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A SEERA ew a a IAT Aa a ns SNE ~ RE oo CRN TEA & PLAN I NAVAN RAE RRA POR RRR a3 i J The gym at R. H. Cornish Public School was filled with friends and former students of Mrs. Audrey Lee last Wednesday evening, on the occasion of her retirement from teaching. Pictured above are Mrs. Lee, centre, with two of her former students. Mrs. Florence Webster, left, was a grade eight student at Royal Oak School, Mariposa in 1935 when Mrs. Lee began teaching and Michael Johnson, grade 5, from the last class she taught this year. 64 WATER STREET - PORT PERRY 985-3756 33.00 GIVE-A-WAY AAA REAR EY EERE 1 re ce-------------- pant'n top shoppe Pas83028082s82 0 * COUNTRY VILLAGE COUPON --«{{(} tgs 04 Al) tre ssgedscese Tiesnas Redeem this Coupon with any Purchase of *10.00 or more at COUNTRY VILLAGE and receive *3.00 OFF your Purchase. ONE COUPON PER PERSON. (EFFECTIVE JULY 6th to 13th, 1977.) NLRC A ADOT ASA eA Ny "IP ho NT DEG TRY : & PURER IRAN PIL A Teaches Over 40 Years: Audrey Lee leavesher-classroom At 2:30 in the afternoon on June 30, Audrey Lee walked out of Cornish Public hool._and, officially ended, a 'teaching 'career that began more than 40 years ago. In an interview that morning she admitted that she would be leaving with mixed emotions. "I'm look- ing forward to the change and my retirement. But at the same time I really hate to think that this is my last day. I'm trying not to dwell on that thought too long," she said with a soft smile. Mrs. Lee attended public school on Scugog Island, High School in Port Perry, and graduated in 1935 from teachers college in Toronto. Her first teaching job in the fall of that year was in a one-room country school north of Sonya. She had 22 students that year from grades one to eight, and received a salary of $550. .She moved to another school in Mariposa in 1939, again one room with eight grades. = She was married two years later and quit teaching as was customary at that time for female teachers when they married. With her husband over- seas in 1943, Mrs. Lee went back to teaching, this time to the school she herself had attended on the north end of Scugog Island. Mrs. Lee was out of teaching from 1944 to 1950 as she was busy with her two sons, Larry arid Robert. But in 1950 she went to part-time teaching at Port _ Perry Public School, and in 1956 took a grade five class full-time. Over the years she recalls many humourous and memorable incidents, but one sticks out in her mind. In 1939 she took her entire class of children by train to see the King and Queen when they visited Toronto. "I don't think I would have done it had I known what I was getting into," she re- called. "You can imagine trying to look after all those children on the train". Changes During a career that goes back to 1935, Mrs. Lee has witnessed the great changes in the school, and she is not entirely convinced that all the changes have been for the better. "I still believe very much in the fundamen- tals--the basic three R's, as most important. If students get a good grounding in these in the lower grades, they'll be better students later on." While she admires the facilities and opportunities that students have these Talk to the Insurance Innovator at Groat-West Life Assuranc Cowrany Wm. Laurence Evans 73 Main Street, North, Uxbridge, Ontario. Office: 852-3184 Residence: 852-7712 Life - Health - Group Certificates - Annuities Home Owner Saving Plans Growth Opportunity Plans > Income Tax Saving Plans Great-West Life f : " Gm rane days, she hopes that students truly appreciate the facilities 'that we would _have .given our.eyxe..teeth for." . 'Mrs. Lee believes that there will be a swing in the future back to the more basic aspects of education involving more formal test- ing, tightening of standards and an emphasis on quality. Throughout her career she has tried to instill in her students a feeling of pride in finishing a job and doing it well. Looking back she said her greatest satisfact- ion as a teacher came when a student went on to do well in something and "I know 1 had some small part in their development." Advice To those who would seek to pursue a teaching career, Mrs.- Lee said that human qualities are most import- ant: a love of children, understanding, lots of patience and a sense of humour. Despite larger school and facilities, and great amounts of resource material, Mrs. Lee believes that teaching today is more . demanding that .it was in . years passed. the one-room schools ol "Kids are more knowledgable today" she-adwmits= But-changes:in--:- society in general and the influence of television have made teaching tougher. Retirement Mrs. Lee has no specific plans for retirement other than taking a few trips and devoting more time to hobbies and church work. Last week, a retirement party was given in her honour at Cornish School, and she was presented with a beautiful ring. Many of her former students attend- ed, some of whom she had- n't seen since 1939 when they were in her grade 8 class. Teaching has been a very rewarding career for Mrs. Lee. She has always had: excellent relations and co- operation from parents and other staff members. Did she enoy it? '"Ob- viously if I had not loved it so much, I wouldn't have stuck with it until now." 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