The Brussels Post, 1975-10-08, Page 14Huron view
The Clinton Christian Reform Church held their song
service on Sunday evening led by Dick Roorda. Miss Jill
Wheatley sang a solo accompanied at the piano by Mrs.
Henderson.
William Farnsworth was welcomed to the Home at Monday
afternoon's activities and entertained the residents with violin
selections accompanied by Mrs. Elsie Henderson. Mrs. Mary
Broadfoot, Frank Forest and Norman Speir provided the old
tyme music playing several of, the old dance tunes such as Rye
Waltz, French Minuet, Waitz Country etc.
Pictures of the Centennial parade was the theme for the
"Family Night" program. Dr. Ken. Wood of Clinton showed a
twenty minute film strip and gave an interesting commentary
of the 180 entries. Coloured slides taken by Mrs. Willa Taylor
were shown and musical numbers were provided by William
and Melvin Farnsworth accompanied by Mrs. Henderson. Dr.
Woods played several piano selections and accompanied for a;
sing-a-long. Miss Bertha Diehl thanked those responsible for
the program on behalf of the residents.
By the way, we are making plans for the coming year's
programs and if you or your group could help as volunteers or
with entertainment, we would appreciate hearing from you.
Communication is
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Trustees are like a board of
directors of a corporation in John
Cochrane's view. "They don't
have time and ii,,probably isn't
;;; • their role to get involved in the
nitty gritty."
Mr. Cochrane says he suggests
policy to the board: he doesn't
, make it. But, he agrees, trustees
usually accept his suggestions.
; There is a close bond of trust and
'-; co-operation between the board
• and the administration. ,11 After all, he says "the board 11 hired us to run the system for it."
New System
He says that a new sv.stam of
bringing all business before the
whole board before it is sent to
committees is working well and
- offse tting charges that much of
the board's work was being done
out of the public eye. Committee
' of the whole sessions are also
being kept to the minimum, he
, says.
1)` He says the Huron board's
afternoon meetings, which have 44
1 been criticized because working
people can't attend them, happen
because most of the trustees
favour them. "There's a definite
3 cut off point". Meetings at night,
tend to go on ,after midnight and
"you're beat the next day," he
';! says.
Meeting format is set year by
year and may change, Mr.
4 ° Cochrane says. But as long as
,there's the apathy that there is;
'til people are beating down doors
; to change to night meetings, the
director says he's —all for the
afternoon sessions.
John Cochrane, who's beeti an
;. educator since his graduation
from University of Toronto and
OCE after service in Worla, War 2
says he doesn't see a conflict
; , between the business and
academic side of his job. "The
1:11 dollars can't become all ;;•-• important, but you have to
temper academic desires with the
J facts of life."
d 15 Years
He says he doesn't think as a
1 'Iteacher anymore (it's been 151
!" years since he taught regularily in
Pa classroom), but his view of what
education is indicates that he isn't
]the totally hard headed
Musinessman.
!.? Modern educators, he says
Sstrongly, are not running trade
tschools. Education should help
'1' ople to think, to reason, to
now the difference between
Aright and wrong, and to p
Donald . Ives G r:l 'understand their environment. I
p- 51 There's too much knowledge is. ;
learn a set of facts and parrot p
:11them back. They have to learn I
RiRP.11802n, eStlyth :ithe world today for kids to just, I
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OCTOBER 8, 1975
Cochrane says.
He thinks continuing education
is very important. Adults in the
county can have "anything they
want" taught at the board's night
school classes, as long as they can
help find a teacher' and get
enough people interested in the
class.
The schools are avilable to
municipal recreation committees
free e charge for any programs
that they sponsor, and to other
community groups or private
clubs for a fee, he says.
Does having his own kids, four
of them, help him as he directs a
system that tries to fill the needs
of more ;than 12,000 other
students? It may have helped, but
in some ways it's been a
hindrance, John Cochrane says.
They were all, until the oldest
graduated this year, students in—
Huron schools. It's been hard to
know, when he went to a school
about one of his kid's problems, if
he was treated as just another
parent, he says.
Know Why?
