Winkler Collegiate Institute - Collegian Yearbook (Winkler, Manitoba Canada)

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CHAIRMEN OF THE SCHOOL BOARD OF THE WINKLER SCHOOL DISTRICT 1893-1901 Not available 1922-24 John J. Enns 1902-03 William Esau 1925-26 Abram A. Kroeker 1904 W. H. Taylor 1927 J. J. Enns 1905-06 Bernhard Loewen 1928 John J. Loewen 1907-08 William Martens 1929-40 Dr. C. W. Wiebe 1909-10 Frank E. Rietze 1941 J. J. Enns 1911-12 Not known 1942-43 William M. Enns 1913-14 Jacob P. Penner 1944-45 Herbert D. Dick 1915 Jacob A. Kroeker 1946 W. M. Enns 1916-17 Not available 1947 Dr. C. W. Wiebe 1918 Jacob A. Kroeker 1948 Herb D. Dick 1919 Abram K. Friesen 1949-50 John H. K. Dyck 1920 Jacob A. Kroeker 1951-55 Dr. C. W. Wiebe 1921 Sam Nitikman 1956- Henry F. Wiebe PRINCIPALS OF THE WINKLER SCHOOL DISTRICT 1893-94 Cornelius B. Fast 1907-11 Joe S. Wolkof 1895 P. B. Krehbiel 1912 A. M. Headlam 1896-98 John P. Isaac 1913-14 Fred Grove 1899-1900 George R. Belton 1915 D. McLeod; W. A. Gamey 1901 J. C. Butchart 1916-40 John R. Wolkof 1902 H. Learmie 1940-44 George J. Siemens 1903 Jas. A. McTavish 1944-58 Peter Brown 1904-06 Margaret V. Bennett 1958-63 John J. Bergen SECRETARIES OF THE WINKLER SCHOOL DISTRICT 1893-94 Isaac Dyck 1917-19 William L. Esau 1895 Rev. John Warkentin 1920-30 Abram K. Friesen 1896-1902 Bernhard Loewen 1931 Frank K. Friesen 1903-11 Gerhard Wiebe 1932-35 C. H. Grunau 1912 Bernhard Loewen 1936-45 H. S. Friesen 1913-15 1916 Gerhard Wiebe Not available 1946- George G. Siemens TEACHERS WHO HAVE TAUGHT IN WINKLER SCHOOL (As gleaned from the attendance registers on file) 1893-95 C. B. Fast 1911 H. S. Warkentine 1894-95 Gustav K. Toews 1911 G. E. Neufeld 1895-96 P. B. Krehbiel 1911-15 H. L. Warkentine 1895-97 Mary Entz 1912 Lina Striemer 1896-99 J. P. Isaac 1912-13, 1920-21 1. J. Warkentine 1897-98 Agatha Isaac 1913-15 F. P. Grove 1898-99 J. P. Hiebert 1913-19 J. J. Enns 1898 Benj. Ewert 1913-14 Tina Wiens 1899-1903 H. Graff 1914-19 H. J. Hiebert 1899-1901 Louis Penner 1915 D. McLeod 1900-03 Jacob H. Riesen 1918-40 John R. Wolkof 1902 Learme 1920-39 P. H. Siemens 1903-04 J. McTavish 1920-21 M. E. Veilson 1903-04 Lily Green 1921-22 M. W. Alison 1904-06 Margaret V. Bennett 1922-23 Mildred Lamb 1904-08 Jacob B. Warkentine 1924-26 G. E. Siemens 1904 Jacob F. Sawatsky 1924-25 Anna Hamm 1904-17 P. H. Neufeld 1924-26 G. E. Penner 1906-07 Sara S. Voth 1924 Sylvia Colman 1907 D. W. Fast 1925 Ida Thompson 1907-11 John S. Walkof 1925-26 Helena H. Siemens 1909-10 A. K. Friesen 1926 Leonore Cowie 1910 G. E. Walkof 1926 Isaac J. Dyck

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(Eommemorating 70 f para of thr Utnklrr J rfyonl itatnrt Seventy years ago, April 22, 1893, the Winkler Public School District was formed by a Board of Arbitrators. According to the half-yearly report for the fall term of 1893, there were 62 pupils enrolled and the first teacher was Mr. Cornelius B. Past who had come here from Minnesota. He held an Interim Certificate. However, for two winters previous to that, private school classes had been held. In 1891-92, Mr. Jacob Andres taught a private school in a shed on what is today West Street. The following winter, 1892-93, Mr. George Froese taught a private school in a house a half mile east of Winkler at the site where the nuisance grounds are now located. The first public school