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

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Spectrum Miss A. M. Lawson, b.a., m.sc. Miss M. H. E. Glover, b.a. Home Economics English I Health Primary Music Page 6

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Spectrum F. C. BlEHL, B.A., B.PAED. Message to the Graduating Class of ' 59 JTRINTERS ' deadlines do odd things to time and to timeliness. Santa Claus cards are printed in May, and sentimental Valentine stories composed in late summer. So it happens that I write these words in the white hush of the snowiest Christmas in years, and you will read them, if you read them, in verdant June. This quiet which surrounds me now is not altogether due to snow, because as I write you are all of you burrowing your way through the December examinations. I have just returned from a walk around the College to see that you are as comfortable as one can reasonably expect under the circumstances. And I have been struck again, as you and I cannot fail to be, by the grace and light, and indeed the luxury of our new building. Among us, we are all so proud of London Teachers ' College that already we have brought thousands of guests — parents and friends and educators — through its halls. Perhaps a week of tests with its all-out effort is as good a time as any to take stock of just what does make a good school. Certainly a magnificent structure like ours helps, not just with classrooms and offices, but also with places like common rooms where problems can be talked out over cups of coffee, and gymnasia where problems can be sweated out through our pores. But all of these superb facilities for stage presentations and sociability and athletics are really just fringe benefits. For a school ' s central purpose is to educate; the key that unlocks education is the teacher; it is he who makes or mars the school, as opposed to the school building. Perhaps on this side of the Atlantic we speak too readily of a splendid school, when all we really mean is that the school is splendidly housed. I want to tell you again that, much as I admire our fine structure, I know that it will become a fine school only as you and the staff and I build it into one. Great schools are built, not from plate glass and Credit Valley limestone and tile floors, but from heart, head, and sweat. So it is with our school this year, and so it will be with your own school next year. Some of you will go into buildings as lovely as the one we have enjoyed together; others into dingy relics of Victoria ' s time. But none of you start with a school either good or bad; all that the contractor provides is a structure that may develop into a good school; day after day and little by little we teachers build the school as a result of what we plan and do. Thus it happens that in this Christmas season of cold snow and warm effort I have just one thought for you after you leave us in June: bricklayers, steam-fitters, and carpenters put up a fabric; the teacher builds it into a school. Regardless of the bricks and mortar around it, your school will become a house of learning only as you make it one. May the five hundred schools which you create be as many mansions, all worthy of your Father ' s house. F. C. BIEHL Page 5

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Spectrum G. H. DOBRINDT, B.A., B.PAED. English II English A L. B. Hyde, b.a. History of Education Director of Practice Teaching J. A. McKeown, b.a. English II School and Community Mrs. F. E. F. Cummings Library Science Children ' s Literature J. A. Crawford, b.a. Physical Education General Methods Principles and Practices Religious Education Miss W. R. Prendergast Physical Education J. H. Lennon, b.a. English B History M. Porte, b.a. Educational Psychology School Management S. J. Rogers, m.a., b.sc. English A History Social Studies Page 7