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WhItby Fie m eeg, Wgokisly june 7,1905 ,pp 7 ~w w ,w w 'tel 'Maile' creibility Lets take our minds off the impending election with a few disconnected thoug!,hts. By the end of this column we'Il either connect the thoughts -or unthink them. Thought one: A parent-teacher advisory committee with whichI arn connected made a presentation last might to a echool board committee. The subjeet matter is not important. The process of preparing the presentation is. The PTA committee had worked ail year at various levels of commitment. At Urnes the chair soldiered on, seemingiy aganst ail odds. She gathered information. Sheè cajoied peopie. Eventul1y, she convinced the PTA that the issue should be presented to the board. Then came the trne to prepare the presentation. Ânyone who has worked to distili consensus fromn any group knows how time-consuming (and often frustratingly difficuit) that process can b e. That done, one question remained: Who would be the presenter? The committee chair would be the naturai choice. And let mne spoil the suspense for you right now -- she did it. But a dissenting voice or two: Wouldn't a man do a better job? ... or at least, wouldn't a man be more credibie? Its interesting that these. questions were asked -- by an elemntary sehool teacher and a high school teacher, respectively. Both, I assure you, female. Both highly competent professionals. Yet, they asked the question. Thought Two: Leap across most of a continent with .... now to beautiful British Columbia. Victoria this year, the site of the annuai meeting of the Association of Community Coileges of Canada. (ACCO for those who love abeop There, three excellent teaichers, female al, yesterday made a presentation before a group o national peers. One key presenter confided in me just days before the event: the group shouid include a maie. The reason? Credibility. This from a dynamic, creative, productive profess- ionai mi, she'. not saying that maies make better pre sentations. But many people are conditioned to, listen when maies speak. See any thread t Tho 1 three: Now we're back in Ontario at a leaders ip seminar for community coilege leaders. Early in the session, one dynamie energetic leader peeled off a list of accompishments over the past year. Her main frustration? "I'm getting awfully tired of heiping produce ideas, neatn group dynamies __ and then having al te da ignorea until they're repeated by a maie -- who get al- the creclit. "It's as if nobody hears anything until it cornes from a maie." Counting threads: The frightened aspect here lies in accurate observations. By comptent females in ail areas of education. Their observation: femaies aren't iistened te. That this should be so in the educationai system which shapes the perceptions of tomorrow's generation shouid j ot us ail. And note, none of these huried epithets ie "Mon are pigs! Maie chauvinist pigs!" No, we're lon g past those rampants. These observations represent how people, maie and female react te othor people. Andona orostie oe:(Id-ate pssont il p~1 _______ ___________ - Il~ TERDmF l -2îïi MEmODIsT EPISOPAL CEWRC14 BROOKLJN, C. 1875 The largest church in Brooklin, this building was opened in 1847 at the corner of Church ana Albert Streets. The congregation amalgamated with the Wesleyan Metho- dists in 1884 and the church was moved to the corner of Baldwin and Roebuck streets as; a store. It was demolished about 1929. A pioneer gravoyard romains on the o'r*nal site. 10 YARSAGOWkitby Aives Photo from the Wednesday, June 5, 1985 edition of the WH1TBY FREE PRESS 0 Paul Visser of Anderson Collegiate came second in the provincial public speaking contest sponsored by the Royal Canadian Legion. 0 Ontario's faltering Conservative government may need another election says George Ashe, MPP for Durham West. a Public Works Director Dick Kuwahara has been asked to investigate the prohibition of train whistles sounding in Whitby. 0 A public meeting will be¶ield today to discuss expansion of the Iroquois Park sports complex. 35 YEARS AGO from the Thursday, June 2, 1960 edition of the WHITBY sWyEEKlY NEWS 0 Douglas Hogg is to, be principal of the new public school in the Blair Park sub-divis- a The Victoria Street h ydro substation went into operation yesterday. 0 Construction of Whitby's new town hall a t Dundas and Henry streets is only slightly behind echedule. 0 Rumours are running through Whitby that a large industry from Germany wili locate here. 80 YEARS AGO from the Thursday June 3 1915 edition of the WaH1TBY âa AlÀD CHRONICLE 0 Cullen Perry of the Queen's Own Rifles has hie letters fromn the European war published in the Gazette and Chronicle. 0*.John -Bright of Myrtle Station is having extensive improvements made to the buildings on bis farm. 9 John MfacCarl, Whitby's streets foreman, was nearly buried alive when a drain on Brock Street caved in. 0 A local iodge of the Ancient Order of Foresters bas been organized in Whitby. il loup Abdw mur F nwrm qw 1 «elwq@ý