JEANETTE CLARKE was a legendary middle-grade teacher for many years in the mid-20th century at elementary public schools in the Kitchener, Ontario system including Victoria, Suddaby, Sheppard and King Edward.
Miss Clarke's teaching career spanned 40 years, 34 in Kitchener. She began teaching in Bloomingdale, Ontario and served for a short stint in a one-room School in Borden, Saskatchewan. At the latter, she had the distinction of replacing John Diefenbaker, later a prime minster of Canada, after he had been fired for taking his schoolboys groundhog hunting.
She had a commanding presence in her classroom and would tolerate no misbehaviour or lack of effort by her pupils. She particularly loved teaching painting and had produced oil paintings of her own.
When the principal entered her classroom, she required her charges to snap to attention (and silence) immediately.
She was exceedingly proud. A perk given to her annually by the principal was for her class (with her at the head) to lead the entire school on the march to the annual field day in Victoria Park in downtown Kitchener.
Miss Clarke also achieved many distinctions with the Women Teachers Federation and the Kitchener-Waterloo Retired Teachers Association.
Miss Clarke's teaching career spanned 40 years, 34 in Kitchener. She began teaching in Bloomingdale, Ontario and served for a short stint in a one-room School in Borden, Saskatchewan. At the latter, she had the distinction of replacing John Diefenbaker, later a prime minster of Canada, after he had been fired for taking his schoolboys groundhog hunting.
She had a commanding presence in her classroom and would tolerate no misbehaviour or lack of effort by her pupils. She particularly loved teaching painting and had produced oil paintings of her own.
When the principal entered her classroom, she required her charges to snap to attention (and silence) immediately.
She was exceedingly proud. A perk given to her annually by the principal was for her class (with her at the head) to lead the entire school on the march to the annual field day in Victoria Park in downtown Kitchener.
Miss Clarke also achieved many distinctions with the Women Teachers Federation and the Kitchener-Waterloo Retired Teachers Association.
JEANETTE CLARKE was a legendary middle-grade teacher for many years in the mid-20th century at elementary public schools in the Kitchener, Ontario system including Victoria, Suddaby, Sheppard and King Edward.
Miss Clarke's teaching career spanned 40 years, 34 in Kitchener. She began teaching in Bloomingdale, Ontario and served for a short stint in a one-room School in Borden, Saskatchewan. At the latter, she had the distinction of replacing John Diefenbaker, later a prime minster of Canada, after he had been fired for taking his schoolboys groundhog hunting.
She had a commanding presence in her classroom and would tolerate no misbehaviour or lack of effort by her pupils. She particularly loved teaching painting and had produced oil paintings of her own.
When the principal entered her classroom, she required her charges to snap to attention (and silence) immediately.
She was exceedingly proud. A perk given to her annually by the principal was for her class (with her at the head) to lead the entire school on the march to the annual field day in Victoria Park in downtown Kitchener.
Miss Clarke also achieved many distinctions with the Women Teachers Federation and the Kitchener-Waterloo Retired Teachers Association.
Miss Clarke's teaching career spanned 40 years, 34 in Kitchener. She began teaching in Bloomingdale, Ontario and served for a short stint in a one-room School in Borden, Saskatchewan. At the latter, she had the distinction of replacing John Diefenbaker, later a prime minster of Canada, after he had been fired for taking his schoolboys groundhog hunting.
She had a commanding presence in her classroom and would tolerate no misbehaviour or lack of effort by her pupils. She particularly loved teaching painting and had produced oil paintings of her own.
When the principal entered her classroom, she required her charges to snap to attention (and silence) immediately.
She was exceedingly proud. A perk given to her annually by the principal was for her class (with her at the head) to lead the entire school on the march to the annual field day in Victoria Park in downtown Kitchener.
Miss Clarke also achieved many distinctions with the Women Teachers Federation and the Kitchener-Waterloo Retired Teachers Association.
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