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PAGE 10, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1980, WFITBY FREE PRESS DOC students to be immLn..ersed h French By MICHAEL KNELL Free Press Staff For six weeks this suru- mer, three studnets fromn Whitby's Denis O'Connor 111gb School will live, speak and think in the French language at three univer- sities in Ontario's neighbour province to the east. Each one of them will travel to Quebec on a $1,000 federai govermnent grant to attend these post-secondary educational facilities. Attending Laval Univer- Also the famous M"UMDLVENT Ventlated Aluminum Akwlne Manufactue by PHONE rnJ~7.2 8-1 63 3 ALUMINUM LIMITED 845 FAREWELL AVE., ~Proven Service Since 1949 OSHAWA sity in St. Foy will be Todd Robertson, 19. Joanne Van- denEnden, 17, wil attend the College des Jesuits in Quebec City while Gisele Pilon, 17, will go- to L'University d'quebec in Trois Rivieres. Ail three are graduating grade 13 students. Upon the successful com- pletion of the French im- mersion course, alI three will be given credit towards their university degrees. Robertson said that he is going because a teacher was told him that it was "a great experience that you shouldn't miss." Fils occupational am- bitions are social work or special education although he expressed a desire. to study French as well. The $1,000 grant will cover room, board and tuition ex- penses. Program par- ticipants will have to pay for their own transportation and provide their own spending money. Gisele Pilon appears to Wholesae &Rtaili fdisbution of Waterbeds & Accossories. Discount.-, i ~For ALI rosidents in1 the Durham Région 1 on presentation of this ad. A%. Comploe. hesterfluld and chair. e es shown. Poids out to Queen Sed.Oth.r Modoe avellableI 6. Comploe package as shown lnctud- stoflfg Ut $2»M.O lng14 year mattress guar:ntee. $9 . pedestal, liner and liner lock. 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Pictured here are Todd Robertson, 19, who will be attending Laval University in St. Foy; Gisele Pison, 17, who wilI be attending L'University d'Quebec in Trois Rivieres; and Joanne VandenEnden, 17, will attend the College des Jesuites in Quebec. In the rear is Gerry Hogaboam, the French instructor at Denis O'Connor. have the hardest program. The Universtiy d'Quebeac will work her from 8: 30 a. m. to 10:30 p.m. at least five days a week. Her 15 hour day will com- prise'not only of classroom instruction buy will include what she described as a social-cuiltural program in which Pilon will teach children to various recreational activities. And she can't speak English, in fact its'even against the rules. "Every time I speak English I havea to pay a 25 cent fine," Pilon says. Pilon, liker her collegues, will live in student residence on the campus of the schools they are attending. Her academic ambitions include psychology and French. Pilon says that she has a solid background in the French language, that being her family's mother tongue. '"I can speak it," she says, "but not with any confiden- ce."7 "iAt home, we speak Fren- ch."$ The third DOC participant in the program is Joanne -Free Press Staff Photo. VanderEnden who will at- tend the College des Jesuits. Ail three will participate in essentially ½hthe same program but at three dif- ferent locations. According to, their French instructor, Gerry Hogaboam, "the programs are especially for English speaking students to, be im- mersed in the french language." "'They are going to have to function, ail day long in the language." Parlez-vous francais? OSTOMY MEETING The next meeting of the Oshaw and District Ostomy Association will be tonight, June 18, at 7:45 p.m. in Room 1002F of the Oshawa General Hospital. Rehabilitation will be the theme for the program . For more information caîl 576-9516 or 728-1869. (GRAflIATE - Leslie Ann Booth, of Whitby, recently graduated from the Sheridan Coilege of Ap- plied Arts and Technology with a diploma in Illustration arts. Booth was one of 1,516 students who graduated for the college ini over 70 ful and part time programs in the il different schools and divisions at the college. a DIAL - N«-- INSPIRATION Dial 6U-1331 and hear a three minute inspirational message by Postor IMMO Oltmanns. of the Emmanuelchurch at 401 Rossland RoadW. in Whitby. TYPEWRITERS REPAIRS &-SERVICE . ALL MAKES DANFORTH TYPEWRITER Rentais, Sales Service 408 Dundas Street West 2940 Danforth Ave Whitby Toronto 666-1131 est. 1930. 698-2589