HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1988-07-06, Page 22PAGE 22. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1988.
The graduates of five years ago at Blyth Public School are now the graduates of Grade 13 or are off doing
Interesting work elsewhere. Members of that 1983 class are [front row, left to right] Kent Patterson, Mike
Mahon, Shane Snell, Susie Campbell, Jeff Howson, Nicole Brooks, Colleen Giousher; [centre] Karen
Phillips, Anita Bos, Bobbi Jo Marks, Trudy Noble, Julie Young, Heather McDonald, Julie Howson; [back
row] William Black, principal, John Leibold, Kevin Scrimgeour, David Sparling, Chris Sills, Lori
Appleby, Selina Hubbard and Rose Ann Machan.
Where are they. now
Classmates prepare for university
Five years ago this June, 21
excited young teenagers success
fully passed the first major hurdle
on their road to success when they
graduated from Grade 8 at Blyth
Public School.
And now just five short years
later these same fine young men
andwomenareenteringor have
entered the next phase towards
their careers.
This year’s Grade 13 graduates
have the distinction of being the
lastGrade 13 as such. From now on
students will have the opportunity
of obtaining their 30 credits in four
years. They will receive one OCA
diploma instead of the Secondary
School Diploma and Honours
Secondary School Diploma which'
has been the case.
Unlike the step from Grade 8 to
highschool which saw the students
leave Blyth to explore new horizons
in Clinton, Wingham, or Goderich
Highschools, this next step from
Highschool finds them scattered
all over Ontario.
The following are the members
of that 1983 graduating class and
what they are doing:
Lori Appleby - 2nd yr. Develop
mental Service Worker, Fanshawe
College, London.
Anita Bos - 2nd yr. Recreation
Leadership, Canadore College,
When brides came by mail
The Blyth Festival’s production
of “The Mail Order Bride’’ by
Robert Clinton has for its inspira
tion the idea of arranged marriages
- a situation hard to comprehend
when compared with today’s pre
occupation with romantic love.
These days most couples are not
anxious to rush in to anything;
personal columns in newspapers
abound with people anxious to
create new relationships.
Robert Clinton’s play (running
until August 20th) is about three
generations of one family: Char
lotte who quit her job in the winter
of 1908 and set off to meet her
husband for the first time; Rachel,
her daughter, who ran off with the
first stranger to visit the farm; and
Russell, Rachel’s son, who dis
covers his rich family history
through the stories of an eccentric
neighbour.
Arranged marriages, marriages
of convenience, letalone marri
ages between strangers are un
usual occurrences, almost unheard
of since the World War II. The few
exceptions occur in cultures out
side North American life like (as
playwright Robert Clinton points
out) the brides who are * ‘ordered’ ’
from the Philippines and other
North Bay.
Nicole Brooks - graduated: Marvel
Beauty School, working: Hair
Warehouse, Byron.
SusieCampbell - working Bain
ton’s, Blyth.
Colleen Giousher - 2nd yr. Land
scaping, Niagara Welland Col
lege, St. Catharines.
Jeff Howson - Agricultural Science
University of Guelph.
Julie Howson - Physical Therapy,
Queen’s University, Kingston.
Selina Hubbard - working: Pizza
Delight, Goderich.
John Leibold - Mechanical Engi
neering, University of Western
Ont. London.
Rose Ann Machan - Dispensing
Optician, Georgian College, Barrie
Mike Mahon - working: The
Creamery, Seaforth.
Bobbi Jo Marks - graduated:
Westervelt Business College, Lon
don, working: as a secretary in a
London Garment Industry.
Heather McDonald - Science,
University of Guelph.
Trudy Noble - graduated: Wing
ham and District RNA School,
working: Palmerston Nursing
Home.
Kent Patterson - Law Administra
tion, Georgian College, Owen
Sound.
Karen Phillips - Social Service
Worker, Sir Sandford Fleming,
Peterborough.
Kevin Scrimgeour - Psychology,
countries in the Orient; and some
American and Canadian brides
still answer ads and wed workers in
the isolated Canadian North of
Alaska.
A book by renowned author and
historian Barry Broadfoot titled
“The Pioneer Years’’ documents
the actual circumstances that led to
strangers becoming betrothed by
mail over thousands of miles sight
unseen.
“It was the ‘Family Herald’ and
it was published in Montreal in
them days and there was quite a lot
of these advertisements. It made
perfectly good sense. All the single
women were in the East - Ontario
and down that way - and all the
single men were out West on farms
and in small towns like ours.’’
The advertisements for brides
that appeared in the newspapers
back East included descriptions
like “Honest and dependable”,
“Object matrimony’’ and “No
triflers, please’’, language and
sentiment that is a far cry from the
advertisements in today’s person
al columns.
Theletters that answered the
ads were read over and over and
things like, “Good hand and she
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University of Windsor.
Chris Sills - family left Blyth shortly
afterGr. 8 and whereabouts are
unknown.
Shane Snell - Photography, Fan
shawe College, London.
David Sparling - 3 yr. Business,
University of Western Ontario,
London.
Julie Young - working: secretary
and bookkeeper for Village of
Blyth.
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Ross and Betty Knight wish
to announce the forthcoming
marriage of their daughter
Mary-Ellen to John Patrick
Bignell of Sydney, Austra
lia. The wedding will take
place Friday, July 15 at 6:30
p.m. at Knox Presbyterian
Church, Cranbrook.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bearss of
Blyth are pleased to an
nounce the forthcoming
marriage of their daughter
Deanna Cecile, to Bradley
Stephen, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Ducharme of
London. The marriage will
takeplaceon July 30,1988 at
St. Justin’s Church, 855
Jalna Blvd., London. An
open reception will follow at
St. Justin’s Hall at 8 p.m.
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