Historic Sites of Manitoba: Westfield School / Rosser Village School No. 750 (Rosser, RM of Rosser)

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Known originally as Westfield School District when it was established formally in July 1893, it was renamed Rosser Village School at the start of the 1922-1923 school year, operating a school in the village of Rosser in the Municipality of Rosser. It became Rosser Municipal School No. 2356 in 1958.

Principals

Period	Principal
1918-1919	Emma Irene Steen (1899-1985)
1919	Elizabeth Weller
1920-1921	Mabel Estella Prout (1889-1964)
1922	Henrietta Beveridge Herkes (1899-?)
1922-1924	Ida Christine Graham (1901-1982)
1924-1926	Luella M. Telfer
1926-1927	I. Gislason
1927-1928	H. Dahlgren
1928-1929	Helen Anne Owen
1929-1930	Lorene Frances Ritz Milliken (1907-1990)
1930-1932	Madeline Gertrude Bretz (1907-1988)
1932-1933	Marion Winona Romanche [Romanczycz] Pepper (1912-1991)
1933-1935	Anna Margaret Switzer Corbett (1907-2001)
1935-1939	Laura Margaret Lemon Forsyth (1909-c1987)
1939-1940	Grace Murley Wadge (1908-1973)
1940-1942	Muriel Amelia Robertson Redpath (1906-1984)
1942-1946	Dorothy Emily Ryan (1903-1989)
1946-1947	Alma Clara Schiebe
1947-1948	Ida Podolsky
1948	Annie Maria Jones
1949	Dorothy Ellen Swinburne Levine (c1905-1971)
1949-1955	Thaddeus Cecil “Ted” Brune (1896-1973)
1955-1959	Michael Yarmie (1931-2012)
1959-1963	Archibald Donald “Archie” Cameron
1963-1964	Maurice Walter Peleshok (1922-2013)
1964-1968	William M. A. Campbell
1968-1973	?
1973-1975	Nancy Lynn Lillebo
1975-1979	Archibald Donald “Archie” Cameron
1979-1981	Donna Marie Watson Sante
1981-1982	Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro
1982-1986	?

Teachers

Among the teachers of Westfield School (1893-1903) were Hugh McCullough, Annie Shannon, Katie Lucy, J. Egaliou, Nellie Reckie, Nora Malcolm, Laura Williams, Belle Glennie, and J. Robson.

