HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1967-09-28, Page 8Clinton Naws-Rvcord, Thursday, Saptambar 28, 1967
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The following excerpts are' from letters written during the
summer to “Mother” and “Aunt Lucy .and Uncle Carl” by Miss
Margaret Durham, Darwin, N.T. Australia.
“?4 July 1967” “Just neVer seem to have time enough for every
thing anymore. We’ve just had a three-day weekend and I thought
I’d get everything caught up, but didn’t even get the cleaning finished,
Friday was a public holiday for the Darwin Show which was op
from Thursday to Saturday,
Ollie and I went out Saturday afternoon for a couple of hours
and J found it rather better than I’d expected. Cecily worked jp the
Catholic hoopla booth on Saturday from 1:30 p.m. till JO p.m.
pnd .was very weary when she got home,
It was almost the spme as any fair at home,with a few exceptions ,
There were some beautiful Brahmah and Santa Gertrudes cattle.
Mercy, the bulls are huge with great humps on their backs. The.
Brahtaahs were grey • and have a great fold of skin hanging down
their chests. There were fluffy., furred chickens that looked like
angora rabbits gone wrong, and lots of goats and pigs.
The baking and needlework displays were a bit poor. I shall have
Cecily enter her cream
as any there.
The Aboriginal arts
Branch had Aboriginals
roaring business!
Last Wednesday night the S.A, Symphony Concert came up from
Adelaide and gave a performance in the Gardens Amphitheatre-
the first ever in Darwin, and the seats (about 200) were sold out
in three days. We 'took rugs and sat on the grass - $2 for seats
$1 on the grass. There were an estimated 4,000 there but they only
took in $1,600 which )vas pretty deplorable and the editorial next
day was quite outspoken as it is feared they might not now be able
to return.
One of the domestic airlines flew them up, and the N.T. Adminis-
tration assisted with expenses. It was a marvellous concert though -
Rossini, Haydn, Beethoven, Tschaikowsky, Puccini, etc and was
certainly enthusiastically received.
It was quite a sight to see at a symphony concert, the folks who
had seats all dressed in their finery, the rest in slacks or shorts
and bundled up in cardigans and blankets, children in their pyjamas
and bathrobes, some had coolers of beer (not the children) and
others, thermos’s of coffee. The air is still cool of a night time
and you need a warm cardigan especially near the sea. The days
are getting more humid though, and after ironing all day Friday I
had to turn on the air conditioner for an hour or so. Our electricity
bill is not so bad as I feared, as we do not have to pay for hot
water here, which we did previously, so our bill was no higher than
. before although Cecily has had to use the air conditioner a great
deal while I was away.
My new car goes very well and has 263 miles on it already. I
haven’t taken it out on the dusty bush roads as yet. Was quite
horrified yesterday after washing it to see Percy, the nutty pussy
of Miss S. who likes to stand in mud puddles, get up and walk across
the hood with her dirty little feet, I rebuked her sternly and she didn’t
do it a second time!”
“9 August 1967” “We have just returnedfrom a camping weekend
and are still getting cleaned up from all the dust. This was the last
long weekend of the year (Picnic Day Monday) so decided we’d
better put it to good use. Ollie and Joey, went in Ollie’s car and
Cecily and I in mine —leftSaturday morning and arrived in Katherine
(220 miles) about 3 p.m. Had a flat tire enroute but we got it changed
quickly and had it reparied while we had lunch. We camped by the
Katherine River just outside Katherine the first night — it sure gets
cold down there at night. We had sleeping bags but even so I was
rather cold. Then had to get up at 7 a.m. to take Cecily to church.
puffs next year, as they are quite as good
display was very good, and the Welfare
serving and making things. The pub did a
It warms up quickly when the sun comes up and after breakfast we
drove out to the Katherine Gorge which is 20 miles further on a
rough dirt road. There is a good campsite there with toilet and
showers and quite a few people. We .took the boat trip down the
river, a beautiful scenic ^trip wim'-the*-high'^cliffs on either side,
some Aboriginal rock paintings'in one‘spot - and we saw four
crocodiles sunning themselves on the rocks. They weren’t ver/
large, the biggest about five feet long and they must be accustomed
to motor boats as we were able to get quite close. I hope my photos
show them up. They are almost the same color as the rock. We
took our time coming back on Monday and stopped at a couple of
rivers for a swim and lunch and dinner.
The car certainly ran well-, it was the first time I’d really had
it out for a good run and I took it in the morning for the first
service.
The Agency is going well - we are getting more requests for
staff now and having great difficulty in supplying it. I think the
Chinese girl has given up, but two more agencies have started up.
We’ll just have to persevere!”
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Valedictory address
To siiicfent
offers many
School board, staff, ladies
and gentlemen, and graduates,
I must admit that I was quite
unprepared when I was asked
to give this address, because
not only was I busy working by
day and filling jri^university
forms by night, but' summer
was not yet over and the
thought of schoolwork seemed
somehow inconceivable.
