City Park Collegiate Institute - Park Bench Yearbook (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada)

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THE PARK BENCH 49 FILM CLUB With Mr. MacKinnon acting :is incentive City Park organized, for the first time in its history, a Film Club. The purpose of this club was, as the name suggests, to show films for recreation as well as educational purposes. At the first meeting Donald Kirk was elected president, lean Cameron vice-president, and lan Thomson secretary. An assisting committee ccmpcsed of Tom McGregor, Art Potts, and Bill Hellofs was also elected to look out for the opinions of the majority. lt was decided to meet every second Thursday at seven forty-five P.M. Although not many meetings were held, a great deal was accomplished in the shcrt time the club operated. As films were shown, instructive talks dealing with their background and explaining the nature of the film were given. Katherine Nagle spoke on the film Dentistry As A Career , Bob Thorvaldson gave a reading on Walt Disney's film Donald's Decision , and Beverley Hogarth presented a summary on Food, Weapon cf Conquest. Among the other films shown and enjoyed as evidenced by voting was, This is Blitz , Inside Fighting China. Since the club was received with such gratifying interest and worked so success- fully, we have high hcpes fcr the future. With Mr. MacKinnon as guiding light our course ought to be straight. -CARMEN ZAPPA. ff THE PARK BENCH POLL The Park Bench Poll received a hearty welcome, in spite of a week of corny advertising. Remember it? Mr. Yake and Mr. Evans had nightly arguments as to the object of it all. They came forth with some amazing ideas. While the questiones may have seemed frivolous, we did find out some pertinent facts about student opinion. For example, by a very close margin, Winston Churchill was placed above Franklin D. Roosevelt as the world's outstanding personality. Other interesting facts were: brunettes are preferred before blondes and red- heads, the slow beat has more addicts than has jitterbugging Cas one put it, I pre- fer to drool lp most students are the silent type. Many and varied were the extra curricular activities reported. There were a number of interesting comments re Matinee and Sadie Hawkins' dances. A point to remember-City Park dances are too cliquey, and that is something we don't want! Boys to watcn for, are Ioe Potts, the Strother brothers and Bing Crosby. And keep an eye open for Iocelyn Haffner and Sheila Cairns. fEye wonder why?J Thanks for your suggestions, mates. Next year we hope the Poll will flourish just as vigorously and by all means for a longer period. -Ye harassed quorum. After terrific struggles, Lloyd Ellis finished his History paper, looked it sadly over, and then, at the end, wrote: Dear Mr. McKechney: lf you sell any of my answers to the funny papers, I expect you to split fifty-fifty with me.

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48 THE PARK BENCH Cl UBD SPEAKERS' CLUB The regular Thursday night meetings of the Speakers' Club were hampered a great deal this year. Nevertheless the meetings that were held were certainly suc- cessful. The first meeting of the season dealt with elections. Neil Harris was re-elected president, with Mary Davidson as vice-president, and Doug Woodley as secretary. Unfortunately Doug found he was unable to continue his duties in this position. lean Nettle was elected secretary in his place. The other meetings consisted of both prepared and impromptu speeches followed by helpful talks by Mr. Knight, giving us pointers on public speaking. This year because of a lack of time we had only one entry in the Bryant Oratory Contest-Willa Kernen-who spoke on The Western Wheat Problem. Our first year contest revealed that there was, indeed, a lot of talent amongst our younger students. Bill Slaid won the honors with his speech on the Red Cross. Other contestants no less good were Eric Brown, lackie Iohnson, Ken Turner, Peggy Browning, and Ruth Russell. The rest of the evening was given up to a quiz contest for the first year students only, and for which George Bradley so kindly gave his time. l feel sure this worthy club will continue its successes in future years. -JEAN NETTLE ff WRITERS, CLUB In spite of the handicap of a very late start-it was not organized until lanuary- the City Park Writer's Club has had one of its most successful seasons in 'several years. A great deal of the credit for this goes to Mr. MacKinnon for stepping in to take the place originally held by Mr. Vtfickenden. Under his supervision an interesting time, and a lot of fun was had by all. The star author of the club was Neil H. with a partiality for dark tragedies. Even when Ralph N. branched off into epic poetry the members did not complain too energetically, which speaks well for their patience. Several good stories were con- tributed by Sheila G. and Dave K., Colleen C., Grace S., Sheilla C., Doug. W., and Gordon T. Other good members were Carmen Z. and Shirley N. Doug W., besides contributing stories, also acted as president, and kept the meeting from degenerating into brawls. Sheila G. held down the post of secretary performing very well except for an unfortunate tendency to call the minutes minutes, when the club had unanimously decided to call them half-hours, for variety. Altogether we had a very good year, but were disappointed in the fact that the members were all third and fourth years. lt is hoped that next year more first and second year students will turn out for the meetings. -BRUCE CLARKE. 'X f' Tom McGregor- You sold me a car two weeks ago. Salesman- Yessir. McGregor- Tell me again all you said about it then. l'm getting discouraged.

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