ShiloBrats Guestbook

Submitted by
Name: Doc J
From: ShiloBrats

Comments:
Regarding the Greenwood School opening, there is an official confirmation from Mr. Gerald Brown, a Greenwood teacher at the time. THE OFFICIAL GREENWOOD SCHOOL OPENING was at 2:00 p.m. on October 30, 1963.

I must have been playing in that concrete wading pool in 61, nice going Tim

Added: May 11, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Bill Brown
From: Ontario
E-mail: bratone@cogeco.ca

Comments:
There are PEHS trophies in the Shilo museum, if a local brat would take the time to look them up. A search may be required they were stored away in boxes
and they dug them out for our last reunion in 05

Bill

Added: May 10, 2010

Submitted by
Name: ShiloBrats

Comments:
Doug's Awards table photo and Stag articles have been added to the Great School Debate Album in the Gallery along with some comments and theories, and until the actual verification of details come forward, this should be fun! What are your memories...

Added: May 10, 2010

Submitted by
Name: djordan
From: winnipeg

Comments:
I have a photo, developed in September, 1963, showing the awards table for awards night decorated with a pennant entitled "P.E.H.S.". But, I have a newspaper article from 1964 in which the school is referred to a "P.E.P. School". You know, just to add to the confusion. However, I am pretty sure I graduated from P.E.H.S. in 1964!

Added: May 10, 2010

Submitted by
Name: nancy L. robertson
From: brandon

Comments:
Hi Pat and Alexia ,I did not know that you lived in Martensville,my sister-in law Leslie,Bill's wife used to teach in Martensville ,probably late 80's early 90's. She is now Dr.Robertson and is a principal at Willow Park in Calgary. Let me know if you remember her.

Added: May 7, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Mark McReynolds
From: North Vancouver BC
E-mail: mcrey@shaw.ca

Comments:
I would like to welcome my "old" army brat buddy, Kelly Giberson to the "50" club!! Happy Birthday my old friend!!!! Hope all is well out in Brandon.

Added: May 5, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Tim Keenan
From: Terrace BC

Comments:
Just dug out my report cards and diplomas from 1961 to 1964. No help there. None of them says either Princess Elizabeth Public School OR Princess Elizabeth High School--the ones from 61-62 and 62-63 say "Princess Elizabeth School", (even though I was at D-5 in 62-63--maybe it was considered a "satellite campus"

and the one from 63-64 has D5 written in by hand. As for Greenwood--I am VERY sure it was not there in 1961--there was a concrete wading pool in the open field where the school was subsequently built. Olga Yumatoff (I think that was her name) took me and my brother there to cool off when she was babysitting us in the summer.

Added: May 5, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Doc J
From: ShiloBrats

Comments:
Thanks guys, although no firm date has appeared in print (that we can find) for the PEPS/PEHS change of name, it was used based on the following information.

The 1962 Yearbook is for the 61 - 62 school year. Throughout the entire yearbook all references are made as PEHS including in the Introduction: �We hope that you will enjoy this publication and use it to remember the first year of Princess Elizabeth High School in the years to come.�

The Sports pages in the 62 Yearbook refer to all sports as PEHS, but the men�s uniforms were PEPS till 1965 when they changed to plain or numbered tops, the ladies carried the PEPS name all the way to 1969.

And in February of 09, we received this from our Contact Us form.
Name: David Klenavic
Question or Comment: I enjoyed viewing your site. I was president of the student council in 1961-62. It was through our councils efforts the name of the school was changed from P.E.P.S. to P.E.H.S. we also approved the first high school jacket green and gold if I remember right. There does not seem to be many photos from that period, we were just getting started. I left Shilo in 62.

So putting this together, it looks like the �61 school year started out as PEPS, and by the efforts of the Student Council (and before the Yearbook was published) changed to PEHS. As the year started out as PEPS, the school still accommodated other grades, and was not exclusively a high school.

Also in the �62 Yearbook, in the Student Council section appears this interesting statement:
With true democratic spirit we, the students of Princess Elizabeth and O�Kelly High Schools, elected our Student Council Executives. This was a precedent in the history of the two schools as they had never before elected a student council.

�and my fuzzy memory, recalls going to grade 8 at Greenwood which would have been 1960 - 61. Greenwood memories could use more input. Do you have a Greenwood class photo?

The schools issue is open, what do you remember?

Added: May 4, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Terry Maskell
From: Calgary
E-mail: terryandholly@shaw.ca

Comments:
Hi people, as to the school names and the date of change. Check out the yearbooks. In 1965 it was PEPS on the sports jerseys and in 1966 it was PEHS. Hope this helps

Added: May 4, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Tim Keenan
From: Terrace BC

Comments:
A minor quibble about the chronology of PEPS/PEHS as described in the Gallery section--it says that it was renamed PEHS in 1961. I moved to Shilo for the second time in August of 1961, and started Grade 1 in Esther Bott's class at PEPS in 1961. My brother David started kindergarten the same year at O'Kelly. Greenwood school was not built until a year or so after that, and I believe it opened in the fall of 1963. I remember riding my bike around on the brand-new silky-smooth asphalt on the parking lot that summer, while the interior finishing was still under way. So I think that the PEPS to PEHS took place in fall 1962--at least, I spent grade 2 and 3 in an H-hut called D-5, and there was another converted H-hut, (A-2, I believe)that also served as overflow classroom space. I think we were the peak of the baby boom. They schlepped us by bus to PEHS for gym (with Mr. Emond) and to O'Kelly for music (with Miss Page)in 1962-63, and to Greenwood for both in 1963-64.

On the subject of German tanks--I don't have the esoteric knowledge of German armour that some of you older brats have, but I do remember at least one tank which I believed was WWII German vintage, and at least in my mind's eye it was in grey paint with those square black crosses. I think it was over by where the headquarters building was, and on more than one occasion my friend Jack Williams and I, or my brother and I, got up early in the morning and crawled underneath it and up through an open hatch on the belly. I just remember it being dark and greasy inside, but I didn't see any hands.

Added: May 4, 2010