ANNOUNCEMENTS - WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9
- Earth Club meeting at lunch (12:20-12:50 pm) TODAY in Mme Krause’s classroom. Come and join us if you want to be a part of helping the planet and learning to be more environmentally friendly! If you are interested, come and put your name on the sign up sheet on Mme Krause’s classroom door.
- Sr handbell rehearsal at lunch. Grade 5 handbells after school.
- Dungeons and Dragons Club for grades 6, 7, 8 and 9 will be meeting today after school from 3:15 to 5:00 in the Learning Commons.
- The early years committee invites everyone to wear pink, red , and white on Monday February 14th.
- Good luck to the Jr. Boys Basketball team in their game vs. Meridian Heights today after school.
In Honour of Black History Month (We recognize the following…)
Honourable Lincoln M. Alexander
The Honourable Lincoln M. Alexander was born in 1922 in Toronto. He served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War, between 1942 and 1945. He was educated at Hamilton’s McMaster University where he graduated in Arts, and Toronto’s Osgoode Hall School of Law where he passed the bar examination in 1965. Mr. Alexander was appointed a Queen’s Counsel and became a partner in a Hamilton law firm from 1963 to 1979. He was the first Black person to become a Member of Parliament in 1968 and served in the House of Commons until 1980. He was also federal Minister of Labour in 1979–1980.
In 1985, Lincoln Alexander was appointed Ontario’s 24th Lieutenant Governor, the first member of a racialized community to serve as the Queen’s representative in Canada. During his term in office, which ended in 1991, youth and education were hallmarks of his mandate. He then accepted a position as Chancellor of the University of Guelph. In 1996, he was chair of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and was also made Honorary Commissioner for the International Year of Older Persons Ontario celebrations.
The Honourable Lincoln Alexander was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada and to the Order of Ontario in 1992, and in June 2006, he was named the “Greatest Hamiltonian of All Time.”
Mr. Alexander died on October 19, 2012, at age 90.
On December 2013, the Province of Ontario proclaimed January 21 (Lincoln Alexander’s birthday) as "Lincoln Alexander Day" and the following year, the Day was nationally recognized.