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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1975-06-25, Page 7Carol Wheeler * 2-4 HOUR :TOWING * CARL'S AUTO BODY USSELS Complete Collision and Frame Service. bay 8874260 hl ire 8.87-9.211 lUAL, the vi4 vice nut rt waft , or of Rie!: th e''` s. and with pent then bent enry and V Ola abn don'; eth the ed itS nla her nd ' he vs, he ye 014 He art into, k` gar ,otid .Spice. by Bill' Smiley Girl passes Scotch dance exams b lu ac One of the things I like about teaching is • that you are not stuck with the same old stupid faces year after year, as you' are in ost jobs. In teaching, you get a whole set of new stupid faces every year. They come in every September, an entire ' n ew gallery of mugs, and sit there looking at you. They look pretty -dumb; like any other representative group of people, and you have a moment of' despair. It doesn't help much when some of the faces are closed and sullen, and others are sneaky or insolent or just plain devised for hellery. "Oh, boy! This is no bumper crop, More umptious than bumper. Looks like a ugh year ahead.' But some strange alchemy goes to Work ring the year, and by June, if you're cky, those faces are no longer strangers, ut a host of new friends and quaintances. You have discovered all kinds of things, in the give and take of the classroom, about these bodies, and now you know' them as aspects of the • human spirit, however blurred or bent, in some cases. That girl with the big bust and bum and the pouty mouth, whom you registered as, , Hot-Lips Houlihan type back in• September, 1„ has turned out to be a sweet child who blushes if you ask her what time it is. Conversely, that angelic, straight- looking girl with the big honest eyes and the good manners, whom you spotted as a potential prize student last fall, was hauled into court last winter for being, drunk and disorderly, a nice way of saying she beat up two cops. That little ratty guy with the dirty hair and the sides falling out of his sneakers, who looked like a refugee from a Dickensian orphanage, has proved himself a track star and a. whiz in grammar. Mouthy Mary, whose vocabulary would scorch the skull of a sailor, writes tender, lyric poetry. eff, whom you put down as a hockey bum in January, who missed three days a week from exhaustion, has emerged, since the ice melted, as one of the most sensitive writers you've ever taught. tan, the belligerent guy you „tangled with on the first day of school, and the second, and the fourth, and the eighth, a real hood, has come out of his surly COCOOn as a football player, a pretty fair artist, and the best mower of lawns you have hired in years. You are buddies. Cynthia, one of the few familiar faces last September, because you had taught ' her the year before, hasn't changed at all. She's just as sweet and lovable and full of fun as always, and you think of her almost as a daughter. And Joe, the other familiar face last September, because you had also taught him the year before, hasn't change a bit eitherae's just as slippery, conniving, lazy and genial as always, and while you might despair of him, you've grown to accept him, as you would a member of your family ' with the same faults. It's the same every year. You start out with caterpillars, and if you are patient and tolerant and allow people to find their way out of their cocoons, you wind up with butterflies, some gray and dull, other brilliant and many-hued, but all of them ' fluttering with life. And you keep track of your butterflies, .„ as best you can. Here's a doctor who didn't know a dangling participle from a ruptured appendix when you were trying to teach him Shakespeare, 10 years ago. And there's a university professor, ,one f of the swift, eager minds you touched on her, way through the system. John has become an artist, and is going to marry Trish, and you think it's a great match and hope the best for them, because you knew them away back then, when they were kids. • And another John and a Bill are journalists,' and Betty is a fine nurse, and Florence is going to be a lawyer, and Mike takes off your storm windows and Betty works in the travel agency and gives you the best of service and Pete is going to take you fishing to a special trout stream as soon as school is out and Rosemary has had four babies, every one a beauty. It's like pulling teeth to make' them admit' it, but most teachers become pretty fond of most of their students over the course of a year. A few of them, of course, only a mother could love. I can think of no fate more horrible than being a teacher who doesn't like kids, and no better life than for one who does. Carol