Bowmanville High School - Screech Owl Yearbook (Bowmanville, Ontario Canada)

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Mildred Souch CMrs. K. Caverly? remembers the heckling and insults of the boys when they played inter-form hockey games at Taylor's Arena. The tennis courts were on the west side of the school where there is now a parking lot. Volleyball was introduced as one of the sports in 1922, and when the new addition was added to the school in 1929, a much needed gym- nasium was included. It was not until this time that the first boys' basketball team was for- med. The following are the names of the teachers who taught from 1920-'21 - 1929-'30: Mr. W.J. Morrison,Principalg CScienceJ, Mr. L.W. Dip- pell, Principal CSciencel, Miss A.M.H. Brown CLower School Subj. and Hist.J, Mrs. C.S. Buck CEng., Lower School Subj.J, Mr. L.H. Cooke CMaths.J, Miss Durnin tEng. and Lower Schooll, Mr. E.W. Edmonds iClassics and Hist.J, Mr. John Elliott CMaths.J, Miss M.M. Franklin CEng. and Lower Schooll, Miss R. Haines tModernsl, Mr. S.E. Henry tMaths.J, Miss J.M. Hicks tHist. and Lower Schooll, Mr. B.E. Ingham tEng., Moderns, Hist.J, Miss J.H. MacDonald iClassics and Hist.J, Miss I. Ogden CHistory, Miss A.V. Parker CLower School and Phys. Ed.7, Mr. A.R. Scott tMaths., Physicsl, Miss M. Sissons tClassicsJ, Miss E. Stedman tClassicsJ, Miss I.K. Smith tEng., Moderns and Artl, Miss H. Thornburn tLower School and Phys. Ed.J, Miss S.E. Tighe iClassics and Historyl, Mr. G.L. Wagar CMaths.l, Miss L.P. Whitton tModernsJ. Memories of B.H. S. Imagine writing the Departmental Form V. Finals, with the wreckers tearing down the walls of your classroom. Sometimes there was only a tarpaulin between the students and the wreckers. Talk about noisy Classrooms! When the weather was inclement we had P.T. in the Assembly which was really the at- tic. There were wooden floors and stairs all through the building and once during a Crack- the-whip session, I flew off the end of the line, landing on my knees on the wooden floor from which I acquired an inch long splinter which took a full year to work itself out. Dorothy Allin CMrs. John Marks? 1924-'30. if ill 4' lk ll Ill Miss Sissons taking our Grade 13 Latin Class to the creek for outdoor classes . We danced the waltz and fox-trot and held our partners quite close and sang It Ain't Go'n a Rain No More and Red Sails in the Sunset. Cadet Inspection was a big event. Levi Annis, 1922-'27 lk 41 wk Sk Ik lk An account of an ex-student Alva Roblin and his car. - His first arrival at school was in about a 1924 Hupmobile roadster, with three large spare tires, one at the rear and one each in the front fender wells. He was driving from the Newtonville area where his father owned a farm. We are all envious of his car and I was pleased when' he asked me to go for a ride at noon. My pleasure was short lived because I soon realized what a poor driver he was. As we approached the Cream of Barley Camp, after some near misses, I suggested we had gone far enough, so without reducing speed, or signalling, he made a sweeping left turn and somehow we passed between the cobblestone piers for the building overhang and the building itself - a very narrow width. We got back to the school safely. I lost no time in spreading the word around of Alva's driving. On occasion, Mr. Morrison had our first class after lunch in the silo room on the second floor and he asked where Alva was. We told him he had gone in his car. Mr. Morrison looked out the back window and told us Alva was coming down Division Street at a high speed and a second later, he had failed to make the turn into the school drive. We heard a crash and Mr. Morrison let us get up to look. He had struck the high board fence. The car was not damaged, so Alva backed up and then entered the school drive, subsequently coming up to class. As time went on, Alva was quite often late for school and always the reason was the same - tire trouble. One day, he did not arrive till noon and he told us he had two blow-outs on the way. He promptly started to fix the tires which took all afternoon, and we could hear him pounding on the tires and installing them back on the car. This really annoyed Mr. Morrison and he told him not to come to school if he didn't come in to classes. It appeared Alva had no money for new tires and eventually had to give up driving and come by bus. Fred Billett, 1924-'29 4' 4' ll' Ik Ik lk Transportation to High School - the hard way - bicycle, horse and buggy, horse and cut- ter tHampton to BowmanvilleJ. Most embarrassing and scary episode - playing hockey in front hall and putting my

