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Society after reading the article, and not having yet read it them- selves, they didn't even know what I was talking about. Apparently Mr. Allen made this decision on his own. He called no general meeting to see if there were still parents interested enough to run the Minor Hockey, or coach our kids, and in general keep the whole thing afloat. On top of all this, to add insult to injury, he made lans to sell our sweaters and equipment that legally cia AWA cad "liga WAT ERIN Ea | RAI glares ht . Vd Aen. TA ou, | Wok} S&T; EERE PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues. September 14, 1982 --5 AN : 53 SCALP LAR ta EH FT Ey PENN, ATLANTA ALY EARNS : the sto J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager J.B. McCLELLAND Editor RNADIAN COMMUN . 12 A ey \O. APEgs AssOCIAS PORT PERRY STAR CO. LIMITED 239 QUEEN STREET. Nd CNA £.0. 80X 90. PORT PERRY. ONTARIO. LOB INO (416) 985-7383 OC) cn r= | Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association + Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for cash payment of postageincash. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $15.00 per year. Elsewhere: $45.00 per year. Single copy: 35¢ pill smiley - BACK TO THE BOOKS It makes me a little happy and a little sad to be going back to teaching English this September for the last time. Happy because September is the golden month. The students are bored after a long summer of working or looking for work, and are lively, excited, keen, as they pack into the classroms, exchanging wild anecdotes about their summer adventures, back into some sort of struc- tured life after goofing around aimlessly, interested in -new girls, new boys, new teachers. Teachers, too, head into September with a new spirit, their minds, restless, their bodies fit, their idealism about teaching renewed. They are full of new plans for exciting courses, reinvested with dedication, and ready to man the barricades with enthusiasm. Back in the lurky ponds of their minds, of course, the experienced teachers know that long, cold, deadly Jan- uary and February lie ahead, complete with the 'flu, the snow, apathetic students, irritating administrators, per- sonality clashes with their peers, and all the detritus of the second term. But in September, they close off that nightmare, just as we all ignore such things as cancer, heart attacks, and death, until we are into them. We feel a proper rectitude, and joke about it, concerning our social role in taking off the hands of their mothers those bored, whining teenagers who have been driving their parents crazy in the last few weeks of summer, staying out too late, getting into minor scrapes, wanting things their folks can't afford, and perpetually claiming "What is there to do?" Personally, I enjoy meeting new students, evaluating them with sublety, implanting them with new ideas, telling them ancient jokes, become aware of their personalities, good, bad, or indifferent, and trying to form some sort of a learning unit from 30-odd bodies whose minds and likes and dislikes and agressions and inhibi- tions are as disparate as the stars in the heavens. It's a good time, September. Usually lots of sun, grass still green, leaves still on the tress, new aspirations, new hopes, new friendships. Football practices starting, Cheer-leaders being chosen. Golf course beckoning after school. Everybody tanned, freckled, friendly. And best of all, the meetings, Staff meetings, department meetings, department heads' meetings, "meetings to establish committees to accomplush this or that, all forgotten by next March. There's a wonderful atmosphere at these meetings. They're full of wit and thrust, repartee and aphorism, as though they had been written by Oscar Wilde or G.B. Shaw. Or Edgar Guest. Or Ann Landers. Nobody in his-her right mind would miss one of these meetings on a golden September afternoon, the conversation sparkling like Pablum. But I mentioned a certain sadness in seeing my last September i in the halls of the shoe factory. I'll miss it. I'll miss the novice teachers asking me, "What'll I do tomorrow?" I'll miss veteran teachers binding away about other veteran teachers sneaking in before school opening and stashing away all the books that the former wanted on opening day. I'll miss whupping into shape a gaggle of cocky, ill-mannered, blasphemous Grade Niners, who have to. learn that they are now on the bottom of the ladder not the top. I'll miss scaring the senior grades with horror stories about the amount of reading and writing they'll have to do in the next 10 months. Some of them turn livid with fear. Most just roll their eyes. I'll miss the camaraderie of the staff room, where the women gossip in little groups about the other women on the staff, the men exchange rauchy jokes loud enough for the gossiping women to hear, and, especially, the shuffle- board table, where the motto is to reverse an old ethic, "It doesn't matter how much you play the game, it's whether you win or lose." I'll miss having a science teacher, an