An audio interview with Bill Pratt, Cramahe Township teacher
Description
- Bill Pratt audio interview
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Bill Pratt audio interview - Creators
- Bill Pratt, Interviewee
- Mandy Martin, Interviewer
- Trevor Joice, Audio Engineer
- Media Type
- Audio
- Description
- Information provided by Lenna Broatch, November 2021 - "Bill Pratt was born near Russ’s Creek in the north end of Cramahe Township and attended school in Castleton and Warkworth, but lived most of his life in Castleton. In the late 1950s there was a shortage of public school teachers. At that time Grade 13 students who were planning on Teachers College the following year were given the privilege of attending summer school for two years while also teaching during those years. In their third year they attended college. Bill qualified.
He taught at Pine Grove school on Purdy Road. Bill Metcalf, a senior student who later became a lifelong teacher at Colborne High School, was one of his students. Afterwards Bill applied to Castleton and became a principal. He also taught at South Cramahe Public School and retired in 1990.
After Bill’s and Mary Buchanan’s retirement from teaching, they lived in Bill’s childhood home, east of Castleton. Bill and Mary had a good partnership as they had so much in common, attending Castleton United Church, all church suppers regardless of where they were, and cheering on their former students."
- Notes
- Interviewed December 10, 2019 by Mandy Martin with information from Lenna Broatch. The interview was first aired as a segment on FM Radio 98.7 Legacy programming series that captures profiles of Northumberland County residents. Permission to upload this audio file was granted to Cramahe Township Digital Archives.
- Date of Original
- December 2019
- Subject(s)
- Copyright Statement
- Protected by copyright: Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Cramahe Township Public LibraryEmail:cramlib@cramahetownship.ca
Website:
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