Ottawa Technical High School - Tech Talk Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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When I Was a Lad I Served a Term or A Day At School By Howard Roche The morning Jtartt at ten part eight: M y mother .fcre.zm.r, ' 'It'.t getting late. ' I gow my hreakfatt, grab my hooks, Who giret a darn how my hair look.f.' And nou' I 'fn on my tray at laet: I ho ri' my head. and face the hlaJt,' For once, I 're made it, I can Jay. -So Hart.: .1 typical Jchool day. In the rherniytry lah u 'e learn to pour Into ,mine H2504 Some FeS and Nal If thi.f gm-,r wrong, l'll Jurehf die. They Jay, Now halanre the equation. That requiret tome concentration, For S01 and NH3 Yield OPU and an old bran key. And Jo to En glllfh for a while- The cla.t.r in which we never .vnilef For ihif if anything hut fun With Byron, Keats and Tennyton. And then to Comp. my way I wend To find out where the clautet end. Befaute thit period 'J .fuch a hare I hare time to admire the jloor. But nou' ne go to Math. O Lord! It'.f there I realb' do get hored Caute Xplu: Y equal thirteen Z And the theorem: leave me .tirnpbf dead. Talbi ho.' the gloriout hell to lunchg Big juicy Jandwichet I can inunch. When thit it done, then I can hop Down to the nearett Cfwfoe Shop, At one hfteeift Geometry 'Tit here Innd it hard to Jee When the locut if a point hat an equation It'J Phyfiel non' that haflet me With motion, force, relocity Phyfical law are not too hard. Light travels-threefeet to each yard And then to Trig. I hlitjnlly go To hear another tale J woe Ahont the Upper School examt. And u hon he'J through we f eel like hanzt. IO What good this will he when-Oh damnation .' At latt the end it drawing near, fBoy, could I ure a cup of cheerj For Study it the period now Do I realb' need it?-and how! And now it'.f comet, -three thirtyfiveg I j?el Jo fresh, I 'd like to jioe. 'I'here'JjuJt one thing I forgot to mention: I mutt away to my detention. DETENTION ROOM The Ballad of lhe Lates Ojicers By Bruce Slraby Now at Tech you once are late You' ll Jee a funny thing: A nzan named Elton at the gate To whorn excuse you hring. And perchance, you're late three titnet, Then Swayze it the many He'll cron examine all your crimes, Your privilege: han. And .rhould you yet he unlucky enough To come four timex late or more, Our good Miner Hendry treat: you rough And realhl you'll he tore. Lo, thete are the nzen who will Jlap you do wn Hyou don't get to Jchool at the hell,' So until they .reek their Heauenbl Cro wn You .rhoulil try to avoid getting- In wrong with the latex oyjlcert.

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A Hunting Ballad By Roger Crep in It wa: u bright and :unny day,' The air wa: fre:h and pure,' So to my father I did :ay: ' 'The mountain: do allure. M y father Jaid, ' 'I do agree, And I to you entru:t The key: to our new car, 'you :ee, The mountain: were a mu:t. Well, finalbf we made the trip, My he:t friend, Keith, and I, And through the wood: we travelled quirk Until we :aw nearby A lo vebl :tag that nimhbf jumped Through gra:: and over hru:h. Then, :uddenbg a bullet thumped ! The :tag increa:ed hi: ru:h. A :econd hullet tni::ed the rnark,' The buck wa: there no more f A third one clipped a piece hark,' A fourth one found no Jcore. Thu: a would-he killer failed And Nature triumphed :till, For a: the du:k of eve prevailed We :upped :an: joy, Jan: pride, :an: kill. +2-seek A RONDEAU Still As Death By Michael Soame Still a: death in an amher hue Surrounded hy green and gold and hlue In a place of:tagnant water and weed: And rank upon rank cf lu:h young reed: He Jtand: a: other Heron: do. Smoke hlue i: he, and grey in dew There mid the lib' :ten1:, not few Where you may watch him a: he feed: Still a: Death. Still grey feather and yellow billy true, Hi: eye: are alive like getn:, and too, Though one may not :ee all hi: deed:, The lfe Q' a motionle:: :hadow he lead:. Still a: Death. the picture ofhinz will :tay with you, Salute to a Small Town By Frank Illorgan Some people prai:e the city life, But I upon it frown. There': too much hu:tle, too much :trfe No thank:,' I 'll take the town. For in the city friend: are few, And you feel all alonef But in the country no one': new And all the town': my home. I know the city ha: more thing: To while away the time,' Grand theatre: where a great :tar Jing: And :port: arena: fine. You :ee new face: every day And hundred: at a time,' You :eldom get to know or play With friend: a: I with mine. I :ee the .fame folk: all week through At church, at work, at play That way I know my friend: are true And clo:e hy me they'll :tay. So you may have your city home Where you can :ettle down. The :pot that I :hall call my own Will he my own :mall town. uv' Hu lgi lo Robe ' T Blue Hero Luv' gi .SN

