The record, 26 mai 1994, Cahier 2

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LOCATION MZ ÉSTAUE 4141 King Street West Sherbrooke, Quebec JIL 1P5 (819) 823-8181 Best Wishes on your 25th! Les Services Financiers de I'Estrie » Courtiers d'assurances Eastern Townships Financial Services STEVE ALLATT REG ALLATT BRIAN ALLATT 73 Queen, Lennoxville Quebec JIM 1J3 819) 566-8833 Congratulations on your 25th anniversary! LES INDUSTRIES OWN INC.Benjamin Moore Paints Building Materials We specialize in klin dry pine and hardwoods 28 Conley St.Lennoxville 569-9978 Memories of the early days Royal Orr walks down memory lane By Royal Orr Mr.Porter was of the old school, both literally and figuratively.Before coming to Alexander Galt Regional, he'd taught \u2018 mathematics at Sherbrooke High School for many years.His pin-striped suits and his military posture spoke of an earlier | time in education when the rod was not : spared that the child might not be spoiled.He seemed to me like a cross between a drill sergeant and a presbyterian banker, and a man ready for anything.But even Mr.Porter seemed a bit overwhelmed when he walked into Yellow 307 that October morning in 1969 to greet his home room class on our first day in that new school.\u201cYellow\u201d referred to our \u201chou- ¥ se\u201d within the school.The six \u201chouses\u201d or § sectors were color-coded or, at least, were meant to be color-coded when the construction crews finished the place.Work had backed up and even though we were late starting that year, nothing was finished.We were luckier in Y-307 than in some other home rooms.True, we had neither blackboards nor desks, but we did have some uninstalled carpet to sit on and there was even glass in the one gloomy window on the far wall.By Galt standards, we were in the lap (or on the broadloom) of luxury.Mr.Porter read the roll call.Then he tried to explain why it was \u201cDay 2\u201d that day \u2014 not Monday or Tuesday, not Remembrance Day or St.David\u2019s Day, but Day 2.Class schedules at Alexander Galt ran on a seven day cycle.They posted large signs at every intersection of the school alerting you to that day\u2019s number.For some reason, we started that week on Day 2.\u201cThis is the second day of the rest of your life,\u201d quipped Mr.Porter.SCHEDULE My class schedule was an enormous, computer-generated swatch of paper that made almost no sense to me even after my home-room teacher\u2019s careful instructions.I walked out of Y-307, not really expecting \u201cAerial v view of Alexander Galt.Royal Orr.It was part of a plan.to ever find it again.Not since Expo '67 had I seen so many people.The school was built for about 3,000 students and we filled it to overflowing.It was like rush hour in Beijing (without the bicycles, fortunately).My first class was in Green House, an easy, direct walk according to the little building plan they handed us all.Easy, that is, until I hit the first bridge.Galt was built with a central core of administrative and athletic facilities.This core building is connected to the academic and technical wings of the school by double-decker, glassed-in walkways.Or rather, the architect\u2019s plan called for them to be glassed in but that job seemed to have slipped off the contractor's list of priorities for opening day.These bridges were open to the cold autumn wind with just a couple of gerry-rigged two-by-fours between me and a three story tumble to the asphalt court-yard below.School as a high- risk activity, CAFETERIA I don\u2019t remember much more about that first day, except sitting on the floor in the uncompleted cafeteria during my lunch \u201cshift\u201d.(Yes, we ate in shifts and no, the floors were not clean enough to eat off.) 1 also recall meeting our phys-ed teachers who took us on a tour of the locker rooms and the cubicle-free, communal showers.\u201cEverybody showers!\u201d they snarled and smirked.The gleam in their eyes confirmed what I'd long suspected, that many phys-ed teachers need intense, anti- martinet therapy.We couldnt go in the gym yet \u2014 the floors weren't laid.The regionalization of secondary education was a rush job in the Townships.Not much time for the niceties, like floors in the gym or democracy in the decision- making.Indeed, everything at Alexander Galt that first year felt strange, half-done and improvised.But there was a deeper level at which Galt was a disturbing experience.Some things about life there were sim- ' ply disorienting, like seven day class sche- 4 dehumanizing and even abusive, like Cp ne: mass showers for all boys.But the most disturbing thing about the school was that i this disorientation and dehumanization # my source for this charge right away.#4 Many years after I'd finished high school &@ and forgotten most of what happened 3 there, I had a long conversation with the ~X cn man who was then the director general of the Eastern Townships Regional School Board, Wendell Sparkes.EARLY DAYS Somehow, we got onto the topic of those early days at Galt and I began joking about how weird it had all seemed to a kid arriving for the first time \u2014 the concrete walls and the computerized schedules and the masses of students.