HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1967-11-30, Page 13THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1967
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vailable at G.D.C.I. Hight Classes
Looking for a new hobby? Try
ing to upgrade your job skills?
Or are you perhaps searching
for a relaxing, educational way
to escape household tedium for
one evening a week?
If you fall into any. Of these
categories, chances are good
that you could find what you are
seeking at the night school
courses offered Monday even.
ings at Goderich District Coll.
egiate Institute.
Close to 125 area residents
enrolled in this year's sess.
ions are finding that at least
one of the five programs given
this year fills the bill for them.
The five non-credit courses,
which are being pursed much
more vigorously by women than
by men, include. Art, Basic
Dressmaking, Ladies' Keep Fit,
Rughooking and Typing.
A sixth course, Golfing, will
be presented in January, and has
already aroused widespread in.
terest, with about 21 persons
indicating they would like tb
enrol.
No previous experien
quired to enlist ithe
which are offered for a nominal
fee by the collegiate, through the
assistance of the Ontario De.
.partment of Education. Mr.
Claude Kalbfleisch, head of
the Mathematics department at
G.D,C.I. is the coordinator of
,the program this year.
This Monday was typical of
the activity which goes on week.
ly as adults seek to broaden
their horizons by recreation or
development of skills.
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In' one room, about a dozen
budding artists, only two of them
men, worked silently but
0 intensely under the critical eye
of instructress Mrs. Willard
Legg, who has been teaching the
art course for three years.
None of the paintings revealed
its author as' an undiscovered
Gauguin or Wyeth, but all of
them showed an appreciation for
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form and colour and a definite
originality of expression.
The , maain value of the course,
Mrs, Legg explained, is that by
learning. to see how to put some
thing down on canvass, the stud.
ents seep, lot more.
At onend of the room, a table
was set with the "models" for
the paintings- a tall,ark green
wine bottle flanked by two eggs
and a brandy snifter; a bushel
basket, a stack of one -pint bas.
kets, and a six.quart basket
lying on its side, spilling its
cargo of apples.
It was at, genuine lesson in
individuality to observe the
scope of the students' approach
to the same theme, although
about, half of the painters have
had no previous experience,
according to the instructress.
The concentration in the new
gymnasium was just as acute,
although mach less silent.
Physical Education teacher
Miss Carolyn Clark wasputting
a group of about 30 ladies,. Of
a wide range of ages, through
their paces in the M,exi`can Hat
Dance and the Virginia Reel.
This was the Ladies' Keep it
course, most popular of the five
with an enrolment of 36 adult
students. Non-competitive, its
purpose is general fitness,
rather than therapy or athletic
training.
MRS. RICHARD BIRD, BAYFIELD, GETS RIGHT DOWN TO DRESSMAKING WORK
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MRS. R. G. SHRIER SUPERVISES ADULT TYPING
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The nearby typing room was
alive with the staccato chatter
of more than a •dozen type..
writers which tapped out thejr
messages sometimes in fits and
starts, sometimes in the long,
rhythmic flow that Is music to
an office manager's ears.
The 22 typists enrolled —
:again, including only a couple of
men — are under the instruct.
ion of Mrs. R. G. Shrier.
The Dressmaking and Rug.
hooking sessions are strictly a
no-man's-land,
Home Economics teacher
Mrs. R. L. McDonald's class
of twenty-five dressmakers
were busily cutting, measuring,
tacking, and `stitching, „
For some, this course is an
economy measure; trimming
the jagged edges of the faintly
budget by saying on Dad's shirts
or clothes for Mom and the
children.'
For others, it is a hobby or
a pleasant outlet for creative
energy.
Next door, the ladies of Mrs.
Stan Whiteman's rug -hooking
class were laboriously fleshing
out handsome, floral=patterned
wool rugs.
When finished at the end of the
course, which runs until mid-
March, most of the rugs will
find their -way into family iW -
ing rooms 'either as floor cover-
ings or as tapestries, although
Mrs. Whiteman says the current
price for such work 'is a1out
ten aculars a .square foot:
Students in this course learn
the full spectrum, of shading
dyeing, cutting and hooking.
This is the second winter the
course has been offered by Mrs.
Whiteman, and it remains a
popular one with 14 persons
enrolled.
For students of all ages.
housewives, business people,
teachers .and retired persons,
the G,D•C.I. night school pro-
vides a chance to expand, to
create, or even to escape..
And that's a tall order.
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MISS BEULAH LONG STUDIES FORM, COLOR IN 'ART COURSE
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TEACHER MRS. STAN WHITEMAN, LEFT, HELPS MRS. GRACE DONNELLY
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' a'LADIES KEEP FIT WITH CALISTHENICS, DANCING
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