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Back: Dr. A. MacQueen, Rev. Fr. H. J. Laragh, Rev. L. J. Patterson, Rev. F. H. Joblin. Front: Dr. G. W. Moore, Rev. J. H. Slimon, Rev. J. Fleck. Absent: Rev. G. W. Birtch. London Normal School Graduating Class of 1953 On behalf of the Ministers and Priests who give religious instruction at the London Normal School, I offer sincere co ngratulations to the 1953 graduating class on the successful completion of your course of studies. You are entering a noble profession and we heartily recommend that you endeavour to maintain its lofty standards of service in the Communities where you will be called upon to teach. We realize that the teachers of our land, together with the home and the Church, have a tremendous re- sponsibility in guiding the rising generation in the proper appreciation of the ideals and practical benefits of our Christian and Democratic way of life. Our very best wishes go with you as you go out to labour in your chosen profession. Yours very sincerely, GEORGE W. MOORE.
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A Message to the Class of ' 53 By F. C. BIEHL, Principal. Y OU are the last class of students to graduate from London Normal School. The Legisla- tive Assembly of Ontario has enacted that, after July 1, we shall be known as Teachers ' College, London. So you will be the last young people known as normal students — as distinguished from all the other — and, presumably, abnormal students — who attend other centres of learning. No longer shall we hear about people who normalled at London, or Hamilton, or Stratford. And to those who do not know the story of our old name, the new name will tell, simply and directly, just what we set out to do. How did London Normal School get its name in the first place? To answer this, we shall have to start with the Romans, those solid workmen who built for all time. A Roman mason used a square called a norma. By the eighteenth century the French had a derivative of this word — normal — something that squared with a standard or pattern. Then came the French Revolution, accompanied by a general overhaul of educa- tion. In 1794 the French Convention set up ecoles normales. These were to train teachers whose methods squared with the methods approved at that time. This was the first attempt to give formal training to teachers, and it was not for another half century that the idea took hold in Great Britain. Ontario ' s Egerton Ryerson went to Britain and Europe in the forties, and brought back the idea of normal schools. In Toronto in 1847 he built the first Canadian normal school. Our own school in London dates to 1899. In its 54 years, London Normal School has turned out well over 7,500 teachers. You will agree that it must have had some effect on the school life of over two generations of our people in Western Ontario. During these two generations, methods in teaching, like those in other arts and sciences, have been refined and improved. But the end of education is unchanged. The old Roman mason built his temple or bridge for all time. It stood forever because it squared with the unalterable standard of his norma. We too have our unchanging standard. Your norma is the unchanging goal of education — to help children grow into men and women who will be happy in themselves and useful to God and their fellow men.
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