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Form V June 11 1925 BACK ROW: Clarence Ferguson, Albert Allin, Will Pointen, Stuart James, Reid Pearn, Stanford Symons, Maitland Gould, Stanley Osborne. CENTRE ROW: Bernita Wallace, Marion Dickson, Dorothy Kirkton, Leone Davey, Marion Warder, Marie Rundle, Grace Bragg. FRONT ROW: Marion Pickard, Constance Seward, Beatrice Bedell, Marjorie Robins, Blanche Cryderman. Then BACK ROW: Novelda Berry, Greta Symons, Evelyn Bickle, . Miss Sissons, Teacher, Fgrm IA Glfls Florence Oliver, Vera Trimble, Phyllis Clemence, Marie ' Valleau, Marion Hamilton. ClaSS RU1111011 FRONT ROW: Greta Munday, Winnifred Rickard, N llie Kirkton, Beatrice Cryderman. ABSENT: Garland Kilpatrick, Wilhelmine Rember, Leone Sutton. Now 1965 - BACK ROW: Mrs. R. Wallace CM. Valleaub, Mrs. R. Dilling CN. Kirktonl, Mrs. L. Staples CV. Trimblel, Mrs. H. Terry CW. Remberl, Mrs. G. MacMillan CF. Oliverl, Mrs. G. Brown CG. Mundayl, Mrs. J. Boddy CB. Crydermanl, Mrs. B. Ross CP. Clemenceb, Mrs. F. Crowe CM. Hamiltonb. FRONO ROW: Mrs. H. Allin CN. Berryh, Mrs. F. Wood CL. Suttonb, Miss M. Sissons, Mrs. L.T. McLaughlin CMiss I.K. Smithb, Mrs. B.C. Diltz CMiss A. Brownl, Mrs. F. Jamieson CE. Bicklel, Mrs. K. Werry CW. Rickardl. ABSENT: Mrs. G. Corby CG. Kilpatrickl, Greta Symons.

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hockey stick through the plate glass case which held a stuffed peacock. Fellow students clipped off feathers as souvenirs. Harry Cowling, 1923-'28 Sk ik ill ill Ik Ik The most significent thing that happened to me that year was becoming a close friend of Bill Pointen's. He was already a candidate for the ministry. He challenged me to make my decision, with the result we both wrote our probationer's exams in the spring of 1925 and took appointments on a pastoral charges that summer. Rev. Clarence H. Ferguson, 1925-'26 Ik lk Sk ik Ik :lf How the teacher in Form IV used to do the roll call which included Pinch, Katie, Quick, Lenore. The BEST bawling out I ever got was from Mr. Scott, who, in Fifth Form, returned a geometry paper marked in the 40'Z: range with the simple but never-to-be-forgotten words: You can do better than that! Rev. F. Merrill Ferguson, 1924-'27. all Sk ik 4' 4' 'V It was against the rules to dance in the Assembly Hall - but we girls often did at noon hour. If we were caught we were kept in after four. Do you remember the silo? It was used as a dressing room off the stage of the Assembly Hall when we did skits there. Valedictorian in 1924. Doris Foster CDr. F. Tremeerl 1919-1924 lk lk if lk lk 11 Students from Courtice area used to bicycle, in spring and fall, and ride on the Gar- ton Bus Line in winter - fare, ten cents a trip, or a dollar a week. Mr. Morrison taught us Agriculture. In our class he had us each plan a crop rotation. I worked out fall wheat, following by barley and Clare Allin said this wouldn't work. Mr. Morrison turned and asked me for further ex- planation. In my confusion I said the first thing that came into my head, which was the far- mers around Courtice 'can do it. Stiffling a laugh, Mr. Morrison said Are you inferring, James, that the farmers around Courtice are more progressive than the farmer of Providence? ' James A. Hancock, 1925-'28 as-warms:-n Once someone piled'all the boys' rubbers and overshoes in a pile in the silo in the basement. Mr. Morrison came to see what caused the commotion and narrowly missed being hit with the flying rubbers, as the boys tried to sort them. Nelson Jackman, 1925-1927. Il' Sk lk lil ll' ak In 1928, the students of Form II had no classroom of their own and were known as 'the Orphans'. If any were late, they went through the halls looking for their class, peeking through keyholes to locate them. Mr. Henry, the Math. Teacher, seemed to have a genius for appearing silently behind the student thus bent over, and would give the pupil a jolt in the rear. Roy Lunney, 1928-'31 Ill 41 Ik Ik Ill ik I remember going with Tom Sykes, in his Ford, to Cobourg for a Public Speaking Con- test, Merrill Ferguson competed. Mr. L.H. Cooke riding his bicycle to school and coming to class wearing pant clips. Valedictorian-1928, Edward CTedl Mason, 1923- '28 Ill Ik ll' Ili lk ll' Form II was a big sunny room in the south west corner. B.H.S. was a handsome building then with its famous tower Calways called the silo by students? and fine trees - beautiful grover behind the school - natural grandstand of the hill, and the big playing field below where from the far corner a path led down to the creek. On the lawn between the school and the doctor's house tlt has always been the doctor's house? the girls played basketball and tennis. Of Form I, I have only two recollections. One is of Pa Cpronounced Pawl Morrison coming in to READ the first examination results and saying, We seem to have a Family Compact on our hands. I and my brother and our two cousins had managed to get into the top five. We were deeply humiliated, and being strong Liberals Cby descentl took exception to the Family Compact label. I think the fifth one was Jennie Merchant, but can't be sure. The other recollection: of the same brother and cousins and the rest of the boys of Form I singing Oh, oh, oh, it's a lovely War at Com- mencement - that would be the fall of 1919. What do we want with eggs and 'am, when we got plum and apple jam? Between verses they did a smart military drill, wearing the real old- fashioned Better 'Ole uniforms of the First War.