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t Popular Music Teacher Speaks to Canadian Club The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanvillc, Wednesday, November 30,1994 15 Donation Supports Bethesda House by Mary F raser Music has a powerful effect upon the human spirit. This was the message message delivered by Ross Metcalf to The Bowmanvillc Men's Canadian Club on Wednesday, November 23, at St. John's Anglican Church. Introduced with great humour by Howard Anyan, Mr. Metcalf continued continued in this vein, delighting his audience audience with highly entertaining talcs of his life as a farmer, musician and teacher. Well known for his successful career career in the field of music, Mr. Metcalf Metcalf credited his early home life, particularly particularly his mother's influence, for instilling in him a love of music and the motivation to work at perfecting the necessary performance skills. Where music is concerned, Mr. Metcalf Metcalf told his audience, the operative word is work! • "Don't ever make the mistake of believing music is easy," lie emphasized. emphasized. "Practicing scales, studies, chords, and developing technique is hard, hard work -just plain drudgery. The fun doesn't start until you have all this behind you as a foundation, and even then you can never stop practising." A good performance, however, takes more than practice. It needs the ability of a quick mind, for in music the brain must sort out simultaneously simultaneously an incredible menagerie of messages. messages. Mr. Metcalf praised the teachers, organists and choir leaders who inspired inspired and encouraged him, recalling fondly his learning experiences with people like Mrs. Robb, Mr. W.E.C. Workman, Mr. Reg. Cecil and many others. After receiving training at various institutions such as the Ontario Ministry Ministry of Education, Hamilton Teachers' Teachers' College, The Royal Conservatory of Music and Waterloo University, Mr. Metcalf became a teacher of piano piano and voice, a consultant for the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education, and organist and choir director at various churches in the area. His sincere belief in, and overwhelming overwhelming enthusiasm for his subject, coupled with his love of young people, people, allowed him to infuse in them something of his own joy. Concerned about the lack of vocal music in the secondary schools, Mr. Metcalf started a choir at Courlicc Secondary School with only 17 interested interested members. In a very short time the choir had increased to 76 teenagers, teenagers, who no longer disliked classical music. Unfortunately, there arc still far too few music teachers in'the school system to.day, and even fewer people who believe this is a problem. In times of economic hardship, the military gives up its bands and the schools give up their music programs. programs. To Mr. Metcalf, who would like to see a full-time music teacher in every school, this strategy is a grave mistake. Music needs to be recognized for the powerful and necessary lorcc it is in human lives. It is the embodiment of so many subjccts-scicncc, mathematics, mathematics, history and foreign languages. languages. At the same time, it is the only truly universal language in the world. More than all of these, it is power. For nothing can so stir the emotions, or build morale, or inspire pride, or soften the hardest of human hearts, as music. Mr. Metcalf explained that in time of war and revolution, one of the most devastating things a conquered country can suffer is the loss of its own music. A nation's very identity is expressed in the songs it sings. Demonstrating this, Mr. Metcalf sang with great feeling Sibelius's "Finlandia" which was forbidden to its citizens during war time. Mr. Metcalf was graciously thanked by Row lie Coombcs, after which the members stood to sing a most enthusiastic and inspired rendition rendition of the Canadian national anthem. Bethesda House Board of Director members received $250 raised by the King Street Bar & Grill on Saturday, Nov. 19 during the Santa Claus Parade. The donation was raised through the sale of hot cider donated by Archibald Orchards and hot chocolate and coffee donated by the King Street Bar & Grill. Accepting the cheque on behalf of the women's shelter arc Elizabeth Coumeyea and Kelly Pinheiro while Kathy Robertson, the manager of the King Street Bar & Grill, handed over the donation on Thursday, Nov. 24. B&P Club Learns More About Libraries A familiar voice in the local music scene was the guest speaker on Wednesday, November 23rd, during during a meeting of the Bowmanvillc Men's Canadian Club. Ross Metcalf discussed his career in music education education and the role of music in today's world. Shown above, from left, are: Rowlie Coombcs, Vice President of the Men's Canadian Club; Ross Metcalf; Dr. Ted Mann, Club President; and Howard Anyan, Anyan, who introduced the speaker. Former Postmaster Receives Literacy Award The speaker at the November meeting of the Bowmanvillc BPW Club was Sue Hendricks from the local local Library Board talking about Libraries, Libraries, Women and the Future. After asking those present about their childhood memories of a library, library, Sue commented that today a library library is a community place, a place for literacy and research, for information information and for meeting people. There arc different kinds of libraries, public libraries and specialized libraries covering specific areas, such as medical medical libraries, company libraries and government libraries. There arc programs programs for children and lectures for adults. While books arc available on every subject, computer data bases can also be researched. Sue pointed out that increasingly libraries arc using using advances in technology and entering entering the so-called information highway. highway. It is important that women pick up the challenges and take advantage of the many opportunities being presented. presented. Sue ended by pointing out that fol- Rotary Club Members Learn About Importance Of Endowment Fund Dcby Martin of Canada Post presented Rotarian George Vice with a special literacy award at the November 24th club meeting. Bowmanvillc Rotarian George Vice was presented with a special award from Canada Post on November November 24th, in recognition of his efforts efforts to further literacy through his recently-published history of the Bowmanvillc Post Office. Dcby Martin, media relations officer with Canada Post Corporation, surprised George Vice with a limited edition print of a commemorative stamp issued issued by Canada Post in 1990 to mark the United Nations International International Year of Literacy. Martin quoted some frightening statistics on illiteracy in this coun try: - 6.9 million Canadians require some remedial help with literacy - 1 in 4 Canadians can do little more than basic addition and subtraction subtraction - 14% arc barely able to recognize recognize numbers - Approximately 7% can't read The commemorative stamp has become Canada's Literacy symbol, says Dcby Martin. It features a dove and the letters from several international international alphabets. The print presented to Mr. Vice is from a limited edition printing of 500. by Lorraine Manfredo The Bowmanvillc Rotary Club welcomed Oshawa Rotarian Bill Sterling as guest speaker at the Thursday, November 24th, luncheon meeting. Bill Sterling is a long-time club member currently working at the district level for the Rotary Foundation. Foundation. The Rotary Foundation is an endowment fund for charitable and educational endeavors supported by 2,600 clubs all over the world. The Rotary Foundation is a philanthropic philanthropic enterprise dedicated to international international works, Sterling said in his speech to the Bowmanvillc Ro- Utrians. "Its aim is to promote world peace and understanding through cultural and humanitarian projects." The Foundation had its beginnings beginnings in 1917 when Arch Klumph, Rotary's sixth international president president proposed die idea. 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