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This predominantly ft„iriale team entered in the tug•of war
competition, not only. made a respectable showing but ac
tually won the house competition held on the. school
grounds. (staff photo) •
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These two studentslook quite weary at the end of the ;dui) yard toboggan course which was
one of the many activities both studentsand teachers participated;in the high school's
sports day. (staff photo)
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GDCIrteacher Frank MacDonald holds his hand.up,as. if to slow up the students pulling the
sleigh iii the student -teacher' competition. (staff photo)
Doug i3urvir r:I i,•:. teaching staff of GDCI tried whipping
These students were a little more successful than
th student;, inti; shape. in' the toboggan race but.it didn't The tug of war competitions between the four houses at GDCI proved to be quite popular
thele'counterparts In building a pyramid good as the team ulled in 'close last. as each house gathered a swarmi of muscular bodies to participate and for some it was.
although it was on a much smaller scale. (staff photo). seen) to .tr nr ': ' P
(staff phot t, , • - difficult to find rope to hold onto. (staff photo) e
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• BY-J.:ALEX HUME '•
I't was a pleasure and most helpful
training for me in. nay. -toter - Press
Gallery service to have had. an insight
into government service In,close
association with Mr. ,Thorson acid, -Mr
taFerle, two distinguished Canadians.
In the Press Gallery,. I served•on the
executive, as secretary -treasurer.; and
in 1941, as vice-president, when I left
temporarily --to. become Mr. Thorson's
private secretary. When :I was retired.
from The Ottawa Citizen at lis : on
October 1, 1965, .the Press -Gallery
'awarded me the coveted status a
Galley,ylife'membership, which requires
a minimum of 25 years' Gallery service
to qualify. •
During my Press Gallery yeais, I was
Ottawa correspondent or wrote special
articles for many -different publications.
• These included: - Time, Life aiid
tune magazines -of New York .for nine
months before the United States became
a belligelrent in 1941,.wherrTime named
a•.'full-tithe Ottawa than from its N.Y.
staff; chest
itutiona
1 Articles for The
N t
when
Saturday
X
Toronto a y 1
Sandwell was editor; weekly columns
6 .for The Goderich Signal;. The Simcoe
Reformer and the Moosejaw Times -
Herald; ,articles for The .Canadian
Liberal .on Prime Minis -ter St.. Laurent's
trans -Canada speaking tour. in 1949,,and
on -other subjects; correspondence for
British United Press, before that news
service opened its Ottawa Parliamen-
tary
ar•liamen-tart'Bureau:; correspondence for The
London Advertiser and later The London
Free Press, under Editor Arthur Ford;
special textile tariff articles for The
Manchester in England. ,
For 'some years, under Charles L.
Bishop, I' was second' Ottawa
correspondent for other newspapers
than The Citizen in the Southern Press
chain.
Also I did some broadcasting work for
an Ottawa radio '• station;• CKpm, now
kno asgtation.0 GO, • •.
In 1953, in the National Newspaper
Awards, sponsored by th.e•.Tdronte Men's'
Press Club, I was given a • Citation of
Merit, in the Spot News Category, for the
accuracy of frriy Citizen ' published
forecast? of the result of the federal
election that. year. My forecast, ,with
supporting figures for four parties for 10
provinces, gave the' Liberal St. t,aure`nt
•go'vernment two seats more than they
actually won and the CCF (how the NOP)
twit seats -less than they won. The
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Progressive Conserv;it r ,, '.lad • Social'
.Credit parties won the r•: ' ''' number of
t predicted
House ofConimorn u "'
for them. •
Prime Minister ' t
mented publicly, `1-
forecast wasuncanm
,.Due to, the vacg.rri, ,
electoral system. ill -
ficult to forecast I ,alts ac -
r, Ni d by the
for the
r agencies;, +,,alar poll
crit. com-
n election
",„,, federal.
), .nore dif-
cur ately as to.. thr • different p:rrti..
