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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1990-07-04, Page 18PAGE 18. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1990. Seaforth Public School_____ Seaforth PublicSchoolGrade8graduatesare (frontrow, left to right) Jonathon Bell, Allan Hopper, Brad Moore, Scott Leonhardt, Matt Vock, Jamie McNichol; (second row), Erin Ferguson, Karen Bernard, Crista Clark, Shirlee Bachert, Karen Skea, Tracey Alexander, Shannon Craig, Becky Campbell, Tracey Lowes, Barb Lamble, Nancy Stewart, Lori McClure; (third row), Trish Smith, Angie Jervis, Cindy McCallum, Cathy Laverty, Andrea Gingerich, Sharon Godkin, Keri Bachert, Vicki Lansink, Carla Dalton, Christina VanPoucke, Charlotte Laycox, Sarah Johnston, Wendy Gridzak, Angela Dolmage; (fourth row), Mike Smale, Harold Hugill, Matt Lee, Tamer Farag, Chris Stevenson, Jamie Bennewies, Mark McGrath, Rob Holmes, Tim Smith, Robin Scarrow, Carl Jessome. -- Photo by Paula Elliott, Huron Expositor. Valedictory address Years at Seaforth Public remembered at graduation BY BRAD MOORE Mr. Tremeer, members of the staff, fellow graduates, ladies and gentlemen: here we are, June 25, 1990. I can still remember September 1980, heading off to kindergarten, not quite sure what to expect. What if no one likes me? What if the teacher is mean? What if the principal gives me the strap? Now we’re going to high school with more questions and worries. What if I can’t find my locker? Even if I do, who says I’ll be able to remember my lock combination? What if some grade 12 kid tries to shove me in a locker? To someone in high school these worries are silly but all-too-famil- iar, although they’d never admit it. But I’m not going to stand up here and worry myself and my classmates about high school, when this is our last time together. I’d much rather do something interesting like give you a brief summary of our public school lives. You’ve always wanted to know, so here it is ... in a nut shell: Kindergarten was our first year in the big school. Life was tough back then. We had to know orange from red, blue from green, and hardest of all, left from right. Don’t tell Mrs. Boussey this, but a few of us didn’t learn left from right until grade one, so we sort of slipped by. Grade one was the big time. We were at school for the whole day! Grade two was ... well ... getting closer to grade eight! Grade three was the best year of our lives because we got to be team captains at play day. Grade four was when we got to meet the kids from Walton, half of our class you see here. Grade five we all dreamt about someday being in grade six. Grade six was the year the opposite sex was invented. Guys realized girls were there for a purpose, not just to scream when they get frogs thrown at them, and girls came to the conclusion Ahat guys were not as disgusting and uncivilized as they originally thought. Grade seven was a disappointing year. We saw the grade eights graduate while we found ourselves still in public school. Grade eight. Here we are. The grade sevens, future grade eights, are in deep mourning as we leave, and our worries have gone from which colour is orange to: I hope that a grade twelve never shoves Continued on page 19 [OF OUR GRADUATES] 527-0245 • WALTON • 887-6365 T© A Great BEGINNING DAUPHIN FEED&SUPPLY LTD. Walton, Ont. NOK 1Z0 887-6023 1-800-265-9685 Dungannon, Ont. MOM 1R0 529 7951 529-3133 er< ceixitraijK^ '^COLLEGE of Best wishes to our Future Decision Makers... Agricultural Technology Huron Park, Ontario (519) 228-6691 B & G ELECTRIC BRUSSELS / 887-6747 "Where you can trade with confidence" ATWOODBRANCH ATWOOD 356-2292 Division of Parrish & Heimbecker, Limited WALTON BRANCH WALTON 887-9261 527-1540 MORRIS TOWNSHIP