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MARCH is Demonstrator Month, come
in and test drive one of the Demo's at no
obligation,
SEAFORTH
MOTORS
Phone 527-1750 Seaforth
Lot Open Evenings to 900 p.m.
(cootinuO from `-.4)Fg
rroo. t)mi staff one ,must
Single 04 Mr. O. 'Rogerot
Principal.In the early 1900's
wo hecome-Director of EdUca-
pen for the province. I might
also mention here that when
took ever as Minister in 1064,
the Director of Edncation was
one of Canada's great educatora,
Dr. Stanley Rivers, whose sis-
ter, Mrs. Helmer Snell lived so
many years in your town.
Another man, Mr. A. A.
Smith, who will no doubt be
remembered by many in the
audience came to Seaforth to
start his teaching career fresh
in 1939 in the spanking new ad-
dition just then Opened. Al
Smith is now Director of De-
pendenta Education for the De-
partment of National Defence,
responsible for all our fine
armed forces schools in Cana-
da and Europe.
From the student body I
mention but a few, Dr. Howard
Kerr, former Principal of Ry-
erson Institute now Chairman
of the Board'of Regents for the
Colleges of Applied Arts and
Technology; Mr. James Gilles -
Pie, now deceased, who was
Principal pf Central Technical
School in Toronto for so many
years; Mr. Frank Hogg, Admin-
istrator of C,orrespendence
Courses; Mr. Donald MacTavish,
Assistant Director of Special
Education; Mr. Robert Mc-
Naughton, Assistant Superin-
tendent of the Supervision Div-
ision; Mr. Frank Ryan, Separate
School Inspector in Windsor;
Mr. William Lang, Area Super-
intendent from London and re-
cently retired; nay Executive
Assistant, Clare Westeott; and
Mr. James Scott who served
with distinction as Assistant to
the President of Waterleo Uni-
versity and has done so much
to publicize the Seaforth and
Huron County area through his
writings and speeches. I must
confess when looking for his-
toric data on Seaforth I found
that the information from
which I gleaned my few re-
marks , was compiled by Mr.
Scott.
Seaforth High School was or-
ganized January 7, 1879 a mere
twelve years after Confedera-
tion. Many changes have taken
place with new additions in
1939, 1954 and now in 1968.
Change in education, howev-
er, is not confined to education-
al facilities. Programs and meth-
ods of teaching I am sure we
would all agree have undergone•
extensive change in the past
few years. Change has also been
evident in our school boards and
the areas over which they
have jurisdiction. As you know'
a further change is proposed for
January 1, 1969.. This should
be no more surprising than the
change which has taken place
in, schools, as exemplified by
this school, and in school pro-
grams, as indicated by the type
of accommodation providedin
this addition. In this as in oth-
er areas of endeavour today, un-
less we adapt to changing cir-
cumstances we will increasing-
ly become less relevant to the
dynamic society in which we
live. We must, therefore, as we
have in this building recognize
the contribution Made by school
boards of the ' past and build
upon the strong foundation
which we have inherited.if we
are to know greatness in the
future. We must not allow ad7
herence to the institutions of
the past deprive us of our hope
There is
MUCH G09,1) GRAIN
in Huron County
in spite of the.,
bad weather last summer
GET YOUR GRAIN
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before the spring rush
and while roads are still good
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Clayton .Calquhoun R.R. 1,
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Tim Toohey - • R.R. 3, Lucau
Raymond McCurdy R.R. 1,
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Robert Gardiner R.R. 1,
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Harry Coates - - Exeter
Clayton Harris - Mitchell
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for the future.
The announcement of the re-
organization of scheol ittrio7
dictions 'included a reference to
our Ontario heritage In the
field of education. A Signifieant
part of our educational history
has been the development of
larger units 'of administration.
In 1870, Egerton Ryerson drat"
ed a Bill which would have giv-
en a county council the authori-
ty "to form any of the Town -
shins within its jurisdiction in-
to one School Municipality, as
is each City and Town, and -to
establish a Township Board of
Common School Trustees".
In 1920, The Minister of Ed-
ucation, in his Annual RePQrt,
outlined the suggestions of the
school inspectors;
"That in our opinkon the GW-
ernment would be justified in
bringing into operation a larger
unit of school administration.
That in our opinion the Ontar-
io counties ought ultimately; to
become3, the units of school ad-
ministration, and that the sup-
port of elementary and second-
ary schools outside of towns
and cities ought to be by means
of a uniform tax rate levied
throughout the county."
Forty years ago consolida-
tion of public school sections
began. Township councils were
empowered to form all or any
part of a township into a town-
ship school area. The Depart-
ment of Education attempted to
encourage the -practice throggh
the use of financial induce-
ments. The efforts resulted
In more than half of the form-
er public school sections be-
ing formed into township school
areas.
In 1964, legislation establish-
ed the township as the smallest
unit of administration for pub-
lic school purposes in Southern
Ontario. This legislation has
been described in the Report of
the Ontario Committee on Tax-
ation as 'possibly one Of most
signal reforms of the century."
