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and 10 by correspondence. She later returned to Normal School to complete her training.”

Among the pictures Rose donated is one where she is about 22 years old with her class from Meadowlands School near Winnipegosis. Again, her pictures trace her career from a young woman barely older than her students to her retirement from Margaret Scott School in 1985. Rose also included among other items, her first contracts with Winnipeg School Division No.1, an MTS card to say she’d completed training in the “Cuisenaire Method” in 1965, and a collection of textbooks, readers and teacher resources from her own days as a girl in Sandy Lake to her teaching years.

“If there is one thing this job has taught me, it’s that while a picture may be worth a thousand words, there is still so much it can’t say. Just a few words can shed a whole new light on the most simple picture,” says Theriault. “I look forward to each and every call I get from potential donations. I know our 100th will be just the start of an enduring legacy of teaching in Manitoba.” n

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