North Bay Teachers College - Polaris Yearbook (North Bay, Ontario Canada)

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Nortlt Bay Teachers' College +I ll ll ll lu ll ll ll ll ll ll ll ll ll ll ll ll nl ll u--II ll ll nu u u u u ll In n + THE BOY WHO LEARNED TO YODEL 'lihere was onee :x little Swiss hoy named lfreidel who h:txl heen living in Northern Hntario Iixn' only ont week. lle haxl made friends with llavid who admirexl him heeause l reidx'l eould yxxrlel so loudly :xml elx-arly. l'y'e tried anxl tried to yoxlel like you. eomplaind llayixl one day. 'l just eannot xlo it. XX'ell, said lfreidel. 'almost everX'0l1C in Switz.-rlaml eau yodx-l. llut thx-re was :x tinxx- when l xw-nld ttot. XX'ould you like to he:xr the story ahout ltow 1 learned to yodel? lfagerly, llayid sat tip to listen. lle loved stories and w:xnted very mueh to lxarn how lfrx-ixlxxl hx- eatne such a good yodeller. This was the story he heard. XX'hen he was just seven ye:trs old. l reidel's tiath.-r diexl and he lzaxl to go lu the inouuiains to tytxtle lot' :x cruel old tn:tn. XX'ith the few pennies he earned, lfreidel :xnxl his mother managed to eat onee a day. Une hlaek :xml stormy night ltis master s:tid erossly, 'l reidel. go tip to my rahin in the nionntains and lx-teh my pipe. tio quickly. 'l'he night w:xs very xlark :xnxl gloomy. lfreidel was going to have to stay in the x-:thin all nigh: hy himself. llowever, his father h:xxl taught him to he ohx-xlieixt, :tml t'rightenx'd as he w:xs, he sl2ll'lt'tl on his w:xy. lly the tinte he reached the hut, his elothes were drenched from the r:xin and the lightning tlaslzx-d 1tt'I'ttes the sky. Quickly lfreidel entered tlte dingy eahin. l shall holt the xloor :xml loek the slltlllt't's,.' ltxj thought. XX'lten he lt:xd done this, he crawled into the olxl hed, shut ltis eyes :xml drifted into a trouhled sleep. Suddenly he awoke aml looking up was terrified to see :x lmge olxl giant stamling :xt the littxxt taxi his hx-xl, Hello, lireidx-ll 'l'he giant spoke softly hut lfreidel, not daring to look, hid ltls head umler the hlanket. Do not he afraid. l shall not hurt you. The giant spoke very kinxlly :xml l rx-idel tiinidly pxxkefl out ltls head from under the ragged hlanket. .X long hlue rohe and shaggy white heard eonfronted lireidel :xs he peered through the dimnxness at tlte kindly giant. You are a good hoy, lfreixlel. You have worked harxl yet were heaten hy your eruel inaster. 'Ixll me what you would like more than anything else in the world. Now, lfreixlel haxl never tolxl anyone how he had practised so harxl anxl still eould not yodx-l. St- with- out hesitation he said, l should like to he ahle to yodel. 'l'hen yodel you sliall,' s:tid the giant. Tomorrow morning when you :xw:xken, you shall he :thle to yodel more loudly :ntxl clearly than :uiy other little hoy in Switzerlamlf' XX'ith these words. the giant diss :tppe2xt'ed. L'pon awakening next morning, lireidel womlered if he had heen di'e:nning. 'l'he door w:ts still holtx-xl :xml the shutters locked. Yes, thought he, it must have hx-en :x dream. Outside the sun shone hrightly. The air smelled sweet. .Xs lte m:xde ltlrs w:xy down the narrow path. l rx-idel fx-lt very h:xppy. Suddenly he yodelled loudly aml elearly. ln the distanee :t mountain hx-rdsnian yodelled a t'eply. l7i'eidel yoxlelled again :xml again - happy to he :dive and working. x-yen for his ernel master. llaying' arrived :xt his 1naster's home. he heard :x harsh yoiee. XX'hx-re did you learn to yodel like th:xt? l'reidel told lns story. .Xhl t'XClllllllL'tl his master, l innst go tip to my mountain eahin. l lx-lit my x':xp there. Ito not x-xy peet me home tonight. lfreidel knew th:xt ltis master haxl not left ltis eap :xt the eahin, hut he said nothing. Ile wxtttxlx't't'tl what gilt the giant would hestow' upon the cross old ntan. llt:xt night, :x snow storm raged m tlte hills. l'rx-:del s master had not returned and no one x'onl.l gxt tlrough the deep snow' to look tor him. iliti earn :x little money meanwhile, lfrxtdel yolellexl s'.Xx't'l ntxh-7 dies tor the village people :tnd they gave him :t penny, sometimes two, lor eaeh song. XX'hen tlte snow ntelted :tml the iee thawed, :t group ot' men went up to the old eahin in the ntonntaiips lhey found only a pair ul' hoots whieh had hx-longed to l'iI'x'itlt'l's ernx-I master. lle himsx-lt. was nowheqt- lx- he found. l'x-rhaps. said thx- villagx-t's. the giant punished him tor hx-ating little lfreidel and making hint w tile 1: h:xrxl all d:ty and night. Xt l'tst l t'x'idel x trned enou h money hy yodx-llin to eome lxx nortltern tintario with his dt-:tr tttttiilxi .Xnd so, ltx-re l ant. he s:tid to ltis new tiriend llayid. 'l'h:xt is how I lx'1tl'llx'xl to 5 'lt'l llv' 1 H 'l'h:tt w:ts :t wondx-rtiul story. l i'eidel. lint l know' that the giant would not eontx- away .teios oex-an to give ntx- the gilt ot' yoxlx-lling. lltx you think you eould tx-:teh nie? l'll try, l t'eidx-l replied. .Xnd sol e:tx'h day, littllis heard l rx-idel :tml llayid in the little woods hehind the house pr.xx'tisxng 'X'-x-l ell-:x-dex-Y over and over again. llo you tlnnk llavid tinally learned to yodel: XX ell, it he eontnxned hetllx it Ht't l lm! lllyt' ln' Xt-to then, lm stlI't' he dtxl. DIN-'-H t..'t's.t1.' et H

