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PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS - Don Hester Associate Principal Senior Planner and Landscape Architect poses at the offices of AECOM. "“I really liked Miss Pearson as a teacher,” says classmate Don Hester, who went on to a career as a landscape architect. “What I recall most about the class is poetry. We had to memorize poems in Grade 4 or 5 and I recall not only the one I did: ‘On either side the river lie/Long fields of barley and of rye...’, but also some of the ones that others got to do about the Fighting Temeraire: ‘T’was eight bells ringing/ And the morning watch was singing...’, as well as Tennyson’s ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’. I also remember the Science Fair project I did in that class – on the microscope and Van Leeuwenheok. We went on a field trip to meet the wildlife painter Clarence Tillenius who seemed to be a friend of Miss Pearson. To this day I enjoy seeing his paintings at the Assiniboine Park Conservatory and the buffalo diorama at the Manitoba Museum with that memory. I went to on to Junior and Senior High School in the Saguenay region of Quebec after Grade 7 / first half of Grade 8. Major Work at least helped me somewhat in learning to adapt to new educational environments.” Don Hestor See John Einarson's story. September 26, 2016