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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1969-11-27, Page 4PAGE FOUR ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1969 The Readers Write -- Zurich Ontario, November 24, 1969. The Editor, Zurich Citizens News, Dear Sir; In response to the report in your paper November 20, 1969, regarding the hockey game played between the Zurich Junior team and the Zurich Intermediate team, we find ourselves be- wildered readers. It is most amazing to realize that the report- er in attendance was so well aware of the weakness of the Junior team due to the events of the previous evening and yet so com- pletely unaware of the activities of the Intermediate team that particular night. Surely they too could claim physical weakness as a valid reason for lack of much higher achievement. It is most surprising that at such an event as that particular game, when the Intermediates played far beyond the expectations of we spectators, that they should continue to receive this obvious lack of support from their HOMETOWN newspaper. Unless mem- ory deceives us, at the final game of last season when the Inter- mediates won Intermediate D Grand Championship, the photo- grapher from the Zurich Citizens News was present.... without a camera! Two Zurich Hockey Fans. EDITOR'S NOTE: Since this is the second time in recent weeks that this newspaper has been accused of not giving equal publicity to the Intermediate hockey team in Zurich, the editor feels it is time to defend the situation, as it exists. In answer to the first part of the above letter, it must cer- tainly be agreed by the writers that the junior hockey team was short of four players when they played their senior partners in a game which was really only meant as a practice for both teams. Added to this is the fact that the juniors used three goal -tenders, and might easily have defeated the Intermediates had they left their regular goalie in, throughout the entire game. however, we thins the game was not a test of strength on either part, but strictly a good workout for both clubs. We must also recall, how- ever, that the junior's had played a strenuous game of hockey the night before in their 4-0 defeat over Belmont. The part that does make us get a bit hot under the collar is the accusation that this newspaper does not give the Inter- mediate team the same amount of publicity as the juniors. For your information, we went through all copies of last season's newspapers and carne up with the following facts: During the 1968-69 season, playing in a 30 -game schedule, the Junior hockey team was given a total of 256 inches of publicity, while the Intermediates playing in only a 16 -game schedule were given a total of 258 inches of publicity. Not much difference there, was there? In the terms of newspaper folks, this would amount to $180. 60 worth of free publicity for the Intermediate team. We must also bring to your attention the poor co-operation of the management of the Intermediate team last season. We had a most difficult time in obtaining copies of referee's reports fol- lowing the games, and on many occasions had to get down on our knees begging for this co-operation. The Junior hockey team saw to it that a copy of every game report was left at our office im- mediately after the game. You can hardly expect a newspaper in a community this size to have sufficient staff so that a report- er might attend every game at home and away, although we do try to attend as many as possible. We doubt if there is any other community newspaper this size in Ontario that gives as much publicity to sporting events as we do. Finally, let's be honest with ourselves. The junior hockey team in this community draws at least three or four times as many spectators to a game as the Intermediates do, and in any other town in the country the biggest attraction always receives the most publicity. And yet, we devoted more inches of space last year to the Intermediate team. What more can we do? Now, we will admit our one mistake last season as far as the Intermediate team was concerned. We did not have our camera along when the boys won the championship in Palmer- ston, but surely we are entitled to one mistake in an entire sea- son. In case anyone is interested, we had not planned to attend that particular game due to a heavy work load at the office, but in the last minute a couple of friends dropped by and coaxed us to travel along with them. In all the rush and confusion, we completely overlooked the camera, we must admit. However, you will recall that we did publish a team photograph the fol- lowing week. On Monday night of this week we had planned to take photos of all the players on the Intermediate team and devote a full-page to the opening of their season. However, when only about half of them showed up at their practice we decided to delay this project until after their first game, when we can catch the entire group. Does this sound fair enough??? If anyone can tell us how we can do more that we are in the line of helping the Intermediate team to better publicity, we would certainly appreciate hearing from them, Any comments, anyone ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 ♦ts it Member: ink �� �� Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association %'Y118111bha Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association 111.18P4* 17t As Subscription Rates: $3.50 per year in advance in Canada; $4.