Danforth Technical School - Tech Tatler Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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12 C H U M Date: Wednesday, Nov. Toronto, Canada 10, 1948 Continuity Time: 10:45-11:00 TECH TFITLER Client: Danforth Technical School Agency: Station Program: Journey of Remembrance Number: 1 Announcer: Larry Mann Announcer Music : An nouncer Ferguson : Music: Ladies and gentlemen-boys and girls in the schools of Ontario-at this time the Public Service Department of radio station C.H.U.M. in Toronto takes pleasure in presenting-the Journey of Remembrance Day programme--. It comes to you under the auspices of the Ontario Teachers' War Veterans' Association, and is part of the regular Re- membrance Day programme, prepared by Principal W, P. Ferguson and staff. It is being conducted in the Auditorium of Danforth Tech- nical School and the music will be provided by the Girls' Choir of the school, under the direction of Dr. R. C. Davis, Choir Director. Hymn- Land of Hope and Glory CDanforth Tech. School Girls' Choir-Dr. R. C. Davis, Conductory And now may I present to you W. P. Ferguson, M.A., B.Paed., Prin- cipal of Danforth Technical School. Young men and maidens, old men and children, praise the name of the Lord, for His name alone is excellent, His glory is above the earth and Heaven. I can think of no more appropriate Words for my opening remarks then these Ihave just quoted-taken from the Holy Scriptures. On November 11th, 1918, at eleven o'clock, the Armistice was signed to close World War 1. Since then on the last school day before the 11th, this school and other schools in the Province have held a special Ser- vice of Remembrance and Thanksgiving. After the close of the second World War in 1945. this Remembrance Day has taken added significance. We are assembled to-day for three especial reasons: Qij To revere the memory of those who gave their lives in World War I, and pay grateful tribute to the surviving veterans, many of Whom are numbered among the parents of students attending our schools to-day. Ciib To remember with reverence and humility, those who enlisted in WORLD WAR II, more particularly those who made the supreme sacrifice in the cause of freedom, liberty and our British traditions. riiib To beseech you, the Youth of Canada, to keep sacred their memory and to see to it that their sacrifice has not been in vain. To enjoin you to appreciate and cherish the four freedoms-freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of speech, and freedom of worship-and preserve them at any cost. To exhort you to re- dedicate your lives to the service of God, to practice tolerance, honesty and charity, those jewels of democracy, so that you, the citizens of to-mlorrow, may carry high the torch, to the glory of God and good of man ind. CGirls' Choirp Hail to Thee, O Canada.

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cHNl X EE QQ 46 S t . li ji is .fn - I . ' 0 ll it i JOURNEY OF REFTIEITIBRHHCE On November 10, 1948, Danforth Technical School, under the auspices of the Cntario Teachers' War Veterans' Association, blazed an- other trail in broadcasting. A special Remembrance Day Programme to the Province of Ontario featured inspirational addresses and music by the Girls' Choir. We reproduce the script in lull.

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TECH THTLER 1 3 C H U M Date: Wednesday, Nov. Client: Danforth Technical School Agency: Station Program: Journey of Remembrance Toronto, Canada 10, 1948 Number . 2 C ' ' : : - : ' ontinuity 'Iime 10 45 11 O0 Announcer: Larry Mann Announcer At this time I take pleasure in introducing Mr. Roy S. Foley, Head of Foley: the English and Language Departments of the Danforth Technical School. Mr. Foley is a veteran of the first WORLD WAR and was chairman of the War Service Committee of the school during the second WORLD WAR. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Foley. Thank you, Mr. Mann During the twenty years following the first WORLD WAR, every school boy and girl committed to memory, and on Remembrance Day, we heard intoned the stirring and challenging words of john McCrea, speaking for his comrades in Death: To you from failing hands we throw The torchg be yours to hold it high, If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders Fields. We are told that John McCrae and his poem and its message are out- moded. The fact is, for those twenty years we committed that great poem to memory g we engraved it upon our memorals, recited it and found for the moment emotional exultation. But never did we carve it upon the tablets of our heartsg never did we take up the torch g instead, in selfishness, we sewed the whirlwind, and reaped the savagery and devastation of a second WORLD WAR. To-day we find ourselves again almost in the identically perilous plight of ten years ago. And again we hear speaking to us the voices of the Undying Dead, speaking now with more impelling and imperious urgencyg counselling, us not to selfishness, or cynicism. or doubt, or fear, but counselling us to manly fortitude, to unshaken loyalties and fidelities to home and school, to church and to state: counselling us to a re-dedication of our lives to the unfinished work which they so nobly advanced. In February, 1941, during the fury of the battle of Britain, President Roosevelt pencilled on a piece of paper and despatched to Winston Churchill this fragment of a poem by Longfellow : Sail on, O ship of state l Sail on, O union, strong and brave ! Humanity with all its fears With all the hopes of future years, Hangs breathless on thy fate. Churchill promptly replied with these characteristic words : Give us your faith and your blessing. We shall not fail or falter. We shall not weaken nor tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long- drawn trials of vigilance and exertion wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.