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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-03-11, Page 10Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley University life Some chaps' wives go off with a boyfriend, leaving behind them a broken home. My wife went off and came home with a boyfriend. So, at the moment, we hay e a menage a trois. The .home is not yet completely broken, but it won't be long. It's being smashed bit by bit. As she threatened, she brought my No. 1 grandson home for a visit .so that 'his mother could continue going to lectures and get her degree, tramping about the campus with No. 2 grandson strapped to her back. Things have certainly changed at the unisersities these days. When I went to college, we Used in a monk-like residence for men. Females were allowed in the building once a year, for a cocoa and buns party on a Sunday afternoon.. It a. as extremely well chaperoned. We were allowed to come in at any hour. but anyone caught with anything as lethal as one bottle of beerin his room was kicked out of residence. In the girls' residences, things were even tougher. They had to be in by 9.30 or some early hour, and sign in under the grim supervision of a house mother. They got to stay out until midnight once a week. and had a "late pass" - until 1 a.m. , once a month. Nobody - but nobody - going to university was married, including most of the younger professors. Entertainment consisted of an occasional well supervised dance , totally dry, ,and the odd movie. It was a ,fairly sterile, far frOm murky life, not exactly bohemia, but we were so naive we thought we . were happy. . Today. university life is so' different you'd think you were living in' a' different era, a different civilization. Almost every campus has at least one pub. some of them half a dozen. Drinking in residence is tolerated, if not encouraged. Some campuses have co-ed -residences. where you can live in an apartment. or in sin, or in anything else that's the current fad. Smoking in classrooms is. commonplace . . . And there are thousands of married students. Babies everywhere, despite the Pill. The bard knows what they live on, in these inflated times - grants and loans and love. supp6se. • a Somehow, I can't get too incensed over fredom. In fact, occasionally I find my self thinking wistfully that I was born a generation too soon. 'In my day, the universities produced some fine graduates, but on the whole. they were a dull bunch of stieks: narrow . self-righteous and w ith a sense of superiority because of their degrees. Then. the uniyersities Is ere basically elitist, whateve r you may hear about people working their way through college. From the small towns, the sons and daug hters of the local doctors and law y ors and teachers might go to college. The children of the so-called working class hadn't a chance Today's mixed bag is a refreshing change. Anyone with the intelligence is able to go to unkersity . There are gaping breaches in the rigid wails of the hidebound university traditions. Standards in the unk ersitiea hale been lowered. but I think their end•produet. the graduate. is just as bright, a yk hole lotaanore senaitiv e. a good deal more tolerant, and tar more; articulate ieY en though badly spoken), than the large majority of my contemporaries. Today's students ,.are not as polite. but they are far more honest. They are not as "moral". but they are far less inhibited. They a re not as steady, but they are far less afraid. They are not as eouth, but they are tar leas prejudiced. They are more likely to kis k over the traces, but not as likely to he led by the nose. Perhaps that's why about 60 per cent of ;the male population. of Canadian urns ersi- ties vanished into the armed forces after the war hegain. It waalike getting out of prison. Courses yy ere excellent. but narrow . Most' professors were pompous and few . were teachers. Students were. for the most part. not taught to think , hut only to regurgitate. It was a rather shallows and s 'snobbish in-world. out of the main stream of life. Not so these days. Rigidity has • been shattered, channels have been widened. and experimentation is welcomed, perhaps too much so. Ther'are fresh w inds blot', ing.. And one of the freshest iS the new status of women, on campus. 