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elect of the Alberta Women's Institute. All things evolving as they should, Mrs. Doris Northey will assume the presidency of AWI in three years. She won out in a two- way competition at the recent Olds AWI Convention. Elected serving president at the same annual get- together was Mrs. Elizabeth Rushton of Stony Plain. Currently, Mrs. Northey heads the AWI committee planning for the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Women's Institute, the organization forming at Stoney Creek, Ont. in January 1897. Subsequently, it spread to every territory and province of the Dominion and has national bodies in every English- speaking country of the world. COUNTY ROOTS A school teacher by profession, Mrs. Northey is employed in the outreach department of the Red Deer Museum and Archives. She joined Balmoral WI in February, 1952, and since 1958 has held all offices and several times been the chapter's president, a position she held on being named president- elect of the provincial society. Doris joins two other County women who have held the highest offices of AWI, namely, Mrs. Ethel Morrisroe of the Red Deer east district and Mrs. AJJ. McGor-man, deceased, of the Penhold chapter. Through Doris are connected two founding families of the County, both of which, like many others rising from the homestead period, owe much to the civilizing influence of WI. Born to John and Elsie Bennett of the Kneehill Valley farming district, Mrs. Northey's grandparents, Ed and Harriet Ferguson were among the first settlers into the Calder district. Educated at Pleasant Valley and Calder schools, Doris finished high school in Red Deer, having lived in the old rural dormitory across the street from Central Alberta Dairy Pool. In 1947, Doris Bennett completed a year's teaching course at University of Alberta Extension, Calgary, and was assigned, May, 1947, to a two- month stint at Cottonwood School wherein correspondence students were brought to exam capability. They all did well, incidentally. The roads to Cottonwood that spring were so bad, Doris recalls, it took her three days to get to her post. For not arriving on time she was docked the three days. Doris then taught for two years at Clarendon School where nine grades and 29 pupils, in a single room, was her charge. Miss Bennett and Vernon Northey were married in 1950 but despite a rule against married women teaching, Doris was hired the same year by Superintendent Lindsay Thurber to teach grades - 4 to 6 at Balmoral No. 3— actu- j ally in the former A20 RCASC | World War II compound in Red Deer. Also teaching there was . Misses Oran Whitney, grades 1- * 3, and Nadine Morrison, 7 to 8. — Balmoral No. 3 had been opened to take students after Springvale School had burned down. Union with the Northey family brought into the picture the pioneer family of Jonathon Northey. Comine from Iowa, the patriarch MRS. DORIS NORTHEY filed at Balmoral in 1898. Vernon, a grandson of Jonathon, and Doris have seven children: Brian, Douglas and Gregory in Edmonton; Deborah in Vancouver; and Robert, Garry and Gail living in the district. Robert manages the home farm since Vernon's passing in 1987. Mrs. Edna Northey, Vernon's mom, is a first member of Balmoral WI which stems from the 1913 Auxiliary to Red Deer Memorial Hospital, the same converting to WI in 1926. WIDER PICTURE In the 1970s Mrs. Northey began paying her provincial dues when AWI nominated her to the health and home economics committee, a job that acquainted her with the national dimension of WI through an Ottawa conference. Later, she was an AWI representative to the Canada Council On Aging. Further equipping her for the Alberta presidency was a three-year tour as Constituency Convener for Red Deer Centre, a job that put her on a first- name basis with all the chapters and members within the counties of Red Deer and Lacombe. While membership, particularly the recruiting of more young women into WI, will be a major concern of her presidency, Mrs. Northey says the WI Centennial is preoccupying her now and in this respect she urges all chapters of the province to collect and display every item of interest reflecting WTs considerable influence on the Prairies. Alberta Mamma SrtBtitutea Homcn rrf l i n i f a nn 1993 CONVENTION ' Strength In Sharing" JUNE 8 - 10, 1993 OLDS COLLEGE — OLDS, ALBERTA
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Title | Pine Lake History - 1990-1999 |
Subject | AWI: Pine Lake Branch |
Description | Branch History |
Language | en |
Format | application/pdf |
Type | text |
Source | Alberta Women's Institutes |
Identifier | awi0811091 |
Date | 2007 |
Collection | Alberta Women's Institutes - Collective Memory |
