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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1973-06-21, Page 1Clinton, Ontario 20 Cents JUNE 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 108 Year M No. 25 RAINFALL .24 RAINFALL .98 Thursday, June 21 1973 ert Grey honored at retirement dinner Weather 1973 , 1972 HI LO HI LO 78 60 63 52 73 50 73 56 74 46 88 62 81 53 78 58 77 57 66 44 60 53 71 41 75 52 73 43 son, Mrs. Kathaline Lockhart and Cam Addison. Mr. Gray got his first job at S.S. No, 9 Grey Township (Moncrieff), where, he taught all eight grades - and the first two years high school for those who requested it. Three years later, in 1934 he was ap- pointed principal of the Blyth Public School where he stayed until going to Clin- ton in 1956. His Bachelor of Arts degree from the University was received in 1957, having been obtained by extension and summer school courses. The schools where he received his education at S.S. No. 8 Hullett Township, the Blyth Continuation, School - and the Fiddlers An estimated 300 spectators turned out Friday and Saturday evenings to the Hen- sel! Community Centre so see and hear 45 fiddlers and 15 step dancers as they com- peted in the Ontario Fiddlers Contest held in Hensall over the weekend. Chuck Joyce of London took the Class A open fiddling division and collected a total of $500 in prize money. Mr. Joyce is an audio visual technician at the University of Western Ontario and has topped the Southwestern Ontario Fiddling Champion- ship at Petrolia for the past three years running. He was the Junior Canadian Champion when he was 15. Ernie Adair, 71, of Parkhill took the first prize in competition for those 70 and over. He was followed by Robert Rennie, 74, of Shakespeare who placed second and Albert Romphf, 84, of Parkhill with a third. Lori Bender of Watford won the step dancing title for those 12 years of age and under and Lynn Kernighan of Komoka topped the 13 to 25 step dancing class, Leonard Clark of London won the 26 years and over division. In the fiddling contest Jim Campbell of Belmont captured the 12 years and under title, David Hammond of Dunnville the 20 years and under and Kathy Ferguson of Kitchener won the Ladies Open contest. Gerry Smith of Exeter took first place for the novelty fiddlers. Tom McQueston of King City was the fiddling champion for those 55 years and over. The event was the third annual Ontario Fiddlers Competition held in Hensall, 4 IllInitots Vette Camp near Nayfitokt played host last weak to a grOup of students from Sir Choorot Rosa tithoot of London. The student camp-out was part of year.and windup activIttaa for Umyoungsters. About 20 students took pad in the camp actIvithys, (photo by Moans gricklion) Retiring Clinton Public School , principal J. A. Grey was honored last Saturday evening at a special dinner organized to recognize his contribution to education In Clinton and Huron County. Master of Ceremonies Jim Coulter, Superin- tendent of Programing for the Board of Education, left, speaks to the gathering during proceedings. To Mr. Coulters left are, his wife, Mr. and Mrs, J. A. Grey and Huron Director of Education John Cochrane and Mrs. Cochrane. (artaff photo) esidents to build tennis tour on board property at Ethel R.B.Dunlop,Superintendent of Business Affairs, for tyre Huron County Board of Education was - authorized at the Board meeting in Clinton Monday to negotiate in- dividually with the custodians and to produce for ratification at the earliest date, recommended contract values, and that this be completed by the middle of August. On recommendation from the Management committee the Board and the McKillop Township Council will sign a 10- year lease from September 1, 1973, to June 30, 1983, for the Board to use the area behind the McKillop Township garage and office as a turn-around for school buses and loading of pupils for various school. The Board decided not to blacktop the existing driveway as the cost was too high- '$3,000 for three-inch topping. The Board turned down an offer from Clarke Zinn of the real estate firm of Wilfred Mclntee Co., Limited, for a parcel of land 82 feet by 264 feet adjacent to the Central Huron Secondary School in Clin- ton as the price of $6,000 was considered excessive. The present house on the lot is being moved. The Board granted permission to John Armstrong of Londesboro to build a wooden fence, similiar to the one running along the back of property, on his land - which borders on the south side of Hullett 'Central School at no cost to the Board and to be maintained by Mr. Armstrong at no cost to the Board. The Board will co-operate with the Howick Community Centre Building Com- mittee which requested the use of nine acres of land owned by the Board adjacent to Howick Public School, which the Com- mittee requires for a race track. The track will be built when Howick and Gorrie amalgamate their two fairs. The property - requires draining. At present it is only a ' hayfield. If leased it will be for a long term. The Board will, continue its present policy on age for admission to kindergar- ten--fifth birthday before December 31 of the applicable school. year. Some of the sample comments from schools on the suggestion that the age be lowered are: ' More 4-year old pupils riding buses could cause problems; over. 90 per cent of our teachers want the policy left as it is; and lowering the admittance age would merely be robbing from next year's natal and not solving the problem of low enrolments: The Board accepted the report of A.M.Harper, chartered accountant, for the official audited financial statement. It will now be submitted to the Ministry of Education, and the superintendent of business affairs will be instructed to publish in all weekly newspapers of Huron County the summarized, version