Weston Collegiate Institute - Conning Tower Yearbook (Weston, Ontario Canada)

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Happiness Just to have faith, just to be true, Just to be glad the whole day through, Just to be merciful, just to be mild, H U Just to be trustful as a child, Just to be gentle and kind and sweet, ,HW,0mm,m Just to be helpful with willing feet, Just to be cheerful when things go wrong, Just to drive sadness away with a song, Whether the hour is dark or bright, . Just to be loyal to God a.nd right! , , , workmg -Marie Macdonald, 11A. 0 , , - with Canadians I - ' lk FRANK EST , ln every wa b h 0 a l SERVICE srArloN I of hfe mnce LUBRICATION - WASHING : 1817 , , , SIMONIZING ' CH. mos, BANK or MQNTREAL Corner Main St. S. and Denison Rd. : M4 WESTON, 007- Weston Branch, 45 Main Street North FLEMING GILMOUR, Manager at 3 . We U F-. lp Above are five of the girls who attended the centennial weekend in dresses of the ol Marion Scot I4 d do-ys . Left to right,they are t, Lois Godfrey, Janet Bailey, Peggy Mollison and Margo McKone .

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,,,. Above is Cadet Lt.-Col . Doug Harvey receiving the Best Cadet oword from the inspecting officer Lt.-Col . McGinnis at the conclusion of our annual cadet inspection. W f if ani Q 'W 2 N- - A S01 A - Qt' 'Aff yy, ffl 4'-Lm'A,31f 6:46 f, -,M f jfs- l , aj 'I ir A 2321 ff. ff-raw f' 1: l .. G w, Q ar :T - N- . X Zn . V A' i wg' K'-it f 5 twig' l - 'B' TL fsgx ' f , gg 9 Axlxrg A 'A K 'V M' f?'4 x X ' af, i-af ' ' ., r arm. A K A-. ,Afm ., .. 'Q if ., ' -. V S- ' .1 ,','- . . ' K. gi 1' ' A ' f,,,., me f . Above is the Bren gun demonstration on Cadet Inspection Day. At the guns left is Bob Carson and beside him is John Leigh. Officers observing are left to right: Lt.Cdr. Lancaster, Moior Bronscombe, Lt.-Col. McGinnis, the inspecting officer, and Cadet Lt.-Col . Doug Harvey. The Campiire Tis' evening and all is still, Only the sound of a whippoorwill Echoes, in the darkening land. High on a hill a campfire glows, Mysteriously lending, blending its tones On all around. Out from these flames leap a thousand words, Telling of peace of hope and of love, Like a motherls prayer. But as the bright sun peeps o'er the distant hill, The campfire fades, with only the glowing embers Left as a memory. -Judy Pearson, 11A. ...I J-AJ. A. Pl THE l?I'lI l7fl?S HI llll Hlfih' .XFl1'0!7l, Iliff - WI? llf ifrmur' mul V1 lfirl'.'Ml1l1xlW!x' -Ulf mul filly from rlulil nmlzlll' ffm' Compliments of C. Wes Boddington Agent, Motor Vehicles Branch Department of Transport QMAIN STREET S, TORONTO, T5 ONTARIO CH, 4-0911 ies

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DR. TYRRELL- A NOTED WESTON GRAD 0 ne of Weston Collegiate's mist notable grad- uates, who would have been a keenly interested visitor at our centennial, was Dr. J.B. Tyrrell. Early last summer, Dr. Tyrrell had written to Mr. Worden, expressing the hope that his doctor would allow him to attend, but his death occurred on Aug- ust 26th, a few months short of his 99th birthday. Here, by way of tribute to a notable Canadian as well as a notable Weston grad., is an outline of Dr. Tyrrellls career and his achievements, which may not be too well-known to present-day Weston stu- dents. Joseph Burr Tyrrell was born in 1859 at the Grange Cottage in Weston, and when he was a year old hisparents moved to their new home at the cor- ner of King and North Station streets. Young Joseph' s father was William Tyrrell, builder, con- tractor, and member of the county council, who started the subscription list for the building of the new school and also donated two acres ofland.Be- sides this, Mr. Tyrrell offered to draw the plans and supervise the erection of the building. Before entering this new school, Joseph was sent to public school and then to a private school. In 1867, when eight years old, he came to Weston Grammar School, with which his father had been so closely connected. Ten years old in that year,the school was housed in a brick structure with two rooms, one on the ground level and one upstairs, with a house for the teacher attached. Mr. Tyrrell's first teacher at this school was a Mr. Hodgson, who had his own peculiar methods. Generally, he was in a good humour but when he was struck down with an attack of gout he often ptmished his pupils indiscriminately and at times threw his rpller across the room. In a Life of Dr Tyrrell we read: However, he KM r.'HodgsonJ man- aged to implant many Greek and Latin roots in the heads of his wayward scholars and even succeeded in driving the principles of Latin grammar into the head of young Joe Tyrrell who had begun to read Caesar intelligently when he was but nine years old. About a year later Mr. Somerville, a graduate of the University of Toronto, took Mr. Hodgson's place and young Joseph now showed a keen interest in the fields of nature and science. ln connection with these interests he used to take long walks along the banks of the Humber River collecting specimens of rocks and insects. When he was 16, some of Joseph's friends left to attend Upper Canada College, and after a time Joseph persuaded his father to let him go there too. From Upper Canada young Mr. Tyrrell left for the University of Toronto ,where he graduated in 1880. From this time on, Dr. Tyrrell's activi- ties took him far afield, but he always retained his affection for Weston and the school that is now Weston Collegiate. In 1945 he donated a scholarship to the school in honour of his father, to be called the William Tyr- rell prize. Given yearly, it was made a perpetual scholarship in 1957 by thegift of 100 shares of Nor- a.nda mining stock, a stun roughly equal to S 5,000. Dr. Tyrrell himself came to Weston's commence- ment each year to award the scholarship until he was well over 90 years of age. Dr. Tyrrell was Canada's most celebrated geolo- gist, president of the Kirkland Lake Gold Mining Company, senior fellow of the Geological Society of America, the Royal Society of Canada and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was the author of David Thompson, Explorer f1910l: he had edited with introduction and notes A Journey from Prince of Wales Fort in Hudson Bav to the Northern Ocean, 1769 to 1772 fby Samuel Hearnel, Thompson'sNarrative of his Explorations in Western America, Early History of Hudson Bay, and Journals of Hearne and Turner. Between 1883 and 1891 he had explored the Rocky Mountains, the Alberta territory between the Bow and the Saskatchewan Rivers, north-west Manitoba, Lake Winnipeg, and the unexplored region south- west of Lake Athabaska. In 1893 he crossed the Barren Lands from Lake Athabaska to Chesterfield Inlet and came dovlm the west shore of Hudson Bay in canoes, travelling in all 3,200 miles, 1,650 of which were previously unsurveyed or not reported on in any way. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE STAFF OF THE CONNING TOWER FROM THE Weston Times and Guide ON THE CENTENNIAL OF THE Weston Collegiate and Vocational School I5