'lir' MY 'day'. the females is cry with few exceptions. grinds rimly headed for a spinster's life in a classroom, or rich girls there to have fun and get a husband. Not so today. There are thousands a yeung women of all colors, shapes an sizes heading is ith determination for the bench, or the operating room. or qw hew paper offices. • or • whatever, but heading for freedom to he -a person. I'm glad my daughter wasn't a mother a two 30 years ago. She'd he stuck at horn `'keeping house" and bringing up the children. instead ..of swaggering 'off to • lectures gallantly. baby ..on..back, 10,-THE HURON EXPOSITOR, MARCH 11, 1976 Architectural conservancy hears "Heritage Furnishings" Meow Wow MOM OMR mar •••••• NEM IMO IMMO, OEM "Frankly. I wouldn't put too much hope in a Presidential pardon. P rre+wwworwwwwwww..., :MINN Mon Nan %MN/ mewl el. • = *mom ONIM• mi... e. HOTEL er earme MOM iii loom Win IlmoNe MIMI Nee m•hl St. Patrick's Pub Night Friday March 1 2 91 Featuring the fabulous- Dublin Corporation Stratford Fairgrounds Advance Tickets-5 4.00 per person 5 5.00-at the door .18 yrs. of age and older Tickets available at The Huron Expositor Friday, March 12 • 7 to Country Entertain'ers, at SEAFORTH COMMUNITY CENTRE Price: $2.50 per person, lunch provided. Everyone Welcome. Sponsored by Canadian Foresters CONCERT presented by the , WOODSTOCKo. CH ORALAIRES Sunday, April 4th 2,3 p. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SEAFORTH Tickets - Adults 52.50, children 12-and under $1,00 available front members or at the door. TRATFORD HOTEL 107 ERIE ST.-PHONE 273-3666 MALTON "com and HAMILTON Ep r i The next. theme in this series Will be period interiors and guest speaker will be Dorothy Duncan yy ell-know n museum advisor. is ho has been insolsed in many restoration projects in the Pro-. since., Everyone is -welcome. The meeting w ill start at -p.m.. March 25. in the Little Inn. Bayfield. Imp* MIN =OM NM. /MN IMMO OM* *Ma IMMO sm. INN* .Fels OMANI MOO =MN NM. MIN =Mt 11•1111. WIMP IMMO MAW Morn MIN MOP MOP ..Neh loWaRel M.* Min &ONO *NNW, 11.1.1 11111111101,r4ftd, fferear MANNA 11•111• A large number of members_ t he pr em ise s to th e public, 0y,er 2000 visitors went through the residence in two weeks. no doubt for a suitable fee. The contents of the house were later sold to a pub which 'immediately changed ' its name to "Dirty: Dick's". Mr. Dunning • YY ent on to explain the process of es alutating antique furnishirte.s...a.nd esery one enjoyed the opportunity of learn- ing firsthand hovs to go about researching _a restoration project. Several books which he used are: Americans at Home by Harold Peterson ;Charles Schilarner and Soni Reprints of Period Nlaga• zines and New spapers ;Doyer , Press) The Crystal Palace Exhibi- tion and Illustrated Catalogue iDoYer Press) A Hrritage'of by Louis Russel I Unk ersity of Toronto Press) and A Gentle• woman in Upper Canada by Anne Langton. Mr, Dunning stre ,:sed the importance of proper research before putting together a period restoration, There are two sources to draw upon. Primary evidence. which is the most reliable, includes written records. pictures, and archeological find- ings, Secondary resources can be found in books and period maga- zines and are of a more general nature.. and friends met at the Little Inn. BayfieId, on February 26 to hear, another in a series of lectures on Heritage Building being present- ed this • season by the Huron .-County Branch of the Architec- tural Conservancy. Philip Dunning. Curator of the Montgomery Inn in Toronto. was the guest speaker and his topic w as Heritage Furnishings. Mr. Dunning noted the increase in interest in antiques anal restora- tions. People have always been curious about the past. he said. In the 1Ftth century interest mainly centered on early Greek and Italian cultures. The following is an interesting antedote told :by Mr. Dunning regarding an incident recorded in a London" England, paper of 1802. The story: involves a man by the name of Nathaniel .13ently. better known as "Dirty Dick" .who was evicted from his shop by his landlord. Apparently 40 years earlier, in 1 -61. his fiance had died on' the night of thier engagement party. In despair Nathaniel closed his house and moved into the adjoining shop. For forty years no one entered the other Quarters until the landlord came upon the scene, The landlord was quick to take advantage of these unusual cir- cumstances and promptly opened Legion news Coming Events: Saturday March 13,th Zone C I Public Speaking to be held at the Legion Hall in Seaforth commenc- ing at 10:00a.m. and 2:00p.m. Sunday,March 14the Zone C 1 convention