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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1972-04-13, Page 12Page 4—The Wingham Advance -Times, Thursday, April 13, 1972 Students approve new tonstitrtiog The Student CpunciL Constitution, proposed by Dave Balser, has - been studied by -the activities commission and class representatives for several weeks and the finished product was presented to the stu- dent body on Tuesday for their approval (or disapproval) . The following chart illustrated the bare structure of the new system. t. Executive 1) President 2) Vice President 3) Secretary 4) Treasurer 5) Assistant to President 6) Assistant to Vice President 7) Staff Advisor 2. Activities Council 1) 2 Social Convenors 2) 2 Activities. Officers 3). Lounge Manager 4) Social Publicity Manager 5) Staff Advisor 3, Athletic Council 1) Boy and Girl Athletic Con- venor (elected) 2) Boy and Girl Athletic Con- venor (chosen by Pys.-Ed. Dept:) 3) Tuck Shop Manager 4) Assistant to Tuck Shop Manager 5) `Athletic Publicity Manager 6) Male and Female Staff Ad- visors 4. Council -Class Representatives —one member elected from each home form FUNCTIONS OF FOUR BODIES: The Executive is, in Charge of all student funds and implementation of new ideas. They will organize committees to deal,with problems and carry out projects. Daily busi- • ness of the council and fund raising campaigns are also their duties. The Athletic Council runs intramural sports, publicizes athletic events and achievements and maintains the tuck shop. Activities Council members will handle dances, lit meetings and other entertainment, keep track of activities points 'and awards, and take care of the student's lounge. Class representatives must vote on all resolutions of the executive and any project involving expenditure of student money. They are ex- pected to keep their classmates well informed on council matters as well as make decisions on behalf of their class and participate on com- mittees. Several major as well as minor changes in student government are provided for in this constitution. The four ruling bodies contain more members than previous councils; not all of them elected. The secret- ary and treasurer will be appointed by the president and his running mate, the vice president from candidates with at least fifty sup- porters. It was also decided after some dispute that the executive should have the power of veto over the class reps. (if their decision against a matter was unanimous) . ELECTIONS. Nominations for Council positions opened April 4th and ended April 7th. Friday morning, the candidates gave their election speeches. Al- though song and dance routines weren't permitted in this assembly, campaigning posters and gimmicks added a little pizazz to the school this week. Elections will be held this Friday. The "new" council will sit in with the "old" council for the following month, learning the "tricks of the trade" before assuming full powers in May. Keep watching for the next school page when our new council for. 1972-73 will be announced! Badminton ` On April 5th, the Listowel bad- ▪ minton team travelled .to Wing - ham to play the second game of a home -to -home series. Although the Madill teams played well, the Listowel team proved to be much better. Congratulations' to the team on a fine effort! INVERvani $y Mary Her}derson and Kathy Hogan Mrs. McBride's hometown is an obscure little Ontario village named Toronto. There she received her elementary and `secondary school education. After earning her B.Sc., major- ing in mathematics from the University of Guelph, she• at- tended the Ontario College of Education. She went back to her old school Humberside Collegiate, for a year, this tithe to teach. Last July,. she and her husband, a Resource Manager with the Maitland Valley Authority, moved to Wroxeter. In addition to teaching math to grades 9,10 and 11,• Mrs. McBride' enjoys sewing, swimming and water skiing. She has always wanted to be a teacher and since math has always been her favorite subject, combining the two was natural. She thinks there is no better pro- fession but would like to see more interdepartmental unification of subjects in order that courses of. study complement each other more. She feels that the credit Nominations, Nominations for the McKibbon trophies, one for a girl and one for a boy, are being accepted. The McKibbon trophy is;for the ath- lete who shows