History
Building Loon Lake Central School
Building Loon
Lake Central School
On August 27th, 1945 a committee
decided to build a three room school in Loon Lake for a cost of $4000. The
school would be open in January of '46. However, problems occurred and the
school couldn't be used until June 30th, 1946. Due to a fire, the school burned down and the students
were temporarily relocated to several buildings
in town. On August 17th, 1957, Remai Construction from Saskatoon submitted
$102, 888.77 to build a six room school for the students. After much
discussion, the school board decided to build an eight room school very close to
the six room school. This opened in October of 1962. The six room
school became the elementary and the eight room school was the high school, but
together they were referred to as the Loon Lake Central School.
After much consideration, it was decided on October 4th, 1968, under principal Angus Addley, that a two story addition would be built to link the two schools together. This two story structure was to include seven classrooms, a library, a gymnasium, a home economics room, a commercial room, industrial arts area, a principal's office and staff room. The extension was required in order to accommodate the students from Makwa Sahgaiehcan Indian Reserve. The two story addition was ready for the fall term of 1970. Until 1978, Loon Lake Central School remained the same except for minor interior changes.
The
Beginning of "Ernie Studer School"
In 1970-1971, the building
in itself was not altered, but many other changes took place. Mr. Ernie Studer
was a local pioneer, and the decision to change the name of the school to Ernie
Studer School tied us to our heritage and tradition. Also in 1971, the student and faculty population nearly doubled, creating more
opportunity for our students. Some of these opportunities included a yearbook
and many new extra-curricular such as football, glee club, curling,
cheerleading, basketball, drama club, volleyball, softball and SRC.
The Blue
Devil
In 1980, Ernie Studer School adopted
the Blue Devil as our school logo. The Devil was developed from the
popular cartoon "Tasmanian Devil" and painted with our school colors
of blue and white.
Along with this logo came the popular sports motto "Bring on the Devils" and
this has been used in many sports activities throughout the years.
Changing
Principals
In 1985, after
serving for sixteen years as principal, Angus Addley retired and was replaced by Norm Dray. In the
year 1987-1988, Dewey Theile assumed the role of principal until 1988-1989. We
started off a new decade with Robert Moore as our principal.
Population
Changes
In 1987-1988,
Makwa School became a Kindergarten-Grade 8 school. As a result,
Ernie Studer welcomed the Grade 9-12 students to become a part of our school.
In 1995-1996,
the Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation School was built, reducing our school
population by almost half. In 2000-2001, Makwa School closed and
those students joined us, increasing
our population once again.
New
Administration
Mr. Moore retired in 2002-2003,
after 13 years of being ESS principal. Mr. D. Slugoski served as principal
from 2003 - 2006, and returned to the classroom. Our current principal, Mr. B.
Freyman was Vice-Principal for three years before assuming the principalship.
Mrs. Judy Seguin joined the staff as Vice-Principal from 2006 until 2009. After her retirement in 2009, Mr. Davin Hildebrand joined our staff as Vice-Principal.
Our School today
Our current school population for Kindergarten - Grade Twelve includes 180 students, 14.6 teachers, 4 educational assistants, 3 janitors and 6 bus drivers.