Death
of Well-known
Western Educationalist
Very many friends in
Edmonton and throughout the province will learn with the keenest
regret of the death of C. A. Curtis of the Strathcona High
School.
Mr. Curtis is another victim
of the epidemic of the influenza, which has levied toil on so many
of the best lives in the community.
He was taken ill on Sunday,
27 Oct 1918, and after a very gallant struggle against the malady he
succumbed to pneumonia on the morning of Friday, 15 Nov 1918.
The late Mr. Curtis was 41
years of age and was born at Simcoe, Ontario. He attended the Port
Rowan High School and took his teacher's training at the Normal
School in Ottawa.
.In 1900 he married Miss
Hattie McCurdy of Vienna, Ontario, and in 1904 he entered McMaster
Universty in Toronto, from which he graduated with first-class
honors in science in 1908. He later took the degree of Master of
Science at the University of Alberta.
After teaching in the Parry
Sound High School, Mr. Curtis came west to Raymond, Alta., and in
1910 he took a position in the Strathcona High School, filling a
vacancy created by the appointment of G. Fred McNally to an
inspectorate.
Mr. Curtis took charge of
the department of chemistry and physics and there made a reputation
for himslef as one of the leading science teachers of the province.
But his activities were far from confined to the classroom.
He had always been a keen
sportsman, and he entered with heart and soul into the athletic life
of the school. He took a special interest in hockey and was several
times manager of the high school hockey team.
During the last four years
he had very ably conducted the cadet work of the the Strathcona High
School, and he has also been president of the Literary Society, a
tribute to the universal esteem in which he was held by his
students.
He possessed also, in a
special degree, the confidence of his fellow teachers. For three
years he was president of the Edmonton High School Teachers'
Association, and he was a familiar figure at all teachers'
gatherings, both local and provincial.
In addition to his
educational work, Mr. Curtis took an active part in the life of the
community at large.
He belonged to the First
Baptist Church in Strathcona, of which he was treasurer, and a
member of the finance committee and the advisory board.
He was prominent in Masonic
circles, being a Past Master of Acacia Lodge, No. 11, for the year
1912.
He was much interested in
local military work, and was second in command of the South Side
Company of the 101st Regiment, which has, within two days, lost two
most popular and efficient officers in the persons of Prof. W. Muir
Edwards and Mr. Curtis. -- Edmonton Journal.
