Elmira District Secondary School - Oracle Yearbook (Elmira, Ontario Canada)

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54 4 I- THE oRAc1.E CARRY ON Yes Indeed ! Deep in the Heart of Texas the Time Was drawing near for Jim to board the Chatenooga Choo-Choo . As he rode down The Santa Fe Trail on his way to Tuxedo Junction with the boys, he said, Fel- lows, 'This is no Laughing Matter', 'I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire', but I must help to protect 'Everything I Love', and I will fight for freedom 'Till the Lights of London Shine Again'. At the station when Margie , De- lores , and Marta were Kissing the Boys Good-Bye , Madelaine murmur- ed in Jim's ear, 'I'll Wait for You' and 'Maybe' I'll have 'Blue Champagne' for a 'Moonlight Cocktail' 'When I see You Again'. Jim smiled and said, 'Good-Bye now', dear, 'I'll be back in a year'. The train pulled out. Over There , through the Stardust , he would soon be Climbing High , for he was one of the Captains of the -Q Clouds . So, like Jim , Carry On , folks, and during the Stormy Weather ahead, don't give Birth to the Blues but Keep Smiling . You can join the Victory Cavalcade and Fight for Canada by buying Victory Bonds and War Savings Stamps. Help Keep 'em Flying . G esiqliinfar Scene When I looked from my window A night or two agog A silvery moon was shining Upon the frozen snow. 'T was then I heard a sleigh-bell Tinkling in the night, As the horses gaily trotted Through that wonderland of white. The sleigh and bells soon faded Into the distant white, And I was left alone again- Alone in that lonely night. -Donorrn' HILL, XI 7Ae 8 . fm ,Mu 194.2 Gaeek yiaxua l The 1941 Oracle was awarded First Prize against 500 competitors. . . -if The Commercial I Engravers produced the engravings.

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THE ORACLE ff WP if T .lffafgif ' l m, g'Kli':l GRADE XIII Why Is It . . . , . . . that Don Freeman takes such delight in making 'crotten-egg gasv? Could it be that he's getting revenge on somebody. . . . that Sten Beisel pays so much attention to Doug MacKay? Maybe it's just Doug's homework that Stanley,s so interested in. Who knows? . . . that Bill Arnold gets a cut on the same side of his face as does a certain grocer's daughter? Which goes to show that coincidents do coincide. . . . that Eleanor Arnold insists on taking the short cut that leads directly to Brubacher Street? Oh well, maybe it's just that the shortest way home ffrom schooll is the sweetest way round. . . . that Lorine Weber has taken to wearing kilts? Can it be that the safety pin is a mark of economy in this ration- ing epic of the war? ' . . . that Mary Howard listens to all the broadcasts from England? Perhaps she knows the announcer. fOh yeahlj t . . . that Louis Klinck and Dave Rowland have taken to jumping out of fifth form windows? It's possible that they're contemplating joining the para- chute troops. . . . that Betty Schummer is consider- ing turning farmerette? Surely she doesn't know any cute farmers down south, but then Betty never was one to confide! . . . that Keith Keller is so interested in Geometry? It's hardly possible that after his graduation he has intentions of studying new angles on the subject. . . . that P. I. Morris doesn't like his name Pat ? He claims to be an A1 Irishman and where is a better Irish name than Patrick to be found? . . . that Audrey Hahn is dubious concerning her vocation. In the war somebody's bound to get hurt, so why hesitate in taking up the nursing pro- fession, Audrey? . . . that Helen Karley has dropped chemistry? I have an idea that she knows more about the subject than most of us who are studying it now? . . . that Ruby Gies has not caught wind of the fact that she is the favourite of a certain male in fifth form? Un- known to her, she is worshipped from afar! . . . that Douglas MacKay is dubbed Lord Smuglessi' because if he is, he certainly doesn't show it. . . . that .lean Klinck had to bore everyone with the preceding Why is it's ? You see a pretty girl walking down the street, she is of course feminine. If she is singular you are nominative. You walk across to her and become dative. If she is not objective you are soon plural. You walk home with her and her mother becomes accusative. They enter and sit down. Her little brother is a definite article. Next talk of the future, and she changes to the past. You' kiss her and her father becomes present. Things are tense and soon you find your- self the past participle. ' 'K' 'I' 'I Doug. McKay: Statistics show that women live longer than men. Stanley Beisel: Yes, paint is certain- ly a great preservative. 'I I' 'I' Bruce Ruppel: Last night I had the audience glued to their seats. Jean Klinck: That's one way of keep- ing them there.

