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Compiling the first 125 years of Kimihia My interest in this work stems from
School’s existence was an interesting having lived in Kimihia from my birth in
challenge. I never saw it as being a complete 1945 up to 1967, as my father Harry was a
record, but gathering together what could be heavy machine operator in the mine, helping
found would be far better than no collection to assemble and then drive the monstrous
at all. Euclid 120-B excavator (the assembly
The reader will discover obvious and instructions were all in Russian). The original
glaring gaps in the compilation, which should single-classroom educated me from 1950 to
be thought of as a beginning—a record that 1957 before I moved on to Huntly College.
can be added to as further data turns up from I had the fortune of being able to return
official and personal collections. The biggest and teach the middle-school pupils in 1966
“gap” is the missing records from the World before the school’s closure. It was, at that
War 2 years of 1943 and 1944, when the time, a 3-room school (which had two
records were removed from the school by the prefabricated rooms added) with fellow-
Ministry of Education. These “missing” teachers Mick Mather (Headmaster &
names were later appended to the 1945 seniors) and Marion Bogie (Juniors).
register.
I am hoping that this record can be a
In a number of places there are links to memory-boost for families from the district,
further records, such as the school enrolment and provide an incentive to have our
registers as well as links (in some cases) to memories added to.
the music we may have listened to in the
years of our attendance.
Sandy MacDonald
