The Brussels Post, 1975-12-17, Page 4A GOOD CROWD FOR A GOOD DINNER — A
large number of people enjoyed the banquet and
'dance at the Brussels Business. Association annual
ChristMas party Saturday night. Santa Claus was a
special guest. (Photo by Langlois)
Celebrate
anniverscir
A most enjoyable time
spent Saturday evening in
,Brussels Legion Hall on
occasion ofJack and Jean Conl
40th Wedding Anniversa
Scott's orchestra supplied
music for the happy event.
The, bride and groom of
years ago received many loy
gifts. A cake,. beautifu
decorated by Mrs. John Good}
of Listowel, and ruby cand
centered the head table. T
Legion ladies of Brussels suppli
the bountiful lunch and t
evening was enjoyed by all,
Friends attended from all pa'
of Grey Township also fro
Listowel, Stratford, Kitchen•
Blyth and Seaforth.
Sunday evening, Decemb
14th, the family enjoyed a boun
ful dinner at Ranton Plac
Palmerston.
F. E: Madill School Daze
It is the wish and dream of
every great mathematician to
leave his trademark in his field,
and especially to have something
named after him. While talking
about conics, a certain math class
in a certain room near the
student lounge learned the real
story behind the naming of the
"D egenerate" conic. (It was
named after Mr. Hawkins).
Winter is here, bringing with it
snow and ice and all the unpleas-
antness 'of winter driving. One
damsel, whose car was stuck on
ice, outside the student lounge,
breathed a sigh of relief when two
gallant young gentlemen came to
her rescue. They pushed and they
shoved, but since they were
pushing the car up a grade, two
-just weren't enough. If only they
had one more body. Suddenly
they looked up to see a figure,
wearing glasses, jeans and a red
T-shirt with a Madill Mustang,
come dashing towards them.
With one flick of this powerful
arms, the car was out. Who says
superman doesn't hear the cries
of those in distress?
Mr. Kopas, while talking to
students about university applica-
tions, encountered a new event,
worth recording in his diary.
Allowing the students to have one
great "Ripoff" that day, he
instructed everyone to rip-off the
back information sheet from the
form, and leave all the rest intact.
You can imagine the surprise of
one student when be grabbed the
form and ripped the pages, only
to find eight sheets of paper and
carbon paper ending up in his lap,
and that last information sheet,
remaining iMitact.
Club News
This column has been absent
for a few weeks. Therefore I will
catch up on a few items which are
probably stale news now but
worth mentioning.
The yearbook printing will go
on this year. It took a long time to
sell enough but they finally
managed. The book and record
swap netted about $30 to pur-
chase records.
On Wednesday December 10,
the safety awareness team com-
prised of Andy Heim, Glenn
McLean ) Bob Strauss and Gordon
Wray travelled to Clinton to
compete fot the Huron Perth
Championship. They took the
game against Exeter 28-22. Then
they clobbered Goderich'36-16 to
take the championship.
If you have been wondering
why the music in the hall is so
repetitiouiS, the audio club is short
of equipment: kovveVer the club
is trying to do some re taping.
Maybe for this week they Will play
Christmas Carols.
Gordon T. Wray
Canadian Pride
The first Russia-Canada•
hockey series' brought a feeling of
4--tHE BRUSSELS POST,
pride to every Canadian. This is
one student's view of how that
series affected Canada.
On a cooly September day back
in 1972 almost all of the twenty-
two million people in Canada
were tuned into what proved to be
the most exciting hockey game in
the history of the game.
The game was #8
between the best players of
Canada's NHL and the best
players of the Soviet Union.
Not only were the Canadians
watching this game, which, by
the way, would determine who
had the better hockey players,
Canada or Russia because they
were tied at three wins apiece and
a tie each, but the Americans,
English, Japanese, Chinese and
probably anyone else who had a
radio or television because it was
a world-wide broadcast. Never
before had Canadians received
such international recognition
especially beside such a great
world power as the U.S.S.R.
Yes indeed, it was a time for
Canadians to be very proud of
their country and most of them
were. But, let us go back to
Vancouver and the night team
Canada played the Soviets in that
city.
Without a doubt, Canadians
were probably ashamed to admit
to the world that the Vanconnver
people belonged to Canada after
what could be described as the
most disgusting show of poor
shortsthanship and letting their
team down. Not only did they
treat the Russians in a very
inhospitable fashion, but they
booed the team that was trying to
gain hockey supremacy in the
world for Canda.
Well, everyone makes mistakes
even. Canadians, so let us move
on to jolly Moscow(
Well the Canadians had left for
Russia in poor spirits after the
degrading escapade in Van-
couver, in fact, some were
probably wondering if it was
worth pushing themselves to the
limits Of physical 'and mental
endurance for these heartless
people.
But the Canadian people gave
team Canada back the courage
and support it needed to carry on.
When they arrived in Moscow,
about three thousand Canadians
arrived shortly after and hun-
dreds of thousands sent tele,
grams wishing them inck M the
games to come.
In the Moscow arena, on the
night of the eighth and final
game, Canadian patriotism was
quite evident amidst the thou-
sands of Russian fans. A huge
Canadian flag was held high by
exuberant fans while all 3,000
fans raised their voices in pro,
bably one of the most moving
renditions of our national anthem,
0 Canada. And back in Canada all
DECEMBER 17„ 1975
those watching or listening raised
their voices also in the singing of
their national anthem.
And even as the game wore
down to the final minutes no one
moved from his set,' and they
were rewarded. Paul Hendersons
goal in the dying seconds of the
game set off one of the most
thunderous chain reactions of
whooping and cheering. It went
right from St. John's to Van-
couver and from the North Pole to
the 49th -
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Yes, that moment was probabl.
Canada's proudest moment, an
even when I thing of it today,
can still feel that tingle of prid
and patriotism run, up and dow
my spine. Canadian Pride.
Ken Reid 13
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