This article says Cowden enlisted the co operation of the parents at Toodyay but then When he was promoted to the State school at Buckland Hill Mr Cowden started to work on the same lines and as a result the Buckland Hill Parents and Teachers League was formed This to me suggests that he did not start the P C at Toodyay Given that the only definite reference we have for his starting the first P C at Toodyay is a letter to the editor from his wife written over 30 years after the fact I ve deleted the sentence from our article