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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1979-04-26, Page 17• • • • (1) central uron chronicle Rick.Brown, .*� wn, Editor secondory s.hool news Pancake breakfast set On Friday, April 27 Brown's backyard. A hat there will be, weather (or frying pan) will be permitting, a pancake passed. breakfast to raise money Money raised will be for the newspaper con- used to keep the con- ference. / ference from going in the Breakfast will be red. Teachers and served between 8 a.m. students are invited to and 9 a.m. in Rick attend this Dick and Duts Lucknow production. Remember, pancakes start sliding off the griddle at 8 a.m., weather permitting. For further information, ' contact Jeannette Dutot at 482- 3897 or Rick Brown at 482- 7716. Midgets take OMHA cup The Juveniles didn't come out on top, but the Lucknow Midget team brought a trophy home to the village when they came out as champions of the OMHA "DD" playoffs. The Midgets played against Marmora in the last round of the All Ontario hockey playoffs. The Juveniles in their final games of play, won the first two games of the series against Godfrey but quickly fell to defeat when they lost the next three games. Along with a weekend of hard work and lots of learning, over 60 students from Ontario had time to socialize at the first high school newspaper conference. The UCW at the Ontario Street United Church with their meals were just one of the many groups and individuals who helped make the conference a great success. (Chronicle photo by Glen Brandon). Support from many makes A province -wide conference held in Clinton concluded nine months of planning by the CHSS Chronicle. On August 15, 1978 there was a meeting for all members of the 78-79 Chronicle staff held in prospective editor, Rick Brown's back yard. The new Chronicle staff then aided by staff advisor Mr. Ron Smith discussed the possibilities of holding a conference for all high school newspapers throughout the province. The fireside chat produced mixed emotions but eventually, the staff agreed that it was a very good idea and began to think of everything that could be done to make the conference worthwhile. From that day on plans for the first all Ontario high school newspaper conference began.' The many things to be done included sending letters to over 560 high schools throughout the province and following up with a more, conclusive idea of what would be going on and a tentative timetable. Attempts to get angles to financially support the event were next put into action. People to give seminars had to be acquired andr staff members to help supervise were needed,' The many problems of serving food to the delegates had to be cleared up, sleeping accommodations had to be arranged, final notices of acceptance had to be mailed out, places for the seminars to be held had to be co-ordinated and hundreds more little tasks had to be completed before the delegates arrived at 4:00 on Friday afternoon (discounting the two girls from Kenora who arrived last Thur- sday night). Following a dinner provided � L ••a�k`o., %A* Eas MIR NM Eigu nommunottasto • ESIN NM On Otaa P440 s gtO St MN MUG ftlagMM MaliWnv 'MR.% buffet by the 410, r /Seal its oF,<o S O* I L.< 1f4"Jr ih fi ' Ac. The classrooms didn't seem too attractive on Monday when the sun shone and the air was warm outside. These four CHSS girls decided to take their books outside for a study period.(News-Record photo) CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1979—PAGE 17 Big Brother's back Allo. Zo 4eau tink zeau kan ged avay vit itt eh? Vell ve ev vays off vin - ding dings outz. Obzerve. We would like to congratulate D.H. and J.A. on their new arrivals. They have finally become the mothers of seven bouncing baby chicks. J.A. is considering dropping out of politics to become a demolition expert. He demonstrated his prowess in the newspaper office when he tried to make it and the yearbook office into one room! Spring -has sprung and so have the Grade 13's as WFJ led the parade of Easter bonnets last Friday. In springtime a young man's thoughts turn to those of fancy. In ac- counting class PN was seen holding LL's hand. Fancy that! RCAB and a certain delegate from Kenora were seen breaking rule No. 2 last Friday night. Too bad. Miss S. had to interrupt eh R? The Saugeen General and DM, PN, PH warn that dinner rolls can be hazardous., to your reputation. Last Friday night they were caught in the act of decapitulation of a dinner roll. Heard the girl from Ajax was a real good time newspaper conference a success United Church Women on Friday night, Ric started the weekend ofi officially with a speech from the stage in the school gymnasium. Following him, John Wilson, president of Canadian University Presses (C.U.P.) who had come all the way from Ottawa, spoke to the group on the purpose of a high school paper and how to avoid many of the problems encompassed without going un- derground. He answered the many questions the junior journalists had for him. Following that, some students went swimming at the Vanastra Recreation Centre while the others elected to stay and watch several car- toons and an.80 minute version of The Gold Rush by Charles Chaplain. By the tfme it had -ended, all of the swimmers had °returned and settled down to watch the feature film. The Buddy Holly Story which finished the evening ,off. For sleeping accommodation the boys retired to St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church and the girls to Ontario Street United Church. Saturday started off with a sausage and eggs breakfast in Ontario Street Church, again provided by the UCW. The morning workshops at the school were monopolized by Marshall Postnikoff and Pat Doyle, two ad- vertising experts from the London Free Press who put forth indepth • ►ntormation on, au- vertising in a paper. A 1:00 p.m. lunch provided by the CHSS Prefects (whom we thank very much) preceded an afternoon of seminars on writing and photography by Craig MacPhail, Lou MacPhail, Chris Jull, and Mike Smee, all of Guelph University's The Ontario and Paul Stuart Woods, William Daverne and Andy Coultes who are from UWO's The Gazette. At 3:30 everyone congregated in the cafeteria for a production session where the more than 60 delegates pieced together a 20 -page paper with the aid of Keith Roulston of.. Squire Publishing House and Jim Fitzgerald of the Clinton News -Record. The paper will be printed by the London Free