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

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THE NEW ERA cfcible of Contents Pago Our Advertisers. 2 A Message from the Principal . 3 Teaching Staff. 5 Brandon Collegiate Institute. 6 New Era Staff . 7 Advertising Staff. 8 Editorial . 11 Student Council . 10 Student Council Activities. 11 Art Contest. 12 Literary Contest . 14 Photography Contest . 20 Lord Tweedsmuir. 21 Closing Exercises . 21 Red Cross Activities . 21 Discussion Club . 22 Music. 24 Exchange . 29 Dramatics. 30 Second Prize Cartoon. 32 Scholarships and Academic Honors. 33 International Friendship . 34 My Ideal Collegiate Boy . 35 My Ideal Collegiate Girl . 35 Humor . 36 Alumni .. 37 Sports . 39 Personals . 45 Contest Winners . 60 First Prize Cartoon . 67 As We Go To Press . 73 Art Contest Comment . 73 Autographs . 77-79

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THE NEW ERA 3 A MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL The 1940 issue of the New Era will become a precious volume as the years go by. Students have always prized the school magazine as the one great souvenir of their days at B.C.I. It has reviewed the activities of the school and the class histories from year to year. After years of experience in different parts of the world, men and women turn to the New Era and recall with pride and joy their early associates and their early achievements. This issue will be particularly prized, for it may be that many members of this graduating class will very soon be in the service of their Country at home and overseas. Graduating students should be looking forward. This year, that is not easy to do. We are at war. Our attention is fixed on the task of the hour; yet it is more essential than ever that we determine our every act in the light of its effect upon the future. We must, more than ever, look forward. What the future holds no one can tell. One thing is certain—what we are and what we do now, must inevitably affect the future. If we are to have a world of peace and freedom, we must now destroy the roots of those philosophies which develop indi¬ vidual and national selfishness and which always result in war with its consequent suffering. The war events of this year must have made a lasting impression upon the minds of students everywhere. From day to day we have witnessed the enacting of a great tragedy. Conspiracy after conspiracy by the villainous forces of selfishness and lust for power have been revealed and carried out with alarming success. Temporarily, it would seem that might has triumphed over right. It cannot remain so. The forces of right must organize to oppose such villainy and to re-establish that freedom of democracy which alone permits the individual to develop. It is to be hoped that every graduate of this school will go out determined that freedom and justice shall prevail, and that peace shall be established among the nations of the world, and among the factions within our own nation. May students everywhere dedicate their abili¬ ties to this end. May they look forward and lead forward to that day when “The war drum throbs no longer and the battle flag is furled In the parliament of man, the federation of the world.” —J. R. REID.

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THE NEW ERA o TEACHING STAFF Front Row: Miss E. A. Wood, Industrial Arts; Miss H. Dunseith, M.A. (McMaster) History; Miss M. McDole, R.A. (Manitoba) English. Second Row: Mr. A. A. Harris, R.Sc. (Acadia), M. Ed. (Manitoba) Physics; Miss J. Doig, R.A. (McMaster) History; Miss E. Strachan R.A. (McMaster) French; Miss E. Insley, R.A. (Manitoba) Eng¬ lish; Mr. George Harris, Industrial Arts. Third Row: Mr. E. E. Johnson, R.A. (Manitoba) Biology; Mr. J. R. Reid, R.A. (Queen’s) English; Mr. H. V. Bell, B.Sc. (Durham) B. Paed. (Tor.) Chemistry; Mr. S. H. Doctoroff, B.Sc., B.Ed. (Manitoba) Geometry. Back Row: Mr. M. Kavanagh, R.A. (Dublin) Latin; Mr. J. A. Ashley, B.A. (Manitoba) English.