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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, June .11, 1970
Move Towards Metric System
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S.D. H.S. held the annual • Honour Banquet last Wednesday night. Above F. A. Dobson pre-,
sents ,,,awards to five time winners, Sheila Dietz, Christine Turnbull and Carolyn Fraser
while Mr.' and Mrs. Mervin, Dietz, Dr. and Mrs. J. 0. Turnbull and Mr. and Mrs. Douglas
Fraser look on. • *ith Miss Fraser is' her sister, Diane, who was also on the Honour roll.
Also, pictured are the Junior and Senior math clubs including Ann Stewart, Kevin Kale, Brenda
Finlayson, Paul Moggach and Charles Smith. Melannie'Matzold is absent. (Staf Photo)-
.At SDHS
Banquet Honors Students
Correspondents
Beata Malkus
Marg Elligsen
At 7:00 p.m., Thursday, June
4, in the high school cafeteria, the
annual Honour BanqUet got under
way. AS usual, the honour stu-
g, dents enjoyed a free meal, while
their parents parted with a dollar
towards the defrayment of the ex-
penses. The dinner was excellent
and the surprise after-dinner
speaker, Mervin Nott-, was en-
. tertaining. Introduced •by Don'
Morton, he spoke briefly about
his recent tour in Japan and his
impressions of the country and its
people. Japan, he felt, has a stark,
earthy beauty which neither time,
war, ,nor over-population has
been able to eradidate. Modern
architects have not ruined the
beauty of Japan - the buildings
are unpainted; unfinished wood
and concrete and do not clash
with the harmony of the ancient
Japanese structures and land
forms. The blending of the tradi-
tional with the modern can be
seen in cities where a centuries
old" shrine or pagoda sits next to
a new office complex - and in the
countryside where farmers till
the land in the way of their ances-
tors while 'an express Bullet train
rushes by. While learning to tope
with the language problem,
Nott discovered that the Sapanese
were ., fascina,tingly • friendly
people; he was impressed by
their 'cultural habits (eating, hou-
sing, • etc.), their courtesy and
erratic traffic behaviour. After a,
short , mention of his visit to
Osaka and Expo '70 (which he
recommends to any traveller
planning to visit South East Asia
this year), Mr. Nott concluded his
presentation with a farewell in
Japanese, which we are unable to
reproduce here, phonetically or
otherwise.
W. K. Murdie presented
awards to the School Team Ke-
vin Kale, Brenda• Finlayson and
Anne Stewart - in the Mathema-
tics contest sponsored by the
Mathematical Association of
America, and to the School Team
- Paul Moggach, 'Charlie Smith
and. Melannie Matzold - in the
0.S.S.T.T. District 22 Math Con-
test:
F. K. Cosford conducted the
reading of the Honour Roll and
F, A. Dobson presented the Cer-
tificates of Scholarship. The
Honour Roll inctuded nine stu-
dents from Grade IX: Sylvia
Smith, Anne Stewart, Karen Re-
gier, Cathy Stewart, Barb Kers-
lake, Donna Malkus, Jean Mc-
Kaig, Janice Schenck, Mary Van
Dyke,
,Eight .students from Grad X:
Diane Fraser, Joan Hopper, Mo4
nica Malkus, Vicki Miller, Rose-
Miry Newnham, Ann Nobel, De-
borah Wallace, Debbie Wey,
Seven students from Grade XI:
Ron Dalrymple, Rae McClure,
Larry Murray, Tom Ranson,
Beckie Nolan, Keith Wilbee,
Nancy Swan,
Fourteen from Grade XII:
Brenda Bewley, Eleanor Boshart,
Janice Dietz, Marg Elligsen,
Nancy Forrest, Beata Malkus,
Paul Moggach, Ron Hopper, De-
nise Kerslake, Karen McDonald,
Les Kerrie, Emma Shortreed,
Joe Flannery, Nellie Swinkles,
and nine from Grade XIII:
Danny I3ennewies, Angela Dever-
eaux, Sheila Dietz, Mary Elliott,
arolyn Fraser, Robert McCart-
ney, Jim Rowat, Charlie Smith,
Chris Turnbull.
