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

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Isabel E. Davidson Dean of Women and Instructor in Home Economics and Hjgiene. ' ' For manners are not idle, but the fruit Of loyal nature, and of noble mind. — Tennyson. Dorothy Emery, A. O. C. A. Instructor of Art. ' ' Many people feel Art, some understand it; but feu both feel and understand it. --Hilliard. Louise Gahan Librarian and Instructor in Library Methods. Books should to one of these four ends conduce For wisdom, piety, delight or z e. - -Denham. A. F. Hagerman Instructor in Manual Training. Read: First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, Chapter 13. W. F. Marshall Instructor in Writing and Business Practice. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowled ' ge. -Albert Einstein. Doris Rider, B.A. Instructor in Physical Education. Graduation should not be the end of your association with the Normal School, but rather the beginning of a permanent friendship. May you have every success in the future as members of the teaching profession. C. E. Wheeler, F. C. C. O. Instructor in Music. Does it not seem rational that we should take advantage of every opportunity to fit ourselves to enjoy the great emotional stimulus that music brings, that we tnay use it as an accompaniment to our daily tasks, with a song on our lips and a thrill in our hearts. Winifred R. Prendergast Secretary and Registrar. We bid you Godspeed. {8}

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t- t HE word criticism to most individuals has an unsavoury meaning. Criticism is always difficult to accept, particOlarly if it is of an adverse nature. Our critic teachers have in a most admirable fashion changed our concept of the word. Their criticisms were so kindly given and so constructively help- ful that the name critic teacher and the word criticism have lost their ominous meaning and have assumed a more charitable purport. Still, we approached those F ' riday mornings with trembling knees and prayers in our hearts. What would the fateful white assignment slips contain? Anything from a Zulu dancer to a stock market broker might be required of us. As we approached the school such thoughts as these came tumbling into our troubled minds — I know I ' ll have a Rote song, I just know I will and I can ' t sing a note. That class, I hear, is just dreadful to manage. Fortunately such torturing thoughts came to an end when we reached the school and found, by the Question and Answer Method, the required room. The kindly person who said good morning in no way resembled the ogre which our overwrought imaginations had produced. Soon, too, those gloomy fears concerning our lesson assignments were dispelled or confirmed. Even if the dreaded Rote song had to be sung, the teacher benevolently refrained from mentioning the time your voice cracked. Criticism? Of course. But always given so that we felt that the next time we should know how to do better and would improve. Hence, out of our vague fears grew a more comprehensi e knowledge of the teach- ing art. I Iay we strive to emulate those principles which our critic teachers have so ably demonstrated, principles which will help to make us better teachers and our pupils more efficient citizens. — Margaret Braidford. Urban and Rural School Critic Teachers Governor Simcoe School Mr. F. H. (iiUpin Miss M. Lancaster Miss Z. Fawkes Miss V. Tisdak Miss I. McLeish Miss L. R. Hoffman Miss I. P. Cirahani Miss M. Buckk- Tecumseh Avenue School Mr. L. n. MrCanius Mi.ss E. I. Da (- ' v Miss G. Morris Miss H. Rogers Miss M. Gregory Wortley Road School Mr. V. H. W vatt MissS. E. McKone Miss Lena Dunn Miss C. S[)arling Mr.s. P. Smith jMr. T. A. Willis Miss A. Davidson Victoria School Miss G. Baptv Rural Schools Mr. V. C. Rigne - Miss L Loft Miss I L McLean Miss L. M. Insell Miss L Penhale Mrs. Paterson High School Critic Teachers Central Collegiate Sir Adam Beck Collegiate Institute Mr. J. P. S. Nethercott, M.A. Mr. V. C. lolinson, B.A., Princii)al Mr. C. S. Buck, M.A. Mr. R. L Blake, B.A. Mr. E. O. Hall, M.A. Mr. [ohn V. Dodd, B.A. Mr. W. R. Urlin, B.A. Mr. V. M. Herron, M.A. Miss D. McCann, B.A., B.Paed. Mr. W. E. Shales, M.A., B.Paed. Mr. R. G. Campbell, B.A. Mr. D. H. Strangways, B.A. Mr. E. A. Miller, M.A., Principal Mi.ss Agnes Vrooman, M.A. Mr. D. J. A. Wright, B.A. {10}