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Facing • Gibbons Street, the new"addition to the . Goder'icb I ub1m :School pis .,modes 1.; in), everyres ct:: '
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` LIC SCHOOL OPENS TUESDAY,
'Nevi School F141114%1 with the Most Modern ECI,l mnt --
1°0= 141 'Opexkiug . ;geremonios To Be Ts1d Time Thif r;
Costing approximately ,one-third of a milliondollars•, tie.
modern, streamlined addition `to Publie School .Will
open its doors to the ,011/11.),S. `'` citizens of tomorrow" oirr Tuesda'
morning.' 'Commenced a year -ago June 'ia,s t; construction of ^k.
the blinding,. is}.advanced so.'far•.that *the ,classrooms wall be K,
ready f+or 'use, . although • there, is still' some `work to ;be do :e
here and there throughout the building in. general' .
• Equipped' with an; art room., a' Inb ie > Q a `playrosin. "'
,asse,bly, principal's ;:Dace with waiting room., `three istorage
rooms, °tv 'Q• teacher's' rooins,..a ,ntirse'1 roomand ten• elassr(iom$t
the new building has .aceonu udatz'Qn for about, 850 pupils,' with',
each of tb 1 eia:'rooms having; a maximum •capacity .•of 35}°pupile. ` .;
Since the .old sclu of adjoining, which wasS, built in 1910; has
"nine rooms with a capacity~ sof about 300 puu.pilr , there is .an
overall ca iaeit'y `in the enlarged seho00'or some '650 pupils:
fr Public 1(llreas' System
unique ' ".feature o t"; nety
school _ Is its communication and
public ddresss s stem. Loeate(& in
the principal's 'office, the system en-
.. - - - e .pr pal= te-w.talk-tit--the
teacher in any of the new school
classrooms .simply, by pressing a
button -and directing the message' to
that particular classroom. Over
WISE' PARENTS, BATTLING WITH
<:y . INC ASED ' COST 0, LIVING WThX .
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Store:
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:FOR DURABLE, ECONOMICAL CLOTHING •
f F(}R SCHOOL WEAR •
ssociated i t -.. a co •st e:-
Ve •are proud to hive: been a . n li n ru., :.
tion of this fine, ntodern school by supplying and ipstal-
ling the •, plumbing wirin • 'heating :and ventilating.
SEAFORTI-I
THEY WILL BE MADE
ITAPPIER EOR SEVERAL
,HUNDRED GODERICH SCHOOL
aC1lILDREN ATTENDING • • -
GODERICH'S PINE
RETIRED TE :CHER. -La:- ..
--- STUDENT OF NAMES
• "I like names to mean sowethit„g,
to " Ines" W. ,ll. 'JSiacDeuga1-Y" 65,
retired . teacher ' of the Montreal'
High,School, told The Signal -Star:
So Wt.. MacDougall is travelling.
.all over, Canada and some parts
of the' • United States • getting ac-
quainted at first hand with names
geographical and historical -•=
which 'he. has read about in. books
-in his lifetime.
. He arrived in Goderich on Wed-
nesday and after looking up data.
on such names as' " Figer" .Dunlop;
Maitland River, _Canada Company,
',.etc., he Mores on to Sarnia • on
Friday. to spend. a few days brows-
-ing around, that, city doing• the
same thilig.
"Just a ]lobby. to _put • in"fiule,'_
explained.' Mr., MacDougall'.-• :Since
his •retirement '.'from the staff of
Montreal High S.choel about five
years ago 11r.. MacDougall' has
• travelled from coast' • to , coast • -in
Ciraada,- spending a few days 'living
.in oiie town and then moving on
to au.other:•-The past three }''iltters
be spent in, Florida and .one winter
• he spent, ou .the British Coliuubia
coast. A11 of . this 'time, he sitetit
10 looking up what is behind geo-
graphical and, historical names; •
,• Mr.. Mat -'said he was - a
bachelor and that tae. originally
'came ftI`oin - .Oriristown, - Quebec,
about forty milts- south of,' Moils
treat in - the Chateauguay Valley,
Last year he spent eleven 'Weeks
i•Lainiiug through Nova ,S.cotia, -Ile
travels 1)y bus or b;v trains depend -
in';; on' which gives the best ,service
bit s ei ns seOates in the' area' lie is
visiting,' Ile spent Monday after-
-noon •.i'u the Kincardine. Libriiry
reacliia ; ft• book about • the Great
Lakes. "I'm being a' student:' .again
afters being, a tea -cher •for thirty
years," he said:
• Drive carefully. glad . avoid ' accidents involving'
school children.
Remember, sot ool opens ,on Tuesday, Sept. 5th.
