HEADED BY HIS FATHER
Two names appeared among the list of students who underwent an examination at Fife Mining School, Cowdenbeath. They were Dan Keenan and ! Thomas Keenan. Dan Keenan smiled when he saw the list: he had beaten i Thomas, his son. by three marks. Dan. a miner at the Mary Colliery. Lochore. Fife, left school at the age of 10. His 17-year-old son, a pithead worker at the same colliery, had the opportunity of going to the mining school. The boy was not keen. “Will you go if I go?” asked Dan. They both went to school, j and both to the same class. "The boy is really better than I am.” says Dan. "but. perhaps, he made one or two slips in the examination. I made a few myself. It was a tough job going back to school. Algebra and stuff like that I knew nothing about.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 7 June 1938, Page 5
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