Weyburn Collegiate Institute - Weycollin Yearbook (Weyburn, Saskatchewan Canada)

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AN OUTSTANDING FAMILY - ALL GRADUATES OF W. C. I. The above cheque was the first one to be received for the Golden Jubilee Yearbook 1963. Its sender is one, Melissa Sinclair Freeman, the eldest of nine; six girls and three boys. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Sinclair owned a farm one mile west and seven miles north of Weyburn. Melissa was a student, third class Part I, when this collegiate opened in 1913. She won the Governor General ' s Medal in 1918. She attended Regina Normal School that fall, taught school, was a Chaurauqua worker, and later married Eric Freeman, an accountant. For thirty years Melissa has been associated with Investor ' s Syndicate in Calgary and Cranbrook. In 1914, Melissa ' s parents built the house on Sixth Street where Charles Irwin now lives. In the thirties, Mr. Sinclair died but Mrs. Sinclair at the age of eight-five lives with Melissa. Della, the second of this family, won the Home Economics Medal and went to be a teacher. Later she trained for a nurse and became matron of Bralorne Hospital in B. C. After a time she married a metallurgist by the name of J. M. Currie. They spent three years in Ecuador. Mr. Currie is now superintendent of the mill at Dr. Williamson ' s Diamond mines in Tanganyika. Dr. Alex Sinclair, the little lad with chilblains, as he warmed his toes around the pot-bellied stove at North Weyburn School, is now a medical doctor and superin¬ tendent of St. Vital Sanitorium. He won an award for outstanding research work on tuberculosis. He now lives at Crescent Villa, 245 Wellington Crescent, Winnipeg. The fourth child, Marie, worked as an optometrist and later became a very suc¬ cessful Chautauqua worker superintendent in Ontario. After marrying a mining engineer, W. J. Mackenzie, they went to Northern Rhodesia for a period of five years. At present they reside in Kelowna, B. C., where he is manager of Roan Antelope Mine. Mr. MacKenzie prospects during the summer with the aid of helicopters. Georgina graduated from the Winnipeg General Hospital and married Mr. M. G. Brydges. She is doing some special duty nursing in Moose Jaw Hospital. Muriel, after winning the Governor General ' s Medal, took a comptometer ' s course and worked for the Wheat Pool. She married Paul McKinnin who is on the management of the Ford Motor Co. in Toronto. Harold Sinclair, graduated from the Collegiate during the hungry thirties, did office work, taught in a business college, and later became a representative of Investor ' s Syndicate in Regina. He is now Division Manager in Calgary. His 25 years with I. S. was broken by four years as a radar officer in the air force. He is now married and living in Calgary.

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Dr. Donald E. Sinclair won a University Scholarship at Weyburn. At Wheaton, Ill. he obtained his Master of Theology, and two years later his Doctor of Theology degree at the Dallas Theological Seminary in Texas. He and his wife, Isabel, are translating books of the New Testament into Otomi, formally an unwritten language, for the Otomi tribe of Indians, living in Mexico. Due to ill health, he is preaching in a small church and resting in Michigan at present. Lois, the youngest member of the family, was offered a University Scholarship but since she could not use it, a transfer to someone else was made. She was a legal stenographer in Weyburn and Winnipeg, where she married A. H. Lamont, who is now a meteorologist with the R. C. A. F. in Metz, France. SNAPSHOT MEMORIES 1 j r • '