the most sports- manship. Nominations for the `Coach of the Year Award' are also being held. Mr. Litzen enjoys a .ride •in a: wheelchair while Mr. D. Stuckey does the heavy work. Just returned from CALIFORNIA COAST LINE TOUR Featuring SAN FRANCISCO * MONTEREY * CARMEL * SANTA MARIA * LOS ANGELES Your inquiries are invited LISTOWEL TRAVEL BUREAU 163 Main St W. Jim Co After Hours Call'291--2207 MRS. BEVERLEY McBRIDE system will be good for students in general but thinks that some will not be able to handle the re= sponsibility of choosing their own courses. Mrs. McBride finds us "natives" friendly and "just super". She thinks we are more reonsible and more down to earth than most city students (of course, we have always known this, but it's nice to have someone else, a teacher at that, say it!,) In addition to. the Barbadoes, Western Canada, California and the Maritimes, Mrs. McBride has visited Gorrie, Wroxeter, Lakelet and Fordwich. Now that's really getting around! Among her• students, Mrs: McBride . is known for ` being friendly and helpful and for ,gambling•her hard-earned money on her classes' perforMance in the math contests„ She is also known for asking her classes why they look so dumbfounded. We all wish Mrs. McBride lots of luck in: any future endeavours be they in teaching, gambling or running for Mayor of Wroxeter. fp snq � toatimaa.„ Grade 12 accountancy team wins first round By Karry Hogan Strange as it nay seem, Madill is harboring in its hallowed halls, a group of financial geniuses. In case you ;re thinkiog that Howard Hughes and associates have taken up residence here, guess again.. The group,,of business brains is none other than Mr. Dubelaar's Grade 12, Five Year Accountancy class. Their finan- cial wizardry has become evident through their participation in "The Business Game", a student project sponsored by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of On- tario in co-operation with Inter- national Computers of Canada Ltd. The .,project involves ap- proximately 332 teams from sec- ondary schools in Ontario. • The students a'ct as boards of directors who must make deci- sions about profit margins, prices, advertising, production, etc. involving millions of dollars. A computer then analyzes their decisions and the company mak- ing the largest profit (or the smallest loss) is the winner. • In the first round, the No. 1 Madill team composed of Barry O'Krafka, John Schipper, Karen Ritter, Anita Hogan and Marion Reinhardt placed first in their group and the No. 2 team made up of Ken Hamilton, Tim Calla- han, Ruth MacAdam and Nancy MacDonald placed second. Thus, the No. 1 team qualified for the semi-finals. It should be noted here that our team beat Appleby College, a private school in Oak- ville, considered one of the best secondary schools in Ontario. This is also the first time a .Madill team has won. How does it feel to be involved in high finance? "Fatiguing," says Barry O'Krafka, the self- proclaimed brain and spokesman of the team, "in fact, much like the rest of the work in account- ancy class." Contrary to popular opinion, the decisions are. not made on the basis of who yells the loudest. Just who does make the, decisions -depends upon to whom you are talking: The boys claim that they, are due for any credits for profits and that the girls de- serve the blame for any losses. The girls, however, finaintain that they are the stabilizing influence and are responsible for revising. the plans. John Schipper claims that their success is due in a large part to the amount allotted to advertis- ing. For anyone knowing John and Barry, it shouldn't be hard to guess what kind of advertising results. . So to their general comments about the Business Game, Barry stated that it was a game of "in- tellectual guess and hazard" but no luck was involved; John said that he felt the game involved a lot of stress and homewwork (which he does, of course); Mr. Dubelaar said that it involved creating a delicate balance be- tween expenses and income; Marion, Anita and Karen didn't get a chance to say anything and Tim Callahan suggested someone get 'a shovel! Spring '72: a Rome odyssey By Harry Absentia Sixteenarea students and teachers were among those aboard an Alitalia 747 jumbo jet that flew from Toronto to Rome for the spring break. This Ship's School trip provided an active, exciting week travelling around Italy—land of the Colosseum, cathedrals and