Mahone Bay Old School_A Life and Times_Bob Sayer

still lives in Bridgetown.
Jean did twelve highly distinctive portraits for the yearbook. She and her husband
have retired to the old Burgoyne family home, across the Bay in Oakland across
the road from the site of the old Burgoyne shipyard. All three finished school the
following year, 1942-3. In the 1943 photo below, Jean Burgoyne is to be found in the
third row, Bill Hirtle in the front and Murray Hirtle at the back. Marion Wynacht is in
the second. Carl Westhaver, from Mader’s Covenow lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia.
The seniors of 1943. Photo: Courtesy Marion Wynacht-Langille
Back Row: Raymond Zwicker, Murray Hirtle, Principal Hankinson, Miss Strum
Fourth Row: Shirley Vaughn, Rosamund Mader, Marjorie Smeltzer, Beulah Veno
Third Row: Gwen Ernst, Anne Freeman, Katherine Wentzell, Jean Burgoyne, ? ,
Mildred Saltzman. Second Row: Jean Mader, Ermine Hiltz, Christine Mader, Irene
Westhaver, Marion Wynacht, Doris Burgoyne. Front Row: Charles Andrews, Jnr
[Frank] Mader, Orville Freda, Rex Parkes, Billy Hirtle, Carl Westhaver. Charles
Andrews [bottom left], from Indian Point, became a teacher and long-time viceprincipal
at Lunenburg Jr.-Sr. High.
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Jean [“Juanita”] includes herself on the page. Murray was the crack shot of Rifle
Club. Bill, “Egg”, a keen student of Mahone Bay history [two historical essays are
in this Highlight], went on to write the study of Mahone Bay that is used in the next
chapter and be a long time teacher, administrator and coach at Bridgetown Junior-
Senior High, as well as a prodigious worker for the Nova Scotia Teachers Union. He
The Print Shop
The best account of the Print Shop, established in 1933 by H.V. Corkum, is in the
1941-42 Highlight. It truly was a print shop: a press with a block of type; set up as a
stock company [H.V.Corkum had passed on his controlling shares to his successors];
type cases; blue, green and black inks; 100 separate jobs; handbills..report cards..
Christmas cards…15000 bookmarks; 30000 impressions.