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

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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.

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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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Erected 1929 BOARD OF TRUSTEES W.B. Couch, Chairman Dr. G.C. Bonnycastle ------ F.C. Vanstone Rev. D.W. Best, D.D. - - - - Dr. J.C. Devitt L.S. Caverly ------- - - - J.H.H. Jury C.H. Mason -------------- Sec. Treas. BUILDING COMMITTEE Dr. G.C. Bonnycastle Rev. D.W. Best, D.D. ------- L.S. Caverly PRINCIPALS W.J. Morrison, B.A. L.W. Dippell, B.A. ARCHITECT G. Roper Gouinlock, Toronto CONTRACTOR Herod Construction Co., Mimico