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

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1st ROW: Jackie Whan, Miss Duff, Gary Milly. 2nd ROW: Lillian Burritt, Carolyne Bayliss, Bill Burritt, Donna May Sharp. I.S.CF. To know Christ and to make Him known, is the motto of the Inter-School Christian Fellowship group. Every Monday, except during the holidays, the group met in Room 118 at 3:30 p.m. with the object of learning more about the Bible and God. Perhaps the re as on for the club s success this year was the variety of activity. There were many speakers, including pastors and laymen from all walks of life. The club had a few parties, in- cluding a wiener roast, and a skating party. The ISCF holds a sports night once every month at Bloor Collegiate where there are games and fun for everyone. Also, special camps were held, including a ski camp at CoUingwood. Our one hope is that our motto has been ful- filled. THE GIRLS ' CLUB The purpose of the Girls ' Club is to give ser- vice to the school wherever it is needed. This year the Girls ' Club sold ribbons, shakers and pennants to school-spirited Oakwoodites before the football games. The grade-niners passed the initiation calmly. It included a torture chamber, and there were no casualties. The school rings and pins arrived just a few days before the Christmas holidays. Christmas cards bearing the Oakwood insignia were sold, but the chief Christmas activity was the Christ- mas baskets. In the spring the Girls ' Club sold T-shirts with the Oakwood crest. Elizabeth Nixon and her executive deserve credit for a success- ful year. LJ irftfMiilk 1st ROW: Lynda Watt, Mrs. Wilson, Liz Nixon, M. Hori 2nd ROW: Elaine Mori, Joy Nimmo, Dorothy Patterson, Barbara Cruden, Anna-Jean Moore. May Zadkin, Mr. Davison, Cathy Annis. CLUB 208 Club 208 has as its purpose the attendance of its members at musical performances when they might not possibly otherwise attend. The Toronto symphony concert at Massey Hall, opera at the O ' Keefe Centre, the National Ballet at the Royal Alexandra, are some of the concerts we attended. All funds are provided by the members themsel- ves, and the club arranges for the sale of soft drinks at Oakwood plays and at music nights. The members all belong to the music class studying for the Grade 13 examination, and this added opportunity for listening is a valuable ad- dition to the course. This year under the sponsor- ship of Mr. Davison the executive consisted of Cathie Annis, president, and May Zadkin, treasu- rer. .56

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CHOIR An extremely stimulating and well organized group at Oakwood is the choir under the gifted guidance of Miss R.A. Scott and Mr. E. Davison. We select a full executive every year of capable and responsible students. Carolyn Bayliss and Elizabeth Mowatt accompany us. We rehearse Tuesday and Thursday afternoons in order to pre- pare ourselves for our many public appearances. These range all the way from church firesides to top Kiwanis competition. Woodgreen and Trinity churches both invited us to sing Christmas carols and Oakwood heard us during the junior commence- ment programme. Our repertoire varies. We sang Brigadoon with soloists Renee Rosen, Wanda Cygan, Peter Arm- strong, David Havery, and full orchestral accom- paniment on music night. Tension runs high when Kiwanis Festival time approaches. This is where we reap the re- wards of our efforts. A first and a second last year and who knows what this? But it is not all work. We had a bang-up party in the fall with the orchestra in the games room, dancing to Pat Riccio under swaths of filmy blue tissue paper. At the moment, we are deep in rehearsals for Camelot, which we shall sing on music night, 1961. We, who are in the music course, are so 1st ROW: Georgia Carter, Mr. Davison, Miss Scott. 2nd ROW: Gerry King, Morilyn Mahood, Ann Armstrong. Susie Williams, Paul Reynolds. lucky lOurbeautiful room, carefully and complete- ly equipped, a wealth of material at our fingertips and the door of music opening wider every day under Mr. Davison ' s dedicated hand, all combine to make our school year full and rich. CURRENT EVENTS CLUB 1st ROW: Florence Silver, Wllf Neidhardt, Dr. Hill, John Bailey, Maureen Taylor. 2nd ROW: Doug McGaha, Tammy Adaskin, Sarah Gabor Bendzak, Brian Thompson. This year, as in years gone by, this club has once again made an outstanding contribution to the life of the school. With the invaluable assist- ance of our never-tiring sponsor Dr. H. Hill, we were able to bring several important guest speak- ers to our school, including the American and Japanese consuls in Toronto. Also we presented several very interesting and educational film pro- grammes which were so well attended that room 317 was filled to the rafters. Then, in co-opera- tion with the Caput and the stage crew, the cur- rent events club re-instituted the noon-hour film presentations. Again throughout the year, the old and new quibblers hurled their inflammatory re- marks across food and drink-laden tables during our regular citizens ' forum meetings in Room 210 on Friday afternoon. We also discussed intelli- gently unemployment, defence policies. Canada ' s national character and many other topics. Also we entertained the Jarvis Collegiate world affairs club in our library while discussing crime and punishment. Thanks to Mr. Tovell, we were able to hold two assemblies this year. These two assemblies were to commemorate the universal declaration of human rights and the 15th anniversary of the U.N. organization and we were extremely fortunate to have had Mr. Wilson Woodside, the national dir- ector of the Canadian UNA with us for one of the assemblies. We should like to thank Dr. Hill for his guidance and suggestions, and you, the stu- dents, for your participation, both of which made this year a very successful one.