Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 17, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday March 17, 1975 Clas. Mall registration number 02m 40 fort Garry students to visit Stockholm soon a fort Garry school is once again turning its sights Over seas As it prepares 40 Young ambassadors for posting abroad. A two week the 40 Grade 8 and 9 Stu dents at general Byng school leave for Sweden in three weeks for the first stage of an educational Exchange with three Stockholm Junior High swedish students Are scheduled to come to Winnipeg in october. The students will be billeted separately in swedish Homes and will attend classes discus Sion groups organized Field trips and social activities in and around Stockholm. Before returning to they Are scheduled to spend two Days in Copenhagen Denmark. It s a lot More than just a George Holowka a Geog Raphy teacher at the school said in an interview recently. Most of the trip is strictly an education cultural not Only will the students be learning about life in Sweden they will also be teaching their new friends about Manitoba and Canada. The kids have partly been chosen on what they will con tribute to the family they re billeted with it s not Only what our kids get out of it but it s also what the people there will my. Holowka said. Last year students from general Byng went to Japan on an Exchange partially funded by the Federal government the students each must pay the full air fare. Or. Holowka said the Japa Nese Exchange showed that the benefits go beyond what the students of both countries learn. Two parents from the Community Are now planning to visit Japan. The students Are still exchanging letters with their japanese friends. Teach ers also were brought together to Exchange ideas. The kids make the Best ambassadors and that can end up a lot higher up with teach ers and parents the kids Aren t phony. They have a genuine interest to associate with the the Exchange also spurred More student initiative and in Terest in their studies. Or. Holowka and the school s principal Fred Olsen will accompany the students and be available at All times to handle any questions or prob lems. They too will visit the schools and pick up some ideas from swedish teachers. Perhaps their biggest chore will be fighting inevitable bouts of homesickness or. Holowka indicated. The Exchange is part of an on going Field program at the school which involves trips to grand Forks North Dakota Eastern Canada Rural Mani Toba or around the Community. A of in air Soprano wins Rose bowl x. I highest award of festival speaker pushes humanities studies a Good background in Burn a n i t i e s courses would be valuable for engineering Stu dents in addition to technical studies g. M. Davies Assis Tant Deputy minister of col Leges and universities said saturday. Or. Davies speaking at a workshop discussion on the humanities at St. John s College University of Manitoba said he once taught literature to engineering students who found his course something of a Drudge because they lacked background in English. The Gate was really Nar he said. When a Gener Al course f first came in for High school students the universities would have nothing to do with it Grade 12 English was once not required for University which seemed to me rather he said when a person wanted to win Money on a bet he could bet High school students especially in Grade 12, would be taking mathematics physics and other subjects that would satisfy matriculation requirements because they were concerned with getting ahead. He said one student asked Ian what the value of French to engineering Stu or. Davies said an equal amount of the humanities including such courses As history literature and philosophy and technical knowledge would be wonderful for engineering graduates but it was a question of time How much for the major and How much for the David Ross a professional Engineer who said he attended the conference sponsored by the humanities research coun cil of Canada out of an inter est in the subject believed University students Lack discipline a View expressed by Many other conference delegates. Or. Ross believed universities had adopted the thesis of Young people because they pamper the students trying to identify with them like the hippies. What Are we educating peo ple he asked saying that with social change peo ple really Don t know what we re fumbling toward what we re trying to or. Ross also believed universities have tended to stress by Debbie Lton free press education reporter at least members of the association of employees supporting education services at the University of Manitoba jammed the auditorium