building in Winkler was erected in 1893 on the lot at the southwest comer of Mountain Avenue and Sixth Street. It was a one-room school. However, by the fall of 1894, there were 106 pupils enrolled. Therefore, it had become necessary to engage a second teacher. A second classroom was consequently temporarily opened in a house to the north of the present Post Office on the east side of Sixth Street. By 1912, with 150 children enrolled, and with a look to the future, the District was ready to construct a brick building on the present school grounds at the southwest comer of Mountain Avenue and Eighth Street. Prom 1949 to 1954, this structure was used exclusively for High School classes. It was demolished in the spring of 1954, with the erection of the Collegiate and auditorium. A HISTORY OF WINKLER SCHOOL By the spring of 1953, the school population had increased to 552. Therefore, more accommodation was urgently required to take care of five over-flow classes. Consequently, on June 29, 1953, the School Board called a special meeting of the ratepayers and electors of the Winkler School District to discuss plans for a new building. The By-law which was subsequently drawn up and passed by the electors, called for a $190,000 debenture issue for the construction of a new 14-room school and an auditorium. The official opening of this building was held in the new school auditorium on Thursday, November 4, 1954. The Hon. W. C. Miller, Minister of Education, was the guest speaker on this occasion. THE SCHOOL POPULATION However, the most important factors of a school are not its buildings but rather the lives and minds that are developed within the four walls of the classroom. On graduating from High School, by far the greatest number of local students choose the teaching profession as a stepping stone to other fields. The nursing profession also receives a large share of Winkler Collegiate Institute graduates. Others have chosen medicine, engineering, agriculture, home economics, dentistry, stenography, business, industry, farming, etc. Before 1913, any pupil at Winkler who wished to complete his High School with Grade XI, had to go to Morden. One of the first students from Winkler to attend the Morden High School at the beginning of this century was Max Steinkopf. Max used to walk barefooted to Morden every morning in order to attend the classes there. Mr. Acheson, the station agent at Winkler at the time, says he would have been quite willing to loan him a pair of shoes but they would have been too small anyhow. After Max Steinkopf had finished High School, the family stinted in order that he could go to University. After graduation, he became a successful lawyer and owned a beautiful home on Wellington Crescent in Winnipeg. He died a millionaire. Mr. W. Schram, who preceded Mr. Frank Derksen as the Massey-Harris agent in Winkler, had two daughters who attended school in town here. One of these girls, Hattie, married Mr. Allan, the C.P.R. agent at Killarhey, Mani¬ toba. Ralph Allan, the editor-in-chief of Maclean’s magazine, was a son of this marriage. Another former Winkler school boy who has become a prominent western newspaperman is Mr. Jimmy Greenblatt who is the owner and editor of the Swift Current Sun. His father, Mr. Isaac Greenblatt, operated a general store in Winkler. On October 24, 1952, Mrs. Mary Klassen was elected