\u201c] don\u2019t know how they expected to See MEMORIES page 3 The first Principal\u2019s message The time for reassessment has come.' you is.We had large dreams for our school.We based our school on a belief.Did your belief have a firm foundation?Is the dream becoming a reality?The dream was of a school that could take in the whole community, that would provide for the needs and wants of all those within its reach.The belief was that you, the students, were able to handle the responsiblity we wanted to give you, and that you could accept and use the kind of school we felt you deserved.Where do we stand one year later?We have opened the doors of Alexander Galt, the largest comprehensive school in the vicinity, to nearly three thousand young people.We have been able to offer you a wider choice of subjects than ever before, and personnel to guide you in your selection of courses.We have provided equipment and materials to make the sciences come alive for you, and to make the arts more meaningful.We have furnished areas for your use so that you could be trained in the ways that you wished as you planned for your future lives.Because we believe that to be a whole person the mind, the body, and the spirit must all be nurtured, we have planned our school to give you this balance: a library and resource centre for individual and group use; a sports and physical education program in the most modern surroundings; recreation areas and club activity rooms to give you the opportunity to meet and mingle with old and new friends.Because we have respect for each of you as an individual who needs beauty as well as benefit for your growth, we have combined all these facilities in a wide and clean setting worthy of the person we think each of Today as never before we live in a socie- | ty that expects much.However much is provided, ours is always the task to reach forth and take, to use and encompass, so that we in turn can go forward and share .what we have garnered with others.We have tried to make our dream a reality.It is in your hands to justify our belief.We are convinced that we have placed our faith well.It is in good hands.It is in yours.IAN A.MacLEAY Principal MEMORIES: Continued from page 2 teach us anything,\u201d I laughed.\u201cBut, you missed the point,\u201d said Wendell.\u201cThe concrete walls and the computerized schedules and the masses of students were the lesson.\u201d He lent me a copy of a thesis he wrote about the government planners who designed the regionalized high school system for Quebec.These planners were led by Arthur Tremblay, who's now a senator in Ottawa.He started out as an educational theorist and professor at Laval University and went on to become the deputy minister in the new Ministry of Education.His biggest pre-occupation was how to get young Quebecers ready for life in modern Quebec \u2014 how, in a nutshell, to get them off the farms and out of their villages and into the cities and factories.Well, to do that, he theorized, you have to get children out of the familiar environment of their local parish or town and put a whole bunch of them together in a school that looks and works a lot like the factories where you want them to end up \u2014 where \u201cproduction\u201d is computerized, where students are regimented, where the walls are grey concrete and the light is artificial.Similar ideas were being put into practice across the continent; there was nothing unique about Galt or about Quebec in this.Still, knowing that I was part of a North American trend doesn\u2019t make me feel any better about having been the subject of the schemes of social engineers in my high school days.But, paradoxically, it doesn\u2019t make me wish that things had been much different either.GOOD TEACHERS I'm not one of those people who pined all their years at Alexander Galt for the old, smaller high schools.I didn\u2019t feel gypped or cheated of a \u201cquality education\u201d.I did probably waste some time studying things that have served neither me nor the general economy particularly well.And I probably went through some experiences that I could have done without, but all in all, I think I got a pretty good education at Galt.This had very little to do with the educational theorists and bureaucrats in Quebec City, I believe, and everything to do with the students and staff of Galt.It was a bizarre place to learn those first few years and it must have been an even more bizarre place to try to teach.Still, I had some great teachers.Okay, there were some lousy ones, too, but the good ones made up for them.They also managed to overcome the grey walls and the absence of windows.They made me feel that I wasn\u2019t just a number in a computer, even though I was.They gave me a love of music and mathematics and literature in spite of the industrial setting of that truly horrible building.I'd have never guessed it at the time, but \u201cthe second day of the rest of my life\u201d turned out to be an auspicious one.So good luck to my school, Alexander Galt, on its twenty-fifth birthday.