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The Independent, Canadian Statesman Weekender, Bowmanville, Saturday, January 22,1994 5 Play to Open at Oshawa Little Theatre Students from Clarke High School _ Conclude Co-op with Career Fair -jj "■ by Chad Maartense Clarke High School's Cooperative Cooperative Education Program held its annual Co-op Career Fair this past Wednesday, January 12. This was an opportunity for coop coop students to display what they have learned this semester. It was also a chance for students to ask various various questions about a particular career, career, as many students find it much easier to ask a student, rather than an adult. "The purpose of the career fair is for co-op students to be able to demonstrate demonstrate what they learned and share it with others," said Gail MacKen- zie, head of the Co-op Department. Each student had to make a display display depicting their career. These exhibits were set up on a table in the gym. Every student had to stay at their display and answer questions from any students who came to view the wide assortment of projects. projects. Most of the students enjoyed the career fair. "I learned a lot about ambulance duties and journalism. This helps interest you in co-op and makes you think about a career," said grade nine student Dave Watt. The fair ran all day, with students from both Clarke and The Pines taking taking part. According to MacKenzie, it was a very successful event. Today, there are about 50 students students involved in co-op at Clarke High School and about 70 more will be starting their co-op placements in the next semester. But, things are becoming more complicated due to different time schedules at Bowmanville Bowmanville High School and Courtice Secondary School. Many students are unable to take a bus home from Bowmanville due to the hour time difference, so they have to find their own ride. "Problems will exist because the times don't match, but we should be able to work around it, " said MacKenzie. MacKenzie. Choices are endless when entering entering the co-op field. You could almost almost do anything you want. Choices might include working as a teacher's teacher's assistant, a butcher, a cosmetician, cosmetician, or even a mechanic. Co-op education education is a great experience for anyone looking to mhke a career choice. >1U 1EHNEK TUES Your Best Deal in Tires in the Durham Region FREE • Installation • Valve Stem - Alignment Check • Wheel Balance • Tire Disposal career as a secondary school teacher and has. worked as a consultant and then administrator since 1979. mothei T he Oshawa Little Theatre is presenting The Melville Boys, a fun- ! ny and tender look at what happens when four lives in transition touch common ground, by Canadian playwright Norm Foster. The play is about two brothers who take off to the relatives' lakeside cabin cabin for a strenuous weekend of fishing and lifting a few brews. Then, two sisters arrive for the weekend and throw the Melville's plans out of whack. In this photo, Maureen Green as Mary, Linda Chapman as Lorrette and Rick Kerr as Lee are up for some fishing and comical high jinks. The play will be presented at the Russet Avenue home of the Oshawa Little Theatre on Feb. 3,4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, and 19. Tickets can be picked up at Say well's Bookstore in Oshawa. Board of Education Selects Superintendent for Schools Natalie Bohnen, a superintendent that board in 1977 as a special educa- of schools with the Hastings County tion resource teacher. She attended the Board of Education, was appointed University of Toronto and the Ontario superintendent of schools with the Institute for Studies in Education and Northumberland and Newcastle Board completed her supervisory officer's of Education on Thursday night, Jan. qualifications in 1991. She started her -- « «An/NM/lnvfl /-xrxl tAQphpr The appointment take effect Jan. 31, 1994. She replaces Mary Ellen Beamish who retired at the end of December, 1993. Bohnen, a resident of the Brighton area, will be responsible for schools in the Campbellford and Brighton areas and for Brookside Secondary School. Director of Education Dick Mal- owney said her appointment "completes, "completes, the senior staff re-organization. We are very pleased that we have an educator of Natalie's experience and abilities joining our team. She has had significant experience in fostering positive school relations." The re-organization, started last August, meant the position of chief superintendent was not filled when Grant Yeo took a position with the Lambton County Board of Education. Two superintendents have assumed responsibilities for all program and personnel areas. That frees three superintendents superintendents to work exclusively with schools. These superintendents will, be "working as partners with principals and staff and bringing the schools as close as possible to the community," said Malowney. "The issue of community community involvement in schools is a critical clement in all of the things education education is about from accountability to excellence." Bohnen said the position is "an opportunity opportunity to involve communities in school activities even more actively and to be sensitive to the needs of each individual school and its particular particular personality. It means a more immediate immediate accountability to the parents and community." 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