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Wednctday Juury IB Iff HALTONS PEOPLE Former teacher unofficial mother hen By MAGGIE HANNAH Herald staff vous plait words were the intro duction first year students entering the brand new Acton High School in IBM got lo a large lady was the school s unofficial mother hen and eventually its viceprincipal While none of he students knew exactly what Marion Reed was laying to them they did know hat French was the only second language avail able In the school apart from Latin and if they had any hopes of eventually going on to university they need all the help hit stern looking lady could give them They walked in closed the door and sat down Gradually the strange garble of sound began to mean something and after four or five years of daily sessions some of the more interested and industrious students could even speak French Looking back on those early days when there Vttreii even desks Just stacking chairs and enough texts to go round if some students shared one student recalls how hard it to learn French But more vividly she recalls Mrs s struggles to mala the basics of the language simple enough that they could be used as a base and built on Mrs Heed v also o the few local teachers in the school She was the second daughter of one of oldest residents Col Noble and she tells proudly hov her grandfather bought the mill in and her father moved to when he was a year old The Narvol mill ground flour oatmeal and as well as animal feed Her grandfat her bought It from the Hank of Ontario who had taken it because previous owner had gone bank nipt Her died in the jear after Mrs Reed was born Iter mother was also a Norval native and among the family treasures she has an immense bible which was to her parents because they were the first couple to be married in Presbyter Ian Church When the Prcsby tcrians and Methodists united in 18 went to the United Col Noble earned title with he 20th Hall on Rifles during rid War 1 but he had begun his militiry Involve mint with Ihe unit wink it was still i unit Mrs Reed Ik lived to fimilj to roi to in tin mid 1320s let iuhi the eldest luster as re ith to slid Hi Mrs Heed to si of where she stud ed modern I il lie Noble eluldreii all Wend in I and Mrs Reed says they boarded in town going in on Monday and returning Friday night That why Mother wanted to move to the city she ehuekks She said she around in this house all week while we wen all it school Although nuned to Toronto sold the farm He man hired to look after his and the colonel drove out from the city every day in his old Dodge car Mrs Reed lost her younger brother in 1931 Mrs Reed graduated with on Honours A in and decided to go to France with a good friend taking who had won a scholarship to study at the in Paris her friend stayed for two years because of her scholarship Mrs Heed only spent one year there enjoyed It she soya of her in Pans had hung where the ma dame spoke beautiful trench and liked over there and among the French people Mrs Reed worked Bigwm Inn at to earn icj fir her tuition at ersity recills that books were expensive even then The first I waited on those big Irays my shoulder she re- ills Then tow the end tint first summer asked me to take on the position Recreation advisory committee abolished after five stormy years Town council lias abolished its recreation advisory com after five years of operation that witnessed ral stormy confrontations bet ween committee members and councillors The decision was made day night during closed door session of council in which appointments were made to four local boards and commit tees When it came time for council to consider ions for membership on the recreation advisory commit tee however council voted to inform the committee bent prospective members lint their efforts and intent ions arc but no The advisory In hive taken on a slightly new formal th term applying for tie first lime Hilton Hills as whole For the pist two jears only W and have supported i to provide a bet public and municipal recreation depart A recreation advisory com mittee for Wards 1 and and was disbanded in largely due a lack of publ interest Both committees had been formed when Hills was amalgamated In 1974 repine me the standing recreation committees that existed in Georgetown hostess at the dining room door I held the position for the next three years While she no longer had worrj about heavy trays she was now wonting about her hair and her grooming instead she says Waitresses uniforms were black with a white apron and stiff white collar and cuffs while in the evening they wore hostess wore the opposite col It was while she was working at thai Mrs Reed met her husband Bert a widower with two children She went on to tike her teachers I ii nine at the College of in Toronto and taught rench in Kitchener for a couple of before she decided to get married I was kind of old by so decided to married In 1934 We waited four years to get married and still wound up in the middle Ihe Depression she chuck he Reeds raised four child ren Prudence King Jul and I Mrs Reed can vouch for how things Were at thlt point when she explains v her husband job d while they were away on honeymoon Mr Reed was an artist and the advertising con piny worked for folded up while they were bode logo job i as soon as they He used to say If lean do a i week 1 ean keep us citing she says He got wartime kr other idvertis inf firm once things si tiled down there was no question thil he do really well The Reed went to Montreal when Mr Reed found work ere and during war he was one of the men loaned to the to help with morale for provuee of Quebec Although he helped with entertainment or troops and continued to do business for his rm on week ends Mr Reed also made lo New York He never liked much about those says his son Julian Heed He was about Hut if you stop to think about it people makmc trips like that then Maybe he was up something we didn I know about PORT It AITS Mr specialized In charcoal portraits and he was the responsible for Ihe first portraits In the Hall of Fame at Canadian National Exhibition grounds in Toronto Mr Reed was also a writer of miny things Including radio scripts Mrs Reed col la bora with her husband on one scries featuring Girl Guides who performed heroic a ts Her interest In the movement gave her the lus lo research stones and her husband turned Into shed scripts for a program sponsored by an oil company Although had had no Guide company when she was girl she joined the Ranger