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sp ray announced:
that ' had given Up -Smo..
because of the "threat d�of cancer.
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of chewing tooth picks, only to
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'reineinber elittle lessons sof ii
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picked up along the way. One
such example happened in
English 551, When the subject of
girls' dowries was being , dis-
cussed. The teacher cynically ad-'
viseed his students to marry for
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broke . "by a loud eruption. A.
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vicinity of back h.
moat and everyone else jmnPO..
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time to see the flaming Paper on
DANCE
Central Huron Secondary School
"Major HoopIe's Boarding House"
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14
Dancing9 12
ADMISSION
$2J5 with Student's Card
$3.00 Without
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floor in fent ot,1
,
IrtOzikeilt% hesitation, to ran to
the Pty' , nd .furry' to
atam:it out with his feet. tfaving,Having
conquered' w charms .
he >�i!�1nil . Y t
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knew ' of something
excellent for clea
tches off th{floor.
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inm grade ,ei�
eonietrteat
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the definitions. for the :following
Were asked; circle,, circuM,
Terence, square, rectangle, and. a
seven -sided figure. The following
answers appeared:
L ircle — a� line + hi h meets its
other end without meeting.
Circumference - a circumfer-
ence runs
ircumf er-
C=rlc'e.,runs around outside a circle
frying to get in., •
S uarP — a Circle with corners.
Rectangle a sloppy square.
A seven -sided figure -- a
hooligan.
One cheerleader on the way out
to the last football game, was
touched by the concerned advice
of a fellow student. "Dress
warmly now, or you'll freeze your
pompons."
The battle for the merit of most
knowledgeable mathematician,
between a brilliant bespectacled
student .and, a math teacher who
frequently haunts room 200,
recently took on "new dimensions.
After a .long, complicated, gar-
bled explanation of a non -exist-
ing problem, the student, finally
realizing his mistake ' stuttered,
`'Forget it. Forget it. I'm
wrong." With that historical
statement, all papers ceased
rustling, all breathing stopped.
The teacher's eyes widened and
his mouth dropped open. Sudden-
ly, he recovered and smiled. And
why not? He was now ahead in
the game. But alas, this victory
The Legend of Big John
now showing at our
HOUSE
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.FRIDAY+ / NOVEMBER 14,'8 A:ii1M. 5:30i:1101.
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RESERVE FRIDAY NIGHT (NOVEMBER 14) FOR:
• Free Snowmobile Maintenance School
• Film on Winnipeg to St. Paul Race ('75)
• Film on Snowmobile Safety
(STARTS Al 8 P.M.)
Liquid.cooling takes
the heat off high-
performance snowmobiling
Front -mounted 340 or 440cc reed valve
engine,, planted above the skis for
superb handling. CD ignition and
surface -gap plugs fQr sure-fire starts.
Wide 32 -inch ski ststhce, disk brakes,
slide -rail suspension, and more. See
Liquifire now!
Stirs up.a storm
with race -inspired,
styling
Race -inspired styling with 340 or 440cc
reed -valve engine, set over the skis for
maneuverability. Wide 32 -inch ski _y
stance and longer "wheelbase" or
stability. CD ignition, surface -gap lugs,
and disk brakes. Cyclone... now a \our
open house.
Family fun, low price
John Deere dependability in two
family -priced sleds. The 300 has a
piston -ported 292cc engine. The 400
has a 339cc reed -valve engine, CD
ignition, and surface -gap plugs. Both
have bogie wheel suspension. On
display at our open house.
SPECIAL DRAW
"Suit The Family"
Total of 3 Deluxe Suits
1 -Man's, 1 -Woman's, 1 -Child's
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first'
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more.
„Vialking into' the boys locker
proemMonday'mo nin .
Cam 1 got the . iii
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a with back turned to him
gorgeOPA blond,with f *
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a f>tgnrp that woull.:put
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cqoPheillsusuallylt`reasonable.:.
man, and takes Women's tibera.
'don �oritsfa e-talte,a out h:
ir
l in
the, boys' locker -r n was just
too much, Stalking up behind the:
individual, he prepared to,
her on a short trip: right
the door. On closer OatninatiOn,
the curves 'turned _ out te
angles. Heaving .a Sigh. of TOO,
Mr. Campbeltdiscovered that [he
"she" was really a he.
Last week was pr grecs report!
week and the parents of. the stuw
dents gota chance' to sem, how=
their child was prokgressing or net
progressing. One student, ° sport- �;
ing a disappointing report prer
pared his mother by stating, . f,
failed in every subject except ge*
ography."
