The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-06-27, Page 17Cb
SU6AR'N'3PIC,.E
Both teachers and students
look forward eagerly to the end
of the school.year, for different
reasons.
For the students, especially
the younger ones, it's , like a
rebirth to get out into that
beautiful June, out of that hot
classroom, away from that
cranky teacher. They go belting
out that door on the last day
like bees coming out of a
disturbed bees' -nest.
oft few of the more sensitive
ones, especially the girls, will
trill, "See you ,next year", or
"Have a good summer, Mr.
Smiley." The boys leave in a
slap -dash, jostling mob, with
never a look behind.
And who can blame them?
It's been a long , ten months.
They want to get out and do
some real living, to break the
routines that even in these per-'
missive days, make school a
drag, and for some, unfor-
tunately, a simple bore.
When I was in high school I
took off in May or early June
for a job on the lakeboats, with
a .tremendous genie' of release. I
didn't care whether they passed
me or failed me. After the first
summer, I knew it was going to
be four months of -drudgery, at
coolies' wages, but I didn't
care. I was living, seeing new
places and new people, ,,and
delighting in it. ' also 'became ,a pretty darn good (which alone, in these times, is
Yet, strangely, by September, pool player,ry and I've • never N'`enough to make one want to
stay in school forever.)
I deplore sentimentality. But
sure enough, last class, last clay
of school, I turned around arid
there was a beautiful cake, in-
scribed, "Best Wishes, Mr.
Smiley, from 13B, '74." Even
the punctuation right. I was
touched.
w.. BILL coif �v
b8 BIBLE SMI,EY
school were deadly dull. The heart, saying, "I cannot'tell a
money was pretty well gone. It lie."
was too cold for outdoor - It usually meant expulsion
smooching, and in those days frorti the poolroom, which was
no girl was allowed . to have a -like being thrown out of -the
boy into her house, unless her garden of Eden.
mother was sitting there Then there was the drowsing
looking suspicious and her through long, spring days;
father sitting there with a gun. waiting for school to end. f
We couldn't afford ski equip- remember a poor man called
.ment. We were lucky if we Dr., Whe,atly; saying to me one
could scratch up the price of a - June day, head wagging sadly,
hockeyt game or a night's �, "Bill, you will never pass
skating a, the rink. physics or chemistry, should
We couldn't afford to smoke you stay here until you are a
or drink or party or tear grandfather. So I'm .going to
around, so, on the whole, we- recommend vciu." I've never
were a fairly moral lot. Believe forgotten this wise remark, ,and
it or not, I was president of a haveAsince`, as a teacher, always
Young ,Man's Bible Class for tempered justice with mercy.
three , years. My high school But I drift. School was then,
principal was the leader, and is now, and ever shall be, a
he forced me into it. I figured I place to get out of, come June.
had 0 •stay on the good side of Yet there is a little sadness
him, or I'd be in high school among the older students, who
until I was fifty. ' • are graduating. They are.
There was only one thing I finally • mature ° enough to
really learned in those long 'ealize these were possibly the
winters at school. With no best years of their -.lives. They
money to do anything else, my sign each other's yearbooks.
gang tended to spend most of Some weep. They promise to
our time in the pool room, keep in touch,.but knowing they
despite constant abjurations probably will not, after the first
and threats from our mothers. year. Thev are scattering,
There are quite a few things , Halcyon days are over. They
you can pick up in a poolroom: are stepping off, sometimes
psychology; a colorful fearfully, into aworld of work
vocabulary; a smell of spit- and responsibility and striving
toons. I got all of these, but "1 for success, and raising families
I had a 'great nostalgia for regretted it.
school, school 'friends, football ". You ,have to be▪ come good
and track and field, and could when you are "playing on your
scarcely wait to start the long nerve." This quaint old ex -
hitch -hike home. pression means you haven't the
Each fall was a joy. Football money to.,pay the proprietor for
every day. A new girl, or the your table time, if you lose.
old faithful one, to hold hands Winner plays free. So you
with on crisp fall, evenings. either won, or you sweet-talked
Some money in the pocket, of-, the boss of' the poolroom info
adding what you owed to your
hill. This was about as'easy as
President Nixon standing
before Congress, ..,hand on
ter the summer.
