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

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TI-IE NORTI-ILAND ECI-IO 45 THE MARIONETTE CLUB Hon, President .............. C. K. CarI'ingt01'1 President ...... ..... J ack Church Vice President --- .... Shirley Ruddy Treasurer .................... Donald Scott There are puppets and puppets, of course. Any ...... knows that! But, whereas in Europe the puppets' strings are pulled by their dictator masters, in North Bay our puppets put on a variety show Cand a darn good one, toolj and raised 5130.65 for the Red Cross. We're all very proud of that sum. It repre- sents, of course the total from two performances, Friday evening, Nov. 29 and the following mrs J 31 ,ha T '-'saw ,J I i Saturday morning matinee when 500 Public and Separate school pupils formed a noisy but enthusiastic audience. As one puppeteer said, And did they ever hiss the dictators! Thanks must be given to all our many friendly helpers, but especially to the Arts and Letters Club, who assisted us in sponsoring the performance and supplied the excellent music, vocal and instrumental. The Marionette Club has presented skits at the Lit and has twice accepted invitations to appear in outside charitable performances. If you care to peek inside Room 105 of a Tues- day afternoon you'll see our grandiose spectacle of Pinocchio taking shape. Altogether it's been a good year. JUNIOR LITERARY SOCIETY fb TC 'sex ati X 4 tsl. 1 'lv- Back Row fLeft to Right,-Bob Rankin, Jimmy Matera, Grant Darling, Reg Peverley, Mayer, jimmy Eady Cuthbert Gunning. Front Row QLeft to Rightl-Alice Raney, Margaret McKinnon, Caroline Groulx, Jean McLaren, Christina Zoubaules

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44 THE NORTHLAND ECHO THE STUDENTS' COUNCIL FRANK Ci-rsnxco V-Com.. The Students' Council started the year with the books revealing a small sum left by last year's council. It was hoped that the council fees would swell our bank account but we found that they were not coming in as well as they might have. With the students actively engag- ed in suppling overseas boxes to ex-students now on active service in England: woollens and other necessities to the Red Cross societies: and other very valuable war-work, we found some reason for the neglect of the fees. Still, there are several months left in which more fees may be paid. On February 7, the annual school dance was held in the boy's gymnasium. It took the form of a Valentine Ball Csomething new as far as the school is concernedj and proved to be a very great success. This was the first year, for some long time that a large profit was realized. This year the council found it necessary to buy new equipment for the rugby team. It seems that no new equipment had been pur- chased for quite a few years so that we were in very sore need of it. What we now have on hand should do for several seasons. For the first time, the school is minus a junior hockey team. It was a hard blow for a school like ours that has produced such good teams in the past, to take. It is to be under- stood that it was through no fault of the coun- cil that no effort was made to produce a team. The basketball team, another organization financed as far as possible by the council is, at present, doing exceedingly well. At present, work is well under way to pre- sent our annual school play. It is entitled The Gingham Girl and is a three-act musical comedy, to be produced under the joint direc- tion of Miss M. E. Wales, Miss P. L. Morgan and Mr. S. W. M. Hardwick. This year we are staging the play for three successive nights with one-third of the proceeds to go to very worthy war-work. Thus far we have had a somewhat success- ful year, with everything pointing to a greater success in the few remaining months. The executive as elected for 1941 is as follows: Frank Cherico ........ President Shirley Caley ...... Vice-President Emma Gareau .... Secretary-Treasurer After doing very good work for the Council Emma Gareau left school and was succeeded by Marjorie Anderson. SENIOR LITERARY SOCIETY The first activity of the 1940-41 Senior Literary Society was the Annual Hullabaloo. This year, due to a great number of activities, it was held later than usual and took place on November 15th, in the form of .a Hard Time and Old Fashioned Party. The proceeds from the dance, which a- mounted to Sl6.54, were given to Miss Wales to buy wool for the Overseas Boxes. Our second meeting took the form of a Quiz Programme between Fifth and Special. Earl Byrnes acted as a master of ceremonies and George Justice as time and score keeper. Those representing Special were: Barbara McGonegal, Shirley Caley, Jean Waddington, Ed. Murphy, Bill Gigg, Joyce Young, R. Laviolette, Reg. McCambley, Allen Skellern. Fifthis team was composed of :- Fred Duquette, Ruth McCubbin, Norma Herman, Wallace Blakely, G. Gaughan, Mable Gigg, Frank Chirico, Malcolm McDonald. There was good competition between both sides which finally ended in a victory for Fifth Form. Score was 22-17. The third meeting of the year was the Senior Oratorical Contest, held Feb. 13. Wal- ford Reeves placed first and Jack Rosborough second. These two represented N. B. C. I. and V. S. in the final Oratorical Contest. THE EXECUTIVE Honorary Presidents, .......... Mr. T. Firth, Miss H. Gardner President ........ -W George Justice Vice President --- --- Beverly Gunn Sect.-Treas. --- --- Velma Martin Pianist ...... .... I rene Simkin Reporters .... ..... F rances Jenkins George Cummings THE JUNIOR LITERARY SOCIETY The 1940-41 season opened with a Variety Programme in December consisting mostly of well prepared Christmas numbers by Grades X, Collegiate. Early in February, Grades X, Commercial, arranged a meeting with songs, a dance number, recitations and a quiz. About the middle of March, the four boys' forms of Grade IX gave an excellent play, several puppet numbers, a boxing match along with several musical numbers. The society is looking forward to a pro- gramme from Grades X Technical, ir1 April and another from the three girls, forms of Grade IX, in May. The Junior Oratorical Con- test will be held on Friday, May 2. The officers for the Junior Literary Society this year are: President ............ Reg. Peverley Vice-President ...... Margaret McKinnon Secretary-Treasurer .... Bob Rankin Pianist ................ Betty Brown Reporters ..... .... D on Moyer Ken Sinclair

