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OSSTF District 11- Thames Valley
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District 11 Office |
Education Matters Online
Recognitions
Volume 2, Issue 4: May 10, 2004
Andy Berghuis
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Berghuis won for the Adult Learner category for Prose or Poetry division of this prestigious award. He was sponsored by his teacher, Dianne Ward.
This is the 17th consecutive year in which the Federation has presented the Drysdale Awards. The award, a cash prize of $300 and a framed certificate, was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Provincial Assembly of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation in Toronto before more than 600 cheering members and guests of OSSTF.
OSSTF President Rhonda Kimberley-Young and Minister of Education Gerard Kennedy congratulated Berghuis for his prose entry entitled, "Freedom in a Book".
The awards were presented for poem or essay submissions in six prose/poetry categories:
 | intermediate grades 9-10 academic |
| intermediate grades 9-10 applied/essential; |
| senior grades 11-12 university; |
| senior, grades 11-12 college/workplace; |
| French; and |
| adult learner. |
And for creative entries there are two categories:
| visual arts; |
| French or English video/audio/animation. |
Entries are judged at four successive levels: school, district, regional and provincial. The competition is open to all Ontario public high school students. This year's theme was Appreciating One's Freedom.
The contest is named after Marion Drysdale, who died of cancer in 1983 just after retiring from the position of secretary to the general secretary of OSSTF. Drysdale was noted for her keen interest in reading and history.
