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Port Perry Star, 26 Apr 1972, p. 9

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Over 100 enjoy Fellowship Evening ~ Speaker delivers impressive message The speaker, Jack Genser The Fellowship Evening, sponsored . by. Warriner Lodge, headed by its Noble Grand, Wm. Barr, Thursday last week was a. decided success. 103 persons from 16 local organizations and a few persons from other neigh- bouring communities partic- ipated in an event which hopefully will be repeated annually. Despite a delay and Conway Gardens possibly a bit overcrowded, no com- plaints were heard. The praise of the arrangement, however, was plentiful and congratulations were showe- red on the guest speaker and "those responsible for the arrangement, Mr. Jack Genser, the guest speaker introduced by Mr. Storey Bearecanlook back on a colourful and interesting career since he started with the Steinberg chain in Mon- treal in 1930. He successfully "climbed the ladder" in this company and held several important positions during 23 years with the company, and Former employee visits the Star plant Mr. Gordon MacMaster, a native of this community, but now a resident of Marysville, Washington, U.S. returned home for a brief visit with family and friends last week. Mr. - MacMaster' also droppedin to the Star office to renew "acquaintences with some of the staff members of _ many years ago. As a High _ School student he got the first "taste" of the printing trade by working afternoons and Saturdays for the late Mr. Samuel Farmer. Following completion of his High School education, Mr. MacMaster learned the trade andreturned to the Star after working a few years in Toronto as a compositor. He travelled widely and worked in many Canadian and United States news- papers and printing esta- blishments. From Port Perry, Mr. MacMaster first went to Detroit and Picton, then to Oshawa,where he worked for the Times for three years, followed by a four years employment with the Globeand Mailin Toronto. He returned to the States To represent Department The meeting announced by Port Perry Chamber of - Commerce to be held Wednesday, April 26 will have representation from the Department of Municipal "Affairs. Miss Ann Lewington has informedthe C of C she will be able to attend and give her view on the important ques- tions coming up at the meeting. Port Perry council mem- bers have also indicated they will be present and take part in the discussions. The place is Conway Gardensanda chickendinner will be served prior to the meeting. See advertisement elsewhere in this issue for further information. _ Herald, Everett, andworkedfor San Francisco Chronicle and Santa Rosa Press Democrat and is now a compositor with the Everett ton=He enjoys his present employment as well as the city of 50,000 population. The Herald has a circulation of about 48,000. Mr. MacMaster and his wife Anne have two sons, Deanl16andScott 17years old. The boys are both interested inhockey and Deana member of a Seattle team is presently playing the National Midget Finals in Detroit. Whilehere, Mr. MacMaster was visiting with his mother, Mrs. Donald MacMaster and his two brothers Archie and Cam MacMaster. -- ~Washing-- concluded as sales manager in' 1953. Before Mr. Genser took over his present positions of vice-president and general manager of Towers Depart- ment Stores of Canada, he also spent several years with Oshawa Wholesale Ltd in various capacities. If his ability as a public . speakerhasa connection with hissuccessinbusinesshisrise to the position he holds to day is indeed deserved. From start to finish, Mr. Genser held those present attentively listening to a message of importance and of concern to everyone, namely "Fellow- ship."" His philosophy was to a great extent based on per- sonal experiences, of which there were many. Substanti- ating his great interest in "Fellowship" washisobvious interest in reading, exploring history and studying his fellow man. Theseattributes combined, plus an inspring delivery of a well prepared-speech made the evening one of those unusual and memorable occasions. Mr. Genser emphasized Fellowship starts with people who must makea living and it was no better place in the society to find Fellowship than at work or in business. Hisfirst jobinlife was at the tender age of six in the City of Montreal, his birth place. Here he discovered Fellow- ship having the responsibility of -opening the door for the customers. His speech was filled with great personal involvement, interwoven by many inter- esting anecdotes and facts fromearly World historyupto - the present day more compl cated living. In order to fullfill the concepts of Fellowship and Brotherhood, we must keepin mind these simple facts, Mr. Genser said. "Involvement, communications, the partic- ipation of many people, - who in the end will share the result." Despite atrocites and the (continued on page 24) The principal participants during the Fellowship Evening from left: Glen Wanamaker, Dep. Grand Master of the Independent Order of Oddfellows of Ontario, who extended thanks to the speaker Storey Beare, who introduced the speaker: Jack Genser, Vice President and General Manager of Towers Department Stores of Canada, the evenings speaker; Wm. Barr, Noble Grand of Warriner Lodge and chairman for the evening. P2RT{ PERRY SECTION ) Volume 106 -- Port Perry, Ontario, Wednesday, April 19, 1972 -- No. 26 Auto students will compete in "Trouble Shooting" event Two grade 12 auto mec- hanic students from Port Perry High School will be out to demonstrate thejr skills as they compete in the 1972 Chrysler Trouble Shooting Contest to be held April 21 near the Queen Elizabeth Building at Toronto's CNE Park. Bill Peeters and John Nottenboom will represent Port Perry High School this Looking for the 'bugs' are Port Perry High School auto mechanic students John Nottenboom (left) and Bill Peeters. Boys are preparing for Chrysler "Trouble Shooting" Contest to be held April 21 at Toronto's Exhibition Park. In the contest, students from Ontario high year, oud will be compaling against students from 35 high schools in Ontario. Winners of this competi- tion will advance to the national*finals to be held in Montreal in June with first prize being a $2,500 scholar- ship. In all, there are more than $40,000 in scholarships, prizes, trophies and tools to be awarded to winning teams. schools will be attempting to find malfunctions purposely placed in cars, and make necessary changes to get car running right. The competition consists of a 100 question multiple choice written exam, and the practical contest, whereby students are given a certain length of time to find the malfunctions in an auto- mobile and then get it running right. Mr. Stan Lefort, an in- structor at Port Perry High School who will accompany the students to Toronto, says each team works on a brand new car that has purposely had malfuntions placed in it, and these are similar for each team. They are usually in the ignition system, timing, distributor, contact points or electrical acces- sories. A team has an hour and a half to find the bugs, and then get the car running the way it should run. The car is then inspected by a set of judges and any mal- function that has not been corrected means disqual- ification for the team. The team scoring best in the writen and mechanical tests is the winner. In preparation for the contest, Bill and John have been practising after school on a 1972 Dodge on loan for this purpose from Duggan Motors in Lindsay who are sponsoring the Port Perry team. Last year's team from Port Perry scored the high- est marks in the written contest, and except for one small error in the technical poftion would probably have won the overall contest, says Mr. Lefort. This year's wrillen examinations will get under way at 10:00 a.m. on April 21, and the "Trouble Shooting" will start at 12:30 p.m.

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