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a SR aa amare TH hd « Wrote book "How To Spell' [WE I! Port Perry authoress is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious by bruce arnold For the first time in years I found myself crossing Tees and dotting I's in my notes during an interview. Marion Goode Hodgins dropped by the office last week to talk about her child- hood in 'Port Perry and about the two high school text books she has written. Mrs. Hodgins is an expert in the correct use of the English language, and 1, as certain local politicians and amateur actors frequently point out with apparent re- lish, am not. Mrs. Hodgins has taught English in high schools for 32 years. In fact, she wrote the book How To Spell for McGraw Hill Publishers which is a required text in New Brunswick High Schools and approved for use in all other provinces. I only agreed to write this story after she promised not come back and correct my grammatical errors. "I wouldn't think of it,' she assured me. "I've been reading your articles in the Port Perry Star and I think they are very uh, well, uh..." When it comes to the English language Mrs. Hodgins, as a writer in the Fort Frances Times once pointed out, knows whereof she speaks. Born in Port Perry she graduated from high school here with a scholarship at the age of sixteen. She did it the hard way. At Easter in the year she graduated the old Port Perry High School burned and all her notes and texts were destroyed. For the rest of the term Grade 13 classes were held in the primary Sunday school room of the United church basement. Marion completed 12 sub- jects successfully to win the Carter scholarship. In those days (the 1920's) sixteen was considered too young for a girl to go off alone into the big bad city for University, so Marion took a job at a Port Perry Bank. With the help of high school teacher Miss Mor- wenna Harris she spent her evenings studying by cor- --- respondence from the Uni- versity of Toronto, and for seven years every summer vacation was spent at sum- "mer school. She finally spent a year at the university to get her Bachelor of Arts degree, then underwent teachers training for three summers. That done, 'Marion spent three more years earning a teaching specialists certifi- cate and a Bachelor of Pedagogy degree. "I've heard so many parents complain that they can not afford to send their children to university," she says today. "A university education is available to anyone who has the guts to get it." For the past thirty two years Marion Goode Hod- gins has divided her time between teaching high school and organizing adult <education courses. When world war two ended she helped set up rehabilitation courses for the returning soldiers. Later she helped educate adults under John Diefen- bakers 'Program 5". In the sixties she worked for the correspondence branch of the Ontario De- partment of Education, and designed a typing course for that branch. Her typing course proved so successful that high school teachers began ask- ing for it. So Mrs. Hodgins contacted McGraw Hill and asked if they would be interested in having her write a typing text book for use in high schools. They weren't, but did want her to prepare a spel- ling book. "How To Spell" was the result. Compared with the brown cover "Spellers'" of public school days How To Spell is apparently a fascinating text. Among the chapter titles are, "To diminish at- trition, consult your beauti- » cian," which deals with the sh sound, and "'Ance in your pance" which clarifies the use of ant - ent or ance - ence. The book points out that the word secretary is deri- ved from secret and advises would be secretaries to learn to keep their mouths shut. How To Spell even contains a reference to apologies to the typesetter) Supercalifragilisticexpia- lidious. If you think the book sounds interesting you should meet the authoress. Merion Goode Hodgins is a fascinating lady who deserves a place of honour in the history of Port Perry. She may get it too. For my next book, she says, I would like to carry on where the Shores of Scugog left off. We can't wait. P2RT @Q PERRY TAR nd SECTION | Volume 107 -- PORT PERRY, ONTARIO. Wednesday. Sept. 19th, 1973 - No. 47 Regional councillors salaries $3000 in Metro & $7000 York The figure of $5,000 which regional chairman Walter Beath estimated would be the salary of a regional councillor in this area be- ginning next January may 'have been more than a guess. A PORT PERRY STAR survey of five Ontario reg- ional governments learned that they pay an average salary of $5,140 a year. Councillors who go to regional council meetings get the money in addition to their regular pay for serving on their home town councils. The lowest salary is paid by the Regional Municipal- Second annual snowshow planned Port Perry Snowmobile Club moves its second "annual snowshow into the arena for three days begin- ing Friday, September 25. The show drew about 7,000 people last year over two days. The club hopes that the extra day for "Snow- show '74" will allow even ° more people to take part. One dollar will admit the entire family. "We are trying to promote