The mother. amazed, asked,
"How is it that you passed geog-'
raphy?" •
Taking a gulp, shoving - his;;
hands to the bottom of his pock-
ets; and with his eyes never leav-
ing the floor, the boy replied,
"Because I didn't take geogrl
phY "
Club News
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The Safety Awareness finales.
were held on October 30. Those
whomade the team are Andy
Heim, Glenn McLean, Bob
Strauss and Gordon Wray.
The Book and Record Swap is `
in progress. There were almost-
200 books at the start of the sale
and more are welcome. Aside
from this, how many people `no- -
ticed that the prisoner in the
main display case has two left •
hands?
Yearbook sales have drawn to a ,
close. For those of you who hav-
en't bought one, you don't know
what you have missed.
Student Council is taking a'•• 'Lining up, on the teachers' side
short rest after passing some--• were such greats as Mr. Brew -
$4,367.
The t'
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in budgets.
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gest budgeters, ' A•.. dwa rds , Mr.
Athletics councils, aft mpson; _r e, Mrs. Shaw,
smaller clubs who have not yet Mrs. Lobb, Mrs. Hopper and Miss
been considered will almost drive Schofield. New faces in the crowd
the amount passed in budgets to ."Fere Mr. Mali, Mr. Elliot, Mr.
$8,000. So join a club or sport. Lane and Mrs. Radford.
This is your money. You might as Twyla Dickson, Maxine Watts,
well benefit from it. Bruce Jermyn, Dianne Penning -
Gordon T. Wray ton, Ruth Henderson, Ken Teevit,
Brian Cooper, Jim Ritter, John
Campbell, Nelson Underwood,
• Jeff Dumstead, Robin Brent,
Mike Heim, Kendra MacDonald,
Rick McKay and Rick Fines
made up the students' team. Mr.
Cambell ably performed the
duties of referee.
. After captains Bruce Jermyn
and Miss Schofield tossed a coin,
the game began with the teachers
having first serve; which they
lost without gaining any points.
The students fared the same with
their serve. Then Mr. Simpson
put the teachers' team on the
scoreboard by scoring a point.
Slowly the teachers' score grew
until they were leading 6-1. Mike
Heim, serving for the students,
scored three points. The teachers
retaliated however, when Mr.
Shore raised their score by two.
Then the students began to play.
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sP�.NIO8li'WLS
BAST ETBA L
on October29 a lna ° . i 1 l ed
the second -place 'tons
league, St. Marys. At` the end of
g :...rys
the first quarter Madill was trail,
ing 14-2. Things started to `Wm*
prove and at the enddf the second'
quarter St.with a
Marys s led
y
closer lead of 2f.-18.,1! adil, With;
less than two, minutes remaining,
took the lead .3/-36, However -a -.-
foul gave St.' Marys one and .a
bonus situation. Sure enough, St,
Marys tied the score` 37-37. Thee
seconds to go, and a hook shot by
Twyla Dickson,, from outside the
key, gave the gills the best vie -
tory of the season.
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a � serve,
Bruce �►erm u
uc. `tom
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in
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:fid scc
Mr' Mali, .w saw ,U e's
su rb �1 ►hi is over the
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net /`tel Iii} knees y■.■reverence.
The rest of the :teachers,scam-
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bled to "beep'the-ball in The a rl,s
rewas 1040.1*
Finally tilo�o �
student - lat ..ed their secret card.
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JimRitter
tv point* scored by
gave the game, to the students.
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the teach.
he game, !
ers had discovered which was the
net and :which, was the baM. The
game picked up. Alt Ugh at the
beginning of the .game the stu-
dents led 4-0, the;teachere, Seem-
ing to realize their dignity was, at
stake, began tot to hit the ball
over the net. This tnique prov-
ed to be successful and the teach-
ers won the game, due to Mr.
• Simpson's excellent serving.
All the teachers who took part
in this game deserve a' lot • of
credit. As well as giving us stu-
dents a good time, we hope they
had fun doing it. Certainly this
volleyball game is a • memory
many of us will have for a long,
long time.
JUNIOR GIRLS'
BASKETBAIA.
The Junior girls finished their
regular seasonby playing the
undefeated team from St. Marys.
The girls played Well and was the
only team in Huron -Perth who
came close to defeating them.
The final score: 39-33.
