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

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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).

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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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EDITORIALS Success The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. — Sheridan. EFORE jumping into the future, let us see if the past year has been a success. How can we discover this? It is logical to measure success by our accomplishments in academic and social fields, but those accomplishments grew only in keeping with what we put into them. While success is apparently measured by tangible results, the true criteria are our own efforts and strength of character. Therefore, we have had a successful year at Normal in the social sphere, only as we have attended the social functions such as skating parties, that famous tobogganing party, the At Home and the school games, keeping in mind the words of Horace — He has carried every point who has mingled the useful with the agree- able. We have had a successful year in the academic sphere only in so far as we have made the work our interest and our problem and have accepted the teacher as a helper, not as a task master. None of us is content with the thought of no further advance- ment. Even though we will not publicly admit it, we all cherish a secret desire to make our names famous; in fact, there are few men who have not had this ambition, but there are relatively few who have been willing to abide by the age-old truth that only As ye sow, so shall ye reap. At the end of our Normal year, let us not sit and wait for our ship to come in, but remember that — Your ship can never come sailing home. If it never has gone to sea. Page Thirteen