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

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THE CONNING TOWER Within the pages of this humble book Where awkward essays, poems, photographs Will soon be memories at which you look With much nostalgia hidden in your laughsg Within this happy youthful almanack Where deeds are listed, and predictions made Against the background of a zodiac That ev'ryone kept tracing grade by gradeg There lies much more than later recollection Of friendly faces long ago forgot When each of us has chosen his direction, Unmasking day by day more of his lot . . . There lies fore'er, upon a dusty shelf, A tribute to the springs of Life itself! -Marcus A. ALLARD. Fran: You look like Helen Brown. Carol: Reallyl And what do I look like in blue? Hug defined: Energy gone to waist. Mike: I read in the paper that nine teachers and a student were injured in a collision. Rudy: Poor guy. Compliments of . Y l.D.A. DRUG STORE 50 Main Sf. N. Phone: CHerry 'I-7001 lOpposite Pos! Office! I-IONOURS FOR MR. AllARD An unusual and notable distinction came to one of our new staff members this year when Mr. Allard gained first prize in the international section of the Languedoc poetry contest. The Languedoc prizes were founded in October 1951 by the Societe toulousaine Arts et Lettres , and are rated among the four or five grand French poetry prizes. This year's contest drew over 1,000 entries submitted by poets living in France,Bel- gitun, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Africa and Canada. Only one other Canadian, a M. Remi Lorquet, of Quebec City,was granted an honorable mention. , Mr. Allard,who was born in a small town east of Ottawa, became interested in poetry about four years ago, and has had many of his works published in both French and English. He hopes to have a collection of his poems printed in book form some day in both languages to illustrate, as he says, the dual character of Canadian Culture. As winner of the Prix International Languedoc 1957 Mr. Allard received, just before Christmas, an engraved silver cup with a black marble base. His poem was published in the Anthologie Poetique 1957 . For the benefit of the French students in our midst here is Mr. Al.la.rd's prize-winning poem: PETIT BOUT D'HOMME Je te regarde la qui me regardes moi, Interceptant soudain le cours de mon passageg Et lisant l' alphabet de ton jeune Visage, J' interprete ton 'ame et j'en suis plein d'emoiI Je te regarde la qui me regardes coig De tes yeux, cependant, tout remplis d'un message Trahissant a mon coeur la tristesse d'un sage Qui se sent deja vieux et ne sait trop pourquoi... Tu chagrines ton pere, 6 tout petit bout d'homme, Car tu quittes le reve et du neant le somme, Pour trouver, s'augmentant, l'addition de l'amer. Je te vois jetme loche en 1' etang du deboire, Malgre Page rendue aux confins de la mer, Qui n'a pas meme un an, mais deja son histoirel Marc -Aurele ALLARD, de la Societe des poetes Canadiens francais. Compliments of RONALD BUCKLY SUNOCO STATION 724 Scarlett Rodd CH , 4-3 I73 I6

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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

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