Letitia Agnes “Tish” Tomlin, nee Cooper (1929 – 1995)
	
Tish Cooper grew up in West Bend, Saskatchewan and went to Normal School in Saskatoon. She taught in places like Welby and Horse Lake before coming to Haines Junction in 1952 with her sister Ellen. They shared an apartment and taught grades one through eight in an army building in the highway camp by the river. Jack Hulland was the superintendent. The sisters planned to stay one year but they liked the town. Tish and Al Tomlin were married in 1953.((Elaine Hurlburt, "Bouquets to Mrs. Tomlin" in //From First We Met to Internet: Stories from Haines Junction's first Sixty-Five Years as a Settlement.// Yukon College. 2007: 82.)) They had four children and adopted two more: James, Lianne, Janice, David, Donald, and Bruce.((Haley Tomlin, 2004, "Ancestor Essay"  in //From First We Met to Internet: Stories from Haines Junction's first Sixty-Five Years as a Settlement.// Yukon College. 2007: 132-3.)) Tish retired from teaching at the Haines Junction school in 1989.((Elaine Hurlburt, "Bouquets to Mrs. Tomlin" in //From First We Met to Internet: Stories from Haines Junction's first Sixty-Five Years as a Settlement.// Yukon College. 2007: 82.))
	
Both Tish and Al Tomlin received Yukon Commissioner’s Awards: Tish in 1990 and Al in 1993. The Tish Tomlin Scholarship award is presented annually by the Village of Haines Junction to a student from grades 9 to 12 who demonstrate leadership and community spirit. Al and Tish Tomlin were named Mr. and Mrs. Yukon for the 1991 Sourdough Rendezvous.