Lowe High School - Towers Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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The Windsor-Walkerville Technical School Year Book 15 characteristic of our school life. It lias not been an easy task because the past year has been one of rapid growth. Attendance has increased, the teaching staff has been enlarged, new courses have been added to the curriculum, all existing activities have been maintained and new ones have been established. We trust that this volume may meet with your approval and that when school days are over, it may contribute a little to your happy memories. M. O’DONOGHUE. TECH SPIRIT The W. W. appearing on our shield is not a motto though amusing attempts ahve been made to interpret it as such. “We Work,” “We Win,” “We Will,” “Won’t Work” arc some of the free translations that have been made. Yes—Tech has chosen a motto—“Knowledge is Power, but ours is a young school, its character is still in the process of formation, and it is a little soon to crystallize its aspirations. Yet to those who have watched the school since its beginning in Sept, 1922, there has been evident a very definite growth of school opinion and a clear-cut adoption of standards. The student attitude has increasingly revealed itself as straightforward, un¬ assuming, considerate, good-humoured. These arc valuable qualities and provide a sound basis for the building of an A1 Tech Spirit. THE SCHOOL COUNCIL Plans for a school council definitely took shape last fall, and at the December staff meeting the duties and personel of the new organization were finally arranged. Meetings have already been held, and much effective work has been done. The school council was formed to co-ordinate all school activities, and to centralize the collection and distribution of all school monies. This year the council appointed the Concert Committee and the staff of theYear Book. Next year it is planned to have commencement exercises, school dances and other functions of a sim ilar nature under the control of the same body. The centralization of all school funds is another important aspect of the council’s work. At the end of the year the revenue left over from all activities and functions, including the Concert Committee, The Tech L nited, Boys and Girls Athletics, will be distributed among the various organizations in proportion to their needs. The personnel of the Council is as follows: President—Mr. Lowe. Techincal Department—Mr. Ross. Commercial Repartment—Mr. Sriglcy Secretary—Miss O’Donoghue. Treasurer—Miss Cragg. Girls Athletics—Miss Beasley. Boys Athletics—Mr. Wood. Tech United—Mr. Voaden. The year that is fast closing means the last days of school for many of us. We will soon be out in a world of opportunities and failures; difficulties that seem enormous and impassable will confront us. Will we lose heart and give up in despair, or will we triumph? There is a solution for ever) ' problem that is presented, and if everything is tackled with a smile and the old Tech spirit, difficulties will fade as a mist before the sun. leaving us at the top of the shining ladder of success. We are then able to face the future unafraid and unhampered by doubts. Opportunities are bound to come our way and we will accept them. CHARLES FISHER.

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14 The Windsor- ' Walkervillc Technical School Year Book EDITORIAb 1 FOREWORD “Pleasures,” says the poet, “are like poppies spread. You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.” ' Too often we find this true and yet what are happy memories but the unfaded bloom of the laughter, the strivings, the associa¬ tions of former days? How the wise and the great as well as the multitude delight to recall the incidents of childhood, the jollities, the triumphs and even the difficulties of school days! Such recollections lend a charm to adult life and have often provided the guiding principles of conduct. It is of the charm and romance evoked by memory that Wordsworth says: “Yes, they can make, who fail to find Short leisure even in busiest days Moments, to cast a look behind, And profit by the kindly rays That through the clouds do sometimes steal, And all the far-off past reveal.” To preserve the memory of the school year 1926-27 the editors of this second volume of the Year Book have laboured to select those things most

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16 The Windsor-VValkerville Technical School Year Book How many of us can give ourselves up to real honest thinking? 1 do not mean pondering over the petty, everyday things of life, but concentrating on truly great problems. We are too busy to think. Dr. F. M. Rice, in a recent lecture told of an amusing experience. A friend of his at college told him that his greatest thoughts came either when he was alone in the dark, or when out in the woods in a rainstorm. The distinguished Doctor had great faith in his friend’s judgment, and on one stormy night he climbed out of bed, left the house, and after trudging two miles through a greasy gumbo road, he reached a small wood. Soaked to the skin and as cold as ice, he sat down on a log and waited for his thought. None came. However, as he started homeward one truly great thing did cross his mind, and that was, “What a fool l was to think I could think like this.” Thinking is a thing that is almost entirely inspirational. The reason that inspirations come so seldom is hard to concieve. Dr. Rice says it is because everyone is trying to be like everyone else. We are afraid to try our own wings. We are too busy to think. Is the sacrifice worth while? The sacrifice of our truly beautiful thoughts for the hum-drum life that everyone else is living? This world needs in¬ dividuality. It must be cultivated, and it can never be realized until we develop real thinkers. GLADYS KERR—C3A. STAFF CHANGES We regretfully record the withdrawal from the teaching staff during the past year of three members. There is, however, consolation in the fact that these withdrawals have been due not to the superior lure of other schools but to other considerations. Miss J. Walbridge is living in Bennington, Yt„ and has opened a cloth¬ ing shop. Miss Walbridge s change of occupation is an illustration of the close co-ordination between technical education and the field of commerce and industry. Mr. J. C. Harston, B.A.. is teaching at the Vaughan Road High School. Mr. A. A. Lowther, B.A., is studing at Knox College, Toronto, in prepara¬ tion for the Presbyterian ministry. Tech welcomes six new members of the staff. Miss Jean Beasley, B.A.. a specialist in Household Science and in Physical Culture, came from the Walkerville Collegiate Institute. Miss Beasley has taken charge of the girls’ physical training work. Miss Damares Beattie is teaching dressmaking and to her department the various school organizations are much indebted for assistance in costume and designing. Miss Beattie taught formerly in the Vocational School at St. Catherines. Miss May Connerty, B.A., came from the College of Education. Miss Connerty teaches English and Physical Training and her musical skill is of great assistance in school activities. Miss Emilie LeBoeuf has had the task of iniating the new Art depart¬ ment. The whole school has appreciated the work of Miss LeBoeuf’s de¬ partment in the scenery painted by it for school concert. Mr. H. Voaden, M.A., is a Specialist in English and History and comes from the Glebe Collegiate, Ottawa. In spite of the fact that Mr. V oaden in¬ herited sevral activitis that take much time after class hours he has established and successfully carried out a comprehensive programme of inter-form contests in debating, oratory and concert programmes. Mr. G. R. West, B.A.Sc., comes from the College of Education and is teaching Machine Shop Practice and Mechanical drawing.