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SS ' » 4 a ~ | 8509 é 5 : % » $l Rot. & iat | 2, ie, ] i Yi Ee] Watch your label; it tells when your Subscription expires. « $1.50 per year in advance 5 cents a single copy BY IVERS KELLY Port Perry, Jan, 26 (staff).--Port Perry High School has found the an- swers to many educational problems, including the one about«how are you going to keep the boy on the farm?" The school answered 'that one by teaching both farm and town boys to be successful, practical farmers; now nine out of ten farm-boy students take up farming as a life work. Boys and girls in their early 'teens have made 'hundreds of dollars at "agricultural projects," which are part of their school examinations and which "city teachers would class as home- "direction work. . Under the school principal's individual students have raised pigs and chickens for profit, grown turnips and potatoes with high returns, reforested waste areas with free trees for future Christmases and built workshops in which they. make' articles for sale to the public. The school hasn't been content with teaching both acad@mic. and practical subjects to children, but also has open- ed evening classes for adults. Men and wonien make bedroom suites and other furniture in the school workshop. Women of all ages, from, brides-to-be to grandmothers, learn how to make clothes for themselves, for men and for children. Bookkeeping and typing also are taught; one bookkeeping student, a housewife with 'teen age daughters at school, is studying to help her hus- band in business. Farmers Seek Answers Farmers in the district ask student sons or call themselves to find out answers to farm problems--how to control certain fungus and insects, what pasture clover to plant, what fertilizer is best suited to certain soils. In addition, the school, built in' 1926, is the social centre for the dis- trict. All societies" and-organizations meet there, including the Red Cross, 'which turns the gymnasium into a temporary hospital every five weeks, to receive an average of 86 blood dona- tions in one evening. The tables used as beds and the screens between "cots" were made in the school workshop by students. - The curriculum of most secondary schools was designed primarily for the small minority of students entering university. "It was a case of the tail wagging the dog and we decided that the school should be more useful to the 90 per cent. and more who did not go to university", said Samuel Farm- er, editor and publisher of the Port Perry Star for 37 years, and school trustee for 31 consecutive years. Now one-fifth of the student's time _during the first two years is taken up with agriculture and wooderaft or home economics. "Only three per cent. of our students over a 1b-year period from 1925 went to university or Normal school", said E. R. McClellan, graduate of O.A.C. and principal of the school since 1939. "Fully 45_per cent. drop out of school after two years, and we wanted to give them the greatest practical benefits we could in that time." Teach Housewife's Art Girls learn to be housewives. They learn to cook varieties of staple foods and how to sew. They learn how to use patterns, how and -when to cut cloth on the bias or straight, learn de- sign and style, do common stitches such as hemming, slip stitch and but- ' onholes, and how to make and when' to use plain, fell, lap or French seams, Boys learn to be: handymen around the house or farm. They make chests of drawers in modern design, kneehole and other desks, bookcases and tables, grain scoops, chicken brooders, farm mallets, platform-type feed hoppers, ensilage carriers, gates and hinges and other wood and metal objects in the workshop equipped with electric lathe, planer and a blacksmith's forge, Boys and girls co-operate. Last year 16 boys made nine dressing-table frames in two hours for girls to drape _in any style they liked and take home. "uA couple of girls had their rooms at home completely re-decorated after they brought home the lovely dressing tables," said Principal McClellan, One day soon the boys will get som® cook- ing hints while the girls take over the woodcraft shop and make simply-de- PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, : : : re v 8 aad a RC aE AE at i rr FEBRUARY 1st, 1945 es IR 10 sh 'PORT PERRY STAR Port Perry School Teaches > Handymen: Girls to be Housewives i an ER ' AY LF se Ty Es La Aa Ne oi a3 y ! ob 3 fe « # * Ri LL Viigo by BY he ' HRA Sa I WS BARTELS FORA IPNLMAPTRINC IN F000 SERRE EASA JPY INE NTRRIAE 27 PR ITOUTHA JoS iy Pictures and Story Reprinted from The Globe and Mail, of Saturday, January 27th, 1945. Practical education takes up one-fifth of the students' time in first two years at Port Perry-High School. and work at agriculture; the boys learn wood and metal craft, the girls learn to sew and cook. Boys and girls study - John Kerry (left) of Scugog- grain scoop of galvanized iron formed around a wooden base he turned on a lathe. He's also turning a maple handle for it. Mary Reader of Scugog Island sews overalls in - class and Jim Heayn, Port Perry, uses Babeock test for butterfat iclond solders a paint in art class. More than 20 suggestions are made to students for a home project he must complete satisfactorily in his first two years as part of his examinations. Last year students. made more than $1,800 net profit from "homework" which had immediate commercial as- pects, and others will net deferred 8 profits, Es One 14-year-old boy