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Page 2 Times-Advocate, May 25, 1967 Former resident
dies in Toronto
The funeral of the late Mrs..
William A. Balkwill, former
resident of Exeter, was held
Monday, May 22 from the Hopper-
Hockey funeral home with Rev.
D, S. Warren of Main Street UC
officiating.
Pallbearers were three grand-
sons, Clare Balkwill, Rodger and
Ted Milliken, Lorne Haugh, Bill
Ford and Lorne Porter.
Relatives and friends from
London, Detroit, Hensall, Mit-
chell, Toronto, Belleville, Kitch-
ener, Hamilton, Gederich, Mill-
bank and. Hanover attended.
Mrs. Balkwill, the former
Sarah Ann Rush, died in Humber
Memorial Hospital, Fridaa, May
19 in her 90th year.
Her husband, William A. Balk-
will, was a carpenter and builder.
He predeceased her in 1940.
Surviving are two sons, Rus-
sell of Exeter, William of Tor-
onto; three daughters, Mrs. Ger-
ald (Ruth) Ford, Hanover; Mrs.
M. C. (Dorothy) Milliken, Mill-
bank, Mrs. Charles (Clara) Hart,
Montreal, 13 grandchildren and
20 great-grandchildren.
Plan open house
at district .school
Centennial planting at GB church
A flowering almey crabtree planted Sunday morning in front of St. John's-By-The-Lake Anglican church
at Grand Bend will add to the beauty of the church grounds as a Centennial project. The Rector, Rev.
Norman McLeod is shown throwing in the first spadeful of ground while other members that contributed
to the ceremony look on. From left, Peter Gill, Mrs. D. Cutting, Mrs. R. Love, David Graham, John
Aselstyne, William Dace, Mrs. L. Baker, Mrs. W. Dace, Ken Young, Fred Newton, Fred Walker and
Horace Lake. T-A photo
By MRS. WM. WALTERS
Mr. & Mrs. Wm Walters visit-
ed Sunday with Mr. & Mrs. How-
ard Dayman and family and Mrs.
Joseph Dayman at Kippen.
Mr. & Mrs. Harry Sparling
of London visited on Sunday even-
ing with Mr. & Mrs. Freeman
Horne.
Mrs. Phil Hern, Mrs. John
Coward, Mrs. Elson Lynn and
Mrs. Horace Delbridge attended
the District Annual on Wednesday
at Crediton Communitey Centre.
Mr. & Mrs. Bill Gilfillan,
Randy, Wendy, and Sherry of
Exeter spent Monday with Mr.
& Mrs. Colin Gilfillan and Bar-
bara.
Too Late to Classify
FOR SALE Gerney 30" pro-
pane gas stove and propane water
heater, both in excellent con-
dition. Call 227-4576. 25c
FOR SALE —235 pupils' old lock-
ers are to be disposed of by
the Clinton District Collegiate
Institute Board, Clinton. Re-
quests stating the number of
lockers wanted and the total price
offered must be submitted to the
Board, in writing, by May 31,
1967. Any offer need not be ac-
cepted. 25c
TOP SALARY OFFERED
MALE HELP WANTED
Local automotive dealer requires
someone who will work as at-
tendant on gas pumps and recon-
dition new and used cars. This is
a soft job but it requires some-
one who is neat and ambitious.
Write Box 197, The Times-Ad-
vocate. 25c
ate these machines after a brief
training session,
Teachers will learn effective
use and management of this type
of equipment in a Department of
Education course in Audio-Visual
Methods sponsored by the Huron
County School Area # 1 board and
given in this school during the
next year. One hundred and five
teachers from Teeswater to
Arva, and Goderich to Sebring-
ville will attend this course for
four hours every Tuesday night
from October to April.
Changes in the curriculum (the
sum total of the educational ex-
periences of a pupil) may be found
in the Language Experience
Reading Programme. In this pri-
mary reading programme t h e
teacher organizes a series of
experiences about which the pu-
pils talk, read, write, research
and paint.
The varied interests and abil-
ities of all pupils are drawn out
through a high degree of pupil
Involvement in every area of
the work. Pupils progress at
their own rate, school is fun,
work is interesting, activity is
encouraged, and pupil progress
is faster.
In the middle and senior grades
other significant factors may be
noted. A stress on group activi-
ties, special interest areas in
each classroom, research proce-
dures, and a rotary system are in
evidence. The special subject
areas, gym, art, music, science,
and in September French, add
variety and interest to the stu-
dent's programme.
Movement from room to room,
meeting different teachers, and
the high degree of pupil involve-
ment could turn school into a
fairly tolerable if not quite a
pleasant place to be.
The absence of desks in
straight rows with the teacher's
desk middle front underline these
advances.
And what about those groups of
children sitting in clusters in the
hall watching a filmstrip, o r
painting a mural, or following the
directions p r e - recorded on a
tape? Pupils move about the
classrooms and to other areas in
the school, such as the reference
room or the audio-visual room,
during many periods of the day.
They are persuing meaningful,
directed activities. They will
learn responsibility, to think for
themselves, to look up informa-
tion, to discuss eloquently and to
love books and the knowledge they
contain.
The following paragraph was
written by a grade seven stu-
dent.
My interests in the new school
are so innumerable, it will be
very difficult to name them all.
One of the most fasinating is the
auditorium where we have Physi-
cal training and get to use various
gymnastic apparatus.
