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A dropout at 14
A dropout at 14

A dropout at 14

Date2/20/1970
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Original Toronto Star caption: A dropout at 14: Grade 9 students at North York's Ledbury Junior High School hear External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp tell them he'd dropped out of school at 14. Later, admitted he had gone on to night school, took his BA at the University of Manitoba and went on to London School of Economics for postgraduate study.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0079918F
Ready to serve: Rev. Carolyn Holland stands by pulpit of York Pines United Church in Kettleby. The former high school dropout gave up on religion as a(...)
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Fresh start: Enrolees Becky Watson, 20, and Laurie Dale, 19, (standing) check the computer listings at special program for unemployed or underemployed high school dropouts at Port Perry High School
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Better-known as the duck-tailed dropout from 50s, The Fonz-actor Henry Winkler (left) chats with film festival promoter William Marshall after arrivin(...)
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Catherine O'Hara, SCTV dropout is skating on same ice as Toller Cranston
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Soaking their aching feet, Bonnie Smyth, 14, left, and Wendy Jackson, 14, sit on the edge of the pool in Nathan Phillips Square after completing the 4(...)
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Ontario Hol: Muskoka. It's summer in Muskoka, and arm-in-arm Borneman, 14, and Xaver Dango, 14, both from Toronto, watch the wheel whirl lazily in the(...)
Ontario Hol: Muskoka. It's summer in Muskoka, and arm-in-arm Borneman, 14, and Xaver Dango, 14, both from Toronto, watch the wheel whirl lazily in the(...)
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Peter Steiner, the 14-year-old boy injured on a crosswalk by a car that killed the crossing guard, has visitors in his room East General Hospitals: John Thauberger, 14, a fellow pupil at St
Peter Steiner, the 14-year-old boy injured on a crosswalk by a car that killed the crossing guard, has visitors in his room East General Hospitals: John Thauberger, 14, a fellow pupil at St
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They're getting a new slant on sailing, Instructor Bill Wakeline shows Kim Llewellyn, 14, and Karen Thacker, 14, how a boat heels over in the wind dur(...)
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Instructor Mary Fotheringham, left, shows sailors chris Leaver, 14, Derek Baker, 15, centre, and Aimy Butler, 14, the ropes. Sailing is part of busy camp program
Instructor Mary Fotheringham, left, shows sailors chris Leaver, 14, Derek Baker, 15, centre, and Aimy Butler, 14, the ropes. Sailing is part of busy camp program
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