Galt Collegiate Institute and Vocational School - Specula Galtonia Yearbook (Galt, Ontario Canada)

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Y f.l,, 5 SEMPEIM SPE 4 C 7 'WATu l - ,, UM'-'A H A L' Pnrrvsl- of ull tml Hllllllllll Help me, Cassius, or I Sink The Specula Long, long ago when Horace gave his excellent advice, Ye who write choose a subject suitable to your ability, he could not have foreseen that in future times poor mortals, such as the editors of your SPECULA GALTONIA, would be conscientiously racking their brains for a few suitable words to pass on to the student body of the Galt Colleg- iate Institute and Vocational School. So, perhaps, we may find room here for a word or two about our school paper itself. A position on the SPECULA Staff isn't all it's cracked up to be. We agree that it is an honour, but at the same time a difficult task. Needless to say we cannot edit the SPECULA GALTONIA without material, and to whom should we appeal for material if not to the students themselves? If you have any ideas or cartoons, don't keep them to yourselves, try giving others the benefit of them and let them appear on the printed pages of our school magazine, so that your fellow school mates may enjoy them too. It is the endeavour of the SPECULA Staff to maintain a high stand- ard and in order to do this we must have the full support of every student. The students have supported the SPECULA GALTONIA nobly in the past. Let us keep up this support and our magazine will be one of the best, a boon to advertisers and a credit to the school. Perhaps you will ask, is the SPECULA worth while? Certainly it is worth whileg here is our spirit expressed, here is our one common desire to produce a good magazine for our Collegiate. Here is the evidence of the sort of spirit that ought to exist everywhere where young people get to- gether for their education. We want to be proud of our paper, as proud of it as we are of our school and our staff . We want the spirit of our Collegiate to be outstanding-to show enthusiasm, honour and good fellowship. To us the cover of our SPECULA GALTONIA with the school crest bearing the 21

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'WA Tus'i U L' A PARATUS SPECULA STAFF Front Row-Marion Stuart, Bertha Amacher, Dorothy French, Edith Dowler, Mardell Pratt, Miss C. R. MCL-achlan, M.A. Middle Row-Laurence Snelgrove, Margaret McCallum, Verna Day, Isabel Gourlay, Honor Bailie, Jerome Dietrich, Hume Wilkins. Back Row--Douglas Kemp, Jack Dawson, Ross Martin, Ken. Shantz, Garf. Lorriman. Absent-J im Peters. 20

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Pewerug U A A Pnnvvsn if motto Semper Paratusj' should be symbolic, for this, above all, should stand for the school spirit. So fellow students let us always remember that the well-being of a school depends on the well-doing of every scholar in it and the only way that we can have a first rate school paper is by the faith- ful work and co-operation of you all. The former students- of the school established a precedent which we may well follow and it is our duty and privilege to set a worthy example for those who are to come, so that when we step down we can say fearlessly- Carry on. ' The York All over Canada, and even the United States to-day, people Bible Class are listening to the Sunday afternoon meetings of the York Bible Class-through the medium of the radio. They are enthusiastically interested in its progress and prophesy a brilliant future for it in the Christian world. The leader of this magnificent organization of young men is Mr. Denton Massey, himself a young man eloquent, and sincere, a young man who is striving to follow and to lead others into following the guidance and lead- ership of the greatest young man that ever lived, Jesus Christ. Sunday, February lst, marked a great step and turning point in the career of the York Bible Class and its members. It was the occasion of its 6th birthday. On February lst, 1925, a group of eighteen young men under the leadership of Mr. Massey, gathered in Hope Church and held the first of an everlasting and immortal line of meetings of the York Bible Class. To-day it is one of the largest and most successful classes for young men in Canada. Mr. Massey said : We do not advertise ourselves as the world's largest Bible class because we do not dare. The wor1d's largest Bible class may number less than ten. To us our numbers mean a greater responsibil- ity and anmore extended challenge. To-day he spoke the does not preach, he says he does not know how to preachj on a text taken from one of the most charming of A. A. Milne's poems : Now we are Six. This address, delivered on the day of the class's sixth birthday, was one of the most beautiful he has ever delivered. Pre- sented in that simple, direct way that is characteristic of Mr. Massey, it struck a vital chord in the breasts of all those who listened to and absorbed his wisdom. He said : We are striving after the truth. We pray that this class may be a factor for the good in the hearts of all here assembled. 22 I