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North Bay Teachers' College 4, . n an u in u lu u In ll u In an un nu nn un--un ln mi un nn ul nu nn un nn nu nu nn nn ln mi nn nn ull up CITIZEN? The full moon hung brightly in the velvet sky. It silvered the snow-clad hills and tipped with dia- mond thc silent. snow-shrouded pines. Far up in the endless heavens swept the ever-changing northern lights. a continuous. majestic pattern ot colour. .-X man stood looking at the lights. a man whose back was bent with toil and age. Vladimir ,Nmdrusky looked deep into those flickering depths and there it seemed that, as on a vari-coloured screen, he could see his life reflected. Yladimir Aindrnsky was an old man now - his life was nearly over. He had lived long and he should have been content to die. And yet, as he looked at the lovely heavens, a bitterness arose within his soul, a bitterness and an overwhelming awareness ot the futility of his life. hp from the fetters of the past rose memories of the Ukraine, the land where he was born. He saw again the winding lane leading to the little whitewashed cottage clothed in blooming fruit trees. How he had loved life then: the hot days in the steppes with the sun beating upon his shoulders, the cool shade of the orchard. the simple church on Sunday, the singing and dancing in the soft glow of twilight! Young as he was. he had drunk deeply of its beauty and vowed that he would never leave it. As he grew older he saw the poverty and oppression of his people. but he still loved life, and determined to do all in his power to make it easier for the people who lived in this beloved land. University brought him into contact with a big city. big people. and big ideas. Along with many others he grasped the new Ideal, that of common owner- ship for the benefit of all. He had been young then, and the Ideal sounded so effective ..... Then the war broke out, and all his plans were shattered. Dragged against his will into an army he had always opposed, he found himself fighting against those whom he should have been fighting with, and his belief in the Ideal collapsed. Two years later he found himself in a prison camp and within six months he was faced with the alternative of staying in prison, or leaving the land he loved. He decided on the latter Y firm in the conviction that someday soon he would return and help rebuild his war-torn homeland. XYith this in mind, then, he had gazed for the first time upon his future home -- that vast expanse of icv wilderness they called Northern Ontario. He still loved life. and he still had hope, for would he not some- day return to his Ukraine? His first contact with the new land was in a city not unlike the one at which he attended university. Here he received his first awakening. He had entered the city with the thought of obtaining a position worthv of his education, but it seemed that his education was of no avail. No, they said, Your language is tif no -nee to us and you do not know ours well enough. Go to work in the lumber camps. So he went. His vcars in the steppes now stood him in good stead. and he soon became quite accustomed to the fact that his L-fiticatioii which was valued at home, was of so little use to him here. ln time he learned the language and the Cllsttillts, and married a girl from his homeland. Together they planned and saved in hope of returning. Then came the second awakening, the depression years, years of hard work for small wages. years which lilcssefl him with children, and years which drained his youth and strength. Now, with a family to care for, and nothing save his bare hands to do it with, the thought of his country receded a little. He became more concerned with perpetuating the customs for his homeland in this country so that his children could grow up in an environment as much like his as possible. His spare time was devoted to teaching the language and tgtictonis tu the new generations and his children and his neighbours, children grew up with a knowledge of ti-.o languages and a love of songs and dances, the ancient celebrations and the beautiful arts and crafts of . - v their fathers land. .Ns his children grew older, there came the third and most shocking awakening. For although these children loved their father's