This ,euphoria lasted until
about the end of November. By
,the middle of January, life and
Retirement topic
Quarter century club.
holds initial meeting
Members and their wives of Harry Bosnell, President of
the. Quarter Century Club , f the .Club, introduced the -
the Dominion Road Machinery 'speaker. Also '• Bruce Sully, -
"Company held a, social "get President of the Company,
together on Thursday welcomed -the guests and the
'evening, June Z1 at the speaker.
Maitland Country. Club. A, pleasant social evening
The highlight of the evening followed, with Jack Macdonald
was the speaker, Mr. F.D. entertaining at the piano, after
Hague, Group Manager of Lon- ':which sandwiches and coffee
don Life Insurance Company of - were' served.
London, who gave a most in-
teresting and informative talk
on. "Retirement" - how to
prepare for it and be able to en-
joy it. A question and answer
period followed.
,BRIDGE CLUB )IE S
This was the first get,
together since the formation of
the Club and it is , hoped to
have the next social, evening in
October. - '
And astonished, I exiiressed
my .4clniiration and ap-
preciation, and said, "Wait 'till
my wife sees this." The
response was; more { or less,
"Your wife, our foot. Look in
the paper bag." Sure enough, it
contained' paper napkins and
plastic forks. There was a knife
in -the cake box. So we had our,
cake and ate it, communally,
and quietly' listened to a funny ' Western's . -College of
record. Then we left, happily:; Education next year: (Beta
And sadly. I photo)
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GODERICU SIG IAL,S I'Ak , •`VHURSDA.Y, JUNE 27, 974., --PAG 3A
Students staff summer projects
Technical personnel em-
ployed by the Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority'
•through project SWEEP are
busily engaged in various;„
projects throughout the
Maitland River, watershed this
summer.
The Giver -all program in-
cludes projects such,as the
watershed resourceiden-
tification being done by Brian
Sachs of Listovvel and Judy
Barr, presently of Teeswater.
Judy is a graduate ,,:in
Agriculture from the University
of Guelph and Brian. is in. -his
fourth year of Guelph's Fish
and Wildlife Biology program.
Rick ,Anderson of Belgrave
and Gail Hollowell, presently
of Belgrave, are responsible for
collecting, recording ,and
assessing water , samples from
various selected points wi hin
the -•watershed. Gail is a forth
yeart student of zoology 'at the
Uniyersity of Guelph, and Rick .
Gr,�d
Daphne E.
of Mr. and
232 Picton
Graham, daughter
Mrs. L.B. Graham,
Street received her
Bachelor of Arts degree in
History on June 4 at the
University of Western ,Ontario
Convocation. Taf vtrill attend, -
is in his third' year of
engineering at the University of
Waterloo.
Bob Young 'of Wirigham, a
graduate- from the. Guelph
Agricultural Program, is in-'
volved • in the Belgrave Creek
study. The study is aimed at
the Q proper , management of
resources within the creek
watershed.
Cathy Beach and Dan Grant,
presently ,of l-iiarriston and
Gorrie respectively,' are
working ' to produce an
educational, resource manual
for the Wawanosh property
recently acquired by the
Authority., Thev are also
preparing a'manual which sum-
marrzes the resources available
within all Authority owned
properties. Cathy is in her third
year of Honour's Recreation at
the University of Waterloo, and
Dan is a fourth year student of
Waterloo's Recreation Program
and Guelph's Landscape Ar-
chitecture course,
Ann Dalton of "Goderich is
responsible for the input of
data "relating to geography for
these programs. Ann has corn-
-pleted - her second year at
Wilfred Laurier University in
Honours Geography.
Twc students are employed
in clerical positjons through
SWEEP at 'Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority this
year. Anne Harrison, of Mon-
,crieff, is spending her second
sugrirner as senior secretary for
Project' SWEEP. Anne is a
third year student of Sociology
at Glendon College, York
University, Toronto.
Donna Greer of Lucknow
joins the SWEEP secretarial
staff at Maitland Valley Con-
servation Authority after atten-
ding Fivnshawe College's
Secretarial Arts course this
year.
Rib Keip, a first year student
of Recreation' at the University
of Waterloo and a resident of,
Formosa, is responsible for the
Public Relations aspect of the
SWEEP Program for the sum-
mer
These S Working in
an Environmental Enhan-
cement Program are but a few
pf the, young people employed
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