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Clarence Rognvaldson retiring from teaching by Jennifer After 19 years of teaching others Clarence valdson will be leaving Acton high school Although be Is retiring from teaching his desire to learn is still strong Known as Sonny to many Clarence was bom and raised in Manitoba at Lake Winnipegosls He studied in Manitoba and had planned to continue his education at the University of Manitoba when a tragic fire left his family desparate and he was- unable to do bo During the depression Clarence worked at a variety of jobs including one in a grocery store for three dollars a week farming and winter commercial fishing In 1937 Clarence returned home lo to work for his father in their welding general repairs and const ruction business With his father being a jack of all trades Clarence was exposed to many different ma In I areas In Clarence left home to join the Air Force I had plans of being a pilot like all other young men and winning the war singlehanded but I ended up being a mechanic While in the Air Force and in Toronto at the time of his mothers death Clarence met the woman who was to be his future wife Dorothy Jane an girl working at Sick Children Hospital married Clarence in August of 1942 Afterspcndlng five years in the Air Force lit Canada Alaska and England Clarence returned to a small town in Canada that he had visited during his time with the Air Force It was when Clarence and his wife Dorothy came to live in Acton Clarence was hired by Baxter Laboratories now the Dills Printing and Publishing building and became maint enance department head He was In charge of all the various maintenance in the building During his working years the drive to finish the education that was in earlier never left him However the respons of a wife and children were the main concern in his life at this time Clarence and Dorothy have two daughters Janet and Nancy In a policy change took place at Baxters and the plant moved to A ills ton At this lime Clarence with the help of his family decided to pursue his long hoped for dream of returning to school He finished his grade 13 which was an Ontario University requirement and was accepted to Master University as a full time day student His wife Dorothy was behind him every step of the way and went out to work at Dills Printing and Publishing Company to support the family Clarence stresses that his education was definitely a family affair and would not have been possible without of his wife and two daughters They all shared the hardship without complaint While going through taking Arts and Philosophy Clarence had no dreams of becoming a teacher I wanted an education to open doors to the highest levels in industry I had the technical experience but needed the Intellectual qualifications It until his last year that Clarence thought of teaching In September under principal Ted Hansen Clarence began teaching history and geography a I Acton high school He feels that during his time In the geography department he helped to build II from a bare room to a busy active centre In Clarence left the geography department and headed into Industrial Aria He stayed in the shop section at Acton High on Acton boulevard from 1967 until when he moved to the new high school on Cedar Road The Industrial Arts area is one of the bestequipped areas in the new school During his time at Acton high Clarence has taught both his daughters A teacher should be able to teach any one Students who want to learn will learn from any teacher The name is known in many more places than Acton In when dep ression hit and the fishing trade was slow Clarences father who did boat building and repairs also suffered economically The tragic fire In his shop left him financially distressed and so he submitted an entry in a spinning wheel design competition He took an exist ing design and modified It to make It more portable and lightweight After winning the competition bis design was put Into practice when the Eaton company marketed It- The wheel was advertised in the Eaton cat and orders were given to Mr Rognvaldson who constructed and shipped them to customers Clarence and his brothers worked with their father on the wheels which grew to be very popular When Mrs Clarence mother became ill the family closed off the business in the West and moved their parents to Toronto The spinning wheel was known as the Manitoba wheel because of Its western origin or the Icelandic wheel because of the Icelandic name Rognvaldson on the bottom of each one They were requested even after the family left Manitoba Mr made the wheels in Ontario after his wife died with the demand rapidly growing With two wheels still on the bench part tally completed Mr Rogn valdson died at the age of 90 In Customers of the un completed wheels asked Clarence to finish them for them So under the condition that these were an exception Clarence finished them Requests from his wife and daughters for wheels started the trend growing and Clarence continued to con struct them In his spare time With the business growing anda teaching career to think about Clarence discontinued the spinning wheel business About 1970 Clarence and his brother Gordon went back into business and began tak orders for spinning wheels They further modified the wheel making it look more appealing and practical Clarence says that the spinning wheel market goes in cycles At the end of the War for about 15 or years there was not the same int and enthusiam for the craft After a period of time people find they need some kind of craft involving the hands Too much leisure time results In emotional and nervous problems for some people The recent trend towards going back to the traditional crafts for a sense of achieve ment as well as enter tainment has boosted orders in the spinning- wheel depart Clarence says he and his brother can hardly keep up with the orders A recent letter from a Rognvaldson spinning wheel fan sums up the Rognvaldson wheel when It says the in these wheels represents the care and love put in by the Rognvaldsons This makes them things beauty and a joy forever When asked about the changes be has seen In the school Clarence feels many things have happened over the last years and not all for the good It is more difficult to teach now and harder to feel sat as a teacher He feels the change In student attitude is directly responsible for this The students dont value education He feels that students used to value education as a necessary tool to