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Martyn Brown Shawnigan Lake...
British Columbia's case of the unwelcome wife took a turn for the better last week. When Dorothy Hewitt, a pretty ex-model, flew home to Jamaica in September, leaving her schoolteacher bridegroom at his job in Vancouver Island's exclusive Shawnigan Lake School for boys (TIME, Oct. 4), it seemed doubtful that she would ever return to Canada. According to Dorothy, who is one-eighth Negro, Shawnigan Lake's Headmaster G. P. Kaye had asked her to leave rather than embarrass the school by remaining as a faculty wife. John Hewitt joined his wife in Jamaica...
...skinned Dorothy Holtz, 21, was a happy bride-to-be when she arrived at Vancouver Island late in August. From her home in Jamaica, she brought a tiered wedding cake and a long bridal gown. Her English fiance, John Michael Hewitt, 30, was a biology master at the exclusive Shawnigan Lake School for boys near Victoria. Hewitt, who formerly taught in Jamaica, had splurged his savings to furnish a cottage on the school grounds and buy a car. Dorothy had plans for a formal wedding, a big reception, and a happy life in the campus community...
...happened might never have been publicly known except for the fact that Dorothy's father, Noel Frederick Holtz, is the accountant-general of the Jamaican government. When his tearful daughter arrived home, Holtz roused his colleagues to protest to the Canadian government about her treatment in Canada. The Shawnigan authorities, said Holtz, had objected to a "colored woman"* on the school property and suggested that Dorothy should leave. Her husband protested about the school's "ancient, musty policy," but he let Dorothy go home alone because, he explained, he wanted to "face the situation out" at the school...
Father Holtz's outburst got quick results. The Jamaican House of Representatives unanimously passed a protest resolution. Victoria and Vancouver newspapers took up the case and began raking the school officials. Shawnigan's governors pleaded a misunderstanding; they decided to invite Dorothy and her father to come to British Columbia at the school's expense to smooth over the affair. Canada's retiring Ambassador to Japan, R. W. Mayhew, offered to let the Hewitts live in his home. A Victoria company cabled offering her fare to Victoria...