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Page 2 EMSB Express Vol. 6 Nº 1 Fall 2004
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APPOINTMENTS
A number of in-school administrator
appointments were made for
the 2004-2005 academic year. Schools
getting new principals are: Roslyn
Elementary School in Westmount
(James McMorran); St. Raphael in
Ahunstic (Carol Morrison); John F.
Kennedy Business Centre (Keith
Imhoff); John Caboto Elementary
School (Gregory Lang); Galileo Adult
Centre in Montreal North (Teresa
Germano-Saucier); Elizabeth Ballantyne
Elementary School in Montreal West
(Katherine Snow); and Edward Murphy
Elementary School in Hochelaga-
Maisonneuve (Joseph Marra) … Three
sets of schools have been twinned,
meaning they will have the same
principal: McLearon Elementary
School in Pointe-aux-Trembles and Paul
VI in Montreal North (Pina Benvenuto-
Rizzi); St. Monica and St. Ignatius of
Loyola in N.D.G. (Maria Di Perna);
Bancroft and St. Patrick in the Plateau
(Artemis Maravei);
and John Grant
and Wagar in
Côte Saint-Luc
(Michael Cristofaro)
… Schools getting
new viceprincipals
are:
John F. Kennedy
High School in St.
Artemis Maravei
Michel (Deborah
Nagy); LaurenHill
Academy in St. Laurent (Sollie
Gliksman); Rosemount High School
(Constance Forese); James Lyng Adult
Centre in St. Henri (John Szuber);
Shadd Business Centre in N.D.G. (Alice
Sideropoulos); and Dante Elementary
School in St. Léonard (Rosaria Trupia).
Returning from leaves of absence
are: Pela Nicoletopoulos at LaurenHill
and Jean Alexandre at Parkdale
Elementary School in St. Laurent …
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EMSB Assistant Director of Adult
Education and Vocational Services
Cosmo Della Rocca has been appointed
president of PROCEDE (Provincial
Organization of Continuing Education
Directors English).
RETIREMENTS
Judy Simpson
EMSB in-school
administrators
who retired at
the end of the
last academic
year were: Judy
Simpson (Roslyn);
Waguih Tabet
(Paul VI) ; Filippo
Di Paola (St.
Raphael); Richard
Wieczorek (McLearon); and Charles
Campbell (John F. Kennedy Business
Centre) … The annual EMSB Retirees
Dinner will be held this fall at the
Omni Hotel …
HONOURS
Bronze medal winner Vitalli Cerencov (right),
shown here with his teacher Chris Honce.
Rosemount Technology Centre
(RTC) cabinetmaking student Vitalli
Cerencov won a bronze medal at the
Canadian Skills Olympics in Winnipeg,
marking the first time someone from
the EMSB had reached such a plateau.
Mr. Cerencov, 33, won the award in
the post-secondary category and
competed against cabinetmakers
from Red River College in Winnipeg,
the Northern Alberta Institute
of Technology in Edmonton, the
Southern Alberta Institute of
Technology in Calgary and Cabinetmakers
from Colleges in British
Columbia. The native of Maldova
will graduate in October … The EMSB
honoured 30 of its employees who
have attained 25 years of service at a
special reception that was held at the
Complexe Le Baron in St. Léonard.
About 85 people attended the sixth
annual event, which paid tribute
to staff who started their careers
back in 1979. The honourees were
presented with watches as a thankyou
gift by EMSB Chairman Dominic
Spiridigliozzi. Background music was
provided by the FACE String Quartette,
which played a selection of classical
pieces throughout the event … EMSB
Commissioner Michèle Ciampini was
one of the recipients of the Claude
Hébert Award from the Comité
de gestion de la taxe scolaire de
l’Ile de Montréal. Ms. Ciampini was
nominated by James Lyng High
School, where she previously served
as chair of the governing board.
The award recognizes the importance
accorded to education in disadvantaged
areas by the Comité. Ms.
Ciampini received a cheque of $1,000
to be used to support or develop
a project in the area for which she
was recognized … Deux élèves de
la Commission scolaire English-
Montréal (CSEM) ont remporté des
médailles d’argent au 22e concours du
Prix d’excellence de la Chambre de
commerce du Montréal métropolitain.