The establishment and en-
largement of secondary school
districts was initiated more 3
than twenty years ago. Since
that time, the large majority of
continuation school districts
and many small high school
districts have been absorbed
into larger high school districts.
At the end of World War II
there were 5,600 public, separ-
ate and secondary school boards
in Ontario. Today, there are
about 1,335 school boards oper-
ating schools.
In other provinces the trend
has also been a greater. consol-
idation of school districts. The
number of school boards in
many provinces has been signif-
icantly reduced.
In our attempts to meet the
needs of the future, the estab-
lishment of county school divi-
sions is the culmination of the
many previous developments to
whichI have referred. If you
care to examine the direction
which legislation in education
has taken in the last few years,
you will see that everything
has tended to further our pro-
gress towards the ultimate goal
of equality of educational op-
portunity for every child in
Ontario.
The statement of this goal as
the cardinal reason for the esta-
blishment of larger units of ad-
ministration should fret be sur-
prising.
Our efforts should always be
focused upon the needs of the
child and the goal of helping
each individual to reach his full
potential.
Certainly, the overall goal in
the reorganization of the Dep-
artment of Education, which I
announced in January 1965, was
the pursuit of this ideal. In
Legion
Bingo
Winners
One of the largest crowds of
the season was on hand Friday
evening at the Legion bingo.
It was held in the Legion Hall
and is sponsored by Branch 156
with proceeds going -towards
Legion welfare work.
Winners of special games
were Bill Atitin, Seaforth; Tony
Uniao,Mitchell; Mrs. Gridzack,
Seafooth; and Dora Taylor, Sea -
forth:
The door prizes were won
by Ilene Plant, Seaforth and
Stan Watson, Mitchell.
Following are the winners of
regular games: Tony 'tibiae,
Mitchell and Dora Taylor, Sea -
forth; Mrs. Stan Watson, Mit-
chell; Mrs, T. Uniac, Mitchell;
MTS. Campbell, Mitchell and
Mrs. Tom Sharp, Clinton; MI's.
F. Maloney and Norma Muir,
Seaforth; Mrs. Sturdy, Holmes-
ville; Judy Brown (2),- Seaforth;
Mrs. T. Morris, Seaforth; Mrs.
Tom Sharpe (2), Clinton; Mrs,
Jim Watson, Seaforth.
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"this announcement I stressed, In
addition, the need for Integra;
lion of elementary and seeour
dory education and the decen-
tralization of authority. 1 need.
not elaborate on'the steps that
have been taken in the past
two years within the Depart-
ment to integrate and decentra-
lize educational administration
and decision-making.
The announcement of larger
units of administratio.n under
the jurisdiction of boards of ed-
ucation is an important contin-
uation of the progress towards
the ideal in educational oppor-
tunity and the further realiza-
tion of the two major gals —
decentralization and integration.
I should like to elaborate on
these two concepts and their
importance to the attainment
of our educational goals.
First — "Decentralization":
'The county school divisions
will be large enough to as-
sume a greater degree of local
autonomy: a continuation of
the decentralization principle.
As far as possible each division
will be an independent unit un-
der the jurisdiction of a board
of education which will employ
its own supervisory and admin-
istrative officers.
The establishment of larger
units of administration under
the jurisdiction of a board of
education makes it possible to
employ a professional supervis-
ory staff without duplication of
personnel for various levels of
education or a multiplicity of
school jurisdictions. The board's
supervisory officers will be dir-
ectly responsible to the board
for the implementation of its
policies and the co-ordination
of the educational program at
all levels.
Second — "Integtation":
The divisions will be under
the jurisdiction of boards of ed-
ucation which will afford the
best possible, cigrice, for, an ex-
tension of the ft -integration prin-
ciple a,t the local levek With
both levels under One board it
will be possible to purposefully
analyze the programs and the
necessary interrelationships,
and to co-ordinate effectively
the total school program.
The desire for improvement
has also been accelerated by
other factors, such as:
(i) the increase in chool pop-
ulation;
(ii) the knowledge explosion;
and
(iii) the increasing complexi-
ty of the organization required
to administer and to provide ef-
fective and efficient leadership
in education.
An accounting of the reasons
for the establishment of coun-
ty units of administration must
begin. with the educational ad-
vantages.
Equalization of Opportunity
Of prime importance, of
course, is the equalization of
educational opportunity. The
provision of special services to
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ger 'units which will steadily
bring us closer than heretefore
possible to our goal of equality
of opportunity for students.
Better Planning of Facilities
end Servicas
The larger units will facili-
tate planning on a broader base
and will permit the establish-
ment- of a system of priorities
for the financing of both cap).-
tal and operating costs. .
It will be possible to reduce
to an absolute minimum any
duplication of accommodation,
transportation, special seryices
or staff, thus establishing a
sound basis for the utilization
of the tax dollar.
Special Services '
The provision of special ser-
vices deaerves repeated refer-
ence because of Its importance
to the fulfibnent of the role of
the schools.
It is increasingly important
that individual differences in
children be recognized; that
human worth in all its many
and varied forms be considered
when preparing programs for
children. The new units will be
capable of providing a greater
range of specialized personnel
to assist the schools in recogniz-
ing the needs of our young peo-
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