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THE HERALD - EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT.

THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1971.

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| Vera F; rank Retires

Awards Day 1971 at Caledonia
Senior Secondary School will
mark the end of an illustrious
career for one of Terrace’s
pioneer teachers.

Vera Frank, 63, the first white
child born in the Bulkley Valley,
will retire this week as head of
the French department at
Caledonia Senior Secondary
School, .

Mrs, Frank was born Vera
McInnen in 1908 at the north
crossing of the Bulkley River,
She received her education at
schools in Telkwa, Houston,
Hazelton and Smithers, where
her father worked a as a
government telegraph
operator. ;

She graduated from the
University of British Columbia
in 1929 and remembers
Vancouver as “pretty big, after
living in the country alt those
years,”

‘She also recalls, fondly, that
Vancouver had beautiful
beaches and clear, pollution-
free skies.

In 1930 Mrs. Frank returned
north after a year of teacher
‘alning. Her first job was a's
relief teacher at Topley where
she met and married _Ivan

Frank, |

They moved to Terrace where
she taught for four years at
Kitsumgallum, a two-room
school which is now the site of
school board offices in Terrace.

Four years later, Mrs. Frank
was appointed principal of the
School, .

In 1934 she left teaching to
raise a family - two sons who
have since become engineers.
She returned to teaching
twenty-five years later, in 1959,
and has since taught French to
Terrace students. .

Mrs. Frank was widowed in
1966 and now plans to retire to
care for her aged mother.

However, she plans to keep a
hand in educational activities,
not as a substitute teacher but
more as a personal friend and
counsellor to Terrace children.

To mark her retirement, Mrs,
Frank has been named an
Honorary Life Member of the
British Columbia Teachers
Federation. She is a committee
member of the Skeena-Cassiar
District Teachers Association
and through that organization
plans to keep in teuch with
educational developments.

Groenen photos.

Front

. [Its a long way from 1931 to 1971 and from the
one-room Kalum School to ultramedera
Caledonia Senior Secondary. Old school is new
abandoned antl gutted in Franks Fie, BIW

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GOOD LUCK GLASS OF ‘71
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Sporting Supplies - Guides.
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Congratulations.
| to the .

Caledonia Grads
1971

“Imperial Oil Agent

Terrace

Murray Hamer phote

Pride and apprehension. ,

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Shirley Swanson

Linda Eckess

AWARD WINNERS

Mary Jane Hyde

Student. .
council

| report

Tom Casey, president of .
Caledonia student's council, .
claims that one of the problems
with the present system of
students’ council is that too few
students become involved. . .

“Many do not seem to-care
and do nat consider how much a
Students’ Council can. help:
them. Another problem is-that
the “Student - Councillors
themselves who ‘have .been
devoting toa. much: time to
minor details rather than. to
matters which will really help
students,” said Casey.

Casey said that in 1971 the
council members reassessed
the constitution - and
reorganized the system into one
that will help the student body
much better next year. -— .

“T think that those of you who
will be at school next. year will

: notice the changes and I'm sure

next year’s council will be able
to benefit from our
experiences,’’ he said.

Terrace Centennial
Roadrunners arrived at Jericho
Beach in Vancouver at 11:59:15
a.m. Friday, April 16, 1971. The
61-member team completed the
$00-mile dash between Terrace
and Vancouver “in £32 hours,
including stop-over time.

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