MHS Centennial Organization: Manitoba Association of School Trustees / Manitoba School Boards Association

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The Manitoba School Trustees Association was established as a result of an organizational meeting held at Brandon on 3-5 April 1907. Initially, it was known as the Department of School Administration of the Manitoba Educational Association and changed its name the following year to the School Trustee’s Department.

It was incorporated as the Manitoba School Trustees Association in 1943. It divided into separate urban and rural associations in late 1952 (called the Manitoba Urban Trustees Association and Manitoba School Trustees Association, respectively) but the two entities re-merged in 1965, becoming the Manitoba Association of School Trustees. It was renamed the Manitoba School Boards Association in 1990.

Presidents

Samuel MacMorine (1907-1908)	John Archibald McKerchar (1908-1909)	Alexander Morrison Campbell (1909-1910)	William Horne Bewell (1910-1913)
John Livingstone Brown (1913-1915)	Ira Stratton (1915-1916)	William Iverach (1916-1919)	Samuel Henry Forrest (1919-1920)
James Allison Glen (1920-1924)	Joseph Aldéric Marion (1924-1926)	Henry Nesbitt MacNeill (1926-1931)	Arthur Thomas “Tom” Hainsworth (1931-1933)
Matthew James Stanbridge (1933-1936)	John N. McFadden (1937-1939)	Wallace Conrad “Wally” Miller (1939)	James Dowsett [Minnedosa] (1940-1942)
Duncan Lloyd Cameron (1942-1944)	James Anthony Cuddy (1944-1946)	George Arthur Fitton (1946-1948)	Albert James “Bert” MacLeod (1948-1950)
James Anthony Cuddy (1951-1954)	Abram Jacob Thiessen (1954-1958)	Oswald Morton McKay (1958-1960)	Réne Préfontaine (1960-1961)
Robert W. McPherson [Hartney] (1962-1963)	Ron Parkinson [St. Boniface] (1963-1964)	Alvin Chown Hamilton (1964-1966)	Glen Harrison Lowther (1966-1968)
Bertrun Elwood “Bert” Glavin (1968-1969)	Dorwin Kenneth “Ken” Compton (1969-1970)	William “Bill” Norrie (1970-1971)	Walter W. “Wally” Robson (1971-1973)
Joseph C. Stangl (1973-1974)	Dean D. Durston (1974-1975)	Maureen Hemphill (1975-1976)	Ken Burgess (1976-1977)
Margaret Trott (1977-1978)	Ed Hart (1978-1979)	Allen “Al” Rouse (1979-1980)	John Murray (1980-1981)
Myrtle I. Zimmerman (1981-1982)	David Robert “Bob” Rose (1982-1983)	George Marshall (1983-1984)	John Johnson (1984-1985)
Linda McIntosh (1985-1986)	Doug Mosset (1986-1987)	Judy Silver (1987-1988)	Vern Kulyk (1988-1989)
Brenda Leslie (1989-1990)	Robert “Bob” Gladstone (1990-1991)	Eric Leonard Jonasson (1991-1992)	Lorn Bergstresser (1992-1993)
Gail Watson (1993-1994)	Marinus Van Osch (1994-1995)	Carolyn Duhamel (1995-1996)	Betty Green (1996-1997)
Roy Schellenberg (1997-1998)	Leonard “Len” Schieman (1998-1999)	Doug McGiffin (1999-2000)	Rey Toews (2000-2001)
Donald “Don” Dunnigan (2001-2002)	Linda Archer (2002-2003)	Garry Draper (2003-2005)	Ruth Ann Furgala (2005-2007)
Yolande Dupuis (2007-2009)	Hugh Coburn (2009-2011)	Robert Rivard (2011-2013)	Floyd Martens (2013-2015)
Ken Cameron (2015-2018)	Alan M. Campbell (2018-2023)	Sandy Nemeth (2023-present)

Presidents (Manitoba Urban Trustees Association)

William Graham Ferguson (1952-1953)	Anne Ethel “Nan” Murphy (1953-1954)	Leslie James Bennett (1954-1955)	Lorimer Burnett Shilson [Carman] (1955-1956)
Arthur Henry Day (1956-1959)	Glen Percy Sutherland (1959)	Cecil Roy Durston [Dauphin] (1959-1960)	Roy Joseph Matas (1960-1961)
Edward Lawrence Reynolds [Miniota] (1961-1962)	Aidan Hamilton Conklin (1962-1964)

Secretaries / Executive Directors

John Thomas Haig (1907-1913)	Hugh Walter Cox-Smith (1913-1926)	Robert Love (1926-1956)	Bethel Harold Stinson (1956)
Elva Bell (1957)	Nina Antoinnette Yaremovich Partrick (1957-1965)	Gail Godfrey (1966-1967)	Dona Richter (1966-1967)
Alexander C. “Sandy” Anderson (1967-1972)	Norman Gilbert “Norm” Harvey (1972-1986)	Jerry MacNeil (1987-2000)	Carolyn Duhamel (2000-2015)
Nathanael Joshua “Josh” Watt (2015-present)

See also:

Manitoba Organization: Manitoba Educational Association

Manitoba Organization: Manitoba Teachers’ Society

Manitoba Women Trustees, Manitoba School Boards Association.

50th Convention Anniversary Slide Show, Manitoba School Boards Association.

Sources:

“Government aid for rural schools is urged by Beck,” Winnipeg Tribune, 14 January 1941, page 13.

“School Board notes,” Selkirk Enterprise, 23 October 1952, page 1.

“Minister predicts school aid increase,” Brandon Sun, 24 November 1959, page 3.

“Trustee groups here vote to amalgamate, to set up new body,” Winnipeg Free Press, 19 June 1965, page 118.

History of the Manitoba School Boards Association.

We thank Karen Harrington and Joshua Watt for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 11 December 2023