Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute - Acta Nostra Yearbook (Guelph, Ontario Canada)

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ACTA NOSTRA, 1926 FUR BUYS MID GIRLS INTERIIIIIG T0 The Guelph vocational School FULLUW A BUSINESS, INDUSTRIAL offers splendid opportunities . 1 Tr . . Zlonieitiie iii? FOR THE BOYS FOR' THE GIRLS there are departments in: there are departments in: Stenography, Steno?-Taphy, Typewriting, Typewriting, ACCOUUWHCY, Accountancy, Machine Shop Practice, Mechanical Drafting Household Science, Woodworking, Power Machine Operating, Auto Mechanics, Sewing , Electricity. Home Nursing. t Any boy or girl with Entrance Standing can secure enrolment in these courses, and a boy or girl, 14 years of age, in a 4th book class, can, with he: consent of the Principal, enroll in the Prep. Class of the Vocational School and qualify for the Entrance while at the same time obtaining a course in vocational training. EXCHHNGE PPIGTGGQHPHS WITI1 YOUR SCI'l0OL FRIENDS PRICES REDUCED T0 STUDENTS The Kennedy Studio LOWER WYNDHAM ST. GUELPH .lli-1 Makers of the Portraits and group photographic illustrations of this book. x - Ae-U f-if - f ff e J

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88 ACTA NOSTRA, 1926 BOYS OF THE JUNIOR COMMERCIAL B. VVe know we're clever. we know we're good. lVe always behave as good boys should: Obey our teachers. study hard. KYe'll all have our names on an honour card. Yes! Maybe! In Literature and History too. Miss Pigtott will tell how well we do: In Sten-ography. too. Miss Blyth will say. That we all get perfect. every day. Yes! Maybe! In French. Miss McDonald will tell. That we'll be famous. she knows full well: In .-Xrithinetic, Mr. Hastie too. Admits there is nothing' we cannot do. Yes! Maybe! The swim is where we show a lot. You don't believe it? Maybe not: And in bookkeeping. Mr. Langford declares. lYe learn with ease most difficult affairs. Yes! Maybe! .-Xh. yes. we're clever. yes. we're good: lVe always be-have as good 'boys shouldg Obey our teachers. study hard. XVe'll soon have our names on an honour card. Yes! Maybe! T. H. Reed. Ir. Com. LT. H. Reed is our 'boy from Scotland. who has :travelled round the world. We shall hear more from him next year. we hope.j SMILES Miss P.- Small, explain the Family Com- pact. Small-i'Er-er. XVhat part don't you un- derstand?,' Dentist- XYliat kind of filling do you want in your teeth. son? Ford- Chocolate please. Gray- Mr. H.. will you buy me a mi- crobe? Mr. 1-I ptrithmetic teacherj-l'lY.hat for? Gray- Because I read in the paper that they multiply quickly. Black tsmall boyj- Please bring me a chair. Rapp tbig boyl- XYhat for? Black- I want to whisper in your ear. Qi Thircl Year Commercial GENERAL REPORTS ON THE MASC. SEX OF III COM. Some say that this form has the best re- presentation of the above mentioned in our school-and some say otherwise. Don. G. H.. ex-captain and member of the basketball team. member of the rugby squad. and actor. is the leading light of the form. the boy's representative. etc.-this by unanimous acclamation. But when all is said and done, Donald is a boy of valour. daily wending' his lonely and perilous way through the jun -' le of feminism in III Com. However. to mar -these enviable character' istics Donald has a certain peculiarity. which we cannot wholly understand. XYe wonder why the worthy boy is so often discovered wandering down a certain corridor that leads to the threshold of II C. Donald isxalso a reputed Romeo. For confirmation of this statement. refer to the aforesaid form. Good things come in small parcels. How trite that is of Ill Com. There are not very many of us, but. oh boy. everybody knows we're here. You said it. son! YOU KNOW HER Her eyes are dark. hair is brown. Her Shes a real girl. The talk of the town. Ask Short 22 Special Commercial 1. Preface. Please hearken while we give to you in poem. line on line. Some information up to date. in which some names shall shine: XY'hile others not so brilliant, reasoning' out the why and wherefore. Do take their part. with all their heart. of course that's what they're there for. 2. Verse. Miss McDonald. nrst of all. will get a word of mention. A.bility's rnquestioned. so we give her rapt attention. lYe couple him who's called Glynne Jones and Latvrfne Love so quiet. XYith Charlie Moore. a sunny chap-he lo-ses nothing by it.