Gallup Poll and' ()thee.,,
to forecast simply the
far the con peting pa rt
.Namedns ;Toho t,•, Hume, I
was horn at CYamplxrii,,. ,. ''`ntario,• on
September i,-' 1'900, thr thi, d sop ,•apd
fourth child of John' P.,t;,•'s„ri liurrre and
his .wife, I•da White. hl> tsi''n brothers,
James Smith Hume. ,'Ir•totcred . ac-
countayft; and Thoma'- 11,+n rid Hume:,
who won the Ivlrlit,)r ° :Vleritil while
serving in France- with the lSOth Spnr..
tsmep's. Battalion of "1"ct - o t,t in the First
World Wltr, both kited
in•ln}rotnhtoee
es
years ago. My melt r,Ma.rc
j
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1921.MyonIYte. '\�.. aPmate-
totison Hume, lives Ctderrch j
after' 34 years as Victoria. I'uhli'c School
kindergnr•t'en teacher.. ' 't !fume lives app,
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in the same house at 10 Britannia Road with Charles, Prince of Wales,• at an
• wa press ecce tion. in 1974. H.R.H;
1911,' when ._ father was . expressed his •rriterest when I told -him I
August, -mY
named. Goderich Collegiate. Institute had had the privilege' and pi-easure of
rincipal. My -father was G.C.I. prin. having' met in Ottawa his parents. his
P r and arents , and • his gr:andunclre.
cipal until Atigrf'st, L935; he.lived retired grandparents
in Goderich until his sudden death on predecessor" as Prince of Wales: I also
November 27, 1941.4/ at the age of 82 told -the Prince I,had been retired in 1965
years. after 34 years in .the Parliamentary
For my primary school :I , attended/. Press Gallery-.
""And, now that you are retired, howdo
you find reporting these -days; is it better
'br poorer than in your day?" the Prince,
pointedly asked me.
'"Well, Sir,"I .promptly replied, "To
me reporting is like life. It has' Its ups.
and -downs, its ebb and flow... But there
ere' always a few good reporters
around.:' -
.'Thinkingaver, later of my off -the -bat
reply to Charles' direct question-; 1 felt
that; had I been .asked -the question and
stood in the corner' for half an hour to
w.er 5 work out a re51y, 1 could not have ex -
superb I received pressed- my opinion.of current reporting,•
suflerb grrimmar training ,
under Miss LeTouzel bore rich' fruit,for e more su>rc,intly and truthfully, than I had
h myreportorial career. done on just a moment's.,notice,i After-
rtic all through T
Myself that
ur•he
it' to
Nuttrr'rilly, 1 hold Miss LeTouzel in wards'T thought tort'ly _
• the throne is indeed' a,prnmising young
East to which my parents moved in Otta p P
public . schools in Waterford,. Ingersoll
and .yictori.a'Public' School, 1911-14, in
Goderich. Two outstanding teachers I
had lit Victor is School were' Miss Vic-
toria Miners „in senior third 'and Miss
Constance Letouzel. vice-principal, in
the junior rind senior• fourth classes.
Miss LeTouzcl's specialty, subject was
English .gr��irnmar so that all her pupils
well knew, alsmost instinctively,, .how
.properly to follow the word "none'.' by a
singular v'e'rb;' how to follow either by or
and .follow• neither by nor; and how and
•h i toouse 'the subjunctive snood- The
trfu•1 memory.
tr•.th.js paint, thestory becomes ' fellow, 'seriously interested ,r and kin
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a cls of my' brief, interesting chat -1 ee,t•ned in the world around him, asking
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intelligent questions, not just• talking
persiflage about .the weather or other'
silly subjects. •
At Victoria Public School; I won 'a,
medal (andthe school .a large frame.
picture of Sir Walter Raleigh) as the top
prize in an Ontario -wide public school.
ess.ay competition, sponsored by the
1.O.D.E., on the subject, "How I Spent
My Summer •Holidays ." Dr. James L.
Hughes, Toronto superintendent of
schools, and brother ofSir Sam Hughes,
Canada's defence minister early in the
First World War, made the presen- -
tations atVictoria School. . ' Pei
In 1914, I won the Robert Park
Memorial Medal, the gold medal as the
top graduating pupil fron Central and
Victoria Schools. Som* years later at a
Victor School re -union, I was the•guest
speaker when I spoke ext-itthe subject;
"'Recollections of a Newspaperman." •
,During my attendance atthe-Goderich •
Gollgiate Institute, 1914-1920, I had
same top teachers, such. as' 1,vliss •{`ter
• trade, Agnes Hodge, Miss Margaret -K,
Clifford 'Mrs. Ethel K." Urquhart, Dr:
Hugh' Innis-.,Stratyt (a GCI principal in
earlier years), A,M. Riibertson, and of
course, Principal ' J.P. IluMe. .Miss -
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