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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 30 Apr 1970, p. 7

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Trustee Englvrt said the sym phony orchestra was an vxlonsiun of the school music program. Viihairmar, Frank Furlong Warm'd that ors,'anir,ahons serving thc county should not be ronfus ed with those sorvmg individual mururipalities. A request for $200 from the KttchoWr-watertoo Symphony Orchestra was approved. Opposing the grants. trustee John Black suggested the hoard got carried away on the orchestra issue He pointed out trustees had eurller refused funds for the Preston recreation committee and should take the same altitude to other requests. Arrival of furniture for two new Twin-City schools is expected to increase the problem, A $3.500 request from the K W Art Gallery was referred to the teacher and education committee. Both developments; are in Kit- chener, and that city's planning board has agreed to withold ap- proval of development until both school boards are satisfied. The building committee will in- vestigate the possibility of acquir- inn: additional space for the boartr.s maintenance department which is overcrowded. In other business, trustees au- thorized the building committee to have the board solicitor negoti- ate with the board of education fpr school sites in Pioneer Park and Costain doveloprdent south of St. Mary's Hospital. The group later applied for conciliation and this weeks talks were held with a conciliation offi- cer present. "We've made a little pro- gress," Englert told a committee meeting of trustees Monday night. The first meeting ttelwten the two groups reached an impasse earlier this year when represents tives of the custodians, union-or- ganized earlier this year. stomped out, terming the board's offer an "insult." "We are talking again." ne- gotiation committee chairman Se, bastian Englert told trustees Monday night. Waterloo County s e p a r a t e school board and its custodians have resumed salary negotiations. Trustees, custodians resume talks m THE SPoTuGHr--Among outstanding features of the new Humanities Theatre at the University of Waterloo is the stage lighting system, reported to have cost the major part of $100,000. The controls are in a room behind the audience, with a full view of the stage. but the actual dimmers, which are silicon-controlled rectifiers with no moving parts, are in a room beneath the audi- torium. In the right photo, the console (left) controls 48 dimmers, variable from four, six and 12 kilowatts, plus non-dimmer circuits. The dimmers are duplicated on each card of the three-scene in- Among his recommendations and 1970-71 were an in-service program for associated teachers and close liaison with the teach, ers“ colleges and with whichever local university is selected by the education department for teacher training. During the year, 259 teachers took university courses, 133 took summer courses and 110. teachers. consultants and principals attend, ed conferences, seminars and workshops. Assistant superintendent S. W. Humphrey reported on the profes. sional development program set up last spring., - The Kitchener trustee said that all governments and businesses convert their' plans into money over five years and then break these down into intermediate phases. A suggestion for developing a five-year plan, proposed by Black, will be discussed by the manage- ment committee. "The fact that we support it and no one else indicates we have a very advanced program." Regarding ierservice training, 24-HR. EMERGENCY SERVICE " Erb West, Waterloo WATliilltll,,00 FUELS Call Us for Installation of Furnaces, Burners and Boilers These have been tentatively planned for St. Jerome college. Speakers include Dr. Donald Mor. gertson. Dr. John Nash-and Dr. James Anderson. Seminars for principals will be conducted May T and 14 to dis- cuss drug abuse and school in. volvement, assistant superintend- ént Clifford Byrnes said. He also recommended a profes- sional librarian be hired to insti- tute an information service to the schools and central office staff. He suggested family life educa- tion, drug education and use of new report cards were programs which will require emphasis in in-service teacher training. he recommended establishment of a brofessional development cetr tre. Your Independent Distributor of Sunoco FUEL OIL, GASOLINE and DIESEL OIL tions. Shoirn at the' patch il Waterloo's Tempo Theatre, finite pre-set programmer (right). Thesrperator (right) is the technical director of the theatre, Peter Roberts. The big patch board (left) is used to connect stage lights to the control console and programmer to give the many lighting variations possible foe the Humanities Theatre stage. The theatre, opened just a few months ago, was designed chiefly as a teaching facility for the English department, but is also being used by community organiza- '. §hqwlLat thel..eatct board lu-charles/da/i/Jiri-tir-aria LIMITED a 1lllit,tllll.tsii'i'iiiiiiii, Waterloo Kitchener um Chunk“. “and", MI 3. "" ' Phone 742-4419 Ontario 8. Duke Sis. Waterloo Square PHONE 742-4419

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