Items originally contained in folder. Includes information sheets about various aspects of the F.W.T.A.O. including: lines of communication, organizational structure, relationship to W.C.O.T.P., C.T.F. and O.T.F., the qualifications evaluation programme, as well as an F.W.T.A.O. glossary of abbreviations.

Materials relating to the operation and history of Brighton Public School. Includes clippings, newsletters, photographs, ephemera, etc.

One photograph of students at Brighton Public School. They are standing in what appears to be a classroom and some are holding story books.

Newsletter from Brighton Public School. Features include bike safety, music programming, intramural floor hockey, and upcoming class activities.

Includes one issue of this serial publication - v. 1, no. 2 (Mar. 1972).

Issues of the newsletter Lehrgespräch, in 18 files. Vols. 1 - 5 were published jointly by three Waterloo County Teachers' Federations including the W.C.W.T.A., and Vol. 6 was published jointly by two Waterloo County Teachers' Federations including the W.C.W.T.A. Vol.7 onwards - published by the Waterloo County Teachers' Association.
Note: The title of this publication changed to become "The Big L" during the period Nov. 1974 - June 1975.
Missing issues include: v. 5, no. 3, 1975-1976; v. 6, no. 7, 1977; v. 13, no. 4, 1984.

Contains b&w photographs, meeting agendas, a W.C.W.T.A. report, and news clippings relating to the annual meeting of W.C.W.T.A Unit 1, to a leadership workshop sponsored by the F.W.T.A.O., as well as to the W.C.W.T.A's annual meeting and dinner.

News clipping (Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Monday, 5 June 1972, p. 28) reports on a leadership workshop sponsored by the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario. The names of teachers attending from Kitchener-Waterloo are provided along with information on the themes to be covered in the workshop sessions.

Contains b&w photographs, news clippings, W.C.W.T.A. newsletters, programs, and some loose materials relating to meetings, conferences, a panel discussion, and the leadership training course of the W.C.W.T.A.

Contains b&w and col. photographs, a W.C.W.T.A. newsletter, news clippings, and a report compiled by the Reville Report Committee of the W.C.W.T.A. These materials relate to the annual F.W.T.A.O. meeting, and to W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1 meetings.

Notes kept by Mary Johnston from her time on the Ad Hoc Committee on Special Education of the Waterloo County Board of Education.

Includes questionnaire produced for the purposes of the June Presidents' workshop in 1972.

New clipping (Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Thursday, 4 May 1972, p. 38) reports that the spring assembly of the Federation of Women Teachers Associations of Ontario will take place for the first time in Waterloo County. This article also focuses on the items on the agenda for discussion as well as other activities which will form part of this spring assembly.

Includes 2 issues of this quarterly publication including: O.T.F. Reporter 22 (winter 1972) entitled "The Ideal Teacher", and O.T.F. Reporter 23 (spring 1972), entitled "The Teacher and the Law".

A booklet under the same title was published by the O.T.F. in 1949, 1955, 1959, 1964, and 1969. The present publication presents up-to-date material in revised form. It is intended to provide members of the affiliates of the Federation and prospective teachers with information of value to them in the practice of the profession.

Contains b&w photographs, ephemera, news clippings, a W.C.W.T.A. newsletter, and documents relating to a W.C.W.T.A meeting in April 1972 and to the Regional Assembly of the Federation Women Teachers Associations of Ontario in May 1972.

Contains b&w and col. photographs, news clippings, and a meeting agenda relating to a W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1 meeting, to the Principals' Conference in Barrie, Ont., to a meeting of the Committee on the Costs of Education in the Elementary and Secondary Schools of Ontario, and to Math Night at the Winston Churchill School in Waterloo, Ont.

Canadian College of Teachers certification for Mary Johnston.

Photograph of delegates at the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario.

Contains news clippings which appeared in The Globe and Mail focusing on Ontario teachers' opposition to Bill 274 designed to prevent mass resignations submitted by teachers from taking effect on Dec. 31, 1973. This bill would instead impose compulsory arbitration to resolve disputed contract issues. Actions taken by teachers to oppose this bill included a province-wide strike on Dec. 18, 1973.

Contains b&w photographs and news clippings relating to a presentation hosted by the W.C.W.T.A., to a W.C.W.T.A. board meeting, to the W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1 annual meeting, to a primary teachers dinner, to Fun Day, and to the Regional Assembly of the F.W.T.A.O.

