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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-12-04, Page 18EXETER'S MRS. MUSIC — Mrs. Marianne McCaffrey, enthusiastic and talented director of the Huronia Male Chorus, is shown practicing for a new production to be presented by the choir in the Spring. Mrs. McCaffrey's musical ability is shared and enjoyed by the whole com- munity. T-A photo Old Victorian Christmas staged at Exeter UCW Sorority holds 'women' program Roll call of 'A Woman Is ' brought forth many interesting comments at the Alpha Pi meeting, Tuesday night at the home of Carol Bishop. Eila Martin, Penny Dinney and Verla Russell were the co- hostess. Dianne Jeffrey presented the program called, "Women to Whom We are Indebted". She made the members aware of the achievements of many present day Canadian women. Part of the evening was taken up with making modge podge plaques with Dorcas Wein giving instructions. Later, an exchange was made of Christmas baking. An old fashioned Victorian Christmas was staged by the evening group of Exeter United Church Women Tuesday evening. Forty members, some of them dressed in 19th century dress, sat around a decorated table, drinking fruit punch and eating hot turkey with all the season's trimmings. A flaming Christmas pudding was served while Christmas carols were sung. Riddles and waltzing were all part of the program which was carried out in the English manner of Queen Victoria's time. The evening was planned by Dolores Shapton assited by Hazel Westcott, Norma Hooper, Jeari oriel gO cited The Exeter Times- Advocate is happy to ex- tend birthday greeting to the following citizens: Peter Deichert, 86, November 21, Mrs. William Elford, RR 3, Exeter, 86, December 7, Archie Noakes, Hensall, 89, December 6. In the arts Women make bea Probably no other community in the country has more talented women turning out such a variety of crafts and arts as this one has. And not only are they producing but they are excelling in everything from pottery and weaving to macrame and decoupage. There's only one woman, however, who deserves the title of 'Exeter's Mrs. Music' and that has to be Marianne McCaffrey, Since she and her family moved to Exeter 11. years ago, Marianne with her musical ability has greatly enhanced the United Church services with her fine singing voice and in her capacity as director of music, However, she is best known for the way she bounces throughthe community like a happy Pied Piper enthusiastically leading her merry chorus of men through numerous variety concerts, two Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, Handel's Messiah and Haydn's Creation. And this is not to mention the dozens of small concerts given yearly at church anniversaries and special events. The group Marianne leads, of course, is the Huronia All Male Chorus which when augmented by several female voices and responding to Marianne's exuberance, has produced productions worthy of a town much larger than Exeter. Mrs. McCaffrey's enthuisiasm for music and her choir knows no bounds and she will tackle almost anything providing it has a musical staff and cleft attached to it. She confesses the most difficult thing she ever tackled and therefore the most satisfactory was the Creation, "I spent a whole year just learning it before I started to teach it." This is one thing of which Marianne makes very certain: that she knows the score per- feetly before she brings it before her singers. "I sing it to myself, talk to myself about it, and figure out where it's going and what it's supposed to do," Next thing on the program for Marianne and her choir of mixed voices is an old time minstrel show for the Spring. "We're all excited about it," she says, "the last time Exeter produced a ministrel shown was in 1952 so the public should be ready for another one!" Rehearsals will start early in the year for this new show, In the meantime,Marianne is spending about two and a half hours every night learning Bach's Christmas Oratorio which she plans to produce for Christmas, 1976. Fortunately her family, con- sisting of husband, Roland and five children, share her interest in music, "I could never ac- complish what I do," she states emphatically, "if my family weren't behind me." Sounds like she's been liberated for a long time! Paintings from coast to coast While by the very nature of her talents, Mrs. McCaffrey is often in the public eye, by contrast another accomplished Exeter woman, quietly and without fanfare, does her share to bring enjoyment into the lives of many people. She is Doris (Scotty) Dettmer, who working in a converted bedroom, turns out beautiful oil paintings that grace the walls of homes from the Maritimes to the west coast. Starting to paint 15 years ago, under the guidance of Gordon Koch, another local artist who she says was the person who most encouraged her, Scotty Dettmer has steadily improved her ability with the brush to become Exeter's foremost and most prolific artist. utiful things happen This year she is now teaching a course herself in oil painting at the South Huron District. High School night classes. She calls herself a mood painter. "When I'm having a blue day I find myself working in cool colors of blue and green. On a happy day, I tend to go tq reds and yellows." Depending also on her mood, she will sometimes turn out a painting in a single day while others may take a week or longer. Her medium is oils. "Sometimes