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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1977-03-16, Page 17Madill Mirror Advertising... CANADIAN ADVERTISING ADVISORY BOARD 1 helps you find exactly what you need. Ripley Paint It Wallpaper Want a fresh look after the Winter Blues? WE HAVE ROOM LOT AT PR/CES **************** Ready Pasted NEW STOCK OF WALLCOVERINGS At SPECIAL ********************** RIMY OF COLOUR YOUR WORLD SEE US NOW MARCH IS BARGAIN MONTH PHONE 395-2614 or 395-2615 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1977 PAGE SEVENTEEN THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO You Call Thai Entertainment Often our only link with the big, bad, far away world is television. It is on the screen where we most notice the appauling truth of what is going on outside our relatively quiet, little town. As Bev suggests, we can always turn off the TV set if we aren't happy with the type of entertainment' which is passed to us; that's an easy, way to shut off what we don't like. But how can you close out the real stimulants which the shows are based on? Coming home from a hard day's ork at school, you plop your boOks own and turn on the television. fter the first ten minutes, what do ou observe? Joe Gerrard comes ome from work one day and tells oda he doesn't feel the same out her after two carefree years gether. You decide to find o mething better and you switch .10e station. The next thing you know is that you are watching The Nancy, Walker Show and Nancy's ',daughter suspects that her hus- -*and is-having an affair. Disgusted "you turn off the television and turn to something more 'exciting, name- ly your homework. Televison certainly has come a long way since it was first invented. And although the programs keep **singing year after year, television continues to be the main source of e>tttertainment in many homes. But this year's programs have been the ost startling. I was shocked when oda's husband suggested separ- on. I was astounded when on e Nancy Walker Show, they rmed the whole plot around a usband's suspected infidelity. Is this the entertainment the television specialist claim they spew forth? Or rather, is it a reflection of today's decadent society? Whatever the case, television is resumed to be, at least, mildly tertaining. But when it ceases to rform this function of entertain. ent, the purpose of watching levision becomes obscured. Tele- sion is expected to be amusing. the other hand, how can levison even suggest that the spect of separation is amusing, hen to many others, it is actually me of agony and despair. This is e mystifying paradox that televi- on has created for us. Consider the effect programs milar to Rhoda and the Nancy alker show have on young ildren. Will they feel more ecure by watching them? I fervently hope that these rograms are not a mirror of ciety's personality, for if they e, it should make one wonder out the people who have roduced such a precarious society. Do not bemoan what is apparent- happening to our society. Stand p for what you belieye in. If you nd television programs such as oda and the Nancy Walker Show epugnant, complain to the right eople. Make your voice heard. ssure yourself that the next time ou come home from school and urn on your television, that there' re programs on the screen that ou will enjoy watching. Bev Telehus, 12K Meet The Teacher Mrs. Marion Emerson has lived most of her life in the Ripley area. She was born in Huron' Township and was educated in Ripley. Her formal high school education ended after grade eleven, but undaunted by a lack of money, she worked by herself at the grade twelve and thirteen subjects,, tried the depart- mental examinations and passed. At Western University she earned an Honours Degree in French. After attending teacher's college, she taught public school in Lindsay Township and Lion's Head. After getting married, Mrs. EmerSon quit , teaching school, moved to a farm near Ripley and raised two sons. It was not until a number of years later that she returned to teaching, this time at Ripley High School. Although she was hired to teach French in Ripley, she never got the chance. Mrs. Emerson found herself teach- ing Math, Science and Phys-Ed to both boys and girls. After _seven years in Ripley, she came to Wingham and is in her eighth year as a French teacher here. Anyone who has been in one of Mrs. Emerson's classes knows how warm, understanding and humor- ous she is. Mrs. Emerson knows how to get around people, whether it be by teasing them into class participation or by giving a wink to give the students confidence in themselves. She genuinely likes young people and in her classes the dominant atmosphere is one of mutual respect between her and the students. Mrs. Emerson is a great follower of all sports and she played ball in Ripley for twenty-six years before hanging up her glove. She has a number of hobbies including oil painting which she taught at night school, crafts and Eastern Star work. She also likes to travel and has been to England, France, Florida and eastern and western Canada. Mrs. Emerson's genuine love of young people is obvious as you walk into her classes and this serves to make her an excellent teacher. 