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

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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

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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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The Windsor-Walkervillc Technical School Year Book 43 MESSAGES FROM GRADUATES Allen Padgett: It is in this manner that 1 wish to express tny thanks, to the school and staff for their untiring efforts in affording us a Technical educa¬ tion. Your methods of teaching the sttb- jet of drafting are the same as are practised in the large manufacturing plants, only on a smaller scale. Next to the practical work itself. I have found mathematics to be the most necessary of the subjects which we studied. Without this you would be at a loss to know what to do. All of the problems which were discussed in our classes have arisen time and again. Machine shop ranks as third in importance. It is neces¬ sary to know the machines, know their operations and parts. Then foundry and pattern making. Mow could a draftsman design a fixture for a machine if he did not know of what metal to make the body? We were taught the main principles, have seen them put to proof, and now the same problems arise. The problems of the shop involve the same priniples as those in which we were instructed. So ' of all the subjects, there is not one which is not essential. The graduate?’ experience shows that care was used in selecting the sub¬ jects we were taught. All that I can say is that they are valuable in my case. It is with these thoughts in mind that I thank the school and staff. 1 find the training received in school to be of very great assistance in my apprenticeship course in tool- niaking. -»-o- TECH O’ MY HEART A breezy greeting to all of you! A “hello from an ex-student—to one and all—a bow to all the class¬ rooms, auditorium and gym ! hat wouldn’t I give to be able to ex¬ tract that “ex” and really be a stu¬ dent once more within the portals of the Technical Towers! To attend the dramatic, literary, athletic and student-council meetings! To take charge of meetings again, to pre¬ pare articles for the “school column,” have discussions with reporters, give speeches, plays—enter contests both in work and play ! To be there once more! Don’t yearn to become a wage- earner. Think of the present, think of school, the teachers—what they mean to you and what they will mean in the future. It’s a fine thing to look forward to the time when you will be independent. It’s a finer thing when your whole mind and being is burning with enthus¬ iasm. ambitions and dreams—to¬ wards a goal every dreamer, thinker and worker aims for—that of being something and meaning something as well as giving something noble and worthwhile to this world. Tech fits you out, by giving you a firm foundation for the business world. It’s up to you to make the most of the present. Those little things that do not seem to be worth while studying now, are bound to be help¬ ful later on. This is not meant to be a sermon. These are only a few of the facts learned by those of us who are at work. The teachers can tell you a great many things more that space does not permit me to enumerate. And so I leave you. dear old Alma Mater—with fond memories of some of the happiest days of my life—and richer for the days spent within the solemn and wise towers of the Windsor - Walkerville Technical School. Somebody said—and I pass it on to you: The price of the gun never hit a bull ' s eye. And the bang seldom rattles the bells, It’s the hand on the trigger that cuts the real ‘figger,’ The aim’s what amounts—that ' s what makes record counts. Are YOU hitting or just wasting the shells?” Happiness—and—good luck! Lovingly and appreciatively, A staunch and loyal old student, VIOLET CONOSEV1TCH.