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Page THE Thttrtdat Il4 DON checks through a recent shipment textbooks prior to the start of classes at Georgetown District High School One of the major chorea of preparing for resumption of studies is selection and distribution of books for the course of study The work goes on many days before school officially opens THERE WILL BE 13 new faces on the staff when school opens Its doors today for the fall semester 12 teachers and a new caretaker Grade teacher Mrs Susan Sheahan assisted newcomer Bob Bell also of youngsters FAMILY BARBER shop In Acton was kept busy all last week preparing heads for school Barber Norm cuts the locks of Sean Fitzgerald who will enter kindergarten at Bennett school At left Is Michael Bennett and at right la Donna Bennett id both school pupils waiting their turns HOME ECONOMICS TEACHER Mrs tenby runs off hundreds of ditto to hand out to students Ik- first two weeks of The school never copies to worked ail summer clearing up last years business and preparing for the fairly heavy Increase In student enrolment Hills Recreation department also School Bells Ringing Again PAT and Sammit cut out leaves for one of the junior classes at Holy Cross Separate School In Georgetown Preparations for classes had to be In readiness for the opening of school this week and teachers were at their desks days before most families even thought about returning from summer holidays THERE ARE hundreds of students enrolled at Georgetown District High School and one of the duties assigning lockers to the students who are expected to be at the school for the start of the fall term have been painted and the new swimming pool has necessitated several major and minor changes In classroom and washroom RON NELSON gets ready for the first day of classes in the machine shop at the high school In Georgetown One school term just seems to come to an end when another Is about to begin and there were two months of summer In between Kennedy Public School Georgetown before classes resumed at the school this week School is in 12 months of the year for the regular staff NOT SO EAGER as expected of a young boy entering his first term of high school Rob Paterson says he worked most of the summer on a friends farm and now hes ready for a holiday But the board of education has other plans for Rob Its Back To School Time Its time but back to school Is not all about children Its about a host of Individuals some of them students themselves who have to prepare for school many days or weeks before classes actually resume Teachers have to prepare lesson plans ready supplies design displays custodial staff has spent the summer cleaning and painting and making repairs and renovations parents have been readying school wardrobes for children of children old enough to have been at work during the months earning their own school money Textbooks have to be selected and distributed courses of study have to be laid out theres a host of chores that have to be accomplished before the first bell sounds Usually we look at back to school from a students point of view Instead this year were looking at back to school from the point of view of a lot of people who have been long preparing for the big occasion the people behind the scenes so to speak And now schools In REGISTERING newcomers to the area guidance coun sellor Mrs Sue Burns discusses possible courses with John a grade 11 student from While brother GUberto locks on Todd Comber from awaits his turn to register for Grade 9 classes PHOTOS BY THE HERALD