HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1999-07-07, Page 18PAGE 18. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1999.
Hullett Central Public School
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Teachers, parents helped us achieve potential
Graduates — Back row, from left: Kevin Salverda, Mark McVittie, Eric Jarrett, Adam Jackson, Graham Logan, Drew Crawford, J.C.
Beacom. Middle: Lindsay Hay, Emily Wilkinson, Kim Veenstra, Elizabeth MacGregor, Maegan Reinhart, Tonya Mason, Kelly Van
Baaren, Angelika Sturzenegger, Mrs. Sandy Reaman. Front: Daryl Overboe, Joe Oliver, Greg Bechtel, Mike Moore, Mike Bean, Neil
Salverda, Nathaniel Peel.
By Mike Bean
Good evening
fellow students,
parents, families,
friends, teachers,
and guests.
Congratulations
to the 1999 Grade
8 Graduation
Class from Hullett
Central Public School.
When I sat down to write my mes
sage to you, I began to realize what
a difficult task this could be. I didn’t
want to bore you, but I don’t have
any appropriate jokes to tell you
either. I wanted to convey some
words of wisdom, however, wisdom
is acquired, not only through knowl
edge, but also with experience. And,
although we teenagers know-it-all,
we still have a lot of life ahead of us
to explore.
We have received our primary
education for the past nine years at
Hullett School, in Londesboro.
By definition, to educate, means
to give intellectual, moral and social
instructions to a pupil, for a particu
lar purpose. Through our years, from
kindergarten to Grade 8, each of our
teachers, and parents, have strived to
help us reach and achieve our poten
tial goals.
Our teachers’ purpose has been to
help us reach our destination of
graduation, in preparation for the
next stage of our education.
This guidance began in kinder
garten, with Mr. Park, who was an
animated teacher who loved to
entertain us with stories and songs.
This was a year of social develop
ment as we adjusted to the transition
of leaving our parents.
Next year will be a similar adjust
ment as we face new challenges at a
different school, with different
teachers, and different students.
Hopefully, we will feel as welcomed
as Mr. Park made us feel in
September of 1990.
In kindergarten, any student who
loved to draw and add detail to their
pictures, was encouraged to read
printed words. Unfortunately, some
artistically-deprived students, like
myself, who loved to draw stickmen
only, were ignored until it was
brought to Mr. Park’s attention that
art wasn’t our strong point, but we
could leam to read even though we
left off eyebrows on our pictures.
I hope all our problems in high
school can be solved that easily.
In Grade 1 we experienced a split
class. Mrs Bosman loved music and
shared her talents with us for many
years. She developed our foundation
of basic reading, writing -apd arith
metic along with Mrs. Walters and
Mr. Sanders.
In Grades 2 and 3 Mrs. Radford
encouraged us to play chess, to help
us develop strategic-thinking and
also we played cribbage to improve
our addition skills.
Mr. Livermore continued our math
facts, and drilled us with math and
spelling quizzes every week. He
enjoyed sports immensely, and we
were allowed extra periods to play
games. This gave us another avenue
for our energies.
However, sometimes even this
wasn't enough, and when we
became a bit too rowdy, or out of
control, our activities were halted
and corrected by our principals, Mr.
Jewitt or Mr. Barker.. Some of us
have gotten to know these two men
very well.
Mr. Gingerich’s motto was
research, research, research. He
attempted to develop our skills as
independent thinkers.
Finally, in Grade 6 we had the
opportunity to advance in modem
technology through the use of the
school computers. Mrs. Pletch
encouraged us to experiment with
different programs. Many of these
were purchased through the
fundraising of the SAC committee
under Linda Horbanuik’s leadership.
We live in a friendly community
which gives us lots of support.
Our second language program,
French, was always a challenge to
learn, but Mrs. Reaman supported
our efforts.
In the musical department, Mrs.
Stennett taught choir and instrumen
tal and we have some classmates
who are very talented in this area
and have joined the school band.
In our final year, Mrs. Reaman has
prepared us for life in high school by
impressing upon us the importance
of deadlines, and responsibility for
handing in homework and projects
on time. Many marks were lost over
this year because of tardiness.
Our primary education has been
completed. We have been prepared
for the next stage of education in our
lives. Whether we aim for the stars
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