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HENRY, WALTER ALAN (1898-1988)

HENRY, WALTER ALAN, principal of Harkins High School, 1945-58; b. Salisbury, N.B., 23 Jun 1898, s/o Walter B. Henry, a native of Macduff, Scotland, and Christina Stewart; m. 1st, 1921, Anne Margaret Laurie, of Tatamagouche, N.S., and 2nd, 1966, Marion E. Fisher, BA, of Saint John; d. there, 14 May 1988.

W. Alan Henry 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.

Henry taught in small prairie communities until 1935, when he returned to New Brunswick. 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, where he was preceded by two younger short-term appointees: Richard G. Anderson, who succeeded Joseph H. Barnett in 1941, and Murray J. Burns, who held the position from 1942 to 1945.

Henry 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.

Henry was a Sunday school teacher and elder of the United Church, a Mason, and a curler. He and his first wife, Anne M. Laurie, had a daughter and two sons. He was survived by the three children, as well his second wife, Marion E. Fisher.

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[b] census [m] Henry family data [d] Globe 17 May 1988 / Globe 13 Jan 1959; Telegraph 4 Jan 1952


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