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Students have more than an academic interest in the --Rort. Perry High School this year. While they still attend school to learn the finer points of Reading, Riting and Rithmetic, there are many other extra curricular activ- ities going on to capture their attention. There are still the traditio- nal sports activities such as football, basketball, volley- ball and track and field going on. But there are also many activities in existence and planned for the non-atheletic type of student. For example, there is the Drama Club which will be putting on a Drama Evening in late February. Three one- act plays will be performed. The club will be entering one play in the Durham Region Drama Festival in March. The Drama Club will also be co-operating with the school band and choir in a Christmas Concert for ele- mentary school children from all the area schools. Members of the band and choir spend many hours practicing for their perfor- mances. There is a junior and senior band with R.H. Cornish Public School stu- dents making up part of the junior band. There is also a 14 member girl ensemble that will be entering various competit- ions. The bands, choir and en- semble will perform at a music night on May 13 at the school. They will also enter the Kiwanis Music Festival in Toronto and hope to hold spring concert in Lakefront Park. g D.E. Williams, school principal, said that they are trying to develop an all- around student who will be an asset to the community. By developing other types of activities, we can get other types of students to come out," Mr. Williams said. "We get more than just sports people to participate now." One activity that Mr. Wil- liams is very high on is the Inter Denominational School Fellowship which meets twice a week. Mr. Williams" said he is encouraging as many stu- dents as possible to be active and that he is encouraging the establishments of new clubs. ( "I would like $ get some kind of political club going," he said. "A club where they could have various speakers and learn more about our government." A new club this year at the school is the Science Club which will allow the student to follow up his particular interest in science. One of the first activities of_ the club will be the launching of a model rocket. The club also plans to enter the natio- nal science fair competit- ition. NEED MUSIC? for a 437 WEDDING A DANCE 4] PARTY etc. > call 985-3089 (after 6p.m.) One of the major problems with extra-curricular activi- ties al Port Perry High School has been that 85 per cent of the students have to take buses to and from school. This year for the first time classes end 2:45 p.m. and the buses don't leave until 3:20 p.m. leaving a 35 minute period that Mr. Williams hopes will be used for activ- ities. All activities are staff supervised and Mr. Williams said that all the staff are involved in some sort of extra activity. Most of the school's 56 teachers live in the Scugog Township area, the principal said. Another long-standing act- ivity is the Cadet Corps, which has a membership of about 100 this year. Of these, Need A 108 WATER STREET (A! The Rear Of Building) S ERENLTY Fon PUMPS FOR RENT PORT PERRY RENT-ALL 20 members come from R.H. Cornish Public School. Cadets this year will be involved in many activities including a canoe trip to Algonquin Park, a trip to Camp Borden to use the rifle range, and a trip to King- ston. All such activities are paid for by the Department of National Defence and cost the school nothing. There are other types of activities that are directly related to the academic pro- gram 'such as the work weeks for the 140 two-year practical program students. These students will go out into the community and work at 30 different Scugog and Uxbridge area business for a week. They will spend four weeks doing this through the year Pump? -- PORT PERRY. 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Students also get the op- portunity for social outings at the school in a series of dances sponsored by the studen't council and the ath- letic association. An 'At Home" dance will be held April 18 and will be DODGE CHARGER SPECIAL EDITION Port Perry Chrysler 7A & 12 Highway -- 985-7329 MANCHESTER, ONTARIO A PITRE NM FYE A Ad DRA bY ~ q ALES ARP EFDA . { . AE {4 "we PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Oct. 2, 1974 -- 9 " Many activites keep high school student busy like a home coming dance in which all graduate students will be invited to attend the semi-formal dance. There will also be a Fun IFair in February in which many kinds of activities will take place. A winter carnival is also planned for February 7 with a dance in the evening. Snow scupltures, broom ball and many other activites will make up the day. But in January, the stu- dent will be jolted back into thinking strictly academ- ically for a few weeks as the first set of examinations are from January 17 to 24. And the hinal set of exams for those who have to write are {rom June 13 to 20. Kawartha Festival The Kawartha Summer Theatre ended its eight week season with an audience of 19,800 people at the Academy Theatre in Lindsay or 72.5 percent of the 684 seat thea- tre's capacity. Add to that the atten- dance at the Monday night previews at the Haliburton High School of 1,960 people of 87 percent of the 320 seat school auditorium capacity, and the Summer Theatre played to 21,760 people or 74 percent of possible capacity. im a e PLUMBING & HEATING LTD. e Trenching e Excavating e Custom Built Homes 40 Russett Ave. - Oshawa, Ont. 723-1030 CHRYSLER Dodge Trucks SALES/SERVICE HAVE A GOOD SELECTION OF QUALITY Used Cars ~ ne er ~ ) ¥ or Wal Si TT SC oe o£ SER Sh RSTn a THE® Tr il ew = ery Lo wviaty A Ne oat FAT Ty A i Th ay