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

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The Staff 1920- '21 Mr. E.W. Edmonds, Miss Durnin, Mr. W.J. Morrison, Principal, Miss I.K. Smith, Mr. John Elliott. Form V-1927 BACK ROW: Dorothy James, John Kent, Maurice Windatt, Levi Annis, Merrill Ferguson. MIDDLE ROW: Dorothy Barton, Dorothy Robins, Tucker Couch, Nora Gibson, Lucy Oliver. FRONT ROW: Gladys Cann, Marjorie Marlow. Form II Boys-June 17, 1927 BACK ROW: Rance Dilling, Jabez Vanstone, Frank Jamieson, Kenneth Werry, Clare Allin. FRONT ROW: Alvin Dowson, Herbert Colmer, Lawrence fHuskyD Ashton, Gerald Bradd, Byron Cryderman. Form V Picnic, Cobourg, 1930 BACK ROW: Winifred Rickard, Novelda Berry, Wallace Horn, Mr. Wagar, Ralph Wood, Nellie Kirkton, Beatrice Cryderman, Mrs. Wagar. MIDDLE ROW: Phyllis Clemence, Jabez Vanstone, Margaret Dickson, Farewell Blackburn, Jack Minore, Greta Munday, Bill Lycett, Mrs. Lycett. FRONT ROW: Marjorie Purdy, Marion Rickard, Herbert Colmer, Hoarce Best.

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In Form V, food was a great concern. Form V was a small room on the ground floor on the right of the main entrance with two windows that looked right up the street ot the corner of King Street where was Tod's Bakery. That final year we were sometimes left alone. A collection was taken up and out the windows went a couple of boys to the bakery. Always great ex- citement till we got them back in. That year we had the biggest Form V CUp- per School! that the school had ever known more than twenty. The small room was jam- med. An extra desk had been put in by the door, and when the door was opened the occupant CI think it was Doris Fosterb was completely cut off. Up to that year Forms III and IV Know Grades XI and XIIJ could be taken in one year or two. A number of us had elected to write all the papers after one year. Hence the jam in the Form V classroom. Helen McGregor, 1919-1923 ill ak Ik 4' lk lk 7 On the High School tennis court I had my nose broken by my partner, Gwen Williams, who took a swipe at the ball and missed, but the racket hit my nose. Opponents were Stanley Hardy and Marion Worder. John S. Moorcraft, my father, was Secretary-treasurer of the School Board and W.J. Morrison principal. A telegram for Mr. Morrison from a prospective teacher, Miss Mina Donnelly, was given to me to give to my father, who was to meet her at the train and escort her to meet the school board. Father was unable to fulfil his obligation, so arranged with Wes. Knight to bring her from the station to the hotel. I bicycled to the station, liked the look of Miss Donnelly, gave my bike to Ross Stutt to bring up town, showed Miss Donnelly the telegram that I still possessed and in- dicated that father had named me proxy to bring her up town to the hotel. Miss Donnelly and I corresponded all summer, but when she returned as a teacher we were never able to get along. Gordon Moorcraft, 1918-1921. V Sl' lk wk ik ik Ill One escapade I remember was the day we purchased some lymburger cheese and placed it on the hot water coils over which the air- conditioning system drew air from outside and forced it through the school. It is needless to say that school was let out at 2:00 p.m. that day. Melborne CMelD Osborne, 1921-'25 When Miss Tighe left B.H.S. in 1924 I know thwt people felt the bottom had dropped out of high school. I also had the good fortune to be a close friend of three students, the Ferguson brothers and Bill Pointen and all four of us wne unitedly into theology. Dr. Stanley Osborne, 1920-1925. Ik Ill Pk Ik PF ik Helen Argue's swinging piano playing for dancing Cat lunch timel with other GIRLS. This is where we learned to dance. The production of Twelfth Night under the direction of Miss Smith CMrs. L. McLaughlinJ in which I played Viola to Elgin Munday's Sebastian and Jim Devitt's Orsino. Valedictorian - 1930 Marion Rickard CMrs. F. Farr? 1925-1930. Sk ill ik lk lk HF George Werry cooking our dinners in the basement and Leon Moore buying the Eskimo ies. p Enjoyed Glee Club - Star of the Summer Night - Francis Sutton, Leader. Va1edictorian - 1932. Stanley Rickard, 1927-1932 Ill wk if ill Ill ak Five girls from Maple Grove were allowed to use the hot plate in the Science room for soup and hot chocolate. We had the key and had to lock the room when we left. We walked about five miles a day to school and home, so that was kind thought of Mr. Morrison's, much ap- preciatedf' Fifth Form girls would teach Form I and we loved Bea Devitt, always so sweet, smiling and kind. Later I remember helping Dorothy James and she was a favourite with all, full of fun and so impish. Constance Seward KMrs. F. Stevensl 1920-'25. il' lk ill lk il' ak My special pal Bun Mitchell was a fine pianist, played anything by ear. He was also a fine cartoonist. My basic memories of B.H.S. are the fine staff they had when we were there - Mr. Morrison, Mr. Ingham, Miss Smith, Miss Brown CMrs. Diltzl and Miss Tighe - and the strong desire for achievement felt by most of the student body. , Bowmanville seemed especially blessed with very attractive and talented girls. Kenneth Switzer, 1922-'26,

