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8 Everyone Had A "Merry Christmas " . Hard-working members of Richmond Hill' around one of the 34 baskets of Christmas goodies packed and Left to right are: officer, Stuart J. Clement. chairman of the co-ordinated services, Mrs. D. l. ' Mirrlees. Dr. W. R. Bedford, Gordon Bryant and Dr. Dennis, Stainer who represent various ser- the community on the day before Christmas. vice clubs in the municipality. The baskets contained generous quantities of food including a turkey. for the children. Sept. School Bd. Gordon Trusslei‘. chairman of the 1964 Richmond Hill Separate School Board gave a comprehensive report of the board’s activities for the year at the 3 annual meeting held December 30 at St. Mary Imâ€" { maculate School. Enrolment in the system's' maculate a smaller building had four schools now totals I.065,lcost $13.65 per square foot. an increase of 121 over 1963.|Cost of the addition to St. Mary Official opening of the fourthIImmaculate, would be lower as school. St Joseph‘s was held intthere will be only a minimal February, 1964 although theiaddition to the heating plant. school had been ready for clas- no gymnasium. etc. ses In October of 1963. . These figures compare The board has prepared plansi . _ for an eight room addition toI very favorably With the lat . t public school addition the Our Lady Help of Chris- .es . . . “ans School for 1965. They in Richmond Hill which Mr. have alsn proposed an eightl Trussler reported had cost room addition to St. Mary lm-‘ pngsquaaf foot“ The mandate. There are still detailsI m y o f Tani” “it: on d to be worked out for this ad- :1)? I? deeen m dition and several major deci-l " e s“ ' sions will have to be made by. “The board has done an 9X- the 1965 board about it cellent job, carefully screening Mr. Trussler noted that Stili'lans-u Stated M"~ TFUSSIeF Joseph‘s had been bum at ai“and because of their careful construction cost of $11.82 perl‘work the costs are low." square foot, while St Mary 1mg The cost of education had al- _‘~__V .so been kept very modest. Mr. lstudent in the Richmond Hill lseparate schools. Costs in the E 't. TTCsystems in the separate school lbeen reduced'to $1.41. Part of Every Year Vaughan. Mark-lthe reason for the reduction in ham and Richmond Hill Coun- costs was I tatiori between Metro's north-t The mill rate for separate ern limits and this area. ischools in the various local mu-I The exemption dates back tolnicipalities also compared very‘ " ‘ ’ "" ' ‘1'l‘russler continued. In 1963 the 3 Taxlcost had been $1.47 per day per t linspectorate averaged $1.65. In 1964. however, the cost had oils have to apply for exemption centrally located schools had of an old seat tax for transpor- been built. i 1949 and the days of the old‘lfavorably with the public school radial electric line that used rate. The separate school resi- to serve passengers between dential rate in Markham Town- Toaorriito and Bond Lake. lship was 31.9 in 1964 compar- en 33.6. In Thornhill, the separate‘ Commission provided for a lo-‘ Ischool mill rate was 44.4 for‘ cal bus service. application was. made to the Department of residential. Transport for exemption from In Vaughan Township. the the tax. separate school rate was 24. The three municipalities are the public school 25.8. In Rich- shareholders in the North York mond Hill. the separate and} Bus Line which the TTC conâ€"‘public school rates were aImOSlli tracts to operate for them. ‘identical differing by only l l l l I THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Thursday, Jan. 7, 1965 Wiley/WM)"; s (To-ordinated Welfare Services are shown grouped distributed AI White Plans I6 1001b of a mill. The 1964 rate of 16.18, however. was a drop of 3.49 mills from the 1963 sep-l arate school rate. Mr. Trussleri noted, some-thinz which few. other separate or public school boards could report. This had been done in spite of an additional expense of $6.-‘ 500 for books. pencils and work? materials which had formerlyl been paid for by the students.‘ The Kobarts plan had been beneficial to the sys- 3 tom in that it permitted the l board to charge tuition fees i to taxpayers in surrounding communities whose children were receiving the benefit at * Elect Sept. Elections for the newlyâ€"org- ‘anized Board of the Combined ‘Roman Catholic Separate Schools of the Townships of Markham and Vaughan and the Town of Richmond Hill No. 1 ‘were held during the same eveâ€" lShouIrl ('onrcnlion l Expense Re ‘ Lmufcrl.’ “You should try one. .