I think of going into water colors or acrylics but so far I'm having too much fun with oils to change," She loves the variety of texture she can achieve with oils, sometimes gobbing it on thick with a palette knife, and other times thinning it out to obtain a completely different effect. While she does everything from scenery to nudes, her favoriate is seascapes and flowers. She often paints directly from a subject, but having travelled extensively, she frequently paints from her mind images or from photographs she takes. Her style is realistic although she does do some impressionistic work as well as the occasional abstract for someone who wants to use it as a focal point of accent color, What does she think about Women's Year? "Well being liberated is being able to do your own thing • . and painting is mine!" S PAINTINGS HUNG FROM COAST TO COAST — Mrs. Doris (Scotty) Dettmer is shown putting the firishing touches on a floral painting. 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Mrs. Armstrong (Audrey) is the author of "Harness in the Parlour". sf:Ir.r7 I seldom turn my back on a challenge. Although won't tackle foolhardy stunts just for the sake of doing them, I'm not afraid to try new things. A simple object has me stumped, though - the escalator. I dread riding one of those yawning stairways. I even have night- mares about being trapped in the basement of a building with an escalator the only means of escape. Would you say I suffer from escalaphobia? I used to ride escaltors, even though I didn't like them. One day I carelessly placed my foot on the edge of a step. As the step rose, I slipped backward. For- tunately the lady behind me propped me up. I haven't forgotten that ill-fated trip, and I haven't ridden an escalator since. Time and time again. I vow to overcome my fear. When I shop in large city stores, I'm deter- mined to mount the moving stairway. I've tried several methods. Sometimes I casually approach the staircase; other times I march directly toward it with my jaw firmly set. As I watch the other people nonchalantly step on. I chide myself with the challenge; "If they can do it, so can you." My sister has volunteered to stand behind me; so far no one has tried to push me. You know the old saying, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." I can force myself to the edge of the step, but I can't make myself get on." I balk at the bottom of the A sing-song was led by Mrs William Dougall with Miss Ann Brodie at the piano. Mrs, Hedley May presented the motto, "There is more to wise shopping than to be first at the bargain table." She very ably pointed out many hints on wise buying. Mary Lou Thomson played a piano solo, and current events were given by Mary Kernick. Mrs. Jean Pooley gave the hospital report. The business was conducted by the president Mrs. Harry Dougall. The members decided to hold a Christmas program for the residents of the Blue Water Rest Home, December 16 at 7 p.m. The Institute had also been asked to serve luncheon for officials at the opening of the Senior Citizens Apartments in Exeter, Thursday. Mrs. Anna Ballantyne reported $190 collected for the canvas for the blind, Each member had brought her baby picture and these were passed around among the others who had to guess who the picture was of for roll call. stairs every time. My feet become glued to the floor, and my determination stalls like a weak battery. I argue with myself; I plead, threaten, coax and bribe; I even try to shame myself into moving. Meanwhile the rolling monster mocks me. Inevitably I flee from the scene in search of an elevator or some stationary stairs. The close quarters of an elevator reassure me. If I climb stationary stairs, I comfort myself with the excuse that I'm doing my bit for "par- ticipaction." As far as I'm concerned, a store displays nothing worth seeing above the ground floor, if I have to travel by escalator. Nevertheless I maintain I'm not a coward. I rode a gondola seven thousand feet up a mountainside without qualms. The only uneasiness occurred when one of the passengers mused, "I wonder how many accidents they have with these things." I love the sensation I feel, as an airplane lifts me above a city. Wet, winding mountain highways cause me no panic. Acrophobia, fear of heights, doesn't affect me. I don't feel confined in a small elevator. Claustraphobia, fear of closed space, doesn't bother me. Escalaphobia, is my weakness. If you want to see me turn pale, just show me an escalator. We all have some idiosyncracies, don't we? I hate to admit I'm beaten by a simple thing like a moving stairway, though. Perhaps I'll conquer my idiosyncracy someday. I'll summon all my courage and mount an escalator. What a triumph that will be! But what if I'm afraid to get off? fuos 4A TirmwAdvocatio December 4, 1975 Hurondale hear worker from physciatric hospital Mills, Ida McBride, Helen Westcott and Margaret Lovell. They stressed that while we all love Christmas, the anticipation, the decoration and the festivities of family get-togethers, there is more to it than our celebration of it, Christmas, they said, is our attitude towards God. The posed the question, "Is our attitude that of worship as it was for the shepherds and the wisemen at Bethlehem of old?" Mary Fisher was in charge of the business portion of the meeting which was followed by Rev. Glen Wright installing the 1976 executive. Odds n' Ends By ELAINE TOWNSHEND Stumped by an escalator