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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1986-07-02, Page 37Colborne grads will .mark histor- ••• ••• • _••••,.••••• ••• • -BY PAULA VANDERBURGH • COLBORNE PUBLIC SCHOOL Fads arty come and fads tray go but deep down inside mostlidOple remain the same. Mr. Ross, fellow graduates,. teachers, parents and guests: as we all know fashion changes, hair styles become wild and music hits the pop charts. Thi world changes and helps to create our different characters. In our ounger days as children we used to look up to our idols and used them as role models. We used to pretend to be doctors,' lawyers or professional football players. Now as we become older and move on to big- ger andbetter things these dreams will slow- ly become reality. The early 1970s must have been awesome years, just look around the room, see all the great kids that came from those years. Now let's bow our Ileac*, and have four minutes of silence to think about these graduates. Come on, just kiddin'. yah."Ah,`corne on, who am I kidding, there hasn't been that many kgexttimes.After all it is school. The teachers may think "we're finally getting rid of them," but who's get- ting rid_of Who? Whenye think of education who do we think of but teachers, but from the time you turn five until yon graduate you spend roughly 30,726 hours with these teachers and that's only if you don't get any after-school detentions. Do you realize what this means? It means we spend more wak- ing time with them than with our parents. Hey! ! I Wait a minute. Isn't there a law about making children work these long hard hours without pay. I don't remember much about current ' events back in Kindergarten. I think we had other things on our mind back then. Like would we be able to find the bathroom before it was too late, but -with encourage- ment from Mrs. McMillen most of us made it through the first year with dry pants. Kindergarten graduation moved us on to our grad one one teacher Mrs. Grant. I can still hear her words ringing in my ears: "No Scott, you still don't get an afternoon nap." We liked Mrs. Grant so well in grade one we decided to take her on with us into grade 2. Grade 3 brought us more than a new teacher. It brought us the twins Sherri and Shawn. That was just one more of the minor details Mrs. Nakamura had to deal with that year. In grade 4 we started a new ecperience. Our first male teacher, but we soon 'knew the way to win him over: egg salad sandwiches. The year of 19823 took us into grade 5. Still under the oath of Mr. Hunter. Grade 6 was ' another step for us. We moved from the Page 11 • ,W414$ c4ASZ Alga ra • T42Z ‘42104W t / • *mow .,„ Colborne Public School Grade 8 graduation was held June 24 and the award winners included from left to right in the back row, Shan- non McNeill, Community Service Award; Tracy Black and Ron Geddes, Friendship Award; Richard Brindley, Van den Broeek Award forImprovement; Shawn Talbot, Top Male Athlete and in overcrowded junior wing to the exclusive senior wing with Mrs. Little as our teacher. We need a break from male teachers. Then lucky number 7 brought us Mr. Harman and hopefully one step closer to graduation. The end of our grade 7 year saw us lose g person that had been a big part of our educa- tion. Mr. Jewitt was transferred to another school. I hope it was nothing we did. Then finally we hit it. Our grade 4 and 5 is s your day CONGRATULATIONS Class of. '86 BAECHLER lifitelevissee Intemolknow 150 SHOPPERS SQUARE GODERICH 5244400 GODERICH 1 '2051441§bleiSt: 1-800-265-4261 524-2171 , 14 LAKEPORT STEEL INDUSTRIES - Continued Success & Best Wishes In The Future...i the front row, Sherry Talbot and William Watson; Citizenship Award; Paula Vanderburglif Proficiency Award and Pam Ferguson,Senior Public Speaking Award. Absent for the picture was Phillp Luedentann, Proficiency Award,yrench Award and History Award. (photo by Mike Ferguson) nightmare returned to haunt us. You guess- ed it. We had Mr. Hunter for -a teacher again. Our last year also brought us a new prin- cipal, Mr. Ross, who was very quick to let us know at our first concert that he used to have hair. I hope we haven't caused him to lose any more hair in our grade 8 year. But the night has come. To think by the end of the ceremonies tonight, we will have com- • pleted our public school years and come September hopefully we will all be entering GDCI and moving up and ori in the world. Some of the current events of 1985-86 will go down in history. Events like the earth- quake in Mexico where thousands of people lost their lives, Live Aid where thousands of dollars were raised in relieving starvation in African countries, Ontario doctors Turn to page 12 (-N• ads - Our Fong -r. tulations Oil •We're Whistling a tune of happiness for your success! When the occasion calls, Whistle.... -GI-FTS-FORE-V-E R 166 THE SQUARE, GODERICH phi 524-8761 Evenings and Sundays phone 52%7253 F LOWE RS FOR TODAY ‹. •