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eatr X ONE EVENING A FEW SHORT months ago,I was seated looking up inf to the sky. It was a fairly clear summer evening with only a few wispy clouds. As I watched, the clouds became smaller and smaller and at last drifted away altogether. Slowly the sky paled and darkened and then the sun set com' pletely in a blaze of glory, and all was still. The stage was set for one of Natures most stirring dramas: The entry of the stars. There was, however, one slight detail wrong with the set' ting,I was not outside and it was not late eveningg it was late morning, noon to be exact! I was at the Hayden Planetarium. On a recent visit to New York, I was privileged to see this wonderful spec' tacle. The projection planetarium, the amazing dumbellfshaped optical instruf ment, is beyond a doubt the finest and most versatile instrument for the teach- ing of astronomical science ever devel' oped. Before its invention the layman had much difficulty in understanding the fundamental concepts of astronomy. Now, however, these can be grasped easily and quickly. First let us examine the construction of this amazing projector, which is the most essential thing in the Theatre of the Stars. Its operation is on the prinf ciple of the old fashioned magic lantern. The pictures it projects, however, are those of the heavenly bodies, the small images of stars and larger images of sun, moon, and the planets. The projection screen is the theatre's great hemispherf ical ceiling,a curving shell of stainless steel painted white on the inside and fringed around the horizon with the skyline of New York. As the theatre is darkened and the clouds go away, the stars appear, each in its correct posi- tion,a total of about 9000, all that can of th By Ron IE S ever be seen by the keenest eye on a cler night. The audience completely forgets it is in a room, for the manfmade firmament above seems to have the im- mensity and endless sweep of the real heavens. Actually the projector is comf posed of over a hundred small separate projectors, all matched and fitted to' gether with exquisite accuracy. Thirty' two of these, sixteen in each end of the dumbell, project the images of the stars. In between these are the projectors which project the sun, moon, and plan- ets, placed so that each moves indivif dually at the proper relative speed. The entire machine is mounted so that it can turn on any one of several axes. It can turn so that the stars seem to be travelling to produce the eastward rotation of the earth during the night. With this motion, a day and a night can be made to pass in twelve minutes or f twentyffour hours can be compressed into three minutes. Similarly dilferent speeds have been provided for the mo- tions of the sun, moon, and planets, so that a year can be made to pass in three minutes, one minute or seven seconds. Another important motion of the ma' chine is the one which changes the latitude of the observer, so that the stars can be observed from any position on earth from pole to pole. These mo- tions are all controlled by switches on a console at which a lecturer stands. These controls are numerous and com- plicated and by means of them he can fade the stars, bring on clouds and pro' duce a dawn g or he can jump straight from midnight to midday. Other helps to the lecturer are the various extra projectors which throw reference lines, the celestial equator and other markings upon the dome. The value of such a machine to as' tronomy is twofold : first, you always have a clear night upon which to ob' serve, and secondly, the actions of the Continued an Page 66 II