\Ii'. Itccvc, you might like it." ‘ Mayor Tom Broadhurst hil- l moronst suggested to Reeve Donald Plaxton at Monday night‘s Richmond llill (‘ouncil meeting. The rcevc had question- cd whether some limit on expenses for councillors a t t c n d i n g conventions should not be set. “I suit- 2’cst we pick a few good ones and limit attendance to them." he said. The qucstion was raised when council was consid- ering: attendance at the town and village section of v the Ontario Municipal As- t sociation. scheduled for January ‘29 and 30 in Delhi. Replying to a suggestion by the rccve that. some councillors go to conven- ' tions only because they eli- .i0y a social atmosphere. the mayor countered that this convention was not a socâ€" lal gathering. “It is that part of the OMB which nmst closely concerns us. It gives us an opportunity to broaden our horizons and to meet people wtih simi- l Iar problems. There are a maximum of four conven- IPhoto by Stuart's Studiol‘ t0 need." families in tions in the. year where , the town's welfare ‘ there could be involve Davis. William ' "WM Authorization was given for any councillors desiring to attend this convention to and toys and gifts " do so. ofaRoman (‘atholic educa- ate Scllool Inspector I“. M. Weiss 3 start had been made in 196162 on ungraded primary classes in Our Lady Help of I I lChristians School. This was conâ€" Teaching staff had increased tinned in 1963 and last, year from 31 10 38 and 3, pl'Imf’r-V as‘lvvas introduced also at St. «Josâ€" SISLBI‘II. and SUPCI‘VISOI‘S lIT ma- eph's' and will be funv imp1e_ thematics. lnusic and sports had‘memed this coming veér been acquired. The mathema-l b ‘ ' tics supervisor, Jack I‘Iotrum‘ had been termed by an officiali tion but had formerly paid taxes to public school sys- tems. This system divides the work of the first three gra- of the Department of Educa: des into nine units and tion as one of the best men on children are allowed to the continent in the demons-tra- progress through them at tion of the new reported Mr. Trussler. “We are honored to have him on our staff," he said. I I Under the direction of Separ- , A” Opportumty 01355 ’5 "OW lln operation to give special help to slow learners or to stu- * * dents who have difficulty ad- Bd.financial report which indicatâ€" led a total revenue of $313,563 “up to November 30 and expen- justing or finding their own level. ditures of $311,183 for the year. mathematics” their own speed. They can arrive at the grade 4 level in from two to four years. Mrs. Majorie Gleason. the secretary-treasurei'. gave the I Thompson. Marjorie Glea- son. William 'Ilendcrson Jack Taylor, John Penny- father . Bob O’Toole and George Turbach. NEWMARKET: SeCl‘etai'y 0f :the 127th Battalion group for H , some time. Horace GeorGe Up- lhose . who had IIUmlIlalt‘dlSha” died at Sunnybmoi Hos_ 1ning. candidates were appouited scru- pita] December 19‘ He was in tineers and ballots were depos- l The early Part Of “‘9 meetiited in boxes distributed aroundl his 701h year. ‘ing was chaired by Gordon because good‘5i7‘ed‘1Trussler. 1964 chairman of the. ‘Richmond Hill Separate SS'h()01i\’t'il.h 77 votes aiid will sit on the Board whose report of the board‘s work in 1964 appears above. George Yates. 21 former trustee and board chairman, was nominated to chair the bal- ance of the meeting, and con- ducted the nominations and el- , .. . . fiction. Mr. Yates is now the‘mation with the Richmond Hill . the Toronto lranslt ed to a public school rate onsepara‘e school repl.esemative,Board last yea]: ‘ on the district high school board. A total of twelve trustees was nominated. two of whom declined. .Standing for election were Bob Steele. Gordon Trusslcr. Patrick Ottaway. Conrad ngner NDP Meniber Walter Pitman Associate Registrar At Trent University Walter Pltman. head of IIIP‘lIlII‘Sl for learning." he stress- history department at Lang-ed. staff Secondary School has becnl Much of his enjoyment In appointed associate rcgistrar‘ the York Central system and lecturer in history at the was because it has the new Trent University in Peter- courage to do things dif- boro. ferently. to experiment Mr. Pitlnan joined the staff and make an effort to of Langstan in September solve problems which many 1964. He expressed himself as system are just content to most reluctant lo Iea\c the live with. Mr. Pitman York Central system. "My Iiap- said. piest moments of teaching llaie As an instance of this he been here" he said. “1 think the explained that the greater num- ber of subjects