Lisgar Collegiate Institute - Vox Lycei Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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28 VOX LYCEI 'vs 243' Y' The Senior Lyceum The year 1929-30 is one more success added to the record of the Senior Lyceum. The attendance has been only moderate. considering that both upper and lower school were eligible to attend, but the students who were present have declared themselves delighted with the prograinines. Much of this success is due to Mr. Newton Murray, the first term president, who, with the help of the executive, ably guided the Lyceum through the trials and troubles of reorganization. The same energy was manifested by Miss Gwennyth Grant, the second term president, who, with practically no aid from executive or committee, presented a number of excellent programmes. The third term president, Mr. Percival Cawdron, has, at the time of writing, yet to demonstrate his ability, but if he can carry on the good work of his predecessors, which we know he will, his success is certainly assured. The entertainment of the first term was pretty well confined to musical pro- grammes while that of the second term included a French programme and a debate. The annual French meeting was an unqualified success. Those taking part exhibited a wide knowledge and great command of the language. To the staff of the Department of Modern Languages, and particularly to Miss Muir, and Mr. Lalande whose untiring efforts in behalf of this meeting were the largest factor in its success, the Lyceum extends its heartiest thanks for this, one of the most pleasant, as well as the most instructive, meetings of the year. In the short space allowed us, it is hardly possible to give each department of the Lyceum's activities the attention which it perhaps deserves, nor to ex- press to each one separately our appreciation of his or her part in the success of the year. We thoroughly appreciate, however, the service of all pupils who have acted on the executive or taken part' in the programmes, the kindness and unfiagging interest of the members of the staff who have acted as critics, and judges of the debates, and the interest and activity of our members as a whole. lack Cullen, IIIB.. Secretary. F 1 I l' 4 il l l l D l l l l

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30 VOX LYCEI The Ula' Grammar School llytown. in 1943! was honoured by the Provincial Government as a centre for the new lIrammar School of the Dalhousie District, under the authority of the new Education Act of 1939. The founding' of District Grammar Schools showed the progress of the province in population, since it was the policy of the Government to subdivide large Districts into two or more smaller ones with new centres in each of which was established this kind of school. Some kind of advanced school in each District centre was deemed indispensable as soon as the District was organized. ln llytown, Trustees were selected and a school Board organized at once to do the ground work and hew out the way for the new advanced Grammar School, which the Government desired to found. A principal was appointed and arrived in May 1843 to open the School. His name was Thomas XYardrope. one of the First graduates of Queens Cniversity which had been founded at Kingston in 18-ll. Xlardrope was a young man with a charming personality and a gracious manner as described sixty years later by Dr. George Kennedy. one of his old students. After a brief experience of great success he resigned the mastership to become Minister of the newly formed Free Presbyterian Church. XYhen the then Mr. Xkiardrope arrived at Bytown there was no school ready for him. XYhat could he do but confer with the Trustee lloard, which was al- ready organized. lt consisted of the Rev. Dr. Strong, whose son became Rt. Hon. Mr. -lustice Strong' of the Supreme Court of Canada,-lglishop Phelan, Rev. l. Cruikshanks, Mr. joseph Coombs, and Mr. G. B. Lyon-Fellowes4iive very competent representatives. ln a few days, a frame house on XYaller Street, near to Daly Avenue, was rented and fitted up for the purpose. Rev. Dr. Strong' was the first Chairman of the lioard, and had the honour of inauj.1'urating' Gram- mar School education in this city. lt had not come too soon, for many people were looking' for it, and from the tirst day one modest school-room was comfort- ably filled. There were two teachers who divided the work between them. Such was the beginning in 1943. The students were all boys, English and French speaking, Protestant and Catholic. They got along agreeably from thefirst and the school was a cause of great enthusiasm amongst the parents. Splendid pro- gress marked its work from the First day. The girls had to abide their timel The Grammar School became a splendid asset to the little llytown. the baby capital of the new Dalhousie District. It was a great inducement to settlement in and near Bytown which, in turn, rapidly forged ahead. It was a light in a new centre and evidence that the finer ideas of learning, of the cultivation of the minds and souls of the youth were of first importance. The Crest of the School is an inspiring' one .-Xlere Flammamf' Those pioneers were progressive people. lt was well that in the growth of Ottawa's material wealth and population, learning had from the outset an honoured place-for culture, and all therein implied, in a new city, in a new land, is absolutely essential in order that the highest type of manhood and womanhood be possible. lt means good citizen- ship, good home-life, good legislation and a happier and more contented and progressive people. liytown became itself an entity. self-sustaining and self- supplying its peoples needs, mentally as well as physically. The second Chairman was Dr. Hamnet Hill, who with many others in later years, notably J. P. Featherston, George Hay, Hon. Senator Cleniow, James