of the auditor's report. The Board will advise parents of Bruce County pupils enrolled or to be enrolled in Brookside Public School, that, if the Bruce County Board of Education refuses to pay tuition fees, such pupils may complete their elementary education in Huron County schools, if the parents so wish, at no cost to the parents, but that any children who have not yet reached school enrolment age will have to enrol in a school designated by the Bruce County Board of Education. The Board will refer the letter from the Society for the Study of the Heritage of Canada re existing problems of current "March break" to the Administration for recommendation when the 1974-75 school year program is being drawn up. The letter was prompted by the number of students and teachers who travel on field study programs during the March break and this puts a severe strain on airplane, train and car travel and on hotels causing over- crowding of facilities, substandard accom- modation and increased prices. The Heritage Society suggests the holiday period be either the first, second or • fourth week in March or back to the last weeks of February. The following is a list of resignations from staff--elementary schools, 37, secon- • dory schools, 14, administration centre, 1, for a total of 52 resignations: Colborne Central Public School, Mrs„ Linda Rau; Grey Central Public School, Mrs, Margaret Sweeney; Exeter Public School, Mrs. Beth McGee; Howick Central Public School, Miss Anita Harrison and Miss Helen Heighington; Victoria Public School, Goderich, Mrs. Glenda Walter; Wingham Public School, Mrs. Jane Heipel and Mrs. Arlyn Montgomery; F.E. Madill Secon- dary School, Vincent Schonberger. The following placement of staff mem- bers returning from leave of absence has been arranged: Mrs. Gwen Caesar to Golden Circle School at Wingham, Allan Schade to Victoria Public School in Goderich; Mrs. Eleanor Scott to Huron Hope School at Centralia; Warren Robin- son from sabbatical to Goderich District Collegiate Institute and Harry Scott from Department of National Defence to Seaforth District High School. The following teachers have been engaged on probationary contract effective September 1, 1973. Miss Margaret Adams to Usborne Central Public School; Mrs. Patricia Allen to Clinton Public School, Mrs, Maxine Allison to McCurdy Public School; Miss Wendy Amos to Howick Cen- tral Public School; Miss Ellen Ann Arthur to Wingham •Public School, also David Bartlett Alan Beattie to Ushorne Cen- tral Public School; Miss Lucy Bignucolo to Holmesville; Miss Sandra Braid to Robert- son Memorial in Goderich; Mrs. Patricia Brereton to Exeter Public School; Russell Campbell to Wingham Public; Mrs. Elizabeth Cook to Howick Public; Mrs. Mary Demers to Clinton Public; Mrs. Mary Ellison to Stephen Central Public ; Rudolf Hooftman to Turnberry Central Public; Miss Rosalyn Hurd to Exeter Public; Mrs. Bonnie Lee and Thomas Lyon to Clinton Public; John Mann to Wingham Public; William Marsh to Blyth Public; Miss Laura Martin to Colborne Central Public; Gerald McClinchey to Queen Elizabeth at Goderich; Mrs. Barbara Jane MbGiIlawee to Wingham Public; Ronald Ritchie and Miss Nancy Shelley to Victoria Public; Miss Christine Smith to Grey Cen- tral school; Miss Linda Smith to Victoria Public; Frank Stretton to Howick Central; Miss Marie Trewartha to Seaforth Public and Mrs. Sharon Wittich to Blyth Public School. Secondary Teachers engaged are as follows: Miss Carey Fleming, Richard Graham, Patrick McDonnell to South Huron District High School, Exeter; Barry Davis to Clinton Secondary School; Miss Margaret Nute, Miss Betty Jean Smith and George Szarek to F.E. Madill Secondary School. J. W. Coulter, Superintendent of Programme, reported there are two vacan- cies yet to be engaged in the elementary school panel. • Cayley Hill, Chairman of the Board, asked if any pupil is being deprived of any course he wants to take because of declining enrolment. He was told that at the present time no one is, however, Latin is no longer required for any course and is being phased out. Mrs. J. W. Wallace reported a student at Goderich, who will be taking Grade 13 French and wanted to take History rather than a Math, was having trouble arranging this on her timetable. Mr. Coulter said this may be straightened out by next fall, for the student. By Muriel Trott Most of a life time spent within the walls of a school as teacher and principal will come to an end this month for J.A. (Bert) Gray, Clinton. Mr. Gray's resignation, which is official August 31, comes after 42 years service in education in Huron County, the past 17 of which he has spent as principal of the Clinton Public School. Saturday evening close to 150 persons turned out to a retirement banquet and dance in his honour at the Clinton Legion Hall, with J.M. Coulter, Goderich, Superin- .tendent of Program and Planning' for the HUron County Board of Education chairman Mr. Gray was presented with a set of golf clubs by Bill Millson, vice- principal of the Clinton Public School, on behalf of the teaching staff, and a purse by Mrs. Reg Ball, R.R. 1 Bayfield, from one- time staff teachers. Tribute was paid the retiring principal by D.J. Cochrane, Clinton, director of the Huron County Board of Education and by Trustee John Broadfoot, R.R. 1 Brucefield. Messages were read from several former teachers who were unable to be present. Attending the function as special guests were their two daughters, Mrs. Gordon (Sharon, who is an elementary teacher) Johnstone, and her husband, of Toronto and Miss Glenda Gray, who is completing her final year in nursing at the Kitchener- Waterloo Hospital; Mr. Gray's twin brother E.C. Gray, (who has had many year's in the education field chalked up, and who is presently a superintendent with the Wellington County