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Supplement to theGoderich.Signal-Star, Thursday,.July 8;1970
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BY MICHEL.LE COOK'
BROONSIDE
Teachers•, parents
•fellow ciass'mates;•
Tonight I feel deeply
honoured to be .'chosen - as .
valedictorian to speak :.on:
behalf of 'the Grade -8 students,
for Brookside School 1976.:
Fel.lgw students I ' C rr-you
..iernember•• your first day of
school and visualize the• look..
o.n ;,your''parents' .fa-ees?••
:Looking around here tonight.
• you `'see some of thee same
expressions:
As you were walking out the
lane- to get on- the bus. for
Brookside or. North • Ashfi:eld
Public School ,forl`the, very
firstme, your parents•were
feeling happy, but .sad
because ;you were growing
Valedictorian for Brookside up:
;,public.. School this .year: was But tonight I'rn sure that
Michelle Cook. (staff photo) they ape feeling happy,. proud
.and satisfied ihat,•their child
has completed the'frret-step
towards a :well-rounded "
education.:.•
Scfiobl.and .growing u.p can
:be`'conppared •to climbing a'
•tree. Since that•very first
of .school we have been•
climbing a tree to , si<c, cerss:,
About•, •-h-alf.'•,the. graduating..
:.cuss :started; their 'roots at
Brooks ide, School but it would.
he:unfair rot to.mention the
rest of u.s who received; our..
ground root -s at N.A.P S, and
several in other schools.:
• We. experienced a . gr.e.at
struggle 'to reach that. first.
limb. And once 'we "reached.i.t
we''had a great feeling ;of:
Success. As we grew . older
and stronger, we• learne.d•td._
j -each• u,p to .the next branch
But as we. clitithed. this tree
we had to be careful -not to fall
(inotheewords nottofail)_
Now we've' reachted the.
;halfway . 'point . in `our
education;•.or halfway up the
• 'tree. The foliage of'the tree at
the halfway mark : is lnuch .
thicker and.:greener than .on
the lower branches__
But parents,.teache•r-s,.girls
and boys, we all know that the
now
-Most irhportant goals are
near the toy^nd as we go
through :School W or.,, climb
higher into the tree, we'rea'ch
a :.point where ,,we •can
visualize: the important `:goal
m.•front of us; that of,:a. career'.'
Grade 8 is a' ti•i e'in your
„l.ife ' that you :Will always
'remember; beeaue you have'
succeeded in the top. grade:i'n
dl.erneritai school- Iii•• Grade
8'welearned-to adapt to: the
fact ;that we, are not, children.
any more, but we are young
riien orb women. Hopefully we
have set a good'exathple for
all the younger girls and boys
to follow: ,•
But most of all we have
Madethe biggest decisions
whieh-eonce`rn-our own lives,
'like deciding -on which course•
to take, and which subjects
will help in . our, future
education,: ,
Now.• Yt-is graduation night •- _•
and we are all proud and
Qof the .way. •ThatS,.y
' w this
nigh.t'is im'hortant toall of us: •
closing.; on behalf of the'
Grac8 students 1 .would like•••
td - thank nur ,.p.arents,. Our
teachers and the` Board sof
:Education and: all the other..
people who have'helped n -take
the;,l; stp'eigh't years of . out
liV es: successful.
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happy • But we didn't get here •
on our own •O:ur parents .and`
:teachers'1ielpea us every,•inch
;Fourth''
nnual, Salute
to the
Grade . Eight
graduates
o the district
1he•Brookside Public School graduating class this year was (front row
left to right) Sharon' Altonn, . Lori Hackett, ;M;arian•., Rayriard .:Sharon
%Iaggttt,: Judy Godfrey, Cindy .Morton, Wanda Park, Tammy Schi;ernann,
,Laurie Gibson, Gail Hackett; (second row) •Teacher Mrs. •Anderson,.
Lynda Swan, Pully Pollen, Lori Ann Jamieson, Karen Pardon, Monica,
'Young, -Lynn Taylor, Shelley _Rivettx,Mtele chCook,..Heatber•Blake, Janet
MacDonald, 'Ellen 'Tho npsbn,; Mary-'lifiti a•#jjllute,. Arlene Travis, Janet
Wilkins, KelIyWeaver;, Fay Irwin, Teacher Mr: Cameron;* (third row).
Lynn Miller,• Doug Dor'scht, Donald Elliott, Brian Sampson, Dale Farrish,
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Meikel'Becker, ;Robert-S1ec,kert" reg Nicholson, JIM ;:Kerry lari Hackett,;'
Peter Brink, Gerald deGraaf, Bill ' Scott, Jeffrey Hunter'
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`hrey, David 'Farrisli, ba�itd Machines, Fred. Martin,. l,'fourth•row)
Stephen Simpson, Donald. Dorseht, Paul Ambrose, Bill` McAllister; • --
fohnny Weigand, Barry Elphick; Todd Giesbrecht, Stephen MacPherson,
Steven. pavidson,Howard Martin,: Steven'Maize, Bobby Hackett, Allan.:
Nicholson; (back row) Eddie Lippert,..Dean Gunby, Brian N'ichglgocr►,
Simon ,,ogtenberg,. Glen Kemp:.