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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1972-11-30, Page 14Thum* ,1Nov.ao, M £ENEAU 4P llM17 PAUL K I E F F E R "School Leader" and Marilyn Robertson, "School Queen". , ' The Hexagon Drama Club The Hexagon consisting o Mary Swinton, Jan Kudelka Robin Cameron, Richard P ington and Robert More, is th name of a young theatrical com Noy, formed in 1971, from th National Arts Centre in Ottawa Their particular purpose i giving performances in Ontari schools, and they visited F. E Madill last Thursday. The actors of the Hexagon in this year's tour came from 'an actors' workshop which was in session this summer. The play which they do is based on an adaptation of an Iroquois crea- tion myth. The myth starts off be- fore creation with the existence of a family of man -like super - beings. The youngest gets mar- ried, and his wife has twins,. one is good and one is bad, but the good one finally dominates over the bad. The group then does its own adaptation of the same theme,, with clowns, jugglers, acrobats and puppets. I think the annual production of a theatrical company is a good thing and I am sure the students of a school whose interest in thea trice ` its' is uicreasui app1 e-' slated it as well. Doug Thomson f The Drama Club's staff is: president, Joan Currie; viae Par president, Kim Mellor; secre- e tary, Marilyn Robertson; treas- urer, John Elliott; staff. adviser, e Mr. Algae. The production staff . is: sets, Eric Mackenzie and. s Steve Cruickshank; lighting, o John Elliott; make-up, Marilyn . Robinson and - Bernadette Kieffer; props, Adele Vath; pub- licity, Kathy Guest; wardrobe, Kendra Donaldson ; stage manager, Ruth Bennett. These are only the heads of the production staff and under these are more people. There are about sixty people altogether as well as actors and actresses and they are from grades nine to 13. .They are now working on a lit meeting to be held November 30. This play is to be a satire on af- tertioon television (soap operas, baby shows, commercials, etc.) After exams the group` starts planning for the big presentation to be put on in the spring. Though the producing staff is closed to new members and the people acting in the coming play are already selected;"anyone can. audition for the spring cast when try -outs start. go come around and "ham" it up! • Lois Fex �Parent-teacher night at F.E. On Tuesday, November 21, our school held, its annual parent= teacher night. The students had received their progress reports on the previous Friday and on Tuesday night the parents had an opportunity to discuss any prob- leihs their child might have with his or her teacher. On arriving at the school, the parents were greeted with a smile by a group of student re- ceptiomsts, who recorded the names of the teachers whom the parents wished to see. There was an information desk where the parents could find out the names of their child's teachers. From here the parents pro- ceeded around a pool of student secretaries. Each of these secre- taries recorded the appointments of four or five teachers, and they made a five-minute interview for the parents with the teacher they 'wanted to see. Some teachers got Flora Nabrotzkv Jane Netzke Gail Grant "MISS RIDEOUT" Miss Rideout is not exactly a new addition to our staff this year as she taught the last two months of school last year. She was born and raised in Waterloo, Ontario,' 'where she attended the McGregor Public School and also. the Waterloo Collegiate Institute: Following this, she studied at Waterloo Lutheran University where she received her B.A., majoring in Physical Education and Biology. Later she attended the Althouse College in London. Miss Rideout now lives in Winghain where s'he ' teaches physical education to grades ten and twelve, and occupations. She really enjoys teaching here and she likes the students better here than in the city. Miss Rideout will be kept rather busy this year as she is the coach for the Senior Volleyball and Junior Basketball teams. As there are quite a few students trying out for the volley- ball team this year, she will have a difficult job in choosing the best players. Her hobbies are sewing, camp- ip and,x,Rf conrse,, sports!, Some of her spare time is spent in leading" the CGIT girls. • She has travelled a grea the -east and west coasts. Miss . Rideout . intends to con- tinue teaching here and this sum- mer she plans to get married and spend her honeymoon travelling to the Eastern States. Her philosophy in life is, "Do your best and you will always succeed." quite a few requests so the parent was asked to leave his telephone number for the teacher to contact him as soon as possible. The evening was very success- ful. , The guidance centre at school has been buzzing with activity in recent weeks. Graduating stu- dentsare beginning to realize that their cozy desks •at FEMSS will not be available to them next year. 0-_0—.0 The bookmobile was at the school all last week. Evidently, students have a lot of money be- cause it was certainly a good deal • lighter when it left. Grades one to four gave their presentations using their posters, murals and various crafts, such as plasticine animals and bird feeders on the topic "Preparation for Winter" which they have been studying. On Monday, November • 27, grades 5-8 viewed a 70 -minute film on drugs in which Art Link - later discussed thecircum- stances that lead' to the use of drugs and the effects of drugs w Sacred Heart Mailbox You can do By Barb Stanley. You can do anything If you want to, Do- ing something usually involves work and time. As the saying goes,; work never hurt anyone. As for time, 1 belleve that you, have to make time. There are n .' Weeks in al year4 365 days in a year, seven days in a week, 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes ,in an hour, '60. Sec- onds in•a minute. You can. break time, down many different ways. The above are only a few examples. This only proves that there is plenty of time in this world ifyou make it and use every tiny bit of it to some purpose. Some people are always complaining of not having enough time. If'you ask them why they don't join a club or some activity the re- ply is often they haven't time or they just can't be bothered. That same person might be seen later sitting in main hall wasting his ctnything, i . time. I wonder, how many people know who ladwyn is? By looking at the list of people l• ting him I think very few people know that he exists. He is our foster child and therefore all 1,400 ana some of us have a re- sponsibility to him. We should accept this re- sponsibilityand want to know him better and it we wantto, we can,' Each one of us should devote some time and Interest to Gladwyn by corresponding with him, letter, A letter doesn't take long to write and. t could •mean so much to' him knowing that we really core and that we don't just .give him money, At the junior football championships the .majority of the student body turned out, but not all. Why?LDjd' they not have time or just didn't .bother because it took too much energy to walk out to the football field? You don't even have to waik outside to ,Watch the basketball and volleyball ° games, Where is their support? 