Contains b&w photographs, news clippings, and ephemera relating to the F.W.T.A.O summer annual meeting, to an F.W.T.A.O. Regional Assembly, to the Waterloo County Principals' Conference, to a presentation hosted by the W.C.W.T.A., to W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1 meetings, and to W.C.W.T.A. Unit 2 events.

Contains b&w photographs and 1 col. photograph, news clippings, a meeting agenda, and ephemera relating to an F.W.T.A.O. workshop, to F.W.T.A.O. meetings of Waterloo Region's elementary teachers, to a W.C.W.T.A members meeting, to a presentation by Mary Johnston hosted by W.C.W.T.A. Unit 3, to meetings of the W.C.W.T.A. Unit 3, to Elementary P.D. Day, and to a W.C.W.T.A Leadership Course

Contains news clipping (Waterloo Chronicle, Sunday, 23 May 1973, p. [1]) reporting that Mrs. Grace Scott, Mrs. Alice Bullard, Velma Samuel, Mrs. Irene Fretz, Mrs. Gladys Hudelmaier, and Mrs. Sally Beatty, who are retiring and have 160 years of teaching experience between them, were honoured by the Waterloo County Board of Education at a tea organized to mark this occasion.

Contains August 1973 issue of this newsletter.

Certificate of participation in planning and conducting the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association leadership II course given to Mary Johnston.

Materials relating to Mary Johnston's membership in the Canadian College of Teachers. Includes membership lists and correspondence.

Contains b&w and col. photographs, news clippings, and ephemera. Some of the photographs appear to be personal family photographs of Mary Johnston. The remaining photographs and other items in this scrapbook relate to various F.W.T.A.O. and W.C.W.T.A. events including an emergency F.W.T.A.O. meeting, Professional Development Day, and to a W.C.W.T.A Leadership Course. Also includes a news clipping and photographs relating to a meeting between Premier Davis and Joan Westcott, W.C.W.T.A. president and Bill Langdown, OPSMTF Waterloo District President.

Contains b&w and col. photographs, ephemera, news clippings, a meeting agenda, and a copy of the W.C.W.T.A. President's Report. Also includes minutes of the W.C.W.T.A.'s third AGM, as well as the president's, the committees' and the convenors' reports. The materials in this scrapbook relate to the third annual meeting of the W.C.W.T.A. on June 3, 1974, to meetings of the W.C.T.A.'s Ad Hoc Legislation Committee and to a meeting of the F.W.T.A.O.

Report of a study conducted for the Waterloo Co. Board Ad Hoc Committee on Structure by members of the O.I.S.E. Dept. of Educational Administration and Midwestern Field Centre.
File also contains a clipping (n.d.) re the Herb Epp Report

Materials in this scrapbook relate to the W.C.W.T.A. Leadership Training Course 1973-1974. Contents include b&w photographs, news clippings, course application form and course schedule and outline, 1 photocopied ms. of poem, meeting agenda of the Leadership Course Committe, and ephemera.

Contains president's report, minutes, lists of executive members and committee convenors for 1973-1974, a financial report, reports from the W.C.W.T.A. committees and convenors, as well as ts. relating to W.C.W.T.A. representation at regional meetings, to delegates sponsored by W.C.W.T.A. to provincial conferences and workshops, to representatives on W.C.T.A. committees and boards, and to meeting resolutions. Also includes some ms. notes re this meeting and a flyer featuring meeting agenda.

Contents of this file originally stored in a binder. This appears to be a file which was maintained by Mary Johnston during her time as P.R. and county adviser with the W.C.W.T.A. This file contains miscellaneous materials including correspondence, information sheets about the F.W.T.A.O., flyers, notices of meetings, tss. relating to meetings, W.C.W.T.A. notices to members about actions being taken or proposed in a number of areas especially with regard to Bill 274. Also includes booklet containing legislation: Regulations (O. Reg. 95/47): General Regulations for Public and Separate Schools: Made Under the Department of Education Act.

Contains b&w photographs, news clippings, and correspondence relating to the annual meeting of the F.W.T.A.O., to the Regional Professional Development Plan, to implementation meetings of the primary curriculum, to activities involved in preparing the The Big L (the new F.W.T.A.O. newsletter) for distribution, to the Waterloo County Principals' Conference, and to a W.C.W.T.A. Key Teacher meeting.

Contains b&w photographs and news clippings relating to a W.C.W.T.A. executive meeting, and to a W.C.W.T.A Unit 1 executive meeting and other events, as well as to a F.W.T.A.O. Board of Directors' meeting and dinner. Also contains materials relating to the F.W.T.A.O. Public Relations Conference, to a Wendy House built by Laurel Vocational Students at Winston Churchill school in Waterloo, Ont., and to a W.C.W.T.A. tour.