made no ey but passed his examination by paint- ing his home. Dozens of students plant a few trees as- windbreaks each year out of the average of 5,000 ob- tained free by the school from the De- partment of Agriculture, but last year one boy, 14, passed his examination by planting 1,200 evergreens to reforest a waste area in his father's pasture. Another boy, 16, planted 4,600 jack- pine and spruce to reclaim part of his father's farm. Four boys each planted oats, using different fertilizers on-two plots to compare with an unfertilized check plot. "Not only the boy, but also his father, see right on the farm; the effect of .certain fertilizers", said Mr. McClellan, Lessons Practical, Profitable Claudia Coulter, 13, bought 200 chicks from a hatchery, paid for feud, and reported. a net profit of $150 from signed wooden trays which they will: her "project", while she still had 40 unsold. Murray Lee, 14, reported a $260 net profit from chickens. Bill Bell, 14, has completed an electric brooder at the school and plans to raise 500 chickens this year. Roddy Foster, 15, spent $163.50 to build one" - 'of the finest brooder houses in the district and reported a net profit of 85c. after paying for the brooder. by raising cockerels. He. plans to make poultry his life work. Christie, 16, three Mac started years ago with 30 chicks, He has made money each year with chickens and plans to have a larger number than ever this year. In addition to looking after his poultry and planting 4,500 trees last year, he vaised 10 pigs for ¢ix months, made a net profit of $10 each, _ George Stone, 15, netted $223 out of two acres of turnips after allowing for rent to his father, fertilizer .and seed. Bill Stewart, 16, made $200 growing 1% acres of potatoes. Bill McCrea, 15, and Bert Corner, 16, started bee colonies last year. ee to ---------------- NOTE--The courtesy of ithe Globe & Mail in publish- ing this article is much appre- ciated.-- Editor Star, to care for them. - to teach candling and grading. _ Hens are kept at. Port Perry school so students may learn how Marie Moasge is shown collecting eggs used Organization Meeting of Board o' Educaion, a "The The Department of Education pro- vides several ways of setting up a School Board. In Port Perry, due to our High School being open to Coun- Ilducation, operated under members. Six of a Councilman, are elected by the Rate- payers of the Village. year for a term of two years. are M. A. Gerrow, R. A. Peel, H. Durkin, Mrs. M. W. Oude, Ploughman and Geo. Holmes. vard Bruce Gorow is shown testing farm soil for acidity. The soil is crushed by mortar and pestle and" tested with bromothymol, which turns yellow: if soil is acid, blue, if «oil has lime. TTS a t ~ Two trustees discuss a progressive plan with Principal FE. R. McClellan (middle). I. R. Bentley (left) is chairman; Samuel Farmer id serving 31st consecutive year on school board, ty pupils, we have a union Board of 'are the Public School representatives. the Board! of Education Act, composed of twelve {members. the members, who {year term. must have the same qualifications as | Three cach These may be ratepayers from any Munici- at the re-organization meeting: L. 'pality S. W. which children attend the High School. These {Our County appointees are all rate- !Jackson. ~ one roof. E. SAMUEL FARMER Editor and Publisher ' content of milk. Barbara Spencer (right), Greenbank, holds "current events" paper which is printed both in Latin and French to add interest to study languages. amount to be raised by taxation to The local Council appoint three jabout $4,000. One each year for a three| The foregoing information was sup- These are A. B. Cawker, plied by Mr. R. D. Woon, Secretary of W. E. MacGregor and A. M. Lawrence. the Board. | The County Council appoint three. ¢ 'members for the same terms. These] The following officers were elected { the from Chairman--(2nd term)--I. R. Bentley. Vice-Chairman--W. E. MacGregor. comprising County Committees for 1945 Finance--I. R. Bentley, Mrs. Orde, W. E. MacGregor, M. A. Gerrow, Chairman. Property--Mus. Jackson, S. Plough- man, G. Holmes, R. A. Peel, Chairman. Management -- A, B. Cawker,"S. armer, H. Putin, A. M. Lawrence, Hairman, Mrs. Marjorie inted a payers in Port Perry. These are S. Farmer, I. R. Bentley and Mrs. J. E.! The School ; When the new school was built a, 1926-27 the Board had to use a lot « persuasion to get permission from wef P Department of Education, to allows both Public and High Schools under Times have changed. They' like the setup 80 well now that the Pontd. allow the High School teachers Mr. F teach shop work and home cconomies : . ) Attendance Officer. to Grades 7 and 8 of the Publie School. x EK = No charge to the Public School. This : - : : , : New arrangements have been made is a real advantage to Port Perry. f o X as to the use of the school by local or- The New Regulations toh d -- : ry . .,, ganizations, Particulars can be learn- Inder the new regulations we will : : . " . ed from the committee in charge of receive 60 of the maintenance cost this matter, Messrs, A. M. Lawrence, and debenture, yayments based on the ! ; ' George Holmes and R: D. Woon. previous year. This will reduce the Letcher was re-ap- member of the Library Claudia Coulter, 13, reported a net profit of $150, with 40 birds still unsold from her project of raising chickens, Shepherd was re-appointed RK Sa Th nt SNR, . fe ig ¥, ¥ a NS "iiss EC in en - eke es aN SAT WA LU ly ou ree so es - EE a St es Ft) re pp