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The Burns Avenue School opened for classes during the 1952-53 school year. Katherine Kienast (Gagnon) and Linda Fichter (Bennett) who both grew up on Schiller Street and started kindergarten that year report they attended Nicholai Street School at the beginning of the year and then transferred to Burns Avenue School when it opened.
		Above: Burns Avenue School ~ probably in the mid 1950s. A young William Ames Hayes and his dog Angus are in the foreground.

Left and Below:

A 1950s fund raiser in the school gym.

Photos above, left and below from the William Hayes Collection. Loaned by Jane Grella

Above: The first afternoon kindergarten class. The 1952-53 school year’s kindergarten children were the first to attend classes K thru 6 at the new school.
Some of the children in the photo are: Valentine Bogdanoff, Paul Chernauskas, Barbara Eckler, Richard Embleton, Linda Fichter (Bennett), Patricia Hannigan, Katherine Kienast (Gagnon), Edward Kist, Kenneth Petersen, Raylene Ripa, William Rogan & Linda Sass.

Photo loaned by Linda Bennett

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