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

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The Windsor- ValkervUle Technical School Year Book 13 §r(]nol Spirit The students of Tech can claim to be the luckiest in the province. Here we are attending a million dollar school, taught by a staff of million dollar teachers and receiving a commercial or technical education that will mean more than a million to us. In return for all this we give a fifteen cent school spirit. If you could hear a group of students talking about their schools, you would find the Tech students arguing for Tech with vigour. An outsider listening would say. “There must be a wonderful school spirit at Tech.” But the very next day if the outsider would see the same students at lunch hour dropping paper and half of their lunches all over the hall, would he remark about the school spirit? I said that we had a fifteen cent school spirit, but on second thought 1 do not think it is worth that much. A basketball ticket sells for fifteen cents and about fifty students buy them and support the team. Even when our basket-ball teams are hosts to visiting teams the supporters of the opposing teams outnumber Tech supporters 4 to 1. But you may say. “I support the hockey teams.” ' that’s fine. But the hockey team is a winning team and supporting it does not show as much spirit as it would if they were a losing team. In the year 27-28 the support of the students made the hockey team a winning team and if we had the same spirit now it would do the same for any of our teams. I have pointed out two instances in which I can see our school spirit is not as fine as our boast. Are we going to take our loyalty out in talk and let the other schools have the best of us. No! Let’s wake up and fight as well as shout for Tech. F. SWACKHAMMER Only a short time ago at one of the basketball games, the absence of rooters from the School was frequently remarked upon. The result of the game was that the home team lost. The small number of rooters might have had nothing to do with this outcome, but for some reason or other the players certainly lacked that enthusiastic quality which is necessary for good playing. Of course there are crucial points when noise might make the contestants nervous, and in that case it is altogether unfair to cause a disturbance of any kind. As a rule, however, when a player hears his name or the name of his school coupled with some appre¬ ciative remarks, he is greatly encouraged. I have chosen basketball only as an example, but this is true in all games. A school yell given by a crowd of enthusiastic rooters undoubtedly generates enthusiasm in the players. Therefore, rooters are very import¬ ant to a team. True rooters, however, should not be solely for their own team, but should see and acknowledge the brilliant plays of their opponents, thus furthering the sport and showing good-will. HENRY ZMARZLY

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12 The Windsor-Walkervilk Technical School Year Hook 1 nrrluurb “Tin Aim. if Reached or Not, Makes Good the Life.” Every girl and hoy has or ought to have a purpose in life. Without an aim we cannot journey along the road of life to success. Sometimes in trying to achieve our goal we have difficulties to meet and problems to solve, but the conquest of these brings a joy to life. Sometimes we feel that our ideals are seldom realized, but all our experiences—whether of joy or of sorrow—in life contribute to the development of our character. And so, in our task with our magazine our aims have not fully reached reality but something has been added to our life and character. We are the better for having tried. We find courage in the poet’s words (as quoted above) in which he suggests that even our intentions are looked upon as actualities. “The trying shall suffice.” Even though we never reach per¬ fection, what of that? “A man’s reach must exceed his grasp, Or what’s a Heaven for?” The editors and staff of the Year Book 1928-29 have laboured faith¬ fully to compile a record of the school’s life and activities. We hope that you will overlook our failures and that those who follow ' after may build onward to success. May this book form another link to strengthen sweet memories of school days at Tech. CHAS. ADSETT

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14 The Windsor-Walkerville Technical School Year Book CLlic tlinmtatiim nf iViust ' in tljc during i innt Jiiutr On account of the discussion going on recently about the noise in the halls at noon hour, I beg this opportunity of expressing niy views on the question. The cause for all the noise is that the pupils, not having anything to do, gather in the halls. My suggestion is to give the pupils something to do to occupy their time during the lunch hour. One way to occupy this time is to stage basketball or indoor baseball or basketball ga mes between the classes that are having lunch at that period. A schedule could be arranged so that, two teams would play each noon hour. A reward might he given to the winning team. When the pupils art? interested in, and attending these games, they will not he dis- turbing other classes. “Tech United” programs could also be put on in the auditorium by the classes who have lunch at this time and a similar reward could be given to the winners of the host lunch-hour program. Moving pictuies could also be shown in the lunch hour which besides giving entertainment to the pupils would be also educational. The school library should also he open and by having a good supply of interesting magazines, the pupils of the school would come to the library in the noon hour instead of lounging around the halls having nothing to do. By doing something for the entertainment of the pupils during the lunch hour, the problem of “noise in the halls” would he solved and the pupils would be enjoying a pleasant and profitable lunch period. FRED HALES, T4 loiters Cmiiu ' utiim On the morning of October 11, the two representatives from the Windsor-Walkerville Technical School arrived in Toronto destined to attend the Third Annual Convention of the Ontario Secondary School Editors. The convention is held yearly by the Sigma Delta Phi or the Women’s Journalising Fraternity of the University of Toronto. This fraternity offers a shield to the school having Ihe best publication. The convention took the form of lectures, discussions, field trips, and a banquet furnished by a local newspaper firm. The committee in charge had arranged for a number of excursions and trips. We had an invitation from the editor of the McLarens Magazine to visit, their plant where we viewed that popular Canadian magazine in all its stages of publication. The convention closed at noon on Saturday October 13. The rest ol the day was free to all, and tickets for the Varsity-Queens rugby game were given to those who desired them.