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

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11 EDITORIAL We, the Normal Students of 1943-1944 greet you with our year book. Whatever it may lack in professional technique and quantity we have tried to replace with the quality born of honest effort. We ask you to bear in mind that this is a wartime model. We have had a good year at Normal. It has been a full year for most of us— full of sewing, knitting, writing, drawing, playing games, entertaining, collecting, arranging, planning, studying and lear ning, not to mention the all- important teaching as well as war work. We are proud of our Red Cross achievements, our Home Nursing and St. John s Ambulance certificates, and our blood donations. Our year has been filled with new ideas too. We feel that we have broadened greatly since September. Our Masters, Instructors and Critic Teachers have opened to us new fields of thought, and we have a greater understanding of many things. We students appreciate deeply the patient kindliness of the staff in leading us into those new fields. We who are graduating are entering into the teaching profession at a time when the future looks more promising than ever before. We are the first graduates to become members of the federation, salaries are more attractive, teaching has risen to a new status in public opinion. But with all the personal advantages these bring to us, we must not be blind to the fact that we are working with the citizens of to-morrow, that the concepts and ideals that we impress upon them and the habits they develop under us will influence their whole lives. By remembering this we may insure for them a future realizing in some measure the ideals for which we are now striving and fighting. Elizabeth MacVicar Editor . PRINCIPAL ' S MESSAGE You have finished your year at Normal School. This lands you on the threshold of your teaching career. You are not a finished product. The most practical part of your training is about to begin. It is here you will have more scope to apply those principles we have endeavoured to establish. It is here where responsibility will rest more exclusively on your shoulders. It is here you may explore and experiment. It is here your philosophy of education will find more concrete content. It is here you will become more conscious of filling a place in the community and of being a person from whom an important contribution is expected, It is here you may feel the thrill of being a builder - a character builder - a nation builder. May your joy and enthusiasm in teaching grow from more to more. C t E, MARK