Mahone Bay Old School_A Life and Times_Bob Sayer

Douglas Cox: French Teacher
As the French curriculum changed to more focus on the oral, Mahone Bay School
was lucky to get the services of Douglas Cox, who arrived in 1970 and stayed ‘til the
end of the high school years, 1978. He took a turn at grade 12 home room teacher,
led a trip to Quebec and one year led a group of Mahone Bay and New Germany
students on a “Floating School” summer, learning, and visiting Mediterranean
countries. In those days there was no sophisticated language lab equipment. A regular
classroom had to do. The students who wrote the 1971 yearbook welcome got some
impressive material on him, but didn’t know that during World War 11, he was
shot down when flying over France, was found and smuggled back by the French
Resistance.
Mr. Cox was involved in two innovations:
International School On Board Ship in The Mediterranean
He was instrumental in arranging for a number of Mahone Bay and New Germany
students to take part in a new education project, where students spent part of
November 1971 cruising and visiting Greece and Turkey.
Quebec Trip, February, 1976
Helped by fund raising and the new special grants for French instruction, he
organized the first ‘Quebec Trip’ to immerse thirty six Mahone Bay students in
French Canadian Culture at Quebec’s Winter Carnival.
A 1978 farewell photo and caricature
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