RTAM E-mail Contest Winners

Norman School commemorative monument, RM of Elton - 2015

away Derry School District near Douglas arranged for a position. I taught there one year until I was found out and the job then given to a young woman from that district. Fortunately, the Norman School District nine miles to the north had a position. I taught there until 1936, the year I married and consequently forced into early retirement - married women weren’t allowed to teach! In 1952, with the postwar baby boom and our five children in school, I returned to the classroom when an urgent call came for a teacher at Derry. I finished my career at the Douglas school and then with the Department of National Defence at Shilo, getting in barely a total of twenty five years to qualify for a pension. My health has allowed me to travel - a year in Australia when a daughter was there on a teacher exchange, and many trips to the Air Canada Silver Broom in Europe and North America to satisfy my curling fan interest. Visits to family in the frontier state of Alaska fed an adventurous spirit. Despite these varied experiences of geography and people I’m a prairie person, at home here in small town Manitoba, at home in the wide-open landscape.

I am well cared for and mostly content but do admit to sometimes feeling unproductive. My eyes are working well and I have access to a good library, but I do want to do more than sit in my lift chair. I stopped curling at 90 for fear of falling but now that I’m managing a wheelchair I’m sure I would be safe on the ice with the chair and a curling stick. I think I’ll put together a team of other prairie centenarians. We’ll be ready for the next curling season, COVID-19 permitting. . . §

With the goal of building an electronic RTAM membership list by May of 2021, RTAM sponsored a contest to solicit email addresses from its members. Each member who submitted their current email address was placed in a draw for one of 20 gift cards worth $50 each. There

New emails (no record of previous email on file)

1. Elizabeth Michalot 2. Lucien Loiselle 3. Holly F. Nahachewsky 4. Wayne Watson 5. Cecilia Braun 6. Pat Watson 7. Andrew Krashewski 8. Olivia Stadnyk 9. Victoria Adams 10. Lois (Bev) Dougall

Existing or Updated Emails

1. Rene Wilfrid Perreault 2. Anne Williams 3. Barbara Reid 4. Joseph Combiadakis 5. Judy Kyliuk 6. Edward D. Toews 7. Raymond John Peters 8. Ron Dobrinsky 9. Bonnie Turner 10. John Kiddell

were two categories, New Emails and Existing or updated emails. The draw took place on January 20 facilitated by Dianne Casar, the RTAM Member Services Coordinator, with the assistance of her two daughters. The winners are listed below. Thank you, everyone who participated in this contest. §

Izabella and Rozalia (left and right) daughters of RTAM Member Services Coordinator, Dianne Casar (centre) draw the ballots for the RTAM Email Contest. The contest initiated the building of an electronic email membership list.

In Memoriam

June 2020

P. Doreen Bowers – Koostatak, MB

(The above RTAM member who has passed, was regretfully missed from previous editions of KIT. We sincerely apologize to the family.)

October 2020

Peter I. Friesen – Winnipeg, MB Lorraine Genaille – The Pas, MB M. Alice Howatt – Dauphin, MB Gail E. Johannesson – Winnipeg, MB Elizabeth J. McLachlan – Victoria, BC Roderick K. McEwen – Gibsons, BC Simon Nimchuk – Winnipeg, MB Priscille A. Poirier – Winnipeg, MB Marie A. L. Prud’homme – Winnipeg, MB Robert J. Simmons – Nanaimo, BC George M. Takashima – Lethbridge, AB Annette M. Tencha-Hamel – Winnipeg, MB Dorothy C. White – Brandon, MB

November 2020

Emilie Ammazzini – Winnipeg, MB Lorin Berard – Winnipeg, MB Irene A. Enns – La Salle, MB William E. Kingsbury – Boulder, CO, USA John A. MacNab – Calgary, AB Hilda Maendel – Portage la Prairie, MB Dianne M. McGeachie – Toronto, ON James P. Patrick – Winnipeg, MB Mary M. Petrycia – Winnipeg, MB Morley E. Rowe – Winnipeg, MB Charles W. Shirriff – Portage la Prairie, MB E. Eileen Sokalski – Winnipeg, MB Gary E. Smith – Winnipeg, MB Geoffrey H. Smith – Lac du Bonnet, MB Bernice Stebbing – Winnipeg, MB Randolph J. Tomchak – Winnipeg, MB Gilbert P. Unger – Blumenort, MB David M. Watson – Ottawa, ON Pamela Watson – Winnipeg, MB Patricia Winram-Dunsford – Winnipeg, MB

December 2020

Elsie J. Bradley – Winnipeg, MB LaVerne Fraser – Elizabeth Town, ON Abram W. Friesen – Winnipeg, MB Arthur B. Funk – Winnipeg, MB Eileen E. George – Winnipeg, MB Waltraud Guether – Grunthal, MB Linda Kautz – Killarney, MB Maurie Kohut – Winnipeg, MB Tamara M. Kubrak – Winnipeg, MB Ernest G. Lavalee – Cormorant, MB Marie P. MacDonald – Ottawa, ON Ethel A. D. Mair – Winnipeg, MB Carol C. Mathers – Nanaimo, BC Richard L. Osika – Flin Flon, MB Leona Ozog – Winnipeg, MB Edward M. Powroznik – Gimli, MB Florence J. Richter – Ashern, MB Vera Shupenia – Komarno, MB Dennis J. Storozinski – Dauphin, MB John J. Suszko – Petersfield, MB Donald G. Tougas – Winnipeg, MB Br. Marc Turcotte – Saint-Anselme, QC Lillian R. Valentine – Winnipeg, MB Martha Wilson – Athabasca, AB Charles R. Wright – Brandon, MB

Life Members (Presented at age 90 to RTAM members)

November 2020

Clarence R. Koss – Beausejour, MB Br. Marc Turcotte – Saint-Anselme, QC Jeanne E. Turner – St. Albert, AB

December 2020

Velma B. Clayton – Winnipeg, MB Helen Himick – Vernon, BC Lindbergh I. N. Kemkaran – Calgary, AB A Muriel McHaffie – Ottawa, ON Sushila Nath – Regina, SK Marjorie V. Reynolds – St. John’s, NL Lucille M. St. Amant – St. Jean Baptiste, MB