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" PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed., November 7, 1979 -- 15 Port Perry High School news approaching and everyone who can come is most welcomed. Mike Mandel's performance is quite mysti- fying and all who attended last year's show spent quite an entertaining evening watching His amazing tech- niques with the power of suggestion. Last Friday afternoon the. girl's choir conductor Mr. Baird, and accompanists travelled to Hotel Toronto where they entertained various school board trust- ees from across Canada. Apparently the show was enjoyed tremendously be- cause at the end of their program the trustees res- ponded with a standing ovation. The 1978-79 .. yearbooks have arrived and were right on time for our annual commencement exercises on Friday. This year's event saw the gymnasium filled to capac- ity with teachers, parents, and graduates. The evening went extremely smooth. Two musical selections were played by the Senior wind ensemble under the direction of Mr. Baird. The 1979 Valedictorian, chosen from the grade 13 graduating class by their peers, was Shelley Yurko, a well deserved student. Shelley prepared and delivered a magnificent speech express- ing the achievements and ponderings of all the gradu- ates. Three former teachers Mr. Ron Firth, Mr. Arrend Dekker, and Mr. Doug Wall- ace were present at the ceremony Friday night. Their appearances were much appreciated by gradu- ates and students alike; it was said this was the last time they would be together as a class with former teach- ers and classmates. The music department and students council have finally released the results of their citrus sales. We ordered 13% {Turn to page 18) Valedictory address by Shelley Yurko gone that long. Seeing all the many familiar faces makes me feel right at home again- and going home is something I should do more often. During the middle of Sept- ember 1 decided I would surprise my parents and go home the weekend. They hadn't heard from me for a couple of weeks because we didn't have a phone yet and I just seemed to be too busy meeting new friends at Uni- versity. When I got home that Friday night everyone, of course, was happy to see - me, then the phone rang, and it was for me. On the other end was Mr. Scott wanting to know if I was going to accept or decline the nomination of valedictorian. My mouth sort of fell open because I didn't know what he was talking about. So he said, "I thought, you knew already," but/my parents hadn't been able to get in touch to tell m¢. Well, as you cansee, I accépted and I feel deeply honoured to have been chosen to speak on behalf of the graduating class. Everyone attends high school at one time or another but which high school one goes to can influence the: type of person one will event- ually become. I personally think Port Perry High is a Debbie Ireland and Laura Sanderson. Back from left: Greg Carriere, Wade Oosterman, Paul Delhaise, Henry Freiter, John Epsley and Paul Martens. by Ellen Buller e This week was a socially inactive week because everyone was busy prepar- ing for commencement on Friday. 7 Monday night the Port ¢ Perry High School girl's } basketball teams hosted a game with Donevan, the Oshawa team. The senior and midget teams lost but both were good games. Our junior girls won again and . now have a record of 6 games played and 6 games won. Keep it up girls, you're going to go far! Mike Mandel's appear- ance on our stage on the eve of November 14 is fast ¥ Honoured guests, Mr. i Williams and staff, parents, * fellow. graduates and students. . It's hard to believe we're Valedictorian Shelly Yurko. back at Good ole Port High . again because it really does- n't seem as if we've been b J & lL 3 o A . Lions Club President Greg Smith with outstanding students, Steve Mcintyre and Alison McNab, who received the Lions Club award for their efforts. J ] ) ] ¢ > ® Port Perry High School's Ontario scholars for 1979 were honoured at the annual Commencement held at the school Friday evening. Front from left: Leanne Middleton, Sara Young, Angela Wynsma, Janice Ball, good school for building character. Some ritzy schools are built on a name only -- somebody else's name. If you attend a school like that you become snooty and closeminded. Our school is exactly the opposite. We're open, friendly and getting stronger all the time. Last year, for example, we were very strong academically. There were quite a few groups represent- ing the school in various math and science contests that were highly successful. At the other end, our sports area wasn't quite as success- ful except for basketball, and I won't say much about that sport because at our assemb- lies and banquets, basketball always managed to creep in there for a speech. Our foot- ball team wasn't a winner last year, but never fail, I've heard that this year's team has played seven games and hasn't won any yet! But as we say, it's spirit that counts not whether we win or lose. There will be a lot of people who'll disagree with me on that statement. Last year I shot with the girl's archery team and need I say we brought the trophy home again. The fact that there wasn't another girl's team to compete against didn't mean we couldn't have won it anyway, did it? Our cheerleaders were great though. You could always find Lori Clark and her crew supporting our teams and sometimes out- numbering the spectators, but that may have been due to 90 percent of the school jumping on buses at 3:20. Turning from spectators to "mentors (or tormentors, as the case may be), I have a different memory stored aside for every teacher I ever had during my five years here. Some just happent to leave more of a distinct impression than others. There are two cate- gories of teachers: 1-those that teach strictly by the book and....2-those who like to teach about those days back on the farm when etc, etc. I can thankfully say most of my teachers held both of those qualities in equal abundance. The most important thing Mr. Burt's Biology class taught me was that when I got to University no one was going to hold my hand. He was always preparing us for that big step up into higher education. In fact. I really think he starts preaching in grade nine. Mr. Firth is what I remember most about Calculus because I've never seen a man so covered in chalk dust. There could be erasers all over the room and he'd still use his hands to erase the board. I'm just glad I don't get his cleaning bills. Mr. Reed was definite- ly one of my crazier teach- ers. For Christmas last year our functions class gave him a case of Molson's Ex and dared him to open it and have a party. I've never seen anyone look so suspiciously at a case of beer. He finally opened one, smelled it, tast- ed it, and laughed. It was actually a case of ginger ale. Do you really think we would be crazy enough to jeopard- ize one of our favourite teachers? My Chemistry recall of Mr. Doble is that, quote, "His new kid" spit enzymes all over him that morning or how sorry he was that the chemistry test would have to be the Monday after the Superbowl] Sunday after- noon. And, oh yes, if you wanted any help for the test, please come over during half time! I have to give Mrs. Quail credit for teaching our Soc- iology course. She had two senior classes that year; one was very passive, the other totally obnoxious. Of course I belonged to the obnoxious class, not by my choice, though! I've never known any teacher to have as much patience as you did with our class. Now lastly, there's Mrs. Lackie. What to say about this incredible woman that's never been said be- fore! All kidding aside though, as busy as you may have been, you always found the time to help us with our plays, our essays...Oh, and speaking of essays, why couldn't you have just once mistaken my English paper for Shelley Howsam's. Leaving P.P.H.S. teach- ers' quirks behind me, liter- ally, I'd like to say that we tend to overlook a lot of other things that high school does for us than simply provide teachers and classes. When I reached Scarborough Coll- ege I found out why. There, I'm just a number - 791574890 - another $3500.00 fiscal improvement. Professors are never in at convenient hours or they're just never in. Whereas here, 1 could slip up between lunch hours and get extra Calculus help from Mr. Firth while he (Turn to page 16) ig a NC SIN Sr < oe Ly!