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

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hassy in London, Bob is serving his Country in this important moment when the future trends of world relationship are in the making. South is represented abroad by her women graduates also. To select two whose work links us with great lands and movements, we cite Edna hlay Oram in the Canadian Embassy in Moscow and Doris hlyers with UNRRA in Germany. Edna has been in Moscow for about a year acting as one of the secretaries under the direction of lXlr. Dana Wilgress, Canadian Am- bassador to the U.S.S.R. Here Edna has the pleasure of meeting otlzers similarly engaged in the British and American Embassies, and re- ports finding life in hloscow an enjoyable ex- perience indeed. Doris Myers is working in the administration of UNRRA at its headquarters in Germany. A former Flight Officer in the R.C.A.F. tXV.D.j, Doris was the first London girl to be commis- sioned in the air force. Recently she writes from her post in Germany: It is very interesting to see how well people of many Nationalities can work and play to- gether under rather strained circumstances. And I say strained because it is not easy for people of many languages and customs to come together under one roof and cast ol? their many individual characteristics. It just doesn't happen. The French and Belgians still remain very, very polite, the Eng- lish are still very reserved, the Americans still 'Devil may care', and we Canadians are, so they tell us, 'just in between the English and Ameri- cans'. XVe never know whether to take it as a compliment or not. As an example of the many nationalities hereg I attended a private musical evening last week, and out of 14 people present, there were 8 nationalities represented. One of these was the German pianist from the Dresden Philhar- monic Orchestra who provided the entertain- ment. It was rather thrilling to think that there we sat representatives of 7 Allied Countries listening to a very beautiful presentation of musical masterpieces of Bach, Beethoven, Mo- zart and Chopin, by a German pianist. A year ago we w'ouldn't have dreamed it could ever happen. ' 1 It might also interest the students who are studying languages to know that all the Con- tinental members of the staff here speak English and French as Well as their own language, and many of them speak German, too, while the majority of the English staff speak English only. The English say that the Continentals have more opportunity to learn other languages, but I sometimes think that we let the same oppor- tunities slip through our fingers. Six Dependable Drug Stores FW PERFECT PICTURES and ENLARGEMENTS TAKE TOUR FILMS TO 0 1 lrnCr0S FILMS, CAMERAS and SUPPLIES There's a Cairncross ' Store Near You FILMS if BOOKS i' MAGAZINES ir CREETINC CARDS ir 1l?!t'fPE'2QI

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GEA 9 DAIRY BAR 352 DUNDAS STREET IVIET. 33ll A GOOD PLACE TO MEET Try Our FAMOUS COFFEE Compliments of International Business Machines Co Ltd. Electric Accounting Machines Electric Writing Machines Time Recording Machines London's Community 'Theatre TI-IE GRAND Owned and Operaled by LONDON LITTLE THEATRE SOUTH PLAYS A PART ABROAD South follows with deep interest the work of her graduate students abroad. Notable among these is john Wendell Holmes who left our halls in 1929 first to take an arts course in W'estern U , then a post graduate course in history as the winner of the Alumni Memorial Scholarship at the University of Toronto. After further study abroadrand Government service in Ottawa in the Department of Foreign Affairs, john was appointed in january, 1945, to join the staff of the Canadian High Commissioner, Mr. Vincent Massey, at Canada House, London, in an ad- visory capacity. In the course of the respon- sible duties that fall to his lot in the Department of External Affairs, john has just shared in the recent deliberations of the first UNO Conference. It has been his privilege to see at first-hand the inauguration of this momentous experimente- the beginnings of a world-state, and to study CanacIa's part in it. Another of South's gifted graduates, Robert A. D. Ford, has also been taking his part in the arduous sessions of UNO. Bob left South in 1932, graduated from Western U , and later became a member of the Canadian Embassy at Rio de janiero. During his four years in Latin America Bob visited practically every country there, gaining a wide experience of races and governments. Now connected with the Depart- ment of External Affairs in the Canadian Em-

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