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

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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

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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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- Comercial Well at last we can talk over the old times of the commercial room without thinking of WMessrs. Adams E Gordon's Trial Balances. How nervous we were when Miss Johnston even mentioned taking dic- tation from Dr. Dobson. I have just been reading the notes Dr. Dobson gave us on Saturdays on nManners in Business.W We shall never forget Miss Johnston's efforts, no matter how much trouble they caused us, to make us into good secretaries and stenographers When we are in positions of our own we shall always be grateful to her for our excellent training. Collegiate igpartment Alma has had another successful, rather uneventful year in the Collegiate Department. Few bombshells have been cast in our midst as even the regular bombardments of examinations have been less frequent this year. Of course we have had our days--the inspector gave us a shock or two. We have managed to miss the odd class because of some visitor. We had one fire drill and a few tests. Aside from these few interrup- tions, life in the Collegiate Department has gone on so serenely that we have not had a chance to develop nerves. Isobel Alexander Dramatic Art We, of the Alma Dramatic Course, do firmly agree that we have never before spent a year we have enjoyed so fully. Our able Director has been Miss Isabel McLean, who has inspired and guided us in our small attempts in the field of drama. Our classes have been small but intense- ly interesting, and we have received instruction in Stage Technique, Play Production, Oral Interpretation, Expression, Makeup, Pantomime, and other such absorbing subjects. With the aid and sponsorship of the Dramatic Club, we have presented quite a number of plays and given one recital. We have enjoyed our work and are reluctant to leave it. To Miss McLean, and to those taking Dramatic Art at Alma in years to come, we offer our wish for continued success. Dot Norris 9