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"PAGE 12 sco'my cmk News, Wednesday, November 4. 1937 By Stephen J. Beecrot't ' 'This gives me a nice warm feeling!" It isn't often one sees Deputy Mayor Jim Bar- low speaking from~the carefully. The opening of . new Janet Uee School in Upper Stoniy Creek was the ex»; tion, however. Peg: saw the real JimB '_ -- the life and so 1' - many a stag, the o ' , ing member of a outgoing club -- th 'i illTllSt Club of $th . Creek and the preside 3 of the city's oldest liowle ing alley. . 5 He had his papa: ' speech, carefully by his secretary at'ci hall. He also had speech carefully pre' pared for the regio t chairman, Bill Sear ; :.. .,.~. -' r . who was unable to present. , . Gesture Mr. Barlow carequ 5h/r/ey Col/Ins MPP said thal Gordon H. Dean read [he Prepar ;_ had been in office when decision was made to speeches and then fold'- Md lanet Lee School. -- 5 TAFthoto. ed them and shovefl _._._L 7 {real speech," he said, -' taking off his glasses. ALWAYS LAST "The deputy--mayor is always last when it comes to speeches, but it doesn't matter," he quipped. "As a school trustee I worked very ' hard With (former trus- tee) Pat Foye to make this dream come true. " ' He said that being deputy-mayor of Stoney Creek was "rather like being the vice-president . of the United States. ' "He only gets to go to . openings and things like that when the president isn't in town.. Thank God the mayor wasn't in town tonight. I'm glad to be here. " That was when Mr. Barlow said a school opening gave him "a nice warm feeling." jthem into his jacket ' _ ,pocket, "Now I can make my He urged the students to remember that day. They would, he said, think back to their days at Janet Lee School with V "gratitude and happi- ness." TRIBUTE Shirley Collins, Wentworth East MPP, paid tribute to her predecessor, Gordon H. Dean, who was in the audience. "That gentleman was in office when the deci- sion was made to build this school," said Ms. Collins. "I hope you haveimany, many years of good use out of this facility." Trustee Doug Conley reminded the audience that a new public school in Upper Stoney Creek ' had been one of the planks of his election ' Cheerfl Politician platform. .' Deputy--Mayor lim Bar/ow was obviously enjoy- AnOthel' one Of {fly f [/73 himself at the opening of lanet Lee School. goals was a new high "-- STAFthoto. K r He talked of pride for ' the school, the fine teachers who worked there ("most of whom I know quite well") and the importance of loyalty. "I look forward to all the good things flowing frbm this school," said Mr. Coulter. Janet Lee Davis, granddaughter of the woman after whom the school is named, was in- ;school up here. Well, l , J we're still working on '. Ithat one," he said. {3 Bob Coulter, former g; principal of Mount Al-- bion School and then Billy Green School, said .' that when he started teaching at Mount Al- : bion in September, 1956, "there were just empty fields where we're sitting now." Mr. Coulter, who is ' _ now superintendent of ' elementary schools for troduced and the Erland Wentworth County, Lee Museum Home made one of the thO-- Committee gave a » isophical speeches for .. which he is famous. ' LOOK FOR GOOD He urged his listeners 0 "try to look for omethingfl cox, ' _ . ,7 ut of this School ea%%' lazily by looking for load would they ENE" 80110018. The principal is nce good. he Sald' Barry Jackson. r presentation about Janet Lee and her husband Erland who were re-- sponsible for founding the Women's Institute. ' Students at the school have'beenwmov'ed from Billy Green, Mount Al- bion and Tapleytown