Leamington District Secondary School - Phoebus Yearbook (Leamington, Ontario Canada)

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Nineteen Fifty PHOEBUS A woman was boasting to a friend that her husband had stopped smoking. “My, that takes will power,” said the friend. Indeed it does, agreed the wife, “and that’s just what I’ve got.

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Nineteen Fifty PHOEBUS c s- DID YOU KNOW . . . That Leamington High School opened January 7, 1896, with 69 students? • That the first principal, Mr. John Elliott, advertised in the county papers (or students? That some ratepayers objected giving $5,000 to start a school? Reason— waste of money. That in 1900 the enrolment was 133 with four teachers? That in 1950 the enrolment is 562 at Leamington and 54 at Wheatley. That there are 23 leachers at Leamington and two at Wheatley? That L.H.S. won WOSSA ‘.rack and field at London in 1933? That L.H.S. is rated one of the top schools in the Province by the De¬ partment of Education? That the House system has been active since 1940? That 305 rural students are transported to and from school each day? That the student House system owns and operates its own Sound Movie Projector $550, Amplifying System $350, and Softball Floodlighted Field with 32,000 equipment, and also owns and uses $500 worth of Athletic Uniforms and equipment? That $108.14 was raised at the school for the Canadian March of Dimes? — 59 —

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On an examination paper a young student defined “inbreeding” as: “breeding in the same stock,” for example: One Holstein cow, with another Holstein cow. The professor ' s comment: “A no ble conception.”