Brandon Collegiate Institute - New Era Yearbook (Brandon, Manitoba Canada)

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the new era p STUDENT COUNCIL ACTIVITIES The Student Council was organ¬ ized under the supervision of Mr. Bell who lent a guiding hand to our activities throughout the year. Beth Crawford was our capable and cheery president. We wish to thank those students who so will¬ ingly co-operated with us and helped us in our every enterprise. As usual all the students were required to buy Student Tickets which could be purchased at the price of twenty-five cents. A new ruling was made that these cards were not replacahle. The purpose of a student card is to entitle the holder to special admission prices at theatres and to admittance to school functions, as well as to add some money to our treasury. The amount of money secured in this way was $97.00. Raymond Bailey was our effi¬ cient reporter of “Collegiate Col¬ lections” in the Brandon Sun. A very capable and successful committee for Introduction Night, with Marguerite Hanson as con¬ vener, gave us an original and en¬ joyable evening. The different form of Prom showed its popular¬ ity by the large attendance. Neomia Axford as convenor for the Junior Prom deserves much credit for the good time had by all. Instead of having an orchestra for this Prom we had a Whirlitzer which fulfill- our needs. Ted. Speers and Cliff. Kitson were in charge of our Sen¬ ior Prom which was a “backward party”. It proved to be one of the most successful Proms ever. The original ideas of the committees were a boon to our social activi¬ ties. Early in November a special committee decided upon the editor of “The New Era”. Anita Smith was their splendid choice. The annual Collegiate swimming meet was held at the “Y” on No¬ vember 19th. The boys showed special interest in this event. The winning boys’ room received a cup and the winning girls’ room re¬ ceived a pennant. The meet was a decided success and added much to our extra-curricular activities. Our major production, “The Adorable Age” was the most suc¬ cessful project of the year. The cast and directors deserve hearty congratulations for their hard work in making it what it was. As to ticket sales we can boast of a full house for the two nights of presentation. We can honestly say the success was largely due to the effort of Miss Insley’s room. Her room received the prize of five dollars for a room party as a re¬ ward for selling the most tickets. A profit of $180.00 was the result of our production. A motion for the purchase of school dishes was put to the Stu¬ dent Council but was rejected be¬ cause of the high cost until Mr. Reid told us that the School Board and teachers of the city would help us. Thus we were enabled to purchase dishes which are to be left in the school for use at our social functions. Each year the students try to leave behind them some addition to the school. The usual procedure of award¬ ing school crests to deserving stu¬ dents will be observed at the clos¬ ing exercises in the middle of June. —M.W.

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8 THE NEW ERA STUDENT COUNCIL Back Row: MR. H. Bell . MR. J. R. REID .. . Staff Advisor Principal Second Row: ELMER KAUFMAN . DOREEN SULLIVAN . TED SPEERS . . BERNICE COCHRANE .. CLIFFORD KITSON . JACK PIERSON .. . II A Representative . II D Representative . Treasurer . II E Representative . ..IV A Representative . II B Representative Front Row: RUTH BLAND . BETTY ALLEN . MARY WATSON .... BETH CRAWFORD . BARBARA EDWORTHY .... NEOMIA AXFORD ... Absent—DONALD THOMPSON . .. .. II D Representative .. II C Representative . Secretary . President .. II F Representative . Ill C Representative .. Vice-President

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Sitting, Left to Right: Dr. J. A. Hall, Dr. E. W. Montgomery, W. McKellar, R A. Clement. Standing, Left to Right: Dr. J. S. Matheson, Judge S. E. Clement. The Matriculation Class of 1889 The first Public School in Brandon was a two-storey frame build¬ ing consisting of one class room on the ground floor and one above. The building can still be seen at the rear of the Alexandra Block on the west side of Tenth Street. The teacher was Mr. T. .1. Lamont, afterwards Dr. T. J. Lamont, of Treherne; and Miss Weightman (later Mrs. T. J. Lamont, who is still living), assistant. In the spring of 1883, a four-roomed brick building was erected adjoining the original building on the east and facing on Tenth Street (afterwards remodelled and now the Alexandra Block). The Collegiate opened in one room, in September, 1883, with Dr. E. S. Popham as Principal, who resigned to become Principal of the Winnipeg Collegiate and afterwards Dr. E. S. Popham. There were some students who matriculated from the Collegiate prior to the year 1889. I cannot give a complete list of the names, nor the dates, but from memory I recall these names: Rev. Dan. McKay,