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Rejoining good oV Class of 23 John Colter recalls making a month Herald Writer Among the Univers ity of Toronto of T engineers celebrating I heir diamond a tinkers of graduation Satur day was a Georgetown John Colter ponied by his son Ross iltended the reunion at of Hart House I dont think well ever have another one Mr Colter said Were all over now and we drop off fast The main speaker was a graduate from Costa Rica attendance were from the Toronto area he said Back In 1033 the school of engineering had Its largest til hen number of graduates John Colter among the 399 men and one woman receiving J heir diploma He gradu sled as an electrical Over half of them were returned soldiers Mr Colter said with the aver age age 25 years old The sole woman ate went through for following her engineering degree and It wasnt until 1B27 that another woman engineer was graduated he said Mr Colters classmate died last year The son of a County farmer he decid early on that he wasnt going to follow his footsteps I didnt like farming and 1 didnt mind saying so Mr Colter said DRAFTING Knowing a draftsman he decided to study draft Writing to the I Mr Colter asked if offered a draftsman ship course They wrote back that drafting was offered as part of the engineering program That was enough to con vince him to enrol The only thing I did that I going back on the farm Mr Saving up his military pay during his three years during World War I In the forestry core of the Royal Canadian Armed Forces Mr Colter was Out of his a year army pay Mr Colter paid his university fees which were about year his meals room clothes washing and the occasional show II cost too much to board on campus so Mr Colter found himself a room Tor a week Buying a meal booklet of meals for he feasted on threecourse meals at a Chinese reslauranl do ing without breakfast to stretch out the meal tick- When he finally gradu ated Mr Colter found himself forced to take on job as an apprentice It was hard a Job Just about as hard as it Is today he said The only Job I could get was an apprenticeship and 1 had to lake It or starve to den In There were no handouts In those days If you didnt work you did I eat For two years Mr Colter worked at ton for a month Nobody would work for hat now he said There was no union then but workers never got fired or laid You werent well paid but you had Job for lire When your department got down you were just shift to somewhere else Mr Colter hen worked a temporary Job at the University of Toronto for a year until he got his first full time Job as on with Canadian Not ional Telegraphs Now the company Is called CNCP For years Mr Colter worked in the engineering department The first engineer to be hired Iho department grew by leaps and bounds until there were 100 engineers when he retired In 1963 at Iheageof Since then he department has shrunk about 15 Mr Coller said During his years with I he company he did de sign work Tor the tele type machines Never earning more than a month Mr Colter said he got paid In satisfact ion enjoying his work Immensely Mr Colters collection of squares the tool of the eng ineer was sold but hes still got one hanging in the garage and on his right baby finger he still wears his iron engineering band If the reunions are over theres still the annual Christmas card from a classmate in Burlington look forward to Organization hard work key to exam success Herald Staff Writer Sorry kids the teachers all concur there are no easy tricks to exams Its the organization sweat and brain power that do it As the end of another school year approaches to the delight of hundreds of restless young minds so too do the miseries of exam time That final week of wrapping up high school courses is truly a test of self discipline Who wants to study when Its sunny and warm and green outside Who wants to constrain their impulse to stretch and laze and hear Ihe birds chirp Its not easy to be a student in spring or summer when the distractions beckoning beyond the classroom window arc plentiful What do the teachers have to say about exams help make It easier to swallow this well accept ed conclusion to a term of study I always tell my stu dents to be organized GDHS French and Germ- anieacher Ann Campbell The more ed your notes are the easier it is for you the lost few weeks She advises students to their tests Over the term to get a better idea of what will be on the exam It helps to have a plan and divide the course say into eight sections and study one or two things per evening with a final lookover the night before Ms Campbell said However they never do that They study everything the night before Calling herself a real browner she said she used to start studying at least a month before I used to take licorice candies in with me at university exams Ms Campbell laughed I couldnt get through three hours without some kind of nourishment Food Is very important math and computer sciences teach Ted Engels said ho used to take exams very seriously when he was a student preparing for He recommended gott lots or sleep a couple of nights before an exam so students are in good physical shape think good TED and students should eat breakfast before a morn ing exam to get their bloodsugar level up she said Exams at Georgetown District High School and Acton High School begin the week of June and end June All grades as of lost year have to Their success or failure affects their final course mark by at most 30 per cent ANN CAMPBELL them six weeks in ad I used to write math formulas over and over and I carried cards with the formulas on them he said That way I could run them over In my mind The worst thing stud- dents can do is to try to cram for an exam the night before You just cant do it Mr said JOHN MOORE dents study equally as hordes I did when I was a student Mr said Acton High English teacher Geoff Sanson said he stresses basic terms with his Grade 10 and 12 students ORGANIZED Although Im not tell them exactly whats on the exam they have a good Idea Mr said I they can get their thoughts together And organized write something reason ably cohesive The Grade 12 students need to be aware of the patterns in literature so they can compare one work with another he said I have no tricks for studying English but I knew tricks for studying biology Mr Sansom recalled He said he would remember long lists of names by making a word from the first letter of each name on the list English exams dont really lend them selves for that he said Mr also suggested studying with a group of fellow students I found the best thing I could do If it was a subject I wasnt confident about was to study with a group of people he said Wed spend the evening think Ing up possible questions that could be on the exam and coming up with answers together Sometimes If youre working by yourself you have single point of view and there might be something you missed In class and somebody else will remind you that that was an important fact or idea Mr Sansom 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