To add to my problem, I
also noticed the traditional com-
mand had been greatly sim?
plified and was left far from
explicit. For instance, “You
Will write, in five days time,
an essay of 373 words on either
'My Summer Vacation* or ‘Reja-
tiyity Made Easy’ was changed
to read, ’‘Please come and
speak to us.”
The choice of topic and length
was left up to ipe, and I had
the entire summer to decide
just what to say. And I did just
that, I spent two months de
ciding and the past week writ,
ing, because my perfected ha.
bits from school prohibited me
from doing my homework until
the last minute. However, the
fcsfeignment is done and all th4f
remains is to present it for.
grading. I hope I have writ
ten well and that you, my ex.
aminers, will over look my
grammar errors and nervous
ness, because to all intents
and purposes they are not in
the
me,
I
the
graduates here at CHSS,
might be fitting for me to com
pile and present a type of year,
book made up of all the years
we have spent here.
The first part of my year
book is complete — you have
seen the members at the clas
ses - so my task begins with
a rundown of the many activ
ities we have taken part in.
Unlike most year books, I
am going to review the
spring term first, because the
early years .of our life here
are ‘
the
For
was
led
sights and sounds of a more
sophisticated system.. School
construction at the time added
to our young fears and the conr.
bination of new faces, unfami
liar surroundings and general
confusion made our petty an
tics seem world-defying at the
time. Our interest in school
sports and clubs was at an ebb,
but we were really too young
to notice.
The completion of the first
large wing, however, brought
both school beauty and student
pride for CHSS and the summer
of our stay here began. Our
lives began to blossom and
ripen, now that our first un
certain years were past, and we .
seemed to develop the sense of
wanting to change things for
our own good.
Our pride in our new school
reflected itself in a revived in.
terest in school organizations
and a fresh enthusiasm for our
competitive sporting teams and
generally a strong up surge in
school morale. We were in the
process of passing from an ad.
olscent stage of timidity and
wonder to a dynamic, youthful
stage of creativity and drive.
With the coming of new con.
struction, this process accele
rated and we found ourselves
in the autumn of our high school
years, not only because we
neared graduation, but also be.
cause our Emotions had mat
ured to early manhood. Student
campaigns had both imagina.
tive conceptions and encourag
ing support, and students began
to think of themselves as en
ergetic and sometimes con
structive. School teams enjoyed
the wildest patronage of any
school within several county
and certainly of any previous
CHSS year and extra curricu
lar activities kept a large per
centage of the student body busy'
essay I have in front
thought that since this
last event for most of
of
is
the
it
most closely analogous to
budding season of spring,
most of us, high school
an entirely new life, fil-
with the wildly different
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NICK POPPENK
for much of their spare time.
Going to school became Jess
tedious, and special events like
. student days made the whole
thing almost fun.
The completion of the new
wing put the crowning touch on
student feeling toward CHSS,
and hit us with an unbeliev
ably high morale for the final
push to graduation. Now that
graduation is complete, the
autumn fades away and we are
left with that same unbeliev
ably high morale that we have
now to warm us through our
final maturing or winter term,.
There is no end to this winter
term, for our memory of CHSS
has no end. .
This ends the activities sec
tion of my year book and leads
me to the literary section,
where the graduating students
say in their own manner what
they have thought about the
school ‘session’.
Our hopes, our ambitions,
and the labours w.e are soon
to encounter vary greatly, but
each of us has something to
say through his own life’s work.
Some of us will go on to be
trades men with the new know
ledge we have gained here, some
will go on to business, and
others on to higher learning.
But despite the wide variety,
we have one thing on which we
all agree. We can see that we
now have the ambition to bet
ter not only ourselves’ but the
community in which we live as
well,by striving to make this
a better place for both us and
our fellow man to live in.
The things that’w'e’have'lear
ned in school have shown us
that we have first the capa
bility and second the duty to
change what we know ,is wrong
and improve what we know is
right. Without your help we
could not even have distinguis
hed between the two, but now
our common desire is to show
through our future lives that
your hopes and efforts have not
been in vain.
A final section for my year
book is quite unconventional and
perhaps unique, in that I have
a concluding editorial where I
express myself on a topic im
portant to me. For my sum
mation I would like to explain
what I feel my education is
worth.
Ths most off-cited advantage
of a diploma is that the pro
mise of better jobs with higher,
wages later in life is much
more feasible for the graduate
student than the so called drop,
out. However, this benefit has
been stated and re-stated thou-
sands of times and has to do
only with the material aspect
of life anyway.
Another typical line of rea
soning shows that a person with '
an education not only appears •
more informed but feels bet- .•
ter informed than those who
received less schooling. How
ever, common sense can do just
as much for a person, even
without an education.
Whatever the case may be,
I have a rather different evalu
ation. I have discovered, as I
am sure nearly everybody else
had, that going to school is dif
ficult, and that a tremendous
amount of work lias to be done •
, to pass through any one year.
Homework seems to pile up
faster than is necessary,
especially when there is some
thing a little less unpleasant
to be doing; exams and the un.
avoidable studying that goes
with them come up too often;
and teachers seem dedicated to
the roles of spoil-sports and
unjust criticizers.