Last Friday, elections we ire
held for the 1970-71 G.A. A. Oe-
cutive. Eight girls ran for offitm
and of these, three were elected.
carolanne Doig is the new presi-
dent, Jane Sills, secretary, and
Dianne McKay, treasurer,
This year, the G.A,A. has
done a lot for the kids in the
school, as well as organizing the
traditional. Hallowe'en Dance, the
G.A.A. scheduled extramural
sports, and a fledgling Tennis
Club; it brought new basketball,
uniforms for the senior and junior
girls' teams and new outfits for
' the cheerleaders' squad. It also
bought and contrubuted a new tro-
phy the Seaforth Whippets Tro-
phy -. for the most valuable player
on the Senior Girls' basketball
team.
All in all, it was a pretty good
year - very effective work, out-
going executive - Barb Bryans
(ores.), Carol GlanVille (vice),
Carolanne Doig (sec-treas.)!
EXAMS
Today the halls and lockers
began to empty early in the mor-
ning and by tomorrow no-one will
be able to tell that this building
was once Inhabited by some 500
students. In the auditorium and a
few scattered classrooms, exams
will be in progress for the next
week, presided over by a few
sombre teachers in dark suits.
The students will sweat over an
incomprehensible paper in an
airless room for a few hours and
then leave. But soon all that will
be over and done and it will be
"Hello, summer fun!" for all of
us.
AWARDS DAY
An assembly was called Fri-
day afternoon to hand out the
year's awards. The winners are
as' follows:
Girls' Championship: Jr. Do-
rothy Heynesbergen; Int. Gail
DOW; Sr. Barbara BryanS.
Boys'• Championship: Midget,
Donald Nicholsonv Jr. Eira.dley
Finlayson; sr. Roderick McKen-
zie and David Broonie.
Special Trophies: •
Duncan Cup, highest-scoring girl,
Barbara "Hryans- Barber Cup, highest scoring junior or senior
boy, Bradley Finlayson, Roderick
McKenzie and David Broome.
Ballantyne Cup, highest Mid-
get boy, Donald Nicholson.
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SillS • Cup, outstanding male •
athlete in school, James Dal-
rymple.
Mary Plumb Memorial Tro-
phy, outstanding female athlete
in school, Sandra Coleman.
Bill Thompson Memorial
Trophy, outstanding footballer,
James Dalrymple.
Seaforth Whippets Trophy,
most valuable player Sr. Girls'
Basketball, Angera Devereaux.,
Ontario Athletic 'Leadership do
Camp, Department of Education,
(Geneva Park, L. Couchiching)•
2 weeks training for a or. XI
student chosen for athletic abili-
ty and leadership potential: Gail
Doig, Ronald Dalrymple.
SCHOOL CRESTS
1. To students of 2nd and 3rd
year who obtain the required
academic standing - list .not yet
compiled.,
2. To not more' .than 1 student
for contribution to work of art
or dramatics in the school -
Diane iVieKaig.
3. To not more than 1 student •
for contribution to music in
the• school - Marianne Segeren.
4. Th not more than 2 girls and
2 boys for athletic attainment -
Brenda Dietz, Joan Hopper,
Bradley Finlayson, William
Kunz.
5. 'To not more than 3 students
who have made a worthy contri-
bution to school activities ge-
nerally - Judith Jeffery, Vicki
Miller, Douglas Hoover.
SCHOOL LETTERS
1. To students of Gr. XII and
XIII who obtain required acade-
mic standing - list not compiled.
2. TO not more. than 2 girls and
2 boys of Grades XII and XIII who
obtain the highest standing in
athletics in the school - Chris-
tine Turnbull, Sheila Dietz, Rick
Woods, Ean Dolmage, Paul Pat-
rick.
3. To not more than 2 students of
Grades XII and XIII who have
made an outstanding contribution
to DraMatics, Music or Art -
Beata Malkus, Marget Elligsen.
4. To not more than 3 students
of Gr. XII and XUI wha throughout
their course have been outstan-
ding in leadership, or who have
made a worthy contribution to
student activities in the school -
Neil MacDonald; Mary. Elliott,
Christine Turnbull.