Congratulations : to all team
members who helped bring our
last place standings of last year
into the top five,
TEACHER -STUDENT
TABLE TENNIS MATCH ' ,
Last Wednesday, October 29,
the excitement was high in Gym
228 as the teacher -student table
tennis match got under way. The
students excelled to keep up with
the teachers' expert playing.
However, as the match wore on,
the teachers showed their pro-
ficiency in this sport and rose to
defeat the students 24 games to 4.
Congratulations, teachers!
VOLLEY AWAY!
Last Wednesday night in Ac-
tivity Period, two teams as-
sembled in gym 254 to engage in
an awesome battle. This battle
was, of course, the Student -
Teacher Volleyball Game.
Gossip
Rumors are circulating about
the girls being on the football
teams next year! Anything the
`guys' can do, the `girls' can do t;
better.
Many stories spread quickly
through the school on the length
of the TB needle. Versions I
heard varied from one inch to
four inches — one never knows.
To many it was a traumatic or-
deal just waiting to be called to
the Health Room.
On Wednesday around 3:30 cer-
tain girls were seen walking with
shockingly wide eyes. I guess
they had never seen their male
teachers in gym shorts before —
wowee! !
Camera Club
. I quickly learned this week that
everyone in the Camera• Club is a
hard worker. As I walked in the
door, Mr. Willis handed me a
paper towel and told me to wash
and dry some jars. After I finish-
ed, Mr. Willis agreed to tell me
some facts about the Camera
Club. The eight members of this
club meet every two weeks on
Thursday night in the dark room
or the auto shop. The club aims to
create an interest in black and
white photography among the
students.
The club has three cameras
which each member -may use to
take pictures, then process and
enlarge themselves. The Camera
Club has excellent facilities to
teach the basics of photography,
however the small darkroom pre-
ventspractical demonstrations to
the members.
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three members. New members
are always welcome but watch
out for Mr. Willis and his dishpan
when you enter.
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TeaChers do teachstodetits'40,
This week a news report from a
conference of the Association of
Universities and Colleges of Can-
ada read: "High schools are not
teaching the three R's —reading,
writing and arithmetic as they
should be." Such accutations' re-
garding. the teaching of English
are interspersed with reports
that students can't read or write
properly any more. It is wrong to
apply these allegations to ;F. E.
Marlin 'teachers and students.
I hope to reassure our sttidents
and their parents that. tile stand-
ards for acceptable and effective
communication remain high.
They were never relaxed ithOUgh
several levels of attainment were
established in the past decade for
all courses and subjects. The .cri-
teria for a passing grade in d hi
level English course for an honor
diploma is higher than it ever
was. Students who have entered
university from this school' > did
not require remedial course$ -
nor will they in the immediate fu-
ture. This statement is based on
visible evidence which I would
show proudly to any, doubters.
The `evidence' consists of eighty
research essays written by the
Grade Twelve, English 451 class-
es this month. These demonstrate
as high a standard of organiza-
tion, writing skill, original think-
ing, scholarly research as I've
ever been privileged to assess.
Furthermore, itwill be almost
rx
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Teacher "Interview
Miss Linnen •
Miss Linner, whose father was
in the Air Force, was born in
Manitoba but she spent her
SOMA years in Quebec, Flin
Flon, Manitoba, and Goderich.
After high school, Miss Linner
participated in a five-year Co -Op
leaching course at the University
of Waterloo. During this• course.
she taught in Ottawa and went to
Teachers' College at Althouse.
In her first year of teaching,
Miss Linner taught Grade 9 and
11 math and also grade 11
computer science.
She enjoys sewing, boating,
golfing and music and keeps busy
as a CGIT leader. However, Miss
Linner's favorite sport ,is curling
and this year she will be assisting
Mr. Hawkns and Mr. Roberts
with the curling club.
I mean, Why Not?
STUDENT -TEACHER table tennis match: On Wednesday the teachers proved to the
students that they also have school spirit. Mr. Ritter and Mr. Inwood helped the staff over-
come the students in a hard-fought game.
and they are evidently of
dog so
ov rw.
More e , t •sets now
enrolled in the standard level
Engles courses are constantly
practising the specialized; a is
required for effective boa
municationin ouriness wo
They do trite `'`' bl
letters and 'correct'. tet
Porte- Setting standardnE
mean that students at
However, if they
.these, standards at
S.S., they fail. ,..