1 am sure that I have 'never seen 1,400 students watching the game. Some do come and cheer, some .attend other ac- tivities, some go home and some sit in the hails. School is greatly concerned with time. You have to be at school on time, get to lclass on time, your class is so long, andyour time to get to the next class Is limited. Everything. is based on utile, what you do, when you do it and how long it takes to do it. If you want to do something you have to take the time and energy required to do it. You -=can do anything If you want to. York University and Margaret Atwood On November 20, Mrs. Tiffin's Grade 13 Canadian Literature class travelled to Toronto after school in order to attend a poetry reading by Margaret Atwood, a leading Canadian poet. The session lasted about an hour and a half with Mrs. Atwood reading from a selection of her older and recent poems. The fol- lowing will give you a glimpse into her style-: "You fit into me like a hook into an eye, A fish hook, an open eye..." (from `Power Politics" by Margaret Atwood, Anansi, Toronto) ' She read in a deliberate monotone. Presumably the idea Board of Education for the spon- the words their own meaning. However, for those of us who find it difficult to see even the poet's meaning, admittedly this was trying. Following the reading held in a lecture hall filled to capacity, was a lively question and answer period. This enabled us to see the poet from a more personal view- point. So, with culture flooding out our ears, onto the bus we stepped for home. The thirty' of us who went enjoyed the entire ' experi- ence. We would like to . express our sincere appreciation to Mrs. Tiffin for her organization of the trip and to the Huron County was that her listeners draw from sorship of the bus. We would .like all class reps present On. November 22, the Students' Council called the class represen- tatives to .another meeting. School. Page had to resubmit their budget which was finally passed. Councils . and activity councils also gave in budgets - which were passed, surprisingly without any questions. We also discussed some of the big eventsthat are coming up: One of them is that we: will be ... having a pro basketball team come from the United States which will be playing against. some of our brave and willing men, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Bruster, tr upon the users. Young people should discuss their problems with their parents and the par- ents should be willing to discuss these freely with their own chil- dren. On Tuesday, November 28, and for the rest of the week, Mrs. Weinstein from Teeswater will give .a demonstration on pottery to grades 5-8. They in turn will attempt to make three objects out of clay. Don't miss the HARLEM ROADSTARS (The Greatest Show on Wood) vs. MADILL MIGHTY MITES. at M.S.S. AUDITORIUM SATURDAY, DEC. 2 8.00 P.M. 1 Admissjon: ADVANCE TICKETS - ADULTS - 51.50 STUDENTS 51.00 Tickets at the Door - ADULTS $1.75; STUDENTS - $ 1.25 �k4EG3�'G�� Ir Interviewer Mary Lynn Ste Marie Question: What are your i .pressions of the art display in th library? 0--0--0 ANSWERS Connie Carrick 9W: I don know. I didn't go to see it. Dave Black 13A: They're not a good as the art display in m home room. 0--0--0 Debbie McNair 1011: I think it' a good idea to show them. Be cause it gives the kids that aren' taking art a chance to see what i done in the art class. ' 0-0-0 Mary MacKinnon 11F: The dif- ferent art displays show the creativityand imagination which students in the world today pos- seas. 0-0-0 Steve Cruickshank 12B: It adds a little something to the library. 0-0-0 Marilyn Robertson 12F: They were really GREAT! ' 0--,0---0 Mary White 1211: I like it. They should put more work up. Mr. Wood, Mr. Jury and Mr. Tay- lor, just to mention a few. We also hope to have some of our senior basketball players to Jelp,ys t . Pick out your main -anike6 cheer for him at P. C. Madill.Sec ondary School on December 2 at 8:00 p.m. -They will have you sit- ting on the edge of your seat. Tickets will be sold as . soon as they come for $1.00 student, $1.25 adult (advanced) and $1.25 stu- dent, $1.50 adult (at the door). We hope for a big turnout. "Who motions that we dis- miss?" "I, I, I." "Get out of here." Daphne Nabrotzky MO& IGNEMAtm Jane 'Netzke Gail Grant Flora Nabrotsky MR. EDWARDS e Mr. Edwards is another new member of the F. E. Madill S.S. staff: He was born in St. Marys. and later moved to London where he attended the Lady Beck Public 't School, the H. B. Beal High ' School and the Althouse College of Education. He then went to s British Columbia where he went Y to work in the electrical industry. Upon returning to Ontario he went to teach at, Lakefield S.S., s Lakefield (north. of Peterbor- - ough ). t He teaches grades 9, 10 and 12, s Sore throat? Chew Aspergum. Aspergum's • medically recognized pain reliever effectively soothes the sorest throat. And it's so easy to take, children like it too. For soothing relief from a lore throat, chew Aspergum Cherry or Aspergum Orange. It helps. Aspergum and he finds his students are very hardworking. He hopes the "girls who are interested in electricity will sign- up for the course next year". He enjoys snowmobiling and chess and he likes all sports. Mr. Edwards plans to make this area his permanent home. He and his family are presently residing just outside of Belgrave• MOW TtlE LINO A tifasr DC, $peep MOO tY7744 $,,. ANTACCEL047 ER/PPM/41 ONI6V OR MOW OURFII S. t NTARKI sARTy no PpN'T4'4Kg SL/QQSV $reneIsC h4A/GES j �n G co oprrratT wJrh . 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