Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Fall 1968, p. 17

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Dr. John T. Powell, Direclor, School at Physical Education, University of Guelph [centre] with â€" tell to right â€" Barbara DeVisscher, Elgin CoUnly; Patricia Clark. Dvndas County; Magda Van Ballcgooie. Thunder Bay District; and Barbara Wing, Leeds County. Dr. John Powell "You are a chosen few." Dr. John Powell. Director of the School of Physical Education. University of Guelph. said to the delcautes ut the 4â€"H Homemakers‘ Conference, in Memo- rial Hall at the University of Guelph. “You are the chosen few because you already know what goals and values are. That is why you are here. for you have had goals and values to he in the privileged position of being a delegate at this Conference." Dr. Powell then invited the girls to ztcconr puny him on a journey through life. He said. “i ask you to think big, think out of your tiny group, your village, town. city. province. even out of Canada. Think from a World point of View. “Life in many ways is a new trail. but the trail that is life has no destination. for on the arrival at a certain goal we find another ridge to cross. Eventually we realize that ‘lravclling hopefully’ is the ultimate goal. “Sometimes we think that getting a degree. securing a scholarship, making a team or get- ting that job is the most important goal in the World. but as each goal is won, another be- comes paramount. This is life â€" a suCeession of struggles with hope of accomplishment." FALL 1¢68 Dr. Powell quoted the poem. “A Song oi the Road" hy Robert E outs Sleiunwn ()n cwry httnd the ronds begin. And people work “till [Clll therein; Hut wlicreso‘er the highu'nu trend. He sure there’s nothng all the end. Then lollou you wherever hie The trmclling mountains ol the ski W Dr let the streams in civil mode Direct your choice upon the road; For one and all. or high or low Will lead you where you wish to go: And one ttntl all. go night rind dny Over the hills and fur :twuy. "Often in life we have need lor guides." l)r. Powell said. "The good guide is one who has been over the trail and know; the pitfalls.“ Dr. Powell continued. "We cannot look ahead 250“ years and make predictiom .'l\ to the status of mun. but we C‘ln look lmck. We have reason to assume that than will not change very much physically, emotionally. or socially. All of our technical advances have not changed man. the man at the centre of our being. He clings to the same likes and dislikes. 17

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