campfire girls. In Rome the group stayed at the International Centre, a com- 'plex built to house athletes in the 1960 Olympics. The schedule in- cluded several tours of the city by bus and on foot to visit the Colos- seum, Catacombs, Vatican Museum, Sistine Chapel, Appian Way, Roman Forum and other landmarks. Ship's • School also arranged for the Canadian stu- dents to be present at an audience with the Pope on Wed- nesday morning. The visit to Italy was not con- fined to just the city of Rome. The group toured the excavations of Ostia Antica, the ancient Roman port and spent an afternoon in Tivoli, which happened to be jammed with people celebrating St. Joseph's Feast Day. Early in the week, the group travelled northward to spend .two nights in Montecatini. En route, the brief time spent in Pisa was consumed, for the most part, by climbing and descending the famous Lean- ing Tower. In Montecatini, the Canadians got a close look at a common local phenomenon—the Italian Wolf. This encounter necessitated the group learning from their Italian hostesses several pertinent Italian phrases, which many of the Canadian girls, especially, found quite use- ful. A day was also spent sight- seeing and shopping in Florence before returning to Rome. Another day's excursion took the group southward to Naples, and the fascinating excavations at Pompeii, the city buried by Mount Vesuvius' pumice and ash some two thousand years ago. Then a thrilling bus ride along the cliffs of the Mediterranean brought the group to Sorrento for supper. • In addition to all Maim high- lights of Italy, the Madill students and teachers returned home with many memories -of people and in- cidents. Who could forget Trigger and the night she really started to 'feel her ,oats'? Or Sweetie, al- ways ready to light someone'$ The future? The team felt there is no limit to the number of future successes and that they are al- ready ori the same • level as the Toronto -Dominion and',Canadian- ,Pacific boards of directors ih re- sponsibility. Barry hinted at or- ganizing a worldwide syndicate of intellectual business game ad- visors. Aristotle Onassis, Howard Hughes, J. P. Getty, John D. Eaton, the Rothschildes, Rocke- fellers and Mr. Gavreluk con- sider yourselves warned. This grade 12 accountancy class of sober, serious, hard-working; modest, clean -living and shrewd financial geniuses intends to put your money where their mouths are. Interviewer— hirley Gray 12F Question: What do you think of the new constitution that' we have passed for the students' council? Dave Balser --I think it's bril- liant! Ross McCall— Great! You can get more people involved this way. Mavis Hodgins—We only heard three pages of it but that was just fine. June Nider— I 'have no com- plaints about it. Dennise Dettman— It's really better for the council because everyone has less duties because there's more people to carry them out. Eric MacKenzie— Far gone. Marg Pollard— I didn't really think about it. Even though it's. kind, of 1 ,a .dictatPrahipy it _mil work out. I think we shouldgive it a chance. Anonymous- I guess it's al- right. I must be one" of the apa- thetic people because I really don't care. I think a lot of people feel that way. Barb Chantney—• It sounds pretty good except that part about the president picking the. secretary and treasurer. I don't like that. Graeme ,Elliott- It's ridicu- ° lous ! We don't need all those, peo- ple. . Scott Metcalfe— I don't agree that the president and vice presi- dent should run together: You might elect the team because you feel that one member is capable even though the .other isn't. Paul Stdrndl— I didn't hear much of it but I voted for it any- way because it sounded all right. Janet Whitehead— I don't think that • human nature has been taken into 'account. It's really good but too 'Idealistic because not everybody elected will be as impartial and 'responsible . as Dave.., Several things come to mind as I read, the comments of those in- terviewed. First, there was not sufficient time given for discus- sion of the constitution before the students were required to vote fur or against it. Secondly. many st- dents are really quite uncon- cerned about this issue and final- ly, many are afraid that the school's activities will be run by a very cliquish group because of appointed positions. All we can do is vote responsibly, give the new council our full support in this new venture and hope