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These Grade 4 students have been keeping diaries and
notebooks to record their. various studies. Chris Rac (left),
Bingo, bongo; bongo
Andrew Fielder and Joan Sproul compare the notes they haye
kept during their study of Africa. (staff photo)
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African safari in the classroo
_you can't take the students
to Africa, then you, bring"altttle
Africa to the students.
That is the main idea behind
a two week integrated study of
African Rainforest which the
grade four class of Miss
Marilyn., Clark at Victoria
publit' 'School is , now un-
.:d6rtaking. The project is under
the direction of Miss Tanya
Aberhart from the Althouse
College of Education in London.
Studies take the students.on
s,afaris into the depths of the
, jungle where African Wildlge
and inhabitants are -seer and
heard through films,
illustrations and records. - -
Many subjects lend them-
seiVes 'IV the 'African theme
and, with a littleimagination,
writing lessons embrade
recipe$ for fried caterpillars
and music provides time
for a tribal , song. Spiders
dangle from bunches of•
bananas and various jungle
beasties frolic across a colorful
display area; all created by the
hands of the young explorers.
, A•pleaSant culmination to the
activities will 5e a homecoming
party ori Friday, where African
Oriented foods will be sampled.,
Instruction based on
"Communities Around • the
World" is the Social. Science
curriculum for this grade level.
With concrete aids and eon,
centrated study, students are
able to ain deeper insight into
different Cultures. ,
This is an insight which text
books alone cannot provide.
Active participation and total
involvement is essential for.
such a study.
"The students have put a
great deal of effort and en-
thusiasm into this project,"
commented Miss Aberhart,
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Former Goderich skating club
member in Ice Capades line
FROM THE
CLINTON NEWS RECORD
"You're from a small town -•
you won't get far," her father
, had said, but Mary McFadden,
'who is in her second year_ with
the Ice Capades, proved him
wrong.
,,The• blond 20 -year-old from
Bayfield is one of the 32 girls in
the Corps de Ballet, or chorus
line. She and KathySinclair of
London, are the only local girls
With the show.
"I enjoy doing line, work,"
Mary said, "but I have always
had a goal or'challenge in my
life, and right now it's to
audition for the part., of . an
understudy to one of the shs
stars." ,
She has come a long way
since her early years, when her
father Frank would strap
plastic skates to her boots and
take her to Bayfield's natural
ice arena.'
Mary's', parents and two
sigers, Shirley and Cathy still
live in -Bayfield, and Mary still
calls the town of 482 her home.
"I was nine when I began
taking skating lessons," she
said, "I used lo go shopping in
Goderich every Saturday with
my Mom, And she suggested I
take lessons rather than hang
around while she shopped. My
Mom never pushed me, she was
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preciSiOn bfileh bi"Voliies 32
other girls, Mary McFadden of Bayfield is
dressed up in "Rangerette Costume" that
features toy guns.
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very patient and always behind
me. It helped me to grow up."
1 Mary joined the Goderich
Figure Skating Club and began
to copy the style of its senior
skaters.
"Once I got on the ice, they
had to drag me off," ,she said.
Two years later, she began
taking private 'lessons from
Bob'MgCratb of Stratford, who
had Once, performed with the
Ice Capades. . • •
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• Bob," Mary said. "He was my
'inspiration and I ,wanted to
follow in his footsteps."
Mr. McCrabb, who is a
Stratford real estate agent
today, encouraged Mary to
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The Ice Capadei—calls on MarY don Tri
many exotic costumes like the one pictured
here. She hopes to beCome an understudy
for one of the show's major stars.
enroll in the Galt summer
skating school when she was 12.
"I was skating all day; every
day," she said.
After winning the 1909 Novice
Ladies' Western Ontario
Sectionals in Brantford, Mary
decided she would much rather
work on her skating tests,. than
continue in competition.
There are eight tests in the
amateur level of skating, and
Mary is presently working on
her seventh.
She moved to Preston three
years ago and took lessons,
from two other professionals,
one in Preston the Other in
London, before she joined' the
Ice Capades.
"Five of us auditioned that°,
Friday night in Kitchener, and
I started with the show in
August of 1973. You didn't have
to be a skating competition
winner to audition;" Mary said.
• "You just had to be interested
in trying out."
She lost her amateur stan-
ding .when she signed a year's
contract with -the -Ice Capades":
There have been advantages,
and disadvantages along the
• fork in the road that Mary has
chosen to follow.,
"I joined Ice Capades
bepause I wanted to travel,
meet people, and get more of an
education on what the *skating
'World was all about," she said,
adding, "I've had. ito give up a
. lot of social things and op-
portunities, to stick with this."
Mary tours with the show for
10 months of the year, and she
said she doesn't get home as
often as sheyould like to.
"I tend to appreciate ray
family More and realize the
imicitirtance of the. love of the' '
family," She said.
And y& Mary McFadde off
the ice' ,is like a fish out of
water.
"Figure skating; aS a whole,
is like any other sport in that
you dedicate your life to it. It's
constant practicing and cont
stant love. It teaches you self-
discipline - 'you have to be
• dedicated. • If. you're not
dedicated to e passion, you'll
enjoy pleasure skating, but
you'll never make it," she said.
Mary sees part of her role
with the Ice Capades as
establishing her own style and
identity on the ice.
"Through, the 'Cof-ps de
Ballei, Ism developing myJown
personality by being able to
portray ,various characters,"
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Signal -Star photographer was°1ucky enough to snap an action shot as native George Dierolf
warns tourist Joanne Harrison that his people do not like to have their pictures taken. Primitive
tribes believed that the soul is captured in the photograph, (staff photo) "
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In another number called "Ships Ahoy" Mary, left, skates with. Figure Skating club. The Ice Capadewill be having tryouts
this,weekend in Kitchener for any interested skaters %%toward
. other , girls, Pam McKenney and Jocelyn Allen. Mary'
to join the show.
Grade four students atVictoria Public School are learning that „, , Mamie Ross SorveY some of the native Wildlife created tlY' the „•,„ , started skating in the Bayfield arena when it had only a natural
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the jungle is an exciting place to"visit. Miehael Worse!l and class and made into a jungle display. (staff photo) ,,ice, and later gained much of her training with, thoderich
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