Contains b&w photographs, news clippings, a list, and ephemera relating to the annual meeting of W.C.W.T.A. Unit 3, to a W.C.W.T.A. Unit 2 meeting, to Professional Development Day, and to the annual spring assembly of F.W.T.A.O. at which Joan Westcott, president W.C.W.T.A. was selected as F.W.T.A.O. Director.

Contains spiral-bound ts. including meeting agenda, the text of Bill 274 and Bill 275, and of amendments to Bill 274. Also includes some ms. annotations and additions.

Certificate of participation in planning and conducting the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association leadership II course given to Mary Johnston.

One scrapbook kept by Mary Johnston regarding her winning the top business woman of the year from the K-W Oktoberfest in 1975.

Plaque given to Mary Johnston for winning the Oktoberfest woman of the year award in the category of profession.

Photographs of Mary Johnston's campaign for director. It is unknown for what organization she was running,but possible the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association.

Contains b&w photographs, news clippings, course schedules and outline, a list of participants, and a speech evaluation form, as well as ephemera relating to the W.C.W.T.A. Leadership Training Course I in 1975.

Contains b&w photographs, news clippings, course handouts, correspondence, a course evaluation sheet, the agenda for a Leadership Course Committee meeting. All these materials relate to the W.C.W.T.A. Leadership Training Course II in 1975.

Contains president's report, meeting agenda, minutes, financial statement, committee reports, meeting resolutions, lists of W.C.W.T.A. executive members, unit executive members, and committee convenors for 1974-1975 and of unit executive members for 1975-1976.

Contains b&w photographs and news clippings relating to the W.C.W.T.A. Leadership course, to P.D. Day, to a conference on family sponsored by the F.W.T.A.O, to a F.W.T.A.O. Unit 4 dinner, and to Dialogue Day, a conference sponsored jointly by the Minstry of Education and the Ontario Teachers Federation.

Contains b&w photographs, news clippings, course handouts, course evaluation sheets, and comments of participants relating to the W.C.W.T.A. Leadership Training Course I in 1975.

Contains news clippings, b&w photographs, and ephemera relating to the adventure playground built at Winston Churchill Public School in Waterloo, Ont. where Mary Johnston was Principal, to the official opening of the new Neil A. MacEachern school in Waterloo, Ont., to a panel discussion, to the W.C.W.T.A. Leadership II course, and to social outings of the W.C.W.T.A. Also contains a loose copy of the journal Ontario Education 7, no. 1 (Jan/Feb. 1975).

Contains b&w photographs, correspondence, news clippings, ephemera, course schedules and outlines, a course application form, a list of participants, and a course booklist. All these materials relate to the W.C.W.T.A. Leadership Training Course II in 1975.

Materials kept by Mary Johnston relating to her work on various professional development committees.

One photograph of Barbara Smucker visiting students.

Contains incomplete set of issues of New Dimensions, a journal published by the Ontario Department of Education including: v. 6, no. 7, 9 (2 copies), 1972; v. 7, no. 6, 1973, v. 8, no. 2, 1973; v. 8, no. 4, 1974; v. 10, no. 1, 2, 3, 1976.

Contains b&w and col. photographs and clippings relating to Information Day '75, the Fall Assembly at Welland, to W.C.W.T.A Leadership Courses, to a Program Development Seminar sponsored by the Minstry of Education, Ontario. and to other events.

Public relations for schools guidelines.

This untitled scrapbook contains b&w photographs, news clippings, and a list of key teachers and members of the Unit 1 executive. These materials relate to W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1 meetings, as well as to "Operation Rose".

Contains three issues of the journal Ontario Education including: v. 3, no.5, 1971; v. 6, no. 1, 1974; v. 8, no. 2, 1976.

Contains b&w and col. photographs, news clippings, ephemera, a course schedule and outline, a list of participants, and a course acceptance form. All these materials relate to the W.C.W.T.A. Leadership Training Course I in 1976.

Contains b&w and col. photographs, news clippings, ephemera, a course evaluation form, reports and financial statement of Leadership I Committee. All these materials relate to the W.C.W.T.A. Leadership Training Course I in 1976.

Scrapbook kept by Mary Johnston detailing professional development events attended and organized by her. Includes photographs, newsletters, correspondence, and ephemera.

Correspondence to parents from Mary Johnston while she was principal at Winston Churchill Public School.

