HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1989-10-04, Page 12PAGE 12. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1989.
New principal brings change
Having served in every Huron
County Secondary School except
Bluewater, principal Herb Murphy
is settling into his new position at
F. E. Madill in Wingham.
After six years as principal of
Goderich District Collegiate Insti
tute, Mr. Murphy was informed
early this past spring that he would
be replacing Ken Wood, who was
retiring. Mr. Murphy says that he
has found the flavour thus far at F.
E. Madill to be quieter and more
relaxed.
Bom and educated in London,
Mr. Murphy majored in chemistry
at the University of Western On
tario. He began his teaching career
in Brantford in 1963 and moved to
Goderich in 1966 as head of the
science department there. He and
his family have resided there ever
since.
He also possesses a master’s
degree in educational administra
tion.
Upon arriving in Wingham one
of the first challenges facing Mr.
Murphy was the restructuring of
the school year to a two-day system
of four 75-minute periods per day,
instead of the familiar eight-period
day.
This change, which is also in
place at other county schools,
permits the staff and students more
time to get involved in activities
during the period. This is of
particular benefit in the physical
education courses and science labs.
The principal feels that educa
tion for the next decade will focus
on the individual, in addition to
programs for specific needs. Mr.
Murphy is currently involved in a
needs assessment for night school
credit courses.
One of his goals is to develop a
“give and take’’ relationship with
local industry to use the resources
of each to the greatest advantage.
It is his desire that the popular
co-operative education program at
Madill will also continue and
hopefully grow each year.
The integration of the trainable
retarded into the mainstream of
school life is another goal which is
being accomplished. Mr. Murphy
believes that the school must be
responsive to the natural progres
sions of the larger society and he
thinks it is.
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Crime spree nets jail term
Two Wingham area men involv
ed in a break and enter in a
Wingham house that resulted in
$5,000 worth of damage received
sentences of one year and 15
months for that and a long string of
other offences in Wingham court
Sept. 27.
It was almost as much a case of
bookkeeping as a judicial system,
as Judge R. G. E. Hunter, Crown
Attorney Robert Morris and de
fence lawyers tried to keep the
various offences of Paul Anthony
Carter and Dwight Robert Cham
bers straight. Mr. Chambers was
charged with a total of 14 counts
ranging from mischief to four break
and enterings and theft. Mr.
Carter’s charges ranged from care
less use of a firearm (he shot a gas
station attendant in the rear with a
pellet gun), to mischief to traffick
ing in narcotics.
The culmination of the events for
the two men was when they, along
with a young offender, broke into
the residence of Paul Cowie of
Wingham, seeking revenge for
something the young offender felt
had been done to him by Mr.
Cowie. Mr. Cowie wasn’t home so
the three vent on a rampage
smashing appliances, furniture,
light fixtures, mirrors, windows, a
television, two ghetto blasters and
a guitar, doing an estimated $5,000
damage.
Mr. Chambers also took part in a
vandalism spree over several
nights in April with Gary Raymond
Carter who had earlier received 30
days on each of five counts of
mischief after a pellet gun was
used to shoot out windows and
street lights. Damage in that
four-day spree was estimated at
$4,630.
The court was told Mr. Carter
had been found in possession of 13
pre-packaged bags of marijuana
and one 50 gram bottle of hashish
oil with about 25 grams in it during
a police check for liquor in the car
on Dec. 14, 1988. His lawyer said
he had the hasish oil for personal
use and the bag was for “small
transactions with friends”.
A second charge transferred in
from Kincardine O.P.P. involved a
possession of hashish oil from a
spot check on March 12 of this
year.
Judge Hunter told Mr. Cham
bers that with four break and
enters and seven willful damage
charges amounting to nearly
$10,000 in damage, “the chance of
you making restitution is nigh on to
zero”. He sentenced him to a total
of 15 months and 18 months
probation. He sentenced Mr. Car
ter to a total of 12 months in jail and
three years on probation, a condi
tion of the probation that he not
associate with anyone the proba
tion officer felt he shouldn’t. Both
men had already spent time in jail
awaiting sentencing.
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