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Fund aids
full-time
research

TORONTO (OP) — Five
Canadian research centres
have been awarded up to $1
million each over a five-year
period as part of the Torry
Fox Training Centre .pro-
gram to attract young medi-
cal investigators to’ cancer

research, y

The awards were given to
the Cancer Control Agency in
Vancouver; the Manitoba
Cancer Treatment and Re-
search Foundation in Win-
nipeg; the Hospital for Sick
Children and the Ontario
Cancer Institute in Toronto;
and a joint grant to the-Uni
versity of Western Ontario's
Cancer Research Laboratory
and Victoria Hospital Cancer
Ulinic in London, unt,

The Canadian Cancer So-
ciety also announced two new
research programs financed
by the Marathon of Hope.

The Terry Fox Cancer Re-
search Scientist Award will
be given to 10 researchers for
salaries and benefits to allow
full-time research. The Terry
Fox Cancer Research Clerk-
ship Program will provide 32
medical students with up to
$12,000 for research.

16-year-old
was cruisin’
for a bruisin’

CROSS PLAINS, WIS.
(AP) — It wasn't the first
time a 16-year-old boy was
accused of taking his dad's
car for a spin without asking,
but. William Clampitt was
cruisin’ for a bruisin’.

The car Clampitt allegedly
took was equipped with lots.
of buttons and lights and
could make loud noises.

It was a cruiser, and his
father, Robert Clampitt, is
chief of police here.

To make matters worse,
the younger Clampitt did not
have a driver's licence.

The chief ticketed his son
July 1 for driving without a
licence, and the youth
pleaded not guilty recently in
Dane County Circuit Court.

Don Gillman . . he

“] started in a funny way,”
says Don Gillman of his rock
collecting. “It was right after
the war, since I came back

om overseas. I was camping
at Shaw Springs and met
Leah Shaw. :

‘Well, I used to go to school
with her. She had a fabulous
rock collection that she
showed me. That got me
really interested.” ait

Don has been collecting
rocks for a long time now and
his living room and kitchen
boast numerous stone paper-
weights and ornaments.

He picked up a large
smooth rock from his front
room window. “This is ser-
pentine, polished by the
North’ Thompson River.”
Laying it down he picked up
one beside it. “This is fluor-

ite. Yeah,” he said pointing to.

his mouth, “the same stuff
they use for teeth. It’s also
used in smelting. :
He then showed me
gleaming and polished round
table in his living room inlaid
with many different rocks
that he’s collected in B.C.

We Are Proud of

STANLEY HUMPHRIES AWAR|
Barbara Dower,

LEADERS’ CLUB AWARD: -
Burton Campbell

AGGREGATE TROPHY;

Glenn York

LEADERSHIP AWARDS:

Catherine Pellegrin
Olga Samsonof!
Peter Popoff
Corry Ann Barnes

SENIOR SC!

ASTIC AWARDS

Catherine Pelleg
Ruth Shewchuk
Geoff Pincott

Allen Robinson

JUNIOR SCHOLASTIC AWARDS:

Lorraine Schwartzenhauer
Jack Macintosh

SENIOR ATHLETIC AWARDS:

Olga Samsonoff
Allene LeRoy

Bud Cowlin

JUNIOR ATHLETIC AWARDS:

Gail Leitner

George Relkoff

KP. PUBLIC SPEAKING AWARDS:

Corry Ann: Barnes—Senior
Barbara Martin—Junior

SUBJECT AWARDS:

Catherine Pellegrin—Chemistry 91
Ruth Shewchuk—Science 20
Geoff Pincote—Mathematics 91

MINE-MILL SCHOLARSHIP:
Connie Haywood -

AWARD WINNERS

Rock with crystal inside.

Don is completely self-
taught. He's never had a for-
mal course in geology. “I read

books on rocks two or three,

hours a night.” He gave me

the three-minute lesson on —

how rocks are formed. I
learned that there are basi-
cally six different crystal for-
mations. “Most: rocks are
crystals, except obsidian. It
cools too quickly to crystal-
ize. It’s called ‘nature's glass.’

Most of what-he said went

+ Lighted showca:

somewhere over my head,

but Iwas impressed with his:

love: for rocks and his en-
thusiastic interest in them.
‘he’Greeks nkmed most
of the rocks,” he explained.
“ites’ meant rock.” I learned
that ‘rhodo’ means red.
Therefore ‘rhodonite’ is a red
rock. ‘Barrous’ means heavy.
Therefore ‘barite’ is’a very
heavy rock.
Don placed a piece of bar-
rite in. my hands, and I

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s rocks at their best.

