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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1976-05-12, Page 18Would You Believe by RINA Yes; the PROTEUS has gills and lungs, and• is at home in water or air. WOULD YOU ALSO BELIEVE .'. that our courteous and ,friendly staff is the most helpiul to be found on land or sea. Visit us soon - you won't be sorry. HANDICRAFT .4IND FLEIlf ER SIIOPPI :306 Joi4ephine Street Wing/16110 • Newt And- .Vieitin4) Fro. 'R'1 Students *6014 Secondary. 500,91 WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1976 and stacks manure until you're ready to spread„ it! Special features make Clay • barn cleaners one of the most rugged available. Extra heavy chain and gear drive add years of ser,vice. No' open seams in elevator to reduce manure corro- sion. Elevator extends up to 40 feet, and swings, to 'allow stacking of big piles for later spreading. r Nu mg aim ei uum et um NI urn nil mi R.R.4 1 KINCARDINE PHONE: 519495-520 I Imo as al al au mil Imo in IN • a• • ' w PAO' EIGHTERN Too Much Or NU* • At F' E Madill students who are graduating-this year have• spent. the Iasi few , months making decisions whether they want to go un to school, where they'll go if they do, how they. Will pay for it, and what career they will train for. We've all spent four or five years here -- being educated. To what end?, For many of us, university or college looms in the horizon. Some will get jobs. After university and -- more education? 'or going to work? • " On what basis do we make ,the choice to • further our education? How do we know- if we, have "enough" eduCation, "too little", or "too much" education? The problem facing many of us is -- we don't. . At. F. E. Madill we received a general, basic education. We can all read, write, and use calculators. We know about De Maivre's Theorem, Re'dox ReactionS, and the suicide of Willy Lomanin Death of a Salesman. Those of us in Grade. 13 and Grade '12 have been prepared for further education, -- well prepared for whatever, we find in post-secondary institutions. Each of us has so many opportunities. it is difficult to decide For .as Pascal said, "Too much . and too little education hinder the mind". Each ails must decide, what is, for us, too much or too little. The decision we make will affect our lives for as many year's as we have a career. And that could be a long time. • "Too much" or' "too little" - the deFision is up to us alone. MARJORIE POWELL.. .1,0=000 I was scared last Monday night. I was presenting a brief before Warren Allman& Solicitor-General of' Canada. Solicitor-General of Canada? Monday morning assem- blies seem "small time" compared to this. There had been a time when I was nervous about speaking in front of my peers. After all, there were, 1300 of them all -staring at me, all waiting,for hie to put my: 'feet in my mouth: but they didn't expect me to 'say anything intellig- ent. Here 'I was expected to look, act and' speak intelligently. So we:tried. I Must tell you that this is 'a joint effort; Susan Adams, your new. Student Council presid- ent and I presented a brief concerning the "Peace and Secur- ity Bill" currently being passed in parliament. TO those of you who don't read, our brief concerned the abolition Of capital punishnient. Both of us have felt strongly for a long time that capital punishrnent is inhumane and barbaric. Two weeks agb, Mr. Ritter announced that any student could present his views. I sensed that, as usual, many .of you .have strong opinions but few of you Want to State yotir case. I .knew how I felt. I supported Mr. Allmand. I knoW that 'he is right. Capital punish- ment must be abolished.. ' I could have handed in Our brief, allow it to be published, but I felt that I couldn't let my experiences at the meeting pass by. Every few months someone Starts talking about the apathy. in 'our school. Well, I would like to tell you about • apathy in our. community. I'm sure any student can tell you' about his/lier confron- tations with his/her parents over • hiS/her dress. Susan and I, thinking that this was a somewhat formal occasion donned dresses. • Apparently 'the other 99% of the people there didn't• feel that way. I see nothing wrong With that except that their opinions and ideas had the same dishevelked air to them. Susan and I 'thoroughly researched our brief; our thoughts were methodically set put. Mr. Allmand , was bombarded by questions that had been asked before by other confused citizens. Many of the people questioning him had never read the bill, or as Mr. Allmand said, they had read inaccurate newspaper reports. Mr. Allmand tried to explain his position and he was met with closed ears. The people who demanded answers', (they, did not' ask; ..I. was shocked at some, :people's impolite demands) never listened to Mr. Allmand's reply. I suggest to you that many of these people had made their minds up long before they "heard Mr. Allmand. Even now many of them still do not understand the ' bill; "They are 'not liceWrig guns!" One man even called Mr. Allman(' a liar. do not pretend to understand everything that 'the Bill or Mr,• Allmand proposes, but I totally Misunderstood inany of the adults at the meeting. I am part of an age 'group that many ,adults claim to be illiterate, sloppy, and unmanage- able. may be some, sr all of those things, but I was taught to have an open mind. I'd like to know why some of those people acted in the totally irrational, over-emotional manner in which they did. Susan and 'I were very sincere in our thoughts: I have my .doubts about ' my community. MARILYN' CONGRAM. Recently, I• represented Ontario at a National '4-H Conference in Washington D.C. There were over 250 American delegates and only . 