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

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vo,-,uno nvsL-,hut Q . NDPIAL K SCHOOL vi 'fl rincipalja Jlleuage io the Clow! of 1947-1948 Your class is unique in a number of respects. Of all the classes that have graduated from the London Normal School, yours is the most recent. You can therefore fairly lay claim to an exposure to a greater cumulative wisdom and experience on the part of your Alma Mater than that experienced by any of your predecessors. You have had a higher percentage of male students than any class of the past forty years. This has provided more ballast for your student activities. It also augurs well for the schools of tomorrow, for it is generally con- ceded that boys in senior classes should have men teachers to a much greater extent than obtains today. A revolution has been effected in the manner of applying for schools. Formerly students besieged school boards in the scramble for positions. This year many officials are coming to you offering inducements to sign a contract. To a greater extent, perhaps, than any former class, you are standing on the threshold of your profession with high hope and great expectancy. All have a right to expect many important reforms and innovations from the report of the Royal Commission in the near future. We are sorry to see you go, for in many ways you have woven yourselves into our high regard and affection. We are happy, however, to send you forth with our best wishes and with one last parting injunction and challenge to be worthy of all the privileges which have been yours. Frame for yourselves the highest ideal you can conceive for a teacher, project it as your guiding star, follow it with all the zeal, vigour, and tenacity worthy of so high a calling. C. E. MARK Page Four

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and-oa.unsc,,,vJ n V i f THE HONOURABLE GEORGE A. DREW Premier of Ontario Minister of Education Graduates of our Normal Schools are again in very keen demand. Never have our people exhibited greater faith in education. In a large measure, the fulfilment of their hopes depends upon you, who will teach in the schools. What you will teach is importantg what kind of people your pupils become, as you teach them, is still more important. You leave this intensive stage of your professional training with proved equipment. You have reviewed much of the factual material which you must pass on to your charges. You have learned a good deal about the nature of the child and about the way he develops through his learning activities. You have studied the fundamentals of school organization and have taught classes under the direction of successful, experienced teachers. You have learned that every part of school procedure is for the benefit of the child. Soon you will take charge of your own school or classroom, assuming responsibilities which are always exact- ing and sometimes difficult to define. Do not think that you are to be wholly dependent on your own resources. You will have many allies-your colleagues, your school board, the parents of your pupils and, when you gain their confidence, the pupils themselves. You have at your call the advice and assistance of the inspectors and the other experts in the Department of Education. Do not think it a sign of weakness to seek their assistance. At your disposal are the means of training-in-service which will transform you from promising beginners into skilled practitioners of a great profession. Books and journals, discussion groups and special summer sessions will claim your attention. These will be useful exactly in proportion to your ability to think clearly and critically about your own experience, and to relate to it all that you read and hear. Above all else, you will carry with you into your new teaching positions the good will and confidence of the people of this Province. This I am sure you will justify by your generous contribution not only of industry but also of enthusiasm for your profession and of sustained interest in the children whom you teach. GEORGE A. DREW, Minister of Education. Page Three

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,dune nut-,hu v I : R7 o ur Masters V R. H. ROBERTS, M.A. C. P. McNEILL, M.A. School Management and Mathematics Science, Agriculture and Horticulture I ,,,. . g xx ' 'if S ,df sr ,Q S ,flu V 0, C. R. MacLEOD, B.A., B.Paed. G. H. DOBRINDT, B.A. Literature, Reading and Senior Social Composition and Grammar, Primary Studies Reading, Primary Social Studies Page Five