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ee PR Es RE SN ee & THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesdey, Moy 12, 1964 WANTED ... TEEN PALS Dear honorable editor: It is almost a year now since I have been wishing to have friends in your country in order to have more knowledge of history and geography of your country, but I don't know ee whom I can write Today a friend of mine gave me your good name and address and I decided to write you immediately with the hope that you will kindly hslp me to publish my name afd address in your well recognized mews- paper so that interested per- sons can write me. For your information, I I am a boy of 18 years old, five feet tall, 120 pounds in weight, light brown in complexion, My hobbies are running, jumping, table ten- nis, swimming, football, reading and others. Lagos is the federal cap- ital of Nigeria, the seat of the president. Sir, I will be very grate- ful if you can quickly help me to publish my name and address in your news- paper and I shall be waiting for your early and favor- able reply in the next com- ing mail by getting lIctters from your country. Thanks in anticipation for your kindness, dear sir. Yours faithfully, Ayinde O'Junaid, 1, Pedro street, Lagos, Nigeria. Dear honorable editor: This letter may be a sur- prise to you, Sir, but you Should not let it happen as a young Nigerian who is highly interested to know more about race. y4 I tock up my pen to write to you so that I want you to publish my name and pa- dress in your newspaper: I would like to correspond with the people of your country. I want boys or girls to be my pen pal. I would like to exchange some Nigerian goods with your country. Please kindly help me to do as my ambition by pub- lishing my letter into your newspaper. May God be with you and your family. Till I read from you again, Thanks in advance. Fasola Ogunleye, (male, age 16), 5 Ashaju Street, Lagos, Nigeria. Hobbies . . . sports, pho- tography, general. The honorable editor Sir: For almost a year I have been searching for, a pub- - lisher and one of my friends favored me to write to you today. I write to you and I hope that you will help me to publish my name and ad- dress into your recommend- ed newspaper for purpose of getting pen friends from your country. I will like to tell you about myself. I am an Nigeria girl of 15 years age, five feet, two inches tall, 108 pounds in weight, dark brown in complexion. Some of my hobbies are swimming, music, and ex- change of gifts. Yours Sir, Miss Jums Ogunjobi, 31 Agoshofin street, ee Lagos, Nigeria. I want to publish my friends' names. Funke Oguns, 31 Agoshofin street, Lagos, Nigeria. Age 12 BiH Oguns, same address, age 17 year SHADAROBA Centrals Grad Ball 'Tremendous Success By BRIAN WILLIAMS (OCCI Reporer) Well, Central had its big Grad- uation Dance last Friday night, and was it fabulous or was it fabulous? Hoo-boy! Right the first time! I'll tell you a little bit about it, just to make you jeatous if you didn't go. As you approached the school you discovered that our little oid doorway had been turned into a drawbridge by the addition of huge silver chains. Two silver swords sparkled on the door and a gigantic war axe. hung in the window. The doors were opened for you by two guards all dress- ed up in a purple cape, and with real swords even! The lobby had become a cosy room with stone walls, A fire giowed in a stone fireplace, with a shield above it. A large mirror and a love seat were part of the furnishings. But the best was yet to come! You passed down into the "eym" through an archway of blue and white paper, guarded by two more guys who also had real swords, even! The waiter directed you to your table and you had a chance to marvel at what had happened to our 'gym', The whole thing was covered by blue and white crepe paper Ithat stretched from all four GRAD BALL SUCCESS O'Neill Tracksters Set School Records By MARTIN SINGLETON (OCVI Reporter) The Grad Ball turned out to be a tremendous success Fri- day night and congratulations should be extended to the hard- working committee. Decorations centred around a Grecian theme and were especially effective. Everyone agreed this year's Grad Ball was the best ever. 18 DAYS A word to the wise is suf- ficicnt - there are only 18 days until exams. The Grade 11 Composition exam will be on May 2. Tribute should now be given to the fabulous' Silvertones. three of the four members of which are O'Neill students and the fourth a former student. To date, the Silvertones have per- formed at the ORC, the UAW Hall, the Club Came'ot and the