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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1967-10-25, Page 15WEDNESDAY, OCT- 25414 194"7 7P'1.1„"r.1-7•01t*AWKTINZAP.43- , THELUCKNOW SENTINEL; LUCKNOW,. ONTARIO / • • • U U. • •-•8.y Helen covrt.nek... PAGE FIFTEEN Hear Representative Of C.N.1.B. Will Canvass Again This Year Did you knokl .that 25,00,0 in C , • ada are blind to -day? Did you knok:, that 6.. people go blind in Canada every. day? These are just a few of the facts we, the students;learned ' frOrn Mr. Shepherd of the CNIB. , 'Mr. 'Shepherd has had, acernea. • • :trartsplaht in both of his, eyes after being blind for 20 years. This is both a fascinating and -rewarding operation and the students learned a great deal from his talk.. Last year the students canvassed for the CNIB, Canadian National, in, stithtion of the Blind and the res- ponse was appreciative. .The grade. nines ABC and D are responsible for canvassing Sunday . November.' • 5th. .• • • • Choc lat-.:11 •: • oilowe'en Dance what.% "NEW" at 1...D.H.S.?".. Friday, October 21 '- 'Hallowe'en Dance, Grade ten is in.charge and ,music will be supplied by "Sands of Time" from Goderich. • • . • Commencerneny . - • , .Friday; November ip,is a very Important night for all grade .12,, and 13 graduates. These people. • have finished one very important. phase in their life and are going to further their education in many yarious fields. Mr. Noel Mason will be guest speaker. The . • "Beaumonts" will.stipply the music ' to finish off the evening. •. • Chocolate bars are corning inby • •.• the dozens, Wednesday, *October : • • • Lhristriias .Activities • ,. ,, 25th! 1 Each student w11 be given . November 27 .. Christmas exams! a certain amount to sell by the •Friday; December 15,• Christmas following- Wednesday. This is one Dance music by the Dimensions '. of the first fund-raising projects of • , - . . • ,.. . the Student's Council so let's see • ' . • ' full.support by the stuclentS1. i , • .. , . . At Conference • .. 9 I. . • . Year Book.. five girls.. namely, DOnna E. . • a • • • , • • • , % • . ' \ . . Ritchie, Donna J..Ritchie, ' Wanda . • . • ' Theme of the yearbookHunter. BevMacDonald .is "Secon- dary, Education in Lucknow" .'The . Janice' Wall -volunteered to go to Palmerston Saturday, October 21 co-editors are planning a bigger ' . and better yearbook for the last to a conference of the. mental re- tardation..These girls found 'their year at L. D. 1-1. S. . Co=editors Rod MacKenzie and Eleanor 'Whitby . . trip very worthwhile and it also ,' • have a very capable staff to make gave them a wider kn1Owledge of • this planlealistic. The advisory . this dis'ease, staff i Wanda Hunter, ion Lizmore ' - . • Nancy Bushell. General Secretary- Donna Wylds; business manager -•• ' . Field Day •• David Rhody. Advisory Staff from ' '. , , ' • , . . teachers -Mrs . T.; macKenzie .. Lucknow made 'a very good show-. , • and Mr.' G. Gibson.. ditori and ing at Chesley Field Day, Monday, October 16th. The cross ,countly • ManagerS:•Sliorts K n Roulstoh, • Wi;iners. At .:Lucktiow: eid Day • Winners at the Lucknow District High School track and field day are pictured following their, successes.. Front row , left to right, Brenda Morrison, Midget girls champion; • Gertrude Van Beers and Nancy • Irwin, tied for Senior girls champ; Dorothy 'Van Beers, Junior girls championship. Back row, left to right, Bay Hogan, Senior champ; Brute Colwell. Junior Champ; DaVid MacKinnon,Midget champ. Eggleston Family Move To Cobden •DUNGANNON NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Arthur, Eggleston .and have wad their farms here and lat week moved to their • new home near Cobden in Eastern Ontario. • Mr. and Mrs.• Grant Sowerby and Bill Blake of WillowcIale were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs.:•Ceeil SUFFERS CORONARY . Mr. Thomas Park• was admitted to Wingham and District hospital on Thursday last as the result. of a .coronary attack.• We hope Mr. 'Park will soon be well and home again. Norman Stevens was a patient in Alexand , hospital the first of the week when he had a tonsilectonly. SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley Tithes have changed . • „ . , . .'.• • . . ,• • • ..• ' ' . • • • , . „ . . . • , . I wonder what a teacher of 50 years ago would think if he walked into a classreorn today? Personally, I think he'd be tot- ed off in a state of deep shock. • Some aspects of the atmos- phere would be familiar: the box -like, claustrophobic - struction, •the smell of cha - • dust and bodies; the windows that stick and. won't o en• the scuffling and the snuffling. • And the place would be full o s, ofcourse. They'dpro - ably.be much the same, inside. ' • Human beings don't ehauge • their • basic emotions, their • hates, fears, shyness and aggressiveness, in a generation • or two if ever: But they cer- tainly wouldn't look the same. • The appearance of ,the boy* Social - lane mbuerief, Clubs - run has 52'participants and: ..Luck- mr and Mrs; Wilbur Brown -are —. -• •Betty'COlwell and' Janet • mow• Midgets came in as foliowst • Bushell; Music - Janice, Wall, • Allan RhOdy 2nd, David MacKinn- spending this week in'Montreal and Theme Research - Linda Boyle, on 4th, Ron Stanley 8th, and