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

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LONDON NORMAL Page Fire

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NORMAL SCHOOL LONDON ONTARIO HON. G. H, FERGUSON Minister of Education IT GIVES me much satisfaction to extend a greeting to the Graduating Class of the London Normal School. In common with other profes- sions, you are wise to cultivate the spirit of comradeship, to join together in honoring the body to which you belong, as well as the training college where so important a part of your lives is passed. Within the proper limits set for such organization and co-operation, I do not know a better influence in later days, than the friendships, mutual interests and unity of aims acquired in one ' s own school. At the close of the session you will separate and perhaps no opportunity to meet all together may ever occur. But the memories remain. They will always be in a greater or lesser degree, a factor in your mental and moral growth. The teacher, more perhaps than any other individual, will exert a powerful influence in moulding the character of the young. That is at once your responsibility and your inspiration. I wish each one of you every success and prosperity. G. H. FERGUSON, Minister of Education. Toronto, April 15th, 1929.

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NORMAL SCHOOL LONDON ONTARIO] A.n Introduction and an A.dieu Leave me my dreams, my visions of tomorrow — What though today holds dreams I would forget? And what though joy too often walks with sorrow? Who faces with Hope, for him no bounds are set. 1 T THE moment of this book ' s going to press, the students of J the Normal School are immediately and primarily concerned X. with preparing for the final test. I am sure, however, that between the feverish periods of study and the anxious moments of writing they find time to plan for the future, to dream dreams of great achievements to be accomplished during the years beginning next September. Middle age may sometimes be reminiscent, but youth — and I am not confining myself to the youth of years — is always prophetic. It would be interesting to hear the plans, to see the visions, to understand the dreams, to have unfolded to one the aspirations, the hopes, the ambitions that are incubating in the one hundred and forty-five heads that are circulating through the class-rooms of this institution. It is well to design for the future, but it is more important still to carry out the design, or at least to keep on trying to carry it out. Hold the line is as good a formula for the game of life as it is for the football field. I offer the good wishes of the staff to one of the brightest, most cheerful, and most promising classes that has attended this school for some years.