London Normal School - Spectrum Yearbook (London, Ontario Canada)

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NORMAL THE LATE E. T. WHITE, B.A., D. Paed. Master, Mathematics and Spelling. LONDON ONTARIO Obituary IT IS our sad duty to chronicle the sudden and much-lamented death of Dr. Edwin Theodore White, our esteemed Mathematical Master. His natural gift for Mathe- matics, his high scholastic attainments, his keen sense of humor and his wide and varied experience combined to make him an admirable teacher and a most sympathetic counsellor. His early education was obtained in the public school at Oakwood, the place of his birth, and at the Lindsay Collegiate Institute. Later he graduated from Toronto University with specialist standing in Mathematics. For eight years he had charge of the Mathematics in the Pembroke High School. While here, he received the appointment of Public School Inspector for Renfrew County. After four years, he relinquished this position in 1913 to come to the London Normal School at the request of the Department of Education. To render himself better qualified for his new work, he took a course in Pedagogy in Toronto University, and graduated as a Doctor of Peda- gogy in 1922. For this degree he submitted a timely dissertation on Public School Text Books in Ontario, which he later published in book form. As a recognition of the keen interest he took in teacher training, he was elected President of the Supervising and Training Department of the O. E. A. a few years ago. During the past two years he has acted as Special Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Western Ontario, and at the Institute of Public Health. The Province generally, as well as the London Normal School, deeply mourns the loss it has sustained by the untimely death of one of its out- standing educationists. But the community in which he lived also mourns. For a period of sixteen years, the late Dr. White had rendered valuable service through the many and varied activities with which he was associated. For a time he had been Superintendent of the Metro- politan United Church Sunday School. He had been also President of the Baconian Club, and a regular and enthusiastic attendant at the periodical Canadian Club meetings. He was a member of the General Council of the Royal Astronomical Society, and had occupied the position of Secretary-Treasurer of the local branch of this Society from its inception. Beloved by all who knew him, and respected for his lofty principles, he will ever be held in remembrance for his uplifting influence exerted unobtrusively upon all whose good fortune it was to know him. J. G McEachern.

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NORMAL SCHOOL MISS L. GAHAN Librarian. LONDON ONTARIO] Before the ©oli ©ance Most followers of learning and the profs- of high degree Have run to form most truly to disprove my theory; They hold no doll will ever be, though means be used right drastic, Imbued with power, nor yet with grace, to trip the light fantastic . I shall not deign to prove them wrong with scientific verses; Enough that one young charming miss has volunteered her service; Arranged about the playroom stage, her clever toys we view — Fine players they; we cannot guess that each but waits her cue. To leave her genial family, and lend her lissome self To illustrate that dolls outstrip the gymrics of an elf. But only to the favored few ' tis given to behold The wee toys frolic, as they used in fairy tales of old. Now, when this maiden casts her spell On listeners and toys as well, Ah, we shall see what we shall see, Come the mystic hour of three. — Doriss Hudson. Woodland Fairies When the Iambs play on the hillside, And the soft, spring breezes blow, The fairies awake in the woodland wide And its dark recesses glow. When the moon is beaming brightly On a sheet of crystal glass, Beauteous spirits come here nightly And before their mirror pass. In a circle on the green. When the moon is overhead, Fairies in their glistening sheen Softly dance with silent tread. Hand in hand they dance together By the flickering fire-flies ' light; Softer than the downy feather, As they act their mystic rite. Through the misty, moonlight weather, By the alders and the willows, Woodland fames dance together Ere they seek their downy pillows. —May Fitch.

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NORMAL SCHOOL LONDON ONTARIO YEAR BOOK EDITORIAL STAFF Standing-C. Deakin, Advertising; G Sells, Biographies; M. Maitland, Biograph.es; M. Fitch, Poetry; H. Cowden, Business Manager; M. Allison, School Activities; B. Hammond, Art; R. Dennis, Advertising. Si » ' 8-J E McEachr GMsV Athletics; M. Mc.ntyre, Boys ' Athletics; Mr. HoLd, Consulting Business Manager; E. Williams, Ed,tor.,n.Ch,ef, C. Phelps, Humor; D. Hudson, Poetry; N. Montgomery, Art; (Mr. Clarke, Consulting Editor).