Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School - Echoes Yearbook (Peterborough, Ontario Canada)

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.r .r 'L 'L 1. 1. THE' ECHAES S. Bliss Rutherford-To be a perfect secretary. 9. Mary Thomas-To become a great composer. 10. Bill Me-Fadden-To invent a noiseless alarm 11. Hurtubise--A certain blonde. lf. Campbell-To sing opera. 13. EasonfTo win a pole-sitting contest. -, 1+i . III Commercial NAINIE NICKNARIE Elmore Williamson Precious Jean . Hair .leanny Clayton Hickson iXIoses Irene Houghton Reney Marguerite Gardner Toots Dorothy Ivilliams ivilly Ruth Pogue Betty Boop Gerarda Simmons Gerry Ethel Butcher Butch,' Sheila Wright lIeg', Shirley Aker Shirley Temple Edna Lee Agnes Josephine Killoran Maggie Wartz llarion Anderson Bubinoff Lloyd Grose Lindy Jack Baldwin Eveline Kelly Pantywaist Bright Eyes Elmer Kelly Smiley Ruth Boorman Shrimpy Irene Jones Elizabetll Dominik Aunt .Iemina Lizzie Vernon O,Connor Windy Eleanor Shadgett Nan Jean Nichols Niey .Iilll TI'0lZt6I' James IVilfred Cummings IVeary IYilly Kathleen Thackeray Kay Thelma lNIcLaren Timmy Adelia Sargeant Dilly John Basciano Bush Douglas Gledhill Doug ...l+ .. clock, H. Botnick. AMBITION To toot his whistle Professional skater To wake up To stand first She's O.K. 5-l1e's got em To reduce slightly To be belle of the Twenties To be a shorthand wizard Pride of tl1e Prairies To excel in everything A dietitian To become a lawyer Hawaii Rugby Hero To grow up To use them To like them all To roll the big drum She done them wrong To stop the nickname June Bob or something Local girl makes good To be a public speaker Dolly To excite the male species Songbird Out in Norwood To be a ladies' man Eleanora Tlfousebolb 'Kris III FTER twenty long years' absence from Peterborough, I returned to find it greatly changed: I was. however. very glad to see my old home town again, Of course, the first place I went to see was the Collegiate. IVhen I got over to the cooking room door and rapped. expecting to see our previous teacher, Bliss Ken

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fHE HCHQBIES Special Gommercial HE scene is Special Commercial form room at ten minutes to nine in the morning. Here and there a distracted pupil strives to finish his bookkeeping or shorthand before the nine o'clock bell. To form a striking contrast Flash,' Benson sits calmly reading the morning paper, completely oblivious of those around him. Hand- somel' Harry, one of our deepest thinkers, is earnestly explaining to Dipthong hliller why he thinks it is the little things in life that count. Miss Hunter suddenly waxes loquacious on the subject The secret of my success in basketball. fShe plays with the girlsj. In another section of the room Duncan, four fishing en- thusiastl, is describing, complete with gestures and sound effects. The Fish that Got Awayf' to a spell-bound audience. Bliss Whaley, becomingly flushed from her haste, slips through the doorway, immediately followed by Smart. fthe dynamic young business man of our recent playl, minus the becoming flush. There goes the bell and after a discussion between hlr. Toole and the class at large about which bell it was, we file out noisily in the direction of the Assembly Hall. lMiss Lees will understandl. Bliss Killoran and Henry arrive late. IVe wonder if he was helping her catch up with her penmanship. The scene shifts to the bookkeeping class. hir. Toole-VVhat is the answer to the trial balance? Bliss . . . pause . . . louder? lNIiss Throop, Cbrightly without hesitationl, 36150.90 There is an understanding chuckle from the class. It is a system. hir. Toole to Palmer, who is gazing abstractedly out of the window-Where did you list the last entry? Palmer-I didnit list it on account- lVIr. Toole-On account of what? Palmer-Absently-On account of I forgot my book. R-ing. End of period and we adjourn for stenography. Enter lNIr. Shearer fbrisklyl. He glances at the thermometer. dashes to the window and throws it open. Generally speakingf' everybody feels chilly except for a few fresh air en- thusiasts who I strongly suspect must wear red fiannels. hir. Shearer-O'Donnell. give me van example of a first place dash vowel. O'Donnell-absentmindedly- Dot llr. Shearer-You really must try to keep her out of your mind during classes. fNotel -The llisses Boorman, Weese and Allen sink lower in their seats. And so the hours pass like a great percentage of Special Commercial and we reach the end of another perfect CPD morning. SECRET AMBITIONS 1. Barnes-To go to Florida. Q. Bliss VVhite-To be an actress. 3. lVIiss Gibbons-To break a ski-jumping record. 4. Gainey-To be a movie hero so he can rescue more ladies in distress. 5. Archibald-To join the Blaple Leafs. ' 6. Kay Lacey-To discover a waterless creek. 7. Aileen Sisson-To win an endurance contest. -95-

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TE' ECH ESW I J' 'lv 1, 1 'L dall, Isabel Skitch came and told me that lNIiss Kendal had resigned and that she was now teaching the poor kids to make tea biscuits and to get plenty of calories in their diet. She told me that Helen Hetherington was modelling bathing suits for children at the Deb Shop and Ruth Parnall was living just off the Port Hope High- way on a Fox Farm. VVe don't know just why she was there, but-. - I left to go downtown, but just as I got outside, I met Geraldine Chapman. I asked her where she was hanging around and she said she was Manager of the Chap- man Knitting Co. Gerry asked me if I had seen lNIary Kingsbury since she went in training, and I hacIn't, so I thought this was a good chance. When I got to the hospital, Mary told mc that she was day nurse for a girl from our room when we were kids. It was Irene Battle, suffering from a sprained back, caused by trying to lift two of her cakes out of the oven at once. Mary and I went to the threatre at night and here was Sophie Yeotes starring with lNIax Bebee-and Blargaret Blorgan playing the piano fat the opening of a new theatrej . As I was going home along Hunter St. E. I saw Myrtle Joyes looking out of a hardware store. Of course, you know what one! So I Went in-and asked her where Ruby hlilburn was, and she told me she was over in Italy teaching special lessons in History and Economics. As a wise man once said, Sweet lNIystery thou hast got me, therefore, let come what may, because at the end of another twenty years, I suppose we shall all be sit- ting in a large rocking chair beside the fireplace counting our fingers or something. Reta Darling, H. A. III. I? .V S. WX