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

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London Normal School

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In perfect honour, perfect truth, And gentleness to all mankind, You trod the golden paths of youth, Then left the world and youth behind. Ah, no! Tis we who fade and fail — And you, from Time ' s slow torments free Shall pass from strength to strength, and scale The steeps of immortality. —JOHN BUCHAN. DEDICATION We respectfully dedicate this number of our Year Book to the beloved memory of Baron Tweedsmuir of Eldsfield, Governor-General of Canada, 1935- 1940.

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» EDITORIAL « Editorial Staff Consulting Editor - - - Dr. G. W. Hofferd Editor Jean Healy Associate Editor ... - Ruth Palmer Business Manager - - - - James Mitchell Assistant Business Manager - Leslie Fairbairn Student Advisor - - - Walter Harpur Consulting Art Editor - Miss Emery Art Editor Ronald Brand Literary Editor Hazel Gillott Assistants - Margaret Black, Esther Laidlaw Humour Editor ... - Marion Follick Assistants - - Margaret Black, Abigail Le = s Grace Turnbull, lean Dawson Photography - Howard Lossing IN our year at Normal, we have undergone a complete metamorphosis. Last September, fresh from Collegiate or other realms of experience, where the foundation of our education was laid, we arrived at Normal School, one hundred and sixty varieties of embryo, filled with a consuming desire to develop into school teachers. Gradually, we reached the larva stage. After we had taught our first lesson, how insignificant we felt! and how many times did we have the urge to crawl out into the garden and indulge in cabbage leaves! But we managed to suppress these emotional drives and by a continued recon- struction of past experiences, we attained the next stage, the pupa. (We might pun on that word but such form of wit is unbecoming!) They did give us pupils from the start! . . . Many of us were in a dormant state for a while during the year but . . . how rudely awakened we were by an avalanche of tests and assignments just before Easter! ! But these were purposely to try our wings; to see if we were sufficiently enough developed to be promoted to the adult stage whence we would step into one of the greatest professions of our society. As an entomologist would record such activi- ties of the Class Insecta, the Year Book Committee has tried to assemble a record of our Normal School activities. Each student has had his own responsibility toward it; the Literary and Photography Depart- ments would have been negative without the individual support of the students. The Year Book Committee is indeed grateful to the members of the Staff, who have acted as counsellors and critics so willingly; their broader knowledge was greatly appreciated. The Com- mittee worked with a minimum of friction and that is a desirable achievement. In presenting the 1940 SPECTRUM, our great- est hope is that it will be an aid in recalling the memories of the happy days, the friendships and fun we enjoyed together as students at the London Normal School. Work is the key to Success. May we never lose it! I JEAN HEALY, Editor. [5]