In spite. of tlist „a
•cerotae of student;
Y
i> F grades aof 'schoO;
generation ago. Even t
ago, 60 Per cents o
population leftF befor
efve-. This Meant;:
onrstudentslire now
nlonger are grade
'elite group. Ofcoi. `
.scholarly and w
more graduates who s
write poorly, However,
also out Mort
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point ,`. "alone '
skillfully and effectively
This week :the final
Language Skills.. teaching pi
was distributed tc the ' Huron
County schools for use in all 'Eng-
lish classes from Grades 1 to 13. A
glance at this chart for teaching
the use of our language could
reassure anyone that students
are being taught "the basics", of
correct language usage. I assure
you .tom' t. p v 1 rn
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Living, taking, giving
in Canadianism
Perhaps some of us have
pushed the importance of the
Canadian identity back into our
subconscious, although I am sure
most of us are quite aware of its
vitality and importance to us.
We have been successful in re-
taining our individuality and the
majority of Canadian citizens are
proud of the fact. Warren
would like to share his opinions
on Canadianism with you; maybe
it will inspire you to voice your
opinion.
THE LiVING. TAKING AND
GIVING IN CANADIANISM
I'M sitting' in my Canadian
room, at my Canadian desk with
my Canadian pen, amid my
Canadian ideas, trying to write a
Canadian essay. But, as many
before me, I'm having problems.
However, nbt with something
that has occurred to me as a
major factor of those people's
essays, namely the Canadian
identity. This I consider to be not
only uninteresting but also -irrele-
vant and unimportant as it
stresses something that is basi-
cally a problem that bothers the
intellectual and not the average,
vast majority of Canadians and
possibly could be a figment of
intellect desire for intense
classification.
Anyway, that doesn't seem to
he the problem. There seems to
he a ring about the phrase 'the
space, the beauty and the free life
of Canada itself' that provokes
disbelief somewhere in my sub-
conscious. It's not that it is
unacceptable, it's just that most
people don't believe it, or at least
relate to it in my experience. In
short, the Canadian dream has an
awareness problem. Canadians
don't realize their national heri-
tage, their present day success
nor their optimistic dream for the
future unless they have lived out-
side that border which is typical
if our humility in that it is the
longest undefended border in the
world.
Awake! Realize your fortune,
and I can vouch first hand for the
f ct that the Canadians do have
hi their style of life, true buried
treasure, But don't waste your
time straining your eyes else-
where for an identity that is with-
in you. And don't let the mis-
guiding problem of diversifica-
tion lead you astray. It exists
even in the most unified of
countries. But, I am beginning to
feel with growing consternation
that there is yet another reason •
for our failing to recognize our
merits, congratulate ourselves
and most importantly, to consoli-
date ourselves; namely our own
government.
We seem to be in an age of
weak, `wishy-washy' govern-
ments and ours is certainly no
exception. Gone are the days of
majority governments and great
leaders. We no longer co-operate
for the good of the country and we
allow petty, party politics to
interrupt the course of justice.
We no longer seem to have the
'ability to rise to an occasion. The
Quebec crisis is a perfect
example of the governmental in-
ability to take a stand on an issue.
Instead we have all but legalized
dishonesty and corruption which
is ruining our capitalistic society,
a phrase which 1 am not afraid to
use. Our alternative is com-
munism or socialism, call it what
you will, they are just a corrup-
tion of capitalism. Fortunately,
Canada does not show signs of
military mindedness (an un-
doubted asset) and therefore will
not share the disillusionment of
Prussia or Sparta: let us hope we
retain our 'free life'.
But what can we do as in-
dividuals, as Canadians, in this
ever-changing, agressive world
of ours to retain our `security of
spirit' ; you may well ask your-
self. Canada surely has a greater
destiny than our great neighbor.
Then let's clarify our position
with our politicians, They are,
after all, subject to us. Through
the writing of letters to them and
the publication of our desires,
morals and religion let us make
known to them just how far they
can go. Taking a mile when of-
fered an inch is a game that the
political will have to do without.
And in our education system let's
teach our children to stand up for
themselves, give them morals
and self -dignity and that's half
the battle done. The ancient state
of Athens grew to be what it was
due to the educational investment
and only collapsed because of the
mis-use of democracy, not to
external forces. So we can with-
stand all foreign elements if we
instill in the next generation
some concept greater than
materialism. It'll take a lot of
work and something that is the
Christmas spirit of everyday
living : we have to give in order to
receive.
—Warren Ball, i3A