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

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TECH THTLER 7 FROTTT THE EDITOR'S DESH The brief halting of time that goes with the celebration of an anniversary invariably is the occasion for philosophizing. This year in Toronto schools we are celebrating the centenary of the Toronto Board of Education. This hundredth anniversary is a particularly fertile source for thought. Education itself, as the condensation of experience, must neces- sarily emphasize the past, even though it is busied with preparing for the future. In remote antiquity, before the institution of schools, edu- cation-instruction of the young in the experiences and wisdom of the old-was carried on primarily in the family. ' E wl :N 5 il -I if' m sag -, , ' 1 g Wa L, -116 A34 With the development of more complex communities and the discovery of the means of recording human experience in writing, book learning and schools for its propagation came into existence. For centuries, however, training in the schools was the privilege of the few, the masses still had to rely on hit-and-miss education within the family and community at large. Today in our City of Toronto education is no longer the vested privilege of an elite few, it is the right of all. Perhaps in this year of celebrating the Toronto Board's centenary of service we should em- phasize most that it was our Toronto Board and hundreds of other Boards like our Toronto Board which are largely responsible for changing what was not so very long ago the exclusive prerogative of a caste to the birthright of every child in the Dominion. We in Danforth 'Tech should feel at this time a pride that can be all our own. Added to the right to the education which a century ago was reserved for the sons of English squires, we have had fash- ioned for us a new kind of education designed to fit us particularly for the new kind of world in which we who graduate in 1950 will live and work. Jlaaalcf Geffen

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TECH THTLER 1949-1950 TECH TATLER EDITORIAL STAFF FRONT: Mr. D. I.. Howchin, Dianne Darwin, Harold Cohen, Doreen Begley, Mr. A. Greene. REAR: James Jennings, john Hopkins, Isabelle Gibson, Janie Beecrcft, Joan Hornby, Ferne Gould, Bob Corcoran, Richard Hobbs. PRINTING STAFF FRONT ROW: L. Davidson, I4P, Foreman: Mr. J.P. Lusinag Mr. G. W. Elms, G. Kerr, I4P. BACK ROW: W. Webster, I3P, Foreman, C. W'aters, I3Pg B. Costin, UP: E. Wfarlc, I4I'g R. Head, I3P: S. Anderson, I3P.

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8 TECH THTLER UTOROUTO BOHRD OF EDUCHTIOU .. 1850-1950 .1 Left to Right: Trustee G. Blair Laing, Chairman of the 1950 Board. Dr. C. C. Goldring, M.A., D. Paed., Director of Education. j.R.H. Morgan, M.B.E., M.A., B.Paed., Superintendent of Secondary Schools. Trustee Dr. E. A. Hardy, O.B.E., B.A., D.Paed., Chairman of Centenary Committee. The Editorial and Printing Staffs of the 1950 TECH TATLER join with the teachers and students of Danforth Technical School in offering con- gratulations to the Toronto Board of Education on the century of splendid achievement which it is just now completing. The public-spirited men and Women who have served the cause of education on the Toronto Board throughout the past one hundred years have set an example of service which is a living source of inspiration to those thous- ands who each year leave the schools of Toronto the better prepared to play their several parts on life's great stage. Left to Right: Trustee Gordon F. Ferguson, Ward 8. Trustee S. Titchener-Smith, W'ard 1. Trustee W. E. Murdock B.A., Ward 1. Trustee Alex. Hodgins, Ward 8.