will be held at Branch 183 Kincardine commencing at 2:00p.m. " An Expositor Classified will pay you dividends. Have you tried one? Dial 527-0240. There will be a lot happening at the historic Van Egmond house this summer. At their recent annual meeting the Van Egmond Foundation decided- to sons situate on local fund raising a, rues in isro, Program chairman Dorothy said she would like to sec at least one big public dent at the house -ea, h month during the sprung. summer and fall. strawberry asty4als. garden parties and flea markets will he held again this year and there will he a daffodil tea in the spring, she Sa lei. The \ an Egmond group, sllkh raised over 510.000 to help restore the house last year. plaits to repeat its Cider Feat. a spur of moment Sunday es ent ys hich was a area:- yo. .•0; 1•1 ,“ -S Noy Nen •Ima MOM NAM enlaigy. it and attract people front ail o'er southwestern Ontario, cdar shingles needed for the root of the house is ill he made right On the ground; on a pioneer shinale s atom?, machine. at a shingling hs e this summer, Some time in august. the. Fomniation will sponsor. ' a ps riot-maths of %nth' of Green y . ths al by Don 1.1,it 1,in 'iii, h be pnuin,rd iY, ihs 11,mon t otitrty Plas h,• use eaan.. Bs n'', The Grand Bend " :11 do 0110 Or two tOT s lint: in r,ii the Sl3F1S auditorium. yy :hi% pia% to huge sta.; a in ")Lilo Dolly" last •w".111., r. ant: pro, e s sia yy Ell g o to mads th, raatoration the hm.s. M. nibs rs hops to and farm crops. This spring song comes to "Spring is round the corner and I'll tell you how I know Spring is round the corner For a robin told me so." 1 his time of year remmus nig of a poem "Jacques Cartier" is hich is in the old third reader used in Jr. and Sr. third classes. Now grades VI and VII. I have been try ing to locate a copy of the old Th ir d reader without success.. wanted to use some quotations from the poem is hich have essaped my memory but I will comev the thought expressed in the poem Perhaps at a later date I may locate the reader, I •know it was on the library 'shelves in S.P.S. when I taught there hut that was twelve years deo and it is doubtful if it Would stir be there as I have never been bask to look for some things worth keeping. "Jacques Cartier" Quote "From the sea-port of St. Male' on .a smiling morn in May. When the .Commodore Jacques Cartier to the westward sailed ayk ' . Cartier was not heard from for months through summer. winter and spring' and the people, of Frame gave hint up for dead. When he did get hack to France. ' told the' 'people of his experiences in this new land desaribing. winter and' spring.. 8:15 p.m, 15 Regular Games for $10.00 THREE $25.00 GAMES $75.00 JACKPOT TO GO! TWO DOOR PRIZES - Admission $1.00 Extra Cards 25c or 7 fOr $1.00 (CHILDREN UNDER 16 NOT PERMITTED) -Proceeds for Welfare Work- Auspices Seaforth Branch 156 Royal Canadian Legion, Seaforth restoring the house in 1 977 and has e it ready for an official opening by Ontario's lieutenant- goi error on Dominion Day. 1978. 19 -8 marks 200-years since the birth of Col. Anthony VarT Egmond. w hose son and widow Used in the house, and it willb 'e 150 years since the opening of the Fluron Tract, said treasurer Das id Ring who proposed the date. The VanEgmond house will be' open to the public during the week again this summer but without grants like Opportunities for youth, staffing of the house and guiding % isitors is ill has e to be done by Yolumeers, Volunteer work o•ordinator is Peg Coombs. The yer6ndation. headed this s car TA Dr. Rodger Whitman. ++ -nits the Van Egmond house to he used ,ts a lie ing pioneer arts "When the wind front Thule freezes the word upon the lip". • 'When the mighty: waters are held silent by the frost." But when Spring comes the captive waters are released and flow again.•' And all Nature becomes alive. "Like the dry hones of the just,' when they wake in Paradise." It is very descriptive of winter and spring. Perhaps sometime when I find the poem I will quote it fully. My' thanks to my kind readers for iheir indulgence. PARK 30 TNT SOTIAIT P11001 515•71111 I GODERICIR All (011013101110 . NOW PLAYING i P . NITEL ,/ 104114FR, £ SAT JOHN ' RARIIPARIME ' weanatr • IREPIWRIal ROOSTER COGBVRM . , {_anal No cc.131) , , • • ., cor to. 4.44-0•4•444-************** ' SUNDAY MARCH .4 MATINEE / PM SUN .e05 11)55 NAND. P M EACH SITE Tho orgateif Wiktliti And chows story . Pi MR history of the North! Challenge . to be litie , 4 Free N, M IMMO . Win . 