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Experience 77 group aid aging By Terry James Summer jobs are hard to come by but five Waterioo to secure one which will benefit individuals in the community, and leave them with an acquired art which they will never forget. The art of relating to and caring about people. = For Ms. Wamsley and Ms. Verner, this is the second year for them to be inâ€" volved in this project. Ms. Wamsley was hired by the Ministry of Education this year to act as project leader and unlike the other four, her wages are not supplied by the Experiâ€" ence ‘77 grant. Jane Wamsley, a Waterlioo resident and recent graduâ€" ate of Wilfrid Laurier Uniâ€" versity, â€" Mathew _ Baird from (Preston) Cambridge, a recent highschool graduâ€" ate, â€" Christa _ Kilianski, from Kitchener, a second year student at W.L.U., Susan Smyth from Kitchâ€" ener, a graduate of W.L.U. and Andrea Verner, from Galt Cambridge, a high school graduate, are inâ€" volved in the Aid the Aging project. This is one of many Experience ‘77 proâ€" jects being carried out in the Waterloo region this summer. The five students spend their‘time visiting nursing homes in the county and entertaining the residents with a variety of organized programs. ‘We help with exercise programs in the nursing homes and a great deal of our work simply involves Y OLVO _â€"_â€"_BMW _â€" NYVOLVO q j * Bâ€"1€ W (W 3 M W BMW anc Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo‘s Authorized (Waterloo) Ltd. 15 University Ave., E * Sales * Service * Parts 885â€"5090 TEIRSE} and Dealer with the writing of letters, read to them and try to do useful crafts. For example week to teach a lady here (Pinehaven Nursing Home in Waterloo) how to do leathercraft." Dipâ€"it crafts, silk screenâ€" ing and painting murals are all crafts Pinehaven resiâ€" dents may find themselves involved in this summer. The students also seareh for individuals in the comâ€" munity who <« may â€" have something interesting to offer. Up to now volunteers have been responsible for music _ programs, _ slide presentations, dancing and baton twirling demonstraâ€" tions and craft demonstraâ€" tions. ‘"We are also involved in helping the residents with the more personal things,"‘ said Ms. Wamsley. ‘"Next week three of our staff are taking five residents from Pinehaven on a shopâ€" ping spree and a luncheon."‘ Although it has not been definitely decided as to who will be going where, trips for the residents of the various nursing homes will include such destinaâ€" tions as the Lion Safari in Rockton, Storybook Garâ€" dens in London, Stratford, local parks and conservaâ€" tion areas and a city tour of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo. Ms. Wamsley explained that each home they visit houses different individuals with different needs and interests and the students have been and will continue to plan their programs and trips to meet these requireâ€" ments. ‘*We do impromptu things too,"" said the project leadâ€" er. ‘"*Not everything is rigidâ€" ly organized. We do all kinds of different things."‘ The students have a schedule which places them at Marsdale Manor in (Galt) Cambridge on Monâ€" day, Hilitop in (Gailt) Camâ€" bridge on Tuesday, St. Raphael‘s Nursing Home in Kitchener on Thursday and Pinechaven in Waterloo on Friday. Wednesday is referred to as a planning 3 V . _ *""We day but in the afternoon the group breaks up as three members volunteer to help with the afternoon swim therapy program for Marsâ€" dale Manor residents: _ At the end of August the. program will end. Ms. Wamsley hopes that it is carried on in years to come. ‘"‘There are a lot of feelâ€" ings come out of a project like this," she said. "It has been good experience and the group has learned resâ€" pect for older people and have developed an afâ€" * fection for them."‘ Ms. Wamsley believes that this year‘s group is really _ enthusiastic _ and they have proven this by volunteering their services after hours to help with barbecues and social funcâ€" tions. For Susan Smyth, the project has been good exâ€" perience in getting up and talking in front of people and drawing people out of themselves. "It‘s too bad it is not an ongoing thing," he said. "I am certainly going to make an attempt at it. If only more people in the community would do it without a governing body drawing them into it. The field is there and you can make people happy."‘ "It‘s a special thing to be doing and you see the results," _ said _ Mathew Baird. "It teaches all of us to go outside of our perâ€" sonal life." Mathew feels he is also learning alot from the people he is working with. He sees making new friends as an experience in itself. David P. Woodhall of R.R. 1 St. Clements, presently consultant for environmentâ€" al studies, grades 4â€"8 with the Waterloo county board of education, has been apâ€" pointed to the position of senior consultant, Integratâ€" ed Studies department, efâ€" Woodhall gets promoted as WCBE senior consultant 621 Hespeler Rd. 382 King St. N. City Gas Service specializes in pool heater sales and service and gas line installations. Call us first for pricing at either of our two locations. POOL OWNERS CITY GAS SERVICE Waterloo @ ca tm â€" Mr. Woodhall replaces Doug Schmitt, who will beâ€" come principal of Empire public _ school, _ Waterloo, next fall. A graduate of Stratford Teachers‘ Collége, 1963â€"64, Mr. Woodhall has a BA from Elizabeth Fitzgerald, a resident of Pinechaven Nursing Home in Waterloo, is flanked by the five students responsible for the Aid the Aging Experience ‘77 program. Pictured in the front row from left to right are Christa Kilianski and Susan Smyth. In the back row from left to right are Jane Wamsley, Mathew Baird and Andrea Verner. fective September 1, 1977. M ._ 653â€"4105 885â€"4790 the University of Waterioo and an MEd from the Uniâ€" versity of Toronto in coâ€" operation with the Ontario institute for studies in eduâ€" cation. He completed the Ontario Principals‘ course at Wilfrid Laurier Univerâ€" sity, Waterloo, in 1976. Mr. Woodhall‘s previous teaching â€" experience _ inâ€" cludes a year at Northdale public school, Waterloo, and five years at MacGregor senâ€" ior public school, Waterloo. He has been a consultant SPORTSMEN‘S LOUNGE ‘"A Country Pub in The City" 574 LANCASTER RD. WEST, KITCHENER â€" 743â€"4331 Enjoy your favourite sport aStp, ag id on our 7 ft. television Lounee _ JIMMY STEELE FULLY LICENSED UNDER THE LLA.O. 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