the stouffviue trisune tfcurajjy koia n 1965 vjt 3 the mine and white girls volleyball ends for season cathy bacnl2c on monday nov 1st the junior and senior girls volley ball teams at slouffville high played in the b school tournament at woodbridge the seniors defeated wood- bridge but lost 10 bradford eventual senior t champions or this area the juniors won over bradford but lost to woodbridge woodbridge also defeated bradford to take the junior b title for this area both bradford seniors and woodbridge juniois advanced to further comp at stay- ner on saturday nov 6th to wind up the seasons vol leyball activities the junior and senior girl engaged mark- ham in exhibition games the juniors swept a pair winning 1510 and 138 the seniors also took two by the scores of 156 and 158 there are nine hi ungual students presently attending the stoiiftville iist- high school all but two were born outside canada eight of them are pictured here left to right hildegarde otto josephine viscardi karl kilpper dan danlelis herbert otto anna aldarnni carolle adams and gay fronske absent marian yusko staff photo nine bilingual students attend stouffville district high school seven born in other lands stouffville what is it like to be able to speak two and perhaps three languages fluently does it help a student in his school work what about students who have travelled half way around the world before they are old enough to vote who are they and how are they making out in canada these questions were answered last week as the tribune interviewed nine young people at stouffville dist rict high school who have the privilege of speaking two languages of the nine seven were born in another land while two picked up a second language at home they come from countries like italy and germany and one even comes from behind the iron curtain all are canadians now and all have lived in this country for most of their lives each one tells an interesting story hildegarde and herbert otto a brother and sister who came to canada from germany in 1952 hildegarde at 16 years old is in grade 11 and can speak german as clearly as english herbert who is 18 was president of the students council last year and this term is studying grade 13 neither could speak english when they arrived in toronto where they lived for seven years they were born near nuremburg and came to canada with their parents they have lived near ballantrae lor some seven years herbert who returned to germany last summer was not satisfied with their way of life he said that the germans were provincialistic and quite narrowminded he added that if given a choice between the two he would select canada herbert plans to become an architect upon completion of his university studies hildegarde who doesnt re member germany at all stated that she is very fond of living in canada stouffville is a cozy community she said and school is interesting her past sports record will vouch for her active participation in ex tracurricular activities as well as a basic concern lor her education she wants to paint when she finishes school just as long as its not abstract or modern art josephine viscardi a four teen year old grade nine stu dent was born in switzerland but she speaks italian and french soon after her birth she was moved to italy where she lived for about a year as a matter of fact josephine cele brated her first birthday on the boat to canada living in mon treal lor a considerable length of time she picked up french but says she has forgotten most of it she also under stands german but cannot converse in that language her parents moved to canada be cause the job opportunities were greater she said that she likes this country but the winters are too cold coming from peterborough josephine has lived in stouffville lor six years being her first year in high school josephine said there was a big change from public grades there is more doing she said one of the subjects in her course is french which to her should be a breeze following her education josephine hopes to become an airline stewardess but if this fails to materialize she would like to be a secretary karl kilpper in his first year at sdhs was born in west germany and came to canada when he was three years old his parents were al ready in this country and he was escorted over by his grand mother the usual reason that of better jobs and brighter op portunities held true in karls parents case since moving to canada karl has lived in tor onto uxbridge and stouffville he now lives in ballantrae karl has been in this area lor five years in school one of his subjects is french and karl says he doesnt really like it however once in grade 11 he will be studying german which will be much easier lor him looking into the future karl hopes to make a profession in the medical field anna caidaront who lived the first two arid a half years near rome italy is a lourteen year old grade nine student she came to canada by boat and lived in toronto lor four years she presently lives in the township of markham at the 7th concession and 18th avenue upon coming to canada an nas parents could not speak english but have since picked it up in their home they con verse freely in both languages anna finds that by knowing the italian language french which she is studying in school is much easier for her to under stand perhaps in the future anna will be handing instruments to karl kilpper since she hopes to become a nurse gay fronske was actually born on the other side of the iron curtain in east germany the fronske family was one of i may we suggest a save-for-the-little-things- youmightotherviseneverbuy account canadian imperial bank of commerce hundreds of families that mov ed to the west because of the strife in that country she was two years old when she moved to canada now seventeen her birthday was last friday gay is in grade 12 at stouff ville district high gay who has relatises still living in germany and austria returned to her native country for a visit in 1960 she noted an interesting point on her journey