‘Mrs Mitchell was a small woman, gaining from some cheeky boys the name of ‘Pipsqueak’. Michael Corrigan remembers Miss Mitchell as delightful but reasonably strict. By 1964 she was teaching Grade 3; a dear lady, caring, and a person whom Michael Rush remembers with real affection. “Miss Mitchell was a very small person in stature. I recall one day as a class (which numbered around forty-three) walking to the old chapel situated in Maritima.
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