now on the curâ€" riculum makes the five day week difficult to live with and short periods make it difficult for teachers to teach a lesson effectively. At Langstaff this problem has been tackled by York Central system is most progressive I've seen." Mr. Pitman. a graduate of the University of Toronto. be- gan his teachinc career at Ra-‘ thurst Hcic’hts Collegiate. While teaching there he also the worked for and received his the institution of a six day cyâ€" MA. In October he went to (‘IP With PeriOdS 0f 0"” 40 Peterborn as head nf the his. minutes. Thus while day one tory department at Kenner Collegiate and Vocational Instiâ€" tute. Taking a leave of ab- sence in the fall of 1960. he spent the next two years as NDP representative from Petâ€" erboro in the federal house, re- turning to Kenner in 1962. Although he regrets leavinc the secondary school field, .\1r. Pitman feels that in his post as associate registrar at Trent he will be able to develop bet- ter contact between the secon- dary schools and the univer» sity. He feels that the main area of challenge in the educational field is in the secondary schools "The main problem is how to give a quantitative education to the masses of students iii the secondary schools today and still give a onalilailvc cdlit-zr tion which ‘\lII encourace mod Students and give them a of a student's time table may come on Monday of one week. the next week it will come on Tuesday. Few other systems. Mr. Pit- man pointed out. have taken the steps to help new teachers which York Central has. such as the master teachers. inâ€"ser- lll't‘T WORK McCRON I’lllil} (JIIL.â€"-.SIEIITKI(HEI FI'RNAt'E IXS'I‘.~\I.I.A'I‘IU.V BROS. HEATING I, 'l‘HtIRNHIII 285-2652 293-8590 vice training courses and tea- cher seminars. He also was much impressed with the efforts being made to encourage gifted students through such things as the re» centl_\'-instituted science scliii~ liars and stated that he would take many ideas with hiili lo his new post. 'l‘l'ent L'liiwl'sliy opened in a remodelled public school in the fall of lilo-l with 150 students, Next year they plan to take between 250 and 300 students Mr. Pitman explained. Tth ex- pect to be on their new and exciting campus. on the Oionâ€" abee River just north of Pet- Bl‘bOI‘O by 1966. Instead of one huge amorphus university. Trent will be developed on the college system with new col- leges added to an expected to- tal of 12. as required, .\lr. Pitman with his wife. the former Ida Collilige of Toron- to and their four children are presently living in \Villowtlale, He will finish out the school year at Lancstaff and lake up I his new position next summer. lthc hall. Jack Taylor came out on top lnew board for a two year term. ’lHe was a representative of the :rural areas of Markham and lVaughan on the old Richmond iHill Board and chairman of the rural separate school board which had requested amalga- HEINTZMAN ., Mrs. Marjorie Gleason. a member of the Richmond Hill Board for almost 10 years and its secretary- trcasurer for several years (unpaid) was elected with i 76 votes and will also serve ‘ for a two year term. ‘ Third highest with 74 votes. " ‘was Bob Steele, a member of .the Richmond Hill Board for the past two years. Both lie and. . Gordon 'I‘i‘usslei', who had 70‘ votes will sit on the board for ' ltvvo years. The next foiir successful canâ€" didates, Conrad ’l‘holnpson with ‘68 votes. William Ilcnderson: 67. Patrick ()ttaway 62 andi .lohn Pennyfatller 53, will sit‘ - on the board for one year. .\Ir. Thompson. a member of the Richmond llill Board for se\cr;ll years was chairman of the plant operation and main- teiiailt'e committee. served as Il‘lliilll OI'IIt't‘i‘ Ill liltiit and was chairman of the assessment and insurance coiiiiillttee ili I964. William Henderson was out of town but had sent a letter to the blisiliess adiiiiliisti'ator say- ing lie was willing' to accept of- fit-c. He has been on the Rich- mond llill Board since l959.‘ Patrick Ottawa); a resident of Markham Township has had no previous school board experi- ence bill is a member of the board. .lolln Pennyfaiher also has Iiad no previous school board experience but felt that in view of the forthcoming school construction. his~ lifelong experience in the construction ' field would be of benefit to ixoillni:~ auovr orn RENTAL rvkcuwse PLAN Tile no“ I)tl.'il'tI. “The Finest I'pholstering At No Extra Cost" “HY BE SA'I ISFIEU WITH LESS 0 ESTIMA'I'I‘ZS' . I’ICK LP & DELIVERY 23".! 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