Clinton News-Record, 1987-05-13, Page 19PP Day focusses on PR
By Shelley McPhee Hoist
WINGHAM - Teachers, bus drivers,
secretaries, custodians, administration
staff, education trustees - close to 1,000 peo-
ple in total met here on May 4 for' a Profes-
sional Development (PD) Day.
Huron County Board of Education direc-
tor Bob Allan called the giant meeting a
"memorial occasion" in the history of
public education in this county.
F.E. Madill Secondary School was the site
for this unique event that saw employees
and others associated with the Huron Board
taking part in a day -long session that focuss-
ed on public relations and communications.
Keynote speaker Dick Dodds of the East
York Board of Education told the assembled
crowd, "Excellence in communication is
necessary to proclaim the excellence of
your school system."
"You have to have a good product. Don't
try to sell a poor school," he advised. "Tune
up your services before you try to sell them.
Make your first impression an impressive
one.... if you can't communicate in a quality
way, don't communicate at all."
Mr. Dodds said that public relations in the
school system serves purposes including to
help gain and maintain as many students as
possible and to gain public trust.
He said' that a certain segment of the
population feels that public education is not
doing its job. He noted that, "parents are
shopping for education". They are examin-
ing private school, separate schools and
other learning alternatives for their
children.
Mr. Dodds gave examples of the
marketing techniques and newspaper
advertisements used by private schools and
other learning centres.
"I don't knock the private and separate
schools for getting out and communicating
as much as they can. We can learn from
them;" he noted.
He stressed that a marketing program
does not have to be a costly venture, but it
should be a priority aim within the school
system. He further noted that the first rule
in marketing is "do a good job" and the se-
cond rule is "tell everyone you're doing a
good job."
The PD Day featured more than 50
workshops that focussed on many public
relations aims, from telephone etiquette to
school grounds landscaping, from working
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Winners of the Huron County Board of Education slogan contest were recently named.
Bill Black (left) principal of Blyth Public School and Wayne Nichols (right) vice prin-
cipal at Clinton Public School made the presentations at the Wingham PD Day. Winners
were (front row) Margaret Ann Stewart of Blyth Public School, Tyler Papple of Huron
Centennial School, Pat Martin of Goderich Collegiate Institute and Heather Jackson of
Huron Centennial. (Shelley McPhee Haist photo)
with the media to working with community
services.
The day concluded with the naming of the
winners of the slogan contest for the Huron
County Board of Education. Entries were
received from more than 300 elementary
and secondary school students.
Pat Martin of Goderich District Collegiate
Institute was the senior winner with her
slogan "Blue jeans to life's dreams."
At the intermediate level, Heather
Jackson of Huron Centennial Public School
was the top contender with "Enlighten your
child's future." Tyler Papple, also from
Huron Centennial, won at the junior level
with his slogan "Teaching tomorrow's skills
today."
At the primary division the top prize went
to Margaret Ann Stewart from Blyth Public
School. Her slogan was "Aiming for
perfection."
Blyth to host giant book sale
BLYTH - Book lovers, collectors, bargain
hunters, and just plain avid readers are in-
vited to Huron County's largest used book
sale to be held June 6 from 10 to 5 p.m., and
June 7 from 12 noon until 4 p.m., in the Blyth
Memorial Hall.
This popular fund raising event for the
Blyth Festival is in its ninth year.
Thousands of used hardcover and paper-
back books will be on sale at incredibly low
prices. The London Children's Book Shop-
will
hopwill also be on hand with a selection of new
books for sale. In addition to the book
bargains, there will be a bake table and
lunch counter, and tours of the theatre. The
Festival Box Office will be open on the
Saturday from 9:30 a.m., to 5:30 p.m. for
those wishing to purchase tickets for the
Festival's summer season or the coming
fall/spring events.
Happy 191h
LISA
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Donations of used books for this event
may be left at any of the following locations
prior to June 1: Exeter - Public Library,
Bank of Nova Scotia, Exeter Furniture;
Hensall - The Church Antiques; Clinton -
Mary's Sewing Centre; Seaforth - Huron Ex-
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