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

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OAKWOOD OBSERVER The Observer got off to a slow start this year; our first issue was not published until near the end of October. But once we got going, there was no stopping us; we increased the size of our staff, and the paper began to appear every three weeks. The student body showed its interest in the Observer not only by buying the paper, but also bv contributing to it. The hard work of the staff and helpful guidance of our staff sponsor, Mrs. Shime, certainlv combined to make this the Observer ' s best year yet. 1st ROW: Sharon Singer, Elissa Samuel, Mrs. Shime. 2nd ROW: Leon Meslin, Eric Eisen. 1st ROW: C. Mauer, M. Mamulo, Miss Duff, E. Oropold, W. Toll. 2nd ROW: J. Page, L. Bell, E. Lucie, P. Fairmon, S. Naskali, B. Matteson. GAA In a small room on the third floor of Oakwood Collegiate Institute, sixteen girls gather once every week. To make the school a more enjoyable place for every girl, is their motto. Now that the 1960-61 school year is over their story can be told. From behind the closed door of room 313 all girls extra-curricular sports activities such as interform volleyball, basketball, badminton, swim- ming and tumbling were organized by their res- pective curators and assistants. On numerous occasions they put their heads together and such smashing successes as the Greatest Show Afloat, Athletic Nights and the Athletic Banquet resul- ted. In the latter two events, the billing was shared with the male counterpart, BAA. It is no secret; this is the girls ' athletic association! STAGE CREW Under the direction of Mr. Snell, and the president. Bill Doherty, the stage crew enjoyed a very successful year preparing settings for all our auditorium performances. Our stalwart, sil- ent heroes of the stage crew did a splendid job in preparing the setting for each play which the Masquers wished to perform. 1st ROW: Bob Home, Mr. Snell, Bill Doherty. 2nd ROW: Pete, Bill Buckley, Stuart Burt. .S8

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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.

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1st ROW: Jennifer Page, Anna-Jean Moore. 2nd ROW: Stewart Burt, Wilf Neidhardt. Most Oakwoodites are well aware (especially on Wednesday mornings) that Oakwood possesses a strong welfare committee. This organization, throughout the school year and with the able and CAPUT WELFARE COMMITTEE untiring assistance of the class treasurers, col- lected the cents, nickels, dimes and quarters (?) which were donated by the willing students who then, thanks to S. Burt ' s clever tabulation board, were able to follow the progress of our class and school in the drive toward this year ' s goal of S2,500. With the help of the United Appeal drive, and the Christmas Basket drive it was inevitable that our objective would be surpassed, and a new all-time high would be established. The money which had been collected was then distributed by the Caput to such organizations as the United Appeal, Bolton Camp, Society of Crippled Civil- ians, Society of Crippled Children and many others. This year, Oakwood contributed 180 CARE food packages to the world hunger relief pro- gramme. In order to introduce ourselves to our new agencies, the Welfare executive visited sev- eral Toronto welfare organizations and several of us represented Oakwood at a United Appeal din- ner at the Granite Club. The success of our com- mittee was partly due to the increase in the num- ber of students, but mainly, it was due to the willingness of you, the students of Oakwood Col- legiate, to give freely whenever you were asked and whenever you could give. MASQUERS This year, the Masquers outdid themselves. Following in the footsteps of last year ' s success they went on to produce a yet more lively and colourful show. In their presentation of The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder, there was an encouraging display of promising talent. Our pro- duction boasted four colourful sets, period cos- tumes and props galore, including two dozen ex- otic chapeaux. The delight it gave audiences justified months of planning and hard work. In spite of the Christmas exams we had produced earlier three one-act plays, Riders to the Sea, Picnic, and To the Lovely Margaret. We shall find time to prepare an entry to the Simpson s drama festival, which we hope will prove as suc- cessful as our previous endeavours. Without the support of the stage crew, our wardrobe mistress, prop girls, make-up assistants and the members of the staff and student body who all pitched in and helped, we should never have been able to do all that we have. In the future we are planning courses in dir- ecting, make-up courses and a multitude of other 1st ROW: Pat Fairman, Miss Dunlop, Lois Morgan. 2nd ROW: Gerry King, Ted Reid, Bill Corr. things enabling the members of the club to learn new skills, and improve those we may already possess. Under the watchful eye of Miss Helen Dunlop, our director, we hope to keep up the good work.