Allan E"°'' • Visiting/with Mr. andMrs. Lorjne • Jim Henderson, 'Literary -,I3ev. • .Andrew'..Seniors Ray Hogan came • Ivers on Siinday, were Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald; Marilyn 'MacIrityre, in lst in our region, Ken RoidSton • Jim Million, Loti•Ann anclDavid of Advertising -• Don MacKinnon Photography 7 Gertrude Van Beers. . • • • • 4th,.. Jon Lizmote 6th and Bob Cranston llth. •' • • •,•`• • Etmer bach Pharmacy PHONE 528 3004 Cosmetics Free Film Plan — Animal Health ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ••1, CIFTIQUE/131:1' Pearls $1.59 . Buy One, Get Second Package Free DUBARRY Brush On 'Powder Eye Shadow 4 Shades To A' BOX . . ___ $3.00 DUBARRY Royal. Smoothie For ..1 •aiapped Lips __ .. $1.25 , • DUBARRY Lotion Deodorant $40' DUBARRY Seven Winds Spray Cologne $4.00 li••ii••.4•• • O Stratford andMrS. Viola Buchann- an of llantiltan.. . • LOCHALSH -A meeting of the District 1.0•exec- utiYe of Agricultural Societies for Grey and:BrUce COtinty, was held. at thehome of Mr. and. MA. . • Oliver McCharles on. Monday even- ing, at which time plans were .•• made for the meeting and banquet to be held in 1.,ucktiovi in,November Barbara and Jim MacKenzie att- ended Expo in Montreal during the past week end. • •.In London during the past Week •were Mr,. and Mrs, Ewan MaeLean' O arid Mr, and Mrs. Eldon Bradley. Recent .'0,s1tors with Mr. and MA. .RoSS MacKenzie were Mr., and Mrs.: Bill• Barrett and family of Toronto. • Mr". arid Mrs. Duncan MacRae Of • London were callers inAhe comm- unity on Sunday. •.• :Reeent visitors with Mr. and. Mrs. Henry MacKenzie were Edna Cook of Owen Sound and Viola Cook of Detroit, Mr. and Mri.Allan Mac- Kenzie and family of Kincardine. Several from this' area attended the reception in honor`of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Brooks in Ripley on . Saturday evening. The regular monthly meeting of . Ashfield Preshyterian. W. M. 5'. Met, on Thursday afterndonat the home. of Miss Sadie Johnstone. lunch, he'd find: two memos from the administration; a . pamphlet from the Department of Education,- very badly writ / • ten; a note from the librarian telling im that, Susie Doakes' • book was overdue, a brochure from a publisher; b'll t d • from the . vice-principal; a bill for his federation insurance: And three announcements, of tests, -a b COM- ' mercial firms. Being an old-fashioned,.con- would rattle .him a bit,. with- - their cowboy boots, their pol- -ka-dot shirts,.. their • carefully waved . hair, and their world- weary eipressions. • ' But •the sight of the girls • would rock him •right back o,n his heels. Never mind the lip stick, .eye -shadow • and net • stackings.. He'd probably •turn pure puce the first. time he looked down those rows of miniskirts, with the odd garter ' belt, -in all its feminine loveli- ness, showing,here and there. • Those wouldn't be the, Only •.shocks he'd receiye. Let's say • • he taught in a school with 300 students, half a century ago. uiet, droning . periods. Lei, surely one and a half. hour •' lunch period., • • ". • I'd like tO see this chap step out into the. hall of • school, with 1500 inmates, • during one of the lunch periods. "Mae- '• customed to using his shoul- ders, knees and elbows, he'd/be a grease spot on the lerrazo floor in two minuteS. • • If .he did happen to 'make it,'. he'd gulp his lunch in the caf- eteria, with the din of 500 " students ,as sante for , his wie- ners and 'beans. Or he'd choke down a sandwich in 'the staff room, 'mid a litter of •coffee o ctips, a 'Pill of smoke, and , a caeophOny of fellow practition- ers of the art. • I • ,scientious teacher/. he would , .probably not file .,these in the waste -basket. • • • Back in his classroom; trying / • US -teach:. with the . raw mate- rials, a betok, a -bliekboard and • some students; he would:be interrupted bY: the public. - address system telling: him to .. send Joe, Sintiti..to the office: by Jack Diltz just arriving . back from guidance coitrisellor; or by four stalwarts leaking for • the jtinior football game.' . • During the :daY,. he would discoVer that he, •was either'a dodo bird, extinct,. or. a phoe- nix -- that bird Which reputed; .• ly arises from its • own ashes and flies in 'ever -diminishing circles until there is' .only one pIaFe to O. • •• • .• • • This Winild'.be occasioned'by O the maze of equipment ;which• he would be forced to. master. Becord-players, tape-reeordert. O overhead, :prOjectors, und,er- hand deflectors, And the like. .; And he would have my - most sympathy. I can drive a car, Used to be able to fly an airplane. Can run a' washing machine in a pinch. But lead me toward a.. duplicating* ma - thine, .Or anything more com- Plicated than• • a hand -cranked gramophone, and 1 pale . with , terror. • . After . school, • our friend would find that he would have 'eominittee • meeting about guimehewing, or a staff meet; • ing about pupils acting like. humanS,,, .or a thrilling hour with/ the three students inter-, ested in the stamp club. I d'on't think he could hack Checking' his: itiail,box ....after it, peor • !.' • . • . . . , ..... , . ..... .. , ..... , . . . . . • . . • . • . , . . . , . . . . . . . . I • . V . , . • .. , ••• . . 9 • . .• . II , • • • • . • • `.