Walter A. Henry - Principal 1945 - 1958Walter A. Henry was born June 23, 1898 in Salisbury, N.B. He was educated at the high school in Salisbury and graduated from the Provincial Normal School in 1917. Soon afterwards, he enlisted in the Canadian forces and was in England when World War I ended. After demobilization he was employed for a short time with the T. Eaton Co. in Moncton and then moved to Saskatchewan.He taught in small prairie communities until 1935, when he returned to N.B. He later had positions at Aroostook, Chipman, and elsewhere in the province. During this time he was engaged in extension and summer study through the University of New Brunswick, which granted him a BA in 1944. In 1945 he was named principal of Harkins High School. He remained at Harkins for thirteen years, during part of which time he also served on the executive of the New Brunswick Teachers Association. In 1958 he resigned the principalship and retired from the teaching profession, but after moving to Saint John the following year, he began to teach at the private Netherwood School for Girls at Rothesay, and he continued on the staff there until the mid 1960s. He died in Saint John on May 14, 1988. The above information was taken from "Dictionary of Miramichi Biography"
by W.D. Hamilton, 1997.
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