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

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ONTARIO THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION FNTS OF THE LONDON TEACHERS ' COLLEGE TO THE STUDENTS OF LHC Th ese are « — ' ' of children uu y , . Hpq alorious -Why build these cities gion If manunbuilded goes? !n vain we build the world, unless The builder also grows . « lhe b est Ln bo,s and girls . next 3epternber , quired during the past year , as standing and - «• is hard ™ ork to ;; s d ;i: m s - « as as . se „se - tun , because « for reason „ I am confident that you t0 we lcome you, th e S7 class of the London Teachers , . int in the years ahead. y KJ ! success and happiness be your lot m Mir Education Toronto , January 23rd, 1957

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A frame of beams and steel, walls of cold brick and masonry stand, firm-planted, bold-faced against a half a hundred years. Within, a youthful, corporate heart warmed by filial love, by loyalty, by happy retrospection, beats and shall beat with steady strength, transcending change of outward form or place.

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F. C. BIEHL G. O. DICKINSON A Message to the Graduating Class of ' 57 O NE of the earliest stories you learned was told in the fourteenth chapter of Matthew. The Great Teacher had taken ship to a desert place beside the Sea of Galilee. The multitude followed Him there, and they were hungry. From the five loaves and two fishes He fed five thousand. Have you ever thought that in your daily work you will perform some humble counter- part of this miracle? Your loaves and fishes are the richest nourishment that man has known — the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of our western Christian civilization. Daily this food multiplies thirty or forty fold as it passes from you to the children whom you teach. Looked at in this way, your work is bathed in splendour. Yet there are two things about this image which you might think on. First, even the Master began with the five loaves and two fishes. Will you make sure that you have your loaves and fishes? That you have en- riched your mind with something worth multiplying? And second, the miracle in Matthew was wrought by faith. You too will need a faith in the worth of your cultural inheritance, and the worthiness of your own work in passing it on. If you have something to give, and a conviction of your value as the giver, then in your own classroom you will see a little of the miracle of the loaves and fishes. F. C. BIEHL G. 0. DICKINSON