leitch, Greta Lembke, Germaine Lepage,  Pauline Levey, Frances Lewis, Mary Lindsey (assoc.), Bruce Little, Jean Loomis, Wilma Love, Margaret MacDonald, Grace MacDonald, Joan MacDonald, Margaret MacDonald, Mary Jane McArthur,  Virginia McArthur,  Shirley MacMillan (assoc.), William McCordic, George McDougall, Katherine McEachern, Dave McIntyre, Madelon McKaig, Nora McLean, Ruth McLean, Edward McNeill, Norma Minielly, Kathleen Mitchell, Betty Moore, Thomas Moore,  Shirley Mouseau (assoc.), Robert Mummery, Helen Mundy, Helen Mutton, Blanche Neal, Grace Newell, Lyla Nicol, Ella Norton, Katharin Orrange, Florence Park (assoc.), Willma Parke, Geraldine Payne, Peggy Pearson, Frank Peaslee, John Platt (assoc.), Elsie Robbins (assoc.), Frances Roberts, Doris Robinson, Thomas Roe, Joan Russell, Frances Saunders (assoc.), Elsie Scott, Grace Scott, Margaret Sharp, Dorothy Shea, Geraldine Sheppard, Kenneth Skinner, Joyce Skuce, Louise Sperling (assoc.), Wilf Spivey,  Doris Smith, Ken Smith, Louise Sperling (assoc.), Anna Squire, Murray Squire, Gertrude Stark, Edna Steadman, Dorothy Stevenson, Ross Stephenson, Francis Stevens, Gord Swan, Julius Szabo, Jean Swan, Elizabeth Tighe, Donna Thomas,  Della Ulrich, Mabel Vanderveen, Dorothea Vokes, Mary Wade, Francis Walters, Charles Watson, Irene Watson, Margaret Wellington, Beatrice Wilker (assoc.), Floris Wilkie (assoc.), Catherine Willer, Don Williams, Byron Withenshaw, Maria Wolff, Louisa Young

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Christmas Banquet 2009

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