Board of Education) and his wife, his two sisters, Mrs. Mildred McNeil, Blyth, and Mr. and Mrs. (Hattie) Edwin Wood, Londesboro, trustees and members of the ad.). ministration staff of the Huron County ' Board of Education. During the program, Bill Craig, ,accom- panied by Mrs. Don Symons at the piano entertained with several solos. • The event was arranged by a committee of teachers including Mrs. Alice Andrews, Mrs. Dorothy Williams, Miss Olive John- The Huron County Board of Education meeting in Clinton Monday approved a request from a group of adults around Ethel to build a tennis court on Board property at Grey Central Public School, The court would be built at no cost to the Board at an expected cost of $1,000. The 36 foot by 78 foot court will be asphalt covered with a fence at each end. The group indicated in the letter to the Board that by building the court at the ,school, it could be used by the pupils during the day. The Huron Board will sign an agreement with the Perth County Board of Education Association conference held in Cambridge June 3. At the conference concern was ex- pressed by the trustees attending on the decision of the Huron County School Board to ratify a one-year collective agreement containing an appendix on a pupil-teacher ratio which agreed that vocational classes will have 18 to 20 students, while academic classes will have roughly 35 students each. Until the Huron decision was made final two weeks ago, Ontario school boards had refused to bargain with teachers over their working conditions such as pupil-teacher ratio, class size, number of teaching hours each school day, selection of teachers, teaching methods or course content. This had been considered the prerogative of management. At the press conference following the meeting, Cayley Hill, chairman of the Board, indicated the trustees and the press at the conference had over-re-acted. He said he had sent a letter of explanation to the Trustees Association and to the editor of the Goderich Signal Star. He said the Board had not negotiated away any prerogatives and that there was no monetary value to the pupil-teacher ratio, He stated the Board had developed a better rapport with the teachers. The two members of the press at the meeting questioned Mr. Hill as to why they were not informed of this clijuse in the agreement when they were given the report the salary negotiations with the secondary school teachers had been ratified at the May meeting of the Board. To this Mr. Hill replied that perhaps it would have been better if this had been done. He said that as other school boards in the area were still negotiating with their teachers, the Huron Board did not want to influence them. The Board approved in principle the recommendation from the Education Com- mittee that the request for increaser'. secretarial help in the elementary schools be referred to the Management Committee for budgetary consideration, In turn the Management committee's recommendation was approved that this request for iri creased secretarial assistance from the elementary principals' and vice-principals' association be referred to the ad., ministrative staff for further study. Other recommendations from the Education Committee that were approved Stratford Normal School (1930) are now defunct - each a part of education history. His Upper School education was obtained. at the former Clinton Collegiate. With no definite retirement plans in mind, Mr. Gray says that his philosophy has always been to cross the river when you get to the bridge. by the Board are as follows: That com- posite advertisements listing courses of each centre be placed in all Huron County weekly newspapers; that fees for 1973-74 be set at $12. for a 20 session course, $7. for The News Record's regular editor is en- joying a well deserved holiday in the far west of our country and I have assumed his duties for the next two weeks. Taking over a strange office makes gathering news a lit- tle more difficult so be sure to inform this office of your event if you would like coverage, Organizers of Senior Citizen's Week ac- tivities at Huronview deserve a lot of credit. The week long event which has kept both the residents, and senior citizens clubs from across the county busy during the week has been a big success and seems to prove the adopted slogan "Living can be Ageless." As part of the year-end activities at the Clinton Public School, students from various grades are staging evenings of en- tertainment. Their efforts are the result of a great deal of time and energy on the part of students and teachers alike/and deserve your support. Vanastra is the scene of a Leadership Training Camp this week for young people' who will be staffing summer activities in the counties of Huron, Perth, Grey, Bruce and Wellington. An interesting statistic Came to light during a visit there earlier in the week. Girls at the training camp out- number the males nearly nine to one, The Clinton Senior Soccer team, who have something leas than an enviable record to date, will attempt to better them- selves this Sunday at 6;00 p.m. in a game against London's "Leo's Distributing" at Clinton Community Park. Perhaps a larger cheering section would help. Dunlop to deal .w it h custod ians wan, on Huron County pupils attending Listowel District Secondary School following receipt of a letter from R.K. Self, Director of Education for the Perth Board that it will recognize the right of Perth County pupils residing in that portion of Hibbert Town- ship, that was part of the former Seaforth High School District, to attend the Seaforth District High School. Mrs. M. Zinn, Chairman 'of the Education Committee, reported that Trustee Wilfred Shortreed of Walton had attended the committee meeting to report on the Ontario Public School Trustees