snowmo- biling as a family type thing," says the club's Bill Harper. Highlight of this year's show will be a fashion show featuring snowmobile cloth ing. With all the long range forcasts predicting a long, cold winter even people who would not be caught dead on a snowmobile will want to see what's new in the war- mest clothing on the market. The fashion show will go on each evening, with a possi- ble matinee Saturday. Tickets will be on sale for a draw, and Sunday at 5 p.m. the n ame will be chosen of some person who will win a $1,000 snowmo- bile. Bill Harper says there are 17 makes of snowmobiles available in the Scugog area and the club hopes to have all of them on display at the show. The whole idea, according to Mr. Harper, is to promote snowmobiling. The club does not expect to make a profit. Any money raised will go back into organizing a bigger snow show next year. ity of Metropolitan Toronto, which gives its elected members $3,000 each. How- ever it should be noted that home town or borough salaries in Metro are the largest and in some cases bring total salaries up to more than $400. a week. The highest salary and the one most likely to be taken by our politicians as an example, is next door in the Region of York where councillors get $7,000 on top of their regular home town pay. The Region of Niagara pays $5,000, the Region of Sudbury $5.700, and the Region of Waterloo $5,000. Regional spokesman would not give us a com- parison of costs between regional government and the county system. Mr. Rety of York Region said such a comparison is im- possible because of the changes in responsibilities. He said that the region takes over so many functions that were local responsibil- ities before that one would have to find out what each small town used to pay for services and compare that with what the region now pays. However Mr. Retty did offer some insight into costs. "I live in Newmarket," he said," and my taxes have gone down." However another home- owner in York Regions hamlet of Wilcox Lake re- ported an increase of more than 100 percent in his tax bill. This could indicate that taxes have gone down in places like Newmarket, which is about the size of Whitby, and the decrease has been added onto people in areas like Wilcox Lake which is about the size of Blackstock. A Mr. Millward of the Region of Niagara said his taxes have stayed about the same since regional gov- ernment took over in 1970. Mr. Millwood lives in the regions largest area, St. Catharines, which is a little bigger than Oshawa. Council meetings were in progress at the regions of Ottawa-Carleton and Mus- koka when we called, so no one was available to give us _ the information we required. Local actors begin season The local theatre group, the Borelians commenced the 1973 - 74 season Friday night. The first meeting held in the Anglican Church Parish Hall took the form of a delightful wine and cheese party followed by a discus- sion period as far as the programming of the season. In the absence of the president Mrs. Terrett, Mr. Paul Arculus acted as chair- man and a number of ideas were suggested and discussed. It was generally agreed that workshops of various kinds would be of great benefit to the members and it was decided to hold one for would-be directors in October and a make-up workshop in November. | i} ald . MARION GOODE HODGINS author of school text book "How to Spell,' was originally from Port Perry. Kin, Kinette blood clinic October 4 For the fourth time in less than two years the Kinsmen and Kinette Clubs of Port Perry are hard at work on another Blood Donor Clinic. Clinic Chairman Larry Kendall and Kinette Co-or- dinator Barb VanHaarlam are busy organizing work parties to get the ball rolling on another worth while Red Cross Clinic. There are letters to be written, challenges to be sent out, posters to be made and a telephone blitz to set up in order to make this another successful clinic. The Kinsmen and Kinettes have already rolled up their sleeves and pitched in to insure that Port Perry once again 'has a Blood Donor Clinic to be proud off. But it doesn't stop there. On the 4th of October the Kinsmen and Kinettes will again roll up their sleeves and donate in a more per- sonal way; so how about it folks? Are you willing to help out by doing the same thing? In the past clinics, the people of Port Perry and District have shown that they also care about other people and have donated their blood to make each Clinic a success. Lets make this the Biggest Clinic ever. -- Remember -- BLOOD CANNOT MANUFACTURED IT ONLY COMES FROM PEOPLE -- So don't forget the Clinic on the 4th of October at the Port Perry Region = costs zoom 35% Costs for services under regional government in Waterloo have increased 35 per cent compared to the old system of county govern- ment. The increases, according to W. L. Bradley, chief administrator -- one of many administrators appointed under the new system -- are due to major increases in expansion of services such as police; purchase of equipment for landfill and other start-up services and the establish- ment of regional adminis- tration. BE" NC 2S ASS LT Si Se wn SAAN EN LR LTE 4) A