Wheeler age 13 of RR 5, Brussels was successful June 14th in passing her Highland Exams at Goderich. The examiner was Miss Strathearn from Scot- land. She received honours in her grade five theory, was highly commended in her 1st gold b ar in Highland Dancing and was corn- mended in rest Gold Bar in Scottish National Dancing. She was commended in Gold-Sailors HornPipe and, also in ,Gold-Irish Jig. The highest marks are honours or highly commended, then commended, then pass and finally fail. This completes. Carol's Highland Theory in which she has received honours in all grades. She has her 2nd gold bar to earn in Highland & National Dances then may try for her teacher's medal. When grade two went to the woods we saw all different things , like Groundhog holes and I saw a bird's nest up in a tree. it was fun in the woods and we played the games in the woods we had to play. We went to get six things all different. I found a caterpillar. It was fun going throtigh the fence and the creek. It was fun going down the hill and the last one that was down the hill was - Angie Harris. I'd like to thank Mr. Vince Elliott Science teacher of Exeter High School; Miss Cheryl Chap. man of grade 10, Exeter Higl School and. Mrs. Mary Huether, our teacher for the fun we had Monday afternoon, June the 2nd. By Wendy Heibein Grade Two Brussels Public School We went to Mr. Oldfield's and Mr. Pipes' bush. When we went into the bush', Cheryl put some Off' on me to keep the bugs off me. We saw some jack-in-the- pulpits, and blood roots. We played two games. We had to climb lots of fences. When we Grade 5 Brian Armstrong pas- sed the Grade 5 Royal Conserv- atory Pianoforte with First Class Honours achieving 81 per cent. He was the only piano pupil at the Blyth examination centre inJune to receive First Class Honours. Linda Machan passed the Grade 5 Royal Conservatory Pianoforte with Honours receive ing 74 per cent. Linda, will receive her Grade 5 certificate as she previously passed Preliminary Rudiments in Theory with 95 •per cent. Both are pupils of Mrs, Winona Martin of Brussels. were coming back from the bush we chased the cows. We had lots of fun too. :Mr. Elliot, Miss Cheryl Chapman and Mrs. Mary Huether went with us. By Patricia Tenpas Grade Two Brussels Public School Piano Students get honours BPS heads for the woods Obituaries :$•••• •.•.• MRS. NESBIT HAMILTON Mrs, Gertrude Pearl Hamilton oi-Atwood a former resident of Brussels, passed away in Listovvel ,Memorial Hospital on Mkonday, ,'4ne 16th. She was in her 88th 'year. The former Gertrude Duncan, she was born on the fourth line of Morris Township and had lived in the Brussels community until going to Atwood some years ago. The widow of the late Nesbit Ilanifilton, she was predeceased her husband in 1959. She is survived by her daughter Mrs, Hugh (Mauna) Kennedy of Toronto and son, John L. Rata, ton of Bluevale, also seven grandchildren and three great irandchildr Her seven brothers, John; [ :las, Jilt and Fr4ticie litedeceased their sister. Funeral services were held in: the Peebles Funeral. Home, :1woOdJ Oft Wednesday, ewdinthestdhalitvi,uble. Stii at 2:00 .tl larke of Atwood Presbyterian., hutch BurialWas in EinilcCiaeinifittt emer y Pallbearers rlliam Were Elgin Smith, -s, Harold Keys, ornas Vries George Duig and rank Flowers were carried Kennedy. bY Ross' 'wan, Robert Mrs George Doig, Mrs. Frank Kenne- dy, Mrs. Ann Kedwell. WILLIAM BARVLN SMITH William Garvin. Smith of South River died at 1.:his home on Tuesday, June 3rd, in his 70th year. A former Brussels area resident, he was the son of die late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith of Morris Township, He left this area about forty years ago for Timmins where he, was employed in the gold mining industry. Later the family move to South• Porcupine and then to South River. He is survived by his•wife, the fortifier Mary Margaret Kelly of gr• South River and son Allan o Toronto. A memorial service was held at Moore's Funeral Chapel, Sun- ridge, on Wednesday, June 4th, at 8:00 p.m. Then to Brussels where the' body rested at the..M.L. Watts Funeral Home with the funeral service from St. John's Anglican Church at 2t00 p.m 6. ton Friday, June h, Interment was in Brussels Cemetery. Pallbearers were Jim Smith, Gordon. Smith, Clarence McCut- cheon, Tom Miller, Jack Bryalis and Glen Smith. Get a Head Start with a 5 year 91 /2% Guaranteed Investment Certificate With ;Merest cumula d Over g years our Guaranteed Investment Certificates would be worth as follow Amount • Value Invested At Maturity . 1•61r$ • 8 ;aa ....;;,;;;;:ti. $ $20,000.00., I. 1, i 8. 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