North Bay Collegiate Institute and Vocational School - Northland Echo Yearbook (North Bay, Ontario Canada)

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66 THE NORTHLAND ECHO IIIA Collegiate Mr. Hardwick George Barker FORM NOTES Miss Hamer: Gwendolyn, what was the character in the Bible called Job afflicted with? Gwendolyn: Worms, tBoils.D Miss Gliddon tafter sending McLean to the boardl: Now pick out someone you want to keep you company. McLean: She isn't here. Miss Gliddon: Taylor, why don't you walk right? Taylor: I can't3 my ancestors were apes. The topic was the comparing of the prices of men's and wornen's clothes. Miss Morgan: It costs just as much to make a skirt as to make a pair of man's trousers. Wigston: But don't women buy more clothes? Miss Morgan: How do you know so much about women's clothes, Wigston? VVigston: I've got three sisters. A FRENCH PERIOD Theres a scuffle going on ahead. It's VViggy and Martin throwing lead. West and Cummings fight it outg Torrance and Godin start a bout. Sadie and Miriam scratch and spitg June and Lila growl a bit. Peaver and Holmes gab and grin, Duquette swings at Taylor as he sticks out his chin. Mr. Hardwick lays lustily about, But a flying book gives him a lusty clout. The teacher is hit on the chin By a spitball aimed at Gwendolyn. He jumps in the air with a shriek and a roar, And goes off his nut for evermore. JUST A VERSE Lowry's perpetual motion, VVigston's continu'd commotion, And Cummings' ever ready asides Break the peace that always abides In Mr. Hardwick's IIIA Form. With teachcr's ever warning storm VVe need some new and waking thought From boring subjects always taught. dhmvfa ?'scsai ssichtol'ssT IIIB Collegiate Miss L. Hamer R. Coombes WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW Why a certain-girl blushes so when we pass IVB in the hall. Who is he, Alma? Why Anita Burnie is always singing Oh, Johnnie '? I guess she means Jack B. Q Why Eleanore Jacques likes the lower hall by the office. They say he has curly hair. Where May Smith's Superman she talks so much about lives? Why Marg. Owen won't come to our Arena. I guess it isn't anything like she sees in Burwash. What boy in Toronto gets his mail from the Richards girls and B. Coombes. They say he's ,Bernice's cousin. What happened to make Frances S. sit sideways in that roomy seat in Miss Gliddon's room? Why Marg. P. has started taking pri- vate lessons in Algebra from Mr. Moore. What is in those long notes Barbara C. is always writing. Why B. Clarke goes with her brother or is H. Clarke her brother? Where Marion A. got that ring that's too big for her. She didn't have it before she went to London. Why Betty E. blushes so sweetly when anybody mentions Archie? Why E. Meeking has found such a sudden interest in dancing. They say he's a jitterbug. Why did Dorothy Burrows change the words of a popular song to, When I walk I like to walk with Reggie. That's what we wondered till we heard about a certain lad who lives on Sixth Ave. THEME SONGS OF IIIB Anita Burnie- Oh Johnny. Eleanore Jacques- Hold Tight. Barbara Clarke4 I get along without you very well. Dorothy Burrows- I took a chance! Gloria Ringrose-Any Nursery rhyme. 1 In Musty Gulch lived Crusty Pete Who never washed hands, face and fectg The people South would often say Winds North, Pete's on the air today.' i

