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The Castlegar Sun

Wednesday, August 23, 1995

The memorable life of Bill Shkwarok

1 shall rememper while the
light lives yet

And in the night-time 1 shall
not forget

Swinburne: ‘Erotion

My memories of the late Bill
Shkwarok, friend and former
Castlegar high school teaching
colleague, run like changeless,
imperturbable threads through the
fabric of a changing Castlegar.

When I came here to teach in
1947, the high school was a two-,
room establishment in Robson,
manned by. the late George Mag-
wood as principal, and the late
Bill Shkwarok as staff :

George was from Swift Cur-
rent, Saskatchewan, but Bill was
a local boy, born and raised here,
and his father was a section fore-
man on the CP Railway,

In those days most people in

the area either worked for
‘William Waldie and Sons Lum.
ber Mill’, the ‘Consolidated Min-
ing and Smelting Company’
(Cominco), or the railway. And

Since Robson was, at that time,
a separate school district, it too,
had a one-room high school under
Diana Whellams. When the two

their children, or at least the boys, i

expected to get a summer job
with their father's company. It
was understood. Therefore Bill,
during his student days, worked
on the railway.

He took his grade twelve in the
one-room 16 pupil Castlegar high
school in 1938 with teacher, Ross
Whittaker, The tiny school occu-
pied one-end of the then Castle-
gar Elementary School (four
rooms, grades 1-8 under principal
Bob Sommers, later Minister of
Lands, Mines and Forests for the
Socred government) and located,
together with the school board
office, on the property now occu-
pied by the Court House

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districts were amalgamated a little
later into the present Castlegar
School District, a two-room high
school established in Robson.

After a brief stint in the Armed
Services and a degree from the
University of Alberta, Bill
retumed to the district in 1946 as
a member of this new high
school staff.

My arrival from Vancouver in
1947, as the grade nine teacher,
located in the Robson Memorial
Church annex, raised the high
school staff by fifty per cent, to a

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total of three

However, since our very small
room would have been crowded
with half the 42 lively pupils I
was registering, we were soon
moved to the Robson Hotel, then
split in two and moved to the
Castlegar Doukhobor Hall (adja-
cent to Kinsmen Park), with Bill
Frazer as a fourth teacher,

In the following year, we
moved to the old brick Raspberry
Elementary School across the
river, on the hillside above the
highway.

It had been built as a two room
elementary school, by the
Doukhobor leader, Peter Verigin,
and had two classrooms, with a
teacherage in between, and a big
veranda out in front.

The school board converted
ithe teacher apartment into a third
classroom and a closet-sized
office, and moved a portable
fourth classroom in behind, while
I set up a primitive science lab in
the unfinished basement.

For the first time in years the
high school now existed as a sin-
gle entity, with a staff consisting
of George, Bill, a new teacher,
Pat Daniel, and myself.

We stayed there for two and a
half years before moving to the
newly constructed Stanley
Humphries Secondary School
(named after former school board
chairman and local magistrate,
Stanley Humphries).

Despite the relatively primitive
conditions (outdoor privies, wood

furnace, dirt floor in the base

ment, and particularly the bone
chilling winter walk across the
old railway bridge),—or perhaps
because of them-—there evolved a
considerable school esprit de
corps plus a hundred varied
school anecdotes.

To this day, for example there
are several members of that stu-
dent body who can still tell you
why it takes much longer to carry
rocks up a hill than to roll them
down, or why if is not a good idea

quadrupled, with Al Thomas as
principal, We also got a gym, a
level playing field and John Mun-
day. Bill got the school library,
now the geological sciences lab
and about the same time married
Mary Turik, also a Castlegar Dis-
trict teacher. Eventually he
became assistant principal at the
high school.

He left the district in 1963,
took his masters degree at Gonza-
ga University and moved to West
Vancouver where he took a posi-

‘Bill Shkwarok died this month,
as he had lived, peacefully’

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to damp a furnace fire by urinat
ing on it.

Moreover, students who got into
trouble with Bill learned a lot
about washing and polishing
cars—Bill’s pride and joy—at
least. It was his favorite penalty,
and always assigned with a charac-
teristic broad grin, plus a reminder
to bring him regular radio reports
on the baseball scores. He had the
cleanest car in town and a lot of
baseball know-how.

A year after we moved to Stan-
ley Humphries in 1951 our staff

tion as special councillor, and
eventually retired there

Bill Shkwarok died this month,
as he had lived, peacefully. After
a private service on the coast, his
body was brought back home to
Castlegar and in an unobstinsive
graveside service, in the presence
of his wife, family and old
friends, he was buried in the quiet
little Robson Memorial Church
cemetery.

It is probably the only place
that he would recognize in this
time of many changes.

Submitted

Registration has begun at
KSA. Brochures outlining com-
munity arts courses at Koote-
nay School of the Arts are now
available and many courses are
filling quickly.

Registration began earlier
this month for credit and com-
munity, non-credit courses

It’s that time again!

watercolour painting class
taught by John Hodges will
also be offered again this year
as well as a weekend work-
shop with landscape artist
Toni Onley.

Brochures have been circu-
lated to galleries, restaprants
and shops around Nelson and
out-of-town residents can pick
up a copy from their local arts
council or at their local library.

Regi i i until

which begin in and
November. This*Fall's classes
include old favorites like Intro-
duction to Clay, Metalworking
and Jewellery Making, along
with a number of new courses.

For the first time, KSA is
offering a business practices
course for artists and crafispeo-
ple, a nature writing course
with Don Gayton as well as a
two-and three-dimensional
design course.

The school’s very popular

mid-September for classes and
workshops in creative writing,

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and jewellery, but to avoid dis-

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receive a brochure in the mail,
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Arts at (604) 352-2821 or visit
the office at 503 Front Street,
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Wednesday, August 23, 1995
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Summer reading program closes
final chapter of the season

Pre-schoolers’ eyes were wide as they watched the
puppet show “The untold story of Camelot”. The show
was part of the summer reading program wind-up cere-
monies being held at the Castlegar Library last week.

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Reading was magic at the
Castlegar and District Public
Library. The ‘Flights of Fantasy’
Summer Reading Program ended
Aug. 16.

The 140 children involved
travelled through 1858 books
over the last 7 weeks! The’ chil-
dren aged 3 to grade 5 came
twice a week to the library and
Participated in reading, games,
crafts and fun.

During the last week's festivi-
ties, the children received centifi-
cates and prizes donated by local
restaurants. Thank you to A &
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McDonalds for your support
Also, the children enjoyed a pup-

pet show. ‘The Untold Tale of
Camelot’, written and performed
by Sandy and Galen Reilly.

The Summer Reading Pro
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Preschoolers: Brittany and
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