“Should auld acquaintance
be for;

And never brought to min’?

Should auld acquaintenance
be forgot

And dyas‘o’ auld lang syne?”

There is nothing so per-
sonal as old schoo! annuals (if
well’ done)’ to renew old
memories and recall old
friends.

I was looking at that 1955
SHSS. “High Wheeler” an-
nual and find it still well
‘arranged, imaginative and
clearly: printed. I am. sure
that my friend and former
pupil, editor Tillie Chevel-
dave, can still look at it with
pride and pleasure. I know I

did.

“A remin to the grad-
uates,” as says in lei
editorial, “of the joys and
achievements of their school”
years. ana an inspiration to
continue’ and renew old
friendships” . . . a challenge
to those. following.

And there they are: Edith
Middlemass, future Liberace;
Jean Ann Hardie, a future in
business or family; Vay
“Slugger” Hawkins, another
businessperson?; Bill Kani-

* gan, the “shutterbug;” John

Soberlak and his sidekick,
Bill “Stiff” Stefoniuk; James
“Colonel” Proud; Barbara
Dower;

Fred Clark — I wonder if
he ever got his Lincoln?; Bob
Brandson; president of the
Students’ Council and future _

Burton Campbell
Known as Bure to most of
e political oracle
paragon of 12A;
distinguished himself by de-
nouncing the Junior-Senior
Students’ Council Bill. Alarm-

nmpenp Plans Notre Dame
and a journalistic career.

vanderstood why the

so named it. He ex-
plained that it is an im-
portant rock, used in X-rays,
“and the heavy mud is used
Ming.” Garnet, another
“green like

cupboard. are spread with
rocks and stones; from the
large and ‘weighty barrite,
the size of a bowling ball, to
the minutist crystal, able to
be seen only with the aid of.
microscope. :

He has a number of rare’
and beautiful stones; linarite

which in all of Canada is only - Stee

found near Kaslo. He owns an
emerald embedded in a piece
of beryl. z

If there's a good gem in a
rock, I asked, how do you get
it out? “Sometimes you can
chop it out or saw it out,” he

“said, “or sometimes you can

soak it in acid.” :

Don opened up a cupboard
and revealed dozens of milk
cartons and cottage cheese
containers full of small pol-

JOHN CHARTERS’

Refiections &
Recollections

accountant, Glen “Yorkie”
York; Elaine “Roberta” Rob-
ertson; Wayne “Leech” Hen-
dy, future forest ranger;

Barclay Creighton; Mar-
guerlte “Fletch” Fletcher;
Roy “Inkie” Englund; Ger-
aldine “Gerry” Guesford, fu-
ture nurse; Mable “Mab”
Berg; Peter “Pope” Popoff, of
whom I have seen much in
recent days; Bill Zeeben, fu-
tuse atest

of anorte col-
of; sports: ¢:

already:a career as “journa-
list” and politician and, jud-
ging by some old columns and
current knowledge, there are
a number of parallels.
There were 2. surprising
number of clubs and teams 26
years ago, for the “Club Car”
section of the annual shows
not only the annual club, sev-
eral music clubs — under
former Imperial Army Band-

legs : E
Fred Horkoff, T.V. expert;

Frances “Fran” Mather, fu-
ture. teacher; Geoff Pincott, -
novelist?; Tillie Cheveldave,

cher;

Edward “Ted”  Killough,
teaching also?; Marjorie
“Margie” Obedkoff, nursing?;’
George “El Decorum” Latta, -
escapee from a pickling jar
and future sports car owner;
Doreen Pitts, track and bas-
ketball star; Connie Hay-"
wood, teacher also?; Dorothy
Kuryluk,, dancer?; Cliffe
Churches, ‘navy?;,

Bud Cowlin, engineering?;
Florence Ceconi, business?; .
Keith “Casey” Cherrington,
engineer?; Gerald Stewart, ©
prospector? and Burton
“Burt” Campbell, politics and
journalism.

