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HALTONS PEOPLE THE HERALD Wednesday GDHS music teacher says hes a lucky guy 99 Hamilton bund In it rue lor at Georgetown District High School models one of thecraty hats him years ho has taught here students oho decor air his painted fire Regional reps eat and drink their way through Members of regional were red faced last week over a bill lo tx picked up by taxpayers for food and beverages consumed at a recent farewell banquet for outgoing councillors Former Mor row host to of members his 19T7 region at council No 15 at the House of Palermo south of Milton where to everyone subse quent surprise each guest ran up a dinner tab that averaged a head The bar bill alone totalled 55 Members of the new council were both and when they got a look at the bill during a recent council meeting where It was decided that the bill would have to be paid out of council official functions fund Mr Morrow admitted that he had consider No injuries in rearend collision A rear end collision at Mill Street East and Wallace Street In Ac tun caused damage cars driven by Jean Marlon Jackson and Maureen Ingles both of Acton There were no Injuries hut were bid after the regional polite Poor road conditions cause crash A luotnr collision on Mend vale Road near In Acton caused to cars Friday driven by Joan Ham and McDonald both of There were no charges laid by region police say road conditions at the time of the accident were poor due to weather asking those who attended the banquet contribute in the hope of alleviating the cost to the lixpayers noted that the lateness of the term pro vided no time for business sessions where such a decision would have to be made For the council mem Including Incumbent ton Hills councillors Mike Armstrong Roy Boolh and Miller along with former Pat former Mayor Tom Hill did not it tend each ate a roast beef dinner with cheeses and coffee plus a long list of alcoholic bccragcs Headed by seven bottles of per bottle Italian wine the list also feitured Scotches vodkas 24 ryes 10 gins martinis is eight Bloody eight bo i seven four Morrow recalled that the last domestic beers four Grande lime regional councillors ga three lo for such a feast they tiamarias a Kahlua and an each contributed Amoretto with 50 bottles of KOObillfor By MAGGIE HANNAH Herald staff writer m a lucky guy My whole career has been lucky Even getting this job was just through luck says George town District High School s resident band leader Harry Hamilton t even apply for a job when he was hired years ago One of his neighbours In the school and he knew there was an opening for a teacher He or ranged an Interview for Mr Hamilton and Mr Hamilton fell obligated lo up for it since the man had gone to so much bother wasn t even realty Inter in becoming high school music teacher at that point he laughs I was playing still and I was a travelling music teacher with the Toronto Board of Hon Idldntneedit Hiked Mr Furlong the high schools principal and he seem I like me so I decided I give it a try It was only a temporary contract anyway so I thought Id try It and if It work out I could quit Ihe next year He liked It and the young people and by the look of Ihe art work decorating his prf vale office off hia classroom it is obvious that his students like Mr Hamilton too The kids call me Harry and I don t mind he says They could do lots worse things than call mo by my first name Mr Hamilton Is teaching three of the five music periods a day this sent ester Although class sizes vary one of them hoc no less than or S3 students in it It is not unusual to have students drop in to practise with the band during their lunch period Itjustshows how moat of them feel about their music and their instruc tor Although the classes arc big he finds them reasonably easy to control When they re in here they re busy he says and busy people t a problem ALL IN FUN tmcanthercsno mischief he added with a grin but Its all In fun not mall clous The fact that his dents arc taking music be cause they want to is another plus factor for him as a teach Youngster who are really interested in something hard to teach It the one who are being forced Into a subject they don wont that give everyone a headache Mr Hamilton a background as a professional musician shows why he didn t feel the need to become a high school He did his first radio broad cast as a at the age of 10 At 11 he won a gold medal at the Canadian Nation I Exhibition and the next year he again won a gold at the E for his At around the age of IB he began doing some arranging and selling his arrangements to dance bands At about the time he began doing a program from St Cat ha rincs with two accordionists of these was a fellow who used the name but Is better known to Ihe public today as Sam of Shopsy He was a fantastic accordion player Mr Hamilton says he gave up his music to become a businessman when his father riled When World War broke out he decided to get In ahead of conscription because he wanted to go In the air force When he enlisted they were looking for musicians appar and before he knew it he was in the air force bond playing at recruiting posts and in Ottawa as well as at depar lure centres In the Mari limes When I got out of the air forceafter years I was si 111 gelling calls as an accordion player he chuckles though I had long since sold my accordion Only a few people knew me as a player TRUMPET PLAYER It was as a trumpet player that he known as an adult musicians however and he lists appearances on Chlcho Valles Los Cubanos and Latin American Serenade along with his membership the Art Orchestra when they did the Peoples Credit Jeweller show as part of his experience He played trumpet and French horn with Hallman and also sang with the let He also sang with the Jack Duffy quartet and the Pat quintet Other bands he played with which might be remembered are Mart Ken ncy Orchestra Barry Town Icy Sunny Duncan and Walter Mlshkos quartet He also played the vibraphones with Mlshko He only gave up playing professionally a couple of years ago because of medical reasons Two years ago was the first New Year Eve I had to myself since I was he chuckles I found myself say log What am I doing here I should bo out there I as bad as an old fire horse didn t know enough to quit When he quit Mr Hamilton had year work booked up to do He had also had surgery a nervous condition which spoiled his trumpet playing and later surgery put him In a leg brace and cut him off from the vibraphone since