art teacher, a French teacher, or a jock, on my English staff. They have so much to add to the teaching of English. I've also had tech-teachers, history teachers, and non-teachers in my department. I'll miss them all. Gratefully, but sincerely. I'll miss the surly kids who turn out to be quite decent when you treat them decently. I'll even miss the problem kids, who keep you on your toes, like a private eye, waiting for their next con job. And I'll miss the genuinely decent kids, most of them, who roll along through the system, and greet you five years after graduation and force you to admire their twins. I'll miss the members of my own department, who stuck with me through thin and thinner, offering to take non-existent loads off my shoulders and replacing them with boulders. In fact, I'll miss so much, September 1983, that I'm getting all misted up, and can't finish this column. Aren't you glad? PS remember when? 60 YEARS AGO ~~ Thursday, September 14, 1922 Miss Miriam Harris and:Miss Elizabeth Allin will attend the Toronto University. Crops were good this year. There were three threshing machines in Utica all doing a rushing business. Miss Mabel McMillan, Greenbank is leaving this week to take up nursing in Western Hospital, Toronto. . At Town Council an estimate of the general receipts and expenditures for the year 1922 was presented by the Finance Committee. The expenditures totalled $26,500. and the receipts were $20,000. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 11, 1947 Mr. Murray Holtby of Prospect took as his bride Miss Florence (Tot) Carter of Scugog. There are two cases of polio reported in Port Perry. Mr. and Mrs. E. Wagg of Prince Albert have sold their - home and are moving to London. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 12, 1957 At the Black & White Show at Port Perry Fair, Roy Ormiston of Brooklin and Orval Chambers of Wilfred tied for Premier Breeder with 136 points, and George McLaughlin of Beaverton was right behind with 134 points. There were 136 head shown with 30 different exhibitors. : Don Popert and Irene Ptolemy escaped serious injury when the motorcycle they were riding collided with a car driven by Sinclair Robertson. In the Men's Doubles in Lawn Bowling the 'High 'three game winner" was Bruce Beare, skip and Ron Honey. = Congratulations to Mr. Douglas MacCannell and Ross Bailey on winning leather club bags as consolation prizes for taking part in the *'Calf Scramble" at the Exhibition. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 13, 1962 There were 416 pupils enrolled at Port Perry High School and 488 at the Public School. Holstein exhibitors of the Black & White Show held at the Port Perry Fair turned back their prize money - amounting to $530.00 to the Fair Board to help pay for the new cattle barns that were used this year for the first time. Frank Barkley, a member of the Brooklin Junior Farmers, has been awarded a Provincial Junior Farmers Travelling Scholarship. He will attend the Rural Youth Conference.in West Virginia. Gary Lee of Greenbank fell and broke his arm. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Beals of Florida have been visiting friends and family in Port Perry. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 14, 1967 Seven months after fire destroyed Ashburn " Presbyterian Church, a sod turning ceremony with Rev. Wm. Black officiating took place on the new site of Burn's Presbyterian Church. Norm Anderson, Treasurer of Burns Church was on hand to officially turn the first sod. A daily charge was set by Port Perry Council for dogs impounded at a rate of $1.00 per day plus an additional dollar if the dogs are to be held in quarantine. A fire which began in the attic caused an estimated $6,000.00 damage to the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Honey, Conc. 9, Reach Township. During a traffic safety check held in town recently a total of 360 cars were examined and 225 of them were noted to have defects. Six charges were laid, two for ex- pired licences and four for defective cars when the cars failed to pass a re-check. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, September 13, 1972 Four hundred high school students took part in a walk- out held at Port Perry High School. They were protesting because Ontario County teachers and School Board of- ficials have been unable 'to reach an agreement on the supervising of activities after regular classes. The initial steps have been taken in the construction of Perryview Plaza & Marina which, according to a sign posted on the property, will open in the spring of 1973. The Grand Master of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, Jurisdiction of Ontario Glenn A. Wanamaker was honoured at a reception held at the high school. Over 400 persons from across Ontario and the United States were in attendance. Mrs. Clara Warren, of Port Perry has just returned home from a three week visit to England, Scotland, Hanover, Amsterdam, Paris and London. Travelling with Mrs. Warren were Mrs. Frank Grehan, of Agincourt and. Freida Pritchard of Toronto. ph --