she said that it was easier crossing between east and west germany than it is crossing irom canada to the us if your papers are in order she explained they send you right through they wont check your personal belong ings or search your luggage gay believes this is the case because she is canadian ame ricans she said have a more difficult time but she couldnt explain why after visiting the overseas countries gay said that she wouldnt want to live anywhere else but canada in school she is studying latin and french and finds both languages relatively easy gay wants to be a welfare worker upon graduating from high school dan danielis a fourteen year old grade niner has lived in the area for about seven years he was born in udino italy where he lived for 11 months dans parents moved to cana da because of the poor job op portunities in their home coun try he has never returned to italy although he expressed the desire to do so in the future given the choice of living in canada or the united states dan said he preferred canada but given the same choice be tween here and italy he chose the latter its warmer in italy he said dans mother is learning how to speak the english language but has not yet completely 1 mastered it this gives dan daily practise in speaking ita lian around the home dan like karl wishes to be come a doctor when he com pletes his university education carolle adams is one of the two students that although she speaks a foreign language was not born in a foreign country she comes from alberta but her grandparents on her fath ers side come from the ukraine since neither of her grand parents speak english carolle must talk ukranian to them and she picked up the langu age around the home carolle came lo slouffville about 11 years ago and now makes her home at the cor ner of main and albert streets she said that in studying lalin her ukianian language does not help that much al though she added many of the words are declined the same carolle wants to visit russia in the future but would also like to obtain her ba in the states looking ahead carolle would like to attend dramatic school with the possibility of becom ing an actress asked if she would ufe her second language when she graduates carolle replied only if 1 find a ukranian boy friend marian yusko also canadian born but of ukranian descent was born in st catharines ontario although her parents are canadian born also mari an through close association with ner grandparents is priv ileged to be able to speak well for 12 years she lived in toronto and completed three years of high school at east york collegiate she had grad uated into grade 12 when her parents moved to the 6th con cession of markham township secretary of the students council last year marian finds plpnty to keep her busy in school and at home continued on pajt 11 st marks school news student council the elections for the student council were held at the school on monday nov 8th unfortu- natelv at the time that this article was written the results were not final and therefore the announcement of the win ners of the election will appear in next weeks paper on friday the candidates made their speeches to mr condons and mr delaats room ah candi dates are to be congratulated on the fine effort they showed in the preparation of their talks st marks student home from hospital we are very glad to hear that kathy kennv has been released from the sick childrens hos pital kathy suffering from rheumatic fever is presently back home it is thought that she will be away from school for at least another month the staff and students at st marks wish her a speedy recovery safety film show officer hadden cme to our school this past week and showed some very informative and interesting films on safety he also gave an interesting lec ture to all grades we would like to thank officer hadden lor a job well done gymnatorium nears completion our beautiful gymnatorium is nearing its completion and it is hoped that regular physical education classes will be held in it in the very near future classes hold remem brance day services each of the classes held re membrance day services on wednesday afternoon it had been hoped that a regular serv ice could be held for the school as a whole in the gymnatorium but because this room is not completed it was necessary for each class to hold individual ceremonies the school was closed on thursday for the ob servance of remembrance day on council staff sevenleen year old randy mole is the vi ce president on the execulivfl of hie slouffville high school students council now in grade 12 he was the grade 11 form representative last year staff tholo approximately 100000 onta rio hunters are graduates of the hunter safety training course summer holidays nancy paul 12 b when i first learned that i was to write an essay on my summer holidays i joined the rest of my class in a prolonged groan of dismay for ever since grade one this is the topic al ways thrust upon us after the holidays have ended i also groaned because like almost everyone else i could not think of one thing to say for really 1 have done noth ing on my holiday nothing worth writing about unless you could include helping my youn ger brother build a tree house or bringing in three fields of hay in my older brothers 1928 ford truck or swimming in a new pool zealously and tenderly cared for by the whole family then there was the exhilarating moment when i first got up on skiis behind a powerful speed boat skimming over the water with a brisk breeze blowing a fine spray of water into my face i guess you could not include how i lelt when i first learned to drive a standard car without sending my passengers neatly through the windshield or rid ing along a shady bridle path on my own horse or when i gasped at the beatles in maple leaf gardens or even the time i had coffee on the coast guard cutter the spray in the toron to yacht club harbour even as i write more and more memories are flooding my mind which ten minutes ago was a complete blank it may be that in most