The daily grind of classes,
homework and Studying is dull
and unpromising. The amount
of material to be learned each
year is overwhelming and dis
couraging. in general, the out.
look is bleak.
However, at the end of each
year has come a mild feeling
satisfaction that has grown In
intensity with each new year,
that now in my graduating year,
I' find the satisfaction within
hie bi’eakihg foi'th into teal
pride.
And this, ih my opinion, is/
the value of ah education *- that
despite the fantastic odds set
against rhe, the long hours of.
work, the petty sufferings, the
seemingly endless grind of gett
ing nowhere, I have come
through With flying colors, I
have made it. I set a goal
for myself a little higher than
I thought I could reach, and .
by working at it as well as I
could I found I could extend
my reach just that much more.
Little by little I overcame each
of the odds against me, step?
ping over them' one by one.
I have used‘my education to
prove to myself that what I
have set out to do I. can do
with a little work, and with
this thought I can push myself
on through my winter term of
later years, .telling myself of
the time when an education chal
lenged me to an all-out contest.
And Rll be able to say I not
only won that contest but also
won a similar contest with my
self. I value my education be
cause it shows I can do some
thing that appears impossible
for me.
And I also value it because
it allowed me to discover what
I can actually do if I want to.
My education shows me that I
can set my sights for the
farthest star and know that I’ll
make it,
A final word of thanks, on
behalf of all the graduate^, to
the school board, staff, and
parents who made this moment
possible completes my year
book.
KIPPEN
MRS. NORMAN LONG
, Phone 262-5180
KIPPEN - Mr. and Mrs. W, A.
Lawrence and Jim of Moose
Jaw, Saskatchewan are visiting
their daughter and son-in-law,
Mrs. Ted Robipson, Mr. Robin
son and family and will attend
the approaching marriage of
their granddaughter, Dawn Ro
binson.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Anderson
of Boynton Beach, Florida have
returned home since attending
the' Henderson - Jackson.Wed-
ding and spending the weekend
with Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Jack-
son.
* * *
Mrs. Marguerite Ulch of
Windsor spent the weekend with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N.
Long.
* * *
Mrs. Edgar McBride spent
Monday in Toronto.
* * *
Miss Dianne Baird of Bruce-
field visited over the weekend
■with her uncle and aunt, Mr.
tfand Mrs. Edgar McBride. .
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A general meeting of the
Anglican Church Woman will be
hejd Wednesday, October 4 in
St, George’s Church, Goderich.
Holy Copiipunlpn at lQa.m. with
the Rt. Rev, <3.N, Lupton, Dishop
of Hurqn officating. Luncheon
at 12:30,
The WA. ofSt. James Anglican
Church, Middleton will meet,
Thursday evening, October 5, at
the home of Mrs. John Grigg,
Clinton. The roll cajl is “How
to Show5J Our Thankfulness”,
Please 'note change from re
gular date.
Sunday Scheel promotion day
at St, Janies Church, highlight,
ing the young people of the con?
gregatipn was held Sunday,Sep?
tember 24.
The Rector, Rev. E.J.B. Har
rison preached a special ser
mon for them in the form of
an allegory from the Arabian
Nights Tales,
The Sunday School attendance
awards for the oast vear wprp
presented by the rector to Mary
Smith, Christine Wise, Stewart
Wise, Ken Wise, Nathan Smith,
Brenda Wise, Barbara Aid-
winckle and Chas, Wise.
Stanley Community Club will
held a regular meeting on Wed.
nesday, October 4 at the home
of Mrs. Robert Glen. Roll call
will be something that happen
ed now that will be history in
time.
* * *
and Mrs. Stewart Mid.
and Mrs. Milton Steepe
Mr.
dleton
returned home last week after
several days at Expo.
They went by plane to Ottawa
and were the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Allen White and all went
on to Expo, Montreal.
* * *
The first meeting of Clinton
2 4-H girls was held at the
home of Mrs. William Holland
on September 19, Cotton acces
sories for the bedroom is the
fall project.
New president, Debbie Gib.
bings and vice-president, Bon
nie Gardner were elected.
The leader, Mrs. William
Holland outlined the require
ments for the project; assis.
tant leader Mrs. Keith Tyn.
dall discussed desirable accesi
sories. Color planning and im.
portance of color. The next
meeting will be held at the
home of Mrs. Tyndall on Tues,
day, September 26.
* * *
Promoted from Junior Class
to Junior High were: Paul Aid-
winckle, Marnie Middleton,
Rossanne Middleton, Barbara
Wis^^Don Wise,ln
prompted from pyima|.ry to
Junior Department were Bar
bara Aldwinckle apd Stuart
Wise. ■
Promoted from Beginners to
Palmary Department were
Freddie Middleton and Jannjce
Miller.
* * *
Edward Wise suffered severe
injuries as the result of an
accident involving farm ve.
hides last week. His face was
extensively cut and his shoulder
crushed and a wrist broken,
Mr. WJse is recuperating in
the Clinton Hospital and his
many friends wish him a speedy
recovery.
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