School Year	Teachers
1915-1916	Jean I. Whitelaw (grades 1-7)
1916-1917	Ethel P. McArthur (grades 1-8)
1917-1918	Ethel P. McArthur (grades 1-8)
1918-1919	Ethel P. McArthur (grades 1-6), Irene E. Steen (grades 7-9)
1919-1920	Ethel P. McArthur (grades 1-6), Mabel E. Prout (grades 7-10, 1920), Elizabeth Weller (grades 7-10, 1919)
1920-1921	Jean McIntyre (grades 1-7, 1921), Mabel E. Prout (grades 8-11), Margaret Shaw (grades 1-7, 1920)
1921-1922	Henrietta B. Herkes (grades 9-11, 1922), Jean McIntyre (grades 1-8), Mabel E. Prout (grades 9-11, 1921)
1922-1923	Ida Christina Graham (grades 8-11), Jean McIntyre (grades 1-6)
1923-1924	Ida Christina Graham (grades 7-11), Vyra Somerville (grades 1-6)
1924-1925	Luella M. Telfer (grade 8-11), Winnifred G. Woodhull (grades 1-6)
1925-1926	Luella M. Telfer (grade 7-11), Winnifred G. Woodhull (grades 1-6)
1926-1927	I. Gislason (grades 1-6, 9-10)
1927-1928	H. Dahlgren (grades 1-7)
1928-1929	Helen Anne Owen (grades 1-8)
1929-1930	Helen Anne Owen (grades 1-8), Lorene Francis Ritz (grades 9-10)
1930-1931	Madeline Gertrude Bretz (grades 9-11), Anna Margaret Switzer (grades 1-8)
1931-1932	Madeline Gertrude Bretz (grades 9-11), Anna Margaret Switzer (grades 1-8)
1932-1933	Anna Margaret Switzer (grades 1-8), Marion Winona Romanche (grades 9-11)
1933-1934	Katherine A. Aird (grades 1-8, 1934), Gertrude Kathleen Carson (grades 1-8, 1933), Anna Margaret Switzer (grades 9-11)
1934-1935	Katherine A. Aird (grades 1-8), Anna Margaret Switzer (grades 9-11)
1935-1936	Laura Margaret Lemon (grades 9-11), Doris Grace Webb (grades 1-8)
1936-1937	Laura Margaret Lemon (grades 9-11), Doris Grace Webb (grades 1-8)
1937-1938	Laura Margaret Lemon (grades 9-11), Doris Grace Webb (grades 1-8)
1938-1939	Laura Margaret Lemon (grades 9-12), Jessie L. Ross (grades 1-8)
1939-1940	Jessie L. Ross (grades 1-8), Grace Murley Wadge (grades 9-12)
1940-1941	Muriel Amelia Redpath (grades 9-12), Jessie L. Ross (grades 1-8, 1940), Dorothy Emily Ryan (grades 1-8, 1941)
1941-1942	Muriel Amelia Redpath (grades 9-11), Dorothy Emily Ryan (grades 1-8)
1942-1943	Beatrice May Fraser (grades 1-8), Dorothy Emily Ryan (grades 9-11)
1943-1944	Dorothy Emily Ryan (grades 1-9)
1944-1945	Dorothy Emily Ryan (grades 1-9)
1945-1946	Dorothy Emily Ryan (grades 1-8)
1946-1947	Elizabeth Mae Blair (grades 1-6), Alma Clara Schiebe (grades 7-11)
1947-1948	Ida Podolsky (grades 1-8)
1948-1949	Heather M. Coulter (grades 1-6, 1949), Ruth Elizabeth Galbraith (grades 1-6, 1948), Annie Maria Jones (grades 7-11, 1948), Dorothy Ellen Swinburne Levine (grades 7-11, 1949)
1949-1950	Thaddeus Cecil “Ted” Brune (grades 7-11), Beatrice May Fraser (grades 1-6)
1950-1951	Thaddeus Cecil “Ted” Brune (grades 7-11), Beatrice May Fraser (grades 1-6)
1951-1952	Mary Bocek (grades 1-6), Thaddeus Cecil “Ted” Brune (grades 7-11)
1952-1953	Mary Bocek (grades 1-6), Thaddeus Cecil “Ted” Brune (grades 7-11)
1953-1954	Thaddeus Cecil “Ted” Brune (grades 7-11), Margaretha Schwartz (grades 1-6)
1954-1955	Thaddeus Cecil “Ted” Brune (grades 7-11), Joyce Fielding Muriel (grades 1-6)
1955-1956	Beatrice M. Siska (grades 1-6), Michael Yarmie (grades 7-11)
1956-1957	Archibald Donald “Archie” Cameron (grades 5-8), Evonne Angeline Michaelovich (grades 1-4), Michael Yarmie (grades 9-11)
1957-1958	Mildred Joyce Brown (grades 1-4), Archibald Donald “Archie” Cameron (grades 5-8), Michael Yarmie (grades 9-11)
1958-1959	Robert B. Boyd (grades 6-8), Archibald Donald “Archie” Cameron (grades 5-9), Mildred Joyce Brown Phelps (grades 1-4), Michael Yarmie (grades 10-11)
1959-1960	Archibald Donald “Archie” Cameron (grades 10-11), Anna Margaret Switzer Corbett (grades 1-4), Robert B. Boyd (grades 6-8), Keith Alan Cosens (grade 9)
1960-1961	Archibald Donald “Archie” Cameron (grades 10-11), Anna Margaret Switzer Corbett (grades 1-4), Keith Alan Cosens (grades 8-9), Marguerite Minaker (grades 5-8)
1961-1962	Archibald Donald “Archie” Cameron (grades 6-8), Anna Margaret Switzer Corbett (grades 1-3), Marguerite Minaker (grades 4-6)
1962-1963	Archibald Donald “Archie” Cameron (grades 7-8), Anna Margaret Switzer Corbett (grades 1-3), Marguerite Minaker (grades 4-6)
1963-1964	Anna Margaret Switzer Corbett (grades 1-3), Marguerite Minaker (grades 4-5), Maurice Walter Peleshok (grades 7-8), Alice Marie Rousseau Perras (grade 6)
1964-1965	William M. A. Campbell (grades 7-8), Anna Margaret Switzer Corbett (grades 1-2), Marguerite Minaker (grades 3-4), Alice Marie Rousseau Perras (grades 5-6)