\u2018 Galt Anniversary Supplement\u2014The RECORD\u2014Thursday, May 26, 1994\u20143 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Congratulations on youn E5th! A Béton Aimé Coté Ltée Cement Residential ¢ Commercial e Industrial Bishop's College School Lennoxville, Quebec (819) 566-0227 334 Queen Street Lennoxville, Quebec JIM 1K9 (819) 569-9916 Stephanie Smith, Class of \u201989.Favorite expression: Kiss my big foe.Timothy Crawford, Class of \u201971.Probable destiny: Men\u2019s magazine business.Cathy Campbell, Class of \u201975.Ambition to be a writer.The editorial staff at the Record, none of whom went to Galt (sorry!), wants to wish every graduate working for the paper or living in the Townships a very happy anniversary, and we hope Alexander Galt Regional High School continues to produ- Other Record staff went to Galt, but pictures ce graduates of the same caliber as those were unavailable from the old copies of the currently employed at the Record.Catalyst.Happy Anniversary, A.G.R.H.S.! Janet Daigneault, Class of \u201982.Claims to have been the \u2018quiet type\u201d.Pe I + AE .svar RONEN ge EAR A Galt Anniversary Supplement\u2014The RECORD\u2014Thursday, May 26, 1994\u20145 Fostering the sense of community Growing pains shape Galt character By Stephen Heckbert LENNOXVILLE \u2014 Its big.Over 3,000 students waited for it to open.And when it finally did open, it did so in stages, meaning for some school didn\u2019t start until the middle of November.The promised pool and arena never materialized as costs exceeded estimates and the work dragged on through the first winter.But Alexander Galt Regional High School has survived all those trials and has become a centrepoint of the Eastern Townships English-speaking community.Principal Bob McConnachie has been working at Galt since the day it opened.He said his days at Galt have always been exciting, even if sometimes the growing pains were severe.\u201cThere were 96 buses lined up outside every day when we first opened,\u201d McCon- nachie said, \u201cand some kids travelled almost 50 miles each way.But things worked out over time.\u201d McConnachie is one of 42 staff members still working at Galt who started there when the school opened in 1969.He said the resentment was high those first couple of years as students didn\u2019t really lose their sentimental attachments to their.old schools.\u201cIt was hard those first years because people still identified themselves as from Sherbrooke or from Lennoxville,\u201d he said.\u201cBut we were able to foster a sense of community through time.\u201d LEGISLATED Schools were regionalized all across North America in the late 1950s and early 1960s.In Quebec, the Parent Commission recommended that small high schools be closed and large regional schools built to A à take advantage of the economies of scale such a move would mean.The large number of students in a school like Galt meant some technical and vocational training could be offered, music and art programs could be instituted, and more resources could be made available.But times have changed a great deal in the 25 years of Galt existence.McConna- chie said the school has lived through two complete curriculum reforms, with this last one moving the school toward student-centred, activity-oriented lessons.Computers have become a common teaching tool, something no one would have imagined in the days before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.SOLID STAFF McConnachie said Galt has adapted to the changes well because of the solid staff the school has.\u201cThere\u2019s a unity of purpose among our staff unlike any other,\u201d he said.\u201cWe all want our kids to do well.We're proud of them.\u201d McConnachie said one of the things that has helped the school and the staff do a better job has been the drop in the number of students at Galt.When the school opened almost three thousand students poured through the doors everyday.Today, slightly more than nine hundred are enrolled, a number McConnachie said is more manageable and more conducive to the school environment.\u201cIt was tight at the start,\u201d he said, \u201cbut when a lot of people started leaving in the mid to late 70s, enrollment fell sharply.Its been pretty stable for the past few years at around 930.\u201d But McConnachie admits uncertainty See COMMUNITY page 8 Bob McConnachie.Growing pains have sorted themselves out.\u2019 © Bishops PROBSHOP SHOES ee RACQUETS e APPAREL Bishop's University Lennoxville, Qc J1M 1Z7 819 - 822-9667 / Fax: 819 - 822-9648 Cong ratu lutions on your 25th Anniversary! 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