Huron Expositor, 2000-04-12, Page 3News
Rare books become apart
of uni ue fund effort
qraising
Dick Burgess
using works
of Sir Walter
Scott to raise
funds toward
school saving
legal fund
By Susan Hunderfmork
Expositor 510
• A rare. and possibly
'one -of -a -kind. I0 -volume,
,set of the Complete N'orks:
- of Sir Walter S.ot:t is
being donated by retired.
- focal English teachLr. Dick
Burgess to raise money
for the Save Seaforth
Schools legal fund..:
And. while he has -no
evidence they're directly.
related. Burgess is
targetting members of the
local Scott- families 16
sponsor'each volume of
the 150 -year-old set with
hopes. it'll he on.. the •
library shelves of Seaforth
District. High Schoolfor
another 150 years: •
"The Scotts have always fund when each volume,il ' Scott w.as a prolific_ writer
been very generous sponsored, w•ho ranks next 'to
-benefactors Of**,this Each .olume • will Shakespeare in his
• •community and this is contain a.. 'bookplate oontribu`tion to English
'i.ntended as:a tribute to recogniiing,the.sponsor literature:, His. poetry
the contribution they'.ce and-if.SDHS closes..the includes the -.Arthurian
made. It's one way local collection will bl>onated legend such as The .Lady
Scotts- .might like. ,10 to '. the., Seaforth and of the Lake•and`hi novel:
::remember their heritage." District Museum. include Ivanhoe. Rob Roy.
says Burgess. ' Burgess says - one and Quentin Durss and
.As a collector who volume has already been ratter, whom . Burgess
library of several sponsored by Mart, Doig., named his soni. ,
thoffsanir rare books. • who. :because she -Burgess says he's. taught
Burgess bought the set at performed as the •Fair over a hundred Scot•
an auction, in London last Maid -of Perth in -a school -.since coming 16 Seaforth
year. A recent search' on pageant as.a young.girl'in in. 1964 and has watched
the. intern -et for a similar- Scothand. d'as dray n to: many. SI)HS graduates
set, •has ied Burgess_. to' donate 5100 for• that benefit, -from scholarshir•
believe that his is -the only. volume:" ' iotailing' hundredsof
one is existence. Along •with members of thousands of dollars from
"V1'ho can say what it's the Scott famtls. Burgess • the Bru-ce." Scott ;and
ssorth'.Its not in perfect- is welcoming donations Elizabeth=Scottbursaries:-
condition but pretty good from those with Scottish The tie --in- to education
for 1850.- he says. adding backgrounds and losers of seemed very apt." •a) s
that .some single titles are great literature..Burges of his fundi_ ,:ne
. isriced'at.:several hundred ' -"People are being drawn. project..•
dollars each.. -to sponsor volumes-•th-ay As a lifelong student 01
The set,is red. embossed - have some • special : literature. an a'yi_d
and clothbound _and each meaning to them. he • 'collector-Of:.rare, books
'.ulume is approximately; says. ''1'm quite confident and a committed supporter.
700 pages. - all the volumes. will be •of .the Seaforth
sponsored." community .and... its
Bur€ess says Sir Waiter schools. i felt this was an'
Susan Hundertrnork photo
' Dick Burgeswih The Complete Works of Sir. Wolter Scott
Burgess_ is hoping 16
raise 'S l .000 for the legal
Nervous Jefferson takes home new car
By SusanHundsrtmark; become a -finalist that she . congratulated me -when 1
ExposeorStoH thought .he'd receised a son." shesays:
crank call. Only a call to Jefferson says _ she's
Michelle Jefferson, of the Seat:orth grocers shire taped the commercial that
Eg:mondt'ille. `was so. made her hciiese.the news. ,, records the moment she
nervous before s Inning. Then. • she asked learned shti won the car:
her. new car Saturday ,that . eservi4ie she knew to keep .• "1 started.crying. when 1
she -woke at 6 a.m. and :their fingers erased for won i've never :won
began cleaning the *house,`. _ her. anything. that big before. -11
• By 10 a;ni., the house; ' 1`think I had the town's was -ms 15 seconds of
was spotless and she'.hod- -support. Eserybods Has fame." she says.
nothing 10 do but pace . rooting • :for me and •
until' she could lease for
the draw*- at Seaforth's
Knechtels"Food:Market at
1 1:30 a.m.
"1t was the longest.hour
and a half of my life." she
says..
Jefferson. who was one
-of five -finalists for.. the
draw, was so shocked by
the phone call from
Toronto that she had
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contribute:" .he say •
addingthat he too ha•
Scottish ancestor;.
• The Complete Works of
Sir. Walter.S:cott -will he
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