to the Winkler School Board. This was the first time in the history of the Village of Winkler that a woman had been a candidate in a local civic election. Mrs. Klassen was bom in Winkler and received her education here. She attended Normal School in Manitou and Winnipeg and taught school for 15 years in the Winkler, Plum Coulee, and Gretna area. Another Winkler High School graduate, Mr. Reynold Siemens, son of Mr. G. G. Siemens, has won distinction as a cellist. He began his studies of the cello under Mr. Ben Horch as a member of the Winkler School Orchestra. Later he studied with Irwin Plumm and Mrs. J. M. Sinclair of Winnipeg and was a member of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. He then went to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia on a scholarship. Here he studied under Leonard Rose for three years. Mr. Siemens is the only student ever to receive an A-plus rating from Leonard Rose, and has appeared with many outstanding orchestras, as well as in recitals at many U.S. Universities and Colleges. THE TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS The first teacher of the Winkler School District was Mr. Cornelius Past. In 1893, he received a salary of $550 and taught on an Interim Certificate. He had come here from Minnesota through the efforts of Rev. H. H. Ewert. The only lady who has served as principal of Winkler School was Margaret V. Bennett. She taught here from 1904 to 1907. Prom 1907 to 1912 Mr. Joe S. Walkof acted as principal. Mr. A. M. Headlam, M.A., 1912-13, appears to have been the first principal of the Winkler School who held a University degree. Mr. Frederick Philip Grove is possibly the only ex-principal of the Winkler School who has won national fame. Mr. Grove was the principal for two years, 1913 to 1915. After leaving the teaching profession, he became a noted Canadian author. Mr. Grove had the first grade XI class in the Winkler High School. He is remembered by his students as a “teller of tales.” In 1952, the Programme of Studies for Manitoba listed “A Search for America” by F. P. Grove as one of the novels on the Grade X Literature course. The principal with the longest tenure was Mr. John R. Wolkof, B.A. He served the Winkler School District for a period of 24 years, 1916-1940. The year before Mr. Wolkof came to Winkler, the enrolment had been 186 and the teaching staff numbered five. By 1940, the school population had risen to 331 and the staff to nine. THE SCHOOL TRUSTEES Excellent service to the community has been rendered by the local citizens who have served on the Winkler School Board. The trustees of the first School Board in 1893 were Isaac Dyck, Abram Kroeker, and Peter Peters. During the years since 1893, the following trustees, as well as many others, have given unstintingly of their time: Rev. Gerhard Wiebe (10 years); J. A. Kroeker (10 years); J. J. Enns (11 years); Rev. John Warkentin (12 years); Bern- hard Loewen (12 years); Herb D. Dick (13 years); Mr. Henry Janzen (12 years); Mr. H. F. Wiebe (12 years); and Dr. C . W. Wiebe (24 years), who for 18 years out of the 24 years that he served on the School Board, has acted as chairman of the Board.

