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

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TECH THTLER 71 SOMETHING SPECIAL On Friday, January 7, the parents of the first and second year students were invited by Principal Ferguson to come to Danforth Tech to meet the teachers of their sons and daughters. Later these guests gathered in the Auditorium to hear musical entertainment absolutely unprecedented at D.T.S. Some sixty-five musi- cians crowded the stage, tuning their instruments and setting music in order-pro- fessional musicians by permission of the Musicians' Union mingling with members of our own orchestra, and Mr. Roy Locksley and our own Mr. M. B. Parnall al- ternating on the podium. -Doris Spearing DID YOU KNOW? That Don Bartle won top honours ior tenor solo in the Kiwanis Music Fes- tival? That Paul Ellis fex-studentj is studying music on a scholarship from the Royal Conservatory? That Muriel Kilby fex-studentj played with the T.S.O. at one of the sub- scription concerts this year? That Ken Allen Cex-studentj has jcined the musicians' union and plays trom- bone with the Governor-General's Horse Guards band? That Gerald Payne, Jack Edgar, jim Kimber, and Bruce Vlfilliams, ex-students of five years ago, revived their quartette and sang at the '48 Exhibition? That Jim Manser, Bill Dimoff, Ed. Jackson, Ken Allen, and Bob Nichols spend their Monday evenings playing with the Beaches Symphony Orchestra? That Mr. Parnall was-one of the original twelve of the Toronto Men Teach- ers' Choir? That Mr. Bates has a dance band of his own in Markham? That Valerie Clarke dances with a troupe called the Metro-Maids in her spare time and with a circus during the holidays? That Barbara Gibson conducts and accompanies a trio of girls' voices here in the school? That Lorraine Wedge, Lorraine Hifson, and Marion Barker revived their hill- billy routine for the Exhibition show? And that Mr. Davis has been studying music during the summers these sev- eral vears past at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., a musical cen- tre rapidly attaining outstanding prominence over the North American continent? -Doris Spearing We may aa wa., This year's play, directed by Mr. H. Garfield, provided for the audience at a special Junior Red Cross Benefit Performance a laughter-provoking story of first love. The Cast of The Trysting Place comprised: joan Kinsey as Jessie , Art Core as Rupert , George Chandler as Mr. Ingoldsby , Pauline Crummy as Mrs Curtis , Don Sambrook as The Mysterious Voice . Bob Millar as Lancelot Briggs , and Doreen Begley as Mrs, Briggs fLancelot's motherj. Doris Spearing

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TECH THTLER 73 NOW WHAT HAPPENED T0 ------- ? ,aww mira eazzwzaz Ly me swam, fza. -1.5. '37 Ken Bundy CD.T.S. '35-Matriculationb. For- mer president of Students' Councilg four years as R.C.A.F. pilot, retiring as FfLieut. Returned to T. Eaton Co. as manager of Pine Room at College Street Store. Now runs own highly successful drive-in cleaning establish- ment on Eastern Avenue, Toronto. Hopes eventually to add a laundry and a men's tailoring shop. Kent Davis CD.T.S. '38-Matriculationb. With T.C.A. ferries trans-Atlantic between Canada and British Isles. Mrs. Davis, nee Norma French, a graduate dietition from Varsity, taught English and French at Danforth Tech. for a short time. As student at D.T.S. was secretary of Students' Council. Jack Eastaugh CD.T.S. '33-Matriculationi. Taught at Bowmanville School for Boys and at Danforth Park P.S. before graduating from U. of T. On staff at D.T.S. until enlistment in R.C.A.F. Returned to Tech. staff and shortly thereafter was chosen head of boys' schools at Bowmanville and Galt. With his administrative gifts combines considerable artistic talent as evidenced by the collection of paintings of the English Lake Country which was exhibited at the school. Muriel Kilby CD.T.S. '48-Matriculationb. Has beenuplaying the marimba since she was ten and in the nine years since has given innumerable recitals in Canada and the 'States, appearing six times as soloist with the Toronto Symphony. During the past winter she has brightened up a number of the Toronto Star's Good Music Concerts. Ambitious to become a concert pianist, she is now at the Royal Conservatory of Music studying on the Ada Wagstaff Harris Piano Scholarship. Frank Lyon CD.T.S. '42-Matriculationb. Graduated from Varsity's School of Forestry and now heads the Research Section of the Northwestern Region of the Department of Lands and Forests. Helen Munro CD.T.S. '37-Vocationalb. Now she is Helen Stephens, a popular Toronto fashion model at such shows as the Inter- national Trade Fair and the Royal Winter Fair. Husband Jack, a former all-round ath- lete who graduated in architecture, planned the remodelling of their home while Helen used her dress-making training to do the drapes and curtains. Result: pictures of every room and a write-up recently appeared in a widely-read Canadian magazine. Rex Punchard CD.T.S. '24--Matriculationi. A key man with the Northern Electric Com- pany's Electronics Division at Belleville working on radar projects. Has travelled all over the U.S. and the Alcan Highway assisting in experiments with the R.C.A.F. N-E lent him to Research Enterprises in To- ronto during the war. Muriel Kilby, D.T.S. '48