Bealton WI Tweedsmuir Community History, Volume 1, [1975], p. 11

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| wo had B E A L T O N S C H 0 0 L T BE A C H E R _R E T I R E S ~ | | } 1J 484. | Bealtog School | Teacher Retires ; The retirement of Mr. W. F. 4 Young, who has taught school at | Bealton forâ€".over thirty years, will | be marked by a‘reunion of formâ€" § er pupils and friends at the | Bealton School Grounds on Satâ€"| ‘ urday, June 28th. A picnic lunch| | will be served at noon and a proâ€" \ â€" gram of sports will‘ be held durâ€"| | ing the afternoon. | | Mr. Young, who is a son of the | late Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Your?, | was born at Fairfield Plains in i Burford Township on June 11, | 1881. He attended school in Reâ€" gina,. Sask., Brantford Collegiate,|: } Hamilton Model School andâ€" the|, j London Normal School. His first | | position as teacher was at the,| } Ambrose School in North Walâ€"|, | singham, later teaching at Pine f |Grove and Burtch before moving $ to Bealton in 1913. ; His teach.hi§ | career at Bealton was interrupt: ‘ ed in 1916, when he joined Ahe ; 215th Regiment at Brantford and | served in ‘the First World War. | ‘Mr. Young wes wounded in acâ€" | tion twice, ‘which ‘necessitated| I many weeks in bli(:spigg'l before j |resuming his teaching at ‘Bealton | iin 1919. In 1920, he: married Mrs. ‘ \J“%en Griffis, who ‘passed away ;. @ January 28, 1947. ‘Two sons, wames W. Young, who is a stuâ€" ; dent at ‘Victoria College, Toronto, f served in the Air 'FE‘orcg during the last war and Edward G. : "Â¥oung of Harpilton, served in the i Canadian Army in World War II. | | Mr. Young bhas made his home| for several months with his stepâ€" daughter, Mrg. Ernest Coggi Waterford. * °C * Having taught for over thirty years at the ‘Bealton school, we ‘believe that Mr. Young has esâ€" tablished a record unequalled in the ‘Township of Townsend if not the County of NorfolKk, and ?-Es retirement will be a di'sgjja.‘ctclg'gg to ‘theischool and commuiity, *â€"

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