HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 1999-07-14, Page 3Retiring teacher creates school museum
sy Scott Hllgsndorf t
ExpositorEd for
After 31 years and Just
weeks before his retirement
high school teacher Dave
Onn has- managed to have
display cases built to exhibit
a 100 -year-old collection of
high school memorabilia. .
Coming to • - Seaforth
District High School in the
1960s,• just after a new
addition had been built on
sc
the hool, Onn. as a history
teacher. inherited a collection
of hi.torical •items dating
.hack to 1896.•
"Since then. we've been
trying to. keep as much .
memorabilia as possible,".
said Onn. who began.
searching the school for
various items stored in the
hacks of -classrooms or
buried in boxes in storage. ..
Seeing:the collection grow,
Olin .wanted Jo have a place
-to display it for, students.
• staff and visitors to see.
"For years. I've been
trying to convince somebody
it's -interesting stuff." said
-Onn.' who spent about' 20
years building the collection.
There are old photographs
including one of -a literary
Society. a banner showing the
• then Seaforth District
. Collegiate .Institute as rugby
champions in 1951.- There. is
an article featuring•the last
.cadet Inspection for a
program _that, has not existed '
in the school system for
decades -and a text bqok
dating back to 1891 .called
"Constitutional Documents
of •18701 Canada. ' • . •
"This only'represents a
small portion of all the
material that has been
saved." said Onn of the items
• in the exhibit.
The school. built .in 1878.
had a large agricultural focus
and Onn said many of the
items in the collection •
in a room at the soh,
to. that area of
•other items in
books and , , _
apparatus.
Onn has found a leather
• bound record book from the.
1880s and information about
• students that would never he
collected in today. In addition
. to student names and grades
it also has information such
. as where the student's father
..works.
• Orin notes just -as many
students failed subjects then
as they do today and hack
then. some classes had 10 or
15•.students in them. not. the
60 pupils people today think
packed the classes.
AS technology has
changed. Onn has made sure:
to keep newer items like a
manual- typewriter and
electric typewriter that later
will 'become other` treasures
of the museum since it has'
already been years since they
have been used in the school.
"I think it's something you
can keep going and keep
adding to,- he said. ,
He"is 'sure the school
One -tier motion
defeated, 4o to 21
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realized there were
opportunines'and options
that were not being
Considered.- said Hill. "What
justification can there be in-
denying
ndenying the people f Htfron
the opportunity to look at
that option:" Hill said this
group tried to' answer that
and found the main reason
wiis time. The countyhas set
Sept. I. 7999 as the deadline•
for restructuring proposals.
"We feel we do (have.
time)." said Hill.
• Councillor • Brian
McBurney. who •mored the
motion at council's June.
meeting said "this motion
•doe.n t say we're going to
mos e to one -tier government.
it say ssc'r'e going to look at
one -tier in tandem with
other options.'
It's nescr too late, to take
a second look." he -added. "1
lust cant to -look .at it.
-because if you don't look at
it. yutJ'II, never honestly.
• know if it was the right thing
for the future of the county."
'We are really up 'against a
deadline," said Councillor
Robin. Dunbar. He .aid
everything must be ready for
March 1. 20110 in preparation.
for the frllosstog municipal
election..
"l feel the group's timing is
a little late." said,Dunbar.
"The time issue is One of
significant importance to all
of us." said Hill. "But in the
grand scheme of things,
when your grandchildren
look back on this issue it will
be relatively insignificant to
them that it took an extra sir
months What will be
important to them is that you.
people took the necessary
time to put in place a
Los ernment -structure that
ss as not only in your hest
interest but their best interest.
"I guess I have a hard time
accepting the fact that we
have an issue this big. this
important that.we have a
deadline that, is that
inflexible." Hill added. He
said that all,theirgroup is
asking for. is the opportunity
to listen to representatises
.: from municipalities 'who
have restructured. iii •find out
what they did. what .w '.rk.
and what doesn't.."«'hat
. possible justification can
there be in denying us: the
opportunity' td participate in
that kind of dialogue."
"Going two-tier doesn't
,say we can't go one -ties
further down the line." said
- Councillor Ron Murray.
"Let's take it .one bit at a.
time. Once we go one -tier
there's no going back
.A recorded vote was called
and the motion was defeated ---
40 to 21.
Following the meeting.
Hill said he is not sure what
the implications of this %ote
wilI be.
.The people invoked with
our group .are going to has e
to collectively decide that."
he said. He added -that while
the time limit does n.: rn
them. "deadlines can he
extended.".'
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would welcome artifacts
people have at home such as
old uniforms that can he
added_ to the collection or
borraled for display
in addition. he said there
are photographs hut no
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He,satd an early unlfor,in
rom the hand would greatly
increase the value of the
school's collection.
He also said 'anyone
interested in restoring some
of the items would he
welcome to help „ut.
The Axon Maitland
Djstncr School Board gave
Onn rhe appioval tri'have the
cases built this year'in the
school's main hallway. just
opposite from the school
office and provide¢ most of
the funding. -.
The cases were huilt hy
Bill Price and student: from
the technical classes and'
were erected in enough time
before the 'school year was
over to attract the attention of
many students.
"I'm really pleased to' see
this put together. particularly
since this is my last day."
said, Onn who logged his last
official day as a teacher June
30. when he was interviewed.'
"Every once. in awhile
well change pit around... said
Price of the efforts to keep
the eshih!t • tolrig and
changing in (Inn's absence
But Onn hopes to he hack
in the school helping get the
items• more organized for
future displays.
He's welcome to come -
hack." said Price • '
"Cm. just as happy as an ;
he to see this- done." said
Onn.
:ccn -'ilgerdcrff photo
3ri1'Price" and retiring teocher'Oave Onn show some of the
100 -year old memorabilia that wilt be •exhibited in 'the new
display cases at Seaforth Disfrict High School '
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