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

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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.

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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 l I I I 1 D. T. S. CEDTEDHRY HCTIVITIES . A.mid-February Variety Show in the Auditorium under the direction of Mr. Cam Langille was the first ofHcial Danforth Tech recognition of the Toronto Board of Education's centenary. The centenary theme was carefully interwoven throughout the pro- gramme with ingenious contrasts of past and present worked into successive numbers. But the 1950 Annual Danforth Technical School Exhibition, held this year on March 17 and 18, provided the real school tribute to the Board which has been directing the work of education in Toronto over the past century. To begin with, the Exhibition itself was dedicated to the centenary. Then six rooms were set aside exclusively for cen- tennial exhibits. And finally the chairmen of various subject committees worked the theme into displays and demonstrations connected with their subjects. Standout in the opinion of many visitors was the replica of a mid-nineteenth century school set up on Floor C and illus- trating the standard equipment and furnishings current in Toronto at the time the Toronto Board of Education was in- augurated. An electrically controlled map, showing all schools under the Toronto Board of Education, the probable expansion in the Metropolitan Area, the insignia of the secondary schools of Toronto and district, and the model schools old and new, aroused such interest that it subsequently went on tour to other parts of the city. The Science Department presented the history and growth of chemical education in Canada, complete with samples of mineral production in the past century. The Domestic Arts stu- dents turned out displays of the old and new in sewing and cos- tume, especially as applied to the school girl. Even the plumbing shops went to work on a contrast of the past and present in their department. The influence of the Exhibition's Centenary theme was espe- cially noticeable in the exhibits of the English and History de- partments. Charts, illustrations, and models time and again re- flected' the progress perceptible in matters educational and cul- tural over the century during which the Toronto Board of Edu- cation has operated its constantly growing network of schools.