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

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I am very pleased to extend my warm greetings to the students and staff of London Teachers 1 College and to all readers of The Spectrum. In coming to London Teachers 1 College, you have answered the call to play a positive role in the education of our young citizens - a role second to none in the building of our nation. In your earlier years, you have acquired knowledge; you have learned the essentials of good citizenship. During your stay at the London Teachers 1 College, you are being taught how to impart this knowledge to others; how, by good example, good citizenship is inculcated. When it will be your turn to put into practice the training that you have received, I ask you to remember that you will be better teachers if you keep on acquiring further know- ledge. Your teaching certificate is but the beginning. You have my best wishes, and I am confident that you will not fail in your task. 19 6 6. L. B. Pearson. 4

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PRINCIPAL OF J TEACHERS ' ••COLLEGE Message To The Graduating Class Of 1966 This is the year when you leave our college to begin your career in ed- ucation; it is also the year when two of our oldest and most honoured staff mem- bers leave to end this part of their pro- fessional career. Those of us who remain, hope that both you and they will remember to come back to see us, for we shall greatly miss you and Mr. L.B. Hyde and Mr. F.W. Walker. In my usual Yearbook message I try to cap your load of instruction, which is surely heavy enough already, with one last piece of advice. This time, how could I give you a better start on your road than to suggest that you follow in the footsteps of these two men who have travelled every inch of it? Different as they are in many ways, Mr. Hyde and Mr. Walker share three qualities, each of which is a necessary one for you if you too wish to become a great teacher. Both men have always believed in the worthiness of their calling; they have been proud of their work. In the years I have known them I have never seen nor heard either of them apologetic of the role of the teacher in our society, whatever the business or professional group among whom they appeared. Since the road of teaching has its dusty patches, indeed its rough and stony ones, this faith in the value of the job they were doing has often helped them through again to the pleasant and rewarding vistas. Each has always known that what he did each day counted for something. Nevertheless, neither man has ever let his enthusiasm for his task make him take himself too seriously. Both have a saving grace of humor. Through the years the laughter that surged through their classrooms has often penetrated even to this office of mine. You who shared their courses have savoured their wit as much as I who am their colleague. And there was always a third thing these men had in common: their way of reaching you as individual human beings. Neither of them was ever content to teach a collective noun called a form. Both were always concerned with John and Mary — and with you too; they taught separate persons. In neither case did their contact with you end at the classroom door with the period bell. All of you know that much of the good they did came to you after classroom hours — strolling the corridors, holed up in some corner of a practice school, over the telephone — and across the years. Many of our graduates well along in their own careers still share their problems and their triumphs with Mr. Walker and Mr. Hyde. Here, then, you have two living examples of how to teach: have a missionary zeal for your job, but don ' t let it blot out your sense of humor, and value each of those you teach as a human being who is worth knowing as a person. Do these three things throughout the years, and some day you too will not be unworthy of the Master Teacher ' s Well done, thou good and faithful servant. - F.C. Biehl - 5