This-. i,dverti ement sponsored by•
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, - IN THE CONSTRUCTION OP THE BE'AUTIFIUL NEW SCHOOL' IS MUCH MATERI-
AL SUP1 LIED BY GODERICH MAI UFA C' R,I G ' CO., LTD; THIS INCLUDES..
ALL .FRAMES AND SASH'
ALL IN1TERLO1 TRIMAND, -13O DS
ALL PLASTERING MATIUALS
Ail hardwood Flooring,•.Franmin • Lumber etc
IF .YOU' ARE PLA►N'NING4ON BUILDING OR DOING REPAIR WORK TO KEEP ,
:UUT ¶HOSXWINTE,R WINDS, SEE f c
ASIIFIFLD
needed for, this, raoin-►:.and ,.it is
hoped.*
thaL Sme`. •Public- p xiteti..
citizen or organization will donate
these. The School Board is also; p .
in hopes- that, a piano ' will be. '
denated:se----$I1- pli. room'
assembly. •
Imposing Playroom -Assembly
The:plas;room-assembly, IS. .tt. most
imposing, rooni; with .a large -'stage
located .at the north end. It might
the sante system',; educational 'talks better be described as an auditor -
and also music on records can he ( iuut, but it is understood that',. , the
carried ;from the principal's office 'to Ontario' Department of Edudation •-
any or, all -of the classrooms. frowns on, the •use of the word
Another "feature is the syzichron- f "auditorium" as applied, to a public
ized clocks.. In each classroom is school and prefers .to have.it known'
S• u '.'-:eleetideaily:_oper-ated- s -clock _
r) hzchriiMns tu, lop . z*it a. taster e 1?mwe5 can Iia ed Banc
'clth ', ,Ir..-thei:"plriiicapa s zl'ht , ' Thi[ : ii,tiw tiritte i" m : tt,: 2'2c li 'th..:: ""h' 1t
the teacher in each roam '.will be playr gnritessetlibly measures 40' feet
on time to the• second with 'every in width and TO feet in length and
other, teacher• when it comes , to has hardwood • flooring.
twelve noon,'etc., and [vitt not • hay a 'The corridor floors , are terilizzis
to peer 'down the hall to see, ifand *the dados cement enamel. The
-pupils in'other• rooms have left for classroom floors are asphalt tile, in
the noon recess, etc. - a Variety. of. colors and the walls '
On the west elevation, to ,reduce` are ' decorated in relatibo, to their ..
glare from the sun, directional glass ekposures, the• , warmer colors to-
blocks deflect the,light to the •ceiling wards , the north and. east and the
and thus remove the Aare from the cooler • c'hlors on the west. ,,
-eyes of the prupil .- They el.d. style the new 'scho011 of fire resist
blackboards. 'are no more.' Instead ant construction, reinforced 'con: ••
there are.Nucite chalk board's whose• trete frame, concrete folindat1ont3, ".'
surfaces are -green,. thus' preventing 'brick facing with block backup .and.'
glare w, from the, old -Style boards plaster. The roof • is' bonded for
`which is said to have had''injurious` twenty yearls. and .al•1• 'flashing is
effects ' on the' ,.eyes of • pupils of ''.copper. , ' .
yesteryears: ° ' . • General contractors for the build-
The ceilings are acoustic, aiding ing .were George •Hardy tatd. sof
considerably in carrying the voices Toronto. . The building superin-
of. the children; .-tendent, is William Lines. -Architect •
• • Air Conditioning' ,was • Charley $. Gilliti sof London
The nevi building has forced . • .Nine, een on. Staff
Ventilation,t! with, approximately Principal of .tae' Goderich•Public
fifteen cubic feet• of fresh air •per School will be II. M. Shackleton,
minute -'per ' sttident entering- the with a staff of 'sateen(' 'wonlien
classroom. This air is 'exhausted 'teachers and ,two male tenehers.
through the wardrobes, ventilating 'Chairman of the Public :School
same and ,tending to dry out clothes Board'Is-Mrs. •F. J. C't irry. • Other ,
in -wet weather. The heat-ing of the members are: •Frank- Kershaw,,,
builclirlg' is•'by' :standard .convectors chairman 'of the property commit
at the window Walls. They -are set tee Harold Bettger, B. 1lilne,,
in shelves below the 'windows., The Roy l;!.s tterson, J.• H. • Lauder, III.' S..
