Teachers: Mr. Winter, Miss Farley, Mr. Barton, Principal :Mr. Saul.
Walking over to another school for Home Economics with Miss Yandle (spelling?) who made us cook and eat things like squash, the one vegetable I hated. We also made aprons in sewing class.
recess spent playing alleys (cat's eyes, pots and pot pures�), jacks and skipping games ("Apples, peaches, pears and plums, tell me when your birthday comes�").
winter skating on Blythwood's "pleasure rink", and games such as Crack-the-whip. Boys who wanted to use their hockey sticks had to stay on the adjacent hockey rink. We changed our skates in the nearby wooden hut, and my toes were usually cold before I even got onto the ice.
Friday night "Community Centre", with a dance upstairs and crafts downstairs, and orange punch for thirsty children. The higher the grade, the more often students could go to the dance. The boys would stand on one side of the room and the girls on the other, and (except for the Sadie Hawkins dance) a girl would have to wait until a boy would cross the room and ask her to dance. There were lots of "wallflowers"! Downstairs I remember heating coloured plastic sheets and molding them into small bowls (If I could ever smell that acrid odour again it would take my mind right back to the basement of Blythwood!). Once the edges were filed smooth, we could proudly take these home.
When Alexander Muir Park first opened, near Lawrence Park, the whole school walked there and sang "The Maple Leaf Forever", because I think he wrote the song.
Assembly, choir practice, spelling bees and multiplication table drills in the classroom, piles of wooden basket 4-packs against the wall of the school, outdoor volleyball, track and field day�these are some of my memories of Blythwood.
