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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1982-06-30, Page 22PAGE 12A--.C:rot?ERICH SIGNAL.,STAR, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1982 ' Retiring after 34 years BY JOANNE BUCHANAN 'there were, lots- of hugs and kisses and elven a few teats as Rose Fisher said goodbye .to her kindergarten class at ' Victoria Public School last Thursday; - Mrs. Fisher was saying goodbye to "her. children", for the last tune. After 34 years of• teaching, she has decided . to: take ' an early retirement - "We don't want you to go. We want you to come back," sobbed. a Grade 1 student who had happened by her 'classroom. Mrs. Fisher removed her glasses and wiped her eyes. "You can always come and. visit me," she told him. He seemed happy aboutthat, gave her a big smile and ran out of the room. After the kindergartens left, more Grade 1 students and even some Grade 2 and 3 students- stopped by Mrs. Fisher's classroom with best wishes. They asked for her `autograph' and got her to look at their report cards. She found time for each one of them, always ready with a compliment. "Children have been my life. I'm really going to miss their companionship but I'm sure they will come to visit me," she said. In total, Mrs. Fisher has only been away from school for 3% years since she herself started kindergarten. She wasthe former Rose Bowra of Goderich. As a child she lived on Cameron Street and attended Victoria Public School. After graduating from Goderich Collegiate, she attended Stratford Normal School to become a teacher. The first three years of her career were spent at a public school in Saltfordteaching 40 students from kindergarten to Grade 8. The rest of her teaching career has been spent at Victoria where she has taught kindergarten and Grades 1,2 and 3 as well as a Grade 3,4 and 5 acceleration class. "I think teaching all dif- ferent grades like that helped to keep me fresh. School never got boring," she says. Mrs. Fisher has taught in all parts of the Victoria Public School building, in- cluding the original old building on the same site which has since been torn dog' She has also taught through two generations, including a father, mother and two children all from the same family. "One of my highest compliments came from one of my former students who told me she had become a teacher because of me," she says. Throughout her career, Mrs. Fisher has been both a teacher's teacher and a children's teacher. She has the respect of the other teachers because as one ptit ittt "She .was always so organized, made sure her' work was done and was there when the kids needed her." Looking on her as a friend as well as a teacher, Mrs: Fisher's students would often visit her at her Britannia Road home in the summer months and go to call on her and walk to school with her during the other months. 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For the first few months she plans to keep busy with preparations for her son Garry's upcoming wedding and she also looks forward to visiting with her two grandchildren and daughter Deidre in Australia.. Mrs. Fisher only took time off teaching to give birth to her two children. After that, she was called back to 'help out for one year.' ' .. "I've been here ever since," she says. A kiss goodbye '3 Opening farewell gifts and cards Festival opens Friday The Blyth Summer Down North, at 8:30; the at intermission. Festival opens Friday, July 2 Gallery opening, 7:30; and Down North is the heart - with the first of five plays, the renewal of The Food Spot warming story of an only • - child from the city who is sent to spend the summer in Cape Breton on his grand- father's farm. Suddenly this lonely self-centered 13-year- oldbecomes the focus of a huge family of aunts, uncles and cousins. He is almost overwhelmed by the 12 -hour days and his new extended family. Award winners Monique Martin and Brenda Smith, Grade 6 students at Victoria Public School, received academic achievement awards at the school's annual awards assembly held last Wednesday. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan) Daryl Hemingway and Greg Lobb shared Mrs; Ore's plaque for the top Grade 5 student et Hohnesville Public School this Year. The plaque was presented by Marilyn Drehmann at the sehool's Grade 8 grad ation ceremonies held last Wednesday. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan) Down North features a large cast ranging in age from six to 60. The in- volvement of children from the area and the use of mature actors as the elderly= - relatives brings reality to the, play. A Blyth native, Torif Bailey, 14, will play Guy Deveau, 13. Catherine Battye, 17; Peter Cook, 14; and Craig Roulston, 6, will be seen in important supporting roles. Hugh Webster, a 30 - year veteran of television and theatre, stars as the easy-going grandfather, Gilles Deveau. c Janet Amos, the Artistic Director of Blyth, has written Down North for her theatre. "I was inspired by the book, My Grandfather's Cape ' Breton but my imagination went to work and new, different, characters sprung up. I've incorporated a tale of old and new love, and some classic family squabbles so the play is very different from the • book",Amos states. Marcel Doucet, an Acadian fiddler from Chiticamp, Cape Breton Island where Down North is set, has composed and rejuvenated folk tunes he will play during the per- formances. Quiet in the Land team, John Ferguson and Kerry Hackett, will design sets and costumes respectively. Last year, Ferguson received further national acclaim for his sets for The Visit at Stratford, Plenty at Toronto Arts Productions, as well as for Quiet in the Land at Blyth. Down North will run throughout July in repertory with Heads Ydu Lose. Tickets are still available for all dates and can be obtained by calling (519) 523-9300 or (519) 523-9225.