Educaton Bldg.Faculty Activities: Educational Activities. Top centre picture: David Eaton instructor, Centre right picture: Mike Spack, on the left. Bottom right picture: Mike Spack, on the left.
Top right hand corner of the matting is bent/torn.
Scope and Content
Item consists of portraits of the members of Brandon College Class of 1951.
Top Row (L to R): J. Muir; D. Fedoruk; H. Moffat; G. Jerrett; G. Bradley; K. Morrison; F. Henderson; and W. Sutherland.
Second Row (L to R): M. Leckie; F. Adamski; P. Magnacca (Lady Stick); A. Juckes (Senior Stick); L. Kennedy; and W. Fraser.
Third Row (L to R): D.M. Doig; L. Prokaska; R. Ziolkowski; E. Shaw; I. Graham; R. Bell; and J. Scott.
Bottom Row (L to R): H. George; B. Bruce; D. Penstock; M. Coulthard; D. Dennison; S. MacLean; J. Medd; and R. Brown.
Photograph is mounted on matting, water stained, and ripped in centre.
Scope and Content
Item contains portraits of some of the members of the Class of 1920 as well as a photograph of the Brandon College Building and Clark Hall (taken looking west from approximately 16th Street and Lorne Avenue).
Top Row (L to R): Stella Bolton; Ethel Annie Bolton; Corday Mackay; Adelia Sanford; Jean Ferguson Cameron; and Elizabeth Creig.
Bottom Row (L to R): Orval Earl Calverley; Robert Wellington McBain; David McNaught; Charles Ganong Whidden; Clarence Albert Morgan; David H. Beaubier; Victor Emmanuel Nordlund; Fred E. Howard; and Leonard C. Nelson.
Item contains images of the graduating members of the Class of 1924.
Top Row (L to R): ?; Lilian Evelyn Edmison; Vera Madeline Fielding; Prof. T.M. Dadson (Honorary President); Edythe Isabel Ball; Marjorie Bell McKenzie;and Russel Mayhew Baldwin
Bottom Row (L to R): Leslie Gordon Dorrett; John Morice Maxwell; David Robertson Doig; Clarence E. Cole; Alexander M. Derby; Alexander John Kennedy; Herbert A. Robertson; Floyd Raymond Van Schaick; and Ernest John Church
Item consists of ten portraits of the graduates of the class of 1918. L to R: Reita Wood Bambridge; Duncan Scott McIntyre; Bessie Euphemia Turnbull; Marjorie Alleen Sherrin; Susan Gwendolynn Whidden; D'Arcy George Cook; Ruby Elspeth Margaret McDonald; Jean Marion Avery; Walter White; and Lucy Eleanor Beaubier.
87.5 cm (57.5 cm textual records and 29 photographs)
History / Biographical
Gerald Brown was born and raised in Vista, Manitoba. He attended Islay and Rossburn schools. In 1955, he attended Brandon College to take the one year Teacher Training Course. He was part of the first graduating T.T.C. class at Brandon College. After graduation he taught in Ninga, MB. He also taught in Brandon and C.F.B. Shilo. In 1965, he moved to Winnipeg to pursue a career in school librarianship and information services until he retired in 1992. By the end of his career he had been Chief Librarian for thirteen years. He received a B.A. from Brandon College in 1964, a B.Ed. from the University of Manitoba in 1965, a Master of Library Science from Western Michigan in 1968, and a M. Ed. from the University of Manitoba in 1972. He is also very involved with music. At present Gerald Brown continues to live in Winnpeg, MB.
Custodial History
Accession 24-2009: Brown compiled these materials from the personal collections of Colin Mailer, Lorne Watson, Norman Kalinski and Gerald Brown. He delivered them to the Archives on November 17, 2009.
Accession 5-2013: Materials collected and written by Gerald R. Brown in the course of preparing for and attending the Islay (Vista) School District No. 733 reunion held in Rossburn, MB on August 4-6, 2006.
Scope and Content
Accession 30-1998 consists of newspaper clippings for Brandon College 1955-56 complied by Gerald Brown for the 41st anniversary of the graduation of the Brandon College Teacher Training Class of 1956; photographs of the TTC of 1956; the Reunion Yearbook for the anniversary of the 1956 TTC class; and a copy of the program for the 1998 production of W.S. Gilbert and Sullivan musical The Yeoman of the Guard.
Accession 3-1999 consists of a compilation of nine seasons of Gilbert & Sullivan Society pictures, programs, and newsletters. Mr. Brown and other graduates of the Brandon School of Music are among the cast members.
Accession 2-2001 consists of copies of the newsletter, Titipu Times, for the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Winnipeg, Volume 10, 1-4, a 10th Anniversary Program (2000) and a list of ensemble singers 2000/2001.
Accession 4-2001 consists of a scrapbook and programs for the following Gilbert & Sullivan productions: “Patience” (performed April 6-9, 2000 in Winnipeg) and “Pirates of Penzance” (April 5-8, 2001).
Accession 7-2001 consists of 4 colour photographs and a one page summary of the activities of the Reunion TTC 1956 during the May 2001 Convocation.
Accession 4-2003 consists of colour photographs of the 41st Reunion of the Brandon College Teacher Training Course 1955-56 held in May 2001. Included as well is a "Past History Summary" of the Class of 56 Reunions and a copy of Reflecting on Our Past, a publication of the Brandon School Division.
Accession 27-2006 consists of materials collected and written by Gerald R. Brown in the course of preparing for and attending the Islay (Vista) School District No. 733 reunion held in Rossburn, MB on August 4-6, 2006. It includes a copy of "Vista Tales. . . from Islay School District No. 733 in Vista, Manitoba" compiled and edited by Gerald R. Brown (c.2006), a program of events for the reunion, a copy of the reunion worship service program, and 15 postcards entitled "Vista Views," which were sold at the reunion.
Accession 19-2007 includes biographical information on Isabelle Mills, former faculty member of Brandon College (School of Music) and the program for HMS Pinafore, presented by the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Winnipeg (2003).
Accession 24-2009 (1938-2009, 30 cm textual records) consists of the records of the Brandon Festival of the Arts. Included are: meeting minutes (Executive, Regular and Annual), reports, financial reports, correspondence; programs and syllabi from the Festival; and Festival highlights and similar programs.
Accession 5-2013 (1951-1952, 2006, 5 cm textual records, 3 CDs) consists of hard copies of "Vista Tales. . . from Islay School District No. 733 in Vista, Manitoba Reunion Photo File" and "Vista Tales. . . from Islay School District No. 733 in Vista, Manitoba Alunni & Community Events" compiled and edited by Gerald R. Brown (c.2006). Also includes three CDs containing ditigal versions of all three Vista Tales volumes and a a copy of the 1951-1952 Foxwarren High School yearbook.
