Times Advocate, 1999-09-22, Page 5Wednesday,September 22, 1999
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SH student
chosen as
student
trustee rep
By Stew Slater
SPECIAL TO THE TA
SEAFORTH -- Prior to
the first regular 1999-
2000 meeting of the Avon
Maitland District School
Board on Tues., Sept. 14
in Seaforth, South Huron
District High School stu-
dent Beth Ann Hern was
chosen to sit in on the
meetings as this year's
student trustee represen-
tative.
As part of a new format
for the board's student
advisory committee, Hern
will be joined at the meet-
ings by the alternate,
Seaforth District High
School student Sarah
Agar. Together, they will
report back to the student
advisory committee, which
includes trustee and
senior staff involvement,
as well as student repre-
sentatives from the
board's eight other high
schools.
"It's a position that stu-
dents are still trying to
understand," suggested
Mitchell District High
School principal Gwen
Bestard, who took over
this year as student
trustee mentor and intro-
duced the 10 student
trustees at last Tuesday's
meeting. She says all
trustees report back to
their. respective student
councils; some are chosen
through a vote by the stu-
dent council, while others
are recommended by staff:
at the high school. -
"In some schools, there's
quite a competition for the
job but, at others, people,
just don't seem to know
that much about it,"
Bestard said. "It's not like
the student council presi-
dent, which has been
around for years Wand='
years and people know:'
what it means."
Prior to last Tuesday's;
meeting, the student.
trustees posted their,
resumes on the boards.
Web site and indicated if
they would like to repre-
sent the advisory commit-
tee on the Avon Maitland
board. As a result, Hern
and Agar were chosen.
"(The student trustees)
can't have voting rights.
because they , weren't
elected by the public,"
explained director of edu-.
cation Dr. Lorne Rachlis.
However, Hern and Agar
will be encouraged to
enter their names for
nomination onto separate
board committees.
In the past, one student
representative has had a
chair alongside trustees,
while a special table has
been set up for student
representatives from the
board's nine other high
schools. Rachlis says this
discouraged student
involvement because the
nine other trustees could-
n't participate in the
meetings, so they often
stopped attending.
South Huron Big
Brothers/Big Sisters cele-
brated 20 years of helping
children Friday night by
honouring long-time sup-
porters. Lifetime member-
ships were given to (from
left) Bob Reynolds, Mensal!,
Tony and Marlene Bedard,
Zurich, Jim, and Dorothy
Chapman, Exeter,William
Mathers, Nairn and Don
Watt, Lucan. The
Chapmans were honoured
for their extensive support
of the association while
the other recipients were
recognized for their signifi-
cant contributions to the
bowl-a-thon fund-raising
events.
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