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8A OODERICH SIGNAL-STAlt, TITURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1970
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Clare McGowan honored at dinner party;
with gold' watch on 'golden' anniversary
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About 40 friends and
associates of Miss Clare.
McGowan gathered at The Littfla
Inn in Bayfield TueSday evening
for a dinner to honbr ' the
director of Huron County
Children's Aid Society who will
retire this fall. • '
During the evening, Miss
McGowan was presented with a
•gold watch suitably inscribed.
Master of ceremonies was Bert
Corbett and the address was
given by Mrs. Esther Ross.
BY MRS. ESTHER ROSS
.,1 was- not ASKED to be the
one to address the gathering
4 tonight, but I REQUESTED that
I might have the privilege of
doing so.
My rationalization re this
° -request was that,though 1 am
probably the least -gifted on the
Staff as a public speaker, I haye
been on the Staff or connected
with the C.A.S. about as long as
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has anyone, datingoway back to
1950.
During these 20 years working
with Clare, I could not help but
come to realize of what\ genuine
material she, was made. As a
teacher in Social work, a Mrs.
Dymond who had known Clare,
commented to me when I
identified myself as working in
the Huron County agency and
therefore with Clare, "She is a
RARE personality."
_During these 20 years, I have
never had a real fire -and--'
'brimstone ,clisagreernent with
Clare. I" Point out that this is
more to her credit than to mine.
Due to the fact that the age of
compulsory retirement in -the
service of the County of' Huron
has almost been. reached, Miss
Clare. McGowan is officially
vacating her position as Local
Director of the Children's Aid
Society of the ,County, a
position she . has held since
August of 1961.
Prior to that, she served on
the staff , of our C.A.S.
continigously from Sept. 1,
1946, in the advisory capacity •of
Assistant Local. Director and
Supervisor.
Therefore, on Sept. 1, 1970,
Miss McGowan completes a
24 -year term in the service of
the County of Huron and its
children.
There is a GAME, somewhat
psychological in nature, known
as °WORD -ASSOCIATION. I
found .myself thinking of certain
descriptive ., words. when I
thought of Clare and her years
with us. They were such lovely
words, like "HAPPINESS" and
"FRIENDSHIP"; like
"CHEERFULNESS"' • and
"THOUGHTFULNESS" and
"DEDICATION." They were ail
pure -gold words; and I kept
thinking of the word "GOLD"
itself.
I mentioned "HAPPINESS."
Tonight is a very happy
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• Two very special guests were...i.nyited„ to enjoy the evening with Miss Clare McGowan last Tuesday
at The Little Inn when a dinner was held in honor of the retiring local director of the Children's
Aid Society in Huron County. Miss Ida McGowan (TettrGoderich, sister to the honored guest and
Mrs. E. C. Wilford, Toronto, admire .Miss McGowan's gold wrist watch, a gift from her associates at
CAS. Mrs. Wilford who lived for 40 years in China, was the lady with whom Miss McGov6an made
her home while she was working in China during the early part of her career. —staff phOto.
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occasion, because it gives us so
much .pleasure to be able to
gather together. to honor one
Who, for so .many years, has
been an outstandingly faithful
servant ' to the realm of
CHILDHOOD in this County.
A quotation from Rupert
Brooks reads: "He who helps a
child helps humanity with an
immediateness which no other
help given to hnman creatures in
any other stage of human life
can possibly give again."
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Clare has brought much
happiness into the lives of many
children, and ' has seemed so
happy in doing it.
FRIENDSHIP: Clare always
wanted to go further than mere
professionalism: she wanted to
friends,With her staff, with
the personnel from other
agencies; -with the children and
their families who came to her
for help. To her, all these people
weren't just business associates
and clients: they were, to her,
real 'people, real friends. During
I the next several years these
friendships will continue, and
retirement will mean iore time
,?to.enjort.heTZ,
goes. If you've been ill....if your.
family has had a death....if
you've been engaged in a
particularly trying bit of
work....she shows her
'thoughtfulness in, some little
way. As we travel through the
'bounty on our work, We hear so
Many friendly enquiries • for
"Miss McGOWAN."
DEDICATION: Perhaps the
word is going out of style in the
field of social' work, but it has
been good to work with
someone who was really
dedicated to the service of,
people in trouble.
The word GOLD needs some
CHEERFULNESS: My very
first impression of Clare 21 years
.ago was that she had 'a big
friendly .srnile. I remember,Mrs.
Chaffee always wanting Cie to
go to County' Council with her.
She said, "The councillors like
Clare; they like her smile." We
anre going to Miss that wonderful,
spirit of cheerfulness which has
been an inspiration for so long.
THOUGHTFULNESS: I am
not going to go into detail, but
those of us who -have been or art
-staff members are aware that she
scatters- little acts of friendship
and thoughtfulness wherever she
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NEWS
PICTORIAL
explaining: . For 24 years Clare
has Served with the Children's
Aid Society. If the hours of
overtime, of evenings spent
addressing meeting, of night
and weekend calls, of not taking
any holidays during her first
year ag Local Director, of
assuming the responsibility when
former local directors were away
or ill, were all added Op, Mere
would be. another year forsure.
This would be 25 years, and 25
signifies a SILVER
ANNIVERSARY.
• But I still think of GOLD
instead.
• I am sure that Clare; at age of
15, was likely serving the public
in some way through children's.
groups"or in the church; then she
became a • teacher and 'spent
several years , in China as a
teacher; then she went to the
School of Social Work and
entered the field and has been
with it ever_since.
Now she is retiring, so I have
spanned a period of 50 years in
public service . of one kind or
another, and 50 means a
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY.
We, congratulate you, Miss
McGowan., as you near the end
of a very successful career, and
we wish you many, more happy
and healthy years in which to
enjoy your well-earned.
retirement.
iiv FRIENPI
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Miss Clare McGowan (centre) is flanked by some of her associates during a social hour at The
Little Inn last Tuesday evening. Here Mrs. Esther Ross (left), Bert Corbett (standing) and Miss.
Gertrude . Wilkes browse through a book entitled "Friendship" which was presented to Miss
McGowan as a token of 'affection by her staff and friends. Mrg:' Ross gave the address to Miss •
McGowan and Mr. Corbett 'made thepresentationof a wrist watch on behalf of the CAS staff.
—staff photo.
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