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Pages THE HERALD Wednesday Decembers Business Page Tom presents Oscar Robb with a set of in recognition of Mr being lie most sentor retiree who attended a recent luncheon for Georgetown District High School teachers held at Chateau Restaurant in Georgetown Herald photo Retired teachers gather to recall old times Retired Georgetown and District Higlf School teachers recently got together at the Chateau Restaurant in Georgetown to reminisce and tell each other what they are doing now Ex Social Science teacher Tom Ramautarsingh who along with Al Rye Trevor Williams and Jan Ferguson organized the reunion said it gave us a chance to ex change stones and re live past memories Although a first time event Mr Ramautarsingh thinks the teachers might start meeting regularly Several teachers who attended said they would be willing to serve on a steering committee to organize a get together for the spr ing Mr said Oscar who headed the high school s technology program from 1960 to 1970 was presented with a set of in recognition of being the senior retiree at the lun Mr Robb said the most memorable experience at Georgetown high school was in troducmg planning equipping and staffing the school s technical pro gram Mr Robb retired from teaching in He began his career in Currently he and his wife live in Kitchener Fourteen ex teachers along with several spouses attended the gathering Others who were in vited but unable to attend sent let of support for the gathering Mr Ramautarsingh said RECYCLING II unit Please Remember to Recycle This Newspaper VITEX SPECIAL BEST PERFORMER 10 RAM 1 Floppy 40MB Philips tor 107500 Call Bill Fourme- at Spot In affordable PCs Software and lor home and small busmen use Decade of greed will be followed by disgust of excesses as Diane Ma ley to dust i it growing one will tlu l0s look muddled in comparison Fight its decade of will followed groundswtll of disgust it consumerism This disgust will be In the liomogemzatton of man and the ex cesses of liberal democracj No this movement will not be peopled neo conservatives or other right wing reactionaries It will be led by liberal democrats If the current debate raging through the intellectual community is indication it will be peopled by professors journalists and yes businessmen and women It s hard to sav when the debate began It may have been two years ago when Allan Bloom a political theorist from the University of Chicago published his book The Closing of the American Mind The round began last summer when one of Mr Bloom s students Francis published an article in an American journal The National Interest entitled The End of History Mr is deputy director of the State Department s policy planning staff The howls of outrage are still echoing Mr article has betn d by Lewis in irptr s magazine It has been discussed in The New York Times and any other interna public worth its salt In Canada The Globe and Mail has ikLn up the torch The debate is just beginning and we will hear mon of Mr before it is In his beautifully crafted article Mr appears to gloat of liberal democrat over communism of d e 1 s i r 1 Hut what he is rtallv up t is warning us the dangers of consumerism ind the homogeneous Mori Mr iter Proponents of r consumerism arc not limited to the United Stalls Willi deputy in of Trust Canada largest trust company has donned the loincloth of the pro and joined in the warning Mr Dimma gave a lecture at York University recently that would make the hair of most modern money shuffling capitalists stand on end For banker it is a remarkable speech indeed I There is little doubt thai on a continuum anchored and greed it one end and idealism and a sense of community at the other the balance continues to shift ominous in the wrong direction Mr siys Greed is definitely in The pursuit of broader com mumty goals is not inly out but is viewed in some circles as downright stupid or is a foolish irrelevant And in this ostensibly slide lo istr values and go be rev Im I sure 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