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1927-28 H. T. Friesen 1927- 32 J. H. Giesbrecht 1928- 29 E. Thomasson 1929 Elizabeth E. Elias 1929 Mary Loewen 1929 Catharine Derksen 1929 T. H. Cowie 1929- 31 Agnes Penner 1930- 31 Mrs. Catherine Dagg 1930-31 B. D. Klippenstein 1930- 31 Agatha Dahl 1930 Mary J. Loewen 1931 H. L. Dyck 1931- 32 H. M. Hendricks 1931-36 Lillian E. Hooge 1931-42 Helena Derkson 1931-33, 1938-39 I. J. Dyck 1931- Frank Brown 1932- 33 Agatha Epp 1932-33 E. R. Elias 1932- 33 Earnest F. Reimer 1933, 1937-41 Susanna Peters 1933 William Schultz 1933- 37 R. F. Friesen 1933, 1946-49 Eleanor Siemens 1933- 34, 1942-43 Martha Pokrant 1934- 36 E. L. Siemens 1934-40 S. Peters 1936-37 J. M. Reimer 1936- 37 J. Klassen 1937- 38 Mrs. A. V. Peters 1937-38 R. F. Friesen 1937- 38 Miss J. Klassen 1938- 39 Kate Klassen 1938-39, 1940-41 A. N. Reimer 1938-39 H. H. Rempel 1938-39 E. Janzen 1938- 39 Lynda Penner 1939- 40 L. Penner 1939-40 Anne Nora Reimer 1939-41 Agathe Warkentine 1939- 40 N. G. Neufeld 1940- 44 Olga Kehler 1940-41 C. G. Neufeld 1940-44 Nick Neufeld 1942-43 A. Warkentine 1942-44 C. J. Siemens 1942-43 R. Mehmel 1942-43 E. Warkentine 1942- 44 William Friesen 1943- 44 Mrs. M. E. Hiebert 1943-44 Mary Klassen 1943- 48 H. H. Goertzen 1944- 47, 1954-55 Mrs. M. H. Wonnick 1944-45 Elsa Sawatsky 1944-45 J. D. Pauls 1944-45 Anne E. Friesen 1944-45 Mary E. Goertzen 1944-58 P. Brown 1944- G. G. Siemens 1945- 61 J. I. Brown 1945-46 H. M. Friesen 1945-48 Anne E. Goertzen 1945- 46 Lily Schaefer 1946- 62 J. P. Redekopp 1947- 50 H. F. Wiebe 1947- 49 Irene Janzen 1948- 49 Dorothy E. Wiebe 1948-49 Helen Friesen 1948-49 J. J. Peters 1948-49 Helen E. Peters 1948- 52 Marion Smith 1949- 50 Mary J. Loewen 1949-50 J. G. Brown 1949- 50 Verna Epp 1950 Mrs. U. Penner 1950, 1957-61 Erdman Kroeker 1950- 51 Sally E. Schroeder 1950-51 P. U. Penner 1950 M. Fehr 1950 Tina Penner 1950 Hedy Pokrand 1950- Miss K. Janzen (Mrs. Brown) 1951- 52 Louise Garland 1951 Helena Sawatsky 1951-53, 54 Charlotte K. Isaac 1951-53 George H. Olfert 1951-53 Mrs. H. Loewen 1951- 61 Abe Siemens 1952- 53 Susan Martens 1952-53 Menna Martens 1952- David Friesen 1952-53 E. Reimer 1952-54, 61- Mrs. Helen Goertzen 1952- Mrs. T. Kehler 1953- 54 H. U. Neufeld 1953-54 Norma Rempel 1953-54 Carolyn M. Stobbe 1953-57, 1962- Miss E. Kuhl (Mrs. E. Dyck) 1953-54 Elizabeth Reimer 1953-55 H. Schellenberg 1953- 57 G. W. Neufeld 1954- 55 Anne Enns 1954-55 Anne Dyck 1954-55 J. Doerksen 1954-58 Mrs. H. Friesen 1954-55 Anne Driediger 1954-55 Edith Hildebrand 1954- 55 H. V. Neufeld 1955- K. Friesen 1955-56 Eileen Toews 1955-56 A. Braun 1955-56 Jake D. Hiebert 1955-61 Carl Braun 1955-57 Madeline Pries 1955-57 Gordon Senoff 1955-56 Helen Boldt 1955- 56 J. Doerksen 1956- 57 A. Hildebrand 1956-58 Henry Konrad 1956-59 Bill Goerzen 1956-59 George Krahn 1956-59 David Winter 1956- 59 Alvin J. Wieler 1957- 58 Daniel W. Doerksen 1957-62 J. W. Dyck 1957-59 Mary Penner 1957-59 Anna Bergen 1957-60 Emma Klassen 1957- 59 Jacob Letkeman 1961- Ernie Kroeger 1958- H. T. Thiessen 1958- Margaret Harder 1958- Abe Dyck 1958- 61 E. Thiessen 1959- Mary Wolfe 1958-61 Anne Doerksen 1958-63 E. Thiessen 1958- 63 J. Bergen 1959- 60 E. Neufeld 1959-63 H. E. Neufeld 1959-60 Henry Loewen 1959- J. F. Wiebe 1959- M. Schulz 1959-60 Irene Hildebrand 1959- F. W. Dyck 1960- 61 Betty Neufeld 1960-62 Mrs. T. Dyck 1960- Mrs. V. Sawatsky 1961- Alan J. Janzen 1961-62 K. Dyck 1961-62 Mrs. S. Hildebrand 1961- J. A. Janzen 1961- T. Thiessen 1961- P. L. Friesen 1961- A. Thiessen 1962- H. Enns 1962- A. Kroeker