London South Collegiate Institute - Oracle Yearbook (London, Ontario Canada)

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stamps. ln 1943, Diane Dillon wrote a series of radio skits and announcements which were broadcast over the auditorium loud speaker system. How effective these skits xx ere may be seen by the fact that sales nearly doubled those of the previous year. As a stimulant to the com- petitive spirit in the difierent rooms, trophies in the form of Victory torches were awarded to each form with 1002, of the class buying at a sale. A special torch was awarded to the class with the highest sale. The sale of Victory Bonds in the school started during the Third Victory Loan, in October, 1942. The students responded en- thusiastically to the appeals to Buy Victory Bonds , and a total of over nineteen thousand dollars was subscribed during the seven Victory Bond campaigns held in the school. 1Ve feel that a special note of appreciation is due to Mr. McNeil and Mr. Calvert, who so efficiently handled the distribution and buying of stamps and bonds, and carried out the or- ganizing, planning and publicizing of sales which made them so successful. The following is the record of XYar Savings Stamps and Victory Bonds sold at the school during the war: School War Savings Victory Yearly Year Stamps Bonds Total 1940-1941 4,613.50 . ,. . 4,613.50 1941-1942 4,267.75 .. ,,.. .. 4,267.75 1942-1943 4,782.50 3,700.00 8,482.50 1943-1944 7,284.00 6,700.00 13,984.00 1944-1945 6,448.25 6,100.00 12,548.25 1945 1946 2,036.50 2,650.00 4,686.50 TOTAL 29,432.50 19,150.00 48,582.50 South is justly proud of this outstanding record. -JACK NOBI.E, 5A. THE GIRLS' WORK HE girls of South Collegiate have an envi- able record for their war work during the years from 1941 to 1945. During this time a Knitting Club under the supervision of Miss J. MacFarlane met once a week. The girls could bring in finished articles or receive wool to make more, at this time. These meetings were very sociable ones, made more pleasant by light re- freshments and recorded music provided by the Girls' Athletic. Practically 900 pairs of socks alone were knitted by the girls, their mothers, and interested friends, to be put in the overseas boxes. Other knitted articles made from Red Cross wool amounted to about a thousand in number, among these were numerous things for babies, for which the girls made donations in money to the Red Cross sufficient to cover the costs of the wool used. These funds were raised from dances and programmes sponsored by the Girls' Athletic. Continued on Page 54 An Appreciation lt is most fitting that we should not allow the Oracle to go to press without the insertion of a sincere tribute to the one who, to such a great extent, both planned and carried out the policy of the 1Yar Services Committee-Miss Xl. K. Macpherson. Perhaps the writing of this well- deserved tribute is about the only thing we have done without her approval. Only those privileged to share in Miss Mac- pherson's councils and activities have any ade- quate conception of the devotion with which she has laboured from the inception of the war-work in South until now. lYith unllagging zeal, and remarkable mastery of detail, Miss Macpherson has put into deeds the spirit of Churchill's words, lVe shall not falter nor fail, we shall go on to the end . Now that our small share in the fulfillment of this great undertaking is completed, we pause for a moment to salute our leader, thanking her for the patience and wisdom with which she has inspired us to see the task through. AN EXPRESSION OF THANKS Among the many extra duties devolving upon Mr. XY. T. Armstrong as Acting Vice-Principal during wartime, was that of keeping the service tiles. Always changing and always increasing, the number of addresses he handled had climbed well over the eight hundred mark before peace was declared. At least twice every year the lists were revised, and every bit of that revision passed through Mr. Armstrong's hands. It is not too much to say that the success of South's war effort depended upon the accuracy of his data. That all the boxes and letters, the cards and identification discs reached our service men and women so promptly and so regularly,is in a large measure attributable to the painstaking and enthusiastic work of our Vice-Principalhpro tem. Himself a veteran of World War I, Mr. Armstrong spared neither time, effort, nor ex- pense to bring to our Alumni on the field tokens of cheer from their old school. The ORACLE takes great pleasure in thus chronicling the thanks of South to Mr. Armstrong for his im- portant contribution. ik Pk 112 if 41 Sk We should not feel our account of our war work complete without offering an apology to any of our students whom we failed to contact during their War service period. We have heard of several whose names had not reached our notice at all. Do accept our apology, we regret very much that that happened. We should like to ask every reader of this magazine to hand in the name of any student who served in the forces whose name is not on the Honour Roll, as we want the permanent one to be as nearly perfect as possible. 23

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ORACLE EDITORIAL STAFF Back Row lleft to rightl: Jim Hodgson, Ken Smith, Bill Armstrong, Brock Rachar, Don Cooper, Jim Wylie, Mr. W, T. Armstrong lstaff adviser Service Personnel Recordl, Ron Sprang, Waldie Allen, Gerry Robson. Middle Row: Bill McMurray, Tom Abel, Owen Spettigue, Lillian Todoroff, Landon Mackenzie, Beryl Rafuse, Anna Baker, Katherine Sanderson, Lorna Wellington, Fred Isaacs, Ernie Richards, Jack Noble. Front How: Nancy Chantler, Lillian Foote, Mr. G. Wonnacott fgeneral staff adviserl, Marilyn Bell, Mike Halliday leditor-in-chiefl, Marjorie Hall, Kathryn Sage, Jean Young. Absent: Miss M. K. Macpherson fstaff adviser, War Services Recordr, Nancy Douglas, Shirley Rogers, Hugh Mackenzie, Bill Winslow. ORACLE BUSINESS STAFF Back Row Cleft to rightlz Pete Stewart, Bill Buchanan, Tainy Kabakos, Alex Gay, Ted Grove. Centre Row: Jean Young, Corinne Aziz, Betty Pearson, Beryl Rafuse, Barbara Maple- toft, Mary Rollo, Ruth Kerr, Doris Bates, Audrey King. FIC!!! Row: Jean Loughlin, Beverley Corlett, Mr. Lloyd C. Jackson istaff adviserb, Charlie Dalton lbusiness managerl, Helen O'Neil, Barbara Saylor.