Cllsttiillls, their love for the land was not so binding as his, and they had no wish lr. retnrn. Hur place is here, they said. Your country we have never seen. lt was true, he realized, but tht- tliouglit had been a knife thrust in his soul, For now he knew how his life must be, and now all hope di'-fl witliin him. He must live on in obscurity, his ideals and resolves forever smothered. He must continue his lowly work in factories and lumber yards while the knowledge within him rotted and died, and, faraway, his lmomt-land writhed beneath the tyrant's hand. lli- children were married now and lived with their own children in their own homes. They still loved and rf,-in-ti thi- customs of their father's land, but for the land itself they cared little. .Xnd that land,-what of ii? lt una- now but a name attached to an insignificant state, one among the many under the tyrant's land. 'I lil' land was too weak and the tyrant too strong. The uprisings were few and quickly quclled. His iill'll 'll and his childri'n's children were living in the new land and becoming a part of it. They were per- fftlj. fontcnt. Xnd hc, Vladimir, was old, and his life was nearly over . . . . . 'I lat iliclqfring lights suddenly died in the northern sky and the night was black. Far away amid the i ' -i.o'.'. -lirondcfl pines came the lonely cry of the wolf. -SONJA SAPLYWY bf'-CE X16

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NortI1 Bay Teacliers' College 4 i- X TR I tt l n ll nu lu I lu nu ll nu un gl ,sl l ks..-.? +T- fit 55 ,lx ui -S, S - 'TT-1.4 S 1 ln., 2 -gg .ik - 4 44 Y 1 . XY' i i . I wt tnfl gaze xi tx all Lfllltlllkfl hx it hiielx ot th In h:,.- - S --n W- wr H E 4 f Y SIGNA COMES TO NORTHERN ONTARIO 'I large, eurionf, hlue eyes peepecl cautiously over the winclow' Ietlge of the jolting passenger ear fl with rapture at the still, sparkling. northern evening whieh stretched lllVltlllg'ly hefore theni. Siena . 's vawtnew anfl the Curious thoughts of her new honie that she tllllllit hear the warning' e powerful engine or teel the train jerk to a wtantlstill. une along little Mis, Siggna. Your new hlillllil antl I'apa will he waiting for you. Conte along' now. 'I nt he frii4Iitene4I. 1 qefl up into the eonrluetork frienflly faee anil winiletl. Ile would look after her, R - he wonlfl 5l lIt Itltrl tt thatiher new parentx woulfl he kinrl. HacIn't he helyeil her get nettlerl when she first got on the train? II whit he NIIUXYUII her In the flllllllg-CHI' ancl given her an extra stoop of ice ereani on her apple pie? Qu ielqlx Nhe tuekefl her flaxen Ill'ZilfIS unfler her It innet, fawtenecl her eoat, anrl gatherecl up her neat little it-Iset anfl tht- Iiuge lflihle Nana hail given her hefore she left Norway. ' - inleling hlue night. Sigua felt strange anfl afraicl. XYhat woulcl her new parents thinlf Hut in tht tw Ifu thev tonnfl out Nlie eouI1In't wpealt their language? Nana hacl taught her to way thank you hut that was III Muna Ienew. I't-rliailt they wouhl Nenrl her hack. 4 then what would Hhe tlo? learn eanie to her eyes. anrl one rolletl ii ht to the very tip ul her noxe. She waw very inneh worriecl. I.ooI4. Xliwyf 'lihere he Isl 'I'Iu-re he ix f vour new papal Siena felt the exeitenient of her new frienrl anrl tnrnecl her eyes in t 1- 'Iirev ' in up io-t fI n I IIi.t Nh ,Wil T IRWIN 'I I III 'A . P 1 I tion he wax pointing. I'p the 5IlUX'VlltllllIfl platforni mtrorle a giant of a nian. Ilis fur jacket was tiehtl, aronnfl hix glowing' Iaee. anrl great pults oI white vapor trailetl hehintl hini Ironi heneath his nixtaelie. IIiN xniile warniefl the air arountl theni, anfl Siena reahyerl that this was to he her new -N rf-nu-inlu-refI what Nana hail taught her ahont lfanaflians, anrl IIIIIIICKIIQIICIY put out her right hanrl he xtranuer. Inxtearl of Shaking hanrlw with her, he whiwlxecl her into the air, haslcet and all, anfl l qi furry rolu' t'ru7IIy arounfl her. Sigua felt warni anfl happy in the arnis of her new Iapa as she oofIIij.e to her flear Irienfl the eonfluetor, hut what she wantefl niore than anything' else in the worlwl .tx uoofIIn.e In hini in his own language. - tiff, ifonnflefl the eorner of the stiiliull, a frienrlly whinny greeted theni. 'I'here stoorl a horse ancl -' iiileit' 1-ith hell'-' 'Ihe niare arehefl her neela anrl Iookefl haek at the new-eonler with nuiuiaitive I I. ,. . i. wht- -II 'ltIl1'1I her Soft velvet now towarfls the tiny figure, hut Signa junipecl haelc in alarni. eh iota 5, I.-r ruff. I'ali:i egtplainerl how Iiarnilew Queenie was, anrl although Signa eoulrln't unrlerstanrl ' ti' If It -More aufl if-ntnrefl a he-itant pat on the powerlul t'l'L'21Illl'l'IS foreleg. CE E 'CONTINUED ON PAGE 39' nu nu nn--ui ml ml ml ml llll llu lu ml lm ull ml VIII llll llll llll llu ml Ill ll0!0