Volume 8 No. 31
Friday, July 28, 2017
School house celebrated by past teachers and students School in Marysburg on July 22-23. Planning for both the reunion and a marker for the school started in 2015 with Ralph Frank, Dave Schreiner, and David Wiegers getting together and recruiting volunteers to sit on a marker committee, history committee, reunion committee, and a banking committee. Schreiner says it was something they should have done 10 years ago. “We talked about a homecoming a lot and we finally got around to doing it,” he says. The reunion was just simply a lot of getting together and visiting but did include musical entertainment by former student Arnold Ecker and his daughter, Kathy, and plenty of food with supper on July 22 and a pancake breakfast on July 23. Out of the approximately 90 people who came to enjoy the day, 51 of the them are students and four teachers Around 51 former students, four former teachers, as well as family and friends, gathered in honour coming back to remember of Veronika School, one of many Saskatchewan one room school houses that graced the prairies. the good times and people, Located east of Burton Lake, the school was open to homestead families from 1910 to 1962. Previ- including visitors from as ous students and board members recently installed a memorial marker on the spot in advance of far away as Surrey, B.C. The marker committee the July 22-23 celebration. photo courtesy of Darren Frank got together to collect $25 from former teachers and By Becky Zimmer Journal Editor students, which amounted to It was one of many one room $1,500 to go towards the marker school houses in Saskatchewan. which was put up in May. The one room school, just east And 55 years after it closed its doors, students and teachers got of Burton Lake, was built in 1911together to celebrate Veronika 1912 but a petition to start the
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school started in 1906. Students were taught from kindergarten to grade 8 and if they wanted to continue with their education they would have had to travel to Muenster or Humboldt or stay at the school to complete their education by correspondence. By 1947, a new school was needed and built in 1950. By 1962, the school had closed down and was bought and students were bused to Marysburg or the Monastery School in Muenster. The History Committee worked on a history book for the event featuring pictures and write ups about former teachers and students. Getting the information for the book took some digging with the school’s history being found in the provincial achieves while biographies and other write ups took a lot of work from the committee, collecting information from former students and teachers, as well as Ancestry.ca, obituaries, and local history books. Schreiner laughs that he remembers all of his classmates, which is not as amazing as one would think, considering it was just him and Wiegers for the most part all through their school days. Frank was just one grade ahead of them but he says there were only three in his class all through his school years. One thing that should be remembered about Veronika School, says Frank, is that they always beat Ives School in softball.
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