in the Union Centre monday for a study sesion that could result in the setting of a strike Date. T. M. Ranee Petty director of operations for the Union did t Rule out the possibility Union members setting a strike Date. He and Allan Yost the in by Lee Schacter months of work and two weeks of fierce Competition came to a Climax saturday night when the Manitoba music Competition festival held its Rose bowl contest at the playhouse theatre. So Prano Lynne Moncrief Ewert competing against five other soloists won the prestigious trophy highest award for a vocalist in the festival and the springboard for Many a Musi Cal career. Runner up in the Rose bowl and also the Winner of the Reg Hugo memorial trophy was so Prano Lynn Nieman. The Reg Hugo trophy is awarded for the most distinguished operatic male or female and mrs. Nieman won for her rendition of Sui Cidia from la Gioconda. By Pon Chielli. By a consensus of opinion of All the adjudicators the Errick f. Willis trophy awarded for the most outstanding perform Ance group or Solo went to pianist David Moroz for his performance o f introduction and fugue of. 17, no. 5 by Dohnanyi. During the Beryl the festival off and on now for the past 20 years. The tall blonde Soprano who delighted the audience with her warm stage presence did not know until thursday when she won class 45, songs by Canad an composers that she would be eligible for the Rose bowl. I had Only two Days to study a new song As the rules Only allow you to repeat one of the songs you be already Sung. I chose suicide from la Gio Conda by Pon Chielli an aria i Haven t Sung for seven years. I hoped it would be All she Learnt it Well enough to turn in the Best operatic performance of the festival and miss Field Hyde said her singing was most Beautiful. She has a Lovely full mrs. Neiman is a registered nurse and has four children three of whom competed in the festival. She s Sung a few shows at the hollow Mug is a soloist at St. John Bre Beuf Church and her lament is that there Are too few opportunities for singers in Winnipeg. The two other competitors in the Rose bowl were Vivien Laurie and Patricia Rabson. Along with the awarding of the trophies were recommendations by adjudicators for soloists to enter the provincial final music competitions. This in turn leads to participation in the finals of the National com p e t i t i v e festival of music which is held in Toronto in a gust. The soloists who received recommendations were Lynne Moncrief Ewert voice Doug Las Finch piano Laurence Leydier violin Richard Mil Grom woodwind and Nancy Harris brass. The grads choir was recommended for the City of Lincoln trophy and the Kelvin mixed voice choir and the Winnipeg senior girls choir for the George s. Mathieson trophy. Him if he had to take a second sessions too much. Language Why not Ukram-1 another participant said weather report spelling is not that important in humanities subjects that expression is what counts. Earlier however or. Davies said if you think it s All that Black you can go Back to 1948 or 1949, when they said the same he said students coming out of the old which stressed English and Gram mar were shocked by a pro Fessor who said there was too much emphasis on grammar and spelling that students were inhibited by them in morning bulletin for the Prairie provinces mild Pacific air lies Over the Southern Prairies today. Skies will be Gener ally sunny although a weak disturbance moving toward Manitoba from Saskatchewan will produce some Patchy cloudiness. Afternoon temperatures will Range Between 35 and 45 degrees. In the West Cloud and Snow predominates with expected highs ranging from Zero along the shores of Hudson Bay to near 30 in the peace re Gions of northeastern Brit ish Columbia. Figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures their expression. However or. Davies be. Lived things go in cycles things tighten up then h High Pinion l Low t cold front front temperatures following Are the High temperatures Low tempera Tures and precipitation for the 24-hour period ending 6a.m. Today. Max. Man. Pre. Vancouver 48 .10 Calgary. 