later suc cess but now because of the changes in our society both values and economically this altitude has changed also has changed over the last 19 years The discipline for good workman ship and doing what they are old by the students has van ished In many cases He feels students should do what they are told not because the teacher says but because it forms a part of their total destiny Clarence feels the attitude changes and problems in Ihc school cannot be blamed entirely on the home or the school He feels the pressure of the total environment has helped bring on a change The home in the good old days as they are called 1940 Is not the model home They had their problems just as we do now only now there are more people and con more problems Clarence feels strongly that some of the changes In our society may be the root of many problems He feels television has caused a decay in the quality of education communication and the ability to For many students they become passive blotting paper for everything that comes out of the Idiot box Clarenccstlll feels the book is the best way of learning He feels that people must be selective in what they watch because the abuse and addition of this media can have harmful effects On the lighter side of things Clarence has retirement plans of travelling with his wile both in and outside Canada Scandinavian countries Europe Austria Switzerland Germany Greece and the Mediterraean areas He hopes try a little fish Ing and hunting and work on his spinning wheel business For years Clarence has made It possible for students to learn how to drive through the driver training course and hunt through the hunter safety course During his retirement he will stay on as instructor for both these Clarence and his wife are looking forward to spending some time visiting their daughters who are both married with children of their The Acton Free Press Wednesday 1978 Local contractor critical of Read Govt insulation program labels One Georgetown insulation specialist Is not happy with the federal government program Bill Patterson proprietor of Patterson Insulation Georgetown says the program is government In terference with private enter prise which can do the job of insulating better and cheaper If the Government can Insulate homes for less than contractors then why don they get Into all businesses such as plumbing heating and others he asks He feels the government Is taking the bread out of contractors mouths with their of fer of free labor for insulation jobs The free labor free he says noting it bugs him that he had to lay a man off in a slack time while the help hired by the government pro gram relaxes in large Brampton offices and still gels paid This Is still a free prise system Mr Patterson says and he believes the Government s fumbling attempts to help the deprived Insulate are costing tax payers far more than if private enterprise did the job He says private enterprise can Insulate an attic about above cost of insulation whlk the government program would take two men at least 10 hours each calculated at an hour would cost above the cost or the insulation Then there Is the overhead cost of knocking on doors advertising by flyers The Government program offers free labor for certain people who qualify for They must pay for cost of material He suggests the program should be tendered is the Provincial Government does if the free enterprise system is to be served Attention swimming pool owners be sure you read the instructions on pool chemical containers and follow them The warning was Issued this week by Halton Region Fire Prevention Committee after a container of calcium became con taminated and burst Into flames extensive damage to a garage where it was housed The pool owners ere not aware of the caution on the container label which harried the chemical may set itself afire ff contaminated CLARENCE is retiring this June as high school teacher will gather Thursday from to at the Legion to wish him well in his retirement Their Janet is married to Robert Taylor and they at Elliott Lake with two daughters Nancy married Gerard Coquard and they live In Montreal with a son and a daughter Clarenee says happily that he is looking forward to his retirement and this Is one reason why he look it one year earlier He has enjoyed every minute at Aclon High and has no regrcjs about his leaching career during the past 19 years He has nothing but kind words and warm feelings for Ihc staff of Acton High both pas presenf Once again his yearning learn from everyday life Is apparent when he says he has learned something from every student teacher and person he with Its a hell of a poor day when I don t learn something new Since the days of high school when Clarence wanted to pursue his education al and through Ihose hard ears when he worked to do it until now when he pre pares to thai desire lo learn has never left him Clarence has helped mum students not only practical teach and marking but through example is his turn now to enjoy life lo the fullest and to lake it easy doing the he wants do A retirement receplion will be 1 eld the on Legion on Thursday June riends are to drop In between 4 and p m Tax date still stands There will be no change In he normal amount around penalties on farm taxes due to this year rather than Councillor Waller July as in previous years pointed out ft would be less Only Councillors Russ even to pay the penalty for a Miller Pat Patterson Roy month Booth and George Maltby Councillor Miller favored the foregoing of explained under the Farm penalties for the month of Reduction Program a July for farmers listed under farmer receives a Farm Reduction per cent reduction in taxes Program He claimed there are over BOO Patterson had raised the farmers on this role question previously claiming said Can you the former depended on the Imagine the commotion it July wheat crop to pay would cause to pass that bank for fertilizer and other bylaw when the people who necessities He claimed there have already paid their taxes had been no notice of the find out change The clerk administrator Councillor Marilyn Ser asked how the people would jean son made a motion know and wondered If each exempting anyone who wants taxpayer would have be to defer payment until July notified be allowed to do so without The lost and the lax the month s penalty She date will stay June with penalties after due date CARPET CORNER 11 MAIN ST NORTH-ACTON- 8533620 Your headquarters in 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