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The Last Graduation Under The Town Board, June 1982<br />
H.V. Corkum had started formal graduation services in 1931 <strong>and</strong> the tradition<br />
had survived, including the Second World War Years. It was to continue<br />
until 2000, but the last town system graduation was in 1982. Virginia Uhlman<br />
represented the town board. Percy Mosher, who had been classroom<br />
teacher, vice-principal, <strong>and</strong> principal in the 1940s, represented the Lions.<br />
Mrs. Ruth Stacey was president of Home <strong>and</strong> <strong>School</strong>.<br />
The congratulations page in the 1984 yearbook reflected the change in board<br />
structure. The signatures include board members [Jennifer Watson <strong>and</strong><br />
Ralph Hennigar from <strong>Mahone</strong> <strong>Bay</strong>] <strong>and</strong> senior management.<br />
Student Council Leadership<br />
Rosalie Dowse, the Valedictorian, went on to be student council president<br />
at Parkview, before going on to university. The new elementary-junior high<br />
continued to seek <strong>and</strong> train a tradition of leaders <strong>and</strong> initiators.<br />
Philip Watson : From Class Captain to<br />
Captain of the Bluenose<br />
Philip was in the graduating grade nine<br />
class of 1981: he had been at the school<br />
since primary. That year, he had been<br />
class captain [a student council experiment],<br />
school b<strong>and</strong> member, drama club<br />
actor [in Lilly Comes To Town], on the<br />
yearbook staff [the tongue in cheek Can<br />
You Imagine section posed the question<br />
‘……Philip Watson aspiring to be a mortician??], singer <strong>and</strong> guitarist in the<br />
Music festival, <strong>and</strong> he had played ‘A’ soccer, basketball [alongside future Hall<br />
of Famer, Kevin Veinot] <strong>and</strong> volleyball. He was to keep up the tradition of<br />
<strong>Mahone</strong> <strong>Bay</strong>’s close connection to the Bluenose.<br />
Jenny Watson <strong>and</strong> <strong>Bob</strong> Douglas became the <strong>Mahone</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> members of the<br />
new Lunenburg County District Board. They held the delicate political balance<br />
between the evenly pitched Municipality of Lunenburg representatives<br />
<strong>and</strong> the block from the towns <strong>and</strong> villages of Lunenburg, Bridgewater <strong>and</strong><br />
Chester. Ralph Hennigar replaced Mr. Douglas.<br />
“I’m responsible for the trust to Lunenburg, to Nova Scotia, to Canada.”<br />
Chronicle Herald, Feb., 2001<br />
It’s remarkable that just three years ahead of him in school was Michelle<br />
Stevens who went on to make the new main sail for Bluenose II.<br />
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