taught us fancy ideas of group projects. etc, which were impossible with only
one in a class.

I remember being lonesome in the wide open spaces, being accustomed to
smaller fields, bush and hills, but being sad to leave by the time June came. Also
at Christmas there was no snow before holidays but a beautiful hoarfrost on
everything the day I took the bus to Winnipeg.

After leaving Parkhill, I taught in the town of Whitemouth, a grade five and
six class for two years. While there I met and married my husband Donald Latta.
We have two children, a girl Sharyl, now 20 years old, and a son Darrell, 16. We
moved to Winnipeg before the children were born and except for four years, I’ve
taught ever since then in Winnipeg, in River Best School Division, in Lord
Wolseley School and Hampstead school where I still am. I’ve taught Grade six
classes most of the time, an age group I really enjoy working with — old enough
to be interesting, but not old enough to be obstinate or defiant. It is harder
teaching now than in earlier years; there is much more paper work for the
teacher, new courses to keep up with, the basics to still find time for, plus so
many. many more children with emotional problems, big or little, because of the
new life style nowadays.

In 1972, I decided to be a student myself, and by taking evening and .
summer courses, I just received my Bachelor of Arts degree, 1976.

It has been nice thinking about my first year of teaching again, but hard to
imagine that those children are now men and women of 30 to 40 years of age. I
was only 18 when i came to Parkhill and it does seem impossible it was so long
ago.

1953-1956 — Salome Voth Mrs. J. Hiebert, St. Norbert, Man. I began
teaching at Parkhill School in September 1953, with 16 students enrolled. I con-

Jake, Salome, John, Mervyn. Joanne Hiebert, 1977.