1965-1966	William M. A. Campbell (grades 7-8), Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grades 1-2), Marguerite Minaker (grades 3-4), Alice Marie Rousseau Perras (grades 5-6)
1966-1967	William M. A. Campbell (grades 7-8), Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grades 1-2), Marguerite Minaker (grades 3-4), Alice Marie Rousseau Perras (grades 5-6)
1967-1968	William M. A. Campbell (grades 7-8), Theresa Janet Cherniak (grades 3-4), Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grades 1-2), Marguerite Minaker (grades 5-6)
1968-1969	Brenda Jean Buchanan (grade 2), Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grade 1), Barbara Diane Doherty (grade 4), Marguerite Minaker (grade 3)
1969-1970	Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grade 1), Barbara Diane Doherty (grade 4), Brenda Jean Buchanan Ellison (grade 2), Marguerite Minaker (grade 3)
1970-1971	Judith Elaine Baldwin (grade 2), Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grade 1), Barbara Diane Doherty (grade 4), Marguerite Minaker (grade 3)
1971-1972	Judith Elaine Baldwin (grade 2), Barbara Diane Doherty Crockatt (grade 4), Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grade 1), Marguerite Minaker (grade 3)
1972-1973	Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grade 1), Marguerite Minaker (grade 3), Ruth Lois Mulligan (grade 2), Donna Marie Watson (grade 4)
1973-1974	Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grade 1), Nancy Lynn Lillebo (grade 3), Ruth Lois Mulligan (grade 2), Donna Marie Watson (grade 4)
1974-1975	Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grades 1-2), Nancy Lynn Lillebo (grade 3), Donna Marie Watson (grade 4)
1975-1976	Archibald Donald “Archie” Cameron (grade 4), Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grades 1-2), Donna Marie Watson (grade 3)
1976-1977	Archibald Donald “Archie” Cameron (grade 4), Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grade 1), Donna Marie Watson (grades 2-3)
1977-1978	Archibald Donald “Archie” Cameron (grades 3-4), Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grade 1), Donna Marie Watson (grade 2)
1978-1979	Archibald Donald “Archie” Cameron (grade 3), Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grade 1), Donna Marie Watson Sante (grade 2)
1979-1980	Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grades 1-2), Edna Shirley Noren (grade 4), Donna Marie Watson Sante (grade 2)
1980-1981	Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grade 1), Edna Shirley Noren (grade 4), Donna Marie Watson Sante (grades 2-3)
1981-1982	Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grade 1), Edna Shirley Noren (grades 3-4), Joan Taylor (grade 2)
1982-1983	Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grades 1-2), Edna Shirley Noren (grade 3), Joan Taylor (grade 3)
1983-1984	Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grades 1-2), Edna Shirley Noren (grade 4), Joan Taylor (grades 2-3)
1984-1985	Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grades 1-2), S. Marilyn Rempel (grades 2-3), Joan Taylor (grades 3-4)
1985-1986	Wilma Eileen DiLazzaro (grades 1-2), ? (other grades)

Other teachers of Rosser Village School (1986-1992) included J. Hudson, G. Penner, V. Barker, D. Bender, D. Carlson, L. Lyons, and A. Warkentin.

Photos & Coordinates

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.99062, W97.45451 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: East Rosser School No. 594 (RM of Rosser)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: West Rosser School No. 1246 (RM of Rosser)

Sources:

Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.

One Hundred Years in the History of the Rural Schools of Manitoba: Their Formation, Reorganization and Dissolution (1871-1971) by Mary B. Perfect, MEd thesis, University of Manitoba, April 1978.

The First Hundred Years, 1893-1993 by the Rosser Municipality Centennial History Book Committee, page 108.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Westfield School District No. 750 Daily Registers, GR2213, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Rosser Village School District No. 750 Daily Registers, GR2213, Archives of Manitoba.

School division half-yearly attendance reports, Schedule E0757, Archives of Manitoba.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 9 September 2020

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