Pilot Mound's newspaper, The Sentinel, celebrated Education Week, February 6-11, 1939, by relinquishing its entire fourth page to student editor Hazel Stevens. The local school provided the content.
The full page of The Pilot Mound School Journal is shown here, with the individual stories enlarged below.
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| The Pilot Mound School Journal, inaugural edition. |
Regular editor Ron Tuckwell was happy to support the effort.
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Newspaper editor Ronald W. Tuckwell, age 31,
(1890-1991)
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Ron Tuckwell published the first issue of The Pilot Mound School Journal,
and suggested readers heed the principal's commentary, below.
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| Principal A. Vopnford introduced The Journal as a way to promote democracy and connect students with regular newspaper readers. |
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Message from Hazel Stevens, Editor of The Pilot Mound School Journal
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Other stories from the edition follow. One name Frasers will recognize is that of Arva Stewart, a grade 9 student in 1939.
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Arva clearly enjoyed the opportunity to explore art.
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A submission from third-grader Shirley Gibbs
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| Fred Perfect and Murray McLeod were Grade 12 students. |
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Edna McLean wrote an original poem.
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G.E. Henwood challenges readers with a quick Geography test.
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Stew. Dent waxes poetic about grammar.
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Mrs. Margaret McKay gives readers a history lesson.
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Irma McKay reviews a new history textbook.
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Not sure if there was a message on this pupil's slate, but the teacher is not pleased.
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