Oakwood Collegiate Institute - Oracle Yearbook (Toronto Ontario, Canada)

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This year the work of keeping' Oakwood on the niap Ot' scholastic prowess dereolred upon two bril- liant girls. And they did it with a vengeance. Mona Lyons won the Second Edward Blake Scholarship in Science, and 1'anked for the Third Edward Blake Scholarship in Science Proficiency, and for the Gibson Scholarship. Elsie Kaplan won t'ie Gibson Scholarship. Mona Caine to us two years ago from Winnipeg but she credits her success to the Oakwood Staff. They, on the other hand, return the bouquet to her by stating that .ill-i..l Mona Lyons Elsie Kaplan it was a privilege to teach such a willing' worker. Elsie has been with us from the first and has excelled in all the School's activities. She specialized in basketball.Can you imagine any- one taking sixteen subjects anfl then having enough time to cotne around to 4 A and help us with our German. Elsie will long be ref ineinbered for her Latin and Ger- man translations which will bc surreptitiously used until the course is changed. Oakwood wishes you success in your careers. Pllffr' Tlll'l'f!'I'll

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E . .5325 X X will .57-P' I Ji, r 1 .+.'i f Atlisaigvudx I of - V X Z N T PRESENT ' m ' N Fur- URE Sillumnae Once more Oakwood has favour- ed Society with a bouquet of her illustrious graduates. Kathleen Bredin, who has always taken a leading pa1't in girls' activities to- gether with Jean Hughes and Marg. MacKenzie are at Havergal. Marion Brillinger, Constance Es- daile, Lily Gray, Jean Miller, Ruth Pook are learning to be school lYllll'l'll4N at Normal. Lorraine Christilan and Muriel McKinnon are in Household Econ- omics. Caroline Clarke, Iona Moody, Frances BGQQ, Esme Haughton and Betty Green are in Pass Arts. lf C. has been fortunate in hav- ing added to its role the names of Grace Cowan, the diminutive dynamo, and Peggy Lipsett, the musical Miss. They are taking: Iinglish and History. Betty Doran, Marjory Phillips are training for a business career at Commerce and Ifinancc. Frances Goodman, Jessie Forbes, .Muriel Knowles. Giace Lander and Grace Levy are in Occupational Therapy, what- f-vf-r that is. lilsic Kaplan is in Honour Psy- chology. Slim- would! Marion Law- son, Vt'inil'r4-fl Jlaynard, Antionette l.aIonfli-, and Marion Hopkinson arf- taking an extension course in Illlllf l m1f-fun dish-washing at Household Science. Mona Lyons is making good use of her Scholarship. Of course, she is taking maths. Muriel Murphy is at Alma College. Marion Barker and Bernice Arnold are at home. Marion VanVetzer is taking up music. Due to a love of languages in- stilled by the sympathetic instruc- tion of Miss Quail, Margaret Min- gay is taking a course in moderns. Peggy Qua is working at Canada Life. A very good policy. Peggy would have been a very useful member of the Fifth Form. Marg- aret Thorpe is working with the Bell Telephone. Margaret John- ston is at the head office of T.T.C. Gertrude Nesbitt is going to be a librarian. Many of our graduates are at Business Coll. Jean Mitchell, Mar- garet Alison, Marjorie Bryers. Kathleen Dolan, Marjory Elliott. Eleanor Owens, Agnes MacDonald and Lorna Ralph are at Shaw's. Kathleen Boyd, Mary MacGregor. Isobel Shankland, are at Grieg's and Louise Hayward is at Dominion. We have kept the best news for the last. Popular Josephine Young! is married and is now Mrs. Bus Lewis. Congratulations.