'c"...-4 , ' , Tlyp, wet FCFRET.:. - /..,,, , \ k i. CM'nerA. A,..d,emm Am NO *MOM . mA, m AMY KARE , ,..I., .,,,.- • ,Ao u, 'nu........M' irlarAlrarlUgAl.t./WK hf.l...7 :,Uch7 `-' ' -- A FINE MOTION PICTUNE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY Kea And TIM,, March l/ L ll I p m DOUBLE FEATURE.. Adult Entertaornent THE MOST INCRESIILE 11101116 OF ANY 'MOTION PICTURE VIM Heaven • help us all when Doffs RAIN! THE. romiklmisiND , • COMING ATTRACTIONS Er. March le n la TY*, March 11r11 ...en'," on Sherwood Fore*, • "ROBIN aid MARION" Bo. oft., ocroni hr before showtnco n.ohilt. All orOgran, 1001., . C.... and crafts centre when it is finally restored. Members are working now on a master plan that w ill outline details. Former foundation president James Doig suggested that the Van Egmond house he included on one of the London Free Press Shunpiker tours. Wilmer Oke ins estigated and got a promise that the paper would look at this area for their 19" tour. Leone Close, who is the Foundation's liaison with the Van Egmond family, reported that she had had inquiries' front as far away as Indianapolis. chc is planning a second family reunion hot'Ls Treasurer at the Ring said the fpoar SundayJune 13. group hopes to get more coy erage of what is going on at the Van Famond house in the city media and to publicize the house at other histarii sites around the pros int4 "to reach people is ho arc really interested." Past chairman Bob New nham said that one of the Foundation's new %ice presidents, Jim Moore of legmondville, sees the house lavitaktised its a training aid for students in the county. M r. Moore is a his tort' teacher at WHS.' Au application to Wintario • fur financial aid is being prepared by the Board of Directors. v.:(v Reception & Dance- for Ruth Ann Finkbeiner si and John A. Timmermans bridal couple] teas Friday, Mar. 12' PINERIDGE CHALET Roger Quick HENSALL Music by Lunch Provided - Everyone Welcome "Osnr, ZW.4,110.9,a Van Egmondg, aupplans Anne of Green Gables,Ciderfest 1By Mabel Turnbull) Birthday greetings to Mrs. Sarah Scott, Crornarty 95 and Harry Flynn Exeter 65 who celebrated birthdays this week. Visitors: Mrs, Ross Gordon and Vickie is ith Mrs. Mary Malcolm, Mr. Harold Barry called to see his sister in law. Miss Turnbull. He is as on his way to Goderich to stay at the Bedford Hotel until condi- tions became normal again. "Schadeiiew" seemed to be in a 'Disaster' area. Hydro and tele- phone poles toppled in great numbers along the highway front Grand Bend. Mr. Frank Htffley. a -neighbour on Church Street. reported hav- ing seen three robins several redwing blackbirds ' and other spring birds. In the country: our, feathered friends have a built in ;faith' even with little encourage- ment. From the Nursing Home win- dow yesterday we saws two plump bushy black squirrels sitting on the slim branches of our small. flowering crab tree picking and eating. the small frozen apples from the tree. ,They then scampered down and played tag up and down the truck of a large maple leaping front branch to branch. nee er missing the mark. Birthday greetings to Mr. .oho who; celebrated his birthday last week Spring is in the air these days. We are thankful-that our piles of amp; are retreating slowly; and witout rain 3k ti.lch. cause floodingliWe are indeed fortunate in , town ay .any i•flooding confined to cellars in low areas except south of the railway tracks • w here sometimes there has been insoneentence to the residents. I had a trip to London this yeetik and many fields were bare but not flooded. This old-fashioned Winter ss ill be • soon a memory and, we will thrill to the 'heralds' of spring. i• Those who like in the warmer climes such as Florida and California no doubt feel sorry for us who are snowbound for the winter months. We can' sympa- thize with those who miss the thrill of the .aw akening of spring when nature begins to live again after her long sleep beneath her blanket of same which in this area is so. necessary to tender roots Dinner of Mulligan Stew and Green Beer _WEEKEND-- Friday & S'a"turday 'March 12 & 13 ' Friday Non Special Met Loaf Dinner Nite Entertainment Rolling ,Smok ,St. Patrick's Day March 17th • * • • • 0 Resew Wane Nem polimr NOM. MOM NOM seome la.. lemel 0•ONNW NOM hr. Mem lemel PM. loace• MEM Yen IMMO -a RIME MEM OliNm Nam Min *Nom 0•••• Omms .• Mon 1.• Mown /NM Omni wore NNW. MIMS Ammo Om. .111 ream dam. 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