Kennedy Collegiate Institute - Kencoll Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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THE KENCOLL 19 51 Page 19 Compliments of DAN McGEE SHOE STORE SHOES FOR MEN PRINCE EDWARD HOTEL CANADA MY HOME The crimson sun is setting behind a shroud of grey clouds. From between the green boughs of a hundred evergreens the warm wind whistles across the hazy blue waters of a cool lake. This is a quiet Canada, — a peaceful Canada, a land of beauty — Canada, my home. Pounding, grinding, screaming, thumping alone and bare in the smoke-clouded rays of a musty city sun grind the never-ceasing gears af a thousand machines. Beside these powerful giants, the tired men stand brawn and sweating, cringing inwardly against the roar of their throbbing engines. Yet they feel happy and proud of their part in the building of an industrial nalion, a prosperous Canada — Canada, my home. Waving, tall, crowded, it stands like a yellow carpet af gold shimmering in the hot, ruby-red, western sun— the grain that will feed a million people. A rich Canada, a productive Canada, a bountiful Canada — Canada, our home. 1st Prize, Articles Bab Krause , IOC STARBRIGHT (Continued from Page 17) City. As the face af Mrs. Hawksmith was shining, so the faces af Mr. and Jr. Hawksmith also had their col¬ ours. The face af Horace Hawksmith being beet red os he timidly dodged the stares of passers-by, and the face af John E. being blanched white with fear, thus both together blended perfectly with the barber-pale striped minature race-car they dragged along behind them. The stop was reached at last. The bus arrived and poor John E. was shoved obaard and into a seat next ta a window by his mother who all the while proclaimed to the whole bus wha her son was and whot he repres¬ ented. With a final admonition os to his manners be¬ fore Uncle Wellington, the bay’s mother left the bus and began supervising the loading af the car into the freight racks with much shreiking and pointing. It would nat fit. Mrs. Hawksmith was not defeated. It would be put in the bus aisle and there it was put and stayed, against the tired protests af the bus driver. At last all was set and Mrs. Howksmith stood gallantly with hands on hips and a supreme smile an her face as she saw the bus and her quavering son pull away along the highway. After arriving home again it was a long day for Mrs. Hawksmith, one in which she suffered a million tor¬ ments ond bothersome interruptions. Mr. Howksmith shut himself in his workshop. The papers would not be out till late. Would they carry her son’s picture, the one she had sent in two days before, she wondered. Ttie radio newscasts seemed not worried one bit over the outcome of the race. It wos a long day. “Hurry, Horace,” Mrs. Hawksmith shrilled, “we ' ll miss the bus. It’ll be here in fifteen minutes. Hurry.” Mr. Hawksmith, wha had stumbled half-way up the basement stairs mumbled, “Uh, Mrs., maybe you’d bet¬ ter go yaurself. I can’t seem ta get this darned red paint out of my moustache with anythin’.” “Humph, who wants to look at you anyway; it ' s my son they want ta see. Yes sir, he’ll be o bright star (Continued on Page 23) Join Your School Bowling League BOWL AT CRESCENT LANES 1055 Ottawa St. W. Ph. 3-0900 DAMIEN CONSTRUCTION General Building Contractors Telephone 2-4556 1341 Elsmere Ave. Windsor, Ont.

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Page 18 THE KENCOLL 195 1 Z)ear zl)iary By Alary Lanspcary Deor Diory: September, 1950 Tonight the first-formers were formally welcomed into the school in proper fashion. The upper school girls decided to give a party for their young freshman sisters. Commencing ot seven the first-formers began arriving; they were greeted at the door by a committee of senior girls who found out their names and pinned them on little tabs an their blouses; so all were quickly acquainted with each other. Ghost stories were told, and a skit depicting the girls ' football team in action was the main event af the evening rendered by the senior girls. Coke ond frostbites were served, fallowed by dancing. This is an annual affair for the grade nine girls which has been thoroughly enjoyed throughout former years. We sincerely hope that the upper school girls will corry on this custom in years to come. Deor Diary: October, 1950 We had our first Stordust Night this evening. Because there wos no football game, the festivities commenced ot seven o’clock with swimming until eight. Much to the interest of grades twelve and thirteen, the film “Pride ond Prejudice” was shown, followed by dancing until eleven-thirty. Coke wos said and everyone spent an enjoyable evening. We hope there will be more of these nights through¬ out the coming winter months. Dear Diary: November, 1950 This afternoon the girls ' gym wos the setting for our first “tea dance” of the year which we called the “Tea¬ pot Tumble”, and which was very well attended. The girls, however, greatly outnumbered the boys, but ofter a few roundabout dances, the men were drogged out of hiding and begon to donee. To add to the fun, there was a wostepoper bosket dance and an elimina¬ tion donee. The consequence for the former was for the unlucky boy to roll the wastepaper bosket around the gym with his nose much to the enjoyment of the spectators. Coke was sold and the dance ended obout six. Dear Diary: December, 1950 Another Fridoy has rolled around, but this week it was something extra special. The “Second Annual Sleighbell Prom” was held in the gym in o gay Christmas atmosphere. The