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

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CURRENT EVENTS The Current Events Club Organization under the sponsorship of Mr. Gordon serves as a liaison between the United Nation ' s Club, Citizen ' s Forum, the Translake Club and the school. As well as this, its purpose is to organize assemblies and obtain guest speakers of interest for the school body. On Human Rights Day, the Rev. Morgan noted for his interest and support of Human Rights, favoured the Oakwood students with a talk on the Teenage Bill of Rights. This is the first year in Oakwood history that the Current Events Organization has sponsored the sale of UNICEF cards, We hope this scheme will prosper in future years. Thanks to Mr. Gordon, this club has con- tinued to thrive. UNITED NATIONS STANDING: Dave F.rank, Bob Pinkerton, Bob Harris, Isaac Adler, Peter Tikov, Jeff Nish, Mike Ingber. SEATED: Beverly Downer, Bev Freedman, Donna Zosik, Mr. Gordon, Barbara Johnson. Helen Mason. This year the U.N. Club at Oakwood repre- sented the powerful and controversial USSR. Under the capable sponsorship of Mr. Gordon and leadership of Bob Harris and Bev Freed- man, the twenty members of the club attended regular Sunday meetings with 57 other schools at Victoria College to discuss issues ranging from the admittance of the People ' s Republic of China to Birth Control. All who participated learned something whether it was how to get attention by using your shoe, or the usage of phrases such as imperialist or Yankee aggres- sor. We gained a knowledge of world affairs from a different outlook and a better under- standing of problems facing the U.N. Congratu- lations to Bob Harris as Secretary-General of the Model Assembly — Jan. 20, 21, 22 and the school for a successful year. TRANSLAKE This was the Translake Club ' s second year of operation. Our club is involved in an exchange program with Greece Arcadia High School in Rochester, New York. In February we visited Rochester while in May we served as hosts to them. At these get-togethers we discussed the topic of ' The Teenager in North American Society ' . But after we had completely exhausted this subject, we still found time for recreation and assorted social pursuits. We got to know each other a little better and thus understand each other ' s feelings and opinions. Our thanks go to Mr. Gordon and Mrs. Pedlar, our staff sponsors, who helped us over our rough spots and provided the much-needed transporta- tion to Rochester. Bob Harris, Robin Sears, Bev Freedman, Mr. Gordon. STANDING: Jay Fukakusa, Martin Rosenberg. SEATED: Barbara Johnston, Bob Pinkerton, Mr. Pedlar, Sylvana Carlette.

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DANCE COMMITTEE This year Oakwood ' s Dance Committee has had a very good membership both in number and in enthusiasm. If you were one of those foolhardy people who dared to travel the basement halls dur- ing the dance season, you must have seen the hobos in paint-splattered jeans and sweatshirts, or at least heard the pitter-patter of shoeless feet running be- tween hall and committee room. The owners of those feet did a good job, especially with Marsha Banks as the able coordinator of all our decorations for the dances. And Mr. Putnam was certainly a sympathetic and helpful staff rep. Lots of fun and hard work combined to make the Sadie a howling success and Mistletoe Madness at Christmas was a welcome post-exam release. Of course the formal (Through the Looking Glass) at Casa Loma was our greatest triumph of the year. STANDING: Henry Meyer, Mr. Putnam. SEATED: Anna Maksymluk, Brenda Messer (Pres.), Lynette Winters. WELFARE The 1965-66 Welfare Committee set a $3,000.00 goal. During the year we sent representatives to the United Appeal Dinner, a U.A. agency and supported a special United Appeal Week during which we broke last year ' s record by collecting $600.00. In December there was the annual Christmas Basket collection and a special Bolton Camp Drive was held. We should like to thank the members of the welfare committee, all the class treasurers and especially the student body whose support made this year a success. STANDING: Jean Winters, Bob Pinkerton, Dave Burkes, Mike Panterescu, Jim Blair. SEATED: Roberta Brusatin, Mary Walsh, Miss Orok, Graham Smith, Anne Tori. BLUE GOLD This year under the capable sponsor- ship of Mr. Battle, the Blue and Gold Committee expanded its services to the sale of school jackets, showing feature films as ' Old Man and the Sea ' , sewing beanies and holding noon hou ' films. With these foundations the committee next year will have ' ts prestige augmented to pick up new members to further its posi- tion. The Committee ' s job was to create a spirit for a school to become a spirit for a country. Only the future will prove the extent of our success. STANDING: Jay Fukakusa, John Barnes, Dieter Eberhardt, Pradip Shastri. SEATED: George Coull, Mr. Battle, Chris Pascucci, Mike Panterescu.

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