A&A early school

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North Paddle School District NO.2680
by Martha Kjorlein and Jack Donaldson
A meeting of the ratepayers of the North Paddle
School District was held January 8, 1914, to elect offi
cers and form a district. Members of the fi rst school
board were: Mr. G. Aisted, chairman; Mr. A. Van Ruyven,
secretary-treasurer; and trustees, Mr. P. Hawkinson, and
Mr. M. Havenstein.
A building site was selected on the SE 1/4 35-57-9
W5th, and Paul Neumann was hired May 23, 1914 to
build the school.
Miss Fern Wardlow was the fi rst teacher, and taught
from September 1, 1914 to July 1915. She was followed
by Miss A.J. Crosbie, who taught until June, 1917. Other
teachers over the years were: Mrs. Avis Sipherd, Harold
Canniff, Miss Agnes McDonald, Mrs. Lois Daniels,
Miss E.M. Edge, Mrs. E.M. Livingstone, Miss Alice
Marshall, Miss Nellie Sherratt, Mrs. Jane Montgomery,
Mr. T.B. Sullivan, W.A. Dinwoodie, Mr. D.T. Heald, Ernest
Abbott, Mrs. Doris Briggs, Miss Irma Soderberg, North Paddle School
North Paddle class, 1917
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V. Washburn, Miss Elizabeth Sinclair, Miss Kathleen
McKenzie and Mrs. Martha Kjorlein.
Other board members who served the North Paddle
School District were: Tom Hoban, Robert Mayer,
Graydon Coffee, Mr. H. Thomas, S.
Biggs, Luther McShane, George Carr,
Mr. V.A. Stockall, Nels Hawkinson, Eddie
Thingstead, Mr. J.A. Wade, and Mr.
M.M.Weber.
Those who served as Secretary-Treasurer
were: Mrs. Sangren, William Bray,
Peter Fryer, F. Coffey, Mr. J. Calder, Mr.
Potts, Arndt Kjorlein and Jack Donaldson. Students attending
the North Paddle School in the 1920’s were: Bertha
and Raymond Hawkinson, Jean and James Calder,
Kathleen, Joseph, and Michael Kelly, Alberta Meilicke,
Helen Bray, Pappy and Roy Jackman, Billy Calder, Marcille
and Biddy Thomas, James, Robert, Norman, and
Marjorie Cowley, Louise Bray, Virginia Burns, Andrew
Meilicke, Thomas, George, Jessie, Nellie, and Alice
Haines, Neil and Harold Hanson.
The North Paddle School closed its doors in 1948
and the children were bused to Mayerthorpe in an old
four- wheeled drive army truck with benches. The driver
was Billy Jewers.