Burlington High School - Rarebits Yearbook (Burlington, Ontario Canada)

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RARE Second Form 1. First General Proficiency Prize, S310 donated by I.O.D.E. won by Phyllis Thomas, 91 Per Cent. 2. Second General Proficiency Prize, Books valued at 32.50 donated by H. S. Board, won by Muriel Metcalfe, 87 Per Cent' Ffnrzf Form 1. First General Proficiency Prize. 5810 donated by 1.0.D.E. won by lean Bell, 84.2 Per Cent. 2. Second General Proficiency Prize, Books valued at 962.50 donated by H. S. Board, won by Pauline Tancock, 85 Per Cent. Commercial Special 1. First General Proficiency Prize, S5 donated by H. S. Board won by Elizabeth Fothergill, 81 Per Cent. BITS 25 2. Second General Proficiency Prize, Books valued at 332.50 donated by H. S. Board, won by Alice Wilson. 76 Per Cent. Cnfnnzercfal Second Year 1. First General Proficiency Prize, S5 donated by H. S. Board, won by Thelma Passant, 75.5 Per Cent. 2. Second General Proficiency Prize, Books valued at 952.50 donated by H. S. Board, won by Nlarjorie Barber, 75 Per Cent. Conznzercfal F 1'r.rl Year' 1. First General Proficiency Prize, S5 donated by H. S. Board, won by Clare Tory, 74 Per Cent. 2. Second General Proficiency Prize, Books valued at 952.50 won by Reta Sinclair, 75 Per Cent. ' High Ethan! Entrance ll.f!B.B.iE. Frizz winners fur 19311 1. General Proficiency Prize of 310 in gold for student obtaining the highest total marks at Burlington Centre, won by George Robbins. 2. General Proficiency Prize in books for the student obtaining the highest total mark from each of the following five of the several schools writing at Burlington: tal Burlington Central Public School Prize-won by George Robbins but awarded by reversion to Lois Rusk. tbl Burlington East End Public School Prize-won by loan Purkis. CCD Strathcona School, S. S. No. 15, Nelson Prize-won by Marion Thurston tdj Pattinson School, S.S. No. 14, Nelson, Prize-won by Burt Sovereign. Cel Fisher's Corner School, S.S. No. 4, Nelson, Prize-won by Frances Pettit. SCHOLARSHIPS - Back row-Annie Bnrisuk, Edna Robinson, Reg. Cozens, Evelyn Stewart, . Centre Row--Nluriel Metcalfe, Phyllis Thomas, Clar: Tory, Catherine Gash, Pauline Tam-ork. lean Bell. St-att-ml-Lois Rusk, Burt Sovereign, Ioan Purlcis, George Robbins, Frances P4-Hit.

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24 RAREBITS IHNIY HIE An llntvruiew with ileam fllirlllmraiih By RETA SWARTZ V. In a recent publication . of Upton Sinclair's there is a remark on his hope that Doubleday Page 81 Co. would publish a book by Theodore Driesler, but Doubleday Pagets elderly maiden aunt wouldn't stand for that. Double- day Page's elderly maiden aunt is now quartered in our midst-and is still en- gaged in editorial workl The other day I called on her. I went, intending to have a brief, business-like interview with the writer, but the person I found in the charming little cottage on Caroline Street was not the dread being of my imagination. My first impression as she came down the stairs to meet me was that of soldierly dignity-and soft, white hair. On further acquaintance the dignity yielded to graciousness, and I found that her large, rather humourous eyes had the lovely quality of looking directly at the one whom she was ad- dressing. VVe talked about her life as an author, about the nine and a half books and of her experiences in New York where she was reader for the publishing house of Doubleday Page. The young writers who handed in their manuscripts at her desk called her Aunt lean . As I paged through various of the tempting volumes on the book shelves beside which we were sit- ting I came upon this inscription in the frontispiece of Christopher Morley's I Know a Secret . To Iean Pic- Ilwraith in appreciation, by her nephew Christopher lWIorley. I looked up inquiringly. Aly hostess smiled as she explained that she had once advised Morley to get married. He had taken her advice and also a raise in salary for both of which he was extremely grateful. Miss McIlwraith wrote all her own books except Diana of Quebec before she went to New York to edit. The business of writing she said, some- times doesn't bring enough returns to keep one in golf-balls. Miss McIl- Wraith golfs. My unsophisticated idea of New York had been that it was a regular Mecca for writers. Another illusion gone smash! New York may be a Metropolis for literature of the day but the best sellers are not written there. Miss McIlwraith quoted several recent successes to illus- trate, and spoke of her own experience with a series of articles written on a lonely island in Georgian Bay. Our conversation veered around to the modern style of composition. When I was with Doubleday Page she told me, I used to return about twenty manuscripts a Week, and send up probably two or three for consideration of the publishers. To-day some of the stuff that comes off the press reads as though there were no readers , Besides reading or smelling manu- scripts, as she termed it, Miss Mcllwraith also edited, a process which, I learned, was the whacking of a manuscript into shape, pruning out the undesirable material and in general polishing up the highlights. Freckles, by Gene Strat- ton Porter was her first job. The most