School Trustees

The minutes of the Stanhope School Trustees for 1873-79 record payments of contracts sold to the lowest bidder for the following items:

Hauling cords of wood.

Cutting wood, lighting fire in schoolhouse and sweeping schoolhouse.

4 posts for the corners of the schoolhouse.

4 lengths of stove pipe.

Bench and desks.

1 door casing, hinges, staples and hasp.

White wash outside.

Plaster holes inside, floor to be scrubbed.

Etc.

For many years wood was burned in the stove in the schoolroom. Later on, coal was used as well. If water was required, the children were sent to a neighbour’s for a bucket of water. In the early years there were no washrooms at the school, just the closest woods or a neighbour’s. (In 1858 the School Visitor reported of all the district school-houses he had visited, two only have the common convenience

of a privy.) Later on, outhouses were built. In 1952 when the new one- room school was built, a furnace was installed in the basement; a well

was dug outside and a pump installed there; at the same time chemical toilets were placed in the new school. When a room was added to the school in 1960, running water was put in the school and flush toilets installed. Electricity came to the school in 1960 and next year an oil

furnace was put in. The following are some of the people who served as Secretary of

Trustees:

1873 - 1878 George Alexander

187 8 - David Carr

1921 - 1926 James MacLauchlan

1926 - 1928 Herbert Kielly

1928 - 1930 Bert Misener

1930 - 1931 Percy Douglas

1931 - 1932 J .M. Constable, Long River? 1932 - 1938‘ Ray Carr

1938 - 1953 Lloyd Shaw

1953 - 1972 Reginald Ross

197 2 - Regional Administrative School Units came into being.

Reeves As well as looking after the needs of the school, hiring a teacher, being

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