Huron Expositor, 2007-06-13, Page 4Poge 4 June 13, 2007 • The Huron Expositor
Opinion
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Band needs our
support to keep
marching into next
50 years
They came, they marched and they remembered.
While the ranks of alumni of the Seaforth and
District All -Girds' Marching Band were a little thin-
ner than organizers may have hoped, those former
band members who attended the 50th anniversary
of the band on Saturday seemed to be having a
great time reliving some of their best days in high
school.
Mingled among the horns, drums, flags and
woodwinds, the alumni had a chance to parade
down Main Street and through the neighbourhoods
of Seaforth - some of them picking out a tune on
the glockenspiels they hadn't played for decades.
Then they stopped briefly to entertain the seniors
at the Seaforth Manor - before heading back for
more reminiscing at Seaforth Public School.
Although the current band executive had to work
hard to locate them -since some of the band's tro-
phies were literally bound for the dump several
years ago before they were rescued - there was
plenty of band memorabilia on hand to help focus
memories.
In fact, the reunion may result in the collection of
more artifacts as the alumni dig their old capes and
uniforms out of closets and trunks and offer them
as donations.
If so, there will be more than enough material to
consider designing a display commemorating the
band's 50 years in the Seaforth museum at town
hall.
Despite the initial lukewarm local interest in
organizing the reunion event, the executive and
volunteers of the current band should be congratu-
lated for making sure its 50th anniversary was cel-
ebrated.
The band is no longer a school board -supported
organization with core funding but must instead
continue to aggressively fundraise to stay alive.
An instrument replacement drive is currently
underway to allow the band to retire a number of
expensive instruments too old and well -used to last
much longer.
The community needs to remember the band
needs everyone's support to continue marching into
the next 50 years.
Susan Hundertmark
The Facebook generation
is most at home online
I haven't seen my best
friend from university since
her wedding in January and
Facebook seems to make
that alright.
She's joined Facebook,
we're friends and simply
seeing her activity on the
popular social networking
site keeps her close in some
way that I can't explain.
Last week I talked about what Facebook is
and promised to talk about the `generation'
that uses it this week.
I'm not going to quote experts at you. I'm
just going to give one insider's view.
It will help if you think of us a little like
computers. Though I don't think many of us
would put it like that without hearing some-
one else say it first, that's what we do and it
guides our behaviour.
We act as if we were electronic devices
linked up over the Internet, which means
that for all intents and purposes, we're only
far from each other when we're off-line.
•At 26, I know people who are older than I
am that are plugged in and people who are
younger who aren't. I know people who can do
amazing things with computers that aren't
plugged in, while some who have only ever
used simple programs are.
We aren't defined by our age or what we can
do with computers, but by what we do with
those computers. Specifically, we use social
networking software.
That bit of jargon means that we use com-
puter programs and web
sites to communicate with
and connect to other peo-
ple. We use e-mail, instant
messaging programs, blogs
and sites like Facebook.
There is a ton of other
Internet based social soft-
ware out there, but these
seem to be the basics.
These change the way
we look at the world.
The first thing that happens is the Internet
becomes a place. We go there. So do our
friends. We talk when we're there. For us, log-
ging into Facebook is no different than walk-
ing into a coffee shop.
While there, we document our lives. I'm def-
initely not the first to note that we essentially
compile public scrapbooks that we let our
friends look at. When we do it on sites like
Facebook, our digital scrapbooks become
pages in a larger, communal scrapbook that
also documents our conversations.
This means that we get to know each other
differently than people not a part of this gen-
eration. We learn things about each other
that might never come up in regular conver-
sation. We access each other's selected memo-
ries through these digital scrapbooks and
read obscure details in each other's profiles.
This tends to mean that our privacy rules
are different.
We share so much with each other that it
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