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Terrace Bay News, 14 Sep 1961, p. 1

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Pd v Vol, 4, No.36 September 14, 1961 CHANGE IN SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCED Of interest to Terrace Bay residents is a recent change in the Kimberly-Clark Pulp and Paper University Scholarship. This $2,000.00 scholarship previously has been open to competition among students who are children of (or legal wards of) employees of Kimberly-Clark Pulp and Paper Company Limited, Mill Division, Terrace Bay,:or Woodlands Division, Longlac, and who are writing the Upper School (Grade 13). exam- inations conducted by the Department of Education of Ontario, Eligibility for this scholarship has now been extended to include students whose parents have been bona-fide residents of Terrace Bay, or Longlac for at least two years prior to the time the students write Grade 13 examinations, and who have attended the local high school as long as the facility permits (i.e. at the present time, through Grade 12 in Terrace Bay High School). MF eH ee ae ae ae DELEGATES FROM DISTRICT ATTEND INTERNATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS CONFERENCE ' The 16th International Union Against Tuberculosis is being held in Toronto Sept. 10 to 14 and will have approximately three thousand delegates from sixty-eight countries attending this world-wide conference on Tuberculosis, This marks the first time that such a meeting has taken place, on Canadian soil and the first time in thirty five years that the conference has been held in North America, Delegate members of the East Thunder Bay Tuberculosis Association who are attending are; Mrs. John Ferrier, President, Mrs. Beatrice McCuaig, Executive Secretary, N.A. McCuaig, 0,T,.A.° Representative and Mrs. M, Furlonger, R.N., Case Finding Chairman. Mr. Lester R, McCuaig who is Second Honorary Vice- President of the Ontario Tuberculosis Assoc+ iation will also be present for the five day Conference. On September 14 the Executive Secretary, Mrs. Beatrice McCuaig has the privilege of serving as one of the hostesses. A display map was prepared by artist Jim Cumming to show attending delegates the vast area this Association covers. Sale of Christmas seals in this area covers payment for monthly Referred Clinics, Mass Survey, T.B. Testing. of School Children, Food Handlers, X-Rays and comforts for patients in the Sanatorium, HHH HH HH HH He FINAL 1961 HUNTER SAFETY CLASS TO BE HELD The final 1961 Class will be held in the large meeting room of the Recreation Centre on Friday, September 15th at 7 P.M. Certif- icates and crests will be presented, also films from the Department of Lands and Forests are RR SR en = will be shown. All students from previous classes are welcome, sk CH HH LOCAL BOY WINS ACCLAIM Bill Colborne, eldest son of Mr. & Mrs. W. A, Colborne of Terrace Bay, has just received word he placed among the top seventy- seven on written Science examinations in the Province of Ontario, earning for himself an all-expense three day trip to Guelph to attend a Science Seminar from October 19th to 21st. Last April the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph announced this new plan to hold a Science Seminar in the fall for some seventy Grade 12 students provided these students entered Grade 13 this September. The Seminar is to be of three days duration and will provide an all~expense-paid organized visit to the 0,A,C. Campus, including lectures, laboratory classes and research. The seminar was organized to provide "A Preview of College Education in Science", and to give Grade 13 students some idea of what will be expected of them at University level. The fortunate students to be chosen were selected on the basis of highest percentage earned on an examination set by 0.A.C. and which included a question on each of Chemistry, Physics, Algebra, Geometry, Arithmetic, Botany, and Zoology. Only the more capable Grade 12 students competed. Notification has been received from 0,A.C. that of the one thousand papers written Wn, Colborne who was attending Terrace Bay High School was among the top seventy seven Cand- idates earning a visit to 0.A,C. Bill has enrolled in the Fort William Collegiate this fall. The Ontario Agricultural College Alumni Foundation is sponsoring the Seminar expenses. including, in Bill's case, T.C.A. flight to Malton. : . Mr. A, E, Hartman, Principal of the Terrace Bay High, School said,"Naturally we are very pleased with Bill*'s creditable achievement. He has been an exemplary, conscientious, and of course, capable student who I am sure received home encouragement to excel. Consid- erable credit should also go to Mr. Peter Saunders who was Bill's teacher of Mathematics and Science at Terrace Bay High School." oO SQUARE DANCING SATURDAY This Saturday evening at 8 o'clock, there will be a Square Dance Social and Organiza - tional meeting for anyone in Terrace Bay who is interested in becoming a member of a local Square Dance Club. A group of interested citizens, in co- operation with the Recreation Association, has arranged for the programme in an attempt to start the local group (Cont?*d on Page 7)

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