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents A rewarding profession Most teachers become very fond of certain students. And, believe it or not, some stu- dents become very fond of cer- tain teachers. This was made painfully clear to me over the weekend. I became involved with a veri- table spate of my former stu- dents. They're all at university now and each was going through some part of the par- ticular hell that that involves. It began on Friday after- noon. Gerry appeared at my classroom door, looking like a rabbit that has just had a run- in with a wolf. While the class I was about to teach chattered about what they were going to do tonight, chewed their gum, waved their mini -skirted legs, or dropped into a deep slum- ber, Gerry told me his trou- bles. He is one of the nicest boys, and one of the weakest English students, it has ever been my fate to encounter. He's the kid who rushed about last June and bought me a bottle of bur- gundy and six golf balls after receiving the incredible news that he'd passed in English. His only problem Friday was that he had three essays to write in six days. He was look- ing for a life belt. I was fresh out of them, but gave him some reference books, some sympathy and some ideas on how to tackle his essays. I don't think he has a hope in heaven of passing his semes- ter, under those conditions, but he's learned something: you don't wait until an essay is breathing down your neck_ be- fore you write it. That very night, another for- mer student called her mum, who lives across the street from us. She wanted to know if the Smileys were going to be home for the weekend. If so, she was coming home, because she had to see Mr. Smiley. She has graduated and is attending a college of educa- tion, purportedly learning to be a high school teacher. Her problem was a little different. She had to teach some poetry this week, as part of that 20th century form of the Spanish Inquisition known as "practice teaching." This involves facing a class of strange students, with an eagle-eyed professional teacher watching from the back of the room. Harrowing is the world. So I spent Saturday after- noon going over the poems with her and getting her all muddled up. But she left with a pile of notes and the feeling that she could survive the or- deal. Sunday afternoon I met two more former students, under different circumstances. I couldn't help them with their work. It was in a funeral home and their mother was dead, tragically, after a brief illness. I kissed the girls and hugged them. There wasn't anything else to do or say. Sunday night, one of them, Liz, closest friend of our daughter since Grade 7, came around and spent two hours talking with my wife and me. Not weeping, just talking in her sensible, sweet, 19 -year- old way. And last of all, there was another former student, my own kid, Kim, staggering around in that horrible chaos of first-year university. Bell Telephone stock took another good shot in the arm when her mother called her Sunday night. She had just discovered that she'd been missing two biology lectures a week, all fall, be- cause they weren't on her timetable. And maybe this was the reason she wasn't doing so well in biology. And she has an exam in it this week and she knows she'll fail and she'd like nothing better than to quit the whole silly business and get a job as a waitress. And that's the way it goes, if you're a teacher. I've been at it for only ten years, but in that time, I've found very few youngsters who are vile or des- picable. There are some. But most of them are funny, con- fused, lost, brash, shy, aggres- sive, kooky. It's only when they become adults that they seem to turn into pompous bores, nagging wives, stuffed shirts, shrews, gossips and all manner of un- pleasant creatures of both sex- es. Perhaps there's a great uni- versal truth in there some- where. But I can't find it. How- ever, it makes up for a lot of the frustration and nerve -rend- ing days of teaching when the blase, sophisticated teen-agers come back to see the old man when they're in trouble. 0 ACHIEVEMENT NIGH T The twenty-second annual Huron County 4-H Achievement Night will be held in the Sea - forth District High School, Sea - forth, on Friday, December 5, commencing at 8:00 p.m. All Huron County 4-H Agric- ultural Club members who com- pleted a project in 1969 will receive their awards on this occasion. Everyone who has interest in the 4-H program is invited to attend the Achievement Night. Teachers' Salaries Still Under Study (by Shirley Keller) A conunitte to study teacher's salaries and benefits was appoint- ed at last Monday evenings meet ing of the Huron County School Board. Committee members are John Broadfoot, Bob Elliott, J. Hend- erson, D. McDonald, Mrs. Wal- lace and Mrs. Zinn. The committee has been given authority to reach settlement on salary matters, but benefits which could affect non -teaching staff as well, will be presented to the board for ratification. Habkirk Transit Service Lim- ited, Seaforth, has offered to purchase another bus on the understanding that the board's transportation committee will deal "fairly" with him when it meets to deliberate. The board has accepted this offer. Lorne Haugh has resigned as head custodian at Huron Cent- ennial School. He will be re- placed by J. Zwaan in that capacity. Two new custodians at Huron Centennial School are Kenneth Overboe and G.M. Wallace. Miss Mary Ann Weiller has been appointed head of the physical education department at Seaforth District High School. A. Dobson will be head of the guidance department at the same school. Joseph Mogan is the new assis- tant head in the history depart- ment at South Huron District High School. Mrs. J, W. Wallace suggested the board get together with the teachers and perhaps, even the students, to discuss aims and purposes of education. At least two board members indicated there was a danger of discussion becoming related to personal matters. Further sug- gestion was that an agenda for discussion be drawn up and fol- lowed. Director of education John Cochrane offered to give the matter more study to discover what happens in other areas where a liaison committee is formed. Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRISTS J. E. Longstaff OPTOMETRIST SEAFORTH MEDICAL CENTRE 527.1240 Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Sat- urday a.m., Thursday evening CLINTON OFFICE 10 Issac Street 482.7010 Monday and Wednesday Call either office for appointment. Norman Martin OPTOMETRIST Office Hours: 9- 12 A,M, — 1:30 - 6 P.M. Closed all day Wednesday Phone 235-2433 Exeter — — ~ __— ACCOUNTANTS Roy N. Bentley PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT GODERICH P.O. 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