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THE NORTHLAND ECHO 65 Girl: Are you a toe dancer? Partner: No!' Girl: Then get off my toes. Time stands still when I'm with you, dear. No wonder, your face would stop a. clock! .- You'll find the present crop of politi- cians surprisingly well up in all the big questions of the day if you refrain from answering the answers. Some time ago newspapers carried the news that Italy devised a process of making wool out of milk. It must make the cows feel sheepish. The following story was told by Mr. Hardwick one day in IIC, much to our amusement: One evening, Mr. Hardwick did relate, Finds a gentleman going to keep a date, With his girl-friend at his girl-friend's house, He felt timid as a rabbit, and frightened as a mouse. He rang the doorbell, waited in dread, Wishing to goodness that he were dead. And when she answered the door, he wore a nervous grin, He spluttered and blurted, 'Is Irene in'?' Well they spent a quiet evening, the way all couples do, And, she said as he was leaving, 'Here's something you never knew.' She had smeared lipstick on his tie, it was no use to struggle, His mind was blank, he could not think, He did feel quite befuddled, 'You're the light of my life,' to George, Irene had said. Dad shouted down the stairs to her: 'Put out that light and come to bedl' And so ends our tale, as the gentleman fled. Mr. Simpson was giving IIC a pep talk to encourage them in their sale of tickets for the play and for a shining example he told the story of a Collegian of the past who was so anxious to sell tickets that when he went to one house the lady who answered the door said it would be impossible because her husband was away that week-end and she had no one to mind the baby. The Collegian inquired eagerly if that was her only reason and when she said it was he immediately offered his services saying that he would mind the balby. That, said Mr. Simpson, was his whole-hearted spirit. He looked expectantly around the room to see if his pep talk had struck the responsive chords in the students. but they were strangely unmoved with immobile expressions until Guenette leaned forth and said, You forgot to tell us how old the baby was! AH HEAVEN!- QTHEME SONG OF IICJ Oh give me a life of pleasure, give me a life of ease, My joy I could never measure, to travel and do as I please, Don't let the old school bell hold me, Or sound of the teacher's voice But let me travel alone, all on my own And all by myself I'll rejoice IIC ROMANCES Around the room in French period, I took a hasty glance, And I learned right then, why French was called the language of romance, For there was Guenette struggling, and trying his very best, To help sweet, Ruth Walker, out with that hard French test. I looked at Betty Thompson, with her come hither smile, Which Bebee seemed to worship in French period all the while, And then blonde Clara Johnson does let her glances stray Over towards Burrows, where eventually they do stay. Then, Ruth Rankin, in her naive way, that's shy For Upton she does not conceal, the romance I imply. Bob Weegar talks to Doreen, he chatters all the time, But what they say I Wish I knew, I'd write it in this rhyme. And Doris Axler chatters, about her romances many While I sit back and bemoan the fact Poor me, I haven't any! Alas for Mr. Hardwick, alas for all us too, For while all this goes on in class, how much French could we do?

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THE NORTHLAND ECHO 67 PROBABLE FATES OF IIIB STUDENTS Peggy Leslie-Keeping house for Edgar. Gloria Ringrose-A stooge for Jack Benny. Eleanore Jacques-A permanent resi- dent of Callander. Marg. Owen- Matron at Burwash Penitentiary. D olr o t h y ,Burrows-Still polishing stools at Grattons. Marg. Paterson-Leader of a Boy Scout troop. Elsie Meeking-Running a radio quiz programme. Clementine Valois-Teaching French at N.B.C.I. Marg. Wright-Looking after lone- some soldiers. Alma and Anita-Two old maids argu- ing over whether they'll have apple or lemon pie for dessert. M e 1' l e Richardson-Manufacturing stilts. One MAY morning a young man named JACQUES bought a GARLAND of flowers from the CLARK in the flower shop. VVhen he COOMBES out into the MARY sunshine he was OWEN so much money that his head was AITKEN. And since he no longer felt like a FREEDMAN he decided he would PHIL this? LIP with a BROWN liquid that BURNIES. Then he BURROWS his FLEMING h'ad in his COLE hands and began to yell, I wish I was RICH- ARD. Then he looked on the ground and found a RING tand hel ROSE to his feet crying, It's all WRIGHT. Things We Have 'n' Haven't Hamtmler but no nails Aitken but no pain Meeking but no coward Fleming but no cold Clark but no pork and beans Garland but no flowers Jacque but no Jill Richardson but no furniture store Freedman but no slaves Wright but no wrong Burrows but no donkey Owen' but no debts Phillips but no magnesia Guerney but no cow Burnie but no stove Smith but no coughdrops Brown but no white Paterson but no Durrell Richards but no poor. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF uloria R. could tell a new joke? Freda F. got rid of her cold and could do her French homework? Bernice R. wasn't so slaphappy and didn't like everybody? Marion A. ever said anything without using big words? Marg. O. stopped giving her hymn card to the boy in front of her who didn't have one? Skippy didn't tell us the Happy Gang's Goon stories every day at noon. Miss Morgan: There isn't one of us that doesn't admire beauty. Frances S.: That's why I love myself so much. Mary K. didn't do her Algebra home- work every night? Merle R. wasn't so tall? Winnie G. would pronounce her French instead of spelling it. What the Teachers Say to Us ' Miss Gliddon: Doris, if you can only sit on one side, why don't you make it the other one so you won't be facing Frances? Mrs. Hoey: Now girls, don't waste a minuteg you could be learning a vocabu- lary. Miss Hamer: Now you girls get down to some real hard concentration. Mr. Cleland: Pipe down. IIIB Mary Fleming Our form IIIB's a pretty good class, VVe all hope that someday we'll be lucky and pass Q73 In Physics, Miss Wales says there's lots of doubt, Algebra needs thought so is practically out. Our Latin marks go from the top to the bottom, And as far as French marks, well, We just haven't got them. In History we wish that someone had forgotten To tell about Marathon Sparta and Athens. About Composition Miss Hamer will say That we'll never be authors for many a day. At last comes our Literatureg dull most of the time, Why the poems in Abe Lincoln don't ever rhyme! And so I close on our blooming 3rd form And will guarantee fun till exams start to storm.