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FormerBunk house and Office Housed First Schreiber School By INEZ McCUAIG The story of education in Schreiber begins with a CPR bunk house formerly used by men employed on construction of the railway, and later as the resident engineer's office. It was located on Manitoba street where George Scott's residence now is. It became the town's first one room school house. The earliest recorded interest in education concerns establish ment of a school section in 1886 when correspondence in the matter was carried on by James E. Walker, merchant and owner of the so-called Corner Store, which still stands on the same corner and is still called the Corner Store, although now owned by the Spadoni firm. The school has a photostatic copy of a letter from Mr. Walk er to the Dept. of Education in 1888, along with one from Alex McGregor in 1897. By 1902 it was apparent from overcrowding of the bunkhouse school due to increase in the town's population as a CPR terminal, that a larger school must be provided and a four room school was built on property donated by the CPR on the corner of Winnipeg and Ontario streets. The school grounds extended to the corner of Winnipeg and Drummond Streets. The two storey building was adequate until 1912 when again it was necessary to add two more rooms and an enlarged entrance. Temporary classrooms had operated in the rink, Methodist church and town hall before the addition was completed in 1913. These changes and enlarge ments were at the elemental level and continued until 1923 During the five years prior to 1923, George A. Evans, who had been principal from the bunk house period, began two high school classes, which he called j junior and senior fifth. Taught were the rudiments of algebra, geometry, and advanced English. This became the father of advanced education in Schreiber. | On the school board at this time were James Lindsay and R. T. Moran, train despatchers, and A. W. Struthers express agent. Although apt to be jmoved to other points they were still concern with better education in Schreiber for the families who must remain. They decided to add four rooms (as an annex to the public school) and in 1924 the continuation school was opened. From that same continuation school, Schreiber boasts a professor who heads his own department in a university, superintendents of hospitals, doctors and surgeons, a financier, nurses, teachers, engineers of many degrees and kinds, who although they went outside to continue their education, received the inspiration and impetus in Schreiber's c o,n t i n u ation school. CHURCH FACILITIES The public school, meanwhile with four rooms was again over crowded and in 1943 the Roman Catholic parish opened a separate school, starting with two, then three, then four rooms in the Guild Hall of the church. In 1940 they built a new sep arate school of four rooms with utility basement which could be converted to classrooms. In 1957 another room was added; in 1961 three other classrooms were added. A further addition in 1966 brought the classrooms up to 10. The public school, during this period, was encountering difficulties due to the age of their building constructed in 1903, and in 1956 they opened a new school with five classrooms. At one time the high school held classes in the upper and lower halls of the school and in a church hall. In 1962 with the approval of the department the municipal council of Schreiber-called for tenders for a new school and in 1963 the present high school was opened, providing seven classrooms, science room, library classroom and gym-auditorium, with staff of 13 teachers. The present curriculum offers a five-year arts and science course and four year business and commerce, with provision for advancement in the field when the need arises. The board is presently seeking an expansion of both the school building and curriculum. TOP SCHOLARS Among former Schreiber students are: Dr. John Miller, of McMaster University; W. J. Bennet, OBE, Montreal; Dr. Zachariah Sinclair Phimister, Toronto, Deputy Minister of education and President of the Canadian Education Conference, who believe that high school students should help run their schools as means of developing a sense of responsibility. Other notables are Miss Dorothy Arnot, superintendent of Wellesley Hospital, Toronto; Dr. R. W. Welbourne, MDCM, FR CS, re-constructive surgeon; Margaret Thurlow, now Lady Simonette, wife of Sir Roland Simonette, premier of the Bahamas; three clerymen, Rev; Alex Greengrass, Rev. George Bourguignon, Rev. Douglas Sly; Douglas Spillane who photographs the stars at Stratford theatre, Capt. Allan F. Nelson, now with the financial Dept., armed services, general headquarters, Ottawa; R. J. (Bob) Stewart, editor, Financial Times Ottawa; Jim Hastings, with Sir George Williams University, Montreal. We have nurses and teachers by the hundreds, engineers of many degrees, technicians, bank managers, all who were born and received their early education in Schreiber, but oddly, not one lawyer.