London Normal School - Spectrum Yearbook (London, Ontario Canada)

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llllllllllllllllIllllIlllllllllllllllllll GC 3 1833 01854 2255 971.302 L84LNT, 1941 To the Masters and Instructors who, in the short space of seven months, have taught them by precept and example that culture is not a factor of life but a manner of livingg that education is not a storing of knowledge but an unfolding of characterg that the children of today are the citizens of tomorrow and that happiness is achieved in contributing to the lives of others- The Students of the London Normal School Respectfully Dedicate The Spectrum, IQ4I. L Ava J A .. Jlly Q!W7? L

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Page T To the Class of 1940-41 CMOUR year at Normal School has been a memorable one, a year in which our Empire has been engaged almost singlefhanded in the most titanic and destructive war of all time. It has been an anxious and a trying year for all, realizing as we do, that the sinister forces of the enemy are threatening all those things in life which we prize most highly. You will long remember the feeling of relief you experienced on many critical mornings when the watchman from the tower announced by radio or in headlines, All5s well. You will never forget the thrills of pride that came to all Britons, from time to time, at news of glorious exploits on the sea or in the air. Along with your compatriots overf seas you carried on with thumbs upf, and with a staunch faith in the future. Aims and purposes, principles and skills had to be mastered. This was your job. A year such as this cannot but have brought us a valuable discipline. lt should produce a new scale of values, helping us to place first things first. We should have a better appreciation of priceless rights and privileges which we had formerly taken for granted. Freedom is a birthright of the Briton but it needs to be jealously guarded and defended. We have had a good lesson in facing disappointment and disaster with courage and resolution. We should also have learned that one cannot live the good life in a social vacuum, progress, as well as safety, depends upon cofoperation. These life lessons must prove invaluable equipment for you as teachers. The Normal School Staff are concerned not so much that you have learned certain facts or that you have acquired certain devices or tricks of the profession, but rather that you have clearly grasped the importance of training good citizens in the miniature society of your school. We do covet for you the mastery of those general principles that will make your work purposeful and intelligent. We could wish for you that you may not lose those line enthusiasms which so many of you revealed in your student days, that you may find no occasion for lowering standards or abandoning ideals, that you may be happy in your work and may take legitimate pride in your profession as the finest of the arts, as the highest of the sciences, and as making the most practical contribution to nation building. We are glad to number you among our alumni and shall be most interested to hear of your whereabouts and of your continued successes. C. E. MARK. LUG