Alberta College - Aurora Borealis Yearbook (Edmonton, Alberta Canada)

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34 AURORA BOREALIS COMMERCIALITES Through a long, mysterious entrance, Up a tedious winding stair. Through a doorway into chaos, Oh! What noises fill the air! Tearing, roaring, grinding typewriters, “H” to “L” or “M” to “R”. Papers fly in all directions, Budgets kept for the future star. Blondes and Brunettes, “Red haired Mamas”, Dresses Red or sky-blue-pink, Sometimes new, unmarked by toil, Sometimes daubed with glue or ink. Ninety different kinds of racket, Fifty different kinds of bobs, Chewing, checking, typing, talking, Bad as an “election mob”. Miss Gremm likes to see it, When the Bunch is working well. Mr. Hyndman thrives upon it, Mr. Lawrence says it’s swell. Everybody really likes it, Even though they groan all day. ’Cause they have to work for pay, Still they seem to want to stay. Do they not admire endurance? They who live their peaceful ways, Do they see what work we do? No! They can’t, such a dust we raise. Back you stagger, through the doorway, Totter down the stairs, insane. Someone shoves you thru’ the entrance, Into calmness once again. +•--- --«f SAY IT WITH FLOWERS Home Grown Cut Flowers Roses, Carnations, Sweet Peas, Etc. Flowering Plants and Ferns Seeds and Suitable Garden Plants WALTER RAMSAY LTD. 10321 Jasper Avenue Edmonton, Alberta

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AURORA BOREALIS 33 Dr. McCall, our principal, , Stately and amply tall. Is daily watching over us, And shepherding us all. Since seldom we’re ideal, and Of rules break not a few. He summons us to meet with him, And tells us what to do. And when within the office walls, We firmly seek to stand, But find it very difficult, Under the Doctor’s hand. He makes a firm impression on Each erring girl or boy; He does it for our benefit, It is not for our joy. The matron of the College here, Is Mrs. Betts by name. And all the students resident, Know she’s a worthy dame. When anyone is sick or ill, She promptly comes around With plasters and with medicine, Until their health is sound. The Lady Dean of A. C. N., Miss Woods, with auburn hair. In residence has won her fame, Presiding o’er the fair. Mr. Fisher, the College dean, And teacher has his care, To tell us when to go to bed, And see that we are there. Of others mention needs be made, Miss Burkholder, Miss Coone, Miss Field, Miss Gremm, McKerlie, too, To College are a boon. And Birdsall, Hyndman, Hickerson, Miss Jamieson, also, Deserve a worthy mention here, Their work they surely know. If anything seems to offend, A word, a verse, a line; I beg you to remember that A rhymer must make rhyme.

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AURORA BOREALIS 35 GRADE XII. OF 1927-28 Blanche Hackett: “Smile and the world smiles with you.” Dorothy Mayo: “Good things come in small parcels.” Elliot Birdsall: “Let Euclid rest and Archimedes pause.” Jennie Johnstone: “Of manner gentle and affection mild.” Margaret Gaetz: “If thou wouldst bluff, bluff well And thy teacher will not know.” Lester Saunders: “What I learned I have forgotten. What I know I have guessed at.” Vera Stuart: “I might be better if I would, But it’s awfully lonesome being good.” Jim Hilbery: “Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.” Alison Yeats: One smile from her would banish care, So charming is our “Scottie”. Kathleen Lord: “She was as good as she was fair.” Jack Derpack: He is large and he is wise, He’s a terror for his size. Clarence Greiner: “Rather be mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.” Esther Frederking: “Seek honor first, pleasure lies behind.” Velma Lawrence: “Better not be at all, than not be noble.” Blake Letts: Deeds, not words. Alfie Elgaaen: A smile for all, a welcome glad, A jovial coaxing way she had. Leila Foreman: Calm and unruffled as a summer sea. Andy Borys: Words, words, words. Bob Ross: “Modesty has no equal.” —B. H„ J. J„ A. Y. Say, what’s limburger cheese composed of? It isn’t composed—it’s decomposed.