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EVERY FRIDAY Mr 12 NOON. Phone 887-6461 13 THE BRUSSELS POST, JANUARY 24 X913-..-4 TODAY'S CHILD BY HELEN ALLEN ,,:00160wooii:; HAPPY AND ENERGETIC Stephen wanted his friend Ajax to be included in the picture because he hopes that when he is adopted Ajax will be welcome too. Stephen, 14, is becoming an accomplished horseman. He likes to take care of the horses at his foster home arid is both interested in and responsible about feeding, watering, even cleaning out the stable. Stephen is a tall, good-looking boy with black hair, hazel eyes and -fair skin. Some unsettled years left him with emotional problems for which he needed treatment but that is behind him now and 'he is eager and ready to become part of a family. He is co- operative and easy to live with. Adults find him good company. He has great patiente with younger children and is concerned for them. Stephen has never done well in school but his foster parents find he has a quick mind and think he will improve when settled in his own home. lie is energetic hit not hyper- active. He loVeS animals, sports (especially hockey) and swimming. The ideal family for Stephen will have parents With young ideas and not many other children se the mother and father will have lots of t .e for their adopted son: Stephen himSelf hopes his perthanent ,tome wilt be 'in thV country. To inquire about adopting Stephen, please write to Today's Child, Box 888, Station 1{, Toronto M4P 2112. For general adoption infOrniation, pleaSe contact your local Children's Aid Society. 1 ' • ;. i i •i" .1; Mrs. M. Zinn, Chairman of the Education Committee of the Huron County Boa.d of Educat- ion, spoke about the importance of communication in an address she made to the board members at the regular meeting of the Board Monday. "In this business of com- munication trustees have to be both a sounding board as well as a listening board," she said. She expressed the pleasure of the board members at having so many spectators attend the inaugural meeting and hoped there would be interested citi- zens at every board meeting. She compared the quiet in- augural meeting of the school board to the opposite atmosphere which pervaded the inaugural meeting of County Council. She stated that the budget, for . the school board is five times greater than that of County Council, and that the capital sets for the school board are over thirty million dollars and employees number nearly 900. She said the most Important function of the school board is to, see that Over 13,000 students receive the best education that is possible. "Communication is like a two-way street, telling and listening," she said as she stres- sed the importance of communi- cation betWeen the Board and the public; the Board,, the teachers, the principals and the students; and the Board and the adminis- tration. Mrs,,_ Zinn spoke of being the guest speaker at, different meet- ings which was another way of communicating wit the people a trustee represents. Rapping on doors to solicit votes at election time is another form of communi- cation she spoke about, which often meant just listening to people sounding off. Communication to the public is realized through press cov- erage of board meetingsshe said as she spoke of the excellent coverage the meetings are given in the newspapeM Communication between the Board and the teachers can be attained when trustees are in- vited to attend meetings and seminars with the teachers and principals. She urged that as many board members as possible should try to attend these meet- ings as they are of the utmost importance as far as keeping up lines of communication between the staff of the' schools and the board members. "By our atten- 'dance at these meetings, I believe there would be less suspicion between Board and teachers and principals, and they would know that we are really and truly in- terested in education," she stated. Mrs. Zinn spoke of the good communication between the Board and the administration. She expressed the hope that the Teacher-Trustee-Administrat- ion Liaison committee would be- come- active again. It could be the nucleus of some very import- ant topics for the coming year-- such as evaluation of subjects such as Latin, French in Grades 3 to 8, Physical Education,Home Economics and Industrial Arts, she said. She urged all board members to visit all the schools in the county to "see this $30 million dollars worth of property that we have in our jurisdiction". Mrs. Zinn spoke of the "new jargon" that the new members of the Board will learn, and urged them to ask questions of the administration or the chair- man when there was something they did not know. Mrs. Zinn concluded by ad- vising the new members that any information received in the agenda that is marked "Confi- dential Please" means juit- that, strictly confidential. "we like our employees to know that per- sonal probleths never go beyond this room," she said. SWEAT' 'SH S Virginia Ewing, a second- year psychology student at York, University, pays classmates to read text books and lecturenotes to her. "It helps me to keep up with the heavy work load," she says. Virginia, 20, is one of 88 blind university and community college students in Canada to be awarded a reader grant by The Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Total value of the awards amounts to $19,300.00. The reader grants, available to the 270 blind Canadians study- ing beyond the high school leVel and awarded on the basis of the students' needs, arose out of the growing trend toward higher edu- cation amont blind people.. Undergraduates are eligible for. grants of $200 for the academic year; post graduates qualify for grants of $300; part-time students can apply for grants of $40 per course. Some students find volunteer readers. "It's difficult to es- tablish a fee for readers," says Virginia, "and some of them 'don't want to be paid." Reader grant recipients also use their award to buy books and tapes. Virginia wants to pay for taped French texts with • part of the grant and "some of it I will use to tip off loose ends." To help them further in their studies, blind, students can 'borrow a seloction of 3,000 taped and 16,000 brailled books from the CNIB library. If a text' on their course is not available, students forward a printed copy to the library to be recorded by one of the 285 volunteer readers or transcribed into braille by one of the 202 volun- teer braillists. This service has made 'It possible for blind students to complete an increas- Wig variety of courses such as aotel-motel management, edu- cation, music, physiotherapy, business administration, general arts and PhD and Masters pro- grams.