The Citizen, 2004-07-01, Page 15This year's grads are: Graduates of Grey Central Public School are, back row from left: Keith Lewis, Madelaine
Deitner, Juile Weichel, Sylvia Spek, Cheryl Cox, Mike Lefor, Tanya Bechard, Sara Baker and Crystal Blake. Middle
left: Robin Kirkby, Dena Davidson, Alyssa Lanting, Ashley Sholdice, Meagan Keffer, Mark Tully, Lindsay Stewart,
Kaylea Brunk and Jessica Carbone. Front left: Vanessa O'Neill, Jasmin Power, Anna Glen, Lance Stafford, Tyler
Deitner, Steven Kuepfer, John Bentley, Amber Daugherty and Taylor Runstedler.
THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2004. PAGE 15.
rey Central Public Sch
Grade 8 graduates told to follow their dream
By Cheryl Cox
A dream is a seed, the seed of
a tree: a tree full of life and the
things you can be. Your
dreams are the windows
through which you can see
a hint of your future and the
things you will be. Each
night when you sleep
you're feeding the seed the
seed of the tree of who you
will be.
I know that everyone in this
room had or has a dream job. I
wanted to be a doctor at one time
and Mr. Payne was waiting for the
Beatles to ask him to be the fifth
Beatle. The point of this is that I
hope that everyone of us graduates
follows at least one of his or hers
dreams and tries their best to make it
come true. I don't think we actually
live without a few dreams to keep us
going.
Like Winston Churchill once said
"I am always ready to learn; but I
don't always like being taught." And
in my case, it's true.
Now on to what really matters
tonight, our memories of this school.
The first year that most of us came
to this school was about 10 years
ago. We were the first class to ever
start junior kindergarten at Grey.
The two teachers that we could have
had were Mrs. Douma and Mrs.
Hem. I remember we had a mixed
class of junior and senior kinder-
garten students. Some of the older
kids who were in senior kinder-
garten would ask us if we had failed
the year before as we were both
starting our first year at school at the
same time.
Our Grade 3 teacher was Mr. Park.
He was always good at tricking us.
On April Fool's Day, he told us that
the school board needed our chairs
to see if they were safe enough for
us to be sitting on. He took all of our
chairs away.
Next he told us that Mrs. Peach
was going to a workshop and she
needed our math textbooks. The
only problem was we were right
in the middle of math class. So
we ended up having four text-
books at the front of the
classroom. So we would
have to go up to the front,
look at the question, go back
to our desks, copy it down
and then answer the ques-
tion. We had to do all of this
while standing up.
I remember in Grade 4 it was
odd to have Miss McKay- for
almost a whole year and then one
Monday she comes back and we
have to get used to calling her Mrs.
Murray for the rest of the year. Then
in Grade 5 she goes on a leave of
absence and comes back with a baby
boy.
Before she was to be married, we
had a party for her. The funniest
thing that had happened was when-
someone made the comment that she
wouldn't have to change the initials
on her undcrwear, and it was true.
Mr. Mason was our Grade 5
teacher. He probably felt that he had
the worst class possible. I can
remember one thing specific about
that year. Mr. Mason was really into
fishing. We had an aquarium at the
back of the class with fish that he
had caught at the lake. We hated
those fish, so almost every day, we
would try our best to kill them. We'd
use pins, chalk, paper clips, huge
pieces of food, such as pizza. chick-
en and hotdogs.
It would never fail, after we'd kill
them, the next Monday there would
be three or four new fish in the tank.
So we kept on trying.
The longest grudge award goes to
Mr. Payne. I still think that he's
upset about someone taking his fish
stapler. He still hasn't found it. The
funniest thing is that he went out and
bought a stapler with a seal on it.
I don't know about you but I
haven't seen too many Grade 8 boys
dancing to a Mamma Mia song. Can
you guess who they were? That's
right, John and Tyler. They were
singing through almost the whole
production.
Mr. Garland is the teacher for the
SCC classes. I don't know him as
well as some of the other students
but they tell me that he's a pretty
awesome teacher. He could fool any
of the younger students that he was
Santa with a few pillows and a cos-
tume especially after he made an
awesome Santa in the Christmas
concert.
We can't forget Miss Henry's
1-1/2-day engagement. She came to
school with a huge ring. People were
saying that she was going to marry
Santa (aka Mr. Garland) because he
had pretended to kiss her at the
Christmas concert, but then they
were saying it was Mr. Barlett who
was one of our supply teachers.
Eventually she told us that it was
one of her early April Fool's jokes.
Good one Miss Henry.
Not- that long ago Miss Aarssen
found a toupee in Mr. Payne's filing
cabinet. Now why in the world
would Mr. Payne have one of those?
I guess it's better than having no hair
at all, right Mr. Payne?
I would like to thank the class for
voting me Valedictorian, it is such
an honour to be chosen. I would also
like to thank our three main teach-
ers, Mr. Payne. Miss Henry and
Madame Colquhoun. They have
done so much for us, and I know
we'll miss you all very much when
we leave. I give you all credit for
putting up with us, because let's just
say we're an energetic and talkative
class.
In Mr. Payne's class you'll never
miss a story because he'll tell it to
the class again about a month or two
later whether you've heard it or not.
By now, I'm sure everyone of us
knows how to say, "May I go to the
bathroom?" or "May I get a drink?"
in French. When Mr. Payne leaves
our classroom during French time
we ask, because Madame C doesn't
know our "no going to the bathroom
during class" rule.
History and geography classes are
lots of fun, but I can't wait not hav-
ing to write another one of Miss
Henry's hard "You'll fail if you
don't study" tests. Miss Henry
knows everything that is happening
whether or not we tell her. It's as if
she can read our minds.
She likes to give you the format of
the test and then decides to change
something and not tell you until you
are five minutes away from writing
it. She says it keeps us on our toes.
I would like to thank Mrs.
mcdowell for putting up with us for
four years. I would also like to say,
on behalf of the class. "We hope you
enjoy your transfer to Goderich. The
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