49 21 Edmonton 38 25 .04 Regina 43 Brandon 40 30 Thompson 24 -2 to the Pas 44 20 Winnipeg 38 34 Thunder Flay to Kenora 45 35 Ottawa 42 26 Toronto 45 27 Montral 38 21 Halifax 41 28 Chicago 47 28 Miami 81 los Angeles 59 Minneapolis 39 new York for Winnipeg Bissett Interlake and red River regions mainly Cloudy today South wind at 15 . Becoming Light this evening. Sunny tuesday West wind at 15 . Low tonight in the mid-20s High tuesday 35 to 40. Boston Phoenix Honolulu Athens Roma Paris London Berlin Amsterdam Madrid Mccow s2 48 30 41 49 s7 43 43 43 45 45 Stockholm 34 Tokyo 32 Hong Kong 32 30 28 32 21 28 28 37 57 pm capitation total for nov. 1 to March 17 3.11 inches Normal 4m inches. Winnipeg tkmpmatur1 comparisons Mak Marchu 4 March 15 37 18 March it 38 22 Lastor 6 -10 Normal 2s 3 highest on record lowest in record -35 in 1885 the discussion led by history professor Gordon Rothney reached a consensus of sorts on the need for humanities courses to stress greater social consciousness curiosity and the ability to communicate. Unionists to resume talks custodians maintenance workers and bus Drivers in the St. James ass Minoia school division on strike since March 7, voted saturday morning to re turn to bargaining with the division. James keep representative for the Canadian Union of pub Lic employees said saturday that 101 workers met at Union Centre and agreed to a suggestion from a provincial department of labor representative to resume talks with the inclusion of a mediator. The workers also voted to provide busing for 25 retarded school children in the area on a voluntary basis. The workers Are seeking wage parity with their counter parts in the Winnipeg school division. They Are asking for a pay increase for All classifications. The division has offered a month. Spring thaw houses lights the mild weather during the weekend has caused some problems for Manitoba Hydro water has worked its Way into underground circuits put Ting out Many Street lights throughout the City. A spokesman for Manitoba Hydro said monday this is Al most traditional in Spring. The problems started late sunday but repair Crews had to wait until Daylight before at tempting to fix the lights. The spokesman said most of the repairs would be made monday. Ion s director of employer relations indicated displeasure at the University s latest contract offer which came during a five hour meeting sunday be tween the two bargaining groups and the conciliation officer. The two men also weren t satisfied with the University s stance on educational develop ment promotions and Layoff and recall procedures. In a statement the University said its latest offer would add million to the current annual payroll of slightly More than million for the bargain ing unit. Included an average increase in pay of 12.2 per cent effective oct. 1, 1974 with a guaranteed minimum increase of a year for employees employed on or before oct. 1. T another increase of two per cent for All employees on mar. A movement to the next step of their salary Range on april 1 for All employees not at the top of their classification. Each step amounts to a salary increase of about four per cent. The Union members include technicians administrative and clerical workers and computer personnel. Gordon univer sity s director of employee re lations said about two thirds to three quarters of the unit would be affected by the Steps. People employed after oct. 1 would t be eligible for the step increase. The Union is asking for about a 25 per cent increase in pay within a revised classification Structure. That kind of in crease is needed the Union argues to bring its members into parity with their counter parts in other major Winnipeg companies and the govern ment. Ferguson Competition thurs Day March 13. This is the 52nd Rose bowl Competition and this year s Winner 24-year-old Lynne Mon chief Ewert a neatly attractive Young woman said she Felt a. Lot of pressure on her because she had already won five classes in the festival. But adjudicator Margaret Field Hyde judge in the Rose bowl con test said of is Moncrief Ewert her singing of Bel Lini s la Sonnambula was the real highlight of the is. Moncrief Ewert s Hus band Richard and her Cousin d. Mark Watson were also in the Rose bowl finals making it almost a family affair. Said is. Moncrief Ewert it was t like a Competition Between us. We just wanted to do our Best. I be never gone into the festival to win. It s the Opportunity to sing that nevertheless she was ecstatic at her win particularly since As she said i be been on the Bottom for so Many she has been studying voice since 1969, and has Sung on the Csc program hymn sing for the past five years. In 1972 she won the Tudor bowl at the festival. She and her husband Are both soloists in the Elim Chapel choir. I have no favorite types of she said i love everything but i m not a pop she said that she thought the adjudications were right on. I appreciated miss because she gave detailed adjudications a n d constructive the Moncrief Ewerts plan to go to Germany this fall to study at the school of music and theatre in Hanover. Of his wife s win husband Richard said i m very Happy to have been a part of this and very Happy that Lynne