Mahone Bay Old School_A Life and Times_Bob Sayer

and founded Mahone Auto. His granddaughter, Patricia, Mrs. Errol Veinotte,
lives in Mahone Bay, and her two children, Barry and Bonnie, were grade nine
graduates [Parkview Education Centre had become the high school] of the
school their great grandfather made sure was built to be a monument. Photo
bottom left of “grampie” Eisenhauer and his wife [Louise Hirtle]: Courtesy:
Pat Eisenhauer-Veinotte
The School Bell
‘...And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.’
- John Donne
Warren continued to maintain close ties with the school, becoming a school
board member and carrying out a number of projects for the school.
His son, Basil, was to become mayor of the town and school board chairman,
American Bell Foundry of Michigan, #28
The bell would have been hauled into place, using a pulley system and a team
of oxen. Between 1914 and 1961 the school bell tolled for countless Mahone
Bay school children and their parents. Ex-students remember it well. For
thirty years it rang to summon them to school in the morning and at the end
of the long [one and a-one-half hours to walk home and back] lunch break.
In the early days, it was used to briefly announce recess and the end of the
school day. Then, during World War Two the first announcements-public
address system was installed. Later came the buzzer system .
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