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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1968-10-31, Page 1ONE SECTION THIS ISSUE Annual mein 0, 'Thursday, Oet. 31, 196$ Single Copy Not Over FifteenCent*, bold at town hall. About 50 sports enthusiasts from various points in Western Ontario gathered at the Wing. ham town hall on Wednesday evening for the annual meeting of the WOAA. The meetingsaw the re-election of all the of- ficers who have served the as.- • sociation during the past year. They are: President, George Wicke, Gadshill; past president, THE HALLOWE'EN THEME was carried out in Mrs. Beth Lansing's Grade III at the Morris -East Wawanosh School. These three girls showed the handiwork. ,From the tett they are Alison Roberts, Angela Muscheid and Betty Meurs.—A-T Photo. Panel outlines curriculum at Home, School Association Members of the Wingham Home and School Association were urged Monday night to attend the nomination meeting for the county school board, which will be -held Noverhber 18. Mrs. Jack Kopas , president of the association, stressed the importance of interest inthe nominations on the part of all members when she chaired the regular meeting at the public school. ' Mrs. L. Phillips, social con- vener, said thati$87.56 had been cleared on the bake sale. The membership chairman, )firs.. John Langridge, reported that three new fa nilies regis.- tered in September bringing the total membership to 51 famil- ies. •. Mrs. Elliott's morning kin- dergarten class won the attend- ance award for October with 51 points. The award is granted each.;month to the class with the most parents answering roll call at the meeting. Volunteers were asked to represent the classrooms. The volunteers may contact either Mrs. Kopas or a member of the executive. The president mentioned a special meeting held in Kitch- ener the previous day, and an- nounced a conference to be held in Toronto November 1 to 3. The theme of the Toronto conference will be Building Better Families. A film, "Why Billy Can't - ALONG THE MAIN DRAG By The Pedestrbut WELL, IT'S HERE -- After a long and lovely fall snow finally struck on Saturday morning. .It hasn't come in very large quantities, but there has been enough to remind rik everyone of what lies ahead. The migratory residents have already started to leave for more pleasant climates. Mr. and Mrs. Bill McCool took off at the first of the week for Flor- AT WALKERTON-- Several members of the Wingham Masonic Lodge. at- tended the 100th anniversary dinner of Saugeen Lodge, Walk- erton, on „Saturday evening. The guest speaker for the oc- casion was Most Wor. Bro. D. j. Gunn, Grand Master of the Order for Ontario. NEW BUILDING -- There are big doings in Ger- rie at present as the Wightman Telephone Company lays un- derground cable in the village. The company is also erecting a hew exchange building near the intersection of the main.street 9 with Highway 86. THE BIG swrrai-- ‘ As usual a few families got fouled up over the switch back to Standard Time on Stinday mottling. It's a bit disconcert- ing tO find you have the young- sters otit of bed and ready for Sunday SchoO1 at 8. 30. Read" will be shown at the No vember meeting. Principals and teaching staffs of schools in the' area will be invited and all interested parents will be welcome , whether or not they belong to the association. Kenneth Wood was modera- tor for a panel discussion on the school curriculum. Taking part in the discussion were Mrs. Vern Reid who spoke on health in the school,- T. S. Beattie on• school activities, and. John Ross on physical education. 'Reid said that hearing and vision tests have been con- ducted.in the,school and when .necessaryp referrai is made to ' the parents. Health films are shown"to the pupils.. These will be seen by the parents at a future Home and S c h o o l meeting. She also said, that pre-school immunization re- cords are kept all through school years until the individ- ual becomes 21 years of age. These are available upon re .quest. Mr. Ross gives instruction in physical education, each class having a period once every 11 weeks. Teachers also instruct their own classes using the ex- cellent xcellent gym equipment now • . available at the school. Mrs. ' Mark Forrest assists with the physical health program in the senior grades, particularly with the girls. Physical education helps build strong bodies, strong minds, self-discipline .and.co- operation with others. There -is also a sports program after school. Table tennis is in op- eration now and it is hoped that shuffleboard will be one of the dactivities in the near future: Mr. Beattie gave a very complete outline of school ac- tivities,. He announced that open house will be ;held Novem- ber 6 from 7 to 9 p. m. .He said parents are welcome to come to the school at any time, not - only at open house. Outlining the teachers' cur- riculum Mr. Beattie• said that Mrs. Elliott of Bluevale is the librarian. Each class has a li- brary period once a week and eventually the children will be .allowed to take books home. A remedial class is being taught by Mrs. Garniss. It has a different approach to teach- ing than methods used in reg- ular classes. Mrs. Garniss teaches pupils from grades 1 to 6, never more thaw six at a time. He said that she does an excellent job. Mrs. Douglas is the music teacher. One year there is a music festival, the next year a school concert. Mr. Beattie said this keeps the music on a higher level. Red Cross instruction is given in grades 7 and 8, and some times 6. The principal said that dis- . cipli