LIBRARY CLUB
• Bright and early ('1:00) Wed-
nesday morning, a bus loaded
with about twenty sleepy-eyed but
voluble Library Club members
left the school. During the course
of the day, they would visit the
City Hall and meet the Mayor of
Windsor, tour the gigantic Ford
Plant, and spend a pleasant hour
in the peaceful Jackson Sunken
Gardens before returning home at
'8:30 n.m. Incidentally, the lib-
rary will be open later in June for
the convenience of those wishing
to takeout books for summer rea-
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Froth My Window
)— By Shirley J. 'Keller
The people at Seaforth Community
Hospital are moving to introduce the
metric system into day to day op ra-
tions. The change reflects a growl
.acceptance of the fact that adoptionkof
the metric system is ultimately inevi-
table. '
Not only is it inevitable, but as far
as hospitals are concerned,- also most
desirable. As a result hospitals across
Canada are in the van of those who
are moving towards the change.
Not only will the metric system pro-
Yide a more readily accurate scale for
hospital use but general adoption is ex-
pected to be. reflected in improved trad-
ing relations with foreign countries.
Only four countries — Canada, United
States, Australia and New Zealand;con-
Untie to use the present system.
Changing from the familiar inch-
.If Perth county does not have, the
density of population and therefore does
not have the assessment . why do we,
pretend we have it.
We have the same elaborate admin-
istrative structure, the same collection
of officials,, same number of members,
same number of clerks •as if we were
operating a great metropolitan com-
plex.
This year again, there is a terrible
panic about students not being able to , get
summer jobs. '
It is amplified by the facts that general
unemployment is steadily increasing, that
a fairly heavy recession seems on the
books, and that many companies are losing
money or going broke.
My heart doei not bleed for, the stock-
• Jrokers and.he financial wheeler-dealers.
But the facts speak for themselves. The
construction industry is in the doldrums.
The Prairie wheat farmers- are in bad
shape. These' two big sources of, labor and
income can knock our economy cockeyed,
temporarily. • `
But to get back' to the students and
their lack of jobs. Much of this Wailing
is pure hokum.
• I feel genuinely sorry for the-student
who has tried earnestly to get a gib, and
failed. However, for most of the others, I
couldn't squeeze a single tear. There is a
job for 95 per cent of them, if they want
one.
But they want THE job. They want one
like the old man has; Five days a week,
coffee breaks, nothing demeaning, and good
Pay.
They don't Want a job, they want a
sinecure: Something where they can put
in so many hours and collect so much
loot, whether they're any use or not;
something where they can treat the job
as an unfortunate interruption of their fun
time; and something that is not "beneath"
them.
This is not a blanket condemnation. I
know a lot of kids who• slug it out in
dirty, tough jobs all through the hot sum-
mer months, while their more discrim-
inating contemporaries lounge at the
beach, .hang around the streets, taunt
the fuzz, and whine about a system which
hasn't provided a ready-made job for them.
This, by the way, is the same system which
JUNE 15., 1945.
Electors of Huron-Perth, turned out at
the polls to give William Henry Golding,
Liberal candidate and sitting member, a
majority of 512. Special arrangements
made in the Expositor office, by the
returning officer, resulted in a speedy
return of the vote. As soon as the
election was conceded Mr. Golding and a
large following left for Herman and2urich
where parades were organized and he was
given a rousing welcome.
More than 3,000 picnickers gathered
at the Lions Park for the Huron Fed:-
eratiOn of Agriculture picnic. Jim Hunter,
well khotim radio news commentator of
Toronto, a Huron old b, officially opened
the field day. The lUltie band of the
RCAF, St Alen, Centralia, Was in at-
tendance.
Stewart' Dolmage of Winthrop is put-
ting in the cement wail for E. Hasse's
new grain elevator.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Muir and Miss
Norma Muir" Were in Sault Ste Marie
where Mr. Muir attended the Canadian
Legion convention. They went by boat
froM Sarnia. s •
pound system to meters and liters will
result in confusion at all levels until
we become familiar with new terminol-
ogy, People have a way of adapting
however and it won't be long after the
changeoyer date — whenever that may
be. — that we will wonder why we be-
came so excited. We will find the tran-
sition wasn't so bad after all.
