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Earl Porter: I went down to Ioco for grade six or seven, grade seven it was. I went down there for grade seven. It had four rooms and four teachers down there plus you had manual training, boys came up once a week for wood working and drafting and they had one for the girls for cooking for the first half of the year and the other half was sewing.

Interviewer: What was your favourite subject in school?

Earl Porter: Well, I used to hate math but when I got started taking algebra math was my favourite subject.

Interviewer: Really?

Earl Porter: I found it more interesting than working with letters and geometry and all that stuff.