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On behalf of all the former teachers. students and friends of M.L. McConaghy Public School who attended our “Memories Night" on June 21, I would. through your column, like to express our deepest (hanks to Joan Connolly for a job “well done". When it became ap- parent zhat our school would definitely close this June, it was Joan who strongly felt that something should be done for the last students of McConaghy School. I: was through Joan‘s continuing and deter- mined efforts that our year book went from an idea of 22 pages to a final P e o p l e f r o m Magnetawan, Callander. Orillia, Portland, Cambridge. Kingston. Brampton and many. many other places too numerous to mention. Hence was born the idea of a McConaghy Year Book. congratulation is ex- tended to Mrs. Joan Connolly for organizing the ML. McConaghy Public School Reunion. Thursday. June 21, 1979. I live with an uncanny malaise than we are embarked upon our 40 years in the wilderness. Democracy represents and carries out the will of the people. Letters IlS final effect on Rich- mond Hill is not fully apparent. We have witnessed a direcz confrontation between Democracy and Bureaucracy. Let there be no doubt in any mind. The saddest aspect of (he closing of McConaghy School will live with us a long lime. .S‘he supports York ’3 Yellow Brick House I fully support the Yellow Brick House, the women's hostel in Newmarkel which offers emergency housing for aroubled women in York Region. I understand mm the hostel may close because i; lacks sufficient funds. A good friend of mine was abused as a child along with her mother in ;he late 19405 and early 19505 when family violence was Still an unmeniionable :opici The beatings she received then as a child The contents. b0 Liberal, Richmond Subscnphon vales By m $26.00 per year outside ol every four weeks. Single delivery where carrier sew Registration Number 0190 Ron Wallace - Ednov Larry Johnston ~ News Edilo Fred Simpson - Sports Edilow Editorial, Display Classified Circulation Toronto customers McConaghy â€" a confrontation between democracy-bureaucracy Lib’éral The Libeval is published every Wednesday by Menospan Community Newspapevs, a divusior of Metvospan Priming E: Publishing le., which also publishes The Banner in Aurora-Newmavket The Woodbvidge Vaughan News, and The Bolton Enterprise. 10395 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill L4G 4Y6 Ontario PUBLISHER JOHN c. FERGUS snrron nun WALLACE PAGE A74 Association says "thanks ” t0 Joan VOLUME 101. NUMBER 51 TELEPHONES By mail $13.00 per yeaw {side of Canada. By Canil Single copy sales 25 cen‘ iev sevv-ce exisxs‘ Seconc Joan Connolly - job "well done ” Libéral and advertising necked by copvv Joan spem many hours on (he phone reminiscing with these teachers and former students. She has said it was a pleasure {0 put this book together, buz I can say it was a pléasure to work wirh her on our year book. When interest was expressed by some for- mer students for a last chance to rewalk the halls, revisit with our classmates, and see our favorite teachers again, it was Joan who once more undertook the mammoth task of organizing many of the activities for our “Memories Night“. In a very short time contacts had been made with former teachers who wished to return to the school. attended the gathering “McConaghy’s Lasx Students 1810 - 1979" will again go into another printing [0 fill the demand for more copies. Forty-eight former teachers registered and received a yellow rose, kindly donated by Bill Rice. A special ilhanks (0 all those who helped Joan by making posters. hanging 56 page book And yet we have the old original machinery. Can we re-learn its use? Have Bureaucracy is a self- perpetuating mindless fungus, quietly creeping across our land, effacing whatever it confronts which fails to refleCt its own image. It brooks no interference‘ hears nothing‘ sees nothing, feels nothing, if not en- dangered. We made in. Are we capable of reducing it [o a more proportionate size. makable :0 our needs. Apparently not. and teenager 'per- manemly disabled her Wilh a serious bone deterioration condition. With few exceptjons she lives a life of continuous pain. She can only walk (W0 blocks a day. She can only work a few hours each day before the pain becomes intolerable. Her survival both physically and mentally is a testament to human SII‘EngIh. If hostels and other support services for troubled women had been 88481 77 884-1 1 05 884-0981 881 -3373 a Class Maw The Menospan Community Newspapels publishes The Ruchmond illr’Thomhill Liberal, The Banner, The Oakville Journal R d, The Halton Consumefl, Tthi§SIssauga 1-.