10 Canadians attending this confer-. ence. - I have never felt so wonderfully patriotic before. When you live among your own people every day, your• patriotism is never really tested. Every morning high school students stand at "attention (actually it is at ease) and listen (or day dream) while our national anthem is being played. What a bore! While I was in Washington D.C. I discovered how much I appreciat- ed being a Canadian citizen. When the Americans sang their national anthem. and "America the Beauti- ful" it hurt me deep inside. I felt an urge to• blurt out and sing "01 Canada" as loud as I could. But, because I was only a guest I had to think twice before doing this. I hadn't realized how much I missed Canadian soil until we visited the Canadian Embassy. Two blocks, away I saw the Canadian flag blowing. A sense , of excitement overpowered me. During the last evening - of the conference there was, a large banquet. When the Americans had sung their anthem • and repeated the pledge of allegiance, I thought how levely it would be if the Canadians requested "0! Can- ada". Apparently I wasn't the only true blue patriot in Ole crowd. The Alberta delegate stood up and requested our anthem. Among 250 American 4-Hers, the ten Canadians stood, tall and sang our national, anthem bold and clear with pride in 'every word.. When I sat'down as I glanced from province to province doWn the table, ",a glow seemed to radiate from our faces. I felt a sense of well being ov-irWhelming rne. Meanwhile the Americans thought we had done such a' good job they.' wanted an encore. • It . just so happened I had a Canadian flag in my purse from that afternoon. We walked to the frOnt of the banquet hall and holding the flag in front of us, ' sang . our centennial song "Can-a-da". Believe it or not we received a standing ovation. The thundering applause and blue dots from all the flashes dazed us for a moment. We had represented Canada Properly., This I was'sure of. Next week: BaCk to teacher interviews. MARY ANNE ALTON. Election Results Last Friday, studentS elected the folkiwing people to office: Dianne Pennington as girls' athletic con- vener, John Underwood as boys' athletic convener, Brian Reid as social convener, and Sally Levan and Janice Guest as social publicity managers. The following positions were filled by acclamation: presid- ent and vice, president - Susan Adams and Brian Jeffray; activities officers - Marilyn' Congrani and Sandra Finlay:. athletic publicity manager - Debbie Adams; lounge managers - David Demerling and Doreen Anderson. There is no tuck shop manager as yet. $chool. Qaze There was ,an aniszing discovery made this week, Teachers really do 'have soft spbts for certain students. Mr.' McLennan was diligently scribbling a Math seIntion on the board for' his calculus class, He' made a.slip up near the beginning, but not wishing. te embarrass' hirn, the class , said nothing. Finding that the answer didnq •Worls out at' the end, he retraced his steps. When 'the error, was found after several back trackings, he demand- ed of the class, "Why didn't you tell me about it?" After a pause„ "I miss Gordon for'that. I mean it would only be, a split second until he would be madly waving his arni around to get my attention." "Don't worry sir, he will be back. After all they say that "absence makes the heart grow fonder". After watching the NHL playoffs with the Leafs and their Pyramids, the • pYramidal concept made an interesting discussion for the biology class. The Class was asked, "Did you see the one of. Kate Smith sitting 'on the top Of the pyramid? No matter how youlook at it, 'he'd get the point." This school has had many wild life visitors.. There's been every- thing from mice in the dungeon to birds in the belfry. Something else appeared on the scene though, •a big, fat, ugly bumblebee. This homely creature disturbed a class of conscientious Latin students., It was threatened and told to "buzz off ', but to no avail. Finally it flew up' to the front and lighted above the 'blackboard., , Mr. !Dennis, suspiciously casting his eyes side- ways muttered, "It's probably planning an attack from behind:" • Because the Soccer teams had such a hard time recruiting ambitious' athletes, it was rumour- ed that the teams might have to let girls, try out. To this one girl retorted', "I'd try out, butl can just • imagine all that unnecessary body. checking!" Senior Rend) Club Funeral Tuesday In .5t• Thomas HERBERT EATON .Herbert (Bert) Eaton of R. R. 5 Lucknow passed away at Winghath: and. District. Hospital on Thursday,. April '29th in his 74th' year. ' The late •Mr.. piton was born in England on August 20;1902, a son of Herbert and Annie Elizabeth Eaton. Some fifty-five years ago he came to Canada and since that time has, Made his home with the W. R. Hamilton familT on the 2nd concession, Huron Township, He never married. He is survived by a brother Fred of St. Thomas, a sister Mrs. Dolly Pressel of Florida, nieces and nephews. The funeral service was held in St. Thoinas on Tuesday/, May 4th. Interment was in' St. Thomas Cemetery. Prefects The Prefects are a group of students selected to aid . the teachers in maintaining law and order in our school. Their duties vary from watching , for flying bananas in the, cafeteria to guard- ing ,vandalism in the halls. A prefect must also serve at school dances to help the chaperones keep peace and quiet. To some, they -resemble a .threat to, their freedom but they are only normal students- - trying "to uphold the standards of our students. prefects enjoy.eating candies and lounging in the halls but they try to, eat 'at home or in the • cafeteria. Prefects• are selected each year by the prefects of the previous year. They are senior students who the prefects feel can accept the, responSibility of authority over their peers. The' prefects have faced many problems this year in the lounge' but we have tried to work together to improve the situation. The prefects require the support of the student body to be a worthwhile organization which can perform its duties efficiently. . per, Mrs. Machan' and Mr. and Mrs. Campeau. - We had _looked forward to this evening and were . more than pleased 'with the French cuisine and enjoyed watching the prepara- • tion of the special,dishes. This was our best French meal So far. Present Brief I (), 1. Canada Tuesday, May 4th, members of the Senior French Club of Madill Secendary Schoel, Janet Cardiff, Brian "Wall, Jim Ritter, 'Carey Purdon, Judy Nicholson, Brenda MacDonald; Trudy' HolnieS, Allan MacConnell, Joyce Ireland, Barb- ara Hawthorne,' Evelyn Morin., Janice Rae and Mrs. Emerson journeyed to LOndon to enjoy a gourmet dinner at the . Carime Restaurant. They had also as guests Kathy ,Pattison, • Mrs. Hop;'