Another is the rotary through
the day where we get to move
-- Please turn to page 3
That's a lot of lacing
Paul Pooley, centre, managed to come up with a pair of old-fashioned shoes to compliment his costume
for the EPS centennial day. Members of the grade one class admiring the footwear are Braden Whil-
smith and Laurie Heimrich on the left and Jill Tuckey and Michael Burke on the right, — T-A photo
BY ARNOLD MaTHERS, B.A.
PRINCIPAL, HURON
CENTENNIAL SCHOOL
On Thursday May 25 from
7:00 - 9;30 rain. Huron Cen-
tennial School will hold Open
House. This will give most par-
ents and friends their first op-
portunity to see the school and
its new programmes.
During the past twenty years
the pace of change has been
accelerated in Western society.
The trust of education is to truly
mirror the society which it
serves, However the rural
schools, a servant of the stable
agricultural community, were af-
fected little by educational chang-
es.
Therefore, the movement of the
Stanley, Blyfield, Tuckersmith
and Egmondville pupils to their
new central school signifies far
more than the movement to new
quarters. It hails an era of edu-
cation to these townships and vil-
lages which is on a par with the
educational systems of the cities.
The overall stress in education
has moved from the rote mem-
orization of a list of facts to a
pupil-centred, research minded,
activity programme.
In 1282 Roger Bacon boasted
that he knew all practical know-
ledge of his day. Today new know-
ledge is said to be increasing at
the rate of one set of encyclo-
paedia every seventy-five days.
Stated simply, the pupils may
not be able to quote Gray's "Elegy
in a Country Church Yard,"
but they will appreciate the poem
and other pieces of similar lit-
erature, and know how and where
to find the poems and informa-
tion describing it.
What real changes can be seen
in the new school? How are these
changes related to current edu-
cational philosophy?
Perhaps, to the pupils, the ride
to school on the eight newbusses
owned by Gingerich Bus Lines
Limited is the initial evidence
of the mechanized age. Pupils
no longer walk up to a mile to
school in any weather. Dad no
longer has to drive the children
to school on wet or cold days.
The children are picked up and
returned to their gate by an ef-
ficient and safe method. Accident
rates per mile on busses are
far lower than among pupils who
walk to school or are driven in
cars. Busses are checked reg-
ularly by their operator and by
the Department of Transport to
conform to very strict safety and
loading regulations.
Inside the new Huron Centen-
nial School the flourish of Audio-
visual teaching materials (called
hardware) is a most conspicuous
addition to the modern educa-
tional system. It is not unusual to
walk down a hall and see first year
pupils operating a filmstrip pro-
jector, tape recorder, opaque
projector or Language Master.
Incidentally junior and inter-
mediate pupils also learn to oper-
A complete wreck
The car shown above was totally wrecked when it smashed into a tree on Main Street in an early Sat-
urday morning accident, Driver George Pratt and passenger Walter Peitsch are recovering from in-
juries sustained in the crash. — T-A photo
In the dedicated service of all, Salvation Army
workers make no distinction of race or creed. They
are always ready to assist victims of poverty, per-
sonal tragedy and disaster. Help The Salvation Army
to give aid and comfort whenever it is needed.
Letter to the editor
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RED SHIELD APPEAL
Exeter Branch Canadian Legion
Canvass
balance owing at a higher rate
of interest.
Before we do this, I thought
you, the people who really own
the pool, would like the chance
to clean up the balance owing
Monday, May 29
J.H. Eddie
H.M. Eddie & Sons Ltd.,
Vancouver, B.C.
One of Canada's foremost nurseries
7 P.M.
500 each
flrefetqimes-Atwocafe IN THE TOWN OF EXETER
663 two-dollar bills would,
do it.
You may send your donations
to IrVine Armstrong, G e r al d
Webb, Ted Pooley or leave it
with Charles Smith at the Bank
of Montreal, who will give you
a nice, new receipt, suitable for
Income Tax purposes.
The swimming pool adds great-
ly to the recreat tonal facilities of
Riverview Park. When we of-
ficially open the improved River-
view Park in July, all other new
additions will be paid for. Don't
you think it would be splendid, if
the swimming pool also, could be
DEBT-FREE?
I had intended writing this
letter during the weekend at
home; but Unfortunately, had to
have an emergency admittal to
hospital.
yours for a debt-free swim-
ming pool.
Ted Pooley,
Chairman of Finances.
704,4t 7
Mrs. Esther Parker of Liver-
pool, Eng. arrived by air Satur-
day to visit three daughters now
living in Canada including Ws.
Stanley Gill, Grand Bend, on the
nursing staff of South Huron Hos-
pital. Mrs. parker is in her 84th
year and this is her Sixth visit
to Canada.
Dr. And Mrs. John Page, son
and daughter of Brockville called
On friends in town Monday. Dr.
page spent his elementary school
days in Exeter being a son of
Hey. and Mrs. Arthur Page,
formerly of the James Street
manse,
South Huron Hospital
May 23, 1967
While it does not feel much
like swimming this morning —
with frost on the ground —I feel
that you, the people of Exeter
and district, should know our
financial position, regarding our
swimming pool.
When we built the pool, we
borrowed from the Bank of Mont-
real enough money to complete
it. The Swimming Pool Commit-
tee signed a note to get this
amount. We still owe $1325.00.
We did collect all but $215.00
of the pledged amounts, We also
received grants from the Town-
ships Of Stephen, lily and Us-
borne. I understand that many
of the boys and girls from these
townships use the pool facilities
for supervised swimming les-
sons.
On Saturday, I received a letter
from the Hank Of Montreal, asking
that we sign a new note for the