group when she was older and found It lo be such an enjoy able experience that she want to share it with others When Norval eventually got its own Guide company Mrs Reed was its first Captain Through the years she held vinous posts including Dial net Commissioner and Lone Guide Commissioner for province of Ontario It even due to her involvement with Guiding that she qualified herself as a John instructor and eventually taught courses in first aid at Aclon High School is well as to her Guides She wis ihe camp ante at Doc Lake special camp for a couple of her son chuckles She wis so busy with Guides book entitled I Married a Girl Mrs inactive member if the Worn en s Institute and took her turn worhine on the branch history of She was active in al I mled belonged lo the choir Her music goes h to her youth her son says whenshesang of the big choirs at Ihe Canad lan Inhibition it would be going back to ihe lie says when they trciled the big choirs something like the Scottish today They had no electrical em so had to rely on numbers Some of those choirs Mayor appoints budget committee Mayor Pete has appointed a four man steering committee of that will handle preparations for adoption this spring of Hills 19T9 operating and capital budgets Councillors Ross Knee hi el of ward George Malt by of Ward John McDonald of Ward and Harry Levy of will meet specially as an ad hoc committee to review Lions seek had 000 people in She had no musical degree but she wis a fairly accomplished musichn She had a big In addition to leaching eh and later German Mrs Reed taught physical ion most of the girls at Acton High school Students might have had a little more respect for her struggles to get through the basics of volley ball basketball and square if they known how her iwn youngsters put her through the wringer trying her to ski llwaswhilcwewcrcstlllin Montreal Julian says I Hunk it was the year I learned My older brother and sister already knew how to ski and hey decided it would be just the thing if Mother learned too so they look her She really thought she could do it but she was already getting fairly well on lo some thing like that I remember she came home and blue from I id lo foot I guess she fell down even bump she That was the last time she ever tried that KM to what might be expected Julian Heed says his family were never hie on pol tics He recalls Ills fntl diking voting for belli the m ijor parties different times and he doesn see his mother is a particularly illy minded woman either On of her former students however mills very vividly how Mrs Heed cornered her on slopping lo think of the consequences of vinous CCF parly the forerunner of the at the demand of another teacher An tcicher decided that fourth year students should represent the three major parties that would be battling the election and designated three students to be candidates After late reseirch student had to deliver speech of specified length over the school public address system and the next day the students all voted It was after the speeches were made that Mrs Heed took the students aside asked some probing quest ions such changes would be f minced ind her subtle point on how responsil ilitics must be met even by roups like Mother Is much a one one sort of person Julian ind that would be approach if she thought it was needed The student musi hue done a good job of convincing her of her sincerity if she took trouble to talk to her about It Mother Just wasn p pohti illy minded Mrs Heed lost her with a I just before Christmas 1Jj7 She was lung it at lime and she continued there until the earlv She spent a short line il returned in He late 1960s In 1J71 she Ml and broke her hip and an early retire of her health Parkins in s disease was diag tl e next and she is presently Toronto Genera hospital nominees The Georgetown I ion Club has set a tenia live deadline of January for nominations for Citizen of the Year A nominee for Citiien of the Year award should be someone who has given outs landing service to the commu over the past year miny years in any and all fields Mr suggested anyone wonting to nominate someone for Citizen of the Year should write a letter describing why they think their nominee is deserving of the award and give il to a member of the Club or drop it off at Sykes Bakery on Main Street Citizens appointed Town council Monday night six Hills to fill positions on four local boards and committees for threejear terms that will expire Dec They are Hick West of Street In Georgetown Wayne Ruse of Storey Drive in Acton and Hartford of Georgetown to the Hilts Committee of Adjustment Michael Ross of Chelvin Drive to the Hills Parking Norman Elliott of Elmore Drive in Acton the Hills Public I Board reappointment Pamela Sheldon of Milton recommended for ap pointment to Reg ion Land Division Committee subject by regional council and recommend to council mailers related to the two budgets Mayor self pro fessed critic of the current system having council inst ailed for twoyear terms fall Monday night lo persuade council that the budget steer committee should itself stand for two yean and consi der matters related to both the 1979 and 1980 budgets II seems like we drag our feet on the budge t every year I just trying to gel things speeded up I agree wholeheartedly with the twoyear icrm system anyway ENDED Mayor Pomeroy first defen ded his proposed committee format against Marilyn Serjcantson contention that the budgets are Important enough i ha l council should collectively examine and final lie Ihem The mayor pointed thai each ward was to be represented on the ad hoc committee meetings of which would nevertheless be open to any and all council members Any decisions which the com mittee makes he added must then be rot fled by the town general committee and then council agreed two term for the commit tee was a good idea saying the committee examination of budgets for two calendar years would provide needed con tinu I and offer a liason that he said the town finance depart would appreciate Roy Booth said he could agree with the concept proposed by Mayor but found contradict council previous decision to drop its committee system altogether with the single exception of Ihe general com mittee Having the budget years he argued creates yet another slondlng committee of council Walter suggest after Mayor proposal was defeated that ihe steering committee for 1980 budgets could still be appoint later this year well ahead of budget 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