Eastern High School of Commerce - Eastern Echo Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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The J UNIORS ENTERTAIN On December 4th the Sophomores were delightfully entertained by the juniors, who arranged an irdteresting programme. It consisted of a play by BSS, dances by Maisie Allen, Wilma Camplin, Ruth McCrillivray, Ruby Silks and Irene Bremner. PK HF PF THE SEARCH FOR BEAUTY At our Christmas meeting all the year groups met in the auditorium to hear Mr. Lismer of the Art Gallery give a very inspiring address, The Search for Beauty. As is our usual Yuletide custom, each member contributed as her ticket of ad' mission, vegetables, canned fruit and other foods which were distributed by the Neighborhood Workers among needy families. The crowd then exercised their vocal chords in the singing of Te Olde Tyme Christmas Carols after which Christmas candies were distributed and the meetf ing was adjourned. ART APPRECIATION In January the Club arranged for a group to visit the Art Gallery and those who attended spent a very pleasant afterf noon seeing the worthfwhile exhibit of Canadian art displayed during that month. ,F ,k ,K PERIOD COSTUME On the fourteenth of March, all the girls met in the Auditorium to hear Miss Ruth Home of the Royal Ontario Museum give her illustrated lecture on Period Costume. SDS6 showed their dramatic ability in a pleasing production of The Price of Coal. In conjunction with our talk a Fashion Parade was presented to a fasf cinated audience. Pls Dk lk THE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER BANQUET Plans are now under way for our annual Mother and Daughter Banquet which we hope will be the usual happy affair of former years. This will bring to a close another successful year of the Girls, Club, GIRLS' 'CLUB EXECUTIVE Back Row: M. Stevenson, J. McDonald, R. Lenibke, F. Morris, I. Connell, E. Brix. Front Row: B. Price, M. Dentlebeck, R. Chapman fTreasurerD, Miss H. Elcoat fA,dviserl. J. Provan CPresidentj, E. Groves fSecretaryJ, P. Kearn fFifth Year Presb. Forty-two EASTERN ECHO

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GIRLS' CLUB EXECUTIVE 1934 Adviser ..... President .... Secretary .... Treasurer ............... Graduate President ..... Graduate Secretary ..... Senior President Senior Secretary ...... junior President junior Secretary ......... Sophomore President Sophomore Secretary Freshette President ..... Freshette Secretary ..... THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS HE Girls' Club has scored again! It is the sincere hope of the executive that it will always be a leading organization in Eastern Commerce, car' rying its objectives of increased school spirit, better social relationships, and a broader cultural viewfpointf' The introduction of the college year system, with an executive for each year, has greatly strengthened our organizaf tion. This plan has developed the feeling of responsibility and friendliness of each student toward her own respective year and brought the Junior and Senior girls into closer contact. This term the business world claimed three of our hardfworking executivefe our President, Margaret Smyth, Jean Sharvill, junior Secretary and joan Gordon, Graduate President. I wish to extend my thanks to our adviser, Miss Elcoat, and to the mem' bers of the Girls' Club Cabinet who have given their untiring efforts to making the meetings so successful. This is your club, Girls, and it is your enthusiastic support that will make it even more interesting and beneficial to you. ffanette P1-ovan. EASTERN ECHO Miss H. Elcoat Janette Provan ......Eleanor Groves ......Reba Chapman Phyllis Kearn Margaret Dentlebeck Frances Morris Eleanor Brix Joan Connell jean Sharvill Betty Price Reta Lembke joan Macdonald Muriel Stevenson THE YEAR'S ACTIVITIES Eleanor Groves, 3S5 Initiation Meeting The Girls' Club held their first meet' ing of the season on November 20 with a successful party at which the Seniors entertained the Freshettes. About ZOO Ereshettes--our upfandf coming Seniors-made a colourful Baby Parade in their initiation suits as they filed into the auditorium to make them' selves acquainted with the Seniors by a hearty handshake. This was followed by a dance by Gladys Cartlidge, a sing' song, a dance by Maisie Allen, and games led by joan Gordon. The crowd, about 500 in all, adjourned to the gymnasium where the Seniors gave an excellent demonstration of the Naas March, after which refreshments were served. if if lk THE SGPHOMORE SPIRIT The Sophomore Executive planned a gym. party early in january which many of their year attended. This took the form of an automobile party and games of this nature were the feature of the programme. Forty-one

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FRENC DEUX ANGLAIS CHEZ LES CANADIENS-FRANCAIS L y a presque huit mois que nous sommes arrives dans la grande ville de Montreal. Naturellement. maintenant nous sommes accout- umes a notre nouvelle vie. D'abord, Montreal est tres differ- ent de Toronto. Nous sommes ar- rives au cours de l'ete. fai re- marque une chose. Il n'y a pas le grand lac ou on peut nager comme a Toronto. Nous avons commence it travailler, sans delai. Nous demeurons dans la montagne et le bureau est un peu loin de la maison. Nous travaillons dans un quartier pres du fleuve St. Laurent. Vous savez, nous sommes employes dans le bureau d'un abat- toir. En hiver. c'est assez support- able, mais en ete. avec la chaleur. les abattoirs produisent une tres mauvaise odeur. En ce moment nous travaillons dans le departement des commandes de la campagne. Dans ce departe- ment nous sommes pres de 120 em- ployes, et il y a environ 80 Canadi- ens-Francais. De cette facon nous entendons et nous pouvons pratiquer assez bien le francais. Nous sommes aussi en relation avec les voyaguers francais. Quant on ecrit a la machine on apprend les noms des places prin- cipales de la province de Quebec et des noms typiques francais. .Xvec nous, il y a des gens qui se nomment. Lapointe. Turgeon, Messier., etc. Tous les Canadiens-Francais parlent le francais entre eux. ll faudrait que Jack et moi parlions toujours cette langue. Cest generalement. ce que nous faisons. Maintenant, fi la maison-D'abord, le diner. Aujourd'hui nous solllmes accoutumes at la cuisine francaise. Nous mangeons une variete de plats francais. .X table, nous avons des EASTERN ECHO discussions, pas toujours en francais mais on essaye-. .Xpres le diner. quelquefois nous faisous de la ge- ometrie: de temps en temps. on joue ou ping-pong, ou on lit. Certains soirs nous sortons. 'lack va jouer au basketball et moi it un church club . Le samedi, depuis sept ou liuit semaines, nous allons skier ou patiner. Je crois que jack va vous parler de notre progres en ski. Nous sommes juste tout pres du meilleur endroit pour faire du ski, c'est at dire, dans la montagne. Pas tres loin de chez nous, il y a le grand saut de ski. C'est tres beau de voir des liommes voler comme des oiseaux. ll y a quel- ques semaines. nous avons vu le cliampionnat de Quebec du saut en ski. Generalement, le temps passe as- sez vite. Je veux vous dire quelque chose au sujet du francais. -l'ai ete surpris du nombre de personnes qui parlent le francais it Montreal. On dit que 607 de la population ici est francais et tous les Francais ne savent pas parler l'anglais. Ilonc. il faut pou- voir parler les deux langues pour avoir une position publique clans le Quebec. Quelque fois on entend que dans la province de Quebec les gens parlent un francais tres dif- ferent que celui de lirance. Vest une erreur. lci on parle la meme langue. mais pas avec le meme ac- cent. Ile plus. en France il 5' a des provinces oil les gens parlent connne ici. c'est en Normandie et en Bretagne. lin terminant, j'espere qu'il y aura beaucoup de monde qui auront l'oc- casion de venir clans le Quebec pour se perfectionner en francais. -Randle Griffin Forty-three