Description: Dignitaries present at the official opening of the Edmundston Trade School. At the microphone, Lomer Leblanc, principal. Seated from left to right, Honorable W.W. Meldrum, minister of Education; M. Thompson, director of professional education; Honorable J. Adrien Levesque, minister of Agriculture; D.C. Dickson, guest speaker; Bishop J. Romeo Gagnon, bishop of the Edmundston Diocese; J. Turgeon, provincial director of learning; Mayor B. Fernand Nadeau; Laurie Landry, from the general contractor for the school; D.W. Jonssen, provincial architect; F.T. Atkinson, deputy minister of Education; and C.L. Dowe, coordinator of technical and indusrial training.