10-031: Central Junior High School, Dawson Creek

Official Opening – Monday, May 27, 1957
Central Junior High School was built to relieve a situation created by the great increase in pupils of secondary school age in School District 59.

The junior high school is designed as a distinctive level of school, one which is specifically designed to provide for the characteristics and educational needs of the young adolescent.

Moreover, it establishes a gradual transition from the-one teacher elementary classroom situation and prepares the pupils for the departmentalized system of the senior high schools.

Like most junior high schools elsewhere, Central Junior High School derives its enrollment from a number of elementary schools. At capacity, its September enrollment of five hundred students makes it economically possible, and educationally desirable, to offer a more diversified program and more extensive instructional facilities than is practical in the elementary schools. At the time both program and facilities are more moderate in cost than those of the later secondary grades.

 
FIRST STAFF AT CENTRAL, 1955 – 1956
PRINCIPAL – Mr. Gordon Manson

VICE PRINCIPAL – Mr. Harry Dewar

TEACHERS – Mr. Ray Spillers, Mrs. Lillian York, Mr. Charlie Webb, Mr. Walter Schoen,

Miss Joan Gray, Mr. Frank Wenzell, Mr. George Hartford, Mr. Clay Williams,

Mrs. Shirley Wilson, Mrs. Roberta Wier, Dr. Tom Tillemans, Betty McKee

 
TEACHING STAFF IN CENTRAL, 1958 – 1959
ART – Miss Rita Kundert

GIRLS’ COUNSELLORS – Mrs. Shirley Wilson, Mrs. Joan Badanic

ADMINISTRATION – Mr. Murray Ryan, Mr Harry Dewar

BOYS’ COUNSELORS – Mr. Lorne Davidson, Mr. Tom Kerr

P. E. – Mr. Davidson, Miss Joan Sutton

HOME-EC – Miss RoxieYork, Miss Maureen Snyder

SCIENCE – Mr. Dan Calleberg, Mr. Ray Spillers

COMMERCIAL – Mrs. Anne Matheson

FRENCH – Mr. Read

ENGLISH – Mr. Schoen, Mrs. McLauglin

BAND – Mr. Kurt deBoer

LIBRARY – Miss Frances Dolan

INDUSTRIAL ARTS – Mr. Bob McCord, Mr. Peter Blore

SPECIAL CLASS – Mr. Will Durrant

DRAMA – Mr. Kerr

OTHERS – Mrs. Rogers, Mr. Bill Goddard

 

CUSTODIAN – Mr. Joe Linay

 

CENTRAL STAFF, 1959 – 1960
ADMINISTRATION – Mr. Harry Dewar, Mr. George Hartford

BOYS COUNSELORS – Mr. Walter Schoen, Mr. Jack Wilson

GIRLS COUNSELORS – Miss Joan Sutton, Mrs. Shirley Wilson

HOME EC. – Miss RoxieYork, Miss Maureen Snyder

COMMERCIAL – Mrs. Anne Matheson

P. E. – Mr. Dennis Beaveridge, Mr. Bob Campsall

ART – Miss Rita Kundert

INDUSTRIAL – Mr. Peter Blore, Mr. Dowd

LIBRARY – Miss Frances Dolan

OTHERS -Mrs. Mabel Rogers, Miss Joan Gray, Mr. Joe Exner, Mr. Ed McGill, Mr. Bob Aitken,

Mr. Bill Goddard, Mr Ray Spillers