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Every morning we would go to the attic and usually stand for the opening exercises, lead by Mr. Morrison. The boys and girls used the Assembly on separate days during the noon hour and often someone would play the piano for dancing. Jean Switzer CMrs. Mackey McLeanl 1922-'24 lk lk ll' 1' ill 'F In Form 1, Lawrence Goddard set up quite a communication system with Leland Berry in the room below via the radiator pipes. They both sat in the exact seat in each room. Ruby Witheridge CMrs. Nelson Jackman? 1924- '27 Pk Ik lk ik lk ik Dress for Girls: Navy blue pleated skirt and middies, practically a standard uniform. When we played basketball, we still wore the mid- dies, but changed the skirt for navy blue serge bloomers, and as Doris McConnell CMrs. Bruce Inghaml says no girl nowadays would be caught dead in them . Mildred Souch CMrs. Ken Caverlyl also stated that the standard dress was middies and skirts and then added in real cold weather, long underwear, which I hated, and promptly removed when I got to my boarding house in town. Around 1923 the bobbed hair craze struck B.H.S. in full force. Ik Ik ik lk if 'F Dress for Boys: As remarked by several for- mer students - Until about sixteen, we wore short pants or knickers with long black stockings and boots and even neckties. Spats appeared around 1924. Sl' wk ak wk at 'F Miss Tighe scolded a boy who wouldn't do his Latin assignment and gave him a detention everyday until it was finished. As Miss Tighe was leaving the room, she heard the boy remark - that cranky old crab. She quickly turned around and said to the boy - I may be cranky and I may be a crab, but I'1l have you understand I'm not OLD. lk lk 41 Sk lk ik Memories of B.H. S. from Miss S.E. Tighe, Teacher 1921-'24 Coffee, made for every party and every banquet - the w,orld's best! - coffee bags in a wash boiler, with quarts of cream from Steven's Dairy. No one wanted it clear in those days. Report that a scarlet tanager had been seen: our birdwatcher's, led by Albert Allin, 46 spent the noon hour trying for a glimpse. They came back happy. A path leading north through the woods, and one day a whispered request, Miss Tighe, when you use that path will you whistle, There's a swimming pool close by? Well, I wasn't too good a whistler, so afterwards took a different route. A journey home after the last triumphant hockey game - sleepy, triumphant voices quoting from The Midsummer Night's Dream - He was just going to shoot and I said Take time to pause . He did and I got the puck. There was a phrase for every incident and all seemed relevant. The day we decided to clear out the silo - found everything, but particularly a portrait of Napoleon. We cleaned it up and found it a place in V Form. Spares were unknown and we had no secretary, so typed and stencilled our own papers. So, to be free from interruption, I used to go back to the school at night, type Ctwo fingers? my papers, stencil them with lots of ink on my hands, and then make my way home. The old building creaked and cracked and there was the odd mouse. But the worst moment was when I closed the door as I stood in the deep porch and faced the fact I had to make it between the big bushes on either side of the walk before I reached the empty street. Boys with Car 1930? BACK: John Jury, Nelson Osborne, Doug Adams. MIDDLE: Ken Osborne, Stan Rickard. FRONT: Morley Vanstone, Bob Corbett.