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First ts6rretjtrt is” mirtittry, REV. NORMAN CHOATE...rtewty appointed Presi- dent of St. Jerome's College at the University of Waterfoo. . Chronicle an! tttMt" Father Choate has been Rev. Norman L. mu, cm Wm at the COI- CR., , Lean“! - we} iege for the past five years as president ot St. Jame 3 and was tre1eetedJrom a College on the campus ot the number of candidates by the University of Waterloo. provincial council of the Congregation of the Resur- Rev. Choate succeeds. rection, which runs St. Rev. C.L. Siegfried, C.R., Jerome's College. He was who is retiring due to ill examined by a college health after 21 years as head search committee of faculty of the college during three and staff before his appoint- separate terms. ment was approved. The K-W Chapter of the Association for Children with Learning Disabilities presents Deryk J. Farrell speaking on "Who is Ontario ACLU? What are they doing about man- datory education?" at the Waterloo Public Library on Wed- nesday, Nov 28 at 8 pm Rev. Choate succeeds. Rev. C.L. Siegfried, C.R., ‘who is retiring due to ill health after 21 years as head of the college during three separate terms. Chronicle st." writer The Waterloo County Board of Education ratified a new two-year contract With Its teachers last Thursday and Its nearly 1.000 high school teachers won't be get- ting a new pay Increase this year What they Will get Is an 8 4 per cent mstof-llvmg allowance I(‘0LAI rolled Into their salary structure, which had been negotiated in the old contract for 1978- 79 The teachers mll also get a five per cent pay In» crease m the second year of the contract. which ex- pires on Aug 31, 1981, plus a one-time payment of M80. bringing average pay gains to 6 5 per cent, Arm. should the Consumers' price index exceed 6 8 per cent In the second year of the contract. the teachers have a bum-in cost-of-living clause to offset inflation First-year rates will range from 814109 a year to t30.838 High school teachers in the second contract year will get from 815.294 to $32,860. according to Larry Gorman of Waterloo. chief negotiator for teachers' District M, the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation Gorman said teachers were "not terribly ecstatic" about losing the costof-living allowance in the first contract year. but said the 8 4 per cent COLA gain last year. which is now part of the salary structure. did keep pace with inflation For each percentage increase of the consumers' Index above 6 8 per cent. teachers wall get 825 more a month. said Gary Schlueter. the board's finance ad- ministrator Teachers sign two-year contract . Learning disability seminar if I‘WE- Ft Faker Chute said the ap- pqintment of a chaplain rather that an academic person to the presidency has some significance. ' ' “I am interested in the stewardship of education, which means serving the community, serving the local churchand serving people in need. In that sense, my appointment re- fleets an accord on the part of our governing body with my concerns for community building, for stewardship and for human care in edu- cation," said Father Choa- "My first concern is the ministry, followed by educa- tion, which offers the oppor- tunity to express that min- istry," he said. " Father Choate said he does not anticipate any major changes at St. Jerome's College in the im- mediate future. A (faculty of 35 full and When we shop Canadian, Canada makes it. When we shop Canadian, it's more than a good idea. It's a great invest- ment in our country's future. Every time Canadians buy their own products, they give Canadians work. Right here in Ontario, manufacturing industries employ about one million people. That's 25% of all the jobs in Ontario. When we shop Canadian,we strengthen the economy of our prov- ince and our country. A By purchasing products that say "Made in Canada",we're develop- ing and maintaining the industrial strengths we need to compete in world-wide markets. part-time staff teaches #10 students and gives a large number of courses to other students registered at the university. Students are drawn from 'Toronto, Hamil- ton, North Bay,.Sudbury, Sarnia, Burlington and the area in and around the Twin Cities. A believer in “small is beautiful," Father Choate said St. Jerome's is not like- ly to experience any Sig; nificant growth in the next ii) years. "For one thing, govern- ment funds are not going to be available for expansion. As well, colleges and univer- sities are experiencing a de- cline in student enrollment. It is also one of our objec- tives to stay relatively small," said Father Choate. He says he's an informal type of man who is much more comfortable "in slacks and a sweater" than in his clerical clothes. But St. Jerome 'spmsktlmt, Wotuloo gimmick; We4ttesdav,stlotmmtt" 21,1979 v" 6 he says be'e prepared to "do what's expected of me" " president, even if that means wearing the clerical clothes tt little more often. A native of Boston, Mass. Father Choate graduated with a bachelor of arts de- gree in philosophy from St. Mary's seminary in Ken.. tacky in 1958 and was or- dained a priest in 1963. He received his master's de- gree in sociology a year later. . St. Jerome’s College was founded in St. Agatha in 1864 and was federated with the University of Waterloo in 1060. Father Choate is the third president of the col- lege since it joined the uni- versity. He lectured in that sub- ject at St. Jerome's between 1964 and 1967. He later taught at the Unizersity of Illinois and worked for the Centre for Applied Re- search in the Apostolate in And we're helping ourselves right here at home by strengthening Ontario's resources and assuring our future growth. So ihe next time youre buying something, look for the symbol that says "Made in Canada". Ontario William Davis, Premier Larry Grossman, Minister of _ Industry and Tourism Washington " a research. assistant and later as ttggiq. tant director. His predecessor, Father Siegfried, acted " president of St. Jerome's until Sep- tember when he becameill. He first served " president of the college between 1948 and 1953 when it was located in downtown Kitchener. He returned there in 1955 after two years as president of North Bay College. He brought St. Jerome's into federation with the uni- versity, helped draft the uni- versity charter and federa- tion agreement and super- vised the erection of the first college building on the university campus in 1962. He returned to the college for a third time after spend- ing six years as provincial superior of the Congregation of the Resurrection. He re- ceived an honorary doctora- te from the university in