most successful Spring Dance at O'Neill. The group has been together for four months. Members in- clude Rene Pleau, drummer and well-known O'Neill female expert, Brian : Twaites, rhythm guitar, Jim Clark, |. who pioneered the Silvertone's Beat- le boot craze and who writes some of the music, and Gordie Jay, newest addition to the band, Chewers are warned about the one-hour detentions to be served after school in Room 202. Students are also cautioned about having their parents or friends pick them up at noon or after four. If this condition is allowed to continue, 'the school parking lot will become congested and an accident may occur. Students were given an extra holiday Tuesday and Wednes- day as the school track meet was held at Alexander Park. This meet determined the con- testants for the Inter-school Lakeshore District track and field meet. Several records were set at the track meet and congratula- tions got to the winners, run- ners-up and all other partici- pants, School champions were: Junior - John Armstrong with runner-up Eugene McDonald; Intermediate - Gary Edgar with runner-up Glenn_ Wilson; Senior -. Larry Hicks with run- ner-up Brian Morris. We are sure these boys will be an asset to O'Neill at the district meet. GLEE CLUB Members of 'the Glee Club wishing to hear Johnny Mathis and Henry Mancini on Thurs- day, May 21, are requested to see Mr. Williams or Miss Thomas as soon as possible. Magicians Offer Teens Free Trick The executive of The Magic- ian's Guild of Canada offers this free trick to local teen- agers to try at their parties. They say, "Try this one on your friends". Here is an excellent bit cf card magic which can be done anytime and anywhere, Confus- es them all without exception. Effect: Your friend mentally selects a card, later he places deck behind his back, reverses a card, and places it -- any- where -- in the deck. No matter; where he places it, his selected ecard is always the one under- neath. Secret and method: 1. Friend takes the card and shuffles till his heart is con- tent. : 2. Tell him to cut the deck into two equal piles. 3. He is to hand you either pile. 4. Get him to look at and select any card in the deck. To prove there is no trickery you te him that you'M turn your back so you won't see which card he is selecting. When back is turned, accomplish the three following moves: (a) Hold your pile face down. (b) Reverse bottom card (face down) and leave on the bottom. (c) Reverse second card from top (face-up) and leave it in the same order that is sec- ond from the top, A, B, C should be accomplished care- fully but quickly. 5. Tell him to replace his selected card face down on the top of his pile. 6, Now turn around and ask him to put his pile on the table face down. 7. You place your pile right on the top of his, also face down, 18. Give him entire deck and let him put it behind his back - face down. Make sure no one is behind him at this point of the trick. 9. Tell him to take top card and put the card on the bot- tom of the deck. 10. He is now told to take the next card. Reverse it and place it anywhere in the deck. walls up to the ceiling and met in the centre. Suspended just below where the ribbons met was a big silver ball. From be- low.it, blue paper spread out to form a roof for the centrepiece, which . was a. Shining silver). castle. The castle was about eight feet high and had four turrets, and was surrounded by grass and plants, with a silver and blue throne in front of the doorway. SPARKLING CASTLE Blue lights shone from all di- rections on the castle, until 'it sparkled like a diamond. The buffet was excellent and so was the Charlie Cochrane band, which provided the music. Lots of cute waitresses added to the picture, along with more of those guys with the swords. I like , swords! I think everyone who attended TO GET ALONG A smart course in human relations: , The six most important words... , "I admit I made a mistake." ; The five most important words ... "I am proud of you." The four most important words ... "What is your, opinion?" - The three most important words... "if you please." The two most important words .. . "Thank you." The MOST important word iva wee The least important word "yr. will agree that the dance was truly beautiful, and a tre- mendous success. On behalf of all who were there, I'd like to thank the members of the Grad Dance Committee, who did so much work to make our dance. They are Betty Poloz (chair- man), Ann Parrott, Judy Cutler, Diane Goreski, Joe Golobic, Shirley O'Neill, and Bill Corby. 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