Mahone Bay Old School_A Life and Times_Bob Sayer

ing called her “hobble-de-gick”. Frances Theriault remembers Miss Schnare
teaching her students to waltz.
“We had to hold hands across the desks and waltz down the aisles.” There
was probably a shortage of space in the crowded classroom and it limited the
amount of physical contact! She was innovative in physical activities and
was to receive the Department of Education’s Strathcona Award for physical
education.
Lela Hyson
Lela Hyson’s grade 4-5 class, 1929-30 included: Johnny Whynott, Beatrice
Hirtle, Earle Langille, Bruce Joudrey, Mildred Burgoyne and Eleda Zwicker.
Left to right. Back Row: Teddy Begin, Linwood Wagner, “Pat” Vincent Veinot,
Lela Hyson, Ronald Joudrey, Billy Mader, Douglas Veinot, “Gunny” Russell
Hamm
Third Row: Johnny Whynott, Hughie Daniels, Helen Meisner, Maizie
Schoupe, Beatrice Hirtle, Freda Richardson, Alice Corkum, Joan Mercer,
George James.
Second Row: Carl Mader, Harvey Whynot, Murray Nauss, Dennis Rhuland,
Fred Ernst, Earle Langille, George Nauss, Bruce Joudrey.
Front Row: Barbara Mercer, Carolyn Mader, Frances Theriault, Mildred Burgoyne,
Esther Carter, Margaret Zwicker, Gwendolyn Begin, Eleda Zwicker.
The South Shore Record reported, at the same time as her resignation:
Miss Hazel Schnare, one of the Academy teachers, was lately awarded the Strathcona
School Prize. The inspector for each division awards the prizes to the teacher
showing the greatest proficiency in the conducting of the physical training exercises
in her school.
She left at Christmas 1933 to marry J. Murdoch Fraser who had had a bad
time as principal in 1928-29. He was later to move on to the greener pastures
of a church ministry. The following grade 7 class picture was taken at the end
of the 1920s. Miss Schnare is in the back row, two places away from Patty
Wentzell who was to become a New York Show Girl and Hollywood Starlet.
Photo: Courtesy Frances Theriault [Doucette]
Lela was Hope’s sister and was to have a long career at the school. She is
very well remembered and had the same good disposition as her sister.
Margaret Hirtle remarked that, “The kids loved her. She had a great sense of
humour.” And Frances Theriault said she “was lovely..kind and gentle.”
Hazel Schnare was his grade six teacher. She had been on staff since 1923.
Earle remembers her as being quite popular. She had a slight limp. The students
in their usual forthrightness sometimes, when no adults were listen-
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