peoples eyes i have done nothing all summer but i have certainly had a great deay of pleasure doing it questions tuid answers q do you feel that there has been a general religious decline in our society a definitely today more than ever before society has ruled the life of the individual and society has placed its re gulations on how to act and more commonly on morals in former years religion was the basis of mans beliefs but today man has accustomed his life to fit in with the society in which he lies today religious worship has become another symbol you go to church to make it look good even if you have no be liefs religion has become treated too lightly it is the butt of jokes at parties it is the gossip of what mrs so- andso wore last week and how foolish she looked religion has now become overrun by scientific theories and a great weakness in the church has thus developed the decline of religion is the result of a society of people un able to untangle the web of religious and scientific strife lynda dafoe 11b a our religion has degene rated partly because of the effects of modern science and also because it has not accept ed change in the same manner that science has if science were to be put into the same position religion is now je would still be believing that the earth is flat it should be expanded modified even re adjusted to meet the change of thought in our society instead of remaining archaic absurd and stale man kind has not been abla to adjust to tlie rapid change ot the past fifty years and in the same way the church has not adjusted to the more criti cal way in which we look at our supposed beliefs the fact that we are more aware of the roots of our religion now and that we look upon it in a different manner than we did 500 or even 50 years ago leads to the conclusion that there are limitations ideas not yet discovered a more critical and mode rate look at our religion has resulted because of the modern conditions o our way of life the influence of such men as darwin freud and the fact that we see incongruities in our religion the church tries to define religion in terms no lon ger applicable to our society and in many respects it teaches its principals in an infantile manner science has had a greater appeal for people in explaining the unexplainable but there is no reason why tho two could not be combined be cause science misses the good points of religion and religion misses the good points of sci ence what is needed is moro toleration of variety of opinion in short religion has declin ed because it has become an empty symbol an ideal that man will always search for but will never find in service station business twentysix yea harry boadway leaves unionville site unionville back in the days when gasoline sold for about 25 cents a gallon and cars werent as complicated as they are today harry boadway started business in a service station at the corner of kenne dy road and no 7 highway in unionville today 26 years later harry boadway leaves the building that was his employment and leaves with it a quartercentury ot goodwill and service that he has built up in the community boadways esso station a familiar landmark on that cor ner will remain but under a different operator its been a long hard struggle hut harry made it work he started business in ja nuary 1940 just after the be ginning of the second world war his station was a small- twobay building with a gravel yard leading to a gas pump today the building painted in traditional red and while esso colours boasts four bays and five pumps with paved drive ways he was alone when he start ed in 1940 working from 730 am to 5 pm there are six men on permanent staff today with a part time helper when harry first opened his garage as was the custom he held a big ceremony and sold 200 gallons of gas thai in those days was big business it i could pump 50 gallons a day when i first started he said i would be well off now harry purchases in the neighbourhood of 400000 gal lons a year and pumps approx imately 1200 gallons a day unionville has not grown at a rapid speed but harry can see changes in the last 26 years across kennedy road where it once was fields is now a row of homes cars simple in 1910 cars were simpler lhan they are today every thing was pretty standard in operation now the cars are easier to drive and have more luxuries but theyre harder to maintain because of the intri cate complications in such things as automatic transmis sion power steering brakes and windows there just werent as many things that could go wrong then harry said one of the big problems that plagued mr boadway during the war was trying to obtain tires there were very few available and in order to fill his requests he was patching and repatching older tires the things we passed off as tires would astound the motor ist today he recalled gasoline prices remained fair ly steady throughout the war years but since then have been slowly but surely increasing todays price at boadways is 419 cenls on regular gallonage last summer during a six- week gas war prices wera about 8 cents lower and harry would average about 4000 gal lons a day in sales prices in the unionville area still are not in line with some stations sel ling for less than others how ever the difference is not as severe as during the gas war time to relax harry has fifty acres of red pine in the area which he plans to prune after lie leaves the service station business he al so plans to help his son carman on the farm i might as well enjoy my self while i still have good health he said so harry boadway goes in to semiretirement but hell remember the friends he has made but most ot all the peo ple will remember him harry says thanks to his many friends and customers for their patronage after over a quarter century of servioe in his many cwdnrocrs harry roadway esso dealer al inioiivillc mild ids lait gallon nf gasoline on sunday his station has become a landmark at iha kennedy road and ilwy no 7 intersection since he first opened it back to 1s39 stall iliotu