Oakwood Collegiate Institute - Oracle Yearbook (Toronto Ontario, Canada)

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LOOKING BACK KEN AND FRIENDS COMET RADIO 555 St. Clair Ave. W. — LE 5-7269 TRANSISTOR RADIOS — T.V. ' S — TYPEWRITERS Compliments of FRANK SIMMON ' S MEN ' S WEAR 958 ST. CLAIR AVE. W. Telephone 535-3314 Need funds to continue your education? Royal Bank University Tuition Loans up to $1,000 a year through four years are made to parents, guardians or sponsors of students at- tending or planning to attend Canadian univer- sities and colleges. Repayment can be arranged over a longer period than usual. ROYAL BANK 112

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THE BARBER SHOP Sleepily, Erwin Ronner, Canadian Citizen, working man, opens the front door: it is time for work. Walking, half-dreaming, down the street, he remembers his youth in Germany — He was happy then, ambitious. Not every German youth of the depression had the chance to attend Uni- versity, especially to study medicine. No, he was a very lucky boy. He will be someday surgeon, his parents had boasted. Now Erwin grappled in the bottom of his frayed pockets, well worn with the use of years, and fitted them into the lock of his shop — well not quite his; he only rented the store. Wiping off his soiled shoes and entering the store, he removes his dingy brown overcoat. It ' s a good overcoat though; twenty years old now; might last another five years; he might not last another five years. He is forty-nine now, father of two boys and a girl. The boys were killed in the war, the Great War, but he tries not to think of that too often now. He left Germany in nineteen forty-eight; more opportunity in Canada, they had said. Herr Ronner, ambition stifled by fate, yet still proud, scrubs himself as he learned to do so well at university. He even learned Latin. At home, he knows, scrubbing the dishes, is his wife. His daughter married an Austrian businessman; doesn ' t write as often as she used to. Children get that way. Erwin, a man without a future, but a barber with a dream opens the door of his barber shop with a dehberate pull, sits down, and waits for his first patient of the day. He will someday be surgeon, they had said. — John Lejderman MOTHER AND CHILD Russell A. Steventon From a closet in the corner he takes out a stiff white frock, ties the strings behind, and looks at himself proudly in the spotless mirror. He had been proud of another uniform, but that is better forgotten. Expanding his chest, smiling, breathing in the almost antiseptic air, he can catch a glimpse of a nurse fading away in one corner of the mirror, while from the corner be- hind, just faintly, he can hear Doctor Ronner, Doctor Ronner, will Doctor Ronner please report to the operating room. He sets out his tools, his operating instruments, as though preparing for brain surgery. SUMMER COMES The days whiz by Like Roman candles Like pinwheels Like long skinny strips Of sizzling firecrackers. In streaks of red Bursts of yellow Trails of green So summer nears. — Sharon Singer 111

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LOOKING BACK WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN ' T JOIN THE BEATLES ? THIS IS MARLBORO COUNTRY I CANT YOU RECOGNIZE A FOOTBALL WHEN YOU SEE ONE ? INTENSIVE MATRICULATION TRAINING DAY AND EVENING CLASSES FREE ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET THE TORONTO MATRICULATION COLLEGE, LTD. 579 St. Clair Ave. W., — LE 3-7543 CHRISTMAS DANCE CARRADINE ' s GROCERY 199 Boon Ave. — Phone LE 5-5772 FREE DELIVERY Open 8 a.m. Till 10:30 p.m. 113