Alma College - Almafilian Yearbook (St Thomas, Ontario Canada)

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We frequently see Kay Newell as she is taking music from Mrs. Green Diana Leonard is at home in London, England. Margaret Bechtel is taking secretarial work at Westervelt Business College, London. Tomoko Katsurai is in New York taking Fine Art. Betty Easton is taking a medical course at McGill. Jean Ferguson is attending a Business College in Flint, Mich. Lynn Thompson is working in Windsor. Marg Whiteman is attending Albert College, Belleville. Zella Cochrane is attending school at home. Marion Saxon is completing some second year university subjects. Elizabeth Hone is attending Normal School in London. Catherine Gould is teaching piano and continuing her music with Mrs. Green. Netta Stewart is back at Alma on the staff teaching music. We hope that this information has in some way told you what you wished to know about our last year Alma daughter ggadgates. ve yn og en. IQ 21

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Alumnae Everyone likes to know something about last year's graduates and we hope that this will be the needed information. Attending Western this year are: Molly Smyth, Helen Morningstar, Marg Baldwin, Marg Howe, and Eleanor McIntyre. Those attending Brescia Hall this year are: Mary Harvey, Joan Bowman, and Doris Morrison. Ruth Baragar started this year but we are sorry to hear that she is home because of illness. Those in training to be nurses are Betty Ivy--Brantford, Eileen Mel- ton--St. Thomas, and Jean Burgess--Victoria, London. We are sorry to hear that both Ruth Simpson and Edna Aulsebrook have stopped training because of ill-health and are now at home. Flora Love is doing radio work at Edmonton, Alberta. Lorna Bartley and Kay Irish are going to Oakwood Collegiate, Toronto. Theodora Bryce is attending Mt. Allison University. Jean Boggs and Kay Hagmeier are attending Varsity. Wynne Broughton is attending the Conservatory of Music in Detroit. Lynette Dawson is at Wayne University in Detroit. Those working in offices are Viola Stansell, Hettie Coyle, Audrey Munce, Marg Webb, Audrey Stadtlander, Ruth Young, Mary Butler, Mar- guerite Fair, Peggy Jones, Betty Todd, and Helen Hanselman. Staying at home this year are: Doris Winder, Audrey Braden, Helen Ferguson, Thressia McAgy, Dorothy Hickling, Lilian Paton, Myrtle Doonan, and We are glad Dot Norris, Jane Cutler Peggy Lowe. to have back at Alma this year Annie Corp, Lucille Brown, and Kay Hall. is doing dramatic work in St. Thomas. Mary Billings is taking music at home in Brazil. Helen Hopper is an assistant in the Alma Office and Marjorie Mulligan is head of the Alma typing department. 20

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9 Literary ieag? Inspirational Reflections As we approach the end of the school year and graduation with its attendant ceremonial and solemnity, perhaps the question upper- most in our minds is this, HWhat has Alma College done for me?H True enough we have learned certain skills and bits of know- ledge, we have acquired certain attitudes of mind toward life as a wholeg some of us have even earned the much coveted bits of paper called diplomas. We have achieved the realization of our wildest hopes in passing those nerve-racking examinations. But all these skills, arts and diplomas mean comparatively little if they are un- accompanied by an enrichment of our personalities. During this year at Alma, we have had splendid opportunity for study, healthy recreation, and good fellowship. Our lives have been surrounded by beauty in nature, in art, in music, in literature, and, more important than all these, in human nature. Most of us can read- ily recall instances when our lives have been touched by the beauty and radiance of the Christian personality of some member of the Fac- ulty. But what of all this, unless we determine to continue in this quest for beauty after we pass through the friendly portals of this good old building? Let us try to make our lives like a book I once read, entitled, nBeautiful Girlhood.H We do not have to write books about ourselves in order that others may read about us, because there is no book more widely read than the unconscious pages we write every day by our daily actions. We are books in ourselves! There is joy in the sound of the very phrase, 'Beautiful Girlhood.n What satisfaction ours would be if, as a group of young women, we should strive to attain the Beautiful, forsaking all things that are ugly and sordid! And let us not be unmindful of the fact that, though we may travel the world over seeking beauty we shall never find it unless we take it with us. Above all dear friends, let us not for a moment lose sight of the goal -- nlet us not,N as Dr. Riddell puts it, Hfind beauty and lose God.n Wilma Samlalsingh. In Friendship's Garden Friendship came into the garden of a heart, and lo, the garden bloomed' Now the flowers in that garden are brightg colour ripens into melody. Music there is sweeter, because friendship touched the heart stringsg vibrant notes swell rich and glorious. A Presence fills that garden until clear pools of thought cleanse the soul. Inspiration like a rare perfume enfolds all who enter there. Friendship breathed into the gar den of a heart, and behold, there was Life! Helen M. Hardy. 22