The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-08-15, Page 18Page 18—Lneknow Sentinel, Wednesday, August 15, 1979
Lise Gunby, a journalism student at Durham College in
Oshawa, Is getting a taste of what the newspaper profession
Is. about In her summer job as reporter with The Huron
Expositor, Seafotth. Although she thought she would find
• political stories. the most appealing, she has learned that ev-
ery story she does. Is interesting. She will finish her course at
Durham College next year and then hopes to go' to Paris for
six months for immersion in French to become bilingual. Her
goal is to work as a reporter in Ottawa because politics is her
special interest and she feels bilingualism in French and
English is a must for a Canadian political Journalist.
[Huron Expositor Staff Photo]
Open picnic
pavillion
BY
DON MACTAVISH
On Wednesday, August
the Ripley and District
Lions officially opened
the picnic pavilion that
they erected this sum-
mer.
The pavilion is located
on"' park land donated
from the Wayne Lowry
subdivision between the
4th Concession and 2nd
Concession of Huron
township in thq Lurgan
Beach area.
At the ' official
presentation, Past
President Harry Coiling
turned bver, the keys to
Joe Hodgins, Chairman
of the Ripley -Huron
Comrnunity Centre
Board.
The Lions members
and their families en-
joyed a picnic at the
pavilion and also present
•were the Huron Township
Council and their
families, and four ex-
change youths with their
host families from, the
Lucknow Lions.
Nicholas Lutz, a youth
from Switzerland hosted
by Charles Liddle of the
Ripley Lions Club was
presented with gifts.
Takingpart in the
official ribbon cutting
were Harry Colling, Joe
Hodgins, Mike Snobelen,
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•
Reporting for weekly newspaper
interesting work experienc e ,• .
Initiative is a necessity for
a journalist, 'according to a
second year journalism stud-
ent at Durham College.
Lise Gunby, formerly of
Ashfield, is getting her first
practical experience as a
•reporter on her, summer job
with the Huron Expositor in
Seaforth.
Initiative is something that
cannot be taught in the class-
room, says Lise. For her,
initiative means to care about
your work. She is surprised
at the joy she gets out of even
the smallest stories.
"Journalism gives you
such spectrum," she says. ,
Despite her editor's prom-
ise at the beginning of the
summer, that they were
going to work her to death,
Lise is mor! enthusiastic
• about her career since she
• started actual work. experi-
ence• .
She used to think political
stories would be the most
fascinating, but her Expos-
• itor job has shown her even
municipal politics can be
interesting and she enjoys all
the writing she does for the
paper.
She writes a consumer col-
umn and works on a craft
column with another writer
for the paper. She has done
• council reports, features and
found local stories on nation-
al issues such as the refugee
• crisis.
She hasn't chased a fire
truck yet, but her aparttnent
is next to the town's firehall
so she really can't miss the
siren. Some night before the
end of the summer she ex-
pects she'll be off in the
night to cover afire
"It is hard to find issues in
a small town: because every-
one is so • friendly," • she
observes, but she, has been
surprised at the things she
has found interesting.
1 . -
When she finishes school
next year she wants to go to
France to learn the language
so she can speak • French
fluently. Her goal is to be a
political journalist, reporting
from Ottawa. A .career as a
political journalist requires a
working knowledge of both
English • and French, she.
She was frustrated by the
language barrier when she
interviewed a family of Viet-
namese refugees who had
just come to Canada, and
considers an ability to speak
both languages a must for a
Canadian journalist.
There are many things she
would like to do when she
finishes school. She wants to
travel, learn French, take
economics and political sci-
ence courses at university
and some days she has the
romantic notion of going off
to live in a garret in Paris.
She wants to be a novelist.
It is her real ambition. She
hopes to take a course in the
novel because "writing is a
craft; talent is not enough".
Initiative is something Lise
had without being aware of
it.
When her class was as-
signed to interview a prom-
inent person, she and a
friend decided to interview
Robert Stanfield and John
Diefenbaker. They went to
Ottawa and Tied in a hostel
fora vveeken ast year. They
were there when the federal
election was called.
Mr. Stanfield's office
would not return her call so
Lise called Joe Clark's office.
An aid told her Mr. Clark did
not have 30 minutes to spare
for an interview before the
election and asked if she
wished to speak to anyone
else. She asked to interview
Mr. Stanfield and a return
call later arranged her inter -
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view with him, She asked for
30 minutes and he gave her a
45 -minute interview. While
she was getting her interview
with Mr. ,Stanfield, her
friend was interviewing Mr. ,
Diefenbaker.
She enjoys Richard Need-
ham, Globe and Mail col-
umnist, 'and he once wrote,
students often call` and ask to
see him and then never show
up.
Lise called and asked for a
meeting and he agreed to see
her. She met him at his office
at the Globe and Mail and.
during the last months of
school beforesummer she
had several visits with him.
She said she was surprised
that he would take the time
to talk with a journalism
student but found he was
probably just as surprised
that she came to see him.
She used to think Need-
ham had • a • "market on
truth", but as she grows
older she is not as sure. He
once said everything is good
and bad and that's the glory
of 'It sounds good but do
we let the •bad things stay
because that's the glory of
it'o she asks.
Lise was raised on a farm
which she remembers as a
joyful experience. Her child-
hood was wonderful because
of it. Her parents, Merle,and
Sheila Gunby, farm in Ash-
field and formerly near Bur-
lington, but she doesn't think
she could return to life on the
farm. She ,chose to go to a
college in Toronto 'and she
likes the city.
She worked with mentally
retarded for two summers
and originally took' a year in
Mental Retardation Coun-
selling before enrolling in
journalism.
"People think it requires
patience to work with the
mentally retarded but it
really does not require spec-
ial patience," she says.
"You _must go slower."
Her immediate aim in jour-
nalism is to become know-
ledgeable about world affairs
• and ,current events. When
she interviewed the Vietnam-
ese refugees she knew little
about Viet Nam. She learned
as she did the interview. She
hopes someday to be familiar
with the background issue to
a story before she does the
• interview. That'l a good
journalist. 3-41
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