Contents include information on W.C.W.T.A. election of officers for unit executives, on regional and provincial meetings and conferences 1976-1977, on the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession, and on the W.C.W.T.A.'s terms of reference and policies. Also includes a list of members of the Waterloo County Board of Education in 1976. Also includes two loose leaves - one ts. features a list of proposed slate of officers for the W.C.W.T.A. 1976-1977 and one illustration showing the structural organization of the Waterloo County Board of Education.

Contains president's message, meeting agenda, minutes, financial statement, lists of W.C.W.T.A. executive members, unit executive members, and committee reports.

One poem given to Mary Johnston upon her leaving Winston Churchill Public School.

Contains b&w photographs, correspondence, the course schedule (loose), and news clippings relating to the W.C.W.T.A. Leadership Training Course I in 1977.

Contains b&w photographs, news clippings, a list of course participants, notes on course content, and some loose items. All these materials relate to the W.C.W.T.A. Leadership Training Course II in 1977.

Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal presented to Mary Johnston.

Includes single issue of this journal - v. 8, no. 2 (April 1977).

Objectives of Winston Churchill Public School.

One photograph of Mary Johnston and others laying the cornerstone at Keatsway Public School.

Spiral-bound volume containing a list of conference committee members, details of this conference program, a plan of the hotel in which the conference is taking place, and blank pages for conference delegates to make notes.

News clipping (source unspecified) reports on a presentation given to Waterloo Region's women public school teachers by Carol Brooks of the Everywoman's Educational Centre in London, Ont.

Contains meeting agenda, minutes, treasurer's report, lists of executive members, and unit executive members, and committee reports.

Spiral-bound volume including details of the workshops which made up a series of workshops hosted by the F.W.T.A.O. and entitled "Professional Development".

Snapshots taken by Mary Johnston of events, activities and students during her teaching career. Includes images from Bearinger, MacGregor, Empire, Centennial, Brighton, and Keatsway schools.

This untitled scrapbook contains b&w photographs, news clippings, ephemera, lists of members of the executive of the W.C.W.T.A., of the W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1, and of the F.W.T.A.O. , an information sheet for members about W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1, a list of W.C.W.T.A. key teachers, and agendas for W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1 executive meetings, and agendas and summary reports of W.C.W.T.A. Unit I general meetings.

Contains b&w photographs, news clippings, the agenda for a Leadership I Dinner Meeting, a list of participants and a course evaluation form. All these materials relate to the W.C.W.T.A. Leadership Training Course I in 1977.

Memos, meeting minutes, and circulars from the area one principal's meetings.

Distinguished service award presented to Mary Johnston by the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario.

Diamond jubilee educator award presented to Mary Johnston by the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association.

Scrapbook kept by Mary Johnston relating to her award at the Federation of Women Teachers' Association of Ontario diamond jubilee dinner.

2 copies.

This untitled scrapbook contains b&w photographs, news clippings, ephemera, notes, a list of W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1 executive members, a summary report of a general meeting of this unit and executive minute meetings. These materials relate primarily to meetings of the W.C.W.T.A. Unit 1 but also to the W.C.W.T.A. annual dinner, to P.A. Days, to "Operation Rose", and to the F.W.T.A.O. Regional Assembly.

Outlines and speaking points for remembrance day assemblies.

Buttons kept by Mary Johnston from education events including Winston Churchill School, Brighton Public School, and the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario.

One photograph of Mary Johnston speaking at a podium at a Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario meeting.

Contains president's report, minutes, treasurer's report, and committee reports. The documents for this meeting feature a special report announcing that Mary Johnston is the recipient of the W.C.W.T.A. and F.W.T.A.O. Diamond Jubilee Award and containing details of her achievements during her career. This award was given to commemorate the federation's sixtieth birthday
Also contained in this file are loose items including clippings (some duplicates) focusing on the receipt of this award by Mary Johnston. Also includes an issue of Accross the Board published by the Waterloo County Board of Education. This contains highlights of the board meeting of May 25, 1978 which includes an announcement that Mary Johnston has been awarded the F.W.T.A.O. Diamond Jubilee Award.

2 copies.

Contains two news clippings (Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Saturday, 7 January 1978). One of these clippings is an article reporting that the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association will be running advertisements in newspapers to ask the public to submit names of women elementary teachers who they feel have made outstanding contributions to education. The other clipping takes the form of a nomination form to be filled out by members of the public who wish to nominate a teacher for the Diamond Jubilee Award of the F.W.T.A.O.

Souvenir book from the Waterloo County Principals' conference on stress.