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BY HELEN ALLEN
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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.
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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.