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

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The Windsor-Walkerville Technical School Year Book 41 tunity to “make a team or to rep¬ resent her form. Basketball is played during the fall, volley ball and badminton, dur¬ ing the winter, baseball and tennis during the spring. Keen competition between forms is the result and a spirit of good fellowship and love of the game for the game ' s sake. Pins are given to the winners of these interform games for the Junior years and the senior years. Pins are also given to the girls winning the tennis and badminton “singles” championship. -o- WITH YE PEDAGOGUES’ BASEBALL TEAM Mr. Morrison : “No fair swinging twice on my slow ball.” Mr. Johnston: “The resistance to my touching home plate sends a shock through my whole body.” Mr. West: “If this is the ball, what did I swing at before?” Mr. Sirrs: “If this yelling doesn’t stop, I will swing on more than the ball.” Mr. Montrose: “I’ll just hit him with this ball to put him out.” Mr. Ross: “The best way to slow up a fast slider is to sit on him and ride.” Mr. Bennett: “I miss a few times, but so does vour old car.” Mr. Wood ' : “Give it a ride? Well, just wait till I get my car running. Gee. where did the ball go, any¬ way?” Mr. Fraser: “I didn ' t think any one heard me when I missed that ball.” Mr. Shrier: “This ball race is all right, but the loose nuts make all the noise.” Mr. Voaden: “Hit one out boys. I want to get home.” (Friday night). Mr. Harman: “Fielding is my long suit.”

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MIDGET BASKET BALL Back Row—Marion Crouch man. Miss A. Donaldson (coach), Mr. W. D. Lowe, Miss J. Beasley, Lola Aehlt. Centre Row—Mildred Smith. Victoria Smadu. Gertrude IVrry (captain), Jewel Delong, Olive Norwood, Margaret Price. Seated—Helen Smadu, Grace Beckett. GIRLS’ BASKETBALL Girls’ basketball this year at Tech has suffered greatly due to the lack of seasoned material for the first team. At the beginning of the year only one member who had formerly played on a first team, and only two members who had played on seond teams, were attending school. With several of these girls com-, ing back next autumn we hope to have a team which will stand up well in the W.O.S.S.A. games. We also hope they will always remember the ex ample of good sportsmanship they have followed this year. -o- The Midget Girls’ Basketball Team is composed of girls under five feet in height and 102 lbs. in weight. During the year seveYi scheduled games were played with teams from : The Windsor Collegiate Institute. The Wyandotte Branch of the Windsor Collegiate. The Walkerville Collegiate. The General Byng School, Sand¬ wich. Out of the seven games, the Tech team won three and lost four. - o -— GIRLS’ ATHLETICS In the gymnasium folk dancing, Indian clubs, dumb-bells, ands. marching, apparatus work, and group games are among the ac¬ tivities of each class. Interform games are stressed, especially those games which require a number of girls and therefore develop team work. Every girl is given an oppor- 40

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ALUMNI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Hon. Pres.—Mrs. M. McGiffn. President—Percy Riddell. Vive- Pres.—Murray Smith. Secretary—Helen Windecker. Treasurer—Rhea Goulette. COMMENCEMENT NIGHT Happy smiling eyes that glisten. Cheery greetings of old friends. Merry laughter, joyful chatter, All in one confusion blends. The maiden’s gowns supply the colour. The purples, greens and pink and blues, And manly young hearts, joyfully flutter ’Neath their suits of darker hues. Representatives 1922— Kathleen Epplett. Whitney Gifford. 1923— Ruth Riddell. Douglas Wadge. 1924— Edith Williams. Francis A wad. 1925— Annie Fleming. Herbert Banwell. 1926— Christine Denison. Joseph Des Rosiers. And the hall is set resplendent, Greeting with a blaze of light, Many faces, sweetly blushing, On our glad commencement night. Now oil the roll of honour shine Names of graduates of old. And graduates of our time, May from them their future mould. As we leave our Alma Mater. We may look on and say with pride, As we view the noble building, “There it stands, my faithful guide.” CHARLES FISHER. 42