walked off with the Rose Lynn Nieman Hose bowl runner up and Winner of the Reg Hugo trophy has been in Soprano Lynne Moncrief Ewert with Rose bowl studying the humanities c7 v i aids reasoning Monnin society has a great need for reasoning which can be found in studying the humanities or. Justice a. M. Monnin of the Manitoba court of Appeal said saturday. Or. Justice Monnin speaking at a conference on the humanities at St. John College University of Manitoba said Rea zoning can be found by study ing such courses As language treat Prev religion and particularly philosophy. I think we be been remiss id the last 25 or 30 years we be lost he told bout 150 people at the Confer nce sponsored by the human Les. Research Council of Cana a in response to a question asking whether humanity Ever View where it was going or. Ustice Monnin said he sees a breakdown among younger people and maybe some older nes who Don t know where hey re going and Don t in a workshop discussion ses Ion earlier or. Justice Mon Nin said both the 1960s and the 950s saw a breakdown of Dis spline a breakdown of Spiri Ual and moral Dorothy lives a writer in at the University of Manitoba said she saw present Imes As characterized by tre m e n d o u s changes and said High schools and universities Are not up to it As evidenced by the number of students who Peter Urquhart left and David Urquhart found no skeletons in Hie closets at the. University of Winnipeg s open House sunday. In Stead they found Rick Callahan off the University s anthropology department with the interesting spec Imen on display. Remember How the old Sony knee Bone connected to Hie thigh Bone thigh Bone connected drop out however she said she is amazed by the creativity that exists at the University and in Winnipeg although she does t ind it in students of creative writing saying they simply imitate other while students who Don t Haven t taken English or creative writ ing write about themselves about people and other she said the morning work shop she attended stressed that earning the humanities was important simply to help peo pie become More human. A definition of what the humanities Are was not arrived at but several were offered. Or. Edmund g. Berry head of the University of Manitoba s classics department and pres ident of the humanities re search Council suggested one in relating a Story about a woman who called the univer sity humanities department in the mistaken belief it was the local humane society. Or. Berry said the dangers facing the humanities include materialism things rather than activities practicalities peanuts returns to comic Section due to disruptions in the postal service the comic strip peanuts has t been a v a i 1 a b 1 e to the free press. Peanuts returns to Day after i two Day absence. Rather than Idle constraints on thinking National so and becoming smug and self satisfied about the state of t humanities in our part of the Rev. James r. Brown War Den of St. John s College said he purpose of the humanities s to free people from tyranny of living at one place at one he said science and the humanities produce to cultures that discussing Herra dynamics with an artist s the same As discussing Shakespeare with a scientist. Canon Brown also said much of a humanities education consists of studying years gone by and believed All problems Are at Bottom moral and speaking from the audience a political science professor criticized a videotape cassette shown earlier to participants which included a panel discus Sion involving among others poet Margaret Atwood and Keith Spicer of the commis Sion on official languages which the professor said failed to discuss Canada s different cultures. Some political scientists of which i am one Don t Cross the Ottawa River or even the River from St. Boniface to Winnipeg. What separates us from the americans and the Only thing is our two cultures and Multi cultural h e said. Or. Justice Monnin of French background responded by saying there is no difficulty to Cross the River fire damage extensive a fire caused extensive smoke damage to the fashion Centre 250-254 Kennedy Street and to the House of arrange ments 413 Graham Avenue Early monday. Firemen answered a Call to the fashion Centre at about a.m., a department spokesman said. The fire dam aged the Walls ceiling and contents of the building. No one was injured. Nathan Portigal owner of the fashion Centre said damage was extensive. He said the store was partially insured. The fire started in the base ment near the Wall Between the Centre and the House of arrangements which is attached to the Side of the store. Fire officials Are investigating the cause of the Blaze ;