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THE ORACLE . .. . - COMMERCIAL IDIOSYNCRASIES We think Commercial idiots have the most peculiar idiosyncracies, like Bruce DeVitte Ruppel and Audrey Burnett, for instance, chewing their gum on the bias and all the girls taking to winking with their hips and using fascinating make- up. Ruth Playford and Kay Bolender even add a little variety to an old past- time by using six delicious, delightful, delovely lipsticks: cinnamon, nutmeg, Bohemian, exotic, neapolitan and of course the international favourite, tutti-frutti. We all agree that it does add spice and flavour. Man! oh man! when Terry Jordon casts her luminous peepers in the direction of our class hair-dresser, he simply lapses into a state of hypnosis land we don't mean the state of Missouril. ls that Gabriel, the buzzer? It must be for the whole herd seems to have heard it as they traipse five-fold into the Typorium. Trudy Baechler hugs herself and yells: It,s so cold in here that there are even icicles on the drips. Seeming- ly with one step Mr. Schoales Uh pro- nounced k', as in kiddy carl ploughs across the room and bending down asks Cedric, the music box, if he will please wheeze a little bit to get us warm and in the mood. The William Tell Over- ture No. 3 usually gets us hep and in the groove although it is Dorothy Mulhol- land's private opinion that rhumba would get any hep-cat hepper. Frank Seigner's finger loosening exercises con- sist of striking Fli-bi-nite Campbell with a mean left to the funny bone and promptly dashing all his castles in the air to terra firma. Suddenly there is a gutteral groan as Bernice Thur throws her arms into the air and catching them again implores the class to console her as she looks despairingly at her error and yells, Is there an eraser in the house? Simultaneously Grace Woods and John McCormick shout Duck as they hurl their rubber-outers across the room. Lloyd Mulholland rather slings his lingo or does something with it for 55 Terry looks shocked and murmurs, Heaven give me strength . And then, naturally, Orma Stevens blushes. With a buzz from Gabriel there is a general migration from the Typorium. This always seems to reload Norma Beitz with fresh conversational ammuni- tion as she again pours out her soul to attentive Margaret Martin until Mr. Schoales, in desperation, bellers, Wo- man, is it whisperitis that ails you? Then Grade 12 is swept through a period of Shorthand at the rate of 102 per, leaving Lorne Bolger and Murray Pom- mer with a hungry look in their eyes. Repairing to the outer extremities they return later licking their lips and minus that hungry look. At just about that time Verdun Lavery comes in panting and begins to fan his tongue, and who wouldn't have a hot tongue after the hot sales talk he gives his advertisers. If Grade ll is having Shorthand then Audrey Glaiser inevitably blinks her sky blue, sea blue, and baby blue eyes and urges someone to kindly give out with a translation and of course Anna Baessler is always willing to oblige if it will make Audrey's life any happier. If anyone's looking for Stan Deckert he's usually buried in a book and doing some apowerfullyi' deep thinking when he isn't molested by Willard Martin. Promptly at eleven June Farce Weichel leaps from her seat and dashes for the door. Half a second later she's back muttering, Farce, I forgot my compact. Sympathetically the rest of the class murmurs, Well! wouldn't that jar your grandmother's picklesf' After June's departure Bruce wears a lost look until he glides his optics over some other captivating Commercial cutie. 0