10-034: The Doe River School

The Doe River School was opened in January of 1921 with Mrs. Dorothy Clark as teacher. The school was a large building and had a room in the back for the teacher’s residence. Three or four years later this building burned to the ground. With the help of the insurance a new school was built in another part of the district as the locale of the school population had changed.

The first year the school opened, a Christmas Concert was held by the children and everyone in the district attended.

Snow was still melted for water in the winter and the rest of the time the teacher carried water in a pail from the water hole. The teacher also did the school janitor work and got in the wood and water for the next day, washed the floors, etc. In 1932 the school was enlarged. In 1937 another small one-room school was built on the school grounds and the lower grades from 1 to 5 were taught in it. In 1949 a modern three-room school was built. By 1950 the Shearerdale and Carpio children were brought to Doe River by bus, making the school attendance more than seventy.

 DOE RIVER TEACHERS

1922-1923 – Miss D.A. Clarke

1923-1924 – G.M. Hunter

1924-1925 – Miss Mary D. Ryan

1925-1926 – Miss Teresa Jephson

1926-1927 – Mrs. M.D. Lean

1927-1928 – Mrs. M.D. Lean

1928-1929 – Miss M.K. Brown

1929-1930 – Miss J.A. Bell

1930-1930 – Miss Margaret V. McNaughton

1931-1932 – Miss Margaret V. McNaughton

1932-1933 – Mrs. M.D. Lean

1933-1934 – Mrs. M.D. Lean

1934-1935 – Miss M.E. Coombes

1935-1936 – Miss M.E. Coombes

1936-1937 – George T. Greenwell

1937-1938 – George T. Greenwell

1938-1939 – George T. Greenwell

1939-1940 – B.E. Burke

1940-1941 – R.J. Downey, Mrs. M.W. Baldwin

1945-1946 – Mrs. Molly Shearer

1946-1947 – Mrs. Molly Shearer, Mrs. M. Baldwin

1947-1948 – Mrs. M.W. Baldwin

1934 – Chairman of the School Board – Charles Sluggett