The big change in today's kids,
the director thinks, is that "they
still want somebody to dow the
line, but they want to know why
its there. In my day, it was just
there."
The kids, probably, have
changed for the better. He thinks
probably the schools have too.
However, he says, we can't stand
still and the trend away from the
basics is probably a natural
development.
"I'm not so sure I can define
what the basics are." Schools will
be putting more emphasis on
skills; the introduction of two
compulsory core subjects by the
Ministry of Education this year
is\ , probably an indication of that,
" he says.
(Next week John Vintar, Director
of the Huron Perth Roman
Catholic Separate School Board)
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Students at brass concert
Otn October 8th, the grade
eight's and some grade seven's
will be going to see a well known
group of Toronto performers, the
"Canadian Brass". This is paid
by the money from the Huron
County Music Nights of 1974-75.
The program is in Clinton at 1:00
p.m. and will last about one hour.
Students will be back for regular
bus time. The remaining grade
seven's will attend a similar
concert in November. This is one
thing we all can look forward to
attending.
Marlin Good
vChocolate Bars
Again this year the Students'
Council at the school has
purchased chocolate bars. These
chocolate bars were distributed
among the classes so that each
student could have a fair chance
at selling them. These chocolate
bars each weigh 4.3 oz. and cost
one dollar. If you would like to
purchase one of these chocolate
bars, almost every student of
Howick Central has some.
Take it from me they are good!
Gary Douglas
House League Raise
This year our school has had to
raise the fee for seeing House
League games in the gym. The
usual two , cents per game has
been increased to four• cents. The
season's ticket is raised from one
dollar to a dollar twenty-five.
Teachers versus students games
could be anywhere from six cents
to ten cents. Games played at the
Community Centre will be even
higher. Also there is a rule that
Seniors can only see Senior
games and Juniors only Junior
games. This is to stop all the
fooling around in the 4e,•zm by
people who are not really
watching a game. This raise is so
the school can buy trophies and
arm bars for the students. Some
students feel they are being
cheated because of being able to
see only certain games, but we
realize this raise is necessary and
we must pay it to be able to see
the House League Games.
Marlin Good
Trip for Kindergarten
On Monday, September 29th
both Kindergarten classes went
on a trip to the apple orchard.
Each child picked an apple to take
back to class. When the children
were back in the class they
measured their apples with pink
wool. After the apples were
measured they were set on a
ledge. Each child drew a picture
of an apple and printed their
name on it. In little groups they
cut their apples and made
applesauce which they enjoyed.
The children enjoyed eating a
Snow Apple at the orchard. The
applesauce was made with
MacIntosh apples. The orchard
that they visited was Mait-Side
Orchard on the outskirts of
Brussels.
Patricia Burbidge
Exams
This year, instead of having a
great big giant exam at the end of
Term Three, the, teachers and Mr.
Robertson have decided to just
have a term exam at the end of
each term. This is good news to
the students because they will
only have to worry about one
term's work at -a time. The
teachers have also decided that
any' one achieving a 75% or
higher mark on term 1 and 2 and
have put forth a good effort and
gives his or her best may not have
to write the 3rd term exams;
however they will not be told if
they are excused from exams
until the day before, and they
Douglas
w i will be expected to be prepared to
write anyway.
Gary
Grey has
Kindergarten tea
The Kindergarten tea that was
held on Tuesday September 30th,
had a fine turn out. There were 40
mothers and grandmothers
present. The Home and School
pre pared the tea. This is the
first year ,a "tea '" has been held,
and it was very successful.
The Grey soccer teams played
against Brussels- and the boys
played to a 0-0 tie, while the girls
were tied 1-1 also. Then again
we played Howick Central on
Thursday the 2nd of October. The
girls won 1 to 0, and the boys lost
4-0 in favour of Howick. We play
Brussels on the 7th and 'Howick
on the 9th.
Two weeks ago, Mr. Perrie's
grade 5 class went to Mait-Side
Apple Orchard in Brussels for the
field trip. They were allowed to
pick apples off the ground. The
class toured the orchard, and then
went in to the room where they
store the apples. They enjoyed
themselves very Inuch.
Joan Cardif Cathy Deitner.
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