decorations were a credit to the social committee who worked diligently for many hours, ond on entering the gym the students immediately realized that the result of these hours wos breathtaking. A large Christmas tree with many multi-coloured lights centered the floor, above which revolved the customary mirrored ball, casting bright spots of light around the gym. The bandstond was in the form of a large fireplace with two huge Christmas stockings on either side. The four basketball backboards held brightly wrapped Christmas gifts bound with red bows which were on a black and silver background. As o special event of the evening the patrons of the Prom led the students in a grand march which was held shortly after intermission. All of the students took port in the march, making it a success. WINDSOR ICE COAL COMPANY LTD. 1504 McDougall Ph. 4-6473 GILCHRIST’S 1361 OUELLETTE SODA FOUNTAIN COME SNACK BAR AND SEE BAKERY YOUR FRIENDS 1055 Ottawa St. Ph. 3-0960

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Page 20 THE KENCOLL 1951 THE EXCHANGE Our 1950-51 edition of the Kencoll will find itself being read by students who have never seen Kennedy. Fellows ond girls in the States, os well as the many schools throughout Ontario, will flip the pages of our year book due to a department of the staff known as The Exchonge. It not only gives ideas for betterment of our mogazine, but it also creates a spirit of friend¬ ship and good will between our school and schools in other cities. The Exchange would like to acknowledge the co-operation of other schools in sending us their magazine. From Belleville we received o copy of the Elevator. The students submitted a great many candid shots and the photogrophy wos excellent. Their literory section was also very good. In the Brantford Hello ' Ve found a close-up of every football player, accompanied with an interesting minute biog. As usuol they included a lorge class news section with data on every class. The Peterborough Echoes was excellent reading, and hod a very attroctive cover this year. The humour section C’est a rire afforded us many laughs, inter¬ spersed throughout we found lines similar to this: Spirit of P.C.V.S.—An educated P.C. Ter is who can guess near enough at the spelling of o word to find it in the dictionary. We thought the Heliconion from Moulton College was an unique name for the mogazine, and has a beautiful cover. This is a girls’ school ond includes contributions for the pupils from the first grade to fifth form. West Hill High School Annual come to us from Montreal and it has excellent photogrophy. Each section hos an introductory page adorned with a very appropriate illustration. They have an unlimited number af activities for the students, and the write-ups are very interesting. We receive a great number of magazines from Toronto and enjoy them all. The Hermes from Humberside had a very attractive cover done in silver and wine. The Central Technical School sent us the 100-h anniversary edition of the Vulcan. It is one they may well be proud of. In the literary section each story is magnificently illustroted. Their exchange list is one ony school would be proud to have. We hope the exchange with East York Collegiate, who claimed Dave Hughes, one of our footboll players this year, and also with Riverside and Jarvis Collegiate. The Eastern Echo also from Toronto gives us a good account af the activities of students from the Eastern High School of Commerce. The Ad Astro Annual brought news from Sarnia Collegiate. They have enlarged the size af their magazine and I think it is a marked improvement. The contents are well compiled and we are very interested to see that the girls are trusted with rifles there and are doing quite well. On coming to the sports section we found a picture which looked familiar. The caption read The Mud Bowl , Kennedy 7, S. C. I. 2. The Blue and White defeat by Port Huron handed the Kennedy Clippers a ticket to the Purple Bowl in London. Mud and rain forced both clubs to stick to a ground ottack. The Windsor ottack compiled 13 downs while Sarnio picked up only 2. They describe further the game our boys will never forget and end thus, Centre Bill Moiseshyn of Windsor, dove on the ball ond thot wos the 1949 football season. This is one enjoyment gained in reading our school magazines; finding some mention of your school. The outstonding features of the Volt from Inger- soll are their good photogrophy ond their cover. We saw a number of familiar faces in the Sandwich Spartalogue , the Patterson Patrician , the Towers from Tech, and the Rebelogue from Riverside. Stratford Collegiate calls their book the Collegian and hos a smort cover. Their headings for various articles are very catchy. Please Pass the Liniment heads the football write-up. We hope to increase our exchange this year for there is everlasting interest, enjoyment, and memory in school year books. Joon Madill “THE LIBRARY STAFF” To the mojority of the students the library is the place to finish up that French homework before nine, ond to remember that silence is golden or suffer cancellation of a poss for study at noon. It is olso the place ta invode for that imaginary sixty page, large print book to read the night before supple¬ mentary books are due. P.S.—Note to Grode Niners—Librory Closed on Tuesdoys. —by Joan Madill 12C SERVICE FRUIT MARKET FRESH FRUITS VEGETABLES - 139 TECUMSEH RD. W. PHONE 4-3002 SCIENTIFIC SOUND SERVICE LTD. NORTHERN ELECTRIC Sound and Intercommunication Equipment SALES - SERVICE - RENTALS 4-1959 920 OTTAWA ST.