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A dropout at 14
A dropout at 14

A dropout at 14

Date2/20/1970
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Original Toronto Star caption: A dropout at 14: Grade 9 students at North York's Ledbury Junior High School hear External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp tell them he'd dropped out of school at 14. Later, admitted he had gone on to night school, took his BA at the University of Manitoba and went on to London School of Economics for postgraduate study.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0079918F
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Instructor Mary Fotheringham, left, shows sailors chris Leaver, 14, Derek Baker, 15, centre, and Aimy Butler, 14, the ropes. Sailing is part of busy camp program
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Peter Steiner, the 14-year-old boy injured on a crosswalk by a car that killed the crossing guard, has visitors in his room East General Hospitals: John Thauberger, 14, a fellow pupil at St
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