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N hfiw uzf ‘7‘f7 When S.A. (Sam) Cawker have had difficult times at started his teaching career in a _ home. oneâ€"room school more than half But there were lots of headâ€" a century ago, he never aches and frustrations too. He dreamed that one day a new, _ said it always saddened him to modern school would be named _ see students with good potenâ€" after him. tial flounder or drop out. Mr. Cawker, 83, told the Times were tough in the Star he was "delighted and honâ€" _ Depression Years of the "Dirty oured" when he learned last â€"30‘s." His salary was $900 anâ€" week the new elementary _ nually (he was glad to have the school now under construction _ job) in Port Perry will be called the But the Depression was S.A.CawkerP.S. very tough on young children as That name was the runaâ€" well. He recalls vividly one way favourite among the nearâ€" youngster whose family had ly 500 Scugog residents who moved east from Saskatcheâ€" took the opportunity to cast wan. their votes for the name of the "The boy was so skinny. new school. You could see every rib and the The other names considâ€" _ bones in his shoulders sticking ered were North Port and the _ out." Jimmy Frise School. The boy‘s father landed Scugog board of education _ steady work in Port Perry, put trustee Bobbie Drew, who food on the table and within helped tally the phoneâ€"in vote, _ months, that youngster was said S.A. Cawker was favoured _ healthy and happy again. by "over 80 per cent." But the image has stuck in The decision needs to be Sam‘s memoryeversince. ratified by the Durham Board Sam worked many years in this week, but Mrs. Drew said _ Port Perry with the late RH. she‘s confident there will be no _ (Roy) Cornish, a man he said, opposition to the choice for the was not only a colleague in school‘s name. teaching and education but a As for Mr. Cawker, who reâ€" _ close friendas well. tired from teaching in 1968 and "We did a lot of fishing and now makes his home near Nesâ€" hunting toâ€"gether, and for tleton, he was tickled pink at _ three summers during the war the news, and said he‘s looking worked as carpenters in war forward to the official ceremoâ€" _ work." nies when the school opens on "We made better money Simcoe Street North this fall. (on war work as carpenters) Born and raised in Port _ than we did teaching," Sam reâ€" Perry, Sam attended Toronto _ calls withalaugh. "I don‘t know Teacher‘s College and took his _ what we would have done withâ€" first job at the one room school _ outit." (8.S. T)just south of Caesarea. During school hours, espeâ€" There were 48 students in _ cially in the presence of stuâ€" his school in grades 1 through _ dents, they were careful to adâ€" eight, and the salary that year _ dresseachother as "Mr." not by was $1,000. their first names. And the samé After a couple of years withallthestaffmembers. working with his brothers in While he has many enjoyaâ€" the hardware business in Toâ€" ble memories from a teaching ronto, Sam turned to teaching â€" career that spanned more than once again, this time for four _ four decades, Sam said he‘s not years in Millbrook. quite sure if he would want to In 1934, he accepted a be starting over again in a one teaching position at the ele= roomschoolat$1,000 peryear. mentary school in Port Perry, But he‘d jump at the and stayed there until 1968 _ chance to start a teaching caâ€" when he retired as vice princiâ€" _ reer in 1989 and says teaching pal. is a great profession these days Looking back on his many _ for any young person to considâ€" years as an educator, he said â€" er. the most satisfying aspect of And he‘ll be watching with the job was seeing a child work interest as construction proâ€" hard to "make it through," espeâ€" glfitlalsses on the new school that : A will carr