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The Friends submitted the name of Jean Earle Geeson to the Toronto District School Board for its new JK to Grade 8 elementary school to be built later this year east of the fort on Fort York Blvd. at the corner of Brunel Court. Naming proposals were due by March 10. The Board held a public meeting on March 22 to report on the total of 213 submissions received, 53 of them unique. Many proposals related to the late Rob Stewart, the environmentalist and filmmaker who died off Florida recently—so many that the TDSB officials had a certificate and a gift for members of Mr. Stewart’s family, who attended the briefing.
Thirteen names were chosen by the TDSB for study, including research and verification from Toronto Public Libraries. Three finalists were selected by a committee of Ward School Trustee Ausma Malik, three superintendents, and a local principal:
Jean E. Geeson Public School
(described as ‘an early female educator’);
Jean B. Lumb Public School
(described as a Chinese-Canadian community leader, business woman, and recipient of the Order of Canada);
Railway Lands Public School
The TDSB as a whole is expected to choose among these names at its April meeting.
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