HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-11-08, Page 23St. Mary's kids e
BY JOANNE
BUCHANAN
Forty-five Grade 7 and
8 students along with
three lucky Grade 6
students and their adult
supervisors from $t.
Mary's —School in
Goderich visited the
"Treasures of
Tutankhamum" exhibit
at the Toronto Art
Gallery last week. They
also visited the Royal
Ontario Museum. (ROM)
and went to mass at the
Toronto Cathedral.
The students, who
raised their own money
through various projects
for the trip tq Toronto,
came back quite •en-
thused, says St. Mary's
principal, Betty Clark.
"The students had a
super bake sale that
netted $130 from parents
and they also sold
chocolate bars. I think
they enjoyed the trip
mire knowing they'd
earned it. I think their
ambition now is to make
more money and go
back," she says.
The Tutankhamum '
exhibit„ circulated to
Toronto by the Egyptian
museum in Cairo,
features 55 funerary
articles, including a
golden chariot, once
buried with an obscure
pharaoh known to us
today as simply King Tut.
Tut, who began ruling
at age eight or nine, died
at the young age of 18. t
Like other pharaohs, he
was buried with objects a
he felt he would need 'in •b
the afterlife. But unlike
most other pharaohs, his
tomb was not robbed of A
its possessions. In fact, t
the entrance to his tomb
was so well hidden that i
was not discovered unti
1922.
Today, the possessions
found in Tut's tomb and
the mumified body of Tut
himself, teach us rnuoh
about ancient Egypt, and
its people.
Miss Clark says many
of the students enjoyed
the trip to the, ROM better
than the Tut exhibit
though. With 25 other
school groups visiting the
Tut exhibit at the 'same
time as the St. Mary's
students and many men
guarding the exhibit
which is worth millions of
dollars, she says the
students felt "hustled
along and much wat-
ched." At the ROM there
were less pressures and
fewer people.
The teachers at St.
Mary's prepared their
students for the Tut
•exhibit. Some Grade 8s
are still working on
research projects on
ancient Egypt.
Miss . Clark herself
prepared the students for
the ROM with a slide
presentation and an
emphasis on how to look
at things. Having been an
employee at the ROM in a
teaching capicty for eight
years, she was well
qualified for this task.
'Miss Clark grew up in
Calgary and attended the
University of Toronto.
She took her teacher's
raining ,in England and
got her first teaching job
t a small, private
oarding school near
Peterborough, Ontario.
She then returned to,
lberta .where she went
o work at the provincial
Among our usual ac-
tivities this week, we had
a visit from clothes
caravan, and the
residents -had• the op-
portunity of going to the
auditorium where a good
selection of clothing was
displayed and many
made purchases. Staff
members were on hand to
help with the fittings. In
the afternoon we held a
"mini" fashion show, and
modelling was done by
the residents wearing the
various items selected
previously.
Grades one and two
from Clinton Public
School • shared their
Hallowe'en party with us.
The children arrived
after lunch dressed up in
costumes which were
judged by two clients
from day care and Les
Fortune and Frank
Bissett, who are residents
at Huronview. The judges
stated that the job of
judging was difficult as
all the costumes worn by
the children were. ex-
cellent.
The children en-
tertained the residents
with a little program with
Hallowe'en theme in
mind. Theafternoon
program was recorded on
the video-: machine- and
shown to the students
after. I think they en-
joyed seeing themselves
on T.V.
We would like to thank
Mrs.' Marie Flynn and
thigh Hodgins for the
music played during the
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Principal Betty Clark.. .
prepared students for ROM
museum and archives in
the educational program.
She selected and trained
tour guides, researched
and wrote their tour
booklets, wrote
brochures about the
museum artifacts and
acted as a liason between
the museun`l• and .the
media.
She went back into
active teaching at CFB
Buffalo Park and
was
et hanee to swop
afternoon. A draw was
made onthe ceramic
pumpkin and was won by
Mrs. Cindy Fleet.
During coffee break in
Day Care on Thursday
morning, there was a
•demonstration of
creative needlework.
Residents and clients
enjoyed a cup of coffee
and a chance to browse.
• Mrs. Proudy held Bible
study in the chapel and
informs us she will have a
guest speaker next week.
Huronview would like
to welcome Mr. ..Rich-
mond (Dick) Atkey from
Clinton and Wallace Earl
Beckett from Wingham.
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Speedy recovery to
Polly Wiltse, Edith
Lovett, Jean Sheppard,
Sadie Carter and Leah
Robertson who are in
hospital. We would like to
extend to Mary Ann
Regier and family our
sympathy with the loss of
husband and father.
aaea
...with party lines
Soft and nubby... soft'and
silky...soft and velvety and
subtly aware of the body un-
derneath.
Fall dress fashions are sen-
sational
in brand new textures and
stylings and• -colours.
planning to teach over
seas when a job offer
came through from the
ROM in Toronto.
"The museum offer
was hard to refuse. It was
one of those unusual ence-
in-a-lifetime teaching
offers," she says.
The ROM has
anywhere from seven to
nine qualified teachers
who, upon request, give
lessons on different
aspects of the museum to
visiting classes of
students. These teac}lers
are not the same as foiur
guides.
• Miss Clark acted as one
of these teachers• for five
years, specializing in
earth , sciences (fossils,
dinosaurs, minerals) and
history (mostly North
American Indian). Part
of her job involved taking
artifacts to remote parts
of the province for
several weeks every
year. -
After five years, Miss
Clark transferred to the
extension services
branch of the museum as
supervisor of school
services. She dealt with
about 60 school boards
across the province in
this capacity. She gave
lessons to teachers on the
use of prepackaged
resource material from
the museum and took
museum -mobiles on tour
across the province.
In 1977 she decied to get
her hand back into active
teaching. She was hifed
by the .Huron -Perth
Roman Catholic Separate
School Board as principal
of St. Mary's school and
began her duties there in
September of 9978. She
teaches French as well.
At present Miss •Clark
is trying to get a grant
from the Devonian
Foundation to fix up a
"museum room" at St.
Mary's school. The
museum room would be a
place where kids could
experiment and learn,
she says. This area rs rich
in artifacts and students
could be trried how to
find them and what to
read into them, she feels.
Miss Clark, who " has
been ,on mineral
collecting expeditions
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ing Tut exhi
and whd has even hunted
•for dinosaur remains in
the West, feels she could
offer some special
training to students and
she's sure others in the
community could con-
tribute too.
"Once the eyes become
attuned to seeing, you
look at things differently
and objects can unlock
secrets for you. I think
this is enrichment in
education," she says.
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