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

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On Friday, May 13, Arbour Day was observed at the school by the planting of two trees. An American Red Bud was planted by Mrs. William Prendergast in honour of her husband, who was principal of the Normal School from 1922 to 1931. Dr. John Dearness, a member of the staff from 1900-1918 and Principal from 1918-1922, celebrated his 97th birthday by planting a Canadian Hard Maple. Miss Marjorie Hamilton, Miss Joan Jackson, Miss Betty Lamb, Mr. George Gall, Mr. John Gregg and Mr. Donald Irwin acted as guards of honour for Mrs. Prendergast and Dr. Dearness. A short programme followed under the chairmanship of Mr. John Graham. Mr. George Copeland, who was a student of the Normal School when Dr. Dearness was principal, gave a brief address on the value of trees. The members of Form III, under the direction of Miss Elaine Murchison, rendered a choral speaking number. The programme concluded with the singing of the school song and the National Anthem. Following the programme a number of guests, including former staff members, enjoyed tea served by students of the Home Economics classes. C. R. M. Page Eight

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J eligiouJ 3n3tructo% Rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith and trimmed its fire. Showed me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze and there aspire. ' ' That is what the clergy have tried to do during the school-year — to show you the high, white star of Truth, to bid you gaze and there aspire, to make it plain that this Truth is a PERSON, God ' s only Son, our Saviour and Lord. It has been an honour and a privilege to have a small part in training you for the work to which you have been called. We would fain believe that much of what we have said in the classroom will be remembered and put into practice in the years to come. You are a privileged people — greatly privileged. You stand at the end of an epoch, at a place where many roads meet. The age in which you live is drawing to a close and the form of its successor is not yet known. But of this we are sure, that education will necessarily be one of the storm-centres in any discussion of the purpose and pattern which the new age will take. And it is at this time that you have been called to teach, to seize the children and the youth of our land, to purge their faith and trim their fire, to check the erring and reprove, to set them free from vain temptations, to calm the weary strife of frail humanity, to show them the high, white star of Truth, to bid them gaze and there aspire. What a privilege! What a responsibility! It is our sincere and earnest prayer that God will abundantly bless you in this great and good work. (REV.) JOHN FLECK, Elmwood Avenue Presbyterian Church, London, Ontario. Our Critic ZJeaclter Urban Practice Teachers Miss Gertrude Bergey, B.A. Mr. Stanley A. Cushman, B.A. Miss Ethawyn Damude, B.A. Miss Pearl I. Elliott Miss Edna Lancaster Miss Muriel Lancaster Miss Marguerite Lawler Miss Bernice Leggate Miss Nora MacRae, B.A. Mr. S. R. MacKay, B.A. Miss J. Isabel McLeish Mr. E. I. Mitchell, B.A. Mr. Stewart Oakes Miss Eva Parry Mr. W. D. Sutton, B.A., B.Paed. High Schools Mr. Carl Chapman, B.A. Miss Kathleen Dolan, M.A. Mr. Walter M. Herron, M.A. Mr. W. F. Langford, M.A. Rural Schools Mrs. Marion F. Bere Mrs. Frankie Cornell Mr. Lloyd Flannigan Mrs. Gladys Hodgins Mr. Ewart Jolliffe Mr. Orville McDowell Mr. Gordon McEwan Mrs. Marie McGuffin Miss Shirley Patterson Mrs. Helen Patterson Mrs. H. G. Sherriff Miss Vera Thomas Page Seven

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Werner J oa t Extraordinaire Everyone has been to an ordinary weiner roast, but the one attended by a hundred twenty students and teachers on October 14 was really unique. Instead of roasting their weiners a la coal ashes, they were served in the gymnasium a la relish and mustard. Before proceeding to the gymnasium in snake dance fashion, everyone gathered around a campfire on the school grounds to sing songs suitable to the occasion. More entertain- ment was supplied by several soloists. The programme was under the direction of the Men ' s Athletic Association. WILMA ALLEN, Form I J4allowed Eve at J pndon J loxmal School Piercing screams from the Room of Horrors began our Hallowe ' en Party on November 1. Bean bag, shuffle board and apple bobbing were the games played in the gymnasium. Mr. Biehl, our principal, led the Grand March of a hundred students costumed as witches, clowns, Bugs Bunny and Bo-Peep. During the community singing, refreshments were served. Dancing followed in the music room, which was decorated with orange streamers and balloons. Grandma Graham with her fan and Robin Hood Tomuick with his arrows won the costume prizes. This successful party was the first social undertaking of the Literary Society. BETTY ROGULA, Form IV. Page Nine