__. n, Times, The'ElobImke AdvemselIGuavdian, e Elobleoke Consumer, The North York Mirror, The North York Consumer, The Scavboro Minot, The Scarboro Consumer, The Wmdbvldge 8' Vaughan News and The Bolton Enlevpnse. John C‘ Fergus, Publisher Ray Padley JL Advenising Direclov Notman Slunden » Production Manager Dems O’Meara - Circulauon Director Rose Reynolds - Accounts Wednesday, June 27, 1979' Community Nwspapevs, a divusion METROSPAN - NORTH DIVISION She was also respon- sible for organizing {nary of the displays of old photographs. scrapbooks. report cards and other intereSting memorabilia. I know that Joan feels :hat she really didn't do that much but for those who have been associated with her in this “Memories Night" and in the year book. we know :hat without her devotion to an idea, her pleasing warm personality and her total enthusiasm. our year book and our “Memories Night“ would have been impossible. Once again a great Once :hank super pictures, printing and looking for material, providing refreshments, and lastly [0 those who helped clean up. Thanks. Joan, you made a very special day in history for a lot of people with very dear memories of M.L. McConaghy. (Mrs.) Kathryn Payne. Public Relations McConaghy Association we written it off entirely? It is ancient and respemable though rusty. It needs fresh paint, oil and a few new parts. If we wish to salvage iiems of more than in- :rinsic value, it‘s time [0 remove i: from dead Storage and buy a large oil can, while we still have :he oil to fill it. I can hear the fungus growing like the grass on zhe lawn, bu: its roots are deeper. available to her when she was growing up, she would have had a better chance for a normal life. I urge people in York Region [0 give the Yellow Brick House their full support. M rs More letters Page A-5 StC‘NA ‘s. Avonelle Monkman. 49 Harding Boulevard. Richmond Hill. you Job Ms Dorothy Lowe. :Il Aubrey Ave.. Oak Ridges 5. Ruth Bishop Richmond Hill Joan ‘well when she up, she a better The final Grade 7 and 8 class at McConaghy School posed proudly for this picture. They are: front row left to right: Silvana DiGaetano. Bonnie DiMatteo, Julie Markham. Sandra Connolly, Patricia Zeppieri. Kathleen Campbell, Louise Three generations of Langstaffs and Mrs. McConaghy's photo on the board makes four. From left, Bruce Langstaff Jr., 7, Bruce For the next few weeks, The Liberal will present, in this space, the final classes of students to attend McConaghy Public SchooL The firSt is obvious â€" his space is filled with photos highlighting laSt Thursday's McConaghy Mgmories Night. The second-is a little more subtle. We offered him space elsewhere, and he accepted. but every time he tried [0 start a column about his feelings Bob Rice‘s column is absent from its usual spot this week for two reasons. McConaghy's final students In June, the school, which opened as Former students, teachers together again Bob Rice (sniff) will return (sob) By BOB RICE Photos by Bruce Hogg Richmond Hill Public School March 5. 1915, will close its doors for good. Langstaff, and James Langstaff, admire the photo of Mrs. McConaghy. who was James‘ aunt. In 1957, the name was changed to M.L. McConaghy Public School. We‘re still attempting to get the ruSt off three perfeCtly good typewriters, and have instructed him to pen his thoughts on paper fer next week. during the McConaghy extravaganza, he'd burst into tears. Assur-ning [he wa-ter mai‘ké don't render the copy incoherent, Rice should return [0 this page next Wednesday. Shirlaw and Kathleen McCully. Middle row: Jamie Crocker, Rich Wallace, Jay Fleming. Sanjeer Jawanda, Lisa Knight, Lisa Hirtz, Amanda Peach. Norm Creasor, Rick Mole. Audrey McLaron and Paul Lyons. Back row: David Back, Michael And in 1979, the York County Board of Therefore, we thought we’d like to record the names and photos of those children who were at McConaghy during its final year. Education made its decision to close the schooL Street. Richmond Hill. signs a book belonging to her one-time teacher, Ruth Webb, right. The teacher and student were at McConaghy from 1925 to 1932. Avonelle Monkman taught at McConaghy from 1956 to 1966, and her son, Jamie, 12, is Grade 6 student there. Here. he shows mom his picture in McConaghy's last year book, now in its second printing. Grade 6 and 7 teacher Leslie Lavery signs autographs for students Schean Kerrigan, 8; Cheryl Primok, 11: and Larry Donofrio, 11; during McConaghy's Memories Night held last Thursday. About 500 people showed up and packed the place. LeBlanc, Scott Edwards, Joe Moyer, Bill Gamble. Ray Robertson, Rick Gruttenden, Chris Ambrose, Mark Mueller. Mark Hoogenboom, Tim Vermeulen and Don Wilson. (Photo by Canadian School Studios)