Comments:
I read your comments each day regarding PEPS and PEHS. It was an interesting time and it took quite a while to bring the name change about.
I was principal of Greenwood when it opened and remained there until Ed Emond retired. I took over and retired in 1987.By then the high school students were bussed into Brandon and most of the teachers were hired by the Brandon division. It was not a happy time during the years when this change was dictated by the Powers in Ottawa.
I recall meetings of parents and teachers protesting that the welfare of the students was not being considered but it was a matter of $.
I have a flock of old pictures that I am going to send.Some go back to 1950. There are a lot from Greenwood.Those operettas that we used to have were a real blast.Keep your memories flowing they keep my old heart ticking even though it`s lost a lot of power.
I read your comments each day regarding PEPS and PEHS. It was an interesting time and it took quite a while to bring the name change about.
I was principal of Greenwood when it opened and remained there until Ed Emond retired. I took over and retired in 1987.By then the high school students were bussed into Brandon and most of the teachers were hired by the Brandon division. It was not a happy time during the years when this change was dictated by the Powers in Ottawa.
I recall meetings of parents and teachers protesting that the welfare of the students was not being considered but it was a matter of $.
I have a flock of old pictures that I am going to send.Some go back to 1950. There are a lot from Greenwood.Those operettas that we used to have were a real blast.Keep your memories flowing they keep my old heart ticking even though it`s lost a lot of power.
Added: May 11, 2010
and the one from 63-64 has D5 written in by hand. As for Greenwood--I am VERY sure it was not there in 1961--there was a concrete wading pool in the open field where the school was subsequently built. Olga Yumatoff (I think that was her name) took me and my brother there to cool off when she was babysitting us in the summer.
Name: Karen
From: Winnipeg
E-mail: damumkaren@hotmail.com
To add to the confusion of the last few posts, I am making my first post since January of 2002. We lived in Shilo from 1955-1965, and it seems to me that before O'Kelly School was opened, the proposed name for it was to be Princess Anne Public School (P.A.P.S.). This information was apparently submitted to the Queen, who objected to having buildings named after her children at that time, hence the name change. I also remember all of the students assembling outside for the official opening and the camera crew from CKX-TV filming the event for the news that night. There was also a grainy picture published in the Brandon Sun. Does anyone else have this recollection?