Form III:

Walter Bender, Jack Haney, Doris Rudisuela, Elizabeth Hesse, Beatrice Weitzel, Lester Wettlaufer, Elaine Weston, William Matthies, Kathleen Barber, Jeanne Lemp.

Form IV:

Lloyd Winhold, Lloyd Kaufman, Marcella Liebler, Marie Kaufman, Helen Schwantz, Eric Hitzeroth, Annie Corp, Franklin Holley, Arthur Hotson, Olive Faber, Fred Kaufman, Ken Schwantz, Luke Morgenroth.

TAVISTOCK PUBLIC SCHOOL

Grade VIII - (Sr. IV)

Gustav Martin, Robert Vogt, Joseph Neumann, John Holley, Kenneth Roth, Ruth Barber, Helene Bricker, Willetta Roth, Verna Schmidt, Doris Graviston, Earl Sippel, Gertrude Schaefer, Beatrice Bast.

Grade VII - (Jr. IV)

Russell Seltzer, Hubert Roth, Margaret Kaufman, Dorothy Yausie, Ella Krug, Harry Schlitt, Marcella Hermann, Elmer Neeb, Harold Woelfle, Helen Zehr, Irene Howard, Mary McDermott, Lloyd Wilker, Kenneth Hesse, George Merklinger, Ross Hesse.

Grade VI - (Sr. III)

Harold Wagler, Kathleen Kalbfleisch, Maurice Schmidt, Phyllis Hopkinson, Mary Wiederhold, Floyd Seyler, Rose Furh, Wilson Schippling, Martin Denstedt, Freda Roth, Frank Barber, Edith Roth, Marjory Engel, Elsie Schaefer, Clarence Hilcox, Dayton Appel, Frank Woelfle, Roy Jantzi, Jennie Steinman, Marjory Wilhelm.

Grade V - (Jr. III)

Kathleen Ratz, Shirley Hitzeroth, Jean Seltzer, Jeanne Weston, Salome Kelly, John McDermott, Gordon Field, Marion Nuttall, Rudy Martens, John Millington, Gordon Neeb, Roy Bricker, Ruth Morgenroth, Hilda Zehr, Frieda Zehr, Betty Strahm, Elaine Strahm.

Grade II:

Anna Woelfle, Hubert Denstedt, Mararet Barnhardt, Carl Hesse, Henry Weitzel, Isabel Ruby, Harley Roth, Glenn Roth, Clarence Steinman, Kenneth Neeb, Geoline Hermann, Stanley Schippling, Floyd Hammer, Martha Hammer, Verda Hermann, Maurice Dennis, Walter Yausie, Agnes Zehr.

Grade I.

Gretchen Ratz, Harry Schmidt, Robert Quehl, Audrey McDermott, Audrey Klein, Eileen Matthies, Jean Schaefer, Donald Eckstein, Ernie Zehr, John Currah.

Kindergarten Primary:

Carl Hohner, Gordon Hohner, Archie Hubert, Ruth Berg, Lois Cheslock, Donald Brenneman, Jimmy Brasch, Alan Field, Robert Schmidt, Bobby Klein, Catherine Neumann, Wilson Nuttall, Clarice Steinman, Shirley Nixon, Doris Dennis, Doreen Grein, Audrey Zehr, Kenneth Brunk, Mabel Kelly, Gerald Wilhelm

Primer - (Junior First)

Elaine Quehl, Donald Wiederhold, Billy Klein, Lewis Seyler, Lydia Otto, Grace Brenneman, Bernice Klein, Joyce Barnhardt, Shirley Neeb, Richard Woelfle, Jean Woelfle, Floyd Sippel, George Weicker.

The Toronto Daily Star with the co-operation of the Ontario Secondary School Teacher's Federation sponsored a public speaking contest in High and Continuation Schools on the occasion of Canada's Diamond Jubilee, 1927. The topic was "Canada's Diamond Jubilee and her achievements since Confederation".

The province of Ontario was divided into 11 districts, the winners of which received a 14K gold ring and a pearl pin, with a silver cup to the home school. In the area contest at Central Collegiate Institute in Hamilton eleven contestants competed; they were from Hamilton, Brantford, Burlington, Galt, Grimsby, Kitchener-Waterloo, Paris, St. Catharines, Welland and Tavistock. But when the contest was over, Fred Hotson of the Tavistock Continuation School was declared the winner.

On May 11 the provincial contest was conducted in Convocation Hall. Fred Hotson in his 10-minute speech again proved himself a winner and was declared Dominion of Canada champion. The contestants had come from five provinces, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Ontario. The text of his speech is found verbatim in the Tavistock Gazette of May 19, 1927. Much credit goes to his teachers, Miss Leata Muckle and Miss Ethel McKay and to his coach, Mr. John F. Krug. This young man of 17 brought distinct honour to his parents, schools and village.

In the World Competition in Washington he lost out to a lad from Mexico.

The course in Agriculture in Grades VII and VIII, IX and X required practical work. For this purpose a garden was needed with plots for each student as a term project. The School Board bought the 3/4 acres from Mrs. Duval on Woodstock St. S., just beyond the cemetery of the E.U.B. church. This served both the public and continuation school grades, with enough room for an arboretum at the rear of the cemetery. When Mr. Corp was reeve of our village he served on the Conservation Committee of County Council and granted us land along the west side of Wilton Street. Here the boys and girls planted 1400 trees, coniferous and deciduous. It was the hope of the principal J.A. Seltzer and his hard-working class to set up a reforestation area along the side of the creek. But after a few years the trees were mowed down and the property sold for house sites.