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I Byl’eggyl‘oster 3.“?45 When school closed for the year last week, it was the end ofan era at St. Mary’s School on Pine Street South. Sister Shirley O'Rourke, 56, the last leaching nun in Port Hope, retired from herJob of 33 years. And my how times have changed. When Sister Shirley started teaching in 1962, sisters still were full black tloor- length habits to the floors "I remember having 45 Grade 55 in my class and the rows were close together," she said. “I had a cross hanging down one side (of the habit) and a cincture (a rope belt with tassles on the end) on the other side. They would catch on the desks and I could hardly get down the aisles." By 1967 the long black robes had been replaced, first by shorter versions of the habit in blue, grey or black: Later the nuns were allowed to wear ordinary street clothes. Vast changes have also happened in the classroom, she said, from children sit- ting in desks in neat rows, learning the same things at the same time, to students learning at their own pace and working in small groups. "Society has changed. People are living differently," Sister Shirley said. "There is more Violence on (television) and in the world.’ When she entered the convent in Fetcrborougli in 1956, nuns were either teachers or nurses, she said. “People couldn't support themselves at teaching, so we did it." For many years nuns teaching in prir vats schools were unpaid, and those working for school buards received 85 per cent of what other teachers earned. Grady ually religious teachers' wages icaclied pat. The trend {or nuns o son's the coin- munity in other \\’EI_ Lli.iii (Crlflllng in schools is universal, shr said when She started touchii'ig iii PL‘LCrlJDl'OUgl] there were 50 teaching sisters and now llIL‘lC is i only one lllClC. i l As well as \(‘tlflllll‘g ill St \ltiij ‘> tor lllfi’ last 12 years, Sisie: Sliiili curd tl.\ i “8‘ principal 0ftl.t‘ tumor. 'rioiil [or [our yeais, Sht: taught in Ottriwti tnr l2 tears and spent a ytuii matt'illllL‘ in a l'hltll’c \ lir lagc iii Labradoz. One at her most Vii-id iiieniiirirs 0i 5: Maiy" Salmul IS lllt‘ mm mm ii,.irs .igu wliwi tho srliool ll.]Ll l0 Iii mairiiaimi .lllt‘l‘ a g..s tin ‘ ii.s ruptul‘t‘tl diiriiit: ruiistitii tion on l’ine Strr‘t‘t l' [miners toid tii ltllxti till til [lit .tiitii'nts [U Om Lad\' iii \l y tliiirti tlir \\'l\r‘ll thiz wajdisu Llecnir‘d unmitt‘ iiii. ind h' called [0 ttikc Lllt‘ Jill \iitii'gswrs to St Anthony‘s School on lam-1m Rind Fond farewell â€" Guide 2 students rt! St. Mary’s School said goodbye tn Sister Shirley O‘Rourke with a big mks. Whon radon gas invaded St Mai) her this yctir students onre again had to he moved [0 St Antliniiy’s tor a week, Sister Shirley will be moving to Toronto from the convent at 168 Walton St lgimr this summer At one time It) iiiiiis lIVL‘Cl in the convent and laugh: at this st.litiiil but their numbers have LlWlll- (“Cd to just four With so few rcsidt’uts. llll‘l’L‘ is a possibility the large brink lioiisc, liirriierly O‘t'nt‘d by the Burnham family. Will be sold shn said ' Tlii: SISLLIIS ot‘St .losrrih l‘avc lived in Ll|ti ltiigt' homo for lllt‘. l; t '10 years Wliilt: SlSltll’ Shirley is retiring Front St ,'\l.ir;.' slit is not planning m Sit bud»: .inti tint lici led! up 'L' tltini: lllt iiii‘ thing ut'cry ddy of iiiy lift- and I promised myselt cvcn' dzii would bi: (lllfCrr‘Yil when l {ClllCLL ' slit V said Lllt‘ will not be diil‘i for the sister who > treats in TUlUVlLU 4: her base [or \‘illulllt’ . \‘ii'L .ii scvcra (Alli She I] mth Frglish IN ti sewiid lti Slt‘l’S .it [lll’ Hospital of iin. uri‘t vi .\ti kids iil’il ii l' ' . v in _ s3» l,t>l l‘iiesditmi'trrr‘ mi PJYi‘l".[<Jl’Ll Sllttl: ms i: it \‘i.m \V lilt‘Wt‘ll pm}. lhc 'F lii‘i‘r. :i-l :0 'i'ipr: li‘li‘ i Sirl; Cllllt‘llfll r t'Dlll<CS at Jrs Il' HOUSE, 1 li inc toi ‘i~:ur Siirli \ J it il‘r s'i‘ii ll v ivi [in HQ? ‘ oar» Pliam by Ted Amide" 3w)? 1 S a it: a s‘ The income tax 011 this date In 1917, the fin! Cnnadtan income tax was imposed. It began at 4 per cent on inrosz exceeding 32.000. in the use of unmarried men and childless widowers. A superrtm also kicked iii: 2 per cent on incomes of 36 000310900. risr ing to 2"» per cent of incomes greater than $00.0th Ottawa estimated it would misc Slsrmillion to S20~rnilliun. to fight the Great War The Globe. WPlcnmA ing the “belated more to distribute the burdens of the conflith iiiuri: equitably, said “let the mobilimtmn of the re sourt‘es of the country proceed.