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About that
word honour
Had to make a speech the
other night . to the honour
students at our school. I. say
"had to", because, the vice-
principal, who is six feet
twelve, told me I was going to
be the guest speaker. I am five
feet, eight and a half.
How can you be a "guest"
speaker when you work in the
joint?
However, I done my best, as
we say in the English depart-
4ent: It wasn't much of a
speech, but the remuneration
was not exactly princely, either:
Zero.
'I abhor speakers at honour
nights who get up there and
praise the kids and tell them to
Stick in there and fight and be
competitive, because that's
'what the world is 'all about.
I took rather a different line.
•.
honour student is chiefly a mat-
ter of birth. Either you are born
with some intelligence, in
which case you can walk
• through our school system, or
you are born to a mother ° or
father who makes you get off
your lazy butt and do some
work. In either case, it was an
accident, not something to sit
around and feel self-satisfied
about. r ti
Both my kids were honour
students, in grade 9. And the
boy could almost tie his own
shoelaces when he was 14, and
the girl -was still knocking over
her glass of milk at table when
she was 14. From grade 9 they
went straight down hill. But
I'm not too worried about
them. They both have a sense
of honour, and that's a lot
more important, to me, than
honour standing in school.
Some of the rottenest people,
physically, morally and
emotionally, whom I have ever
met, have been honour
students. With no sense of
honour. -
I was an honour 'student too,
once, in grade 8. This was back
about the tite"of the Boer War.
r knew I was about the smar-
test kid in the school, and was
confident of coming first in
grade 8, or the Entrance, as we
called it. Entrance to what, I
never did find out. Entrance to
five more stultifying years of
school, I oess.
Unfortunately, though I was
the smartestjkid in school, I
was also the laziest. Eddie
Kirkland, now a big , cor-
poration lawyer in Montreal,
came first. I beat him up as
soon as the results came out.
This didn't solve my
frustration. Muriel Robins
came second. I was going to
beat her up too, but she was
bigger than I, so I settled for
third.
Third is a good place to .be.
You can't be accused of being a
teacher's pet as we called it, or
"brown"; -as --today's youngsters
so bluntly label it. On the other
hand, you have proved that you
rcenot---a---durnmyvveA3e
running a comfortable- third
stract words that you hear less
and less these days, as though
it were embarrassing to utter
them, Words like compassion
and virtue and chastity and
loyalty and decency. People
almost blush when they use orae
of them. •It seems that we all
have to be tough and callous.
From this "all", I would ex-
cept our young people, who are
not afraid to talk of love and
compassion and tolerance and
kindness and pity.
They see only too clearly
through the "plastic" , world
they have been bequeathed: a
world of false values, lip ser-
vice to ideals, and violence.
No wonder there is a
generation gap. We worship the
golden calf, . and are flab-
bergasted when our., kids see it
for what it is: a graven image.
We want to sweep everything
under the rug, so the neigh-
bours won't see it. Wewantnur
kids to be "nice", and "sen -
see the joy and the pain that is
ever since.
I was the third member in
our family of five. It was rather
pleasant. I didn't have to com-
pete with my older brother and
sister, and I could bully my
younger brother- and sister.
When it came time to take
our lumps in the war, I still rah
a comfortable third. My older
brother chose to have himself
blown up, rather spectacularly.
My young brother, in a
desperate attempt too =get some
recognition, won a decoration
for bravery after being shot
down in the English Channel.
(I don't see what's so brave•.
about that.) I went quietly off
to a prison camp, and emerged
with three thousand dollars in
back pax. They were both
broke.
There's nothing wrong with.
being a third-place runner. I
don't mind getting a little mud
in my face, as long as I finish •in
the money.
Now let's be serious for a
moment. I'd like to take a
closer look at the. word
"honour". It's one of those ;ab-
real -human life.
These are some of the
thoughts I shared with the
students. In closing, I
suggested, "Don't just be an
honour student. Be an hdnour
person." u
Ido .you agree?
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GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1974- PAGE 3A
Sailors look like Maple Leafs
BY JACK CUMMINGS
Goderich Sailorswith their
new uniforms, Toronto Maple
Leaf colors, socked the Kincar-
dine Bulldogs 643 last Friday in
a rough, hard hitting garpe.
First period §tatted like both
teams were out to knock each
other out of the rink. Jim
Hayter and Bart Williams went
at it at the 18 second mark.
Both went off for roughing.
Shortly after, Jim Hayter .got
out of the penalty box, Dennis
Neilly ended up with a match
penalty. He could be out for the
season as he let a couple of
punches go in the direction of
' the referee, and a couple of
them landed.
After play finally got under-
way, Wane Fisher blocked a
Kincardine pass and beat
Brian Fry on a ,purist shot from
close ,,in. .Jim Farrish (John
Doherty's campaign manager
in the recent election), made it
2-0, unassisted at . the 6:05
mark.
Rob Kellestine had no
.,
c ance on ' nicer ine s irs
goal as Tom .Cuyler, combined
with Elliott Courtney and Dale
Pollock to 'make it 2-1.
Wane Fisher was in the right
spot ,as he tipped in John Fen -
wick's drive from the blue line
for the Sailors third goal of the
period. Each team picked up a
goal in the middle period. Kin-
ardine's Norm McArthur
scored while Goderich Sailors
were a man short and Ken
Meriam, who has been°showing
a lot of hustle got hisJirst goal
since joining the club. This was
his .second game, to date. •
Sailors outplayed Kincardine
by a, wide margin in the second
and third periods, also picking
up more minutes in penalties.
•Jim Hayter and -Mike Courtney
showed their agresslveness in
the game, as Hayter spent 11
minutes and Courtney spent8
minutes in the hox.
Goderich Sailors went ahead
5-2 on Wane Fisher's third goal
of the game. Tom Crawford
and John Fenwick were. also in
the glay.
. Bart Williams got Kincar-
dine's final goal, and before the
game ended, Tom Crawford
made it 6-3. Paul Corriveau
drew an assist.
Sunday .evening in a return
° match up in Lucknow, the
Goderich Sailors held on to
defeat Lucknow Sepoys 5-4.
Sailors got ,three unanswered
goals in the first period as the
line consisting of Tom
Crawford, Dirk Wolterbeek and
Cam McDonald was the best
Tine in -the game. °
Cam McDonald opened the
scoring as Dirk Wolterbeek an"d
Tom Crawford set him up.
Then, Tom Crawford knocked
in Cam McDonald's rebound to
make it 2-0. Before the pal iod
ended, Wane Fisher beat Bob
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The Sailors opened the
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by Dirkc>Wolterbeek. Cam
McDonald fed him a pass from
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cle, and Dirk hit the top corner.
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Jim Murray got his four goals
of the game,
The° tie breaking goal was
scored by Wane Fisher as he
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