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

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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

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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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Q dm Music A forest full of birds couldn't be any more melodious than Alma College. All day long, and part of the night too, pianos tinkle, violins, and voices rise in song. Although the effect is not always harmonious, it does show that Alma College is a school in which music is taken very seriously. Thanks to the Evening Music Club, we have been able to enjoy some very lovely concerts this year. Two of the artists were our own director of Music, Gertrude Huntley Green, and Miss Margaret Ingram, our violin teacher. The community concerts in London have been a delightful oppor- tunity for music-lovers to hear world-famous artists. This year we were privileged to hear Jascha Heifetz, violinist, the Mozart Boys' Choir of Vienna, Vronsky and Babin, Duo-Pianistsg Marian Anderson, contralto. No less an enjoyment have been the University Concerts, which have also produced outstanding artists. We are most grateful to all the music teachers for their won- derful inspiration which has been instilled in us. Mrs. Green's Friday morning Chapel Concerts are always looked forward to with great joy. I am sure all music students of Alma have been uplifted by the splendid and capable understanding of their teachers. ----Betty Hill. University Department The best of English classes, most interesting Nutrition lectur absorbing Cooking and Serving classes, together with a dash of Home Nursing, have all helped to make this year the best one yet in the University Department. The lectures of Professor J. C. Spenceley from the University Western Ontario, and those of Miss Kerr who comes to Alma from far Mount Allison University, have been highlights of our course. But there are some students who have found other lectures just as interesting. No one could possibly want to acquire the ability to write essays and biographies from anybody but Miss Hardy. As for psychology--well, Miss Neal of nwesternu has proved to be in- teresting and learned. In our religious Knowledge course with Miss Sparling, we have learned something of the background of our Christ ian faith, and have had an opportunity to discuss problems of youth in the world to-day. 10 G of