`old school has had split. ventilators rner,'• Clifford ' Lowery, • S. H.
built in each clnscrooin. to -;provide Blake • is' 'secretary. •
fresh air' and additional heating. • Official -opening of the •news school,
The old: building to ' been complete- will be -held' at ' a later. date, .pos-' •
ly • rewired for lighting ,and ., its :~ably some :time. ,in 'October, when
lacatipg system has-been Connected -elaborate ceremonies will be, 'car -
with the' new boiler. plant.' ' • Tied ',out to mark the modern ad-
• Iii the Hely school there. erg two clition to 'Goderich's public school.'
tn,lets trpstaaii5 and tcvop.downsta.irs,' Teaching, Staff
the. latter being equipped with The teaching staff, headed by
showers, • The kindergarten room,. Principal H. DI, Shackleton, is as '
Which is located just to the right follows; Miss' • E. • Hume; ' kinder-
oil the 'main, entrance on Gibbons), garten ;- Miss II, Videan, grade
street. has ;(cpa•rate toilets • adjoi-n,1: Miss' • A.. Wilsbn;. grade
inI;
g the• room; , .• III;ti ' ' 11. Fisher,, grades 1,'•
The new school is equipped with, '``and. 3 ; Mrs.' E.' Cory, grades- 1, 2
i1ew type seats,-thri,t is, a. taT)le ,laid. 3; 3Irs. I, Steivart,: grades
-and; chair instead of the ,old-style stud 2; Miss C. 'Leicllnian•, grade 2; 'a
scats, gelid each. of these view units, MrsMrs.. tits Morris), glade 3 ; 3Iiss M.
costs,
o ts' about X17. Milan) --grade 3 accelerated and 4;
Fireproof doors separate the new Miss' F. S,tursly; grade •4'; Mrs. L.
and 'the 'old school buildings. There Thorneloe, grades 4 and 5; Miss E.
is n Erre aalarm system throughout .MacDonald,' grade 4 acceler,Ited.and
the entire school:. ,; Miss G. .Sturdy, grade; 5 and, G;
The art room in the new building Mr. B. Stewart, grade 6'; ..Miss G.
eon he used As,. a kitchen also and •George, auxiliary (-lass; Miss L. .
It lir expecte(] that. meetings of the ' R,obinsoii, •: grades 'G and: ''; Miss ..
Iloule. and School Association Will .G• McDowell, gra'cle 7 ; Mr... Al:
be held In ,this room.. An electric. Stephens, grades 7 and 8; Mr. H.
ztove and' alsb` a refrigerator are 31,,, Shackleton, grade 8: .•
The Late ,Mrs. Joseph •Griffin.--- Mrs. Thos. Griffin of Goderich. - For.::Laura Lannan of London, Mrs. Lulu
The brat b'reaik in a ditippy,' family •a short time they lived in Sarnia, 1 Perry, Mrs. Pearl, Killian and
circle occurred early Wednesday but lu,ost of theirs haippy life was hint (I•rifin of Detroit. ,A sister,
morning, August._1)1h,' when death spent in Detroit tta : t iiiiin de Mrs. 'D, A Maclntyre, predeceased
c;lamed 31t i Joe Griffin .in hospital! voted- herself to' her house ,and. fain- ! her in Januar;[' an.d her 'oldest bro-,
at, Detroit. Her passing rerngved wily and 'to httr• Phta'reli, •aa model' ther in 1916. During,her illness.
from the' andhoe a .kind and loving l hostess' ann trite hoi e-inai;er. liter „family were totreter several'
wiife 'and mother who was 'of a Her illness 'dates haat: about -.nine; ; t.imes , Much nymph uy is felt for
cheerful -nature and _whose first coli-1iiionths. ,Ati.'cif)ertitii)I1 for, inte'rna'tlithrt_bereit\ed f.z,uailies,.ardotlg•whoni
sideration was the • thinking and; trouble was followed, by bright •a strung, bond of affection had
planning for the. happiness. of "r'ospects, but she gradually sank'Ways existed. Requiem mass was
•others. Mrs: Griffin
n ''was 'the peacefully away', surrounded by; sung • at the fuperal iai 'Detroit,
former Ilermenia Q.ri.flin,• datiglht& Members of her family.' Sheis stir-; when a large number of sorrowing
of the late. Sarah O'Loughlin and, vived, by •her 1uisband and three; friends were -in attendance. Buvitli;
John T. Griffin, and . she spent. her
girlhoodand,_- legir Kintail, where she,.
is remembered as a girl full of
Sunshine, a friend of old and young,
with a gracioUs, manner and _ldndt`y
disposition, Ito 11)22' site . married
Joe Griffin, soon of the late -Mr: midi Saclip MacKinnon of Parkhill, Mrs. I went to ,Detroit- for the ; funerirl.
faithful and dutiful 8011S, John and took •plane • in "Mt. , Olivet reinetery
Xa)seph, • p•f :Detroit, and .famesi; of i on August • 11. The' pallbeu,rers
Lansing, Mich.,, and two• grand-!, were six nephews, John and
children.. Also surviving are two Joseph Grifiiu,.' Ted Griffin, Edward
brothers, Albion and Frank Griflin4 i. Perry, Bert and Pill Killian. Mr.
of Detroit, and five sister:•,. Mrs.,! D. A. Metdtfre and Mrs. Carter
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