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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1967-09-28, Page 9THURSDAY4 SEPTEMBER 28, 1967 4. 11 0• a Grade 12 student, Bruce 'McCreath; -Issues an order to another member of Goderich collegiate's mini -skirted first fgrrn males. In keeping with Centennial year, this. year's initiation costume required the high school novices to apply a star-shaped Centennial symbol to their face. "Stay there until I say you can move," gestures Vera Desjardins. Andrew Stinnissen, GDCI grad niner, has.probably broken some initiation rule and As being punished for it, on the spot by Vera, a grade 13 student. Another •student, standing in classroom door- way, appears unmoved by the first form student's harsh treatment. *,.°form student's harsh treatment. Did anyone get the phone numbers of any of these gorgeous 'GDCI cuties' who paraded through collegiate corridors throughout Friday's initiation of grade niners?The whimsical 'fashion designers' for these male teenagers required them to wear either mini -skirt or dress with spitable jewellery to enhance their appearance. Only the footwear detracts from their lovely attire. Shown here are, from left to right, Mark Barker, Robert Coulter, Jirn Daer, Bruce, Crawford; Jerry Durst, Eugene DeJong and Brian-.- Allen. . - r.. lk • It was 'Initiation Day' for grade nine students at Goderlch District Cbllegiatelnstitute last Friday. Initiation' has now'becoine an established custom for the GDCI student body. It s value in school life is "often questioned by a large percentage of the high school teaching staff. Some of them view these antics with as mach apprediation as -they would a tribal deremony per. ---formed by Australian ,abori. gines in their classrooms. Senior students will reply, in answer to teacher criticism of this un -academic happening, that initiation develops school spirit by injecting some fun and frolic into othewise dull class. room life. This theory may be hard for grade niners to accept when they realizethey are the subject and object of the fun. Ridicule from their older _classmates often befallsthem if initiation proceedings are al, lowed to,' get too far • Regardless of opinions pro and con regarding in'tiation, heckling and razzing of colle- giate beginners continues from year to year. Initiation customs are gener- ally dictated by a committee, formed for this purpose, from the ranks of the senior stud. ents, usually grades 12 and 13. This seasun, the initiation committee planned initiation • customs that would have seemed more appropriate for a Hallo- wetn masquerade thin for the Story By Bruce MacDonald respectable classrooms and corridors- of Goderich col. legiate. Grade nine boys and girls, are th no position to argue the outlandish styles that their senior classmates demand dur- ing initiation rites. The 'handsomely apparelled' male s'tudenLat GDCI would be sporting the following costume , if he were playing it safe by conforming to the peculiar fas- hion trends for last Friday. A mini -skirt would enclose his legs to a point half -way to the knees and lialloons,floating upwards at each ear, would adorn his 'head. Considerable flair was present in the grade nine boy's footwear. A knee sock and rubber boot was worn on one side; the other leg and foot was stuck in a rolled dawn nylon stocking and running shoe. Grade nine girls were re. quired to' haul out their floor. length Centennial ' gowns once more and wear ,them for init. iation. Enhancing their gowned, 19th century charm, were six- inch ear rings dangling to their shoulders; their feet ware en. cased in plastic bags. Initiation rites for GDCPs grade niners do not 'stop at weird clothing. They are also r- 'subject to the slightest whim . imposed upon them by a dqm• sneering grade 12 or 13 student. If you came across a hap. less grade niner on his hands. and knees in the hallway, pain. fully and laboriously measur. ing the distance from wall to wall with a toothpick:you must not pity or sympathize. He or" she is merely obeying the com- mand issued by a veteran of initiation rites. Other unusual things first form students might be asked to perform dur. ing the 'get acquainted' day would be, proposing to your teacher, singing or doing a chorus line number in the core rider; Supposing a rookie high school student refuses to co. operate with initiation laws? Suppose he or she is caught without his proper costume? • Justice is in &tore for that offender; immediate, swift and sure judgement will be excu. ted. The following Monday, a kangaroo court is held and pul. prits , are brought before the judge to have sentence pronoun. ced on them. • An what would the offending one's punishment be? There's some likelihood that breakers of the GDCI initiation code would be sentenced to a` period of hard labor like carry. ing a grade 12 student's books to the collegiate and back each day for a week. i Photos By . Sandy MacDonald Arrayed in their stunning initiation costume, this 'group of grade nine' students posed for the Signal -Star cameraman during initiation rites last Friday at the Goderich collegiate. F.ilure„ to wear the propgr outfit or infraction of initiation rules by any of these first form students would land them inKangaroo Court the following Monday. Pictured here, left to right are: Randy Hills, Ken Davidson, Brian -Westbrook, (standing) Barb Miller and Cynthia Campbell. The latest trod dress _.f r teenaged boys, is it? Or are they • modelling the newest . fahion IA kilts? Neither. This pairof Goderich collegiate males ,whd are grade 9 students, are wearing the initiation style,, fasht ns, dictated by their senior class. mates' Chances are the student at right, is carrying books which belong to a grade. 12 scholar. 1 n Goderich collegiate's grade nine gats were obliged to put their hair up in cutlers last Thursday night, whether they felt like changing their hair style or not. Their coiffure, as well as the shoulder length ear rings which some of them wore, were all a part of their introduction "into CDCI's student" body and activities-, activities, 'posing, here during a break In last Friday's initiation exercises are, from left, Sandra Errington, Ann (Penny) Errington and Claire McWhinney, (carrying the trumpet that she may be foreed °to blow before itlitiatiOn rites are over). r�• 4