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46 THE NORTHLAND ECHO SCHOOL PLAY - THE GINGHAM GIRL MALCOLM MACDONALD Because of the success of the past two musicals presented by the School, Miss M. E. Wales, Miss P. Morgan, and Mr. S. W. Hard- wick wisely chose another sparkling musical for this year's presentation. The action of the musical comedy centred around Mary, Cjessie Moorej who was trying to establish a market for her Bluebird Cookies. Mary lived in a small town. Every day she baked cookies to be sold in Silas O'Day's Cjack Rosboroughj grocery store. But it seems that, as this particular village didn't like cookies Mary, egged on by a high-pressure salesman from New York CI-Ioward Clarkej, decided to leave for the Big City and sell her cookies there. She was further influenced by the attention paid her by one Harrison Bartlett CReg. McCambleyJ whose father owned a cookie factory and who didnit mind a flirtation with Mary, in spite of the fact that he was al- ready engaged to Mildred Ripley CAgnes Mc- Cubbinj. Perhaps, too, Mary was eager to go to New York because her boy-friend from Crossville Corners Cjohnny Cousinsb had al- ready gone to The City to make a name for himself . In the meantime, Johnny CMalcolm Mac- Donaldj had forgotten Mary and was spending his time taking out show-girls like Mazie Lelewer CGrace McGaugheyj. He was engaged as a model by an artist, Sonia Mason CKay Henryj and incidentally got himself entangled in an affair with a wealthy old maid, Sophia Trask, CMarian Alfordj who tried desperately to snare him, and to whom he was attracted for her money. However, true love finally made him turn to Mary who had made a success of her Cookie Business in New York and still retained her sweet unaffected disposition. Libby O,Day, CEna Saundersj Silas' daughter, had come to New York too and eventually married the high-pressure salesman to whom she had been attracted ever since she met him in Crossville Corners at her father's store. The story ends happily as Mary and johnny sing just as long as you have me and I have youf, The curtain was rung down on one of the most entertaining and financially successful plays presented by the School. We were able to turn over one third of the proceeds to three local war funds. LUNCHEON IS SERVED WILMA CLIFF XI A Voc. Time: 7.30 P.M. September 3, 1940. Place, C. P. R. station, North Bay. Sceneg Three girls leaving for Toronto and the Canadian National Exhibition as entrants in a contest to be held in the Electrical Building, Friday September 5, 1940. The three girls were Iris Jennings, Con- stance Spencer and Wilma Cliff. They were accompanied by Miss Grace Bennett. They arrived at the Union Station, Toronto, early Thursday morning. After breakfast they iourneyed forth to find their lodging place, Pembroke House, at 73 Pembroke Street. This proved to be a very friendly and pleasant branch of the Y. W. C. A. Friday afternoon came quickly and the girls soon found themselves entering the gates of the exhibition grounds and wending their way to- ward the Electrical Building. They entered the cooking room and took their places beside the work table, electric stove and refrigerator as- signed to them. The menu chosen consisted of: Cantaloupe Vegetable Plate CBaked Potatoes, Baked Tomatoes, Cabbage Salad, Spinach Nest with Poached Eggj Baked Chocolate Custard Tea Bread and Butter The luncheon could not cost more than S150 and it was to be cooked and ready to serve to four members of the R. C. A. F. within seventy minutes. There were three prizes offered, first prize being SSO. Constance Spencer and Wilma Cliff cooked the meal while Iris set the table, prepared the centre table decoration composed of fresh zinnias, and served the meal to the R. C. A. F. men. Everything turned out splen- didly and at the end of the contest, while the girls were disappointed at not winning one of the prizes, they were proud to be placed among those honorably mentioned. First prize was won by three Ottawa girls who did very splen- did work. At the contest Friday the three representa- tives of N. B. C. I. and V. S. received invita- tions to a Good Will Luncheon in the Women's Building at the Exhibition the next day. This event proved to be a very delightful and exciting afternoon. At the entrance to the room the girls were received by Mrs. Aitken, Director of Women's Activities at the Exhibi- tion and by two gentlemen, The luncheon was served buffet stylei' on the balcony. During the luncheon, the teacher from each of the schools stood up and introduced the pupils re- presenting their school and told what school they came from. North Bay was the farthest away of any of the places represented. After lunch, Horace Lapp entertained the guests by playing the piano. Later the guests joined in a sing-song. The thing that impressed the girls most at this luncheon was a young boy from one of the schools, who, seeing Mrs. Aitken was very tired, took complete command of the situation, leading the sing-song like a profes- sional Master of Ceremonies. Later, in the Fall, Mr. Wallace presented each girl with a charming gold and blue pin sent from the Exhibition. There is no need to say that these three girls were very proud indeed.