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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1973-06-20, Page 18tr. • t, 4 1!" 4 . . , 'PAW, illairriati race Maclver Retires From Teaching Profession After 35 Years *inured By Friends And Associates THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO An Friday, May 11 at Fairmont Public School in London. a Retie • meta Te.kwas held in honour of W.' Grace Maclver to honour herifter 35. years experience in the: teaching profession. • Mrs. Maclver 'a former Luck- • now area resident ,• spent fifteen years teaching before'her mar- riage to Donald Maclver. She . left teaching for eleven years to beat home to raise her three sons, John. Donald and Ronald. After • the cletli of her husbandin Nov-: ember1951, Mrs. Maclver return- ed to her teaching career. Twenty years of her career were spent in the rural schools. In London.Mrs. MacIver was a•classroom*teacher in the Argyle • Public School and Fairmont Pub- • lic. School. Upon her appoint- ment as prinCipal, Mrs. Maclver returned to the Argyle Public School for six years. She was • principal at Riverview Public • School for three years and has ' served her last six years at Fair - Mont. • Mrs, Maclver is the former Grace Blake, daughter of the late. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Blake, formerly of Ashfield.' Many members of her family, • friends, former students, and members of the teaching profes- sion were present to honour Mrs. MacIver. The gyrnnatorium was gaily decorated in yellow and purple floral displays. Yellow mums and white daisies decorated each table. •Guests were -served by the grade • 8 students of Fairmont Public School and tea pourers were. Mrs. • Howard: McTaggart, Mrs. Gordon Sleightholm, Mrs.. Lorne Hooper, , • Mrs. Roy Allison, Mrs. Quait, • Miss R. Stuart, Miss D. Coutts and Mrs. Wilma Young. • Gordon Sleightholm, Associate• . Superintendent spoke kindly•of Mrs. MacIver and her dedication • to her job. On behalf of her friends, teachers and parents, Roy Allison, Vice -Principal of Fairmont presented her with a colour TV and a gift certificate for an Air Canada Flight. Mrs. MacIver's family gave her an oil painting easel and kit • and she also received a gift Cer- tificate from the princiPals. She • received several other miscel- • 1 'GRACE MacIVER laneous gifts. Guests were present from - • Lucknow, Arkona, Sarnia,• Brampton, Leamington and Toronto. Her son Donald, Pro- fessor of York University was° present but regrets were sent by • her son John and Dorothy and son Ron. A kind letter honouring Mrs. Maclver was received from W. D. Sutton, former London Director of Education who was unable to attend. • • Plan Anti Smoking Fall Activity. - Rev. Garbutt Smith presided • at a meeting of the Huron -Perth TBRD Association in Seaforth when routine reports were given • by Mrs. Ray Cann, Exeter, Mrs. Edith Brothers, Stratford. Mrs. Cann said the Education Committee is planning a week of • "Anti -Smoking " • activities in • September, with several noted • speakers addressing community gatherings. • She reported on proceedings and attendance at • several regional conferences and workshops of interest to • the respiratory disease movement. Mrs.Brothers reported that 't the Asthmatic Conditioning Class • for children had been well attended in Clinton with 14 registered and with an average attendance of 12. Mrs. Carol • Bowker of ,Clinton conducted the classes and Dr. Frank Mills and Dr. K. W. HaMpSQ11 •were the • Medical advisors for the course. Mrs. Brothers said that classes sponsored by the Association had been reported in the Canadian TBRD . Association national bulletin. She said that the Monday night oBreathing Class'? • walkers on a -trip to Vancouver • via treadmill and stationary bicycle would spent the summer months near • Calgary in a fashionable resort and resume the "Tour" the third week in September. Student representatives, Jane • Bonsteel, Diane Thornton and Peter Blanken have assumed the responsibility of a health educat- • ion "float" inthe Stratford Labor Day parade. VONVIANIRAIWWWIMA,AROWWWWWWWWWWWWW • TALES THAT • HAVE BEEN TOLD • REV. DUNCAYN merAvzsa