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My Favourite Christmas Memory at One Room School
Elsie M Dickens on her first Manitoba teaching post east of Portage la Prairie after Brandon Teachers College. She describes preparing a one hour Christmas concert with eight grade levels, Santa duties, lunch by local ladies, dress rehearsal mishaps, and how students helped each other. She recalls the 18th birthday, staging the room, the thin piano, and the wedding reunion years later where former students returned as Mary and Joseph.
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Elsie M. Dickenson
Miniota
Teacher’s College
Brandon
Portage la Prairie
Santa Claus
Tance
Canada
Mary and Joseph