While class prophecies and
future ambitions are usually
notoriously inaccurate, I no-
tice that with this class, they
are surprisingly accurate.
Burt Campbell, for example,
who in that year was the .
class valedictorian and - is
described as “ a_ political
oracle and sartorial paragon
of 12A (having) a great af-
finity for pink shirts, bow ties
charcoal jackets and mon-

nalistic career.” .
Burt, the present publisher
of the Castlegar News, has

finds great

thing of
drawers full of it. He teld me
that jade is tinted from black
to white. “Only foolish people
aay that jade is green. It’s not
ltrue. And if it is green it’s
never the same ‘shade of
in.” .
Don: spent a lot of time
gging ‘around: the Seven
Mile Dam sight. during its
various phases of construc-
tion, and came home with
foleated calcite an

CASTLEGAR NEWS, July 19, 1981

From the pages of SHSS ‘High Wheeler’

master, music teacher ad
showman, Ted Eames (his
bell ringers were the first in
the‘province, a library club,
photo elub, film club, drama
elub, service club, my future

teachers club (first. in ‘the

province) and ‘journalism
club, cheer leaders and more
than. a dozen sports teams,
not to mention a school paper
— “The, Hi-Wire,” which fol-

lowed the earlier “News 'n'
Views’ and pre-dated the
later “Tally-Ho.”"

‘We weren't very large :

then, but we took back seats
to no one — and again I look
forward to seeing many of
thom... F,

I gota call from Vancouver

last week, from former music °

teacher Bob Graham. He and
_ his wife; Allan Harvey, (now
retired) and his wife; as well
as Anna Carl and’ Marg
Millican have just gotten,
word and'will be coming to
the’ reunion.

Next’ week we meet the
(shudder) ; 1954s ‘and | after
that,’ a column (with some
outside help) on teams and

sports of 64-50;

inescent crystal

switched on a fluorescent
light box, one that he'd
constructed for a reck show,
and I saw drab rocks glow in
eerie brilliant hues.

Don's rock equipment is a
way of releasing tne hidden
beauty of his specimens. His
tumbler is almost - always
rumbling in a back room. It
takes 28 days of constant
tumbling to smooth down and
shine-a rough agate. Once
polished they are almost ir-

ig . resigtable to touch and hold.

dara:
anite. He picked tp: iplece of |

graphite, the stuff of which
the insides. of pencils are
made, then rubbed his fin-
gers, “youcan get all black on
that stuff.” z

I fingered a piece of soft
soapstone and discovered
why the Eskimos carve it so
willingly. The piece Don had
iwas very soft and I could
practically carve it with my
fingernail.

He had a bright yellow
rock on his shelf which looked

: as though someone had em-

ptied a fountain pen on top of
it. “This is a special rock,” he
said,, picking it up. He ex-
plained that it was a piece of
yellow cancrinite striated
with blue sodalite. :
Don believes that so much
of this earth's beauty is hid-
den to the unobservant pas-
serby. He is amazed that he
used to camp and swim right
on top of so many precious
minerals and _ beautiful
stones. “I'd’swim in lakes and
didn't even notice the rocks
underneath and all along the
roads you go on every day.”
Rocks themselves have
hidden beauty. A plain gray ~
cumbersome stone, when cut
in half can be filled with clus-
ters of blue and green lum:

Don showed me his polish-
er wheel which has trans-
formed many a rough gem
into a piece of jewelry. The
last piece of equipment that I
looked at was his rock saw.

admits, “you take ome a lot
of junk for anything-good.”"

Don was born and raised in
Kamloops when that ‘town
had a population of 3,000. He
never collected rocks as a

lecting.”.
Den started work at the
_ Bank ‘of ‘Commerce “and
spent 13 years in 25 or 26
different branches — all the
way to accountant in Ver-
non.”: With 13 years behind
him, Don took a:year out and
“eamped around tho hills‘and
lived on the country:”
“After a short stint mining
on:Vancouver Island, he went
overseas for six years during
the war. When he returned
home he-married Pat. The
two built-a home in North

tive members of the Selkirk
Rock and Mineral Club and
‘also the Dewdney Rock Club
in Trail which is a part of the
B.C. Gem and Mineral So-
ciety. Don has helped to put
on rock shows at the college
and also at the National Ex-
hibition Centre.

Don also likes tinkering
around with motors, cars and
electrical -equipment when
he’s not cataloguing. rocks.
He likes to get out and fish
and has a few fly-fishing
awards to his credit.

‘What equipment is needed,

.I asked, ‘for the ot

rock hound? “You don't need
anything to start. You just
have to look for rocks.”.

So much’ of: this. earth's
beauty is hidden from view,
‘and Don Gillman. is one per-

son who willingly digs to find °
it