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

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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.

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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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THE NORTHLAND ECHO 47 THE GIRLS' CAMERA CLUB The Girls, Division of the Coltek Camera Club is rapidly becoming one of the most popular organizations in the school. And why shouldn't it? Under the supervision of Miss Jackson, with Frances Smith as President, Ruby Parr as Vice-President and Margaret Stitt as Secretary-Treasurer, the girls have been striv- ing to make the club's third year in existence, the best. They have certainly succeeded: the sixteen new members have increased the mem- bership to twenty-five. All these girls have been taught how to develop, to print, to enlarge and to tint. The girls have turned over the profits of their Christmas card sale to the junior Red Cross Funds of the school. Last Autumn the girls hiked out to Duchesne Falls. They took many pictures: some of which were displayed in a photography contest that was held in the school. In this contest the judges declared Helen Aceti the winner of the prize for the group of water pictures. Frances Smith for indoor por- traits and outdoor portraits, Marian Alford for enlarging, animal pictures and landscapes. We, of the club, are sincerely hoping that the club will continue to increase its member- ship with each new year and that it will some day rank first and foremost among all the school 3C'f1V1f1CS- MARGARET Srlrr GUEST POET The North Bay Collegiate Institute and Vo- cational School is honoured to have had as its guest the distinguished Canadian poet, Wilson MacDonald. Mr. MacDonald read to the students a number of his own poems, among them the well known Song of the Skif' and the one which he claims to be his best Old Things. Several clever French Canadian selections won special applause from the students. ORATORICAL CONTEST One project of the school which is not given the credit it deserves is the annual oratorical contest. It provides a means of learning to speak in public without self-consciousness or hesitancy. The school contest took place on Feb. 14, 1941, and though all the contestants did re- markably well, W. Reeves and J. Rosborough were chosen as winners. In the district Contest, on Feb. 26th, this school was not so fortunate however and lost the honours to Michael Fouriezos of Sturgeon Falls High School and to John McCreavy of Scollard Hall. ARCHERY CLUB .....-1. E iam' -- Back Row fLeft to Right,-Andy Repol, Erbel Carmicheal, G. Apostle, Fred Baldrate, Richard Valenti. Second Row-Ester Smith, Helen MacGillivray, Jean Stewart, Bemice Banbridge, Doris Axler, Helen Duff, Dawn Graham, Eileen Gall. Front Row-Allan Nicoll, jack Hill, George Fiemay, Dick Scott, Kenny Elston.