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The 1987 Grade 8 graduates of Huron Centennial School are: (back, left), Jamie Ellis,
Mike Racho, Jason McAsh, Brad DeWys, Wayne McDougall, Sam Wain, Kevin McLl-
wain, Steve Johnson, Jason Hayter, John Burton. (Third row, left) teacher Thomas
Lyon, Martin Stewart, Andrew Walker, Chris Veysey, Scott Caldwell, Matt Townsend,
Ben Rathwell, Scott Laframboise, Paul Hill, Andrew Dunn, Phillip Neil, Bill Vrieze, Ran-
dy Finlayson, Danny Bachert and teacher Flo Keillor. (Second row, left) Brad Mount,
Jeff Westlake, Herman Reid, Sharon Francis, Heather Jackson, Jenny Scott, Virginia
Van Gorder, Kerri Gingerich, Ayesha Hills, Vicky Upshall, Cheryl Turner, Wade Lee,
Wayne Manson, Jeff Weber. (Front, left) Debbie Eaton, Lisa Faber, Connie McKenzie,
Leanne Erb, Cindy Gingerich, Tracy Gemeinhardt, Minh Luong, Fayeanne Love, Jann
Talbot, Cathy Leeming, Kate Papple and Mary Lee Knox. (Anne Narejko photo)
Matt highlights classes educational years
By Matt Townsend
Huron Centennial School
At the start of the year Mr. Lyon was
teaching us some math and asked Timothy
the boy in the spring concert "If I lay one
egg on the chair and I laid two eggs on the
table how man eggs will I have?
Timothy replied, "Personally, Mr. Lyon, I
don't think you can do it:"
Fellow classmates. teacher and friends:
When I started my speech I looked in the
World Book and under some suggested
topics was the private lives of our teachers
but that would take weeks so then I decided I
was going to speak about all the things Mrs.
Cooper had ever done for us in our nine
years - but that would take days so I will
refresh our minds about how much fun
we've had in those years of elementary
school.
While reminiscing, I remembered my
first day at school and I came home and told
my parents I was never going hack.
"What's the use of school •.'" I said. '-I
can't read and I can't write and the teacher
won't let me talk."
In year one we had a trip to the Seaforth
Hospital and got to see the small babies in
the nursery. During the next years we went
to such places as St. Gardens, Grand Bend
Zoo, Clifton's Bush, Toronto Planetarium
and Museum and Camp Sylvan.
The very last trip we had was a major
highlight in my life and probably everyone
else's lives. On the trip to Ottawa we may
have gotten on each other's nerves but as
soon as we got off, we were all instant
friends again. I can imagine that both
classes had some different experiences that
were odd in some ways - life not being able
to go to sleep for the flashing lights outside
the window and then it turned out that the
hotel was in a "U" shape and the boys on
one side were flashing pictures of the girls
on the other side and the girls were doing it
back.
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After this took place we tried to rush for
the ice machine but were backed down by a
chaperone and for some reason he had two
other guys backed up to the wall with their
noses touching it. We asked why they had to
do that and he said it was for doing queer
gestures out the window to the girls. Of
course they weren't from a school who
teaches their students manners like Huron
Centennial.
At the end of our trip we felt like staying in
Ottawa. I am pretty sure that some of that
same feeling will be spread around in our
heads and hearts tonight. And this poem
reminded me of leaving this school and
moving to another unfamiliar school. It is
called By Degrees.
One step upon another and the longest
'walk has ended
One stitch upon another and the biggest
rip is mended
One brick upon another and the largest
wall is made
One flake upon another and the deepest
snow is laid
Then do not look disheartened on the work
you have to do
And say that such a mighty task you never
can get through
But just endeavor day by day another
point to gain
And soon that mountain which you fear
will prove to be a plain.
The entire Huron Centennial staff has
helped us over that mountain which we saw
in kindergarten and will now make us
realize there is a plain in sight as we head in-
to our high school years.
Thank you and farewell from the 1987
Graduating Class.
1 remember a certain teacher saying that
we were the worst class in 20 years but look
at us now - we've proved that statement
wrong'
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