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 ofaprivy.) 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 1878 - David Carr 1921-1926 James MacLauchlan 1926-1928 Herbert Kielly 1928-1930 BertMisener 1930 -1931 Percy Douglas 1931 -1932 J.M. Constable , Long River ? 1932-1938 Ray Carr 1938-1953 Lloyd Shaw 1953-1972 Reginald Ross 1972 - Regional Administrative School Units came into being. Reeves As well as looking after the needs of the school, hiring a teacher, being 108