Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute - Breezes Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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Agnes Feely—Paderewski’s rival. Christine Hallgrimson—M.A., B.C., F.P., C.O.D. Mona Holgate—Scrub woman. Ina Hume—Gossip. Edna Johnson—Interpretative dancer. Kathleen Lawrence—Cleopatra’s rival (?) Eileen Mathews—Lady of leisure. Annie McEwan—Dress model (?) Frances MacNair—Key tickler. Jean Murdoch—Manicurist. Gladys Palmer, Blanche Palmer, Florence Palmer—The Palmer girls have just one ambition between the three: to be the best little girls they can be. Annie Sinclair—A shouting politician. Mildred Storsater—Farmer’s wife. Joyce Sullivan—Famous cartoonist. Doris Waite—Dress designer. Hazel Warren—Signpainter. The members of Room 55 are hoping to be able to complete their book entitled, “With Allonby in the Back Seat and Lawrence in the Front,” before the close of the term. ROOM 56 FANTASIES Margaret Hutcheson —The blue-eyed, curly-headed chemistry wizard of Room 56. Gunhild Carlson —The beautiful Swedish maiden; plays great basketball and is a real sport. Katherine Queen —Our secretary; is following in father’s footsteps and will be a future Conservative member of parliament; she was runner up in the oratorical contest. Ethel Hubbard —Our future Galli Curci; first in the soprano solo and duet in the music festival. Marjorie Dunderdale —Vice-president; always there when wanted, and is the popular geometry genius. Ruby Palmason —Her hair matches her name; Winnipeg Beach’s prize product. Louise Bewick — A nice girl who comes from “Merrie England,” where everything is pretty. Sadie Robbins —Infant prodigy; never opens a book, but is always first in class. Helga Johannesson —Great violin virtuoso and a hard working member of the class. Betty Francis —A little girl with a big brain who never misses anything; is never late and never absent. Frances Fox —“Breezes” representative; a mistress of sarcasm and wit; upholds the opposition side in Lit. and Comp, with C.C.; has a fine bass voice. Irene McAllister , Eva Swatland, Audrey King —Go to these when you want to lose your appendix; all very conscientious and never liable to give you the wrong medicine. Thelma Wallman —Bosom friend of the future Galli Curci, her secretary no doubt. 21

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In athletics, with keen rivalry and good sportsmanship predominant, we have had a splendid year. On school field day twenty-six points gave us the room pennant and several of our boys did well in the Inter- High. After resting on our laurels, we were represented by B. Sammons on the school hockey team and expect he will display his baseball talents shortly. We had a good basket ball aggregation, but did not gain any honours.. We hope our lost baseball game is not a bad omen, in the inter-room baseball. A four team league in the room has afforded us good basket-ball and volley-ball rivalry and we are beginning our baseball schedule in the same manner. We have also taken a part in the school’s musical activities. We have two excellent musicians—Ephraim Cohen, our pianist, and Fred Grinke, violinist—who received high awards in the Musical Festival. In the “Pirates of Penzance,” we comprised half of the boys’, chorus and also had two stars in it—Ted Summerfield, our ferocious heavy mustached Pirate King, and Samuel, his lieutenant, played by Harvey Powell. Other members were pirates or police. The smallest police¬ man—who was one of the great laugh creators of the play—was one of our boys, Jimmy Goodman. In the recent oratorical contests, a second Demosthenes and a future Edmund Burke were disclosed in the form of J. Leishman and F. Gilbert, both of 53. Naturally they both reached the finals, but there gave way to the Grade XII representative of the fair sex. Never¬ theless, they upheld the reputation of this renowned room in excellent style. In our race for “eddication,” L. Cannon, our big gun, always comes first. Second to him comes L. Johns, cartoonist and chewing gum fiend, with secretarial Charlie Cowperthwaite in third place. Scholar¬ ships are their meat, so Beware. Among the remaining 53’s are such famous fellas as Ted Summerfield, chemist and dancing sheik; Reuben Groves, Greek theologian; George Seater, village cut up; the “late” Beauford Gerrie; Shirley Sellar, 73-inch dwarf; and the “widely” known Harold Haid. Class Question—If examinations come can supp’s be far behind ? (For teachers only.) ROOM 55 Futuristic Impressions Anice Allonby—Champion athlete. Barbara Baird—Barber of high degree. Anna Bachman—Miss Winnipeg (?) Laura Bjarnason—Great historian. Margaret Bourns—Elocutionist. Beulah Braid—Mathematician. Beatrice Brooks—Hair dresser. Irene Carter—Famous prima donna. Gladys Chambers—Child’s pancake flapper. Wilda Crerar—Public speaker; mostly speaker. Kay Donnelly—American Venus (????) Minnie Epp—Club women. 20

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Vida Barret Hamilton —Irish aristocrat who has all the nice things that belong to the aristocracy. Christina Steele —Caused a sensation at a toboggan party by breaking her neck—no, her ankle. Eileen Christie — Another singer; class librarian, and future pianist of the Capitolians. Gwen. Carter —A Girl Guide; always does her daily good deed (homework). Vivian Black —Hundred-yard sprinter; full of “wise cracks.” Muriel • Kent —Good at soccer (sock her), but all right otherwise. Dorothy Pierce —Our terpsichorean nymph; disciple of Yentelle Fred. Christina Horn —Good little bad girl frae “Bonnie Scotland,” dinna say a word against her ain countree. Marie Sloan —Good at anything, especially geometry; is never late. Catherine Griffiths —“Flaming Youth”; keenest basketball player of the age, for her size. Dorothy Paulson —The tall blond beauty that you hear about in novels. She dances like an angel and glides instead of walking. Grace Carpenter —The human volcano; very much in action. Cherry Crawford —President; the feminine D’Arcy McGee and the future author of the great Irish novel; green is her favorite color. Hazel Gordon —Old-fashioned beauty, curls and all; “mighty lak a rose;” always first in class, when Sadie isn’t. Caroline Watling —Not as fast as she looks; never catches up with herself. Lillian Furney —Glee Club pianist; general favourite; much praised by the festival adjudicators; sports captain. Lola Smith —Future prima donna of the D’Oyly Carte Co., long hair and everything; secretary of the school. Eileen Ferguson —Fine basketball centre; never says much, but she gets there. ROOM 58, 12A, “THE WHISPERING GALLERY” We are undoubtedly the finest pupils in the school—in our own estimation. Some of us, of course, are possessed of minor eccentricities, such as coming in late, neglecting our homework, and —“horrors” whispering across the aisles between periods; but that “doesn’t make any difference.” Our slight faults we strive to correct; we realize that “life is serious,” that it is “not all pleasure,” and that we “as Grade XII’s should set an example to the lower grades.” Our “academic” duties are most diligently observed, but at times we become conscience-stricken and ask ourselves, “Is there any reason why we cannot do better work?” As to our athletic endeavours, our gynmastic feats at noon-hour speak for themselves; there is, of course, a consequent slight derangement of the objects in the room, entailing the scattering about of chalk and the breakage of a few plants which, from lack of attention, have become dry to the point of brittleness. However, considering all things together, we are really an excellent class, and, as “genius borders on insanity,” we are elated by the hope that therein lies the solution of all our difficulties. We have only to persuade the teachers of our genius and the day is won. 22