Halifax Grammar School - Grammarian Yearbook (Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada)

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- 10 - there v as a cold drizzle and there was still some snow on the ground. This, along with the absence of planes due to the bad weather, made the Halifax Airport look like an airport in Baffin Island. No wonder some ..iiaericans think that Canada is a land of perpetual snovv and ice. Stephen Cooper, Upper 111 STUDENT COUNCIL REPORT The Student Council has succeeded in accomplishing many worthwhile things in the relatively short time of its existence. Its first meeting was held on November the sixth of this year, Just • a few days after being founded, and under its first executive, elected by the boys from L. 7 up, it v asted no time in getting down to business. The purpose of this report is to give the readers of the Grammarian a summary of its activities during the year. For those who do not knov f the executive on the council they are listed below with their respective positions Executive ; President V. -President Treasurer Secretary Ed. of Grammarian John P. Kitz D, Delamere W. Thompson J . P . Chavy G. Bethune U. 4 U. 2 L. 7 T. Strouts J. LlacLachlan J . Dyer Staff advisor U. 3 H. Epstein ■ U. 1 J. Thompson Mr. A. C. Browne The first problem faced and solved by the Student Council was the total lack of money. Student cards reaped in 2 .00, The sale of apples at recess and at lunch hour brought in a steady -$2.00 a week. With Mr. Browne ' s kind assistance, we built a ping-pong table and set it up in the basement. Later, under V . Thompson ' s guidance, a ping-pong ' knock-out ' tournament was organized. The winner will receive a trophy from the Student Council. The Student Council also organized the School Crest Contest won by Ted Thome ' s maple leaf v ith the motto :- Inito ad discendum . c for which he received a c . exito ad serviendum 510.00 book certificate. The chess tournament was not organized by the Student Council, but the winner, Carl Boswick will be awarded a trophy given by it on request of the organizers. The sale of candy bars, replacing that of apples, has literally taken the school by storm and the Student Council has made :s20.00 clear profit in a matter of a few, short weeks because of it ,

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- 11 - Next year, the Student Council not have to start from ' scratch ' so that it will be able to go on to bigger and better things immediately on the opening of school, but I think that the Student Council this year has done a very com- mendable Jot ; o.nd especially Mr, Browne, the Staff Advisor has devoted a tremendous amount of time. J. P. Chavy, Secretary THE ELECTRONICS CLUB Early this year Mr. Browne started an Electronics Club at the School for those boys in the Upper School who were interested. The number of boys who turned up was not very large. Hov ever, this was to be expected. The Club, which meets every Friday under Mr. Brovme ' s supervision, nov r has about five enthu- siastic members. Douglas Kernaghan, one of the most active mem- bers, arranged for Mr. Jansen, Head of the Radio, T.V. Service Department of Simpson Sears, to come on a number of occasions to speak to the boys and bring along some of his expensive electronic equipment. The high-light of these talks was a trip out to his house in Herring Cove for a look at his TLadio shack , one large room jam-packod with radio and T.V. equipment, ranging from a bulb tester to an underv ater sound detection system. He let us take av ay a good deal of junk as well as a v orking radio, all of vhich t rned out to be most useful to us. In the club, different members have been assigned different projects to work on. Some, of interest, are a capacitor tester, a B b3 .ttery eliminator, a solar pov ered radio and a battery powered radio. A test laboratory, which includes a multi- meter as v ell as other test equipment, is slowly being built up. In the future it is hoped that the Club will greatly expand and improve . T. Meyerhof, U. TTT L 3 ' s Bird Watching L. 3 has done a study of birds throU) , h;out this year with the help of Mrs. Grant. At the beginning of the year a feeder v« as procured and kept full during the winter months. The pupils noted when each kind of bird was first seen and studied the types of nest and where these were built. The kinds of birds, their food and migration habits were examined. The composition of their body was noted and ancient birds were studied. To top all this off, each member of the class joined the Audobon Bird Club. They received books and with the help of these have made a careful study of birds. RECORDER CLUB Mrs. Nixon has organized a group of the younger boys into a recorder group led by Sergeant Allt, We heard them at the concert and hope to hear them again at the closing. Congratulations to all concerned.