Yining Xu de l’Académie Royal West
a été un des lauréats de la catégorie
Sciences/Mathématiques tandis que
Julie Matlin de l’Institut culinaire
St Pius X a remporté une médaille au
concours de formation professionnelle
... L’école primaire Gardenview de
Saint-Laurent s’est placée au deuxième
rang au concours de mathématiques
pour les écoles primaires, organisé
par l’Association québécoise des
enseignants de mathématiques
(AQEM). Quatre-vingt écoles se sont
inscrites à ce 34e concours annuel qui
vise les élèves du Cycle 3 (5e et 6e
année). Les élèves ont passé des
examens spéciaux dans leurs écoles
respectives et les épreuves ont été
corrigées par l’AQEM. Des prix
individuels ont été décernés aux
élèves de Gardenview, Sinclair Laird,
F.A.C.E. et Dalkeith. Vingt écoles de
la CSEM ont participé au concours …
Stéphanie Béland, élève du programme
de mécanique automobile du Centre
de carrières Laurier Macdonald, a
reçu le prix de la Centrale des
syndicats du Québec (CSN) dans le
cadre du concours provincial Chapeau,
Les Filles … Cristina D’Ettorre,
Tania Pacheco and Vanessa Barkley,
presently Secondary IV students at
Laurier Macdonald High School
in St. Léonard, were grand prize
winners of the Butterfly 208 contest.
Butterfly 208 winners Cristina D’Ettorre,
Tania Pacheco and Vanessa Barkley
Their rap song, entitled “Hate Around
The World,” won first prize in the
Group Visual Art and Multimedia
category.
SCHOOL CALENDAR
2005-2006
The EMSB already has in place
a school calendar for 2005-2006.
Classes will begin next year on
Aug. 31, 2005 and conclude on
June 23, 2006. The Christmas break
will commence on Mon. Dec. 26, with
classes resuming Mon. Jan 9. March
Break will be from March 6 to 10.
Lice Patrol Plan
includes regular
head checks
By Stuart Nulman
After a series of
persistent and repeated
outbreaks of
lice at the elementary
level at Royal Vale School
in N.D.G., it was decided that
something had to be done to put an
end to it.
“The elementary sector parents and
administration decided that we’d stop
scratching our heads over this one and
start a pro-active initiative,” said Alice
Buchanan, the school’s vice principal.
During the 2003-2004 school year, Royal
Vale experienced outbreaks of lice and
nits amongst its elementary students,
with severe outbreaks in a kindergarten
class and a Grade 1 class where more
than half the students were found
to have it. And despite two schoolwide
head checks, there were further
recurring incidents of lice.
Lice, or “pediculosis,” is a condition
in which tiny insects infest the hair
and lays eggs, called nits, that end
up sticking to the hair very close to
the scalp. Lice usually affects children
in institutional social settings, such
as schools, camps and day care centres.
It is spread via direct contact amongst
children or indirectly on items such as
hats, combs, hairbrushes and headphones.
One of the first signs of lice
is constant itching and scratching of
the head.
Royal Vale proposed that a Lice
Patrol Plan be initiated, which will
include a team of trained parents who
will volunteer their time to conduct
head checks three times a year after
major holidays, as well as conduct
ongoing head checks on a need-to basis.
A call line would also be established
to offer support and information to
parents whose children are found with
lice or nits.
The idea for the plan came from
Roslyn Elementary School in Westmount.
Four years ago, the school was struck
with a serious recurrence of lice. What
made matters more complicated was
that parents felt they were unprepared
to tackle this problem when it came
to treating head lice properly, as well
as maintain the dignity of the children
who were identified with it.
A group of determined parents
decided to take action to eradicate lice
in the school, as well as confront the
problem of the stigma that’s associated
when a child gets lice. They proposed
a plan to establish a Volunteer Parent
Lice Patrol Brigade, in which volunteer
parents were recruited, trained and
informed about how to detect lice and
follow up on individual cases. The
plan was proposed to and eventually
adopted by the school’s Health, Safety
and Security Committee and the school
council. Since then, the Volunteer Parent
Lice Patrol Brigade has conducted a
system of weekly head checks in every
classroom at Roslyn.
Due to the success of the Roslyn
program, other EMSB schools like Royal
Vale are developing their own initiatives
to combat recurring head lice that
are based on the model established
by Roslyn’s Volunteer Parent Lice
Patrol Brigade.
Continued – please see ‘LICE’ on page 6