Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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Arts at Appleby By Graham Leggat It is difficult to readily answer tiie question What has been the development of the Arts at the school over the past ten years. Firstly, what are the Arts? By the Arts, one means, presumably. Art, in various forms such as painting, photography, sculpture, Music (both instrumental and vocal), and Drama, which is basically anything done on stage. It could also mean, to other people, such things as Debating, Dance and Creative Writing. It could even be stretched to include English class since this class should engineer a creative spirit and supply each with the tools of creativity. So, too, could it in- clude certain hobbies practiced during the week and Thursdays, such as the putting together of the Argus, a task whose successful completion necessitates people with a combination of talents in various areas such as writing, photography and a good aesthetic sense so that the book looks like a polished work and not some slap-dash scrapbook. Once one has narrowed down the field or at least come to some sort of workable definition of what con- stitutes the Arts, there is the question of how to judge development. The Arts are by nature subjective, (even something like English which has marks assigned). Thus there are disagreements over the quantity. So without an accepted guage it is hard to judge the development of the Arts. Having arrived at something of an intellectual impasse, the best thing to do is gel back on solid ground. There are some statistics; comparisons between the state of the Arts as they were ten years ago and as they are now. In 1969 there was one piano teacher who came in one afternoon a week to teach a handful of boys.