The Unionville Public School
A good twelve grade school is maintained and efforts being made to make it better every year. The building contains four rooms and one small recitation room, library, office and cloak rooms. The building was built in 1903 at a cost of $8,000.00. It is now too small to accommodate the increasing attendance and the requirements of the day. The present superintendent is Russell E. Burns; principal, Miss Grace Kirkpatrick; grammar, Mrs. Margaret Honeywell; intermediate, Miss Gladys Pregitzer; primary, Mrs. Laura Eckfeld; janitor, George Raber. The members of the board of education are: moderator, Wm. Lohrer, director, H.F. Walker, treasurer, John Layer, trustees, Wm. Hahn, and Wm. Brady Jr. There are about 245 children of school age in the district. The enrollment of the school is: high school 32, grammar 38, intermediate 24, primary 46. One-hundred and fifty-two have been graduated from the public school between '88-'16. There are seven in the 1917 class viz: Reginald Buhl, Donald Brady, Harold Schultz, Duth Geyer, Manila Moore, Edna Vaughn and Henrietta Walker.
from Biographical Sketches and Reminiscences of Early Unionville Days and its People, Unionville Crescent 1917.
Contributed by Sherrye L. Woodworth
Last Updated November 13, 1999
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