Mahone Bay Old School_A Life and Times_Bob Sayer

It had been a tough year for Mr. Robinson. In addition to the new opening, there were
to be serious discipline problems in 1962-3 with two teachers who could not keep
order. He was not in good health and decided to call it a day.
The First Grades Twelve and Eleven of the “New” Consolidated School, 1961-2
July 1962American, Neil Armstrong, becomes First Man On The Moon
“Small step for a man but one giant leap for mankind.”
November, 1962, President John F. Kennedy Assassinated
A Missed Opportunity: The Gym, Home Economics and Industrial Arts
The New Gym
There was to be a huge burst of activity in the new gym. The generation of the 1970s
and later regretted that the basketball court was not regulation size and that the floor
was tiled. The floors at Centre, Hebbville, Bridgewater, Chester and New Ross had
been the much more preferable wood, and only New Germany had the tile.
In 1961-2 there had been no school basketball for over a decade. So there was no
knowledgeable vested interest to push the case. And the new gym was better than
anything previously available.
Home Economics and Industrial Arts
The town council and school board had planned for both. But their financial
planning had been wildly optimistic or poorly informed. Probably both! It was to be
a determined Home and School
Association that led the charge for
these facilities in the mid 1970s.
So, for nearly 15 years Mahone
Bay was the only junior-senior
high school in the South Shore and
most of the province without these
programs.
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