Glebe Collegiate Institute - Lux Glebana Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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and Resources the E. B. Eddy Paper Mills, The Ottawa Dairy, the National Research Council Laboratories and the Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co. Plant. In the near future it expects to visit Beach Foundries, Connor Washers and the Canada Cement Plant. In addition, plans are being worked out for trips to Cornwall and Montreal. To finance these out-of-town trips the Science Club sponsors various activities. This year it has been host to the students at a moving-picture show and has arranged after-noon dances and the annual Science Club Dance. In conclusion it may be stated that the club, which came into existence through the initiative of Mr. Bullock, could not have continued to exist without his splendid support as sponsor. The officers of the executive for the current year 1938-39 are: Sponsor, MR. V. E. BULLOCKQ Assistant Sponsor, R. N. MC- 1 GREGoRg Pres., HENRY BOLTON, Vice-P-res., JAMES NETTLETONQ Secretaries, Miss SHIR- LEY MILLER, BETTY FEA'rHERs'roNg Treas- urers, FRED SHARPE, EDWARD RETTIEQ Li- brarian, JOHN WILSON, Assistcmt Lvlbrm'-ifm, ERIC COWAN. Sk S4 all The Montreal Trip T 6.30 a.m. of June 8th in a drizzling rain, 65 members of the Science Club ' with undampened spirits, left the Collegiate in two de-luxe buses for Montreal. Lead by our musical assistant-sponsor, Mr. McGregor, and our leather-lunged redoubt- able president, Joss Gordon, we engaged in lusty sing-songs and yells for the greater part of the way. This, no doubt, helped to chase the rain away for the sun was shining brightly long before we reached the first toll-bridge. About 10.30 a.m. at Montreal West a halt was made to re-arrange the gang. Forty boys in charge of Mr. Bullock piled into one bus and visited the nearby Con- sumers' Glass Factory, while all the girls and some boys along with Mr. McGregor proceeded almost across the city to the Fry-Cadbury Chocolate plant. Both parties were very courteously re- ceived and the various processes shown and explained in detail. The boys saw bottles of all sizes and shapes made. Theytraced the procedure through fromithe raw Ingred- ients of broken glass, special sand, borax, etc., to the great gas-fired furnaces from which the molten glass flows out Intog the blowing moulds. From these the red-hot bottles were carried away on huge moving Lux GLEBANA Page 59

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SCIENCE CLUB H. BOLTON SCIENCE CLUB EXECUTIVE Waller A. Runge Back Raw-W. GREEN, KEITH MCCAFFERY, DAPHNE NEVILLE, BETTY IYIAINGUY, MARGARET TURNBULL, JAMES NE'r'rLE-ron, Emo CowAN Joan WHITMORE, ROBERT CoLE. , Front Row-EDWARD RETTIE, BETTY FEATHERSTONE, HENRY BOLTON, SHIRLEY Mxi.LER, .Lxcx W1LsoN, MR. V. E. Bunnocx, QSPONSORQ. HE GLEBE Collegiate Science Club has become an institution of no small importance 'to the students. It is now in its seventh year and each year it has been increasing in usefulness. In the beginning it was a something extra to the classroom. To-day it has become a dis- tinctive institution managed by its members for the additional knowledge they may draw from membership in it. To many students it is still just a name 5 but that it is more than this will be realized from the statement concerning its activities which follows. The membership is limited to sixty students who, after the requirements of the constitution, must Cab take an Upper School Science subject, tbl have at least 2nd Class Honours in Middle School Chemistry, and Ccj have 5091. at all times during the year. Page 58 The sixty potential scientists are divided into ten groups of six members each. Meet- ings are held every other Wednesday after- noon in the Lecture Room. Each group has charge of one meeting. In this way each member participates in the c1ub's programme. The programmes are varied, consisting of experiments, illustrated talks and scientific demonstrations. The club is favoured at some meetings by having guest speakers. It has an up-to-date library with the latest scientific books, monthly magazines and digests from which the members may derive valuable information. Another phase of the club's activities is visiting industrial concerns and places of interest. To date in 1938-39 the club has visited the Filtration Plant, the Fuel Re- search Laboratories and Forest Products Laboratories of the Department of Mines Lux GLEBANA

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belts, to be cooled, sorted and packed for shipping. It was one of the most interesting processes the Club has ever seen. The girls, too, had an interesting time seeing all types and forms of chocolate and cocoa prepared. As a very acceptable finish each student was given a bag of chocolate samples and a refreshing drink of hot chocolate. Both parties arrived at the Queen's Hotel at 1 p.m. Here they all had dinner together in a private dining-room. The food was excellent and plentiful, and how they ate! Everybody then had a good rest in rooms specially placed at our disposal by the generous hotel management. At 2.30 p.m. we set out on a sight-seeing tour of the city under the direction of two very witty Irish guides. The buses took us right up the mountain to the Westmount Lookout where a wonderful panorama of city, river, land and distant mountains is spread out to view. Other places visited included Brother Andre's famous Shrine, Notre Dame Cath- edral, various parks, and finally the docks where we were shown through the C. P. R. liner, The Duchess of Richmond. We were then allowed two free hours to window-shop and get our own supper Where we wished. By 6.30 we were all rounded up and on board the buses ready for the trip home. At Hawkesbury we stopped for fifteen minutes, and certainly livened up the town. We arrived back at the Collegiate about 11 p.m. after just about the biggest and best day of our lives-a very appropriate Grand Finale to our Science Club year. We are very grateful to our Club sponsor, Mr. Bullock, who arranged all the details ofhthe trip-and there wasn't a hitch any- w ere. The Perth Trip N SATURDAY, May 4, Mr. Bullock and about forty Science Club mem- bers boarded a large O. E. R. coach and headed for Perth, on the Club's first outside trip of the year. We reached our destination about 10.00 a.m. and after making arrangements for dinner at the Perth Hotel, proceeded to the factory of the Perth Shoe Company. There the oflicials divided us into groups, and 'the efficient guide assigned to each group showed us the manufacture of women's shoes from the designing-room to the finished product. The factory is a large one and we were in- formed that there were more than 11,000 pairs of shoes in the process of manufacture. We then walked a short distance to the J ergen-Woodbury plant, where soaps, creams and cosmetics are manufactured. Here the head chemist showed us the plant in its entirety, the girls being especially interested. Most of us managed to procure samples of the various soaps as we went along. ' The next stop was the Perth Hotel, where we were served an excellent meal, followed by a few impromptu speeches from Club members. After dinner we had an hour and a half to do as we pleased and the majority took this opportunity to see the town. About 4.30 p.m. we re-assembled at the Perth Hotel and returned to Ottawa feeling we had had a very worthwhile and enjoyable trip. . - Pk wk Pk When I feel like exercising, I just lie down 'till the feeling goes away. Q Pkvlfvk He is the kind of motorist who thinks a locomotive whistles at crossings just to keep up its courage. Page 60 . . - 1 - as su LUX GLEBANA