LONDON • I HAD TO BRING THE BAGS Over fifty years have passed away since I started out as a stud- ent minister in the little hamlet of Whitechurch. It, was there I first met old friend Harry C. who has long since entered into rest. • Harry had never married. His maiden sister kept house for him, and they came some distance to the little afternoon appointment. • He had other churches nearer CRAWFORD MOTORS CHRYSLER - DODGE - PLYMOUTH WINGHAM ONTARIO PHONE 357-3862 1971 METEOR Rideau 500, 2 door hardtop, 8 automatic, power • steering and brakes and radio 1971 CHRYSLER 4 door sedan, power steering and brakes 1969 PLYMOUTH Fury II, 2 door hardtop, 8 automatic, power • steering and brakes 1969 MUSTANG, 8 automatic, power steering and radio • 1968 FORD Fairlane, 2 door hardtop, 8 automatic 1968 FORD Custom 2 door, 8 automatic, power steering and brakes 1968 METEOR Rideau 500, 2 door hardtop, 8 automatic, power brakes and steering 1967 1)0DGE Dart 4 door,. 6 automatic 1967 CHEV 1/2. ton VP, with radio, van type box 1906 FORD 1/2 ton pickup 1965 CHEV 4 door sedan him,. but as he put it, "So long .as that church stays open, attend there and support it, because my father/and 4. • mother sleep on the hillside near by . " Harry was very set in his ways. He objected to the innova- tion of using weekly envelopes, and nearly quarrelled with my predecessor over it. "A dollar bill looks better naked on the plate than covered up" is the way he put it trying to justify his actions to me. I assured him that I had no objections to nudity even in the church if it referred to money. "Keep the bills com- ing", I said, "and you will have no trouble with me". • " When are you coming out to see us?" he enquired, after the service was over one Sunday. "Some of these days I'll surprise you," I replied, "but you live off the beaten path and I have to make a special trip." "Ccnne out for dinner some day; " he -' said, and bring a couple of em- pty bags. I always give the minister two bags of oats for his horse, when he visits us but you have to bring the bags." So one nice day I started out for dinner at my friends home. After a sumptuous repast, he suggested we go out and feed my horse some oats. This done he enquired about the bags. "What bags?" I asked. "Bags for the oats for the horse. No bags - no oats". I assured him that I wan't going around begging for oats and I hadn't any bags with me. He was just as firm that 1 WEDNESDAY; UNI • THE FANS GO WW1 AUL HENDERSON'S MIN YVYYVVVYityytt A took At The Hi Of The Hockey PO • From lo,rknow NOV ON SAL $5.95• Mail (Mors Accep At Same Price HE [MUNDY', SEMI wouldn't get any oats. • I was on my second year and neither of us had yielded one little bit. I thought I heard sleighbelis outside one night, and looking out I could see a horse and cutter coming in the driveway. Then another, and another came until almost every family in that little • church had appeared. The wom- en folk had brought along an abundance of food for lunch later in the evening, and the men 'had a bag of oats. We had a delightful time together, and •when all was over our stomachs were as full' as rny.oat bin. • There seemed to be only one home lacking. Harry and his sister were not there. They had a long Way to Come, was the ex- • cuse offered' for theirabsence. But I had another guess. Harry was behind the whole party, but he dare not show his hand lest he give himself away,. Inwardly, ' I always felt he admired me for my independent spirit, for more than once he practically hinted it to me. But he also wanted me to have the oats, and this was the only way he had to seeing that, I got them, and saving face at the same time.' The night before he was buried, his sister called to tell me he was dead. She thought if he could speak he would want her e to phone me., Need I ad I drove some distance th • day to attend his funeral gave the memorial add! invitation of the aside er. . The -welcome I got his relatives on that occ • still lingers with me, d • fact that nearly four der have come and gone, • RUBBER• STAMP FROM • LUCKNO • SENTINE f1f LOWER INTEREST RAI • 1st and 2nd Mortgage • NOW. 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