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90 ACTA NOSTRA, 1926 A scholar quite advanced in class, and ovne you can rely on. We -hand the compliment at once to Helen M. O'Brien. From Arkell Kenneth Brooks comes in. from Acton comes McPherson. Dale Comar gets a line herself. she is a bright young .person. jack Taylor may be small in size. and fair may be his hair. No mat-ter what's the question asked, -his answer's always tthere. For first things first, and in whose mind all studies are a joy. XVe give a thought to Margaret NVatt-she's quiet, wise and coy. For Basketball we group some girls, who glory in a rally, There's Curly. and there's Torohy. and there's Blondy. and there's Sally, In Hockey too we like to feel that we are represented. XYith Kenny, Morley. Linc and Fox tnamed Georgej-we're quite contented. And there are those like Zettel, and XX'alt. Brydges. players too. Who boost. or cheer. or play. or work. when that's their 'part to do. The Misses Carrol. Grantt, and Lynch-these three adorn our classes. llite do I1Ot hesitate to say. our boys admire our lasses. XVe hurry on to give a place to Irene. Maddy. Stocky, XVe have some trouble with our rhyme. we fear it's getting rocky. Nelson McVicar. he's well up head, and Georgie Dick's full of fun, And Evelyn Dempsey Cquiet?j a Brick-John Dudgeon, his chief love, a gun. His young brother. Donald. is interesting too, he has 'plenty of questions to ask, Hazel Jackson. Frances Hulbert. Annie Mar- shall-tine girls-we approach to the end of our task. Alfred Busby's a scholar with Earon and Hastings. and Ediniston, to fill a line. Kale enter Dot Drake, and we'll not forsake, Clarice Livingston Tay at t-his time. W'e're getting on quickly. soon be to the end. Kenny Millar we say's tall and slender. Good service you want in the artistic line. Margaret lVestoby she. that. can render. XtYartd. Hastings. and Sewell. Wle now name these three. good names to fill up our list. Donna Macdonald-we hope And last of all not a name on our Card has been missed. 3. Chorus. To J. F. Ross. our Principal. and those whom he depends on. NVe pay our homage and respect-this line our poem ends on. 4. Finis. There's a weakness in our make-up. Wie all try it out-a bit: Each one has such-read this lingo, XX'ith the XYriter-IT is IT. SPECIAL COMMERCIAL He looked soulfully at her with huge brown eyes. For the life of her Curlie could not resist the appeal. She cuddled him close and stroked the head lying so peacefully there. Oh, what a picture they made! The sudden darkness of his hair against the creamy white of her cheek. Hte lifted his head slowly. de- liberately-and tihe dark eyes shone with anti- cipation. Before she realized what was in his mind he bit her neck. XN'it'h a howl of rage. Curlie threw the dog to the floor. 22 The School Spirit Chee heel Chee haw! Chee haw! haw! haw! Collegiate. Collegiate, rah! rah! rah! Strained throats. glowing -cheeks. young voices through the long corridors of our own G. C.-Y. I.-what do these things mean to us? Simply. the school-spirit which retlects the fun and comradeship of school-days. And what does a school-spirit do for us? First. it instills into the mind of the first former the idea of sportsmanship. The idea expands. and by the time the boy or girl leaves the school. some four or five years later. he or she would do much to keep the shadows of discredit from it. Next. the school-spirit invariably cheers those pupils who are prone to pitch their tents on the north side of life. Most sc-hools have these. we are no exception. Surrounded by enthusiasm. loyalty and friendliness the morbid outlook disappears. To conquer it. what an accomplishment! A school-spirit gives vivacity to the entire district. If the school is. say. the only colleg- iate institute in a town or small city. its in- fluence will do much in livening up all acti- vities. Our own does. too much. some outsiders may say. but after all one can't go far wrong with the guidance. tor similar guidancel. we so fortunately have. The school spirit exemplified in each girl and boy might say: I would give my laughter to the world-not tears. I would give faith and ho-pe-but never fearg Though easier far to mourn and dread. I know, On-ly the soul that smiles can upward go.