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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2003-11-19, Page 3Favourite book leads to international adventure, author tells SPS students By Susan Hund.rtmark Expositor Editor Rob Bundy's favourite book, Treasure Island, took him all the way to the South Pacific island of Samoa where he visited the grave of the book's author Robert Louis Stevenson. And, he brought back a small piece of the main beam of Stevenson's Samoan house, which was being converted into a museum at the time. "You might not know it now but if you find a good book, you never know where it might take you," Bundy, a Clinton -area author, told the Grades 6 to 8 students at Seaforth Public School last Friday. Bundy, who was at the school to promote literacy, showed the students a well- worn copy of Treasure Island which he received for Christmas from his grandmother in 1968 when he was nine. The book, now kept together with an elastic band, has travelled to summer camp with him when he was 12, earned him an A for a high school book report and travelled to college with him where he would read from Treasure Island instead of doing his journalism assignments. It also accompanied him on a round -the -world trip and was with him in Samoa, where he read the first Susan Hundertmork photo Clinton -area author Rob Bundy shows Grades 6 to 8 students at Seaforth Public School where he travelled to Samoa to visit the grave of his favourite author Robert Louis Stevenson as students David Thiessen and Brandon Sallows hold the map. chapter while sitting on Stevenson's tomb atop Mount Vaea. Bundy told the students how Stevenson, who wrote Treasure Island in the late 1800s, suffered from tuberculosis and moved to Samoa from England, where the pollution was aggravating his condition. "He built a beautiful house at the base of a mountain, Mt. Vaea, where he wrote the book. He wrote this book without a laptop computer or Spellcheck - he didn't even have a ballpoint en. He used a quill. And P when he got sicker, he dictated the book to his wife. He was really dedicated and really wanted to tell this story," said Bundy. Bundy said Stevenson's life inspired him in many ways. It compelled him to make his round -the -world trip and inspired him to become a writer himself. Like Stevenson, who sent the chapters of his book to England from Samoa to have them published in a newspaper, Bundy send letters home during his international trek and his parents published them in a Huron County newspaper. "People were reading them and I had no idea - just like Robert Louis Stevenson, who never knew anyone was reading his. stories and never knew he was famous while he was writing in Samoa," he said. "Reading is really important," said Bundy. "This book (Treasure Island) inspired me to go on adventures and I've been able to make a living writing just because I read a book when I was nine," he said. First special education forum to be held in Stratford by Avon Maitland school board By Stew Slater Special to The Expositor Marie Parsons, education superintendent for the Avon Maitland District School Board, says anyone who spends even a small amount of time involved with special education in Ontario gets to know a lot of acronyms. In fact, even the community/parent groups which assist each school board in administering special education are referred to by an acronym: SEAC (Special Education Advisory Committee). Other key acronyms that are commonly used when discussing special education in Ontario -- often to refer to parts of the process through which particular students are identified for various levels of special education support -- include IPRC (Identification, Placement and Review Committee), ISA (Intensive Support Application), EA (Educational Assistant) and IEP (Individual Education Plan). That's part of the reason, Parsons says, that the Avon Maitland SEAC committee will host its first parent forum on Thursday, Nov. 27 at Stratford Northwestern Secondary School, from 7-9 p.m. Under the theme "Removing the Barriers to Special Education," the event will feature guest speaker Dr. Marilyn Marshall, a child psychologist based in Stratford. Her talk will be entitled "What's the Matter With Them?" There will also be a presentation from Avon Maitland staff. 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