But what will b,e a problem, as a writ-
er points out, will be the conversion of
those accepted phrases that for genera-
tions have been part of our language.
Its going to sound funny to say "A
miss. is as good as 1.16 kilometres";
"hiding your light under 0.363 hecto-
litres". How will western types look in
big white "45.43-litre" hats? Will any'
one beliee you when you tell him
there's not "0.06 grams of truth" in
what he says?
But the quality of -education can nev-
er,• •never stem from the number of
clerks, administrators and politicians.
It sterns from good teaching in sur-
roundings congenial to good• learning;
and it has nothing to do with the kind
pr location of the building that houses
the teacher and the learner. — ('From
the Milverton Sun). •
they constantly attack for being competit-
ive.
Afraid I' haven't much patience with
this large group. How many of the girls
slouching around in jeans, or dazzlinti
mankind with their bikinis, have tried to'
get a job as domestic help? All over the
country women- who can pay for it are
scrambling for baby-sitters, floor-scrub-
bers, human dishwashers and ironers.
These kids could make about $1.50 an
hour, with coffee breaks, a free lunch,
and Weekendi off. But', this is below their
dignity. They didn't go to Grade 12, or
to university, to do housework.
How many boys apply for menial tasks,
even though they often pay • well?
Short-order cook; scrubbing floorS in
office buildings; tending gardens, mowing
lawns, clipping hedges. Not many. The
hours are too long, or the work is too
hard, or the sun is too hot.
I know. Recently, I wanted some kids
to rake thy lawn because I didn't have time
to do it myself. I offered the job to four
of my classes, 60 per cent of them boys.
Pay, $1.25 an hour. They laughed at me.
Heartily, but without malice.
Know what I wound up with? Two little
Grade 13 girls, about five-feet-nothing.
They. wanted °the money to buy clothes
and worked like twin beavers. Did a
better job than any boy I've ever hired.
Blistered all hands. Right into the thickets
to get the leaves. Filled 48 of the big
plastic garbage bags.
Any enterprising youth could make a
killing cutting lawns on a contract basis.
Capita •expenditure would be about $75.
He could make $15 a day without pushing
himself. But that 'set very glamorous.
When think of my 'first job, cleaning
latrines, scrubbing floors and polishing
brass, 12 hours a day, 7 days a week,
$30 a month, you can understand my lack
of sympathy.
JUNE 11, 1920.
Evelyn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Grainger, Brucefield, underwent a
mastoid operation at the Clinton Public
Hospital, which was very successful.
The local creathery at Dashwood is
kept busy and often has to make two
churnings a day. A motor truck is now
used to gather the cream.
Miss Kathleen Sullivan of Dublin was,
honoured by her schoolmates and pre-
sented with an address before leaving for
London to train for a nurse.
A heavy load of -logs passed over the.
Seaforth market scales, consisting'of
four elm and two oak. The load weighed
S ton and 60 pounds. They asere drawn by
J.II.Storey's team from the skidway in
the , bush from the Frank Kettle • farm
and delivered to Wni. Ament's
The Seaforth Citizens Band gave their
first concert in Victoria Park to a large
audience.
,The Seaforth band has been engaged for
a gardeil party on Robert twig's lawn,
Tilickersitith, and also at Robert Soarletee
lawn in McKillon.
Here It Is, the halfway point In June
and I'm still not geared for spring. That's
right. As far as I'm Concerned, the warm
weather is a nuisance because I'm still
finishing up the things I should have
completed back in April.
My biggest hold up is my house-
cleaning. Most women have had their
housecleaning finished for weeks now.
With .'me, I'm just now getting around to
the corners which collected dirt all winter
long. The way I -look at it, you can't do
a real job of spring cleaning unless you
can open the windows wide and let the
fresh air flow freely through the house...
and it has just been the last few days that
I really felt I wanted to open my windows
wide. Before that, it was either too
cold, too hot, too wet or too inconven-
ient to fling up the sashes.
