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Retired teachers of Huron -Perth celebrate 40 years
Willi Laurie
Special to the Signal Star
The District 9 Retired
Teachers Huron -Perth
marked their 40th anniver-
sary at
the community centre in
Clinton on Oct. 8.
President Clare French
honoured and recognized
past presidents of the Huron -
Perth RTO and of the former
Huron and Perth units at this
celebratory banquet. Those
so honoured were Arn
Mathers, Ila Mathers, David
McClure, Dianne Josling,
Florence Keillor, George
Wicke, Ross Errington, Annie
Dozois, Ron Patterson, Mary
Moffatt, Lorne Rideout, Gary
Jewitt, Bob Moorehead,
Sheila Jankowski, John
Mann, Linda McKenzie,
Glen Querengesser, Jane
Cousineau, Gwen Patterson,
Marian Pullman, and Joan
Anderson.
Dixie Lee Arbuckle also
recognized Jean Hodgert,
Ron Fischer, Ron
Kelterborn, Hans Dekker,
Bernice Dekker, Jerry
Ingram, Argelyn Strote,
Gerald Cullen, Kay Rob-
erts and Dorothy Leitch as
quarter century club mem-
bers - those who have been
involved with RTO for over
25 years.
The District 9 Exemplary
Contribution Award for 2014
was awarded to long-time
member Jane Cousineau for
her many years of service
with District 9 RTO and for
her work at the provincial
level on behalf of retired
teachers across the
province.
From 2004 to 2006 Jane
acted in various executive
chairs and served on the
constitution, publicity and
Service to Others commit-
tees. She served as district
president in 2006. As past
President she chaired the
nominating committee.
From 2008 to 2012 Jane
chaired the Pensions and
Retirement
Concerns Committee and
ran the retirement planning
workshops for teachers and
education workers consid-
ering retirement. At the
same time Jane also served
on the Provincial Retire-
ment and Pension Concerns
Committee for three years.
She was an acting liaison
officer for nine districts. She
led many workshops and
was available as a knowl-
edgeable resource and men-
tor for members. Her efforts
were instrumental in the
writing and delivery of
highly successful RTO/ERO
resource materials or fact
sheets related to retirement
concerns such as health,
wills, local resources for
elder support, and travel.
Retirees all over the prov-
ince can access these mate-
rials online everyday to
assist in decision-making
and retirement planning.
In her former life, Jane
served as science head at
Northwestern Secondary
School in Stratford for many
years. She and husband
Jacques reside in a charm-
ing stone house northwest
of St. Marys. They have a
family of four - three boys
and one girl - but are now
empty nesters. Jane seldom
misses a local auction sale
and is an avid antique
Clair McClure and
Brenda McClure
and
Ken and Kathy Ramseyer are
pleased to announce the
forthcoming marriage of
their children
Lindsey McClure
and
Tim Ramseyer
on Saturday Oct. 25, 2014
at First Presbyterian Church,
159 Goderich St. W. Seaforth.
hound.
Also
Also at the annual general
meeting the executive for
2015 was selected.
Clare French of Mitchell
will act as president; Joe
Hogan of Exeter is vice
President; Willi Laurie of
Varna is secretary and Marty
Bond of Goderich is
treasurer.
District 9 RTO contributes
every year to service to oth-
ers projects. For over 20
years John Mann and his
wife Marg have assembled
20 teacher boxes of materi-
als for shipment overseas to
Nicaragua and to other third
world countries through
Samaritan's Purse.
Individual RTO members
make donations to the
teacher boxes each year and
RTO also donates funding.
Every year, 20 third world
classrooms receive much
needed materials for their
students from District 9
alone. District 9 thanks
John and Marg Mann for
their 20 years of service.
They will be turning the job
over to Wingham member
Pat Evers after this year.
Two other Service to Oth-
ers projects were also
awarded funding at the
meeting.
Janice Ward received a
cheque for Hope Commu-
nity Centre. Located in a
rural area outside of Nai-
robi, Kenya, the centre cares
for abandoned children or
children permanently sepa-
rated from their families.
What started with one
woman taking a homeless
child into a one -room apart-
ment now is a complex cov-
ering 15 acres. The centre
Photos contributed by Joe Laurie
Jean Weigand, centre, awards Service to Others funding to Lorene Ayres for the Temwani
Foundation for aids orphans in Zambia and to Janice Ward for the Hope Community Centre for
homeless children in Kenya. Every year the Retired Teachers of Huron -Perth donate funding for
worthy projects with retired teacher involvement.
includes a garden and work-
ing farm of about 200 chil-
dren, with a high school, a
medical centre staffed by a
doctor and nurse once per
week and a baby nursery for
50. Janice and her friend
Ruth have worked tirelessly
to raise funding for this pro-
ject and have volunteered
on site several times.
Lorene Ayres received a
donation on behalf of the
Temwani Foundation. She
has volunteered on the site
as well. The purpose of the
organization is to help with
the education and well
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District 9 RTO Huron -
Perth has 1085 members
who are former teachers
and education workers
from public and separate,
elementary and secondary
schools in Huron and
Perth.
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