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

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nas: 41 .. 'gr M i,A. M- W UPPER LEFT: Fri-Nite Club in action UPPER RIGHT: L 0 r r a i n e Hipson and Lorraine YVedg:e at B. of E. Centenary V a r i e t 3' Shoxvn CENTRE LEFT: St. Nick and bevy of Danforth .ech's must decorative students. CENTRE RIGHT: Happv Group poses at 1950 Red and XVhite Prom. LOWER LEFT: 1949-50 Cheer' Leaders.

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40 and in the evenings, in preparation for Commencement, Concerts, and the School Exhibition. This year several special engagements were scheduled for the latter part of the winter term. The orchestra plays everything from swing to Bach equally well but has quite a time satisfying the student body. Many of their selections are from the classics. Even our Principal, who maintains his usual urbane neutrality :in this as in other such issues, was unwittingly mis- led in the -auditorium one morning. When the Orchestra played The Star Spangled Banner , he rose to his feet under the misapprehension that he was heaning the National Anthem. Mr. Par- nell afterwards instituted a thorough investigation but found that no one had played God Save the King . The Or- chestra henceforth played no more marches. Concert Master of our Symphonic group his a four-star violinist, Ed Len- nox by name, who has contributed a great deal to music at the school. This is his third consecutive season with the School Orchestra, and this year he has attended every practice and engage- ment in which the Orchestra has play- ed. Bob Benness and Norman McLeod of 14C have similar records as clarinet- ists. Ron Taylor, a genial violinist, is in the same category. Senior members of the brass section are Jack McArthur and Jo Dineley, trombonists, with Howard Mark, Rudy Manning, Gordon Ferris, and George Chandler on trumpets-a thoroughly dependable group. There are but three girls in the Or- chestra-Gwen McIntyre, Gloria Lane, and Doreen Veitch, w-ho plays alto horn. You may have heard our enthusias- tic French-horn section. Their ardour carries over, occasionally, and is heard in a final note of sheer joy, one beat after the rest of the Orchestra has stopped playing. Members are Sidney Rozycki, Richard Wall, Ed Walker, and Eldred Wark. The Sax Section, always looking for an opportunity to jazz a number if they can get away with it, TECH THTLER includes Ross Nash and Gilbert Cald- well. Violinists, the backbone of any or- chestra, are all too fe-w in number, but of the finest quality. In addition to those mentioned above are Douglas Webster and Sam McClenaghan. Don Salivan is already a solo performer, and Edward Czuchnicki is a welcome newco-mer to the string section. A splendid group of newcomers join- ed us in September, Don Durie, Bob Alley, Norman Iriob, Tom McNeeley, and Douglas Perrin. Paul Peddle is the librarian and gen- eral manager. CURRENT EVENTS CLUB President. ........ . .......... . .- Richard Hobbs Vzce-Preszdent ....,,,, C, ,.,.,,., , ,,,. Mae Genno Publicity Manager ........ Harry Martin Siayfi' Adviser .... ........ M r. D. M. Brown Under the aegis of Mr. D. M. Brown, head of the Danforth Technical School H i.s t o r y Department, the Current Events Club got off to its start for the 1949-50 session in late Autumn. With election of officers settled and a pro- gramme .ad-opted members began a ser- ies of -highly educational meetings. True to its name the Club this year has featured a series of discussions on topics of current interest, varying pro- ceedings by intro-ducing o u ts i de speakers or alternatively featuring dis- cussion leaders from within the mem- bership of .the Club itself. An added incentive to the male members to dis- tinguish themselves in this programme has been the promise that the male stu- dent who has 'been holding the floor and participating most actively in the talks will have the opportunity of visiting the United Nations Headquar- ters at Lake Success. High spots in the '49-'50 club year were Mae Genno's report on her last fall's visit to Lake Successg the meeting devoted to a discussion of the signifi- cance of General Chiang Kai-Shek's withdrawal to Formosa: and Mr. A. Greene's -survey lecture on the nature of communism and the method by which the democracies must meet its threat.

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