Press, distributed to all the schools and go on sale for two bits a copy by the end of next week. On Saturday night the UCW provided a semi- formal supper. Dave Golden of the Toronto Star gave a humorous report on how his schooling as both student and teacher affected his life and his newspaper career. Murray Wood of the Free Press gaVe a more serious talk on how a modern paper is run as compared to the out- dated style which we put out. The dinner was followed by a dance in Ontario Street Church with Greg Wise as disc jockey. On Sunday morning a pancake breakfast was Duddy kravitz put to music by Festival The Stratford Festival will present a new musical version of Mordecai Richter's best- selling novel and highly successful film, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, in 1980, Artistic Director Robin Phillips announced today. • The musical — to be titled Duddy — will be produced by the Stratford Festival in collaboration with Montreal im- pressario Samuel Gesser, who plans to' tour the production at the close of the Stratford season. Duddy will be financed in part by a grant from Imperial Oil Limited. •The book will be written by Mr. Richler, one of Canada's foremost authors, known for such other major novels as St. Urbain's Horsemen and Cocksure and for his ,short stories, essays and such screenplays as Fun With Dick And Jane starring Jane Fonda and George Segal, Life At The Top and ,the film version of Duddy Kravitz, starring Richard Dreyfuss. His screenplay for Duddy Kravitz was nominated for an Oscar in 1975 and voted Best Comedy Screenplay by the Writers' Guild of America the same year. The film also took Hollywood's Golden Globe Award that year and was voted a special honour as Film Of The Year at the Canadian Film Awards presen- tation. Composer Galt McDermot has begun work on music for Duddy. The Hamilton -born composer is perhaps best known for Hair which was performed around the world for several Ten win IODE awards Ten Canadian students have been chosen from 100 applicants to receive IODE post -graduate scholarships for the academic year of 1979-80. Nine students will receive $6,000 each to study overseas and one will receive $5,000 to study in Canada. In addition, five previous winners, re- applying for a second year, will receive $3,000 each. These awards, which honour the memory of those who gave th.eir lives in both World Wars,. were set up in 1920 and since (then more than 600 (students have been privileged to receive them. They, in return, have made distinguished contributions to Canada when, upon completion of their studies, they em- barked upon careers in government, in universities and colleges, in industry, in publishing, and as doctors, clergymen, Canadian Ambassadors, statisticians, economists, historians, archivists, research chemists and authors. Tiverton arena repairs okayed The Kincardine News reported that Tiverton municipal officers will once again look to the community to provide assistance in their bid to save the village's arena. The community centre board felt that the Tiverton people gave a good response when the arena first needed repairs.' At a future puleic meeting they hope 9 for the same support: The arena was kept open this past winter under a monitoring system set up to check snow levels. Last November over 60 people volunteered to help • repair the arena in order `o keep it open. However unless more extensive repairs are made, it could be closed by the next skating season. years after its premiere in New York in 1967 and which has since been made into an enormously successful film. He also composed music for the musical adaptation of The Two Gentlemen Of Verona, which brought him a Tony Award as Best Composer for the Broadway production of that show. Mr. McDer- mot and Mr. Richter are working together on the show's lyrics. Ted Kotcheff, whose career as director - producer has taken him from Toronto to England and, more recently, back to Canada and to Hollywood, has e -(- pressed an interest in directing the musical. Mr. Kotcheff directed the film version of Duddy Kravitz which was a Canadian co -production shot in Montreal. His films also include Fun With Dick And Jane, Life At The Top and, more recently, Someone Is Killing The Great Chefs of Europe. Impressario Gester has produced both the Stratford Festival's recent Tours, in 1975 and 1976, and has presented musical and other shows in theatres across Canada. *Graeme Craig Liberal ieadquarters Are Open To Assist You In Walton, Ontario If you would like to work on the campaign Or require information please Phone 887-6886 Published by the Official Agent for Graeme Craig, Walton, Ontario. 1 served in the cafeteria followed by a discussion in the gymnasium about the next conference. A two hour discussion finally placed it in October to be jointly hosted by Lakefield High School and Thomas A: Stewart Secondary School in Peterborough. The delegates then returned to the cafeteria for subs and french fries provided by Pizza Express and decided to call the 20 page spread The Ontario High, School Mosaic. The Chronicle staff would at this point like to thank the Toronto Star for financing the typesetting, the London Free Press for printing the paper for us, all of the people , who gave speeches or seminars, the UCW for the very good meals they kept coming up with, Father Hardy, Reverend Pick and all the members of the congregations of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church and the Ontario Street Church for their tolerance in allowing us to use the churches, all the members ,of the CHSS staff who donated time and effort to such a worthy cause, Greg Wise for competing with t he hockey game in providing Saturday night's en- tertainment and the Board of Education for allowing us to carry out the conference. Special thanks goes to at the Newspaper Con- ference last weekend. Friday night it was J.S. at the pool party and Saturday night it was the guys at M.O.'s party. For further information contact the newspaper club. Have you ever noticed the new fad at CHSS has spread to Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones? Dressed in his three-piece pin -stripe suit and on his way to the judge, Keith wore his COOL white running shoes. So stop staring and start wearing! But before I close off I would like to mention Michelle. Avvrerdebattenne Mr. Ron Smith for always being there when he was needed and most im- portantly, thanks to Richard C. A. Brown for dreaming his impossible dream.