Dear Reader,
     We feel that we own you at the beginning an apology and as most apologies are not easy
to give, as the apologizer must admit a mistake in judgement of some nature or other, so we too
may have erred in choosing for our first attempt in the production of a magazine, something too
lofty for our unskilled pens -- "The Past, Present and Future of our Island;" but we did want to
get in print some of the facts about our Island before some of the older generations passed on and
we had lost the knowledge stored in their minds. So perhaps you will forgive us if we have too
high ideas now you know the motive behind them.

     The idea for this magazine based on the history of our community was born last Fall when
some of us collected facts about our early history for Education Week, when a paper on the
history of our community was read to the public at our annual education week concert. Sometime
after, we decided, if we were to publish a magazine this year, it would be in the form of a
community history, so as to preserve the facts we had already collected and supplemented by
other research. Then when the decision was made the pupils whose names appear above the
written articles were allotted their subjects, asked to collect the facts and write the articles. If
there are errors, as they must be many, please remember that many of the necessary facts were
hard to secure and that is is our first attempt at writing articles for publication.

     Another problem we had to face was that of getting it printed. We discovered by inquiry
that it cost too much to have it printed by a commercial printing firm, and finally decided to
mimeograph it ourselves; therefore, the whole has been locally [produced?], and consequently we
had to omit photographs and some interesting local stories that we originally had planned to have
inserted.

     Our thanks are due James Strong Ltd. for the use of their mimeograph without which it
would have been impossible to have this magazine published at all. We are grateful to the
following people who have helped us in the following way: First and foremost Mr. Roy Taylor
who has given unstintingly of his time to do all the typing; The following people who gave us
valuable information about the earliest settling of the Island and put up with our questioning: Mr.
Thomas Grimes, our oldest inhabitant, now 91 yrs; Messers. J. Adolphus Strong, George Jones,
W. W. Wiseman, and H. L. Strong; Rev. R. Rowsell, B.A. and Mr. James Strong, for placing at
our disposal church and school records; and again thank all others, especially our parents, who
have helped us with words of encouragement and many other ways.

     So Dear Readers we present to you for your perusal -- we cannot say enjoyment -- our
first school Magazine; 
     "The Little Bay Islands Past, Present & Future."

                                   The Editors.