When I finally did get the urge to
clean house, I discovered I was seriously
hampered by the fact that only redecor-
ating would help. You girls will know
what I mean. There was just no purpose
in cleaning my livingroom anddiningroom
for in my opinion, nothing but paint and
paper could improve the atmosphere.
Luck was with me. A brother-in-law
was temporarily out of work so my hus-
i band and I persuaded him to move in
with us for a few days and accomplish
the renovations.
- Slowly but surely the magical changes
took place. New materials covered the
grime and the faded spots and a re-
arrangement of the furniture helped the
rooms to take on a whole new appearance.
It was simply marvellous to sit back and
admire the finished project...or so I
thought.
It wasn't long though, before I realized
that getting a spotless house and main-
taining a spotless house are two different
things. When , the house had its old face,
my children and their friends romped
unencumbered through the rooms. Now
things took on a whole new complexion.
"Don't put your hands on the wall
"I'd shout." "You can't ride your bi-
cycle 'in the livingroom. No, you mustn't do
your homework on our recently refinished
diningroom table. Must you always, handle
the drapes when you close them?"
Kids always tell the truth and there
is no one more blunt than my eldest son.
"What goes with you mom?" he asked
finally. "All of; a sudden we have to tip-
toe through the house with our hands in •
our pockets just because you've had the
place redecorated."
"It cost a lot of money," I retorted,
"add I'd kind of like to keep the place
new looking for a while."
"Fine," answered my son "I guess
we're just going to have to stay out of your
way until the newness wears off a little."
"What do you mean, stay out of my
way?" I queried.
"We'll just have to go to someone
else's house where,the redecorating isn't
quite so recent,", he explained chomping
down a piece of celery. "You can let us
know when the living restrictions have been
lifted."
Now I'm quite a few things, some of
them not very pleasant I suppose. But if
there is one element upon which, I am a
stickler, it is the fact that I want my kids'
'to feel free to comp home apd to bring
their at,s friends with them. T h
why I decided to give the child-
ren free reign once again...and. to try to
cope with the ensuing clutter and mess.
And that's why I'm not ready for the
warm balmy days of June. Ntrmally I'd be
outdoors puddling in the garden or bathing
in the sun, This year, I'm hogtied to the
house, trying desperately to keep ahead of
the gremlins so that my beautiful new re-
decoration job can remain fresh and crisp
looking.
And I tell you, it is killing the,
one of these days I'm just going to
give up and go sit out on the sundeck...
but my' Stubborn pride won't allow me,
that pleasure just yet. I'm determined
to hold the illusion of perfection until
' most of my friends' have viewed our
domain.
That's why we're throwing a "re-
decorating-done" bash for some of our
best pals. We figure to get them to our
house right away quick so they can see
for themselves that for a while at least,
we had a very sedate and proper house-
hold with only, a ,minimum of dust and
debris in sight.
"Four languages you learn-
ed in the navy, and all you
do around here is grunt!'
JUNE 14,'.1895.
Cornelius Hoare of Clinton has a large
loon which he captured on his brother's
pond near Manchester.
Fifthly McIntosh, near Leadbury,
raised his barn. In the evening over 210
young people gathered and spent the night
dancing. •
John A. Wilson and J.F.Daly are in
Niagara Falls attending a meeting of the
Association of Municipal Electrical Utilit-
ies.
The trustees of S,S.no. 8 of McKillop,
have purchased a new bell for the school
and have it elevated in the tower.
Master Willie Robb, son of Wm. Robb,
had his hand- caught in a lawn Mower
and had one finger badly cut. •
Notwithstanding the very warm weather
of the past few days, Thomas Case has
slaughtered a large tnimber of hogs at
his packing house in Harpurhey.
Frank Carlin of Staffa, has beautified
his fish pond by planting cedar all around
it.
Archie Barton, while shoeing a horse
had his leg scratched with a rail, result- '
ing in blood poisoning.
Staff Versus Population
Sugar and Spice
by Bill Smiley
in the Years Alone
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