North Bay Teachers College - Polaris Yearbook (North Bay, Ontario Canada)

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STANDING: Arnold Kleiber, Lynne Bird, Bonnie Sinclair, Miss Thorn, Lyn Hembruff, Brenda Ouellette. SITTING: Anna-Marie Landriault, Margaret Byrne, Rosa DiGiglio, The unior Red Cross In 1863, sixteen delegates met in Geneva to draft an agreement concerning the treatment of wounded soldiers on the battlefield, This was the beginning of the Red Cross movement, The Red Cross society, extremely beneficial in both World Wars, continued to carry out a peacetime programme, In connection with the development of this peacement Red Cross programme, the Junior Red Cross was formed which included in its membership, school age children, What better opportunity does a teacher have to put the motto, I serve , into practice with these young people than by helping to develop proper attitudes of communal and later international service? Part of your responsibility as teachers will be to make the basic objectives of the Junior Red Cross known to your class, but more im- portant---to help the children put these objectives into practice, Some of these objectives include: 1, Motivating health and citizenship, 2, Assisting children in other lands, 3. Developing an understanding and an appreciation of children in other lands, since the organization itself is an international one. These objectives may sound idealistic, but the fact that the Canadian Junior Red Cross has over a million and a half members in 39,000 classrooms indicates its value to the educational programme, 62

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BACK ROW: Mrs, M, Smith, Winston Hardacre, George Maroosis, Frank Phelan, Sharron Smith, MIDDLE ROW: Beverley, Blueman, Karen Beneteau, Jackie Neal, Lynn Zuliani, Cynthia Carruthers, Jackie Watson, Norma Redden, Susan Vowels, Mrs, V, Lehtimaki, FRONT ROW: Mr, White, Beetli Oberhansli, Ann Sloat, Suzanne Morin, Miss Rawn, ABSENT: Kathryn Dalgleish, Michelle Bourassa, The Psychology Club N, B, T, C, activities have in the past tended to follow the well-worn paths of tradition, But in the fall of 1966, a group of keenly interested students broke with tradition and set out on a new path of en- deavour by forming a Psychology Club. This academic club was formed upon the suggestion of Mr, White, and functioned smoothly under his able guidance, During the school year, club activities were directed towards the attaining of a greater fund of knowledge in the field of Psychology: to this end members worked diligently. Many individual mem- bers prepared specific topics for presentation, These papers stimulated a great deal of discussion for which all members prepared themselves through private study in the subject area, Further knowledge was also gained by viewing films and making visits to the Ontario Hospital and the West Bayfield School for Retarded Children, Some of the topics readily covered were the nature of intelligence, learning theories, and mental retardation, We, the members of this newly formed club, feel our activities have been both enjoyable and worthwhile, We hope the study we have undertaken will help us to be more responsive and understanding teachers of the future, 61

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5, ,f s 5 5 S if 3 ss LEFT TO RIGHT: Mr, Bell, Karen Boucher, Dale Pepin, Lynda Philips, Mr, Deyell, The United ations Club Club activities for the year began during U, N, week, A special programme on October 24 featured an address by Mr, B, Goulet, past president of the local branch of the U, N, A, fUnited Nations As- sociationj and a film about the U. N. headquarters in New York City entitled Workshop for Peace. On October 26 a very successful hootenanny was held under the auspices of our club, an event which was attended by over half the student body, October 28 was proclaimed our Blue and White Day on which students were asked to wear these U, N, colours, During the year, plans to attend the Fifth Northern Ontario Model General Assembly were discussed, The elected delegates began gathering information on the views held by various mem- bers ofthe U, N, The overwhelming response of the students to our lively U, N, l, C, E, F, Drive and U, N, l, C, E, F, Christmas Card Sale reflected the work and organization of our energetic club members, During the year, numerous debates and discussions were held which were open to members of the student body and staff, We sincerely hope that our records and activities will prove as helpful to the future clubs of this College as they were enjoyable to us who participated in this club,