EGERTON RYERSON AWARDIn 1995, a new award was established for RTO/ERO District 12, Norfolk. The "Egerton Ryerson Award" was initiated to provide recognition for those members who have been loyal supporters of RTO. After our 25th anniversary celebrations in 1994, it was realized some members had been retired for 35 years. Therefore our Executive felt some recognition was well deserved. A suitable replica of a school hand bell was selected with a title inscribed "Egerton Ryerson Award" commemorating the founder of Ontario's education system and a native son of Norfolk. The award honours those teachers who have supported Norfolk RTO for 25 or more years. A suitable inscription "In Appreciation For Many Years of Valued Support of RTO/ERO District 12, Norfolk" is engraved on the award. Also it was decided by our Executive to record these names in a book called "The Egerton Ryerson Book of Remembrance". The first of these awards were presented at our Annual Meeting in October, 1995. 1995 Recipients Helena Campbell Mary Clemens Ellen Crafts Verna Daley Dorothea Edmonds Elma Franklin Mary Hammond Mary Leedham Helen Mesaros Rhea Minshall Ken Richardson Elin Schuyler Winona Turvey Helen White. 1996 Recipients Glen Bell Florence Stephens Helene Ward 1997 Recipients Ethel Backus Olive Beckett Dorothy Lingwood Bertha Ney 1998 Recipients Harvey Gillies Muriel Herron Fay Ionson Florence Maxwell S. H. McDowell Harold Ney Gord Philip 1999 Recipients Helen Cattel Bernice Smythe 2000 Recipients Harold Garton Jim MacGowan 2001 Recipients Mary Deming Leslie Fairbairn Helen Fairbairn Mervyn Young 2002 Recipients Ruth Clarke, Helen Dunbar, Hazel Farr, George Parry, Hartley Watts 2003 Recipients Rachel Chambers Hare, Gertrude Wilkinson 2004 Recipients Joyce Gates, Aileen Gordon, Harvie Main, Erna McLintock, Alden Smalley, Margaret Ulch, Doris Evelyn McCallum Wilson 2005 Recipients Harry Barrett, Vivian Brown, Alvin Foster, Margaret Jarvis, Verla Johnson, Marie Wolfer 2006 Recipients Marion Anderson, Vera Good, Mae Hill 2007 Recipients Ken Keagan, Dorothy Lockhart, Eleanor Smith 2008 Recipients Phyllis A Balfour, Elizabeth Fisher, Franklin H. McNamara, David J. Nelles, Joseph VanDenHurk, Karl Waldhauser, Thomas D. Wardlaw, Wilfred Wilhelm, Clemens Wolfer 2009 Recipients Genevra C. Campbell, Evelyn Tummon, Gladys Todd 2010 Recipients Margaret Freeman, Catarina Penner, Doreen Ross, Editha Tate, Stephen Vank |