4,9 Eleanor Johnstone Camera Club High Time About dne month ago CKNX FM contacted Mrs. Tiffin. CKNX FM Stereo 102 was searching for two students to act as reporters for their new show High Time. High Time will start in mid April and runs til school ends this year. This program, will consist of news, coming events, profiles of clubs or teams, sports reporting and social events of the °student body at Madill. The reports will .be broadcast on a weekly basis and will be aired between 5 and 6 p.m., Monday to Friday. Betweenreports and other information programs the latest hits from the contempor- ary music charts will be heard. The organizers of this program want High Time to be fun to take part in, and enjoyable to listen to. The object of reporting school activities to CKNX FM is to result in a one-to-one level of communica- tion with the listening audience while at the same time informing the audience of school activities. This could be a great advantage to students if every student would try to participate. The reporters must have the co-operation of all the students for this to be a success. As one student commented, this school activity would be in competi- tion with the Madill 'Mirror or school newspaper. ' Print and broadcast news has been in compe- tition for years and it will continue to be in competition. Yet if this activity was independently organ- ized and run 'it should in no way interfere or harm the school paper. There will still be those students who enjoy sitting down to a good editorial or club profile. The school paper won't be affected by this new organization or at least shouldn't. ' Broadcasting is just an outlet or branch of print presented in a more personal one-to-one manner. High Time will give our parents and friends, or students from other secondary schools, another oppor- tunity to see our school as it really is. There is also a final reason why this type of program is beneficial to Madill's student body. For those of us that are interested in this type of work as a full time job we can get a (sample or taste of what it would be like. It might help us to make a major decision for our future. Students are given a fuller exper- ience from something they are more personally interested in. Let's hope this experimental program can be made a complete success by our school. It is up to students; and all we can do is try! Mary Anne Alton, Co-editor happy to have a new wide-angle lens for taking better pictures of large groups. In the future, this club hopes to sponsor an inter- school photo contest. The subjects of the entries will probably be restricted to photos of "school life". If you are an aspiring photographer, be listening for further information. So, the next time you see a camera flashing, why not smile and pose? You just might be the famous subject of a prize-winning photo! Mary Eadie, 12 B The Yearbook The Yearbook is coming along fine. Well, almost fine. As you may have noticed by way ,of 'incessant announcements, we're busy getting the final few pictures taken. We're also trying to collect the -last few writeups and such. These tasks are made somewhat hectic by the post-storm, pre-exam state of feverish lethargy that has enveloped our school, but things are slowly wending their way to conclusion. To date we have successfully met our first three deadlines. With a little luck and a lot of blood, sweat and carbon paper we will meet our final deadline on March 7th. Then all we have to do is make, it through the exams we didn't stndy for because we've been too busy working on the book, and if all goes well, we'll receive our big beautiful '77 Courier sometime early in June. Although the tendency is to- wards panic, there can be little doubt that the yearbook will be completed on time, thanks to the combined efforts of many deditat- ed (if half crazy) people, and most particularly the photographers (who are totally crazy). I can honestly say I feel this yearbook will be as complete as possible, and of interest to as many people as possible, even though the actual number of pages has been decreased slightly. At any rate, it will be well remembered by JOHNSTONE - Rev. Bob and Marilyn . of Ancaster, Ontario announce the birth of their daughter, Martha Lauralee, at McMaster University Medical Cen- tre in Hamilton on March 8, 1977, a sister for Marc and Sara, (a second granddaughter for Harold and Laura (Conn) Johnstone of Park- hill). HUNTER - to Dale and Brenda Hunter of Sarnia on Saturday, March 12, 1977, a son, Richard Joseph, at St. Joseph's Hospital, Sarnia. Another grandchild for Mr. and Mrs. Pete Rotteau of Amberley and the first grandchild for Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hunter, Lucknow. those of us who have worked ourselves into the loony-kin to produce it. Eileen Fischer INSPIRATION: The thing done is nothing, the doing. everything., Frederic Phillip Grove Have you ever wondered who the "Roving photographers" around our school are? They are probably among the members of this year's Camera Club, and we owe them a lot of credit. There are about ten members of this club, and Mr. Willis is their staff advisor. They meet every second Thursday in activity period. The students involved are respon- sible for all those candid shots in the school page and yearbook, so if you're camera shy, look out! You never know when one of these photographers may be lurking in your midst. As well as taking pictures with a choice of three school cameras, the members of this club learn how to use the darkroom equipment to develop their own- pictures. One prominent, dark-haired male Cam- era Club member in grade 12 tells me that some good times have been had in the darkroom! This year, the Camera Club is