Repository | AU Digital Library |
Copyright | For Private Study and Research Use Only |
Description
Title | Page 34 |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | AWI Collection |
Collection | Alberta Women's Institutes - Collective Memory |
Repository | AU Digital Library |
Copyright | For Private Study and Research Use Only |
Transcript | elect of the Alberta Women's Institute. All things evolving as they should, Mrs. Doris Northey will assume the presidency of AWI in three years. She won out in a two- way competition at the recent Olds AWI Convention. Elected serving president at the same annual get- together was Mrs. Elizabeth Rushton of Stony Plain. Currently, Mrs. Northey heads the AWI committee planning for the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Women's Institute, the organization forming at Stoney Creek, Ont. in January 1897. Subsequently, it spread to every territory and province of the Dominion and has national bodies in every English- speaking country of the world. COUNTY ROOTS A school teacher by profession, Mrs. Northey is employed in the outreach department of the Red Deer Museum and Archives. She joined Balmoral WI in February, 1952, and since 1958 has held all offices and several times been the chapter's president, a position she held on being named president- elect of the provincial society. Doris joins two other County women who have held the highest offices of AWI, namely, Mrs. Ethel Morrisroe of the Red Deer east district and Mrs. AJJ. McGor-man, deceased, of the Penhold chapter. Through Doris are connected two founding families of the County, both of which, like many others rising from the homestead period, owe much to the civilizing influence of WI. Born to John and Elsie Bennett of the Kneehill Valley farming district, Mrs. Northey's grandparents, Ed and Harriet Ferguson were among the first settlers into the Calder district. Educated at Pleasant Valley and Calder schools, Doris finished high school in Red Deer, having lived in the old rural dormitory across the street from Central Alberta Dairy Pool. In 1947, Doris Bennett completed a year's teaching course at University of Alberta Extension, Calgary, and was assigned, May, 1947, to a two- month stint at Cottonwood School wherein correspondence students were brought to exam capability. They all did well, incidentally. The roads to Cottonwood that spring were so bad, Doris recalls, it took her three days to get to her post. For not arriving on time she was docked the three days. Doris then taught for two years at Clarendon School where nine grades and 29 pupils, in a single room, was her charge. Miss Bennett and Vernon Northey were married in 1950 but despite a rule against married women teaching, Doris was hired the same year by Superintendent Lindsay Thurber to teach grades - 4 to 6 at Balmoral No. 3— actu- j ally in the former A20 RCASC | World War II compound in Red Deer. Also teaching there was . Misses Oran Whitney, grades 1- * 3, and Nadine Morrison, 7 to 8. — Balmoral No. 3 had been opened to take students after Springvale School had burned down. Union with the Northey family brought into the picture the pioneer family of Jonathon Northey. Comine from Iowa, the patriarch MRS. DORIS NORTHEY filed at Balmoral in 1898. Vernon, a grandson of Jonathon, and Doris have seven children: Brian, Douglas and Gregory in Edmonton; Deborah in Vancouver; and Robert, Garry and Gail living in the district. Robert manages the home farm since Vernon's passing in 1987. Mrs. Edna Northey, Vernon's mom, is a first member of Balmoral WI which stems from the 1913 Auxiliary to Red Deer Memorial Hospital, the same converting to WI in 1926. WIDER PICTURE In the 1970s Mrs. Northey began paying her provincial dues when AWI nominated her to the health and home economics committee, a job that acquainted her with the national dimension of WI through an Ottawa conference. Later, she was an AWI representative to the Canada Council On Aging. Further equipping her for the Alberta presidency was a three-year tour as Constituency Convener for Red Deer Centre, a job that put her on a first- name basis with all the chapters and members within the counties of Red Deer and Lacombe. While membership, particularly the recruiting of more young women into WI, will be a major concern of her presidency, Mrs. Northey says the WI Centennial is preoccupying her now and in this respect she urges all chapters of the province to collect and display every item of interest reflecting WTs considerable influence on the Prairies. Alberta Mamma SrtBtitutea Homcn rrf l i n i f a nn 1993 CONVENTION ' Strength In Sharing" JUNE 8 - 10, 1993 OLDS COLLEGE — OLDS, ALBERTA |
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