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This week’s question: Who is credited with creating a “secret passage” in the rafters between the new kitchen and the main storeroom at the Manitoba school (1967)?
November 5, 2013 at 7:59 am
Grade 12’s. During construction?
November 5, 2013 at 9:42 am
Graham, you are very close. In the book there is a story that credits an individual for the trap door creation. Check it out.
November 5, 2013 at 8:01 am
Hi Barbara,
Can’t tell you who got the credit but I spent lots of time freeing Shredded wheat from its “Sunday Only” existence in the store room to relieve the daily oatmeal routine. The access to the attic was in the luggage storeroom and of course another hole was in the storeroom and the shelves made a great ladder. It almost seemed designed to be easy!
Keith will remember us going one better in the attic above the locker room in the old school. Dave Bartlett was the third man in that show when we enjoyed toasted back bacon sandwiches on Saturday afternoons. Charlie Race put an end to that culinary adventure.
November 5, 2013 at 9:44 am
Lee, Keith does remember that adventure, and often tells the story. He recalls a different staff member putting an end to it?
November 6, 2013 at 3:15 pm
My memory of Charlie Race was that he saw someone entering or leaving the attic and he climbed up and had a look at our operation and said ” You’ve got my whole damn kitchen up there!” But I wasn’t there that day so Keith would know better.
November 5, 2013 at 10:35 am
Richard De Candole.
November 5, 2013 at 10:53 am
Right class, wrong student. Look for the “memory” in the book.
November 5, 2013 at 4:41 pm
Terry Baptiste on pg 43.
November 6, 2013 at 9:40 am
Congratulations Tom! Yes, Terry is credited with the trap door – but who knows this may be one of those St. John’s myths! Your prize will be sent to you.
November 6, 2013 at 10:58 am
Many thanks to Terry Baptiste. We used his access quite a bit during my 3 years at the school. But the memory that stands out is the pillow cases of fried chicken we stole the night before open house one year. Charlie was storing it in the cooler as he cooked it and we went down through the meat room and reached through those fine parallel boards between the meat room cooler and the kitchen cooler to fill our bags. then we hauled it through the rafters back to the senior end and shared the feast. Ted almost caught us…almost. Poor Charlie when he discovered how much we had stolen…he had to scramble to find more chicken to cook up to feed the crowds at open house.
November 12, 2013 at 5:03 pm
This story was no myth. The main route went up from the laundry room attic entrance through the firewall and down through the kitchen store room attic entrance. Charlie spent many hours devising traps to alarm him when someone opened the store room trap. The kitchen crew spent many hours devising ways to disarm Charlie’s alarms without him knowing. The laundry crew (of which I was crew leader in 67/68 was sworn to secrecy on threat of life by the likes of McKay, Dobson, Coates, et al….along with the threats that accompanied our loss of their jeans after one war games held out near Black Sturgeon Lake near Lake of the Woods.