The Goderich Signal-Star, 1986-01-22, Page 3People
Colborne woman marks birthday
Margaret. Clutton of Colborne Township
celebrated her 90th birthday, Sunday at a
surprise partyrlield at the Bedford Hotel in
Goderich. •
About 35 of her family, grandchildren
and great-grandchildren attended the noon
-luncheon which included atbirthdaf cake
and candles.
Born in Colborne Township where she
has lived most of her life, Margaret Adams
Clutton was a teacher who taught at No. 5
Colborne, No. 9 Reach in Ontario County
one mile north of Port Perry and at S.S. 2,
Mornington in Perth County during her
teaching career.
She married Hume Clutton of Colborne
in 1921 and retired frontteaching to return'
to Colborne Township. She and her hus-
band farmed on the third concession of
Colborne where they raised a family of
four sons, James of Godericja, William of
Colborne Township, Edward of Burlington
and Dougall of Goderich. She has 14 grand-
children and 12 great-grandchildren.
The couple farmed for 35 years before
selling the farm to son, Bill and deciding to
build the Dunlop Motel which . they
operated for nine years before retiring.
They celebrated their 50th wedding an-
niversary in 1977.
They both enjoyed travelling and follow-
ing their first vacation in 1946 when they
went to North Bay, they took a vacation
every year in the fall or June when the
motel wasn't as busy as it was in the stun -
mer months. They went to the west several
times, t� the Maritimes and as far south as
Key West.
Margaret's husband died 10 years ago
but she continues to live in the home they
built just east of the Dunlop corner as their
retirement home. She says the secret to a
long life is "to keep yourself busy" and she
laughs about the day Hume told her he
wanted to build a motel, rather than retire
after they sold thefarm.
Margaret likes to knit, crochet, make
pillows, cover coat hangers and do crewel
work.- She is a member of First .Baptist:
Church, Goderich and the Mission Circle
and a former member of the Dorcas Socie-
ty.
Special birthday greetings she received
included messages from the Governor
General of Canada, Jeanne Sauve, MP
Murray Cardiff on behalf of the federal
government and MPP Jack Riddell on
Margaret Clutton of Colborne Township celebrated her 90th birthday at a surprise party
held at the Bedford Hotel in Goderich on Sunday. Born in Colborne Township where she has
resided most of her life, the former teacher and her husband farmed and then built the
Dunlop Motel which. they operated for nine years before their: retirement. Mrs.' Clutton is
shown looking over a message. of congratulations she received from Canada's governor
general Jeanne Sauve. ( photo by Sharon Dietz)
behalf of David Peterson, Premier of On- which she has especially enjoyed and a
tario. She also received many cards and lovely. orchid corsage to wear at her birth -
gifts from relatives, friends artd family day luncheon.
Grade 8 students have option
,.•
of attending Catholic high school
° An annual ritual is taking place over the
next few weeks.
Grade 8 students across Perth and Huron
Counties are taking • tentative steps to higher
education as they fill out "option sheets".
These forms indicate the courses students
int_e,rnd to. fake when toy actually take the
big step to high school this fall.
However. in Perth .County and possibly
parts of Huron, some students have an alter-
native from the choices previous Grade .8
students had. The Huron -Perth Roman
Catholic separate gschool board's new high
school is also taking option sheets now.
In fact, St. Michael Secondary School
I rincipal Daniel Bishop said students have
until Jan. 27 to hand in their option sheets.
He admits he has no idea of the number of
students that will be enrolling at the high
school located in Stratford.
"My own feeling is that 100 per cent (of
" those now in Catholic elementary schools)
should attend," said the former principal of
a Welland Catholic high school. '
But the school board, in its implementa-
tion plan, anticipates about half or 70
students will attend, the high school this
September.
If Catholic education • is valid, what
changes at Grade 9?" Bishop asks of
parents. "High school years are the most
critical years of a person's development."
The principal of the high school defends
the Catholic philosophy in . education and
states, "we're not. creating an academic
ghetto."_
the Catholic highschool is of-
fering "schooling in a particular philosophy
which is unavailable in the public system."
He didn't criticize the public school
system, but said ithas to have a more
cosmopolitan nature by being open to Chris-
tians, Jews, Muslims and those of other
faiths. Bishop said society gains by having
more than one education system.
St. Michael will continue to have Grade 7
and &students next year and Bishop will run
the whole school. The future of current"prin-
cipal Larry Cook of Dublin has not yet been
decided.
The school boar plan is to phase Grade redundant because of the new hrgn scnooi.
oar
7 smrl R nut nf St. Michael returning those..
grades to the other four Catholic schools in
Stratford:, Those schools are now only
Kindergarten to Grade 6 schools.
Also, the French immersion pprogram
which is Row operating out -of St. Michael is.
expected to be moved to St. Aloysius
separate school.
The Catholic high, school received a boost
last week when the school board announced
that bus transportation will be available to
students within a 40 km. radius of the school.
Bishop said students coming from outside
of Stratford will also, be able to participate
in after school activities because a bus will
be available at .a later time besides the 3
p.m. dismissal time.
A full list of courses will be available, but
it depends on the number of students enroll
ing before a course will actually be offered.
The difference between Grade 9 at St.
Michael and any other high school in Huron
and Perth is that it will offer a compulsory
religion program at every grade level.
Bishop said the school will also offer
courses at every levelbbasic general and ad=
vanced as the Ministry of Education dic-
tates: There will also be a full range of
business and academic courses offered. The
principal said negotiations between the
Catholic school board and the Perth County
board of education are being held regarding
tb,e use of technical equipment at Stratford's
Northwestern secondary school.
The ischool will also 'be the third high
school in the area to be semestered. Cur-
rently, Stratford's Central secondary school
and Seaforth District high school are both
semestered.
"I don't see us suffering—in terms of
facilities," added Bishop.
To him, it is the teachers who will help
make the school work.
"I'm looking for teachers who are
"dedicated to kids," he said.
The principal doesn't expect any dif-
ficulties in accepting teachers from the
public school board who have been declared
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"In my experience, teachers we get are
excellent," he said:
"There are excellvit teachers in .the
public system. I have nothing but respect
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There will have to be changes to the
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• "But there will be a cafeteria," said '
Bishop ., .
The school Will also have an up-to-date
computer lab and a well-equipped science
lab. Family studies and other arts courses
will be offered out in the annex which has
yet to undergo renovations. Architectural
drawings have not yet been approved by the
school board.
The principal is also starting negotiations
with the Stratford YMCA which is a block
away from the school.
- He is just not sitting back waiting for the
students to come. Bishop is taking the
message of the new school out to the poten-
tial students and on Friday, Jan. 24 the '
Grade 8 students in outlying areas that now
attend Catholic ; schools will be at St.
Michael's open house.
He doesn't want any pressure put on the
kids, though. It's' their decision and he will
respect whatever choice they make, he said.
Now, it's just fighting a tradition of no
Catholirhrgh school and Bishop expects to
make t `is new venture work.
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