he could no longer stand for long pe riods Thisispartoftbeluckin his career he says since he had no medical problems in evidence when he made the move to teaching but he would have had no great chance of teaeher a couple of years when he had to give up playing During years as a profes I musician Mr Hamilton also was studio director of Mason Music Tor seven years in addition to his evening work n Mr Mason died he left the company and became an Itinerant music teacher visit schools twice weekly for Toronto Board Educa Hon another seven year He was also still play professionally at that He also sat on the board of directors or the Band Masters Association and ran a dian Youth Music Camp at for association The fact hat he was teach music and around it all day helped him when he had to give up ploying Mr Hamilton says but he still missed the social aspect the job Considering the life associated with musicians and performers Mr Hamilton has again been lucky In his private life He still married to the same lady and they have three grown daughters I very lucky he says We had some very rough times In the beginning and her name Lorraine but absolutely no one ever her that never once asked me to do something else Harry and met in the seventh grade so she knew right from the start how much staying alone there be If they married She knew what she was gelling in to he chuckles because 1 used to have to call her up and break dates when we were going together Mrs Hamilton has nothing to do with music all three of their girls play the piano and some other musical men as welt The youngest has also done a lot of dancing and choreography for a few shows Music wasn part of Mr Ham family background thcr he said Neither of his parents were musical He was an only child STORY PUBLISHED During the last few years Mr Hamilton says he has begun doing quite a bit of writing He recently had a shorlitory published In Con tacta Canadian Writers Guild magazine Last month an Ottawa magazine Sloney Monday published one of his poems ft one of those magazines that goes to libraries and universities he jokes Great for the ego but not so good on the pay One of his fellow students at York University told him dur ing a writing course they were both taking that he would get into writing even more than he been into music Mr Hamilton suspects that he may be right As a musician he only got involved in plays after the work was all done Now he wondering about writing a Police Beat Mr Hamilton says that while the band does well at Georgetown High School he would like to see vocal music getting a better deal Students don t seem too Interested m it was dropped No school in north Halton seems to have a choir and it disappoints him when he looks at the huge choirs in Toronto schools Attitudes are changing in the area be says and this may happen eventually too He is just pleased that he so seldom has problems with parents telling their children what In they must play He recalls one father who told his son that boys don play flutes even though that was the boy choice and another rather who didn t believe girls should play drums This is a rarity how What pleases Mr Hamilton most about his work Is the number or his students who have carried on with their music after they leave him Quite a few of my students have carried on from here and are with groups and using their music to make a living he Even the ones who musicians still slop by to see him and have a chat The day of the interview no less than five former students home for vacation from universities dropped In lo renew their friendship with a man who has a special place In their school day memories When 1 first started teach I was awed by it all he jokes I kept wondering how a teacher should act Ten years later still teaching so he must have figured out the secret Now Available at Halton Rapid Print INSTANT PRINTING WHILE YOU WAIT PHOTO COPIES UP TO IT Special January feature copies only Rapid Print Main St N Georgetown 3 The councillors clearly their meal since there was a tip added onto the dinner tab and room rental charge regional chairman Jack Itaflis reminded the regli then In a class open to J meTtMk contestants up to the age a Georgetown golf and country club with former Mayor Hill members of the last regional council who missed Nov banquet in Milton Mayor Don Gor being passed around don Coun McLean for inspection that those who Anderson and former Burling attend an upcoming council ten Coun Dave Coons banquet for the official open of the new regional head quarters will be required to pay their own way a decision he claimed to have made even before the amount of the House of bill was revealed Expressing disappointment size of the bill Mr At 14 he won a sliver medal In Toronto for his accordion and it was as an accordion player that he join the musicians union He had not turned 16 yet at that time He started fooling around on Ihe trumpet when he wasabout Vandals caused 1 worth of damage at Centennial Pub lic School last week when they broke twelve doublepane win with a pellet pistol or rifle Someone placed unknown materials in a washing ma chine and set them on fire at a laundromat In Georgetown lost week The washing ma chine was destroyed In the blaze wilh damage estimated at WOO Vandals gained entry to a portable at Georgetown DIs trlct High School and Inflicted dnmge on the Interior with estimates the damge at Cash In the amount of was stolen from a home In Glen Williams when burglars broke in some time between December and 31 It is believed they got Into the house through the bedroom Twenty four eight track tapes a tape carrying case bottle of rum were stolen from a vehicle parked outside Gordon Arena Saturday night Value or the stolen items was estimated at A Hills resident re ported an attempted break in at her home In Georgetown Someone tried to break In through the bathroom win dow but did not gain entry the residence Nothing was taken A break In sometime be tween p and 1 a Saturday night netted in cash from a general store on Stceles Avenue A break In was reported at the Silver Valley Heights office on Main Street south but nothing appears to have been taken SOMETIMES FLOWERS ARE THE ONLY WAY YOUR HEART CAN SPEAK Whatever your massage Caff us Today and its on its Way FLORISTS Mill St Georgetown 8776901 All ExService Personnel and Their Dependents Are invited to take advantaqe of a free Legion Service MR J TRAVERSY Will Be At CANADIAN LEGION BRANCH All 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