Alma College - Almafilian Yearbook (St Thomas, Ontario Canada)

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TIIE A.LAlA F1l.IA N C5776 Qfdfl To the Students of 1938-59 It is a pleasure to express a word of greeting in this, another nAlma- filian.n You who leave us this year take with you our warmest wishes for your success and happiness, we shall always be deeply interested in your welfare. You who return in September will find a warm welcome awaiting you As a body of students and teachers we have, in these few months become wel- ded into a true family bound together by mutual understanding, by oo-oper- ation, and by affection. May your year at Alma help you to establish and to maintain a harmony with life and with the God behind life. Affectionately yours, Edna R. Sparling. 7

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TI1E A LAIA FIl.IA N Cgbe ijrinczpal Another school year is just about over, and it is again my privilege to say a word to Students of Alma through the Alma- filian. We have had a rather good time together, haven't we? You have been a fine family, and I want to thank you for your friend- liness and loyal co-operation. You have all had a part in making Hthe Spirit of Alma,W and now we are sorry to know that some of you will not be returning next year. But we shall follow you with confident interest and wish you the best kind of happiness and success. May God bless you in all your undertakings! Others who return in September will have an opportunity of joining with us all in the endeavor to develop a still better school and reach higher achievements in character.. In the meantime, have a good holiday, and come back soon. P. S. Dobson 6

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DEPHRTIUEUTS Fine Art It has been said patience is a virtue, and it must be said again, for Mrs. Knowles' sake, after her patient work this year with her art students. Of course, when we poor little amateurs are persuaded to charcoal Capollo, pastel models, or paint laniscapes, we cannot help being problems. We have been told that we will be artists and never need to freeze in garrets--but we often wonder. It was all fun though and we found real happiness working with one another under Mrs. Knowles' guiding hand, out in the warm autumn sunshine and later in the art room. We turned back the clock for our Art Room Tea when the quaint red geraniums and candles in stone jars decked our tea table. Our guests chatted about our work as they sipped tea and sniffed the fra- grant gases which rose from the Chemistry Lab. Later we mounted the best of our display for the Alumnae exhibitions here and in Toronto. And so another year of Wartingn is over! We look back with pleasure to the happy hours we have spent together and hate to think they are ended. We hope next year's art students enjoy a year as pleasant as ours has been, but feel sure they will have to do a good deal of hard work to have a better year than we have had. Emma Smith 8