it all works out. fire? Then, there were those murderous Roman drivers who wouldn't feel at all out of place dragging Ben-Hur in the Circus Maximus. One comes to the con- clusion that any Roman who is in- tending to commit suicide has at least two choices: svdallow poison or step off the curb at the Piazza della Republica. Mr. E. Stuckey, a teacher at Madill, was the leader of the Wingham group that went to Rome. The others on the trip were Brenda Kennedy, Brenda Leahy, Steve Donaldson, Terry McGlynn, Wayne Millen and Ron Sillick from Teeswater, Jim Scott of Ripley, Jack and Marilyn Kopas of Wingham, Diane Kas- ter, Carol' McKerlie, Debbie Pollock, Pat Chwyk.and Mrs. Mc- Gillivray of Kincardine, Mrs. MacLean' of Toronto and 'Harry Isl. Absentia of Hungary. Washington - New York. trip By Alex ;Adams The week of March 18-25 proved to be quite an experience for a group of Madill students who travelled tb New York and Washington. The trip was or- ganized by Mr. Ackert and .his wife of Holyrood fame and a total number of 37 students ac- companied them on their excur- sion. For only $90, ,,excluding. meals and personal spending money, the trip was well worth it. The group left from the Ackert farm at Holyrood aboard a bus scheduled to arrive at a Holiday. Inn at Toledo at 6:30 on Mardi 18th. After spending the after- noon touring the Henry Ford Museum, the swimming pool at the hotel was put to good use that evening. The next three days in Wash- ington were quite busy. The group visited many important places such as the Library of Congress, Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, and Arlington Ceme- tery, but the tour of the White House was called off since the Turkish Premier was coming 'that day. The time spent in New York proved to be an eye opener for some of the students.A tour of the United Nations gave the group quite an insight as to how the different countries of the world are trying to keep peace. Other places visited were the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, Fifth Avenue and Rockefeller Centre. In the evening, some of the stu- dents tudents ventured to the movie theatre on Times Square and paid $4 to see the new famed movie "The Godfather". The second night, everyone jourpeyedto Radio City Music Hall to enjoy the traditional Easter stage show and to see Barbra Streisand ,and Ryan Q'Neil- to ° "What's Up Doc?" The, group travelled between 1,500 and 1,600 miles by bus dur- ing their eight-day vacation but all agreed that it was well worth it. Those adding to the confusion were Linda Brooks, Susan Brooks, Sherry Stewart, Ferne Aitken, Wendy Busby, Carol Visser, Bonnie Nicholson., Agnes Conley, Nancy Walden, Debbie McCall, Donna Walker, Ann Mk, ert., Dyanr,Ie , Jageleuski, Bonnie Lorenz, Lois Moffat, Linda Wal- den, Sharon Cook, Jinn, Walden, Pat Courtney, Perry. McDonald, David Coiling, Duane Currie, Jim Moran, Alvin. Moore; . 'Donald Walker, Kevin Voison, Russel Foxton, Peter Crowe, Ivan Dane, Murray Ritsenia, Alex Adams, David Lougheed, Allan Robb, Murray Simpson, Paul Ackert and Roger Paguin. Boy gymnasts at Huron -Perth By Linda Watson On Thursday, March 30th, the boys' gymnastic team went to the Huron -Perth competition in Stratford. _ This Was the first competition for a team from Madill•for quite a number of years, and considering that all our gymnasts were inex- perienced'in competition, .we See bigger and better things for us in the future. 'Our team finished third overall because of the effort of Bill Dickie, Craig Gilroy, Bob Williams, Bruce • Dickert, Ken Wall, Jack Thompson, Francis Mahe, Ben Blackwell, Paul Crave and of course Mr. Taylor cracked the whip. Bob Williams placed third in the junior parallel bar event ; Bill Dickie placed second in the senior horizontal bar and third on the rings. In the junior vaulting, Bruce Dickert, Francis Mahe and Jack Thompson made a clean sweep with first, second and third places as did Ben Blackwell and Paul Crave with the first two places in senior trampoline. These victories represent a lot of dedication and hard work, arid congratulations are definitely in order. • ou International Development needs your help .. you can help through OXFAM SHAREPLAN For infdrmation contact: OXFAM THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PEOPLE 97 Eglinton Ave.. • East Toronto 315, Ontario A NO FATH ER ti tl ONCE TOLD ME ... 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